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Hi all - welcome to my talk. I just performed a large manual archive, partly because I had a good number of undated sections. If you feel I manually archived any sections that hadn't been resolved yet, please feel free to unarchive them, or to start a new section on the same issue. Best, Kevin Gorman ( talk) 22:27, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
I know this is very late but I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your participation at my RfA. I was very inspired by the many that supported me and it’s that feeling of friendship and camaraderie that keeps me coming back to the project. So, thank you for your support and for your continued sense of fairness and compassion in all areas of WP. I look forward to the opportunity to work together in the days to come. Best wishes, -- — Keithbob • Talk • 19:20, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you that the German Wikipedia received an article because of you! It's on their Main page today and tomorrow. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:59, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin, I'm editing the diabetes page and it appears to be a locked/protected page, so I don't think I can currently edit the lead. If this is true, is there a way to override this? Thanks so much for any help. UCSFrb1983 ( talk) 18:19, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi there. Thanks for signing up for the WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon at Berkeley that is happening today. I look forward to seeing you! We have changed the on-campus venue due to the response we've had, via Wikipedia and Facebook. Please take a look at the event page. If you get this message too late, we'll have a sign on the door of the former location directing you to the new one, which is only a short walk. See you then! SarahStierch ( talk) 15:38, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Kevin! I'm working hard on getting my credibility up by editing. There is a lot of mess to clean up! It is time-consuming, but I figure if I chip away at it, it will help. Thanks for all you are doing. Shaslang ( talk) 00:32, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks For Deleting The CopyRight Material.
I was in a bit of doubt myself that the file might not be free, as from the source I got it, also I was a bit hesitant. However, I thought it would be good to get the file. Later on I checked, and found that it was up for purchases, and not a free sourced material. Apologies for the incorrect upload. Danke Vishal 'Harry Browne' Bakhai Vishal Bakhai 07:23, 16 April 2014 (UTC) |
Hi Kevin Gorman, since your active in the education program, I thought I'd ask you for some feedback. I was thinking of applying for the role of an Online Ambassador. I'd like to know your feedback in this regard, and also your suggestions, if any. Thanks for taking out your time. :) -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 19:20, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
Since the last update, development of the editor campaigns project has been continuing, and it's almost at the point that it will be useful to users running edit-a-thons and other non-course outreach events. (If you are planning such an event soon and would like to beta test it for tracking the contributions of newcomers, get it touch.) In the meantime, we've made a few small improvements and bug fixes to the Education Program extension:
The default end date for courses is now approximately six months in the future, instead of immediately. This will prevent the common problem where a user creates a new course page but does change the default dates, resulting in a course that is immediately considered "ended" and thus cannot be enrolled in.
Whenever a user gets added to a course by someone else, they will now receive a Notification.
The student profile special page (Special:Student/Username, not to be confused with Special:Students) is a page that lists the courses a student editor is enrolled in, and is also supposed to list the articles that user is working on. However, the list of articles can include incorrect data in cases where an instructor or volunteer assigned the articles to the student editor. These profiles are being removed from the extension altogether. This change should go into effect Thursday, May 1. (Logs are still available to find out which courses a user is enrolled in.)
A nearly complete patch from Facebook Open Academy student Jeff Lloyd will add a new type of Notification: students will be alerted to edits made by others to the article(s) they are assigned (as well as the corresponding talk pages). Expect to see this feature within the next several weeks.
Bugs in the course page creation process (now fixed) led in some cases to duplicate listings for the same course at Special:Courses. This happens when the same course page had two (or more) different course ID numbers. It is possible to clean up such duplicate entries using by making calls to the API. I've documented this process and written a Python script for it.
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For your edits on Gender related articles, most recently Men's rights movement Drowninginlimbo ( talk) 13:16, 26 April 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks for speedy deleting and salting PWCT (programming language). Talk:PWCT (programming language) also needs to go. Msnicki ( talk) 21:17, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
I realise now that I rather brusquely reverted a large chunk of text added to Water resource management without knowing (or checking) that it was a student contributor. Apologies for that. I wouldn't want to deter students from getting involved and I should, perhaps, have been a little more helpful (if a little less prescient!) in my edit summary. Regards Velella Velella Talk 19:24, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin, I've just stumbled on User:Kevin Gorman/philosophers. (Don't ask me how, I just followed various links that I can't remember now :-). It looks like a great project and I'd like to help - I did an MA in Philosophy and have read a good bit, but it always seems to be the men who get the top billing. Anyway, I'm keen to help redress the balance - hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have time to start making some articles. -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 17:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi @ Boing! said Zebedee: - as a heads up, starting about a week from now I'll be able to send you as much academic source material as you desire about whoever you desire. Unfortunately philosophy is a bit weak in general about bios of people who aren't dead already, so a lot of source material talks about a person's work rather than the person themselves, but it's often the case that using a publicly posted cv/other biographical tidbits as they arise + papers talking about a philosopher's work can be enough to write a pretty good article about them. Best, Kevin Gorman ( talk) 23:50, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
You currently have your archive bot set up to archive to User talk:Kevin Gorman/Archive2. Your archive box at the top of the page is auto set up to only work with archives in the format of User talk:Kevin Gorman/Archive #. So I would suggest that you change the bot config to User talk:Kevin Gorman/Archive 2, but first move the existing Archive2 to Archive 2. Just wanted to give you a heads up, as a lot of people can't see Archive2 unless you rename it to Archive 2. 123chess456 ( talk) 23:42, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
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Based on your ANI comment, "because I prefer to use the least punitive measures possible that successfully protects the encyclopedia", I thought you might be interested in this. I wrote an essay WP:ANI Advice which I've mentioned on ANI a few times. But recently I added a new section about what "desirable outcomes" are. I think you might like it.--v/r - T P 22:05, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Kevin, you mentioned that you'd be looking for sources to better support the ALT1 hook, which you preferred. The problem here is that there is nothing that directly supports ALT1, and I don't see that hook passing unless something is presented that supports that the haiku's author had those intentions in writing it. Are you still planning to come up with these sources and add them to the article? If not, then I think we'd better proceed without, which means something like an ALT2 hook or a different one entirely. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 18:56, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
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Is full protection needed? The edit warring is mainly done by anons, and SPAs. Could you consider semi-protection instead? Thanks. Cwobeel ( talk) 21:11, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
You probably ought to unblock Torgownik. I don't think he understood why his canvassing would be a problem, he is basically a newbie and we should also remember that he's past the first flush of youth. We need to apply a light touch in damping the issue down, and use initially short blocks but potentially escalating. In particular I think we should not block for anything where he has not been unambiguously warned, ideally with a full account of why something is wrong, rather than a short template. It' s very important not only to be fair, but also to be seen to be fair. He is part of a community some of whose members are given to paranoid conspiracist ravings, and we don't want to fuel their paranoia any more than we must. Guy ( Help!) 11:32, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey Kevin, I just saw your message at ENI. I'm so sorry to hear that you are under the weather, and I wish you a rapid and happy recovery. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 17:56, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
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Don't go to ANI with this. It's a bit annoying, but will only bring more drama and likely result in.. nothing. I've seen much worse, that was completely ignored (or, rather, that had no beneficial result). Argue content, argue policy, but it's probably not worth arguing behavior there anymore (mea culpa, yadayada, but I'm trying to move on).-- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 22:11, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Ten hail Marys or whatever you do to recompense your sins. Sumanah's talk is perfect fodder for Wikisource as it fits within the scope, and it can have both the audio and video linked easily. Never forget your sister site(s). Oh, now, forgiven on this occasion, just be rebuked, no need for further flagellation. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:43, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Please see Talk:St._Mary's_College_of_Maryland#Pix_size after viewing the article first. I was trying to find them a good example of using photo in an HE article. couldn't do it Smallbones( smalltalk) 17:43, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
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And your picture in the paper and everything. My, my.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:57, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Heh, thanks for the note. I wonder how long stuff related to my Berkeley edu work will keep popping up - the groundwork for the LA Times article was done in early April. I'm starting to get excited for the next semester.. it's going to involve more classes, but significantly smaller ones, mostly graduate STEM classes focusing on improving or creating socially significant content that intersects with the areas they are focusing their doctoral work on. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 20:53, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi there I have applied for the Online Ambassador position and user right. After I get 2 endorsements from the education community what is the next step? About how long does it take to receive endorsements? I appreciate your help. Akifumii Talk 17:28, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin. I came across your user page, which says that you are interested in helping disclosed paid editors. I have a long track-record for creating GA company/BLP pages on behalf of the article-subject and thought I might take you up on your offer at some point if you're interested. However, I also thought you might have some interest in this project or in helping with Request Edits as it's currently backlogged by six months. CorporateM ( Talk) 12:41, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting me at Waggener. Sometimes I am like a mother-hen protecting my GA articles from.... everybody with a twitchy finger on the revert button. I have to apologize that this is the first time I am noticing your lengthy note above. I think neither of us is necessarily incorrect, but rather it is the balance of different viewpoints, created from different experiences, that create a positive middle-ground. I am exposed to a lot of covert paid editing practices that gives me a jaded point-of-view. + I spend quite a bit of time cleaning up promotion, which makes me frustrated with those it originates from. To be honest however, editors insisting on adding unfair negative material tend to be more persistent than paid editors. CorporateM ( Talk) 03:49, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
You should not empty categories that are under discussion, but should feel free to add additional elements to the category. The scope of the VAM category, like the VAW category, is for adults and children. see [1] for a state department brief on trafficking of men; in some countries, such as Sri Lanka, boys are actually more likely to be trafficked into prostitution that girls. In this domain it is best to not make assumptions, the world is a complex place... I think once this discussion is over, we should have a broader discussion about the use of both the VAM and VAW categories, and come up with inclusion criteria for both that are fair and balanced. The current status quo is, if a woman is killed, it can be placed in "violence against women", but if a man is killed, people get twisted in knots screaming "it's not gender-based violence" blah blah blah. My point is, we need to be consistent. -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 06:08, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
and seriously drop the misogynist language. Did I call you a misandrist because you removed rape from Violence against men? No. I don't think that is a misandrist edit. I just think you don't understand how the category structure is set up.-- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 01:28, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin,
Could you take a look here?
Thanks — kwami ( talk) 01:40, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
You are at war on Androcide - warning
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Androcide&action=history
An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page—whether involving the same or different material—within a 24-hour period. An edit or a series of consecutive edits that undoes other editors' actions—whether in whole or in part—counts as a revert. Violations of the rule normally attract blocks of at least 24 hours. Any appearance of gaming the system by reverting a fourth time just outside the 24-hour slot is likely to be treated as an edit-warring violation. Mosfetfaser ( talk) 06:02, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
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Although it seems clear to me that others, including many administrators, do not appreciate your toil in cleaning up some of the mess related to MRM advocacy, I have to say that there are those of us who do notice and appreciate it. jps ( talk) 12:45, 11 July 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks for your efforts to prevent inappropriate promotion of men's rights agenda on Wikipedia. I've personally seen this occur on multiple articles and witnessed the resulting disruption. I agree this drives away editors and reduces article quality. Your efforts to bring attention to this problem are appreciated. Thanks:) -- BoboMeowCat ( talk) 19:35, 11 July 2014 (UTC)|} |
Hey Kevin, don't want to step on your toes, but I've extended the block on this WP:SPA user to indef. We have to put the kibosh on these continued BLP vios and edit warring on that particular article/subject. Dreadstar ☥ 21:21, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Kevin,
I'm a very, very new to wikipedia user (I'm still not quite sure how to use it and am frankly not terribly interested in learning -- super luddite here).
I just want to thank you for your commitment to improving the representation of women philosophers on wikipedia. I was appalled to learn that Susanna Siegel didn't have an entry (i'm a phd student in philosophy myself, and my work concerns Siegel's work).
If you are looking for other prominent women philosophers to make entries for, I could certainly give you some suggestions, though I'm guessing you already have plenty in that way.
thanks again, Plnjne
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Hey all - after a prolonged absence (in large part due to a five week long stay at the Mayo Clinic, heh, I should be back and editing again within the next several days. Best, Kevin Gorman ( talk) 12:43, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
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The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meetup and create/translate/expand/improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. RSVP →here←. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 02:58, 27 September 2014 (UTC) |
Hello, Kevin! I see that you are active with the campus ambassadors program. I'm wondering if you can help a user named User:Karin Steen, a teacher in Sweden, who has been trying to set up something to use Wikipedia in her classes. I encountered her when she launched this into mainspace as an article. It was obviously not an article and got moved to a draft. But apparently what she had in mind was some kind of overall structure to which her students could link while working in their sandboxes. She then asked me on my talk page for help, but I haven't a clue. Do you want to work with her? If you don't have time or inclination, just let me know and I will ask someone else. Thanks! -- MelanieN ( talk) 14:56, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi, what's the reason for the COI tag on Kayak.com? Thanks. Evan
Since you're the one who placed the discretionary sanction notification on this user's page and imposed some kind of a 1RR restriction on articles relating to Silesian language/dialect [4]. Volunteer Marek 21:17, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin, please cleanup this article. You seem to be a frequent editor of this page. The link to the company website should be listed at that, not the SEO text that is in it now. SEO anchor text I am talking about: "Ayahuasca shamanism and spiritual healing center in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon" Please also add some other citations that demonstrate notability. Otherwise I think this entry is headed back to AfD.
Thanks Jtbobwaysf ( talk) 19:17, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
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The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
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The name was an honest mistake, sorry. Can I email you about a related thing? No point if you are only going to be on en-WP intermittently but if you're likely to be showing up here a few times a week then it might be of use. - Sitush ( talk) 07:29, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Kevin! Just wanted to follow up on Chris Troutman's virtual intro. Would love to talk with you about your experience at Cal as Wikipedian in residence. Nafpaktitism ( talk) 17:43, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
I have read Wikipedia for years. I know that if it looks like you are sticking up for a bad user, you can be accused of being a sock. You blocked Eating Glass. It looks like he is American. I am from and edit in another country.
I looked at that user. He was blocked and his block ended. Since then he said sorry and edited reasonably. Therefore, your block will probably cause harm to Wikipedia because it is mean and punitive. There is no evidence of harm done since his block epired two days ago. I urge you to unblock because it is tge right thing.
Think of if you were fined paid the bill then jailed fr the same charge. WackyPancakesDie ( talk) 02:18, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
I've sent you a mail. Do check when you have some time to spare. Thanks! -
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Smart, perky and on top of the issues, just like you! Yay!!
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Removing rollback rights of a 10 year editor because someone is using a primary source and won't let a clearly biased editor censor that sources information? Maybe you should ban that guy for redacting information in a primary source without discussion huh? Terrible admin. Xander756 ( talk) 08:56, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
I am currently talking to a news site that is working on a piece about your behavior tonight which may be sent to Jimmy Wales. Looking through your bio and edits, it seems that you are a feminist. Is this the case? Please let me know so it can be accurate. Xander756 ( talk) 09:14, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to take you up on your wager, $20 wasn't it? I don't know if it's allowed to post links to your mailing list, so I won't, but I'm certain you know what I'm referring to regardless. Eric Corbett 19:55, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
While I agree that Xander's actions were in violation of policy, there are issues with your actions regarding him. Being a feminist does not make someone involved, but you have been highly active and very much involved regarding articles covering feminism and men's rights. Sarkeesian is a feminist critic and her vlog is called "Feminist Frequency" so you are involved regarding her bio. You also did make a few opinionated comments regarding the Christina Sommers BLP as well on Jimbo's talk and Sommers is a prominent GamerGate figure. There is also a procedural issue regarding your use of the general sanctions as Xander had only just been notified of the sanctions. He stopped making objectionable BLP claims soon after that. A block and removal of rollback rights was probably appropriate, though I do not believe you are the one who should have made that call. The topic ban, however, appears to be inappropriate on procedural grounds.-- The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 20:17, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
TDA redacted your statements this time around.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜) 05:09, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
In case you don't know, Sitush was nearly blocked for outing Carolmooredc despite Carol editing under her real name. The only saving grace was that it was demonstratable that Carol actually posted the link to her website on an article about herself that was never redacted. Editing under a professional name or even linking to some real life identity material is not good enough. Specifically, "The fact that a person either has posted personal information or edits under their own name, making them easily identifiable through online searches, is not an excuse for 'opposition research'" is the applicable line. If they posted their twitter handle, then it's fair game. But if they have not, then that information is still protected and being able to get there through a few clicks isn't an excuse.--v/r - T P 02:17, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Kevin, can I email you or is there a way to communicate with you in private? I'll explain myself there. I wish you well. ~A friendly fellow Bear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.152.126.178 ( talk) 19:32, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin. I'm continuing here with the points raised at the talk page of the arbitration noticeboard (e.g. here). I'll number them to make this easier.
One other quick point: you mention yourself and Leigh. Are Sue Gardner and lkent (mentioned here) active moderators as well? I'll watch here for a reply, so no need to ping me. Carcharoth ( talk) 12:12, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
And I can't help but notice how absurd it was that you're claiming to be willing to reduce the gender gap on your user page while supporting this weird gang-rape-type thingy (which you called good faith criticism) on the education incidents board. The absurd statement that I was not allowed to review articles for GA was certainly to a large extent also based on gender.-- Melody Lavender 13:05, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
"gang-rape-type thingy"so freely. It's an earmark of rape culture to equate a disparagement of your work product with such a horrific crime. There's a terrible insensitivity indicated by using terms like rape and genocide when talking about altogether different matters. I can understand you're hurt by the condemnation but criticism is allowed here.
For Melody to be completely unable to address the substance of the problem with her review, and resort to personal attacks and GenderGapism as a stretch of an excuse to wave off a legitimate warning for an attack which would have gotten someone without a PrettyPinkUsername blocked, demeans the work of all women in here.
Further, the notion that women are underrepresented in Wikipedia is an overplayed argument IMO; for years, women ran WP:FAC (and quite well).
Next, it is not lost on me that a lot of the GenderGapism promotion occurred by some of the same editors and WMF folk who promoted the Education Program. They would have done well to have listened to Jbmurray rather than Awadewit. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 12:33, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
I presented evidence against you at the ArbCom case, in case you wish to respond.-- The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 23:29, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Email sent. Act on it. Pedro : Chat 22:39, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
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You seem to be someone knowledgeable on Wikipedia, perhaps I could ask your advice. Today, it appears to me that User:Ashurbanippal has made seven reverts to the Israel article, an article with a one revert rule. None of the reverts had consensus on the talk page, and all the reverts dealt with contentious issues under discussion on the talk page. Two of his reverts are to remove POV tags, which I think four different editors have tried to add, and which have always been reverted solely by User:Ashurbanippal. It seems to me his edits always push an anti-Arab POV, and move the article to a less NPOV. Do you have any advice for dealing with this? Thanks, Gouncbeatduke ( talk) 15:22, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Kevin,
I saw your post on the unnameable social media site. We've had our disagreements in the past, but they truly are trivial fodder when compared to real health issues.
I just stopped by to wish you a speedy and full recovery.
Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vigilant ( talk • contribs)
Putting this back in (no offense, Mr. Troutman), because I know the well wishes will be appreciated in exactly the manner in which they were intended.
I hope your recovery is a speedy one, Kevin. -- SB_Johnny | talk✌ 00:31, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Best wishes for a speedy recovery from me as well. 28bytes ( talk) 02:17, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
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In a strange and ironic twist of fate, I am currently inpatient getting treated for sepsis right now. Some ugly strain of S. Aurelias that requires 8 bags of vanco to treat. PIV in my right hand makes typing tedious. White count hit 20 before things got under control and they were underdosing me and not pulling vanc troughs often enough.
Unpleasant, but I think I'll get out WITHOUT a PICC line or sub-clavian and home IV treatment. I suspect your 'adventure' with our little germic friends eclipses my own and has been vastly more unpleasant.
Best wishes on a speedy and full recovery, Vigilant — Preceding unsigned comment added by SepsisBuddies ( talk • contribs) 17:43, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kevin Gorman
I have just added a Wikipedia page. It "strongly suggested" I add a photograph. Can you tell me how I do that?
I also was wondering when the template with all those "issues" will be removed?
Thanks,
David — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwetzel30 ( talk • contribs) 04:14, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Also once an article is on Wikipedia, can the subject ask that it be deleted?
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Hello there, I was wondering if you might re-consider your decision to reduce the expiry date on full-protection of the Electronic Cigarette article from 18 June to 30 March? I don't know if you've noticed but I and another editor voiced opposition to this after your decision. Also, QuackGuru the editor that requested (not for the first time recently) that page protection be removed is once again clearly preparing to dump large-scale changes into the article from their sandbox. Over the past week they have transferred the entire article to their sandbox and have made well over 100 edits to it since, even preparing talk page sections with titles such as Page protection over - NPOVing resumes, whatever that may really mean. I understand that page protection is not designed for disruption caused by single editors but there are other long-standing problems between editors at the article. Consequently proposed discretionary sanctions are currently being discussed at ANI and with the possibility of ArbCom cases looming if these fail to pass, I do feel that it would be best to keep the article fully protected for the time being. Levelledout ( talk) 13:36, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
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SPAC: Adjwilley's advice is pretty spot on. It doesn't cause a huge amount of harm or anything, but there are some people who take offense from it. Generally it's a good idea to only notify relatively new editors, disruptive editors, or editors likely to become disruptive. Editors who are heavily involved (like, say, people who wrote the sanctions or regularly take action under them themselves) generally don't really need to be notified (and will be sanctioned if they need to be, even without an explicit notification.) Kevin Gorman ( talk) 21:19, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey Kevin I did see your comment there about a weird comment ("luck will break") that you removed, and it does appear it was left under your account
here, I was going through diffs to make sure some random IP or whatever didn't leave a comment and sign your name to it.
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Thanks for making that block. Her behavior was disruptive in a particularly ugly way, and without careful attention could have easily been allowed to continue. So thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 14:34, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hey Kevin; I wanted to let you know that JTV reached out to me off-wiki, via email, to try and get me to intercede in the ANI thread. Obviously not posting it on-wiki, but given that some of the diffs presented suggested that JTV has a pattern of off-wiki contact and attempted shepherding, thought I'd let you know. Happy to forward the email to you or any other administrator, as the relevant page suggests, if you need to evaluate it. Thanks, Ironholds ( talk) 13:16, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
Kevin: I'm not doubting your awareness, but just in case you might have forgotten: JTV didn't claim he had contacted only 1 other editor, he claimed to have 10 editors he had contacted that agreed to help him at AN/I and come out against me in the face of any complaint I would file against him. Considering not all editors he contacted would have/could have replied or did agree to help him, claiming to have 10 in the bag means he probably contacted more than 10. Even if his claim of 10 was a lie, that he would say such a thing shows he was knowingly telling the lie to scare me into not reporting him. That kind of threatening coercion is certainly against some form of policy. And if that scenario is true, it also causes me to wonder what he was so afraid of should a report occur (if he was as innocent as he has claimed). Again, not doubting your ability to make good decisions or see clearly what's happening, just bringing up points to consider. Thanks,-- WV ● ✉ ✓ 17:35, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
"I appeared hear to ask Bbb23 to intervene because of his familiarity with your AN 3RR issue, and I value Bbb23's fairness and approach (although we've never interacted, I've observed Bbb23's input on other matters). If you want to bring a report, go right ahead, I've already talked to 10 other users who are ready to discuss your disruptive and unproductive behavior, most you've crossed during the last few days. There are a lot of people who like me. Again, I advise you to heed WP:BOOMERANG."Also here [9]
"If you want to file a report go ahead, just be prepared for WP:BOOMERANG since (a) you're a difficult editor to deal with (b) you don't have clean hands and (c) you're not liked by several of the editors on the pages I've run into you on who also have had difficulty with you."The bolding was added by me. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 19:03, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
"Having edited other pages or areas with many editors, I engage with a lot of editors offsite". Then, as an afterthought, he later added:
"It was probably bluster, hoping he'd quit wasting his time and mine. I was sick of his crusade and my state of mind in extreme frustration with him was "let's nip this in the bud". Bad idea. HOWEVER:". I call BS. He doesn't know if it's "bluster" or not but probably was? Talk about weasel wording. Considering the afterthoughr he added (shown above, and reads totally like a CYA), I think he really did contact editors he believes would come out against me and support a boomerang (as he promised would happen). Note that no one posted anything at the AN/I supporting him and denouncing me. My belief is it happened that way because JTV outed his canvassing and the editors he contacted weren't stupid enough to post at the AN/I lest they also be outed as off-Wiki collaborators in such a scheme. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 19:31, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
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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 thread is Unblock of JackTheVicar. Thank you. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 07:49, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
It is my sincere desire to adhere to the conditions put upon me in response to the two ANIs that you presided over in response to accusations of me harassing another editor. I only need a bit more information so that I can do my best to comply. I don't want to create an uncomfortable or potential situation that would place the other editor in a place where they feel trapped, co-erced, incited or any other negative place. If you would be so kind to let me know if the other editors involved have restrictions placed on them and what they are. I am not going to their user pages or their talk pages to look for that information. But if you have laid out conditions for them I would like to know so that I can contact you if these conditions are not being met. Best Regards,
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I wrote an essay about my feeling about socialization between Wikipedians, although admittedly it's only really a draft currently. You can find it here. Comments welcome. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 17:28, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
I have unintentionally messed up on one of my guidelines and made an edit to the Sexual intercourse article. I forgot to review the article editing history before I made the edit. The edit consisted of updating a reference that was outdated issued by the World Health Organization. I assure you, it was an error and I will be more diligent in the future.
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Re your edit summary at Special:Diff/669103567, my apologies. I just copy-pasted the comment to your section. For the future, any particular preference? L235 ( t / c / ping in reply) 22:17, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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@ Kevin Gorman: I received word via the clerks list that you are not to worry about the extra 50 words. Don't worry about it. Liz Read! Talk! 22:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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Please full protect Târgu Mureș and University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș for edit warring. An editor is trying to unilaterally add biased information without any prior discussion on the talk page. 213.229.69.46 ( talk) 16:32, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Kevin. Are you sure protecting your userspace essay is a good idea? I done written me some userspace essays too, and other odds and ends, and it never occurred to me to protect any of them. Clearly you don't want to have to edit war against some idiot who insists on changing it — I don't either, and I might protect if that happened, but it hasn't yet. What's happened is that a few people have made rather nice suggestions, which I've sometimes let stand, sometimes not, compare the history here. Including playing good-natured games with me, as here. I find keeping them in userspace acts as protection in itself. I've sometimes regretted moving mine into Wikipedia space (once, frustrated, I AfD'd one that people thought was a good idea to change to mean the opposite, and it was indeed deleted), and nowadays I rarely do. Really, I'd advise you to think hard before you do that.
(If a non-admin user asked for preemptive full protection of their userspace essay before anything had happened to it, would you oblige?) Bishonen | talk 09:30, 30 June 2015 (UTC).
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I don't appreciate your hair-trigger assumptions of bad faith. You may think you're doing Wikipedia a service by slapping warnings on the pages of anyone who comments on the opposite side of a debate to your own, but I think you're doing quite the opposite. If I'm wrong, and you warn people on both sides of gender-related issues approximately equally, then I've misjudged you and I apologize. If I'm right in suspecting that you primarily warn people on a single side, I suggest you take a deep introspection and see whether some of the bias you're seeing is your own. JudahH ( talk) 04:29, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
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I have moved your proposed FoF to a (new) section under Proposals by Kevin Gorman as a formality issue (you placed your proposal under Monty845's section). - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 05:52, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
You're also missing your signatures in various locations on the proposals you made. - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 07:17, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
My watchlist is long, therefore I saw your nice note of appreciation (Talk AC) only now, thank you ;) - The discussion is closed where you answered the question about the stroll, but not yet "the best way to avoid drama would be to not even let reports get to AE". I worded a few thoughts regarding that in the workshop, what do you think? - The recommended book will be TFA on 19 July. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:28, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
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As a follow-up from this giant hullabaloo a couple of months ago that started here, Jack the Vicar is back to beating a dead horse and showing he won't accept his three-week block was a result of his own actions and no one else's. If you recall, JtV was initially blocked not only for incivility but for canvassing off Wikipedia, collecting a group of editors he said were on his side, and using that as a threat to keep me from filing an AN/I on him (the AN/I can be seen here.
Fast forward to present day. Please see
here for how today's incident started and has progressed. After promising to no longer interact with me (see here
[11], he not only continued to comment negatively about me, but he has continued to interact in a back-door manner with/against me at Liz's talk page. He even recognized (today) that his comments on her talk page equate interaction. For example, he wrote the following: "I'll no longer be commenting or replying here lest it be seen as interaction (as I haven't since that ANI)."
. He then almost immediately continued to back-door interact with this morphing: "I'll no longer be commenting or replying here lest it be seen as interaction (as I haven't been near him since that ANI)."
. And then added even more a while later: "I'll no longer be commenting or replying here lest it be seen as interaction (as I haven't been near him since that ANI) or give into his baiting."
. He said he would no longer be commenting, yet he has continued doing do by amending his original comments and adding more
poke-like wording. Once again, it seems as if JtV just won't accept or take accountability for his behavior and continues to do exactly what he said he wouldn't. I think he's not only broken his promise, but he's once again being disruptive to make a point and to exact some form of revenge. I'm asking you review what's happening to see what you think. --
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You might want to check out the latest stunt pulled by JtV: outing the person who forwarded the email he received from JtV to you:
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Jack the Vicar is back at it again in his attempts to sully and poison the well with more personal attacks against me.
Kevin, at JtV's talk page on May 30, 2015, you stated: "Follow NPA/Harrassment/etc in the future, or you will be blocked for a longer period of time"
(
comment is found here). How long must one put up with his personal attacks and negative comments because he won't drop the stick? In my opinion, he won't stop unless something impresses him that he must. I left
this on his talk page in regard to
this and
this. Per your instructions on your user page, I am pinging
Keilana as you seem to have been gone for a few weeks. --
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I feel like I've gotten you into a horrible mess. My only reason for coming to you was because you were the blocking admin previously and because you knew the situation (and the depth of it) completely. If anything drastic in regard to your status here comes of this, I will not be able to apologize enough. I'm already sick about how it has blown up and seems to be progressing. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 17:56, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
His rate of bad biting". Don't know that I would describe as "bad", since it was in response to Holyfield repetitively head-butting him, and after failed pleas by Tyson to the referee to have it stopped. IHTS ( talk) 13:56, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Competence is about judgement over multiple situations, not just blocking. Blocking can't be judged in percentages, as I explained earlier, as you aren't counting any block that made an editor just leave an not come back, which may not have happened for all I know, but it wouldn't be counted in this artificial and useless percentage stat. Using unblock as a measure of performance is fatally flawed and shouldn't be considered at all. How one handles a "bad block" once the community has decided it is a bad block, that speaks both to the character and competence of the admin. Again, Arbcom is littered with the spent admin bits of those that were too proud to admit they were wrong, and that has been the leading cause of desysopping for years: pride. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 00:51, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
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I called it a night expecting you to apologize to JackTheVicar but see it didn't happen.
You commented on my ideas to run a few steps of caution before reporting someone to AE. How about the same for blocks:
The image on my user page is a constant reminder of the message for which it was designed: "ps Every day, we lose what the wrongly blocked would have given that day. And a little bit of our souls." -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:47, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
I have created an article about you at Kevin Gorman (Wikipedian). Best, Everymorning (talk) 02:34, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
User Jack the Vicar is still doing the same crap - referencing me negatively and extremely, but this time as part of a list of what Administrator- hopefuls shouldn't be. He refuses to drop the stick. It's a personal attack and an extreme form of polemic. He really crossed the line this time, in my opinion. See
here (point #4). Last time around with JTV you stated on his talk page: "I've decided to just set a pattern. Don't talk about WV. Especially don't make comments about WV that violate NPA or civil. The first time you do, I'm going to block you for two weeks (which I'll be putting in to place momentarily.) Any future blocks by me for anything involving you and WV will be twice the length of the previous block." (
link here). It appears to me he is testing daring you, as well as the community, by blatantly ignoring your warning last time around. When is it going to stop? --
WV ●
✉
✓ 15:54, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Because I don't know when you will be around, I'm asking some other admins I trust to be notified of this, as well: Drmies, NeilN, Bbb23. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 16:52, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Having said that, JackTheVicar, that note in your RfA guidelines was not acceptable. We have an acronym somewhere that basically says "please don't write bad shit about other editors in your user space unless you are using it to prepare for an RfC/U", and that was clearly a violation thereof. Also, we don't have RfC/U anymore. I just worked with you, very pleasantly, on a GA (ha, I couldn't recall why your name was so familiar...the blessings of old age). You are clearly a valid content contributor. For his part, the same goes for Winkelvi. You may only see the stuff that gets him in hot water, but he frequently sticks his nose in what's already a hot mess, and frequently he's right. It is best for y'all to avoid each other, clearly. Actually, what's better is learning to work together (on article content) but that's probably too much to ask right now. So, Jack, I'll ask again--please take it easy. Winkelvi was justified in taking some offense to that comment, and I think you know that. My dear Winkelvi, try to keep some distance; I think you know that's best.
I know I'm giving no one exactly what they want; I suppose I'm an equal-opportunity enabler. But this has the potential of getting real unfriendly, and no one is going to like admins swinging their big sticks around during a shit storm. It splatters. All the best to both of you and, Kevin, to you too. Drmies ( talk) 18:05, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
I don't give a flying fuck about your contributions and editing. Really, I don't. I only care when you make comments like you did that are direct attacks against me and any other editor. Three matters at AN? I think not. But, tell me, with that comment, who's hounding whom? Actually, never mind. It doesn't matter to me. Just cut the shit, stay away from me, stop talking about me, and we will be fine. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 18:39, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello Kevin Gorman, I left a response to your suggestion at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Wikipedia_likes_Galactic_Exploration_for_Posterity_2015#LOL
My best regards, Geraldshields11 ( talk) 01:32, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center in LA on October 15! (drop-in any time, 10am-4pm)-- Pharos ( talk) 18:25, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Your statement seems to contradict itself:
I seriously doubt he consulted anyone prior to blocking Eric"
I'm sure Kirill also spoke to a large part of the uninvolved admin corps about whether or not they would be willing to possibly action Eric"
Maybe you can edit your statement to clarify. And, rather than guess whether Kirill consulted or spoke with anyone about this action prior to taking it, why don't you just ask him? I'm assuming that you've met him at conferences, so you know each other. Wbm1058 ( talk) 20:02, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
For the record, I had no communication with anyone regarding this block prior to having placed it." – Wbm1058 ( talk) 21:16, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
My conclusion is based primarily on the individual testimony of numerous administrators, who have personally told me on various occasions (the earliest being sometime in 2010, as I can recall) that they deliberately avoid intervening in incidents involving Eric for fear of harassment." OK, I get it now. Wbm1058 ( talk) 21:28, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Edit - oh, and as you pointed out, my statement was really just backing up Kirill's own statement based on my own experience with the situation. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 22:42, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
I've had a few of the Balvenies, but I really enjoyed the Balvenie 17 yr Madeira cask. I just bought the Ardbeg Uigeadail and, so far, am not disappointed. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 05:10, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
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For the Arbitration Committee, Amortias ( T)( C) 17:01, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
I'm pinging the only three candidates currently volunteering to be arbcom election commissioners to this page, on the grounds that in all likelihood they will become election commissioners, though I welcome comments from others. @ Mdann52, Mike V, and Guy Macon:
As I read the answers above, they say that the electoral committee should stay completely out of it, but others can do what they want. So I'll suggest that Kevin ask the WMF to set up a notification system. I suspect they may not be able to do this so quickly, but ... well there's no rule against it and it would promote the common good. Also, any editor could set up their own notification system, if users asked them to be reminded. Sure it would be difficult for one editor to remind more than a hundred or so potential voters, but 100 voters could decide the election. I emphasize that the potential voters would have to ask to be reminded, otherwise somebody is sure to cry "canvassing". Does that pass muster with everyone? Smallbones( smalltalk) 15:49, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
FWIW, I used to vote in Arb elections. But ever since it was changed to make it more difficult to cast your vote, I gave up. I'm not going to give out any information on myself, in order to cast a vote. GoodDay ( talk) 20:36, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Kevin, have you gotten any of my latest emails? It's past stuff now. I mean, your opinion is still welcomed, but I'm not as concerned about the matters anymore. Still, I want to make sure that you've received the emails. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 06:43, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
The Brilliant Idea Barnstar | |
For your proposal
Enfranchising voters in arbcom elections.
It has only potential upside. It's free. It increases democratic participation in elections. It comes at a time when voter turnout has been decreasing. It's an easy solution. This is a brilliant idea. |
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You've got another one coming but without the gargantuan section header this time. 😊 Atsme 📞 📧 02:00, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Don't you think you probably should have talked with Mike V or those at ArbCom before making such a public declaration like this? Pretty much what you've now said - in my estimation - is that MikeV and others looking at the situation from a completely different perspective than is available to you are full of shit. That's how I see it, anyway. I know you aren't saying that intentionally, because I don't think you are that kind of person. But, declaring someone absolutely isn't who a CU has determined them to be without talking to the CU first is risky, don't you think? -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 01:52, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something silly. |
More to come. Check my (un)deletion log. — Earwig talk 02:41, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
"Which is easier: having individual deletion debates about 80,000 creates where less than 800 end with 'don't delete', or mass-deleting and simply restoring the less than 800 that have value?"Again, I see no evidence of these numbers being accurate. The problem is that there are so many things being conflated by one deletion job (tons of useless redirects [likely mostly worth deleting], linked disambiguation pages [need individual review], templates [
What was wrong with L. rubricaulis that you deleted? -- Dweller ( talk) 15:52, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi
For future reference explicit permission (ie by clerks or arbitrators on-wiki or via mailing list where the request can be seen by those involved) should be sought before clerk actions are undone. I can see no issue with the addition of the evidence but I would run it past the arbs mailing list to be on the safe side. Amortias ( T)( C) 22:13, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kevin; I closed your Arbcom election proposal at WP:AN as passed, with some comments. Just to let you know! -- Errant ( chat!) 12:00, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
The thread was closed, so here's your content. You may be able to use it elsewhere. Please be mindful that when you are running for office, you have to be careful to avoid the appearance of campaigning on boards meant for Wikipedia operations, other than the actual WP:ACE2015 pages themselves where campaigning is welcome. Good luck with the election. It's quite an experience. Jehochman Talk 08:38, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
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Dear Kevin Gorman, just checking in. I can't seem to locate the page created that contain the guidelines regarding my block a few month ago. I have begun to edit medical articles and noticed that there may be some interaction between myself and another editor for whom I do not wish to cause discomfort or distress. Also, when I am looking at the page that tracks the number of edits and article creations that I have, it states that I had a six month block when it really was only a few days. Can you fix that, too? Best Regards,
There are various revdel posts, and off-wiki items which you may not be aware of. Even without those, there are plenty of on-wiki items with multiple editors which show disruptive editing. The fact that I have warned RO in the past is not a valid "involved" argument. I stand by my block. — Ched : ? 18:54, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Howdy Kevin. If I may clarify things. Cassianto & co, did not insert gender in the ANI discussion about RO's behaviour/conduct. More importantly, the gender issue should be avoided at that discussion, IMHO :) GoodDay ( talk) 20:38, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Please clear the list. Some reports are still there. I filed few pages yesterday which were being vandalized. -- Galaxy Kid ( talk) 01:52, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
I've sent you a inquiry for the Signpost's coverage of the election, via Meta. Tony (talk) 04:41, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Just pointing this out to any TPS who aren't on wiki-research - there's a new, quite cool pageview API out now supported by WMF - you can find it here, along with a demo of one of the kinds of things that can be done with it here. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 18:23, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Think I put on the protection you intended to. [16] -- NeilN talk to me 19:00, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
[17] Best, Drmies ( talk) 18:50, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello again, I'm reading over the signpost, and am finding that some of the questions I thought were obvious agree-answers sometimes result in disagree-answers. Of course, the numeric answer just leads to more questions, about the reason behind the numeral. So here I am. Can you fill me in on why you are "[un]satisfied with the ternary [oppose–neutral–support] voting system for [the annual] ArbCom elections" which was question#T. Or if you have you posted something about it elsewhere, feel free to direct me thither. I always thought the approval-voting scheme used by arbcom was pretty decent, better than instant run-off voting (used e.g. in Oakland and SFO elections), and better than first past the post (used in USA federal elections) by far. SecurePoll bangvoting is one of the few places where wikipedia is permitted to act as a leading indicator following best practices, rather than a trailing indicator which reflects the nominally reliable sources, as we do in mainspace. This is not a high-priority question, clearly, since probably I'm the only wikipedian curious enough to ask about the underlying rationale here, but when you have a spare moment, I'm definitely curious. Thanks, 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 00:29, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
So my idea picking 3 individuals one loves, 3 individuals one doesn't love, and 3 individuals in the middle to vote for ain't so bad! (Hope ya don't mind a bit of drive-by talking!) -- MurderByDeadcopy "bang!" 04:55, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
with FPTP there are mathematically only going to ever be two major parties, from the perspective of a country whose FPTP electoral map looks like this.) ‑ iridescent 10:41, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
You full-protected this page without an AFD notice, and there is an AFD currently running at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allie X (2nd nomination). (There was also a duplicate 3rd nom, but I closed that one.) Could an AFD notice be re-added to the page? Thanks, shoy ( reactions) 18:39, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Just an FYI but this Q & A was removed. I haven't even read it but there may be some drama with that so either way you feel like handling it. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 00:05, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current
Arbitration Committee election. The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia
arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose
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arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to
review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on
the voting page. For the Election committee,
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talk) 14:30, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Wow, voter turnout is amazing this year. Great idea about the talk page notifications. I'm really curious to see how this will affect the outcome. Mark Arsten ( talk) 00:08, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello!
Yay! I am able to vote in this election - it is the first time for me [Thanks for having the voting announcement sent to me]!
I am thinking that it might help the gender imbalance if I Support the female candidates and Oppose the male candidates. Sort of like my own personal version of Title IX. I believe that each of us should do what we can to make a difference.
Can you tell me where to find the information about the sex of each Arbcom Candidate? I don't want to have to ask each individual candidate. I suppose that if I'm unsure or a candidate's sex, I can check the "Neutral" choice for those candidates.
I believe that you are a male candidate, and perhaps it would be against your interests to help me to support the female candidates as it would mean I'd be voting against you - so I'll understand if you choose not to help me with this.
Thanks, Uncle uncle uncle 15:09, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
"Even where there is no finding of a Title IX violation, a recipient may take affirmative steps consistent with the law to overcome the effects of conditions that resulted in limited participation of persons of a particular sex in the recipients education program or activity."
Would you mind taking a minute to help me understand how a specific situation is allowed per policy? Please take a look at this (it spells out my query and I'd rather not copy and paste). Since the editor/admin I left the message for seems to be ignoring my query, I'm bringing it here, hoping you will help out. I simply don't get why one would do what's being done and if it's even within allowable guidelines. My gut tells me there is intentional scrutiny avoidance going on. If no policy is being violated, I'm fine with that, I'd just like to know how there's no policy being violated. Thanks, -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 02:30, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Kevin, I just answered your question--sorry I'm a day late. If this is about a case I should know about, maybe a case on which I have said something or other, please fill me in, privately if you like; it is entirely possible I have forgotten. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 15:44, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
I was reading a thread off wiki and someone claiming to be you said they deleted diffs off of this page that were critical of you. Other people on that thread who claimed to be Wikipedians, indeed other people claiming to be admins and former arbitrators said it was an abuse of your tools. Now I don't know if these people are who they claim to be (you included), so I thought I'd ask you. If you DID use your tools in such a manner, even if you made a mistake, could you please report yourself to the Admin board and see what your fellow admins think you should do? Even if you don't think you did anything wrong, it would be best if you got a few opinions on the matter, especially with you running for Arbcom and all. If this wasn't you, then please accept my apologies for the intrusion and have a happy day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.112.165 ( talk) 14:59, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Kevin undeleted each and every revision that he had deleted, so this is well into no-harm-no-foul territory. Aside from lurid interest, there's really nothing to talk about here. -- SB_Johnny | talk✌ 03:37, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for standing in the election. The more choices the better. From my own experience long ago I know how hard it can be. Jehochman Talk 18:40, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Please take one more look-see. Since this is all about interaction bans, you probably have to be the one to contact the other editors that are mentioned on this page so that they don't have to deal with me directly. Please put a line through all the guidelines that are no longer in effect. Please bold the guidelines that will continue to apply to my editing I have agreed to and for which you have concurred. Please inform the other editors in question concerning the behavior that you expect from them and the reciprocal courtesies that I am asking for. Please weigh in on my comments on the Child grooming. This is the next step because I have reached my 'three revert' limit and the problem is still not resolved and has not progressed in the past six months. The Very Best of Regards,
I'm sorry to be a nuisance, but is there anything you can do to stop WordSeventeen and Zpeopleheart from being disruptive, at least until the request for closure or a consensus is verified/reached for the ANI report? They chilled out for a little bit, but they just seem to be starting up again over at the Allie X page.Thanks. Edit: I notice that you protected it; thank you. He isn't even able to maintain civility on the Requests for Closure page. SanctuaryXStop talking in codes 21:09, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks, WormTT( talk) 10:29, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for weighing in at the education noticeboard, and for placing such clear objections. I started this because I have seen several poor outcomes. I have no idea what if any, eventual decisions will be made, and I don't intend to argue with folk unless asked a direct question. I simply hope to get the widest discussion possible out of which I anticipate some good will come. We can always improve. My idea may be wholly incorrect. I shall not be thanking everyone, but, since you were the first to object I thought it only right to thank you. Fiddle Faddle 23:22, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
This may amuse you. It seems I got the attention of the prof and the course. Fiddle Faddle 19:06, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Kevin,
I don't believe it was the best action to unblock the accounts. As the block notice stated, it was a checkuser block and you should have discussed it with myself or another checkuser for review. In addition, I would have appreciated it if you left a message on my talk page to discuss the issue before unblocking the accounts. Our blocking policy is quite clear on the matter. As I'm sure you know, there is technical evidence at play that prevents you from having the full picture. I can't elaborate per the privacy policy, but I will say there's a possibility that what the individual is saying is not necessarily true. I'm presently reaching out to a second checkuser to get a second opinion on the matter. Mike V • Talk 23:44, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
7&6=thirteen (
☎) has given you a
Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.
To give a Dobos torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{ subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. |
7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 16:16, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
it was an astoundingly good result! Thanks for running. Smallbones( smalltalk) 21:11, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Kevin, I see you are having trouble editing down your statement here. So I had a go, and this is what I suggest:
I then suggest you write nothing further about the case, either there or on anyone's talk pages, until the thing begins.
(And if you had written this at the start, my bet is that you would have avoided a case entirely.)
This is serious advice, for your best interests. -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 20:53, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
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For the Arbitration Committee, Liz Read! Talk! 20:58, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
I found your responses to my questions (ACE2015) to be thoughtful and am surprised at the animus some seem to have about you personally, even going so far as to take pot-shots at you in the RFAR, etc. I noted there "ArbCom has a quite poor record when used as a shooting gallery, at best" which I regard as true here as ever. With warm regards ... Collect ( talk) 01:26, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Am I missing something here? I want to collaborate, limit unpleasant interactions and improve an article. Do you have any advice? Best Regards,
Kevin, I'm really sorry to see that an Arb case is about to be accepted. Some unsolicited advice: don't read the evidence page until closer to the end of the evidence phase. Then address it all in one go. Otherwise you're going to be fretting, and if the case continues at length, it will ruin the holidays for you. Also, the more you say, the greater the danger of saying the wrong thing. So: keep it succinct, apologize for any mistakes made, explain how they happened if that can be done clearly, and then just hope for the best. If I can help in any way, please let me know. SarahSV (talk) 04:39, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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I would therefore be grateful if you could submit any additional evidence as soon as possible.
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Hello again, I'm reading over the signpost, and am finding that some of the questions I thought were obvious agree-answers sometimes result in disagree-answers. Of course, the numeric answer just leads to more questions, about the reason behind the numeral. So here I am. Can you fill me in on why you are "[un]satisfied with the ternary [oppose–neutral–support] voting system for [the annual] ArbCom elections" which was question#T. Or if you have you posted something about it elsewhere, feel free to direct me thither. I always thought the approval-voting scheme used by arbcom was pretty decent, better than instant run-off voting (used e.g. in Oakland and SFO elections), and better than first past the post (used in USA federal elections) by far. SecurePoll bangvoting is one of the few places where wikipedia is permitted to act as a leading indicator following best practices, rather than a trailing indicator which reflects the nominally reliable sources, as we do in mainspace. This is not a high-priority question, clearly, since probably I'm the only wikipedian curious enough to ask about the underlying rationale here, but when you have a spare moment, I'm definitely curious. Thanks, 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 00:29, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
So my idea picking 3 individuals one loves, 3 individuals one doesn't love, and 3 individuals in the middle to vote for ain't so bad! (Hope ya don't mind a bit of drive-by talking!) -- MurderByDeadcopy "bang!" 04:55, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
with FPTP there are mathematically only going to ever be two major parties, from the perspective of a country whose FPTP electoral map looks like this.) ‑ iridescent 10:41, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
This case shall be suspended from December 22nd, 2015 to January 2nd, 2016.
For the Arbitration Committee, Amortias ( T)( C) 20:16, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
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As a kibitzer but an experienced one in this context, may I opine for the benefit of any interested arbitrators, clerks, parties and passersby that this case has featured far too much focus on the nuances of arbitration procedures, word limits and the like. Those things exist as aids to a fair, well-informed, and reasonably expeditious determination of a case, not as ends in themselves.
I respectfully counsel Kevin Gorman that he should be posting far less of his personal medical information on this website. Newyorkbrad ( talk) 17:33, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Kev - please keep an eye out for email correspondence that grants access to BMJ and AAAS - I have received positive correspondence indicating the corrections. Atsme 📞 📧 03:23, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
I have some things to say to you Kevin. Some of it is my thoughts personally. Would you rather I post here on your talk .. at the AC ... or in email? — Ched : ? 04:15, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind me commenting Kevin, I know I've got under your skin and have tried my best to keep my involvement in the arbcom case to an absolute minimum in deference to that fact. I don't think I'd use quite such colourful language as Ched, but I do agree with his sentiment. You made 3 errors breaking some of the most basic administrator rules in 2 weeks. The first two were undone quickly at my intervention. The third lead me to start a case to review your actions, which went on to highlight the more pressing issue - how you present yourself. Ched isn't the first person to comment that you seem to believe yourself above the rules. With the "above the rules" comment in mind, could you explain this? I can tell you how it looks, but I'd like to hear your thoughts. WormTT( talk) 07:39, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Jimmy knows that. It's being discussed above in User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#New_WMF_trustee_Arnnon_Geshuri, and I mentioned it in my opening comment. Would you please consider either deleting it or moving it up to the thread addressing Geshuri? -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 00:15, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kevin Gorman, a remedy or finding of fact has been proposed relating to you in the ongoing Kevin Gorman arbitration case. Please review the remedy or finding of fact and feel free to comment at the proposed decision talk page. Thanks. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 01:11, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
"This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above."
The following remedies have been enacted
4) For consistently poor judgment in undertaking administrative actions following a formal admonishment, Kevin Gorman is desysopped. He may regain the administrative tools at any time via a successful request for adminship. Passed 13 to 2 at 17:53, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
For the Arbitration Committee Amortias ( T)( C) 18:08, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
My opinion of your good answers to my ACE2015 questions is unchanged. Best wishes for sure. Collect ( talk) 15:04, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
As you know, you are no longer an admin, so you might want to rewrite your userpage to reflect that fact. Everymorning (talk) 22:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
I was just trying to make a suggestion and give him advice, because I felt it was important people not think he's an admin when they look at his userpage if he isn't, as is now the case. I'm not trying to gravedance, contrary to Winkelvi's assumption of bad faith above. Everymorning (talk) 02:53, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
Arbcom isn't well known for being right too often. I'm sorry to see another person be bent over by the mob. You know where I stand with your opinions but was sorry to see this happen to you at any rate. Come back refreshed and when you are ready and if that time never comes that's ok too if it's the right choice for you. Hell in a Bucket ( talk) 01:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC) |
Hit with rocks, when a bag of gravel would have done the trick. Unfortunate when sense-making is not used and we have decisions like that. Best of luck with the rest of your volunteer work. <sigh> — billinghurst sDrewth 06:44, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Education Leaders at WISE Doha 2015 introducing Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt to WISE Conference attendees, as an example of a program in the Arab World, to share their experience to inspire other universities and institutions starting new programs in the area.
WISE 2015 Sessions and Plenaries were designed around three main pillars such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals; education and the economy; fostering innovation in education systems. Each pillar examined a variety of key topics including: the linkages between education, employment, and entrepreneurship; education reform and innovation in the MENA region and Qatar; emerging models of education financing, attracting, rewarding and retaining quality teachers; and the importance of investing in early childhood development.
Representatives of Wikipedia Education Program Walaa Abdel Manaem and Reem Al-Kashif participated in WISE Doha 2015 in Qatar, the annual World Innovation Summit for Education is the premier international platform dedicated to innovation and creative action in education where top decision-makers share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink education. Also, WISE 2015 was the first global education conference following the ratification of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. Contributions ranged from Arabic Brochure of Editing Wikipedia for students in WEP in Egypt and everybody who would like to edit Wikipedia without problems, The Arabic version of Welcome to Wikipedia reference guideline, PDF of brochure handed out during Arabic Wikipedia Convening, Doha, Qatar, 2011 and Introduction to Wikipedia. These contributions are related to show a case study of Wikipedia Education program in Egypt and how it worked since February 2012 till the November 2015, as the seventh edition ended last October. All discussions were about the program's mechanism and what were the motivations keeping it going. The program helped increasing gender diversity and supported the featured content on Arabic Wikipedia. Wikipedia Education Program, like any other initiative, has achievements and dark sides, for that reason, the representatives had to locate both of them and how they influence the Arabic community and how the community interact with this phenomenon.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education program in the Arab World here (in Arabic).
Snippet: A first-of-its-kind, for-credit, elective course that focuses on contributing to Wikipedia has opened at Tel Aviv University and is now available to all B.A. students on campus
On October 19th a new for-credit elective course called "Wikipedia: Skills for producing and consuming knowledge" [1] has opened at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The semester-long course (13 weeks) is available to all B.A. students on campus and this semester about 50 students from various disciplines are taking part in this first-of-its-kind course in Israel.
The course draws from "flipped classroom" concepts and uses "blended learning" methods, which practically means combining in-class lectures, workshops and small-group activities, as well as online individual learning. Both the Moodle learning management system (LMS) and the Wikipedia Education Extension are used to monitor the students' work and progress throughout the course.
The course has 2 main assignments - expanding an existing stub, as well as writing a new article, in the hopes that the content added during the course will assist not only the students themselves, but also future generations of learners as well as the general public. Though the course focuses on adding quality content to Wikipedia, it also aims to help students sharpen their academic skills and their 21st century skills, highlighting collaborative learning, joint online research and interdisciplinary collaborations in the process of constructing knowledge.
This course was initiated and is led by Shani Evenstein, an educator, Wikimedian and member of the Wikipedia Education Collaborative, in collaboration with the Orange Institute for Internet Studies, as well as the School of Education at TAU. The syllabus for the new course builds on the success of Wiki-Med, a for-credit elective course, which was designed in 2013 and is led by Evenstein at the Sackler school of Medicine for the third consecutive year. While Wiki-med is focused on contributing medical content to Wikipedia and is only available to Medical Students on campus, the new course is designed to accommodate students from different academic disciplines and varying backgrounds.
The course was chosen to be part of TAU's cross-discipline elective courses system ("Kelim Shluvim") and was approved by the Vice-Rector, who heads the program. In that, the course marks an important precedent in the collaboration between Academia and the Wikipedia Education Program, as it is the first time a higher institution acknowledges the importance of a course focusing on Wikipedia on a university level, offering it to all students, rather than a faculty level or individual lecturers as mostly practiced. It is our hope that other higher education institutions will follow this example and offer similar courses to students both in Israel and around the world.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Israel here.
By Melina Masnatta, Wikimedia Argentina
Snippet: University professors become Wikipedians in an online course during just a week.
Educators with different profiles and from different latin america countries, but most of them professors at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) from different faculties, have just participated in the online training and free course "Educational scenarios with technology. Among the real and the possible" organized by the Center for Innovation in Technology and Pedagogy (CITEP) of this university.
Different educational activities were carried out simultaneously. During the week and under the topic “Open movement”, Wikimedia Argentina participated with three different proposals: starting with an interview of Patricio Lorente accompanied with a short text to know more about the movement. To make an immersive experience we designed " Knowing Wikipedia by first-hand or Wikipedia in the first person" to work directly on the platform translating articles from english to spanish from a list created especially for that purpose. Along with this specific proposal, educators participated in a videoconference with Galileo Vidoni (available in Spanish), where participants could talk and learn more about how are the first steps to become a Wikipedian and the importance of the movement at the local and regional level.
With only seven days and without being mandatory, different educators discovered how to edit on Wikipedia, indeed many of them mentioned that they had it as a pending to learn and participate on the free encyclopedia, but never had the time or the real chance. The enthusiasm was also present on social networks, where they shared the experience with the hashtag #escenariostec.
The result
More than 100 educators got involved and exchanged their experience in an online forum with more of 280 messages that reflected their learning process while experiencing with the activity. 80 of them were new users, and they created 61 new articles in spanish. An important fact: 78 of them were women, which means that working with educators is a key issue to continue closing the digital gender gap.
Finally from CITEP, they shared the following insights regarding the question that ran through all the activities that took place during the week dedicated to the open movement. Some thoughts can be sum up as follows:
The collaborative production in open environments: chaos or construction? (...) For the teacher also means accepting new challenges: encourage students to produce knowledge in an environment of divergent nature, it requires permanent operations and convergence. In a space that fosters interventions unmarked, the teacher needs to frame depending on the purpose of education and teaching purposes. (…) Wikipedia is the best example of the challenges posed by the digital era in the educational field, it forces us to rethink the relationship between technology and the production of knowledge and allows us to confirm that the collaborative work does not lead to chaos, if not to the construction. (. ..) [Authors: Angeles Solectic and Miri Latorre]
We share some of the voices of the protagonists in social networks with storify (available in Spanish). Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.
By Vojtěch Dostál (Wikimedia Czech Republic)
Snippet: The second largest university in the Czech Republic has employed a Wikipedian in residence, leading to a boom of Wikimedia activities in the city of Brno.
Collaboration between Wikipedia and Czech institutions has always been a priority for Wikimedia Czech Republic, but the year 2015 has taken this to another level. First, an official memorandum of collaboration with the National Heritage Institute (NPÚ) was signed in May 2015, to be followed by official collaboration with Masaryk University in Brno (the second largest city and university in the Czech Republic), which was contracted in November 2015. In fact, Wikimedia activities in Brno have been blooming for several years now, mainly as a result of the community's own development, but aided substantially by the external interest in Wikipedia by Masaryk University alumni society, demonstrated as early as March 2013.
In February 2015, the university employed one of the most experienced Czech Wikipedians – Marek Blahuš ( Blahma) – who was appointed to become the university's first " Wikipedian in residence". Marek Blahuš has been in the center of the Wikimedia community in Brno for about two years, organizing regular Wikipedia meetups, the 2014 edition of the annual WikiConference ( more in English here) and creating the Czech-Slovak Wikipedia translation tool, which has famously led to the creation of >9000 articles on Czech and Slovak Wikipedias ( more in English here). His current work as Wikipedian in residence is funded by Masaryk University and runs under the patronage of Wikimedia Czech Republic as well as Masaryk University's rector Mikuláš Bek.
Since February, Wikipedia has taken a prominent role within Masaryk University. Marek Blahuš started a "Masaryk University Wikipedians team", gathering local Wikipedians and facilitating contacts with the university, aided by his status of a graduate and current employee in its language center. Articles about Masaryk University alumni and faculties have been identified and improved after consultations with Masaryk University archives and libraries which provided helpful resources. Wikipedia citation templates can now be directly generated from the university's on-line archive of theses. In September, a public conference called " Masaryk University Is Getting High on Wikipedia" took place on university grounds, featuring the experienced Wikipedian Jan Sokol ( Sokoljan), who is a philosopher, university teacher and a former presidential candidate. The talks focused on the use of Wikipedia in university education, in line with the successful Czech " Students Write Wikipedia" program. One of the teachers, Jiří Rambousek, expressed his desire to organize a Wikipedia Club as a regular meetup where articles would be improved in a collaborative effort and new editors introduced to Wikipedia.
The program is actively preparing for 2016 when we expect Wikimedia Czech Republic to take a more active role in overseeing the initiatives as well as the creation of a position of a "Wikipedian in Brno" – person officially in charge of the wide array of Wikimedia activities happening in the city. The chapter's annual plan includes initiatives to increase the number of university courses which incorporate Wikipedia into the curriculum, public presentations of Wikipedia at various events, scanning and uploading of images from institutional and personal archives, and much more. Let's wish that our plans come true!
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in the Czech Republic here.
By Leigh Thelmadatter (Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey)
Snippet: Student participation is more than just text!
For the Fall 2015 Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey held two wiki expeditions in Mexico City and began a collaboration with the Museo de Arte Popular. We also received our first grant!
The 32-campus Tec de Monterrey system has each semester an event called "Semana i" (i Week), when students forego normal classes for an entire week to work on challenging projects called "retos." For the Mexico City and Santa Fe campuses, one option for students was to work with Wikimedia, with the aptly named projects " Reto Wikimedia." Both campuses opted to do wiki-expeditions to different parts of Mexico City. The Mexico City campus had the larger group with almost 90 students registered, who covered the two southern boroughs of Xochimilco and Tlalpan. The Santa Fe group had 35 participants, and covered the San Ángel neighborhood found not far from this campus.
Both campus took photos of landmarks with the Mexico City campus also focusing on photos of everyday life in the south of the city. The Mexico City campus tallied 5264 photos, 8 videos and 36 articles, including articles related to the area into French, Swedish and Danish. The Santa Fe group tallied 605 photos, and ten articles in Spanish on landmarks in San Ángel.
In addition, the Mexico City campus had a special speaker the borough chronicler of Xochmilco, Sebastián Flores Farfán. A short montage video of the event is in the works.
Some student photos:
Some video clips of the event:
Wikiservicio, students working with Wikimedia for their community service requirement, added a new component. To attract more students and encourage more students to do all of their community service hours with Wikimedia, a collaboration was set up with the Museo de Arte Popular (MAP)... the first of many we hope! Six students from the digital art and animation major (see last newsletter) have continued working with Wikimedia, but focusing their efforts in creating short animation clips in relation to the mission of promoting and preserving Mexican folk art. One clip has been completed and can be see to the right of this text. So far, the video has subtitles in English, German, French and Punjabi. A second clip is nearing completion at the time of this writing.
Fifteen students completed work with Wikiservicio doing translations, writing new articles and doing photography projects. As of this date, 7 have indicated interest in working with Wikiservicio on campus and another six with MAP.
Five university level classes and one high school class on the Mexico City (South) campus have had projects, all in writing and translation, with some video work.
Wikimetrics for the semester are:
According to Wikimetrics tool....
Manual count
First grant Wiki Learning received its first grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. The long-term goal of this grant is to establish a system for financing Wiki Learning. The grant, which totals a modest 12,500 Mexican pesos, will be used for swag, such as t shirts, stickers, buttons, etc, especially for Semana i activities and promotion of wiki activities to other campus. The money will also be used for incidental travel expenses, especially for projects needing to move expensive camera equipment.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Mexico here.
By Christian Cariño (Wikimedia México) and Melina Masnatta (Wikimedia Argentina)
Snippet: Aprender para Educar writes about Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina.
The digital free magazine Aprender para Educar (Learning to educate) of the National Technological University (UTN) is recognized in the community of education and technology in Argentina to write about innovation issues in Spanish, which is not common in the academic dissemination and teacher training field.
Cristina Velazquez, general editor of the magazine invited Wikimedia Argentina to write an article that generally describes their activities in the Education Program, after reading the proposal she decided to publish it as the main article of the 12th edition.
To describe the education program, WMAR wrote two notes completing one another, as doing a zoom: from the local to the global and from the global to the local, showing how a movement of this magnitude does not stand alone, it is part of a huge network.
Melina Masnatta, education manager in WMAR and Patricio Lorente, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees wrote those two notes.The first one focuses on the Education Program, implementation, challenges and obstacles that they had at the beginning, plans to integrate it into the classrooms in Argentina and how different Wikimedia Projects are also relevant in education. The most important thing, Melina adds, is to strengthen the values that inspire them, show how the free culture give meaning to education in general and digital culture in particular.
Meanwhile in the second part, Lorente focuses on the global movement, the community pillars, the agenda of today's challenges and the effort of their volunteers as protagonists. It is not easy show the world what drives us and why we work as volunteers in different countries. In education very few people understand the value of building free knowledge. There is still a great prejudice or negative perceptions of Wikipedia in the classroom because teachers ignore how Wikipedia is built.
Everybody reads Wikipedia, but few people edit it. We can change this fact by spreading in spaces such as the Journal of the UTN and inviting more people to collaborate and be the protagonist of this huge collective work for humanity.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Online ambassador helped spanish students course in Cairo University to nominate their articles, scoring an exceptional record of WEP excellent content.
Bassem Fleifel, an online ambassador of Cairo university spanish course, played a prominent role to help all students to encourage them to nominate their excellent content to be a featured and good articles in Arabic Wikipedia. Those articles are History of bread (Featured article); Walt Disney; Daniel Radcliffe; Al- Andalus; Poet in New York; and Popol Vuh.
The seventh term, the program started in Cairo University with promoting posts on Wikipedia and social media websites to help new participants understand the general idea of the program as well as holding meetings with professors from the departments of History, chinese, English language and Spanish language. Walaa Abdel Manaem (program leader in Cairo University) and Bassem Fleifel (online ambassador) have held some workshops in campus and online for the whole students to teach them "How to edit Wikipedia". On the other hand, Prof. Abeer Abdel-Hafiz has exerted great efforts with her students in addition to introducing Walaa to new classes of senior students for whom she has organized general seminars about Wikipedia and the education program. At the same time Walaa was assigning her Spanish department students of the first and second year to edit Wikipedia.
This term, Prof. Abeer let the chance to her students to choose any articles they would like to translate from the Spanish Wikipedia to the Arabic Wikipedia or working on articles about history. They already have chosen some articles to translate with the target of nominating them to be a featured and good articles.
Most of students worked on articles about different topics like history, writers, actors, history of food and drink, mayan literature, islam and politics, etc. This course itself achieved an exceptional record of Wikipedia Education program excellent content and the best term ever in the history of WEP in Egypt in general and in the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University in specific. Walaa has held 2 online webinars to follow up with her students in addition to the workshops held at the campus. Regarding numbers, 38 students joined this course, of which 35 are female and 3 are male students. They worked on 1748 articles adding more than 12,282,943 million bytes to the article namespace on the Arabic Wikipedia, with the help of the online ambassador, who also participated as a student.
See the course page of this group on the Arabic Wikipedia here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
By Jorid Martinsen (Wikimedia Norge)
Snippet: This fall masters students in History and Archeology at the University of Oslo take on the task of Wikipedia editing as one of the main parts in a subject on communication of History.
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest higher education institution, and it is the first time Wikimedia Norway collaborates with this University in forming and using Wikipedia editing as a integrated part of higher education. The collaboration started by Wikimedia Norway contacting assistant professor John McNicol, who already had gotten some media attention on his eagerness to make students skilled in knowledge sharing.
Starting off with a two hour lecture on the secret world of Wikipedia and a two hour editing workshop in mid-September, and in October the students will evaluate the life of their articles. Has there been many additional edits on their articles? Discussions? Request to delete everything? For Wikimedia Norge it is fun to see the students both engaging in Wikipedia editing and using the ways of Wikipedia to discuss how knowledge is formed.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Norway here.
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, I would like to personally invite you to the March edition of the Wik-Ed Women meetup, which will take place on March 15, from 6-10 in the evening. It will occur at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 2245 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90021 (downtown LA -- map). The building has a pink top with old signage for American Accessories, Inc. dba Princess Accessories ( Photos [PDF]). There is on-site parking in the back, which also has an entrance. If you cannot attend in person, you are more than willing to work remotely, as we appreciate all help that you can provide. Finally, here is a link to the Facebook event, in case you want to invite friends, as we are always looking for new editors to help expand coverage of women on Wikipedia! I hope to see you there! Cosmicphantom ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 05:54, 15 March 2016 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
I was saddened to see the outcome of the Arb case. I hope you find the work that you do is not hampered too badly by your lack of janitorial supplies. Fiddle Faddle 20:04, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
Been thinking about you Kevin. I'm working on a project you might love. Lynn (SLW) ( talk) 02:23, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Please keep an eye on me and provide suggestions to promote good faith, good will, congeniality. Best Regards,
You have expressed interest in the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium, so you may be interested in attending the GLAM Boot Camp next month in Washington, DC. This is a training designed to help Wikipedians interested in guiding museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions in wiki engagement. Travel funding available for those in North America. Since the event is coming up soon, please be sure to add your name to the page if you are interested -- and please pass this announcement along. (You may want to share on Facebook or on Twitter.) Thanks for your interest! - MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 04:24, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
My apologies - here is the link for the GLAM Boot Camp mentioned above: Wikipedia:GLAM/Boot Camp. - Pete ( talk) 04:30, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
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I am being accused of some not very nice things and would like you to become involved due to your very intimate knowledge of interactions between myself and other editors. Here Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ( talk) 19:22, 14 June 2016 (UTC) also known as Bfpage
The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.
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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area will gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. We have two brief presentations lined up for our kickoff event in downtown San Francisco:
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We hope you can join us today, Wednesday, from 6 p.m. on, at our July Bay Area WikiSalon. This month only, we are going to be at Noisebridge, a hackerspace/makerspace 1.5 blocks from the 16th & Mission BART station (see the link for directions). Some of us will be working on the Wikipedia article on basic income. All info here. Some good news - we do not have to be as strict about advance RSVP at Noisebridge, so bring spontaneous guests! ( Registering ahead of time is still helpful, as always, as it will help us plan ahead.)
Come and hang out, have some light snacks. Wi-Fi is available, so please bring your editing device if you plan to edit.
Also, Pete just published a writeup of the Wikidojo exercise we did last month. Your comments welcome, if he missed anything! http://wikistrategies.net/ghost-town-royals-wikidojo
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Hi all - welcome to my talk. I just performed a large manual archive, partly because I had a good number of undated sections. If you feel I manually archived any sections that hadn't been resolved yet, please feel free to unarchive them, or to start a new section on the same issue. Best, Kevin Gorman ( talk) 22:27, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
I know this is very late but I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your participation at my RfA. I was very inspired by the many that supported me and it’s that feeling of friendship and camaraderie that keeps me coming back to the project. So, thank you for your support and for your continued sense of fairness and compassion in all areas of WP. I look forward to the opportunity to work together in the days to come. Best wishes, -- — Keithbob • Talk • 19:20, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you that the German Wikipedia received an article because of you! It's on their Main page today and tomorrow. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:59, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin, I'm editing the diabetes page and it appears to be a locked/protected page, so I don't think I can currently edit the lead. If this is true, is there a way to override this? Thanks so much for any help. UCSFrb1983 ( talk) 18:19, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi there. Thanks for signing up for the WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon at Berkeley that is happening today. I look forward to seeing you! We have changed the on-campus venue due to the response we've had, via Wikipedia and Facebook. Please take a look at the event page. If you get this message too late, we'll have a sign on the door of the former location directing you to the new one, which is only a short walk. See you then! SarahStierch ( talk) 15:38, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
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Anna Koval (WMF) ( talk) 21:44, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin! I'm working hard on getting my credibility up by editing. There is a lot of mess to clean up! It is time-consuming, but I figure if I chip away at it, it will help. Thanks for all you are doing. Shaslang ( talk) 00:32, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks For Deleting The CopyRight Material.
I was in a bit of doubt myself that the file might not be free, as from the source I got it, also I was a bit hesitant. However, I thought it would be good to get the file. Later on I checked, and found that it was up for purchases, and not a free sourced material. Apologies for the incorrect upload. Danke Vishal 'Harry Browne' Bakhai Vishal Bakhai 07:23, 16 April 2014 (UTC) |
Hi Kevin Gorman, since your active in the education program, I thought I'd ask you for some feedback. I was thinking of applying for the role of an Online Ambassador. I'd like to know your feedback in this regard, and also your suggestions, if any. Thanks for taking out your time. :) -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 19:20, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
Since the last update, development of the editor campaigns project has been continuing, and it's almost at the point that it will be useful to users running edit-a-thons and other non-course outreach events. (If you are planning such an event soon and would like to beta test it for tracking the contributions of newcomers, get it touch.) In the meantime, we've made a few small improvements and bug fixes to the Education Program extension:
The default end date for courses is now approximately six months in the future, instead of immediately. This will prevent the common problem where a user creates a new course page but does change the default dates, resulting in a course that is immediately considered "ended" and thus cannot be enrolled in.
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A nearly complete patch from Facebook Open Academy student Jeff Lloyd will add a new type of Notification: students will be alerted to edits made by others to the article(s) they are assigned (as well as the corresponding talk pages). Expect to see this feature within the next several weeks.
Bugs in the course page creation process (now fixed) led in some cases to duplicate listings for the same course at Special:Courses. This happens when the same course page had two (or more) different course ID numbers. It is possible to clean up such duplicate entries using by making calls to the API. I've documented this process and written a Python script for it.
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Thanks for speedy deleting and salting PWCT (programming language). Talk:PWCT (programming language) also needs to go. Msnicki ( talk) 21:17, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
I realise now that I rather brusquely reverted a large chunk of text added to Water resource management without knowing (or checking) that it was a student contributor. Apologies for that. I wouldn't want to deter students from getting involved and I should, perhaps, have been a little more helpful (if a little less prescient!) in my edit summary. Regards Velella Velella Talk 19:24, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin, I've just stumbled on User:Kevin Gorman/philosophers. (Don't ask me how, I just followed various links that I can't remember now :-). It looks like a great project and I'd like to help - I did an MA in Philosophy and have read a good bit, but it always seems to be the men who get the top billing. Anyway, I'm keen to help redress the balance - hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have time to start making some articles. -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 17:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi @ Boing! said Zebedee: - as a heads up, starting about a week from now I'll be able to send you as much academic source material as you desire about whoever you desire. Unfortunately philosophy is a bit weak in general about bios of people who aren't dead already, so a lot of source material talks about a person's work rather than the person themselves, but it's often the case that using a publicly posted cv/other biographical tidbits as they arise + papers talking about a philosopher's work can be enough to write a pretty good article about them. Best, Kevin Gorman ( talk) 23:50, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
You currently have your archive bot set up to archive to User talk:Kevin Gorman/Archive2. Your archive box at the top of the page is auto set up to only work with archives in the format of User talk:Kevin Gorman/Archive #. So I would suggest that you change the bot config to User talk:Kevin Gorman/Archive 2, but first move the existing Archive2 to Archive 2. Just wanted to give you a heads up, as a lot of people can't see Archive2 unless you rename it to Archive 2. 123chess456 ( talk) 23:42, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
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Based on your ANI comment, "because I prefer to use the least punitive measures possible that successfully protects the encyclopedia", I thought you might be interested in this. I wrote an essay WP:ANI Advice which I've mentioned on ANI a few times. But recently I added a new section about what "desirable outcomes" are. I think you might like it.--v/r - T P 22:05, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Kevin, you mentioned that you'd be looking for sources to better support the ALT1 hook, which you preferred. The problem here is that there is nothing that directly supports ALT1, and I don't see that hook passing unless something is presented that supports that the haiku's author had those intentions in writing it. Are you still planning to come up with these sources and add them to the article? If not, then I think we'd better proceed without, which means something like an ALT2 hook or a different one entirely. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 18:56, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
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Is full protection needed? The edit warring is mainly done by anons, and SPAs. Could you consider semi-protection instead? Thanks. Cwobeel ( talk) 21:11, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
You probably ought to unblock Torgownik. I don't think he understood why his canvassing would be a problem, he is basically a newbie and we should also remember that he's past the first flush of youth. We need to apply a light touch in damping the issue down, and use initially short blocks but potentially escalating. In particular I think we should not block for anything where he has not been unambiguously warned, ideally with a full account of why something is wrong, rather than a short template. It' s very important not only to be fair, but also to be seen to be fair. He is part of a community some of whose members are given to paranoid conspiracist ravings, and we don't want to fuel their paranoia any more than we must. Guy ( Help!) 11:32, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey Kevin, I just saw your message at ENI. I'm so sorry to hear that you are under the weather, and I wish you a rapid and happy recovery. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 17:56, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
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Don't go to ANI with this. It's a bit annoying, but will only bring more drama and likely result in.. nothing. I've seen much worse, that was completely ignored (or, rather, that had no beneficial result). Argue content, argue policy, but it's probably not worth arguing behavior there anymore (mea culpa, yadayada, but I'm trying to move on).-- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 22:11, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Ten hail Marys or whatever you do to recompense your sins. Sumanah's talk is perfect fodder for Wikisource as it fits within the scope, and it can have both the audio and video linked easily. Never forget your sister site(s). Oh, now, forgiven on this occasion, just be rebuked, no need for further flagellation. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:43, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Please see Talk:St._Mary's_College_of_Maryland#Pix_size after viewing the article first. I was trying to find them a good example of using photo in an HE article. couldn't do it Smallbones( smalltalk) 17:43, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
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And your picture in the paper and everything. My, my.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:57, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Heh, thanks for the note. I wonder how long stuff related to my Berkeley edu work will keep popping up - the groundwork for the LA Times article was done in early April. I'm starting to get excited for the next semester.. it's going to involve more classes, but significantly smaller ones, mostly graduate STEM classes focusing on improving or creating socially significant content that intersects with the areas they are focusing their doctoral work on. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 20:53, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi there I have applied for the Online Ambassador position and user right. After I get 2 endorsements from the education community what is the next step? About how long does it take to receive endorsements? I appreciate your help. Akifumii Talk 17:28, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin. I came across your user page, which says that you are interested in helping disclosed paid editors. I have a long track-record for creating GA company/BLP pages on behalf of the article-subject and thought I might take you up on your offer at some point if you're interested. However, I also thought you might have some interest in this project or in helping with Request Edits as it's currently backlogged by six months. CorporateM ( Talk) 12:41, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting me at Waggener. Sometimes I am like a mother-hen protecting my GA articles from.... everybody with a twitchy finger on the revert button. I have to apologize that this is the first time I am noticing your lengthy note above. I think neither of us is necessarily incorrect, but rather it is the balance of different viewpoints, created from different experiences, that create a positive middle-ground. I am exposed to a lot of covert paid editing practices that gives me a jaded point-of-view. + I spend quite a bit of time cleaning up promotion, which makes me frustrated with those it originates from. To be honest however, editors insisting on adding unfair negative material tend to be more persistent than paid editors. CorporateM ( Talk) 03:49, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
You should not empty categories that are under discussion, but should feel free to add additional elements to the category. The scope of the VAM category, like the VAW category, is for adults and children. see [1] for a state department brief on trafficking of men; in some countries, such as Sri Lanka, boys are actually more likely to be trafficked into prostitution that girls. In this domain it is best to not make assumptions, the world is a complex place... I think once this discussion is over, we should have a broader discussion about the use of both the VAM and VAW categories, and come up with inclusion criteria for both that are fair and balanced. The current status quo is, if a woman is killed, it can be placed in "violence against women", but if a man is killed, people get twisted in knots screaming "it's not gender-based violence" blah blah blah. My point is, we need to be consistent. -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 06:08, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
and seriously drop the misogynist language. Did I call you a misandrist because you removed rape from Violence against men? No. I don't think that is a misandrist edit. I just think you don't understand how the category structure is set up.-- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 01:28, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin,
Could you take a look here?
Thanks — kwami ( talk) 01:40, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
You are at war on Androcide - warning
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An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page—whether involving the same or different material—within a 24-hour period. An edit or a series of consecutive edits that undoes other editors' actions—whether in whole or in part—counts as a revert. Violations of the rule normally attract blocks of at least 24 hours. Any appearance of gaming the system by reverting a fourth time just outside the 24-hour slot is likely to be treated as an edit-warring violation. Mosfetfaser ( talk) 06:02, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
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Although it seems clear to me that others, including many administrators, do not appreciate your toil in cleaning up some of the mess related to MRM advocacy, I have to say that there are those of us who do notice and appreciate it. jps ( talk) 12:45, 11 July 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks for your efforts to prevent inappropriate promotion of men's rights agenda on Wikipedia. I've personally seen this occur on multiple articles and witnessed the resulting disruption. I agree this drives away editors and reduces article quality. Your efforts to bring attention to this problem are appreciated. Thanks:) -- BoboMeowCat ( talk) 19:35, 11 July 2014 (UTC)|} |
Hey Kevin, don't want to step on your toes, but I've extended the block on this WP:SPA user to indef. We have to put the kibosh on these continued BLP vios and edit warring on that particular article/subject. Dreadstar ☥ 21:21, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Kevin,
I'm a very, very new to wikipedia user (I'm still not quite sure how to use it and am frankly not terribly interested in learning -- super luddite here).
I just want to thank you for your commitment to improving the representation of women philosophers on wikipedia. I was appalled to learn that Susanna Siegel didn't have an entry (i'm a phd student in philosophy myself, and my work concerns Siegel's work).
If you are looking for other prominent women philosophers to make entries for, I could certainly give you some suggestions, though I'm guessing you already have plenty in that way.
thanks again, Plnjne
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Hey all - after a prolonged absence (in large part due to a five week long stay at the Mayo Clinic, heh, I should be back and editing again within the next several days. Best, Kevin Gorman ( talk) 12:43, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
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The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meetup and create/translate/expand/improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. RSVP →here←. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 02:58, 27 September 2014 (UTC) |
Hello, Kevin! I see that you are active with the campus ambassadors program. I'm wondering if you can help a user named User:Karin Steen, a teacher in Sweden, who has been trying to set up something to use Wikipedia in her classes. I encountered her when she launched this into mainspace as an article. It was obviously not an article and got moved to a draft. But apparently what she had in mind was some kind of overall structure to which her students could link while working in their sandboxes. She then asked me on my talk page for help, but I haven't a clue. Do you want to work with her? If you don't have time or inclination, just let me know and I will ask someone else. Thanks! -- MelanieN ( talk) 14:56, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi, what's the reason for the COI tag on Kayak.com? Thanks. Evan
Since you're the one who placed the discretionary sanction notification on this user's page and imposed some kind of a 1RR restriction on articles relating to Silesian language/dialect [4]. Volunteer Marek 21:17, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin, please cleanup this article. You seem to be a frequent editor of this page. The link to the company website should be listed at that, not the SEO text that is in it now. SEO anchor text I am talking about: "Ayahuasca shamanism and spiritual healing center in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon" Please also add some other citations that demonstrate notability. Otherwise I think this entry is headed back to AfD.
Thanks Jtbobwaysf ( talk) 19:17, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
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The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
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The name was an honest mistake, sorry. Can I email you about a related thing? No point if you are only going to be on en-WP intermittently but if you're likely to be showing up here a few times a week then it might be of use. - Sitush ( talk) 07:29, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Kevin! Just wanted to follow up on Chris Troutman's virtual intro. Would love to talk with you about your experience at Cal as Wikipedian in residence. Nafpaktitism ( talk) 17:43, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
I have read Wikipedia for years. I know that if it looks like you are sticking up for a bad user, you can be accused of being a sock. You blocked Eating Glass. It looks like he is American. I am from and edit in another country.
I looked at that user. He was blocked and his block ended. Since then he said sorry and edited reasonably. Therefore, your block will probably cause harm to Wikipedia because it is mean and punitive. There is no evidence of harm done since his block epired two days ago. I urge you to unblock because it is tge right thing.
Think of if you were fined paid the bill then jailed fr the same charge. WackyPancakesDie ( talk) 02:18, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
I've sent you a mail. Do check when you have some time to spare. Thanks! -
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Smart, perky and on top of the issues, just like you! Yay!!
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Removing rollback rights of a 10 year editor because someone is using a primary source and won't let a clearly biased editor censor that sources information? Maybe you should ban that guy for redacting information in a primary source without discussion huh? Terrible admin. Xander756 ( talk) 08:56, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
I am currently talking to a news site that is working on a piece about your behavior tonight which may be sent to Jimmy Wales. Looking through your bio and edits, it seems that you are a feminist. Is this the case? Please let me know so it can be accurate. Xander756 ( talk) 09:14, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to take you up on your wager, $20 wasn't it? I don't know if it's allowed to post links to your mailing list, so I won't, but I'm certain you know what I'm referring to regardless. Eric Corbett 19:55, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
While I agree that Xander's actions were in violation of policy, there are issues with your actions regarding him. Being a feminist does not make someone involved, but you have been highly active and very much involved regarding articles covering feminism and men's rights. Sarkeesian is a feminist critic and her vlog is called "Feminist Frequency" so you are involved regarding her bio. You also did make a few opinionated comments regarding the Christina Sommers BLP as well on Jimbo's talk and Sommers is a prominent GamerGate figure. There is also a procedural issue regarding your use of the general sanctions as Xander had only just been notified of the sanctions. He stopped making objectionable BLP claims soon after that. A block and removal of rollback rights was probably appropriate, though I do not believe you are the one who should have made that call. The topic ban, however, appears to be inappropriate on procedural grounds.-- The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 20:17, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
TDA redacted your statements this time around.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜) 05:09, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
In case you don't know, Sitush was nearly blocked for outing Carolmooredc despite Carol editing under her real name. The only saving grace was that it was demonstratable that Carol actually posted the link to her website on an article about herself that was never redacted. Editing under a professional name or even linking to some real life identity material is not good enough. Specifically, "The fact that a person either has posted personal information or edits under their own name, making them easily identifiable through online searches, is not an excuse for 'opposition research'" is the applicable line. If they posted their twitter handle, then it's fair game. But if they have not, then that information is still protected and being able to get there through a few clicks isn't an excuse.--v/r - T P 02:17, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Kevin, can I email you or is there a way to communicate with you in private? I'll explain myself there. I wish you well. ~A friendly fellow Bear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.152.126.178 ( talk) 19:32, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kevin. I'm continuing here with the points raised at the talk page of the arbitration noticeboard (e.g. here). I'll number them to make this easier.
One other quick point: you mention yourself and Leigh. Are Sue Gardner and lkent (mentioned here) active moderators as well? I'll watch here for a reply, so no need to ping me. Carcharoth ( talk) 12:12, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
And I can't help but notice how absurd it was that you're claiming to be willing to reduce the gender gap on your user page while supporting this weird gang-rape-type thingy (which you called good faith criticism) on the education incidents board. The absurd statement that I was not allowed to review articles for GA was certainly to a large extent also based on gender.-- Melody Lavender 13:05, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
"gang-rape-type thingy"so freely. It's an earmark of rape culture to equate a disparagement of your work product with such a horrific crime. There's a terrible insensitivity indicated by using terms like rape and genocide when talking about altogether different matters. I can understand you're hurt by the condemnation but criticism is allowed here.
For Melody to be completely unable to address the substance of the problem with her review, and resort to personal attacks and GenderGapism as a stretch of an excuse to wave off a legitimate warning for an attack which would have gotten someone without a PrettyPinkUsername blocked, demeans the work of all women in here.
Further, the notion that women are underrepresented in Wikipedia is an overplayed argument IMO; for years, women ran WP:FAC (and quite well).
Next, it is not lost on me that a lot of the GenderGapism promotion occurred by some of the same editors and WMF folk who promoted the Education Program. They would have done well to have listened to Jbmurray rather than Awadewit. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 12:33, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
I presented evidence against you at the ArbCom case, in case you wish to respond.-- The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 23:29, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Email sent. Act on it. Pedro : Chat 22:39, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
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You seem to be someone knowledgeable on Wikipedia, perhaps I could ask your advice. Today, it appears to me that User:Ashurbanippal has made seven reverts to the Israel article, an article with a one revert rule. None of the reverts had consensus on the talk page, and all the reverts dealt with contentious issues under discussion on the talk page. Two of his reverts are to remove POV tags, which I think four different editors have tried to add, and which have always been reverted solely by User:Ashurbanippal. It seems to me his edits always push an anti-Arab POV, and move the article to a less NPOV. Do you have any advice for dealing with this? Thanks, Gouncbeatduke ( talk) 15:22, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Kevin,
I saw your post on the unnameable social media site. We've had our disagreements in the past, but they truly are trivial fodder when compared to real health issues.
I just stopped by to wish you a speedy and full recovery.
Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vigilant ( talk • contribs)
Putting this back in (no offense, Mr. Troutman), because I know the well wishes will be appreciated in exactly the manner in which they were intended.
I hope your recovery is a speedy one, Kevin. -- SB_Johnny | talk✌ 00:31, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Best wishes for a speedy recovery from me as well. 28bytes ( talk) 02:17, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Kevin! Just wanted to say welcome to the area and to extend an open invitation to get involved however you like with things Wikipedia at UCLA. I work in the Library and have organized a couple of edit-a-thons and am, in general, very interested in the connection between libraries/education/wikipedia. Nafpaktitism ( talk) 01:20, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
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In a strange and ironic twist of fate, I am currently inpatient getting treated for sepsis right now. Some ugly strain of S. Aurelias that requires 8 bags of vanco to treat. PIV in my right hand makes typing tedious. White count hit 20 before things got under control and they were underdosing me and not pulling vanc troughs often enough.
Unpleasant, but I think I'll get out WITHOUT a PICC line or sub-clavian and home IV treatment. I suspect your 'adventure' with our little germic friends eclipses my own and has been vastly more unpleasant.
Best wishes on a speedy and full recovery, Vigilant — Preceding unsigned comment added by SepsisBuddies ( talk • contribs) 17:43, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kevin Gorman
I have just added a Wikipedia page. It "strongly suggested" I add a photograph. Can you tell me how I do that?
I also was wondering when the template with all those "issues" will be removed?
Thanks,
David — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwetzel30 ( talk • contribs) 04:14, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Also once an article is on Wikipedia, can the subject ask that it be deleted?
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Hello there, I was wondering if you might re-consider your decision to reduce the expiry date on full-protection of the Electronic Cigarette article from 18 June to 30 March? I don't know if you've noticed but I and another editor voiced opposition to this after your decision. Also, QuackGuru the editor that requested (not for the first time recently) that page protection be removed is once again clearly preparing to dump large-scale changes into the article from their sandbox. Over the past week they have transferred the entire article to their sandbox and have made well over 100 edits to it since, even preparing talk page sections with titles such as Page protection over - NPOVing resumes, whatever that may really mean. I understand that page protection is not designed for disruption caused by single editors but there are other long-standing problems between editors at the article. Consequently proposed discretionary sanctions are currently being discussed at ANI and with the possibility of ArbCom cases looming if these fail to pass, I do feel that it would be best to keep the article fully protected for the time being. Levelledout ( talk) 13:36, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
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SPAC: Adjwilley's advice is pretty spot on. It doesn't cause a huge amount of harm or anything, but there are some people who take offense from it. Generally it's a good idea to only notify relatively new editors, disruptive editors, or editors likely to become disruptive. Editors who are heavily involved (like, say, people who wrote the sanctions or regularly take action under them themselves) generally don't really need to be notified (and will be sanctioned if they need to be, even without an explicit notification.) Kevin Gorman ( talk) 21:19, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey Kevin I did see your comment there about a weird comment ("luck will break") that you removed, and it does appear it was left under your account
here, I was going through diffs to make sure some random IP or whatever didn't leave a comment and sign your name to it.
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Thanks for making that block. Her behavior was disruptive in a particularly ugly way, and without careful attention could have easily been allowed to continue. So thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 14:34, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hey Kevin; I wanted to let you know that JTV reached out to me off-wiki, via email, to try and get me to intercede in the ANI thread. Obviously not posting it on-wiki, but given that some of the diffs presented suggested that JTV has a pattern of off-wiki contact and attempted shepherding, thought I'd let you know. Happy to forward the email to you or any other administrator, as the relevant page suggests, if you need to evaluate it. Thanks, Ironholds ( talk) 13:16, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
Kevin: I'm not doubting your awareness, but just in case you might have forgotten: JTV didn't claim he had contacted only 1 other editor, he claimed to have 10 editors he had contacted that agreed to help him at AN/I and come out against me in the face of any complaint I would file against him. Considering not all editors he contacted would have/could have replied or did agree to help him, claiming to have 10 in the bag means he probably contacted more than 10. Even if his claim of 10 was a lie, that he would say such a thing shows he was knowingly telling the lie to scare me into not reporting him. That kind of threatening coercion is certainly against some form of policy. And if that scenario is true, it also causes me to wonder what he was so afraid of should a report occur (if he was as innocent as he has claimed). Again, not doubting your ability to make good decisions or see clearly what's happening, just bringing up points to consider. Thanks,-- WV ● ✉ ✓ 17:35, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
"I appeared hear to ask Bbb23 to intervene because of his familiarity with your AN 3RR issue, and I value Bbb23's fairness and approach (although we've never interacted, I've observed Bbb23's input on other matters). If you want to bring a report, go right ahead, I've already talked to 10 other users who are ready to discuss your disruptive and unproductive behavior, most you've crossed during the last few days. There are a lot of people who like me. Again, I advise you to heed WP:BOOMERANG."Also here [9]
"If you want to file a report go ahead, just be prepared for WP:BOOMERANG since (a) you're a difficult editor to deal with (b) you don't have clean hands and (c) you're not liked by several of the editors on the pages I've run into you on who also have had difficulty with you."The bolding was added by me. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 19:03, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
"Having edited other pages or areas with many editors, I engage with a lot of editors offsite". Then, as an afterthought, he later added:
"It was probably bluster, hoping he'd quit wasting his time and mine. I was sick of his crusade and my state of mind in extreme frustration with him was "let's nip this in the bud". Bad idea. HOWEVER:". I call BS. He doesn't know if it's "bluster" or not but probably was? Talk about weasel wording. Considering the afterthoughr he added (shown above, and reads totally like a CYA), I think he really did contact editors he believes would come out against me and support a boomerang (as he promised would happen). Note that no one posted anything at the AN/I supporting him and denouncing me. My belief is it happened that way because JTV outed his canvassing and the editors he contacted weren't stupid enough to post at the AN/I lest they also be outed as off-Wiki collaborators in such a scheme. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 19:31, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
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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 thread is Unblock of JackTheVicar. Thank you. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 07:49, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
It is my sincere desire to adhere to the conditions put upon me in response to the two ANIs that you presided over in response to accusations of me harassing another editor. I only need a bit more information so that I can do my best to comply. I don't want to create an uncomfortable or potential situation that would place the other editor in a place where they feel trapped, co-erced, incited or any other negative place. If you would be so kind to let me know if the other editors involved have restrictions placed on them and what they are. I am not going to their user pages or their talk pages to look for that information. But if you have laid out conditions for them I would like to know so that I can contact you if these conditions are not being met. Best Regards,
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I wrote an essay about my feeling about socialization between Wikipedians, although admittedly it's only really a draft currently. You can find it here. Comments welcome. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 17:28, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
I have unintentionally messed up on one of my guidelines and made an edit to the Sexual intercourse article. I forgot to review the article editing history before I made the edit. The edit consisted of updating a reference that was outdated issued by the World Health Organization. I assure you, it was an error and I will be more diligent in the future.
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Re your edit summary at Special:Diff/669103567, my apologies. I just copy-pasted the comment to your section. For the future, any particular preference? L235 ( t / c / ping in reply) 22:17, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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@ Kevin Gorman: I received word via the clerks list that you are not to worry about the extra 50 words. Don't worry about it. Liz Read! Talk! 22:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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Please full protect Târgu Mureș and University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș for edit warring. An editor is trying to unilaterally add biased information without any prior discussion on the talk page. 213.229.69.46 ( talk) 16:32, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Kevin. Are you sure protecting your userspace essay is a good idea? I done written me some userspace essays too, and other odds and ends, and it never occurred to me to protect any of them. Clearly you don't want to have to edit war against some idiot who insists on changing it — I don't either, and I might protect if that happened, but it hasn't yet. What's happened is that a few people have made rather nice suggestions, which I've sometimes let stand, sometimes not, compare the history here. Including playing good-natured games with me, as here. I find keeping them in userspace acts as protection in itself. I've sometimes regretted moving mine into Wikipedia space (once, frustrated, I AfD'd one that people thought was a good idea to change to mean the opposite, and it was indeed deleted), and nowadays I rarely do. Really, I'd advise you to think hard before you do that.
(If a non-admin user asked for preemptive full protection of their userspace essay before anything had happened to it, would you oblige?) Bishonen | talk 09:30, 30 June 2015 (UTC).
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I don't appreciate your hair-trigger assumptions of bad faith. You may think you're doing Wikipedia a service by slapping warnings on the pages of anyone who comments on the opposite side of a debate to your own, but I think you're doing quite the opposite. If I'm wrong, and you warn people on both sides of gender-related issues approximately equally, then I've misjudged you and I apologize. If I'm right in suspecting that you primarily warn people on a single side, I suggest you take a deep introspection and see whether some of the bias you're seeing is your own. JudahH ( talk) 04:29, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
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I have moved your proposed FoF to a (new) section under Proposals by Kevin Gorman as a formality issue (you placed your proposal under Monty845's section). - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 05:52, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
You're also missing your signatures in various locations on the proposals you made. - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 07:17, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
My watchlist is long, therefore I saw your nice note of appreciation (Talk AC) only now, thank you ;) - The discussion is closed where you answered the question about the stroll, but not yet "the best way to avoid drama would be to not even let reports get to AE". I worded a few thoughts regarding that in the workshop, what do you think? - The recommended book will be TFA on 19 July. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:28, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
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As a follow-up from this giant hullabaloo a couple of months ago that started here, Jack the Vicar is back to beating a dead horse and showing he won't accept his three-week block was a result of his own actions and no one else's. If you recall, JtV was initially blocked not only for incivility but for canvassing off Wikipedia, collecting a group of editors he said were on his side, and using that as a threat to keep me from filing an AN/I on him (the AN/I can be seen here.
Fast forward to present day. Please see
here for how today's incident started and has progressed. After promising to no longer interact with me (see here
[11], he not only continued to comment negatively about me, but he has continued to interact in a back-door manner with/against me at Liz's talk page. He even recognized (today) that his comments on her talk page equate interaction. For example, he wrote the following: "I'll no longer be commenting or replying here lest it be seen as interaction (as I haven't since that ANI)."
. He then almost immediately continued to back-door interact with this morphing: "I'll no longer be commenting or replying here lest it be seen as interaction (as I haven't been near him since that ANI)."
. And then added even more a while later: "I'll no longer be commenting or replying here lest it be seen as interaction (as I haven't been near him since that ANI) or give into his baiting."
. He said he would no longer be commenting, yet he has continued doing do by amending his original comments and adding more
poke-like wording. Once again, it seems as if JtV just won't accept or take accountability for his behavior and continues to do exactly what he said he wouldn't. I think he's not only broken his promise, but he's once again being disruptive to make a point and to exact some form of revenge. I'm asking you review what's happening to see what you think. --
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You might want to check out the latest stunt pulled by JtV: outing the person who forwarded the email he received from JtV to you:
[12]. --
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Jack the Vicar is back at it again in his attempts to sully and poison the well with more personal attacks against me.
Kevin, at JtV's talk page on May 30, 2015, you stated: "Follow NPA/Harrassment/etc in the future, or you will be blocked for a longer period of time"
(
comment is found here). How long must one put up with his personal attacks and negative comments because he won't drop the stick? In my opinion, he won't stop unless something impresses him that he must. I left
this on his talk page in regard to
this and
this. Per your instructions on your user page, I am pinging
Keilana as you seem to have been gone for a few weeks. --
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I feel like I've gotten you into a horrible mess. My only reason for coming to you was because you were the blocking admin previously and because you knew the situation (and the depth of it) completely. If anything drastic in regard to your status here comes of this, I will not be able to apologize enough. I'm already sick about how it has blown up and seems to be progressing. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 17:56, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
His rate of bad biting". Don't know that I would describe as "bad", since it was in response to Holyfield repetitively head-butting him, and after failed pleas by Tyson to the referee to have it stopped. IHTS ( talk) 13:56, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Competence is about judgement over multiple situations, not just blocking. Blocking can't be judged in percentages, as I explained earlier, as you aren't counting any block that made an editor just leave an not come back, which may not have happened for all I know, but it wouldn't be counted in this artificial and useless percentage stat. Using unblock as a measure of performance is fatally flawed and shouldn't be considered at all. How one handles a "bad block" once the community has decided it is a bad block, that speaks both to the character and competence of the admin. Again, Arbcom is littered with the spent admin bits of those that were too proud to admit they were wrong, and that has been the leading cause of desysopping for years: pride. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 00:51, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
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I called it a night expecting you to apologize to JackTheVicar but see it didn't happen.
You commented on my ideas to run a few steps of caution before reporting someone to AE. How about the same for blocks:
The image on my user page is a constant reminder of the message for which it was designed: "ps Every day, we lose what the wrongly blocked would have given that day. And a little bit of our souls." -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:47, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
I have created an article about you at Kevin Gorman (Wikipedian). Best, Everymorning (talk) 02:34, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
User Jack the Vicar is still doing the same crap - referencing me negatively and extremely, but this time as part of a list of what Administrator- hopefuls shouldn't be. He refuses to drop the stick. It's a personal attack and an extreme form of polemic. He really crossed the line this time, in my opinion. See
here (point #4). Last time around with JTV you stated on his talk page: "I've decided to just set a pattern. Don't talk about WV. Especially don't make comments about WV that violate NPA or civil. The first time you do, I'm going to block you for two weeks (which I'll be putting in to place momentarily.) Any future blocks by me for anything involving you and WV will be twice the length of the previous block." (
link here). It appears to me he is testing daring you, as well as the community, by blatantly ignoring your warning last time around. When is it going to stop? --
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Because I don't know when you will be around, I'm asking some other admins I trust to be notified of this, as well: Drmies, NeilN, Bbb23. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 16:52, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Having said that, JackTheVicar, that note in your RfA guidelines was not acceptable. We have an acronym somewhere that basically says "please don't write bad shit about other editors in your user space unless you are using it to prepare for an RfC/U", and that was clearly a violation thereof. Also, we don't have RfC/U anymore. I just worked with you, very pleasantly, on a GA (ha, I couldn't recall why your name was so familiar...the blessings of old age). You are clearly a valid content contributor. For his part, the same goes for Winkelvi. You may only see the stuff that gets him in hot water, but he frequently sticks his nose in what's already a hot mess, and frequently he's right. It is best for y'all to avoid each other, clearly. Actually, what's better is learning to work together (on article content) but that's probably too much to ask right now. So, Jack, I'll ask again--please take it easy. Winkelvi was justified in taking some offense to that comment, and I think you know that. My dear Winkelvi, try to keep some distance; I think you know that's best.
I know I'm giving no one exactly what they want; I suppose I'm an equal-opportunity enabler. But this has the potential of getting real unfriendly, and no one is going to like admins swinging their big sticks around during a shit storm. It splatters. All the best to both of you and, Kevin, to you too. Drmies ( talk) 18:05, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
I don't give a flying fuck about your contributions and editing. Really, I don't. I only care when you make comments like you did that are direct attacks against me and any other editor. Three matters at AN? I think not. But, tell me, with that comment, who's hounding whom? Actually, never mind. It doesn't matter to me. Just cut the shit, stay away from me, stop talking about me, and we will be fine. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 18:39, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello Kevin Gorman, I left a response to your suggestion at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Wikipedia_likes_Galactic_Exploration_for_Posterity_2015#LOL
My best regards, Geraldshields11 ( talk) 01:32, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center in LA on October 15! (drop-in any time, 10am-4pm)-- Pharos ( talk) 18:25, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Your statement seems to contradict itself:
I seriously doubt he consulted anyone prior to blocking Eric"
I'm sure Kirill also spoke to a large part of the uninvolved admin corps about whether or not they would be willing to possibly action Eric"
Maybe you can edit your statement to clarify. And, rather than guess whether Kirill consulted or spoke with anyone about this action prior to taking it, why don't you just ask him? I'm assuming that you've met him at conferences, so you know each other. Wbm1058 ( talk) 20:02, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
For the record, I had no communication with anyone regarding this block prior to having placed it." – Wbm1058 ( talk) 21:16, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
My conclusion is based primarily on the individual testimony of numerous administrators, who have personally told me on various occasions (the earliest being sometime in 2010, as I can recall) that they deliberately avoid intervening in incidents involving Eric for fear of harassment." OK, I get it now. Wbm1058 ( talk) 21:28, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Edit - oh, and as you pointed out, my statement was really just backing up Kirill's own statement based on my own experience with the situation. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 22:42, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
I've had a few of the Balvenies, but I really enjoyed the Balvenie 17 yr Madeira cask. I just bought the Ardbeg Uigeadail and, so far, am not disappointed. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 05:10, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
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For the Arbitration Committee, Amortias ( T)( C) 17:01, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
I'm pinging the only three candidates currently volunteering to be arbcom election commissioners to this page, on the grounds that in all likelihood they will become election commissioners, though I welcome comments from others. @ Mdann52, Mike V, and Guy Macon:
As I read the answers above, they say that the electoral committee should stay completely out of it, but others can do what they want. So I'll suggest that Kevin ask the WMF to set up a notification system. I suspect they may not be able to do this so quickly, but ... well there's no rule against it and it would promote the common good. Also, any editor could set up their own notification system, if users asked them to be reminded. Sure it would be difficult for one editor to remind more than a hundred or so potential voters, but 100 voters could decide the election. I emphasize that the potential voters would have to ask to be reminded, otherwise somebody is sure to cry "canvassing". Does that pass muster with everyone? Smallbones( smalltalk) 15:49, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
FWIW, I used to vote in Arb elections. But ever since it was changed to make it more difficult to cast your vote, I gave up. I'm not going to give out any information on myself, in order to cast a vote. GoodDay ( talk) 20:36, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Kevin, have you gotten any of my latest emails? It's past stuff now. I mean, your opinion is still welcomed, but I'm not as concerned about the matters anymore. Still, I want to make sure that you've received the emails. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 06:43, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
The Brilliant Idea Barnstar | |
For your proposal
Enfranchising voters in arbcom elections.
It has only potential upside. It's free. It increases democratic participation in elections. It comes at a time when voter turnout has been decreasing. It's an easy solution. This is a brilliant idea. |
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You've got another one coming but without the gargantuan section header this time. 😊 Atsme 📞 📧 02:00, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Don't you think you probably should have talked with Mike V or those at ArbCom before making such a public declaration like this? Pretty much what you've now said - in my estimation - is that MikeV and others looking at the situation from a completely different perspective than is available to you are full of shit. That's how I see it, anyway. I know you aren't saying that intentionally, because I don't think you are that kind of person. But, declaring someone absolutely isn't who a CU has determined them to be without talking to the CU first is risky, don't you think? -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 01:52, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something silly. |
More to come. Check my (un)deletion log. — Earwig talk 02:41, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
"Which is easier: having individual deletion debates about 80,000 creates where less than 800 end with 'don't delete', or mass-deleting and simply restoring the less than 800 that have value?"Again, I see no evidence of these numbers being accurate. The problem is that there are so many things being conflated by one deletion job (tons of useless redirects [likely mostly worth deleting], linked disambiguation pages [need individual review], templates [
What was wrong with L. rubricaulis that you deleted? -- Dweller ( talk) 15:52, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi
For future reference explicit permission (ie by clerks or arbitrators on-wiki or via mailing list where the request can be seen by those involved) should be sought before clerk actions are undone. I can see no issue with the addition of the evidence but I would run it past the arbs mailing list to be on the safe side. Amortias ( T)( C) 22:13, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kevin; I closed your Arbcom election proposal at WP:AN as passed, with some comments. Just to let you know! -- Errant ( chat!) 12:00, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
The thread was closed, so here's your content. You may be able to use it elsewhere. Please be mindful that when you are running for office, you have to be careful to avoid the appearance of campaigning on boards meant for Wikipedia operations, other than the actual WP:ACE2015 pages themselves where campaigning is welcome. Good luck with the election. It's quite an experience. Jehochman Talk 08:38, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
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Dear Kevin Gorman, just checking in. I can't seem to locate the page created that contain the guidelines regarding my block a few month ago. I have begun to edit medical articles and noticed that there may be some interaction between myself and another editor for whom I do not wish to cause discomfort or distress. Also, when I am looking at the page that tracks the number of edits and article creations that I have, it states that I had a six month block when it really was only a few days. Can you fix that, too? Best Regards,
There are various revdel posts, and off-wiki items which you may not be aware of. Even without those, there are plenty of on-wiki items with multiple editors which show disruptive editing. The fact that I have warned RO in the past is not a valid "involved" argument. I stand by my block. — Ched : ? 18:54, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Howdy Kevin. If I may clarify things. Cassianto & co, did not insert gender in the ANI discussion about RO's behaviour/conduct. More importantly, the gender issue should be avoided at that discussion, IMHO :) GoodDay ( talk) 20:38, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Please clear the list. Some reports are still there. I filed few pages yesterday which were being vandalized. -- Galaxy Kid ( talk) 01:52, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
I've sent you a inquiry for the Signpost's coverage of the election, via Meta. Tony (talk) 04:41, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Just pointing this out to any TPS who aren't on wiki-research - there's a new, quite cool pageview API out now supported by WMF - you can find it here, along with a demo of one of the kinds of things that can be done with it here. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 18:23, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Think I put on the protection you intended to. [16] -- NeilN talk to me 19:00, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
[17] Best, Drmies ( talk) 18:50, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello again, I'm reading over the signpost, and am finding that some of the questions I thought were obvious agree-answers sometimes result in disagree-answers. Of course, the numeric answer just leads to more questions, about the reason behind the numeral. So here I am. Can you fill me in on why you are "[un]satisfied with the ternary [oppose–neutral–support] voting system for [the annual] ArbCom elections" which was question#T. Or if you have you posted something about it elsewhere, feel free to direct me thither. I always thought the approval-voting scheme used by arbcom was pretty decent, better than instant run-off voting (used e.g. in Oakland and SFO elections), and better than first past the post (used in USA federal elections) by far. SecurePoll bangvoting is one of the few places where wikipedia is permitted to act as a leading indicator following best practices, rather than a trailing indicator which reflects the nominally reliable sources, as we do in mainspace. This is not a high-priority question, clearly, since probably I'm the only wikipedian curious enough to ask about the underlying rationale here, but when you have a spare moment, I'm definitely curious. Thanks, 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 00:29, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
So my idea picking 3 individuals one loves, 3 individuals one doesn't love, and 3 individuals in the middle to vote for ain't so bad! (Hope ya don't mind a bit of drive-by talking!) -- MurderByDeadcopy "bang!" 04:55, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
with FPTP there are mathematically only going to ever be two major parties, from the perspective of a country whose FPTP electoral map looks like this.) ‑ iridescent 10:41, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
You full-protected this page without an AFD notice, and there is an AFD currently running at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allie X (2nd nomination). (There was also a duplicate 3rd nom, but I closed that one.) Could an AFD notice be re-added to the page? Thanks, shoy ( reactions) 18:39, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Just an FYI but this Q & A was removed. I haven't even read it but there may be some drama with that so either way you feel like handling it. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 00:05, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current
Arbitration Committee election. The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia
arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose
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arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to
review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on
the voting page. For the Election committee,
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talk) 14:30, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Wow, voter turnout is amazing this year. Great idea about the talk page notifications. I'm really curious to see how this will affect the outcome. Mark Arsten ( talk) 00:08, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello!
Yay! I am able to vote in this election - it is the first time for me [Thanks for having the voting announcement sent to me]!
I am thinking that it might help the gender imbalance if I Support the female candidates and Oppose the male candidates. Sort of like my own personal version of Title IX. I believe that each of us should do what we can to make a difference.
Can you tell me where to find the information about the sex of each Arbcom Candidate? I don't want to have to ask each individual candidate. I suppose that if I'm unsure or a candidate's sex, I can check the "Neutral" choice for those candidates.
I believe that you are a male candidate, and perhaps it would be against your interests to help me to support the female candidates as it would mean I'd be voting against you - so I'll understand if you choose not to help me with this.
Thanks, Uncle uncle uncle 15:09, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
"Even where there is no finding of a Title IX violation, a recipient may take affirmative steps consistent with the law to overcome the effects of conditions that resulted in limited participation of persons of a particular sex in the recipients education program or activity."
Would you mind taking a minute to help me understand how a specific situation is allowed per policy? Please take a look at this (it spells out my query and I'd rather not copy and paste). Since the editor/admin I left the message for seems to be ignoring my query, I'm bringing it here, hoping you will help out. I simply don't get why one would do what's being done and if it's even within allowable guidelines. My gut tells me there is intentional scrutiny avoidance going on. If no policy is being violated, I'm fine with that, I'd just like to know how there's no policy being violated. Thanks, -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 02:30, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Kevin, I just answered your question--sorry I'm a day late. If this is about a case I should know about, maybe a case on which I have said something or other, please fill me in, privately if you like; it is entirely possible I have forgotten. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 15:44, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
I was reading a thread off wiki and someone claiming to be you said they deleted diffs off of this page that were critical of you. Other people on that thread who claimed to be Wikipedians, indeed other people claiming to be admins and former arbitrators said it was an abuse of your tools. Now I don't know if these people are who they claim to be (you included), so I thought I'd ask you. If you DID use your tools in such a manner, even if you made a mistake, could you please report yourself to the Admin board and see what your fellow admins think you should do? Even if you don't think you did anything wrong, it would be best if you got a few opinions on the matter, especially with you running for Arbcom and all. If this wasn't you, then please accept my apologies for the intrusion and have a happy day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.112.165 ( talk) 14:59, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Kevin undeleted each and every revision that he had deleted, so this is well into no-harm-no-foul territory. Aside from lurid interest, there's really nothing to talk about here. -- SB_Johnny | talk✌ 03:37, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for standing in the election. The more choices the better. From my own experience long ago I know how hard it can be. Jehochman Talk 18:40, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Please take one more look-see. Since this is all about interaction bans, you probably have to be the one to contact the other editors that are mentioned on this page so that they don't have to deal with me directly. Please put a line through all the guidelines that are no longer in effect. Please bold the guidelines that will continue to apply to my editing I have agreed to and for which you have concurred. Please inform the other editors in question concerning the behavior that you expect from them and the reciprocal courtesies that I am asking for. Please weigh in on my comments on the Child grooming. This is the next step because I have reached my 'three revert' limit and the problem is still not resolved and has not progressed in the past six months. The Very Best of Regards,
I'm sorry to be a nuisance, but is there anything you can do to stop WordSeventeen and Zpeopleheart from being disruptive, at least until the request for closure or a consensus is verified/reached for the ANI report? They chilled out for a little bit, but they just seem to be starting up again over at the Allie X page.Thanks. Edit: I notice that you protected it; thank you. He isn't even able to maintain civility on the Requests for Closure page. SanctuaryXStop talking in codes 21:09, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks, WormTT( talk) 10:29, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for weighing in at the education noticeboard, and for placing such clear objections. I started this because I have seen several poor outcomes. I have no idea what if any, eventual decisions will be made, and I don't intend to argue with folk unless asked a direct question. I simply hope to get the widest discussion possible out of which I anticipate some good will come. We can always improve. My idea may be wholly incorrect. I shall not be thanking everyone, but, since you were the first to object I thought it only right to thank you. Fiddle Faddle 23:22, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
This may amuse you. It seems I got the attention of the prof and the course. Fiddle Faddle 19:06, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Kevin,
I don't believe it was the best action to unblock the accounts. As the block notice stated, it was a checkuser block and you should have discussed it with myself or another checkuser for review. In addition, I would have appreciated it if you left a message on my talk page to discuss the issue before unblocking the accounts. Our blocking policy is quite clear on the matter. As I'm sure you know, there is technical evidence at play that prevents you from having the full picture. I can't elaborate per the privacy policy, but I will say there's a possibility that what the individual is saying is not necessarily true. I'm presently reaching out to a second checkuser to get a second opinion on the matter. Mike V • Talk 23:44, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
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7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 16:16, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
it was an astoundingly good result! Thanks for running. Smallbones( smalltalk) 21:11, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Kevin, I see you are having trouble editing down your statement here. So I had a go, and this is what I suggest:
I then suggest you write nothing further about the case, either there or on anyone's talk pages, until the thing begins.
(And if you had written this at the start, my bet is that you would have avoided a case entirely.)
This is serious advice, for your best interests. -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 20:53, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Kevin Gorman. I'm an arbitration clerk, which means I help manage and administer the arbitration process (on behalf of the committee). Thank you for making a statement in an arbitration request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case. However, we ask all participants and commentators to limit the size of their initial statements to 500 words. Your statement significantly exceeds this limit. Please reduce the length of your statement when you are next online. If the case is accepted, you will have the opportunity to present more evidence; and concise, factual statements are much more likely to be understood and to influence the decisions of the Arbitrators. Right now, your statement is 1270 words and only 500 words (with a little cushion) is allowed for the case requests. Word limits for named parties are 1000 words on the case evidence phase.
Requests for extensions of the word limit may be made either in your statement or by email to the Committee through this link or arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org if email is not available through your account.
For the Arbitration Committee, Liz Read! Talk! 20:58, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
I found your responses to my questions (ACE2015) to be thoughtful and am surprised at the animus some seem to have about you personally, even going so far as to take pot-shots at you in the RFAR, etc. I noted there "ArbCom has a quite poor record when used as a shooting gallery, at best" which I regard as true here as ever. With warm regards ... Collect ( talk) 01:26, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Am I missing something here? I want to collaborate, limit unpleasant interactions and improve an article. Do you have any advice? Best Regards,
Kevin, I'm really sorry to see that an Arb case is about to be accepted. Some unsolicited advice: don't read the evidence page until closer to the end of the evidence phase. Then address it all in one go. Otherwise you're going to be fretting, and if the case continues at length, it will ruin the holidays for you. Also, the more you say, the greater the danger of saying the wrong thing. So: keep it succinct, apologize for any mistakes made, explain how they happened if that can be done clearly, and then just hope for the best. If I can help in any way, please let me know. SarahSV (talk) 04:39, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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I would therefore be grateful if you could submit any additional evidence as soon as possible.
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Hello again, I'm reading over the signpost, and am finding that some of the questions I thought were obvious agree-answers sometimes result in disagree-answers. Of course, the numeric answer just leads to more questions, about the reason behind the numeral. So here I am. Can you fill me in on why you are "[un]satisfied with the ternary [oppose–neutral–support] voting system for [the annual] ArbCom elections" which was question#T. Or if you have you posted something about it elsewhere, feel free to direct me thither. I always thought the approval-voting scheme used by arbcom was pretty decent, better than instant run-off voting (used e.g. in Oakland and SFO elections), and better than first past the post (used in USA federal elections) by far. SecurePoll bangvoting is one of the few places where wikipedia is permitted to act as a leading indicator following best practices, rather than a trailing indicator which reflects the nominally reliable sources, as we do in mainspace. This is not a high-priority question, clearly, since probably I'm the only wikipedian curious enough to ask about the underlying rationale here, but when you have a spare moment, I'm definitely curious. Thanks, 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 00:29, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
So my idea picking 3 individuals one loves, 3 individuals one doesn't love, and 3 individuals in the middle to vote for ain't so bad! (Hope ya don't mind a bit of drive-by talking!) -- MurderByDeadcopy "bang!" 04:55, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
with FPTP there are mathematically only going to ever be two major parties, from the perspective of a country whose FPTP electoral map looks like this.) ‑ iridescent 10:41, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
This case shall be suspended from December 22nd, 2015 to January 2nd, 2016.
For the Arbitration Committee, Amortias ( T)( C) 20:16, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
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As a kibitzer but an experienced one in this context, may I opine for the benefit of any interested arbitrators, clerks, parties and passersby that this case has featured far too much focus on the nuances of arbitration procedures, word limits and the like. Those things exist as aids to a fair, well-informed, and reasonably expeditious determination of a case, not as ends in themselves.
I respectfully counsel Kevin Gorman that he should be posting far less of his personal medical information on this website. Newyorkbrad ( talk) 17:33, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Kev - please keep an eye out for email correspondence that grants access to BMJ and AAAS - I have received positive correspondence indicating the corrections. Atsme 📞 📧 03:23, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
I have some things to say to you Kevin. Some of it is my thoughts personally. Would you rather I post here on your talk .. at the AC ... or in email? — Ched : ? 04:15, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind me commenting Kevin, I know I've got under your skin and have tried my best to keep my involvement in the arbcom case to an absolute minimum in deference to that fact. I don't think I'd use quite such colourful language as Ched, but I do agree with his sentiment. You made 3 errors breaking some of the most basic administrator rules in 2 weeks. The first two were undone quickly at my intervention. The third lead me to start a case to review your actions, which went on to highlight the more pressing issue - how you present yourself. Ched isn't the first person to comment that you seem to believe yourself above the rules. With the "above the rules" comment in mind, could you explain this? I can tell you how it looks, but I'd like to hear your thoughts. WormTT( talk) 07:39, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Jimmy knows that. It's being discussed above in User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#New_WMF_trustee_Arnnon_Geshuri, and I mentioned it in my opening comment. Would you please consider either deleting it or moving it up to the thread addressing Geshuri? -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 00:15, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kevin Gorman, a remedy or finding of fact has been proposed relating to you in the ongoing Kevin Gorman arbitration case. Please review the remedy or finding of fact and feel free to comment at the proposed decision talk page. Thanks. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 01:11, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
"This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above."
The following remedies have been enacted
4) For consistently poor judgment in undertaking administrative actions following a formal admonishment, Kevin Gorman is desysopped. He may regain the administrative tools at any time via a successful request for adminship. Passed 13 to 2 at 17:53, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
For the Arbitration Committee Amortias ( T)( C) 18:08, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
My opinion of your good answers to my ACE2015 questions is unchanged. Best wishes for sure. Collect ( talk) 15:04, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
As you know, you are no longer an admin, so you might want to rewrite your userpage to reflect that fact. Everymorning (talk) 22:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
I was just trying to make a suggestion and give him advice, because I felt it was important people not think he's an admin when they look at his userpage if he isn't, as is now the case. I'm not trying to gravedance, contrary to Winkelvi's assumption of bad faith above. Everymorning (talk) 02:53, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
Arbcom isn't well known for being right too often. I'm sorry to see another person be bent over by the mob. You know where I stand with your opinions but was sorry to see this happen to you at any rate. Come back refreshed and when you are ready and if that time never comes that's ok too if it's the right choice for you. Hell in a Bucket ( talk) 01:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC) |
Hit with rocks, when a bag of gravel would have done the trick. Unfortunate when sense-making is not used and we have decisions like that. Best of luck with the rest of your volunteer work. <sigh> — billinghurst sDrewth 06:44, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Education Leaders at WISE Doha 2015 introducing Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt to WISE Conference attendees, as an example of a program in the Arab World, to share their experience to inspire other universities and institutions starting new programs in the area.
WISE 2015 Sessions and Plenaries were designed around three main pillars such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals; education and the economy; fostering innovation in education systems. Each pillar examined a variety of key topics including: the linkages between education, employment, and entrepreneurship; education reform and innovation in the MENA region and Qatar; emerging models of education financing, attracting, rewarding and retaining quality teachers; and the importance of investing in early childhood development.
Representatives of Wikipedia Education Program Walaa Abdel Manaem and Reem Al-Kashif participated in WISE Doha 2015 in Qatar, the annual World Innovation Summit for Education is the premier international platform dedicated to innovation and creative action in education where top decision-makers share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink education. Also, WISE 2015 was the first global education conference following the ratification of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. Contributions ranged from Arabic Brochure of Editing Wikipedia for students in WEP in Egypt and everybody who would like to edit Wikipedia without problems, The Arabic version of Welcome to Wikipedia reference guideline, PDF of brochure handed out during Arabic Wikipedia Convening, Doha, Qatar, 2011 and Introduction to Wikipedia. These contributions are related to show a case study of Wikipedia Education program in Egypt and how it worked since February 2012 till the November 2015, as the seventh edition ended last October. All discussions were about the program's mechanism and what were the motivations keeping it going. The program helped increasing gender diversity and supported the featured content on Arabic Wikipedia. Wikipedia Education Program, like any other initiative, has achievements and dark sides, for that reason, the representatives had to locate both of them and how they influence the Arabic community and how the community interact with this phenomenon.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education program in the Arab World here (in Arabic).
Snippet: A first-of-its-kind, for-credit, elective course that focuses on contributing to Wikipedia has opened at Tel Aviv University and is now available to all B.A. students on campus
On October 19th a new for-credit elective course called "Wikipedia: Skills for producing and consuming knowledge" [1] has opened at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The semester-long course (13 weeks) is available to all B.A. students on campus and this semester about 50 students from various disciplines are taking part in this first-of-its-kind course in Israel.
The course draws from "flipped classroom" concepts and uses "blended learning" methods, which practically means combining in-class lectures, workshops and small-group activities, as well as online individual learning. Both the Moodle learning management system (LMS) and the Wikipedia Education Extension are used to monitor the students' work and progress throughout the course.
The course has 2 main assignments - expanding an existing stub, as well as writing a new article, in the hopes that the content added during the course will assist not only the students themselves, but also future generations of learners as well as the general public. Though the course focuses on adding quality content to Wikipedia, it also aims to help students sharpen their academic skills and their 21st century skills, highlighting collaborative learning, joint online research and interdisciplinary collaborations in the process of constructing knowledge.
This course was initiated and is led by Shani Evenstein, an educator, Wikimedian and member of the Wikipedia Education Collaborative, in collaboration with the Orange Institute for Internet Studies, as well as the School of Education at TAU. The syllabus for the new course builds on the success of Wiki-Med, a for-credit elective course, which was designed in 2013 and is led by Evenstein at the Sackler school of Medicine for the third consecutive year. While Wiki-med is focused on contributing medical content to Wikipedia and is only available to Medical Students on campus, the new course is designed to accommodate students from different academic disciplines and varying backgrounds.
The course was chosen to be part of TAU's cross-discipline elective courses system ("Kelim Shluvim") and was approved by the Vice-Rector, who heads the program. In that, the course marks an important precedent in the collaboration between Academia and the Wikipedia Education Program, as it is the first time a higher institution acknowledges the importance of a course focusing on Wikipedia on a university level, offering it to all students, rather than a faculty level or individual lecturers as mostly practiced. It is our hope that other higher education institutions will follow this example and offer similar courses to students both in Israel and around the world.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Israel here.
By Melina Masnatta, Wikimedia Argentina
Snippet: University professors become Wikipedians in an online course during just a week.
Educators with different profiles and from different latin america countries, but most of them professors at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) from different faculties, have just participated in the online training and free course "Educational scenarios with technology. Among the real and the possible" organized by the Center for Innovation in Technology and Pedagogy (CITEP) of this university.
Different educational activities were carried out simultaneously. During the week and under the topic “Open movement”, Wikimedia Argentina participated with three different proposals: starting with an interview of Patricio Lorente accompanied with a short text to know more about the movement. To make an immersive experience we designed " Knowing Wikipedia by first-hand or Wikipedia in the first person" to work directly on the platform translating articles from english to spanish from a list created especially for that purpose. Along with this specific proposal, educators participated in a videoconference with Galileo Vidoni (available in Spanish), where participants could talk and learn more about how are the first steps to become a Wikipedian and the importance of the movement at the local and regional level.
With only seven days and without being mandatory, different educators discovered how to edit on Wikipedia, indeed many of them mentioned that they had it as a pending to learn and participate on the free encyclopedia, but never had the time or the real chance. The enthusiasm was also present on social networks, where they shared the experience with the hashtag #escenariostec.
The result
More than 100 educators got involved and exchanged their experience in an online forum with more of 280 messages that reflected their learning process while experiencing with the activity. 80 of them were new users, and they created 61 new articles in spanish. An important fact: 78 of them were women, which means that working with educators is a key issue to continue closing the digital gender gap.
Finally from CITEP, they shared the following insights regarding the question that ran through all the activities that took place during the week dedicated to the open movement. Some thoughts can be sum up as follows:
The collaborative production in open environments: chaos or construction? (...) For the teacher also means accepting new challenges: encourage students to produce knowledge in an environment of divergent nature, it requires permanent operations and convergence. In a space that fosters interventions unmarked, the teacher needs to frame depending on the purpose of education and teaching purposes. (…) Wikipedia is the best example of the challenges posed by the digital era in the educational field, it forces us to rethink the relationship between technology and the production of knowledge and allows us to confirm that the collaborative work does not lead to chaos, if not to the construction. (. ..) [Authors: Angeles Solectic and Miri Latorre]
We share some of the voices of the protagonists in social networks with storify (available in Spanish). Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.
By Vojtěch Dostál (Wikimedia Czech Republic)
Snippet: The second largest university in the Czech Republic has employed a Wikipedian in residence, leading to a boom of Wikimedia activities in the city of Brno.
Collaboration between Wikipedia and Czech institutions has always been a priority for Wikimedia Czech Republic, but the year 2015 has taken this to another level. First, an official memorandum of collaboration with the National Heritage Institute (NPÚ) was signed in May 2015, to be followed by official collaboration with Masaryk University in Brno (the second largest city and university in the Czech Republic), which was contracted in November 2015. In fact, Wikimedia activities in Brno have been blooming for several years now, mainly as a result of the community's own development, but aided substantially by the external interest in Wikipedia by Masaryk University alumni society, demonstrated as early as March 2013.
In February 2015, the university employed one of the most experienced Czech Wikipedians – Marek Blahuš ( Blahma) – who was appointed to become the university's first " Wikipedian in residence". Marek Blahuš has been in the center of the Wikimedia community in Brno for about two years, organizing regular Wikipedia meetups, the 2014 edition of the annual WikiConference ( more in English here) and creating the Czech-Slovak Wikipedia translation tool, which has famously led to the creation of >9000 articles on Czech and Slovak Wikipedias ( more in English here). His current work as Wikipedian in residence is funded by Masaryk University and runs under the patronage of Wikimedia Czech Republic as well as Masaryk University's rector Mikuláš Bek.
Since February, Wikipedia has taken a prominent role within Masaryk University. Marek Blahuš started a "Masaryk University Wikipedians team", gathering local Wikipedians and facilitating contacts with the university, aided by his status of a graduate and current employee in its language center. Articles about Masaryk University alumni and faculties have been identified and improved after consultations with Masaryk University archives and libraries which provided helpful resources. Wikipedia citation templates can now be directly generated from the university's on-line archive of theses. In September, a public conference called " Masaryk University Is Getting High on Wikipedia" took place on university grounds, featuring the experienced Wikipedian Jan Sokol ( Sokoljan), who is a philosopher, university teacher and a former presidential candidate. The talks focused on the use of Wikipedia in university education, in line with the successful Czech " Students Write Wikipedia" program. One of the teachers, Jiří Rambousek, expressed his desire to organize a Wikipedia Club as a regular meetup where articles would be improved in a collaborative effort and new editors introduced to Wikipedia.
The program is actively preparing for 2016 when we expect Wikimedia Czech Republic to take a more active role in overseeing the initiatives as well as the creation of a position of a "Wikipedian in Brno" – person officially in charge of the wide array of Wikimedia activities happening in the city. The chapter's annual plan includes initiatives to increase the number of university courses which incorporate Wikipedia into the curriculum, public presentations of Wikipedia at various events, scanning and uploading of images from institutional and personal archives, and much more. Let's wish that our plans come true!
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in the Czech Republic here.
By Leigh Thelmadatter (Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey)
Snippet: Student participation is more than just text!
For the Fall 2015 Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey held two wiki expeditions in Mexico City and began a collaboration with the Museo de Arte Popular. We also received our first grant!
The 32-campus Tec de Monterrey system has each semester an event called "Semana i" (i Week), when students forego normal classes for an entire week to work on challenging projects called "retos." For the Mexico City and Santa Fe campuses, one option for students was to work with Wikimedia, with the aptly named projects " Reto Wikimedia." Both campuses opted to do wiki-expeditions to different parts of Mexico City. The Mexico City campus had the larger group with almost 90 students registered, who covered the two southern boroughs of Xochimilco and Tlalpan. The Santa Fe group had 35 participants, and covered the San Ángel neighborhood found not far from this campus.
Both campus took photos of landmarks with the Mexico City campus also focusing on photos of everyday life in the south of the city. The Mexico City campus tallied 5264 photos, 8 videos and 36 articles, including articles related to the area into French, Swedish and Danish. The Santa Fe group tallied 605 photos, and ten articles in Spanish on landmarks in San Ángel.
In addition, the Mexico City campus had a special speaker the borough chronicler of Xochmilco, Sebastián Flores Farfán. A short montage video of the event is in the works.
Some student photos:
Some video clips of the event:
Wikiservicio, students working with Wikimedia for their community service requirement, added a new component. To attract more students and encourage more students to do all of their community service hours with Wikimedia, a collaboration was set up with the Museo de Arte Popular (MAP)... the first of many we hope! Six students from the digital art and animation major (see last newsletter) have continued working with Wikimedia, but focusing their efforts in creating short animation clips in relation to the mission of promoting and preserving Mexican folk art. One clip has been completed and can be see to the right of this text. So far, the video has subtitles in English, German, French and Punjabi. A second clip is nearing completion at the time of this writing.
Fifteen students completed work with Wikiservicio doing translations, writing new articles and doing photography projects. As of this date, 7 have indicated interest in working with Wikiservicio on campus and another six with MAP.
Five university level classes and one high school class on the Mexico City (South) campus have had projects, all in writing and translation, with some video work.
Wikimetrics for the semester are:
According to Wikimetrics tool....
Manual count
First grant Wiki Learning received its first grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. The long-term goal of this grant is to establish a system for financing Wiki Learning. The grant, which totals a modest 12,500 Mexican pesos, will be used for swag, such as t shirts, stickers, buttons, etc, especially for Semana i activities and promotion of wiki activities to other campus. The money will also be used for incidental travel expenses, especially for projects needing to move expensive camera equipment.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Mexico here.
By Christian Cariño (Wikimedia México) and Melina Masnatta (Wikimedia Argentina)
Snippet: Aprender para Educar writes about Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina.
The digital free magazine Aprender para Educar (Learning to educate) of the National Technological University (UTN) is recognized in the community of education and technology in Argentina to write about innovation issues in Spanish, which is not common in the academic dissemination and teacher training field.
Cristina Velazquez, general editor of the magazine invited Wikimedia Argentina to write an article that generally describes their activities in the Education Program, after reading the proposal she decided to publish it as the main article of the 12th edition.
To describe the education program, WMAR wrote two notes completing one another, as doing a zoom: from the local to the global and from the global to the local, showing how a movement of this magnitude does not stand alone, it is part of a huge network.
Melina Masnatta, education manager in WMAR and Patricio Lorente, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees wrote those two notes.The first one focuses on the Education Program, implementation, challenges and obstacles that they had at the beginning, plans to integrate it into the classrooms in Argentina and how different Wikimedia Projects are also relevant in education. The most important thing, Melina adds, is to strengthen the values that inspire them, show how the free culture give meaning to education in general and digital culture in particular.
Meanwhile in the second part, Lorente focuses on the global movement, the community pillars, the agenda of today's challenges and the effort of their volunteers as protagonists. It is not easy show the world what drives us and why we work as volunteers in different countries. In education very few people understand the value of building free knowledge. There is still a great prejudice or negative perceptions of Wikipedia in the classroom because teachers ignore how Wikipedia is built.
Everybody reads Wikipedia, but few people edit it. We can change this fact by spreading in spaces such as the Journal of the UTN and inviting more people to collaborate and be the protagonist of this huge collective work for humanity.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Online ambassador helped spanish students course in Cairo University to nominate their articles, scoring an exceptional record of WEP excellent content.
Bassem Fleifel, an online ambassador of Cairo university spanish course, played a prominent role to help all students to encourage them to nominate their excellent content to be a featured and good articles in Arabic Wikipedia. Those articles are History of bread (Featured article); Walt Disney; Daniel Radcliffe; Al- Andalus; Poet in New York; and Popol Vuh.
The seventh term, the program started in Cairo University with promoting posts on Wikipedia and social media websites to help new participants understand the general idea of the program as well as holding meetings with professors from the departments of History, chinese, English language and Spanish language. Walaa Abdel Manaem (program leader in Cairo University) and Bassem Fleifel (online ambassador) have held some workshops in campus and online for the whole students to teach them "How to edit Wikipedia". On the other hand, Prof. Abeer Abdel-Hafiz has exerted great efforts with her students in addition to introducing Walaa to new classes of senior students for whom she has organized general seminars about Wikipedia and the education program. At the same time Walaa was assigning her Spanish department students of the first and second year to edit Wikipedia.
This term, Prof. Abeer let the chance to her students to choose any articles they would like to translate from the Spanish Wikipedia to the Arabic Wikipedia or working on articles about history. They already have chosen some articles to translate with the target of nominating them to be a featured and good articles.
Most of students worked on articles about different topics like history, writers, actors, history of food and drink, mayan literature, islam and politics, etc. This course itself achieved an exceptional record of Wikipedia Education program excellent content and the best term ever in the history of WEP in Egypt in general and in the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University in specific. Walaa has held 2 online webinars to follow up with her students in addition to the workshops held at the campus. Regarding numbers, 38 students joined this course, of which 35 are female and 3 are male students. They worked on 1748 articles adding more than 12,282,943 million bytes to the article namespace on the Arabic Wikipedia, with the help of the online ambassador, who also participated as a student.
See the course page of this group on the Arabic Wikipedia here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
By Jorid Martinsen (Wikimedia Norge)
Snippet: This fall masters students in History and Archeology at the University of Oslo take on the task of Wikipedia editing as one of the main parts in a subject on communication of History.
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest higher education institution, and it is the first time Wikimedia Norway collaborates with this University in forming and using Wikipedia editing as a integrated part of higher education. The collaboration started by Wikimedia Norway contacting assistant professor John McNicol, who already had gotten some media attention on his eagerness to make students skilled in knowledge sharing.
Starting off with a two hour lecture on the secret world of Wikipedia and a two hour editing workshop in mid-September, and in October the students will evaluate the life of their articles. Has there been many additional edits on their articles? Discussions? Request to delete everything? For Wikimedia Norge it is fun to see the students both engaging in Wikipedia editing and using the ways of Wikipedia to discuss how knowledge is formed.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Norway here.
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, I would like to personally invite you to the March edition of the Wik-Ed Women meetup, which will take place on March 15, from 6-10 in the evening. It will occur at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 2245 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90021 (downtown LA -- map). The building has a pink top with old signage for American Accessories, Inc. dba Princess Accessories ( Photos [PDF]). There is on-site parking in the back, which also has an entrance. If you cannot attend in person, you are more than willing to work remotely, as we appreciate all help that you can provide. Finally, here is a link to the Facebook event, in case you want to invite friends, as we are always looking for new editors to help expand coverage of women on Wikipedia! I hope to see you there! Cosmicphantom ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 05:54, 15 March 2016 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
I was saddened to see the outcome of the Arb case. I hope you find the work that you do is not hampered too badly by your lack of janitorial supplies. Fiddle Faddle 20:04, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
Been thinking about you Kevin. I'm working on a project you might love. Lynn (SLW) ( talk) 02:23, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Please keep an eye on me and provide suggestions to promote good faith, good will, congeniality. Best Regards,
You have expressed interest in the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium, so you may be interested in attending the GLAM Boot Camp next month in Washington, DC. This is a training designed to help Wikipedians interested in guiding museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions in wiki engagement. Travel funding available for those in North America. Since the event is coming up soon, please be sure to add your name to the page if you are interested -- and please pass this announcement along. (You may want to share on Facebook or on Twitter.) Thanks for your interest! - MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 04:24, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
My apologies - here is the link for the GLAM Boot Camp mentioned above: Wikipedia:GLAM/Boot Camp. - Pete ( talk) 04:30, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.
We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.
Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.
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I am being accused of some not very nice things and would like you to become involved due to your very intimate knowledge of interactions between myself and other editors. Here Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ( talk) 19:22, 14 June 2016 (UTC) also known as Bfpage
The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.
We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have:
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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area will gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. We have two brief presentations lined up for our kickoff event in downtown San Francisco:
We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.
Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.
For further details, see here: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, April 2016
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We hope you can join us today, Wednesday, from 6 p.m. on, at our July Bay Area WikiSalon. This month only, we are going to be at Noisebridge, a hackerspace/makerspace 1.5 blocks from the 16th & Mission BART station (see the link for directions). Some of us will be working on the Wikipedia article on basic income. All info here. Some good news - we do not have to be as strict about advance RSVP at Noisebridge, so bring spontaneous guests! ( Registering ahead of time is still helpful, as always, as it will help us plan ahead.)
Come and hang out, have some light snacks. Wi-Fi is available, so please bring your editing device if you plan to edit.
Also, Pete just published a writeup of the Wikidojo exercise we did last month. Your comments welcome, if he missed anything! http://wikistrategies.net/ghost-town-royals-wikidojo
The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. Mark you calendars now.
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