I created Template:Sandbox which may help the issue you raised at sourceforge, though obviously people could still delete the {{Mediawiki:sandbox}} notice, it is easier to replace that than the whole header, and more noticeable. Angela. 08:49, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- OK, thanks. It wasn't actually my idea BTW, it was someone on IRC with an irrational fear of the bug tracker. -- Tim Starling 13:00, Jan 3, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the adminship message. Bmills 09:18, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Re the Village Pump discussion, EoT has popped up again on 142.177.114.228, with reverse DNS of hlfx64-2a-228.ns.sympatico.ca. Articles were subsequently reverted/deleted. Can you check the block-lists to check if this is a bug? -- The Anome 01:02, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Take a look at Special:Ipblocklist: your latest block (65.110.6.34) has an obviously incorrect timestamp :-( HTH Phil 11:00, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)
Hi Tim. Can I get authorisation to run pywikipediabot under the user name user:snobot? I was informed that this was required, in part to mark the edits of that user as "bot" and hide them in RC. Also, on Wikipedia:Bots there is, under the heading "rules": "You must get permission from an administrator before using a bot ...", shouldn't that read "permission from a developer"? I'm loathe to change it, but that seems to be the case. Thanks, snoyes 20:30, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks --snoyes 00:41, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Tim. Could you please (in your vast spare time) take a look at Talk:Bigfoot and see if you can figure out if Users ScifiterX, The Agent, Lizard King and whatever of Trolls have similar IP addresses? Thank you. Could you also possibly look at User:Annek and see if he/she might be DW? RickK 04:17, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, Tim. I'm not really surprised, except he hasn't gone after Hephaestos yet. RickK 04:44, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Wouldn't Khranus be more likely? I seem to remember he had the same IPs as Michael (User:Khranus/ban#Further_Discussion) and Lizard King seems to have more similarities with Khranus than Michael. Angela. 04:58, Jan 13, 2004 (UTC)
- In case you missed it on User talk:RickK, The Agent is definitely the same person as Hephaestus (contribs). I thought that kind of attack on Hephaestos was a Michael signature. Am I wrong? -- Tim Starling 05:46, Jan 13, 2004 (UTC)
- It's most common for Michael, but not unique to him. User:TheStick found my page fascinating also. - Hephaestos 05:50, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- It's true that this vandal wasn't using the same ISP as Michael on meta. Perhaps Wikipedia trolls are forming a community culture :) -- Tim Starling 05:57, Jan 13, 2004 (UTC)
- Could The Agent be Michael but the others not or do they all they all the same IP? Angela. 06:10, Jan 13, 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, it's possible. ScifiterX and Lizard King were using different IPs, indeed different ISPs. The only evidence that they are the same is their contributions list -- they behaved like sock puppets by creating accounts and jumping right into the debate on Talk:Bigfoot. Logs of The Agent's activities clearly show a single person using two different identities. -- Tim Starling 06:22, Jan 13, 2004 (UTC)
- I thought Michael was an AOL user, and as such using an enormous dynamic address pool. Salsa Shark 06:14, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Michael switched ISPs, apparently upgrading to ADSL. -- Tim Starling 06:22, Jan 13, 2004 (UTC)
- New names to add from Talk:Yeti: Javaman42 and Popcorncafe. And I'm getting really tired of them all.... - UtherSRG 04:56, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)