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Hope you can help. You had deleted this Crypto Street page (now viewable at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geoburke/Crypto_Street ). This represents a new company, relevant to the bitcoin industry. I want to edit this article so it is compliant with wikipedia guidelines. What needs to change? Thank you for your advice. - George — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geoburke ( talk • contribs) 20:05, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Please actually look at this article and tell me which one of the provided links constitutes a reliable source. The norwegian Wikipedia articles? The facebook page? Or the links to the homepages of various websites, some which belong to the subject himself-- Jac16888 Talk 19:52, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, just wandering around New Pages for the first time on a long time and saw the Broderick-Clote article. The name seems to be rendered with different spellings, Brodrick vs Broderick and somtimes hyphenated, but this would seem to be the same person. FlowerpotmaN·( t) 23:04, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Oliver, Just to say thanks for giving me my very first Barnstar! Richard J Myers ( talk) 22:17, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
I see that you weighed in on the YMCA Queensland Youth Parliament article, that was subsequently deleted. If you have a chance, do you mind weighing in on: Talk:YMCA Youth Parliament#YMCA Youth Parliament articles.
Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 14:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Bullying#This reversion. Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 13:03, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ironholds. The consensus seemed pretty strong here regarding applying the COI template to the Talk page of articles about organizations (starting with a trial). Jimmy Wales even proposed a template just like it here:
And it got support from both sides of the COI debate. The problem I'm having is to get someone to actually apply the tags. My bot request was ignored/archived and folks I talk to don't know how to get BOT work done. Do you know how to get it moved forward? Seems like a no-brainer to me. CorporateM ( Talk) 14:51, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Velocette MAC (WD) , 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. Sincerely, SamBlob ( talk) 08:45, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
courtesy note, I've just unblocked
User:Billy Hathorn. It is a pragmatic unblock: The block was impossible to enforce since he has access to numerous huge and busy ranges, trying to revert and delete everything had no effect, and since he is absurdly active this will at least allow to check whether there are further problems. Moonriddengirl spot-checked a few of his more recent articles and no problems jumped out, so I think this is the least uncomfortable way forward. :/
Cheers,
Amalthea 20:37, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi!
If you want to do your analysis on data from the Danish-language Wikipedia, I will be happy to help with translating block rationales. -- Palnatoke ( talk) 04:35, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Great blogpost, Sir. Now I want to see Echo. Ad Huikeshoven ( talk) 21:23, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I am starting to write an article on the Health & Morals of Apprentices Act 1802.. Exciting, I know! I noticed your work on Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and my partner (Worm That Turned) suggested that I ask you to review it for me User:Staceydolxx/sandbox. I haven't finished it yet.. obviously. But I wondered if you could help me with places I might be able to find a copy of the Act. I can find lots of places where people talk about it being rare to find; but can't find a copy of it! I have emailed my library but they have been slow in replying.
Thanks very much, Staceydolxx ( talk) 17:22, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar awarded to me for creating Allahdino article! It gives me more strength to create /update more articles!! Rayabhari ( talk) 12:05, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
The Barnstar Barnstar | |
Your use of WikiLove is appreciated and is good for "employee morale". I was reviewing my old ones, and saw one that you gave to me when I was still a frustrated newbie, and it really made a difference for me. I see you pop up on my watchlist rather frequently awarding wiki-love, so I award you the first ever (that I'm aware of) Barnstar Barnstar. Go Phightins ! 02:35, 15 May 2013 (UTC) |
Well, I'm glad some people have drawn benefit from those articles. It actually started when I was researching topics in related fields...I was citing the same authors so much that I figured they should pass the WP:GNG at that point, given their contributions. And thank you for the monitoring you're doing here on the Encyclopedia, adminship seems like a very time-consuming, tedious yet necessary task. MezzoMezzo ( talk) 03:46, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your barnstar Ironholds. Though Rita Vorperian may have been one of my good articles, check out George Juskalian. I spent a lot of time on that. Proudbolsahye ( talk) 05:53, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Just a note to let you know A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning has become a Good Article. I made some very minor edits to the article itself. It would also be nice if more images could be added (a 17th-century compass, say?), but that would only be a nice little extra. Nice article! Curly Turkey ( gobble) 08:06, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much indeed for the Original Barn Star, and such an encouraging citation.Best regards to you too. Chhandama ( talk) 10:35, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi TWA folks!
It's been a long time since we worked on The Wikipedia Adventure together, but this spring I proposed the game for an Individual Engagement Grant and it was accepted :)
I spent the last two months refining the script and getting ready to build the game using Guided tours. I am working with an amazing designer and getting expert curation tips from the Grant program leader.
Here is the full 7-mission text version of the game: http://jatspan.org/twa2.html#29
I'd love to have your feedback on it, before I get started with the build. I would love it if you would leave any thoughts, tips, comments, recommendations, suggestions, ideas, or concerns, at WP:TWA/Feedback.
Hope you're doing great,
-- Ocaasi 14:00, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Wow, thank you very much for the honor. *bows* I have always been particularly enthralled with historical weather events, and I have even done extensive research on historic tornadoes in Saint Petersburg, Florida, and other Florida cities. I have the books Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm and Significant Tornadoes: 1680-1991 in my home library, along with some 400+ microfiched newspapers—well, more accurately, 400+ images of microfiched newspapers on my flash drive(s)—covering old weather events. I have always been irritated that so much information that is available in local historical societies and library archives is not general public knowledge, so I have been making an effort, properly and exhaustively sourced whenever possible, to both add new content on tornadoes to Wikipedia and to correct the many errors, improper citation formats, false claims, etc. in available articles. Anyway, I am glad to be of service as time permits. CapeVerdeWave ( talk) 15:17, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the Barnstar! I wasn't expecting anything like this. Ferroequinologly ( talk) 05:11, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the barnstar, really unexpected and genuinely appreciated, many thanks, Pjposullivan ( talk) 07:29, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Ironholds, thanks for rethinking your oppose on Kumioko's RfA; I was thinking of asking you to do that myself. Whatever issues with Kumioko there are, they're taking a beating there already, and I'd hate to see more piled on. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 17:56, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing so many articles and for the barnstar. Much appreciated. Hmlarson ( talk) 20:50, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Oliver. Thank you for awarding me the Editor's Barnstar and for the autopatrolled user rights. Ali Fazal ( talk) 21:14, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
For the barnstar. Always nice to know an admin appreciates one's contributions especially on these obscure but worthwhile articles. Thanks also for autoreviewer rights. - Fantr ( talk) 22:34, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
I just saw in my Notifications that you reviewed the articles Near 3 kpc Arm and Far 3 kpc Arm, but I can't seem to be able to find these reviews. Were they good, were they bad? Should I be able to see comments from you somewhere regarding these reviews? Cheers. Gaba (talk) 01:11, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Dear Ironholds,
Thanks for looking at the article and providing your comments that it needs to cover more viewpoints. As the primary author of the article, I wanted to know if you had any suggestions for non-fringe views on consumer arbitration that are not adequately addressed in the article as well as suggestions on incorporating those points of view in the article. (I went into writing the article intending to cover all aspects of consumer arbitration and not be a POV trainwreck that many of our other arbitration articles sadly are at the present.) Thanks, RJaguar3 | u | t 02:59, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar. Appreciated! Miguel.v ( talk) 05:03, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
... for my first barnstar in over nine years! Much appreciated. But I regret to say I'm very far from a legal eagle. Not even a legal sparrow. SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 05:49, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you A7'ed this a while back...I'm surprised that no one has brought this up, but that site was, at one time, one of the biggest music websites in the English-speaking world, a serious competitor to MySpace. This is attested to by a number of news articles ( [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). If these weren't present in the deleted article I'd be happy to add them to a restored copy. Do you think you could take another look at this one? Chubbles ( talk) 02:34, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Tito Dutta ( contact) 14:14, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Not questioning your decisions — I don't see any point in leaving talk page access for someone who's community banned for something like this. I'm simply confused why you revoked talk page access afterward; was it this, or something else? Talkback please. Nyttend ( talk) 02:15, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Back in April 2009 you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider AfD. I see that it has been deleted at AfD before, but that was six years ago, and the closing admin said "No prejudice against re-creation", so I don't think it's a G4 case. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 15:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. I was wondering if you would mind taking a look at the Ray Burggraf page, and lend some advice about how to further conduct the cleanup you requested about a week ago? After consulting other articles for reference, and the suggestions on the Talk page, I believe I have removed all potentially COI prose in good faith. As an editor with a personal (unpaid, familial) bias for the subject, however, I would like to check and make sure this is the case. I would be grateful for any additional input you may have to offer. Thanks! Global Microscope ( talk) 20:09, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. You recently closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement (2nd nomination) as Delete. Most of the delete !votes had argued that the article consisted of original research or synthesis because there were no criteria specified for what entities would belong on the list. However, during the deletion discussion, I suggested that it would be easy enough to craft such a description, and the nominator suggested that he or she would consider withdrawing the nomination if I succeeded in doing so. I had intended to follow up on this, but didn't have a chance in the short time that remained before you closed the discussion as delete. What do you think would be the best way for me to proceed? Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 23:44, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry about the mass blanking. I was just trying to help out.-- Jerzeykydd ( talk) 14:19, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
I appreciate the gesture of your confidence in my intent to write the best quality of article that I am able and in saying thanks, I wanted to present my first article from within the new user group. I hope you will find it in good order, even interesting perhaps. Thanks again, cheers.-- My76Strat ( talk) 06:27, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Ooh, thanks for the thanks, but how did you do it? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 21:15, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the laughs in the edit of yours I just thanked. - Amaury ( talk) 23:41, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey man. You just blocked ProbablyJustAMisPrint2. Looks like he's back as ProbablyJustAMisPrint3 ( talk · contribs). Zappa O Mati 00:00, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
We got off on the wrong foot and I took a big part of the blame and apologized to you.
You made an offer to continue the conversation on your page which I took as an intention from your side to help me further to pinpoint the problem as you apparently disagreed with comments made at the technical village pump. I'm no professional at all when it comes to programming and (especially) Java Scripts unlike you, who seem to be knowledgeable in this matter according to your user page. So I ask you again and for the last time (that's a promise), Can you and are you willing to help me solving the problem or not? As a starter, a simple yes or no would be sufficient. Thanks for any response, either way,
TMCk (
talk) 00:33, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Waiting several days, it seems like I was right in the first place about you and you had no intention to help but only to smash an editor who disagreed with your COI POV. I leave the rest to your imagination.
And don't bother me again as you've already waisted plenty of my time for nothing but your excuses I shouldn't have believe in the first place.
TMCk (
talk) 02:16, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
No need to argue on old or new problems and pass on any kind of blame to anyone. Just let me thank you for being willing to help me out here.
Previously, (in regards to other ECHO problems I posted a lot but was just lucky that someone with more knowledge than myself posted the bug I was encountering myself at Bugzilla. I opened an account there but still couldn't make much out of it besides watching until finally the bug was resolved.)
So here are my (by now) 2 problems and the information you asked for:
Latest problem: Since I was mentioned at some page with my user link I have a red info square displaying the # 1. When ECHO was introduced I was able to click or double click that square, see the notification(s) and than they were back to zero. When I click or double click now it doesn't pop up and is inaccessible so to say. Maybe something implemented later and not compatible with an older version of java? Just a clueless thought. I might add that talk page notices which have the addition of the small orangebar were still working (clickable) while this new bug appeared.
The first and still persisting problem: When editing a page, wiki-mark-ups (by now rarely) show up and instead I just get the copy-and-paste version. This happens to any pages no matter how fast or slow they load and I do not get a time-out or similar. Even a page that loads rather quickly might or might not give me the clickable wiki mark-ups. I'd posted this problem at the time at the technical village pump here were I pointed out that I have the same problem on my laptop which BTW is in no way connected to my main PC besides being connected to the same DSL router. I've presented screen-shots for this at the village pump, (I had to use image shack since I have another problem uploading to WP but that I'm not concerned of right now): copy-paste screen and screen with wiki mark-ups enabled.
Technical data you asked me for:
-I have IE 8 in use on my PC as well as my laptop (the latter I usually don't use for editing WP but used to check if the same problems I have on my PC appear as well. Since if they do, I rule out my PC being the actual problem.)
-Both computers run on windows XP; PC on SP 2 and laptop on SP 3
I'm much appreciated for you trying to help me out with this and if you need any further info or any other kind of input from my side just let me know here and I'll respond as soon as I can.
Thanks a bunch,
TMCk ( talk) 03:15, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
PS: Will give you a kind notice this time if there is no response from you within a couple of days ;) TMCk ( talk) 03:15, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Little update: Right after I saved this post I checked again at my laptop and managed to open and nullify the red notification. Thought that might help. TMCk ( talk) 03:23, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
some one is (POV pushing, dubious edits, deleting the montage, and unexplained edit summaries) the page Andhra Pradesh, ur intervention is required or kindly report the issue to administrator Murrallli ( talk) 12:19, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Not sure if I am just wearing a tin foil hat or not but I think User:170.94.104.36 might be our friend Expatkiwi ( talk · contribs) that you just indefed. Werieth ( talk) 15:32, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the Barnstar! Sorry for the late response but I took some time off for a while. Also thank you for taking the time to review what Ive done and promoting me. It means a lot. Hope all is well and happy Wikifying.
Again, thank you and feel free to delete this comment. DaltonCastle ( talk) 20:36, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for my first barnstar. You know I was easily fed. A cheeseburger, a barnstar, I'll take them all Z22 ( talk) 03:41, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
Thanks to your super duper help last time; I thought I would come a pick your brains again! I have just written Police protection provisions article and I need a bit of help with it. I have listed a few things on the talk page that I'm not sure about. Its not as interesting as the last article; and if you can't be bothered with it, I won't be offended =) Though if any of your page watchers fancy giving me a hand that's also very welcome! =)
Thanks again, ツ Stacey ( talk) 10:44, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Oliver- I saw your "unreferenced" tag on the above article and wanted to ask your advice. I translated the article from a stub on fr wp. Do you know if there's a preferred way to note that on a page without it being a big template at the top? Maybe simply a Source section with a link to the fr article, or a link in References? I found Template:French_Wikipedia -- do you know if those are typically used? Didn't see any guidance re this topic on Wikipedia:Citing_sources. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Eric talk 13:56, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm intrigued by your comment at the KW block duration thread. I'm posting here, rather than there, because I am more interested in the generic issue, than the specific KW issue. I want to explore the possibility that one can have consensus even if everyone who responded picked a different value.To give an extreme example, suppose ten people responded with 100 days, 101 days...109 days. I don't think any closing admin would have any trouble closing with a block length of 105 days.
That obviously isn't the situation here, and it is tainted by the large number of indefs, which I would like to prohibit, but that's another discussion. I think that if everyone were willing to commit to a time certain, even if all those values differed, we could consider some ways to identify a consensus. The arithmetic average is not such an answer, if there are three values, 1, 5, and 75, then 27 is the average, but is not really a good choice. A better option might be the geometric mean (7.2) or the Harmonic mean(2.5) or even the geometric–harmonic mean, which I haven't calculated.
A more likely candidate is a median. Half the respondents wanted more, half less.
There's also the mode, but it could have some odd results.
It is also intriguing because there aren't many situation where math (beyond trivial counting) makes much sense in a determination of consensus. Afd, and Rfa, are largely binary, the results is either keep or not, promote or not. Consensus on wording may have more than two options, but they aren't numeric in the sense that one can pick something in between. A block length is naturally conducive to such a calculation, and not much else.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 22:09, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank you! -- Andrevruas ( talk) 02:21, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Can you please delete this racist attack? Thanks, TheStrike Σagle 03:43, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words. More articles to come! :) Proudbolsahye ( talk) 03:43, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, this is to let everyone who commented in the last RM know that there's another RM/RfC here, in case you'd like to comment again. Best, SlimVirgin (talk) 19:13, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Sure. I'm sorry about that -- I didn't realize. Mfribbs ( talk) 14:21, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ironholds, Thank you greatly! Its much appreciated. With the new User rights you've given me, what "super wiki powers" did I gain? -- Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... ( talk) 02:42, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Hope you're not vegetarian or vegan, just showing appreciation... :) Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... ( talk) 02:43, 9 June 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks again for the barnstar & autopatrol. I've taken the liberty to send you Email. Ok, Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 08:27, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Now, some of you might have already received a similar message a little while ago regarding the Recruitment Centre, so if you have, there is no need to read the rest of this. This message is directed to users who have reviewed over 15 Good article nominations and are not part of
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So for those who haven't heard about the Recruitment Centre yet, you may be wondering why there is a Good article icon with a bunch of stars around it (to the right). The answer? WikiProject Good articles will be launching a Recruitment Centre very soon! The centre will allow all users to be taught how to review Good article nominations by experts just like you! However, in order for the Recruitment Centre to open in the first place, we need some volunteers:
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Thank you for the barnstar! As for the username, I've got a particular interest in FAL's obviously, but some of those old bolt guns like the SMLEs and others catch my interest as well. They're nice shooters, and you gotta admire the history behind them. Have a nice day!-- L1A1 FAL ( talk) 00:07, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Dear Ironholds, Thanks for writing to me regarding the footnoting style of my recent contribution (new section) to Court of Chancery. To be honest, although academically qualified, I'm not fully up to the game - and also quite exhausted from the busiest two weeks of this year so far, professionally speaking - with the current Wikipedia format of footnotes. I am therefore inclined to take up your kind offer to step in and beautify those two notes. Incidentally, are you an Administrator? I ask because, as someone who's done alot of editing and contributing in the past few years, but completely lacking the techno- and "corporate" experience to become an Admin, it is always nice to know one or two, especially in the odd edit war. Thanks again for your vigilance, and for bringing the footnotes up to the mark. FClef (talk) 00:09, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Scope creep. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, List of Break Free episodes, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. scope_creep 19:59, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Scope creep. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Leon Pape, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. scope_creep 20:00, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
...sings the ancient song of the ancient Royal Navy (and also Sinatra). I'm very interested to the Falklands War, and I made this article in it.wiki a Featured Article. This story is indeed fascinating, and there is indeed more than I wrote there, about the SBS boarding party and fears of the argentine intelligence officer aboard. If you need a collaboration on maritime and war articles, ring me, please, but for now thank you for the Barnstar. -- Pigr8 Melius esse quam videri 14:33, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello... I noticed your tag placed on this page, but I am not quite sure why or which part(s) you feel are written in a "fan-style". Would you mind clarifying exactly which part(s) of the article appear to be fan-biased vs. purely informational? I'll be glad to re-word anything that is not written objectively-- I just cannot pinpoint any such bias, myself. Any examples would be a great help. Thanks! ChinchX ( talk) 13:43, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Many, many thanks for the Barnstar for James Pratt and John Smith; that quite made my day! :) Catsmeat ( talk) 12:08, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
A few more voices experienced in NPOV editing would be useful at the Tea Party movement moderated discussion. I appreciate it's a big ask, and no worries if you find you haven't the time or inclination, but your opinions are respected and valued, so input from you would be helpful. The article has made great progress over the past month, and is heading in the right direction - though there is still some work to do, and there is an ArbCom case ( Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tea Party movement) held in suspension over this article. The Committee will be reconvening at the end of the month to decide what to do. SilkTork ✔Tea time 12:17, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
15:48, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
Just an update. He jumped IP and continued. "We will also be launching an Operation against Wikipedia for being libel-mongers and will test the capabilities of your staff, system, and personal lives. That, my friend, is a promise!" [6]. It gets better all the time Yintan 21:06, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
Guys, you're not dealing with a '14 year old script kiddie', the person threatening you is (Redacted) from 'STOPhaus' a serious group of spammers who hate Spamhaus and have vandalized this same Wikipedia page many times before and is the same person who made the edits to the Spamhaus "CyberBunker dispute and DDoS attack" section. That section should be reverted to 19:42, 19 June 2013 (Trivialist) really the last correct version. The current version calls Spamhaus "Terrorists" and claims various illegal activities invented by this 'STOPhaus' guy. Cheers FirenzeNove FirenzeNove ( talk) 20:29, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Could you please restore my access to Huggle? Much obliged. Regards. — Avenue X at Cicero ( talk) 19:48, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
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Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 00:05, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Oliver, I'm not sure that this is where I should be trying to reply to you - but here goes. Though I believed that the term 'intend' was explained in "Make a Signal" by Jack Broome but, on checking, the reference to it that I was expecting is absent. I'll check other sources. If I can't unearth it then I'll remove my amendment. Peter R Hastings ( talk) 21:21, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Do you mind taking care of this? Specifically the "I.. Kill... You..." part? Dusti *poke* 00:23, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
If there were a barnstar for a good picture I would give you one for this one. You're cool!! :) Ms.Bono (zootalk)☆ 13:44, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
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I just happened to reach User:BlueLupine's userpage where I saw a barnstar from you for "a fantastic article" Rachana Shah. It then went through two AfDs [7] [8] to be deleted with BlueLupine's seeming acquiescence. Could a merge with Timbuctoo (novel) keeping a redirect have been possible? I can't see any of this, of course. You weren't involved in any of the discussions but I thought you might be well-placed to judge. Thincat ( talk) 10:28, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
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Orlady ( talk) 03:53, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Jc and Oliver: I want to get to work on preparing a new RfC designed to deal with the problem that we're losing active admins faster than we're making new ones ... so the new RfC may or may not deal with tool use in general. Wikipedians seem to me to react to PC2 as if it's some kind of tool, so PC2 may or may not be part of the discussion. Are either of you interested in being closers in the new RfC? Would you like for me to put off even discussion about a new RfC until you two are ready to say something about the PC2 RfC? - Dank ( push to talk) 15:26, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I really don't know how I managed to get the article unreviewed. Certainly didn't do it intentionally. I think it's probably something to do with adding a tag using the editing tools available in Firefox. Could be part of the process to unreview it, or it could be a bug in one of the scripts. scope_creep ( talk) 22:11, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm having a helluva time trying to solve a thing in my sandbox. It's a wikitable. I needa make rows (when applicable) for the Genre and IG sections (I used this ---- instead). I have tried everything, reading, copying, help:sorting, but to no avail. Can you please point me in the right direction, maybe helping me find somebody to do it ? Thanks a billion ! Krenakarore TK 22:21, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Ironholds, would you mind signing my Guestbook? Ms.Bono (zootalk)☆ 17:20, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
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If it's true that you have made the "only if I'm allowed to bring a lighter." about Kiefer Wolfowitz (I have no interest whatsoever in going on IRC myself, but the reports that you said this seem reliable), then you are very lucky that this channel is technically off-wiki. Some "jokes" are in such incredibly poor taste and so offensive that they are bound to get a very negative reaction when the subject hears them.
From WP:NPA#Off-wiki attacks: "Wikipedia cannot regulate behavior in media not under the control of the Wikimedia Foundation, but personal attacks made elsewhere create doubt about the good faith of an editor's on-wiki actions. Posting personal attacks or defamation off-Wikipedia is harmful to the community and to an editor's relationship with it, especially when such attacks take the form of violating an editor's privacy. Such attacks can be regarded as aggravating factors by administrators and are admissible evidence in the dispute-resolution process, including Arbitration cases."
And from Wikipedia:IRC#How is Wikipedia IRC related to Wikipedia?: "When the channels are used to attack Wikipedians,[...] the resulting atmosphere is very damaging to the project's collaborative relationships."
Since the subject of your remark is not able to reply on the IRC channel, he made the wrong decision and replied on-wiki with an unacceptable but understandable reply. As could be predicted, he received a long block while you came of without even a warning (at least here, who knows what has been said on IRC or elsewhere), strengthening the belief that some editors have more rights than others and that admins are free to do as they please. To correct this a bit, I have unblocked him and issue this warning here. Further similar remarks, even when on IRC, will get you blocked for personal attacks. Fram ( talk) 13:09, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#Offsite comments and personal attacks and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the following resources may be of use—
Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 23:26, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
While I'm here, I protected your page since it seemed like a coordinated sock attack was going on. Might have been an overreaction on my part, if so, sorry. Mark Arsten ( talk) 23:36, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
I see you're more on the side of administrator evaluation of a request instead of arbitrary judgement based on a figure, which I quite value! In addition you're somebody I have a deep seated respect for from your extended work here on en. I was wondering if you would consider the increasing quality of my articles and evaluate if I should be given such a flag.
Full disclosure, I'm not sure which outcome I expect, but any feedback you provide, positive or negative, will surely help me to grow as an editor! :)
Sincerely, - TIM( Contact)/( Contribs) 15:57, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Agree with TIM.... Can you please have a look at my contribs too and tell me where to improve...would be very grateful.. Cheers, ƬheStrike Σagle sorties 16:23, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Great! Thank you! ƬheStrike Σagle sorties 02:41, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
This deserves better than just the little heart from the notifications toolbar. I'm pleasantly surprised ... when I saw it was coming from you I thought it was for my TemplateData edits. Guess I should do some more of them ...
Looking forward to seeing you again in HK, if you're going to be there. Daniel Case ( talk) 18:02, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
Ehrmagawd, your pointers on my article creation were fabulous! Thank you so much, I will use this to bolster my existing articles and tailor all new articles to these points!
A true example of an editor going waaaay out of their way to help a total stranger, and improving the Wiki in the process! Cheers! TIM( Contact)/( Contribs) 03:15, 7 July 2013 (UTC) |
I've begun the GA review for Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and would like your thoughts on a few points. Thanks as always for your quality contributions-- Khazar2 ( talk) 00:44, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your work to bring Devotions upon Emergent Occasions to Good Article status! It was a fun one to review. -- Khazar2 ( talk) 13:12, 8 July 2013 (UTC) |
Many thanks for the auto-patrolled - WP confidence in article creation is much appreciated. Cheers. Acabashi ( talk) 03:14, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
You were recently listed as a party to 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/Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds/Evidence. Please add your evidence by July 26, 2013, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 13:56, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you remember having spoken to me on IRC several months ago, but I brought up our past conversation on the Arbitration requests page. Kurtis (talk) 04:07, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the auto-patrolled rights and your aprreciation! - Myxomatosis57 ( talk) 18:32, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
No probs! I've just given Hesta Prynn's cover a listen—it's really good, I like the trip-hoppy feel to it. Snap Snap 19:30, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hope you can help. You had deleted this Crypto Street page (now viewable at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geoburke/Crypto_Street ). This represents a new company, relevant to the bitcoin industry. I want to edit this article so it is compliant with wikipedia guidelines. What needs to change? Thank you for your advice. - George — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geoburke ( talk • contribs) 20:05, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Please actually look at this article and tell me which one of the provided links constitutes a reliable source. The norwegian Wikipedia articles? The facebook page? Or the links to the homepages of various websites, some which belong to the subject himself-- Jac16888 Talk 19:52, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, just wandering around New Pages for the first time on a long time and saw the Broderick-Clote article. The name seems to be rendered with different spellings, Brodrick vs Broderick and somtimes hyphenated, but this would seem to be the same person. FlowerpotmaN·( t) 23:04, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Oliver, Just to say thanks for giving me my very first Barnstar! Richard J Myers ( talk) 22:17, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
I see that you weighed in on the YMCA Queensland Youth Parliament article, that was subsequently deleted. If you have a chance, do you mind weighing in on: Talk:YMCA Youth Parliament#YMCA Youth Parliament articles.
Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 14:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Bullying#This reversion. Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 13:03, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ironholds. The consensus seemed pretty strong here regarding applying the COI template to the Talk page of articles about organizations (starting with a trial). Jimmy Wales even proposed a template just like it here:
And it got support from both sides of the COI debate. The problem I'm having is to get someone to actually apply the tags. My bot request was ignored/archived and folks I talk to don't know how to get BOT work done. Do you know how to get it moved forward? Seems like a no-brainer to me. CorporateM ( Talk) 14:51, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Velocette MAC (WD) , 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. Sincerely, SamBlob ( talk) 08:45, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
courtesy note, I've just unblocked
User:Billy Hathorn. It is a pragmatic unblock: The block was impossible to enforce since he has access to numerous huge and busy ranges, trying to revert and delete everything had no effect, and since he is absurdly active this will at least allow to check whether there are further problems. Moonriddengirl spot-checked a few of his more recent articles and no problems jumped out, so I think this is the least uncomfortable way forward. :/
Cheers,
Amalthea 20:37, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi!
If you want to do your analysis on data from the Danish-language Wikipedia, I will be happy to help with translating block rationales. -- Palnatoke ( talk) 04:35, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Great blogpost, Sir. Now I want to see Echo. Ad Huikeshoven ( talk) 21:23, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I am starting to write an article on the Health & Morals of Apprentices Act 1802.. Exciting, I know! I noticed your work on Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and my partner (Worm That Turned) suggested that I ask you to review it for me User:Staceydolxx/sandbox. I haven't finished it yet.. obviously. But I wondered if you could help me with places I might be able to find a copy of the Act. I can find lots of places where people talk about it being rare to find; but can't find a copy of it! I have emailed my library but they have been slow in replying.
Thanks very much, Staceydolxx ( talk) 17:22, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar awarded to me for creating Allahdino article! It gives me more strength to create /update more articles!! Rayabhari ( talk) 12:05, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
The Barnstar Barnstar | |
Your use of WikiLove is appreciated and is good for "employee morale". I was reviewing my old ones, and saw one that you gave to me when I was still a frustrated newbie, and it really made a difference for me. I see you pop up on my watchlist rather frequently awarding wiki-love, so I award you the first ever (that I'm aware of) Barnstar Barnstar. Go Phightins ! 02:35, 15 May 2013 (UTC) |
Well, I'm glad some people have drawn benefit from those articles. It actually started when I was researching topics in related fields...I was citing the same authors so much that I figured they should pass the WP:GNG at that point, given their contributions. And thank you for the monitoring you're doing here on the Encyclopedia, adminship seems like a very time-consuming, tedious yet necessary task. MezzoMezzo ( talk) 03:46, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your barnstar Ironholds. Though Rita Vorperian may have been one of my good articles, check out George Juskalian. I spent a lot of time on that. Proudbolsahye ( talk) 05:53, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Just a note to let you know A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning has become a Good Article. I made some very minor edits to the article itself. It would also be nice if more images could be added (a 17th-century compass, say?), but that would only be a nice little extra. Nice article! Curly Turkey ( gobble) 08:06, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much indeed for the Original Barn Star, and such an encouraging citation.Best regards to you too. Chhandama ( talk) 10:35, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi TWA folks!
It's been a long time since we worked on The Wikipedia Adventure together, but this spring I proposed the game for an Individual Engagement Grant and it was accepted :)
I spent the last two months refining the script and getting ready to build the game using Guided tours. I am working with an amazing designer and getting expert curation tips from the Grant program leader.
Here is the full 7-mission text version of the game: http://jatspan.org/twa2.html#29
I'd love to have your feedback on it, before I get started with the build. I would love it if you would leave any thoughts, tips, comments, recommendations, suggestions, ideas, or concerns, at WP:TWA/Feedback.
Hope you're doing great,
-- Ocaasi 14:00, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Wow, thank you very much for the honor. *bows* I have always been particularly enthralled with historical weather events, and I have even done extensive research on historic tornadoes in Saint Petersburg, Florida, and other Florida cities. I have the books Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm and Significant Tornadoes: 1680-1991 in my home library, along with some 400+ microfiched newspapers—well, more accurately, 400+ images of microfiched newspapers on my flash drive(s)—covering old weather events. I have always been irritated that so much information that is available in local historical societies and library archives is not general public knowledge, so I have been making an effort, properly and exhaustively sourced whenever possible, to both add new content on tornadoes to Wikipedia and to correct the many errors, improper citation formats, false claims, etc. in available articles. Anyway, I am glad to be of service as time permits. CapeVerdeWave ( talk) 15:17, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the Barnstar! I wasn't expecting anything like this. Ferroequinologly ( talk) 05:11, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the barnstar, really unexpected and genuinely appreciated, many thanks, Pjposullivan ( talk) 07:29, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Ironholds, thanks for rethinking your oppose on Kumioko's RfA; I was thinking of asking you to do that myself. Whatever issues with Kumioko there are, they're taking a beating there already, and I'd hate to see more piled on. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 17:56, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing so many articles and for the barnstar. Much appreciated. Hmlarson ( talk) 20:50, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Oliver. Thank you for awarding me the Editor's Barnstar and for the autopatrolled user rights. Ali Fazal ( talk) 21:14, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
For the barnstar. Always nice to know an admin appreciates one's contributions especially on these obscure but worthwhile articles. Thanks also for autoreviewer rights. - Fantr ( talk) 22:34, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
I just saw in my Notifications that you reviewed the articles Near 3 kpc Arm and Far 3 kpc Arm, but I can't seem to be able to find these reviews. Were they good, were they bad? Should I be able to see comments from you somewhere regarding these reviews? Cheers. Gaba (talk) 01:11, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Dear Ironholds,
Thanks for looking at the article and providing your comments that it needs to cover more viewpoints. As the primary author of the article, I wanted to know if you had any suggestions for non-fringe views on consumer arbitration that are not adequately addressed in the article as well as suggestions on incorporating those points of view in the article. (I went into writing the article intending to cover all aspects of consumer arbitration and not be a POV trainwreck that many of our other arbitration articles sadly are at the present.) Thanks, RJaguar3 | u | t 02:59, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar. Appreciated! Miguel.v ( talk) 05:03, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
... for my first barnstar in over nine years! Much appreciated. But I regret to say I'm very far from a legal eagle. Not even a legal sparrow. SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 05:49, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you A7'ed this a while back...I'm surprised that no one has brought this up, but that site was, at one time, one of the biggest music websites in the English-speaking world, a serious competitor to MySpace. This is attested to by a number of news articles ( [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). If these weren't present in the deleted article I'd be happy to add them to a restored copy. Do you think you could take another look at this one? Chubbles ( talk) 02:34, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Tito Dutta ( contact) 14:14, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Not questioning your decisions — I don't see any point in leaving talk page access for someone who's community banned for something like this. I'm simply confused why you revoked talk page access afterward; was it this, or something else? Talkback please. Nyttend ( talk) 02:15, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Back in April 2009 you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider AfD. I see that it has been deleted at AfD before, but that was six years ago, and the closing admin said "No prejudice against re-creation", so I don't think it's a G4 case. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 15:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. I was wondering if you would mind taking a look at the Ray Burggraf page, and lend some advice about how to further conduct the cleanup you requested about a week ago? After consulting other articles for reference, and the suggestions on the Talk page, I believe I have removed all potentially COI prose in good faith. As an editor with a personal (unpaid, familial) bias for the subject, however, I would like to check and make sure this is the case. I would be grateful for any additional input you may have to offer. Thanks! Global Microscope ( talk) 20:09, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. You recently closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement (2nd nomination) as Delete. Most of the delete !votes had argued that the article consisted of original research or synthesis because there were no criteria specified for what entities would belong on the list. However, during the deletion discussion, I suggested that it would be easy enough to craft such a description, and the nominator suggested that he or she would consider withdrawing the nomination if I succeeded in doing so. I had intended to follow up on this, but didn't have a chance in the short time that remained before you closed the discussion as delete. What do you think would be the best way for me to proceed? Regards, Newyorkbrad ( talk) 23:44, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry about the mass blanking. I was just trying to help out.-- Jerzeykydd ( talk) 14:19, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
I appreciate the gesture of your confidence in my intent to write the best quality of article that I am able and in saying thanks, I wanted to present my first article from within the new user group. I hope you will find it in good order, even interesting perhaps. Thanks again, cheers.-- My76Strat ( talk) 06:27, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Ooh, thanks for the thanks, but how did you do it? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 21:15, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the laughs in the edit of yours I just thanked. - Amaury ( talk) 23:41, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey man. You just blocked ProbablyJustAMisPrint2. Looks like he's back as ProbablyJustAMisPrint3 ( talk · contribs). Zappa O Mati 00:00, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
We got off on the wrong foot and I took a big part of the blame and apologized to you.
You made an offer to continue the conversation on your page which I took as an intention from your side to help me further to pinpoint the problem as you apparently disagreed with comments made at the technical village pump. I'm no professional at all when it comes to programming and (especially) Java Scripts unlike you, who seem to be knowledgeable in this matter according to your user page. So I ask you again and for the last time (that's a promise), Can you and are you willing to help me solving the problem or not? As a starter, a simple yes or no would be sufficient. Thanks for any response, either way,
TMCk (
talk) 00:33, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Waiting several days, it seems like I was right in the first place about you and you had no intention to help but only to smash an editor who disagreed with your COI POV. I leave the rest to your imagination.
And don't bother me again as you've already waisted plenty of my time for nothing but your excuses I shouldn't have believe in the first place.
TMCk (
talk) 02:16, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
No need to argue on old or new problems and pass on any kind of blame to anyone. Just let me thank you for being willing to help me out here.
Previously, (in regards to other ECHO problems I posted a lot but was just lucky that someone with more knowledge than myself posted the bug I was encountering myself at Bugzilla. I opened an account there but still couldn't make much out of it besides watching until finally the bug was resolved.)
So here are my (by now) 2 problems and the information you asked for:
Latest problem: Since I was mentioned at some page with my user link I have a red info square displaying the # 1. When ECHO was introduced I was able to click or double click that square, see the notification(s) and than they were back to zero. When I click or double click now it doesn't pop up and is inaccessible so to say. Maybe something implemented later and not compatible with an older version of java? Just a clueless thought. I might add that talk page notices which have the addition of the small orangebar were still working (clickable) while this new bug appeared.
The first and still persisting problem: When editing a page, wiki-mark-ups (by now rarely) show up and instead I just get the copy-and-paste version. This happens to any pages no matter how fast or slow they load and I do not get a time-out or similar. Even a page that loads rather quickly might or might not give me the clickable wiki mark-ups. I'd posted this problem at the time at the technical village pump here were I pointed out that I have the same problem on my laptop which BTW is in no way connected to my main PC besides being connected to the same DSL router. I've presented screen-shots for this at the village pump, (I had to use image shack since I have another problem uploading to WP but that I'm not concerned of right now): copy-paste screen and screen with wiki mark-ups enabled.
Technical data you asked me for:
-I have IE 8 in use on my PC as well as my laptop (the latter I usually don't use for editing WP but used to check if the same problems I have on my PC appear as well. Since if they do, I rule out my PC being the actual problem.)
-Both computers run on windows XP; PC on SP 2 and laptop on SP 3
I'm much appreciated for you trying to help me out with this and if you need any further info or any other kind of input from my side just let me know here and I'll respond as soon as I can.
Thanks a bunch,
TMCk ( talk) 03:15, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
PS: Will give you a kind notice this time if there is no response from you within a couple of days ;) TMCk ( talk) 03:15, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Little update: Right after I saved this post I checked again at my laptop and managed to open and nullify the red notification. Thought that might help. TMCk ( talk) 03:23, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
some one is (POV pushing, dubious edits, deleting the montage, and unexplained edit summaries) the page Andhra Pradesh, ur intervention is required or kindly report the issue to administrator Murrallli ( talk) 12:19, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Not sure if I am just wearing a tin foil hat or not but I think User:170.94.104.36 might be our friend Expatkiwi ( talk · contribs) that you just indefed. Werieth ( talk) 15:32, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the Barnstar! Sorry for the late response but I took some time off for a while. Also thank you for taking the time to review what Ive done and promoting me. It means a lot. Hope all is well and happy Wikifying.
Again, thank you and feel free to delete this comment. DaltonCastle ( talk) 20:36, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for my first barnstar. You know I was easily fed. A cheeseburger, a barnstar, I'll take them all Z22 ( talk) 03:41, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
Thanks to your super duper help last time; I thought I would come a pick your brains again! I have just written Police protection provisions article and I need a bit of help with it. I have listed a few things on the talk page that I'm not sure about. Its not as interesting as the last article; and if you can't be bothered with it, I won't be offended =) Though if any of your page watchers fancy giving me a hand that's also very welcome! =)
Thanks again, ツ Stacey ( talk) 10:44, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Oliver- I saw your "unreferenced" tag on the above article and wanted to ask your advice. I translated the article from a stub on fr wp. Do you know if there's a preferred way to note that on a page without it being a big template at the top? Maybe simply a Source section with a link to the fr article, or a link in References? I found Template:French_Wikipedia -- do you know if those are typically used? Didn't see any guidance re this topic on Wikipedia:Citing_sources. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Eric talk 13:56, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm intrigued by your comment at the KW block duration thread. I'm posting here, rather than there, because I am more interested in the generic issue, than the specific KW issue. I want to explore the possibility that one can have consensus even if everyone who responded picked a different value.To give an extreme example, suppose ten people responded with 100 days, 101 days...109 days. I don't think any closing admin would have any trouble closing with a block length of 105 days.
That obviously isn't the situation here, and it is tainted by the large number of indefs, which I would like to prohibit, but that's another discussion. I think that if everyone were willing to commit to a time certain, even if all those values differed, we could consider some ways to identify a consensus. The arithmetic average is not such an answer, if there are three values, 1, 5, and 75, then 27 is the average, but is not really a good choice. A better option might be the geometric mean (7.2) or the Harmonic mean(2.5) or even the geometric–harmonic mean, which I haven't calculated.
A more likely candidate is a median. Half the respondents wanted more, half less.
There's also the mode, but it could have some odd results.
It is also intriguing because there aren't many situation where math (beyond trivial counting) makes much sense in a determination of consensus. Afd, and Rfa, are largely binary, the results is either keep or not, promote or not. Consensus on wording may have more than two options, but they aren't numeric in the sense that one can pick something in between. A block length is naturally conducive to such a calculation, and not much else.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 22:09, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank you! -- Andrevruas ( talk) 02:21, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Can you please delete this racist attack? Thanks, TheStrike Σagle 03:43, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words. More articles to come! :) Proudbolsahye ( talk) 03:43, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, this is to let everyone who commented in the last RM know that there's another RM/RfC here, in case you'd like to comment again. Best, SlimVirgin (talk) 19:13, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Sure. I'm sorry about that -- I didn't realize. Mfribbs ( talk) 14:21, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ironholds, Thank you greatly! Its much appreciated. With the new User rights you've given me, what "super wiki powers" did I gain? -- Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... ( talk) 02:42, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Hope you're not vegetarian or vegan, just showing appreciation... :) Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... ( talk) 02:43, 9 June 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks again for the barnstar & autopatrol. I've taken the liberty to send you Email. Ok, Ihardlythinkso ( talk) 08:27, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Now, some of you might have already received a similar message a little while ago regarding the Recruitment Centre, so if you have, there is no need to read the rest of this. This message is directed to users who have reviewed over 15 Good article nominations and are not part of
WikiProject Good articles (the first message I sent out went to only WikiProject members).
So for those who haven't heard about the Recruitment Centre yet, you may be wondering why there is a Good article icon with a bunch of stars around it (to the right). The answer? WikiProject Good articles will be launching a Recruitment Centre very soon! The centre will allow all users to be taught how to review Good article nominations by experts just like you! However, in order for the Recruitment Centre to open in the first place, we need some volunteers:
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to seeing this program bring new reviewers to the Good article community and all the positive things it will bring along. A message will be sent out to all recruiters regarding the date when the Recruitment Centre will open when it is determined. The message will also contain some further details to clarify things that may be a bit confusing.-- Dom497 ( talk) This message was sent out by -- EdwardsBot ( talk) 15:11, 9 June 2013 (UTC) |
Thank you for the barnstar! As for the username, I've got a particular interest in FAL's obviously, but some of those old bolt guns like the SMLEs and others catch my interest as well. They're nice shooters, and you gotta admire the history behind them. Have a nice day!-- L1A1 FAL ( talk) 00:07, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Dear Ironholds, Thanks for writing to me regarding the footnoting style of my recent contribution (new section) to Court of Chancery. To be honest, although academically qualified, I'm not fully up to the game - and also quite exhausted from the busiest two weeks of this year so far, professionally speaking - with the current Wikipedia format of footnotes. I am therefore inclined to take up your kind offer to step in and beautify those two notes. Incidentally, are you an Administrator? I ask because, as someone who's done alot of editing and contributing in the past few years, but completely lacking the techno- and "corporate" experience to become an Admin, it is always nice to know one or two, especially in the odd edit war. Thanks again for your vigilance, and for bringing the footnotes up to the mark. FClef (talk) 00:09, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Scope creep. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, List of Break Free episodes, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. scope_creep 19:59, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Scope creep. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Leon Pape, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. scope_creep 20:00, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
...sings the ancient song of the ancient Royal Navy (and also Sinatra). I'm very interested to the Falklands War, and I made this article in it.wiki a Featured Article. This story is indeed fascinating, and there is indeed more than I wrote there, about the SBS boarding party and fears of the argentine intelligence officer aboard. If you need a collaboration on maritime and war articles, ring me, please, but for now thank you for the Barnstar. -- Pigr8 Melius esse quam videri 14:33, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello... I noticed your tag placed on this page, but I am not quite sure why or which part(s) you feel are written in a "fan-style". Would you mind clarifying exactly which part(s) of the article appear to be fan-biased vs. purely informational? I'll be glad to re-word anything that is not written objectively-- I just cannot pinpoint any such bias, myself. Any examples would be a great help. Thanks! ChinchX ( talk) 13:43, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Many, many thanks for the Barnstar for James Pratt and John Smith; that quite made my day! :) Catsmeat ( talk) 12:08, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
A few more voices experienced in NPOV editing would be useful at the Tea Party movement moderated discussion. I appreciate it's a big ask, and no worries if you find you haven't the time or inclination, but your opinions are respected and valued, so input from you would be helpful. The article has made great progress over the past month, and is heading in the right direction - though there is still some work to do, and there is an ArbCom case ( Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tea Party movement) held in suspension over this article. The Committee will be reconvening at the end of the month to decide what to do. SilkTork ✔Tea time 12:17, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
15:48, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
Just an update. He jumped IP and continued. "We will also be launching an Operation against Wikipedia for being libel-mongers and will test the capabilities of your staff, system, and personal lives. That, my friend, is a promise!" [6]. It gets better all the time Yintan 21:06, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
Guys, you're not dealing with a '14 year old script kiddie', the person threatening you is (Redacted) from 'STOPhaus' a serious group of spammers who hate Spamhaus and have vandalized this same Wikipedia page many times before and is the same person who made the edits to the Spamhaus "CyberBunker dispute and DDoS attack" section. That section should be reverted to 19:42, 19 June 2013 (Trivialist) really the last correct version. The current version calls Spamhaus "Terrorists" and claims various illegal activities invented by this 'STOPhaus' guy. Cheers FirenzeNove FirenzeNove ( talk) 20:29, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Could you please restore my access to Huggle? Much obliged. Regards. — Avenue X at Cicero ( talk) 19:48, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
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Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 00:05, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Oliver, I'm not sure that this is where I should be trying to reply to you - but here goes. Though I believed that the term 'intend' was explained in "Make a Signal" by Jack Broome but, on checking, the reference to it that I was expecting is absent. I'll check other sources. If I can't unearth it then I'll remove my amendment. Peter R Hastings ( talk) 21:21, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Do you mind taking care of this? Specifically the "I.. Kill... You..." part? Dusti *poke* 00:23, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
If there were a barnstar for a good picture I would give you one for this one. You're cool!! :) Ms.Bono (zootalk)☆ 13:44, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
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I just happened to reach User:BlueLupine's userpage where I saw a barnstar from you for "a fantastic article" Rachana Shah. It then went through two AfDs [7] [8] to be deleted with BlueLupine's seeming acquiescence. Could a merge with Timbuctoo (novel) keeping a redirect have been possible? I can't see any of this, of course. You weren't involved in any of the discussions but I thought you might be well-placed to judge. Thincat ( talk) 10:28, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
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Orlady ( talk) 03:53, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Jc and Oliver: I want to get to work on preparing a new RfC designed to deal with the problem that we're losing active admins faster than we're making new ones ... so the new RfC may or may not deal with tool use in general. Wikipedians seem to me to react to PC2 as if it's some kind of tool, so PC2 may or may not be part of the discussion. Are either of you interested in being closers in the new RfC? Would you like for me to put off even discussion about a new RfC until you two are ready to say something about the PC2 RfC? - Dank ( push to talk) 15:26, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I really don't know how I managed to get the article unreviewed. Certainly didn't do it intentionally. I think it's probably something to do with adding a tag using the editing tools available in Firefox. Could be part of the process to unreview it, or it could be a bug in one of the scripts. scope_creep ( talk) 22:11, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm having a helluva time trying to solve a thing in my sandbox. It's a wikitable. I needa make rows (when applicable) for the Genre and IG sections (I used this ---- instead). I have tried everything, reading, copying, help:sorting, but to no avail. Can you please point me in the right direction, maybe helping me find somebody to do it ? Thanks a billion ! Krenakarore TK 22:21, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Ironholds, would you mind signing my Guestbook? Ms.Bono (zootalk)☆ 17:20, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
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If it's true that you have made the "only if I'm allowed to bring a lighter." about Kiefer Wolfowitz (I have no interest whatsoever in going on IRC myself, but the reports that you said this seem reliable), then you are very lucky that this channel is technically off-wiki. Some "jokes" are in such incredibly poor taste and so offensive that they are bound to get a very negative reaction when the subject hears them.
From WP:NPA#Off-wiki attacks: "Wikipedia cannot regulate behavior in media not under the control of the Wikimedia Foundation, but personal attacks made elsewhere create doubt about the good faith of an editor's on-wiki actions. Posting personal attacks or defamation off-Wikipedia is harmful to the community and to an editor's relationship with it, especially when such attacks take the form of violating an editor's privacy. Such attacks can be regarded as aggravating factors by administrators and are admissible evidence in the dispute-resolution process, including Arbitration cases."
And from Wikipedia:IRC#How is Wikipedia IRC related to Wikipedia?: "When the channels are used to attack Wikipedians,[...] the resulting atmosphere is very damaging to the project's collaborative relationships."
Since the subject of your remark is not able to reply on the IRC channel, he made the wrong decision and replied on-wiki with an unacceptable but understandable reply. As could be predicted, he received a long block while you came of without even a warning (at least here, who knows what has been said on IRC or elsewhere), strengthening the belief that some editors have more rights than others and that admins are free to do as they please. To correct this a bit, I have unblocked him and issue this warning here. Further similar remarks, even when on IRC, will get you blocked for personal attacks. Fram ( talk) 13:09, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#Offsite comments and personal attacks and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the following resources may be of use—
Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 23:26, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
While I'm here, I protected your page since it seemed like a coordinated sock attack was going on. Might have been an overreaction on my part, if so, sorry. Mark Arsten ( talk) 23:36, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
I see you're more on the side of administrator evaluation of a request instead of arbitrary judgement based on a figure, which I quite value! In addition you're somebody I have a deep seated respect for from your extended work here on en. I was wondering if you would consider the increasing quality of my articles and evaluate if I should be given such a flag.
Full disclosure, I'm not sure which outcome I expect, but any feedback you provide, positive or negative, will surely help me to grow as an editor! :)
Sincerely, - TIM( Contact)/( Contribs) 15:57, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Agree with TIM.... Can you please have a look at my contribs too and tell me where to improve...would be very grateful.. Cheers, ƬheStrike Σagle sorties 16:23, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Great! Thank you! ƬheStrike Σagle sorties 02:41, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
This deserves better than just the little heart from the notifications toolbar. I'm pleasantly surprised ... when I saw it was coming from you I thought it was for my TemplateData edits. Guess I should do some more of them ...
Looking forward to seeing you again in HK, if you're going to be there. Daniel Case ( talk) 18:02, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
Ehrmagawd, your pointers on my article creation were fabulous! Thank you so much, I will use this to bolster my existing articles and tailor all new articles to these points!
A true example of an editor going waaaay out of their way to help a total stranger, and improving the Wiki in the process! Cheers! TIM( Contact)/( Contribs) 03:15, 7 July 2013 (UTC) |
I've begun the GA review for Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and would like your thoughts on a few points. Thanks as always for your quality contributions-- Khazar2 ( talk) 00:44, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your work to bring Devotions upon Emergent Occasions to Good Article status! It was a fun one to review. -- Khazar2 ( talk) 13:12, 8 July 2013 (UTC) |
Many thanks for the auto-patrolled - WP confidence in article creation is much appreciated. Cheers. Acabashi ( talk) 03:14, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
You were recently listed as a party to 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/Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds/Evidence. Please add your evidence by July 26, 2013, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 13:56, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you remember having spoken to me on IRC several months ago, but I brought up our past conversation on the Arbitration requests page. Kurtis (talk) 04:07, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the auto-patrolled rights and your aprreciation! - Myxomatosis57 ( talk) 18:32, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
No probs! I've just given Hesta Prynn's cover a listen—it's really good, I like the trip-hoppy feel to it. Snap Snap 19:30, 12 July 2013 (UTC)