User talk:Freakofnurture

Let's try this again

Please join the civil discussion on WT:WASH regarding naming conventions and the infobox so that we can get consensus and put this ugly mess behind us. -- NORTH ^talk 23:52, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ben Wallace, my two cents

Yeah, those scenarios are a bit out there, and I do understand that things happen, take Len Bias for example. However, the rule of thumb in sports is that once a player signs a contract with Team A, then he is officially IS a player for Team A. It would be hard for Ben to get out of his contract now anyways without the potential for multi-million dollar lawsuits. So despite the fact that we are still in the offseason and the regular season is still months away, Ben Wallace is a Chicago Bull. He is even listed now on the Bulls OFFICIAL team roster on their website. That should be proof anough that Big Ben is now a Bull. Dknights411 03:45, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tfd top template

After I reverted your change, I noticed that the deletion instructions had changed for TFD some time ago to place the template after the section header instead of before. When placed after the header I of course agree that the template is better without the margin. Pagrashtak 04:59, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hatnotes location

The page gives three distinct, valid arguments for placing the templates before initial images or boxes. I'll even throw in that, by keeping the start of the text and the box at the same level, it causes minimal visual alteration to the layout, not more. Circeus 18:36, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The extra whitespace is due to extra linebreaks after the {{cuisine}} template, and is not an issue found on on pages with hatnotes. Circeus 18:49, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are purposefully linking to an egregious misus of redirection templates. I was about to correct it to what the article actually uses before I noticed it is an older version. I can't see why an article would need more than a single line of hatnote. I'msorry, but I fail to see the point you aretrying tomake with this example. Circeus 18:58, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

is there an easy way to keep an infobox in the top right corner rather than below the linebreak(s) created by the disambiguation link(s)? For a given infobox, I can think of several, but on a large scale, I'm afraid that is virtually impossible. This is due to the chaotic nature of series and infobox templates creation and the multiple ways in which they are styled: some may use classes such as infobox which can be affected via MediaWiki.css, but many, many do not. There are also numerous infoboxes that are not even templatized and would have to be edited on a case by case basis. And then you'd have to consider the potential breaks in other skins...Circeus 19:20, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

o.O Are you just being sarcastic? If not, then I wish you good luck. That's just a wee bit too embitious for me. Circeus 19:33, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding css: It happens so that, as far as I know, no screen readers actually *uses* the audio css defined by w3c.
Regarding the auto-disambiguating infobox, the disambiguation is still pertinent in providing a quick link to the right article. Circeus 19:54, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The French Wikipedia actually places stubs (as well as categories and interwiki links in the source) at the top of articles, although I do not know whether that is the reason why. I do not know whether other wikis do that do either. Circeus 20:01, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Anarcho-capitalism

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== We need to solve the Ben Wallace problem NOW!!! ==

I already listed my reasons as to my stand on this issue, so please read my comments in the NBA Wikiproject's talk page. One way or another, this silly fight needs to be resolved NOW!!! This whole debate over this SMALL issue is not really make wikipedia look good. We can come up with something, right? Dknights411 22:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

daily boilerplate

I'm sure you thought you were helping (somehow), when you deleted the TfD daily boilerplate. That caused everybody else -- the ones that read, follow instructions, and cooperate -- to be inserted out of order throughout the rest of the day. Meaning that I had to re-order them by hand....

Of course, those are also the end of day instructions that advise folks to go to the new day. I'm sure that you were aware that Crypticbot used to insert them at the end of each day, but now they are included for more ease in doing the next day transitional work by hand. (They are cleanly and simply left in place when the NEW DISCUSSIONS section is deleted.)

Anyway, please don't do that again!

--William Allen Simpson 00:42, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

King's Highway (Ontario) → List of Ontario provincial highways on deletion review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of King's Highway (Ontario) → List of Ontario provincial highways. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review.

Per freakofnurture's talk page rules, this info must be left here even by those that want to hide the truth

crucial information being kept from AFD. See removal here [1]

This information of abuse has been reported on the notice boards and have been removed and the accounts banned. It is vital because it reports abuse.

Below are links to edits by multiple users. Because these users are administrators they will likely use the article delete power to hide them. All edits only going back the last 30 days or so.

MONGO blanks sections of talk pages that were not vandalism or personal attacks. WP:VAND considers this action vandalism.: [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Makes threats of premeditated speedy deletion of Encyclopedia Dramatica article in edit summaries: [7]

Modifies another user's talk page comment that was not a personal attack or vandalism: [8]

Protected an article about twelve hours after two edits that he disagreed with were reverted: [9]

Edited an article after protecting it removing many cited sources (see his words on why [10]) : [11] [12]

Admits he was fine with the older screenshot on Encyclopedia Dramatica: [13]

User Kizzle uploads an image that is an attack image and unfree to MONGO's user talk page. Even fair use are not allowed there. MONGO, Tony Sidaway, and all the other admins leave it and do nothing, despite MONGO's previous quick deletion of images and quickness to protect articles: [14]

User NoSeptember protects the image after someone tried to replace it with an image that wasn't illegal and restores the illegal image: [15]

MONGO further endorses the illegal image: [16]

MONGO removes any attempts of users he bans from communicating with him:[17]

MONGO calls encyclopedia dramatica retarded as well as promising to remove protection and put the external link back (which he later refused to do at [18]): [19] [20]

MONGO refuses to put link back or unprotect the article Encyclopedia Dramatica: [21] [22]

MONGO engaging in personal attacks when giving block reasons: [23] [24] [25]

TonySidaway engaging in personal attacks when giving block reasons: [26] [27] [28] [29]

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/User:MONGO1 has made edits directly coinciding with MONGO on wikipedia first learning that he had an article on that site. The edits included vandalism and personal attacks:

[30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37]

Encyclopedia Dramatica Checkuser found the account came from 24.252.28.188 = ip24-252-28-188.om.om.cox.net

Proof that it is MONGO: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/MONGO&diff=prev&oldid=60621470

Evidence of MONGO hiding edits from his IP on wikipedia: [38] [39]

Directly after the MONGO1 account was banned a new account arose, using the name "Ed Poor", potentialy impersonation. contributions that did more vandalism and personal attacks. This one used AOL IPs 205.188.116.196, 205.188.117.70, 205.188.117.74.

Ed Poor states it was not him. [40]

Other IPs with associated vandalism afterward:

203.109.225.187 resolves to 203-109-225-187.bliink.ihug.co.nz
128.2.141.33 resolves to ERR.CYLAB.CMU.EDU

MONGO and Tony Sidaway removed the results -- In general psychology (from wikipedia's articles), if someone was innocent they would want it to stand as evidence whereas a guilty person would want to hide it: (example) all mention of it and banned the account for eternity that said it. MONGO protects the talk page where it was first mentioned. Tony Sidaway also hides the IP results [41] [42]

Another admin wishes to investigate this and MONGO reverts that admin twice: [43] [44]

MONGO hides the cox.net IP and claims it was only AOL. Is it because the cox.net IP is his?: [45]

MONGO deletes the user and user talk page of someone mentioning this and MONGO makes personal attacks in the summary of why he deleted them: [46] [47]

MONGO tells someone to post to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, however he has reverted complaints about him there (see above): [48]

MONGO says, "well the sight is supportive of calling African-Americans (and blcaks in general) by the "N" word...so if there was an article that used that word on the mainpage, that would not be worth linking to either.": [49]

When asked if MONGO would spend the "spend the same amount of time and energy on that article" (being GNAA article), MONGO said: [50]

MONGO deletes an image instead of reverted a changed version of it: [51]

MONGO vandalizes the article again by removing the external link to the site: [52]

MONGO removes links that quote his wiki edits in talk pages:

[53]

Other actions by MONGO:

"Ah, I am not aware of them or their activities. I have worked very hard in the past to protect many wikipedians from off-wiki harassment by those that have posted at wikipediareview and hivemind. I can't be at all places at once, and I was alerted by someone about this stuff.--MONGO 08:34, 18 July 2006 (UTC)" Guess what? He banned the person who helped him out. [54]
"What are you accusing me of? I see that you have had an account with us for a year and have less than 150 edits total and you want me to take your commentary seriously? I was alerted to this situation...I don't have the time to be everywhere, buddy. How about you go write one long well referenced article and stop your trolling.--MONGO 09:15, 18 July 2006 (UTC) " [55]
After being asked why he targets the Encyclopedia Dramatica article and not GNAA, MONGO blanks the talk page, moving discussions from minutes ago into an archive so the entire talk page is blank. [56]

Tony Sidaway examples of personal attacks:

[57]
[58]
"I have blocked this editor becausae he's stupid" [59]
"he's an obvious nutter ... Let's just tell him to fuck off." [60]
"He's a troll. Our only appropriate words to him are "fuck off." [61]
"I sincerely suggest that "fuck off" is almost too kind for this pernicious and stupid troll." [62]

Tony Sidaway also reverted someone's own messages in their talk page and protected it, claiming "they attempted to use their talk page." [63]

Note troll is used as a personal attack. See WP:NPA. MONGO also uses the word retarded both for a personal attack on a user (first one in list below as well as for a website)

MONGO gives personal attacks in edits: [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72]

MONGO gives personal attacks in edit summaries: [73] [74] [75] [76] [77]

Cedartooth 10:02, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My New Nickname

Lol, thanks for the new nickname. Only people on Wikipedia call me that, but hey, whatever works. :) Oh, PS, some cabalist deleted the thing, I made it up again. Karmafist 17:39, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PPS, I forgot, most can't see the hidden edits, so feel free to delete the article about me again and then start it again, the cabalists might try to say that I'm just trying to promote myself or something. That article really cheered me up, and i'd for their usual shit to damper that cheer. Karmafist 17:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I thought it would have something to do with notability. I was surprised that it had more to do with authorship. — Jul. 19, '06 [23:57] <freak|talk>

Page Designs

God, I am so addicted to your userpage design. Would you mind if I stole and kinda re-designed some of your userpage designs for my userpage? Thanks. --S-man 19:08, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Remington

Excellent. Still, I'm going to make an attempt to contact that user, just in case. Surely there are other people named Remington. ;) Mango juice^talk 14:37, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Just a quick note...

... to say you rock. That's it. Ifnord 21:48, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: my talk

I was willing to settle for that page that had the links to Costa Rica, the Czech Republic and the Cree language, but you reverted even that. +Hexagon1 ^(t) 10:07, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Steely Dan

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Freeway/motorway/whatever category

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