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January 2015

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Signing your posts

HI. When posting on talk pages, especially when leaving official ANI notifications, please remember to always sign your posts and check that you have done so. Cheers., --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:52, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Sorry - thanks for the reminder, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง, my oversight. Document★Error 09:53, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

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Although the text has been copied to an archive and deleted from the main page the history is intact so just look up the date of the edit and then set the history to the year and month and there it is. -- PBS (talk) 12:21, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

With Revision as of 12:39, 11 January 2015 you replaced this link with this diff. I don't know if you are taking the Micky or if you are really lost (and as I have not yet checked the others), I will explain how to fix this first one and leave you to make sure that you fix the others if they need fixing.

Steps

1. You go to the section you are interested in: Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive864#a threat from colleague Legacypac
2. You look up the edit date you are interested in "Legacypac (talk) 19:53, 26 November 2014 (UTC)"
3. You now to to the ANI page and select history
4. You add to the year and the month fields (near at the top of the page) that you have found in the edit November 2014 and click Go
5. You scroll through the list until you find 19:53, 26 November 2014. As it is a high volume page you will probably want to set it to scroll by 500 at a time (if you do that it is on the second page).
6. Now you can summon up the diff in the usual way

-- PBS (talk) 13:20, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for patiently helping me do this. I've updated the link and now I know how to do it in the future. Document★Error 13:30, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

A useful tool for automatically finding a know string of characters exist: Misplaced Pages:WikiBlame. It is primarily used to find an edito who breaches copyright, but it has other uses. So in this case you could use it to find what you are looking for: like this -- PBS (talk) 13:52, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, PBS. I don't regularly (actually, ever except with this case) find myself in situations in which I would need to use a tool called WikiBlame and hope not to in the future, but it is useful information to have nonetheless. Document★Error 14:14, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Voluntary restraints

Inform me on my talk page if you are willing to accept the voluntary restraints I have suggested on my closing of the ANI#Harassment case. -- PBS (talk) 16:02, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Career

I'm sorry to see how upset you are by recent happenings on ANI. Could I perhaps encourage you to take a longer-term perspective? You seem to think that a single block is the end of your productive wiki career. It just ain't so. Even PBS has not got a clean log, nor has Boing! said Zebedee, the last admin to block PBS, nor has Bishonen, who blocked Boing! said Zebedee. I'm not trying to disgrace those august persons here; I'm trying to help you see that this incident is not The End. The best way through it is to go find some articles to edit, peacefully. GoldenRing (talk) 00:49, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

And, of course, agree, unconditionally, to PBS's conditions. GoldenRing (talk) 00:50, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Cherberg Building.png

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Cherberg Building.png, has been listed at Misplaced Pages:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. January (talk) 16:36, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Sigma Delta Rho

Hello! Your submission of Sigma Delta Rho at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! GiantSnowman 18:43, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Blocked

DocumentError with reference to the ANI § Harassment and your prevarication on my talk page ( § In ref to the ANI) I am going to block you account. I will not unblock it until you answer the question I asked you on closing the ANI. Do you accept the voluntary restrictions that were offered when the ANI was closed? No more prevarication, you must answer with one of the two following options

• Yes. I agree to the restrictions.
• No. I do not agree to the restrictions.

If you reply "yes" then you will be expected to keep to both the voluntary restrictions and the imposed restriction. If you reply "no" as I said in the closing of the ANI "I will open a new narrowly focused ANI so that the community can decide what to do ." -- PBS (talk) 23:39, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

@PBS:- DocumentError told you he would be away from Misplaced Pages for a while. Twenty minutes after his last edit to Misplaced Pages you threaten to block if he doesn't answer your question. After he didn't edit Misplaced Pages at all for 24 hours, you saw fit to impose an indef block. There is no evidence that DocumentError has logged on to see your threat. How on earth do you justify being offline and not answering questions as blockworthy? Because this block is punitive and indisputably not preventing disruption of any sort, it should be immediately lifted. Incidentally, your imposition of a statute of limitations on diffs is preposterous and you should lift that, too. Reyk _YO! 12:37, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

In my opinion, it's reasonable to expect User:DocumentError to give an answer one way or the other. The community should not have to put up with the ongoing warfare between DocumentError and Legacypac. EdJohnston (talk) 14:38, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Agreed that this was a good block. The editor had previously been warned that he needed to answer this question within 24 hours of his next edit, and had responded to that offer without answering. There was no way that he was unaware of the consequences of not answering. GoldenRing (talk) 08:14, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Sigma Delta Rho

On 19 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sigma Delta Rho, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that after merging with the Theta Xi fraternity at Amherst College, Sigma Delta Rho (ΣΔΡ) moved into its new home, "the Zoo"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sigma Delta Rho. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:22, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Michael Ross (Washington politician)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Michael Ross (Washington politician) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cptnono -- Cptnono (talk) 06:21, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

A request for Arbitration has been made for America: Imagine a World Without her

The request can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case Casprings (talk) 17:28, 27 January 2015 (UTC)