User talk:Marudubshinki/Archive 40

1 strike? And you get a bizaare personal attack from a blocking admin

just for the legal threats, you are being banned. luckily, I am not based in whereever, and am not a customer of a cowardly ISP

sorry, comment, I tend to watch the block logs sometimes, and I can't help but noticed, you've blocked an ip with only 2 contributions for 31 hours, i guess there are either extenuating circumstances, or you have a 1 strike policy for ip vandals. --64.12.116.67 04:21, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

In fact it doesn't seem to have made any threats, legal or otherwise, it just looks like a garden variety linkspammer, unless there's something I'm missing here? --64.12.116.195 04:34, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah, yes, you are missing something. That person had already just been blocked for 24 hours on another IP, you see, and that was the second or third time they had made long and detailed rather hostile legal threats (and you could well interpret his messages as being personal threats as well). When you combine that with the block circumvention, I feel it justified the long block. (I forget which IP it was; but the history of the Administrator Alerts should have it). --maru (talk) contribs 05:05, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

AT-AT/AT-ST

Sorry about that. I was showing a friend how to edit Wikipedia; I must have forgotten to change it. Sorry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Destroyer 45 (talk • contribs)

Oy vey. Are you sure you haven't forgotten anything else? Your contributions are in areas of Star Wars I am not really familiar with, and it would be a headache to go through all of them. --maru (talk) contribs 21:53, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Image tagging for Image:Asuka Soryu.jpg

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Asuka Soryu.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then it needs to be specified where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, consider reading fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, consider checking that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. --ReyBrujo 02:24, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Taken care of. --maru (talk) contribs 02:28, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... I am not sure I understand what you wrote (or if you understood me at all :-P): The image is lacking a source, that is, from where the image was taken, in example, the URL of the site you got it, or if you took the screenshot from a DVD you own, or you scanned it from a magazine, etc. If you got it from a site, please give the URL to the page that has the image and a direct link to the image, not just a link to the homepage (in example, putting that I found the image at www.google.com isn't useful at all for determining the source).

From what I read, it "seems" you have made the screenshot yourself, but it is not clear if that is right. If you can clarify that, it would be better :-) -- ReyBrujo 03:35, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Nah, I'm not following you. It's a screen cap of an anime episode. Practically by definition it can then only be used under fair use, and I've added the appropriate templates for fair use, and it is allowable. What more is needed? --maru (talk) contribs 04:36, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Attacks

I'm just in a bad mood today. --Weirdy 03:45, 24 April 2006 (UTC).

That's not a good excuse; you know better than that. --maru (talk) contribs 04:21, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

No Microsoft Products

How do you reconcile your refusal to use Microsoft products and your preference for the X-Box home gaming console? --209.6.26.54 01:35, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I simply imagine mentally that the Game division is unconnected with Microsoft except for receiving infusions of cash, and I do penance by running Xebian on my Xbox. --maru (talk) contribs 01:53, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

West Wing

Is there a West Wing template somewhere? Or where would I look for one? I just would like to put one on my user page. Second thing: would I be allowed to remove my warning now? Or does it have to stay there for all time? Thanks Maru!!! The ed17 17:12, 21 April 2006 (UTC) (talk)

Well, I'ver never seen a West Wing userbox template around. I supose you could ask someone in the Userbox Wikiproject to make one, or make itself.

As for your warning, go ahead and archive it if you want (see Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page). It's bad practice to simply delete stuff off your talk page. --maru (talk) contribs 21:09, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

OK. Thank you very much. The ed17 19:57, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Conspiring to commit a felony! Who do you think you are?

You said, "Good grief. I'm starting to wonder whether we should have a group of editors who haven't been foolish enough to break their pseudonymity assigned to articles like this (the idea being that if they haven't been foolish enough to give out their names and pictures for people like Brandt to abuse, they'll be less liable to be threatened by "exposure"; for instance, if Brandt were to make any threats against me, they would be completely hollow: no one on the wiki or the web knows who I am, where I live, or what I look like; the data just isn't there.)" Are you even aware of the new law? It was signed on January 5, 2006 by President Bush. Wikipedia is in Florida and I am in Texas. Both are under this federal law's jurisdiction. The law states: "Whoever ... utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet ... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person ... who receives the communications ... shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." This offense is defined as a felony. If a U.S. Attorney used administrative subpoena power, he could get your IP address from Wikipedia in a matter of hours. If you are in the U.S., your service provider would cough up your identity instantly from their records. If you are out of the U.S., the authorities in that country would most likely cooperate on a criminal case like this, depending on the country where you are located. What you are saying on an open mailing list, by discussing techniques for greater secrecy, falls under the category of conspiring to commit a felony. You started harassing me by making stupid edits to that bio article on me that I want taken down. I think you should be more careful about what you do. --Daniel Brandt 66.142.90.168 01:51, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I guess I shouldn't be surprised you lurk on the mailing list. But that little law quote applies to you: I have not harassed you in the slightest, but here you are, making legal threats and harassing me. So, tell me, why do you enjoy conspiring with your Hivemind followers to commit felonies? --maru (talk) contribs 01:55, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

See that phrase quoted above -- "...without disclosing his identify..."? I disclose my identity. You do not disclose your identity and brag about it. The law does not apply to me, but it applies to you. --Daniel Brandt 66.142.90.168 02:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Note the logical connector "and". See the Logical conjunction article? You should go read it. --maru (talk) contribs 02:35, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Daniel. Dude. You need to lighten up. Maru isn't harrassing you, under that law, any other law, or Wikipedia policy.

Coming here and making that statement above qualifies as a violation of the WP:LEGAL "no legal threats" policy. You could be blocked for doing that, and banned if you keep making threats like that. Not to mention that it's rude and uncivil.

There are lawyers around. WP policy is within US legal bounds, and WP normal editing is perfectly legal. If you can't deal with minor content disputes, you need to calm down or stop editing until you can act in a more civil manner. Georgewilliamherbert 02:42, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I'm familiar with Boolean logic. The AND means that even if I was harassing you, the fact that I identify myself means that the new criminal law does not apply. You would have civil recourse (you can sue me), but you would not have a criminal complaint. But if my identity was secret like yours is secret, then you would have the option of complaining to the U.S. Attorney regarding a criminal matter, and see if he is interested. On the other matter, I'm already banned forever from Wikipedia (for the second time, actually), so I fail to see what the point is that you're trying to make. Brad Patrick, Wikipedia's lawyer, is fully aware of my position. Now that Seigenthaler has no case (the new law went into effect post-Seigenthaler, and I inadvertently bailed out Wikipedia by identifying Seigenthaler's vandal too soon), my case could be the biggest threat to Wikipedia on the horizon. Welcome aboard. --Daniel Brandt 66.142.90.168 04:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Glad to see you are at least half-educated and not a complete lackwit like some people have professed to me; you can then easily see that half the clause does not apply to me, as I have not harrassed you. If you're banned from Wikipedia, precisely what are you doing here? Perhaps you can expound for me the legal ramifications of deliberately breaking a site's Terms of Service- that would at least be relevant. And Seigenthaler never had a case, save in the court of public opinion, where (the judgement of various uninformed and erroneous pundits to the contrary) he has decisively lost. I can't imagine you'll do much better. But go ahead and make your empty threats, or sue. It'd be nice to have a good solid precedent to use against cranks like you. --maru (talk) contribs 21:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Red: edit section 0

I've never tested any of those scripts except in monobook. Alphax ^τεχ 05:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah, that could explain it. The adding-tabs thing sounds skin-specific. --maru (talk) contribs 21:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Fujiwara no Teika

Per the Peer Review, where you said you found the clan business confusing: I've reworked that section. Is the new version clearer? --maru (talk) contribs 01:20, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes. It explains why poetry was significant and what it had to do with clans. Looks much better. I think it can be a FA now. :) --Cat out 10:51, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad to hear that. I think FA is a little optimistic (I suspect they'd demand it be at least twice as long, and have every sentence footnoted), but it is nevertheless a rather good article. --maru (talk) contribs 21:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Colonel (Mega Man)

Hi. Would you mind putting in a word to help come to a concensus on this article's talkpage...? I and Zero1328 have done research, but the trolling of BIG (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is really not helping any matters. -Zero^Talk 04:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Done. You're lucky I like you, or I wouldn't take the time to go through all those bloody diffs. --maru (talk) contribs 05:17, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Of course. I'm such a loveable oof. And ladies can't get enough of me. I'd disclose my secret for female mongering, but... awww then everyone would be too jealous. -Zero^Talk 13:54, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Modesty is not a vice you indulge in all that often, eh? --maru (talk) contribs 19:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Modesty! Good grief! I don't know the meaning of the word. -Zero^Talk 06:51, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Obviously then you could never engage in it. Perhaps a brief block will teach you the meaning of modesty... --maru (talk) contribs 15:46, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Dear me! I suppose next you'll permaban me for being a good-looking womanizer! -Zero^Talk 16:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... there's an idea. That'd leave more of the chick Wikipedians for me, wouldn't it? --maru (talk) contribs 16:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Be fair, now. The ladies wouldn't be able to keep their spirits up without my godly aura eminating about the wiki. -Zero^Talk 16:10, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

All's fair in love and war... --maru (talk) contribs 16:13, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to interrupt, but I feel that perhaps you should look over the talk page for the Colonel article, maru. If I ignore the persistance of BIG's opinion, he seems to have no regard for the Wikipedia rules. What do you think should be done? I decided to turn to you, since Zero's asked for your opinion on this before. - Zero1328 08:52, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Not really sure what I can do beyond what I've done. --maru (talk) contribs 13:22, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

He's done quite a bit more than break 3RR. He's essentially contributing to disruption with what has been identified as vandalism. He also has been involved in quite a great deal of personal attacks and nonsense we dont' have to put up with at wikipedia. I regard this as a respective, enclosed dispute, not appropriate for WP:AN/I. However, this has gone on quite enough, and there's certainly no reason to. I'm going to have to post on the board if something is not resolved about this. -Zero^Talk 14:11, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

You can post on AN/I if you want. What I would do is be patient, and engage in a series of escalating blocks (assuming he is also making legitimate edits; I don't remember if he is); after reaching week-long blocks, I'd then go with an indefinite ban. That's just me, of course. If you want, you could ask another admin. Nufy8's not doing that much these days- you could try him. --maru (talk) contribs 01:24, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• That sounds plausible. I believe it would behoove us all to go along with that idea; blocks seem like the only course of action to cease the disruption. -Zero^Talk 12:06, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Looking at the block log, he was originally blocked for general disruption by MONGO. You replaced this with a 24 hour block and then unblocked completely. Can you explain the reasoning for this..? -Zero^Talk 19:20, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

MONGO had already blocked him for the 3RR I was going to block him for, is why. --maru (talk) contribs 19:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• I see. Anyway, see the stuff I placed upon WP:AN/I. -Zero^Talk 00:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Dannyisme

It was created after the first protection[1], but I don't think he used it when he removed the office templates that someone else added (the edits were deleted, so I don't know the time). So the answer is both yes and no. Kotepho 02:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

No, he didn't use Dannyisme when he removed the OFFICE templates, from what I remember of the deleted edits; the use of the dannyisme account has struck me and others as inconsistent. --maru (talk) contribs 03:38, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

It was in reply to your <!-- --> comment in the signpost article about this incident. The waters are even muddier now that other people are carrying out OFFICE actions. Kotepho 04:22, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Interior Wiktionary links

I didn't know that you could add them like that. Thank you for pointing it out. Phydend 00:32, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, you can do it for pretty much any wiki or project-sponsored-by-the-Wikimedia-Foundation, from Wookieepedia to Ward's Wiki. --maru (talk) contribs 00:34, 30 April 2006 (UTC)