User talk:Stwalkerster/Archive March 2013

Creating accounts for students at blocked IP

Hi, stwalkerster. You've been a huge help in past years on my Wikipedia project for ninth grade English. Last year and the year before we changed the block on the school's IP so that I could create accounts for students while remaining logged in under my account (here's what we said). I'm working at a different school now, with a different IP, and was wondering if we can alter the block there so I can create accounts for this new batch of students. Here's the IP: 38.127.205.3 Help? Thank you for your continued support. --Roseclearfield (talk) 22:16, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

I've removed the restriction on account creation - anonymous editing is still blocked on that IP, but your students should be able to create accounts. :) [stwalkerster|talk] 01:01, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Beautiful. Thanks! --Roseclearfield (talk) 16:04, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 20:36, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Speciation (chemistry)

I am considering writing an article on this subject. I have some expertise in the area, see, for example, equilibrium chemistry which I wrote. I am wondering if there is anything in the deleted article speciation (chemistry) that is worth bringing back to life. Petergans (talk) 07:56, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

As can be seen from the deletion log, I undeleted that article to userspace a while back, and is located at User:GetLinkPrimitiveParams/Speciation_(chemistry). [stwalkerster|talk] 21:24, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I did not know about deletion logs! I shall write the article in my sandbox.I'll let you know when I post it to WP, which won't be for some time yet. Petergans (talk) 05:26, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 07:36, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 07:14, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Jesmion

I just blocked 2 other accounts he created - he seems pretty confused. One of the accounts had made one edit (another inappropriate one), the other none. Thanks for your post to his talk page, I don't think he will last long. Dougweller (talk) 16:59, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Neither do I, but it was worth a shot. [stwalkerster|talk] 17:03, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I saw those accounts the other day, Jjjireh and Jezuah, right? I assumed they were meat, since all the details on ACC are different. I'm gonna ask a CU for advice, cos my instinct is that these aren't actually the same person. [stwalkerster|talk] 17:12, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Maybe, but he's posted since I told him about the accounts being blocked without commenting on my blocks, and [1] today says "Hello, with appreciative motivational derives, from the inner most conscience has granted me the optimistic gratitude for your endeavour iam jjjireh". Dougweller (talk) 11:16, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that. Given that's happened, I'm curious as to what other accounts he may/may not have. I've got a stalk bot set up to watch all three accounts if anything happens. [stwalkerster|talk] 16:10, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

What's a stalk bot? Dougweller (talk) 06:26, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

It's just a program that runs in the background monitoring the recent changes feed, and emails me whenever an edit or log item which matches it's patterns appears. Think of it as a massively more configurable watchlist. [2] [stwalkerster|talk] 16:52, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 13:01, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

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...is being added without timestamp as here. Is there anything wrong in my preferences? --Tito Dutta (contact) 19:55, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

While we're at it, mine isn't signing properly.—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 19:57, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Titodutta, nope, that's a bot bug, which I'm fixing now.

Cyberpower678, the bot doesn't think you have a valid-enough signature in your tool preferences. We've had issues in the past where people with slightly broken signature code has ended up dumping a ton of random markup on newbies pages, so we added a check to make sure that you at least have a working link to your userpage in it - the actual code matches it against this regex:

\[\[[ ]*(w:)?[ ]*(en:)?[ ]*User[ ]*:[ ]*".$creator."[ ]*(\||\]\])

Bit of an arse, yeah, but hey. I'm gonna pull together a page which shows signatures rendered on the tool, as WelcomerBot should render them on-wiki. [stwalkerster|talk] 23:09, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 22:56, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

#96743

Greetings, could you tell me what to do with such requests (IP routes)? --Tito Dutta (contact) 09:59, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Hey! Basically, look to see if the first "untrusted" one is an open proxy which the user has a choice of using or not. Some networks force all users through a specific machine, which is what this looks like, but you could easily get one which is on a completely different network and forwards traffic for anyone. It all depends on what the data shows. In this case, it looks like a singe IP is acting as a "gateway" to the internet for web traffic, and that one IP is blocked with a single-ip {{anonblock}}. The second IP has no contribs/logs, reinforcing this theory. I'm not gonna go into more detail here, if you want more help email me :) [stwalkerster|talk] 11:28, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Okay! Thank you! --Tito Dutta (contact) 15:02, 30 March 2013 (UTC)