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Walesedit![]() Hi, I shall reply to your question on my talk page (as described there) but first, I shot over here, in order to find out to whom I was replying. Finding that you are an admin, I wanted to ask you if you were an admin who grants permissions for users to use rollback. If you do, then if you were to look at my application, you will see that I have run into difficuties there. Regards, -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 17:08, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
POSTSCRIPT I have my permission. Now I must learn all about it, before using Rollback. -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 19:04, 6 May 2012 (UTC) One PebbleeditHello again, I have posted the following on the user's talk page:
I hope you approve! Cheers! -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 23:47, 6 May 2012 (UTC) Thank you ST47, for your encouragement. Onepebble (talk) 01:01, 9 May 2012 (UTC) Bot status @ it.wikieditDear ST47, your STBot had no edits on it.wiki for last 12 months. If you have objections, please answer on my talk, otherwise your bot will be deflagged in 7 days. Best regards, --Gnumarcoo 17:25, 17 May 2012 (UTC) Please undo your editeditPlease undo your change to commons.css. Until such time as an alternative is in place, the button certainly does have a very important function to those of us who have opted into recent changes. Your edit breaks the ability for those of us who want this useful feature to make use of it, purely for the aesthetics of those who do not. Function > Aesthetics. Please revert, as the same change was made and reverted just one week ago. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 20:43, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
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July 2012 Study of authors of health-related Wikipedia pageseditDear Author/ST47 My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address not long ago edited an article on Contact Dermatitis. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hydra_Rain and if interested, please visit my Talk page or e-mail me on [email protected]. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance. Hydra Rain (talk) 20:28, 12 July 2012 (UTC) URGENT MAILedit![]() It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. at any time by removing the Disambiguation link notification for November 19editHi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Union City (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:59, 19 November 2012 (UTC) George Brown articleeditI received this notice of deletion because of copyright issues. I have written permission to use Lindsey William's text (that forms the bulk of the article: http://www.lindseywilliams.org/index.htm?Articles/African-) which appeared originally in a Florida newspaper. The 3 images I included belong to the Charlotte County historical society who offer a fair use right to reproduce. I see that Wiki Commons does not deem that permission adequate & I have contacted the historical society for express permission (but not heard back yet). Please advise! Thank you. Paulherman (talk) 13:26, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Inactive bot on Chinese WikipediaeditHi ST47, I noticed that your bot User:STBot on zh.wikipedia has been inactive for more than a year. Do you still need it? If you wish to keep its bot flag, please let me know. If you no longer need it, or there is no reply in a month, the bot flag will be removed by local bureaucrat. Regards, --Ben.MQ (talk) 14:50, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Notification of automated file description generationeditYour upload of File:ACE2008.jpg or contribution to its description is noted, and thanks (even if belatedly) for your contribution. In order to help make better use of the media, an attempt has been made by an automated process to identify and add certain information to the media's description page. This notification is placed on your talk page because a bot has identified you either as the uploader of the file, or as a contributor to its metadata. It would be appreciated if you could carefully review the information the bot added. To opt out of these notifications, please follow the instructions here. Thanks! Message delivered by Theo's Little Bot (opt-out) 11:24, 8 December 2013 (UTC) An RfC that you may be interested in...editAs one of the previous contributors to {{Infobox film}} or as one of the commenters on it's talk page, I would like to inform you that there has been a RfC started on the talk page as to implementation of previously deprecated parameters. Your comments and thoughts on the matter would be welcomed. Happy editing!
Request for commenteditHello 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) MfD nomination of Talk:Georges MalbrunoteditTalk:Georges Malbrunot, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Georges Malbrunot and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Talk:Georges Malbrunot during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Peacemaker67 (send... over) 05:45, 20 July 2014 (UTC) Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivityedit
Notification of imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivityedit
Global account for your boteditHi ST47! I just realized that you don't have a global account for your bot STBot yet, see here. Any special reason for that? In the upcoming weeks all accounts will be unified somehow by the Wikimedia Foundation. Therefore, it might be more useful to unify your bot account on Special:MergeAccount yourself. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:21, 27 December 2014 (UTC) about a articleedithi this is dfrr. I made a article called Marion Cunningham (Happy Days character) and I need you to see what improvements it may need. that is all thank you and have a great dayDfrr (talk) 22:56, 17 April 2015 (UTC) (Talk to me:-)) Hi, Hi, Hi, United States SenateeditContent, titled Control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives: 1855-2017, in the history section of this article requires an edit which is beyond my access/capability. At the bottom of "Control of the ..." is a small box with the title "Sessions of Congress". That title and the next two lines are each incorrect. Reads: Sessions of Congress Should Read: Congresses Reads: Each horizontal block equals 2 years (1 session of Congress) Should Read: Each horizontal block equals 2 years, or 1 Congress Reads: On the scale, every other session of Congress is shown Should Read: On the scale, every other Congress is shown Why in error: Each 2-year Congress consists of two, one-year sessions. J2516white (talk) 18:21, 1 September 2016 (UTC) Extended confirmed protectioneditHello, ST47. 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:
Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you. Two-Factor Authentication now available for adminseditHello, 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 PatrollerseditHi ST47. 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) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC) ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!editHello, ST47. 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 Wikipedia 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) Your inactive bot(s)editHello ST47. We currently show that you are the operator on file for at least one Administrators' newsletter - February 2017editNews 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.
13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC) Invitation to Admin confidence surveyeditHello, Beginning in September 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tool team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing and mitigating things like sockpuppetry, vandalism, and harassment. The survey should only take 5 minutes, and your individual response will not be made public. This survey will be integral for our team to determine how to better support administrators. To take the survey sign up here and we will send you a link to the form. We really appreciate your input! Please let us know if you wish to opt-out of all massmessage mailings from the Anti-harassment tools team. For the Anti-harassment tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 20:56, 14 September 2017 (UTC) Moglix Deleted Page Content RequirementeditHi, As per my conversation with wiki moderator salvidrim, I was told that i can get the content of a deleted wiki page from a number of wiki moderators. Can i get the content of 'Moglix" wiki page, which has been deleted? Im new on wikipedia kindly help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SiddharthSanger231091 (talk • contribs) 07:25, 21 October 2017 (UTC) ArbCom 2017 election voter messageeditHello, ST47. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia 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 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC) Category:Wikipedians who contribute to DMOZ has been nominated for discussionedit![]() ArbCom 2018 election voter messageeditHello, ST47. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia 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 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC) Cascading protection on project-space scriptseditBack in 2007, you fully protected a bunch of js scripts, but you also cascade protected them, so that any template transcluded on that page would also be protected. I can't think of a reason this is needed now, especially since many of these are likely out of date. I know you're not super active these days, so would I be fine in removing cascade protection but leaving full protection? Cheers, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 15:52, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Bot Approvals Group inactivity noticeeditHi ST47, Please see Wikipedia_talk:Bot_Approvals_Group#Bulk_inactivity_removals regarding our new activity requirements based on the recent RFC. This will impact your BAG membership, unless you meet the activity requirements in the next 7 days. SQLQuery me! 00:56, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Today's Wikipedian 10 years agoedit
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:02, 19 December 2018 (UTC) The news is true, and a source has been added. Perhaps you could unprotect the page now at least so that others can expand upon it. --Kailash29792 (talk) 03:32, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi ST47! I hope you're having a great day and that life is going well for you! I'm leaving you a message to let you know that I've extended the block that you placed on Catcure to a duration of two weeks due to repeated incivility and for making personal attacks toward other editors. The user's follow up comment here is what prompted me to take action. I just wanted to let you know so that you're aware. If you have any questions, concerns, objections, or issue with the change I made to the user's block duration, please let me know (ping me) and I'll be happy to discuss it with you. I doubt that you'll have any issue with this, but I figured I'd let you know just in case you do. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 10:16, 2 April 2019 (UTC) Sorry!editPut the db request on the wrong page. Thanks for the quick response.StillWife (talk) 02:51, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
this is going in my humor pageeditBusy revertin' vandalism --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 02:58, 4 April 2019 (UTC) Misdirected about paasi caste on wikipidiaeditPls upadat pasi information Adolf bijili (talk) 04:14, 4 April 2019 (UTC) Ron KulpaeditThank you for protecting that Ron Kulpa article. I was just heading over to drop the request, but I saw you already handled it. 76.114.227.101 (talk) 03:31, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
A pie of thanksedit
FYIeditYou might want to reset or reinstall your version of Huggle, as it's leaving blank edit summaries [1] [2]. You are far from the first one to have this issue, but I don't know what causes it. Home Lander (talk) 01:34, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
Article Greeks in AlbaniaeditHello. I genuinely do not understand what you mean by "your own point of view". I am referring to the official statistics of the Republic of Albania, as well as to another reliable resource by an international minority protection organization. The numbers I wrote in the edited version of the article are supported by various (Albanian and international) sources. --D92AL (talk) 23:48, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
The CheckUser Magic 8-BalleditI have seen your comment on the Feckner SPI and thought that I should clarify how CUs use the various templates. Basically, since CUs are bound by the privacy policy and, so, cannot reveal too much, we have started using those standard responses, which go from unlikely to technically indistinguishable, to communicate the results of our analysis. Most of those simply mean what it says on the tin: "unlikely" means that it is unlikely that the accounts are operated by the same person; "possible" means that it is possible that the accounts are operated by the same person, but the CU is not strong enough for us to say whether it is likely or not and, so, it is necessary to rely mainly on behavioural evidence; then you have "possilikely" (which is a bit more than possible, but still less than likely) and "likely", where the evidence is getting stronger; and, finally, "confirmed" and "technically indistinguishable", where the evidence is the strongest (although this still does not mean that sock puppetry is certain, because CU is a flawed tool). "Inconclusive" is used when CU is useless, for instance because the user is using a proxy. I hope this was useful; best, Salvio Let's talk about it! 17:55, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Bridge Back to LifeeditThat IP editor is really messing up that article. Just a heads up that I will try and return it to the previous state before they came along. No doubt they are connected to the previous coatrack issues. Thank you for your recent reverts of their handiwork.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 04:01, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2019editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).
The "known troll" whom I had reported to SPI by mistakeeditSorry for mistakenly believing that the troll's accounts were sockpuppets of the user I reported to. I knew that something was up when I saw the damage done in the history, but thought that the damagers were of the SPI master. It appears that I was wrong, however. With that in mind, what are some "warning signs" of trolls like that so that I can avoid getting fooled by them in the future? Woshiyiweizhongguoren (🇨🇳) 23:56, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Apology and explainationeditDear ST47, I do apologize for thinking that you where a bot, I misread your bio and because of the nature of your name I said those things. Also wait like a day. There are a lot more sources than what the last guys covered and the song does certainly meet notability criteria with the media attention both Felix and the diss track have gotten loads of attention over the last couple of months and are worthy of their own article.BMO4744 (talk) 02:43, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Tim HinelyeditHello ST47, it was suggested that I write an article on Tim Hinely, by the nominator of the deletion for Dagger; "perhaps a sensible solution would be to write an article about that person, cut down the article on the zine to reasonable proportions, and make that a section in the article on Hinely." Until then, a redirect to Blurt (magazine)#Tim Hinely suffices links from articles that use Dagger and Tim Hinely. - NorthPark1417 (talk) 03:31, 10 April 2019 (UTC) Your activityeditHi ST47, I don't believe we've ever met. I see that after being mostly absent for the last years, you've come back with a vengeance. Mostly I see you at SPI (my home away from home) and at ANEW (a board I look at occasionally). So, welcome back and I'd like to particularly thank you for your work at SPI. We can always use patrolling administrators.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:48, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
VirnetXeditHello ST47, I have no affiliation whatsoever with VirnetX and I am not being paid to promote a topic. I am an engineer understands patents, technology and that there are folks in the media portraying people as "patent trolls" when in fact most are not. I spend a few hours of my time cleaning up Wikipedia articles that contain these subjective opinions and removing them. In the case of VirnetX, the company actually produces a product, it is available for download in the App store and google play store. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patent Facts (talk • contribs) 00:54, 11 April 2019 (UTC) French cityeditIt's normal in French, according to my understanding, to include an apostrophe between a contracted L and the rest of the word (i.e. "l'artiste", "l'arc"), etc... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:132:B08A:0:C816:8AF1:87EA:A788 (talk) 04:49, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
User and IPeditHey to follow up on this Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mikbenu. The user has edited from the IP and the user account since your message. Recently their edits to Dean Ambrose, Goldust and List of WWE personnel really annoyed me, as they are their own speculation (at best), but more accurately would be calling it a deliberate factual errors. I googled the subjects and no such signings has been announced. Yet they insist in the edit summary that they are adding a fact. StaticVapor message me! 23:10, 12 April 2019 (UTC) copyvioeditHello, this is what I wrote to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Onel5969, but since I did not get any reply and you followed their recommendations, I write the same thing to you: "In the article Algae DNA barcoding, you have removed certain parts claiming that they are plagiarizing an article in PLoS ONE. PLoS ONE is the world's largest scientific journal and all publications in PLoS ONE are licensed under creative commons. In the publication of concern for this Wikipedia article it is described as: 'This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.'. If the article is cited (as in this entry), would it still be impossible to 'closely paraphrase' the material, as you claim was done and was your reason for removing the text and ask for deletion of the revision?" Olle Terenius (UU) (talk) 14:22, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
TBeditHi ST47, I noticed that there was a response to your question at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Abdelkader123456 as of 4 days ago. Just wanted to drop you a line in case you missed it and didn't want to use the talk back template.
Recent ReverteditA little confused by your recent revert on this page. Not in any way trying to re-write history. I'm attempting to hide the personal information contained on that page and, given that the last incident listed there was from several years ago, I don't see any reason to keep it up. I'm trying to remove any reference to my old account name so that I can leave the site entirely without someone being able to connect it to my personal life. User:Renamed user 2423tgiuowf 00:20, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Sock taggingeditHi, With this edit, I assume you meant to tag User:Comieurt, but got caught by the redirect? Adam9007 (talk) 22:48, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
ArbCom 2019 special circularedit
This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:34, 4 May 2019 (UTC) My page was deletededitHello, Yesterday you deleted my page "More Facts about Music Therapy" and I was trying to move my sandbox live into Wikipedia. I was trying to move it to the article "Music Therapy" because I was adding to it, but I don't know how to add my article to that. Can you please help me? That was all of my work for this semester and it's due by monday. Kmr104 (talk) 12:31, 4 May 2019 (UTC)Kmr104
Thank youeditI got scared that all of my stuff was deleted so thank you for clearing that up! Kmr104 (talk) 16:52, 4 May 2019 (UTC) Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)editArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community. Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised. We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered. For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC) |