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Thank you
Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 09:41, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
- You're welcome! Don't worry, it happens to all of us. --Rschen7754 09:42, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
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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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
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)
- For the benefit of the talk page stalkers, yes it's fine
--Rschen7754 13:36, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #36
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- 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)
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- Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
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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:
Please count my contributions as far as you can. Cmach7 (talk) 23:29, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
- You can actually look at Special:Preferences to tell you. --Rschen7754 23:30, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
- 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)
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)
- Lost power. My 3G is spotty too, so responses will be delayed. --Rschen7754 public (talk) 23:29, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
- And we're back after 2 hours thankfully. --Rschen7754 00:03, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
ArbCom case has been filed.
[1] A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 11:16, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
Merry Christmas
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- Thanks! Hope yours is good too! --Rschen7754 22:11, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #37
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- Development
- Deployed fix for bugzilla:42956 on wikidata.org that caused problems when using the site in French in Firefox
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- Fixed some bugs in wbsearchentities
- Removed empty aliases structure from wbsearchentities
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- Refactored and added tests for language links handler in the client
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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)
- 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)
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)
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Hello Rschen7754! Wishing you a very Happy Merry Christmas :) TheGeneralUser (talk) 13:44, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks and same to you! --Rschen7754 22:25, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
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)
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)
- 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)
- Great! Thanks ;) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 00:57, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
- Once I have made over 6,000 edits, I'll create the page :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 08:39, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- (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)
- 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)
- Once I have made over 6,000 edits, I'll create the page :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 08:39, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
- Great! Thanks ;) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 00:57, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
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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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Indefblocked. --Rschen7754 15:07, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
- 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)
- 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)
- I'll get on it today.
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)
- Surprisingly, this is pretty mild compared to other sock farms. BTW, indef'ed the other account. --Rschen7754 17:05, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
- 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)
- Surprisingly, this is pretty mild compared to other sock farms. BTW, indef'ed the other account. --Rschen7754 17:05, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
- I'll get on it today.
- 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)
- Indefblocked. --Rschen7754 15:07, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
- 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)
Wikidata weekly summary #38
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- 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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- right now: 29C3
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
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.
- Uh, see User_talk:Courcelles#Another_obvious_sock - a CU
came up positivebelieves this is a banned user. --Rschen7754 03:04, 29 December 2012 (UTC)- 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)
(talk page stalker) Shall I cook that trout with some fava beans and a nice chianti? --Drmargi (talk) 04:12, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Rschen7754! Wishing you a very happy New Year :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 09:20, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
Working for blocked contributors
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)
- 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)
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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! |
- Thank you, and I hope that yours is good as well. --Rschen7754 08:12, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
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)
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)
- Thanks! --Rschen7754 20:51, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #39
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- Development
- Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
- Extended tests for statements user interface
- Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
- Layout improvements in the user interface
- Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
- Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
- More work on AbuseFilter
- Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
- Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
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- 29C3
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
- You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item
- Open Tasks for You
- Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
- Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
- Hack on one of these
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)
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)
- For the onwiki record, yes.
--Rschen7754 02:51, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
- 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)
- 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
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)
- 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)
- (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)
- 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)
- Thanks. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 04:46, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
- 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)
- Thanks. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 04:46, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
- 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)
- (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)
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)
- 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)
- No probs. I rather thought that might be the case. Good luck and thanks for volunteering! - Sitush (talk) 23:12, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
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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.