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Hey! There is a user looking for an adopter and when I looked through the Adoption headquarters and saw your name, I think you'd be a good fit for this user. He likes doing maintenance tasks just like you do. His name is User:Cyberpower678. He's had a few rough patches the last month and could use a pick up, motivation, and some good direction.--v/r - T P 14:09, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
If you wouldn't mind, can you add that to the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011–2012_Syrian_uprising
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2011–2012_Syrian_uprising_(from_January_2012)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011–2012_Idlib_Governorate_clashes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011–2012_Damascus_clashes pages
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Syrian_Army pages
Sopher99 ( talk) 19:46, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
If you look at those pages, particularly the Idlib and Damascus clashes, as well as the 2011-2012 Syrian uprising, you would see a high usage of those 30 sock accounts that were blocked. Sopher99 ( talk) 19:52, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. Sopher99 ( talk) 20:48, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Are you sure these edits do not qualify as vandalism? BLPPROD is very specific about the criteria under which it should be removed, and I think it is quite clear that those standards are not being met in the current article? Gaijin42 ( talk) 20:29, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update
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March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far. Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers. Your drive coordinators – Dianna ( talk), Stfg ( talk), and Dank ( talk)To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. |
Hmmm, interesting, if nothing else! Thanks for sorting that so quickly. Lugnuts ( talk) 12:25, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello, please revdel 2 racist slurs here and here. Thank you, -- 64.85.214.170 ( talk) 13:04, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your quick block of vandals and lock on Richard Wright (author) Rich(MTCD) T| C| E-Mail 17:48, 15 March 2012 (UTC) |
I saw your removal of the category I placed in the article, and I saw your reason as well. I disagree that the category I placed in violates BLP. The shooters own words back up that this was indeed racially motivated. Yes, he hasn't been charged as such, further we have only his word that it was self defense. So, how about this, I won't replace my category, but self defense has to go as well, as we have only his word on it, and in this case, it can't be considered reliable either. What do you think ? @- Kosh ► Talk to the Vorlons► Moon Base Alpha-@ 16:26, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
@- Kosh ► Talk to the Vorlons► Moon Base Alpha-@ 16:33, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm part of the team of founders behind the organization The Pledge of the Computing Professional, whose new page you recently marked for speedy deletion based on criteria A7 (notability). Can we contest this with you? Admittedly, we're a very new organization, but we've been endorsed by two existing notable organizations and have 15 existing chapters. Details on all of the above are on the "Talk" page of the deleted article, as well as our website [1].
Most of us are also fairly inexperienced in the ways of Wikipedia; I'm probably the "most" experienced, but I'm hardly more than a novice myself. We think we objectively qualify for inclusion in Wikipedia. (I didn't see the original article, so I don't know if there were other issues that we didn't address the first time around ...) Jim Huggins ( talk) 04:12, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the move protection. Could you also semi protect? There are some anon editors who keep putting in pov content (on both sides of the argument) and putting in unencyclopedic conetent (see the current "facts" section which keeps returning, even though most of that information is already elsewhere in the article). 16:27, 20 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaijin42 ( talk • contribs)
Hi... I'm just a random user of Wikipedia, who rarely makes significant edits (I'm on a library computer). I'm not completely sure if removing Howie's question was the right call. I don't see him or her as a troll, just someone unfamiliar to Wikipedia. Many of the answers pointing them in more helpful directions were perfectly appropriate, IMHO. I'm not convinced it would do any real damage to Wikipedia's reputation. The case you linked to (Billy Ego) involved an editor engaged in highly disruptive behaviour. Curious what your fellow admins (or Wikipedians in general) think. We do often get potentially controversial issues discussed on the Reference Desk, and I think caution is called for in removing genuine (if somewhat inappropriate) questions. 119.225.16.46 ( talk) 00:54, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Reaper, I'm contacting you not because you were involved with this issue, but because you are listed in CAT:REVDEL. Please take a look at The Barney Bunch. Many of the revisions there would fit under CFRD 2 or 3. I realize that most of the attack content targets fictional characters, but there is plenty of mention of real people, living and deceased. I'm not sure if it would be better/easier to selectively revdel those edits, or to speedy it as an attack page. If you decide to revdel it then could you also fully protect it to prevent this vandalism from appearing again at this title? Or if you decide to delete if could you please salt it or recreate it as a protected redirect at your discretion? Thanks. — KuyaBriBri Talk 14:45, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Might you add his new catch phrase to his edit filter? Also revoking talk page access might be helpful.— Ryulong ( 竜龙) 23:46, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
He's got a new catchphrase.— Ryulong ( 竜龙) 19:41, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I just want to ask your help in resolving this issue with another editor on the Mount Pinatubo article. I'm Briarfallen and a regular editor of said article. The problem is on the second sentence of the lead section about the Cabusilan Mountains. One disruptive editor, ( User:FromTarlac) keeps changing it to Tri-Cabusilan Mountain Range which is wrong, even though I presented two online references: an online copy of a Geography book and an online topography map of the area from the 1950s by the US Corps of Engineers. I thought he did not check my references. In his defense, he says, "he lives near the mountain and that's how they call the mountain range" and he gave two books as references: one is a book and not verifiable online, but the other "Fire and Mud" is also a book but has an online version from the USGS website. It is also one of the External links of the Mount Pinatubo article. I checked the website but 'Cabusilan Mountains' was not mentioned. In the Philippines, misinformation is a problem so together with my references, I presented him with the link for WP:Verifiability, not truth and WP:Verifiability. On his last edit on March 19th, he again changed it to Tri-Cabusilan but the worse part is that he removed my reference link to the topographic map!!! What kind of editor would do that? Isn't that foul? Please help me on what to do with this other editor. ( History page of Mount Pinatubo). Thanks. - Briarfallen ( talk) 03:29, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice - Briarfallen ( talk) 00:58, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
IP continues to troll at my talk page ( here) after you gave them a very generous warning here. ISTB351 (talk) (contributions) 16:50, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi you said that Al needs to email OHDT (or something like that) . Where do I find the email address for Al to email to as I don't know it? Once he has done that would you be able to undelete the page to save me having to post it all up again? Richard Anvil ( talk) 16:20, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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Recently there was some anti-gay hate here on wikipedia and you worked to unhate. Because we need to show our overwhelming support of what people hate on to create unhate whenever it shows up. I compel everyone that supports unhate to repost this on their user page or talk page and especially on any page that has been the location of LGBT harassment or ignorance, that way the haters will know the only consequence of their hate will be more gayness and education and community. Congratulations on being an unhater! LuciferWildCat ( talk) 23:33, 23 March 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Reaper, sorry I've had to revert your last edit to Decic equation, but the paper I added as further reading is not a source for any part of the article. I came across the article when checking the contributions of a new editor. It was unsourced and a messy half-copy of Septic equation, so I did my best to clean it up. I couldn't quickly find anything to source it to (although it's clear to a mathematician how it should be). I did however find a paper that proposes a possible method of solution, so I added it as further reading for others to make use of.
I'm grateful for your attempt to clean up the article, but there's no point in pretending that it has any sources at present. It's possibly a candidate for deletion, as there are potentially an infinite number of polynomial equations of increasing degree and we need to stop somewhere. Any thoughts you might have on that would be appreciated. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 00:42, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Not done was your reply to his request, but when i opened his edit counts and user rights, 'autopatrolled' was there. I m surprised to see that. How is it possible?
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Hi there as directed by you Al has now emailed OTRS giving them permission for his material to be shared. You said an OTRS Volunteer may undelete the page. Is there anyone I can contact to see if this can be done? Richard Anvil ( talk) 13:29, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
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I have self reverted, Thanks-- Ðℬig XЯaɣ 14:13, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Didn't even have a chance to request it. :) Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 17:19, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
I posted about this anon vandal at WP:ANV but it appears you blocked them before I finished. — Al E.( talk) 17:44, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
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Must say, you were quick blocking 97.89.229.182 after the vandalism he had done! ~ ⇒TomTom N00 @ 17:07, 3 April 2012 (UTC) |
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It's always good to see another admin's face coming through the Huggle queue. Thanks for your vandalism-fighting efforts - we need as many admins working the front lines as we can get! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 19:04, 3 April 2012 (UTC) |
This page has some really interesting shove-under-the-carpet editing. Is it just because you can, or was there a real reason.
NB: If I come across as offensive, I apologize. I'm just curious, you don't have to answer this if you don't want to. :-) 23.16.216.127 ( talk) 02:40, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey all. My regular(ish) update on what's been happening with the new Article Feedback Tool.
Hand-coding
As previously mentioned, we're doing a big round of hand-coding to finalise testing :). I've been completedly bowled over by the response: we have 20 editors participating, some old and some new, which is a new record for this activity. Many thanks to everyone who has volunteered so far!
Coding should actively start on Saturday, when I'll be distributing individualised usernames and passwords to everyone. If you haven't spoken to me but would be interested in participating, either drop me a note on my talkpage or email okeyeswikimedia.org. If you have spoken to me, I'm very sorry for the delay :(. There were some toolserver database issues beyond our control (which I think the Signpost discussed) that messed with the tool.
New designs and office hours
Our awesome designers have been making some new logos for the feedback page :) Check out the oversighter view and the monitor view to get complete coverage; all opinions, comments and suggestions are welcome on the talkpage :).
We've also been working on the Abuse Filter plugin for the tool; this will basically be the same as the existing system, only applied to comments. Because of that, we're obviously going to need slightly different filters, because different things will need to be blocked :). We're holding a special office hours session tomorrow at 22:00 UTC to discuss it. If you're a regex nut, existing abuse filter writer, or simply interested in the feedback tool and have suggestions, please do come along :).
I'm pretty sure that's it; if I've missed anything or you have any additional queries, don't hesitate to contact me! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 14:44, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I often see your name pop up when edit filters are being discussed, so I'm wondering if you could comment at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Bot to target a common vandalism at San Diego article, where I've suggested that an edit filter might be a solution to the problem. Cheers, Jenks24 ( talk) 15:32, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive
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March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months. Progress report During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{ GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May. Your drive coordinators – Dianna ( Talk), Stfg ( Talk), and Dank ( talk)To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. |
Thank you
... for fixing our vandalism problem at San Diego! -- MelanieN ( talk) 00:19, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Maybe the article needs semi-protection. Please roll back the edits after yours. 66.168.247.159 ( talk) 20:14, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
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You dealt with a sock a few months ago at Bikini Beach. The same sock seems to be back ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/John Daker). I wondered if you knew if there were other articles we should check up on or if the sock managed to keep itself to just the one. They've made two accounts in a short amount of time so I requested a CU on it too. If you have any additional info though it'd be helpful. Thanks. Shadowjams ( talk) 00:32, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Hallo Reaper Eternal. Ich wollte nur ihnen einen Froehlichen Ostern wuenschen.
Translated: Hello Reaper Eternal. I only want to wish you a happy easter.— cyberpower ChatOffline 12:09, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
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Nice to see you of all people beating me in Huggle this morning. Calabe 1992 16:21, 4 April 2012 (UTC) |
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If you wouldn't mind, please review this edit for possible RevDel because of the personal information. Thanks! Ravensfire ( talk) 18:48, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
I would like assistance in becoming an established editor. I chose you to make a request to for these reasons:
Will you adopt me? ChromaNebula (talk) 17:57, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your support at my RfA - and for your congratulations. I will do my best to live up to people's confidence in me. Yngvadottir ( talk) 17:28, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Was there something I was missing that I should know in the future? It's not every day I make a username hard block only to have the block made even harder. Ks0stm ( T• C• G• E) 17:15, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Does the filter that catches removed speedy deletion templates cover:
If not, could the filter be made to catch them? → Σ τ c. 18:51, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello: I see you are listed as an admin. who is willing to consider and grant rollback rights. I would ask for that consideration at this time. I have 9,175 edits and have reviewer rights. I have written ten articles and helped two gain "good article status". Please feel free to ask me any questions needed. Thank you for your time, Kierzek ( talk) 14:31, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for messing with your protection here. I was using Twinkle to protect the page; it seems you protected it while I was setting the options, so it changed your protection. I've changed the protection back to what you initially set. ItsZippy ( talk • contributions) 20:11, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
I really don't know what images you're talking about when you say I've had "alot" deleted. It would be news to me if I've had more than 2 or 3 deleted. INeverCry 17:32, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Reaper Eternal, thanks so much for hiding some of the feedback abuse on the Mitt Romney page last month! We are now in the process of adapting some of your nice vandalism filters for the article feedback tool (285, 225, 247) and would love to get you in the loop, if you are interested. You can email me directly at fflorin-at-wikimedia-dot-org, and we can set a time to chat. In the meantime, here's some info on how we are extending abuse filters for article feedback. Cheers! Fabrice (BTW, I'm the new product manager for editor engagement at Wikimedia and responsible for the article feedback tool, among other projects.) Fabrice Florin ( talk) 02:49, 7 April 2012 (UTC) |
(user_editcount < 500) & (action = "feedback") & (new_wikitext rlike "\b[a-zA-Z0-9_]{2,20}@[a-zA-Z0-9_]{2,20}\.(co\.)?[a-z]{2,3}\b")
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would have been pointless!) I'll go implement the filter now if you would like.
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Can you please take a look at this false positive for edit filter 31? It seems to be the result of this change which you did. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:29, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've been getting lots of technical failures trying to remove "Distributor108" nonsense from Sri Lanka, and it looks like we have had an edit clash over it. If you can edit it without getting errors, I'm happy to leave it to you to judge. -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 20:00, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Didn't see that Bencherlite had turned it off. :( Syrthiss ( talk) 17:54, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
We also have (all blocked) AndrewBrevikNorway ( talk · contribs), 122.11.46.99 ( talk · contribs), 98.215.146.75 ( talk · contribs), 88.172.167.226 ( talk · contribs). Dougweller ( talk) 13:01, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
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Reaper, if you're on here at the second, is it possible you could take a look at the thread I just started at ANI? Not sure how far to go with it. Calabe 1992 18:37, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am involved with a research project for Michigan State University and am wondering if you would be able to answer a few questions regarding tool sets on Wikipedia. What were the tools you mainly used prior to becoming an admin, and after becoming an admin? Here is a link to the project if you are interested Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Wiki-Project Management (Jonathan Obar) , and if you have any questions please let me know. Thanks! Ltezl ( talk) 22:28, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for deleting my mistakes. :) -- Тимофей ЛееСуда. 20:27, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
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I'm going to be incredibly busy soon so I'm ready to do some AfD analysis whenever your ready.— cyberpower ChatOnline 19:21, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Done again.—
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Hey Reaper, that vote from indef-blocked InToronto on Calabe's RfA, why can't that be struck? It kind of mars the RfA a bit. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 21:14, 26 April 2012 (UTC)