User talk:Jehochman

Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Queens Open History Edit-a-Thon" at Queens Library! Friday December 6

Please join Queens Open History Edit-a-Thon on December 6, 2013! Everyone gather at Queens Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for borough articles on the history and the communities. Drop-ins welcome 10am-7pm!--Pharos (talk) ~~~~~

New England Wikipedia Day @ MIT: Saturday Jan 18

NE Meetup #4: January 18 at MIT Building 5

Dear Fellow Wikimedian, You have been invited to the New England Wikimedians 2014 kick-off party and Wikipedia Day Celebration at Building Five on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus on Saturday, January 18th, from 3-5 PM. Afterwards, we will be holding an informal dinner at a local restaurant. If you are curious to join us, please do so, as we are always looking for people to come and give their opinion! Finally, be sure to RSVP here if you're interested. I hope to see you there! Kevin Rutherford (talk)

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Saturday: NYC Art And Feminism Wikipedia Editathon

Please join Wikipedia "Art and Feminism Editathon" @ Eyebeam on Saturday February 1, 2014, an event aimed at collaboratively expanding Wikipedia articles covering Art and Feminism, and the biographies of women artists! There are also regional events that day in Brooklyn, Westchester County, and the Hudson Valley. --Pharos (talk)

The day we fight back

Jehochman, you had a great idea, and I've spent three weeks trying to provide you with options. But I can't generate the consensus for you-- it's not one of my skills.

I thought your idea was worth working for-- but do you think your idea is worth arguing for? There is a discussion underway at User talk:Jimmy Wales. Join us, please. We have too many followers and not nearly enough leaders. --HectorMoffet (talk) 09:15, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

What we've accomplished here is starting Wikipedia:WikiProject Mass surveillance. Some new articles were created and editors are building content. This is all good. Whether we get content on the home page today, some other day, or not at all, it is a success in that we increased coverage of these topics. Today is just one day. Stopping pervasive government surveillance of innocent citizens will take many years of hard work. Jehochman ^Talk 13:35, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	thank you, you have been very helpful bpage (talk) 00:35, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. Jehochman ^Talk 03:06, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

User:NinaGreen

Just a quick question, if you've blocked this user for "spamming", why haven't you removed the "spam"? The Rambling Man (talk) 19:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Because some users are fussy about managing their own user pages. On article talk pages I'd remove it. The spammed users are all very savvy and can figure out how to deal with it for themselves. Jehochman ^Talk 19:34, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Gotcha. So it's not really spam? Spam would be removed. Just a clarification. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:43, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

@TRM, by that thinking graffiti isn't vandalism when the owner of the graffitied wall hasn't cleaned it off. More to the point, as Jehochman made clear on the blocked user's talk page, the attitude underlying the "spam" is as problematic as the spam itself. AGK [•] 22:28, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

No, it's fine. I would remove the "spam" if I blocked someone for propagating "spam". Jehochman does it differently, and you, AGK, do too. No big deal. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:31, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

But this one was reverted. —Neotarf (talk) 08:51, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Farewell, and thank you

Hey Jehocham! Thanks for your help in the last month. It's been great working with you. It was always a long shot that we would do something "special"-- as it should be, and I'm not at all disappointed that a controversial idea wasn't adopted. I had a lot of fun working on it.

I suspect that if someone other than me had handled your idea, it would have probably worked. I have the courage of a gnome, not the courage of a leader. We never got a leader, so your idea never got anywhere-- but I think the right person could have done it. Either way, I learned a lot, I read lots of FAs, got a picture to Featured, created like 8 or so new articles on relevant topics, helped start a WikiProject, and got to experience all kinds of parts of Wikipedia I never really even knew existed.

Unfortunately, I also found out some things about how parts of Wikipedia are run, and they just don't sit with me. I spent two years without really looking at mainpage, and I probably could have happily spent two years more without looking. If you like sausage, don't watch how the sausage is made, I suppose.

I couldn't leave without saying goodbye and thanks for all your hard work! If you ever get bored with with this place, come over to scholarpedia-- all the joy of editing Wikipedia with any of the drama of editing Wikipedia. --HectorMoffet (talk) 02:09, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

nina green block

Is there an actual policy reason for the block?

In any event, please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Requesting_review NE Ent 03:58, 13 February 2014 (UTC

Yes. I spelled it out clearly. Jehochman ^Talk 15:59, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Requesting_review

Regards,

—Neotarf (talk) 04:20, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Upcoming Saturday events - March 1: Harlem History Editathon and March 8: NYU Law Editathon

Upcoming Saturday events - March 1: Harlem History Editathon and March 8: NYU Law Editathon

You are invited to join upcoming Wikipedia "Editathons", where both experienced and new Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on a selected theme, on the following two Saturdays in March: Saturday March 1: Harlem History Editathon (RSVP), focusing on Harlem history, landmarks and biographies Saturday March 8: NYU Law Editathon (RSVP), focusing on innovation law and intellectual property (with social dinner afterward) I hope to see you there! Pharos (talk)

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Opinion sought re: User:Drsjpdc

Jehochman, I'm coming to you as an admin who first blocked (in January 2010), and then unblocked (in June 2010), Drsjpdc (talk · contribs), based on a community ban and his appeal of the ban. (Ban discussion here, unban discussion here.) It is my understanding that the user's unbanning was based on his promise not to edit in the field of chiropractic or alternative medicine, but I do not feel he has kept that promise. Not much more than a month after the lifting of his ban (July 2010), he began editing chiropractic articles again, and today we see him embroiled in discussions over his non-neutral edits all over again. I'm considering taking him back to WP:AN to reassess the community ban, but I'd like your input on the matter before I do.

Thanks! WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 16:27, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Ok, the anti-Chiropractic forces win this one. I quit. Done trying to improve this area of Wikipedia. Just not worth the effort to fight narrow mindedness and vicious people with long memories. Goodbye. ^Д-р_{СДжП,ДС} 15:42, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

WP:RFAR

Past issues with the admin in question..? Honey, I haven't researched previous actions by the admin in question, but he became one exactly one month ago, so you may be asking Giano to make bricks without straw. See also NE Ent's statement, which suggests that the, hmm, errors are really worse from a newbie admin — not sure I agree, but it's certainly one way of looking at it. Bishonen | talk 17:30, 18 February 2014 (UTC).

I don't think I can add much to that said by my learned friend Bishonen. Mr Gorman is a university Wikipedian in residence, he lectures in Wikipedia and is a former employee/intern of the WMF, so one woudl expect him to have a basic knowledge of our funny, little ways.  Giano  18:19, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

I guess one goof up in the first month is a pattern, and not a good one. Perhaps that could be highlighted in the request. Jehochman ^Talk 19:12, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

No, I don't think so. No one believes what one tells them anyway. Wikipedia collectively and its Arbs have the foresight and memory of a goldfish. I shall still be here in the future to say "I told you so." The worry is that I've said it now so many times now, I may start to look like a parrot.  Giano  19:45, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Not at all! This is what you look like! File:Animalibrí.gif Bishonen | talk 20:51, 18 February 2014 (UTC).

And a bit like this! darwinbish ^BITE ☠ 20:53, 18 February 2014 (UTC).