User talk:Sigma 7/Archive 1

Archive 1

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League of Copyeditors

Hi. I noticed you are skilled in copyediting. If you wish to work as part of team, you may want to enlist in the The League of Copyeditors. You are very welcome to join. Rintrah 13:21, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Re Transpired

Yes. I used the word because I thought it was implied by "arrived by European knowledge", which I took as "became known to Europeans". But, to tell the truth, I didn't understand the original sentence, so I was guessing at its meaning. Rintrah 05:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

i don't follow

I don't follow you? What are you talking about speedying something from my userspace? ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 16:15, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind I figured it out. Yeah the guy wrote the page has decided he wants to take over my user page for me or something, I told him to back off. Didn't realize that he accidentally put it into mainspace. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 16:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ensemble Gombert

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Ensemble Gombert, which you proposed for deletion, because I feel that this article should not be deleted from Wikipedia. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still feel the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 16:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Careful on the Edit Conflicts

When you've been given notice of an edit conflict, you need to be careful to resolve it without undoing the work of a previous editor unless there is very good reason to undo it:

diff

—75.42.174.181 06:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Climate Cooperation

About the Climate Cooperation page - I've put a hang on tag on and left a message on the talk page.

I can't quite see how it can be more objective - perhaps you could give me guidance.

Will Howard 17:35, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Not sure if this was or automatic but ...

Wooh - how come after I tagged the page "hang on" it was deleted within about 10 mins of creation without any discussion?

This just seems wrong and not a good way to treat well meaning people. At least discuss it!!

You must let me know the reasons.

Will Howard 17:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trophy hunting

Just to let you know that you (and I) are now officially "childish" in wondering why an Article for "Deletion" began with "Keep"!! Gotta smile at the oddities sometimes :) 20:40, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors participation drive!

Dear League member,

We've started a participation drive for the remainder of February. If you can, please help clear the backlog by adopting the following goals each week:

• Select an article to copy-edit from the backlog. After your copy-edit, list the article in the articles ready for final proofread section.
• Select a different article to proofread from the articles ready for final proofread section.

Thanks for your help! Rintrah 09:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Just so you know

I'm not new, I forgot to log into my account, Lord_of_Light. 69.141.31.78 19:16, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello...

Can you tell me how to automatically add a "non notable bio" warning on talk pages after you revert them? As you did on this page User talk:Redhead346. I use "twinkle" and "popups" and I have a list of various warnings I can add to talk pages from swatches in my top right corner but adding a warning for non-notable bio isn't there. Can you tell me how you did it? Thanks.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 19:09, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Popups issue

I see you have run into the popups issue where it leaves the $ edit summary. Apparently it's a bug with some recent changes to popups. If you want to fix it, you can change back to the last version of popups - see User talk:Lupin#Getting "revision $1 dated $2 by $3". --Kubigula (talk) 03:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: More UPN vandal stuff

I think you should take that matter up with Tregoweth, because he is an admin, but I'm not. Thanks anyway. --AAA! ^(AAAA) 22:49, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Template:Pixar films

Oops, didn't make the connection that when a template is sprotected, it also needs a noinclude. (I guess all pages that use the template would be sprotected otherwise.) Thanks for catching that, and I've added noinclude to the other two templates that UPN Vandal was hitting which I sprotected. --Butseriouslyfolks 00:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Anthony Fanzo

Do you think it might be considered spam, or at least spam-like, too? HalfShadow 03:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Heck, now it looks like a test page. *grin* HalfShadow 03:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

star

The coveted Anti-Vandalism Barnstar For helping me take care of that persistent vandal known as The UPN vandal. Thanks! ^_^ --AAA! (AAAA) 01:12, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

What can I say? You deserve it. --AAA! ^(AAAA) 01:12, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Ontario?

Back on Feb. 14, you blocked me from editing Wikipedia because you said I had vandalised the page "Ontario". 2 responses:

First off, until I went to the Ontario page today, I don't believe I have ever even /been/ on that page, much less edited it.

Secondly, I have no idea what I could possibly have done that would qualify as vandalism on any page, Ontario or otherwise. I rarely even edit pages. I don't know if this is possible (I'm not the most computer-literate person), but I'm wondering if someone didn't hack into my computer and use my IP address.

Because Wikipedia defines vandalism as "any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia," I believe it is unfair to accuse me of vandalism. I didn't "add, remove, or change content" on the page in question, and even if I had, it wouldn't have compromised the integrity of Wikipedia, and even if it had compromised the integrity, I wouldn't have done that intentionally.

Because of this, I'm requesting that I be unblocked.

A final request: since I'm not very good with computers, I don't know how to search for the alleged vandalism on the older versions of the "Ontario" page; could you provide me with a link so I could see what was done? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.243.212.139 (talk) 15:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC).

If you've been blocked, you need to place the {{unblock}} tag on your talk page to contest it. In any case, I don't see any information in your block log indicating that you have been blocked in the first place (and even if there was, I cannot unblock other users since I am not an admin.) --Sigma 7 18:08, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Shumil

I don't understand the {{db-histmerge}} tag you placed on this article; it says I should merge its history with itself? What exactly are you after? Splash - tk 22:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

...for all the applicable reverts. Dppowell 14:18, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

autobio templates

Hello. Because of an edit conflict with you a second ago, I was made aware of the template {{uw-autobiography}}. I was mostly using {{userfywarning}} and I think it's a much more appropriate template for new users who are often making the mistake in good faith and not because of a bloated ego. Feel free to use either but I think both templates can have value in different situations. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 03:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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Vandalism

Hello, Can you, please, explain to me what are IP users and how I could fight their vandalism. Thank you. Mbz1 23:40, 25 May 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

Thanks for reverting . . .

. . . the childish vandalism on my user page. --Butseriouslyfolks 03:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

editprotected

I commented about your request at {{hangon}}. It would help if you put future {{editprotected}} tags just beside the request; admins scan for the tag to locate the request, and putting the tag at the top makes the request harder to find. CMummert · talk 12:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Spike TV

I DID NOT vandalize Spike TV, or any other articles, for that matter. >_< ?_? >_>

In fact, I did the exact OPPOSITE of vandalism. >_< ?_? >_>

[insert more into this post]--71.203.147.175 02:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

This isn't vandalism? Please explain. --Sigma 7 03:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

1. Looks like its vandalism to me. Dacheatcode 11:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Sheerness‎ FAC

Hi. I'm sorry to bother you, but as a LoCE member, I just wondered if you would be willing to have a look through the Sheerness‎ article. It is currently a Featured Article Candidate and needs a copy-edit for grammar by someone who hasn't yet seen it. Any other ways to improve the article would also be welcome. Thank you very much, if you can. Epbr123 17:39, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Pollyfilla

I have expanded this article, including finding additional sources. Would you be willing to reevaluate it for the the AfD? (Article was relisted in order to get more input -- otherwise I wouldn't have known about it.) --Ace of Swords 19:17, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Asad Ahmad revert

Regarding your revert on Asad Ahmad. I've re-reverted it to the ugly version, and made an effort to clean up the formatting a bit. When working with biographies, it's really important that we don't let vandals insert hoaxes into the articles. When reverting to a revision that makes an accusation against a living person, you should try and do a quick web search to determine the veracity of the claim. It's better that we have badly formatted text on living biographies than the unfounded personal accusations that we've seen blow up into media storms so often in the past. It's not enough to just put a {{cn}} tag on it. Mark Chovain 01:50, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Urgent Help for Copy editing Kaziranga National Park in FAC

Kindly help in Copy editing Kaziranga National Park which is currently in FAC. I had put it up in WP:LOCE in April 2007, but still now no one have noticed. I need your urgent help in cpediting the article, as i am not so good in doing it. The article has no other issue but cpedit, i gurantee u that a fine refinement will help a lot. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 06:43, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for reverting that vandalism to my user page :)--Kubigula (talk) 04:05, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

And again. You're handy to have around.--Kubigula (talk) 20:54, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Persian literature

Hi Sigma 7. I've been proofreading Persian literature, and I'm almost done. I'd add my signature to the usual LoCE box on the Talk page, but I don't see one. Being fairly new to Wikipedia, I'm reluctant to add one with no copyeditor's signature above mine. What's the protocol in situations like this? Finetooth 21:49, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Moisesxyz

The LTA report looks ok to me. —tregoweth (talk) 14:02, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Your bot request

Hi Sigma 7 I wanted to let you know that Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Sigmabot is labeled as needing your comment. Please visit the above link to reply to the requests. Thanks! --BAGBotTalk 21:25, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors roll call

Greetings from the League of Copyeditors. Your name is listed on our members page, but we are unsure how many of the people listed there are still active contributors to the League's activities. If you are still interested in participating in the work of the League, please follow the instructions at the members page to add your name to the active members list. Once you have done that, you might want to familiarise yourself with the new requests system, which has replaced the old /proofreading subpage. As the old system is now deprecated, the main efforts of the League should be to clear the substantial backlog which still exists there. The League's services are in as high demand as ever, as evinced by the increasing backlog on our requests pages, both old and new. While FA and GA reviewers regularly praise the League's contributions to reviewed articles, we remain perennially understaffed. Fulfilling requests to polish the prose of Wikipedia's highest-profile articles is a way that editors can make a very noticeable difference to the appearance of the encyclopedia. On behalf of the League, if you do consider yourself to have left, I hope you will consider rejoining; if you consider yourself inactive, I hope you will consider returning to respond to just one request per week, or as many as you can manage. Merry Christmas and happy editing, The League of Copyeditors.

Melon‑Bot (STOP!) 18:33, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Jann Halexander

An article that you have been involved in editing, Jann Halexander, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jann Halexander. Thank you. Just letting you know because the anon nominator references your name as part of his nomination and you discussed the clean-up of the article on its talk page. ➔ REDVEЯS says: at the third stroke the time will be 09:44, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Migrated comment =

Thank you so much for helping me! I am very greatful. So sorry if i have spelt something wrong...I cannot spell to save my life. Anyways I hope this is the right way to respond to letters...and if this isn't the right way, i am so so sorry! -_- And I don't mind if you take awhile to respond...I will to, on the account of my mother doesn't like the idea of me spending a lot of time on the computer. Sorry if this was really long...i just wanted to say thank you again for helping me, but like always i go on and on about something or another...there i go again! Anywasy you can write to me if you would like to--you really don't have to though. >.< Ikeyko 21:25, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Coup d'État de Yanaon

Hi Friend, It was me who created that article. i was native of Yanaon. Even my father was a french national ofcourse not now. What i have wrote was the information i gathered from very old people of yanaon. Regarding death of Monsieur Samatam, the mystery was whether his death was preplaned (assasination) or not. But he was deinitely shot by Monsieur Maddimchetty initially. But it was declared that indian military police killed him. Its very interesting story even i am trying to investigate more about it. You can view my articles and give me reply. Thanks for editing it. In order to maintain neutrality i kept them as questions rather than writingin one-sided manner. User:Bsskchaitanya 23 November 12.03 (UTC)

Italo-argentinian

I didn' t want do to the article. Was just an idea of stub. I hope that someone able do the article. The article about the italo-brazilians [[1]] alredy exist. So i was thinking that we cannot forget Argentina, that is the country with the biggest percentege ([[2]], [3], [4] of italians. thanks

WP:RFBOT

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Wikinews Picture of the year

Could you please confirm that you are the same person as n:user:Sigma 7 (and/or merge your accounts). Thanks Bawolff (talk) 08:27, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

This is confirmation that I placed the vote for the Wikinews Picture of the Year. --Sigma 7 (talk) 17:05, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Thompson Sound(s)

Though both are only stubs as yet, ultimately they are different topics; Thompson Sound, the settlement, is of "settler history" era and will have a particular social/locational history; Thompson Sound, the sound, is much larger and has an ethnograaphic history and ecological/geological/oceanographic context. It's the same logic as to why Campbell River, British Columbia (the city) is a different article from Campbell River (Vancouver Island) (the river), though that case is much more clear-cut and far less obscure. Ditto Rivers Inlet and Rivers Inlet, British Columbia (not yet made) (and Rivers Inlet people) and many other similar examples.Skookum1 (talk) 19:19, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Rollback

I have 7/Archive 1 granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:15, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

"copy paste"

I appreciate that you are quality-checking my articles. Could you explain to me what you mean by "copy paste?" It is true that I copy pasted this material from my class notes. Is that bad?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Agradman (talk • contribs) 14:54, 16 May 2009

The article appeared to have been copied from another source, since it appeared to have been a style of writing used within some textbook exercise sections. You are allowed copying your own material onto the wiki without issue, although there is likely to be erronous tagging in some writing styles. --Sigma 7 (talk) 19:01, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

I see. When you say "a style of writing used within some textbook exercise sections," I assume you mean the way I broke it up into "facts," "issue," "holding" etc. That's the conventional way that law students are taught to organize cases ... you can see it for example at Eisner v. Macomber (facts, issue, decision).

I am going to remove the "copy paste" tagline from the top of these articles. I hope you don't perceive it as an edit-war; if you feel they ought to remain, I won't argue over it. Agradman (talk) 19:11, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Repeat offender? (at IP address?)

I noticed at User_talk:74.223.130.162 that someone at this IP address has previously been warned (by you).

The "repeat offense" (IMHO) that occurred recently, was a change to the article Stopzilla itself (vs. the talk page). (but other than that, it was the same article -- which suggests to me, the "possibility" that there could be some kind of conflict of interest).

Should an additional warning be placed at User_talk:74.223.130.162 ? I have reinstated the material (a new section of the article about Stopzilla) that was deleted unceremoniously by an this [same?] "IP address" editor. However, I think I might need some help or advice from you (or from someone) if the (ummmm) "deletions without explanations" continue.

Thank you. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 16:45, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Resolved

 – thanks; see details below

THANK YOU. I see that a second warning [dated "19:05, 26 June 2009 (UTC)"] was placed at User_talk:74.223.130.162. Maybe it was done using a template or macro of some kind (one that I might not be familiar with), but the wording strikes me as being just right, and appropriate. Hence the "check mark" ["Resolved" icon] above. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 21:34, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Masquerade - Single (album)

Hello Sigma 7, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I contested the speedy deletion of Masquerade - Single (album) - a page you tagged - because: Not unambiguously promotional. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. NW (Talk) 23:34, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

User talk pages

You reverted the blanking of User talk:ILikeFruitFlies, which was blanked by the user himself. Per Wikipedia policies, user's are allowed to blank their own talk pages. "The removal of a warning is taken as evidence that the warning has been read by the user." Therefore it is not quite appropriate to revert such edits. If evidences is required for an AIV investigation, the page history is still available to show the user's problems. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 14:40, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

IP Talk pages

Hey, can you hold off on fiddling with those IP talk pages and head over to WP:Administrators Noticeboard/Incidents and take a look at the thread about that IP? We're not sure what's going on right now, but it's looking like its heading towards a block and deletion of those pages. Don't want you to get caught up in something that you really have nothing to do with! Frmatt (talk) 06:30, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

I actually noticed that issue from both the recent changes and WP:ANI. My change was primarily to remove a speedy delete tag that was already declined. --Sigma 7 (talk) 15:54, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Please help

Hello,
Can you help me in this. I needed to move the page Cromwell current to Cromwell Current. But i messed up. I now created a Cromwell Current/Temp too. Stuck. :( Rehman (talk) 12:37, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

And also move Antarctic circumpolar current to Antarctic Circumpolar Current? Thanks. Regards. Rehman (talk) 12:55, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Those two pages require administrator intervention, since those pages were modified by another person. Try adding {{Db-move}} to any affected pages, with the source page and reason for move. --Sigma 7 (talk) 04:20, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I understand. I shall try to contact an admin then. Thanks for your time. Regards. Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 04:49, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Chemtrail

Sorry for reverting you, I meant to do what you did. Verbal chat 22:02, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 18:09, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Ooops

Ooops, sorry, my mistake, I thought I was on a personal page. Cheers Per Honor et Gloria ✍ 22:21, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Decode-Encode Language

Hello, Sigma 7, and thanks for contributing to Wikipedia!

I wanted to let you know that some editors are discussing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Decode-Encode Language whether the article Decode-Encode Language should be in Wikipedia. I encourage you to comment there if you think the article should be kept in the encyclopedia.

The deletion discussion doesn't mean you did something wrong. In fact, other editors may have useful suggestions on how you can continue editing and improving Decode-Encode Language, which I encourage you to do. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the Help Desk.

Thanks again for your contributions! Stuartyeates (talk) 02:18, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

AfD and PROD notifications

Hi Sigma 7,

Back in November, you got either an AfD or PROD notification, which was part of the template testing project's experiments. If you could go here and leave us some feedback about what you think about the new versions of the templates we tested (there are links to the templates), that would be very useful. (You can also email me at mpinchukwikimedia.org if you want.) Thanks! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 19:54, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Hand-coding

Hey all :).

I'm dropping you a note because you've been involved in dealing with feedback from the Article Feedback Tool. To get a better handle on the overall quality of comments now that the tool has become a more established part of the reader experience, we're undertaking a round of hand coding - basically, taking a sample of feedback and marking each piece as inappropriate, helpful, so on - and would like anyone interested in improving the tool to participate :).

You can code as many or as few pieces of feedback as you want: this page should explain how to use the system, and there is a demo here. Once you're comfortable with the task, just drop me an email at okeyeswikimedia.org and I'll set you up with an account :).

If you'd like to chat with us about the research, or want live tutoring on the software, there will be an office hours session on Monday 17 December at 23:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office ^connect. Hope to see some of you there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:03, 14 December 2012 (UTC)