User talk:Scott MacDonald

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Frank G. Jackson

Thanks for working on this mess. I hate to bother you, but do you have any references to add to this? I am tempted to send it to WP:AfD. Bearian (talk) 18:19, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

I have no references, although google might help. Please do not send it to afd, where it would certainly survive. If you think any of the unreferenced material is in the least contentious, then please simply remove it citing "BLP".--Scott Mac (Doc) 18:25, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

My mistake

I accidentally reverted your recent edit to John Silber, sorry about that, and un-reverted. GSMR (talk) 22:17, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

No problem.--Scott Mac (Doc) 22:19, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

BLP issue

Hi there. As our resident BLP guru, could you comment on this section in the BLP noticeboard? The issue is also being discussed on the article talkpage. Tim Vickers (talk) 20:56, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

User:Secret/BLP

User:Secret/BLP you may want to participate and expand this RFC before it goes live, the best solution to this BLP problem is probably an consensus based RFC. Secret ^account 00:55, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Ricardo Fort

Hi Scott, I added a speedy for not being notable but it was removed by an IP, there is nothing left..is it not better to remove it altogether? Off2riorob (talk) 15:29, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Good idea. Done.--Scott Mac (Doc) 15:45, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Nice one, regards. Off2riorob (talk) 15:57, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Your ancient user talk page history

Hi Doc, would you mind undeleting, or history merging, or doing something to your old talk page history? It can all be found using Special:Undelete; that list contains other user talk pages of yours as well. I don't believe that user talk page history, especially of active users, should be hidden from non-admins, and a current guideline agrees with me. User talk pages are contributed to by many users, and when user talk page history is deleted, conversations are lost. If you want me to do the history merging, I can do that; if there's personal info in those *user talk* archives that you don't want retrieved, that's OK too. There is one user talk archive with history that you haven't touched, User talk:Doc glasgow/28April06, that you might want to deal with as you see fit. Graham87 13:07, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

These are all two years or older, so I can't imagine there serve any useful purpose for the project. However, If anyone has a reason to need access to them, I'll be happy to undelete them.--Scott Mac (Doc) 13:52, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Prod of Alina Maksimenko

I've removed the prod tag from Alina Maksimenko because she participated in the 2009 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, which would allow her to pass WP:ATHLETE. Here is one source that lists here as a participant [1]. Calathan (talk) 19:19, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Please put the source in the article. Otherwise, that's fine.--Scott Mac (Doc) 19:23, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I don't do much writing of articles, just patrolling prods, but I'll try to add it in. Calathan (talk) 19:24, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

OTRS question again

Hello. Another dumb question. Is OTRS ticket number 2008051610002328 a valid ticket for a permissions release? I got this off the German Wikipedia, de:Datei:Yucca distribution capsular fruited species I southwest,midwest USA, Mexico Baja California, Canada overview I B.jpg. I have a sinking feeling that I read somewhere that the Germans have their own OTRS system, so perhaps I need to ask on the German Wikipedia? Hope not! Thanks in advance, Angus McLellan (Talk) 02:13, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm not actually on OTRS any more. I simply sit sometimes in #wikimedia-otrs on irc, which lets me ask people who are. Best best is to ask there or try WP:OTRS. (Although someone may be watching this page and willing to help.)--Scott Mac (Doc) 02:16, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

No worries. I'll try IRC. All the best, Angus McLellan (Talk) 02:25, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Any OTRS volunteer can view the ticket, but it's in German so you're going to need to find somebody who can read it. Steve Smith (talk) 02:31, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Prod of Brian Anderson (skateboarder)

I know the skateboarding community are terrible at adding sources to articles, but the article did note that he was named Skateboarder of the Year in 1999, which makes it likely that there will be sources about him. And indeed there are (did you look for sources?), so I've added them and removed the prod. Fences&Windows 01:41, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm working through thousands of totally unsourced bios to sift out the totally unsuitable. In this case I used prod as I though the article might be sourcable - happy that someone has managed to fix it up. Good work.--Scott Mac (Doc) 08:59, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of Milorad Ulemek

Why? /User_talk:Ajdebre

The article claimed the individual was a war criminal, but lacked any sourcing whatsoever. It therefore violated the policy on living people in every version. I am happy to undelete the article if someone is willing to edit it to meet the sourcing requirements.--Scott Mac (Doc) 16:15, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

The purpose of the petition

I'm afraid that I can understand the confusion. You say that we are asking the WMF to make flagged revisions available, such that the community might make a decision on it, but the WMF already has made it available. The issue is that the decision made by the community—the rather lame "flagged protection" trial—required additional work, which has been well slower than promised. Since the work being done now is configuration-specific, I don't think it makes sense to say that what we're asking for is independent of any specific configuration; in a general sense, flagged revisions have been available to us for months, and we could have had it turned on already if we hadn't insisted on an as-yet unsupported configuration. Steve Smith (talk) 10:09, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I've always regarded "flagged protection" as worse that useless :(.--Scott Mac (Doc) 10:10, 18 December 2009 (UTC)