User talk:WJBscribe/Archive 19
Name change, a last stepThank you for completing my username change. As you can see, I signed up under my old name in order to keep others from grabbing it. To clear the edit history (beyond what admins and bureaucrats can access, of course) which connects my real life name and the new username through the part where it mentions the page move, would you please delete my page at User:Travislangley? Thank you. Travislangley (talk) 11:42, 2 June 2008 (UTC) I just wanted to...... direct your attention to my reply here. Thanks. MiCkE 11:39, 2 June 2008 (UTC) ThanksJust a quick thank you for processing my usurpation request so quickly. Coffee joe (talk) 09:03, 3 June 2008 (UTC) SUL-related usurpation requestI see that WP now has a page to request SUL-related usurpations. I'm wondering if there are different rules for this? To refresh your memory, I'm trying to usurp User:Whiteknight, although he has about a dozen GFDL-significant edits, including two edits recently (in may). He hasn't responded at all to several requests on his user-talk page, can't receive emails, etc. I really don't mean to harass you, but this is the last wiki that I need to finish my global account migration. I even managed to get a usurpation on vi.wikipedia and nl.wikipedia since we last talked (and I don't speak any neaderlands or vietnamese). I'm just trying to figure out what the status is with policy and everything. Again, I'm sorry to bother you, and i won't harass you anymore after this. --Whiteknight (talk) (books) 01:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Changing Username/SULHi Will. I already answer in here. If possible, please just moved out User:Aday, so I can login using it. And also I request to delete my current Username, or can I just keep it?? :-) Adaywijaya (talk) 16:30, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Usurpation of PretzelsMany thanks for this. Much appreciated! Pretzelschatters 16:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC) Your commentDear WjBscribe. You gave an interpretation on my talk page which I found offensive when you referred to me as "digging up errors she made early in her time editing here which she clearly regrets in an apparent attempt to intimidate her". I wonder if you could please keep such private musings off-wiki in future? Many thanks, Mathsci (talk) 05:52, 3 June 2008 (UTC) Consensus on reasoning for LGBT Project ArticlesA new discussion you may be interested in:Consensus on reasoning for LGBT Project Articles. The Bookkeeper (of the Occult) 07:32, 3 June 2008 (UTC) Will, a few weeks ago, I emailed the Mediation Committee regarding a particular Mediation Cabal case, and i was told that the Committee was discussing it, and that the chair of the committee would email me regarding the discussion that the committee engaged in. I was just wondering if there was any progress on this at all, after all, while there is no severe rush, I still believe the mediation, or alternate options do need to progress. If you could notify me in some way of this progress, or on what the Committee decided, I'd be most appreciative. Thanks a lot. Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 13:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Oh, >_<. Ignore the email I just sent you then. Thanks. Either by email or talk page would be great, thanks again. Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 13:50, 3 June 2008 (UTC) Thanks!Thank you for processing my usurpation! --Jane Doe (talk) 12:40, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
SULHi WJBscribe! I'm Emkaer from Germany and have a wish to you as a bureaucrat: I read about[1] including an identically named account without edits into an Interwiki-Single-User-Login-account. In 2007, I created User:Emkaer to edit from time to time in en.wikipedia also. But there was a login-problem, so I never logged in correctly (my password didn't work), and I never edited as User:Emkaer. I talked about this issue on User talk:Emkaer, and was advised to make a new account. So I did, and now am User:TheUserFormallyKnownAsEmkaer, having contributed since 9 May 2007, mainly to articles related to German-American historians who fled Nazi-Regime. When it is possible to get an account without edits into your Singe-User-Login-Account, that was not created by yourself (as User:SCPS got on pt.wikisource),[2] it should be possible to get my own account (of which I do not know the password). Would you please help me in a way, that you know better than I: maybe by renaming the account User:Emkaer, so I could proceed in extending my Single-User-Login to en.wikipedia. Or, by creating an new password for User:Emkaer, and mailing it to me using Wikimail. I hope I could write about my concern in English in a way you understand. Thanks and greetings --Tufkae (talk) 14:17, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Single User Login RequestHi WJBscribe: Can you help me please. The latest edition of the Wikipedia Signpost article Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-05-26/Single User Login offers an important option for regular Wikipedia editors. I have been an editor since 2002 and have over 54,000 edits to my credit [3] I now wish to have the User name "IZAK" work as my default whereby it will "allow a user to reserve an account on all public Wikimedia wikis simultaneously; that is, nobody can create an account with the same username as you, and you can log onto any wiki without having to explicitly create an account there. etc etc" However, "a user on another project has the same name as you, then only one of you will be able to create a single user login account for the time being (the software will choose based on permissions (i.e. bureaucrat, administrator, etc.) and edit count)." It is indeed the case that there is another user on the Afrikaans Wiki who uses the name "Izak" ("him")-- not "IZAK" ("me") as I do but the software reads them the same -- which creates a conflict. I looked up that other user and found that he has made only TEN edits [4] from 15 November 2005 to 20 July 2007 which is about as close as any user can get to being a near-to-dormant account. I would proceed to requesting a "usurpation" of that account based on Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-05-26/Single User Login: "Note that if the other user has no contributions, it may be possible to usurp their account to resolve the conflict; however, check the usurpation policy on the relevant wiki first." -- But I am not sure who to contact here or at the Afrikaans Wiki and I would appreciate your help in resolving this or in guiding me to the right person to deal with this issue, (note, in South Africa, English is one of the official languages). See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Unified_login for some discussions, and where I have cc'd this message and asked for more help, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Unified_login#IZAK_requests_about_Afrikaans_.22Izak.22 Thanks for your help in advance. IZAK (talk) 07:09, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
RFA offerHi. I now feel I'm ready for an RfA, and would be pleased to have you as a nominator. Many thanks, Epbr123 (talk) 13:51, 4 June 2008 (UTC) Your Personal PolicyHello. As a future administrator, I hope, I wanted you to detail (if you have time) your personal criteria for removal of talk page content. Thanks! Beam 01:48, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Oh, I'm sure if you read those issuers than you know what's up. Regardless, I'm talking next year not next month. Beam 15:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC) Epbr123Would you mind if I co-nommed for his RFA? I nominated him a while back and I think I would like to do so again. bibliomaniac15 04:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
HelloJust a quick note to mention that a year has gone by since this and I wanted you to know I've not forgotten your kindness in changing your mind. It meant a lot to me at the time that my RfA was unopposed (though it's hard to admit because it's rather uncool, lol) and it was indeed good of you to reconsider. --Dweller (talk) 13:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC) ThanxWebwizard works like a charm... Many thanks! --Webwizard (talk) 13:30, 6 June 2008 (UTC) Anti-vandal fighterI was wondering if you might be willing to explain your support for the name Global sysop for the new gobal funtion of Anti-vandal fighter? As I understand it, sysop is the same as administrator, just another term, no difference in rights. The Anti-vandal fighter role does not have full administrator rights, but only a slect subset of those rights. Using the term Global sysop, appears to me, to be a misstatement of the function. Or am I totally out in left field? The term Gobal Sysop should be reserved for someone who actually has global administrator rights, if or when such a thing is ever introduced. Dbiel (Talk) 20:30, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
WM commons refI have removed the implicit reference to WM commons as you requested, but have left the quote, since it was inaccurate and I wasn't offended by it. Cheers, Mathsci (talk) 11:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
My moved accountIt is possible that you can close my redirect page from Despairing? — PsY.cHo!, 11:15, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
CUU templateI'm not sure if you've already picked this up, but the "email target username" link which is created in the first save, is linking to the username they already have, not the target username. Regards, Rudget (Help?) 15:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
CHU/SUL templateI was wondering whether there was a template that you used to produce the comments like this:
Or whether you just typed them out. If you want I can bundle them all into a template ({{CUS}}?) for you to save you typing them out every time! RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 15:09, June 6, 2008 (UTC)
All set / Hornetman16Hi Will! Thanks for agreeing to help on this one. Per m:Steward_requests/SUL_requests#User:ChristianMan16, we're about done and the global a/c has been deleted now. Can you possibly do the rename? I'll look after the bureaucracy (if you'll pardon :) ) and ensure the paper trail leads to the new account, and re-block, etc with the correct notices. Thanks again ;) - Alison ❤ 19:10, 6 June 2008 (UTC) Thank youThanks for processing my usurpation request. Dave Rogers 00:19, 7 June 2008 (UTC) Reminder Sunday LunchtimeJust a reminder about Wikipedia:Meetup/London 10 See you Sunday 1p.m.! -- Harry Wood (talk) 00:25, 7 June 2008 (UTC) my account usurpedHi. I have just seen that you renamed this account. It is my real name. After a vandal did some harassemets and personal attacks 2006 I created these accounts on some wikis, on en.wiki it was Mike Rosoft, who created the account and thrown the password away (see [7]). I wonder now why you renamed it in case of SUL. I really wanted to ask for it in some days as I already unificated the global account with this name, now I see you did it by your own. Did somebody asked for it? It could be important for me to know it, might be the vandal is active again. Anyway, I could log in there today, without that the global account had to be deleted. Please let me know here or on the cs.source or wikisource.org. Thx, -jkb- (cs.source) 10:13, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Sure. I was surprised only a bit because I thought that it is not possible to rename / usurp an account while the global account exists already. But anyway, now it has been done without I had to request, it works - so I thank you on this way once more. -jkb- (cs.source) 13:56, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I see, :-), -jkb- (cs.source) 14:20, 7 June 2008 (UTC) Signpost updated for June 2, 2008.
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COI Noticeboard re Oxford Round TableCould you take a look at the COI noticeboard? Your comments on Nomoskedasticity's evidence that User:PigeonPiece has a full-blown COI would be very helpful. Personally, I think the case is pretty open and shut, but it needs some admin input. In addition, Nomoskedasticity and I were both given COI notices on the ORT article merely because we have posted at the Chronicle forum thread. Both of us have long since ceased being SPAs and I think our COI warnings should be reverted. Thanks.Academic38 (talk) 18:25, 8 June 2008 (UTC) Regarding SUL global deletionSince I am a meta bureaucrat, and seem to be doing the majority of the global deletions for CHU and related pages of late, I'd like to ask you: do you think it would be prudent if I were to simply delete the global accounts of the requesters who neglect to make the necessary request at meta beforehand? Or do you think that it would be better to just wait for the requester to confirm that they are clear to have the global account deleted? Because I am thinking that the former would be in the best interests of efficiency and fluidity and process, considering that it is so simple to reunify and also that many of the requesters do not keep an eye on their request. Cheers, -- Anonymous DissidentTalk 11:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
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Thank youThanks for processing my usurpation (SUL) request. *sigh*You know, I saw Tanthalas39 on the RfA report, and realized it would be done. Then I went there, and you'd totally beaten me to it. *sigh* Someday I'll get to close a blasted RfA. :) EVula // talk // ☯ // 19:05, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
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Need your help with User NameMy current universal name is Beamathan. I would like to usurp Beam and then make it universal. Please help! Beam 18:25, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Scribe!! Beam 18:33, 16 June 2008 (UTC) User changing user name to avoid sockpuppet case and ban.This user: PoliticianTexas (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) had his account deleted and user named change today. But, he is involved in an ongoing sockpuppet case that he has never responded to. I do not think that users should be able to change their account names until these types of cases have been resolved. This is just a maneuver, in an (albeit lame), attempt to avoid the case/ban. Please UNDO until case is resolved. Please advise. ~ WikiDon (talk) 00:47, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Your help is needed in determining consensusHello, I am Atyndall and I am one of the Mediation Cabal's informal mediator. Currently I have taken on a case regarding the naming of the Burma/Myanmar article here. I have decided, after realizing that the article has to be named either Burma or Myanmar, that I need to get everyone to list their opinions and determine the consensus (which I have done here. The problem is, to put it bluntly, I would find it very hard to determine the consensus on this issue as both sides have equally good arguments. So I was wondering, if, after 13:13, 24 June 2008 (UTC) (exactly 14 days after the first post) you could evaluate the consensus (along with another 2 'crats) at that page (as crats are good at, having to deal with RfAs) and list and try to detail why you think this at the top of the page in the section provided? Please do not feel obliged to do so, if you are busy I can ask someone else, but please let me know. Thankyou very much and happy editing :-) Atyndall93 | talk 01:13, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
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Thank youDear Will, Thank you so very much for your kind words of comfort on my talk page. At a time such as this, words and deeds make such an enormous difference between suffering and consolation. You have consoled me. Isaac is with me, here at home, until the funeral on Thursday. It gives me great comfort that we can remain together until our final parting. I am sure the funeral will be a beautiful event; Isaac was so loved that there are people and speeches from all over the world coming in. I had two very important aspects to my life: my beautiful man, and my career. Now my career will have to sustain me. As such, I plan on returning to work on Monday, and hope to resume editing shortly thereafter. Until then, please know that your kindness to me is appreciated, and will never be forgotten. With love, Jeffpw (talk) 20:02, 30 June 2008 (UTC) MetaCould you do me a favour on meta... if you see fit. On the notifications, could you mention meta:Radio Wikimedia. StewieGriffin! • Talk Sign Listen 21:08, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
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G'day WJB...Hope you're good - our southern winter is kicking in down here, and I see from around the place that maybe a few wiki types have p'raps let the sun get to their heads! ;-) - I'm swinging by here because I've been following the discussions about 'bad blocks' at the noticeboard, and wanted to see what you thought about what I see as the fundamental question - Geogre put it better than me;
I'm inclined to agree, and I would presume you would too? I've noticed we tie ourselves in wiki knots trying to deal with undoing actions, but I think that this has got to be baseline position, no? With that in mind, the obvious follow ups are 'is PD banned?' and 'is there consensus for it?' - I'd love to hear your thoughts.... cheers, Privatemusings (talk) 23:47, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
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