Hi Kudpung,
I saw you wrote an article about Hanley Castle High School. I attended this school in the 1970's, how can I be of help by providing more background material for this article?-- 87.114.243.69 ( talk) 12:35, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
P.S. I will just add that I also still live in Malvern. -- 91.125.134.9 ( talk) 12:44, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Need assistance with a vandal. User talk:Kenneth cooke245. Creating numerous hoax articles in the same vein as Jake Picasso. Consistently removing CSD tags beyond the fourth warning. Cind. amuse (Cindy) 09:54, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello! It's me again, with the usual topic ;). Thanks for the link you sent me during the summer- I had read most of it already, but there was still some nice information there. I'm preparing for yet another, and hopefully last, RfA, and in my preparations (going back over my talk page and the RfA, as well as the list of people willing to perform RfA nominations) I found your name pop up a lot. Especially since you opposed in my last RfA, I would really appreciate it if you could give me some quick feedback for the RfA- over tell me that it's not yet time, if necessary. -- Slon02 ( talk) 04:54, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey can you look at Carteret Yeshiva Deletion page, there some talk to keeping it just because it's part of Template. I would really appreciate if you can look through it and offer your expert opinion. Thanks The Terminator p t c 17:07, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
I came across this today, and found it enlightening. Seeing that you're a generally respected CSD authority on this site, I thought that the results might be pretty interesting for you, especially the breakdown of all CSD tags applied throughout the history of the site. Regards, -- Σ talk contribs 02:45, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi. It's been a little while since the last message on RfA reform, and there's been a fair amount of slow but steady progress. However, there is currently a flurry of activity due to some conversations on Jimbo's talk page.
I think we're very close to putting an idea or two forward before the community and there are at least two newer ones in the pipeline. So if you have a moment:
Thanks for reading and for any comments that you've now made.
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Calabe1992 ( talk) 17:47, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted you to know that the PROD you placed on that page (which I endorsed) was removed, with a couple of references added in. I'm still less than convinced the place is notable, however. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 21:13, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Good evening I appreciate your action regarding this discussion. I feel that trashing articles on Wikikpedia is seriously offensive. 1archie99 ( talk) 11:23, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Noted author/sociologist/journalist Konrad Bercovici was my grandfather. There is a page up on Wiki that is painfully thin/sketchy considering everything he was known for and accomplished in life. Including 50 published books, 1000s of award-winning short stories, screenplays for Chaplin, work for the Nation and NY Times, for the founding of Israel...just an endless list. I am working on a collection of some of his unpublished work about people he knew...including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Modigliani...and the book proposal into is basically a good Wiki page with lots of info on his life, quotes, sources, lists of published and unpublished work, review quotes, etc.
But the whole Wiki rules are pretty daunting in terms of formatting it for them. I would really like to find somebody to help get this up and running. As I am a writer, it is basically written...just need to get it up. Especially since there is a lot of interest in his work lately...Columbia U wants his papers... as well as in my mother;s work, painter and poet Mirel Bercovici who passed away this past December. And I want to keep the family legacy alive...
Please let me know if this is the kind of project you can become involved in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbrmc ( talk • contribs) 14:09, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
I am almost 18. I'm turning 18 in November. -- #1 Fan of Queen ( Talk | Contribs) 15:39, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi. If you have a look at this you'll see that this person seems to have a grudge against Jonathan Bate. User:Johnuniq reverted and pointed him/her to WP:BLP, and I've reverted several times, but (s)he seems impervious to reason. Any chance you could step in and do something drastic? -- Guillaume Tell 18:02, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
I came across this article which refers to the murder of my second cousin (adopted) Brenda Dawn Hirons. I would like to do some further research about this but uncertain where to start, and wonder if it is possible to contact the original author of the article. I have a few facts to add, about the events of the time, but some belong in the category of personal stories and I am uncertain if Wikipedia is the right vehicle for this.
Roseatbuzz — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roseatbuzz ( talk • contribs) 07:05, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the information and assistance - I'll hope to hear from the author of the article. I see you are interested in matters relating to Malvern where I grew up, so if I can help at all on this subject please let me know Roseatbuzz — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roseatbuzz ( talk • contribs) 15:39, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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Maybe interesting only to me, but I got to wondering at the idea that the so-called "RfA regulars" are a somewhat-powerful crowd. I went back to my own RfA and looked through the names of those who expressed opinions, and while I knew some were no longer around, I was actually interested to see quite a large number are nowhere to be found (and, indeed, a few are indef-blocked). No way to capture those statistics easily, I would think...and not sure it's interesting for everyone, but I wonder if there's anything to be made of the fact that - "regulars" or not, at the point they opine - those who participate in RfA may no longer be around after not-too-much time anyway. (The conclusion to draw, perhaps, might point at a harder gauntlet, which might not serve us well.) Frank | talk 22:38, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung. I mentioned before that I was looking to create a report on our investigations into candidates, so that editors could better understand the results. At the moment it is a sea of numbers, and I can see that it might be difficult to navigate through, so I've tried my best to summarise things in a report. My plan would be to then link the report from the proposal. I've written up the first three sections and was wondering if you could review them. Also, if you have time, would you be able to do a short write up (1-2 paragraphs, as per the above sections) regarding what happens on other wikipedias? WormTT · ( talk) 15:46, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
There are a few good applications for ambassador pending approval. In particular I was hoping maybe you could comment on this one. -- My76Strat ( talk) 16:58, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
....work to do. -- Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 01:09, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Things you can consider doing
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First of all there is the schools project at WP:WPSCH which has a list (not too long) of school pages in need of urgent attention. It also has lists of schools that are, or could be, potential GAs if they were given a bit of TLC. There is also a recent discussion again on the perennial issue regarding the perceived or inherent notability for high schools. In a nutshell, Jimbo made a statement in 2003 that high schools should have articles, and this was taken to assume they are automatically notable, whether referenced or not, so long as they really exist. When asked to comment during the new discussion, he turned round on this and said that all schools must meet WP:ORG (or something to that effect). Personally, I don't care one way or the other, but the coordinator of the schools project, and as an admin who has to delete or close AfDs, I would like a clear ruling so that I know what I'm supposed to be doing. That said however, I'm in favour of keeping the status quo for purely pragmatic reasons: genuine high schools are notable if proven to exist, primary schools are not inherently notable and must meet WP:ORG, nd if they don't they get redirected to the school district rather than deleted. This would avoid a mass deletion spree by the deletionists of tens of thousands of school articles, and would enable us to knock some sense into the NPPers. There just aren't enough editors to vote an close 100s of new AfDs. WP:RFA2011 is still going strong and making some slow, but sure progress towards getting its first firm suggestion ready for RfC. A local poll on the project page is still open and you can express your opinion on that. Your opinions and ideas on any aspect of reform would of course be most welcome. The task force members are a bit lethargic, and if you would like to work more on that project, I could suggest you becoming a coordinator, but this would need the consensus of the other coordinators. You'll see that I've recently made a new navigation template to help get around the various sub pages more easily. let's not kid ourselves that RfA reform is going to happen overnight, but this is the first RfA project ever that has gained so much momentum and some support from Jimbo. Six months ago, an RfC was held based on research into NPP that Snottywong, Blade, and I did into the near total breakdown of NPP as a process for monitoring the quality of new pages. The RfC ended in a clear consensus for the proposition we made to restrict the creation of new pages to autoconfirmed users - this was the only viable solution we could find to the problem of NPP. This RfC was followed up with a further central RfC to determine the terms for the trial before the new rule is to be adopted permanently; the trial was passes by consensus on an almost unianimous consensus. This new rule requires a small, and easy php change to the user group permissions in the site software. The request to the developers, which has to be made through a spin-off agency called Bugzilla, was refused bluntly and very rudely by a couple of devs and/or WMF employees. And so a huge polemic rages now. There would be a huge amount of reading to catch up on this, and it would be up to you which side you support; it's clear which side I'm on, because I spent 100s of hours patrolling new pages, patrolling the patrollers, and doing a lot of the research for the stats. There are two essays that I maintain: Advice for younger editors which I rewrote for Brad in a language more aimed at 10 - 14 year olds. The problem of this is keeping it short enough to be sure they will read it, while saying everything that needs to be said, and avoiding WP:BEANS. I have now moved my essay Advice for RfA candidates to Wikipedia space. If you have any suggestions fr improvement of these essays, please make them on their talk pages. Other semi admin work that you can consider, is checking out the editors who have posted editor review requests, and offering your opinions there. If you are sure about the information you an provide, you can try your hand at working on one or some of the help desks - it would look good on your Wiipedia resumé - I would suggest WP:EAR to which I used to be a regular contributor but don't have so much time to do now. Jezhotwells is the resident expert there, but of course anyone with clue can provide answers and/or redirect the enquirers to more appropriate help desks. Consider doing some GA reviews, but only if you feel really competent to do it; if you've not done one before, you might like me to watch over your shoulder while you do one. Some of us experienced editors have decided to stop wasting our time doing the patrolling th NPPers can't cope with, in order to prove a point. You can help by patrolling the patrollers, that is, checking their patrol logs against articles they have patrolled to see if they are getting their tagging right - obviously you won't be able to view any pages already deleted, but if you are suspicious, let me know. Likewise, you can also check the recently patrolled pages to see if they have been correctly tagged, and if they are recreations of previously deleted versions, and if the authors have previously been warned for copyvio, attack, or vandalism etc. It would be too much for you to systematically check every patroller and every page, so do this at random. You'll soon get a feel from the titles of the pages if they are likely to be a bit odd, particularly biographies, and companies. Take a look at my User:Kudpung/vector.js page and see if there are any scripts you might find useful. You might even just want to copy the whole lot and then later delete the ones that you don't find particularly helpful. If you are using the monobook skin, you just put them in your monobook.js page instead. Links for the autopatroll saga:
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Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 09:55, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Looks like I've got my work cut out for me! As soon as I get done reading ANI and catching up, I'll start down your list of pages ;). I hope WP:AVIATION/ WP:AIRPORTS has been doing okay while I've been gone... Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 13:06, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
It's not really all about being an Admin. I'm perfectly happy not being an admin, and don't see a reason to become one unless there is an absolute need to. There are too many rules to being an admin, and I'm happy not being constantly watched by ARB, and then having my every move analyzed. Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 15:15, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Kudpong,
Thanks for your message on my talk page. Before submitting the article I requested feedback according the instructions in the Wikipedia guidelines and unfortunately no one reviewed the article or provided me any help. When I first loaded it on to Wikipedia I got the feedback that it needed improving. I took it to a professional journalist who helped to improve it.
Now I hear from you that it may be deleted and I need to understand what the problems are with the article. All the claims we have made are factual and many of them have web references. I'm happy to impove the article or add/delete more information but I need help understand what the problem is with the article.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide or perhaps you can direct me to someone else who can help, I have honestly worked very hard to make this article factual and well written I must admit I feel a bit discouraged that it's been marked for deletion with little constructive information on what needs to be done.
Please Help!
Thanks in advance,
EUSCYHE -Cynthia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Euscyhe ( talk • contribs) 00:37, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your response Blade- I saw the comment on the top of the page but they were very general. There are a lot of references in the article and I added more. One of the comments is that the article may need to be wikified which I don't know what that means. I used the template. If you could take a look and give me more specific things which need to be improved, I am happy to do so. thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Euscyhe ( talk • contribs) 12:32, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk) 05:33, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
-- Luke (Talk) 01:16, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Teamwork. :P You snatched it out from under me while I was undeleting to set it as A1. Annnnyway, keep up the good work, and cheers =) -- slakr\ talk / 01:44, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
If you're interested in a way to delete such stuff faster, there's a thread at the top of WT:CSD about a new criterion involving made-up subjects - more views are needed. Thanks, → Σ τ c. 03:15, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Jimbo was willing to stake his reputation on Pending Changes being permanently adopted. He has been taking, understandably, a back seat on most issues ever since - which of course as a 'constitutional monarch' divested of executive powers, is all he actually can do. I get the impression that nobody (read 'WMF') really listens to him any more. It happens all the time: you create a new company, it becomes a success, someone comes along and does an aggressive take-over, out of respect they leave you with a position on the board but you are no longer the owner of your baby and there is bugger all you can do about the way they are going to ruin run things from now on.
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (
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Hi Kudpung,
I am wondering if I can request your help in meeting the guidelines for publishing on Wikipedia as I'm a little confused. I know you deleted my last article submission and I was hoping to ask you some questions about it. I read through the notability and third-party guidelines and I do believe that my article is eligible - I'm wondering, though, if I just need to re-write the copy for it? I created a Wiki Talk page here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/SKLZ in hopes of receiving some feedback as well. I think the copy on this article is more suited for Wikipedia. Please let me know what you think and how I can best proceed. Thank you so much! Sawatdee Kaahhh!
Best,
Gabrielle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gclifford2011 ( talk • contribs) 23:26, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm sorry that your message was not delivered in time. Would you still like to have it delivered? -- Nascar1996( Talk • Contribs) 15:39, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
RfA reform: ...and what you can do now.
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(You are receiving this message because you are either a task force member, or you have contributed to recent discussions on any of these pages.) The number of nominations continues to nosedive seriously, according to these monthly figures. We know why this is, and if the trend continues our reserve of active admins will soon be underwater. Wikipedia now needs suitable editors to come forward. This can only be achieved either through changes to the current system, a radical alternative, or by fiat from elsewhere. A lot of work is constantly being done behind the scenes by the coordinators and task force members, such as monitoring the talk pages, discussing new ideas, organising the project pages, researching statistics and keeping them up to date. You'll also see for example that we have recently made tables to compare how other Wikipedias choose their sysops, and some tools have been developed to more closely examine !voters' habits. The purpose of WP:RFA2011 is to focus attention on specific issues of our admin selection process and to develop RfC proposals for solutions to improve them. For this, we have organised the project into dedicated sections each with their own discussion pages. It is important to understand that all Wikipedia policy changes take a long time to implement whether or not the discussions appear to be active - getting the proposals right before offering them for discussion by the broader community is crucial to the success of any RfC. Consider keeping the pages and their talk pages on your watchlist; do check out older threads before starting a new one on topics that have been discussed already, and if you start a new thread, please revisit it regularly to follow up on new comments. The object of WP:RFA2011 is not to make it either easier or harder to become an admin - those criteria are set by those who !vote at each RfA. By providing a unique venue for developing ideas for change independent of the general discussion at WT:RFA, the project has two clearly defined goals:
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This sounds very familiar. Jasper Deng (talk) 17:11, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I removed the notability prod from GoatUp because both Minotaur Rescue and Minotron: 2112 have remained on the site for several months with no notability objections. Either Jeff Minter's iOS games are notable, or they are not: there is no apparent difference between them that would mean that those two were while GoatUp was not. Obviously if Minotaur Rescue had been prodded for notability I would have removed it and not written any of the further articles; I took the lack of a prod given a large amount of time as acceptance of such. Obviously I wouldn't have put time into writing the later articles if I knew they weren't wanted, so waiting for them to be written before deciding they're unwanted is unreasonable in my view. Prodding Minotaur Rescue at this point is really just immature: no-one else has had a problem with it since June, so why complain now just for the argument?
Hyphz ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:43, 25 September 2011 (UTC).
Um, "anything I can do to save it?" You're the one attacking it! If you want it to be saved, stop. There just aren't any peer-reviewed journals publishing documentation on video games that came out in the last month, and if its presence on the App Store and the listed reviews don't make it notable, then it isn't (but neither are many of the other iOS games that are listed - thus the consistency issue) Hyphz ( talk)
( edit conflict)I don't make the rules here, but I have to implement them. WP:RS will tell you all you need to know about referencing and sourcing for notability. Getting software on sale at the AppStore is no big no big deal, I have some on sale there and reviewed in the editorial pages of 100s of computer magazines worldwide because I wrote the press releases - also no big deal. None of that complies with Wikipedia's criteria. Anyway, I don't see anyone tagging the articles yet for CSD, PROD, or AfD. The routine tags flag the articles so that someone else might know where to find WP:RS for them . Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 19:20, 25 September 2011 (UTC).
Hello Kudpung. I received your message regarding the Jeff Minter game articles that I recently tagged for categorization and have written you a response here. - Thibbs ( talk) 21:17, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Wow, I found your user page(s) via an editor review of User:Σ. All I can say is you have given me a lot to think about. At this point, I don't even think of myself as someone who aspires to be an admin (though I am trying to learn as much about Wikipedia policy and procedures as I can and participate as much as possible), but I really appreciated your detailed rationale of what an admin should be and your look at the whole RfA process as a whole. The future of Wikipedia seems to be on everyone's minds recently. Quick request: I am already familiar with Snottywong's tools, but I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of a tool to evaluate decline rate of an editor's CSD tagging. My apologies if this should be apparent to me, but I tried searching around for it (including in your talk page archives) but was not able to locate it. Thanks! Moogwrench ( talk) 01:27, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. I had tagged it as a hoax because I wasn't sure if it was a BLP violation or attack page. It read close to it, but I figured the Hungarian Medal of Honor stuff and the like was enough to warrant a G3 for a hoax. Wildthing61476 ( talk) 14:47, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Monty 845 15:39, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 01:57, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Looks like ACTRIAL finally got noticed at the signpost, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-09-26/News and notes. See also the talk page of that article, there's an extended rant going on there. —SW— verbalize 04:13, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Well, thank you Joe! BTW, I hope you didn't mind my recent comments about the BLPPROD ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 17:11, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Look at Keepscases oppose vote here: [1]. I'm on the breaking point. Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 19:08, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung,
In regards to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davina_Reichman: I have re-written the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davina_Reichman citing references from Wall Street Journal, News Limited (News.com.au, a subsidiary of News Limited)Womens Mafia and fashion-maga-zine.
I am doing this because the article as it previously stood when you commented on it was 4 lines without notable sources as references.
Will you please look at the article now please?
Thank you.
Domenico.y ( talk) 21:14, 28 September 2011 (UTC) Domenico.y
Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 01:53, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Try now. 99.103.110.162 ( talk) 01:57, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, it's Tofu. It keeps logging me out on my phone. 99.103.110.162 ( talk) 02:02, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 02:05, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
OMG - still using a phone to work on Wikipedia? I thought you had got the problems sorted out with the use of the family computer. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 02:07, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey Kudpung, sorry I didn't get your message on Meta until now -- I need to put one of those templates that say to contact me on en.wiki. I'd be glad to help out. When is your meeting, I hope I'm not too late. If I'm reading your request correctly, you'd like quarterly (3 month) visualizations of the relative categories of speedy deletions (A7, G1, etc) in terms of the number of articles created during that 3 month time period. So you could see, for example (making data up right now) that between Q3 2009 and Q3 2011 there has been a steady 3% per quarter increase in articles deleted for A7, with a corresponding decrease in articles deleted for G1? I'm imagining a line plot that contains each of the major CSD rationales, fluctuating up or down over time as certain rationales get more and less popular. What do you think? Also, can you use a {{Talkback}} template on my user talk page for the most prompt response? Stu (aeiou) I`m Researching Wikipedia 18:07, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks. I was almost sure that it was vandalism, but I always try to tone things down to avoid confrontations. In any case, the article would get deleted, right? Ratibgreat ( talk) 08:29, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey Kudpung,
I'd like to personally thank you for keeping Wikipedia clean by deleting the article Small And Medium Enterprise(SME) exchange/platform and its subsequent renditions by Examsandacademics. At this point, let me introduce myself. I am a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador in charge of guiding this aforementioned user who happens to be a student taking part in the Wikipedia:India Education Program. Hence, please do consider my assurance that I shall talk to this user personally and make sure he understands how he has violated Wikipedia policy. For any further clarifications you can revert back to me or any of the Campus Ambassadors participating in this program. I implore you to not unblock him until he has apologized to you for his copyvio and I get a chance to speak to him and make sure he has understood his copyvio. However, if he still does violate copyright again, feel free to re-block him at your discretion. However, as he is a student, just understand that this is not an intended act of vandalism, he's just trying to work on his assignment as has possibly taken a wrong route. I request a little bit of leniency. For any clarifications whatsoever, please feel free to revert back to me on my talk page.
Regards, Debastein1 ( talk) 12:21, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung,
I saw you wrote an article about Hanley Castle High School. I attended this school in the 1970's, how can I be of help by providing more background material for this article?-- 87.114.243.69 ( talk) 12:35, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
P.S. I will just add that I also still live in Malvern. -- 91.125.134.9 ( talk) 12:44, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Need assistance with a vandal. User talk:Kenneth cooke245. Creating numerous hoax articles in the same vein as Jake Picasso. Consistently removing CSD tags beyond the fourth warning. Cind. amuse (Cindy) 09:54, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello! It's me again, with the usual topic ;). Thanks for the link you sent me during the summer- I had read most of it already, but there was still some nice information there. I'm preparing for yet another, and hopefully last, RfA, and in my preparations (going back over my talk page and the RfA, as well as the list of people willing to perform RfA nominations) I found your name pop up a lot. Especially since you opposed in my last RfA, I would really appreciate it if you could give me some quick feedback for the RfA- over tell me that it's not yet time, if necessary. -- Slon02 ( talk) 04:54, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey can you look at Carteret Yeshiva Deletion page, there some talk to keeping it just because it's part of Template. I would really appreciate if you can look through it and offer your expert opinion. Thanks The Terminator p t c 17:07, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
I came across this today, and found it enlightening. Seeing that you're a generally respected CSD authority on this site, I thought that the results might be pretty interesting for you, especially the breakdown of all CSD tags applied throughout the history of the site. Regards, -- Σ talk contribs 02:45, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi. It's been a little while since the last message on RfA reform, and there's been a fair amount of slow but steady progress. However, there is currently a flurry of activity due to some conversations on Jimbo's talk page.
I think we're very close to putting an idea or two forward before the community and there are at least two newer ones in the pipeline. So if you have a moment:
Thanks for reading and for any comments that you've now made.
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Calabe1992 ( talk) 17:47, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted you to know that the PROD you placed on that page (which I endorsed) was removed, with a couple of references added in. I'm still less than convinced the place is notable, however. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 21:13, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Good evening I appreciate your action regarding this discussion. I feel that trashing articles on Wikikpedia is seriously offensive. 1archie99 ( talk) 11:23, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Noted author/sociologist/journalist Konrad Bercovici was my grandfather. There is a page up on Wiki that is painfully thin/sketchy considering everything he was known for and accomplished in life. Including 50 published books, 1000s of award-winning short stories, screenplays for Chaplin, work for the Nation and NY Times, for the founding of Israel...just an endless list. I am working on a collection of some of his unpublished work about people he knew...including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Modigliani...and the book proposal into is basically a good Wiki page with lots of info on his life, quotes, sources, lists of published and unpublished work, review quotes, etc.
But the whole Wiki rules are pretty daunting in terms of formatting it for them. I would really like to find somebody to help get this up and running. As I am a writer, it is basically written...just need to get it up. Especially since there is a lot of interest in his work lately...Columbia U wants his papers... as well as in my mother;s work, painter and poet Mirel Bercovici who passed away this past December. And I want to keep the family legacy alive...
Please let me know if this is the kind of project you can become involved in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbrmc ( talk • contribs) 14:09, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
I am almost 18. I'm turning 18 in November. -- #1 Fan of Queen ( Talk | Contribs) 15:39, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi. If you have a look at this you'll see that this person seems to have a grudge against Jonathan Bate. User:Johnuniq reverted and pointed him/her to WP:BLP, and I've reverted several times, but (s)he seems impervious to reason. Any chance you could step in and do something drastic? -- Guillaume Tell 18:02, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
I came across this article which refers to the murder of my second cousin (adopted) Brenda Dawn Hirons. I would like to do some further research about this but uncertain where to start, and wonder if it is possible to contact the original author of the article. I have a few facts to add, about the events of the time, but some belong in the category of personal stories and I am uncertain if Wikipedia is the right vehicle for this.
Roseatbuzz — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roseatbuzz ( talk • contribs) 07:05, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the information and assistance - I'll hope to hear from the author of the article. I see you are interested in matters relating to Malvern where I grew up, so if I can help at all on this subject please let me know Roseatbuzz — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roseatbuzz ( talk • contribs) 15:39, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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Maybe interesting only to me, but I got to wondering at the idea that the so-called "RfA regulars" are a somewhat-powerful crowd. I went back to my own RfA and looked through the names of those who expressed opinions, and while I knew some were no longer around, I was actually interested to see quite a large number are nowhere to be found (and, indeed, a few are indef-blocked). No way to capture those statistics easily, I would think...and not sure it's interesting for everyone, but I wonder if there's anything to be made of the fact that - "regulars" or not, at the point they opine - those who participate in RfA may no longer be around after not-too-much time anyway. (The conclusion to draw, perhaps, might point at a harder gauntlet, which might not serve us well.) Frank | talk 22:38, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung. I mentioned before that I was looking to create a report on our investigations into candidates, so that editors could better understand the results. At the moment it is a sea of numbers, and I can see that it might be difficult to navigate through, so I've tried my best to summarise things in a report. My plan would be to then link the report from the proposal. I've written up the first three sections and was wondering if you could review them. Also, if you have time, would you be able to do a short write up (1-2 paragraphs, as per the above sections) regarding what happens on other wikipedias? WormTT · ( talk) 15:46, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
There are a few good applications for ambassador pending approval. In particular I was hoping maybe you could comment on this one. -- My76Strat ( talk) 16:58, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
....work to do. -- Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 01:09, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Things you can consider doing
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First of all there is the schools project at WP:WPSCH which has a list (not too long) of school pages in need of urgent attention. It also has lists of schools that are, or could be, potential GAs if they were given a bit of TLC. There is also a recent discussion again on the perennial issue regarding the perceived or inherent notability for high schools. In a nutshell, Jimbo made a statement in 2003 that high schools should have articles, and this was taken to assume they are automatically notable, whether referenced or not, so long as they really exist. When asked to comment during the new discussion, he turned round on this and said that all schools must meet WP:ORG (or something to that effect). Personally, I don't care one way or the other, but the coordinator of the schools project, and as an admin who has to delete or close AfDs, I would like a clear ruling so that I know what I'm supposed to be doing. That said however, I'm in favour of keeping the status quo for purely pragmatic reasons: genuine high schools are notable if proven to exist, primary schools are not inherently notable and must meet WP:ORG, nd if they don't they get redirected to the school district rather than deleted. This would avoid a mass deletion spree by the deletionists of tens of thousands of school articles, and would enable us to knock some sense into the NPPers. There just aren't enough editors to vote an close 100s of new AfDs. WP:RFA2011 is still going strong and making some slow, but sure progress towards getting its first firm suggestion ready for RfC. A local poll on the project page is still open and you can express your opinion on that. Your opinions and ideas on any aspect of reform would of course be most welcome. The task force members are a bit lethargic, and if you would like to work more on that project, I could suggest you becoming a coordinator, but this would need the consensus of the other coordinators. You'll see that I've recently made a new navigation template to help get around the various sub pages more easily. let's not kid ourselves that RfA reform is going to happen overnight, but this is the first RfA project ever that has gained so much momentum and some support from Jimbo. Six months ago, an RfC was held based on research into NPP that Snottywong, Blade, and I did into the near total breakdown of NPP as a process for monitoring the quality of new pages. The RfC ended in a clear consensus for the proposition we made to restrict the creation of new pages to autoconfirmed users - this was the only viable solution we could find to the problem of NPP. This RfC was followed up with a further central RfC to determine the terms for the trial before the new rule is to be adopted permanently; the trial was passes by consensus on an almost unianimous consensus. This new rule requires a small, and easy php change to the user group permissions in the site software. The request to the developers, which has to be made through a spin-off agency called Bugzilla, was refused bluntly and very rudely by a couple of devs and/or WMF employees. And so a huge polemic rages now. There would be a huge amount of reading to catch up on this, and it would be up to you which side you support; it's clear which side I'm on, because I spent 100s of hours patrolling new pages, patrolling the patrollers, and doing a lot of the research for the stats. There are two essays that I maintain: Advice for younger editors which I rewrote for Brad in a language more aimed at 10 - 14 year olds. The problem of this is keeping it short enough to be sure they will read it, while saying everything that needs to be said, and avoiding WP:BEANS. I have now moved my essay Advice for RfA candidates to Wikipedia space. If you have any suggestions fr improvement of these essays, please make them on their talk pages. Other semi admin work that you can consider, is checking out the editors who have posted editor review requests, and offering your opinions there. If you are sure about the information you an provide, you can try your hand at working on one or some of the help desks - it would look good on your Wiipedia resumé - I would suggest WP:EAR to which I used to be a regular contributor but don't have so much time to do now. Jezhotwells is the resident expert there, but of course anyone with clue can provide answers and/or redirect the enquirers to more appropriate help desks. Consider doing some GA reviews, but only if you feel really competent to do it; if you've not done one before, you might like me to watch over your shoulder while you do one. Some of us experienced editors have decided to stop wasting our time doing the patrolling th NPPers can't cope with, in order to prove a point. You can help by patrolling the patrollers, that is, checking their patrol logs against articles they have patrolled to see if they are getting their tagging right - obviously you won't be able to view any pages already deleted, but if you are suspicious, let me know. Likewise, you can also check the recently patrolled pages to see if they have been correctly tagged, and if they are recreations of previously deleted versions, and if the authors have previously been warned for copyvio, attack, or vandalism etc. It would be too much for you to systematically check every patroller and every page, so do this at random. You'll soon get a feel from the titles of the pages if they are likely to be a bit odd, particularly biographies, and companies. Take a look at my User:Kudpung/vector.js page and see if there are any scripts you might find useful. You might even just want to copy the whole lot and then later delete the ones that you don't find particularly helpful. If you are using the monobook skin, you just put them in your monobook.js page instead. Links for the autopatroll saga:
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Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 09:55, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Looks like I've got my work cut out for me! As soon as I get done reading ANI and catching up, I'll start down your list of pages ;). I hope WP:AVIATION/ WP:AIRPORTS has been doing okay while I've been gone... Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 13:06, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
It's not really all about being an Admin. I'm perfectly happy not being an admin, and don't see a reason to become one unless there is an absolute need to. There are too many rules to being an admin, and I'm happy not being constantly watched by ARB, and then having my every move analyzed. Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 15:15, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Kudpong,
Thanks for your message on my talk page. Before submitting the article I requested feedback according the instructions in the Wikipedia guidelines and unfortunately no one reviewed the article or provided me any help. When I first loaded it on to Wikipedia I got the feedback that it needed improving. I took it to a professional journalist who helped to improve it.
Now I hear from you that it may be deleted and I need to understand what the problems are with the article. All the claims we have made are factual and many of them have web references. I'm happy to impove the article or add/delete more information but I need help understand what the problem is with the article.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide or perhaps you can direct me to someone else who can help, I have honestly worked very hard to make this article factual and well written I must admit I feel a bit discouraged that it's been marked for deletion with little constructive information on what needs to be done.
Please Help!
Thanks in advance,
EUSCYHE -Cynthia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Euscyhe ( talk • contribs) 00:37, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your response Blade- I saw the comment on the top of the page but they were very general. There are a lot of references in the article and I added more. One of the comments is that the article may need to be wikified which I don't know what that means. I used the template. If you could take a look and give me more specific things which need to be improved, I am happy to do so. thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Euscyhe ( talk • contribs) 12:32, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk) 05:33, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
-- Luke (Talk) 01:16, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Teamwork. :P You snatched it out from under me while I was undeleting to set it as A1. Annnnyway, keep up the good work, and cheers =) -- slakr\ talk / 01:44, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
If you're interested in a way to delete such stuff faster, there's a thread at the top of WT:CSD about a new criterion involving made-up subjects - more views are needed. Thanks, → Σ τ c. 03:15, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Jimbo was willing to stake his reputation on Pending Changes being permanently adopted. He has been taking, understandably, a back seat on most issues ever since - which of course as a 'constitutional monarch' divested of executive powers, is all he actually can do. I get the impression that nobody (read 'WMF') really listens to him any more. It happens all the time: you create a new company, it becomes a success, someone comes along and does an aggressive take-over, out of respect they leave you with a position on the board but you are no longer the owner of your baby and there is bugger all you can do about the way they are going to ruin run things from now on.
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Hi Kudpung,
I am wondering if I can request your help in meeting the guidelines for publishing on Wikipedia as I'm a little confused. I know you deleted my last article submission and I was hoping to ask you some questions about it. I read through the notability and third-party guidelines and I do believe that my article is eligible - I'm wondering, though, if I just need to re-write the copy for it? I created a Wiki Talk page here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/SKLZ in hopes of receiving some feedback as well. I think the copy on this article is more suited for Wikipedia. Please let me know what you think and how I can best proceed. Thank you so much! Sawatdee Kaahhh!
Best,
Gabrielle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gclifford2011 ( talk • contribs) 23:26, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm sorry that your message was not delivered in time. Would you still like to have it delivered? -- Nascar1996( Talk • Contribs) 15:39, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
RfA reform: ...and what you can do now.
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This sounds very familiar. Jasper Deng (talk) 17:11, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I removed the notability prod from GoatUp because both Minotaur Rescue and Minotron: 2112 have remained on the site for several months with no notability objections. Either Jeff Minter's iOS games are notable, or they are not: there is no apparent difference between them that would mean that those two were while GoatUp was not. Obviously if Minotaur Rescue had been prodded for notability I would have removed it and not written any of the further articles; I took the lack of a prod given a large amount of time as acceptance of such. Obviously I wouldn't have put time into writing the later articles if I knew they weren't wanted, so waiting for them to be written before deciding they're unwanted is unreasonable in my view. Prodding Minotaur Rescue at this point is really just immature: no-one else has had a problem with it since June, so why complain now just for the argument?
Hyphz ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:43, 25 September 2011 (UTC).
Um, "anything I can do to save it?" You're the one attacking it! If you want it to be saved, stop. There just aren't any peer-reviewed journals publishing documentation on video games that came out in the last month, and if its presence on the App Store and the listed reviews don't make it notable, then it isn't (but neither are many of the other iOS games that are listed - thus the consistency issue) Hyphz ( talk)
( edit conflict)I don't make the rules here, but I have to implement them. WP:RS will tell you all you need to know about referencing and sourcing for notability. Getting software on sale at the AppStore is no big no big deal, I have some on sale there and reviewed in the editorial pages of 100s of computer magazines worldwide because I wrote the press releases - also no big deal. None of that complies with Wikipedia's criteria. Anyway, I don't see anyone tagging the articles yet for CSD, PROD, or AfD. The routine tags flag the articles so that someone else might know where to find WP:RS for them . Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 19:20, 25 September 2011 (UTC).
Hello Kudpung. I received your message regarding the Jeff Minter game articles that I recently tagged for categorization and have written you a response here. - Thibbs ( talk) 21:17, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Wow, I found your user page(s) via an editor review of User:Σ. All I can say is you have given me a lot to think about. At this point, I don't even think of myself as someone who aspires to be an admin (though I am trying to learn as much about Wikipedia policy and procedures as I can and participate as much as possible), but I really appreciated your detailed rationale of what an admin should be and your look at the whole RfA process as a whole. The future of Wikipedia seems to be on everyone's minds recently. Quick request: I am already familiar with Snottywong's tools, but I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of a tool to evaluate decline rate of an editor's CSD tagging. My apologies if this should be apparent to me, but I tried searching around for it (including in your talk page archives) but was not able to locate it. Thanks! Moogwrench ( talk) 01:27, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. I had tagged it as a hoax because I wasn't sure if it was a BLP violation or attack page. It read close to it, but I figured the Hungarian Medal of Honor stuff and the like was enough to warrant a G3 for a hoax. Wildthing61476 ( talk) 14:47, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Monty 845 15:39, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 01:57, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Looks like ACTRIAL finally got noticed at the signpost, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-09-26/News and notes. See also the talk page of that article, there's an extended rant going on there. —SW— verbalize 04:13, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Well, thank you Joe! BTW, I hope you didn't mind my recent comments about the BLPPROD ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 17:11, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Look at Keepscases oppose vote here: [1]. I'm on the breaking point. Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 19:08, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung,
In regards to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davina_Reichman: I have re-written the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davina_Reichman citing references from Wall Street Journal, News Limited (News.com.au, a subsidiary of News Limited)Womens Mafia and fashion-maga-zine.
I am doing this because the article as it previously stood when you commented on it was 4 lines without notable sources as references.
Will you please look at the article now please?
Thank you.
Domenico.y ( talk) 21:14, 28 September 2011 (UTC) Domenico.y
Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 01:53, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Try now. 99.103.110.162 ( talk) 01:57, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, it's Tofu. It keeps logging me out on my phone. 99.103.110.162 ( talk) 02:02, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 02:05, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
OMG - still using a phone to work on Wikipedia? I thought you had got the problems sorted out with the use of the family computer. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 02:07, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey Kudpung, sorry I didn't get your message on Meta until now -- I need to put one of those templates that say to contact me on en.wiki. I'd be glad to help out. When is your meeting, I hope I'm not too late. If I'm reading your request correctly, you'd like quarterly (3 month) visualizations of the relative categories of speedy deletions (A7, G1, etc) in terms of the number of articles created during that 3 month time period. So you could see, for example (making data up right now) that between Q3 2009 and Q3 2011 there has been a steady 3% per quarter increase in articles deleted for A7, with a corresponding decrease in articles deleted for G1? I'm imagining a line plot that contains each of the major CSD rationales, fluctuating up or down over time as certain rationales get more and less popular. What do you think? Also, can you use a {{Talkback}} template on my user talk page for the most prompt response? Stu (aeiou) I`m Researching Wikipedia 18:07, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks. I was almost sure that it was vandalism, but I always try to tone things down to avoid confrontations. In any case, the article would get deleted, right? Ratibgreat ( talk) 08:29, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey Kudpung,
I'd like to personally thank you for keeping Wikipedia clean by deleting the article Small And Medium Enterprise(SME) exchange/platform and its subsequent renditions by Examsandacademics. At this point, let me introduce myself. I am a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador in charge of guiding this aforementioned user who happens to be a student taking part in the Wikipedia:India Education Program. Hence, please do consider my assurance that I shall talk to this user personally and make sure he understands how he has violated Wikipedia policy. For any further clarifications you can revert back to me or any of the Campus Ambassadors participating in this program. I implore you to not unblock him until he has apologized to you for his copyvio and I get a chance to speak to him and make sure he has understood his copyvio. However, if he still does violate copyright again, feel free to re-block him at your discretion. However, as he is a student, just understand that this is not an intended act of vandalism, he's just trying to work on his assignment as has possibly taken a wrong route. I request a little bit of leniency. For any clarifications whatsoever, please feel free to revert back to me on my talk page.
Regards, Debastein1 ( talk) 12:21, 30 September 2011 (UTC)