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Hello!

Just thought I'd drop you a line since I saw that you edited this article, which I also frequently edit, and if you plan to edit that article often as well, I thought you should be made aware of the fact that our usernames are very similar in order to avoid confusion, especially on the edit history page! (I actually thought I was somehow being credited with an edit I hadn't done until I noticed the difference in numbers in the usernames.)

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PC backlog

Hi RedSoxFan2434,

I noticed your comments at ArbCom. I agree with you that the potential for backlog is one of the biggest issues with PC. However, I think having a time limit before automatically making edits visible has potential problems of its own. What do you think of adding something in to the policy along the lines of the following?

"Administrators should try to keep the number of pending-changes-protected pages to a level that is manageable by the active reviewers. As a rule of thumb, if edits are frequently waiting longer than an hour to be reviewed administrators should not apply PC protection to new pages and should instead look to reduce the number of pages under this type of protection."

Yaris678 (talk) 10:46, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that could work. Yes, time limits have problems - and while I don't know a whole lot about bots in general, would it be possible to have a bot that automatically integrates helpful edits and deletes unhelpful ones at the end of a time limit? At least for BLPs, where time limits are necessary to keep a page up-to-date, would we need this bot. An hour, though, could be too short an amount of time... plus we must also define at what level the ratio of PC-protected pages to reviewers becomes unmanageable. Would it be 10:1? 15:1? Is there a discussion about the policy's specifics like this going on somewhere that I can join? As the RfC close stated, all potential changes to the policy must reach consensus by November 1, or the original draft policy will go in place with no time limits nor restrictions on how widely it can be used. RedSoxFan2434 (talk) 15:18, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Well the point of the rule of thumb is so that we don't need to specify a ratio of PC-protected pages to reviewers. If there are frequent delays then we try to reduce the number of pages. Simple. That means that if it turns out that a lot of reviewers get bored of reviewing we don't get massive backlogs but if we improve the software and enable people to review more quickly we can actually take on more pages... so it even reaches out to the "improve it first" people slightly.

I think the hour should be changeable by consensus but remember that we are talking about a period above which admins should avoid the delay being frequent. I think most edits will get reviewed pretty quickly. I'm happy to change the time... although I don't think it will have much practical effect and 1 hour is easy to remember.

In terms of discussion about policy specifics, check out Misplaced Pages:PC2012. A number of different users are writing proposals in subpages and I think the idea is to bring the ideas together at some point. At this stage you can write your own draft policy or possibly tweak someone else's. I did stick the "rule of thumb" idea I mention above in Misplaced Pages:PC2012/Adjwilley although he did ask my opinion... so I guess discussing on the talk page before making any big changes would be polite.... Yaris678 (talk) 20:35, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

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Some free advice on context and civility

Regarding your comments at the email RFC, I thought I would attempt to clarify a point about civility. Calling a proposal that was clearly made on the spur of the moment with no planning "poorly thought out and frankly stupid" is not incivility. If I said the user making the proposal was incapable of thought and was stupid, that would be incivility. One is a comment on an idea, the other is a personal attack. Context is important, it is frustrating to see how many Wikipedians these days react to honest, blunt descriptions of things with cries of "incivility" when all that is taking place is discussion of an idea. If I think an idea is stupid I have every right to say so. You may disagree and that's fine, healthy debate is good for Misplaced Pages, but if a person says an 'idea is stupid that is not incivility. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:35, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I misunderstood your intentions; I understood "poorly thought out" to mean that you were insulting another user's intelligence, which would be incivility. Evidently, you did not intend to do so. I also probably should not have responded in the snide way I did, but I had become quite frustrated by that time due to, among other things, another user's assumption that I was arguing against EmailUser without reading WP:EMAIL first, which is untrue. RedSoxFan2434 (talk) 18:54, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Modification to May PC be applied to pages to protect against violations of the policy on biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)?

Hello. Because the "Yes" section was split between one group in favor of applying protection to all articles and one group in favor of applying protection to articles only when there has been a problem, I have split the section to reflect this difference. Please go back to that page and make sure that your vote is still in the section that most closely reflects your views. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:17, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

It still is; thank you for doing this, it was clearly needed. RedSoxFan2434 (talk) 22:35, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

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It was me, copy/pastying from talk and unknowingly including a nowiki tag. Sorry for the troubles. Steven Walling • talk 04:10, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

I was really impressed when I read on your userpage that you are a former vandal. I think that you have evolved amazingly since then, which I deeply respect. Turned vandals is an extremely rare sight here. By your contributions, I think you are more than deserving of this barnstar. I could not think of a fitting barnstar, so I hereby give you the Original.  :) Altaïr (talk) 19:08, 11 November 2012 (UTC)