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:Hmm, the only thing I did was to implement a lvl. 1 pending changes protection on the article, which simply does prevent the edits of IP-and new users from going live until accepted.....for the rest, wikipedia can be a harsh place, and not everybody follows or is aware of all existing policies (this includes me). But what I hold in high regard is ] which works in both ways, not every revert of a perceived vandalism is malevolent. The way to go is to use the articles talk-page to hash things out, as one of your students obviously already has done with success. ] (]) 15:06, 12 March 2013 (UTC) :Hmm, the only thing I did was to implement a lvl. 1 pending changes protection on the article, which simply does prevent the edits of IP-and new users from going live until accepted.....for the rest, wikipedia can be a harsh place, and not everybody follows or is aware of all existing policies (this includes me). But what I hold in high regard is ] which works in both ways, not every revert of a perceived vandalism is malevolent. The way to go is to use the articles talk-page to hash things out, as one of your students obviously already has done with success. ] (]) 15:06, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
::And if you go through the edits of your students, not every edit was really helpful and could be seen as an 'obvious' good faith edit. The best thing is to confront the user who you feel has wronged you or your students and discuss it civilly. Keep in mind, though, that not everybody is a natural born teacher, so for getting guidance, I will link you to our trusted ], and there are various help-desks available for every conceivable question. ] (]) 15:12, 12 March 2013 (UTC) ::And if you go through the edits of your students, not every edit was really helpful and could be seen as an 'obvious' good faith edit. The best thing is to confront the user who you feel has wronged you or your students and discuss it civilly. Keep in mind, though, that not everybody is a natural born teacher, so for getting guidance, I will link you to our trusted ], and there are various help-desks available for every conceivable question. ] (]) 15:12, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

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Dein Typ ist gefragt...

Hallo Lectonar, ich würde gerne auf Dein Angebot zurückkommen, dass Du eines meiner Texte mal durchsiehst. Ich habe auf dieser Seite ein Kapitel für den Artikel Psychoanalysis geschrieben. Es wäre toll, wenn Du den englischen Text mal korrigieren könntest. Darunter habe ich auf Deutsch geschrieben, was ich eigentlich wirklich meine. :o) Thx Hier gehts lang ==> User:Widescreen/sandbox --WSC 19:54, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

I started copyediting/correcting it, but will be busy in RL until monday; I hope this is alright with you. Lectonar (talk) 22:45, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
"Have been" of course. There's no hurry. I'm glad you make time for this anyway. --WSC 07:30, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
May I remind you on my little paragraph? Thx for your help! --WSC 18:58, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Happy new year! From Germany. --WSC 15:56, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
WOW! I saw that you have already deleted an attack page which I tagged a minute before. The was really fast! Have a nice day and I hope you to be better and better! :) Mediran 09:49, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, very much appreciated. That is what admins are for ;). Lectonar (talk) 09:51, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

January 4

Perhaps I should just tag the article for globalization? Deb (talk) 16:04, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Go ahead; I watch almost all of the "day-articles", and we are getting there...I mean, people adding older and non-english people. The problem is the inherent (and understandable, in a way) bias of en-wiki. Lectonar (talk) 16:17, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Hand-coding

Hey all :).

I'm dropping you a note because you've been involved in dealing with feedback from the Article Feedback Tool. To get a better handle on the overall quality of comments now that the tool has become a more established part of the reader experience, we're undertaking a round of hand coding - basically, taking a sample of feedback and marking each piece as inappropriate, helpful, so on - and would like anyone interested in improving the tool to participate :).

You can code as many or as few pieces of feedback as you want: this page should explain how to use the system, and there is a demo here. Once you're comfortable with the task, just drop me an email at okeyes@wikimedia.org and I'll set you up with an account :).

If you'd like to chat with us about the research, or want live tutoring on the software, there will be an office hours session on Monday 17 December at 23:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office . Hope to see some of you there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:17, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Noticeboard

Thanks. Since you can read and write French, you may take note of the fact that he has been insulting me (or, at least, accusing me of being basically a fascist : the reason of which, if I understand well, is that I do not share his personal communist/marxist/whatever ideas). This user insulted me on a regular basis on the french wikipedia for over one year before being finally banned, and it would be a real bummer if he started doing that again on the english wikipedia. best, Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 13:59, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Sengar

hello, i really don't understand on what basis you have locked the "SENGAR" page when you don't know anything about it...just for your information the page talks about RAJPUT CLAN of INDIA so i would request you to first go through the article and then only take action against it...JUST BECAUSE SOME USER: SITUSH who doesn't have any idea about the article deleted the whole content so even you deleted it....I am from the SENGAR clan and i know the information which was given was true and more over the efforts of so many other people who have contributed in writing the page is wasted...i would request you to put back the information so that it can help other people ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.244.200 (talk) 12:03, 9 January 2013 (UTC)


the information which was given on that page is from the book "A Handbook on Rajputs by A H Bingley" page 122-132...thats why i am saying please confirm with the content of the page and then only take action.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yashpal.sengar (talk • contribs) 13:05, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Amar

In response to you response to my feedback: http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:FeedbackDashboard/67623 I deleted first few lines of an article approximately 2 months ago. I didn't have an account then. I created my account just a week ago. (11/01/2013). - Amar. http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Amarjiith

I don't know how to sign or how to create hyperlinks as I'm new to Misplaced Pages. So I've given the required links above.

Rfc please

Dear Lectonar, Would you please have look on these discussion and provide your own opinion?--Freemesm (talk) 08:05, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

This seems to have been solved. Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 09:36, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, it have been solved. I'm sorry for not noticing you earlier. :( --Freemesm (talk) 13:08, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 5

The Help Project Newsletter
Issue V - January 2013
Project news summary
From the editor

Hello again from the Help Project!

In the last newsletter (which was quite a while ago sorry!) I talked about my fellowship and the plans for improving the main portal page, Help:Contents. Well I'm sad to say that my fellowship is now over, but very happy to say that the proposed improvements to that page have been completed and implemented. Do check it out if you haven't already.

Another important and frequently used help page, Misplaced Pages:Contact us, has also seen a significant revamp. You may recognise the design inspiration from the new tutorial pages.

In project news, we now have a subscription to the "article alerts" service. Any deletion nominations, move discussions, or requests for comments on pages within the Help Project's scope will now show up at Misplaced Pages:Help Project/Article alerts. So that's definitely a page which project members might want to watch.

Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Misplaced Pages:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name.

-- the wub "?!" 23:34, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Mickeymolina

(15-01-2013) User: Mickeymolina Good afternoon, nice to meet you LECTONAR, I would like to help me about a edition of my first article : Dilaba (band). I am music periosdist and I have make a article about this band. I would like you read it and tell me something. Thank you very much for all. Waiting for your reply,

Best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mickeymolina (talk • contribs) 14:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Alex Sporea - Florin Mocanescu

(16-01-2013) User: Alexsporea Good morning Lectonar, I am writing to you with regards to a page I created(Florin Mocanescu)Florin Mocanescu. Unfortunately, I wrote it in Romanian and posted it in the English section. Is there way to recover it and translate it or just to recover the text from it? I do not have a back-up. Can you please help me? I would be very grateful. Thank you very much and hope to hear from you, Alexandru Sporea — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexsporea (talk • contribs) 06:53, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

I have moved the article to User:Alexsporea/Florin Mocanescu. Is there a reason you created this here and not in the ro.wikipedia? Lectonar (talk) 07:12, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the quick reply. I didn`t intentionally put it there. It was my first time creating a wikipage.Can you please tell me, besides the wrong location of the page, if there is something that would not allow the page to be published? Alexsporea 08:22, 17 January 2013 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.102.139.99 (talk)
I can read romanian at a pinch, and it would very much depend upon the Misplaced Pages the article is to be published in, but for the English Misplaced Pages I can say that the subject of the article does not pass the notability threshold, and there are not enough reliable independent sources included. Lectonar (talk) 08:17, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Shah puri dialect

Shah puri dialect article containing nine references is being continuously reverted and redirected by user Kwamikagwami without any reasonable argument. Protection of article and blocking of Kwamikagami requested for persistent childish behavior and wasting others time Fantasyworld99 (talk) 06:39, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

User blocked.

Impressive response...

That's impressive. I just assumed that the feedback solicitation would go into a blackhole to be read by a natural language processing bot at best. But you actually read and responded in like 20 minutes?! I don't mind that wikipedia bars certain content but it would be nice if I could know AHEAD of time what the rules mean. The wikipedia rules seem so open to interpretation that the newbie has no chance. It makes me want to never edit on anything remotely controversial, which is unfortunately the most interesting content.Bilbobagginsesprecious (talk) 14:29, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

AFT5 newsletter

Hey all; another newsletter.

  • If you're not already aware, a Request for Comment on the future of the Article Feedback Tool on the English-language Misplaced Pages is open; any and all comments, regardless of opinion and perspective, are welcome.
  • Our final round of hand-coding is complete, and the results can be found here; thanks to everyone who took part!
  • We've made test deployments to the German and French-language projects; if you are aware of any other projects that might like to test out or use the tool, please let me know :).
  • Developers continue to work on the upgraded version of the feedback page that was discussed during our last office hours session, with a prototype ready for you to play around with in a few weeks.

That's all for now! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:24, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 January 2013

Louie Giglio

Can you look at the edits Jonesbrad10 has made/is making to Louie Giglio ? Thanks. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 01:54, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Have taken a look....seems to me like a rather slow edit war; it is the same user coming back with the same arguments or actions every few days/weeks. I have put the article under temporary pending charges protection, to get him/them to use the talk-page. Cheers, and, just out of curiosity: why did you ping me? Lectonar (talk) 08:09, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for removing that vandalism off my page !! MadGuy7023 (talk) 10:37, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome; user is blocked now. Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 10:41, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
Thanks for protecting Leroy Fer; vandals were in full force. — Forgot to put name (talk) 15:59, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Well, thank you very much, much appreciated...I just hope this comes to an end soon, you know, the football/soccer players transferrring. Lectonar (talk) 16:01, 28 January 2013 (UTC)


AppLift

Hi, May I enquire as to why you deleted the post on AppLift? It's written in an objective way and not much different than that of Trademob, which is a similar company. Please let me know what I need to change to make it appropriate.

Thanks! Thomas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomaso67 (talk • contribs) 16:13, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Note - he's been advised on WP:REFUND already (✉→BWilkins←✎) 17:28, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I told him so at his talk-page. Thanks. Lectonar (talk) 17:31, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
Thanks for your immediate action to protect the article, Nasser Judeh. Egeymi (talk) 12:34, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you, I will hide it somewhere, the barnstar, my precious. It is mine. Lectonar (talk) 12:36, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 January 2013

Clevedon School Page

Hey, thanks for protecting this page; it was getting ravaged by vandals pretty good. Cheers! Danielbullis (talk) 21:08, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

No problem, isn't that what admins are here for...and, btw, there was a request to protect it at WP:RFPP. Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 21:10, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Sabrina Seara

After all that work I did adding that damned translation tag. Harumph. BTW, Seara is on the Portuguese Misplaced Pages. Just out of curiosity and because I'm too lazy to check, was it speedily deleted on the Spanish Misplaced Pages?--Bbb23 (talk) 10:31, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for knowing that there is a translation tag in the first place, and even more so for using it...so I can get my deletions up. Yes, it was speedily deleted there at least 4 times, A7 and G11 correspondingly. And the article put up here was so general, you could have substituted any name of a young and upcoming actress for hers, so essentially it was nn here too. Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 10:35, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
I dunno. I'm not fluent in Spanish, so all I had was a Google translation when I declined the tag, and it wasn't general in my view. It included her birthdate, the things she's been in, etc. The English translation was promotional, though.--Bbb23 (talk) 10:42, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Ok, I was not precise enough....it was general more in the sense that it seemed exchangeable with other young actresses from Venezuela etc, and nothing really ascerting notability..You are an admin yourself, just undelete it and I put it back on PNT, but I think the deletion should stand. Lectonar (talk) 10:45, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
I don't feel that strongly about it. I just wanted to discuss it with you, and I appreciate your willingness to do that. We'll leave it as is.--Bbb23 (talk) 10:49, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Thx, you are more than welcome. Lectonar (talk) 10:50, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa

Hello,

I know I'm involved in a edit warring and for that effect I've already contacted Carioca asking him to resolve the issue since he speaks Portuguese and can easily check sources. The other user involved, BenficaNNossaPaixao had been already warned that his editing was potentially libelous material in the 5th November of 2012 and after a few months break he decided to resume his vandalizing editing.

I'm trying to improve the article but if nothing is done about this vandal I'll eventually stop. If you can help I appreciate it.

Thanks,

Jvstvs (talk) 17:46, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

I do not really mind who is right or wrong here, that is not for me to judge. I have left another warning at Benfica's talk-page. Just stand back a bit, and let's hope you find consensus. Lectonar (talk) 17:49, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Well done Jvstvs you just convinced an admin that you are actually telling the truth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.244.75.87 (talk) 19:07, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
As I said: I do not mind at all who is right or wrong; you were both edit warring...,and so it does not matter who is telling the truth and who doesn't. Lectonar (talk) 19:12, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Lectonar, I've left a warning for the IP for continued trolling. After semi-protecting the article I placed a note on BLPN and a link on the talk page of FOOTY. Thanks for the dual triple block, Drmies (talk) 19:14, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
:) Thanks for notifying, and.....duly noted. Lectonar (talk) 19:19, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
In related new: I revoked the IP's talk page access (I'm a bit hard of hearing and don't always hear quacking, which is why I hadn't blocked them yet) and extended the account's block to match the IP's. I've removed some yelling from the article talk page. Now it's time for a nap. Thanks again, Drmies (talk) 19:24, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
I'll have a coffee and will face the night. Enjoy your rest, and thanks again. Lectonar (talk) 19:26, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

DJ Earworm vandalism

Hello Lectonar,

You responded for my request for page protection on DJ Earworm because of IP vandalism on January 30, 2013. I was just wondering if you would consider adding the protection, or help block the IPs responsible. If you look at the page history, you will see that the edits in question started on December 31, 2012, and has spanned across 12 IP address (which I feel are all the same person as the edits are identical, and they are all from the same location/area of the world). The page has been protected twice before, on January 9, 2013 and January 18, 2013, only for this person to come back on a different IP and create the same edit. I feel that the page should receive some page protection again, and these IPs should all be blocked.

Thank you for you time and help. -Favre1fan93 (talk) 05:48, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

I have also just added warning on all of the IP's talk pages. Since I only just did this (as I just looked into the process for requesting blocks and the need for having warned the users) if you would like to wait on blocking (if that is what you decided) that is fine. Thanks again. -Favre1fan93 (talk) 06:07, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply; I have semiprotected for a week. Lectonar (talk) 08:00, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
No problem. Thank you. If this continues still when the protection expires, should I pursue blocking the IPs? - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:02, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
It depends, and I do not worry about things until they have come to pass. I will continue to watch it, though. Lectonar (talk) 15:04, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 February 2013

The Signpost: 11 February 2013

Edward Gregson RPP

Many thanks for your prompt help. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 16:55, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for rollback rights!

Cmckain14 (talk) 22:21, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

I will. Also, I love Huggle and makes monitoring edits easy. But most reverting I do are not good faith, just

vandalism. Cmckain14 (talk) 22:49, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

I need this. Cmckain14 05:36, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Actually, no, you do not need it. It is nice, but that is all. Lectonar (talk) 07:50, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

New Article Feedback version available for testing

Hey all.

As promised, we've built a set of improvements to the Article Feedback Tool, which can be tested through the links here. Please do take the opportunity to play around with it, let me know of any bugs, and see what you think :).

A final reminder that the Request for Comment on whether AFT5 should be turned on on Misplaced Pages (and how) is soon to close; for those of you who have not submitted an opinion or !voted, it can be found here.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:19, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 February 2013

Unblock of EYC MB 2013

Hi Lectonar - it's nice to be back on your talkpage again! Just dropping you a note to let you know that after a fairly extensive email exhange with this user, I've unblocked his account - I'm convinced now that it isn't shared, and he appears to have been acting in good faith, just with a limited grasp of English and Misplaced Pages's guidelines. There's a note on his talkpage detailing the expected conditions; since I imagine you'll have him on your watchlist, do feel free to go ahead and reblock without consultation if he strays from the path again. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 07:51, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Always a plesaure to have you on my talkpage. And of course, I have no problem with the unblocking. But I think I've met one of the guys here in Brussels last week; that is why there is no article yet. Lectonar (talk) 13:18, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 February 2013

WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

  1. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
  2. London Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
  3. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Alaska Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by British Empire The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 01:05, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Irish people

Hi Lectonar, can I ask why you've locked the article Irish people at the non-stable, non-consensus preferred version of User:The Banner rather than the way it has stood for quite some time? He has yet to gain any consensus for his changes, and yet now the article is full-protected at his preferred version. Could you please roll it back before locking again? Thanks, — Jon C. 11:42, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I do not judge the edits, as this would compromise my neutral position in this case, and make me involved (and, frankly, I am not able to judge the edits anyway). I just saw the edit-warring, and fully protected the article. Using rollback here would mark the edits I rolled back as vandalism. Please also see WP:WRONG. Use the time to find consensus, and perhaps get a third opinion. Lectonar (talk) 12:13, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
I looked at the talk-page of the article again; make this a strong advice to get a third opinion. Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 12:17, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Okay, not to worry. I guess WP:BRD isn't the be-all and end-all here – I thought I was well within my rights to revert his edits, and that it was he who was edit-warring by trying to force through a new version without the consensus to do so. Ho-hum. Thanks anyway, — Jon C. 12:24, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Not to be too smartassy here: you were both edit-warring (and again, I do not judge the quality of your edits). This BRD thing should end at the WP:3RR barrier, as the edits of the warring parties are clearly not vandalism. Lectonar (talk) 12:30, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

The Big Bang Theory

I wonder if you can have it move-protected indefinitely. Also, the February reverts is too often, so perhaps extend semi-protection time? --George Ho (talk) 17:22, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Hmmm, I did not look, but were there attempts to move it? If not, protection times for edit and move match. Regarding the protection time, the last protection was 1 week, and even before it was protected at most 2 months. And not all IP-edits were vandalism. Anyway, I have extended to 1 month semi. Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 17:36, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
thanks for extending protection time. Well, the bold move attempt was November 2011. As for requests, there is one from a year ago. Is that enough for indefinite move-protection? --George Ho (talk) 00:57, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Munchies!

Oooh, thank you kindly :-D Yngvadottir (talk) 20:59, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

You are more then welcome. Lectonar (talk) 21:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 March 2013

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
I got to the party too late to do much good - congratulations on another backlog-purging session at WP:RPP! Yunshui 雲‍水 13:46, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Wow, thanks again; these are the visits to my talkpage that I appreciate :). Actually, slowly I really am beginning to think we have not enough admins.... Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 13:51, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
There's a bunch of RFAs going on right now, looks like we might swell our ranks by two or three this week... poor buggers don't know what they're letting themselves for... Yunshui 雲‍水 14:01, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Mislabeled Vandalism

Hi- I was hoping to discuss the actions taken against some of our students' edits on the History of cricket to 1725 page. Their contributions were inexplicably labeled "vandalism" and I think that was unnecessarily combative and done in bad faith. According to the definition of Vandalism, " Examples of typical vandalism are adding irrelevant obscenities and crude humor to a page, illegitimately blanking pages, and inserting obvious nonsense into a page," their contributions have been unfairly maligned. To quote the page further, "Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism. Edit warring over content is not vandalism. Careful consideration may be required to differentiate between edits that are beneficial, detrimental but well-intentioned, and vandalizing. Mislabelling good-faith edits as vandalism can be considered harmful." I respectfully undid the change because it was mislabeled and therefore harmful to Misplaced Pages. Our students are trying to help improve the quality of articles and add vibrant discussion on our project page. Guidance and advice about formatting, protocols and processes are welcome. Please use discretion when reverting obvious good-faith edits.Oline73 (talk) 14:57, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, the only thing I did was to implement a lvl. 1 pending changes protection on the article, which simply does prevent the edits of IP-and new users from going live until accepted.....for the rest, wikipedia can be a harsh place, and not everybody follows or is aware of all existing policies (this includes me). But what I hold in high regard is assume good faith which works in both ways, not every revert of a perceived vandalism is malevolent. The way to go is to use the articles talk-page to hash things out, as one of your students obviously already has done with success. Lectonar (talk) 15:06, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
And if you go through the edits of your students, not every edit was really helpful and could be seen as an 'obvious' good faith edit. The best thing is to confront the user who you feel has wronged you or your students and discuss it civilly. Keep in mind, though, that not everybody is a natural born teacher, so for getting guidance, I will link you to our trusted startpage, and there are various help-desks available for every conceivable question. Lectonar (talk) 15:12, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

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This to help you wash down that chunk of wood. Cheers! Drmies (talk) 15:22, 12 March 2013 (UTC)