Lynn ( talk) 22:10, 25 March 2024 (UTC) sends thanks to Melanie for your encouraging feedback to this Wiki semi-newbie regarding his scale to quantify the darkness of the night sky. And for all you do for Wikipedia.
Hello,
I am writing to you concerned about moderator Wes Sideman (whom I have linked to below). He seems to have an obsession with this television character “Chad Johnson” from the TV show “The Bachelorette” and his Wikipedia page. He continues to change the notoriety of Chad Johnson from his TV shows, to his arrest records attempting to defame him. Those charges were dropped and as you can see in the video below, his girlfriend admits no assault happened. Apparently Wes Sideman knows more than the two people actually involved in the incident. Wes Sideman also continues to remove any remotely good press about Chad from the Wikipedia page. For some reason Wes has been monitoring and harassing this Wikipedia page for over two years now. If you have time, I would ask or suggest that you look into doing something about this Wes Sideman moderator using an abuse of power on Wikipedia.
Thank you.
Admission of no assault - https://youtu .be/qyK8-_kaVt8
Examples of Wes Sideman’s edits - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1116808783
Wes Sideman’s page - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Wes_sideman&action=view
Chad Johnson’s Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Johnson_(TV_personality) 193.192.116.74 ( talk) 19:53, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi MelanieN, hoping you are well. Can you pls do something about the talk page of Socrates, someone is messing around, apparently. [1] Cinadon 36 11:19, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! I raised this issue at ANI but no admins have responded. User:GigachadGigachad has made a slew of unsourced and misrepresented edits and removed content without explaining why, for which they were blocked in the past, and yet they are at this point ignoring the many warnings that users have posted on their talk page. This seems like a clear WP:CIR issue, so can you take action? Thanks. (Also sorry for posting this, deleting, and then reposting. Had some big formatting issues) Cpotisch ( talk) 21:16, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
I was just doing some editing for the first time in a while (someone was putting in spam links in article I was interested in) and so was catching up and looking back. I see I got a barnstar once from someone who is now an admin, though it has been a long time so you might not remember giving it to me. I need to find that article I was quoted in. Anyways, glad to see you are doing well here. I think I might have caught the editing bug again, so I might do some more editing now again. XinJeisan ( talk) 07:08, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Happy adminship anniversary! Hi MelanieN! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:45, 21 January 2023 (UTC) |
Hi MelanieN. I work for Pure Storage and have a disclosed COI. The page seems to have a confusing history. At times editors have said to edit the page, to not edit the page, that the company already edited the page inappropriately (many years ago), and there’s a lot of very vague comments/feedback saying the page needs improvement.
I disclosed a COI and requested some edits here to clarify the Purity OS is used on most (but not all) products, to update the list of product families, etc. A couple editors responded, but it is not very clear what next steps are. Your help would be much appreciated if you could clear the fog, even if it’s just to tell me my requested edits are bad and why. ZacBond ( talk) 21:53, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that the pages Kiefer Sutherland and Charlize Theron are both indefinitely semi-protected but are both missing the padlock icon at the top right of the page, can you fix this for both pages? Thanks. Voabo ( talk) 23:23, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for taking care of the vandalism on the page. However, I would consider the 1 month protection too long. Right now, the page is being worked on a lot as it got newly released and a lot of people come around. Could you reduce the protection again to one level lower than now? Vestigium Leonis ( talk) 22:53, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I understand you declined the RfPP request for Gqeberha because most of the disruptive edits were by a single auto-confirmed editor, Dgv102. Of course this is completely reasonable.
You might want to take another look at their edits though as they have continued to remove/change referenced content about South African city naming across several articles. Also another IP ( 196.41.10.18 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS)) continues to make similar edits at Gqeberha and other South African city articles.
Thanks! — MarkH21 talk 11:39, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
If you censor me I will report you to the USA House of Representative media committee, so they're WP:NOTHERE. — MarkH21 talk 12:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi MelanieN. I've noticed that you reduced from ECP to semi-protection on Hogwarts Legacy with expiration time left in place. However, you may have not noticed that another admin placed indefinite semi-protection under CT procedures per WP:GENSEX? See the log here: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Log&logid=140949542.
In my opinion, I think you should revert back to indefinite as other admins cannot modify his restriction under CT procedures for one year without his affirmative consent, community consensus, or arbcom. Stylez995 ( talk) 20:33, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your change, but it seems like protection of ScotRail after three bad edits in 10 days seems like overkill. I wouldn't say we are struggling to say on top of the article in any way. Just my US$0.02. 10mmsocket ( talk) 08:09, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi Melanie - rather than further mucking up the RfC talk, I wanted to ask you about USPLACE here for a minute. For years, I was essentially neutral on this. I see the pros of keeping the USPLACE status quo - it's a bright line rule, and as you note, it is at least rooted in one clearly reliable source. But after seeing the issue come up over and over and over, either as a full RfC, or on individual city article RMs (and I think your private list is missing a number of those discussions, just fyi), I've come around to thinking that the only way to truly retire this as an issue is to do one simple thing: anywhere - but only where - a city name is a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to a city article, swap City, State for City. That's it. No other discussion needed. This would mean zero "constant battles" because the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC has already been decided. If someone wants to battle about Phoenix or Nashville or Raleigh or Charlotte, they are already free to do that today - regardless of USPLACE. Swapping primaryredirects would have no impact on Springfield or Greenville or anywhere else - no battles.
The main problem with USPLACE - the reason challenging it will never die - is because it is so arbitrary. It's a fundamentally flawed compromise. There have been countless other Wiki battles that did resolve - WP:COMMA, WP:ENDASH, New York, etc. This one keeps going because in standard American usage, there is no reason to allow Seattle but not Nashville, or to allow Honolulu but not Beverly Hills.
I know you've been a staunch supporter of USPLACE for a long time. I also know you are a dedicated, smart, pragmatic editor. This just feels to me like the pragmatic way out of all this! Appreciate you taking the time here, and interested in your thoughts. Dohn joe ( talk) 16:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
You were the deleting admin on this article. I was wondering if you could please userfy it for me. The issues included the nominator and one of the comments were sock puppets.
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ron_Duncan_(2nd_nomination)
BlackAmerican ( talk) 02:32, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Omar (opera) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! GRuban ( talk) 14:54, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
On 6 April 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Omar (opera), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the opera Omar, about the Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said, had its world premiere in a theater located less than a mile (1.6 km) from the site where he was sold as a slave? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Omar (opera). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Omar (opera)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
BorgQueen ( talk) 00:02, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
my story today |
Thank you! It's also featured on project opera. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:26, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
I loved to see Marian Anderson and her story of protest against discrimination by singing on Easter Sunday 9 April 1939 on the Main page yesterday. Impressions of Easter here and music here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:28, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I stumbled across the Megyn Kelly page and noticed that it is indefinitely semi-protected but is missing the padlock icon at the top right of the page, can you fix this? Thanks. Kyle Idleman ( talk) 03:05, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
The Joe Rogan page has been indefinitely semi-protected for a long time but the prior PC settings have not been reset. Can you please take care of this? Kyle Idleman ( talk) 16:01, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
MelanieN ( talk) I thought you might find this story and photos very informative: [1] Activist ( talk) 11:41, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
References
RE: this: Would a range block not work? - Adolphus79 ( talk) 18:58, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ MelanieN: I noticed you were one of the administrators who voted to keep the page Mark Chasan (founder & CEO of a publicly traded company) during its first AfD about 15 years ago. The page has been nominated for deletion again with no consensus reached and no voting activity since its relisting last week. For context, a quick edit history since the renomination shows promo has been removed and NPOV has been improved. I wanted to send you a note in case you had thoughts you wanted to share. Editchecker123 ( talk) 14:47, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:25, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi MelanieN. I work for LastPass. I disclosed a COI, flagged about half of the page being focused on security breaches, and got a response from @ Chumpih:. He seemed to agree but doesn’t want to keep editing without other editor(s) weighing in. I was hoping you might take a look and weigh in [ /info/en/?search=Talk:LastPass#NPOV_Issues here]. Appreciate your time. AmyMarchiando ( talk) 18:06, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, the following indefinitely semi-protected pages need their prior PC settings reset:
Would you kindly take care of this for both pages? Thanks. Supernoodler ( talk) 23:55, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi, the following indefinitely semi-protected pages need their prior PC settings reset:
Also, you may decide to take a look at Special:StablePages to see if there are anymore.
If you don't mind, would you take care of this for all the above pages? Thanks. Visualian ( talk) 16:03, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
Greetings, the Denmark page has been indefinitely semi-protected for more than four years but still has not had its prior PC settings reset. Would you kindly please take care of this? Thanks. Joshuanite ( talk) 02:43, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
Greetings, the following indefinitely semi-protected or extended confirmed pages have not had their prior PC settings reset for whatever reason:
Would you please fix this on each of the above pages? Thank you. Spaniolo ( talk) 20:23, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi MelanieN. I disclosed a conflict of interest and requested balancing a section on a political issue here. In a nutshell, the section cites one source alleging Lenovo was involved in a conspiracy to spy on US military operations for China, without balancing with other sources saying the allegations were bogus. I was hoping you might be willing to take a look at my request? Let me know. Best regards. StuartGill ( talk) 18:09, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Template-salt in mainspace?. Thank you. You are recieving this semi-automated notification because you template-protected a page in mainspace. This is not an indicator of any wrongdoing on your part. Queen of AWB ( talk) 00:25, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
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Happy adminship anniversary! Hi MelanieN! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 00:29, 21 January 2024 (UTC) |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
LTNS, Melanie. Hope you're well. Numerous edit summaries by User 49.190.56.20 re the Noun article are downright uncivil at worst or rife with impertinence at best. The edits themselves aren't without merit; I'm concerned only about the summaries themselves. Would extended confirmed protection be in order for a few weeks to pause the grief? Here are the offending edit summaries:
Alternatively, a warning to the user or even a temporary ban from editing the Noun article might be a consideration. I wouldn't mind being additionally subject to such a ban if you think my sarcastically chastising edit summary merits a slap on my wrist. Cheers. Kent Dominic·(talk) 06:56, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Melanie, the same user now seems to think asserting a belief about what an "editor still hasn't grasped" and a gender-based proclamation re "what he himself (sic) wikilinked" is proper verbiage for an edit summary. Kent Dominic·(talk) 13:02, 2 February 2024
The unsigned edit is remedied.
Kent Dominic, rather than deal with the same issues at all places where you have posted, I reply here only.
Goodbye, and good luck! ☺♥ 49.190.56.203 ( talk) 23:24, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
The article Christmas in the Park (San Jose) was nominated for deletion again. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 16:50, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
Job Done | ||
In thanks for nine years of adminship now humbly resigned. Chris Troutman ( talk) 21:52, 11 April 2024 (UTC) |
I was very sorry to hear of your resignation (over at the unnameable site). The admin corps is the poorer for it, and thank you from me, too. Yngvadottir ( talk) 20:03, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Are you allowed to leave? What Donovan would have said on retiring his mop:
“I did not want no job upon the board. I just wanted to take a broom and sweep the bloody floor.” "Here's your gold watch and the shackles for your chain. And your piece of paper to say you left here sane."
O3000, Ret. ( talk) 20:33, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your efforts here. I wish you the best, and hope to see you around. -- Alanscottwalker ( talk) 17:33, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words, Chris, Yngvadottir, Objective, Kevin, and Alan! I'm not leaving Wikipedia, and hopefully I will see some of you around. MelanieN ( talk) 17:49, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
Please accept this barnstar. I've always appreciated your calm, rational, and collaborative approach to editing. You may not have done much with the admin mop recently, but you have consistently been a good example for the rest of us. ~ Awilley ( talk) 18:54, 17 April 2024 (UTC) |
Thank you, Awilley! I am moved by the number of people who have come by here to say nice things, after my minimal participation over the last couple of years. -- MelanieN ( talk) 15:09, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
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Thank you for your tireless 9 years of service as an administrator. The encyclopedia is better for it and poorer without it. TheSandDoctor Talk 18:21, 12 May 2024 (UTC) |
Happy First Edit Day! Hi MelanieN! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 00:41, 10 July 2024 (UTC) |
Hi, Just wondering why the talk page of this article is protected. 2403:6200:8810:F964:B067:4711:4774:5642 ( talk) 08:49, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
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Lynn ( talk) 22:10, 25 March 2024 (UTC) sends thanks to Melanie for your encouraging feedback to this Wiki semi-newbie regarding his scale to quantify the darkness of the night sky. And for all you do for Wikipedia.
Hello,
I am writing to you concerned about moderator Wes Sideman (whom I have linked to below). He seems to have an obsession with this television character “Chad Johnson” from the TV show “The Bachelorette” and his Wikipedia page. He continues to change the notoriety of Chad Johnson from his TV shows, to his arrest records attempting to defame him. Those charges were dropped and as you can see in the video below, his girlfriend admits no assault happened. Apparently Wes Sideman knows more than the two people actually involved in the incident. Wes Sideman also continues to remove any remotely good press about Chad from the Wikipedia page. For some reason Wes has been monitoring and harassing this Wikipedia page for over two years now. If you have time, I would ask or suggest that you look into doing something about this Wes Sideman moderator using an abuse of power on Wikipedia.
Thank you.
Admission of no assault - https://youtu .be/qyK8-_kaVt8
Examples of Wes Sideman’s edits - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1116808783
Wes Sideman’s page - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Wes_sideman&action=view
Chad Johnson’s Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Johnson_(TV_personality) 193.192.116.74 ( talk) 19:53, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi MelanieN, hoping you are well. Can you pls do something about the talk page of Socrates, someone is messing around, apparently. [1] Cinadon 36 11:19, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
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Donner60 ( talk) 05:13, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
MelanieN,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Hello! I raised this issue at ANI but no admins have responded. User:GigachadGigachad has made a slew of unsourced and misrepresented edits and removed content without explaining why, for which they were blocked in the past, and yet they are at this point ignoring the many warnings that users have posted on their talk page. This seems like a clear WP:CIR issue, so can you take action? Thanks. (Also sorry for posting this, deleting, and then reposting. Had some big formatting issues) Cpotisch ( talk) 21:16, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
I was just doing some editing for the first time in a while (someone was putting in spam links in article I was interested in) and so was catching up and looking back. I see I got a barnstar once from someone who is now an admin, though it has been a long time so you might not remember giving it to me. I need to find that article I was quoted in. Anyways, glad to see you are doing well here. I think I might have caught the editing bug again, so I might do some more editing now again. XinJeisan ( talk) 07:08, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Happy adminship anniversary! Hi MelanieN! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:45, 21 January 2023 (UTC) |
Hi MelanieN. I work for Pure Storage and have a disclosed COI. The page seems to have a confusing history. At times editors have said to edit the page, to not edit the page, that the company already edited the page inappropriately (many years ago), and there’s a lot of very vague comments/feedback saying the page needs improvement.
I disclosed a COI and requested some edits here to clarify the Purity OS is used on most (but not all) products, to update the list of product families, etc. A couple editors responded, but it is not very clear what next steps are. Your help would be much appreciated if you could clear the fog, even if it’s just to tell me my requested edits are bad and why. ZacBond ( talk) 21:53, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that the pages Kiefer Sutherland and Charlize Theron are both indefinitely semi-protected but are both missing the padlock icon at the top right of the page, can you fix this for both pages? Thanks. Voabo ( talk) 23:23, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for taking care of the vandalism on the page. However, I would consider the 1 month protection too long. Right now, the page is being worked on a lot as it got newly released and a lot of people come around. Could you reduce the protection again to one level lower than now? Vestigium Leonis ( talk) 22:53, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I understand you declined the RfPP request for Gqeberha because most of the disruptive edits were by a single auto-confirmed editor, Dgv102. Of course this is completely reasonable.
You might want to take another look at their edits though as they have continued to remove/change referenced content about South African city naming across several articles. Also another IP ( 196.41.10.18 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS)) continues to make similar edits at Gqeberha and other South African city articles.
Thanks! — MarkH21 talk 11:39, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
If you censor me I will report you to the USA House of Representative media committee, so they're WP:NOTHERE. — MarkH21 talk 12:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi MelanieN. I've noticed that you reduced from ECP to semi-protection on Hogwarts Legacy with expiration time left in place. However, you may have not noticed that another admin placed indefinite semi-protection under CT procedures per WP:GENSEX? See the log here: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Log&logid=140949542.
In my opinion, I think you should revert back to indefinite as other admins cannot modify his restriction under CT procedures for one year without his affirmative consent, community consensus, or arbcom. Stylez995 ( talk) 20:33, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your change, but it seems like protection of ScotRail after three bad edits in 10 days seems like overkill. I wouldn't say we are struggling to say on top of the article in any way. Just my US$0.02. 10mmsocket ( talk) 08:09, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi Melanie - rather than further mucking up the RfC talk, I wanted to ask you about USPLACE here for a minute. For years, I was essentially neutral on this. I see the pros of keeping the USPLACE status quo - it's a bright line rule, and as you note, it is at least rooted in one clearly reliable source. But after seeing the issue come up over and over and over, either as a full RfC, or on individual city article RMs (and I think your private list is missing a number of those discussions, just fyi), I've come around to thinking that the only way to truly retire this as an issue is to do one simple thing: anywhere - but only where - a city name is a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to a city article, swap City, State for City. That's it. No other discussion needed. This would mean zero "constant battles" because the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC has already been decided. If someone wants to battle about Phoenix or Nashville or Raleigh or Charlotte, they are already free to do that today - regardless of USPLACE. Swapping primaryredirects would have no impact on Springfield or Greenville or anywhere else - no battles.
The main problem with USPLACE - the reason challenging it will never die - is because it is so arbitrary. It's a fundamentally flawed compromise. There have been countless other Wiki battles that did resolve - WP:COMMA, WP:ENDASH, New York, etc. This one keeps going because in standard American usage, there is no reason to allow Seattle but not Nashville, or to allow Honolulu but not Beverly Hills.
I know you've been a staunch supporter of USPLACE for a long time. I also know you are a dedicated, smart, pragmatic editor. This just feels to me like the pragmatic way out of all this! Appreciate you taking the time here, and interested in your thoughts. Dohn joe ( talk) 16:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
You were the deleting admin on this article. I was wondering if you could please userfy it for me. The issues included the nominator and one of the comments were sock puppets.
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ron_Duncan_(2nd_nomination)
BlackAmerican ( talk) 02:32, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Omar (opera) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! GRuban ( talk) 14:54, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
On 6 April 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Omar (opera), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the opera Omar, about the Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said, had its world premiere in a theater located less than a mile (1.6 km) from the site where he was sold as a slave? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Omar (opera). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Omar (opera)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
BorgQueen ( talk) 00:02, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
my story today |
Thank you! It's also featured on project opera. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:26, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
I loved to see Marian Anderson and her story of protest against discrimination by singing on Easter Sunday 9 April 1939 on the Main page yesterday. Impressions of Easter here and music here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:28, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I stumbled across the Megyn Kelly page and noticed that it is indefinitely semi-protected but is missing the padlock icon at the top right of the page, can you fix this? Thanks. Kyle Idleman ( talk) 03:05, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
The Joe Rogan page has been indefinitely semi-protected for a long time but the prior PC settings have not been reset. Can you please take care of this? Kyle Idleman ( talk) 16:01, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
MelanieN ( talk) I thought you might find this story and photos very informative: [1] Activist ( talk) 11:41, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
References
RE: this: Would a range block not work? - Adolphus79 ( talk) 18:58, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ MelanieN: I noticed you were one of the administrators who voted to keep the page Mark Chasan (founder & CEO of a publicly traded company) during its first AfD about 15 years ago. The page has been nominated for deletion again with no consensus reached and no voting activity since its relisting last week. For context, a quick edit history since the renomination shows promo has been removed and NPOV has been improved. I wanted to send you a note in case you had thoughts you wanted to share. Editchecker123 ( talk) 14:47, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:25, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi MelanieN. I work for LastPass. I disclosed a COI, flagged about half of the page being focused on security breaches, and got a response from @ Chumpih:. He seemed to agree but doesn’t want to keep editing without other editor(s) weighing in. I was hoping you might take a look and weigh in [ /info/en/?search=Talk:LastPass#NPOV_Issues here]. Appreciate your time. AmyMarchiando ( talk) 18:06, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, the following indefinitely semi-protected pages need their prior PC settings reset:
Would you kindly take care of this for both pages? Thanks. Supernoodler ( talk) 23:55, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi, the following indefinitely semi-protected pages need their prior PC settings reset:
Also, you may decide to take a look at Special:StablePages to see if there are anymore.
If you don't mind, would you take care of this for all the above pages? Thanks. Visualian ( talk) 16:03, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
Greetings, the Denmark page has been indefinitely semi-protected for more than four years but still has not had its prior PC settings reset. Would you kindly please take care of this? Thanks. Joshuanite ( talk) 02:43, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
Greetings, the following indefinitely semi-protected or extended confirmed pages have not had their prior PC settings reset for whatever reason:
Would you please fix this on each of the above pages? Thank you. Spaniolo ( talk) 20:23, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi MelanieN. I disclosed a conflict of interest and requested balancing a section on a political issue here. In a nutshell, the section cites one source alleging Lenovo was involved in a conspiracy to spy on US military operations for China, without balancing with other sources saying the allegations were bogus. I was hoping you might be willing to take a look at my request? Let me know. Best regards. StuartGill ( talk) 18:09, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Template-salt in mainspace?. Thank you. You are recieving this semi-automated notification because you template-protected a page in mainspace. This is not an indicator of any wrongdoing on your part. Queen of AWB ( talk) 00:25, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
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Happy adminship anniversary! Hi MelanieN! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 00:29, 21 January 2024 (UTC) |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
LTNS, Melanie. Hope you're well. Numerous edit summaries by User 49.190.56.20 re the Noun article are downright uncivil at worst or rife with impertinence at best. The edits themselves aren't without merit; I'm concerned only about the summaries themselves. Would extended confirmed protection be in order for a few weeks to pause the grief? Here are the offending edit summaries:
Alternatively, a warning to the user or even a temporary ban from editing the Noun article might be a consideration. I wouldn't mind being additionally subject to such a ban if you think my sarcastically chastising edit summary merits a slap on my wrist. Cheers. Kent Dominic·(talk) 06:56, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Melanie, the same user now seems to think asserting a belief about what an "editor still hasn't grasped" and a gender-based proclamation re "what he himself (sic) wikilinked" is proper verbiage for an edit summary. Kent Dominic·(talk) 13:02, 2 February 2024
The unsigned edit is remedied.
Kent Dominic, rather than deal with the same issues at all places where you have posted, I reply here only.
Goodbye, and good luck! ☺♥ 49.190.56.203 ( talk) 23:24, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
The article Christmas in the Park (San Jose) was nominated for deletion again. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 16:50, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
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In thanks for nine years of adminship now humbly resigned. Chris Troutman ( talk) 21:52, 11 April 2024 (UTC) |
I was very sorry to hear of your resignation (over at the unnameable site). The admin corps is the poorer for it, and thank you from me, too. Yngvadottir ( talk) 20:03, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Are you allowed to leave? What Donovan would have said on retiring his mop:
“I did not want no job upon the board. I just wanted to take a broom and sweep the bloody floor.” "Here's your gold watch and the shackles for your chain. And your piece of paper to say you left here sane."
O3000, Ret. ( talk) 20:33, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your efforts here. I wish you the best, and hope to see you around. -- Alanscottwalker ( talk) 17:33, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words, Chris, Yngvadottir, Objective, Kevin, and Alan! I'm not leaving Wikipedia, and hopefully I will see some of you around. MelanieN ( talk) 17:49, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
Please accept this barnstar. I've always appreciated your calm, rational, and collaborative approach to editing. You may not have done much with the admin mop recently, but you have consistently been a good example for the rest of us. ~ Awilley ( talk) 18:54, 17 April 2024 (UTC) |
Thank you, Awilley! I am moved by the number of people who have come by here to say nice things, after my minimal participation over the last couple of years. -- MelanieN ( talk) 15:09, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
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Thank you for your tireless 9 years of service as an administrator. The encyclopedia is better for it and poorer without it. TheSandDoctor Talk 18:21, 12 May 2024 (UTC) |
Happy First Edit Day! Hi MelanieN! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 00:41, 10 July 2024 (UTC) |
Hi, Just wondering why the talk page of this article is protected. 2403:6200:8810:F964:B067:4711:4774:5642 ( talk) 08:49, 14 July 2024 (UTC)