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I ordered no one to do anything; I think you had me confused with TypingInTheSky. I did err in failing to notify, I guess for some reason I incorrectly thought the messages there already did that. I apologize 331dot (talk) 01:58, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Three years ago you deleted the article Colorblind (Leona Lewis song) through AFD. Could it be possible if you could restore its history and merge it with the article Colorblind (Counting Crows song) as Lewis's is in fact a cover version of CC's. The (new) article will satisfy WP:Gng. Thanks you for the answer. © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 00:55, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
protection level of Sicily: Persistent disruptive editing??? Talk page "Old Norsk".--79.42.103.87 (talk) 00:27, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Hey Beeblebrox! Hope you are well. I noticed here you forgot to substitute ((RFPR)), and thought maybe you'd find this script useful: User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper (sorry if I'm "tooting my own horn"). Also assists in responding to reports at AIV, RFPP, ANEW, and UAA. Best — MusikAnimal talk 00:19, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Can I have that one restored to user space please and I will find some better sources. Thanks. Philafrenzy (talk) 01:24, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, you recently removed a discussion on the cdrtools talk page that was caused by a removal of text that has been added in order to revert biased claims introduced by hostile editors.
The problem is: there are some people who seem to believe that everything is Linux, while Linux is just an operating system with aprox. 1% coverage. Portable software therefore cannot follow Linux where it is in a conflict with the rest of the world. The cdrtools article includes several attacks and biased claims that are based on the fact that cdrtools uses addressing concepts that are based on the vast majority of all operating systems and the fact that the Linux addressing method is non-portable. Even worse, a hint on the standard for SCSI addressing scheme (that explained that the standard for SCSI addressing is based on CAM - a method based on the triplet: SCSI-bus,SCSI-target,SCSI-lun) was removed by User:Diego Moya even though it was verified by a pointer to the related T10 standard. Can you help me with that problem and find a way to come to an unbiased Cdrtools article text? Schily (talk) 10:51, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Alexey Yanushevsky. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Stifle (talk) 13:22, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I was added to the Autopatrolled list on 25 October. Still my new articles appear with the 'New unreviewed article' tag. Please advise WestCoastMusketeer (talk) 6 November 2015
See WP:AE#Lvivske. You recently applied four days of full protection. After this expired, the war resumed. Perhaps you want to leave a comment? I would like to take steps to ensure that an actual RfC is held (on using the 'neo-Nazi' phrase in the lead) and that the reverting people would wait for the outcome of the RfC. Maybe a logged warning could be sufficient to do this? Applying more protection would be like giving in to the warriors, if the original protection failed to stop the war. Anyway, would like to know what you think. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 03:04, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, the only reason I added Aleut and only aleut is because that is where the name of the state of alaska comes from. "Alaska" comes from the Aleutian word, so while there are other tribes in Alaska, the name of Alaska is not of Tlingit or Yupik origin, but of Aleut origin and thats why i put it in there. i didn't give weight to Aleut for no reason, I did it because that is the name from which "Alaska" derives. It's fine for you to remove it since its covered in the etymology section but i just wanted to set things straight.Neddy1234 (talk) 21:53, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
I confirm that I have requested an account on the UTRS tool. Beeblebrox (talk)
Hi, you stated that I have made an edit of someone else's talk edit. That is false as I haven't done that. The edit came from an IP user and, while I saw it on my watch list, I have no idea why it is there. It is the second time I have been stated as vandalizing someone's edit when I haven't done so. I would appreciate if you could give me some feedback as to why that has happened and what I can do to prevent it from happening again.
Thanks, mezil (talk) 11:54, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Yes, I can see that it is in my contributions section. Again, I am completely unaware of why this is so. If I have done that edit, which seems to be the case, I have done that unintentionally and unknowingly(as stupid as it sounds).mezil (talk) 19:33, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 November 18#Triple headers These were not garbage redirects, three articles on the disambiguation page mention triple headers as a variation. Peter James (talk) 00:01, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Neelix-created redirects, yet again. Thank you. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 05:04, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:35, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
Category:Road-inaccessible communities of North America suddenly appeared, so the need to populate it followed. It's entirely unclear to me whether one can actually drive to Kachemak Selo, and therefore whether the article belongs in that category or not. Road connections are evident in the case of the other Russian villages down there. If I'm wrong about any of this, let me know. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 04:23, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Please don't scold User:Swpb for removing their comment and mine from Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion. I actually requested them to remove the accusation of "disruptive behavior", along with my request. They did remove them, and posted a nice comment about it on my talk page about it. I felt it might derail or personalize the discussion if it was left in, even struck out. I guess I was advocating WP:IAR in this case. Anyhow, I'm kind of sorry to see that you restored it, but I guess that's the rules. --MelanieN (talk) 00:04, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I'll respect your decision in that particular case, but I think the general trend recently has been to tighten up on paid advocacy since the Orange Moody business. I now regularly post ((Uw-paid1)) or similar on the accounts of SPAs clearly working for or on behalf of a company, including if they have permitted but conflicted names of the "Mike at Blogg's Widgets" variety.
To me, creating an SPA forbidden name account and using it to promote the the company or product is a clear breach of our current terms and conditions. I don't see that the old (outdated?) discussion you linked to as binding, although I will take note of its general thrust in borderline cases, especially non-profits and charities. Although I don't always get it right, the vast majority of my blocks are not overturned, and few of the blocked editors actually show any inclination to edit other than what they are being paid for.
I'm sorry if this seems negative, but I don't see it as my role to help promote companies, and in the dozen years I've been an admin this is the first time I've been challenged on the principal (as opposed to very occasional individual cases). At the very least, a more widespread new discussion is needed if the policy or its application is to be changed. Thanks anyway for getting me to at least think about my practice, and I'll try to be softer around the edges. Cheers Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:21, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Renew PC? --George Ho (talk) 00:10, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. Historiador (talk) 19:35, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Beeblebrox. I've been working on improving this article Miss Belvedere and was wondering if you could look it over and give me some suggestions. It has an original research tag on it but I think I've removed or sourced the statements that were causing concern but I don't want to remove it since I've been working on the article. Thanks! Shinerunner (talk) 00:11, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
Re: Irish Popstars. As a matter of fact, there is zero edits by non-sock users. The only other edit is by someone who claimed they would work on it, but never did. Nymf (talk) 06:34, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Beeblebrox, the Advanced permissions and inactivity arbitration clarification request, which you were listed as a party to, has been archived. For the Arbitration Committee, L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 23:46, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Hey Beeble -
Posting this here to avoid shattering my word limit at RFAR. I'm not sure that just talking has really been tried yet. A handful of days ago WTT indicated that he had no desire to take me to arbcom, and I woke up to an RFAR from him. I can't speak for Mike, but last night he seemed more or less content to bop me on the head about it and tell me to be less dumb in the future. I've had a couple people suggest that this likely won't be heard until the next tranche of arbs is settled in, and that makes me rather uncomfortable - since right now this involves three non-stale issues (two of which lasted twenty minutes, and two of which were at the advice of other administrators,) whereas if I continue to either use my admin toolset (has anyone ever been happy when you blocked them, even if it was necessary?,) continue to mediate disputes, or get involved in a content dispute, this is likely to get a lot messier before it's heard. I think that I'm certainly a net positive as an admin (edu program cleanup, dispute mediation, dealing with undisclosed paid editors, etc) and don't deserve to get desysopped over this, but pushing the hearing date out two months makes it seem significantly more likely that I'll either get a lot of pile-on complaints when it's finally heard, or I'll feel unable to use the toolset or even be invlved in potential content disputes (which are sometimes impossible to avoid.) Kevin Gorman (talk) 01:13, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Take final decision on this SPI, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CosmicEmperor. --The Avengers 14:52, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Another CU at UTRS? Christmas came early!--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 22:18, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
The rude comment that was posted on that guys page earlier was not from me. My friend took my laptop from me and started try. I tried to delete it as you could see by the misspelling of the last work but he saved it too quickly. That is why I deleted it so quickly. I know it was from my account and I don't have any way to prove what I'm saying is true, but I just wanted to let you know that the comment made wasn't me. Thank you! And I apologize for it. Nicholas A. Doughty (talk) 02:12, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
I sent you a mail a yesterday morning (11:25). Can you confirm you received it, thanks. -- Colin°Talk 09:13, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
I actually have no problem with you having access to those tools. Just the precedent it sets for ignoring the process of community involvement. The problem with Phillipe was even worse - he only had access because as part of his employment with the WMF. Not sanctioned by the community at all. Bypassing the community involvement in his case effectively neutered the process as written. The fact he was employed by the WMF is no indicator he was suitable to have them (at all, or just from the community perspective). They dont exactly have a sterling record when it comes to employees. There should have been some sort of consultation on the community side before handing them back once he was no longer employed by the WMF. But thats an old argument. Regards. Only in death does duty end (talk) 12:10, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Beeblebrox,
You recently deleted my article: New Definition of Paper under the following criteria: Speedy deletion criteria A10, A11, Article: Paper
As I am new here, can you please help me understand where I went wrong? I tried to write this article as a "New section" in the "Paper" article. However as that article is a semi-protected page, I was unable to edit it and hence i created a new article with the hopes of putting in a re-direct to my page from the existing "Paper" article.
Thanks and regards Prabhakargosavi (talk) 21:06, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Beeblebrox,
Thank you very much for explaining that for me. However, the article I have published has been published in two different sources before: (1) A publication released by an annual international exhibition/conference; and (2) a regional Journal released in Maharashtra, India called "Mudranprakash". The references can be found below:
Given this information, is it possible for me to re-publish my "New Definition of Paper" article with these references?
Thanks & regards, Prabhakargosavi (talk) 19:13, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
I read your comments about soft blocking promotional users, and they make a lot of sense. I really hadn't thought about it too much, just thinking that spammers trying to use Wikipedia for advertising need to be stomped on. But you're right - the "social media, probably never even opened an encyclopedia" mindset is so different from mine (and I was thinking of that the other day as I carried my 1987 Britannica up two flights of stairs). The vast majority blocked never come back anyway, and those who do always seem to be innocents who genuinely didn't understand - so why make more work than necessary for them to come back? From now on, when I come across an account with a company name that has done no more than create a promotional company profile, I'm going to use a soft block - and reserve hard blocks for repeat offenders and obviously real spammers. Thanks for the insight. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:57, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
I have passed your email onto the stewards for their resolution, and I am hoping that they will reply directly to you. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:35, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Beeblebrox. I see you were involved in a discussion about the above biog, though it was in 2010 so I hope you can remember. It seems the discussion ended with the conclusion that the subject was worthy of inclusion. Since that time the page seems to have disappeared and been made into a Redirect for the Internet Solutions page - on which Ronnie Apteker isn't even mentioned, despite founding that company. However I have since written a new Ronnie Apteker page complete with many more solid citations than before. However other people have said that the subject is not worthy of inclusion and taken the page down. Now who is right here? The subject had already been approved, so surely that decision should stand, especially when significant improvements have been made. I would appreciate your advice on this since you appear to have more editorial seniority and were somehow involved in the earlier discussion. Thanking you in anticipation Picknick99 (talk) 22:02, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
No idea how that happened. Sensitive touchpad! Leaky Caldron 21:04, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
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Happy Holidays, Beeblebrox,
This is not a complaint but rather an effort to understand your reasoning. The recent edits against the talk page consensus have come only from two IP addresses. Instead of full protection, wouldn't semi-protection have worked just as well? That would allow established accounts to improve the article. And does the article really need that banner at the top? I am trying to learn about how administrators make such decisions. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 20:54, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
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Has violated WP:3RR at least once on each of the Amy Action and Steve Rackman articles. They've removed both warnings I gave them from their talk page and have told me and User talk:Mega Z090 (whom I've having a separate issue with) to shove off. They are blatantly violating 3RR claiming they are reverting our "vandalism". CrashUnderride 00:24, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hey, I don't really pay attention to adminly things, and don't know where to complain, but you seem to have interacted with User:EggyEggPercent, no wait, I mean User:George Ho. If you could add some order to the chaos he.they is/are causing at Chinese stock market crash (2015–present), it would generate good karma for you in your next username. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 01:34, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Unblock request. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 20:38, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Yet another sock of this blocked user has popped up: Detectionist (talk) came into existence hours after No fear here (talk) was blocked, and is repeating, word for word, the former user's edits to the Battle of New Orleans. HLGallon (talk) 11:03, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your help earlier. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 22:15, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
I wanted to request the rollback permission. I have been a reviewer (appointed by you) for several months now, and I have used that tool to counter vandalism and many other types of disruptive editing dozens, if not hundreds of times. Also, I have acquainted myself with Twinkle's rollback features so as to prepare myself for the "real thing." If you find my recent contributions lack what is necessary to be appointed a rollbacker, I would appreciate any advice you can spare. I hope you consider my recent contributions to be worthy of a second permission, and I thank you for your time, once again. Lord Laitinen (talk) 00:24, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Lord Laitinen (t · th · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · pages created (xtools · sigma) · non-automated edits · BLP edits · undos · manual reverts · rollbacks · logs (blocks · rights · moves) · rfar · spi · cci)
I suspect this is exactly the kind of thing you had suppressed, and had told her not to reiterate. I've revdel'd it, to be going on with, and removed talkpage access. Please undo these actions if I'm barking up the wrong tree.Bishonen | talk 23:00, 22 January 2016 (UTC).
Some good; some bad. Extend PC? --George Ho (talk) 01:05, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Is there any admins interested in policing article content rather than claim OR is a content dispute? We can start a new project for specialty admins to enforce the rules.
I mentioned the above on the talk page for the new essay. I would like to create a new project for admins to help enforce the rules such as OR. What do you think? QuackGuru (talk) 18:18, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello! So, I stuck my foot into something of a puzzle you could perhaps help me with. I saw you had blocked (and also reviewed and declined an unblock of) User:Detectionist as a sockpuppet of User:UnbiasedVictory. However, looking over User:UnbiasedVictory, they aren't blocked for sockpuppetry at the moment at all - it looks like User:HJ_Mitchell cleared them of any wrongdoing on that front. User:C-3PO, HCR was created and posted an unblock request, admitting to being User:Detectionist and saying they wanted to be unblocked and cleared for normal Wikipedia use. So, initially, since they were apparently requesting from an alternate account to a blocked account, I blocked them. However, I rescinded the block on noticing that the supposed sockmaster, UnbiasedVictory, was not actually blocked. I hope you can grasp why I'm a little confused here, and I'm trying to figure out if I've screwed up or not. The relationship between these three accounts now is pretty confusing to me at this point. I've reached out to C-3PO, HCR for clarification on their talk page, but as the blocking admin for the account they explicitly linked themselves to, I thought maybe you could clarify, and also that I owed you some contact to make sure I'm not inadvertently going over your head on a valid block placed by you. - Vianello (Talk) 07:44, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
I lodged a protest on the result of Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)'s "Talk about Flow again" section because I am satisfied with the result (the result is "This feature has been strongly rejected by the community, and the WMF isn't even trying to fix it anymore."). I think the WMF should allow all language versions' Wikipedia users to enable Flow feature which skipped the community's consensus, and the current policy on Flow is irrational. So I would like to call WMF change the policy on Flow in your talk page, thank you.--Shwangtianyuan Happy Chinese New Year to everyone 00:21, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello Beeblebrox. Just letting you know that I have sent you an email. I look forward to your reply at your earliest convenience. Regards, --Ches (talk) 18:30, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
I would like to be blocked till March 9th. (I have read your requirements). The WikiBreak Enforcer does not work, probably because I'm using Internet Explorer. Peter Sam Fan | talk 20:13, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Your essay is quite good. Unfortunately I was not aware of it prior :) Although I had a specific proposal in mind, I was intentionally vague, to allow the plurality of ideas to come out. I was either planning on a magic consensus to form, or a consensus for "something" which would be followed by a multiple choice rfc to actually make an implementation choice. As you rightly point out in your essay tho, the multiple choices often fail to achieve consensus. In any case, I have reformulated to what I actually think we should do. I suppose if that doesn't gain consensus, others could propose other ideas. Thanks for the feedback. Gaijin42 (talk) 22:49, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
I see that Lukaslt13 has been indeffed, for poor competence with English. I find this sad. Yes, his English is poor, and sometimes incomprehensible. But poor English, where it matters in an article, can be corrected. His intentions were good. He has created at least one article which still exists: Navikai. He is 13 years old, and no doubt his English will improve. I have made what I believe were constructive edits to Wikipedias in languages I cannot read, without being blocked from them. Maproom (talk) 19:56, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
I hope that sufficiently clarifies matters. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:18, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
I see you recently followed up an edit of mine from 2011, there were a bunch of other biographies that I felt had UNDUE concerns, your recent edit makes me feel as if I didn't go far enough. See [4]. Hope all is well, –xenotalk 11:14, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
...and celebrate that I got there at all?
I'm just finally seeing your very kind comment. Please pardon my tardiness in thanking you for it, and telling you how touched I was to see it tonight.
-Philippe (talk) 04:30, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 20:09, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
See these edits. It might be worth looking at their other contribs. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:31, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Dhtwiki (talk) 00:16, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
Please remove protected block on Ken Sibanda and create page. There are several sources that seem to validate work and negate the need for continued protection. Subject meets the rule for one neutral source at a minimum since there are several places where he is validated including as a blogger for the Jerusalem Post. Subject meets wikipedia's guidelines for notability because he is one of a few (Africans) in science fiction and Hollywood, as well as his work as a Constitutional attorney. He is notable as an African born Constitutional attorney and movie director in Hollywood: (South Africa) and work's appreciation.
As for the work itself,he has several books, see here. But one seems to have gobe beyond the mere published book stage and is well known, The Return to Gibraltar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cindymathers (talk • contribs) 23:42, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi Beeblebrox.
I saw that you have previously posted on Only's user talk so perhaps you can help with this. User:MMAGuy8 was indefinitely blocked by Only for vandalism. It seems that Special:Contributions/Mr. Bellator might be being used for block evasion or be a DUCK. The account was created around the same time MMAGuy8 was indefed, and is being used to edit the same genre of articles. It's also being used to edit various sandboxes of MMAGuy8, which seems to be a bit unusual unless there's a connection between the two. I asked Only about this directly at User talk:Only#User:MMAGuy8 , but was advised to seek out another admin since they are unable to act on it at the moment. If there's a better place to post this, then please advise. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:07, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
I just told that guy to thank you for your clean up in that page and pay attention for next time. Don't worry: next time if I have enough time to point something nice but not enough time to translate it, I won't just write it.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:40, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
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Knowing how much effort you've put into things Alaska, especially your excellent photography, you may be interested to know there is now an article for Lake Atna, the ancient proglacial lake that inhabited the Copper River Basin. Do you by any chance have photos of Tahneta Pass, or any of the remnant lakes of Lake Atna, such as Tazlina Lake, Klutina Lake, or Tonsina Lake? Or, perhaps, any of the large dunes indicated in the article that are northeast of Wasilla in the Matanuska Valley? --Hammersoft (talk) 22:01, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
That was going on for far too long. Only in death does duty end (talk) 00:19, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
I know that you probably really don't want to deal with this, but I do have a question regarding the ANI thread you recently closed on that page. Thank you for the closing, and for your attention to the request. Unfortunately, as I already indicated on that page, if you are allowing the possibility of a request for arbitration, I probably won't be able to file it myself until Monday, as I kind of indicated there, given the lateness of the day here already today. John Carter (talk) 00:43, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Seeing as they have been under a self-imposed block for almost two years now that isn't very compelling.
I think you may now finally be getting the impression that whatever you may feel about your actions, the community does not see it your way. There is a limit to the amount of time the community is willing to invest in a user who needs so many special rules just for them, especially when they break those rules. I would suggest that you are right at the razor's edge right now. The best thing you can do, for yourself and for Wikipedia, is to completely ignore anyone you are banned from interacting with. That's the lesson an iban is meant to teach you, but you have obviously failed to grasp it so far, and now it looks likely you are going to be blocked for a while as a result. I wouldn't expect to be let off so lightly if you violate it again. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:18, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Beeblebrox, do you mind if I restore this? It has BLP implications, which I why I posted it at CENT. I'd have made that clear, but I knew it would be changed if I did that, so it isn't clear what the issue is. SarahSV (talk) 04:45, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
It's been closed so i can't reply there but ... yes, a long ride. Good to see you're still active in these things. - Dank (push to talk) 05:25, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
Less than a week after the IBAN was put in place, John Carter kept following my edits, and opened a bogus AE request against me despite the fact that ArbCom had already clarified that edits like the one he reported were not covered under my TBAN.
Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 21:18, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
But any names that get mentioned are likely to get their entries here carpet-bombed, so... HalfShadow 03:40, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, I've noticed recently you've been declined reports of possibly promotional usernames with no edits. I just added a new parameter to ((UAA)) for this sort of case, so that you don't have to type what you want to say manually. You can use ((UAA|wp))
, ((UAA|waitp))
, ((UAA|waitpromo))
or ((UAA|waitspam))
. Hope it helps. Linguisttalk|contribs 21:11, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
((UAA|np)), ((UAA|nop)), ((UAA|notp)), ((UAA|nopromo)), ((UAA|notpromo)), ((UAA|nospam)), ((UAA|notspam))). Linguisttalk|contribs 16:41, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Wykipedia
Thanks to you and User:Bbb23 for replying to my query at ANI re Wykipedia.
I'd like to be kept posted on progress, if possible.
Also, for future reference, what's the correct forum for such queries?
It may be quite innocent, but if not, their holy grail is probably an admin password (or better). In view of this, would a message to Wikipedia:Administrators/Message list be appropriate?
Or do you think all admins should be canny enough not to fall for it anyway? It does look quite slick and dangerous to me, and I've had several friends whom I would have thought were very savvy fall for Nigerian or ransomware etc scams over the years. Andrewa (talk) 03:08, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, Andrew, both Beeblebrox and I are functionaries, but Beeblebrox is more "politically connected" than I am. Nonetheless, in different ways we both made the Foundation aware of the website, and as you can see at ANI post-closure, they are. I'm sure opinions would differ, but I wouldn't send a mass message to all admins. Most aren't even active anyway. The Foundation knows how to notify editors if they think it's appropriate. You got the ball rolling, and thanks for that.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:57, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, User:Bbb23. (Perhaps we should shift to your own talk page or mine if it continues but I'll reply here for the moment.)
- I did notice that you both have had higher roles. But is there as better way of contacting "back office" over such matters? It's going to happen again. It's a jungle out here! I thought this was urgent enough to abuse ANI, and it worked well. But I had a good look at en:Wikipedia and the Meta first and the correct channel was not obvious. I'm not a great user of chat or facebook, the Wiki and email are my main Internet activities. But happy to develop other skills if needed. (But I'd rather be improving the article space more directly, either by using the mop or by actually working on articles. Our earthly lives are a finite resource.)
- I admit that I'm now long retired, but my professional career was mainly in computer security in some way or other, and this did concern me as fairly urgent. Even if most of the admins are inactive (and that's also a concern, and perhaps explains why the last bevavioural issue I raised at ANI was auto-archived with no evidence that any other admin had even looked at it - but there does appear to be a bit more activity there now) their passwords are still valuable. Completely inactive users won't have their passwords captured obviously, the ones I'd be most looking for were I the ungodly would be ones that logged on occasionally and then disappeared again for a week or more.
- Anyway, not the end of the world or of Wikipedia, and now in the right hands I'm sure, and thanks again to you both. Andrewa (talk) 19:38, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Andrewa: We can use Beeblebrox's Talk page. It'll make him feel needed. There's a general wikimedia e-mail you can use, but I don't know how quickly that box is reviewed. The other thing you can do is look at the list of editors at Category:Wikimedia Foundation staff, pick one who looks important (heh), and leave a message on their Talk page, although e-mailing them might be faster, depends on how frequently they're on-wiki. There are also e-mail lists, and I don't know all of them. For example, even though you aren't a functionary, you can e-mail the functionaries e-mail list anyway. It'll just take a bit longer because it has to be moderated before it's released to the list members. I still think contacting the entire admins corps to be overkill, but that's just my opinion. I'm the guy who doesn't buy burglar alarm systems for my house, either. --Bbb23 (talk) 21:47, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
- In my experience, email is almost always the fastest way tot get the attention of the foundation. They have replied that this is definenently not hosted by them and they are looking into it further. Given that it was pretending to actually be Wikipedia, that probably means the legal team is going after them. I've never seen anything quite like that before, after looking at it for a few minutes, it actually did seem to log me in using WP:SUL, without me actually entering either my username or password, but if I actually tried to do anything it redirected me back to Wikipedia. Not sure what their game is, but I have WP:2FA on my account so it's pretty secure. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:58, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
- OK... and I have now emailed some off-wiki comments to User:Bbb23 who is of course free to pass them on to "back office" and/or to yourself.
- email is ideal, but I didn't find an obvious link to use for this... where should I have looked?
- I could still be wrong, but this has all the look and feel of fraudulent sites that financial and online sales websites deal with regularly, and having been involved with the security of such institutions in my former career, I still think it's serious and that part of the solution is a warning to those who are targeted. That is standard industry practice. Andrewa (talk) 23:37, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
A lot of the time, the office ends up contacted exactly in this way, someone posts something here, administrators see it, and contacts the relevant person. Who to contact is usually situation-specifc and contacts are identified at specific pages, for example WP:OFFICE lists the two people I've been in contact with about this, (although office actions are another issue entirely, they are the community liaisons) whereas WP:EMERGENCY lists the emergency contact account that (so I'm told) will immediately alert someone from the head office, day or night, to immediately address the problem. But again, most of the time it goes just like this did, where a user reports it, and an admin or functionary sees it and thinks "this is above ny pay grade" and refers it to them. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:57, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
- The problem is finding it (WP:OFFICE). If you don't know it exists, it ain't easy. You'd think there'd at least be a link to it from the Main Page Contact Us page, but there isn't. BTW, Andrew, the reason I didn't respond to your e-mail was because I really don't have anything more to say.--Bbb23 (talk) 03:04, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for those. Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm doesn't seem relevant to this situation and is of strange status... originally an essay (top importance but still an essay) the essay notice has been removed but it's still in an essay category.
- Wikipedia:Office actions probably should be a little more prominent... I hadn't read it for a while, and had forgotten that there were links there that I could have used. That was the page I wanted in fact.
- I do review the Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list from time to time but have found Wikipedia:Advice for new administrators is often more up to date and/or helpful. There is a lot that admins need to be up on... for example I am most active on RM (having seen over the years that this was typically the biggest admin backlog), but the advice at wp:emergency is to contact any admin, so all admins need to be up to speed on it. Andrewa (talk) 16:49, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Comments on editing restriction
Hi, Beeblebrox. I like your multi-level triangle.
I'm trying to respond to the case of possibly ending my indefinite editing restriction.
I had long been wanting to appeal the restrictions, but wasn't sure how to do it or whether I had any chance of succeeding. In any case, I think I may finally have learned how to "go with the flow" and "not insist on my own way" when disagreeing with others about how NPOV should be applied.
Now that 10 years have passed - has it really been that long? - I'd like to be able to edit articles touching on intelligent design and the Unification Church again. I promise to be gentle and yielding, okay?
Is there some part of the arbcom page that I'm supposed to (or allowed to) post the above comment? --Uncle Ed (talk) 18:06, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
- The discussion is at WP:ARCA, and it's basically a done deal at this point. A few of the arbs have commented that they wanted to hear from you directly, but once you made basically this same post on your talk page they were pretty much on board with it, but it is still open if you have anything to add. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:51, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Your comment at VP on hyphens
I get it: you just don't like the micro approach to style. But might I suggest that you'd be the first to complain if watching a film that was not edited smoothly according to well-established rules. Micro matters. Tony (talk)
- If the only rule they were ignoring was which small horizontally line to use, I probably wouldn't notice, so no, I don't think it matters. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:52, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Ed Poor 2
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
In remedy 1.1 of the 2006 Ed Poor 2 case, Ed Poor (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was placed on probation. Under the terms of the probation, he was banned from two topics in 2008 and 2009. The probation and topic bans under its terms are now rescinded.
For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 21:37, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Arbitration motion regarding Ed Poor 2