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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Sitearm (talk | contribs) at 20:25, 23 August 2005 (add section nancy drew no advertising please). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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"Cyberstalker"

I'm very confused about your reversions of The Mysterious Caravan. It seems as though the anonymous IPs were simply adding a link to your site, where more information could be found on the book. There is nothing wrong with this. Could you please explain to me why you believe that it is the work of a "pathetic, obsessed cyberstalker"? Leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. jglc | t | c 16:17, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually they were REMOVING the link to my site, not adding it.
  • Hmm... I see. It's very possible that they were actually different people, removing what they felt to be a promotional link to your own site. Looking at how the edits came from different IP addresses, I am somewhat doubtful that they are personally targeting you. jglc | t | c 21:31, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • All right :) I'm guessing it's not so much someone obsessed with you as somebody playing a joke, or messing with you. But I see what's going on, now. jglc | t | c 21:31, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal Vendetta

Certain AOL (who else?) user(s) are on a vendetta against me and are removing external links to my sites from Radio Boys, Grosset & Dunlap, Supermystery, Mildred Benson, Roy Rockwood, Clues Brothers, Casefiles, The Dana Girls, Hardy Boys Digest, Undercover Brothers, Harriet Adams, Ted Scott Flying Stories, Nancy Drew, Franklin W. Dixon, Rover Boys, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Tom Swift, Jr., Tom Swift, X Bar X Boys, Edward Stratemeyer, Hardy Boys, Tom Swift IV, While the Clock Ticked, What Happened at Midnight, The Yellow Feather Mystery, The Witchmaster's Key, The Wailing Siren Mystery, The Viking Symbol Mystery, The Twisted Claw, The Tower Treasure, The Sting of the Scorpion, The Sinister Signpost, The Sign of the Crooked Arrow, The Short-Wave Mystery, The Shore Road Mystery, The Shattered Helmet, The Secret of the Old Mill, The Secret of the Lost Tunnel, The Secret of the Caves, The Secret of Wildcat Swamp, The Secret of Skull Mountain, The Secret of Pirate's Hill, The Secret Warning, The Secret Panel, The Secret Agent on Flight 101, The Phantom Freighter, The Mystery of the Whale Tattoo, The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge, The Mystery of the Flying Express, The Mystery of the Desert Giant, The Mystery of the Chinese Junk, The Mystery of the Aztec Warrior, The Mystery of Cabin Island, The Mystery at Devil's Paw, The Mysterious Caravan, The Missing Chums, The Melted Coins, The Masked Monkey, The Mark on the Door, The Jungle Pyramid, The House on the Cliff, The Hooded Hawk Mystery, The Hidden Harbor Mystery, The Haunted Fort, The Great Airport Mystery, The Ghost of Skeleton Rock, The Flickering Torch Mystery, The Firebird Rocket, The Disappearing Floor, The Crisscross Shadow, The Clue of the Screeching Owl, The Clue of the Hissing Serpent, The Clue of the Broken Blade, The Clue in the Embers, The Bombay Boomerang, The Arctic Patrol Mystery, Hunting for Hidden Gold, Footprints under the Window, Detective Handbook, Danger on Vampire Trail, A Figure in Hiding and others. This is doubly annoying as I was the originator of many of the Wikipages and my web pages provide additional in-depth information on these subjects. This has been going on for weeks. PLEASE HELP ME!--FWDixon 11:23, 12 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]


I got your message on my talk page. That definitely seems like vandalism, and I will be watching those articles now. I have already reverted them on "A Figure in Hiding" and will check some of the other articles now to see if the links are still removed. Academic Challenger 10:21, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have now reverted the removals on several dozen articles in the past few minutes. Academic Challenger 10:35, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This is getting crazy now. I have been reverting dozens of articles, still finding them while reverting others many times. I have reverted Hunting for Hidden Gold at least 5 times in the past few minutes, and even blocked an IP for an hour. I am starting to wonder if these pages should be protected for a while. Academic Challenger 22:15, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The vandal struck again, and a couple other users helped to revert him. Unfortunately, we cannot block this person or I would have already done it. There are many other users who use AOL, and while much of what comes from the IP address is vandalism, blocking the IP addresses may also block the accounts of people who use AOL. This is so that AOL vandals cannot avoid a block by creating an account. So unfortunately the only option is page protection, because the person will always keep reverting a few hours after we revert him. Also I will be leaving in a few days to an area where I cannot be on the Internet for a week. If you ever want to add something to an article, let me know and I will unprotect that article. Also, I may not protect articles about series' such as the main Nancy Drew page and the main Hardy Boys page, since people will wawnt to make good edits to them more often, but I will continue to watch them. We cannot really predict what the vandal will do now, after I protect the pages. Unlike most vandals who target a specific user, this vandal does not seem to vandalize your user page and talk page, and it is particularly strange because he really has not written anything at all. However, I think page protection is the best option for now.


I did protect some of the pages last night. It is a very long process. I decided to stop in case the vandal might just maybe stop when he realized that we took this seriously enough to start locking pages. But apparently that has not happened; he has vandalized the remaining pages twice more, so about an hour ago I started protecting more pages, and will continue to protect more. There are so many of them that its hard to keep track of them all, so I might miss some, but I should be able to protect most of them now. Academic Challenger 20:07, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have left a note at User talk:Academic Challenger regarding this case. I think it's only fair to inform you. Rl 15:29, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Stratemeyer Syndicate

We're talking about you over in Talk:Stratemeyer Syndicate, and the other party in said conversation seems to have a problem with your external links. This may be a chance to meet your "stalker" face to face; care to join us? --Ardonik.talk()* 18:06, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry I haven't been around to revert and protect more pages in the past few days. I just moved and didn't have Internet access from Thursday until today, and I really thought that the vandal had given up before I left. I received the other messages on my talk page and I still think that your website belongs in the articles. Academic Challenger 03:43, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nancy Drew no advertising please

Hi. I noticed you added your website again to the Nancy Drew article external links section without responding to the discussion on the talk page first. Please stop doing that. I removed the link because of the discussion posted on the talk page.

I looked at your website and it is very nice but it is clearly a site to sell books that does not add significant information beyond what is available in the Nancy Drew article. If you take issue with not listing your web site on the Nancy Drew article, please post your comments on the talk page there for other readers to see and respond. Thank you!

 WHOIS Record For bobfinnan.com
  
 domain:                          BOBFINNAN.COM

 registrant-firstname:            Robert

 registrant-lastname:             Finnan

 registrant-email:                fwdixon@yahoo.com

-- Sitearm | Talk 20:25, 2005 August 23 (UTC)

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