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An old timer. My userID is #100 and I'm now well past my 20 year anniversary. I'm an admin. I have a reputation for being tough but fair.
I spend a lot of my time editing anonymously.
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For your contributions to the world of skateboarding-related articles, and being one of the first people to edit the page for skateboarding back in 2001! Viva Manning Bartlett! Fun With Ahmed ( EAT A REEF) 21:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC) |
Haven't seen you around in a while :) T. Canens ( talk) 15:29, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Manning. Firstly, welcome back to adminship.
I've just imported some old edits to your user page from the nost:Nostalgia Wikipedia. It's been possible to import edits from that site, plus Meta and some other language Wikipedias, for over a year now. My personal notes about the quirks of importing from the Nostalgia Wikipedia are at User:Graham87/Import. Because your username at the Nostalgia Wikipedia is ManningBartlett, all your edits imported from there can be found under that name in the English Wikipedia. Also, edits that were deleted before Tim Starling merged your old account with the current one can also be found under the name "ManningBartlett" (I've also undeleted quite a few of those edits BTW). Therefore, some time ago I created a redirect from User:ManningBartlett to your current talk page, and I've now updated to point to your recently restored user page.
Hope this is all OK! Graham 87 06:16, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
My 10th wikibirthday is in november or so. When's yours? Surely you can hang on 'till then? :-) -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 23:19, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
In September, the first WikiProject ever created will turn 10 years old. To celebrate, the Signpost's WikiProject Report would like do a special report on the history of the WikiProject concept. Since you created that first project and the famous proposal that started it all, we'd like to interview you. Would you be willing to answer some questions about your original proposal and how the WikiProject concept has grown and evolved over the years? - Mabeenot ( talk) 03:47, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey Manning, I just discovered some earlier edits to the scientific method article that you mentioned on your user page. (The Nostalgia Wikipedia doesn't show that you created it; rather it shows you fixing a grammar error). They can be found at the title "Scientific Method". According to the recently unearthed Wikipedia dumps from August 2001, that article was actually created by Jpmartin on the 6th of March. The Nostalgia Wikipedia contains many many gaps, but at least it contains more old edits than the English Wikipedia. Graham 87 12:55, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Manning Bartlett. Maybe I could understand your comment. Thank you. Takabeg ( talk) 00:56, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I am sorry for my rude behavior on Istanbul Pogrom page. The way I acted liked that is because I had very hard times before. I don't know if you know this event Assassination of Hrant Dink. I knew him very well. He was a really nice person. He was trying to tell the turth in Turkey and eventually he has been killed. It was not a simple killing you can read the article and see who was involved etc. After that I became really emotional and sometimes I can not keep myself calm. After this point I will try to explain everything in a calm way. Ali55te ( talk) 05:24, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
I also understand that, people living far away from a place may not easily know all the details of an event happened somewhere far away. I am really sorry for what happened and I will try to make sure that it will not happen again Ali55te ( talk) 05:46, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Are you still interested in doing the interview for the Signpost? We need to know by the end of this week so we have time to schedule another article if necessary. I think our readers would be very interested in the role you played in creating the WikiProject concept, and I hope you'll allow us to share your story in the Signpost. - Mabeenot ( talk) 21:54, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Manning,
I just wanted to bring your attention to the prominence a post of yours from a couple of years ago has been given in this summary of the history of the debate about that title. I didn't see it at the time, but I appreciate it today. -- Born2cycle ( talk) 06:08, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
I was delighted to see your comments from an old-timer on the blackout discussion page. I was also delighted to reread your anti-rules, which I saw a long enough time ago that I had forgotten them. (If you have never seen m:How to win an argument, you may enjoy it.) Glad to see you still hanging around. Cheers, Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 03:23, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Welcome back. :-) -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 08:51, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Aw, thanks for stopping by; it's always pleasant to see old familiar names around. I'm very lucky to have stumbled into Wikipedia as an after-school time-filler so long ago (when I was 14!) — finding my edits accepted by adults as contributions from just another peer was incredibly encouraging and rewarding, and I'm pretty sure participating helped prepare me for my career-so-far in working with large, messy, semi-technical online communities. Somehow I never got involved with the more bureaucratic side of things here — I wonder if it's only because I had no idea how to sign up for mailing lists back then — but that may have been all for the better. :) Also, somehow my user ID is 32, and I've always wondered how that happened, because I'm sure I wasn't the 32nd user to sign up...probably more like in the hundreds. I imagine some early database migration rearranged usernames alphabetically or something. Heh! Dreamyshade ( talk) 01:23, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
I see your opinion is about to have more weight again. :) Good to see. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 13:07, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Thankyou so much for undoing some of the malicious edits to this page 25 January. I half expected some sort of negative editing to Pankaj Oswal wiki page due to the subjects increased media presence at the moment. Being somewhat new to wiki editing I doubt I could have successfully dealt with yesterdays onslaught of edit changes. Again thankyou so much. A fair go ( talk) 13:32, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
May I ask why you unblocked the IP putting in the unnessacary wrestling media tags in the first place? Tech43 ( talk) 08:35, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Please see this [1] but it looks like he has just got an indefinite block from Alexf. Thank you. Cloudz 679 11:14, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
...for your note. A new editor left me a message as well; we may see more activity in the article. Drmies ( talk) 14:50, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I used to believe the same as you: that sources were not required for the blooming obvious. And then I got into an edit dispute with a user called Doniago. This users edit history shows that he has never contributed anything positive to Wikipedia. All he does is just trawl articles and delete anything that is unsourced (wheter tagged or not) - often 60-70 items at a sitting (Have a look [ [2]]. The dispute in question was the existence of 7 pin S-Video connectors as commonly found on computer graphic cards and laptops. Doniago maintained that obvious or not, a citation was required for their existence and that he was perfectly entitled to delete the entire section as there was none. Following a complaint on the Admin noticeboard, I was duly advised that Doniago was not only perfectly correct, and that he was indeed entitled to delete unsourced content without either tagging it or discussing it. The admin pointed to WP:VERIFY, I would love to point you to the discussion on my talk page, but that was many IP addresses ago, and I can no longer locate it (though the opening shots are still on the S-Video discussion page).
Personally, I agree that it is courtesy to tag it and discuss it (good faith), but apparently Wikipedia policy is otherwise. 86.167.21.68 ( talk) 17:56, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Manning,
Sorry to bother you again with the situation regarding Lecen. The problem he has (or had) with Sandy aside, the user still has other complaints against his behavior by other users [5] (Wee Curry and I). Even if the ANI resolution resolves the Lecen-Sandy problem (doubt it), there is still this matter regarding Lecen's aggressive behavior revolving the discussion at Talk:Paraguayan War (which the WQA complaint summarizes up to a certain point; Lecen never presented his side of the story). Considering that Lecen will inevitably return (assuming the process in WP:DIVA is correct), I fear that he will simply continue to exhibit the same kind of behavior as discussed by Wee Curry and myself. My guess is that nothing can be further done at this point and the WQA will end up archived since Lecen is already blocked. Assuming that Lecen continues behaving in the same manner (which is for some reason apparently being encouraged by the "Lecen was wronged" posts), I hope that this message (which you do not have to reply to) can stay in your memory in case any further problems arise with the user. Best of wishes.-- MarshalN20 | Talk 05:04, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
Speaking of unacceptable edits… Alarbus ( talk) 12:35, 29 January 2012 (UTC) <and I'm off;>
Alarbus ( talk) 05:22, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
I am unclear about that part. The rest is very clear.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 23:48, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
In mine as well. Yes, not seeing the forrest through the trees.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 00:39, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Manning, a thread has just been archived at ANI, and I would like to restore it. Do you know how I do this? It is about the WP:RS closure. I didn't know about the 24 hours archive procedure. Granateple ( talk) 00:42, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Forgive me for being a nit-picker, but you should at least be pleased I read your user page so carefully. In the first two paragraphs, you almost repeated this phrase: "I was in the first group of admins ever appointed." If you want my opinion, I would eliminate the first instance and keep the second.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 01:25, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Toddst1 ( talk) 06:25, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
I express the upmost gratitude towards you. I highly thank you for unblocking me. - Jibajabba
Hi Manning, and apologies if this is not the right place, but I am going to try you anyway! The PROD process seems to be broken, do you know why Category:Proposed deletion still contains 12-day-old PRODs and they aren't marked with the automatic tagging of Category:Expired proposed deletions? Thought you might know. Thank you. Cloudz 679 14:30, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Your concerns have been noted. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 16:55, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
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Please accept this Half Barnstar in recognition of the fact that while we may not agree with each other on some matters, you showed a degree of civility and a willingness to listen that I could not let pass without notice. Doniago ( talk) 03:25, 1 February 2012 (UTC) |
After your recent contribution to WT:FILM - Dude, I think I love you. :) Doniago ( talk) 22:59, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Manning My name is Ashish Acharjee, art historian and curator.
I had edited an article on 'writism', which was existent om wikipedia for the last couple of years - adding some material from the official website 'www.writism.net, with full permission from the copyright holder, Mr Thomas Abraham. The material was originally removed from Wikipedia, by 'fastily' on 13 Jan 12 , and we wrote to him. After editing the matter we put in the matter again. This time it was removed by 'material scientist' . but in the meanwhile, between 13 Jan and 27 Jan 2012, we had got permission from the copyright holder in writing. He had also sent the permission in writing to Wikipedia in the prescribed format, giving full right to put the matter in the public domain.
We communicated this to 'material scientist' last evening. However, today we see that the matter was deleted by you citing that the matter was deleted earlier, so cannot be uploaded. However , the situation on the ground has changed substantially, since the date of the first deletion on 13 Jan 12, as we had in the interim, got the copyright holder to put the matter in the public domain.
If needed we can send you a copy of the legal copyright held by Mr Thomas Abraham as well as a copy of his letter sent to Wikipedia giving permission to put the matter in the public domain.
We noticed that once we write to one administrator/contributor and convince him/her, somebody else deletes it.Could you suggest how we can avoid deletion in the future, as the process has been going on, back and forth for weeks ? — Preceding
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hi manning
wrote to you earlier, but the 'talk' doesn't seem to reflect on the page...perhaps forgot to save it. so writing to you again
the entry on Wikipedia on writism existed way before i edited it in Jan 12. i thought it needed to reflect changes in the artists oeuvre over the last couple of years, since Wikipedia carried the writism article.
this is not a self promotion article. i am an independant art curator, academic and historian, alumnus of IIT and head of SPREAD , an entity dealing in promotion of heritage - both traditional and contemporary.i dont want an article on myself or my organization. But i think equus gazing's work is among the most challenging and astounding i ve encountered any where in quite a while
as for the Times Of India article, both in their daily newspaper on 29 Jan 12 and in their coffee table book TRAILBLAZERS,released the week prior, i could send you a scanned copy of the articles
Ashish Acharjee — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ideaworldwide ( talk • contribs) 13:26, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
I confirm that I have requested an account on the UTRS tool. Manning ( talk)
For one, thanks for stopping to look at it. Two, I'm so glad you said I documented well. I'm a fanfiction author, and authors have the tendency to not appreciate their work, and the whole time I was writing that post, I kept thinking to myself "There's not enough sources, and I sound too mean, and this that and the other...", so I'm glad to hear that. Also, should I remove the information, wait for 74.207 to verify sources, or what? (My guess is the second option, but I just want to verify.) SmallCheez ( talk) 05:32, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
They did it again, 90 minutes after you left the talk page message. [6] I reverted and left a level-2 unsourced template on their talk page, and am informing you. 71.234.215.133 ( talk) 09:03, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello Manning Bartlett.
Your references to deletion policy and XfD are not very helpful. Can you please tell me which specific deletion discussion relates to the content of the delted page
New Art Form. --
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Hello Manning Bartlett,
You seem to have performed a delete last week or so, as indicated by the following log entry.
New Art Form is listed as a CSD notification at [[User talk:Writism1]. I am reviewing the now deleted article Writism with respect to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Writism1. Was New Art Form written by User:Writism? Was it identical to Writism. I'm wondering, because it is not entirely obvious to me that Writism was non-notable, it may have just been written very poorly and with no attention to providing third party references. New Art Form may have been different attempt at covering the same subject but from a different angle. Your deletion tag indicates a previous deletion discussion. Could you please point me to that discussion? Was it Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Writism? -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 12:44, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind words. With all the complaining about the edits on and off Wikipedia (people were complaining on the bands/singer's facebook page as well) I was starting to feel like the bad guy, even though I was in the right as far as Wikipedia goes. Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 19:03, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Dori ☾ Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 06:49, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Steven Zhang Join the DR army! 05:19, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
I responded to the post you made at AN - and then went back and read through the discussions. Are you thinking about a page where it's maybe fully protected so only admins. can edit there? Sort of a "gather around the water-cooler and discuss the flow and mood of things every Friday afternoon and Monday morning" type of thing? If so, I just very well may be open to such a thing. I'd think it would have to be viewable by all, and even an open talk page - but I think it could be very workable. Welcome back by the way - I really like what you're adding to things .. I hope you and your experience can help pull us back from the brink. — Ched : ? 19:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Reply to Ched - AFAICT there is no way under policy to create a page only accessible to admins. However, there might be a way to create a watercooler without violating policy. Create a userpage, eg: User:Manning_Bartlett/Admin Water Cooler and invite all admins to participate there. Because this is covered by WP:NOBAN, I would be within my rights to request all non-admins to refrain from editing the page. However there will be a section within the community which will vehemently oppose this idea, no matter what. Manning ( talk) 08:30, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
I am remembered of an event circa. 2009, where an administrator used the phrase "little shit" (Bishonen). Jimbo jumped in and blocked Bish, and brought forth the phrase "toxic" (environment, or personality? I don't recall the exact quote). The incident created quite a dust-up, which culminated in a request at AC. Anyway .. a page was created in user-space and fully protected. Both Bishonen (as an administrator), and Jimbo (founder) had the technical abilities to edit the page. (it was clearly stated that this page was for use by only those two - so while any administrator had the ability to edit - I doubt anyone would be foolish enough too). The point: We have the technical ability to create, and fully protect the page so that only admins can edit it. You're point about how well it would be accepted however, is an entirely different matter. Bottom line: If you set something in motion, I am more than willing to try to help, contribute, and follow along.
I was introduced to throwing darts 2 years ago - and thoroughly enjoy it. Not only for the competitive aspects (which I'm not particularly good at yet :)) - but the people I've met are the most wonderful folks as well. Much more friendly than the pool (pocket billiards) groups of people that I had known for years. — Ched : ? 14:20, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
In regards to the "what's going on" post of NYB. I have never been able to capture his attention. I fully appreciate that he is a very busy man, so that's not a "he won't talk to me" comment - just an observation. Perhaps if you wanted to mention to him several examples as of late. You are familiar with the Risker/Bugs (block/unblock) situation. (example 1). We now have this situation which you may or may not be aware of. (example 2). Not long ago I noticed a block issue, and due to the mentoring I received in my early days, I thought this was considered the proper procedure. (example 3)
Now everyone is always eager to assist those that they consider good and valuable editors. I am wondering however if some sort of motion by the Arbitration Committee and broadly displayed can help reduce this inconsistency across the admin. community - perhaps it's worth consideration. My understanding has always been:
Now one issue I'm not fully confident in is when the blocked editor actually does post the unblock request - to that, I'll need to do some further reading of current standards.
Now, if a request of some sort must first be presented to AC before they are able to act on it - then I am willing to present that. I would however greatly appreciate any assistance in the proper format, venue, and structure etc. It is NOT my desire to get anyone blocked, banned, stripped of tools, or sanctioned in any fashion what-so-ever; but rather an attempt to stem this tide of reckless behavior. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Manning - I'm getting the very strong impression I'm going to be very glad I approached you. (sorry for the tl;dr, but there's been much on my mind as of late) — Ched : ? 14:20, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
I saw that; it's a good move. But you can't always be around. Such removals should occur regularly and should only be done by more trusted people, which means admins (anyone can consider themselves an "experienced editor". /more/ chaos that way). I had an idea and offer it for your consideration. Have a bot full-protect ANI for 10 minutes every half hour, say at 00–10 and 30–40. During this time admins would be able to clean up with out endless edit conflicts. It would also serve as brief cool-downs for all others. Such culling and breaks would take the heat out of things at regular intervals, which would be beneficial to all. Alarbus ( talk) 05:38, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
You participated in a related discussion before. The current one is here. Japinderum ( talk) 11:46, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
I seriously consider bringing a Civility Enforcement 2 to ArbCom just so they can pass WP:Discretionary sanctions for ANI (participation), i.e. giving to any admin the power to topic ban an editor from ANI, if just temporarily. A less tortuous alternative would be to request the community equivalent, WP:General sanctions, which I see are now being discussed for the Indian caste topic area. Presumably, I should propose this at WP:AN. Thoughts? ASCIIn2Bme ( talk) 16:37, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
I continued an existing discussion, I did not start a new one. We don't need to notify someone every time we add a subheading to a discussion. Also to my knowledge I've never had any contact with Jasper Deng, so I'm not even sure why you think I had contact with him weeks ago. I was adding newly discovered evidence to a very recent incident to show that this behaviour was not a one-off issue for him. It was to show that it was an on-going behavioural issue of which this was only the latest incident, despite his behaviour twice generating consensus that his editing had serious issues, including the issues he just displayed in this incident.-- Crossmr ( talk) 01:29, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
At m:Requests for comment/Meta-wiki requests for comment on users. Maybe you care to offer your own interpretation. ASCIIn2Bme ( talk) 05:05, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed that you edited Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AMS Neve several times, and them deleted your comment altogether. Could you please restore it in order for other editors, who may further participate in this discussion could make a more informed decision on the topic? Thanks in advance! — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 01:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Please see User:Manning Bartlett/Moni3 ANI analysis#Coding the first few items from ANI729. Hopefully this fits somehow into your project of ANI improvement through data analysis. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 23:07, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Do you know anyone who you could recommend? I had an argument with mine about someone sockpuppeting and they posted they don't want to talk to me anymore kinda thing, I thought you might be a good person to ask? Thanks for any help -- Mistress Selina Kyle ( Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉) 13:33, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Honorsteem again. Thank you. Jayjg (talk) 20:03, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Diff #13, Diff #15, and Diff #18 are your 26 January 2002 edits. Dru of Id ( talk) 09:07, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting your close of the DS AN/I thread just now. As you no doubt observed, my comment came exactly one minute after your close. I hadn't been aware of your close as I was composing it, and I consider it especially worthy of some comment of admiration for you doing so, given that I'd opposed your opinion of the matter. With all possible regard, never mind our divergent opinions on this particular issue, I dare say some other admin will come along and re-close before long ( although I'd prefer to see it roll to archives by the default process, personally ) but I appreciate your obvious good will in reverting your close. I hadn't noticed your "Well a few hours have gone by" in-line, preliminary-to-close comment, of course, when I began my edit. I'm surprised, actually, that I didn't get an edit conflict. In any case, you have my sincere respect for your behaviour. It's representative of the best kind of collaborative good will among editors of opposing opinions. Thank you. -- OhioStandard ( talk) 09:15, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
::Mard is anti indian? Darknesshines has created pov articles by the ton and has been blocked 20 times for it so how can you even call yourself an admin when you completely ignored Darknesshines history and attacked mard look at the comments by users who checked Darknesshines attempt at a DYK he was rightly referred to as a "bigot" and pov pusher
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I had an ( edit conflict) with you at ANI, please check the reply-- DBig Xray 12:36, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in my RfA. I appreciate the sentiments expressed there and hope to better myself as a Wikipedian so that next time I run, it'll go better.
By the way, it's great to see you back. For a while I'd thought you left Wikipedia for good. It's always great to see editors from the "dark ages" of Wikipedia still active right up to today. =) Kurtis ( talk) 14:13, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Dear Manning,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.
Best regards, — Hex (❝?!❞) 11:03, 1 October 2012 (UTC).
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Because every time I see this I laugh so hard I forget to give you a barnstar. Beeblebrox ( talk) 06:37, 11 January 2013 (UTC) |
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While I disagree with the change you made based on how I've seen the title written elsewhere, I would normally be 100% okay with you making the change. That said, I'm not sure if you were aware, but you made the edit through protection. Can you undo your edit until it can be discussed? If you feel it was appropriate to make through protection, I'm willing to discuss it with you here. If I'm unable to convince you that it was inappropriate, feel free to leave it in. I have no intention of taking it/you to any other noticeboards as it's a relatively minor issue. Ryan Vesey 01:10, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, Manning. We met more than a year ago. I was blocked on 28 January 2012 by Salvio giuliano for "battleground mentality)" (see my block log) or this). That's an unfair description. I was blocked because I made this comment: [9] (you can see here). As you can see here and more precisely in here I did not talk with the person about whom I made the comment. I was actually ignoring her while she harassed me across Wikipedia. Thus, it cannot be described as "battleground mentality". I came here to ask you to change the description. You can name it "inappropriate tone", "inappropriate words", "inappropriate language" or anything alike, but "battleground mentality" has no relation with what occurred. -- Lecen ( talk) 10:40, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
And to both of you - do not bring your interpersonal dispute to my page. Ever. I've been here way too long to ever be swayed by any statement that begins with "I find this request highly inappropriate...". Manning ( talk) 21:50, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Very good to see you active again in the admin. boards ... greatly appreciated. — Ched : ? 06:26, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
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Your review and closure of the Charlize Theron nationality RfC was appreciated. NickCT ( talk) 11:58, 1 May 2013 (UTC) |
It's a response to your inquiry. Thanks. Nick Levinson ( talk) 14:58, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
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This Barnstar is for your dedication to improve the Wikipedia and for defusing the conflicts. Keep it up! — Sourov0000 ( talk) 05:05, 3 May 2013 (UTC) |
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Amal Alamuddin. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. - Pointillist ( talk) 22:18, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Biggest German news agency dpa and biggest German News mag confirmed his death. No rumour anymore. VINCENZO1492 11:06, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
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She didn't step foot in the US until she was 18. There's many actors/actresses that have lived in the US for decades yet are still by and large considered "british, austrailian" etc. There's no consistency with the wikipedia if you were to list that. Saying she has obtained american citizenship is fine, but this whole ideology that she's both south african and american is not consistent. I know actors that started acting back in the 30s and 40s (golden era hollywood) that spent most of their lives int he US and had citizenship yet were never called "american actresses" in their wikis. I looked at the talk page and their was a lot of back and forth. There are many actresses in hollywoods goldren age (30s, 40s) that still remained "british actress, irish actress/etc while hacing duel citizenship and living inthe US for decades. It's inconsistent and makes no sense to just have Theron as some lone example. If she had by and large grown up in the US I would be even more tolerant towards this. But she didn't even move to the US until she was 18. There absolutely needs to be consistent rules with this amongest the wikipedia I feel. It makes no sense to randonly tack this on with certain actresses. It will just confuse people. SubzeroMK2 ( talk) 23:16, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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How long? 13 years!? WOW! t 1234567890Number c 17:15, 14 January 2015 (UTC) |
Meh - nowhere near as active as I used to be - life has a habit of getting in the way :) But yeah, still tinkering when I get the chance. Manning ( talk) 22:07, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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An old timer. My userID is #100 and I'm now well past my 20 year anniversary. I'm an admin. I have a reputation for being tough but fair.
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For your contributions to the world of skateboarding-related articles, and being one of the first people to edit the page for skateboarding back in 2001! Viva Manning Bartlett! Fun With Ahmed ( EAT A REEF) 21:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC) |
Haven't seen you around in a while :) T. Canens ( talk) 15:29, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Manning. Firstly, welcome back to adminship.
I've just imported some old edits to your user page from the nost:Nostalgia Wikipedia. It's been possible to import edits from that site, plus Meta and some other language Wikipedias, for over a year now. My personal notes about the quirks of importing from the Nostalgia Wikipedia are at User:Graham87/Import. Because your username at the Nostalgia Wikipedia is ManningBartlett, all your edits imported from there can be found under that name in the English Wikipedia. Also, edits that were deleted before Tim Starling merged your old account with the current one can also be found under the name "ManningBartlett" (I've also undeleted quite a few of those edits BTW). Therefore, some time ago I created a redirect from User:ManningBartlett to your current talk page, and I've now updated to point to your recently restored user page.
Hope this is all OK! Graham 87 06:16, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
My 10th wikibirthday is in november or so. When's yours? Surely you can hang on 'till then? :-) -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 23:19, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
In September, the first WikiProject ever created will turn 10 years old. To celebrate, the Signpost's WikiProject Report would like do a special report on the history of the WikiProject concept. Since you created that first project and the famous proposal that started it all, we'd like to interview you. Would you be willing to answer some questions about your original proposal and how the WikiProject concept has grown and evolved over the years? - Mabeenot ( talk) 03:47, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey Manning, I just discovered some earlier edits to the scientific method article that you mentioned on your user page. (The Nostalgia Wikipedia doesn't show that you created it; rather it shows you fixing a grammar error). They can be found at the title "Scientific Method". According to the recently unearthed Wikipedia dumps from August 2001, that article was actually created by Jpmartin on the 6th of March. The Nostalgia Wikipedia contains many many gaps, but at least it contains more old edits than the English Wikipedia. Graham 87 12:55, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Manning Bartlett. Maybe I could understand your comment. Thank you. Takabeg ( talk) 00:56, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I am sorry for my rude behavior on Istanbul Pogrom page. The way I acted liked that is because I had very hard times before. I don't know if you know this event Assassination of Hrant Dink. I knew him very well. He was a really nice person. He was trying to tell the turth in Turkey and eventually he has been killed. It was not a simple killing you can read the article and see who was involved etc. After that I became really emotional and sometimes I can not keep myself calm. After this point I will try to explain everything in a calm way. Ali55te ( talk) 05:24, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
I also understand that, people living far away from a place may not easily know all the details of an event happened somewhere far away. I am really sorry for what happened and I will try to make sure that it will not happen again Ali55te ( talk) 05:46, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Are you still interested in doing the interview for the Signpost? We need to know by the end of this week so we have time to schedule another article if necessary. I think our readers would be very interested in the role you played in creating the WikiProject concept, and I hope you'll allow us to share your story in the Signpost. - Mabeenot ( talk) 21:54, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Manning,
I just wanted to bring your attention to the prominence a post of yours from a couple of years ago has been given in this summary of the history of the debate about that title. I didn't see it at the time, but I appreciate it today. -- Born2cycle ( talk) 06:08, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
I was delighted to see your comments from an old-timer on the blackout discussion page. I was also delighted to reread your anti-rules, which I saw a long enough time ago that I had forgotten them. (If you have never seen m:How to win an argument, you may enjoy it.) Glad to see you still hanging around. Cheers, Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 03:23, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Welcome back. :-) -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 08:51, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Aw, thanks for stopping by; it's always pleasant to see old familiar names around. I'm very lucky to have stumbled into Wikipedia as an after-school time-filler so long ago (when I was 14!) — finding my edits accepted by adults as contributions from just another peer was incredibly encouraging and rewarding, and I'm pretty sure participating helped prepare me for my career-so-far in working with large, messy, semi-technical online communities. Somehow I never got involved with the more bureaucratic side of things here — I wonder if it's only because I had no idea how to sign up for mailing lists back then — but that may have been all for the better. :) Also, somehow my user ID is 32, and I've always wondered how that happened, because I'm sure I wasn't the 32nd user to sign up...probably more like in the hundreds. I imagine some early database migration rearranged usernames alphabetically or something. Heh! Dreamyshade ( talk) 01:23, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
I see your opinion is about to have more weight again. :) Good to see. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 13:07, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Thankyou so much for undoing some of the malicious edits to this page 25 January. I half expected some sort of negative editing to Pankaj Oswal wiki page due to the subjects increased media presence at the moment. Being somewhat new to wiki editing I doubt I could have successfully dealt with yesterdays onslaught of edit changes. Again thankyou so much. A fair go ( talk) 13:32, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
May I ask why you unblocked the IP putting in the unnessacary wrestling media tags in the first place? Tech43 ( talk) 08:35, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Please see this [1] but it looks like he has just got an indefinite block from Alexf. Thank you. Cloudz 679 11:14, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
...for your note. A new editor left me a message as well; we may see more activity in the article. Drmies ( talk) 14:50, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I used to believe the same as you: that sources were not required for the blooming obvious. And then I got into an edit dispute with a user called Doniago. This users edit history shows that he has never contributed anything positive to Wikipedia. All he does is just trawl articles and delete anything that is unsourced (wheter tagged or not) - often 60-70 items at a sitting (Have a look [ [2]]. The dispute in question was the existence of 7 pin S-Video connectors as commonly found on computer graphic cards and laptops. Doniago maintained that obvious or not, a citation was required for their existence and that he was perfectly entitled to delete the entire section as there was none. Following a complaint on the Admin noticeboard, I was duly advised that Doniago was not only perfectly correct, and that he was indeed entitled to delete unsourced content without either tagging it or discussing it. The admin pointed to WP:VERIFY, I would love to point you to the discussion on my talk page, but that was many IP addresses ago, and I can no longer locate it (though the opening shots are still on the S-Video discussion page).
Personally, I agree that it is courtesy to tag it and discuss it (good faith), but apparently Wikipedia policy is otherwise. 86.167.21.68 ( talk) 17:56, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Manning,
Sorry to bother you again with the situation regarding Lecen. The problem he has (or had) with Sandy aside, the user still has other complaints against his behavior by other users [5] (Wee Curry and I). Even if the ANI resolution resolves the Lecen-Sandy problem (doubt it), there is still this matter regarding Lecen's aggressive behavior revolving the discussion at Talk:Paraguayan War (which the WQA complaint summarizes up to a certain point; Lecen never presented his side of the story). Considering that Lecen will inevitably return (assuming the process in WP:DIVA is correct), I fear that he will simply continue to exhibit the same kind of behavior as discussed by Wee Curry and myself. My guess is that nothing can be further done at this point and the WQA will end up archived since Lecen is already blocked. Assuming that Lecen continues behaving in the same manner (which is for some reason apparently being encouraged by the "Lecen was wronged" posts), I hope that this message (which you do not have to reply to) can stay in your memory in case any further problems arise with the user. Best of wishes.-- MarshalN20 | Talk 05:04, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
Speaking of unacceptable edits… Alarbus ( talk) 12:35, 29 January 2012 (UTC) <and I'm off;>
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I am unclear about that part. The rest is very clear.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 23:48, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
In mine as well. Yes, not seeing the forrest through the trees.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 00:39, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Manning, a thread has just been archived at ANI, and I would like to restore it. Do you know how I do this? It is about the WP:RS closure. I didn't know about the 24 hours archive procedure. Granateple ( talk) 00:42, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Forgive me for being a nit-picker, but you should at least be pleased I read your user page so carefully. In the first two paragraphs, you almost repeated this phrase: "I was in the first group of admins ever appointed." If you want my opinion, I would eliminate the first instance and keep the second.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 01:25, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
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I express the upmost gratitude towards you. I highly thank you for unblocking me. - Jibajabba
Hi Manning, and apologies if this is not the right place, but I am going to try you anyway! The PROD process seems to be broken, do you know why Category:Proposed deletion still contains 12-day-old PRODs and they aren't marked with the automatic tagging of Category:Expired proposed deletions? Thought you might know. Thank you. Cloudz 679 14:30, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Your concerns have been noted. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 16:55, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
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After your recent contribution to WT:FILM - Dude, I think I love you. :) Doniago ( talk) 22:59, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Manning My name is Ashish Acharjee, art historian and curator.
I had edited an article on 'writism', which was existent om wikipedia for the last couple of years - adding some material from the official website 'www.writism.net, with full permission from the copyright holder, Mr Thomas Abraham. The material was originally removed from Wikipedia, by 'fastily' on 13 Jan 12 , and we wrote to him. After editing the matter we put in the matter again. This time it was removed by 'material scientist' . but in the meanwhile, between 13 Jan and 27 Jan 2012, we had got permission from the copyright holder in writing. He had also sent the permission in writing to Wikipedia in the prescribed format, giving full right to put the matter in the public domain.
We communicated this to 'material scientist' last evening. However, today we see that the matter was deleted by you citing that the matter was deleted earlier, so cannot be uploaded. However , the situation on the ground has changed substantially, since the date of the first deletion on 13 Jan 12, as we had in the interim, got the copyright holder to put the matter in the public domain.
If needed we can send you a copy of the legal copyright held by Mr Thomas Abraham as well as a copy of his letter sent to Wikipedia giving permission to put the matter in the public domain.
We noticed that once we write to one administrator/contributor and convince him/her, somebody else deletes it.Could you suggest how we can avoid deletion in the future, as the process has been going on, back and forth for weeks ? — Preceding
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hi manning
wrote to you earlier, but the 'talk' doesn't seem to reflect on the page...perhaps forgot to save it. so writing to you again
the entry on Wikipedia on writism existed way before i edited it in Jan 12. i thought it needed to reflect changes in the artists oeuvre over the last couple of years, since Wikipedia carried the writism article.
this is not a self promotion article. i am an independant art curator, academic and historian, alumnus of IIT and head of SPREAD , an entity dealing in promotion of heritage - both traditional and contemporary.i dont want an article on myself or my organization. But i think equus gazing's work is among the most challenging and astounding i ve encountered any where in quite a while
as for the Times Of India article, both in their daily newspaper on 29 Jan 12 and in their coffee table book TRAILBLAZERS,released the week prior, i could send you a scanned copy of the articles
Ashish Acharjee — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ideaworldwide ( talk • contribs) 13:26, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
I confirm that I have requested an account on the UTRS tool. Manning ( talk)
For one, thanks for stopping to look at it. Two, I'm so glad you said I documented well. I'm a fanfiction author, and authors have the tendency to not appreciate their work, and the whole time I was writing that post, I kept thinking to myself "There's not enough sources, and I sound too mean, and this that and the other...", so I'm glad to hear that. Also, should I remove the information, wait for 74.207 to verify sources, or what? (My guess is the second option, but I just want to verify.) SmallCheez ( talk) 05:32, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
They did it again, 90 minutes after you left the talk page message. [6] I reverted and left a level-2 unsourced template on their talk page, and am informing you. 71.234.215.133 ( talk) 09:03, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello Manning Bartlett.
Your references to deletion policy and XfD are not very helpful. Can you please tell me which specific deletion discussion relates to the content of the delted page
New Art Form. --
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Hello Manning Bartlett,
You seem to have performed a delete last week or so, as indicated by the following log entry.
New Art Form is listed as a CSD notification at [[User talk:Writism1]. I am reviewing the now deleted article Writism with respect to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Writism1. Was New Art Form written by User:Writism? Was it identical to Writism. I'm wondering, because it is not entirely obvious to me that Writism was non-notable, it may have just been written very poorly and with no attention to providing third party references. New Art Form may have been different attempt at covering the same subject but from a different angle. Your deletion tag indicates a previous deletion discussion. Could you please point me to that discussion? Was it Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Writism? -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 12:44, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind words. With all the complaining about the edits on and off Wikipedia (people were complaining on the bands/singer's facebook page as well) I was starting to feel like the bad guy, even though I was in the right as far as Wikipedia goes. Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 19:03, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
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Steven Zhang Join the DR army! 05:19, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
I responded to the post you made at AN - and then went back and read through the discussions. Are you thinking about a page where it's maybe fully protected so only admins. can edit there? Sort of a "gather around the water-cooler and discuss the flow and mood of things every Friday afternoon and Monday morning" type of thing? If so, I just very well may be open to such a thing. I'd think it would have to be viewable by all, and even an open talk page - but I think it could be very workable. Welcome back by the way - I really like what you're adding to things .. I hope you and your experience can help pull us back from the brink. — Ched : ? 19:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Reply to Ched - AFAICT there is no way under policy to create a page only accessible to admins. However, there might be a way to create a watercooler without violating policy. Create a userpage, eg: User:Manning_Bartlett/Admin Water Cooler and invite all admins to participate there. Because this is covered by WP:NOBAN, I would be within my rights to request all non-admins to refrain from editing the page. However there will be a section within the community which will vehemently oppose this idea, no matter what. Manning ( talk) 08:30, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
I am remembered of an event circa. 2009, where an administrator used the phrase "little shit" (Bishonen). Jimbo jumped in and blocked Bish, and brought forth the phrase "toxic" (environment, or personality? I don't recall the exact quote). The incident created quite a dust-up, which culminated in a request at AC. Anyway .. a page was created in user-space and fully protected. Both Bishonen (as an administrator), and Jimbo (founder) had the technical abilities to edit the page. (it was clearly stated that this page was for use by only those two - so while any administrator had the ability to edit - I doubt anyone would be foolish enough too). The point: We have the technical ability to create, and fully protect the page so that only admins can edit it. You're point about how well it would be accepted however, is an entirely different matter. Bottom line: If you set something in motion, I am more than willing to try to help, contribute, and follow along.
I was introduced to throwing darts 2 years ago - and thoroughly enjoy it. Not only for the competitive aspects (which I'm not particularly good at yet :)) - but the people I've met are the most wonderful folks as well. Much more friendly than the pool (pocket billiards) groups of people that I had known for years. — Ched : ? 14:20, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
In regards to the "what's going on" post of NYB. I have never been able to capture his attention. I fully appreciate that he is a very busy man, so that's not a "he won't talk to me" comment - just an observation. Perhaps if you wanted to mention to him several examples as of late. You are familiar with the Risker/Bugs (block/unblock) situation. (example 1). We now have this situation which you may or may not be aware of. (example 2). Not long ago I noticed a block issue, and due to the mentoring I received in my early days, I thought this was considered the proper procedure. (example 3)
Now everyone is always eager to assist those that they consider good and valuable editors. I am wondering however if some sort of motion by the Arbitration Committee and broadly displayed can help reduce this inconsistency across the admin. community - perhaps it's worth consideration. My understanding has always been:
Now one issue I'm not fully confident in is when the blocked editor actually does post the unblock request - to that, I'll need to do some further reading of current standards.
Now, if a request of some sort must first be presented to AC before they are able to act on it - then I am willing to present that. I would however greatly appreciate any assistance in the proper format, venue, and structure etc. It is NOT my desire to get anyone blocked, banned, stripped of tools, or sanctioned in any fashion what-so-ever; but rather an attempt to stem this tide of reckless behavior. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Manning - I'm getting the very strong impression I'm going to be very glad I approached you. (sorry for the tl;dr, but there's been much on my mind as of late) — Ched : ? 14:20, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
I saw that; it's a good move. But you can't always be around. Such removals should occur regularly and should only be done by more trusted people, which means admins (anyone can consider themselves an "experienced editor". /more/ chaos that way). I had an idea and offer it for your consideration. Have a bot full-protect ANI for 10 minutes every half hour, say at 00–10 and 30–40. During this time admins would be able to clean up with out endless edit conflicts. It would also serve as brief cool-downs for all others. Such culling and breaks would take the heat out of things at regular intervals, which would be beneficial to all. Alarbus ( talk) 05:38, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
You participated in a related discussion before. The current one is here. Japinderum ( talk) 11:46, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
I seriously consider bringing a Civility Enforcement 2 to ArbCom just so they can pass WP:Discretionary sanctions for ANI (participation), i.e. giving to any admin the power to topic ban an editor from ANI, if just temporarily. A less tortuous alternative would be to request the community equivalent, WP:General sanctions, which I see are now being discussed for the Indian caste topic area. Presumably, I should propose this at WP:AN. Thoughts? ASCIIn2Bme ( talk) 16:37, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
I continued an existing discussion, I did not start a new one. We don't need to notify someone every time we add a subheading to a discussion. Also to my knowledge I've never had any contact with Jasper Deng, so I'm not even sure why you think I had contact with him weeks ago. I was adding newly discovered evidence to a very recent incident to show that this behaviour was not a one-off issue for him. It was to show that it was an on-going behavioural issue of which this was only the latest incident, despite his behaviour twice generating consensus that his editing had serious issues, including the issues he just displayed in this incident.-- Crossmr ( talk) 01:29, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
At m:Requests for comment/Meta-wiki requests for comment on users. Maybe you care to offer your own interpretation. ASCIIn2Bme ( talk) 05:05, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed that you edited Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AMS Neve several times, and them deleted your comment altogether. Could you please restore it in order for other editors, who may further participate in this discussion could make a more informed decision on the topic? Thanks in advance! — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 01:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Please see User:Manning Bartlett/Moni3 ANI analysis#Coding the first few items from ANI729. Hopefully this fits somehow into your project of ANI improvement through data analysis. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 23:07, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Do you know anyone who you could recommend? I had an argument with mine about someone sockpuppeting and they posted they don't want to talk to me anymore kinda thing, I thought you might be a good person to ask? Thanks for any help -- Mistress Selina Kyle ( Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉) 13:33, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
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Diff #13, Diff #15, and Diff #18 are your 26 January 2002 edits. Dru of Id ( talk) 09:07, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting your close of the DS AN/I thread just now. As you no doubt observed, my comment came exactly one minute after your close. I hadn't been aware of your close as I was composing it, and I consider it especially worthy of some comment of admiration for you doing so, given that I'd opposed your opinion of the matter. With all possible regard, never mind our divergent opinions on this particular issue, I dare say some other admin will come along and re-close before long ( although I'd prefer to see it roll to archives by the default process, personally ) but I appreciate your obvious good will in reverting your close. I hadn't noticed your "Well a few hours have gone by" in-line, preliminary-to-close comment, of course, when I began my edit. I'm surprised, actually, that I didn't get an edit conflict. In any case, you have my sincere respect for your behaviour. It's representative of the best kind of collaborative good will among editors of opposing opinions. Thank you. -- OhioStandard ( talk) 09:15, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
::Mard is anti indian? Darknesshines has created pov articles by the ton and has been blocked 20 times for it so how can you even call yourself an admin when you completely ignored Darknesshines history and attacked mard look at the comments by users who checked Darknesshines attempt at a DYK he was rightly referred to as a "bigot" and pov pusher
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Thank you for participating in my RfA. I appreciate the sentiments expressed there and hope to better myself as a Wikipedian so that next time I run, it'll go better.
By the way, it's great to see you back. For a while I'd thought you left Wikipedia for good. It's always great to see editors from the "dark ages" of Wikipedia still active right up to today. =) Kurtis ( talk) 14:13, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, Manning. We met more than a year ago. I was blocked on 28 January 2012 by Salvio giuliano for "battleground mentality)" (see my block log) or this). That's an unfair description. I was blocked because I made this comment: [9] (you can see here). As you can see here and more precisely in here I did not talk with the person about whom I made the comment. I was actually ignoring her while she harassed me across Wikipedia. Thus, it cannot be described as "battleground mentality". I came here to ask you to change the description. You can name it "inappropriate tone", "inappropriate words", "inappropriate language" or anything alike, but "battleground mentality" has no relation with what occurred. -- Lecen ( talk) 10:40, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
And to both of you - do not bring your interpersonal dispute to my page. Ever. I've been here way too long to ever be swayed by any statement that begins with "I find this request highly inappropriate...". Manning ( talk) 21:50, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Very good to see you active again in the admin. boards ... greatly appreciated. — Ched : ? 06:26, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
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She didn't step foot in the US until she was 18. There's many actors/actresses that have lived in the US for decades yet are still by and large considered "british, austrailian" etc. There's no consistency with the wikipedia if you were to list that. Saying she has obtained american citizenship is fine, but this whole ideology that she's both south african and american is not consistent. I know actors that started acting back in the 30s and 40s (golden era hollywood) that spent most of their lives int he US and had citizenship yet were never called "american actresses" in their wikis. I looked at the talk page and their was a lot of back and forth. There are many actresses in hollywoods goldren age (30s, 40s) that still remained "british actress, irish actress/etc while hacing duel citizenship and living inthe US for decades. It's inconsistent and makes no sense to just have Theron as some lone example. If she had by and large grown up in the US I would be even more tolerant towards this. But she didn't even move to the US until she was 18. There absolutely needs to be consistent rules with this amongest the wikipedia I feel. It makes no sense to randonly tack this on with certain actresses. It will just confuse people. SubzeroMK2 ( talk) 23:16, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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Meh - nowhere near as active as I used to be - life has a habit of getting in the way :) But yeah, still tinkering when I get the chance. Manning ( talk) 22:07, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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Started a stub for "Dolly" Everett - Suicide of Amy Everett. Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 21:16, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
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contains_all
that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).
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equals_to_any
function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to
see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to
Logstash.
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any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.
standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people.( American Politics 2 Arbitration case).
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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
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post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
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delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at
Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
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delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect
Intactivism. The discussion will occur at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 April 28#Intactivism until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. --
Sangdeboeuf (
talk)
01:49, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
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oversight
will be renamed to suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
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A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi!
You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.
When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.
Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.
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oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
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deletelogentry
and deletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the
Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (
T301928)The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
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user_global_editcount
is a new variable that can be used in
abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (
T130439)News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
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I have nominated Emperor Norton for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 01:29, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
Established
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Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 08:30, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
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Established
policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of January 2023.
Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.
Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:55, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
Established
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Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.
Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux Talk 02:19, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
It didn't look like you wanted to lose admin rights. -- The Cunctator ( talk) 18:38, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
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[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to
note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.
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Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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