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Would you mind making HasteurBot's code available so someone else can take over?

While I respect your right to retire, would you mind making that bot's code available for the next generation to take over and carry on the work? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:08, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Conditions I will rescind my retirement

1. Calliopejen1 hands in administrator privileges under a cloud and stands for a new RfA due to repeated and significant failures in good sense and conduct unbecomming an admin.
2. Espresso Addict is sanctioned for repeated failures of common sense and conduct unbecomming an admin.
3. That the promising draft be rightfully as only a "request" in the same sense of postponing G13 deletion and is not enacted as a permanant immunication against G13.

I'm soft on points one and two, but point three is a non-starter. If you want to save a draft, make the conditions of G13 This applies to any pages in the draft namespace, as well as any rejected or unsubmitted Articles for creation pages with the {{AFC submission}} template in userspace, that have not been edited (excluding bot edits and maintenance actions such as tagging) in over six months invalid. Drive by tagging without doing anything about it crapifies up Draft namespace. Hasteur (talk) 21:26, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• Re #3. I am still leaning to Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Promising Drafts as a location for hosting promising drafts that should not be auto-deleted. I think the moving of a draft to that WikiProject would have to be according to some clear simple rules, such as: (a) the page mover is a WikiProject member and experienced Wikipedian; (b) the page mover posts two clear statements to the draft talk page (i) Why the draft is promising; and (ii) why the draft is currently not suitable for mainspace.
  This WikiProject could work, as a repository of high value drafts that are attractive to editors to browse for something to work on, and as long as it doesn't become swamped with anything hopeless in any way.
  Mostly Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts has serve a role in cleaning the vast swathes of cruft drafts. This is to be a better focus, taking out Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Abandoned_Drafts#New_articles_to_be_adopted. Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts is a venue for cleaners. Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Promising Drafts is to be a venue for rescuers.
  I am thinking to return to this idea maybe after a month after Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#Request_for_comment:_Promising_drafts is closed, but will read any comments directed to the idea. I like having ideas, but don't claim them to be necessarily viable. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:29, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

• It seems you got your wish on point #3. The RFC consensus was quite strong that a "promising draft" template cannot postpone a G13 deletion. ~Anachronist (talk) 18:40, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Sorry to see you go

Hi.
We've never interacted before, but I saw your bot was blocked, and came here to look for answer; but saw that you've retired. I hope you come back someday. Regards, —usernamekiran(talk) 22:31, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Point #1 is a bit strong but clearly they have royally screwed up and are out of touch with policy and common sense. Education underway and if the nonsense continues they can be dealt with.

Point #2 I've not seen anything too unreasonable but maybe I missed something

Point #3 is bang on, but the wind is shifting as more reasonable editors realize what kind of scam a few editors are trying to pull to defeat G13 and the Wiki Way.

I'd sure welcome you back as one of the key people in draft space management. Legacypac (talk) 22:58, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• (edit conflict) Saw your comment on the CSD page and am glad to see you still here. Hoping you stick around. It'd be a shame to lose you over this. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:31, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
  • I'm still gone, but god-damm! Disrupting Misplaced Pages to make a point in the middle of a already heated debate should be grounds for heavy sanctions. Hasteur (talk) 01:02, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
    • Honest to fuck I think my eyes bugged out. If the edits had been done today, I'd have blocked them for disruption instead of commenting, but they were a couple days ago and they haven't done any more "experiments" since then so it'd be a bit stale to block for. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 01:35, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Clarification?

Glad to see you're back. What are the facts that I can't get straight here? Sorry if it's something obvious I've missed, it's really late now and my brain might have gone on standby. – Uanfala (talk) 00:30, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

• Welcome back! The editor whose username is Z0 14:36, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

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GORUCK

Hi Hasteur I think I have put my foot in it. Sorry. Do you want to give you a hand to fix your article? I'll can possibly find good references. scope_creep 13:47, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

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Comment on content, not on the contributor

Please remember WP:AGF and WP:NPA, e.g. at and . – Joe (talk) 19:29, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

• Don't be a twat and you won't have that problem. Hasteur (talk) 00:38, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Relationship to GoRuck

Someone pointed out that you once said you were "asked by the company" (GoRuck) to help develop an article about them on Misplaced Pages "so that we could potentially move to mainspace" and acknowledged that "there is a COI". Did that asking involve some potential form of payment? Do you have some close relationship with the company, or was this just in some arms-length casual email conversation? —BarrelProof (talk) 22:56, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

@BarrelProof: I was not paid for the editing. This was an arms length "Could you work on this please" type conversation. That is why I put it through AFC. Hasteur (talk) 01:21, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. I have made a couple of adjustments of Talk:GoRuck to clarify the situation. Based on what you said, I wouldn't even consider that something that needed mentioning. —BarrelProof (talk) 20:33, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

September 2019

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Draft:Abdel Aziz Mahmoud

I reverted your review of Draft:Abdel Aziz Mahmoud, since the draft is clearly in English, not Danish.--Auric talk 22:22, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Glad to see you didn't read and see the danish quote that was CV. Fine. G11 it goes. Hasteur (talk) 22:32, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

A quotation in another language doesn't count as "draft in another language."--Auric talk 10:33, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

For pitching in on Category:AfC pending submissions by age/Very old. -- Worldbruce (talk) 05:25, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Revive HasteurBot?

Since you are back, can you revive HasteurBot, specifically the task that sends pre-G13 notifications, and does G13 taggings? Thanks, SD0001 (talk) 10:27, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

@SD0001: Misplaced Pages:Bots/Requests for approval/HasteurBot 14. Feel free to go and support Hasteur (talk) 02:28, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Use of old HTML Tags

Hello! I just wanted to give you a heads-up that I tweaked your comment at WP:AN per WP:LINT. Specifically, I removed <strike>...</strike> because it's an obsolete HTML tag, and used <s>...</s> to replace it. Obsolete HTML tags run the risk of creating readability issues in the near future when old HTML tags get retired from MediaWiki, so editors are trying to fix formatting issues whenever possible. Cheers! OhKayeSierra (talk) 05:07, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Hasteurbot

Hi,

Apologies I've not done this earlier. I've now unblocked your bot. Good luck with the BRFA :)-- 5 albert square (talk) 21:56, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

DRN Clerk Bot

The clerk hasn't been updating case status for 48 hours. It may be stuck (maybe on a misformatted case?) Can you check on it? Robert McClenon (talk) 15:44, 21 October 2019 (UTC) @Robert McClenon: I gave it a swift kick in the nuts. While I was at it, I also converted it over to the better version of pywikibot so that it should be even more stand alone. Hasteur (talk) 21:17, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. Every now and then computers need that, as I learned in my 45 years with them. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:54, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Declined speedy deletion tags

Do not re-add declined speedy deletion tags. If deletion is legitimately needed, one might consider WP:MFD. WilyD 06:21, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Explanation

Just to be really clear about my revert: a generalized request for other editors to watch out for "non-constructive edits", separated from the locus of the dispute and not naming anyone, does not involve anything related to personal attacks and certainly not AGF. Extending your dispute farther, as your comment did, is pointless and unpleasant. If you want to chide Taku, do it somewhere other than WT:WPM -- there is no need to pollute yet another forum with the absurd arguing. Thanks. --JBL (talk) 11:49, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

@Joel B. Lewis: Taku non-neutrally canvassed and cast apsersions at the page. Directly in that location is the right place to call it out and request it be redacted. Your substitution of your personal feelings does not trump WP:TPG, Specifically refactoring other editors comments. Hasteur (talk) 11:52, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

You do not apparently understand what canvassing is, nor aspersions. I have no feeling about the underlying issue. Please stop extending your argument to WT:WPM, where it does not belong. I will absolutely continue to revert you until we are both blocked for edit-warring, if necessary, in order to keep this fight off WT:WPM. --JBL (talk) 11:56, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

See you at WP:EW since you and Taku are attempting to overrule WP:TPO Hasteur (talk) 11:57, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

You are welcome to report me anywhere you want; as long as you keep this fight off WT:WPM, I will be content. --JBL (talk) 11:58, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

You mean well

...but please back off. There's NO need for this situation with Taku and others to be so contentious/hostile. Buffs (talk) 20:36, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

• Leave Taku alone. Stop wikistalking him. If he moves these to userspace, what the hell is the problem? Buffs (talk) 01:23, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
  • @Buffs: The problem is, I've seen this exact damn playbook from him 4 times already. Ignore friendly advice, Get in trouble because someone has a policy reason to start taking harsh action with respect to his drafts, kowtow to whatever is needed to get the heat off (AN-Flu anyone?), return to the previous behavior that got them in trouble in the first place. Tiger don't change his stripes. Hasteur (talk) 01:26, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
    • I never said anything to the contrary about Taku. I'm ONLY talking about YOUR actions. Buffs (talk) 03:28, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

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Draft:Institution-based resources for Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Candidates

please delete this entry, it is no longer needed a — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acerase (talk • contribs) 19:58, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Regarding notification from your bot

Hi there, I received a notification from your bot regarding a page in draft space (Draft:Hollywood.con). In the wake of the somewhat ludicrous reaction to the creation of the original page I lost all interest in further engagement with it. Further, I am no longer editing on Misplaced Pages. I don't expect or need any response from you. This merely serves as notification that as far as I am concerned, the page can simply be deleted. Thanks. Cadar (talk) 00:44, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

DRN clerk bot 2nd request

Dear Hasteur, the DRN clerk bot doesn't seem to be updating the case status in {{DRN case status}}. Could you take a look at this? Thanks, MrClog (talk) 11:38, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

@Galendalia: Can you please point at what you think is wrong? The bot appears to be updating the template. Also you didn't need to send a Off WIki mail for this. Hasteur (talk) 17:54, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi it had been posted on your page for quite sometime by another edit and there was no response so I went to the next feasible option. It is not updating the case statues on the template. Here are the examples:

1. How it currently looks Template:DRN_case_status
2. How it should look at the moment Template:DRN_case_status/sandbox

Even though we have manually updated the DR case from blank to open or resolve, the status and coloring are not showing, as it shows all cases as 'new'. I hope this helps clear things up. Galendalia _{CVU Member} \ 18:03, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Getting the DRN Clerk bot working again. Robert McClenon (talk) 13:26, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

I will 2nd that!!!!! --Galendalia _{CVU Member} \ 00:07, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

DRN Clerk Bot Died

The bot stopped pushing at 11am PDT (aka my time). It is now 4pm PDT my time. Can you look into this please? Thanks. Galendalia _{CVU Member} \ 23:00, 14 May 2020 (UTC) _{DRN Volunteer}

Update: It came back to life! Galendalia _{CVU Member} \ 00:05, 15 May 2020 (UTC) _{DRN Volunteer}

@Galendalia: is 5 hours that critical of a issue? Trying to estimate how much effort I'm going to be asked of after running this for years with having less than 1 interaction every 6 months to have 3 interactions within a week. Please establish consensus at WT:DRN for the level of support expected. Hasteur (talk) 11:39, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

it’s all good I see what happened. There were no updates to process. That is my bad. I’m new to bot world. Galendalia _{CVU Member} \ 17:01, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Swiftships

Dear Hasteur, you reviewed my article in April (swiftships) and I'm grateful for the comments you left. I edited those as per your recommendations and insights. I hope you can check my article again and advice if all is fine this time. Kind regards

Kristinapaskev (talk) 10:18, 15 May 2020 (UTC) @Kristinapaskev: I don't do re-reviews independently. I review submissions based on the order they come up on the AFC submission queue. I've put your draft back into review for a second reviewer to consider it Hasteur (talk) 11:35, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

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