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Invitation to a discussion: Wikipedia and legislative data

Hi Amorymeltzer, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)

There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!

Hope to see you there! -Pete (talk) 18:59, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, March 9!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Guapo's at Tenleytown-AU on Saturday, March 9 at 5 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 14:06, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Linking

We typically link to the term in question rather than the redirect. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 16:15, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Replied at User talk:Jmh649#Linking ~ Amory (u • t • c) 17:25, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Candice Farmer

Hi Amorymeltzer, did you manage to access the Sunday Times article? Or did you just delete parts of the Wikipedia article because the source wasn't fully online? Sionk (talk) 02:08, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering about that. Maybe I missed something, but as far as I could see the article loaded perfectly fine. It's short and not full of much, but it is one of the better sources listed. I couldn't find any of that information in it, though. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 02:13, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe there is a limit to the number of free articles that can be accessed. I couldn't access it fully. The Times are one of the newspapers that put their content behind a paywall a few years back. No problems anyway, if the personal info wasn't in the article then you were within your rights to remove it. All the best! Sionk (talk) 02:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 04 March 2013

Fidelma Healy Eames protection

Hi! I'm not fussed either way, but is there any reason you downgraded my 3-month long protection on this article to 2 weeks? I think a longer protection period was called for, given that the article is a BLP and female politicians always attract more than their share of idiocy.

Not calling you out - I'm a little rusty, so I was wondering if I just went too far :) ~ Riana ⁂ 18:37, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

^ Ignore, noticed that you changed it back. :) ~ Riana ⁂ 18:38, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

~ Amory (u • t • c) 18:47, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The innocent grin of innocence! All good. ~ Riana ⁂ 18:52, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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The Signpost: 11 March 2013

A pie for you!

Thanks for cleaning up WP:AFC/R - I got edit conflicted a few times while trying to close multiple requests at once, until you had answered them all. Huon (talk) 01:47, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Possibly the only time I've been thanked for edit conflicting! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 01:51, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Geist Force (video game)

This game (1999) for the Sega Dreamcast was developed six years before "Geist" was released on Nintendo (not the same game). Geist Force was not released until 2012 when Assemblergames.com purchased the unfinished game with the Dreamcast development kit, then finished the game. I do not know exactly what else to do here, but I can only tell you that myself and many others bought the game after it was finished. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monkeeman3 (talk • contribs) 02:04, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Right you are, so sorry! Thanks for the catch. I've undone my edit so it's now pending review, although I'd suggest adding more verifiable sources. Are you related to Smuckola? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 03:14, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #49

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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      • bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
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Just wondering

"I use the word sysop instead of admin wherever possible. You should too."

Why? Rivertorch (talk) 06:23, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The word "administrator" or "admin" has such a connotation. I fully admit that "sysop" or "system operator" has a strong connotation too, but one that is slightly more in line with what the RfA bit means. It's just a technical convenience. A (real network) sysop may indeed administer, but when someone in life says "I am an administrator" there is a notion of hierarchy that just doesn't exist. As a sysop I do indeed have some authority, but only that vested in me by the community; there should be no implication that I am in any way "better" or "above" because of that. Honestly, I think a lot of the recent dustup can be traced to that: people seeing or feeling a hierarchy where there shouldn't be or isn't one, which just leads to a pissing contest that gets everyone wet.
It's all moot, though, because most of the time saying "sysop" is awkward as hell. Requests for Sysopship? Sysophood? Just weird. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 16:19, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting. "Administrator" always seemed a bit ambiguous to me: I know of RL contexts where "administrators" are the lowliest of employees and other contexts where the top officials, including the president, of large, notable institutions are "administrators". I always thought "sysop" sounded more colorful or interesting or something (especially in the plural, it makes me think of cyclops and Special Ops), but I've noticed that it doesn't seem to be used as much as it once was around here. Rivertorch (talk) 06:16, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
TBH I put it up there ages ago and am less enthusiastic now. I just get tired of explaining to friends that no, I'm not in charge of Wikipedia, I just clean-up around the place. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 15:22, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Numeral" redirect requests

Just FYI, I was about to decline the various "numeral" Andromeda redirect request with non-standard numeral characters as extremely unlikely search terms. Huon (talk) 04:19, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Word. I can't for the life of me figure out which is which, can you? I'll delete any you can point my way... ~ Amory (u • t • c) 04:21, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind, duh, got it. Thanks a bunch; I should go to bed. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 04:26, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
You seem to have missed And ⅱ, And ⅲ, And ⅳ and And ⅶ. I'm almost convinced 65.92.180.137 is trolling us, but it's so high-quality trolling that every single request must be evaluated, and quite a few are good. Others seem like deliberate make-work. Huon (talk) 04:32, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I don't know, I tend to AGF in these cases, maybe too much, but there has been some precedent. A few years ago where there were a huge rush of Astronomy redirects at AFC/R and, well, it's the nature of the beast: Astronomers use a lot of different names. Honestly I think most of these are kind of absurd, but if solid evidence is there for the existence and usage of the term then it's fair game in my book. No harm, eh? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 04:39, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well, "no harm" is debatable. For example, they didn't request creation of And I (as opposed to And V, And X and so on), but requested And i to redirect to Andromeda I. Since they were aware that we had an And I article, I'd call that deliberately misleading. Since they didn't request "And v" or "And x" either, I find it very hard to believe that they honestly thought "And i" would more commonly refer to the galaxy than the song. Huon (talk) 05:06, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe, or maybe s/he just cares way more about Andromeda. It wouldn't be the first time someone thought a redirect was better suited for a different purpose. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 15:19, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback

Hi. Quick question: In my denied request for rollback, you admonished (?) me to be sure to revert to a "good version." I'm just curious why you mentioned that. When I roll back manually, I have to do it one step at a time, so if there is more than one version to take care of, I have to revert to a bad version first, no? StevenJ81 (talk) 12:26, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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