Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 10:41, 11 June 2004

Feeling like a lost sheep? Think someone else is lost?

Place your name below, if you need a sysop or other experienced user to give you a hand. Or request the same attention for another lost soul, but be nice about it (not everyone will take the label clueless in the light-hearted friendly way you mean it :-)

Self-nominations

• How the heck am I supposed to track page protection? --Uncle Ed 20:28, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Misplaced Pages:Protection log for the time of protection and who protected it. Misplaced Pages:Protected page for the reasons. Angela 20:58, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia_talk:Protection log contains a proposal for consolidating the information of those two pages. It would likely require some, albeit not much, dev work, which might be a showstopper. Pete 22:22, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Nominations of others

Tread carefully here...

81.109.164.82 (talk · contribs)

Vandalized , and . -- Mike Rosoft 10:41, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

===User: 193.219.171.229=== has replaced the entire Misplaced Pages: How to edit a page with some self-test on management, very strange stuff. --Woggly 11:27, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) Same user has just reverted back to the original content, the page is okay now. --Woggly 11:31, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

That happens all the time, Woggly - it's a page about editing, and it says "Even this one"; so people test to see if it's true - more often than not, they fix it themselves, if not just revert and forget about it! - IMSoP 20:55, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

User217.230.179.232

Adding the same external link to a number of articles. Seems to be a commercial site. Then s/he made a bunch of new articles, with nothing but that link. moink 21:11, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User:212.144.209.18

Seems to be a Greek nationalist adding little snippets to random articles. Contributions. BCorr ¤ Брайен 15:10, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:62.254.64.8

Adding too much praise to articles about musicians. Maximus Rex 05:25, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

198.234.210.2

User:198.234.210.2 has been wrecking havoc on wikipedia for over a week, and I don't know how to stop him. He has made "incorrections" to some pages (trying to fix grammar, while in effect ruining it), has created many awful stub pages - labeling none as stubs and containing horrible English and very little (if any) information, with zero wiki links in or out. He also flat-out vandalized some pages like Tom Brady, where he removed a lot of information (and later, another person corrected the page but in the process much of the information was lost!), added Enon to the list of important cities in Ohio, and who knows what else (It's too time consuming to follow his trail of destruction). Someone, please help me educate this person and correct what he has done :(

This isn't one user. It's an IP address used by User:Craigbutz's students. They are vocational students doing English. See the archieved discussion on the village pump for details. I just follow them round. Secretlondon 16:08, Jan 22, 2004 (UTC)

152.163.252.3

(contributions)

68.193.185.51

New user User:68.193.185.51 (contributions) is adding random gibberish about "Abelian grapes" to pages. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 06:15, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)

66.112.13.4

First edit blanked a talk page. --Uncle Ed 19:44, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Wtctemporarymemorial

• creating a LOT of most likely copyrighted documents that are written in first person. Alexandros 01:13, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

207.189.98.44 (contributions) (talk)

• Lots of recent edits -- some good, and many of marginal value, IMO -- seems like someone who know their way around a wikiwiki.... Interests include Talk:Reptilian_humanoid, Talk:Scunthorpe, Fuck, and Slashdot trolling phenomena -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 22:44, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)

User:24.207.69.51 (contributions) (talk)

• Only a dozen entries, half of them helpful, the other half changing a Google search to an open-source search. We should encourage not block this user! --Uncle Ed 20:39, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Special:Contributions/24.207.69.51 I noticed the following -- Same-sex marriage shud be elegal becuse is also imposible. If you want to liv and love tugether without mery then is OK -- added to Talk:Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States and checked out the contributions for this user. I'm a bit suspicious because of the randomly bad spelling coupled with the facility with wiki shown in other edits a few minutes earlier -- not to mention the edit summary -- http://zzo38computer.cjb.net/. Let's keep an eye on this one... -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 21:40, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • blocked for vandalism / deliberate misspellings Daniel Quinlan 02:10, Nov 21, 2003 (UTC)
    • "Serious" contributions seem to be changing external links to Google to links to Dmoz. Most of these have not been reverted. Any comments? I'd think both should be retained where used, although I question the utility of linking to Google (or DMoz) at the end of an article? - Marshman 03:05, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
      • Those changes were coupled with inaccurate/bizarre comments and inline HTML comments with characteristic misspellings and grammar cutesies.
• Unblocked --Uncle Ed 20:40, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Why? Did you review the user's contributions? He's seems like an obvious and classic troll to me, even his non-reverted changes include intentionally misspelled comments, bizarre edit summaries, and his talk page comments are basically useless. Ed, please read this: http://www.angelfire.com/space/usenet/#four Daniel Quinlan 04:20, Nov 22, 2003 (UTC)
    • Please reblock. Very deliberate troll. The cost of tracking down his edits outweighs his contributions. silsor 04:23, Nov 22, 2003 (UTC)
    • See also silsor
• No contributions since I unblocked. Please leave a note at user talk:Ed Poor if any more bizarre or useless edits come from this IP. If Daniel reblocks, I have no objection. If Silsor wants to become a sysop, go for it! :-) --Uncle Ed 16:38, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • It continues... --roozbeh 18:42, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User:Information-Ecologist

I-E is a Wikipedian since 18 mar 2004, see also earlier account Special:Contributions/Ecology2001. I feel that he has a different idea of what Misplaced Pages is supposed to be. See some contributions:

• Collective intelligence agency
• Information ecology
• Color (revision that I partially reverted)
• Red link (revision has been reverted)
• image:Twins-01-0320.jpg - made his image description into an article
• RGB color model

See also comments on Talk:Color.

--Hankwang 12:21, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)