User talk:Freakofnurture

re-protect John Cena?

I see you recently unprotected this article, understandbly due to the long protection period. Unfortunatly, however, John Cena is one of the most constant targets of vandalism and pov-pushing I've ever had the pleasure to work on. Protecting it cut down the nonsense considerably - is there any way it can get perma-protected from non-user account editing? Because I don't see this pattern changing. Thanks, --Naha|^(talk) 06:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... I see what you mean. Generally that gets done for eminently known individuals like George W. Bush, but frankly I had never heard of Mr. Cena before. I did list as a "watched page" for the channel bots at #vandalism-en-wp on Freenode. That way all edits to that page get reported to the channel. You may have noticed a wider variety fo people reverting the edits. I would think blocking the problem users would be a better option in this case, but again, I'll keep an eye on it. — Apr. 24, '06 [06:26] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

Well, I've asked for blocks on non-registed users on at least half-a-dozen cases, and not once has an admin ever blocked an IP upon my reports - because "they could be accidently blocking a whole host of people unknowingly." What you have to know is that its not just one or two, or even a handful of people vandalising, its seemingly a different account/ip every time and its endless. Professional wrestling is very big, and apparently when fans that don't like particular wrestlers, they tend to take things very personally for some reason, and take their frustrations out on that wrestler's Wikipedia article by saying bad things about him/her. I don't know why this is so amusing or relieving for so many people but it seems to be. Currently in the wrestling world, John Cena is a title holder and (much to my dismay lol) disliked by a large portion of the fanbase - which is why his article has seen a jump in vandalism over the last 3 months or so. Anyhow, any attention you can give the matter is appreciated, thanks! --Naha|^(talk) 06:33, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, If you have to revert back 50 edits to get rid of vandalism, feel free to do so. I'm going to talk to Splash about this. — Apr. 24, '06 [06:38] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

Yeah. This is tricky. The IPs aren't blockable, usually, that's for sure, and it is a busy article. But this doesn't really rise to the level needing indefinite protection, really. It's not like a GWB or Jew or something. Sometimes, the anons' edits are kept, with a little bit of cleanup, and so it's unfortunate to throw those away. During the 3 week semiprotection, editing did continue, as well; often semi-protection all-but kills it. That said, the vandalism itself is pretty bursty: someone hits it a couple of times in a few minutes, then either gets blocked or bored and its hours before it happens again, with some ok edits in the meantime. So not all the activity in the history is vandalism. Personally, I take the view that if an article is popular, keeping protection on it brief is best, since we are, after all, the site that anyone is supposedly able to edit. Now that it's on the CVU/IRC watchlist (and mine, too, though I'm busy in RL atm) it can probably survive a while unprotected. Naha will get more support than previously from the CVU, and that should ease the pain some. If there comes a tide of vandalism because of something Cena does, then by all mean sprotect for a while. But seeing as its just emerged from 3 weeks of protection, maybe see how things pan out for a while now that it's more looked-at. -Splash^talk 13:14, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can live with that, thank you both for your attention to this matter :) --Naha|^(talk) 13:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Look at it this way--George W. Bush is the President of the United States. He's like the champion of the country. In World Wrestling Entertainment, John Cena is one of the two current Champions, and, like Bush, he's a controversial man. The controversy hit a high point a while back and has been steadily increasing. I'd say, right now, it's at its highest point yet, and in all of wrestling I'd say his article gets vandalized the most. Moreover, frankly speaking, most IP editors have no business editing wrestler articles because well more than half of them are usually vandals/sensationalists. They contribute nothing constructive to wrestling articles. I'm not saying all IP editors should be barred from editing John Cena's article, but if they are, it's no big loss. Slapping semi-protection on, at least until the controversy dies down, would be a practical move. --Antrophica 22:37, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am inclined to agree with this, the vandalism is still going strong. It would be wise to semi-protect it again until Cena drops the belt, whenever that might be - most likely within the next 8 weeks, and probably much sooner. --Naha|^(talk) 05:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps it would be best to find an administrator who knows more about wrestling, i.e. not me. — May. 2, '06 [07:12] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

We can try to do that. We just wanted to keep you informed as to the situation. Thanks again, --Naha|^(talk) 13:32, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I finally found an admin who belongs to WikiProject Professional wrestling - Lbmixpro. I left a message on his talk page to check out this conversation. Thanks, --Naha|^(talk) 01:08, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Protection of FA

Since the protection log of Albatross is huge only after about four hours of exposure and me having been awake for about ten minutes, I'm not going to step in and be bold, but shouldn't today's FA be unprotected from editing? -Obli (Talk)^? 04:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I reduced it to semi-protection. I'll give it an hour or so. — May. 4, '06 [04:21] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

You have an imposter

The user: User:Freakofnature IS EVIL! is an imposter of you. Please block him. --GeorgeMoney^{Talk Contribs} 05:17, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and also block: User:I AM A HELLZULOT OF GOD DAMNED VADNAL BOTS!

--GeorgeMoney^{Talk Contribs} 05:21, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, both of those have already been blocked. — May. 4, '06 [05:22] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

Too tired to think of where to report this...

Sorry, but I am tired and off to bed...would you please look at this and consider taking some form of action as appropriate: [1]. thanks, Kuki ni 06:05, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies

Also, some people showed me the error of my ways, and I am thankful for that. I even thank you because you showed me in your own unique way.

I was told by several users to work out our differences by posting to you here. Therefore, here I am.

I realize I shouldn't have acted rash, especially on an article currently linked from the main page. The surprise of seeing a red-link on the main page made me react the way I did. Not once did it cross my mind that this was bad enough to be a blockable offense, and I'm not sure what other admins would have done. I should have checked the deletion log before posting, then I would've known. Next time I will.

When I made those criticisms about you repeatedly, it was construed as a personal attack. I guess I was overreacting there. I just don't wish for ill will amongst each other.

I will try to keep moving Wikipedia forward as a more thoughtful contributor. I believe I will do this even better, as well as enjoy Wikipedia more when my feelings of fear, being oppressed, and being disliked die down. I wish to win over your good side. What can I do to attain this? (Note that telling me to leave you alone won't move each other any closer to being cool amongst ourselves, and these stressful feelings would stay, which would be detrimental to my health. I've already tried that- it only either made things worse, or didn't smooth things over at all.)

I hope for the best. I think you're doing a great job tirelessly blocking open proxies. Who knows how many millions of them there are, so good luck.

--Shultz IV 08:06, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism cleanup thanks

Thanks for restoring the blanking on my user page. Guess I've upset a school kid somewhere. --StuffOfInterest 11:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Mojohompo

Hi, Could this user be blocked for awhile? He is continously inserting irrellevant images on the article MegaTexture thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.48.91.145 (talk • contribs)

He's been blocked. I would have deleted his useless image too, but it's stored on teh commons, and I'm not an admin there. — May. 4, '06 [16:05] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

Albatross

Hi there...check the page history...I did something to it. Should we merge the other edits back to Albatross now? --HappyCamper 16:12, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think everything looks good now. Let me apologize first for jumping in, it probably made things more convoluted. I wasn't aware that you were cleaning things up at the time. --HappyCamper 16:43, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

== Good luck! ==

Good luck coming back in 2050!

Selective revision page deletion

Please consider using this tool[2] in the future, when undeleting edits. It can check them all, so all you have to do is uncheck the vandal ones.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 22:09, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Such as for Albatross, you can just delete it, press the tab, and then uncheck the bad versions.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 22:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I already have a tool to select all, and then deselect. The hard part is figuring out which ones (after the vandal edit) might still contain bad info. — May. 4, '06 [22:34] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

I also have a history tool that looks for reverts (and marks IP/blank userpage/no summary edits) for history pages, which could help make them stand out. I am going merge the twain right now.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 22:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If this is all based on the edit summary, rather than the content of each revision, it would be of limited usefulness. I'm going to work on a python tool to scan the deleted edits and hopefully select only the ones whose content fails to match a set of regexes, i.e. the "good edits", to restore only them. — May. 4, '06 [22:47] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

Seems to expensive. Do you have popups....once I merge the history analysis, I will also add "diff" tabs, that will trigger the popups. The two combined should shave off any wasted time.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 22:55, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My history JS analysis script now works for deleted pages...the problem with the popups things, is...how do I make a diff for deleted pages?Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 23:12, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I dunno javascript. Talk to Lupin. — May. 4, '06 [23:23] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

hey...

Um...I'm not willy on wheels...I don't even know what that is supposed to mean. Sock puppeting(sp?)...so...What do I have to do to not be i.p. banned? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.123.182 (talk • contribs)

Just like I tell everybody else, If you were blocked, you wouldn't be able to post here. If you are a good user, have fun and go edit. — May. 5, '06 [00:32] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

Ubaidullah Sindhi

This page was cut and paste from another website. I tried to wikify it but is too long. I made it a stub. Siddiqui 01:08, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I will add summaries.

Siddiqui 01:10, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

suggestion

thanks for the suggestion, I did in fact do that, a bit belatedly. -- Curps 07:35, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]