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Hey, Xeno! I saw that you were a bureaucrat/administrator here, so I was just wondering if you might be able to answer a question I had. The thing is, I'm an admin on a different wiki, and another admin on the same wiki posted a question to the rest of the admins asking if there was a URL that can be used to show any user their current number of edits on the wiki. On our wiki, there's a page called Special:Editcount that conveys that information (I don't think Wikipedia has a page like this though), so another admin advised him to use this URL: http://_________.com/Special:Editcount/Username. That URL would achieve the desired result, but one would have to constantly put the username of the specific user at the end of the URL when posting it on that user's talk page, so my goal was to come up with a way to avoid that; almost to create something you could post on any user's talk page without changing any part of it and still get the desired result. I came up with this: {{fullurl:Special:Editcount/{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}, this way, one could just post the coding on the talk page of the desired user and the returned URL would automatically direct the user to their respective edit count. This worked successfully for every other user whose talk page I tested the coding on (without saving the page, of course); the only problem is that the user he wanted to do this for has an "*" both at the beginning and the end of their username (the second asterisk isn't a problem, just the first), meaning that instead of being returned as:
http://_________.com/Special:Editcount/*User*
it gets returned as:
{{fullurl:Special:Editcount/
and doesn't take anyone anywhere, because it's just the raw coding. So I was just wondering if you knew of any way to circumvent this problem (aside from just telling him to post "http://_________.com/Special:Editcount/*User*" on the user's talk page, which isn't the end of the world, but is, of course, what I was trying to get around in the first place), maybe by putting some other form of coding that I'm not aware of somewhere in the existing coding or something. Any light you may be able to shed on this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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Hi Xeno. I've sent you an email, if you wouldn't mind checking. -- zzuuzz (talk) 17:27, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Dropped ya an email Kwsn (Ni!) 20:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Xeno,
I just saw that you're handled my usurp request of Rik007, but I still can't use the name Rik007 because my account ( Rik008) has not been renamed to Rik007.
Hoping for an quick answer, best regards, Rik008 ( talk) 17:22, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Greetings Xeno,
A few months back I requested and you provided a usurpation of the user HLogic. All is well with usurpation except when logged in my user page links to the deleted user page which indicates it is deleted with no redirect. Should I create a new User Page? TIA, HLogic ( talk) 01:24, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
#REDIRECT [[User talk:HLogic]]
Hello Xeno,
I just wanted to know if the account User:Kamina could be usurped here. Don't perform the renaming, that's just to know if that is in or out the local rules. I guess that the english account, which is the older, should have the priority on the SUL account ? I don't know if I can do this request... Thanks -- Quentinv57 ( talk) 18:11, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey, hoping your around I just need to know if it's ok if I post a request for a simple name change for a request I have in ACC ? I would like to get the ball rolling for the user then they can just step in with the username they want. The request I have is for Oliver W. Broadus the user created an account with a " , " and they want a " . " I'm just not sure if it's ok for me to request the name change for another user. Thanx Mlpearc powwow 00:20, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
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As you are aware you renamed my user name from User:Warburton1368 to my new one. You advised me to report to bugzilla to get my remaining edits moved over. I just cant understand how to do it. Do i create a new file or add to existing. Im totally confused by it. Any advise would be welcome. Edinburgh Wanderer 20:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
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A few days ago, I noticed the IP 125.160.164.18 had edited the talk page of the MP, adding {{ clear}} and the edit summary "fmt.", which I assume means "format". Now, just a few minutes ago, I found the userpage of an editor, Jack Merridew while browsing the archives of ANI. It appears that he was previously accused of socking; and apparently he has used an IP close to the given one, according to the sock puppet investigation. In addition, the above IP added an inter link to the Indonesian Wikipedia, and Jack edited there a good amount, according to the CentralAuth. Should any action be taken? Thanks. HurricaneFan 25 16:53, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Xeno, I realize it's strictly procedural to remove it for inactive admins, but if possible, I'd prefer to keep it. I'm currently not an active editor, but I'm still a frequent Wikipedia user. Jauerback dude?/ dude. 17:05, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but I was wondering if you could tell me what you think the chances are of me getting a usurpation request granted for the username Icarus on this wiki. SUL account is impossible, since it's active on 17 projects (many of which are mine). The home wiki is svwiki (which isn't me). On enwiki, total contributions 206, two most recent of which were in 2003 and 2005. The 2005 edit is the account holder offering the username to another user (who has also since retired). I posted on user talk page in April. I don't want to lodge an official request if me not holding the home wiki account automatically disqualifies it. What do you think? Icarus talk 20:04, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Bot task yourself? It seems that you're undoing a "bot task" with a bot task and in the process undoing at least some constructive edits for which you have no authorization. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 06:19, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
No, thanks This will probably come across as sarcastic or rude, but I am honestly surprised and confounded by you even suggesting that. I did not create a mess at all and in spite of your attempts to characterize it as such, I certainly don't see it that way and there were several editors who agreed. Furthermore, I've explained several times that I'm not interested in resolving all of these link rot problems myself. Nothing has changed about my attitude toward either of these issues and I don't know why you think it would. If I wanted to do either of those things, I would have already done them.
You claim that using a bot rather than rollback is somehow more effort, but it would be simple to create a list of my edits in AWB and then just use find and replace. This would have the added bonus of not removing all of the inarguably constructive changes that I made and even introducing some more yourself. This is coming from someone who doesn't know a whit about programming and can't actually make a proper bot himself anyway—this would not be difficult for someone who really knows about these sorts of things and I'm sure that you could request some simple script that will do exactly what you want.
The real problem here (from my perspective) is that you refuse to acknowledge the hypocrisy of your actions. Again, I am willing to admit that there is something that I'm missing here about how exactly one goes about getting a bot approved or operating one, but considering how you refuse to answer my straight-forward questions, I'm left to assume that you see the blatant contradiction here: you are using a sloppy bot means of reverting what you perceive to be sloppy bot editing (again, I don't think so myself and several editors agreed.) For that matter, you have taken my tacit approval—which was merely me saying that I wouldn't stop someone else from reverting me en masse because I was tired of fighting—as actual bot approval. If I'm not mistaken, those aren't the same thing. It seems implicit in your answers and your obfuscation that you recognize this and are unwilling to address it. I hope you don't think me out of line for pointing this out—I'm honestly just trying to understand your rationale here and I can't. If I've overlooked some crucial reasoning here (which is entirely possible) please point it out to me. Otherwise, I am left with you apparently contradicting yourself and then telling me to clean up your mess (bearing in mind that the "messy" edits here constitute a small minority but still require me to do the oversight that you should have been doing in the first place.) — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 14:00, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
I'd forgotten about your veto, so can I assume that this knee-jerk revert was of the usual "if a single pixel was changed in the output then UNACCEPTABLE" sort? Easily enough fixed: maybe one day you'll either learn to do it yourself, or contain your rage for long enough to drop a friendly note. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 15:21, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
As I randomly pass by this page, I have to confess it never ceases to amaze me how many people have an apparently overwhelming desire to modify things without consulting those who are directly affected. I have a hard time believing that anyone would try to do that at, say, a page that would impact the entire FAC project without discussing; I don't understand why people would go about changing Arbom-related pages without at least popping around and saying "hey, I'm gonna fix xxxx". Risker ( talk) 17:17, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Hilariously, I see that you've now undone a change to {{ helpbox}} which you obviously didn't notice until you decided to stalk my contributions. Will you wave your Arb badge around there as well, or do you have a special "helper" hat you employ instead of adult discussion in that realm? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 10:42, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Xeno: I view the conversion to meta-template as desirable as it centralises code and allows all templates to benefit from improvements rather than having to maintain hundreds of templates separately. If the functionality is affected then that should of course be discussed and resolved, but reverting on principle or because of performance concerns is not helpful. Risker: we have a principle of being bold here, and the arbitration committee does not "own" this template, so I don't think you are right to suggest that non-arbitrators should discuss changes beforehand. Regards — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:02, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
← I see that this is now being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee#.7B.7BArbCom navigation.7D.7D - I would suggest this be continued there so that the discussion may benefit from additional outside viewpoints. – xeno talk 13:34, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
...for watching over my talkpage. Very much appreciated. Maxim (talk) 04:11, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, Thanks for the note on my talk page. Yes, I'd prefer to keep my admin privileges from lapsing. Will this edit suffice? :) -- Mysekurity 06:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your modification. I'm sorry if I caused any trouble to Wikipedia regarding my signature violating policy. As of a matter of fact, I like the change you made. It makes my signature unique. Please send a TB.— cyberpower ( Talk to Me)( Contributions) 19:26, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
I have no idea why that creation script fouled up so badly: every "Kww" was missing. Thanks for fixing the one I missed.— Kww( talk) 18:32, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Thankyou for clearing up my ArbCom resignation statement. I'd never make a good clerk in a million years.
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I noticed that you closed the TCO discussion. I'll be blunt: something needs to be done about TCO's account situation. Vanished users are not allowed to edit unless they unvanish, and the vanishing in this case was so botched that unvanishing might not be possible. TCO is now actively editing as user:RetiredUser12459780, while the user:TCO page and talk page are up. (the user:RetiredUser1245643169 situation has since been resolved by a redirect, but that's three accounts for one vanished user).
I don't like TCO, but that's not why I'm getting all uppity about this. This is at least the second case of blatant abuse of the RTV. You can probably guess who else I'm thinking of, but the point of the matter is that if the RTV system is to work, someone has to step up when the user comes back, and properly undo the vanish or create documentation, or otherwise fix the mess that is created. No one has stepped up thus far.
Please fix this mess. Sven Manguard Wha? 04:28, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Xeno Please delete my photos and change my username! <3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arminataee ( talk • contribs) 22:47, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
well... you get my question... Abc123456person ( talk) 02:08, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey there, long time no chat. Once again, my thoughts have turned to considering submitting myself to the gauntlet that is a request for adminship. As an admin (and much more) that has followed my work in the past, I was wondering if you had any thoughts/suggestions, or even if I'm ready for such an endeavor. I've started reading the various essays on adminship and trying to get some additional thoughts on how to proceed. Would love to hear your advice, if/when you have time. Thanks! -- McDoob AU 93 19:29, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello Xeno, I just saw your message on my (Osy (usurped)) talk page, In the past I have also used the user account User: ontoyinsimon. I however desire to maintain one username on wikipedia, ie the one I am using to type this message-- User: Osy, which I had suspended using after I forgot my login password-lame though-but I do require your help and advice. Prior to informing you about this, I had solicited the help of User: talk:T L Miles, an editor who has also been of immense help to me on wikipedia. An expedient response from you would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. User: Osy, (OSY 11:18, 26 November 2011 (UTC)).
Hi, Xeno, I wonder if you can help me with this. User:Mahir256 for some reason cannot access his account on English Wiktionary. His account is inexplicably unattached there. So I asked him to log in as Mahirtemp, and I renamed that to User:Mahir256, but his account remains unattached. He made the request at Wiktionary:Changing username. See the bottom of sulinfo Mahir 256. Thanks. —Stephen ( talk) 08:16, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
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Can you please delete this IP address in the revision history for this article...see link here Page text. [3]
I made a number of edits in this article and with two(2) edits I failed to LOG IN (not once...but twice!)...so I have IP address hanging out in general public. this makes me nervous! Please help.
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Grazie Xeno...I will take your advice. Thanks Again, {
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Thanks for your help Xeno.— cyberpower ( X-Mas Chat)( Contrib.) 01:06, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
FYI. 28bytes ( talk) 19:30, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
I went to login to Huggle and it wouldn't let me log in. It said I had an incorrect password, and I was putting it in correctly. I haven't logged into it since I changed username, so could there be an issue there? — Status { talk contribs 20:44, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello Xeno. The RfA at Slon02 4 has just closed with a final tally of 84/13/4. This is just a message to let you know that an RfA needs to be closed by a bureaucrat and that I am at no power of my knowledge to close it myself. Thank you.— cyberpower ( X-Mas Chat)( Contrib.) 03:36, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
You use to do the tagging for WP:CHICAGO. Then you delegated that to EdoDodo ( talk · contribs), who has not edited in about 4 weeks and does not seem to be responding to tagging requests. Do you have any advice?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 15:50, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
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Greetings Xeno, Sorry to bother you but I'm not sure who else to ask I am fairly certain that you know how to answer this question. I am attempting to develop some code, for use in AWB, to do something like this: I would like to look at the Article page and if there is no infobox, then add the parameter needs-infobox=Yes to the WPUS banner. Likewise if the parameter is needs-infobox=Yes and there is an infobox it will remove said parameter. I realize that many articles would not need an infobox so I am mostly concentrating on Biographies. I think I read somewhere (maybe from you) that you had done this with the WikiProject banner tagging (which would also be quite useful to me) and I was hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. It seems like it should be a fairly simple if, then else switch but I can't seem to get it to work. I appreciate the any help you can provide. -- Kumioko ( talk) 03:47, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
I realize this will be very tedious for you to look through, but I do believe the admin BWilkins closed this case prematurely (and a little disrespectfully, I fail to see how it is a laughing matter). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Conduct_of_BabbaQ Twafotfs ( talk) 13:28, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Moved from User talk:Amalthea:
Hi I see this user is blocked for "abusing multiple accounts" but I don't think he's been sock puppeteering for ages. I know he shouldn't be creating new accounts when others have been blocked but is there are any chance he could be given another chance and to continue to edit under this account prvoding he never sock puppets again? If you look at his work this month he's been outstanding on Polish topics which are pretty important. I think he could be productive and it would be more beneficial for wikipedia to permit him to edit.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:47, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi there! My name is Whenaxis, I noticed that you are on the Arbitration Committee. I created a policy proposal called Wikipedia:Representation. I think that this policy would help the Arbitration Committee as well as the Mediation Committee because the goal of this proposed policy is to decrease the amount of time wasted when an unfamiliar editor files a Arbitration or Mediation Committee when other forms of Dispute Resolution have not yet been sought. For example, an editor may come to the Arbitration Committee requesting formal mediation when other dispute resolution areas have not been utilised such as third opinions or request for comments. A representative works much like a legal aid - there to help you for free and:
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Hey, Xeno! I saw that you were a bureaucrat/administrator here, so I was just wondering if you might be able to answer a question I had. The thing is, I'm an admin on a different wiki, and another admin on the same wiki posted a question to the rest of the admins asking if there was a URL that can be used to show any user their current number of edits on the wiki. On our wiki, there's a page called Special:Editcount that conveys that information (I don't think Wikipedia has a page like this though), so another admin advised him to use this URL: http://_________.com/Special:Editcount/Username. That URL would achieve the desired result, but one would have to constantly put the username of the specific user at the end of the URL when posting it on that user's talk page, so my goal was to come up with a way to avoid that; almost to create something you could post on any user's talk page without changing any part of it and still get the desired result. I came up with this: {{fullurl:Special:Editcount/{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}, this way, one could just post the coding on the talk page of the desired user and the returned URL would automatically direct the user to their respective edit count. This worked successfully for every other user whose talk page I tested the coding on (without saving the page, of course); the only problem is that the user he wanted to do this for has an "*" both at the beginning and the end of their username (the second asterisk isn't a problem, just the first), meaning that instead of being returned as:
http://_________.com/Special:Editcount/*User*
it gets returned as:
{{fullurl:Special:Editcount/
and doesn't take anyone anywhere, because it's just the raw coding. So I was just wondering if you knew of any way to circumvent this problem (aside from just telling him to post "http://_________.com/Special:Editcount/*User*" on the user's talk page, which isn't the end of the world, but is, of course, what I was trying to get around in the first place), maybe by putting some other form of coding that I'm not aware of somewhere in the existing coding or something. Any light you may be able to shed on this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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Hi Xeno. I've sent you an email, if you wouldn't mind checking. -- zzuuzz (talk) 17:27, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Dropped ya an email Kwsn (Ni!) 20:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Xeno,
I just saw that you're handled my usurp request of Rik007, but I still can't use the name Rik007 because my account ( Rik008) has not been renamed to Rik007.
Hoping for an quick answer, best regards, Rik008 ( talk) 17:22, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Greetings Xeno,
A few months back I requested and you provided a usurpation of the user HLogic. All is well with usurpation except when logged in my user page links to the deleted user page which indicates it is deleted with no redirect. Should I create a new User Page? TIA, HLogic ( talk) 01:24, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
#REDIRECT [[User talk:HLogic]]
Hello Xeno,
I just wanted to know if the account User:Kamina could be usurped here. Don't perform the renaming, that's just to know if that is in or out the local rules. I guess that the english account, which is the older, should have the priority on the SUL account ? I don't know if I can do this request... Thanks -- Quentinv57 ( talk) 18:11, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey, hoping your around I just need to know if it's ok if I post a request for a simple name change for a request I have in ACC ? I would like to get the ball rolling for the user then they can just step in with the username they want. The request I have is for Oliver W. Broadus the user created an account with a " , " and they want a " . " I'm just not sure if it's ok for me to request the name change for another user. Thanx Mlpearc powwow 00:20, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
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As you are aware you renamed my user name from User:Warburton1368 to my new one. You advised me to report to bugzilla to get my remaining edits moved over. I just cant understand how to do it. Do i create a new file or add to existing. Im totally confused by it. Any advise would be welcome. Edinburgh Wanderer 20:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
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A few days ago, I noticed the IP 125.160.164.18 had edited the talk page of the MP, adding {{ clear}} and the edit summary "fmt.", which I assume means "format". Now, just a few minutes ago, I found the userpage of an editor, Jack Merridew while browsing the archives of ANI. It appears that he was previously accused of socking; and apparently he has used an IP close to the given one, according to the sock puppet investigation. In addition, the above IP added an inter link to the Indonesian Wikipedia, and Jack edited there a good amount, according to the CentralAuth. Should any action be taken? Thanks. HurricaneFan 25 16:53, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Xeno, I realize it's strictly procedural to remove it for inactive admins, but if possible, I'd prefer to keep it. I'm currently not an active editor, but I'm still a frequent Wikipedia user. Jauerback dude?/ dude. 17:05, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but I was wondering if you could tell me what you think the chances are of me getting a usurpation request granted for the username Icarus on this wiki. SUL account is impossible, since it's active on 17 projects (many of which are mine). The home wiki is svwiki (which isn't me). On enwiki, total contributions 206, two most recent of which were in 2003 and 2005. The 2005 edit is the account holder offering the username to another user (who has also since retired). I posted on user talk page in April. I don't want to lodge an official request if me not holding the home wiki account automatically disqualifies it. What do you think? Icarus talk 20:04, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Bot task yourself? It seems that you're undoing a "bot task" with a bot task and in the process undoing at least some constructive edits for which you have no authorization. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 06:19, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
No, thanks This will probably come across as sarcastic or rude, but I am honestly surprised and confounded by you even suggesting that. I did not create a mess at all and in spite of your attempts to characterize it as such, I certainly don't see it that way and there were several editors who agreed. Furthermore, I've explained several times that I'm not interested in resolving all of these link rot problems myself. Nothing has changed about my attitude toward either of these issues and I don't know why you think it would. If I wanted to do either of those things, I would have already done them.
You claim that using a bot rather than rollback is somehow more effort, but it would be simple to create a list of my edits in AWB and then just use find and replace. This would have the added bonus of not removing all of the inarguably constructive changes that I made and even introducing some more yourself. This is coming from someone who doesn't know a whit about programming and can't actually make a proper bot himself anyway—this would not be difficult for someone who really knows about these sorts of things and I'm sure that you could request some simple script that will do exactly what you want.
The real problem here (from my perspective) is that you refuse to acknowledge the hypocrisy of your actions. Again, I am willing to admit that there is something that I'm missing here about how exactly one goes about getting a bot approved or operating one, but considering how you refuse to answer my straight-forward questions, I'm left to assume that you see the blatant contradiction here: you are using a sloppy bot means of reverting what you perceive to be sloppy bot editing (again, I don't think so myself and several editors agreed.) For that matter, you have taken my tacit approval—which was merely me saying that I wouldn't stop someone else from reverting me en masse because I was tired of fighting—as actual bot approval. If I'm not mistaken, those aren't the same thing. It seems implicit in your answers and your obfuscation that you recognize this and are unwilling to address it. I hope you don't think me out of line for pointing this out—I'm honestly just trying to understand your rationale here and I can't. If I've overlooked some crucial reasoning here (which is entirely possible) please point it out to me. Otherwise, I am left with you apparently contradicting yourself and then telling me to clean up your mess (bearing in mind that the "messy" edits here constitute a small minority but still require me to do the oversight that you should have been doing in the first place.) — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 14:00, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
I'd forgotten about your veto, so can I assume that this knee-jerk revert was of the usual "if a single pixel was changed in the output then UNACCEPTABLE" sort? Easily enough fixed: maybe one day you'll either learn to do it yourself, or contain your rage for long enough to drop a friendly note. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 15:21, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
As I randomly pass by this page, I have to confess it never ceases to amaze me how many people have an apparently overwhelming desire to modify things without consulting those who are directly affected. I have a hard time believing that anyone would try to do that at, say, a page that would impact the entire FAC project without discussing; I don't understand why people would go about changing Arbom-related pages without at least popping around and saying "hey, I'm gonna fix xxxx". Risker ( talk) 17:17, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Hilariously, I see that you've now undone a change to {{ helpbox}} which you obviously didn't notice until you decided to stalk my contributions. Will you wave your Arb badge around there as well, or do you have a special "helper" hat you employ instead of adult discussion in that realm? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 10:42, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Xeno: I view the conversion to meta-template as desirable as it centralises code and allows all templates to benefit from improvements rather than having to maintain hundreds of templates separately. If the functionality is affected then that should of course be discussed and resolved, but reverting on principle or because of performance concerns is not helpful. Risker: we have a principle of being bold here, and the arbitration committee does not "own" this template, so I don't think you are right to suggest that non-arbitrators should discuss changes beforehand. Regards — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:02, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
← I see that this is now being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee#.7B.7BArbCom navigation.7D.7D - I would suggest this be continued there so that the discussion may benefit from additional outside viewpoints. – xeno talk 13:34, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
...for watching over my talkpage. Very much appreciated. Maxim (talk) 04:11, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, Thanks for the note on my talk page. Yes, I'd prefer to keep my admin privileges from lapsing. Will this edit suffice? :) -- Mysekurity 06:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your modification. I'm sorry if I caused any trouble to Wikipedia regarding my signature violating policy. As of a matter of fact, I like the change you made. It makes my signature unique. Please send a TB.— cyberpower ( Talk to Me)( Contributions) 19:26, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
I have no idea why that creation script fouled up so badly: every "Kww" was missing. Thanks for fixing the one I missed.— Kww( talk) 18:32, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Thankyou for clearing up my ArbCom resignation statement. I'd never make a good clerk in a million years.
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I noticed that you closed the TCO discussion. I'll be blunt: something needs to be done about TCO's account situation. Vanished users are not allowed to edit unless they unvanish, and the vanishing in this case was so botched that unvanishing might not be possible. TCO is now actively editing as user:RetiredUser12459780, while the user:TCO page and talk page are up. (the user:RetiredUser1245643169 situation has since been resolved by a redirect, but that's three accounts for one vanished user).
I don't like TCO, but that's not why I'm getting all uppity about this. This is at least the second case of blatant abuse of the RTV. You can probably guess who else I'm thinking of, but the point of the matter is that if the RTV system is to work, someone has to step up when the user comes back, and properly undo the vanish or create documentation, or otherwise fix the mess that is created. No one has stepped up thus far.
Please fix this mess. Sven Manguard Wha? 04:28, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Xeno Please delete my photos and change my username! <3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arminataee ( talk • contribs) 22:47, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
well... you get my question... Abc123456person ( talk) 02:08, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey there, long time no chat. Once again, my thoughts have turned to considering submitting myself to the gauntlet that is a request for adminship. As an admin (and much more) that has followed my work in the past, I was wondering if you had any thoughts/suggestions, or even if I'm ready for such an endeavor. I've started reading the various essays on adminship and trying to get some additional thoughts on how to proceed. Would love to hear your advice, if/when you have time. Thanks! -- McDoob AU 93 19:29, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello Xeno, I just saw your message on my (Osy (usurped)) talk page, In the past I have also used the user account User: ontoyinsimon. I however desire to maintain one username on wikipedia, ie the one I am using to type this message-- User: Osy, which I had suspended using after I forgot my login password-lame though-but I do require your help and advice. Prior to informing you about this, I had solicited the help of User: talk:T L Miles, an editor who has also been of immense help to me on wikipedia. An expedient response from you would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. User: Osy, (OSY 11:18, 26 November 2011 (UTC)).
Hi, Xeno, I wonder if you can help me with this. User:Mahir256 for some reason cannot access his account on English Wiktionary. His account is inexplicably unattached there. So I asked him to log in as Mahirtemp, and I renamed that to User:Mahir256, but his account remains unattached. He made the request at Wiktionary:Changing username. See the bottom of sulinfo Mahir 256. Thanks. —Stephen ( talk) 08:16, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hello Xeno:
Can you please delete this IP address in the revision history for this article...see link here Page text. [3]
I made a number of edits in this article and with two(2) edits I failed to LOG IN (not once...but twice!)...so I have IP address hanging out in general public. this makes me nervous! Please help.
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Grazie Xeno...I will take your advice. Thanks Again, {
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Thanks for your help Xeno.— cyberpower ( X-Mas Chat)( Contrib.) 01:06, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
FYI. 28bytes ( talk) 19:30, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
I went to login to Huggle and it wouldn't let me log in. It said I had an incorrect password, and I was putting it in correctly. I haven't logged into it since I changed username, so could there be an issue there? — Status { talk contribs 20:44, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello Xeno. The RfA at Slon02 4 has just closed with a final tally of 84/13/4. This is just a message to let you know that an RfA needs to be closed by a bureaucrat and that I am at no power of my knowledge to close it myself. Thank you.— cyberpower ( X-Mas Chat)( Contrib.) 03:36, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
You use to do the tagging for WP:CHICAGO. Then you delegated that to EdoDodo ( talk · contribs), who has not edited in about 4 weeks and does not seem to be responding to tagging requests. Do you have any advice?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 15:50, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
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Greetings Xeno, Sorry to bother you but I'm not sure who else to ask I am fairly certain that you know how to answer this question. I am attempting to develop some code, for use in AWB, to do something like this: I would like to look at the Article page and if there is no infobox, then add the parameter needs-infobox=Yes to the WPUS banner. Likewise if the parameter is needs-infobox=Yes and there is an infobox it will remove said parameter. I realize that many articles would not need an infobox so I am mostly concentrating on Biographies. I think I read somewhere (maybe from you) that you had done this with the WikiProject banner tagging (which would also be quite useful to me) and I was hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. It seems like it should be a fairly simple if, then else switch but I can't seem to get it to work. I appreciate the any help you can provide. -- Kumioko ( talk) 03:47, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
I realize this will be very tedious for you to look through, but I do believe the admin BWilkins closed this case prematurely (and a little disrespectfully, I fail to see how it is a laughing matter). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Conduct_of_BabbaQ Twafotfs ( talk) 13:28, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Moved from User talk:Amalthea:
Hi I see this user is blocked for "abusing multiple accounts" but I don't think he's been sock puppeteering for ages. I know he shouldn't be creating new accounts when others have been blocked but is there are any chance he could be given another chance and to continue to edit under this account prvoding he never sock puppets again? If you look at his work this month he's been outstanding on Polish topics which are pretty important. I think he could be productive and it would be more beneficial for wikipedia to permit him to edit.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:47, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi there! My name is Whenaxis, I noticed that you are on the Arbitration Committee. I created a policy proposal called Wikipedia:Representation. I think that this policy would help the Arbitration Committee as well as the Mediation Committee because the goal of this proposed policy is to decrease the amount of time wasted when an unfamiliar editor files a Arbitration or Mediation Committee when other forms of Dispute Resolution have not yet been sought. For example, an editor may come to the Arbitration Committee requesting formal mediation when other dispute resolution areas have not been utilised such as third opinions or request for comments. A representative works much like a legal aid - there to help you for free and:
This proposed idea can also help the editor seeking help because it can alleviate the stress and anxiety from dispute resolution because mediation and arbitration can be intimidating for those who are unfamiliar.
I would highly appreciate your comments on this proposal at: Wikipedia talk:Representation. Cheers and Happy New Year - Whenaxis about talk contribs 22:48, 31 December 2011 (UTC)