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The Signpost: 28 February 2011
- News and notes: Newbies vs. patrollers; Indian statistics; brief news
- Arbitration statistics: Arbitration Committee hearing fewer cases; longer decision times
- WikiProject report: In Tune with WikiProject Classical Music
- Features and admins: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: AUSC applications open; interim desysopping; two pending cases
- Technology report: HTML5 adopted but soon reverted; brief news
Northenglish SPI
I added a response to you at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Northenglish if you wish to comment further. Thanks —ASPENSTI—TALK—CONTRIBUTIONS 18:00, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
User:Richardmalter at SPI
Hello DeltaQuad. I notice you have already marked WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Richardmalter for closure as no action. The complaint had been that 202.63.58.223 was editing BDORT as a sock of User:Richardmalter. My inclination is to think that these edits are a violation of an Arbcom topic ban, since Richardmalter is banned from editing BDORT under any account or IP. It is logical to semiprotect BDORT to deal with this apparent violation. Could you take a look at the more complete story at User talk:BullRangifer#User:Richardmalter and see if you object to my reasoning? I'm asking for your review since you had already closed the SPI as not a violation. Your closure appeared to be saying that Richardmalter might be editing logged out, but he is not supposed to be editing there under any identity. Unless you object, I will enact the semiprotection and log it in the Arbcom case. BullRangifer has added more text to the closed SPI case; it might have been simpler if he had just written to you directly. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 23:39, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
The Signpost: 7 March 2011
- News and notes: Foundation looking for "storyteller" and research fellows; new GLAM newsletter; brief news
- Deletion controversy: Deletion of article about website angers gaming community
- WikiProject report: Talking with WikiProject Feminism
- Features and admins: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: New case opened after interim desysop last week; three pending cases
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Effort appreciated
DeltaQuad -- thanks for your efforts in closing the proposed deletion discussions for Society for Humanistic Judaism and for Or Emet. I created the second article, so am glad to see it didn't go... thanks again for jumping in on this. SeparateWays (talk) 02:42, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
- No Prolem. Those socks should be out of your way as I scrached all AFDs they commented on and closed all they nominated. -- DQ(t) [[Special:Emai(e) 03:18, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Poop patrol
Hi Deltaquad, thanks for the bot run. I'm ready for another run whenever you are, though there are some tweaks that it would be nice to have. ϢereSpielChequers 17:09, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
- Ya...hit a bit of a snag, for some reason the bot crashes in the middle of each query now so I will be taking a look into that. Sorry for the delay. DQ.alt (t) (e) 18:02, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
- No worries, I was just hoping you weren't waiting on me for anything. BTW I suspect that the code Olaf left on wiki might not be the final version he had - I think that at least one of the problems covered in User:Botlaf/Improvements is back with us. ϢereSpielChequers 21:36, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
- Brilliant that's good to hear. As well as a bunch of typos, on that first run I picked up quite a few vandalisms that had got past both our hugglers and our watchlisters. ϢereSpielChequers 12:34, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Where are the instructions that come with this thing lol (jk). As you can see, by no work of my own, she is running again which tells me it was just the content of something onwiki (not the code) that was the issue. Along with that, I see (because of a print statement) that it already ignores redirects. -- DQ(t) [[Special:Emai(e) 06:00, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, the biggest problem at the moment is that it doesn't ignore safe phrases in links. So Planing has a problem because Planing mill is usually linked, but posses works fine. ϢereSpielChequers 12:54, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 March 2011
- News and notes: Foundation reports editor trends, technology plans and communication changes; brief news
- Features and admins: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: New case on AE sanction handling; AUSC candidates; proposed decision in Kehrli 2 and Monty Hall problem
- Technology report: Left-aligned edit links and bugfixes abound; brief news
GOCE / Mid-drive newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive
 Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.
 So far, 79 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 64 have participated. Interest is high due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page, and many new and first-time copy editors have joined us for the drive. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the Requests page. We have assisted in the promotion of seven articles to Good article status so far this month.
We have already achieved our target of reducing the overall backlog by 10%; however, we have more work to do with the 2009 backlog. We have almost eliminated May 2009 and we only have some 700 articles left from 2009. It is excellent progress, so let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!
The UtahraptorTalk to me has decided to step down from his position as project coordinator due to real-life issues. Your drive coordinators – S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk) and Tea with toast (Talk) |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 04:42, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, do you know how long checkuser investigations usually take? It appears that one of the SPs is still active. Thanks. Logical Cowboy (talk) 17:26, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference
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AfD
You might take it easy on some of those AfD closings....here and here, 2 keeps and 1 delete is not a consensus, also here, and essays are not policy...ok, ya, there is no way 2 keeps and 1 delete is a consensus here, here, etc. CTJF83 17:26, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
- Ok, so votes #s are not the reason to close AFDs. That's why they are called !votes. "should not be calculated solely by the balance of votes" This is a direct argument off of the AFD closure instructions. So here is what I think (in the order you listed them):
- Ok, this one was an overshot.
- References were found, up to 9. That and 2 keep !votes pushed me for a keep against the nomination.
- This one you have a COI in. There was two additional keeps from the relist, and even though Delete or Keep might not be clearly marked, they still are involved.
- Here the prod was removed and two other editors agree, with a good number of sources.
- A newer user was going on a deletion spree + 2 keeps + A good amount of info in the article lead me to my decision.
- Maybe it wasn't the best idea to go on an AFD closing spree, but I saw work that needed to be done, and did it. I left a whole bunch more controversial ones for admins and other expirienced users to deal with. So one mistake there, every one makes mistakes. -- DQ(t) [[Special:Emai(e) 17:49, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
- Wait, now I see what happened with the first one, that was a technical mess up because I didn't have time to close before you relisted. Besides that was a button hit that screwed that one. -- DQ(t) [[Special:Emai(e) 17:52, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
- #2 might be justifiable....but in general 2-1 is not a consensus. I'd either relist those or leave it to an admin. Just an FYI coming from someone who was bitten in the ass on an RfA. So if you are thinking about RfA, best to be far more cautious....just my thoughts, heed it or not. CTJF83 18:00, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
- With all due respect, looking at the RfA, I read through just over half of the opposes and it wasn't because of AfD's mostly. Although the diffs by Courcelles were quite interesting closures for AfDs. I have to disagree with you and take this on a case by case basis and I think my closures were appropriate (except the 1st mistake). Weather I am going to RfA soon or not, admins also have to be willing to take a leap of faith and try things some times. They can't just sit on the sidelines. -- DQ(t) [[Special:Emai(e) 18:16, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
- #2 might be justifiable....but in general 2-1 is not a consensus. I'd either relist those or leave it to an admin. Just an FYI coming from someone who was bitten in the ass on an RfA. So if you are thinking about RfA, best to be far more cautious....just my thoughts, heed it or not. CTJF83 18:00, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
- Wait, now I see what happened with the first one, that was a technical mess up because I didn't have time to close before you relisted. Besides that was a button hit that screwed that one. -- DQ(t) [[Special:Emai(e) 17:52, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 March 2011
- WikiProject report: Medicpedia — WikiProject Medicine
- Features and admins: Best of the week
- Arbitration report: One closed case, one suspended case, and two other cases
- Technology report: What is: localisation?; the proposed "personal image filter" explained; and more in brief
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Template on DeltaQuad.alt user page
Maybe you should do something about that template. I am not sure what it is supposed to mean, but it sounds as if you want to say that currently you are not travelling and therefore nobody should be using your alternative account. This creates a situation in which other users are trained to ignore alarms of this kind, which is not a good thing. Hans Adler 19:35, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey. This case is still on hold five days later, and it seems the IP is causing issues. Shall I block, or are you still investigating? — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 14:35, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
LisaBot on IRC
Hey DeltaQuad, I was wondering if there was any chance you could take a look at your IRC bot, LisaBot? It's repeatedly joining and parting from irc://irc.wikimedia.org/simple.wikipedia due to the remote host closing the connection at the moment, which is making it somewhat hard for a few of us to read the IRC feeds due to them flooding up fairly quickly. Of course, this may also be a problem that could be stopping the bot working, so I thought I would bring it to your attention. Regards, BG7even 16:32, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
- Hey BlueGoblin. Thanks for the note. So I took a look on freenode and I see that she is not on which tells me she's having issues connecting to freenode. I attempted to put an auto restart in but obviously it won't connect to freenode and then keeps trying. So I can try and deal with it in a few hours, but being at school they block porting on SSH port 21, and IRC port 6667, so I can't do a thing from here. Sorry about this. -- DQ(t) [[Special:Emai(e) 17:23, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Talkback
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The Signpost: 28 March 2011
- News and notes: Berlin conference highlights relation between chapters and Foundation; annual report; brief news
- In the news: Sue Gardner interviewed; Imperial College student society launched; Indian languages; brief news
- WikiProject report: Linking with WikiProject Wikify
- Features and admins: Featured list milestone
- Arbitration report: New case opens; Monty Hall problem case closes – what does the decision tell us?
Checkuser
Hi. I am not sure I fully understood your decision here, could you please explain why it was declined? Thanks, RafaAzevedo msg 13:44, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry about that, basically I was agreeing with the Checkuser above saying no need to check, that it's a WP:DUCK block if it's going to happen. DQ.alt (t) (e) 17:18, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
I have a similar question about [1] - the main Racepacket account is definitely not stale, and neither is the 158 IP. --Rschen7754 00:12, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
- Well Racepacket has been confirmed by a checkuser to live in the same approximate location. And from the amount of evidence LauraHale has presented (I haven't read all of it), it looks like a WP:DUCK case, which means block. My third reason is User:DeltaQuad/Templates/nocu There are exceptions, but this looks like enough of a duck case not to connect. -- DQ(t) [[Special:Emai(e) 02:48, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for your comments. I wasn't sure if a check user was required if you were arguing a duck type case. I put check user in there anyway because I've never done the process and I thought that a check user would be required before being able to block on a duck argument. Good to know for future reference that one isn't required. (And hopefully, I never have to go through that filing again.) Your clarity is appreciated. :) --LauraHale (talk) 12:28, 30 March 2011 (UTC)