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Welcome!!! Pull up a chair, let's have a nice chat. I'm glad you called. I'll put the kettle on.
SilkTork

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Silk Tork

Thank you for the 'Silk Tork' explanation, to me it was quite amusing. Best wishes. Alanscottwalker (talk) 15:44, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Well, you can be reassured that it's not a sexual thing, as some have speculated! :-) SilkTork (talk) 16:33, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Though Ai No Corrida was a film I had seen when younger, so it may have had a subconscious influence - who knows! SilkTork (talk) 16:37, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

I always thought SilkTork meant "silk torque": a soft and gentle yet powerful turning force. If you need something diplomatically turned around, you apply the silk torque. Levivich (talk) 17:53, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Oooh. I like that. SilkTork (talk) 17:58, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

I haven't read the answer to the question yet, will do so shortly... but what I gathered from the question is that it refers to a fancy brand of toilet paper made from silk.  — Amakuru (talk) 17:59, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Tork branded products are found in public toilets in the UK (and I assume other countries) - I have seen Tork branded sinks, hand dryers and urinals. SilkTork (talk) 18:12, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Your RfB

Congratulations, your RfB was successful. Welcome to the crew! Primefac (talk) 12:26, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. As the new member I suppose I have to make the tea. SilkTork (talk) 15:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

You’re off the hook, we got a new new member. –xeno 19:03, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to the team! Please add what ever you want to share to Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats#Current_bureaucrats. — xaosflux 12:44, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Will do. Though I suppose nude photos of my favourite kitten is not what you meant. SilkTork (talk) 15:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

• Congrats on your 'cratship - may your spanner and screwdriver be twinned and shiny, for evermore. Nosebagbear (talk) 13:44, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, though I was hoping for a deerstalker hat and an oily briar pipe. SilkTork (talk) 15:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

• Congratulations for bureaucratship !! CAPTAIN RAJU 14:11, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Cool, and it's my size as well! How did you know? SilkTork (talk) 15:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

• Congrats, SilkTork! I'm not sure if there any new shiny buttons with the "bureaucrat" user right, but all I have to say is it's about time! The Crat Corps have seem to have been "understaffed" for awhile now, and you'll be a welcome addition to helping clear any backlog. Doug Mehus T·C 14:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

I had a look, and there is one marked Do Not Press This Button. Of course, I pressed it. SilkTork (talk) 15:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

SilkTork, Oh, I bet I know what that button does. It sends a group ping to Meta-Wiki to the Stewards with a proforma message that alerts them to a new bureaucrat pressing the "do not press this button" button, to which the stewards just chuckle and clear the notification. Doug Mehus T·C 15:57, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

• Congrats on your 'cratship.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 18:56, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. SilkTork (talk) 02:11, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Good on you and congratulations. I may have disagreed with you at times, but you will make an excellent crat. Seraphimblade 21:19, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

I disagree with you! ;-) SilkTork (talk) 02:11, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

• Congratulations! Wear your torc well...I worked all night on it.
   — Berean Hunter (talk) 22:18, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

I do like a gold torc. Thanks. SilkTork (talk) 02:11, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

• Nicely done, Steve. Best wishes. - Dank (push to talk) 13:48, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

I fixed the lead on PlayStation 3 accessories for you!

You did it in 2011, and I am here just to double check with you to make sure that you're on the same page with me! Maccore Henni _{Mii! Pictochat Mii!} 18:53, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that. I haven't checked, I'm sure you've done just fine. Keep on expanding leads with information from the main body of the article. Most visitors to an article only read the lead, so it is important that leads summarise all the important information in the body of the article. SilkTork (talk) 02:11, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

A goat for you!

Thanks for helping me

Maccore Henni _{Mii! Pictochat Mii!} 18:55, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Thankyou. SilkTork (talk) 02:11, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Precious

look at both sides

Thank you for quality articles, beginning Everards Brewery, List of songs with lyrics by Gerry Goffin, Architecture of Chiswick House and Smooth jazz radio, for Districts of Kraków and Beer measurement, for helping from 2006, including arbitrating services, for "sometimes I will linger and sweep up the shit", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2353 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:18, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda, though those articles you've listed had very little to do with me. Some articles I have actually worked on, include: Beer, Brewing, Covent Garden, George Harrison, Chuck Berry, The Kinks, A1 in London, Kraków, Kilgour–Matas report, Savile Row, Deptford, etc. Most of which are now GA or FA. Beer is the first article I worked on that I was pleased with - I heavily rewrote that and took it to GA in 2008. I have been nibbling away at Brewing for some years, and intend to take that to GA, probably this year. This is a useful tool for identifying which articles someone has worked on. Article creation is not something I work on, though when first here in 2006 I did create a number of beer articles. The articles that tend to interest me will be the big, sometimes complex topics that take their time to research, organise and write, but are most likely to be the ones already here on Misplaced Pages, and often already drawing lots of readers, so are perhaps the ones that genuinely need most of our attention. I have done a number of GA reviews, and I think the one that pleased me most was working on Clitoris with Flyer: Talk:Clitoris/GA1; a challenging but rewarding task on a complex and important topic that attracts over 5,000 readers a day. There are a number of writers here on Misplaced Pages that I admire, and I would put Flyer right at the top of that list. She researches well, organises well, and can present complex information in a manner that the general reader can understand, and she is not afraid to tackle big topics. SilkTork (talk) 04:14, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

I hope Flyer will melt again. - Perhaps put this summary - or a link to it - on your user page? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:25, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

I understand what you're saying, as over the years I have noted that people don't realise what content creation I have been involved with (and that came up in my RfB as an oppose by someone who was expecting me to put up such a list), but I feel the summary I have put on my user page is sufficient, indicating I have experience at various levels of both content creation and content assessment, as well as experience of other aspects of Misplaced Pages. I did at one time have a link to the GAs I had been involved in as nominator and reviewer, but that list is genuinely just for me, so I took the link away. I prefer to just have an indication of what I have done so people can get an impression of my experience, rather than have a list. Each aspect of Misplaced Pages has its value and importance, be it starting an article, developing an article, tidying up an article, protecting an article from vandals and/or users in dispute, creating guidelines on how to write, format, protect an article, etc. We need people to do all these varying tasks. We all need each other. I love and respect our community, so I particularly value the awards people have given me over the years, such as your blue sapphire, so I do have those on my user page: User:SilkTork#Stars. SilkTork (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining. I also value appreciation, therefore have comments that made me blush on my talk page. The sapphire comes from a project which values quality article improvements highly, but it has also been awarded to people helping that purpose by other tasks than the actual writing, and while likely recipients are writers of a first FA on the main page, some received it for their first DYK article. "We all need each other", indeed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:49, 5 March 2020 (UTC)