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I've discussed a lot of things with User talk:Fritzpoll. Now the proposals have been made at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 22:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Mmm well I've been nominated many times in the past of course, just a week ago somebody said they would donate $100 to wikipedia if I was elected to the Wikimedia Board. But I;ve always tried to focus entirely on encyclopedic content at times but everybody knows certain tools would help me considerably. Occasionally I get frustrated with even basic tasks I can't perform e.g Category:Cities, towns and villages in Thailand half of the articles are unnecessary under (city). I tried to move them back to the plain names (the provincial equivalents are called ... Province anyway) but of course I was prevented from doing so. I think most people assume I'm an admin anyway. I must admit I'm a bit rusty on certain admin tools and procedures but nothing a bit of examination and homework wouldn't fix. I'll sleep on it ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 21:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
HI. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I am certain if I was made an admin I would try to ensure I set an exemplary standard to all. However much I have put into wikipedia, there are some editors I find disagreeable on here and they would have a field day of searching my full history to stop me. Given that I am highly passionate some people are extremely difficult to be patient with, particularly if they are preventing me from helping the site. It is a shame as all I ask for is some extra maintenance tools to make my work more efficient. I hope you or anybody else doesn't consider me a lesser editor because I won't accept. Best Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 11:37, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Best of luck with the election anyway. I'm sure you would be an excellent asset to wikimedia. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 11:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, apologies for not replying to your message sooner, I've been on a wikibreak for the past few weeks. The problem images never end, do they :p. I don't have much time to spare at the moment, but I'll fix what I can from AWeenieMan's lists. All the best, Bláthnaid 18:56, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Seriously – why did you just do that history merge? The betacommand threads were completely seperate – we don't merge threads like that. WP:AN/B isn't Betacommands personal complaints board, it was for dealing with his image related concenrs. His sock thread was completely seperate and your move was a very bad idea indeed. This isn't how we deal with AN subpages. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:35, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I sent you a Wikipedia email about a confidential matter. Did you receive it? Thanks. -- Abd ( talk) 01:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
First I thought I'd offer a thank you for being brave / foolish enough to put your hat in the ring as a candidate for election to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! - I wonder if you might have any time, interest, and enthusiasm to record a brief 10 / 15 minute audio interview about yourself / the reasons for your candidature / your wiki philosophy etc. etc. ? - I've been promoting a project on the english wikipedia called NotTheWikipediaWeekly – which is a grassroots effort to promote good communications through (semi) regular 'podcasts'.
If you have a couple of moments free, would you mind taking a look at this page and signing up if you're interested! It'd be great to chat with each and every one of you, and I hope you'll be amenable to this idea! Let me know if you've any questions at all, thought perhaps my english wikipedia talk page is the best spot.
The best of luck, and kind regards,
Privatemusings ( talk) 03:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Matt. You placed the block, and now there is a request at ANI to unblock. This editor's request for unblock was already declined at unblock-en-l on May 1st, but that might just have been a reflection of your earlier decision. EdJohnston ( talk) 21:51, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Uploading has begun. We are creating an entire directory of missing articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places. However the bot will need approval and I am concerned that few people are acknowledging the importance of it as nobody has posted on the Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot for days. Remember it was given a 100 article trial first? Well even that has not taken place yet because it needed to be flagged I think. Any thoughts on what to do? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 12:27, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Mmm according to Fritz it still needs to be flagged or something. Apparently a safety feature prevented him from adding an article to the mainspace although it permits him to use it in the workspace. Perhaps you could clear it up with him what the problem is? Thanks ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 19:49, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Ah 4 days. That may have been what the problem is. Well we'll have to see if it works. Thanks for the tip. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 19:51, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey MBisanz. I would like to thank you for your support in my RfA and the confidence expressed thereby. I appreciate your trust. :) Best wishes, — αἰτίας • discussion• 18:38, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Any one who has seen my work on wikipedia, i cordially invite you to attend My latest RFA which i will attend in a short time. Thankyou, cheers
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Here you go! BJ ( talk) 21:10, 24 May 2008 (UTC) |
My RFA is ready: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Bjaco18 BJ ( talk) 21:43, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia talk:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 May 8#restore. Thanks – Nabla ( talk) 00:28, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I think that David has pretty well agreed to Johns version so I urge yoo to include Johns version in your list so John wont feel slighted. Jpks version is also very close to what John has proposed as a compromise. I am hoping John will agree to the slight change that Jpk has made so we can continue to move forward. SI still has to weigh in but I do not see him posing much resistance. Anyway do what you think is best and thanks for your participation thus far, : Albion moonlight ( talk) 09:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. 09:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, now that's a walk down the memory lane. I had three noms: one above (rejected by me), second also rejected, and the third that passed. I do not know what's the policy on keeping old rejected RFA noms, and I don't really care. So please do with them whatever you see fit. And good luck in board elections! Renata ( talk) 21:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Matthew, thank you very much for your help and reference. I wish you all the best for your candidacy. 67.180.135.133 ( talk) 04:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)Lantana11 67.180.135.133 ( talk) 04:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
As you may know, you blocked me from editing. After some discussion with other admins, Jimbo and Arb Com, I have been unblocked and openly declared my sockpuppets. I firstly would like to smile and say thanks. It gave me time to think over my actions. Also, if I could, I would vote for you in the board of trustees election, because you are a great admin. Good Luck. SimpsonsFan08 talk Sign Here Please and take an Award 08:33, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I just want to remind you I've scheduled you to present about Wikipedia:Admin coaching at the meetup this Sunday, consistent with what we talked about before. Thanks.-- Pharos ( talk) 21:11, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
While I happen to agree with the closure's outcome, I don't know if you're OK with it closing in ~one day. Just wanted to give you a courtesy heads up. TravellingCari the Busy Bee 14:11, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ochota_massacre&diff=203321465&oldid=203319961
God, I hate the vandals like you. -- Captain Obvious and his crime-fighting dog ( talk) 19:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz: Firstly, thank you for supporting my RfA which closed today as successful; thanks for the questions as well. Secondly, thanks again for the Bot permission – I ran it this evening, and seems to have been 99% successful (there was a possible typo in one of the villages in the list which had been overlooked). Best wishes Fritzpoll ( talk) 20:01, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for asking. Please delete the adminship page for me. I appreciated the thought of the person who created it, but I am something of a lightning rod for cranks.-- Cberlet ( talk) 13:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks MBisanz! I'll be out during the morning (today, the 28th), but should get started on creating that page around 2:00 this afternoon. Thanks again, and good luck in being elected to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 07:23, May 28, 2008 (UTC)
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For keeping an eye on my talk page while I've been out, and protecting me from hordes of block evading socks, I hereby award User:MBisanz the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar along with some hearty thanks. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 23:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks for keeping an eye on things, I really do appreciate it. I don't know how often I'll get connections like this, but it's good to know the people who ignore or don't notice the vacation banner still get their questions answered (not that I am in any way asking anyone do it – if they go ignored, it's their own fault!). Thanks again, and good luck on the Board campaign once again (I probably will miss them, unfortunately). Hersfold non-admin( t/ a/ c) 23:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Harambee Hills is an important addition to WIKIPEDIA
And another thing, if you continue to omit Harambee Hills, you just may as well delete the whole listing of webcomics, cartoonists, everything related to webcomics, etc Oh, or does the Harambee Hills creator need to be a white, American and male to be includes on Wikipedia? User talk:Milesaurus
Listen this is an important article. I even edited down the characters listing. There are not many African-American cartoonists listed on the Wiki. Also, there are hundreds of Webcomics on the Wiki, New and Old! Are you stated that WIKI is only for White cartoonist? ((User talk:Milesaurus))
we might want to think about salting this due to repeated recreations.-- brew crewer (yada, yada) 19:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm disapointed you did not accept this editors good faith explanation that killing me was a sufficent reason to be un-blocked. Seemed perfectly reasonable IMHO.... :) Pedro : Chat 22:51, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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Please read the latest contribution to the Yarrow mediation page and take note of the question that is asked by me below. Hi everybody
I just noticed that the Yarrow article is no longer protected. I am quite willing to add Aletas version to it and ask that it be protected at the 1st sign of an edit war. I will not make this edit until I am certain that it is not a violation of the mediation process. If it is I will move to have the mediation proceess declared unresolved
Jpk now wants us to bring in new parties to the mediated discussion space. Is this allowed ? What about polling ? I am not giving up on the mediation process just yet. Arbitration and article bans may be the only real solution now but I am still willing to try and settle this dispute through mediation.
Please explain your reason for deleting the above image, thanks -- Chzz ► 05:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I really enjoyed it. I have to say, your photo with the tag reminds me so much of our badge tags when I lived/worked in Japan. Need to find one of those photos, it will make you chuckle I think. TravellingCari the Busy Bee 02:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I believe I have it enabled again. (It was years ago, and I thought it still was. I guess all the emails I've been getting recently have been via Commons.) Cheers, -- Infrogmation ( talk) 06:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I saw an ad for the election, and after reading over the profiles, I would like to vote for you, but it says that I am not qualified to vote. I believe I meet the criteria (see my userpage for stats) and am hoping you can either tell me whether I don't meet the criteria or who I can contact to find out. Best -- Eustress ( talk) 18:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
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For your participation in my recent RFA. Feel free to weigh in at my in-depth RFA analysis. There's also some templated RFA spam below for you ;>. best of luck in the board elections! xenocidic ( talk) 00:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
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admin coaching).
To my fellow admins – please let me know right away if I ever take any mis-steps with my new tools. Should I make a mistake, and you reverse the action, I will not consider it to be wheel-warring (but please tell me so I can understand what I did wrong).
To everyone – please feel free to slap me around a bit if I ever lose sight of the core philosophy of Wikipedia as I understand it – the advancement of knowledge through the processes of mutual understanding and respect. As always, feel free to drop by my talk page if I can be of any assistance. =)
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Since you've been the maintainer of this page, I'm pointing you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Wikipedia:Upload MBisanz talk 22:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
There are better ways of resolving problems with the BAG, such as WP:CENT. The current looks of the MFD is a 9-0 tally (excluding the nominators), and I would just speedy keep this one per WP:BOLD and WP:SNOW, but there are multiple requests on the page to let it run longer. Please let me know if you still object to it being closed early. Useight ( talk) 06:31, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I an not sure I am eligible to vote in the trustees election. Can you advise me as to how to find out one way or the other. Is ther a quick way to count ones edits ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Albion moonlight ( talk • contribs)
I've notched it down to semi for a couple (5ish) hours, I'll re-up before going to bed later. MBisanz talk 23:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, some random questions for you:
I don't necessarily want to open a can of worms, I'm mostly interested in the first two questions, so you can consider the rest optional. Thanks! Franamax ( talk) 23:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Your message seemed to contain typing errors that left me confused. Anyway I have until the 21st and I am sure you are very busy. I will copy the error message word for word at some point after I get a machine that uses windows. I share a computer and it has its own private server that I do not have access to. That has proven to be a source of difficulty pursuant to Wiki in the past and may be the problem now. : Albion moonlight ( talk) 23:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for handling the request on my talk page. Just so you know about the situation, I am planning a fairly busy schedule for my summer break. As has been the case for the past few months, I will sometimes have days when I am very active, while there will also be times like this week when I will be completely inactive or barely active for several days, or perhaps even more than a week.
I see you're doing great work as an administrator. Good luck with your run for the Wikimedia Board! Academic Challenger ( talk) 07:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Matthew – I got your note on my talk page. Don't worry about the effect your work has on those pages in my userspace – they're just a scratchpad. As a matter of fact, feel free to edit them as you will if you need to. I plan to go back and clean those up sometime soon; I was working on standardizing licenses between here and Commons, but I put that aside for a while because I'm working on something else (moving Flickr-sourced images to Commons where they're safe from license changes). With respect – Kelly hi! 13:40, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Good evening. I saw your recent comment about a developer who committed that Wikipedia will never purge deleted contributions. I was rather surprised to read that since I've heard several developers assert the opposite – that they always reserved the right to purge again if they felt it necessary. Admittedly, that was a few years ago now but it is a rather notable change of position, especially since it changes some of our starting assumptions about the processes we have built up around deletion. Since you spoke with the developer in person, do you think you could convince him/her to make that commitment publicly, perhaps at the Deletion policy page? More people should know about that change. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 00:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
I am working on a list of exactly what would need to be done to standardize non-free image license templates (basically, what it would be nice to see your bot do). Might be useful in getting an idea of how big a task we are talking about. - AWeenieMan ( talk) 18:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to be contacting several coaches on the status page who aren't "full" and suggesting coachees for them. I feel that it's time to revitalize coaching and start to work on the backlog of requests. If there's anything you think I should know, feel free to contact me. Malinaccier ( talk) 00:08, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I presented the best case I could. There's just so much paranoia regarding that page. I don't get it.
The Transhumanist 00:12, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Your last comment on the mediation page was very timely. There is a lot of reason to be hopeful now. Thanks for that. : Albion moonlight ( talk) 05:57, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I do not think that Skype could be usuable to " spread free culture" while it is censored. I suppose that you were joking. -- Snek01 ( talk) 12:52, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
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Is good evening to you, an Italian uuser, do I sustain your candidacy on Wikimedia, would you be so kind to be helped to translate me from English into Spanish the voice of my village? thanks -- Lodewijk Vadacchino ( talk) 12:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC) p.s. sorry my bad english-- Lodewijk Vadacchino ( talk) 12:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for the comment on my RFA. While I should have given a little more thought when I did those actions, I am happy you brought them up for me to learn form them. :) Thanks again. <3 Tinkleheimer TALK!! 19:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Template:Restricted use ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. MBisanz talk 05:27, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your swift and bold action here. Your work is appreciated. Watchdogb ( talk) 19:19, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Could you please explain what you meant by "add" in these two edit summaries, [1] and [2]? Thank you in advance, Aspects ( talk) 04:46, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
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This edit happened about a month ago, but I've only just discovered it. Your bot made this edit to User talk:203.14.53.45. I guess it thought that the template contained {{sig}} when it actually contained the parameter {{{sig}}}, hence the pair of opening and closing braces enclosing the substitution of Template:Sig. Is there any way to find other instances where the bot made this mistake and correct them? I couldn't find any with this Google search using text from Template:Anonblock. But then, there can't be too many non-proxy IP's that have had to be blocked for two years because of vandalism. I used to be on that IP address, and I like to check on how it's going from time to time. Graham 87 14:22, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
What was the bot trying to do in this edit? -- Carnildo ( talk) 06:06, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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User:Gmaxwell is a well-known Wikipedian. I assume he's the legit guy in question, as I know nothing about him, but I see his name around a lot. When I see an account that calls itself a sock of Gmaxwell, I think user/vandal that has an issue with him blowing some steam. User:Misza13 gets or got a lot of that. Basicly an account who's name says 'this is a sockpuppet' and doesn't show in the log as having been created by someone reputable should be a block on sight job. I would have appreciated some forewarning we might get something like that sprung on us out of the blue, but I'm not going to kick up a fuss about it. A misunderstanding occured and was undone, let's move on. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 21:56, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
As usual, someone tends to get to the block of a user before i do (idk why). This time it was you, on the revert and block on the user concerning the Palpadin High School page. Good job, and i hope you get the election.
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Yea, that's my fault for clicking on the wrong side of the "last" page to tackle vandalism. :-) -- MASEM 03:09, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you protected this image, but it's on Commons. The local description page should probably stay protected to prevent local uploads with that name, but I just wanted to let you know you didn't protect the image itself. Cheers, Rocket000 ( talk)
Thanks for your input. Of course, this meets the rules as i was renamed by a crat (like you said).
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[3] You can find the rest, I'm sure. Feel free to carry out your ban threat. After all, that's the normal escalation, isn't it: one warning, then a block, then one warning, then a ban? -- Blechnic ( talk) 07:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Here you go, here are the diffs, the last two edits I made, the last to the article, and the last to the article's talk page before MBisanz blocked me:
My last edit to the article was at 8:47 [5]
My last comment on the talk page,and last edit before the block, the edit that infuriated Mbisanz so much that it called for me being blocked with just a single warning was at 9:09: [6]
Mbisanz blocked me at 9:11 for an edit to a talk page discussing the article 09:11, 4 May 2008 MBisanz (Talk | contribs) blocked "Blechnic (Talk | contribs)" (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 48 hours (Disruptive editing
-- Blechnic ( talk) 08:20, 15 June 2008 (UTC))
I was blocked for discussing the article on the article's talk page after a single warning about putting tags on articles by MBisanz. -- Blechnic ( talk) 08:22, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
If you really want to settle this, you might consider stop trying to provoke me, and stop trying to establish every way you can that I'm a new editor and not worthy of your time. Which is precisely what your suggestion to recall sounds like. "Editor in good standing = 1,500+ edits, 6+ months experience, no blocks in last 6 months." You are not showing good faith in this, you are, instead, showing the desire and willingness to antagonize me, poorly justify your actions, and show other established editors that you can have a little fun. Why don't we not continue this on AN/I or anywhere, now that you've established that I'm not worthy of addressing you? -- Blechnic ( talk) 10:52, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
What I see here is a poster, not MBisanz, who posts in bold, in the midst of a long paragraph, "Don't take this as a threat," I guarantee, I have never in my life had to tell someone not to take something as a threat, so I won't be reading this page and the threats, and I will take it off my watch list. --preceding comment added by User:Blechnic note added by Abd ( talk) 13:53, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello Matthew, I am not sure if here is appropriate place to ask you this question, if you think is not, please just simply delete my question or move it to an appropriate place.
I would like to know if you become a board member, what action would you take to tackle troubles in cases such as this, where the sole bureaucrat in a less developed wikipedia, grossly abuses his bureaucrat privileges.
Many thanks -- Kaaveh ( talk) 08:00, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Matt, bearing in mind this comment a while back [7], I thought you might like to be aware that PIO's been openly editing over at Simple – see simple:Special:Contributions/Pio. Especially given that he's banned now rather than just indef blocked. Best, AlasdairGreen27 ( talk) 17:09, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
You have recently warned User:Oreo Priest that his edit of George Thomas Coker was defamatory and in violation of Wikipedia:Libel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Oreo_Priest&diff=prev&oldid=219881664 this diff]. Can you explain how the inclusion of the article subject's statements backed by reliably sourced references constitutes defamataion? Can you explain how your accusation of making defamatory statements does not itself violate WP:LEGAL? Alansohn ( talk) 22:58, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
I have recreated this as a redirect to Template:Meatpuppet2. I did this because a number of meatpuppets had this template transcluded on their userpage. Just wanted to give you a heads up, since you speedied the previous version. -- Dragon695 ( talk) 01:17, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
I realised that shortly after, thank you for the unblock. Sorry for any misunderstanding. Is there any way to delete my block log? I liked being clean. Best, Metagraph comment 09:07, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
It's a damn shame you couldn't present this as originally intended, which is quite sleek and simple. Still I think you gamely hit all the points in your talk, which went well. By the way, I have also posted this to Presentations at meta. Thanks.-- Pharos ( talk) 16:27, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
You're mentioned here. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 16:32, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Er, MBisanz...Carcharoth seems to think that my scary dino sock is the right admin for alarming all little users into meekly agreeing with whatever I suggest. Please see this note on my page, and my reply on ANI, whereby I have passed on the issue to you (hoping that makes you happy!). Bishonen | talk 19:24, 18 June 2008 (UTC).
May I ask what the reason was for protecting User talk:Alansohn? Does it harm anyone if he creates school articles while he is blocked? It might seem wrong, and maybe you are trying to enforce a break, but is it really going to help if it upsets him? Carcharoth ( talk) 17:46, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Not sure if you noticed, but after some fruitful discussion at WP:AE, Alansohn was unblocked. I'd also like to apologise for a comment I made earlier. Even if I didn't agree with your block, I can see now that it probably did help in the short term. I also struck through the comment and apologised here. Carcharoth ( talk) 01:29, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
You posted something about an unblock on my talk page. I think you got wrong guy. -- Pmsyyz ( talk) 03:31, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
You recently gave me a warning for adding "defamatory" content to the article. It was, however, perfectly well cited and verified in published media, and thus is not libel because it is true. Please explain what I have done wrong and why you have reverted it. - Oreo Priest talk 08:27, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm helping out as an uninvolved admin at the George Thomas Coker article. I noticed that you reverted the article a few days ago, citing BLP, but without making any corresponding comments at the talkpage. Since there is currently a discussion at talk, in an attempt to build consensus on what to include in the article, were you at all interested in participating? If so, your comments would be welcome, to ensure that the addition is a high-quality one, in accordance with Wikipedia's policies and best practices. Thanks, -- El on ka 04:29, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your note. That doesn't seem right. As you are more knowledgeable than I about this, can you please fix it for me? Badagnani ( talk) 16:47, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Before you dismiss me can you please look at the history of my editing and his? They speak for themselves. Look at the example I gave. It's very clear from it that he is undoing my work without even looking because his comment contradicts. It's very clear cut.-- Burrburr ( talk) 05:43, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello fellow Long Islander. I have a question regarding my Admin coach, User:Shyam. As per his contribs, he seems to have left, or be inactive. I'd like to proceed with coaching, and would like to know what I should do. Thank you so much, TheDJAtClubRock :-) ( T/ C) 01:16, 12 June 2008 (UTC).
Hey, if you you want to block me , fine! I retired anyway, you would be doing me a favour. I deserve it for the comments I made , but please look at the conduct of Fonze4mii. No one else would at his sockpuupet accusations! Jack forbes ( talk) 00:44, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, that page was not actually supposed to be seen by any of Board's candidate :D It just rank each's presentation and answers to match my thoughts, and turns out that you do. ^^ Thanks for coming, I wish you luck for the candidacy. REX ( talk) 02:07, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, sorry for not responding sooner; for some reason my talk page got a little crazy yesterday and I accidentally overlooked your message. I've taken a look at your proposals; the style and formatting is good, but I think the wording needs to be a bit less formal. I'd be happy to draft up some suggestions; would you prefer that I post proposed wordings on the talk page of the individual template, or at some other page where more eyes may see them and comment? I'm open to suggestion. Risker ( talk) 02:49, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi MB, maybe you can help here. User asserts ownership of a picture of the user. Other dumb editor (that's me) asks why he doesn't just confirm ownership through official channels. User asks dumb editor how to do that. Dumb editor stumbles over here for help (but promises to learn for next time). See here – your help is appreciated. Cheers! Franamax ( talk) 06:59, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I just thought you should see this. It might be removed if it was put there for the wrong reason. -- RyRy5 ( talk) 12:15, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
As long as you keep the time parameter (Actually, the desired results of such a merge could be accomplished by just getting rid of {{ vbc}} ... as far as I'm concerned every blocking template should have a time parameter). Daniel Case ( talk) 12:39, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Please see the series of diffs I have left there. I believe a block is in order for this user, gathering the vast amounts of personal attacks from the user.
Also, I would like to let you know the user is being nominated for sockpuppetery. Cheers, -- Fone 4 Me 08:35, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way you could make File:Imbox content.png an SVG or a larger, clearer PNG? Thanks. MBisanz talk 08:00, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I was in the process of doing it already, you can expect it soon, I hope. -- penubag ( talk) 22:17, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Can you explain the purpose of this addition? The template doesn't look like it belongs there, especially not <includeonly>ed... Chris Cunningham (not at work) – talk 10:15, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
I notice you've made several TFD nominations for template messages lately. A lot of them could have been better handled by just redirecting them to another, more suitable template if they have been superseded. Many folks remember the old template names and it's more effort to go find the template again if it's deleted than to just redirect it — and anyway, redirects are cheap. Stifle ( talk) 14:18, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
This user, who appears under different IPs, and refers to himself as "troll" (for other reasons), occurs at discussions on the UK pages. He/she recently left this, which I find very threatening, telling us that if we did not accept his/her decision, it would "end in tears". I wanted to know what course of action you suggest for this user, as this is the 2nd time he/she has reverted, after I replaced it there after another user put it there.
Perhaps a warning? ---- fone 4 me 17:07, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for "responding" to Kelly's message on my talk page, that is to protect her pages immediately. It's a pleasure to work with people like you who understand and take care of things when I am away!
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 18:25, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Probably not worth filing an SSP, though. link Enigma message 07:06, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Per the checkuser results above, should User:Jack forbes, User:Joe Deagan, and User:Boilerman be blocked for abusing multiple accounts, and continuing personal attacks using them? -- fone 4 me 19:51, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
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For beating me to the punch in updating the links to File:L'Oréal logo.svg so that the en-wiki version could be deleted, I hereby award you this barnstar. -- jonny- m t 05:26, 25 June 2008 (UTC) |
I wanted to write and ask you my questions regarding the template on your talk page because I figure they may be detailed and unecessary on the deletion page.
How is the template odd? Templates are simply used for transclusion, and I find it quite useful to have this message on hand rather than rewriting it.
What is the warning system and why or how would this template fit in it? This template currently is simply intended for me to be able to inform users of policy and practice. It is not intended as a warning or a disciplinary action. What's wrong with that?
Lastly, in regards to policy, if you check, Wikipedia:No personal attacks, you will find that personal headings directly contradict that policy: "Comment on content, not on the contributor". Hyacinth ( talk) 00:06, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for approving my bot. Is there a simple way to tell when the bot is flagged?-- Rockfang ( talk) 00:16, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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Can you provide input on this case: User talk:Rlevse#Documentingabuse 2, esp the usename issue? Thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:56, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. I've been running across a lot of templates that are clearly non-encyclopedic (like this, or this, or this, or this), none of which are userboxes and all of which are used exclusively in userspace. I've nominated a few at TfD, but rather than clog that up, I'd like to know if I can just be bold and move them into the user's pages. I've written a notify template here that I would subst/leave on each user's talk page. Let me know what you think. Thanks -- Thetrick ( talk) 20:52, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello MBisanz! How are you? I withdrew my nomination. Most editors who opposed my RfA expressed that I need to argue better in AfDs. I will take care about the concerns raised by them and apply again after sometime. Thanks for supporting my RfA and if you have any suggestion for me, feel free to contact me. Regards, Masterpiece2000 ( talk) 13:02, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I just saw that your campaign did not succeed. i apologize and hope that you continue to work hard. -- Meldshal42 (talk) 18:01, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Since my request at WP:BOTREQ has gone unanswered, I'm going to individual BAG people to ask if anyone can help create an archive bot for Wikipedia:Editor review. Your name was the first that came to mind.
Please see Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 21#Archive bot for Wikipedia:Editor review. If you can do this, wonderful! If not, please outsource this request to one of your colleagues. An archive bot for editor review will save hours of human effort over the long term, so a short investment of time now should pay off in the long run. Thank you. Yechiel ( Shalom) Editor review 20:42, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Sorry. I didn't read those sections. -- Gary0203 ( talk) 07:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for !voting on my RfA. If you supported, I'll make sure your confidence is not misplaced; if you opposed, I'll take your criticism into account and try to adjust my behavior accordingly.
See you around the wiki!-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 00:12, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
You know, you take a break from blocking people, decide to handle some unblocking requests, and unblock what seems to be a genuinely reformed vandal only to be thanked by this.
Thank you very much for the reblock. Damn kids >.< -- jonny- m t 09:39, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, MBisanz, for your support !vote at my RFA. I will be doing my best to make sure that your confidence has not been misplaced. -- lifebaka ( Talk – Contribs) 18:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Please stop. Giano's talk page isn't protected anymore, so your box is just confusing, especially with your signature describing someone else's action. Wikipedia is not going to fall apart if message boxes on a user page don't conform to some arbitrary format. It is not necessary. Risker ( talk) 21:49, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about the mix up with your name. . .I got confused (similar names, slow connection, and lots of ec's there at WMC's page). Just thought I'd leave a note here, and try to fix it there later. R. Baley ( talk) 22:51, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
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sorry if this is a rather dumb question, but what is the best (most productive) use of my 'User' page? -- JConoco ( talk) 08:43, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, - I know you meant well, but the last thing anybody should have done was to reward User:Stefanomione with a Barnstar for his Category edits, of all things. Aye aye aye! I don't know whether to laugh or scream. Please take a look at the comment I just left about that on his talk page -- and then note all of the CFDs for his ill-conceived categories. And be sure to see the very last note that I just left on his page -- a prime example of his handiwork. We'll be cleaning up his messes for months if not years... <sigh> Regards, Cgingold ( talk) 11:21, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Also, the template should be changed. It still says the next meetup is June 1. Enigma message 22:00, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the warm welcome!
-- DJBobHoskinsGoingMentalInADustbin ( talk) 01:56, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Just an update Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User: Exanimous. The user has again linked the image without an consensus which in terms is censoring an image. I would be happy for them to get an consensus and if that consensus is to have the image censored I would also be happy to follow the consensus but at the moment there is no consensus. Bidgee ( talk) 03:18, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
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There are many songs that Elvis Presley recorded, particularly from his movies, that were written by Bill Giant, Bernie Baum, and Florence Kaye. These three worked as a team to produce many popular songs and music for other artists as well. Unfortunately, many of the song credits for this team list Bill Giant as Bill Grant. There may have been a Bill Grant who wrote songs, but if so, he did not write with this trio.
Is there any way besides brute force to change these references? Thank you.
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Hi there, I put myself forwards for admin coaching a few days ago (don't worry this isn't a "You've not matched me yet why not!" message). I saw a mention of any editor moving a current request to the "older requests section" if they've not checked up for 6 weeks or older than six weeks, however I wasn't able to find such a section on the requests page or on the main potal. There's probably jyust something I've missed there but since there were quite a few depreceated requests I thought it might be worth asking to make sure? I've also left a message on the other co-ordinator's page so if either of you would like to reply, if you want to check on my talk page and respond there if necessary you might be able to save yourself a message.
Sorry I've I've missed something really obvious and wasted your time. BigHairRef | Talk 23:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
If you would like to start a draft at User:The Evil Spartan/RFA, I will certainly think about moving it into the mainspace. You also might like to have a word with User:Shalom and User:Maxim. However, I have the very ugly baggage of having withdrawn from an RFA once on commons, for reasons which I have no desire to get into now, but which I may have to address during the process. I think there is a quite hot chance it wouldn't pass, however like I said, I will certainly consider it. The Evil Spartan ( talk) 22:52, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you edited the editor review (took me a few minutes to figure out the correct coding :) I was wondering if you were going to comment? Dusti SPEAK!! 15:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I just saw that you blocked an IP for 24 hrs after twice pretty obviously putting some nasty vandalism onto Willie Mays. I applaud you!
Over the last few weeks, I have had a problem with one admin who takes a different view on vandals: Vandals must have four warnings .... 'warnings must increase in severity ..... I have been vandal busting for nearly a year, and never once had a problem until this one admin showed up. I reported a serial vandal after posting a second, third, and fourth warning while reverting back obvious vandalism, reported him to AIV. I got lectured on bad faith reporting since I stockpiled the warnings, and then immediately reported him to AIV. The editor got blocked while he was lecturing me, and he went and browbeat the blocking admin into rescinding the block. The editor then waited a few days and got himself an indef as a vandal only account. I have been following this admin, and see that he has this rigid interpretation of warnings and blocks, even though WP policy permits for vandals to be blocked earlier (as you did).
My question: is there a sound way to go about educating this admin? I don't want to report him as yet, but I got really offended when I got accused of bad faith for reporting obvious vandalism. Good day and thanks! LonelyBeacon ( talk) 22:27, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
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I was curious if it was appropriate to warn experienced users about WP:NPA? On a recent TfD discussion, it seemed like OwenX violated this in a clear fashion, and Ned Scott in a lesser fashion. However, it wasn't clear if you three were just old friends (I find it hard to believe strangers would communicate in this way). Would it be better to mention such things to uninvolved administrators?
In case you guys are old friends, you might want to make this clearer in the discussion, since it does create a bit of a chilling effect on the discussion. JackSchmidt ( talk) 19:40, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
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MBisanz, it is my honor to report that thanks in part to your support my third request for adminship passed (80/18/2). I appreciate the trust you and the WP community have in me, and I will endeovour to put my newly acquired mop and bucket to work for the community as a whole. Yours sincerly and respectfuly, TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:06, 9 July 2008 (UTC) |
Over on the Simple English Wikipedia, the user account Ælison vandalized three user pages with File:Bisanz9.jpg. I found it amusing, somewhat...is that the best shock image they've got? Either that or someone must like you a lot. Just thought I'd let you know. hbdragon88 ( talk) 04:56, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
— 151.200.237.53 ( talk · contribs) 00:04, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if you can say me how to put images in an article--Shabe0mac 01:11, 10 July 2008 (UTC)Shabe0mac
Hi Matt, just FYI, have a look at this simple:User talk:Cassandra#Request. Best, AlasdairGreen27 ( talk) 14:52, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Template:Asiir picture "passed" the deletion vote and is set to be deleted. Please do the bot magic you promised. :) Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 July 3#Template:Asiir picture. -- Woohookitty Woohoo! 06:48, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your support at my RFA – it has closed successfully, and I now have the buttons! I also appreciate that you supported despite my low edit count. Guilty as charged – I confess that I am not really a very good encyclopedia editor, but I do think I will be a good behind-the-scenes worker. If I ever show myself as otherwise, please let me know! Once again, thanks for your support. StephenBuxton ( talk) 23:03, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 June 19#Template:Blocknumbers was used to replace pages with dozens of final warnings (most not acted on) and different looking block boxes. Don't you think the template is better than the hodgepodge whack-a-mole user pages? -- Jeandré, 2008-07-13 t06:21z
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Just so you know, there's over 25,000 uncategorized templates as of the last time I could get a report out of Toolserver (though I've probably reduced that by several thousand). Tagging assorted entries on the specialpages list won't help much, especially since I am probably the only person that is patrolling the uncat. temp. category these days. Poke around my sandbox to see what I am doing on the issue. -- Thetrick ( talk) 03:25, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure what AWB can do, but here's what I'd like accomplished:
Now, the one hard part is that I have been hardcoding the sort part instead of using PAGENAME, e.g. [[Category:Musician fan user templates|Louder Than Love]] with "User " stripped out. This needs to be done otherwise everything will end up under "U". For the KIS templates, "User label" should be stripped out. Let me know if this looks doable. Thanks. -- Thetrick ( talk) 17:04, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Another template-related thing: your copy/config of Twinkle is using {{ db-t3}} wrong. It needs to include the time (five tildes) and preferably the name of another template. You can see the results here. I've been using G2 for test templates as that applies. -- Thetrick ( talk) 01:49, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
In the Talk:Etruscan coins there is a very interesting overview of the etruscan numismatics from Eckhel up to date. If User:Italo Vecchi is Italo Vecchi a scholar in ancient numismatics (and I suppose he is), the article may be just an overview of his last studies. I'm trying to "translate" in a better form the notes from a tipical specialized form into a "for all readable" form in my sandbox. BTW I'll traslate the whole in Italian and it will be the core of the article " it:Numismatica etrusca (Etruscan numismatics) apart fron Etruscan coins.
Here's some publication of Vecchi ( Search results) on American Numismatic Society data base.
Thank you for an answer.
I hope you will excuse my mistakes in your language.
-- Carlo Morino aka zi' Carlo 08:45, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
You are welcome to comment on the resurrected talk page. Wik idea 19:47, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I have not used those tools abusively, yes I have civility issues which is why i will never be an admin. Can you please give them back as i do need them, you have my word that they wont be abused. «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 03:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Since you've just made the page historical, can I suggest that you fully-protect the page? It'll prevent people from mistakenly posting requests there. Thanks! Acalamari 02:11, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
I saw you edited a warning made by someone (86.29.134.252) on my page. Just to clarify, you can look at the edit I made that 86.29.134.252 gave me a "last warning" for. It was a clearly accidental comma in the London article, which hardly constitutes vandalism. While I realize you had nothing to do with the warning, I just thought I'd let you know, lest you think I'm defying your administrative powers by reverting his "warning." I appreciate his hawkish stance on those truly attempting to disrupt Wikipedia, but I do not appreciate the sloppy inclusion of those making typoes as vandals, and maybe he--an unregistered user--deserves closer watch from admins, since he does not take the proper time to assess whether an edit is truly vandalism before he attempts to exert his "authority." CinnamonCinder ( talk) 02:33, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Ugh, I would be online doing it myself...but the computer I am currently at fails. Thanks, Tiptoety talk 02:55, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
MBisanz, I mentioned you in a posted on the Administrators' noticeboard, linked above. I hope that you do not mind and that you will participate in the discussion. - LA @ 08:02, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
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MBisanz, it is with deep awareness of the responsibility conferred by your trust that I am honored to report that in part to your support, my request for adminship passed (87/14/6). I deeply value the trust you and the Wikipedia community have in me, and I will embark on a new segment of my Wikipedia career by putting my new tools to work to benefit the entire community. My best to you, Happyme22 ( talk) 03:45, 16 July 2008 (UTC) |
Hey there MBisanz, myself and a few other users/CU's are a bit confused by this. Seeing as the case is currently a redlink, deleted for privacy reasons and placing the case on the RFCU mainpage... will...get you no where. Are you trying to request a checkuser? If so it may just be better to contact a checkuser via email. Cheers, Tiptoety talk 19:07, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Your "explanation", on my page, was pretty good, but not entirely accurate. Betacommand has three known accounts, Betacommand, Betacommandbot and Betacommand2. The account he was blocked for (for socking)
right here was none of the above, it was a totally different name. In particular, he went to the BOTS group and reverted Locker Cole, who he'd previously reverted under his name
as shown here. He got blocked for it and as an explanation stated that he was attempting to start over as a new user.
Starting over is fine, it's allowable, however, when one starts over, don't they normally also allow their old acoounts to vanish ala, right to vanish ? He didn't, he kept he previous three accounts opened. Wouldnt' that strike you as a bit odd, considering he wanted to start over ? Why not just invoke "right to vanish" and start over ?
In addition to this, he's edit-warred on the Bots group
see here, has edit warred and used incivil edit summaries, even though he's been warned not to do so
as seen here....and the list goes on. YES I know what he does is difficult and he takes a load of shit from people for doing it. However, that doesn't exempt him from following known policy, like Ignore and deny
or civil.
Bottom line here is, his hands are far from clean, and his latest attempt to keep his RFCU out of sight, in my opinion, is nothing more than
gaming the system.
Thank you.
btw – please be more
civil next time.
KoshVorlon
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KoshVorlon > rm -r WP:F.U.R 19:10, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
-- BorgQueen ( talk) 21:02, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Im just wondering why you removed my rollback rights earlier? Thanks «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 10:54, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
As you are an expert on image licencing you may be able to help us out. User-MZMcBride suggested your name. Some concerns have been raised on the image of Adi Shankara on the FAC nomination page of Anekantavada. Can you help to clear some air?-- Anish ( talk) 06:11, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
OK, I'm ready for the RFB. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:44, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
I thought once the candidate accepts the nomination, the election campaign starts from that time. I've also seen that an "admin" voted even before nominee accept the offer. The deletion is a bit harsh and i don't get it. I'm also hurt by such the treatment. I strongly urge that you revert yourself. I also did not find any description on article of RFA or RFB that "untranscluded election page does not accept votes. Even the RFA page of Shalm Yeichel's election had not been transcluded for more than 3 days because of some errors on his past RFAs, but I also people cast their votes during the time -- Caspian blue ( talk) 02:22, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Then fix the relevant page on the guideline and you would have been better telling me your worry before rudely deleting it. After it is transclued, you revert your edit. I would not do that. -- Caspian blue ( talk) 02:26, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
"Actually, I'd probably of blocked Gene Poole for that comment"... Probably have, not of. the 'of' comes from hearing the 've ending seen in would've could've should've, for example. But that's for have, not of. Number one grammar peeve. ThuranX ( talk) 05:47, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Do you think it should be shortened to extend to July 29th? Rudget ( logs) 10:18, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
You offered this user a {{ 2nd chance}}; he has written an article and asked for unblock based on that. At first glance it looks pretty good. My personal policy with 2nd chance, though, is to refer it back to the admin that offered it. So you might want to comment. Mango juice talk 14:49, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
would appreciate your input on the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Editing Restriction proposal, so it can be enacted or dismissed soon. Cheers – Ncmvocalist ( talk) 16:12, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Dear MBisanz
I have now tagged my images for Zero Time and Green (cover art for a Steve Hillage album). Did I do it right? Are they safe? I didn't quite understand that I needed to add additional informatio to that I already provided. I thought I had it all covered, but obviously not.
I intend to write a few more articles on record albums of note, so I presume I need to do the same in every case?
What about some books that I have (I have one evry old book dating from 1841 that I intend to write an article about, along with a photo I'll make myself. Would such an old book need a tag?
Anyway, I'm sure I'll get the hang of this in due course.
Yours sincerely
-- Michealomealoid ( talk) 21:37, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
I would like very much to be considered for admin coaching. Although I'm still newly registered, I've lurked for a while and I really enjoy wikipedia. I want to do as much as I can to improve the content of wikipedia and hope that you'll be able to help me achieve that goal. Please reply to me on my talk page. Thanks! Notepad47 ( talk) 04:18, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, about a month ago you changed a couple redirects for fair use templates (e.g. {{ promophoto}} and {{ fairusein}}) to soft redirects. This means they cannot be used as substitutes for the corresponding {{ Non-free promotional}} and {{ Non-free fair use in}} as they don't transclude properly. I was wondering what the reasoning was. I undid {{ promophoto}} a few days ago, assuming it to be an anomaly, however I just found {{ fairusein}}, and thought that i'd better ask you before i did something stupid. Thanks, Storkk ( talk) 10:16, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I need some help if you can. I wanted to upload an image of this videogame character ( Devil (Tekken)) but i can't find the right sources, if you could, write me on my talk page and give me some tips. Thanks, Ultron5000 ( talk) 16:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
So may I ask, if I could: you would still feel comfortable with a nomination, or have actions in the meantime caused you to question whether you would support me as a candidate? I will not feel at all hurt if you say the latter – I would prefer that than to drag you into an RFA that you don't wish to push. The Evil Spartan ( talk) 06:48, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I got a message letting me know that you wanted to speak to me, and that it should sound ominous, so I'm just dropping this note. How can I help? Gazi moff( mentor/ review) 12:38, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
...for running the check to verify that I am not, in fact, Lar. (Lar gave me a heads-up that you had done so.) I'm not sure why anyone would even think that. As others have pointed out, Lar is much more clueful. ;-) Kelly hi! 14:57, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for participating in my RfB! I am very grateful for the confidence of the community shown at my RfB, which passed by a count of 154/7/2 (95.65%). I have read every word of the RfB and taken it all to heart. I truly appreciate everyone's input: supports, opposes, neutrals, and comments. Of course, I plan to conduct my cratship in service of the community. If you have any advice, questions, concerns, or need help, please let me know. Again, Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 08:46, 29 July 2008 (UTC) |
FYI – That range doesn't hardblock me (not telling you this to take the piss but as far as I can see, all you've done is block the range for a large number of possible good faith editors). -- 87.114.36.65 ( talk) 18:49, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for mediating our discussion of the Peter Yarrow article. Who knows when resolution would have occurred had we not undertaken that process. So thank you very much, Aleta Sing 19:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Nichalp asked me to set this flag. Why does it need the flag when the bot has a flag? The bot is the same and yet needs a flag for each task though the bot name is the same? I don't get this. Pls explain. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:31, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
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This is from a rangeblock from a couple of days ago. Details at User talk:87.113.73.89.-- chaser – t 23:14, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Why have you blocked my IP address from editing? Mr A ( talk) 22:16, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
I have to log in to post these messages because my login is not blocked, just my IP when I am not logged in. But I would still like to know why you blocked me. Mr A ( talk) 20:49, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for participating. Your oppose vote was very reasonable, of course, considering my own admissions. Hope to see you around while working on WP! I have appreciated your contribs in the past. Mr. IP 《 Defender of Open Editing》 14:07, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi!MBisanz, I have substantially added text and also maps for the two towns in two different districts of Karnataka. You may like to wikify.-- Nvvchar ( talk) 16:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hello, I saw that you once protected this article, so i thought that I should ask you the following: Especially in the Arguments for continuity part, there are many false arguments, or some arguments has nothing to do with the article. First, one arguments is talking about that Saint Stephan, founder of the Hungarian state was a Romanian. It lists his ancestor and explains why was he Romanian. That part is totally false! I show you why (please the argument(s) to understand the following):
As you can see, this argument is totally false.
And now, let's go on other part of the article. These arguments have nothing to do with the origins of the Romanians, or again they are false.
I think that's all for now. As you can see, I don't want to delete the arguments with a reliable antique/early medieval source, or those ones with archaeological content. However, these listed ones look like they were added to make the arguments for the cont. part longer. They have nothing to do with the Romanian origin. Please delete them if you also think the same. XTiTan ( talk) 16:33, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for you answer. I'll try to contact him. XTiTan ( talk) 14:09, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Reinstate it now. Non-admins removing speedy tags is disallowed, and rollbackable. Sceptre ( talk) 14:59, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
At the same time, thirty days seems awfully punitive, especially for that one mistake. I'll be willing to wait a week, but not thirty days. Sceptre ( talk) 13:16, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't want to template you, but I must strongly urge you not to throw WP:POINT around at edits which are conducted in good faith. Sceptre ( talk) 01:17, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Matthew. Why did you block my ip address a few days ago. it was un-necessary and has confused me greatly. it am a law-abiding citizen and in future, come direct to me if you have a complaint. you are completely abusing your right to use wikipedia. you can't go round randomly blocking people. i see you are getting a reputation on this site for un lawfully blocking fellow wikipedians. thankyou, and i look forward to a reply on this site very soon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.54.111 ( talk) 11:47, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
What the hell do you think you're doing applying a block to me?!
Kindly read my profile page, and sort your attitude out.
I am a long-serving wikipedian, and I know the rules back to front.
I do not engage in vandalism, and I absolutely object to you applying a block to my IP address – especially without even bothering to contact me.
This is a clear abuse of powers; and not in the spirit of Wikipedia (go to my page to learn more).
Unblock now; I don't want to have to make something of this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Macdaddy ( talk • contribs) 17:47, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
(replied on my talk page. – AB C D ✉ 21:49, 10 August 2008 (UTC))
Just to let you know, I'm still working on a proposal on evolving Admin Coaching, and hope to ahve it ready for perusal in the next few days Hope this helps, Gazi moff 12:49, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Just a little note to say thankyou for participating in my successful RFA candidacy, which passed with 96 supports, 0 opposes, and 1 neutral. I am pleasantly taken aback by the amount of support for me to contribute in an administrative role and look forward to demonstrating that such faith is well placed. Regards, WilliamH ( talk) 10:28, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
I recently posted about this event, which is unique considering the items on the list people were willing to produce to win. I was in the process of gathering items to add to the post, but it has already been deleted. Since this event sold out in the first year, I think it was worthy considering it donated to a charitable cause as well. Please remove the deletion so that I can add additional information to this post and give it the credibility Wikipedia requires. I am fairly new to this, so please bear with me as I update that page.
Thanks for your time. -- 72.65.9.206 ( talk) 17:06, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. What sort of items do I need to make this event notable, such as some of the other Scavenger Hunts? -- 69.95.150.86 ( talk) 18:35, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Your ears are burning: Template talk:Usage of IPA templates#move back to Help space? — Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 21:34, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
I've taken this article from this to this, in preps for filing it for FAC. I could you some help now with:
Any help is greatly appreciated. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:49, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
It looks to me like there is no consensus on WP:AN/I for an indefinite block of User:Peter Damian. Accordingly, I'm requesting that you unblock him. I'd prefer that you do it yourself so that we don't have even an intimation of wheel warring going on. Thanks. Nandesuka ( talk) 16:39, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks very much for bringing the block to WP:AN. You did the right thing, and I appreciate your responsible action. Even if we disagreed on the original block, I have no doubt that you are acting in good faith. Nandesuka ( talk) 18:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi. Is there any way you can semi protect my talk page? The same guy who was attacking my user page has been de-archiving the page. Thank you for any help. Libro0 ( talk) 18:09, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi MB, when you have a moment care to have a gander here? The edits are vaguely making me feel our Nothing buddy, but I can't confirm it. You also worked more closely with him. I could be far off base but wanted your input. Hope all is going well in your world. TravellingCari 17:45, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you look at this: [11], User talk:Dreadstar#Re-Breast talk, [12], [13], User talk:AGK#Please Tell Dreadstar to back off.
I need a neutral admin input. Thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:25, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the questions. Just to be clear, are you looking for a succession of one-word answers in Q8, or is one word answer, followed by justification OK? -- Dweller ( talk) 11:58, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Silkroad Online ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) ( restore | cache | AfD)
Per your protection log note, I'm requesting unsalting (or undeletion, if necessary due to the huge # of prior edits) of the Silkroad Online article at DRV. I've got a new stub in my userspace ( User:Matt Fitzpatrick/Silkroad Online) that I think would be a good (re)start. Matt Fitzpatrick ( talk) 20:17, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Unfortunately we have come across a deletionist who seemingly intends to try to delete all of adequate fair use images that we have on wikipedia. For instance File:Yone Minagawa.jpg etc etc. Fully complies with fairuse and it is potentially destructive for this editor to be nominating mass images in this way. I;ve uploaded thousands of images to wikipedia only if they fully comply with general wikipedia policy on irresplaceable imahes and am not going to tolerate having my images drilled at me like is being done.
For instance he has nominated the image in Soe Win because it is non notable? Can you believe this is his criteria? The Bald One White cat 14:43, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
You seem to be basing a large number of your deletion criteria on the fact an image comes from a news agency, and therefore harms their economic interests. However, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a news agency, we tag our non-free images as such, therefore, per NFCC 2 "Non-free content is not used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." our coverage, in and of itself, will not replace the original new agency's market. To this end we limit the number of images per page and require low resolution images, as well as the whole NFCC tagging and categorization scheme. I really would prefer you took this interpretation up at WT:NFCC than continuing to tag compliant images. MBisanz talk 14:56, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
If your're still unsure? Do you have to be so patronizing? You;ve already tried to make out that some of our most established users including Bisanz, User:Maxim, J Milburn and myself are clueless about what images are acceptable when we all have a lot of experience with dealing with such issues on wikipedia. The Bald One White cat 15:09, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Bisanz if I am going to have messages drilled at me everytime I log in because somebody disagrees with the rationale I am in for one hell of a future on here because I have uploaded thousands upon thousands of similar images and I am going to get it all thrown back at me and have my talk page spammed with them. I am very concerned about this and I don't want to have to waste all my time on here defending images when I could be getting on with what I do. It is disruptive and not helpful to wikipedia and basically I am going to be punished big time by being drilled images for deletion for trying to help wikipedia,, The Bald One White cat 19:02, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
The worrying thing is that there are other deletionist editors spurring him on and "very much encouraging" him to delete content. We've seen the images for deletion page completely swamped today to almost record levels, jumping on the band wagon. He is going to make an awful lot of editors unhappy in doing so, particularly those images which have a full rationale which the uploader has spent time adding. Once again there seems to be a different perception of fair use criteria in that in one piece of rationale it clearly is valid and in others it makes it look invalid. If he continues to swamp the images for deletion pages then I will certainyl be reporting him. There is a difference between good faith intentions, and a mass nuke attempt of images which are currently being used of encyclopedic purposes on wikipedia. In my view such a course of action does nothing to improve wikipedias content and is not constructive. I'm sure there are many images which don't qualify for fair use on here, but I for sure am not prepared to see such images as those politicians and deceased bio images deleted. Its put me off editing today to be honest in that you never know what will come of your work and time you put into wikipedia if people invent ways and justify deleting it. The Bald One White cat 21:16, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
It would help certainly but the changing of image policies on here and the difference in views on what is fairuse is undoubtedly an ongoing struggle on here which is one of the most demanding I;ve faced on here. Similarly, limited use of screenshots of films were permitted for identification of a key scene in a film and to illustrate its content but now there is a major effort to remove these images because now images are only permitted to critically analyse a film in a production section not in the actual film contents. I can sort of see why some people might think they are doing the God of Fair Use Imagery's goodwork by removing them, vbt it is kind of a frustrating one that these people aren't spending their time filling out stubs and building the encyclopedia constructively instead. Some images you can see should be deleted a mile off, but it is the ones where there is a clear divide on their acceptability, which if this news agency policy is used as an excuse to delete then we are going to lose a dreadful amount of irreplaceable content, whicb will be a further blow. The Bald One White cat 21:39, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
During the first block (my first) and 1/2 The admins wanted me to admit wrong doing before even attempting to listen to me. When they did ask for evidence of others wrong doing they ignored it and told me i was pushing the blame on others. Wasting my time making me look for something they could have looked for themselves. it takes 2+ to edit was and usually 2+ to be uncivil.
It just seems to me that Rlevse and Dreadstar are/were protecting the editors on the breast article who have been there a lot longer then me, and have worked with the two or at least Dreadstar who worked with Rlevse.
I hate digging up a dead horse. beating it or being the one that killed it, but during the first dispute Dreadstar focused on me not indenting on the talk page, "Being uncivil" and edit waring with multiple users.
Yes i edit wared with the lead and possibly the removal of images in the gallery, but these things seem so small yet these editors make a big deal out of it.
I might have got a tone here and there, but getting called this and that (WP:TEND) and being accused of censorship and sexualizing images would rub anyone wrong and put a little venom in them.
But i get zeroed in on by Dreadstar who left the others alone, didn't even ask them a question or comment on their talk page that they might be responsible for something.
Do you know how many images were in the gallery on the breast article when I first arrived? 57 images, and I removed 8 of them. Asher196 reverted it every time and after the second time claimed it was to big of a change and would need consensus. You might be able to see why I accused these editors of WP:OWN. I mean to make a fuss over 8/57 images and a picture of some guy's gal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=prev&oldid=228949811 my removal of the images in the gallery
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=228949811 Asher196's revert
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=228950202 My second removal of these image
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=228952105 The second revert from Asher196 with a comment asking me not to make "major changes without consensus"
That was one anchor that got attached to my foot when it came to that article. I mean honestly was 8/57 images so horrible or unreasonable to remove? I know i sound like a broken record or something but why was i the only one being focused on in the charge of edit warring?
I mean Dreadstar must have posted 50+ diffs showing some kind of crime i committed, yet he wouldn't even attempt to look for the diffs, which were easier to find back then, that showed Asher's edit waring with me.
Am i so wrong in asking that if a person can take the time to get those diffs against one person, that they can look for some more?
Then I am the only one who gets a noose around my neck when it came to the gallery again.
Asher196 hid the gallery to keep the stretching down. I mean loading 57 images causes the scroll bar to jump around like an idiot. Well here comes Atom to revert it saying it was broke.
I thought it was a honest mistake and i corrected him and told him it wasn't broke but programed to hid to help in navigation of the article. He reverts it again, this time claiming censorship.
I revert his revert and assure him its not censorship.
Well i guess because i reverted twice i am in a edit war? He reverted 3 times. once Asher's edit twice my own.
Asher196 hiding the gallery http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=229168263&oldid=229167936 http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229168263 http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229169608
Atom's Reverting it http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229169608
Me correcting him http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229329371
Atom reverting it a 2nd time, this time using the censor card 2RR http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229373351
Me correcting him a second time might be considered 2RR but that's a case by case thing I guess. http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229633092
I gave Dreadstar all this info, and he still focused on me not indenting, and edit warring. Gave me the old speech "You're responsible for your own actions" That is when i accused him of being bias. I had seen his presence on that article and its talk page, discussing the topic and how to improve it with the others. I felt he was to involved and as far as i knew or still know he could have been friends with Asher196 and Atom.
Well after that little episode of calling Dreadstar bias, Rlevse came into my life. He protected the article which i had no problem at all with. He said take the time to discuss it with the other editors, which is did.
I continued to discuss the lede and gallery with my peers on that article, but somehow and i still don't 100% get how, i got blocked for breaking consensus and edit warring.
Now what was the point of blocking me for edit warring when the article was protected? Also how exactly can i go against consensus with in a article that is blocked?
I get accused of calling a fellow editor a liar, and both me and the editor i was accused of calling a liar told both Dreadstar and Rlevse that it wasn't the case.
I got accused of calling a fellow editor (Atom) disruptive. I had made a survey and he called me making it disruptive. I told him plain as day him saying that was disruptive.
I'm sorry if this seemed like a rant but do you see where i'm coming from?
Am i wrong for accusing the editors on that article of WP:OWN? Or being WP:TEND?
I accused Atom of both because he has said things like "I just want to block you from editing and hurting the article." and a combination of OWN and TEND when he says things like "I only suggest not an illustration because I don't think that it will be acceptable by a consensus as the lede, even though it could gain some support. If you choose not to do that then I will follow up with a new lede proposal so that we can get closure."
If you want i will look for those diffs but its easier to copy past then thumb through the history.
Maybe you can see now why i distrust Dreadstar and Rlevse and wish that they not contact me or get involved with me.
I just thought you should know that little bit of drama in the last month. Keep up the good work cheers. Yami ( talk) 02:58, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the nice things you wrote about me on the RfB. My take on dispute resolution is as follows. There's no consensus for the Crats as a team to act in this way. However, many of them are skilled as individuals. I'd humbly say that I have some abilities in this area; as well as the Copa del Rey example listed in the RfB, and a host of little niggles I've solved that aren't worth listing, I've been working on a formal Mediation (currently stalled) on Contras. But I come back to my discomfort over using the Crats as a group. If consensus were that they should have a role, I'd happily go along with it. But I could only interpret the question in the light of current consensus and policy, which I did. Anyway, I owe you a debt of gratitude for that horrendous Q8: I no longer have any reservations at all about whether I can make a good Crat; I know I can do a good job if given the chance, even if not everyone will agree with my decisions. -- Dweller ( talk) 13:40, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
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I've discussed a lot of things with User talk:Fritzpoll. Now the proposals have been made at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 22:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Mmm well I've been nominated many times in the past of course, just a week ago somebody said they would donate $100 to wikipedia if I was elected to the Wikimedia Board. But I;ve always tried to focus entirely on encyclopedic content at times but everybody knows certain tools would help me considerably. Occasionally I get frustrated with even basic tasks I can't perform e.g Category:Cities, towns and villages in Thailand half of the articles are unnecessary under (city). I tried to move them back to the plain names (the provincial equivalents are called ... Province anyway) but of course I was prevented from doing so. I think most people assume I'm an admin anyway. I must admit I'm a bit rusty on certain admin tools and procedures but nothing a bit of examination and homework wouldn't fix. I'll sleep on it ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 21:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
HI. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I am certain if I was made an admin I would try to ensure I set an exemplary standard to all. However much I have put into wikipedia, there are some editors I find disagreeable on here and they would have a field day of searching my full history to stop me. Given that I am highly passionate some people are extremely difficult to be patient with, particularly if they are preventing me from helping the site. It is a shame as all I ask for is some extra maintenance tools to make my work more efficient. I hope you or anybody else doesn't consider me a lesser editor because I won't accept. Best Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 11:37, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Best of luck with the election anyway. I'm sure you would be an excellent asset to wikimedia. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 11:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, apologies for not replying to your message sooner, I've been on a wikibreak for the past few weeks. The problem images never end, do they :p. I don't have much time to spare at the moment, but I'll fix what I can from AWeenieMan's lists. All the best, Bláthnaid 18:56, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Seriously – why did you just do that history merge? The betacommand threads were completely seperate – we don't merge threads like that. WP:AN/B isn't Betacommands personal complaints board, it was for dealing with his image related concenrs. His sock thread was completely seperate and your move was a very bad idea indeed. This isn't how we deal with AN subpages. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:35, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I sent you a Wikipedia email about a confidential matter. Did you receive it? Thanks. -- Abd ( talk) 01:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
First I thought I'd offer a thank you for being brave / foolish enough to put your hat in the ring as a candidate for election to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! - I wonder if you might have any time, interest, and enthusiasm to record a brief 10 / 15 minute audio interview about yourself / the reasons for your candidature / your wiki philosophy etc. etc. ? - I've been promoting a project on the english wikipedia called NotTheWikipediaWeekly – which is a grassroots effort to promote good communications through (semi) regular 'podcasts'.
If you have a couple of moments free, would you mind taking a look at this page and signing up if you're interested! It'd be great to chat with each and every one of you, and I hope you'll be amenable to this idea! Let me know if you've any questions at all, thought perhaps my english wikipedia talk page is the best spot.
The best of luck, and kind regards,
Privatemusings ( talk) 03:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Matt. You placed the block, and now there is a request at ANI to unblock. This editor's request for unblock was already declined at unblock-en-l on May 1st, but that might just have been a reflection of your earlier decision. EdJohnston ( talk) 21:51, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Uploading has begun. We are creating an entire directory of missing articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places. However the bot will need approval and I am concerned that few people are acknowledging the importance of it as nobody has posted on the Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot for days. Remember it was given a 100 article trial first? Well even that has not taken place yet because it needed to be flagged I think. Any thoughts on what to do? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 12:27, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Mmm according to Fritz it still needs to be flagged or something. Apparently a safety feature prevented him from adding an article to the mainspace although it permits him to use it in the workspace. Perhaps you could clear it up with him what the problem is? Thanks ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 19:49, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Ah 4 days. That may have been what the problem is. Well we'll have to see if it works. Thanks for the tip. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 19:51, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey MBisanz. I would like to thank you for your support in my RfA and the confidence expressed thereby. I appreciate your trust. :) Best wishes, — αἰτίας • discussion• 18:38, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Any one who has seen my work on wikipedia, i cordially invite you to attend My latest RFA which i will attend in a short time. Thankyou, cheers
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My RFA is ready: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Bjaco18 BJ ( talk) 21:43, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia talk:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 May 8#restore. Thanks – Nabla ( talk) 00:28, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I think that David has pretty well agreed to Johns version so I urge yoo to include Johns version in your list so John wont feel slighted. Jpks version is also very close to what John has proposed as a compromise. I am hoping John will agree to the slight change that Jpk has made so we can continue to move forward. SI still has to weigh in but I do not see him posing much resistance. Anyway do what you think is best and thanks for your participation thus far, : Albion moonlight ( talk) 09:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. 09:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, now that's a walk down the memory lane. I had three noms: one above (rejected by me), second also rejected, and the third that passed. I do not know what's the policy on keeping old rejected RFA noms, and I don't really care. So please do with them whatever you see fit. And good luck in board elections! Renata ( talk) 21:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Matthew, thank you very much for your help and reference. I wish you all the best for your candidacy. 67.180.135.133 ( talk) 04:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)Lantana11 67.180.135.133 ( talk) 04:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
As you may know, you blocked me from editing. After some discussion with other admins, Jimbo and Arb Com, I have been unblocked and openly declared my sockpuppets. I firstly would like to smile and say thanks. It gave me time to think over my actions. Also, if I could, I would vote for you in the board of trustees election, because you are a great admin. Good Luck. SimpsonsFan08 talk Sign Here Please and take an Award 08:33, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I just want to remind you I've scheduled you to present about Wikipedia:Admin coaching at the meetup this Sunday, consistent with what we talked about before. Thanks.-- Pharos ( talk) 21:11, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
While I happen to agree with the closure's outcome, I don't know if you're OK with it closing in ~one day. Just wanted to give you a courtesy heads up. TravellingCari the Busy Bee 14:11, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ochota_massacre&diff=203321465&oldid=203319961
God, I hate the vandals like you. -- Captain Obvious and his crime-fighting dog ( talk) 19:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz: Firstly, thank you for supporting my RfA which closed today as successful; thanks for the questions as well. Secondly, thanks again for the Bot permission – I ran it this evening, and seems to have been 99% successful (there was a possible typo in one of the villages in the list which had been overlooked). Best wishes Fritzpoll ( talk) 20:01, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for asking. Please delete the adminship page for me. I appreciated the thought of the person who created it, but I am something of a lightning rod for cranks.-- Cberlet ( talk) 13:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks MBisanz! I'll be out during the morning (today, the 28th), but should get started on creating that page around 2:00 this afternoon. Thanks again, and good luck in being elected to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 07:23, May 28, 2008 (UTC)
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For keeping an eye on my talk page while I've been out, and protecting me from hordes of block evading socks, I hereby award User:MBisanz the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar along with some hearty thanks. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 23:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks for keeping an eye on things, I really do appreciate it. I don't know how often I'll get connections like this, but it's good to know the people who ignore or don't notice the vacation banner still get their questions answered (not that I am in any way asking anyone do it – if they go ignored, it's their own fault!). Thanks again, and good luck on the Board campaign once again (I probably will miss them, unfortunately). Hersfold non-admin( t/ a/ c) 23:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Harambee Hills is an important addition to WIKIPEDIA
And another thing, if you continue to omit Harambee Hills, you just may as well delete the whole listing of webcomics, cartoonists, everything related to webcomics, etc Oh, or does the Harambee Hills creator need to be a white, American and male to be includes on Wikipedia? User talk:Milesaurus
Listen this is an important article. I even edited down the characters listing. There are not many African-American cartoonists listed on the Wiki. Also, there are hundreds of Webcomics on the Wiki, New and Old! Are you stated that WIKI is only for White cartoonist? ((User talk:Milesaurus))
we might want to think about salting this due to repeated recreations.-- brew crewer (yada, yada) 19:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm disapointed you did not accept this editors good faith explanation that killing me was a sufficent reason to be un-blocked. Seemed perfectly reasonable IMHO.... :) Pedro : Chat 22:51, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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Please read the latest contribution to the Yarrow mediation page and take note of the question that is asked by me below. Hi everybody
I just noticed that the Yarrow article is no longer protected. I am quite willing to add Aletas version to it and ask that it be protected at the 1st sign of an edit war. I will not make this edit until I am certain that it is not a violation of the mediation process. If it is I will move to have the mediation proceess declared unresolved
Jpk now wants us to bring in new parties to the mediated discussion space. Is this allowed ? What about polling ? I am not giving up on the mediation process just yet. Arbitration and article bans may be the only real solution now but I am still willing to try and settle this dispute through mediation.
Please explain your reason for deleting the above image, thanks -- Chzz ► 05:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I really enjoyed it. I have to say, your photo with the tag reminds me so much of our badge tags when I lived/worked in Japan. Need to find one of those photos, it will make you chuckle I think. TravellingCari the Busy Bee 02:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I believe I have it enabled again. (It was years ago, and I thought it still was. I guess all the emails I've been getting recently have been via Commons.) Cheers, -- Infrogmation ( talk) 06:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I saw an ad for the election, and after reading over the profiles, I would like to vote for you, but it says that I am not qualified to vote. I believe I meet the criteria (see my userpage for stats) and am hoping you can either tell me whether I don't meet the criteria or who I can contact to find out. Best -- Eustress ( talk) 18:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
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For your participation in my recent RFA. Feel free to weigh in at my in-depth RFA analysis. There's also some templated RFA spam below for you ;>. best of luck in the board elections! xenocidic ( talk) 00:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
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Since you've been the maintainer of this page, I'm pointing you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Wikipedia:Upload MBisanz talk 22:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
There are better ways of resolving problems with the BAG, such as WP:CENT. The current looks of the MFD is a 9-0 tally (excluding the nominators), and I would just speedy keep this one per WP:BOLD and WP:SNOW, but there are multiple requests on the page to let it run longer. Please let me know if you still object to it being closed early. Useight ( talk) 06:31, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I an not sure I am eligible to vote in the trustees election. Can you advise me as to how to find out one way or the other. Is ther a quick way to count ones edits ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Albion moonlight ( talk • contribs)
I've notched it down to semi for a couple (5ish) hours, I'll re-up before going to bed later. MBisanz talk 23:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi MBisanz, some random questions for you:
I don't necessarily want to open a can of worms, I'm mostly interested in the first two questions, so you can consider the rest optional. Thanks! Franamax ( talk) 23:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Your message seemed to contain typing errors that left me confused. Anyway I have until the 21st and I am sure you are very busy. I will copy the error message word for word at some point after I get a machine that uses windows. I share a computer and it has its own private server that I do not have access to. That has proven to be a source of difficulty pursuant to Wiki in the past and may be the problem now. : Albion moonlight ( talk) 23:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for handling the request on my talk page. Just so you know about the situation, I am planning a fairly busy schedule for my summer break. As has been the case for the past few months, I will sometimes have days when I am very active, while there will also be times like this week when I will be completely inactive or barely active for several days, or perhaps even more than a week.
I see you're doing great work as an administrator. Good luck with your run for the Wikimedia Board! Academic Challenger ( talk) 07:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Matthew – I got your note on my talk page. Don't worry about the effect your work has on those pages in my userspace – they're just a scratchpad. As a matter of fact, feel free to edit them as you will if you need to. I plan to go back and clean those up sometime soon; I was working on standardizing licenses between here and Commons, but I put that aside for a while because I'm working on something else (moving Flickr-sourced images to Commons where they're safe from license changes). With respect – Kelly hi! 13:40, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Good evening. I saw your recent comment about a developer who committed that Wikipedia will never purge deleted contributions. I was rather surprised to read that since I've heard several developers assert the opposite – that they always reserved the right to purge again if they felt it necessary. Admittedly, that was a few years ago now but it is a rather notable change of position, especially since it changes some of our starting assumptions about the processes we have built up around deletion. Since you spoke with the developer in person, do you think you could convince him/her to make that commitment publicly, perhaps at the Deletion policy page? More people should know about that change. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 00:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
I am working on a list of exactly what would need to be done to standardize non-free image license templates (basically, what it would be nice to see your bot do). Might be useful in getting an idea of how big a task we are talking about. - AWeenieMan ( talk) 18:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to be contacting several coaches on the status page who aren't "full" and suggesting coachees for them. I feel that it's time to revitalize coaching and start to work on the backlog of requests. If there's anything you think I should know, feel free to contact me. Malinaccier ( talk) 00:08, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I presented the best case I could. There's just so much paranoia regarding that page. I don't get it.
The Transhumanist 00:12, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Your last comment on the mediation page was very timely. There is a lot of reason to be hopeful now. Thanks for that. : Albion moonlight ( talk) 05:57, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I do not think that Skype could be usuable to " spread free culture" while it is censored. I suppose that you were joking. -- Snek01 ( talk) 12:52, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
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Is good evening to you, an Italian uuser, do I sustain your candidacy on Wikimedia, would you be so kind to be helped to translate me from English into Spanish the voice of my village? thanks -- Lodewijk Vadacchino ( talk) 12:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC) p.s. sorry my bad english-- Lodewijk Vadacchino ( talk) 12:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for the comment on my RFA. While I should have given a little more thought when I did those actions, I am happy you brought them up for me to learn form them. :) Thanks again. <3 Tinkleheimer TALK!! 19:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
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Could you please explain what you meant by "add" in these two edit summaries, [1] and [2]? Thank you in advance, Aspects ( talk) 04:46, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
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This edit happened about a month ago, but I've only just discovered it. Your bot made this edit to User talk:203.14.53.45. I guess it thought that the template contained {{sig}} when it actually contained the parameter {{{sig}}}, hence the pair of opening and closing braces enclosing the substitution of Template:Sig. Is there any way to find other instances where the bot made this mistake and correct them? I couldn't find any with this Google search using text from Template:Anonblock. But then, there can't be too many non-proxy IP's that have had to be blocked for two years because of vandalism. I used to be on that IP address, and I like to check on how it's going from time to time. Graham 87 14:22, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
What was the bot trying to do in this edit? -- Carnildo ( talk) 06:06, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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User:Gmaxwell is a well-known Wikipedian. I assume he's the legit guy in question, as I know nothing about him, but I see his name around a lot. When I see an account that calls itself a sock of Gmaxwell, I think user/vandal that has an issue with him blowing some steam. User:Misza13 gets or got a lot of that. Basicly an account who's name says 'this is a sockpuppet' and doesn't show in the log as having been created by someone reputable should be a block on sight job. I would have appreciated some forewarning we might get something like that sprung on us out of the blue, but I'm not going to kick up a fuss about it. A misunderstanding occured and was undone, let's move on. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 21:56, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
As usual, someone tends to get to the block of a user before i do (idk why). This time it was you, on the revert and block on the user concerning the Palpadin High School page. Good job, and i hope you get the election.
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Hi, you protected this image, but it's on Commons. The local description page should probably stay protected to prevent local uploads with that name, but I just wanted to let you know you didn't protect the image itself. Cheers, Rocket000 ( talk)
Thanks for your input. Of course, this meets the rules as i was renamed by a crat (like you said).
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[3] You can find the rest, I'm sure. Feel free to carry out your ban threat. After all, that's the normal escalation, isn't it: one warning, then a block, then one warning, then a ban? -- Blechnic ( talk) 07:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Here you go, here are the diffs, the last two edits I made, the last to the article, and the last to the article's talk page before MBisanz blocked me:
My last edit to the article was at 8:47 [5]
My last comment on the talk page,and last edit before the block, the edit that infuriated Mbisanz so much that it called for me being blocked with just a single warning was at 9:09: [6]
Mbisanz blocked me at 9:11 for an edit to a talk page discussing the article 09:11, 4 May 2008 MBisanz (Talk | contribs) blocked "Blechnic (Talk | contribs)" (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 48 hours (Disruptive editing
-- Blechnic ( talk) 08:20, 15 June 2008 (UTC))
I was blocked for discussing the article on the article's talk page after a single warning about putting tags on articles by MBisanz. -- Blechnic ( talk) 08:22, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
If you really want to settle this, you might consider stop trying to provoke me, and stop trying to establish every way you can that I'm a new editor and not worthy of your time. Which is precisely what your suggestion to recall sounds like. "Editor in good standing = 1,500+ edits, 6+ months experience, no blocks in last 6 months." You are not showing good faith in this, you are, instead, showing the desire and willingness to antagonize me, poorly justify your actions, and show other established editors that you can have a little fun. Why don't we not continue this on AN/I or anywhere, now that you've established that I'm not worthy of addressing you? -- Blechnic ( talk) 10:52, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
What I see here is a poster, not MBisanz, who posts in bold, in the midst of a long paragraph, "Don't take this as a threat," I guarantee, I have never in my life had to tell someone not to take something as a threat, so I won't be reading this page and the threats, and I will take it off my watch list. --preceding comment added by User:Blechnic note added by Abd ( talk) 13:53, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello Matthew, I am not sure if here is appropriate place to ask you this question, if you think is not, please just simply delete my question or move it to an appropriate place.
I would like to know if you become a board member, what action would you take to tackle troubles in cases such as this, where the sole bureaucrat in a less developed wikipedia, grossly abuses his bureaucrat privileges.
Many thanks -- Kaaveh ( talk) 08:00, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Matt, bearing in mind this comment a while back [7], I thought you might like to be aware that PIO's been openly editing over at Simple – see simple:Special:Contributions/Pio. Especially given that he's banned now rather than just indef blocked. Best, AlasdairGreen27 ( talk) 17:09, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
You have recently warned User:Oreo Priest that his edit of George Thomas Coker was defamatory and in violation of Wikipedia:Libel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Oreo_Priest&diff=prev&oldid=219881664 this diff]. Can you explain how the inclusion of the article subject's statements backed by reliably sourced references constitutes defamataion? Can you explain how your accusation of making defamatory statements does not itself violate WP:LEGAL? Alansohn ( talk) 22:58, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
I have recreated this as a redirect to Template:Meatpuppet2. I did this because a number of meatpuppets had this template transcluded on their userpage. Just wanted to give you a heads up, since you speedied the previous version. -- Dragon695 ( talk) 01:17, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
I realised that shortly after, thank you for the unblock. Sorry for any misunderstanding. Is there any way to delete my block log? I liked being clean. Best, Metagraph comment 09:07, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
It's a damn shame you couldn't present this as originally intended, which is quite sleek and simple. Still I think you gamely hit all the points in your talk, which went well. By the way, I have also posted this to Presentations at meta. Thanks.-- Pharos ( talk) 16:27, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
You're mentioned here. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 16:32, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Er, MBisanz...Carcharoth seems to think that my scary dino sock is the right admin for alarming all little users into meekly agreeing with whatever I suggest. Please see this note on my page, and my reply on ANI, whereby I have passed on the issue to you (hoping that makes you happy!). Bishonen | talk 19:24, 18 June 2008 (UTC).
May I ask what the reason was for protecting User talk:Alansohn? Does it harm anyone if he creates school articles while he is blocked? It might seem wrong, and maybe you are trying to enforce a break, but is it really going to help if it upsets him? Carcharoth ( talk) 17:46, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Not sure if you noticed, but after some fruitful discussion at WP:AE, Alansohn was unblocked. I'd also like to apologise for a comment I made earlier. Even if I didn't agree with your block, I can see now that it probably did help in the short term. I also struck through the comment and apologised here. Carcharoth ( talk) 01:29, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
You posted something about an unblock on my talk page. I think you got wrong guy. -- Pmsyyz ( talk) 03:31, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
You recently gave me a warning for adding "defamatory" content to the article. It was, however, perfectly well cited and verified in published media, and thus is not libel because it is true. Please explain what I have done wrong and why you have reverted it. - Oreo Priest talk 08:27, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm helping out as an uninvolved admin at the George Thomas Coker article. I noticed that you reverted the article a few days ago, citing BLP, but without making any corresponding comments at the talkpage. Since there is currently a discussion at talk, in an attempt to build consensus on what to include in the article, were you at all interested in participating? If so, your comments would be welcome, to ensure that the addition is a high-quality one, in accordance with Wikipedia's policies and best practices. Thanks, -- El on ka 04:29, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your note. That doesn't seem right. As you are more knowledgeable than I about this, can you please fix it for me? Badagnani ( talk) 16:47, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Before you dismiss me can you please look at the history of my editing and his? They speak for themselves. Look at the example I gave. It's very clear from it that he is undoing my work without even looking because his comment contradicts. It's very clear cut.-- Burrburr ( talk) 05:43, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello fellow Long Islander. I have a question regarding my Admin coach, User:Shyam. As per his contribs, he seems to have left, or be inactive. I'd like to proceed with coaching, and would like to know what I should do. Thank you so much, TheDJAtClubRock :-) ( T/ C) 01:16, 12 June 2008 (UTC).
Hey, if you you want to block me , fine! I retired anyway, you would be doing me a favour. I deserve it for the comments I made , but please look at the conduct of Fonze4mii. No one else would at his sockpuupet accusations! Jack forbes ( talk) 00:44, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, that page was not actually supposed to be seen by any of Board's candidate :D It just rank each's presentation and answers to match my thoughts, and turns out that you do. ^^ Thanks for coming, I wish you luck for the candidacy. REX ( talk) 02:07, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, sorry for not responding sooner; for some reason my talk page got a little crazy yesterday and I accidentally overlooked your message. I've taken a look at your proposals; the style and formatting is good, but I think the wording needs to be a bit less formal. I'd be happy to draft up some suggestions; would you prefer that I post proposed wordings on the talk page of the individual template, or at some other page where more eyes may see them and comment? I'm open to suggestion. Risker ( talk) 02:49, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi MB, maybe you can help here. User asserts ownership of a picture of the user. Other dumb editor (that's me) asks why he doesn't just confirm ownership through official channels. User asks dumb editor how to do that. Dumb editor stumbles over here for help (but promises to learn for next time). See here – your help is appreciated. Cheers! Franamax ( talk) 06:59, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I just thought you should see this. It might be removed if it was put there for the wrong reason. -- RyRy5 ( talk) 12:15, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
As long as you keep the time parameter (Actually, the desired results of such a merge could be accomplished by just getting rid of {{ vbc}} ... as far as I'm concerned every blocking template should have a time parameter). Daniel Case ( talk) 12:39, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Please see the series of diffs I have left there. I believe a block is in order for this user, gathering the vast amounts of personal attacks from the user.
Also, I would like to let you know the user is being nominated for sockpuppetery. Cheers, -- Fone 4 Me 08:35, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way you could make File:Imbox content.png an SVG or a larger, clearer PNG? Thanks. MBisanz talk 08:00, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I was in the process of doing it already, you can expect it soon, I hope. -- penubag ( talk) 22:17, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Can you explain the purpose of this addition? The template doesn't look like it belongs there, especially not <includeonly>ed... Chris Cunningham (not at work) – talk 10:15, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
I notice you've made several TFD nominations for template messages lately. A lot of them could have been better handled by just redirecting them to another, more suitable template if they have been superseded. Many folks remember the old template names and it's more effort to go find the template again if it's deleted than to just redirect it — and anyway, redirects are cheap. Stifle ( talk) 14:18, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
This user, who appears under different IPs, and refers to himself as "troll" (for other reasons), occurs at discussions on the UK pages. He/she recently left this, which I find very threatening, telling us that if we did not accept his/her decision, it would "end in tears". I wanted to know what course of action you suggest for this user, as this is the 2nd time he/she has reverted, after I replaced it there after another user put it there.
Perhaps a warning? ---- fone 4 me 17:07, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for "responding" to Kelly's message on my talk page, that is to protect her pages immediately. It's a pleasure to work with people like you who understand and take care of things when I am away!
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 18:25, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Probably not worth filing an SSP, though. link Enigma message 07:06, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Per the checkuser results above, should User:Jack forbes, User:Joe Deagan, and User:Boilerman be blocked for abusing multiple accounts, and continuing personal attacks using them? -- fone 4 me 19:51, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
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For beating me to the punch in updating the links to File:L'Oréal logo.svg so that the en-wiki version could be deleted, I hereby award you this barnstar. -- jonny- m t 05:26, 25 June 2008 (UTC) |
I wanted to write and ask you my questions regarding the template on your talk page because I figure they may be detailed and unecessary on the deletion page.
How is the template odd? Templates are simply used for transclusion, and I find it quite useful to have this message on hand rather than rewriting it.
What is the warning system and why or how would this template fit in it? This template currently is simply intended for me to be able to inform users of policy and practice. It is not intended as a warning or a disciplinary action. What's wrong with that?
Lastly, in regards to policy, if you check, Wikipedia:No personal attacks, you will find that personal headings directly contradict that policy: "Comment on content, not on the contributor". Hyacinth ( talk) 00:06, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for approving my bot. Is there a simple way to tell when the bot is flagged?-- Rockfang ( talk) 00:16, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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Can you provide input on this case: User talk:Rlevse#Documentingabuse 2, esp the usename issue? Thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:56, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. I've been running across a lot of templates that are clearly non-encyclopedic (like this, or this, or this, or this), none of which are userboxes and all of which are used exclusively in userspace. I've nominated a few at TfD, but rather than clog that up, I'd like to know if I can just be bold and move them into the user's pages. I've written a notify template here that I would subst/leave on each user's talk page. Let me know what you think. Thanks -- Thetrick ( talk) 20:52, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello MBisanz! How are you? I withdrew my nomination. Most editors who opposed my RfA expressed that I need to argue better in AfDs. I will take care about the concerns raised by them and apply again after sometime. Thanks for supporting my RfA and if you have any suggestion for me, feel free to contact me. Regards, Masterpiece2000 ( talk) 13:02, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I just saw that your campaign did not succeed. i apologize and hope that you continue to work hard. -- Meldshal42 (talk) 18:01, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Since my request at WP:BOTREQ has gone unanswered, I'm going to individual BAG people to ask if anyone can help create an archive bot for Wikipedia:Editor review. Your name was the first that came to mind.
Please see Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 21#Archive bot for Wikipedia:Editor review. If you can do this, wonderful! If not, please outsource this request to one of your colleagues. An archive bot for editor review will save hours of human effort over the long term, so a short investment of time now should pay off in the long run. Thank you. Yechiel ( Shalom) Editor review 20:42, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Sorry. I didn't read those sections. -- Gary0203 ( talk) 07:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for !voting on my RfA. If you supported, I'll make sure your confidence is not misplaced; if you opposed, I'll take your criticism into account and try to adjust my behavior accordingly.
See you around the wiki!-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 00:12, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
You know, you take a break from blocking people, decide to handle some unblocking requests, and unblock what seems to be a genuinely reformed vandal only to be thanked by this.
Thank you very much for the reblock. Damn kids >.< -- jonny- m t 09:39, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, MBisanz, for your support !vote at my RFA. I will be doing my best to make sure that your confidence has not been misplaced. -- lifebaka ( Talk – Contribs) 18:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Please stop. Giano's talk page isn't protected anymore, so your box is just confusing, especially with your signature describing someone else's action. Wikipedia is not going to fall apart if message boxes on a user page don't conform to some arbitrary format. It is not necessary. Risker ( talk) 21:49, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about the mix up with your name. . .I got confused (similar names, slow connection, and lots of ec's there at WMC's page). Just thought I'd leave a note here, and try to fix it there later. R. Baley ( talk) 22:51, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
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sorry if this is a rather dumb question, but what is the best (most productive) use of my 'User' page? -- JConoco ( talk) 08:43, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, - I know you meant well, but the last thing anybody should have done was to reward User:Stefanomione with a Barnstar for his Category edits, of all things. Aye aye aye! I don't know whether to laugh or scream. Please take a look at the comment I just left about that on his talk page -- and then note all of the CFDs for his ill-conceived categories. And be sure to see the very last note that I just left on his page -- a prime example of his handiwork. We'll be cleaning up his messes for months if not years... <sigh> Regards, Cgingold ( talk) 11:21, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Also, the template should be changed. It still says the next meetup is June 1. Enigma message 22:00, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the warm welcome!
-- DJBobHoskinsGoingMentalInADustbin ( talk) 01:56, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Just an update Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User: Exanimous. The user has again linked the image without an consensus which in terms is censoring an image. I would be happy for them to get an consensus and if that consensus is to have the image censored I would also be happy to follow the consensus but at the moment there is no consensus. Bidgee ( talk) 03:18, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
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There are many songs that Elvis Presley recorded, particularly from his movies, that were written by Bill Giant, Bernie Baum, and Florence Kaye. These three worked as a team to produce many popular songs and music for other artists as well. Unfortunately, many of the song credits for this team list Bill Giant as Bill Grant. There may have been a Bill Grant who wrote songs, but if so, he did not write with this trio.
Is there any way besides brute force to change these references? Thank you.
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Hi there, I put myself forwards for admin coaching a few days ago (don't worry this isn't a "You've not matched me yet why not!" message). I saw a mention of any editor moving a current request to the "older requests section" if they've not checked up for 6 weeks or older than six weeks, however I wasn't able to find such a section on the requests page or on the main potal. There's probably jyust something I've missed there but since there were quite a few depreceated requests I thought it might be worth asking to make sure? I've also left a message on the other co-ordinator's page so if either of you would like to reply, if you want to check on my talk page and respond there if necessary you might be able to save yourself a message.
Sorry I've I've missed something really obvious and wasted your time. BigHairRef | Talk 23:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
If you would like to start a draft at User:The Evil Spartan/RFA, I will certainly think about moving it into the mainspace. You also might like to have a word with User:Shalom and User:Maxim. However, I have the very ugly baggage of having withdrawn from an RFA once on commons, for reasons which I have no desire to get into now, but which I may have to address during the process. I think there is a quite hot chance it wouldn't pass, however like I said, I will certainly consider it. The Evil Spartan ( talk) 22:52, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you edited the editor review (took me a few minutes to figure out the correct coding :) I was wondering if you were going to comment? Dusti SPEAK!! 15:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I just saw that you blocked an IP for 24 hrs after twice pretty obviously putting some nasty vandalism onto Willie Mays. I applaud you!
Over the last few weeks, I have had a problem with one admin who takes a different view on vandals: Vandals must have four warnings .... 'warnings must increase in severity ..... I have been vandal busting for nearly a year, and never once had a problem until this one admin showed up. I reported a serial vandal after posting a second, third, and fourth warning while reverting back obvious vandalism, reported him to AIV. I got lectured on bad faith reporting since I stockpiled the warnings, and then immediately reported him to AIV. The editor got blocked while he was lecturing me, and he went and browbeat the blocking admin into rescinding the block. The editor then waited a few days and got himself an indef as a vandal only account. I have been following this admin, and see that he has this rigid interpretation of warnings and blocks, even though WP policy permits for vandals to be blocked earlier (as you did).
My question: is there a sound way to go about educating this admin? I don't want to report him as yet, but I got really offended when I got accused of bad faith for reporting obvious vandalism. Good day and thanks! LonelyBeacon ( talk) 22:27, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading
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I was curious if it was appropriate to warn experienced users about WP:NPA? On a recent TfD discussion, it seemed like OwenX violated this in a clear fashion, and Ned Scott in a lesser fashion. However, it wasn't clear if you three were just old friends (I find it hard to believe strangers would communicate in this way). Would it be better to mention such things to uninvolved administrators?
In case you guys are old friends, you might want to make this clearer in the discussion, since it does create a bit of a chilling effect on the discussion. JackSchmidt ( talk) 19:40, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
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MBisanz, it is my honor to report that thanks in part to your support my third request for adminship passed (80/18/2). I appreciate the trust you and the WP community have in me, and I will endeovour to put my newly acquired mop and bucket to work for the community as a whole. Yours sincerly and respectfuly, TomStar81 ( Talk) 03:06, 9 July 2008 (UTC) |
Over on the Simple English Wikipedia, the user account Ælison vandalized three user pages with File:Bisanz9.jpg. I found it amusing, somewhat...is that the best shock image they've got? Either that or someone must like you a lot. Just thought I'd let you know. hbdragon88 ( talk) 04:56, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
— 151.200.237.53 ( talk · contribs) 00:04, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if you can say me how to put images in an article--Shabe0mac 01:11, 10 July 2008 (UTC)Shabe0mac
Hi Matt, just FYI, have a look at this simple:User talk:Cassandra#Request. Best, AlasdairGreen27 ( talk) 14:52, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Template:Asiir picture "passed" the deletion vote and is set to be deleted. Please do the bot magic you promised. :) Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 July 3#Template:Asiir picture. -- Woohookitty Woohoo! 06:48, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your support at my RFA – it has closed successfully, and I now have the buttons! I also appreciate that you supported despite my low edit count. Guilty as charged – I confess that I am not really a very good encyclopedia editor, but I do think I will be a good behind-the-scenes worker. If I ever show myself as otherwise, please let me know! Once again, thanks for your support. StephenBuxton ( talk) 23:03, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 June 19#Template:Blocknumbers was used to replace pages with dozens of final warnings (most not acted on) and different looking block boxes. Don't you think the template is better than the hodgepodge whack-a-mole user pages? -- Jeandré, 2008-07-13 t06:21z
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Just so you know, there's over 25,000 uncategorized templates as of the last time I could get a report out of Toolserver (though I've probably reduced that by several thousand). Tagging assorted entries on the specialpages list won't help much, especially since I am probably the only person that is patrolling the uncat. temp. category these days. Poke around my sandbox to see what I am doing on the issue. -- Thetrick ( talk) 03:25, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure what AWB can do, but here's what I'd like accomplished:
Now, the one hard part is that I have been hardcoding the sort part instead of using PAGENAME, e.g. [[Category:Musician fan user templates|Louder Than Love]] with "User " stripped out. This needs to be done otherwise everything will end up under "U". For the KIS templates, "User label" should be stripped out. Let me know if this looks doable. Thanks. -- Thetrick ( talk) 17:04, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Another template-related thing: your copy/config of Twinkle is using {{ db-t3}} wrong. It needs to include the time (five tildes) and preferably the name of another template. You can see the results here. I've been using G2 for test templates as that applies. -- Thetrick ( talk) 01:49, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
In the Talk:Etruscan coins there is a very interesting overview of the etruscan numismatics from Eckhel up to date. If User:Italo Vecchi is Italo Vecchi a scholar in ancient numismatics (and I suppose he is), the article may be just an overview of his last studies. I'm trying to "translate" in a better form the notes from a tipical specialized form into a "for all readable" form in my sandbox. BTW I'll traslate the whole in Italian and it will be the core of the article " it:Numismatica etrusca (Etruscan numismatics) apart fron Etruscan coins.
Here's some publication of Vecchi ( Search results) on American Numismatic Society data base.
Thank you for an answer.
I hope you will excuse my mistakes in your language.
-- Carlo Morino aka zi' Carlo 08:45, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
You are welcome to comment on the resurrected talk page. Wik idea 19:47, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I have not used those tools abusively, yes I have civility issues which is why i will never be an admin. Can you please give them back as i do need them, you have my word that they wont be abused. «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 03:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Since you've just made the page historical, can I suggest that you fully-protect the page? It'll prevent people from mistakenly posting requests there. Thanks! Acalamari 02:11, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
I saw you edited a warning made by someone (86.29.134.252) on my page. Just to clarify, you can look at the edit I made that 86.29.134.252 gave me a "last warning" for. It was a clearly accidental comma in the London article, which hardly constitutes vandalism. While I realize you had nothing to do with the warning, I just thought I'd let you know, lest you think I'm defying your administrative powers by reverting his "warning." I appreciate his hawkish stance on those truly attempting to disrupt Wikipedia, but I do not appreciate the sloppy inclusion of those making typoes as vandals, and maybe he--an unregistered user--deserves closer watch from admins, since he does not take the proper time to assess whether an edit is truly vandalism before he attempts to exert his "authority." CinnamonCinder ( talk) 02:33, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Ugh, I would be online doing it myself...but the computer I am currently at fails. Thanks, Tiptoety talk 02:55, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
MBisanz, I mentioned you in a posted on the Administrators' noticeboard, linked above. I hope that you do not mind and that you will participate in the discussion. - LA @ 08:02, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
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MBisanz, it is with deep awareness of the responsibility conferred by your trust that I am honored to report that in part to your support, my request for adminship passed (87/14/6). I deeply value the trust you and the Wikipedia community have in me, and I will embark on a new segment of my Wikipedia career by putting my new tools to work to benefit the entire community. My best to you, Happyme22 ( talk) 03:45, 16 July 2008 (UTC) |
Hey there MBisanz, myself and a few other users/CU's are a bit confused by this. Seeing as the case is currently a redlink, deleted for privacy reasons and placing the case on the RFCU mainpage... will...get you no where. Are you trying to request a checkuser? If so it may just be better to contact a checkuser via email. Cheers, Tiptoety talk 19:07, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Your "explanation", on my page, was pretty good, but not entirely accurate. Betacommand has three known accounts, Betacommand, Betacommandbot and Betacommand2. The account he was blocked for (for socking)
right here was none of the above, it was a totally different name. In particular, he went to the BOTS group and reverted Locker Cole, who he'd previously reverted under his name
as shown here. He got blocked for it and as an explanation stated that he was attempting to start over as a new user.
Starting over is fine, it's allowable, however, when one starts over, don't they normally also allow their old acoounts to vanish ala, right to vanish ? He didn't, he kept he previous three accounts opened. Wouldnt' that strike you as a bit odd, considering he wanted to start over ? Why not just invoke "right to vanish" and start over ?
In addition to this, he's edit-warred on the Bots group
see here, has edit warred and used incivil edit summaries, even though he's been warned not to do so
as seen here....and the list goes on. YES I know what he does is difficult and he takes a load of shit from people for doing it. However, that doesn't exempt him from following known policy, like Ignore and deny
or civil.
Bottom line here is, his hands are far from clean, and his latest attempt to keep his RFCU out of sight, in my opinion, is nothing more than
gaming the system.
Thank you.
btw – please be more
civil next time.
KoshVorlon
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KoshVorlon > rm -r WP:F.U.R 19:10, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
-- BorgQueen ( talk) 21:02, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Im just wondering why you removed my rollback rights earlier? Thanks «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 10:54, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
As you are an expert on image licencing you may be able to help us out. User-MZMcBride suggested your name. Some concerns have been raised on the image of Adi Shankara on the FAC nomination page of Anekantavada. Can you help to clear some air?-- Anish ( talk) 06:11, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
OK, I'm ready for the RFB. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:44, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
I thought once the candidate accepts the nomination, the election campaign starts from that time. I've also seen that an "admin" voted even before nominee accept the offer. The deletion is a bit harsh and i don't get it. I'm also hurt by such the treatment. I strongly urge that you revert yourself. I also did not find any description on article of RFA or RFB that "untranscluded election page does not accept votes. Even the RFA page of Shalm Yeichel's election had not been transcluded for more than 3 days because of some errors on his past RFAs, but I also people cast their votes during the time -- Caspian blue ( talk) 02:22, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Then fix the relevant page on the guideline and you would have been better telling me your worry before rudely deleting it. After it is transclued, you revert your edit. I would not do that. -- Caspian blue ( talk) 02:26, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
"Actually, I'd probably of blocked Gene Poole for that comment"... Probably have, not of. the 'of' comes from hearing the 've ending seen in would've could've should've, for example. But that's for have, not of. Number one grammar peeve. ThuranX ( talk) 05:47, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Do you think it should be shortened to extend to July 29th? Rudget ( logs) 10:18, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
You offered this user a {{ 2nd chance}}; he has written an article and asked for unblock based on that. At first glance it looks pretty good. My personal policy with 2nd chance, though, is to refer it back to the admin that offered it. So you might want to comment. Mango juice talk 14:49, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
would appreciate your input on the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Editing Restriction proposal, so it can be enacted or dismissed soon. Cheers – Ncmvocalist ( talk) 16:12, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Dear MBisanz
I have now tagged my images for Zero Time and Green (cover art for a Steve Hillage album). Did I do it right? Are they safe? I didn't quite understand that I needed to add additional informatio to that I already provided. I thought I had it all covered, but obviously not.
I intend to write a few more articles on record albums of note, so I presume I need to do the same in every case?
What about some books that I have (I have one evry old book dating from 1841 that I intend to write an article about, along with a photo I'll make myself. Would such an old book need a tag?
Anyway, I'm sure I'll get the hang of this in due course.
Yours sincerely
-- Michealomealoid ( talk) 21:37, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
I would like very much to be considered for admin coaching. Although I'm still newly registered, I've lurked for a while and I really enjoy wikipedia. I want to do as much as I can to improve the content of wikipedia and hope that you'll be able to help me achieve that goal. Please reply to me on my talk page. Thanks! Notepad47 ( talk) 04:18, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, about a month ago you changed a couple redirects for fair use templates (e.g. {{ promophoto}} and {{ fairusein}}) to soft redirects. This means they cannot be used as substitutes for the corresponding {{ Non-free promotional}} and {{ Non-free fair use in}} as they don't transclude properly. I was wondering what the reasoning was. I undid {{ promophoto}} a few days ago, assuming it to be an anomaly, however I just found {{ fairusein}}, and thought that i'd better ask you before i did something stupid. Thanks, Storkk ( talk) 10:16, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I need some help if you can. I wanted to upload an image of this videogame character ( Devil (Tekken)) but i can't find the right sources, if you could, write me on my talk page and give me some tips. Thanks, Ultron5000 ( talk) 16:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
So may I ask, if I could: you would still feel comfortable with a nomination, or have actions in the meantime caused you to question whether you would support me as a candidate? I will not feel at all hurt if you say the latter – I would prefer that than to drag you into an RFA that you don't wish to push. The Evil Spartan ( talk) 06:48, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I got a message letting me know that you wanted to speak to me, and that it should sound ominous, so I'm just dropping this note. How can I help? Gazi moff( mentor/ review) 12:38, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
...for running the check to verify that I am not, in fact, Lar. (Lar gave me a heads-up that you had done so.) I'm not sure why anyone would even think that. As others have pointed out, Lar is much more clueful. ;-) Kelly hi! 14:57, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
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Dear MBisanz...Since you agreed that the sock puppet process needed an overhaul, I was wondering if you would be somewhat active in making sure that it gets done. Currently, the merging of Suspected sock puppets and Requests for checkuser is going rather slow. I would like to get the templating done soon. To do that the merging needs to be completed first, or at least the proposed process finalized. I ask you to take part in getting this done. You can start by reading SSP2 and then the talk page. I have already written two of the templates, but the rest will take a finalized process to write. Hopefully, you have the time to take part in this. Have a nice day! - LA @ 05:46, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for participating in my RfB! I am very grateful for the confidence of the community shown at my RfB, which passed by a count of 154/7/2 (95.65%). I have read every word of the RfB and taken it all to heart. I truly appreciate everyone's input: supports, opposes, neutrals, and comments. Of course, I plan to conduct my cratship in service of the community. If you have any advice, questions, concerns, or need help, please let me know. Again, Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 08:46, 29 July 2008 (UTC) |
FYI – That range doesn't hardblock me (not telling you this to take the piss but as far as I can see, all you've done is block the range for a large number of possible good faith editors). -- 87.114.36.65 ( talk) 18:49, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for mediating our discussion of the Peter Yarrow article. Who knows when resolution would have occurred had we not undertaken that process. So thank you very much, Aleta Sing 19:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Nichalp asked me to set this flag. Why does it need the flag when the bot has a flag? The bot is the same and yet needs a flag for each task though the bot name is the same? I don't get this. Pls explain. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:31, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
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This is from a rangeblock from a couple of days ago. Details at User talk:87.113.73.89.-- chaser – t 23:14, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Why have you blocked my IP address from editing? Mr A ( talk) 22:16, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
I have to log in to post these messages because my login is not blocked, just my IP when I am not logged in. But I would still like to know why you blocked me. Mr A ( talk) 20:49, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:UnionCarbideHQ.png. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:
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Per the two oppose rule, your nomination to become a member of the Mediation Committee has been closed as unsuccessful. Please note that the Committee has a policy which means that a user cannot reapply within three months of their last unsuccessful nomination. However, we recommend that you take this opportunity to use the comments made at your nomination to improve yourself not only as a potential mediator, but as an editor of Wikipedia in general. Thanks again for your interest.
Thanks for participating. Your oppose vote was very reasonable, of course, considering my own admissions. Hope to see you around while working on WP! I have appreciated your contribs in the past. Mr. IP 《 Defender of Open Editing》 14:07, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi!MBisanz, I have substantially added text and also maps for the two towns in two different districts of Karnataka. You may like to wikify.-- Nvvchar ( talk) 16:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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Your recent bot approvals request has been denied. Please see the request page for details. I'm sorry. – Quadell ( talk) 14:04, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I saw that you once protected this article, so i thought that I should ask you the following: Especially in the Arguments for continuity part, there are many false arguments, or some arguments has nothing to do with the article. First, one arguments is talking about that Saint Stephan, founder of the Hungarian state was a Romanian. It lists his ancestor and explains why was he Romanian. That part is totally false! I show you why (please the argument(s) to understand the following):
As you can see, this argument is totally false.
And now, let's go on other part of the article. These arguments have nothing to do with the origins of the Romanians, or again they are false.
I think that's all for now. As you can see, I don't want to delete the arguments with a reliable antique/early medieval source, or those ones with archaeological content. However, these listed ones look like they were added to make the arguments for the cont. part longer. They have nothing to do with the Romanian origin. Please delete them if you also think the same. XTiTan ( talk) 16:33, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for you answer. I'll try to contact him. XTiTan ( talk) 14:09, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Reinstate it now. Non-admins removing speedy tags is disallowed, and rollbackable. Sceptre ( talk) 14:59, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
At the same time, thirty days seems awfully punitive, especially for that one mistake. I'll be willing to wait a week, but not thirty days. Sceptre ( talk) 13:16, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't want to template you, but I must strongly urge you not to throw WP:POINT around at edits which are conducted in good faith. Sceptre ( talk) 01:17, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Matthew. Why did you block my ip address a few days ago. it was un-necessary and has confused me greatly. it am a law-abiding citizen and in future, come direct to me if you have a complaint. you are completely abusing your right to use wikipedia. you can't go round randomly blocking people. i see you are getting a reputation on this site for un lawfully blocking fellow wikipedians. thankyou, and i look forward to a reply on this site very soon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.54.111 ( talk) 11:47, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
What the hell do you think you're doing applying a block to me?!
Kindly read my profile page, and sort your attitude out.
I am a long-serving wikipedian, and I know the rules back to front.
I do not engage in vandalism, and I absolutely object to you applying a block to my IP address – especially without even bothering to contact me.
This is a clear abuse of powers; and not in the spirit of Wikipedia (go to my page to learn more).
Unblock now; I don't want to have to make something of this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Macdaddy ( talk • contribs) 17:47, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
(replied on my talk page. – AB C D ✉ 21:49, 10 August 2008 (UTC))
Just to let you know, I'm still working on a proposal on evolving Admin Coaching, and hope to ahve it ready for perusal in the next few days Hope this helps, Gazi moff 12:49, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Just a little note to say thankyou for participating in my successful RFA candidacy, which passed with 96 supports, 0 opposes, and 1 neutral. I am pleasantly taken aback by the amount of support for me to contribute in an administrative role and look forward to demonstrating that such faith is well placed. Regards, WilliamH ( talk) 10:28, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
I recently posted about this event, which is unique considering the items on the list people were willing to produce to win. I was in the process of gathering items to add to the post, but it has already been deleted. Since this event sold out in the first year, I think it was worthy considering it donated to a charitable cause as well. Please remove the deletion so that I can add additional information to this post and give it the credibility Wikipedia requires. I am fairly new to this, so please bear with me as I update that page.
Thanks for your time. -- 72.65.9.206 ( talk) 17:06, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. What sort of items do I need to make this event notable, such as some of the other Scavenger Hunts? -- 69.95.150.86 ( talk) 18:35, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Your ears are burning: Template talk:Usage of IPA templates#move back to Help space? — Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 21:34, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
I've taken this article from this to this, in preps for filing it for FAC. I could you some help now with:
Any help is greatly appreciated. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:49, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
It looks to me like there is no consensus on WP:AN/I for an indefinite block of User:Peter Damian. Accordingly, I'm requesting that you unblock him. I'd prefer that you do it yourself so that we don't have even an intimation of wheel warring going on. Thanks. Nandesuka ( talk) 16:39, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks very much for bringing the block to WP:AN. You did the right thing, and I appreciate your responsible action. Even if we disagreed on the original block, I have no doubt that you are acting in good faith. Nandesuka ( talk) 18:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi. Is there any way you can semi protect my talk page? The same guy who was attacking my user page has been de-archiving the page. Thank you for any help. Libro0 ( talk) 18:09, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi MB, when you have a moment care to have a gander here? The edits are vaguely making me feel our Nothing buddy, but I can't confirm it. You also worked more closely with him. I could be far off base but wanted your input. Hope all is going well in your world. TravellingCari 17:45, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you look at this: [11], User talk:Dreadstar#Re-Breast talk, [12], [13], User talk:AGK#Please Tell Dreadstar to back off.
I need a neutral admin input. Thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:25, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the questions. Just to be clear, are you looking for a succession of one-word answers in Q8, or is one word answer, followed by justification OK? -- Dweller ( talk) 11:58, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Silkroad Online ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) ( restore | cache | AfD)
Per your protection log note, I'm requesting unsalting (or undeletion, if necessary due to the huge # of prior edits) of the Silkroad Online article at DRV. I've got a new stub in my userspace ( User:Matt Fitzpatrick/Silkroad Online) that I think would be a good (re)start. Matt Fitzpatrick ( talk) 20:17, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Unfortunately we have come across a deletionist who seemingly intends to try to delete all of adequate fair use images that we have on wikipedia. For instance File:Yone Minagawa.jpg etc etc. Fully complies with fairuse and it is potentially destructive for this editor to be nominating mass images in this way. I;ve uploaded thousands of images to wikipedia only if they fully comply with general wikipedia policy on irresplaceable imahes and am not going to tolerate having my images drilled at me like is being done.
For instance he has nominated the image in Soe Win because it is non notable? Can you believe this is his criteria? The Bald One White cat 14:43, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
You seem to be basing a large number of your deletion criteria on the fact an image comes from a news agency, and therefore harms their economic interests. However, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a news agency, we tag our non-free images as such, therefore, per NFCC 2 "Non-free content is not used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." our coverage, in and of itself, will not replace the original new agency's market. To this end we limit the number of images per page and require low resolution images, as well as the whole NFCC tagging and categorization scheme. I really would prefer you took this interpretation up at WT:NFCC than continuing to tag compliant images. MBisanz talk 14:56, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
If your're still unsure? Do you have to be so patronizing? You;ve already tried to make out that some of our most established users including Bisanz, User:Maxim, J Milburn and myself are clueless about what images are acceptable when we all have a lot of experience with dealing with such issues on wikipedia. The Bald One White cat 15:09, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Bisanz if I am going to have messages drilled at me everytime I log in because somebody disagrees with the rationale I am in for one hell of a future on here because I have uploaded thousands upon thousands of similar images and I am going to get it all thrown back at me and have my talk page spammed with them. I am very concerned about this and I don't want to have to waste all my time on here defending images when I could be getting on with what I do. It is disruptive and not helpful to wikipedia and basically I am going to be punished big time by being drilled images for deletion for trying to help wikipedia,, The Bald One White cat 19:02, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
The worrying thing is that there are other deletionist editors spurring him on and "very much encouraging" him to delete content. We've seen the images for deletion page completely swamped today to almost record levels, jumping on the band wagon. He is going to make an awful lot of editors unhappy in doing so, particularly those images which have a full rationale which the uploader has spent time adding. Once again there seems to be a different perception of fair use criteria in that in one piece of rationale it clearly is valid and in others it makes it look invalid. If he continues to swamp the images for deletion pages then I will certainyl be reporting him. There is a difference between good faith intentions, and a mass nuke attempt of images which are currently being used of encyclopedic purposes on wikipedia. In my view such a course of action does nothing to improve wikipedias content and is not constructive. I'm sure there are many images which don't qualify for fair use on here, but I for sure am not prepared to see such images as those politicians and deceased bio images deleted. Its put me off editing today to be honest in that you never know what will come of your work and time you put into wikipedia if people invent ways and justify deleting it. The Bald One White cat 21:16, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
It would help certainly but the changing of image policies on here and the difference in views on what is fairuse is undoubtedly an ongoing struggle on here which is one of the most demanding I;ve faced on here. Similarly, limited use of screenshots of films were permitted for identification of a key scene in a film and to illustrate its content but now there is a major effort to remove these images because now images are only permitted to critically analyse a film in a production section not in the actual film contents. I can sort of see why some people might think they are doing the God of Fair Use Imagery's goodwork by removing them, vbt it is kind of a frustrating one that these people aren't spending their time filling out stubs and building the encyclopedia constructively instead. Some images you can see should be deleted a mile off, but it is the ones where there is a clear divide on their acceptability, which if this news agency policy is used as an excuse to delete then we are going to lose a dreadful amount of irreplaceable content, whicb will be a further blow. The Bald One White cat 21:39, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
During the first block (my first) and 1/2 The admins wanted me to admit wrong doing before even attempting to listen to me. When they did ask for evidence of others wrong doing they ignored it and told me i was pushing the blame on others. Wasting my time making me look for something they could have looked for themselves. it takes 2+ to edit was and usually 2+ to be uncivil.
It just seems to me that Rlevse and Dreadstar are/were protecting the editors on the breast article who have been there a lot longer then me, and have worked with the two or at least Dreadstar who worked with Rlevse.
I hate digging up a dead horse. beating it or being the one that killed it, but during the first dispute Dreadstar focused on me not indenting on the talk page, "Being uncivil" and edit waring with multiple users.
Yes i edit wared with the lead and possibly the removal of images in the gallery, but these things seem so small yet these editors make a big deal out of it.
I might have got a tone here and there, but getting called this and that (WP:TEND) and being accused of censorship and sexualizing images would rub anyone wrong and put a little venom in them.
But i get zeroed in on by Dreadstar who left the others alone, didn't even ask them a question or comment on their talk page that they might be responsible for something.
Do you know how many images were in the gallery on the breast article when I first arrived? 57 images, and I removed 8 of them. Asher196 reverted it every time and after the second time claimed it was to big of a change and would need consensus. You might be able to see why I accused these editors of WP:OWN. I mean to make a fuss over 8/57 images and a picture of some guy's gal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=prev&oldid=228949811 my removal of the images in the gallery
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=228949811 Asher196's revert
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=228950202 My second removal of these image
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=228952105 The second revert from Asher196 with a comment asking me not to make "major changes without consensus"
That was one anchor that got attached to my foot when it came to that article. I mean honestly was 8/57 images so horrible or unreasonable to remove? I know i sound like a broken record or something but why was i the only one being focused on in the charge of edit warring?
I mean Dreadstar must have posted 50+ diffs showing some kind of crime i committed, yet he wouldn't even attempt to look for the diffs, which were easier to find back then, that showed Asher's edit waring with me.
Am i so wrong in asking that if a person can take the time to get those diffs against one person, that they can look for some more?
Then I am the only one who gets a noose around my neck when it came to the gallery again.
Asher196 hid the gallery to keep the stretching down. I mean loading 57 images causes the scroll bar to jump around like an idiot. Well here comes Atom to revert it saying it was broke.
I thought it was a honest mistake and i corrected him and told him it wasn't broke but programed to hid to help in navigation of the article. He reverts it again, this time claiming censorship.
I revert his revert and assure him its not censorship.
Well i guess because i reverted twice i am in a edit war? He reverted 3 times. once Asher's edit twice my own.
Asher196 hiding the gallery http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=229168263&oldid=229167936 http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229168263 http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229169608
Atom's Reverting it http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229169608
Me correcting him http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229329371
Atom reverting it a 2nd time, this time using the censor card 2RR http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229373351
Me correcting him a second time might be considered 2RR but that's a case by case thing I guess. http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Breast&diff=next&oldid=229633092
I gave Dreadstar all this info, and he still focused on me not indenting, and edit warring. Gave me the old speech "You're responsible for your own actions" That is when i accused him of being bias. I had seen his presence on that article and its talk page, discussing the topic and how to improve it with the others. I felt he was to involved and as far as i knew or still know he could have been friends with Asher196 and Atom.
Well after that little episode of calling Dreadstar bias, Rlevse came into my life. He protected the article which i had no problem at all with. He said take the time to discuss it with the other editors, which is did.
I continued to discuss the lede and gallery with my peers on that article, but somehow and i still don't 100% get how, i got blocked for breaking consensus and edit warring.
Now what was the point of blocking me for edit warring when the article was protected? Also how exactly can i go against consensus with in a article that is blocked?
I get accused of calling a fellow editor a liar, and both me and the editor i was accused of calling a liar told both Dreadstar and Rlevse that it wasn't the case.
I got accused of calling a fellow editor (Atom) disruptive. I had made a survey and he called me making it disruptive. I told him plain as day him saying that was disruptive.
I'm sorry if this seemed like a rant but do you see where i'm coming from?
Am i wrong for accusing the editors on that article of WP:OWN? Or being WP:TEND?
I accused Atom of both because he has said things like "I just want to block you from editing and hurting the article." and a combination of OWN and TEND when he says things like "I only suggest not an illustration because I don't think that it will be acceptable by a consensus as the lede, even though it could gain some support. If you choose not to do that then I will follow up with a new lede proposal so that we can get closure."
If you want i will look for those diffs but its easier to copy past then thumb through the history.
Maybe you can see now why i distrust Dreadstar and Rlevse and wish that they not contact me or get involved with me.
I just thought you should know that little bit of drama in the last month. Keep up the good work cheers. Yami ( talk) 02:58, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the nice things you wrote about me on the RfB. My take on dispute resolution is as follows. There's no consensus for the Crats as a team to act in this way. However, many of them are skilled as individuals. I'd humbly say that I have some abilities in this area; as well as the Copa del Rey example listed in the RfB, and a host of little niggles I've solved that aren't worth listing, I've been working on a formal Mediation (currently stalled) on Contras. But I come back to my discomfort over using the Crats as a group. If consensus were that they should have a role, I'd happily go along with it. But I could only interpret the question in the light of current consensus and policy, which I did. Anyway, I owe you a debt of gratitude for that horrendous Q8: I no longer have any reservations at all about whether I can make a good Crat; I know I can do a good job if given the chance, even if not everyone will agree with my decisions. -- Dweller ( talk) 13:40, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
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