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The Arbitration Committee respectfully requests your attention, as an active member of the Bot Approvals Group, at this arbitration amendment request, which seeks to remove bot-related restrictions from Rich Farmbrough. Any comments would be appreciated. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 18:53, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
It seems there's a bot running right now that has the userpage saying it's unapproved. The bot in question is DYKReviewBot. Could you please take a look? Anarchyte ( work | talk) 06:44, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar. Can you figure out why the info box doesn't display fully? -- agr ( talk) 16:08, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
I've made a little proposal at Template talk:RMpmc#Appearance, and since all this is still so new, I'd like your input. What's in your palette? Paine 17:06, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux, see
this test I did in my space. There seems to be a bug in the implementation of the throttle limit increase for extendedmover
. I moved these 16 pages in my space sequentially to "/m2", all without a problem. When I moved them back, the ninth page complained of a throttle limit hit, but the tenth to 16th all succeeded seconds afterwards. I had to wait a minute before I could move that ninth page. Do you know what the issue is, and should a ticket be submitted to ask if this is really expected?
FYI, the specific move that failed (and that I did a minute afterwards) was Special:Diff/727244335. Thanks — Andy W. ( talk · ctb) 17:41, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux - is the EFM mailing list still in use, and if so would it be possible to be added to it? I've submitted a subscription request, thank you :) -- samtar talk or stalk 09:36, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
You made the call, I have answered. HighInBC Need help? {{ping|HighInBC}} 20:27, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
Yeah sure. Go ahead man Reverend Mick man34 ♔ ( talk) 13:46, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
With the numbers being what they are right now, there's an excellent chance that this one will go to a bureaucrat chat. You might just barely eke this one out, Xaos. In the event that it ultimately passes, I'd like to give you my preemptive congratulations. (Fingers crossed.) Kurtis (talk) 08:30, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
After reviewing the milkmaid and her pail, I think my best course of action is the quietly sit in this corner for now. — xaosflux Talk 11:49, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation#Move_Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation.2FRedirects_to_Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation.2FRedirects_and_categories.3F. Could you please close this discussion and make the required edits? I'm not sure on who else to contact.
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15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
The MfD instructions only allow for deletion of problematic pages and nothing in the discussion indicated a problem. WP:N doesn't apply to drafts, the age is irrelevant and the COI issue is resolved because the editor isn't being a COI anymore. please reverse hut closure in line with policy. Wikijuniorwarrior ( talk) 19:35, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hello xaosflux. I was asked if I would consider a BAG nomination. I value your opinion, so what are your thoughts on my suitability to serve as a BAG member? — JJMC89 ( T· C) 05:02, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Is your subscription working? (NB it's a very low traffic group) -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 09:08, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
You may want to use this template on your user page instead of the clock you have. -- Template:Calendar clock with Wikipedia stats --— Varun FEB2003 I am Busy 12:52, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
I didn't know - thanks for telling me. Something very useful to keep in mind for the future. :-)
Happy editing! -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 01:53, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, there appears to be a problem with Fluxbot trying to fix Category:Pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags. It is splitting up <ref name"z"/> into <ref name"z"></ref> which is incorrect according to Help:Footnotes#Footnotes: using a source more than once. An example is here, the actual change does not fix the problem which is the </blockquote/> tag in the article. Keith D ( talk) 23:40, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
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Might need to shut down their talkpage access as well, continued vandalism there. RickinBaltimore ( talk) 14:05, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that the page you created was tagged as a test page under section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion and has been or soon may be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.
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Hi, become an admin, how do to that? I want admin to be RIGHT NOW!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TRCuba ( talk • contribs) 07:53, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, I asked for import to user name space User:Bussakendle/Import Hybrid navigation. Of course You can also import to my sandbox. Thanks. bkb ( talk) 09:29, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
Hey xaosflux. For a bot that will process multiple templates in a similar manner, would you want to see one BRFA or a BRFA for each template? The task will be to remove template parameters for IDs that have been migrated to Wikidata ( sample edits). I am planning on using a custom AWB module, most of which shouldn't change from one template to another. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 10:26, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation. Legobot ( talk) 04:27, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello xaosflux,
IF you see this page -
Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Indian military history/Mailing list that you created it contains a inputbox in which one can type his name to place it in the list. What module or template produces that inputbox? Moreover when I click edit source it gives me completely different layout and I am probably editing a different page? If I type the full URL -
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Indian military history/Mailing list&action=edit it takes me to the real edit page. How does this happen? Thanks.
Varun
FEB2003 I am Online
13:46, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
For your edification, I don't have and have never had an alternative account. At one point I did think about it but then discovered I would have to pay royalties to
Bishonen, who has the exclusive rights to alternative accounts.
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Hello. You have
a new message at Kudpung's talk page.
06:44, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
No one voted to delete. I took the case to review but could you restore them all so I can add sentences and keep them?
Why did you delete Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Aaron Banda? No one wanted it deleted but you it seems — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sulky mulky ( talk • contribs) 21:04, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
And thus, after nearly two-and-a-half years, I relinquish the symbolic title of "Wikipedia's Newest Bureaucrat" to you. Well done for the overwhelming amount of people in support for your candidacy and well done for the successful result in itself. Good luck, Xaosflux! Acalamari 00:11, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux. I was hoping you could help me out here. I'm looking to set up an abuse filter to help me track a sockmaster. For obvious reasons, I don't want to discuss what the abuse filter would be on-wiki. Any chance you could hop into the BAG IRC channel quickly to discuss? ~ Rob13 Talk 23:01, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Please let me know if you'd prefer I not suggest that BRFA route of obtaining AWB access in special cases like Jaguar's. I realized after the fact that I was kind of volunteering the BAG to babysit, and that wasn't my intention. The already-existing oversight processes of bot approvals seemed most appropriate in this case, and I'm aware that semi-automated "approved bots" have existed in the past, so I thought it was a good fit. I'll refrain from doing it in the future if BAG members would prefer I not, though. Either way, I'll stick around for the BRFA so as to take some of the load off. ~ Rob13 Talk 19:45, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
I was asking if you would remove the ACC flag from User:Bluerasberry as they have not used it since May. Sorry for the confusion. Mlpearc ( open channel) 00:53, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Xaosflux,
I wanted to ask you something. The edits made to the bot's talk page like
this and
this look like manual i.e made by you. I just had a doubt, few weeks ago
MusikAnimal advised a new user
NepaliKeto62 who had created a bot account (so called) that
never (with bolding) make manual edits from your bot account and had mentioned this policy -
Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Bot_accounts which says bot accounts should not be used to answer messages related to the bot. Now I am in a confusion! Which of you is correct? Both of you have a lot of experienced in bots! Can you advice me? Meaning you are the best to say about it! Many thanks and sincere regards.
Varun
FEB2003 I am Online
06:30, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
only the operator's or their own userspace. As you noted, if other editors have questions for a bot operator, the operator should reply to the editor, not use the bot account to make responses. — xaosflux Talk 10:40, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux, may you change the content model of User:Andy M. Wang/prototyping1 from wikitext to JavaScript? (I believe that will also inherently protect the page from nonsysops from editing it, right? (I was also wondering if it would be helpful to have a help page like "Help:Content model" or "WP:Content model" that soft-redirects to mw:Help:ChangeContentModel?) — Andy W. ( talk · ctb) 20:59, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
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Don't forget to delete the talk pages.
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More pages.
Category:Talk pages of MascotGuy sockpuppets to be deleted
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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:List of senior officers of the Argentine Navy. Legobot ( talk) 04:29, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at Kudpung's talk page.
03:31, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at Kudpung's talk page.
04:13, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC for patroller right
Kudpung sent me an email with the entire content he drafted.
He wanted me to copy paste it on that page removing his comments. You have done a good beginning. Now should I copy paste Kudpung's content below it. He won't be available for few hours now. -- Marvellous Spider -Man 13:04, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
Hallo, it's probably less than helpful to add {{ geography-stub}} to an article as you did here: it just takes it out of the Category:Stubs which stub-sorters look at, without sorting it into a useful category. Best just leave it as {{ stub}} unless you can slot it into at least a country.
I might have a look at Category:Geography stubs to see if anything else there needs rescuing.
In fact I found it depressing how many people had edited that article without putting the country name into the lead ... I was alerted to it by chance by spotting this strange talk page notice! Pam D 22:36, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
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16:04, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
I cut it down to semi-protection, must've had a finger slip and picked a different one than intended; to be honest I didn't even realize the 30/500 thing was a protection option until just now, must be new. Wizardman 21:35, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Help talk:Hidden text. Legobot ( talk) 04:26, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
On 5 January 2016 you deleted Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Liisa Ladouceur (G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page). Just wondering what was the rationale for such an unusual deletion? Thanks in advance for responding on my talk page. Ottawahitech ( talk) 14:44, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the message, I fixed it:Modulo:Citazione as requested, and I fixed also another module with the same problem ( it:Modulo:Tracce), I will check it:Categoria:Pagine che utilizzano tag HTML auto-chiusi non validi for other template/module with this problem.-- Moroboshi ( talk) 19:17, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
I noticed that you stopped in to fix a stray tag marking part of a discussion about a dead gorilla who was being compared to a Presidential candidate's chances in the 2016 election. (Though this struck many as unencyclopedic and misleading, an administrator kept "accidentally" reverting it). This same administrator has recently redirected the "political positions of Ralph Nader" to Nader's bio page (without any discussion or reinstating references added), and called for the deletion of the article "political positions of Jill Stein". Is this normal behavior for a "neutral" administrator?
My question concerning discretionary sanctions (I have been banned from the topic Jill Stein by Nuclear Warfare) is: "Do I have the right to ask the question above (Is this normal behavior for a "neutral" administrator?)". My question concerning the problem of the page hack : "Is anyone looking into this?"
Thank you for your time. SashiRolls ( talk) 12:20, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Hey xaosflux. Per
wikitech-l all users with the move
userright will be able to change the content model of pages (editcontentmodel
) beginning 12 September. For us that means (auto)confirmed and page movers (and admins who already have it). A Phabricator task to change who is assigned the right can be created. I don't think it should be granted to page movers since it doesn't apply to moving pages. I'm not sure if (auto)confirmed should have it or not. I think MMS is a reasonable candidate if we revoke it from (auto)confirmed. Maybe template editors? Thoughts? Should an RfC or proposal be dawn up for discussion at a VPR? (I thought you would be interested.) —
JJMC89 (
T·
C)
20:11, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
(editcontentmodel)
permission will be added to the Autoconfirmed users and Confirmed users (they probably wont bother with page mover since it is an enwiki specific group). As rights are cumulative, unless enwiki makes a decision to not give this to (auto)confirmed users it is moot if it is actually also deployed to out custom pagemovers group. I don't think giving it to move enabled groups is a good idea - and have commented at
phab:T85847. If the sysadmins decide too bad - this is our new default because something something flow something something - then we can poll enwiki and request that enwiki is different. —
xaosflux
Talk
00:50, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
extendedmover
) per
this commit (line 7788). I agree, I don't think it is a good idea – I don't think it is similar to moving. Users who are granted the right should be expected to know how and when to (not) use it. Deploying it to the masses is likely to lead to problems. —
JJMC89 (
T·
C)
01:25, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
The flow-board content model does not support direct editing
. —
xaosflux
Talk
02:40, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
Same The flow-board content model does not support direct editing
. —
xaosflux
Talk
02:45, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
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Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.
In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:
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I was eating cookies when I got your mass email about the Extended page protection. Thanks for keeping everybody informed and your work on Wikipedia:Administrators/Message list itself. I share my cookies with you. Jason Quinn ( talk) 20:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC) |
I realise that there is no deadline, however my bot request has been open for 8 days, and counting. I know that bots such as JJMC8789 bot task 7 take a longer time to process, but mine is extremely simple and only affects a bit over 1,000 pages. Thanks, Dat Guy Talk Contribs 09:38, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
HI. Following 5 years of unstructured discussion, a dedicated venue has been created for combined discussion about NPP & AfC where a work group is also being composed to develop recommendations for necessary changes to policies and related software. It is 'not an RfC, it is a call for genuinely interested users who have significant experience in these areas to join a truly proactive work group. There is some reading to be done before signing up. See: Wikipedia:The future of NPP and AfC. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 11:45, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, I notice that when I use/hide the tool, the "Mark this page as patrolled" disappears/appears. I'm a bit shady on the technical details of (patrol)
, but I believe this right gives users the ability to "Mark this page as patrolled", as well as use the Page Curation tool to apply deletion tags, review pages, etc, right? If that is the case, perhaps
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(patrol)
permissions are currently required to use the page curation tool; check out
Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/RfC for patroller qualifications and lets see where that goes before expanding the definition - I'm fairly sure it is not changing and there is just a verbiage mixup going on at that page. —
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(patrol)
as well. While the NPP RfC has mostly focused on getting competent patrollers for new articles, its implications for non-admin file patrollers have not been discussed as far as I know. (reupload)
needs repatrolling. It seems that the new right would need to be reassigned based on competence in article evaluation or competence in file patrolling, but that seems to be out of scope of the current RfC. Any thoughts? A potential workaround is to split file patrol from (patrol)
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Following up from the consensus reached here, the community will now establish the user right criteria. You may wish to participate in this discussion. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:51, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
Category:Pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags is adding new pages all the time, despite its being nearly three months old, and based on some insource searches I have done, many thousands of pages have yet to be added. Examples: 3,777 pages, 223 pages, 173 pages, 118 pages, 133 pages (with some false positives, but mostly error pages).
Can you please run Fluxbot 6 through the current contents of the category to fix the easy cases? That will enable human editors to focus on the tricky ones. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:08, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
I see that the bot is plowing through the category. Nice work! Note that Category:User pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags has been split from the main category for some reason. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:22, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
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16:43, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Hey xaos, wanted to ask if you might have time to look over a draft for the phabricator task for the recent RfC on userpage protection. I'm still working at it, but not having a lot of experience writing these up before, I wanted to get a second set of eyes on it, and it seems like you have some experience in this area. If you're too busy or not interested, that's fine too, just let me know. Thanks, I JethroBT drop me a line 17:28, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Xaosflux. I would like to request revision deletion under R2 for this edit on my userpage. Also, if there is some alternative way that I'm supposed to use to request this that I didn't know about, I would be glad to hear about it. Thanks for looking at this request, Gluons12 ☢| ☕ 19:15, 17 October 2016 (UTC).
for the barnstar. I would have cleared it the other day but Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Raging Fire (band) confused me. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 22:45, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
Could you please empty the Category:Wikipedian new page patrollers of patrollers, I don't know how to do it. There is no need to delete the cat itself. These are the ones that remain after deleting the userbox templates that were transcluded but not subst'ed. I've explained at WT:PERM why this needs to be done. It's so tat I can send the mass message to all former 1,800 users on the list you made so that if they are still around (roughly 50% of them are/were never genuine patrollers, and many others are simply no longer editing),I can send the mass message encouraging those who might still be around to apply for the new right. Thanks. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 09:48, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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I've suggested that here should be a regular newsletter for admins (see details at User talk:MusikAnimal#PERM). Would you be interested in being part of a small editorial team? I see you have recently created an admin mass mailing list. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 20:14, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
Hey, I am thinking about trying for an RfA again. (Yeah, I know...) My question is how things have changed since last fall in terms of who monitors !voter and comment behavior and other supervision of the process -- My understanding is that it is the 'crats. During my previous RfA there was a fair amount of chaos. In general, I was just wondering about the changes in policies that govern RfAs and if you had any suggestions for how to keep things a bit calmer than they were last year if I throw my hat in again. I know where isn't anything more to be done about things like this or the off-wiki doxxing that occurred, but I am wondering how the RfA world could handle round two of me trying for RfA. Montanabw (talk) 08:56, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
Well, to be honest, I've tried mass-message, and have not been pleased. It doesn't work at all as well as I'd like it to - I returned to using AWB because it allows me more control over what pages I hit with the message. I know there's supposed to be a way that I can create a list of pages and use mass-message to target those, rather than a category, but I haven't been able to make it work yet. If you could point me towards a tutorial, or explain to me how I could do something like that, I'd be happy to return to the mass-message function. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 19:08, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation. Legobot ( talk) 04:29, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux, wanted to follow up on the second phase separately. I believe the ~41 remaining users listed at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers/List3 accorded should be evaluated "eventually" (a week or two if really need be). It may be seen as unfair that some editors are not evaluated on that list based on their alphabetical positioning.
Side note: as one who suggested the phased approach on the RfC and on the ticket, and despite support from devs on the ticket, didn't mean to overcomplicate this stage if it did... was a good faith suggestion to help with the technical permissions transition, since it involved a revocation. Didn't mean to step out of my purview if I did, and apologies that I myself am unable to help with the list. — Andy W. ( talk) 01:29, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:17, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Thank you so much!
Actually I lied, this is not my account at all, I just found it on BugMeNot. (And it wasn't that easy either BTW -- did you know that Wikipedia is still available on it (and similar sites) under wikipedia.com or alternate domain components such as xx.wikipedia.org or wikipedia.xx? (I'm telling you that because I hope that you -- meaning, Wikipedia -- won't be able to prevent *all* combinations on *all* such sites anyway...))
Though still, the reason I obtained this account and asked for the permission *was* in good faith. I was hoping to (I just didn't get to owing to lack of time) use it to tell a certain admin who has semi-protected his talk page that he's being a harmful clown for blanket-removing a certain edit of mine.
And no, that edit was not insulting at all. It was about reinstating a certain simple good faith template I made. It was completely apolitical (didn't use a single word of human language), using #exprs, CSS border radii, et c., and removed only because of (another admin's) technical incompetence.
Why not give it a look and restore the template (or give other users feedback if it's unfitting the wiki for any reason, if you feel like it)?
Regards! ~~~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiktoria14 ( talk • contribs)
Oops, I figured I'd screw something up. Thanks for fixing. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 18:50, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
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I have just completed a triage of this list (which took several hours), but suddenly it no longer displays its content. Its edit history is intact and the content is there when viewed from the 'edit' mode. Why is this? Is there anything you can do? I believe it happened when I created the talk page for the list. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:34, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Of the users asked to fill in the survey, only 1,255 responded which after removing the nonsense responses only 304 were left. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:03, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux.
A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.
If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins). MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I've spent an hour trying to create a message list at Special:CreateMassMessageList but either the instructions are not clear or I'm missing something (probably the latter). Within the New Page Reviewer project I need a list called Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants message list. The list to import is here. Can you help? -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 14:45, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
user talk:** {{user3|JJBers Public ; user talk:**{{user2|Sandgem Addict
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Hi Xaos, hope you're well. I'm a little concerned we're still seeing admin accounts compromised - do you think a watchlist notice urging users to change passwords would be appropriate? -- samtar talk or stalk 13:32, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux. I noticed that my new page feed has become different (the yellow highlighting is absent now on unreviewed pages), probably because of the New Page Reviewer right addition. I noticed at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reviewers that there is a Grandfather clause: "Users who made at least 200 uncontested patrols between 1 January 2016 and 6 October 2016 will be accorded the right by administrators without the need to apply at WP:PERM." I have 200 plus uncontested manual patrolled edits between these dates. Would you please be able to accord the said flag to me? I have read the tutorial and have a clean CSD log with only two rejections in all my CSD tags till date, both which got eventually deleted. Thank you. Lourdes 06:02, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux :) One quick request again. In September, I had requested and you had helped me by unchecking the auto patroller and reviewer flags. Katie has been kind enough to give the rollback bit. Might I request you to please add back the reviewer and auto patrol bit? Thanks and cheers. Lourdes 02:43, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
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If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Hello! I just wanted to know if it's okay to add a comment like the one I did to a user's rollback request, the one you just marked as not done. Adotchar| reply here 22:41, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Your edit on the television infobox [127] is causing problems in cases like this and this where information about the second title is in parenthesis. Is there a way around this? Could you revert it if there isn't? Grapesoda22 ( talk) 06:49, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
Why did you revert it? I made a valid point. Several articles those articles I listed and several others are screwed up since you reverted. Grapesoda22 ( talk) 01:04, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for your answer at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Mass revert in a specific spacename. Is there any chance that your bot could fulfill that task (removing all Ark25 edits from article talk space)? Thanks in advance. Ionutzmovie ( talk) 00:25, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
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I was reading through the latest NPP RfC and related threads and noticed something I'm apparently confused about. I figure you'd probably know :) Much has been made of the possible dangers of "bad" new articles getting indexed by search engines. Speedy tags apply {{ NOINDEX}}, but is it actually the case that new articles are not indexed until patrolled? I don't believe that was true last year (last time I had a reason to notice), but I may be behind. WP:NOINDEX seems to be out of date. I tried to test it by creating an article with my sock, but was lucky enough that it was patrolled quickly. (Yet the article still isn't indexed on google, and others I created today with my main account are... unfortunately I don't have enough articles stored up for any more sampling :) Opabinia regalis ( talk) 06:59, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux. You are invited to comment at a further discussion on the implementation of this user right to patrol and review new pages that is taking place at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 13:30, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
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Your bot are destroyng references: [135], [136], [137] and some other. Malarz pl ( talk) 07:45, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
Can Fluxbot please make a run through Category:User pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags? It looks like it is stable and not adding new pages via the job queue, and it has a lot of bot-fixable tags. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:46, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you but I wonder if you could make a list for me again (I really need to learn to do this myself, but the instructions are too vague to follow. Thanks. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 11:04, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
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What's the procedure for getting the bot/admin bits? Should I post at WP:BN? No rush, just curious :) I know you're super busy! And actually expect an email from me soon... :) — MusikAnimal talk 18:51, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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I've pinged you to this thread as it relates to CAPTAIN RAJU's NPP right which you granted, just to let you know -- samtar talk or stalk 14:22, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Dear Sir, I want to link my blog [http: topcoconutoilsecrets . com/ The Coconut Oil Secrets] to this Wikipedia page. Is this possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wallsportfolio ( talk • contribs) 18:18, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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Xaosflux, your consistently helpful suggestions are so refreshing, insightful and sincerely supportive. I'm honestly appreciative of your support and suggestions in all places where we have interacted. It's rare to find editors who are so forthcoming. Thank you. Lourdes 02:38, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
I haven't been on in some time but am back to do regular editing (at least I hope I will be). I don't have any specific need for admin privileges right now, but before I would regularly do some clean up on some lists that are edited in talk or user space then switched over on the date the changes become effective (such as merging histories etc).
Thanks for giving me the notices with clear instructions on how to restore admin privileges when the time comes. -- Trödel 03:34, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi. You may in fact not be aware of it, but mass messaging with the help of automated processes is expressly disallowed by an established guideline. I, for example, only mass inform users of RfC on highly important or sensitive issues that may broadly affect Wikipedia in general, and I do so in full observance of the rules. It's often a tedious task to do manually, but I see no reason why editors, particularly admins, should be encouraged to openly disregard an accepted convention. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 21:09, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
I made a good-faith attempt to follow Kudpung's wishes, expressed at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right, where he stated "In my opinion this current RfC as originally proposed is flawed. Firstly, all those who supported and opposed the the previous two RfC have been denied the right to be properly informed of this new RfC. They must be informed, neutrally and individually of this RfC and there should be a watchlist notice. This should not be allowed to be a back-door overturn by a minor quorum of a major new policy that reached consensus on not one, but two consecutive RfC." He later went on to state that were I to launch more RfCs relating to substantial issues, "it stands to reason that everyone will be notified in order to have a fair representation by the people who previously turned out to support or oppose the previous RfCs". I erred in my method of following Kudpung's wishes. That error is mine, although I think it's a reasonable error to make given this whole history. Even an administrator is allowed to make an occasional error, so long as they respond to criticism appropriately and work to undo any damage caused. Here, no damage was caused at all, as all parties note that the end result is exactly what should have occurred. Still, in my first response to the criticism, I stated definitively that I will not make such notifications in the future. I also noted that I believe WP:IAR could have provided a policy basis for my action in hindsight, but it certainly was not my original intention to invoke IAR. I generally find it distasteful to intentionally make IAR actions when dealing with advanced permissions.
This all could have been handled with a lot more grace. Throwing around terms like "abuse of administrator privilege" is unhelpful when dealing with a simple mistake that caused no damage. Hopefully, this complete explanation puts this well to rest. I have absolutely no desire to have an internet slap-fight over trivial matters when both our time can be better spent improving the encyclopedia. As Xaosflux said, it's a big project. I remain interested in working together productively, as I hope I've made clear in my many comments on-wiki and our private correspondence, Kudpung. ~ Rob13 Talk 06:36, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for creating this.
I expect that sooner or later, there will be a legitimate request to hide a particular log entry from public view, probably for something like this. Without your work, it would've been relatively easy: The offending edit would just be revision-deleted or suppressed. If hiding specific log entries from public view without making the entire log private, then we are set. If not, consider working on making it so, and/or be prepared to hide this log's entries from public view should the need arise. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 18:28, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
I am concerned that the original issue I raised with genfixes is getting lost under a tidal wave of discussion of Yobot. Do you think that it would be sensible to open a formal RfC or would it be better to wait till the Yobot issues are resolved, or at least settle down? Spinning Spark 19:48, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours!
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Thanks for getting back to me. I had already gone through the approved runs of Eubot's redirects and did not find any approving this, not only in the wording but in the dates that it was run (December 2008).
From a previous Eubot run, I forget which and excuse me for paraphrasing, but the intent was to "Create redirects to prevent accidental creation of duplicate articles". That is as near as I can remember the wording off the top of my head. Now, to me that is a bit kinda weird anyway, because we WP:SALT articles after ther's a problem, not pre-emptively (I am not an admin, I do not want to be, I am just an editor, that's fine with me).
What I would kinda like is a definitive statement from an admin that "Nope, this never got approved, nor even discussion". The thing is, everything I'm whacking into
WP:RFD is "Delete". Of course it is, but actually about 90% of Eubot's redirects were sensible (even though nowaday not useful with improvements to the search engine, but that's a battle for another day, they're harmless but not useful.) The 10% are mostly where Eubot created redirects from redirects, in bizarre ways. It has managed, which I listed tonight, to create an {{
R from title without diacritics}}
from a {{
R from title with diacritics}}
to a target which,
mirabile dictu, has no diacritics. That kind of nonsense we can do without. Backwards run my sentences now until reels my mind.
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It seems you did half the page editing that needed to be done to close the Ivanvector RfA. Thanks for the help! ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 00:05, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux, I mentioned you in the arbitration case request (don't worry it's not about you :P), hoping that you might be able to provide some input (I think it was you) paraphrased you. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 08:11, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Just a summary of the current problem and the solutions I tried seeking for advice: I am willing to give away all tasks that are related to talk pages. Still the only real problem is that Yobot runs unconditionally with CHECKWIKI errors (task 16). All other tasks have very tight skip conditions. Task 16 goes off hand everytime there are changes in CHECKWIKI's code. For error number have been been repurposed. One idea is that I abandon completely task 16 apart from 2-3 errors I have skip conditions. I tried to find other bot operators willing to take over the tasks but this is not easy. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:08, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
At the risk of being very alphabet soup-y, how does the BAG feel about non-BAG BRFA involvement? Is it helpful to you? I likely can never be a BAG member, because I lack technical skills outside of AWB regex, but I'd be happy to occasionally help with patrolling if that saves you time. For instance, I could read through the discussions leading to the bot and note whether consensus appears sufficient or not, endorse/oppose a trial/approval, etc. I'm just not sure if that's actually helpful or whether you'd have to do the same stuff you already do before making a decision. ~ Rob13 Talk 09:44, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for taking a peak at my nascent scratch pad of AE/DS reform ideas. It's intended to be a constructive effort, not a bitch session. Can you offer any suggestions or pointers to other venues I should maybe check out? NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 19:07, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, strange problem. I'm trying to add some additional content to this page and it says "Invalid Content" but the content is fine. The page is suspiciously close to 5k in size, do you think there is a page size limit? Trying to add
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Hi Xaosflux, you and Kudpung had assisted me in placing links to the page curation and special new pages feed scripts on the above pages. I had a suggestion. Instead of giving the direct link to the script, I would recommend that the links be changed to the script documentation pages, which are better in explaining how to install the script, than the script page itself. In others words:
Thanks and cheers. Lourdes 08:44, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux. I would like to ask for your opinion. I'm planning to propose the creation of an interface-editor
right, and I've drafted an RfC at
User:Fastily/IE Sandbox. Could you review, give me some feedback, and/or comment on the feasibility of said proposal? Thanks in advance,
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Hi kan you add in the awards section the list of winners during the Miss Universe Mindanao tapestry? Phoenix Best Smile - Indonesia, Pearl of Phoenix - Philippines & Miss Phoenix Petroleum - Venezuela. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ph awesome ( talk • contribs) 14:45, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
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20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux, thought I'd consult you first on this issue.
User space has been noindexed (that's to say, not findable by internet search engines) by default since November 2015.
However, it is still possible to override this by using the magic word or its templated equivalent on a user page. Category:Indexed pages shows nearly 1,000 cases where this has been done. Just looking at the 13 cases listed under K, we find three formatted as articles ( Krupa Vara Prasad, Ktv ch, and James 1997/sandbox (sorted to "Koibana Onsen")). There are two pages of javascript to do with WikEd International, that seem to relate to Cacycle; these pages may or may not have a reason to be indexed. The others I would classify as typical unproblematic userpages: one belongs to an arb ( Ks0stm) and two others to established users ( Kiore and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga) who might want to comment.
New page patrol does have a queue for user pages ( Special:NewPagesFeed) which may prevent indexing while unreviewed, as it does for mainspace. In practice though the majority of user pages seem to be going without review and dropping off the back of the queue at the 30-day mark.
Question: should the magic word be disabled in userspace? or are there reasons to continue to allow users, intentionally or not, to have their user pages or draft articles indexed by search engines? : Noyster (talk), 14:22, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi how can I make make a common pages — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarzan bond ( talk • contribs) 06:54, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, please can you remove my template editor permission, for the time being, as per your post earlier in the month. I haven't had the time to continue testing the changes I am making prior, so won't be committing to anything in the near future. Thanks. Nördic Nightfury 14:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
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Did you actually check the cases where I unblocked Yobot? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:59, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
You really have to take some time to check the unblocks before you judge me actions in a span of 10 years. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:00, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the help. It can't be a common occurrence for the same person to thank you and to use rollback on you for the same edit :-) I envisioned this situation when "Thanks" was new, but for the opposite situation: I requested a confirmation dialogue so that it would be harder to thank vandals. Nyttend ( talk) 05:06, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
We now have 803 New Page Reviewers!
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The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
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Hi Xaosflux. You previously helped with this in Katie's abscence. Please could you re-block, and if possible, for longer? The evidence is here. First IP after the last 10-day block expired was reported and blocked. The third IP was back today, and as you can see from their contribution history, making less than helpful edits. Any questions, please ping me or drop a note on my talkpage. Thanks. Lugnuts Precious bodily fluids 18:48, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you - please put article in the sandbox. Arigo ( talk) 15:38, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, on 4 February I noticed this and today (8 February) I noticed this, is it a coincidence? Do you edit from a mobile device? Sorry I'm just curious.. -- Vejvančický ( talk / contribs) 18:52, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
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Again, thanks. @References - do they have to be translated as well? @Weblinks - why does my Wikipedia username show up as .../with my name. How to get rid of it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arigo ( talk • contribs) 14:54, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
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I was wondering if you could please kindly take a little time from your busy schedule and visit my new article Reverend King Ezeugo
I would really be grateful if you can give me some insight, e.g if you think it's lacking in some areas, If you think I should include more inline stations, if you think I should add more content in some categories etc It would really really be appreciated, but perhaps you are way too busy and cannot assist at the moment. I equally understand.
Thank you. Celestina007 ( talk) 12:15, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, should I have updated this page or should this be done by a crat as I appear to be missing. Amortias ( T)( C) 22:29, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, I wanted to drop you a note in regards to User:Mifter/Protection Test. My goal with the page actually was to cascade protect the main page to add a bit of protection considering we have seen compromised Sysops unprotect/modify the protection on the Main Page as it adds another step that a compromised account would have to take and might slow down/minimize the risk that the MP would be open to vandalism. Checking now, it looks like when I moved page to fix a typo the rationale got left in the original location. We currently have WP:CASC which is a collection of what we used to do in the userspace regarding cascade protecting high risk images/templates but I wanted to make this separate as a compromised sysop unprotecting CASC (to remove the cascade protection from the main page) could cause even more damage to the other items on that page. On that, I wanted to hear your thoughts on creating a subpage (or several like we have with Main Page/1, Main Page/2, etc.) to cascade protect the main page and make it more difficult for a compromised account to unprotect the Main Page in the future? Mifter ( talk) 18:23, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, I don't know which template you used but it (or invocation thereof) seems broken. special:diff/772687056 cc Ibaimendi -- Jeremyb ( talk) 19:54, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Hey, you're an admin, right? Well, I figured I'd alert you about a situation on the Did you Know section on the main page. I'd estimate that about ~2 million people know that thrust into a difficult situation, Horney Dicks failed to satisfy. I suspect this as vandalism, though it's not listed on the edit history. It's location is the last did you know on the did you know section. Greasemann ( talk) 01:06, 1 April 2017 (UTC)Greasemann
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I'm trying not to pester editors who've opposed my RfA, but I'm curious about your statement, "You mention working with patrolling of edit by new users, but I notice you have not really been involved in patrolling new pages (barely any patrols or page curations in recent years logged). You mention working with anti vandalism, but have very little actual vandalism cleanup logged.
Since several supporters specifically cite anti-vandalism work, the tools that I've created have been specifically aimed at helping my patrolling activities and even one of the opposers cites RC patrol ("in which it is relatively easy to make larger numbers of edits") as a reason for opposition, I'm wondering what exactly the problem is here? It feels a bit like I just don't use the patrolling / anti-vandal tools you expect me to.
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Hi @ Samwalton9, Dane, and Ks0stm: I split some of your comments between the original thread and this new thread so that it can have a longer discussion when the original eventually ends. If any of you object to this refactoring of your comments, feel free to revert my entire edit. (It is a little 'out of the box'). — xaosflux Talk 00:42, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
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Would it be possible to block my IP range (2001:8003:30E5:BB00::/64) from editing for 6 months, as required by my school teacher because she thinks I'm not competent enough to edit Wikipedia. Thank you for your help if you can. -- 2001:8003:30E5:BB00:35D2:621F:F7E1:6245 ( talk) 06:32, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey Xaosflux, could you please remove the blacklist for the specific phone number "1-800-273-8255"? I wish to redirect 1-800-273-8255 to National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and I want to make 1-800-273-8255 (song) a redirect to Everybody (Logic album) with the "r with possibilities" tag. Cheers, Anarchyte ( work | talk) 13:31, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
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Hello Xaosflux, as the page User:Lourdes/SpecialNewPages.js is protected, I needed your assistance in making a small change to the script:
Please change the first line of the script from:
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TheDJ has already done this change to the other parallel script User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js.
Thanks. Lourdes 01:05, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hello. I sent you an email. -- George Ho ( talk) 13:50, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Another email. -- George Ho ( talk) 18:02, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Double thanks. George Ho ( talk) 22:13, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey xaosflux. Please change the content model of User:Magic links bot/config/MagicLinksReplacer and User:JJMC89 bot/config/UserGroupsMassMessageListUpdater to JSON. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 04:18, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
Invalid content data
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Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 803 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!
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Would you be willing to look into this: [248], I am also troubled by this edit: [249]. It appears as if a Muslim faith editor was offended. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 14:57, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Xaosflux.
I see you've been on Wikipedia for a while (not to mention you're an admin and a Bureaucrat.), so I thought I could trust you to answer some questions for me. Now, I am not all that new to Wikipedia and editing, but do I have to be autoconfirmed/confirmed to use the 'Twinkle' gadget now? 2: I am thinking of making an article, though I am not the best with formatting on Wikipedia, particulalry. Any tips or shortcuts I can Use? Thank you for your time, and I hope you can get back to me soon!
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Hello! Having attempted to discuss the matter (which, as I noted, was discussed beforehand), and having received no response after more than a day, I redid the move for the reasons cited. I then noticed the protection and self-reverted immediately.
If you wouldn't mind reading my explanation and deciding whether the protection is still needed, I'd sincerely appreciate it. Thanks very much. — David Levy 05:33, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
You're the admin who created the redirect for the Logic song, can you create the talk page for the song too? Thanks. JustDoItFettyg ( talk) 23:01, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for your reply on village pump and action taken to stop this editor. When I made my suggestion on Villega pump I already suspected this editor was not a resource for Wikipedia, but by rephrasing your earlier suggestion I hoped he might understand (assuming good faith against the odd ;-). Clearly not working - so blocking is in order. (above not something for general talks so I posted it here). Cheers Arnoutf ( talk) 18:05, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for rev-del'ing that spam on WP:Articles for creation/Redirects. Shearonink ( talk) 13:47, 31 May 2017 (UTC) |
Hello Xaosflux! I have messaged you because I made two mass message requests to the group WikiProject YouTube, which I would like you to send. I am forwarding you these requests, because it looks like since March 17, 2017, you have been the only one sending out mass-message requests. To see the requests, click here. Thank you for your time. Jamesjpk ( talk) 15:21, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
Any chance you could help with this request? I know nothing about regex and writing filters, so I'm not sure how to implement this. It just needs to tag them so they are more noticeable. I'm asking because I've seen you edit other edit filters. Thanks in advance for any help. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:24, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
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I notice you're deleting blank talk pages - thanks for that. Please look the contributions of Emmy Expert ( talk · contribs), it seems that they've been creating lots of them. – Train2104 ( t • c) 13:24, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Why did you delete this talk page?
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Category_talk:Chess_museums&action=edit§ion=new
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2016-11-26T11:00:30 . . IQ125 (talk | contribs | block) (empty) (←Blanked the page) 2016-11-26T11:00:03 . . IQ125 (talk | contribs | block) (47 bytes) 2016-11-26T10:59:42 . . IQ125 (talk | contribs | block) (48 bytes) ({{WikiProject Chess|class=Start|importance=Low}})
Hi, just put the page back, I cannot remember what was on it anymore, it was not created in error. IQ125 ( talk) 19:13, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hello sir as per discussion i will follow wikipedia guideline. Before posting school(Rawat Public School CBSE,Rawat Public School pratap nagar jaipur, Rawat public school) article one of my friend who operate multiple account did not follow guideline .
Please give me permission for edit page with name Rawat Public School CBSE and please remove Account with name @Sharmaraj123: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayushjain772 ( talk • contribs) 17:48, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
hello sir, As i will write article and revision according wikipedia guideline . so please remove redirection rule from this page and give me a chance to edit my rawat public school page The page Rawat Public School CBSE already exists, but is a redirect to Jaipur. Can i edit it again ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayushjain772 ( talk • contribs) 17:52, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your suggestion ( Rawat Public School CBSE) i' editing it please give me permission waiting for approval — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayushjain772 ( talk • contribs) 16:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
i'm afraid from page redirection so asking you that i can edit it again? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayushjain772 ( talk • contribs) 17:22, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Elegie has been diligently plugging away at converting http external links to https in templates. In the course of this work Elegie has met the criteria for the TE privilege. I see no reason for Elegie's work to need a second pair of eyes - the requests have always been carefully prepped. I've encouraged an application & just now added a refresher to the conversation. Can you think of a way to encourage an application? Perhaps the assessment of an admin who regularly hands out TE would help? Thanks, Cabayi ( talk) 09:24, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, could you please remove Hōkūleʻa from the blacklist? I closed this but was unable to move it to its new location. Anarchyte ( work | talk) 09:39, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Please read my latest comments. The regex I use now fxes the ons left unfixed by the bots. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:57, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
Please look the review - click here. - Prinsipe Ybarro ( Talk to me) 08:51, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hello. Just a friendly heads up that you didn't actually promote him; the mop switch is still in the "off" position. 😇 -- Dylan620 ( I'm all ears) (Chris Cornell 1964–2017) 13:05, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
Xaosflux, I'm a little confused about this deletion. Sure, it was created by a blocked sock, but the last revision contained some substantive discussions about the page title and the sources. Surely keeping it serves a better purpose than deletion? Vanamonde ( talk) 05:33, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
have a look - I think it needs exterminating User:2001:8003:1006:7400:8DE2:9C6D:B2F6:508C and its edits zapped, just an idea of course... JarrahTree 11:28, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
Take a look at https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/19881
Some of them may need to be removed. XXN, 18:26, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
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Xaosflux,
That seems to solve the problem. Thanks.
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The RfB wasn't yet closed when I started writing that comment; or at least my local cache hadn't updated to show the most recent version yet somehow :P ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 13:07, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, regarding these two revision deletions [285] [286], I don't believe that RD6 applies. The intention of that criteria is that it applies to mistakes in previous redactions not administrator actions. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 07:24, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
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Can you tell me how to hide bots? I can't even figure out how to easily detect them, let alone hide them. If you just meant hide edits made under a bot flag, that's easy but almost useless: the complaints about Mag.* were substantially about edits made under his main account flooding watchlists, plus the perennial pseudo-debate about whether AWB is a bot (depending on what mode it's in etc). In the last Mag case I remember learning that lots of AWB edits are identified in the edit summary, but lots more aren't.
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Separately, are you saying most automated edits these days are made by browser scripts through the web ui? I would have expected them to use the editing API, but that info doesn't seem to be preserved either. 173.228.123.121 ( talk) 01:57, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
Thanks once more! I'll look at those Phab tickets. 173.228.123.121 ( talk) 03:05, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
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I'm assuming this is your playground — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.186.67.54 ( talk) 15:00, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
Since I replied to Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 53. Should we revive the discussion about approving it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:24, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello there,Xaos. I noticed as of lately that there has been a recent Revdelete action here on your talkpage. I checked that IP,and apparently,it says in the filter log about some sort of a "Customer service ticket" transcription. And apparently,it has been removed by Oversight due to it being "Purely disruptive material",as you said it. Could you please elaborate? As i dont see why such an edit about a customer service ticket should be revdeleted. I thought that was reserved for blatant viruses and personal attacks only. 78.98.82.157 ( talk) 17:10, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
Hmmm,upon closer inspection,i see that the stuff about that "Martha Partridge" was originally some sort of an post on the nosleep subreddit. Apparently,it details a series of weird occurings at a most likely fictional website called happygames.com. It seems that IP was quite obsessed with it as a matter of fact. Probably someone who got too immersed,perhaps? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.98.82.157 ( talk) 08:04, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
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I want you to restore my userrights which you had removed last year. [313] — MBlaze Lightning T 06:38, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
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As best I can tell, no bureaucrats unquestionably fail to meet the activity requirements but as days turn to weeks, months, and years, the report will be needed at some time in the future. Do you think you could work on sourcing a replacement?
Good luck =) – xeno talk 04:13, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
I see what you're saying about an {{ iarow}} being removed for an administrator who's resumed activity but the line break being left. The template library I wrote is pretty generic– it removes the first character of the template instance through the last character, because no other behavior can guarantee formatting doesn't get broken. But I think I can special-case this one in, maybe add an optional parameter to remove a line break following if present. It certainly does look relatively ugly as is. I'll let you know when I make that change. Cheers, — madman 23:33, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
As you were the one who protected the page, would you consider adding my "support" vote? I had originally intended to support, but was given pause by some of the "opposes". After some investigating and much reflection, I decided my "support" vote was still appropriate; the request was taken down literally as I was in the process of voting. I realize it's not customary to add votes to a closed discussion, but this is largely a technicality. Obviously this isn't a major issue, but in the spirit of IAR, as well as the precedent set by allowing a vote to be stricken after the close, I feel my request is reasonable. Thank you for considering this matter. Joefromrandb ( talk) 22:05, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
I discovered this [321]. Please WP:ADMINACCT for greenlighting a further interaction ban violation instead of blocking for breaching the interaction ban with the question. Legacypac ( talk) 13:51, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux. The trial goes live in just 5 days on 7 Sept. We're still looking for an admin to volunteer to make the changes to the site interface. The list of changes is at Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial#User interface messages. It's only a few minutes work. Any chance you could help? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 22:12, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, I think the owner just forgot to put the BRFA in the right place. I thought it was a compulsory step which would also focus your attention on various attempts to pursue the same objective. But well, I learnt I was wrong, cheers! -- Vituzzu ( talk) 20:08, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
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This seems to be something that you would know: is there currently a bot that monitors inactive users for user rights that have an activity requirement. I'm thinking page mover and NPR since those are the two I deal with the most, but I think template editor also has one. TonyBallioni ( talk) 00:53, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
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Dear xaosflux, Will you allow me to try to convince you to change your opinion/vote at ”Templates for discussion”? I am the inventor of war map templates/modules. No one loves these maps more than I do. I have been working on developing them for the last 5 years and have written their rules, their documentations, a top 10 style explanation of rules, etc. I fought hard to establish the maps when no one believed in them and many were trying to delete them. I then fought hard to keep the maps in conformity with Wikipedia rules, especially in terms of reliable sourcing etc. I also spent quite some time getting POV pushers, edit warriors, sockpuppets warned, reverted, blocked… I am quite proud of what we (many participants over time) have achieved. Today, I need your help to allow me to cut one bad branch ( Template:Middle East conflicts detailed map) so that the maps “tree” would grow better and prosper. The template in question does not contain any datapoint, so no information will be lost. The template only combines the data in the other individual country templates. I will not bore you again with all the details about why this template is so bad. I just ask you to trust me on this. The removal of this template will allow the maps area to gain in credibility and be on more solid footing to continue to prosper and expand in the future. Tradedia talk 21:20, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Why does this filter allow vandals to remove OTRS tags, but disallow the restoration of them? Shouldn't it (or another filter) prevent vandals from removing them in the first place? Sakura Cartelet Talk 00:27, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but
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Hello! I have privacy concerns and I need to remove all my history from my user page and my talk page. This is my user page history in this link and my talk page in this link. Could you please help me? Thanks! 😊 Lunajav ( talk) 13:13, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
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The Kostas RfA was correctly snow closed after a few hours by a bureaucrat. It was closed while I was doing my research and before I could make my vote (which is now superfluous anyway). However, many of the votes, incuding those of admins, claimed hat collecting as the major issue. Time line of the candidates PERMS and ORCP:
The need for these tools has never been properly demonstrated, in particular, only one single New Page Review has been made. Even applying as much AGF as I can, I also find this looks very much like blatant hat collecting. I'm inclined to revoke some of these permissions. Thoughts? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 23:54, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, just wanted to quickly follow up with my ping of you on the WP Requests for permission/confirmed page as I non-admin marked a request as "not done" per what you said above to another account and based on the fact that the request was the only contribution (that I can see at least) that the account in question has made. I hope that was okay of me to do in this case. -- TheSandDoctor ( talk) 02:39, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi I am the new media Officer at Shillingstone-railway-project.org.uk, signed in as Johncurfin3 and would like permission to update the photo gallery currently being shown on the Shillingstone railway project page. I have updated some of the text on 17th October and expect to add more in next few days! Thank you ( Johncsurfin3 ( talk) 18:14, 17 October 2017 (UTC))
Why I'm not able to Extended confirmed user, I had asked for permissions so that I could not reverted the wrong edit. I saw that without any account, many users do wrong editing which I can not get reverted, and I can not undo it Because it is under the rule of Wikipedia, I am very diligent for my work, I respect you very much. I do not see the reverse button in my desktop screen if I get this permit I do not see a revert button in my desktop screen if I could get this permit, maybe it could be reverted somewhere. . And sorry for wasting your time. Pl98 (Talk to me) 16:48, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
And sir only give me a permission only one week So that I can understand it well, and I will show you my best work. Thanks sir Pl98 (Talk to me) 17:03, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
I can't do this Reverted the wrong editing. Pl98 (Talk to me) 17:45, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
If someone has done wrong editing then I can undo it. Can not be reverted. Pl98 (Talk to me) 17:51, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you very very much my good Administrator You are the best sir nice talking to you. And again Thanks for giving to me guidelines. Pl98 (Talk to me) 18:01, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
And Sorry sir Wasting Your time :-( Pl98 (Talk to me) 18:02, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
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I've contacted one of the WMF people working on ACTRIAL in case it's connected to that, so I'll wait to hear back before posting elsewhere. Best, SarahSV (talk) 05:00, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, I was wondering if anything else needed to be done at Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard#Request for EFH bit for Nihlus in order to finish the process. Thanks. Nihlus 00:29, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hey Xaosflux, I was confused by this edit. BetacommandBot3 still operates within the channel and was actually how I saw your edit. Am I missing something here? Nihlus 05:20, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
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Just a quick question would this article qualify for the A3 CSD category? Whispe ring 04:05, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
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I completely understand why you'd think that should be declined at first glance.
However,
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Neither of those types of edits is substantial and therefore neither precludes a G7 deletion, so I ask you to please reconsider. Modernponderer ( talk) 16:30, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
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Can you please expire these old BRFA's? Thanks.
(I found these by patrolling Category:Open Wikipedia bot requests for approval, which occasionally contain misguided non-bot requests by new users)
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Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Inactive_bots_-_December_2017 regarding an inactive bot account of yours. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 00:01, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
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No fancy template Xao, but just but to wish you happy holidays and all the best for 2018. It's probably a lot warmer where I am than where you are 😎
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Sorry, I edit conflicted. Alex Shih ( talk) 04:54, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for clarifying the difference between a use and a Wikipedian at Wikipedia: Village pump. My understanding is the same of yours, i.e. I see anyone who merely reads Wikipedia as a user, but a Wikipedian as somebody who edits Wikipedia. Vorbee ( talk) 15:53, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hi,
While I was lurking at AIV, I came across a vandal. I tried to block him, but it says I can't block that user. Any idea why this is happening? —usernamekiran
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class="sysop-show"
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And somebody took even that away from me!
Do you think it was
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Hi Xao. The next election for NPR coords is due to take place in about 3 - 4 weeks. The election pages are being prepared. I'm wondering if you would be prepared to do the honours as 'election commissioner'. It needs someone neutral. The tasks only involve ensuring the candidates are admissible, closing the nominations at the cut-off date, monitoring for dups/socks and striking any other inappropriate votes, and tallying up and announcing the results. I managed the previous one, it's not a lot of work. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 15:16, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Noticed you did this manually for the January 2018 admins, checked the crontab... yep, I commented it out at some point because we were going to do a manual run on another date.
My mistake, an unfortunately common one when we mix the automated and manual runs and I myself then get mixed up. There should be an automated run of second notifications for the February 2018 admins on January 25th; let me know if it doesn't go and I'll also try to keep an eye out. Cheers, — madman 14:56, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Did I get the regex wrong? I noticed you re-blacklisted the same URL a bit after I did. SQL Query me! 04:51, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
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Hello there. I was wondering if you would know the proper process for KolbertBot to get Template Editor permissions, I made a request recently because there was some issues with editnotices killing the bot and forcing a manual restart. Thank you. Jon Kolbert ( talk) 17:15, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
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The Arbitration Committee respectfully requests your attention, as an active member of the Bot Approvals Group, at this arbitration amendment request, which seeks to remove bot-related restrictions from Rich Farmbrough. Any comments would be appreciated. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 18:53, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
It seems there's a bot running right now that has the userpage saying it's unapproved. The bot in question is DYKReviewBot. Could you please take a look? Anarchyte ( work | talk) 06:44, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar. Can you figure out why the info box doesn't display fully? -- agr ( talk) 16:08, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
I've made a little proposal at Template talk:RMpmc#Appearance, and since all this is still so new, I'd like your input. What's in your palette? Paine 17:06, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux, see
this test I did in my space. There seems to be a bug in the implementation of the throttle limit increase for extendedmover
. I moved these 16 pages in my space sequentially to "/m2", all without a problem. When I moved them back, the ninth page complained of a throttle limit hit, but the tenth to 16th all succeeded seconds afterwards. I had to wait a minute before I could move that ninth page. Do you know what the issue is, and should a ticket be submitted to ask if this is really expected?
FYI, the specific move that failed (and that I did a minute afterwards) was Special:Diff/727244335. Thanks — Andy W. ( talk · ctb) 17:41, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux - is the EFM mailing list still in use, and if so would it be possible to be added to it? I've submitted a subscription request, thank you :) -- samtar talk or stalk 09:36, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
You made the call, I have answered. HighInBC Need help? {{ping|HighInBC}} 20:27, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
Yeah sure. Go ahead man Reverend Mick man34 ♔ ( talk) 13:46, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
With the numbers being what they are right now, there's an excellent chance that this one will go to a bureaucrat chat. You might just barely eke this one out, Xaos. In the event that it ultimately passes, I'd like to give you my preemptive congratulations. (Fingers crossed.) Kurtis (talk) 08:30, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
After reviewing the milkmaid and her pail, I think my best course of action is the quietly sit in this corner for now. — xaosflux Talk 11:49, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
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The MfD instructions only allow for deletion of problematic pages and nothing in the discussion indicated a problem. WP:N doesn't apply to drafts, the age is irrelevant and the COI issue is resolved because the editor isn't being a COI anymore. please reverse hut closure in line with policy. Wikijuniorwarrior ( talk) 19:35, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hello xaosflux. I was asked if I would consider a BAG nomination. I value your opinion, so what are your thoughts on my suitability to serve as a BAG member? — JJMC89 ( T· C) 05:02, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Is your subscription working? (NB it's a very low traffic group) -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 09:08, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
You may want to use this template on your user page instead of the clock you have. -- Template:Calendar clock with Wikipedia stats --— Varun FEB2003 I am Busy 12:52, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
I didn't know - thanks for telling me. Something very useful to keep in mind for the future. :-)
Happy editing! -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 01:53, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, there appears to be a problem with Fluxbot trying to fix Category:Pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags. It is splitting up <ref name"z"/> into <ref name"z"></ref> which is incorrect according to Help:Footnotes#Footnotes: using a source more than once. An example is here, the actual change does not fix the problem which is the </blockquote/> tag in the article. Keith D ( talk) 23:40, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
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Might need to shut down their talkpage access as well, continued vandalism there. RickinBaltimore ( talk) 14:05, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, become an admin, how do to that? I want admin to be RIGHT NOW!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TRCuba ( talk • contribs) 07:53, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, I asked for import to user name space User:Bussakendle/Import Hybrid navigation. Of course You can also import to my sandbox. Thanks. bkb ( talk) 09:29, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation. Legobot ( talk) 04:27, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello xaosflux,
IF you see this page -
Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Indian military history/Mailing list that you created it contains a inputbox in which one can type his name to place it in the list. What module or template produces that inputbox? Moreover when I click edit source it gives me completely different layout and I am probably editing a different page? If I type the full URL -
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Indian military history/Mailing list&action=edit it takes me to the real edit page. How does this happen? Thanks.
Varun
FEB2003 I am Online
13:46, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
For your edification, I don't have and have never had an alternative account. At one point I did think about it but then discovered I would have to pay royalties to
Bishonen, who has the exclusive rights to alternative accounts.
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Hello. You have
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06:44, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
No one voted to delete. I took the case to review but could you restore them all so I can add sentences and keep them?
Why did you delete Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Aaron Banda? No one wanted it deleted but you it seems — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sulky mulky ( talk • contribs) 21:04, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
And thus, after nearly two-and-a-half years, I relinquish the symbolic title of "Wikipedia's Newest Bureaucrat" to you. Well done for the overwhelming amount of people in support for your candidacy and well done for the successful result in itself. Good luck, Xaosflux! Acalamari 00:11, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux. I was hoping you could help me out here. I'm looking to set up an abuse filter to help me track a sockmaster. For obvious reasons, I don't want to discuss what the abuse filter would be on-wiki. Any chance you could hop into the BAG IRC channel quickly to discuss? ~ Rob13 Talk 23:01, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Please let me know if you'd prefer I not suggest that BRFA route of obtaining AWB access in special cases like Jaguar's. I realized after the fact that I was kind of volunteering the BAG to babysit, and that wasn't my intention. The already-existing oversight processes of bot approvals seemed most appropriate in this case, and I'm aware that semi-automated "approved bots" have existed in the past, so I thought it was a good fit. I'll refrain from doing it in the future if BAG members would prefer I not, though. Either way, I'll stick around for the BRFA so as to take some of the load off. ~ Rob13 Talk 19:45, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
I was asking if you would remove the ACC flag from User:Bluerasberry as they have not used it since May. Sorry for the confusion. Mlpearc ( open channel) 00:53, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Xaosflux,
I wanted to ask you something. The edits made to the bot's talk page like
this and
this look like manual i.e made by you. I just had a doubt, few weeks ago
MusikAnimal advised a new user
NepaliKeto62 who had created a bot account (so called) that
never (with bolding) make manual edits from your bot account and had mentioned this policy -
Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Bot_accounts which says bot accounts should not be used to answer messages related to the bot. Now I am in a confusion! Which of you is correct? Both of you have a lot of experienced in bots! Can you advice me? Meaning you are the best to say about it! Many thanks and sincere regards.
Varun
FEB2003 I am Online
06:30, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
only the operator's or their own userspace. As you noted, if other editors have questions for a bot operator, the operator should reply to the editor, not use the bot account to make responses. — xaosflux Talk 10:40, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, may you change the content model of User:Andy M. Wang/prototyping1 from wikitext to JavaScript? (I believe that will also inherently protect the page from nonsysops from editing it, right? (I was also wondering if it would be helpful to have a help page like "Help:Content model" or "WP:Content model" that soft-redirects to mw:Help:ChangeContentModel?) — Andy W. ( talk · ctb) 20:59, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
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Don't forget to delete the talk pages.
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More pages.
Category:Talk pages of MascotGuy sockpuppets to be deleted
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:List of senior officers of the Argentine Navy. Legobot ( talk) 04:29, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello. You have
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03:31, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello. You have
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04:13, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC for patroller right
Kudpung sent me an email with the entire content he drafted.
He wanted me to copy paste it on that page removing his comments. You have done a good beginning. Now should I copy paste Kudpung's content below it. He won't be available for few hours now. -- Marvellous Spider -Man 13:04, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
Hallo, it's probably less than helpful to add {{ geography-stub}} to an article as you did here: it just takes it out of the Category:Stubs which stub-sorters look at, without sorting it into a useful category. Best just leave it as {{ stub}} unless you can slot it into at least a country.
I might have a look at Category:Geography stubs to see if anything else there needs rescuing.
In fact I found it depressing how many people had edited that article without putting the country name into the lead ... I was alerted to it by chance by spotting this strange talk page notice! Pam D 22:36, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
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I cut it down to semi-protection, must've had a finger slip and picked a different one than intended; to be honest I didn't even realize the 30/500 thing was a protection option until just now, must be new. Wizardman 21:35, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
On 5 January 2016 you deleted Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Liisa Ladouceur (G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page). Just wondering what was the rationale for such an unusual deletion? Thanks in advance for responding on my talk page. Ottawahitech ( talk) 14:44, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the message, I fixed it:Modulo:Citazione as requested, and I fixed also another module with the same problem ( it:Modulo:Tracce), I will check it:Categoria:Pagine che utilizzano tag HTML auto-chiusi non validi for other template/module with this problem.-- Moroboshi ( talk) 19:17, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
I noticed that you stopped in to fix a stray tag marking part of a discussion about a dead gorilla who was being compared to a Presidential candidate's chances in the 2016 election. (Though this struck many as unencyclopedic and misleading, an administrator kept "accidentally" reverting it). This same administrator has recently redirected the "political positions of Ralph Nader" to Nader's bio page (without any discussion or reinstating references added), and called for the deletion of the article "political positions of Jill Stein". Is this normal behavior for a "neutral" administrator?
My question concerning discretionary sanctions (I have been banned from the topic Jill Stein by Nuclear Warfare) is: "Do I have the right to ask the question above (Is this normal behavior for a "neutral" administrator?)". My question concerning the problem of the page hack : "Is anyone looking into this?"
Thank you for your time. SashiRolls ( talk) 12:20, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Hey xaosflux. Per
wikitech-l all users with the move
userright will be able to change the content model of pages (editcontentmodel
) beginning 12 September. For us that means (auto)confirmed and page movers (and admins who already have it). A Phabricator task to change who is assigned the right can be created. I don't think it should be granted to page movers since it doesn't apply to moving pages. I'm not sure if (auto)confirmed should have it or not. I think MMS is a reasonable candidate if we revoke it from (auto)confirmed. Maybe template editors? Thoughts? Should an RfC or proposal be dawn up for discussion at a VPR? (I thought you would be interested.) —
JJMC89 (
T·
C)
20:11, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
(editcontentmodel)
permission will be added to the Autoconfirmed users and Confirmed users (they probably wont bother with page mover since it is an enwiki specific group). As rights are cumulative, unless enwiki makes a decision to not give this to (auto)confirmed users it is moot if it is actually also deployed to out custom pagemovers group. I don't think giving it to move enabled groups is a good idea - and have commented at
phab:T85847. If the sysadmins decide too bad - this is our new default because something something flow something something - then we can poll enwiki and request that enwiki is different. —
xaosflux
Talk
00:50, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
extendedmover
) per
this commit (line 7788). I agree, I don't think it is a good idea – I don't think it is similar to moving. Users who are granted the right should be expected to know how and when to (not) use it. Deploying it to the masses is likely to lead to problems. —
JJMC89 (
T·
C)
01:25, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
The flow-board content model does not support direct editing
. —
xaosflux
Talk
02:40, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
Same The flow-board content model does not support direct editing
. —
xaosflux
Talk
02:45, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Xaosflux. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.
Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.
In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:
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I was eating cookies when I got your mass email about the Extended page protection. Thanks for keeping everybody informed and your work on Wikipedia:Administrators/Message list itself. I share my cookies with you. Jason Quinn ( talk) 20:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC) |
I realise that there is no deadline, however my bot request has been open for 8 days, and counting. I know that bots such as JJMC8789 bot task 7 take a longer time to process, but mine is extremely simple and only affects a bit over 1,000 pages. Thanks, Dat Guy Talk Contribs 09:38, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
HI. Following 5 years of unstructured discussion, a dedicated venue has been created for combined discussion about NPP & AfC where a work group is also being composed to develop recommendations for necessary changes to policies and related software. It is 'not an RfC, it is a call for genuinely interested users who have significant experience in these areas to join a truly proactive work group. There is some reading to be done before signing up. See: Wikipedia:The future of NPP and AfC. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 11:45, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, I notice that when I use/hide the tool, the "Mark this page as patrolled" disappears/appears. I'm a bit shady on the technical details of (patrol)
, but I believe this right gives users the ability to "Mark this page as patrolled", as well as use the Page Curation tool to apply deletion tags, review pages, etc, right? If that is the case, perhaps
MediaWiki:Right-patrol deserves a clarification? —
Andy W. (
talk ·
ctb)
01:49, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
(patrol)
permissions are currently required to use the page curation tool; check out
Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/RfC for patroller qualifications and lets see where that goes before expanding the definition - I'm fairly sure it is not changing and there is just a verbiage mixup going on at that page. —
xaosflux
Talk
02:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
(patrol)
as well. While the NPP RfC has mostly focused on getting competent patrollers for new articles, its implications for non-admin file patrollers have not been discussed as far as I know. (reupload)
needs repatrolling. It seems that the new right would need to be reassigned based on competence in article evaluation or competence in file patrolling, but that seems to be out of scope of the current RfC. Any thoughts? A potential workaround is to split file patrol from (patrol)
, but I don't know what the dev cost increase would be. —
Andy W. (
talk)
00:43, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Following up from the consensus reached here, the community will now establish the user right criteria. You may wish to participate in this discussion. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 12:51, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
Category:Pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags is adding new pages all the time, despite its being nearly three months old, and based on some insource searches I have done, many thousands of pages have yet to be added. Examples: 3,777 pages, 223 pages, 173 pages, 118 pages, 133 pages (with some false positives, but mostly error pages).
Can you please run Fluxbot 6 through the current contents of the category to fix the easy cases? That will enable human editors to focus on the tricky ones. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:08, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
I see that the bot is plowing through the category. Nice work! Note that Category:User pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags has been split from the main category for some reason. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:22, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hey xaos, wanted to ask if you might have time to look over a draft for the phabricator task for the recent RfC on userpage protection. I'm still working at it, but not having a lot of experience writing these up before, I wanted to get a second set of eyes on it, and it seems like you have some experience in this area. If you're too busy or not interested, that's fine too, just let me know. Thanks, I JethroBT drop me a line 17:28, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Xaosflux. I would like to request revision deletion under R2 for this edit on my userpage. Also, if there is some alternative way that I'm supposed to use to request this that I didn't know about, I would be glad to hear about it. Thanks for looking at this request, Gluons12 ☢| ☕ 19:15, 17 October 2016 (UTC).
for the barnstar. I would have cleared it the other day but Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Raging Fire (band) confused me. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 22:45, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
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Could you please empty the Category:Wikipedian new page patrollers of patrollers, I don't know how to do it. There is no need to delete the cat itself. These are the ones that remain after deleting the userbox templates that were transcluded but not subst'ed. I've explained at WT:PERM why this needs to be done. It's so tat I can send the mass message to all former 1,800 users on the list you made so that if they are still around (roughly 50% of them are/were never genuine patrollers, and many others are simply no longer editing),I can send the mass message encouraging those who might still be around to apply for the new right. Thanks. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 09:48, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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I've suggested that here should be a regular newsletter for admins (see details at User talk:MusikAnimal#PERM). Would you be interested in being part of a small editorial team? I see you have recently created an admin mass mailing list. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 20:14, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
Hey, I am thinking about trying for an RfA again. (Yeah, I know...) My question is how things have changed since last fall in terms of who monitors !voter and comment behavior and other supervision of the process -- My understanding is that it is the 'crats. During my previous RfA there was a fair amount of chaos. In general, I was just wondering about the changes in policies that govern RfAs and if you had any suggestions for how to keep things a bit calmer than they were last year if I throw my hat in again. I know where isn't anything more to be done about things like this or the off-wiki doxxing that occurred, but I am wondering how the RfA world could handle round two of me trying for RfA. Montanabw (talk) 08:56, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
Well, to be honest, I've tried mass-message, and have not been pleased. It doesn't work at all as well as I'd like it to - I returned to using AWB because it allows me more control over what pages I hit with the message. I know there's supposed to be a way that I can create a list of pages and use mass-message to target those, rather than a category, but I haven't been able to make it work yet. If you could point me towards a tutorial, or explain to me how I could do something like that, I'd be happy to return to the mass-message function. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 19:08, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, wanted to follow up on the second phase separately. I believe the ~41 remaining users listed at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers/List3 accorded should be evaluated "eventually" (a week or two if really need be). It may be seen as unfair that some editors are not evaluated on that list based on their alphabetical positioning.
Side note: as one who suggested the phased approach on the RfC and on the ticket, and despite support from devs on the ticket, didn't mean to overcomplicate this stage if it did... was a good faith suggestion to help with the technical permissions transition, since it involved a revocation. Didn't mean to step out of my purview if I did, and apologies that I myself am unable to help with the list. — Andy W. ( talk) 01:29, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:17, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Thank you so much!
Actually I lied, this is not my account at all, I just found it on BugMeNot. (And it wasn't that easy either BTW -- did you know that Wikipedia is still available on it (and similar sites) under wikipedia.com or alternate domain components such as xx.wikipedia.org or wikipedia.xx? (I'm telling you that because I hope that you -- meaning, Wikipedia -- won't be able to prevent *all* combinations on *all* such sites anyway...))
Though still, the reason I obtained this account and asked for the permission *was* in good faith. I was hoping to (I just didn't get to owing to lack of time) use it to tell a certain admin who has semi-protected his talk page that he's being a harmful clown for blanket-removing a certain edit of mine.
And no, that edit was not insulting at all. It was about reinstating a certain simple good faith template I made. It was completely apolitical (didn't use a single word of human language), using #exprs, CSS border radii, et c., and removed only because of (another admin's) technical incompetence.
Why not give it a look and restore the template (or give other users feedback if it's unfitting the wiki for any reason, if you feel like it)?
Regards! ~~~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiktoria14 ( talk • contribs)
Oops, I figured I'd screw something up. Thanks for fixing. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 18:50, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
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I have just completed a triage of this list (which took several hours), but suddenly it no longer displays its content. Its edit history is intact and the content is there when viewed from the 'edit' mode. Why is this? Is there anything you can do? I believe it happened when I created the talk page for the list. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:34, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Of the users asked to fill in the survey, only 1,255 responded which after removing the nonsense responses only 304 were left. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:03, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux.
A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.
If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins). MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I've spent an hour trying to create a message list at Special:CreateMassMessageList but either the instructions are not clear or I'm missing something (probably the latter). Within the New Page Reviewer project I need a list called Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants message list. The list to import is here. Can you help? -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 14:45, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaos, hope you're well. I'm a little concerned we're still seeing admin accounts compromised - do you think a watchlist notice urging users to change passwords would be appropriate? -- samtar talk or stalk 13:32, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux. I noticed that my new page feed has become different (the yellow highlighting is absent now on unreviewed pages), probably because of the New Page Reviewer right addition. I noticed at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reviewers that there is a Grandfather clause: "Users who made at least 200 uncontested patrols between 1 January 2016 and 6 October 2016 will be accorded the right by administrators without the need to apply at WP:PERM." I have 200 plus uncontested manual patrolled edits between these dates. Would you please be able to accord the said flag to me? I have read the tutorial and have a clean CSD log with only two rejections in all my CSD tags till date, both which got eventually deleted. Thank you. Lourdes 06:02, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux :) One quick request again. In September, I had requested and you had helped me by unchecking the auto patroller and reviewer flags. Katie has been kind enough to give the rollback bit. Might I request you to please add back the reviewer and auto patrol bit? Thanks and cheers. Lourdes 02:43, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
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If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Hello! I just wanted to know if it's okay to add a comment like the one I did to a user's rollback request, the one you just marked as not done. Adotchar| reply here 22:41, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Your edit on the television infobox [127] is causing problems in cases like this and this where information about the second title is in parenthesis. Is there a way around this? Could you revert it if there isn't? Grapesoda22 ( talk) 06:49, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
Why did you revert it? I made a valid point. Several articles those articles I listed and several others are screwed up since you reverted. Grapesoda22 ( talk) 01:04, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for your answer at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Mass revert in a specific spacename. Is there any chance that your bot could fulfill that task (removing all Ark25 edits from article talk space)? Thanks in advance. Ionutzmovie ( talk) 00:25, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
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I was reading through the latest NPP RfC and related threads and noticed something I'm apparently confused about. I figure you'd probably know :) Much has been made of the possible dangers of "bad" new articles getting indexed by search engines. Speedy tags apply {{ NOINDEX}}, but is it actually the case that new articles are not indexed until patrolled? I don't believe that was true last year (last time I had a reason to notice), but I may be behind. WP:NOINDEX seems to be out of date. I tried to test it by creating an article with my sock, but was lucky enough that it was patrolled quickly. (Yet the article still isn't indexed on google, and others I created today with my main account are... unfortunately I don't have enough articles stored up for any more sampling :) Opabinia regalis ( talk) 06:59, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
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Your bot are destroyng references: [135], [136], [137] and some other. Malarz pl ( talk) 07:45, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
Can Fluxbot please make a run through Category:User pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags? It looks like it is stable and not adding new pages via the job queue, and it has a lot of bot-fixable tags. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:46, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you but I wonder if you could make a list for me again (I really need to learn to do this myself, but the instructions are too vague to follow. Thanks. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 11:04, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
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What's the procedure for getting the bot/admin bits? Should I post at WP:BN? No rush, just curious :) I know you're super busy! And actually expect an email from me soon... :) — MusikAnimal talk 18:51, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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I've pinged you to this thread as it relates to CAPTAIN RAJU's NPP right which you granted, just to let you know -- samtar talk or stalk 14:22, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Dear Sir, I want to link my blog [http: topcoconutoilsecrets . com/ The Coconut Oil Secrets] to this Wikipedia page. Is this possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wallsportfolio ( talk • contribs) 18:18, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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Xaosflux, your consistently helpful suggestions are so refreshing, insightful and sincerely supportive. I'm honestly appreciative of your support and suggestions in all places where we have interacted. It's rare to find editors who are so forthcoming. Thank you. Lourdes 02:38, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
I haven't been on in some time but am back to do regular editing (at least I hope I will be). I don't have any specific need for admin privileges right now, but before I would regularly do some clean up on some lists that are edited in talk or user space then switched over on the date the changes become effective (such as merging histories etc).
Thanks for giving me the notices with clear instructions on how to restore admin privileges when the time comes. -- Trödel 03:34, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi. You may in fact not be aware of it, but mass messaging with the help of automated processes is expressly disallowed by an established guideline. I, for example, only mass inform users of RfC on highly important or sensitive issues that may broadly affect Wikipedia in general, and I do so in full observance of the rules. It's often a tedious task to do manually, but I see no reason why editors, particularly admins, should be encouraged to openly disregard an accepted convention. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 21:09, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
I made a good-faith attempt to follow Kudpung's wishes, expressed at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right, where he stated "In my opinion this current RfC as originally proposed is flawed. Firstly, all those who supported and opposed the the previous two RfC have been denied the right to be properly informed of this new RfC. They must be informed, neutrally and individually of this RfC and there should be a watchlist notice. This should not be allowed to be a back-door overturn by a minor quorum of a major new policy that reached consensus on not one, but two consecutive RfC." He later went on to state that were I to launch more RfCs relating to substantial issues, "it stands to reason that everyone will be notified in order to have a fair representation by the people who previously turned out to support or oppose the previous RfCs". I erred in my method of following Kudpung's wishes. That error is mine, although I think it's a reasonable error to make given this whole history. Even an administrator is allowed to make an occasional error, so long as they respond to criticism appropriately and work to undo any damage caused. Here, no damage was caused at all, as all parties note that the end result is exactly what should have occurred. Still, in my first response to the criticism, I stated definitively that I will not make such notifications in the future. I also noted that I believe WP:IAR could have provided a policy basis for my action in hindsight, but it certainly was not my original intention to invoke IAR. I generally find it distasteful to intentionally make IAR actions when dealing with advanced permissions.
This all could have been handled with a lot more grace. Throwing around terms like "abuse of administrator privilege" is unhelpful when dealing with a simple mistake that caused no damage. Hopefully, this complete explanation puts this well to rest. I have absolutely no desire to have an internet slap-fight over trivial matters when both our time can be better spent improving the encyclopedia. As Xaosflux said, it's a big project. I remain interested in working together productively, as I hope I've made clear in my many comments on-wiki and our private correspondence, Kudpung. ~ Rob13 Talk 06:36, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for creating this.
I expect that sooner or later, there will be a legitimate request to hide a particular log entry from public view, probably for something like this. Without your work, it would've been relatively easy: The offending edit would just be revision-deleted or suppressed. If hiding specific log entries from public view without making the entire log private, then we are set. If not, consider working on making it so, and/or be prepared to hide this log's entries from public view should the need arise. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 18:28, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
I am concerned that the original issue I raised with genfixes is getting lost under a tidal wave of discussion of Yobot. Do you think that it would be sensible to open a formal RfC or would it be better to wait till the Yobot issues are resolved, or at least settle down? Spinning Spark 19:48, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for getting back to me. I had already gone through the approved runs of Eubot's redirects and did not find any approving this, not only in the wording but in the dates that it was run (December 2008).
From a previous Eubot run, I forget which and excuse me for paraphrasing, but the intent was to "Create redirects to prevent accidental creation of duplicate articles". That is as near as I can remember the wording off the top of my head. Now, to me that is a bit kinda weird anyway, because we WP:SALT articles after ther's a problem, not pre-emptively (I am not an admin, I do not want to be, I am just an editor, that's fine with me).
What I would kinda like is a definitive statement from an admin that "Nope, this never got approved, nor even discussion". The thing is, everything I'm whacking into
WP:RFD is "Delete". Of course it is, but actually about 90% of Eubot's redirects were sensible (even though nowaday not useful with improvements to the search engine, but that's a battle for another day, they're harmless but not useful.) The 10% are mostly where Eubot created redirects from redirects, in bizarre ways. It has managed, which I listed tonight, to create an {{
R from title without diacritics}}
from a {{
R from title with diacritics}}
to a target which,
mirabile dictu, has no diacritics. That kind of nonsense we can do without. Backwards run my sentences now until reels my mind.
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It seems you did half the page editing that needed to be done to close the Ivanvector RfA. Thanks for the help! ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 00:05, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux, I mentioned you in the arbitration case request (don't worry it's not about you :P), hoping that you might be able to provide some input (I think it was you) paraphrased you. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 08:11, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Just a summary of the current problem and the solutions I tried seeking for advice: I am willing to give away all tasks that are related to talk pages. Still the only real problem is that Yobot runs unconditionally with CHECKWIKI errors (task 16). All other tasks have very tight skip conditions. Task 16 goes off hand everytime there are changes in CHECKWIKI's code. For error number have been been repurposed. One idea is that I abandon completely task 16 apart from 2-3 errors I have skip conditions. I tried to find other bot operators willing to take over the tasks but this is not easy. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:08, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
At the risk of being very alphabet soup-y, how does the BAG feel about non-BAG BRFA involvement? Is it helpful to you? I likely can never be a BAG member, because I lack technical skills outside of AWB regex, but I'd be happy to occasionally help with patrolling if that saves you time. For instance, I could read through the discussions leading to the bot and note whether consensus appears sufficient or not, endorse/oppose a trial/approval, etc. I'm just not sure if that's actually helpful or whether you'd have to do the same stuff you already do before making a decision. ~ Rob13 Talk 09:44, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, you and Kudpung had assisted me in placing links to the page curation and special new pages feed scripts on the above pages. I had a suggestion. Instead of giving the direct link to the script, I would recommend that the links be changed to the script documentation pages, which are better in explaining how to install the script, than the script page itself. In others words:
Thanks and cheers. Lourdes 08:44, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux. I would like to ask for your opinion. I'm planning to propose the creation of an interface-editor
right, and I've drafted an RfC at
User:Fastily/IE Sandbox. Could you review, give me some feedback, and/or comment on the feasibility of said proposal? Thanks in advance,
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Hi kan you add in the awards section the list of winners during the Miss Universe Mindanao tapestry? Phoenix Best Smile - Indonesia, Pearl of Phoenix - Philippines & Miss Phoenix Petroleum - Venezuela. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ph awesome ( talk • contribs) 14:45, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, thought I'd consult you first on this issue.
User space has been noindexed (that's to say, not findable by internet search engines) by default since November 2015.
However, it is still possible to override this by using the magic word or its templated equivalent on a user page. Category:Indexed pages shows nearly 1,000 cases where this has been done. Just looking at the 13 cases listed under K, we find three formatted as articles ( Krupa Vara Prasad, Ktv ch, and James 1997/sandbox (sorted to "Koibana Onsen")). There are two pages of javascript to do with WikEd International, that seem to relate to Cacycle; these pages may or may not have a reason to be indexed. The others I would classify as typical unproblematic userpages: one belongs to an arb ( Ks0stm) and two others to established users ( Kiore and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga) who might want to comment.
New page patrol does have a queue for user pages ( Special:NewPagesFeed) which may prevent indexing while unreviewed, as it does for mainspace. In practice though the majority of user pages seem to be going without review and dropping off the back of the queue at the 30-day mark.
Question: should the magic word be disabled in userspace? or are there reasons to continue to allow users, intentionally or not, to have their user pages or draft articles indexed by search engines? : Noyster (talk), 14:22, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi how can I make make a common pages — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarzan bond ( talk • contribs) 06:54, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, please can you remove my template editor permission, for the time being, as per your post earlier in the month. I haven't had the time to continue testing the changes I am making prior, so won't be committing to anything in the near future. Thanks. Nördic Nightfury 14:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
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Did you actually check the cases where I unblocked Yobot? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:59, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
You really have to take some time to check the unblocks before you judge me actions in a span of 10 years. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:00, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the help. It can't be a common occurrence for the same person to thank you and to use rollback on you for the same edit :-) I envisioned this situation when "Thanks" was new, but for the opposite situation: I requested a confirmation dialogue so that it would be harder to thank vandals. Nyttend ( talk) 05:06, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
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The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
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Hi Xaosflux. You previously helped with this in Katie's abscence. Please could you re-block, and if possible, for longer? The evidence is here. First IP after the last 10-day block expired was reported and blocked. The third IP was back today, and as you can see from their contribution history, making less than helpful edits. Any questions, please ping me or drop a note on my talkpage. Thanks. Lugnuts Precious bodily fluids 18:48, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you - please put article in the sandbox. Arigo ( talk) 15:38, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, on 4 February I noticed this and today (8 February) I noticed this, is it a coincidence? Do you edit from a mobile device? Sorry I'm just curious.. -- Vejvančický ( talk / contribs) 18:52, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
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Again, thanks. @References - do they have to be translated as well? @Weblinks - why does my Wikipedia username show up as .../with my name. How to get rid of it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arigo ( talk • contribs) 14:54, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
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I was wondering if you could please kindly take a little time from your busy schedule and visit my new article Reverend King Ezeugo
I would really be grateful if you can give me some insight, e.g if you think it's lacking in some areas, If you think I should include more inline stations, if you think I should add more content in some categories etc It would really really be appreciated, but perhaps you are way too busy and cannot assist at the moment. I equally understand.
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Hi Xaosflux, should I have updated this page or should this be done by a crat as I appear to be missing. Amortias ( T)( C) 22:29, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, I wanted to drop you a note in regards to User:Mifter/Protection Test. My goal with the page actually was to cascade protect the main page to add a bit of protection considering we have seen compromised Sysops unprotect/modify the protection on the Main Page as it adds another step that a compromised account would have to take and might slow down/minimize the risk that the MP would be open to vandalism. Checking now, it looks like when I moved page to fix a typo the rationale got left in the original location. We currently have WP:CASC which is a collection of what we used to do in the userspace regarding cascade protecting high risk images/templates but I wanted to make this separate as a compromised sysop unprotecting CASC (to remove the cascade protection from the main page) could cause even more damage to the other items on that page. On that, I wanted to hear your thoughts on creating a subpage (or several like we have with Main Page/1, Main Page/2, etc.) to cascade protect the main page and make it more difficult for a compromised account to unprotect the Main Page in the future? Mifter ( talk) 18:23, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, I don't know which template you used but it (or invocation thereof) seems broken. special:diff/772687056 cc Ibaimendi -- Jeremyb ( talk) 19:54, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Hey, you're an admin, right? Well, I figured I'd alert you about a situation on the Did you Know section on the main page. I'd estimate that about ~2 million people know that thrust into a difficult situation, Horney Dicks failed to satisfy. I suspect this as vandalism, though it's not listed on the edit history. It's location is the last did you know on the did you know section. Greasemann ( talk) 01:06, 1 April 2017 (UTC)Greasemann
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I'm trying not to pester editors who've opposed my RfA, but I'm curious about your statement, "You mention working with patrolling of edit by new users, but I notice you have not really been involved in patrolling new pages (barely any patrols or page curations in recent years logged). You mention working with anti vandalism, but have very little actual vandalism cleanup logged.
Since several supporters specifically cite anti-vandalism work, the tools that I've created have been specifically aimed at helping my patrolling activities and even one of the opposers cites RC patrol ("in which it is relatively easy to make larger numbers of edits") as a reason for opposition, I'm wondering what exactly the problem is here? It feels a bit like I just don't use the patrolling / anti-vandal tools you expect me to.
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Hi @ Samwalton9, Dane, and Ks0stm: I split some of your comments between the original thread and this new thread so that it can have a longer discussion when the original eventually ends. If any of you object to this refactoring of your comments, feel free to revert my entire edit. (It is a little 'out of the box'). — xaosflux Talk 00:42, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
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Would it be possible to block my IP range (2001:8003:30E5:BB00::/64) from editing for 6 months, as required by my school teacher because she thinks I'm not competent enough to edit Wikipedia. Thank you for your help if you can. -- 2001:8003:30E5:BB00:35D2:621F:F7E1:6245 ( talk) 06:32, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey Xaosflux, could you please remove the blacklist for the specific phone number "1-800-273-8255"? I wish to redirect 1-800-273-8255 to National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and I want to make 1-800-273-8255 (song) a redirect to Everybody (Logic album) with the "r with possibilities" tag. Cheers, Anarchyte ( work | talk) 13:31, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
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Hello Xaosflux, as the page User:Lourdes/SpecialNewPages.js is protected, I needed your assistance in making a small change to the script:
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TheDJ has already done this change to the other parallel script User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js.
Thanks. Lourdes 01:05, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hello. I sent you an email. -- George Ho ( talk) 13:50, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Another email. -- George Ho ( talk) 18:02, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Double thanks. George Ho ( talk) 22:13, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey xaosflux. Please change the content model of User:Magic links bot/config/MagicLinksReplacer and User:JJMC89 bot/config/UserGroupsMassMessageListUpdater to JSON. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 04:18, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
Invalid content data
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Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 803 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!
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Would you be willing to look into this: [248], I am also troubled by this edit: [249]. It appears as if a Muslim faith editor was offended. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 14:57, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Xaosflux.
I see you've been on Wikipedia for a while (not to mention you're an admin and a Bureaucrat.), so I thought I could trust you to answer some questions for me. Now, I am not all that new to Wikipedia and editing, but do I have to be autoconfirmed/confirmed to use the 'Twinkle' gadget now? 2: I am thinking of making an article, though I am not the best with formatting on Wikipedia, particulalry. Any tips or shortcuts I can Use? Thank you for your time, and I hope you can get back to me soon!
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Hello! Having attempted to discuss the matter (which, as I noted, was discussed beforehand), and having received no response after more than a day, I redid the move for the reasons cited. I then noticed the protection and self-reverted immediately.
If you wouldn't mind reading my explanation and deciding whether the protection is still needed, I'd sincerely appreciate it. Thanks very much. — David Levy 05:33, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
You're the admin who created the redirect for the Logic song, can you create the talk page for the song too? Thanks. JustDoItFettyg ( talk) 23:01, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for your reply on village pump and action taken to stop this editor. When I made my suggestion on Villega pump I already suspected this editor was not a resource for Wikipedia, but by rephrasing your earlier suggestion I hoped he might understand (assuming good faith against the odd ;-). Clearly not working - so blocking is in order. (above not something for general talks so I posted it here). Cheers Arnoutf ( talk) 18:05, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for rev-del'ing that spam on WP:Articles for creation/Redirects. Shearonink ( talk) 13:47, 31 May 2017 (UTC) |
Hello Xaosflux! I have messaged you because I made two mass message requests to the group WikiProject YouTube, which I would like you to send. I am forwarding you these requests, because it looks like since March 17, 2017, you have been the only one sending out mass-message requests. To see the requests, click here. Thank you for your time. Jamesjpk ( talk) 15:21, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
Any chance you could help with this request? I know nothing about regex and writing filters, so I'm not sure how to implement this. It just needs to tag them so they are more noticeable. I'm asking because I've seen you edit other edit filters. Thanks in advance for any help. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:24, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
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I notice you're deleting blank talk pages - thanks for that. Please look the contributions of Emmy Expert ( talk · contribs), it seems that they've been creating lots of them. – Train2104 ( t • c) 13:24, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Why did you delete this talk page?
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2016-11-26T11:00:30 . . IQ125 (talk | contribs | block) (empty) (←Blanked the page) 2016-11-26T11:00:03 . . IQ125 (talk | contribs | block) (47 bytes) 2016-11-26T10:59:42 . . IQ125 (talk | contribs | block) (48 bytes) ({{WikiProject Chess|class=Start|importance=Low}})
Hi, just put the page back, I cannot remember what was on it anymore, it was not created in error. IQ125 ( talk) 19:13, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hello sir as per discussion i will follow wikipedia guideline. Before posting school(Rawat Public School CBSE,Rawat Public School pratap nagar jaipur, Rawat public school) article one of my friend who operate multiple account did not follow guideline .
Please give me permission for edit page with name Rawat Public School CBSE and please remove Account with name @Sharmaraj123: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayushjain772 ( talk • contribs) 17:48, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
hello sir, As i will write article and revision according wikipedia guideline . so please remove redirection rule from this page and give me a chance to edit my rawat public school page The page Rawat Public School CBSE already exists, but is a redirect to Jaipur. Can i edit it again ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayushjain772 ( talk • contribs) 17:52, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your suggestion ( Rawat Public School CBSE) i' editing it please give me permission waiting for approval — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayushjain772 ( talk • contribs) 16:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
i'm afraid from page redirection so asking you that i can edit it again? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayushjain772 ( talk • contribs) 17:22, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Elegie has been diligently plugging away at converting http external links to https in templates. In the course of this work Elegie has met the criteria for the TE privilege. I see no reason for Elegie's work to need a second pair of eyes - the requests have always been carefully prepped. I've encouraged an application & just now added a refresher to the conversation. Can you think of a way to encourage an application? Perhaps the assessment of an admin who regularly hands out TE would help? Thanks, Cabayi ( talk) 09:24, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, could you please remove Hōkūleʻa from the blacklist? I closed this but was unable to move it to its new location. Anarchyte ( work | talk) 09:39, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
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The discussion regarding the edit summaries of Magic links bot has been moved to WP:BOTN#Concern about Magic links bot. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 16:10, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hello. Just a friendly heads up that you didn't actually promote him; the mop switch is still in the "off" position. 😇 -- Dylan620 ( I'm all ears) (Chris Cornell 1964–2017) 13:05, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
Xaosflux, I'm a little confused about this deletion. Sure, it was created by a blocked sock, but the last revision contained some substantive discussions about the page title and the sources. Surely keeping it serves a better purpose than deletion? Vanamonde ( talk) 05:33, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
have a look - I think it needs exterminating User:2001:8003:1006:7400:8DE2:9C6D:B2F6:508C and its edits zapped, just an idea of course... JarrahTree 11:28, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
Take a look at https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/19881
Some of them may need to be removed. XXN, 18:26, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
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That seems to solve the problem. Thanks.
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Hi Xaosflux, regarding these two revision deletions [285] [286], I don't believe that RD6 applies. The intention of that criteria is that it applies to mistakes in previous redactions not administrator actions. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 07:24, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
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Can you tell me how to hide bots? I can't even figure out how to easily detect them, let alone hide them. If you just meant hide edits made under a bot flag, that's easy but almost useless: the complaints about Mag.* were substantially about edits made under his main account flooding watchlists, plus the perennial pseudo-debate about whether AWB is a bot (depending on what mode it's in etc). In the last Mag case I remember learning that lots of AWB edits are identified in the edit summary, but lots more aren't.
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Separately, are you saying most automated edits these days are made by browser scripts through the web ui? I would have expected them to use the editing API, but that info doesn't seem to be preserved either. 173.228.123.121 ( talk) 01:57, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
Thanks once more! I'll look at those Phab tickets. 173.228.123.121 ( talk) 03:05, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
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I'm assuming this is your playground — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.186.67.54 ( talk) 15:00, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
Since I replied to Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 53. Should we revive the discussion about approving it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:24, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello there,Xaos. I noticed as of lately that there has been a recent Revdelete action here on your talkpage. I checked that IP,and apparently,it says in the filter log about some sort of a "Customer service ticket" transcription. And apparently,it has been removed by Oversight due to it being "Purely disruptive material",as you said it. Could you please elaborate? As i dont see why such an edit about a customer service ticket should be revdeleted. I thought that was reserved for blatant viruses and personal attacks only. 78.98.82.157 ( talk) 17:10, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
Hmmm,upon closer inspection,i see that the stuff about that "Martha Partridge" was originally some sort of an post on the nosleep subreddit. Apparently,it details a series of weird occurings at a most likely fictional website called happygames.com. It seems that IP was quite obsessed with it as a matter of fact. Probably someone who got too immersed,perhaps? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.98.82.157 ( talk) 08:04, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
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I want you to restore my userrights which you had removed last year. [313] — MBlaze Lightning T 06:38, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
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Good luck =) – xeno talk 04:13, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
I see what you're saying about an {{ iarow}} being removed for an administrator who's resumed activity but the line break being left. The template library I wrote is pretty generic– it removes the first character of the template instance through the last character, because no other behavior can guarantee formatting doesn't get broken. But I think I can special-case this one in, maybe add an optional parameter to remove a line break following if present. It certainly does look relatively ugly as is. I'll let you know when I make that change. Cheers, — madman 23:33, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
As you were the one who protected the page, would you consider adding my "support" vote? I had originally intended to support, but was given pause by some of the "opposes". After some investigating and much reflection, I decided my "support" vote was still appropriate; the request was taken down literally as I was in the process of voting. I realize it's not customary to add votes to a closed discussion, but this is largely a technicality. Obviously this isn't a major issue, but in the spirit of IAR, as well as the precedent set by allowing a vote to be stricken after the close, I feel my request is reasonable. Thank you for considering this matter. Joefromrandb ( talk) 22:05, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
I discovered this [321]. Please WP:ADMINACCT for greenlighting a further interaction ban violation instead of blocking for breaching the interaction ban with the question. Legacypac ( talk) 13:51, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi Xaosflux. The trial goes live in just 5 days on 7 Sept. We're still looking for an admin to volunteer to make the changes to the site interface. The list of changes is at Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial#User interface messages. It's only a few minutes work. Any chance you could help? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 22:12, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Xaosflux, I think the owner just forgot to put the BRFA in the right place. I thought it was a compulsory step which would also focus your attention on various attempts to pursue the same objective. But well, I learnt I was wrong, cheers! -- Vituzzu ( talk) 20:08, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
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This seems to be something that you would know: is there currently a bot that monitors inactive users for user rights that have an activity requirement. I'm thinking page mover and NPR since those are the two I deal with the most, but I think template editor also has one. TonyBallioni ( talk) 00:53, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
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Dear xaosflux, Will you allow me to try to convince you to change your opinion/vote at ”Templates for discussion”? I am the inventor of war map templates/modules. No one loves these maps more than I do. I have been working on developing them for the last 5 years and have written their rules, their documentations, a top 10 style explanation of rules, etc. I fought hard to establish the maps when no one believed in them and many were trying to delete them. I then fought hard to keep the maps in conformity with Wikipedia rules, especially in terms of reliable sourcing etc. I also spent quite some time getting POV pushers, edit warriors, sockpuppets warned, reverted, blocked… I am quite proud of what we (many participants over time) have achieved. Today, I need your help to allow me to cut one bad branch ( Template:Middle East conflicts detailed map) so that the maps “tree” would grow better and prosper. The template in question does not contain any datapoint, so no information will be lost. The template only combines the data in the other individual country templates. I will not bore you again with all the details about why this template is so bad. I just ask you to trust me on this. The removal of this template will allow the maps area to gain in credibility and be on more solid footing to continue to prosper and expand in the future. Tradedia talk 21:20, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Why does this filter allow vandals to remove OTRS tags, but disallow the restoration of them? Shouldn't it (or another filter) prevent vandals from removing them in the first place? Sakura Cartelet Talk 00:27, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hello! I have privacy concerns and I need to remove all my history from my user page and my talk page. This is my user page history in this link and my talk page in this link. Could you please help me? Thanks! 😊 Lunajav ( talk) 13:13, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
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The Kostas RfA was correctly snow closed after a few hours by a bureaucrat. It was closed while I was doing my research and before I could make my vote (which is now superfluous anyway). However, many of the votes, incuding those of admins, claimed hat collecting as the major issue. Time line of the candidates PERMS and ORCP:
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Hi there, just wanted to quickly follow up with my ping of you on the WP Requests for permission/confirmed page as I non-admin marked a request as "not done" per what you said above to another account and based on the fact that the request was the only contribution (that I can see at least) that the account in question has made. I hope that was okay of me to do in this case. -- TheSandDoctor ( talk) 02:39, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi I am the new media Officer at Shillingstone-railway-project.org.uk, signed in as Johncurfin3 and would like permission to update the photo gallery currently being shown on the Shillingstone railway project page. I have updated some of the text on 17th October and expect to add more in next few days! Thank you ( Johncsurfin3 ( talk) 18:14, 17 October 2017 (UTC))
Why I'm not able to Extended confirmed user, I had asked for permissions so that I could not reverted the wrong edit. I saw that without any account, many users do wrong editing which I can not get reverted, and I can not undo it Because it is under the rule of Wikipedia, I am very diligent for my work, I respect you very much. I do not see the reverse button in my desktop screen if I get this permit I do not see a revert button in my desktop screen if I could get this permit, maybe it could be reverted somewhere. . And sorry for wasting your time. Pl98 (Talk to me) 16:48, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
And sir only give me a permission only one week So that I can understand it well, and I will show you my best work. Thanks sir Pl98 (Talk to me) 17:03, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
I can't do this Reverted the wrong editing. Pl98 (Talk to me) 17:45, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
If someone has done wrong editing then I can undo it. Can not be reverted. Pl98 (Talk to me) 17:51, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you very very much my good Administrator You are the best sir nice talking to you. And again Thanks for giving to me guidelines. Pl98 (Talk to me) 18:01, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
And Sorry sir Wasting Your time :-( Pl98 (Talk to me) 18:02, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
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I've contacted one of the WMF people working on ACTRIAL in case it's connected to that, so I'll wait to hear back before posting elsewhere. Best, SarahSV (talk) 05:00, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, I was wondering if anything else needed to be done at Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard#Request for EFH bit for Nihlus in order to finish the process. Thanks. Nihlus 00:29, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hey Xaosflux, I was confused by this edit. BetacommandBot3 still operates within the channel and was actually how I saw your edit. Am I missing something here? Nihlus 05:20, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, thx for importing Jan Oltmanns from de to en. I translated the article an then tried to move it from User Space to Article Space. In de I did this very often, but here I think the result is very wrong. We now have a User:Jan Oltmanns, which was never planned. Can you pls help me? Sorry for the inconvinience. Regards -- Pankoken ( talk) 15:04, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
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Just a quick question would this article qualify for the A3 CSD category? Whispe ring 04:05, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
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I completely understand why you'd think that should be declined at first glance.
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Neither of those types of edits is substantial and therefore neither precludes a G7 deletion, so I ask you to please reconsider. Modernponderer ( talk) 16:30, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
I speak fluent SQL, but am not terribly familiar with the data structure here. Is there any way I could take a swing at the list, since it seems to be giving everyone else grief? -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:33, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
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Can you please expire these old BRFA's? Thanks.
(I found these by patrolling Category:Open Wikipedia bot requests for approval, which occasionally contain misguided non-bot requests by new users)
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Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Inactive_bots_-_December_2017 regarding an inactive bot account of yours. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 00:01, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Xaosflux. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " Gogyōka".
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No fancy template Xao, but just but to wish you happy holidays and all the best for 2018. It's probably a lot warmer where I am than where you are 😎
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Sorry, I edit conflicted. Alex Shih ( talk) 04:54, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for clarifying the difference between a use and a Wikipedian at Wikipedia: Village pump. My understanding is the same of yours, i.e. I see anyone who merely reads Wikipedia as a user, but a Wikipedian as somebody who edits Wikipedia. Vorbee ( talk) 15:53, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hi,
While I was lurking at AIV, I came across a vandal. I tried to block him, but it says I can't block that user. Any idea why this is happening? —usernamekiran
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class="sysop-show"
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And somebody took even that away from me!
Do you think it was
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Hi Xao. The next election for NPR coords is due to take place in about 3 - 4 weeks. The election pages are being prepared. I'm wondering if you would be prepared to do the honours as 'election commissioner'. It needs someone neutral. The tasks only involve ensuring the candidates are admissible, closing the nominations at the cut-off date, monitoring for dups/socks and striking any other inappropriate votes, and tallying up and announcing the results. I managed the previous one, it's not a lot of work. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 15:16, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Noticed you did this manually for the January 2018 admins, checked the crontab... yep, I commented it out at some point because we were going to do a manual run on another date.
My mistake, an unfortunately common one when we mix the automated and manual runs and I myself then get mixed up. There should be an automated run of second notifications for the February 2018 admins on January 25th; let me know if it doesn't go and I'll also try to keep an eye out. Cheers, — madman 14:56, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Did I get the regex wrong? I noticed you re-blacklisted the same URL a bit after I did. SQL Query me! 04:51, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Xaosflux. Thank you for the message! I am no longer inactive (e.g., Special:Diff/820631777), so I would appreciate your removing me from Inactive administrators 2018. -- Jreferee ( talk) 20:24, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
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