User talk:Premeditated Chaos/Archive 7
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From his comment to your block, it is apparent to me that they are not going to be civil any time soon, so I reset the block to indefinite and locked them out of their talk page after continuing after my block. They can appeal to ARBCOM if they want to. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:16, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Re your message: Welcome back. =) I think the short block was reasonable at the time, but after their continued responses, I have no qualms about indeffing them. And their sockpuppet, too. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:29, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
thanks
[edit]hi there. hey, thanks for your nice comments on my new category, Category:Progressive Era in the United States. feel free to be in touch anytime.
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Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
--Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 01:09, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
IRC cloak request
[edit]Image request
[edit]Hi there.
My apologies, it's my poor Spanish/Catalan, it is Plaça Espanya. Hope that helps. DannyM (talk) 10:24, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hi again, it's in Barcelona again and is in Parc Diagonal Mar, an urban park down at the North East of the city centre DannyM (talk) 07:46, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Your request at the Graphic Lab
[edit]Hello PMC! I've answered your image request and it's now done. By the way, I noticed that the image subject to the request is just a PNG copy of an original SVG. Apparently a user on talk:Pigment asked for a modification that went unanswered, so s/he used a pixel-graphics editor to do it. Now that the SVG original is modified accordingly, the png has become just a low-quality copy, and can be speedy-deleted. Cheers! -- Orionist ★ talk 14:45, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello! You have a new message at your Commons talk page. Greetings! Angelus (talk) 02:23, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Barnstar of Good Humor |
For your well reasoned close at wt:afd. It was clearly a difficult decision, you're done for the day. GRuban (talk) 15:43, 24 January 2012 (UTC) |
MSU Interview
[edit]Dear Postdlf,
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 community HERE, 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 name HERE 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) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 03:14, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
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[edit]All are done. I created or updated SVGs for the others because whoever made them had just traced the PNGs. Now the text, the colors and the pentagon shapes are in better shape. Imzadi 1979 → 22:40, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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Invitation to Vancouver meetup
[edit]Hello,
You are invited to an edit-a-thon at the Prophouse Café on Sunday March 25, as part of Women's History Month events all over the world. If you wish to attend, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon and add your signature to the list.
Thank you! InverseHypercube (talk) 09:37, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
First Edit
[edit]Adminship 2012
[edit]Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Request for comment
[edit]Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Happy Birthday Premeditated Chaos
[edit]Hi,
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retrieving deleted data
[edit]Hi! I'm a noob to the awesomeness that wikipedia is turning out to be. It all started when I tried to add some information to the page for the National Election Commission of Liberia, from their own website and some third party sources. I'm supposed to be updating the page but the edits got deleted due to conflict of interest. :( I wasn't giving any opinions and was just adding factual info from their website so it's a still hazy how the deletion works.
Could you please help me restore that data so I can submit it on a userspace page? Also, if you have the time, do enlighten me on how to go about doing some interesting stuff as a wikipedian.
Hope you see this soon!
Mall-Underconstruction 16:06, 26 August 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by User25389 (talk • contribs)
Extended confirmed protection
[edit]Hello, Premeditated Chaos. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.
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
[edit]Hello,
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
[edit]Hi Premeditated Chaos.
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!
[edit]Hello, Premeditated Chaos. 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)
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
[edit]Hello, Premeditated Chaos. 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Missing
[edit]Hi. You are now listed as missing. Should you ever return or choose not to be listed, you are welcome to remove your name. Chris Troutman (talk) 03:42, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Happy Adminship Anniversary
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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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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) 01:31, 1 January 2017 (UTC)