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Encyclopedist and Depression

Hi, Alison. I saw a recent edit by an editor here who I was familiar with and his concerns that a vandal assuming my old name was actually me.

I would like to verify that, yes, I am Encyclopedist...as you can see my contributions have been productive on this account and I have absolutely no intention to vandalize.

As a further note, I believe clinical depression is a serious problem and one I would not dare make fun of, seeing as how I wonder if I have it at times too (yes I read your note about it and comment that "WikiStalkers like Encyclopedist love to make fun of...")

You are a brave, wonderful woman and I only wish you the best in your future...keep going to check yourself up, I personally support you...

Thanks for all of your contributions and work here...I am on my way to Georgetown U. in a few weeks so I don't have time to edit, let alone vandalize. I acted as "CIyde" mostly as a joke...after reading about your personally plight I feel really bad about that now.

I hope this account isn't blocked or banned, but these are the rules so I can see how this would happen. Thank you for bringing light to the fact that many have assumed my name in the attempt to vandalize while disparaging me... In just two years I have seen how stupid that really was.

Keep up the fight, and Go Hoyas!Ulises Heureaux (talk) 02:02, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Irish Wikipedia

Hello, I see you are active on the Irish Wikipedia. I was considering going there myself eventually - these days I'm learning the Irish language in my spare time (wow, do I ever need a hobby, eh?). Is there any way somebody with little knowledge of the language can become an active contributor there? Master&Expert (talk) 21:12, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gawiki technical dictionary

I've been translating an article and a template (and hoping to do more) at gawiki. I was wondering if you know whether gawiki has a technical dictionary of sorts — my conversational Irish is fine, but finding the technical terms for "template", "stub", "sysop", etc. is time-consuming. Stifle (talk) 09:36, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I've opened a translation queue for en to ga (or other intersections of languages I speak). Stifle (talk) 10:37, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved this to the bottom because you seem to have missed it. Understandable, given your popularity ;) Stifle (talk) 11:01, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I owe you an answer on this one. Will get back to you in the morning .... - Alison ^❤ 09:49, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

E-mail request

Alison, it has been suggested to me that you are quite an even-handed and fair-minded admin, and certainly I seem to remember having seen evidence of this. I wonder therefore, if you'd mind giving me some help with a particular matter, through private correspondence. Mind if I e-mail you? Cheers --Setanta747 (talk) 11:22, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Yes, you can email me if you like Special:EmailUser/Alison here. I'll be delighted to help where I can - Alison ^❤ 19:15, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Alison. E-mail sent. The link above suggested you had your e-mail facility turned off, but the link on the left column seemed to work. Cheers. --Setanta747 (talk) 22:08, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's because the link she gave you is to email User:Alison here, which, as far as I know, has not been registered yet. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 06:19, 28 September 2008 (UTC) This random comment-which-adds-nothing-to-the discussion could not have been brought to you without the generous support of our sponsors...[reply]

I left the pipe character out. D'oh! It should be [[User:Alison|here]] - Alison ^❤ 18:16, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Heh! Thanks for that addition J.Delanoy! I never even examined the link tbh. Alison, I sent that e-mail. Please let me know, when you can, if you received it or not. If not, I'll try to resend. Cheers. --Setanta747 (talk) 20:23, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Setanta747 - I got that one all right but it got stuck in my ever-increasing backlog. I'll get to it in a min here .... - Alison ^❤ 03:51, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem Alison. Thanks for letting me know of its pending status! :) --Setanta747 (talk) 19:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar notice

The Sock Puppet Barnstar

This Sock Puppet barnstar is awarded for... well... flushing out Sock Puppets. Sensible, no? Stifle (talk) 15:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Email

I emailed you with something that may need your attention. You'll see why. Ottava Rima (talk) 16:13, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Another on ga.wp

User:Te? NawlinWiki (talk) 18:27, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

903M

Hiya Alison. A very crafty sock, he was; he seemed to try to gain my support at Talk:Joe Biden by suggesting I too was being suspected of SPA. GoodDay (talk) 16:56, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed! - Alison ^❤ 04:42, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

MediaWiki talk:Bad image list#deletion of 2257-triggering images - Banyan Tree 22:35, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I followed up on Jimmy's talk page and am watching closely. I'd like to see a little more clarity from Jimmy first, though - Alison ^❤ 08:01, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hi

hi alison how r u —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mp517 (talk • contribs) 02:17, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fiine, thanks - Alison ^❤ 02:39, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

I hope to be able to learn from your example! -- Avi (talk) 04:40, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yippee! Thanks Alison. :) Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 04:43, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:RestoreTheEmpireSociety

Could you take a look at the new addition by me? I think the vandal ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ is a reincarnating the indef.blocked troll named RestoreTheEmpireSociety (talk · contribs). Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/RestoreTheEmpireSociety would be a reference.--Caspian blue (talk) 07:58, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just replied over there as you were typing this :) Hopefully, the two rangeblocks should hold him a while - Alison ^❤ 08:00, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I also hope he give up returning to English Wikipedia.--Caspian blue (talk) 08:06, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User caught in a hard-rangeblock made by you

Muke (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been caught in a rangeblock made by you. He's been around for a while, and a cursory glance at his contribs revealed nothing alarming, so normally I would just grant IP block exemption. However, since you blocked his IP range with {{checkuserblock}}, I decided it would be best to appeal to you. Here is a link to the unblock request: User_talk:Muke#Unblock_req.

Thanks for your time,

J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:59, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Thanks for letting me know. Yep, go ahead and give them exemption, I say. They check out fine and are sysop on other projects. Could you just leave a note on Wikipedia talk:IP block exemption and point out that it's been okayed by checkuser? Thanks! - Alison ^❤ 15:12, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tks fur vandilizin my page but...

You forgot my talk page, I have the icons there too. Guess what? I noticed you did that when I went to copy the code from YOUR page haha. So I added the code to my talk page myself. Thanks for thinking of me LUV! — Rlevse • Talk • 20:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You new guys are so mean! You've left nothing in RFCU to do. All I can do is kick back and take it easy :) - Alison ^❤ 07:00, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem

Re:[1]. No problem, thought I'd help out as I still remember how to do the paperwork - even if they have taken away my access to the clerks' IRC channel... ;) WJBscribe (talk) 21:33, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have a pie

Dave1185 (talk) has given you a pie! Pies promote the kind of hearty eating that puts a smile on your face and a sustaining meal in your stomach. Hopefully this pie has made your day better. Spread the goodness by giving someone else a pie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy eating!

Spread the goodness of pie by adding {{subst:Wikipie}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Or are you hungry for a Haggis instead? And thanks for the help rendered in RFCU, Cheers! ...Dave1185 (talk) 03:07, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Heh - thanks, Dave. I wonder is that a vegetarian one? - Alison ^❤ 07:02, 7 October 2008 (UTC) (OMNOMNOM)[reply]

Ionas62884

I have reinstated his e-mail block. Although he does apologize, he also continues to be who he is and I do not wish to communicate with him.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 06:42, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem at all. That's your perogative & it was you that had to deal with him last, not me - Alison ^❤ 07:00, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oversight

Did you oversight any edits here? Because I can still a lot of personal info.

Are you allowed to oversight stuff as a test? If so, can you try oversighting this so I can see if it works? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 07:05, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not allowed, sorry :( I oversighted a bunch of stuff from there already, but she put it right back up again. All well and good, etc, but that's not just her stuff, y'know. And it's seriously personal info. Hold on - I'll zap it again, so - Alison ^❤ 07:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, now I'm confused. The deletion log shows one entry, and yet if I understand you correctly she re-added her PI after you deleted the page? Or did you oversight and then delete it? If the answer is ridiculously obvious, keep in mind that my local time is 3:20am. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 07:20, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, it's past midnight here :) What happened was, you reported the page to Oversight, having deleted it. I oversighted the entire page, apart from the first edit (which was marginally okay). Then she came along again and added it again. And I deleted the page again. Then you noticed the edits. Then I oversighted them again. And here we are :) - Alison ^❤ 07:31, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

IRC

I heard you have an IRC channel. I've been on IRC for many years. Can I join?

Rollback request

Hi, I see you have expressed a willingness to grant rollback rights to users. I would like to use the rollback feature on my account. I use twinkle but sometimes it would be handy to use the rollback feature to revert cases of vandalism that come to my attention when I am using internet explorer (which doesn't support twinkle). Best regards, Jdrewitt (talk) 11:28, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ooooh, may I also have rollback? Sticky Parkin 03:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Of course! Both of you have clean records and are not edit warriors nor new editors. Have fun with rollback :) - Alison ^❤ 05:23, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks :) Jdrewitt (talk) 09:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yay thanks, I wasn't sure about having it at first as I didn't think I'd want to do things more quickly/get things more wrong, but on the French wiki all I'm good for is reverting vandalism (I can just about tell if someone's put an edit insulting their random mate in an article) so now I've got a taste for it and want to do it faster.:) Sticky Parkin 11:47, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats to both! Hi Alison, just curious..what does rollback do that Twinkle doesn't? Cheers,⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 03:31, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This seems to be the place to ask for it, so... I'd like to request rollback as well. A ni Mate 03:35, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done - have fun :) - Alison ^❤ 03:49, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure, BB. I know that it works across all browsers, for example, whereas Twinkle doesn't. It's basically the identical rollback tool that admins have - Alison ^❤ 03:49, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for that and for taking care of the socky down below. A ni Mate 03:53, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to request rollback as well if you think I qualify. Thank you,⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 04:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorted - I notice your block for edit-warring is in the dim and distant past. Have fun, too :) - Alison ^❤ 04:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! ..I've never been blocked before though..confused about that. Cheers,⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 04:33, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Check your block log - you were blocked for two minutes! - Alison ^❤ 04:43, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh WOW! I never knew that happened (and dropped stuff on the floor when I read your reply..cats took off running..scared 'em. ;) Was shocked to see it..never checked my own blocklog before. Kinda short duration for a block isn't it? Probably better off at the time that I didn't realize it. What makes it funny now is that I still have part of a mess on my floor to clean up and the cats are hiding. 8^D ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 05:09, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

NisarKand anon

You might be aware of it already, but just in case: There's a mini thread on ANI suggesting that he is editing anonymously. Maybe a soft rangeblock expired lately? -- lucasbfr ^talk 13:37, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done - thanks :) I've replied over there - feel free to rangeblock - Alison ^❤ 14:24, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Another Special:ListUsers sockfarm

*groan*. So easy, so.... boring......

...Anyways, per this post on my talk page, it looks like someone already took care of the IP, but I just wanted to make sure that that we actually do get his IP address, and that he doesn't have any more socks that actually require Special:CheckUser to find. (as opposed to Special:ListUsers. If people can flush out your sockfarm with the latter tool, you need help. Badly.) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:14, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Got the rest of them and blocked the IP earlier today. It had previously come up elsewhere today, funny enough - Alison ^❤ 21:05, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently you missed one? [2] IDK, maybe you can nuke another IP address. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:29, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...And another. [3] J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yep,

Done - Alison ^❤ 00:26, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thanks for always making it better when I come here 1000's of times daily to ask for assistance. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a bunch! I'm sorry for always bugging you. I do know that there are other checkusers and oversighters on the project. It's just that when I find someone who always helps me out, I tend to keep coming back to them more and more frequently when I have a similar problem. (Ask Moonriddengirl about my CSD tags before I became an admin...) Anyways, have a good evening! Hopefully I won't need to bug you again tonight.... but I wouldn't bet on it........ J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you :) And it's no problem at all! Feel free to bug me here whenever you like (and note that we have four new checkusers to bug, too :) ) - Alison ^❤ 03:50, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Exercising caution

I don't agree I'm pushing a point-of-view, and I've gone into great detail explaining why previously. With you I reckon it was mostly at Talk:Garda Síochána. I haven't asserted Indymedia sources; I reverted for other reasons. I will try to exercise caution, though.

Lapsed Pacifist (talk) 17:22, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mattkachu rangeblock

Would rangeblocks that affect the following addresses be viable?

The reason I ask is because this is all block evasion by User:Mattkachu, whom was blocked indefinitely after a checkuser caught him socking to re-add the same hoax information the IPs are adding to Witchcraft, and recently he's been appearing rather often.-Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 00:16, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Block on 74.62.155.33 ?

Hi - forgive me if I don't know the whole story/procedure behind this, but I was cleaning up some vandalism by this particular user, went to put a note on their talk page, and saw that the user was marked as being blocked. Is this block expired, or is there some other way they could have gotten around this, or...? Sounds like you already lead a busy enough wikilife, but I figured it was at least worth mentioning to you. Regards, NapoliRoma (talk) 03:44, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. It had been blocked for six months for being an open proxy and the block had just expired a few days ago. It's still an open proxy (click here) so I've gone ahead and reblocked it for another year.[4] If I've blocked a proxy, this usually means it's been used by an account abusively and this may not always be apparent from the anon edits. Checkuser can determine the accounts behind it - Alison ^❤ 05:21, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My first checkuser request for today

Special:ListUsers/Epicfail. Are any of these socks? The only really obvious ones are Epicfail1 and Epicfail3, and I'm reluctant to go around swinging the banhammer in the fog. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:15, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That 1=3 can be

Confirmed. The others are a tad

Stale. -- Avi (talk) 15:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Probable sock of User:Dereks1x

Recently you blocked User:Presumptive as a sock of Dereks1x. I stumbled across Joey Didier, a copy and paste job from Joseph Didier/Murder of Joseph Didier from Presumptive's user page history. Aside from a few arguments about the title of the article on 9/11, the article on Didier's murder was all that Presumptive seemed to care about on Wikipedia. As the checkuser that blocked Presumptive, I thought I'd bring this to your attention, as I find it improbable that a new user would have the wiki-savvy to locate the deleted text and find a new page location for an article that has been deleted three or four times. A ni Mate 00:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. I found and blocked a few others, as well as blocked a long-term IP.

Confirmed as being Dereks1x - Alison ^❤ 03:47, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Email

SAVIOR_SELF .777 01:47, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We need Dumbledore here...

Solid Falcon (talk · contribs) - you know the drill. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 02:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, all

Done - Alison ^❤ 02:56, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

R-Con 9 (talk · contribs) - Once more, and make sure to whack any sleepers you find in bed. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 18:33, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Enlip/Koov

Thanks for your block of User:Enlip, on October 5. Do you have magical checkuser powers that allow you to recognize socks of Koov, or was it on straight behavior? Luckily, it has not been hard to recognize the members of the club so far on behavior, but any extra help would be welcome. EdJohnston (talk) 03:06, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Ed. Yes, I'm checkuser here - Alison ^❤ 03:43, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What I meant is, do you have industrial-strength methods of finding more Koov socks, or perhaps have you secretly blocked a thousand of them, so we should rely on you in future? EdJohnston (talk) 03:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I blocked an entire boatload of them, sometime back. I can't remember the details now, but I also remember blocking his IP, too. If he comes back and causes you a major problem, just drop me a note and I'll see what I can do ;) - Alison ^❤ 04:24, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh hai

Dreadstar † haz given u Cheezburgr! Cheezburgrs promote WikiLovez and hopefully thiz one haz made yore day bettr. Spreadd the WikiLovez by givin someone else Cheezburger, whethr it be someone youz have had disagreementz with in teh past or a gud friend. Happy munchins!

Spredd teh goudnesz of Cheezburgerz by addin {{subst:Cheezburgr}} to their talk puj with friendly messuj.

Heh - thanks, Dreadstar. I hope that's a gardenburger :-) Nice to hear from you again - it's been ages - Alison ^❤ 04:28, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I has been a while, hasn't it? Hope you're doing well...! And yeah, I think you can order the garden cheezborger at the Olympia Cafe, just no Coke, Pepsi...! Alternatively we could try Alice's Restaurant, where we can get anything we want. :)

I was inspired to make the Cheezburgr template by your edit summary... :-D Dreadstar † 18:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vietnam on Veropedia

Still has those errors...YellowMonkey (click here to choose Australia's next top model) 06:14, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was just thinking of that the other day when I clicked on your userpage and saw all the GA/FA stars. I need to sort that :/ - Alison ^❤ 06:17, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Something of interest...

Alison, please take a look here and feel free to expand it if you want, it could do with expert knowledge from a sysop. --Walmwutter (talk) 12:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

two emails have been sent

Hi Alison, I sent you two emails, could you please let me know what is your decision. Thanks, Alecca1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alecca1 (talk • contribs) 16:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Alison, Sorry about the signature, I'm new. Alecca1 (talk) 19:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rlevse verdict

Ali, I have spent a while mulling over this, took a Wiki-break, etc. But I am absolutely outraged and upset by the finding by the Admin "Rlevse". His/her "verdict" in the latest "troubles" dispute mentions only the two Irish editors, Domer and myself. (And I wasn't even involved in the edit war, something admitted during the course of the proceedings). I want to take this matter further as the inability of the Anglo-American Admins to understand that WP:POV does not = "majority Anglo-American POV" is unacceptable. I beleive that Admins, however 'expierenced' who cannot demonstrate a grasp of the concept of WP:NPOV should not be in positions of authority. My question: where and how do I raise this issue? Sarah777 (talk) 21:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Senator Palpatine

Hey Alison. I know that since you're a checkuser, there's no reason to believe otherwise if you say that he's a sock, but ...whoa o_0. That sock case is ridiculously long. ~ Troy (talk) 02:01, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. My. Fucking. God. HE was Grawp? My god. I had considered nomming him for adminship. You should hear me swearing in real life..... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:10, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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