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I manage my talk page with the following guidelines to keep the high volume of posts and 140 active talk page stalkers in some sort of order:

  1. Please start new topics at the bottom of the page, even if it is related to a section above. Otherwise it is difficult to find the posting.
  2. I will reply to your posts on this page to keep threading unless requested or unless it is extremely urgent. I am good at keeping track of discussions, and generally do not need {{talkback}} templates.
  3. I respond to talk page messages within a few hours if I am online, or within a day if I need to do some research or thought before answering your question. If I will be away for a few days, I will post on this page.
  4. Unlike some other administrators, I generally do mind if you undo my administrative actions without discussing it with me, unless it was an obvious procedural error on my part.
  5. It is not necessary to email me to alert me to a discussion unless it is time-sensitive or unless there are private or candid matters involved.
  6. I sometimes close discussions when it is clear that nothing good will come out of them. I reserve the right to do so at my own discretion. I also reserve the right to rollback any further comments on that discussion topic.


User:Rschen7754/Wikistatus



Augusto De Luca

You proposed to delete the user page of "Augusto De Luca" on lb-wiki. Yesterday Vituzzu tried to delete the article about "Augusto De Luca" on lb-wiki. In both cases the indicated reason was cross-wiki spam or abuse made by a hired promoter. We have a problem on lb-wiki with such deletions for two reasons: (i) if it would be really abuse, why are the articles about "Augusto De Luca" not nominated for deletion on the big wikis such as en-wiki, de-wiki, fr-wiki? (ii) If a hired promoter wrote an article, but all facts included therein are true and the article respect NPOV, where is the problem (apart that on his user page he should indicate that he was paid for that)? --Otets (talk) 09:48, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The issue is that this account created those userpages on 500+ wikis, and was globlly locked for doing. Also, as far as ii, that is a violation of conflict of interest, and you really can't tell that the article is NPOV. This is a problem that has been encountered on several of the larger wikis. --Rschen7754 19:28, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
For each individual wiki no harm is done with a userpage. But I understand that, seen globally, a userpage on 500+ wikis is a kind of excess. I have however to repeat my question: If Ferdinando Castaldo is really a hired promoter, why in such case is the article about "Augusto De Luca" not nominated for deletion on the big wikis such as en-wiki, de-wiki, fr-wiki, why is this not even discussed on the talk page of that user? If you could provide us some proofs and show that each wiki is including a notice thereon on that user page, then we could think about following that example. The lb-wiki article about "Augusto De Luca" is definitely NPOV, as it contains just a list of books and a list of exhibitions, and no hailing lines at all. Hence, that article will remain, and so far doubt benefits to the accused. This being so, I want nevertheless to point out that when Ferdinando Castaldo inserted an Augusto De Luca photo into the article "Portrait", then we deleted such contribution immediately, even without any external recommendation. --Otets (talk) 08:27, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
"is definitely NPOV" - how do you know this? Have you done any outside research on the subject? Do they meet standards of notability? Are the sources reliable? Is there anything being omitted, like anything that would reflect unfavorably on the subject? And the articles on the big wikis are under examination, we can't do everything all at once. --Rschen7754 17:12, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
My NPOV statement referred only to the "describe disputes, but not engage in them" part of that policy, sorry for not having made this clear earlier. Please let us know on the relevant talk page in case the big wikis would find out that in our article seriously contested assertions would be presented as facts, so that we could in that case react immediately. Following an internal discussion, lb-wiki accepts so far the status quo, no page is deleted, and the discussion is closed (your talk page will no longer be monitored, please leave a message at our articles for deletion page in case you would want to revive the discussion or any news on the subject would come up). --Otets (talk) 09:23, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]


Hi Rschen, today you left a message at the Limburgish Wikipedia (li:) urging us to delete the user page of a certain Augusto Di Luca, that user being a cross wiki spammer. Can you please explain to me why this is so necessary? The user's spamming has been undone and no doubt he has been blocked. As far as I can see, his user page contains no obvious spam; neither can I detect anything else that's possibly disruptive or offensive. Steinbach (talk) 10:12, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

He created those userpages promoting his pictures on 500+ wikis, and they have been deleted where stewards can delete pages, and by many local admins. --Rschen7754 19:28, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Also see luxo:Ferdinando Castaldo, where another account has done the same thing. --Rschen7754 19:36, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Benjipizza

Looks like we kind of tripped over each other. I got Benziboi and Banjoboi. If you have an opinion on how to tag/link them, anything is fine by me, I usually just don't bother but will defer to you. --Floquenbeam (talk) 01:26, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Someone else did a CU, and found one other account, but I assume no link to who the master is (since it's obvious it's a banned / blocked editor of some sort). Probably best to just leave it as is, for now. --Rschen7754 01:32, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Your GA nomination of U.S. Route 80 in California

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article U.S. Route 80 in California you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Secret -- Secret (talk) 14:51, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tone on arbitration

Are such curt, heavy-handed admonitions ("enough!") really necessary? Why not be more friendly and collaborative? I understand that you have authority over subjects to the Arbitration, but do you really have to be so domineering and intimidating in wielding it? I also am concerned with what I see as an intolerance for criticism of the Committee, which is deserved since, as a matter of fact, simply isn't living up to its obligations. Steeletrap (talk) 22:00, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

When parties to a case insist on sniping at each other despite several warnings, right in front of the Arbitration Committee, well, "friendly and collaborative" just won't cut it. As far as the delay, well, I wonder what is taking them so long too, and I think it's beyond reasonable. But that is not an excuse for parties to be attacking each other. --Rschen7754 00:01, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:New York State Route 128/GA1

Hi Rschen, while you are certainly correct in the fact that PointsofNoReturn probably does not have enough experience to review GAs, if he is interested, you might want to direct him to WP:GARC. Your call. Have a nice day. Go Phightins! 02:45, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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09:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Good articles

How do I find the amount of edits I made. I am relatively new. When I look up the edits on my stat page, I find nothing. How did you find how many edits I have? — Preceding unsigned comment added by PointsofNoReturn (talk • contribs) 00:04, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You can look at Special:Preferences. But before you nominate or review articles, you need to demonstrate some experience with writing articles. --Rschen7754 00:05, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Miller Henry

Thanks for the post-SPI block notice on User:Miller Henry, but there's nothing on User talk:Miller Henry alerting editors that he's a sock. Is this a change from past practice of putting block notices on talk pages? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 17:54, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We don't always put a block notice on talk pages (it is now done by a script), but you are welcome to do so if you wish. --Rschen7754 19:17, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Odd

What do you make of An helper of Nick (talk · contribs · logs)? Look at his first edit, after which he made a handful of article edits. Nick.mon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has abused multiple accounts in the past.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:28, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely meat, if not sock. But if both accounts push the same POV, for example, then the distinction is academic and we can just treat them as socks. --Rschen7754 22:47, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
He admitted to being meat. The problem is I don't know if the two agree with each other (the new account says he is there to fix things and appears to disagree, but that could be simply phony misleading). I also know nothing about the subject matter.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:55, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
No I haven't got multiple accounts. I had a discussion yesterday with him (as you can see here), who was not logged and he reverted some edits about colors, but finally we agree, and I asked him to create an account, because he is more expert than me in the politics of the Kingdom of Italy (as you can see here) because, with an account he could improve Wikipedia. He creates it, but I sincerely don't know why he named the account "An Helper of Nick", maybe simply because I asked an help in improve that pages, but I swear, that account is not mine. I made a mistake in the past, but now I did not do anymore that things. -- Nick.mon (talk) 7:04, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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08:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Language of Poland

Could you tell me why you use Russian in communication with Polish projects (here, here, here)? Poland is a member of the European Union, not the Commonwealth of Independent States. It was never a part of the Soviet Union as well. The most popular foreign langugage there is English. Russian is the fifth foreign langugage in order, learned by 6% of Poles only (source). In fact I should write this message in German or Italian, because the similar percentage of people is learning them in the USA... ;-) Best regards, Olaf (talk) 09:45, 7 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, that appears to be a mistake. I will replace it with a better version today. --Rschen7754 18:56, 7 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

on Igor Janev

Dear Rschen7754, thank you for an advise and information.--212.200.213.94 (talk) 11:16, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Rschen7754, what I learned was that article on Igor Janev had survived 3 attempts for deletion on Serbian Wikipedia. Article on him was under serious scrutiny there. Sincerely,--212.200.213.94 (talk) 06:49, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of U.S. Route 80 in California

The article U.S. Route 80 in California you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:U.S. Route 80 in California for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Secret -- Secret (talk) 17:51, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

SockPuppet Investigation Immediately closed by an administrator when the accused requested him to close it- Need Immediate attention

Hi User:Rschen7754,

I had opened a sock puppet investigation on two users Shriram and Lihaas on India General election page- Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Shriram. One of them suddently made a request to another Administrator ( RequestMadeHere ) to close the investigation and the page was immediately closed.

Excerpt- User:JamesBWatson, I would think canvassing around for his view is turning disruptive. (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shriram) How about a topic ban?Lihaas (talk) 14:44, 10 April 2014 (UTC)


The immediate closure of topic looks suspicious. Please do the necessary.


Thanks Soorejmg (talk) 16:10, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Soorejmg has sent this message to six different administrators. See User talk:Soorejmg#Canvassing. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:30, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]


Hi Rschen775,

The accused user Lihaas asked another Amdinistrator JamesBWatson to close the SockPuppet INvestigation and he immediately did that. This is supisicios. Please have a look. As the page Indian general election, 2014 is a high profile page in India now due to ongoing election, there is very high chance of paid editing in WIkipedia by political parties in a wide manner to make page look advantage for them. I would request your kind intervention in this case.

Excerpt of request made by the accesed Lihas to JamesBWatson in ( RequestMadeHere )- "User:JamesBWatson, I would think canvassing around for his view is turning disruptive. (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shriram) How about a topic ban?Lihaas (talk) 14:44, 10 April 2014 (UTC)"[reply]

Thanks SoorejSoorejmg (talk) 06:27, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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