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Hi! Would you mind reviewing your close of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rich Shapero? WP:NOT#NEWS and WP:EVENT describe what types of events are suitable to be the main topic of an article, not what is suitable as article content. Or are you saying that every article should be purged of events that doesn't meet that policy and that guideline, even if they are properly referenced? As far as notability goes the application of the GNG is always somewhat subjective in the disputed cases and I was surprised to see you simply going with your own interpretation over the rather strong consensus. Cheers/ Pax:Vobiscum ( talk) 09:27, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Rich Shapero. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Alzarian16 ( talk) 10:51, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm now seeing the 'Del/undel selected revisions', was the bug fixed? If not, we should probably quickly act to disseminate information about this and caution against using it on log actions subject to breaking per your concerns. – xeno talk 13:55, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Update - RevisionDelete has been enabled for admins (as most here know) - but only for one revision per action. The checkboxes that allow revdelete on multiple revisions in one action are disabled for admins.
The underlying bug issue has not yet been fixed. As best I can guess the idea is that limiting RevDel to one revision per action should stand a chance of being workable. Needs testing though.
My tentative conclusion from testing it so far - log links do still break with deletion, in some cases badly, but the damage is mitigated by the fact it's limited to one revision per action. This does make it much easier to figure out and fix any issues, if the problems described were to happen.
I am continuing to test it and check how the issues stand, I will then post a summary on-wiki. FT2 ( Talk | email) 20:36, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I was reading AN and followed the thread to here. When the revDel feature is stable, I'd like to see this page history cleaned up. There are many revs that quite clearly meet WP:CFRD#2 (which is an invalid anchor due to it starting with a digit). It's the work of our most unwelcome vandal and his /b-tards. I started the page and could put you in touch with the founder of the organization (who is shocked at what is in the page history) Thanks, Jack Merridew 02:35, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Penbat has, IMO without regard for the ongoing discussion and apparent current lack of consensus on the Mobbing discussion page, restored his edits with an edit summary and notes on the Talk page that cast my edits as Vandalism. I would greatly appreciate your feedback and/or intervention. Thank you for your assistance. Doniago ( talk) 20:29, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I have opened a Wikiquette Alert regarding Penbat's conduct towards me, given that the WP:AN discussion was archived without resolution and Penbat's aggressive behavior towards me has continued. Penbat has been notified. Doniago ( talk) 04:48, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I have opened a Wikiquette Alert regarding Doniago's bizarre aggressive timewasting conduct towards me. Doniago's aggressive behavior towards me has continued. Doniago has been notified. -- Penbat ( talk) 22:58, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi FT2!
Any reason in particular you changed the visibility of a revision that was already deleted? I do not immediately see the usefulness of this, as the page was already only visible to administrators, but perhaps I'm missing something. Regards,
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Hi, I'd like to ask for your input here: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Minphie. Recently you commented on Minphie's conduct and we ask if you could come and give feedback at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Minphie as the editor appears not to have taken any heed of the community's feedback on his approach to editing. If you don't remember your exact interactions with Minphie, it is detailed in the RfC/U page. Thankyou for your time, -- Figs Might Ply ( talk) 23:57, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Mr. Godwin is paid by Wikipedia. Wikipedia also presumably pays the water and electric company. Perhaps, CU and oversight could be a paid position. Hire people and bond them. I heard Wikipedia had a big budget so hiring one professional checkuser could go far to address the problem. One professional CU working 8 hours a day could probably clear the CU board quickly. Wikipedia is in San Francisco. I am sure there are hundreds of computer science graduates from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley who might apply for the one full time position.
This is one of many "other" solutions that are possible. Good luck in picking a solution! Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 19:26, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
It's starting to look complicated. Is it not possible to simplify? My perennial fear is that people won't bother to think it through unless it's simple. Tony (talk) 13:02, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Looking throught the comments, if someone were to declare "all the candidates have been appointed", this would not be the consensus. If someone were to declare "some sort of new election", others would be upset, some of them believing that this is an emergency where CU/OS must be appointed within the hour or there will be a massive number of deaths or injury (true emergency).
Choosing either is not selecting the consensus.
When there is no consensus, compromise is sometimes necessary.
Disclaimer: Brainstorming is when one makes suggestions without being afraid of being called an idiot. In doing so, an innovative suggestion may be made. The following is brainstorming.
There could be the declaration that no new CU/OS are appointed. However, the title of "Provisional OS" or "Provisional CU" could be appointed to a limited number of people. The title of "provisional" is to highlight that they are different from the others. They will be under greater public review, have a limited term, and must submit a report of their actions daily (posted on their talk page). In the interim, there will be new elections as a concession to those who say that election rules should not be significantly altered after an election has taken place.
This proposal will be liked by nobody but incorporates ideas of several opinions. Also, it is brainstorming.
This proposal is also among the very few that attempt to reach compromise.
Good luck in trying to find a fair idea that has widespread support. We are cheering you on! Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 16:46, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Does the RFC have an end date? June 29th? With something of this importance, it is better not to say that it ends when someone says it ends. Otherwise, one could say that it ends when I win and continues if I am losing. Of course, if we say ahead of time that it ends some time after two weeks, then nobody should think that we are short circuiting the time period. So an alternate would be no sooner than June 14th but as long as a month.
I bring this up not to make trouble but to prevent trouble! Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 22:11, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Berghuis v. Thompkins
After 3 hours of silence to police questions....
Do you believe in God? Yes
Do you pray to God to forgive you for killing John Smith? Yes, oops.
That is like...
In the court room: The People of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts versus John Smith. Charged with 2 murders (error in speaking) in the first degree.
Two? I only killed one guy! Oops! Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 22:57, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
i suppose i am the only one laughing..... :( Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 20:21, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
I replied to your comments. Joe Chill ( talk) 15:26, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Plip!
Hi FT, I emailed you a few weeks ago to let you know as a matter of courtesy that I was considering requesting an unblock for Peter, and again tonight to tell you that I was about to post it. You can see it here on AN. I'm letting you know here too just to make sure you see it. Cheers, SlimVirgin talk| contribs 09:13, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
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An Arbitration request in which you are involved has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop. Additionally, please note that for this case specific procedural guidelines have been stipulated; if you have any questions please ask. The full outline is listed on the Evidence and Workshop pages, but please adhere to the basics:
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Hey - I removed your proposed issues as they were not phrased as "one-sentence questions." Please feel free to rephrase them into questions, or contribute your thoughts elsewhere on the workshop page. Thank you. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 12:28, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Congratulations, I have listed Berghuis v. Thompkins as a Good Article. Please consider reviewing a nominee for Good Article. Regards, GregJackP ( talk) 19:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
User:TubingTommy posted on Keegscee's SPI, claims to be Keegscee. I have asked User:Georgewilliamherbert who has been wranglin' the socks of Keegscee previously to get with a checkuser and flush out the other ones and rangeblock, but he appears to be offline for the moment, hence I bring this to your attention. -
Forgive me if I've missed an announcement somewhere, but is it still best to avoid using Revision Delete on multiple revisions at once or has that bug been fixed? I can see you've had this and related conversations more than once, but I'm not an admin so some of it still escapes me. VernoWhitney ( talk) 14:47, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I've had a look at your DYK nom for this article. I've only started reviewing DYKs (so I could be wrong!) but on first inspection it seems to fall short of 5 x expansion if you want to have a look at it.
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You deleted an article which should be restored:
Your decision-making in this instance was flawed. The fact that Britannica considers this figure sufficiently important to include in its online encyclopedia for children is sufficient argument for the article to be restored -- see here.
Please do what you can to rectify this unfortunate mistake.
When restored, you may trust that I will add material sufficient to clarify its legitimate status as an article.
Thank you. -- Tenmei ( talk) 21:17, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
SOM defined a new architectural approach of team work and total or comprehensive design, since the firm undertook everything: design, engineering, landscaping, urban planning and interiors. Also an innovation, especially given the quality of work and the prominence of the firm, was that none of the founding partners actually designed.
The unique character of SOM’s work was influenced by the engineers who became partners in the practice.<:ref name="wilson"/>
John O. Merrill is not an appropriate article for the speedy deletion process. -- Tenmei ( talk) 23:53, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
The burden of research supports the notability of John O. Merrill; and the following is sufficient to rebut any "speedy deletion" argument. In summary, the notability of John O. Merrill is verified by reliable sources: (a) the obit in the New York Times, (b) the article in the Grove Art Online, (c) the article in the American National Biography and (d) WorldCat Identities ... plus (e) the previously mentioned but unused article in the Britannica online.
The article text explains that John O. Merrill is
On June 21, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Berghuis v. Thompkins, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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...so I guess we should have a community discussion on whether we want it enabled here? – xeno talk 12:45, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
This Arbitration case is now moving into the Workshop phase. Please read Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration#Workshop to understand the process. Editors should avoid adding to their evidence sections outside of slight tweaks to aid in understanding; large-scale additions should not be made. Many proposals have already been made and there has already been extensive discussion on them, so please keep the Arbitrators' procedures in mind, namely to keep "workshop proposals as concise as reasonably possible." Workshop proposals should be relevant and based on already provided evidence; evidence masquerading as proposals will likely be ignored. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 20:37, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello! I have requested a move for WP:Ownership of articles → WP:Page ownership. As you participated in the previous discussion, could you please voice your opinion again regarding this move, as it is my intention to restart the discussion with a clean slate. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 23:02, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
I have mentioned you at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and User talk:Nihonjoe. Ncmvocalist ( talk) 14:40, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I appreciate your comments and criticisms. I know more work needs to be done here, unfortunately, my schedule does not permit me to respond immediately to this. My intent is to continue the make improvement to this BLP however, I have become swamped with work assignments. Can we keep the bulk of the content in my user space? I will not move into article space without significant improvement as I find it, nor will I move it without review. All that I have done has been in the open, I have not deleted anyone's comments. I would really hate to start over though. Thank you! ( User talk:Lisa Snead)) Cre8tivedge 19:04, 30 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cre8tivedge ( talk • contribs)
Thank you so much for returning this to my user space. I do see where significant changes need to be made and your statements are fair and clear! Thanks again!
User talk:Lisa SneadCre8tivedge 18:00, 5 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cre8tivedge ( talk • contribs)
Hi, just a note to let you know that the RFC discussion you started has closed "Immediate steps" poll by FT2 and is in need of assesment and the next step, whatever that is to be, regards. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:05, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments. That topic is stuck in my throat and I could write pages and pages about it. Luckily for you, I am rather busy with real-life work so I will just blurt out a few disconnected thoughts.
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Well, sorry for this long rant. All the best, -- Jorge Stolfi ( talk) 01:36, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Sorry if I'm troubling you, but, I was trying to put an email link on my page, or find how to email another user when they don't have a link, and I saw the link on your page, and I just wanted to ask how you put it there. I will be truely thankful if you can answer me. Zarin87 ( talk) 04:38, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
I saw you'd posted to Antigrandiose ( talk · contribs)'s talk page. I'm bothered by the way he not only uses his userspace as facebook/myspace, but also copies into it other people's posts. Worth taking to MfD do you think? Dougweller ( talk) 20:25, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
... You didn't even give me a chance to respond to your inaccurate "quick corrections." You'd rather just delete something than risk being shown wrong. I'm left with the feeling that I was waylayed, by two or three people, who had a problem with my page that was far out of proportion to the problem that other editors and administrators had/would have had with it. -- Antigrandiose ( talk) 20:25, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
You recently !voted on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Microformats. This is a courtesy note to let you now that I have now posted, as promised, my view there, and to ask you revisit the debate. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:52, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi FT2. I closed a RfC today - Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Request_for_Comment_on_Fox_News_Channel. The close has been disputed - User_talk:SilkTork#RfC_close_on_Wikipedia:Reliable_sources.2FNoticeboard. Would you take a look at it to give your view and hopefully resolve the matter one way or the other. SilkTork * YES! 00:56, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
As a long time IP editor, I'd like to know if there was any discussion before you changed the coloring of the text. As it stands, it's overbearing, distracting, and is alreading causing a bit of eye strain. Any chance I can get you to change it back, or at least to something with a bit less contrast? I really understand the desire to grab attention, but this is a bit over the top. 69.181.249.92 ( talk) 07:33, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I am the original creator of the article Flying humanoid, which you deleted in May 2008. Could you possibly restore the article in my userspace so that I can improve the sourcing? -- Uga Man ( talk) 21:41, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
FYI – xeno talk 16:57, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
As someone who previously participated in the discussion to adopt policy verbiage that is being used as a rationale to delete "vandalism sandboxes", your input would be appreciated on the matter: Wikipedia talk:User pages#Userspace Vandalism Sandboxes. Gigs ( talk) 15:08, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I saw that you created the new 'Clean Start' policy page. I have a question about that policy, and don't know where to ask it, so I there I'd start with you. There is a "new" user whom I suspect is a returning user trying to make a clean start. The previous account has not been banned or sanctioned as far as I can tell, but had been blocked, more than once, for various violations (edit warring, harassment). It has been retired (not active for 1+ year, 'retired' box on the user page), but the "new" account is editing in the same topic area (which is a highly volatile one on Wikipedia), and making contentious edits (e.g. - blanket revert of several days worth of edits , undoing 20+ edits by 4 editors). This appears to be in clear violation of WP:CLEAN START, which says 'a user who then re-enters disputes and topics where their conduct was likely to be noticed (blocks, disputes, disruptive editing, contentious and edit warred topics, and the like) may be seen as evading scrutiny'. The question is what can be done about this? I am not sure a sock puppet investigation is the right way, because technically, I am not sure if this is sock puppetry. HupHollandHup ( talk) 14:59, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
You're really stretching the definition of "nutshell" there! (must be a walnut or coconut) – xeno talk 13:23, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
← re: "finally" I understand your desired use (i.e. "full and final" departure) but it might also be read as "Thank the maker - this guy is finally leaving" ;> – xeno talk 14:40, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello FT2: Your user page [[User:FT2/LTO]] may be in violation of WP:USERNOCAT. The Category that it appears in, Category:Periods with timeline in infobox, appears to be a maintenance category, so it seems reasonable to allow user pages to appear in the category while development of a page is proceeding. Your user page in question does not seem to be in active development. Do you think you should comment out or otherwise deactivate the code that is putting this page into a category? Thanks for your consideration. -- Fartherred ( talk) 21:48, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for the minor copyedits you have made to the ARKBK and Bunyoro articles!
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File:Deepwater Horizon oil spill - May 24, 2010 - with locator.jpg is from May 24, but the disaster is from April 22 ... whats wrong? Palu ( talk) 23:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
this is totally off in left field, but I like that recap table you used here. do you think i would be worth the effort of turning that into a template for more general use in summary-type situations? I'm happy to do it, I just don't know if it would get used sufficiently to justify the effort. -- Ludwigs2 23:38, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
For pointing out the exception to the topic ban. I assumed there had to be one, but had not seen it. Lots of luck with the rewrite, Sandstein has some good points, but progress is occurring. My main goal is to make sure that user talk pages are in scope (i.e. not an exception to the ban).-- SPhilbrick T 19:21, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:Draupner close-up.png. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the file description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 22:01, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Feel free to stop by the AfD and see how I've improved the underlying article. If you've still got concerns that you want me to address, feel free to let me know, but I think I've fixed everything, except the title--which I agree needs work and better options are currently being discussed both in the AfD and the article talk page. Cheers, Jclemens ( talk) 01:35, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
What started as you bothering me over my tag moving around resulted in great social progress and similarly awesome results in the name of better service on behalf of User:RFC bot. For your efforts in achieving change I award you the Congressman Gene Taylor Award for Progress, ironically named after a conservative member of Congress. harej 03:35, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for restarting the discussion. At this point we needed a new proposal to "wipe the slate" and get something moving. That said, I think it might need an adjustment in wording. The short summary implies that the article has to be stale either way, but the way it's written, the first clause could apply to non-stale articles. Gigs ( talk) 13:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
It seems as if most of this page was unintentionally hatted. Not sure how to fix this. What do you think? ScottyBerg ( talk) 14:25, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
For BLP reasons I have removed, so that at least it does not show on the top version of the article, the link to an "unredacted" version of the document, which names names. If the article gets kept, I think that link should be suppressed, if possible. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:16, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Here you go: File:Gladiator.png. If you need anything else, let me know. Oh, and if you could check over the fair use template, I'd appreciate that. This is my first screenshot for WP, so I might have made some slight errors in the red tape. Dismas| (talk) 05:42, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
The article you defaulted to keep is up again for deleted a day later by the exact same person who tried to have it deleted a few days before. Can they constantly apply to have an article removed, even if an admin has approved to keep it? This person has systematically gone through every article referring to a show or TV network involving Larry Bundy Jr. Which seems rather strange. -- FirecrackerDemon ( talk) 06:05, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi FT2. I'm trialling an invitation to edit at Pain that links readers to a simple editing tutorial from the top of the article. I've added a link in that tutorial to Expectations and norms.
Did you mean to delete my post here? Tijfo098 ( talk) 13:19, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you please take a look at On Beauty? Now there is a third SPA, an IP editor actually, posting that same link (and messing up some of the rest of the article. Thanks. Logical Cowboy ( talk) 22:36, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you please have a look at Zadie Smith? Same editor is back. Logical Cowboy ( talk) 17:46, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:Drauper freak wave.png. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the file description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 18:02, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Dear FT2, thank you for nominating yourself as a candidate in the 2010 Arbitration Committee elections. On behalf of the coordinators, allow me to welcome you to the election and make a few suggestions to help you get set up. By now, you ought to have written your nomination statement, which should be no more than 400 words and declare any alternate or former user accounts you have contributed under (or, in the case of privacy concerns, a declaration that you have disclosed them to the Arbitration Committee). Although there are no fixed guidelines for how to write a statement, note that many candidates treat this as an opportunity, in their own way, to put a cogent case as to why editors should vote for them—highlighting the strengths they would bring to the job, and convincing the community they would cope with the workload and responsibilities of being an arbitrator.
You should at this point have your own questions subpage; feel free to begin answering the questions as you please. Together, the nomination statement and questions subpage should be transcluded to your candidate profile, whose talkpage will serve as the central location for discussion of your candidacy. If you experience any difficulty setting up these pages, please follow the links in the footer below. If you need assistance, on this or any other matter (including objectionable questions or commentary by others on your candidate pages), please notify the coordinators at their talkpage. If you have followed these instructions correctly, congratulations, you are now officially a candidate for the Arbitration Committee. Good luck! Skomorokh 22:10, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. Best of luck in your upcoming trial by fire. As in previous years I have a series of questions I ask candidates. This year there are restrictions on the length and number of questions on the "official" page for questions, restrictions which I do not agree with, but which I will abide by. I nevertheless think my questions are important and relevant (and I am not the only person to think so, in previous years they have drawn favorable comment from many, including in at least one case indepth analysis of candidates answers to them by third parties). You are invited to answer them if you so choose. I suggest that the talk page of your questions page is a good place to put them and I will do so with your acquiescence (for example, SirFozzie's page already has them as do the majority of other candidates). Your answers, (or non-answers should you decide not to answer them), that will be a factor in my evaluation of your candidacy. Please let me know as soon as practical what your wish is. Thanks and best of luck. (please answer here, I'll see it, and it keeps things together better) ++ Lar: t/ c 22:12, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Just came across Wikipedia:Revision deletion/Admin when I was searching for something else; seems like a now-redundant old draft. Just wondered if you want to delete it or if there's some reason to keep. Rd232 talk 01:07, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
What do you mean by "We do have articles on "multiple characters who share a name", whether related, in the same topic area, or unrelated"? Why should we have articles on characters who have no actual connection?
In Wikipedia, things are grouped into articles based on what they are, not what they are called by.
Judging by that AfD and the previous one, it seems clear that all that information shouldn't be on the same page, so I'm sure we shouldn't have articles on things with nothing in common but name. NotARealWord ( talk) 15:54, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I see that you deleted your archives ( User talk:FT2/Archive) on 27 August 2009. Is there any reason for preventing non-admins from seeing this? John Vandenberg ( chat) 23:04, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
This message has been posted to both involved parties' talk pages in identical form. Please discuss this further at the coordination talk page, rather than on your individual pages.
Let me make this very clear. This has to stop, if not because it reflects poorly on the two of you, if not because it reflects poorly on the elections, but at the very least because it is, at this point, disruptive. You are bickering over information that the public can not see, and accusations are being traded that can not be verified by the community at large. At this point, the damage is limited, and both of you have much more to gain by shaking hands and moving on. If there is a real concern here, it should be brought to ArbCom in private. If this is only posturing, it has to end. This is neither the time nor the place for this concern to be voiced, and while I do not have the authority to compel you to stop, I would kindly ask (in the strongest possible way) that it does.
Thank you, Sven Manguard Talk 05:58, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
I spent some time today rereading the OrangeMarlin and Oversighted edits debacle of late 2007-early 2009. One thing that confused me was Thatcher's statement in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/FT2 ("FT2, FloNight and I also discussed the issue of the oversighted edits in an IRC chat on April 24, 2008. Arbcom has the log. Thatcher 19:26, 14 January 2009 (UTC)"). That seemingly contradicts your extended statement and previous posts you made, which indicate that you were unaware of any such oversighted edits (although I can think of a number of things that would explain the situation). Could you clarify please? NW ( Talk) 22:05, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
That is a great response to the question FT2, but it is based on your 'data' and is not the right answer. The following dates could be slightly wrong as I haven't looked closely at timezones.
The Arbs in that IRC discussion may not have mentioned the specifics, but they were aware of them, or should have, or could have easily found them in their Inbox.
And riddle me this; why were you involved in that IRC discussion at all? You should have known to stay well away from this issue. By participating in it, you give up your right to claim you know nothing when the details were right there under your nose. John Vandenberg ( chat) 10:01, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
From Arbcom election Q&A, December 2007 ( link):
Question by Irpen:
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Hi FT2. I am writing my own ArbCom Election voting guide. One of the criteria I am reviewing is candidate's activity. Would you consider opting in for this tool, so that we can see your monthly (and yearly) distribution of edits? Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:01, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, FT2, I only just discovered this comment of yours from earlier. Sorry about that. At this point, it seems largely moot, but I've written a brief reply on what little I thought still mattered at this point. Mostly just didn't want you to think I was deliberately ignoring you. Cheers. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 11:38, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
FT2, thank you for your helpful sourcing improvements to the article Meade Emory. Much appreciated, -- Cirt ( talk) 04:39, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
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Any idea how I could get a copy of the logs referred to here [8]. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.187.54 ( talk) 19:58, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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I know it's just cleanup, but still not a good idea, if avoidable. -- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 20:30, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Please stop editing a protected article. As an admin you should know that admin tools are not to be used for overriding page protection. 88.112.59.31 ( talk) 20:31, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
This led me to believe that we shouldn't be making cosmetic edits to the fully-protected article. I reverted all my changes post-full-protection, but it all looks a little inconsistent to me. I'd expect some kerfuffle at AN/I about all this... Oh well, whatever. Just thought you should know. The Rambling Man ( talk) 20:33, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Full page protection generally applies to contentious issues. If any user objected to an edit, it would then of course need talk page discussion, but cleanup of sections unrelated to the issue are not usually a problem.
Page protection policy related to content disputes: "Pages that are protected because of content disputes should not be edited except to make changes which are uncontroversial or for which there is clear consensus".
This is going to be an extremely high traffic article with much public attention over the next few days. It is also a BLP and requires the highest quality of sourcing and writing. The content issue is purely related to her medical condition after the shooting and compliance with BLP policy in the wake of media focus. The rest is not contentious, and I personally do not intend to make any edits other than quality / factuality / tone. If any specific edit is in fact contentious then it should be reverted and discussed, or discussed first if likely to be contentious. Administrators are trusted to understand this - editing through protection is not trivial.
But " Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy", WP:BLP, protection policy, and WP:IAR all come into play here. As Newyorkbrad correctly says, this is a case where cleanup is appropriate and sensible. The page is protected purely to prevent inappropriate BLP editing on the question of her death and medical condition, and vandalism or very poor editing, due to its high profile.
FT2 ( Talk | email) 20:51, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2, you are not one to habitually agree with me. :-) Could you have a look at Wikipedia:WQA#Response_to_Jehochman and the underlying content issues. You have a good eye for WP:NPOV. I'd value your feedback. Regards, Jehochman Talk 17:16, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
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I arrived at the Wikipedia:Requests for oversight page through a series of links, as I am prone to do. While reading through the page to see what it was all about, I discovered that under the "Necessary information" section right around the middle of the page, there was the sentence "...which can saves time". However, there was (for reasons unclear to me), no talk page for the article to report this. Looking through the revision history, I saw that you had done some grammar correctional edits, and, currently, the most recent editor for the page. Forgive me if I'm asking the wrong thing of the wrong person, but, because of the aforementioned reasons and since you're an administrator, I was wondering if you would be able to correct this error. My preemptive gratitude, W M 2 22:10, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
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This refers [9]. You said earlier you could not make the IRC log public. You seem to have the only record.
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See User talk:Risker#Long post is long.. I'm extending the same invitation I made to Risker there to you, and to anyone else you can think of to invite. Steven Walling at work 01:31, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Since you Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_January_26#Category:Persons_convicted_of_fraud participated in the recent CfD of Category:Persons convicted of fraud I wanted to inform you that the category was recently recreated and relisted. Here is a link to the current CfD should you wish to participate. Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_February_20#Category:Persons_convicted_of_fraud. Cheers. Griswaldo ( talk) 03:49, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello. Sorry to disturb you. I don't know if TV or anime is your cup of tea, but you should anyway check the following IPs, all of which are trying to put "anime" hoaxes and other misinformation and "connections" to the Philippine cartoon, Super Inggo at ang Super Tropa. I've also noted that users of these addresses (possibly a single person) have also put unsourced information and categories on other unrelated anime articles and several others. Here are the addresses I found so far (he may have used more):
To top this all off, these addresses are based in Russia. So obviously, the vandal surely couldn't provide sources for his edits as the said cartoon (if I'm not mistaken) has not been aired out of the Philippines. So what do you think? Can a block be imposed on either or both of the 92.100.128.0/17 and 91.122.80.0/20 ranges? It seems the addresses are assigned to the same provider. Thanks in advance. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 03:16, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
You’ve helped me before with an IP block exemption. I’m blocked again, it seems. Could you please look into this? -- Babelfisch ( talk) 08:29, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Hmmm...you've made the sentence say that the growth of LV in the '40s was due almost entirely to the Manhattan Project. But the source says that the growth of LV between 1945 and 1962 was that way. You might want to double check the source there. -- jpgordon ::==( o ) 02:20, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Good morning FT2,
I just want to let you know that there is in your rank of unpaid moderators a guy whose skill consists in applying your rules in a stubborn and almost inept way.
Moreover, this person seems to have psychological disorders as he always reverts "vandalism" everywhere, all the time. With him, you have absolutely hunted down a real gem: he is a real know-all! His pseudo is Logical Cowboy.
I think it is very charitable on the part of Wikipedia to provide the laid-off worker with occupations, but it could be nice if you would not impose persons with social misfit upon net surfers...
Thank you in advance,
Jay —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.64.105.92 ( talk) 06:44, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
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Pandelver ( talk) 15:59, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Some say source requirements for ethnicity and gender of WP:EGRS don't apply to WP:BLP living persons, simply because the two words aren't in the policy. (Apparently, they think it should only apply to dead people.) I see that you have participated on this topic at the Village Pump.
They also are trying to remove the notability, relevance, and self-identification criteria at WT:EGRS, but that's another fight for another day, I'm simply too busy to watch two fronts at the same time.
We're on the 6th day. Traditionally, these polls go for 7; unless there's no obvious consensus, when we go for an additional 7 days.
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Hi FT - thanks for poking at the AONN stuff earlier. The author of the article has started replying again and I would ask you to look at this diff as it seems to be for lack of a better way to put it a little bit crazy. I'm not especially bothered by it but since looking at his contribution history he seems to have done this sort of thing before, a block or more stern warning of some nature may be in order.
As an additional minor note, the only reason there were personal details of any sort in my post was because their disclosure seemed to be in the interests of the sockpuppetry policy. The only details I posted were already disclosed on our userpages, anyway. Kgorman-ucb ( talk) 05:09, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
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You know, on taking a look at the article, I am not dead sure why it was deleted either - despite my having done that. Whether it was from a conscious decision or a simple error at the time, I agree with you at present and will restore the article with a few cleanups. Some of it does have a slight LOOK of promotional material (the "goals" section primarily), which I'll try to polish up. Thanks a bunch for bringing this to my attention. - Vianello ( Talk) 18:15, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I was hoping as an admin you could give me some advice. I am thinking about deleting a sentence in a rather controversial article. Basically the article is about a famous song performed by a living person, but the sentence is about that persons actions and allegations against that person which I think mean the sentence should be held to WP:BLP standards. I posted on the talk page that I wanted to delete the sentence. No one has responded to the suggestion either for or against. Does no response after a month imply consensus about the change, especially considering the talk page has had about 75 edits since I have posted the comment. I want to "be bold" but I was reverted the last time I undid this sentence without any explanation. I don't want to start an edit war. How do I proceed. I tried to comb the wiki guidelines but couldn't find the relevant advice. Thanks -- MATThematical ( talk) 02:04, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Since you all will not let the page stay up, can you redirect it to OG RON C wiki page. He works for him, developes his website, and his is road Dj? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.155.73.249 ( talk) 15:00, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
How is it self-promotion when I when I am writing what I know about the guy? Like I told the other MODS, I did an article for University OF Houston paper on this guy a year ago and felt that he deserved a more credit than he gets!
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Referring to the Nomination for Deletion Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bill4Time, you suggest that Bill4Time be "mentioned" under List of Legal Software. Would that enable the Bill4Time Wikipedia page to still exist? Marjoian ( talk) 20:48, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
I got your note on notability of books and would be happy to discuss that with you. Unfortunately I won't have time over the next few days, but I'll get back to you. Overall my feeling is that if reviews on publication don't count as significant coverage - if we insist on some kind of test of enduring for the ages before we consider a book to be notable - then we will have almost no books here. IMO a book that met that kind of criterion would be some kind of sociological phenomenon - with maybe two or three books a year qualifying. This is simply because that's the way books are written about - nobody writes a review of a book that came out years ago. My interpretation of the current guideline is that full, original reviews in important sources on publication DO qualify the book as notable, and that what you are proposing would be a major change. But let's talk it over when I get back online next week, and if you think the conversation should be moved to Wikipedia talk:Notability (books) we could do that. Thanks for your note. -- MelanieN ( talk) 05:59, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi again, and thanks for your thoughtful note on my talk page. As I understand it, your feeling is that the publication of a book is a kind of news item, so that book reviews on publication fall under
WP:ONEEVENT or
WP:TRANSIENT or similar policy - and that there needs to be additional coverage about the continuing significance of the book in order for it to be notable. Am I summarizing you correctly?
I don't agree with that approach. I don't think it's realistic - my observation of the literary reporting scene is that even the most notable books get reviewed within a few months of their release and never again, and that requiring ongoing or longterm coverage is too severe a requirement. "Significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources" is all that is required by the current guidelines at
WP:NB.
To sample the opinions of other editors, I thought I should do a review of past deletion discussions, a sort of
WP:Common outcomes for books. Taking a look at the current
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature I find several discussions about books. Examples of the comments at these live discussions:
Arguing for Delete:
Note what these arguments have in common: delete because there is a COMPLETE LACK of reviews.
Arguing for Keep:
Further arguments can be found in the Literature discussion archives. Here are some discussions which resulted in a "keep" decision: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Secrets of a Jewish Mother, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Price Theory: Economics is Mistaken, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mexican WhiteBoy. In all cases the EXISTENCE OF SIGNIFICANT REVIEWS was given as reason enough to keep. In cases where the result was "Delete" (aside from the usual self-published nonentities), the reason was often LACK OF REVIEWS.
Based on this, I believe that significant reviews on publication are sufficient to establish notability in the opinion of most editors, and furthermore that significant reviews on publication are exactly what WP:NB has in mind when it calls for "multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of the book itself." I think your interpretation is novel - not an approach I have ever seen before, or found in a search of past discussions. So if you want to apply it you should probably first look for consensus at Wikipedia talk:Notability (books). If you want to start a discussion there, feel free to copy our conversation over there as a start. In any case, thanks for a stimulating discussion! -- MelanieN ( talk) 23:42, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
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Please see the reply. Thank you. Regards, RJH ( talk) 18:51, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
You could try posting a request for a review at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy. There are several astronomers who frequent that discussion page.— RJH ( talk) 21:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I reviewed your entry at T:TDYK#DDR4 SDRAM, but under new rules you still need to review another article before yours is eligible for DYK. Regards, Sandstein 08:17, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Dammit, you just rearranged my brain. I hate when that happens.... -- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 02:14, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
On 5 May 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article DDR4 SDRAM, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that next-generation DDR4 computer memory, developed since 2005, is the first of its family to discard multi-channel architecture, and the first to include 3D silicon stacking in its specification? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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I'm looking for clarification about this discussion: Wikipedia talk:Notability/Archive 17#Presumption. Its motive seems to be aimed at common sense in dealing with notability. For instance, a name and a phone number for several years strait in a phone book would not be sufficient grounds for notability, BLP1E articles can be merged to article about the event. The footnote in your proposed wording said "For example, adverts, announcements, minor news stories, and coverage with low levels of discrimination, are all examples of matters that may not be notable for the purposes of article creation, despite the existence of reliable sources" yet this clause is being used to justify the deletion of notable articles like iPad 2 which neither fails WP:NOT nor consists entirely of trivial coverage. Could you give a modern interpretation of what you proposed and also confirm whether iPad 2 could be presumed to meet those standards? TLDR? Marcus Qwertyus 02:57, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
take a look at the situation of User:Fittiesonkire, apparently the user place an unblock notice on her talk page and the user isn't blocked at all. Could you please handle the instance. maucho eagle ( c) 20:20, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, FT2. I noticed that you played a major role in drafting the WP:REVDEL policy back in 2009, and you added what is now known as criterion RD5 ("Valid deletions under Deletion Policy, executed using RevisionDelete") to the draft. There is confusion about its intended use, and so an editor started a RfC which proposes its removal from the redaction criteria. Since you were the one who first introduced the criterion, I'm sure any insight you could provide would be useful. Thanks in advance. A Stop at Willoughby ( talk) 01:36, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2. If you have the time and inclination, would you close and summarize Wikipedia:Wiki Guides/Draft RfC:Minimize talk page templates and Wikipedia:Wiki Guides/Allow socializing? My request at WP:AN two weeks ago has not attracted any uninvolved admins to close those two RfCs. Cunard ( talk) 06:23, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
In response to your request, I could not figure out how to enable e-mail on my Wikipedia account, but if you have a question or comment relating to one of my previous edits, please feel free to leave a note on my UserTalk page. -- TommyBoy ( talk) 15:47, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
- 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 03:39, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2. This comment is made in my capacity as an arbitration clerk. I have removed your responses to other participants from the BLP and flagged revisions case request, because your statement was well in excess of the 500 word limit. As a reminder, the word limit is established in the introduction to WP:A/R/C thus: "All editors wishing to make statements should keep their statements and any responses to other statements to 500 words or fewer, citing supporting diffs where possible.") I will leave it to you to re-add the material that you want to keep, but please ensure that your statement does not again exceed the length restriction. Thank you. AGK [ • 21:28, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2, I like your edits to Template:ArticleHistory, but are you sure dark green is the best color for "Milestones in this article's history" and the current status? It looks a bit out of place to me. (if you think it's fine, no worries) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:06, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
I've reverted your edits to the article history template per a talkpage request. Might I suggest using Template:ArticleHistory/sandbox as a testing ground before making changes that fundamentally affect how the readers see the template. Making 20 changes to a live version of a heavily used template seems a bit off. Testing generally shouldn't be done on a live template which is transcluded almost 25,000 times. I wouldn't have thought that I needed to say that to such an incredibly experienced editor as yourself. Your opinions about what the template needs are obviously welcome over at the talkpage. Thanks, Woody ( talk) 10:59, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello! You created this template. Shouldn't it say "This post is related to a specific problem, dispute, user, help request, or other narrow issue, and has been moved" (in other words, "is" should be added after "This post" to fix grammar)? Thanks in advance, Hey Mid ( contribs) 15:13, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello. A new user by the name of User:Foo Bar Buzz Netz has recently been reverting edits by User:Noisetier, with edit summaries claiming that it is a sockpuppet of retired user User:Ceedjee. I cannot find an SPI for this, and the user claims that you conducted one, and told him/her about the sockpuppet. I am told that you can confirm this. Is this true? Bramble claw x 15:33, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
For medical articles we try to use more reliable source per WP:MEDRS. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 01:59, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Goofed. Very sorry.
FT2 ( Talk | email) 02:26, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, you have been mentioned in passing at AN/I. -- cheers, Michael C. Price talk 00:09, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the response. -- cheers, Michael C. Price talk 22:16, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2,
I just have a quick question about the tamahagane wikilink that you added to the Japanese swordsmithing article last week. The tamahagane article was merged with the swordsmithing article several months ago, so the wikilink doesn't really lead anywhere. Is there a need for the link? Zaereth ( talk) 00:09, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2, for what it's worth, I've added a few links to salient earlier discussions that you asked about at RfAr to the prior dispute resolution section. I'm sorry you never got a reply from anyone to your question; I'd always assumed those links were there. Cheers, -- J N 466 22:23, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments. I intend to follow the correct path. I have asked Administrator User:Tedder to be my counseling administrator, a role he had suggested. I will ask him and others for help to avoid problems. I have started a new non-anonymous user page and will await unblocking before going further. I asked Tedder to "kill" Whoami_24 as soon as it is appropriate to do so. Thank you again for your excellent suggestions. Jeffrey M Dean ( talk) 17:30, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
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Template:Voluntary deadmin has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. RL0919 ( talk) 18:40, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
The article DDR4 SDRAM you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:DDR4 SDRAM for things which need to be addressed. Arsenikk (talk) 08:33, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States journalism scandals (3rd nomination). BigJim707 ( talk) 14:37, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Your name has been mentioned in a discussion on User talk:Bishonen. Regards, Bishonen | talk 15:29, 17 July 2011 (UTC).
What happened about Wikipedia_talk:REVDEL#RD5_removal_redux? It was about ready for an RFC, and I forgot about it, and now nothing's happened for 2 months. Did you forget too? :) Rd232 talk 10:53, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
FT2, in a discussion about some rather specific language that was recently in the RTV guideline it was pointed out that you inserted this language to the guideline in October, 2010. Since there is no apparent discussion about the changes on the talk page it isn't clear to me why you made them. Could you shed some light on the subject? See [11]. Much appreciated. Griswaldo ( talk) 04:06, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:User pages#Deletion of main user pages on request, where I've pointed out that the disconnect being discussed comes from your major overhaul of the page in March 2010 (and seems to have been an innocent mistake on your part). – xeno talk 18:11, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Well, they are mentally unwell. Keepslaws111 ( talk) 19:28, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
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FYI: [12] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foo Bar Buzz Netz ( talk • contribs) 17:19, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
The Foo Bar Buzz Netz ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) claims that you are aware of the users past account names. Is this true and is there a reason why this user, whose only edits on this website involve attempting to expunge edits by one other person, is allowed to use this account in this way? nableezy - 16:04, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
cAll right, thanks for that reply. But you did not answer the most important set of questions. The user (FBBN) claims that you know who he is. Is he a user in good standing, one that is topic banned or otherwise restricted, or one that is site banned? nableezy - 23:12, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Im sorry, but no. If FBBN is in fact NoCal100, an account that has amassed an impressive number of sockpuppets whose purpose has been to harass other users (including, among others, myself), a multiple times banned editor, who himself has repeatedly violated RTV and SCRUTINY, and you know this(!?!?) that is a much bigger problem than a user whose only active block is one imposed at their own request (Ceedjee remains unblocked here, Noisieter is blocked at their own request) "evading" said self-requested block as an IP. Any edit by NoCal on Wikipedia is violating multiple policies, and an ArbCom imposed topic ban (which was imposed on two of his accounts in one ArbCom case). Do you know what prior accounts FBBN has used or not? He has said that you are aware of his identity. Is this true? If so, is it NoCal100? I have asked several times now, do you know what the prior accounts of FBBN are? And is he a banned user? And do you know if he has any other active accounts? nableezy - 01:26, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hey there. I'd like to discuss the details of your proposal with you, figure a voice chat is probably the best way. Let me know when you're availiable for a Skype chat. I've got a few ideas as well that perhaps we could form some sort of working proposal to go with and present to the community. Talk soon. Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 02:53, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hullo FT2, I read with interest your comments here on dispute resolution, and remembered an engaging IRC discussion on the topic earlier in the year. I wonder if you would be at all interested in writing a Signpost op-ed on the matter to provoke further reflection and debate? Regards, Skomorokh 06:17, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I recently read Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Noisetier/Archive, and I'm pretty certain this blocked user (Ceejee/Alithien/Balagen) is back again, this time as User:81.247.93.126. Same Belgium based ISP, same old POV pushing... Marokwitz ( talk) 13:24, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
FT2- You've previously noted that Noistier must either disclose his previous IDs, leave the topic area, or be blocked. He's chosen to be blocked, but continued to edit around the lock by editing as an IP. Recently his block was lifted. Your intervention is now needed. Foo Bar Buzz Netz ( talk) 19:47, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
So it's okay for banned and blocked editors to sock so long as they're "relatively benign"? — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 22:52, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
And in related news, your name is mentioned here. nableezy - 12:38, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi FT2, I just wanted to let you know, it's not that I disagree with you: I don't disagree with what you are saying - I disagree with the change. If we were to look at things logically, wp:censor wouldn't be needed at all. Everything in it is covered by properly using other policies: "is it relevant, cited to reliable sources, included in a fashion that does not portray a bias or push a POV?" Alas, that's not how people work, and the changes to wp:censor were made in response to that. IIRC, they were done (roughly a year and a half ago, give or take) in response to the belief that clarification was needed because of the Muhammad images and Scientology "issues" that arose. Inotherwords, done with a reason because even though policy already covered such, it wasn't enough. And currently, it still doesn't seem to be. We've got editors trying to censor articles on abortion, images from Muhammad, articles on Islam and Muhammad, articles on Christianity (and various sects thereof) due to religious beliefs even with such spelled out in wp:censor. Do we really need to have laws telling people that murder is wrong? Perhaps not in a world of fully logical or fully compassionate people. This case is somewhat similar as beliefs are a strong thing. And many people do not equate their beliefs with "organization" or any other such wording. As it is, there is a multi-front campaign going on (which you may have noticed already) to change wp:censor to allow censoring of content that is religiously objectional. If anything, due to the nature of humans as we are, I'd suggest making sure it covers as many major permutations as possible. And currently, the two biggest are religion (personal religious beliefs as well as the beliefs of a religious organization) and politics/nationalism. I'd propose policy should generally be written to spell out things for those who need it clearly defined for them (hence the existence of wp:censor at all) - as opposed to thinking that people will look at all the policies and guidelines detached from emotion and bias. Best, Rob ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/ CN 21:44, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello FT2, thanks for a great feedback you gave me on User:Timeport101/Verax NMS. I've implmented your suggestions and found additional references. I'd like to ask you about your opinion on this. I'm not sure if I cited refrences 100% correct (research papers and workshop materials).-- Timeport101 ( talk) 13:50, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
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Found at [14]. Thanks! Hobit ( talk) 18:05, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2. Thanks for the link on my blog post on how COI contributors can improve Wikipedia. After your post I spent hours culling through the history of this policy discussion and resolved that a more informal community-approved certification-based approach had not been discussed and seems like it could address the significant issues of a formal policy that would encourage/endorse paid writing more broadly than is appropriate.
I posted my pitch to Jimmy Wales on his Talk page, since he was the primary advocate against paid writing policies in 2009, for - I think - very good reasons after reviewing the detailed discussions. A certification model offers a more compelling alternative I think than policy. Instead of banning or encouraging anything, it just sets up a model where paid-for contributors are still more motivated to support Wikipedia's goals than that of their clients - in a way neutralizing their COI all-together.
If you don't hear from me, you'll know that Jimmy executed his threat to ban a user he finds out is paid. Still - if you feel like continuing the discussion, I've started it on Jimmy's talk page.
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See Talk:Higgs_boson#What_is_a_lead.3F. Other people than you and i may wish to discuss this. Boud ( talk) 12:16, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Hey, FT2. I noticed that despite all of our discussions at WT:REVDEL last spring, no changes ever occurred as far as the RD5 issue goes. Perhaps this is because, of the principals in the discussion, I am no longer around much and Rd232 rode off into the sunset. Regardless, I think we should an open a RfC on this issue once and for all. Shall we get the ball rolling? A Stop at Willoughby ( talk) 23:05, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
I don't suppose you could be a little more specific and link a page or transcript or something? -- Gwern (contribs) 01:22 16 December 2011 (GMT)
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Hi,
Are you still interested in the idea of at least some non-admins being able to view deleted pages? I understand that the proposal was shot down previously by foundation counsel; however I believe I have at least two possible answers to their concerns.
One possibility is to make this prospective (apparently the antonynm of retrospective although I'm not so sure) - that is to say that only edits deleted after its implementation can be viewed. For revisions such as libelous edits or copyright violations and so on, there can be a hard delete, lying some way between this soft delete and oversight, which will function just like a present deletion. Admins could also have the power to toggle a deletion from hard to soft (or to undelete) - so selected deletions made before this feature is implemented could be made soft.
The second possibility is to introduce a procedure somewhat like RFA where users are given permission to view deleted edits by the community. As admin privileges are currently granted not just based on trust in general, but also on trust that the tools will be used appropriately, there is a much greater pool of users who would be eligible to be given this permission.
And of course, it is perfectly possible to use both of these systems at once.
I have cross posted this to a few users who were active in the discussion in 2008 - I don't feel this is a violation of CANVASS because I have not made the proposal myself - the reality is I need an experienced Wikipedia with some "street cred" to make it. I already attempted to steer a discussion of a similar proposal this way, but sadly that discussion is irretrievable (see here - or even better, don't!). Because I have posted this to a few users, I would be greatful if you would reply at User_talk:Egg Centric/Proposal and perhaps we can get a discussion going!
Thank you!
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P.S. - silly me, I forgot to link to the original discussion in 2008. Here it is: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Persistent_proposals/Straw_poll_for_view-deleted
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With the holidays behind us, I think now would be a good time to hold the RfC on changing the revision deletion policy, about which I dropped you a message approximately a month ago. I reviewed the proposed language we were discussing last spring, and it strikes me as just fine. The only thing I would question is the part which suggests possible replacements for RD5. First of all, I think we can/should consider RD7 (banned users' edits) a dead proposal, based on the RfC on that matter, which was actually completed. Second, while the proposed replacements which would parallel CSD#U3 and CSD#G9 could both potentially be incorporated into the RevDel criteria, perhaps they shouldn't be proposed in this RfC. Including those proposals in this RfC might be a bid to do two too many things at once. Just look at WT:REVDEL#Proposed changes and how muddled it got, and that was because only two distinct proposals were being put forth! Your thoughts? A Stop at Willoughby ( talk) 03:35, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
I've started the RfC on the talk page here. I reviewed everything carefully and tweaked Rd232's proposal a bit, and I think that the current text of the proposal is in line with the ideas we agreed upon in May. If there are any changes you would like to make, I welcome you to do so. A Stop at Willoughby ( talk) 16:25, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
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This is the title - PIPA Weakens as SOPA Gets Hypocritical - the only mention of the word hypocritical - the article was not written by Forbes and Smith is not named in the title. I am of the position that your addition (since removed) was basically your editorial license on top of the original editorial license which created a completely undue and basically, false statement. You really can 23:13, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
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Sorry for the radio silence, guys :). I just wanted to let you know that we're planning on starting a new round of hand coding, which you can sign up for here. This will be the final round (honest!), and is basically because we found some really interesting results from the last round that blew our collective mind. It's important to check that they weren't a fluke, though, and so a bit more work is needed.
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As previously mentioned, we're doing a big round of hand-coding to finalise testing :). I've been completedly bowled over by the response: we have 20 editors participating, some old and some new, which is a new record for this activity. Many thanks to everyone who has volunteered so far!
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We've also been working on the Abuse Filter plugin for the tool; this will basically be the same as the existing system, only applied to comments. Because of that, we're obviously going to need slightly different filters, because different things will need to be blocked :). We're holding a special office hours session tomorrow at 22:00 UTC to discuss it. If you're a regex nut, existing abuse filter writer, or simply interested in the feedback tool and have suggestions, please do come along :).
I'm pretty sure that's it; if I've missed anything or you have any additional queries, don't hesitate to contact me! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 14:45, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hey all :)
Just a quick update on what we've been working on:
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I've been informed that you might be helpful at an SPI regarding Poetlister, by someone who is no longer a part of the community. [15] Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 22:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
As my recent contribs might suggest, life has dragged me away - I'll be back and around, but could be off-wiki some time, more than likely measured in many months rather than weeks (with exceptions when something irresistible to edit comes up). Admins - please assume my consent if you want to deal with any case or matter where I've been active; if I'm not around do what seems best. Email is here if anyone needs it or wants to check anything with me; I should get that fairly promptly and will try to respond. If I don't (or if I do but help is limited as I'm busy), do what seems best. I'll be back in wiki-harness, but some good stuff has come up to work on for a while, plus helping out a little this year and maybe next with a different free project that needs it. FT2 22:18, 9 June 2012 (UTC) |
If you get time, please see WP:VPP#The newcomers manual. Simply south.... .. always punctual, no matter how late for just 6 years 20:33, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :). First-off, thanks to everyone for all their help so far; we're coming up to a much wider deployment :). Starting at the end of this month, and scaling up until 3 July, AFT5 will begin appearing on 10 percent of articles. For this release we plan on sending out a CentralNotice that every editor will see - and for this, we need your help :). We've got plans, we know how long it's going to run for, where it's going to run...but not what it says. If you've got ideas for banners, give this page a read and submit your suggestion! Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 16:25, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Please take help from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/265088/Higgs-particle Thanks-- ♥ Kkm010 ♥ ♪ Talk ♪ ߷ ♀ Contribs ♀ 05:30, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey all!
So, big news this week - on Tuesday, we ramped up to 5 percent of articles :). There's been a lot more feedback (pardon the pun) as I'm sure you've noticed, and to try and help we've scheduled a large number of office hours sessions, including one this evening at 22:00 UTC in the #wikimedia-office connect channel, and another at 01:00 UTC for the aussies amongst us :). I hope to see some of you there - if any of you can't make it but have any questions, I'm always happy to help.
Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 20:38, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!
On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.
For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another office hours session. This one is tomorrow, at 22:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office connect - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!
I think I recall that Peter Damian was involved with you before he was community banned. FYI there is a community unban discussion on WP:AN right now. You may want to comment there... Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 07:25, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Would you please not add contentious material to a protected page without consensus? This edit is highly inflammatory for a BLP, especially the claim of "Akin's scientific ignorance", the edit about "distrust of rape reports" is similarly inflammatory, and this edit is a clear violation of WP:SYNTH. Per WP:PROTECT you should only be making changes to a protected article if they are uncontroversial or have consensus on the talk page.-- The Devil's Advocate ( talk) 14:22, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.
In this issue:
--The Olive Branch 19:01, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
This edition The Olive Branch is focusing on a 2nd dispute resolution RfC. Two significant proposals have been made. Below we describe the background and recent progress and detail those proposals. Please review them and follow the link at the bottom to comment at the RfC. We need your input!
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Until late 2003, Jimmy Wales was the arbiter in all major disputes. After the Mediation Committee and the Arbitration Committee were founded, Wales delegated his roles of dispute resolution to these bodies. In addition to these committees, the community has developed a number of informal processes of dispute resolution. At its peak, over 17 dispute resolution venues existed. Disputes were submitted in each venue in a different way. Due to the complexity of Wikipedia dispute resolution, members of the community were surveyed in April 2012 about their experiences with dispute resolution. In general, the community believes that dispute resolution is too hard to use and is divided among too many venues. Many respondents also reported their experience with dispute resolution had suffered due to a shortage of volunteers and backlogging, which may be due to the disparate nature of the process. An evaluation of dispute resolution forums was made in May this year, in which data on response and resolution time, as well as success rates, was collated. This data is here.
Leading off from the survey in April and the evaluation in May, several changes to dispute resolution noticeboard (DRN) were proposed. Rather than using a wikitext template to bring disputes to DRN, editors used a new javascript form. This form was simpler to use, but also standardised the format of submissions and applied a word limit so that DRN volunteers could more easily review disputes. A template to summarise, and a robot to maintain the noticeboard, were also created. As a result of these changes, volunteers responded to disputes in a third of the time, and resolved them 60% faster when compared to May. Successful resolution of disputes increased by 17%. Submissions were 25% shorter by word count.(see Dispute Resolution Noticeboard Statistics - August compared to May) Outside of DRN other simplification has taken place. The Mediation Cabal was closed in August, and Wikiquette assistance was closed in September. Nevertheless, around fifteen different forums still exist for the resolution of Wikipedia disputes.
Given the success of the past efforts at DR reform, the current RFC proposes we implement: 1) A submission gadget for every DR venue tailored to the unique needs of that forum.
2) A universal dispute resolution wizard, accessible from Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.
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Please share your thoughts at the RfC.
--The Olive Branch 18:41, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi FT2, would you be willing to userfy (or at the very least email) the content of Timeline of the Enron scandal, so I can clean it up and restore the article? I believe that is a valuable article for Wikipedia to have, and am willing to spend some time cleaning it up to make sure it satisfies BLP policies. Thanks, Lego Kontribs TalkM 01:25, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
The question of balance in the introduction has been much discussed on the talk page, and I suggest you raise your concerns there. This site is certainly not a BBC site, and I doubt its reliability on a topic like this. I'm out for the next few hours, but hope to return to the discussion later. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 13:33, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Template:Uninvolved has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 16:19, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've reverted your edits to the questionaire page. The way it is supposed to work is that you cretae your own subpage for answering the questions, with the page you were editing substituted onto it. Instructions are at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire. Of course your previous answers can be pulled from the page history. Beeblebrox ( talk) 04:50, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.
In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 10:58, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
A copy editor is working on the article Pregnancy from rape. He had some questions on the section on Rape and enforced pregnancy in conflict. Since you are the editor that worked on that section the most, could you answer them, here. Casprings ( talk) 16:14, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hey all :). A couple of quick updates (one small, one large)
First, we're continuing to work on some ways to increase the quality of feedback and make it easier to eliminate and deal with non-useful feedback: hopefully I'll have more news for you on this soon :).
Second, we're looking at ways to increase the actual number of users patrolling and take off some of the workload from you lot. Part of this is increasing the prominence of the feedback page, which we're going to try to do with a link at the top of each article to the relevant page. This should be deployed on Tuesday (touch wood!) and we'll be closely monitoring what happens. Let me know if you have any questions or issues :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 14:26, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm asking if this revision of Rider University ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Rider_University&oldid=515565523) on 2:56, October 2, 2012 to be removed from public view/deleted from history. It seems to be pointless vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.172.140.149 ( talk) 00:41, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
If you are an administrator, you are automatically approved. There is no need to add yourself to the user list. However, don't forget AWB Rule 2 (Consider opening a bot account if you are regularly making more than a few edits a minute.")." from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage. Dougweller ( talk) 15:38, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi FT2, could you please have a look at the discussion in the talk page of the Higgs boson article?. Thanks, Ptrslv72 ( talk) 22:19, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
The possibility of RfA clerking was discussed in depth last year. The discussion is being revisited with new suggestions. If the proposal is to be developed the question of appointing clerks would need to be examined. This could be an informal process modeled on the appointment of SPI clerks. Your input at Wikipedia talk:RfA reform (continued)/Clerks would be most appreciated. Many thanks, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 01:37, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Hey all; another newsletter.
That's all for now! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 16:10, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
When I saw your recent edits to this article, I thought to myself "those are good edits". Then I realized that kind of thought should not be kept to myself. So ... thanks!
Cheers, CWC 01:50, 17 February 2013 (UTC) an AutoPatcher user
Hey all.
As promised, we've built a set of improvements to the Article Feedback Tool, which can be tested through the links here. Please do take the opportunity to play around with it, let me know of any bugs, and see what you think :).
A final reminder that the Request for Comment on whether AFT5 should be turned on on Wikipedia (and how) is soon to close; for those of you who have not submitted an opinion or !voted, it can be found here.
Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 19:15, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
I thought File:RevDelete isn't subtle (2).png was looking a bit out of date, so, voilà: File:RevDelete still isn't subtle.png. — Hex (❝?!❞) 17:54, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
I wish you had floated such a radical plan on the talk page before implementing it. It took some effort (by several other editors, my part in it was small) to bring the article to GA status, now I believe that the status should be reassessed. There is repetition between the newly-added RHIC part and the pre-existing LHC part, and your new organization of the paragraphs seems odd. E.g., in the previous version the section "Safety Arguments" summarized the physics of the various safety concerns, while the section "specific concerns and responses" (specific being the operative word) explained who said what and how it was rebutted (I agree that the titles could have been better). However, now you treat MBH, strangelets and "concerns not meeting peer review" as three subsections of the same "specific concerns" section. But in fact the "concerns not meeting peer review" (formerly "specific concerns and responses") concern indeed catastrophic MBH production! Also, the title "examples of colliders" sounds quite silly and does not fit very well the content of the paragraph. Ptrslv72 ( talk) 23:10, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
P.S. pay attention to the Higgs boson article, an anonymous editor has been adding doomsday rants on the vacuum instability issue to the lead. Ptrslv72 ( talk) 23:12, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Hey FT2; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 23:54, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Check again that talk page, there is a case for an immediate block. Ptrslv72 ( talk) 01:46, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Now this IP editor is harassing me with an utterly frivolous sockpuppet tag. This requires an urgent explanation. Ptrslv72 ( talk) 21:54, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
<redacted> 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 22:11, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
My textbooks have apparently been plagerized. Mr. Brandt distributes a free tool and I just ran it and I found dozens of articles which plagurized my research papers on arxiv and several textbooks. Who do I report this to? 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 02:20, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Am I permitted to simply remove the materials in question and post the relevant links to the talk page? 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 03:20, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
I am not interested in sending OCILLA or any other nonsense legalese documents to anyone. For one it's a waste of everyone's time. For another, it's simply not my style. When people have to resort to such things, the relationship of mutuality is simply over. 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 03:22, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Never mind. I'll just simply post the materials to Mr. Brandt's website. They seem to get taken down then. I have dozens of papers on arxiv and they are not free use copyright since they were published by an acedemic organization and not posted wikipedia style there. At any rate, I'll send them to him to post. 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 03:25, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
You are going to crap your drawers when you find out who I am in the physics community. I am blacklisting this website in our organization. Jus! 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 03:30, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Don't bother. I don't want to waste any more time. Anything and everything except simply apologize for your conduct. i.e. Dear Sir, we noticed you yourself removed the edit in question before we threatened you. We apologize for doing so, please consider helping us, since we clearly need it. Try that instead. 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 04:01, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
What the hell is a talk page for then? I was attempting to discuss it with someone and we had concensus, what right do you have to threaten us after we ourselves handled it without you? 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 04:03, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Blocking 68.69.166.126 ( talk · contribs) became unavoidable. See his latest oversighted contribs to see why. Someguy1221 ( talk) 22:24, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Just wanted to thank you for working on Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant. Amazing article - one of the things that makes the internet not suck. Thanks again. U5K0'sTalkMake WikiLove not WikiWar 21:34, 29 March 2013 (UTC) |
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For excellent work on Kermit Gosnell Transcendence ( talk) 18:51, 18 April 2013 (UTC) |
Hey FT2 :). I'm dropping you a note because you have signed up for the Notifications, or Echo, newsletter.
If all goes according to plan, we should be launching Echo on en-wiki either tomorrow, or next Tuesday - I'll drop a followup tomorrow when we know what's happening. Should the launch succeed, we'll begin the process of triaging bugs and gathering feedback on what features work, what cause problems, and what we should do next; I hope you'll help us out on these fronts by leaving any comments you might have on the talkpage.
Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 21:44, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi FT2,
In 2010 you made a major rewrite of Wikipedia talk:User pages. Overall it was very good, though a bit shocking to slow people like myself. Today I decided that I don't support the usefulness of one particular edit: [ [16]]. I have raised the matter here: Wikipedia_talk:User_pages#Cutting_some_unnecessary_text. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 06:47, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey FT2; Kaldari has finished scripting a set of potential replacements available to test and give feedback on. Please go to this thread for more detail on how to enable them. Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 15:33, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Me and. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Tom Lehrer, because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. — me_ and 10:02, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi FT2, have a look here. Cheers, Ptrslv72 ( talk) 15:07, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi FT2, I am wondering if we should keep citing this blog post in the section on Current Status. The post propagates claims of another blog post that, as you can see in the latter's comments section, have been debunked by no less than your new hero Frank Close... ;-) Cheers, Ptrslv72 ( talk) 13:41, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
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Simple heads-up about this edit, given your comment and in January 2012. (My comment here is no judgment of that recent edit; just letting you know about it.) -- 82.170.113.123 ( talk) 23:51, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, FT2. There appears to be a fairly new user (new to English Wikipedia, at least) who has been blanking, overwriting and importing highly biased tracts from RU wikipedia into controversial EN wikipedia pages. As he/she has done this over several edits, I am unable to simply 'undo' the edits and would prefer that a record of the activity remain. This has taken place on the Name of Ukraine article and I'd like it reverted to the this version. I'd be very grateful if you could assist me on this matter. Cheers! -- Iryna Harpy ( talk) 01:23, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I sent you an email. Do you have time to talk before Sunday when I talk about Wikipedia on CNN? Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 21:12, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
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Done [17] -- Frze > talk 17:45, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for taking the time to encourage me, it means a lot. Baalmaloche ( talk) 19:03, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
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On your edit here, fyi, the convention is that it's an outbreak of a virus that causes the disease. It's not an outbreak of disease, per se. People get the virus first, which causes the disease, which is why I changed it to clarify. Would you reconsider your edit, then? SW3 5DL ( talk) 15:39, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Dear FT2, I noticed that you introduced the spelling virii on Ebola virus. In classical Latin virus is a singulare tantum. If one would create a possible plural, vira would be a probable candidate (also used in Stearn's Botanical latin). However, using the English plural 'viruses' would be considered as the best option in this case. With kind regards, Wimpus (talk) 09:02, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
Nice work on
Argentine debt restructuring. Thanks! I think there may still be some duplication, but the article is looking much better.
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Hi I would like to have my revision history deleted from my page
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Hi FT2, this is a question about conflict of interest. I am now talking in the abstract. This matter does not involve you and i am asking for impartial feedback. If an Admin takes repeated Administrative action against other editors involved in disputes with a specific editor, and repeatedly comes to the aid of said editor in even petty disputes, and if there is reason to believe that the Admin knows said editor personally, and said Admin refuses to clarify about whether they know said editor on their talk page on the ground that the question was framed in a rude manner, then is this matter serious enough to be raised in WP:COIN? Furthermore, is there a possibility of a boomerang on the WP:COIN board whereby i could be blocked or indeffed as a result of opening a COIN investigation against said Admin. Thank you. Soham321 ( talk) 23:04, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Johnuniq I consider it rude on your part to butt in when i have asked a specific query to an Admin. You have succeeded in not allowing my query to be kept abstract, without taking any names, which I very much wanted. Please allow me to engage with an Admin on my own terms as far as my query is concerned. Do not participate in this discussion any further since i am keen to have a one-on-one discussion with Admin FT2 on this issue. Feel free to share your views in detail if this matter is taken up before the community. Soham321 ( talk) 04:52, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
I've been insanely busy much of this year, it's true, but in this case it happens I saw the "new messages" note. I'm not aware of the dispute or user names, or where this has been raised, but I would note that if it directly involves Bishonen (whose name appears above), she and I have had past issues and they are best left in the past; you might want to ask someone else with less involvement. Having said that, you asked the question as a general principle (although obviously it directly relates to a specific dispute) so I'll try to help. My comments are injected.
So all the things you describe so far *can* have completely normal and innocent meanings, well within community norms. if there is an editor conduct issue, it would have to be determined by directly looking at the messages, the nature of the alleged offline connection, and evidence from diffs and other relevant conduct, probably on some noticeboard. It's best not to "forum shop". WP:RFC would be a decent place to start if you want to get views in a sensible place. WP:COIN is more for external paid undisclosed editing, self promotion, and so on, which this doesn't sound so much like.
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Is it possible for you to remove incorrect category tags on their page as well? They are currently listed under the categories /info/en/?search=Category:British_male_singer-songwriters and 21st century British male singers which is incorrect. I am unfortunately on mobile and a bit of a wiki noob or I would do it myself.
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Hi FT2, re this also, you note that this had happened before in your edit message. Do you think semi-protection might be appropriate for this page? I'd do it myself but I know CN (very very very vaguely) socially. Morwen ( talk) 15:34, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
How was the complaint delivered? Is there VRT ticket i can reference. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:36, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hi! Would you mind reviewing your close of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rich Shapero? WP:NOT#NEWS and WP:EVENT describe what types of events are suitable to be the main topic of an article, not what is suitable as article content. Or are you saying that every article should be purged of events that doesn't meet that policy and that guideline, even if they are properly referenced? As far as notability goes the application of the GNG is always somewhat subjective in the disputed cases and I was surprised to see you simply going with your own interpretation over the rather strong consensus. Cheers/ Pax:Vobiscum ( talk) 09:27, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
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I'm now seeing the 'Del/undel selected revisions', was the bug fixed? If not, we should probably quickly act to disseminate information about this and caution against using it on log actions subject to breaking per your concerns. – xeno talk 13:55, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Update - RevisionDelete has been enabled for admins (as most here know) - but only for one revision per action. The checkboxes that allow revdelete on multiple revisions in one action are disabled for admins.
The underlying bug issue has not yet been fixed. As best I can guess the idea is that limiting RevDel to one revision per action should stand a chance of being workable. Needs testing though.
My tentative conclusion from testing it so far - log links do still break with deletion, in some cases badly, but the damage is mitigated by the fact it's limited to one revision per action. This does make it much easier to figure out and fix any issues, if the problems described were to happen.
I am continuing to test it and check how the issues stand, I will then post a summary on-wiki. FT2 ( Talk | email) 20:36, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I was reading AN and followed the thread to here. When the revDel feature is stable, I'd like to see this page history cleaned up. There are many revs that quite clearly meet WP:CFRD#2 (which is an invalid anchor due to it starting with a digit). It's the work of our most unwelcome vandal and his /b-tards. I started the page and could put you in touch with the founder of the organization (who is shocked at what is in the page history) Thanks, Jack Merridew 02:35, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Penbat has, IMO without regard for the ongoing discussion and apparent current lack of consensus on the Mobbing discussion page, restored his edits with an edit summary and notes on the Talk page that cast my edits as Vandalism. I would greatly appreciate your feedback and/or intervention. Thank you for your assistance. Doniago ( talk) 20:29, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I have opened a Wikiquette Alert regarding Penbat's conduct towards me, given that the WP:AN discussion was archived without resolution and Penbat's aggressive behavior towards me has continued. Penbat has been notified. Doniago ( talk) 04:48, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
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Any reason in particular you changed the visibility of a revision that was already deleted? I do not immediately see the usefulness of this, as the page was already only visible to administrators, but perhaps I'm missing something. Regards,
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Hi, I'd like to ask for your input here: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Minphie. Recently you commented on Minphie's conduct and we ask if you could come and give feedback at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Minphie as the editor appears not to have taken any heed of the community's feedback on his approach to editing. If you don't remember your exact interactions with Minphie, it is detailed in the RfC/U page. Thankyou for your time, -- Figs Might Ply ( talk) 23:57, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Mr. Godwin is paid by Wikipedia. Wikipedia also presumably pays the water and electric company. Perhaps, CU and oversight could be a paid position. Hire people and bond them. I heard Wikipedia had a big budget so hiring one professional checkuser could go far to address the problem. One professional CU working 8 hours a day could probably clear the CU board quickly. Wikipedia is in San Francisco. I am sure there are hundreds of computer science graduates from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley who might apply for the one full time position.
This is one of many "other" solutions that are possible. Good luck in picking a solution! Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 19:26, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
It's starting to look complicated. Is it not possible to simplify? My perennial fear is that people won't bother to think it through unless it's simple. Tony (talk) 13:02, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Looking throught the comments, if someone were to declare "all the candidates have been appointed", this would not be the consensus. If someone were to declare "some sort of new election", others would be upset, some of them believing that this is an emergency where CU/OS must be appointed within the hour or there will be a massive number of deaths or injury (true emergency).
Choosing either is not selecting the consensus.
When there is no consensus, compromise is sometimes necessary.
Disclaimer: Brainstorming is when one makes suggestions without being afraid of being called an idiot. In doing so, an innovative suggestion may be made. The following is brainstorming.
There could be the declaration that no new CU/OS are appointed. However, the title of "Provisional OS" or "Provisional CU" could be appointed to a limited number of people. The title of "provisional" is to highlight that they are different from the others. They will be under greater public review, have a limited term, and must submit a report of their actions daily (posted on their talk page). In the interim, there will be new elections as a concession to those who say that election rules should not be significantly altered after an election has taken place.
This proposal will be liked by nobody but incorporates ideas of several opinions. Also, it is brainstorming.
This proposal is also among the very few that attempt to reach compromise.
Good luck in trying to find a fair idea that has widespread support. We are cheering you on! Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 16:46, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Does the RFC have an end date? June 29th? With something of this importance, it is better not to say that it ends when someone says it ends. Otherwise, one could say that it ends when I win and continues if I am losing. Of course, if we say ahead of time that it ends some time after two weeks, then nobody should think that we are short circuiting the time period. So an alternate would be no sooner than June 14th but as long as a month.
I bring this up not to make trouble but to prevent trouble! Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 22:11, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Berghuis v. Thompkins
After 3 hours of silence to police questions....
Do you believe in God? Yes
Do you pray to God to forgive you for killing John Smith? Yes, oops.
That is like...
In the court room: The People of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts versus John Smith. Charged with 2 murders (error in speaking) in the first degree.
Two? I only killed one guy! Oops! Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 22:57, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
i suppose i am the only one laughing..... :( Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 20:21, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
I replied to your comments. Joe Chill ( talk) 15:26, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hey - I removed your proposed issues as they were not phrased as "one-sentence questions." Please feel free to rephrase them into questions, or contribute your thoughts elsewhere on the workshop page. Thank you. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 12:28, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Congratulations, I have listed Berghuis v. Thompkins as a Good Article. Please consider reviewing a nominee for Good Article. Regards, GregJackP ( talk) 19:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
User:TubingTommy posted on Keegscee's SPI, claims to be Keegscee. I have asked User:Georgewilliamherbert who has been wranglin' the socks of Keegscee previously to get with a checkuser and flush out the other ones and rangeblock, but he appears to be offline for the moment, hence I bring this to your attention. -
Forgive me if I've missed an announcement somewhere, but is it still best to avoid using Revision Delete on multiple revisions at once or has that bug been fixed? I can see you've had this and related conversations more than once, but I'm not an admin so some of it still escapes me. VernoWhitney ( talk) 14:47, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I've had a look at your DYK nom for this article. I've only started reviewing DYKs (so I could be wrong!) but on first inspection it seems to fall short of 5 x expansion if you want to have a look at it.
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You deleted an article which should be restored:
Your decision-making in this instance was flawed. The fact that Britannica considers this figure sufficiently important to include in its online encyclopedia for children is sufficient argument for the article to be restored -- see here.
Please do what you can to rectify this unfortunate mistake.
When restored, you may trust that I will add material sufficient to clarify its legitimate status as an article.
Thank you. -- Tenmei ( talk) 21:17, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
SOM defined a new architectural approach of team work and total or comprehensive design, since the firm undertook everything: design, engineering, landscaping, urban planning and interiors. Also an innovation, especially given the quality of work and the prominence of the firm, was that none of the founding partners actually designed.
The unique character of SOM’s work was influenced by the engineers who became partners in the practice.<:ref name="wilson"/>
John O. Merrill is not an appropriate article for the speedy deletion process. -- Tenmei ( talk) 23:53, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
The burden of research supports the notability of John O. Merrill; and the following is sufficient to rebut any "speedy deletion" argument. In summary, the notability of John O. Merrill is verified by reliable sources: (a) the obit in the New York Times, (b) the article in the Grove Art Online, (c) the article in the American National Biography and (d) WorldCat Identities ... plus (e) the previously mentioned but unused article in the Britannica online.
The article text explains that John O. Merrill is
On June 21, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Berghuis v. Thompkins, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
— Rlevse • Talk • 18:03, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
...so I guess we should have a community discussion on whether we want it enabled here? – xeno talk 12:45, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
This Arbitration case is now moving into the Workshop phase. Please read Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration#Workshop to understand the process. Editors should avoid adding to their evidence sections outside of slight tweaks to aid in understanding; large-scale additions should not be made. Many proposals have already been made and there has already been extensive discussion on them, so please keep the Arbitrators' procedures in mind, namely to keep "workshop proposals as concise as reasonably possible." Workshop proposals should be relevant and based on already provided evidence; evidence masquerading as proposals will likely be ignored. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 20:37, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello! I have requested a move for WP:Ownership of articles → WP:Page ownership. As you participated in the previous discussion, could you please voice your opinion again regarding this move, as it is my intention to restart the discussion with a clean slate. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 23:02, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
I have mentioned you at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and User talk:Nihonjoe. Ncmvocalist ( talk) 14:40, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I appreciate your comments and criticisms. I know more work needs to be done here, unfortunately, my schedule does not permit me to respond immediately to this. My intent is to continue the make improvement to this BLP however, I have become swamped with work assignments. Can we keep the bulk of the content in my user space? I will not move into article space without significant improvement as I find it, nor will I move it without review. All that I have done has been in the open, I have not deleted anyone's comments. I would really hate to start over though. Thank you! ( User talk:Lisa Snead)) Cre8tivedge 19:04, 30 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cre8tivedge ( talk • contribs)
Thank you so much for returning this to my user space. I do see where significant changes need to be made and your statements are fair and clear! Thanks again!
User talk:Lisa SneadCre8tivedge 18:00, 5 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cre8tivedge ( talk • contribs)
Hi, just a note to let you know that the RFC discussion you started has closed "Immediate steps" poll by FT2 and is in need of assesment and the next step, whatever that is to be, regards. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:05, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments. That topic is stuck in my throat and I could write pages and pages about it. Luckily for you, I am rather busy with real-life work so I will just blurt out a few disconnected thoughts.
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Well, sorry for this long rant. All the best, -- Jorge Stolfi ( talk) 01:36, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Sorry if I'm troubling you, but, I was trying to put an email link on my page, or find how to email another user when they don't have a link, and I saw the link on your page, and I just wanted to ask how you put it there. I will be truely thankful if you can answer me. Zarin87 ( talk) 04:38, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
I saw you'd posted to Antigrandiose ( talk · contribs)'s talk page. I'm bothered by the way he not only uses his userspace as facebook/myspace, but also copies into it other people's posts. Worth taking to MfD do you think? Dougweller ( talk) 20:25, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
... You didn't even give me a chance to respond to your inaccurate "quick corrections." You'd rather just delete something than risk being shown wrong. I'm left with the feeling that I was waylayed, by two or three people, who had a problem with my page that was far out of proportion to the problem that other editors and administrators had/would have had with it. -- Antigrandiose ( talk) 20:25, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
You recently !voted on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Microformats. This is a courtesy note to let you now that I have now posted, as promised, my view there, and to ask you revisit the debate. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:52, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi FT2. I closed a RfC today - Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Request_for_Comment_on_Fox_News_Channel. The close has been disputed - User_talk:SilkTork#RfC_close_on_Wikipedia:Reliable_sources.2FNoticeboard. Would you take a look at it to give your view and hopefully resolve the matter one way or the other. SilkTork * YES! 00:56, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
As a long time IP editor, I'd like to know if there was any discussion before you changed the coloring of the text. As it stands, it's overbearing, distracting, and is alreading causing a bit of eye strain. Any chance I can get you to change it back, or at least to something with a bit less contrast? I really understand the desire to grab attention, but this is a bit over the top. 69.181.249.92 ( talk) 07:33, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I am the original creator of the article Flying humanoid, which you deleted in May 2008. Could you possibly restore the article in my userspace so that I can improve the sourcing? -- Uga Man ( talk) 21:41, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
FYI – xeno talk 16:57, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
As someone who previously participated in the discussion to adopt policy verbiage that is being used as a rationale to delete "vandalism sandboxes", your input would be appreciated on the matter: Wikipedia talk:User pages#Userspace Vandalism Sandboxes. Gigs ( talk) 15:08, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I saw that you created the new 'Clean Start' policy page. I have a question about that policy, and don't know where to ask it, so I there I'd start with you. There is a "new" user whom I suspect is a returning user trying to make a clean start. The previous account has not been banned or sanctioned as far as I can tell, but had been blocked, more than once, for various violations (edit warring, harassment). It has been retired (not active for 1+ year, 'retired' box on the user page), but the "new" account is editing in the same topic area (which is a highly volatile one on Wikipedia), and making contentious edits (e.g. - blanket revert of several days worth of edits , undoing 20+ edits by 4 editors). This appears to be in clear violation of WP:CLEAN START, which says 'a user who then re-enters disputes and topics where their conduct was likely to be noticed (blocks, disputes, disruptive editing, contentious and edit warred topics, and the like) may be seen as evading scrutiny'. The question is what can be done about this? I am not sure a sock puppet investigation is the right way, because technically, I am not sure if this is sock puppetry. HupHollandHup ( talk) 14:59, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
You're really stretching the definition of "nutshell" there! (must be a walnut or coconut) – xeno talk 13:23, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
← re: "finally" I understand your desired use (i.e. "full and final" departure) but it might also be read as "Thank the maker - this guy is finally leaving" ;> – xeno talk 14:40, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello FT2: Your user page [[User:FT2/LTO]] may be in violation of WP:USERNOCAT. The Category that it appears in, Category:Periods with timeline in infobox, appears to be a maintenance category, so it seems reasonable to allow user pages to appear in the category while development of a page is proceeding. Your user page in question does not seem to be in active development. Do you think you should comment out or otherwise deactivate the code that is putting this page into a category? Thanks for your consideration. -- Fartherred ( talk) 21:48, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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File:Deepwater Horizon oil spill - May 24, 2010 - with locator.jpg is from May 24, but the disaster is from April 22 ... whats wrong? Palu ( talk) 23:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
this is totally off in left field, but I like that recap table you used here. do you think i would be worth the effort of turning that into a template for more general use in summary-type situations? I'm happy to do it, I just don't know if it would get used sufficiently to justify the effort. -- Ludwigs2 23:38, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
For pointing out the exception to the topic ban. I assumed there had to be one, but had not seen it. Lots of luck with the rewrite, Sandstein has some good points, but progress is occurring. My main goal is to make sure that user talk pages are in scope (i.e. not an exception to the ban).-- SPhilbrick T 19:21, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
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Feel free to stop by the AfD and see how I've improved the underlying article. If you've still got concerns that you want me to address, feel free to let me know, but I think I've fixed everything, except the title--which I agree needs work and better options are currently being discussed both in the AfD and the article talk page. Cheers, Jclemens ( talk) 01:35, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
What started as you bothering me over my tag moving around resulted in great social progress and similarly awesome results in the name of better service on behalf of User:RFC bot. For your efforts in achieving change I award you the Congressman Gene Taylor Award for Progress, ironically named after a conservative member of Congress. harej 03:35, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for restarting the discussion. At this point we needed a new proposal to "wipe the slate" and get something moving. That said, I think it might need an adjustment in wording. The short summary implies that the article has to be stale either way, but the way it's written, the first clause could apply to non-stale articles. Gigs ( talk) 13:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
It seems as if most of this page was unintentionally hatted. Not sure how to fix this. What do you think? ScottyBerg ( talk) 14:25, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
For BLP reasons I have removed, so that at least it does not show on the top version of the article, the link to an "unredacted" version of the document, which names names. If the article gets kept, I think that link should be suppressed, if possible. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:16, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Here you go: File:Gladiator.png. If you need anything else, let me know. Oh, and if you could check over the fair use template, I'd appreciate that. This is my first screenshot for WP, so I might have made some slight errors in the red tape. Dismas| (talk) 05:42, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
The article you defaulted to keep is up again for deleted a day later by the exact same person who tried to have it deleted a few days before. Can they constantly apply to have an article removed, even if an admin has approved to keep it? This person has systematically gone through every article referring to a show or TV network involving Larry Bundy Jr. Which seems rather strange. -- FirecrackerDemon ( talk) 06:05, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi FT2. I'm trialling an invitation to edit at Pain that links readers to a simple editing tutorial from the top of the article. I've added a link in that tutorial to Expectations and norms.
Did you mean to delete my post here? Tijfo098 ( talk) 13:19, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you please take a look at On Beauty? Now there is a third SPA, an IP editor actually, posting that same link (and messing up some of the rest of the article. Thanks. Logical Cowboy ( talk) 22:36, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you please have a look at Zadie Smith? Same editor is back. Logical Cowboy ( talk) 17:46, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:Drauper freak wave.png. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the file description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
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Dear FT2, thank you for nominating yourself as a candidate in the 2010 Arbitration Committee elections. On behalf of the coordinators, allow me to welcome you to the election and make a few suggestions to help you get set up. By now, you ought to have written your nomination statement, which should be no more than 400 words and declare any alternate or former user accounts you have contributed under (or, in the case of privacy concerns, a declaration that you have disclosed them to the Arbitration Committee). Although there are no fixed guidelines for how to write a statement, note that many candidates treat this as an opportunity, in their own way, to put a cogent case as to why editors should vote for them—highlighting the strengths they would bring to the job, and convincing the community they would cope with the workload and responsibilities of being an arbitrator.
You should at this point have your own questions subpage; feel free to begin answering the questions as you please. Together, the nomination statement and questions subpage should be transcluded to your candidate profile, whose talkpage will serve as the central location for discussion of your candidacy. If you experience any difficulty setting up these pages, please follow the links in the footer below. If you need assistance, on this or any other matter (including objectionable questions or commentary by others on your candidate pages), please notify the coordinators at their talkpage. If you have followed these instructions correctly, congratulations, you are now officially a candidate for the Arbitration Committee. Good luck! Skomorokh 22:10, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. Best of luck in your upcoming trial by fire. As in previous years I have a series of questions I ask candidates. This year there are restrictions on the length and number of questions on the "official" page for questions, restrictions which I do not agree with, but which I will abide by. I nevertheless think my questions are important and relevant (and I am not the only person to think so, in previous years they have drawn favorable comment from many, including in at least one case indepth analysis of candidates answers to them by third parties). You are invited to answer them if you so choose. I suggest that the talk page of your questions page is a good place to put them and I will do so with your acquiescence (for example, SirFozzie's page already has them as do the majority of other candidates). Your answers, (or non-answers should you decide not to answer them), that will be a factor in my evaluation of your candidacy. Please let me know as soon as practical what your wish is. Thanks and best of luck. (please answer here, I'll see it, and it keeps things together better) ++ Lar: t/ c 22:12, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Just came across Wikipedia:Revision deletion/Admin when I was searching for something else; seems like a now-redundant old draft. Just wondered if you want to delete it or if there's some reason to keep. Rd232 talk 01:07, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
What do you mean by "We do have articles on "multiple characters who share a name", whether related, in the same topic area, or unrelated"? Why should we have articles on characters who have no actual connection?
In Wikipedia, things are grouped into articles based on what they are, not what they are called by.
Judging by that AfD and the previous one, it seems clear that all that information shouldn't be on the same page, so I'm sure we shouldn't have articles on things with nothing in common but name. NotARealWord ( talk) 15:54, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I see that you deleted your archives ( User talk:FT2/Archive) on 27 August 2009. Is there any reason for preventing non-admins from seeing this? John Vandenberg ( chat) 23:04, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
This message has been posted to both involved parties' talk pages in identical form. Please discuss this further at the coordination talk page, rather than on your individual pages.
Let me make this very clear. This has to stop, if not because it reflects poorly on the two of you, if not because it reflects poorly on the elections, but at the very least because it is, at this point, disruptive. You are bickering over information that the public can not see, and accusations are being traded that can not be verified by the community at large. At this point, the damage is limited, and both of you have much more to gain by shaking hands and moving on. If there is a real concern here, it should be brought to ArbCom in private. If this is only posturing, it has to end. This is neither the time nor the place for this concern to be voiced, and while I do not have the authority to compel you to stop, I would kindly ask (in the strongest possible way) that it does.
Thank you, Sven Manguard Talk 05:58, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
I spent some time today rereading the OrangeMarlin and Oversighted edits debacle of late 2007-early 2009. One thing that confused me was Thatcher's statement in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/FT2 ("FT2, FloNight and I also discussed the issue of the oversighted edits in an IRC chat on April 24, 2008. Arbcom has the log. Thatcher 19:26, 14 January 2009 (UTC)"). That seemingly contradicts your extended statement and previous posts you made, which indicate that you were unaware of any such oversighted edits (although I can think of a number of things that would explain the situation). Could you clarify please? NW ( Talk) 22:05, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
That is a great response to the question FT2, but it is based on your 'data' and is not the right answer. The following dates could be slightly wrong as I haven't looked closely at timezones.
The Arbs in that IRC discussion may not have mentioned the specifics, but they were aware of them, or should have, or could have easily found them in their Inbox.
And riddle me this; why were you involved in that IRC discussion at all? You should have known to stay well away from this issue. By participating in it, you give up your right to claim you know nothing when the details were right there under your nose. John Vandenberg ( chat) 10:01, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
From Arbcom election Q&A, December 2007 ( link):
Question by Irpen:
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Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:Bestiarii (EUR Museum).jpg. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the file description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
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Hi FT2. I am writing my own ArbCom Election voting guide. One of the criteria I am reviewing is candidate's activity. Would you consider opting in for this tool, so that we can see your monthly (and yearly) distribution of edits? Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:01, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, FT2, I only just discovered this comment of yours from earlier. Sorry about that. At this point, it seems largely moot, but I've written a brief reply on what little I thought still mattered at this point. Mostly just didn't want you to think I was deliberately ignoring you. Cheers. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 11:38, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
FT2, thank you for your helpful sourcing improvements to the article Meade Emory. Much appreciated, -- Cirt ( talk) 04:39, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
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Any idea how I could get a copy of the logs referred to here [8]. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.187.54 ( talk) 19:58, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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I know it's just cleanup, but still not a good idea, if avoidable. -- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 20:30, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Please stop editing a protected article. As an admin you should know that admin tools are not to be used for overriding page protection. 88.112.59.31 ( talk) 20:31, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
This led me to believe that we shouldn't be making cosmetic edits to the fully-protected article. I reverted all my changes post-full-protection, but it all looks a little inconsistent to me. I'd expect some kerfuffle at AN/I about all this... Oh well, whatever. Just thought you should know. The Rambling Man ( talk) 20:33, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Full page protection generally applies to contentious issues. If any user objected to an edit, it would then of course need talk page discussion, but cleanup of sections unrelated to the issue are not usually a problem.
Page protection policy related to content disputes: "Pages that are protected because of content disputes should not be edited except to make changes which are uncontroversial or for which there is clear consensus".
This is going to be an extremely high traffic article with much public attention over the next few days. It is also a BLP and requires the highest quality of sourcing and writing. The content issue is purely related to her medical condition after the shooting and compliance with BLP policy in the wake of media focus. The rest is not contentious, and I personally do not intend to make any edits other than quality / factuality / tone. If any specific edit is in fact contentious then it should be reverted and discussed, or discussed first if likely to be contentious. Administrators are trusted to understand this - editing through protection is not trivial.
But " Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy", WP:BLP, protection policy, and WP:IAR all come into play here. As Newyorkbrad correctly says, this is a case where cleanup is appropriate and sensible. The page is protected purely to prevent inappropriate BLP editing on the question of her death and medical condition, and vandalism or very poor editing, due to its high profile.
FT2 ( Talk | email) 20:51, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2, you are not one to habitually agree with me. :-) Could you have a look at Wikipedia:WQA#Response_to_Jehochman and the underlying content issues. You have a good eye for WP:NPOV. I'd value your feedback. Regards, Jehochman Talk 17:16, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
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I hope to hear from you soon.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 20:12, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
I arrived at the Wikipedia:Requests for oversight page through a series of links, as I am prone to do. While reading through the page to see what it was all about, I discovered that under the "Necessary information" section right around the middle of the page, there was the sentence "...which can saves time". However, there was (for reasons unclear to me), no talk page for the article to report this. Looking through the revision history, I saw that you had done some grammar correctional edits, and, currently, the most recent editor for the page. Forgive me if I'm asking the wrong thing of the wrong person, but, because of the aforementioned reasons and since you're an administrator, I was wondering if you would be able to correct this error. My preemptive gratitude, W M 2 22:10, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
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See User talk:Risker#Long post is long.. I'm extending the same invitation I made to Risker there to you, and to anyone else you can think of to invite. Steven Walling at work 01:31, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Since you Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_January_26#Category:Persons_convicted_of_fraud participated in the recent CfD of Category:Persons convicted of fraud I wanted to inform you that the category was recently recreated and relisted. Here is a link to the current CfD should you wish to participate. Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_February_20#Category:Persons_convicted_of_fraud. Cheers. Griswaldo ( talk) 03:49, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello. Sorry to disturb you. I don't know if TV or anime is your cup of tea, but you should anyway check the following IPs, all of which are trying to put "anime" hoaxes and other misinformation and "connections" to the Philippine cartoon, Super Inggo at ang Super Tropa. I've also noted that users of these addresses (possibly a single person) have also put unsourced information and categories on other unrelated anime articles and several others. Here are the addresses I found so far (he may have used more):
To top this all off, these addresses are based in Russia. So obviously, the vandal surely couldn't provide sources for his edits as the said cartoon (if I'm not mistaken) has not been aired out of the Philippines. So what do you think? Can a block be imposed on either or both of the 92.100.128.0/17 and 91.122.80.0/20 ranges? It seems the addresses are assigned to the same provider. Thanks in advance. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 03:16, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
You’ve helped me before with an IP block exemption. I’m blocked again, it seems. Could you please look into this? -- Babelfisch ( talk) 08:29, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Hmmm...you've made the sentence say that the growth of LV in the '40s was due almost entirely to the Manhattan Project. But the source says that the growth of LV between 1945 and 1962 was that way. You might want to double check the source there. -- jpgordon ::==( o ) 02:20, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Good morning FT2,
I just want to let you know that there is in your rank of unpaid moderators a guy whose skill consists in applying your rules in a stubborn and almost inept way.
Moreover, this person seems to have psychological disorders as he always reverts "vandalism" everywhere, all the time. With him, you have absolutely hunted down a real gem: he is a real know-all! His pseudo is Logical Cowboy.
I think it is very charitable on the part of Wikipedia to provide the laid-off worker with occupations, but it could be nice if you would not impose persons with social misfit upon net surfers...
Thank you in advance,
Jay —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.64.105.92 ( talk) 06:44, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
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Pandelver ( talk) 15:59, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Some say source requirements for ethnicity and gender of WP:EGRS don't apply to WP:BLP living persons, simply because the two words aren't in the policy. (Apparently, they think it should only apply to dead people.) I see that you have participated on this topic at the Village Pump.
They also are trying to remove the notability, relevance, and self-identification criteria at WT:EGRS, but that's another fight for another day, I'm simply too busy to watch two fronts at the same time.
We're on the 6th day. Traditionally, these polls go for 7; unless there's no obvious consensus, when we go for an additional 7 days.
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Hi FT - thanks for poking at the AONN stuff earlier. The author of the article has started replying again and I would ask you to look at this diff as it seems to be for lack of a better way to put it a little bit crazy. I'm not especially bothered by it but since looking at his contribution history he seems to have done this sort of thing before, a block or more stern warning of some nature may be in order.
As an additional minor note, the only reason there were personal details of any sort in my post was because their disclosure seemed to be in the interests of the sockpuppetry policy. The only details I posted were already disclosed on our userpages, anyway. Kgorman-ucb ( talk) 05:09, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
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You know, on taking a look at the article, I am not dead sure why it was deleted either - despite my having done that. Whether it was from a conscious decision or a simple error at the time, I agree with you at present and will restore the article with a few cleanups. Some of it does have a slight LOOK of promotional material (the "goals" section primarily), which I'll try to polish up. Thanks a bunch for bringing this to my attention. - Vianello ( Talk) 18:15, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I was hoping as an admin you could give me some advice. I am thinking about deleting a sentence in a rather controversial article. Basically the article is about a famous song performed by a living person, but the sentence is about that persons actions and allegations against that person which I think mean the sentence should be held to WP:BLP standards. I posted on the talk page that I wanted to delete the sentence. No one has responded to the suggestion either for or against. Does no response after a month imply consensus about the change, especially considering the talk page has had about 75 edits since I have posted the comment. I want to "be bold" but I was reverted the last time I undid this sentence without any explanation. I don't want to start an edit war. How do I proceed. I tried to comb the wiki guidelines but couldn't find the relevant advice. Thanks -- MATThematical ( talk) 02:04, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Since you all will not let the page stay up, can you redirect it to OG RON C wiki page. He works for him, developes his website, and his is road Dj? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.155.73.249 ( talk) 15:00, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
How is it self-promotion when I when I am writing what I know about the guy? Like I told the other MODS, I did an article for University OF Houston paper on this guy a year ago and felt that he deserved a more credit than he gets!
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Referring to the Nomination for Deletion Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bill4Time, you suggest that Bill4Time be "mentioned" under List of Legal Software. Would that enable the Bill4Time Wikipedia page to still exist? Marjoian ( talk) 20:48, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
I got your note on notability of books and would be happy to discuss that with you. Unfortunately I won't have time over the next few days, but I'll get back to you. Overall my feeling is that if reviews on publication don't count as significant coverage - if we insist on some kind of test of enduring for the ages before we consider a book to be notable - then we will have almost no books here. IMO a book that met that kind of criterion would be some kind of sociological phenomenon - with maybe two or three books a year qualifying. This is simply because that's the way books are written about - nobody writes a review of a book that came out years ago. My interpretation of the current guideline is that full, original reviews in important sources on publication DO qualify the book as notable, and that what you are proposing would be a major change. But let's talk it over when I get back online next week, and if you think the conversation should be moved to Wikipedia talk:Notability (books) we could do that. Thanks for your note. -- MelanieN ( talk) 05:59, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi again, and thanks for your thoughtful note on my talk page. As I understand it, your feeling is that the publication of a book is a kind of news item, so that book reviews on publication fall under
WP:ONEEVENT or
WP:TRANSIENT or similar policy - and that there needs to be additional coverage about the continuing significance of the book in order for it to be notable. Am I summarizing you correctly?
I don't agree with that approach. I don't think it's realistic - my observation of the literary reporting scene is that even the most notable books get reviewed within a few months of their release and never again, and that requiring ongoing or longterm coverage is too severe a requirement. "Significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources" is all that is required by the current guidelines at
WP:NB.
To sample the opinions of other editors, I thought I should do a review of past deletion discussions, a sort of
WP:Common outcomes for books. Taking a look at the current
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature I find several discussions about books. Examples of the comments at these live discussions:
Arguing for Delete:
Note what these arguments have in common: delete because there is a COMPLETE LACK of reviews.
Arguing for Keep:
Further arguments can be found in the Literature discussion archives. Here are some discussions which resulted in a "keep" decision: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Secrets of a Jewish Mother, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Price Theory: Economics is Mistaken, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mexican WhiteBoy. In all cases the EXISTENCE OF SIGNIFICANT REVIEWS was given as reason enough to keep. In cases where the result was "Delete" (aside from the usual self-published nonentities), the reason was often LACK OF REVIEWS.
Based on this, I believe that significant reviews on publication are sufficient to establish notability in the opinion of most editors, and furthermore that significant reviews on publication are exactly what WP:NB has in mind when it calls for "multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of the book itself." I think your interpretation is novel - not an approach I have ever seen before, or found in a search of past discussions. So if you want to apply it you should probably first look for consensus at Wikipedia talk:Notability (books). If you want to start a discussion there, feel free to copy our conversation over there as a start. In any case, thanks for a stimulating discussion! -- MelanieN ( talk) 23:42, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
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Please see the reply. Thank you. Regards, RJH ( talk) 18:51, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I reviewed your entry at T:TDYK#DDR4 SDRAM, but under new rules you still need to review another article before yours is eligible for DYK. Regards, Sandstein 08:17, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Dammit, you just rearranged my brain. I hate when that happens.... -- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 02:14, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
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I'm looking for clarification about this discussion: Wikipedia talk:Notability/Archive 17#Presumption. Its motive seems to be aimed at common sense in dealing with notability. For instance, a name and a phone number for several years strait in a phone book would not be sufficient grounds for notability, BLP1E articles can be merged to article about the event. The footnote in your proposed wording said "For example, adverts, announcements, minor news stories, and coverage with low levels of discrimination, are all examples of matters that may not be notable for the purposes of article creation, despite the existence of reliable sources" yet this clause is being used to justify the deletion of notable articles like iPad 2 which neither fails WP:NOT nor consists entirely of trivial coverage. Could you give a modern interpretation of what you proposed and also confirm whether iPad 2 could be presumed to meet those standards? TLDR? Marcus Qwertyus 02:57, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
take a look at the situation of User:Fittiesonkire, apparently the user place an unblock notice on her talk page and the user isn't blocked at all. Could you please handle the instance. maucho eagle ( c) 20:20, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, FT2. I noticed that you played a major role in drafting the WP:REVDEL policy back in 2009, and you added what is now known as criterion RD5 ("Valid deletions under Deletion Policy, executed using RevisionDelete") to the draft. There is confusion about its intended use, and so an editor started a RfC which proposes its removal from the redaction criteria. Since you were the one who first introduced the criterion, I'm sure any insight you could provide would be useful. Thanks in advance. A Stop at Willoughby ( talk) 01:36, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2. If you have the time and inclination, would you close and summarize Wikipedia:Wiki Guides/Draft RfC:Minimize talk page templates and Wikipedia:Wiki Guides/Allow socializing? My request at WP:AN two weeks ago has not attracted any uninvolved admins to close those two RfCs. Cunard ( talk) 06:23, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
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- 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 03:39, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2. This comment is made in my capacity as an arbitration clerk. I have removed your responses to other participants from the BLP and flagged revisions case request, because your statement was well in excess of the 500 word limit. As a reminder, the word limit is established in the introduction to WP:A/R/C thus: "All editors wishing to make statements should keep their statements and any responses to other statements to 500 words or fewer, citing supporting diffs where possible.") I will leave it to you to re-add the material that you want to keep, but please ensure that your statement does not again exceed the length restriction. Thank you. AGK [ • 21:28, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2, I like your edits to Template:ArticleHistory, but are you sure dark green is the best color for "Milestones in this article's history" and the current status? It looks a bit out of place to me. (if you think it's fine, no worries) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:06, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
I've reverted your edits to the article history template per a talkpage request. Might I suggest using Template:ArticleHistory/sandbox as a testing ground before making changes that fundamentally affect how the readers see the template. Making 20 changes to a live version of a heavily used template seems a bit off. Testing generally shouldn't be done on a live template which is transcluded almost 25,000 times. I wouldn't have thought that I needed to say that to such an incredibly experienced editor as yourself. Your opinions about what the template needs are obviously welcome over at the talkpage. Thanks, Woody ( talk) 10:59, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello! You created this template. Shouldn't it say "This post is related to a specific problem, dispute, user, help request, or other narrow issue, and has been moved" (in other words, "is" should be added after "This post" to fix grammar)? Thanks in advance, Hey Mid ( contribs) 15:13, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello. A new user by the name of User:Foo Bar Buzz Netz has recently been reverting edits by User:Noisetier, with edit summaries claiming that it is a sockpuppet of retired user User:Ceedjee. I cannot find an SPI for this, and the user claims that you conducted one, and told him/her about the sockpuppet. I am told that you can confirm this. Is this true? Bramble claw x 15:33, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
For medical articles we try to use more reliable source per WP:MEDRS. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 01:59, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Goofed. Very sorry.
FT2 ( Talk | email) 02:26, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, you have been mentioned in passing at AN/I. -- cheers, Michael C. Price talk 00:09, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the response. -- cheers, Michael C. Price talk 22:16, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2,
I just have a quick question about the tamahagane wikilink that you added to the Japanese swordsmithing article last week. The tamahagane article was merged with the swordsmithing article several months ago, so the wikilink doesn't really lead anywhere. Is there a need for the link? Zaereth ( talk) 00:09, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2, for what it's worth, I've added a few links to salient earlier discussions that you asked about at RfAr to the prior dispute resolution section. I'm sorry you never got a reply from anyone to your question; I'd always assumed those links were there. Cheers, -- J N 466 22:23, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments. I intend to follow the correct path. I have asked Administrator User:Tedder to be my counseling administrator, a role he had suggested. I will ask him and others for help to avoid problems. I have started a new non-anonymous user page and will await unblocking before going further. I asked Tedder to "kill" Whoami_24 as soon as it is appropriate to do so. Thank you again for your excellent suggestions. Jeffrey M Dean ( talk) 17:30, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
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Your name has been mentioned in a discussion on User talk:Bishonen. Regards, Bishonen | talk 15:29, 17 July 2011 (UTC).
What happened about Wikipedia_talk:REVDEL#RD5_removal_redux? It was about ready for an RFC, and I forgot about it, and now nothing's happened for 2 months. Did you forget too? :) Rd232 talk 10:53, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
FT2, in a discussion about some rather specific language that was recently in the RTV guideline it was pointed out that you inserted this language to the guideline in October, 2010. Since there is no apparent discussion about the changes on the talk page it isn't clear to me why you made them. Could you shed some light on the subject? See [11]. Much appreciated. Griswaldo ( talk) 04:06, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:User pages#Deletion of main user pages on request, where I've pointed out that the disconnect being discussed comes from your major overhaul of the page in March 2010 (and seems to have been an innocent mistake on your part). – xeno talk 18:11, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Well, they are mentally unwell. Keepslaws111 ( talk) 19:28, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
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FYI: [12] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foo Bar Buzz Netz ( talk • contribs) 17:19, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
The Foo Bar Buzz Netz ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) claims that you are aware of the users past account names. Is this true and is there a reason why this user, whose only edits on this website involve attempting to expunge edits by one other person, is allowed to use this account in this way? nableezy - 16:04, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
cAll right, thanks for that reply. But you did not answer the most important set of questions. The user (FBBN) claims that you know who he is. Is he a user in good standing, one that is topic banned or otherwise restricted, or one that is site banned? nableezy - 23:12, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Im sorry, but no. If FBBN is in fact NoCal100, an account that has amassed an impressive number of sockpuppets whose purpose has been to harass other users (including, among others, myself), a multiple times banned editor, who himself has repeatedly violated RTV and SCRUTINY, and you know this(!?!?) that is a much bigger problem than a user whose only active block is one imposed at their own request (Ceedjee remains unblocked here, Noisieter is blocked at their own request) "evading" said self-requested block as an IP. Any edit by NoCal on Wikipedia is violating multiple policies, and an ArbCom imposed topic ban (which was imposed on two of his accounts in one ArbCom case). Do you know what prior accounts FBBN has used or not? He has said that you are aware of his identity. Is this true? If so, is it NoCal100? I have asked several times now, do you know what the prior accounts of FBBN are? And is he a banned user? And do you know if he has any other active accounts? nableezy - 01:26, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hey there. I'd like to discuss the details of your proposal with you, figure a voice chat is probably the best way. Let me know when you're availiable for a Skype chat. I've got a few ideas as well that perhaps we could form some sort of working proposal to go with and present to the community. Talk soon. Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 02:53, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hullo FT2, I read with interest your comments here on dispute resolution, and remembered an engaging IRC discussion on the topic earlier in the year. I wonder if you would be at all interested in writing a Signpost op-ed on the matter to provoke further reflection and debate? Regards, Skomorokh 06:17, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I recently read Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Noisetier/Archive, and I'm pretty certain this blocked user (Ceejee/Alithien/Balagen) is back again, this time as User:81.247.93.126. Same Belgium based ISP, same old POV pushing... Marokwitz ( talk) 13:24, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
FT2- You've previously noted that Noistier must either disclose his previous IDs, leave the topic area, or be blocked. He's chosen to be blocked, but continued to edit around the lock by editing as an IP. Recently his block was lifted. Your intervention is now needed. Foo Bar Buzz Netz ( talk) 19:47, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
So it's okay for banned and blocked editors to sock so long as they're "relatively benign"? — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 22:52, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
And in related news, your name is mentioned here. nableezy - 12:38, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi FT2, I just wanted to let you know, it's not that I disagree with you: I don't disagree with what you are saying - I disagree with the change. If we were to look at things logically, wp:censor wouldn't be needed at all. Everything in it is covered by properly using other policies: "is it relevant, cited to reliable sources, included in a fashion that does not portray a bias or push a POV?" Alas, that's not how people work, and the changes to wp:censor were made in response to that. IIRC, they were done (roughly a year and a half ago, give or take) in response to the belief that clarification was needed because of the Muhammad images and Scientology "issues" that arose. Inotherwords, done with a reason because even though policy already covered such, it wasn't enough. And currently, it still doesn't seem to be. We've got editors trying to censor articles on abortion, images from Muhammad, articles on Islam and Muhammad, articles on Christianity (and various sects thereof) due to religious beliefs even with such spelled out in wp:censor. Do we really need to have laws telling people that murder is wrong? Perhaps not in a world of fully logical or fully compassionate people. This case is somewhat similar as beliefs are a strong thing. And many people do not equate their beliefs with "organization" or any other such wording. As it is, there is a multi-front campaign going on (which you may have noticed already) to change wp:censor to allow censoring of content that is religiously objectional. If anything, due to the nature of humans as we are, I'd suggest making sure it covers as many major permutations as possible. And currently, the two biggest are religion (personal religious beliefs as well as the beliefs of a religious organization) and politics/nationalism. I'd propose policy should generally be written to spell out things for those who need it clearly defined for them (hence the existence of wp:censor at all) - as opposed to thinking that people will look at all the policies and guidelines detached from emotion and bias. Best, Rob ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/ CN 21:44, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello FT2, thanks for a great feedback you gave me on User:Timeport101/Verax NMS. I've implmented your suggestions and found additional references. I'd like to ask you about your opinion on this. I'm not sure if I cited refrences 100% correct (research papers and workshop materials).-- Timeport101 ( talk) 13:50, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
-- DQ (t) (e) 16:01, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
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Found at [14]. Thanks! Hobit ( talk) 18:05, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi FT2. Thanks for the link on my blog post on how COI contributors can improve Wikipedia. After your post I spent hours culling through the history of this policy discussion and resolved that a more informal community-approved certification-based approach had not been discussed and seems like it could address the significant issues of a formal policy that would encourage/endorse paid writing more broadly than is appropriate.
I posted my pitch to Jimmy Wales on his Talk page, since he was the primary advocate against paid writing policies in 2009, for - I think - very good reasons after reviewing the detailed discussions. A certification model offers a more compelling alternative I think than policy. Instead of banning or encouraging anything, it just sets up a model where paid-for contributors are still more motivated to support Wikipedia's goals than that of their clients - in a way neutralizing their COI all-together.
If you don't hear from me, you'll know that Jimmy executed his threat to ban a user he finds out is paid. Still - if you feel like continuing the discussion, I've started it on Jimmy's talk page.
King4057 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:17, 2 December 2011 (UTC).
See Talk:Higgs_boson#What_is_a_lead.3F. Other people than you and i may wish to discuss this. Boud ( talk) 12:16, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Hey, FT2. I noticed that despite all of our discussions at WT:REVDEL last spring, no changes ever occurred as far as the RD5 issue goes. Perhaps this is because, of the principals in the discussion, I am no longer around much and Rd232 rode off into the sunset. Regardless, I think we should an open a RfC on this issue once and for all. Shall we get the ball rolling? A Stop at Willoughby ( talk) 23:05, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
I don't suppose you could be a little more specific and link a page or transcript or something? -- Gwern (contribs) 01:22 16 December 2011 (GMT)
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First off - the first bits of AFT5 are now deployed. As of early last week, the various different designs are deployed on 0.1 percent of articles, for a certain "bucket" of randomly-assigned readers. With the data flooding in from these, we were able to generate a big pool of comments for editors to categorise as "useful" or "not useful". This information will be used to work out which form is the "best" form, producing the most useful feedback and the least junk. Hopefully we'll have the data for you by the end of the week; I can't thank the editors who volunteered to hand-code enough; we wouldn't be where we are now without you.
All this useful information means we can move on to finalising the tool, and so we're holding an extra-important office hours session on Friday, 6th January at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. If you can't make it, drop me a note and I'll be happy to provide logs so you can see what went on - if you can make it, but will turn up late, bear in mind that I'll be hanging around until 23:00 UTC to deal with latecomers :).
Things we'll be discussing include:
If you can't make it to the session, all this stuff will be displayed on the talkpage soon after, so no worries ;). Hope to see you all there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 04:50, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Are you still interested in the idea of at least some non-admins being able to view deleted pages? I understand that the proposal was shot down previously by foundation counsel; however I believe I have at least two possible answers to their concerns.
One possibility is to make this prospective (apparently the antonynm of retrospective although I'm not so sure) - that is to say that only edits deleted after its implementation can be viewed. For revisions such as libelous edits or copyright violations and so on, there can be a hard delete, lying some way between this soft delete and oversight, which will function just like a present deletion. Admins could also have the power to toggle a deletion from hard to soft (or to undelete) - so selected deletions made before this feature is implemented could be made soft.
The second possibility is to introduce a procedure somewhat like RFA where users are given permission to view deleted edits by the community. As admin privileges are currently granted not just based on trust in general, but also on trust that the tools will be used appropriately, there is a much greater pool of users who would be eligible to be given this permission.
And of course, it is perfectly possible to use both of these systems at once.
I have cross posted this to a few users who were active in the discussion in 2008 - I don't feel this is a violation of CANVASS because I have not made the proposal myself - the reality is I need an experienced Wikipedia with some "street cred" to make it. I already attempted to steer a discussion of a similar proposal this way, but sadly that discussion is irretrievable (see here - or even better, don't!). Because I have posted this to a few users, I would be greatful if you would reply at User_talk:Egg Centric/Proposal and perhaps we can get a discussion going!
Thank you!
Egg Centric 22:53, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
P.S. - silly me, I forgot to link to the original discussion in 2008. Here it is: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Persistent_proposals/Straw_poll_for_view-deleted
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Hello. I have undone one of your edits. Liability to custody for life depends on age at the time of conviction as well as at the time of the murder. Suppose, for example, that a person is aged 19 when he commits a murder. If he is aged 20 on the date on which he is convicted he will be sentenced to custody for life, as you have written. But if he is aged 22 on the date on which he is convicted, he will not be sentenced to custody for life, as you have it, but will instead be sentenced to imprisonment for life. The reason for the "three bullets" that were employed in the article is that I could not find a way to accurately state this in a single sentence. James500 ( talk) 04:05, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
The Indictment Rules 1971, according to Archbold, have the words "statement of offence" and "particulars of offence" as headings, and not the way you have them, and there is no colon. (Both headings and the actual statement of offence are also supposed to be centered but I do not know how to do that.) James500 ( talk) 06:30, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys! A couple of highly important things to do over the next few weeks:
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Hi. I am the user who created How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?. I saw your comments on the Keep decision in the recent AFD. My question: Do I need to worry about this article being deleted soon? My plan was to wait for the AFD to finish and then, assuming it was a Keep, to add more material. (I agree that the article lacks context and needs to be expanded. In fact, I like to think that aprock will like my additions.) But I hesitated to do that before because a) I wasn't sure if making lots of changes was appropriate behavior during an AFD and b) I did not want to devote a lot of time if the article was going to be deleted anyway. Would adding more material now be considered rude since aprock (and maybe others?) seem so unhappy with the AFD result? Yfever ( talk) 20:09, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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With the holidays behind us, I think now would be a good time to hold the RfC on changing the revision deletion policy, about which I dropped you a message approximately a month ago. I reviewed the proposed language we were discussing last spring, and it strikes me as just fine. The only thing I would question is the part which suggests possible replacements for RD5. First of all, I think we can/should consider RD7 (banned users' edits) a dead proposal, based on the RfC on that matter, which was actually completed. Second, while the proposed replacements which would parallel CSD#U3 and CSD#G9 could both potentially be incorporated into the RevDel criteria, perhaps they shouldn't be proposed in this RfC. Including those proposals in this RfC might be a bid to do two too many things at once. Just look at WT:REVDEL#Proposed changes and how muddled it got, and that was because only two distinct proposals were being put forth! Your thoughts? A Stop at Willoughby ( talk) 03:35, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
I've started the RfC on the talk page here. I reviewed everything carefully and tweaked Rd232's proposal a bit, and I think that the current text of the proposal is in line with the ideas we agreed upon in May. If there are any changes you would like to make, I welcome you to do so. A Stop at Willoughby ( talk) 16:25, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys; apologies for the belated nature of this notification; as you can probably imagine, the whole blackout thing kinda messed with our timetables :P. Just a quick reminder that we've got an office hours session tomorrow at 19:00 in #wikimedia-office, where we'll be discussing the results of the hand-coding and previewing some new changes. Hope to see you there :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 22:14, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi , did you know we don't quote article titles, they are the titillation, the eye catcher and that writers are generally allowed a degree of license with titles? Your addition that , ...was described as "hypocritical" by Forbes,(why did you add the quotation marks?) using this article to support it was imo not very correct at all - the word hypocrisy was not in the article at all and it was not that anyone was being described by Forbes as anything at all. Even if the title of the article was actually worthy of reporting (which it isn't - ever) you would rather need to attribute it to the writer not the publication. You really can 22:24, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
This is the title - PIPA Weakens as SOPA Gets Hypocritical - the only mention of the word hypocritical - the article was not written by Forbes and Smith is not named in the title. I am of the position that your addition (since removed) was basically your editorial license on top of the original editorial license which created a completely undue and basically, false statement. You really can 23:13, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Clearly I strongly disagree with your position - but as you are insistent, I await your desired addition presented for discussion at the BLP thread. You really can 00:00, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Responded to you on the Megaupload talk page. Jheald ( talk) 22:45, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
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Another notification, guys; Article Feedback Tool office hours on Friday at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office :). If you can't attend, drop me a note and I'll send you the logs when we're done. We're also thinking of moving it to thursday at a later time: say, 22:00 UTC. Speak up if that'd appeal more :) Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 16:18, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear FT2,
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, were 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) 19:23, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi FT2, is there any private messageing that I can contact you on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enemesis ( talk • contribs) 18:12, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for the radio silence, guys :). I just wanted to let you know that we're planning on starting a new round of hand coding, which you can sign up for here. This will be the final round (honest!), and is basically because we found some really interesting results from the last round that blew our collective mind. It's important to check that they weren't a fluke, though, and so a bit more work is needed.
If you have any questions, drop a note on my talkpage - and if you know anyone who would be interested in participating, please tell them about it! We'll be holding an IRC training session in #wikimedia-office at 18:00 UTC on the 21st of March to run through the tool and answer any questions you may have. Thanks! :) Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 00:41, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hey all. My regular(ish) update on what's been happening with the new Article Feedback Tool.
Hand-coding
As previously mentioned, we're doing a big round of hand-coding to finalise testing :). I've been completedly bowled over by the response: we have 20 editors participating, some old and some new, which is a new record for this activity. Many thanks to everyone who has volunteered so far!
Coding should actively start on Saturday, when I'll be distributing individualised usernames and passwords to everyone. If you haven't spoken to me but would be interested in participating, either drop me a note on my talkpage or email okeyeswikimedia.org. If you have spoken to me, I'm very sorry for the delay :(. There were some toolserver database issues beyond our control (which I think the Signpost discussed) that messed with the tool.
New designs and office hours
Our awesome designers have been making some new logos for the feedback page :) Check out the oversighter view and the monitor view to get complete coverage; all opinions, comments and suggestions are welcome on the talkpage :).
We've also been working on the Abuse Filter plugin for the tool; this will basically be the same as the existing system, only applied to comments. Because of that, we're obviously going to need slightly different filters, because different things will need to be blocked :). We're holding a special office hours session tomorrow at 22:00 UTC to discuss it. If you're a regex nut, existing abuse filter writer, or simply interested in the feedback tool and have suggestions, please do come along :).
I'm pretty sure that's it; if I've missed anything or you have any additional queries, don't hesitate to contact me! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 14:45, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello FT2. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click
HERE to participate. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 12:09, 5 April 2012 (UTC) |
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Hi!
My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia. I'm chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community around the world, including those from readers, editors, and donors. Stories are absolutely essential for any non-profit to persuade people to support the cause, and we know the vast network of people who make and use Wikipedia have so much to share.
I'd very much like to talk with you about your work on the Deepwater Horizon Article
I'd very much like the opportunity to interview you to tell your story, with the possibility of using it in our materials, on our community websites, or as part of this year’s fundraiser to encourage others to support Wikipedia. Please let me know if you're inclined to take part in the Wikipedia Stories Project, or if you know anyone with whom I should speak.
Thank you for your time,
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Victor Grigas ( talk) 23:23, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey FT2; just a quick note to let you know that we'll be holding an Office Hours session at 18:00 UTC (don't worry, I got the time right ;p) on 4th May in #wikimedia-office. This is to show off the almost-finished feedback page and prep it for a more public release; I'm incredibly happy to have got to this point :). Hope to see you there! Regards, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 03:53, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hey all :)
Just a quick update on what we've been working on:
Thanks!
Okeyes (WMF) (
talk) 22:50, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
I've been informed that you might be helpful at an SPI regarding Poetlister, by someone who is no longer a part of the community. [15] Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 22:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
As my recent contribs might suggest, life has dragged me away - I'll be back and around, but could be off-wiki some time, more than likely measured in many months rather than weeks (with exceptions when something irresistible to edit comes up). Admins - please assume my consent if you want to deal with any case or matter where I've been active; if I'm not around do what seems best. Email is here if anyone needs it or wants to check anything with me; I should get that fairly promptly and will try to respond. If I don't (or if I do but help is limited as I'm busy), do what seems best. I'll be back in wiki-harness, but some good stuff has come up to work on for a while, plus helping out a little this year and maybe next with a different free project that needs it. FT2 22:18, 9 June 2012 (UTC) |
If you get time, please see WP:VPP#The newcomers manual. Simply south.... .. always punctual, no matter how late for just 6 years 20:33, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :). First-off, thanks to everyone for all their help so far; we're coming up to a much wider deployment :). Starting at the end of this month, and scaling up until 3 July, AFT5 will begin appearing on 10 percent of articles. For this release we plan on sending out a CentralNotice that every editor will see - and for this, we need your help :). We've got plans, we know how long it's going to run for, where it's going to run...but not what it says. If you've got ideas for banners, give this page a read and submit your suggestion! Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 16:25, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Please take help from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/265088/Higgs-particle Thanks-- ♥ Kkm010 ♥ ♪ Talk ♪ ߷ ♀ Contribs ♀ 05:30, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey all!
So, big news this week - on Tuesday, we ramped up to 5 percent of articles :). There's been a lot more feedback (pardon the pun) as I'm sure you've noticed, and to try and help we've scheduled a large number of office hours sessions, including one this evening at 22:00 UTC in the #wikimedia-office connect channel, and another at 01:00 UTC for the aussies amongst us :). I hope to see some of you there - if any of you can't make it but have any questions, I'm always happy to help.
Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 20:38, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!
On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.
For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another office hours session. This one is tomorrow, at 22:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office connect - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!
I think I recall that Peter Damian was involved with you before he was community banned. FYI there is a community unban discussion on WP:AN right now. You may want to comment there... Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 07:25, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Would you please not add contentious material to a protected page without consensus? This edit is highly inflammatory for a BLP, especially the claim of "Akin's scientific ignorance", the edit about "distrust of rape reports" is similarly inflammatory, and this edit is a clear violation of WP:SYNTH. Per WP:PROTECT you should only be making changes to a protected article if they are uncontroversial or have consensus on the talk page.-- The Devil's Advocate ( talk) 14:22, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.
In this issue:
--The Olive Branch 19:01, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
This edition The Olive Branch is focusing on a 2nd dispute resolution RfC. Two significant proposals have been made. Below we describe the background and recent progress and detail those proposals. Please review them and follow the link at the bottom to comment at the RfC. We need your input!
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Until late 2003, Jimmy Wales was the arbiter in all major disputes. After the Mediation Committee and the Arbitration Committee were founded, Wales delegated his roles of dispute resolution to these bodies. In addition to these committees, the community has developed a number of informal processes of dispute resolution. At its peak, over 17 dispute resolution venues existed. Disputes were submitted in each venue in a different way. Due to the complexity of Wikipedia dispute resolution, members of the community were surveyed in April 2012 about their experiences with dispute resolution. In general, the community believes that dispute resolution is too hard to use and is divided among too many venues. Many respondents also reported their experience with dispute resolution had suffered due to a shortage of volunteers and backlogging, which may be due to the disparate nature of the process. An evaluation of dispute resolution forums was made in May this year, in which data on response and resolution time, as well as success rates, was collated. This data is here.
Leading off from the survey in April and the evaluation in May, several changes to dispute resolution noticeboard (DRN) were proposed. Rather than using a wikitext template to bring disputes to DRN, editors used a new javascript form. This form was simpler to use, but also standardised the format of submissions and applied a word limit so that DRN volunteers could more easily review disputes. A template to summarise, and a robot to maintain the noticeboard, were also created. As a result of these changes, volunteers responded to disputes in a third of the time, and resolved them 60% faster when compared to May. Successful resolution of disputes increased by 17%. Submissions were 25% shorter by word count.(see Dispute Resolution Noticeboard Statistics - August compared to May) Outside of DRN other simplification has taken place. The Mediation Cabal was closed in August, and Wikiquette assistance was closed in September. Nevertheless, around fifteen different forums still exist for the resolution of Wikipedia disputes.
Given the success of the past efforts at DR reform, the current RFC proposes we implement: 1) A submission gadget for every DR venue tailored to the unique needs of that forum.
2) A universal dispute resolution wizard, accessible from Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.
3) Additionally, we're seeking any ideas on how we can attract and retain more dispute resolution volunteers. |
Please share your thoughts at the RfC.
--The Olive Branch 18:41, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi FT2, would you be willing to userfy (or at the very least email) the content of Timeline of the Enron scandal, so I can clean it up and restore the article? I believe that is a valuable article for Wikipedia to have, and am willing to spend some time cleaning it up to make sure it satisfies BLP policies. Thanks, Lego Kontribs TalkM 01:25, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
The question of balance in the introduction has been much discussed on the talk page, and I suggest you raise your concerns there. This site is certainly not a BBC site, and I doubt its reliability on a topic like this. I'm out for the next few hours, but hope to return to the discussion later. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 13:33, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. I've reverted your edits to the questionaire page. The way it is supposed to work is that you cretae your own subpage for answering the questions, with the page you were editing substituted onto it. Instructions are at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire. Of course your previous answers can be pulled from the page history. Beeblebrox ( talk) 04:50, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.
In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 10:58, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
A copy editor is working on the article Pregnancy from rape. He had some questions on the section on Rape and enforced pregnancy in conflict. Since you are the editor that worked on that section the most, could you answer them, here. Casprings ( talk) 16:14, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
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I'm asking if this revision of Rider University ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Rider_University&oldid=515565523) on 2:56, October 2, 2012 to be removed from public view/deleted from history. It seems to be pointless vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.172.140.149 ( talk) 00:41, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi FT2, could you please have a look at the discussion in the talk page of the Higgs boson article?. Thanks, Ptrslv72 ( talk) 22:19, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
The possibility of RfA clerking was discussed in depth last year. The discussion is being revisited with new suggestions. If the proposal is to be developed the question of appointing clerks would need to be examined. This could be an informal process modeled on the appointment of SPI clerks. Your input at Wikipedia talk:RfA reform (continued)/Clerks would be most appreciated. Many thanks, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 01:37, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
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When I saw your recent edits to this article, I thought to myself "those are good edits". Then I realized that kind of thought should not be kept to myself. So ... thanks!
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I thought File:RevDelete isn't subtle (2).png was looking a bit out of date, so, voilà: File:RevDelete still isn't subtle.png. — Hex (❝?!❞) 17:54, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
I wish you had floated such a radical plan on the talk page before implementing it. It took some effort (by several other editors, my part in it was small) to bring the article to GA status, now I believe that the status should be reassessed. There is repetition between the newly-added RHIC part and the pre-existing LHC part, and your new organization of the paragraphs seems odd. E.g., in the previous version the section "Safety Arguments" summarized the physics of the various safety concerns, while the section "specific concerns and responses" (specific being the operative word) explained who said what and how it was rebutted (I agree that the titles could have been better). However, now you treat MBH, strangelets and "concerns not meeting peer review" as three subsections of the same "specific concerns" section. But in fact the "concerns not meeting peer review" (formerly "specific concerns and responses") concern indeed catastrophic MBH production! Also, the title "examples of colliders" sounds quite silly and does not fit very well the content of the paragraph. Ptrslv72 ( talk) 23:10, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
P.S. pay attention to the Higgs boson article, an anonymous editor has been adding doomsday rants on the vacuum instability issue to the lead. Ptrslv72 ( talk) 23:12, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
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Check again that talk page, there is a case for an immediate block. Ptrslv72 ( talk) 01:46, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Now this IP editor is harassing me with an utterly frivolous sockpuppet tag. This requires an urgent explanation. Ptrslv72 ( talk) 21:54, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
<redacted> 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 22:11, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
My textbooks have apparently been plagerized. Mr. Brandt distributes a free tool and I just ran it and I found dozens of articles which plagurized my research papers on arxiv and several textbooks. Who do I report this to? 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 02:20, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Am I permitted to simply remove the materials in question and post the relevant links to the talk page? 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 03:20, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
I am not interested in sending OCILLA or any other nonsense legalese documents to anyone. For one it's a waste of everyone's time. For another, it's simply not my style. When people have to resort to such things, the relationship of mutuality is simply over. 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 03:22, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Never mind. I'll just simply post the materials to Mr. Brandt's website. They seem to get taken down then. I have dozens of papers on arxiv and they are not free use copyright since they were published by an acedemic organization and not posted wikipedia style there. At any rate, I'll send them to him to post. 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 03:25, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
You are going to crap your drawers when you find out who I am in the physics community. I am blacklisting this website in our organization. Jus! 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 03:30, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Don't bother. I don't want to waste any more time. Anything and everything except simply apologize for your conduct. i.e. Dear Sir, we noticed you yourself removed the edit in question before we threatened you. We apologize for doing so, please consider helping us, since we clearly need it. Try that instead. 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 04:01, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
What the hell is a talk page for then? I was attempting to discuss it with someone and we had concensus, what right do you have to threaten us after we ourselves handled it without you? 68.69.166.126 ( talk) 04:03, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Blocking 68.69.166.126 ( talk · contribs) became unavoidable. See his latest oversighted contribs to see why. Someguy1221 ( talk) 22:24, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
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Hi FT2, have a look here. Cheers, Ptrslv72 ( talk) 15:07, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi FT2, I am wondering if we should keep citing this blog post in the section on Current Status. The post propagates claims of another blog post that, as you can see in the latter's comments section, have been debunked by no less than your new hero Frank Close... ;-) Cheers, Ptrslv72 ( talk) 13:41, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
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On your edit here, fyi, the convention is that it's an outbreak of a virus that causes the disease. It's not an outbreak of disease, per se. People get the virus first, which causes the disease, which is why I changed it to clarify. Would you reconsider your edit, then? SW3 5DL ( talk) 15:39, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hi FT2, this is a question about conflict of interest. I am now talking in the abstract. This matter does not involve you and i am asking for impartial feedback. If an Admin takes repeated Administrative action against other editors involved in disputes with a specific editor, and repeatedly comes to the aid of said editor in even petty disputes, and if there is reason to believe that the Admin knows said editor personally, and said Admin refuses to clarify about whether they know said editor on their talk page on the ground that the question was framed in a rude manner, then is this matter serious enough to be raised in WP:COIN? Furthermore, is there a possibility of a boomerang on the WP:COIN board whereby i could be blocked or indeffed as a result of opening a COIN investigation against said Admin. Thank you. Soham321 ( talk) 23:04, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Johnuniq I consider it rude on your part to butt in when i have asked a specific query to an Admin. You have succeeded in not allowing my query to be kept abstract, without taking any names, which I very much wanted. Please allow me to engage with an Admin on my own terms as far as my query is concerned. Do not participate in this discussion any further since i am keen to have a one-on-one discussion with Admin FT2 on this issue. Feel free to share your views in detail if this matter is taken up before the community. Soham321 ( talk) 04:52, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
I've been insanely busy much of this year, it's true, but in this case it happens I saw the "new messages" note. I'm not aware of the dispute or user names, or where this has been raised, but I would note that if it directly involves Bishonen (whose name appears above), she and I have had past issues and they are best left in the past; you might want to ask someone else with less involvement. Having said that, you asked the question as a general principle (although obviously it directly relates to a specific dispute) so I'll try to help. My comments are injected.
So all the things you describe so far *can* have completely normal and innocent meanings, well within community norms. if there is an editor conduct issue, it would have to be determined by directly looking at the messages, the nature of the alleged offline connection, and evidence from diffs and other relevant conduct, probably on some noticeboard. It's best not to "forum shop". WP:RFC would be a decent place to start if you want to get views in a sensible place. WP:COIN is more for external paid undisclosed editing, self promotion, and so on, which this doesn't sound so much like.
As for blocking - you shouldn't be blocked (either briefly or indefinitely) just for raising a concern, unless you have a history of previous conduct which has been disruptive (or perceived to be so by one or more uninvolved admins). Blocks tend to be there (and should be there) to deter, not punish. Asking for views in a calm sensible way, and giving your reasons rather than "puffing" up the matter with accusatory hyperbole and "hot speech", should not be an issue. If you have acted poorly yourself, and want to get serious comments but fear a backlash, then I would suggest setting out a summary of what happened (with diff links), what your exact concern is, and ask specifically for an uninvolved admin to advise you whether or not there is a concern there, as they see it, and whether to raise it at RFC or otherwise, or drop it. You're free to follow their advice or not, or to ask for other views, but if you are courteous and not "flaming" or hot headed, and it's clear your interest is to resolve a concern without raising the heat, you are more likely to get some respect for handling it sensibly. If it happens that you try but are goaded by other editors, or get accused in turn, sit calm, people who see your conduct will judge you by it, even if some users try to provoke you to act differently. Ask yourself honestly, what is your actual concern for the Wikipedia project, and don't try to WP:OWN the debate or assume others agree with you on the evidence and its meaning.
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Many thanks for your detailed response, FT2. Soham321 ( talk) 16:54, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
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You sure that dumping 2 pages of a margin-to-margin text is helpful here? My take is that the article should compromise between brevity and accessibility. In this case, people who are really interested, know the background. So 4 short lines of actual pseudo-code (as was in the original contribution I wrote) was all what was necessary for professionals. One could understand in 10 seconds, I got a fair amount of feedback, it was not my exposition anyway, I simply took and adapted to Wikipedia a presentation idea which made ME understand the topic, from Quora. The article grew after my initial (Mechanism) posting, it was kinda OK as the original 4 line exposition was still there, and it was reasonable to give some on-hand explanations. But you removed those 4 lines, and had put a condensed CS lecture instead, with the exploit itself buried in long lines of text, and, frankly, dumbed down by using specific numbers.
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Hi FT2. I saw your name in the edit history for file hosting service and your user page says you like helping other editors, so I wanted to reach out.
I proposed a few additions and trims to a page on MEGA, a service known historically for file hosting, here. I proposed the edits rather than making them since I work for the company and have a conflict of interest.
I used the Request Edit template, but nobody actually came. I was wondering if I could borrow you to take a look and implement or reject the proposed edits as you deem fit. MichaelFriedberg ( talk) 00:32, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
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Unused, apart from font, pretty much redundant to File:BLP flowchart.svg.
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Thanks for creating Jan Smit (paleontologist). I was reading a book that bemoans the lack of a Wikipedia page for him. [1] I was about to set about rectifying that, only to find you already had. TJRC ( talk) 19:05, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
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The Alverezes published first and were immortalized in one of the most cited papers in the history of Geology. Jan Smit doesn't have a Wikipedia page.
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Hi FT2,
Firstly thank you for the prompt response on pronoun correction for CN.
Is it possible for you to remove incorrect category tags on their page as well? They are currently listed under the categories /info/en/?search=Category:British_male_singer-songwriters and 21st century British male singers which is incorrect. I am unfortunately on mobile and a bit of a wiki noob or I would do it myself.
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Hi FT2, re this also, you note that this had happened before in your edit message. Do you think semi-protection might be appropriate for this page? I'd do it myself but I know CN (very very very vaguely) socially. Morwen ( talk) 15:34, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
How was the complaint delivered? Is there VRT ticket i can reference. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:36, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
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The page /info/en/?search=Tanis_(fossil_site) and the file page /info/en/?search=File:North_america_65mya.png both state that the meteor impact occured approximately 65 million years ago, but that should be corrected to approximately 66 million years ago. AlexanderDecommere ( talk) 19:30, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
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