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Hi Matthew. I'm a bit puzzled by the failure on Talk:Illecillewaet Glacier/GA1. I made changes related to your comments here, and left comments at the nom, but did not hear back from you. At this point I'm not clear on why it was failed. Maybe just a communication error? The image copyright is complicated, and we're waiting to hear back from the Smithsonian on its status (it's pretty much an "OTRS pending" situation.) From your initial review, I thought we were close :( The Interior (Talk) 04:29, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
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hey, thanks! (I don't always know what "buttons" I can use!) MathewTownsend ( talk) 18:48, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Please help to establish notability of the minister from Nigeria you just posted. Just being a minister from Nigeria does not mean the subject is notable. Please review notability guidelines, and then write examples into the article with inline sourcing to external and reliable sources. Happy editing Standard2211 ( talk) 20:19, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!
On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.
For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another office hours session. This one is tomorrow, at 22:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office connect - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!
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How do we know that Schloßborn is probably (!) the oldest recorded settlement? - We don't know a record of an older settlement. Until we find a so far unknown record of something older, it's the oldest. How to say that? How do we answer your question? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:54, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
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I'm reading that you prefer not to be involved in GA at the present time, so have closed and relisted the GAN. I am grateful for your help with the article and hope you will check in on it when it comes time to take it to FAC. All the best.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 19:14, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
or lack of it: "be dogged" - what does it mean? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:00, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
ps: I performed a refreshing clean-up on my talk and enjoyed your barnstar especially, a keeper, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:02, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :).
We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.
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Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 12:07, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
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Feel free to update yourself to {{ Yeoman Editor}} next month, or if you prefer to go by edit-count rather than period of service, go ahead and replace this with {{ Veteran Editor II}}. Welcome to the cabal. Nikkimaria ( talk) 15:07, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
I noticed (only because I had a "new messages" bar) that you removed a posting by White Cat on my talkpage. I'm not certain why you removed it. Please let me know if it was an inadvertent misclick, or if you saw something seriously wrong with that post. Thank you. Newyorkbrad ( talk) 15:56, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mathew, in case you didn't see it, I left a very detailed response here on my talk about your concerns. Thanks. Truthkeeper ( talk) 17:13, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
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( edit conflict)}
You've been here for almost a year now. Continuing to insist that you are a "newbie" being purposely left out of the "old crew" isn't helping you anywhere; if anything, you're creating a self-fufilling prophecy by poisoning the pot against you. Like any regular company or website, everyone has their own institutional memory—for example, I've been here since 2006, yet I have no idea what MRG and Truthkeeper are talking about. So, in short: please stop. Your attitude got old a long time ago. Thanks in advance. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 21:51, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Mathew, in the interest of disclosure, I was asked to talk to you about this issue with The Story of Miss Moppet being at WP:TFAR and related issues, see User_talk:PumpkinSky#MathewTownsend. I see you began editing in Nov 2011, so may not be aware of my background. I was once an admin, crat, CU, OS, and arb. I mention this only because it means I've dealt with a lot of private info in my wiki life and know fully well there are often private and legal reasons for decisions being made that simply cannot be revealed in a public forum. There have been enough allusions made here in this case here that I can tell this is a significant factor here. I was also involved in the Halloween 2010 issues, which involved CCI matters. Two people have asked you to stay off their talk pages already. Please trust me on this, you don't want this to blow up on you: a) you don't want to be part of a CCI/TFA mess and b) the privacy and legal issues. Either alone is plenty of reason to let this go, so please, for your own sake, just let it go and stop beating the horse. There are other reasons, such as ItsLassieTime is a serial sock and bigtime plagiarizer where we need to be extra careful. As Iri said, ""preserve all history" and "delete all copyvios from the history""--you can't do both. You do some good work here, I recall your GA review of Noel F. Parrish fondly, which is where we've previously had the most interaction. PumpkinSky talk 00:17, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Mathew- since you did the GA review for Natchez Massacre, I wanted to know if you'd like to comment at the article's FAC page (I nominated it for FA at the beginning of the month). Thanks. Jsayre64 (talk) 01:49, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
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Saw your comment on the ArbCom request. Understand you got embroiled in some fracas involving FA / Beatrix Potter. (I've just been skimming through applicable portions of your, Nikkimaria, SilkTork, Pumpkin Sky and Iridescent's talk pages.) Editors engaged in the GA FA process tend to care deeply about Wikipedia and article quality, and sometimes the human element isn't handled as well as it should be. Unfortunately, the civility pillar is the weakest and most problematic of Wikipedia, not because of the actions of any individual editor, but because there's never been consensus on what is and what isn't reasonable behavior. Contributing in certain high traffic areas, such as FA, require both content knowledge and political skill and judgement, and edits like this indicate you haven't developed the latter quite yet. All in all, I'm not seeing any malice towards you, just frustration.
This does not mean you can't be a valuable asset to Wikipedia: we currently have a quarter million unreferenced tags that need addressing. We have 3000 articles needing copy editing. I think there's a strong argument that turning one of Wikipedia's current crap articles into something reasonably encyclopedic is more valuable than polishing decent articles to FA status.
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Hi Matthew,
Just a quick reminder that the above article is still " on review". I'm sorry to see you're leaving Wikipedia, a great loss to the community. Thanks for all your work! If you're still knocking around I'd be delighted to have your experience brought to bear on the TGS article. Best wishes, -- Ktlynch ( talk) 12:48, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm just curious, but why didn't you ask for a second opinion instead of failing it? Viriditas ( talk) 12:06, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
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Are you still reviewing this article for GAN? -- Rs chen 7754 03:05, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Mathew, I noticed you posted to my page and that someone deleted your post. An update for you. First I notified you that Miss Moppet has been submitted to FAR and I sincerely believe that you are the impetus for bringing to light a mess that needs to be resolved. In that sense I wish you wouldn't beat yourself up and instead I invite you to join the conversation. It's a tricky issue and I think every voice and opinion is valuable. Furthermore, I went to the library today and checked out most of the Beatrix Potter sources with the intention of combing through the pages that haven't yet been scrubbed. This is something that needs to be done, and again I believe you've been the impetus for this. I realize you think you've been badly treated but want to underscore that out of this mess will come a lot of good - and so I have to thank you for that. I'm sorry you believe I've mentioned conspiracies - I don't remember doing so and if you could give a diff I'd happily retract or apologize if necessary. Thanks. Truthkeeper ( talk) 21:17, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mathew, I started checking sources on here. I've simply deleted everything that's verbatim from the source because I'm pressed for time - and I've shown in the edit summaries why the material is being deleted. The page numbers are all correct and if you think you could adequately paraphrase or summarize that material to put it back, that would be great. Unfortunately it's slow work to check against the books. Truthkeeper ( talk) 23:08, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Matthew. I'm a bit puzzled by the failure on Talk:Illecillewaet Glacier/GA1. I made changes related to your comments here, and left comments at the nom, but did not hear back from you. At this point I'm not clear on why it was failed. Maybe just a communication error? The image copyright is complicated, and we're waiting to hear back from the Smithsonian on its status (it's pretty much an "OTRS pending" situation.) From your initial review, I thought we were close :( The Interior (Talk) 04:29, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
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hey, thanks! (I don't always know what "buttons" I can use!) MathewTownsend ( talk) 18:48, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Please help to establish notability of the minister from Nigeria you just posted. Just being a minister from Nigeria does not mean the subject is notable. Please review notability guidelines, and then write examples into the article with inline sourcing to external and reliable sources. Happy editing Standard2211 ( talk) 20:19, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!
On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.
For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another office hours session. This one is tomorrow, at 22:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office connect - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!
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How do we know that Schloßborn is probably (!) the oldest recorded settlement? - We don't know a record of an older settlement. Until we find a so far unknown record of something older, it's the oldest. How to say that? How do we answer your question? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:54, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
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I'm reading that you prefer not to be involved in GA at the present time, so have closed and relisted the GAN. I am grateful for your help with the article and hope you will check in on it when it comes time to take it to FAC. All the best.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 19:14, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
or lack of it: "be dogged" - what does it mean? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:00, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
ps: I performed a refreshing clean-up on my talk and enjoyed your barnstar especially, a keeper, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:02, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :).
We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.
However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.
Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 12:07, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Continuing to post at that talk page when you have been asked not to do so "unless you have something to say that directly concerns [Iridescent]" is not helping anything or anyone. Please leave the matter for now. Bencherlite Talk 22:25, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
If you post on that page again (having been asked twice not to), or make personal comments about TK again, I will block you from editing. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 22:25, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Feel free to update yourself to {{ Yeoman Editor}} next month, or if you prefer to go by edit-count rather than period of service, go ahead and replace this with {{ Veteran Editor II}}. Welcome to the cabal. Nikkimaria ( talk) 15:07, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
I noticed (only because I had a "new messages" bar) that you removed a posting by White Cat on my talkpage. I'm not certain why you removed it. Please let me know if it was an inadvertent misclick, or if you saw something seriously wrong with that post. Thank you. Newyorkbrad ( talk) 15:56, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mathew, in case you didn't see it, I left a very detailed response here on my talk about your concerns. Thanks. Truthkeeper ( talk) 17:13, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
If you want to refer to something I've said, I'll request that you quote me exactly, with diffs. This is in accordance with WP:TPNO, which says, in part, "Do not misrepresent other people: The record should accurately show significant exchanges that took place, and in the right context. This usually means: Be precise in quoting others." I never said anything remotely suggesting that "edit history" doesn't count, and I do not wish you to misrepresent me in this way. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:32, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
( edit conflict)}
You've been here for almost a year now. Continuing to insist that you are a "newbie" being purposely left out of the "old crew" isn't helping you anywhere; if anything, you're creating a self-fufilling prophecy by poisoning the pot against you. Like any regular company or website, everyone has their own institutional memory—for example, I've been here since 2006, yet I have no idea what MRG and Truthkeeper are talking about. So, in short: please stop. Your attitude got old a long time ago. Thanks in advance. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 21:51, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Mathew, in the interest of disclosure, I was asked to talk to you about this issue with The Story of Miss Moppet being at WP:TFAR and related issues, see User_talk:PumpkinSky#MathewTownsend. I see you began editing in Nov 2011, so may not be aware of my background. I was once an admin, crat, CU, OS, and arb. I mention this only because it means I've dealt with a lot of private info in my wiki life and know fully well there are often private and legal reasons for decisions being made that simply cannot be revealed in a public forum. There have been enough allusions made here in this case here that I can tell this is a significant factor here. I was also involved in the Halloween 2010 issues, which involved CCI matters. Two people have asked you to stay off their talk pages already. Please trust me on this, you don't want this to blow up on you: a) you don't want to be part of a CCI/TFA mess and b) the privacy and legal issues. Either alone is plenty of reason to let this go, so please, for your own sake, just let it go and stop beating the horse. There are other reasons, such as ItsLassieTime is a serial sock and bigtime plagiarizer where we need to be extra careful. As Iri said, ""preserve all history" and "delete all copyvios from the history""--you can't do both. You do some good work here, I recall your GA review of Noel F. Parrish fondly, which is where we've previously had the most interaction. PumpkinSky talk 00:17, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Mathew- since you did the GA review for Natchez Massacre, I wanted to know if you'd like to comment at the article's FAC page (I nominated it for FA at the beginning of the month). Thanks. Jsayre64 (talk) 01:49, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Just a note, but you've been mentioned here. Mark Arsten ( talk) 16:48, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
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Don't let Malleus chase you off the website. I'll do whatever I can to make sure he never bothers you again.-- MONGO 00:51, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, MathewTownsend. Please don't do anything else like this. Never edit or move someone's comment to change its meaning, even on your own talk page. -- Dianna ( talk) 05:10, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
MathewTownsend ( talk) 14:37, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
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Saw your comment on the ArbCom request. Understand you got embroiled in some fracas involving FA / Beatrix Potter. (I've just been skimming through applicable portions of your, Nikkimaria, SilkTork, Pumpkin Sky and Iridescent's talk pages.) Editors engaged in the GA FA process tend to care deeply about Wikipedia and article quality, and sometimes the human element isn't handled as well as it should be. Unfortunately, the civility pillar is the weakest and most problematic of Wikipedia, not because of the actions of any individual editor, but because there's never been consensus on what is and what isn't reasonable behavior. Contributing in certain high traffic areas, such as FA, require both content knowledge and political skill and judgement, and edits like this indicate you haven't developed the latter quite yet. All in all, I'm not seeing any malice towards you, just frustration.
This does not mean you can't be a valuable asset to Wikipedia: we currently have a quarter million unreferenced tags that need addressing. We have 3000 articles needing copy editing. I think there's a strong argument that turning one of Wikipedia's current crap articles into something reasonably encyclopedic is more valuable than polishing decent articles to FA status.
With regards to Malleus he's easy to deal with if you choose to. Avoid and ignore. If you see an article he is or has recently worked on, just let it be. If he contributes to a discussion, ignore the tone and focus on the content. If you feel it's on topic respond, if not, just don't. He's not one to hold grudges against specific editors, so you won't have a long term issue with him unless you choose to. Nobody Ent 14:14, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Matthew,
Just a quick reminder that the above article is still " on review". I'm sorry to see you're leaving Wikipedia, a great loss to the community. Thanks for all your work! If you're still knocking around I'd be delighted to have your experience brought to bear on the TGS article. Best wishes, -- Ktlynch ( talk) 12:48, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm just curious, but why didn't you ask for a second opinion instead of failing it? Viriditas ( talk) 12:06, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
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Are you still reviewing this article for GAN? -- Rs chen 7754 03:05, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Mathew, I noticed you posted to my page and that someone deleted your post. An update for you. First I notified you that Miss Moppet has been submitted to FAR and I sincerely believe that you are the impetus for bringing to light a mess that needs to be resolved. In that sense I wish you wouldn't beat yourself up and instead I invite you to join the conversation. It's a tricky issue and I think every voice and opinion is valuable. Furthermore, I went to the library today and checked out most of the Beatrix Potter sources with the intention of combing through the pages that haven't yet been scrubbed. This is something that needs to be done, and again I believe you've been the impetus for this. I realize you think you've been badly treated but want to underscore that out of this mess will come a lot of good - and so I have to thank you for that. I'm sorry you believe I've mentioned conspiracies - I don't remember doing so and if you could give a diff I'd happily retract or apologize if necessary. Thanks. Truthkeeper ( talk) 21:17, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mathew, I started checking sources on here. I've simply deleted everything that's verbatim from the source because I'm pressed for time - and I've shown in the edit summaries why the material is being deleted. The page numbers are all correct and if you think you could adequately paraphrase or summarize that material to put it back, that would be great. Unfortunately it's slow work to check against the books. Truthkeeper ( talk) 23:08, 5 November 2012 (UTC)