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Your informative post on Jimbo's page prompts a query: As I understand it, there are no mandates that require that audit committees of public companies ensure audits of internal control exist that cover not just financials, but that the corp effectively controls itself so that it fulfills its duties to all stakeholders. In other words, SEC/SarbOx/other mandates require audits of internal control exist that cover financials and stockholder interests, but NOT customer interests, such as customer information confidentiality, such as reasonable security to protect customer social security numbers. But your post on Jimbo's page make me think you are knowledgeable and think differently and I'm misinformed. If something DOES mandate this, I'd love to be informed of it.-- Elvey( t• c) 20:04, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
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06:49, 31 March 2016 (UTC)You are invited! - Friday, March 10 -
SF CCA ArtAndFeminism 2017 |
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Please join us at the
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There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.
The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (
talk) 20:37, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Hey Ben, thanks to you and Wayne for organizing, as always. Just noticed that the last Wednesday will coincide with Memorial Day, and wondered if that means it gets moved up a week to the 24th, or what. Mathglot ( talk) 08:15, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi Ben,
Do you know where one would post a request for a new admin tool? I'd like to provide admins with a tool to edit Revision history without having to revdel or oversight it.
The real world case that sparked this query involves a user who was called out on a Template talk page, in a section whose long title contained the User's name in a somewhat uncivil context (invented example: ==User:SomeNameHere keeps doing nasty stuff and should stop it==
), which caused subsequent edits to that section to preserve the
aspersions in the Rev History over and over again, with the Username repeated each time as part of the section title leading off the
edit summary. This contravenes
WP:TALKNEW, which calls it "especially egregious" to attack a user by naming them in a section title, for this very reason.
Now that the damage is done, there appears no way to remedy this with current admin tools, because it's not nearly severe enough (not libel, not outing, etc.) for revdel, and there isn't a lighter-weight tool with a lower bar to access, that would allow an admin to excise this user's name from the offending Edit summaries. I've already had a conversation with en-wiki admin(s) about this and learned that this doesn't even come close to being a candidate for revdel, and there seems to be no other option to mitigate the injury, currently. That's why I want to propose a new revedit tool, to deal with stuff like this.
Full details here. Do you know where I could go to make a case for a new admin tool? Mathglot ( talk) 01:35, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Now that I think about it, probably 90% of the cases could be avoided before they occurred, by adding a regex to the Preview and Save button operations, to block or at least red-alert-box anything that looked like Usernames from being saved as part of an Edit summary, especially in the lead-off part between the slash-star delimiters. Something like the warning you get when you forget the edit summary entirely. Mathglot ( talk) 01:40, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
My interest in this is about an edit that a blocked user made in an article a few years ago, unrelated to the blocking. The edit was unclear and was removed, but it's possible a cleaned up edit could contribute to the article. My reason for posting here is that you posted instructions about second chance unblock request for that user, but is this possible if talk edit privilege is also blocked? If it is possible, then please delete this section, as no action would be required on your part to make the unblock possible. Rcgldr ( talk) 02:50, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
Hey Ben! Hope you're doing well! I was just wondering if there's any status on when the next WikiSalon will be? If you need any help organizing, or if I can be of any assistance with any other snags, let me know! Best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 00:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia, Ben Creasy! Thank you for
your contributions. I am
Checkingfax and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on
my talk page. You can also check out
Wikipedia:Questions or type {{
help me}}
at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
Also, when you post on
talk pages you should
sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! {{u|
Checkingfax}} {
Talk}
10:10, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
Your informative post on Jimbo's page prompts a query: As I understand it, there are no mandates that require that audit committees of public companies ensure audits of internal control exist that cover not just financials, but that the corp effectively controls itself so that it fulfills its duties to all stakeholders. In other words, SEC/SarbOx/other mandates require audits of internal control exist that cover financials and stockholder interests, but NOT customer interests, such as customer information confidentiality, such as reasonable security to protect customer social security numbers. But your post on Jimbo's page make me think you are knowledgeable and think differently and I'm misinformed. If something DOES mandate this, I'd love to be informed of it.-- Elvey( t• c) 20:04, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
{{u|
Checkingfax}} {
Talk}
06:49, 31 March 2016 (UTC)You are invited! - Friday, March 10 -
SF CCA ArtAndFeminism 2017 |
![]() |
Please join us at the
California College of the Arts' Simpson Library on Friday March 10, 2017, for an event aimed at collaboratively expanding Wikipedia articles covering Art and Feminism, and the biographies of women artists! |
---|
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.
The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (
talk) 20:37, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Hey Ben, thanks to you and Wayne for organizing, as always. Just noticed that the last Wednesday will coincide with Memorial Day, and wondered if that means it gets moved up a week to the 24th, or what. Mathglot ( talk) 08:15, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi Ben,
Do you know where one would post a request for a new admin tool? I'd like to provide admins with a tool to edit Revision history without having to revdel or oversight it.
The real world case that sparked this query involves a user who was called out on a Template talk page, in a section whose long title contained the User's name in a somewhat uncivil context (invented example: ==User:SomeNameHere keeps doing nasty stuff and should stop it==
), which caused subsequent edits to that section to preserve the
aspersions in the Rev History over and over again, with the Username repeated each time as part of the section title leading off the
edit summary. This contravenes
WP:TALKNEW, which calls it "especially egregious" to attack a user by naming them in a section title, for this very reason.
Now that the damage is done, there appears no way to remedy this with current admin tools, because it's not nearly severe enough (not libel, not outing, etc.) for revdel, and there isn't a lighter-weight tool with a lower bar to access, that would allow an admin to excise this user's name from the offending Edit summaries. I've already had a conversation with en-wiki admin(s) about this and learned that this doesn't even come close to being a candidate for revdel, and there seems to be no other option to mitigate the injury, currently. That's why I want to propose a new revedit tool, to deal with stuff like this.
Full details here. Do you know where I could go to make a case for a new admin tool? Mathglot ( talk) 01:35, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Now that I think about it, probably 90% of the cases could be avoided before they occurred, by adding a regex to the Preview and Save button operations, to block or at least red-alert-box anything that looked like Usernames from being saved as part of an Edit summary, especially in the lead-off part between the slash-star delimiters. Something like the warning you get when you forget the edit summary entirely. Mathglot ( talk) 01:40, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
My interest in this is about an edit that a blocked user made in an article a few years ago, unrelated to the blocking. The edit was unclear and was removed, but it's possible a cleaned up edit could contribute to the article. My reason for posting here is that you posted instructions about second chance unblock request for that user, but is this possible if talk edit privilege is also blocked? If it is possible, then please delete this section, as no action would be required on your part to make the unblock possible. Rcgldr ( talk) 02:50, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
Hey Ben! Hope you're doing well! I was just wondering if there's any status on when the next WikiSalon will be? If you need any help organizing, or if I can be of any assistance with any other snags, let me know! Best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 00:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)