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About your RfA

Congratulations on your successful request for adminship. I am glad you passed, and you are welcome for the support. For information on using your new tools, see the school for new admins; you will find it very useful. Good luck! -- Acalamari 18:27, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

You're very welcome! I'm glad to see you succeeded! You might want to try out your new tools at the useful admin school, something which I'm still doing yet! Just ask if ever need any help - even admins are on a constant learning curve! And don't worry about the useuflness of your contributions, you comments are really valued by the Wiki-community, hence the success of your RfA. Just carry on being the brilliant editor you are. :-) Best wishes, Lradrama 18:31, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

• I hope you weren't insulted by the link to the new admin school. :) It's a link I try to give to as many new admins as possible. As for the T-shirt, you are welcome. -- Acalamari 18:55, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Re. RfA

Oh, you needn't worry of spamming my talk page. That's quite alright, really. I am certain you will make a fine admin. Maser 04:05, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations. Happy mopping! :) PeaceNT (talk) 11:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Back to square one

I'll answer the AN thread. When you get a chance, can you add this to meta and remove it from en.blacklist? Thanks!--Isotope23 15:59, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks... Personally I think as a "repeat offender" it should stay blacklisted until the site's owner can detail how they will permanently solve this problem. I confirmed the exploit was gone before I removed this, but clearly they didn't lock their site down to avoid further exploits.--Isotope23 16:14, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your vote

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a vote of (53/0/1). As a token of my appreciation, please accept this bowl of tzatziki. I feel honored to be trusted by so many of you. Misplaced Pages is such a large community, that my acceptance in the face of such large numbers truly is humbling. I will use my new tools to continue the tasks for which you entrusted them to me. Gratefully, EncycloPetey (talk) 18:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Sneeze sneeze

While all votes are appreciated that is twice you've voted for Johnny :) I'll let you fix it? Cheers --Herby talk thyme 08:29, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know - 2nd time this month - duhhh... :-) -Pumpmeup 08:32, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Semiprot at User:Sambure

Oops, looks like we both had the same idea. Sorry about that! If you want/need to tinker with the settings, feel free, I'm heading offline for a bit in the near future. – Luna Santin (talk) 16:33, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Blacklist

Hi Herbythyme, I noticed you archived the proposed blacklisting of blogspot.com addresses. Was the whole domain actually blacklisted? Spellcast (talk) 15:46, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

It's just that after I made the report, one of the sites kept being spammed at least half a dozen times under throwaway accounts and IPs (just check the history of Saturday Nights, Sunday Mornings between November 6 to 18 and you'll see what I mean). It seems to have stopped though, so I'm not too concerned about it anymore. Those blogs are likely to be temporary anyway. Spellcast (talk) 16:16, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Those blogs target future albums and they just shut down after the album is released. So it's not likely to be a long-term problem. I'll still keep the articles watchlisted though, thanks. Spellcast (talk) 16:30, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually, some of those blog sites should definitely be blocked, at least temporarily. 67.55.4.133 has spammed countingcrowsnew.blogspot.com yet again and also freemodlife.blogspot.com. If you can add those sites to the blacklist, that'd be good. Thanks. Spellcast (talk) 22:03, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

I will add to the log. It's just that a bleedingly obvious sock keeps returning under throwaway IPs. I filed a report at Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/IP check#Europebound2007. Spellcast (talk) 21:32, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I think all of blogspot should be BL'd, and individualy whitelisted (such as googles' official blog). Unless there is overwhelming consensus, the s@#$storm of complaints that would follow would be unbearable.imho--Hu12 (talk) 21:50, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I support seeing how individual whitelisting goes. Can this proposal be discussed anywhere (other than MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist) to gain consensus? Spellcast (talk) 22:30, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm fairly certain theres been discusion on this befre on WP:EL's talk page. Most likely stashed in the archives. Would aleast give a foundation for presenting the argument. But MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist in the discussion area, would be the apropriate venu, I would think. Pull you origional propose from the archive.--Hu12 (talk) 22:36, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Vandal Wayne Smith needs LINKSPAM sites blocked

Exactly as directed, I placed links that are being used for spamming here: http://en.wikipedia.org/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#Linkspam_from_vandal_Wayne_Smith_AKA_Universe_Daily

The only response was to "monitor" it. Why? How much vandalism is he allowed? Look at this nonsense:

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Robert_G._Barrett&diff=next&oldid=172863431

Smith's Long Term Abuse page instructions are very clear -> block and revert on sight. Maybe you can help. Yale s (talk) 19:23, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Just wanted to say thanks for supporting me! Please find your thank you card here, should you wish to see it. I'm honored to have received your support. And congrats on your RfA as well. All the best, ~Eliz81 02:02, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Official thanks, slightly delayed due to post-RfA crash (who knew?)

...for helping me navigate the waters of my surprisingly peaceful RFA, which closed successfully with 85 supports, 1 oppose, and 0 neutral.

I would particularly like to thank Acalamari and Alison, my nominators, and everyone who watched the page and ran the tally.

If there is anything I can do to be of service in the future, please feel free to contact me.

If you hate thankspam, please forgive me, and do not worry that you will hurt my feelings by hitting delete. I promise I won't block you. Unless I mess up with those shiny new buttons. Mistakes do happen... (*cackle cackle*)

And forgive me if I need a Wikibreak now and then (like now. I'm exhausted!). You wouldn’t want to see me climbing the Reichstag, now would you?

Off to flail around with my new mop! (what?!)

Thank you for your participation in my RfA

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Dear Herbythyme,

Thank you for participating in my recent RfA, which closed successfully with 22 supports, 1 oppose, and 2 neutrals. Whether you supported, opposed, stayed neutral or simply commented or asked a question, I would like to thank you for your time and for your comments. Special thanks must go to User:Lar and User:John, who not only conommed, but also devoted a large proportion of their time coaching me. I am sure that what I have learnt during the coaching process can be put to good use as an admin. As an admin, I will be willing to help out with anything I can so please do not hesitate to contact me if there is anything I could help out with. I will also do my best to address any concerns raised during the RfA.

Thanks.
Tbo (talk) 16:24, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

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Credits

This RFA thanks was inspired by User:Iridescent's and User:The Random Editor's RFA thanks which were both inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks.

Dear Herbythyme, Thank you for supporting in my recent RfA. Words nor pictures can express my heartfelt appreciation at the confidence the community has shown me. I am both heartened and humbled by this confidence. I will carry the lessons learned from the constructive criticism I have received with me as I edit Misplaced Pages, and heed those lessons. Special thanks to Pedro and Henrik as nominators. Special thanks to Rudget who wanted to. A very special thanks to Moonriddengirl for her eloquence. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 22:31, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for thinking of me. It was very kind of you, and I hope you have a lovely day. Maralia 19:25, 4 December 2007 (UTC)