User talk:Ged UK/Archives/2011/December

Protecting Bodhidharma

Thanks!!!! Joshua Jonathan (talk) 13:57, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

No problem. GedUK  12:41, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 18:35, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Page protection

Hello Ged. I appreciate your long-term isolation of Xherdan Shaqiri from IPs, I hardly need it on the watchlist now. The trouble is that stooge editors will forever hijack new articles to perform the same edits. The latest article to fall victim to IP history-rewriting and POV-format pushing (birthplace name) is Rita Ora. Three times these past few hours unconstructive reverts have been made and by IPs only, it is impossible to reason with or discuss with them and I know from experience that such users have no interest in dialogue. If the page remains unprotected, I fear this will go on indefinitely as the Shaqiri article has done for 18 months and will no doubt do again once the protection is lifted. Would you kindly protect Rita Ora or is it too early? Let me know. Thanks. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 19:11, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay, I've been offline for a little while. I see that this has now been fully protected, so there's nothing I can really do about it at this stage. GedUK  12:26, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 17:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Top Chef (season 8)

Why is this page protected? One person broke 3RR, and there's no warning on his page or the person who he was exchanging versions with. The page needs clean-up unrelated to the stupid as hell controversy around episode 15. Deal with the editors, don't lock down the page. I can't imagine this policy has changed since I resigned. Lara 22:06, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Oh, also, on the request page, it was stated that the page should be protected for the duration of the dispute resolution discussion. In addition to disagreeing with that (per the above), the discussion was closed this morning. Lara 23:10, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

It's not a question of who and how many people broke 3RR, but that was an edit war involving several different people, editing whilst the DR was ongoing. When that happens it's always liable to throw the DR process out, hence why I felt it necessary to protect. I've now unprotected it, as the DR has finished. GedUK  12:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

White British

Grovelling apologies for having to get you to sort out my incompetence in moving / unmoving, or whatever it was I did - I appreciate your help! Yes, I should have gone for move protection - never thought of that.... Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:06, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

It's OK! Basically, you were right to request the page move, but you shouldn't have copypasted it back to fix it, if that makes sense! No drama. If the editor tries something again, then report him. I'll watch both pages for now to check there's not an attempt to duplicate etc. GedUK  13:11, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I thought I was undoing a previous copy paste move, but obviously what I did didn't help. I was surprised that the system allowed me to do what I did, as I had assumed it would need an admin to do it properly. At one point I clicked on a move request, expecting it to say it couldn't be done, and it moved it anyway... It seems to me that there's a loophole in the system that allows that. Anyway, sorry, and thanks.  :-) Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:40, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Request

Thanks for semi-protecting the Raffaele Amato page. Well, it seems like the troll who vandalized this page has now directed his vengeance against me by vandalizing one of my user drafts as well as its accompanying talk page. I'm sure of that, because of the similarity of the following edits: [1] and [2]. As such, i request you to please indefinitely semi-protect my user drafts and the accompanying talk pages. Thanks again. Joyson Prabhu ^{Holla at me!} 10:48, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

 Done Well, I've protected them for a couple of week, hopefull that'll be enough. GedUK  13:19, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

It seems that you guys can't indefinitely semi-protect all my user page drafts, but thanks anyway. Joyson Prabhu ^{Holla at me!} 13:22, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry to bother! I was shamelessly ignored at WP:AIV. Kindly take action on this IP. See this. Joyson Prabhu ^{Holla at me!} 21:48, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I've blocked the most recent one. There's not a lot of point on the other two, as they've clearly already changed. GedUK  21:52, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Banja Luka

Would you mind removing the protection here? It looks to me as if we have a case of sockpuppetry going on (see here), and I'd like to use the page as a honeypot. Nyttend (talk) 23:33, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Done. I presume you're watchlisting it? GedUK  12:40, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 03:55, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 03:24, 28 December 2011 (UTC)