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Aerican Empire

why, I have not set a template for deletion because I do not think it's serious? --109.232.72.49 (talk) 14:20, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi there. The reason is because the criteria for speedy deletion are quite limited in scope, and your reason of "when we started making country data templates to micro-nations not recognize and which are only made ​​for fun?" doesn't fall under any of the criteria. It's nothing personal at all, it's just that admins don't have the authority to unilaterally delete pages if they don't meet the criteria. If you want to get the template deleted, then the proper way to do it is by nominating it at templates for discussion. If a consensus of uninvolved editors there thinks that the template should be deleted, then it will be deleted after seven days there. Let me know if you have any questions about this, and I'll be happy to help you out. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 14:26, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

PP request

I noticed a few months ago that you PPed Evan's talk due to harassment by IP socks. Now I would like the same protection; however, others are refusing this to me at the request page. Any thoughts? GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 01:26, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

The one big difference I notice between his case and yours is that there is no recent disruptive activity on your talk page. At Evan's page it was pretty unrelenting. (And you know we generally don't protect pages preemptively. User pages and subpages, maybe, but user talk pages, generally not.) By the way, Diannaa asked you a question at RFPP which you haven't responded to yet. If you get this in time it would probably be a good idea to comment over there. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 11:04, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

(Barnstar archived)

A scratch? Your arm's off! I mean thank you. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 16:18, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Question about auditing/examining a reviewer

I am very concerned over reviewer rights being given on a recent request. Is there a formal way to have a reviewer reviewed? I am very worried, as this person is a single issue editor with a great deal of problems, including the creation of near-duplicate articles. I don't wish to jump out and make any direct accusations yet, or name any names, but I am extremely concerned at this. Is there a process for this, and if so, could you point me in the correct direction? When I saw that this editor had reviewer rights, I was quite frankly alarmed. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 22:45, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Not as far as I know. It would have to go to one of the regular user conduct dispute venues, for example WP:RFC/U or WP:ANI. If you think it's a mistake I have made, though, then I can undo my action myself if there is information I wasn't aware of when I gave the editor reviewer status, and if I agree that there is good reason to suspect that the editor would abuse the reviewer right. Feel free to email me the specifics if you don't want to reveal them on-wiki. Best — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ^{(have a chat)} 04:17, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Template:pp-pc1

Do you think you could reduce the protection to semi or PC2 for now? It's a template still being worked on.—cyberpower _Online^{Merry Christmas} 14:38, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

I don't think we're allowed to use PC2 yet, correct me if I'm wrong, and semi doesn't seem quite enough seeing as it would be a very tempting vandalism target. If you want to work on it, there's always the sandbox. (Testing shouldn't be done on the live template now that it is being rolled out on articles anyway.) If you have a sandbox version that you want putting in the main template, feel free to ping me and I'll transfer it over for you. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 14:59, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Celebrity Big Brother 11

Hi, the dates you have added for the start date need to be in the english format (dd/mm/yyy) not american, and there also needs to be a source. Thanks. --MSalmon (talk) 18:06, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome. :P Go ahead and make another edit request and I'm sure someone will get round to it soon enough. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 21:29, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

It's ok, the page has been changed to semi-protected now,and the user has been blocked now --MSalmon (talk) 22:58, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Canada

Hi. Thanks for making the change. Sadly, may I request that you change the "Okanagan" category to "WikiProject Okanagan articles" please? Also, I believe, for example, "Stub-Class Okanagan" should be "Stub-Class Okanagan articles" instead, same goes for other classes, that will need to probably be changed as well. Thanks, TBrandley 21:54, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi there. If you work up the corrected code in the sandbox and submit another edit request, I'll get around to it when I have a moment. Don't forget to test the change on the test cases page too. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 06:45, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Shah Rukh Khan

Hello Sir

In last 4 to 5 days back, Shah Rukh Khan was Medal of Honoured in Morocco International Film Festival few days back. There Shah Rukh Khan was Introduced as Demigod of Cinema. So, I want you to add another nick name of Shah Rukh Khan as "Demigod Of Cinema".I am sending you various websites:

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.59.38.160 (talk) 10:10, 6 December 2012‎ (UTC)

Hi there. Sorry, but this isn't the right place to propose your edit - the right place is Talk:Shah Rukh Khan. I see you have made a post there, but it wasn't very clear what you wanted to be changed in the article. You have to say exactly what you want to be done before an administrator can make an edit for you. However, the protection on the page is going to expire in an hour or so, so it might be easier to just wait and add it in after that. Make sure that your edit has consensus, though, and don't edit war to keep it in the article, otherwise the page might be protected again. Best regards — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 11:14, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Perm

Hey Stradivarius. Although I'm a reviewer and understand the duty of reviewers, I'd like to know which are the requirements to have the right, as I don't have them very clear. — ΛΧΣ²¹ 23:01, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Hahc21. You can find them at Wikipedia:Reviewing#Becoming a reviewer. There are also some instructions for administrators at Template:Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Reviewer. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 03:32, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Bitcoin DRN suddenly closed, POV removed & edit approved

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

Template:Infobox film Narrator

Thanks for your help, but as you can see at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_film#Narrator, we were not looking to change the way Narrated by was displayed in the infobox to Narrator(s) - that was only for the instructions. Please change it back so it displays as Narrated by in the infobox. - Gothicfilm (talk) 22:46, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Done. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 02:29, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Re: Infobox airport - change request November 27th

I did the changes in that sandbox like you suggested. I left a note in that talk page two days ago, but there has been no discernible activity. My only problem, apart from my eyes going bad from so many }{, is really to do with the <noinclude> stuff. I presume these are to make the documentation work, but it all got too much for me.

Incidentally, looking at my own live work, I see I entirely replicated the other[n] elements by use of <tr> and <td> etc. as footnotes

John of Cromer in China (talk) mytime= Tue 12:26, wikitime= 04:26, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Judging from Template talk:Infobox airport, it looks like Zyxw has taken care of the <noinclude> stuff. It also looks like there is more to be added, and that the new additions will need to be tested. Once all of this is done, feel free to reactivate the {{edit requested}} template on the talk page. By the way, you no longer have to save the sandbox each time to see what the test cases look like. There's a new feature activated for template pages in the latest version of MediaWiki that makes it possible to preview how a template would look on a particular page. You should see the text "Preview page with this template" underneath the save page button in the edit window for template pages. Try using that. :) — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ^{(have a chat)} 06:41, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion templates

Hi, I was cleaning up templates and I came across these two: Template:Speedy deletion templates and Template:Speedy deletion notices. I was wondering if they are the same/similar templates, and if the 2nd one could be redirected to the first one? (because the word "templates" makes more sense). Just wondering if there is a reason why there are 2 of them. Please fill me in, thanks, --Funandtrvl (talk) 23:44, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The templates are the actual speedy templates, {{db-g1}}, etc. The notices are what goes on users talk pages when you've tagged an article they created for deletion. Legoktm (talk) 23:51, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Yep, what Legoktm said. Template:Speedy deletion templates is used on Template:db-xx/doc pages, and Template:Speedy deletion notices is used on Template:db-xx-notice/doc pages. They could both do with a bit of cleaning up though, as it looks like the html stopped displaying nicely when MediaWiki was updated the time before last. (Or maybe one of the times I upgraded Firefox - not sure about that.) — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ^{(have a chat)} 06:29, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

OK, thanks, but what is the difference between the two that necessitates one being used by db-xx and the other being used by db-xx-notice? I could barely find a difference, if so, it is very subtle. I'm still wondering if the two could be combined, somehow. Thanks, --Funandtrvl (talk) 18:03, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Well, I suppose you could merge them together if you wanted all the speedy deletion templates in one place. The result of a merge might end up looking like the templates section of {{speedy deletion navbox}} - was that the kind of thing you were thinking of? — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 21:26, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Now, I see the difference in the sidebars :)! One is for the notices... now I think I get it. Just leave the sidebars as is, and I see how it's combined in the nvbx too. I think it's alright as it is, now. Thanks, sorry for the trouble!! When I have a chance, I'll see if they need any updating. --Funandtrvl (talk) 21:33, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Backlog at CAT:EP

I am not an admin, but is there anything that I can do to help? --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 00:29, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for offering to help! I suppose you could go through the list of requests and decline ones that are made in bad faith or obviously made in error. For example, if someone uses the template but doesn't make a request, or if someone files a request that obviously goes against policy. (Like someone requesting that unsourced controversial material be added to a fully-protected biography of a living person.) However, if there's any chance that someone might contest your action, it's probably better to wait for an admin to do it.

Also, if you like template coding or JavaScript, it would be very helpful to go through and review/test code that people propose. Often code is proposed that makes simple mistakes, or someone makes a request for a template feature but doesn't actually write the code. Often these kinds of requests sits around for days, only for the patrolling admin to ask the requester to write up or fix the code in the template sandbox. And then it takes another several days while the improved code is reviewed again. If good template coders who aren't admins helped to patrol the category then these kinds of changes could be made the first time the admin takes a look.

Hope this answers your question. :) — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ^{(have a chat)} 06:19, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Oh yes, and I forgot to mention - please make it clear that you are not an admin if you answer requests, either by using {{nao}} or just by saying so. People tend to assume that the person who answers the request is an admin, so it is best to be clear about these things. — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ^{(have a chat)} 07:22, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Cool beans. I shall dip my toe into these waters as soon as I read the appropriate guidline articles. Thanks for the opportunity, I wasn't sure if there was anything I could do, not being an admin. Be well. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 06:50, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

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RfC closure questions

In order to address questions posed by some of the participants at Wikipedia talk:Requests_for_mediation/The Beatles, Mr. Stradivarius and Feezo have opened this thread in which editors may ask questions relating to Newyorkbrad's closure. In so doing, we ask that participants respect the following:

• Brad's closure of the RfC was consistent with Wikipedia policies, guidelines, and practices. As the unanimously elected closer of the RfC, Brad has the full standing and confidence to make judgement calls on the RfC and peripheral issues relating to it.
• There is no expectation that this question & answer session will lead to the RfC's outcome being altered.
• Please keep your questions brief and specific. Vague, open-ended questions (e.g., "Do you really think it was a good idea to...") will be removed. In particular, suggestions that Newyorkbrad's closure was improper, or complaints about the RfC's implementation or outcome, will be treated as disruptive.
• As a procedural note, this thread is a follow-up to the RfC, and not part of the mediation case.

For Feezo and Mr. Stradivarius — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 11:28, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

DR Case on Confucius Institute

Hi Mr. Stardivarius, I'm ready to resume the DR case on the Confucius Institute article. Do I just need to start a new case with a link to the previous case?--PCPP (talk) 12:39, 17 December 2012 (UTC)