User talk:Lofty abyss/Archive 6

Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!

Once again it is festive season, a time where festive decorations are displayed and gifts are swapped; but what about the true meaning of christmas? The true meaning of christmas is about the fight for freedom and how in times of hardship and misery, one person leads their people to freedom as a great warrior; for those who fight for a cause are warriors and those who fight for a worthy cause are great warriors. Such an act earns respect and honour; but most importantly, brings happiness to their people. So to achieve this as happiness lies in other people's happiness and greatness lies in how you deal with little people, we selflessly think of others in the hope that they will be happy this christmas.

Hi Lofty abyss, have a very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year 2010!
 Set Sail For The Seven Seas 

  Set Sail For The Seven Seas  40° 6' 45" NET   02:40, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

school IP vandal

I just reverted a disruptive edit by this IP address. They didn't start editing right after their last block ran out, but it seems plausible that they just returned from break. It is definite that they have not stopped vandalizing. Would you please look into blocking them? Thank you. PrincessofLlyr (talk) 18:25, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Reblocked for 3 months, for now... -- Mentifisto 18:58, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! PrincessofLlyr (talk) 21:41, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Could I ask you to unblock this user?

Ticaeo (talk · contribs)

Spoke with them on their talk page, everything's been sorted out. I screwed up, apparently they weren't try to spam at all. I showed them how to do it correctly. Can you unblock them so I can get some sleep? :) Thanks. ALI ^{nom nom} 03:05, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, don't worry about it. :D Cheers! ALI ^{nom nom} 03:21, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Autoblock proxy.

Hi. I have been caught in an autoblock because I am using the proxy freedur on my network. Please review my unblock. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Imsmexinsmexin (talk • contribs) 21:50, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Goodbye

As it has become painfully obvious, my contributions are no longer welcome or needed here. In light of this situation, I am leaving this screwed up bureaucracy for the conceivable future. Good luck, my friend and keep fighting the good fight. ILLEGITIMUS NON CARBORUNDUM WuhWuzDat 02:27, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Michael Prinz von Anhalt

An article that you have been involved in editing, Michael Prinz von Anhalt, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Prinz von Anhalt. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. JBFrenchhorn (talk) 07:01, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

you're quick!!

I didnt even get to put a new pic on the fake tosh site b4 u got it good job man(or woman but statistically ur prob a guy) haha —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanbatch (talk • contribs) 04:20, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Can you

undelete my userpage please? TIA :) Haipa Doragon (talk) 02:05, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Done. :-) -- Mentifisto 02:40, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Kamlesh prefix:Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/‎‎

Can you have a look at this again and help the poor user out. Thanks Codf1977 (talk) 12:59, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi!

Yo! Just saying Hi!. !seen 4a yl. Is everything alright? --Jyothis (talk) 22:36, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello! Everything's alright, thanks. Just been trying to reduce a certain addiction. ;-) -- Mentifisto 12:48, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

User to block

Hi, this user that you have recently blocked has come back to do some vandalize again. All I see out of this user's contributions is just vandalism. I would suggest blocking this user again to prevent more of the vandalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/163.153.187.162 Thanks for taking the time to read this and take care

Doug kwan (talk) 01:23, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Done; thanks for the report. -- Mentifisto 12:48, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Urgent admin solution required for my botch job...

Greetings Mentifisto – sorry to drag you away from AIV, but I urgently needed an admin active at this moment. I have just done a botch job of disambiguating Jessica Hall. Basically what happened was that until the edit at 10:36, 9 May 2010 by Rjwilmsi the article had been about a British actress of that name. The following anonymous editor hijacked the page and inserted the details of a US actress of the same name. I reverted the article to the last good version mentioned above, moved that article to Jessica Hall (British actress) and set up a new page, Jessica Hall (US actress), with the details copied from the hijacker’s version and pasted the talk page stuff on each corresponding page. Trouble is, of course, the history. Sorry for making a hash of it, but at least it gives you something interesting to do rather than block vandals all night. Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 23:37, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Am also posting this at User:Materialscientist, who is now active at AIV, in case you are offline.--Technopat (talk) 00:09, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi - sorry, I'm not offline, but I'm still trying to figure out the steps required. Although if you post it to more than one person it may be resolved sooner. :-) -- Mentifisto 00:14, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for reply. Have just posted it at Materialscientist, but now am worried that there might be an edit conflict. On the other hand, I’m sure that not even the worst vandals get two admins clearing up after them, so I should take it as an honour. Sigh! And thanks, again!--Technopat (talk) 00:22, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Heh no, you're not that bad! But I think this might be what is done over here (and unfortunately I never paid much attention to it...) -- Mentifisto 00:26, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I see User:Anthony Appleyard is pretty active over there at the cut and paste. Shall I involve him or is this something you have to sort out once you have started it...--Technopat (talk) 00:37, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Just got this from Materialscientist: I understand the problem and how to fix it, but I would leave it be - there are only few edits which need to be histmerged into the US article, and their author knows about the article changes. Materialscientist (talk) 00:35, 15 June 2010 (UTC). So I can take my guilty conscience off to bed with me then. Thanks for being out there, Mentifisto. Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 00:42, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I am hoping that you'll please reconsider the deletion of Frontier3's company site. I have some edits, news stories, etc. that make it more encyclopedic in the writing style. My mistake, shouldn't have published until finished with my links and additions Frontier3 (talk) 13:34, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

The way it was, there weren't any parts that weren't promotional. If you could create an article truly neutral that also satisfies the notability criteria then it wouldn't be deleted, but I don't think there was anything that was salvageable in the previous version. -- Mentifisto 14:17, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Mentibot

Hey Mentifisto, just dropping by to let you know I've approved Mentibot for interwiki tagging. Please wait until the bot has a flag before running it. If you need help with anything, please feel free to ping me :). Best, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 18:36, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! (Xeno was quick!) -- Mentifisto 18:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello there!

Excuse me, can I ask you a favor please?
Could you help me find (or show me the way to) a game reviewer to review my contributed pages, which are listed below, please?
Dream Chronicles (series)
Dream Chronicles
Dream Chronicles 2: The Eternal Maze
Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child
Dream Chronicles: The Book of Air
Thanks first for your kindness! :D -- †hinhin_of_you / buzzworthy / βoy Ünder Ғlowers / Mons†er Ғierce 02:03, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Maybe WP:VG's listed members? That series seems to have nice graphics, by the way - kind of looks like Chrono Cross. -- Mentifisto 17:25, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you so much!!! I've been looking for that thing!

The Dream Chronicles (series) has its Art Nouveau-inspired 2.5D visual style that likes no ANY OTHER video games that ever made! :x

BTW, Chrono Cross is a RPG huh? While that series is a mixing of adventure game and hidden object game, which is formally typical in casual gaming space. --†hinhin_of_you / buzzworthy / βoy Ünder Ғlowers / Mons†er Ғierce 02:03, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it's an RPG (since there is a world to explore would it be 3D? I'm not sure) - incidentally it derived from another game called Radical Dreamers (CC does have surreal dreamlike sequences itself). -- Mentifisto 17:52, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

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why did u blok guanna1 from guanna2 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guanna2 (talk • contribs) 17:05, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Please re-block 168.9.46.230

School's back in and they are at it again, with too many "last warnings" which are ignored (for obvious reasons).

Please re-block for another 6 months. Viva-Verdi (talk) 15:45, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Done, thanks. -- Mentifisto 16:09, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

User talk:204.38.122.2

Hi. This IP started vandalising again immediately the 12 moth block you made expired. They've had their four warnings (six actually) and we have a request at WP:EAR (the wrong place to lodge a complaint) from a user of that IP to block it again. Perhaps it's time already to re block, at least for long enough to demonstrate to them that you weren't kidding last time. Cheers, --Kudpung (talk) 19:35, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

24 now (I'm really not sure if there's any solution with schools...) -- Mentifisto 22:27, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

There is a solution for school IPs

Schools can be soft-blocked in such a way that IPs cannot edit, but creation of name-user accounts is still enabled (ie, not a hardblock). That way, every name-user is responsible for themselves. It takes 4 days for a name to "mature" before they can name-edit sprotected articles (typical school subjects), and it's really no fun to lose that 3 days as a result of one vandalism, which gets you name-account blocked for a long time. Schools and their students learn very quickly this is no fun. 4 days is a long time to wait, if you intend to do mischief, if you have to wait that long EVERY time you do it. But good editors only have to wait that time ONCE, and then only for sprotected articles. No email address is needed, as you know, although people have to remember the passwords that go with their names. Keeping track of all this is more work than the average vandal in the average school wants to do. Which is WHY he's a vandal in the first place. You see? It's all about removing immediate gratification.

BTW, here's another problem IP you might do something about [1]. SBHarris 21:14, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

But your suggestion would require that school IPs are blocked indefinitely, right? -- Mentifisto 14:23, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

dear mr mentifisto, please dont block me... somebody got into my account... i just got on and realized i was blocked... i am confused.←→←→←→←→ from ilikedafudge —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.18.38.149 (talk) 17:59, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Nov 2010: vandalism continues by 198.178.132.253

Please check this vandal and take appropriate blocking action. Viva-Verdi (talk) 01:58, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't seem there's much recent (obvious) vandalism that would necessitate a block (last one was over a year ago). -- Mentifisto 09:06, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

142.227.221.65

Hi, just over a year ago you blocked an IP for a year, see User talk:142.227.221.65. It seems the vandalism has started again although it's mixed with good edits. Just letting you know in case you wanted to follow it up/keep an eye on it. Sean.hoyland - talk 18:25, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Your bot reverted my corrections.

Hello,

I had made corrections to Deepika Padukone's name written in several Indic scripts on her page. But it seems like your bot reverted my corrections. These corrections have been preceded by discussions regarding correct pronunciation on the corresponding talk page. Could you please clarify the reverts.

--Bhanap1708 (talk) 20:49, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi,

Just realized that these scripts signify the page in the corresponding Wiki language.. so the page will have to be moved to reflect the correct spelling in those respective languages. --Bhanap1708 (talk) 20:52, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to particpate in the December 2010 Wikification Drive

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Magog (comics)

I fixed the Magog's mistake (pt:wp X other wps) once again, as Mentibot made it again on December 1^st. Please prevent the bot from making this mistake again. It's the third time I had to fix it and I'm getting tired of it. Thanks, Luizlac (talk) 23:30, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

P.S.: Any answer/comment can be posted on my Portuguese WP User Talk (I only have this one) or the Magog articles talk page.

Thanks and Merry Christmas! Luizlac (talk) 11:12, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Dear Mentifisto, Best wishes to you and your family this holiday season, whether you are celebrating Christmas or a different holiday. It's a special time of the year for almost everyone, and there's always a reason to spread the holiday spirit! ;) Love, --Meaghan [talk] ≈ 15:04, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Please confirm your membership

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WikiProject Sociology membership

You are listed in the Category:Wikipedians interested in sociology, probably due to the use of "This user is interested in sociology" userbox, but you have not added yourself to our official member list for WikiProject Sociology. This prevents you from, among other things, receiving our sociology newsletter, as that member list acts as our newsletter mailing list (you can find the latest issue of our sociology newsletter here). If you'd like to receive the newsletter and help us figure out how many members we really have, please consider joining our WikiProject and adding yourself to our official member list. Thank you, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 13:17, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

how rude

why did thou report thy guanna for what did guanna do to thou. Thou art smelly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gnrundead (talk • contribs) 09:51, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

howTobe12t

Dear Mentifisto, I was just trying to create a wiki page on the history of the youtube channel howTobe12t I just typed a sentence an it got deleted. Mentifisto can you at least please give me a chance to create the whole page and then if you dont like it you can delete it but, can you at least please just give me a chance? Sincerely, Al Zervos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HowTobe12t (talk • contribs) 20:42, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry about that, but most likely it won't meet the notability criteria (considering the channel has few subscribers), and that it can be seen as having a conflict of interest (your username being the same as the article created). -- Mentifisto 20:49, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Mentibot

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henschel-BBC_DE2500&action=historysubmit&diff=411348506&oldid=409376009 this edit is in error. Sf5xeplus (talk) 22:21, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't know much about locomotives, but after asking for a second opinion on how the bot ended up with those interwikis de:Henschel-BBC DE2500 seemed to be the equivalent in German (in hu: the bot linked to the article that the current iw redirects to, which might be an incorrect link, and ru didn't have an article at all). -- Mentifisto 14:02, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Sociology Newsletter: II (April 2010)

Sociology Project • News • April 2010
Spreading the meme since August 2006
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Piotrus (talk • contribs) 19:06, 21 April 2010

edit/revert war

i declare an edit war, Annaug vs. Mentifisto. please visit user:annaug talk page for any questions. signed. annaug

Vandalism by User talk:198.178.132.253

Constant vandalism + another one aftr final warning. Please block again. Viva-Verdi (talk) 15:52, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

It didn't seem to have clearly vandalized since. -- Mentifisto 09:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Hey you deleted an article I wrote

Hey, so I just decided recently to have a go at editing wikipedia, and so when I stumbled upon the wikipedia for this aussie band The Jezabels (just search it), and saw they had no article for their third EP I was like, oh well this'll be easy.

Anyway, so I whipped something up, and got it pretty good.

A bot obviously noticed I used an image from outside wikipedia (I didn't know! haha) so I got rid of that. Then it said it wasn't notable enough, which is obviously ridiculous because all their other articles were. Also the format had a couple mistakes here and there. I forgot to label the external link to their official website.

I used a reference, so there's that. Ummm, what else?

Well, I was kinda editing a bit, saving it, editing, saving etc. So it probably looked a little shambly at different stages when I'd made working mistakes etc. Perhaps editing it properly first might help.

Anyway. If you could undelete it that'd be great. Give me some feedback to start me off here on wikipedia. Or I could just re-write it from scratch even though I've done that like 5 times already it feels haha.

Anyway, yeah, that's about it.

Thanks :)

I don't really understand what the four tildes thing is so umm...

(ParsonsonL (talk) 00:15, 10 February 2011 (UTC)) four tildes? no? I dunno.

hello my love — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robgreen12345 (talk • contribs) 22:10, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Hey sorry, my mistake, it hasn't been deleted yet!

I got 'dark storm', an article you deleted mixed up with this 'dark storm ep' article I wrote. It's still up for speedy deletion though. I suppose someone or something will get around to reviewing it sometime or rather.

Umm, thanks anyway :)

ParsonsonL (talk) 00:30, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

(I get what the four tildes are now haha, quite nifty really :) *awkward self-referential message whose existence is based solely on avoiding a weird looking smiley/end-parenthesis clash*)

It wasn't deleted in the end. :-) -- Mentifisto 09:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

guanna

you do my head in.--Tengees (talk) 10:08, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

email on Help Desk needs deletion

In the Ford Trimotor section, someone put their email in their request and it wasn't noticed...Naraht (talk) 17:11, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Well, anyone can remove it (people usually do so search engines wouldn't index them), but in that case the topic starter seems to have taken precautions against potential spambots (not using @), which in my opinion makes removal unnecessary (although feel free to do so if you think it's reasonable). -- Mentifisto 09:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

OK, I know that there is personal information that has caused entire edits to be stripped from the history, I thought that email addresses rose to that level, but apparently not. I agree that he kept the stupid spambots from getting it.Naraht (talk) 14:35, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

WikiConference UK 2011: will you be coming?

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re-posting query on For Love or Money

deletion: For Love or Money (film and book) 1983

Could you help me with a deletion issue: I added the title of my documentary film and book: For Love or Money (1983) on to the Wikipedia For Love or Money listing on 22 January 2011: [[2]] (I added it under both Film and Literature) [[3]] It has since been deleted from the page listing and I don't know why? I have tried to work it out via the help pages etc , but I am not having much luck. Can you advise me why it was deleted ( Did I do something incorrectly; if so I am not sure what it was. What I need to do to restore the entry? T The film is a significant Australian feature labour history documentary: http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/love-or-money/notes/ I am intending to write a separate Wikepedia entry on the film providing more links to its history and background. I have also posted this query on my talk page: Jeni thornley (talk) 23:03, 1 June 2011. I would appreciate it if you can email me advice on jeni.thornley@gmail.com Dr Jeni Thornley, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Jeni thornley (talk) 00:17, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

It's due to not being linked to an article; disambiguation pages exist to provide a list of links to the specific articles people want - the relevant guide to this practice is here. If you would like more information maybe Tassedethe can help you (a user who edits in that area). -- Mentifisto 00:32, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Hello Mentifisto! I hope you accept this cupcake as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 07:50, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your tagging too! :-) -- Mentifisto 08:21, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Request to userfy content of deleted article K C Surendra Babu

Hi! I just logged in and received this message about the Speedy deletion nomination of K C Surendra Babu, a page created less than 24 hours ago. I found that the page was already deleted. I would like to request you to kindly userfy the content of deleted article to my userspace, without creating a redirect.

In my opinion, the article was important, as it dealt with one of the most brutal murders of a district police chief in India. It was one of the main reasons for the historic change of governance in the state of Bihar, India in Febraury & October 2005, when the murder of the high ranking police officer, K C Surendra Babu, was still very fresh in the minds of the voters. The issue of lawlessness was the most important in these elections. The 15 year rule of Lalu Yadav led RJD ended, and Nitish Kumar led the JDU+BJP combine to power. However, before I could respond to the notice of deletion, the article was deleted.

Thank you in anticipation. --Tinpisa (talk) 12:06, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Done. -- Mentifisto 12:19, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a million! --Tinpisa (talk) 12:53, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Please email me a copy of the deleted article

I wrote 'Organisation of Professional Gas Operatives'. Significant enough for editor, but too many common words between links provided and article (G12), and 'self promotion' G11. I won't try again, but would like to see what I wrote. Thanks for your time. McIntel (talk) 01:45, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

The email was sent. Maybe Wikipedia:Article_wizard/Ready_for_submission could be used next time the article is submitted, so you'll receive feedback and the article will avoid being tagged. -- Mentifisto 23:24, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2011 CUOS appointments

Your candidate subpage has been created and transcluded to the above-noted location.

Please answer the standard questions and also keep watch for additional questions that may be posted by the community.

Thank you again for your offer to serve as a functionary. –xeno^talk 12:44, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

You can has cheezburger for your great contributions, and your epic page. From your fellow user: Infinity Warrior Time and Space are never ending, or so we think... 17:13, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Mentifisto 19:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Offensive username

Besides blocking, can "Dick in vag" be removed as a username?--S. Rich (talk) 18:33, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I've done so. -- Mentifisto 19:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Membership of the Counter-Vandalism Unit

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Thanks

Wow - those were fast blocks! Usually it takes ages for AIV to be cleaned out. Thank you. Absconded Northerner (talk) 16:49, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome! I'm informed of the reports in real time, which is why I can deal with them more efficiently. -- Mentifisto 16:52, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Glad you like the feature

Hey, just saw your comment on the talk page about the feedback dashboard. Glad you like it! (It is a WMF thing.) I wanted to drop by because in addition the continued work on that by developers, Maryana and I were thinking it might be cool to form a small taskforce of people who were interested in answering newbie questions that appear via the dashboard. Probably listed at Wikipedia:Feedback Dashboard. We've done patrolling of it in our free time, and it's actually kind of fun to see people get better at editing etc. after you help them out. I'm not sure if you'd be interested in joining directly, but even if you just have some more thoughts about the best way to go about it, I'd love to hear them. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 21:49, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

I'd be interested in exploring more of the possibilities that this new tool could result in, and I think, due to my current curiosity, I'll be proactive at monitoring it and try to answer people's concerns if I'm able. (Could we use OTRS-standard replies, I wonder; the responses aren't themselves private, right?) -- Mentifisto 21:54, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Cool. Currently responses would have to just be public on the user talk page, though I guess you could email people too. In the next iteration it would be in public on the dashboard itself, like the screenshot Erik linked to. Admins can make the feedback hidden if there are any privacy problems etc. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 22:46, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Ping: see Wikipedia:Feedback Dashboard, including signup list. :) Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 21:53, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Signed, thanks for the ping! -- Mentifisto 22:29, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

User rights for User:Safwanzulfiqar

Hi Mentifisto,

I edit military history articles on Wikipedia (besides nature, etc) especially on Indo-Pakistan conflicts. It is a contentious field filled with POV trolls on both sides. It is very difficult to counter/undo the edits of POV trolls and involves much effort and hassle. A brand new user User:Safwanzulfiqar has been granted autoconfirmed status by you when he had two edits only and one of his edits is nothing more than admission of POV bashing in the same article Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 you have given him autoconfirmed permission to edit. This has completely foxed me, as I can not think why that should be done by you. There also does not seem to be any request on his part for the same. Could you kindly elaborate the reason for your action? AshLin (talk) 11:18, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

I apologize if this has caused inconvenience. I'm not very familiar with either military history or geographical conflicts, but the above user contacted us through email with regards to this and since I don't edit these areas myself I said that he could edit them directly himself (but then, of course, he couldn't due to it being semi-protected). He's only done a single edit since, so I don't suppose he's being overly disruptive so far, but I thought some sort of compromise could be reached (although, as I said, I know nothing about these contentious fields, so please feel free to inform me about this). -- Mentifisto 16:18, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. These things happen. No fault of yours for being helpful. I'm being welcoming to the newbie and trying not to bite him. Perhaps you may like to oversee my entries on his talk page, as a second opinion/oversight. AshLin (talk) 16:31, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

I think your message is more than acceptable; as I know next to nothing about this Indo-Pakistani War I can't comment with regards to whether it's neutral or not. I've read his talk page message and I couldn't see whether there was a clear POV being espoused. I'm assuming that the general consensus is not for what he requested, but then again it seems the war didn't have any clear result. At any rate, I don't think he's really a 'troll' (per the definition on the Internet, as someone intending to cause disruption deliberately). -- Mentifisto 16:38, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

PS. as I've noticed he edited again with potentially even more POV material (and a personal comment in the article, but I assume he just doesn't know that editors don't leave comments like that) I think, if this persists, it would be best to bring it up on WP:ANI for a wider review. If a block was ever needed I think that would be the ideal place to form such a decision, as I don't have much experience in dealing with POV-pushers myself. -- Mentifisto 16:51, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Sigh, I guess it will have to be that route if he persists. Unfortunately, his English is atrocious hence I really wonder whether he could ever become a useful editor. Normally, people editting the Indo-Pak articles are experienced editors with much better English. Anyway, thanks again. Best of luck with the Feedback Dashboard. :) AshLin (talk) 17:27, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

New Page Patrol survey

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Joyston Joseph

I'm the editor who speedied Joyston Joseph, so thank you for taking care of it so quickly. I would also request that you take a look at this article, on which I also requested speedy deletion. Of particular note are the editor who created both and this editor that rushed to defend the second article. There's some funny business going on and I've left a note at Joy112's user page indicating my suspicions. Thanks again. --McDoobAU93 17:36, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

I think it would be best if they're dealt with like other new accounts persistent in creating such articles, if they persist (haven't so far). -- Mentifisto 22:42, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

user: Wan Ling Tea House

Hi,

Just seen the auto update from Wiki and have apologised to The_Mark_of_the_Beast who had to delete my wiki page I created by mistake. Thought I was updating my user page.

Again all this scripting gets confusing for us newbies, however I think you have deleted my user page. Is this right? Can we not write about ourselves on these pages? I have read your http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mentifisto/CSD page and fully understand about the 'page' not just my userID!

Apologies from a slightly baffled Wan Ling.

PS - The aim of this account is to contribute to the many tea culture related pages on WiKi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wanlingeahouse (talk • contribs) 03:55, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Ideally, corporations or groups avoid writing about themselves due to a conflict of interest, but it was deleted specifically due to being promotional. -- Mentifisto 11:31, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Input requested

WT:New editor feedback#Proposed office hours. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 21:31, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

I will, probably, be able to make it. -- Mentifisto 12:45, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Typo fixing...

You're absolutely correct on the typo. I noticed it while I was out of town last night, and rather than log in to try and fix it from my droid, it was one of my top priorities once I'd returned home... only to find that you'd fixed it for me. Thank you! :-) Jclemens (talk) 01:27, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome, and good luck with the elections! -- Mentifisto 01:30, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Blocked account requesting unblock

See User talk:Ryan Atwood. Account has not edited in over 2 years; I am inclined to think they may have had time to grow up a bit, as they indicate. What think you? --Jayron32 04:46, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Sure, I'm all for giving second chances! It won't be too much hassle, either way. -- Mentifisto 08:18, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Feedback Dashboard upgrade

Hi Mentifisto,

Thanks for signing up for the Feedback Dashboard response team! I wanted to let you know that the tool just got an important update (see here for details). I also wanted to invite you to the IRC office hours session that Steven and I are going to hold this Sunday, December 4. Hope you can make it and share your experience/questions with us! Thanks again, Maryana (WMF) (talk) 23:42, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

My apologies for missing this. -- Mentifisto 21:38, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for reverting my page when massive vandalism was put up for a second time. :) Thebirdlover (talk) 01:47, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome! -- Mentifisto 21:38, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Defecation, you will be blocked from editing. Your edits have been automatically marked as vandalism and have been automatically reverted. The following is the log entry regarding this vandalism: Defecation was changed by Lucepapoose (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.95861 on 2011-12-15T17:42:04+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 17:42, 15 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucepapoose (talk • contribs)

CAMBI AS

I tried to put CAMBI AS into WIKIPEDIA, but got the message that you had deleted it? Why is that? It was just 2 lines explaining what CAMBI are and what they do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kooiki1701 (talk • contribs) 12:26, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

It was deleted because it read like an advert (due to text like "high quality"). Perhaps you could copy the style of writing that other articles on similar companies have, if you recreate this article, or alternatively use the wizard. -- Mentifisto 22:07, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I wish to have my deleted page back

Hi Mentifisto,

Hope all is well. :)

Back in March of 2009, I had created a page, "Hoopla Doopla" that was deleted by you. It is a business page. Atthe time, the company was only a few weeks old, and this may have been the reason you deleted it. I wish to have the page reinstated. This company has grown over the last 3 years, and has been featured in the national media as one of the best money saving sites on the web. I have media credits and cites to add. Check out the site, www.hoopaldoopla.com.

PS. It was created under another account name i do not remember, but I wish to create it under the new user account, Hoopladoopla.

Thanks!

Frank — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hoopladoopla (talk • contribs) 16:02, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

UTRS Tool

Hello. I've seen a request in the UTRS Tool for an account in your name, but I haven't seen a confirmation here that you made the request. Can you please confirm the request was yours?--v/r - TP 02:27, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it was. Thanks, -- Mentifisto 11:05, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

MOTDs (This space for rent)

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Documentation for gadget authors

I saw you had done some work on gadgets. We're trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there — ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:05, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary

Wishing Mentifisto a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 02:19, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Hey, thanks! -- Mentifisto 09:37, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for helping out earlier and deleting links to my multiply moved user page.Edinburgh Wanderer 20:14, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

No problem! -- Mentifisto 21:15, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Berlin hackathon invitation

Mentifisto, I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, teaching, and socialising, primarily talking about ResourceLoader and Gadgets (extending functionality with JavaScript), the switch to Lua for templates, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

We want to bring 100-150 people together, including lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

I also thought you might want to know about other upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC and our other events.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 21:24, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for gnat swatting

Having followed User:Al Villarruel around for several months cleaning up after his edits, I really appreciate what you did and the message you left today on User talk:Al Villarruel. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:15, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome - I'm surprised you had so much patience with him, to be honest. :-) -- Mentifisto 13:16, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

User 198.20.32.130

I see that you blocked 198.20.32.130 for 3 months. Might I suggest that this IP address be blocked for a whole lot longer. Looking at their 'contributions' I see that they have been consistently vandalising for many years. Whilst it's a simple matter to revert edits by such people it can be difficult to make sure that each and every edit is reverted. See Grape's history page; for 3h26m today the article was about apples, carrots and God knows what else. Regards, nagualdesign (talk) 20:02, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, it's a school IP and I assume in three months the academic year may have ended; being hopeful, but next year they may possibly not vandalize... -- Mentifisto 20:58, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Fair point. Thank you for the reply. Regards, nagualdesign (talk) 00:45, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

My userpage

Hehe, thanks - that typo's been there a while! I'm guessing my userpage popped up in RC patrol? Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 10:09, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Well, kind of... I ended up on it through Tanraj Bansal. It was actually a coincidence that you had also just edited it. :-) -- Mentifisto 11:02, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello

Hello. :D Songanddanceman9853 (talk) 13:24, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata is here; please disable any interwiki bots on the English Wikipedia

Hi!

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If you have any questions, please ask at the bot owners' noticeboard. Thank you for your past work maintaining interwiki links. It has been very appreciated and we're looking forward to an even brighter future with Wikidata. Legoktm (talk) 10:37, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Please Check Mail! RE: Sent Functionaries essential SPI information but an Admin is claiming it was never recieved

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RE: email - its not in moderation - they....(See email)

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Talkback

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Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 03:09, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Category removal

Why was this category removed? -- Mentifisto 15:32, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Knowing me there was likely a reason at the time, but after doing some research, and wracking my brain, I just can't seem to recall what it may have been. (Though I did see that during that time there was apparently a deletion discussion for that category which was "open" for a few months before it was closed as "keep" in March 2009.)

Be that as it may, and with that in mind, I've gone ahead and reverted the removal for now.

I hope you're having a great day : ) - jc37 08:33, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, hope you're having a great day too! -- Mentifisto 09:12, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Ullmann userpage

Hi! I've noticed that you locked the page User:Robert Ullmann because the user is dead. I just want to point out that the reference in that page is rotten. It should be perhaps replaced with this one: [4]. Thanks! Vanjagenije (talk) 22:33, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done - sorry for the delay, I didn't notice this section before. -- Mentifisto 23:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Motto of the Day Help Request April 2014

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Request for comment

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Your bot on English Wikipedia

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Bot flag on frwiki

Hello,

As a bureaucrat on frwiki, I was checking the activity of the bots, and noticed that yours had been inactive for at least 6 months. Morover, the interwikis are now centralized on Wikidata. It is not reasonable that an unmonitored account keeps a bot flag, as it may be more easily hacked. Do you wish to keep the bot flag? If this is the case, please tell me so (preferably on my talk page on frwiki, otherwise on my talk page on this project). Without any answer from you, the bot flag will be removed in one month.

Thank you for your comprehension, Litlok (talk) 22:36, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

As interwiki bots are redundant now I wouldn't need it. -- Mentifisto 11:59, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer; I've removed the bot flag. Litlok (talk) 06:43, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

smarTours

Good Afternoon,

I hope you had a good holiday season. I read through your helpful explanation and understand why you deleted the smarTours page that I created. I have edited the page to add more resources and take out any promotional language. Am I free to try again? Thank you.

Aschetter24 (talk) 17:25, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

I suggest going through this process, so others could double-check the article. -- Mentifisto 19:25, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

hi.Which of my edits have you deleted cause some of them are mede for my little sister for example the twilight river.

(Maximum Ride and her flock (talk) 13:02, 10 February 2015 (UTC))

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A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	For emergency protection of PM (BBC Radio 4), significantly reducing my blood pressure. You are most appreciated. BethNaught (talk) 16:37, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. :-) -- Mentifisto 16:41, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

RfC: New helper policy

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Minor technicality

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MIT

I sent you an email regarding MIT, but for some reason it bounced - could you please email me and I'll forward it? Nikkimaria (talk) 20:58, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Ping. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:59, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

I've sent it to you - can you please fill out the linked form? Nikkimaria (talk) 19:15, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Please update your user category

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Requesting rollback

The user Helmoony is mass-removing "Tunisian arabic" in articles that was in place since several months. after the debate in Tunisia portal in september, an admin finally decided to grant the mention of Tunisian arabic for the names of people and places. Things were so settled since then, but the user Helmoony is recently removing all the mentions, could you please do something about it ? Thank you.Zangouang (talk) 16:27, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

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Civility

You too, Mentifisto--please. Namecalling is rarely productive. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 04:59, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I meant it generally but can obviously be read subjectively... it's just clones are really everywhere online lately, hopefully not after the election... -- Mentifisto 13:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

I think clones have the same life expectancy as their original cell material--wait, wasn't there a Schwarzenegger movie that had it differently? Can't remember, it was bad. Anyway, thanks. Drmies (talk) 14:19, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Hopefully once the source is defeated, if not it probably wouldn't be just online that this organic disease will spread to; I heard even children are becoming bullies to emulate their role model, although none of what I noticed is first-hand since I'm not in that country (my only comfort, although presidents can unilaterally wage war apparently, which is why not just one country could be in trouble...) -- Mentifisto 14:48, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

New Usercheck

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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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New deal for page patrollers

Hi Lofty abyss,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Lofty abyss.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

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Kyle Martel page

Hello, Mentifisto, I want to create the page about the NASCAR driver Kyle Martel but when I open the page for create shows that message: A page with this title has previously been moved or deleted.

If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the user(s) who performed the action(s) listed below.

22:23, 21 April 2013 Mentifisto (talk | contribs) deleted page Kyle Martel (A7: Article about an eligible subject, which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject)

So I contact you for this reason, If I can create the page or not.

Thanks, Lukscheese (talk) 06:50, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Lukscheese - if notability is established feel free to. -- Mentifisto 16:13, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Wikipedia:FOREVER listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:FOREVER. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:FOREVER redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Thryduulf (talk) 15:15, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

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== Your signature ==

Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated <font> tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors.

You are encouraged to change

[[User:Lukscheese|Lukscheese]] -- [[User:Mentifisto|<font color="#800080" face="courier new">Menti</font>]][[User talk:Mentifisto|<font color="#000000" face="courier new">fisto</font>]] : Lukscheese -- Mentifisto

to

[[User:Lukscheese|Lukscheese]] -- [[User:Mentifisto|<span style="color: #800080; font-family: courier new;">Menti</span>]][[User talk:Mentifisto|<span style="color: #800080; font-family: courier new;">fisto</span>]] : Lukscheese -- Mentifisto

Respectfully, Anomalocaris (talk) 19:11, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Arrgh! I thought I got rid of that version before saving, and didn't realize it was still there until now. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:29, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Your signature

Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated <font> tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors.

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-- [[User:Mentifisto|<font color="#800080" face="courier new">Menti</font>]][[User talk:Mentifisto|<font color="#000000" face="courier new">fisto</font>]] : -- Mentifisto

to

-- [[User:Mentifisto|<span style="color: #800080; font-family: courier new;">Menti</span>]][[User talk:Mentifisto|<span style="color: #800080; font-family: courier new;">fisto</span>]] : -- Mentifisto

Respectfully, Anomalocaris (talk) 19:15, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Done, thanks. -- Mentifisto 06:03, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Sorry I messed up your User talk font color. I am glad that you saw the problem and fixed it, and without complaining! Thank you for your cooperation in helping to get the lint out of Wikipedia. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:29, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Did you get an answer about RSS being delayed?

Your help desk question didn't get an answer. Unfortunately, that's not something I know anything about.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:02, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Portals

Hi,

I noticed your interest in portals. Here is what has been going on behind-the-scenes with them...

Currently, there are about 1500 portals, comprised of 150,000 pages in portal space, the rest beyond the 1500 being subpages. Most of those subpages contain an excerpt, copied and pasted from some article. Such excerpts never change, and they go stale over time (no longer matching the original source material).

The Portal WikiProject was rebooted on April 17th, and has grown to 68 members. We've been busy redesigning the portal model so that portals will not need all those subpages.

The design concept called "selective transclusion", which is used for migrating excerpts (moving them to the base page), does so by displaying part of an article the same as a template. An added benefit of this is that it also keeps them fresh, by always showing the current version of the content that is transcluded.

We are also working on ways to make excerpted content, and listed entries, dynamic, so that the material or links shown automatically change over time without the intervention of an editor. Selected articles, could be set up to change daily, for example, to present a different article each day. This can even be made to show a different article every time a user visits the page. Currently, we can do this from a set list. We're trying to make it so that the list is updated automatically from an external source that is regularly maintained.

Other automated solutions are being sought or developed for each section type of portals. To automatically update and archive news, did you know entries, and so on.

Once we get a fully automated design worked out, it will be applied to all the portals that do not have dedicated maintainers. This will reduce the amount of maintenance they need. A single editor will then be able to watch over far more portals than before, ideally, with each portal taking up only a single page in portal space.

The Portal WikiProject is dedicated to updating, upgrading, and maintaining the entire portal system and every portal in it.

Come check us out, and if you like what you see, feel free to join.    — The Transhumanist   05:36, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: Mentifisto, we need people who can ask intelligent questions, and see things that others might not. And who may have an idea or a thousand. -TT

Thank you very much

The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

I'd also like to let you know that the Portals WikiProject is working hard to make sure your support of portals was not in vain. Toward that end, we have been working diligently to innovate portals, while building, updating, upgrading, and maintaining them. The project has grown to 80 members so far, and has become a beehive of activity.

Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.

If you would like to keep abreast of developments on portals, keep in mind that the project's members receive updates on their talk pages. The updates are also posted here, for your convenience.

Again, we can't thank you enough for your support of portals, and we hope to make you proud of your decision. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   00:15, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: if you reply to this message, please {{ping}} me. Thank you. -TT

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Administrator changes

Evad37

There'sNoTime

Alex Shih • Brian • Mushroom • Nakon • Oscarthecat • PeruvianLlama • Ragib • Reaper Eternal • Rossami • Tom

Interface administrator changes

Evad37 • Galobtter

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CheckUser changes

There'sNoTime

Keegan • Ks0stm

Oversight changes

There'sNoTime

Ks0stm • Sphilbrick

Guideline and policy news

• The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
• Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.

Technical news

• A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
  • paid-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
  • checkuser-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.

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Chill

When you are pressed up against the glass, step back from it, not press harder into it. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:32, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

The abyss may change whoever gazes upon it... -- Lofty abyss 05:14, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for granting

me the rollback right. It's so much more convenient now in fighting vandalism and patrolling recent changes. Doesn't it also come with the {{Template:Rollbackgiven3}} template?Offend (talk) 10:37, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Ip 99.254.35.83

you may wish to remove TPA. --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 21:03, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Dearborn Heights, Michigan

Might want to revisit your revdel there. The offensive username is still visible on the revert by Shellwood. Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 01:51, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Done, thanks for informing me. -- Lofty abyss 01:59, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Block upgrade

You blocked a few specific IPv6 in the 2600:1015:b15e:4077::/64 range based on vandalism to John Wayne Gacy‎. It's part of a longer and wider pattern, so I blocked the whole 64 for longer and removed your shorter non-range blocks. Figured I'd better explain it since it's not obvious that my unblocking is actually just to make range-block more visible rather than to allow the IPs to edit:) DMacks (talk) 02:37, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. -- Lofty abyss 03:01, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Precious

fighting vandalism

Thank you for quality articles such as Adolph Diesterweg and Iron Soldier 3, for using the mop to fight vandalism, trivia, spam, too much personal information, and inappropriate pages, for trying to finally get Give 'em enough rope moved, for service from 2006, - repeating from ten years ago: you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:29, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Awesome

Ten years!

Time does indeed fly by, but while those articles are old now (and as is obvious I prefer to do other things, but might as well try everything)... what I ended up missing recently, another page from a different namespace, was a certain multilock... sometimes even what is obvious is missed. -- Lofty abyss 22:47, 3 April 2019 (UTC)