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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)

Clodagh Rodgers

I rewrote an article, Jack in the Box (song), the song by Clodagh Rodgers. I think it would be an interesting DYK hook but I think it needs more sources. I was wondering if you knew anything about it; it was rather interesting to me. Mike H. Fierce! 09:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

File:Tissues.JPG

Hopefully these will help! :) ~Eliz81^(C) 09:39, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Proxies

Hey Alison, I was wondering if you could give me some information on how you catch proxies. That is if you have time, you can email me about it if you don't want to reply at your talk page. Regards, --Kanonkas :  Talk  18:51, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Sure! Let's take it to email :) I'm just about to go off-line here but will get back to you later today - Alison ^❤ 18:53, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Good, just gave you an email :) --Kanonkas :  Talk  10:13, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to leave you another notice Alison but I haven't got a reply back from you, hope you can get back to me. Thanks. --Kanonkas :  Talk  10:49, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Not sure if you have forgot this, but I still haven't got an email back from you. --Kanonkas :  Talk  10:44, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

 Note: - I need to followup on this tomorrow!!!!!!11One! - Alison ^❤ 05:02, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Fclass

Hi Alison, when/if you get time, would you be able to do a CU on User:Fclass/User:Auto Racing Fan? See my talk page for more. Thanks, Gwen Gale (talk) 01:22, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Already done --> Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Auto Racing Fan - way ahead of ya, today :) - Alison ^❤ 01:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Ta! I knew it was him but at least now nobody need give it a second thought. Gwen Gale (talk) 01:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Welcome message

After seeing the name in my watchlist, I just had to check out the blue link at the user's talkpage, which led to the (expected) great discussion over usernames, and the mention of compilerbitch - which I'm glad I checked out too (marvelous pictures (hopefully soon at Haughton-Mars Project!)).  :) Anyhoo, I did just want to mention that your (I presume) welcome template is decidedly low-contrast and hence hard to read. I'd strongly recommend changing the colour scheme somewhat (dark text on a light-background is universally recommended). (There are some good colour-blindness simulators linked at Wikipedia:Colours#Using colours in articles too). That's it, sorry to bother ya :) -- Quiddity 01:20, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Compilerbitch (yes, she's here, too) is awesome, isn't she? I know her in RL, as it happens. Either way, you're absolutely right about that hideous welome box. It's a mess, and I intend to change it soon as I have a chance here. Thanks for letting me know :) - Alison ^❤ 05:57, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Busyyyyyy

I'm sorry, I'm neglecting my email, as well as many of the requests above. I'm swamped right now with day-job, family and good ol' daily life. I'll get to things as quick as I can! Sorry ... - Alison ^❤ 23:37, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Not Sockpuppetry

You blocked a bunch of accounts, Thais Alexandrina, etc., for sockpuppetry.

That was wrong. There was no sockpuppetry. Most of those accounts, as far as I could keep them straight, anyway, never referred to any other posting in a false reinforcement manner.

Wikipedia, as far anyone can tell, allows multiple accounts. Sockpuppetry IS ONLY when you abuse that by creating accounts that falsely reinforce each other to create a false appearance of consensus. I never did that.

Most of these accounts were actually article specific, so it would be impossible to create any such impression.

The only reason why this request was made was certain users, administrators actually, are pursuing some sort of vendetta over pervious edit disputes.

Your blocking of these accounts is wrong, there was no sockpuppetry, and you are being used to further some other person or person's unethical adgenda.

How you all deal with this kind of backstabbing all the time is beyond me. Not Thais Alexandrin (talk) 22:28, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Radiomango

I got a rather threatening email from Radiomango before Josh disabled his email, is it worth forwarding to anyone or just a RBI thing? MBisanz ^talk 02:37, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Wikipéire again

You might be interested in this SSP on User:Wikipéire. You checkusered one of his socks - I forget which one. I’ve Googled 78.16.xx.xx and 78.19.xx.xx and noticed these pages where your name pops up here and here and here (although I’m not sure what the last one entails). I know it’s impossible to prove - but if this is the same person, he could have edited as ‘78’ a hundred times. Does Wikipeire sound to you like an any editor you remember? --Matt Lewis (talk) 02:41, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Misspelled move

Can you help me with something? Eamonn's love of Irish got the better of him a little, and he moved Irish Defence Forces to Óglaigh na hÉireann (Irish Dence Forces). There's two problems with the move. Firstly, the Defence Forces themselves (and everyone else) call them the "Defence Forces" in English. (See: military.ie/.) WP:COMMONNAME would therefore suggest the page be titled as it was originally. (Who's going to type in "Óglaigh na hÉireann (Irish Defence Forces)" when looking for this subject?) Secondly, the spelling is wrong. Humorously so. Can you (or another admin) reverse this change until it is discussed and/or the spelling can be corrected? Cheers. Guliolopez (talk) 20:54, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Apologies. No action necessary. I've corrected myself. (I didn't realise I could. Issues with "RTFM".) I'll update the talkpage and work on WP:CON with editor who moved. Guliolopez (talk) 20:59, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Is a disambiguation page for a country allowed?

We need to know this on Republic of Ireland talk. I'm asking you and Jza84, as you have both recently voted in a poll on this talk page. the question is asked here? --Matt Lewis (talk) 23:09, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Is a disambiguation page for a country (state, etc) allowed? --Matt Lewis (talk) 23:29, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Can we move Republic of Ireland to Ireland (state); Ireland to Ireland (island). Then create a disambig page, called Ireland. GoodDay (talk) 23:12, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

I wasn't asking about the specifics. Alsion has already voted "no" to Ireland (state) as it goes. --Matt Lewis (talk) 23:29, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Sock puppet note

I wasn't sure whether you'd received the e-mail I had sent with all the detailed information about this sock puppet case in which you were involved because of an oversight issue. In any case, I posted this several hours ago, as one of the related IPs has been reverting old edits again. It's posted at WP:AN/I, but it's been 5 hours or so and the posting hasn't had a response. The sock came back and reverted again. I didn't know if you could deal with this or not, hopefully so. Wherever this location is, it's been used twice, several hours apart, so it may be a stable location? Thanks. Wildhartlivie (talk) 06:53, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Fclass again

Hi Alison, could you please have a look at User:Noble12345? This is very likely User:Fclass again. Thanks! Gwen Gale (talk) 21:16, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

That's  Confirmed - Alison ^❤ 05:02, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Matt Lewis

Hi Alison. I've never (I don't think) contacted an admin with a personal problem before but these posts are beginning to creep me out [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] (I asked him two questions hereand I'm still waiting for a reply). Is this reasonable behaviour? Can anything be done? Scolaire (talk) 20:15, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Looking at this objectively I don't think Matt means any harm but does have rather an unfortunate way of expressing himself at times. The Thunderer (talk) 20:29, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

FWIW that is not my take on it - not this time anyway! Matt and I have a history but this is up a notch. Scolaire (talk) 20:36, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I can see why. The concept of going through your edit history and labelling you must feel quite offensive. I certainly feel that good faith and respect isn't being exercised, certainly when you consider my comments thus far though. Nothing a good (metaphoric) kick up the arse wouldn't cure though? It works with my wife (sometimes).The Thunderer (talk) 20:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

e/c I've asked you to wait a bit for a reply Scolaire - please be patient and wait for one (despite what you say I'll have to read through the most of the debate again). This is twice you have tried to get me into trouble when you do know I'm working flat out to help the project, despite what I see as the most oppressing negativity heaped onto people I'm working with to get them to 'pack up their bags' and go home. IMO, you have been over-bearingly one-way about this, and all I have done is respond to what is in front of me. You have not ceased in your argumentative force (admit it), and this is just another part of it in my opinion. I have just said to you I am working on something you may even like (or accept) - what is wrong with waiting for that? A equally long (if not longer) list of diffs I could compile about you over this matter will look a lot worse than the above, in my opinion. And Alison as an admin would need to look at both sides. I honestly went from thinking you were a strong republican (initally over you insisting on 'association' football as I am not normally on Irish pages) to being a NI unionist with a complicated Irish/British view on the Ireland matter, through conversation with you in this debate. Somebody else brought you up in a 'list', not me: I just corrected them (or so I thought).--Matt Lewis (talk) 20:41, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Matt, he's not trying to get you into trouble. He's asking for mediation by someone we all respect. Scolaire is concerned about the situation and is looking for a way to resolve it because he feels a bit picked on. Have you never felt that way? What would you like to see happen here?The Thunderer (talk) 20:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

He's not the only one who feel picked on here, believe me. I suggest waiting to see what I have to offer you both (and this is just a distraction to that). These are just storms in teacups compared to the wider issues. I don't even want to look at why I felt mislead - although I certainly will if I'm pursued on it. I am always in a position to compile a big case 'against' if I feel I'm forced too, as I only ever react to things I see. The last thing I have time to do is go around causing trouble.--Matt Lewis (talk) 20:59, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

You don't have to offer me anything. I just want to see an end to this bickering. The Thunderer (talk) 22:50, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello? Alison? A reply would be nice! All I asked you for was an opinion. The man is "collecting evidence" on me and won't tell me why. Is that okay behaviour? Yes or no? Scolaire (talk) 06:46, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

It's past midnight here. I'll have to comment tomorrow sometime as this is not straightforward and I'd rather not make some off-the-cuff comment I might later regret. Tired after travelling all day .... - Alison ^❤ 07:04, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

In the meantime, I'd recommend both of you step back, consider all this to-date and preferable try to keep away from stepping on each other if at all possible - Alison ^❤ 07:06, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

g'day allie...

I was taking a look at my 'far too long to' watchlist earlier, and was reminded of the existence of this page.... dunno why I though of you, but I did, and I thought I'd ask you to take a look - I think you've commented on stuff like this in the past? either ways, I'm interested in your thoughts :-) Privatemusings (talk) 02:19, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

ps. I guess this counts as a 'bump'?! - hope you're good :-) Privatemusings (talk) 04:24, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Heyya PM. Okay, I'm on it :) Give me until tomorrow though, as I'm only just back after a glorious Wikipedia-free, work-free and drama-free long weekend. Totally chilled out. Hope you're good, too! - Alison ^❤ 04:27, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

My behavior

I like to apologize for what I've done.Max Mux (talk) 09:02, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Youngtrigg

It appears this RFCU was also created, but never properly listed. It should probably get deleted per the other checkuser. D.M.N. (talk) 13:07, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Threat to Michael Lucas and David Shankbone

This thinly-veiled threat to Lucas and Shankbone was posted twice on the Lucas bio talkpage:

Treivas, Miller: you think you're safe over at Fire Island? We see you bitches are up to the same old same old, "collaborating" on adding content of dubious import, this time photos from FI. Ya know, Miller, that whore Treivas musta really reamed your ass good and hard for you to continue to associate with him, despite the ongoing and ever-increasing threat to your well-being and personal safety. As always, your big mouth is your undoing, telling us where you'll be. You think it's harder to get to you monkeys on FI than it is in the city? Take a good look around you -- see any places where somebody can "lay in waiting?" You fcking moron! But listen, we like to be fair, we'll give you a headsup. Didn't we caution you about Columbia? -- too bad we couldn't say Hello at that time; maybe this time we will. We're patient. So make like you're crossing the street: look to your right, and to your left...but also look behind you and look way in front of you, and do it all the time 'cause you never know when we might come by. This way you might be able to, how shall we put it??...oh yeah, you might be able to dodge a bullet!

Hope to see you soon (you won't see us).--

It sounds very much like the person(s) who threatened Shankbone and Lucas earlier this year. It sounds like they're saying: "we are going to shoot Lucas and Shankbone." Should somebody contact the authorities?

--72.76.78.14 (talk) 15:02, 2 September 2008 (UTC)