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Hi Danger

I saw that you are the blocking sysop of User:MarcRey and as reason you gave making legal threats. Is it possible to provide me some diffs where he had done it? I was quite long away from all projects, and today I saw his message on my talk page. If so, I would like to see if there is any connection between his post on my talk and the block. Thanks in advance. --WizardOfOz (talk) 18:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

PS if possible ping me on meta as I´m not allways around here. Thanks once more. --WizardOfOz (talk) 18:39, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

All threats were made in this ANI thread. These are the diffs: [1], [2]. The threats merely triggered the block; his battleground mentality and the disruptive editing resulting from that were also primary factors. Danger ^{High voltage!} 20:51, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your response and clarification, and your time. Now it´s clear for me, so I can forget his message on my talk page. Best regards. --WizardOfOz (talk) 21:46, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Need your help

Hi,

Damn, am I glad you are still around. I need your help again...

...on a rather technical problem...

I'm about to redesign my user page (it's long overdue for an overhaul).

One thing I'd like to include is a summary of my contributions on Wikipedia.

So I've been looking over my contributions, and I discovered that a fair number of my edits are missing!

Around December 26, 2005, the person who had started the Main Page redesign project had not been around for awhile because he had run out of steam. I stepped in and spearheaded that project and brought it to critical mass. But there's inexplicable gaps in my edit history and in the documentation of the project. So much so, that I can't accurately show how I participated in the project.

So far, my investigation has led me along 2 paths:

1) I posted recruiting notices on the Main page's talk page, in its Template:Main Page discussion header. Unfortunately, someone deleted it, rendering the Main Page talk archives historically inaccurate. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&oldid=32809378

Where the header used to be, all that's left is a redlink. The header was inappropriately speedied, and the admin who did it hasn't been around for months. (That's why I've come to you).

In my contribution summary, I need to provide diffs to edits on that header. (Back then, my user account was User:Go for it!.

Please restore the Main page's talk page header.

Here's a link to what the Main page's talk page looked like around that time on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20051230062852/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page

I posted the yellow notice box with orange border.

2) One thing we did during the project was take snapshots of the Main page draft at various stages of development. They were displayed in the archive box for the project. Four of those snapshots got deleted:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/Draft/Draft_1_Archive
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/Draft/Draft_2_Archive
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/Draft/Draft_3_Archive
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/Draft/Draft_4_Archive

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/Draft/Draft_5_Archive
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/Draft/Draft_6_Archive

The admin who deleted them is only around sporadically. Please undelete 1 thru 4 above.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 01:14, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

So, the four archive snapshots are, as far as I can tell, empty. The first one was deleted, but had no meaningful content to begin with. Two through four never seem to have existed, nor has any page with that prefix with any meaningful content been deleted. For the template, could you take it to requests for undeletion? While the deletion itself was out of process, I'm not sure enough about undeletion "policy" (there is no explicit policy, which means if I don't follow the unwritten rules someone will come and give me a bit of abuse for not having followed the thrilling saga of RfU for a few years) to restore almost 350 revisions of an unused template. Danger ^{High voltage!} 03:15, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Ah, "clue". Delicate one, that. DRV, here I come. I haven't been there since I got Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics undeleted back in June 2009. Wish me luck.

Thank you for looking into it for me. The Transhumanist 05:26, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Y Done – see Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 February 2#Template:Main Page discussion header. The Transhumanist 05:49, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Blast, and it even looks like I directed you to the wrong red-tape storage facility. Someday, when I'm feeling especially masochistic, I'm going to go through and make sure that all our instructions make sense. (For example, the instructions on how to lift an autoblock don't work at all. There's some other trickery that must be done to do it, which I rediscover every time someone gets caught in one of mine.) Maybe even have a users guide to the bureaucracy, like a dichotomous key for official processes. </rant> Danger ^{High voltage!} 08:44, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Please comment at Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore's ongoing peer review!

Since you have listed yourself as a peer review volunteer interested in copyediting, would you like to support the quest to counter systemic bias on Wikipedia by giving a thorough review of the article Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore? MINDS turns 50 this year and getting their article to GA status would be a great way to appreciate their support of intellectually disabled Singaporeans. Thanks! 谢谢！Terima kasih! நன்றி! --J.L.W.S. The Special One (talk) 09:43, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Baseball

Hi. You said on the talk page of this template that you made the requested edit, but it seems you only made the change in the documentation, not the template itself. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:18, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Danger,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 02:47, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I'd definitely be interested. I've already added myself to the list, but I'll send you an email as well. Danger ^{High voltage!} 02:51, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

COMMONNAMES

Thank you for your shared insight to my request- it added nuance to my query. Do I correctly understand your position regarding sourced variations [corrections] on unfortunately expressed but traditional conventional commonplace translations to be that they are eligible for citation in an article but unsourced variations are excluded even in the face of consensus among participating editors to the contrary? Eschoir (talk) 01:03, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Even if there's local consensus to include it, challenged material must be attributable to reliable sources. That's the heart of verifiability. I can't make any comments about how this applies to whatever discussion you are involved in. Danger ^{High voltage!} 01:39, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2012 WikiCup

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GA nom for Ucu Agustin

Hi Danger, I've think I've adequately addressed your comments at the GA nomination for Ucu Agustin. Could you give the article another look? (I trimmed roughly 340 characters to reduce verbosity) Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:28, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

• Last one done Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:30, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Great. I've done all the piddly stuff (templates and such). Well done. Danger ^{High voltage!} 00:57, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks a lot! Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:04, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Just curious

This was done because of the time that has passed, right? I don't disagree, I'd just like to know the reasoning. Thanks, Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 00:15, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes. Otherwise that category becomes a useless morass. Danger ^{High voltage!} 00:17, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Makes sense...thanks! Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 00:29, 12 February 2012 (UTC)