Via strass

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Your vote won the Math COTW

If you have time, please help this article! Meekohi 13:42, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Roger Needham

Hi, via strass. You recently reverted some edits at Roger Needham; however, the changes you reverted weren't vandalism, but the placement of the {{sprotected}} template and the removal of some redlinks. I've restored the sprotected template (since the page is semiprotected, due to a persistent vandal) and removed one of the redlinks (the other had a few other articles linked to it, so might turn blue someday). I'm just wondering what made you think that the changes were vandalism? No biggie, just curious. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:21, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Josiah. Sorry about that. I was reverting some other pages edited by 193.122.47.130, and I noticed his edit on that page. But i didn't realise it was not the most recent edit; the page had already been reverted, edited further and protected.. Oops. I'm used to seeing diffs from my watchlist where you always get the last edit I guess. Via strass 06:24, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem. As I said, I was just curious. See you 'round the 'pedia! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:43, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

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Bantown deletion

cross posted from User talk:NickelShoe

Hi there Nickelshoe and thanx for the nice welcome you gave me. I have a question the answer to which i haven't been able to find on the help pages so I thought I would ask you. An article of mine has been nominated for deletion. I've looked at the policy and stuff for how the discussion should go and so on. What I haven't been able to find out is what happens at the end of 5 days. Ie can any admin delete the article based on their judgement of whether there is consensus, or what? Who actually makes the decision? You see I think that there is no clear consensus to delete, and that I have addressed the issues people have raised about the article. But it was nominated by an admin that I am worried will go ahead and delete it based on his own judgement. This seems a little unfair, it would be better if it was someone who'd never seen it before.. The article is Bantown but i'm not complaining about anything in this specific case. It's just the making of the final decision didn;t seem to be covered on the help page. Thanks in advance, Via strass 20:26, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. Yeah, basically any admin can close the discussion based on their judgment of whether or not there is a consensus. But if it gets deleted and you think the admin misjudged the consensus, you can bring it up at a deletion review. NickelShoe (Talk) 23:48, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your speedy help, NickelShoe! Take care. Via strass 23:50, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Deleting userpages

How do i delete a subpage of my user-page? Via strass 23:12, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Tag it with {{db-user}}. Ryūlóng 23:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Thx a lot. Via strass 23:19, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Weierstrass function

Hi, via strass. I was wondering what your thinking was regarding your changes to Weierstrass_function. In particular, since almost everywhere and except on a set of isolated points are not equivalent, I was wondering what your motivation was for the change. At the moment, I favor the original wording, so I thought I'd ask you to explain. Thanks. Doctormatt 18:59, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

• Because, as Weierstrass pointed out in the preamble to his proof, it had previously been generally believed that the stronger statement 'continuous -> diff. outside a set of isolated points' was in fact true. This also avoids the awkwardness of pointing out that nullsets were not thought of at the time. Via strass 20:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. I'll have to check out Weierstrass' paper. Cheers, Doctormatt 21:46, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Snoopy edit

Yes, there is a reason, and I gave it in the edit summary. Please give a justification on Talk:Snoopy why this reference, out of certainly hundreds of comic-strip allusions, should be included. —Chowbok 14:36, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

User Page Vandalism

Please do not target one or more user's pages or talk pages for abuse or insults, unwarranted doctoring or blanking, as you did with User:Samuel Blanning. It can be seen as vandalism and may get you blocked from editing Wikipedia. StoptheDatabaseState 23:43, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Please do not target one or more user's pages or talk pages for abuse or insults, unwarranted doctoring or blanking. It can be seen as vandalism and may get you blocked from editing Wikipedia. Mytildebang 01:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

This is your last warning.
The next time you vandalize a page, as you did to User:Samuel Blanning, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 20:29, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

How is this a fourth warning?? I vandalized your user page twice, by mistake, as part of an editing/sandboxing error, and was warned for it twice above by users StoptheDatabaseState and Mytildebang. Then you warned me again, without my having done any further vandalism (!?), supposedly as 'Warning 4' and a 'final warning'. This is a mistake on your behalf. Please explain. Via strass 22:17, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't say it's a fourth warning, it says it's a last warning, and continued blatant vandalism does not require working through all four messages that we have. You already know better than this, so what do you need 4 warnings for? "Editing/sandboxing" error indeed. Who did you mean to call a rampant homosexual and an Asperger's sufferer, then, if not me? --Sam Blanning^(talk) 19:17, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Dear Sam, you are mistaken or deliberately equivocating. The history page to this page clearly says

"21:29, 29 December 2006 Samuel Blanning (Talk | contribs) (Edit to User:Samuel Blanning - warning 4)" with regard to your edit. I do not understand the reason for this obfuscation. Via strass 21:50, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Template user warnings go in levels - 1 assumes testing, 2 is warning, 3 is warning about blocking, 4 is final and 5 is notification of block. The templates are named along the lines of {{test1}}, {{blank2}}, {{spam3}} accordingly. They have no relevance to the number of incidents or warnings. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 23:24, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Dear sam ,thank you for your help Via strass 23:31, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Please do not target one or more user's pages or talk pages for abuse or insults, unwarranted doctoring or blanking, as you did with User:Samuel Blanning. It can be seen as vandalism and may get you blocked from editing Wikipedia. feydey 17:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia as a result of your disruptive edits. You are free to make constructive edits after the block has expired, but please note that vandalism (including page blanking or addition of random text), spam, deliberate misinformation, privacy violations, personal attacks; and repeated, blatant violations of our neutral point of view policy will not be tolerated.

Reverting many abusive edits

A whole bunch of edits have been made which I think are inappropriate and need to be reverted. In fact all but one page was removed from the category [[Category:Racism in Australia]]. I think that these pages need to stay in that category. I have reverted a few, but isn't there a better way of changing back the rest than to go through them one by one??

Well, for one, you could read the discussion at WP:AWNB, find out why they are being removed, and contribute to discussion there. michael ^talk 08:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your unhelpful input, michael. It appears from the discussion that they are indeed being removed abusively, by someone who has chosen to preempt the outcome of a deletion nomination. It's unclear to me why you have referred me to a 'discussion' when it seems you have decided to act unilaterally and empty the category regardless of what others might 'contribute'. The question remains, how do i put them back? Via strass 11:06, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Sam Blanning

Please stop adding attack text to Sam Blanning's user talk page. Thanks. Consider this your only warning. Rockstar (^T/_C) 03:19, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Blocked

I've issued a 48 hour block for trolling. Despite what you may think, this and this are not legitimate comments. This is simply trolling.--Isotope23 17:11, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Upon repetition of your behaviour immediately after being unblocked, I've extended the block. You can be a productive contributor if you want, but that doesn't mean you get to troll and harass. If you promise to stop wasting our time, then I'll unblock; as long as you insist on disruptive behaviour then you will be prevented from editing. Simple as that. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 23:09, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Marshall Bagramyan

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Bagramyan in 1938.

Please unblock me

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Via strass (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

BLock was abusive and put in place by an admin who harbours a grudge against me and alleged without evidence that edits I made to his talk page were vandalism

Decline reason:

There is no excuse for spamming another editors' talk page with 12 of the same image just because you disagree with him. Block upheld for incivility. --  Netsnipe  ►  18:02, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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Please unblock me

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Via strass (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

BLock was abusive and put in place by an admin who harbours a grudge against me and alleged without evidence that edits I made to his talk page were vandalism

Decline reason:

Crying admin abuse will not get you unblocked. Just take your block in stride and be thankful it is so short. — -- John Reaves (talk) 11:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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Blocked indefinitely

Because you have harassed another user by trolling his talkpage with a series of hate images, after a prior long-term block for doing the same thing, I have blocked this account indefinitely. Newyorkbrad 16:23, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

• How sad that a user with a long record of only positive inputs to the Main wikipedia encyclopedia, including starting several new articles, destubifying articles of a highly technical level of content, and around 400 minor corrections, cleanups and vandalism/sandboxing reversions, should be hounded out of this project as a way of censoring his input to 'discussion' taking place on user's talkpages. I am informed by 'Via strass' that he has only ever made a single edit in bad faith, to the article on the movie, Citizen Cane. He has also told me that he will not be returningto Wikipedia when this ban expires, preferring instead not to cast his pearls before swine, and instead to engage in research and other activities of a political nature. Perhaps there's a lessone in this for all of us Yours sincerely, Anonymous. I was asked to leave a comment here by Via strass, but not what to say.
  • To the anonymous commenter, did you look at the specific posts for which Via strass has been blocked, today and in the past? If Via strass wishes, he can request an unblock, but at a minimum would be expected to promise not under any circumstances to do this sort of thing again. Newyorkbrad 16:55, 9 June 2007 (UTC)