Hi Risker, please see Wikipedia talk:Oversight. — xaosflux Talk 18:07, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Risker, I know you answered this on the OS talk page a while back, but it's been brought up to some extent on WT:BLP in regards to primary sourcing. What is our procedure on birth dates for non-minors that are not sourced or are only sourced to primary sources? I don't think I've ever gotten a consistent answer between oversighters on this question, so your thoughts would be appreciated. TonyBallioni ( talk) 01:59, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect ''Panther in the Dollhouse''. Since you had some involvement with the 'Panther in the Dollhouse' redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 ( talk) 00:53, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Hey Risker! I'm writing to ask about a deletion you made yesterday of the page "Move Music Festival." I'm relatively new here, and still making clumsy contributions - I had accidentally published the page to article space right off the bat instead of draft space, so it was tagged (rightly so) for speedy deletion as an empty article. I quickly moved it to draft space, and the speedy deletion tag was removed by another user. Then you deleted the original article space page under R2: cross-namespace redirect. I've since fleshed out the article in draft space and then transferred it back to article space, but under Google search results for "Move Music Festival Wiki," it returns the following text instead of a link preview:
"Move Music Festival. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. This redirect may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion as a redirect from the main/article space to any other namespace except the Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help: and Portal: namespaces. See CSD R2."
Is there any way to alter that now that the article is pointing back out of draft space into article space? Some sort of page history edit? I wanted to ask because I've got no clue. Thanks, Happilycleverafter ( talk) 22:28, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Risker, On the JT LeRoy Talk page, you signed last year's notification of the article being placed under Extended-Confirmation Protection, but in July of 2017 the lede was rewritten without authorization, and the rewrite is inaccurate. I'd like permission to fix it; please see my addition to "Lede" on the JT LeRoy Talk page. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Portofcallhttp ( talk) 20:00, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
This is not intended in any way as canvassing, but as the person who spearheaded the Orangemoody research, you may wish to add a comment. It was a particularly nasty issue. My other personal thought is that it is high time the 3 month data access for CU (the default period issued with MediaWiki software), be significantly extended. This would require a policy change to CU which I'm not sure could be carried locally by en.WP. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 01:55, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
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I've replied on the talk page. I found your edit distinctly impolite, but more importantly mistaken on the facts, which I have now explained over there. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 21:19, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello Good Day, I would love you to help me review this article Draft:DJ Kentalky and also give me tip's on how to create Wikipedia article's for Record label's. Thank You. I would like to write about Universal Music Nigeria-- Timi422 ( talk) 06:46, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
I just discussed your (now seminal) essay about content creation extensions at the mw:Wikimedia Technical Conference. Almost every technologist I work with knows about the essay. You've had a huge, positive impact on Wikimedia/WMDE Product work. Thank you for writing such a useful set of recommendations. EpochFail ( talk • contribs) 22:20, 24 October 2018 (UTC) |
Aaron, it's a challenge for me to express how meaningful this recognition is to me. Along with some other feedback I received at Wikimania, I've come to realize that even "little editors" can have a significant impact on not just their own project, but on the movement as a whole. It strikes me that early 2016 was the period in which I had the most long-ranging (and possibly diverse!) effect; this checklist was written in February, and there was a certain little presentation about Pando that I made to staff in January that people still mention to this day. It motivates me to continue working within the movement in the various responsibilities I've taken on. Thanks so much. Risker ( talk) 23:55, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
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Nice job on the timeline at the FB case, it's very helpful, and must have been a ton of work! -- El on ka 05:25, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Great thanks for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/869745341 !
For the past 2 hours ,reading it on a mobile (and writing this very message on a small screen) I have been scratching my head what had been happening back then. I even went to full admin logs of the key parties, as the official summaries on Arb were lacking, or not readily accessible to voters, at least as of now. Your table is very good (=objective) in visualising the ever escalating revert war. I wish there was such an automatic (an AI generated summary maybe?) tool at a casual non-admin WP reader, moi y compris, disposal.
Zezen ( talk) 08:23, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi again. There is no WikiLove template button on mobile WP edit UI, so just these words of appreciation for the tineline table discussed above. Bow and wishez from an EU wikipedian! Zezen ( talk) 08:28, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your extensive timeline. However, when I was considering whether there possibly was misuse of the rollback feature, I noticed that you only referenced "reverts" without specifying whether they were ordinary undos, rollbacks or Twinkle reverts. It could be more accurate. Regards, -- Pudeo ( talk) 18:03, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Instead of medals, I give you this goat for your stepping up in the difficult times! (Hahahaha)
— regards,
Revi
03:22, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but I have a feeling "misconduct is whatever we say it is regardless of any evidence of actual misconduct" is exactly the precedent they hope to set; you know as well as I do that right back to 2004 there's been a faction who see the committee not so much as a dispute-resolution body, but as a tool for implementing a purge of those its members consider insufficiently True Believers. There's a certain degree of irony in the fact that the committee is trying, with an apparently straight face, to redefine "adding a reliable source to an unreferenced contentious statement regarding a living person" as something undesirable. ‑ Iridescent 21:01, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
editors are invited to provide evidence of administrative actions you have taken in the past year that explicitly violate Wikipedia policy or which any reasonable observer would conclude violated a clear consensusand the others will invariably lead to in light of experience with ANI, RfC/U, ARB/Evidence pages turning into exactly that. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 20:48, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
provide evidence of administrative actions you have taken in the past year that explicitly violate Wikipedia policy or which any reasonable observer would conclude violated a clear consensus, not just "you did something I didn't like"; to trigger reconfirmation someone would need to demonstrate - not just allege - multiple incidences of the admin in question recently disregarding consensus. It would probably need tweaking to leave out things which technically violate policy but which no sane person would consider problematic ( this edit technically violated WP:CITEVAR but anyone who tried to raise a complaint based on it would be laughed out). You can't seriously dispute that (1) we have some admins who are lacking in competence or who use the tools to further their personal grudges or pet causes, (2) unless they do something so egregious it ends up at arbcom, there's absolutely nothing anyone can do about it, and (3) the combination of 1 & 2 is causing problems both with self-appointed cops causing disruption, and with people opposing qualified candidates at RFA because they're not familiar enough with them to be certain they're up to the job and there's no way to remove them if they're not. ‑ Iridescent 21:00, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
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Ten years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:19, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
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Happy Saturnalia | |
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:04, 18 December 2018 (UTC) |
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Gothic Seasons Greetings |
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Your straight shooting no nonsense approach is missed! Wishing you glad tidings for x-mass, and all the best as always. Ceoil ( talk) 22:29, 23 December 2018 (UTC) |
Thanks so much for this very meaningful greeting, Ceoil. I am always happy to see your name floating around here. And I'm still shooting relatively straightly, just in different parts of the wiki-world. It's people like you who keep me here. Risker ( talk) 06:58, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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Hi Risker, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas |
Thanks very much, Davey2010. I'm hoping that we all make it through Christmas without any nasty viruses. And I'm certain that 2019 is going to have to be better than 2018 was; I cannot tell you how happy I am that this year is almost over. Risker ( talk) 07:00, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Merry Christmas to a great contributor to the project! My very best wishes for this holiday season. May your heart be filled with happiness during this special time. (Every day is a new day...) -- Crystallizedcarbon ( talk) 08:53, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
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Austral season's greetings |
Tuck into this! We've made about three of these in the last few days for various festivities. Supermarkets are stuffed with cheap berries. Season's greetings! Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 22:31, 24 December 2018 (UTC) |
Hi Risker, please see Wikipedia talk:Oversight. — xaosflux Talk 18:07, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Risker, I know you answered this on the OS talk page a while back, but it's been brought up to some extent on WT:BLP in regards to primary sourcing. What is our procedure on birth dates for non-minors that are not sourced or are only sourced to primary sources? I don't think I've ever gotten a consistent answer between oversighters on this question, so your thoughts would be appreciated. TonyBallioni ( talk) 01:59, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect ''Panther in the Dollhouse''. Since you had some involvement with the 'Panther in the Dollhouse' redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 ( talk) 00:53, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Hey Risker! I'm writing to ask about a deletion you made yesterday of the page "Move Music Festival." I'm relatively new here, and still making clumsy contributions - I had accidentally published the page to article space right off the bat instead of draft space, so it was tagged (rightly so) for speedy deletion as an empty article. I quickly moved it to draft space, and the speedy deletion tag was removed by another user. Then you deleted the original article space page under R2: cross-namespace redirect. I've since fleshed out the article in draft space and then transferred it back to article space, but under Google search results for "Move Music Festival Wiki," it returns the following text instead of a link preview:
"Move Music Festival. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. This redirect may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion as a redirect from the main/article space to any other namespace except the Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help: and Portal: namespaces. See CSD R2."
Is there any way to alter that now that the article is pointing back out of draft space into article space? Some sort of page history edit? I wanted to ask because I've got no clue. Thanks, Happilycleverafter ( talk) 22:28, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Risker, On the JT LeRoy Talk page, you signed last year's notification of the article being placed under Extended-Confirmation Protection, but in July of 2017 the lede was rewritten without authorization, and the rewrite is inaccurate. I'd like permission to fix it; please see my addition to "Lede" on the JT LeRoy Talk page. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Portofcallhttp ( talk) 20:00, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
This is not intended in any way as canvassing, but as the person who spearheaded the Orangemoody research, you may wish to add a comment. It was a particularly nasty issue. My other personal thought is that it is high time the 3 month data access for CU (the default period issued with MediaWiki software), be significantly extended. This would require a policy change to CU which I'm not sure could be carried locally by en.WP. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 01:55, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello! A few months ago the Wikimedia Foundation invited you to take a survey about your experiences on Wikipedia. You signed up to receive the results. The report is now published on Meta-Wiki! We asked contributors 170 questions across many different topics like diversity, harassment, paid editing, Wikimedia events and many others.
Read the report or watch the
presentation, which is available only in English.
Add your thoughts and comments to the
report talk page.
Feel free to share the report on Wikipedia/Wikimedia or on your favorite social media. Thanks!
--
EGalvez (WMF)
19:25, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
I've replied on the talk page. I found your edit distinctly impolite, but more importantly mistaken on the facts, which I have now explained over there. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 21:19, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello Good Day, I would love you to help me review this article Draft:DJ Kentalky and also give me tip's on how to create Wikipedia article's for Record label's. Thank You. I would like to write about Universal Music Nigeria-- Timi422 ( talk) 06:46, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
![]() |
The Technical Barnstar |
I just discussed your (now seminal) essay about content creation extensions at the mw:Wikimedia Technical Conference. Almost every technologist I work with knows about the essay. You've had a huge, positive impact on Wikimedia/WMDE Product work. Thank you for writing such a useful set of recommendations. EpochFail ( talk • contribs) 22:20, 24 October 2018 (UTC) |
Aaron, it's a challenge for me to express how meaningful this recognition is to me. Along with some other feedback I received at Wikimania, I've come to realize that even "little editors" can have a significant impact on not just their own project, but on the movement as a whole. It strikes me that early 2016 was the period in which I had the most long-ranging (and possibly diverse!) effect; this checklist was written in February, and there was a certain little presentation about Pando that I made to staff in January that people still mention to this day. It motivates me to continue working within the movement in the various responsibilities I've taken on. Thanks so much. Risker ( talk) 23:55, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Risker. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Nice job on the timeline at the FB case, it's very helpful, and must have been a ton of work! -- El on ka 05:25, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Great thanks for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/869745341 !
For the past 2 hours ,reading it on a mobile (and writing this very message on a small screen) I have been scratching my head what had been happening back then. I even went to full admin logs of the key parties, as the official summaries on Arb were lacking, or not readily accessible to voters, at least as of now. Your table is very good (=objective) in visualising the ever escalating revert war. I wish there was such an automatic (an AI generated summary maybe?) tool at a casual non-admin WP reader, moi y compris, disposal.
Zezen ( talk) 08:23, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi again. There is no WikiLove template button on mobile WP edit UI, so just these words of appreciation for the tineline table discussed above. Bow and wishez from an EU wikipedian! Zezen ( talk) 08:28, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your extensive timeline. However, when I was considering whether there possibly was misuse of the rollback feature, I noticed that you only referenced "reverts" without specifying whether they were ordinary undos, rollbacks or Twinkle reverts. It could be more accurate. Regards, -- Pudeo ( talk) 18:03, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Instead of medals, I give you this goat for your stepping up in the difficult times! (Hahahaha)
— regards,
Revi
03:22, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but I have a feeling "misconduct is whatever we say it is regardless of any evidence of actual misconduct" is exactly the precedent they hope to set; you know as well as I do that right back to 2004 there's been a faction who see the committee not so much as a dispute-resolution body, but as a tool for implementing a purge of those its members consider insufficiently True Believers. There's a certain degree of irony in the fact that the committee is trying, with an apparently straight face, to redefine "adding a reliable source to an unreferenced contentious statement regarding a living person" as something undesirable. ‑ Iridescent 21:01, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
editors are invited to provide evidence of administrative actions you have taken in the past year that explicitly violate Wikipedia policy or which any reasonable observer would conclude violated a clear consensusand the others will invariably lead to in light of experience with ANI, RfC/U, ARB/Evidence pages turning into exactly that. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 20:48, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
provide evidence of administrative actions you have taken in the past year that explicitly violate Wikipedia policy or which any reasonable observer would conclude violated a clear consensus, not just "you did something I didn't like"; to trigger reconfirmation someone would need to demonstrate - not just allege - multiple incidences of the admin in question recently disregarding consensus. It would probably need tweaking to leave out things which technically violate policy but which no sane person would consider problematic ( this edit technically violated WP:CITEVAR but anyone who tried to raise a complaint based on it would be laughed out). You can't seriously dispute that (1) we have some admins who are lacking in competence or who use the tools to further their personal grudges or pet causes, (2) unless they do something so egregious it ends up at arbcom, there's absolutely nothing anyone can do about it, and (3) the combination of 1 & 2 is causing problems both with self-appointed cops causing disruption, and with people opposing qualified candidates at RFA because they're not familiar enough with them to be certain they're up to the job and there's no way to remove them if they're not. ‑ Iridescent 21:00, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
![]() | |
Ten years! |
---|
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:19, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
![]() |
Happy Saturnalia | |
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:04, 18 December 2018 (UTC) |
![]() |
Gothic Seasons Greetings |
![]() |
Your straight shooting no nonsense approach is missed! Wishing you glad tidings for x-mass, and all the best as always. Ceoil ( talk) 22:29, 23 December 2018 (UTC) |
Thanks so much for this very meaningful greeting, Ceoil. I am always happy to see your name floating around here. And I'm still shooting relatively straightly, just in different parts of the wiki-world. It's people like you who keep me here. Risker ( talk) 06:58, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
![]() |
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
|
Hi Risker, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas |
Thanks very much, Davey2010. I'm hoping that we all make it through Christmas without any nasty viruses. And I'm certain that 2019 is going to have to be better than 2018 was; I cannot tell you how happy I am that this year is almost over. Risker ( talk) 07:00, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Merry Christmas to a great contributor to the project! My very best wishes for this holiday season. May your heart be filled with happiness during this special time. (Every day is a new day...) -- Crystallizedcarbon ( talk) 08:53, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
![]() |
Austral season's greetings |
Tuck into this! We've made about three of these in the last few days for various festivities. Supermarkets are stuffed with cheap berries. Season's greetings! Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 22:31, 24 December 2018 (UTC) |