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Life Sciences Foundation

Hello,

Thank you for your quick review of the Life Sciences Foundation article.

Since submitting the original article, I have added three more references to the draft which I planned to resubmit. As a newbie, I just want to make sure that I am clear on the reason the article was rejected. It appears the issue is lack of references but please do let me know if there are other issues with the article.

Thank you for your assistance,

Donnamarielock (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:55, 27 January 2012 (UTC).

Timeline of iPad models

Hi,

Could you please explain why you prefer this version of the Template:Timeline_of_iPad_models template to the version that reverted to. I made the undo for two reasons, the first being that for some reason I can't wrap my head around, in the legend both are shown as "iPad 2" whereas if the original iPad is labelled as such it shows as "Original iPad" and the iPad 2 shows as "iPad 2". The second is that the colours are so close that it makes it very hard to read the timeline.

Regards, Liamdavies (talk) 15:31, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

The key aim was to unify colours between the various iPod/iOS/etc timelines. I don't mind either way between "Original iPad" or "iPad". Sceptre ^(talk) 16:55, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree that their should be unified colours, but could you change them to be a little more contrasted so that you can more clearly see the difference. I agree that "Original iPad" or "iPad" would both be acceptable, but for some reason if you set the legend to "iPad" it just shows up as "iPad 2", well at least for me it does, so for that reason alone I think it should be changed to "Original iPad". Would you be able to make these changes to colours that you feel are best, but still have more contrast than the current colours?

Regards, Liamdavies (talk) 07:07, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

How's it look now? Sceptre ^(talk) 20:15, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Much clearer, I'd still like a little more contrast, so I changed it a little, but if your not happy with it feel free to change it. I'm also wondering if we need the "Still produced" part of the timeline, I would have thought it self evident that the iPad 2 is still being produced, what are your thoughts? Liamdavies (talk) 10:19, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll

This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 21:33, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Articles for creation/GreatAmerica Leasing Corporation

Wondering if you could give me some advice on specific actions I can take to improve my article that you recently reviewed for creation. Specifically, can you tell me what you felt were advertisement-like in the article? Thanks much! Wiedenu (talk) 21:46, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi. It was the general tone of the article that led me to decline it; there are a lot of corporations that want their own articles and they tend to use a lot of buzzwords and positive language. In particular, the "corporate organisation" section appears very self-serving. Sceptre ^(talk) 22:09, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Care with Huggle

This edit and this one look to me like mistakes. Remember that Huggle needs to be used with care. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:55, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Brown University International Mentoring Program

Hi Will,

Thanks for reviewing my draft and I appreciate your comments. I feel that the page is significant/worthy because many international students who come to Brown get a sense of the network and support they will have. Many incoming students can get an idea of who is helping them and how the university provides support to them. If you have any ideas, please tell me what I can add to my article?

Thanks, Ewin93 (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ewin93 (talk • contribs) 19:08, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

The baseline standard to warrant a Wikipedia article is notability: a subject that is the subject of significant coverage in secondary sources is presumed to be notable, and a notable subject may have a Wikipedia article. With your request, the only references were to Brown University's website, which is a primary source. Sceptre ^(talk) 19:18, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi again,

I've added 4 different articles from the Brown Daily Herald as secondary sources. I hope it's fine. If not, feel free to tell me how it can go through.

Thanks, Ewin93 (talk)

Not particularly helpful

[1] He is a newbie who obviously doesn't have the skills to create a well-formatted template himself. Uʔ (talk) 21:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

I've added some more advice on his talk page. Sceptre ^(talk) 21:39, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Gun (video game" Plot

Hey, I saw your edit and could you or someone do something about an Edit War going on with the video game Gun[2]? I think it's about the Plot. Looking at past edits (2007 and 08) it looks like it was shorten because it as too long and detailed.Control9000 (talk) 04:22, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

re Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/J. Hutton Pulitzer

Since you've been watching this one, I wanted to warn you that our suspiciously WP:SPA article creator has also attempted to get this thing through as Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, which I declined as a duplicate. There are major COI and BLP issues here. Pulitzer changed his name after the CueCat debacle (he was originally J. Jovan Philyaw, and there is lots of big negative material about him, e.g. [3] and [4]. If he's notable, it's not in a good way. Mangoe (talk) 18:45, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their November 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles (and specifically will be targeting the oldest three months), as we want to copy edit as many of these as possible. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. >>> Sign up now <<<

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Walter Smith (cartographer)

Hello Will

I hope it's ok to use your regular "talk" page, rather than the IP page which we have conversed in up till now.

I have spoken to Walter about the article and he's pointed out to me that he isn't a "cartographer" - the title "cartographer" is something that crept in, btw, and wasn't in the original title of the piece. Walter is, in fact, a surveyor by training and experience. There's a subtle but important difference here: I guess a surveyor is he who does the measuring, i.e prepares the groundwork, and the cartographer actually draws and prints the thing. As I say, it's subtle. Anyway, the old boy (he's 90) has asked me if we can change the title of the piece. How can I go about this?

On another, completely unrelated matter, I note, from your user page, that you're an "audiophile" and particularly enjoy certain bands who are the very ones I grew up with (I'm 52). I'm also a professional composer, so that may interest you. If you'd like to chat more about music etc., that would be great. If you want to take this stuff off your public page, my email address is nick AT squareleg DOT net. Or you could just ignore all that... :)

Cheers

NickSquareleg (talk) 17:54, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Squareleg (talk • contribs) 17:54, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

You can move any page by clicking the link titled "move" at the top of the page. So, in this case, you'd have to visit this page to move it. Sceptre ^(talk) 17:56, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Will - brilliant. :)

Squareleg (talk) 18:15, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

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Cunt

Hey Sceptre, please don't go around calling people "reprehensible cunt", esp. not if they're still alive and a judge to boot. It doesn't matter what he did or what you or I might feel about it. I'm sure it violates our BLP policies in a couple of ways, and it sets a bad example for the kids and the grown-ups as well. All joking aside, come on now. Drmies (talk) 01:33, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

I think that user comment on a subject, unless patently libellious, would probably be BLP safe; the BLP policy is born out of legal and ethical issues, and personal opinions tend to be protected to a greater extent. Truth be told, I'm more sorry for using the word as an insult than actually making the insult. Sceptre ^(talk) 16:57, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

I don't know about that. You may be familiar with Mindbunny's escapades (see User talk:Mindbunny)--if I remember correctly, there was consensus that such comments (like yours...) were not OK per BLP, and I personally agree. Anyway. Let's move on. Drmies (talk) 18:30, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Rhys Morgan

• Response I am obviously very disappointed by this decision. The assertion that I did not read the article is highly misleading, not to mention offensive. I have been a Wikipedia editor for many, many years, and have followed the rules and regulations throughout these years. To suggest that I did not follow the regulations is complete bunkum. Using the evidence present in the article, I made a choice based on what I thought was a fairly obvious case - it STILL breaks our rules on blogs, recentism, notability, and bias. The "keep" votes are from people who have an immense level of conflict of interest, and therefore skew the vote something rotten. I am very disappointed that this entire episode has been carried out at my expense, rather than at the article itself. This response will be copied to as many concerned editors in this matter. doktorb _words^deeds 18:34, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Doctor Who Episode Improvement Idea

As a member of WP:WHO, I thought you may be interested in this idea. No one has replied yet. Glimmer721 ^talk 17:39, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Doctor Who (series 5) episode summaries...

How am I supposed to prove they were my original words? I never copied them from that site! Please see my response at Talk:Doctor Who (series 5)#Copyright Violation removed or, on a slightly calmer note, this. I'm sorry but I need this issue resolved ASAP as the article is up for PR and I'm planning on taking it to FL. Do you have any idea how to prove this? Glimmer721 ^talk 02:51, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Rhys Morgan

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:03, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Death of Kim Jong-il

Thanks for making Death of Kim Jong-il into a redirect. It was a foolish thing of me to create that article when the news story is just breaking. -- Luke (Talk) 04:23, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Orfu

Template:Orfu has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Bulwersator (talk) 07:28, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

GOCE newsletter

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Elections are currently underway for our third tranche of Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, 16 December – 23:59 UTC, 31 December. All GOCE members, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are five candidates vying for four positions. Your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

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GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261 Report on coordinators' elections Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives Guild Plans for 2012 Requests page report Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012! – Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

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Articles for Creation Appeal

Articles for Creation urgently needs your help! Articles for Creation is desperately short of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors, in reviewing submissions in the pending submissions queue. Currently there are 1718 submissions waiting to be reviewed. Do you have what it takes? Are you familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines? Do you know what Wikipedia is and is not? Do you have a working knowledge of the Manual of Style, particularly article naming conventions? Are you autoconfirmed? Can you review submissions based on their individual merits? If the answer to these questions is yes, then please read the reviewing instructions and donate a little of your time to helping tackle the backlog.

Sent on behalf of WikiProject Articles for creation using AWB on 20:21, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Unblock/IPBE

This user's request to have autoblock on their IP address lifted has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Sceptre (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

129.11.76.229 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

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• Blocking administrator: ProcseeBot (talk • blocks)

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Accept reason: I didn't have any success connecting, but ProcseeBot's methods are no doubt more comprehensive than mine, and there is some recent evidence that it is indeed open. I've granted you IPBE, please take a fresh look at Wikipedia:IP block exemption, cheers. WilliamH (talk) 16:06, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Of course, if I'm editing from Uni, then I may run into another such block in Uni, so please to be adding IP block exemption on :) (also, is it standard practice to block educational instituions as open proxies?) Sceptre ^(talk) 15:06, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

This tool is saying that there are no autoblocks on you. Can you edit or am I missing something? Acalamari 15:25, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

The block is here. It's probably just a misconfigured server, but I'll submit it to WP:OPP for someone to have a look at. If it's no longer an open proxy, it'll be unblocked, otherwise someone can grant IPBE (and the server admin should probably be notified as well). ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:50, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Just to say I'm looking into this. WilliamH (talk) 15:53, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

I couldn't find an open proxy on this IP now, and unblocked, maybe there was one in early January. WilliamH, please reblock if you find something I missed. Materialscientist (talk) 07:16, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

Category:2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mike Selinker (talk) 14:27, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their March 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate the remaining 2010 articles from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, Stfg, and Coordinator emeritus SMasters. 19:52, 20 February 2012 (UTC) >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Hey you,

just curious, what's "SA" [5]? I thought your comment was spot on that that deletion discussion. Thanks! --Sonicyouth86 (talk) 14:34, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Heya. SA is Something Awful, an internet forum that's somewhat less bullshitty than reddit. Sceptre ^(talk) 00:07, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Happy Birthday (2012)

Wishing Sceptre/Archive 61 a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 00:02, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage engagement strategy released

Hey guys!

I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the initial documentation about the project and also the engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyeswikimedia.org.

It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 02:03, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Page Triage newsletter

Hey guys!

Thanks to all of you who have commented on the New Page Triage talkpage. If you haven't had a chance yet, check it out; we're discussing some pretty interesting ideas, both from the Foundation and the community, and moving towards implementing quite a few of them :).

In addition, on Tuesday 13th March, we're holding an office hours session in #wikimedia-office on IRC at 19:00 UTC (11am Pacific time). If you can make it, please do; we'll have a lot of stuff to show you and talk about, including (hopefully) a timetable of when we're planning to do what. If you can't come, for whatever reason, let me know on my talkpage and I'm happy to send you the logs so you can get an idea of what happened :). Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:54, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Television episode and season articles badly needed

Because of the high number of edits that you have made at Wikipedia talk:Television episodes, I would like to call your attention to a list of the most critically acclaimed episodes and season articles that need to be created: Wikipedia:TV-EPISODE#Important_articles_to_be_created.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:16, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage newsletter

Hey all!

Thanks to everyone who attended our first office hours session; the logs can be found here, if you missed it, and we should be holding a second one on Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. I hope to see you all there :).

In the meantime, I have greatly expanded the details available at Wikipedia:New Page Triage: there's a lot more info about precisely what we're planning. If you have ideas, and they aren't listed there, bring them up and I'll pass them on to the developers for consideration in the second sprint. And if you know anyone who might be interested in contributing, send them there too!

Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:24, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graphs Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far. Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

help triage some feedback

Hey guys.

I appreciate this isn't quite what you signed up for, but I figured as people who are already pretty good at evaluating whether material is useful or not useful through Special:NewPages, you might be interested :). Over the last few months we've been developing the new Article Feedback Tool, which features a free text box. it is imperative that we work out in advance what proportion of feedback is useful or not so we can adjust the design accordingly and not overwhelm you with nonsense.

This is being done through the Feedback Evaluation System (FES), a tool that lets editors run through a stream of comments, selecting their value and viability, so we know what type of design should be promoted or avoided. We're about to start a new round of evaluations, beginning with an office hours session tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to help preemptively kill poor feedback, come along to #wikimedia-office and we'll show you how to use the tool. If you can't make it, send me an email at okeyeswikimedia.org or drop a note on my talkpage, and I'm happy to give you a quick walkthrough in a one-on-one session :).

All the best, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:36, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

A big NPT update

Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:

coding

• Fixes for the "moved pages do not show up in Special:NewPages" and "pages created from redirects do not show up in Special:NewPages" bugs have been completed and signed off on. Unfortunately we won't be able to integrate them into the existing version, but they will be worked into the Page Triage interface.
• Coding has been completed on three elements; the API for displaying metadata about the article in the "list view", the ability to keep the "patrol" button visible if you edit an article before patrolling it, and the automatic removal of deleted pages from the queue. All three are awaiting testing but otherwise complete.

All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.

Stuff to look at

We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.

I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.

I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 17:10, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted

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 22:09, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months. Progress report During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (Talk), Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. EdwardsBot (talk) 22:19, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Dispute resolution survey

Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Sceptre. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. Many thanks in advance for your comments and thoughts. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 01:08, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:My Lunch.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:My Lunch.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 01:40, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

FFD comment request

You were the image reviewer at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Subway (Homicide: Life on the Street)/archive1 which was promoted to FA on 25 January 2010. This included a review of the infobox image File:Homicide life on the street subway.jpg. I am in a debate at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 April 15#File:Pilot .28The Cosby Show.29 monopoly lesson.png, which is a debate over the infobox image for a television episode. The reviewer believes that the image currently violates WP:NFCC. I was hoping you might weigh in on this debate.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:32, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Alternate angle posted.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:50, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

I posted a response to your comments on the original image.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:57, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

User script list deprecation

Wikipedia's list of user scripts is in bad shape, in that it is disorganized and contains many non-working, unmaintained, or thoroughly obsolete entries. Cleanup has been on the to-do list since 2007, but little progress has been made. Instead, the whole list is now set to be deprecated on 1 May 2012, to be replaced with a new list. This draft list has been up for about a month, and in that time I've been soliciting script users and authors to come add scripts they know to be working and relevant.

If you know of scripts that you would like to survive this deprecation (and are confirmed working and relevant), you're welcome to add them to the new list. Note that the old list will be retained and linked from the main list, so there is no real deadline. Thanks for your help. Equazcion ^(talk) 00:57, 22 Apr 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May copy edit drive

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Manning

Given the controversial nature of such a move/change it really is critical it gets discussed before hand. Moving things to the female name, and using the female pronoun, has serious BLP considerations and should be dealt with using sensitivity and caution, not by the brute application of policy. --Errant ^(chat!) 22:37, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Any enforcement of BLP is welcomed; ArbCom, Jimbo, and the Foundation are clear on that, however brute it may be. From the context of the sources (especially the Lamo chat logs), I can't see any way that referring to her as male doesn't violate IDENTITY. Sceptre ^(talk) 23:03, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

• Sceptre, with all due respect, calling another editor "either dense or bigoted" is well past accepted civility standards. Well, "dense" I guess is fine, I've been called worse, but "bigoted" surely is not OK, especially not on a topic like that. You've been asked to retract and you haven't--I still hope you will. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 01:45, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
  • Concur with Drmies. That statement was a clear violation of WP:NPA. Sceptre, a retraction and apology are in order. --Elonka 04:15, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

New Pages update

Hey Sceptre/Archive 61 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:28, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Sceptre,

I hate to talk about anyone 'behind their back' so I wanted to let you know I asked WP Editor 2011 a question about you on User talk:WP Editor 2011 Penyulap ☏ 08:49, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

I don't think it's "insensitive" to ensure ethical standards are followed for transgender living people; I think it's unethical that, despite sources given in the article affirming Manning's identity as female, we would describe her as male. Sceptre ^(talk) 09:24, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

We go by sources, and the vast majority of sources say "Bradley", including this supportive website.[6] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:52, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

There are no "sources given in the article affirming Manning's identity as female". That is an outright lie. There are however sources affirming that Manning has indicated that he currently wishes to be identified as male, and known as 'Bradley' or 'Brad'. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:01, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Sceptre is clearly engaged in "wishful thinking", and it has to stop. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:11, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

“Bradley felt he was female,” the counselor told me. “He was very solid on that.” Quickly, their conversation shifted to the practicalities: How does someone transition from male to female? “He really wanted to do surgery,” the counselor recalled. “He was mostly afraid of being alone, being ostracized or somehow weird.”

And, I hate to state the bleedin' obvious, but if you're using gender identity disorder as a legal defence, there has to be cross-gender identification. Sceptre ^(talk) 15:24, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Why do the sources, including his support website, still call him "Bradley"? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:30, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Also, how does gender identity qualify as a defense for espionage? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:31, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

1) Probably because that's how she was arrested, and how she'll go through the trial. The issue of names is distinct from the issue of gender identity: many trans people use their birth names for some time until they choose a more suitable name when undergoing transition. 2) I guess diminished responsibility due to the effect of gender dysphoria. I'm unaware of the exact circumstances, just that it's being brought up as part of the defence. Sceptre ^(talk) 15:35, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

I don't think "gender identify" qualifies as a plea. "Insanity" might. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:26, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Crystal ball to support OR ?

I say thank you very much. There is a difference between what a confused person says once while investigating themselves in therapy with professionals and what a person says repeatedly as a public declaration to the press and in public. I firmly believe the difference is not lost on you.

Elevating one of the many things someone mentions in therapy to the status of a public declaration which overrides all other public declarations is a good way to attack the individual in question using wikipedia as your own personal loudhailer. The chance that the person in question doesn't read the article is about the same as the chance he doesn't use the internet or know someone who does. So your aim is not so much just to disrupt here, upset the community here and outside, but what is it ? (Redacted)

WP Editor 2011 was supporting you at ANI, so I was trying to triple-check to make certain there was nothing I was missing. On that editors talkpage, my enquiry met a dead end, but you've helped here, so thank you. Penyulap ☏ 04:10, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

"Crystal ball to support OR?" ??? Since when have you ever heard of someone pleading "not guilty by reason of gender identity crisis"? Sorry, but there's no such thing. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:18, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Not that any of this is important, BB, but Sceptre never said anything about a plea, he said it might be a defense and he mentioned diminished responsibility. A complicated legal issue dependent on the jurisdiction, the charged crime, and the defenses to that crime.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:06, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

3 questions

Hello Sceptre!

I've asked you three questions at WP:ANI. Would you be so kind to answer them? Arcandam (talk) 11:36, 10 May 2012 (UTC) p.s. Your name almost made me dyslexic! I am used to "Spectre", you know, like the Silk Spectre.

New Page Triage prototype released

Hey Sceptre! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:36, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles. Hall of Fame: GOCE coordinator Diannaa was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 14:47, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage/New Pages Feed

Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:21, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Articles for Creation Appeal

Articles for Creation is backlogged and needs YOUR help! Articles for Creation is desperately in need of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors and administrators alike, to help us clear a record backlog of pending submissions. There is currently a significant backlog of 1718 submissions waiting to be reviewed. These submissions are generally from new editors who have never edited Wikipedia before. A prompt, constructive review of submissions could significantly editor retention. Do you have what it takes? Are you familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines? Do you know what Wikipedia is and is not? Do you have a working knowledge of the Manual of Style, particularly article naming conventions? Are you (at least) autoconfirmed? Can you review submissions based on their individual merits? If the answer to these questions is yes, then please read the reviewing instructions and donate a little of your time to helping tackle the backlog. Click here to review to a random submissionArticle selected by erwin85's random article script on toolserver. We would greatly appreciate your help. Currently, only a small handful of users are reviewing articles. Any help, even if it's just 1 or 2 reviews, would be extremely beneficial. On behalf of the Articles for Creation project, AndrewN talk 23:54, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We were once again successful in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog—while removing 1166 articles from the queue, the second-most in our history. The total backlog currently sits at around 2600 articles, down from 8323 when we started out just over two years ago. Coodinator election: The six-month term for our third tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the fourth tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 15:58, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Doctor Who Magazine #398

Hello. I asked about this over at WP:WHO and it was suggested that you might be able to help. I'm looking for information about a couple of the interviews in DWM #398, which was the "Journey's End" special (more specifically who the interviewers were) so that I can fill out a couple of references. I did have a copy of it myself once upon a time but it got discarded. Thanks for any help! Eshlare (talk) 11:30, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive

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BLP Ban imposed

I understand that you have stated you plan you avoid the topic anyway, but I think it needs to be formalized. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 02:23, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

ITN/C supreme court rulings

I've just broken this nomination up into sub-sections, I figured it was best done early before things become too confusing. I've tried to preserve the intent of your comments are far as possible but some editorializing was required. Therefore I'd be grateful if you would check that your views are still properly represented. Crispmuncher (talk) 15:45, 25 June 2012 (UTC).

Your comment

You wrote: "I disagree with both the topic ban (as it only serves to shut down discussion) and why it was applied (as a sense of victor's justice). In reality the topic ban did not shut down the discussion, it just excluded you from it, and it was not applied as a sense of victor's justice, it was applied to prevent you from wasting more time. Arcandam (talk) 20:01, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Really? If other editors from WP:LGBT raised the same concerns, would you entertain them? This whole debacle reeks of people who don't know what they're talking about when it comes to a sensitive issue forming a consensus on that issue and seeking to exclude people who do know what they're talking about. Like the Republicans and birth control, now that I think about it. Sceptre ^(talk) 21:29, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Really. People on Wikipedia usually don't need to be entertained by me if they have concerns about a certain page (sofixit, be bold). It may be surprising to some, but Wikipedia would still be here if I wasn't. There is also no need for a long discussion, because the bottomline is pretty simple. We need a couple of reliable sources. You have a strong opinion about this kind of stuff, but please don't compare me to a Republican, I don't think you would make that comparison if you knew what I look like. Maybe I should upload a picture. Back to the topic at hand: if you do know what you are talking about then you understand not just gender related issues but Wikipedia as well. On Wikipedia we have this principle of verifiability, not truth. Wikipedia is behind the ball - that is we don't lead, we follow - let reliable sources make the novel connections and statements and find NPOV ways of presenting them if needed. The Defenders of The Truth should wait patiently until the reliable sources right this great wrong. Arcandam (talk) 00:38, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

I apologise for the Republican analogy, but there are a lot of people who appear to not have the knowledge needed to contribute to such a sensitive topic seriously. I've been strongly of the opinion that there are already enough sources in the article already to, at the very least, seriously discuss Manning's gender identity (for example, the counsellor Manning contacted saying "Bradley felt he was female, he was very solid on that"(source #23). And I seriously think that some editors would require Manning to undergo SRS and publish the video to the world before entertaining the notion of changing the pronouns. Sceptre ^(talk) 01:09, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Personally I don't really care much about the genders and sexual preferences of most people I am unlikely to have sex with. If we as a species stopped caring so much about genders life would be much easier for some people afaik. I admit I am not an expert but I think I may have seen a gay guy once (I live in Amsterdam, he was dancing on a boat on the canal in front of my house). Would you please be so kind to point out the flaw(s) in the following sentence: "If Manning decides to be female from now on it will be reported in reliable sources and if that decision is reported by reliable sources someone else will come along and include that fact on Manning's article."? We may have reason to believe Manning is unsure about Mannings gender, but until we have multiple reliable sources that report that Manning has made a choice we will have to be patient. But now for something completely different, and more important. I believe you are underestimating your "opponents". I am not a homophobic Republican who is completely unaware of the sensitivity of gender related issues, and I don't think the other people who disagree with you are (I've quickly skimmed a couple of userpages). This Wikipedia-thingy is an epic battle between good and evil. You and Andy are on the same team, the team that tries to improve Wikipedia. You guys disagree about how to improve Wikipedia but you both have good intentions for both Manning and Wikipedia. I am on the other team, I frequently try to destroy Wikipedia by doing something that looks very similar to a DDoS attack when I am not out killing baby seals for fun and profit. Arcandam (talk) 03:04, 27 June 2012 (UTC) p.s. 1440 edits per day is exactly one per minute.

The thing is, I don't think it'll properly covered in reliable sources, or at least the ones that will cover it. The press has an awful reputation for covering trans issues, and any deviation from following ethical standards as dictated by the medical, academic, and even their own community will likely land us back in square one. Anyway, I'll have to cut the discussion there, because I'm running the risk of getting blocked. On my own talk page. Sceptre ^(talk) 03:40, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

WTF? I voted for a topic ban on articles related to Bradley Manning, broadly construed. Is this an article? Arcandam (talk) 03:56, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

I don't get it. The goal of the topicban on articles I voted for was to prevent further IDHT problems. How does this help? Arcandam (talk) 04:59, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

I've requested two unblocks. Here is the template: Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Arcandam (talk) 04:59, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

I've sent an email to the ban subcommittee . Arcandam (talk) 05:42, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

June 2012

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for violating your topic ban on Bradley Manning here. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 03:24, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

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Request reason:

Really? You're really going to block me if I say the words "Bradley" and "Manning" in the same sentence? This is an unprecedented action, blocking someone for replying to a query on their talk page. At the very least, I wish to immediately request that the topic ban be restricted to the article and talk, because really, this is ridiculous. Sceptre ^(talk) 8:34 pm, Today (UTC−7)

Decline reason:

Technical decline, AGF. Administrators can not overturn this block because it is an AE block. Please contact the ban appeals subcommittee. Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 03:51, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

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No, I blocked you for for example, the counsellor Manning contacted saying "Bradley felt he was female, he was very solid on that". --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 03:38, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Would I have been violating the topic ban if I had not included that quote? Point is, this is beyond preventing disruption. This is purely for the purposes of shutting down a civil discussion, which is absolutely unprecedented on Wikipedia. Sceptre ^(talk) 03:44, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

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Request reason:

Please read my explanation and rationale in the paragraphs below. Avanu (talk) 06:05, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Decline both because the unblock request is not from the blocked editor, and is not doable. This is an arbitration enforcement block, and so cannot be unilaterally undone by any particular admin. The arbitration enforcement page contains information on how to file an appeal to an arbitration action. Sceptre, if you post such an appeal on this page and a request to copy it to AE, someone will do so for you. However, an arbitration enforcement block cannot be unilaterally lifted through the {{unblock}} process. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 06:13, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

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Sceptre, before I weigh in on this, I do want you to know that I do not agree with your position on the articles that led to the BLPBAN. (In other words, I'm not on your side in the content dispute.)

That said, while Shirik makes a good point that the appeals on enforcement of bans would normally fall under the ban appeals subcommittee, I feel that Sarek of Vulcan in this case acted outside the Pillar and Policy of Civility. Specifically, while a BLPBAN was implemented (by Sarek), the specifics of the ban were not communicated in clear language to the recipient of that ban. (Specifically he said, "BLPBAN imposed".)

While Sarek sort of warned Sceptre at AN/I about having 'blatantly violated' the ban, this was almost immediately after Sarek enacted the ban and was within the framework of the discussion at AN/I. Sceptre clearly did not understand how the ban was to operate. And similarly, in this event, responding to a question on his own talk page, Sarek decided to throw down the block-hammer, still having not clearly explained the BLPBAN provisions, but expecting instant comprehension and compliance from Sceptre.

Basic civility demands that we notify an editor clearly within the relevant discussion (i.e. AN/I) or their Talk page, so that they can be expected to have a clear understanding. I would characterize what is currently being done as "gotcha" approach to enforcing a ban, where the editor is unwittingly stepping into a trap without being made aware that these actions are wrong. For this reason, I would ask that Sarek's topic ban continue, but that he explain it clearly, and in future either stay well clear of Sceptre and ask for another admin to administer this ban, or clearly warn Sceptre in advance of any punitive action. Thanks. -- Avanu (talk) 05:47, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

I also took a look at the notice that was placed here by Sarek on 25 June at 2:23, and it says "topic-banned from edits relating to Bradley Manning, broadly construed" with 'Bradley Manning' as a link to the article. Now, for people who implement bans a lot, this may seem perfectly clear, but considering that the other editor who engaged Sceptre in discussion, Arcandam, was confused when the block got imposed, another reasonable way to look at that notice is that the editor is banned from editing the linked article, or possibly articles that are content-forks off it. Obviously it wasn't clear to Arcandam, and I would say not clear to Sceptre either. Basic, thoughtful civility could have worked to everyone's advantage here. As stated at the AN/I discussion, Sceptre hadn't even been messing with the Bradley Manning page, so a ban or block wasn't a pressing concern. For an editor who is currently and generally in compliance with community standards, it is inappropriate to be so harsh. Again, I would ask for an admin to ask Sarek to give a full and plain description of how this ban is to work, unblock Sceptre and allow things to get back to normal. How do we even know if Sceptre is learning and improving if they can't even have a conversation with another editor who is trying to discuss with them? -- Avanu (talk) 06:02, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

I have a brain the size of a planet. I can back that statement up with refs. But still I did not notice the ban changed from articles related to Manning to all edits. And I do not understand why it should be. If Sceptre needs to be blocked I will file a request. Until then please give us the chance to have a productive conversation about this. Arcandam (talk) 06:43, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

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Request reason:

Rules and procedures are not important. It is more important to make sense Arcandam (talk) 06:43, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Individual admins are prohibited, on pain of desysopping, from undoing an arbitration enforcement block, in the absence of either arbcom authorization or "a clear, substantial, and active consensus of uninvolved editors at a community discussion noticeboard". Your time would be better spent trying to get such a consensus than repeatedly making unblock requests that no admin will grant. T. Canens (talk) 07:27, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

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No one here repeatedly made unblock requests AFAIK. I always forget that some people actually care about rules and procedures and take the "threat" of desysopping seriously. Becoming an admin is a demotion; I am not an admin and I frequently tell admins what to do. And I don't have to think about RFA-votes when I express my opinion. Arcandam (talk) 07:49, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

I support this unblock per an ongoing block review discussion at WP:AN/I. Furthermore, I support an admin if they decide to WP:IAR and make this unblock without reference to the ban appeals subcommittee, since the block is, by WP:SNOW consensus, wrong. - Jorgath (talk) ^(contribs) 06:55, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Procedural note: the block is actually not a matter of Arbcom enforcement, but of community sanction enforcement, so the applicability of the Arbcom decision cited by T.C. above is not quite obvious. Nevertheless, it seems clear that it should not be overturned without a clear consensus. This will be done as soon as the consensus currently emerging at WP:ANI has stabilized. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:44, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Actually, since Sarek invoked WP:BLPSE in the original ban (and both the topic ban and block are logged there), and not simply the ANI consensus, this is an AE action. T. Canens (talk) 08:49, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Bottom line is: how does this block protect the encyclopedia? It does not. Therefore we need to unblock. IDGAF about rules or procedures that prevent us from doing what is right. Arcandam (talk) 09:57, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Good thing is, the rules aren't preventing us from doing what is right, Arbcom or no Arbcom. The matter is being discussed, a consensus is being formed, and it will be acted upon when the time is ripe. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:26, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

While I would normally agree with people saying "this is an AE action", if it were a legitimate block, I don't see how Sceptre was given any understanding by Sarek. Oblique comments and templated posts don't make for good communication. As I said before, WP:Civility is not just a policy here, but a Pillar, and I feel that without question Sarek ignored that pillar. -- Avanu (talk) 14:04, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

This time, without the {{unblock}} template: Per the above, there is now a clear consensus of editors at WP:AN who have previously been in conflict with Sceptre that this block was a massive overreaction. - Jorgath (talk) ^(contribs) 15:34, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Unblock

Just a note to let you know that I've unblocked you after an AN discussion. Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 18:17, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

How can I email you about He Who Shall Not Be Named? Arcandam (talk) 00:14, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Special link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Keilana

It works the same way for any user, just sub the username at the end. -- Avanu (talk) 04:05, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

If you're referring to me, I've sent you an email. :) Sceptre ^(talk) 19:58, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Credo Reference Update & Survey (your opinion requested)

Credo Reference, who generously donated 400 free Credo 250 research accounts to Wikipedia editors over the past two years, has offered to expand the program to include 100 additional reference resources. Credo wants Wikipedia editors to select which resources they want most. So, we put together a quick survey to do that:

• Link to Survey (should take between 5-10 minutes): http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N8FQ6MM

It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.

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GOCE July 2012 mid-drive newsletter

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Spoilers in episode lists?

Hi, I see you've been involved in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Television. I have begun a discussion on spoilers in episode lists and would appreciate your input. -- ke4roh (talk) 02:28, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

WP Doctor Who in the Signpost

The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Doctor Who for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 06:35, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Welcome

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Page Triage newsletter

Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).

The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.

I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:01, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

New Pages newsletter

Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:40, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Omnishambles

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You have not returned to this DYK nomination lately, and the most recent question needs to be addressed right away, since the nomination remains on shaky grounds. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:27, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

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Misha B

Sorry to bother you,

"Due to a long-standing conflict I entered myself in several years ago, I will not mediate disputes on my page. I will give advice, but it is nonbinding." any help would be appreciated.

I have requested the re-opening the Dispute Resolution mechanism for the Misha B article @ Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 38 as the debate about neutrality has really flared up. on User talk:Steven Zhang who closed the original Dispute Resolution based on my suggestion...no one else in the dispute contributed.

or should I go to formal mediation?

I make no pretence that I am a fan, I guess the majority articles about (living) people are started and mainly contributed by those who are 'fans', but my contibutions have been done in good faith regards neutrality (as a newbie I have made mistakes...like not spotting blogs) I always take personal criticism and attacks maybe too seriously but I have said I welcome genuine verifiable editing contributions from others, even when they remove my contributions, which can be seen from page history.

Bias about bullying

Biased and promotional

DRN

Misha B Layout Structure

Why does the Misha article read like a magazine article?

Too much information and way too biased

WP:NPOV/N is probably your best bet here. Steven Zhang ....*Which I have followed

In the mean time I would very much welcome a neutral viewpoint from someone not involved in the article.........Zoebuggie☺whispers 02:37, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Administrators' noticeboard

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DYK

Hi, just letting you know I've responded to your qualm at Template:Did you know nominations/List of York City F.C. players (fewer than 25 appearances). Cheers, Mattythewhite (talk) 22:10, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

GOCE news and September drive invitation

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events: The August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best August copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC). September 2012 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit the articles tagged longest ago and to complete all requests placed before the end of August. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top six in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged longest ago", and "Longest article". This drive features a much easier signup process. We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 19:07, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll

This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. I know this happened just recently but no administrator would close these frequent rm's down, so here we go again. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:15, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Category for Gay Wikipedians

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GOCE September activities

Reminders from the Guild of Copy Editors A quick reminder of our current events: The August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the discussion and voting stage until midnight September 14 (UTC). The September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the submissions stage until midnight September 30 (UTC), when discussion and voting begin. The September 2012 Backlog elimination drive is now underway! The event runs until midnight September 30 (UTC). The goal is to copy edit articles with the oldest tags and complete all requests placed before September. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who participates, with special awards given to the top five in the following categories: "Total articles", "Total words", "Total articles over 5,000 words", "Total articles tagged longest ago", and "Longest article". – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Message delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 04:31, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation update

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GOCE mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 19 have copy-edited at least one article, about the same as the last drive. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—August, September, and October 2011—by about 44%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 58 articles so far, to around 2600 articles. The biggest difference between this drive and the previous one is a stronger focus on large articles, so total word counts are still comparable. Don't forget about the Copy Edit of the Month contests! Voting for the August contest has been extended through the end of the month. You don't have to make a submission to vote! August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the discussion and voting stage until midnight September 30 (UTC). September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the submissions stage until midnight September 30 (UTC), when discussion and voting begin. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:20, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation newsletter

Hey Sceptre. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.

Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:02, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

GOCE September 2012 drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 41 people who signed up this drive, 28 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing July, August, September and October 2011 from the backlog. This means that, for the first time since the drives began, the backlog is less than a year. At least 677 tagged articles were copy edited, although 365 new ones were added during the month. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2341 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 54 requests outstanding before September 2012 as well as eight of those made in September. Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the August 2012 competition, and prizes will be issued soon. The September 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The October 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 23:52, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Omnishambles

Orlady has just proposed a couple of revised hooks for this article's DYK nomination. Can you please stop by and let us know what you think? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:18, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

You said you were going to add that backlink over a week ago. We can't approve the nomination until that's done. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation newsletter - closing up!

Hey all :).

We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.

However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.

Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:08, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

GOCE fall newsletter

Fall Events from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events: The October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best October copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC). Voting is in progress for the September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not. NEW!! In the week from Sunday 21 October to Saturday 27 October, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} belonging to selected project(s). For the first blitz, we'll start with WikiProject Olympics and WikiProject Albums and add more Projects to the blitz as we clear them. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded. November 2012 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in 2011 and to complete all requests placed before the end of October. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Blitz sign-up <<<         >>> Drive sign-up <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Message delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 19:29, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Followup RFC to WP:RFC/AAT now in community feedback phase

Hello. As a participant in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Abortion article titles, you may wish to register an opinion on its followup RFC, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Abortion advocacy movement coverage, which is now in its community feedback phase. Please note that WP:RFC/AAMC is not simply a repeat of WP:RFC/AAT, and is attempting to achieve better results by asking a more narrowly-focused, policy-based question of the community. Assumptions based on the previous RFC should be discarded before participation, particularly the assumption that Wikipedia has or inherently needs to have articles covering generalized perspective on each side of abortion advocacy, and that what we are trying to do is come up with labels for that. Thanks! —chaos5023 20:32, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Omnishambles

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:02, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Phrasing of california marriages

Hmm, doesn't the template's wording leave out the "limbo" marriages as it stands, just mentioning recognition of other states?--occono (talk) 13:20, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

This is not a newsletter

This is just a tribute.

Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.

In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:20, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

GOCE November 2012 copy edit drive update

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GOCE November drive wrap-up

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Russell T Davies 'marriage'

I appreciate your concern for wording and citing his recent ceremony correctly - I would appreciate if you would help to do this, or would participate in a discussion, rather than simply removing any mention of his marriage/marriage announcement. Presumably once the new DWM comes out with the news announcement, that would count as an acceptable source, even though their source is Andrew's Twitter account? Also, do you have any suggestions for how to word it, considering that AS's preferred term is marriage yet it is not a legal marriage? Starhunterfan (talk) 12:14, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

From my activist side I always have to emphasise that the current situation currently is not marriage, unfortunately (but hopefully, that should change soon). I think if it gets picked up in DWM, that would count, even if they source Twitter themselves; unfortunately, we can't use non-verified twitter accounts as sources. Sceptre ^(talk) 13:16, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

GOCE mid-December newsletter

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GOCE 2012 Annual Report

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Your comment at ANI

Hello, Sceptre; I appreciate your comments at the ANI discussion.

I did, however, want to correct what you think I think. The description(s) of my beliefs on my BLP are not quite accurate. (You might want to look through the page's history to see how exactly that description came to be.) What I said (and believe) is just my observation from being a psychologist accompanying very many people on their various journeys understanding their sex/gender and how to integrate it into their lives. The point I was making to the reporter (from Toronto's local GLBT paper), was that folks early in the process often have trouble distinguishing between what it is that they want for themselves and what they are doing in order to fulfill the expectations or desires of others. That is, as they continue to explore their gender and sexuality, they better understand their motivations, and their personal narratives change. That's it really. — James Cantor (talk) 21:32, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Do not....

Do not take my name in vain, talk utter tripe and think I won't notice [7] The civility parole was nothing more than crude attempt by a crowd of inept morons masquerading as an Arbcom to humiliate and cower - it failed miserably on both counts. If I appear to have mellowed, it's because I have tired of Wikipedia and the infants who play here so am seldom around. Giano (talk) 22:28, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

HJ Res15

I changed my mind regarding this issue. I think that it can be merged, only because it's a rather short article and may not have the critical mass of attention needed for a standalone. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 06:54, 29 January 2013 (UTC) I noticed only you and I commented on this issue and per my comment above I went ahead and redirected to the suggestion you made. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 12:49, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

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Sexology arbitration case opened

An arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology. Evidence that you wish the Arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence sub-page, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology/Evidence. Please add your evidence by February 22, 2013, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can contribute to the case workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 03:21, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

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Correction @ Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology/Workshop

Hey Sceptre. Not sure what you meant to type, but Gynandromorphilia is a redlink, and, unless it's been OS'ed, does not appear to have ever existed. I tried a few proximate spellings but couldn't find anything. — PinkAmpers&^{(Je vous invite à me parler)} 19:32, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

GOCE February 2013 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors February 2013 events newsletter We are preparing to start our February requests blitz and March backlog elimination drive. The February 2013 newsletter is now ready for review. – Your project coordinators: Torchiest, BDD, and Miniapolis Sign up for the February blitz and March drive! To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:55, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

GOCE news: February 2013

Guild of Copy Editors Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2013 wrap-up Participation: Out of 19 people who signed up for this blitz, 9 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the six-day blitz, we removed over twenty articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the March drive in a few days! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Torchiest, BDD and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 21:02, 25 February 2013 (UTC)