User talk:Kevin Gorman

Internet Archive

Hi Kevin, you stated on the talk page of Mr. Wales that:

I've been talking with the Internet Archive for some time... I have a meeting on the ninth to discuss how best to move forward, but it's likely that I'll be acting as WiR for the IA and driving community consensus/tool development on our end to take better advantage of the IA's technology.

I am wondering if you can then take a look at this discussion and let us know if it is feasible? Cheers. Solomon7968 12:59, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Solomon - please keep in mind that I both currently have no official position with the IA, and if/when I do, it won't be with the scanning people... but that said, it certainly sounds reasonable to me, and I'll make sure it gets forwarded to the appropriate people. Best, Kevin Gorman (talk) 15:10, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks and another query/request: There is an option of "Uploading LOTS of individual items" to Internet Archive which says You can email our collections staff at info at archive.org. Perhaps IA will benefit from adding Collections from Non-US/European digitization projects (like this and this, also check User:Shyamal/India resources for others)? Just a thought, best for your efforts BTW. Solomon7968 16:58, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

• Hi Solomon: I just got back from talking to someone from the IA. There is, unfortunately, a pretty simple reason that they are still using 8: they don't just need one license, they need a lot. I grabbed the contact info for the person at the IA who would be the guy to talk to about it, but I have the feeling you may be better off just making a general donation to the archive. They are definitely aware of the problems in 8, but upgrading is pricey. I'll poke at your other question soon... gotta run get food. Kevin Gorman (talk) 22:34, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Wiki-PR source question

I do not know your "position" on Wiki-PR, so this is not a canvassing attempt. I would just like more eyes on the edit dispute taking place here and specifically here. I get the feeling that (as usual) Smallbones and Coretheapple are tag-teaming to keep a particular "revenge" POV in Wikipedia about paid editing, to the detriment of a wider NPOV perspective. Do your own analysis of the situation, and please weigh in on whatever side your conscience dictates. - I'm not that crazy (talk) 14:02, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

The examiner revert was certainly 100% accurate. From the looks of the RSN discussion, the IBT revert was good too. Kevin Gorman (talk) 18:41, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Cochrane WIR, please apply now

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Applied quite some time ago :) Kevin Gorman (talk) 22:32, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

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RFA successful

Hey, Kevin! I've just closed your RfA as successful, and as such, have granted your account the adminsitrator bit. Congratulations, and welcome to hell. ;) Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 20:31, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Please don't break the wiki... ;) Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 21:52, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

!Thanks. I'll try to do my best not to blow anything up. And to everyone who voted in support of my nom: thanks also for your confidence in me. Quite a while ago I made an active decision to involve myself in controversial issues on ENWP where I thought that their outcome was important, and for quite some time I had honestly been operating under the assumption that that choice would likely to kill my chances at RfA. I'll do my best to show that said confidence was well-placed (and I promise I have a solid understanding of wp:involved :p) Kevin Gorman (talk) 21:54, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

• Congrats on the new tools! Just noticed that you have an extra permission lying around, though (the account creator permission is part of the admin flag—though you can take it off yourself). Good luck! Epicgenius (talk) 23:15, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out, I'll strip it off myself; I hadn't reviewed my privs yet. I had originally had the flag so that I could do outreach work without hitting the six a day limit. Kevin Gorman (talk) 23:21, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

• Congrats! ///EuroCarGT 00:25, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

The admins' t-shirt. Acalamari 19:46, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

• I'm shocked that you haven't yet received your t-shirt. :o Congratulations on your successful request! :) Acalamari 19:46, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
• Just want to offer my congratulations on your new role! Cindy(talk) 07:13, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Congratulations to both new administrators, Kevin and Cindamuse. I remember meeting both of you in Boston, and I want to thank you both for the excellent work you do to improve the encyclopedia. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 08:38, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
• Late congrats here, glad to see you made it. Let me know if you have any admin questions I can help with. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:15, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Egi

Re Egi, look at the details on Willy Satia and/or Talk:Willy Satia (can't remember now, it was on one of them) for an explanation of the user's hoaxing. Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:28, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

• Hi Jackmcbarn - I actually went ahead and just A7'ed it before digging in to those pages, since it was A7able as well. Having looked at that talk page I see it as a hoax now, and will also go ahead and take a poke at the user who created the articles about that... Kevin Gorman (talk) 23:39, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

• Looks like someone beat me to blocking the creator and put a three day vandalism block on him. I've watchlisted his talk page, let me know if there are any further problems when he returns and if so I'll indef him as a vandalism only account. Best, Kevin Gorman (talk) 23:43, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Franek K.

I have asked two linguist for help. Should be Franeks last reverts not be reverted? (he broke the 3rr on his last edits)--Sobiepan (talk) 01:21, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Or should he self-revert his violation?--Sobiepan (talk) 01:23, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Ideally he would self-revert his violation (which I have asked him to do.) However, in the broader scale of things, does it really matter if a Wikipedia article contains a potentially minor error for a few days? Start discussions on the talk pages of the relevant articles to try to resolve the dispute, or at a broader forum if there's an appropriate one. Given the number of pages that both of you have editwarred over, I would advise strongly against making *any* edit that continues the war before substantial discussion has occurred on a talk page. Kevin Gorman (talk) 02:11, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Could you please warn Franek not to change, edit, or remove my comments on discussion pages. Please see: [1] Thx--Sobiepan (talk) 11:47, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

You pasted to discuss the big picture. Pasting images in this discussion is unnecessary and inappropriate, and makes it difficult to discuss. If any such change makes it difficult to discuss, clutters the discussion or spamming, other user have a right to such a change. Your image is not removed from the discussion, your picture exist in discussion as wikilink, problem does not exist. Franek K. (talk) 12:02, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Kevin, I want to thank you for handling this with warnings and discussion (at WT:POLAND and elsewhere). Handling such situation with non-blocks is rare enough that I wanted to express it here. (Perhaps in my ten years I just got used to seeing "blocks solve everything" solution way too much...). Thanks again, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:45, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

I figured blocking them both wouldn't be very likely to result in a productive outcome. I'm not too sure that not blocking them will result in a productive outcome either, but I figure it's at least worth a try. Been out of it for most of the day, but going to check up on the situation now. Thanks for the thanks :) Kevin Gorman (talk) 23:35, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

IP 58 image posted to WP:ANI

What was that, anyway, that you redacted? Was it meant to be pornographic? Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:40, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that it was meant to be a version of goatse.cx... but to be honest after seeing enough to know it was clearly not something that belonged there I just nuked it. Think that was my first time using revdel... glad I didn't break anything. Kevin Gorman (talk) 02:41, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

I had never seen it before, but I thought that it was meant to be pornographic or something. Weird. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:07, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

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Problems with user Sobiepan, again

First I, later user JorisvS, later I again, reduced the size of the graphic by Sobiepan. "Editing comments" is one but Sobiepan have no right to destroy the layout of page, too large graphics and separating lines are unacceptable. Size of Sobiepan's graphics have been reduced (graphics are not removed), separating lines can not exist because it is written posts directly to that text. We both (I and JorisvS) thoroughly explained what was going on. Sobiepan can not be subordinate, makes it difficult to discuss. Sobiepan did it, mass introduces templates POV to articles Lechitic languages, Slavic languages, West Slavic languages, Silesian language... We with him can not cooperate, his behavior more and more like trolling, making confusion. I can not cope. I want to constructively discuss, Sobiepan just bothers and exacerbate the matter. Franek K. (talk) 12:25, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

... and again, again again [2]. Franek K. (talk) 12:28, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

• I agree with you that inserting graphics like that is inappropriate, and I have removed them and warned Sobie. I'll be around later today to review any other behavioral issues. Best, Kevin Gorman (talk) 17:58, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry Gorman, but Franks K edits of my comments were provocative. After he already broke the 3RR few days ago, you should warn him, instead of supporting his behavior... --Sobiepan (talk) 14:43, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for considering my request at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Please reconsider this one, it is semi-protected, but this protection expires after two days. Please make it indefinite too. Thanking you in advance! Faizan 09:04, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I'm tired and just chose the wrong dropdown box. Fixed it for you now. Kevin Gorman (talk) 09:06, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Grateful to you Kevin. Faizan 09:09, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Franek K. ongoing reverts

Franek K. did not self-revert his reverts until today (break of the 3RR rule), morover he reverted now on Slavic language [3], [4], [5]

Could you please do something?--Sobiepan (talk) 14:28, 25 January 2014 (UTC)