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Hi Kirill,
I'm just letting you know that at this very moment, I'm pasting the following invitation on the talk pages of law student wikipedians:
==[[WP:Hornbook]] -- a new law-related task force for the J.D. curriculum==
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Law/JD curriculum task force/invitation}}~~~~
Hi Kirill Lokshin/Archive 11,
I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in
United States legal articles to take a look at
WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".
Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.
What you can do now:
Regards, Agradman talk/ contribs 01:01, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I sent you a message back in December about developing worklists for a WP:FILMS tag and assess drive. You said that there were Perl scripts that would automate the lists. Now that our drive is about ready to begin, I was wondering if you would be able to help me to develop 200-article ranges from the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Film articles by quality worklist. The list would only include stub, start, and unassessed articles (not GA/FA/B, etc.). There would be over 50,000 articles included in this list. Would you still be willing to help develop these ranges? Let me know if you need any additional information on my part. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 22:24, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
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--NBahn ( talk) 05:08, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
I forgot to thank you for answering my previous question, so I shall do so now: Thank you.
I recently noticed some text appears at the top of some pages when editing: "This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced should not be added and if present, must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relating to this policy, please report it on the biographies of living persons noticeboard."
Normally, I don't pay all that close attention to these kinds of things anymore; after several years, they just disappear into the background of Wikipedia (rather, I suspect that this may have started showing up some time ago and I never noticed it). But I imagine there has to be some kind of trigger for this to appear, else it would show up on pages where BLP doesn't apply... perhaps in the infobox or wikiproject templates? I'm very curious about how this works, it might just come in handy later. Would you know, or be able to point me to an editor who does? bahamut0013 words deeds 15:23, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
That looks great. Obviously there's a trade-off between making the arbitration process transparent and understandable to those who don't want to wade through the details directly, on the one hand, and fanning drama flames by publicizing ongoing disputes, on the other. But I think you strike a fine balance here.-- ragesoss ( talk) 21:56, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
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Too much on your plate? I've been waiting a month! Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:52, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Yes I know! That is why I haven't asked for a while as I know you have had a lot on your plate. Anyway you can see what needs doing in your archives from around July 2 if you can do it. Regards. Dr. Blofeld White cat 08:32, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Yes, thanks for doing that. One thing though can you move the German national map to the right and the state locator to the left? If it doesn't work out it would be best to just use a regional locator map I think. Anyway see how it looks with switching sides.
Actually I think there is a way to deal with it. Could you remove the national locator map and keep the state map in the centre. What I'll do is replace the maps with e.g File:Bavaria location map G.svg so it shows where it is in Germany, sound good? Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:17, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Well, lets see how it looks first with the national locator on thr right, and the state map on the left. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:26, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
I agree, I think though that the original map still looks good, it is the better detail I like of the regional maps... Anyway I was wondering if you could quickly sort out the UK infobox place as for instance see Llanidloes the map is horridly offline to the left. Also can you add a proper label to the map as it appear son Keflavik for instance? Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:50, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Much better, thanks for your help mate! Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:25, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks again for developing the lists. I developed all of the subpages for the drive, and we'll probably be starting this week or next. Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to compile and organize the lists, you saved me many hours of work. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 06:53, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Kirill, hope you're well and that things in DC are good. Armed Forces of Liberia, a topic close to my heart, is going through an A-Class Review and one of the things needing changing is the Liberia link in the template - from 'Military of Liberia' to 'Armed Forces of Liberia.' None of us know how to do it. Would you mind taking a look? Best wishes with your ArbCom activities and various wikiManagement projects.. Kind regards and thanks, Buckshot06( prof) 06:24, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
{{
Africa in topic|Military of}}
, so there's no way to change the link for a single country. You'd need to create a stand-alone template for military links—one not implemented through the base Africa template, in other words—and change the link there.Hi. I believe the Date delinking motion has been published now (and was published before midnight last night/this morning, if that is the official cut-off).
I am not sure the withdrawn "request" concerning Jimbo Wales' userpage should be further publicized, given all the circumstances and WP:DENY.
In the Abd-WMC case, you might want to mention that FloNight, in addition to Bainer, has offered workshop proposals.
And in general, if you are going to be scrutinizing our work in this much detail, I still think you might as well be arbitrating! Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 20:50, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks again for taking on the Arbitration report. See this comment; should this week's be amended?-- ragesoss ( talk) 03:16, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Before you answer, please check out the hullabaloo goin down here and here. Until now I thought I knew what a dreadnought is. Your thoughts on the matter would be most appreciated.-- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) ( talk) 13:07, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Kirill. Would you have time to look at this? I've mentioned it on the clerks noticeboard as well, so a note there might avoid you or them duplicating any efforts. I do recall an earlier discussion about something similar. In fact, it was the same thing. See here. Carcharoth ( talk) 15:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification#Request for clarification: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Falun Gong#Article probation requesting clarification of the terms of the probation, specifically, whether the terms of the ruling do or do not allow uninvolved administrators to place a block or ban based on that statement. One of the active arbitrators, Newyorkbrad, has requested that you be contacted regarding this, indicating that you were the one who wrote the statement. Your input on this matter would be greatly appreciated by all, and, well, maybe we can try to talk you into getting back on the ArbCom. Hey, it's worth a try. ;) Anyway, your input there would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 17:39, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
If you have some time please provide us with an input at this RFC on 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay article and this Merger Contest. Thank You! -- HappyInGeneral ( talk) 23:55, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. :) [1] SlimVirgin talk| contribs 04:07, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
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I just listed this at FAC. Input appreciated. The nom is here. — Rlevse • Talk • 23:20, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Kirill! I noticed your edits on Japanese sword and figured that you know something about Japanese swords. I would like to complete the List of National Treasures of Japan by creating the list of all swords. See here for a basic Japanese draft version. Eventually the list should look like the other lists in Category:Lists of National Treasures of Japan and provide some additional information besides the name of the sword and the place it is located at. Since I don't know much about swords (they look all the same to me) it would be great if you had some suggestions on what information could go into the list (size, material,...?). Of course if you feel like helping with generating the list that would be even better. Cheers bamse ( talk) 21:35, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
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Good job on the interviews I've seen you do in the signpost. I really enjoyed participating in the DnD one. I was thinking it might be cool if you would interview the two sides (separately most likely) in some of our great debate(s). Notability and fiction has some very smart and dedicated editors on both sides (maybe even a moderate perspective is warranted). I know I would like to participate in such a thing as an inclusionist. There are probably other things we disagree on enough to create some lively interviews (RFAR?, FAC criteria instruction creep?, arbcom something or other?, who knows). I could give you some names for a fiction interview if your interested. Thanks again, and good work on the WP:VG interview. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 03:22, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Here is a suggestion for a WikiProject in a future signpost - the Olympics. With the 2010 Winter Olympics coming to Vancouver in February, it might be a good idea to get several editors involved in that to talk about what is going on with this project. Chris ( talk) 03:12, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Kirill, Greetings. Would you mind taking a look at the above page? It's not displaying at all for some odd reason. Cheers and thanks Buckshot06( prof) 00:12, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
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Can you take a peek at the article Anders Örbom, its a translation of the Swedish Wikipedia, but the English version is up for deletion, maybe you can help. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 03:13, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
The second parameter (nomination number) is not working properly. When I filled it in, it removed the candidate's name from the nomination page string. I know the template has been tweaked since you wrote but could you take a look please? Thanks muchly, Roger Davies talk 03:18, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Kirill!
There is some confusion on the Tamahagane page about the exact translation of the word. I don't speak Japanese, and am not sure if you do, but thought because of your history on Japanese sword articles that you may have some insight here.
I am a student of English etymology, and so I tend to see tamahagane as three separate words, "ha" meaning "sword edge", "gane" meaning "metal", (combined translated as "steel"), and "tama" which could seem to mean anything from "jewel" to "spirit" to "ball." But I have been told that Japanese may not work the same as English. Do you have any knowledge or sources that could answer this question?
Zaereth ( talk) 18:57, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
I have been recently perusing your Wikipedia Signpost articles on the arbitration proceedings. I have followed ArbCom for some time, and I want to commend you for the fine way you concisely summarize the proceedings. I am sure that your ability to neutrally summarize these proceedings in a eloquent yet simple manner stems largely from your previous service on the committee. In any case, this is just a brief note to say thanks for your good work. — Matheuler 00:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
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Greetings. Would you mind telling me how you do your archiving? I'm fed up with manually archiving my huge talkpage backlogs. Kind regards Buckshot06( prof) 23:19, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
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I'll just say, i think the article on wp:NRHP really missed a lot of good/extraordinary stuff to mention. I thot i gave some good suggestions about what a signpost article could address, but I didn't see your "questions" post, and you didn't let me know otherwise. Oh well. doncram ( talk) 02:13, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
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Any chance you could answer this question?, preferably on Jhfireboy's talk page? Many thanks in anticipation of your magnanimous approbation. Roger Davies talk 03:02, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Dear Kirill, I'm interested to learn a tiny bit more about CFD. I'm a novice editor, and I'm not really aspiring to be anything more than this. Normally I don't communicate with any other Wikipedians or try to learn much new. But in this case, as you were the person who dealt with the {{ db-g6}} tag I put into Pink peppercorns, I'm asking you two questions so that I can learn a little more.
I have added {{ R from plural}} to Pink peppercorns.
Q1. Is this the right thing to do?
Q2. The Pink peppercorns page is obviously now reduntant. No pages link to it. So should it be deleted? Will it get deleted automatically? Can I flag it for deletion?
I've searched around trying to answer these questions myself, but couldn't find an answer. I haven't read up about page deletion though, so asking you is a lazy way for me to learn. Here are a couple of places I read:
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 63
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 February 20
thanks - Permacultura ( talk) 03:48, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Are you still interested in doing that Signpost story? If so, I'll type out the answers ASAP. – Juliancolton | Talk 01:59, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
Alright, I've typed up some draft answers with a bit of help from Jason Rees. Feel free to copyedit my answers and let me know what you think needs to be clarified. – Juliancolton | Talk 13:52, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
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You may be interested in a world exclusive for Signpost :)
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Roger Davies talk 21:43, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Kiril - huge apologies for this faux pas, but I refactored part of a statement you made in your latest Signpost article. diff.
What you wrote was entirely based on an administrative error (*my* error, to be precise) and not on fact. Apologies to you and in general. Manning ( talk) 01:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey Kiril. Incidentally, dunno how close (past?) your deadline is, but the PD in the mailing list case has been posted. — Coren (talk) 03:17, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Can I still not persuade you to change the colour to #7BA05B, an an army green color. It just seems more suitable. than the quite bright blue.... It would seem the "natural" military color to use. Are you open to a project discussion about it, see what most of the members think? I understand you use this is other various military related templates and not all of them are about battles as such but have a try of #7BA05B, I think it looks good... Himalayan 21:11, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Um, aren't most of the war planes like File:Color Photographed B-17E in Flight.jpg, helicopters, submarines, tanks and military equipment also dark green? White text on dark green works well for headers.... Himalayan 17:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Solothurn S-18/1100 | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #7BA05B |
sRGBB ( r, g, b) | (123, 160, 91) |
CMYKH ( c, m, y, k) | (45, 11, 66, 3) |
HSV ( h, s, v) | (92°, 43%, 63%) |
CIELChuv ( L, C, h) | (62, 48, 113°) |
Source | [ Unsourced |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
Looks fine to me.... Himalayan 17:35, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
I was following a discussion at one of the village pumps about the comments subpages used by some articles, and having a vague memory that WP:WP 1.0 started them, I went looking for the old discussions that started them and found these: 1, 2, 3 (May to July 2006). You were one of the five main participants at those discussions, so I'm notifying all five of you so that some input from when this all started can be obtained for the current discussion, as I'm not sure the full picture is being presented there so far. I'll leave a note at the Village Pump discussion saying who I notified. I also left a note at the WP:WP 1.0 talk page, but not sure how much you each follow that page now, hence the user talk page note. Carcharoth ( talk) 19:10, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I've adapted the Milhist election status page for the upcoming AUSC elections: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee/October 2009 election/Status. It strikes me that as the AUSC closing date for voting is the following month – i.e. 00:01 30 October (UTC) until 23:59 8 November (UTC) – the automation will probably not work properly as Milhist elections happening in the same month. Is there any chance you could look at this for me please, and fix it? With very many thanks in advance, Roger Davies talk 14:54, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the help! I'm a new editor and I'm just getting my bearings on how to do things here and am aware I'm still pretty mesy sometimes, so thx a lot for cleaning after me in Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/South American military history task force/Paraguay! Could you help me by giving me some tips and directions regarding editing and doing things here? Currently I'm having some issues with pictures upload (as you can see in my talk page), creating tempaltes (which hopefully I'm done with) and organizing my user page. I wat the sub-sections books and video games in the userbox box on the right to be a collapsible box so it can be hidden normally and only the About me userboxes be seen. I still struggle a lot with the whole wikilanguage. Veritiel ( talk) 12:07, 2 November 2009 (UTC) PS: Please answer in my talk page, that way I'm sure to read any reply.
Hi Kirill. Hope all your various projects are going well. Where would you think discussions have taking place about a policy amendment about deleting unsourced articles. I've raised a query at the Pump but nobody seems to know about previous discussions re this issue (if there have been any.) Is there anyone particular you'd point me to / forum in wikipedia I should look in? Buckshot06( prof) 07:12, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Right now, the above "translation" project is primarily focused on developing lists for coutries. Do you think the MILHIST project would have any interest in having a list of the relevant articles in other languages that don't yet exist in English? I know you aren't the leader anymore, but I have a feeling Roger is kind of busy and I think you probably are as familiar with the project as anyone. John Carter ( talk) 15:33, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
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Any chance of you running for a new term on arbcom? You have done a stellar job in the past, your influence would be missed. Viridae Talk 03:50, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
I dunno what I was doing when I wrote that originally - spelling and wording mistakes now corrected. Viridae Talk 01:58, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ;-) Kirill [talk] [pf] 02:23, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Very nice, I was hoping you would! Still quite a drought in candidates. Cheers, Amalthea 02:56, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
I was sad to see you resign, and I'm glad you're willing to put your name back in the ring. Good luck. MastCell Talk 22:22, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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There is supposed to be decision there appended somehere concerning the names to be used. I'm unable to find it. Would you happen to know exactly where it is?
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Hi Kirill. Does this edit constitute vandalism? I warned User:Intelligent Mr Toad on User_talk:Intelligent Mr Toad about it, but he's protesting. Would appreciate your thoughts. Buckshot06 (talk) 03:25, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the support and the barnstar. I will be glad to meet you in person at the D.C. meetup in January. SADADS ( talk) 05:35, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Are you not covering this beat any more, just noticed your name absent on the list. Hiding T 10:00, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
See message at Template_talk:WPMILHIST#Book-class. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 02:35, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
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on coming in first in the election. Guess you shouldn't have resigned! Nathan T 23:27, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Wow. This result is quite a surprise, though certainly a welcome one. Thank you everyone for your kind words; I'll try to do my best to live up to the expectations of the many editors who supported me. Kirill [talk] [prof] 02:50, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Thought you might like to know. With 507 votes for you, I think that is now the second highest number of support votes of all time, with Newyorkbrad's 552 in December 2007 being the only higher number ever recorded. Well earned, too. John Carter ( talk) 19:21, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed your six-month break. Since you've been following the committee's activities for the Signpost, you should be pretty current, so here's to your picking up where you left off. Can we have a draft decision in the Tothwolf case by Monday at noon? Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 19:39, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
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This subject has suffered from Graves' Disease, which causes ocular proptosis. Various people who may be part of a paid network of wreckers who tamper with the biogs of people who disagree with global warming have repeatedly inserted an obviously offensive photo of the subject that exploits his physical disability by making a feature of the proptosis in a ludicrous way. Please refer these people - one of them is ChrisO, who has been warned before - to the arbitration committee. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.210.85.112 ( talk) 01:59, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
The WP:COI complaint of pro-Chabad POV editing and violations of WP:OWN in Chabad-related articles against Users Yehoishophot Oliver ( talk · contribs) and Shlomke ( talk · contribs) and Zsero ( talk · contribs) and Debresser ( talk · contribs), is now in its final stages as admins review it. The debate and discussions have expanded greatly since their start. If any outside party still wishes to add their comments and observations, now is the time. New sections have been added at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#User:Yehoishophot Oliver. Thank you, IZAK ( talk) 06:13, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
I recently blocked BilCat ( talk · contribs) for a 3RR violation. While I initially set the block to 12 hours, I reduced it to 3 hours shortly afterwards. While the block should now have expired, Bill is finding that he is still blocked and receives a message stating that he's been autoblocked. When I try to manually lift the block I get a message saying that the block has expired. Do you know what's going wrong here? Please note that Ajh1492 ( talk · contribs), who I also blocked for 12 hours but reduced to 3 for the same edit war may also be affected. Thanks Nick-D ( talk) 05:53, 9 January 2010 (UTC) (I've also posted this at WP:AN, but am contacting you directly as I see you're online).
Hi Kirill, happy new year!! Hope you and your loved ones are well. I'm facing a problem at Iranian Air Force. I'm attempting to insert a units/bases chart but it is set to stay in the left-hand side of the column, and I cannot force text to fill up the rest of the column. Can you help me or point me to someone who can? Kind regards from Aotearoa, Buckshot06 (talk) 08:37, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
...for both the barnstar and your advice and guidance throughout the process. Both were/are greatly appreciated :) EyeSerene talk 14:48, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Haven't you learned something since your last resignation? Backroom dealing and ignoring the community are not acceptable on Wikipedia. ArbCom is elected to resolve disputes, not to govern by fiat. "Unsourced BLP" is not a criterion for speedy deletion, though "Attack page" is. Your motion reflects a poor understanding of these circumstances. Jehochman Brrr 15:56, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Jehochman, in response to your original inquiry, the core role of the Arbitration Committee—in many ways the very reason why it exists—is to examine a dispute that is brought before it and to determine whether the editors involved conducted themselves in a way that is compliant with Wikipedia policy and community practice. That is precisely what we have done here—no more, no less. The rest, we leave up to the community.
You are, of course, entirely welcome to disagree with my judgement on whether the actions involved here complied with policy. Ultimately, however, the community has given myself and my colleagues on the Committee the responsibility for making that decision; and it is a responsibility I do not take lightly. I will not shy away from making the decision I believe to be the right one merely to make myself more popular in certain circles. Kirill [talk] [prof] 00:39, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
If you, as an editor, identify an article that needs to be sourced, the expectation is that you'd give it a shot. If you can't find sources, then you'd move to delete the article. It's quite another thing though to go on a deletion spree based on the fact that a bot had characterised them as unsourced. It's pretty safe to say that no attempt was made to check whether the bot was correct in its characterisation. (Betacommand found that 17,000 of the articles tagged as unsourced actually appear to have sources.) Deleting an article based on the judgement of a bot is unacceptable. But the arbcomm choose to "commend" that behaviour.
Why this ruling is problematic is that throws out the most basic ideas about the way this community operates. Collaborative work has always been key. This ruling throws out the principle of collaboration. It says that any editor or group of editors have a carte blanche to operate as the like, no matter how disruptively, if they secure the support of the arbcomm. That kind of approach stands in stark opposition to the way this encyclopaedia was built. And is maintained. The more you de-motivate editors, the fewer people you have to actually maintain the articles that have sources, but still, amazingly, manage to end up with damaging or misleading statements. On all levels, this hurts the project. Guettarda ( talk) 05:54, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
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So this is a question for Kirill, and Kirill alone: Kirill, does behaviour still matter? Hesperian 06:09, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
<redacted> There's no point spreading the love all over your talk page. Do me a favour and scrape up an ArbCom response, or at least your own personal response, to Wikipedia talk:Arbitration#Corruption. Hesperian 07:50, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
I think we're done here. Obviously it is beyond my ability to move you. If ArbCom truly thinks it has the right to dismiss bad behaviour with the ruling that "the end justifies the means", then I have nothing more to say to any of you. Hesperian 10:30, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind coming over here and helping me with some intricate #switch/#if stuff for a template? I'm still learning how all of it works, and these bits are still somewhat confusing to me. I appreciate your time. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:51, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Even though you offered help months ago, I have finally need your input. What do you think of my changing the list to text on the page? I'm finally just going to give in, so whatever you might have for ideas is a good start. Thanks. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 05:35, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Kirill, hope you had a good holiday. We've had at WT:MILHIST request about this 'article' which is some sort of wikipedia tech page. Are you able to take a look? Best regards from Aotearoa New Zealand, Buckshot06 (talk) 07:22, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, when you update the Military History member list, do you have any tools or scripts you use? I'm trying to get a sense of what's out there because I need to clean up the WP California list, and in general I think some kind of tool to update those lists would help me and other people trying coordinate projects. Also is there any particular number or participants or project size where you think formal coordination should be looked at? Thanks for all your work on the Council. - Optigan13 ( talk) 00:13, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
I suppose it because its my idea of notability that I like to see people in the section who were actually notable rather than a mile long list of all the 2-star commanders of a particular unit which to me poisons the point of the box since it lumps everyone into the same category rather than listing one or two or so extraordinary commanders whose names were associated with the unit that really went the extra mile, or had a unique rank, or gained their notability not just in the unit but outside of it as well. I've reverted my edits in any case, I should not have acted without consensus on the matter. TomStar81 ( Talk) 23:35, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
I have sent you an e-mail. -- Tenmei ( talk) 20:36, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
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A proposal to add a "public interest" clause to Wikipedia:Oversight has started at Wikipedia_talk:Oversight#Proposal_for_new_.27public_interest.27_clause. SilkTork * YES! 10:12, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I've come to ask again for your assistance in the matter. For the third time in as many years, the article's name is in contention and once again, it is an argument being made by someone who really doesn't understand the nature of the unit's Please have a look at the Talk page if you'd be so kind. Thank you. Ryecatcher773 ( talk) 01:10, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
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Please see [4] for an example of why this is a live issue and not hypothetical. Others have mentioned other instances of articles del;eted out of process.-- Peter cohen ( talk) 20:13, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
One of your fellow admins has directed me here, so here is my question. So many other websites use the Konami Code in one way or another, why does Wikipedia not do so as well? If you cannot answer my question, please direct me to somebody who can. Thank you. Sincerely, Watcher. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.18.95.84 ( talk) 03:55, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
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It appears at this point that there is no major objection to the addition of the {{ Peer review tools}} to the milhist pr system, but I have two questions: can this be done in our PR system in a manner similar to what we did with the ACR project, and is there any part of the tool set that we need to clarify the use of? TomStar81 ( Talk) 04:22, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
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Good morning Krill. Per this discussion, I was wondering if you had any hard references or authoritative examples of use of a dagger as a symbol for death in battle? I'm fairly certain I've seen it used in numerous books in the past, but I can't for the life of me find any now! It would be great to get the usage clarified, as I think there may need to be further discussion on its appropriateness of use in some articles (ie whether KIA is better for more recent battles or for the visually impaired). Cheers, Ranger Steve ( talk) 10:44, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
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From WP:INFOBOX, I understand that you are the point of contact for MILHIST infoboxes. I have a unique situation and hope you could point me in right direction. I want to know if there are any infoboxes for entire Military Arm of a nation ? Specifically, if we talk about Luftwaffe organization, wouldn't there be something similar to Template:Command structure ? If there's one, I'd like to put it in Organization of the Luftwaffe (1933-1945). Thanks in advance. ' Perseus 71 talk 20:17, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
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Thank you for all the hard work you and the rest of the Arbitration Committee put into the case. Your intervention into what has been a three-year problem is much appreciated! Nightscream ( talk) 19:46, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kirill. I don't know if this is something I've done, but the category links for the new TF seem to be doing something very odd. Some hours ago I created the new Category:Australia,_New_Zealand_and_South_Pacific_military_history_task_force_articles page, created the various sub-cats, and these seemed to be populating correctly. I just went back to check on progress and found that the links to the sub-sub-cats (eg "FA-Class Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history articles") now give a 404; something seems to be adding extra parameters into the URL. This isn't the case if you try clicking first on the sub-cat and then on the sub-sub-cat from there (eg first "Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history articles by quality" and then "FA-Class Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history articles"). Any ideas? EyeSerene talk 20:54, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
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The discussion over at WT:MOS seems to be favorable to a proposed "Supplemental style guide" (SSG) as a companion to the main MoS for content-specific guidelines. Gnevin proposed that several of the current MoS-tagged pages could be moved into this SSG. I was wondering if you'd be willing to help me in starting up the proposal? Since the current sentiment is that the MoS should be pared down and streamlined to accommodate only guidelines of a generalized sort, I think we both agree that there should be some way to collect style guides that are based on content together in a single place for reference and consultation. Imzadi 1979 → 09:34, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kirill, a response from you is required at [ [5]] in relation to Shell's statement and the clarification that you posted in relation to Offliner. Either Shell is incorrect, or the clarification is incorrect. This absolutely needs to be clarified. Because it goes down to the crux of the issue as it actually does exist. -- Russavia I'm chanting as we speak 10:29, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I know you have been really active on WP:Military History in the past. Today I started an internship with the United States Army Center for Military History and I was wondering if, in your opinion, you think their could be a good collaboration/interaction between the Wikipedia community and the Center? I would be willing to coordinate something like that as an intern, once I am more established in the office, but I wanted to start putting together some ideas from my own end before I propose anything to my boss or the WikiProject and the broader community. Your help and experience would be greatly appreciated. I was thinking something along the lines of the activity that was held at the NIH last year, but focused on creating a long term relationship, like what is happening with the British Museum. Any thoughts? 23:02, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
I tried adding a passengers label to the weapon infobox but only the label shows but not the text as seen on M2 Bradley. Not sure if i'm ever going to complete the countermeasures infobox. Marcus Aurelius ( talk) 16:47, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
The situation between Lar and Polargeo, similar to the situation between Lar and Stephen Shultz is escalating. Here is the sequence of events:
Lar was asked to stop removing views on his talk page and instead take a lower-drama action of noting his problems on the page by me, seconded by Thparkth.
This is rapidly spiriling out of control and needs emergy Arbcom intervention to prevent further disruption. I have asked both Lar and Polargeo to stop. Perhaps the individual who choses to stop first should be rewarded, as opposed to losing by default. Just a thought. Hipocrite ( talk) 14:25, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
I seem to recall you once using an excellent quote, but I cannot recall it verbatim, nor the author. It ran something along the lines that individuals much be thick-skinned to praise as well as criticism... can you clear this up for me? bahamut0013 words deeds 05:52, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
I've created a Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Social movements task force. I would like to have a quality assessment statistics (like those), but simply using Template:WPMILHIST Task force assessment code (with milhist->sociology) change didn't work (as you can see on the socmov task force page). Since you seem to be the person who set this system up for MILHIST, I'd appreciate your advice (see also this thread). Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 22:24, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
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Please check out the conversation at Wikipedia talk:GLAM/SI#First workshop session, thanks Sadads ( talk) 22:27, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey, the final date and time for the first Workshop has been set. If you want to sign up for the team check out Wikipedia:GLAM/SI, Sadads ( talk) 19:40, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
I've never actually been privy to an rfc of this nature before; is there anything I should know about the process that I couldn't read at WP:RFC? TomStar81 ( Talk) 07:21, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Yes, it is controversial - that is why I have asked for the original name to be restored. Could you please reconsider in this light? Thanks, Verbal chat 16:20, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
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Is there a time frame for the first stage before the case is accepted - also do we make statements now or wait till it is accepted/rejected ? (If we make one now is it expected to be a brief outline or should it include diffs?)
I have just finished for the night and would rather wait till tomorrow to have a fresh brain on the matter as have been doing edits all evening for the backlog elimination drive and my brain is a bit too frazzled for that sort of diffs reporting and evidence collecting. Obviously I do not want to leave it in a state of missing comments when I should have made one though.
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Thanks for taking the time to do this Kirill. I've had no involvement with ArbCom for four years and then two cases within months of each other ( the other). Strange place, this... :) EyeSerene talk 12:22, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
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I'm just letting you know that at this very moment, I'm pasting the following invitation on the talk pages of law student wikipedians:
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What you can do now:
Regards, Agradman talk/ contribs 01:01, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I sent you a message back in December about developing worklists for a WP:FILMS tag and assess drive. You said that there were Perl scripts that would automate the lists. Now that our drive is about ready to begin, I was wondering if you would be able to help me to develop 200-article ranges from the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Film articles by quality worklist. The list would only include stub, start, and unassessed articles (not GA/FA/B, etc.). There would be over 50,000 articles included in this list. Would you still be willing to help develop these ranges? Let me know if you need any additional information on my part. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 22:24, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
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I forgot to thank you for answering my previous question, so I shall do so now: Thank you.
I recently noticed some text appears at the top of some pages when editing: "This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced should not be added and if present, must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relating to this policy, please report it on the biographies of living persons noticeboard."
Normally, I don't pay all that close attention to these kinds of things anymore; after several years, they just disappear into the background of Wikipedia (rather, I suspect that this may have started showing up some time ago and I never noticed it). But I imagine there has to be some kind of trigger for this to appear, else it would show up on pages where BLP doesn't apply... perhaps in the infobox or wikiproject templates? I'm very curious about how this works, it might just come in handy later. Would you know, or be able to point me to an editor who does? bahamut0013 words deeds 15:23, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
That looks great. Obviously there's a trade-off between making the arbitration process transparent and understandable to those who don't want to wade through the details directly, on the one hand, and fanning drama flames by publicizing ongoing disputes, on the other. But I think you strike a fine balance here.-- ragesoss ( talk) 21:56, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
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Too much on your plate? I've been waiting a month! Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:52, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Yes I know! That is why I haven't asked for a while as I know you have had a lot on your plate. Anyway you can see what needs doing in your archives from around July 2 if you can do it. Regards. Dr. Blofeld White cat 08:32, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Yes, thanks for doing that. One thing though can you move the German national map to the right and the state locator to the left? If it doesn't work out it would be best to just use a regional locator map I think. Anyway see how it looks with switching sides.
Actually I think there is a way to deal with it. Could you remove the national locator map and keep the state map in the centre. What I'll do is replace the maps with e.g File:Bavaria location map G.svg so it shows where it is in Germany, sound good? Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:17, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Well, lets see how it looks first with the national locator on thr right, and the state map on the left. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:26, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
I agree, I think though that the original map still looks good, it is the better detail I like of the regional maps... Anyway I was wondering if you could quickly sort out the UK infobox place as for instance see Llanidloes the map is horridly offline to the left. Also can you add a proper label to the map as it appear son Keflavik for instance? Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:50, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Much better, thanks for your help mate! Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:25, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks again for developing the lists. I developed all of the subpages for the drive, and we'll probably be starting this week or next. Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to compile and organize the lists, you saved me many hours of work. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 06:53, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Kirill, hope you're well and that things in DC are good. Armed Forces of Liberia, a topic close to my heart, is going through an A-Class Review and one of the things needing changing is the Liberia link in the template - from 'Military of Liberia' to 'Armed Forces of Liberia.' None of us know how to do it. Would you mind taking a look? Best wishes with your ArbCom activities and various wikiManagement projects.. Kind regards and thanks, Buckshot06( prof) 06:24, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
{{
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, so there's no way to change the link for a single country. You'd need to create a stand-alone template for military links—one not implemented through the base Africa template, in other words—and change the link there.Hi. I believe the Date delinking motion has been published now (and was published before midnight last night/this morning, if that is the official cut-off).
I am not sure the withdrawn "request" concerning Jimbo Wales' userpage should be further publicized, given all the circumstances and WP:DENY.
In the Abd-WMC case, you might want to mention that FloNight, in addition to Bainer, has offered workshop proposals.
And in general, if you are going to be scrutinizing our work in this much detail, I still think you might as well be arbitrating! Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 20:50, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks again for taking on the Arbitration report. See this comment; should this week's be amended?-- ragesoss ( talk) 03:16, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Before you answer, please check out the hullabaloo goin down here and here. Until now I thought I knew what a dreadnought is. Your thoughts on the matter would be most appreciated.-- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) ( talk) 13:07, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Kirill. Would you have time to look at this? I've mentioned it on the clerks noticeboard as well, so a note there might avoid you or them duplicating any efforts. I do recall an earlier discussion about something similar. In fact, it was the same thing. See here. Carcharoth ( talk) 15:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification#Request for clarification: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Falun Gong#Article probation requesting clarification of the terms of the probation, specifically, whether the terms of the ruling do or do not allow uninvolved administrators to place a block or ban based on that statement. One of the active arbitrators, Newyorkbrad, has requested that you be contacted regarding this, indicating that you were the one who wrote the statement. Your input on this matter would be greatly appreciated by all, and, well, maybe we can try to talk you into getting back on the ArbCom. Hey, it's worth a try. ;) Anyway, your input there would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 17:39, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
If you have some time please provide us with an input at this RFC on 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay article and this Merger Contest. Thank You! -- HappyInGeneral ( talk) 23:55, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
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I just listed this at FAC. Input appreciated. The nom is here. — Rlevse • Talk • 23:20, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Kirill! I noticed your edits on Japanese sword and figured that you know something about Japanese swords. I would like to complete the List of National Treasures of Japan by creating the list of all swords. See here for a basic Japanese draft version. Eventually the list should look like the other lists in Category:Lists of National Treasures of Japan and provide some additional information besides the name of the sword and the place it is located at. Since I don't know much about swords (they look all the same to me) it would be great if you had some suggestions on what information could go into the list (size, material,...?). Of course if you feel like helping with generating the list that would be even better. Cheers bamse ( talk) 21:35, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
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Good job on the interviews I've seen you do in the signpost. I really enjoyed participating in the DnD one. I was thinking it might be cool if you would interview the two sides (separately most likely) in some of our great debate(s). Notability and fiction has some very smart and dedicated editors on both sides (maybe even a moderate perspective is warranted). I know I would like to participate in such a thing as an inclusionist. There are probably other things we disagree on enough to create some lively interviews (RFAR?, FAC criteria instruction creep?, arbcom something or other?, who knows). I could give you some names for a fiction interview if your interested. Thanks again, and good work on the WP:VG interview. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 03:22, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Here is a suggestion for a WikiProject in a future signpost - the Olympics. With the 2010 Winter Olympics coming to Vancouver in February, it might be a good idea to get several editors involved in that to talk about what is going on with this project. Chris ( talk) 03:12, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Kirill, Greetings. Would you mind taking a look at the above page? It's not displaying at all for some odd reason. Cheers and thanks Buckshot06( prof) 00:12, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
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Can you take a peek at the article Anders Örbom, its a translation of the Swedish Wikipedia, but the English version is up for deletion, maybe you can help. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 03:13, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
The second parameter (nomination number) is not working properly. When I filled it in, it removed the candidate's name from the nomination page string. I know the template has been tweaked since you wrote but could you take a look please? Thanks muchly, Roger Davies talk 03:18, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Kirill!
There is some confusion on the Tamahagane page about the exact translation of the word. I don't speak Japanese, and am not sure if you do, but thought because of your history on Japanese sword articles that you may have some insight here.
I am a student of English etymology, and so I tend to see tamahagane as three separate words, "ha" meaning "sword edge", "gane" meaning "metal", (combined translated as "steel"), and "tama" which could seem to mean anything from "jewel" to "spirit" to "ball." But I have been told that Japanese may not work the same as English. Do you have any knowledge or sources that could answer this question?
Zaereth ( talk) 18:57, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
I have been recently perusing your Wikipedia Signpost articles on the arbitration proceedings. I have followed ArbCom for some time, and I want to commend you for the fine way you concisely summarize the proceedings. I am sure that your ability to neutrally summarize these proceedings in a eloquent yet simple manner stems largely from your previous service on the committee. In any case, this is just a brief note to say thanks for your good work. — Matheuler 00:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
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Greetings. Would you mind telling me how you do your archiving? I'm fed up with manually archiving my huge talkpage backlogs. Kind regards Buckshot06( prof) 23:19, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
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I'll just say, i think the article on wp:NRHP really missed a lot of good/extraordinary stuff to mention. I thot i gave some good suggestions about what a signpost article could address, but I didn't see your "questions" post, and you didn't let me know otherwise. Oh well. doncram ( talk) 02:13, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
There is a certain group of contributors, not as many as when you last were directly involved with them, who may benefit from the temporary return of an experienced and well regarded former colleague. Also, it is not very long until the end of the year - and there may well have been some matters that a conscientious past participant may be interested in bringing to a conclusion. LessHeard vanU ( talk) 22:44, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
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Any chance you could answer this question?, preferably on Jhfireboy's talk page? Many thanks in anticipation of your magnanimous approbation. Roger Davies talk 03:02, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Dear Kirill, I'm interested to learn a tiny bit more about CFD. I'm a novice editor, and I'm not really aspiring to be anything more than this. Normally I don't communicate with any other Wikipedians or try to learn much new. But in this case, as you were the person who dealt with the {{ db-g6}} tag I put into Pink peppercorns, I'm asking you two questions so that I can learn a little more.
I have added {{ R from plural}} to Pink peppercorns.
Q1. Is this the right thing to do?
Q2. The Pink peppercorns page is obviously now reduntant. No pages link to it. So should it be deleted? Will it get deleted automatically? Can I flag it for deletion?
I've searched around trying to answer these questions myself, but couldn't find an answer. I haven't read up about page deletion though, so asking you is a lazy way for me to learn. Here are a couple of places I read:
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 63
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 February 20
thanks - Permacultura ( talk) 03:48, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Are you still interested in doing that Signpost story? If so, I'll type out the answers ASAP. – Juliancolton | Talk 01:59, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
Alright, I've typed up some draft answers with a bit of help from Jason Rees. Feel free to copyedit my answers and let me know what you think needs to be clarified. – Juliancolton | Talk 13:52, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Kiril - huge apologies for this faux pas, but I refactored part of a statement you made in your latest Signpost article. diff.
What you wrote was entirely based on an administrative error (*my* error, to be precise) and not on fact. Apologies to you and in general. Manning ( talk) 01:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey Kiril. Incidentally, dunno how close (past?) your deadline is, but the PD in the mailing list case has been posted. — Coren (talk) 03:17, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Can I still not persuade you to change the colour to #7BA05B, an an army green color. It just seems more suitable. than the quite bright blue.... It would seem the "natural" military color to use. Are you open to a project discussion about it, see what most of the members think? I understand you use this is other various military related templates and not all of them are about battles as such but have a try of #7BA05B, I think it looks good... Himalayan 21:11, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Um, aren't most of the war planes like File:Color Photographed B-17E in Flight.jpg, helicopters, submarines, tanks and military equipment also dark green? White text on dark green works well for headers.... Himalayan 17:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Solothurn S-18/1100 | |
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Hex triplet | #7BA05B |
sRGBB ( r, g, b) | (123, 160, 91) |
CMYKH ( c, m, y, k) | (45, 11, 66, 3) |
HSV ( h, s, v) | (92°, 43%, 63%) |
CIELChuv ( L, C, h) | (62, 48, 113°) |
Source | [ Unsourced |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
Looks fine to me.... Himalayan 17:35, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
I was following a discussion at one of the village pumps about the comments subpages used by some articles, and having a vague memory that WP:WP 1.0 started them, I went looking for the old discussions that started them and found these: 1, 2, 3 (May to July 2006). You were one of the five main participants at those discussions, so I'm notifying all five of you so that some input from when this all started can be obtained for the current discussion, as I'm not sure the full picture is being presented there so far. I'll leave a note at the Village Pump discussion saying who I notified. I also left a note at the WP:WP 1.0 talk page, but not sure how much you each follow that page now, hence the user talk page note. Carcharoth ( talk) 19:10, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I've adapted the Milhist election status page for the upcoming AUSC elections: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee/October 2009 election/Status. It strikes me that as the AUSC closing date for voting is the following month – i.e. 00:01 30 October (UTC) until 23:59 8 November (UTC) – the automation will probably not work properly as Milhist elections happening in the same month. Is there any chance you could look at this for me please, and fix it? With very many thanks in advance, Roger Davies talk 14:54, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the help! I'm a new editor and I'm just getting my bearings on how to do things here and am aware I'm still pretty mesy sometimes, so thx a lot for cleaning after me in Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/South American military history task force/Paraguay! Could you help me by giving me some tips and directions regarding editing and doing things here? Currently I'm having some issues with pictures upload (as you can see in my talk page), creating tempaltes (which hopefully I'm done with) and organizing my user page. I wat the sub-sections books and video games in the userbox box on the right to be a collapsible box so it can be hidden normally and only the About me userboxes be seen. I still struggle a lot with the whole wikilanguage. Veritiel ( talk) 12:07, 2 November 2009 (UTC) PS: Please answer in my talk page, that way I'm sure to read any reply.
Hi Kirill. Hope all your various projects are going well. Where would you think discussions have taking place about a policy amendment about deleting unsourced articles. I've raised a query at the Pump but nobody seems to know about previous discussions re this issue (if there have been any.) Is there anyone particular you'd point me to / forum in wikipedia I should look in? Buckshot06( prof) 07:12, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Right now, the above "translation" project is primarily focused on developing lists for coutries. Do you think the MILHIST project would have any interest in having a list of the relevant articles in other languages that don't yet exist in English? I know you aren't the leader anymore, but I have a feeling Roger is kind of busy and I think you probably are as familiar with the project as anyone. John Carter ( talk) 15:33, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
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Any chance of you running for a new term on arbcom? You have done a stellar job in the past, your influence would be missed. Viridae Talk 03:50, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
I dunno what I was doing when I wrote that originally - spelling and wording mistakes now corrected. Viridae Talk 01:58, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ;-) Kirill [talk] [pf] 02:23, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Very nice, I was hoping you would! Still quite a drought in candidates. Cheers, Amalthea 02:56, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
I was sad to see you resign, and I'm glad you're willing to put your name back in the ring. Good luck. MastCell Talk 22:22, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Kirill. Does this edit constitute vandalism? I warned User:Intelligent Mr Toad on User_talk:Intelligent Mr Toad about it, but he's protesting. Would appreciate your thoughts. Buckshot06 (talk) 03:25, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the support and the barnstar. I will be glad to meet you in person at the D.C. meetup in January. SADADS ( talk) 05:35, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Are you not covering this beat any more, just noticed your name absent on the list. Hiding T 10:00, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
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on coming in first in the election. Guess you shouldn't have resigned! Nathan T 23:27, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Wow. This result is quite a surprise, though certainly a welcome one. Thank you everyone for your kind words; I'll try to do my best to live up to the expectations of the many editors who supported me. Kirill [talk] [prof] 02:50, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Thought you might like to know. With 507 votes for you, I think that is now the second highest number of support votes of all time, with Newyorkbrad's 552 in December 2007 being the only higher number ever recorded. Well earned, too. John Carter ( talk) 19:21, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed your six-month break. Since you've been following the committee's activities for the Signpost, you should be pretty current, so here's to your picking up where you left off. Can we have a draft decision in the Tothwolf case by Monday at noon? Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 19:39, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
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I recall you once said that were/are automated scripts that could update the members list we have. I was wondering when the last time the list had been subject to a run by the scripts; our active member list says its last update was February (although the talk page says March) and in either case I would guess that some have fallen off the bandwagon since then. Assuming they have not been run since February/March, having them run again sometime in January could be useful insofar as getting a better idea of who we still have with us for the new year. TomStar81 ( Talk) 11:53, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
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The WP:COI complaint of pro-Chabad POV editing and violations of WP:OWN in Chabad-related articles against Users Yehoishophot Oliver ( talk · contribs) and Shlomke ( talk · contribs) and Zsero ( talk · contribs) and Debresser ( talk · contribs), is now in its final stages as admins review it. The debate and discussions have expanded greatly since their start. If any outside party still wishes to add their comments and observations, now is the time. New sections have been added at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#User:Yehoishophot Oliver. Thank you, IZAK ( talk) 06:13, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
I recently blocked BilCat ( talk · contribs) for a 3RR violation. While I initially set the block to 12 hours, I reduced it to 3 hours shortly afterwards. While the block should now have expired, Bill is finding that he is still blocked and receives a message stating that he's been autoblocked. When I try to manually lift the block I get a message saying that the block has expired. Do you know what's going wrong here? Please note that Ajh1492 ( talk · contribs), who I also blocked for 12 hours but reduced to 3 for the same edit war may also be affected. Thanks Nick-D ( talk) 05:53, 9 January 2010 (UTC) (I've also posted this at WP:AN, but am contacting you directly as I see you're online).
Hi Kirill, happy new year!! Hope you and your loved ones are well. I'm facing a problem at Iranian Air Force. I'm attempting to insert a units/bases chart but it is set to stay in the left-hand side of the column, and I cannot force text to fill up the rest of the column. Can you help me or point me to someone who can? Kind regards from Aotearoa, Buckshot06 (talk) 08:37, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
...for both the barnstar and your advice and guidance throughout the process. Both were/are greatly appreciated :) EyeSerene talk 14:48, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Haven't you learned something since your last resignation? Backroom dealing and ignoring the community are not acceptable on Wikipedia. ArbCom is elected to resolve disputes, not to govern by fiat. "Unsourced BLP" is not a criterion for speedy deletion, though "Attack page" is. Your motion reflects a poor understanding of these circumstances. Jehochman Brrr 15:56, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Jehochman, in response to your original inquiry, the core role of the Arbitration Committee—in many ways the very reason why it exists—is to examine a dispute that is brought before it and to determine whether the editors involved conducted themselves in a way that is compliant with Wikipedia policy and community practice. That is precisely what we have done here—no more, no less. The rest, we leave up to the community.
You are, of course, entirely welcome to disagree with my judgement on whether the actions involved here complied with policy. Ultimately, however, the community has given myself and my colleagues on the Committee the responsibility for making that decision; and it is a responsibility I do not take lightly. I will not shy away from making the decision I believe to be the right one merely to make myself more popular in certain circles. Kirill [talk] [prof] 00:39, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
If you, as an editor, identify an article that needs to be sourced, the expectation is that you'd give it a shot. If you can't find sources, then you'd move to delete the article. It's quite another thing though to go on a deletion spree based on the fact that a bot had characterised them as unsourced. It's pretty safe to say that no attempt was made to check whether the bot was correct in its characterisation. (Betacommand found that 17,000 of the articles tagged as unsourced actually appear to have sources.) Deleting an article based on the judgement of a bot is unacceptable. But the arbcomm choose to "commend" that behaviour.
Why this ruling is problematic is that throws out the most basic ideas about the way this community operates. Collaborative work has always been key. This ruling throws out the principle of collaboration. It says that any editor or group of editors have a carte blanche to operate as the like, no matter how disruptively, if they secure the support of the arbcomm. That kind of approach stands in stark opposition to the way this encyclopaedia was built. And is maintained. The more you de-motivate editors, the fewer people you have to actually maintain the articles that have sources, but still, amazingly, manage to end up with damaging or misleading statements. On all levels, this hurts the project. Guettarda ( talk) 05:54, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
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So this is a question for Kirill, and Kirill alone: Kirill, does behaviour still matter? Hesperian 06:09, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
<redacted> There's no point spreading the love all over your talk page. Do me a favour and scrape up an ArbCom response, or at least your own personal response, to Wikipedia talk:Arbitration#Corruption. Hesperian 07:50, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
I think we're done here. Obviously it is beyond my ability to move you. If ArbCom truly thinks it has the right to dismiss bad behaviour with the ruling that "the end justifies the means", then I have nothing more to say to any of you. Hesperian 10:30, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind coming over here and helping me with some intricate #switch/#if stuff for a template? I'm still learning how all of it works, and these bits are still somewhat confusing to me. I appreciate your time. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:51, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Even though you offered help months ago, I have finally need your input. What do you think of my changing the list to text on the page? I'm finally just going to give in, so whatever you might have for ideas is a good start. Thanks. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 05:35, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Kirill, hope you had a good holiday. We've had at WT:MILHIST request about this 'article' which is some sort of wikipedia tech page. Are you able to take a look? Best regards from Aotearoa New Zealand, Buckshot06 (talk) 07:22, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, when you update the Military History member list, do you have any tools or scripts you use? I'm trying to get a sense of what's out there because I need to clean up the WP California list, and in general I think some kind of tool to update those lists would help me and other people trying coordinate projects. Also is there any particular number or participants or project size where you think formal coordination should be looked at? Thanks for all your work on the Council. - Optigan13 ( talk) 00:13, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
I suppose it because its my idea of notability that I like to see people in the section who were actually notable rather than a mile long list of all the 2-star commanders of a particular unit which to me poisons the point of the box since it lumps everyone into the same category rather than listing one or two or so extraordinary commanders whose names were associated with the unit that really went the extra mile, or had a unique rank, or gained their notability not just in the unit but outside of it as well. I've reverted my edits in any case, I should not have acted without consensus on the matter. TomStar81 ( Talk) 23:35, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
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A proposal to add a "public interest" clause to Wikipedia:Oversight has started at Wikipedia_talk:Oversight#Proposal_for_new_.27public_interest.27_clause. SilkTork * YES! 10:12, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I've come to ask again for your assistance in the matter. For the third time in as many years, the article's name is in contention and once again, it is an argument being made by someone who really doesn't understand the nature of the unit's Please have a look at the Talk page if you'd be so kind. Thank you. Ryecatcher773 ( talk) 01:10, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
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Please see [4] for an example of why this is a live issue and not hypothetical. Others have mentioned other instances of articles del;eted out of process.-- Peter cohen ( talk) 20:13, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
One of your fellow admins has directed me here, so here is my question. So many other websites use the Konami Code in one way or another, why does Wikipedia not do so as well? If you cannot answer my question, please direct me to somebody who can. Thank you. Sincerely, Watcher. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.18.95.84 ( talk) 03:55, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Please see HERE for a overview of my recent work and intrests Mlpearc MESSAGE 06:08, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
It appears at this point that there is no major objection to the addition of the {{ Peer review tools}} to the milhist pr system, but I have two questions: can this be done in our PR system in a manner similar to what we did with the ACR project, and is there any part of the tool set that we need to clarify the use of? TomStar81 ( Talk) 04:22, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
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Good morning Krill. Per this discussion, I was wondering if you had any hard references or authoritative examples of use of a dagger as a symbol for death in battle? I'm fairly certain I've seen it used in numerous books in the past, but I can't for the life of me find any now! It would be great to get the usage clarified, as I think there may need to be further discussion on its appropriateness of use in some articles (ie whether KIA is better for more recent battles or for the visually impaired). Cheers, Ranger Steve ( talk) 10:44, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kiril,
From WP:INFOBOX, I understand that you are the point of contact for MILHIST infoboxes. I have a unique situation and hope you could point me in right direction. I want to know if there are any infoboxes for entire Military Arm of a nation ? Specifically, if we talk about Luftwaffe organization, wouldn't there be something similar to Template:Command structure ? If there's one, I'd like to put it in Organization of the Luftwaffe (1933-1945). Thanks in advance. ' Perseus 71 talk 20:17, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
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Thank you for all the hard work you and the rest of the Arbitration Committee put into the case. Your intervention into what has been a three-year problem is much appreciated! Nightscream ( talk) 19:46, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kirill. I don't know if this is something I've done, but the category links for the new TF seem to be doing something very odd. Some hours ago I created the new Category:Australia,_New_Zealand_and_South_Pacific_military_history_task_force_articles page, created the various sub-cats, and these seemed to be populating correctly. I just went back to check on progress and found that the links to the sub-sub-cats (eg "FA-Class Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history articles") now give a 404; something seems to be adding extra parameters into the URL. This isn't the case if you try clicking first on the sub-cat and then on the sub-sub-cat from there (eg first "Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history articles by quality" and then "FA-Class Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history articles"). Any ideas? EyeSerene talk 20:54, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
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The discussion over at WT:MOS seems to be favorable to a proposed "Supplemental style guide" (SSG) as a companion to the main MoS for content-specific guidelines. Gnevin proposed that several of the current MoS-tagged pages could be moved into this SSG. I was wondering if you'd be willing to help me in starting up the proposal? Since the current sentiment is that the MoS should be pared down and streamlined to accommodate only guidelines of a generalized sort, I think we both agree that there should be some way to collect style guides that are based on content together in a single place for reference and consultation. Imzadi 1979 → 09:34, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kirill, a response from you is required at [ [5]] in relation to Shell's statement and the clarification that you posted in relation to Offliner. Either Shell is incorrect, or the clarification is incorrect. This absolutely needs to be clarified. Because it goes down to the crux of the issue as it actually does exist. -- Russavia I'm chanting as we speak 10:29, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I know you have been really active on WP:Military History in the past. Today I started an internship with the United States Army Center for Military History and I was wondering if, in your opinion, you think their could be a good collaboration/interaction between the Wikipedia community and the Center? I would be willing to coordinate something like that as an intern, once I am more established in the office, but I wanted to start putting together some ideas from my own end before I propose anything to my boss or the WikiProject and the broader community. Your help and experience would be greatly appreciated. I was thinking something along the lines of the activity that was held at the NIH last year, but focused on creating a long term relationship, like what is happening with the British Museum. Any thoughts? 23:02, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
I tried adding a passengers label to the weapon infobox but only the label shows but not the text as seen on M2 Bradley. Not sure if i'm ever going to complete the countermeasures infobox. Marcus Aurelius ( talk) 16:47, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
The situation between Lar and Polargeo, similar to the situation between Lar and Stephen Shultz is escalating. Here is the sequence of events:
Lar was asked to stop removing views on his talk page and instead take a lower-drama action of noting his problems on the page by me, seconded by Thparkth.
This is rapidly spiriling out of control and needs emergy Arbcom intervention to prevent further disruption. I have asked both Lar and Polargeo to stop. Perhaps the individual who choses to stop first should be rewarded, as opposed to losing by default. Just a thought. Hipocrite ( talk) 14:25, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
I seem to recall you once using an excellent quote, but I cannot recall it verbatim, nor the author. It ran something along the lines that individuals much be thick-skinned to praise as well as criticism... can you clear this up for me? bahamut0013 words deeds 05:52, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
I've created a Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Social movements task force. I would like to have a quality assessment statistics (like those), but simply using Template:WPMILHIST Task force assessment code (with milhist->sociology) change didn't work (as you can see on the socmov task force page). Since you seem to be the person who set this system up for MILHIST, I'd appreciate your advice (see also this thread). Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 22:24, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hey, I created a page at Wikipedia:GLAM/SI as a good central place for discussion of ideas of what we can offer to the Smithsonian. Sadads ( talk) 14:13, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey! I wanted to update the information for the band Against Empire and have found that it was deleted a long time ago. There is no reason for this as this band is very well known and a huge influence on the Contemporary Hardcore Punk music and political scene. This band has been on numerous tours throughout USA and Europe and have toured and released records with many notable bands and record labels. They have a new album that is released and wanted to add that information As well as revamp all of the old info that used to be there) but came to the quick realization that the page was deleted for false reasons. It would be great if you could email me back instead of using Wikipedia to discuss this. but whatever works for you. Thank you,
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Above is the project page for working with the Smithsonian. Sadads ( talk) 13:46, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
I fail to see how this improves the navigation. Someone looking at the category Category:War might expect to see "Wars" linked to, but to get to it they have to navigate to "Military operations", and then "Military operations by scale", which is not at all intuitive. So regardless of "appropriate sub-categories", the reader is not well served. Someone looking at the category "Wars" should also easily be able to navigate to the general concept "War". This is not overcategorisation by a long shot. Fences& Windows 20:52, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
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Please check out the conversation at Wikipedia talk:GLAM/SI#First workshop session, thanks Sadads ( talk) 22:27, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey, the final date and time for the first Workshop has been set. If you want to sign up for the team check out Wikipedia:GLAM/SI, Sadads ( talk) 19:40, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
I've never actually been privy to an rfc of this nature before; is there anything I should know about the process that I couldn't read at WP:RFC? TomStar81 ( Talk) 07:21, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Yes, it is controversial - that is why I have asked for the original name to be restored. Could you please reconsider in this light? Thanks, Verbal chat 16:20, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi
Is there a time frame for the first stage before the case is accepted - also do we make statements now or wait till it is accepted/rejected ? (If we make one now is it expected to be a brief outline or should it include diffs?)
I have just finished for the night and would rather wait till tomorrow to have a fresh brain on the matter as have been doing edits all evening for the backlog elimination drive and my brain is a bit too frazzled for that sort of diffs reporting and evidence collecting. Obviously I do not want to leave it in a state of missing comments when I should have made one though.
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Thanks for taking the time to do this Kirill. I've had no involvement with ArbCom for four years and then two cases within months of each other ( the other). Strange place, this... :) EyeSerene talk 12:22, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
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