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in Template:Cite journal/doc. You fixed it exactly the way I had intended to install that change. I appreciate your taking the time. Eubulides ( talk) 06:38, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
in WindEEE Dome, you fixed the tiny stub article I started by posting a reference to the school and to the official project web site. Thanks! Jon Yu ( talk) 15:09, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for the long delay in responding to your comments on my FA nom of Edwin P. Morrow. I was out of town for several days last week. I have now made some changes that I hope address your concerns. Please see if you feel these changes are sufficient to strike the remaining issues you have raised. Thank you. Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 15:12, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
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After tolling up the votes in the revision proposals, it emerged that 5.4 had the most support, but elements of that support remained unclear, and various comments throughout the polls needed consideration.
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Christopher Parham - Thanks for your participation and support in my recent successful RfA. Your confidence and trust in me is much appreciated. As a new admin I will try hard to keep from wading in too deep over the tops of my waders, nor shall I let the Buffalo intimidate me.-- Mike Cline ( talk) 09:00, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 02:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to know why you deleted my Okamagimi page. I see its cause of no context. but I'm not sure what you mean by that. could you explain it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Straxeragous ( talk • contribs) 20:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
OK, got it thanks. I've asked for a change to be made to the template syntax: Template_talk:Infobox_SCOTUS_case#WP:MOSDASH. Tony (talk) 01:11, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Chris,
I just want to draw your attention to a couple of discussions going on at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Coloring of the cited source missing and at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Example edits for different methods#Use of the HTML <cite></cite> element. You and/or other WP:CITE contributors may or may not be interested. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:24, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for helping with the Boeing 777 FAR last November. Regards, SynergyStar ( talk) 01:06, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that you participated in a 2005/2006 discussion and straw poll on whether or not the tagline at the top of all Wikipedia articles should be changed from "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" to "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". I don't know if you're still interested in this issue or not, but this exact change has been proposed once again, this time at the Village pump, and there is currently an RFC (Request for Comment) on the subject where it is being discussed. All Hallow's Wraith ( talk) 18:13, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Christopher - I am just stopping by to see how you are doing with the FAR for Ziad Jarrah. Are you still interested on helping to keep this article as a FA? If so, could you please post a note with a status update on the FAR page? As soon as you feel that you have addressed all concerns brought up in the FAR section, we can start trying to get some additional reviewers in to move the article through the process. Thanks in advance, Dana boomer ( talk) 16:54, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that you participated in a previous RFC at Wikipedia talk:Notability (events). I was wondering if you might share your opinion here: RFC: Should Wikipedia:Notability (criminal acts) be merged with Wikipedia:Notability (events) and Wikipedia:Notability (people)? Thanks! Location ( talk) 19:12, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
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i noticed you reverted my change from "dead animals" back to dead plastic. what is dead plastic? was plastic around millions of years ago? petroleum is geologically converted organic biomass found in a mineral source (i.e. porous rocks). check out the petroleum wiki page or here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V7P-4HC0R1Y-2&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2006&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=479a3c2710a848e880b2a9db02f4b555&searchtype=a
thanks, carl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.90.245.138 ( talk) 18:11, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
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As per your active involvement with this article as noted on the talk page, you may want to review what looks like a recent overhaul of the text by an IP editor. -- œ ™ 07:05, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello I am in quiet desperation of EVERY single wikipedia article relating to post apocalyptic nature..
You see, I've been looking for this veryyyyy particular work of postApoc/DyingEarth (perhaps) work about a boy and a traveling caravan that shows the end of the world. I KNOW IT'S ON WIKIPEDIA I read about it like 3 years ago and no matter how hard I try...
...theres no page I can come to ( at least that I've searched) with my descriptor.
Christ, it's paining me. I really need just an Absolute compilation of EVERYTHING POSTAPOCALYPTIC alphabetically so I can seriously go down the list of 500+ items or whatever it is. I'm surely missing something. Numerous fiction/book/film/author/whatever pages skimming through. I just need a centralized source of everything post apocalyptic. I'm dead serious about this. I would look through every single page there.
So far, inconclusive. There must be SOMETHING I'm missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunn174 ( talk • contribs) 03:59, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Eliot House is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Hey, you had previously contributed a helpful edit to the article on the book Skipping Towards Gomorrah. Just an FYI that I have recently expanded the article with additional sourced information, you may be interested in it. Also, I recently created a new article by the same author, Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist. If you have any suggestions or ideas for additional secondary sources, please don't hesitate to stop by the articles talkpages. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt ( talk) 18:39, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Christopher, I'm interested in working on the Federalist Papers. I wanted to check with you before I began to see which pages need the most work. Tommyboy1215 ( talk) 02:17, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I've raised concerns about the article on Blaise Pascal by leaving comments on the talk page, and I'm notifying you here. Would you be able to comment there? Carcharoth ( talk) 13:33, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Many sections of this article were copied Will Durant's Story of civilization. I've compared both texts here Bluszczokrzew ( talk) 14:14, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on July 27, 2011. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 27, 2011. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article directors Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 00:57, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
The Point Park Civic Center was a proposed civic center for downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers forms the Ohio River. The structure was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on commission from Edgar J. Kaufmann in the late 1940s. Wright initially envisioned a circular building more than 1000 feet (300 m) in diameter and 175 feet (50 m) tall. The structure, containing an opera house, sports arena, three movie theaters, and a convention hall, was wrapped with a spiraling strip of road. The plan expressed Wright's insistence on bringing the automobile into the social setting. It did not find favor with Pittsburgh authorities. To make the design more palatable to its audience, Wright developed a radically different proposal for a monolithic tower supporting bridges across the Allegheny and Monongahela. This too was unsuccessful, and none of Wright's work for the site was ever built. The site is now occupied by Point State Park. The unused design has garnered scholarly attention, and elements of it have been compared to other Wright designs, such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and his unrealized plans for Monona Terrace. ( more...)
Congratulations on the main page appearance. One thing that seems to be missing from the article is the pre-1930 history of the site - one of the most important sites in American history, see e.g. Point_State_Park#History. I don't want to do anything while it is on the main page, and perhaps this has been argued elsewhere, but I think next week I'll be adding something. Any thoughts? Smallbones ( talk) 12:48, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 19:37, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated Federalist No. 10 for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad ( talk) 02:33, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Dear Christopher Parham,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
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If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
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This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. I know this happened just recently but no administrator would close these frequent rm's down, so here we go again. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 20:32, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm notifying you as I noticed your excellent work on the Featured Quality article, Report of 1800. I've recently gone ahead and created WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech. If you're interested, here are some easy things you can do:
Thank you for your interest in Freedom of speech, — Cirt ( talk) 17:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. You are invited to comment at RfC for BARC - a community desysoping process. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 07:20, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) ( talk) 08:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
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Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:"_+_"oldafdfull"_+_". alternatively, if you are no longer using the monobook skin (many people are using vector these days) and don't need to keep the old page, you could just have the page deleted. thank you in advance for your help.
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Welcome to my talk page. I will respond to comments made here on this page, so please watch. If I messaged you first, I'll be keeping an eye on your talk unless it's been an awfully long time.
in Template:Cite journal/doc. You fixed it exactly the way I had intended to install that change. I appreciate your taking the time. Eubulides ( talk) 06:38, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
in WindEEE Dome, you fixed the tiny stub article I started by posting a reference to the school and to the official project web site. Thanks! Jon Yu ( talk) 15:09, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for the long delay in responding to your comments on my FA nom of Edwin P. Morrow. I was out of town for several days last week. I have now made some changes that I hope address your concerns. Please see if you feel these changes are sufficient to strike the remaining issues you have raised. Thank you. Acdixon ( talk • contribs • count) 15:12, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC re: a 'Motion to close', which would dissolve Cda as a proposal. The motion includes an !vote. You have previously commented at Wikipedia:WikiProject Administrator. Jusdafax 00:21, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
After tolling up the votes in the revision proposals, it emerged that 5.4 had the most support, but elements of that support remained unclear, and various comments throughout the polls needed consideration.
A finalisation poll (intended, if possible, to be one last poll before finalising the CDA proposal) has been run to;
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Christopher Parham - Thanks for your participation and support in my recent successful RfA. Your confidence and trust in me is much appreciated. As a new admin I will try hard to keep from wading in too deep over the tops of my waders, nor shall I let the Buffalo intimidate me.-- Mike Cline ( talk) 09:00, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Christopher,
Firstly, apologies for this long message! I may need a response from you directly underneath it, per (3) below.
You are receiving this message as you voted in VOTE 2 at the recent Community de-Adminship 'Proposal Finalization' Poll. Unfortunately, there is a hitch regarding the "none" vote that can theoretically affect all votes.
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Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 02:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to know why you deleted my Okamagimi page. I see its cause of no context. but I'm not sure what you mean by that. could you explain it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Straxeragous ( talk • contribs) 20:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
OK, got it thanks. I've asked for a change to be made to the template syntax: Template_talk:Infobox_SCOTUS_case#WP:MOSDASH. Tony (talk) 01:11, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Chris,
I just want to draw your attention to a couple of discussions going on at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Coloring of the cited source missing and at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Example edits for different methods#Use of the HTML <cite></cite> element. You and/or other WP:CITE contributors may or may not be interested. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:24, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for helping with the Boeing 777 FAR last November. Regards, SynergyStar ( talk) 01:06, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that you participated in a 2005/2006 discussion and straw poll on whether or not the tagline at the top of all Wikipedia articles should be changed from "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" to "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". I don't know if you're still interested in this issue or not, but this exact change has been proposed once again, this time at the Village pump, and there is currently an RFC (Request for Comment) on the subject where it is being discussed. All Hallow's Wraith ( talk) 18:13, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Christopher - I am just stopping by to see how you are doing with the FAR for Ziad Jarrah. Are you still interested on helping to keep this article as a FA? If so, could you please post a note with a status update on the FAR page? As soon as you feel that you have addressed all concerns brought up in the FAR section, we can start trying to get some additional reviewers in to move the article through the process. Thanks in advance, Dana boomer ( talk) 16:54, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that you participated in a previous RFC at Wikipedia talk:Notability (events). I was wondering if you might share your opinion here: RFC: Should Wikipedia:Notability (criminal acts) be merged with Wikipedia:Notability (events) and Wikipedia:Notability (people)? Thanks! Location ( talk) 19:12, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
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i noticed you reverted my change from "dead animals" back to dead plastic. what is dead plastic? was plastic around millions of years ago? petroleum is geologically converted organic biomass found in a mineral source (i.e. porous rocks). check out the petroleum wiki page or here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V7P-4HC0R1Y-2&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2006&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=479a3c2710a848e880b2a9db02f4b555&searchtype=a
thanks, carl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.90.245.138 ( talk) 18:11, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in the Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2010 ArbCom election voting procedure which is expected to close in a little over a week. If you have received this message, it is because it appears that you participated in the 2009 AC RfC, and your contributions indicate that you are currently active on Wikipedia. Ncmvocalist ( talk) 26 October 2010 (UTC)
As per your active involvement with this article as noted on the talk page, you may want to review what looks like a recent overhaul of the text by an IP editor. -- œ ™ 07:05, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello I am in quiet desperation of EVERY single wikipedia article relating to post apocalyptic nature..
You see, I've been looking for this veryyyyy particular work of postApoc/DyingEarth (perhaps) work about a boy and a traveling caravan that shows the end of the world. I KNOW IT'S ON WIKIPEDIA I read about it like 3 years ago and no matter how hard I try...
...theres no page I can come to ( at least that I've searched) with my descriptor.
Christ, it's paining me. I really need just an Absolute compilation of EVERYTHING POSTAPOCALYPTIC alphabetically so I can seriously go down the list of 500+ items or whatever it is. I'm surely missing something. Numerous fiction/book/film/author/whatever pages skimming through. I just need a centralized source of everything post apocalyptic. I'm dead serious about this. I would look through every single page there.
So far, inconclusive. There must be SOMETHING I'm missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunn174 ( talk • contribs) 03:59, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
breakingzero@gmail.com = email — Preceding
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Eliot House is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Hey, you had previously contributed a helpful edit to the article on the book Skipping Towards Gomorrah. Just an FYI that I have recently expanded the article with additional sourced information, you may be interested in it. Also, I recently created a new article by the same author, Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist. If you have any suggestions or ideas for additional secondary sources, please don't hesitate to stop by the articles talkpages. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt ( talk) 18:39, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Christopher, I'm interested in working on the Federalist Papers. I wanted to check with you before I began to see which pages need the most work. Tommyboy1215 ( talk) 02:17, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I've raised concerns about the article on Blaise Pascal by leaving comments on the talk page, and I'm notifying you here. Would you be able to comment there? Carcharoth ( talk) 13:33, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Many sections of this article were copied Will Durant's Story of civilization. I've compared both texts here Bluszczokrzew ( talk) 14:14, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on July 27, 2011. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 27, 2011. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article directors Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 00:57, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
The Point Park Civic Center was a proposed civic center for downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers forms the Ohio River. The structure was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on commission from Edgar J. Kaufmann in the late 1940s. Wright initially envisioned a circular building more than 1000 feet (300 m) in diameter and 175 feet (50 m) tall. The structure, containing an opera house, sports arena, three movie theaters, and a convention hall, was wrapped with a spiraling strip of road. The plan expressed Wright's insistence on bringing the automobile into the social setting. It did not find favor with Pittsburgh authorities. To make the design more palatable to its audience, Wright developed a radically different proposal for a monolithic tower supporting bridges across the Allegheny and Monongahela. This too was unsuccessful, and none of Wright's work for the site was ever built. The site is now occupied by Point State Park. The unused design has garnered scholarly attention, and elements of it have been compared to other Wright designs, such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and his unrealized plans for Monona Terrace. ( more...)
Congratulations on the main page appearance. One thing that seems to be missing from the article is the pre-1930 history of the site - one of the most important sites in American history, see e.g. Point_State_Park#History. I don't want to do anything while it is on the main page, and perhaps this has been argued elsewhere, but I think next week I'll be adding something. Any thoughts? Smallbones ( talk) 12:48, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 19:37, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated Federalist No. 10 for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad ( talk) 02:33, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Dear Christopher Parham,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk)
This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. I know this happened just recently but no administrator would close these frequent rm's down, so here we go again. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 20:32, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm notifying you as I noticed your excellent work on the Featured Quality article, Report of 1800. I've recently gone ahead and created WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech. If you're interested, here are some easy things you can do:
Thank you for your interest in Freedom of speech, — Cirt ( talk) 17:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. You are invited to comment at RfC for BARC - a community desysoping process. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 07:20, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) ( talk) 08:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Christopher Parham.
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) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Christopher Parham. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 ( talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Christopher Parham. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Revolutionary War. Since you had some involvement with the Revolutionary War redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Appah Rao ( talk) 05:02, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Christopher Parham. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Christopher Parham. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
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Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next month.
Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.
Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:03, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
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Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next several days.
Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.
Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:02, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello Christopher Parham, per your request your admin access has been removed. Thank you for your prior service. Your account should become extended confirmed on your next edit, if it doesn't let me know and I'll fix it. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 15:37, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
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the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so
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Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.
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applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.
focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.
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will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.
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the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpretedrather than
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wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
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Hi, I have been cleaning up
Special:WantedTemplates and noticed that
Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:"_+_"oldafdfull"_+_" is pointing to your monobook.js pages. clearly these are false positives (basically a bug in how WP parses .js pages). it would be really great if you could add // <syntaxhighlight lang=javascript>
to the top and // </syntaxhighlight>
to the bottom of those pages. by putting these tags in comments, it won't prevent the javascript from executing, but it will remove those pages from
Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:"_+_"oldafdfull"_+_". alternatively, if you are no longer using the monobook skin (many people are using vector these days) and don't need to keep the old page, you could just have the page deleted. thank you in advance for your help.
Frietjes (
talk) 19:59, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
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RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
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any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.
standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people.( American Politics 2 Arbitration case).
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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
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post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
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Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
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oversight
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technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.I have nominated Report of 1800 for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Extraordinary Writ ( talk) 23:52, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
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oversight
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Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (
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[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
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[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to
note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.
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