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Please spread the word to anybody else who you think might be interested. The next UK meetup is London, 10 March 2013. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 15:00, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Richard, you are listed as the creator of Category:Articles to be redirected. What is the purpose of this category, exactly? There are zero entries (which odd enough appears as a backlog) and I have no idea if there's a tag that puts it here or what. Ego White Tray ( talk) 04:51, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
{{
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at least. It is perfectly OK (in fact splendid) for these categories to be empty. As to the reason it appears in in
Category:Wikipedia backlog, that is due to {{
Backlog subcategories}}
which could be made smarter if that is seen as useful.
Rich
Farmbrough,
20:52, 6 March 2013 (UTC).An editor hasI have asked for a discussion to address the redirect
Moon landings were faked. Since you created had some involvement with the Moon landings were faked redirect, you might want to participate in
the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so).
Ryan
Vesey
07:53, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
MfD/speedy
Block
These are likely socks of a banned user.
Rich
Farmbrough,
14:23, 8 March 2013 (UTC).
If anyone wishes they can copy this to the motion page as "Comments by uninvolved..."
While I would normally say "restore his tools" - this was no only a one-off, but a one-off that involved unblocking, which is far less harmful than a wrongful block, I am very concerned that at Signpost
comments Kevin requests that the outing which started this whole thing be repeated. This, for me, casts severe doubt on his judgement. Privacy is a principle that most Wikimedians, and, increasingly, society at large, take very seriously. Aside from that I would wholeheartedly support restoration of the admin bit.
Rich
Farmbrough,
15:28, 8 March 2013 (UTC).
Talk page stalkers may be interested that there is an attempt to gag those accused at Arbitration Enforcement by limiting their responses to 500 words, and to limit community involvement in the process.
Rich
Farmbrough,
21:22, 9 March 2013 (UTC).
...please remember that we are all volunteers working towards the same purpose, and while disagreements may arise, there is always time to stand back and attempt to understand one another. from Hersfold's resignation. Shame he didn't discover this earlier.
Rich
Farmbrough,
03:18, 13 March 2013 (UTC).
Country | Overall name of legislature | Name of house | House level | Term (years) | Voting system | Seats | Population per seat [1] | GDP per seat ($Milion) [2] [3] |
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National Assembly [4] | House of the People (ولسي جرګه Wolesi Jirga) | Lower | 5 | Single non-transferable vote | 249 | 122,168 | 119 |
House of Elders (مشرانوجرګه Meshrano Jirga) | Upper | 3, 4 and 5 | majority and appointed by the president | 102 | 298,234 | 291 | ||
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dummy | Assembly of Albania (Kuvendi i Shqipërisë) | Unicameral | 4 | proportional closed list | 140 | 20,226 | 177 |
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Parliament [4] | People's National Assembly (al-Majlis al-Sha'abi al-Watani) | Lower | 6 | proportional open list | 462 | 61,833 | 439 |
Council of the Nation (al-Majlis al-Umma) | Upper | 5 | indirect vote and appointed by the president | 144 | 257,638 | 1,830 | ||
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dummy | General Council of the Valleys (Consell General de les Valls) | Unicameral | 4 | proportional closed list | 28 | 2,789 | 161 |
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dummy | National Assembly (Assembleia Nacional) | Unicameral | 4 | proportional party list | 220 | 84,081 | 525 |
Dummy date 07:53, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
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help page).ReferenceA
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In the 1755 laws, provision was made to allow an injured batter to retire and to resume his/her innings at a later time (a further indication that such injuries were relatively common), but not to be replaced or substituted. Presumably due to the suspicion that such a regulation would be flouted (and the ramifications this would have for bets placed on matches), an additional law decreed that the umpires were to be judges ‘of all frivolous Delays; of all Hurt, whether real or pretended’ (Rait Kerr 1950: 97–98). Globalizing Cricket: Englishness, Empire and Identity, Dominic Malcolm
So the volume does not make the claim that this appeared in the 1927 agreement.
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:01, 18 March 2013 (UTC).
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the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
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talk)
17:13, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
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Glad to see you back! -- Orlady ( talk) 02:03, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
FYI, references need only be given a name if they are used more than once in an article. A reference name needs only be in "quotes" if it contains more than one word separated by a blank space. Thus the quotes in <ref name="Threat"> are unnecessary. -- Daemonic Kangaroo ( talk) 07:07, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
You can read some of the story here and here, also here, here, here, here, here, here, and here LittleBen ( talk) 03:53, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Actually I hadn't seen it. But it seems to me a problem that SMCandsish (a hugely prolific editor by the way) withdraws his request at 06:07, 11 March 2013 (UTC), and subsequently a day or so later, Sandstein sanctions him for making a frivolous request. I have not interacted much with Sandstein as far as I can remember, prior to his absurd block of me, but he does seem to be very much desirous of exercising power. I have also seen him closing misplaced AE request with threats to block. Hardly collegial.
Rich
Farmbrough,
10:09, 20 March 2013 (UTC).
Can you give me diffs to the threats?
Rich
Farmbrough,
10:20, 20 March 2013 (UTC).
OK I found Hans Alders section. These are not threats. Hans Alder sees Sandstein as being on a "Power trip" and needing reining in. This is pretty much the same conclusion I have come to independently. Hans does not even suggest launching an RFC/U on Sandstein. I understand that diacritics are a vexed question, and I have no opinion on the behaviour of the parties in the dispute, since I don't know about it, but even assuming that SMC is behaving badly it does not give Sandstein carte blanche to write the rules for AE, let alone impose apparently unilateral sanctions not recognised by policy or usage.
Rich
Farmbrough,
10:29, 20 March 2013 (UTC).
I posted this in one other place, 28bytes talk page. That is all I intend to do but I wanted to respond here as well. Greetings all, I saw a lot of traffic with my name on it today so I just wanted to make a couple passing comments. First, thanks Rich for the kind words in the various venues. I appreciate it but there's no need to spend time defending my actions. This place isn't worth it to me anymore. If they would prefer to give the tools to users like Sandstein, Fram, Sarek and others that want to block everyone and open up months long Arbcom cases against every editor they don't agree with, then manipulate policy so they are even more powerful and can do even more they don't need contributors like me who want to build an encyclopedia. 28bytes is right, I am fed up with this place, the toxic culture, the us and them admin to editor attitudes and with the politics of it all. I wanted to contribute but the power elite just want to insult and bully so I don't have time for that crap.
Next I want to clarify a couple other things. Clean start is an ineffective crap policy and should be deleted since the culture here doesn't support it. You can't do a clean start without being dishonest and you certainly can't do it with the same user name. Eventually someone will call you out for socking. People edit what they are interested in so the only way to make a "clean start" is to edit stuff outside your interests (because presumably you were editing within your interests prior) and that's unrealistic. Most of the time you have to say on your page I used to be X and now I am Y. That's not a clean start, that's a name change and is pointless. Its a hypocritical nonsense policy.
I also want to clarify that I did not suggest Sarek be desysopped, Arbcom did that, I just supported it and I still do. Sarek used to be a great admin, over the years he has become callous and no longer listens to the story. He levees severe blocks without hesitation. That is not the type of Admin we need here. Sandstein is a powermonger and Fram is an idiot and there are plenty more bad ones out there as well just like these three. If we get rid of some of these bad admins maybe some of the 640+ others will start participating if some of the jerks are moved out of the way. Right now there isn't any room to get past the big ego's. Anyway, I expect this to be deleted as atacks or whatever. It doesn't matter, I just wanted to explain some things and set the record straight. Not that I beleive for a second anyone cares. As you can see I am still a little pissed off. Kumioko 138.162.0.44 ( talk) 16:46, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Left you a message on Meta-Wiki. πr2 ( t • c) 22:57, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for the answer. U2_Girl! ( talk) 13:13, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
I was interested to see the first edit from someone else to this page. I have tried to get some feedback from others about the article and most people seem to think there is no need for it; that perhaps it should be made into a template. I would be like to hear if you had any views on that? If it were to be a template there would be the laborious task of putting it into all the necessary articles and I don't have a clue how to create a template. Jodosma ( talk) 12:37, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
I hope that you have been well, Rich.
At the last Wikimania you showed me an outline for an HIV project on Wikipedia. Could you point me to that again? Someone else has another project and was discussing it at meta:Talk:Wiki_Project_Med#Interested.3F_HIV.2FAIDS_in_.28sub-Saharan.29_African_languages and I was thinking to make a connection between that and whatever precedent exists. We are starting to have several pieces to connect. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:58, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
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For helping me with an old, annoying problem. Spitfire19 T/ C 06:11, 22 March 2013 (UTC) |
Please, please, please do not use AN/I to report edits that require oversight/revdel. As the massive red pagenotice that pops up every time you post to AN/I says, in bold, "If the issue concerns a privacy-related matter, or potential libel/defamation, do not post it here." Follow the instructions at WP:RFO instead or contact a recently active sysop via email. Fvasconcellos ( t· c) 02:37, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
I've left one of them here petrarchan47 t c 05:07, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
I have started a section regarding your edits at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement. Fram ( talk) 10:25, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
User:Slowking4 has given you a Gerard Langbaine award! By your becoming a target of the "malignant assiduity" of those who level charges of errors.
They read wikipedia "only to detect plagiarisms." [3]
Spread the goodness of Gerard Langbaine awards by adding Gerard Langbaine, award to someone's talk page with a friendly message! slowkingFarmbrough's revenge⇔ †@1₭ 00:12, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
I was just looking at [4]
I don't know if it matters but the 3 sources I see are the same url. If you like I can update them. 84.106.26.81 ( talk) 20:59, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
You're not the only one. [5] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.67.164.188 ( talk) 14:51, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Reminder to administrators: In March 2010, ArbCom adopted a procedure prohibiting administrators "from reversing or overturning (explicitly or in substance) any action taken by another administrator pursuant to the terms of an active arbitration remedy, and explicitly noted as being taken to enforce said remedy, except: (a) with the written authorization of the Committee, or (b) following a clear, substantial, and active consensus of uninvolved editors at a community discussion noticeboard (such as WP:AN or WP:ANI). If consensus in such discussions is hard to judge or unclear, the parties should submit a request for clarification on the proper page." Administrators who reverse an arbitration enforcement block, such as this one, without clear authorisation will be summarily desysopped.
Aside from Sandstein, who else rendered this decision? I am not well versed in the arbcom case, so I don't want to jump to conclusions, but I always thought AE cases usually had 3 or more administrators chiming in.-- MONGO 02:32, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.
Using "rule" semi-loosely as standard (somewhat inflexible) arbcom procedure, this is ridiculous. I fail to see how this block does anything but prevent the improvement or maintainence of wikipedia. I'm really tempted to post this on Sandstein's talk page too, but alas, discresion is the better part of valor. Tazerdadog ( talk) 03:36, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Rich, the ice has been thin for many moons, I'm not sure if you understood quite how microscopically thin it has been over the last year. I guess you eventually fell through—although as always it was likely not your intention, just a consequence of stepping heavily. I have been hoping it would not be the case. Lets try again in a year; you already managed to get a year more out of it than I expected. — Sladen ( talk) 10:09, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Tazedadog, IAR works, when if tested, the consensus of the community or those making difficult judgements agree with the decision to IAR. So, IAR is about ignoring red tape, not about ignoring the will of many. In this case, IAR doesn't really help Rich, and neither does the arguing/attacking of Sandstein above. Rich can try, but based on past experience I can make an educated guess about the outcome. — Sladen ( talk) 10:09, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
A whole year? That's too severe. GoodDay ( talk) 11:15, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. Your point about a Milgram experiment was well found and striking. I have featured it as "wikiquote of the week" on my talkpage. Bishonen | talk 11:23, 26 March 2013 (UTC).
You are actually still blocked? I give up, I thought I had seen everything. Anyway, a drive-by note in the unlikely event you had not spotted it, the delightful Giovanni di Stefano is spending much of the next 14 years as a guest of Her Majesty. I'm sure he would want us to represent it as such, rather than the coarser terms "banged up" or "jailed". Made my week. Guy ( Help!) 01:19, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Rich, After some extensive testing of my sources script, I'm still slightly concerned about how slow it runs. Occasionally I get a windows error message when the script seems to stall, I click to continue and it invariably finishes the job without a problem. So long as I know there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the mechanics or programming I'm OK, but it's annoying nonetheless to have that popup on long articles.
I was wondering how I can make it run more efficiently, and eliminate the stalling. I had some advice on this script, but my programming skills are limited so I don't know how to even implement it. Any other help or suggestions would be appreciated. -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 01:41, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
(Ukrainian Independent Information Agency|United Press International|Xinhua News Agency)
. —
Sladen (
talk)
02:04, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
new Regexp()
is the compliation, which is saved into re
, and then executed once with regex()
. The for(;;i++)for(;;j++);
loops are causing several hundred compilations. The regexs are similiar that they can probably be combined, thus causing only a total of three compilations and executions. —
Sladen (
talk)
04:05, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
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![]() Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. -- Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) ( talk) |
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Sorry to hear that you were blocked again. Make cat 13:25, 30 March 2013 (UTC) |
An accidental deletion of some text by a new user.
Rich
Farmbrough,
14:53, 30 March 2013 (UTC).
Hi. I feel as if you were treated unfairly by 28bytes when you questioned his motives. I have engaged him in combat. Please peruse his talk page for recourse efforts. Greetings. Mr. barbers773 ( talk) 19:19, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
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I saw that you got a kitten to play with while you are in exile for the next year so here is a beer to help as well. Kumioko ( talk) 17:05, 31 March 2013 (UTC) |
I can't believe you were blocked for something so minor. Have a kitten to cheer you up.
Revolution1221 (
talk)
16:58, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
I have been interested in getting some of the community's graphical products released under free licenses. There are issues, of course, there always are. But they may be resolvable. Here is a list of graphs and their status - please feel free to add. Note that WMF data is released under a free license.
Item | URL | Current license | Free license requested |
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Page views | https://www.stats.grok.se | None stated | 1 April 2013 RF - by email |
Server stats | nagios | "probably free" | 2103 RF on Meta |
Ganglia | =db33 Example] | RRDtool is open source. Data is released |
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:38, 31 March 2013 (UTC).
Addendum:
17:47, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for attending
the third Oxford Meetup, and it was a pleasure meeting you. Thank you also for creating the page about
the fourth Oxford Meetup; please sign up if you think that you are able to attend - if the date or venue are unsuitable, please comment at
its discussion page.
Please spread the word to anybody else who you think might be interested. The next UK meetup is London, 10 March 2013. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 15:00, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Richard, you are listed as the creator of Category:Articles to be redirected. What is the purpose of this category, exactly? There are zero entries (which odd enough appears as a backlog) and I have no idea if there's a tag that puts it here or what. Ego White Tray ( talk) 04:51, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
{{
Stub redirect}}
at least. It is perfectly OK (in fact splendid) for these categories to be empty. As to the reason it appears in in
Category:Wikipedia backlog, that is due to {{
Backlog subcategories}}
which could be made smarter if that is seen as useful.
Rich
Farmbrough,
20:52, 6 March 2013 (UTC).An editor hasI have asked for a discussion to address the redirect
Moon landings were faked. Since you created had some involvement with the Moon landings were faked redirect, you might want to participate in
the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so).
Ryan
Vesey
07:53, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
MfD/speedy
Block
These are likely socks of a banned user.
Rich
Farmbrough,
14:23, 8 March 2013 (UTC).
If anyone wishes they can copy this to the motion page as "Comments by uninvolved..."
While I would normally say "restore his tools" - this was no only a one-off, but a one-off that involved unblocking, which is far less harmful than a wrongful block, I am very concerned that at Signpost
comments Kevin requests that the outing which started this whole thing be repeated. This, for me, casts severe doubt on his judgement. Privacy is a principle that most Wikimedians, and, increasingly, society at large, take very seriously. Aside from that I would wholeheartedly support restoration of the admin bit.
Rich
Farmbrough,
15:28, 8 March 2013 (UTC).
Talk page stalkers may be interested that there is an attempt to gag those accused at Arbitration Enforcement by limiting their responses to 500 words, and to limit community involvement in the process.
Rich
Farmbrough,
21:22, 9 March 2013 (UTC).
...please remember that we are all volunteers working towards the same purpose, and while disagreements may arise, there is always time to stand back and attempt to understand one another. from Hersfold's resignation. Shame he didn't discover this earlier.
Rich
Farmbrough,
03:18, 13 March 2013 (UTC).
Country | Overall name of legislature | Name of house | House level | Term (years) | Voting system | Seats | Population per seat [1] | GDP per seat ($Milion) [2] [3] |
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National Assembly [4] | House of the People (ولسي جرګه Wolesi Jirga) | Lower | 5 | Single non-transferable vote | 249 | 122,168 | 119 |
House of Elders (مشرانوجرګه Meshrano Jirga) | Upper | 3, 4 and 5 | majority and appointed by the president | 102 | 298,234 | 291 | ||
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dummy | Assembly of Albania (Kuvendi i Shqipërisë) | Unicameral | 4 | proportional closed list | 140 | 20,226 | 177 |
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In the 1755 laws, provision was made to allow an injured batter to retire and to resume his/her innings at a later time (a further indication that such injuries were relatively common), but not to be replaced or substituted. Presumably due to the suspicion that such a regulation would be flouted (and the ramifications this would have for bets placed on matches), an additional law decreed that the umpires were to be judges ‘of all frivolous Delays; of all Hurt, whether real or pretended’ (Rait Kerr 1950: 97–98). Globalizing Cricket: Englishness, Empire and Identity, Dominic Malcolm
So the volume does not make the claim that this appeared in the 1927 agreement.
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:01, 18 March 2013 (UTC).
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Glad to see you back! -- Orlady ( talk) 02:03, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
FYI, references need only be given a name if they are used more than once in an article. A reference name needs only be in "quotes" if it contains more than one word separated by a blank space. Thus the quotes in <ref name="Threat"> are unnecessary. -- Daemonic Kangaroo ( talk) 07:07, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
You can read some of the story here and here, also here, here, here, here, here, here, and here LittleBen ( talk) 03:53, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Actually I hadn't seen it. But it seems to me a problem that SMCandsish (a hugely prolific editor by the way) withdraws his request at 06:07, 11 March 2013 (UTC), and subsequently a day or so later, Sandstein sanctions him for making a frivolous request. I have not interacted much with Sandstein as far as I can remember, prior to his absurd block of me, but he does seem to be very much desirous of exercising power. I have also seen him closing misplaced AE request with threats to block. Hardly collegial.
Rich
Farmbrough,
10:09, 20 March 2013 (UTC).
Can you give me diffs to the threats?
Rich
Farmbrough,
10:20, 20 March 2013 (UTC).
OK I found Hans Alders section. These are not threats. Hans Alder sees Sandstein as being on a "Power trip" and needing reining in. This is pretty much the same conclusion I have come to independently. Hans does not even suggest launching an RFC/U on Sandstein. I understand that diacritics are a vexed question, and I have no opinion on the behaviour of the parties in the dispute, since I don't know about it, but even assuming that SMC is behaving badly it does not give Sandstein carte blanche to write the rules for AE, let alone impose apparently unilateral sanctions not recognised by policy or usage.
Rich
Farmbrough,
10:29, 20 March 2013 (UTC).
I posted this in one other place, 28bytes talk page. That is all I intend to do but I wanted to respond here as well. Greetings all, I saw a lot of traffic with my name on it today so I just wanted to make a couple passing comments. First, thanks Rich for the kind words in the various venues. I appreciate it but there's no need to spend time defending my actions. This place isn't worth it to me anymore. If they would prefer to give the tools to users like Sandstein, Fram, Sarek and others that want to block everyone and open up months long Arbcom cases against every editor they don't agree with, then manipulate policy so they are even more powerful and can do even more they don't need contributors like me who want to build an encyclopedia. 28bytes is right, I am fed up with this place, the toxic culture, the us and them admin to editor attitudes and with the politics of it all. I wanted to contribute but the power elite just want to insult and bully so I don't have time for that crap.
Next I want to clarify a couple other things. Clean start is an ineffective crap policy and should be deleted since the culture here doesn't support it. You can't do a clean start without being dishonest and you certainly can't do it with the same user name. Eventually someone will call you out for socking. People edit what they are interested in so the only way to make a "clean start" is to edit stuff outside your interests (because presumably you were editing within your interests prior) and that's unrealistic. Most of the time you have to say on your page I used to be X and now I am Y. That's not a clean start, that's a name change and is pointless. Its a hypocritical nonsense policy.
I also want to clarify that I did not suggest Sarek be desysopped, Arbcom did that, I just supported it and I still do. Sarek used to be a great admin, over the years he has become callous and no longer listens to the story. He levees severe blocks without hesitation. That is not the type of Admin we need here. Sandstein is a powermonger and Fram is an idiot and there are plenty more bad ones out there as well just like these three. If we get rid of some of these bad admins maybe some of the 640+ others will start participating if some of the jerks are moved out of the way. Right now there isn't any room to get past the big ego's. Anyway, I expect this to be deleted as atacks or whatever. It doesn't matter, I just wanted to explain some things and set the record straight. Not that I beleive for a second anyone cares. As you can see I am still a little pissed off. Kumioko 138.162.0.44 ( talk) 16:46, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Left you a message on Meta-Wiki. πr2 ( t • c) 22:57, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for the answer. U2_Girl! ( talk) 13:13, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
I was interested to see the first edit from someone else to this page. I have tried to get some feedback from others about the article and most people seem to think there is no need for it; that perhaps it should be made into a template. I would be like to hear if you had any views on that? If it were to be a template there would be the laborious task of putting it into all the necessary articles and I don't have a clue how to create a template. Jodosma ( talk) 12:37, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
I hope that you have been well, Rich.
At the last Wikimania you showed me an outline for an HIV project on Wikipedia. Could you point me to that again? Someone else has another project and was discussing it at meta:Talk:Wiki_Project_Med#Interested.3F_HIV.2FAIDS_in_.28sub-Saharan.29_African_languages and I was thinking to make a connection between that and whatever precedent exists. We are starting to have several pieces to connect. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:58, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
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For helping me with an old, annoying problem. Spitfire19 T/ C 06:11, 22 March 2013 (UTC) |
Please, please, please do not use AN/I to report edits that require oversight/revdel. As the massive red pagenotice that pops up every time you post to AN/I says, in bold, "If the issue concerns a privacy-related matter, or potential libel/defamation, do not post it here." Follow the instructions at WP:RFO instead or contact a recently active sysop via email. Fvasconcellos ( t· c) 02:37, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
I've left one of them here petrarchan47 t c 05:07, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
I have started a section regarding your edits at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement. Fram ( talk) 10:25, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
User:Slowking4 has given you a Gerard Langbaine award! By your becoming a target of the "malignant assiduity" of those who level charges of errors.
They read wikipedia "only to detect plagiarisms." [3]
Spread the goodness of Gerard Langbaine awards by adding Gerard Langbaine, award to someone's talk page with a friendly message! slowkingFarmbrough's revenge⇔ †@1₭ 00:12, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
I was just looking at [4]
I don't know if it matters but the 3 sources I see are the same url. If you like I can update them. 84.106.26.81 ( talk) 20:59, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
You're not the only one. [5] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.67.164.188 ( talk) 14:51, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Reminder to administrators: In March 2010, ArbCom adopted a procedure prohibiting administrators "from reversing or overturning (explicitly or in substance) any action taken by another administrator pursuant to the terms of an active arbitration remedy, and explicitly noted as being taken to enforce said remedy, except: (a) with the written authorization of the Committee, or (b) following a clear, substantial, and active consensus of uninvolved editors at a community discussion noticeboard (such as WP:AN or WP:ANI). If consensus in such discussions is hard to judge or unclear, the parties should submit a request for clarification on the proper page." Administrators who reverse an arbitration enforcement block, such as this one, without clear authorisation will be summarily desysopped.
Aside from Sandstein, who else rendered this decision? I am not well versed in the arbcom case, so I don't want to jump to conclusions, but I always thought AE cases usually had 3 or more administrators chiming in.-- MONGO 02:32, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.
Using "rule" semi-loosely as standard (somewhat inflexible) arbcom procedure, this is ridiculous. I fail to see how this block does anything but prevent the improvement or maintainence of wikipedia. I'm really tempted to post this on Sandstein's talk page too, but alas, discresion is the better part of valor. Tazerdadog ( talk) 03:36, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Rich, the ice has been thin for many moons, I'm not sure if you understood quite how microscopically thin it has been over the last year. I guess you eventually fell through—although as always it was likely not your intention, just a consequence of stepping heavily. I have been hoping it would not be the case. Lets try again in a year; you already managed to get a year more out of it than I expected. — Sladen ( talk) 10:09, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Tazedadog, IAR works, when if tested, the consensus of the community or those making difficult judgements agree with the decision to IAR. So, IAR is about ignoring red tape, not about ignoring the will of many. In this case, IAR doesn't really help Rich, and neither does the arguing/attacking of Sandstein above. Rich can try, but based on past experience I can make an educated guess about the outcome. — Sladen ( talk) 10:09, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
A whole year? That's too severe. GoodDay ( talk) 11:15, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. Your point about a Milgram experiment was well found and striking. I have featured it as "wikiquote of the week" on my talkpage. Bishonen | talk 11:23, 26 March 2013 (UTC).
You are actually still blocked? I give up, I thought I had seen everything. Anyway, a drive-by note in the unlikely event you had not spotted it, the delightful Giovanni di Stefano is spending much of the next 14 years as a guest of Her Majesty. I'm sure he would want us to represent it as such, rather than the coarser terms "banged up" or "jailed". Made my week. Guy ( Help!) 01:19, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Rich, After some extensive testing of my sources script, I'm still slightly concerned about how slow it runs. Occasionally I get a windows error message when the script seems to stall, I click to continue and it invariably finishes the job without a problem. So long as I know there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the mechanics or programming I'm OK, but it's annoying nonetheless to have that popup on long articles.
I was wondering how I can make it run more efficiently, and eliminate the stalling. I had some advice on this script, but my programming skills are limited so I don't know how to even implement it. Any other help or suggestions would be appreciated. -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 01:41, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
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Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. -- Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) ( talk) |
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Sorry to hear that you were blocked again. Make cat 13:25, 30 March 2013 (UTC) |
An accidental deletion of some text by a new user.
Rich
Farmbrough,
14:53, 30 March 2013 (UTC).
Hi. I feel as if you were treated unfairly by 28bytes when you questioned his motives. I have engaged him in combat. Please peruse his talk page for recourse efforts. Greetings. Mr. barbers773 ( talk) 19:19, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
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I saw that you got a kitten to play with while you are in exile for the next year so here is a beer to help as well. Kumioko ( talk) 17:05, 31 March 2013 (UTC) |
I can't believe you were blocked for something so minor. Have a kitten to cheer you up.
Revolution1221 (
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16:58, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
I have been interested in getting some of the community's graphical products released under free licenses. There are issues, of course, there always are. But they may be resolvable. Here is a list of graphs and their status - please feel free to add. Note that WMF data is released under a free license.
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Page views | https://www.stats.grok.se | None stated | 1 April 2013 RF - by email |
Server stats | nagios | "probably free" | 2103 RF on Meta |
Ganglia | =db33 Example] | RRDtool is open source. Data is released |
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:38, 31 March 2013 (UTC).
Addendum:
17:47, 2 July 2015 (UTC)