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Any ideas? Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2013#Header error. I don't think I broke anything, but if I did please quietly fix it without telling anyone. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 15:44, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Writ Keeper, I don't usually do this, but I'd like to say that I think your answer to question #7 (by Epicgenius) is excellent. :) Good luck! Acalamari 23:11, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
OK, no problems. Anyway I thought it was Trevj who brought it up. Quis separabit? 00:22, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Moral support for cratship. "I'd like to think I'm pretty" is good reason. bishzilla ROARR!! 18:24, 13 December 2013 (UTC).
Seriously, though? Sincerity mode? No, becoming a 'crat was/is not at all my long term goal. I saw that thread on BN, wherein they suggested that they could perhaps use more 'crats, and decided more or less on a whim to try it. It's not a job that appeals to me particularly. (I mean, just the name! "Admin" sounds so...sexy, like you're doing important stuff! "Bureaucrat" sounds like you're filing A23 forms into cabinet B6 and bingo, you sunk my battleship! I'm pretty sure any kid that tells their mother, "Mommy, I want to be a bureacrat when I grow up," is legally obligated to be left for the wolves.) The renaming thing is a thing I could and would do; ever since I helped Hafspajen with his username thing I'd been thinking about that, but it's like one of three jobs that the 'crats do, and not the biggest one at that, and the other jobs hold no real appeal to me. (Plus, they've said that they're eventually going to take away renaming at a local level, which sounds like a fantastically bad idea, but that's another story altogether.) But, they said they needed help, so I thought, "eh, what the hell", decided to give it a shot, and here we are. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 16:20, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the Jclemens edit I did. I actually thought I hadn't saved it (just previewed it). When I realized I was wrong and the "documentation" thingamajigger shouldn't be there, I was about to remove it, but you beat me to it. One of the problems I've found (among many) since becoming an arbitration clerk trainee is I think it requires a deeper understanding of how templates work than I have. Do you have any suggestions about how I can learn more about such things (assuming I ever find the time)? Regards.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:19, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
<noinclude></noinclude>
tags mean is that whatever's inside there (in this case, the doc template), doesn't get inserted into the page along with the rest of the template when it's transcluded or substituted; it basically marks stuff that only shows up when you're looking at the template page itself, not when the template is placed in other pages, if that makes sense.
Writ Keeper
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I retagged the article under a different criteria. Please look at the history of the article, I nominated it for AFD no one commented, it was suggested that it was nominated for csd. A7 wa a great criteria for it, when you declined it, I retagged as it has no notability whatsoever. It's not rocket science WK, if ever there was a reason to WP:IAR it would be this. Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 06:37, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
Congrats. That looked too easy; how did they not find out about the campaign contrib... /*glurg*/ Preceding unfinished and unsigned comment added by User:Floquenbeam 18:36, 16 December 2013 (UTC) Hope he's OK...
Thanks, all. Yeah, when I was first moving my nomination into mainspace, I thought, "Bureaucratship? That can't be right." But after five minutes or so of double-checking, I found that it was indeed a thing. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 20:06, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
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Have this beer for your successful RfB. Many Many congrats for becoming a crat. Hope you like your new responsibility. Pratyya (Hello!) 05:30, 17 December 2013 (UTC) |
triumphs of language
Thank you, dreaming reigner of irony with bureaucrat headaches and a life of your own, for quality articles such as
Cathreim Thoirdhealbhaigh (Triumphs of Torlough), for believing in "
rules-as-limits-on-power", for
distinguishing "discussion" and discussion, and for
enlightening me on "badass", "yelling" and a cultural divide, - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
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Congrats on the promotion! Brookie :) { - he's in the building somewhere!} (Whisper...) 10:07, 17 December 2013 (UTC) |
Hi Writ Keeper, sorry to disturb you, but your "rollback all" script is not working properly—it is only rolling back the first edit out of all of a user's contributions. Epicgenius ( talk) 02:53, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
This user copied one sentence from a guide to appealing blocks on the unblock request. Please either deny the request or revoke talk page access. Thanks! Thewikiguru1 ( talk) 18:42, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Legacy (2014 TV Series) is hoax by -- Sunuraju ( talk) 10:02, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Hey WK, got a problem with the syntax of the first external link--it's got all those square brackets in there. Didn't you help me with a problem like that before? Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 21:15, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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The dynamic IP at Talk:India Against Corruption is continuing to bang the "legal threat" drum and isn't really saying much else that is policy compliant because, for example, their sources are useless and they're relying on original research/synthesis. I'm not sure whether it is feasible to range block and I'm pretty sure that this is AcorruptionfreeIndia editing while logged out (that user was similarly tendentious regarding the issue). Would it make sense to semi-protect the talk page for, say, 24 or 48 hours to see if we can flush out the problem? I realise that this is drastic but if range-blocking is not possible then I cannot see another way forward. - Sitush ( talk) 15:00, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Merry Yuletides to you! (And a happy new year!) Epicgenius ( talk) 22:22, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
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I don't usually leave "talkback" messages, but since it's been more than a week since you posted, mentioning here that I've finally replied to your message on my talkpage. Hope it helps somehow. Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 22:00, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
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For writing the most important script you will ever install. benzband ( talk) 16:42, 31 December 2013 (UTC) |
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Happy New Year! Gott nytt år!! Hope you are having a lovely time!!!! All the best for you! Some nice beer for you! Hafspajen ( talk) 19:37, 31 December 2013 (UTC) |
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Happy New Year, WK. Looks like you have a lot of New Year banners above; I won't do that, as it isn't that personalized. Anyway, have a prosperous year! Epicgenius ( talk) 20:10, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello i am Niko. i would like to know how to put wiki page links onto my userpage. For exmple a link to Kasta. Can you help me out? please? ( Mudak568 ( talk) 18:23, 3 January 2014 (UTC)) Mudak568 ( talk) 18:23, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
[[Kasta]]
, you'll get a link to the Kasta page that looks like:
Kasta. You can also create a link to a page with a title different from the words you're linking, like this: [[Kasta|A good rap]]
would look like:
A good rap, but the link still takes you to the Kasta page. (By the way, that vertical line in that example is a pipe character; on most US keyboards, you can get it by typing Shift and \ to get |.) Does that help?
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18:31, 3 January 2014 (UTC)Hey Writ Keeper, I was wondering if you knew what I could reply to a schizophrenic Wikipedia user whose username is Nathan Bäcker of whom appears to be having a schizophrenic episode and sound crazy on his own talk page? Stormy Nights ( talk) 18:48, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
I was thinking of adding a note at Wikipedia:User pages#User talk notification along the lines of "Registered users wishing to add back the Orange Bar notification may do so through this script." However, since it's attached to your name I wanted to consult with you first. Would you mind? By the way, I much appreciate the script!-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 23:56, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Glad to hear it, but now I'm wasting all this time looking for the RFAR about somebody using bad words, where Newyorkbrad responded with "Fuck off". Where was it? I can't have dreamt it, can I? Maybe a month ago? (The only thing I'm sure of is that the request was rejected.) Bishonen | talk 22:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC).
now I've made a mess of it. Would you please look at my Talk page again? (Sorry to bother you.) -- Hordaland ( talk) 18:59, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
You are a life saver, thank you very much. I will take your advice and I will come to you in case I have trouble. Thank you for your help and understanding. Michael Crichton Stephen King Talk 22:25, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, it's me again and I have a question. I had just finished reading the instructions on Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple and I'm confused on both step 7 and step 8 and here is a copy a paste of those two steps:
7. Users with many edits should log out of their accounts to ensure the rename is carried out properly.
8. Check back on this page periodically to answer any questions that may arise regarding your request. Please be patient. It may take a few days for your request to be completed. If you do not answer any questions, your request may be declined due to no response.
My question to you is how will I be able to answer any possible questions, as mentioned in Step 8, if I have to log out of my account, as mentioned in Step 7? Please reply when you have a chance. Thank you. Michael Crichton Stephen King Talk 14:13, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Okay thank you again. Michael Crichton Stephen King Talk 15:35, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Your welcome and thank you again for changing my username. You've made my day a great day. :-) THANK YOU!!! Hitcher vs. Candyman Talk 17:20, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Please
stop attacking other editors, as you did on
List of Auburn University people. If you continue, you may be
blocked from editing Wikipedia. Mr. Bureaucrat, we can do
without your sneers. It's bad enough that I have to "touch" an Auburn article without you making it worse.
Drmies (
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20:31, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
I just got a mailing list subscription request from you that I'm 99.9% sure is you, but just to verify, can you please email me to verify the address? Thanks. EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:09, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
...for explaining to me what "OP" meant at ANI. I thought the editor meant IP, as these letters are very close to each other on the keyboard. Epicgenius ( talk) 21:20, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Writ Keeper! Thank you for having invited me to the Teahouse! I will be happy to check it out! :) Ginesfanego ( talk) 12:04, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Could you remind or guide this user as to what he's supposed to do? Currently he seems to be using both accounts simultaneously. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 19:55, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Writ Keeper. For once, I come to you with a procedural, rather than a technical request - can I get you to cast your eye over the unblock request at User talk:Route20? I'm happy to accept their appeal, but could use some advice regarding the renaming process - given that they apparently want to abandon the username Nhwxtracker and use Route20 instead, would it be more appropriate to:
I'm not sure whether the rename request would be accepted, so if you wouldn't mind answering with your bureaucrat trousers on, I'd be grateful.
Of course, things are further muddied by his focus on
U.S. Route 20 - I don't think the username policy specifically prohibits this, but it might be something to factor in. Cheers,
Yunshui
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水
09:49, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Writ. You said, on Jan. 16, "Heh, I know that's an option, but if I do it on my own initiative, it'd likely be overturned quickly, which will leave none of us any better off. Patience. ;) (I also am not planning on being particularly available over the next 24 hours, which would not be good for such a thing.) I'll look into it, though, at least." I took this as an expression that you would look into it, and then get back to me. Do you plan any action at this time? It doesn't seem like it would be such a big deal to me. When Spartaz and Beeblebrox did the action in the other direction, they didn't even bother to leave a comment at my talkpage. It was non-issue, button flick action in the other direction. So why should it be moving mountains to reverse? Anyhow, let me know something, so I can go on to the next thing if I must. Colton Cosmic. 22 January, 2014, 14:21 UTC.
Would you consider closing Wikipedia:ANI#Proposal please? It's been open for quite a while, and the consensus is clear, yet no uninvolved admin seems to want to close it. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 20:38, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
You closed WP:ANI#A charge of wikihounding**, but forgot to log it at WP:RESTRICT. Could you do it now? Also the closure doesn't indicate any fixed length for the interaction ban, but on the talk page of the concerned editors ( User_talk:Lukeno94#Interaction_ban_enacted & User_talk:Jaggee#Interaction_ban_enacted) you say it's for three months. Could you modify your closure to reflect that? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 10:31, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
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For closing the community sanctions for Bugs Bunny, Medeis, and The Rambling Man thread, as well as other contentious discussions with great care and sound logic I hereby give you this barnstar. Keep up the good work. -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 15:17, 24 January 2014 (UTC) |
I'm not sure whether you're the re-closing admin or just the messenger for this note, but I'm badly confused by this edit — is there some sort of "you can talk to each other" exception to the interaction ban? Please note that I'm not personally concerned; my only participation has been to unblock Bugs on procedural grounds. Nyttend ( talk) 06:30, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
1. The Rambling Man is banned from any interactions with Medeis and Baseball Bugs, indefinitely. Baseball Bugs and Medeis are banned from any interactions with The Rambling Man, indefinitely. These bans include article, talk, wikipedia, and user space, without exception. No mention of the others or their actions shall be permitted. These may be appealed to the community not less than one year after they become effective.[3] Don't worry, Writ, it's quite clear on the editing restrictions page, [4] and the parties themselves obviously aren't going to be confused. Bishonen | talk 13:25, 26 January 2014 (UTC).
Could you do me a favor and tell TRM to look at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Australian_Open_Tennis ? There were duplicate nominations, so, as usual procedure, I closed the later nomination. Since there were already votes on the duplicate, I copied the non-redundant ones to the earlier template. TRM voted in each, so I didn't copy his statement, but he may want to comment again or further at the earlier nomination. Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 20:51, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I'd like to bring this to your attention. As a person who has been Wikihounded a number of times before, I do not take it lightly, especially when the editor in question has neither a policy nor a guideline he can cite to justify his reversion, simply his impression of "common practice". I would ask you to take notice of this situation, and intervene if and when it becomes necessary to do so. I have asked the editor to stop, and if he does, all very well, but if he continues, I would like something to be done about it, if at all possible. Thanks. BMK ( talk) 16:45, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
...for my incivility on your talk page. BMK ( talk) 21:34, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
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You seem stressed out bud... Perhaps a beer will help calm your nerves. Anyways, I wish you the best! Technical 13 ( talk) 21:44, 28 January 2014 (UTC) |
Hi. I sent you an e-mail on Jan 31. Did you get it? Bishonen | talk 05:44, 6 February 2014 (UTC).
I take it, but seriously, the links provided were all wrong. Most AN/I lurkers won't bother even checking, or understanding the context. Given there's been a call from yet another incompetent editor to provide me with a symmetric ban (which would now be punitive) I am obliged to respond at the board. I'm staggered that there's so much empathy for an editor who made so many personal attacks on me. I could be accused of lively and argumentative discourse, but I never resorted to anything like "freakish obsessive", "Crazy", "troll with no life", "basement-dwelling Brit-twit", "obsessive eccentric". If we now intend to allow editors to go full tilt and insult people like that, just because they don't like the way a discussion is going against them, we might as well turn the lights off right now. Good luck. (By the way, I truly believe that the readers at AN/I etc need to be informed as to the active positive contributions that all the lurkers have made, if someone is prepared to claim they need to be judged on the quality of their contributions but don't actually improve the content of the encyclopaedia, it should be noted. This isn't Facebook or Twitter, we shouldn't be here exclusively to talk about things). Finally, please note that the user being so ardently defended has used his talk page to attack me once again, calling me an abusive obssesive. I'm sure you'll tell me, once again, to step down, but you should be aware of what you and the others at AN/I are defending. The Rambling Man ( talk) 18:25, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
So, in summary, I think you can find a way to defend yourself without having to tack that other stuff on, too. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 19:18, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
I've sent you a quick email. Nothing hugely important, just a little note/thanks regarding one of your scripts. INeverCry 19:12, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi: Your reading of BLP/BLD seems a bit off. BLP protects living/recently dead people from baseless statements period. People's opinions concerning a BLP/BLD subject is "information" about that subject - it is information about how a subject is viewed. Wikipedian's are suppose to be avoiding such expressions of personal opinion -- because what matters is what sources say. Alanscottwalker ( talk) 19:47, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
When did WP become a psychiatric hospice? People commit suicide every day, my own father did, but the reasons aren't always what you think they are. If you have mental health problems go see a doctor, don't plaster a template on your talk page.Where is Eric saying the equivalent of "that persons death is [his opinion]" here? He's not. There's nothing in there that actually talks about the subject. It makes a general point about suicide, and how WP is a terrible place to seek alternatives to it (and he is right). What is in there that actually violates BLP? I mean, the only thing there is really the comment (and subsequent ones) about his father, but somehow I don't get the impression that that was recent enough to fall under BDP, and that's certainly not what Kevin was referring to anyway. There's a somewhat subtle distinction here, but it's an important one. Nobody could read Eric's comment and be misled at all about what actually happened to the subject, and that's the point of BLP/BDP: it's not to prevent anyone from ever getting offended (which would fall under WP:NOTCENSORED); it's to prevent us from misleading people about things that really happened in a way that will hurt real people or their family/friends/etc. Your example could mislead people, depending on the context, so it might fall under BLP, but that's not what I'm talking about, and that's not what happened here. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 20:56, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
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......ten minutes too late, but still...................................................................................................................................................................... Hafspajen ( talk) 00:10, 15 February 2014 (UTC) |
I didn't alter the header or discussion, I added underneath it. I thought a talk page was for things to be talked about; I didn't alter the discussion for the approval of a bot. What else am I to do? It is adminstrator protected so where else am I to go to express my disagreement? I have been to ANI, I have put a message on the bot owner's talk page and the bot owner removed the message, the bot is administrator protected because all editors are equal except some are more equal than others, where else? All I want is the bloody bot to stand off for a couple of hours after an edit before it puts its oar in, cos in several edits which do not show up on WP history cos I corrected them, it puts its oar in right in the middle of when I am doing a preview of a {{
cite journal}}
or whatever, and I can't give the revision history because I had to do it again before I saved it. I just would like it to stand off a little, a couple of hours after the last edit. I am not asking to change the world.
Si Trew (
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23:48, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I thought this edit was very insightful. I may quote it, but if experience is any measure, I'll probably forget where I heard it, hence this comment. -- S Philbrick (Talk) 19:13, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello User:Writ Keeper Thank you for your notes and speedy deletions. Do you understand that I am linking the orgigianl content back to the my original body of work and your speedy deletions are keeping the functionality of the script from brending the RDFa? Cya2evernote ( talk) 21:52, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the help, cat lover. Hope you're doing well in real life.
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Thank your understanding, integrity, even wisdom, and for a job well done. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 00:13, 21 February 2014 (UTC) |
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For your mantic abilities with regards to my scripting requirements, have a barnstar! Yunshui 雲 水 08:43, 21 February 2014 (UTC) |
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As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 14:46, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Any ideas? Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2013#Header error. I don't think I broke anything, but if I did please quietly fix it without telling anyone. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 15:44, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Writ Keeper, I don't usually do this, but I'd like to say that I think your answer to question #7 (by Epicgenius) is excellent. :) Good luck! Acalamari 23:11, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
OK, no problems. Anyway I thought it was Trevj who brought it up. Quis separabit? 00:22, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Moral support for cratship. "I'd like to think I'm pretty" is good reason. bishzilla ROARR!! 18:24, 13 December 2013 (UTC).
Seriously, though? Sincerity mode? No, becoming a 'crat was/is not at all my long term goal. I saw that thread on BN, wherein they suggested that they could perhaps use more 'crats, and decided more or less on a whim to try it. It's not a job that appeals to me particularly. (I mean, just the name! "Admin" sounds so...sexy, like you're doing important stuff! "Bureaucrat" sounds like you're filing A23 forms into cabinet B6 and bingo, you sunk my battleship! I'm pretty sure any kid that tells their mother, "Mommy, I want to be a bureacrat when I grow up," is legally obligated to be left for the wolves.) The renaming thing is a thing I could and would do; ever since I helped Hafspajen with his username thing I'd been thinking about that, but it's like one of three jobs that the 'crats do, and not the biggest one at that, and the other jobs hold no real appeal to me. (Plus, they've said that they're eventually going to take away renaming at a local level, which sounds like a fantastically bad idea, but that's another story altogether.) But, they said they needed help, so I thought, "eh, what the hell", decided to give it a shot, and here we are. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 16:20, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the Jclemens edit I did. I actually thought I hadn't saved it (just previewed it). When I realized I was wrong and the "documentation" thingamajigger shouldn't be there, I was about to remove it, but you beat me to it. One of the problems I've found (among many) since becoming an arbitration clerk trainee is I think it requires a deeper understanding of how templates work than I have. Do you have any suggestions about how I can learn more about such things (assuming I ever find the time)? Regards.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:19, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
<noinclude></noinclude>
tags mean is that whatever's inside there (in this case, the doc template), doesn't get inserted into the page along with the rest of the template when it's transcluded or substituted; it basically marks stuff that only shows up when you're looking at the template page itself, not when the template is placed in other pages, if that makes sense.
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18:08, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
I retagged the article under a different criteria. Please look at the history of the article, I nominated it for AFD no one commented, it was suggested that it was nominated for csd. A7 wa a great criteria for it, when you declined it, I retagged as it has no notability whatsoever. It's not rocket science WK, if ever there was a reason to WP:IAR it would be this. Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 06:37, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
Congrats. That looked too easy; how did they not find out about the campaign contrib... /*glurg*/ Preceding unfinished and unsigned comment added by User:Floquenbeam 18:36, 16 December 2013 (UTC) Hope he's OK...
Thanks, all. Yeah, when I was first moving my nomination into mainspace, I thought, "Bureaucratship? That can't be right." But after five minutes or so of double-checking, I found that it was indeed a thing. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 20:06, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
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Have this beer for your successful RfB. Many Many congrats for becoming a crat. Hope you like your new responsibility. Pratyya (Hello!) 05:30, 17 December 2013 (UTC) |
triumphs of language
Thank you, dreaming reigner of irony with bureaucrat headaches and a life of your own, for quality articles such as
Cathreim Thoirdhealbhaigh (Triumphs of Torlough), for believing in "
rules-as-limits-on-power", for
distinguishing "discussion" and discussion, and for
enlightening me on "badass", "yelling" and a cultural divide, - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
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Congrats on the promotion! Brookie :) { - he's in the building somewhere!} (Whisper...) 10:07, 17 December 2013 (UTC) |
Hi Writ Keeper, sorry to disturb you, but your "rollback all" script is not working properly—it is only rolling back the first edit out of all of a user's contributions. Epicgenius ( talk) 02:53, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
This user copied one sentence from a guide to appealing blocks on the unblock request. Please either deny the request or revoke talk page access. Thanks! Thewikiguru1 ( talk) 18:42, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Legacy (2014 TV Series) is hoax by -- Sunuraju ( talk) 10:02, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Hey WK, got a problem with the syntax of the first external link--it's got all those square brackets in there. Didn't you help me with a problem like that before? Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 21:15, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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The dynamic IP at Talk:India Against Corruption is continuing to bang the "legal threat" drum and isn't really saying much else that is policy compliant because, for example, their sources are useless and they're relying on original research/synthesis. I'm not sure whether it is feasible to range block and I'm pretty sure that this is AcorruptionfreeIndia editing while logged out (that user was similarly tendentious regarding the issue). Would it make sense to semi-protect the talk page for, say, 24 or 48 hours to see if we can flush out the problem? I realise that this is drastic but if range-blocking is not possible then I cannot see another way forward. - Sitush ( talk) 15:00, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Merry Yuletides to you! (And a happy new year!) Epicgenius ( talk) 22:22, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
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I don't usually leave "talkback" messages, but since it's been more than a week since you posted, mentioning here that I've finally replied to your message on my talkpage. Hope it helps somehow. Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 22:00, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
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For writing the most important script you will ever install. benzband ( talk) 16:42, 31 December 2013 (UTC) |
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Happy New Year! Gott nytt år!! Hope you are having a lovely time!!!! All the best for you! Some nice beer for you! Hafspajen ( talk) 19:37, 31 December 2013 (UTC) |
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Happy New Year, WK. Looks like you have a lot of New Year banners above; I won't do that, as it isn't that personalized. Anyway, have a prosperous year! Epicgenius ( talk) 20:10, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello i am Niko. i would like to know how to put wiki page links onto my userpage. For exmple a link to Kasta. Can you help me out? please? ( Mudak568 ( talk) 18:23, 3 January 2014 (UTC)) Mudak568 ( talk) 18:23, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
[[Kasta]]
, you'll get a link to the Kasta page that looks like:
Kasta. You can also create a link to a page with a title different from the words you're linking, like this: [[Kasta|A good rap]]
would look like:
A good rap, but the link still takes you to the Kasta page. (By the way, that vertical line in that example is a pipe character; on most US keyboards, you can get it by typing Shift and \ to get |.) Does that help?
Writ Keeper
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18:31, 3 January 2014 (UTC)Hey Writ Keeper, I was wondering if you knew what I could reply to a schizophrenic Wikipedia user whose username is Nathan Bäcker of whom appears to be having a schizophrenic episode and sound crazy on his own talk page? Stormy Nights ( talk) 18:48, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
I was thinking of adding a note at Wikipedia:User pages#User talk notification along the lines of "Registered users wishing to add back the Orange Bar notification may do so through this script." However, since it's attached to your name I wanted to consult with you first. Would you mind? By the way, I much appreciate the script!-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 23:56, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Glad to hear it, but now I'm wasting all this time looking for the RFAR about somebody using bad words, where Newyorkbrad responded with "Fuck off". Where was it? I can't have dreamt it, can I? Maybe a month ago? (The only thing I'm sure of is that the request was rejected.) Bishonen | talk 22:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC).
now I've made a mess of it. Would you please look at my Talk page again? (Sorry to bother you.) -- Hordaland ( talk) 18:59, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
You are a life saver, thank you very much. I will take your advice and I will come to you in case I have trouble. Thank you for your help and understanding. Michael Crichton Stephen King Talk 22:25, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, it's me again and I have a question. I had just finished reading the instructions on Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple and I'm confused on both step 7 and step 8 and here is a copy a paste of those two steps:
7. Users with many edits should log out of their accounts to ensure the rename is carried out properly.
8. Check back on this page periodically to answer any questions that may arise regarding your request. Please be patient. It may take a few days for your request to be completed. If you do not answer any questions, your request may be declined due to no response.
My question to you is how will I be able to answer any possible questions, as mentioned in Step 8, if I have to log out of my account, as mentioned in Step 7? Please reply when you have a chance. Thank you. Michael Crichton Stephen King Talk 14:13, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Okay thank you again. Michael Crichton Stephen King Talk 15:35, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Your welcome and thank you again for changing my username. You've made my day a great day. :-) THANK YOU!!! Hitcher vs. Candyman Talk 17:20, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Please
stop attacking other editors, as you did on
List of Auburn University people. If you continue, you may be
blocked from editing Wikipedia. Mr. Bureaucrat, we can do
without your sneers. It's bad enough that I have to "touch" an Auburn article without you making it worse.
Drmies (
talk)
20:31, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
I just got a mailing list subscription request from you that I'm 99.9% sure is you, but just to verify, can you please email me to verify the address? Thanks. EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:09, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
...for explaining to me what "OP" meant at ANI. I thought the editor meant IP, as these letters are very close to each other on the keyboard. Epicgenius ( talk) 21:20, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Writ Keeper! Thank you for having invited me to the Teahouse! I will be happy to check it out! :) Ginesfanego ( talk) 12:04, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Could you remind or guide this user as to what he's supposed to do? Currently he seems to be using both accounts simultaneously. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 19:55, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Writ Keeper. For once, I come to you with a procedural, rather than a technical request - can I get you to cast your eye over the unblock request at User talk:Route20? I'm happy to accept their appeal, but could use some advice regarding the renaming process - given that they apparently want to abandon the username Nhwxtracker and use Route20 instead, would it be more appropriate to:
I'm not sure whether the rename request would be accepted, so if you wouldn't mind answering with your bureaucrat trousers on, I'd be grateful.
Of course, things are further muddied by his focus on
U.S. Route 20 - I don't think the username policy specifically prohibits this, but it might be something to factor in. Cheers,
Yunshui
雲
水
09:49, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Writ. You said, on Jan. 16, "Heh, I know that's an option, but if I do it on my own initiative, it'd likely be overturned quickly, which will leave none of us any better off. Patience. ;) (I also am not planning on being particularly available over the next 24 hours, which would not be good for such a thing.) I'll look into it, though, at least." I took this as an expression that you would look into it, and then get back to me. Do you plan any action at this time? It doesn't seem like it would be such a big deal to me. When Spartaz and Beeblebrox did the action in the other direction, they didn't even bother to leave a comment at my talkpage. It was non-issue, button flick action in the other direction. So why should it be moving mountains to reverse? Anyhow, let me know something, so I can go on to the next thing if I must. Colton Cosmic. 22 January, 2014, 14:21 UTC.
Would you consider closing Wikipedia:ANI#Proposal please? It's been open for quite a while, and the consensus is clear, yet no uninvolved admin seems to want to close it. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 20:38, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
You closed WP:ANI#A charge of wikihounding**, but forgot to log it at WP:RESTRICT. Could you do it now? Also the closure doesn't indicate any fixed length for the interaction ban, but on the talk page of the concerned editors ( User_talk:Lukeno94#Interaction_ban_enacted & User_talk:Jaggee#Interaction_ban_enacted) you say it's for three months. Could you modify your closure to reflect that? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 10:31, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
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For closing the community sanctions for Bugs Bunny, Medeis, and The Rambling Man thread, as well as other contentious discussions with great care and sound logic I hereby give you this barnstar. Keep up the good work. -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 15:17, 24 January 2014 (UTC) |
I'm not sure whether you're the re-closing admin or just the messenger for this note, but I'm badly confused by this edit — is there some sort of "you can talk to each other" exception to the interaction ban? Please note that I'm not personally concerned; my only participation has been to unblock Bugs on procedural grounds. Nyttend ( talk) 06:30, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
1. The Rambling Man is banned from any interactions with Medeis and Baseball Bugs, indefinitely. Baseball Bugs and Medeis are banned from any interactions with The Rambling Man, indefinitely. These bans include article, talk, wikipedia, and user space, without exception. No mention of the others or their actions shall be permitted. These may be appealed to the community not less than one year after they become effective.[3] Don't worry, Writ, it's quite clear on the editing restrictions page, [4] and the parties themselves obviously aren't going to be confused. Bishonen | talk 13:25, 26 January 2014 (UTC).
Could you do me a favor and tell TRM to look at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Australian_Open_Tennis ? There were duplicate nominations, so, as usual procedure, I closed the later nomination. Since there were already votes on the duplicate, I copied the non-redundant ones to the earlier template. TRM voted in each, so I didn't copy his statement, but he may want to comment again or further at the earlier nomination. Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 20:51, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I'd like to bring this to your attention. As a person who has been Wikihounded a number of times before, I do not take it lightly, especially when the editor in question has neither a policy nor a guideline he can cite to justify his reversion, simply his impression of "common practice". I would ask you to take notice of this situation, and intervene if and when it becomes necessary to do so. I have asked the editor to stop, and if he does, all very well, but if he continues, I would like something to be done about it, if at all possible. Thanks. BMK ( talk) 16:45, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
...for my incivility on your talk page. BMK ( talk) 21:34, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
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You seem stressed out bud... Perhaps a beer will help calm your nerves. Anyways, I wish you the best! Technical 13 ( talk) 21:44, 28 January 2014 (UTC) |
Hi. I sent you an e-mail on Jan 31. Did you get it? Bishonen | talk 05:44, 6 February 2014 (UTC).
I take it, but seriously, the links provided were all wrong. Most AN/I lurkers won't bother even checking, or understanding the context. Given there's been a call from yet another incompetent editor to provide me with a symmetric ban (which would now be punitive) I am obliged to respond at the board. I'm staggered that there's so much empathy for an editor who made so many personal attacks on me. I could be accused of lively and argumentative discourse, but I never resorted to anything like "freakish obsessive", "Crazy", "troll with no life", "basement-dwelling Brit-twit", "obsessive eccentric". If we now intend to allow editors to go full tilt and insult people like that, just because they don't like the way a discussion is going against them, we might as well turn the lights off right now. Good luck. (By the way, I truly believe that the readers at AN/I etc need to be informed as to the active positive contributions that all the lurkers have made, if someone is prepared to claim they need to be judged on the quality of their contributions but don't actually improve the content of the encyclopaedia, it should be noted. This isn't Facebook or Twitter, we shouldn't be here exclusively to talk about things). Finally, please note that the user being so ardently defended has used his talk page to attack me once again, calling me an abusive obssesive. I'm sure you'll tell me, once again, to step down, but you should be aware of what you and the others at AN/I are defending. The Rambling Man ( talk) 18:25, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
So, in summary, I think you can find a way to defend yourself without having to tack that other stuff on, too. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 19:18, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
I've sent you a quick email. Nothing hugely important, just a little note/thanks regarding one of your scripts. INeverCry 19:12, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi: Your reading of BLP/BLD seems a bit off. BLP protects living/recently dead people from baseless statements period. People's opinions concerning a BLP/BLD subject is "information" about that subject - it is information about how a subject is viewed. Wikipedian's are suppose to be avoiding such expressions of personal opinion -- because what matters is what sources say. Alanscottwalker ( talk) 19:47, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
When did WP become a psychiatric hospice? People commit suicide every day, my own father did, but the reasons aren't always what you think they are. If you have mental health problems go see a doctor, don't plaster a template on your talk page.Where is Eric saying the equivalent of "that persons death is [his opinion]" here? He's not. There's nothing in there that actually talks about the subject. It makes a general point about suicide, and how WP is a terrible place to seek alternatives to it (and he is right). What is in there that actually violates BLP? I mean, the only thing there is really the comment (and subsequent ones) about his father, but somehow I don't get the impression that that was recent enough to fall under BDP, and that's certainly not what Kevin was referring to anyway. There's a somewhat subtle distinction here, but it's an important one. Nobody could read Eric's comment and be misled at all about what actually happened to the subject, and that's the point of BLP/BDP: it's not to prevent anyone from ever getting offended (which would fall under WP:NOTCENSORED); it's to prevent us from misleading people about things that really happened in a way that will hurt real people or their family/friends/etc. Your example could mislead people, depending on the context, so it might fall under BLP, but that's not what I'm talking about, and that's not what happened here. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 20:56, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
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......ten minutes too late, but still...................................................................................................................................................................... Hafspajen ( talk) 00:10, 15 February 2014 (UTC) |
I didn't alter the header or discussion, I added underneath it. I thought a talk page was for things to be talked about; I didn't alter the discussion for the approval of a bot. What else am I to do? It is adminstrator protected so where else am I to go to express my disagreement? I have been to ANI, I have put a message on the bot owner's talk page and the bot owner removed the message, the bot is administrator protected because all editors are equal except some are more equal than others, where else? All I want is the bloody bot to stand off for a couple of hours after an edit before it puts its oar in, cos in several edits which do not show up on WP history cos I corrected them, it puts its oar in right in the middle of when I am doing a preview of a {{
cite journal}}
or whatever, and I can't give the revision history because I had to do it again before I saved it. I just would like it to stand off a little, a couple of hours after the last edit. I am not asking to change the world.
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23:48, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I thought this edit was very insightful. I may quote it, but if experience is any measure, I'll probably forget where I heard it, hence this comment. -- S Philbrick (Talk) 19:13, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello User:Writ Keeper Thank you for your notes and speedy deletions. Do you understand that I am linking the orgigianl content back to the my original body of work and your speedy deletions are keeping the functionality of the script from brending the RDFa? Cya2evernote ( talk) 21:52, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the help, cat lover. Hope you're doing well in real life.
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Thank your understanding, integrity, even wisdom, and for a job well done. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 00:13, 21 February 2014 (UTC) |
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For your mantic abilities with regards to my scripting requirements, have a barnstar! Yunshui 雲 水 08:43, 21 February 2014 (UTC) |