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Email me

Send me an email so I can confrim who you say you are and I'll consider (re)instating your rollback/reviewer rights. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:32, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

 Done --Perseus8235 (talk) 19:37, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

I've replied. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:46, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Ugh. Re-sent. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:49, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Got it. --Perseus8235 19:50, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

• You're probably going to think I'm taking the micky, but, if you are who you say you are, this is for your own protection. I've blocked you indefinitely until you can convince me (or an admin/arb/functionary of your choosing) privately that you are the same person as Perseus, Son of Zeus. If you satisfy me that my concerns are unfounded, I'll unblock you with an explanatory log summary. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:06, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

You've got mail, HJ. --Perseus8235 22:17, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

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Protected your old talkpage

I protected your old talkpage so you wouldn't have to watch for messages there.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:20, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

The Lightning Thief

I'm not sure if the peer review for The Lightning Thief was opened by you or the one who compromised your account; if the former, I thought you would like to know that it has received feedback from two editors. Cheers, Melicans (talk, contributions) 20:22, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

My account was only compromised when two attacks (as said on ANI, anyway) were made on my old userpage, I opened it. --Perseus8235 15:55, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict)

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Unblocked

Sorry it took me a while to respond, but I've unblocked you. I'll sort your reviewer and rollback rights in a minute. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:20, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

THANK YOU! Now back to referencing BLPs... --Perseus8235 15:27, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Created a separate account for some watchlist items I don't want in my main account. (Perseus8235 (watchlist) --Perseus8235 15:38, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

CSD nom

I agree that Golra Awans of Nokot(Mansehra) is not a great article by any stretch, but it does not meet WP:CSD#A7. Notability is asserted by "...are famous for...". I've declined the CSD; please feel free to nominate it at WP:PROD or WP:AFD, or perhaps work with the editor who created the article to see if it can be improved into a sourced article. Thanks!  Frank  |  talk  18:38, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Adoption

Hi, just wanted to drop by and say you might want to get a new mentor since really have a lot more work now and won't have too much time on here. Happy editing! Derild4921☼ 01:54, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

That account

It does actually appear to be blocked...the block is just missing...my popups and helpmebot detect the block though. Ks0stm If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. 21:11, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

I gotta ask -- what the hell were you thinking, Percy????????--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:20, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

I thought the bot was broken (it doesn't show up, which is damn annoying). --Perseus8235 21:21, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

The account is globally hidden. It fooled me too until I asked in IRC why the block wasn't showing up except to bots and popups. Ks0stm If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. 21:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

FYI, see here. →♠Gƒoley↔Four♣← 21:28, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

On an unrelated note, are there any good pictures of katsudon? The one in the article doesn't really resemble katsudon. --Perseus8235 21:29, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Ha! --Perseus8235 21:30, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

• Sorry, but that history log of bot-user edit-warring made my day. Thanks for the laugh. Silverseren^C 00:09, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

FYI

I don't know if you saw this: a TFD is currently open about one of the "big buttons" you created. →♠Gƒoley↔Four♣← 01:20, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

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User talk:Accessibility Denied

Enough dude; he is long gone.... And probably will never respond. →♠Gƒoley↔Four♣← 22:57, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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Percy Jackson series

Hi Perseus8235, Firstly, thanks so much for putting the requests for the copy editing of the Percy Jackson series at WP:GOCE/REQ. I've really enjoyed reading and copy editing these articles. Obviously, our copy editors work on these to help out, and not for barnstars. But since you are giving them out, can I ask you to consider giving those that our copy editors do not already have, such as {{Children's Literature Barnstar}} or {{The Writer's Barnstar}}? Thanks again, and I'll try to do more on this series as I really enjoy them. Cheers, and keep up the good work! – SMasters (talk) 15:33, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

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RFA for Glane23

Hey. You seem to have supported this candidate, then later opposed - and immediately struck your oppose instead of your support. Just wanted to make sure you struck the correct vote, as it confused me for a sec there. Thanks! UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 16:07, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I will go for neutral then. --Perseus8235 16:09, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

No, go wherever you like - I just wanted to make sure I hadn't indented the wrong vote. UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 16:15, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

re: Wikicup

Thanks for fixing it. The reason there were fewer articles in there is because not all of the articles were promoted to GA this year, so I wasn't sure how points got counted and whatnot. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Hah, thanks, but I don't think I'm supposed to be. I don't think I'm supposed to get credit for the articles not promoted this year within the topics. I'll take care of it later, but thanks for your help. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:39, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Yep! I might be done with 1953 for now, since 1954 might be a bit difficult, but I've got other plans. I really just like doing topics, since it's great getting something so big finished. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:47, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Userpage deletions

How about you cut down the userpage deletion requests to a dull roar of maybe one a week? Just saying that admins probably have better things to be doing with their time than deleting your userpage. Syrthiss (talk) 18:31, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Sock tags

You tagged 24.171.151.102 (talk · contribs · info · WHOIS) as a sockpuppet of Access Denied. The IP made only three edits. Access Denied created his account in May 2010; the IP made its first edit in March. What evidence do you have to substantiate your claim that this is a sockpuppet of Access Denied? (This is not evidence). You can't go around capriciously tagging vandalizing IPs as socks of Access Denied. Explain yourself. Goodvac (talk) 19:27, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

What's the rationale for tagging 63.172.166.221 (talk · contribs · info · WHOIS)? Goodvac (talk) 02:06, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

 Confirmed in SPI. --Perseus8235 15:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Where? I can't find it. Goodvac (talk) 23:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

User:63.172.166.221 has been speedy deleted per G6 criteria. HeyMid (contribs) 16:40, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Copy edit completed

Hi, as requested at WP:GOCE, I have copy edited the article The Battle of the Labyrinth and updated the talk page accordingly. Pol430 talk to me 20:57, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Re: Drunkeness

Not at this moment ;)

(Although, out of strict honesty, I should say I'm not exactly sober either)

Egg Centric 22:44, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

The Lost Hero peer review

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Welcome back

Welcome back (page notice needs updating). I did have some comments about this little incident, but I haven't got round to writing them yet. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:12, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

I might leave at any time...after that incident... --Perseus8235 20:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

What'd I miss? Ks0stm If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. 20:17, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

I'd rather not talk about it. --Perseus8235 20:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

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Ok, that's fine. I hope you're ok. Ks0stm If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. 20:20, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Perseus, I'd appreciate it if you could email me, as it seems you've disabled email during your two-and-half-hour rage quit caused by ...? Anyway, yeah, please email me. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 21:44, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

I will...though my three emails all reveal my identity. One is my first and last name. Another reveals where I live. Another reveals...well, I won't tell you, though I have no access to Gmail at school. :/ --Perseus8235 16:09, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

I believe that if you use the 'email this user' link on Fetchcomms' userpage, none of your email details will be given...tho without your email enabled here Fetchcomms will be unable to reply to you except through this page. Syrthiss (talk) 16:28, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't think that's correct. First of all, without enabling email, Perseus won't be able to use the "Email this user" function. Second, whenever you use the "Email this user" function, it includes your registered Wikipedia email address in the email it sends.

Perseus, just in case it's useful, both Yahoo and Hotmail will allow you to set up one or more extra webmail addresses without using your real full name or location. (Plus, I usually put in a fake zipcode because I don't want them knowing too much about me, even though they don't reveal that part publicly.) If you would like a step-by-step guide of how to set that up with privacy in mind, just let me know.

I used to use Gmail for this, but these days they seem to want a phone number for every email address you sign up, which I don't really like, especially in combination with the concerns about Google collecting pieces of kids' social security numbers.

Also, you shouldn't feel that you have to email someone privately - administrator or not - just because they ask you to. But it's fine if you choose to do so. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 16:36, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I hadn't been aware of that (the unable to email, and it tagging with the email address). I could swear that when I used it in the past it would just say 'wikipedia email from Syrthiss', but I just double checked and you are correct Demiurge1000. Syrthiss (talk) 16:39, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Well, any email you send will show the originating IP (but if you really cared about privacy, I wonder what the IP testing earlier was all about). You can always change your email settings, though, to use a pseudonym or something, and you can always set up a free one. GMX, mail.com, etc. all work. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 03:35, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

The originating IP thing is another common misconception. Hotmail (which I think is still the same thing as mail.com and live.com) used to include the IP of the sender, but they stopped doing that a few years ago and I think (haven't checked) they didn't start doing it again. I've never seen Gmail include the IP of the sender, and Yahoo don't seem to either (but my experience of Yahoo is very limited). The closest thing that emails from most of these services will include is the IP address of their own mailserver, which of course could be thousands of miles away or even in a different country.

I didn't see the IP testing, but, Perseus, if you ever want a web page to tell you your IP address, I suggest using www.whatismyipaddress.com, not Wikipedia. (It's also fairly useful for other people's IP addresses.) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 11:45, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Do you have a reference for the claims you are making about IP addresses not being included in emails? The headers in email messages are generally quite detailed and chock-full of useful information - even those from hotmail.  Frank  |  talk  13:42, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

They certainly do contain a lot of information, but they don't generally contain the specific piece of information that we're talking about. I'll send you an email through Wikipedia, and if you believe it has my IP address in it, please send the IP address back to me by email. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 13:47, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Looks like I missed some context; of course that doesn't contain your IP address, although it does reveal your Wikipedia-registered email address. What I was talking about was Hotmail; there was the claim that Hotmail doesn't contain IP addresses. Once you start private communication with someone - not the first email sent from Wikipedia but responding to them - the expectation of privacy is largely shattered.  Frank  |  talk  14:36, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes we're talking on several different levels. However, I've just checked the headers of an email sent to myself from a Hotmail account, and yes it includes the IP address of the sender. In other words, they've put it back in again. I'm still confident that Gmail don't give away the IP address of the sender, although I've not checked it in the last 24 hours. I've struck the appropriate part of my comments above (although that just leaves us with Yahoo as a recommendation, which wouldn't be my favourite - I guess I might try out GMX sometime.) Privacy is a many-faceted thing, and while I don't recommend people giving out their IP addresses, nor do they normally lead to an exact location or an exact identity. (So for example if you knew my IP it wouldn't tell you any more than which ISP I am a customer of, and that I'm one of about a 300,000 people in a particular geographic area.) From a child safety point of view (which is kind of where this conversation started) the normal recommendation is that kids don't have private online communications with anyone they don't know in real life, at least unless their parents are aware of the specific circumstances. How often that recommendation is followed, is quite another thing :-) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 15:22, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

The IP address testing was because I needed to test the orange new message bar; oh wait your email account was hacked? Well, I know for a fact that Gmail does not give out your IP address. BTW, I used to edit a ton under an IP address instead of account, but changed to account because of "privacy" you could say...no that's an excuse. --Perseus8235 15:42, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

I've used four IPs in my life. The ISP's changed between many different ones. I've also abandoned five accounts (I am TERRIBLE at remembering passwords, and I would like a WP:CLEANSTART sometime soon. Maybe even today. --Perseus8235 15:44, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

What makes you say Gmail does not reveal your IP address?  Frank  |  talk  19:11, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Frank, shall we continue this at your (or my) talk page, since Perseus is now elsewhere and can't (shouldn't) reply here? If you feel like replying to my earlier email to you, I will then send you an ordinary gmail message and you can email me back to let me know if it includes my IP address or not. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 19:18, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

No my email account hasn't been hacked, you may have misread something. As for cleanstart, other people can probably comment on that better than I can, but doesn't it say "Clean start accounts should not return to the same topic areas or editing patterns if there is a strong desire to separate from the initial account" ? Would you abandon any articles related to Rick Riordan? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 16:08, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Likely. I have interests other than that that I am WAY more interested in. --Perseus8235 16:09, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

On cleanstart in different account. --Perseus8235 16:47, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

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Cleanstart?

Hello Perseus8235, I was just curious as to why you are performing a cleanstart. I didn't see anything particularly concerning that would warrant one. Alpha Quadrant ^talk 23:58, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Indeed, continuing to edit in a previously-used account isn't a WP:CLEANSTART anyway.  Frank  |  talk  01:53, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

This is making my head hurt :-) Either Perseus' comment to my talk page was indeed the last edit he plans to make with this account, and he's now off happily starting cleanly in his new account, which is fine (except this account needs a "retired" tag) .... or else he has a novel idea of what WP:CLEANSTART means and he's having a clean start but without a new account, which is, I guess, umm, fine .... or if neither of those are the case then I guess someone needs to go find his new account and gently explain things to it. But for now, based on what he said above, I think we assume it's the first option? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 02:16, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

This is not helping. Perseus, I already know who your account is (I stumbled upon it earlier today without even realizing it was you at first) and I still would like to chat with you. Can you please email me? /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 03:34, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I will. I have access to Gmail today ;-) --Perseus8235 15:37, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

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173.49.140.141

Do you know why User talk:173.49.140.141 redirects to your talk, and if yes, then what that IP was trying to do with Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) (the edit was inserting a large chunk of code, which shouldn't be there and thus was filtered). Materialscientist (talk) 14:01, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I usually edit under the account, and like messages on the same page. Code was what I was getting before changing the browser. --173.49.140.141 (talk) 14:02, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Well, that huge chunk should not be inserted anywhere into wikipedia, so please don't. Materialscientist (talk) 14:05, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Okay, then. --173.49.140.141 (talk) 14:07, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

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Indefinitely blocked

After the recent series of accounts of yours which I have seen that, you have demonstrated a clear inability to control whatever account you use. As such, I have blocked you indefinitely for sock puppetry. Regards, –MuZemike 16:12, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Non-admins and admins

{{helpme}} Can someone change the table here to say "June 2011" instead of June 2012? SOURCE: [1]. --Perseus8235 15:17, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

No; you are blocked, and cannot edit.  Chzz  ►  15:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict)  Done Alpha Quadrant ^talk 15:38, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Admins only

{{adminhelp}} And a question for admins: Can I get a standard offer: no socks for 6 months, earliest time to create a new account is 7 September 2011, 15:30 (UTC), username will be "mstenpta4". --Perseus8235 15:22, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

And no disruptive editing, no SPIs without sufficient evidence. And all reverts /w rollback MUST be blatant vandalism. --Perseus8235 15:23, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

And I promise to avoid the behavior that led to the block/ban. --Perseus8235 15:24, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Ask in September. Chzz  ►  15:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

BTW, I had no intention to sock...just another "cleanstart". I'll be waiting then. --Perseus8235 15:43, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Doing another cleanstart would probably be perceived as socking. It would be wisest to remain at your current account. Alpha Quadrant ^talk 15:56, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Turin Metro update

Can someone update the Turin Metro article so the stations from Torino Porta Nuova railway station to Torino Lingotto railway station are "open"? Source: http://www.railwaygazette.com/index.php?id=44&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=12908&cHash=823584a6a8. Thanks, Perseus8235 18:09, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Union-Pearson Rail Link update

Can someone update the Union-Pearson Rail Link article to say that diesel multiple units have been ordered? Source: http://www.railwaygazette.com/index.php?id=44&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=12892&cHash=8edad53ca2. Thanks, Perseus8235 18:11, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Rolling stock update on the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County

Can someone update the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County rolling stock section to say they ordered 19 more Siemens S70 Avantos? Source: http://www.railwaygazette.com/index.php?id=44&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=12904&cHash=f419852437. Thanks, Perseus8235 18:13, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Blocked

Please remember that you are WP:BLOCKed. I know you are trying to help, but by clogging up queues (such as {{helpme}}), you are (still) being somewhat disruptive. Take a break.  Frank  |  talk  18:17, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

I try to, but I just can't! Over the months, I've become...addicted to Wikipedia. Blocks aren't the cure, because I still visit WP, reading ANI, AN, BN, the village pumps, reference desks...I just can't stop. --Perseus8235 18:39, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Please listen to Frank. You are blocked. Since you are not blocked over at Simple, you can contribute constructively over there for a while if you feel the need to edit. Constructive and drama-free editing on Simple for a few months will be your best path to resuming editing here, in my opinion. If you keep putting up {helpme} templates here, an admin will probably get tired of it and remove your talk page access. 28bytes (talk) 18:47, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

I agree with 28bytes, if you are addicted to Wikipedia you could edit Simple English Wikipedia. The mood there is quite different as it is smaller, and there is (usually) less drama. I wouldn't recommend trying a WP:CLEANSTART on simple though. There as there are only about fifty active editors, so it probably wouldn't work. Alpha Quadrant ^talk 21:12, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

You might want to keep your "notes for when I come back" in a textfile on your computer, rather than here. Suitably backed up, of course. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 14:59, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Notes for when I come back

• add scripts:

importScript('User:Ale_jrb/Scripts/userhist.js');  //[[User:Ale_jrb/Scripts]]
importScript('MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js');
importScript('User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar 2.0.js');
importScript('User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js');
importScript('User:TheJosh/Scripts/RecentChangesPatrol.js');
importScript('User:NerdyScienceDude/Scripts/extratoolbarbuttons.js');
importScript('User:NerdyScienceDude/Scripts/emotetoolbar.js');
<!-- importScript('User:ProveIt GT/ProveIt.js'); -->
importScript('User:Lupin/recent2.js');
importScript('User:Ale_jrb/Scripts/igloo.js'); // [[User:Ale_jrb/Scripts/igloo]]
importScript('User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar 2.0.js')
importScript('User:TheDJ/qui.js');
importScript("User:GregU/dashes.js");
importScript('User:Ohconfucius/Common Terms.js');  //[[User:Ohconfucius/Common Terms.js]]
importScript('User:Access Denied/toplinks.j');
importScript('User:DStoykov/defaultsort.js');
importScript('User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js'); // Linkback: [[User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js]]
//Talkback link
if(wgCanonicalNamespace == "User_talk" || wgCanonicalNamespace == "User"){
 
var talkpage="User_talk:" + wgPageName.split(":")[1];
var link="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title="+talkpage+"&action=edit&section=new&preloadtitle=Talkback&preload=User:Manishearth/Tb"
addPortletLink('p-cactions',link,'Talkback','ca-tb','Talkback', 't')
//document.getElementById('ca-tb').style.background='green'
}
importScript('User:Ale_jrb/Scripts/statusCheck.js');  //[[User:Ale_jrb/Scripts]]
importScript('User:Joshua Scott/Scripts/pendingchanges.js');

into skin.js file. --Perseus8235 18:41, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

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Unrecognized countries userbox

Hi, Perseus8235! Express your interest in unrecognized countries by placing {{User:Presidentman/Ubx/URC}} on your userpage. - Presidentman (talk · contribs) (Talkback) Random Picture of the Day 13:42, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

2011 WikiCup participation

Awarded to Perseus8235 for participation in the 2011 WikiCup.

It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 20:44, 2 November 2011 (UTC)