User talk:Tariqabjotu/Archive Forty-Five

The Wikipedia Signpost: 1 March 2010 Reference desk: Wikipedia Reference Desk quality analyzed News and notes: Usability, 15M articles, Vandalism research award, and more In the news: Idealizing the Star Spangled Banner, Curious Announcement, and more WikiProject report: WikiProject Severe Weather Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 00:48, 3 March 2010 (UTC) Main page FP Thanks for getting the protected version up so fast, I'm not an admin so i couldn't do that part :P  fetchcomms☛ 00:33, 8 March 2010 (UTC) No problem. And thanks for stepping up to select a picture and write a blurb. Although I see empty POTDs quite frequently nowadays, I'm always hesitant to write a blurb myself. I'll stick to ITN. -- tariqabjotu 00:48, 8 March 2010 (UTC) Yeah, I will do. Sorry- got several users making suggestions and I'm the only admin present. J Milburn (talk) 00:57, 8 March 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 8 March 2010 News and notes: Financial statements, discussions, milestones In the news: Pentagon shooter used Wikipedia, soon iPhone OS will too WikiProject report: WikiProject Java Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 03:46, 10 March 2010 (UTC) NYC Wikipedia Meetup Sunday, March 21 New York City Meetup Next: Sunday March 21st, Columbia University area Last: 11/15/2009 In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wikipedia Day NYC, plan for the next stages of projects like Wikipedia at the Library and Lights Camera Wiki, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, for example User:ScienceApologist will present on "climate change, alternative medicine, UFOs and Transcendental Meditation" (see the November meeting's minutes). In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back. And if the weather is good, we'll have a star party with the telescopes on the roof of Pupin Hall! You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list. To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 15:43, 13 March 2010 (UTC) Excessive Edit warring in Kochi article The user:Gantlet is again edit warring with the article Kochi. He is reverting the article to an older version. I have seen from the talk page that you have blocked him earlier. Please block him again. He is even having some sock usernames as well. Gantlet is having multiple accounts such as User:Trock95 and Bubluonline. He is editing with anonymous IPs. Also, please dont include me also in the same category. I was just trying to prevent him from his wierd revisions. Please see the history here: [1] Thank you, --Dewatchdog (talk) 16:19, 13 March 2010 (UTC) Hi, I just saw that you've fully-protected the article. Two sets of socks have been blocked, so could you consider changing to semi-protection instead? I saw the thread at ANI and got the CU done to get background on the warring. Given that both master accounts have been blocked for two weeks, I don't think the full protection is necessary now. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 07:10, 15 March 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 15 March 2010 News and notes: A Wikiversity controversy, Wikimedian-in-Residence, image donation, editing contest, WMF jobs In the news: Studies on collaboration and student usage, Main Page drives traffic to Time.com Dispatches: GA Sweeps end WikiProject report: WikiProject Ireland Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 22:14, 17 March 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 22 March 2010 Wikipedia-Books: Wikipedia-Books: Proposed deletion process extended, cleanup efforts News and notes: Explicit image featured on Wikipedia's main page In the news: Campaign for video, costs of crowdsourcing, iPhone app, brief headlines WikiProject report: Percy Jackson Task Force Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 19:37, 24 March 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 29 March 2010 News and notes: Usability rollout, downtime, admin phishing, Wikimania scholarships and more In the news: Overdue correction, Critical Point of View conference, brief headlines Sister projects: A handful of happenings WikiProject report: The WikiProject Bulletin: news roundup and WikiProject Chicago feature Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 19:16, 31 March 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 5 April 2010 News and notes: New board member, rights elections, April 1st activities, videos In the news: Wikipedia influences drug terminology, brief headlines WikiProject report: WikiProject Baseball and news roundup Features and admins: This week in approvals Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 03:39, 7 April 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 12 April 2010 Sanger allegations: Larry Sanger accuses Wikimedia of hosting illegal images News and notes: Studying German flagged revisions, French library agreement, German court case In the news: SCOTUS hopeful edited bio, criticism from article subject WikiProject report: WikiProject Motorcycling Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 01:49, 15 April 2010 (UTC) thank you Thank you Now I know how things go hhhhhhhhhh Trabelsiismail (talk) 20:54, 19 April 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 19 April 2010 News and notes: Berlin WikiConference, Brooklyn Museum & Google.org collaborations, review backlog removed, 1 billion edits In the news: Study of featured article quality, Facebook's integration of Wikipedia, and more! WikiProject report: WikiProject Environment Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 13:02, 20 April 2010 (UTC) Waragi Hello, do you think the "80 deaths in Uganda" ITN nomination under 23 April is ready for the Main Page? --candle•wicke 19:20, 25 April 2010 (UTC) Hello again, if you have time (and if they are not on the Main Page when you read this) I have updated the Austrian presidential election, 2010 and Iran – United Kingdom relations nominations. Thanks. :-) --candle•wicke 04:22, 26 April 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 26 April 2010 From the team: Introducing Signpost Sidebars Museums conference: Wikimedians meet with museum leaders News and notes: Wikimedia announcements, Wikipedia advertising, and more! In the news: Making sausage, Jimmy Wales on TV, and more! 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The World Expo one obviously should be put up, but the opening ceremony has not happened yet. -- tariqabjotu 00:22, 30 April 2010 (UTC) Thanks :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:35, 30 April 2010 (UTC) expo front page picture are you going to add the picture that Arsonal posted to the front page? I think its a good one. What do you think? StanStun Don't waste your time arguing with this dreadful fellow. He/she/it is a sock of the banned User:Shuppiluliuma. See the SPI here for evidence [2]. Athenean (talk) 19:32, 30 April 2010 (UTC) Done. Athenean (talk) 19:40, 30 April 2010 (UTC) Main Page Images Your recent actions led to File:VolRenderShearWarp.png being on the main page for 30 min unprotected. βcommand 00:34, 2 May 2010 (UTC) I would respond, but I would hate to sound as curt and accusatory as you did. I'm sure you can imagine what I would say, so I'll leave you with that. -- tariqabjotu 00:41, 2 May 2010 (UTC) Pictures of the day aren't protected when they're put on {{POTD}} (/date)? Odd. -- tariqabjotu 00:49, 2 May 2010 (UTC) Reconsider Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring#User:Savant1984_and_User:Zargulon_.28Result:_Protected.29, where I asked you to reconsider. Debresser (talk) 17:03, 3 May 2010 (UTC) A post by Savant1984, who is willing to come to an understanding, and another post by Zargulon which is provocative and factually brands him as a disruptive editor, are the basis for a renewed request to reconsider this case on Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring#User:Savant1984_and_User:Zargulon_.28Result:_Protected.29. Debresser (talk) 21:43, 5 May 2010 (UTC) The page is now unprotected. -- tariqabjotu 21:56, 5 May 2010 (UTC) Network 21 Hi, while I concur with your decision to lock the article, you have left it in a state where it leaves in serious allegations in a court case against the company, but has left out the fact the case was dismissed. The other two editors involved have continually deleted that fact, despite it being sourced (to the actual court dismissal document). It was that action I kept revertíng. IMO the article should not be locked in a state where it is inaccurately libelling an active organization.--Insider201283 (talk) 11:06, 4 May 2010 (UTC) The above statement is materially false. Hipocrite (talk) 11:47, 4 May 2010 (UTC) Which part? You and FG222 have been deleting the fact the case was dismissed. The fact the case was dismissed was sourced, you've even been given a copy of the document yourself. --Insider201283 (talk) 13:12, 4 May 2010 (UTC) The source you provided is a wiki owned by you. That's not a reliable source. Hipocrite (talk) 13:20, 4 May 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 3 May 2010 Book review: Review of The World and Wikipedia News and notes: iPhone app update, Vector rollout for May 13, brief news In the news: Government promotes Tamil Wikipedia, and more WikiProject report: WikiProject U.S. Roads Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 15:45, 4 May 2010 (UTC) Posek Thank you for informing me about the correct interpretation of WP:3RR, I accept that I my explanation of it was not correct. Zargulon (talk) 23:05, 5 May 2010 (UTC) Since you're online... I need to turn in, it's getting on for 03:30 here, but I'd really appreciate it if you could keep an eye on United Kingdom general election, 2010- I've desperately tried to avoid semi-protection, so if you could keep an eye on things for a few hours, you;d be doing me and the encyclopaedia a great service. There's an editntice up warning of instant block for vandals so you could just block them until the results are all in. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:27, 7 May 2010 (UTC) Sorry; I had signed off not long after those last edits. It was 3:30am where I was too! -- tariqabjotu 09:13, 7 May 2010 (UTC) Planning Discussions Now Underway Regarding DC Meetup #10 You are receiving this message either because you received a similar one before and didn't object, or you requested to receive a similar one in the future. If you don't wish to receive this message again, then please let me know either on my talk page or here. Please be advised that planning is now underway (see here) for DC Meetup #10. --NBahn (talk) 15:24, 7 May 2010 (UTC) AN3/Jetblack500 I find this difficult to understand. This editor persistently edited against consensus and reverted at least five times in a matter of hours. Other editors were trying to reach a consensus-based version of the article and this was being disrupted by Jetblack500. Can you explain how you came to your decision here, please? If you have an explanation for why it took so long for this report to be dealt with, that would also be of interest - a noticeboard that doesn't work isn't likely to get a lot of use. Thanks. --Michig (talk) 13:59, 8 May 2010 (UTC) That was a mistake; I meant to put the "no violation" for the previous section. As for Jetblack500, I blocked him for twenty-four hours based on the evidence you provided and the history of the article. As for why it takes so long... well, that's what happens when being a Wikipedia admin is voluntary. Although there are supposedly hundreds of active admins, for some reason there aren't too many who have staked out this noticeboard as an area they check frequently. This used to be an area I checked often, but I have been very busy as of late and I have been trying to find time to work on a particular article (that is, Istanbul) because, to me at least, I feel it's more important to work on improving an article than to halt content disputes and edit-warriors. Obviously, from the perspective of someone who has to deal with an edit warrior, that's aggravating and perhaps not understandable, but that's the way I feel; most readers won't notice an edit war is even happening, but most will notice a bad article. In the future, if you feel AN3 (or any other noticeboard) is backlogged, you may want to post a notice on WP:AN saying so as well as add the {{admin backlog}} to the top of the relevant noticeboard. It should then get handled fairly quickly. -- tariqabjotu 14:16, 8 May 2010 (UTC) "Forces" vs. "Soldiers" Hey, just so you know, I reverted your change of "forces" to "soldiers" on ITN. I agree that, with the new wording, "forces" is not ideal- but there were RAF personnel involved, for example, and they're most certainly not soldiers. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:52, 9 May 2010 (UTC) So? There were also British soldiers involved, so it doesn't make the statement incorrect. In fact, that's pretty much exactly what the article says: The 2010 Parade marks the first time that foreign soldiers have joined Russian forces on Red Square for the parade. -- tariqabjotu 21:55, 9 May 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 10 May 2010 From the editor: Reviewers and reporters wanted Commons deletions: Porn madness Book review: Dan O'Sullivan's Wikipedia: a new community of practice? 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You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list. To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 21:22, 12 May 2010 (UTC) Request for input HJ Mitchell has closed the AE request I filed concerning the BLP problems on Richard Goldstone and essentially remanded the issue back to the editors. This isn't the outcome I'd expected; it's being discussed at User talk:HJ Mitchell#Why the closure?. Since you commented on this matter on AN3, you might wish to provide some input - it would certainly be very welcome. -- ChrisO (talk) 01:29, 18 May 2010 (UTC) Actually, don't worry - HJ is on the case. But you might wish to have a look at Talk:Richard Goldstone#Summary of BLP issues. I'd be interested to know what you think, in the light of your comments at AN3. -- ChrisO (talk) 02:42, 18 May 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 17 May 2010 News and notes: Backstage at the British Museum In the news: In the news WikiProject report: WikiProject Essays Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 19:46, 18 May 2010 (UTC)