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Hi, thanks for responding on AN about this page. I explained there that it wasn't a cross-namespace redirect. Please undelete it so non-administrators can view its contents and history. — rybec 11:13, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 15:52, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
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For the tireless way that you've been exposing technical problems and WMF developer incompetence at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you. — Scott • talk 15:13, 11 December 2013 (UTC) |
Just give us a day or so on this article. We are working on it and your tagging interferes with our efforts to add ----- content and links. -- Smokefoot ( talk) 12:32, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kafziel. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kafziel/Evidence. Please add your evidence by December 29, 2013, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kafziel/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 22:33, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello Fram,
Can you check if the current version is ok? /info/en/?search=George_William_Mote
The artist has been dead for so many years, the only information we are able to get is piece by piece on the internet. Sorry, I might have directly copied some information from other websites. Can you only removed the parts that you think have problem rather than deleting the whole page please?
Regards Leon — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leoncoolvip ( talk • contribs) 22:17, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello Fram, I hesitated to directly correct this, since the presumed-typo is also a word. Can you clarify if you meant manner, or maybe, manned-the-battlements? :-)
Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kafziel/Evidence. Thanks for improving wikipedia. 74.192.84.101 ( talk) 22:36, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Please don't delete the page I worked a long time to get the page up, I know I need to add more to like the album cover and review's. This was the bands first album and I am in the proses of putting together the whole catalog of albums. MDSanker 16:02, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
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I herewith award you the Special PRIVACY Barnstar for this bold and important effort to try ensuring Anonymity for Mr. Snowden and all of us. -- Trofobi ( talk) 01:42, 22 December 2013 (UTC) |
I set up the Stub Contest, which is running at present and Mitchazenia and I are marking entries as we go. The main aim was expanding stubs but I also added regrading stubs that have been expanded to the scoring as well...this has backfired somewhat in that folks are reclassifying thousands of articles that had been marked as stubs but have been since buffed (the idea is that this is a good way to clarify how many stubs there are).
Anyway, we need some help scoring, so if you had any spare time to do some wikignoming this would be great as I am busy with Xmas shopping and all sorts of crap IRL (also my house doesn't have aircon and it is stinking hot here right now....). E.g. Wizardman has re-rated over 1000 articles from stubs to start class or better. I've checked 225 of them so far - see Wikipedia:Stub Contest/Entries/Wizardman. What I've been doing is ticking them once checked and once completed, then putting the tally on the scoreboard. Can you see how it works? There are some issues with scoring between stub and start as there are some conflicting criteria on the assessment page, but I've generally been a bit lenient. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 02:55, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
i.e. if you have any time to even do a few I'd be insanely grateful..... Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 02:58, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Category:320s disestablishments in Israel, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 00:35, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Category:131 establishments in Israel, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 00:35, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Category:130s establishments in Israel, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 00:36, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello Fram, I come to respectfully ask if you would please review the Tintin (character) article that I have submitted for FA. You and Hiding are the only obvious choices to ask, as you once played a major hand in this and other Tintin articles. Thank-you for considering it; I would be most honoured if you could stop by. The review is here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tintin (character)/archive1. Prhartcom ( talk) 06:09, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Your request for clarification has been archived to Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )#Request for clarification (December 2013).
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Bbb23 ( talk) 04:28, 1 January 2014 (UTC)--
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Godwin Family Tree. Since you had some involvement with the Godwin Family Tree redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). John Vandenberg ( chat) 14:05, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Sorry, that was a typo (went too quickly)! Thanks for catching that, Fram. JustAMuggle ( talk) 10:05, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
why was this page deleted? it was unsourced but there is a 7 day grace period and the page had only been online for just over 1 day? -- Jerurdav ( talk) 18:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts is clearly trolling and trying to derail the Hale thread cf. his "Waa-waa-waaa" comment, after which he immediately complained of personal attacks when his behavior was questioned. Given that we can't ban uncivil trolls if they have good wikilawyering skills and sport some FAstars on their on userpage, just ignore him. Someone not using his real name ( talk) 22:16, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Fram, you may want to see Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#This_is_the_key_proposal_wording_DYK_needs_to_consider. Thanks, Mat ty. 007 17:21, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Fram. Because you participated in Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 10#The Rfc section in January 2013, you may be interested in Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure#Transclusion. Best, Cunard ( talk) 01:00, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Bruce Mackeycompletely self-promoting! Look at the creator. Himself! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew Eugene ( talk • contribs) 10:37, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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I noticed my wrong tags after re-reading! Please support me with links that might help me to contribe. I'm new on this field although i write alot. Thank you again ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew Eugene ( talk • contribs) 10:58, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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Can you notify Todd on his talk page? I have always considered that a needful step in a consensus-based unblock, letting the blocking admin know directly rather than via noticeboard etc. Thanks... Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 09:30, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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why not BlueSalix ( talk) 13:58, 22 January 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks. My fourth barnstar in less than two months, I must be doing something wrong here ;-) Fram ( talk) 14:09, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Your edit: Jarosław Mikołajewski ("This biography of a living person does not include any references or sources") --
- is Authority Control-VIAF not a kind of source? Jaceknow ( talk) 22:30, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your archival fixes.
Turns out it was a minor issue with the coding which I've fixed.
Have a great day,
— Cirt ( talk) 14:56, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Fram.
You recently applied the indefinite block on Crashsnake after discussion on WP:AN. Per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Crashsnake/Archive, an IP that was likely being used by him was blocked per WP:DUCK for a week. If the IP resumes editing after a week, do you have a recommendation for a course of action? BOZ ( talk) 05:26, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Your recent post is a good one. Please consider signing it. Tito☸ Dutta 14:37, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
I've left a note for you at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback#Bugzilla. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 08:42, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
I think you mentioned me at [2], not sure how to reply there, but glad to see some progress with Flow. It doesn't seem to work with WP:ECHO, it appears but ECHO gives the above error rather then link. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:52, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the reports. I have left an apology at the comics project talk page, and have asked for a shutdown of Flow, considering how easy it is to disrupt things with it (every vandal can do the same with very little effort if they want to). Fram ( talk) 14:36, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
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We may not agree about every matter on Wiki, but trust me when I say that I very much respect your tenacity and willingness to call a spade a spade (or a sack of shit a sack of shit, as the case may be). Good luck in your further endeavors battling incompetent careerists and such... Carrite ( talk) 18:00, 6 February 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks! And likewise... I don't know how long the WMF will keep up the juggling of me, with Philippe beaudette thanking me here, and Erik Möller blocking me at MediaWiki at the same time, but it keeps life interesting. Fram ( talk) 07:26, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Can you semi-protect Under My Skin (Avril Lavigne album) page, please? 183.171.178.78 ( talk) 15:04, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm rather concerned with the editing of this individual. View his edits in the past few days. He doesn't add any categories, location half the time, sources half the time or stubs tags ever, or doesn't format the sources properly most of time and they're typically tourist sites or blogs like in Leather wallpaper. I've just been frantically trying to categorize and clean up as many as possible. He needs to slow down and focus on improving the quality I think. Care to look into it? He means good faith, but he doesn't realize how much work he's creating for others with cleanup and categorization.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:16, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
I understand this article was deleted from being unsourced however, redirecting it to the page Gundam doesn't help at all, that page doesn't provide any insight into the various movements and the ideology, and Zeon is exclusive to the Universal Century timeline not, it doesn't exist in the other timelines. So would it be ok to include a section on Zeon in that article and redirect Zeon to Universal Century#Zeon instead of Gundam? -- Primus1x ( talk) 18:37, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I'm sorry to trouble you with this. I have recently contributed to a deletion debate that you initiated, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Italian geniuses. I was surprised to discover that one of the contributors to the debate seems somewhat similar to another, the creator of the article under discussion, both in shared interests and in verbal style. I have tried to draw people's attention to this without actually accusing the editors in question of both being the same person, but have nevertheless had to express my discomfort with this. Unfortunately, the only place I could think of to do this was in the deletion debate itself. I'm not a huge expert in Wikipedia - I've been an editor for a while, but usually I just do easy jobs like correcting spelling and grammar - but I'm pretty sure that somehow having two editors actually being the same person is unhelpful. I'm pretty sure the nasty word for this is "sockpuppet", but I feel bad saying it out loud (so to speak). However, I don't really like the possibility that the result of this debate may be unfairly affected.
I have two requests for help. First, please would you take a look at the deletion debate, and check my reasoning. If I've messed up, please correct me. I don't mind looking dumb in public if I've made a mistake, but I have done my best here. Second, do you happen to know what I should do if I am unhappy about possible "sockpuppets"? I really don't want to upset people by saying nasty things to them, but equally I do want to help people play fair. What's the best way to handle this, please?
Sorry to bother you with this, but I wasn't sure who else to ask, and when I saw on your user page that you're an Administrator I thought you'd be a good person to ask, especially since you initiated the deletion debate. Thanks in advance for your help.
RomanSpa ( talk) 04:52, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to request that you remove the deletion for WikiProject:Sundays at Parmer. I created that page because I am a Wikipedian-in-Residence in New York and I am helping a gallery called Parmer in NY get set up to fill in this page with their project details. Please see this listing to verify that their project IS active. Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism#Brooklyn: PARMER I created the tab header and all and was planning on letting the gallery owner fill in that page- that is why it was pretty empty yesterday after I first created it. It took a lot of work to make and I would really appreciate if you would un-delete or else help me ensure that it doesn't get deleted again. I have a bunch of information on hand that I can use to populate the page in the meantime. Please let me know asap as Parmer will be hosting an event next weekend, and we want to be able to link to this page to give people more information. OR drohowa ( talk) 14:34, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
My mistake during the nomination of Frans Claerhout for deletion, sorry about that. I made some minor modifications and tagging of the article. -- BiH ( talk) 12:12, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Yes, but perhaps he is just a fan of his work and decided to use his name as his/her username. I have messaged him/her to introduce some references in the article. -- BiH ( talk) 12:41, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Fram,
Just wondering why you are disabling categories in Drafts when mediawikiwiki::Draft_namespace#Open_questions says this:
Should we remove draft categories from the category page listings, so that we can use article categories on drafts without them showing up?
Are the rules here different? I would appreciate a notification when you reply. Thanks in advance, X Ottawahitech ( talk) 16:12, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Being new, we have no explicit mention of the draft namespace. However, our policies seem easily adaptable and relevant. From Wikipedia:Categorization#User pages: "Similarly, user subpages that are draft versions of articles should be kept out of content categories, but are permitted in non-content or project categories, like Category:User essays. If you copy an article from mainspace to userspace and it already contains categories, remove them or comment them out. Restore the categories when you move the draft back into article space."(emphasis mine) The policy is clear that draft pages don't belong in mainspace categories, so I see no reason to make an exception for pages in the Draft namespace (what would be the purpose of a separate namespace if you let the pages appear among the "accepted" articles anyway?) Fram ( talk) 07:43, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
k CloudCakes ( talk) 16:35, 14 February 2014 (UTC) |
Hi Fram, how do I get back a page that you have deleted erroneously due to Unambiguous copyright infringement? I created this page because I am part of this organization and therefore we have the right to lift passages from an article we have published to put right into the Wikipage. I spent many hours constructing and retyping passages in the Wikipage and it would be very annoying to have to create it again.
Additionally, I read through the Wiki you have provided but I do not understand how we can "allow" Wikipedia to be able to use our copyright.
The page I am referring to is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Women%27s_Bar_Association Please advise urgently.
Alee214 ( talk) 01:21, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Fram, we have added the language onto the webpage that the information is taken from http://www.nywba.org. Can you now reactivate the original page? Alee214 ( talk) 00:35, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear Fram, Thank You for your insight. I've made some mistakes and apologize for that, but let me tell you that the mistakes are unknowingly and purely unintentional. Sometimes there's some conflicts with my internet connection and that gives this type of error. I don't run any bot, but try to welcome new users to Wikipedia. I believe that there should be no discrimination for welcoming new people on Wikipedia. I feel happy if a new user asks for help. It may not be convincing for you but it makes more valuable for me to help the new comers. I can't go and write on new users page that "Hey I want to help you". So I leave this welcome message and yes, I agree that there are some editing conflicts and I hope you understand them as frequent editing gives some results like that . Again thanks you for the information.I'm learning from my mistakes :) -- Jnanaranjan Sahu (ଜ୍ଞାନ) talk 10:48, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
It is not a hoax. I have looked it up and found that it is real. -- Old Time Music Fan ( talk) 00:56, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Just to let you know that I have added categories to The Land of Green Ginger, and removed your "needs categories" template. Thank you. RomanSpa ( talk) 18:22, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Page you deleted wasn't made by me. But I would like to make it. It is new album by Miss May I. [3], [4], [5], [6] Ping me. OccultZone ( Talk) 11:48, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Sony Xperia Tablet Z2 , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Deoma12 (Talk) 11:42, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Why? The categories were already commented out? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:38, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Can you explain a little more at the talk page for this article your rationale for the redirect and pulling the DYK? I had begun by using text from Hilda Rix Nicholas, with an opportunity for myself or others to develop the article further, and had already written a summary background para that wasn't straight from the Hilda Rix Nicholas article. The Rix nicholas article didn't contain the info about the gallery purchase. I'm not really getting the point of the exercise as an improvement of the encyclopedia. I have reinstated the article (and added one little bit for now), but there's nothing I can do about the hook being pulled. Also, is there any particular reason for not raising it at a talk page first? hamiltonstone ( talk) 05:45, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) It was noted and agreed that this article was an "unattributed copy-and-paste" from another article. Hence it was of paramount importance that it should not be highlighted on the main page and why it was pulled so quickly. The Rambling Man ( talk) 07:08, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello there. I have a question regarding this edit you made. Your edit summary mentioned user space, which it isn't exactly, is it? So, for a draft that is meant to be in article namespace after its approval, should the categories indeed be "removed" in that sense? I'll leave it as you changed it in the mean time, I was just curious. :) Thanks! ~ | twsx | talk cont | ~ 07:45, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I see that your relationship with Old Time Music Fan continues to be difficult. This is to encourage you not to let this wind you up any further. I should start by saying that I'm making this comment because I have interacted with both of you positively in the past, and respect both of you for your various contributions to our great project. I'm copying this message to both your talk pages.
Both you and Old Time Music Fan have a lot to give to Wikipedia. You are different in terms of both wiki-experience, and (obviously) in temperament, but this is a good thing. We're all here because we want to make Wikipedia better, and this is more likely to happen if we have the widest possible range of editors. You both belong here, and, even though I'm not expecting either of you to like the other, I do hope you will each respect what the other has to offer. As an observer, I can easily see that Old Time Music Fan is full of a new editor's enthusiasm, whilst I can just as easily see that Fram is full of the long-standing editor's experience and professionalism. It is natural for there to be occasional clashes between you - each approaches problems differently from the other. That said, I do feel that neither of you is behaving as well as you might at present. Please remember that Wikipedia is based on civility. Right now neither of you is being particularly civil to the other, and this is not helping either of you, nor is it helping Wikipedia.
Fram: It seems to me that your main concern is to ensure that new articles, and edits to existing articles, should be as well-written and reliable as possible. You have noticed that Old Time Music Fan sometimes makes mistakes, and have suggested corrections. All this seems good to me, and I agree with you that we should always aim as high as possible. That said, it's worth remembering that (a) people do go back and improve the articles they've started, so we don't need perfection from the start; (b) everyone can improve our articles, so even if someone just starts an article and leaves it as a skeleton, other people will improve it over time; (c) articles belong to everyone, so if you see an error it's often as easy to correct it as to complain to the article's creator.
Where I feel you're making a mistake is in the way you have been communicating with Old Time Music Fan. You certainly haven't been rude to him, but in guiding someone it is usually better to embiggen than to belittle. As far as possible, please remember that bluntly written text can seem more abrasive than the same words spoken aloud.
Old Time Music Fan: As I've said above, I feel that Fram's concerns about the quality of your work are sometimes justified. I can see that sometimes you do good work - Teicha (Rietschen) is shaping up to be quite a good page (though there's still lots to do), and that's your doing - but I can also see that sometimes you are a bit slapdash in the articles you create - starting Entenbach (Englischer Garten) the way you did does seem rather careless. I believe that you'll improve in this area over time, and would be happy to help you with this.
However, you are making two mistakes that are not consistent with how Wikipedia works. First, please assume good faith. When Fram comments on your editing he has the best interests of the project at heart, and even if he phrases himself undiplomatically his motives are pure. This isn't personal for him, and it would be wise not to treat his comments as personally directed at you. Second, it is not civil to sulk. Threatening to leave because someone says something you dislike is not the mark of civil behaviour in our community; threatening to leave several times starts to look a bit silly.
I very much hope that both of you will be able to resolve your current personality clash: Wikipedia needs both of you. What I hope is that (a) Old Time Music Fan removes the "Retired" line from his user page, and continues to work on being more careful in his article creation activities; (b) Fram works on being a bit more tolerant when other people make mistakes, and phrases his requests for improvements more gently. It would also be nice if each of you could apologise for treading on the other's toes, but I'm not holding my breath on this one!
I suspect that in many ways the best thing for both of you would be to simply decide not to communicate directly for a few months. There are plenty of other editors who will identify and improve the articles you are working on and the problems you are trying to resolve. I'm prepared to act as an intermediary between you if you feel that would be useful. In any case, I hope you can both resolve matters between you as productively as possible. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make things easier for either of you.
RomanSpa ( talk) 19:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I have tried to avoid these mistakes. -- Old Time Music Fan ( talk) 18:06, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Fram. I happened to run into Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/EffK, by chance. I noted that the various socks discovered during arbitration weren't blocked (anymore), and that you had blocked the master. I'm going to file some paperwork, just for the sake of redundancy, and block all those socks. It seems pretty useless considering how old it is, but I hate having loose threads in the beautiful fabric of our project. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 14:47, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Fram, I've closed the Arbitration Enforcement request regarding Rich Farmbrough and referred it to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA#Clarification request: Rich Farmbrough. Regards, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 09:04, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey Fram, when you remove hooks from preps/queue, could you re-open the nomination and add it to Wikipedia:Did you know/Removed? Thanks, Nikkimaria ( talk) 17:17, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
A motion has been proposed in Clarification request: Rich Farmbrough. For the Arbitration Committee, Rockfang ( talk) 16:56, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
I can't PROD this article القيم الآسيوية, the option is not working, but it is a duplicate page. Original one is Asian values. OccultZone ( Talk) 10:06, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello. BishonenSwe ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is the latest sock of Finnedi ( talk · contribs) (see this SPI). So would you please apply new semi-protection to my user talk page? The protection applied last night was only for 12 hours and has now expired. Thomas.W talk 13:10, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
The arbitration clarification request, either involving you, or in which you participated (Rich Farmbrough) has resulted in a clarification motion by the Arbitration Committee
The Clarification can be found at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich_Farmbrough#Clarifications_by_motion and the complete discussion can be found at Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich_Farmbrough#Clarification_request:_Rich_Farmbrough_.28April_2014.29 For the Arbitration Committee,-- S Philbrick (Talk) 16:29, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Fram, regarding this I checked the original articles (Soykan and Dulcic) - both actually state what length sex reversals happened in the area that they studied. There are two other studies on the talk page too. None can be generalised to cover the species as a whole. I have spent some time going through sources as a whole. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 13:39, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
I'll leave it up to you to decide but I'm not sure your recent revert on Crusaders to a previous edit of mine was entirely appropriate. Most of the detail added was by way of updating the article to 2014. The numbers for their programs and additional details seemed fair. Perhaps you could just remove anything that you thought wasn't neutral. Thanks Castlemate ( talk) 01:43, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Maybe you could remove the offending pov rather than a blanket revert. The updated facts and figures are useful. Don't throw out the baby Jesus with the bath water! In case you didn't notice that was a joke ... I'm not actually a Christian or a Crusader. Castlemate ( talk) 11:02, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Feel free to be a careless editor whenever you feel so inclined! Castlemate ( talk) 02:59, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Are you aware that the Titus Andronicus (character) article is an attempt to celebrate William Shakespeare's 450th birthday. It is currently under discussion at DYK. The content at Titus Andronicus regarding this character is quite disjointed and not as far superior to the dedicated article as you suggest.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:54, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Please see my proposal to speedily rename: Hugo999 ( talk) 12:41, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
...for bringing up the issue of the DYK about "Jesus Christ is Risen Today". I am beginning to see further evidence of how split our community is.--(Mark Miller) Maleko Mela ( talk) 20:20, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
…from me, too. MarkBernstein ( talk) 16:15, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for responding on AN about this page. I explained there that it wasn't a cross-namespace redirect. Please undelete it so non-administrators can view its contents and history. — rybec 11:13, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 15:52, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
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For the tireless way that you've been exposing technical problems and WMF developer incompetence at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you. — Scott • talk 15:13, 11 December 2013 (UTC) |
Just give us a day or so on this article. We are working on it and your tagging interferes with our efforts to add ----- content and links. -- Smokefoot ( talk) 12:32, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kafziel. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kafziel/Evidence. Please add your evidence by December 29, 2013, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kafziel/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 22:33, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello Fram,
Can you check if the current version is ok? /info/en/?search=George_William_Mote
The artist has been dead for so many years, the only information we are able to get is piece by piece on the internet. Sorry, I might have directly copied some information from other websites. Can you only removed the parts that you think have problem rather than deleting the whole page please?
Regards Leon — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leoncoolvip ( talk • contribs) 22:17, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello Fram, I hesitated to directly correct this, since the presumed-typo is also a word. Can you clarify if you meant manner, or maybe, manned-the-battlements? :-)
Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kafziel/Evidence. Thanks for improving wikipedia. 74.192.84.101 ( talk) 22:36, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Please don't delete the page I worked a long time to get the page up, I know I need to add more to like the album cover and review's. This was the bands first album and I am in the proses of putting together the whole catalog of albums. MDSanker 16:02, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
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I herewith award you the Special PRIVACY Barnstar for this bold and important effort to try ensuring Anonymity for Mr. Snowden and all of us. -- Trofobi ( talk) 01:42, 22 December 2013 (UTC) |
I set up the Stub Contest, which is running at present and Mitchazenia and I are marking entries as we go. The main aim was expanding stubs but I also added regrading stubs that have been expanded to the scoring as well...this has backfired somewhat in that folks are reclassifying thousands of articles that had been marked as stubs but have been since buffed (the idea is that this is a good way to clarify how many stubs there are).
Anyway, we need some help scoring, so if you had any spare time to do some wikignoming this would be great as I am busy with Xmas shopping and all sorts of crap IRL (also my house doesn't have aircon and it is stinking hot here right now....). E.g. Wizardman has re-rated over 1000 articles from stubs to start class or better. I've checked 225 of them so far - see Wikipedia:Stub Contest/Entries/Wizardman. What I've been doing is ticking them once checked and once completed, then putting the tally on the scoreboard. Can you see how it works? There are some issues with scoring between stub and start as there are some conflicting criteria on the assessment page, but I've generally been a bit lenient. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 02:55, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
i.e. if you have any time to even do a few I'd be insanely grateful..... Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 02:58, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Category:320s disestablishments in Israel, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 00:35, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Category:131 establishments in Israel, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 00:35, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Category:130s establishments in Israel, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 00:36, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello Fram, I come to respectfully ask if you would please review the Tintin (character) article that I have submitted for FA. You and Hiding are the only obvious choices to ask, as you once played a major hand in this and other Tintin articles. Thank-you for considering it; I would be most honoured if you could stop by. The review is here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tintin (character)/archive1. Prhartcom ( talk) 06:09, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Your request for clarification has been archived to Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )#Request for clarification (December 2013).
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Bbb23 ( talk) 04:28, 1 January 2014 (UTC)--
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Godwin Family Tree. Since you had some involvement with the Godwin Family Tree redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). John Vandenberg ( chat) 14:05, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Sorry, that was a typo (went too quickly)! Thanks for catching that, Fram. JustAMuggle ( talk) 10:05, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
why was this page deleted? it was unsourced but there is a 7 day grace period and the page had only been online for just over 1 day? -- Jerurdav ( talk) 18:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts is clearly trolling and trying to derail the Hale thread cf. his "Waa-waa-waaa" comment, after which he immediately complained of personal attacks when his behavior was questioned. Given that we can't ban uncivil trolls if they have good wikilawyering skills and sport some FAstars on their on userpage, just ignore him. Someone not using his real name ( talk) 22:16, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Fram, you may want to see Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#This_is_the_key_proposal_wording_DYK_needs_to_consider. Thanks, Mat ty. 007 17:21, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Fram. Because you participated in Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 10#The Rfc section in January 2013, you may be interested in Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure#Transclusion. Best, Cunard ( talk) 01:00, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Bruce Mackeycompletely self-promoting! Look at the creator. Himself! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew Eugene ( talk • contribs) 10:37, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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I noticed my wrong tags after re-reading! Please support me with links that might help me to contribe. I'm new on this field although i write alot. Thank you again ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew Eugene ( talk • contribs) 10:58, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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Can you notify Todd on his talk page? I have always considered that a needful step in a consensus-based unblock, letting the blocking admin know directly rather than via noticeboard etc. Thanks... Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 09:30, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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why not BlueSalix ( talk) 13:58, 22 January 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks. My fourth barnstar in less than two months, I must be doing something wrong here ;-) Fram ( talk) 14:09, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Your edit: Jarosław Mikołajewski ("This biography of a living person does not include any references or sources") --
- is Authority Control-VIAF not a kind of source? Jaceknow ( talk) 22:30, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your archival fixes.
Turns out it was a minor issue with the coding which I've fixed.
Have a great day,
— Cirt ( talk) 14:56, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Fram.
You recently applied the indefinite block on Crashsnake after discussion on WP:AN. Per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Crashsnake/Archive, an IP that was likely being used by him was blocked per WP:DUCK for a week. If the IP resumes editing after a week, do you have a recommendation for a course of action? BOZ ( talk) 05:26, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Your recent post is a good one. Please consider signing it. Tito☸ Dutta 14:37, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
I've left a note for you at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback#Bugzilla. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 08:42, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
I think you mentioned me at [2], not sure how to reply there, but glad to see some progress with Flow. It doesn't seem to work with WP:ECHO, it appears but ECHO gives the above error rather then link. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:52, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the reports. I have left an apology at the comics project talk page, and have asked for a shutdown of Flow, considering how easy it is to disrupt things with it (every vandal can do the same with very little effort if they want to). Fram ( talk) 14:36, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
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We may not agree about every matter on Wiki, but trust me when I say that I very much respect your tenacity and willingness to call a spade a spade (or a sack of shit a sack of shit, as the case may be). Good luck in your further endeavors battling incompetent careerists and such... Carrite ( talk) 18:00, 6 February 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks! And likewise... I don't know how long the WMF will keep up the juggling of me, with Philippe beaudette thanking me here, and Erik Möller blocking me at MediaWiki at the same time, but it keeps life interesting. Fram ( talk) 07:26, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Can you semi-protect Under My Skin (Avril Lavigne album) page, please? 183.171.178.78 ( talk) 15:04, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm rather concerned with the editing of this individual. View his edits in the past few days. He doesn't add any categories, location half the time, sources half the time or stubs tags ever, or doesn't format the sources properly most of time and they're typically tourist sites or blogs like in Leather wallpaper. I've just been frantically trying to categorize and clean up as many as possible. He needs to slow down and focus on improving the quality I think. Care to look into it? He means good faith, but he doesn't realize how much work he's creating for others with cleanup and categorization.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:16, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
I understand this article was deleted from being unsourced however, redirecting it to the page Gundam doesn't help at all, that page doesn't provide any insight into the various movements and the ideology, and Zeon is exclusive to the Universal Century timeline not, it doesn't exist in the other timelines. So would it be ok to include a section on Zeon in that article and redirect Zeon to Universal Century#Zeon instead of Gundam? -- Primus1x ( talk) 18:37, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I'm sorry to trouble you with this. I have recently contributed to a deletion debate that you initiated, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Italian geniuses. I was surprised to discover that one of the contributors to the debate seems somewhat similar to another, the creator of the article under discussion, both in shared interests and in verbal style. I have tried to draw people's attention to this without actually accusing the editors in question of both being the same person, but have nevertheless had to express my discomfort with this. Unfortunately, the only place I could think of to do this was in the deletion debate itself. I'm not a huge expert in Wikipedia - I've been an editor for a while, but usually I just do easy jobs like correcting spelling and grammar - but I'm pretty sure that somehow having two editors actually being the same person is unhelpful. I'm pretty sure the nasty word for this is "sockpuppet", but I feel bad saying it out loud (so to speak). However, I don't really like the possibility that the result of this debate may be unfairly affected.
I have two requests for help. First, please would you take a look at the deletion debate, and check my reasoning. If I've messed up, please correct me. I don't mind looking dumb in public if I've made a mistake, but I have done my best here. Second, do you happen to know what I should do if I am unhappy about possible "sockpuppets"? I really don't want to upset people by saying nasty things to them, but equally I do want to help people play fair. What's the best way to handle this, please?
Sorry to bother you with this, but I wasn't sure who else to ask, and when I saw on your user page that you're an Administrator I thought you'd be a good person to ask, especially since you initiated the deletion debate. Thanks in advance for your help.
RomanSpa ( talk) 04:52, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to request that you remove the deletion for WikiProject:Sundays at Parmer. I created that page because I am a Wikipedian-in-Residence in New York and I am helping a gallery called Parmer in NY get set up to fill in this page with their project details. Please see this listing to verify that their project IS active. Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism#Brooklyn: PARMER I created the tab header and all and was planning on letting the gallery owner fill in that page- that is why it was pretty empty yesterday after I first created it. It took a lot of work to make and I would really appreciate if you would un-delete or else help me ensure that it doesn't get deleted again. I have a bunch of information on hand that I can use to populate the page in the meantime. Please let me know asap as Parmer will be hosting an event next weekend, and we want to be able to link to this page to give people more information. OR drohowa ( talk) 14:34, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
My mistake during the nomination of Frans Claerhout for deletion, sorry about that. I made some minor modifications and tagging of the article. -- BiH ( talk) 12:12, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Yes, but perhaps he is just a fan of his work and decided to use his name as his/her username. I have messaged him/her to introduce some references in the article. -- BiH ( talk) 12:41, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Fram,
Just wondering why you are disabling categories in Drafts when mediawikiwiki::Draft_namespace#Open_questions says this:
Should we remove draft categories from the category page listings, so that we can use article categories on drafts without them showing up?
Are the rules here different? I would appreciate a notification when you reply. Thanks in advance, X Ottawahitech ( talk) 16:12, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Being new, we have no explicit mention of the draft namespace. However, our policies seem easily adaptable and relevant. From Wikipedia:Categorization#User pages: "Similarly, user subpages that are draft versions of articles should be kept out of content categories, but are permitted in non-content or project categories, like Category:User essays. If you copy an article from mainspace to userspace and it already contains categories, remove them or comment them out. Restore the categories when you move the draft back into article space."(emphasis mine) The policy is clear that draft pages don't belong in mainspace categories, so I see no reason to make an exception for pages in the Draft namespace (what would be the purpose of a separate namespace if you let the pages appear among the "accepted" articles anyway?) Fram ( talk) 07:43, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
k CloudCakes ( talk) 16:35, 14 February 2014 (UTC) |
Hi Fram, how do I get back a page that you have deleted erroneously due to Unambiguous copyright infringement? I created this page because I am part of this organization and therefore we have the right to lift passages from an article we have published to put right into the Wikipage. I spent many hours constructing and retyping passages in the Wikipage and it would be very annoying to have to create it again.
Additionally, I read through the Wiki you have provided but I do not understand how we can "allow" Wikipedia to be able to use our copyright.
The page I am referring to is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Women%27s_Bar_Association Please advise urgently.
Alee214 ( talk) 01:21, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Fram, we have added the language onto the webpage that the information is taken from http://www.nywba.org. Can you now reactivate the original page? Alee214 ( talk) 00:35, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear Fram, Thank You for your insight. I've made some mistakes and apologize for that, but let me tell you that the mistakes are unknowingly and purely unintentional. Sometimes there's some conflicts with my internet connection and that gives this type of error. I don't run any bot, but try to welcome new users to Wikipedia. I believe that there should be no discrimination for welcoming new people on Wikipedia. I feel happy if a new user asks for help. It may not be convincing for you but it makes more valuable for me to help the new comers. I can't go and write on new users page that "Hey I want to help you". So I leave this welcome message and yes, I agree that there are some editing conflicts and I hope you understand them as frequent editing gives some results like that . Again thanks you for the information.I'm learning from my mistakes :) -- Jnanaranjan Sahu (ଜ୍ଞାନ) talk 10:48, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
It is not a hoax. I have looked it up and found that it is real. -- Old Time Music Fan ( talk) 00:56, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Just to let you know that I have added categories to The Land of Green Ginger, and removed your "needs categories" template. Thank you. RomanSpa ( talk) 18:22, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Page you deleted wasn't made by me. But I would like to make it. It is new album by Miss May I. [3], [4], [5], [6] Ping me. OccultZone ( Talk) 11:48, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Sony Xperia Tablet Z2 , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Deoma12 (Talk) 11:42, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Why? The categories were already commented out? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:38, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Can you explain a little more at the talk page for this article your rationale for the redirect and pulling the DYK? I had begun by using text from Hilda Rix Nicholas, with an opportunity for myself or others to develop the article further, and had already written a summary background para that wasn't straight from the Hilda Rix Nicholas article. The Rix nicholas article didn't contain the info about the gallery purchase. I'm not really getting the point of the exercise as an improvement of the encyclopedia. I have reinstated the article (and added one little bit for now), but there's nothing I can do about the hook being pulled. Also, is there any particular reason for not raising it at a talk page first? hamiltonstone ( talk) 05:45, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) It was noted and agreed that this article was an "unattributed copy-and-paste" from another article. Hence it was of paramount importance that it should not be highlighted on the main page and why it was pulled so quickly. The Rambling Man ( talk) 07:08, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello there. I have a question regarding this edit you made. Your edit summary mentioned user space, which it isn't exactly, is it? So, for a draft that is meant to be in article namespace after its approval, should the categories indeed be "removed" in that sense? I'll leave it as you changed it in the mean time, I was just curious. :) Thanks! ~ | twsx | talk cont | ~ 07:45, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I see that your relationship with Old Time Music Fan continues to be difficult. This is to encourage you not to let this wind you up any further. I should start by saying that I'm making this comment because I have interacted with both of you positively in the past, and respect both of you for your various contributions to our great project. I'm copying this message to both your talk pages.
Both you and Old Time Music Fan have a lot to give to Wikipedia. You are different in terms of both wiki-experience, and (obviously) in temperament, but this is a good thing. We're all here because we want to make Wikipedia better, and this is more likely to happen if we have the widest possible range of editors. You both belong here, and, even though I'm not expecting either of you to like the other, I do hope you will each respect what the other has to offer. As an observer, I can easily see that Old Time Music Fan is full of a new editor's enthusiasm, whilst I can just as easily see that Fram is full of the long-standing editor's experience and professionalism. It is natural for there to be occasional clashes between you - each approaches problems differently from the other. That said, I do feel that neither of you is behaving as well as you might at present. Please remember that Wikipedia is based on civility. Right now neither of you is being particularly civil to the other, and this is not helping either of you, nor is it helping Wikipedia.
Fram: It seems to me that your main concern is to ensure that new articles, and edits to existing articles, should be as well-written and reliable as possible. You have noticed that Old Time Music Fan sometimes makes mistakes, and have suggested corrections. All this seems good to me, and I agree with you that we should always aim as high as possible. That said, it's worth remembering that (a) people do go back and improve the articles they've started, so we don't need perfection from the start; (b) everyone can improve our articles, so even if someone just starts an article and leaves it as a skeleton, other people will improve it over time; (c) articles belong to everyone, so if you see an error it's often as easy to correct it as to complain to the article's creator.
Where I feel you're making a mistake is in the way you have been communicating with Old Time Music Fan. You certainly haven't been rude to him, but in guiding someone it is usually better to embiggen than to belittle. As far as possible, please remember that bluntly written text can seem more abrasive than the same words spoken aloud.
Old Time Music Fan: As I've said above, I feel that Fram's concerns about the quality of your work are sometimes justified. I can see that sometimes you do good work - Teicha (Rietschen) is shaping up to be quite a good page (though there's still lots to do), and that's your doing - but I can also see that sometimes you are a bit slapdash in the articles you create - starting Entenbach (Englischer Garten) the way you did does seem rather careless. I believe that you'll improve in this area over time, and would be happy to help you with this.
However, you are making two mistakes that are not consistent with how Wikipedia works. First, please assume good faith. When Fram comments on your editing he has the best interests of the project at heart, and even if he phrases himself undiplomatically his motives are pure. This isn't personal for him, and it would be wise not to treat his comments as personally directed at you. Second, it is not civil to sulk. Threatening to leave because someone says something you dislike is not the mark of civil behaviour in our community; threatening to leave several times starts to look a bit silly.
I very much hope that both of you will be able to resolve your current personality clash: Wikipedia needs both of you. What I hope is that (a) Old Time Music Fan removes the "Retired" line from his user page, and continues to work on being more careful in his article creation activities; (b) Fram works on being a bit more tolerant when other people make mistakes, and phrases his requests for improvements more gently. It would also be nice if each of you could apologise for treading on the other's toes, but I'm not holding my breath on this one!
I suspect that in many ways the best thing for both of you would be to simply decide not to communicate directly for a few months. There are plenty of other editors who will identify and improve the articles you are working on and the problems you are trying to resolve. I'm prepared to act as an intermediary between you if you feel that would be useful. In any case, I hope you can both resolve matters between you as productively as possible. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make things easier for either of you.
RomanSpa ( talk) 19:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I have tried to avoid these mistakes. -- Old Time Music Fan ( talk) 18:06, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Fram. I happened to run into Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/EffK, by chance. I noted that the various socks discovered during arbitration weren't blocked (anymore), and that you had blocked the master. I'm going to file some paperwork, just for the sake of redundancy, and block all those socks. It seems pretty useless considering how old it is, but I hate having loose threads in the beautiful fabric of our project. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 14:47, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Fram, I've closed the Arbitration Enforcement request regarding Rich Farmbrough and referred it to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA#Clarification request: Rich Farmbrough. Regards, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 09:04, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey Fram, when you remove hooks from preps/queue, could you re-open the nomination and add it to Wikipedia:Did you know/Removed? Thanks, Nikkimaria ( talk) 17:17, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
A motion has been proposed in Clarification request: Rich Farmbrough. For the Arbitration Committee, Rockfang ( talk) 16:56, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
I can't PROD this article القيم الآسيوية, the option is not working, but it is a duplicate page. Original one is Asian values. OccultZone ( Talk) 10:06, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello. BishonenSwe ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is the latest sock of Finnedi ( talk · contribs) (see this SPI). So would you please apply new semi-protection to my user talk page? The protection applied last night was only for 12 hours and has now expired. Thomas.W talk 13:10, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
The arbitration clarification request, either involving you, or in which you participated (Rich Farmbrough) has resulted in a clarification motion by the Arbitration Committee
The Clarification can be found at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich_Farmbrough#Clarifications_by_motion and the complete discussion can be found at Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich_Farmbrough#Clarification_request:_Rich_Farmbrough_.28April_2014.29 For the Arbitration Committee,-- S Philbrick (Talk) 16:29, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Fram, regarding this I checked the original articles (Soykan and Dulcic) - both actually state what length sex reversals happened in the area that they studied. There are two other studies on the talk page too. None can be generalised to cover the species as a whole. I have spent some time going through sources as a whole. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 13:39, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
I'll leave it up to you to decide but I'm not sure your recent revert on Crusaders to a previous edit of mine was entirely appropriate. Most of the detail added was by way of updating the article to 2014. The numbers for their programs and additional details seemed fair. Perhaps you could just remove anything that you thought wasn't neutral. Thanks Castlemate ( talk) 01:43, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Maybe you could remove the offending pov rather than a blanket revert. The updated facts and figures are useful. Don't throw out the baby Jesus with the bath water! In case you didn't notice that was a joke ... I'm not actually a Christian or a Crusader. Castlemate ( talk) 11:02, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Feel free to be a careless editor whenever you feel so inclined! Castlemate ( talk) 02:59, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Are you aware that the Titus Andronicus (character) article is an attempt to celebrate William Shakespeare's 450th birthday. It is currently under discussion at DYK. The content at Titus Andronicus regarding this character is quite disjointed and not as far superior to the dedicated article as you suggest.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:54, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Please see my proposal to speedily rename: Hugo999 ( talk) 12:41, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
...for bringing up the issue of the DYK about "Jesus Christ is Risen Today". I am beginning to see further evidence of how split our community is.--(Mark Miller) Maleko Mela ( talk) 20:20, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
…from me, too. MarkBernstein ( talk) 16:15, 29 April 2014 (UTC)