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The Signpost: 31 October 2011

• Opinion essay: The monster under the rug

• Recent research: WikiSym; predicting editor survival; drug information found lacking; RfAs and trust; Wikipedia's search engine ranking justified

• News and notes: German Wikipedia continues image filter protest

• In the news: Citizendium on the rocks, Shankbone celebrated, and the week in vandalism

• Discussion report: Proposal to return this section from hiatus is successful

• WikiProject report: 'In touch' with WikiProject Rugby union

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Abortion case stalls, request for clarification on Δ, discretionary sanctions streamlined

• Technology report: Wikipedia Zero announced; New Orleans successfully hacked

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2011 WikiCup participation

Awarded to Gfoley4 for participation in the 2011 WikiCup.

It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 20:43, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Gfoley4. You have new messages at Kudpung's talk page.
Message added 05:25, 7 November 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

User rights

On the other hand, Oliver's WMF account was created recently, but it's not an admin account. That led to an unfortunate kafuffle a few days ago, because he used his 'pedia admin account to carry out a WMF operation, that in my opinion was perfectly justified, but the hairsplitters made a song and dance about it. Anyway, it's not as if he's going to create articles with his WMF account - any editing of articles by staffers is expected to be done on their local accounts. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:48, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

I didn't add the autopatrolled flag to their account (I believe that's what your talking about). It was done by Tristessa de St Ange earlier. I only remove the obsolete confirmed flag. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 05:53, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Actually, I didn't make any admin actions, or any actions with my personal account - User:Philippe made the block. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:14, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank You

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Thank You for cutting the red tape, so to speak.

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Haha, no problem! —GFOLEY FOUR!— 06:02, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 7 November2011

• Special report: A post-mortem on the Indian Education Program pilot

• News and notes: Wikimedia Norway awarded, Halloween on the Main Page, Wikimedia UK recognised

• In the news: The Economist assays the encyclopaedia's challenges, Jimbo speaks on net future, and an inclusionist alternative emerges.

• Discussion report: Special report on the ArbCom Elections steering RfC

• WikiProject report: Booting up with WikiProject Computer Science

• Featured content: Slow week for Featured content

• Arbitration report: Δ saga returns to arbitration, while the Abortion case stalls for another week

• Technology report: Full steam ahead on Visual Editor, the avoidance of lock-breaking and 1.18b1 release

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Protection of Turks in Germany

Hi Gfoley4, just wanted to say thanks for protecting the article. Happy editing!Turco85 (Talk) 13:20, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

No problem! —GFOLEY FOUR!— 03:12, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi Gfoley4, sorry to bother you again, it seems as though User:Teddycom is still vandalising this article. I have reverted their edit but I'm quite sure that they will remove the estimates and sources again. Can you advice me on what I should do please?Turco85 (Talk) 13:40, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Actually, he's not vandalizing. This is a content dispute – no vandalism has taken place. I have fully protected the article (which I meant to do in the first place :/) —GFOLEY FOUR!— 22:31, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Oh ok, sorry for the misunderstanding! Have a good day. Turco85 (Talk) 13:16, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 November 2011

• News and notes: ArbCom nominations open, participation grants finalized, survey results on perceptions on Wikipedia released

• In the news: Fundraising vs ads redux, WikiConference India nigh, a world lit up with articles

• WikiProject report: Having a Conference with WikiProject India

• Featured content: Writing featured content: Advice from Sturmvogel 66; Sports, sports, sports!

• Arbitration report: Abortion and Betacommand 3 in evidence phase, three case requests outstanding

• Technology report: Coding Challenge results; Wikimedians to wait and see if Athena really does represent "wisdom, courage and inspiration"

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This Horrid Troll

Hi, Gfoley4! Thanks for jumping in and deleting the IP's user page: but they have re-created it. Please change the block settings to "cannot edit own talk page" and re-delete, if you could. I would, but I'm not an admin. Cheers :> Doc talk 00:17, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

 Done Hmm, I thought that talk page access had already been revoked. Cheers to you, too. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 00:19, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

RFPP

I'll remember that next time. I'm sorry; I didn't know that fulfilled or denied requests were processed automatically, so I had no idea that the template was anything except a convenience for admins who wanted it. Nyttend (talk) 03:23, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For your work against vandalism with Igloo! Thank you and happy editing! pluma Ø 00:10, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! You too. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 00:12, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

George Meany

Thank you very much for your help, and thanks also for making my first effort at using IRC a pleasant one. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 05:50, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

—GFOLEY FOUR!— 21:38, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Template:ProjectNav

Tell me why Template:ProjectNav should have to slog through TFD for a week or longer when it's unused, broken and completely harmless to delete. There's nothing that forbids speedy and XFD from overlapping. Nothing at all. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:42, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I realize that, TenPoundHammer. Where does it say that unused templates can be deleted under G6? I see nothing on that page. Cheers, —GFOLEY FOUR!— 20:57, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Unused templates can be speedied under T3, but that also takes a seven-day waiting period. Imzadi 1979 → 21:02, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I think it falls under housekeeping. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:19, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Okay, we can agree to disagree. We'll see what another admin does. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 23:20, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 November 2011

• News and notes: Last-minute candidates for ArbCom, the Sue Gardner European Tour hits London

• In the news: Indian wikiconference heralds expansion, fundraiser in Silicon Valley major donor coup, import of Wikipedia reconsidered

• Discussion report: Much ado about censorship

• WikiProject report: Working on a term paper with WikiProject Academic Journals

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: End in sight for Abortion case, nominations in 2011 elections

• Technology report: Mumbai and Brighton hacked; horizontal lists have got class

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CuriousWikian590 AIV report

You responded to it with a referral to SPI, apparently because the reporting user alleged the account was used for block evasion. However, the report also alleged harassment, which was there in the edit history, and you didn't address that.

I have warned CuriousWikian590 about that, and he hasn't edited since around the time of the AIV. In the future please give any allegations of harassment the highest priority. Doing our fullest to maintain a harmonious editing environment is the most important aspect of our job as administrators. Daniel Case (talk) 19:33, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Ok. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 22:53, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Template:Delete

A template should be created that resembles Template:Edit for the delete action. Thanks! -- Jab7842 (talk) 19:20, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Where would this be used? We can already just code directly (e.g. on the CSD templates). —GFOLEY FOUR!— 19:22, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 November 2011

• News and notes: Arb's resignation sparks lightning RfC, Fundraiser 2011 off to a strong start, GLAM in Qatar

• In the news: The closed, unfriendly world of Wikipedia, fundraiser fun and games, and chemists vs pornstars

• Recent research: Quantifying quality collaboration patterns, systemic bias, POV pushing, the impact of news events, and editors' reputation

• WikiProject report: The Signpost scoops The Bugle

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Voting underway in the elections, finally a final decision on Abortion, scant movement on requests

• Technology report: Foundation appears correct to back improved smartphone support; and how a Reddit slip meant no-one could read anything for thirty minutes

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