User talk:Deathphoenix/Archive7

This is an archive of previous discussions. If you wish to leave me a message, you can do so on my main talk page.

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Happy First Edit Anniversary From Randfan

Happy First Edit Day, Deathphoenix/Archive7, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee, myself, and Bearly541! Congrats for staying with Wikipedia this long. Much too many people create new accounts, do a few minor edits, and just quit. Have a great day! --Randfan

Have a great day! Randfan 20:58, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Good job for staying with us! Keep up the good work. Cheers! :) —Randfan!! 00:52, 15, December of the year Anno Domini 2006m (UTC)

Have a great day, and thanks for staying with wikipedia. Canadianshoper 02:07, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Congatulations! You have been here for 1 (or more) years! | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 02:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

File:Esperanza.Birthday.gif

Esperanza congratulates you on a first edit anniversary!! --Bushcarrot 15:46, 2 December 2006 (UTC)}}

You're Welcome

You're welcome Deathphoenix. However, if you're "fairly new", then what does that make me? (fourth month). :-) | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 11:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Talk pagelink in sig.

Hello! I was just wondering what the talk page link in your signature was? It appears as a square on my screen and it's driving me nuts! Thanks! —¡Randfan! 21:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Mas Ahmad

Mas Ahmad (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)

I hope you dont mind but I went through his controibs and absolutely nothing but vandalism, so I indefblocked.  Glen  14:15, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

I have no problems with it. I handed out a slightly longer than usual "first block" because I strongly felt this was a bad-faith user, so I'd be inclined to agree with you, but I suggest you post this to WP:AN or WP:ANI to find out if a wider range of admins agree with you. Please let me know where you psoted to so I can also give my feedback there. Cheers, Deathphoenix ʕ 14:21, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Okay? See here  Glen  14:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

72.36.201.226 = User:Enlighter1 and User:Universalgenius

User:Aquarelle and I caught his vandalism days ago, and he is now attacking our user pages. Are there any way to indefinitely block an IP? Arbiteroftruth 22:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks. Arbiteroftruth 23:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Assistance

Look at Students in Harry Potter's Year, Harry Potter characters birthday list, and the project page. Take a look at the issue, and contribute. Whether you disagree or disagree, it is vital that these issues are decided by editors who are familiar with Harry Potter and who are capable of deciding upon the worth of the articles, rather than editors who clearly have deep contempt for it and no real understanding of the subject. Please intervene. Michaelsanders 22:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I want to genuinely thank you for your involvement. I know we have not always seen eye-to-eye, but I am very grateful that you provided another voice from the Harry Potter camp. I did my best to get a balanced range of those involved in Harry Potter involved: I don't think T-dot answered, which was rather a shame. Otherwise, though, I was pleased that it was largely made an informed decision. I have expressed my views regarding the matter on the relevant page. Thanks again for your involvement in the matter. Michaelsanders 01:13, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Smark (professional wrestling)

I asked another admin to restore the article to my space but I'll ask you as well. I have the sources needed to allow it to pass muster and I want to do a quick rework before republishing the article. Thanks. NegroSuave 19:20, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Hare and Psychopathy

Thanks for the support and I will keep your suggestions in mind. I am working through my research on psychopaths and it starts with Hare; in the end I hope to demonstrate a balance between what Hare says and what other researchers have come up with. In the meantime I feel that your criticism is entirely valid. Best regards, Moomot 18:59, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Harry Potter fandom

Hello Deathphoenix, wondering if you'd check out a littler situation at Harry Potter fandom and Talk:Harry Potter fandom#Discussing whether we should add this: --Please do not add a site here without first discussing it on Talk:Harry Potter fandom first. Thank you.-- with User:Carhonda. S/he reverted an edit you made which removed a NN fansite without being discussed. I then pointed the user in the direction of the comment at the bottom directing people to the talk page to discuss, and the user removed the comment and set up a straw poll discussing whether to include the comment on the article, almost WP:POINT-ish. I reinstated the comment and responded to the user on the article talk page. Mind investigating? Thanks. --Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 21:40, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Luna Lovegood Picture

Click herefor the picture drawn by Marie GrandPre herself. --Spottedleaf 23:35, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

WP:AIV blocked user reported

Sorry about the reporting of that blocked username today. There was nothing on the userpage or talk page to signify the block had been applied and I didn't think to go check the block log this time. ju66l3r

Another vandal

Since you blocked User:Mdey33 recently, I wonder if you'd mind also looking at User:Ajent, whose purpose also seems to be vandalism. Is there a more appropriate way to handle these complaints than sending them to a random admin? Wahkeenah 01:26, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Channing Tatum

Many thanks for your prompt action! Merry Christmas! (or an appropriate greeting for another holiday you celebrate during this time of year) -FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed 18:28, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

When you get a chance, the following IP address is making the same kind of edits as I discussed before ---

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/67.101.60.95 I'm not sure why...perhaps he wasn;t blocked or has found a new computer. Thank you for your help. -FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed 03:45, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Harry Potter

Hello, Deathphoenix/Archive7. Over at WikiProject Harry Potter we're trying to compile a list of active participants. Your name, along with all other project participants, has been placed on the inactive list. If you'd like to get involved again, please place your name back on the active list, and take a look at the project talk page for the latest happenings.	File:DumbledoreDeleted.jpg

RHB(AWB) 21:22, 30 December 2006 (UTC), on behalf of WPHarry Potter

Removed the image of Dumbledore - the original had been deleted, and I just uploaded another with the same name, so the new image is irrelevant to this page.

--Dumarest (talk) 20:15, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

WP Harry Potter

Goodness gracious, no! I'm sorry you thought that -- I also seemed to have removed 3 other members in that diff as well, and I haven't a clue how that happened. I'm really confused… certainly we don't want you out of the project! My deepest apologies, and a happy new year too! --Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 06:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

WPHP AfD page (reply)

Okay, I see your point. I don't want to cause any trouble for the project. I'll delete the history now. John Reaves 21:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For you many hours of vandal fighting today, January 2, 2007, I am proud to present you this Barnstar of exellence in fighting vandals. Good job!S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 22:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

You deserve it.S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 22:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Judging from your contribs, I'd say you're being modest. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 22:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Lol, you are quite welcome. ^_^ S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 22:12, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

*looks over shoulder*

*mumbles something about Karma* I agree, it's really good to get back after working hard here on Wikipedia. It can really be an ego boost sometimes. *sigh* The things we do to preserve knowledge.... S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 22:16, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I think code in general is more like it. I've been utterly scared when I see the ultra-complicated signatures people have (mine's pretty complicated, actually) that take up 20 or so lines of the editing window because they have multicolored blinking text with flashing backgrounds for every letter in their 30 character long name. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 22:21, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I know that I should keep my signature simple, but the simple fact of the matter is that I am lazy. If I want to find my previous edits on any page, I can scroll down quickly and find them due to the giant black bar with red (searching for "shark" or "sharkface" using the find button actually takes longer most of the time). S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 22:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the move

Thanks for moving this from the vandalism point. I mistakenly identified him as another user who hadn't signed his rant on my page, so vandalism isn't the issue, my bad. Quick change, I applaud you! Dåvid ƒuchs (talk • contribs) 22:35, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

:-)

¿Why1991 ^{ESP. has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.}

Happy editing!!!--¿Why1991 ^{ESP. | Sign Here} 02:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

RU keeping an eye on this page

... and if so do you have some professional grounding in the field? I ask because I'm informally 'listening' patiently to one complaining about clashes between two editors, and this was one of the pages mentioned wherein clashes have occured. If you're willing to lend a hand keeping a lid on things, drop me an email. Thanks // FrankB 20:17, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

xpost

check yer email! <g>

• No worries mate... I was aware the diff was a 'span' and your title change was minor. The concern is on heading off conflict. I've one editor pretty upset with another. Later // FrankB 20:48, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Liisenber uploading copyright material

Thank you very much for moving my request to appropriate page.--NMajdan•talk 14:46, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Project Invite

Diez2 16:28, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem

Hey, nice of you to drop by :-) No problem with the block extension. Sounds like a good idea. See you around! --HappyCamper 03:49, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

The Mob Rules

See [1] for details. One Night In Hackney 18:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

He's just tagged two editors as SPAs on the Afd [2], which I would suggest isn't appropriate especially in the case of TruthCrusader. One Night In Hackney 04:54, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Ugly Betty

I wanted to let you know that most of the articles, including the characters that were redirected, had to be split up because the article itself was in danger in becoming too large, now that the show has established itself as a hit. Robert Moore 04:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Deathphoenix. Your help is welcome anytime. Robert Moore 04:25, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:AIV

Thanks for that advice. I thought it was inappropriate username, that's all. --SunStar Net^talk 17:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

User:204.102.211.115

You've removed this IP from the vandalism list without taking action. Can you make a suggestion about how to best proceed then? If you look at the extensive sock report provided or the Vladimir Lenin article history for the last few days and the effort this person has taken to circumvent due process, you'll see that something should be done. Rklawton 21:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I can do that. Rklawton 22:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Justin67

Regarding User:Justin67, I must ask you to look at his edits. Using inflammatory language like "Hindu fascists" in WP:LEAD repeatedly is highly vandalistic[3], particularly since he keeps repeating it. If it was only once then fine, but twice?Rumpelstiltskin223 03:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

See here the problem is that, if you look at Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh you wills ee that there is a criticism section where allegations of fascism are discussed and academic sources provided for and against it. It is neutral. Justin's edits reflect an attempt to bias the reader towards a certain POV and not keep neutrality, which is the problem here. Given his repeated attempts to do this, and his complete refusal to engage in talk page discussion first, I have doubts as to whether he will discuss or not. If he persists in such edits, I will have to report him to WP:ANI since this sort of edit-warring and intransigence does not show an amenability to WP:DR. Nonetheless, the next time he shows up I will ask him on his talk page if he wants to DR or not. If he ignores and persistently edit-wars then I feel that admin action will be necessary. Rumpelstiltskin223 09:42, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

He vandalized (really vandalized) the article twice today (he got reverted twice by RC patrollers, not me)[4][5]. IS this grounds enough to report him to WP:AIV now? Rumpelstiltskin223 22:16, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

User:VNistelrooy9

In response to your message on my talk page, VNistelrooy9 has not yet broken 3RR, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Football&curid=185435&action=history. Grant65 | Talk 04:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

There is no 3RR violation, but there are clear grounds for admin action. I don't understand why you removed VNistelrooy9 from WP:AIV. Grant65 | Talk 04:45, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

It's blatant vandalism and blanking, more more than edit-warring. Check his/her comments in the edit summaries:

1. (cur) (last) 12:59, January 19, 2007 VNistelrooy9 (Talk | contribs) (until you can prove 'soccer' is a valid name i will not stop editing this page.)
2. (cur) (last) 12:18, January 19, 2007 VNistelrooy9 (Talk | contribs) m (the sport is football not soccer and i have proven this already in the discussion and please dont leave me any retarded messages about not constructive,i corrected the article not trashed it.)

He/she has received a final warning from an admin after the first such reversion, and I believe any such warning justifies action if the user fails to comply. Grant65 | Talk 04:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

In that case, post to WP:ANI, WP:AIV is for cases of simple vandalism, when an admin can look at the page and immediately tell that it is vandalism. The fact that I looked through the contribs and thought it was either 3RR or a content dispute should show you that this is not a case of simple vandalism, and is therefore not a clearcut case that WP:AIV was designed to cover. --Deathphoenix ʕ 04:56, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Michaelbusch, User:Raymond arrditt

Deathphoenix: my understanding is that repeated blanking constitutes vandalism, therefore i believe they should be blocked.--MichaelAusems 05:48, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Jrapidfire

Jrapidfire continues to remove warnings from his talkpage and add comments such as "Its MY damn talk page so I should be able to do ANY damn thing I want with it! KISS MY ASS...". Assistance in resolving this matter would be greatly appreciated. -- bulletproof ^3:16 21:13, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey there, just letting you kow he's back to his personal attacks, see his talk page to see what he's up to, thanks for your time --Dark Dragon Flame 21:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Hopefully he comes back a good Wikipedian, if he returns to his old ways I'll inform you, have a nice day (or night), see you around --Dark Dragon Flame 23:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFI backlog

Hey, I’m writing a few admins because I’ve seen your good work on WP:AIV. Is there any chance WP:RFI could get some love? I know RFI is a lot more work, but it’s no less important. The reports are about editors who undermine the integrity of the encyclopedia as a whole, and the efforts of productive contributors. --WikidSmaht (talk) 19:21, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Jrapidfire's sockpuppet

He's back this time using the name User:214.13.248.180, he created this user to evade your block, I'll keep an eye on him --Dark Dragon Flame 23:39, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

*cough*

Umm. :D [6] Typo I think? :P Cowman109^Talk 20:45, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

219.95.138.66

Dropping you a line to let you know I unblocked the above user and reblocked indef as an open proxy. I checked RBL and they had several red marks on that list so I figured its pretty sure that its an open proxy. Thanks! Syrthiss 15:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Morning Vandals

Yeah, I couldn't keep up with User:216.79.182.147 He/she and User:216.79.174.100‎ were vandalising Zeus too fast for me to keep up with warnings. BTW, look at these edits (vandalism) to Benedict Arnold this morning, all within 12 minutes:

• [7]
• [8]
• [9]
• [10]

• [11]
• [12]
• [13]
• [14]

I was just about to report them when they stopped, both have only vandalized Zeus, neither has any other edits. - Dan D. Ric 16:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Ooops, the latter two vandalized Benedict Arnold not Zeus. Too many vandals to keep up with. Dan D. Ric 16:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Request for clarification on vandalism

I reported User:Samantha Dean for vandalism (persistent content removal from Paternity fraud which I arrived at via a recent changes patrol) and you removed the report from the board without taking action (because you believed it was a content dispute) and I'd like to understand why because it seems to me that there's no point in doing recent changes patrols if vandals who persist in obvious content removal despite repeated requests and then warnings to stop are allowed to do whatever they want. It seems that the processes for trying to deal with vandals are useless (especially if the vandal retrospectively, after they're issued with a final warning, pretends they're not vandalising). I've watched this page so feel free to reply here if you choose to try to help me understand. Thank you for your time. :-) Random Passer-by 16:03, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for !vote. I am fed up of typing 'vote'. CiaranG 20:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Question

I always assumed that Wiki had a bot that welcomed people on the talk page of the new accounts in which had links to the Wiki's policies, help pages, Tutorial, etc... and is signed by administrator (like how Death Eater Dan did for me).In this way welcoming them before other temperamental editors scare them away. I'm I mistaken? If so, why doesn't Wiki have a bot that would generate this type of message when new account is created? (Duane543 16:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC))

I guess this issue was already brought up (Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_4). As always thanks . (Duane543 03:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC))

194.80.32.8

You have more patience than I. Feel free to take whatever actions you deem appropriate. - Big Brother 1984 17:56, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Same section title. What are the odds? Anyway, I assume whoever made the actual post would have sent the email. My corrections were merely clerical ones. – Someguy0830 (T | C) 17:57, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

My Vandalism Report

Deathphoenix, it wa spartly my fault on this matter. I misread a final warning, thinking it was issued today, but it was issued days ago (for which the IP did get banned for). The user blanked pages and added insulting references. Arbiteroftruth 19:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

RE: Duplicate entries in WP:AIV

You wrote on my talk page:

Hi JFreeman, I noticed that there have been duplicate entries to WP:AIV and I suspect it's because you're using something like VandalProof to report these IPs. I hear VandalProof has an option of sending a report to AIV at the same time as issuing a warning to an IP. If so, perhaps you could remember to deselect that option when you do multiple reverts on a single IP's edits?

Thanks for the message. I don't use that option in VandalProof (when I use VandalProof), so that didn't cause the problem. I did run into a WP server "zero bytes returned" error a time or two, and perhaps my resubmissions after those errors caused the duplicates. At any rate, I'll watch more closely to try to not send any duplicates. Thanks again for the heads-up!

--JFreeman ^(talk) 20:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

The ring

You are right there: Harry simply notices that the ring is no longer on the table, and no explanation is given for its location. I think I assumed that Dumbledore had given some sort of indication that he had moved it (which is what happens when I don't pay close enough attention to the sources), whereas in fact, we have no indication of its current whereabouts, except that it is NOT on the table where Harry last saw it (it's probably in a cupboard in the office, to be honest). I'll change that to fix it (i.e. to 'its current location is unknown'). Michaelsanders 17:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

As he walked across the room, his eyes fell upon the little table on which Marvolo Gaunt's ring had rested last time, but the little ring was no longer there..."The ring's gone," said Harry, looking around. "But I thought you might have the mouth-organ or something."..."Very astute, Harry, but the mouth-organ was only ever a mouth-organ." Dumbledore confirms nothing; I suppose I simply assumed that no-one else would move the thing, and my memory played a trick on me (personally, I've always found that quote rather baffling anyway - how does noticing the absence of the ring make Harry wonder about the mouth-organ?) Michaelsanders 17:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

If I remember correctly the mouth organ was an item that was stolen by Tom Riddle during his orphanage years that Harry seen in the Pensieve. Much like the ring was an item in worn by Riddle's Grandfather in Harry's trip into the Pensieve that occurred in the last lesson. Thus Harry believed that an item from his last Pensieve visit would be on Dumbledore's desk. (Duane543 22:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC))

Put a sock in it, or put it in a sock?

Hold on: am I just thinking of the movie? I thought Harry put the sock into the diary, not the diary into the sock. -- Nick Begovich 18:42, 1 February 2007 (UTC) ('Twas I who made the change!)

Thanks. -- Nick Begovich 19:07, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Jrapidfire

Hey there just letting you know he is making his trademak personal attacks again, it has been sometime since he came back from the block you gave him and it seems he isn't learning anything maybe another block might help him realize he is bothering other Wikipedians that are trying to make Wiki better, thanks for your time -Dark Dragon Flame 17:54, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

You can see his work here [15] check the revision he made today before Power Level reverted his work -Dark Dragon Flame 18:03, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks to you for taking your time to help us deal with this matter -Dark Dragon Flame 18:15, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Just wondering, the IP was autoblocked wasn't it? Just in case he creates sockpuppets that is... Power level (Dragon Ball) 18:25, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I asked you a question on my talk page. Whenever ya can, can you see it and answer it? Thanks! Power level (Dragon Ball) 18:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Awards

There are three proposals which need some comments. Please weigh in:

• Moving the LGBT Barnstar
• Changes to The Editor's Barnstar
• New_Proposals - Neuroscience_Barnstar

Two of the three are sensitive, and thuglas is taking the whole process personally. Finally, there has never been a standard for how much support is needed for the creation of a barnstar. The LGBT star went up with seven votes, and thuglas is threatening to post his star when he gets ten supportive votes. Thoughts? --evrik ^(talk) Barnstar]]

• Changes to The Editor's Barnstar
• New_Proposals - Neuroscience_Barnstar

Two of the three are sensitive, and thuglas is taking the whole process personally. Finally, there has never been a standard for how much support is needed for the creation of a barnstar. The LGBT star went up with seven votes, and thuglas is threatening to post his star when he gets ten supportive votes. Thoughts? --evrik ^(talk)

• Once again, someone disagrees with my interpretation of our very loose guidelines. Now I don't mind when two users like WJBscribe and Kathryn_NicDh%C3%A0na, but they've taken the disagreement and posted negative comments over at that RFC.

So ... could you please weigh in one last time ... new barnstar or a wikiproject award Wikipedia:Barnstar_and_award_proposals/New_Proposals#The_Copyeditor.27s_Award. Thanks. --evrik ^(talk) 23:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

• To answer your qustion ... the point is moot. I'e now walked away from the whole thing. --evrik ^(talk) 18:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Virgie Arthur

Hi could you please put on the deleted article on Virgie Arthur again? i dont now if you can but i think its best to put it on again so people can discuss how they want to do with ti. because it was only 2 people discussing it before and decided to delete a fullworthy article. and their is a article only on dannielynn the child of anna.. so why not the mother?:)--Matrix17 14:59, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Awards Coordinator referendum

There has been some conflict at Wikipedia:WikiProject Awards. Please vote on the Coordinator referendum. --South Philly 20:20, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

User:24.90.241.57

Hey there just seeing if something can be done about this user he has reverted Felix Trinidad's page page about ten times to a previous version that he wrote that is plaged with fan POV, not only that he vandalised my user page and posted personal attacks aganist me in the article's talk page (I already deleted it so please see the talk page's history) I have been ignoring him for a while but now he is attacking me without reason, just seeing if you can help me and explain to him what W:NPOV means I tried but it was pointless, thanks for your time. -Dark Dragon Flame 19:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

User:194.80.32.8 blocked

As you said on their talk page, do you want to email Leicester University? Neil (not Proto ►) 23:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

A little favor

Yo, me and a few member of Devil May Cry Task Force have been working with Devil May Cry and it was recently nominated for Good Article, if you have time can you please take a look at it here, I want an editor with a large amount of experience here to pass judgement on it, Peace. -凶 22:40, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for taking so long to respond I was out for the weekend, thanks for responding so fast; the article was upgraded to Good Article while I was out, but I think a peer review is required to work on it to raise it to Featured Article eventualy so if you can do it I will be very grateful, Cheers! -凶 02:11, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Looking for deleted article text

Hi,

One of my articles (Dissident Sound System) was deleted recently before I had chance to bring it in line with wikipedia's guidelines. I would be very grateful if you could let me know how to get hold of the original text again so that I can resubmit it and make it acceptable to wikipedia's rules.

Many thanks- Toad 15:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

What's up?

Hey Deathphoenix, haven't seen you around lately. Your edits in March were fairly low, and your last edit was over two weeks ago. Taking an extended wikibreak? Hope you'll be back soon. --Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 03:42, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, that's understandable. I'm sure I'd have so much more time to just be me if I left the project, but it's just that high level of Wikiholicness. Glad you can stick around on and off though -- because without you, that'd be three respectable admins (with Hermione1980, who seems never to be returning, and EvilPhoenix) gone from WP:WPHP. Anyway, best of luck. --Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 15:04, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

HEY

why are u blocking everyone who comes onto the site? My whole class is trying to get some info on various people, but u keep on blocking the computers! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Starfishman9 (talk • contribs).

OK deathphoenix explained wat happened, and he's cool

its not that your evil or anything but man your mean

on practically every single computer at my school has now been blocked from editing and creating new threads and articles. So i just really want to say dude wtf is with you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Smartone027 (talk • contribs) 05:10, 27 April 2007 (UTC).

A user you blocked is back at it, I think

You blocked User:66.213.16.159 in January User talk:66.213.16.159 It's back, and it looks like every edit since then may be vandalism.--Hjal 15:38, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism pages

What the heck happened to WP:VIP and successor 'RFI' (?) -- don't see anything helpful to report squat! Did see your post here, but I don't know where to post an alert to watch for changes to Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia, aka WP:Wc. This is showing a clear problem exists. I made an AN/I post and suggested the page be locked for a few weeks. Someone needs to round up the forces of light and goodness involved in antivandalism and edit some of these AV pages though. I thought VIP was supposed to be like AN/I, a rolling record of what's what where and when?! Nice to say hi anyway! Cheers! // FrankB 12:59, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Block of 131.7.52.17

I have reset your 3 January, 2007 block of 131.7.52.17 to anon-only. It is a USAF base IP and, if not shared, probably changes hands more than once every six months. User:Puskarm was caught by the autoblock. --Selket ^Talk 21:18, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

yo man

whats rong with u? u blokd my skool from editing wikipedia! how LOW can u get man?? sicko.

-)please respond:-)

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thezob (talk • contribs).

Wikipedia Vandalism at Lancaster

I was going to report it myself, but I figured you had more expertise. I blocked 194.80.32.9 for a short period of twenty-four hours due to vandalism- and then I saw your notice. Made multiple edits to his own vandalism on Victorian era- see [16] David Fuchs ^{(talk / frog blast the vent core!)} 21:08, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

programing

Hey, do you program using macromedia flash?Jammerocker 11:59, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Smile

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List of casualties of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan

May I please know how you came to the conclusion that consensus was reached for this AFD? MoodyGroove 01:06, 1 July 2007 (UTC)MoodyGroove

Thanks for the reply. MoodyGroove 14:25, 1 July 2007 (UTC)MoodyGroove

Re:Protocol on 24

Hi Deathphoenix. looks like a bit of an IP mixup here. I've never edited any WP pages... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 15.203.169.124 (talk • contribs).

re next door nikki

is the article about next door nikki and its revisions before it was deleted archived somewhere?

Meetup in Toronto

Hi, I am organizing a new meetup in Toronto where it will be more convinent for everyone than the current one. Please provide suggestions and feedbacks on the talk page. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 15:34, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Harry Potter Spamlink

You removed two links that I had added...I do not believe they are spam...they are both official.

Regards, Kirtay.

Hey Deathphoenix, I know you directed Kirtay to insert the whole bit about the theme park into the fandom article, but see my response on their talk page, just for future reference. Best, Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 00:40, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Redirect of Sienar Systems

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WikiProject Harry Potter roll-call

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hi

sorry I didn't know how to message you in another way. I'd ask you to review and control the acts of one of wikipedia contributors, who delete even scientific or documented articles only because of his personal interests and practically vandalizing the wikipedia.. And his answer is “every1 on wikipedia is equal, if you are older or have more qualifications it really doesnt mean anything here.” The example of the page http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Michael_Jackson&oldid=154591006 , the "illness or dream project" could explain what I would ask you to direct. He deletes the article only because his a fan of Michael Jackson, and has no interest in facts that could be reflected in there. regardsT2345 19:36, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Firstly we already no why michael Jacksons skin colour is white, it came out in court documents during his trial, this wish wash babble he talks of means nothing. Oh I didnt realise his english was lacking, shame I guess where ever he comes from they probably dont have Human rights so equalty would be a wasted word on him, it would explain his discriminatory right wing mentality. :-) Realist2 00:04, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

If you notice from my user page english is not my first language either!!! I still know whats inappropriate or not. You shouldn`t defend people like T2345. He`s still being patronising (sorry if I miss spelt that) now. Its irrelevant the piece will not be included in any shape or form . Realist2 15:01, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

No i was deliberately being sarcastic, im sure they do have human right from whatever Island he`s off. Let`s just leave it as it is, Yours with a lot more gratitude than I would give T2345 (Take that as a complement), Realist2 17:13, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Acknowledgement

Thank you for your kind respond. I'm sorry for my hard words to him. Well I have always thought the medical truth about MJ could be more appreciated than terms like "bleaching himself" and so on which can cause serious health condition for many racial groups who may like to be white like him. But if I was wrong about what I did, and scientific facts are not much appreciated in wikipedia, I apologize again and this will be the end of my contribution. Best regardsT2345 23:08, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Penton Media

Hello my name is Anthony Carver. I work for Penton Media and I've recently been made aware of Penton's standing with Wikipedia. I've been forwarded an e-mail concerning Penton's history concerning Wikipedia. I would like to make efforts on the company's behalf to improve our relations with Wikipedia. It was never Penton's intention to spam Wikipedia. We would like to do what we can and what's necessary to become unblocked, and not make the same mistakes. Is there a time limit on how long we will be blocked? And is there anything we can do to help make things better? If we are able to become unblocked we will have a strict posting policy so as not to violate Wikipedia's content rules. We don't want to cause problems anymore than you want to deal with them. We appreciate your understanding.

Anthony Carver anthony.carver@penton.com Penton Media Online Audience Development Manager —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.77.85.254 (talk) 21:05, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

This is for you!

I still hear your voice, when you sleep next to me. I still feel your touch in my dreams. Forgive me my weakness, but I don't know why Without you it's hard to survive.

'Cause every time we touch, I get this feeling. And every time we kiss I swear I could fly. Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last. Need you by my side.

'Cause every time we touch, I feel this static. And every time we kiss, I reach for the sky. Can't you hear my heart beat so... I can't let you go. Want you in my life.

Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky. They wipe away tears that I cry.

The good and the bad times, we've been through them all. You make me rise when I fall.

'Cause every time we touch, I get this feeling. And every time we kiss I swear I could fly. Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last. Need you by my side. 'Cause every time we touch, I feel this static. And every time we kiss, I reach for the sky. Can't you hear my heart beat so... I can't let you

Re: Toronto Meetup

Toronto Meetup Next: Art and Feminism Edit-a-Thon March 23, 2019 at Art Gallery of Ontario 2018: Art and Feminism Edit-a-Thon March 24, 2018 at Art Gallery of Ontario

DRV notice

Please note that another editor borought up the AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cemeteries in Somerset County, New Jersey, that you closed, at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 September 7. --Tikiwont 14:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

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Student suicides

Hi Deathphoenix. You closed this AfD. I recently happened upon this user subpage. Since you have some familiarity in this matter, would you look into this? Thanks. -- Jreferee t/c 17:21, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Possible spam on User Page

I wanted to send notice to you that this user has one or more links on her user page linking people to a shopping site in order to purchase Star Wars costumes. I believed it to be spam, and I kindly and openly notified her on her talk page. If you don't mind looking into it, I would appreciate that a lot. While I do my best to revert vandalism, policy violations in this area are usually passed from myself directly to an administrator. If you don't mind sending me a message of what I should do if I see this next time, I would appreciate it. I would not want to violate any wikipedia policies in attempt to revert or remove what looks to be against Wikipedia's spam policy. Thanks a lot. BeanoJosh 19:33, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

BTW: What does it take to be considered for adminship? I have many reverts for vandalism, and I am beginning to participate in admin/user chores, including cleaning up articles from Wikipedias backlog. What else should I do? Thanks.

Re: Thanks for letting me know what happened to that userpage. I didn't know whether or not I could really do anything. And I've already read through the requests for adminship page. I didn't know whether or not admins "look for someone with a certain something or not and don't say it", so hearing that from you helped me out quite a bit. I'm starting to help out with some sysop chores from Wikipedia's backlog (to me what seems like a prerequisite since that is a question by itself when you apply). I've also been reverting a lot of vandalism, so that will help as well. Anyway, thanks for the message and I will definitely keep in touch with you. BeanoJosh 17:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

old navy logo in my userbox on my page

I was hoping you could help me out. A user keeps deleting one of my userboxes because it conains a "free use" image. I wanted to have your permission to use that image in my userbox. all it is, is this:

This user works at[[]]

|}

It's just a userbox saying that I work at Old Navy. I do work there, and have been since June 2005. May I please use that image?

Thanks.

BeanoJosh 06:02, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Dang... OK. I'll find another solution. Thanks. BeanoJosh 21:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania 2009

Toronto Candidate City for Wikimania 2009
Support TORONTO in its bid to become the host city of WIKIMANIA 2009 Visit m:Wikimania 2009/Toronto for TORONTO's MetaWiki page and help build a strong bid.

Wikimania 2009

Toronto Candidate City for Wikimania 2009
Support TORONTO in its bid to become the host city of WIKIMANIA 2009 Visit m:Wikimania 2009/Toronto for TORONTO's MetaWiki page and help build a strong bid.

-- Zanimum 15:46, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

In Remembrance...

--nat ^{Alo! Salut! Sunt eu, un haiduc?!?!} 00:22, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

a question for you

I don't know the wikipedia rules when it comes to creating a user account and what words it may contain. Could you fill me in on this and link me to the page that defines these rules? I saw in the RC a new user creation log of User:Garotted nigger, and I don't know if this violates any policy. BeanoJosh 17:12, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

One more question

Thanks for answering my question. I was pretty sure there was policy against inappropriate usernames, but I couldn't land my finger (or my mouse) on it. I have another question for you. I am desiring to change my username from User:BeanoJosh to User:Beano, but I am sure the name is taken. It seems like an inactive user and has no userpage. What can I do to request that change? Thanks. BeanoJosh (talk) 07:03, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Although I found the answer already, I just wanted to let you know that I successfully changed my username from BeanoJosh to Beano. What happens to all of my saved things in my old userspace? If I were to blank all the stuff from it, would it also delete the things off of my new one? Beano (talk) 10:35, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Deleted Article Summability criterion

Pursuant to a group AfD, you deleted this article. Would you mind placing a copy of it, with history, in my User space so that I can review it for possible return? This was a notable criterion and was, in my opinion, only deleted because nobody knowledgeable about election methods and issues noticed the AfD. Thanks. --Abd (talk) 20:45, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Temporary Review

Dear Deathphoenix,

My name is James and i am quite new to wikipedia and i dont know how to do this properly. I was hoping that you could temporarily restore an article on Joseph Yahuda, an author who wrote the book "Hebrew Is Greek" for me, becasue i saw your account name on the page. I would deeply appreciate if you could give me the source of the article so i can review it off wikipedia.

Please email me back on mx55@hotmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Motionpicture (talk • contribs) 15:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Mirrors & Forks

As you can see just above your post, I recently asked a similar question. I'm not sure if anyone is answering the phone over there and I can't figure out if we're supposed to chase these things on our own or if there's a team that takes it over.

If you get anywhere with it, please let me know. Cheers! Franamax (talk) 21:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

vandalism

Sorry if your page recently has gotten vandalized. My ex friend got hold of my password and decided to go on a vandilism spree...I am truly sorry. Fishback666 (talk) 01:36, 11 March 2008 (UTC)Fishback666

Edits by 194.80.32.8

You left a notice on the talk page of that user to let you know if any vandalism is done by that IP. I'm faily certain that these edits [17] [18] [19] [20] do constitute vandalism. It's certainly not obvious vandalism, but you have more experience than me, so I'll leave it up to you to decide if it is and if action should be taken. According to the history page, the page was edited by two IPs (the other of which I simply warned), both of whom I'm guessing aren't very happy with their jobs at Softtek.CrazyChemGuy (talk) 23:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

194.80.32.8

Hello. Sorry to trouble you. Kindly examine this [21], and please take suitable action, if convenient, like sending e-mail, etc. Thanks & Regards. --Bhadani (talk) 15:32, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the assistance. --Bhadani (talk) 16:54, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

AfD

An article you have an interest in, Jonathan Bishop, has been nominated for deletion. You might wish to express your opinion on the proposed deletion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jonathan_Bishop_(3rd_nomination). Pontyboy (talk) 10:24, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

hey

It's been awhile since we've talked. Just wanted to say hi. What's going on? My old username was BeanoJosh, but it's Beano now... Beano (talk) 03:32, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Same here. I've really been into school for the last year, so my edits and valdalism removal has been really short. I'd like to admin, but I'm not going to re-apply for at least another year. I want to actually have time to use admin powers to help out the site, if granted them. Beano (talk) 21:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Quick Question

I'm starting a new headline since this is a new subject. Hope you don't mind. I'm still taking adminship into consideration and might apply for it by the end of the college year, which is about, say, 6 months away? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind giving me tips on what I could be doing to help raise my eligibility. I've been patrolling RC, NP, participating in xfd discussions, etc. Anything I might be missing that would help me out? Thanks for the help. Beano (talk) 21:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm not going to apply for adminship until probably this summer or so, or unless someone nominates me. I just wanted to see if there was any more things I should be getting involved in. Thanks. ~Beano~ ^{(talk) (contribs)} 18:13, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Drizzt Do'Urden

Hello. :) Since you have been involved in editing the article Drizzt Do'Urden, I wanted to let you know that we have nominated the article for "Good Article" status. You can view the review page, and if there is anything you can do to make the article better, please do so. :) BOZ (talk) 20:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Who are you to play God?

You have deleted the pages of several well known companies in the United States. Who made you God to decided what is or isn't a valuable page on Wikipedia?

You aren't even American. How do you know if a company is well known in the US enough that people want to read about it or not? I bet you don't even know which companies I am talking about while living in Toronto. If I create a page for a company that you haven't heard of you will probably delete it even if that company has several thousand employees and have tens of thousands of American customers.

Sometimes there are export restrictions on certain products such that only American governments can purchase that product. For a Canadian such as yourself you would not even be aware of that company's product's existance and you took down that company's page more than once without realizing that the company is as well known in the USA as Nortel is in Canada. I mean, how many people really know what Nortel is? If there were an American as stupid as you are they would have accidentally taken down Nortel's page as blatent advertising just as you had incorrectly taken down several pages in the past.

Think about the pages you marked for deletion and see if you can figure out which companies you did this to by accident. I bet you're too ill informed to be able to figure it out. You should stick to editing pages of Canadian content and leave the American content to Americans.

Je pense que tu est stupid, eh?

Happy First Edit Day!!!

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63.139.233.58 (talk) 01:29, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

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Replaceable fair use File:VC Beharry.jpg

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Death Valley Driver Video Review

When an Administrator decides a AfD, I usually see them remove the AfD and Rescue templates from the article. Please do that for Death Valley Driver Video Review. --DThomsen8 (talk) 20:37, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Johnson Beharry

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MSU Interview

Dear Deathphoenix,

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 (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 14:10, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

SCOUT eh!

When this article was nominated for AfD in 2005 you were involved in the discussion. It has now been nominated again. This is a notification in case you are still interested in taking part in the debate. Regards, DiverScout (talk) 09:36, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Undelete history for Favorite betrayal criterion

Deletion review for Favorite betrayal criterion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Tablerows/Liberals

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If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by visiting the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:08, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents/colhead

A tag has been placed on Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents/colhead requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it must be substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{substituted}}</noinclude>).

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by visiting the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:09, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Reform/colhead

A tag has been placed on Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Reform/colhead requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it must be substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{substituted}}</noinclude>).

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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. (X! · talk)  · @172  ·  03:07, 2 January 2013 (UTC) —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 05:12, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

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April - National Contribution Month

Good day Deathphoenix,

During the month of April, Wikimedia Canada is preparing the National Contribution Month, and we are looking for experienced contributors to organize a contribution day (or half-day) in their region.

Contribution days are activities where Wikipedia's contributors, students, or anybody interested in contributing to Wikipedia meets together to collectively improve a predetermined theme. This meetings generally take place in library where references are easy of access, but can be organized in any communal room. Beside improving articles, a goal of this participatory workshops is to initiate neophyte in the cooperative contribution of Wikipedia.

If you are interested in organizing or participating in a contribution day in your region, communicate witht he national team on the project's talk page. The exact agenda of each local event is left to the discretion of the organizer. Help is available for the organization from contributors who already organized these type of days, so don't be worried. If you have any questions or want more information, don't hesitate to contact us.

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Harry Potter/PA Differences

Wikipedia:WikiProject Harry Potter/PA Differences, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Harry Potter/PA Differences and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Harry Potter/PA Differences during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:25, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 06:46, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Notification of imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next several days. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 03:50, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions have been removed pending your return. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. Acalamari 22:22, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Sysop flag returned

I just wanted to let you know that, there having been no serious concerns expressed by my fellow 'crats, I've restored your administrative rights. Welcome back to Wikipedia. Pakaran 18:25, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

No problem, it's what they pay us the big bucks for :P Pakaran 15:44, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Pierre de Coubertin

A relative of Luz Long contacted Wikimedia in connection with the statement in the Luz Long Wikipedia article that he received the Pierre de Coubertin medal. She is working on a biography of Luz Long, and does not have information about this honor. The Luz Long article isn't sourced, and the editor who first added the information is an IP. However, it is also mention in the Pierre de Coubertin article, which you edited.

I noticed that User:Joseph Dwayne added the statement, ...Jesse Owens after being adviced by his competitor, Luz Long, at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Long was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin medal for his sportmanship."

Some time later User:Deathphoenix add the word "posthumously'.

I'm sending this to both of you, recognizing that this was a decade ago, but wondering if you know where you got that information. I'd like to share it with the family.--S Philbrick(Talk) 01:43, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Interview for my dissertation

hello, My name is yilmaz. I am doing master at Sussex in the field of media and cultural studies and I am writing dissertation about Wikipedia as a commons but I need to have an interview with at least three (3) Wikipedians. I will send you an interview form, which consists of twelve questions. The interview is crucial to analyse the main logic of Wikipedia and digital commons. I hope you will help me for this.

Best Regards Yilmaz

ArbCom elections are now open!

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:54, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, Deathphoenix. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

• Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
• A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:32, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Deathphoenix.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Deathphoenix. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes

Amortias • Deckiller • BU Rob13

Ronnotel • Islander • Chamal N • Isomorphic • Keeper76 • Lord Voldemort • Shereth • Bdesham • Pjacobi

Guideline and policy news

• A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
• AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
• Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
• The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.

Technical news

• A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
• Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
• A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

Administrator changes

TheDJ

Xnuala • CJ • Oldelpaso • Berean Hunter • Jimbo Wales • Andrew c • Karanacs • Modemac • Scott

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
• The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
• An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
• After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

Technical news

• After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
• Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).

Administrator changes

Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim

Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
• Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

Technical news

• You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
• There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
• Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

Miscellaneous

• Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes

Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn

ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
• Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
• An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.

Technical news

• Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes

Happyme22 • Dragons flight

Zad68

Guideline and policy news

• The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.

Technical news

• Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
• A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.

Miscellaneous

• A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
• A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
• Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

Administrator changes

Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 ^{(first RfA to reach WP:300)}

Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

• Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
• A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
• An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news

• LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
• The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

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Running Man Barnstar question

Hi Deathphoenix, I noticed you created the Template: The Running Man Barnstar + think the design is great - particularly the alt one. By any slight chance, would you be available and interested in creating a similar one for the Running Woman? Hmlarson (talk) 21:44, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

• Well there's a blast from the past! I'd be happy to work on an alternate, but I see that all of my old Barnstars have been cleaned up with alternate versions. The alternate version of The Running Man is here and it looks gender neutral (not to mention a lot cleaner and sharper than my original). What do you think of that one? --Deathphoenix ʕ 18:19, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

Administrator changes

Nakon • Scott

Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news

• ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
• Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.

Technical news

• You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
• Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
• In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

• Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

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Invitation to Admin confidence survey

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Beginning in September 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tool team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing and mitigating things like sockpuppetry, vandalism, and harassment.

The survey should only take 5 minutes, and your individual response will not be made public. This survey will be integral for our team to determine how to better support administrators.

To take the survey sign up here and we will send you a link to the form.

We really appreciate your input!

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem

Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
• Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news

• You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration

• Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
• A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
• A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
• Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries

• The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

Joe Roe

JzG

Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news

• Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
• A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.

Miscellaneous

• Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
• The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
• The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration

• Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
• Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

• A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

• A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

• AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
• When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
• The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

• In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

• Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
• Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

• Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

Administrator changes

Sro23

KaisaL • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
• Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news

• The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz

Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news

• Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).

Administrator changes

Justlettersandnumbers • L235

Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter

Interface administrator changes

Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333

Oversight changes

Guerillero • NativeForeigner • Snowolf • Xeno

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
• There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.

Technical news

• Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
• Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
• The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
• Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
• Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Administrator changes

Sir Sputnik

Kudpung • Liz • Lourdes

Everyking • Jackmcbarn

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes

AGK • Ivanvector • Stwalkerster • TonyBallioni

Oversight changes

Amorymeltzer • Oshwah • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Keilana

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
• A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news

• Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
• A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
• The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
• The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-enwikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz

Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

Deryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
• A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
• A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

• Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
• To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
• Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
• Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

• Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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