User talk:Risker

Beware! This user's talk page is monitored by talk page watchers. Some of them even talk back. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog Stats for pending changes trial Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases Category:Wikipedia semi-protected pages User:Writ_Keeper/Scripts/orangeBar.js in case I need it User:Risker/Mauricie Useful things for me to remember or I will never find them again, plus archive links Column-generating template families The templates listed here are not interchangeable. For example, using {{col-float}} with {{col-end}} instead of {{col-float-end}} would leave a <div>...</div> open, potentially harming any subsequent formatting. 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Notes [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] {{subst:W-screen}} {{subst:User:Alison/c}} Wikipedia:SPI/CLERK and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Indicators Note to self: Research Laura Muntz Lyall (or persuade one of the Riggrs to do so), consider writing an article about the Forster Family Dollhouse in the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Some day. [Listeria Bot Emergency desysops The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. Other note to self re "emergency" desysops: Spencer195, Marskell, Cool3 - Level 1 Hemanshu - committee motion, mischaracterized as "emergency desysop" on noticeboard, desysop occurred minutes before the motion passed. Sade - to check "involuntary per arbcom", Feb 09 RickK/Zoe - July 08. Long dormant admin accounts, shared compromised password. Eye of the Mind - Dec 07. Main page deletion. Shreshth91 - done at request of single arbitrator, Aug 07. Vancouverguy - Jun 07. Long dorman admin account, apparent compromise. Yanksox - Mar 07 - Jimbo desysop, confirmed by Arbcom in full case (DB deletion wheel war) Robdurbar - Apr 07 - mass blocking, self unblocking, deletion. Wonderfool. Husnock - Dec 06. Admitted shared password, desysop confirmed by Arbcom in full case. Please post below Talkback Hello, Risker. You have new messages at Shaded0's talk page. Message added 16:19, 28 December 2016 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Shaded0 (talk) 16:19, 28 December 2016 (UTC) James Blunt Hi Risker. I started a discussion at talk for James Blunt. I have researched what did happen at Pristina and Blunt's claims do not make any sense.Charles (talk) 10:01, 30 December 2016 (UTC) reverts I just eliminated my reverts of her edits. My job so I did it. Hmains (talk) 05:59, 4 January 2017 (UTC) other What, if anything, should I do about this edit that appeared on my talk page: *And for good measure, I'll just complain on behalf of the reasonable community about the totally disingenuous and vindictive vote at the RfA. Such behaviour will soon be earning such editors topic bans from RfA - do you want to be one of the first? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:36, 4 January 2017 (UTC) Oh my, Hmains. I really did go to bed right after our last exchange so didn't see this until this morning. I think that just moving on, as you seem to have done, is just fine. It doesn't seem to be a comment intending to open a discussion, but rather one individual's (strongly worded) perspective. I see that you were pretty busy after our exchange, and I thank you for working to remedy the issues we talked about. I think there's a question directed toward you in the discussion following your RFA vote, and I will leave you to address it directly. Hope you feel better, I have a feeling I'm coming down with that nasty bug as well. Risker (talk) 13:25, 4 January 2017 (UTC) thanks, will do and I am glad I asked you. Everyone around here seems to be getting/being sick and I must be far away from wherever you are. Hmains (talk) 03:01, 5 January 2017 (UTC) I'll add that I certainly don't see any reason you (Hmains) should worry about your vote at my RfA. It's your opinion and your right to express it. I certainly respect it and thank you for expressing it. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:35, 4 January 2017 (UTC) Ealdgyth thanks for your thoughtful words. I know you will be a fine administrator already! Hmains (talk) 03:01, 5 January 2017 (UTC) You've got mail! Hello, Risker. Please check your email; you've got mail! Message added 14:31, 11 January 2017 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. AntiCompositeNumber (Leave a message) 14:31, 11 January 2017 (UTC) It looks like the situation has cleared itself for now, but you can of course still look around if you wish. --AntiCompositeNumber (Leave a message) 04:16, 13 January 2017 (UTC) Thank you, AntiCompositeNumber, I've responded to your email. Risker (talk) 05:18, 13 January 2017 (UTC) You've got mail! Hello, Risker. Please check your email; you've got mail! Message added 05:44, 16 January 2017 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. Mz7 (talk) 05:44, 16 January 2017 (UTC) Thanks, Mz7, I will look at it this evening. Risker (talk) 01:25, 18 January 2017 (UTC) Thanks! I appreciate the help. Mz7 (talk) 01:56, 18 January 2017 (UTC) can you please check the refs for this draft BLP article It contains a subsection which is related to an AfD you commented on, specifically this portion.[6] You are incorrect about the depth of the Tyson ref methinks, although thanks to fonts, at first I did not think there was any depth there myself -- the discussion of the parody-work posted on the site covers about three pages. And although the formatting/layout/fonts used don't make it exactly clear that is what is going on, after looking at it long enough, methinks Tyson actually wrote an intro-paragraph, about ten sentences by Tyson on the meaning of particular faux-headlines (interleaved with the TPC-authored headlines themselves), and then a concluding sentence. Which is not a *chapter* on TPC, but is a reasonably detailed analysis of that one parody-piece by TPC, I would say. I'm not actually doing a rewrite of the AfD'd website, but shifting to writing about the creator thereof. The advantage is that there are other refs, some recently discovered and some just better-organized-and-formatted; if you can please tell me on a percentage-scale from zero to 100% whether you think the broader BLP-topic has achieved WP:42, that would be much appreciated. (Where 'zero' means none of the refs presented are RS, and 100% means passes WP:N with flying colors, with 50% meaning 'probably has coinflip shot at surviving AfD' roughly.) And if you have time to help compose neutral body-prose, that also would be great of course  :-) But mostly I would just like a second opinion on whether Atbashian passed WP:GNG with the current refs, there are a few others being evaluated for the draft on the talkpage thereof. Besides the PlutoFiles by Tyson in 2010, the other best refs for GNG are Gries in 2015, FoxNews in 2004, and NewRepublic in 2004 (some of it stuck behind a paywall), plus additionally several bluelinked conservative pundits have provided further depth/details. 47.222.203.135 (talk) 12:48, 28 January 2017 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter - February 2017 News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed. Administrator changes NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67 Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13 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. 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Obituaries JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009. Discuss this newsletter • Subscribe • Archive 13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC) RfC on "No paid editing for Admins" at WT:COI I've relisted an RfC that was run at WT:Admin in Sept. 2015. It is at Wikipedia talk:Conflict of interest#Concrete proposal 3 as there are a number of similar proposals going on at the same place. Better to keep them together. Smallbones(smalltalk) 04:38, 5 February 2017 (UTC) Your comments I saw your comments on Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy where you write that 250 indefinite blocks are made daily and almost none are reversed. I have made a suggestion that all indefinite blocks be cancelled after one year if the user requests it. If they have bad behaviour, it would be easy to reblock them again for a year. A year is a long time. Lakeshook (talk) 20:09, 14 February 2017 (UTC) THT file Thanks for quick response! That was pretty stupid... Requested oversight to scrub it. Blythwood (talk) 02:24, 27 March 2017 (UTC) Advice needed Hi Risker, I've just stumbled across University and college crowdfunding platforms, and I have no idea what to do with it. It seems to be on the borderline of notability as a topic, but I think it's badly named. It's really badly written, and I can't even imagine how to use the article title in an introductory sentence. What would you recommend? --Slashme (talk) 08:30, 12 April 2017 (UTC) Hi Slashme. Having given the article a quick scan, I think the core issue is that it's more an essay than an article. It's also not at all about any kind of crowdfunding platform, it's about how some organizations now include some form of crowdfunding as part of their fundraising strategy. I'm pretty hardline about notability, and I wouldn't consider this a notable topic, at least not without a parent article focused on fundraising strategies of universities and colleges - which we don't seem to have. Indeed, fundraising isn't even a topic within the articles of many universities and colleges. (I think it would be a valid inclusion into those articles, or even potentially a daughter article in some cases.) On the other hand, I have no idea what would happen if it went to AFD. Risker (talk) 05:03, 14 April 2017 (UTC) Please support the Sustainability Initiative! Please support the Sustainability Initiative! Hi, Risker! Please allow me to follow up on a project that was discussed at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin a couple of weeks ago: I am writing you to ask for your support for the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. Over the past two years, more than 250 Wikipedians from all over the world have come together to push the Wikimedia movement towards greater sustainability. The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has recently passed a resolution stating that the Foundation is committed to seeking ways to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment. Now, we are working with the Wikimedia Foundation staff to have all Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy by 2019. In order to demonstrate that this is an issue that the community really cares about, I would like to ask you to sign the project page as well. Thank you! --Gnom (talk) 18:57, 14 April 2017 (UTC) Question about Restoring Deleted Page Hi Risker, I originally contacted sphilbrick and he pointed me in your direction. I am the administrator of Mirus Academy (a private school in Katy, TX). The wiki for our school was deleted over a year ago, but I only just now discovered it. This is the message I see: This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference. 13:33, 1 September 2015 Sphilbrick (talk | contribs) deleted page Mirus Academy (U.S) (Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Orangemoody) I read the Orangemoody information and see that it applies to the wiki I created for our school. When the wiki was not approved initially, I was contacted by an editor who agreed to make the needed corrections for me in exchange for $100. We completed the transaction, I saw the page online for a couple of days, and didn't think more about it until I just went to do some updating and found that it had been deleted. Is it possible to restore the page? If not, should I just start from scratch and make a new one? Thanks for your advice! -- Slhogan94 (talk) 21:54, 19 May 2017 (UTC)