User talk:Seddon

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Review of closure process 2

Because you've contributed to FPC either recently or in the past, I'm letting you know about the above poll on the basis of which we may develop proposals to change our procedures and criteria. Regards, Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 00:02, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

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VPC

— raekyT 23:39, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

You messed up

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Rejected/43

Please don't make me tidy all that up :P. Hope you're doing well - AGK 16:34, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Query over active/inactive arbs

Hi Seddon, I'm posting here because you're listed as an active ArbCom clerk, and I don't know which clerk is assigned to the Date delinking amendment request. Both current proposals are marked with a majority of five arbs required, since there are nine active (8 plus 1). But the Arb list shows that Rlevse is inactive, and he has voted for the first motion. Does this effectively mean that there are 10 active arbs (9 plus 1), and does this change the majority required? Should his inactive status be changed at the AC page? Thank you. Tony (talk)

SAQ mediation

Hi Seddon. I see you're the mediator for the Shakespeare authorship question mediation. What's next? I have no experience whatsoever in this, and my few perusals of old cases hasn't helped much. (I tried to search closed cases for WP:ONEWAY and WP:UNDUE and WP:NPOV, but either the search engine is not working or I'm doing it wrong.) Tom Reedy (talk) 02:57, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Greetings - I have some of the same questions as Tom above. What's next? If there are any past cases that you are aware of that involved repeated Deletion of Content, Deletionism vs Inclusionism, or proper weight of Minority Viewpoints, I would appreciate being able to peruse them. Thanks. Smatprt (talk) 15:32, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I look forward to working with you. Smatprt (talk) 04:46, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Got your note.

Will try to respond this afternoon. I appreciate the trouble you've gone to to review the relevant pages, large and somewhat tedious threads, particularly from myself. I'll try to keep it short and sweet. regards Nishidani (talk) 11:57, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Seddon. You have new messages at Jayen466's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Courtesy notice

A discussion between the parties has developed here, on Science Apologist's talk page. Regards Nishidani (talk) 11:44, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Seddon, Xover (talk · contribs) has not posted an opening statement and seems to be on holiday or otherwise out of pocket. Is there any way we could move this down the road a bit? Tom Reedy (talk) 15:45, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Spelenge

That is not how you spell superseded. ;~) LessHeard vanU (talk) 19:36, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

RFAR clerking

pssst...supersede. You might want to fix that spelling. :) Horologium (talk) 20:59, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Doesn't remedy 1.2 pass? Guettarda (talk) 22:42, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

"Climate change" Implementation notes

Hi Seddon, I've noted some possible corrections needed in the "Climate change" Implementation notes. See Paul August ☎ 12:39, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

communicat

Thanks your note. I was actually in the process of completing the application form, and then was sidetracked by other editing issues, but have now changed my mind about arbcom. Have decided instead simply to wash my hands off the whole sordid affair, viz., partisan editing by the well entrenched World War II article clique. I doubt if arbitration would have got me anywhere, anyhow. But thanks for your interest anyway. Regards. Communicat (talk) 00:01, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Kirill request

Please see Kirill, the arbitrator's page, and please file an arbitration request. Please do not make me fill out all the forms as I am not a professor protestor. Milowent may be able to supply other information.

Basically, if someone were to be a paid political advocate for a politcal party (there are these people), they would act exactly as Tvoz is for the Malia Obama article. I am not saying that Tvoz is paid but that his behavior exactly mimics those biased people. This hurts wikipedia by censoring articles.. No not censorship but complete destruction of articles.

Basically, take it from here. I hereby file a complaint. If you want to create a lot of hurdles so people won't complain, then do so and have it your way. If you truly want to help Wikipedia, process this. Thank you. Presidentmalia (talk) 18:44, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Test

This is a test.....

Im an omnivore

This user is an omnivore.

DYK for Lottie Kimbrough

The DYK project (nominate) 06:08, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Longevity RFARB

Thank you for your prompt attention to my request. I am one of the first to be hypercareful about outing, so I have now linked all the editors who self-identified to real-life identities here, to demonstrate where I obtained the info. You will note the immediately previous edit to that page, which I summarized "Self-undo", contains one name that may be judged as technically not a self-identification, and you may wish to address the revision history of that page, as well as the one other page on WP "Everything" search that comes up with that name, where I got it from. Or not. At any rate, I trust that, since the section I just added these links to is linked from the top of the list of parties, I may now add the names back to the arb request as they have self-identified, along with a note "Personal names are per self-identifications linked from that section" ("COI list"). I appreciate your consideration. (You may also have some clerking input as to Risker's comment on the party list; it appears to me that all the named editors either are well-motivated to contribute to the case (first set) or are ripe for review by the case (other sets) under reasonable standards, so I don't know how they would not be parties.) JJB 01:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC) Oh, you will also need to hide Risker's revision as well; OTOH if you take the "or not" option you might just unhide my revision. But no problem whatever you decide. JJB 01:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC) Well, the history mysteriously switched from one hide to two without a new log entry. If somebody judged this so important as to be oversighted without logging, they should also have hidden a large number of revisions to the COI list page and the other findable page mentioned above. There are other explanations but I don't know them. Since I'm still waiting for clerk assistance on party-list length, and on whether I should reinsert the self-IDs, it would be helpful to know how the revision hiding will work out. JJB 19:07, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

military history POV-bias case

Hi, I'm not sure whether or not you're the appropriate person/clerk for this, if not, I'm sorry to bother you. My Military history POV-bias case application appears to have become ambiguated and/or joined with an unrelated application. According to Clerk Note, the case was to be renamed "World War II", but I can't find such case name. Communicat (talk) 12:36, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Your bot

Shouldn't it be posting on talk page not user pages? The Rambling Man (talk) 12:31, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

• Is your bot approved? I was under the impression that approved bots had bot as one of their user rights, which yours doesn't. Was I mistaken? JamesBWatson (talk) 12:36, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Regradless of approval status; the bot posted in user pages; and not talk pages as it was meant to. And the template message it sent was blank anyway! Signed by Barts1a Suggestions/complements? Complaints and constructive criticism? 12:39, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk apge to my query. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:44, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

I have blocked it - that was an excessive number of errors. Please let an admin know when you have fixed the code. You should also redirect the bot talkpage to this talkpage. You should also create a userpage for the bot similar to User:7SeriesBOT (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:55, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Unblocked now, as per your message (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 13:12, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

UK Community Notice - IRC meeting

Dear Wikipedian,

This is the first of what will hopefully be a regular notice to help bring together the UK community so that you can be involved in some amazing things. To kick things off, there will be a UK community IRC meeting at 1800 UTC, December 7, 2010 to discuss the future growth and developement of Wikimedia UK. Without huge community support and involvement, the chapter cannot be successful and to get the most out of it, get involved.

For information on the community IRC meeting please go here

More to come about:

• Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Events
• 1st Annual UK Wiki-conference
• Trustee interest meeting - an event for those community members with even just a fleeting interest in becoming trustees of Wikimedia UK.

Many Thanks

Joseph Seddon

User:Seddon

Delivered by Seddon ^talk|^WikimediaUK on 05:13, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. PeterSymonds (talk) 12:02, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

I was going to wait until he replied to his own message :-P (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:04, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

19 December Fundraising Party

Joe - If you have any questions about the 19 December fundraiser, could you point them at me? I'm handling it from the Wikimedia side of things. Thanks, Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 10:41, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

UK IRC community meeting

Just a quick reminder about the IRC meeting at 1800 UTC tonight to bring together the Wikimedia community in the UK to help the growth and success of the UK chapter and community activities. For information see wmuk:Community_IRC_meetings

Many Thanks

Joseph Seddon

User:Seddon

Delivered by WMUKBot (talk) on 17:28, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Derby

Joseph, Derby Museum seem keen to go. As proposed I think we need a yearly schedule. I'm being bold and proposing we announce a plan in January. Derby would go to do a GLAM thing in March April. "ANOther Museum/Gallery" would take May/June etc in a rolling programme. I'm writing a draft of what I propose and I expect we'll need buy in from Wikimedia. I think this rolling schedule can also be the training session(sd) that other likely ambassadors may need. Do you feel like the man to discuss this with? I would like to use our marketing person and get wikimedia support this year. Victuallers (talk) 16:18, 13 December 2010 (UTC) See here Victuallers (talk) 22:54, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Tis the season

ϢereSpielChequers is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Xmas, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec10/Balloon}} to your friends' talk pages.

Cardiff

I don't actually live in the area any more, but that's very kind of you to invite me. Thanks Welshleprechaun 19:03, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the invitation to the Cardiff meeting, as you can see from my contributions, I am unable to spend as much time as I did on Wikipedia matters due to family concerns, which I will not go into...but thanks again. Who knows, in the next few months things may be different. Thanks again. SethWhales ^talk 12:02, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

ITN

I'm afraid your removal of the Strauss-Kahn story goes against consensus. Short of an appropriate policy-based reason to remove it, I'm asking you to restore it. Every major news outlet has this story. We're not saying he's guilty, merely reporting the charge. Strange Passerby (talk • cont) 16:49, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

I appreciate your willingness to co-operate. Thanks for restoring it. Strange Passerby (talk • cont) 17:15, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

ArbPol vote

I'm a bit puzzled by your oppose. If it's not a conduct issue, what is there for us to get involved with?  Roger Davies ^talk 19:39, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

• As it turns out, the situations where such an ability has been needed all involve personal and private information of individual users (or potentially article subjects), so I can't countenance giving specific examples. I'm surprised, however, that you'd not be at least vaguely aware of such circumstances. Risker (talk) 20:33, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

My RfA

I just wanted to take a minute to thank you very much for supporting me in my recent RfA. Even though it was unsuccessful, I appreciate your trust. With much gratitude, jsfouche ☽☾Talk 02:04, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

I love myself

Seddon ^talk|^WikimediaUK 00:12, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Your input is needed on the SOPA initiative

Hi Seddon,

You are receiving this message either because you expressed an opinion about the proposed SOPA blackout before full blackout and soft blackout were adequately differentiated, or because you expressed general support without specifying a preference. Please ensure that your voice is heard by clarifying your position accordingly.

Thank you.

Message delivered as per request on ANI. -- The Helpful Bot 16:42, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Seddon,

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 communityHERE, where 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 nameHERE 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 ([[User talk:Jaobar|talk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.9.34.167 (talk) 21:30, 22 February 2012 (UTC)