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MSU Interview

Dear RL0919,

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, 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 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) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 04:19, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Dispute resolution survey

Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello RL0919. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. Many thanks in advance for your comments and thoughts. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 23:44, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Self publishers

Hi, FYI, at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Wikipedia_reliability a drive to slow down self-published book references is getting started. Would you like to join that project? Membership is free. History2007 (talk) 21:16, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Re: Suspension of administrator privileges

You notified me that you were suspending my administrator privileges. May I ask why you did not notify me beforehand or ask me if I were still active? I read at Wikipedia:ADMIN#Procedural_removal_for_inactive_administrators "The admin must be contacted on their user talk page and via email (if possible) one month prior to the request for desysopping and again several days before the desysopping would go into effect." Was that policy not in place at the time, and administrators were just desysopped without anyone bothering to check if they were still around? — Knowledge Seeker দ 20:00, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

You can read about the circumstances at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard/Archive 22#Removal of Sysop right for inactive Admins. The short version is that when the policy on desysopping inactive admins was first enacted, another editor (not me) jumped the gun and made a request for a bunch of desysoppings on Meta. The stewards fulfilled the request without checking to confirm that the process had been followed or that the list he provided met the inactivity standards. This was obviously not what was intended in the policy. However, after some discussion, it was decided that rather than undoing and redoing the whole thing, it would be left more or less as it was, but someone needed to notify the folks who had their privileges removed that it had been done. I volunteered for the notification task, which is why it is my signature on the notice. (If you read the notice carefully, you'll that it does not say that I was suspending your admin privileges. Rather, it says that they "have been removed". I don't personally have the ability to do perform such a removal.) If you want the bit back, you should be able to drop a note at WP:BN and I assume they will give it back to you with little fuss. Hope that all makes sense, and let me know if you need any clarification. --RL0919 (talk) 04:25, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions. SwisterTwister talk 04:19, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Universe Today (4th nomination)

Hi RL0919. Because you participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Universe Today (3rd nomination), you may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Universe Today (4th nomination). Cunard (talk) 23:02, 7 July 2012 (UTC)