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Thank you

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 09:41, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Don't worry, it happens to all of us. --Rschen7754 09:42, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 December 2012

CO SH 82 assessment

Just curious: what was the reason for the C? Not complaining, just wondering, given everything in it and the meticulous sourcing I did, why it's not a B? Is it because it doesn't have the map image and KML? If so, I can understand (although these will be coming soon).

I ask because (heads up) I'm planning to submit it to PR very soon (and I think it has GA and FA potential). Daniel Case (talk) 04:49, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say that the main issue is too much detail in the route description; the stuff about the medians and the guardrail is too much, for example. None of our FAs are that detailed, and that sort of detail tends to bore the reader. The cite to the Youtube video seems a bit sketchy to me as well.
Just as a heads up, I wouldn't recommend submitting to PR. A lot of articles are being archived from there after two weeks with nobody reviewing except a bot, so it might be an unnecessary delay. Once you pass GA, we have WP:HWY/ACR and articles from there have a 90% pass rate at FAC. I know there's some sort of issues that some members of the New York roads project have with the U.S. roads project (which is frustrating, because they won't tell me what these issues are to begin with), but the truth is that we still remain a functional project that fosters collaboration, and we would be happy to help you out. --Rschen7754 06:05, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
No, I didn't get the one about HWY PR. Is it pretty much as dead as it looks? As for regular PR, I don't mind. I got a review last time around (Independence Pass) which proved quite helpful; and I will definitely be doing one myself as a QPQ.

Since this isn't a NY road, I'm not worried about any issues (and I have heard Mitchazenia talk at length about those, believe me). Yes, it's detailed ... better from my perspective to have too much and then cut than too little and have to add (as, in fact, I recently told someone at PR). Daniel Case (talk) 04:57, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I suppose I didn't mention HWY PR, but it's dead and I'm considering tagging it historical. I've found our A-Class review to be the most helpful, but having it pass GA is a prerequisite for that. --Rschen7754 04:59, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have to say, the C-Class assessment looks highly speculative. There is a difference between detail like this and turn-by-turn detail, which we have issues with in east-coast articles. –Fredddie™ 13:11, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your comments on the Arb/OS thing

I hope you don't mind that I did this. Your post was just a huge blob of text, hopefully this will make it a bit easier to read. Feel free to revert it though. Legoktm (talk) 13:20, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For the benefit of the talk page stalkers, yes it's fine --Rschen7754 13:36, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #36

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found here
    • Updated demo system
    • http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
    • Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
    • It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
    • Links are now protocol-relative (bugzilla:42534)
    • No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
    • Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
    • Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
    • Removed many singletons to reduce global state
    • Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
    • Improved settings system
    • Improved options of ValueFormatters
    • Improved options of ValueParsers
    • Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
    • Fixed serialization of SiteArray
    • ~=[,,_,,]:3
    • Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
    • Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
    • Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
    • Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
    • Moved the demo system to a larger server
    • Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
    • Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
    • A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “‎Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”)
  • Discussions/Press
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I have an unknown amount of edits

Hello,

I have not requested for adminship yet because I have less than 5,000 edits, but can you find out how many edits I have made?

Here is a link to my contributions to see how many edits I have made:

Special:Contributions/Cmach7

Please count my contributions as far as you can. Cmach7 (talk) 23:29, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You can actually look at Special:Preferences to tell you. --Rschen7754 23:30, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. It says that I have 491 edits. My next edit was made now which makes it 492 edits. Cmach7 (talk) 23:37, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Status update

The winds are supposed to hit 50 mph tomorrow, so I may lose power. We'll see what happens... --Rschen7754 03:49, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lost power. My 3G is spotty too, so responses will be delayed. --Rschen7754 public (talk) 23:29, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
And we're back after 2 hours thankfully. --Rschen7754 00:03, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom case has been filed.

[1] A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 11:16, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas


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Thanks! Hope yours is good too! --Rschen7754 22:11, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 17 December 2012

Wikidata weekly summary #37

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Have a great holiday season!

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Userboxes

Hey Rschen! Would you like many more userboxes on your user page? If yes, then please see this page and you will have many more userboxes on your user page! Also, you might like to create a page called "User:Rschen7754/Userboxes" and add your userboxes there! Cheers and Merry Christmas! CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 02:33, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I actually used to have that page and kept about a hundred userboxes on there - but a lot of them got deleted and I finally just deleted the whole page since it was a huge mess. Now I keep them all on my userpage. Thanks though! --Rschen7754 04:05, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

I considered sending personalized fancy templates but then I ran out of time and more importantly, energy. So a merry Christmas to you. To my fellow roads project editors, I'm grateful to be part of such a good team and for your friendship especially through the ups and downs in my personal life in 2012. To those outside the roads project this year that I've met through #wikipedia-en-admins and OTRS and whatever, it's been great meeting you and I look forward to getting more involved in the project in general, and I'm thankful for your advice. Hopefully 2013 will be more calm than the last few months and we can write an encyclopedia. --Rschen7754 07:49, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!


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Hello Rschen7754! Wishing you a very Happy Merry Christmas :) TheGeneralUser (talk) 13:44, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and same to you! --Rschen7754 22:25, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Availability

Over the next few days my ability will be somewhat limited; see User:Rschen7754/Wikistatus for a more up to date schedule. --Rschen7754 22:25, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator

Hey Rschen7754, I'm Curtaintoad again. I think I have read this entire page about becoming an admin someday. Once I have had much more time on Wikipedia, and over 6,000 edits, hopefully I'll become one someday -- I'll create a page called "Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Curtaintoad". Thank you, CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 00:50, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I'd say that patience is a good thing, though - I kept quiet about wanting to become an admin until someone offered to nominate me. --Rschen7754 00:52, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Great! Thanks ;) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 00:57, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Once I have made over 6,000 edits, I'll create the page :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 08:39, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
No no no you've got it all wrong. Doing it that way is a guarantee for your RFA to fail. Remember, it has to pass, right? With your reputation, you have to convince us that you would be a good admin. Saying "I want to be an admin" with 1,000 of your 6,000 edits is not the way to do it. --Rschen7754 15:43, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I've checked on another page, and I need to make 6,000 edits within one year. I'll get busy! Cheers, CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 06:06, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Again, you're far from the mark. I have two questions for you: 1) if one edits their userpage 6,000 times, and has no other edits, do you think that will result in a successful RFA? 2) Many RFAs of users that have over 6,000 edits fail. Why do you think that is? --Rschen7754 07:35, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
1) No.
2) Maybe it's because you need to make over 6,000 edits in 'articles'.
CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 09:31, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Curtaintoad, it's not about how many edits you have, people have passed with 3-4000, and failed with over 100k. It's about how you act and what experience you have. See my magic formula for details. WormTT(talk) 09:41, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) Curtaintoad, I have about 8500 edits and don't think that I would come even close to passing an RfA; it would probably get snow closed. Edit count isn't everything. Look through some old successful RfAs and some old unsuccessful RfAs, and you'll get a good idea of what kinds of things you should be doing, but a hint, doing everything with a "how will this effect my RfA" is not one of the things you should do. Happy editing. Go Phightins! 15:49, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 09:30, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 24 December 2012

Kickcensorship

Thanks for tending to User:Kickcensorship so speedily last night. You might want to glance through the history of an old editor named User:Roman888, who was community banned in March 2011. I can't be sure, but my sense of this latest episode coupled with a lot of experience with the banned user makes me think this may be Roman888 back in a new form. --Drmargi (talk) 17:54, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. I don't really know if we can link the two accounts though, or if doing it would be productive. --Rschen7754 17:59, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ahhhnd, he's back. See the diff [2] on my talk page, his only edit so far. I'm not terribly worried about linking to old accounts; he'll grab enough rope hang himself in no time. --Drmargi (talk) 07:15, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Indefblocked. --Rschen7754 15:07, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry for the hassle; Roman has been gone so long, I'm not entirely sold on this being him, but slightly wonky English is right, the timing fits Australia if we assume the typical editor edits in their evening hours, and the censorship nonsense is fairly consistent with his line of thinking. I'm wondering if I should open a case at SPI just to document all this. He may keep at it another day or two before he finally gets bored, picks up his toys and goes elsewhere. He has a long, long history of socking, and for most if it, created accounts rather than socking via an IP.
There were actually two new accounts overnight: did you notice User:DrMaggiemee? That was the one I contacted you about, but didn't do the link correctly. I left his first post on my talk page and responded to it. After I went to bed, AussieLegend reverted his second post on my talk page, which was more aggressive than the one I left for you to see, then tagged all three accounts as possible socks of Roman888. The second one popped up after Aussie's revert, and I didn't see it until you'd already indeff'd it. --Drmargi (talk) 16:55, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, now that he's doing more a SPI should probably happen to check for sleepers and/or block an IP. --Rschen7754 16:56, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'll get on it today. Facepalm Facepalm Honestly, when you think about the things in this world to which you can devote frustrated energy, why choose such nonsense as this? --Drmargi (talk) 17:03, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Surprisingly, this is pretty mild compared to other sock farms. BTW, indef'ed the other account. --Rschen7754 17:05, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Based on what I've read, this is a walk in the park compared to some, thankfully. Again, I appreciate your being so on the ball with this! We SoCal (geographically, not academically; I'm a Bruin) folk need to stick together! --Drmargi (talk) 17:15, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #38

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. It's rather short this time because pretty much everyone enjoys some well-deserved vacation.
  • Development
    • Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
    • Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
    • Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
    • Code reviewing of changes in MediaWiki core
    • Adding watchlist filter in client for Wikidata changes
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  • Events
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TROUT

{{Trout}} For blocking a newbie for doing things experienced editors do, since that must mean it's a sockpuppet and could never be a good-faith editor. Great job biting a newbie and assuming bad faith! Oh, wait, that's against the rules... RedSoxFan2434 (talk) 02:06, 29 December 2012 (UTC) NOTE: Much of that may or may not have been but definitely was sarcasm.[reply]

Uh, see User_talk:Courcelles#Another_obvious_sock - a CU came up positive believes this is a banned user. --Rschen7754 03:04, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Going to add to this - I've been an admin for seven years now, and you really get a sense for this sort of thing after a while. Not to say that experience trumps everything, but sometimes it matters, and in this case it does. --Rschen7754 04:14, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Shall I cook that trout with some fava beans and a nice chianti? --Drmargi (talk) 04:12, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year!


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Hey Rschen7754! Wishing you a very happy New Year :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 09:20, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Working for blocked contributors

This is ridiculous. If you really have a gripe, go to WP:ANI. --Rschen7754 23:55, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Hi - please do not work for banned blocked users - diff - your an admin and should avoid that - Youreallycan 23:37, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

... what? Do you want the nominator of that GAN to wait weeks without getting the GA passed? This is wikilawyering at its finest. --Rschen7754 23:40, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I don't give a damn about anything apart from your admin status and your involved position and removing it - Youreallycan 23:54, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Explanation

Hi Rschen, didn't mean to suggest that you knew what was going on, simply that I'd heard whispers as early as October. I meant to refactor the indents on my comments on the other page but it's much too late now. Also, thanks for notifying SilkTork - I should have done that immediately but I'm really not thinking clearly right now. Anyway, just wanted to explain. I think my comments may have come across wrong. No offense was intended. Truthkeeper (talk) 02:26, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, not a problem. Yeah, my first FA was in early 2009 and then I largely stayed away from FAC until 2011, so I had no idea who Mattisse was, though I'd seen the name thrown about a few times. --Rschen7754 02:32, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 December 2012

Followup

My talk page is not an extension of the FAC drama. --Rschen7754 21:13, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

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You asked a question on my talk that I regret to have to answer, as it will appear to be revisiting old issues, but nonetheless, clearing it up may help. At the time the most recent example happened, I was hosting a Christmas dinner and missed it-- didn't see it until well after it was all done, so it seemed at the time best to let it go. I only bring it up here because you asked, and because I'm tired of seeing my name thrown around with inaccurate statements.

  1. You beat me to notifying SilkTork of a discussion on my talk, so clearly you understand when you should notify another editor. [3]
  2. You made an unexplained statement about me here. I'm not really interested at this juncture at knowing why you hold this view, but if you again make a similar statement, I'd appreciate a notification so I can address the incomplete and inaccurate information that is throughout that discussion on Kiefer's talk. If you are unaware of the relevant facts, in the future you might either refrain from offering an uninformed opinion, or at least notify the affected when you are maligning them. I'm unaware of what else led to Kiefer's block, and didn't have time to follow it then nor will I now, but those who claimed he was making a personal attack when he was stating a diffable fact should either familiarize themselves with the diffable history or refrain from commenting when they are uninformed.
  3. Then you further made a statement about me at ANI, and again failed to notify me so I could address the inaccuracies. [4] Again, at this juncture, I prefer to ignore continued provocation from all previously involved parties, and hope they will desist, so I'm not really interested in following up on why you hold this view, but should you say things about me in the future, particularly at ANI, please add a diff so that those unaware of the accurate facts can see the discussions and form accurate opinions, and please notify me.

It is bad enough that I and other editors have been the target of multiple socks, users returning under new names to revisit old grudges, and sock enablers for several years, but what I will no longer sit by for is seeing the FA process maligned and implicated because of a small handful of editors bearing grudges. Please notify me in the future if you feel you must weigh in on matters when you are unaware of the history. Thanks, I suspect you're actually one of the "good guys", and aren't even aware that you've been doing this. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:03, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you and Wehwalt have been going at it for several months now. FA RFC a year ago? The ArbCom request I filed? Motion to sanction Elen? The ArbCom elections? Nixon? Maybe there's times where you do get along, but I sure haven't seen them in the last year. (To be clear, it's both of you at fault here). For the record, I thought Keifer's block was at least reasonable - he was a bit out of control. --Rschen7754 20:13, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK, you don't get it and you're not going to get it, apparently, so my simple request stands ... the next time you make (your version of disparaging and inaccurate and false and in misogynistic conversations) about me or FAC, please be sure to notice me so I can correct you when and where it occurs. Even better yet, since you have no idea what you're talking about, how about you just knock it off, ala keep your nose out of business you know nothing of, or provide a diff for those who care about accuracy which doesn't concern you? Your opinions are just that, and when not backed by diffs, they begin to amount to personal attacks, so stop it. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:47, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
(ec)
Rschen7754 is intelligent and reasonable, but he may suffer from a wish to be kind to all parties rather than be just: Fiat justitia ruat caelum.
His was the only ArbGuide to say anything about the FA debacle, before yours, and he appears to be the only person to have commented on the W's statement, which shocked me at the time (soon after I had tried to make you two chuckle with a Star Trek unfair use...). W had not defended the statement or made counter-attacks, which I think shows he understands how serious it was; I'd like to imagine that it was a first-time use of pseudophedrine or whiplash or something that should remain private that resulted in the utterance.
Thus, he is one of the best administrators around.
Regarding my block: Which block? By Giant Snowman? Or ( at least relevant to SG) by BWilkins? BWilkins has still not supplied diffs. If you support his block, perhaps you would supply the diffs? Kiefer.Wolfowitz 20:53, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Kiefer, hard to tell which comments are aimed at me and which at Rschen, but I don't remember anything about StarTrek, am not sure what you're referring to, and honestly I don't want to know, so don't fill me in. I want all of this to end ... that includes the continued provocation from the involved, but also the proliferation of false statements by admins surrounding the FA issues who are painfully underinformed. Just Stop, Everyone, Please. I answered Rschen's question out of courtesy, I have refrained from supplying the diffs that might demonstrate just how wrong he is and that conversation on your talk was because I am uninterested in dredging up the old history. I want it to stop ... that includes from you, Rschen. You are furthering falsehoods and disruption, so supply diffs in the future, notify me, or leave me and FAC out of it. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:59, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page, such as the current discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
-( — Ched :  ?  08:56, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Amendment

If you're trying to get me to redact my statement, it won't work. This isn't about "like" or "dislike", it's about what is best for the project, and it's clear that you are willing to disregard the wishes of the community, by your flouting of the community sanctions. This isn't going anywhere fast, so hatting. --Rschen7754 21:45, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

I am undoubtedly being incredibly dense but your comment "per Coren" really explains nothing. It seems to me that even if you produced evidence that eat babies for breakfast, and plan to appeal a conviction for treason in Her Majesty's Dock Yards, this has no bearing on the truth or falsity of a simple Finding of Fact. This is not about whether I am a Good Person™ or have done anything else, this is about a very narrow, but damaging, and untrue statement. You said somewhere that you have matured while you have been on Wikipedia, so I was happy to quietly accept a 2 week block on the basis that you were "uninvolved" - the mess that made it seem like a good block to you was not your fault (though even then the haste was unseemly). However since then you have defended abuse of office, and made other negative comments on my talk page. Now you attempt to sabotage a perfectly straight forward proceeding by throwing in irrelevant material in an attempt to make me me look bad. Well I now lay aside my provisional labelling of you as uninvolved. It is true that I assume good faith far more than most Wikipedians, and am constantly encouraging others to do so, but that does not mean that I turn a blind eye. Rich Farmbrough, 01:30, 3 January 2013 (UTC).[reply]

It's an obvious attempt to chip away at the case piece by piece, and it's clear from the diff that I posted that an appeal of your sanctions is your big-picture goal. --Rschen7754 01:39, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
And that is a good thing, and one I have discussed openly with at least three arbitrators, and posted on the talk page of the original case 6 weeks ago. We remove all the falsehoods from the case and watch it come tumbling down. You think it is good to leave up damaging untruths about me? Rich Farmbrough, 05:55, 3 January 2013 (UTC).[reply]
Coren and Risker (!) summarize my viewpoint pretty well. --Rschen7754 06:38, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Risker says anyone asking for an amendment doesn't deserve it. It is not about "deserve" it is a about right and wrong. Just because you don't like someone, it does not make it OK to promulgate damaging falsehoods about them. I would suggest you read 1984, Animal Farm and Murder in Samarkand to understand how sustaining this sort of iniquity has dire consequences. Rich Farmbrough, 21:41, 3 January 2013 (UTC).[reply]
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The WikiProject: Good Articles Newsletter (January 2013)

The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
Volume IV, No. 1 – January 2013

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In This Issue


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Happy New Year!

Best wishes for the New Year!
Wishing you and yours a joyous, healthful, and productive 2013!

Please accept a belated thank you for the well wishes upon my retirement as FAC delegate this year, and apologies for the false alarm of my first—and hopefully last—retirement; the well wishes extended me were most kind, but I decided to return, re-committed, when another blocked sock was revealed as one of the factors aggravating the FA pages this year.

Maintaining standards in featured content requires vigilance, dedication and knowledge of people like you, who are needed; reviews are always welcome at FAC, FAR and TFA requests. Somehow, somehow we never ever seem to do nothin' completely nice and easy, but here's hoping that 2013 will see a peaceful road ahead and a return to the quality and comaraderie that defines the FA process, with the help of many dedicated Wikipedians!

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:09, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, and I hope that yours is good as well. --Rschen7754 08:12, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I used your FAC as the most recent example of what I view as the thoughtful environment and interplay between reviewers, delegates, and nominators that exists, even when faced with difficult interaction: see here. Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:09, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata in dewp

Hi, You put a link on the German roads page and Daniel749 deleted your edit. I wrote something down on our Roads talk about wikidata (a little bit more than your link;) and invited the German writers to help us in the road task force. Greetings from Germany, -- feuerst – talk 20:00, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --Rschen7754 20:51, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #39

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Fedor

Hi. I noticed you posted a response on the arbitration request of Fedor. Not sure if it makes the matter any different, but I edited it to reflect that this one issue effects two pages. And that IP edits are to blame for one set of the removing of sourced content. Not sure if you had seen that. Thanks PortlandOregon97217 (talk) 03:04, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SPI clerk

Hello, are you still interested in being an SPI clerk? I'd be willing to take you on as a trainee if you are. Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:40, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

For the onwiki record, yes. --Rschen7754 02:51, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Alright then, I'll add your name to the clerk list! You should read the admin and clerk instructions, the multiple account policy (make note of the legitimate versus illegitimate uses of sockpuppets), the WMF privacy policy, and the checkuser policy. We sometimes work in #wikipedia-en-spi connect, and, although it isn't critical, it can be a big help when explaining things. WP:SPI lists the open cases so you can find them, and User:Timotheus Canens/spihelper.js is a helpful little script you might want to add to your js page to assist with clerking cases. Finally, you may find that adding importScriptURI('http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-markblocked.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); to your js page to mark blocked users is helpful in determining which sockpuppets have been blocked already. Good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:31, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Reconsider your block?

You recently blocked User:Presidentsomeday0000 for spamming.

almost immediately after getting their first notices about spamming, the user indicated that they understood the policy and would not continue and did not make any more inappropriate edits to article space. Would you consider unblocking or would you like a formal unblock request from the user? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 04:03, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Unblocked - seems that I missed that in all their removing of the talk page warnings. That being said, I doubt they will be back - it seems they had one purpose to edit, and when they realized it was not possible, moved on. --Rschen7754 04:11, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) Is it okay for Presidentsomeday0000 to remove messages on the talk page? I reverted it. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 04:42, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It's not exactly nice, but yes, it is allowed. The only thing that isn't allowed to be removed are declined unblock requests. --Rschen7754 04:45, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 04:46, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for taking a second look. I hope that I dont regret requesting it!-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 05:10, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Austereraj

Hi Rschen, regarding the Austereraj SPI that you recently clerked, I notice that at least some of the items in the archive for that master - eg: Rajkumarrewari - are blue-linked categorised as Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Austereraj whereas the new three are redlinked as Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Austereraj. Is this correct? Is it dependent on whether a CU was run or something like that? - Sitush (talk) 23:02, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I actually don't know (I've been a clerk for less than 24 hours!) I've left a note asking for another clerk to double-check though. --Rschen7754 23:03, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No probs. I rather thought that might be the case. Good luck and thanks for volunteering! - Sitush (talk) 23:12, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 07 January 2013

re curtaintoad

Hi, Im curtaintoads mum. Im not sure if its appropriate for me to send you a message, so i apologise if im doing something wrong.

Curtaintoad just showed me his recent messages and i have read them and tried to explain to him what it all means.

Curtaintoad is a child with autism and it is sometimes difficult for him to comprehend some things, but im actually very impressed by him.

Wikipedia has been a generally positive thing for him as he is eager to learn and contribute, sometimes too keen.

Hopefully he will settle down and become a valuable Wikipedian, thats all he wants to do.

Thank you for taking the time to point out some things for him to consider.

WendyS1971 Talk 10:01, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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