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Eh?

You said something about me "formally stamping my comment"... what comment? o.0 -Aguyuno (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:30, 25 March 2009 (UTC).

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandal on my talk page :D Matt (Talk) 03:39, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiLove

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Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!

Thanks for reverting vandalism to my user page! Cheers, Jake Wartenberg 19:02, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Jason Chong

thanks for your help with disambiguating Jason Chong.

PabloZ (talk) 02:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For reverting vandalism on my talkpage. Call me Bubba (talk) 03:26, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Protected and unprotected DYK pages

Hi Vary, I'm not sure if you are still watching the ANI thread or not, so just so you know, I tried to answer your questions about DYK (and why the Next update page is not protected) here and here...I hope that makes things a bit clearer. Best, Politizer /_contribs 06:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

page blanking is not always BAD, think before revert

When the only content author of a page blanks the content, it is considered to be a request for deletion, and should be dealt with by placing a ((db-author)) speedy delete tag, NOT by reverting, as you did at BrightHouse.

Please check edit histories before reverting, it only takes a few seconds using popups.

(please, no excuses about how huggle doesn't allow this or that, you are just as responsible for your script based (huggle/twinkle, etc) edits, as you are for your manual edits) Wuhwuzdat (talk) 17:31, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

For the record, the above is regarding a page that I deleted under G7 shortly after the revert in question. Lest anyone should think I don't follow up on script-assisted edits. -- Vary Talk

Proposed deletion of Velcro dog

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Velcro dog, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

dicdef of a slang term; no potential for expansion

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Misplaced Pages is not" and Misplaced Pages's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Psychonaut (talk) 13:14, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Talk page

Thank you for reverting it :D cf38 19:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

fictional age regression

I admit I was just using an experienced guess when I told you to look, but i just now did find quite a few.DGG (talk) 04:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Kevin Covais

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Kevin Covais. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Misplaced Pages is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Kevin Covais. Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:51, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

3R Warning

Please read the talk page of the article you are referring to. I AM attempting to resolve the matter peacefully, and you will see my post there pre-dates your warning. If you would care to participate, perhaps even to mediate the dispute, you would be welcome to do so. Rain City Blues (talk) 15:40, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Again, before you start throwing accusations, lets try to keep the focus on the topic, not on the people you disagree with. If the best you can manage is a personal attack, I'd be happy to bring in an admin that is not quite so biased to resolve the matter according to wiki guidelines.

About that revert . . .

. . . had to undo it. Crafty (talk) 15:12, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Discussed on ANI

Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Sister_Kitty_Catalyst_O.C.P..2C DJ_Pusspuss.2C_Benjamin_Holman.2C_and_an_editor_who_shall_remain_nameless Ikip (talk) 15:39, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

He continues to make his assumptions on the ANI, and I continue to revert them. Ikip (talk) 16:45, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Over the line comments

That's not for you to decide. Step off.Rain City Blues (talk) 15:08, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Rjanag Conduct RfC

A Request for Comments has been opened concerning the conduct of Rjanag. This follows the suggestion of a number of arbitrators at the Rjanag RfA. I am contacting you because you previously participated in the underlying referenced Ottava Rima AN/I.

The RfC can be found here.

Editors (including those who certify the RfC) can offer comments by:

(a) posting their own view; and/or

(b) endorsing one or more views of others.

You may certify or endorse the original RfC statement. You may also endorse as many views as you wish, including Rjanag's response. Anyone can endorse any views, regardless of whether they are outside parties or inside parties.

Information on the RfC process can be found at:

1. RfC Conduct
2. RfC Guide
3. RfC Guide 2
4. RfC Rules

Thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 21:10, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

The Holocaust

Vary, please don't make changes based on your preferences prematurely. There is no consensus for this at this stage. The discussion is ongoing. Thank you. Bus stop (talk) 19:06, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I disagree, as I outlined on the talk page. And who said anything about my preferences? I'm just trying to bring a discussion that hasn't gone anywhere to a close based on the opinions of those who have already commented. I'd prefer to keep further discussion on this at the article talk page, thanks. -- Vary | (Talk) 19:11, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Stephen Colbert GAR

Stephen Colbert has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:47, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		To Vary: For figuring out how best to say Scott Brown posed nude in a diplomatic, WP:NPOV way. Seriously, good communication, good use of talk page. Well done Malke2010 22:50, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Trinidad Sanchez, Jr.

Thank you for the following answer in the help page. It helped me solve my problem:

I'd like to put a comma in the title of an article. Specifically, I would like to change the article Trinidad Sanchez Jr. to read "Trinidad Sanchez, Jr.", to reflect wikipedia's preferred practice. How can I make that edit? Thank you.Hammerdrill (talk) 16:27, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Try Help:Moving a page. The title you want to use is currently a redirect with no other edits, so you should be able to move it yourself (iirc). If you have trouble, let me know and I'll take care of it. -- Vary | (Talk) 16:40, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Now I have another question. The article on Mr. Sanchez has one category, American poets. When I click the link and try to find his name listed among the American poets, I can't find it. I think I must be doing something stupid, for which I apologize; but in case there really is a problem, could you please go to his article and click the category link to see? Thank you.Hammerdrill (talk) 22:44, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for dealing with the problem. It didn't occur to me he would show up under the "T's," but I see the sense of it. You had to fix that with a template? Do you mind telling me how to do it? By the way, adding the Slam category was excellent. Having written the article and given it over to the improvements of future editors, I shouldn't have the right to feel grateful, but I do. Thank you!Hammerdrill (talk) 15:33, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Reagan on Prop 6

Thanks for correcting that part. I switched his position on the basis that the rest of the section appeared to imply that he was anti-equality. Total brainfart... I knew something was off. Anyway, thanks. GnarlyLikeWhoa (talk) 08:43, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Asperger's/Autism - Wikiquette Alert

My advice, from someone who started caring way too much? Stop feeding the troll. Thanks for the support though! :) Doniago (talk) 04:40, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Already said buh-bye to him after the first comment, but thanks. -- Vary | (Talk) 04:43, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

The scary/funny thing is that he's still going. Heh. Doniago (talk) 05:10, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Hah, let him rage, maybe he'll tire himself out. -- Vary | (Talk) 05:14, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Gotta say, though, carefully misworded comments like "A usercheck, whatever the guy called it." are a red flag; at first I thought he was just belligerent and a little clueless about how things work around here, but he's an experienced troll who thinks he's being clever, isn't he? -- Vary | (Talk) 05:20, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

I suspect he'll find his way here at some point...after I thanked the Admin(?) who closed the merge discussion on their talk page, he commented as well. I suspect a block may be in someone's future. Doniago (talk) 05:36, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

twitter a reliable source?

Are you telling me that twitter is now an official reliable source? Off2riorob (talk) 13:08, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

There is no consensus there at all, there isn't even a head count. IMO such a weak situation will create a snowball effect where multiple comments are supported by unconfirmed claims on a site that has only recently been easily hacked to the detriment of comments relating to a bunch of politicians. Off2riorob (talk) 13:11, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Per the current discussion on WP:RSN, as well as multiple past discussions, Twitter is acceptable as a self-published source per WP:SELFPUB, just like a blog or personal website, and an account that can be clearly linked to a subject can be used for basic biographical information on that subject as outlined in our policy on verifiability. Obviously accounts with weak passwords can be 'hacked' easily, but that's true of any service that uses a password. Please continue this discussion on that noticeboard or on the talk page of the article, and not here. Thanks. -- Vary | (Talk) 14:47, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Arthur Firstenberg

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Arthur Firstenberg. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Misplaced Pages:Notability and "What Misplaced Pages is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Arthur Firstenberg. Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:08, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Stephen Colbert

On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to note my appreciation for being one of the people that helped to raise the quality of the Stephen Colbert article.

This user helped promote Stephen Colbert to good article status.

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:56, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Vary,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Misplaced Pages administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar

Happy Adminship Anniversary

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e., as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised and that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions). This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 07:18, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 05:15, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 00:31, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Misplaced Pages arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:56, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 00:30, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, Vary. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

• Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
• A bot will post a notification at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
This message was sent to the administrators' mass message list. To opt-out of future messages, please remove yourself from the list. 17:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Vary.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Vary. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Misplaced Pages arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Misplaced Pages talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Misplaced Pages:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Misplaced Pages, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Misplaced Pages seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)