User talk:Snowolf/Archives/2012

FYI

Do you remember the discussion that was had here? [1] That was where another editor (whom I have had absolutely no contact with whatsoever since then) agreed to stop harassing me and dragging me into his petty disputes with other editors. Again, I have had no contact with him, nor do I plan to do so. A quick glance through his edits over the past two months speaks for itself and I won't comment further on his constant battles with everyone he encounters. All I will say is, "here we go again." [2] I simply do not understand why this individual feels it necessary to constantly drag me into his nonsense. Erikeltic ^(Talk) 05:24, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Request for Interview Regarding Wikipedia Bots

Greetings Snowolf-

My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon, currently collecting data for my dissertation on Wikipedia editors who create and use bots and assisted editing tools, as well as editors involved in the initial and/or ongoing creation of bot policies on Wikipedia. As a member of BAG and the bot community, I would very much like to interview you for the project at a time and in a method that is most convenient for you (Gchat, another IM client, Skype, email, telephone, etc.). I am completely flexible and can work with your schedule. The interview will take approximately 30-45 minutes.

My dissertation project has been approved both by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Oregon, and by the Research Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information on the project on my meta page.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing from you to set up a time to chat. Thank you very much.

Randall Livingstone, School of Journalism & Communication, University of Oregon

UOJComm (talk) 00:53, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

UserBox

Could you help me get a UserBox Please?? N64dude (talk) 19:07, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

BAGBot: Your bot request Snowbot 3

Someone has marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Snowbot 3 as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 10:17, 15 January 2012 (UTC) To opt out of these notifications, place {{bots|optout=operatorassistanceneeded}} anywhere on this page.

Update: new user warning test results available

Hi WP:UWTEST member, we wanted to share a quick update on the status of the project. Here's the skinny:

1. We're happy to say we have a new round of testing results available! Since there are tests on several Wikipedias, we're collecting all results at the project page on Meta. We've also now got some help from Wikimedia Foundation data analyst Ryan Faulkner, and should have more test results in the coming weeks.
2. Last but not least, check out the four tests currently running at the documentation page.

Thanks for your interest, and don't hesitate to drop by the talk page if you have a suggestion or question. Maryana (WMF) (talk) 19:28, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Philippe (WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:49, 21 January 2012‎ (UTC)

Well said about the barnstar glut. Maybe the Foundation are aware of how few votes there were compared to the number of editors or readers and think this will keep the numbers up for the next vote.--Peter cohen (talk) 00:00, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

I disagree, I think the amount of partecipation in the poll was very high compared to enwiki's standards, and it was widely advertised. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 07:16, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

stopping link

Would listing the GNAA link at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist work to prevent their trolling?
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 04:29, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

SA80

Hi there,

First up, I'm not too sure what just happened.

There was a phrase, something like "Stuart Short loves men" right at the beginning of the article SA80. So I deleted that bit, wrote "deleted vandalism" as the reason for editing, and promptly received your message.

So that's about it.

Sincerely,

--173.178.17.48 (talk) 16:50, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thanks for Your Input! RubinkumarTalk 22:12, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Euro Coins

If there is a specfic template for certain types of coin, use that rather than Non-free Currency. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:33, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

About my link that was deleted as spam

Hi Snowolf: If i write a blog about a subject such as arthritis, with very good information on the page. Also on that page there are links to products. Would a link to that blog be considered spam?

I do not want to be a spammer.

Waiting for your advise, Appledon Appledon (talk) 18:45, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your quick answer.

Thank you Snowolf...I will take your advise. Appledon — Preceding unsigned comment added by Appledon (talk • contribs) 15:36, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Really?

You had no right to do what you did. I have not been "asking" for anything for a week. When volunteers made false statements, I defended them and corrected them, especially when given unsolicited opinions that were not about policy or how to do the things I asked. What you did was extremely discourteous and you were very immature when I had a valid gripe with how things were being run. You should be deeply ashamed of yourself for failing to inform a user who was misled (by your own volunteers and admins no less!) that administrators had the authority to approve changes such as the one I asked for. You should not be editing wikipedia nor should you volunteer to help others, you clearly cannot help anyone and you're clearly not cut out for it. Do not ever contact me again, consider my retirement done. Seriously, grow up and learn how to deal with people and most importantly honor your decisions!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justlivninmylife (talk • contribs) 20:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Sure thing. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 20:43, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Rossetti vandals

Hi Snowolf. FYI, I've opened an SPI on the vandals at Christina Rossetti; it looked too co-ordinated to be coincidental. I see you've blocked at least one already; if you take the rest of them could you let me know so the SPI can be closed early? Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 12:49, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

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Delete them all. :-) :- ) DCS 15:26, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Disruptive editor

Snowolf, kindly direct your Admin tools to deal with the latest disruptive edits of User:Haptiop. This is the same user who recently baited User:Cptnono, resulting in the latter's two-week block. Consequently, all things considered, I think a fresh review of Cptnono's block is warranted at this point, given the circumstances.—Biosketch (talk) 09:58, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

ubarabba

Cheers Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:56, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Re: Blocked

Hello Snowolf,

I apologies that you have seen my links as spam - this is my first time of adding information to Wiki. I see many similar links that provide relevant information on 3rd party web-sites. I would appreciate your guidance, as it related to the links I posted - I believe all of them relevant to the subject of the pages.

Again, I would appreciate you advise on this.

Thank you, Ron Warshawsky — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronwarshawsky (talk • contribs) 09:44, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Would You like to Help?

Hi, I am starting Wikipedia:WikiProject Ravidassia. I would like to get help from people who are interested. You may sign up for the project on the [[3]]. McKinseies (talk) 15:44, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Snowolf,

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 Wikipedia 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 community HERE, 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 name HERE 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 (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 20:42, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of all of my content on Italian Wikipedia

Snowolf, I am the editor who uploaded the translated Simone Sello article into Italian Wikipedia. Utente:Vituzzu - Vito - as you know, has recommended the Italian Simone Sello article for deletion. I just checked my watchlist, and he has deleted all of my entries on Italian Wikipedia. I do not understand his actions. I am quite offended. I thought that we were supposed to be polite and respectful on Wikipedia. I have a great track record on English Wikipedia. I spend a lot of time researching in order to upload roughly "C" class articles upon initial upload, or edit to "C" or "B" standards without much help from other editors. You were on the Italian chat when we were discussing my language problems and the reasons I saw as justification for identifying Simone Sello as notable on Italian Wikipedia. Simone Sello is Italian, and it just seems right to have his page on Italian Wikipedia, as well as on English Wikipedia. For Vito to essentially delete me from Italian Wikpedia means to me that he is angry about something. I did not in any way try to offend him. Did I, without realizing it, offend him? Doc2234 (talk) 05:17, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Snowolf

	Snowolf
	I like your userpage. Pinetalk 09:19, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Cleanup

Hello, Snowolf. You are invited to join WikiProject Cleanup, a WikiProject and resource for Wikipedia cleanup listings, information and discussion. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 00:14, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Creating wiki page for a load testing software

Hello Snowolf,

I want to create a wiki page about load testing product, similar in structure to HP Load Runner wiki page below http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LoadRunner

The product's (Enteros Load2test) pages are as below: http://www.enteros.com/products_load2test.htm http://www.enteros.com/products_load2test_pg2.htm

Can you please advise what would be the best way to do it to be approved by you and by wiki adminitrators in general?

Regards, Ron Warshawksy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronwarshawsky (talk • contribs) 21:18, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Further comment from the BAG discussion

Again, as I mentioned in the BAG discussion you are correct. I already admitted I acted inappropriately several times but many other editors did as well and that's what irritates me so bad. No one even left most of them so much as comment, civility warning, nothing. I spent years building a good reputation only to have it torn down by editors who didn't like my edits or WPUS. Kumioko is just a vandal now in the minds of many editors so that's why I retired. I also still contend that I acted in good faith and my actions, although technically block evasion, were in keeping with the spirit of the purpose of a block which is to keep me from editing articles. If you bothered to look, I made 2 edits with the bot, one to the admin that blocked me to tell them I thought they made a bad decision and the other to the WPUS project to tell them I had been blocked and couldn't comment. In both cases I told them I knew there would be further problems. That was it, a few minutes after that someone blocked the bot but I had already finished making the 2 comments I felt I needed too.

Again, I know that no one cares what I have to say anymore and its like the work I did on the project, the hundreds of thousands of edits I made and the time I spent trying to make the place better never existed. I lost patience with the petty attacks and insults from others, many of which didn't even take the time to look at the situation, they just concurred with the last comment. If you really want to see the kind of crap I dealt with take a look at the comments that characters like Brad101 and Markvs88 made to me over the last couple years. I doubt you'll take the time but it might give you some insight as to why I finally had enough. Those are just 2. Several others including Racepacket eventually got blocked or banned but not until after I had to deal with issues and constant harassment from them for months first with no support from the community.

Anyway, I think there's only a 50/50 chance you'll even read this anyway so no reason to make it any longer. 71.163.243.232 (talk) 09:15, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Snowolf. You have new messages at Cyberpower678's talk page.
Message added 13:08, 20 March 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

—cyberpower ^Chat_{Limited Access} 13:08, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Is this normal?

Is it common that I don't get a response after several hours of making this request.—cyberpower ^Chat_Offline 02:10, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm not that expert myself of meta's uses and costumes, but I would believe so, that is likely normal (I was just on wikiquote where there's some requests open with little or no comments since 2010 xD). Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 02:12, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Oh. OK. I guess I'll wait it out.—cyberpower ^Chat_Offline 02:15, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm going to initiate a second BRFA here to have Cyberbot I take over {{badimage}}. It appears that TParis and Anomie thought the other was going to do it and now no one did. My bot is ready as can be and I did let the 2 editors of my actions I'm about to make.—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 21:16, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Help Uploading Photo

Hi,Snowolf,I'm new to Wikipedia and I'm having problems trying to upload a personal foto. It's an old fotograph of my late father,probably taken in 1920's (black&white),It's from his personal archive.I'm already an user and right now I'm waiting for permissions so I can finally upload this picture.What does really men:"Question: Please explain the WP:COPYRIGHT status of the image you wish to use, and the reliable source for the date" I'm confused,about the "status" thing and also about "reliable source"; In my particular case what else can I do to convince that the foto is Kosher...so to speak? Thanks,and if you came to Canada you'll see wolves galore...--Octavian Mârza (talk) 23:33, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)By status, they mean is it your work, is it copyrighted or what. They also want to know where the image is coming from too. Hope this helps.—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 20:17, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

I really don't know much about image, I would say they're asking who's the holder of the copyright on the image, has it expired, is it freely licenses, etc; dunno about the reliable source, I think in this context, if you write the date of when it was taken it'll be good enough, but I'm really no expert on this matter, sorry. Might be worth asking directly Bwilkins at User talk:Bwilkins. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 08:55, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Help us develop better software!

Thanks to all of you for commenting on the NOINDEX RfC :). It's always great to be able to field questions like these to the community; it's genuinely the highlight of my work! The NOINDEX idea sprung from our New Page Triage discussion; we're developing a new patrolling interface for new articles, and we want your input like never before :). So if you haven't already seen it, please go there, take a look at the screenshots and mockups and ideas, and add any comments or suggestions you might have to the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:43, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Just a gentle reminder...

That this is still there ;) Pol430 talk to me 00:31, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

RFA navigation

"April fool", pish. It just accidentally happened to be 1 April when I improved the RFA navigation template! To help people navigate to a coupla important RFAs! The least you can do to make up for your disappointing revert is go support 'em! (Oh yes, I do realise they're a little harder to find now. Whose fault is that, hmm?) Bear in mind that this user is standing behind you, filing her sharp little teeth! darwinbish ^BITE 15:58, 2 April 2012 (UTC).

How?

Hi Snowolf,

I am new and I am wondering: How can I become an admin?

Thanks,

The Ninja Who Kicks A** (talk) 00:21, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

P.S. I share your love for wolves; those are some great pictures!!! :-)

User script list deprecation

Wikipedia's list of user scripts is in bad shape, in that it is disorganized and contains many non-working, unmaintained, or thoroughly obsolete entries. Cleanup has been on the to-do list since 2007, but little progress has been made. Instead, the whole list is now set to be deprecated on 1 May 2012, to be replaced with a new list. This draft list has been up for about a month, and in that time I've been soliciting script users and authors to come add scripts they know to be working and relevant.

If you know of scripts that you would like to survive this deprecation (and are confirmed working and relevant), you're welcome to add them to the new list. Note that the old list will be retained and linked from the main list, so there is no real deadline. Thanks for your help. Equazcion ^(talk) 00:57, 22 Apr 2012 (UTC)

Napoleon

Admins will never drop an admin do they? -DePiep (talk) 02:00, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

DePiep, you know well better not to personally attack others like you did here. Please knock it off. --MuZemike 02:05, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

edit conflict I'm not sure what you're trying to say. There is clear consensus supporting AGK actions, whether you agree with them or not. I don't particularly agree with pre-emptive protections or non-admin clo I asked for sures, but that is not the point. You were the only user to object to it and many other supported clearly AGK's actions, so just move on. Wikipedia is run by the community thru consensus, and the community has spoken. I am but the messager here :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 02:07, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

1) MuZemike: the closing editor themselves judged decline. That is not personal, that is wrong. A Napoleon would do so too.

2) I asked to point out that "consensus" earlier [4] [5]. No reply. Still not. In general, I'd like to read the primary cause that is called User:AGK. Now that sction title is personal, and I do not like that. Please tell me, what was the topic [6]? -DePiep (talk) 02:37, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Untitled section

PLEASE UNDELETE MY ARTICLES — Preceding unsigned comment added by KurtCobain4ever (talk • contribs) 06:35, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

A Barnstar For You

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For helping me understand OTRS without the assistance of blackboards, flowcharts or handpuppets, I award you this fine Barnstar. Thanks for making it so simple. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:20, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Lifting Account creation restrictions

Hey Snowolf! This is yuvipanda from IRC, asking for lifting Account creation restrictions YuviPanda (talk) 13:00, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Cordiali Saluti da Campora San Giovanni e gentilissime richieste d'aiuto per alcune traduzioni e correzioni di traduzione. grazie in anticipo di vero cuore

Buonasera e Buona Domenica da Campora San Giovanni,

ti scrivo anzitutto per salutarti, sapere come stai ed augurarti una serena e felice domenica sera e un buon inizio settimana, qualora non dovessimo sentirci prima. Io sono l'allora Dende, ero un novizio all'epoca che ci conoscemmo, e piano piano ho avuto grandi esperienze in campo wikipediano e non solo, grazie a Wikipedia sono cresciuto moralmente e formatomi in vari campi. Passando a noi, ti chiedo sempre e comunque gentilmente un piccolo aiuto di traduzioni e correzione di traduzioni, qualora tu potessi aiutarmi in merito (tempo a disposizione permettendo) o in alternativo presentarmi un tuo fidato di sicura fede per aiutarmi con gli articoli da tradurre nella lingua inglese, non è il massimo il mio inglese, ma sono disposto ad esserti utile nelle mie possibilità qualora tu avresti qualche necessita o altro. Io me la cavicchio in alcune lingue e conosco alcuni nostri colleghi delle varie wikipedie e delle future che verranno (incubator), quello che gentilmente ti chiedo è se puoi dare una miglioratina a questo articoletto che ti vado a segnalare:

• Radio Studio 54 Network (ossia una miglioria dell'incipit e della parte storica e qualche allungatina qua e là), è la radio ammiraglia della mia regione natale, Molto seguita anche nel resto del sud Italia e grazie allo streaming web è seguita dai calabresi che vivono e lavorano nel mondo, e hanno avuto modo di apprezzarla anche gli amici e conoscenti che i miei corregionali si sono fatti in questi bei posti, dalle falde del Kilimangiaro (è proprio il caso di dirlo) alle colline e monti della Cina passando per le metropoli asiatiche e australiane.

• per la traduzione che cortesemente ti chiedo è quella se potresti tradurre Catona in inglese, ho trovato interessante questo posto durante una vacanza estiva e per ricerca di lavoro.

Se non puoi aiutarmi momentaneamente, ti chiedo cortesemente la gentilezza di inviarmi un tuo fidato che mi può fare da traduttore e/o correttore di errori (ovviamente ricambiato in altre traduzioni e/o correzioni). Bene, certo di una tua certa risposta e/o aiuto in merito ti ringrazio per l'aiuto che mi dai e darai, e spero di risentirti presto. un Saluto da Campora San Giovanni.--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 18:20, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Arbitration request declined

A request for arbitration in which you were named as a party has been declined.

For the Arbitration Committee, Lord Roem (talk) 23:14, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Arb

You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#Resysoping of FCYTravis / Polarscribe and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the following resources may be of use—

• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#Requests for Arbitration;
• Wikipedia:Arbitration guide.

Thanks, Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 20:59, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Snowolf. You have new messages at Mrt3366's talk page.
Message added 13:26, 11 November 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Please re-review my request. I think there has been an unfortunate misunderstanding. Thanks. Mr T^{(Talk?) (New thread?)} 13:26, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Help with AutoWikiBrowser

Hello,

Thank you very much for allowing me access to use the AutoWikiBrowser. I did look at the information on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser, but I still need help! I am working hard on the Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries. There is a lot of manual corrections, redlink errors, and I want to change the Years on these pages so that they link to the Aviation Years... i.e. Change from 2010 to 2010.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Thanks,

Al Bikeal (talk) 17:26, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

AWB - The path in not of a legal form

Hello,

Maybe this will help, but when I do a search for wiki pages, then click start on AWB, I keep getting an error - "The path in not of a legal form". I am not sure what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

AlBikeal (talk) 17:50, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Ta

For fixing the vandalism on my user talk page! Graham87 00:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

User:Mrt3366

I think you and I both misread his previous statements. I had come to the same conclusion at first, but now looking again, it was just confusing but not what it seems. I've seen him around enough that I would easily trust him with the tools. He has clarified on this talk page anyway. I'm not familiar with AWB rights, not a tool I use, or I would just restore them myself. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 12:05, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

I do not think I have misread any of his previous statements, the simple matter of fact is that twice within 72 hours people have raised concerns about his usage of semi-automated editing tools (STiki) and he has been less than helpful in addressing their concerns, rather laying the blame at the foot of the tool developers and the automated, non-modifiable nature of the messages at the heart of the issue and failing to rectify the issue (or else we wouldn't have had a second complain so close after the first). His continued access to semi-automated tools is already unwise as it is, granting access to additional such tools is simply foolish. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 12:21, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Not a problem, I will defer to your judgement. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 14:09, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

So, you are going to keep that access to AWB (a tool I never used, forget abuse) away from me based on your interpretation of my opinion — in a unique thread — which I don't think I said or meant? Is that it? I am learning, bettering myself just like many other admin, rollbackers, reviewers, etc. People have raised concerns about some administrators too, does this mean they are not fit to be trusted with administrative tools? Don't be like that please.

You're blowing this out of proportion. I have been trying to be extra-humble but is this the way you're going to treat me in future? Restore the access. Mr T^{(Talk?) (New thread?)} 08:20, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

ANI notice

Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Mr T^{(Talk?) (New thread?)} 08:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Information

I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat (talk) 09:27, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you SO much...It took me a while to get to the page setup because I wasn't quite sure on the protocol. I genuinely appreciate your help, and invite you to make any such alterations or edits that youbsee fit, with my blessing and my grattitude. I'm grateful.Wolf Ashkenazi (talk) 22:14, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Need help fixing redlink

Hello,

On this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Aviation/Historical_anniversaries/January_in_aviation

The Calendar on the right as a red link for the Left Arrow, all the months are working, except for this link. I'm not sure why it's not linking back to the December calendar.

<< Selected anniversaries for January in aviation >>

Thanks!

Al — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bikeal (talk • contribs) 20:46, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

FYI

[7] Bishonen | talk 15:19, 19 December 2012 (UTC).

Question about account on Meta

Greetings, thanks again for starting that discussion. I had left a question here about fixing my account on Meta. I got fed up with things back in Feb, changed my PW, locked my account and wiped the Email address so I couldn't access my account. We managed to fix it by moving it to User:Kumioko (renamed). I created a new one, twice, but someone instantly said I was socking so the only thing left was to move it. Then I recreated the Kumioko account and started editing again for a while. This fixed things for most projects. The problem is though in some projects like Meta, didn't recognize the move, so now those don't work. What I am asking for is to Userp the account so that I can edit in Meta. Other wise maybe move it to Kumioko (renamed) also as was done here. Either way is fine with me. Not sure if you are the right person to ask but I figured you would know where to go at least.Kumioko (talk) 02:27, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Simply, you are the owner of the global 'Kumioko' account and it's fairly obvious that the 'Kumioko' with one edit on meta is you. The account there can simply be renamed to User:Kumioko (usurped) or something and then you would be free to automatically create a local account on Meta by visiting there. Otherwise, if the meta account has the same password or email of one of the accounts merged into your global account, you can try and merge it thru Special:MergeAccount. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:59, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

OK thanks, I guess I should do it to those others too. I tried to do the merge function but the password doesn't work. Undoubtdedly because its still in a scrambled state. Kumioko (talk) 11:38, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

I doubt there's much need to do it to the other languages but I think these are probably needed:

• en.wikiversity.org
• incubator.wikimedia.org
• meta.wikimedia.org
• outreach.wikimedia.org
• species.wikimedia.

Is this something you can do? Kumioko (talk) 11:40, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Afraid not, all of these have active local bureaucrats. I have however filed a request on Meta, m:Meta:Changing username#Kumioko → Kumioko (usurped) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 11:57, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. So does that mean I need to go to each one individually? Except for Meta that you've already done of course. Kumioko (talk) 14:55, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

That is correct. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 16:22, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Ok will do thanks. Kumioko (talk) 17:56, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Just to give you an update, I've done the rename for both your Meta-Wiki and Outreach Wiki accounts (I'm a crat on both). Thehelpfulone 19:52, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Awesome thanks. Thats 2 down. Kumioko (talk) 19:55, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

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