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Latest comment: 17 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion
Well there was some fancy template lying around but I can't find it for now! So - you are an admin. You know what to do anyway, go add yourself to the list etc etc, ask if you are not sure :) If I forgot anything sorry & I'll try and get to it later!! Cheers --Herbytalk thyme10:13, 6 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
An offering for our new administrator from your comrades... (our budget is smaller than Commons)Cometstyles, congratulations! You now have the rights of administrator on Meta. Please take a moment to read the Meta:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat, and Meta:Requests_for_deletion, but also Talk:Spam_blacklist and Talk:Interwiki_map), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings, or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care.
A tip: add this page Meta:Administrators' discussion index to your watchlist, it tracks the latest activity to various sections of many of the important pages.
Latest comment: 17 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Could you please give a look to December 2007 VFD log and its deletion history, and make it sure if it is really "forgotten"? Thanks. --Aphaia21:17, 6 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
No problem. I didn't restored it myself since I thought it as a fair assumption to take it as "forgotton". It may be really forgotten, but we cannot say without Tim. --Aphaia21:30, 6 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
www.wikiquote.org update
Latest comment: 17 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion
Latest comment: 17 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hello! Was there any special reason that you reverted my change on Template:WMS. The link I added goes to Wikimedia Sverige official webshop, and I have been apointed by the board of the local chapter to handle it. Ainali21:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi. I'm an admin on Simple English Wikiquote. I heard that there's a group of people who are cooperatively helping with correcting vandalism on many small wikis. I wonder whether I could help with that. Do you know anything about it, and could you give me any information? Thanks. --Coppertwig15:42, 26 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
We did a consultation in Village pump of az-wiki. Uannis, Aruz, AMD and Vusal1981 wanted delete unusual and no information articals. Only Bakı66 didn't want it. But sysops of az-wiki didn't delete anyone. Then One of sysops is Memty. Memty deleted 3.000 unusual and no information articals. Memty also supported this consultation. We have got a bureaucrat in az-wiki but he isn't active in az-wiki and he isn't interested in az-wiki. I want to delete these pages in az-wiki. They are just template.
All pages include in this template:
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|şəkil miqyası = 100
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|Digər Adları =
|Doğum Tarixi =
|Doğum Yeri =
|Ölüm Tarixi =
|Ölüm Yeri =
|Ölüm Səbəbi =
|Rəsmi vebsaytı =
|IMDB =
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==Həyatı==
==Filmoqrafiya==
==Həmçinin Bax==
*[[Azərbaycan Kinosu]]
[[Kateqoriya:Azərbaycan Kinosu-Şəxslər]]
Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
For info (maybe you didn't know! :)) account also exist on en wp with a user page & nothing else. Worth watching (CU list informed too) cheers --Herbytalk thyme14:09, 6 March 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I see that Grawp has followed me here; sorry. FYI, yes, I am en:User:Jack Merridew and also commons:User:Jack Merridew. I recall see you attend to attacks on my en:page; thanks for that, too. I would like to assure you that I'm here to learn my way around and will seek to do good. Advice, cautions, handy links are all welcome. FYI, I also hope to return to en.wp with terms and a mentorship. Cheers, "Jack Merridew"08:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
Hiya
Latest comment: 17 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion
Hey, just wanted to reiterate that I understood the message on my talk page from Shanel and stopped welcoming anon-IPs immediately after receiving that message. I also further appreciated Shanel's clarification about the tendency of some users to make one-time edits to Meta. But if I check a user's activity, see that they are a registered user that has edited Meta on multiple times relatively recently and in a positive fashion - isn't it appropriate to welcome that person? I will hold off on doing so until I hear back. Cirt07:39, 18 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion
I was wondering why you gave me the vandalism warning :S I'm new on Wikimedia but have 25,000+ edits on Wikipedia... so not really new :) Gary King00:39, 19 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
Since you're an admin can you look at my request? It's kind of urgent because in the past few hours, I've already come across dozens of articles on Wikipedia that needed bepress.com removed because it is blacklisted, when in fact it looks like the site is perfectly valid! Gary King00:41, 19 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
No problem, I like helping out and since I'm on dial-up is the reason I have always avoided the blacklist. I will jump in when the need arises :D ...--Cometstyles08:50, 21 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi Cometstyles, this is regarding your question related to Hindi Wikinews Incubator page. I didn't start it, but now going to start. Thanks, Shyam(T/C)12:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
"Blitz edit"
Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Obsessive, indeed..must be a long held grudge..I'm not sure what I should do because most of these tagging has been happening since August 2007, if multiple admins agree, then we may just DENY him/her..--Cometstyles01:33, 3 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
We talked about that (Larry, Herby and me) at that time. Then Lar was concerned. We are better to switch to another forum? --Aphaia02:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
To be honest, I don't see any major problems with this. The top of WM:RFA says "Bureaucrats should close only after the closing time, unless the consensus is clear and they did not vote." I felt this was an example of said situation. Nishkid64 (talk)02:33, 20 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
it would have been Ok if it was the only RfA and the first in Line but sadly there is another RfA from before it, we already had discussion on this earlier and maybe closing within 24 hours is ok but 33 hours earlier, I would disagree with it and since we should give time to others to vote on this RfA as well...--Cometstyles02:37, 20 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
The spam page you deleted..... Took a look around, found a few one off accounts doing the same thing. BL'd the site & blocked a few accounts on en wp. Decided to block the user whose page you deleted & (given the cross wiki nature) decided to poke into my "other" tool. You'll see there is an IP & another user blocked - take a stab at the math - 2+2=....:) I could be wrong but the accounts were created looking pretty similar. At least there is some info in case anyone is interested. Cheers --Herbytalk thyme12:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Oh nice thought :( Probably could do with looking at global CU or similar. I've always looked on it as primarily a vandal/disruption tool rather than anything to do with puppets - I've mailed the CU list with the info anyway. Cheers --Herbytalk thyme12:50, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Fiji Hindi Wikipedia
Latest comment: 17 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi
We have finally got the Fiji Hindi Wikipedia going. Thanks for your support. Could you please provide help with the following:
1. Do the users from the test project have to recreate their accounts in the new Wikipedia? Aren't the users also moved wit the Wikipedia?
2. I have been a test administrator in the test project. Can I continue with this role in the new Wikipedia. If not what is the procedure for choosing an administrator?
3. At present when a link is provided to Fiji Hindi Wikipedia from a page in another Wikipedia by (for example) hif:Fiji then "Fiji Hindi/फ़ीजी हिन्दी" is displayed. Since the Wikipedia is in Latin script only we prefer that only "Fiji Hindi" be displayed. Is this possible?
Latest comment: 17 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi Cometstyles,
Maybe this page should have been userfied to User:Wikitikitwo? If you don't disagree, I could fix that (I would also remove the warning tag), unless you prefer to do it yourself. Best regards, Korg17:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi, Cometstyles. You requested this and I have some questions about it. I am aware they may be too many, sorry if it is so. I should have asked some of these questions to VasilievVV first, but after this comment to me both him and Pathoschild seem to have either forgot about me or ignored me for some reason I do not know. If you are answering any or all of my questions and if you are going to do it in your talk page I would appreciate if you could you copy and paste this whole section in my talk page too. Alternatively, could you please leave me a short message letting me know you answered me? Thanks.
My questions are:
Why did you ask for closing so many projects in bulk?
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Did you check the status of every one of those projects shortly before requesting its closure?
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Why are no notices in the main pages of most (maybe all? I have just checked more than half of them but not all) projects warning about the proposal of closure of their project?
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Do you know how many of the projects closed at once in the 13967-bug occassion will be transferred to the Incubator?
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Do you know when they will be transferred to the Incubator?
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Why are no links to the Incubator in the main pages of most (maybe all? I have just checked more than half of them but not all) projects to be transferred to the Incubator?
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Will there be links to the Incubator on the main pages of the closed projects once their contents are transferred? (Would not that mean to have to remove the closure momentarily to leave the message? Seemingly Bugzilla is currently quite busy for such things. Would not it have been easier, faster and more convenient to have done it before the request of closure in Bugzila?)
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iu.wikt got locked even though I was working in it. I have been blocked out from iu.wikt for more than two weeks now. Spacebirdy requested to unblock it in bugzilla:13967 on 28th last month but no answer or action has been provided yet. Do you know how long could it take a reply from Bugzilla? Could you help with it?
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I would like to contact JeLuf but I would like to use e-mail only as last resort and I have failed to find a user under that name in Meta, en.wiki and a few other main Wikimedia places I looked in. Do you know if he/she is registered in any Wikimedia projects?
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Do you know if more in bulk closure of projects requests are going to take place again in the future?
Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Stop deleting my help yells hera and elsewhere, I just want assisantace from a steward or develeoper to block bureaucreat from lb wiki Cornichonng who deletes hundreds of pictures for no apparent reasons. Apparently he uploaded them all himself, but the licence does nit give him the right to delete them also, so why is he doing this, starting at night in Europe when nobody at lb wiki can check him,?
Block lb User Cornischong, he misuses hus buerocrat powers to delete all our pictures, thuis is against law!
Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Comet, you've removed an "attack", but all it was was a QUOTE of text from Durova's attack blog, merely replacing my name with Vasiliev's name. But Durova's attack blog is promoted here, while my mere comment gets reverted? How is that logically sound? - Thekohser13:24, 13 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
A better method is to e-mail them your grievances and not to add to to their talk page since it fails our Inclusion policy and can be deemed as an attack..you have been around for a very long, you would know how easy it is to misinterpret something :)..--Cometstyles13:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
Re: Global sysops
Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
We would like you to comment on your revert ([1]) because there are individuals who expressed their opinion to change from "at least 50 edits on at least two projects (per project) during the last month" to "at least 50 edits on at least two projects (per project) during the last 2 months" OhanaUnitedTalk page02:28, 15 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
I only reverted it because it was a major change and making major changes has to be in the hands of the stewards, since they are the ones that will implement it and create the policy/guideline ...--Cometstyles04:00, 15 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
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