User talk:MSGJ

Your history merges

• Thanks for the history merges that you describe in this edit of page Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests; but please log those history-merges in page Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:40, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Alcohol laws of Maine

Could you revert the repeated move of Alcohol laws of Maine? It happened again. Ibadibam (talk) 16:58, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Nevermind, I was able to do it. I thought I didn't have permissions, but I did. Ibadibam (talk) 17:08, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Block request

Hi MSGJ, please block my account for 6 month. That would be great, thanks. prokaryotes (talk) 06:27, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

911

In my opinion, you clearly misread the "policy change". The discussion confirmed that 1 through 10 should be numbers, 11 through 100 should be disambiguation pages, and that 101 through (at least) 999 should remain years, with no exceptions. As one of the arguments in the discussion was consistency, you are overriding that consensus, rather than extending it. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:11, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

The only reason I did not revert your erroneous close is that I was an advocate for all digit-sequences remaining years. At the very least, the move should be reverted until the templates are fixed. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

The instructions for move review state I should contact you first before opening a review. I'm willing to wait a day or so, as few of the erroneous links will be clicked, and the year is near the top of the disambiguation page. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:42, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

I'll certainly take another look at this, and will try to find time today if possible. I believe my close reflected the discussion on that talk page but there may be some broader issues to consider. Consistency is an important factor. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:02, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

I have made some comments at Talk:AD 911 and will wait for any responses there before taking action. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:21, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Link to the strategy discussion on Watchlist-summary

You wrote about consensus. Where should it be reached? among whom? On my home wiki, this topic is the top priority and I wouldn't even assume that anyone could oppose. Maybe since enwiki has the biggest critical mass, you discuss about issues like that, but unfortunately, I don't know what's the best place to do it effectively. I'd prefer to avoid a situation when a discussion takes long (a week or two), has few participants, and one can't take that as a consensus or a lack of such. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 13:21, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Everyone thinks their own pet project is important ;) I suggest you continue the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details and see what other people think. I would have no problem running it for a further week, just don't want to force it upon people. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:19, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

I know, I've been a very engaged Wikipedian for several years now, but it's the #strategy of the #movement after all, not a regular local initiative :) (For the record, please ping me, generally I don't watch user talkpages, because I expect answers to appear on mine - you know, the old school). SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 12:18, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Escalation of template disruption by Codename Lisa

With regards to this discussion at ANI, what is your opinion on these actions (1,2,3,4,5,6,7, and 8) to circumvent any pending discussion at Module talk:Webarchive and make the same disputed changes to 7 other templates without soliciting any input from other editors? Note: I originally tried to ask the question at ANI, but Codename Lisa reverted me several times. 2601:5C2:280:8043:F126:B333:2DF4:1FEA (talk) 05:51, 29 May 2017 (UTC)