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Please comment on Talk:United Kingdom general election, 2015
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.
During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.
We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
- Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
- One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
- Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)
The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.
This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.
Until next time,
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February events and meetups in DC
Greetings from Wikimedia DC!
February is shaping up to be a record-breaking month for us, with nine scheduled edit-a-thons and several other events:
- On Friday, February 12, NPR will host a Black History Month First Edit event.
- On Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14, we're working with the Wiki Education Foundation to hold a series of four edit-a-thons at the AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting.
- On Tuesday, February 16, we're holding the Smithsonian American Art Museum and American University WikiWorkshop with Professor Andrew Lih's class.
- On Saturday, February 20, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will host the African American Artists Edit-a-Thon.
- On Friday, February 26, Howard University will host its second annual Black History Month Edit-a-Thon.
- On Saturday, February 27, we have three different events. In the morning, we're holding an Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. In the afternoon, we'll host our second February WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle, followed by our monthly dinner meetup at Vapiano.
We hope to see you at one—or all—of these events!
Do you have an idea for a future event? Please write to us at info@wikimediadc.org!
Kirill Lokshin (talk) 16:40, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:English Democrats
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Books & Bytes - Issue 15
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)
- New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
- #1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
- New branches and coordinators
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia library Newspapers.com renewal
Your free one-year account with Newspapers.com will end on March 2 2016. Newspapers.com has offered to extend existing accounts by another year. If you wish to keep your account until March 2 2017, please add your name to the Account Renewal list here. I'll let Newspapers.com customer support know, and they will extend your subscription. If you don't want to keep your account for another year, you don't have to do anything. Your account will expire unless I hear from you that you want to keep it. HazelAB (talk) 13:46, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Request for comment: Lead sentence for train or railway stations
In what way should the lead sentence of articles dealing with railway stations or train stations be fashioned? See discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#Request for comment: Identification of train or railway stations in the lead. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 22:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
Until next time,
Request for Comment: Marco Rubio
There is an ongoing RfC at Talk: Marco Rubio which you may care to weigh in on. Spartan7W § 15:09, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
March events and meetups in DC
Greetings from Wikimedia DC!
Looking for something to do in DC in March? We have a series of great events planned for the month:
- On Wednesday, March 9, we'll host our first March WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle.
- On Friday, March 11, the National Archives will host the Women in the Civil War Edit-a-Thon.
- On Saturday, March 19, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian will host the Color History with the Smithsonian! event, and we'll hold our second Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
- On Sunday, March 20, the American Chemical Society will host the Computers in Chemistry Edit-a-Thon.
- On Saturday, March 26, we'll host our second March WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle, followed by our monthly dinner meetup at Vapiano.
Can't make it to an event? Most of our edit-a-thons allow virtual participation; see the guide for more details.
Do you have an idea for a future event? Please write to us at info@wikimediadc.org!
Kirill Lokshin (talk) 16:29, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:List of state leaders in 2016
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Washington Legacy
Aye JayJasper, I'm not going to get too involved on the Legacy of George Washington article. I was sort of shocked to see the Slavery section bloated out to such proportions while none of the other topics (Revolutionary War, Presidency, etc) weren't even listed, let alone covered. I have added some sections and various content. Good luck with the page. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 19:48, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
- Aye to you as well, Gwillhickers. I was just making some copyedits and fixing some format errors (while managing to make a few myself in the process!), nothing major. That said, I agree that the page was in dire need of cleanup and renovation. Thank you for efforts and improvements to the page. Best of luck and godspeed with your editing as well!--JayJasper (talk) 20:05, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Comment for press?
Hi JayJasper,
Hope you don't mind me dropping a line. I'm a journalist, based in the UK, and I noticed you've done a lot of work on the US election timeline page. I'm interested in speaking to Wikipedians who are keeping up with the 2016 election and updating pages accordingly. If you'd like to get in touch, my email address is at the bottom of my website: chrisbaraniuk.com.
Look forward to hearing from you!
Please comment on Talk:Alt-right
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Books & Bytes - Issue 16
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)
- New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
- Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
- A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
- Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:17, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8
This month:
In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)
With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!
The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!
- The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
- The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.
Until next time,
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Please comment on Talk:Education of the British Royal Family
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Nomination of Kent Mesplay for deletion
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Please comment on Talk:Alternative for Germany
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Please comment on Talk:Multi-sport event
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Please comment on Talk:List of Donald Trump presidential campaign endorsements, 2016
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Books & Bytes - Issue 17
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Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria
- New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
- Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
- New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:2016 Orlando nightclub shooting
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Clark–Koch
Hello.
Nobody in the article has the surname Clark-Koch. It's two persons' last names, thus per MOS:ENDASH, an endash us used.
Regards
HandsomeFella (talk) 20:15, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
- Agreed, it is two persons' surnames. However, in your edits, the name of the vp candidate David Koch, was mispelled as "Kock". Hence, my corrections.--JayJasper (talk) 20:20, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
- Ok, I didn't see that. Thanks. HandsomeFella (talk) 20:22, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9
Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!
Please comment on Talk:2016 Orlando nightclub shooting
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A barnstar for you!
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The Check's in the Mail Barnstar | |
| Awarded for some solid early edits to Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016 - please accept this barnstar while your check is, one would hope, one would like to think, in the best of all possible worlds, in the mail. Guy1890 (talk) 05:49, 5 July 2016 (UTC) |
Please comment on Talk:Michel Foucault
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Please comment on Talk:2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
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Please comment on Talk:Stormfront (website)
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Can you please look over 2020 election timeline
I worked all this morning on it, and I based it off of the 2016 elections timeline. I just want to see your thought on it. 2020 US Presidential Election Timeline --JJBers (talk) 16:19, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Frank Gaffney
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Your comments on Jill Stein
Hello JayJasper. You recently advanced solid argumentation based on wp:coatrack, that 3rd party chances should not be considered on Jill Stein's bio page. Then, the dominant actor on the page deleted the structuring element pointing out all those 3rd party chance sentences, but kept the content (duverger's law, trump, sanders, etc.) see the page after his revert here. As you can see the paragraph you said had no place on the page is actually still there. Are you sure his edit was sufficient to satisfy your point of view, or did you just give up for other reasons? Here is the discussion on the talk page... there's a lot of us who hold the same opinion you do, but Snoog won't let go... SashiRolls (talk) 01:47, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Donald Trump
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Books & Bytes - Issue 18
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Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads
- New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
- Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
- TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
- OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016
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Please comment on Talk:Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016
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revert of the removal of a mistake
Just a courteous note: I noticed another editor actually reverted an revert you made of what appears to be an editorializing attempt, in addition to introducing two formatting mistakes. That revert appears to have convinced you that the original edit was correct; unfortunately it isn't. While the statement is true, note the section in which this sentence appears. This is not only an unsourced WP:OR about whether a third-party candidate spoiled the election by affecting the electoral votes outcome in 2000 (still a highly contentious issue), but is in fact patently illogical as it cites a simple fact about the popular vote total that has nothing to do with the electoral votes outcome. I've helped you remove the original edit again. (also note that based on editing interests, I'm pretty sure the other user is in fact the same person as the IP address who made the original edit.) 73.114.34.143 (talk) 05:23, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for catching that, and making the revert. I had reverted the OR statement a second time but missed that it had been added back yet again. The notification is appreciated.--JayJasper (talk) 21:09, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:2016 World Cup of Hockey
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Blocked from editing
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. 
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Sockpuppetry by JayJasper. Thank you.
Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:05, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
JayJasper (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
Although I am not particularly savvy when it comes to CheckUser, I am aware that is considered highly reliable by those able to use it knowledgably, and that being identified by the system as a sock puppeteer puts one in the position of presumed guilt. Acknowledging the difficulty in having to prove a negative, I would like to put forward a few points for consideration when weighing the allegations against me. *Looking through the edit histories of my alleged socks, I calculated well more than 7,000 edits overall. It would take an impressive effort to accumulate that number in addition to the thousands of edits I typically compile on an annual basis. Simply put, it would require way more time than I actually have in a day, given that I work daily in addition to online activities like Wikipedia. *If there is a way to determine if more than one editor has edited simultaneously in the same time frame, it would not be surprising to discover that I have edited alongside some of my alleged socks in a time frame that in which it would be difficult, if not impossible, to be operating multiple accounts at the same time. *While nearly all the alleged socks have edited topics similar to those that I have edited, particularly subjects related to US politics, each one has also edited topics decidedly different than the topics I typically work on. For example, at least one seems to have a fascination with conspiracy theories & related subjects, while another seems to drawn to computer technology and the like. These are not subjects that hold a great deal of interest to me and would not be topics I would put time and effort into editing. *Each alleged sock seemingly has a different writing/conversational style in talk page discussions and/or edit summaries. *It should be noted that a good portion of my editing, particularly during the past 2-3 years, has been done on public access computers. I know for a fact I am not the only person who edits Wikipedia in the venues I frequent, which have a shared IP address. Yes, I know it is unlikely that 14 or more people (the number of my alleged socks) will be editing in the same venue, particularly those with at least partially common interests in topics for editing. Nevertheless, Shared IP addresses should always be given due and diligent consideration in sockpuppet allegations. I trust that all of the above points will be given serious consideration by the ruling administrator and anyone else to whom it may concern. If, after careful consideration, you decide that I am worthy of being given at least the benefit of doubt in my contention of not being the sockmaster I am alleged to be, you will have my highest gratitude. Should you choose to unblock me and allow me to continue in my enthusiastic efforts to improve Wikipedia, your decision will be rewarded with more focused and diligent efforts than ever before on my part. Because the privilege will most assuredly not be taken for granted. Whatever you decide, I ask that you please take into account the decade of work I have put into Wikipedia: creating and cleaning up articles, constructive participation in talk page discussions and Wikiprojects, adding relevant content and reliable sources to articles, etc. Thank you for your careful consideration.--JayJasper (talk) 22:13, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Per my ANI remarks. —DoRD (talk) 11:23, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
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- {{checkuser needed}} to review the unblock request. The results of the CU are in my userspace on the CUwiki: might be useful to have a look at (more visual and shows the links). Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:51, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
Statement
@Callanec: Would you please link this from, or copy-and-paste to, the appropriate place? Thanks--JayJasper (talk) 20:06, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Well, here I am with my hands up acknowledging - with great remorse and regret - that the sockpupetting allegations against me are indeed true. I first want to offer my deepest apologies to the entire community for these grievous actions, which are entirely indefensible and contrary to the standards of the Wikipedia community of which I have been privileged to have been a part of for nearly a full decade. I apologize also for my desperately lame attempts to initially deny these allegations in the face of crystal-clear evidence. There are no excuses or any justification whatsoever for these actions, for which I take full and complete responsibility for. I perfectly understand if any of the editors who I have frequently interacted with over are angry and/or deeply disappointed with my actions. I would certainly have similar feelings if I were in their position. If I can be given the opportunity to earn back the community's trust and goodwill, you can take it to the bank that I will work diligently and enthusiastically to do so.
Although my behavior-in-question could never be explained away, and that there are zero - maybe even negative - legitmate reasons that could be given for it, I would nevertheless like to give a bit of insight as to how it came about. Around 7 years ago, I for some reason felt a need to "experiment" by editing in other personas. I found that it seemed to stimulate creativity and and a sense of "freedom" to edit from the vantagepoint of "someone else". Crazy, huh? Despite having been a Wikipedian long enough at that point to know better, I naively thought it would be just a short-term thing that wouldn't do any harm. Well, it just seemed to get easier and easier to do, and I guess it became somewhat (for lack of a better word) addictive. I started rationalizing to myself that editing through the multiple accounts was actually beneficial to Wikipedia because doing so actually enhanced my editing skills. I now know what a load of malarky that was, and that there are no justifications for stealth sockpuppeting and that single-editor focused editing is truly what works best. I can't tell you how badly I wish I had the good sense back then to "experiment" in a manner compliant with WP:SOCK#LEGIT, with full transparency. Alas, I did not, and...here I am. The great irony to all of this is that, just a few weeks before being "caught", the reality of just how absurdly out-control the sock accounts had become was beginning - in a big way - to set in. I then made myself a resolution that within a period of six months I would have all the socks "phased out" once and for all (I had reasoned that if I dropped them all "cold turkey" it might become obvious and look suspicious that these multiple editors all stopped at about the same time. Then, just two or three weeks later - boom! Like I said, irony.
I tell you this not to garner any sympathy or persuade you to in any way let me "off the hook". I just want give some perspective, and let you know that while that while my judgement in this whole matter was obviously piss-poor, my intentions and motivations were never in any way of ill will, nor intended to disrespect or spite the WP community. I know that does not make it right, or even more tolerable. I fully acknowledge the harm my thoughtless actions have done, and I regret it deeply. Nevertheless, I want everyone to know that I truly do respect the community despite having engaged in actions that do not comport with that sentiment.
Oh, about those handful of good sock/bad sock edits, including the one that led to the "reveal": They came about as a result of a prankish work associate who thought it would be a real hoot to give me some vandalism to chase after while I was editing from an office computer, and he was logged in on another (which has a different IP address from the one I was using, but I had made edits from both, so...). Now, I know this may sound like "a likely story" and that I'm trying to deflect responsibility from myself, but that is in no way the case. Although I didn't initiate these edits, I knew what was taking place and could have - and should have - made a staunch effort to prevent it from happening, but failed to do so. I therefore have complicity in, and bear full responsibility for, them. I just want it to be known that this sort of thing is not something I would initiate or do "for jollies" at Wikipedia's expense. Nor is it something I would ever allow to happen again, should I have the good fortune of being granted a second chance of being an active member of the Wikipedia community again.
I would also like to note that I never personally edited under the usernames "Miss Cherry Redd" or "BrightonC". They are (well, were) the legitimate accounts of two people I know personally who started edited WP with my encouragement. Both edited from computers that were shared with me at home or work. Among the many regrets I have over this whole episode is they have lost their accounts as a result of my utter stupidity. If and when I am granted a second chance by the community, I will remember to utilize Template:User shared IP address on any and all applicable accounts.
Having acknowledged my transgressions, I steadfastly vow to learn from, and never repeat, them. Having done so, I humbly and respectfully ask the community to extend to me the WP standard offer, or some variation of it. Knowing that some of you understandably have misgivings about doing so, let it be known that I am open to having editing privileges under probationary measures of some kind. Such measures would be prudent and more than fair. I am also open to any suggestions and feedback you may have concerning actions I might take to better my chances of having editing privileges restored.
Given the opportunity to make a WP:Clean start, I could begin anew with a new account that is unstained by the legacy of sockpuppetry that brought about this whole unfortunate episode, but that continues the positive legacy of the JayJasper account. Please note that this positive legacy encompasses nearly a decade of constructive work that has benefitted the project: creating, improving, and cleaning up articles; constructive participation in talk page discussions and Wikiprojects; adding relevant content and reliable sources to articles, etc. While I know that my many positive contributions do not erase or excuse the harm done by my despicably poor choices in editing methods, I would like to believe that a decade of positive, productive contributions that have benefitted the readers of Wikipedia (and aren't they who WP exists for, and to whom the project has it first and foremost responsibility?) must count for something, and carry heavy weight at that.
Whatever your decision, I thank you for your careful considerationm--JayJasper (talk) 20:00, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Update on request
@Callanecc: Would you please it be known at the ANI discussion that I am no longer requesting WP:CLEANSTART, but WP:SO only. Thank you.--JayJasper (talk)
Request for comments on infobox at United_States_presidential_election,_2016
An RfC was started at Talk:United_States_presidential_election,_2016#A_call_for_consensus_on_McMullin_and_Castle get comments on whether or not Castle and other write-ins should be added to the infobox. Your participation is appreciated. Sparkie82 (t•c) 10:50, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Community decision regarding your block
I imagine that you were following the discussion at the incident noticeboard, but someone suggested you ought to be notified here regarding the results of what you asked for. For reference, I've closed the discussion regarding your request as follows: Consensus is that an appeal will be permitted, provided that there is no block evasion. There is no consensus whether the block should be considered a ban, but this difference is largely academic—no administrator is likely to unblock JayJasper absent a clear community consensus to do so. JayJasper may appeal no less than six months from today; any appeal should be brought before the community for determination. There is clear consensus that a clean start should not be permitted under any circumstances
. As I imagine you are well aware, you've seriously breached the trust of the community, and that is not regained quickly or easily. You also were clearly highly regarded as an editor prior to this. The community's consensus was that if you choose to return, you'll need to request to do so under this account, with full knowledge of who you are and what you did. Rebuilding trust like that takes time. I hope it goes without saying that use of any sockpuppets for block evasion could permanently destroy any hope of doing so. Rather, I'd encourage you to take the time off to consider what happened and how you might work toward correcting it upon any possible return. Seraphimblade Talk to me 11:40, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- The notification is appreciated, and I find the community's decision to be more than fair. Message heard, loud and clear. I will comply fully with the terms of this decision, and will indeed use the time off as recommended, and work towards making amends should I have the good fortune to be given the chance to do so by the community at the appropriate time.--JayJasper (talk) 18:16, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 19
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Books and Bytes - Issue 20
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Books and Bytes - Issue 21
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Books and Bytes - Issue 22
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Speedy deletion nomination of Peter Barnes (entrepreneur)
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Books and Bytes - Issue 23
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Books and Bytes - Issue 24
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Books and Bytes - Issue 25
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Books & Bytes - Issue 27
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Books & Bytes – Issue 28
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Books & Bytes – Issue 29
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Books & Bytes, Issue 30
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Opinion needed
Hello. Would you be interested to say your opinion about the issue raised here — Talk:List of heads of state of Angola#Requested move 2 November 2018? Thanks in advance. --Sundostund (talk) 02:12, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Books & Bytes, Issue 31
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Nomination of American Delta Party for deletion
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