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OTRS page

Thank you, I was planning on doing that myself, and requesting a g7. There is no support amongst the volunteers. But one good thing dod come of this - I'm a bit more better with tables. NonvocalScream (talk) 16:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

No probs. Daniel (talk) 08:22, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Spammy DYK update/housekeeping-type notice

HI (sorry 'bout the spammy note), DYK updates have been a bit slow and there's a bit of a shortage of admins actively involved. We are asking folks who listed themselves on Wikipedia:Did you know/Admins to update details on this page - User:Olaf Davis/DYKadmins, so we can grade everyone's involvement (and who, knows, someone may want to get involved more :) ). Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:16, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Done. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 08:22, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bill Brown (cricketer)

Back just in the nick of time. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:03, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Done. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 08:22, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Addressed. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:51, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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New logo

Daniel, do you want me to update your userbox at wmf:User:Daniel to use the new meta logo? MBisanz ^talk 20:39, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Apologies

I am terribly sorry! I did not mean to create such a fuss. I am sorry that my actions have been perceived as malicious, they were not. Thank you. Fr33kman^{talk APW} 07:46, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

I definitely didn't perceive them as malicious, else I wouldn't have written 500-odd words of constructive criticism to help you improve XfD closes in the future :) Daniel (talk) 08:28, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I feel a bit shook up (I've never even come close to a block before; and on the day I got rollback permission) and just think I should just stop, and have done so. All the best! Fr33kman^{talk APW} 09:04, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Admin recall of Ryulong

Hi, I have requested admin recall of Ryulong here. I feel I can not let the matter drop (my name has been besmirched) especially in light of his promises at RFA and two admin recalls since. Thanks and if you'd like to comment, I'd appreciate it, if not I understand! :-) Fr33kman^{talk APW} 00:21, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Not going to happen, sorry; Ryulong is not open to recall. Daniel (talk) 00:23, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought that he was as he's been through two. Okay. How can I deal with this then? Fr33kman^{talk APW} 00:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

You let it go. Seriously. Or if you really want to, just delete the thread from Ryulong out of your archive and pretend it never happened; this will show you're the bigger man. Provided you close AfD's correctly and following the letter and spirit of WP:DELPRO#NAC, you will never be blocked for doing so. Daniel (talk) 00:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I feel this is unfair, honestly. I've checked and this may be a pattern of behavior. I guess I have no option, do I? I did try to help, did ask for guidance and did stop until I got it. No credit was given to that, however. Fr33kman^{talk APW} 00:36, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I guess a talk page of mine has been deleted. Why was it not allowed for me to archive that conversation? Thanks Fr33kman^{talk APW} 00:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Because to archive it under "pooradmins" is both unnecessarily inflammatory as well as meeting the definition of an attack page. Why not just archive it with the rest of your conversations, or else, just remove it entirely from your archives (you don't need to keep perfect archives, you can remove stuff if you like). Daniel (talk) 00:51, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Daniel, can you understand how I must feel. I have never had my good name brought into question before and to now find myself blocked from action (by folk who agree it was harsh), seems like a two sided "legal system" to me. The title was a poor choice. I have deleted the comments. Honestly, I really feel like asking to leave. Fr33kman^{talk APW} 01:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

With all due respect, frank discussion occurs like that every day on Wikipedia, and I mean this with all sincerity, but please try and not take things so personal. I know it may seem hard - I struggle with it sometimes - but just remember that this is a website, it's not as if your real name will be forever besmirched, I just suggest taking a step back from things. Could Ryulong have been a tad nicer? Yes, and I suggested he alter his comment to remove mentioning of blocking (which, unless it's pretty bad, will not happen - if you close another AfD wrongly, most likely you'd be asked to stop for a while by an uninvolved administrator, not blocked; obviously if you continued after being asked to stop, then the story might be different). You can still close AfD's if you do it right, and if you do it incorrectly again then I highly doubt you will be blocked (contrary to what Ryulong says, although I respect that he believes that is the best course of action), but rather simply asked to stop entirely. Daniel (talk) 01:20, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I have stopped permanently. I am taking a wikibreak for a while. Thank you. Fr33kman^{talk APW} 01:34, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Please don't revert messages other people leave on my talk page except under the most exceptional circumstances. I have no objection whatsoever to having a message about recalling Ryulong on my talk page, and I don't like having someone make the decision for me. Everyking (talk) 03:50, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I will mass-revert inappropriate messages as I see fit. If you disagree, you of course can always revert them back in on your talk page. Daniel (talk) 04:15, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Remember the troublesome SEGA

Hi Daniel. Hoping you could assist in another re-incarnation of the permanently banned SEGA? SEGA has re-incarnated himself yet again and is editing under the username Trendlists (talk · contribs). SEGA is also editing as an IP. This time his address is 68.112.30.49 (talk · contribs). You will see that the new IP falls in line with his previous IP ranges. Trendlist/IP 68.112.30.49 have both been active in Yes related pages where there has been some dispute over official band member lists. SEGA is using the account/IP to try and create a false consensus about how he feels the content related to the band should be portrayed. The Trendlist account has an extensive history of Phish related edits... again... a major "haunt" of the troublesome SEGA. Can you take a peak at this account/IP and see if we can "cleanse" Wikipedia of this user. I expect there are other accounts being used and that Wikipedia has been bombed with more SEGA copyright violations. But I have dug deep enough to find his other 'alter-egos'. Thanks for any help you can provide with this issue. Have a nice day. The Real Libs-speak politely 14:00, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 Confirmed by checkuser that Trendlists (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) = SEGA. Also, confirmed that CloseToTheRelayer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is also him. Both blocked. Thanks very much! Daniel (talk) 03:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Portal:New South Wales

After being bothered for a few weeks by the redlink for "Selected article" in Portal:New South Wales, I was bold and selected a relevant one from the recent featured articles list. I notice you and DarkFalls are listed as maintainers of the Portal (and Spebi, though s/he appears to have ceased editing), so am letting you know in case I have cut across any established practice for selection. If so, sorry about that and feel free to revert it and add some other article. Euryalus (talk) 23:03, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Nono, what you did looks fine - thanks very much for doing so. Daniel (talk) 03:04, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Omnibus case

Stephen, now the case has been closed, would you be able to "do the honours" at m:RfP? From memory, an Arbitration Committee member needs to request the desysopping, rather than the closing clerk. Regards, Daniel (talk) 01:10, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Done, but when it's the result of an arbitration ruling, anyone can file the request. --bainer (talk) 01:21, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Daniel (talk) 03:00, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

FeloniousMonk

I have posed a question at WP:AN regarding the desysopping of FM. Could you reply? --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 02:55, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

I replied, but I'm not the person to be asking. Daniel (talk) 02:59, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

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National parks of New South Wales DRV close

from Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 September 24 was fair and well written. Thanks. --Kbdank71 16:04, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Daniel (talk) 07:19, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposal

Hi Daniel, I have been working on an idea for a proposal and would like your views on it. Could you take a look at the work I've done so far? It's regarding education for new dispute resolvers and mediators (WP:3 and WP:MEDCAB) and would be totally voluntary. Thanks! :-) fr33kman -s- 01:37, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:ANI#Suicide_threat.3F

I've added questions after your archival that need your attention. Toddst1 (talk) 00:58, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

I've replied and rearchived. Daniel (talk) 01:00, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Discussion still going on so I've unarchived. I don't think you're being helpful here. Toddst1 (talk) 01:31, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism on Jim Cramer by 144.126.208.171

Hi. I noticed you had reverted vandalism by 144.126.208.171. It appears he's at it again. I went ahead and rolled back the article again, but I doubt he'll leave it that way for long. --bapinney (talk) 05:15, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

He can have a month off. Thanks much for letting me know. Daniel (talk) 05:29, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Userpage

Hey, I don't know what happened to your userpage, but it's looking a bit messed up to me. -- how do you turn this on 13:02, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

In case you're not seeing what I'm seeing, I uploaded a screenshot. -- how do you turn this on 13:16, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Update - there no longer appears to be an issue. You may delete the image I uploaded. -- how do you turn this on 15:03, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Whoops, missed this thread (!). Yeah, I noticed it, but was hanging out for it to be resolved. Thanks for letting me know :) Cheers, Daniel (talk) 02:58, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Your RfA comment

Daniel, not sure if you're aware--I know you're busy--but a lot of contributors were upset by your wording here. Especially in a case where you're positing an editor's intentions, it would be really helpful for you to provide evidence of his poor intentions. Please understand--I'm not attempting to badger you from your oppose, as I would oppose this candidate as well--but might you be persuaded to refactor your original words--or at least, to provide some evidence to uphold them? I think it would go a long way toward calming the waters...Anyway, thanks for your time. Gladys J Cortez 14:15, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Apparently intentions is beyond the remit of RfA, so if you like, feel free to strike through that word and replace it with 'motivated'. I based my assumptions as to intentions and motivations off similar evidence, but it seems the latter will cause less strife. Daniel (talk) 15:00, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I would rather not be the one to make that change, but I do thank you for taking my comment under consideration.Gladys J Cortez 16:55, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Foxy Loxy's RfA

Hello, this message is to inform you that User:Foxy Loxy has restarted their RfA. The new discussion is located at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Foxy Loxy 2. GlassCobra 09:56, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey

Can you adopt me please? Sealim Man 14:16, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

By the way I see you got my brother banned! :o I don't mind though. (He's kinda a jerk. :) Sealim Man 14:16, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

No thanks. Daniel (talk) 02:58, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

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Thank you !

For having restored my user page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jc_helary

I know I could have done that myself but I think the person who did that would have reverted the changes.

I sent a mail to the provider corresponding to the IP and they told me that the user connected through this IP told them his computer had been hacked at that time. Funny thing is that I know a person who has an account at that same provider and who has already vandalized pages related to me.

Anyway, thanks again.

Jean-Christophe Helary —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jc helary (talk • contribs) 06:17, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

No problems :) Daniel (talk) 02:59, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

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Protection log

Hello, you protected Sonja Elen Kisa redirect ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite)) with "WP:BLP/OTRS #2008100510006381, please do not alter without contacting me" comment. I'd like to know what's wrong with this redirect, and why such article should not be ever created. In fact there were no edits on that entry for few month already and I don't think there was ever any vandalism. Netrat (talk) 04:33, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

The redirect is fine, but the article underneath it (especially the deleted edits) cannot be restored. It contains private, confidential, disparaging and otherwise harmful material which should never be hosted on Wikipedia. The subject is of marginal notability at best, and per confidential email, this is the way it should stay. Daniel (talk) 04:38, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

First, I know the redirect is fine. Second, you did not answer my questions, as they did not rise the question if old edits were OK or not. The question was why do you believe the subject cannot gain a wider notability. Third, have you ever read the edits you deleted? The material was neither private, confidential or disparaging. BLP violation redacted.. There was a reference for this information, namely, an article about Toki Pona and its author in Computerra magazine. By the way, a censored version of this article is offered at subject's own web-site as a reliable article about toki pona. When an information is published in a magazine with a circulation of 64,000 per week, you cannot consider it confidential anymore. This is just ridiculous. BTW, when dozens of magazines and newspappers publish articles about you, you are not a private person. BLP violation redacted.. Unfortunately, it looks like you were fooled by that confidential email BLP violation redacted.... I agree that the notability is marginal, and that's why the article was merged with toki pona (NB!: merged, not just rediected). But said information (BLP violation redacted., I guess) should stay in toki pona article as it totally complies with WP:RS, WP:VERI and WP:NPOV. The problem here is User:Sonjaaa kept removing such information from both Sonja Elen Kisa and toki pona article, which Wikipedia:Autobiographies strongly recommends against. Would you allow this, it would be very ill incident. This would mean any living person who's notable enough to have a Wikipedia article can send and email requestion the removal of information he or she does not like, and such information would be removed even if it is supported by reliable sources. Verifiability and NPOV should go before political correctness. BLP violation redacted. I hope you understand what I mean. Netrat (talk) 09:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

When you stop committing BLP violations on this page, stop comparing people with Neo-Nazis, and stop accusing me of acting recklessly, I might consider responding. If you have any further issues with this action, I suggest you email otrs-en-l, who will review the situation. Good day, Daniel (talk) 09:47, 10 October 2008 (UTC) (forced archive immediately so this wouldn't show up in Google searches, as my archives are not indexed.)

Question

Where and who do I complain about your violations of Wikipedia:Etiquette, namely ignoring the questions and skating round the question by changing the subject? The fact you are an admin does not not mean you have the right to decide what's good for Wikipedia. Netrat (talk) 11:20, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Removing your BLP violations is skirting the subject, now, is it? I must have missed that memo. I gave you an email address if you wanted a review of the private correspondence and my actions from it; as for archiving your comments, it's perfectly legitimate given their contents and the futility of continuing the discussion (my decision won't change; the only way to change it is to contact that address I said). Daniel (talk) 11:23, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

sonja elen kisa

Hi,

Some bio info (age, sexuality) was removed from Toki Pona as being private.[1] I don't know if it is or not, since it's fairly common knowledge and available in friendly blogs, and it doesn't look like Kisa ever removed it despite having a wiki account. If she has objected, we should probably explain this on the talk page so it doesn't get added back in. kwami (talk) 22:01, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Blogs aren't reliable sources, and this kind of material is covered by WP:BLP#Basic human dignity. It has been objected to, via OTRS. I'm not going to post on the talk page because that will simply bring attention to the issue and the content. Daniel (talk) 02:38, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Okay, that's fine. I just wanted to know what was going on. The only reason for relevancy was that the bio was deleted as not notable, and this was the only remnant of it. kwami (talk) 06:10, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Restoring non-specific technical discussion

Hi. Since you implemented the courtesy blanking at ANI, I'm bringing this question to you: do you think it would be okay to restore the monobook subsection? I think it's fine, but I want to be sure. Thanks. Flatscan (talk) 04:08, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Was there another one? I left Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Greasemonkey_script there. If I did, just let me know and I'll have a quick look over it. Daniel (talk) 04:55, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

There was Maybe tweak the default monobook style above Trout above Greasemonkey script. It's not a big deal, but I thought it could be useful. Flatscan (talk) 23:05, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Myron Evans

Hello. I have started a discussion on WP:FTN. I actually would be happy to see the article deleted. It only survived its last nomination for deletion on the condition that it was clearly labelled as pseudscience. Many thanks, Mathsci (talk) 11:33, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello, again. Does the "locked deletion" of the BLP preclude the creation of a non-biographical article on the fringe scientific topic Einstein-Cartan-Evans theory as I suggested during the AfD? I am not particularly interested in such an article, but various contributors during the AfD thought that this part of fringe science might merit an article. An example of how it might look is here: User:Mathsci/subpage4. Cheers, Mathsci (talk) 06:28, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

I would suggest not, provided it doesn't drift into discussing Evans at all. Daniel (talk) 00:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)