Hello, Risker! I was looking to expand on a musicians page which you moved to the draftspace back in July of 2019. I noticed somebody had deleted the draft page shortly after that, unsure of the reason for deletion. I also noticed the persons page (the person who deleted the page you moved to draft) is no longer active, so i wonder if their cause for deletion was even legit in the first place. I was hoping i could ask you to re-instate the page so it can be expanded on by myself as well as any other user who would like to help expand on the subject, especially since the person has become more notable since the creation of this page. I was actually about to create a new page for the subject, but then noticed this page already existed at one point in time, which was moved to draft and then suddenly deleted for what ever reason. The pages link is (or i should say 'was') here: Draft:DiMuro_(record_producer)
Please, if you could help, it would be greatly appreciated! The person who wrote this page to begin with seems like they did a fair amount of work, and it was a bit disrespectful of that person to delete the page right after you moved it to the draft space. I do not understand, but it is what it is. Thanks Risker, hopefully you can help me with this issue!
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in "From the editor". Smallbones( smalltalk) 04:58, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
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Hello. I do have some history on the James Shortt article but I want to make the nature of that history clear. I accidentally ran across it while creating the military imposter article. I'd never heard of Shortt before. At the time, the article was an obvious attack page created by Shortt's detractors that had endured more or less through it's obscurity. My attempts to bring the article in line with policy were met with a lot of pushback from those same detractors who seemed to guard the page. The section in question was the result of a compromise, because (allegedly) at the time those sources were considered acceptable. To be frank, these sources are poor but there aren't any others because subject is IMHO not notable at all, especially when his controversial behavior is removed (which leaves almost no article at all). I voiced this on the article's talk page several times but each time I was shot down. The article was even nominated for deletion once and the detractors came out of the woodwork to crush that. Adding to this problem is occasionally Shortt's fans (or Shortt himself using sockpuppets) appear and try to remove his controversial behavior from the article. I believe TanzanianTuna is one such account. Ideally I still feel his article should be deleted, because if you remove all the material about his false claims of military service, there is nothing notable about him. It is worth noting that there are actually zero reliable sources at all for the article. Sources 1 and 2 from the IBA are self-published (being Shortt's personal business websites) and Sources 3 and 4 are unreliable as well because they are essentially unvetted claims by Shortt that appear as incidental mentions in other people's books. Source 3 doesn't even technically name him, as it's either an alias or another person entirely. Legitimus ( talk) 15:04, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
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Hello,
I noticed you were the protecting admin for WP:UuU. Now that it's no longer the earliest surviving edit, I doubt the motivation to vandalize it exists anymore and so I think it should be unprotected.
Thanks! – John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 22:52, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Just letting you know I mentioned you since I was mentioning something you said back in 2016 here Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Vanishing Nil Einne ( talk) 20:39, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
My IP block exempt will end soon and I want to request you to expand it. Could I get a permanent one? I'm sure that I must use it to edit. Thank you very much! Ruiyu Shen 03:53, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Sorry for disrupting you again. XinuGod is a Chinese user and he can't edit Wikipedia too. He once requested for IPBE by sent a email to checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org but it is strange that he got a global IP block exempt instead of an enwiki's one:(. Recently, he want to write some gadgets which can be convenient for us, so I'm here request a permission for him and I hope that you could grant it. Best wishes. -- Ruiyu Shen 09:32, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Risker, thanks for looking at my request. It seems my autopatrolled has been downgraded form permanent to 12 month temporary while IP block has not been added. Could you double check? Thanks! pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 04:26, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Risker, the same IP banned by you here [1] is now repeating the same line of comments here [2] and mining a debate, supported by another editor who commented on my removal of offences as "vandalism" [3] Thank you, Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 13:19, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
I thought this was correct, though I’m terrible at navigating the MediaWiki documentation pages, so I couldn’t tell you where I heard it. TonyBallioni ( talk) 01:30, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
One of my favorite authors of the twentieth century, but I have the feeling that the editor whose work you were correcting isn't just in it for the literary reasons: see their edits on Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and related articles. Drmies ( talk) 14:12, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Concerning the article on "86", the addition of "killing" was made on May 9th, the user who did so has been traced back and positively identified as a supporter of Donald Trump. THEREFORE, such addition is politically motivated, and should be deleted. 97.107.46.157 ( talk) 01:40, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
I think that IP needs to be blocked for a while; see their talk page history and the vandalism in the history to Tichborne case. Since you did the revert I figured it would be quicker to message you than put in a report. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 03:22, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
Good evening Risker, I was revisiting this [ this meetup page]. Do you think it is worthwhile now to add a list of attendees who actually was there in the cafe that night? -- Ktsquare (talk) 03:02, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
But sheesh, just don't tell everyone else how stupid I am :) All the extra work I've doing ... SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 20:03, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
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Nice article in Washington Post. Hope you are well. NE Ent 20:58, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi , Could you please take action on the privacy thing here as no admin seems to have seen it yet? Thank you 70.67.193.176 ( talk) 15:06, 3 March 2021 (UTC) /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#Works_about_the_Theresienstadt_Ghetto
Risker I asked you the question on my talk page as well without reading that you normally answer messages from your email or your own talk page. I had asked whether your change to my user page was rooted in policy or courtesy. I'm adding the question here as well per your message to me. versacespace talk to me 12:25, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
I saw you reduced the user's rollback privileges. Did you mean to give temporary IPBE instead? Sro23 ( talk) 02:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
This morning, I received your email well. Thanks for your response. A few days ago, fortunately, a checkuser already granted me the IPBE for the English Wikipedia. But I have not been granted the global IPBE yet. Therefore, I would like to request for the global IPBE. Thank you. Zin Win Hlaing ( talk) 11:44, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
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I just saw you in a thread .. so good to see you around. I hope that you and yours have weathered these difficult times with minimal problems. I don't get the chocolate brownies anymore :-( ... I've had to change my diet to try and squeeze as many years out of this old body as I can. :-). All my very best Risker. — Ched ( talk) 05:40, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
Looking at the ANI history log from yesterday, I noticed a sequence of 25 weird looking revdels, from 22:03, April 7 to 03:41 April 8. I think they are probably all somehow related to the last revdel in this sequence [4], but they also affected a whole bunch of other users' edits (including a couple of mine, in unrelated threads, and an archiving edit by the Lowercase sigmabot). Could you please check what happened there? Thanks, Nsk92 ( talk) 13:34, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
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I've sent one. ... (looking through my bag of wiki-stuff) ... ahhh ... here it is ...
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Thank you for deleting this guys BS. I have indisputable record of Michael Cimino’s lineage as part of the actual immediate family and all of us have been so frustrated by this guy (who is only a second or third cousin) claiming to be his nephew. He has a paid service that replaces the lie automatically and continues to claim it on IMDB and other platforms. Appreciate your dedication to accuracy. 69.117.196.27 ( talk) 02:28, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Thank you! Michael had two brothers, Peter and Edward, both still living. Peter has no children due to medical issues. There are two biological nephews from Edward and they are 14 (1977) & 18 (1981) years younger than this bogus guy. While his father may also be named Peter Cimino, it’s not the same Peter as Michael’s biological brother.
And if we want to get technical, Michael’s mother was a seamstress, like many women of the time, but he would tell people she was a costume designer because it sounds more romantic. Other fun fact is that Michael was an INCREDIBLE illustrator, especially charcoal portraits, and could free-hand a perfect circle.
Thank you again, all the best! 69.117.196.27 ( talk) 05:12, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
... before I go too far. On User:Risker/SV/FA-GA, in the GA table, is this the info you're wanting? Format ok? — Ched ( talk) 05:30, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
To confirm, I am user Risker on both freenode and libera.chat, and also user Risker-alt on libera.chat. In case anyone is wondering. Risker ( talk) 01:19, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Risker. What do you think about using User:Risker/SV as an obituary for the Signpost? I don't know how things work over there or whether it has to be submitted, or even if it's necessary to have an obituary in the Signpost. So wondering what you think. Victoria ( tk) 20:33, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Incidentally, thanks very much to everyone who has helped to build this. I've actually been approached to talk a little bit about Sarah's contributions to Wikipedia for a podcast about Wikipedia, its history, and its communities. If anyone else is interested in also participating, let me know and I'll provide you with the producer's email. Risker ( talk) 20:58, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your help, Gerda. I've now moved the draft there, further edits/copyedits can be done there. Victoria, Tony1, Ceoil, Ched - Thank you for working on this as well. I added more stuff tonight, which should probably be reviewed and copy-edited. It is now at the new location as the draft for the Signpost; should show up on your watchlists and/or you can follow the redirect. Risker ( talk) 07:18, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Risker. Just wanted to swing by your talk page and thank you for taking the initiative on this obituary. I'm not sure if you were aware of this, but I was one of the main authors of the recent obituary for Yoninah. That's why Gerda connect you with me. I'm happy to help and provide advice; just let me know. Edge3 ( talk) 23:34, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for being a copy editor at heart, preparing Michael Gomez and Homer Simpson for FA, among many others, for having served as arb and passing your experience, for "Collaboration is, in my mind, the best feature of Wikipedia", for beginning and coordinating the tribute for SV - repeating (16 December 2008): you are an awesome Wikipedian!
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Hi Risker, hope all is well with you. When I read that the WMF has opened nominations for its Movement Charter Drafting Committee, my first thought was "that sounds up Risker's alley". There's very few people I'd trust more than you to do something of this importance, and I hope you're at least considering it. Allow me to quote myself from a recent thread on this topic:
Again, hope this is something you're considering. Warmly, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 23:28, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Risker. When you have a moment would you please take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#FYI. If you have anything to add to it that would be helpful. If not no worries. Best regards. MarnetteD| Talk 00:49, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
I’m on the clock, but I need a favor so I’m posting here to keep the isp address in one low key spot: flyer 22 frozen was listed on a collection of accounts that I had as possibly being a middayexpress sock, if I could bother you to check Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Middayexpress/Archive and User:TomStar81/Horn of Africa disruption just to see if anything correlates? If not then so be it, if so then perhaps another look through this would be a good idea. 2600:1011:B10A:BF57:E4A7:59D8:47C9:7FAF ( talk) 01:48, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Risker, I mentioned you on my talk page and thought I'd leave a note with background info. There's Featured article review open for one of Colonel Henry's FAs, see Wikipedia:Featured article review/Duino Elegies/archive1. A number of newer editors have done considerable work reformatting citations, but in my view the article should be delisted as an FA - I'll be writing up my reasons after posting here. In the meantime it's come up on my talk (the usual bantering w/ Ceoil sprinkled w/ work we're doing), and Sandy chimed in. Then I mentioned you and the ban discussion, just so you know. I hope all is well with you and that you're having a lovely summer. Victoria ( tk) 15:32, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
I understand entirely what your friends are concerned about. In the past few months, I've managed to visit pretty much all of my family members across Ontario and Quebec (with the exception of a few cousins), and we've all been thoroughly schooled in the test-immediately-before process, especially when it comes to anyone with underlying illnesses or advanced age. I still wear my mask in public places like stores and shopping malls (when I'm not isolating!) and I suspect I'll be expected to wear a mask the whole time when I have to attend the Wikimedia Summit next month. Given how hot it has been in Berlin this summer, I am really NOT looking forward to that. I'm as boostered-up as I can get, and I have managed to escape the wrath of the virus so far. Fingers crossed. Risker ( talk) 22:10, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hello. I just want to know why you tagged
File:Ascott House Front.jpg as keep local, even if there is a Commons copy and the building is located in a country with full FOP for buildings (
c:COM:FOP UK). More so it is already in public domain since the renovating architect
George Dewey has been deceased for more than 70 years. In my opinion keeping a local copy with the relatively-useless {{
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which is the de facto active FOP template on enwiki today, used on unfree buildings of countries with no FOP (as enwiki only respects US law). Photos of US and UK buildings are almost accepted at Commons since both have FOP for architecture.
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10:54, 15 January 2023 (UTC)In regards to this comment [5], one reason might be how a lot of welcome templates link to the Wikipedia:Task centre nowadays? It explicitly mentions noticeboards. It's under "community". If you go to that, it lists every noticeboard we have with just one more click. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 04:46, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Risker, just to say thanks / apologies for the confusion last week, and to pass on two nice songs I think/hope you might like. Linda Ronstadt, and one that's very close to my experience in small towns Iris Dement. Best as always. Ceoil ( talk) 21:39, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
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I've had a couple of folks poke me to ask me where I've disappeared to. The short answer is that almost all of my volunteer hours (which seem to be piling up like nobody's business) have been focused on work with the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. I've been averaging 15+ hours/week for the last couple of months, not including a 10-hour-days weekend at the beginning of June. It's coming along well, I think, although I hope that members of this community take advantage of the different opportunities for review and comment on the draft chapters we'll be releasing in July: decision-making, Global Council, Hubs, and roles and responsibilities. We're also including a glossary this time around. Please. We know they aren't all the way there yet, and we need to get good, useful feedback on how to improve. The comment period runs until after Wikimania in August, and I'll post some links when they're up.
Once we get past that, it will take us another few months to cobble together everything else, get some more thoughts, work out how we're going to do the voting on this thing, and so on. So there's still much to do. But I think the pace will slow down after Wikimania. I hope so. I don't think I've ever said this before, but I'm almost looking forward to getting stuck into a couple of SPIs....
Still around, and I still follow up on this page, and check my watchlist pretty much daily. Risker ( talk) 02:18, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thank you for staying in touch through difficult times - it means/meant a lot to me. — Ched ( talk) 18:27, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, Risker! I was looking to expand on a musicians page which you moved to the draftspace back in July of 2019. I noticed somebody had deleted the draft page shortly after that, unsure of the reason for deletion. I also noticed the persons page (the person who deleted the page you moved to draft) is no longer active, so i wonder if their cause for deletion was even legit in the first place. I was hoping i could ask you to re-instate the page so it can be expanded on by myself as well as any other user who would like to help expand on the subject, especially since the person has become more notable since the creation of this page. I was actually about to create a new page for the subject, but then noticed this page already existed at one point in time, which was moved to draft and then suddenly deleted for what ever reason. The pages link is (or i should say 'was') here: Draft:DiMuro_(record_producer)
Please, if you could help, it would be greatly appreciated! The person who wrote this page to begin with seems like they did a fair amount of work, and it was a bit disrespectful of that person to delete the page right after you moved it to the draft space. I do not understand, but it is what it is. Thanks Risker, hopefully you can help me with this issue!
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in "From the editor". Smallbones( smalltalk) 04:58, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
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Hello. I do have some history on the James Shortt article but I want to make the nature of that history clear. I accidentally ran across it while creating the military imposter article. I'd never heard of Shortt before. At the time, the article was an obvious attack page created by Shortt's detractors that had endured more or less through it's obscurity. My attempts to bring the article in line with policy were met with a lot of pushback from those same detractors who seemed to guard the page. The section in question was the result of a compromise, because (allegedly) at the time those sources were considered acceptable. To be frank, these sources are poor but there aren't any others because subject is IMHO not notable at all, especially when his controversial behavior is removed (which leaves almost no article at all). I voiced this on the article's talk page several times but each time I was shot down. The article was even nominated for deletion once and the detractors came out of the woodwork to crush that. Adding to this problem is occasionally Shortt's fans (or Shortt himself using sockpuppets) appear and try to remove his controversial behavior from the article. I believe TanzanianTuna is one such account. Ideally I still feel his article should be deleted, because if you remove all the material about his false claims of military service, there is nothing notable about him. It is worth noting that there are actually zero reliable sources at all for the article. Sources 1 and 2 from the IBA are self-published (being Shortt's personal business websites) and Sources 3 and 4 are unreliable as well because they are essentially unvetted claims by Shortt that appear as incidental mentions in other people's books. Source 3 doesn't even technically name him, as it's either an alias or another person entirely. Legitimus ( talk) 15:04, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
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I noticed you were the protecting admin for WP:UuU. Now that it's no longer the earliest surviving edit, I doubt the motivation to vandalize it exists anymore and so I think it should be unprotected.
Thanks! – John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 22:52, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Just letting you know I mentioned you since I was mentioning something you said back in 2016 here Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Vanishing Nil Einne ( talk) 20:39, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
My IP block exempt will end soon and I want to request you to expand it. Could I get a permanent one? I'm sure that I must use it to edit. Thank you very much! Ruiyu Shen 03:53, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Sorry for disrupting you again. XinuGod is a Chinese user and he can't edit Wikipedia too. He once requested for IPBE by sent a email to checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org but it is strange that he got a global IP block exempt instead of an enwiki's one:(. Recently, he want to write some gadgets which can be convenient for us, so I'm here request a permission for him and I hope that you could grant it. Best wishes. -- Ruiyu Shen 09:32, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Risker, thanks for looking at my request. It seems my autopatrolled has been downgraded form permanent to 12 month temporary while IP block has not been added. Could you double check? Thanks! pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 04:26, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Risker, the same IP banned by you here [1] is now repeating the same line of comments here [2] and mining a debate, supported by another editor who commented on my removal of offences as "vandalism" [3] Thank you, Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 13:19, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
I thought this was correct, though I’m terrible at navigating the MediaWiki documentation pages, so I couldn’t tell you where I heard it. TonyBallioni ( talk) 01:30, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
One of my favorite authors of the twentieth century, but I have the feeling that the editor whose work you were correcting isn't just in it for the literary reasons: see their edits on Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and related articles. Drmies ( talk) 14:12, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Concerning the article on "86", the addition of "killing" was made on May 9th, the user who did so has been traced back and positively identified as a supporter of Donald Trump. THEREFORE, such addition is politically motivated, and should be deleted. 97.107.46.157 ( talk) 01:40, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
I think that IP needs to be blocked for a while; see their talk page history and the vandalism in the history to Tichborne case. Since you did the revert I figured it would be quicker to message you than put in a report. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 03:22, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
Good evening Risker, I was revisiting this [ this meetup page]. Do you think it is worthwhile now to add a list of attendees who actually was there in the cafe that night? -- Ktsquare (talk) 03:02, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
But sheesh, just don't tell everyone else how stupid I am :) All the extra work I've doing ... SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 20:03, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
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Nice article in Washington Post. Hope you are well. NE Ent 20:58, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi , Could you please take action on the privacy thing here as no admin seems to have seen it yet? Thank you 70.67.193.176 ( talk) 15:06, 3 March 2021 (UTC) /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#Works_about_the_Theresienstadt_Ghetto
Risker I asked you the question on my talk page as well without reading that you normally answer messages from your email or your own talk page. I had asked whether your change to my user page was rooted in policy or courtesy. I'm adding the question here as well per your message to me. versacespace talk to me 12:25, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
I saw you reduced the user's rollback privileges. Did you mean to give temporary IPBE instead? Sro23 ( talk) 02:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
This morning, I received your email well. Thanks for your response. A few days ago, fortunately, a checkuser already granted me the IPBE for the English Wikipedia. But I have not been granted the global IPBE yet. Therefore, I would like to request for the global IPBE. Thank you. Zin Win Hlaing ( talk) 11:44, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
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I just saw you in a thread .. so good to see you around. I hope that you and yours have weathered these difficult times with minimal problems. I don't get the chocolate brownies anymore :-( ... I've had to change my diet to try and squeeze as many years out of this old body as I can. :-). All my very best Risker. — Ched ( talk) 05:40, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
Looking at the ANI history log from yesterday, I noticed a sequence of 25 weird looking revdels, from 22:03, April 7 to 03:41 April 8. I think they are probably all somehow related to the last revdel in this sequence [4], but they also affected a whole bunch of other users' edits (including a couple of mine, in unrelated threads, and an archiving edit by the Lowercase sigmabot). Could you please check what happened there? Thanks, Nsk92 ( talk) 13:34, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
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I've sent one. ... (looking through my bag of wiki-stuff) ... ahhh ... here it is ...
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Thank you for deleting this guys BS. I have indisputable record of Michael Cimino’s lineage as part of the actual immediate family and all of us have been so frustrated by this guy (who is only a second or third cousin) claiming to be his nephew. He has a paid service that replaces the lie automatically and continues to claim it on IMDB and other platforms. Appreciate your dedication to accuracy. 69.117.196.27 ( talk) 02:28, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Thank you! Michael had two brothers, Peter and Edward, both still living. Peter has no children due to medical issues. There are two biological nephews from Edward and they are 14 (1977) & 18 (1981) years younger than this bogus guy. While his father may also be named Peter Cimino, it’s not the same Peter as Michael’s biological brother.
And if we want to get technical, Michael’s mother was a seamstress, like many women of the time, but he would tell people she was a costume designer because it sounds more romantic. Other fun fact is that Michael was an INCREDIBLE illustrator, especially charcoal portraits, and could free-hand a perfect circle.
Thank you again, all the best! 69.117.196.27 ( talk) 05:12, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
... before I go too far. On User:Risker/SV/FA-GA, in the GA table, is this the info you're wanting? Format ok? — Ched ( talk) 05:30, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
To confirm, I am user Risker on both freenode and libera.chat, and also user Risker-alt on libera.chat. In case anyone is wondering. Risker ( talk) 01:19, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Risker. What do you think about using User:Risker/SV as an obituary for the Signpost? I don't know how things work over there or whether it has to be submitted, or even if it's necessary to have an obituary in the Signpost. So wondering what you think. Victoria ( tk) 20:33, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Incidentally, thanks very much to everyone who has helped to build this. I've actually been approached to talk a little bit about Sarah's contributions to Wikipedia for a podcast about Wikipedia, its history, and its communities. If anyone else is interested in also participating, let me know and I'll provide you with the producer's email. Risker ( talk) 20:58, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your help, Gerda. I've now moved the draft there, further edits/copyedits can be done there. Victoria, Tony1, Ceoil, Ched - Thank you for working on this as well. I added more stuff tonight, which should probably be reviewed and copy-edited. It is now at the new location as the draft for the Signpost; should show up on your watchlists and/or you can follow the redirect. Risker ( talk) 07:18, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Risker. Just wanted to swing by your talk page and thank you for taking the initiative on this obituary. I'm not sure if you were aware of this, but I was one of the main authors of the recent obituary for Yoninah. That's why Gerda connect you with me. I'm happy to help and provide advice; just let me know. Edge3 ( talk) 23:34, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Risker, hope all is well with you. When I read that the WMF has opened nominations for its Movement Charter Drafting Committee, my first thought was "that sounds up Risker's alley". There's very few people I'd trust more than you to do something of this importance, and I hope you're at least considering it. Allow me to quote myself from a recent thread on this topic:
Again, hope this is something you're considering. Warmly, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 23:28, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Risker. When you have a moment would you please take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#FYI. If you have anything to add to it that would be helpful. If not no worries. Best regards. MarnetteD| Talk 00:49, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
I’m on the clock, but I need a favor so I’m posting here to keep the isp address in one low key spot: flyer 22 frozen was listed on a collection of accounts that I had as possibly being a middayexpress sock, if I could bother you to check Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Middayexpress/Archive and User:TomStar81/Horn of Africa disruption just to see if anything correlates? If not then so be it, if so then perhaps another look through this would be a good idea. 2600:1011:B10A:BF57:E4A7:59D8:47C9:7FAF ( talk) 01:48, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Risker, I mentioned you on my talk page and thought I'd leave a note with background info. There's Featured article review open for one of Colonel Henry's FAs, see Wikipedia:Featured article review/Duino Elegies/archive1. A number of newer editors have done considerable work reformatting citations, but in my view the article should be delisted as an FA - I'll be writing up my reasons after posting here. In the meantime it's come up on my talk (the usual bantering w/ Ceoil sprinkled w/ work we're doing), and Sandy chimed in. Then I mentioned you and the ban discussion, just so you know. I hope all is well with you and that you're having a lovely summer. Victoria ( tk) 15:32, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
I understand entirely what your friends are concerned about. In the past few months, I've managed to visit pretty much all of my family members across Ontario and Quebec (with the exception of a few cousins), and we've all been thoroughly schooled in the test-immediately-before process, especially when it comes to anyone with underlying illnesses or advanced age. I still wear my mask in public places like stores and shopping malls (when I'm not isolating!) and I suspect I'll be expected to wear a mask the whole time when I have to attend the Wikimedia Summit next month. Given how hot it has been in Berlin this summer, I am really NOT looking forward to that. I'm as boostered-up as I can get, and I have managed to escape the wrath of the virus so far. Fingers crossed. Risker ( talk) 22:10, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
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Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free and may Janus light your way. Ealdgyth ( talk) 14:05, 1 January 2023 (UTC) |
Hello. I just want to know why you tagged
File:Ascott House Front.jpg as keep local, even if there is a Commons copy and the building is located in a country with full FOP for buildings (
c:COM:FOP UK). More so it is already in public domain since the renovating architect
George Dewey has been deceased for more than 70 years. In my opinion keeping a local copy with the relatively-useless {{
Ir-FOP}}
tag is not reasonable now. The tag itself is already redundant to {{
FoP-USonly}}
which is the de facto active FOP template on enwiki today, used on unfree buildings of countries with no FOP (as enwiki only respects US law). Photos of US and UK buildings are almost accepted at Commons since both have FOP for architecture.
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06:35, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
{{
FoP-USonly}}
be the suitable tag? I cannot see the future utility of {{
Ir-FOP}}
since photos of buildings from countries with FOP (like UK) as well as virtually all U.S. buildings are also free for hosting on Wikimedia Commons any way.
JWilz12345 (
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10:54, 15 January 2023 (UTC)In regards to this comment [5], one reason might be how a lot of welcome templates link to the Wikipedia:Task centre nowadays? It explicitly mentions noticeboards. It's under "community". If you go to that, it lists every noticeboard we have with just one more click. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 04:46, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
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ASJ is in the news again due to a heraldic invitation design ( link). This allows for more RS cites. Arlo James Barnes 17:20, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi Risker, just to say thanks / apologies for the confusion last week, and to pass on two nice songs I think/hope you might like. Linda Ronstadt, and one that's very close to my experience in small towns Iris Dement. Best as always. Ceoil ( talk) 21:39, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Two years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 04:54, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
I've had a couple of folks poke me to ask me where I've disappeared to. The short answer is that almost all of my volunteer hours (which seem to be piling up like nobody's business) have been focused on work with the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. I've been averaging 15+ hours/week for the last couple of months, not including a 10-hour-days weekend at the beginning of June. It's coming along well, I think, although I hope that members of this community take advantage of the different opportunities for review and comment on the draft chapters we'll be releasing in July: decision-making, Global Council, Hubs, and roles and responsibilities. We're also including a glossary this time around. Please. We know they aren't all the way there yet, and we need to get good, useful feedback on how to improve. The comment period runs until after Wikimania in August, and I'll post some links when they're up.
Once we get past that, it will take us another few months to cobble together everything else, get some more thoughts, work out how we're going to do the voting on this thing, and so on. So there's still much to do. But I think the pace will slow down after Wikimania. I hope so. I don't think I've ever said this before, but I'm almost looking forward to getting stuck into a couple of SPIs....
Still around, and I still follow up on this page, and check my watchlist pretty much daily. Risker ( talk) 02:18, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thank you for staying in touch through difficult times - it means/meant a lot to me. — Ched ( talk) 18:27, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Risker. A couple of years ago you granted me an IP Block Exemption since I often edit on a corporate network that proxies its traffic through Google Cloud. That exemption expired last month, and I sent an email to checkuser-en-wp asking for a renewal, but I haven't heard back. I know you're not that active these days, but would you be able to renew my exemption? Thanks. --
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Hi Risker! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. It was great to meet you in Toronto, and best of luck with all your committee work! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers,{{u| Sdkb}} talk 06:57, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hey Risker,
Back in winter 2023, I sent an email to the VRT team to request a block exemption, as my life circumstances are keeping me from editing via an unblocked IP address. You granted this request on 29 December 2023, and mentioned I could request an extension here if I was still interested in editing. I still am, and was wondering if you could grant me such.
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