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Hi MBisanz,
Thanks for closing the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EClinical trial technology AfD discussion. The action was a merge, but the target article you mentioned, Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS), is a redlink. I think you meant Clinical trial management system, which still exists. Clinical trial management system is undergoing its own AfD right now, but IMO looks like a keep at this point. Thanks, -- Mark viking ( talk) 05:52, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for renaming me LGA (was LightGreenApple) talk to me 01:53, 14 February 2013 (UTC) |
Hello there, the page for Ziron was deleted after a previous undeletion, which had previous updates to correct the problems that caused the deletion process, however the page has still been deleted, I would like to request that the page is restored, since the refs were added to the page before the closing of the deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.83.46.47 ( talk) 15:21, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
Could you review my usurpation request? Thanks! — Ross coolguy 15:42, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
The AfD process is undoubtedly not hard, but I haven't done it in a long time, so am not quite sure of the steps, and definitely unsure how to pick up on in the middle. I fielded an OTRS request to delete an article, told them they should try nominating it themselves, they did, but I don't think it is done. Can I ask you to finished the steps, which of course does not mean you have to support deletion. The article is Nazie Eftekhari The ticket is 2013021510008221. I think this may fall into the gray area of notable enough to have an article, but not so notable that we would decline a request to delete it. But that's my opinion.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 21:31, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Advice please: I've noticed an inconsistent use & indication(s) for compliance on "images" in User signatures. I have a small one incorporated into my sig that is intentionally limited in size and pixel use, but am having a hard time finding a definitive "yes/no" on it's appropriateness. The vast majority of persons ignore it, but I've had one mention they could "help me fix it" if I needed. What might the general acceptability be? (I notice lots of "images" in signatures of varying colors and styles and complexities, but I've never seen someone offer to "fix" it before).
Barada
wha?
01:01, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Administrators Beyond My Ken and MBisanz, I have read your and other administrator remarks prior to Admin Beyond My Ken closing my complaints. I was told at arbcom that arbcom was the wrong place to have filed, and at least two administrators there suggested this was the appropriate place to file. Could you gentlemen please clarify a couple things:
Thanks both of you for your time and trouble to reply. Paavo273 ( talk) 05:48, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello MBisanz: I'm considering taking the article Alpina snowmobile to Wikipedia:Deletion review; per the instructions there, I'm sending you this message to discuss the matter first. Consensus in the discussion did not actually support a merging of the article Alpina snowmobile to Snowmobile, because there was only 1 merge !vote/comment in the entire discussion. Northamerica1000 (talk) 09:37, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
I am a little surprised that the page on Paul Lutus has just been deleted. Being simply 'one of the masses' who use Wikipedia on a regular basis, I don't understand what was going on in "Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Paul_Lutus", but felt I had to register and post this note...
Way back in the 1980's there would have been no doubt as to Mr Lutus being notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia, same could be said for his earlier work at NASA. For an encyclopedia to delete entries which a small number of individuals feel not relevant to them today diminishes the whole work as a historical document.
I have no links with Paul Lutus, I just happened to download his 'Arachnophilia' editor and looked him up - to find he'd been deleted.
Yours, TonyWilk — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonywilk ( talk • contribs) 21:48, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
For all the usurpations you do. — nerd fighter 03:20, 17 February 2013 (UTC) |
The target page on Wiktionary, wikt:Feeder school, was deleted; and although wikt:feeder school exists, it doesn't seem useful enough to soft-redirect to. Is there an article on WP that contains suitable content in one of its sections? We could redirect to that.
Also, when creating Wiktionary soft redirects, please use {{ wi}} and {{ subst:longcomment}}, so it doesn't show up on Special:ShortPages. Thanks (and, while I'm here, thanks for your hard work as a bureaucrat! And as a steward too!! My goodness.) — This, that and the other (talk) 10:30, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Why keep a redirect? It's confusing with Bošković (members of numerous Bošković families), which is why nobody proposed such a solution. The consensus from the discussion is to delete it. Don't you agree? -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 12:29, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Questions about RfA/RfB voting:
why did you delete Innovative Artists DavidCitron ( talk) 22:40, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Two days, two votes and a huge list is deleted? I don't think it's the right decision. I'm talking as a reader here. I used this article many times and it was helpful. Is there any particular reason you deleted it? FYI - lists of surfing locations by country are still there. You're going to delete them, too? BadaBoom ( talk) 21:07, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
I used an outdated version yesterday by mistake when I ran interwiki.py on my computer. Now it's OK. -- Make cat 07:26, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
"Wait... you did what?!" - I just saw that today the page for Paul Lucas was deleted and am in a bit in shock and disbelief. Why did this happen, i don't understand the discussion archived above - why was the article nominated and only after a week and 3 votes deleted? Wikipedia:GNG#Articles_not_satisfying_the_notability_guidelines says that deletion should be last resort - instead {notability} tag should be placed and sources sought or merge considered.
Disclaimer: i am a fan of Paul Lutus since the days of Apple2 and GraForth but i am not related to him nor do i know him. I have been around Wikipedia for a while but i don't know the behind-the-scenes process, i only fix minor things in articles on occasion, so bear with me not knowing the protocol.
But: Paul Lutus is notable enough to have dedicated page on Wikipedia. He (alone!) wrote the first text editor program for Apple2 computer - AppleWriter - which was massively popular at the time. He also wrote GraForth/TransForth - couple of implementations of the Forth programming language, also popular for Apple2. He is still writing programs which he makes available for free/ careware at his web site
It is fairly well known also that Paul Lutus is a bit of a lone-wolf, hermit and curmudgeon, someone who prefers to live in the wilderness than to deal with people. So there might be few to no sources for his life minutiae. But if that's the case, shouldn't only those parts be deleted?
I think there are issues with some of the votes: (1) user "DrumstickJuggler" that voted on 8-feb has been created on 7-feb (can such user have clout?). (2) Another voter is "Lutusp" - but if you actually read everything they said, they are asking to protect the page from vandalism (because of Lutus's controversial views and arguments on psychology elsewhere).
Regarding popularity, subject name can easily be googled but i think this gives some perspective: from this reddit "ask-me-anything" discussions in 2012, http://www.dailydot.com/society/reddit-ama-stephen-wolfram-paul-lutus/ - in order of popularity the participants were Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Wolfram, Tim Schafer, Paul Lutus, Charley Koontz, Taika Waititi, 5-Second Films - in geekdom popularity P.L. was smack in the middle of the crowd and all the others have wiki pages and no requests for their deletion it seems.
So, what are the options? Can you review/revise your decision/action in view of my attempt of explanation? Thank you if you had the patience to read the text.
PS. i cannot see the deleted history but seems page had existed at least since 2006 or earlier. EnTerr ( talk) 08:11, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Thankyou for your efforts at name change.
Could you help to unify the current account globally?
New -
http://meta.wikimedia.org/?title=Special%3ACentralAuth&target=Fauzan
Old -
http://meta.wikimedia.org/?title=Special%3ACentralAuth&target=Fauzan+Zaid
Thanks Fauzan talk ✆ email ✉ 11:41, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Aaron Booth ( talk) 03:22, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
You previously protected Futz! as a result of our discussion at User talk:MBisanz/Archive 16#Futz! is seemingly ineligible for WP:SALT. Now that there is WP:CON regarding the existence of a redirect there, I would like to request that you unprotect it per my reasoning at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 January 25#Futz!: "the two reasons that it would redirect to an unprotected page (making the protection a bit redundant) and, more importantly, the original rationale for protection no longer applies since the community has concluded that the redirect should stay (the original rationale was a compromise stemming from the deletion discussion, the closing administrator of which disagreeing with me as to whether a redirect was justified given the community's conclusion in that discussion)". Dogmaticeclectic ( talk) 05:56, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
Hey MBisanz, I don't like this title. I mean, it had to be moved, but he's much more than a novelist. Will you settle for "author" or something like that? Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 15:03, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at
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Trevj (
talk) 21:06, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz: I recently requested that my username be changed. However, upon making the change, in my talk page history either Wikipedia or you divulged both my old and new usernames. This basically defeats my effort to remain anonymous. Can the record of my username change be deleted from my user page history? I'm not sure if something like that is even possible. -- Argo752 ( talk) 18:31, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. One month ago, you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenneth Kvalheim as redirect to Notodden FK. In the discussion, only one user opted for a redirect, and I tried to explain my opinion about that being a bad choose. If I found a non-notable footballer redirected to a club-article like this, I would probably have opened a WP:RFD to get the redirect deleted, but now there is an AfD closed as Redirect. As you were the closing admin, I came here to ask for your opinion about this; do you think I should open a WP:DRV or RFD? Cheers, Mentoz86 ( talk) 12:16, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)
There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!
Hope to see you there! - Pete ( talk) 19:19, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
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For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 14:04, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, MBisanz, may I ask if the members of WP:AUDIT perform CheckUser actions, esp the members that are also arbitrators? or their permission is only for viewing logs and processing complaints? Thanks! -- Ben.MQ ( talk) 05:36, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
I request that you or one of your comrades in arms take a look at the bot request for Joe's Null Bot 2. The final step of implementing TAFI on the main page hinges on this bot being approved. -- Nick Penguin( contribs) 15:57, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
You are the only steward I know, so I get to bug you... I closed Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Worstcook/sandbox for deletion. However, I'm unable to delete the page as the page has over 5,000 revisions. Could you use your magical powers? Bgwhite ( talk) 20:49, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Tony (talk) 12:56, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm hoping you can help sort out a username change that's gotten messed up. This new user started out with the name Ali Hewson, but that is the name of a real person ( Ali Hewson, singer Bono's wife). So upon my recommendation, she went through the username change process and per Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple/Archive127#Ali Hewson → Miss Bono you changed it to Miss Bono on 29 December 2012. (There's no real person called Miss Bono; Ali Hewson is sometimes called Mrs Bono by the press, and their daughters are just called by their first name with a last name of Hewson.)
But Special:Contributions/Miss_Bono only shows the contributions of the renamed Ali Hewson before the name change. When she does start editing again, on 8 February 2013, it's as Ali Hewson again, even though her user page User:Ali_Hewson redirects to User:Miss Bono and the same with her user talk page. Can you figure out what's happened here? Special:Log/Ali_Hewson says "17:51, February 8, 2013 User account Ali Hewson (talk | contribs) was created automatically" ... does that mean she created the account a second time? She's asking me for help on this at User talk:Wasted Time R#Please, Check. Thanks! Wasted Time R ( talk) 13:12, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Unless I'm missing something you seem to have moved this users page without actually renaming them-- Jac16888 Talk 15:41, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Matthew. The user Nencnews was given a username block, presumably because the name appeared to refer to www.nencnews.com. He/she was unblocked on the basis of an unblock request stating that he/she would request a change of username to jhsnowden3. Instead, the user requested a change of username to NENCGuy, saying in the request "Current username appears to be a company/group name", and you granted the request. On the face of it, it seems obvious that, if "Nencnews" refers to a company, then "NENCGuy" probably refers to the same company. My instinct was to re-block, but before doing so I thought it best to check with you, in case there is some point that I have missed that justifies the change of username. JamesBWatson ( talk) 20:13, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
This is my first time through the process. Someone will assign me a bot flag and give it to me? Or do I have to go get one somewhere?— Kww( talk) 15:04, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
It's a Fox! (What did I break) 19:39, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm leaving you a message, as you are one of those that closes a lot of AfD's. We have two AfD's listed at WP:FOOTY from 26 February ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Víctor Zúniga) and 27 February ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tamás Romhányi (2nd nomination)) that hasn't been closed or relisted yet. I believe that the problem is that they hasn't been listed at the daily log (step 3). Even though there seems to be a clear consensus in both AfD's, it should be noted that all the voters are WP:FOOTY members, so I don't know if it's appropiate to relist them so that other people could find them and vote their opinion, or if they could be closed right away, but that is up to you or another admin. I've also sent the same message to User:Mark Arsten and User:The Bushranger. Mentoz86 ( talk) 10:49, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NorthLondoner.
I am bringing this to your attention since the revision history of
User:NorthLondoner states:
You might therefore be able to verify that at least two of these users are the same. – Fayenatic L ondon 19:11, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, I recently changed my username here but I have seen that I can't log in with the new username in all wiki projects. Since you're steward, could you please change my old username (Torreslfchero) to the current on (Tolly4bolly), so that I don't need to log in and out to edit on other projects. I've changed usernames to current in simple and no wikipedia. T4B ( talk) 08:00, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi!
Thank you very much for updating my username from "Zoeb" to "ZoeB"! Curiously though, it appears to have reverted, although my user page hasn't, and I can't see a log of the reversion in the usurpation archives. I was wondering if you might know what's happened, or at least who I ought to ask about it?
Thank you very much!
(I see you're in Washington. Nice! My partner and I had a great time there last year, walking along the Tidal Basin and listening to the cicadas.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoeb ( talk • contribs) 23:12, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
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Lightening Fast |
That was an extremely quick response. I was not expecting the change to be done that fast :) Sdht ( talk) 05:32, 18 March 2013 (UTC) |
No, that account I think anyone who does not use --
Bradford
ΣTalk 13:28, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays ( talk) 23:19, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Indians-Tigers rivalry. 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. RoadView ( talk) 06:18, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for changing my username. Much appreciated. ~ DanielTom ( talk) 09:48, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Can the orphaned image in this anon IP edit be restored and placed back in this wikipedia article--a book by Agatha Christie? It was removed by an anon IP from this article--with no reason given. Just curious, -- Leoboudv ( talk) 22:06, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Best Regards, -- Leoboudv ( talk) 08:19, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Matthew. I don't know what the backstory is behind the Fran Rogers / Fran McCrory page moves (and I don't need to!) but please could you take a look at the double redirects left behind? See Special:DoubleRedirects. Thanks! – Wdchk ( talk) 23:48, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Haya! I've noticed that my request for the Usurpation this temporary name indicates, is now at 10 days since made on March 17th. Is there something more I need to do? — Temporary to usurp ZigZag ( talk) 15:21, 27 March 2013 (UTC) (main name User:Love Robin)
Can you take a look at User talk:INeverCry#User:Qźwa Sobkowska. It looks like whoever this is has created attack pages on several wikis, and is continuing to stalk User:Michał Sobkowski. I was able to get an admin to block the latest one on de.wiki: de:Benutzer Diskussion:Leyo#Attack account. There's another earlier blocked attack account here in the history of User:Michał Sobkowski's userpage, along with IP attacks. Michał Sobkowski's userpage on pl.wiki is protected, so it looks like they've had the same issues. I just thought I'd mention it to you, and see what you thought of it. Thanks for your time. INeverCry 00:41, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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Yo, thanks a lot for changing my name.
M y 1 21:08, 31 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by My1 ( talk • contribs)
Hi MBisanz! In
this edit, although your edit summary was {{BotTrial|edits=50}}
, you actually added {{BotTrial|edits=20}}
to the page. Since 50 edits seems to be the norm, I was wondering if this was a typo. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 22:53, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
Could you restore the page "KLone (web server)" you have deleted ?
You say you don't find any source of the program, see this list :
- http://john.freml.in/teepeedee2-vs-klone - http://www.gnutoolbox.com/klone/ - http://packages.debian.org/fr/sid/klone - https://github.com/koanlogic/klone - http://linuxappfinder.com/package/klone - http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/KLone ...
Thanks to revert your deletion
Hi MBisanz, thanks for the renaming. Please could you do the same over at Wikimedia Commons and Meta? -- Rob Kam ( talk) 19:18, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar |
For closing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hitler (retail store). Bearian ( talk) 19:56, 2 April 2013 (UTC) |
Hi, I noticed that you made the following change on 31 March:
(User rename log); 17:09 . . MBisanz (talk | contribs | block) renamed user Dr SPWright (981 edits) to Neuropsychiatry (WP:CHU)
Any idea why user:Dr SPWright later reclaimed his old user page? It looks wrong that it is in use as well as User:Neuropsychiatry, especially as the areas of interest overlap. Please check and advise the user to merge & redirect the old user page if appropriate, as I think it would be. – Fayenatic L ondon 20:08, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Many thanks for the username change! XtremD ( talk) 23:40, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, I have some serious concerns about the proposed bulk-PROD feature for Rileybot, for which you authorized a trial. I've added them to the discussion here: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RileyBot 10. Pburka ( talk) 06:24, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
I saw your message a few months back about deleting inactive AWB users. I've gone ahead and removed the users. I've also asked Legoktm to run a report for all users that haven't been active since January 1, 2012. I'll remove those users as well. I've already removed the bots that haven't been active since January 2012. Bgwhite ( talk) 07:39, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
...for attending to my name-change request so quickly! Markus Pössel ( talk) 09:44, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
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Please sign up, and add your ideas to the agenda for Sunday. Thanks!
Delivered on behalf of User:Pharos, 18:09, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
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I requested a username change on March 27. You approved it quickly, but two weeks later the name still hasn't changed. Has something gone wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mowerm ( talk • contribs) 18:39, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, is this where I ask for the page to be userfied? I did not log in to catch the end of the debate. Thank you! Icedwater ( talk) 11:48, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- 68.107.137.178 ( talk) 15:33, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Let's keep this at WT:BN. |
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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
You have made your opinion of me and IP editors so incredibly clear. Please, just change Wikipedia policy and get rid of IP editors; stop taking it out on me and my participation in RFBA. I requested that the flag be reviewed as it was improperly granted. The BN board is the proper place for that. Go change bot policy if you don't like people asking you to follow it. - 68.107.137.178 ( talk) 18:34, 15 April 2013 (UTC) |
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Hi.
You deleted Embassy of Honduras, Ottawa apparently as a result of an deletion discussion which included a few other articles. You have not deleted any of the other, and you have not 'closed' the related AfD page. Would you care to clarify? Thanks - Nabla ( talk) 22:11, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your work with usurpations. When will my old account be deleted? I can still login via the old account. I would be glad to see the old talk-page be deleted, too (so if anyone visits the page, it comes up with "Create a new page"). Also, there are a couple of edit histories that say "Undid revision by [old name here]" while the edit history now has the new name making the undone edits. (Yes, a couple of my revisions were undone, but in doing so, I provoked the other editor to make the page better than any of us originally intended). Perhaps that edit summary text can also be changed?
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Thank you,
Techie007 (
talk) 11:37, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey Matt, can you remove my sysop bits, I do not wish to be an admin or to edit Wikipedia any further. Dreadstar ☥ 00:04, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
{{ hangon}} .. can we have that customary 24 hour wait thing first please. Maybe a good night's sleep. I really don't want to lose an editor and admin of this quality. — Ched : ? 00:13, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Sleeping over it: do you think that he thinks that expressions of being missed make his talk "unclean"? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:52, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
– 296.x ( talk) 16:58, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Please change my name, i submitted the request. Thanks in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bozon1 ( talk • contribs) 15:04, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
You wanna block me for violating some policy while simultaneously declaring me a wikilawyer for asking editors to stay within policies, or just trying to get another block so I can stop contributing to WP:RFBA? - 68.107.137.178 ( talk) 16:26, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
I did think of something to say. I read where Jimbo once said it is better not to have an article than to have a wrong article. You could edit Detachment fold to remove a wrong article; the editors made them thrust faults and mix up stress and strain. A one sentence stub would be better than having an incorrect article being sent into cyberspace by Wikipedia. - 68.107.137.178 ( talk) 08:36, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey, sorry for running you about last time I tried to get User:NekoBot re-approved, an incident came up which meant I had to take an almost immediate Wikibreak due to it and wasn't able to get back in response to my request. I'll try and poll it (or just make a note on the existing talk page edit at WP:AN3) to see if it's still required. To get to my point, would you see a need for the bot to try and assist with additional information and backlog management, and if so, is there anything you feel should be added/changed from the last BRfA? + Crashdoom Talk 09:12, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, You kindly changed my username yesterday - thank you. I signed in this morning with my previous username (which still works) and edited an article. I thought my new username would have appeared in the edit but it hasn't. Please can you remove my previous username from the edited article? JCinfo 10:24, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I don't want you to change the edit, I would just like my new user name to appear on the edit I did this morning as all the old edit have changed over to my new user name. Could you do that please?
JCinfo 14:07, 22 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding
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JC-Edits (
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Thanks so much for you help: my old user name was JC-QPCS - or do you need page number? JCinfo 14:37, 22 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding
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JC-Edits (
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contribs)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Park_Community_School I would also be grateful for advice on possible vandalism that has been occuring. Many thanks JCinfo 14:53, 22 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JC-Edits ( talk • contribs)
Ok, thank you but I am still left confused as all my old edits have changed over to my new user name.JCinfo 15:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JC-Edits ( talk • contribs)
Hi. I hope you can recollect this article which was deleted as no much internet independent verification sources of achievement were found. I just got these links sent to me by some users. Are those considered pertinent as independent verification sources to revert back the article submission? Kindly advice as we trust in your impartial and fair advices. Thanks. DrKlain ( talk) 15:49, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello my user name is maloneth. Last December you deleted my page Nic Herron-Webb because he was not notable enough. I think that there should be consideration for the fact that he was a member of the Ultimate Fighter Cast which seems like it should count for something. He has also fought two fighters who were in the UFC, namely Julio Paulino and Rob Yundt. He also beat a Bellator veteran to get into the Ultimate Fighter House. Is there any wan to get this reconsidered? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maloneth ( talk • contribs) 22:17, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
I was reading over the text and history of the guidelines in WP:DIAGRAM but noticed that the page had an {{Inactdis}} tag placed on the top of it. Further research indicated that you were the one who put it there, so I am contacting you. Was this page superseded by another page? Are there any accepted guidelines in place for making maps and diagrams on Wikipedia? Can you fill me in on the discussion? I looked over the talk page but came up with nothing to explain it. Thanks!!! KDS4444 Talk 08:04, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz. As you're one of the more active editors at WP:CHU, I wonder whether you could satisfy my curiosity on something. I've just blocked this delightfully-titled account, and wondered if there was any precedent for forcibly renaming such editors (i.e. renaming their account something innocuous without them filing a request). I'm guessing not, and I can't find anything in the username policy to suggest otherwise, but I thought I'd check with someone who's more experienced with username processes. Note that I'm not requesting the account be renamed (or planning to make such a request), just musing on whether such a thing has ever been done before, or whether there's any specific prohibition against it. Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 09:34, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
You left this note on User talk:Lawrence Cohen in 2008.
That wiki-ID initiated {{ afd}} so frivolous that in my opinion they were tantamount to vandalism -- like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zahid Al-Sheikh.
Lawrence Cohen nominated three articles for deletion, at the same time, using identical wording. That identical wording identified Zahid Al-Sheikh as just another Guantanamo captive.
Lawrence Cohen could only have made this mistake if he had never even bothered to read the article in question.
These three {{ afd}} show how terribly vulnerable our discussions are to groupthink, as several of the participants praise Cohen for his excellent research when he clearly hadn't even bothered to read the article! When I pointed out that Zahid Al-Sheikh had never been a Guantanamo captive, none of the participants who based their delete on his status at Guantanamo owned up so lazy they took the assertions in the flawed nomination at face value.
The reason I am writing to you today is that my contributions continue to be the target of frivolous {{ afd}} by contributors who can't be bothered to comply with WP:BEFORE. So, if you don't think it is a violation of his privacy, can you tell me whether the new wiki-ID Lawrence Cohen adopted in 2008 is still active today?
Thanks Geo Swan ( talk) 18:48, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey,
RandomDSdevel here; I just wanted to let you know that I think I accidentally recreated my old account this afternoon when I logged in because of how its credentials were still stored in a browser cookie from yesterday which existed because I forgot to log out of my Wikipedia/universal account. If there's any way that you can fix this, could you let me know on
my talk page?
Thanks,
RandomDSdevel (
talk) 19:09, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
It is somehow quite refreshing to have gone through that; thank you for your understanding and your assistance! Dreadstar ☥ 23:08, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if you could provide the text of this article you deleted so I can see if I can fix it to comply with guidelines. I'm confused over its deletion because I'm pretty sure it's a notable/historically-significant list, but I can't say for sure without being able to view the text. - ryan d 11:58, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, Matthew. I recently blocked User:KikeFolan indefinitely because of their user name. According to another editor, the blocked user has been editing as an IP. Assuming the allegation is true, should the IP be blocked for block evasion? WP:EVASION has broad language but doesn't address this specific situation. But it seems odd to me. I didn't block the user for doing anything disruptive, only for editing under an offensive user name. If the user chooses not to request a name change but to edit as an IP, unless there's an independent reason to block the IP, it strikes me as counterintuitive to block them. Do you have an opinion on this? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:03, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
{{
usernameblock}}
instead of {{
usernamehardblock}}
), the account block should be a soft-block and IP-editing should be permitted.
MBisanz
talk 23:28, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I received a message yesterday saying that the wiki topic "Eliyahu Comay" is a candidate for deletion and today I noticed that it was removed by you.
I cannot see the article anymore, but I can tell you that the reasons for deletion, as I read in the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Eliyahu_Comay are not justified.
Let me answer the most important problems that were raised there:
1. The sources are "fringe". The main articles of Eliyahu Comay were published in Il Nuovo Cimento (1984, 1995) which is a very respectable publication source. Most of the nobel prize winners published in this journal, including Gell-Mann (1969 nobel prize) Gross (2004 nobel prize) and many many others. The other important article, a very long review article about his theory was published in 2012 by the Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics. This is obviously not a fringe source.
By the way - all the sources in this topic are peer reviewed sources.
2. Someone who claims that he is not a physicist said that I changed two topics ("proton spin crisis" and "Vector Meson Dominance") in order to serve a purpose (which I do not understand). I can tell you what the purpose was. The purpose was to let wikipedia readers to know about these two important topics. Everyone, as I can see in the talk page, agree that these are highly important topics. Now, if you will look in the history of these two topics, you will see that: a) The "Vector Meson Dominance" topic included only one vague sentence before I edited the topic. I'm the one who made it understandable and readable. I think it was a big contribution to wikipedia readers. Don't you agree? b) The "proton spin crisis". This unsolved question is listed in wikipedia as one of the most important unsolved questions in physics. Before my edit, it was hidden as a short paragraph in another article about "nucleon spin structure". Don't you agree that this topic deserves much more than a short hidden paragraph?
Even if you believe that there are more problems, please un-delete the topic and let's communicate until all problems are solved. Thank you. Ofercomay ( talk) 07:03, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, I placed a request to change my username from sofeshue to FootballStatWhore. You commented that the last world in the new username is a unnecessarily profane. Actually Stat whore it is just an internet term to describe those fanatic with statistics (just like me...); it may have some pejorative notion, but is by no means a profane. Also, if you do a search of usernames, many of them contain "whore". So if I wish, I could simply create a new account FootballStatWhore. However, my old contributions under Sofeshue will not appear in the new one. That is why I want to change the current name instead of creating a new one. Please complete my request. Thanks. Sofeshue ( talk) 07:34, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to translate and review the notification that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages m:Rename practices and m:Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 13:06, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
You closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adil al-Jazeeri, as delete. This {{ afd}} was initiated by User:MSJapan. MSJapan used to never leave a heads-up on the talk page of the article creator. I am glad to see they now do so.
In this case MSJapan did leave the recommended heads-up on User talk:Sherurcij -- who left the project years earlier.
Sherurcij could be an excellent researcher. Much of his contributions date back to a time when the wikipedia's standards and policies were looser -- so, while he may have complied with the standards current when the articles were started, some of the articles he started don't measure up to today's standards. I believe that some of the articles Sherurcij started could be improved, with added references, so they did measure up to today's standards.
Therefore, would you temporarily userify the article, with its full history and talk page, to User:Geo Swan/Adil al-Jazeeri? If, after some web searches, I think it can't be brought up to our standards I will place a speedy deletion tag on it, within one week.
If I think there is an existing article it could be merged with, or redirected to, would you want to be advised, before I did that?
Thanks Geo Swan ( talk) 16:31, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm asking for your help because it seems like bureaucrats of en-wiki are acquainted with the future changes better than others. Here are my questions:
Faizan - Let's talk! 07:03, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
I wonder how many spambot monitoring systems are going to be tripped by this edit. Legoktm ( talk) 23:50, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
I have requested a name for changing my username. Please, change it. Thank you. Prashant talk 14:47, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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I've raised an issue at WP:AN#Bot.3F regarding what appears to be an unauthorized bot. Can you look and take any necessary action? Since I don't deal with bots regularly, I felt it was better to drop it there, but it hasn't gotten much attention. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 00:05, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Matthew, just a heads up in case you wish to comment based on your role as the closing admin in a previous iteration of this article in December 2012. The history is complex, and even as an admin, I had trouble sorting it out. Regards.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 19:14, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
There seems to be an SUL attached to this username. Could you remove it? There's no Wiki attached to it.— cyberpower ChatOnline 16:35, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, concerning my request to change my user name from Jaubouin to Storm2005 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple#Jaubouin_.E2.86.92_Storm2005) you said the name was already in use on fr.wikipedia: indeed, that's me there as well. I requested a name change there, which they did, only I thought they would change the name as well on every other wiki (since I thought I used a single user login), but for any reason they didn't (or couldn't?). I thought I should again ask for a name change on each platform... What should I do to change all "Jaubouin"'s on every wikipedia to Storm2005? If the answer is everytime "not possible because Storm2005 exists already on fr.wiki" that will be tricky for me... Regards. -- Jaubouin ( talk) 09:28, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
There are growing concerns that Amiram Goldblum is himself editing the article about him. He has two accounts: User:Rastiniak and User:רסטיניאק. Take a look at the this sockpuppet investigation. Also, read the following discussion. רסטיניאק has removed the POV tag from the article twice so far: 1 and 2. While I don't find this subject particularly interesting, I'm alarmed by the fact that Goldblum is fighting tooth and nail to get users who question the neutrality of his article to get blocked. I request you to help us determine whether the two accounts indeed belong to Goldblum. Nataev ( talk) 11:32, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
You approved a username change from Ramseymediaworks ( talk · contribs) to JoeRamsey417 ( talk · contribs) on May 2. At that time, all edits previously credited to the former name were re-credited to the latter name. I note today that RamseyMediaWorks is editing again. Should the former name be blocked as inappropriate, allowing the user to edit only under the latter name? WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 14:23, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
I invite you to strike your unwarranted threat to block an editor who requested a deletion review of this out-of-process closure. It is abundantly clear from the subsequent events that MZMcBride should not have substituted their judgement for that of the community by announcing a result to an AfD, which they started, less than four hours after it opened. WP:DRVPURPOSE is clear about the purpose of DRV; WP:Deletion process #Early closure is equally clear; and even the revised final outcome is a breach of normal process per WP:WITHDRAWN. Please review those guidelines and see if you can understand why it is perfectly proper for any editor to request a deletion review in the circumstances. If you don't agree with me, then I request you explain your administrative action in threatening a block for "an abuse of process" with reference to established policy showing what process was abused.
If, on reflection, you agree that any editor would be justified in requesting such a DRV, then you should withdraw your threat and perhaps even apologise to Andy. It is uncharacteristic of your usual good judgement to make a mistake like this, so please take my advice here in the spirit in which it was intended. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 17:39, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Your comments both here and on my talk page are idiotic and petulant. Please stop. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 23:00, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm more than happy to explain further now that I've gotten home.
First, look at Wikipedia:DELETE#Deletion_review. It says people should discuss first with the person who performed the action. As Regentspark noted in User_talk:MZMcBride#Dominic_McDevitt-Parks, Andy was not discussing it with MZM (or NYB). Andy was issuing demands for action, action that NYB warned him would be an abuse of process.
I didn't take into account Andy block log in warning him (at least to the extent he hadn't been blocked in the past for abuse of DRV), but I did take into account that he was an experienced user and that NYB had warned him it would be an abuse of process to file a DRV without discussing more. One of the signs of a violation listed at Wikipedia:DISRUPT#Signs_of_disruptive_editing is refusing to engage in consensus building. As NYB explained to Andy, he had not engaged NYB or MZM in a consensus building discussion, so to take it straight to DRV would be disruptive. Andy's response was not to resolve NYB's admonition, but rather to take it straight to DRV. That's not consensus building and is disruptive because it defeats the intent of having a person discuss a deletion before bringing it to DRV.
Now, if Andy had just happened into DRV without consulting MZM, that wouldn't necessarily be disruptive because he might not have realized he needed to discuss it first. But, given that NYB had told him it would be an abuse of process, to do so without resolving NYB's concerns is a problem. The flip side would be that if I had blocked Andy straight away, it could have been a bad block, but if I were to block Andy now while we're discussing it, it would also be a disruptive block because I'm doing so before fully engaging you on the issue. Another analogy would be that it if I was driving down an alley and clipped your car because it was too narrow, it might be a good faith mistake on my part, but if you were yelling at me as I entered the alley that it was too narrow for my car to fit and I kept going, it would be a different situation.
As to MZM being a pal of mine, yes, I've interacted with him to request technical reports, but he's never been particularly nice to me. Most of our interactions involve him making snide remarks about my competency or more generalized insults about my person. I believe I've now explained which policies I grounded my warning in. Can you explain why you think Andy is exempt from those policies? MBisanz talk 22:15, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
FWIW I was checking and the last time I can recall MZM and I being involved outside of requesting database reports was when he opposed me for steward. MBisanz talk 22:45, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi I'm new to this. Anyway, I was attending a conference on Africa and among many representative ambassador of different African countries was the ambassador at large of São Tomé &'Prinvipe Angelo Anttonio Toriello. During the conference then I googled his name just to see who was he as what he was stating was interesting, and among so many links I came across these links of deletion of his article which I think is incorrect, that's why I messaged you editors so you can check the person status on these link of the guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/the-report.
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Hi. Somebody could help to submit this note to the right administrators which have deleted Angelo Antonio Toriello article as their decision was not correct and as I'm new to this I don't know how to submit my request properly. Anyway, I was attending a conference on Africa and among many representative ambassador of different African countries was the ambassador at large of São Tomé &'Prinvipe Angelo Anttonio Toriello. During the conference then I googled his name just to see who was he as what he was stating was interesting, and among so many links I came across these links of deletion of his article which I think is incorrect, that's why I messaged you editors so you can check the person status on these link of the guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/the-report.
Hello, I am writing to request a review of the deletion of "Genealogical relationships of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom." This was a very interesting page, and I would like to see it restored on Wikipedia. In addition to the Paul Bloomfield citation, the Villiers information is also cited in George Malcolm Thomson's The Prime Ministers (1980). Thank you.
Very well. Would you perhaps be able to advise on the User who provided the extensive original research for the page? I'm writing a book for which their work has been helpful and would like to try to contact them, or at least to credit their work, if possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rclc ( talk • contribs) 16:55, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank-you for approving and making name change, much appreciated. FlatOut 01:38, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
A big problem has been created. I have forgotten my new created Pratyya's password but can remember the old name's password. So what'll I do. My most major wiki en wiki's been renamed to that account. So now if you can please revert the rename. Please you understand my situation. Help me. And answer me.-- Pratyya Ghosh ( talk) 13:54, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
for the move. Dan Murphy ( talk) 02:56, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
When renaming a user as part of the RTV process, is it preferable to supress the summary of the revision that moved the page from the former username to the vanished one? That becomes the only "link" that can be easily used and I could understand the logic behind suppressing it from public view, but I'm unsure if it is part of the procedure, so I won't touch it for the time being. Thanks for clarifying. :) · Salvidrim!· ✉ 04:42, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study. 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. -- Trevj ( talk) 09:22, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Matt. I wonder if I could quickly get your opinion on a user rename request? User:Queerboybait is currently requesting an unblock to change his name to User:Bitterqueer. I'm not sure which side of the fence to fall on with this - whilst an improvement, it still strikes me as somewhat antagonistic. I respect your opinion more than most when it comes to the username policy, so I was hoping you might be willing to offer your take on the proposed change. Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 07:16, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello MBisanz as I do not know how to submit an article, I took sometime before to reply you because I have gone through all this ambassador at-large Angelo Antonio Toriello article for deletion case. I see many defaults in it from the author side and editors side. But of course in the end of the day it is you EXPERT editors whom got the monopoly of it and therefore the final decision.....so just nothing new. Final decision is always in the hands of who in one or another way holds and controls power, either at the small or big games level; it doesn't matter! So lets stop these crapping about wikipedia FREE encyclopaedia. Said that let me tel my points although it doesn't matter to you EXPERT editors. DrKlain user in the end has resulted to being too pathetic because personally involved rather to stick to the Wikipedia guidelines, although he has submitted some true questions which haven't been answer by none of you EXPERT editors. User WikiDan61 a certain point became discriminative without proper graphic expertise and a fair investigation (as DrKlain user was saying just by seating at home and browsing Internet as it is a bible where to find the absolute truth about someone or something) by accusing the ambassador to be a big hoax just because some flicker pictures on the net were edited and the same of self publishing them without any doubt as he holds evidences of what he is stating. WikiDan61 please provide evidences of such accusation because one thing is to preserve Wikipedia from crap contents and which I fully support it, and another thing is to ruthlessly keep accusing someone to be a hoax. I have graphic expertise and gone through the pictures you pointed photoshopped which portrays Toriello in 30s poses. About these you are right. But about all others pictures and videos in the net portraying the ambassador in his official meeting with some other personalities, you are absolutely wrong as there is not sign of altering effects, may be just light, contrast and colour adjustment filters. In regards of the self publishing, anyone of his entourage could have open an account or start a website, but that doesn't mean that Toriello is directly or personally doing it even though he is the founder of those, in the same way that although Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales doesn't mean that he is the responsible of its content. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us). Therefore you EXPERT editors try to be more neutral and respectful by sticking to your noble duties for contrasting rubbishness to preserve Wikipedia guidelines more than being ruddily judgemental as all the knowledge is in your hands. If some article doesn't much Wikipedia guidelines..... fine mate, delete it, but I don't see the reason of accusing people??? Who the hell are you people? Depository of truth or what? Anyway in the case of Toriello although the many inconsistencies there are few links which are an independent source of achievements and which you stubbornly refuse to accept them as genuine because of your prejudices towards the guy, rejecting all good about him but instead just demolishing those by stating: "I don't know how Toriello could manage to be published in some Indian webside with Sonia Gandhi, or on the APA news agency?" That's really discriminative mates!!!! WikiDan61 what about this link from The Guardian then? ( http://www.theguardian.co.uk/the-report) Even this is fake? I read that FreeRangeFrog user stated that the only fact that an independent and reliable source of achievements would have proved that Toriello was an ambassador at-large of São Tomé, that would have been enough to let the article be published as it was matching the Wikipedia notability's guidelines. Are not The Guardian and APA African news agency reliable enough? I know that you EXPERT users won't take in consideration points from people like me but I hope that at least you will neutrality take in evaluation these links and do justice to the guy as no matter of what I was there attending the conference and witnessed the status of his position among other people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.55.39.39 ( talk) 16:14, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello again MBisanz, though I don't agree with your decision to stick to your position about Angelo Antonio Toriello's deletion case, but I respect it, but i would like to highlight again the point that the guy circumstances have changed as there are at least 2 reliable sources for independent verification of achievements and notability according FreeRangeFrog user. Actually the guardian link itself is more than reliable to empower you EXPERT editors to revert back the decision in the same way you have implemented it. In fact, where are now WikiDan61, DrKlain, FreeRangeFrog? Why they don't comment on it? And where are some other EXPERT editors to cast their opinion and help to clear this case in neutral and unprejudiced manner? I understand that is not a easygoing case and in fact myself I would been skeptical if I was not there present at the conference where African ambassadors gathered together and Toriello was among them, but we are talking about the guardian here mates!! Anyway I don't have to convince anyone as the links itself confirm the status of the person, and though difficult for me I will try to seek review at your suggested link if no one will come to help. Pleas help me as well to contact the above users. Thanks mate! — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
31.55.2.80 (
talk) 13:12, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
MBisanz I tried to seek review of the Angelo Antonio Toriello article but it's to damn complex and moreover I don't have much information about the person. Could you or someone at least help to retrieve back the previous cancelled article so I could submit a new one or could DrKlain help to have it as he was the submitting user of the article? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.144.255.7 ( talk) 13:38, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Greetings, I'd like to ask you to consider undeleting the article Pat Zalewski. This article was the subject of an articles for deletion but the deletion was decided by including the vote of the now banned editor Quorty who has been shown to have been engaged in deleting articles on occult subjects simply on the basis of the nature of their content. See
[ Wild Hunt Blog] [ Llewellyn Blog]
I feel the Pat Zalewski article is a valuable article and that it meets the requirements for an acceptable article. Morgan Leigh | Talk 03:49, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm considering a banal rename to "Salvidrim!" and was wondering the impacts it might have on my SUL status (or anything else that may be of importance!). Can you offer any guidance? You're kind of the "rename expert" around here. :) · Salvidrim!· ✉ 06:58, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Matt, I contacted you a few weeks ago about Ramseymediaworks ( talk · contribs) (check User talk:MBisanz/Archive 17). He was a user who had been warned about his COI username, and had then requested and been granted a user name change (to JoeRamsey417 ( talk · contribs)), but then edited again under the old name. At that time (14 May) I gently warned him that he should no longer use the COI name. Today I see more edits under the COI name. I believe a block of the COI name is in order to remind him that he should really be using his new username. WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 15:46, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm having difficulties finding anyone to talk to about configuring an Opera range (or any range, for that matter) as a trusted XFF range. E-mails to xff@wikimedia.org go unacknowledged, as do messages at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:XFF_project. Any clues?— Kww( talk) 16:56, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48791 .— Kww( talk) 17:18, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hello there. You helped me out awhile back regarding some questions I had about the {{inacdis}} tag on the WP:DIAGRAM proposal which ended up being, er, stillborn (your Archive 17, entry 88). I had just one more question and then I will be out of your hair on this:
You stated: "The steps would be bring it up at WP:VPR to see if people agree we need a new policy/guideline. Then draft a new page, either on top of the old page or at a new title. Usually pages dealing with formatting/style go at WP:Manual of Style/X and pages dealing with behavior/content go at WP:X Policy. Then list it at WP:RFC and link it at WP:VPP to see if the community supports the new policy/guideline."
Which was exactly what I wanted to know (and for which I am very grateful). My question now is this: do I need to have a set of guidelines pre-generated and ready for community critique before I do any of this? Or can I begin the business by expressing a desire for the revival of a discussion and then see what sort of input/ response I get before drafting actual guidelines? I am hesitant to spend the considerable amount of time necessary to create some guidelines if it becomes clear that there won't be any chance of those guidelines coming to fruition (though I am totally prepared to do so if they are). But I also don't want to enter a discussion and then have someone ask me, "Well, where are your proposed guidelines?" and have nothing to show them. Bottom line: how far along do I need to be with the development of some guidelines before I put the idea of instating them to the Village Pump et al.? Please advise. Thanks! (Also: good luck with your administrator review— you certainly have my support, and please let me know if there is any venue in which I can express that support which will make any difference to anyone). KDS4444 Talk 22:08, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Do you know who indexes the journal Fibreculture?
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:15, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
The page for Peter Russell (Author) (born 5/7/1946) has been removed - /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Peter_Russell_%28author%29 - and I would like to request its reinstatement on the following grounds:
The books that were compared to Amazon's ratings - "The Brain Book" and "Creative Manager" - were not his bestselling books and would not be expected to by high on Amazon's list today. (Although, the Brain Book was a New Your Post bestseller in 1982.)
His more notable works are "The Global Brain" which sold 100,000 copies, translated into more than a dozen languages and in its time was recognized as a leader in its field. It is virtually out of print now, so again would not be reflected in current Amazon charts. He is generally recognized as having coined the term "global brain" in that book, which forecast many aspects of the coming Internet. His video on the subject won international acclaim and during the eighties (Pre-YouTube) days was a popular showing at events around he world.
"One known book in a field" is inaccurate. Of his nine published books,4 continue to get attention and praise in their respective fields. "The Global Brain" "From Science to God" "Waking Up in Time" "The TM Technique" (still selling after 40 years).
That his work is frequently quoted in other books, and on the web, in citations that reflect mostly respect rather than marketing should also be considered.
A search on Google generally brings his name up before any other person of the same name. Obviously his own home page is near the top since it has high Google rankings (which alone should say he is not insignificant), further down you will many many references to his work that are clearly not self-marketing.
This is a case of a writer who was significant ten or twenty years ago, not appearing quite so significant today particularly in rankings based on sales at the moment. But that should not be grounds for deletion. The same would apply to many deceased authors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elfrock ( talk • contribs) 16:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
I got all the local renames to "Salvidrim!" I wanted. Can you do the en.wiki one as soon as you have a moment? And are there any other needed steps for global rename other than logging in the new account and claiming the SUL? Cheers! :) · Salvidrim!· ✉ 02:22, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Matt. My biggest reservation about addshores RfB is your silence. Why? From what I can tell, he is fine. Are more bureaucrats in the BAG desirable? -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 12:43, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
It would seem to me that he's requested this name change to avoid implications involved with his involvements in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tang Dynasty and Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Senkaku Islands. Should those two cases' pages be amended to properly attribute the fact that he's changed his user name?— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 14:21, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
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I think something messed up when you did the user rename from I Help When I Can back to IHelpWhenICan. I don't know if it was you or a bug in the MediaWiki software, but User:I Help When I Can (and the majority of its subpages) seem to be redirect loops. Just thought I'd notify you of this. Michaelm55 ( talk) 17:41, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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why did you delete the rendezvous tavern page. i first ate there in the 50. there is no doubt that the [;ace existed. Kipd ( talk) 20:17, 4 June 2013 (UTC) |
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rendezvous Tavern. MBisanz talk 02:10, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
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Please check the new username User talk:KJones1989. He put a message saying he has trouble loging in. Maybe you can help him there? I do not know what it could be as I would assume the new name would use the same old password. -- Alexf (talk) 12:22, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi MBisanz - I'm both a long-time Wiki editor and also a contributor to a Facebook group page with content that regularly links to FB pages created from Wikipedia articles. I've been trying to find out how & how often those FB pages are updated to reflect the current content of the matching Wikipedia articles. There's no way to get answers from Facebook about things like this, but I did locate a discussion that you took part in here on Wiki back in 2010 that approved a request to allow a Facebook bot to carry out automated updates on a daily basis. So at this point what I want to know is whether that arrangement is still in effect, or has it been superseded by something else? If you don't happen to know, perhaps you could suggest who might be able to provide the answer. Thanks! Cgingold ( talk) 12:10, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
When are you next poping onto IRC? :) ·addshore· talk to me! 01:42, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, MBisanz, a pro-forma notice that your name came up on Administrator Noticeboard/Incidents. You are NOT the subject, but it concerns the events subsequent to your close of an AfD. Link here[
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Good evening! Seems every time I log on you have done a name change. I was just curious (if I'm even that far in the queue) what the next time you think you'll be on doing admin stuffs? Thanks EzPz ( talk) 04:13, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Per a request by User:BOZ on my talk page, I have restored the article and moved it to the incubator. Could you check to see if I have done this correctly, thanks. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 00:07, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Matt. Based on some recent discussions I have quickly drafted this. It is in no way definitive, but the effort is to keep it very simple and on track. If you have time, you are most welcome to weigh in and develop this further on its talk page or tweak the draft until such times if and when a collaborative effort can be moved to RfC space. Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:43, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey Matt. I'm interested in creating an article about a company but it appears the page name was salted as at some point there was spam on Wiki involving the company in question ( Checkmarx). Anyway, they recently received a good amount of press coverage and I believe they now have the relevancy they lacked when the page was originally created. I was pointed to you by Teahouse, so I would appreciate any help you could give.
Thanks! :D Neo12345292 ( talk) 08:02, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Sure. Below is the notification from the DRV page.
I request you to please rename my account as The One. I assure you that I will not bring any disgrace to new username and I will be very responsible, active and fruitful wikipedian. Thanks. neo ( talk) 08:05, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
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An editor has asked for a deletion review of Checkmarx. 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. Neo12345292 ( talk) 08:13, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Can the everyone user can remove the content from their user talk pages? -- Kolega2357 ( talk) 19:43, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hi MBisanz. Question about the username change you made here, which renamed "andrewjosephpr" to "philipgorrivan". The previous issue was that the user (presumably the Andrew Joseph PR firm, which is why I left the original talk page note here) had been creating promotional material at the now-deleted Philip Gorrivan article, so the new username is still promotional as well. In this new username still acceptable? Spencer T♦ C 18:29, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. I would very much appreciate it if you could spend ~2 minutes and take a short survey - a project trying to understand why the most active Wikipedia contributors (such as yourself) may reduce their activity, or retire. I sent you an email with details, if you did not get it please send me a wikiemail, so that I can send you an email with the survey questions. I would very much appreciate your cooperation, as you are among the most active Wikipedia editors who show a pattern of reduced activity, and thus your response would be extremely valuable. Thanks! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:47, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Matthew,
Sorry to bug you ... You renamed my user (at my request) as per:
User talk:GLComputing has been moved on 22 July 2013 by MBisanz, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:GLComputing for the current revision.
Editor's summary: Automatically moved page while renaming the user " GLComputing" to " GLC-Mike"
Some things that I've noticed weren't changed:
Is there a reason these didn't follow? Is there anything else that needs doing?
Thanks,
GLComputing ( talk) 18:05, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
And I can see, in the Preview, it shows GLComputing
— Preceding unsigned comment added by GLComputing ( talk • contribs) 18:13, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I wonder if you could give a second opinion on whether user:Previously_ScienceApologist has socked recently as, for example, user:Mj12hoaxwriter or user:Eliminatesoapboxing, as stated here.
Some relevant threads are here, here, and here. Cardamon ( talk) 23:26, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, I have activated the unified login feature recently. Unfortunately my nickname Thingol is already in use in the English Wikipedia by another user, who has been inactive for nearly three years. A bureaucrat from the French wikipedia renamed his main account there today, see this talk page. Is it possible to rename his account here now too? -- 80.187.103.51 ( talk) ( Thingol from the German Wikipedia) 20:28, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
You're listed as an active member of the Bot Approvals Group. I would like to draw your attention to the outstanding WP:BRFA requests (including requests that are specificly flagging as need BAG attention). Please take a few minutes out of your busy schedule and take a look at the open requests. Thank you Hasteur ( talk) 18:14, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
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AutomaticStrikeout ? 19:17, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Is it possible to usurp a global account with only 5 edits? If this is possible would it be only for the usurping of the Wikipedia account or is it possible to actually usurp the full global account. I asked to change my user name to what is now in my signature (first time using a sig) but it is a global account. It was suggested that you might know the aswers to some of this.-- Mark Miller Just ask! WER TEA DR/N 07:41, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey Matt (and/or relevant talk-page stalkers). I was thinking that a redirect to Wiktionary would be useful here—as with so many other online terms that aren't encyclopedically notable, but may be frequently searched for here—but I see you create-protected it a few years ago. Might I ask why? There's no explanation in the protection logs. Thanks. — PublicAmpers&( main account • talk • block) 21:19, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
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Modesty, punctuality but above all equality is important aspects of the Danish way of life. Yes or no? I say yes. Some people think this is Dubious. Really? Culture of Denmark article Modesty, punctuality but above all equality is important aspects of the Danish way of life. [3] dubious – discuss Indeed, deliberate attempts to distinguish oneself from others may be viewed with hostility in line with the ironic autoconcept Jante's Law, respected by some as an unofficial code of Scandinavian conduct. Is it really? Say it with a song [18]... Hafspajen ( talk) 15:25, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
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Hello,
My principal account is on French wikipedia, where I change my username from Christian COGNEAUX to Gtaf. I thought it would change effective on all my accounts, but this is not true : my watchlist on my English account Gtaf is empty. Would you help me please. Thanks a lot. Cordially. Gtaf ( talk) 15:32, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
You just completed a name change, did you notice that that user is ifdeffed as a sock? I think it makes more sense to keep the old name, as it provides a stronger relationship to the other puppets if appeals come up in the future. (And its a person's real name, so nobody other than the banned user should be using it). Gaijin42 ( talk) 14:27, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Left you some message, but is gone now. Hafspajen ( talk) 14:38, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
[23] I think the Danish don't know about it before they go abroad. Than they notice it. Hafspajen ( talk) 19:43, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I wanted to write a comment on the image of an icon of "Pope Miltiades" that's floating around Wikipedia and noticed that you deleted the talk page for that image. Before starting a new one I wanted to check with you -- was there a reason you deleted it and should that affect my starting a new discussion of it? I am fairly certain it is not actually an image of the Pope of that name but of another saint. Horatio325 ( talk) 08:48, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Please check Pooja Welling to see if it is a re-creation of the article that was deleted in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pooja Welling. If it was, consider speedy-deleting it. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 00:05, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Can you please have a look at this request? Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple#virgininfatuation_.E2.86.92_Vii007. Thanks -- VI-007 ( talk) 13:45, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hello! I hope you don't mind me bothering you. I've had a change username request open for 2 weeks now, and am quite eager to have it completed. I just looked through the page revision history, and noticed that you are one of the only users who has processed some requests recently. It's for that reason that I've singled you out, and am asking if you you'd be able to change my username? I'd be very grateful. Sorry for being impatient, but it's going sooo slowwwly! If it's unfair for me to jump the queue then fair enough, you can dismiss this, but I thought I'd be cheeky and ask. =) -- Lobo (talk) 12:44, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
I just had a quick question as to why my name at the top of the page still says my old username rather than the new one you changed it too? Also if that doesn't change where do I actually see the change? Also the change is not reflected in my signature either. -- Tyadasm2006 ( talk) 02:44, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
I may be impatient, but I want my user change to remove 123. I also want its user page to be protected like mine was, due to hostile reactions in the past(not here, yet) Thanks for understanding... -- Lesbiangirl123 ( talk) 08:17, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
I from china, my name is awint. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.62.82.187 ( talk) 20:31, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
This page still avoids deletion after all this time. Please do something. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Saint_Laurent — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.182.52.84 ( talk) 02:22, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
This user, whom you renamed today, may have been impersonated on Uncyclopedia. [24] I do not know how to interpret this. Spike-from-NH ( talk) 02:09, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz,
I "volunteered" you for choosing a new EC here. If you don't want to, you don't have to, obviously. If you not only don't want to, but also think it's a bad idea, feel free to comment there. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 15:52, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
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Would you please consider unprotecting the redirect " Frasier's Curse", which you protected some four years ago? Otherwise, would you please replace its content as follows:
#REDIRECT [[Frasier (season 6)#ep122]]
{{ER to list entry|Frasier}}
Thanks... — Cbbkr ( talk) 00:09, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello MBisanz, I'm not sure of the
SOP in this situation,
this request was answered by the user in the form of a second request (this time while logged in to their main account) My question is, do both requests remain ? (is one now considered a duplicate request ?) I'm leaning towards leaving both but, just thought I'd ask. Thanx in advance
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Mlpearc (
powwow) 15:58, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Nvrmnd
I see now. Cheers.
Mlpearc (
powwow) 03:48, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
I would like to request that the following article you deleted per WP:AFD be userified: Futz! I plan to improve the article and attempt to have it restored via WP:DRV.
Please note that I would like all of the deleted revisions of the article - and the corresponding talk page - to be userified (since I would like to have as much material to work with as possible) - not just the revisions that were deleted via WP:AFD. Dogmaticeclectic ( talk) 17:48, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
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hello, MBisanz Thank you for changing my username, there seems to be a slight hiccup, and now both usernames JZimmerman (WMF) (old) and Jaredzimmerman (WMF) new are now active… Can we get rid of JZimmerman (WMF) completely? Jared Zimmerman ( talk) 20:13, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for accepting my name change!
I AM A BOX! OF APPLES! (
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Hi, I have requested for Change of Username using Usurpations from Mb-m → Mmitra. It's almost 8 days from the date of request but still it shows In progress, i would like to know how much time does it takes to complete the request and how long would it take to complete. Please reply as soon as possible. Thank You !
Link: Mb-m → Mmitra
-- Mb-m ( talk) 04:11, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I have requested for Change of Username using Usurpations from Virtualname → Programmer. But I got a failure. Would you please tell me all the steps to complete the name modification? Thank You! For your information
Virtualname ( talk) 13:32, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Please see the "Complex username-block situation - Senseltd and Wikikl" section at WP:AN; some days ago you helped by renaming an account that was blocked for a username violation, but the block and the rename and the reason for the block have combined to confuse the person using the account, and we've ended up with a situation that's downright confusing for everyone. As someone suggested at WP:AN, more renames (and block changing) would greatly improve the situation. Nyttend ( talk) 12:52, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
There is a suggestion on Wikipedia:Bot requests#New REFBot for a new REFBot working as DPL bot and BracketBot do. I beg politely for consideration. Please leave a comment if you wish. Maybe you could work on it like you did it with other projects? That would be fine. Thanks a lot in anticipation. -- Frze ( talk · contribs) 10:27, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I was referred here from the teahouse. I was wondering if I would be allowed to just start helping out at CHU (not actually renaming users, obviously, as I'm not a crat :)), or is there an approval process for CHU clerks. Thanks, -- Jakob ( Scream about the things I've broken) 01:27, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
You recently sent me an e-mail with the contents of one revision of the following deleted article: Futz!
However, I would now like to request that you make the deleted revisions visible. The reason is simple: if I'm going to take this to WP:DRV, I'm going to need every argument I can muster, so I would like them to be available before I start the process. (Also, deleted articles turned into redirects often have their old revisions left visible anyways.)
Additionally, if you do this, I would ask that you make all of the revisions of this article visible, not just the ones deleted most recently. Dogmaticeclectic ( talk) 08:26, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi MBisanz,
Thanks for closing the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EClinical trial technology AfD discussion. The action was a merge, but the target article you mentioned, Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS), is a redlink. I think you meant Clinical trial management system, which still exists. Clinical trial management system is undergoing its own AfD right now, but IMO looks like a keep at this point. Thanks, -- Mark viking ( talk) 05:52, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
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Hello there, the page for Ziron was deleted after a previous undeletion, which had previous updates to correct the problems that caused the deletion process, however the page has still been deleted, I would like to request that the page is restored, since the refs were added to the page before the closing of the deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.83.46.47 ( talk) 15:21, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
Could you review my usurpation request? Thanks! — Ross coolguy 15:42, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
The AfD process is undoubtedly not hard, but I haven't done it in a long time, so am not quite sure of the steps, and definitely unsure how to pick up on in the middle. I fielded an OTRS request to delete an article, told them they should try nominating it themselves, they did, but I don't think it is done. Can I ask you to finished the steps, which of course does not mean you have to support deletion. The article is Nazie Eftekhari The ticket is 2013021510008221. I think this may fall into the gray area of notable enough to have an article, but not so notable that we would decline a request to delete it. But that's my opinion.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 21:31, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Advice please: I've noticed an inconsistent use & indication(s) for compliance on "images" in User signatures. I have a small one incorporated into my sig that is intentionally limited in size and pixel use, but am having a hard time finding a definitive "yes/no" on it's appropriateness. The vast majority of persons ignore it, but I've had one mention they could "help me fix it" if I needed. What might the general acceptability be? (I notice lots of "images" in signatures of varying colors and styles and complexities, but I've never seen someone offer to "fix" it before).
Barada
wha?
01:01, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Administrators Beyond My Ken and MBisanz, I have read your and other administrator remarks prior to Admin Beyond My Ken closing my complaints. I was told at arbcom that arbcom was the wrong place to have filed, and at least two administrators there suggested this was the appropriate place to file. Could you gentlemen please clarify a couple things:
Thanks both of you for your time and trouble to reply. Paavo273 ( talk) 05:48, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello MBisanz: I'm considering taking the article Alpina snowmobile to Wikipedia:Deletion review; per the instructions there, I'm sending you this message to discuss the matter first. Consensus in the discussion did not actually support a merging of the article Alpina snowmobile to Snowmobile, because there was only 1 merge !vote/comment in the entire discussion. Northamerica1000 (talk) 09:37, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
I am a little surprised that the page on Paul Lutus has just been deleted. Being simply 'one of the masses' who use Wikipedia on a regular basis, I don't understand what was going on in "Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Paul_Lutus", but felt I had to register and post this note...
Way back in the 1980's there would have been no doubt as to Mr Lutus being notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia, same could be said for his earlier work at NASA. For an encyclopedia to delete entries which a small number of individuals feel not relevant to them today diminishes the whole work as a historical document.
I have no links with Paul Lutus, I just happened to download his 'Arachnophilia' editor and looked him up - to find he'd been deleted.
Yours, TonyWilk — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonywilk ( talk • contribs) 21:48, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
For all the usurpations you do. — nerd fighter 03:20, 17 February 2013 (UTC) |
The target page on Wiktionary, wikt:Feeder school, was deleted; and although wikt:feeder school exists, it doesn't seem useful enough to soft-redirect to. Is there an article on WP that contains suitable content in one of its sections? We could redirect to that.
Also, when creating Wiktionary soft redirects, please use {{ wi}} and {{ subst:longcomment}}, so it doesn't show up on Special:ShortPages. Thanks (and, while I'm here, thanks for your hard work as a bureaucrat! And as a steward too!! My goodness.) — This, that and the other (talk) 10:30, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Why keep a redirect? It's confusing with Bošković (members of numerous Bošković families), which is why nobody proposed such a solution. The consensus from the discussion is to delete it. Don't you agree? -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 12:29, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Questions about RfA/RfB voting:
why did you delete Innovative Artists DavidCitron ( talk) 22:40, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Two days, two votes and a huge list is deleted? I don't think it's the right decision. I'm talking as a reader here. I used this article many times and it was helpful. Is there any particular reason you deleted it? FYI - lists of surfing locations by country are still there. You're going to delete them, too? BadaBoom ( talk) 21:07, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
I used an outdated version yesterday by mistake when I ran interwiki.py on my computer. Now it's OK. -- Make cat 07:26, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
"Wait... you did what?!" - I just saw that today the page for Paul Lucas was deleted and am in a bit in shock and disbelief. Why did this happen, i don't understand the discussion archived above - why was the article nominated and only after a week and 3 votes deleted? Wikipedia:GNG#Articles_not_satisfying_the_notability_guidelines says that deletion should be last resort - instead {notability} tag should be placed and sources sought or merge considered.
Disclaimer: i am a fan of Paul Lutus since the days of Apple2 and GraForth but i am not related to him nor do i know him. I have been around Wikipedia for a while but i don't know the behind-the-scenes process, i only fix minor things in articles on occasion, so bear with me not knowing the protocol.
But: Paul Lutus is notable enough to have dedicated page on Wikipedia. He (alone!) wrote the first text editor program for Apple2 computer - AppleWriter - which was massively popular at the time. He also wrote GraForth/TransForth - couple of implementations of the Forth programming language, also popular for Apple2. He is still writing programs which he makes available for free/ careware at his web site
It is fairly well known also that Paul Lutus is a bit of a lone-wolf, hermit and curmudgeon, someone who prefers to live in the wilderness than to deal with people. So there might be few to no sources for his life minutiae. But if that's the case, shouldn't only those parts be deleted?
I think there are issues with some of the votes: (1) user "DrumstickJuggler" that voted on 8-feb has been created on 7-feb (can such user have clout?). (2) Another voter is "Lutusp" - but if you actually read everything they said, they are asking to protect the page from vandalism (because of Lutus's controversial views and arguments on psychology elsewhere).
Regarding popularity, subject name can easily be googled but i think this gives some perspective: from this reddit "ask-me-anything" discussions in 2012, http://www.dailydot.com/society/reddit-ama-stephen-wolfram-paul-lutus/ - in order of popularity the participants were Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Wolfram, Tim Schafer, Paul Lutus, Charley Koontz, Taika Waititi, 5-Second Films - in geekdom popularity P.L. was smack in the middle of the crowd and all the others have wiki pages and no requests for their deletion it seems.
So, what are the options? Can you review/revise your decision/action in view of my attempt of explanation? Thank you if you had the patience to read the text.
PS. i cannot see the deleted history but seems page had existed at least since 2006 or earlier. EnTerr ( talk) 08:11, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Thankyou for your efforts at name change.
Could you help to unify the current account globally?
New -
http://meta.wikimedia.org/?title=Special%3ACentralAuth&target=Fauzan
Old -
http://meta.wikimedia.org/?title=Special%3ACentralAuth&target=Fauzan+Zaid
Thanks Fauzan talk ✆ email ✉ 11:41, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Aaron Booth ( talk) 03:22, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
You previously protected Futz! as a result of our discussion at User talk:MBisanz/Archive 16#Futz! is seemingly ineligible for WP:SALT. Now that there is WP:CON regarding the existence of a redirect there, I would like to request that you unprotect it per my reasoning at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 January 25#Futz!: "the two reasons that it would redirect to an unprotected page (making the protection a bit redundant) and, more importantly, the original rationale for protection no longer applies since the community has concluded that the redirect should stay (the original rationale was a compromise stemming from the deletion discussion, the closing administrator of which disagreeing with me as to whether a redirect was justified given the community's conclusion in that discussion)". Dogmaticeclectic ( talk) 05:56, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
Hey MBisanz, I don't like this title. I mean, it had to be moved, but he's much more than a novelist. Will you settle for "author" or something like that? Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 15:03, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
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Trevj (
talk) 21:06, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz: I recently requested that my username be changed. However, upon making the change, in my talk page history either Wikipedia or you divulged both my old and new usernames. This basically defeats my effort to remain anonymous. Can the record of my username change be deleted from my user page history? I'm not sure if something like that is even possible. -- Argo752 ( talk) 18:31, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. One month ago, you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenneth Kvalheim as redirect to Notodden FK. In the discussion, only one user opted for a redirect, and I tried to explain my opinion about that being a bad choose. If I found a non-notable footballer redirected to a club-article like this, I would probably have opened a WP:RFD to get the redirect deleted, but now there is an AfD closed as Redirect. As you were the closing admin, I came here to ask for your opinion about this; do you think I should open a WP:DRV or RFD? Cheers, Mentoz86 ( talk) 12:16, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)
There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!
Hope to see you there! - Pete ( talk) 19:19, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, MBisanz, may I ask if the members of WP:AUDIT perform CheckUser actions, esp the members that are also arbitrators? or their permission is only for viewing logs and processing complaints? Thanks! -- Ben.MQ ( talk) 05:36, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
I request that you or one of your comrades in arms take a look at the bot request for Joe's Null Bot 2. The final step of implementing TAFI on the main page hinges on this bot being approved. -- Nick Penguin( contribs) 15:57, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
You are the only steward I know, so I get to bug you... I closed Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Worstcook/sandbox for deletion. However, I'm unable to delete the page as the page has over 5,000 revisions. Could you use your magical powers? Bgwhite ( talk) 20:49, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Tony (talk) 12:56, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm hoping you can help sort out a username change that's gotten messed up. This new user started out with the name Ali Hewson, but that is the name of a real person ( Ali Hewson, singer Bono's wife). So upon my recommendation, she went through the username change process and per Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple/Archive127#Ali Hewson → Miss Bono you changed it to Miss Bono on 29 December 2012. (There's no real person called Miss Bono; Ali Hewson is sometimes called Mrs Bono by the press, and their daughters are just called by their first name with a last name of Hewson.)
But Special:Contributions/Miss_Bono only shows the contributions of the renamed Ali Hewson before the name change. When she does start editing again, on 8 February 2013, it's as Ali Hewson again, even though her user page User:Ali_Hewson redirects to User:Miss Bono and the same with her user talk page. Can you figure out what's happened here? Special:Log/Ali_Hewson says "17:51, February 8, 2013 User account Ali Hewson (talk | contribs) was created automatically" ... does that mean she created the account a second time? She's asking me for help on this at User talk:Wasted Time R#Please, Check. Thanks! Wasted Time R ( talk) 13:12, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Unless I'm missing something you seem to have moved this users page without actually renaming them-- Jac16888 Talk 15:41, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Matthew. The user Nencnews was given a username block, presumably because the name appeared to refer to www.nencnews.com. He/she was unblocked on the basis of an unblock request stating that he/she would request a change of username to jhsnowden3. Instead, the user requested a change of username to NENCGuy, saying in the request "Current username appears to be a company/group name", and you granted the request. On the face of it, it seems obvious that, if "Nencnews" refers to a company, then "NENCGuy" probably refers to the same company. My instinct was to re-block, but before doing so I thought it best to check with you, in case there is some point that I have missed that justifies the change of username. JamesBWatson ( talk) 20:13, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
This is my first time through the process. Someone will assign me a bot flag and give it to me? Or do I have to go get one somewhere?— Kww( talk) 15:04, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
It's a Fox! (What did I break) 19:39, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm leaving you a message, as you are one of those that closes a lot of AfD's. We have two AfD's listed at WP:FOOTY from 26 February ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Víctor Zúniga) and 27 February ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tamás Romhányi (2nd nomination)) that hasn't been closed or relisted yet. I believe that the problem is that they hasn't been listed at the daily log (step 3). Even though there seems to be a clear consensus in both AfD's, it should be noted that all the voters are WP:FOOTY members, so I don't know if it's appropiate to relist them so that other people could find them and vote their opinion, or if they could be closed right away, but that is up to you or another admin. I've also sent the same message to User:Mark Arsten and User:The Bushranger. Mentoz86 ( talk) 10:49, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NorthLondoner.
I am bringing this to your attention since the revision history of
User:NorthLondoner states:
You might therefore be able to verify that at least two of these users are the same. – Fayenatic L ondon 19:11, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, I recently changed my username here but I have seen that I can't log in with the new username in all wiki projects. Since you're steward, could you please change my old username (Torreslfchero) to the current on (Tolly4bolly), so that I don't need to log in and out to edit on other projects. I've changed usernames to current in simple and no wikipedia. T4B ( talk) 08:00, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi!
Thank you very much for updating my username from "Zoeb" to "ZoeB"! Curiously though, it appears to have reverted, although my user page hasn't, and I can't see a log of the reversion in the usurpation archives. I was wondering if you might know what's happened, or at least who I ought to ask about it?
Thank you very much!
(I see you're in Washington. Nice! My partner and I had a great time there last year, walking along the Tidal Basin and listening to the cicadas.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoeb ( talk • contribs) 23:12, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
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Lightening Fast |
That was an extremely quick response. I was not expecting the change to be done that fast :) Sdht ( talk) 05:32, 18 March 2013 (UTC) |
No, that account I think anyone who does not use --
Bradford
ΣTalk 13:28, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays ( talk) 23:19, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Indians-Tigers rivalry. 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. RoadView ( talk) 06:18, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for changing my username. Much appreciated. ~ DanielTom ( talk) 09:48, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Can the orphaned image in this anon IP edit be restored and placed back in this wikipedia article--a book by Agatha Christie? It was removed by an anon IP from this article--with no reason given. Just curious, -- Leoboudv ( talk) 22:06, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Best Regards, -- Leoboudv ( talk) 08:19, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Matthew. I don't know what the backstory is behind the Fran Rogers / Fran McCrory page moves (and I don't need to!) but please could you take a look at the double redirects left behind? See Special:DoubleRedirects. Thanks! – Wdchk ( talk) 23:48, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Haya! I've noticed that my request for the Usurpation this temporary name indicates, is now at 10 days since made on March 17th. Is there something more I need to do? — Temporary to usurp ZigZag ( talk) 15:21, 27 March 2013 (UTC) (main name User:Love Robin)
Can you take a look at User talk:INeverCry#User:Qźwa Sobkowska. It looks like whoever this is has created attack pages on several wikis, and is continuing to stalk User:Michał Sobkowski. I was able to get an admin to block the latest one on de.wiki: de:Benutzer Diskussion:Leyo#Attack account. There's another earlier blocked attack account here in the history of User:Michał Sobkowski's userpage, along with IP attacks. Michał Sobkowski's userpage on pl.wiki is protected, so it looks like they've had the same issues. I just thought I'd mention it to you, and see what you thought of it. Thanks for your time. INeverCry 00:41, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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Yo, thanks a lot for changing my name.
M y 1 21:08, 31 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by My1 ( talk • contribs)
Hi MBisanz! In
this edit, although your edit summary was {{BotTrial|edits=50}}
, you actually added {{BotTrial|edits=20}}
to the page. Since 50 edits seems to be the norm, I was wondering if this was a typo. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 22:53, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
Could you restore the page "KLone (web server)" you have deleted ?
You say you don't find any source of the program, see this list :
- http://john.freml.in/teepeedee2-vs-klone - http://www.gnutoolbox.com/klone/ - http://packages.debian.org/fr/sid/klone - https://github.com/koanlogic/klone - http://linuxappfinder.com/package/klone - http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/KLone ...
Thanks to revert your deletion
Hi MBisanz, thanks for the renaming. Please could you do the same over at Wikimedia Commons and Meta? -- Rob Kam ( talk) 19:18, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar |
For closing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hitler (retail store). Bearian ( talk) 19:56, 2 April 2013 (UTC) |
Hi, I noticed that you made the following change on 31 March:
(User rename log); 17:09 . . MBisanz (talk | contribs | block) renamed user Dr SPWright (981 edits) to Neuropsychiatry (WP:CHU)
Any idea why user:Dr SPWright later reclaimed his old user page? It looks wrong that it is in use as well as User:Neuropsychiatry, especially as the areas of interest overlap. Please check and advise the user to merge & redirect the old user page if appropriate, as I think it would be. – Fayenatic L ondon 20:08, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Many thanks for the username change! XtremD ( talk) 23:40, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, I have some serious concerns about the proposed bulk-PROD feature for Rileybot, for which you authorized a trial. I've added them to the discussion here: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RileyBot 10. Pburka ( talk) 06:24, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
I saw your message a few months back about deleting inactive AWB users. I've gone ahead and removed the users. I've also asked Legoktm to run a report for all users that haven't been active since January 1, 2012. I'll remove those users as well. I've already removed the bots that haven't been active since January 2012. Bgwhite ( talk) 07:39, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
...for attending to my name-change request so quickly! Markus Pössel ( talk) 09:44, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
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Please sign up, and add your ideas to the agenda for Sunday. Thanks!
Delivered on behalf of User:Pharos, 18:09, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
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I requested a username change on March 27. You approved it quickly, but two weeks later the name still hasn't changed. Has something gone wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mowerm ( talk • contribs) 18:39, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, is this where I ask for the page to be userfied? I did not log in to catch the end of the debate. Thank you! Icedwater ( talk) 11:48, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- 68.107.137.178 ( talk) 15:33, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Let's keep this at WT:BN. |
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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
You have made your opinion of me and IP editors so incredibly clear. Please, just change Wikipedia policy and get rid of IP editors; stop taking it out on me and my participation in RFBA. I requested that the flag be reviewed as it was improperly granted. The BN board is the proper place for that. Go change bot policy if you don't like people asking you to follow it. - 68.107.137.178 ( talk) 18:34, 15 April 2013 (UTC) |
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We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill [talk] 20:14, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi.
You deleted Embassy of Honduras, Ottawa apparently as a result of an deletion discussion which included a few other articles. You have not deleted any of the other, and you have not 'closed' the related AfD page. Would you care to clarify? Thanks - Nabla ( talk) 22:11, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your work with usurpations. When will my old account be deleted? I can still login via the old account. I would be glad to see the old talk-page be deleted, too (so if anyone visits the page, it comes up with "Create a new page"). Also, there are a couple of edit histories that say "Undid revision by [old name here]" while the edit history now has the new name making the undone edits. (Yes, a couple of my revisions were undone, but in doing so, I provoked the other editor to make the page better than any of us originally intended). Perhaps that edit summary text can also be changed?
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Thank you,
Techie007 (
talk) 11:37, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey Matt, can you remove my sysop bits, I do not wish to be an admin or to edit Wikipedia any further. Dreadstar ☥ 00:04, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
{{ hangon}} .. can we have that customary 24 hour wait thing first please. Maybe a good night's sleep. I really don't want to lose an editor and admin of this quality. — Ched : ? 00:13, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Sleeping over it: do you think that he thinks that expressions of being missed make his talk "unclean"? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:52, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
– 296.x ( talk) 16:58, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Please change my name, i submitted the request. Thanks in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bozon1 ( talk • contribs) 15:04, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
You wanna block me for violating some policy while simultaneously declaring me a wikilawyer for asking editors to stay within policies, or just trying to get another block so I can stop contributing to WP:RFBA? - 68.107.137.178 ( talk) 16:26, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
I did think of something to say. I read where Jimbo once said it is better not to have an article than to have a wrong article. You could edit Detachment fold to remove a wrong article; the editors made them thrust faults and mix up stress and strain. A one sentence stub would be better than having an incorrect article being sent into cyberspace by Wikipedia. - 68.107.137.178 ( talk) 08:36, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey, sorry for running you about last time I tried to get User:NekoBot re-approved, an incident came up which meant I had to take an almost immediate Wikibreak due to it and wasn't able to get back in response to my request. I'll try and poll it (or just make a note on the existing talk page edit at WP:AN3) to see if it's still required. To get to my point, would you see a need for the bot to try and assist with additional information and backlog management, and if so, is there anything you feel should be added/changed from the last BRfA? + Crashdoom Talk 09:12, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, You kindly changed my username yesterday - thank you. I signed in this morning with my previous username (which still works) and edited an article. I thought my new username would have appeared in the edit but it hasn't. Please can you remove my previous username from the edited article? JCinfo 10:24, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I don't want you to change the edit, I would just like my new user name to appear on the edit I did this morning as all the old edit have changed over to my new user name. Could you do that please?
JCinfo 14:07, 22 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding
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JC-Edits (
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contribs)
Thanks so much for you help: my old user name was JC-QPCS - or do you need page number? JCinfo 14:37, 22 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding
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JC-Edits (
talk •
contribs)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Park_Community_School I would also be grateful for advice on possible vandalism that has been occuring. Many thanks JCinfo 14:53, 22 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JC-Edits ( talk • contribs)
Ok, thank you but I am still left confused as all my old edits have changed over to my new user name.JCinfo 15:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JC-Edits ( talk • contribs)
Hi. I hope you can recollect this article which was deleted as no much internet independent verification sources of achievement were found. I just got these links sent to me by some users. Are those considered pertinent as independent verification sources to revert back the article submission? Kindly advice as we trust in your impartial and fair advices. Thanks. DrKlain ( talk) 15:49, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello my user name is maloneth. Last December you deleted my page Nic Herron-Webb because he was not notable enough. I think that there should be consideration for the fact that he was a member of the Ultimate Fighter Cast which seems like it should count for something. He has also fought two fighters who were in the UFC, namely Julio Paulino and Rob Yundt. He also beat a Bellator veteran to get into the Ultimate Fighter House. Is there any wan to get this reconsidered? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maloneth ( talk • contribs) 22:17, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
I was reading over the text and history of the guidelines in WP:DIAGRAM but noticed that the page had an {{Inactdis}} tag placed on the top of it. Further research indicated that you were the one who put it there, so I am contacting you. Was this page superseded by another page? Are there any accepted guidelines in place for making maps and diagrams on Wikipedia? Can you fill me in on the discussion? I looked over the talk page but came up with nothing to explain it. Thanks!!! KDS4444 Talk 08:04, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz. As you're one of the more active editors at WP:CHU, I wonder whether you could satisfy my curiosity on something. I've just blocked this delightfully-titled account, and wondered if there was any precedent for forcibly renaming such editors (i.e. renaming their account something innocuous without them filing a request). I'm guessing not, and I can't find anything in the username policy to suggest otherwise, but I thought I'd check with someone who's more experienced with username processes. Note that I'm not requesting the account be renamed (or planning to make such a request), just musing on whether such a thing has ever been done before, or whether there's any specific prohibition against it. Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 09:34, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
You left this note on User talk:Lawrence Cohen in 2008.
That wiki-ID initiated {{ afd}} so frivolous that in my opinion they were tantamount to vandalism -- like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zahid Al-Sheikh.
Lawrence Cohen nominated three articles for deletion, at the same time, using identical wording. That identical wording identified Zahid Al-Sheikh as just another Guantanamo captive.
Lawrence Cohen could only have made this mistake if he had never even bothered to read the article in question.
These three {{ afd}} show how terribly vulnerable our discussions are to groupthink, as several of the participants praise Cohen for his excellent research when he clearly hadn't even bothered to read the article! When I pointed out that Zahid Al-Sheikh had never been a Guantanamo captive, none of the participants who based their delete on his status at Guantanamo owned up so lazy they took the assertions in the flawed nomination at face value.
The reason I am writing to you today is that my contributions continue to be the target of frivolous {{ afd}} by contributors who can't be bothered to comply with WP:BEFORE. So, if you don't think it is a violation of his privacy, can you tell me whether the new wiki-ID Lawrence Cohen adopted in 2008 is still active today?
Thanks Geo Swan ( talk) 18:48, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey,
RandomDSdevel here; I just wanted to let you know that I think I accidentally recreated my old account this afternoon when I logged in because of how its credentials were still stored in a browser cookie from yesterday which existed because I forgot to log out of my Wikipedia/universal account. If there's any way that you can fix this, could you let me know on
my talk page?
Thanks,
RandomDSdevel (
talk) 19:09, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
It is somehow quite refreshing to have gone through that; thank you for your understanding and your assistance! Dreadstar ☥ 23:08, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if you could provide the text of this article you deleted so I can see if I can fix it to comply with guidelines. I'm confused over its deletion because I'm pretty sure it's a notable/historically-significant list, but I can't say for sure without being able to view the text. - ryan d 11:58, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for inspirational high standards, in your featured coverage of educational institutions and in general, - repeating: you are an
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Hi, Matthew. I recently blocked User:KikeFolan indefinitely because of their user name. According to another editor, the blocked user has been editing as an IP. Assuming the allegation is true, should the IP be blocked for block evasion? WP:EVASION has broad language but doesn't address this specific situation. But it seems odd to me. I didn't block the user for doing anything disruptive, only for editing under an offensive user name. If the user chooses not to request a name change but to edit as an IP, unless there's an independent reason to block the IP, it strikes me as counterintuitive to block them. Do you have an opinion on this? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:03, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
{{
usernameblock}}
instead of {{
usernamehardblock}}
), the account block should be a soft-block and IP-editing should be permitted.
MBisanz
talk 23:28, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I received a message yesterday saying that the wiki topic "Eliyahu Comay" is a candidate for deletion and today I noticed that it was removed by you.
I cannot see the article anymore, but I can tell you that the reasons for deletion, as I read in the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Eliyahu_Comay are not justified.
Let me answer the most important problems that were raised there:
1. The sources are "fringe". The main articles of Eliyahu Comay were published in Il Nuovo Cimento (1984, 1995) which is a very respectable publication source. Most of the nobel prize winners published in this journal, including Gell-Mann (1969 nobel prize) Gross (2004 nobel prize) and many many others. The other important article, a very long review article about his theory was published in 2012 by the Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics. This is obviously not a fringe source.
By the way - all the sources in this topic are peer reviewed sources.
2. Someone who claims that he is not a physicist said that I changed two topics ("proton spin crisis" and "Vector Meson Dominance") in order to serve a purpose (which I do not understand). I can tell you what the purpose was. The purpose was to let wikipedia readers to know about these two important topics. Everyone, as I can see in the talk page, agree that these are highly important topics. Now, if you will look in the history of these two topics, you will see that: a) The "Vector Meson Dominance" topic included only one vague sentence before I edited the topic. I'm the one who made it understandable and readable. I think it was a big contribution to wikipedia readers. Don't you agree? b) The "proton spin crisis". This unsolved question is listed in wikipedia as one of the most important unsolved questions in physics. Before my edit, it was hidden as a short paragraph in another article about "nucleon spin structure". Don't you agree that this topic deserves much more than a short hidden paragraph?
Even if you believe that there are more problems, please un-delete the topic and let's communicate until all problems are solved. Thank you. Ofercomay ( talk) 07:03, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, I placed a request to change my username from sofeshue to FootballStatWhore. You commented that the last world in the new username is a unnecessarily profane. Actually Stat whore it is just an internet term to describe those fanatic with statistics (just like me...); it may have some pejorative notion, but is by no means a profane. Also, if you do a search of usernames, many of them contain "whore". So if I wish, I could simply create a new account FootballStatWhore. However, my old contributions under Sofeshue will not appear in the new one. That is why I want to change the current name instead of creating a new one. Please complete my request. Thanks. Sofeshue ( talk) 07:34, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to translate and review the notification that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages m:Rename practices and m:Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 13:06, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
You closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adil al-Jazeeri, as delete. This {{ afd}} was initiated by User:MSJapan. MSJapan used to never leave a heads-up on the talk page of the article creator. I am glad to see they now do so.
In this case MSJapan did leave the recommended heads-up on User talk:Sherurcij -- who left the project years earlier.
Sherurcij could be an excellent researcher. Much of his contributions date back to a time when the wikipedia's standards and policies were looser -- so, while he may have complied with the standards current when the articles were started, some of the articles he started don't measure up to today's standards. I believe that some of the articles Sherurcij started could be improved, with added references, so they did measure up to today's standards.
Therefore, would you temporarily userify the article, with its full history and talk page, to User:Geo Swan/Adil al-Jazeeri? If, after some web searches, I think it can't be brought up to our standards I will place a speedy deletion tag on it, within one week.
If I think there is an existing article it could be merged with, or redirected to, would you want to be advised, before I did that?
Thanks Geo Swan ( talk) 16:31, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm asking for your help because it seems like bureaucrats of en-wiki are acquainted with the future changes better than others. Here are my questions:
Faizan - Let's talk! 07:03, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
I wonder how many spambot monitoring systems are going to be tripped by this edit. Legoktm ( talk) 23:50, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
I have requested a name for changing my username. Please, change it. Thank you. Prashant talk 14:47, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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I've raised an issue at WP:AN#Bot.3F regarding what appears to be an unauthorized bot. Can you look and take any necessary action? Since I don't deal with bots regularly, I felt it was better to drop it there, but it hasn't gotten much attention. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 00:05, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Matthew, just a heads up in case you wish to comment based on your role as the closing admin in a previous iteration of this article in December 2012. The history is complex, and even as an admin, I had trouble sorting it out. Regards.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 19:14, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
There seems to be an SUL attached to this username. Could you remove it? There's no Wiki attached to it.— cyberpower ChatOnline 16:35, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, concerning my request to change my user name from Jaubouin to Storm2005 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple#Jaubouin_.E2.86.92_Storm2005) you said the name was already in use on fr.wikipedia: indeed, that's me there as well. I requested a name change there, which they did, only I thought they would change the name as well on every other wiki (since I thought I used a single user login), but for any reason they didn't (or couldn't?). I thought I should again ask for a name change on each platform... What should I do to change all "Jaubouin"'s on every wikipedia to Storm2005? If the answer is everytime "not possible because Storm2005 exists already on fr.wiki" that will be tricky for me... Regards. -- Jaubouin ( talk) 09:28, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
There are growing concerns that Amiram Goldblum is himself editing the article about him. He has two accounts: User:Rastiniak and User:רסטיניאק. Take a look at the this sockpuppet investigation. Also, read the following discussion. רסטיניאק has removed the POV tag from the article twice so far: 1 and 2. While I don't find this subject particularly interesting, I'm alarmed by the fact that Goldblum is fighting tooth and nail to get users who question the neutrality of his article to get blocked. I request you to help us determine whether the two accounts indeed belong to Goldblum. Nataev ( talk) 11:32, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
You approved a username change from Ramseymediaworks ( talk · contribs) to JoeRamsey417 ( talk · contribs) on May 2. At that time, all edits previously credited to the former name were re-credited to the latter name. I note today that RamseyMediaWorks is editing again. Should the former name be blocked as inappropriate, allowing the user to edit only under the latter name? WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 14:23, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
I invite you to strike your unwarranted threat to block an editor who requested a deletion review of this out-of-process closure. It is abundantly clear from the subsequent events that MZMcBride should not have substituted their judgement for that of the community by announcing a result to an AfD, which they started, less than four hours after it opened. WP:DRVPURPOSE is clear about the purpose of DRV; WP:Deletion process #Early closure is equally clear; and even the revised final outcome is a breach of normal process per WP:WITHDRAWN. Please review those guidelines and see if you can understand why it is perfectly proper for any editor to request a deletion review in the circumstances. If you don't agree with me, then I request you explain your administrative action in threatening a block for "an abuse of process" with reference to established policy showing what process was abused.
If, on reflection, you agree that any editor would be justified in requesting such a DRV, then you should withdraw your threat and perhaps even apologise to Andy. It is uncharacteristic of your usual good judgement to make a mistake like this, so please take my advice here in the spirit in which it was intended. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 17:39, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Your comments both here and on my talk page are idiotic and petulant. Please stop. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 23:00, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm more than happy to explain further now that I've gotten home.
First, look at Wikipedia:DELETE#Deletion_review. It says people should discuss first with the person who performed the action. As Regentspark noted in User_talk:MZMcBride#Dominic_McDevitt-Parks, Andy was not discussing it with MZM (or NYB). Andy was issuing demands for action, action that NYB warned him would be an abuse of process.
I didn't take into account Andy block log in warning him (at least to the extent he hadn't been blocked in the past for abuse of DRV), but I did take into account that he was an experienced user and that NYB had warned him it would be an abuse of process to file a DRV without discussing more. One of the signs of a violation listed at Wikipedia:DISRUPT#Signs_of_disruptive_editing is refusing to engage in consensus building. As NYB explained to Andy, he had not engaged NYB or MZM in a consensus building discussion, so to take it straight to DRV would be disruptive. Andy's response was not to resolve NYB's admonition, but rather to take it straight to DRV. That's not consensus building and is disruptive because it defeats the intent of having a person discuss a deletion before bringing it to DRV.
Now, if Andy had just happened into DRV without consulting MZM, that wouldn't necessarily be disruptive because he might not have realized he needed to discuss it first. But, given that NYB had told him it would be an abuse of process, to do so without resolving NYB's concerns is a problem. The flip side would be that if I had blocked Andy straight away, it could have been a bad block, but if I were to block Andy now while we're discussing it, it would also be a disruptive block because I'm doing so before fully engaging you on the issue. Another analogy would be that it if I was driving down an alley and clipped your car because it was too narrow, it might be a good faith mistake on my part, but if you were yelling at me as I entered the alley that it was too narrow for my car to fit and I kept going, it would be a different situation.
As to MZM being a pal of mine, yes, I've interacted with him to request technical reports, but he's never been particularly nice to me. Most of our interactions involve him making snide remarks about my competency or more generalized insults about my person. I believe I've now explained which policies I grounded my warning in. Can you explain why you think Andy is exempt from those policies? MBisanz talk 22:15, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
FWIW I was checking and the last time I can recall MZM and I being involved outside of requesting database reports was when he opposed me for steward. MBisanz talk 22:45, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi I'm new to this. Anyway, I was attending a conference on Africa and among many representative ambassador of different African countries was the ambassador at large of São Tomé &'Prinvipe Angelo Anttonio Toriello. During the conference then I googled his name just to see who was he as what he was stating was interesting, and among so many links I came across these links of deletion of his article which I think is incorrect, that's why I messaged you editors so you can check the person status on these link of the guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/the-report.
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Hi. Somebody could help to submit this note to the right administrators which have deleted Angelo Antonio Toriello article as their decision was not correct and as I'm new to this I don't know how to submit my request properly. Anyway, I was attending a conference on Africa and among many representative ambassador of different African countries was the ambassador at large of São Tomé &'Prinvipe Angelo Anttonio Toriello. During the conference then I googled his name just to see who was he as what he was stating was interesting, and among so many links I came across these links of deletion of his article which I think is incorrect, that's why I messaged you editors so you can check the person status on these link of the guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/the-report.
Hello, I am writing to request a review of the deletion of "Genealogical relationships of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom." This was a very interesting page, and I would like to see it restored on Wikipedia. In addition to the Paul Bloomfield citation, the Villiers information is also cited in George Malcolm Thomson's The Prime Ministers (1980). Thank you.
Very well. Would you perhaps be able to advise on the User who provided the extensive original research for the page? I'm writing a book for which their work has been helpful and would like to try to contact them, or at least to credit their work, if possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rclc ( talk • contribs) 16:55, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank-you for approving and making name change, much appreciated. FlatOut 01:38, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
A big problem has been created. I have forgotten my new created Pratyya's password but can remember the old name's password. So what'll I do. My most major wiki en wiki's been renamed to that account. So now if you can please revert the rename. Please you understand my situation. Help me. And answer me.-- Pratyya Ghosh ( talk) 13:54, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
for the move. Dan Murphy ( talk) 02:56, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
When renaming a user as part of the RTV process, is it preferable to supress the summary of the revision that moved the page from the former username to the vanished one? That becomes the only "link" that can be easily used and I could understand the logic behind suppressing it from public view, but I'm unsure if it is part of the procedure, so I won't touch it for the time being. Thanks for clarifying. :) · Salvidrim!· ✉ 04:42, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study. 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. -- Trevj ( talk) 09:22, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Matt. I wonder if I could quickly get your opinion on a user rename request? User:Queerboybait is currently requesting an unblock to change his name to User:Bitterqueer. I'm not sure which side of the fence to fall on with this - whilst an improvement, it still strikes me as somewhat antagonistic. I respect your opinion more than most when it comes to the username policy, so I was hoping you might be willing to offer your take on the proposed change. Cheers, Yunshui 雲 水 07:16, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello MBisanz as I do not know how to submit an article, I took sometime before to reply you because I have gone through all this ambassador at-large Angelo Antonio Toriello article for deletion case. I see many defaults in it from the author side and editors side. But of course in the end of the day it is you EXPERT editors whom got the monopoly of it and therefore the final decision.....so just nothing new. Final decision is always in the hands of who in one or another way holds and controls power, either at the small or big games level; it doesn't matter! So lets stop these crapping about wikipedia FREE encyclopaedia. Said that let me tel my points although it doesn't matter to you EXPERT editors. DrKlain user in the end has resulted to being too pathetic because personally involved rather to stick to the Wikipedia guidelines, although he has submitted some true questions which haven't been answer by none of you EXPERT editors. User WikiDan61 a certain point became discriminative without proper graphic expertise and a fair investigation (as DrKlain user was saying just by seating at home and browsing Internet as it is a bible where to find the absolute truth about someone or something) by accusing the ambassador to be a big hoax just because some flicker pictures on the net were edited and the same of self publishing them without any doubt as he holds evidences of what he is stating. WikiDan61 please provide evidences of such accusation because one thing is to preserve Wikipedia from crap contents and which I fully support it, and another thing is to ruthlessly keep accusing someone to be a hoax. I have graphic expertise and gone through the pictures you pointed photoshopped which portrays Toriello in 30s poses. About these you are right. But about all others pictures and videos in the net portraying the ambassador in his official meeting with some other personalities, you are absolutely wrong as there is not sign of altering effects, may be just light, contrast and colour adjustment filters. In regards of the self publishing, anyone of his entourage could have open an account or start a website, but that doesn't mean that Toriello is directly or personally doing it even though he is the founder of those, in the same way that although Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales doesn't mean that he is the responsible of its content. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us). Therefore you EXPERT editors try to be more neutral and respectful by sticking to your noble duties for contrasting rubbishness to preserve Wikipedia guidelines more than being ruddily judgemental as all the knowledge is in your hands. If some article doesn't much Wikipedia guidelines..... fine mate, delete it, but I don't see the reason of accusing people??? Who the hell are you people? Depository of truth or what? Anyway in the case of Toriello although the many inconsistencies there are few links which are an independent source of achievements and which you stubbornly refuse to accept them as genuine because of your prejudices towards the guy, rejecting all good about him but instead just demolishing those by stating: "I don't know how Toriello could manage to be published in some Indian webside with Sonia Gandhi, or on the APA news agency?" That's really discriminative mates!!!! WikiDan61 what about this link from The Guardian then? ( http://www.theguardian.co.uk/the-report) Even this is fake? I read that FreeRangeFrog user stated that the only fact that an independent and reliable source of achievements would have proved that Toriello was an ambassador at-large of São Tomé, that would have been enough to let the article be published as it was matching the Wikipedia notability's guidelines. Are not The Guardian and APA African news agency reliable enough? I know that you EXPERT users won't take in consideration points from people like me but I hope that at least you will neutrality take in evaluation these links and do justice to the guy as no matter of what I was there attending the conference and witnessed the status of his position among other people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.55.39.39 ( talk) 16:14, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello again MBisanz, though I don't agree with your decision to stick to your position about Angelo Antonio Toriello's deletion case, but I respect it, but i would like to highlight again the point that the guy circumstances have changed as there are at least 2 reliable sources for independent verification of achievements and notability according FreeRangeFrog user. Actually the guardian link itself is more than reliable to empower you EXPERT editors to revert back the decision in the same way you have implemented it. In fact, where are now WikiDan61, DrKlain, FreeRangeFrog? Why they don't comment on it? And where are some other EXPERT editors to cast their opinion and help to clear this case in neutral and unprejudiced manner? I understand that is not a easygoing case and in fact myself I would been skeptical if I was not there present at the conference where African ambassadors gathered together and Toriello was among them, but we are talking about the guardian here mates!! Anyway I don't have to convince anyone as the links itself confirm the status of the person, and though difficult for me I will try to seek review at your suggested link if no one will come to help. Pleas help me as well to contact the above users. Thanks mate! — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
31.55.2.80 (
talk) 13:12, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
MBisanz I tried to seek review of the Angelo Antonio Toriello article but it's to damn complex and moreover I don't have much information about the person. Could you or someone at least help to retrieve back the previous cancelled article so I could submit a new one or could DrKlain help to have it as he was the submitting user of the article? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.144.255.7 ( talk) 13:38, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Greetings, I'd like to ask you to consider undeleting the article Pat Zalewski. This article was the subject of an articles for deletion but the deletion was decided by including the vote of the now banned editor Quorty who has been shown to have been engaged in deleting articles on occult subjects simply on the basis of the nature of their content. See
[ Wild Hunt Blog] [ Llewellyn Blog]
I feel the Pat Zalewski article is a valuable article and that it meets the requirements for an acceptable article. Morgan Leigh | Talk 03:49, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm considering a banal rename to "Salvidrim!" and was wondering the impacts it might have on my SUL status (or anything else that may be of importance!). Can you offer any guidance? You're kind of the "rename expert" around here. :) · Salvidrim!· ✉ 06:58, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Matt, I contacted you a few weeks ago about Ramseymediaworks ( talk · contribs) (check User talk:MBisanz/Archive 17). He was a user who had been warned about his COI username, and had then requested and been granted a user name change (to JoeRamsey417 ( talk · contribs)), but then edited again under the old name. At that time (14 May) I gently warned him that he should no longer use the COI name. Today I see more edits under the COI name. I believe a block of the COI name is in order to remind him that he should really be using his new username. WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 15:46, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm having difficulties finding anyone to talk to about configuring an Opera range (or any range, for that matter) as a trusted XFF range. E-mails to xff@wikimedia.org go unacknowledged, as do messages at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:XFF_project. Any clues?— Kww( talk) 16:56, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48791 .— Kww( talk) 17:18, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hello there. You helped me out awhile back regarding some questions I had about the {{inacdis}} tag on the WP:DIAGRAM proposal which ended up being, er, stillborn (your Archive 17, entry 88). I had just one more question and then I will be out of your hair on this:
You stated: "The steps would be bring it up at WP:VPR to see if people agree we need a new policy/guideline. Then draft a new page, either on top of the old page or at a new title. Usually pages dealing with formatting/style go at WP:Manual of Style/X and pages dealing with behavior/content go at WP:X Policy. Then list it at WP:RFC and link it at WP:VPP to see if the community supports the new policy/guideline."
Which was exactly what I wanted to know (and for which I am very grateful). My question now is this: do I need to have a set of guidelines pre-generated and ready for community critique before I do any of this? Or can I begin the business by expressing a desire for the revival of a discussion and then see what sort of input/ response I get before drafting actual guidelines? I am hesitant to spend the considerable amount of time necessary to create some guidelines if it becomes clear that there won't be any chance of those guidelines coming to fruition (though I am totally prepared to do so if they are). But I also don't want to enter a discussion and then have someone ask me, "Well, where are your proposed guidelines?" and have nothing to show them. Bottom line: how far along do I need to be with the development of some guidelines before I put the idea of instating them to the Village Pump et al.? Please advise. Thanks! (Also: good luck with your administrator review— you certainly have my support, and please let me know if there is any venue in which I can express that support which will make any difference to anyone). KDS4444 Talk 22:08, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Do you know who indexes the journal Fibreculture?
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:15, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
The page for Peter Russell (Author) (born 5/7/1946) has been removed - /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Peter_Russell_%28author%29 - and I would like to request its reinstatement on the following grounds:
The books that were compared to Amazon's ratings - "The Brain Book" and "Creative Manager" - were not his bestselling books and would not be expected to by high on Amazon's list today. (Although, the Brain Book was a New Your Post bestseller in 1982.)
His more notable works are "The Global Brain" which sold 100,000 copies, translated into more than a dozen languages and in its time was recognized as a leader in its field. It is virtually out of print now, so again would not be reflected in current Amazon charts. He is generally recognized as having coined the term "global brain" in that book, which forecast many aspects of the coming Internet. His video on the subject won international acclaim and during the eighties (Pre-YouTube) days was a popular showing at events around he world.
"One known book in a field" is inaccurate. Of his nine published books,4 continue to get attention and praise in their respective fields. "The Global Brain" "From Science to God" "Waking Up in Time" "The TM Technique" (still selling after 40 years).
That his work is frequently quoted in other books, and on the web, in citations that reflect mostly respect rather than marketing should also be considered.
A search on Google generally brings his name up before any other person of the same name. Obviously his own home page is near the top since it has high Google rankings (which alone should say he is not insignificant), further down you will many many references to his work that are clearly not self-marketing.
This is a case of a writer who was significant ten or twenty years ago, not appearing quite so significant today particularly in rankings based on sales at the moment. But that should not be grounds for deletion. The same would apply to many deceased authors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elfrock ( talk • contribs) 16:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
I got all the local renames to "Salvidrim!" I wanted. Can you do the en.wiki one as soon as you have a moment? And are there any other needed steps for global rename other than logging in the new account and claiming the SUL? Cheers! :) · Salvidrim!· ✉ 02:22, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Matt. My biggest reservation about addshores RfB is your silence. Why? From what I can tell, he is fine. Are more bureaucrats in the BAG desirable? -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 12:43, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
It would seem to me that he's requested this name change to avoid implications involved with his involvements in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tang Dynasty and Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Senkaku Islands. Should those two cases' pages be amended to properly attribute the fact that he's changed his user name?— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 14:21, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
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We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 12:00, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
I think something messed up when you did the user rename from I Help When I Can back to IHelpWhenICan. I don't know if it was you or a bug in the MediaWiki software, but User:I Help When I Can (and the majority of its subpages) seem to be redirect loops. Just thought I'd notify you of this. Michaelm55 ( talk) 17:41, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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why did you delete the rendezvous tavern page. i first ate there in the 50. there is no doubt that the [;ace existed. Kipd ( talk) 20:17, 4 June 2013 (UTC) |
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rendezvous Tavern. MBisanz talk 02:10, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome message. 72.244.206.63 ( talk) 05:24, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Please check the new username User talk:KJones1989. He put a message saying he has trouble loging in. Maybe you can help him there? I do not know what it could be as I would assume the new name would use the same old password. -- Alexf (talk) 12:22, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi MBisanz - I'm both a long-time Wiki editor and also a contributor to a Facebook group page with content that regularly links to FB pages created from Wikipedia articles. I've been trying to find out how & how often those FB pages are updated to reflect the current content of the matching Wikipedia articles. There's no way to get answers from Facebook about things like this, but I did locate a discussion that you took part in here on Wiki back in 2010 that approved a request to allow a Facebook bot to carry out automated updates on a daily basis. So at this point what I want to know is whether that arrangement is still in effect, or has it been superseded by something else? If you don't happen to know, perhaps you could suggest who might be able to provide the answer. Thanks! Cgingold ( talk) 12:10, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
When are you next poping onto IRC? :) ·addshore· talk to me! 01:42, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, MBisanz, a pro-forma notice that your name came up on Administrator Noticeboard/Incidents. You are NOT the subject, but it concerns the events subsequent to your close of an AfD. Link here[
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Harej ( talk) 15:57, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Good evening! Seems every time I log on you have done a name change. I was just curious (if I'm even that far in the queue) what the next time you think you'll be on doing admin stuffs? Thanks EzPz ( talk) 04:13, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Per a request by User:BOZ on my talk page, I have restored the article and moved it to the incubator. Could you check to see if I have done this correctly, thanks. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 00:07, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Matt. Based on some recent discussions I have quickly drafted this. It is in no way definitive, but the effort is to keep it very simple and on track. If you have time, you are most welcome to weigh in and develop this further on its talk page or tweak the draft until such times if and when a collaborative effort can be moved to RfC space. Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:43, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey Matt. I'm interested in creating an article about a company but it appears the page name was salted as at some point there was spam on Wiki involving the company in question ( Checkmarx). Anyway, they recently received a good amount of press coverage and I believe they now have the relevancy they lacked when the page was originally created. I was pointed to you by Teahouse, so I would appreciate any help you could give.
Thanks! :D Neo12345292 ( talk) 08:02, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Sure. Below is the notification from the DRV page.
I request you to please rename my account as The One. I assure you that I will not bring any disgrace to new username and I will be very responsible, active and fruitful wikipedian. Thanks. neo ( talk) 08:05, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
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An editor has asked for a deletion review of Checkmarx. 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. Neo12345292 ( talk) 08:13, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Can the everyone user can remove the content from their user talk pages? -- Kolega2357 ( talk) 19:43, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hi MBisanz. Question about the username change you made here, which renamed "andrewjosephpr" to "philipgorrivan". The previous issue was that the user (presumably the Andrew Joseph PR firm, which is why I left the original talk page note here) had been creating promotional material at the now-deleted Philip Gorrivan article, so the new username is still promotional as well. In this new username still acceptable? Spencer T♦ C 18:29, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. I would very much appreciate it if you could spend ~2 minutes and take a short survey - a project trying to understand why the most active Wikipedia contributors (such as yourself) may reduce their activity, or retire. I sent you an email with details, if you did not get it please send me a wikiemail, so that I can send you an email with the survey questions. I would very much appreciate your cooperation, as you are among the most active Wikipedia editors who show a pattern of reduced activity, and thus your response would be extremely valuable. Thanks! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:47, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Matthew,
Sorry to bug you ... You renamed my user (at my request) as per:
User talk:GLComputing has been moved on 22 July 2013 by MBisanz, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:GLComputing for the current revision.
Editor's summary: Automatically moved page while renaming the user " GLComputing" to " GLC-Mike"
Some things that I've noticed weren't changed:
Is there a reason these didn't follow? Is there anything else that needs doing?
Thanks,
GLComputing ( talk) 18:05, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
And I can see, in the Preview, it shows GLComputing
— Preceding unsigned comment added by GLComputing ( talk • contribs) 18:13, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I wonder if you could give a second opinion on whether user:Previously_ScienceApologist has socked recently as, for example, user:Mj12hoaxwriter or user:Eliminatesoapboxing, as stated here.
Some relevant threads are here, here, and here. Cardamon ( talk) 23:26, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, I have activated the unified login feature recently. Unfortunately my nickname Thingol is already in use in the English Wikipedia by another user, who has been inactive for nearly three years. A bureaucrat from the French wikipedia renamed his main account there today, see this talk page. Is it possible to rename his account here now too? -- 80.187.103.51 ( talk) ( Thingol from the German Wikipedia) 20:28, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
You're listed as an active member of the Bot Approvals Group. I would like to draw your attention to the outstanding WP:BRFA requests (including requests that are specificly flagging as need BAG attention). Please take a few minutes out of your busy schedule and take a look at the open requests. Thank you Hasteur ( talk) 18:14, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, August 24 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
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AutomaticStrikeout ? 19:17, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Is it possible to usurp a global account with only 5 edits? If this is possible would it be only for the usurping of the Wikipedia account or is it possible to actually usurp the full global account. I asked to change my user name to what is now in my signature (first time using a sig) but it is a global account. It was suggested that you might know the aswers to some of this.-- Mark Miller Just ask! WER TEA DR/N 07:41, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey Matt (and/or relevant talk-page stalkers). I was thinking that a redirect to Wiktionary would be useful here—as with so many other online terms that aren't encyclopedically notable, but may be frequently searched for here—but I see you create-protected it a few years ago. Might I ask why? There's no explanation in the protection logs. Thanks. — PublicAmpers&( main account • talk • block) 21:19, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Wednesday, August 24 at our K Street office.
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We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 11:55, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Modesty, punctuality but above all equality is important aspects of the Danish way of life. Yes or no? I say yes. Some people think this is Dubious. Really? Culture of Denmark article Modesty, punctuality but above all equality is important aspects of the Danish way of life. [3] dubious – discuss Indeed, deliberate attempts to distinguish oneself from others may be viewed with hostility in line with the ironic autoconcept Jante's Law, respected by some as an unofficial code of Scandinavian conduct. Is it really? Say it with a song [18]... Hafspajen ( talk) 15:25, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Are you free on Saturday, September 14? If so, please join Wikimedia DC and local Wikipedians for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages are welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please visit the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 19:13, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 5 at our K Street office.
The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.
We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 15:12, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
My principal account is on French wikipedia, where I change my username from Christian COGNEAUX to Gtaf. I thought it would change effective on all my accounts, but this is not true : my watchlist on my English account Gtaf is empty. Would you help me please. Thanks a lot. Cordially. Gtaf ( talk) 15:32, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
You just completed a name change, did you notice that that user is ifdeffed as a sock? I think it makes more sense to keep the old name, as it provides a stronger relationship to the other puppets if appeals come up in the future. (And its a person's real name, so nobody other than the banned user should be using it). Gaijin42 ( talk) 14:27, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Left you some message, but is gone now. Hafspajen ( talk) 14:38, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
[23] I think the Danish don't know about it before they go abroad. Than they notice it. Hafspajen ( talk) 19:43, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I wanted to write a comment on the image of an icon of "Pope Miltiades" that's floating around Wikipedia and noticed that you deleted the talk page for that image. Before starting a new one I wanted to check with you -- was there a reason you deleted it and should that affect my starting a new discussion of it? I am fairly certain it is not actually an image of the Pope of that name but of another saint. Horatio325 ( talk) 08:48, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Please check Pooja Welling to see if it is a re-creation of the article that was deleted in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pooja Welling. If it was, consider speedy-deleting it. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 00:05, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Can you please have a look at this request? Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple#virgininfatuation_.E2.86.92_Vii007. Thanks -- VI-007 ( talk) 13:45, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
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Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 26 at our K Street office.
The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.
We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 06:09, 17 September 2013 (UTC) 22:24, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
22:24, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello! I hope you don't mind me bothering you. I've had a change username request open for 2 weeks now, and am quite eager to have it completed. I just looked through the page revision history, and noticed that you are one of the only users who has processed some requests recently. It's for that reason that I've singled you out, and am asking if you you'd be able to change my username? I'd be very grateful. Sorry for being impatient, but it's going sooo slowwwly! If it's unfair for me to jump the queue then fair enough, you can dismiss this, but I thought I'd be cheeky and ask. =) -- Lobo (talk) 12:44, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
I just had a quick question as to why my name at the top of the page still says my old username rather than the new one you changed it too? Also if that doesn't change where do I actually see the change? Also the change is not reflected in my signature either. -- Tyadasm2006 ( talk) 02:44, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
I may be impatient, but I want my user change to remove 123. I also want its user page to be protected like mine was, due to hostile reactions in the past(not here, yet) Thanks for understanding... -- Lesbiangirl123 ( talk) 08:17, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
I from china, my name is awint. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.62.82.187 ( talk) 20:31, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
This page still avoids deletion after all this time. Please do something. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Saint_Laurent — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.182.52.84 ( talk) 02:22, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
This user, whom you renamed today, may have been impersonated on Uncyclopedia. [24] I do not know how to interpret this. Spike-from-NH ( talk) 02:09, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz,
I "volunteered" you for choosing a new EC here. If you don't want to, you don't have to, obviously. If you not only don't want to, but also think it's a bad idea, feel free to comment there. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 15:52, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
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Would you please consider unprotecting the redirect " Frasier's Curse", which you protected some four years ago? Otherwise, would you please replace its content as follows:
#REDIRECT [[Frasier (season 6)#ep122]]
{{ER to list entry|Frasier}}
Thanks... — Cbbkr ( talk) 00:09, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello MBisanz, I'm not sure of the
SOP in this situation,
this request was answered by the user in the form of a second request (this time while logged in to their main account) My question is, do both requests remain ? (is one now considered a duplicate request ?) I'm leaning towards leaving both but, just thought I'd ask. Thanx in advance
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Mlpearc (
powwow) 15:58, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Nvrmnd
I see now. Cheers.
Mlpearc (
powwow) 03:48, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
I would like to request that the following article you deleted per WP:AFD be userified: Futz! I plan to improve the article and attempt to have it restored via WP:DRV.
Please note that I would like all of the deleted revisions of the article - and the corresponding talk page - to be userified (since I would like to have as much material to work with as possible) - not just the revisions that were deleted via WP:AFD. Dogmaticeclectic ( talk) 17:48, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for a special WikiSalon at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library's Digital Commons Center. We will gather at 3 PM on Sunday, October 13, 2013 to discuss an important topic: what can Wikipedia and the DC area do to help each other? We hope to hear your thoughts and suggestions; if you have an idea you would like to pursue, please let us know and we will help!
Following the WikiSalon, we will be having dinner at a nearby restaurant, Ella's Wood Fired Pizza.
If you're interested in attending, please sign up at the event page. We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 02:26, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
hello, MBisanz Thank you for changing my username, there seems to be a slight hiccup, and now both usernames JZimmerman (WMF) (old) and Jaredzimmerman (WMF) new are now active… Can we get rid of JZimmerman (WMF) completely? Jared Zimmerman ( talk) 20:13, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for accepting my name change!
I AM A BOX! OF APPLES! (
talk) 02:12, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I have requested for Change of Username using Usurpations from Mb-m → Mmitra. It's almost 8 days from the date of request but still it shows In progress, i would like to know how much time does it takes to complete the request and how long would it take to complete. Please reply as soon as possible. Thank You !
Link: Mb-m → Mmitra
-- Mb-m ( talk) 04:11, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I have requested for Change of Username using Usurpations from Virtualname → Programmer. But I got a failure. Would you please tell me all the steps to complete the name modification? Thank You! For your information
Virtualname ( talk) 13:32, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Please see the "Complex username-block situation - Senseltd and Wikikl" section at WP:AN; some days ago you helped by renaming an account that was blocked for a username violation, but the block and the rename and the reason for the block have combined to confuse the person using the account, and we've ended up with a situation that's downright confusing for everyone. As someone suggested at WP:AN, more renames (and block changing) would greatly improve the situation. Nyttend ( talk) 12:52, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
There is a suggestion on Wikipedia:Bot requests#New REFBot for a new REFBot working as DPL bot and BracketBot do. I beg politely for consideration. Please leave a comment if you wish. Maybe you could work on it like you did it with other projects? That would be fine. Thanks a lot in anticipation. -- Frze ( talk · contribs) 10:27, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I was referred here from the teahouse. I was wondering if I would be allowed to just start helping out at CHU (not actually renaming users, obviously, as I'm not a crat :)), or is there an approval process for CHU clerks. Thanks, -- Jakob ( Scream about the things I've broken) 01:27, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
You recently sent me an e-mail with the contents of one revision of the following deleted article: Futz!
However, I would now like to request that you make the deleted revisions visible. The reason is simple: if I'm going to take this to WP:DRV, I'm going to need every argument I can muster, so I would like them to be available before I start the process. (Also, deleted articles turned into redirects often have their old revisions left visible anyways.)
Additionally, if you do this, I would ask that you make all of the revisions of this article visible, not just the ones deleted most recently. Dogmaticeclectic ( talk) 08:26, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013
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News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY
Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions
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