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Starting anew

Archiving happened again. :-) Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 00:01, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Illuminati

I saw your unveiled reference to our fraternity on ANI. Please be more circumspect. In other news, I have been trying to read The Illuminatus! Trilogy (an Ent favorite, I believe), but gave up some 30 or 40 pages in. Perhaps I'm too far away from San Francisco to really, you know, dig it. Happy days, Drmies (talk) 17:27, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Clearly, I forgot the first rule of the Illuminati. I'll try to be better. You keep slugging away at the trilogy though! Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 00:13, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

word cloud
Thank you, Philippe, for serving WMF, giving galaxies of barnstars, for fighting vandalism and nonsense ("We could really use your help to create new content, but ..."), for reminding us of the colourful word cloud and for clear words of reaching out, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (4 March 2010)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:55, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Colliding Tori Fusion Reactor - (CTFR)

Could you restore and instantly re-delete Colliding Tori Fusion Reactor - (CTFR) please? With my normal admin rights, I see no deletion log entry at all (as if it just vanished into deletionland by itself), and there's no way to know that it was a WP:OFFICE-related issue; I discovered it only because it's linked at WP:OFFICE. Had I wandered to it from somewhere else, e.g. a link in a page history, I would have been thoroughly confused; you could prevent this kind of confusion with a simple re-deletion summary such as "Per WP:OFFICE" or "Office action". Nyttend (talk) 20:01, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I can't do that. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:31, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Would creating a page with dummy content (e.g. "a") then deleting it be a better solution? MER-C 11:50, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I care, yes. I just want the page to have a WP:OFFICE deletion rationale that's added by someone from WMF staff, so that the situation's clear. Nyttend (talk) 02:06, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Best wishes

Hi Philippe. Just slipping in here to quietly wish you all the best for 2015 and that the year will treat you personally better. Thanks for all you do. Regards, Chris (Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:25, 1 January 2015 (UTC)).[reply]

Chris, thank you for the well wishes. I hope that you have a wonderful New Year, and extend my best wishes to you and yours. :) Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:32, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Demiurge1000

Is there any reason this would be a problem? Thanks. Go Phightins! 00:14, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, seems perfectly reasonable to me. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 01:15, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sunshine

		Sunshine!
		Hello Philippe (WMF)! Pine^✉ has given you a bit of sunshine to brighten your day! Sunshine promotes WikiLove and hopefully it has made your day better. Spread the sunshine by adding `{{subst:User:Meaghan/Sunshine}}` to someone else's talk page, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. In addition, you can spread the sunshine to anyone who visits your userpage and/or talk page by adding {{User:Meaghan/Sunshine icon}}. Happy editing! Pine^✉ 21:23, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants

Hello Philippe, is there any particular reason why your WMF account is listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants? Thanks, Harej (talk) 02:22, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not that I'm aware of. :-) Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 03:37, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

YGM

Hello, Philippe (WMF). Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

--Pine^✉ 02:08, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Off-wiki harassment, on-wiki threats

Hi, Philippe. Several users are being harassed on and off wiki and threatened with further off-wiki harassment by a user I have now indeffed, AnnalesSchool (talk · contribs). See their talkpage, especially the stuff I've removed. Last night they posted through an IP (which I have also blocked, but what's the use) on my page, making even stronger threats ("I have decided to expose and name (with links) these miscreants on the ComandoSupremo site", "Also more blogs may start to appear denouncing such editors and articles until you admin guys start to realize what's really going on"). Also promising ongoing Wikipedia disruption together with his "supporters": "The problems of sockpuppery, vandalism, having to protect pages, and a whole raft of other problems will continue." Is there anything WMF can do? This guy runs a site, compare for instance this page. There, he doesn't yet name the users who have disobliged him, but that's what he plans to do next (and me, no doubt, but I don't care), per the latest on my page. Not sure if he's got access to any of their real names or details. I wouldn't suggest trying to get ComandoSupremo site shut down just for being abusive, as such, but when it's being used to re-inforce on-wiki threats and chilling effects, it's gone a bit far. See also this ANI thread. I won't leave their plans for revving up the harassment and disruption (until admins see it their way) up on my page any longer, but you can see it in the history. Regards, Bishonen | talk 08:04, 16 May 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Offer of help

OK, Philippe, you offered to help... (See, I do have a sense of humor!) Would you have a look at the talk page for CSI: Cyber, discussion "McNicol leaving". It started with a reliability discussion of sources reporting rumors he's leaving, but it's deteriorated (to put it mildly) into a squabbling match among three editors who don't have a year's experience among them. They don't understand WP:RS or WP:VERIFY, two of them are basing their edits on a gossip site reporting rumors, and they are now at the level of nursing grudges and throwing personal insults at one another. I've absented myself from the mess, since reasonable discussion isn't possible, but I think they need a firm hand to get them back on track, and perhaps to hat some of the uglier stuff. --Drmargi (talk) 21:34, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question about site CSS

Hi for 3,5 years we have now had this in the site CSS. Do you remember what that was for and if it can be removed perhaps ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:28, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, it was for the March 2011 update on the strategy project. It can come out, and I'm doing so. Thanks! Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:42, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again...

My God it's been a long time since I've been in touch with you, mostly before all my problems started. I just thought I'd direct you to this since I'm allowed to edit again. It doesn't do much, but it does clear a lot of the past out of my head. If you want to get in touch, feel free. What does the Fish say? | Woof! 13:54, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent. It's so good to have you back, my friend. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:45, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

SOPA-like issue

Since you were involved in Wikipedia:SOPA from the WMF perspective, I wonder if the foundation is aware of commons:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015 and Wikipedia:Freedom of Panorama 2015 issues? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:56, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am. Romaine called my attention to it last week. There's a group working to figure out what our response could/should be, but I know that significant effort is going into this, both at the WMF, at the movement affiliates, and in Brussels. As I hear more, if it's not publicly posted, I'll do my best to make it so. Thank you for checking. I share your concern. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 07:17, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WMF and harassment

Hi Philippe, we're kind of going round in circles at Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Lightbreather/Proposed_decision with regard to the (potential) role of the WMF in matters relating to harassment. I'm sure you are aware of the specifics of the case but the discussion is in large part really about the meta issue - for example, see Mr Potto's section.

I know that it is a tricky subject but it might help if the WMF did at least say something, somewhere about the wider issues. Obviously, it would be inappropriate to talk about the actual case. - Sitush (talk) 11:53, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'm writing now. I'll get something up. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:43, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]