I worked hard on that joke page in reaction to the Simpsons episode. I don't like what you did, it was undignified, and I expect an apology. Deleting my work if it's on userspace-not acceptable. CoolKatt number 99999 21:33, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thanx and it's OK CoolKatt number 99999 21:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to say, wonderful job catching the offensive usernames today around the time I'm posting this. I was welcoming people and noticed how you did a great job at catching them. Just wanted to let you know. Bravo!--ViolinGirl♪ 21:54, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Go see what that pooop vandal has done at Wikispecies!
Thank you for reverting all of that pagemove vandalism. During this restoration, the article United States appears to have been deleted. Could you please restore it? Thanks. NatusRoma 22:45, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey Curps, I've restored the talk page, but it keeps giving me errors when I try and restore the article. What should we do? -- PRueda29 Ptalk29 22:49, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I raised a bit if a ruckus just now about the United States article. Hope it doesn't cause any further problems, but with such a notable article, I felt it was wiser to shoot first and ask questions later. Caerwine Caerwhine 23:04, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
...for blanking vandalism on my talk page. εγκυκλοπαίδεια* (talk) 23:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Note recent charming pagemove vandalism twice in quick succession:
In one of his earlier edits, BillRoller mentions he is posting to Wikipedia from work: [1]
Can you do a checkuser to see if these two users are the same person (or same workplace), and possibly undertake followup as you see fit. -- Curps 23:24, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Possibly add:
who may the the same or just a follow-on copycat. -- Curps 23:33, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Sorry to bug you again, but I noticed:
Mustanglover69 was blocked almost immediately as a vandal, while Mustanglover was a sleeper that waited until it could do pagemove vandalism.
Today we had:
WillemJokerr was blocked almost immediately as a George W. Bush anti-Jimbo vandal, WillemJoker hasn't done anything yet, as I write this.
A similar situation? Accounts created minutes apart, the second account is an immediate vandal, while the first account could be a sleeper, or it could be an innocent user whose name the vandal imitated, perhaps with an aim to get us to start preemptively blocking innocent users.
So does checkuser provide any enlightenment here? How about Mustanglover/Mustanglover69, now known to both be vandals, undoubtedly related, but does checkuser tell us this? -- Curps 07:34, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
You blocked my username without making any effort to discover if I might have a reason for registering a similar-appearing user name to continue editing an article I had previously contributed to. I registered the similar appearing name for consistency sake after I failed to recall my password for the original user name. Your unfounded allegation and uninquisitive tone of hostility does not seem consistent with a genuine search for encyclopedic information, but does convey a sense of impatience, suspicion and lack of cooperation.
You would do well to observe in good faith the consistent tone and narrow interest of the two visually similar user names, to observe the constructive articulate nature of each user name's contribution, to note the lack of destructive edits by either user name, to consider difficulties encountered by harried volunteer contributors to an opensource project then to post an inquiry on the user's talk pages and wait an appropriate time before making dark allegations that a contributor is an impostor or is spoofing.
Now posting as Riebold, I have also posted as Rybold and as RyboId. I expect you can avoid reinforcing your error by ceasing any hostility or allegation toward me now using a third username, and I request that you reverse your capricious indefinate block so I can avoid stirring further confusion by using yet another handle. Riebold 01:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey, could you slap a WBOW template on User:Salmonizatios? I'm not an admin, so I don't think I should. Thanks, Melchoir 04:57, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
You probably do so many such good deeds one is nothing but I just noticed you reverted some vandalism of my user page a month ago. Thanks muchly. Jellypuzzle 11:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Curps! Thanks for acting so quickly and efficiently with regard to the above accounts! It was in fact me who set up CLVV to stop anyone else from setting up an account to impersonate me - I'd seen it happen with other users, and this was the only possible combination of characters that I could think of that anyone could use. But it's reassuring to see that even if it had been an imposter setting up that account they would have been immediatlely blocked before they could do any harm. I hope this didn't cause you too much unnecessary work and hassle. Thanks again. CLW 13:11, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Is User:XXxWiLlYwHeElSxXx the same as the other "on wheels" users you blocked just a few minutes ago?--ViolinGirl♪ 16:30, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
for cleaning up the vandalism to my user page. Much appreciated. (ESkog)(Talk) 20:44, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
User:Locke Cole also reverted a bunch of albums to Template:Albuminfobox 2. Only the ones that User:Monicasdude hand-reverted from User:BGC's spree though, not the ones you rollbacked. I'm not confident enough to edit-war with that user over it. Opinion? Jkelly 02:42, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I noticed you going through and blocking some sock puppets of User:Mcfly85 like User:Barkman34 and User:Capnoh - with an expiry time of indefinite (sockpuppet used abusively). Well, hate to say that you missed some:
I think thats all of them, thanks for helping. — Moe ε 06:51, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
A big WikiThanks for all the work you've been doing reverting the album templates recently! - Wezzo 08:13, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I never cut and paste except to restore text that people are deleting for no good reason. Whatever I post is true and carefully documented. Please, we need to have a fair picture, so please stop deleting important truths which are backed by references that anyone can check. Let us please have a balanced view. I Speak Only Truth 17:40, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Can you modify your bot to email me when it blocks someone for page move vandalism? I'm finding that virtually all of these incidents are coming out of compromised web hosts, and a checkuser often identifies at least one additional sleeper account. Prompt investigation and decisive action after such blocks may help to reduce our exposure. Kelly Martin (talk) 00:49, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Please don't use rollback to revert non-vandalism. --SPUI (talk) 01:56, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
14 December 2005 Curps blocked "User:My another account" with an expiry time of indefinite (please contact an administrator for verification purposes, as described on this page)
Which page is this page? And what kind of verification is necessary?
It's not like the name I chose is inflammatory or offending or somesuch. --194.226.235.251 13:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Would you please be able to run your bot through W.H. Dall? Thanks. --Khoikhoi 02:06, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I know that this has been mentioned before, but could you please be more descriptive in some of your block summaries? I noticed that you're still using "user..." in your summaries, and those can be confusing, especially to new users. A summary like "inappropriate username" or "username implies vandal account" would be fine. --Ixfd64 10:09, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
My IP address is 205.188.116.199. Please include this address, along with your username (User:Mike Nobody), in any queries you make. My ISP is AOL and was in the middle of something. I was mistakenly blocked with "IMaRocketMan". Please unblock.
Do you know if there are anyway to stop them. I'm severly getting infected by the autoblocks, most of them are AOL IPs in which I use. #70913 Is one of them that can't let me edit some pages and need it unblocked. And do you know how to avoid them? Thanks --Jaranda wat's sup 02:04, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
When a registered username is blocked by an admin, that admin has no way of knowing whether that user was on AOL or not. IP address information on registered users simply isn't provided to us, for privacy reasons. Admins also have no way of turning off autoblocking: when a registered username is blocked, autoblocks always happen (and vandals can probably figure out how to use this to do a denial-of-service attack on AOL users). Also, there's no way to give legitimate registered users immunity from being autoblocked.
There's not much I can say, except complain to the developers. The Mediawiki software has glaring deficiencies and they're not getting fixed very quickly. Complain to AOL too, for their open proxy implementation which lumps vandals and good users together and makes it impossible for Wikipedia to distinguish them. AOL is frankly a less-than-ideal platform for editing Wikipedia.
As things currently stand with both Mediawiki and AOL, there's no way to prevent such a situation from occurring and recurring. As I mentioned above, I have no way of even knowing which autoblocks are AOL autoblocks, and there's not much that can be done about it anyway. -- Curps 05:43, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I think you may have accidentally erased a number of comments on that last edit you nade to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GH avisualagency™... I reverted it and mislabeled the edit as a vandalism revision. Sorry about that. --jackohare 05:14, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Why was this user blocked? There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it. --SPUI (talk) 06:10, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey Curps. I think you accidentally removed some legitimate votes during this edit [6] Thanks. --a.n.o.n.y.m t 20:27, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Why are you reverting honest edits?
I am trying to learn the ropes here and contribute to the Wikipedia, you are ignoring and reverting all of my edits in clear violation of Wikipedia policy. If I am doing something wrong, LET ME KNOW HOW I CAN MAKE IT RIGHT, do NOT revert me blindly or I will report you to Mr. Wales for discipline.
What is wrong with my edits?
Hi, the user User:Jake Remingto.n sounds like the many vandals that you had blocked. --Hurricane111 23:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Kappa recently did you the favor of speedying CURPS BOT IS ANAL SEX WITH TATOR TOTS (which was created by newbie AHOBOT). BD2412 T 04:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
noticed you reverted vandalsim on my user page, many thanks :-) Benon 11:39, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Per a request to the mailing list, I've unblocked 202.37.96.11 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) (resolves to gatekeeper.tate.co.nz). It may well be a proxy, but I'm not sure how to determine if it's an open one or not - it doesn't look like it - and all previous edits looked decent.
Feel free to reblock if you feel it's needed, but if you do re-block it'd probably be appreciated if you could drop that chap an email explaining why. Thanks. Shimgray | talk | 18:58, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I notice you have spotted this persistant AOL vandal on De Niro's article, he is attacking other articles on Italian Americans, including Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Danny DeVito, Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese and possibly others by persistantly adding the name Marc Tufano in various ways to these articles. It seems that some people are of the impression that it is not worth blocking AOL ips as they are unlikely to be used by the same person again, but, if you look back at the history of De Niro you can see the attacks have been coming from the same ip since December 6th so in my opinion it is definitely justified to block AOL ips. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. Thanks Arniep 20:25, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
This one is for the Roma people page. Thanks. --Khoikhoi 00:25, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I was extremely disappointed to find the "evaluation" section of Wikipedia completely gone and only represented by "critisism" in the "See also" subsection. Undoubtedly, I acted hastily. Cheers. WAS 4.250 04:24, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I've raised this question here, I bet you'll want to comment! Dan100 (Talk) 14:51, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Dedicated to user:Curps for his hard work at keeping vandals out. By Antonio Santa Claus Martin, December 21, 2005
Hola Curps: Como estas? I was contacted by a certain user:Blockinblox who wants to find out why you blocked him. As an administrator, this intrigues me too, particularly because we can reinstate or deny reinstallment to users. I'd be glad to help him if it was a mistake, but if there is enough reason for him not to reinstated then we need to stick by our principles.
Also, looking at your talk page, you are a hard security guard here. You shall be rewarded.
Feliz Christmas, and God bless you!
Sincerely yours, Antonio los Bloods, Creeps and Curps (hehe, sounds cool ah?) Martin
Hi, this is Blockinblox. I'm using a different computer now. Why did you block me with expiry of "infinite" from the English wikipedia before I even got a chance to make one edit?? I haven't done anything wrong, and I have never been blocked from any wiki ever before. For "reason" you put:
"please contact an administrator for verification purposes"...
What exactly am I supposed to verify please? I would very much like to be unblocked ASAP, as I haven't done anything wrong. Thank you. Please respond at User_talk:Blockinblox. Thanks again. User:Blockinblox
Where did you obtain your supernatural abilities? I have not slept much this past day, and you've been around the whole time. Thank you for stepping in and lending a hand with the UCF article. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 05:45, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I have to tell you, one of my favorite activities as of late around here is watching you shut down that pathetic loser who doesn't seem to have anything better to do on the internet than create user names raging about how horrible you are. Keep up the good work. You know you're doing right when you get under their skin. :) - Lucky 6.9 07:51, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi - User:SEWilco has complained about being indefinetly blocked on his talk page [7]. The only mention of him I see on [8] is your block of #72382 as recently used by "RefBot". I find no other note on that page nor any block notice on his talk or on the bot talk. Am I missing something? Please clarify. Vsmith 16:47, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there any way to avoid IP blocking? Say, not block registered users unless they (specifically) are vandals, or something. I'm just trying to avoid the hassle I just went through, since I'm most definitely not a vandal. - ElAmericano | talk 22:29, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't often second-guess you (and I'll defer to your judgment) but I would have left Category:Astrologers in place for Giordano Bruno. From what I remember reading of his works (30-odd years ago) he was a pretty serious astrologer. See for example [9], and apparently Elisabetta Tarantino (University of Wales at Aberystwyth) did a paper in 2000 on "Bruno and Astrology" [10]. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:07, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the revert. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:42, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my talk page.
Yeah, it could have been an impostor; but my personal experience leads me to believe that most kids are dumb enough to use their real names here ... they don't realize it can come back to them. Daniel Case 05:44, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for 'verting my page. Search4Lancer 06:34, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the candidate template's typo, saving me from further embarassment. Perils of non-native English, I guess. --Kizor 07:59, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for doing it. Banes 16:48, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, but I decided to keep it. (Record of why I blocked him...) Jdavidb (talk • contribs) 16:48, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
He's back again [11] maybe we should start documenting these and email it to AOL abuse? Arniep 18:04, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
He is a serial harrasser of people in the media and well known to the police. If you have to block that AOL IP, then do it.
Is there some story why you reverted a mesage on my talk page? Dominick (TALK) 21:07, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Did you ban User:Evangeline Lilly (See also the violator's talk page) just due to impersonation on a celebrity? Just curious. From my point-of-view impersonating a celebrity is a bannable offense. You should ban said user as soon as you can since impersonation is a serious violation IMO. — Dark Insanity 05:25, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
P.S. Please reply on my Talk Page. Thanks.
I suspect this to be Wikipedia is Communism rather than the Girls Aloud/Obesity and John Moores vandal (who appears to have given up, I am told! Well, the John Moores one anyway) --Sunfazer 05:52, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I actually created the extra names (in lowercase) to avoid impersonation to begin with. Since I travel a lot, I'm not affected by blocks too much. Because You blocked those names, though, I still have to be careful to capitolize My last name otherwise I'll leave a Blocked IP in My wake. It's good to create the extra names Yourself to avoid someone else claiming those names. -- Eddie 06:57, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I'd re-block him for impersonating the famous sexologist. Hanukkah is tomorrow you know. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 08:26, Dec. 25, 2005
If you must remove it and it's been covered elsewhere then you have my blessing to remove it, and a big thank you for justifying the reason to me. Chooserr 04:36, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, pal. Hope you're having a great Christmas. Question: I think I just blocked an unauthorized bot operating under the user name of Gregg02. HUGE amounts of rapid-fire articles related to the TV show, "Angel." I suspect they're copyvios being added via a bot, but I can't find the source. Put a fifteen-minute block on the account in hopes of getting answers, but the guy has tried to log back on anonymously. No response. Is there a "magic rollback key" to wip out his copyvios in one swoop or are these going to have to be deleted one at a time? Thanks for all you do. You're really one of this site's indispensible assets. - Lucky 6.9 06:25, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting the green vandalism on my user page. Nolamgm 17:35, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of [removed] for me. I wasn't sure what the protocol was on these things, so I left the guy alone, but you can bet my next move was going to be to request someone else block him. Thanks again! -- Amcaja 20:17, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Please comment on the Talk page and/or see Wikipedia:Naming_conventions before moving this page to its acronym. Thank you! Omnibus 21:18, 26 December 2005 (UTC)