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Welcome Wagon(s)
You don't fool me. You may deny it, but I KNOW you're controlling the Conservapedia Column, the Trilateral Commission, MSNBC, and those aliens that keep beaming messages into my teeth! :) ...Anyway, hi. --Gulik 05:58, 22 May 2007 (CDT)
- Oh noes! My secrets were revealed! D=
- And hello to you, too! I noticed your comments while browsing the CP Column today! Good to have you around. :) --Sid 06:01, 22 May 2007 (CDT)
- Come on, "Sid". You know as well as I do that you only made this account to pretend you're not me. Or did you make my account to do that? Or did I do either of those things? I'm a little confused. Either way, TK will easily see through these petty attempts at deceptions. --"AKjeldsen" 06:13, 22 May 2007 (CDT)
- At this rate, TK will believe that all RW users are just one guy with dozens of socks. To quote The Offspring: Conspiracy of One. Poor guy, can't accept the fact that more than one person of the planet thinks he's an idiot. --Sid 06:26, 22 May 2007 (CDT)
- Greetings from one of your socks, we are working to try and get the short urls up and working, there are a few issues that are making it difficult but it we will get it......eventually.....Tmtoulouse 18:30, 22 May 2007 (CDT)
- At this rate, TK will believe that all RW users are just one guy with dozens of socks. To quote The Offspring: Conspiracy of One. Poor guy, can't accept the fact that more than one person of the planet thinks he's an idiot. --Sid 06:26, 22 May 2007 (CDT)
Hey Sid! Nice to see you again. Guess I can retire my "SID" user box! humanbe in 19:48, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
Formatting
You are more than welcome to format it, Sid. I merely copied a Word file. --lTK User_talk:TK 14:59, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
CP Fox News entry
Based on the comment you left on my CPLinks page, you already know the bulk of this, but you might be interested in Conservapedia:Fox News -- there was more going on there than just copying. Thanks for that comment, by the way -- feel free to drop other things in there if they seem to fit. --jtltalk 05:25, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
- Dude, you're behind! (or I'm not doing a very good publicity job). I've already done Conservapedia:Clement Atlee and Conservapedia:Great Depression. Neither of them had the interesting additions/modifications that Fox News did, though, although this talk page edit may be the funniest thing I've seen on CP. Or maybe I just need to sleep. I've also done [[Conservapedia::Bill_of_Rights]], and I thought another small one but I'm not finding it now. --jtltalk 06:52, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
- I'm just behind, don't worry. :P Real life is keeping me busy, so I rely on watchlist and recent changes for the most part. I'll check those out later! --Sid 07:03, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
- For anyone coming across this months later, those articles are now at Conservapedia:Fox News (Plagiarized Article), Conservapedia:Clement Atlee (Plagiarized Article) and Conservapedia:Great Depression (Plagiarized Article). --jtltalk 01:05, 7 July 2007 (CDT)
- I'm just behind, don't worry. :P Real life is keeping me busy, so I rely on watchlist and recent changes for the most part. I'll check those out later! --Sid 07:03, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
Didn't I help you out?
- Why does everyone here refuse to follow their own rules? Why don't you accede to my reasonable demands? Why are you all so confused about how to follow rules? Make me a sysop! Bet you thought this was someone else. humanbe in 22:21, 1 June 2007 (CDT)
Award
The Adam and Steve Award | ||
For acts of liberalism so amazing, that they are unbelievable! Awarded to Sid with love. |
Ta la la la la
I didn't know there was another RW in that debate with Karajou. Were you Petrus or NousEpirrhytos (in the interpreting the bible debate)? Good to speak to you again. αιρδισΗταλκ 10:34, 6 June 2007 (CDT)
- I just came in after the initial two bans had been dished out: Sid_3050. Most of the discussion about the first bans happened on Karajou's talk page, but parts of it can also be seen in the first Talk:Bible archive ("What the serpent said"). Once the dust had settled after that clash, it got re-ignited, and I got my current perma-ban (second archive page). Only during the debate AFTER that did AKJeldsen (another familiar face on RW) manage to dig out sources that convinced Karajou.
- Funny, though. When I posted on that page under you and read your posting, I also went "Hey, wait a second... that sounds familiar..." XD --Sid 13:47, 6 June 2007 (CDT)
- Ah, good times, good times. --AKjeldsen 14:14, 6 June 2007 (CDT)
Well Said
I really liked our comment on SimonA's page. I tried to say the same thing over at the blog, but did not hit the same note of eloquence you achieved. Thanks for being here. ʄĹїþþїɲ;-) 15:18, 14 June 2007 (CDT)
Dare Ye Follow
The Way of Madness? --Kels 16:19, 19 June 2007 (CDT)
template experiments
I don't know what you were trying to do, but the best way to experiment with templates is to make them in your user space, and test them on a sandbox page. That way you don't risk doing weird things to place people might be reading. Like IceWedge does ;) No big deal, of course, just thought I'd mention it. humanbe in 14:36, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- Normally, yeah. In this case, I had been moderately certain that it'd work, though. {{BASEPAGENAME}} is supposed to do this: "The basename of a subpage ("Title/Other" on "Title/Other/Subtitle")". But I guess it really only works with subpages of subpages (or the namespace didn't allow it fully, but I doubt that somehow). :/ --Sid 14:42, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- I think the reason for it (or would be) is that the vandal pages tend to be under "talk", but the autolink should refer to the article. I suppose it would all work better if they were under the article, but that space is technically editable (ie, text can be removed), whereas talk is always preserved. Were you able to make what you wanted to do work? (and, by the way, I am quite guilty of messing with templates "live", and I usually break them!) humanbe in 15:18, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- No, that's the weird thing. Both PAGENAME and BASEPAGENAME gave me the same result when I applied the template on the God vandalism subpage: "God/Vandalism". The namespace (Talk vs normal Main) seemingly doesn't factor in, anyway. I'll poke it when I get more time, I guess. --Sid 16:18, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- I think the reason for it (or would be) is that the vandal pages tend to be under "talk", but the autolink should refer to the article. I suppose it would all work better if they were under the article, but that space is technically editable (ie, text can be removed), whereas talk is always preserved. Were you able to make what you wanted to do work? (and, by the way, I am quite guilty of messing with templates "live", and I usually break them!) humanbe in 15:18, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- From experiments I've just done, there seems to be something odd about the 'Talk' namespace on this site. BASEPAGENAME works fine on the default, user, and user_talk namespaces, but not on talk. If you go to any of the article talk subpages, like Talk:Adolf Hitler/vandalism, you'll notice that there isn't the link back to the parent page at the top of the page, like there is in, say User talk:AmesG/Archive1.
- It's definitely something to do with this site though, because it appears on Conservapedia and Wikipedia, and BASEPAGENAME works correctly on those pages. I don't know who's best to ask about this though. Linus?
- --Stevo 17:04, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- Ahhh, very good point you got there! I guess it really has to do with the namespace configuration here (to enable the Subpage Feature). So this (which can be found listed here) might be the solution. Thanks for posting your observation! Let's hope this does the trick! *wanders off to prod an admin* --Sid 17:20, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- Excellent! Yes that's exactly it, isn't it. BTW in case you've missed it, we're having a discussion about the vandalism archive pages and namespaces here. --Stevo 17:32, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- Local janitor reporting for duty, I will see what I can do about this now. Tmtoulouse 17:35, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- Damn, so many new developments even while I had been writing up the note to alert you! XD *cancels that one* Thanks! --Sid 17:36, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- *made backups of the pages on Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Archivedvandalism, just in case that things totally go South for some reason* --Sid 17:39, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- Local janitor reporting for duty, I will see what I can do about this now. Tmtoulouse 17:35, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- Excellent! Yes that's exactly it, isn't it. BTW in case you've missed it, we're having a discussion about the vandalism archive pages and namespaces here. --Stevo 17:32, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- Ahhh, very good point you got there! I guess it really has to do with the namespace configuration here (to enable the Subpage Feature). So this (which can be found listed here) might be the solution. Thanks for posting your observation! Let's hope this does the trick! *wanders off to prod an admin* --Sid 17:20, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- --Stevo 17:04, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
I made the change in LocalSettings.php, did it solve our problem? Tmtoulouse 17:59, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- Looks like it has, thanks! I'll let Sid reinstate his template. --Stevo 18:19, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- Yes, wonderful work, Tmtoulouse! Made the change to the template and the pages that use it so far. No need for the parameter anymore! And thanks again to Stevo for pointing out just the right thing at just the right time! :D --Sid 19:19, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
- Yay for team work! :). Tmtoulouse 19:22, 20 June 2007 (CDT)
well la dee ta
19:09, 11 July 2007 Ed Poor (Talk | contribs) unblocked Sid 3050 (contribs) (Mr. Schlafly had no objection)
- CЯacke® 19:04, 11 July 2007 (CDT)
- Well, confuckinggratshitulations! Do they know what kind of low-life company you keep in your "off" hours? humanbe in 20:38, 11 July 2007 (CDT)
- *does the unbanned dance* Only down sides: My talk page is still locked (my user page not, though) and I can't even poke a sysop about it because CP is in nightly lockdown mode right now. XD Oh well, guess I'll do it once I come back. For the moment: Whoohoo!
- While you're there maybe you can fix JM's horrible articles on MLB teams, half the info is wrong and his "See Also" links could have been picked better by a drunk monkey with a chainsaw. I hate seeing retarded stuff on that site and not being able to fix it. Jrssr5 09:19, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
14:20, 13 July 2007 TK (Talk | contribs) blocked "Sid 3050 (contribs)" with an expiry time of infinite (Sorry your trolling and working one sysop against the other has failed.)
I don't know why you even went back! Gag.....going to try and get unblocked again? tmtoulouse frustrate 13:23, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- I have NO idea yet. For the moment, I'll vent on RW. Then I'll start a plan. Give me a few minutes.
Looks like RobS unblocked you again "for lack of transparancy" on TK's part--Brian 14:04, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- And now there's a revert/protection war about my user/talk pages. Hilarious, and a very brave and noble move by Rob. Kudos! --Sid 14:05, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
And you are unblocked again... tmtoulouse frustrate 14:13, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
The wheel war between RobS and TK is priceless, but the BEST part is that while all this is going on their is little Deborah in the background pasting alphabetically her copy and paste for the day...the whole thing is just...priceless. tmtoulouse frustrate 14:07, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Yes, it's a great contrast XD
- And why didn't anybody tell me I was on probation? I told Ed I didn't want probation terms because my (THREE MONTH) ban had been unjustified. Or are all users who ever got unbanned automatically on probation for a secret amount of time now? --Sid 14:10, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Nothin' secret about it--get blocked once, and you are TAINTED FOREVER. --Gulik 14:25, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
Looks like Rob unblocked you again. Anyone want to bet on how high your block count gets by the end of the day? --Brian 14:13, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- I just can't look away; it's like watching a train wreck. I think half their page views today are going to be from me refreshing the Recentchanges page. --Brian 14:15, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Pow! TK got you again! --ויִכִּ נתֶּרֶפּרֶתֵּר שְׁלֹום!
- Good thing that there is a (relatively new?) rule about unblocks and reblocks, otherwise, my mere presence on CP would give Team Two a massive score boost :P --Sid 14:24, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Pow! TK got you again! --ויִכִּ נתֶּרֶפּרֶתֵּר שְׁלֹום!
- I just can't look away; it's like watching a train wreck. I think half their page views today are going to be from me refreshing the Recentchanges page. --Brian 14:15, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
And deleted your helpful comment...what an ass. tmtoulouse frustrate 14:21, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- FFS! Bah, I'll mail Mtur. Anybody mind if I invite him/her over while I'm at it? --Sid 14:23, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- I thought Mtur was here all ready for some reason...definitely send the invite. tmtoulouse frustrate 14:25, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- I had thought so, too. But there is no user "Mtur", and searching for "Mtur" gives VERY few results. --Sid 14:26, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Done. Now BRB to make some dinner. If anything drastic happens in those few minutes, point me to it here please :P --Sid 14:33, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Back, but the storm apparently settled for the moment. Oh well. XD --Sid 14:41, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- I thought Mtur was here all ready for some reason...definitely send the invite. tmtoulouse frustrate 14:25, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
Assorted stuff
Lets just see where he's targeting those block nukes...
- 00:47, 14 July 2007 Karajou (Talk | contribs) blocked "68.224.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of infinite
- Cox Communications Inc. NETBLK-COX-ATLANTA-7, though he's got a bit more work to do. Thats only 1/7th of the netblocks that company owns in Atlanta.
- 00:43, 14 July 2007 Karajou (Talk | contribs) blocked "82.44.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of infinite
- RIPE Network Coordination Centrer in Amsterdam. Though even more work is needed there - they own the entire class A network. Anything starting with an 82 is there. Karajou, try banning 82.0.0.0/8.
- 00:56, 13 July 2007 Karajou (Talk | contribs) blocked "203.162.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of infinite
- Somewere in Asia. Though again, a bit of a miss. That netblock is 202.0.0.0/7.
- 02:27, 12 July 2007 Karajou (Talk | contribs) blocked "24.242.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of infinite
- Herndon, VA. This one he almost got right. Still another block owned by that company though. If you toss this into Google maps[2], you will see that Karajou is on his way to banning the center of the United States Government. Given that the congressional interns have previously edited Wikipedia[3], think they'll ever get banned over there?
- 23:18, 10 July 2007 Karajou (Talk | contribs) blocked "142.176.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of infinite
- Ottawa. This one actually was a correct hit - thats all they've got.
- 21:25, 10 July 2007 Karajou (Talk | contribs) blocked "142.167.0.0/16 (contribs)" with an expiry time of infinite
- Saint John, NB. Another correct hit (in terms of getting all the IPs owned in that netblock).
I eagerly await the attempt to get 82.0.0.0/8 and 202.0.0.0/7 though. 50,331,642 IPs. I wonder how many points that will be worth. --Shagie 18:12, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Wow, nice research! And actually, the software doesn't allow "/8" bans (or anything under 16, for that matter) because... uh... "would cut out far too many people in one go". There we go.
- And does anybody have any idea what prompts him to ban 65k IPs so liberally? The locations look fairly random. Especially the Asia one. --Sid 18:23, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- I still would love to see the attempt. And for some reason, I don't think they would be particularly adverse to blocking everything and anything that comes from a computer that you can't follow the copper to (ie: on continental US). Dunno about Asia - might be an open proxy someone found. --Shagie 18:30, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Agreed on all points. The Asia bit would make sense, too. I honestly don't think that he has any idea what he's doing, though. That help page there admits that range blocks are not intuitive and that sysops should be really careful with them. Additionally, WP's info page has nice sentences like
- IP addresses should almost never be indefinitely blocked.
- Use careful judgement and make them as brief as possible; this can affect over sixty-five thousand IP addresses, potentially affecting millions of users.
- These should be reserved as an absolute last resort.
- Yeah, I bet Karajou was REALLY careful there :P --Sid 18:48, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Ultimately, such wide and indefinite blocks - especially within the US is bad for its long term survival. Consider some Alantonian reading about it in some conservative media and then trying to create an account to see that his IP address has been blocked. He may not know that is an entire range - it was his personal IP address. That this group doesn't want any contributions from him at all. Zilch. To such an end, we should encourage more of these /16 blocks (anyone willing to work out the patch so that they can do /8 and /7 blocks too?) - the more people that can't contribute positively in the long run - the better. The more people that feel personally attacked by a group of right wing Christian conservatives - the better. One can only hope that in the process, of getting banned, an existing real user gets banned too. Given the level of paranoia there, such guilt by association is reason to get banned in itself! --Shagie 19:33, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Wow, are they really doing this and leaving the blocks up? That's crazy! I know Atlanta is a hotbed of liberalism, homosexuality, and satan worship, but still, there must be a few rednecks left! Can we write an Atlanta paper and try to get people to want to join CP for real there? While the block is in place? Or, Ottawa? Can you make a map of the "nuclear destruction"? humanbe in 20:34, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Well, with each new rangeban, the probability of killing off an innocent user increases. Of course, we will never hear of those people because they're already banned. The only indicator will be the ever-growing silence, and that won't really be much of a change for them. I mean, right now, practically the only people registering are either "liberals" (going by Andy's definition), vandals, or parody users. Actual ultra-conservatives join at a rate of "1 per month" or so. --Sid 19:39, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Ultimately, such wide and indefinite blocks - especially within the US is bad for its long term survival. Consider some Alantonian reading about it in some conservative media and then trying to create an account to see that his IP address has been blocked. He may not know that is an entire range - it was his personal IP address. That this group doesn't want any contributions from him at all. Zilch. To such an end, we should encourage more of these /16 blocks (anyone willing to work out the patch so that they can do /8 and /7 blocks too?) - the more people that can't contribute positively in the long run - the better. The more people that feel personally attacked by a group of right wing Christian conservatives - the better. One can only hope that in the process, of getting banned, an existing real user gets banned too. Given the level of paranoia there, such guilt by association is reason to get banned in itself! --Shagie 19:33, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- Agreed on all points. The Asia bit would make sense, too. I honestly don't think that he has any idea what he's doing, though. That help page there admits that range blocks are not intuitive and that sysops should be really careful with them. Additionally, WP's info page has nice sentences like
- 82.44.0.0/16 - TELEWEST-HSD-CROYDON - Telewest Broadband, presumably in Croydon UK. Shagie, RIPE is the European number assigner; if you look up a European net in ARIN, all it will know is that it's a RIPE address, but if you use RIPE's whois you get the real info.
- 203.162.0.0 - all of Vietnam, maybe? It's split into lots of small address blocks, and I'm too lazy to check them all, but I _think_ what's going on is that the whole range is assigned to the Vietnam Postal & Telecom authority, which in turn delegates most of it to the Vietnam Data Corporation, which in turn gives it out to smaller groups. Similar comments as above, but with APNIC, the Asia Pacific authority
- 142.176.0.0 & 142.167.0.0 - I wonder if one of those was a typo? --jtltalk 20:05, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- <sidenote>One of these last two was also the test IP range.</sidenote> --Sid 20:15, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
And another one: 12.107.*.* just got nuked. --Sid 20:41, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
- That would be a chunk of AT&T - can't tell where though, AT&T owns all of 12.0.0.0/8. That bit appears to be sublet out to VALTEC PRODUCTIONS --Shagie 21:00, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
Oh this one is a gem... 69.124.0.0/16 -- Hicksville, NY. Certainly there is at least on conservative there. Think we should move this off Sid's page and onto something more official? --Shagie
- I agree with the general motion. However, it's past 4am here, so I'm not really in article-creation condition. If you guys want to create a more official article out of this all, that would be awesome. I'd clean up my user page and archive my talk page myself tomorrow then. --Sid 21:09, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
What has been here so far has been migrated into Conservapedia:IP blocks and the talk page.
- Ah, an entry exists! I'll migrate a bit from here and my sandbox (which is basically just a cleaner version of a few parts at the moment) into it. :) --Sid 07:12, 15 July 2007 (CDT)
I don't know
if you want this or not...
- == Powerful new blocking feature ==
- Thank's to Geo's tip of two weeks ago, I have figured out how to turn on the power to block IP address ranges (finally!). Every Sysop now has this power.
- Using this new power correctly is not easy. You may find have to try several times and overcome numerous "not a correct IP" or "user not found" error messages. A couple of tips:
- The "/" denotes the range, and the number after the "/" apparently has to be between 16 and 31. Don't ask me why!
- This example just worked for blocking this IP address range: 142.167.0.0/16 . I just did it successfully as a test for 2 hours. Hope I didn't block anyone we like! Short blocks with this feature are preferred until we know what we're doing!
- More info here if desired: [4]
- Enjoy. The folks who keep vandalizing us this afternoon are suitable candidates for testing this.--Aschlafly 16:52, 9 July 2007 (EDT)
— Unsigned, by: Cracker / talk / contribs
- That's fairly disturbing for multiple reasons. First of all the open lack of knowledge about the "/16" or "/31". Then the fact that all blocks have been infinite after the test, despite the "Keep them short!" warning. Does this mean they all know what they're doing? (Yeah, RIGHT.)
- I can merely shake my head... --Sid 13:51, 16 July 2007 (CDT)
- Speaking of Geo, can you add information on him/her to the newcomers guide? Dagomar 14:00, 17 July 2007 (CDT)
- I saw the call for info on the talk page there, but I can't really think of much about him. Maybe I'll add something about his 180° mood swing back after the Night of the Blunt Knives... --Sid 14:07, 17 July 2007 (CDT)
- Speaking of Geo, can you add information on him/her to the newcomers guide? Dagomar 14:00, 17 July 2007 (CDT)
RE: You're Me Now....
Great. It's probably better than being ME now - phone bill past due, thesis advisor after me for another chapter, back hurts. I'll gladly be you for a while. I can't believe that bitching about Tash's sixth-grade writing skills would cause such a hassle.... PFoster 19:53, 29 July 2007 (CDT)
Math is cool, but a mystery to me. Me, I'm in history - specifically African/Caribbean radical intellectuals. Makes it easy to see why C-pedia was such a draw for me, I guess. Folks here are friendlier, though. PFoster 22:04, 29 July 2007 (CDT)
The New Godspeed?
My bad, sorry. God's peed ....In Christ! - Icewedge 15:52, 6 August 2007 (CDT)
reply
I replied on my discussion page. Bohdan
SCUNThorpe
The SCUNThorpe thing has been around since the first parental filters I don't know if it ever really happened but it seems exactly like cp to repeat the b*****ks. Keep the noise down- please! 08:02, 21 August 2007 (CDT)
Thanks
Thanks for attaching the pictures to my CP post, I did it in a hurry from my computer at work. SirChuckB 18:04, 28 August 2007 (CDT)
- Thanks for pointing it out in the first place! --Sid 18:08, 28 August 2007 (CDT)
99.246.0.0
Tracert gives a destination of 99.246.0.0 AS0 IANA-RSVD-0 which leads me to believe the IP isn't in the general mix (yet). CЯacke® 18:49, 4 September 2007 (CDT) Posted here and on my talk
Welcome
To RW 2.1!!! hahahaha humanbe in 13:25, 11 September 2007 (MDT)
red links
Would you help us out and weed all of them out of User_talk:Sid/CP_Archive_1? Please? Thanks! humanbe in 19:24, 12 September 2007 (MDT)
- Eep, done. --Sid 08:19, 13 September 2007 (MDT)
- Also done for my other imported pages while I was at it. --Sid 08:25, 13 September 2007 (MDT)
Math
Thanks for straightening out the "elementary proof" stuff. I figured that, if I was wrong, someone "here" would find it before someone "there". Reading the CP discussion from back in February was a real eye-opener. That guy is as loony about math as he is about everything else. Of course, there was a hint of that in his off-the-wall stuff in Critical Thinking in Math. Now I think I understand his insanity better.
The CP article on "elementary proof" confuses a very specific (but minor) mathematical notion—not using complex numbers—with the "ordinary" usage of "elementary" to mean "not able to be broken down further". He really needs to get his math/science articles written by people who know what they're doing. Which is pretty hard, since they've all come over to RW. Except for Roger, who, I believe, has a PhD in math. Gauss 17:07, 24 September 2007 (EDT)
Janitor
I was surprised you weren't one, since you've been around since cabal 0.0. Did you not want the extra buttons? 'Cause I do have the even lowlier powers to demote you, if you wish. human 16:41, 12 October 2007 (EDT)
- If anyone here deserves it, ever did deserve to be demoted, it is Sid. Maybe you should just surprise him with it. ----ИighŤ¤Ṭraiṇ ♦Τalk ǃ 01:04, 13 October 2007 (EDT)
- Ohh, like a birfdae prezint? (that's code so he can't figure it out) human 03:48, 13 October 2007 (EDT)
- Oh! Then these would be in order, I guess.... --ИighŤ¤Ṭraiṇ ♦Τalk ǃ 11:53, 13 October 2007 (EDT)
- Ohh, like a birfdae prezint? (that's code so he can't figure it out) human 03:48, 13 October 2007 (EDT)
- It's my what now? O_o
- Aside from my birthday not even being in October, I always figured that we have enough janitors, and I never seriously missed the block/protect/delete buttons. Of course, the ability to delete my sandbox pages and stuff when needed would be fancy... so I guess I wouldn't say no if The Mob wanted to demote me... :) --Sid 09:42, 14 October 2007 (EDT)
- Fine! Someone mislead me, so you don't get the regular large size balloons for a birthday, but can keep the smaller, "Congrats, you are now demoted" model. And about time, too. --ИighŤ¤Ṭraiṇ ♦Τalk ǃ 20:16, 14 October 2007 (EDT)
I just sent you email, something I think you will enjoy. :P -- --Иight¤Ṭrain ♦Τalk ǃ 22:30, 27 October 2007 (EDT)
cp linx
That last bit of cp lulz: 15 links in 40 words. Is this a record? Susanspeak your mind 18:26, 23 October 2007 (EDT)
talkpage template bug
Hey Sid, I just noticed that the top redlink item is called simply "archive10" and is linked from all my talk pages/archives. Also, the box at the top of the WIGO CP talk page links to an "archive11". For some reason these aren't under the page talk space as they should be. Any ideas on how to fix? human 16:01, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- Give me a moment, I'll take a look. --Sid 16:02, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- Urgent issue fixed, I think. Give it a look, please? I'm not working on removing the "(new)" link from talk page archives because DPL's "Do not include this page" issue is messing things up. --Sid 16:19, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- Okay, I replaced the wrong "(new)" link with a "(back)" link. I think it does what it should (tested on a few pages, seemed okay). Still, I'd appreciate an extra set of eyes. After a while, all these links look the same to me. --Sid 16:42, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- It looks fine on my talk page now, and the 10 redlinks are gone. Awesome, thanks!!! Hopefully no one used a wrong link to make a new archive. human 17:03, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- Special:Newpages doesn't show anything in the time window the bug had existed. I think we noticed and fixed it before anybody fell for it. :) --Sid 17:07, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- Cool. Now, how did you fix it without editing the template?! human 17:11, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- Template:Talkpage uses Template:Archivelinks dpl (previously Template:Archivelinks). The former makes the green box and handles various other tasks (such as all the magic involving the wandalism box and stuff) while the latter is responsible for the actual creation of the links inside the box. And if you check my contribs or the recent changes, you should notice the latter fairly often (as well as my sandbox) while I only made a single edit to the former. --Sid 17:23, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- Ah, thanks, of course. I didn't look at the code hard enough to discern whether it depended on other templates to function. I find it amusing howly deeply nested these template subroutines get, here, and even more, on WP. human 17:41, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- Template:Talkpage uses Template:Archivelinks dpl (previously Template:Archivelinks). The former makes the green box and handles various other tasks (such as all the magic involving the wandalism box and stuff) while the latter is responsible for the actual creation of the links inside the box. And if you check my contribs or the recent changes, you should notice the latter fairly often (as well as my sandbox) while I only made a single edit to the former. --Sid 17:23, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- Cool. Now, how did you fix it without editing the template?! human 17:11, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- Special:Newpages doesn't show anything in the time window the bug had existed. I think we noticed and fixed it before anybody fell for it. :) --Sid 17:07, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- It looks fine on my talk page now, and the 10 redlinks are gone. Awesome, thanks!!! Hopefully no one used a wrong link to make a new archive. human 17:03, 4 November 2007 (EST)
Hope you come back someday soon, recharged
Fingers crossed. Goddamn drama.-αmεσ (hegemon) 19:53, 6 November 2007 (EST)
- Don't worry. You know what we say: "They always come back". ;)
- I just want to put in a few weeks or so of pure, creative productivity. Haven't had that in a LONG time. --Sid 20:04, 6 November 2007 (EST)
Word. And pmail me with some of your writing if you get the chance.-αmεσ (hegemon) 20:05, 6 November 2007 (EST)
Peter Bird
Karajou has blocked user Peter Bird claiming it is you. But I thought you were on sabbatical from even visiting the dark side. One of you is lying. Kenservative 12:13, 27 November 2007 (EST)
- I love how CP sysops use RW as a fallback excuse for blocking someone when they have no reason beyond "they're pissing me off because they're using logic." Jrssr5 12:52, 27 November 2007 (EST)
- Bwuh? I haven't visited CP ever since... er... Nov 7. *actually makes an exception and visits CP to check the ban message*
- "German proxy IP; RW user Sid"
- ...okay, seriously, WTF. I'm in Germany, but that doesn't mean that all German PROXIES are me. Hello, German people can use non-German proxies, and non-Germans can use German proxies! Also, last time I checked, I wasn't the only German on the planet.
- Thanks for the personalized Lulz, but it's safe to say that that wasn't me. I didn't even go to CP to check out WIGO links, so I sure as Hell didn't create socks there. --Sid 12:59, 27 November 2007 (EST)
- More Liberal Deceit! We already know that if you confess you're telling the truth and if you deny it you're lying! TKis a GOD! 1:08, 27 November 2007
- Bwuh? I haven't visited CP ever since... er... Nov 7. *actually makes an exception and visits CP to check the ban message*
14 words
Hey, Sid, can you ban this guy for a while . Or make me a sysop and I'll do it. :-) PFoster 14:32, 12 December 2007 (EST)
- I was under the impression that you were one since I saw you doing Rollbacks. Or did we give that right to non-sysops, too? Anyway, Jeeves swooped in to save the day, so w00t. Sorry for delaying the block, but I was still catching up with recent events there. Thanks for holding the fort in the meantime :) --Sid 14:36, 12 December 2007 (EST)
- Oh, and I can't make anybody a sysop; you'd have to ask one of the Bureaucrats there. --Sid 14:37, 12 December 2007 (EST)
- I can do it. So I think I will. human 15:11, 12 December 2007 (EST)
ASCII mudkip
phail. sorry :(((((. -- I CAN HAS MUDKIPS? 22:22, 22 December 2007 (EST)
the old Best of CP
I miss your work, and how it got diluted by WIGO. Your entries were always carefully considered winners (and, on WIGO, still are). WIGO is often a "shoot from the hip at anything" dumbfest. You should consider going back to directly editing Best of CP so I can unwatch the crappy WIGO and just go to your gems. Thank you for all the well prepared lulz back in the day. !!!! human 23:21, 24 December 2007 (EST)
- Heh, thanks for the flowers, but if I started editing Best-of directly, others would follow, and in the end, we'd have the exact same situation :P Besides, some of my entries failed, too (according to the votes). Even more besides, I rarely contribute to WIGO by now since I'm still busy and borderline-tempted to leave CP behind (or at least to reduce the dosage). --Sid 07:40, 25 December 2007 (EST)
- I understand the desire to lower the dosage... but I do think that if you put things directly in Best Of, the wigo people would not follow. Also, I'd give them endless crap if they posted dumb things. You used to wait until a lulzfest worked its way out, then posted it. I liked that. On wigo, we get six links to the same talk page... Oh, and you're welcome for the flowers :) human 05:56, 12 January 2008 (EST)
See what I mean? When you do this stuff (wigo entry - slices, dices, etc.), you do it up in style. Thanks! human 03:16, 16 January 2008 (EST)
- Once more, let me say that I do likes my "Sid's edits to WIGO". I know they will always lead to high quality lulz. human 00:41, 23 March 2008 (EDT)
- Thanks for the compliments! :) Let me say that it's fun writing them, too! --Sid 01:05, 23 March 2008 (EDT)
I can't be alone... - ...it's HOW late?
You are never alone... human 05:56, 12 January 2008 (EST)
Wigo
Hey thanks for the fix up on the wigo page - that's what I get for trying to do two separate items at once.--Danielfolsom 11:28, 27 January 2008 (EST)
- Trust me, I know all too well how that goes. Once you're deep inside that HUUUGE block of text, it's far too easy to slip into the wrong line. :) --Sid 11:31, 27 January 2008 (EST)
- Hey Sid, nice to see your wigo work. I always like your additions! human 16:03, 24 February 2008 (EST)
Folk blocked in mistake for you
I’m sorry for those guys who got blocked from Conservapedia when Conservapedia mistook them for you. Perhaps that will help them to see how silly Conservapedia is. Perhaps they might even start looking for other Wikis or websites that are more rational.Barbara Shack 09:18, 26 January 2008 (EST)
- Well, some of those were just wild guesses by sysops, but the recent "German IP = Sid" bans made me think of those "Du bist Deutschland" ads we had here - talk about truth in advertising! ;) --Sid 09:23, 26 January 2008 (EST)
ASchlafly - block
I feel that your block on Mr Schlafly was uncalled for. I trust you will be sending him a full fifteen page apology and explanation. Good day. --Bobbing up 15:55, 27 January 2008 (EST)
- "Bob", if that is your real name, I am not fooled by your deceit. Maybe you are just in liberal denial, but some of us see his post for what it really is - a thinly veiled attack on morals and family values. "Icewedge" is obviously just a phallic euphemism, and Iduan, despite having "ID" in his name, obviously is just an atheist evolutionist in denial. Godspeed. --Sid 16:01, 27 January 2008 (EST)
- Your email is obviously a mockery of a great man and an attempt at last wordism. Your name is, I assume, an acronym for Someone In Denial. Goodspeed to you!!--Bobbing up 16:21, 27 January 2008 (EST)
- Censorship is a traditional liberal tactic. Can't you come up with something better? --ASchlafly
- Your email is obviously a mockery of a great man and an attempt at last wordism. Your name is, I assume, an acronym for Someone In Denial. Goodspeed to you!!--Bobbing up 16:21, 27 January 2008 (EST)
Have you moved?
France is now being given the Sid - Germany treatment [5]. SusanPurrrrr 15:50, 24 February 2008 (EST)
- Nah, I'm still here. :P Guess Kara's bored/frustrated and decided to fling his wild accusations around. Look, he really switched into random attack-mode (yes, it was a wandal, but the reason is interesting)! --Sid 15:59, 24 February 2008 (EST)
Come pretend to debate Bohdan at user talk:AmesG with me!
human 22:29, 12 March 2008 (EDT)
Okay so how do you do it
I must know.-αmεσ (hegemon) 22:34, 23 March 2008 (EDT)