User talk:Prodego

RFA Thanks

Thank you for your support vote on my RFA. The final result was a successful request based on 111 support and 1 oppose. --CBDunkerson 14:37, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Congrats on your adminship, sir. BDAbramson T 22:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Prodego ^talk 22:53, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations

Hi, Prodego, Congratulations on Becoming a Sysop

Hey there. Congratulations, you've just been made a sysop! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except junk like "LALALALAL*&*@#@THIS_SUXX0RZ"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.

Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun!

PS: Looks like someone made you a sysop but forgot to remove the nomination or tell you. So I don't know. Tell me if you experience any problems. — Ilyan e p (Talk) 22:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Haha! No problem and congrats :) — Ilyan e p (Talk) 22:36, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations

Consensus having been reached, I am pleased to inform you that you are now an Administrator on the English Wikipedia. If there is anything I can do to help you learn the ropes, please let me know. (By the way, I believe you have a distinction of having two bureaucrats fighting over your nomination; I set rights, but Ilyanep closed the nomination! :-)) Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 22:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yessiree. I don't believe that's happened before :P — Ilyan e p (Talk) 22:36, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So clearly we don't need more Bcrats ;-) I'll be back to thank you properly later, I'm out! Prodego ^talk 22:40, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! --Ixfd64 01:15, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! You deserved it. Covington 02:01, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm just being a pain in the ass, ignore me. Have fun, block some vandals, protect some pages, and have an overall good time. Enjoy your delivery. -Mysekurity^[m!] 01:43, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Ditto from me here, congrats! Weatherman90 02:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats on your RfA now here's a vandal to block.

Title says it all, vandal is 203.17.156.230 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). JoshuaZ 01:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aww, that's too bad. I was hoping I could give you your first vandal to whack, now I'll need to go find another. I doubt it will take that long. One moment please. JoshuaZ 01:31, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, your last message was about 10 seconds too late, I already found another one for you to block, its a Jason Gastrich sock 207.160.71.134 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). JoshuaZ 01:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, sorry about the date on him. Didn't realize he was so old, I just came across him and since we had a storm of Gastrich socks a few hours ago, I presumed he was one of the new ones without looking too closely as the contrib list. JoshuaZ 03:03, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations on your Rfa nomination and I appreciate the thank you comment for my vote, I'm glad to have been able to vote for such a friendly and well deserving candidate. I hope to see you around some more and have a great day! -- Patman2648 19:14 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Steady rollin', glad to support. T K E 03:15, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nicely done. Go block some vandals! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 03:57, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good job, Prodego, enjoy your mop and bucket! - W e zzo (talk) (ubx) 06:28, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations Prodego, good luck:) --Ugur Basak 07:02, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! You deserve this. --S iva1979^{Talk to me} 08:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations. Here are what pass for words of wisdom from the puppy:

Remember you will always protect the wrong version.
Remember you must always follow the rules, except for when you ignore them. You will always pick the wrong one to do. (See #5)
Remember to assume good faith and not bite. Remember that when you are applying these principles most diligently, you are probably dealing with a troll.
Use the block ability sparingly. Enjoy the insults you receive when you do block.
Remember when you make these errors, someone will be more than happy to point them out to you in dazzling clarity and descriptive terminology.
and finally, Remember to contact me if you ever need assistance, and I will do what I am able.

KillerChihuahua^?!? 13:48, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Best wish for your adminship.--Jusjih 15:01, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Hi Prodego. Just a quick note to thank you for your support in my RfA, which recently passed 62/13/6. I will do my very best live up to this new responsibility and to serve the community, but please let me know if I make any mistakes or if you have any feedback at all on my actions. Finally, if there is anything that I can assist you with - please don't hesitate to ask. Cheers TigerShark 03:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An olive branch

Hey Prodego, I think we might've got off on the wrong foot yesterday with the whole subst: issue, and that I'm sorry. I hope we can work together sometime, and maybe do some kinda admin action or the like. Have a good time with your adminship, and listen to the advice KillerChihuahua gave you above—he's only half-joking. Ok, well, I just wanted to let you know that I'm not usually such a dick, and we'll talk sometime in the future. Happy editing, Mysekurity^[m!] 19:13, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

It's no problem. Prodego ^talk 19:15, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So you up for some admin task sometime? -Mysekurity^[m!] 19:33, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

For you or overall? I have already done several 'admin things', look in my log ;-) if you need anything done, go ahead and ask of course! Happy editing. Prodego ^talk 19:35, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whoah-ho! Congrats on all that so far. I'm not sure of a project I could think of, but if you need any help with your cool new tools, or need an extra hand, don't hesitate to ask. -Mysekurity^[m!] 19:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I seem to be having *just one of those days*/weeks, so pardon me. I was wondering if you thought it would be a good idea to submit a feature request so that deleted pages can be protected (and not just pasted over with a template, thus blue-linking them), with a MediaWiki namespace boilerplate message stating that it was deleted and should not be created. Do you think it's worthwhile to submit this bug, considering the last one I submitted (4434) hasn't been touched in months? -Mysekurity^[m!] 19:57, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

It probably wouldn't be too hard to impliment, and just copying the Template: namespace text over to the MediaWiki namespace won't take much work, but I imagine there has to be some kind of clause to make the link appear red. The way of dealing with this would be very similar to MediaWiki:noarticletext (which, now that you're a sysop, you can edit), but would be activated via protecting a deleted page. I guess the devs have a bunch on their plate already, but in terms of feasability, I would imagine the MediaWiki text would be better than a template for a variety of reasons, but as of now, I must make my exit. We'll talk later, or if you want, e-mail me. Happy editing, Mysekurity^[m!] 20:17, 4 April 2006 (UTC)