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Could you unprotect Austin Zehnder against creation, so I can create a redirect page to Sexual assault of Savannah Dietrich? It seems to comport with WP:BLP and WP:CRIME.-- Carwil ( talk) 22:16, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
In the deletion log of Rosetta Code there's an information that you deleted the page Rosetta Code in October 2012 and then that you restored it in May 2013: "restored page Rosetta Code (38 revisions restored: restoring to userfy, per request)" I am the author of the original version of this article that is lost now (it was voted for deletion for the subject being supposedly not notable enough but two years later a new article was written, with no sign of my original contributions). Could you tell me where it was restored or how can I see my original removed contributions? Thanks a lot. —Rafał Pocztarski, Rfl ( talk | contribs) 09:46, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
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Catching up on a few unresolved matters centered around this talk page or other discussions where you've replied to things I've said. Between a rollercoaster of personal issues the past 14 months (both career and health related) and numerous observations on my part of declining quality of content, it's been hard for me to continue to justify the amount of time I've put into this project in the past. Then, these discussions get old after a while to the point where I need to walk away and get back to work on content if I expect to maintain my sanity. On top of that, no matter what complaints I may have about subpar coverage of Alaska here, things are far worse on Commons, which has forced me to be a little more active over there. Anyway, I was originally prompted to write the above by noticing the obvious whiff of COI when this came across my watchlist. When the logo wound up deleted and nothing happened, in spite of abundant evidence both before and after of admins watching this talk page, I was reminded of one of my many complaints about admin culture. Namely, the attitude of "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" shown towards the rest of the community. There have been far too many instances of admins acting as though when something is deleted, the rest of us should be content to pretend that it never existed. The episode earlier this year with AFC declaring war on my userspace and related pages left a very bad taste in my mouth, as there was and still is nothing occurring there that falls outside of building and maintaining this encyclopedia, only the fact that I'm not carrying on this work to someone else's satisfaction or schedule. From looking at the article now, I don't see a reason to restore the logo unless it's in conjunction with expanding the article. It appears that coverage of Alaskan aquaculture in general is the usual scattershot deal (e.g. one editor putting a ton of effort into a particular article versus everyone else showing up afterward to turd-polish it to death; our Wikipedians in or from Juneau appearing content to write about things of far lesser importance related to Juneau than the hatchery there) and has been that way for years. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 03:51, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
As a fellow Alaskan, do you believe we should have an article about this new supposed Anchorage serial killer? It's being speculated that a sizable portion of the fifteen unsolved murders over the last few months are from the same individual, considering that people have been getting offed in series of two's. DARTHBOTTO talk• cont 08:01, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Beeblebrox. The killer was confirmed to have been killed on Saturday during a shooutout with APD. What do you think? DARTHBOTTO talk• cont 01:33, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
So was I, we just didn't have the internet to make a permanent record of it back then. I'm kid of creeped out to realize I was up there during the time he was active. We were there in August to see a concert and stayed near where one of the murders occurred just a week or so later. Kind of distracted with all these admin accounts being compromised, but it looks like a good start on an article, I would imagine ADN will keep covering this as more details come out. Beeblebrox ( talk) 18:10, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Since I notice Zaereth in this discussion, you and I and Beeblebrox have some unfinished business, namely those photos in the Anchorage article. For anyone else reading this, there was an editor who uploaded a bunch of photos to Commons a while back solely to place them in Wikipedia articles, without regard to the poor quality of many of them and the often irrelevant and factually inaccurate captions attached (there is no neighborhood in Anchorage called "South Addison"). This user refused to participate in the ensuing discussion despite making it obvious that they were aware of the discussion, and also was given to edit warring, restoring photos which were removed for legitimate reasons. The only exception was the J. C. Penney Whaling Wall photo (which has since been deleted), further evidence of being aware of the actions of others while not being willing to discuss anything. First of all, I felt the similarities between Special:Contributions/Dinker022089 and Special:Contributions/Derekakinnear to be very curious indeed, but I don't think it rises to the level of malicious use of multiple accounts. Second, I finally found the backups of the photos I took from my last two trips to Anchorage, which were in 2012 and 2013. The business I had in Anchorage at that time has since evaporated, and I haven't had much of a desire to visit otherwise; that will only change if work brings me back that way, but I'm trying to avoid it. On those trips, most of my business was limited to Downtown, Midtown and Spenard. As such, I didn't make it any farther east than Bragaw or any farther south than O'Malley. As we have people physically in Anchorage, either full-time or occasionally visiting, can we get someone to take street-level photos of Fairview, Mountain View, Muldoon (fairly new stub at Muldoon, Anchorage), Eagle River/Chugiak, the Hillside and Klatt/Oceanview? I'll be happy to upload some of the photos I have sitting on my hard drive, but not if it entails uploading hundreds of hi-res images while no one else lifts a finger. I only have two photos that I really desire to upload: one is of Bill Kazmaier taken on a chance encounter while standing along 36th Avenue snapping photos of the Frontier Building, and a panorama I put together which shows Upper O'Malley, Upper Huffman, Upper Dearmoun, Glen Alps and Flattop that I took from Abbott Road near the Long Branch Saloon. I also have numerous photos I've scanned from the 1940s and 1950s which were published at the time without copyright notices. If anyone of you current Anchorage residents want to give me ideas of what we need, I'll add them to the cue. Right now, the coverage of Anchorage on Commons is obviously far too heavily weighted towards military propaganda from JBER and the usual tourist dreck. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 05:39, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
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So, my original plan was to return to active editing after my annual fall camping trip. That was three days ago. Unfortunately, I came back this year to find that in the brief time I was gone, some serious but seemingly manageable problems at my work had turned into full-on disasters and we are shut down at the moment. Also, my home internet connection borked itself somehow while we were gone. The internet issue should be fixed later today, but the work issues need my immediate attention and may take some time to sort out. So, still planning to come back, but not sure when.
-Beeblebrox
Hey there, welcome back. As you can see, there were at least a few things going on during your absence. I finally extricated myself from a toxic (physically, not emotionally) living situation this week. I guess it's encouraging that it only took two days for some measure of appetite and lung capacity to return and the feeling of inevitable organ failure went away, that's how bad it was. Anyway, I'll get back to addressing those issues eventually, especially seeing as how a swirling shitstorm/dramafest ensued as a result. It may have to wait at least until Sunday, as I'm busy trying to catch up on a whole lot of things across the web. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 00:04, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
Good to see you again, Beeblebrox. Drmies ( talk) 22:22, 9 October 2016 (UTC) |
I would of liked to seen Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Everipedia (2nd nomination) left open for a bit longer, as I don't think many people had a chance to look at the non-english coverage I highlighted in the last !vote. Not a big issue, but just saying. Cheers. -- 1Wiki8........................... ( talk) 08:58, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
See the author's user page for proof that it is made up. Crow Caw 20:42, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
I was wondering if there's anyway that I can make a private page not viewable to the public, but to my oneself so that I'm not web hosting. I just like the format of the page I've created but it was deleted because it's considered web hosting. Therefore, I'm inquiring if there's an option for just my lonesome to see so that I'm not web-hosting but can view the page just to keep track of a season of Big brother being hosted at Wilfrid Laurier University. Sorry if I'm being a nuisance :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by BBA3South ( talk • contribs) 03:37, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello Beeblebrox, I notice that you declined the speedy and moved the page from Jathedars of Buddha Dal to List of Jathedars of Buddha Dal but I have redirected it to Jathedar as per WP:CFORK and WP:STANDALONE please let me know if I have made any mistake as you have much more knowledge than me. Thank you – GSS ( talk) 12:04, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi Beeblebrox; I've been away for a while. Thanks for the unblock !! Cheers, Kamran aka Kamran the Great ( talk) 05:20, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, you reverted my correction of a grammar mistake on WP:OS citing assumption of good faith. While I am not a native speaker, I am rather sure that "However only a very few appointments are typically made per year" is incorrect. "A few" is a fixed phrase and is different in meaning from "very few", which I believe was intended to be used here. I will revert your revert, but if you find that I indeed am on the wrong side here, please consider replying here. Themulticaster ( talk) 22:02, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. I am aware of what to do with a rollback right. If I ever feel like resigning, I will let you know. Sorry, it took 2 days. I had exams. The Ninja5 Empire ( Talk) 01:31, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Are you following our developments at WT:PERM and WP:NPPAFC ? Just curious. I can't remember whether these things interest you although I do know that you work the PERM pages when you are around. Cheers, Chris -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:16, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for your massege
You recently granted me rollback privs. I note you said that they are not to be used for good faith edits. This causes consternation (not to be confused with constipation). In the article Tsst (a South Park ep) the editor essentially gutted the Plot section, turning it into little more than an abstract. Now, I am all for condensing Plot sections, having done so myself on several occasions, but to whack off 80%+ without any discussion seems excessive.
My instinct is to revert the series of edits and request that they be discussed prior to application. Please review the series of edits by DangerousJXD and let me know what you think. Thanks. Dmforcier ( talk) 00:10, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello Beeblebrox. While editing in the past week, I realized that I seem to work with files more often than average users do, and, after having gone over the criteria and requirements for the file mover permission, I have decided that I would like to apply for it. As I have done with pending changes reviewer and rollback, I am running this by you first. If you have any advice on how to earn this permission (on the condition that I am currently less than worthy to receive it), I will gladly accept it. Over the years, I have uploaded dozens of files and have had to request file renames several times, especially recently. I thank you for your time and look forward to your response. God bless, and happy editing! +CATHOLIC LAITINEN+ ( talk) 15:33, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi,
I had noticed that you blocked this IP for 31 hours, when you had previously blocked it for 3 months. Just wanted to let you know just in case if this was an accident. Cheers. 2607:FB90:A42B:35C:0:3:48BF:5901 ( talk) 20:59, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion#Naxuan. Cheers. – Uanfala ( talk) 00:20, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Adding that there's a new speedy deletion criterion just for these cases: WP:X1. A link to that would probably be easier to understand for editors who aren't familiar with the Neelix story. – Uanfala ( talk) 00:22, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
I've brought this to DELREV:
Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2016 November 17#Naxuan. Sorry for the trouble, but one odd action leads to another and after some point there's no other way out but to set things right. –
Uanfala (
talk) 10:53, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
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I'm a bit concerned about the archiving an an earlier deletion, as the debate about sources seems very relevant. See my talk page. Doug Weller talk 07:35, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
I think the page needs attention that i can't give it. I can already see several uses of "Sawyer's" which is for someone surnamed "Sawyer", not "Sawyers". Can you please give the article some care and attention? Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 07:01, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, Do you realize that you just granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright to a user engaged in two edit wars? User:Lx 121 keeps reverting photos at John Quincy Adams and John Tyler. Regards, YoPienso ( talk) 06:56, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hello there, I see you've removed the F11 tag on this file. From my interpretation of F11, this file is a perfect fit. "If an uploader has specified a license and has named a third party as the source/copyright holder without providing evidence that this third party has in fact agreed, the item may be deleted seven days after notification of the uploader."
The uploader identified a license and named someone else as the source and there is no acceptable evidence to suggest the source gave permission.
"Acceptable evidence of licensing normally consists of either a link to the source website where the license is stated, or a statement by the copyright holder e-mailed or forwarded to permissions-en@wikimedia.org"
Would you be able to explain the reasoning behind the removal of the tag? Thank you. Jon Kolbert ( talk) 04:51, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
I started a UAA discussion with the user because I have reason to believe maybe they weren't aware of the policy, as you may not know, I'm a firm believer of AGF and I always try to assume good faith as much as I can. However, I think the user should of gotten the chance to request renaming, instead of just being blocked without a chance to act in good faith. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 19:26, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
I just fielded an inquiry (OTRS) from a representative of the Alaska State Park system about Byers Lake. I pointed them in your direction.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 20:20, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
This mess has started up again. Your protect expired weeks ago and I thought the issue was done, but the problems have restarted with no attempt by anyone to open discussions. None of the seemingly contentious bio material was sourced in the first place so I have blanked it for now while I look for sources. Talk:Marty_Schmidt#About_edit_warring_and_conflicts_of_interest Meters ( talk) 03:52, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi Beeblebrox, I would like to request to be permanently self blocked please. I have had a good time on Wikipedia and I have made many edits over the years, contributing to hundreds if not thousands of articles. I now believe that my time is up. I no longer enjoy editing Wikipedia and my activity has significantly declined over the past two years. I would like to be self blocked to put the final nails in the coffin. I think I meet your criteria for self block requests. I have not received a warning recently and I have been reprimanded since 2008. Please consider my request. Kind regards IJA ( talk) 17:30, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Hi, you have protected the article Kurds (at the time the article was named Kurdish people) about 7 years ago. I wanted to ask if now is a good time to unprotect the article? Thank you. -- 88.128.80.60 ( talk) 20:10, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
@ Beeblebrox:, @ JamesBWatson:, the ip requesting "unprotect" is a banned anti-kurdish sockpuppet and i can prove it you with diffs. I have decided to open o SPI case soon and i recommend you to protect the page again. 46.221.189.156 ( talk) 21:09, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello for the ping 46.221.189.156, as I edit in relevant articles, I am generally aware of the Turkish ultra-nationalist agenda-editing, sockpuppeting and meatpuppeting problem on Wikipedia which you describe, and I can only encourage you to initiate any investigation into concrete cases where you can make a substantial presentation. -- 2A1ZA ( talk) 00:22, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
The Byers Lake article on /info/en/?search=Byers_Lake states that the lake is named for a fisherman and cites the USGS Geographic Names Information System, but when you check that page, it says nothing about a fisherman. It just says that Byers Lake is a local name reported in 1958. Is there any way to figure out where the fisherman story came from?
158.145.224.113 ( talk) 22:27, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Interesting...I'd love to see the photo. Should we exchange email addresses or do you have a better way to share info.
158.145.224.113 ( talk) 22:54, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)Except for Southeast Alaska place names compiled by Bob DeArmond, most GNIS entries for Alaska repeat information published a half century ago in Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, which can be found on Google Books. Both say the same thing: "Local name reported in 1958 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)". To my understanding, "reported" means that the USGS previously published a bulletin in which that information may be found. When I inquired years ago, I was told that the USGS never maintained an accurate record of what maps they've published over the decades, so I would assume this to be the case with other publications as well. I haven't spent too much time searching government documents, but I'll try to keep an eye out for any such thing if it exists. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 23:14, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
The Photographer's Barnstar | |
For providing an incredible image of Denali that represents both photographic skill and unbelievable lucky weather :) NorthBySouthBaranof ( talk) 04:27, 10 December 2016 (UTC) |
Well thank you. The thread above reminded me I had been to Byers Lake several more times since the trip where I took that picture, and I when I came across that one I just said to myself "this needs to be shared." And it was fantastic weather the whole time we were there. Beeblebrox ( talk) 06:49, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
I suppose I'm back again. You likely heard about the murder of David Grunwald, which not only seems to be the polar opposite of the ongoing James Dale Ritchie case, but is getting national attention. So far, there are five individuals who have been arrested for collaborating in the murder of Grunwald, (numbers reversed, eh?) Considering it involves a conspiracy to murder by a group of children, is getting national attention and is ongoing, what are your thoughts? Before I get a third-party interjection, I should disclaim that I am not necessarily pushing for an article, but I am curious what you feel about developing killer kids cases. DARTHBOTTO talk• cont 05:21, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Beeblebrox,
Could you remove the indefinite semi-protection you added to
fat person. The Wikipedia protection policy frowns on
preemptive page protections.
Also could you look at child labour and determine whether indefinite semi-protection is still required. You are probably more intimately familiar with that situation, but I really feel like lower level of protection would be better. Best, Mark Schierbecker ( talk) 02:50, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm...not finding an org on first glance that's named Public Art Notre Dame. And it looks like both the user's recently accepted AfC submissions ( [1], [2]) were...about public art around UND.
Maybe this is a reference to content area and not an organization? TimothyJosephWood 20:00, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
I was trying to talk to those kids, as I suppose you saw. I'm still trying to find out if it's one kid or two. (I've asked a CU privately, but since you're one, I suppose you've looked. There was obviously reason to.) Was it necessary to block? I'll eat my hat if they're a day older than ten. Bishonen | talk 10:28, 16 December 2016 (UTC).
So what about the false entry in the enforcement logs please? Are you going to fix those now? Or should I simply amend them myself to reflect what the community has agreed upon, i.e. that Mike V calling me a liar twice and misreporting an IBAN violation shouldn't stand? The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:45, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
Now taken care of, Beeb. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 22:00, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
User is asking for advice on their draft at WP:THQ...which is somewhat complicated by the fact that you deleted it. Would be helpful to unnuke, at least temporarily. TimothyJosephWood 21:02, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
@ Beeblebrox:, you are correct that the original suggestion of "Restrict indefinite blocks to ArbCom" is unworkable as was uncovered by the discussion. The real crux of the discussion is the last post that was made which is to ask if the lessons expressed by Blackstone's formulation of "Better to send 10 guilty free rather than convict 1 innocent" is applicable to Wikipedia or if it is more important to protect Wikipedia and have no or minimal concern for the amount of innocent people blocked. May I start a new section focusing simply on this question? Sthubbar ( talk) 02:53, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm not going to go into these details except to say that your ideas, as you have been told repeatedly, are competely at odds with the way Wikipedia is administrated. I can't stop you from opening yet another discussion that is doomed to failure before it begins, but I certainly wouldn't advise it. It is two months to the day since you were unblocked. In that time the majority of your edits have been essentially complaining about your block and trying to alter policy to make it work more like a real-world court system, which it absolutely is not. Continuing to make a spectacle of yourself with these proposals and refusing to get the point does you no benefit, and if you continue focussing on this instead of doing something constructive it will likely be seen as disruptive.
I see from your talk page that you were advised to let this go back in October. I suggest that instead of just giving chipper agreeeable replies but then ignoring everything you've been told that you actually pay attention to what more experienced users have been trying to tell you and move on. Beeblebrox ( talk) 04:05, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
It just seems amazing to me that indefinite blocks are being issues when:
There were many days between when I was first suspected and finally blocked. How much trouble would it have been to post a short message on my talk page? As a result of the recent discussion, this is all I'm asking. How much trouble would it be to modify the policy to say something like: "Before issuing any indefinite blocks, unless there is immediate threat to the integrity of Wikipedia, a brief message should be placed on a user's talk page requesting their response, and they should be allowed a reasonable amount of opportunity to respond." Is this really so crazy? Sthubbar ( talk) 01:48, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Beeblebrox: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU ( ✉) 20:41, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello Beeblebrox You have blocked the user skyguide-fr, because of its name. I had contact with this user here in English Wikipedia and later more deeply in the german language Wikipedia. This user has just startet 2-3 days ago to work on Wikipedia, so he don't knew yet how things going on here. Also this user work for skyguide and is working on Wikipedia in a official mission for skyguide to bring facts and informations about skyguide into wikipeda. I can not see any missuse in this. So I ask you to unblock him. Give skyguide the chanche to verify his identity to you. Thank you. FFA P-16 ( talk) 21:56, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
Please note that when Junosoon - who opened appeals for the same sanction at both AE and AN - indicated at AN that he wanted the AE appeal to take precedence, I NAC'd the AN thread, and copied your remark to AE. If you wish to undo this, please be my guest. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 17:10, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
Happy new year Beeblebrox,
I request for pending all Kurdish-related articles and the articles which were mentioned on this spi case: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lrednuas Senoroc. A passionate Turkish ip-jumping/socking editor has been socking at least 1-2 years on ALL the Kurdish related articles. Unfortunately, he is not only one vandalizing the pages. Plenty of disruptive editors! And it is not a surprise, because there is an ongoing conflict on ME and the Kurds are at the center of this conflict. I mean, such disruptive edits will not stop. Therefore, i request for "pending changes protection" for all the Kurdish-related articles. Also, admins still did not give me a feedback regarding the case. It is just weird. 46.221.102.87 ( talk) 18:18, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
Beeblebrox,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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talk) 05:17, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{ subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
-- Rubbish computer ( HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 12:28, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
I understand that Alaska#Cities, towns and boroughs is a summary section, but readers shouldn't have to be forced to go to the other articles to find the references. If, as you say, the other articles are properly cited, then those citations could easily be copy-pasted into this main article, right? I was trying to put the Alaska article in OTD for the Main Page, but I'm not going to do it if there's a section with no citations at all. Thanks. — howcheng { chat} 01:14, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) Have to run shortly, but yes, this does seem petty. There's been a years-long effort to continue to improve this article in the hopes of getting it to GA. Based on what I've seen so far from not only Howcheng but other drive-by editors, the mere existence or non-existence of references is more important than whether or not we're delivering useful information to readers about the subject of Alaska. That's sounds like an awfully hollow GA to me. You can look at the discussion on the article talk page and at numerous other places and see that I'm not interested in hat-collecting exercises. And this isn't even the most pressing problem. It's been well over two years that various editors have cherry-picked the fact that Byron Mallott remains a registered Democrat to claim that he's serving in the office of lieutenant governor as a Democrat. To this day, they continue to edit-war on this and willfully ignore any of the abundant sources to the contrary, including the election results and his own official website (the statement "Governor Bill Walker and Lt. Governor Byron Mallott took office in December of 2014 as the first non-partisan administration in Alaska history" is prominent enough on that page, wouldn't you say?). RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 06:06, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Another editor already posted to User:NeoStalinist's talk page some weeks ago, requesting they change their username, citing personal, family-history discomfort with username. So this block seems to have more than nominal value to the project. Expect No Thanks... but thanks to you and RedPanda25. Chill-- ( talk) ( c) 02:24, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Can I ask you to please compare [4] with Ernst van Alphen Siuenti ( talk) 00:51, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Sounds like a duck quacking into a megaphone to me Block hammer will be deployed promptly. Beeblebrox ( talk) 01:00, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I disagree with the protection you just placed on Kirakira PreCure a la Mode. Most of the IP edits were not disruption, and the editor who made some disruptive test edits has been blocked. While some unsourced additions were made by IP editors to the article, this was content that belongs in the article and just needed a source. The addition without a source was useful in that it made me realize that the cast list was now available, which prompted me to add that information back in with a source. I would not consider this sort of edit disruption, but instead think they are good faith edits by people who are unaware of Wikipedia policy, and that the edits end up being more helpful than not. So I don't think the page needs protection, as the person making test edits is blocked, and the other IP edits were in good faith and overall helpful. Calathan ( talk) 23:10, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I know that what I have done recently is very wrong and I really regret it. I was wondering if you would give me a second chance and I will try my best not to do in the future. Please accept my apology. CWJakarta ( talk) 05:11, 6 January 2017 (UTC) T
Would you please provide a copy of the article Berlin-Köpenick transmitter which was deleted on 18 December 2006? I believe the topic to be of some encyclopedic relevance, and consider writing an extended and referenced translation of the German article de:Sender Köpenick, but would like to see what has been written before. You may put it into my user space. Thanks in advance, and a belated happy new year! -- Schlosser67 ( talk) 08:19, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
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Could you unprotect Austin Zehnder against creation, so I can create a redirect page to Sexual assault of Savannah Dietrich? It seems to comport with WP:BLP and WP:CRIME.-- Carwil ( talk) 22:16, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
In the deletion log of Rosetta Code there's an information that you deleted the page Rosetta Code in October 2012 and then that you restored it in May 2013: "restored page Rosetta Code (38 revisions restored: restoring to userfy, per request)" I am the author of the original version of this article that is lost now (it was voted for deletion for the subject being supposedly not notable enough but two years later a new article was written, with no sign of my original contributions). Could you tell me where it was restored or how can I see my original removed contributions? Thanks a lot. —Rafał Pocztarski, Rfl ( talk | contribs) 09:46, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
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Catching up on a few unresolved matters centered around this talk page or other discussions where you've replied to things I've said. Between a rollercoaster of personal issues the past 14 months (both career and health related) and numerous observations on my part of declining quality of content, it's been hard for me to continue to justify the amount of time I've put into this project in the past. Then, these discussions get old after a while to the point where I need to walk away and get back to work on content if I expect to maintain my sanity. On top of that, no matter what complaints I may have about subpar coverage of Alaska here, things are far worse on Commons, which has forced me to be a little more active over there. Anyway, I was originally prompted to write the above by noticing the obvious whiff of COI when this came across my watchlist. When the logo wound up deleted and nothing happened, in spite of abundant evidence both before and after of admins watching this talk page, I was reminded of one of my many complaints about admin culture. Namely, the attitude of "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" shown towards the rest of the community. There have been far too many instances of admins acting as though when something is deleted, the rest of us should be content to pretend that it never existed. The episode earlier this year with AFC declaring war on my userspace and related pages left a very bad taste in my mouth, as there was and still is nothing occurring there that falls outside of building and maintaining this encyclopedia, only the fact that I'm not carrying on this work to someone else's satisfaction or schedule. From looking at the article now, I don't see a reason to restore the logo unless it's in conjunction with expanding the article. It appears that coverage of Alaskan aquaculture in general is the usual scattershot deal (e.g. one editor putting a ton of effort into a particular article versus everyone else showing up afterward to turd-polish it to death; our Wikipedians in or from Juneau appearing content to write about things of far lesser importance related to Juneau than the hatchery there) and has been that way for years. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 03:51, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
As a fellow Alaskan, do you believe we should have an article about this new supposed Anchorage serial killer? It's being speculated that a sizable portion of the fifteen unsolved murders over the last few months are from the same individual, considering that people have been getting offed in series of two's. DARTHBOTTO talk• cont 08:01, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Beeblebrox. The killer was confirmed to have been killed on Saturday during a shooutout with APD. What do you think? DARTHBOTTO talk• cont 01:33, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
So was I, we just didn't have the internet to make a permanent record of it back then. I'm kid of creeped out to realize I was up there during the time he was active. We were there in August to see a concert and stayed near where one of the murders occurred just a week or so later. Kind of distracted with all these admin accounts being compromised, but it looks like a good start on an article, I would imagine ADN will keep covering this as more details come out. Beeblebrox ( talk) 18:10, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Since I notice Zaereth in this discussion, you and I and Beeblebrox have some unfinished business, namely those photos in the Anchorage article. For anyone else reading this, there was an editor who uploaded a bunch of photos to Commons a while back solely to place them in Wikipedia articles, without regard to the poor quality of many of them and the often irrelevant and factually inaccurate captions attached (there is no neighborhood in Anchorage called "South Addison"). This user refused to participate in the ensuing discussion despite making it obvious that they were aware of the discussion, and also was given to edit warring, restoring photos which were removed for legitimate reasons. The only exception was the J. C. Penney Whaling Wall photo (which has since been deleted), further evidence of being aware of the actions of others while not being willing to discuss anything. First of all, I felt the similarities between Special:Contributions/Dinker022089 and Special:Contributions/Derekakinnear to be very curious indeed, but I don't think it rises to the level of malicious use of multiple accounts. Second, I finally found the backups of the photos I took from my last two trips to Anchorage, which were in 2012 and 2013. The business I had in Anchorage at that time has since evaporated, and I haven't had much of a desire to visit otherwise; that will only change if work brings me back that way, but I'm trying to avoid it. On those trips, most of my business was limited to Downtown, Midtown and Spenard. As such, I didn't make it any farther east than Bragaw or any farther south than O'Malley. As we have people physically in Anchorage, either full-time or occasionally visiting, can we get someone to take street-level photos of Fairview, Mountain View, Muldoon (fairly new stub at Muldoon, Anchorage), Eagle River/Chugiak, the Hillside and Klatt/Oceanview? I'll be happy to upload some of the photos I have sitting on my hard drive, but not if it entails uploading hundreds of hi-res images while no one else lifts a finger. I only have two photos that I really desire to upload: one is of Bill Kazmaier taken on a chance encounter while standing along 36th Avenue snapping photos of the Frontier Building, and a panorama I put together which shows Upper O'Malley, Upper Huffman, Upper Dearmoun, Glen Alps and Flattop that I took from Abbott Road near the Long Branch Saloon. I also have numerous photos I've scanned from the 1940s and 1950s which were published at the time without copyright notices. If anyone of you current Anchorage residents want to give me ideas of what we need, I'll add them to the cue. Right now, the coverage of Anchorage on Commons is obviously far too heavily weighted towards military propaganda from JBER and the usual tourist dreck. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 05:39, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
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So, my original plan was to return to active editing after my annual fall camping trip. That was three days ago. Unfortunately, I came back this year to find that in the brief time I was gone, some serious but seemingly manageable problems at my work had turned into full-on disasters and we are shut down at the moment. Also, my home internet connection borked itself somehow while we were gone. The internet issue should be fixed later today, but the work issues need my immediate attention and may take some time to sort out. So, still planning to come back, but not sure when.
-Beeblebrox
Hey there, welcome back. As you can see, there were at least a few things going on during your absence. I finally extricated myself from a toxic (physically, not emotionally) living situation this week. I guess it's encouraging that it only took two days for some measure of appetite and lung capacity to return and the feeling of inevitable organ failure went away, that's how bad it was. Anyway, I'll get back to addressing those issues eventually, especially seeing as how a swirling shitstorm/dramafest ensued as a result. It may have to wait at least until Sunday, as I'm busy trying to catch up on a whole lot of things across the web. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 00:04, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
Good to see you again, Beeblebrox. Drmies ( talk) 22:22, 9 October 2016 (UTC) |
I would of liked to seen Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Everipedia (2nd nomination) left open for a bit longer, as I don't think many people had a chance to look at the non-english coverage I highlighted in the last !vote. Not a big issue, but just saying. Cheers. -- 1Wiki8........................... ( talk) 08:58, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
See the author's user page for proof that it is made up. Crow Caw 20:42, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
I was wondering if there's anyway that I can make a private page not viewable to the public, but to my oneself so that I'm not web hosting. I just like the format of the page I've created but it was deleted because it's considered web hosting. Therefore, I'm inquiring if there's an option for just my lonesome to see so that I'm not web-hosting but can view the page just to keep track of a season of Big brother being hosted at Wilfrid Laurier University. Sorry if I'm being a nuisance :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by BBA3South ( talk • contribs) 03:37, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello Beeblebrox, I notice that you declined the speedy and moved the page from Jathedars of Buddha Dal to List of Jathedars of Buddha Dal but I have redirected it to Jathedar as per WP:CFORK and WP:STANDALONE please let me know if I have made any mistake as you have much more knowledge than me. Thank you – GSS ( talk) 12:04, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi Beeblebrox; I've been away for a while. Thanks for the unblock !! Cheers, Kamran aka Kamran the Great ( talk) 05:20, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, you reverted my correction of a grammar mistake on WP:OS citing assumption of good faith. While I am not a native speaker, I am rather sure that "However only a very few appointments are typically made per year" is incorrect. "A few" is a fixed phrase and is different in meaning from "very few", which I believe was intended to be used here. I will revert your revert, but if you find that I indeed am on the wrong side here, please consider replying here. Themulticaster ( talk) 22:02, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. I am aware of what to do with a rollback right. If I ever feel like resigning, I will let you know. Sorry, it took 2 days. I had exams. The Ninja5 Empire ( Talk) 01:31, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Are you following our developments at WT:PERM and WP:NPPAFC ? Just curious. I can't remember whether these things interest you although I do know that you work the PERM pages when you are around. Cheers, Chris -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 08:16, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for your massege
You recently granted me rollback privs. I note you said that they are not to be used for good faith edits. This causes consternation (not to be confused with constipation). In the article Tsst (a South Park ep) the editor essentially gutted the Plot section, turning it into little more than an abstract. Now, I am all for condensing Plot sections, having done so myself on several occasions, but to whack off 80%+ without any discussion seems excessive.
My instinct is to revert the series of edits and request that they be discussed prior to application. Please review the series of edits by DangerousJXD and let me know what you think. Thanks. Dmforcier ( talk) 00:10, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello Beeblebrox. While editing in the past week, I realized that I seem to work with files more often than average users do, and, after having gone over the criteria and requirements for the file mover permission, I have decided that I would like to apply for it. As I have done with pending changes reviewer and rollback, I am running this by you first. If you have any advice on how to earn this permission (on the condition that I am currently less than worthy to receive it), I will gladly accept it. Over the years, I have uploaded dozens of files and have had to request file renames several times, especially recently. I thank you for your time and look forward to your response. God bless, and happy editing! +CATHOLIC LAITINEN+ ( talk) 15:33, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi,
I had noticed that you blocked this IP for 31 hours, when you had previously blocked it for 3 months. Just wanted to let you know just in case if this was an accident. Cheers. 2607:FB90:A42B:35C:0:3:48BF:5901 ( talk) 20:59, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion#Naxuan. Cheers. – Uanfala ( talk) 00:20, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Adding that there's a new speedy deletion criterion just for these cases: WP:X1. A link to that would probably be easier to understand for editors who aren't familiar with the Neelix story. – Uanfala ( talk) 00:22, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
I've brought this to DELREV:
Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2016 November 17#Naxuan. Sorry for the trouble, but one odd action leads to another and after some point there's no other way out but to set things right. –
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I'm a bit concerned about the archiving an an earlier deletion, as the debate about sources seems very relevant. See my talk page. Doug Weller talk 07:35, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
I think the page needs attention that i can't give it. I can already see several uses of "Sawyer's" which is for someone surnamed "Sawyer", not "Sawyers". Can you please give the article some care and attention? Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 07:01, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, Do you realize that you just granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright to a user engaged in two edit wars? User:Lx 121 keeps reverting photos at John Quincy Adams and John Tyler. Regards, YoPienso ( talk) 06:56, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hello there, I see you've removed the F11 tag on this file. From my interpretation of F11, this file is a perfect fit. "If an uploader has specified a license and has named a third party as the source/copyright holder without providing evidence that this third party has in fact agreed, the item may be deleted seven days after notification of the uploader."
The uploader identified a license and named someone else as the source and there is no acceptable evidence to suggest the source gave permission.
"Acceptable evidence of licensing normally consists of either a link to the source website where the license is stated, or a statement by the copyright holder e-mailed or forwarded to permissions-en@wikimedia.org"
Would you be able to explain the reasoning behind the removal of the tag? Thank you. Jon Kolbert ( talk) 04:51, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
I started a UAA discussion with the user because I have reason to believe maybe they weren't aware of the policy, as you may not know, I'm a firm believer of AGF and I always try to assume good faith as much as I can. However, I think the user should of gotten the chance to request renaming, instead of just being blocked without a chance to act in good faith. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 19:26, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
I just fielded an inquiry (OTRS) from a representative of the Alaska State Park system about Byers Lake. I pointed them in your direction.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 20:20, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
This mess has started up again. Your protect expired weeks ago and I thought the issue was done, but the problems have restarted with no attempt by anyone to open discussions. None of the seemingly contentious bio material was sourced in the first place so I have blanked it for now while I look for sources. Talk:Marty_Schmidt#About_edit_warring_and_conflicts_of_interest Meters ( talk) 03:52, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi Beeblebrox, I would like to request to be permanently self blocked please. I have had a good time on Wikipedia and I have made many edits over the years, contributing to hundreds if not thousands of articles. I now believe that my time is up. I no longer enjoy editing Wikipedia and my activity has significantly declined over the past two years. I would like to be self blocked to put the final nails in the coffin. I think I meet your criteria for self block requests. I have not received a warning recently and I have been reprimanded since 2008. Please consider my request. Kind regards IJA ( talk) 17:30, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Hi, you have protected the article Kurds (at the time the article was named Kurdish people) about 7 years ago. I wanted to ask if now is a good time to unprotect the article? Thank you. -- 88.128.80.60 ( talk) 20:10, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
@ Beeblebrox:, @ JamesBWatson:, the ip requesting "unprotect" is a banned anti-kurdish sockpuppet and i can prove it you with diffs. I have decided to open o SPI case soon and i recommend you to protect the page again. 46.221.189.156 ( talk) 21:09, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello for the ping 46.221.189.156, as I edit in relevant articles, I am generally aware of the Turkish ultra-nationalist agenda-editing, sockpuppeting and meatpuppeting problem on Wikipedia which you describe, and I can only encourage you to initiate any investigation into concrete cases where you can make a substantial presentation. -- 2A1ZA ( talk) 00:22, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
The Byers Lake article on /info/en/?search=Byers_Lake states that the lake is named for a fisherman and cites the USGS Geographic Names Information System, but when you check that page, it says nothing about a fisherman. It just says that Byers Lake is a local name reported in 1958. Is there any way to figure out where the fisherman story came from?
158.145.224.113 ( talk) 22:27, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Interesting...I'd love to see the photo. Should we exchange email addresses or do you have a better way to share info.
158.145.224.113 ( talk) 22:54, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)Except for Southeast Alaska place names compiled by Bob DeArmond, most GNIS entries for Alaska repeat information published a half century ago in Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, which can be found on Google Books. Both say the same thing: "Local name reported in 1958 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)". To my understanding, "reported" means that the USGS previously published a bulletin in which that information may be found. When I inquired years ago, I was told that the USGS never maintained an accurate record of what maps they've published over the decades, so I would assume this to be the case with other publications as well. I haven't spent too much time searching government documents, but I'll try to keep an eye out for any such thing if it exists. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 23:14, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
The Photographer's Barnstar | |
For providing an incredible image of Denali that represents both photographic skill and unbelievable lucky weather :) NorthBySouthBaranof ( talk) 04:27, 10 December 2016 (UTC) |
Well thank you. The thread above reminded me I had been to Byers Lake several more times since the trip where I took that picture, and I when I came across that one I just said to myself "this needs to be shared." And it was fantastic weather the whole time we were there. Beeblebrox ( talk) 06:49, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
I suppose I'm back again. You likely heard about the murder of David Grunwald, which not only seems to be the polar opposite of the ongoing James Dale Ritchie case, but is getting national attention. So far, there are five individuals who have been arrested for collaborating in the murder of Grunwald, (numbers reversed, eh?) Considering it involves a conspiracy to murder by a group of children, is getting national attention and is ongoing, what are your thoughts? Before I get a third-party interjection, I should disclaim that I am not necessarily pushing for an article, but I am curious what you feel about developing killer kids cases. DARTHBOTTO talk• cont 05:21, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Beeblebrox,
Could you remove the indefinite semi-protection you added to
fat person. The Wikipedia protection policy frowns on
preemptive page protections.
Also could you look at child labour and determine whether indefinite semi-protection is still required. You are probably more intimately familiar with that situation, but I really feel like lower level of protection would be better. Best, Mark Schierbecker ( talk) 02:50, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm...not finding an org on first glance that's named Public Art Notre Dame. And it looks like both the user's recently accepted AfC submissions ( [1], [2]) were...about public art around UND.
Maybe this is a reference to content area and not an organization? TimothyJosephWood 20:00, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
I was trying to talk to those kids, as I suppose you saw. I'm still trying to find out if it's one kid or two. (I've asked a CU privately, but since you're one, I suppose you've looked. There was obviously reason to.) Was it necessary to block? I'll eat my hat if they're a day older than ten. Bishonen | talk 10:28, 16 December 2016 (UTC).
So what about the false entry in the enforcement logs please? Are you going to fix those now? Or should I simply amend them myself to reflect what the community has agreed upon, i.e. that Mike V calling me a liar twice and misreporting an IBAN violation shouldn't stand? The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:45, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
Now taken care of, Beeb. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 22:00, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
User is asking for advice on their draft at WP:THQ...which is somewhat complicated by the fact that you deleted it. Would be helpful to unnuke, at least temporarily. TimothyJosephWood 21:02, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
@ Beeblebrox:, you are correct that the original suggestion of "Restrict indefinite blocks to ArbCom" is unworkable as was uncovered by the discussion. The real crux of the discussion is the last post that was made which is to ask if the lessons expressed by Blackstone's formulation of "Better to send 10 guilty free rather than convict 1 innocent" is applicable to Wikipedia or if it is more important to protect Wikipedia and have no or minimal concern for the amount of innocent people blocked. May I start a new section focusing simply on this question? Sthubbar ( talk) 02:53, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm not going to go into these details except to say that your ideas, as you have been told repeatedly, are competely at odds with the way Wikipedia is administrated. I can't stop you from opening yet another discussion that is doomed to failure before it begins, but I certainly wouldn't advise it. It is two months to the day since you were unblocked. In that time the majority of your edits have been essentially complaining about your block and trying to alter policy to make it work more like a real-world court system, which it absolutely is not. Continuing to make a spectacle of yourself with these proposals and refusing to get the point does you no benefit, and if you continue focussing on this instead of doing something constructive it will likely be seen as disruptive.
I see from your talk page that you were advised to let this go back in October. I suggest that instead of just giving chipper agreeeable replies but then ignoring everything you've been told that you actually pay attention to what more experienced users have been trying to tell you and move on. Beeblebrox ( talk) 04:05, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
It just seems amazing to me that indefinite blocks are being issues when:
There were many days between when I was first suspected and finally blocked. How much trouble would it have been to post a short message on my talk page? As a result of the recent discussion, this is all I'm asking. How much trouble would it be to modify the policy to say something like: "Before issuing any indefinite blocks, unless there is immediate threat to the integrity of Wikipedia, a brief message should be placed on a user's talk page requesting their response, and they should be allowed a reasonable amount of opportunity to respond." Is this really so crazy? Sthubbar ( talk) 01:48, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Beeblebrox: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU ( ✉) 20:41, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello Beeblebrox You have blocked the user skyguide-fr, because of its name. I had contact with this user here in English Wikipedia and later more deeply in the german language Wikipedia. This user has just startet 2-3 days ago to work on Wikipedia, so he don't knew yet how things going on here. Also this user work for skyguide and is working on Wikipedia in a official mission for skyguide to bring facts and informations about skyguide into wikipeda. I can not see any missuse in this. So I ask you to unblock him. Give skyguide the chanche to verify his identity to you. Thank you. FFA P-16 ( talk) 21:56, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
Please note that when Junosoon - who opened appeals for the same sanction at both AE and AN - indicated at AN that he wanted the AE appeal to take precedence, I NAC'd the AN thread, and copied your remark to AE. If you wish to undo this, please be my guest. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 17:10, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
Happy new year Beeblebrox,
I request for pending all Kurdish-related articles and the articles which were mentioned on this spi case: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lrednuas Senoroc. A passionate Turkish ip-jumping/socking editor has been socking at least 1-2 years on ALL the Kurdish related articles. Unfortunately, he is not only one vandalizing the pages. Plenty of disruptive editors! And it is not a surprise, because there is an ongoing conflict on ME and the Kurds are at the center of this conflict. I mean, such disruptive edits will not stop. Therefore, i request for "pending changes protection" for all the Kurdish-related articles. Also, admins still did not give me a feedback regarding the case. It is just weird. 46.221.102.87 ( talk) 18:18, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
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-- Rubbish computer ( HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 12:28, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
I understand that Alaska#Cities, towns and boroughs is a summary section, but readers shouldn't have to be forced to go to the other articles to find the references. If, as you say, the other articles are properly cited, then those citations could easily be copy-pasted into this main article, right? I was trying to put the Alaska article in OTD for the Main Page, but I'm not going to do it if there's a section with no citations at all. Thanks. — howcheng { chat} 01:14, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) Have to run shortly, but yes, this does seem petty. There's been a years-long effort to continue to improve this article in the hopes of getting it to GA. Based on what I've seen so far from not only Howcheng but other drive-by editors, the mere existence or non-existence of references is more important than whether or not we're delivering useful information to readers about the subject of Alaska. That's sounds like an awfully hollow GA to me. You can look at the discussion on the article talk page and at numerous other places and see that I'm not interested in hat-collecting exercises. And this isn't even the most pressing problem. It's been well over two years that various editors have cherry-picked the fact that Byron Mallott remains a registered Democrat to claim that he's serving in the office of lieutenant governor as a Democrat. To this day, they continue to edit-war on this and willfully ignore any of the abundant sources to the contrary, including the election results and his own official website (the statement "Governor Bill Walker and Lt. Governor Byron Mallott took office in December of 2014 as the first non-partisan administration in Alaska history" is prominent enough on that page, wouldn't you say?). RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 06:06, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Another editor already posted to User:NeoStalinist's talk page some weeks ago, requesting they change their username, citing personal, family-history discomfort with username. So this block seems to have more than nominal value to the project. Expect No Thanks... but thanks to you and RedPanda25. Chill-- ( talk) ( c) 02:24, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Can I ask you to please compare [4] with Ernst van Alphen Siuenti ( talk) 00:51, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Sounds like a duck quacking into a megaphone to me Block hammer will be deployed promptly. Beeblebrox ( talk) 01:00, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I disagree with the protection you just placed on Kirakira PreCure a la Mode. Most of the IP edits were not disruption, and the editor who made some disruptive test edits has been blocked. While some unsourced additions were made by IP editors to the article, this was content that belongs in the article and just needed a source. The addition without a source was useful in that it made me realize that the cast list was now available, which prompted me to add that information back in with a source. I would not consider this sort of edit disruption, but instead think they are good faith edits by people who are unaware of Wikipedia policy, and that the edits end up being more helpful than not. So I don't think the page needs protection, as the person making test edits is blocked, and the other IP edits were in good faith and overall helpful. Calathan ( talk) 23:10, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I know that what I have done recently is very wrong and I really regret it. I was wondering if you would give me a second chance and I will try my best not to do in the future. Please accept my apology. CWJakarta ( talk) 05:11, 6 January 2017 (UTC) T
Would you please provide a copy of the article Berlin-Köpenick transmitter which was deleted on 18 December 2006? I believe the topic to be of some encyclopedic relevance, and consider writing an extended and referenced translation of the German article de:Sender Köpenick, but would like to see what has been written before. You may put it into my user space. Thanks in advance, and a belated happy new year! -- Schlosser67 ( talk) 08:19, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
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