Dear John:
Hi1 Im glad I make you laugh with my nick names thats the whole purpose, to lighten it up a little around here. Ill try to not have them on the deletion page. Just onre question, whats the meaning of the word imdention?
Thank you and God bless you!
Sincerely yours
Antonio Haren leader Martin
Dear John:
Hey! Thanks for the clarification! I gotta admit, for people like me, the ones at the boxing and video games department..LOL words like Indention are hard to understand. Ill try to do it the way you told me, that way the format on the votes for deletion page looks nicer and better.
Meanwhile, check these two articles I began work on today: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Billy Conn. I hope you like them and feel free to put your valuable help on them!
Thanks and God bless you!
Sincerely yours,
Antonio Lost Soul Martin
Thanks John. Slip over to Talk:Koala - maybe there is something in it. Tannin
Tom Peters on fumocy: I was still adding content while you were editing. I am not clear on what you were changing, but I may have overwritten some of your edits. I am ready for now, so please modify as required.
Dumb question that nobody answered on the mailing list - how do I recognize a Michael edit? I saw the Bullhead change go by, but thought to myself "random anon with a random factoid, happens all the time" and didn't pay any further attention. Just wanting to do my part! Stan 23:53 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- The album formula is this: one- or two-sentence stub followed by a track listing. The first sentence will be something like this: "The Real Thing is an album by Faith No More, released on June 20, 1989." The sentence will link album (go figure) and give not just the year of release but also sometimes the month and exact date. The second sentence, if there is one, will typically mention and link to KROQ, a radio station that's apparently given Michael a deep religious experience. Dates, album titles, and track listings will often be incorrect in one or more ways. There will be little or no mention of context of the album, group, or songs, or why anyone should care about them. He also favors the years in music pages, as well as heavy metal and punk bands, as well as pop/punk bands like Green Day. Koyaanis Qatsi 00:05 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- If it's that and/or a matter of recognizing IP addresses by range, that's conceptually straightforward. Presumably somebody has to sing out about an IP address so that innocents don't get trashed? (As an old net snob, I'm OK with just pre-banning all AOL addresses, but I guess that's considered too unfriendly :-) :-) ). Stan 00:13 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- Watch for the phrase "and sometimes punk band" in the description of the band in the first sentence. It seems he needs to resolve with himself whenever he edits an album/biography page relating to a non-punk band. -- Jimregan
- Well it's becoming increasingly obvious that IP bans don't work. (and yes, I believed for quite awhile that they did.) AOL serves quite a lot of people, and they're using dynamic IPs, so you could conceivably block Michael for 5 minutes, and then it's someone else entirely being blocked (it happens a bit; I've forgotten to whom, though). As far as accidentally reverting someone else's work, I've yet to see a complaint about it--Michael's work, while consistently untrustworthy, is also at least fairly consistently formatted. If he adopted a new format, we'd figure it out soon enough. Oh, and as I'm sure you've noticed, he likes to leave edit summaries that are either profane, physically threatening, or tell you that you are fired. Koyaanis Qatsi 00:23 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- I am finding it impossible to make needed edits because my account (Iseeaboar) has been blocked. Presumably, my IP address was blocked in the past because of Michael.