User talk:PinkAmpersand

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A bit less active these days. I've been editing Wikidata a lot lately – d:User:PinkAmpersand – and you should all totally come join me. The users there were kind enough to give me a very fancy hat, which I probably won't use to block anyone I don't like. No, in all honesty, all the extra buttons are kind of intimidating, and if any En admins have any pointers for me, feel free to leave them here or on Wikidata or on ##PinkAmpersand connect, or to just shout them off of a rooftop. Or you could email me, but what's the fun in saying things that only one other person's gonna see? Anyways, I still pay attention to my pages here, so drop me a line if you need anything or just want to say hi! Of course, I suck at responding regardless of how active I am (hi Jenova and Andrew :-/ ), but trust me, I read everything people write – feel free to yell at me for not replying to stuff. I need to hold myself to a higher standard now that I'm a Wikidata sysop, and I don't know why I avoid talking to people I like anyways.

Normal talk page rules: Unless you ask otherwise, I'll reply to you here; I reserve the right to refactor your comments within reason; blah blah blah.

Oh and here's my archive.

Formerly Francophonie&Androphilie. Now with 400% more pink and only 50% less French.

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Edit request stuff [edit]

Hi there. :) I left you a message at Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Inputbox instructions for ordinary use if you want to take a look. Also, I heroically battled with the code at {{pp-meta}} and your edit request there is actually finally fulfilled, although it doesn't look very much like it did when you submitted it. And I only broke {{pp-pc1}} once in the process... — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 13:19, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Re: suggestion [edit]

I've went ahead and followed through with your advice. Thanks!--DrWho42 (talk) 23:47, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Re [edit]

Thanks for letting me know, I don't know anything about that though. I just don't understand why they would do that because I created a version of The Oval (Belfast) which might not have been translated correctly. It seems a bit extreme that they would do that to me just for that. I think I might give the Lithuanian Wikipedia a wide berth in future. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 07:47, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Strange indeed. I know a couple of global sysops who speak Lithuanian, so I'll ask them to take a look at it – regardless of local policies, admins on any project really shouldn't be going around slapping heavy blocks on trusted Wikipedians for anything short of severe policy violations. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 11:01, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Please let me know because I'd love to know what possible wrong I had done to have that slapped on me without any warning just for mistranslating. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 14:12, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

State_of_Hanover [edit]

The Dutch interwiki for State_of_Hanover should be nl:Land Hannover; the Dutch nl:Hannover (land) should have no interwikis (it is a rather strange article; I think it should be removed or parts of it combined with other articles - I am Dutch). I must say that I find this separate editor for interwikis no improvement (and one needs a separate username there?). Hobbema (talk) 00:40, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Okay. I'll look into that... but no, you don't need a separate username there. Go to your Special:Preferences and click "manage your global account". Your unified login should extend there. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 00:43, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
YesY Fixed nl:Land Hannover is now on d:Q641116. (I've deleted d:Q4343955, where it was previously.) I've given nl:Hannover (land) its own item for the time being, d:Q6205475. Thanks for catching this error! — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 00:53, 5 March 2013 (UTC)


Open mHealth [edit]

Looks like the editor in question has release for the content in question. Probably good to give them a couple of days to take care of the process via OTRS. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 20:40, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 March 2013 [edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #48 [edit]

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Congratulations [edit]

Nice going! I'm glad to see you doing good work at Wikidata. You deserve the mop, for sure! Best — Binksternet (talk) 04:43, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. :-) I take it we're all good, then, and can let bygones be bygones?
Incidentally, I have been meaning to upload that picture of my father (and provide OTRS verification to that end, if necessary). I believe that that's where we left off on everything, and my failure to do so has been almost entirely out of laziness and procrastination. Feel free to come yell at me if I don't do it soonish.
All the best, — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 07:23, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
We're all good. Regarding the photo: I can start yelling at you now, in advance, right? ;^)
Binksternet (talk) 15:08, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Inability to add links on wikidata [edit]

Hi. I see that you asked me for further information after my last post a couple of weeks back. Unfortunately I didn't go back there till now. See my talk page for further details of the initial problem, but it has taken on a new form now. My latest unsuccessful attempt is discussed at [1]. Deb (talk) 15:00, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Re: RFC [edit]

Fair enough. Glad to know I can still be trusted, at least. :) If this shitstorm ever blows over, remind me to start an RFC on standard best practices for blocked users whose blocks are being discussed at a noticeboard. I seriously think a selective block/unblock tool would be useful, but since that requires developer resources, I'd also like to hear what the community thinks of using edit filters as a workaround.

Let me know if/when you get around to making the RfC. I'm interested. :) —Theopolisme (talk) 14:29, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 March 2013 [edit]

Invitation to join Wikiproject Conflict Resolution [edit]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Conflict Resolution.--Amadscientist (talk) 10:28, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Article Feedback deployment [edit]

Hey PinkAmpersand; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:12, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Eamon Ryan (IRA murder victim) [edit]

Thanks for working on this article. It is much improved. Fergananim (talk) 17:47, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #49 [edit]

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
    • Development
    • Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
    • More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
    • More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
    • Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
      • bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
      • bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
    • Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
    • Selenium tests for multiline references
    • Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
    • Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
    • Selenium tests for language-table
    • Implemented in-process caching for entities
    • Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
    • rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
    • Improved error reports from the API
    • Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
    • Added a table of content to item pages
    • Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
    • Finished implementation of References-UI
    • Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
    • Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
    • Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
    • Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
    • More work on RDF export
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
    • Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
  • Open Tasks for You
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GOCE mid-March 2013 newsletter [edit]

Guild of Copy Editors March 2013 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
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The Signpost: 18 March 2013 [edit]

NPA [edit]

Thanks. All the best. In ictu oculi (talk) 11:56, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Merci encore pour l'aide en fin d'année dernière Francophonie&Androphilie. Maintenant, les choses ont été corrigées et sont bien en place. J'espère que tout va bien.

plurofuturoPlurofuturo (talk) 10:34, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #50 [edit]

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
      • Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
      • Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
      • d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
    • Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
    • Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
    • Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
    • Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
    • Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
    • Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
    • Support for multi-line references in diff view
    • Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
    • Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
    • Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
    • Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
    • Wikidata trifft Archäologie
    • SMWCon Spring NYC
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
  • Open Tasks for You
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W. data [edit]

my ip is blocked. need to talk in wikidata. thanks --Leemon →talk 16:47, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

YesY Un-autoblocked. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 17:08, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Do you recognize this one? [edit]

Hello, you were involved with a serial sock puppet Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mangoeater1000/Archive. Is this the work of the same guy or just an individual obnoxious editor? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:38, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

you can ignore this, someone else ID'd it as the sock. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 03:55, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 March 2013 [edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #51 [edit]

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
    • Worked on automatic summaries for statements
    • Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
    • Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
    • Selenium tests for qualifiers
    • Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
    • Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • Newline 2013
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
    • Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
    • Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
    • We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
    • We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
    • In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
    • We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
    • Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
    • Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
    • The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
    • Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
    • Wikidata was added to wikipulse
    • A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
  • Did you know?
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See note at the end of this weekly summary
    • Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
    • Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
    • Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
    • Hack on one of these

Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)

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Proper Question [edit]

Thanks for your help with the sig, I'd changed it to avoid having a link to the page, to simplify my WP presence, but you asked for it back, and I'd forgotten how.

New question: can I ask you some questions about edits and edit-wars? Are you an expert on such? Were you monitoring my edits such that you made your initial request on sigs?

Ta. And how do I alert you to a reply on my talk page, other than talking on your page?

jmanooch 02:42, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

You can alert someone to a reply on a talk page with the {{Talkback}} template, or, alternately, the {{Whisperback}} one – just like I'll do for you in a second. As for your signature, it came to my attention at WP:RFPP, which I was reviewing for an unrelated reason. (Incidentally, I'm all for minimalist signatures – in anyone but myself, at least! – but a link is required.) And finally, as to edit wars: Based on the aformentioned RFPP filing, I assume you're referring to Hebephilia. Well, the relevant policy would be WP:EDITWAR, and if you haven't read that yet, you definitely should. You should also be aware that that article is related to an ongoing high-profile dispute: See Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology, part of Wikipedia's Arbitration process... essentially our highest volunteer authority. If you plan on delving into a dispute on that article, I encourage you to read through some pages explaining the arbitration process, as well as some information on that case.
Additionally... I haven't looked into this whole matter, but before you do anything else, you should definitely make sure you're familiar with our neutral point of view policy, as Flyer22 seems to feel you're pushing a point of view. I'll try to take a look soon. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 03:03, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Well, I will try a whisperback, and you can tell me if it works?
Yes, I wrote the RFPP based on the immediate and aggressive reversion, and then posted to the Arbitration as a statement provider.
Flyer22 is quick to play the big cards in the WP edit-war field - NPOV! - but this one is just not tenable, and needs proper oversight from the whole community.
There's a subterfuge going on here, in parallel with a strong lobby in the medical field around the APA DSM-5, to 'medicalise' what have hitherto been seen as sexual perversions. There is a haze of pseudo-scientific linkage, but the medical professional is overwhelmingly clear in it's rebuttal of these as mainstream science. And the edit-cartel around this stuff is lethal. I have learnt all this after hours of reading up, after linking randomly from the page for Mystic River!!
The point at hand in my article is whether or not mere linkage - and using definitions /from/ those links - to clarify an article is justified. The counter-edits all claiming I am adding opinion and research, I am merely linking and clarifying!
jmanooch 03:19, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
If you want my honest-to-God advice...: Drop it. Arbitration is the last step in dispute resolution, so if an issue has already made it there, you can be pretty sure that the community is already aware and does not need you to "take on" anybody. If there's anything going on you think might have bearing on the arbitration case, then you can contact Arbitrator David Fuchs (talk · contribs) or ArbCom clerks Penwhale (talk · contribs) or Ks0stm (talk · contribs) about it, but wading into an ongoing dispute won't do anybody any good. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 03:27, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for that advice. I wrote that on the naiive basis of the short commentary I saw on the non-archived talk page, before realising it went all the way down the rabbithole. But I didn't wade into it - obviously, and I'd appreciate if you saw that. I had a reasonable edit reverted within minutes by an edit-cartel that is attempting to dominate a key set of articles. Thanks for your tips. I'll move to Fuchs and Penwhale. jmanooch 03:36, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Whisperback [edit]

You have new message/s Hello. You have a new message at PinkAmpersand's talk page.

You don't need to use the template when you've replied on the other person's page; I get a "new messages" banner. You only use it when you reply on your own page. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 03:28, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks but No Thanks [edit]

Hi again, not sure if you can see the comment on my page, but since the TB and WB templates are too complicated for my tired brain - I'm in Sweden - I'm going to say this here, and be done.

I don't appreciate, accept, or respect the quality or type of your interventions, and I absolutely don't accept your banning threat as appropriate. Stop it, please.

Who do you think you are? I am trying to make a simple, honest contribution, and having been caught in a nasty edit war immediately, took the issue wherever I thought best to take it. There's no definitive guidance on how to deal with such - and even you directed me to where I ended up - the Arbitration page; which itself has contradictory instructions.

Rather than helping, you attack me on procedural points. Not welcome. Stop it, please.

Have better belief in the good faith of occasional WP contributors, and focus on the intended content and thrust of their inputs, not the tiny details of how they do them - whether they be substantive edits, or substantive complaints about edit-wars.

K? Now, please leave me alone, and let's let the Arb see if there's more I need to add at this juncture.

jmanooch 05:00, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata [edit]

I responded and migrated your helpful (I mean it!) comments to Talk:Wikidata. Red Slash 04:08, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks [edit]

Re User talk:Climatophile#A friendly note. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler)

Hi, thanks for the message. I think you're absolutely right – normally I try to be as helpful and fair as possible, but that guy's dangerous propaganda really riled me and I wasn't thinking clearly. Best wishes, Climatophile (talk) 11:43, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

No worries! I've been in the same boat myself on occasion. Personally, the rule I have for myself is that I never try to actively advance my beliefs on others. I'll say You're being homophobic and rude, and this is bordering on trolling, but I won't say You're being homophobic, which is dumb, since you're citing the Bible as justification, even though it never really addresses the concept of two men or two women in a loving relationship, and, in fact, only really addresses gay sex in the context of two heterosexual men engaging in sexual relations. I wholly believe that the latter is true, but once I say it, I'm just as guilty as they are of trying to use Wikipedia to advance a political agenda.
And since homophobia is probably the most tolerated form of discrimination on Wikipedia (contrast the treatment of an editor like this guy with the treatment of an anti-Semitic or racist editor... though of course there's something of a justification for this in that homophobia is significantly more tolerated in the English-speaking "real world" as well), it's important that we not give anyone grounds to say "Well why don't we block those guys for advocating homosexuality, if we're also gonna block this guy for criticizing it?" Anyways, yeah. Thanks for getting it. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 22:41, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Oversight [edit]

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Oversight, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Oversight and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Oversight during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. gwickwiretalkediting 01:32, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Request for WikiData Information [edit]

Hello! I know that we haven't been introduced, but my work has pretty much only centered on English Wikipedia, though I'll be expanding that rapidly with an upcoming Wikimedia project that I'm working on over at Meta. Anyhow, I see you around a fair bit in some discussions and I see you're pretty darn experienced, but I was wondering if you could give me a dumbed-down version of what exactly Wikidata is. I read the Wikipedia page on it and visited the site, but it still confuses me. Considering you're an administrator, I thought you might be able to shed some light on it. Namely, would it benefit from any WP:Video_and_Interactive_Tutorials? --Jackson Peebles (talk) 06:09, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) (I am an admin there too). Wikidata basically is a place where the information from all Wikipedias can be centrally stored and accessed, much like Commons is a place where all (free) images of all Wikipedias can be centrally stored and accessed. The information is highly structured so that it can be easily standardized and read by automated programs. If you need any more clarification, keep asking!--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:12, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, what Jasper said. Basically: First, it takes all the clunky interlanguage links and centralizes them. That fixes a lot of problems with the older interwiki bot system, cuts down on extra edits to pages, etc. Second, it adds "structured data" to pages. That can be really hardcore nerdy stuff like authority control numbers, or it can be basic stuff like "spouse", "head of state", "genus", etc. (this is done through the property system). The third phase is to use those data to construct dynamic lists, though I'm not totally clear on all the details there.
Anyways, in regards to your final question... YES!! To quote bugzilla:1, our docs are teh suck. Literally anything you can offer by way of streamlining and/or improving our new user experience would be greatly appreciated. If you have any more specific questions, feel free to ask.
Oh also thanks for the compliments. XD — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 06:31, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you! [edit]

Barnstar of Humour Hires.png The Barnstar of Good Humor
I award you this barnstar in recognition of your consistent displays of good humor, most recently at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Example. ~Adjwilley (talk) 16:21, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Okhmedia [edit]

Although I created this account as an official Oklahoma House Media account, I am in fact the only user on the account as I am the go to guy to work on Wikipedia pages. I am using it both at home, at the office and on my mobile phone. Please help me do what I can to be in compliance, whether it is that I need to change my name or simply create a better description on the Okhmedia page clarifying that I am the sole user. The latter would be my preference. Please let me know. My name is Eric.

Okhmedia (talk) 20:03, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Eric. If you're the only person using this account, then you're fine as far as account policy goes; you should just amend your userpage to make it clear that this is the case, as it currently implies otherwise. However, since your username is still a reference to the group you represent, I do believe you'll have to change it. There are two ways to do this: The quick way is to simply create a new account. You can do that while logged in to your current account and thus leave a link to this account; however, this would not transfer your current contributions to the new account. If you'd like to keep your current contributions (which as you may know show up in the history of every page you've ever edited), then you should request to change names at WP:CHU. That's a bit slower (24 hours tops if you check in on the page frequently to see if there are any hold-ups), but transfers everything to your new account (except for your signatures on talk pages, which is annoying... but you can just create a redirect). Personally I'd suggest the latter method, but it all depends on how much you care about keeping everything on one account.
Hope that helps. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 20:16, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Ok, so I read the rename explanation but am still unclear on how to put in a request to I post it on my User name page or on the WP:CHU page and if on that page, where?

(talk page stalker) That depends on if the username you want to change your current name to: if someone already has that name and no significant contributions, you'll use a slightly longer process called usurpation; if no one's taken the name you want, you can file a request at WP:CHUS. You can figure out whether or not a username is taken here. ɯnןʇɐsǝnɥ – 20:49, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

I have submitted the request to change the username to okheric and if any of my colleagues join i will have them use a okh and then their name as long as it is not already taken Okhmedia (talk) 03:58, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Changed Username description [edit]

Here is the new description: Okhmedia is a Wikipedia User account set up by a member of the staff of the Oklahoma House Media Division. I am interested in aiding in the creation and editing of Wikipedia articles related to the Oklahoma Legislature and its current and historical members. Please contact me with any questions on my Talk page.

I still do not know how to go about changing my name request, mostly I understand the process except for where to place the actual request.

Okhmedia (talk) 20:42, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/GA bot [edit]

If you're going to snow keep Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/GA bot, you should remove the mfd tag from the page being nominated for deletion. RNealK (talk) 21:26, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that. My bad! For future reference, though, in cases like this you should feel free to fix the error yourself. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 21:54, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
I voted in the discussion, so I didn't feel it would be appropriate. RNealK (talk) 05:25, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

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Deletion of Milagrow [edit]

Moved from d:User talk:PinkAmpersand

This is an informative page is regarding a notable Indian Company. It is the ONLY Indian company to manufacture robots and it is listed on this wikipedia page too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_vacuum_cleaner). It is also listed in the page Comparison of Tablets under 5–7.99 in (13–20.3 cm) screen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_tablets). It is a highly repuatable company. Its founder has his own page here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajeev_Karwal.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayush.datta (talk • contribs) 06:14, 6 April 2013‎

If you can write the article in a way that meets our notability guidelines and does not appear to be promotional, then it will not get deleted. Until then, though, I suggest that you stop re-creating the article. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 06:19, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply. I will edit the page from a neutral point of view — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayush.datta (talk • contribs) 06:27, 6 April 2013‎
Okay. As I suggested to you on IRC, you might want to try submitting through Articles for creation this time around. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 06:30, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

i did submit the article through that source only

Please review the page,i have been as neutral as possible, please do not delete, you have also agreed that we are legitimate..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milagrow

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Musicfanrs [edit]

Moved from user page

Can you please assist us with your expert knowledge in putting the proper relist and references in order, for Roccstar, he is one of the biggest music producers of our time, he has also completed four songs for USHER, one song for Beyonce and is doing Timbaland's entire music album and will be signing a multimillion dollar publishing deal for his songs with Chris Brown off the forthcoming album X..we appreciate your help, USA TODAY, VIBE MAGAZINE,LOS ANGELES TIMES, BILLBOARD.COM THE BIBLE OF MUSIC HAVE ALL DONE CREDIBLE ARTICLES ON ROCCSTAR...we would appreciate your help in helping us establish him thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicfanrs (talk • contribs) 03:55, 9 April 2013‎

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Hidden-capture [edit]

Hi—I wanted to let you know I removed the CSD tag at Hidden-capture because A7 does not apply to software applications; you may want to PROD it (I'd unfortunately have to endorse that!). – 29611670.x (talk) 08:51, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated [edit]

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Sunil [edit]

The user was onto something, as he is being reported as a suspect over the chatter, although I don't know if it can be done in a better way without violating the BLP policy. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 07:35, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Well, I remember requesting RevDel for an Adam Lanza reference (actually, it was a reference to his brother, who they suspected at first, but same diff) about a minute before that news broke in the mainstream media. AuburnPilot (talk · contribs) deleted the bio per G10. Obviously if it turns out he did do it, he should have an article, but with something this sensitive I think we should wait until it's really clear. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 07:38, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm mixed about giving him his own article as it would give him recognition, but I see where you're coming from. Do you want to salt it to prevent re-creation in the meantime? Kevin Rutherford (talk) 07:42, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
We're keeping an eye on it on IRC, and Steven Walling is around to do sysoppy things. Come on over! :) Personally, I'd say we shouldn't preëmptively salt if there's a chance that there might eventually be a reason to recreate. I'm sure we'll have to do it sooner or later, though... I don't have that much faith in random redditors to follow BLP. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 07:46, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Salt is good, in my opinion. I remember Lanza's brother, the poor schmuck. And didn't we have a suspected Boston suspect yesterday, who had to run like hell from his Facebook and all that? Drmies (talk) 16:35, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Yeah. Actually, I failed to notice that AuburnPilot salted it after deleting. I agree, good call... though, ironically, now that we all know it's not him, it might be a good idea to lift the salting now or in a while (or at least convert it to a semi-salt) so that someone can be able to create an article on the guy independent of this whole thing. (It might fail BLP1E, but that's not in itself saltable.) — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 16:41, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

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IP's cannot create SPI pages [edit]

I have mentioned an edit by you at Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Archives/Archive12#IP's cannot create SPI pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:07, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks [edit]

Thanks for moving that template before deletion. I actually intended to create that same subpage and get the code there for use on my userpage. You eased my work. Thanks once again. —Syɛd Шαмiq Aнмɛd Hαsнмi (тαlк) 09:07, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Well thanks for being such a good sport about everything! :) I hate having to ruin people's fun, so it's nice to see someone who can take stuff like this well. Seriously, it's a really cool trick! I've always wanted to find a way to do that. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 09:14, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Better see my page. If someone is telling you not to do a thing or opposes you in something, he has a good reason for that. I better look into his reason than justifying my own view. When I conclude whose view is right, I just follow it, be it mine, or the other’s. This actually does help me make new friends, when I see that their point is right (because it is me who is wrong most of the time). That’s what my parents and my religion teaches me. I just follow it and the result is excellent! —Syɛd Шαмiq Aнмɛd Hαsнмi (тαlк) 09:42, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks! [edit]

Halo halo1.jpg Is that sweet bean!?!
For adding Template:Notavote to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elizabeth Colbert Busch I give you this Halo-halo. I hadn't even thought of what the brother of the subject of the AfD would say and/or do when the article about his sister is up for review. Hopefully, this doesn't become a controversial AfD and that it can remain civil.

That being said, may this dessert fuel you in your future edits! RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:38, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Hehe thanks. How'd you know Southeast Asian's my favorite?! Well I'd personally put Colbert in the category of people who do more good for Wikipedia than bad (like Randall Munroe, who causes vandalism surges but also campaigned for $30k+ in donations to WMF), but yeah... I have a feeling this will make the news within the next few days. No worries, though; while I may disagree with your interpretation of policy, no one should feel discouraged to AFD an article simply because of the reaction it might provoke. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 19:47, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Victor swanya ogeto [edit]

Thanks for tagging that. Just a quick tip though, if you see a large block of text unwikified like that, its usually an indicator that it might be a copyvio, which in this case it was copied from his FB page. Regardless, keep up the good work :) Legoktm (talk) 22:12, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I did a few Google searches and turned up a page on his website; however, it was 404'ed, as was the Google-cached version, so I figured a G11 would suffice. Stupidly, though, I only searched from the opening sentences of the article, which I've found are often the least likely ones to turn up anything in a Google search. Thanks. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 22:16, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

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Pure class [edit]

Atta boy.  little green rosetta(talk)
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Qworty [edit]

Hello PinkAmpersand,

Your edit summary said "a real-world individual as opposed to simply as an anonymous contributor". Please be aware that Qworty voluntarily revealed his real world identity and we can now discuss him as a real world individual as opposed to someone anonymous. I also reveal my real world identity - Jim Heaphy - because I take responsibility for my contributions here as I do for everything in my somewhat public life. Feel free to check me out on Google or Facebook. The comments you reverted may be over the top, and I don't question your reversion. I am only questioning your explanation. Qworty has been shown to be a compulsive, repeated liar who has severely damaged Wikipedia's reputation through his many vendettas. He is no longer entitled to any presumption of anonymity whatsoever, in my view.

Though we differ on this specific matter, I appreciate your contributions here, and wish you well. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 06:43, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Jim. Edit summaries are only so long, and it appears my meaning was stifled. :P To clarify: Yes, obviously when someone chooses to be open about their real-world identity, like you, me, or Qworty, they lose any right to anonymity on Wikipedia. (Barring, to a limited degree, requests to vanish.) Rather, what I took issue with was EEng's invocation of Bob's real-world identity in justifying a ban. It's one thing to say "He's a threat to the site and should be banned", or even "He's a threat to site and can go fuck himself" (uncivil, but not hugely insulting). It's another thing altogether to say "He's a disgrace as an author and as a human being, and here's what I think about his professional career". Normally I'm skeptical when people bring up BLP in regards to Wikipedia contributors, since, of course, we all open ourselves up to a certain degree of criticism when we edit here. However, EEng wasn't talking about Wikipedia, he was talking about real-world things that really shouldn't come into play here. (The real-world-things checklist for Wikipedia editors is selecting "no" for "Are you a pedophile?" and pretty much nothing else.) Was Qworty entitled to any anonmity? No, by his own choice. Was he entitled to the same protections we offer all publicly identified living people? Certainly.
I apologize if any of this seems... strongly-worded. I'm writing much more quickly than I usually do, and I feel that I'm not properly reciprocating the kind tone in your comment. Let me assure you that the sentiment expressed in your latter paragraph is quite mutual. — PinkAmpers&, also known as Thomas H. Kelly ~XV, son of this guy, 06:59, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Have no fear, as I understand your point completely, and think that you have reciprocated in a kind tone. I don't think we've chatted before, and am pleased that we've started off on a good note. Take care. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:38, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:How to Create an ATmega168 Basic Stamp [edit]

Since you were the one who proposed to transwiki the page instead of deleting it outright, my closure of the deletion discussion may be of interest to you erm, yes, I'm informing you because I don't have the slightest idea how to transwiki a page.... Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 11:15, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Hmmm. Well, let me go see if I can find a Wikibooks sysop, and if they'll be willing to take it. If they are, just wait for it to show up in b:Special:Log/import, and then you can delete it here and mark it down in Wikipedia:Transwiki log/Articles moved from here/en.wikibooks. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 11:21, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Posted at b:Wikibooks:Requests for import. The wait time might be a bit longer than you're used to here on WP though. ;) I noted that the reviewing admin/importer should ping you when they make their decision, or {{db-xfd}} it if you're unavailable.
Just be glad you're not on the other side of an import. Arguably the most outdated tool available. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 11:38, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Face-smile.svg Thank you (and I have used the import interface here once, and it was more than enough: I was terrified I had messed up...) Salvio Let's talk about it! 12:00, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Well, looks like everything's sorted itself out nicely. (Except for Fzulfe's disappearance—let's hope he keeps on working on the page on Wikibooks.) Copied to b:Transwiki:How to Create an ATmega168 Basic Stamp by QuiteUnusual, and G6'd here by RHaworth. Mind noting it down in the transwiki log? :) (I'd do it, but, it looks the tradition is for the admin to do it, if so obscure a corner of Wikipedia can be said to have traditions.) — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 21:54, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Done. Thanks again! Salvio Let's talk about it! 08:43, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Same pinch [edit]

Refer this User_talk:Dr._Blofeld#Did_you_know_that_DYK_can_change.3F. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 10:34, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

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