Roy Howard Mills

Admin request

Hello. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Stephan Schulz has been undone because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:13, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes I meant to undo that one but you were VERY quick, so well done to you. Basically I was using the article as a template for requesting my own application and I forgot that I was still inside that article. Thanks all the same. Fudgepack (talk) 22:16, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I figured that it's what you were doing. No worries; all fixed! :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:16, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Also, I highly recommend that you read Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates before you decide to file an RFA application. You'll save yourself a lot of time and pain by doing so :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:21, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Yep. Read it now and it appears I was premature. Best to keep it as a skeleton base for the big day!! :) Fudgepack (talk) 22:54, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

April 2016

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, Fudgepack, is offensive [1]. 

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Unblock and rename

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Roy Howard Mills (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Requested username:

Roy Howard Mills (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. PhilKnight (talk) 23:03, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Obviously I need my edits to remain in tact and tethered to my history, I have created pages, and this also means my application for administration should remain in tact, at least so it be known that I have come to this project with high ambitions.

Thanks

Fudgepack (talk) (soon to be Roy Howard Mills) 22:54, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

• PS. The name I have requested is fictional, not my real name. Fudgepack (talk) 22:55, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

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SPI

Please, don't post suspicions at SPI unless you have some actual evidence, as it just causes bad blood if the accusation is incorrect. Additionally, please don't ask questions about the contents of deleted content, or the exact reasons for which someone was blocked; by definition, if something's deleted, it's because there's a reason we don't want it seen, and given that you don't have access to deleted contributions or checkuser data, you can't see the histories so comments like "doesn't appear to have made a single contribution" aren't helpful. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but sock investigations are a complex area which are really best left to those with the experience and tools to analyse patterns fully; if you want to help on Wikipedia, there are a lot of places where your help would be valuable. ‑ Iridescent 18:52, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't know about "deleted contributions" being out of public view. I take your points, all of them. Roy Howard Mills (talk) 18:54, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

I would like to add to and extend the comments from Iridescent above, and to say, please slow down. You are proceeding WAY too fast, and trying WAY to hard, to do things you are not yet competent to do. Recent example: at an SPI investigation you said you thought sysops are able to see users' IP addresses. Someone who doesn't know the difference between an WP:administrator and a WP:Checkuser, and who doesn't understand that Wikipedia is very, very protective of the individual privacy of users, should not be commenting at SPI. But it goes beyond that. On your very first day here, you attempted to create a WP:Request for adminship page for yourself - at first, absurdly, by blanking someone else's successful admin request and substituting your own information, then after several more attempts eventually winding up with Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Roy Howard Mills. You have continued to add to the page, updating it as recently as today. Please understand, you are nowhere near ready to apply for adminship; in fact you have ZERO chance of becoming an administrator for at least a year. Read WP:Advice for RfA candidates. Read recent RfA applications, both successful and unsuccessful, at WP:RfA, to see what is expected of administrator candidates. People who try request adminship way too early are told WP:NOTYET; worse, the fact that they applied too soon when they had no idea what adminship is about will be held against then in future RfA applications. I would suggest you get that RfA page deleted (you can ask any administrator, or simply blank the page), but that is up to you. I do suggest you put your burning ambition aside and just concentrate on being a good editor here. You have been creating content and improving articles; that's good, and that is what you need to do for now. Continue to explore areas that interest you, not because you are eager to advance, but just because they interest you. Thanks for your interest in Wikipedia, but please act as if you are here to build an encyclopedia, rather than to attain positions of power and prestige for yourself. OK? --MelanieN (talk) 20:24, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, got all that. Best thing to do with the request for adminship is to leave it dormant. Editors need to know I am keen but at least I will avoid editing it for a good year let's say. I need to get other tools first, ability to review pages and be a pending change reviewer etc. Or even a checkuser might be a nice thing to go for. To be honest Melanie, I really now have nothing more to add at the SPI, I've given all the evidence I can provide so there's no point me hanging around any longer. So from here on in, unless my name is called (which I doubt), I won't return to that page. It's fresh avenues from here!!!! Roy Howard Mills (talk) 21:17, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

John Farnham edit warring

FYI : All editors are expected to follow WP:STATUSQUO and not initiate edit wars when reverted. You should also have a read of WP:BRD. If you believe there is some valid WP: MOS reason for your removal of this information from the lead section then provide it on the article talk page and ping me about it. Otherwise the information remains as it is in accordance with common practice in multiple articles and in accordance with the status quo principles. Afterwriting (talk) 02:18, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

You're Back in the Room edit warring

I see that you are engaged in an edit war with another user at You're Back in the Room. This is to warn you that you have reverted each other three times now and are in danger of violating WP:EW if you do it again. You have not offered any explanation for your edits and have not attempted to discuss the issues at the talk page. That is what you should do. --MelanieN (talk) 16:21, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you Melanie but 86.158.232.106 is a vandal who was blanking information and not using the talk page, I was up against disruptive editing. Roy Howard Mills (talk) 18:47, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Then explain why you think so. You have said nothing at the talk page, and your edit summaries of "(no edit summary)", "Stop mucking around", and "Stop this now" are completely unhelpful. Helpful edit summaries would be things like "unexplained removal of content", "restoring referenced content", "removing unsourced content", and the like. Simply reverting without explanation, or worse yet reverting with unpleasant comments to the other party, are likely to be interpreted as edit warring. --MelanieN (talk) 19:19, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, in future I'll use the summary more. Roy Howard Mills (talk) 22:54, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Has no one welcomed you yet?

Sorry for the belated welcome, but the cookies are still warm!

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Again, welcome! — Andy W. (talk · contrib) 23:04, 20 April 2016 (UTC) — Andy W. (talk · contrib) 23:04, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Why thank you Andy! A nicest of gestures!!!! Roy Howard Mills (talk) 18:41, 21 April 2016 (UTC)