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Adminship Nomination

Seddσn talk|WikimediaUK 16:25, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Allow me to ask, but didn't you want to change your username before running again? On a side note, I'd offer to co-nom if interested :-) Regards SoWhy 16:47, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, thank you very much, SoWhy. However, I have simply gotten too many nomination offers to deal with, so I have decided to just keep it nice and simple at one. Thank you though!
As for the username, well, I'll explain that during the RfA ;) NW (Talk) 16:53, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's your RFA of course. I wish you good luck with that. :-) Regards SoWhy 16:59, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
PS: Have you decided which name you will want to rename to then? Regards SoWhy 17:57, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No, I haven't just yet. NW (Talk) 17:59, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck! wadester16 17:03, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, good luck to you! Pastor Theo (talk) 01:12, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for not holding a grudge, neither will I. I will do my best to take the criticism to heart and improve my communication style. As for AfDs I will go slow and be sure I learn the basics first. I will work to gain your trust by dilligent work. Thanks for participating in the RfA.·Maunus·ƛ· 17:49, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Username Suggestions

Hello NW, I'm Airplaneman. I don't think we've met before. I see that you are looking to change your username (after your RfA) and have 2 suggestions.

  1. Submarine
  1. Boing!

They are just some names that popped into my head. It doesn't matter if you consider them or not, but I thought I'd provide some ideas.

Regards,

Airplaneman talk 20:52, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I revised my suggestions on your userpage. Nukeit was probably still a bit too aggressive. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:44, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How about the following:

I would really recommend changing the user name; I'm not making that a condition for my vote, but I do think it makes sense specifically for someone who works a lot with new users: The current name is aggressive and will feel offputting especially to the nicest newbies. — Sebastian 01:07, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What about:

  • iNW
  • iNuclear
  • iKnowHowGreatMatthewIs

? iMatthew talk at 02:40, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Section Header SPI problem

NW, I set up a dummy test of transcluding an SPI with section headers. Can you take a look at it and tell me if this looks like what happened when you transluded the BullRangifer SPI with the section headers into the SPI "waiting for clerk approval" page? These are dummy spis and the "awaiting SPI approval is in my sandbox". However, I did not dummy all the templates. so, please take a look here at the sandbox test transclusion I set up [1]. Is this is creating the same problem? Is the problem the sequence of the section headers doesn't make sense? Thanks --stmrlbs|talk 08:52, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yep that is exactly what happened when the case was transcluded onto the SPI subpage. NW (Talk) 13:30, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the problems are because an SPI with section headers is interspersed with SPIs in the old format. What do you think of how this looks? [2] (the section divider doesn't have to be pink ;)) --stmrlbs|talk 19:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think the headers might have to be shifted down one (Level 2 headers to Level 3, etc.), except for the main one. Could you try that out? NW (Talk) 19:22, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
can you be a little more specific? so, you want 2.1 to be 2.2.1? how about "2 EGGLI ANDREOU_2"? do you want that to remain where it is? or do you want that to be 2.1?
Perhaps it might be easier if you tell me how you would like the sectioning? Each user should start at what level? and the sections below each user be one level below? --stmrlbs|talk 20:30, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Quite honestly, I'm not too sure. You might want to ask a more technically adept member of the SPI team about this, because I'm not too sure. NW (Talk) 21:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
yes, I will be glad to ask someone else. Can you give me a name? --stmrlbs|talk 21:21, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I actually tried to cleverly link above; see where "technically" and "adept" link to :) NW (Talk) 21:25, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
:) LOL.. thanks. --stmrlbs|talk 21:54, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Attempt One has problems because comment sections aren't subsections of their respective reports; Attempt Two solves that, but still has problems because reports are not subsections of their respective categories. As best I can tell, the hierarchy should be thus -- from the main page: page (L1), main category (L2), subcategory (L3); from the case subpage: case (L4), report (L5), comment section (L6).

Here's an example: 

= Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations =
== Open cases: awaiting Checkuser processing ==

=== Awaiting Clerk approval ===
==== BullRangifer ====
===== Report date August 17 2009, 01:18 (UTC) =====
====== Evidence submitted by Stmrlbs ======

Does that answer some questions? – Luna Santin (talk) 05:30, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

yes, that helps a lot. I changed it so that the section header levels would reflect what you indicated, but evidently the print is made very small for some reason. I will see if there is some way to override this.. perhaps bluntly by making enclosing the headers in <big></big>.. I don't know why this happens. You can see it happening here:

Awaiting Clerk approval

Suspected Puppet

Report date August 17 2009, 01:18 (UTC)
Evidence submitted by Wikipedia Editor

--stmrlbs|talk 02:39, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

yet another name suggestion

How about Strategic Energy? or WhatABlast?  ;) --stmrlbs|talk 08:54, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I added these and the ones suggested by Airplaneman to the list. I also added two more that I couldn't believe were not taken (e.g., Nuclear). Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:55, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the welcome message

Hey NW, thanks for the welcome message. I feel welcome already except for somebody deleting my contributions to the list of best selling artists talk page for some reason. Why is that? Mecuy (talk) 18:43, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think they had suspected you were a "sockpuppet" of another user who had been "trolling" that page. A checkuser has established that you are likely not that user, and so I have readded your post to that page. Hope that helps, NW (Talk) 18:53, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey thanks. I'm bothering you again, somehow i am not able to edit anything on the same page, even the topic that I started. why is that? cheers Mecuy (talk) 16:13, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's no problem at all. The page has actually been semi-protected, which means editing of the page is limited to users with more than 4 days and 10 edits of experience. If you want, you could write out a statement, and I will be happy to move it over to that page (just as a temporary measure while you wait for your account to be able to bypass the semi-protection). NW (Talk) 16:16, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ok i see. thanks a lot Mecuy (talk) 16:38, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kid

I think Friday just gave you the PERFECT new name... you should go put in a request for it right now before somebody else takes it... but the new name HAS to be "USER:The Kid." "The Kid" is a nickname often given to younger people who excel in what they do. There are plenty of examples of this.---Balloonman NO! I'm Spartacus! 20:44, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"The Kid" has 34 edits, so there's a pretty good chance that something in there is GFDL significant and thus could not be usurped. Maybe just Kid (talk · contribs)? →javért breakaway 20:46, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You're right... I just looked to see if there was a user page... should have looked at edits... "Kid" might be ok... but The Kid would have been better.---Balloonman NO! I'm Spartacus! 20:51, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Re GFDL significance, everything looked ok (just gnomy stuff that could probably be considered insignificant) up until the genesis of Injection well. "The Kidd" ? –xenotalk 20:54, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I was thinking the same thing... except it also looks like "The Kid" uploaded some images as well... which proabably would be GFDL as well. The Kidd might work... if it's free...just checked two insignificant edits.---Balloonman NO! I'm Spartacus! 21:15, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
"The Kidd" was created on 21 September 2006 at 22:53. However, his two edits are to article talkpages. So usurpation shouldn't be a problem. →javért breakaway 21:17, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ive been trying to check the global contribs of all of these users (since NW says on his userpage that he'll only consider name changes that arent used on any wiki), but Toolserver seems to be still partly down (it was fully down a few hours ago). But here's a link that will be useful for tracking down potential conflicts. Personally, I think "NuclearWarfare" is the best name of all. -- Soap Talk/Contributions 21:19, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's usually expected for admins not to have names that may be considered divisive or inflammatory. (One of the reasons I renamed) –xenotalk 21:27, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes and I really dont think NuclearWarfare is that bad now that the Cold War is over and the threat of literal nuclear warfare is minimal. Besides, if we're trying to avoid divisive usernames, wouldn't using a name like the Kid be a tease to the people who don't think minors should be administrators? -- Soap Talk/Contributions 21:30, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I found another tool. "Kid" is in use on other wikis. -- Soap Talk/Contributions 00:26, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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RFA

Good luck with your RFA and luckily it appears it should pass. Man you were quick fixing the formatting issue! When I went to fix it you'd already done so :) Aaroncrick (talk) 06:16, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Wapondaponda (talk) 15:24, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Some clarification please

Hi. In a recent SPI about me, you closed the investigation stating that you did not find conclusive evidence to establish sockpuppetry on my part. [3] Can you please explain which accounts/IP you checked versus my own and the depth of your behavioral analysis? What are the implications of your determination? Thanks. -- ǝʌlǝʍʇ ǝuo-ʎʇuǝʍʇ ssnɔsıp 23:08, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I didn't actually run a checkuser against you; for that, you will have to ask Avi. As for behavioral evidence, I remember looking through mostly just the history of that page, as well as assorted things through all the editors' contributions histories. I think I determined fairly well that you were unconnected to any of these accounts, but I was unsure of the rest; it was just too muddled to conclusively determine. Hope that helps, NW (Talk) 23:23, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank for the clarification. I appreciate it. -- ǝʌlǝʍʇ ǝuo-ʎʇuǝʍʇ ssnɔsıp 23:28, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sock investigation

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Andreisme. How did you decide who should be named as the puppetmaster? Oldest account? SpinningSpark 20:39, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pretty much. Normally, I would have kept it at the original name, but in this particular report, the results were too stale for a Checkuser to be established. NW (Talk) 20:42, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ACC

Hey, sorry I appreciate you're pretty busy over at RfA right now but is there any chance you could reactivate my account on the ACC tool? I've had a pretty hectic few months and have been unable to use the tool, and I just tried to log in but since it's been more than 45 days, I can't use it. Cheers :) Regards, --—Cyclonenim | Chat  12:18, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, it seems that not only were you suspended for inactivity, but you were also suspended for another reason: (Suspended by OverlordQ because "Please pop onto IRC so you can explain why you dropped req: 24280"). I'll unsuspend your account, but could you please read over WP:ACC/G before you handle a request? Thanks, NW (Talk) 15:21, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm pretty sure that was a while back, it ended up being a complete misunderstanding on my part regarding shared IP addresses and a dodgy decline I did. We sorted it a long time ago :) See this if you're interested. Thanks anyway. Regards, --—Cyclonenim | Chat  15:32, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Gotcha :) I unsuspended your account at ACC; good luck! NW (Talk) 15:45, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers, best of luck with your RfA too. Looks pretty certain now though, but touch wood eh. Regards, --—Cyclonenim | Chat  16:45, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Email

I have it disabled, due to my "popularity" on wikipedia. I just sent you one. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 01:44, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Replied. NW (Talk) 01:52, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
And sent another. If you monitor your e-mails frequently, I'll stop these notifications. :) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 02:02, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
And one more. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 02:22, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedian of the Day

Congratulations, NuclearWarfare! For your kindness to others, your hard work around the wiki, and for being a great user, you have been awarded the "Wikipedian of the Day" award for today, August 25, 2009! Keep up the great work!
Note: You could also receive the "Wikipedian of the Week award for this week!
If you wish, you can add {{User:Midnight Comet/WOTD/UBX|August 25, 2009}} to your userpage.

Happy editing!

[midnight comet] [talk] 01:14, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. NW (Talk) 22:23, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AIV - Thanks for the info!

Appreciate the feedback that you left here [4]. I am assuming that would be for vandalism related sock attacks only(?). BTW, good luck with your RFA "confirmation". Cheers! --CobraGeek The Geek 22:49, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's correct. For registered users, or if the IPs become too large of a problem, please file another SPI case. And thank you! NW (Talk) 22:54, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unconstructive Edit

Thank you for your feedback on my edit but I am just not seeing how it was unconstructive. I thought that a list of people from the Nation of Islam who are significant, famous or otherwise noteworthy was better titled Notable versus noted. I surely is not a big deal and have no issues with it being reversed, but I am just curious about how it was percieved.Elmmapleoakpine (talk) 02:54, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry Elmmapleoakpine! I'm afraid that I was working too fast and I reverted your edit without meaning to. I have struck the warning from your talk page; you are free to undo my edit on Nation of Islam. My apologies, NW (Talk) 02:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re:File:Zotov2.JPG

Off course it was created and published in Russia. I thought PD-Art tag would be more than enough considering the art age, but you also might know that antiquity copyright is extended in Russia to about 1944 (can check) vs. 1923 for US. Just for you to know why I always upload to WP rather than to commons - there are all kind of unexpected issues, which I can't easily track on commons, thus I wait for some time to settle those before moving the image. Should be no problem here though. Materialscientist (talk) 04:43, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :) NW (Talk) 12:48, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio

Hope you don't mind - verbatim copy of your excellent example of how to break it to them softly [5]. I cited you, but let me know if you'd rather I come up with my own version. However, I as I mentioned before - I can't imagine how you could have said it any better. I am only saddened now that the opposes continue to pile on, instead of just letting it die a quick and neutral death.  7  09:16, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's no problem at all. I too originally took that message from someone who I believe took it from someone, so we are just passing down the tradition of using that for NOTNOW RfAs. NW (Talk) 12:48, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Andrew Vinius

Updated DYK query On August 26, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Andrew Vinius, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 11:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of PROD from Tootsie Duvall

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Lol

I expect better from a soon-to-be admin. Lol - :) ceranthor 13:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What are you talking about? I see nothing wrong. ;) NW (Talk) 13:22, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image deletion help

NW - I could use your help. You noticed that two of the pictures I put on the Illinois Wesleyan University Page were marked for speedy deletion because they don't have information on their copyright status. Now, I took the pictures myself, and they haven't ever been copywrited. What additions do I need to make to each picture to prevent their deletion? In the source description I listed that I created the work myself. Let me know, and I'll be happy to make the additions. Thanks! As you can see, I'm VERY new to editing. -RJ User:Republicofjosh01 11:22, 26 August 2009 (EST)

No problem at all. At Wikipedia, we can only allow images are licensed under a copyright license that allow commercial and derivative works without prior permission. There are a myriad of tags that you can use, but I will explain the few basic tags you can add:
  • {{cc-by-sa-3.0}} and {{GFDL}}: This allows anyone to use the image if the release their own work under the same license AND credit you as the original creator of the image.
  • {{cc-by-3.0}}: This allows anyone to use the image if credit you as the original creator of the image.
  • {{pd-self}}: Anyone can use this image without any condition.
Just pick one of them and add it to the image, and you'll be set. I hope that helps, but if not, feel free to ask me for a further clarification. NW (Talk) 15:29, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great! I'm working on it right now. -RJ User:Republicofjosh01 11:32, 26 August 2009 (EST)

So I heard you're an admin now

Congrats! :) — neuro(talk) 16:11, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]


NuclearWarfare (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) &page= My admin log

Congratulations!
It is my great pleasure to inform you that your Request for Adminship has
closed successfully and you are now an administrator!

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— Rlevse • Talk • 16:13, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is great news, I'm so glad to see it was a success. And since I know you like scripts, you should try User:Plastikspork/admindash.js. You can install it either by include, or just cut and paste since it's a one-liner. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:14, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations! — Jake Wartenberg 16:15, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, well done. --John (talk) 17:01, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations NW. It's about time :-) Regards SoWhy 17:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, congrats! –Juliancolton | Talk 17:09, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Don't forget, junior admin brings the coffee for everyone!--Wehwalt (talk) 17:29, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As long as the milkman remembers to bring the milk, I'll be sure to do so. NW (Talk) 17:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations!!! Now get to work. MOVE!!! :P J.delanoygabsadds 17:31, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yay! Congrats on adminship! This was a tad overdue in my opinion, but good news nonetheless. @ J.delanoy: haha, we need to git the new SPI admin to WORK. :P JamieS93 19:34, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And thank you everyone! NW (Talk) 17:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! Great work!--Gordonrox24 | Talk 17:50, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
P.S Thanks for grabbing that vandal for me.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 18:02, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just my own note of "welcome to the team". Tan | 39 18:03, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats, just noticed you deleting something I'd prodded - good to see you're getting to work already. ;) ~ mazca talk 18:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats Nuke! Thingg⊕⊗ 18:17, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations! Have fun with the mop!--Res2216firestar 18:37, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
\o/ Whee! - Dank (push to talk) 18:55, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats! --Dylan620 (contribs, logs)help us! 18:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans

Hi there, I placed the page describing Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans. It was deleted. I didn't have a chance to edit, what was wrong specifically (Which sections were flagged). Was the entire piece article wrong? We are a valid non-profit and I have seen other non-profit pages on wikipedia. Please let me know what sections were specifically not conforming to the rules so I can correct them.

Thanks,

S~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfarkhan (talk • contribs) 18:29, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there! I deleted Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans because it was not in compliance with our advertising and neutral point of view guidelines. In addition, it was possibly a copyright violation. If you wish, I can email you the content, and you can recreate a page on the subject, if and only if your non-profit meets the notability criteria for organizations, if the article is written neutrally and if any conflict of interest does not impede you. I also advise you to read Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest and Wikipedia:Your first article before you begin. I hope this helps; feel free to reply if you need further assistance. Regards, NW (Talk) 18:35, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vaccination

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

Slight fever might ensue, but overall, this is what you have to grow to accept. Benders Game 19:55, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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