User talk:Marudubshinki/Archive 35

Blocking AOL users

Please stop blocking AOL users. It is very annoying. Find some other way or just don't even bother blocking users with an AOL IP address.

Thank you. --Vivaperucarajo 21:17, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I will block vandals where I find them. --maru (talk) contribs 21:25, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Something funny on SS.com

SuperShadow's girlfriend. --Deckiller 18:32, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Good grief. Didn't he already have a fake girlfriend? --maru (talk) contribs 18:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, he changes "girlfriends" every month. --Deckiller 18:51, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Userbox question from a new guy

On your user page, under "Important information" and whatnot, what are all of those little boxes identifying you as different things called? Also, how do I get them/make them? I've seen them on several use pages, but I don't know where they come from. Thanks. --NeoChrono Ryu 20:29, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Those things are called userboxes; they are special cases of templates. Generally, you get them by editing the page, copying the template (that is, like {{userbox dune}}; almost all userboxes are prefixed with "userbox" to make clear what they are) onto your own userpage. --maru (talk) contribs 20:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh golly no. You just had to tell him. --Zero^Talk 20:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Someone would have done it! Why should it not have been me? --maru (talk) contribs 21:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Sockpuppets on Frank Herbert

User:Essjay has confirmed User:Kwisatz Haderach 00100 to be a sockpuppet of User:Zeus69962. The other two accounts were inconclusive, but he suspects zombie computers. This is from IRC...if necessary, he can post on WP:RfCU as well. Cheers. —BorgHunter ^ubx (talk) 03:37, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Could he? A documentation trail would be good. --maru (talk) contribs 04:21, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Regarding a cursed scroll of genocide in Nethack

A cursed scroll of genocide will summon several of the creatures you are trying to summon. If you know it is cursed, then you can summon monsters that are useful to you. --HighInBC 05:19, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd've preferred you add that to the article, but thanks for telling me. --maru (talk) contribs 05:43, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Don't bite the newbies - on The Game AFD

I am very startled that an ’‘admin’’ would make a comment so inflammatory toward new users as the one you left at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Game (game) (2 nomination).

It is the closing admin’s responsibility to discount the votes of new users. They won’t be discounted any more if you call them names like “meatpuppet”, make accusations of sockpuppetry without evidence, and make fun of them, and they won’t be discounted any less if you simply reasonably state your position instead of attacking other users. ’’’rspeer’’’ / ɹəədsɹ 06:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I’m not AGFing here because I’ve dealt with these Game fanboys before on a number of other articles where they acted the part of spammer perfectly; my good faith ran out a long time ago. As for sockpuppetry... are you seriously trying to say there isn’t -puppetry of all sorts going on in that AFD? —maru (talk) contribs 06:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

You can consider them meatpuppets if you want, but you should not ’‘call’’ them that, as stated by Wikipedia:Sock puppetry#Meatpuppets. The issue isn’t good faith, it’s civility and not biting the newcomers.

So I have to ask what you mean by “meatpuppetry”. Certainly there are many newcomers in the discussion, some of whom heard about this discussion from the same source. If that’s what you call “meatpuppetry”, then yes, there is some -puppetry going on, but I’d ask you to rethink your attitude toward newcomers.

As for sock puppetry, I haven’t seen anything blatant. If you suspect two users of being sock puppets, that is what Requests for CheckUser is for.

’’’rspeer’’’ / ɹəədsɹ 06:49, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I’ve taken out the sockpuppetry charge- there isn’t enough trouble-making going on to justify a checkuser; right now a check would be abuse of the privilege. But I’m leaving in the meatpuppetry. It is obvious for all to see and a relevant factor to point out. —maru (talk) contribs 06:57, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Do you think the closing admin would be oblivious to the fact that many of these users are new if you didn’t point it out? Take out the M-word. It’s uncivil, unnecessary, and against the policy stated at Wikipedia:Sock puppetry. ’’’rspeer’’’ / ɹəədsɹ 07:01, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I still want you to deal with this. Your comment as a whole is uncivil, and it uses a name for newcomers that has been discouraged by policy since January. I know much of the rest of AfD is uncivil too, but you’re an admin, so set a good example. ’’’rspeer’’’ / ɹəədsɹ 22:56, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Rspeer: I’m not going to change my comment; I’ve made all the changes I’ve intended to make. —maru (talk) contribs 00:15, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Then I’ll change it for you, at least the part about “meatpuppetry”. I won’t let this policy die from lack of enforcement. ’’’rspeer’’’ / ɹəədsɹ 00:57, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Then I’ll change it right back! I’m warning you- my votes is ’‘my’’ vote. If you wish to “enforce” that particular sentence of the policy, then go through the channels. Start an RFC. --maru (talk) contribs 01:35, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't think either of us want to waste that much time. I'll let this pass, but I hope there aren't any other policies you think you're immune to.

Completely unrelatedly, your editor is doing something very strange to apostrophes and quotation marks. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 02:22, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I know about that (noticed it when I was writing bilboe). I had recently installed Greasemonkey on my Firefox, and I was checking out this script called "Smart Firefox" (http://www.slightlyremarkable.com/2005/05/smart-firefox); apparently it's supposed "convert all quotes, dashes, and apostrophes to their correct entity replacements." I thought that sounded like a good idea, but apparently it changes quotes to something which don't do what they are supposed to do. So I just disabled it for Wikipedia domains. --maru (talk) contribs 02:31, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Sacre bleu! blocks

An IP range you blocked in order to block Sacrebleuthis (talk · contribs) (or so the blocked page says) seems to be part of the range used by Google Web Accelerator. This is resulting in me getting random blocked notices, since every request seems to go through a different server. Please either unblock this range (example ip 64.233.173.66) or change the block in some way that explains the GWA link and recommends choosing “don’t accelerate this site” if it is really unblockable. --BigBlueFish 14:33, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I think I’ll just unblock the account- that should remove the IP blocks, and besides- I really doubt that the vandal will try to use the account again. It’s been weeks since it was indef blocked, after all. —maru (talk) contribs 19:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! --BigBlueFish 20:18, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

The same exact thing is also happening to me. Is there any way you can just block that person because it is quite annoying having a block message coming up every time I try to edit a page. I appreciate your help. —J@red ^[T]/_{talk:JP06035&action=edit&section=new [+]} 22:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

To my knowledge, there is no way of just blocking that person. --maru (talk) contribs 00:13, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Yunmen Temple pics

Dear Maru,

When you get a chance, you may be interested to have a look at Temple http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yunmen Temple . Nothing spectacular, of course, but it seems like the kind of thing you might like. --Nat Krause^(Talk!) 16:57, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh man. That's awesome. It would have been even more awesome if you could've taken some photos of the stelae or any status of him they might have had, but I'm still happy to see these pictures. Thanks! --maru (talk) contribs 19:17, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! (for the sig tips)

Thanks for the tips. I read the thing about the four tildes, but I interpreted it to mean that they wanted them before the username, which just seemed ridiculous, so I looked at the code of other people's signatures. I think I'm getting the hang of most of this. I apologize if my actions on the Jedi Purge page were too rash. What should I have done?

They weren't too rash- you added a note on the talk page, which is what you should've done, so it could be discussed (much as we are discussing it).

As for the signature- what the four tildes does, is the Wikipedia engine interprets them as a macro, so they are replaced with a link to your user page, user talk, and also the current date in a particular format. It can be customized of course, in the My Preferences, under the Nickname. For instance, I have the "Raw signature" option checked, and my sig looks like this: --[[User:Marudubshinki |maru]] [[User talk:Marudubshinki|(talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Marudubshinki |contribs]]. This differs from the normal sig in that it puts my prefered name instead of "Marudubshinki", links to my contributions, and also adds the two leading hyphens (which I prefer over the default of no hyphens at all). --maru (talk) contribs 17:55, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Gethzerion article creation

Thank you for making the Gethzerion page. I appreciate it =) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gethzerion101 (talk • contribs)

No thanks necessary. It needed creating, and so I created it. --maru (talk) contribs 19:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)