WilliamH

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A beer for you!

Belated thanks for your work on the Morning277 SPI. —rybec 07:27, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

I have to agree, thanks for everything. --Rschen7754 07:36, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the hard work and dedication you've shown to the Wikipedia community. Sad to see you go. —Tom Morris (talk) 08:05, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

I too was stunned to see this, and am sad to see you go. Hope all is well with you and that this won't be the last time we meet. Steven Zhang ^{Help resolve disputes!} 12:47, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

• I've known this day was coming for some time now, and I certainly understand why. Thanks for the tremendous amount of support and assistance you've given me over the last year. Don't be a stranger off-wiki. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 15:27, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
• Seriously? Yet another loss to the project.—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 15:30, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
  • Sorry to see you go :< ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 09:17, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
• I've known you for a long time and you have been an all round great editor. Thanks for all your hard work and hope to see you someday back on Wikipedia. Goodbye. ~TheGeneralUser (talk) 17:46, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
• Thank you for what you have done. You've been a tremendous asset to the community and will be missed. NativeForeigner ^Talk 02:38, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
• I haven't known you for very long, but you seemed like me to be a good administrator and checkuser, as well as an all-around nice guy, and I'm sorry to see you go. I understand, however, that there may be real-life reasons for your retirement that I don't know of. — SamX‧☎‧✎‧S 14:04, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
• Thank you for all the tremendous work you did here. You became one of the most exemplary Wikipedians and this is a very big loss to the project. I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavours. Cheers! — ΛΧΣ²¹ 01:35, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Files missing description details

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Unblocked Queens Library IP

I've unblocked, at least for now, 207.159.196.253 (talk · contribs), which is used by staff and patrons at the Queens Library. They're having a wiki-workshop training session tomorrow (requiring several new accounts to be registered), and besides that there have not been any bad edits from that IP recently.--Pharos (talk) 01:08, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi Pharos. As WilliamH has retired, I'll take the liberty of responding. Since the abusive user has returned to that location a number of times to register and use sockpuppets, please let me know when the workshop has wrapped up so that the IP can be reblocked. I don't like blocking public library IPs like this, but sometimes we don't have a lot of choices. Thanks ​—DoRD (talk)​ 03:54, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

24.19.234.62

Can some talk page watcher identify the sockmaster for 24.19.234.62? The same user has returned to trolling & harassment as 50.174.76.70 and was blocked again. Looks like a WP:LTA case already. Someone not using his real name (talk) 03:33, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

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Happy 2014 from Cyberpower678

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• Please note that any potential restoration of permissions is also subject to Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Inactive bureaucrat accounts: a former bureaucrat who has been completely inactive for three years would need to seek reinstatement at WP:RFB notwithstanding the above. –xeno^talk 12:25, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

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