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- Special report: Interactive OpenStreetMap features in development
- News and notes: Statistics, Wikipedia research and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Wikia Search abandoned, university plagiarism, and more
- Dispatches: New FAC and FAR nomination process
- WikiProject report: WikiProject China
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 20:01, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
- License update: Licensing vote begins
- News and notes: WMF petitions Obama, longer AFDs, UK meeting, and more
- Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Color
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 17:10, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
- Book reviews: Reviews of Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia
- News and notes: Usability study, Wiki Loves Art, and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia Art dispute, and brief headlines
- WikiProject report: Interview on WikiProject Final Fantasy
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot II (talk) at 05:05, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
- News and notes: Wikimania 2010, usability project, link rot, and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Quote hoax replicated in traditional media, and more
- Dispatches: WikiProject Birds reaches an FA milestone
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Michael Jackson
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 22:39, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
- From the editor: Writers needed
- Special report: WikiChemists and Chemical Abstracts announce collaboration
- Special report: Embassies sponsor article-writing contests in three languages
- News and notes: Wiki Loves Arts winners, Wikimania Conference Japan, and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Arbitrator blogs, French government edits, brief headlines
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Opera
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 13:49, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- License update: Licensing vote results announced, resolution passed
- News and notes: New board member, flagged revisions, Eurovision interviews
- Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia: threat or menace?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject LGBT studies
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 04:25, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
- From the editor: Browsing the archives
- Book review: Review of The Future of the Internet
- Scientology: End of Scientology arbitration brings blocks, media coverage
- News and notes: Picture of the Year, Wikipedia's first logo, Board elections, and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Tamil Wikipedia, Internet Watch Foundation, and more
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 23:16, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
- Book review :Review of Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes
- News and notes: License update, Google Translate, GLAM conference, Paid editing
- Wikipedia in the news: In the Google News, London Review of Books, and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemistry
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 12:36, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
- Special report:Study of vandalism survival times
- News and notes: Wikizine, video editing, milestones
- Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia impacts town's reputation, assorted blogging
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:43, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
- News and notes: Commons grant, license change, new chapters, usability and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia and kidnapping, new comedy series
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Food and Drink
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:55, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
- From the editor: Welcome to the build-your-own edition of the Signpost
- Board elections: Board of Trustees elections draw 18 candidates for 3 seats
- Wiki-Conference: Wikimedians and others gather for Wiki-Conference New York
- Wikipedia Academy: Volunteers lead Wikipedia Academy at National Institutes of Health
- News and notes: Things that happened in the Wikimedia world
- Wikipedia in the news: Assorted news coverage of Wikipedia
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Oregon
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Delivered by -- Tinu Cherian BOT - 15:16, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- News and notes: WMF elections, strategy wiki, museum partnerships, and much more
- Wikipedia in the news: Dispute over Rorschach test images, and more
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 06:59, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
- Special story: Tropenmuseum to host partnered exhibit with Wikimedia community
- News and notes: Tech news, strategic planning, BLP task force, and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Shrinking community, GLAM-Wiki, and more
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 06:24, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
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- From the editor: Where should the Signpost go from here?
- Radio review: Review of Bigipedia radio series
- News and notes: Three million articles, Chen, Walsh and Klein win board election, and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Reports of Wikipedia's imminent death greatly exaggerated, and more
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 05:04, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Signpost: 21 September 2009
- From the editor: Call for opinion pieces
- News and notes: Footnotes updated, WMF office and jobs, Strategic Planning and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Wales everywhere, participation statistics, and more
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Video games
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Wikipedia Signpost: 28 September 2009
- Opinion essay: White Barbarian
- Localisation improvements: LocalisationUpdate has gone live
- Office hours: Sue Gardner answers questions from community
- News and notes: Vibber resigns, Staff office hours, Flagged Revs, new research and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Stunting of growth, Polanski protected and more
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- WikiProject report: WikiProject National Register of Historic Places
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Wikipedia Signpost: 5 October 2009
- New talk pages: LiquidThreads in Beta
- Sockpuppet scandal: The Law affair
- News and notes: Article Incubator, Wikipedians take Manhattan, new features in testing, and much more
- Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia used by UN, strange AFDs, iPhone reality
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- WikiProject report: New developments at the Military history WikiProject
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Wikipedia Signpost: 12 October 2009
- From the editor: Perspectives from other projects
- Special story: Memorial and Collaboration
- Bing search: Bing launches Wikipedia search
- News and notes: New WMF hire, new stats, and more
- Wikipedia in the news: IOC sues over Creative Commons license, Wikipedia at Yale, and more
- Dispatches: Sounds
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Tropical cyclones
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Wikipedia Signpost: 19 October 2009
- News and notes: WikiReader, Meetup in Pakistan, Audit committee elections, and more
- In the news: Sanger controversy reignited, Limbaugh libelled, and more
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Wikipedia Signpost: 26 October 2009
- Interview: Interview with John Blossom
- News and notes: New hires, German Wikipedian dies, new book tool, and more
- In the news: Editor profiled in Washington Post, Wikia magazines, and more
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Wikipedia Signpost: 2 November 2009
- Article contest: Durova wins 2009 WikiCup
- Conference report: WikiSym features research on Wikipedia
- Election report: 2009 ArbCom elections report
- Audit Subcommittee: Inaugural Audit Subcommittee elections underway
- Dispatches: Wikipedia remembers the Wall
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- WikiProject report: Project banner meta-templates
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Wikipedia Signpost: 9 November 2009
- New pages experiment: Wikipedians test the water at new page patrol
- German controversy: German Wikipedia under fire from inclusionists
- Multimedia usability: Multimedia usability meeting concludes in Paris
- Election report: Arbitration Committee candidate nominations open 10 November
- News and notes: Ant images, public outreach, and more
- In the news: Beefeater vandalism, interview, and more
- Sister projects: Meta-wiki interview
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
The Wikipedia Signpost: 16 November 2009
- Fundraiser: "Wikipedia Forever" fundraiser begins
- Bulgarian award: Bulgarian Wikipedia gets a prestigious award
- Election report: Arbitration Committee Election: Several candidates standing
- In the news: German lawsuit, Jimbo interview and more
- Sister projects: Wiktionary interview
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Wikipedia Signpost: 23 November 2009
- Uploading tool: New tool for photo scavenger hunts
- Election report: Arbitration Committee Election: Nominations closing November 24
- Fundraiser: "Wikipedia Forever" fundraiser continues
- News and notes: Government stubs, Suriname exhibit, milestones and more
- In the news: The Decline of Wikipedia, and more
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Wikipedia Signpost: 30 November 2009
- Election report: ArbCom election begins December 1, using SecurePoll
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Wikipedia Signpost: 7 December 2009
- From the editors: 250th issue of the Signpost
- Editorial: A digital restoration
- Election report: ArbCom election in full swing
- Interview: Interview with David G. Post
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Wikipedia Signpost: 14 December 2009
- Election report: Voting closes in the Arbitration Committee Elections
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
CfD nomination of Category:Hindu worship
I have nominated Category:Hindu worship (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Hindu liturgy, rites, and worship services (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Editor2020 (talk) 16:54, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Just wondering..
How come Wikistalking is protected against creation? I see that it was used as a cross-namespace redirect a few times, but it seems like it could be a useful article about stalking on wiki-based sites if written properly. OlEnglish (talk) 23:50, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of LocalSettings.php
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article LocalSettings.php, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:
- LocalSettings seems to be only used by MediaWiki (see also google search).
All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}}
notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Wuzur (talk) 12:15, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
What's up with that block? We don't do blocks for self-requests. Toddst1 (talk) 00:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- If someone comes to me and nicely ask if they they can be blocked, I've got no issue with it. Some users may find it hard to go relax when they can edit. What's the harm here? — xaosflux Talk 01:21, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- Admins should use thier own judgement on requests like this. If honoring it doesn't hurt anyone and helps out a long time editor, then why not. I know at one time or another there was some rule somewhere that we shouldn't give self-requested blocks, but rules at wikipedia change alot. Using ones own judgement and rationale at times like this is fine. There was nothing wrong with your block, Xaosflux--Duk 22:14, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, as there are no other notes, and A Man In Black has not replied to why he reversed me, I'm reinstating. If this user really needs this to cool off, let him. If he is 'disruptive' after retuning, normal blocks can be applied. — xaosflux Talk 00:46, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
- A related discussion: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Remember_WP:BLOCKME.3F Toddst1 (talk) 02:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. — xaosflux Talk 03:38, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
- A related discussion: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Remember_WP:BLOCKME.3F Toddst1 (talk) 02:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, as there are no other notes, and A Man In Black has not replied to why he reversed me, I'm reinstating. If this user really needs this to cool off, let him. If he is 'disruptive' after retuning, normal blocks can be applied. — xaosflux Talk 00:46, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
- Admins should use thier own judgement on requests like this. If honoring it doesn't hurt anyone and helps out a long time editor, then why not. I know at one time or another there was some rule somewhere that we shouldn't give self-requested blocks, but rules at wikipedia change alot. Using ones own judgement and rationale at times like this is fine. There was nothing wrong with your block, Xaosflux--Duk 22:14, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Filter 46
It is slower because it searches "old_wikitext", the entire text of the page. Prodego talk 03:47, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- That's what I was commenting on--perhaps too much there---note, the "edit" I made was to the COMMENT only--there must have been some sort of edit conflict that caused my version to change the condition. — xaosflux Talk 03:55, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- My change reduced its average runtime to 2.4ms, see Special:AbuseFilter/46. Let me know if this is sufficent. —— nixeagleemail me 04:01, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- Its up to 5.5ms, still better then 12ms. There are other filters worse now ;) Ping me if you find any that need fixing. —— nixeagleemail me 04:08, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- My change reduced its average runtime to 2.4ms, see Special:AbuseFilter/46. Let me know if this is sufficent. —— nixeagleemail me 04:01, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello!
I just thought I'd introduce myself, as a fellow member of the BAG at the very least. I must say that though I have not been around very long, I was slightly thrown to see your name on a BRFA. "Who is this guy?" I thought to myself - and hence how I ended up here, wasting the time of a Wikipedian much more experienced than me. Anyhow, pleased to meet you! - Jarry1250 (t, c) 14:39, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
- (replied on your talk) — xaosflux Talk 03:43, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
email confirmation code
Hi, I didn't realize there was an email confirmation for Wikipedia. I waited too long to use the confirmation code. Can i get another confirmation code in my email? Ti-30X (talk) 02:20, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
- (replied on your talk). — xaosflux Talk 03:39, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Your deletion of my editnotice loader
You deleted my talkpage editnotice loader: log
Then you edited my talkpage editnotice so your change wouldn't be so visible: diff
And unlucky for me you did it when I was on a wikibreak, thus I did not see it in my watchlist. You just wasted a lot of my time since it took me some debugging to figure out why my editnotices didn't work as they should any longer.
I'm an admin and I'm one of the template programmers that have tried to give the rest of you a user-friendly well working editnotice system. Many of the templates used to manage editnotices were created and are still maintained by me.
Next time you think about deleting or editing a user's editnotices or other user subpages, don't. And if you do it anyway, the least you can do is to leave a message at their talk page telling what you have done. They might not be there the same week to see it in their watchlists.
--David Göthberg (talk) 18:11, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
enot response
David, Apologies for any inconvenience I caused you, yes I should have at least left you a talk page notice; I was never trying to hide anything, was just cleaning up what appeared to be test pages in the Mediawiki: space. Now that you've brought it up though, if these pages exist soley for your own benefit, can you find a way to make them work using the User/Editnotice convention? If all users used personal editnotices in the Mediawiki: namesapce, it could get rather unmanageable. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 12:37, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
- Ehm no? That loader is not there "solely for my own benefit". I run that "personal" editnotice loader so I can test and develop loader functionality that will benefit all of you. I prefer to test things in my user space before I deploy them site wide.
- And no worries: When we have updated the central loaders then almost all editnotices will be loaded from template and user space. Then only the central loaders and some test loaders like mine will remain in MediaWiki space. Thus minimizing the strain on the "message cache" in the rendering servers.
- --David Göthberg (talk) 13:02, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
New image project
Hi. This little form letter is just a courtesy notice to let you know that a proposal to merge the projects Wikipedia:WikiProject Free images, Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use, Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration into the newly formed Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media has met with general support at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Files. Since you're on the rosters of membership in at least one of those projects, I thought you might be interested. Conversation about redirecting those projects is located here. Please participate in that discussion if you have any interest, and if you still have interest in achieving the goals of the original project, we'd love to have you join in. If you aren't interested in either the conversation or the project, please pardon the interruption. :) Thanks. Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:24, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Template:F/
Did you mean to protect Template:F/ indefinitely? Your comment on the edit says "main mage template". Was this just protecting the template because it was temporarily used on the main page? The template is still protected two years later.--Srleffler (talk) 03:51, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
FYI
See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Xaosflux/Sandbox2/Prod. Garion96 (talk) 21:37, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
- Speedily closed, but you may wish to blank, etc. if only to remove from that maintenance category. –xeno talk 21:43, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for the notes, I've blanked for now as well. — xaosflux Talk 01:46, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
User:Xaosflux/Sandbox2/Prod
May I ask what this sandbox is for? All it contains is a broken, obsolete prod template. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Many otters • One hammer • HELP) 22:16, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
- I've already blanked that page..I really don't see what the current worry over this page is, I have a lot of sandboxes. If it is really, really, really, bothering you that this blank page exists, please reply, and I'll delete it. Of course it won't "save space" or anything... — xaosflux Talk 12:04, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Re: Uh what?
Hmm.. what do you want me to reply with? The person's still running a proxy on 217 (on port 80), but has apparently closed it. Thanks for the unblock. =) (rpl on mine) --slakr\ talk / 19:12, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
- It means that someone was running a proxy on 217.125.18.169, port 8080, and when the bot connected to my server through that proxy, the public IP that connected to my server to service that request was 80.58.205.54; as a result, while the open proxy is on 217.125.18.169, the ip that would be visible to wikipedia's servers is 80.58.205.54, thus 80 was blocked instead of 217. --slakr\ talk / 04:37, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
GA Sweeps invitation
Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am sending you this message since you are listed as a GA reviewer. I would like to invite you to consider helping with the GA sweeps process. Sweeps helps to ensure that the oldest GAs still meet the criteria, and improve the quality of GAs overall. Unfortunately, last month only two articles were reviewed. This is definitely a low point after our peak at the beginning of the process when 163 articles were reviewed in September 2007. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. All exempt and previously reviewed articles have already been removed from the list. Instead of reviewing by topic, you can consider picking and choosing whichever articles interest you.
We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 07:40, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Jonathan Shapiro
Back in December 2007 you deleted Jonathan Shapiro for CSD#A7 Notability. However, I believe he is notable based upon the four articles that wikilink to him alone Special:WhatLinksHere/Jonathan Shapiro (I'm refering to the computer expert -- there is probably another article to be written for the writer too). Could you consider restoring it.
If the article is too bad to just be allowed to gain details just by being left as a stub (if it was one) you can usify it to me. Mark Hurd (talk) 08:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
- Now User:Wizzy has moved a third Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) over it. I assume it is now lost. Mark Hurd (talk) 10:40, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
- In case it is not, I have moved disambiguated all the references to the computer expert to Jonathan Shapiro (programmer) Mark Hurd (talk) 10:54, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Notification of the upcoming Wikimedia relicensing
In case you are not aware, the Free Software Foundation has added terms to the GFDL 1.3 allowing the relicensing of certain content under the CC-BY-SA 3.0, and the community has approved with 75.8% in favor that this permission be used to dual-license all Wikimedia wikis under both licenses. On June 15, 2009, this change will take effect. This note is to let you know that {{WikimediaNoLicensing}} does not affect the relicensing of your contributions in this manner, as you cannot deny the terms of the GFDL. If you have any comments, please join the discusion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#NoMultiLicense template. Anomie⚔ 16:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
hey it's sky
yo. i got the net hooked up yesterday... hit me up!!!
I'm also on myspace as starita's mom
ttyl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.85.111.231 (talk) 00:00, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Bryan Mark Rigg
- Why is he not notable:
- a. The author of two best sellers translated to many languages.
- b. Google result for exact search gives over 10,000 entries. First 100 all relevant and different, including podcasts, speeches, TV interviews, and scientific articles and blogs relating to this man.
- b. Name used by both sides of one of the major controversies of our time: New Antisemitism, and Revisionism. (I found the name while looking something up on David Irving's site!) and strongly connected to the holocaust.
- c. His personal story of research is truly remarkable.
- d. His personal history is extremely unusual. A catholic from a southern state of the US happens to be on a trip to Germany, sees a theater show that gets him interested on a topic, meets a stranger who opens the topic and turns it into a lifetime research goal, and finally to discover that he personally is a Jew, who then goes to Israel and volunteers for its army!
- e. His name is first under wikipedia Rigg surname but instead of pointing to Wikipedia it points out to www.bryanrigg.com
- So would you consider putting the article back up? Or was it badly written? Should I write it anew and propose it? Will be happy to hear your opinion. -- פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 13:18, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
- Oh - and he his is the writer of a disputed recent biography on the leader of the a large Jewish sect: Chabad. So his name is sure to stay high on the list political, historic and religious dispute. --פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 13:23, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
- Restored, see your talk. — xaosflux Talk 12:07, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
CfD needs bot help
Please respond to this post on the CfD talk page. At present Cydebot is not processing requests that contain special characters. The questions for you are does your bot do this? Is it still running for CfD? Can you deal with the small backlog of these requests? Vegaswikian (talk) 20:30, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Belated RfA thankspam
You participated in my atrocious RfA. I never said thank you, so I wanted to do so. {{SUBST:User:Bushcarrot/signature}} 02:57, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CisRULEZ (talk • contribs) 23:12, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Category:Pastafarian Wikipedians
Hello, Xaosflux … FYI, I have updated the documentation for Category:Pastafarian Wikipedians because I have modified one of the userboxes to automagically populate it … the category currently contains over 250 user pages, but that should increase to over 500 pages in the next few days as the cache updates. :-)
Happy Editing! — 141.156.161.245 (talk · contribs) 05:21, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
UBX for discussion
An article that you have been involved in editing, User:UBX, has been proposed for a discussion. If you are interested, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. – imis☂ 00:39, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Your invited!
Wikipedia:Meetup/Miami 3 is coming up in the near future, you are invited to participate. Thanks Secret account 17:46, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
6.5 mm Grendel OR issues
Sorry to bother you but if you have the time or know another admin in WikiProject:Firearms who would be interested I am running out of words trying to educate the co-inventor of this cartridge of the need to practice wikiverifiable editing. I don't want to start an edit war because the edits he is doing make a lot of sense. But they are OR which means any eighth grader with a computer can challenge and remove them! Trilobitealive (talk) 01:08, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Service awards proposal
Ping
I have sent you an e-mail. --Tenmei (talk) 18:59, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
RTV Studio B
On 28 May 2008 you deleted RTV Studio B because the article did not indicate the significance and importance of the subject. I have collected a number of sources which seem to me to indicate that this radio and television broadcaster does have sufficient significance and importance to justify it having an article in Wikipedia. I was therefore intending to write such an article, but, after reading "If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator using the information provided below.", I was unsure. So, I thought it best to contact you before proceeding, and I would be grateful for a response to guide me in deciding whether to write such an article or not. Coyets (talk) 11:32, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- reply on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 12:35, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Aradia or the gospel of the witches
I think the article on Wicca would be a lot better if it at least mentioned Leland, and his compilation Aradia. Although its in dispute among some follows of this faith, it contains the Charge of the Goddess, which in most circles is an important document. PLease review this, and I mention this at the end of the article so at least its there. Many people will come away not know Pre-Gardener Wicca. Just a thought! And I HOPE a a Wiccan was involved in writing this!
Blessed Be!
[email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.131.193.112 (talk) 00:34, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Fluxbot
I noticed Fluxbot hasn't edited since October, could I turn off the IPBE flag until you decide to re-run it to keep the list of people with the flag down? MBisanz talk 05:09, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Your menu.
Hi.
I've re-used your menu on my user page.
I hope you don't my doing so - I've, of course, given credit to you.
If you do mind, tell me, and I'll remove it right away (I really should have asked BEFORE i did so)
Cheers!
HuGo_87 (talk) 10:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Why I dislike Wikipedia and edits like you did
You said the movie Beastmaster 2 stank and deleted the page. That may be true but it is sad people like you that make this thing less useful than it is. It may stink but I wanted to see what it was about. Katherine [email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.151.5.126 (talk) 22:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- I am unable to find the specific page you are referring to. I never delete a page because 'it stinks'. If you can refer me to the page you are talking about I can get your more information. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 01:09, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Itterind: You also deleted the capital Stoneheim of Pomarj in the oldest D&D setting Greyhawk because of a new MMO. What pedantic foolishness.
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