User talk:Lofty abyss

logs ₪ contribs c:\ archives C:\> ├1st archive (07/08) ├2nd archive (09-Feb) ├3rd archive (09-Mar) ├4th archive (09-Apr) ├5th archive (09-Jun) ├6th archive (09-Dec) └Index Your signature Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated <font> tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors. You are encouraged to change -- [[User:Mentifisto|<font color="#800080" face="courier new">Menti</font>]][[User talk:Mentifisto|<font color="#000000" face="courier new">fisto</font>]] : -- Mentifisto to -- [[User:Mentifisto|<span style="color: #800080; font-family: courier new;">Menti</span>]][[User talk:Mentifisto|<span style="color: #800080; font-family: courier new;">fisto</span>]] : -- Mentifisto Respectfully, Anomalocaris (talk) 19:15, 6 December 2017 (UTC) Done, thanks. -- Mentifisto 06:03, 7 December 2017 (UTC) Sorry I messed up your User talk font color. I am glad that you saw the problem and fixed it, and without complaining! Thank you for your cooperation in helping to get the lint out of Wikipedia. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:29, 7 December 2017 (UTC) Did you get an answer about RSS being delayed? Your help desk question didn't get an answer. Unfortunately, that's not something I know anything about.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:02, 15 December 2017 (UTC) Invitation to WikiProject Portals Hi, I noticed your interest in portals. Here is what has been going on behind-the-scenes with them... Currently, there are about 1500 portals, comprised of 150,000 pages in portal space, the rest beyond the 1500 being subpages. Most of those subpages contain an excerpt, copied and pasted from some article. Such excerpts never change, and they go stale over time (no longer matching the original source material). The Portal WikiProject was rebooted on April 17th, and has grown to 68 members. We've been busy redesigning the portal model so that portals will not need all those subpages. The design concept called "selective transclusion", which is used for migrating excerpts (moving them to the base page), does so by displaying part of an article the same as a template. An added benefit of this is that it also keeps them fresh, by always showing the current version of the content that is transcluded. We are also working on ways to make excerpted content, and listed entries, dynamic, so that the material or links shown automatically change over time without the intervention of an editor. Selected articles, could be set up to change daily, for example, to present a different article each day. This can even be made to show a different article every time a user visits the page. Currently, we can do this from a set list. We're trying to make it so that the list is updated automatically from an external source that is regularly maintained. Other automated solutions are being sought or developed for each section type of portals. To automatically update and archive news, did you know entries, and so on. Once we get a fully automated design worked out, it will be applied to all the portals that do not have dedicated maintainers. This will reduce the amount of maintenance they need. A single editor will then be able to watch over far more portals than before, ideally, with each portal taking up only a single page in portal space. The Portal WikiProject is dedicated to updating, upgrading, and maintaining the entire portal system and every portal in it. Come check us out, and if you like what you see, feel free to join.    — The Transhumanist   05:36, 9 May 2018 (UTC) P.S.: Mentifisto, we need people who can ask intelligent questions, and see things that others might not. And who may have an idea or a thousand. -TT Thank you very much The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up. By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject. I'd also like to let you know that the Portals WikiProject is working hard to make sure your support of portals was not in vain. Toward that end, we have been working diligently to innovate portals, while building, updating, upgrading, and maintaining them. The project has grown to 80 members so far, and has become a beehive of activity. Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them. If you would like to keep abreast of developments on portals, keep in mind that the project's members receive updates on their talk pages. The updates are also posted here, for your convenience. Again, we can't thank you enough for your support of portals, and we hope to make you proud of your decision. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   00:15, 27 May 2018 (UTC) P.S.: if you reply to this message, please {{ping}} me. Thank you. -TT ArbCom 2018 election voter message Hello, Mentifisto. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. 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Miscellaneous Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 4 March 2019 (UTC) Chill When you are pressed up against the glass, step back from it, not press harder into it. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:32, 8 March 2019 (UTC) The abyss may change whoever gazes upon it... -- Lofty abyss 05:14, 8 March 2019 (UTC) Thanks for granting me the rollback right. It's so much more convenient now in fighting vandalism and patrolling recent changes. Doesn't it also come with the {{Template:Rollbackgiven3}} template?Offend (talk) 10:37, 19 March 2019 (UTC) Ip 99.254.35.83 you may wish to remove TPA. --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 21:03, 21 March 2019 (UTC) Dearborn Heights, Michigan Might want to revisit your revdel there. The offensive username is still visible on the revert by Shellwood. Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 01:51, 25 March 2019 (UTC) Done, thanks for informing me. -- Lofty abyss 01:59, 25 March 2019 (UTC) Block upgrade You blocked a few specific IPv6 in the 2600:1015:b15e:4077::/64 range based on vandalism to John Wayne Gacy‎. It's part of a longer and wider pattern, so I blocked the whole 64 for longer and removed your shorter non-range blocks. Figured I'd better explain it since it's not obvious that my unblocking is actually just to make range-block more visible rather than to allow the IPs to edit:) DMacks (talk) 02:37, 2 April 2019 (UTC) Sure, no problem. -- Lofty abyss 03:01, 2 April 2019 (UTC) Precious fighting vandalism Thank you for quality articles such as Adolph Diesterweg and Iron Soldier 3, for using the mop to fight vandalism, trivia, spam, too much personal information, and inappropriate pages, for trying to finally get Give 'em enough rope moved, for service from 2006, - repeating from ten years ago: you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:29, 3 April 2019 (UTC) Awesome Ten years! Time does indeed fly by, but while those articles are old now (and as is obvious I prefer to do other things, but might as well try everything)... what I ended up missing recently, another page from a different namespace, was a certain multilock... sometimes even what is obvious is missed. -- Lofty abyss 22:47, 3 April 2019 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – April 2019 News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019). Administrator changes Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah Mentifisto → Lofty abyss Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius Bureaucrat changes DeltaQuad Kingturtle Technical news In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link. 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Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia. As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC) Your block of 176.59.207.12 Giving you a heads-up that the vandal has hopped to 176.59.204.51. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 19:31, 11 April 2019 (UTC) Didn't edit after the warning, so I thought a block was unnecessary, but thanks for informing me. -- Lofty abyss 23:00, 14 April 2019 (UTC) Another one With regard to your block of "Enigma man is incompetent" could you please have a look also at "Boing! zaid Sebedee" which is also their creation and is also an attack on an existing user? Thanks DBaK (talk) 22:30, 14 April 2019 (UTC) Someone else blocked as a sock, but it didn't seem to me to be an attack in the same vein as the former username. -- Lofty abyss 23:00, 14 April 2019 (UTC) Pull TPA? Would you be able to revoke TPA for User:P^o^o^p b^y t^h^e p^a^i^l, who you just blocked? They're repeatedly making trolling unblock requests. Thanks! aboideautalk 14:50, 15 April 2019 (UTC) Done. -- Lofty abyss 14:52, 15 April 2019 (UTC) Thank you! aboideautalk 14:54, 15 April 2019 (UTC) Minor mistake on your user page... I found a mistake on your user page where it says "Ðate", Is that intentional? If not, it should say "Date" instead. -216.25.187.5 (talk) 14:10, 16 April 2019 (UTC)