User talk:Hasteur

Photograph request

Hello, Hasteur. I found your username on the Dallas County photographers page. The Ebola virus outbreak in the United States page, now averaging 25,000 views per day, could use a picture of the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. If possible, could you stop by the hospital and take a picture, from the same location as this one? It would be much appreciated by the thousands of editors and readers alike. There is no risk of contracting Ebola from taking this photograph :) BlueAg09 (Talk) 22:58, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

@BlueAg09: does it need to be the same view? Hasteur (talk) 23:52, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Doesn't have to be the same view, but as long as the emergency room and Texas Health Presbyterian sign are showing. Daytime shot would be ideal. BlueAg09 (Talk) 23:54, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

It's sunset right now and I'm almost there. Will try right now. Hasteur (talk) 23:57, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

@BlueAg09: they have the emergency wing cordoned off. I'll upload once I get home and let you decide if you want to keep it. This hospital is the same one as "Dallas Memorial" in the old Dallas tv series. As a resident of the area I can verify it. If a better pic is needed I'll try Sunday when I'm around agai. Hasteur (talk) 00:09, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

@BlueAg09: Yeah, even I'm embarrased at the picture. [1] It's far too grainy/ugly and taken on my camera phone. I'll go back Sunday and get a daytime photo. Hasteur (talk) 00:48, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Thank you for the image for Ebola virus cases in the United States. Well done. SW3 5DL (talk) 03:16, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!

Happy Halloween!

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Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia and especially for going above and beyond the call of Wiki duty in photographing Texas Presbyterian Hospital for the U.S. Ebola virus article. Well done you. Have a fun Halloween!
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Draft:Benjamin Allen

He served on the U of C Board of Regents. Bearian (talk) 23:15, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

• Bearian Thank you for that completely useless comment. I didn't challenge is notability, I challenged the lack of verifiable information from independent reliable sources. All the sources are the college he is the regent of (which has a vested interest in making him notable), Colleges he's guest taught at (which has a vested interest in making him notable) or his political campaign (which has a vested interest in making him notable). Hasteur (talk) 00:29, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. As my students would say, you made me LOL. I'll see what I can do to fix the issue that you've identified. Bearian (talk) 17:27, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Note

I'm not going to get involved in that case mess, but I will say that I created the page as a matter of clerking. As far as the enforcement page is concerned, that was created at the behest of Dreadstar, an enforcing administrator, mirroring a similar page used for the Obama GS. RGloucester — ☎ 23:50, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Gamergate Arbcom

Please note the instruction for your statement in the Gamergate request for a case:

Without exception, statements (including responses to other statements) must be shorter than 500 words.

Your statement is at 860 words, so is over the limit. I see several statements are over, and I am contacting anyone who is over 500. Please recall that this statement is not intended to be a full exposition of all evidence, which occurs at the next step, but simply a statement requesting a case. Please trim back your statement. For the arbitration committee --S Philbrick(Talk) 20:16, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee Elections December 2014/Candidates/Technical 13/Questions

Hello Hasteur,

I'm writing to inform you that I have removed your second question from Technical 13's question page. Your question appears to be a rewording of the first question and is written in a pointed fashion. Please note that candidates are not required to answer any questions and may remove them at their own discretion. I would strongly encourage you to not re-insert your question, as this can be considered to be disruptive editing and may result in a block of your account to prevent further disruption. I would appreciate your cooperation so that such actions are not needed. Best, Mike V • Talk 02:14, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Mike V So we're now supressing the right to ask questions of the candidates? I invite you to undo your removal of my 3rd question. If T13 is not "strong" enough to answer the question and to fall behind bullshit dodging the quesiton, he shouldn't be fucking running. I will post all 3 attempts on the "Discuss the candidates" page as clearly you and T13 are colluding to supress a valid question (including it's rephrases). Furthermore I see that you are involved with AFC (one of T13's "shining stars") which makes you somewhat involved in "protecting him". I invite you to undo your removal of the question. If T13 doesn't answer my pointed comment then it clearly shows to writers of the guides how "capable" he is of handling the Grade-A drama that is incumbent on an Arbitrator. Hasteur (talk) 02:46, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

I believe that you are misrepresenting my concerns. You are not suppressed from asking questions, however, you are not permitted to ask them in a disruptive fashion. If Technical 13 chooses to not answer a question, that is his own choice. To quote the from the question subpage, "Candidates are advised to answer each of these questions completely but concisely. Candidates may refuse to answer any questions that they do not wish to, with the understanding, however, that not answering a question may be perceived negatively by the community." You have raised your concerns with your first question and at this point it is up to the members of the community to decide on how the situation should be considered. My interaction with Technical 13 is quite minimal and I must assert that your claims of me being an involved individual/colluding with Technical 13 are incorrect. I am not able to restore your revision at this time and I welcome an uninvolved administrator to review my actions. Mike V • Talk 03:42, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

@Mike V: So I'm not allowed to ask T13 a question about why he's pretending the question never existed? Fine. I've screamed Admin Abuse at the "Discuss the candidate" section. We'll see what the guide writers think. But you have won yourself a place on my blacklist for any future appointments you are going to lobby for. Hasteur (talk) 03:52, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Hasteur bot feature request

Hi Hasteur, I've got a feature request for HasteurBot. It's not very urgent, and not very important, but it would be nice if you happen to find time for it, nothing more than that. For the G13 user talk notifications, it would be nice if the talkpage header would be "G13 Eligibility of PAGENAME" rather than just "G13 Eligibility". Cheers, Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 09:34, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

@Martijn Hoekstra: I've had a idea stewing in the back of my brain to condense/spin off the user notifications so that the notifications run ~2 hours after the eligibility check completes and puts all the notifications on the interested users talk pages in a bundle edit Something like

The following articles have become eligible for CSD:G13 nomination. As you have been involved in the article's history, you are being notified

• Draft:Example1
• Draft:Example2
• Draft:Example3
• Draft:Example4

Thank you for your contributions HasteurBot....

Your thoughts? Hasteur (talk) 15:42, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Not bad, though I rarely have more than one a day these days. @DGG: may have more though, and I could imagine him having one opinion or the other on the matter. While I'm spitballing, maybe aggregating the drafts that will become eligible in the coming week, once a week would be nice, but I'd imagine that would be a lot more work than the other options, for marginally more gain, so I don't know if that's worth it. Having unique section names on talk pages is nice though, which was part of the reason I asked. If they're aggregated, maybe have the date in the header ("CSD:G13 nominations for dd MMMM yyyy")? Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 15:52, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

It would help a little, but what would help more is batching them as suggested. But there are other AfC improvements more important than this, especially the ability to preview and edit the message being sent in a review, and to give multiple reasons. I appreciate that the custom reason now appearing in the user's p. -- this is a big improvement which I think is very helpful DGG ( talk ) 16:05, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Sanctions logs

Hi Hasteur, thanks for your effort here [2], but please see my note on the talkpage: I'd personally very much prefer to get rid of the tables and leave the whole thing as a simple bullet list, like the way it's done on most Arb log pages. I was actually kinda hoping people would leave my entry alone this time and just continue underneath it. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:05, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Future Perfect at Sunrise I see both sides of the equation, however since there's established precedent for the table (including other administrators using it) and there's been no response to your suggestion I felt inclined to unify the format. Yes, it's clunky for the administrator who is trying to enter the sanction, but gives us the benefit of being able to sort the columns and see a recurring pattern for specific editors or or see if the generally accepted wisdom starts drifting in terms of becoming less tollerang against violations. Hasteur (talk) 15:45, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank ye

Thank you @Yunshui: and Future Perfect at Sunrise for sweeping up that performance piece up. All I can surmise from it is some sort of religious fanaticisim gone very much into the boondocks. Hasteur (talk) 13:35, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

No problem at all. Yunshui ^雲_水 13:36, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Just User:Wikinger again, as usual. If you see anything similar again, just hardblock immediately, they are always open proxies. Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:40, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Question

I understand the notice - I just have a minor question. Where the hell should I leave my thoughts then? I've been involved in it for roughly a month and I noticed the horrors (flaming from both sides, incitement by newly created accounts for the sole purpose of inflaming the topic (and not bad/ill intended wording but with the intent to discuss). There is a lot of stuff I could potentially talk about which is just that much buried in old logs that it's nigh impossible to find back (also being threathened with a ban by Gamaliel if I remember correctly for no reason whatswhoever just because I dared to disagree and change stuff that got badly written down/written down with the intent of pushing a POV, and being called a troll and SPA by LaraInDC, Tarc and NorthBySouthernBaranof). I remember the note an other admin made when one of the first page lockdowns hit with the notice 'I could block tens of people but that wouldn't be productive) - I assumed at that time and still assume they meant pro- and antis with that comment - you'd almost wish that had happened, maybe some true development would have happened instead of the POV-pushing that has happened to the article. MicBenSte (talk) 15:23, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

@MicBenSte: I refer you to the policies Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought, Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion, and Wikipedia is not a blog, Web hosting service, social networking service, or memorial site (all subsections of What Wikipedia is not. Please keep in mind that with contentious topic areas (like Israel/Palestine and Senkaku Islands dispute) edits are very carefully scrutinized for any deviation from the established norms for Wikipedia. The actions of any editor who just happens to stumble into the area will be carefully scrutinized as there is an overriding directive to prevent disruption. Hasteur (talk) 15:34, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!!

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Talkback from Me!

Hello, Hasteur. You have new messages at EoRdE6's talk page.
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I see no reason to stop tagging these very obviously abandoned AfC's especially given there have been no edits other than your bot, which doesn't count. EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 01:18, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

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Just thought I would point you at the links: My post here at AN (23:12 January 7), my post at village pump (01:10 January 8), then Hastuer's post (01:19 January 8). So actually you could be the one forum shopping here. But instead of bothering with all that, why don't we focusing on ammending the G13 rule. EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 04:18, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

EoRdE6 Why don't you put down the gun and revert to status quo ante. This means you withdraw your objections to my G13 refund requests, we table both the discussions at AN and CSD and discuss at AFC (where this should be taking place before you forum shoppped to oblivion). Hasteur (talk) 04:25, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

This is the last time I am going to say this. AfC is the wrong place for this discussion, and I didn't forumshop. Don't believe me it's fine, but I have given you the diffs and gained other users support for my idea. I think your G13 refunds are a silly idea, especially if you knew the content of the articles, but you can have them back and try to submit them. Do whatever you want, but expect the main conversation to happen on the WT:CSD per an admins opinion. EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 04:30, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

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Sorry. I miss-clicked while using Popups. Avono (talk) 21:33, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for your contribs to the 'pedia! Bananasoldier (talk) 03:39, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Hasteur disruptive behavior.. Thank you. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:19, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Interaction ban

Hi. I pinged you at ANI, but just to make sure you don't miss it. Because both you and Technical 13 have at various points requested a mutual interaction ban, I didn't see a point to further discussion, and enacted it. Please read WP:Interaction ban and make sure you don't accidentally violate anything. In general, though, the underying philosophy is: "If the other person is doing something "wrong", it is not your problem anymore. Sooner or later, someone else will notice. If they don't, it's probably not as important as you think, so it is still not your problem anymore". So take their talk page off your watchlist, don't mention or refer to them directly or indirectly, ignore their bot requests, etc., and you should both be much happier. Do not contact an admin privately if you think they're doing something "wrong", because they are not your problem anymore.

There is, unfortunately, some uncertainty among different editors about whether subjects of an interaction ban should report violations of the interaction ban by the other via email, or on-wiki. To be honest, I would suggest not reporting them yourself; if it's big enough to matter, surely someone else will notice. But if that isn't acceptable to you, I suggest privately contacting someone experienced whom you trust to see if they agree it's a violation, and only if they agree, publicly requesting someone do something about it at ANI. That way you've gotten a little feedback beforehand to reduce the chance of a boomerang.

Let me know if you have questions. I hope this results in both of you being happier. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:23, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Floquenbeam I assume this diff is sufficent in being circumspect in reference, and at the same time also indicating what I will do should I be requested to engage. If this is not circumspect enough I can remove if from my user page. Hasteur (talk) 18:27, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

That's suitably circumspect, but I kind of wonder how many people are actually going to see a note halfway down your user page before leaving you a note... Well, I suppose it will be useful in that you can point to it and say "I can't talk about that due to an interaction ban; see my user page". --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:31, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

I would concur that such a notice will probably get lost amongst the colourful palette of barnstar icons. This could be advantageous as being subject to an interaction ban is not something every editor may wish to advertise prominently—it's not a badge that really merits wearing in public. Circumspect, yes perhaps, but probably not necessary—if you do get invited to such a discussion (an unlikely situation), it should be enough to recuse yourself by briefly saying "Thank you for your thoughts, but I am precluded on this occasion" and (ideally) without mentioning a specific editor to avoid boomerangs. I would not wish the presence of the message on your User page to become a temptation or liability to refer to another editor using indirect means. —Sladen (talk) 10:54, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

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Richardson, Texas

Your recent reversion of my edit to Richardson, Texas was misguided. There's a reason why the Wikipedia article is called "Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex", not "Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex": "Dallas" is a proper noun and "Fort Worth" is a proper noun, but the phrase "[Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex" is not. Moreover, the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex is an abstract concept. You won't find "Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex" on any map or in any gazetteer. — Quicksilver^{T @} 21:23, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

That's funny cause WP:NOTBROKEN and my personal experience of 20 years says otherwise. Hasteur (talk) 01:15, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages have become eligible for CSD:G13.

• User:Hasteur
• User:Hasteur/HallOfPride

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

the revised bot

I did not receive any notices last night, combined or separate . Is it running correctly ? DGG ( talk ) 18:59, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Yep... a syntax error in the "nudge" process that prevented all nudges/notices from going out last night. Running the nudges right now. Your notifications will show up around 3 AM UTC. Hasteur (talk) 19:27, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

G13 notices

They still do not seem to be working at all. When you do get it working, I hope they will be retroactive to the last working run. DGG ( talk ) 20:47, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Multiple G13s

Hey Hasteur. Seeing your response to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Natural Retreats I was just wandering if you were aware of the template option we made at {{subst:UND|2nd}} (see Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion/Administrator instructions). Not that this will fit all such secondary requests for undeletion (and probably will not work well for tertiary or quaternary, etc.), or shouldn't be tailored whenever you see fit, but I thought I'd let you know of it since it's not on the dropdown of the most frequent canned responses. All the best--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:08, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Fuhghettaboutit You do realize I'm just an editor and not an admin. I can't explicitly deny the request, but I can as an editor offer advice on if it should be restored and flag down editors who had a hand in nominating it preveiously for additional scrutiny. Hasteur (talk) 19:05, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Ah, sorry. Hasty assumption. While I think many administrative processes are perfectly suited to any experienced user acting, WP:REFUND is a hard one because use of the tools is heavily involved.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:43, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Optimist

Do you really expect that two angry users like Lapadite77 and Dan56 will take your advice and be concise in stating what they want? Well, you were obeying rule number 1, which is to assume good faith, but does that mean to assume reasonableness? Robert McClenon (talk) 03:19, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

• Robery McClenon True, but if they don't we've already handed them the WP:ROPE necessary to truss them up like holiday geese. Hasteur (talk) 13:57, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for combining G13 notices

That's great - my watchlist, which I tend to look at on a rather small smartphone, is no longer dominated by DGG's talk page, and I can see earlier changes which used to be invisible (mobile version of watchlist stops at 50 entries with no option to see earlier changes)! Much appreciated. PamD 09:50, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi, I meant to put that on the participants talk page. Sorry about that. Thanks, --Biblioworm 15:08, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Declined CSD

On 8 January this year, I notice that you declined a CSD nomination by EoRdE6 as "invalid". Why? I have nominated it again. Turned it into an MfD. SD0001 (talk) 13:00, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

@SD0001: I'm on mobile and can't look right now, but I feel like reading the G13 section of Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 55 might help out. Before G13 could be resist by a not edit such as Hasteur's not running through and adding and removing the same category and make it ineligible for speedy deletion. That was changed and now they should be eligible. If it was something else, I really don't remember EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 13:14, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

SD0001 Also be aware that EoRd's interpertation of the rules is invalid. At the time it was invalid as the CSD was written. The user attempted to nominate directly from the "Pages in AFC submission space that are missing a AFC template" category, which by it's definition did not qualify for G13. The category was designed to flag down AfC volunteers to determine what needed to be done with the page (an old AFC template restored, submit the page for review by an AFC volunteer, apply a "Draft mode" AFC template). Those are things that a automated process cannot do that does require the critical thinking skills, which EoRdE6 has refused to exercise on multiple occasions. Hasteur (talk) 13:58, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Re

Hi,

I have just edited the article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrityunjoy_Prasad_Guha, now I need to move this biography to different categoty i.e. deceased can you help me out on the same --Debjyoti (DJ) Guha (talk) 17:48, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Dear Hasteur,

I'm writing about Operosa

Unfortunately our page was declined again, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Operosa The confusing thing is that is a user who no longer exists. Would you please take a look? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aerospeed

I really don't know what to do next.

Thanks in advance.