User talk:Malinaccier/September 2009

Brian Quintana

Cameron Scott has assumed ownership of Brian Quintana and is in an edit war again. Can we revert page to your last edit and Protect page a little longer. We have gone back and forth for years on Quintana and finally reached a consensus. Sorry that Cameron Scott does'nt like that he's a Producer (albeit controversial) or that he has ties to Oprah. His comments about A Better Chance being a black charity or pre-dating Oprah are absurd. She adopted the charity in 2001 and it was renamed Oprah Winfrey's A Better Chance. Even the most cursory search proves that. Clearly he has a conflict of interest. Who else makes 10 changes in one day to any page. I am not Brian as he suggests and it is against Wiki policy to insert names in notes. No one likes this guy, but the national press corps does support the article. There appear to be a handful of editors (cameron scott, geniac, tabercil) who do not like him. Please escalate if needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.166.130.214 (talk) 10:56, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

I've reprotected the page, please communicate on the article's talk page to reach consensus. If no consensus can be reached, please look into dispute resolution. Malinaccier (talk) 21:55, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Brian Quintana was unprotected again and vandalised. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pupster (talk • contribs) 03:05, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Brian Quintana

Cameron Scott has assumed ownership of Brian Quintana and is in an edit war again. Can we revert page to your last edit and Protect page a little longer.

There are numerous problems with the article, they include but are not limited to: Oprah Winfrey's A Better Chance recruited him at age fifteen to attend the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.

There is a better chance charity and Oprah did donate to it, but she does not own or run the charity. The only reliable source on the matter in the article says "an organisation" so the article was changed to reflect this

Jon Peters' top executive and co-producer 6where he helped re-launch the Superman franchise, oversaw marketing and communications, and developed new business

Yes, he was a producer - none of the sources use the weasel word top and none of them describe what he did.

and so on and so on - I notice looking at the history, that a number of editors have tried to clean up the article and it is constantly reverted to a poor sourced, poorly worded version that seems to better suit the subject. As for ownership of the article, I wash my hands of it, it's clearly under the control of the subject or people connected to him and it's a waste of doing working on it because any corrections or attempts to make it conform to the MOS are instantly reverted by socks or IP. --Cameron Scott (talk) 10:52, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

I've reprotected the page, please communicate on the article's talk page to reach consensus. If no consensus can be reached, please look into dispute resolution. Malinaccier (talk) 21:55, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

With socks and SPAs? yeah best of luck with that. --Cameron Scott (talk) 22:10, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Happy Labor Day!

Dear colleague, I just want to wish you a happy, hopefully, extended holiday weekend and nice end to summer! Your friend, --A Nobody^{My talk} 05:38, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Hey!

Long time no speak, sorry I've been so busy. I've updated my admin coaching page if you're willing to take a look. Hope you're well. Regards, --—Cyclonenim | Chat  17:35, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

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Brian Quintana

We may need to protect again or submit for dispute resolution. The same editors with the same apparent conflicts of interest keep tampering with this page. I am addressing those favorable and those against. This version was the consensus after the deletion for debate. Let's leave it alone for a month or so and see what changes. The ample sources cited appear to support and discredit this guy. We don't have to like him, but let's be fair. If you have edited his page in the past please refrain from future edits or having others act on your behalf. There are plenty of other qualified editors to catch any inconsitencies and clean up the page in the future.

Your wiki needs you

Ciao, Malinaccier. As you're probably aware, we're undergoing something of an admin drought at present. Some of us have started compiling lists of potential victims administrators at this WT:RFA thread, but we need competent and experienced reviewers to vet potential candidates, and to nominate those suitable. As an RfA graybeard with many successful nominations under your belt, would you consider taking a look? Mahalo,  Skomorokh  17:02, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

No problem, I'll look into it. Malinaccier (talk) 14:21, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Great, thanks.  Skomorokh  16:33, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Provisional IRA campaign 1969–1997

Hey. If you get a chance, could you consider unprotecting this? It's been fully-protected for several months, and I think the dispute has mostly died down. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:52, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done Malinaccier (talk) 15:01, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

List_of_Grand_Slam_Men's_Singles_champions and List_of_Grand_Slam_Women's_Singles_champions as well please? :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:35, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done Malinaccier (talk) 16:02, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Looks like it may have been a mistake to unprotect these two tennis articles as Ryoung is reverting them again. Fyunck(click) (talk) 06:20, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Admin

Hi, I'd be pleased to have you as a co-nominee for my RfA. Mjroots (talk) 17:33, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Hmm...per the back-and-forth convention, should I be posting here when I reply to one of your comments? Anyway, I have responded at User talk:Mjroots. decltype (talk) 19:21, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Malinaccier. You have new messages at Mjroots's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

I've accepted the RfA, and answered the questions. I hope I haven't waffled on too much. Mjroots (talk) 22:20, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Should I respond to Irbisgrief. I'll admit that I didn't go researching "correct" answers, but answered the questions posed candidly. It turns out that my gut feeling was correct anyway. Admin tools are not there to be used to gain a personal advantage over someone who doesn't have access to them but are simply an extra item of equipment to use for the good of Wikipedia. Mjroots (talk) 18:40, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Yay! I'm back up to 100% as Irbisgrief has changed from neutral to oppose to support. Mjroots (talk) 08:08, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Did you notice this edit? The editor claims to be a sockpuppet on his talk page. Although there is a section headed "indefinate block" on the talk page there is no template stating this as fact. Is this editor on a indef block? Should there be the appropriate template displayed? I notice that Shalom Yechiel exercised a RTV. Mjroots (talk) 04:59, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

I've created an Admin sub-page, linked from my user page. Please feel free to add any useful links to it that you think will help me in performing admin duties. Mjroots (talk) 21:56, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Admin Coaching

Hi there Malinaccier,

A little birdie told me that you may have a spot open for admin coaching. I underwent an RfA fairly recently, and I feel that having admin coaching would substantially improve my chances of success. If you are interested/free, please drop me a note. Regards, MacMed^talk_stalk 01:28, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

I apologize for the mistake, after viewing the WP:ADCO page, I saw that you are full at the moment. Sorry about that, MacMed^talk_stalk 12:56, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

It's no problem. If I'm free in the future, I'll let you know! Malinaccier (talk) 22:13, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

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2009 Pacific typhoon season protection

Can you bump down the level of protection? You're leaving us in a bad spot because several uninvolved editors keep that article updated with information. If something turns out like a Typhoon Durian, it needs to be updated.Mitch32^{(The Password is... See here!)} 16:09, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

I believe User:Juliancolton is an uninvolved admin who would be interested in the article. You can also use{{editprotected}} to request a non-controversial edit. I'm afraid semi-protection would defeat the purpose. Malinaccier (talk) 00:46, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

The guy's a disruption, and this isn't worth it as there are too many uninvolved editors.Mitch32^{(The Password is... See here!)} 01:17, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

The protection was entirely justified. At the moment I advise against dropping it. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:24, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm sticking with my decision as of now. If you want the article to become unprotected earlier, then you can help to facilitate discussion on the talk page of the article. Thanks, Malinaccier (talk) 01:26, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Its a project dispute, doesn't involve just this article. Obviously causing a factual harm for actually important info doesn't matter.Mitch32^{(The Password is... See here!)}

2009 PST Fully locked

Hello. It is come to my attention that we users can't edit in the 2009 Pacific Typhoon Season due to editing war. Can you please remove the fully locked in the article. If there's any users that in edit war each other, this can be settle by just blocking them. Otherwise, we other users must not be included. thanks. User:Jpuligan_12 28 - September - 2009 0143 (UTC)

Neighbours

Hi

You locked the Neighbours page when I reported it for excess vandalism. This was due to expire today, yet the template is still displaying on the page? I've just logged out and can confirm that the page is still locked. Now that the page has been locked for two days I'm hoping that the person that kept posting the uncited and untrue rumours has had time to cool down. Nevertheless I have this page on my watchlist and won't hesitate to ask for help again if it is required.

Can I please request that it's unprotected? --5 albert square (talk) 20:24, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi again

Was it you that unlocked the Neighbours page? If it was then thanks very much for your help with blocking and unblocking the page. Vandals are a real pest.

Take care and thanks again! --5 albert square (talk) 20:38, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

No problem! Malinaccier (talk) 20:44, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Alright...

I'm starting to think the 2009 PTS page needs to be unprotected. There's anarchy at the talk page at the moment, and we can deal with edit warriors individually. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:13, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done by User:Cirt Malinaccier (talk) 20:58, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

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