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List of Virtual Console games (North America)

Hello, I am unable to use the mediation request form for the VC game list article (NA) due to its current protection status. Can you assist us in starting this process? Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. --Cheesemeister3k 08:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't quite understand your problem -- you do not need to edit the article to file a mediation request; the {{RFMF}} template should be placed on the talk page, not on the article page. Kusma (talk) 08:49, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Could you make an edit to the page? Zelda II: The Adventure of Link has been confirmed to be released this Monday (June 4 2007)[1]. Also, Dead Moon has been confirmed for this Monday [2]. 2 games have been confirmed for the the VC, but have no release date yet: Milon's Secret Castle for the NES and Ecco: The Tides of Time for the Genesis, both rated E. TJ Spyke 22:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I've made a formal edit request for this, so hopefully someone will get to it sooner or later. -Arcanelore 00:31, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Don Fernando

Dear Kusma,

I am a public figure named Don Fernando and my page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Fernando ; from what I can gather, was started in November 2005 by somebody unknown to me. I was unaware that I was included on Wikipedia.org until last year. Everything was fine and dandy until recently someone unknown to me decided to vandalize my bio. I made a previous request recently to have an administrator "semi-protect" the user named "Dreamrelax" (who is unknown to me) from editing any section of my Wikipedia page as said 3 edits by "Dreamrelax" were malicious in nature; ref. "History"

I cite your page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism and hereby affirm that:

1) Dreamrelax is persistently making personal and defamatory attacks on my page and I; as a well-known living public figure, will not tolerate this; and

2) Dreamrelax "Userspace Vandalism" Adding insults, profanity, etc. to user pages or user talk pages (see also Wikipedia:No personal attacks) and citing as evidence two of the defamatory and malicious edits: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don_Fernando&diff=128804107&oldid=123104921

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don_Fernando&diff=134495209&oldid=134199310

Your attention to this troubling personal matter would be greatly appreciated by me.

Sincerely, Don Fernando—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Donfernando (talk • contribs) 09:34, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I have warned the user already and he has not edited since. The diffs you gave are not to userspace (pages prefixed with "User:", for example, User:Kusma) but to article space. We can't semi-protect users, but we can block them (I will do that if the user continues to add unsourced negative material about you after warnings). We could semi-protect the page Don Fernando (semiprotection means that it can only be edited by accounts older than four days) but that doesn't seem like a good idea in this case, as most edits that come from unregistered users seem to be productive. Hope that helps, Kusma (talk) 09:44, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism of My Page

Kusma -

Thanks for your attention to my request. I looked at the tutorial on "Improving the Article" specifically; citing "reference and source" material. I am concerned since; as a director/producer of adult content, of a Catch 22 "conflict of interest" implication(s) arising if I place a URL of a company that I have an interest in and/or distributes a tile in my "Videography"...don't really want to break the Wikipedia rules...any suggestions?

Don Fernando

You should be able to find sources for the awards you have from sources independent from yourself (for example, the website of the organization giving out these prizes) and then cite those. If you need specific help by our pornography experts (who have developed guidelines for porn star articles), you might check out our pornography project or post a question on their talk page. Hope that helps, Kusma (talk) 10:44, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

The "Pornography Project"...sounds like a good title for a porn series :>) ...seriously...I am rusty and do not have too much time but will help in another way...Wikipedia Rocks!!!

Don "Asianman" Fernando

Star Ocean Spoiler Removal

Although I understand the reasons behind the spoiler removal in the 'Plot' section, I can't understand why you did the same in the subsequent section, 'Characters'. As per stated in the 'Talk' page, I consider revealing the outcome of the character 'Ronixis J. Kenni' unacceptable since it also covers the sequel to Star Ocean. It's my opinion that a spoiler warning it's necessary until I have time to rewrote that section and remove the revealing statements. I read Wikipedia's spoiler guidelines, but I think that in this case, it's necessary. --Lashiec 16:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

For a ten year old game, I don't think spoiler warnings are necessary (and if the spoilers are about something else than the game at hand, you should think about whether they are necessary and remove the spoilers instead of giving a generic warning). Also, that section is written in unencyclopedic tone and is completely unreferenced, probably original research. In any case, more important than the issue of spoiler warnings is article quality, and the Characters sections reads like it comes from a game guide, not from an encyclopedia. Kusma (talk) 16:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

OK, so the rewrite part is actually needed. Thanks for the info. --Lashiec 16:57, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Could you please protect the Saint Ignatius College South australia page. The revert war is still going.203.122.236.1 07:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Could you plese protect the Saint Ignatius College South Australia page again. The revert war goes on.203.122.236.1 07:47, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Please fully protect

That unknown user still doesn't get what I am trying to tell her. I left her a relevant message on her talk page yet she doesn't agree.

Please fully protect it for quite a long time, without anything to do with Keogh on that page/

Thankyou219.90.179.30 08:11, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Please discuss the issue on the talk page instead of removing the comments of the other party, so a consensus can be reached. If no discussion is forthcoming but edit warring continues, I won't pay attention to whether Keogh is included on the page. Protection is not an endorsement of one version over the other. Kusma (talk) 17:19, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Don Fernando

Kusma -

I am going to have to insist on indefinite "semi-protection" as a result of repeated vandalism.

Don Fernando Asianman 11:01, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

It's just one IP, I am watching it and will block it if necessary. Kusma (talk) 17:14, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

User:CholemWiener

I am quite sure it is him, no one else would redirect Gesellmann to Gesell. We have reverted all damage (typical stuff). I think that this time Heinrich Berté, Vojtěch Birnbaum, and Karl Alwin would be good G5 candidates, since he will probably come back to check on them soon. Category:Czech art historians seems ok but I still think it should be deleted per G5 since no one else has used it. shoeofdeath 18:40, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

All contributions are gone. I'm so tired of this... Kusma (talk) 06:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Haha, well done, perhaps one day he will stop this insanity. I was thinking of writing something on the talk page also but decided that this would not accomplish anything - he is obviously incapable of understanding what is going on. Hopefully he will stay away for more than two weeks this time...shoeofdeath 07:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

He is back as Pirnbaumer (talk · contribs · block log) today. He also seems to be using SU's old memo lists, so I suggest deleting all pages in relation to Special:Allpages/User_talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg, but that's your call. – sgeureka ^t•c 19:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh dear. Perhaps another long-term blocking of his IP range is needed? shoeofdeath 20:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

All deleted, please keep me posted. He recently told me he's going to Vienna; if that is true, he isn't editing from his usual range anyway. His usual range is still softblocked. I am still uncertain about the subpages; sometimes they help to make it obvious who's editing. Kusma (talk) 05:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

He is indeed in Vienna. [3][4] – sgeureka ^t•c 17:42, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean? Both of those IPs are from Bratislava, Slovakia. What is he doing there? And how come you didn't get called a fool, sgeureka?! No fair. shoeofdeath 19:03, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

The ISP seems to be from Vienna, no idea why the geolocator says Bratislava. It's pretty close, though. Happy editing to all fools and non-fools, Kusma (talk) 19:12, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Wow, he seems to be really focusing on that Birnbaum article. I wonder how long it will take him to realize that (a) Putting a template on a userpage doesn't actually ban the person and (b) Reverting the same page over and over makes it obvious who you are. And these sockpuppet names are getting less and less creative... shoeofdeath 00:15, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Sigh... shoeofdeath 20:31, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Dealt with. Kusma (talk) 05:55, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't know in how far this info is useful, but SU seems to have a static IP number this time. See the history of Birnbaum on June 5 and 11. Coincidence is just too unlikely otherwise. Maybe block 62.99.160.158 (talk · contribs · block log) for an unspecified time? – sgeureka ^t•c 19:50, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Should have still been autoblocked. Let's qait for a couple more and then file a checkuser request. Kusma (talk) 10:05, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't know much about blocking procedures on WP, and I'm also not in a hurry, so this was just a suggestion/hint. It's just that the block log of this IP number was still empty (and it also doesn't show up in the Special:Ipblocklist). Oh, and wouldn't WP:RCU only work based on SU's old recorded IP numbers and ISPs? Because I don't think it's possible to find a RCU link between a banned user who edited from Japan, and the same editor who now edits from a completely different continent. (Except that the edit behavior is really suspicious, but we don't need RCU for that.) – sgeureka ^t•c 11:21, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I think he uses at least 2 IPs; the last autoblock was still active when he made that IP edit. As long as he is only a mild nuisance, I won't bother the checkusers with this. Kusma (talk) 11:45, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, what have we here?! A few more G5's, apparently. CheckUser is not needed at all here - his edits are too unique to be anyone else's. I would suggest some sort of protection on Birnbaum instead. Every one of his recent socks has gone directly to that article, so I am guessing he checks it regularly. Perhaps one of those big templates that says something like "this page is currently protected to prevent the sockpuppets of a banned user from editing it" would scare him away, at least for awhile. Seriously, check the history of that page - he has reverted it almost every day in June. It is getting a little bit ridiculous. And I have no idea what went on here, haha. Perhaps a misguided attempt at concealing his identity? shoeofdeath 00:32, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I think he just mistakenly clicked the "redirect" button instead of the "sign" button on the edit toolbar (are they close to each other? I've disabled the toolbar a long time ago). As an experiment, I have sprotected Birnbaum for a month and slapped an ugly template on the article as you suggested. Happy editing, Kusma (talk) 07:04, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I have filed a request anyway: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Sheynhertz-Unbayg. Kusma (talk) 11:53, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Actually I was wondering about the comment itself ("I think Lajos Szücs is righteus") which I found very strange and a little humorous. A CheckUser couldn't hurt, especially since I missed two recent socks (Oskar Strnad is one he watches also, should have seen that). I would push for the deletions of the tiny villages (Koperniki and Nová Cerekev) as well - there are about 30-40 one sentence stubs like these which only exist because some Jewish person he was interested in was born there. I have never seen another person add content or translate one of these, but I suppose it doesn't really matter anyway. It has really been crazy with the sockpuppets lately but I am pretty confident that this silliness will stop once he goes back to Japan. Perhaps he doesn't have access to as many computers there because he never went this nuts with the ban-evasion during the 10 or so months he was banned. In any case, keep a watchful eye. shoeofdeath 17:27, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

ICSZ

Kusma,

You blocked our school from editing yesterday - with good reason. I have identified the culprits, and they are being dealt with. But I need some help to stay on top of this. A few weeks ago, Netsnipe set up an RSS feed on our Talk page, but that only alerts me to you guys warning and blocking us. By the time I got your message yesterday, school was out, and the kids were gone. What I need is an RSS feed on our Contributions page, so that I am alerted as soon as anyone in the school changes a page. I asked Netsnipe, and he has referred my request to Wikitech-1, but I have not heard any further. Any other suggestions?

Also, as we are an International School, I need to do the same with de, fr, it, nl wikis and others. Haven't started on that yet. Are you also a DE moderator? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ICSZ (talk • contribs)

I assume that this is about 212.117.125.202 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Unfortunately I have no idea whether there is a way to get a contributions RSS feed. And no, I am not an administrator on the German Wikipedia. Sorry not to be able to be more helpful, Kusma (talk) 06:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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List of Virtual Console games (North America)

I just wanted to give you a heads-up that I reduced the protection a little early because there were several editprotected requests on the talk page and there were current events that weren't reflected in the article. I hope you don't mind, however, feel free to re-protect the article if you do. Cheers. --MZMcBride 02:27, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough (re: the user you didn't block)

The edits did seem to be consistent with a serial nuisance from Wookieepedia who's also been seen here impersonating administrators and harassing people, but it is better that the person being impersonated reports it. Cheers, —Silly Dan _(talk) 12:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Saint Ignatius College, South Australia

Hi again, the Saint Igantius College, South Australia page still needs protecting. I put my arguments on the discussion page, but no one else has responded. Thanks, 203.122.236.1 16:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Protected. No fixed ending this time, let's see what comes up in the discussion. Kusma (talk) 18:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. If you have time it might be best to also protect the Hentry Keogh page which is part of the on-going dispute. 203.122.236.1 04:29, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, that's Henry Keogh, not Hentry Keogh. 203.122.236.1 12:35, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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Henry Keogh again

Hi again, Could you protect the Henry Keogh page again please. The revert war continues.

Thanks, 203.122.236.1 12:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I have decided to edit the page instead, so I am now no longer a neutral party that can decide about protection. Please use WP:RFPP instead. The article was in very poor shape, concentrating exclusively on details of the last appeals case and with many uncited details (including the school information). Wikipedia is not a news service. Kusma (talk) 12:29, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Christian von Krockow

Hi. FYI, I've translated the German entry on Christian Graf von Krockow, which was a stub.

Sca 16:47, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Good work, thanks! I am not very active at the Germany project ATM, but will get back to work there Real Soon Now... Happy editing, Kusma (talk) 17:04, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I added a quote from one of v. Krockow's books (my translation). Sca 13:32, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Dear Kusma, thank you for you efforts to build consensus on my RfA. As you know, it was unsuccessful. I am not the type of editor to be disheartened by such a result, and have gained much experience.

I will run again, however I am concerned that I may see your name in the same place, for the same reasons. I would greatly appreciate knowing what I could do to earn your support next time.

If you have anything to contribute by way of improvements or comments, please don’t hesitate to tell me. Kind regards, Dfrg.msc 00:34, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Removing spoiler warning from Wario: Master of Disguise

Why did you remove the spoiler warning from Wario: Master of Disguise even after it was specifically requested? Bilge [TC] 00:53, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

It was in a section clearly titled "Storyline" that can be expected to give out plot details, so the warning was unnecessary per our guideline at Wikipedia:Spoiler. Kusma (talk) 05:18, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Certified.Gangsta 2

Hello,

A request for arbitration has been filed regarding the conduct of Certified.Gangsta.

Can I trouble you to write a statement at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Certified.Gangsta 2 recounting your interactions with him and your impressions of his conduct as an editor?

Thanks.

LionheartX 07:45, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I have noticed already. Commenting there seems unnecessary, especially as the case is already heading towards acceptance. Kusma (talk) 07:50, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you, however I'd appreciate it if you could write a statement at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Certified.Gangsta 2, since very few editors seems to have commented on the arbitration. Any comments/evidence would be highly appreciated. Thanks. LionheartX 12:25, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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Sheynhertz-Unbayg sockpuppets

Thanks for the heads-up. I'd never run into this one before, but I'm sure it won't be the last time. It might be a good idea to drop BigHaz a note on his talk page about it, too, since he has one of the pages on his watch list. Again, thanks for being vigilant! -Yupik 08:12, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

No prob :) -Yupik 11:43, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Saint Ignatius College, South Australia

Hi. I'm the person who asked for protection on the Saint Ignatius College, South Australia page. I am extremely fed up on how reliable wikipedia is, as I see all the time that users of wikipedia are feeding articles false information that is nearly half-right. Okay, Keogh went to the Saint Ignatius College, South Australia school and I was fine if that person who can't even create an account so we don't have to disturb all the people who use her same IP kept the fact that Keogh attended the school on his page, but I think that she is trying to drag down the school with him by organising little tea-parties and telling everybody what school he went to. There are thousands of prisoners who went to schools, but I've been looking on many school's pages on wiki and have found no mention of a murderer who went there. In the end, he isn't notable in the first place so why should he be considered to be put on the page in "Notable Alumini". Wjs13 11:14, 14 June 2007 (UTC)—comment added by 219.90.184.65^(t/c)

This discussion belongs at Talk:Saint Ignatius College, South Australia more than on my talk page. Currently Henry Keogh isn't mentioned as an alumnus on Saint Ignatius College, South Australia by an application of the WP:BLP rule that I interpret as removal of the unsourced claim that Henry Keogh is a murderer.

I personally don't really care who is mentioned in the Alumni section on that page, and do not have enough knowledge about the situation to know who should be mentioned. On the talk page, another IP argued that it is very interesting to see that several people connected to this murder case all attended this school. That may be true. Wikipedia's verifiability policy WP:V asks us to prove this from reliable sources. Are recent publications about the school interested in this connection? If not, it could be argued that this is an original synthesis of facts, which Wikipedia doesn't publish. If most recent (since the murder) sources about the school mention this connection, it would violate Wikipedia's neutrality policy to omit it. Which of these is true I do not know, but again, the place for discussing all this is the article talk page Talk:Saint Ignatius College, South Australia. Kusma (talk) 11:32, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

So in the end, you aren't going to bother answering my questions. I cannot believe this.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.90.184.65 (talk • contribs)

Henry Keogh is currently not listed in the Alumni section of that page. I have listed reasons that could be given to include him, but am not sure that they apply; that could be discussed on the article talk page with all interested editors. Which questions do you want me to answer? Kusma (talk) 07:21, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I have asked some questions on the article talk page, and would really prefer if you could use that page to talk to all editors of the article instead of addressing me personally about an issue that concerns the article content more than my personal behavior. Kusma (talk) 12:56, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Just so you know I did some researching and looked in yearbooks and his name never appeared.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 219.90.214.238 (talk • contribs) 07:36, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Munich redirect

It's not the deletion itself that the problem. The fact that the project wasn't informed about this. Does Wikipedia expect to gain respect when it's own proccess doesn't respect? Kingjeff 20:48, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

The redirect was properly tagged for deletion; the tagging should have shown up on your watchlist. Process was followed. The only thing that should perhaps have been done is to fix all the links through that redirect so they don't show up as red. That should take about 10 minutes by hand or 3 with AWB. Kusma (talk) 06:38, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

What?

Please look up the word spam in the dictionary. It wasn't a personal site for starters and it was a useful link that wasn't included on the page. Sending messages with false information is a disservice to WIKIPEDIA's mission.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nquotes (talk • contribs) 05:45, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

All your edits added external links to the same site. Please add information, not links. Kusma (talk) 05:53, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

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Spoiler tags

Please note that spoiler-season has been redirected to spoiler as a result of a TfD. As part of the close all existing instances of "spoiler-season" have been replaced with "spoiler", so whatlinkshere for spoiler will have about 50 links.

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I was busy IRL and this storm seems to have passed already. Kusma (talk) 13:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Potential sockpuppet alert

Somehow this just strikes me as being one of SU's sockpuppets: User:JehudaHolub. -Yupik 10:00, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Blocked, thanks! Kusma (talk) 13:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany template

I'm going to need to add some task force to the template. Right now, FC Bayern Munich Task Force and the Translation task force are the only two that needs to be added. Kingjeff 19:26, 25 June 2007 (UTC)