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...for changing my username! This makes my life a bit easier. Much appreciated. Sampa ( talk) 20:08, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Noticed you moved these, now I no longer have them, here or anywhere.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 00:25, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you did here, but it appears to have broken the teahouse gadget; I've reverted until whatever the issue was is fixed. Thanks, Ironholds ( talk) 01:27, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
At my last bot request, you had a concern about requesting a bot to fix CheckWiki errors. I thought it best to alert you that I just filed for the CheckWiki bot request at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BG19bot 7, so concern away. Bgwhite ( talk) 07:39, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I recently put in a request a few days ago. It hasn't been answered yet, although the robot didn't find any issues, but many other requests have been answered. Is there a specific problem with my request that I need to change? I'm wondering, because I'd like for it to be changed as soon as possible and to start using the new one. If not, would it be possible to make the change soon?
I don't want it to seem like I'm rushing anyone, but I did submit it a bit of a while ago and newer requests have been answered.
Thanks. -- Activism 1234 17:14, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for this usurpation. Kotz ( talk) 17:43, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
For this. It's been a really huge pain in the butt. Zac 01:56, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Im aware that you have discussed blocking StillStanding if he continues to be disruptive about the recent sanctions imposed upon him. Although I'm certain he is aware, you might want to officially notify him of your intentions as he will no doubt continue to make tongue in cheek asides. I also have no doubt that he will proclaim that you are biased and have it out for him if you do warn him, but I'm sure you can weather this. Thanks.
little green rosetta
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central scrutinizer
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Re this; can you point me to where it discusses a test run? Ironholds ( talk) 18:37, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:HKGovtCopyright. Since you had some involvement with the Template:HKGovtCopyright redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). MBisanz talk 15:02, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Withpermission. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Withpermission redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). MBisanz talk 15:05, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:StateGov-AK. Since you had some involvement with the Template:StateGov-AK redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). MBisanz talk 15:07, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
When you write about Darkness Shines at WP:AE "I do think his edits rise to the level" I assume you meant "I do not think his edits rise to the level" since otherwise the sentence looks incomplete. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 17:57, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Quick question for you-- do you need to be an admin to close some of these discussions? I'm interesting in helping close up the backlog, but not sure of the conventions surrounding closes for RfCs. (e.g. this one or this one) I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 19:26, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear MBisanz,
before you enact what you said you want to inact please take a look whether it is me who is distorting or Fut.Perf. Look at the sources I presented at AE on the Bin Laden/Massoud issue and then please tell me: Was Bin Laden "Massoud´s adversary" since the Soviet times (as I wrote) or was he on "friendly terms" with Massoud (as Fut.Perf. wrote).
I would really appreciate if you turn the proposal for a ban into what Salvio - who in contrast to most that commented is very familiar with the whole editing history - proposed: a mandated external review on the issue. This would ensure that no damage can be done and at the same time for those who see through Fut.Perf.´s agenda, it ensures that he can no further distort my editing on the issue. I won´t have much time for wikipedia the next time anyways and that´s why my editing has been sporadic at best lately. So, I would really like you to consider this. No damage can be done.
Thank you, JCAla ( talk) 11:17, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
You may be involved as a participant but I'm bringing this to your notice in your capacity as a steward. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:25, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Matthew,
"not be taking action in this situation"? What action would you have contemplated if you were not friends with the nominator and the nominee? I think my message was perfectly neutral, regardless where and by what mechanism it was posted. Yes, I think the candidate is not ready, yes, I'm certain that if what is known now had been known before nomination they may not have attracted such notable nominators. If this stuff about vandalism and disruption had been disclosed earlier the RFA would likely fail. A non-neutral comment would have been far more pointed and accusatory if I had genuinely wanted to disrupt the RFA. Leaky Caldron 14:33, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:StateGov-AZ. Since you had some involvement with the Template:StateGov-AZ redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 17:19, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Could you please clarify whether you intend JCAla's topic ban to apply only to article edits or also to talkpage participation? (Given the fact that much of his disruption was related to talkpage filibustering I'd obviously recommend the latter, but either way I think it will be useful to have maximum clarity.) Thanks, – Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:50, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
If your nominating a bunch of very slimmer redirects for RFD, it's usually best to nominate them all together in the same RFD discussion. See Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion#How_to_list_a_redirect_for_discussion for institutions. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 17:03, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey MBisanz,
Can you take a look at WP:CHU/U#CeraBot2 → Cerabot. I'd like to get that ove with so I can go oon to Bot requests. (I'm streamlining all of my bot activities into a new bot :P). Cheers, -- ceradon talk contribs 21:15, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
HI there. I doesn't look like your closure at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_September_1#Category:Hotels_by_year_of_completion has been implemented. Have I misunderstood something? Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 18:06, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for moving my name, but it now contains a "+" symbol, on all the other projects I'm registers in there is no "+" character in my username, therefore not allowing me to unify my account, also you can take a look at Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple#फ़ाराह् देसाईं खान → فرح دیسائی where the فرح دیسائی username is still red, please rename my account without leaving a "+" in-between the characters, Thank you! -- MBisanz talk Farah Desai Khan Talk 19:33, 13 October 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by فرح+دیسائی ( talk • contribs)
Sorry to bother you, but I saw that you were particularly active in WP:CHUU. I'm eager to resume editing and am waiting for my usurpation request to go through before starting. Since it has been over a week, could you please take a look at my request or recommend a course of action? I would appreciate it. mxdxcxnx T C 03:09, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
I just want to thank you for posting a welcome message on my talk page. Unfortunately, I got rather distracted by all the links (particularly the bit about Wikipedia:don't delete the main page) and forgot what I came to Wikipedia to do. (Not your fault—I do that.) I'm hoping to become more active on Wikipedia, and being welcomed was a great feeling. Just out of curiosity, how did you happen to notice me? Wolfgang42 ( talk) 02:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that several requests have been processed that were posted after I posted mine (Tehgrue → Ender), I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but since I saw your name on several that have been processed, I thought I'd ask...thanks for any help. Tehgrue ( talk) 07:13, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz. Iamthemuffinman has (finally!) posted a sound-looking unblock request, which I'm inclined to grant. However, you and a number of other admins have been involved with his block in the past, so I'd like to get your take on it too; if you have a moment, please could you have a look at User talk:Iamthemuffinman and leave an opinion? Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 13:01, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your help! I could not find a way to request rename/usurp in commonswiki, could you point me in the right direction? -- Wiking ( talk) 15:39, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Good call. Thanks. — Hex (❝?!❞) 17:27, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)I might be wrong but it could be Hex's mention of bogus reasons in his oppose. Let's not get too excited until Matt explains. Leaky Caldron 18:04, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Separate paragraph for comment to MBisanz: First - sorry, I can't find the comment at RFAR you're referring to. Link please? Second - me, "Scotty, and Leaky [were having a] disruptive discussion"? Excuse me, but please don't tar me with that brush. While they were sniping at each other, I had a brief conversation with Scottywong in which I said that his tool shouldn't be made to look pseudo-official, asked (not ordered) him not to refer to it in RfAs, and then that I would be making sure that people in future know that it's not official. (The way in which I did so the first time, we've already addressed and isn't covered by this.) I also gently noted that he was being a little rude in his comments to me and others. But I did nothing wrong. If you're going to censure them for causing a fuss, leave me out of it. — Hex (❝?!❞) 19:17, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
[1] Nice idea, hope you don't cop too much flak for it. 120.151.222.137 ( talk) 01:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
How can Bigg Boss 6 be merged when many editors have voted on keep. All the copyright has been removed. I have rewritten the summaries in my own words. I BEG YOU. PLEASE. It is the biggest reality show in India. Dont do this. All international versions have separate pages for every season. Check it out, everything on Bigg Boss 6 is original now. -- I'm Titanium chat 18:12, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm commenting here since it popped up on my watchlist that Imtitanium left a message here and the most discussion so far is here. I agree with MBisanz's closure of merge. It's my opinion that copyright concerns should err on the side of delete as opposed to keep, which was why I voted as such, and by closing it as a merge, that concern is (hopefully) gone. And if you still believe it was a bad close, WP:DRV is always available. Legoktm ( talk) 19:10, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Fancy getting out your heavy cannon to blast Wikipedia:N things not to write your article about into smithereens per my close at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:N things not to write your article about? Or should I just wait for a non-local steward to wander past M:Steward requests/Speedy deletions? No real rush, I suppose, now that I've protected the page against further editing... Bencherlite Talk 18:58, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
I dunno if there is such a thing (Not that I can find.) Is there perhaps something in the interface that we could temporarily change in order to make this move? - jc37 19:11, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi , I am Contributor of Trishneet Arora Page dear i am upset to see that page has been delted . but i want to know how to republish this ppage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aroratrishneet ( talk • contribs) 17:56, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Please stop, it's already covered in MediaWiki:Robots.txt. MBisanz talk 21:08, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. It's nice to feel that it's not just me being irrationally curmudgeonly and grumpy, but that someone else feels it's a problem. Another editor removed one of the items and I've trimmed the excessively huge meetings one so it takes up less space, so it's a little better. -- Dweller ( talk) 21:29, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
here, your post was apparently not in reply to my post, but to the editor who added the code to the talk page Archive? I'd like to reiterate something...I happened along and was just asking, I had no clear idea *why* and when I don't understand I like to know the reason something is done or not done. Thanks for the mediaWiki linkage, I will take a look at that - the nomenclature of finding information around Wikipedia has not always proven to be intuitive for me. I've just never seen NOINDEX used for a talk page Archive before and didn't even know if it was allowed....I can conceive of why someone might *want* to NOINDEX WP content, but if the content is libelous/injurious/whatever in a WP:BLP sense, this NOINDEXing doesn't really remove the content from view just keeps it from appearing in indexed searches. Anyway...thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 03:49, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
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For really useful set of icons. Pawel.Benetkiewicz ( talk) 14:56, 21 October 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks! MBisanz talk 18:14, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Can you do me a favour and sort out an approval to move this to Wikipedia:Top 5000 pages. The creator said he'd need bot approval, I think its an extremely valuable list which will be frequently updated and should be a main feature on the main pages on here and linked from it.☠ Count de Blofeld 15:52, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I saw you blocked him, so I went to you: he's still trying to promote through his talk page. ~ ihaveamac [ talk| contribs 04:34, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Will you take a look at this please, I want my name changed globbaly. Mr. Incredible T - E - C - G - 15:01, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
The article Lisa McGrillis was deleted, if it does not meet wikipedia terms and conditions is it possible to delete it entirely rather than there being a page saying this page has been deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.188.163.130 ( talk) 14:55, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, I was the nominator for the AfD of Maharishi Group and I am very surprised to see it being closed as "merge" when there was a clear consensus for deletion at AfD. I'm wondering what your thinking is on this. Can we discuss it? Thanks.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 16:31, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey, you set the Rough Draft Brewing Company to a redirect right as I was working on it. I don't believe consensus was reached on the deletion topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.68.26.61 ( talk) 20:35, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Matt. You may remember that I mediated the Prem Rawat article on and off over the years. It's kicked up again, and I think protecting the article would encourage the parties to discuss the issue. Thanks. Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 03:21, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, I have a question regarding your close of
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Birth_rape, which was "merge to
birth trauma (physical)". This doesn't seem an appropriate merge target.
Birth trauma (physical) is described as "damages the tissues and organs of the child, caused by mechanical forces during childbirth (birth injuries), and response to the damage, accompanied by a violation of compensatory and adaptive mechanisms"--this is damage to the child during the process. "Birth rape" is a psychological perception of powerlessness and feeling attacked as experienced by the mother giving birth. One is physical damage to the child, the other is mental damage to the mother. The best merge target is actually
Childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder. This was brought up in the AFD discussion but maybe it wasn't clear. Could you please update the close to that target? Or would you even care if the redirect were just made to that target even though it wasn't the "official" close target? I'd prefer not to have to go through
WP:DELREV but will if necessary. Thanks...
Zad
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18:14, 25 October 2012 (UTC)Hi. With reference to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study, I was about to proceed to merge the article (all 64 words of it) to Bristol. However (and as your close notes) it also needs merging to Bath, Somerset - and arguably Bath and North East Somerset and possibly elsewhere too. Unfortunately, such merges will result in content forking, which won't help in maintaining the encyclopedia. Now I think about this a little more, are you entirely sure about the consensus being to merge? I would have expected a relist, with the discussion as it was. (Apologies for the tardiness of this note, but I was away until today.) Thanks for reading. -- Trevj ( talk) 16:05, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Matt, could you please use your magic steward powers at Muhammad Ali Jinnah, to delete the article then restore all but the first three edits? It needs to be history merged with Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and I can't do that at the moment because some of the edits are in the way. I'd like to take care of the history merge about nine hours from now, after getting some sleep. :-) Thanks! Graham 87 16:45, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
I don't think it's Colton - it geolocates to the wrong side of the country. Giant Snowman 17:49, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
It was uncontested perhaps because a Stanford prof. is too busy with other things to contest these things? The deletion tag produces no notices at Wikipedia, else I could have asked him to post a release from the photographer. I have been working with Krosnick on his article at Wikipedia, and am managing to get it into some shape, but these kinds of out-of-the-blue actions make it impossible to get academics interested. Churn and change ( talk) 22:30, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
I guess "Has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions." doesn't mean "Has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions." anymore. Quite disappointing. A couple more discouraging AFD outcomes, and I think this last one of Riley Costello (actor) is going to help me make the decision I have come to in leaving Wikipedia for good. I made a more lengthy statement on my talk page, but I'm done with this. - Aaron Booth ( talk) 04:01, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
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Warm thanks with a cup of tea! Goutam ( talk) 06:13, 31 October 2012 (UTC) |
I'm really sorry for bothering you but could you answer my request here? The last topic please. -- Gusta100 ( talk) 22:35, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Why did you delete Aldorlea Games? Are you going to do the same for Hanako Games or SakeVisual or all the TONS of other articles that have no better notability or "reliable sources"? Of course not, let's only take down people we don't like and turn a blind eye on the one we do. This is how it works on Wikipedia, isn't it? It's not about what's fair, it's about being as biased as possible, because the "rules" are not for all to follow, only a minority that the Wiki police wants to get rid of. If you were applying the same strictness for all articles, hundreds of them would be deleted, so why be so tolerant with some and so uncompromising with others? I guess Wikipedia was never about morality... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.209.88.183 ( talk) 05:37, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I'd like to contribute about a subject. It's about a Brazilian samba group called Casuarina. You deleted this entry in 2009 because that group was not well-knowed. That entry is blocked until today and I suppose that it can't be edited.
But Casuarina is famous in South America. They recorded CDs on great recording companies like Sony and Warner Music. They've released a best seller DVD with a show on brazilian MTV.
I think this entry could be released for changes as this group gets success. The objective of Wikipedia is knowledge and more people in the world could know Casuarina.
(Please take a look on Portuguese entry.)
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jucaazevedo ( talk • contribs) 17:53, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Following Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2012 in UFC events (April to June), can you CSD G8 UFC on Fuel TV: Korean Zombie vs. Poirier and protect against recreation please. Mt king (edits) 21:58, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
please stop him, h makes them cry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.230.69.37 ( talk) 00:51, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
It passes the notability guidelines as a major sports title is being fought for, namely the title of "The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes Winner". That is actually a title and a TUF winner trophy is given to the winner. MtKing is on an anti-UFC crusade and is clearly biased, he disappeared for awhile after his last anti-UFC crusade failed, but it appears he's back, I with all due respect must ask that you dont help him with his anti-UFC crusade, for it is a legitimate sport, just as baseball, football, and boxing are legitimate sports. Thanks. JonnyBonesJones ( talk) 22:25, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Ok thanks. JonnyBonesJones ( talk) 03:04, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I know nothing about these articles but there seems to be some support for retaining these articles. Therefore I have lowered your protection on UFC on Fuel TV: Franklin vs. Le and I am just letting you know this. Protecting this in MtKing's preferred version seemed inappropriate, unless there is other stuff I'm not aware of. (Can I ask where the request was lodged? Because looking at your contribs around that time does not clarify how this protection arose.) I suggest that MtKing take these articles to AfD to reach a consensus rather than the redirect+protect route. Regards — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 17:54, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
I would request you withdraw your threat of a block made at [5]. Whether or not it is prudent for a member of the committee to discuss an appeal on their own talk page, he did, and he asked Zeromus1 to provide evidence. Zeromus1 did just that, and it is grossly unjust for you to threaten him with a block for it. Discretionary sanctions explicitly permit appeal to the committee, and discussing such an appeal with an member, and doing so in response to that member's question, is clearly within that exception. Monty 845 20:28, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Can you delete everything under User:WolfBot/source? The source is now on GitHub, so these pages are no longer needed. Thanks! Wolfgang42 ( talk) 00:14, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you performed the rename at Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple/Archive123#RB-AXP → RB-ASHISH - I've found that RB-AXP ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) is still making edits; but RB-ASHISH ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) isn't (the only contribs listed are those which were actually made by RB-AXP prior to the rename). What's the procedure to follow in such cases? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 19:31, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Mbisanz. Thanks for relisting James Norman! Two additional posts have come in following the relist. The article had already been added to the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions and the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions, but as is so often the case, the day after listing articles get forgotten. Do you have any suggestions for stimulating additional discussion? Thanks! -- Rhombus ( talk) 20:30, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity, was there a software change with the username changes?
I noticed all of my edits are here, but previously, people had to wait a few days for all of their edits to convert over from their old account to their new account. - Amaury ( talk) 16:45, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Mentioned your name [6] Elen of the Roads ( talk) 21:35, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Just occurred to me that I mentioned your name, so I thought I should drop you a note : ) - jc37 23:21, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey, hate to violate the stereotype of how I roll, but really? The guy's userpage says his name is Shaiful and he wants to work in marketing. What in all that justifies a username block? -- Orange Mike | Talk 00:05, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#Resysoping of FCYTravis / Polarscribe and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the following resources may be of use—
Thanks, Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 20:50, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Things keep going the way they are, you may end up being a committee of 1 : )
Though personally, I wish you were running for Arbcom, instead of just watching the elections : ) - jc37 04:08, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for changing the username! But the username in other languages didn't change. This was a global account. How can this be resolved? There're no bureaucrats on the Uzbek Wikipedia. Nataev ( talk) 16:33, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
You closed WP:Articles for deletion/The Suite Life on Campus as delete, and deleted The Suite Life on Campus. But you did not delete the other articles listed in the AFD: Alice Dove and List of The Suite Life on Campus episodes. Can you address this? WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 15:06, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
I've always had the greatest of respect for you on here Bisanz, ever since I met you through Fritzpoll. I am not critical of you personally for sticking to what is policy as I appreciate you like to be consistent but I'm saying that the way in which decisions are made are inherently flawed and in trying to be politically correct about everything basic common sense is ignored in favor of policy. For an admin who walked out on us 4 years ago to return in the context of edit warring and then opening a new account and then demanding edit tools during the warring was so wrong and if you can't acknowledge that this was so, policy or not, then I really question the way things are run here. Such decisions are potentially dangerous. You can argue that "we can desysop him if he later abuses tools" but its really not good enough how this happened. You also showed a distinct lack of respect for my concerns in your decision making which indicates you value policy more so than the genuine concerns of veterans on here. I honestly can't blame you for doing what you thought was right in the context by sticking to policy because you would feel that you'd be criticised for not following it but its sort of difficult situation. But I think it is utterly irresponsible to be following this as a policy without any assessment whatsoever of the context of in which an editor returns or education in what has changed since they long departed.
I'm not calling you to desysop Polar, I've patched things up with him and I hope to see positive contributions from him in due course. I call for a revised policy on returning admins gone from over a year or two years for a] Assessments undertaken on an individual basis, examining the context in which they return, is it controversial or not. b] The returning admins go on a trial period during which they are educated in what has changed on the website since they departed and allow them to recap and revise what is now common practice for the betterment of the website. To not do so is irresponsible. I can't believe what happened with this, and its seriously made me question why I'm contributing to a website which obviously does not value editorial concerns in favour of bureaucracy which at times lacks even basic human common sense. When common sense is overidden in favour of "sticking to rules" its clearly gone too far Bisanz.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:59, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Matt, you are coming across almost bitter. You have made you case fully and strongly, to the point of overdoing it. There is no chance that ArbCom is going to assume control of RfA or any Bureaucrat function. And if they did, ArbCom couldn't handle it, and the community wouldn't stand it. ArbCom is about behaviour, and what to do when the rules are insufficient. Bureacrats deal in policy and concensus. ArbCom knows this. Dennis has not put anything at risk. Dennis should not be chastised for filing a high level greivance at ArbCom just because you don't trust ArbCom to respond responsibly. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 07:19, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
FWIW, I don't hold any hard feelings toward Dennis or anyone else. I made the decision and apparently a few people disagreed with it. Fine. It's not the end of the world. In the end, those upset with the decision got what they wanted anyway: Polarscribe relinquished the bit. After looking over everything, I still don't think Polarscribe left under a "cloud" as it has been defined. Sure, he left in a huff after getting beaten on for a decision he made, but that decision was not enough to constitute a "cloud" in my view. He was desysopped for inactivity four years after leaving in a huff. I would have made the same decision now (after going over it a few times in my mind). It is a hard decision, but sometimes the hard decisions have to be made, even if people don't like them, because that's what the rules state we need to do. We ('crats) are not given the leeway to interpret the policy broadly in this case; it's very cut-and-dried and leaves little to interpret. Now, to sleep. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:40, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Quick question - since you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ban number as "keep", is there a reason not to remove the AfD notice from the article page ? Or was this just a slip ? Gandalf61 ( talk) 10:02, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 22. Trial completed, found a minor problem and fixed, reran trial. Everything set. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:12, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to point out that this discussion also reached a consensus to delete Miodrag Filipović. Cheers. Sir Sputnik ( talk) 00:49, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could clarify your proposal on WT:ADMIN to make it clear what the start date is for the +2 part of your 1+2 proposal. Is it the date of desysopping? That would mean it would first prevent a user listed on Wikipedia:Former administrators/Inactive from requesting the tools back on July 3, 2013. MBisanz talk 13:01, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
List at User:Legobot/MBisanz. Feel free to move/edit/delete/etc. as you wish. Legoktm ( talk) 04:36, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Matthew, I am writing you on account of what I believe was a hasty decision to end the forum/discussion and the subsequent deletion of the Mirror.co page. There was no consensus reached since you relaunched the discussion on November 7th. Moreover, when you boil it down the only person who weighed in other than myself was Shorthate who hasn't contributed anything to Wikipedia and as far as I'm concerned hardly explained itself in the discussion. A person with no track record on Wikipedia who simply pops in at a witching hour to cast a vote can hardly be viewed as CONSENSUS. Without going into a full blown discussion of inclusionist versus exclusionist users of Wikipedia, which can discussed at a different time and in certainly in a multitude of places on this site. I am formally requesting that you push this discussion back live so that NOTABLE users of Wikipedia can weigh in. Thanks. MikeGurock ( talk) 15:41, 15 November 2012 (UTC) MikeGurock
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Mirror.co. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. MikeGurock ( talk) 19:17, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
I saw the list of administrators that you posted at Wikipedia talk:ADMIN#Notifications that would be immediately affected by the proposed change in policy. Did you go through Wikipedia:Former administrators/Inactive and check the names there that would be affected as well? The initial desysoppings in July of 2011 had lots of administrators that had been inactive for several years, and they would need to be notified as well. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 22:37, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
I wish to contest this AfD. The individual in question has produced a significant body of work for various major sources. The argument that "the existence of artwork is insufficient" is invalid. The photographer HAS been the subject of "multiple significant articles" as my citations attest. I find it puzzling indeed that detractors "confirm her photography" but deny WP:CREATIVE, especially criterion 3. I ask for a reconsideration before I take this matter to a deletion review. I appreciate your attention to this matter. Faustus37 ( talk) 10:10, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Just dropping by to give you a thank you. Please keep up the awesome work! Accents 06:45, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Essays. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Essays redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). — Hex (❝?!❞) 13:21, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! הסרפד ( Hasirpad) 03:37, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Not sure how a more clear consensus is needed to delete or merge for this article. Maybe because the primary discussion is delete or merge. One editor who I think turned this and several other related articles into a wp:snowball discussed for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0pen$0urce ( talk • contribs) 14:41, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Curious why you think a how-to manual copied from a Wikia should not be speedily deleted. Statυs ( talk) 09:05, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Just wondering why you came to the decision to "keep" the town manager" page I nominated for deletion. There was no rationale. Once again, seems the AfD is based on number of votes. Jimsteele9999 ( talk) 15:18, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for approving my RfA. I was just wondering—should the bot have a bot flag? — Wolfgang42 ( talk) 19:23, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
(This is a repost from the talk page - not sure if you have a watch on it. Thanks.) A merger does not seem correct for L.A. Percussion Rentals. Both Emil Richards has his own 50+ year career (much before selling some of his instruments to LA Percussion Rentals), and LA Percussion Rentals functioned industriously for the majority of time before acquiring some of Emil Richards' instruments (company began in 2005, Emil Richards instruments acquired in 2012). Straight from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging: Merging should be avoided if: 1. The resulting article is too long or "clunky" 2. The separate topics could be expanded into longer standalone (but cross-linked) articles 3. The topics are discrete subjects warranting their own articles, even though they might be short Alas, #2 and #3 apply to this issue. Take heed that this is not the correct way to go about these articles. Xylosmygame ( talk) 19:49, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
What do you mean by the passages of policy I cite? Xylosmygame ( talk) 18:01, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
BTW, I just added another reference to the L.A. Percussion Rentals page for notability: http://www.pearldrum.com/news/concert-news-article.aspx?id=524 Xylosmygame ( talk) 19:27, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
One of your comments is being discussed at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Editor_Retention#RFC Ottawahitech ( talk) 15:12, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
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For following policy rather than listening to advocacy in the Ian Corrigan AfD closure, you are hereby lauded for defending the integrity of Wikipedia. Qworty ( talk) 00:51, 20 November 2012 (UTC) |
Thank you for the rename. The Master ( talk) 01:08, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Slip of the keyboard that you only deleted The Farm Group (2) and not The Farm Group? The Banner talk 02:00, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
It looks like someone has successfully gamed the system. This whole article will end up being reduced to a paragraph on the legitimate basis that it's a weight violation to give it full coverage in the other article(s). This is a not-so-subtle form of deletionism/whitewashing. I've seen this happen before with politically sensitive articles. It's used as a convenient way to bury inconvenient truths. This event was of huge significance in politics and the news. It doesn't deserve this fate. It is a very notable and significant event in the GOP's War on Women. -- Brangifer ( talk) 01:30, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
I also disagree with this decision. Many (if not most of the keep votes) were merge and keep. Moreover there were a significant amount of keep votes. There was no consensus on this. Local merge consensus should have been allowed to develop. I would ask you to reconsider. Otherwise I will take this to Wikipedia:Deletion review. Casprings ( talk) 01:48, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
"GOP's War on Women" Yeah, there's no bias in that comment. CRRays Head90 | Get Some! 07:45, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
I did start the new article suggest in the merge discussion. That was allowed under the AfD. As such, I will wait and see what the consensus is on that article before taking the review process. Thanks for your time. Casprings ( talk) 12:26, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed that you had closed this AfD, so you seemed to be the right user to ask. On the talk page of the article, there was a move discussion about changing the article's title and scope. It seems that it was recently closed and moved, not by an uninvolved admin but by the user who proposed and advocated the move themselves. I was wondering if you agreed with what they found to be a consensus. Thanks.-- Yaksar (let's chat) 19:53, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Just FYI, the inevitable independent AfD on the new article has been filed (not by me; tended to say give it a week, though due to canvassing, probably justified) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rape and pregnancy controversies in the 2012 United States elections. However, the problem the incorrect process could have caused are in fact reality. Allegations that because the new article was ALLOWED, it was required in your close, or that the new article has gone through an AfD on its own. The new article has no logical merge target, in case it is deleted, so the partial merge may become impossible. -- Anonymous209.6 ( talk) 05:35, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello - I would like to re-create the page for Trillium Vein, and would like to start the article in the Special:Mypage/Trillium Vein format. To try and develop the article with less risk of deletion, ask other editors to help work on it, and move it into "article space" when it is ready. Thank you! Ashley — Preceding unsigned comment added by AshPatt ( talk • contribs) 22:18, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz. I've been told by an admin, User:Jenks24 and I've seen on another admin, User:Scottywong's talk page that AfDs should not be relisted more than 2 times. And in rare cases, they can be relisted 3 times. I saw that you have made many relists; many of which were the third relist and also a 4th relist. According to what I've seen and have been told, the 4th one was not needed and it should have been closed last time. Few other relists that you did (3rd relists), I feel that weren't of much use. I appreciate you taking up the task of relisting which is obviously needed but I'm just asking for cutting down the relists that are made on a single page. Thanks. TheSpecialUser TSU 01:31, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
It is snowing over at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trance Mission. Would you be so kind as to close this deletion discussion? This AfD has been open for 11 days with 13 keeps and two deletes. I would say that this kind of extension is unprecedented. Is there any good reason this AfD is still open? I have politely asked the nominator to withdraw and he has refused. Viriditas ( talk) 02:20, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
About Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michael_Pollack - I do think that the article that ended up being deleted wasn't that good. If I can make a better sourced article that truly shows notability, would you be interested in taking a look?
Another thing is that I wish I could slip in a response to Karanacs's mention about "trivial" - The problem is the "disagreement" has to do with how Wikipedia defines a "trivial" mention in RSes. If one says "the sources about this person don't reveal anything of importance" that's not the same as a "trivial" mention which means a source says very little to nothing about a person or thing WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:30, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
If I'm reading a page and it has spelling errors or is formatted more like an IM conversation than an encyclopedia entry, I will probably trust it less? this is a obvious bias agganst people like me who hav a serious english and spelling problem, you deleted my page "The cleaning up and building of SJI Park' you question my character with this philosopy, what facts do you base your decision on Kevin Lajiness ( talk) 05:47, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm 53 years old , My philosophy is actions speak louder than words, and that a picture is worth a thousand words, you pass the buck with you lack of words and value something of substance based on it structure, odd for someone whom has the power to change the structure, you all had an opportunity to share this public empowerment for the good of the environment.
Kevin Lajiness (
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Hi MBisanz. Please be aware that Jimbo has appointed you as a member of the Electoral Commission for this election. Good luck, and thank you for volunteering. AGK [•] 10:12, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2012/Coordination#Suggested_agenda_for_the_Electoral_Commission and also my set up on the project page.-- Tznkai ( talk) 17:45, 22 November 2012 (UTC)Superscript text
Does your close with delete for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 in Los Angeles include K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 in Tokyo Final 16. Peter Rehse ( talk) 05:15, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could you perhaps have another look at this AfD? The article is now merged with Fereidoun Biglari, whi as far as I can see is not an editor of this journal, but simply an editorial board member. While we may mention such a fact in the board member's bio, we almost never mention board members in articles on journals. Editorial board members really are only minor players in the workings of most academic journals (mathematics journals are an exception) and there is no indication that things are any different for this journal. For these reasons I find merging with this bio not very logical. If you have a look at how it is done, it must really be rather mysterious for any reader why this information is presented there... I'd appreciate if you could have a second look, personally, I would have thought that a simple delete decision would have been more logical. Thanks. -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 10:08, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Are you willing to share the admin count data (just the monthly counts) that you used to make your latest graphic? I'd like to try to do a regression to see if there is a seasonal effect (and thus extract the overall decrease from the seasonal effect, if there is one). — Carl ( CBM · talk) 23:25, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Porodični Paket/Extreme Paket (Specijalni broj) was nominated for deletion, the initial discussion was closed with the result that it was to be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Osasuna VS Calgary, which in turn you closed. Could you take a look at it sort out what should happen. Monty 845 02:57, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
For purposes of clarify, you or one of your colleagues should please also update the timetable in the guide on the main WP:ACE page. Also, it should be clear to everyone whether the ending date and time for the voting will also be extended by a day (or whatever length the delay turns out to be), or whether there will just be one less day of voting. Thanks and regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 19:31, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LPUniversity Foundation, you closed as a redirect to LPC, but that is a dab page. It should have been LPC (programming language). I've changed the redirect, but I was wondering if it is necessary to fix the AFD close to reflect the correct redirect target? Regards. -- Whpq ( talk) 11:17, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
The vote for the article was 5 Keeps, 5 Deletes and 1 Merger. This is insufficient to warrant a complete deletion of the page, especially without a chance to merge the content. Thanks, -- True Tech Talk Time ( talk) 14:01, 26 November 2012 (UTC).
Hi, I noticed that you are the creator of the series of ActiveAdmins graphs on Commons. This is something that I noticed a while ago, but I hadn't bothered contacting you about it. I know that Excel often truncates the y-axis if you don't have data that goes through zero, and I'm guessing that's what happened to you. These truncated graphs bug me because they can be misleading. For instance, if you look at the graph on the left and don't notice that the y-axis truncates at 500, it looks like the number of active admins on Wikipedia is plunging toward zero at an alarming rate. The non-truncated graph on the right still shows the decline, but it's clear that there are still going to be active admins in 2 years, even if the trend continues. (It also helps if the axis labels are a little bigger.) Anyway, I thought I'd leave you a note for next time around. Thanks for doing the research and making those graphs, by the way. ~ Adjwilley ( talk) 23:47, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect MAAS. Since you had some involvement with the MAAS redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Qwertyus ( talk) 20:18, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
My username in the top corner has stayed the same, yet my page edits read as Corvoe, and does my user page and all that. However, it also doesn't register the Corvoe name as having rollback rights, which I have. I noticed you were the one who changed my name, but if I need to ask someone else, just point me in the right direction. Thank you very much. -Corvoe 02:54, 28 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krazycev13 ( talk • contribs)
Look at that. Just me being a dummy. Thank you for the help, and the change. You're the bomb. -- KЯĀŽΨÇÉV 13 14:49, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
clear consensus was for delete. why did you redirect? LibStar ( talk) 00:42, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
thanks. LibStar ( talk) 00:58, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Can one use an official account to vote in elections.As far I have seen it has never happened before users with official accounts have used only there personal accounts to vote.I am not sure on on policy.There is a absolutely nothing wrong as the user can his personal account to cast the same vote. Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 00:52, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
I was just wondering why you didn't close this AfD [9] when you went through there earlier today? Niteshift36 ( talk) 14:25, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for adding to your workload! [10] SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:40, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
I found there's a notability noticeboard so I just made a post at Wikipedia:Notability/Noticeboard - Hopefully it'll get additional feedback WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:03, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to Wikipedia Goes to the Movies in NYC, an editathon, Wikipedia meet-up and workshops focused on film and the performing arts that will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (at Lincoln Center), as part of the Wikipedia Loves Libraries events being held across the USA.
All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and at meetup.com!-- Pharos ( talk) 07:27, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Would you mind bringing back white feminism temporarily to add some kind of referenced note to black feminism? As it is, it redirects without any mention or explanation. Thank you! heather walls ( talk) 00:54, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I think you rightly deleted it (given that there was very low support for merge/redir) but summarized it as redirect. I think you just need to change the summary. History2007 ( talk) 02:47, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi... In this edit to Coren's question page, you removed not only Giano's post and Coren's response, but also Coren's response to my question. I don't think Coren's response to my question should have been moved, it makes it look like Coren did not respond. Would you please either restore Coren's answer or allow me to? I don't want to edit war but I really think your change is flawed. Thanks. EdChem ( talk) 04:14, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi. When you moved this material from my "questions" page to the talk page, you moved a clarification of the original question, a followup question, and my responses. I understand you're trying to move threaded discussions out of the question pages, but that's not what this was. Please put it back (or else accept my reverting your change). — Rich wales 05:19, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Here, you removed a follow up question and response. Begoon talk 04:24, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
I have also readded my questions from talk. Jc37 did not answer the question despite repeated urgings. I admit it was an uncomfortable question, but he was a part of the discussion in which Moni3 twice insulted and subsequently blocked PumpkinSky. That is this year, and it is perfectly kosher to ask any candidate, and Jc37 in particular as a participant, about that discussion Wehwalt ( talk) 10:53, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi there Matt. In most cases, I feel that the followups you removed were actually quite valuable in terms of the responses they got me to elucidate. I would prefer if you could re-add them to the main questions page. Thanks,
NW (
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09:30, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Actually, please see Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2012/Coordination#Follow up questions moved. NW ( Talk) 18:31, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
You asked that these be brought to your attention, so here's one.
By the way, why not in these cases just add a link to talk, so folks can follow there? That is, when removing comments, include a line: Discussion continued at <talk link>? Best, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:11, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I left a request at the noticeboard regarding a rather unusual request I have. I haven't gotten much in the way of responses, and I understand if you are a bit busy right now, but could you take a look at this? Some assistance would be greatly appreciated. dci | TALK 20:09, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
HI MBisanz. Sorry if this is not the most appropriate way to contact you. i see you have recently deleted a page called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_family_offices_in_Switzerland. We use this from time to time when some of our clients refereed to other family offices. Is there any way we can get this page back, or see a cached copy of it. Thanks in advance. Will — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wwd10 ( talk • contribs) 01:15, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Why the page was deleted? Talk page did provide reasons for how big a celebirty he is in India? Greatwords1 ( talk) 06:34, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I have a question regarding the new changes in the adminship policy. I resigned voluntarily in February 2011. If I wanted my rights back now, can I ask the bureaucrats to resysop me directly or do I have to go through the RfA process? -- Meno25 ( talk) 10:34, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
hello MBisanz, please rename my username.
Hi there, I want to rename my username. Please enlighten me on the procedure. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetan.vengurlekar ( talk • contribs) 19:48, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi there MB, AL from Portugal here,
after my name change at the site, the automatic archive ceased its "business". I have been told it's precisely due to that move. Can you please change (if you can, i assume so) this page (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:VascoAmaral/Archive_3), so that it contains my current name and not my former? I'm only asking you because i think i'm not allowed to do it myself.
Attentively, thanks a million in advance -- AL ( talk) 22:24, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
You may wish to comment on a user conduct discussion regarding Paul Bedson, which can be found here. If you comment there you may wish to review the rules for user conduct comments first. You are receiving this notification because you commented at one of the articles or AfDs that are cited in the discussion. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 23:06, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Just passing by (and I have been accused of trolling else where) and at the risk of being accused of canvassing, but for the record, wikipedia AfD seems to have an ongoing problem cutting pages of less 'connected' nations. Even important constitutional/independence documents and debates are "efficiently" cut by AfD. Hence it is fair to say, AfD is "very efficient", but the "no canvassing rule" combined with the short "AfD" time frame effectively makes the whole AfD process very "stealth" like and sneaky.
These "policies" combine and give the effect that stub pages are culled long before they ever even get close to maturity.
I have (quickly) scanned the pages that have been deleted, and certainly most of the "stuff" deleted is just trash. However there are enough example of mistakes made to demonstrate that more care could be taken. The page undelete of the Philippine House of Representatives elections in Central Visayas, 2013 fixes such a problem.
Recently (my example) the Hansard for both Malaysia and Sawarak was deleted, in the 'real world' burning the Hansard would be symptomatic of a dictatorship or corruption. Ironically the pro-deletion "contributors" even acknowledged that the stub could be improved, but - in a twisted way - this observation was used to justify deletion.
This quick/stealth delete is not how wikipedia got started. I can see the need for quick delete, but this (stealth) delete problem needs to be addressed, I'm not sure where to start. Will check around. Leng T'che ( talk) 01:14, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
The only person in this AfD who !voted to merge Antonia (daughter of orator Marcus Antonius) to Antonia Major had misunderstood the relationship between the two – the Antonia in question was Antonia Major's great-aunt, not her sister. If the consensus is to merge (which I can see it is), a more sensible merge target would be the article on her father, Marcus Antonius (orator). With that in mind (and if you agree), would you mind reconsidering your closing statement? DoctorKubla ( talk) 08:45, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Just to let you know, I got your note about the tools. I'm unlikely to request resysopping, either now or in the future, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, my life doesn't support the amount of time that adminship really requires; secondly, most of my work used to be in the video games area. As I am now a professional video games journalist, editing articles on which I cover could be perceived as a conflict of interest, especially if I cite my own work in those articles.
That said, I wish both the admin team and the wider project the best of luck for the future.
Gazi
moff
14:22, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Considering I haven't been an admin in well over six years, and I've had enough stalkers and death threats and phone calls to my house for one life over a web page...I won't be pursuing admin tools ever again. Thanks, though. RasputinAXP 14:51, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
I just noticed that my navigation links (see profile or talk page) still link to Zhou Yu.
While it's not that big of a deal since they just redirect to my profile, how I would fix this? - Amaury ( talk) 07:11, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Hmm, what were your reasons for making the proposal in the first place? I can't spot it. Was there a previous discussion that I've missed? -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 10:32, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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For your efforts to make a list of desysopped admins, to propose new policies and to help enact them with taking the time to send out notices. ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:38, 4 December 2012 (UTC) |
On another note, seems Polarscribe's interest in returning was not for the right reasons as he's barely been active since being desysopped. I have a strong feeling though that his interest would have been short-lived even if he still had his tools... ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:42, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Never trust me when I say I won't comment again... Adding the links improves the accessibility of the follow-ups, thank you for doing that. Begoon talk 05:57, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
HI MBisanz. Sorry if this is not the most appropriate way to contact you. i see you have recently deleted a page called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_family_offices_in_Switzerland. We use this from time to time when some of our clients refereed to other family offices. Is there any way we can get this page back, or see a cached copy of it. Thanks in advance.
Basicaly same request as Will
Thanks in advance Best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicolasti83 ( talk • contribs) 15:18, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
I assumed alpha order and you assumed chronological but it seems to be a list ordered by both. -- Dweller ( talk) 15:59, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Nice work. Here's my usual lazy suggestion - is there a bot we could task to update the lists? -- Dweller ( talk) 22:26, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
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...for changing my username! This makes my life a bit easier. Much appreciated. Sampa ( talk) 20:08, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Noticed you moved these, now I no longer have them, here or anywhere.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 00:25, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you did here, but it appears to have broken the teahouse gadget; I've reverted until whatever the issue was is fixed. Thanks, Ironholds ( talk) 01:27, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
At my last bot request, you had a concern about requesting a bot to fix CheckWiki errors. I thought it best to alert you that I just filed for the CheckWiki bot request at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BG19bot 7, so concern away. Bgwhite ( talk) 07:39, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I recently put in a request a few days ago. It hasn't been answered yet, although the robot didn't find any issues, but many other requests have been answered. Is there a specific problem with my request that I need to change? I'm wondering, because I'd like for it to be changed as soon as possible and to start using the new one. If not, would it be possible to make the change soon?
I don't want it to seem like I'm rushing anyone, but I did submit it a bit of a while ago and newer requests have been answered.
Thanks. -- Activism 1234 17:14, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for this usurpation. Kotz ( talk) 17:43, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
For this. It's been a really huge pain in the butt. Zac 01:56, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Im aware that you have discussed blocking StillStanding if he continues to be disruptive about the recent sanctions imposed upon him. Although I'm certain he is aware, you might want to officially notify him of your intentions as he will no doubt continue to make tongue in cheek asides. I also have no doubt that he will proclaim that you are biased and have it out for him if you do warn him, but I'm sure you can weather this. Thanks.
little green rosetta
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central scrutinizer
03:35, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Re this; can you point me to where it discusses a test run? Ironholds ( talk) 18:37, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:HKGovtCopyright. Since you had some involvement with the Template:HKGovtCopyright redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). MBisanz talk 15:02, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Withpermission. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Withpermission redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). MBisanz talk 15:05, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
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When you write about Darkness Shines at WP:AE "I do think his edits rise to the level" I assume you meant "I do not think his edits rise to the level" since otherwise the sentence looks incomplete. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 17:57, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Quick question for you-- do you need to be an admin to close some of these discussions? I'm interesting in helping close up the backlog, but not sure of the conventions surrounding closes for RfCs. (e.g. this one or this one) I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 19:26, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear MBisanz,
before you enact what you said you want to inact please take a look whether it is me who is distorting or Fut.Perf. Look at the sources I presented at AE on the Bin Laden/Massoud issue and then please tell me: Was Bin Laden "Massoud´s adversary" since the Soviet times (as I wrote) or was he on "friendly terms" with Massoud (as Fut.Perf. wrote).
I would really appreciate if you turn the proposal for a ban into what Salvio - who in contrast to most that commented is very familiar with the whole editing history - proposed: a mandated external review on the issue. This would ensure that no damage can be done and at the same time for those who see through Fut.Perf.´s agenda, it ensures that he can no further distort my editing on the issue. I won´t have much time for wikipedia the next time anyways and that´s why my editing has been sporadic at best lately. So, I would really like you to consider this. No damage can be done.
Thank you, JCAla ( talk) 11:17, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
You may be involved as a participant but I'm bringing this to your notice in your capacity as a steward. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:25, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Matthew,
"not be taking action in this situation"? What action would you have contemplated if you were not friends with the nominator and the nominee? I think my message was perfectly neutral, regardless where and by what mechanism it was posted. Yes, I think the candidate is not ready, yes, I'm certain that if what is known now had been known before nomination they may not have attracted such notable nominators. If this stuff about vandalism and disruption had been disclosed earlier the RFA would likely fail. A non-neutral comment would have been far more pointed and accusatory if I had genuinely wanted to disrupt the RFA. Leaky Caldron 14:33, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:StateGov-AZ. Since you had some involvement with the Template:StateGov-AZ redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 17:19, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Could you please clarify whether you intend JCAla's topic ban to apply only to article edits or also to talkpage participation? (Given the fact that much of his disruption was related to talkpage filibustering I'd obviously recommend the latter, but either way I think it will be useful to have maximum clarity.) Thanks, – Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:50, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
If your nominating a bunch of very slimmer redirects for RFD, it's usually best to nominate them all together in the same RFD discussion. See Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion#How_to_list_a_redirect_for_discussion for institutions. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 17:03, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey MBisanz,
Can you take a look at WP:CHU/U#CeraBot2 → Cerabot. I'd like to get that ove with so I can go oon to Bot requests. (I'm streamlining all of my bot activities into a new bot :P). Cheers, -- ceradon talk contribs 21:15, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
HI there. I doesn't look like your closure at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_September_1#Category:Hotels_by_year_of_completion has been implemented. Have I misunderstood something? Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 18:06, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for moving my name, but it now contains a "+" symbol, on all the other projects I'm registers in there is no "+" character in my username, therefore not allowing me to unify my account, also you can take a look at Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple#फ़ाराह् देसाईं खान → فرح دیسائی where the فرح دیسائی username is still red, please rename my account without leaving a "+" in-between the characters, Thank you! -- MBisanz talk Farah Desai Khan Talk 19:33, 13 October 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by فرح+دیسائی ( talk • contribs)
Sorry to bother you, but I saw that you were particularly active in WP:CHUU. I'm eager to resume editing and am waiting for my usurpation request to go through before starting. Since it has been over a week, could you please take a look at my request or recommend a course of action? I would appreciate it. mxdxcxnx T C 03:09, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
I just want to thank you for posting a welcome message on my talk page. Unfortunately, I got rather distracted by all the links (particularly the bit about Wikipedia:don't delete the main page) and forgot what I came to Wikipedia to do. (Not your fault—I do that.) I'm hoping to become more active on Wikipedia, and being welcomed was a great feeling. Just out of curiosity, how did you happen to notice me? Wolfgang42 ( talk) 02:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that several requests have been processed that were posted after I posted mine (Tehgrue → Ender), I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but since I saw your name on several that have been processed, I thought I'd ask...thanks for any help. Tehgrue ( talk) 07:13, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz. Iamthemuffinman has (finally!) posted a sound-looking unblock request, which I'm inclined to grant. However, you and a number of other admins have been involved with his block in the past, so I'd like to get your take on it too; if you have a moment, please could you have a look at User talk:Iamthemuffinman and leave an opinion? Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 13:01, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your help! I could not find a way to request rename/usurp in commonswiki, could you point me in the right direction? -- Wiking ( talk) 15:39, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Good call. Thanks. — Hex (❝?!❞) 17:27, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)I might be wrong but it could be Hex's mention of bogus reasons in his oppose. Let's not get too excited until Matt explains. Leaky Caldron 18:04, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Separate paragraph for comment to MBisanz: First - sorry, I can't find the comment at RFAR you're referring to. Link please? Second - me, "Scotty, and Leaky [were having a] disruptive discussion"? Excuse me, but please don't tar me with that brush. While they were sniping at each other, I had a brief conversation with Scottywong in which I said that his tool shouldn't be made to look pseudo-official, asked (not ordered) him not to refer to it in RfAs, and then that I would be making sure that people in future know that it's not official. (The way in which I did so the first time, we've already addressed and isn't covered by this.) I also gently noted that he was being a little rude in his comments to me and others. But I did nothing wrong. If you're going to censure them for causing a fuss, leave me out of it. — Hex (❝?!❞) 19:17, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
[1] Nice idea, hope you don't cop too much flak for it. 120.151.222.137 ( talk) 01:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
How can Bigg Boss 6 be merged when many editors have voted on keep. All the copyright has been removed. I have rewritten the summaries in my own words. I BEG YOU. PLEASE. It is the biggest reality show in India. Dont do this. All international versions have separate pages for every season. Check it out, everything on Bigg Boss 6 is original now. -- I'm Titanium chat 18:12, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm commenting here since it popped up on my watchlist that Imtitanium left a message here and the most discussion so far is here. I agree with MBisanz's closure of merge. It's my opinion that copyright concerns should err on the side of delete as opposed to keep, which was why I voted as such, and by closing it as a merge, that concern is (hopefully) gone. And if you still believe it was a bad close, WP:DRV is always available. Legoktm ( talk) 19:10, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Fancy getting out your heavy cannon to blast Wikipedia:N things not to write your article about into smithereens per my close at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:N things not to write your article about? Or should I just wait for a non-local steward to wander past M:Steward requests/Speedy deletions? No real rush, I suppose, now that I've protected the page against further editing... Bencherlite Talk 18:58, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
I dunno if there is such a thing (Not that I can find.) Is there perhaps something in the interface that we could temporarily change in order to make this move? - jc37 19:11, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi , I am Contributor of Trishneet Arora Page dear i am upset to see that page has been delted . but i want to know how to republish this ppage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aroratrishneet ( talk • contribs) 17:56, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Please stop, it's already covered in MediaWiki:Robots.txt. MBisanz talk 21:08, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. It's nice to feel that it's not just me being irrationally curmudgeonly and grumpy, but that someone else feels it's a problem. Another editor removed one of the items and I've trimmed the excessively huge meetings one so it takes up less space, so it's a little better. -- Dweller ( talk) 21:29, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
here, your post was apparently not in reply to my post, but to the editor who added the code to the talk page Archive? I'd like to reiterate something...I happened along and was just asking, I had no clear idea *why* and when I don't understand I like to know the reason something is done or not done. Thanks for the mediaWiki linkage, I will take a look at that - the nomenclature of finding information around Wikipedia has not always proven to be intuitive for me. I've just never seen NOINDEX used for a talk page Archive before and didn't even know if it was allowed....I can conceive of why someone might *want* to NOINDEX WP content, but if the content is libelous/injurious/whatever in a WP:BLP sense, this NOINDEXing doesn't really remove the content from view just keeps it from appearing in indexed searches. Anyway...thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 03:49, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
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For really useful set of icons. Pawel.Benetkiewicz ( talk) 14:56, 21 October 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks! MBisanz talk 18:14, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Can you do me a favour and sort out an approval to move this to Wikipedia:Top 5000 pages. The creator said he'd need bot approval, I think its an extremely valuable list which will be frequently updated and should be a main feature on the main pages on here and linked from it.☠ Count de Blofeld 15:52, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I saw you blocked him, so I went to you: he's still trying to promote through his talk page. ~ ihaveamac [ talk| contribs 04:34, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Will you take a look at this please, I want my name changed globbaly. Mr. Incredible T - E - C - G - 15:01, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
The article Lisa McGrillis was deleted, if it does not meet wikipedia terms and conditions is it possible to delete it entirely rather than there being a page saying this page has been deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.188.163.130 ( talk) 14:55, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, I was the nominator for the AfD of Maharishi Group and I am very surprised to see it being closed as "merge" when there was a clear consensus for deletion at AfD. I'm wondering what your thinking is on this. Can we discuss it? Thanks.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 16:31, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey, you set the Rough Draft Brewing Company to a redirect right as I was working on it. I don't believe consensus was reached on the deletion topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.68.26.61 ( talk) 20:35, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Matt. You may remember that I mediated the Prem Rawat article on and off over the years. It's kicked up again, and I think protecting the article would encourage the parties to discuss the issue. Thanks. Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 03:21, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, I have a question regarding your close of
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Birth_rape, which was "merge to
birth trauma (physical)". This doesn't seem an appropriate merge target.
Birth trauma (physical) is described as "damages the tissues and organs of the child, caused by mechanical forces during childbirth (birth injuries), and response to the damage, accompanied by a violation of compensatory and adaptive mechanisms"--this is damage to the child during the process. "Birth rape" is a psychological perception of powerlessness and feeling attacked as experienced by the mother giving birth. One is physical damage to the child, the other is mental damage to the mother. The best merge target is actually
Childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder. This was brought up in the AFD discussion but maybe it wasn't clear. Could you please update the close to that target? Or would you even care if the redirect were just made to that target even though it wasn't the "official" close target? I'd prefer not to have to go through
WP:DELREV but will if necessary. Thanks...
Zad
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18:14, 25 October 2012 (UTC)Hi. With reference to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study, I was about to proceed to merge the article (all 64 words of it) to Bristol. However (and as your close notes) it also needs merging to Bath, Somerset - and arguably Bath and North East Somerset and possibly elsewhere too. Unfortunately, such merges will result in content forking, which won't help in maintaining the encyclopedia. Now I think about this a little more, are you entirely sure about the consensus being to merge? I would have expected a relist, with the discussion as it was. (Apologies for the tardiness of this note, but I was away until today.) Thanks for reading. -- Trevj ( talk) 16:05, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Matt, could you please use your magic steward powers at Muhammad Ali Jinnah, to delete the article then restore all but the first three edits? It needs to be history merged with Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and I can't do that at the moment because some of the edits are in the way. I'd like to take care of the history merge about nine hours from now, after getting some sleep. :-) Thanks! Graham 87 16:45, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
I don't think it's Colton - it geolocates to the wrong side of the country. Giant Snowman 17:49, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
It was uncontested perhaps because a Stanford prof. is too busy with other things to contest these things? The deletion tag produces no notices at Wikipedia, else I could have asked him to post a release from the photographer. I have been working with Krosnick on his article at Wikipedia, and am managing to get it into some shape, but these kinds of out-of-the-blue actions make it impossible to get academics interested. Churn and change ( talk) 22:30, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
I guess "Has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions." doesn't mean "Has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions." anymore. Quite disappointing. A couple more discouraging AFD outcomes, and I think this last one of Riley Costello (actor) is going to help me make the decision I have come to in leaving Wikipedia for good. I made a more lengthy statement on my talk page, but I'm done with this. - Aaron Booth ( talk) 04:01, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
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Warm thanks with a cup of tea! Goutam ( talk) 06:13, 31 October 2012 (UTC) |
I'm really sorry for bothering you but could you answer my request here? The last topic please. -- Gusta100 ( talk) 22:35, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Why did you delete Aldorlea Games? Are you going to do the same for Hanako Games or SakeVisual or all the TONS of other articles that have no better notability or "reliable sources"? Of course not, let's only take down people we don't like and turn a blind eye on the one we do. This is how it works on Wikipedia, isn't it? It's not about what's fair, it's about being as biased as possible, because the "rules" are not for all to follow, only a minority that the Wiki police wants to get rid of. If you were applying the same strictness for all articles, hundreds of them would be deleted, so why be so tolerant with some and so uncompromising with others? I guess Wikipedia was never about morality... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.209.88.183 ( talk) 05:37, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I'd like to contribute about a subject. It's about a Brazilian samba group called Casuarina. You deleted this entry in 2009 because that group was not well-knowed. That entry is blocked until today and I suppose that it can't be edited.
But Casuarina is famous in South America. They recorded CDs on great recording companies like Sony and Warner Music. They've released a best seller DVD with a show on brazilian MTV.
I think this entry could be released for changes as this group gets success. The objective of Wikipedia is knowledge and more people in the world could know Casuarina.
(Please take a look on Portuguese entry.)
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jucaazevedo ( talk • contribs) 17:53, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Following Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2012 in UFC events (April to June), can you CSD G8 UFC on Fuel TV: Korean Zombie vs. Poirier and protect against recreation please. Mt king (edits) 21:58, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
please stop him, h makes them cry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.230.69.37 ( talk) 00:51, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
It passes the notability guidelines as a major sports title is being fought for, namely the title of "The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes Winner". That is actually a title and a TUF winner trophy is given to the winner. MtKing is on an anti-UFC crusade and is clearly biased, he disappeared for awhile after his last anti-UFC crusade failed, but it appears he's back, I with all due respect must ask that you dont help him with his anti-UFC crusade, for it is a legitimate sport, just as baseball, football, and boxing are legitimate sports. Thanks. JonnyBonesJones ( talk) 22:25, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Ok thanks. JonnyBonesJones ( talk) 03:04, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I know nothing about these articles but there seems to be some support for retaining these articles. Therefore I have lowered your protection on UFC on Fuel TV: Franklin vs. Le and I am just letting you know this. Protecting this in MtKing's preferred version seemed inappropriate, unless there is other stuff I'm not aware of. (Can I ask where the request was lodged? Because looking at your contribs around that time does not clarify how this protection arose.) I suggest that MtKing take these articles to AfD to reach a consensus rather than the redirect+protect route. Regards — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 17:54, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
I would request you withdraw your threat of a block made at [5]. Whether or not it is prudent for a member of the committee to discuss an appeal on their own talk page, he did, and he asked Zeromus1 to provide evidence. Zeromus1 did just that, and it is grossly unjust for you to threaten him with a block for it. Discretionary sanctions explicitly permit appeal to the committee, and discussing such an appeal with an member, and doing so in response to that member's question, is clearly within that exception. Monty 845 20:28, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Can you delete everything under User:WolfBot/source? The source is now on GitHub, so these pages are no longer needed. Thanks! Wolfgang42 ( talk) 00:14, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you performed the rename at Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple/Archive123#RB-AXP → RB-ASHISH - I've found that RB-AXP ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) is still making edits; but RB-ASHISH ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · target logs · block log · list user · global contribs · central auth · Google) isn't (the only contribs listed are those which were actually made by RB-AXP prior to the rename). What's the procedure to follow in such cases? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 19:31, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Mbisanz. Thanks for relisting James Norman! Two additional posts have come in following the relist. The article had already been added to the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions and the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions, but as is so often the case, the day after listing articles get forgotten. Do you have any suggestions for stimulating additional discussion? Thanks! -- Rhombus ( talk) 20:30, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity, was there a software change with the username changes?
I noticed all of my edits are here, but previously, people had to wait a few days for all of their edits to convert over from their old account to their new account. - Amaury ( talk) 16:45, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Mentioned your name [6] Elen of the Roads ( talk) 21:35, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Just occurred to me that I mentioned your name, so I thought I should drop you a note : ) - jc37 23:21, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey, hate to violate the stereotype of how I roll, but really? The guy's userpage says his name is Shaiful and he wants to work in marketing. What in all that justifies a username block? -- Orange Mike | Talk 00:05, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#Resysoping of FCYTravis / Polarscribe and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the following resources may be of use—
Thanks, Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 20:50, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Things keep going the way they are, you may end up being a committee of 1 : )
Though personally, I wish you were running for Arbcom, instead of just watching the elections : ) - jc37 04:08, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for changing the username! But the username in other languages didn't change. This was a global account. How can this be resolved? There're no bureaucrats on the Uzbek Wikipedia. Nataev ( talk) 16:33, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
You closed WP:Articles for deletion/The Suite Life on Campus as delete, and deleted The Suite Life on Campus. But you did not delete the other articles listed in the AFD: Alice Dove and List of The Suite Life on Campus episodes. Can you address this? WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 15:06, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
I've always had the greatest of respect for you on here Bisanz, ever since I met you through Fritzpoll. I am not critical of you personally for sticking to what is policy as I appreciate you like to be consistent but I'm saying that the way in which decisions are made are inherently flawed and in trying to be politically correct about everything basic common sense is ignored in favor of policy. For an admin who walked out on us 4 years ago to return in the context of edit warring and then opening a new account and then demanding edit tools during the warring was so wrong and if you can't acknowledge that this was so, policy or not, then I really question the way things are run here. Such decisions are potentially dangerous. You can argue that "we can desysop him if he later abuses tools" but its really not good enough how this happened. You also showed a distinct lack of respect for my concerns in your decision making which indicates you value policy more so than the genuine concerns of veterans on here. I honestly can't blame you for doing what you thought was right in the context by sticking to policy because you would feel that you'd be criticised for not following it but its sort of difficult situation. But I think it is utterly irresponsible to be following this as a policy without any assessment whatsoever of the context of in which an editor returns or education in what has changed since they long departed.
I'm not calling you to desysop Polar, I've patched things up with him and I hope to see positive contributions from him in due course. I call for a revised policy on returning admins gone from over a year or two years for a] Assessments undertaken on an individual basis, examining the context in which they return, is it controversial or not. b] The returning admins go on a trial period during which they are educated in what has changed on the website since they departed and allow them to recap and revise what is now common practice for the betterment of the website. To not do so is irresponsible. I can't believe what happened with this, and its seriously made me question why I'm contributing to a website which obviously does not value editorial concerns in favour of bureaucracy which at times lacks even basic human common sense. When common sense is overidden in favour of "sticking to rules" its clearly gone too far Bisanz.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:59, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Matt, you are coming across almost bitter. You have made you case fully and strongly, to the point of overdoing it. There is no chance that ArbCom is going to assume control of RfA or any Bureaucrat function. And if they did, ArbCom couldn't handle it, and the community wouldn't stand it. ArbCom is about behaviour, and what to do when the rules are insufficient. Bureacrats deal in policy and concensus. ArbCom knows this. Dennis has not put anything at risk. Dennis should not be chastised for filing a high level greivance at ArbCom just because you don't trust ArbCom to respond responsibly. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 07:19, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
FWIW, I don't hold any hard feelings toward Dennis or anyone else. I made the decision and apparently a few people disagreed with it. Fine. It's not the end of the world. In the end, those upset with the decision got what they wanted anyway: Polarscribe relinquished the bit. After looking over everything, I still don't think Polarscribe left under a "cloud" as it has been defined. Sure, he left in a huff after getting beaten on for a decision he made, but that decision was not enough to constitute a "cloud" in my view. He was desysopped for inactivity four years after leaving in a huff. I would have made the same decision now (after going over it a few times in my mind). It is a hard decision, but sometimes the hard decisions have to be made, even if people don't like them, because that's what the rules state we need to do. We ('crats) are not given the leeway to interpret the policy broadly in this case; it's very cut-and-dried and leaves little to interpret. Now, to sleep. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:40, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Quick question - since you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ban number as "keep", is there a reason not to remove the AfD notice from the article page ? Or was this just a slip ? Gandalf61 ( talk) 10:02, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 22. Trial completed, found a minor problem and fixed, reran trial. Everything set. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:12, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to point out that this discussion also reached a consensus to delete Miodrag Filipović. Cheers. Sir Sputnik ( talk) 00:49, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could clarify your proposal on WT:ADMIN to make it clear what the start date is for the +2 part of your 1+2 proposal. Is it the date of desysopping? That would mean it would first prevent a user listed on Wikipedia:Former administrators/Inactive from requesting the tools back on July 3, 2013. MBisanz talk 13:01, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
List at User:Legobot/MBisanz. Feel free to move/edit/delete/etc. as you wish. Legoktm ( talk) 04:36, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Matthew, I am writing you on account of what I believe was a hasty decision to end the forum/discussion and the subsequent deletion of the Mirror.co page. There was no consensus reached since you relaunched the discussion on November 7th. Moreover, when you boil it down the only person who weighed in other than myself was Shorthate who hasn't contributed anything to Wikipedia and as far as I'm concerned hardly explained itself in the discussion. A person with no track record on Wikipedia who simply pops in at a witching hour to cast a vote can hardly be viewed as CONSENSUS. Without going into a full blown discussion of inclusionist versus exclusionist users of Wikipedia, which can discussed at a different time and in certainly in a multitude of places on this site. I am formally requesting that you push this discussion back live so that NOTABLE users of Wikipedia can weigh in. Thanks. MikeGurock ( talk) 15:41, 15 November 2012 (UTC) MikeGurock
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Mirror.co. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. MikeGurock ( talk) 19:17, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
I saw the list of administrators that you posted at Wikipedia talk:ADMIN#Notifications that would be immediately affected by the proposed change in policy. Did you go through Wikipedia:Former administrators/Inactive and check the names there that would be affected as well? The initial desysoppings in July of 2011 had lots of administrators that had been inactive for several years, and they would need to be notified as well. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 22:37, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
I wish to contest this AfD. The individual in question has produced a significant body of work for various major sources. The argument that "the existence of artwork is insufficient" is invalid. The photographer HAS been the subject of "multiple significant articles" as my citations attest. I find it puzzling indeed that detractors "confirm her photography" but deny WP:CREATIVE, especially criterion 3. I ask for a reconsideration before I take this matter to a deletion review. I appreciate your attention to this matter. Faustus37 ( talk) 10:10, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Just dropping by to give you a thank you. Please keep up the awesome work! Accents 06:45, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Essays. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Essays redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). — Hex (❝?!❞) 13:21, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! הסרפד ( Hasirpad) 03:37, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Not sure how a more clear consensus is needed to delete or merge for this article. Maybe because the primary discussion is delete or merge. One editor who I think turned this and several other related articles into a wp:snowball discussed for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0pen$0urce ( talk • contribs) 14:41, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Curious why you think a how-to manual copied from a Wikia should not be speedily deleted. Statυs ( talk) 09:05, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Just wondering why you came to the decision to "keep" the town manager" page I nominated for deletion. There was no rationale. Once again, seems the AfD is based on number of votes. Jimsteele9999 ( talk) 15:18, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for approving my RfA. I was just wondering—should the bot have a bot flag? — Wolfgang42 ( talk) 19:23, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
(This is a repost from the talk page - not sure if you have a watch on it. Thanks.) A merger does not seem correct for L.A. Percussion Rentals. Both Emil Richards has his own 50+ year career (much before selling some of his instruments to LA Percussion Rentals), and LA Percussion Rentals functioned industriously for the majority of time before acquiring some of Emil Richards' instruments (company began in 2005, Emil Richards instruments acquired in 2012). Straight from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging: Merging should be avoided if: 1. The resulting article is too long or "clunky" 2. The separate topics could be expanded into longer standalone (but cross-linked) articles 3. The topics are discrete subjects warranting their own articles, even though they might be short Alas, #2 and #3 apply to this issue. Take heed that this is not the correct way to go about these articles. Xylosmygame ( talk) 19:49, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
What do you mean by the passages of policy I cite? Xylosmygame ( talk) 18:01, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
BTW, I just added another reference to the L.A. Percussion Rentals page for notability: http://www.pearldrum.com/news/concert-news-article.aspx?id=524 Xylosmygame ( talk) 19:27, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
One of your comments is being discussed at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Editor_Retention#RFC Ottawahitech ( talk) 15:12, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for the rename. The Master ( talk) 01:08, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Slip of the keyboard that you only deleted The Farm Group (2) and not The Farm Group? The Banner talk 02:00, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
It looks like someone has successfully gamed the system. This whole article will end up being reduced to a paragraph on the legitimate basis that it's a weight violation to give it full coverage in the other article(s). This is a not-so-subtle form of deletionism/whitewashing. I've seen this happen before with politically sensitive articles. It's used as a convenient way to bury inconvenient truths. This event was of huge significance in politics and the news. It doesn't deserve this fate. It is a very notable and significant event in the GOP's War on Women. -- Brangifer ( talk) 01:30, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
I also disagree with this decision. Many (if not most of the keep votes) were merge and keep. Moreover there were a significant amount of keep votes. There was no consensus on this. Local merge consensus should have been allowed to develop. I would ask you to reconsider. Otherwise I will take this to Wikipedia:Deletion review. Casprings ( talk) 01:48, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
"GOP's War on Women" Yeah, there's no bias in that comment. CRRays Head90 | Get Some! 07:45, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
I did start the new article suggest in the merge discussion. That was allowed under the AfD. As such, I will wait and see what the consensus is on that article before taking the review process. Thanks for your time. Casprings ( talk) 12:26, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed that you had closed this AfD, so you seemed to be the right user to ask. On the talk page of the article, there was a move discussion about changing the article's title and scope. It seems that it was recently closed and moved, not by an uninvolved admin but by the user who proposed and advocated the move themselves. I was wondering if you agreed with what they found to be a consensus. Thanks.-- Yaksar (let's chat) 19:53, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Just FYI, the inevitable independent AfD on the new article has been filed (not by me; tended to say give it a week, though due to canvassing, probably justified) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rape and pregnancy controversies in the 2012 United States elections. However, the problem the incorrect process could have caused are in fact reality. Allegations that because the new article was ALLOWED, it was required in your close, or that the new article has gone through an AfD on its own. The new article has no logical merge target, in case it is deleted, so the partial merge may become impossible. -- Anonymous209.6 ( talk) 05:35, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello - I would like to re-create the page for Trillium Vein, and would like to start the article in the Special:Mypage/Trillium Vein format. To try and develop the article with less risk of deletion, ask other editors to help work on it, and move it into "article space" when it is ready. Thank you! Ashley — Preceding unsigned comment added by AshPatt ( talk • contribs) 22:18, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz. I've been told by an admin, User:Jenks24 and I've seen on another admin, User:Scottywong's talk page that AfDs should not be relisted more than 2 times. And in rare cases, they can be relisted 3 times. I saw that you have made many relists; many of which were the third relist and also a 4th relist. According to what I've seen and have been told, the 4th one was not needed and it should have been closed last time. Few other relists that you did (3rd relists), I feel that weren't of much use. I appreciate you taking up the task of relisting which is obviously needed but I'm just asking for cutting down the relists that are made on a single page. Thanks. TheSpecialUser TSU 01:31, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
It is snowing over at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trance Mission. Would you be so kind as to close this deletion discussion? This AfD has been open for 11 days with 13 keeps and two deletes. I would say that this kind of extension is unprecedented. Is there any good reason this AfD is still open? I have politely asked the nominator to withdraw and he has refused. Viriditas ( talk) 02:20, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
About Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michael_Pollack - I do think that the article that ended up being deleted wasn't that good. If I can make a better sourced article that truly shows notability, would you be interested in taking a look?
Another thing is that I wish I could slip in a response to Karanacs's mention about "trivial" - The problem is the "disagreement" has to do with how Wikipedia defines a "trivial" mention in RSes. If one says "the sources about this person don't reveal anything of importance" that's not the same as a "trivial" mention which means a source says very little to nothing about a person or thing WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:30, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
If I'm reading a page and it has spelling errors or is formatted more like an IM conversation than an encyclopedia entry, I will probably trust it less? this is a obvious bias agganst people like me who hav a serious english and spelling problem, you deleted my page "The cleaning up and building of SJI Park' you question my character with this philosopy, what facts do you base your decision on Kevin Lajiness ( talk) 05:47, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm 53 years old , My philosophy is actions speak louder than words, and that a picture is worth a thousand words, you pass the buck with you lack of words and value something of substance based on it structure, odd for someone whom has the power to change the structure, you all had an opportunity to share this public empowerment for the good of the environment.
Kevin Lajiness (
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19:24, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz. Please be aware that Jimbo has appointed you as a member of the Electoral Commission for this election. Good luck, and thank you for volunteering. AGK [•] 10:12, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2012/Coordination#Suggested_agenda_for_the_Electoral_Commission and also my set up on the project page.-- Tznkai ( talk) 17:45, 22 November 2012 (UTC)Superscript text
Does your close with delete for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 in Los Angeles include K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 in Tokyo Final 16. Peter Rehse ( talk) 05:15, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could you perhaps have another look at this AfD? The article is now merged with Fereidoun Biglari, whi as far as I can see is not an editor of this journal, but simply an editorial board member. While we may mention such a fact in the board member's bio, we almost never mention board members in articles on journals. Editorial board members really are only minor players in the workings of most academic journals (mathematics journals are an exception) and there is no indication that things are any different for this journal. For these reasons I find merging with this bio not very logical. If you have a look at how it is done, it must really be rather mysterious for any reader why this information is presented there... I'd appreciate if you could have a second look, personally, I would have thought that a simple delete decision would have been more logical. Thanks. -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 10:08, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Are you willing to share the admin count data (just the monthly counts) that you used to make your latest graphic? I'd like to try to do a regression to see if there is a seasonal effect (and thus extract the overall decrease from the seasonal effect, if there is one). — Carl ( CBM · talk) 23:25, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Porodični Paket/Extreme Paket (Specijalni broj) was nominated for deletion, the initial discussion was closed with the result that it was to be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Osasuna VS Calgary, which in turn you closed. Could you take a look at it sort out what should happen. Monty 845 02:57, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
For purposes of clarify, you or one of your colleagues should please also update the timetable in the guide on the main WP:ACE page. Also, it should be clear to everyone whether the ending date and time for the voting will also be extended by a day (or whatever length the delay turns out to be), or whether there will just be one less day of voting. Thanks and regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 19:31, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LPUniversity Foundation, you closed as a redirect to LPC, but that is a dab page. It should have been LPC (programming language). I've changed the redirect, but I was wondering if it is necessary to fix the AFD close to reflect the correct redirect target? Regards. -- Whpq ( talk) 11:17, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
The vote for the article was 5 Keeps, 5 Deletes and 1 Merger. This is insufficient to warrant a complete deletion of the page, especially without a chance to merge the content. Thanks, -- True Tech Talk Time ( talk) 14:01, 26 November 2012 (UTC).
Hi, I noticed that you are the creator of the series of ActiveAdmins graphs on Commons. This is something that I noticed a while ago, but I hadn't bothered contacting you about it. I know that Excel often truncates the y-axis if you don't have data that goes through zero, and I'm guessing that's what happened to you. These truncated graphs bug me because they can be misleading. For instance, if you look at the graph on the left and don't notice that the y-axis truncates at 500, it looks like the number of active admins on Wikipedia is plunging toward zero at an alarming rate. The non-truncated graph on the right still shows the decline, but it's clear that there are still going to be active admins in 2 years, even if the trend continues. (It also helps if the axis labels are a little bigger.) Anyway, I thought I'd leave you a note for next time around. Thanks for doing the research and making those graphs, by the way. ~ Adjwilley ( talk) 23:47, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect MAAS. Since you had some involvement with the MAAS redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Qwertyus ( talk) 20:18, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
My username in the top corner has stayed the same, yet my page edits read as Corvoe, and does my user page and all that. However, it also doesn't register the Corvoe name as having rollback rights, which I have. I noticed you were the one who changed my name, but if I need to ask someone else, just point me in the right direction. Thank you very much. -Corvoe 02:54, 28 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krazycev13 ( talk • contribs)
Look at that. Just me being a dummy. Thank you for the help, and the change. You're the bomb. -- KЯĀŽΨÇÉV 13 14:49, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
clear consensus was for delete. why did you redirect? LibStar ( talk) 00:42, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
thanks. LibStar ( talk) 00:58, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Can one use an official account to vote in elections.As far I have seen it has never happened before users with official accounts have used only there personal accounts to vote.I am not sure on on policy.There is a absolutely nothing wrong as the user can his personal account to cast the same vote. Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 00:52, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
I was just wondering why you didn't close this AfD [9] when you went through there earlier today? Niteshift36 ( talk) 14:25, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for adding to your workload! [10] SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:40, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
I found there's a notability noticeboard so I just made a post at Wikipedia:Notability/Noticeboard - Hopefully it'll get additional feedback WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:03, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to Wikipedia Goes to the Movies in NYC, an editathon, Wikipedia meet-up and workshops focused on film and the performing arts that will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (at Lincoln Center), as part of the Wikipedia Loves Libraries events being held across the USA.
All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and at meetup.com!-- Pharos ( talk) 07:27, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Would you mind bringing back white feminism temporarily to add some kind of referenced note to black feminism? As it is, it redirects without any mention or explanation. Thank you! heather walls ( talk) 00:54, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I think you rightly deleted it (given that there was very low support for merge/redir) but summarized it as redirect. I think you just need to change the summary. History2007 ( talk) 02:47, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi... In this edit to Coren's question page, you removed not only Giano's post and Coren's response, but also Coren's response to my question. I don't think Coren's response to my question should have been moved, it makes it look like Coren did not respond. Would you please either restore Coren's answer or allow me to? I don't want to edit war but I really think your change is flawed. Thanks. EdChem ( talk) 04:14, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi. When you moved this material from my "questions" page to the talk page, you moved a clarification of the original question, a followup question, and my responses. I understand you're trying to move threaded discussions out of the question pages, but that's not what this was. Please put it back (or else accept my reverting your change). — Rich wales 05:19, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Here, you removed a follow up question and response. Begoon talk 04:24, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
I have also readded my questions from talk. Jc37 did not answer the question despite repeated urgings. I admit it was an uncomfortable question, but he was a part of the discussion in which Moni3 twice insulted and subsequently blocked PumpkinSky. That is this year, and it is perfectly kosher to ask any candidate, and Jc37 in particular as a participant, about that discussion Wehwalt ( talk) 10:53, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi there Matt. In most cases, I feel that the followups you removed were actually quite valuable in terms of the responses they got me to elucidate. I would prefer if you could re-add them to the main questions page. Thanks,
NW (
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09:30, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Actually, please see Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2012/Coordination#Follow up questions moved. NW ( Talk) 18:31, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
You asked that these be brought to your attention, so here's one.
By the way, why not in these cases just add a link to talk, so folks can follow there? That is, when removing comments, include a line: Discussion continued at <talk link>? Best, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:11, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I left a request at the noticeboard regarding a rather unusual request I have. I haven't gotten much in the way of responses, and I understand if you are a bit busy right now, but could you take a look at this? Some assistance would be greatly appreciated. dci | TALK 20:09, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
HI MBisanz. Sorry if this is not the most appropriate way to contact you. i see you have recently deleted a page called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_family_offices_in_Switzerland. We use this from time to time when some of our clients refereed to other family offices. Is there any way we can get this page back, or see a cached copy of it. Thanks in advance. Will — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wwd10 ( talk • contribs) 01:15, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Why the page was deleted? Talk page did provide reasons for how big a celebirty he is in India? Greatwords1 ( talk) 06:34, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I have a question regarding the new changes in the adminship policy. I resigned voluntarily in February 2011. If I wanted my rights back now, can I ask the bureaucrats to resysop me directly or do I have to go through the RfA process? -- Meno25 ( talk) 10:34, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
hello MBisanz, please rename my username.
Hi there, I want to rename my username. Please enlighten me on the procedure. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetan.vengurlekar ( talk • contribs) 19:48, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi there MB, AL from Portugal here,
after my name change at the site, the automatic archive ceased its "business". I have been told it's precisely due to that move. Can you please change (if you can, i assume so) this page (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:VascoAmaral/Archive_3), so that it contains my current name and not my former? I'm only asking you because i think i'm not allowed to do it myself.
Attentively, thanks a million in advance -- AL ( talk) 22:24, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
You may wish to comment on a user conduct discussion regarding Paul Bedson, which can be found here. If you comment there you may wish to review the rules for user conduct comments first. You are receiving this notification because you commented at one of the articles or AfDs that are cited in the discussion. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 23:06, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Just passing by (and I have been accused of trolling else where) and at the risk of being accused of canvassing, but for the record, wikipedia AfD seems to have an ongoing problem cutting pages of less 'connected' nations. Even important constitutional/independence documents and debates are "efficiently" cut by AfD. Hence it is fair to say, AfD is "very efficient", but the "no canvassing rule" combined with the short "AfD" time frame effectively makes the whole AfD process very "stealth" like and sneaky.
These "policies" combine and give the effect that stub pages are culled long before they ever even get close to maturity.
I have (quickly) scanned the pages that have been deleted, and certainly most of the "stuff" deleted is just trash. However there are enough example of mistakes made to demonstrate that more care could be taken. The page undelete of the Philippine House of Representatives elections in Central Visayas, 2013 fixes such a problem.
Recently (my example) the Hansard for both Malaysia and Sawarak was deleted, in the 'real world' burning the Hansard would be symptomatic of a dictatorship or corruption. Ironically the pro-deletion "contributors" even acknowledged that the stub could be improved, but - in a twisted way - this observation was used to justify deletion.
This quick/stealth delete is not how wikipedia got started. I can see the need for quick delete, but this (stealth) delete problem needs to be addressed, I'm not sure where to start. Will check around. Leng T'che ( talk) 01:14, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
The only person in this AfD who !voted to merge Antonia (daughter of orator Marcus Antonius) to Antonia Major had misunderstood the relationship between the two – the Antonia in question was Antonia Major's great-aunt, not her sister. If the consensus is to merge (which I can see it is), a more sensible merge target would be the article on her father, Marcus Antonius (orator). With that in mind (and if you agree), would you mind reconsidering your closing statement? DoctorKubla ( talk) 08:45, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Just to let you know, I got your note about the tools. I'm unlikely to request resysopping, either now or in the future, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, my life doesn't support the amount of time that adminship really requires; secondly, most of my work used to be in the video games area. As I am now a professional video games journalist, editing articles on which I cover could be perceived as a conflict of interest, especially if I cite my own work in those articles.
That said, I wish both the admin team and the wider project the best of luck for the future.
Gazi
moff
14:22, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Considering I haven't been an admin in well over six years, and I've had enough stalkers and death threats and phone calls to my house for one life over a web page...I won't be pursuing admin tools ever again. Thanks, though. RasputinAXP 14:51, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
I just noticed that my navigation links (see profile or talk page) still link to Zhou Yu.
While it's not that big of a deal since they just redirect to my profile, how I would fix this? - Amaury ( talk) 07:11, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Hmm, what were your reasons for making the proposal in the first place? I can't spot it. Was there a previous discussion that I've missed? -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 10:32, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar |
For your efforts to make a list of desysopped admins, to propose new policies and to help enact them with taking the time to send out notices. ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:38, 4 December 2012 (UTC) |
On another note, seems Polarscribe's interest in returning was not for the right reasons as he's barely been active since being desysopped. I have a strong feeling though that his interest would have been short-lived even if he still had his tools... ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:42, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Never trust me when I say I won't comment again... Adding the links improves the accessibility of the follow-ups, thank you for doing that. Begoon talk 05:57, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
HI MBisanz. Sorry if this is not the most appropriate way to contact you. i see you have recently deleted a page called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_family_offices_in_Switzerland. We use this from time to time when some of our clients refereed to other family offices. Is there any way we can get this page back, or see a cached copy of it. Thanks in advance.
Basicaly same request as Will
Thanks in advance Best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicolasti83 ( talk • contribs) 15:18, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
I assumed alpha order and you assumed chronological but it seems to be a list ordered by both. -- Dweller ( talk) 15:59, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Nice work. Here's my usual lazy suggestion - is there a bot we could task to update the lists? -- Dweller ( talk) 22:26, 5 December 2012 (UTC)