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DimeBoxFrank ( talk) 15:28, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Astynax. Several times I've forgotten to sign into Wiki... and so my IP address is left published on the record here. I know it's my own fault for forgetting to sign in, but I don't like having my IP address published. Is there any way for me to go back and change my IP to my signature. There are a lot of weirdos out in the cyber-world, and I've heard stories of people getting bothered when their IP address was published. Thanks. DimeBoxFrank ( talk) 14:21, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Astynax, I took the liberty of replacing a photo of a destroyed building with a photo of the Brazilian troops during the siege of Paysandú. I think it's more appropriate since that section's title is "Army of the South in Paysandú". If you agree, please correct the alternative caption. If not, feel free to revert it. -- Lecen ( talk) 15:07, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Finished "Ruler of Argentina". Please, don't forge to take at the last paragraph of "Legacy" as well. -- Lecen ( talk) 02:43, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
I am putting this on your talk page because I'm not sure if you are watching the Andrew R. Heinze talk page anymore:
Hi Astynax. Re: the WP:GA. I think the reason the review process puts me off is that the various Wiki articles I've looked at have inexplicably divergent ratings by the review committee. What are the benefits of submitting an article to WP:GA? Are my fears about the review process groundless? The kind of "inexplicable" thing I'm talking about is this: the article I'm working on at present is the Luther Adler article. That article has been reviewed as "Start," and yet it had zero sources or references when I began working on it (last week). I've seen many other articles rated less than "Start" that have quite a few decent sources. So what's the deal with the review process? DimeBoxFrank ( talk) 03:26, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Astynax. thricky section "whether the city of Buenos Aires' citizens supported Rosas's" — lots of Ss, including apostrophes. For consitency, it should be "Aires's" (you guys have managed to keep "Rosas's" throughout, which most people don't understand — well done). But that would give us City of BuenoS AireS'S Citizens Supported. I propose you invert "whether the city of Buenos Aires' citizens supported Rosas's" to "whether citizens of Buenos Aires supported Rosas's". Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 10:36, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
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You know, you can propose new findings of fact and proposed decisions on the proposed decision talk page. I would think that perhaps WP:IDHT in response to questions regarding WP:COI, and possible tendentious repetition of the same points over and over for no readily apparent reason, are possible complaints. Also, I seem to remember in the Falun Gong 2 case that there was a new procedure instituted then called, if I remember rightly, mandated external review, which indicates that the person subject to such review cannot edit the article page at all except with prior approval from an uninvolved administrator. I think for this topic something of that type might not be a bad idea for some of the participants here anyway. John Carter ( talk) 21:09, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your note about the photo of the prayer platform at Robinson's Arch! It's great to get a note of thanks once in awhile, and not a note of criticism! :) NearTheZoo ( talk) 19:57, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
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If it ever becomes called for, there might be some useful information at User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 179#Kickstarter. John Carter ( talk) 19:53, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
I thought this page might be useful, although, admittedly, there are other keywords which could be searched for as well. John Carter ( talk) 23:51, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
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Arbitration clarificationThere is a request for clarification in which you are named here /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment#Clarification_request:_Landmark_Worldwide.2FR6_Additional_eyes_invited DaveApter ( talk) 18:14, 9 January 2015 (UTC) ANIThere is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. DaveApter ( talk) 11:20, 15 January 2015 (UTC) I'm sorry it's come to this, but we cannot actively mislead our audience by claiming conspiracy theories support changing historical documents to how we think they should be. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 00:31, 16 January 2015 (UTC) Arbitration clarification request closedThis is a courtesy message to inform you that an arbitration clarification request in which you were listed as a party has been closed and archived with a motion being enacted which authorises standard discretionary sanctions for the topic of Landmark Worldwide, broadly construed. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 10:13, 23 January 2015 (UTC) Landmark WorldwideThanks for this removal. Of course CEO is not Chairman... bleary-eyed edit on my part. Cheers, Tgeairn ( talk) 16:51, 26 January 2015 (UTC) Landmark DSPlease carefully read this information:
The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding Landmark Worldwide, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here. Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions. This message is informational only and does not imply misconduct regarding your contributions to date.Apologies for this bureaucratic silliness, but according to the labyrinthine WP:AC/DS system you aren't "alerted". Which doesn't make sense because you were part of the arbitration case, but bureaucracies seldom make sense. Manul ~ talk 01:46, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Margit WarburgHello again! With this edit you removed both the notability tag and the 3rd party sources tag. While I disagree with the removal of the notability tag, let's leave it off if we can get some unrelated sources there. I've re-tagged for the 3rd party sources, and I'll take a look for some over the weekend. From your edit comment, it sounds like you know something about her though. Do you have any sources to add as well? Thanks, Tgeairn ( talk) 19:22, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
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TALK) 18:48, 13 February 2015 (UTC) Arbitration Request for EnforcementYou are the subject of a request for enforcement from the Arbitration Committee. You can see this at the Request for Enforcement page and you can enter a statement and other evidence to the Arbitration Committee there. See also Wikipedia:Arbitration. Thank you. Nwlaw63 ( talk) 17:21, 19 February 2015 (UTC) TFAThank you for a child on the Main page, - don't remember any, - precious again, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:02, 23 February 2015 (UTC) Portuguese WikipediaHi Astynax. Do you participate at all at pt:? Do you know anyone who does? I'm interested in how they handle admin tasks. - Dank ( push to talk) 20:33, 23 February 2015 (UTC) You've been busy, haven't you? ;)I really don't know many other topics, other than at times pseudoscience, Israel-Palestine, and a few others, that get sent to AE so often as Landmark. Three times in the past two months, so far as I can tell, and it looks like none of them are found to have any significant merit to them. If there were any evidence of cooperation between the three individuals who have filed those AE requests, that might not unreasonably be seen as basis for AE action on its own. And some of the comments I've seen elsewhere regarding this matter in the past month or so give me real reason to think that, maybe, you or some of the others who have been kind of targeted in the recent AE's might not find it unreasonable to start expressing your own concerns. In fact, from what I can remember, in the second in the string of recent AE's one of the uninvolved administrators more or less specifically indicated that there was at least sufficient verbiage to raise what would be basically a BOOMERANG complaint against the filer of that complaint. And, yes, some of the other comments I've seen recently, although I am clearly not in a position to confirm or deny them, as they apparently deal with sensitive matters I'm not privy to, give me reason to think that there might be very good reason to raise concerns at AE or, maybe, if they might extend beyond Landmark per se a little, to ANI. Is there any particular reason you haven't field any complaints yet? John Carter ( talk) 19:57, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
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AE resultAs a result of this AE request, I have fully protected the article Landmark Worldwide for one month to allow time for disputes to be worked out without edit-warring and other disruption. Further, you are warned not to cast aspersions, not to make accusations about editors outside of the proper fora, and to critique edits and content rather than editors and their motives. I strongly suggest you avoid Tgeairn beyond participating in talk page discussions. I will be giving him a similar warning, and you can request enforcement of that at AE, but note that enforcement can also be requested against you should you fail to adhere to the expected standards of conduct. It is my impression that admins' patience with this dispute is wearing thin, and that liberal use of topic bans is a likely result, should the measures taken today prove ineffective. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:41, 5 March 2015 (UTC) Discussion of possible interestIt occurs to me that you might be in a position to contribute, if you choose to do so, some behavioral evidence or other input at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tgeairn. Please feel free to do so if you so desire. John Carter ( talk) 19:33, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
RosasGood news: I finished Rosas article. Sorry for taking so long. I have less and less time available. Of course, most of the blame is simply because I feel no pleasure writing for Wikipedia anymore. Hope you can take a look at the article and improve it. I plan to add further sources, but the text is all done. -- Lecen ( talk) 21:22, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Userspace essayI actually started an essay, intended to deal with editors other than any involved in this current situation, at User:John Carter/Self-appointed prophet. It is still only just a rough draft, but I think it might be useful to change it and particularly take into account any possible questions of solipsistic editors, which I tend to think, in various ways, might be among our biggest problems. Maybe it could be made some sort of addendum or alternate page to WP:EXPERT as well as WP:SPA and or WP:POV. Anyway, feel free to make any changes to it you deem reasonable to make it more useful as an essay. John Carter ( talk) 15:31, 21 March 2015 (UTC) A new reference toolHello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:47, 10 April 2015 (UTC) Newspapers.com check-inHello Astynax, You are receiving this message because you have a one-year subscription to Newspapers.com through the Wikipedia Library. This is a brief update, to remind you about that access:
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Thank you for helping me with my citations and with all my questions. DimeBoxFrank ( talk) 15:28, 1 October 2014 (UTC) |
DimeBoxFrank ( talk) 15:28, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Astynax. Several times I've forgotten to sign into Wiki... and so my IP address is left published on the record here. I know it's my own fault for forgetting to sign in, but I don't like having my IP address published. Is there any way for me to go back and change my IP to my signature. There are a lot of weirdos out in the cyber-world, and I've heard stories of people getting bothered when their IP address was published. Thanks. DimeBoxFrank ( talk) 14:21, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Astynax, I took the liberty of replacing a photo of a destroyed building with a photo of the Brazilian troops during the siege of Paysandú. I think it's more appropriate since that section's title is "Army of the South in Paysandú". If you agree, please correct the alternative caption. If not, feel free to revert it. -- Lecen ( talk) 15:07, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Finished "Ruler of Argentina". Please, don't forge to take at the last paragraph of "Legacy" as well. -- Lecen ( talk) 02:43, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
I am putting this on your talk page because I'm not sure if you are watching the Andrew R. Heinze talk page anymore:
Hi Astynax. Re: the WP:GA. I think the reason the review process puts me off is that the various Wiki articles I've looked at have inexplicably divergent ratings by the review committee. What are the benefits of submitting an article to WP:GA? Are my fears about the review process groundless? The kind of "inexplicable" thing I'm talking about is this: the article I'm working on at present is the Luther Adler article. That article has been reviewed as "Start," and yet it had zero sources or references when I began working on it (last week). I've seen many other articles rated less than "Start" that have quite a few decent sources. So what's the deal with the review process? DimeBoxFrank ( talk) 03:26, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Astynax. thricky section "whether the city of Buenos Aires' citizens supported Rosas's" — lots of Ss, including apostrophes. For consitency, it should be "Aires's" (you guys have managed to keep "Rosas's" throughout, which most people don't understand — well done). But that would give us City of BuenoS AireS'S Citizens Supported. I propose you invert "whether the city of Buenos Aires' citizens supported Rosas's" to "whether citizens of Buenos Aires supported Rosas's". Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 10:36, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
people of Brazil
Thank you for collaborative contributions to quality articles on noble people of Brazil, such as
Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, in Wikpedia spirit, - you are an
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:33, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
A year ago, you were the 321st recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:07, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
You know, you can propose new findings of fact and proposed decisions on the proposed decision talk page. I would think that perhaps WP:IDHT in response to questions regarding WP:COI, and possible tendentious repetition of the same points over and over for no readily apparent reason, are possible complaints. Also, I seem to remember in the Falun Gong 2 case that there was a new procedure instituted then called, if I remember rightly, mandated external review, which indicates that the person subject to such review cannot edit the article page at all except with prior approval from an uninvolved administrator. I think for this topic something of that type might not be a bad idea for some of the participants here anyway. John Carter ( talk) 21:09, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your note about the photo of the prayer platform at Robinson's Arch! It's great to get a note of thanks once in awhile, and not a note of criticism! :) NearTheZoo ( talk) 19:57, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
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If it ever becomes called for, there might be some useful information at User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 179#Kickstarter. John Carter ( talk) 19:53, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
I thought this page might be useful, although, admittedly, there are other keywords which could be searched for as well. John Carter ( talk) 23:51, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
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Arbitration clarificationThere is a request for clarification in which you are named here /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment#Clarification_request:_Landmark_Worldwide.2FR6_Additional_eyes_invited DaveApter ( talk) 18:14, 9 January 2015 (UTC) ANIThere is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. DaveApter ( talk) 11:20, 15 January 2015 (UTC) I'm sorry it's come to this, but we cannot actively mislead our audience by claiming conspiracy theories support changing historical documents to how we think they should be. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 00:31, 16 January 2015 (UTC) Arbitration clarification request closedThis is a courtesy message to inform you that an arbitration clarification request in which you were listed as a party has been closed and archived with a motion being enacted which authorises standard discretionary sanctions for the topic of Landmark Worldwide, broadly construed. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 10:13, 23 January 2015 (UTC) Landmark WorldwideThanks for this removal. Of course CEO is not Chairman... bleary-eyed edit on my part. Cheers, Tgeairn ( talk) 16:51, 26 January 2015 (UTC) Landmark DSPlease carefully read this information:
The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding Landmark Worldwide, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here. Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions. This message is informational only and does not imply misconduct regarding your contributions to date.Apologies for this bureaucratic silliness, but according to the labyrinthine WP:AC/DS system you aren't "alerted". Which doesn't make sense because you were part of the arbitration case, but bureaucracies seldom make sense. Manul ~ talk 01:46, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Margit WarburgHello again! With this edit you removed both the notability tag and the 3rd party sources tag. While I disagree with the removal of the notability tag, let's leave it off if we can get some unrelated sources there. I've re-tagged for the 3rd party sources, and I'll take a look for some over the weekend. From your edit comment, it sounds like you know something about her though. Do you have any sources to add as well? Thanks, Tgeairn ( talk) 19:22, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Nomination of Margit Warburg for deletionA discussion is taking place as to whether the article
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TALK) 18:48, 13 February 2015 (UTC) Arbitration Request for EnforcementYou are the subject of a request for enforcement from the Arbitration Committee. You can see this at the Request for Enforcement page and you can enter a statement and other evidence to the Arbitration Committee there. See also Wikipedia:Arbitration. Thank you. Nwlaw63 ( talk) 17:21, 19 February 2015 (UTC) TFAThank you for a child on the Main page, - don't remember any, - precious again, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:02, 23 February 2015 (UTC) Portuguese WikipediaHi Astynax. Do you participate at all at pt:? Do you know anyone who does? I'm interested in how they handle admin tasks. - Dank ( push to talk) 20:33, 23 February 2015 (UTC) You've been busy, haven't you? ;)I really don't know many other topics, other than at times pseudoscience, Israel-Palestine, and a few others, that get sent to AE so often as Landmark. Three times in the past two months, so far as I can tell, and it looks like none of them are found to have any significant merit to them. If there were any evidence of cooperation between the three individuals who have filed those AE requests, that might not unreasonably be seen as basis for AE action on its own. And some of the comments I've seen elsewhere regarding this matter in the past month or so give me real reason to think that, maybe, you or some of the others who have been kind of targeted in the recent AE's might not find it unreasonable to start expressing your own concerns. In fact, from what I can remember, in the second in the string of recent AE's one of the uninvolved administrators more or less specifically indicated that there was at least sufficient verbiage to raise what would be basically a BOOMERANG complaint against the filer of that complaint. And, yes, some of the other comments I've seen recently, although I am clearly not in a position to confirm or deny them, as they apparently deal with sensitive matters I'm not privy to, give me reason to think that there might be very good reason to raise concerns at AE or, maybe, if they might extend beyond Landmark per se a little, to ANI. Is there any particular reason you haven't field any complaints yet? John Carter ( talk) 19:57, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 10Books & Bytes
AE resultAs a result of this AE request, I have fully protected the article Landmark Worldwide for one month to allow time for disputes to be worked out without edit-warring and other disruption. Further, you are warned not to cast aspersions, not to make accusations about editors outside of the proper fora, and to critique edits and content rather than editors and their motives. I strongly suggest you avoid Tgeairn beyond participating in talk page discussions. I will be giving him a similar warning, and you can request enforcement of that at AE, but note that enforcement can also be requested against you should you fail to adhere to the expected standards of conduct. It is my impression that admins' patience with this dispute is wearing thin, and that liberal use of topic bans is a likely result, should the measures taken today prove ineffective. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:41, 5 March 2015 (UTC) Discussion of possible interestIt occurs to me that you might be in a position to contribute, if you choose to do so, some behavioral evidence or other input at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tgeairn. Please feel free to do so if you so desire. John Carter ( talk) 19:33, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
RosasGood news: I finished Rosas article. Sorry for taking so long. I have less and less time available. Of course, most of the blame is simply because I feel no pleasure writing for Wikipedia anymore. Hope you can take a look at the article and improve it. I plan to add further sources, but the text is all done. -- Lecen ( talk) 21:22, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Userspace essayI actually started an essay, intended to deal with editors other than any involved in this current situation, at User:John Carter/Self-appointed prophet. It is still only just a rough draft, but I think it might be useful to change it and particularly take into account any possible questions of solipsistic editors, which I tend to think, in various ways, might be among our biggest problems. Maybe it could be made some sort of addendum or alternate page to WP:EXPERT as well as WP:SPA and or WP:POV. Anyway, feel free to make any changes to it you deem reasonable to make it more useful as an essay. John Carter ( talk) 15:31, 21 March 2015 (UTC) A new reference toolHello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:47, 10 April 2015 (UTC) Newspapers.com check-inHello Astynax, You are receiving this message because you have a one-year subscription to Newspapers.com through the Wikipedia Library. This is a brief update, to remind you about that access:
Finally, we would greatly appreciate it if you filled out this short survey. Your input will help us to facilitate this particular partnership, and to discover what other partnerships and services the Wikipedia Library can offer. Thank you, Wikipedia Library Newspapers.com account coordinator HazelAB ( talk) 18:30, 13 April 2015 (UTC) |