User talk:Dereckson

You can also contact me on my French Wikipedia talk page, a page I consult more often than this.

color picker

Hi. More comments at the VPT thread, but i just wanted to add privately, that your site's floating footer bar is hovering over the 3-tab section. (In firefox). It doesn't affect any of the other pages on your site, that I could see. See Image:Colorpickerscreenshot.jpg. -- Quiddity (talk) 05:04, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Adoption bot

Hello there. I noticed that you run a bot and have used it in the past to help with adopt-a-user stuff. I was wondering if you might be able to repurpose it for this task:

I would like a bot to count the pages in Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user and update Template:Adoption backlog/count with that number, daily, or a few times per day if possible. Thanks in advance, xenocidic (talk) 20:51, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Or, how about {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user}} = 29. :D Happy‑melon 21:09, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah ok you need to wait for the maintenance script to finish compiling the data table for en.wiki, but eventually it'll be a quick and easy way of doing this. Happy‑melon 21:10, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for the suggestion! xenocidic (talk) 22:07, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

(refactored from WP bot requests as the suggested workaround doesn't seem to work)

Thank in advance! xenocidic (talk) 17:15, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Belgian local chapter

1. you're still interested by the process
   • yes
2. you're only interested to become member or want to involve yourself in others tasks
   • difficult to say in advance: my time is a bit more limited than it was when I was in to this a few years ago.
3. you know any information about current status not published on meta
   • No, it was some two or three years ago I occupied myself with this. I have some ideas about collaboration with the existing French and Dutch local chapters, but these ideas may well be outdated. As for people interested in this I don't know whether the people I met and was in contact with at the time would still be interested. I suppose most of the names of these people can still be found at meta.
4. you can translate handle some Dutch or German translations from French or English
   • I can handle such things probably, whether I have much time for it is a different question.

Thanks for the invitation anyways! --Francis Schonken (talk) 08:07, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

I've contacted each member listed on meta., the next step is to build a new userbase advertising the proposal on commons. en. fr. nl. and de.

Then, I'll launch a mailing list and plan a meeting on IRC to fix an agenda. See you later :) --Dereckson (talk) 08:35, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Poulpy

The translation I made at the time was lost due to accidentally hitting the back arrow on my browser. If some people are interested, I can return to it. Circeus (talk) 02:25, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Well, it's done now. It's at User:Circeus/Barbarians. Circeus (talk) 01:43, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. --Dereckson (talk) 15:59, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

CENIPA

Thank you very much! Hopefully someone on PT will rewrite the Portuguese article so it's not a copyvio. WhisperToMe (talk) 15:54, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

It's nothing :) Yes, let's hope. --Dereckson (talk) 21:25, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Cristián Berríos

Diego Grez has been cautioned for libel against Cristian Berrios, who has no account with his name in wikipedia. It is a personal pursuit against a person who does not appear in the records of wikipedia.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Images_of_Cristi%C3%A1n_Berr%C3%ADos_and_sockpuppets —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.202.110.170 (talk) 15:55, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

• Dereckson, in this AFD you call it a "Technical AfD proposal", and say "MisterWiki/Diego Grez proposed this page through PROD". Where did this proposal occur? --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:47, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm very sorry for this mistake. It were Killiondude who proposed the article for deletion per WP:PROD nomination, not Diego Grez.

Diego Grez have nominated for deletion the article on several other wikipedia (like de.), warned on IRC about copyvio problems on Commons pictures related to those articles + the sockpuppet problem, and then made on fr. a NfD using a wrong procedure (speedy deletion instead regular one).

But he doesn't made any move on en., as I today undestand he's being under editing restrictions. --Dereckson (talk) 12:21, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation, I'm glad to hear this is what happened. --Floquenbeam (talk) 12:27, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Utilisateur:Dereckson/LiveRC.js

A tag has been placed on Utilisateur:Dereckson/LiveRC.js, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to an article talk page, file description page, file talk page, MediaWiki page, MediaWiki talk page, category talk page, portal talk page, template talk page, help talk, user page, user talk or special page from the main/article space.

If you can fix the redirect to point to a mainspace page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you are fixing the redirect. If you think the redirect should be retained as is for some reason, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your reasoning on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. DASHBot (talk) 18:00, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Associação Escoteira Baden-Powell.gif/Fair use image

Thanks for uploading File:Associação Escoteira Baden-Powell.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk 05:05, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi,

Please review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dereckson#Orphaned_non-free_image_File:Associa.C3.A7.C3.A3o_Escoteira_Baden-Powell.gif --Dereckson (talk) 19:07, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Fear not, it just got replaced by a png version, which Wikipedia is aiming for.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 02:19, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

BOUML deletion request

--af1n (talk) 21:02, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi Dereckson, please explain how can i improve the article so that it's possible to stop the deletion process. I think BOUML is a noted software,

a quick google yields at least several results comparing it to other open source UML software. Although we might not agree what constitutes encyclopedic knowledge

i think it's a matter current wikipedia practices. There are many UML diagram designers similar to BOUML that are not marked for deletion, like

Dia, StarUML, ArgoUML. Please explain to me the difference between these entries and BOUML. Are these going to be marked for deletion too ?

--af1n (talk) 01:25, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

I just added a few sources on Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#BOUML to establish BOUML notability, what do you think about them?

IRC cloaks

Yes, thank you. I was aware of that and I fixed it earlier this morning. Seems it has been full for a few days now. That will teach me to delete the new memos once we get them. :) --Filip (§) 19:47, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Dedibox IP block

Good evening,

{{{Nishkid64|{{blocked proxy}}: Dedibox|88.191.128.151|referring matter to WP:OPP. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:25, 8 January 2011 (UTC)}}

Dedibox is a provider of dedicated servers active in France. See fr:Dedibox for more information. It mainly offers low cost dedicated servers.

1. Only one IP address is generally assigned per machine, so individual blocks makes more sense than block the page.
2. It's so not an open proxy at all and if some newbies rent a dedibox and configure it as an open proxy, there is another possibility: to block the IPs of such problematic machines, and not all the network.
3. Furthermore, Dedibox have a strong policy against misuse of their service. Any people could lodge a complaint on this URL in English. Open relay is the first item. If the server owner doesn't reply to this complaint in 48 hours, the server is disconnected.

About me and a sample of a legitimate connection on dedibox network ... I'm a legitimate en. user and not someone using an open proxy, administrator on Wikimedia Commons and the French Wikipedia. My laptop is broken, so I've this week-end only a AMD 750 Mhz with 128 MB RAM. My solution to be able to work in good conditions were to rent a dedibox server and to perform a desktop installation, where I'm able to connect to using NX technology. This block so blocks my main workstation.

The IP exempt group doesn't seem to be a good solution, as you block a legitimate resource and a full IP range for several misconfigured servers, such remote desktop installations are more and more used (you can in 10 minutes have an Ubuntu with OpenOffice and Firefox reachable from anywhere) and alternative solution exists (see ttthe point 3). --Dereckson (talk) 20:12, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

I've referred this matter to our experts on these type of blocks:[1] Beeblebrox (talk) 21:30, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

You have been granted an ip block exemption and should be able to edit now. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:53, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Picture license

Re: File:Andúril.jpg, I took both of those pictures myself at the Neiman Marcus window LOTR props exhibit in Beverly Hills. I have updated the source and author info in Commons; let me know if you need anything else. - PKM (talk) 18:42, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Uploaded to EN Wikipedia as "non-free 3D art". New file name: File:Andúril and Horn of Gondor.jpg. - PKM (talk) 02:18, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your comments on the copyright questions regarding Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NYPD Ford Crown Victoria. Pinetalk 10:46, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the barnstar. --Dereckson (talk) 14:22, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar

Apologies, I just realised I never thanked you for the barnstar :) - Jarry1250 ^{[Deliberation needed]} 13:44, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Dereckson (talk) 14:21, 2 March 2012 (UTC)