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Congratulations! you're the third Lostaway with one of these! †††GodEmperorOfHell††† --19:30, 22 February 2006 (PST)

Thanks for the tips guys, hope you don't mind my following suit. «««Joseph»»» 21:36, 22 February 2006 (PST)


What?

thanks for tracking this freak. Now I see we have him cornered, he is nothing more than a rat barking at the moon. Oliver Mitchell or not, this freak is just screaming lawsuit as his tricks are starting to run out. I am confidant defeat is at hand. Please continue your efforts. you have been a great help. †††GodEmperorOfHell††† --10:36, 24 March 2006 (PST)

Thanks for all your help around here. You now have SysOp rights.

--Admin 22:16, 24 March 2006 (PST)

I promise to use my new powers for truth, justice, and the demise of Bob.
--    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email  

Welcome aboard!

Welcome to the selected group of lostaways with sysop powers. This is in no way an orientation film ;) but amongst your newfound responsibilities are not only preventing Bob, spammer and vandal attacks. as you see, I am the one in charge of updating the daily news feature on weekdays, Plkrtn was in charge of updating "This week on LOST", but has been offline for a while. We need somebody to fill that position in. Special:Uncategorizedpages must remain empty except for the Main Page. Be specially wary of edits by anonymous users. I wholeheartedly recommend using the RSS feed to keep track of edits without having this page in an open window. I use Mozilla Firefox and it works wonders with wiki, I specially recommend the Clippings extension, it makes continuous editing really easy.Something important to remember when blocking vandals, spammers and Bob; use the espionage feature to get their IPs and ban them as well. And most important of all have fun. This weekend has been difficult for me, and with your help we can thwart the Bob menace. †††GodEmperorOfHell††† --09:42, 25 March 2006 (PST)

Talks

Hi. Maybe you know... is there a way to talk/communicate with other members without using the talk pages? Something that not everyone can read and edit? esp. other Sysops? --aurora glacialis 15:09, 25 March 2006 (PST)

Old news but...

very interesting and relevant info in the body of the text, It's getting harder and harder finding two of these every day. †††GodEmperorOfHell††† --18:25, 26 March 2006 (PST)

Reply

I don't think, blocking IPs has any value except you could block the whole service provider. Most users have a dynamic IP, so it's unlikely that Bob will have the same IP twice - more likely someone else will get that IP and wonder why he can't access this site. Well - ok it's not more likely but the point is that it's probably a waste of time to block single IPs.

You can block users before they make an edit (in case of BoB, this is useful since it saves some time reverting all the edits. BTW - it would be nice to have a "rollback all" button on the contributions page....

Jabrwocky, I tried to email you but got no reply, you have emails disabled? Then maybe write me, if you want. --aurora glacialis 10:51, 28 March 2006 (PST)

I did some research today and found out that with versions 1.5 and above of mediawiki, we can block via IP ranges. I blocked some of Bob's favorite IP ranges using this technique today. Here is a link to a metawiki howto on using IP range blocks: [1].    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   11:59, 28 March 2006 (PST)

Also, btw I'm working under the assumption that "bob" is using a proxy server to make his surfing anonymous. Most of his IPs go back to amsterdam, and I think he's really in the US.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   12:01, 28 March 2006 (PST)

SORBS is on, that should take care of the most open proxies, the last few attacks have come from Energis House UK, and here are the ranges: User_talk:Admin#Another_Bob_Attack. --skks 12:10, 28 March 2006 (PST)

Why delete my Blast Door entry?

I don't understand why you'd delete this entry -- no discussion or anything! If nothing else, the information should have been folded into a larger entry, like The Swan. Please explain. --Joezoo 22:10, 29 March 2006 (PST) EDIT: Seems I spoke too hastily. Apologies!

How come WE don't have a wikipedia entry...

while we are listed in the List of Wikis? [2]†††GodEmperorOfHell††† --09:17, 9 April 2006 (PDT)

We do now! I set up a small page. Take a look and make some edits if you like. I also put a request in for an interwiki link to be setup on the meta.wikimedia.org site. I'm not sure if that replicates to wikipedia, but we'll find out.

   Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 10:57, 9 April 2006 (PDT)

Lost Season 2 > Season 2

First of all, why did you revert this move? We are LostPedia and all of our articles are assumed to relate to Lost. There is no need to be redundant in titles.

Second of all, Why did you protect the page from moves? How rude.

At the very least, you should discuss this on Talk:Lost Season 2, because your admin actions seem overbearing. -- Lostpedian 09:22, 10 April 2006 (PDT)

Not overbearing. You shouldn't have moved this page without FIRST discussing it in the talk page. Having the word LOST in the title of this article helps with search engine results. Also, you moved the Lost Season 2 page, but did not move Lost Season 1 page. You couldn't do that because it was already protected. I discussed this revert with a few other sysops and they were in agreement.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 10:01, 10 April 2006 (PDT)


If you insist on having "Lost" in the page title, then do it the right way... take a look at MediaWiki talk:Pagetitle. -- Lostpedian 10:58, 10 April 2006 (PDT)

This type of change should only be performed by Admin, the owner of this wiki. You're entitled to your opinion, but that doesn't make it the "right way".    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 11:05, 10 April 2006 (PDT)

Naming every article "xxx of LOST" or "LOST xxx" is certainly not a good long-term solution. Please do contact Admin and point this out to him. -- Lostpedian 11:16, 10 April 2006 (PDT)
Here is a link to Admin's Talk Page. That is the only way I know of to contact him. Besides, nobody is suggesting that every article be named XXX of Lost. There are certain articles where this makes sense, and others where it doesn't make sense (IMHO).    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 11:36, 10 April 2006 (PDT)

Jabrwocky7

thank you man.. i am a noob in lostpedia and my english is sucks.. i am brasilian but i live in south africa 2 years when i was a child.. because this i dont write very well in english but i read and hear very well.. sorry! and thanks for the helps in my articles. Z0n3

No problem - glad to help out. If you ever create a page and you want someone to edit it for the English language, just put a note in the summary. There are plenty of others that will gladly help out as well. Welcome to Lostpedia.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 15:53, 10 April 2006 (PDT)

About 'Lostpedian' Block.

I think this individual used to go under the name LOST fan, he follows the same patterns. I blocked LOST Fan when he renamed my user page and signature to GodEmperorofH***. I blocked him under the basis of Netiquette, under no circumstances should you mess with another user's identity. To bring light to why we have this conflict with a smart fellow who is not a troll or a vandal please refer to Introduction to Antiprocess. I have linked this in the Main page, under Usage Help. This document is very revealing as why we have disagreements with valuable and intelligent people who want nothing but help us. †††GodEmperorOfHell††† --11:21, 12 April 2006 (PDT)

You may be an admin...

... but you have a lousy way of interacting with other people that just want to make things better. Attacking the Manual of Style page by renaming it is completely unhelpful -- you should instead help build upon it and, where you disagree, explain that on a Talk page. -- Lostpedian 09:41, 19 April 2006 (PDT)

This was no attack. I'm sorry that you take personal offense to this. This page was moved because your "guidelines" have not already been discussed. While some of the statements make sense, they have not been subjected to review by sysops and admin. Please do not undo moves made by your friendly sysops. You have been warned about this before (by another sysop).
   Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 10:24, 19 April 2006 (PDT)
The page can be reviewed by everyone whenever they like. While I agree that the Admin can overrule anything, and sysops are generally wise, to assume that everything must first meet some arbitrary "review" is elitist. Several LostPedia project pages have been created without your supposed requirement, nor a (proposed) moniker. Try actually being friendly, rather than pushy. -- Lostpedian 10:33, 19 April 2006 (PDT)
I have to go with my felow sysop here. While we accept recomendations by everyone we discuss them before making them official, that's we have system operators. †††GodEmperorOfHell††† --10:37, 19 April 2006 (PDT)
I have to agree too when it comes to major changes like deleting, moving, merging or splitting articles - this should be discussed in the talk pages first. Not always with Sysops, but Sysops of course can discuss there too... --aurora glacialis 10:49, 19 April 2006 (PDT)
You should also notice that most of the pages in the project namespace were created by Admin. He does not need to submit policies and administrative pages for review since he is the owner of this wiki.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 11:00, 19 April 2006 (PDT)
I have a different opinion about who's being pushy. There's disagreements and then there's just wanting to have your way no matter what. If something you edit/move gets reverted/re-edited/removed by a sysop - friendly would be talking about in the appropriate talk pages. Pushy is doing whatever got reverted again, with a note to your reasoning in the summary box. Most times you get in return what you dish out, and I can't remember a time when Lostpedian was friendly or even just willing to discuss with anyone. --skks 14:58, 19 April 2006 (PDT)


Thank you from Santa

Hi, thanks for noticing my edits and new entries, and cleaning them up, adding cats, etc. Feel free to show me the ropes here on Lostpedia! Cheers! Santa 11:19, 6 May 2006 (PDT)

Read and weep.

User_talk:Mr_eko. Tell me what you make of this, please.†††GodEmperorOfHell††† --09:23, 13 May 2006 (PDT)

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