User talk:Acalamari/Archive 037

Rollback Request

Hello Acalamari, I am writing to request rollback privileges. I understand that rollback is to be used to fix obvious vandalism and nonsense edits and it should not be used haphazardly. Thanks! Gary (talk) 01:17, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello Gary2863, I have granted rollback rights to your account in accordance with your request. You are correct that rollback is for reverting vandalism/spam/blatantly unconstructive edits, and that using it to revert anything else (by revert-warring or reverting edits you disagree with) can lead to it being removed from your account...sometimes without any warning, depending on the admin who becomes aware of any misuse. If you think an edit should require a reason for reverting, then don't use rollback and instead, use a manual edit summary. For practice, you may wish to see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. Good luck. Acalamari 03:02, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. Gary (talk) 04:38, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Your support over such a long period of time is greatly appreciated. It's a bit surreal to finally pass—it's been almost six years since the first time I got through, and it didn't seem to be such a big deal back then. :) I'm looking forward to returning to the delirious excitement of admin chores—I already axed two speedy deletion candidates. Wooo! Everyking (talk) 01:16, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Rollback Request

Hello, I am writing you to request Rollback privileges, since I am interested in helping Wikipedia projects of translation from Spanish to English and also Colombia's project from Wikipedia. This will be a great tool to allow me to maintain the articles in an intact for from vandalism. Thank you in advance. DG (talk) 22:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to decline this one: I don't see many reverts in your editing history, so I have little to go on to see how you would use the rollback tool. I kindly suggest using the undo feature to learn how to revert, and after you've been practicing for some time and have demonstrated you can identify vandalism from good edits, feel free to request here or to here for the tool. Best. Acalamari 03:03, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of User:The High Fin Sperm Whale/huggle.css

Hi Acalamari.
Would you mind deleting User:The High Fin Sperm Whale/huggle.css? I tried to get huggle, but I couldn't figure it out, so now this page is unnecessary. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 02:11, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Done, though if you need help installing Huggle, I recommend Iridescent because I think she's highly familiar with Huggle. Best. Acalamari 03:03, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Question

Hello,

I am writing to you on behalf of the University of Alberta. We are investigating the boredom topic you are administrator of. We were wondering if you could help us out on a couple questions? 1) Can you tell us who is contributing the most/more often to the boredom topic? 2) Who entered some of the original material; 3) Who is contributing most recently; 3a) Are they academics on the topic or people from the general public? Contextualizing these question: By "entered" we are looking for those entries of original material, not grammar, or spelling editing. By "most recently" we mean those who have entered significant content most recently. If you could help us out on these questions it would be greatly appreciated. If we need to contact other administrators, just let us know. Feel free to contact me.--Redcdr (talk) 17:11, 28 January 2010 (UTC) Thank you for your time Christopher —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redcdr (talk • contribs) 23:10, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Boredom Topic

By "boredom topic" I mean the wikipedia entry on boredom. Simply, can you tell us who contributed to the psychology entry (on boredom) and the general definition: 1) Can you tell us who is contributing the most/more often to the boredom topic? 2) Who entered some of the original material; 3) Who is contributing most recently; 3a) Are they academics on the topic or people from the general public? If you require a more detailed explanation of our research, you can contact me at robblee@ualberta.ca--Redcdr (talk) 00:38, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

To be even more specific, we are curious where these sentences came from (or who)? (1)Boredom is an emotional state experienced during periods lacking activity or when individuals are uninterested in the opportunities surrounding them. (2)These definitions make it clear that boredom arises not from a lack of things to do but from the inability to latch onto any specific activity. (3)There are three types of boredom, all of which involve problems of engagement of attention. (4)Although boredom is often viewed as a trivial and mild irritant, proneness to boredom has been linked to a very diverse range of possible psychological, physical, educational, and social problems. Thank you for your help. Christopher--Redcdr (talk) 04:16, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Recently granted rollback rights

Thanks for granting me rollback rights. I'll be sure to use them sparingly.--Hokeman (talk) 21:56, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Hopefully, not sparingly, just judiciously, right? :) Moogwrench (talk) 22:15, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

For reverting the vandalism on my talk page before. All because I happened to come across some vandalism on Huggle and warned one of their friends against edit warring! Anyway my page is now protected, thanks again and I hope you're well :) --5 albert square (talk) 23:23, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, 5 albert square, I'm doing good, thanks for mentioning that. ;) You're welcome for the revert, and I was about to semi-protect your talk page, but Cirt beat me to it. I'm glad to see that you've been doing well since I granted you rollback a few months ago. Best. Acalamari 23:28, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

And again! This time for protecting my userpage. All this over one tiny reversion made through Huggle yesterday!

I reported a couple of the IPs yesterday as being possible sockpuppets because of the edits they were making. Checkuser came back though and said no, it was either meat puppetry or random proxy IPs causing the vandalism. I know we can report sockpuppets, is there any way that we can report problems with meat puppetry? --5 albert square (talk) 21:13, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Actually, it was Xeno who protected it. ;) I pressed the protect button, but it seems we both protected your page at the same time and it was his protection that registered. As for dealing with meatpuppetry, as far as I know I don't think it can be reported in this case: IPs are the only things being used rather than any accounts, so all that can be done are page protections when necessary and blocking the IPs on sight until the person get bored. Acalamari 21:20, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Rollback permission

Thank you. Maurreen (talk) 01:26, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

GAR notification

Letting you know I've started a GAR for Sugababes, an article to which you are a main contributor. The article is placed on a hold period; you can see my comments at Talk:Sugababes/GA1. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 18:46, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi there! To be honest, I didn't even realize that the article was even considered a Good Article. :\ Thanks for the note, though I should mention that while I may rank high on the list of editors who've contributed by their sheer number of edits to the page, my edits to the article have been reverts and small edits, rather than contributions to the content. Still, I'll try to help with improving the article, though GA is not a place I'm familiar with. Best. Acalamari 19:09, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your RfA Support

Acalamari/Archive 037 - Thanks for your participation and support in my recent successful RfA. Your confidence and trust in me is much appreciated. As a new admin I will try hard to keep from wading in too deep over the tops of my waders, nor shall I let the Buffalo intimidate me.--Mike Cline (talk) 09:45, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Flo Rida

A request for unprotection is at WP:RFPP. FYI. --RegentsPark (talk) 13:45, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

The Extensive Cheatsheet

Hello Acalamari, I'm Wolf, and I understand this is kind of sudden, but as your name is first for most active in North America, why not? Now let me tell you why I'm here. I am a new user, with only one day's experience. I was able to learn how to edit pages, not by referring to the Wikipedia:Cheatsheet, but by looking at pages and their sources. Now, I do use it, but I wish that there was a more comphrehensive one, a searchable reference page where most, even all commonly used, uh, I don't even know the word for it. Codes, you can say, so that anyone, from a fob like me to a seasoned pro like you can use it, because it has almost everything an wikieditor could need. Could you help me on this venture?

Thanks,

--Ecstacy ^Xtcy3 02:20, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

By the way, even if you dont join me in this venture, we'll still be friends, right? ;D

Genres

Hello, I was wondering why you reverted my edits to make the genres go into a list? A few users noticed my edits and said it helped with the readability and made things less cluttered when it came to citations. Is there some rule that genres cannot be formatted that way? If not, I'd like to know why it was changed. Thank you. --Babyjazspanail (talk) 04:35, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes I was just about to ask about this. Babyjazspanail, Keraunoscopia and I all thought that a list was more organised and readable. Citations often clutter the already crowded space we have for genres and we thought this list was a much better idea than simple commas. I know we are just three people and we don't rule over the articles in question but we're all quite familiar with these articles and so I changed them all back. I kept any other changes you made and just changed the genres bac to the lists. Hope this is okay. Zylo1994 (talk) 07:22, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Look at Template:Infobox musical artist and Template:Infobox single: breaks are not used at all in either infobox, and it would be inconsistent to use breaks for the genres while using commas for all other parts of the infobox. To my knowledge, changing to a non-standard formatting is considered disruptive (ask Kww, who has been dealing with genre warriors for ages), and commas have been standard for a long time. As for your reverts, Zylo1994, in addition to reverting to non-standard formatting, you also reverted my edits as they were no better than vandalism by using the defualt undo reasoning while I at least gave a reason for my formatting changes (in this revert you also restored a an incorrect capitalizing to the "digital download"). However, rather than revert you back, I'll give you a chance to restore the standard comma formatting. (striking this part, no more reverting) Hope this all helps. Best. Acalamari 17:42, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Uh, I can see things have been cleared up. Also, I don't mind, I was just wondering myself. Thank you for your response.--Babyjazspanail (talk) 23:33, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Ah, very sorry about any non-genre changes, I skimmed over it and failed to see them and for that I apologise. I'm also fairly new to wikipedia and I don't even know how to give a reason for edits. However I'm extremely reluctant to change the genres back. I've seen this style on many other articles and, as I've said, three article regulars have now responded very postively to the new breaks instead of commas. I would also like to add that while I know reverting changes back must be annoying for you, you did it to both me and Babyjazspanail and we were very polite and reasonable with our responses. I would like the same amount of respect and manners that I give to you to be given to me, Acalamari, as I feel like your above reply has quite a rude, demanding tone to it. Anyway, I understand you're a very good wiki contributor but is there absolutely no chance of breaks instead of commas? They really do help the de-cluttering of citations. Thank you. Zylo1994 (talk) 17:59, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Hmm...I don't see how my above response was either rude or demanding: I was trying to be clear as possible in the above response, pointing out a couple of things, and giving some insight into the genre warrior situation and making you aware of it (I honestly don't see how any of that could be considered rude at all). You asked me for my rationale on the situation, and I explained it to you from my experience of it: my response wasn't supposed to be a reflection on you whatsoever nor an attempt to bully anybody. At any rate, I'll see if I can address your points in a better manner: with other articles having breaks instead of commas, I can address this by kindly suggesting that it is better to find out why the formatting in similar articles is inconsisent and see which one is correct rather than pick one and change the rest to it (don't worry, I've done similar things before). Regarding edit summaries, I can help you with that: see Help:Edit summary, and with the "undo" features, simply change the text in edit summary textbox to something else: I can assure that after a little practice, it's very easy and becomes almost automatic. ;) On the formatting standard itself, you would probably need to start a discussion on Template talk:Infobox single if you want to change the current formatting. Finally, on citations in the infobox, in all fairness I remember seeing something recently that they're not actually supposed to be in infoboxes, but since I'm not totally sure about that I've left citations in infoboxes alone: it's probably a good idea for me to ask about that one myself. This all being said, I'm sorry if my last response did come across as hostile, and I assure you that hostility wasn't the intention: I hope this response seems friendlier than the last, and I also hope that I haven't put you off or anything. Best. Acalamari 18:35, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Hello. If I may step in for a moment. According to the Genre section of Template:Infobox_musical_artist, either the comma format or the break format is appropriate. As quoted from the template documentation, "Genres should be separated with a delimiter, either a comma or a line break (<br/>)." There is nothing regarding consistent formatting throughout the infobox. Hope this clears the matter up! – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 18:38, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

I had no idea that that was the case and didn't actually realize that was even in there. :\ That's new to me because I've always thought it was commas that were used not breaks! Ah well, thanks Keraunoscopia. Sorry for any trouble caused everyone. Acalamari 18:47, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

No troubles for anyone, I don't think. Getting picky over minutiae is a great thing. I'm often corrected on my edits by others who know better than I do. It's the only way we learn! – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 19:14, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your optimism, Keraunoscopia, I honestly do appreciate it; though I do feel bad and embarassed over all of this, and I do hope that Babyjazspanail and Zylo199 won't be driven off by this, and that we'll all be able to move on and, as you said, learn from it all instead. Your input is greatly appreciated here, and I thank you again for it. Very best to you. Acalamari 19:25, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Could you please review Somos El Mundo talkpage

Hello, I just noticed that you editted that page. I have a concern that an editor translated an article for Spanish to English and posted it almost verbatim into the article. You can read my concern on its talkpage. Google translate should help if you don't speak Spanish. If you concur, would you please revert. Otherwise, this could a copyvio. . .--Morenooso (talk) 23:57, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Sure. I'll take a look at the talk page. Thanks for letting me know. Acalamari 00:04, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Mucho gracias.--Morenooso (talk) 00:16, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome! I'm happy to help. Acalamari 00:19, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Roll Back Request

Greetings! Long time no see. Will you please grant my new username, Aspie93 rollback rights? Thank you for your time:)--SJP _Chat 23:08, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, SJP! I've granted rollback to that account of yours. It's good to hear from you again...how have you been? Acalamari 23:13, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

What are rollback rights?--Morenooso (talk) 23:10, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey there Morenooso, rollback is a tool to assist you in reverting vandalism. Wikipedia:Rollback feature is the page to look at to research the tool. Acalamari 23:13, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

I use rv via pop-ups or something to that effect. Are rollback rights better? I just read the page and they sound similar. I wouldn't mind having that right or tool.

Additionally if you have time, could you look at this sockpuppet Georger Sterner? He's giving me fits today. Thanks in advance.--Morenooso (talk) 23:17, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

I've activated the rollback feature to your account. Remember that rollback is for reverting vandalism/spam, and that misusing it (such as by revert-warring or reverting edits you disagree with) can lead to its removal, and some administrators don't even warn an editor before removing an editor's rollback rights (however, whenever I've come across incorrect usage of the rollback tool, I've made an effort to contact the user first). If you like to try the tool out in a safe environment before using it in articles, take a look at Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. Regarding the sockpuppet, I'm not familiar with this particular sockmaster. Can you give me some background on them? I'd rather know something about them before giving out any blocks. Thanks, and have fun with rollback! Acalamari 23:36, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I will keep that in mind. I try to observe the 3RRR rule as best I can. But, like the best of them, sometimes you get caught up in the heat of the battle.

highyack07's case (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Highyack07) came to my attention because of an edit he made to Ronald Reagan's article. In the infobox, he inserted the name, Train, for which he has some affinity. At the same time, he did a redirect which was complicated for me to follow but one I finally figured out. After seeing his userpage, which was where the redirect went, I was mortified. I left a warning on his talkpage with a note to any Admin seeing my warning to take a look at his userpage. Sure enough, an Admin saw it, cited BLP issues and blocked him. Then another user, George Sterner re-editted the blocked userpage of highyack07. When I saw that another page patroller, Ten Pound Hammer (who is filed the sockpuppet case) had caught one of George's edit, I mentioned on his talkpage, which is referenced in the case, that I thought George was a sockpuppet of highyack07. Ten Pound Hammer looked at what I wrote, followed the trail, and then filed the sockpuppet case.

Well, today George editted his userpage to reflect the Train persona/thoughts/characters as depicted on highyack07's userpage. This just about convinced me that he is the sockpuppet of highyack07. When I noticed today that he had removed the sockpuppet tag on his userpage, I restored the tag and issued him a maintenance tag warning. A short time later an anonymous IP, User:69.122.40.229 blanked George's userpage. This led me to believe that since George got a level four warning, he logged out and then blanked the page. I issued a warning to the anonymous IP, tagged it with the sockpuppet tag and then added my observations to highyack07's sockpuppet case. Hope this helps. . .--Morenooso (talk) 00:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

George Sterner has been blocked as a sock of Highyack07. I reviewed what you said, and I saw this revision where he lists "Train" in the infobox (like what he did with the Ronald Reagan article). Also, a look through the deleted edits to Highyack07's userpage shows that George Sterner has edited that page. Acalamari 00:44, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. And to think I thought Ten Pound Hammer delighted me like a 500 pound gorrilla. You make him look like a straw in the wind.--Morenooso (talk) 00:48, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, and you're welcome for any help I have provided. :) Acalamari 01:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Twice the help?

Hey Acalamari, if you look at my talk page, someone just cursed at me. What should I do? I'm still new at Wikipedia, so thanks! Oh, by the way, I've been recently dealing with vandalism via the new user's contributions, and I found Huggle, but one of its' requirements is to have rollback privileges. Given that I'm still "young", you may not grant that to me, and that's okay. So anyways, thanks in advance for your advice! --Ecstacy ^Xtcy3 :4:20, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey there Xtcy3, when someone leaves a message on your talk page that like that they can be reported to WP:AIV. With how insulting that vandalism was, most administrators would have blocked that user regardless of how many warnings they had received. As for your rollback request, I have granted rollback rights to your account, as your vandal-fighting is good. Remember that rollback is for reverting vandalism, and that misuse of the tool (such as revert-warring or using the tool to revert edits you disagree with) can lead to it being removed...and some administrators don't even warn editors who appear to be misusing the tool. For practice, you may want to see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. Good luck! Acalamari 21:50, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey there Acalamari, thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xtcy3 (talk • contribs) 02:59, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Ostrogoths

Re this: no worries, I've missed more than my share. ;D As for rollback, no, thanks. I'd be too tempted to overuse it. As Harry Callahan once said, "A man's got to know his limitations." TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 23:59, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

And you too. I am gratified by the offer. Keep on keepin' on. TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 00:10, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

From Evenios

Thanks for granting me rollback rights. I will do my best to serve the community for good and not misuse it :-) Appreciate it! Evenios (talk) 17:35, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Stub gap / blank lines

Hi Acalamari, I see you've been reducing the gap before stub templates in some Herefordshire articles. WP:STUB says 'It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it.' I don't feel strongly one way or the other but you might want to consider getting agreement to change the guideline if you do.--Cavrdg (talk) 19:24, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Hello Cavrdg, I just thought it was standard to remove excess gaps anywhere in articles. At any rate I'll stop removing gaps between stubs and other text, and I'll go back and revert the changes I made if that's what it's best to do. Thanks for letting me know for future reference. Best. Acalamari 19:40, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Unprotect Mars?

Hi Acalamari,

It looks as though you semi-protected Mars back in 2008. There's one intervening item in the log, where User:Graham87 moved protection from a project page last year, which I don't really understand, but I'm not sure that really matters. No rush or anything, but I just wanted to ask if you'd be willing to unprotect the page. Thanks!
— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 22:55, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Done! I don't see the harm in trying unprotection here, especially since I protected the article back in mid-2008. Be aware though that articles on certain objects in space (especially on the planets in the solar system) often receive heavy vandalism, so I'll give you a heads up now in case it needs re-protecting again (though I'll leave the next protection for that page to another admin). Best. Acalamari 23:07, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Not to worry, there are a few people watching the page.
— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 23:19, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

User talk:SchfiftyThree

They are asking for unblock, and mentioned in a previous request that they trust you above all others here, so your input may be helpful in deciding what to do next. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:54, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Beeblebrox, thanks for the note. SchfiftyThree e-mailed me the other day for help, and in my response (which I haven't had a response to) I asked him to give me and explanation of what happened (as I'm not familiar with what happened here other than he was blocked for editing while logged out, and the more I know, the more I can help), but I also told him that, as a friend of his, it wouldn't be good for either of us for me to unblock him. I guess we'll have to see what SchfiftyThree's and J.delanoy's responses will be. Thanks. Acalamari 23:29, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Telephone (song)

I would like your assistance in a matter in Telephone (song). An user is hell-bent on adding a tree link which doesnot exist, and citing false source. The problem is with a photo of the single, which was taken by Hedi Slimane. However, the photo was initially taken for the album inlay, and not for the single, hence I felt it is appropriate to use the album liner notes as the reference for the cover art note. The user (Ryulong, a former admin) is insisting on adding the single inlay note, (which doesnot exist as the cover was promo only). I am failing to see that why the user is edit warring over reference, which is already present. --Legolas ^(talk2me) 04:49, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Legolas2186, I have two questions: can you please clarify what you mean by a "tree link"? I'm not sure I'm familiar with that term. Secondly, have you talked to Ryulong to find out what his reasoning is behind the reverts? (Also, I should note that I haven't followed anything to do with Laga Gaga's album or single covers so this is the first time I've heard anything to do with this dispute.) Thanks. Acalamari 00:07, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

User:Turbocat404 vs. User:Chewwy225

Hello there, Acalamari. I need some help. I was going through recent changes, and I saw Chewwy225 undoing Turbocat404's undos of Chewwy225's on Turbocat404's userpage. Apparently, There was some edit war going on Imageboard, and on their user talk and user pages. I posted a notice that I wanted to mediate a resolution for both of them. Am I doing the right thing, and is this what I should be doing? Thanks, --Ecstacy ^Xtcy3 03:23, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Okay, but if it gets out of hand, I'm turning it over to you. D:--Ecstacy ^Xtcy3 17:59, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Amelle's Picture

I uploaded took the picture, i have every right to upload, please stop removing it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by SitDownOnIt (talk • contribs) 16:45, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

(Response copied from User talk:SitDownOnIt) Hi there SitDownOnIt, both File:Amelle Get Sexy.jpg and File:Sugababes2010.jpg are sourced to Facebook, and since most Facebook images are copyrighted (and a fair amount of them are probably copyright violations as well), we don't use them here on Wikipedia (to view one of those images requires you to log in). The links provided above by Adambro should prove useful. Best. Acalamari 17:04, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Possible autoreview rights?

I didn't want to post this user's details - User:Nameless User - on the requests for autoreviewer permission page. Just thought I'll bounce his profile off directly at your talk page first. Thanks. ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 17:19, 29 March 2010 (UTC) (If you do leave a reply, kindly leave a note on my talk page)

Hi Wifione, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, Nameless User has had their autoreviewer rights removed twice before, and their talk page has a lot of warnings on it regarding article creation, so I don't think it would be very good to grant autoreviewer to them under these circumstances. Thanks again for your suggestion, and I am sorry I wasn't able to grant additional rights to your candidate. Best. Acalamari 23:04, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Rollback request

Thanks for taking the time to do this (for me and all the others you have helped). I will use it judiciously. Emargie (talk) 00:00, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, same here. Thanks Acalamari once again. Adrenalin 150% (talk) 03:01, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

My Anniversary

Thank you for your congratulations. with the turnover we seem to experience now, three years is indeed a meaningful seniority; although I am well aware that some scores of admins, including your good self, have done much more than I have. I do intend to remain here, doing what I have been doing, quietly in the background, and look forward to your e-mail. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 20:10, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Request for confirmation

I just abandoned an old account that I cannot name for security reasons, and would appreciate a "Confirmed" status because I am not a common editor. Thanks; -Pavel (Paul) (talk) 18:38, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

•  Done, though someone will probably remove it once your account reaches autoconfirmed status. Best. Acalamari 18:59, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks! You just saved me a good few months of red tape. I may try for Adminship on this account in a year or so when the edit count for this account is in the 3000+. It's a high goal, but I can't disclose my old account name and the editcountitis takes over for the voting community at this point. I'm going to make special mention to you on my user page, too.

Thanks! -Pavel (Paul) (talk) 20:47, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Helping Hand Barnstar
		Thanks for helping newcomers (much like myself nowadays) out so much! -Pavel (Paul) (talk) 21:38, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Recently, I haven't helped as much as I used to, but it's nice to know that when I do, it's appreciated. Acalamari 21:42, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks....

for reverting the vandalism on my talk page --5 albert square (talk) 23:34, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome! Acalamari 23:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Review of closure process 2

Because you've contributed to FPC either recently or in the past, I'm letting you know about the above poll on the basis of which we may develop proposals to change our procedures and criteria. Regards, Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:39, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

For your non-urgent consideration

For your non-urgent consideration. At your convenience, (and there is no hurry), I will take great interest in reading your reply.

In this edit, you state: Hello Ronz, I have granted rollback rights to your account in accordance with your request.

I am very (inadequate) VERY (inadequate) extremely interested to understand why you did this. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:43, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Intervention by another user on another topic

I'm happy to discuss my use of rollback, in the context of Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Personal_attacks_and_harassment_by_Pdfpdf Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Personal_attacks_by_Pdfpdf or otherwise. --Ronz (talk) 16:56, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Dear Mr Ronz. Thank you for your offer, but I have no interest in your use of rollback - in any circumstances. Not that it's any of your business, but I was asking this gentleman why he granted it. Whether you have used it or not, and how you have used it or not, is of no interest to me. Pdfpdf (talk) 17:36, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Rollback button

Hi, can I please have the rollback button. I patrol RC a lot, and i would love to take my vandalism-fighting to another level. MichaelJackson231 (talk) 17:39, 25 July 2010 (UTC) I am also an RC patroller and I would like it if I could patrol with the rollback feature

Re-establishment

Hi there; I am waiting for and looking forward to your re-assertion of your position in wikipedia under your primary account. Best wishes. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:26, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi! I'm actually quite active under my alternate account, more so than I was expecting, and until I'm back on my own internet again, I'll be editing with this for the time being. At any rate, I don't mind editing without the admin tools for a bit anyway. Just so you know now, I'll be sending an E-mail to you later. Thanks for your kind words. Best. Acalamari (from Bellatrix Kerrigan) 09:22, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Survey on gender

Hi! I'm Liria Veronesi (User:Akoha77) and, together with Paolo Massa (User:Phauly), I'm starting an empirical research on "Gender and votes in requests for adminship". For this reason, we need to know the gender of Wikipedians who were candidated to become admins.

We tried looking for the templates User:UBX/male and User:UBX/female but only 4 admins use it. We also used the API for getting the gender field in the profile but, out of 1744 admins, only around 400 have filled this field. But we would benefit from a larger coverage, i.e. possibly knowing the gender of 100% of candidates.

So, after asking for advice to 3 admins and receiving 2 positive replies (1 and 2), we decided to try to ask directly to Wikipedians.

Thus, would you be so kind to write your gender [Male / Female / Other], together with a text comment if you want, on my talk page at User_talk:Akoha77? If you prefer to send me this information privately, you can send me an email, the information will be kept confidential and never shared.

Thanks! Akoha77 (talk) 12:49, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Added a line in "Chrismass"

Hi A, first let me thank you for your time, efforts and contribution to the wikipedia. I was very interested reading the Chrismass criticism and economics chapter, found there were some interesting elements in the economics chapter that support criticism against the whole monetization around the Chrismass period and since both chapters are quite far away/separated from each other, some readers might not find out about the interesting and complementary data in both chapters. So, I wanted to add a line "People interested in this section, might also be interested in reading this subject's section 6 Economics." Is that a good way of proceeding?

And as I was doing some previews and improving the editing and in-article hot-linking, I noticed "your" "Note: This page has been semi-protected so that only autoconfirmed users can edit it." That's a new notice for me, and I hope you don't mind me asking you here if I can find out if I'm such a autoconfirmed user or not? Do I meet the quality criteria or not? I'm not in some research center surrounded by intellectuals/phd degree people that I hope are massively contributing to Wikipedia via their publications, but just like you started out, I do try to help out to improve typo's and rephrasing things, though I'm known to make slip from time to time when I'm tired and frustrated about something that I've heard or read and wanting to check what wikipedia would say on the subject and then inserting something of low quality.

And thirdly: "I'm likely to respond on both my talk page and yours anyway. I've learned that it's best to keep a discussion in the same place in order to avoid confusion." I'm a bit frustrated with the discussion tools offered by the wikipedia's software. I'm very familiar with the google discussion groups and yahoo's mailing-list tools and they seem better. Can you indicate where I can read how I'm supposed to discuss something or get involved in a discussion? Maybe you can add a link to your line mentioned to such a place as I feel you're familiar with it but I have a hard time understanding your line as on one hand you say: you copy an answer and here in your page I guess below my "talk" and you do the effort of going to my "talk" page and copy/pasting that same Q&A then? What an effort, where do you get the energy from, what food to you eat, exercises, do you also have a 3 yr old challenging me to adapt continuously etc.? hihihi, looking forward reading you.

And four: How much do I violate good behaviour standards when asking 4 questions/raising 4 topics in one chapter? Shouldn't I have made a separate chapter for every one of them in this "talk" page? Thank you so much for enlightening me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SvenAERTS (talk • contribs) 09:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Template:Infobox mountain

You are using {{Infobox mountain}} on your sub page User:Acalamari/Dutchman Peak. Currently, that infobox uses deprecated parameter names. In the near future the template is to be updated and those parameter names will not work. I updated the template for you. I hope that was OK. –droll [chat] 19:01, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2010 ArbCom election voting procedure

You are invited to participate in the Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2010 ArbCom election voting procedure which is expected to close in a little over a week. If you have received this message, it is because it appears that you participated in the 2009 AC RfC, and your contributions indicate that you are currently active on Wikipedia. Ncmvocalist (talk) 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Vote in the ArbCom elections

Acalamari, someone using the User:Bellatrix Kerrigan account appears to have cast a vote in the ArbCom elections. While you can't retract it, you should know that voting with alternate accounts is frowned upon for future reference. Regards, Skomorokh 13:32, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi there. It is me who voted, and I e-mailed MBisanz on this subject prior to the vote beginning and he said I would be okay providing there was a clear link between accounts and I wasn't double voting. I'm about to go out so I'll go into more detail when I come back if you like. Acalamari (from Bellatrix Kerrigan) 13:42, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Okay sorry for the inconsistency there, that's understandable. Regards, Skomorokh 13:45, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Don't worry! I don't mind being asked about this, especially since it's unusual. Since I'm not on my own internet at the moment, I'm using this account, but I will go back to my regular account when I have my own internet again, though that won't occur before the voting ends, and even if it did, I wouldn't be voting with it (I see you made this edit, and in the interests of transparency, I think that's a good idea). Thanks for your work in this Arbcom season. Best. Acalamari (from Bellatrix Kerrigan) 15:56, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your support at my RfA last week. I'll do everything I can to live up to your expectations and trust. Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 21:36, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Your main account

Hi there; I keep hoping to see you at your main account, and keep on not doing so. I do know that having a bit of a break from admin hassle is good for you, and you will recall that I took three months off earlier this year. But come home now, eh? You are needed. A lot of the senior admins seem to have vanished lately. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry, merry

Bzuk (talk) 22:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Happy, happy

Happy New Year, and all the best to you and yours!

Welcome

Welcome back. It's good to see you again. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 20:30, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Happy 10th Anniversary of Wikipedia!

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Happy 10th anniversary of Wikipedia!

HeyBzuk (contribs) has bought you a whisky! Sharing a whisky is a great way to bond with other editors after a day of hard work. Spread the WikiLove by buying someone else a whisky, whether it be someone with whom you have collaborated or had disagreements. Enjoy!

Spread the good cheer and camaraderie by adding {{subst:User:HJ Mitchell/WikiScotch}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Bzuk (talk) 15:32, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Happy Decade :)

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Happy 10th anniversary of Wikipedia!

Baseball Watcher ^{Lets Chat} has bought you a whisky! Sharing a whisky is a great way to bond with other editors after a day of hard work. Spread the WikiLove by buying someone else a whisky, whether it be someone with whom you have collaborated or had disagreements. Enjoy!

Spread the good cheer and camaraderie by adding {{subst:User:HJ Mitchell/WikiScotch}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Message received at 23:21, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the Autopatrolled flag!

Though I suspect the New Page Patrollers were generally the only ones reading my stuff ;) Gonzonoir (talk) 12:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, I can always take it away again if you like. :D You're welcome for the userright: I was actually very surprised that you didn't already have it. Acalamari 12:42, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Autowotsit

I saw your comment on Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Autopatrolled_candidates_1#User:Rajasekhar1961 and offered a second opinion. Since you got there first and I don't feel strongly, I'll leave it up to you. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:42, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi HJ Mitchell! I was actually planning to come to your talk page soon, but it seems you got here first. :) Anyway, thanks for the comment, I'll take a look in a minute. I've answered a load of the listings (especially on the second page, which I'm still going through), but I did leave a few blank (I'm back here after a long break from the admin tools, so some of the more difficult ones I left), and on the second page I think I asked for input there too on one or two of them. Thanks! Acalamari 17:51, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks very much, Acalamari. I really appreciate you and HJ Mitchell going through the lists of candidates and reviewing them. You guys are going through the lists faster than I can make them. Thanks again. - Hydroxonium (H₃O⁺) 19:20, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome, but thank you for compiling the lists: it's much easier to go through a list of users to evaluate than going out searching for users to grant the rights to! Acalamari 20:08, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I think it's harder to do the reviewing rather than working on the list. I'm just going through a list from a year ago and checking basic things and formatting it with {{RfP}} requests. - Hydroxonium (H₃O⁺) 20:33, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, I'm happy to help review the users you've listed, though after spending quite a bit of time on it, it is nice to take a rest. :) I'll do some more tomorrow if there's more. Best. Acalamari 20:45, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Likewise. I've been hoping for a list like this for a while. Short of checking out experienced-looking editors on NPP or waiting for them to request it, it's difficult to find the people who would actually have a use for the permission. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:34, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks very much Acalamari and thanks very much HJ Mitchell. You've both been going to town on the lists and I really appreciate it. I don't think there is a rush for any reviews. I think you can do this as you have spare time, so please don't run yourselves ragged. Thanks again. - Hydroxonium (H₃O⁺) 23:31, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Upgrade

Hi there. Thanks very much for the upgrade to autopatrolled. Much appreciated. Regards Amsaim (talk) 20:25, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome! Acalamari 20:31, 18 January 2011 (UTC)