User talk:Ricky81682/Archive 5

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How to get that image

Could you find me one such image available in fickr?. --Crazyguy2050 (talk) 06:57, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Notification of AN/I

Thanks. I just noticed it. Sigh. I'll probably respond to it in the morning. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 07:14, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, ooks like I didn't have to, most it being resolved in the dead of night and early morning. That's what I get for going to business meetings bright and early that last until lunchtime. I guess I will mosey over later and see if the anon wants to try DR or simply use editor avoidance. Have a good day, and thanks for the notification. :) - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 18:03, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Unprotection of Craig Charles

Hi Ricky, may I ask why you unprotected this article? It's been under semi-protection for a long time for a reason... there's a very persistent vandal who has been targeting the article for years, and was targeting the article within the last 20 edits. ~Eliz81^(C) 03:04, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but you're mistaken. The protection policy explicitly allows permanent semi-protection.

Administrators may apply indefinite semi-protection to pages which are:

• Subject to heavy and persistent vandalism.
• Biographies subject to persistent violation of the biographies of living persons or neutral point of view policies.

Given that both those apply to this long term vandal who fixates on this one article and is still active and uses dynamic IPs, unprotecting the article is a wholly bad idea. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 03:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reprotecting Ricky! It is unusual circumstances to be sure. This vandal guy is also affectionately known as 'jamjamjam' and 'the jam vandal', just in case you run into him in the future. All the best, ~Eliz81^(C) 03:32, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I was considering a long term abuse report at one stage, but thought it was probably best not to per WP:DENY. There's Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Nam3witha3init (which are basically confirmed socks anyway, not suspected), and various IPs registered to either Flinders University or what I presume is a home ISP. Selection dating back to early 2007:

• 129.96.142.10 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• 129.96.252.38 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• 129.96.252.34 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• 129.96.234.76 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• 129.96.234.192 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• 58.84.77.185 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• 58.84.68.151 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• 58.84.72.120 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• 58.84.71.107 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

There's more prior to 2007 as well. Other than semi-protection, there's really not much can be done really. I'll leave a brief explanation on the talk page for future reference though. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 15:11, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Please clarify

At User talk:Svetovid#WP:ANI.--Svetovid (talk) 16:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)