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Eastern_Front_1942-05_to_1942-11.png

One mistake: in 1942 Eastern Galicia was part of General Gouvernment, so your border of Greater Germany is placed in the wrong place. The same applies to Bialystok area. 62.152.143.144 (talk) 17:19, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

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Front-page photo

You may be interested to know that a copy of your photo of Snowdon is currently on the front page of Welsh wicipedia. – Tivedshambo (talk) 14:55, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

PS I do like your perfect article - definitely a candidate for WP:FA ;-)  – Tivedshambo (talk) 15:01, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Year page formatting of multiple events

Hello, I'm sending you this message since you were involved in the August 2005 survey on year pages. As I don't know if you've gathered, somebody has been fighting for a change to the house style on how to notate multiple events on the same date. A discussion is currently in progress - your contribution would be appreciated! -- Smjg (talk) 15:36, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Scharnhorst & Gneisenau

I have opened an RfC on whether to refer to these ships as battleships or battlecruisers. Since you have participated in this debate previously, please have a look, read the debate, and make your views known: Talk:Scharnhorst_class_battlecruiser#Request_for_Comment:_Battleships_or_Battlecruisers.3F The Land (talk) 18:48, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Turing, Wolfram, Smith

Thanks for your note at the Wolfram (2,3) talk page; I replied there. We had had quite a knock-down, drag-out debate at the time of the press-release (and Slashdotting), which has simmered down to a level more appropriate for mathematicians :-) So thanks for discussing stuff before making sweeping changes. I'm sure we have room for improvement and I agree that the presentation of Pratt's objections is too low-key. Pete St.John (talk) 16:58, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Jutland FAR

As you were the original nominator: Battle of Jutland has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Woody (talk) 15:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:23, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Bot activity

I was going over the list of bots and noticed that Gdrbot (talk · contribs) has not edited in a very long time. Is this bot still active and if not, would you object to it being de-flagged? Please post your comments to Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Dead_bots since this is a rather widely-posted message. MBisanz ^talk 06:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships

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CfD nomination of Category:Royal New Zealand Navy ships

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CfD nomination of Category:Royal Thai Navy ships

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CfD nomination of Category:Royal Danish Navy ships

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Speedy deletion of Image:Eastern Front 1941-06 to 1941-12.png

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Speedy deletion of Image:Eastern Front 1942-11 to 1943-03.png

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Speedy deletion of Image:Royal Navy silhouettes 2004.jpg

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Grdbot disambiguation of botanists

Hi there! I was wondering if this was at all necessary. I seem to remember there being some guideline or suggestion on redirects that aren't double redirs, broken links, or result from dab pages to the effect of "If it isn't broken, don't fix it." Specifically, in the case of the botanist author abbreviations, there are tons of redirects of this kind. I'm happy that they direct to the article, but it seems like wasted effort when the redirect is valid anyway. If we're just going to have a bot come along and fix valid redirects in articles, what's the point of having them? I suppose my main complaint is that it's making a mess of my watchlist ;-) Something with which I can cope. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 01:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Cottonapple4

I am amazed at your patience in cleaning up after this user! If it had been me I fear I would have long since had harsh words with him. Gdr 23:26, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

P.S. My apologies for spamming your watchlist. You're right that it's not necessary to avoid these redirects. Gdr 23:54, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I had some time and, as odd as it sounds, enjoy the tedious edits required to fix those pages. I must also thank you for checking all of those names and adding the authorities. I should have not assumed all were correct. It seems as if Cottonapple4 has taken a hiatus. If the user returns, I'll be interested to learn where he/she was getting his/her information from. I do wish there was a little more substance to the articles, but they'll be expanded in time. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 21:51, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, I think our editor reappeared as another user name, Pomeapplepome (talk · contribs), which appeared one day after Cottonapple4 stopped editing. If you've got the time, I'd appreciate some help cleaning up the contributions =) --Rkitko ^(talk) 13:54, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Robot assisted relinking

Hi! I noticed the good work you did on relinking Augustine > Augustine of Hippo. Could you do the same job for the links that point to Origen and should instead link to Origen of Alexandria?

Thanks. Keep up the good work. --Dampinograaf (talk) 00:25, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

No, Origen is clearly a case for Wikipedia:Primary topic disambiguation, i.e. Origen points to Origen of Alexandria, with any disambiguation (if necessary) at Origen (disambiguation). This is because there's only one Origen of any note. In the case of Augustine there are two notable men with that name: Augustine of Hippo and Augustine of Canterbury, although the former is sufficiently more notable that there is an arguable case for primary topic disambiguation there too. Gdr 19:28, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Maps

Hi, I was wondering if you were interested in re-drawing a map for the Battle of Aachen? Basically, I have a few maps from a number of sources I'm using. I wanted to ask if you were interested in using them to draw a map that I could use in the article. Thanks for your time, regardless. JonCatalán^(Talk) 01:48, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Category:23 BC births

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Same thing with Category:774 BC. Though I guess that was actually created by your bot. --Stepheng3 (talk) 22:02, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

question...

Do you think as I suggested here some of the images you have uploaded qualify for crown copyright, and are thus now in the public domain?

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 23:12, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

David Page, the guy who runs navyphotos.co.uk wrote this explanation for how the photos were acquired. In most cases, he does not know who took the photo or who owns the copyright. So some of them may be Crown copyright, but no-one knows for sure. David Page gave permission in e-mail for Wikipedia to use the photos (this only has relevance should any copyright subsist in him, which it probably doesn't). There used to be a template on all images from navyphotos.co.uk that explained some of this, I think, but it was deleted. Gdr 23:48, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Templates for deletion nomination of Template:List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy

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Iceland

I think that your map File:European Union map.png needs to be updated to reflect the candidacy of Iceland? --Red King (talk) 17:47, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, and the admission of Romania and Bulgaria. These days we should be using SVG anyway for maps like this. I suggest replacing all uses of File:European Union map.png with File:Member States of the European Union (polar stereographic projection) EN.svg even though the latter lacks any indication of the candidate states. Gdr 19:11, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Now replaced (there was only one, anyway). Gdr 19:14, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Taxobox authority parens

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Dirichlet

I noticed your interest in Dirichlet's contribution to the problem of uniform convergence. Do you have any information about what Dirichlet did exactly here? Tkuvho (talk) 09:45, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Everything I know on the subject comes from Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations, so I suggest you start there. Gdr 12:35, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

I see that Lakatos mentions on page 131 that Dirichlet "did not mention the obvious contradiction at all".  ? Tkuvho (talk) 12:59, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

File:Eastern Front 1945-01 to 1945-05.png and the Vistula River

File:Eastern Front 1945-01 to 1945-05.png is a very nice map... but my question is on the vistula river.

Does the Vistula not go through Krakow? On your map, it is shown as being rather shorter than in other maps...

Thanks Decora (talk) 22:37, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Doctor of law

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Proposed deletion of Artabanus V of Parthia

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alliance

Hello,
I saw that you added "alliance=" to {{taxobox}} (here).
What is it ? A taxon rank ? I could not find any info in en.wikipedia.
Best regards User:Liné1 (talk) 20:05, 12 June 2010 (UTC) (Would you mind answering on my french page?)

Sides of leather

Thanks for the help on the sides of leather question. I'm interested in citing the dictionary in the article as a reference for the meaning of "sides", but I'd like to have a little more data first — what year's edition of the OED did you cite? Nyttend (talk) 19:20, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

It's the online OED, which currently says "Latest additions: June 2010". Gdr 19:39, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

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CS contributions

Hi, just to let you know I fixed your contributions to Folk theorem (game theory) and Linear speedup theorem. --Shenanenigans (talk) 17:02, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

You've made the former incomprehensible and the latter incorrect. Otherwise, good nitpicking! Gdr 17:06, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

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MSU Interview

Dear Gdr,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 23:32, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary

Wishing Gdr a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 23:52, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Category:Nautical terms

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Johann Heinrich Linck

Hello Gdr,

I am working on the Linck family on fr:wikipedia, fr:Heinrich Linck and fr:Johann Heinrich Linck. The French page of the second seems to be a translation of the page you created in English. You mention five years ago that Johann Heinrich Linck] made contributions to the natural history of fishes. I don't find any information about that activity in his biography [1] and I cannot acceed the references you cite. Could you provide me a reference ?

Thanks, Cymbella (talk) 22:33, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

I think I must have got confused between J. H. Linck and H. F. Linck. Many apologies. I'll remove the claim. Gdr 14:18, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I have now a second question : are Heinr. Fr. Linck (the author of "Versuch einer Eintheilung der Fische nach den Zähnen", Magazin für das Neueste aus der Physik und Naturgeschichte, 6.Bd.,3.St., 1790, p. 28-38 [2]) and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link the same person ? Did the botanist Link also studied fishes ? I could not find any mention of that, but I notice that Mag. Neueste Phys. Naturgesch. is published in Göttingen, where Link was student in 1789 [3]. - Regards, Cymbella (talk) 19:58, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

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There needs to be a minor map correction to Eastern_Front_1942-05_to_1942-11.png

The small area that contains the arrow pointed toward Izyum is for the 2nd Battle of Kharkov and Operation Fredericus that occurred in May 1942. It probably should be given a different color to show that it wasn't part of Fall Blau.

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Hominini

Dear GDR,

I am not sure who the originator of this common file really is, but the file info says you were the original "en" poster. It seems to me there is a problem with the branch "hominini" as it includes Pan. One of the English article references HOMINIDAE – African Great Apes which definitely does not include Pan under hominini tribe.

I want to use it in a Thai translation of the "Human evolution", but I am not sure how I should proceed to perhaps "correct" the problem, but right now I am thinking of creating another image separately. If you could help, however, all the articles referencing the image will be corrected too.

--Tikmok (talk) 04:26, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

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Replaceable fair use File:HMS Sheffield (D80).jpg

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Speedy deletion nomination of Clark Russell

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:17, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Eastern Front map & European rivers

Just to say how much I have appreciated and benefited from your "Eastern Front map & European rivers" -a beautifully clear and uncluttered map. These maps are essential in any article about widespread war. Regards JRPG (talk) 19:07, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Coin of Phraataces and Musa.jpg

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Category:Water transport has been nominated for discussion

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Extended confirmed protection

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Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Gdr.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Gdr. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:HMS Kelly (F01).jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 13:23, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Elizabeth of England listed at Redirects for discussion

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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

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Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

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• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Orphaned non-free image File:HMS Quality (G62).jpg

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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 01:30, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Notification of imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next several days. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:59, 25 March 2017 (UTC)