User talk:Laleena

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Welcome, Laleena!

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By the way, if you have any news stories you want to appear on my blog, just let me know about it and i can post it up. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 12:34, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikijunior Europe

The link you need should be Wikijunior:Europe

WB:AN

The best place to report users that need to be blocked is at the administrator's noticeboard page. most, if not all of the admins have that page on their watchlist, and requests there will often be handled very quickly. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 15:22, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Another minor point: When you warn users, please use {{subst:test|~~~~}} so your signature appears in the template. This makes it easier to tell who left what warnings and when - sometimes warnings are mistakes, or are from very long ago. Without the signature, it's tough to tell whether the warning is reliable when deciding whether to block or not. To make things easier, you can enable the Welcome User gadget (or whatever it's called) to automagically warn/welcome users. This option is on the Gadgets tab in Special:Preferences.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 21:44, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

It's no problem, not everybody realizes what the administrative assistance page is all about. I just want to make sure that when you have a request that it gets acted on as quickly as possible. Thanks for finding and alerting people about vandalism, by the way. It's a big help. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 22:50, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Warnings

Hi - I noticed a couple of warnings you placed. I think I am right in saying that most templates should be "subst"'d so you would want {{subst:test}} for example. Equally they should be signed so that someone knows who to contact if they wish to do so (newbies may well not understand "history" and the like - regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:19, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Apologies - didn't realise I was so far behind folks. The trouble is that with the "+" you tend not to look at what else is on a talk page. Also - bear in mind whoever we are we are just users the same as the rest - we just deal with some of the harder garbage! regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 17:33, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Getting the attention of the 3 of us means you're doing good things, otherwise we wouldn't have noticed. :)  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 17:56, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

For images with no license info, please tag the image with {{subst:nld}} then notify the user with the template code provided (tag all of a user's images with no info, but only one warning is usually needed, since there's a link to a tool to show all their problem images). As well, if you want to help me test a (rather buggy) script I'm working on, please ask me about it - it automagically tags things like this and notifies the user when appropriate.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 02:59, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Volcanos now in VfD - I think you have a point, regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 09:04, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

WB:BB

I re-worded your notice there. It's actually not anyone's job to do anything here unless they choose to do it. As well, deletion is probably not an option for many of those modules as they've likely been tagged as such after a VFD was closed as "no consensus to delete, but there are NPOV problems." Great to see you still involved in cleanup though - keep it up!  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 01:32, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Rollbacker

You've been nominated; please accept if you want the bit. If you're interested in doing new page patrol, I encourage you to do a few days' worth without the bit so you'll have the current patrollers looking at your work, and we can get a sense of your work there.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 15:28, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Ip warning

Hi Laleena! I made a couple of changes to your new template. They should make it easier to do what you intended the template to do, I believe: Template:Ip warning How's that? And by all means, feel free to change it back if you had other ideas in mind. Νεοπτόλεμος 02:08, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

IP block

Hi - I noticed that yesterday. In practice we both warned them about the same edit so there are not really "two" warnings. Had they done anything else at the time I would have blocked them (& will do so if they return). Bear in mind that blocking is to prevent disruption and as they are not currently editing that is not necessary. Thanks for spotting it - regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:50, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Err

I didn't "warn" Malcolmsb21 as I indefinitely blocked him! Vandalism only account. Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:27, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Non-latin usernames

Those who had user names that were approximately related to latin characters (such as Ł,Đ,αあるふぁ, and others) didn't seem to be that big of a deal. I think it was Arabic, Chinese, Thai, and other characters that were really off the reservation in terms of similarity to latin characters that really got a few admins into a tizzy for a little bit. The rationale for removing these accounts (they had the user accounts blocked and the user pages/talk pages deleted) was the fear that non-latin characters would contain potentially offensive words (something IMHO that could be dealt with through other means than blocking all non-latin accounts) and the potential for abuse by vandals, such as the Willy on Wheels accounts. Some users very legitimately insisted on keeping the non-latin usernames because they started on Wikipedia projects that were decidedly not using latin alphabets (such as the Japanese Wikipedia) and wanted to keep common account names across all Wikimedia accounts.

I pray that such attitudes never come to Wikibooks, and I will fight vigerously against any user/admin who tries to institute such a policy here. I also fought against such a policy on en.wikipedia as well when it was a hot topic, and strongly voiced my opinion there. But unfortunately I didn't have admin rights there to undo the actions (almost petitioned to become an admin there for that reason alone, however). --Rob Horning (talk) 20:30, 25 January 2008 (UTC)