User talk:EncMstr/Archive7

Pecker Dunne

An update I posted on Pecker Dunne was removed because I did not provide a source. The source is the Clare FM news where it has been confirmed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patricu (talk • contribs) 12:37, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps you can find a page on the radio station's website giving details. If so, add that to the article, preferably as an inline citation.

While many facts are not controversial in most articles, we are especially sensitive to those about living people. See the guidelines and policies about biographies of living people for more insight. —EncMstr (talk) 17:36, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

hello! i have majorly changed the face of CWC!

i have probably earned myself a one way ticket to loss of privledge, but, hey, atleast i'm tellin' ya'll first.

i actually TAKE dual enrollment for CWC so i may be biased, but i don't think my edits reflect this (i just tried to structure this article a little bit)

i've moved lots of stuff and rephrased some sections... yea.Whitingcameron (talk) 04:14, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

As long as you are intending to improve Wikipedia, you are very unlikely to be sanctioned or punished. Your edit to Central Wyoming College looks like an improvement. Thanks! —EncMstr (talk) 04:49, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Apology

It appears that I made the same edit three times on HTTP Secure, which was not my intention. I intended to make it once and discuss it if anyone reverted it. I don't know how it happened -- I must have somehow opened the same page in multiple tabs. Please accept my apology. Sorry about that. --Guy Macon (talk) 22:58, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Help with disruptive new editor

I wonder if you might help with an ongoing problem of a new, inexperienced editor, Dfgg, who is making extensive and disruptive edits to articles about TriMet and other local transit? (It's not the same one we were dealing with a couple of months ago, who was not a new editor.) He/she – I'm going to assume from here on that it's a "he", as most transit fans are – has been doing it for a week, and you, Aboutmovies and others have reverted a few of his edits, but I figured maybe he was not seeing the edit summaries where you all explained why you were undoing his edit (some newcomers may not even know about viewing page histories yet). I finally left a message on his talk page this morning, explaining why most of his edits had been reverted, and I tried to be nice about it and provide helpful links. However, since then, he has gone back and made made more bad edits, of the exact same types, after I patiently explained the problem, such as here (after I explained that he should check his new links to avoid creating red links) and here, where he simply reverted (without comment) my reversions of his earlier edits, in spite of my message on his talk page. He was logged in when he made edits this afternoon, so he definitely would have seen my message from this morning, but has not replied, and appears to be ignoring it. I don't want to bite a newbie, but if he's going to ignore my polite message filled with helpful links, and continue to disrupt dozens of TriMet pages, administrative action may be warranted (I'm thinking of just a warning message at this point, of course). Thanks. SJ Morg (talk) 02:04, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your thoughtful and thorough message on his page. It does seem like he is simply a newbie and not aware of the overall context of his edits. I remember being amazed at how many articles were present such that almost any word or phrase would link to a good article.

In the last few minutes, he has unlinked Bus. There is still room for improvement and I'll keep an eye on his edits, but I think we can step down from yellow alert (amazing it doesn't exist!). —EncMstr (talk) 03:33, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia edit-thon: Saturday, February 9, 2013

WIKIPEDIA EDIT-ATHON! You're invited to the upcoming Wikipedia edit-athon, scheduled for Saturday, February 9 from 2–5pm in Old Town. Sponsored by Wiki Strategies and Prichard Communications, the event will begin with an introduction to Wikipedia, followed by an edit-a-thon focused on Portland's food scene, all things that "Keep Portland Weird", and local startup businesses. Details and signup here!

Hope to see you there! --Another Believer _(Talk) 16:34, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Glad to see you signed up! See you tomorrow, --Another Believer _(Talk) 18:39, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Oh no! So sorry you missed the event (see Finetooth's message on my talk page). We had a good time. I am wondering if there was a miscommunication at some point, since both of you had difficulty locating the space. Hopefully next time... If you find something was misprinted somewhere, please let me know the source. The address appears to be correct on the meetup page and the WikiProject invitation.--Another Believer _(Talk) 04:05, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Pete phoned and he speculated that maybe in an email he had given the wrong address, but his emails don't have any address at all (so you are off the hook, Pete). Somehow Finetooth and I hallucinated the same thing; we were off by only one block, and I even walked around the block adjacent to the proper location looking for a hidden backdoor into the wrong building. Sheesh!

I still wonder what happened for the wiknique at Willamette Park. I saw no one else there even though 5+ people signed up. (queue Twlight Zone music). Maybe some interdimensional interference wants me to miss these? —EncMstr (talk) 05:17, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Lists

Hello. My understanding is that when it comes to list of people, it is not a requirement that there be an article on a person. There is it is true an essay out there, that is in conflict with policy, which suggests the need for an article. But policy trumps the view of one or more editors, that has not been elevated to policy, where the two are at odds. IMHO. Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:09, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

I suspect you are referring to my recent revert of the addition of a notable person to Sumpter, Oregon?

I cited WP:WTAF in that edit summary as shorthand for WikiProject Oregon's strong consensus that adding an entry to a notable people section requires a biographical article to demonstrate notability. Citations supporting an association between the person and the community are not required (except for GA class and above), but certainly welcome. Our city articles with larger lists usually have an embedded comment, like this. —EncMstr (talk) 07:54, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi. That was in fact the trigger. Here is my thinking. WTAF is, as it states at its outset, "the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. Essays may represent widespread norms or minority viewpoints. Consider these views with discretion. Essays are not Wikipedia policies or guidelines." While the addition fell afoul of this essay -- the view of one more editors -- it fell within the policy. As such, the essay is not reason to delete ... and in fact, the essay itself only encourages the creation of an article -- it is not a basis for deletion of appropriate material. wp:listpeople is the pertinent policy, and it falls within that. As to wp Oregon's views, if they are only as strong as those of essay, they aren't reason to delete. And finally, I believe it is fairly uncontroversial that wikiproject views do not trump wp policy. So, unless there is something more, I don't see a basis for deletion of in-policy entries that are RS-supported.--Epeefleche (talk) 08:01, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello. Hope all is well. Just dropping by to see if you have any thoughts on my prior post. Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 18:27, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

RE: Giants series

Thanks, I read the series for the first time this week and thought the article needed touching up a bit. I've done The Genesis Machine and might have a go at Voyage from Yesteryear.--Wyvern Rex. (talk) 17:52, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

First Battle of Bull Run

I just published a novel called Mulligan which shows some history of the Irish Brigade in the Civil War, including General Meagher at Bull Run. Why was my contribution deleted? The book also has a section on Gettysburg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.50.92.187 (talk) 03:25, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

The editor who reverted your edits gave the edit summary Reverted edits by 134.50.92.187 identified as unconstructive, which I agree with. See our policies on Original Research, Neutral Point-of-View, and Verifiability. Wikipedia is not a platform to promote your work. —EncMstr (talk) 05:50, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

You're invited! Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon at the University of Oregon

Saturday, March 9 - Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon at the University of Oregon - You are invited!

Come celebrate Women's History Month at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, on March 9! This event, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, is hosted by the Fembot, in collaboration with ASOU Women's Center, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the School of Journalism and Communication, and the UO Libraries. Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history! The event is March 9, from 1-4 PM, at the University of Oregon Library. You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 19:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Block

Why did you block me (user:Banan14kab) simply because I did not use edit summaries? I forget often and I make quick obvious edits that can be seen in the history... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.58.203.123 (talk) 22:14, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

I did it to get your attention. Now that I have it, please try providing an edit summary for at least half your edits. An edit summary greatly helps those who review edits in the Recent Changes log, article history, and user contributions. Vandals commonly provide no edit history, so it is usually fruitful for edit reviewers to closely inspect edits lacking a summary. Please see WP:EDITSUMMARY for more. Consistently failing to provide edit summaries, especially after having been warned before is disruptive editing, which is the basis of your block. I'll unblock you now. Happy editing! —EncMstr (talk) 23:26, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Ostroski, again

He's back - creating templates in phony Talk page articles - see:

173.86.27.170 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves)

Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 05:52, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

 Done: pages deleted and IP blocked Thanks. —EncMstr (talk) 05:54, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Page semi-protection

What do you think of semi-protecting the Oregon article again? Looking at the page history is pretty brutal. Jsayre64 (talk) 05:25, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

It looks to be well below the threshold for protection with only 12 vandal attacks in February, with one good edit by an IP editor. There are 262 editors watching the article and it is reflected by the usually speedy reversions. All but two reverts occurred within a minute of vandalism; the two reverts occurred in 2 minutes 49 seconds and 2 minutes 45 seconds.

As always, I keep a close eye on it. If it receives prolonged heavy vandalism, I'll protect it. —EncMstr (talk) 05:55, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

EncMstr, kill yourself — Preceding unsigned comment added by CallumCiappelli (talk • contribs) 10:38, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Article Feedback deployment

Hey EncMstr; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:17, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Vandal -- 38.111.41.162

I noticed you are the admin that applied the last block of 38.111.41.162 (talk). I just reverted this edit that was obviously vandalism and thought you should know. Technical 13 (talk) 13:22, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I monitor the talk page of all users I have recently (in the last few years) blocked. If you warn them for vandalism, etc., I'll likely investigate their recent edits to determine whether another block is appropriate. No need to directly notify me. Also, if they vandalize an article on my watchlist or on the WP:ORE watchlists (a total of about 18,000 articles), I'll react similarly. Thanks again! —EncMstr (talk) 13:39, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Awesome, that is good to know. I'm just confused what WP:WikiProject Oregon has do to with it. Technical 13 (talk) 22:38, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

WP:ORE maintains several watchlists like this and this. We have a bot which updates the lists daily to include any pages added to the project, so it easy to keep tabs on project-related articles. —EncMstr (talk) 22:59, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

WP Geographical Coordinates in the Signpost

The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Geographical Coordinates for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot (talk) 02:09, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

AFT5 re-enabled

Hey EncMstr :). Just a note that the Article Feedback Tool, Version 5 has now been re-enabled. Let us know on the talkpage if you spot any bugs. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:48, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Blush Thanks for removing that {{reflist}}!

In High-voltage direct current. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.41.210.146 (talk • contribs) 04:42, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

Thank you for all you do for Wikipedia, including tirelessly reverting vandalism, protecting pages when needed and blocking persistent vandals, as well as helping those who need an administrator. I see your edits all the time in the "recent changes" for WikiProject Oregon, and a lot of your work is the kind of stuff that is under-appreciated, but which really helps maintain (or improve) the quality of articles. You've helped me whenever I've needed an administrator, which fortunately has been only rarely, but for awhile now I've wanted to express my appreciation of your contributions without it being tied to any particular action .... because you are constantly working to protect and improve Wikipedia. As they say in Australia, good on ya! SJ Morg (talk) 06:51, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I greatly appreciate that. I frequently see you on my watch list too, most noticeably making great strides to improve the articles you touch. Thanks. —EncMstr (talk) 05:56, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Philadelphia University Edits

Hello,

Thank you for noticing the incorrect edits on our university's Page. Although the person making the edits is correct that PU is not the accepted branding of the university. I am the brand manager and web developer for the University and "PhilaU" is the only accepted shortening of the University's name. What can we do to keep vandals from turning it back to "PU"? I will from now on monitor the page and make changes when necessary.

Again I thank you for your efforts in fixing errors on this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.227.95.240 (talk) 14:11, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

1. You can examine the article periodically and check its content. If untoward edits are made, revert them.

2. You can create an account and add the article to your watchlist. This makes it easy to see what changes have made, which are easier to track than viewing the whole article.

3. You can subscribe to an RSS feed of changes to the article. I haven't done this, so am not sure of the details, but you probably need a Wikipedia account.

Cheers, —EncMstr (talk) 14:28, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Fleet management software

Why did you tag my edits as spam? I have nothing to do with the company, I ran across the website for them looking for a solution to track sailboats and IMHO its program is innovative and, after I did some searches I felt it warranted mention in this article. I am also looking at a number of products, from a number of companies in this market that fit the bill and had planned to write into this my discoveries. My use of this technology is for a media related program and I felt that my edit was just and unbiased.

WP:SPAM: "A differentiation should be made between spam articles and legitimate articles about commercial entities."

From your history it looks like you do a great deal of tagging, with out explanation on any talk page per WP:SPAM: When an article on an otherwise encyclopedic topic has the tone of an advertisement, the article can often be salvaged by rewriting it in a neutral point of view. Elements of articles about products or services with brand names can also be combined under a common topic or category to facilitate unbiased and collaborative information by including information about the competition and about different alternatives.

• I reviewed your user profile and we have a great deal in common. I am creating a production that with out exposing the subject to far is dealing with "Fleet's of boats" it is going to be used for a TV pilot that I am involved with. Fleet Tracking was my first search and that lead me NO WHERE, as the page now has little ref's to outside anything or other applications that might allow me to accomplish my goal. Why do you feel that my addition of an example of the technology discribed was out of place sir? User:WPPilot-- 22:14, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps when I labeled it as spam was too strong a statement. The addition certainly reads like a press release:

Smart GPS, from Drivers Alert features integrated GPS/Tracking equipment with a web-based Enterprise Fleet Safety Management system to help its users make improvements in fleet driver behavior and safety, fuel efficiency, preventive maintenance and operational costs.<ref> http://www2.driversalert.com/fleet-gps.aspx |Smart GPS System </ref>

It begins with a company name, links the company to trendy technology, and gives a list of benefits. The peculiar citation format increased my suspicion that this was a drive by advertisement insertion.

I did consider trying to salvage it, but to do a decent job one or two competitors would have to be identified and researched and common attributes combined into a paragraph with more cursory mentions of the companies. I was interrupted twice around the time of dealing with the edit and ultimately decided to click on "advert" (in Twinkle), but mis-clicked and hit "spam" instead. 99.9% of the time no one responds to such actions, so I didn't bother to fix it.

Please feel free to add it again. I will look for competitors to add to it.

Had I been intending a "spam" label, I would have reviewed your editing history: It is solid contribution history. Thanks for the great work! —EncMstr (talk) 22:34, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Ok fair enough I will give it another go here soon. I guess I am part of the .1 percent club then :), thanks for your complement I am lucky to be able to do what I can. --WPPilot 04:29, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Question re: blocking

Hi EncMstr, I am wondering if you could answer a question, I understand if you're too busy or not inclined to. You recently blocked 108.181.44.47 after I gave a warning for disruptive editing. I am wondering how the user came to your attention, was it my warning, a request from another user? I'm just curious as to how it works. Thanks FlatOut 03:27, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

108.181.44.47 (talk · contribs) was on my watchlist for previous troublesome editing. When I see any activity on such users, I usually check their editing history and act accordingly. In this case, the user returned to their old pattern, so I blocked to spare editors having to deal with the consequences of such behavior. —EncMstr (talk) 03:44, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

good to know, thanks. FlatOut 03:49, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

User: David J Johnson

Just to record my thanks to you for reverting the vandalism on my user page. Regards, David, David J Johnson (talk) 08:25, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello

Hiya, I just asked a question over on WP:RED about personal names. As an editor of this guideline if you could help me find an answer I would much appreciate it. Thanks. -- MisterShiney ✉ 18:02, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

It looks like someone is looking after your question, so I'll keep an eye on it, but it seems covered. —EncMstr (talk) 18:14, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Portland "Wiknic" 2013!

	"WIKNIC" 2013! You're invited to the upcoming "Wiknic", scheduled for Saturday, June 22. In typical Wikipedia fashion, you can help decide the location. Details and signup here!

Hope you are able to attend! --Another Believer _(Talk) 22:44, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Enc, are you able to write a description of exactly where in the park people should meet? Or, if it is easier, post a map? (I am not sure how OpenStreetMap works, but that might be an option.) Thanks for the location suggestions--Laurelhurst Park was a hit! --Another Believer _(Talk) 15:34, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

I gave a precise coordinate—what more do you want?  :-) But in plotting it, all I could see was tree tops. I'll do a full field investigation midday today. —EncMstr (talk) 16:54, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks again for your assistance, and for coming to today's meetup! Always great to see familiar faces. --Another Believer _(Talk) 00:38, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Standard diving dress

Any particular reason for your revert? I'm not seeing the problem here. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:39, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

You are right: I didn't notice there were consecutive edits, all but the last seemed valid. I think I corrected it? Does the IP's last edit seem spammy to you as well? —EncMstr (talk) 18:50, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

OK, I'd agree with that.

The course details might be un-spammmy if it added anything to the article. With a bit of detail, even possibly just a URL, it might be a really good addition. As it is though it's just a content-free namecheck and that's definitely not what we want. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:59, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Special Barnstar
		For the hard work that it must have taken to prepare List of waterfalls in Oregon from scratch last year, and for working on other Oregon-related lists. Jsayre64 (talk) 21:52, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

James P. Hogan reversion

Sorry I didn't explain on the article but the information I deleted was duplicated. Star Child and Martian Knightlife aren't really novels (Star Child collects four linked short stories while Martian Knightlife collects two novellas with the same lead character) so in an earlier edit I put them in the collections section along with contents information. Would it be OK to restore my edit?--Wyvern Rex. (talk) 09:05, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Of course. I didn't look at the overall context—only that there was valid material removed without any explanation. Please use the edit summary to avoid misunderstandings. Thanks! —EncMstr (talk) 10:13, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

I've got a question relating to JPH. Apparently, in 2010-11 there was supposed to be a final collection of his coming out with Hadley Rille publishers but there's no word on its release. Here's what I know:

• There were supposed to be five reprints. The titles were not disclosed but "The Colonising of Tharle", "Jailhouse Rock", "Murphy's War", "Escape" and the expanded version of "Leapfrog" hadn't been collected elsewhere.
• In addition, five new stories were planned. No details have been disclosed.
• No "non-fiction" articles were mentioned.

Do you know anything else about this?--Wyvern Rex. (talk) 13:35, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Deletion assistance

 Done —EncMstr (talk) 20:54, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

It's not urgent, but could you help me by either deleting, or advising me how best to propose deleting, the following article? – RiverPlace (MAX station). I only recently discovered that this article exists, even though it was created in 2006 (!), in relation to a light rail line that did not even begin to be under construction until 2011 and is not due to open until 2015. It's a completely unreferenced, four-sentence stub, and renaming it doesn't make sense, because TriMet no longer has any plans for a RiverPlace station on the Milwaukie MAX line. This stub never should been created (at such an early stage in the planning for the MAX line) in the first place, and I see no reason to keep the "article" on Wikipedia, but I cannot find an appropriate criterion at WP:CSD for a speedy deletion. Must this case really go through a deletion discussion? (You can answer on this page, which I'll watchlist.) SJ Morg (talk) 11:15, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

WP:FUTURE is the applicable reason, but for CSD, it is probably best captured in CSD#A7: No indication of importance. I have deleted it on that basis. Thanks! —EncMstr (talk) 20:54, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. I considered tagging it with CSD#A7, but I wasn't sure, since A7 lists specific (but broad) subject areas, and this subject – a proposed structure – did not appear to fit under any of them. However, I figured A7 is probably intended to cover such cases, and your application of it supports that notion. Thanks again. SJ Morg (talk) 07:21, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, EncMstr. You have new messages at Gtwfan52's talk page.
Message added 02:49, 30 July 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Gtwfan52 (talk) 02:49, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Inappropriate Templates?

Hi EncMstr, I just got a weird message from you and I think you have the wrong guy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.1.64.82 (talk) 17:28, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

User:MeltzerSeltzer

We're having some issues with linkspamming and other less than ideal behaviors from a few american masters linked accounts. You only blocked this account for three hours, and given the ongoing nature of the issue. Would you mind extending it to indefinite? NativeForeigner ^Talk 18:50, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Where else is there related linkspamming?

I made the block short to get their attention. It seems like there is good faith to his/her edits and some articles might have been helped if considered in isolation. I had intended to reevaluate their intent when the block expires. If they resume, then yes, a long term block would follow. —EncMstr (talk) 18:55, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what i figured. Everything is listed here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/AmMasters NativeForeigner ^Talk 21:10, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

July 2013

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Winston, Oregon may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "[]"s. If you have, don't worry, just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:

• * [[Josh Bidwell]], professional football player, [[1999 NFL Draft]], [[punter]- [[Green Bay Packers]], [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]],[[2006 Pro Bowl]]

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 19:04, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Account soon to be blocked?

Does this mean that if I don't make an account soon I can't access wikipedia from this computer/IP address? This is my work computer but I use wikipedia regularly, so the edits that "don't appear to be in good faith" could have been from another user with the same IP, but I clicked the link and I didn't see anything inappropriate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.1.64.82 (talk) 19:48, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

It does mean that. Here are a few recent unhelpful edits: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6].

Ordinarily, I would have blocked your editing already, but there have been some recent constructive edits like [7] [8] [9] and [10]. —EncMstr (talk) 00:18, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Mr. Jensen's edits

I need advice re: a late June 2013 editing conflict between me and Mr. Jensen on the Oregon Trail article. He reverted, without engagement, edits I made, and when queried by a third party, he let loose w/ quite a list of Wiki-sins I've committed. He seems to be Wiki-experienced and well-regarded, and also a historian, so the Oregon Trail topic might be of special interest to him. My edits, however, were legitimate, and his reversion of them was followed with a rather harshly written (and not particularly convincing) explanation (after the third-party got involved (was that you?)) that seemed very odd to me. Please advise. I would still like to fix that article.

Can you see his comments on my page? Or? Hlwelborn (talk) 23:56, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

A look at the recent history of Oregon Trail shows that most of your edits were reverted without any reason being given. Both users Aboutmovies and Rjensen are experienced and highly aware of wiki policy and probably thought their reasoning was obvious. The article's talk page has a section where I intervened Talk:Oregon Trail#Indians and Rjensen fully explained his rationale.

If you want to change "Indians" to something else, first provide a convincing Wikipedia-based guideline or policy on the talk page and try to persuade interested editors that your changes are an improvement. Note that "political correctness" is not a Wikipedia policy nor even a guideline. Most of us fully believe in the Ignore all rules policy, so you do not need to know much about our policies and guidelines, however, there are links to the most important of them on your talk page. —EncMstr (talk) 00:37, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Saraiki is a language

Saraiki is a language. why you removed.182.186.107.201 (talk) 05:54, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

I did not remove anything except your ability to edit the article. Please use the talk page to gain consensus about your edits. Your approach so far has been disruptive. —EncMstr (talk) 05:59, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Reverted edits

Hi there, I see you reverted the edits of Fahri Ahmad on the Salem, Oregon article. I looked through this users history and they seem to be trying to improve various articles, probably in good faith, by adding wiki links. Unfortunately, many of the wiki links are unnecessary, and other editors have been working to remove them. I'm always reluctant to contact another user in order to correct them. Can you help? Thanks. Richard Apple (talk) 11:29, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi again, you seem to be pretty good at reverting vandalism. Would you mind having a look at the edits of 184.166.65.28. The last edit was to Frank Ténot. The user seems to be randomly removing page warnings. Is there a better way to report vandalism? Thanks! Richard Apple (talk) 21:07, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Richard, Please see WP:R Van for the full guideline about responding to vandalism.

User 184.166.65.28 has been adequately warned and is persisting anyway, so I blocked them for an extended time. I also reverted all that editor's edits which have not had a subsequent edit—which was almost all of them.

For editors who persist inflicting simple vandalism even after receiving warnings, report them to WP:AIV which should usually result in an admin evaluating the situation within minutes (maybe an hour or two). If you notify me, I'll look into it, but it could be 12+ hours before I see your message. Thanks!

Hi again. If you get a chance to look at user 208.68.155.97 that would be great. Richard Apple (talk) 18:08, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

What do you see? I see one edit within the last three months and it seems highly enthusiastic as opposed to intending to cause harm. —EncMstr (talk) 18:12, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Almost all his edits in the past few years are crude vandalism. Look at his edit of Petroleum in 2011. And he hasn't inherited a spammers IP address, because one of his first, and latest edits was to Taft High School (Texas). Richard Apple (talk) 18:22, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

External link to java implementation added to Base64 page

I added this because it provides an alternative to the Apache implementation, which complies with rfc 2045. The iHarder implementation complies with rfc 3548. It also appears widely used and has no licencing requirements. Why do you think it inappropriate, as compared with, for example, the javascript link? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ceperman (talk • contribs) 13:49, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Spelling the unit of length

Note the following text of the original author and official source: http://www.bipm.org/en/si/base_units/ and also your comment to me, "For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used." The original author spelled the word as "metre". An article on customary units used in the USA should spell the internationally agreed official unit name the way the original author did especially since the metre is not actually an customary unit in the USA. Just because it's customary to spell it incorrectly in the USA doesn't mean the issue should just be ignored. The page on the metre spells it correctly and is so referenced in the article on the Customary units of the USA. However, since this is mostly pointless I'll leave it alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.104.247.101 (talk) 15:53, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Takes Portland 2013!

WIKIPEDIA TAKES PORTLAND 2013! You're invited to participate in the upcoming "Wikipedia Takes Portland" campaign, to be held during the month of September. The local campaign occurs annually in conjunction with Wikipedia Takes America and Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States. Photographing sites included on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the main focus of Wikipedia Takes Portland. In typical Wikipedia fashion, you can work individually or create a team. Details and signup here!

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Admin2

Sorry to startle you with a large page size decrease on Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Admin2. I am writing a bot to replace the User:Tedder bot that used to update those pages. No entries were lost with my update. I changed the formatting from a table with a classification column to a section for each page type. That shrunk the page size. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:09, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Libraries 2013

WIKI LOVES LIBRARIES 2013! You're invited to attend the upcoming "Wiki Loves Libraries" edit-athon. The event will be held from 1–4pm on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at the Portland Art Museum's Crumpacker Family Library, located on the second floor of the Museum's Mark Building (formerly the Masonic Temple). The edit-athon will focus on the local arts community (but you can work on other topics as well!). It will also kick off the Oregon Arts Project, an on-wiki initiative to improve coverage of the arts in Oregon. Details and signup here!

EncMstr, if you are able to attend, this edit-athon is being held at the Portland Art Museum. Our hope is that attendees will be interested in writing about the local arts community, though it's not required. It would be great if experienced editors like you were able to come write, meet other Wikipedians and perhaps even help some of the "newbies". Feel free to bring interested friends! Hope to see you there. --Another Believer _(Talk) 15:38, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

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Any reason why you don't want a link to my sandbox placeholder for an MK Guth page? Is that why you reverted my change? Thanks for reverting the change that broke the format of the ref tag, but I think I got it right the second time around. The red broken link on the list of artists bugged me so I started a page and started doing some research on Guth to flesh it out. Hobsonlane (talk) 22:15, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

List of lighthouses on the Oregon Coast link removal

Hi EncMstr,

Thanks for the message, I assumed someone was removing the link but I couldn't find a history for the deletion. From my reading of the guidelines I think the link is permissible if it is to an alternate resource that can not be directly added to the article but enhances the information it contains. I was attempting to link to a compilation map I created that holds much of the same information in the lighthouses article but in a map and guide form that makes it easier to directly see the geography and stats of all the lighthouses together. The image is here: http://www.mapbliss.com/OregonLighthouses/ewExternalFiles/ORLigthousesImage-01.jpg. I think you may be objecting to the commercial portion of the parent website than links to a GPS version of the map you can buy for the free mobile device app, Avenza PDF Maps (no affiliation).

Would you be ok with a direct link to that image rather than my webpage for all of the images?

David — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.228.54.12 (talk) 00:58, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello David, Thank you for initiating conversation. You have surmised correctly that the link did not obviously add any value while it seemed to be selling something. I have added the photo link myself: See if it suits you okay. —EncMstr (talk) 06:24, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Triple Crown of Hiking and Continental Divide Trail

I added a historical fact to the CDT and Triple Crown Pages, why did you remove without researching? How familiar are you with the trail community that you can make this judgment? www.trailjournals.com/sunshine2013CDT — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.154.79 (talk) 17:10, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Per our primary policy of verifiability, you must support your addition with a citation to a reliable source. The addition as made was as though someone's dad added it as casually as mentioning the feat at a social event. —EncMstr (talk) 17:23, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps you can help me do it correctly then. If you google her name or youngest triple crown hiker, she appears in many blogs as the Youngest to hike the CDT and the Triple Crown. Also, it will be on the front page of the Statesman Journal this Sunday. The PCTA and CDTC have publicly congratulated her as such on their face book pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.154.79 (talk) 17:31, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

I added it to Triple Crown along with three citations. It would have been nice to have found it on the ALDHA site. Maybe they are just slow to update? Did you go to the awards? —EncMstr (talk) 19:14, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. ALDHA-West does not recognize speed, age, ect records for the triple crown. They only acknowledge completions. We will go to the award ceremony next September. The deadline to request an award is Aug 1st and we finished Sept 5th.

I guess none of these sources say that she was the youngest to thru hike the CDT, but its kinda implied since no other children have ever hike the entire CDT. Will my blog due? It's stated in the 12th paragraph. http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=433281 Also, it should be stated clearly in the Statesman Journal this Sunday. Thanks for working with me on this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.154.79 (talk) 19:51, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

The Spokane paper said she was the youngest and that's why I added that to the Triple article. Please read about Wikipedia reliable sources and see what you think about citing your blog. —EncMstr (talk) 20:15, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

I assume that USA Today is considered a reliable source. Here's the link. It clearly States that Reed is the youngest to hike the CDT in the last paragraph under the sub-heading "Continental Challenge". http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/27/young-hiker-triple-crown/3282981/ Here's another reference: http://nationaltrailsguide.com/triple-crown-records-broken-in-2013/ They use the words "Youngest to complete The CDT", but to be precise, she did thru-hike it, therefore she is the youngest to thru-hike it, since a thru-hike is a completion. We don't want anyone to be confused and think she section hiked it (over more than one year). She thru-hiked all 3 trails. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.154.79 (talk) 01:39, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

I think USA Today is generally regarded as reliable enough. But have you looked at Triple Crown? I added a tidbit about her and cited it three ways on the 22nd. —EncMstr (talk) 03:17, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes, thanks for adding her to the triple crown page, but she still needs to be added to the CDT page as the youngest thru-hiker. Both the AT and PCT pages have youngest hikers mentioned. The USA Today and Nation Trails Guide links I sent you, both state that she is the youngest to Thru-hike the CDT. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eric Gjonnes (talk • contribs) 19:29, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

List of U of O Buildings

Hello, with the GeoGroup on List of University of Oregon buildings, it keeps wanting to put Fenton Hall over in China, but when I checked in the table and clicked on the GeoHack map link it placed Fenton at its location in Eugene. I don't know how to tweak the GeoGroup to get Fenton back within walking distance of campus. Please help. Visitor7 (talk) 21:18, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the thanks. I wanted to be able to map them all at once and that is an easy way to do it.

Sorry about the China placement: In my first edit to add the names, I left out the hyphen on that entry. I fixed it a few minutes later but I think the toolserver snapshot of coordinates captured it, either because it was a first edit with all the coordinates, or because it grabs them at a set time each day and I just happened to span the snapshot. Either way, I am pretty sure it will be okay tomorrow by this time. —EncMstr (talk) 21:37, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

That is a great mapping tool, and I appreciate seeing how things are done downtown. Visitor7 (talk) 02:53, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

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New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

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Hi. You've participated in the editing of KCAL-TV. Can you offer your opinion about the inclusion of material in an article that's taking place in this consensus discussion, in which the reliability of that source is one of the issues that was raised (among others)? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 18:18, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

What is the connection between KCAL and Garnet Bailey? I don't get it. —EncMstr (talk) 19:46, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

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American Investors

Since you used the "the username is the only reason template", and American Investors (talk · contribs) has propose a new name that does not appears to be a group, I have unblocked his account to allow him to put in for a rename. Kuru (talk) 14:15, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Updating WP:Oregon articles list

As you're probably well aware, the list of all WikiProject Oregon articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Admin, which is essential in making the "recent changes" feature useful, continues to be seriously out of date, as numerous pleas by me, you and others left on TedderBot's talk page have not led to any fix. If you looked at the page history last summer, you'll know that I made a few manual updates, which were not even close to being comprehensive – covering only new articles, or renamings/moves that I found by looking at the contributions pages of a few active WP:OR editors such as you. Those manual additions were also rather were time-consuming, so I was surprised when, on August 21, you made what appeared to be a complete update of the list (adding a net total of 164 and also updating numerous moved articles), leaving the edit summary "update, by hand as I used to do". It looks like you know some trick that I don't, because I have no idea how to obtain a full list of all such changes, let alone to have it in a form that can be relatively easily used for updating the Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Admin list. Would you please do another one of those "by hand" updates? The last update was four months ago now, when (on Sep. 18) Bamyers99 ran what was identified in the edit summary as a "bot test", which may or may not have updated the list comprehensively (I cannot tell, since it re-sorted everything, using different alphabetization settings, but it did add 35 entries, net), but there has been no update at all in the four months since. Our posts on TedderBot's talk page (in June 2013 and separately in mid-August) were moved to the page's archive months ago, even though the problem was never fixed. Do you have any suggestions for how we might get the bot working again on our page? SJ Morg (talk) 10:16, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for prompting me. I have updated the pages and I'll look into automating this. —EncMstr (talk) 19:26, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

I was just coming here to thank you for doing the update by hand (I picture you with a trowel and a set of tweezers moving the bits around meticulously). So, thanks! I'm very glad for the effort. I am curious as to your process in case Something Terrible Should Happen, but if you can get it automated, all the better. --Esprqii (talk) 19:31, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

The update process is described on the Admin talk page, though it is a little dated (the page format is simpler now). It does depend on a text editor with regular expressions like vi. The most tedious part is copying and pasting the category entries into the editor. Back when there was only 3000 articles, this wasn't too bad, but now there are 17,105 entries! —EncMstr (talk) 19:58, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! That process info. on the talk page is Greek to me, so I'm glad you'll be looking into getting it re-automated. SJ Morg (talk) 12:48, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Eight years later (since I started editing) and you have shown that WikiProject Oregon is still full of win. Thanks guys! Valfontis (talk) 06:08, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Loon Lake (Oregon)

I`m new here, so if you think that I made mistake - just remove it))) If you have time, can you help me whis another article?SlavaBest (talk) 04:14, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Re: Jantzen Beach

I was unclear on the policy but it makes complete sense now that you explained it. Thanks for the help! --Brian Halvorsen (talk) 23:14, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

User talk:WSVNFan

This guy agrees to never ever add schedules again and I'm prepared to unblock on these conditions if it's fine with you. What do you think? Max Semenik (talk) 14:44, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay; quite busy IRL. I have unblocked him. Feel free to reblock on the slightest hint of repeating past undesired patterns. Thanks for following up. —EncMstr (talk) 01:48, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Upon being unblocked, they immediately began the same editing that got them blocked in the first place.[11][12][13][14] Other edits were adjusting already-placed schedules, but it looks like all of their editing since being unblocked has been related to these schedules, which they agreed not to do. - Aoidh (talk) 20:52, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Re Wood River (Oregon) revert

Maybe the proper name changes were incorrect, but reliable sources support all other changes to the article. One mistake doesn't automatically invalidate other edits. Please read the sources. Thanks --Mike Cline (talk) 00:02, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Petco COI

Nothing to do with Oregon, but I just discovered a problem in the Petco article with both conflict-of-interest editing and a violation of the user name policy. I hope you might be willing to take the appropriate steps. (Or perhaps one of your talk page stalkers who's an admin might, if you are busy right now.) Thanks. SJ Morg (talk) 06:12, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

I looked at it. So far I have tagged it for needing inline citations and issued a {{uw-coi}} warning. My read is that the edits were good faith to improve the article. A few sentences might be a bit too salesspeak, but considering the negative content, the article is approximately balanced. Suggestions? —EncMstr (talk) 17:46, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I was too busy in real life, as they say, to reply to this more promptly. I agree with your assessment of the changes. I may re-add some removed dates, but otherwise the edits (on Feb. 10) appear to be a good faith effort to improve the article, and only (as you noted) use a little too much salesspeak – which I probably won't attempt to fix, as I really don't have any interest in this subject. However, from a handful of past cases I've come across, it was my understanding that that new editor's user name ("Lisa Stark at Petco") was a violation of user name policy and that such accounts are normally blocked from editing (and the user asked to create a new account if he/she wants to continue editing), which is something only an admin can do. If that user name is not a violation, then the COI advice notice you left on her talk page is sufficient. SJ Morg (talk) 08:48, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

The most often violated aspect of the WP:USERNAME policy is names giving the impression that the editor is more than one person are not acceptable (Astoria CofC). In the WP:ISU section, Mark at WidgetsUSA is given as an example of a valid username which includes a company name. (Thanks for getting me to reread that.) —EncMstr (talk) 22:31, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for clarifying it for me. SJ Morg (talk) 07:54, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Username block

Why block this user? Is this account connected with a historical society or ??? I was tempted to grant an unblock but since I saw you were the blocking admin I thought I would check. Valfontis (talk) 16:19, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

The username suggests it is a group or organization. Only individual accounts are allowed on Wikipedia. See WP:USERNAME. —EncMstr (talk) 21:54, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

I get the policy, I block people for username violations all the time. But to me this username simply suggests someone who is interested in the history of the east county of somewhere, in this case Contra Costa County, California per the user page. I see you've given them the instructions on how to change usernames, so I guess this will turn out OK in the end, but I think this block was a bit premature, personally. I think the user feels a bit bitten. Since it's not a super obvious COI username like User:Eastcontracountyhistoricalsociety, and the edits weren't promotional, maybe next time drop the user a friendly note? I tend to prefer the {{uw-softerblock}} myself. I learned something from this block I did. Valfontis (talk) 01:40, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Mazamas Edit 13 November 2013

Greetings EncMstr- I'm an Oregon native currently studying at MIT. I made a minor change to the Mazamas page last November for a class assignment. We're currently looking at Wikipedia and how the number of contributors has been declining for the last several years. I was hoping you might comment on your experience with Wikipedia, i.e. what motivates you, how long you've contributed, etc. What do you think the contributor community can do to increase engagement with the next generation of editors. With Best Wishes, ltatone Ltatone (talk) 03:32, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Articles list update

Looks like you've had almost no time for Wikipedia editing this month, but when you next do have the time, can you please do another update of the WikiProject Oregon articles list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Admin? You had been doing it every week or two, but it has now been about six weeks since the last one, so I'm thinking it may have fallen off your radar. Thanks! SJ Morg (talk) 05:15, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

It is underway now. Thanks for the reminder. I'll set it up for automatic daily execution on my home desktop soon, probably this weekend. —EncMstr (talk) 18:07, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

That'll be great. I hope the set-up goes smoothly. Thanks. SJ Morg (talk) 18:39, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, Admin2 needs an update as well--I added about 300 category pages to the project. Thanks! Valfontis (talk) 20:29, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

You are invited to an upcoming WikiWednesday meetup!

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This username seems a teensy bit disruptive

Care to do the honors? Valfontis (talk) 03:56, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done I am honored that you asked me. Thanks! —EncMstr (talk) 05:05, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! Valfontis (talk) 16:55, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks, I accidently deleted all of it, so thanks.

Corey122002 (talk) 17:19, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi i just wondered if you are a boy or a girl?

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Meetup list

Hi, Enc. Hope you are well! I called the meetup list "opt out" in the sense that I added everyone's names once, and they have the opportunity to remove themselves if they do not wish to receive notices. Maybe there can be better wording than opt in vs. opt out? --Another Believer _(Talk) 02:09, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

I think I follow your logic, but the definitions

wikt:Opt in lists those who are participating.

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The list is of those who have not opted out, making it the former. Since you have opted everyone in for them, I suppose it is a military volunteer opt in list—or something like that. :-) —EncMstr (talk) 04:50, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for responding. In order to avoid any confusion, I might just say inclusion is optional. :p --Another Believer _(Talk) 23:58, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

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Continuation of this

Wow. Something tells me you should have a greater hand in doc pages. For a new editor (< 1 year), assuming he believes in doing things right, they're often more hindrance than help. I know there's a project to improve help pages, but that's no reason not to fix some of the worst problems now.

I see you have an interest in coordinates precision, so I would like ask your opinion of some tables I added to the project page at WP:OPCOORD (scroll down a little from that shortcut). Mandruss (talk) 23:34, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I think. Early in my wikiediting history I ran afoul of following what MOS:IMAGE advised, inspiring a long discussion about what the guideline. I can't find it now, but some long time editors disagreed suggesting the guideline was incorrect.

I saw your posting about the coordinate table when you first posted it. My only suggestion would be to be more explicit about ranges:

Size of object	Appropriate DMS precision	Appropriate decimal precision
20 km .. 200 km	d° m'	d.d°
2 km .. 20 km	d° m' s"	d.dd°
...

Thanks for the table. I think it is an improvement. —EncMstr (talk) 00:28, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Hmmm. I'm not sure how to go about choosing ranges that would work well, especially when you take the effect of latitude into account. I've about concluded that what I need to do this right is some DIY computer help with the computations. I'll see what I can do in that regard.

Of course the best solution would be some piece of software, readily available to editors, that, given an object size and latitude, would provide the precision that gets closest to a resolution of one-tenth of the object size. Being a mainframe-software dinosaur, I wouldn't begin to know how to do that in this environment. If you know of someone who might, feel free to try to get them interested in such a task, for the betterment of mankind.

Or, even better, the addition of an object-size parameter to the coord template. If object-size were coded, coord would compute the appropriate precision for you. {{coord|37.8483333|N|119.5569444|W|region:US-AL_type:landmark|70km|display=inline}} ---> 37.8°N 119.6°W / 37.8; -119.6

I have a dream! Mandruss (talk) 01:45, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

@EncMstr: With a considerable amount of effort (I really had trouble getting my head around this), I worked out what the ranges would be for each decimal-degrees format at 0° latitude. I won't put all of them here, but two typical examples are:
60.5 m to 605 m : d.dddd
605 m to 6.05 km : d.ddd
That's not only ugly as sin, it would be pretty hard to work with. Those ranges wouldn't work for the other latitudes, nor would they work for the dms formats. There would have to be a separate table for each combination of latitude and coordinate system, for a total of eight tables. I'd be willing to do the work if I thought the result would be better than the current tables, but I don't. I'm thinking what we have is the best we can do, unless and until one of the aforementioned software solutions happens. Mandruss (talk) 08:45, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

I really like the auto precision display idea. We already have a dim:X parameter where the major size of the object (in meters) can be given. I'll look into that. —EncMstr (talk) 04:34, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

@EncMstr: Glad you like it. Re dim, I'm not sure viewing diameter is exactly the same as object size for computing precision (I don't know how dim is currently used, or may be used in the future).

Ideally, coord would do the math required to produce the perfect answer in every case. That would require both trig functions in the available programming languages, and a programmer who knows trig well enough to apply them to this problem (or can get lots of help with the trig from someone else). If the decision is made to simply implement the tables in coord, it should be made with understanding of the caveat I recently added below the tables:

The tables are not perfect. Some cases will yield a result that is different from what you would get by doing the math (including trigonometry) for that specific case. This is because it is impossible to represent all cases correctly in a usable tabular format. The tables provide the correct answer for a majority of cases. Any error should be limited to one level of precision (e.g., d° m' vs. d° m' s", or d.ddd° vs. d.dddd°), which is acceptable for the purposes of Wikipedia coordinates. Mandruss (talk) 09:54, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Two move requests

 Done —EncMstr (talk) 04:28, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

I don't know if you're around right now, but I hope you can help with two moves that require an administrator. (Valfontis is the only other WP:ORE admin. I know, and she's made no edits the last few days.)
First, I tried to move User:SJ Morg/draft over a redirect (a redirect with only one edit in its history), to create the article "Sentinel Hotel", but I forgot to change "User" to "(Article)" in the page-move menu, so I ended up unintentionally creating a page entitled User:Sentinel Hotel, and User:SJ Morg/draft became a redirect to that. I've blanked it, but I was unable to move it back. Can you please move it back, so that the history of User:SJ Morg/draft is preserved while the unwanted page User:Sentinel Hotel is deleted?

Second, would you be so kind as to move Seward Hotel (Portland, Oregon) to Seward Hotel? I wanted to do that, but was stopped by the fact that the latter had two edits (one by a bot) in its page history. These issues came up as part my efforts to split and expand a couple of articles in order to lessen some longstanding confusion over the histories of the two distinct NRHP-listed buildings which together form the Sentinel Hotel. Neither of these move requests is urgent, although I suppose if the "User:Sentinel Hotel" page continues to exist for long, it may confuse someone. Thanks very much. SJ Morg (talk) 16:16, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

? Thanks, but the page history for User:SJ Morg/draft appears to have been lost. Is there any way to recover it? I can live without it, but if possible I'd like to get it back. SJ Morg (talk) 05:15, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

There is a way to merge histories, but it is kind of scary. Let me practice somewhere first. —EncMstr (talk) 02:13, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

There's no urgency at all. I just hope the page history is still being stored somewhere, and hasn't been erased permanently, but as a non-Admin, I have no idea about such things. Thanks for being willing to try. SJ Morg (talk) 02:35, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

As of 'dates'

Howdy, in January 2015, when some of the governor/lieutenant governor occupants have changed, I'm gonna suggest we 'delete' the As of dates from those sections. It's a waste of time, updating them, when 'the present real time' is itself an automatic updater. GoodDay (talk) 18:27, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Isn't the point to indicate when they were last updated? That way the reader knows how out-of-date the information is, and can react accordingly if they need fresher. —EncMstr (talk) 20:20, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

As long as these lists are updated via 'death of a former governor or former lieutenant governor' or via the retirement/resignation/death or removal from office of a governor or lieutenant governor, the dates will be irrelevant, since we're always aware of the current chronological date. -- GoodDay (talk) 22:14, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

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Re: High technology company

Hi. In the course of creating redirects to a new technology company article, I tripped across this edit and found your edit summary prescient. ;-) --MZMcBride (talk) 21:22, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Clarification

Better to do this here, I think, rather than add clutter there.

• We will always need support for DMS display in rare cases, such as Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!. But you speak of eventually eliminating it completely.

• The word is tooltip, not popup. Popup generally refers to a new window.

• The current content of the tooltip is important. Suggest adding the DMS to it, not replacing what's there. As evidenced by long inline citations, those little tooltips can contain quite a bit of information without becoming intrusive.

• I don't understand: "The automatic precision display can assume a latitude like 40° which is good enough for the vast majority of locations." ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 06:40, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I didn't think I said to completely eliminate DMS; where do you get that from?

Tooltip: Thanks, fixed. And adding to it is a great idea.

The precision of a location expressed in significant digits is affected by its latitude. From the equator to ±60 or so degrees makes little difference, but beyond that it gets to be significant. Let me find the discussion where that was explored. —EncMstr (talk) 06:55, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

"Support for this [keep_original=yes] should eventually be dropped once DMS vs. decimal is not contentious." Doesn't that mean it would then be impossible to display in DMS format?

Well my tables at WP:OPCOORD show that the difference between equator and 60° is never more than one level of precision. So the question is, how important is one level of precision? Also, assuming an arbitrary latitude below 60° wouldn't save you any math, you would still have to calculate the precision based on 40° (object size would still be a variable). So nothing gained by that.

Suggest this language:

The tooltip that is currently displayed when the reader mouseovers displayed coordinates is: Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location. Modify this to: Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location. Degrees-minutes-seconds equivalent is: 45°20'31"N&nbsp;123°20'50"W.

Alternatively, simplify the proposal by dropping the tooltip change, bearing in mind that the user is only a click away from the DMS equivalent anyway, as GeoHack always gives both formats up at the top. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 07:02, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for thinking my suggestions through. I guess I am mis-remembering the issues with decimal precision, and I haven't found the discussion that I remembered. I thought it was this year, but maybe it was longer ago. Anyway, we seem to be close. Go ahead and help kick off updated discussion at WT:GEO. Thanks! —EncMstr (talk) 08:26, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Messages

Tomandjerry211 (talk) 13:50, 23 November 2014 (UTC)Well, thanks for fixing my edit EncMstr!

NJRobbie (talk) December 11, 2014, 9:20 p.m. EST (21:20 UTC) I just would like to let you know that your home state of Oregon has the exact same laws as my home state of New Jersey, especially in regards to gas stations. There are self-service gas stations located in McGuire Air Force Base in Wrightstown, New Jersey. I would like you to check out the Transportation portion of New Jersey, EncMstr.

Exernal link

What's the difference between VLD and Deleaker? Both are 3rd party tools. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArtemRazin (talk • contribs) 22:24, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Ah, this must be about Memory leak. I did not look at any other entries. I only noticed the change you made from my watchlist. I'll look now and clean up whatever cruft might have appeared. —EncMstr (talk) 00:14, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

VLD is open source whereas Deleaker appears to be proprietary and commercial. —EncMstr (talk) 00:21, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

SkiHoodoo

FYSA - I've unblocked SkiHoodoo per an unblock request on his page. As you used the "the username is the only reason for the block" template and he suggested an acceptable alternative, I figured you'd be fine with it. I've asked the standard follow-up questions for COI editing as well; the response was underwhelming, but affirmative. If I'm mistaken and I've missed something, please feel free to undo my actions. Kuru (talk) 22:40, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

PC on 2001: A Space Odyssey

Hi EncMstr— I noticed you applied pending changes protecton to 2001: A Space Odyssey (film). Your rationale was vandalism and content disputes. Given that content disputes are explicitly not a valid reason to apply PC and that since August 2014 I have only counted 6 instances of IP vandalism, could you remove the protection? Regards, Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 22:25, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

My read of the Protection Policy is that pending changes protection is okay provided that a content dispute is not currently happening. The article history is repeated disputes of whether the movie is U.S. versus British about once a year.

However, pending changes protection as I have done doesn't seem to agree with should not be used as a preemptive measure against violations that have not yet occurred. But the policy seems to be self-contradictory with the bit about using semi-protection for one reason, but not providing unregistered editors any disadvantage.

Since this article has 374 editors watching, I am okay revoking page protection, but I am curious: Other than policy why are you advocating its removal, especially since you have editing review privileges? —EncMstr (talk) 22:47, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your consideration. Beyond the policy argument, my additional reasons for asking for removal are that on pages like this, where the preponderance of unregistered edits are constructive and in good faith, imposing protection simply adds more work for reviewers in addition to creating an additional barrier for good faith IP editors. I also review articles where vandalism, particularly BLP vandalism, is much more of a persistent problem and I don't have any objection to PC for those articles. Regards, Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 23:52, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation. I have revoked it on 2001, and will be more discriminating about applying pending changes in the future. Thanks! —EncMstr (talk) 02:03, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Ostroski, again

50.32.120.104 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves)
50.32.116.94 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves)

He's adding hoax infoboxes to talk pages that he's created for Talk:Hysteiliarchius and Talk:Rodopii Man, which qualify for speedy deletion under WP:G3. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 23:15, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. There hasn't been much for awhile. I put a range block in place to cover that range, so he'll have to change ISPs or something fairly major to get around it. —EncMstr (talk) 23:50, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for your tips - I'm still getting my bearings around and this is helpful :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apdxguy (talk • contribs) 01:10, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Possible sockpuppetry in Crater Lake editing

Hi, EncMstr. I see you left a note for User:SpaceX33333 about edits on Crater Lake. I strongly suspect that he/she is a sock for blocked User:73.43.181.69. I am travelling right now, so cannot create a decent SPI for a couple of days. If you agree and wish to pursue, please feel free. Thanks! —hike395 (talk) 06:42, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Yep, it sure looks like it. It is hard to understand how someone could do so much work to develop an edit, but not do the one percent more to make it persist and be accepted by the community. I'll keep an eye on him. Feel free to open a SPI when you are ready. —EncMstr (talk) 06:59, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

 Done Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SpaceX33333 —hike395 (talk) 04:25, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Ostroski, again

he's at it again - same MO

• 74.37.6.164 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves) Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 22:11, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Michiel Huisman's account

	Michiel Huismans
	I have tried to add a profile picture to Michiel Huisman's wiki page, but I was not able to do it due to all the copy rights stuff. I feel he should be given a profile picture due to all the prominent roles he has had on TV and in movies lately. For example Game of Thrones. If anyone could add one I would appreciate it because I think he deserves it. Sebahed (talk) 22:51, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you very much for detailed advice on my talk page yesterday! Gamera1123 (talk) 04:15, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Move review

There is currently a discussion at WP:MR to which you may be associated with. The thread can be found here. Thanks. Qxukhgiels (talk) 22:36, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Block ME!!!!!

Hi,

Could you do a block for me indefinitely with my email disabled and a Hardblock. I want to be sure that I need to retire without being able to make any edits with my IP or making sure that I am not able to edit with my accounts.

Regards - Nim Bhharathhan (talk) 01:33, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@EurovisionNim:, I am willing to do it if you wouldn't mind giving a hint: Why is being blocked preferable to simply not editing in the future? —EncMstr (talk) 03:16, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@EncMstr: I am considering retirement and to just enjoy life without having to edit. My maths teacher suggested just to get off it and don't attempt to make anymore edits. It would be easier and to prevent any more trouble :). i have a girlfriend and she does not want me to get too stressed so it would be easier to be quiet and concentrate in class because i keep getting detentions for going on this site. I just want to move on and I will be making my own site very soon. I would like an indefinite block just to cull my retirement. I hope this was helpful -- Nim Bhharathhan (talk) 04:06, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Okay, just wanted to be reasonably sure this wasn't a compromised account. —EncMstr (talk) 14:49, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome

EncMstr, thanks for the welcome. Referring to the article Standard streams. Do you think that there is an inconsistency with the definition of the term Stream or not? Luciotato (talk) 20:17, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

As I mentioned on the article's talk page, there is the more general stream and the newer, more specific object-oriented stream. See Stream (disambiguation) for all the different meanings for which Wikipedia has an article, and there is also Stream (computing) which mentions many of the various flavors of computer streams. Perhaps that last article helps? —EncMstr (talk) 22:00, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

The article Stream (computing) is the correct one. Please bear with me, maybe I'm not expressing myself correctly. English is not my native language.

1) In Stream (computing) it reads: "a stream is a sequence of data elements made available over time" (let's call this stream-definition-1)

2) The Standard streams article starts with: "This article is about standard I/O file descriptors" implying that a "stream" is a "file descriptor" - (let's call this stream-definition-2)

2) Also In Standard streams it reads: "standard streams are preconnected input and output streams (communication channels)" implying that a "stream" is a "communication channel". (let's call this stream-definition-3)

In stream-definition-1, a "stream" is a sequence of data elements" and in stream-definition-3 a "stream" is a "channel". Either a "stream" is "the channel" or it is "the data in the channel", but it can't be both.

The question is: which one of this contradictory definitions for "stream" is the correct one?

A "stream" is a "sequence of data elements" or is a "communication channel"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luciotato (talk • contribs) 06:04, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for trying to clarify this. Unfortunately, this confusion is common in English where the same word ("stream") is used in many different but subtle ways. That is, it has several distinct meanings. In the case of streams, the individual meanings are very similar. Confusingly so.

"Standard streams" is the name given by English speaking computer scientists for the collection {stdin, stdout, stderr}. Therefore, this implies that each of those is a stream. This is fine though because each of those allow moving data from somewhere to somewhere else, the intuitive simile like a river.

A file descriptor is distinctly different and not what is meant. It is only a "handle" to a stream (or i/o channel) or symbolic name for something which does not have a true name. In this case, we mean a logical i/o channel—which could involve some physical channels—but we don't care how real it is. We only care what the program perceives: it can read from an input stream and write to an output stream.

The computing stream appears to be about a slightly different animal. That article describes sequenced data, not i/o. It is implied that i/o could be done, but the stream is the data, not the i/o.

Is that any clearer? —EncMstr (talk) 07:25, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind answer, now I see your point. A "stream" is the name given to a "communication channel" AND ALSO "stream" is the name given to "a sequence of data elements", i.e. the data in the stream. This is of course confusing, but I understand how the term usage drifted. I guess Wikipedia should describe actual usage of the words and not try to correct confusing usages. Anyway I'll make a change, if you don't mind, to remove the circular definition in the first sentence:"standard streams are preconnected input and output streams..." and also add the references. Thank you. Luciotato (talk) 13:51, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

We get props

Hey Enc, did you see that @Finn-jd-john: gave us a shoutout? Thanks Finn! Valfontis (talk) 14:08, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

I hadn't see that, but it is great! Thanks for the pointer! —EncMstr (talk) 16:04, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Diane Downs

I did not intend to violate WP:3RR and was instead headed to the Administrators' noticeboard. A fairly prominent section has been implemented regarding Downs' supposed "innocence", and innocence claims have been jammed into the lede (hardly enough of a subscribed opinion to be notable, and a killer denying their crime is nothing new). Downs is internationally known and covered as a child killer, so these are clearly WP:FRINGE viewpoints being given WP:UNDUE attention, not to mention poorly supported: one cite from a non-notable news outlet is used to support the whole thing (WP:RS failed). Two other users have taken exception to this material and removed it, but User:Bali88 persists with what appears to be a pro-Downs WP:AGENDA. Phieuxghazzieh (talk) 05:50, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

You are not blocked, but the article is protected from editing. Please try to foster a consensus on the talk page and I'll unprotect it. If no consensus emerges, the protection might have to be extended. —EncMstr (talk) 06:20, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Self blocks

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Haha, you caught me.

Good one, eh? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.233.212.35 (talk) 02:10, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Ostroski, again

• 50.107.157.217 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves) Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 23:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Here's another (active during October 2014):

• 50.107.144.106 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves)

This has more of the usual MO, including another fake taxobox on Talk:Syphorman, which needs a speedy deletion. There is other stuff I need to check, which seems to have slipped under the radar. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 23:35, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

I've added another 'speedy deletion tag (db-g3) to Gabon macrofossils - this page has had a few GF edits by other naive users taken in by the hoax.

Rather than a speedy deletion, I've reverted this page back to the last good version, which was a simple redirect page. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 01:30, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

I've now checked the other edits by the two IPs - all of them have already been reverted by other editors. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 00:28, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

I have implemented a six month range block covering the affected (infected?) portion of Frontier's Rochester, New York IP space. Nice work finding those! —EncMstr (talk) 02:13, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

March 2015

• 50.39.35.1 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves)

I've added speedy deletion tags to Talk:Ululanodua, Talk:Muffy-jeso sparkle and Talk:Muffy-jeso" sparkle. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 00:43, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

These Talk pages have now been deleted by User:Metropolitan90. The IP vandal has used the full name "Edward Jonathan Ostroski" in these now-deleted pages, and on googling the name I came across several more instances of WP Talk-page articles created during 2014. These have now been deleted on WP, but still exist on a WP-clone and include Talk:Pilybarea, Talk:Cerialaptecharteus, Talk:Atmospheric squid and Talk:Sword (nobyrbiacules). As the WP originals have now been deleted, I don't know if it's still possible to see the page histories and so trace any more spurious edits from those IP addresses which may still be live. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 01:32, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Alas, I am slow to react. I was away on an Internet-free holiday.

Admins can see deleted revisions. It looks like you (or someone) got them all. I have set up some more blocks:

• 50.107.137.167 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves)
• 50.39.35.1 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves)
• 173.86.50.159 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves)

These pages which he created were deleted: Talk:Bloodless howler, Talk:Anatogryllscinc necronomius, Talk:Sword (nobyrbiacules), Talk:Ululanodua, Talk:Gorylaeosaurus, Talk:United Flying Object Of Alien, Talk:DickSwim

These pages were vandalized (and reverted): COROT-7b and PSR B1257+12 B

Thanks! —EncMstr (talk) 22:17, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

April 2015

• 50.32.141.204 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves)

Just one edit, already reverted. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 04:51, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

• 74.37.7.25 (talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves)

Just one edit today, already reverted, on a previously targetted page; IP address in same geographic area, with same IP provider. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 07:46, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Can we add citation to this article on related wiki page

The following paper (https://www.academia.edu/12046032/A_Survey_of_Techniques_for_Modeling_and_Improving_Reliability_of_Computing_Systems) presents an excellent survey (~115 papers reviewed) of techniques for improving resiliency and modeling and mitigating soft-errors. It is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (impact factor 2.17). Can we add a reference to this on wikipedia pages on Soft_error and Fault_tolerance? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Newwikieditor678 (talk • contribs) 13:42, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

@Newwikieditor678:: Is there a particular passage in those articles you want to cite? It seems it would be more useful to add a new sentence or two based on that paper.

I have trouble accepting the premise of the paper: I don't see computer chips being any less reliable than the computers of the 1970s, at least in the wild (after manufacturer culling). I work with a lot of SoC development and system failure seems to be due to parts other than the MPU. —EncMstr (talk) 14:04, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

@EncMstr:: The wiki article on Soft_error has section Designing_around_soft_errors, which is exactly what is surveyed in the paper, so I will add 1-2 line to make a connection. Similarly, wiki article on fault-tolerance has sections such as redundancy, 'disadvantages' (of fault-tolerance) etc., which are amply surveyed in said paper. Reg. your question, the section "Critical charge" of wiki article Soft_error itself explains why processors are becoming more vulnerable to soft-errors. Also see ref [1,7] (among many) and Section 2 in the survey paper which corroborate this. Even after manufacture culling, high soft-errors may be observed due to decrease in Q_crit with ongoing process scaling, since soft-errors are caused due to cosmic radiation which are not affected by manufacturer culling.

678, I looked thru all your contribution is it is obvious to me that you are more interested in promoting a Mittal, rather than adding knowledge to wikipedia. Your edits will be reverted per WP:COI and WP:NOTHERE. Staszek Lem (talk) 00:12, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

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Rosary Lakes

Hello, thanks for cleaning up the references at Rosary Lakes. There is apparently a formatting error with the first reference which I was unable to fix myself. Could you please return to that article and fix it?– Gilliam (talk) 06:14, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

I tried to fix it three different ways. I am looking at help for it, but so far not finding anyhing productive. I am hoping by it being in the citation error category maybe someone familiar with those will fix it. —EncMstr (talk) 06:17, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

You're So Vain

not sure where you said i could talk TO YOU ENCMSTR but again i did my own research as im sure you could and David Steinberg is for sure the mysterious man the son you're so vain was made for...i seen an interview and a person mentioned this and did some more homework to find out that its truth...i dont have any citations references or reliable sources other than myself and own work on the matter..its true go figure it out yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.216.246.228 (talk • contribs) 06:13, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

@98.216.246.228: You must be talking about this edit I immediately reverted on January 1, 2015, and left a note on your talk page explaining that it was an unsourced addition.

Well, where did you see confirmation that Steinberg is the subject of the song? Explain it to me here or on the article's talk page and someone will check it out and create a citation for it. —EncMstr (talk) 06:27, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Block reason

Hey EncMstr, I noticed tonight that you blocked an IP back in February with the reason "(Vandalism-only account: {{schoolblock}}; long term vandal)". I just wanted to double-check with you regarding the block reason as Wikipedia:Vandalism-only account states that IPs cannot be considered vandalism-only accounts. I am wondering if the block message should be updated to remove the mention of a vandalism-only account? Best, MJ94 (talk) 07:14, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

MJ94, Thanks for bringing this up. I was not aware of any reason that an IP editor could not be labeled as vandalism only, except that indefinite blocks are not appropriate and that is how I handle these. The user has 54 edits and all but one of them are non-constructive. The one to The Hobbit might be okay, but probably not. (I didn't check if it was reverted or not.)

Over the entire 2.5+ year history of this editor, the M.O. is consistent so it is probably a single individual or a very small and close group. Perhaps my application of "vandalism only" diverges from the intended or generally understood meaning: I apply it to mean that all recent history contains only willful intentional defacing efforts. If there were one or more constructive edits mixed in, I would not use the label and would not escalate their block duration as quickly.

Most vandals do not see the "vandalism only" tag and the user page warning I gave does not invoke that. Does that explain it? —EncMstr (talk) 08:41, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Bad bot

In case you haven't already seen it, the bot (or whatever it is) that you've been running once a day for several months to regularly update the list of WikiProject Oregon articles misbehaved today in a big way, removing 96% of the list's entries. See here. I'm assuming it was a problem with the bot or script or whatever, but I realize the cause may have originated elsewhere. Thanks. SJ Morg (talk) 08:54, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

P.S. The same glitch also affected the list for non-article pages. SJ Morg (talk) 11:08, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! It has run like clockwork so long I don't pay much attention to it. I am betting it was an ISP issue as I was having some trouble last night. I'll pay close attention for awhile now. Thanks again. —EncMstr (talk) 16:33, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. SJ Morg (talk) 19:47, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

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Hallo,

I wanted to ask you why you removed my links to INSPIRE-HEP (to scientific publications of for example Milla Baldo-Ceolin). It would be really helpful for me to know what I did wrong, since all of my links have been removed. What exactly did you mean with inappropriate, I saw many Wikipedia-articles of scientists with external links to their publications on ArXiv, etc. I hope I am not bothering you too much with my questions.

Thank you very much in advance!!

Csumstudent — Preceding unsigned comment added by Csumstudent (talk • contribs) 14:35, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

@Csumstudent: As I indicated in my edit summaries, the links appear to violate our external link guideline, namely that they do not add anything that would be present in a fully developed article. In several cases, you usurped a supporting established citation with your site. Also, you made inappropriate edits to someone else's comments on a talk page.

Additionally, a new editor (such as yourself) who predominately or exclusively adds external links receives increased scrutiny because of the frequency at which spammers and advertisers try to exploit Wikipedia.

Please read carefully the external link guideline to see if there is a section endorsing your type of website. It is possible I overlooked it because your site only seems to list works but not provide any content or simple means to view their works.

Thanks for asking. —EncMstr (talk) 15:46, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Hallo EncMstr

Thank you for your response and the explanation.

What I'm trying to do here is to replace dead links like http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=ea+Mehen,+Thomas by the corresponding Inspire-Links. Inspire is the successor-Database of Spires. Furthermore, I want to link the Wikipedia-articles of persons who are important for CERN to their profile on INSPIRE, because on INSPIRE you can find many interesting informations about these persons as well as an access to all articles, scientific publications, abstracts, etc.

You are right that it was inappropriate to edit someone else's talk page, I'm a new editor and I still have so many things to learn. But I don't see why replacing broken links by working links is wrong. And I don't see either why adding external INSPIRE-links (to publications) to Wiki-articles of CERN related people is wrong.

In Wikipedia:External links you find:

Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject and cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues,[4] amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks), or other reasons.

I'm really sorry to bother you again with this!! But can you give me an advise how I can do this appropriate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Csumstudent (talk • contribs) 14:19, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

WP Oregon list

I hope it's still on your radar that the Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Admin page (and the related one) is still broken and not being updated (the last update was on July 2). I'm guessing you probably just haven't had any time to spend on trying to figure out what caused the recurring glitch in early July, which evidently prompted you to disable the updating script (if that's the right term). Consider this a friendly reminder. – SJ Morg (talk) 08:28, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Quite right. The semantics of the Wikimedia API changed to work as originally documented, especially the number of entries which can be downloaded in one query is now enforcing (since July 2) the 500 at-a-time limit. So letting the script run is worse than not letting it run. I need to update to use a newer query and it needs to loop until it has received the entire list. So far, I haven't been able to spend much time figuring it out and the time that I did revealed that it was harder to do than I expected.

Rest assured it is on my todo list. Thanks for the reminder. —EncMstr (talk) 16:00, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Hatnote vandalism?

Greetings EncMstr.

Thank you for your two thoughtful thank you alerts you left me for my prior work on Comparison of real-time operating systems. Its nice to know that someone appreciates my modest labors.

Of more grave concern, I have found several troubling uncorrected edits which seem to be a form of vandalism, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/223.18.58.137

Most of these edits are hatnote deletions. As an admin, I leave it to you to decide what to do, and to do so. To the extent that my input may matter, I vote for rollback. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Jerryobject (talk) 01:41, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

You are welcome. It is always a pleasure to see someone improving Wikipedia.

As for the IP editor, some of the removals seem like improvements, though I agree that most are not. Other editors have reverted the changes. I think only a few should remain. I issued two warnings and will monitor the user's activities. Thanks! —EncMstr (talk) 03:39, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

WP:VANISHing

Ah, I read "note that signatures will not be changed" as just meaning "signatures will not automatically be updated by this process", maybe that was wrong of me. WP:VANISH goes on to say "Old signatures embedded in past posts cannot be changed due to technical limitations of the MediaWiki software, although in some cases collapsing or blanking is possible." further down, which sounded like it was acceptable to obfuscate signatures so long as it was done clearly (and resigning as "Vanished user XYZ" seemed clear enough). --McGeddon (talk) 15:27, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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Southeastern Oregon

Thanks for backing me up there, re: needing sources. I'm really not comfortable with even the existence of the article but haven't had the energy to do the research to prove it's not really a named region. Does anyone ever refer to Southeastern Oregon as a separate entity from Eastern Oregon? It's linked from the article about the current situation at Malheur, but I'm not sure we're doing our readers a service linking to that vs. linking to Eastern Oregon. On the one national radio story about it that I was paying attention to, they said the events were taking place in Eastern Oregon, which seems like enough precision for the casual reader--that is they need to know that it is the rural, conservative part of the state in contrast to Western Oregon. I'm not planning to wade into this until the situation has died down, but I'm curious what you and other WikiProject Oregon folks think about even having a Southeastern Oregon article. It's not like we have Northwestern Oregon, Southwestern Oregon or Northeastern Oregon articles. There's a distinction between vague compass directions vs. commonly named regions such as Eastern Oregon and Central Oregon (one point the Malheur article claimed that Burns was in Central Oregon) and Southern Oregon. And of course don't get us started on the Oregon Coast (or was that Oregon coast... Valfontis (talk) 18:40, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

crispin edit

The orignal BTTF2 script was going to be set in 1967 and that George mcfly wasn't even going to be in that period (he was off to law school). It's states this even on the back to the future wikia. I've never heard that his role was drastically reduced. He was most certainly recasted. Is there any proof out there that he was going to be a bigger role from a creditble source? Thank you. Zimmyzalman (talk) 04:02, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

@Zimmyzalman: I am going by what Robert Zemekis said in the mid-1990s DVD commentary. Crispin asked for way more than anyone else was getting for #2 and #3, so they reduced George's role and eventually recast it. —EncMstr (talk) 16:25, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Reasons for edits

Thanks for the reminder, but I have found through experience that no matter what I put for the reason, SOMEONE will complain about it. So, I figure why bother.66.61.83.123 (talk) 20:42, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Coords precision

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in as or whatever

I feel uncomfortable about edits I made to Embedded system. I made the change from "as" to "in" because I could not parse it in the original form. I am not sure that my latest change fixes your concern either. The basic question seems to be, "Is a microprocessor ever an embedded system, or is it a part of an embedded system, or both?" Thanks for noticing and reverting my change. Comfr (talk) 00:18, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for tip

Hey! Thanks for the tip on reverting page vandalism! I will try to bear it in mind in the future. Spotted you like veggie cuisine - me also, veggie of 10 years. Trying to go vegan, but failing. One day! Cheers, Colin Colinmcdermott (talk) 19:51, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

koconder

Hi - I see you have reverted a link i have added to the Sydney page - Could you please explain the reasoning when you said "Reverted good faith edits by Koconder (talk): There is already a tourism EL." What's EL? - Tourism Australia is Australia's Official Tourism Board, the other pages are from regional tourism offices. Koconder (talk) 05:45, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

@Koconder: An EL is an External Link. See that link for the guidelines for external links, one of which is minimize their use. Your link would belong in the Australia article, not in Sydney, wouldn't it? —EncMstr (talk) 05:52, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Article move-rename misunderstanding?

Regarding two recent moves of: List of graphic adventure games

As seen on the diff page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_graphic_adventure_games&action=history

On 20:33, 23 January 2016,‎ editor Jerryobject (me) moved page List of graphic adventure games to Comparison of graphic adventure games

My reason:
Article WP:TITLE conformed to reflect list > table format changes of 5 June 2012; first word "List" > correct word "Comparison".

On 13:41, 6 February 2016‎, editor The1337gamer moved page Comparison of graphic adventure games back to List of graphic adventure games over redirect

His reason:
there's no comparing here

Please: Who is correct? Was I in error? I thought tables were comparisons, not lists.

I have made many such page moves over the last decade. I dislike wasting time, mine or other's, on unproductive wheel spinning. I will move no more pages until I clearly understand the rules. I am very sorry if I have caused any problems.

Is this issue specified clearly and unambiguously somewhere in the voluminous Manual of Style? I need a suitable link to establish precedent, if ever I move another page.

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.

Good day. -- Jerryobject (talk) 09:38, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

@Jerryobject: Offhand, I am not aware of any style or other guideline which definitively decides between List of ... and Comparison of ... titles. It seems to me that WP:TITLE applied with English language rules would naturally provide the answer.

It does look like List of graphic adventure games is the more proper title since all it does it enumerate the most basic facts of the entries. If it were to further classify the games like twitch versus strategy and role play versus chance/guessing/party/skill/sport/street/tabletop, or maybe give minimum memory, CPU features, Internet speed, etc., it would be a comparison list. For example, see Comparison of file systems: the first table is merely a list of file systems and if that is all the article had, it would best be named List of filesystems. But tables 2 through 6 clearly make this a comparison. —EncMstr (talk) 19:01, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

OK. Multiple tables comparing more than basic information. Got it. Thank you for a clear unambiguous differentiator. -- Jerryobject (talk) 12:23, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

User name policy

If you have time, you might want to deal with this clear violation of the user name policy: User talk:LithiaMotors. – SJ Morg (talk) 03:47, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I have soft blocked the user: it looks like they did useful additions, albeit rather promotional. —EncMstr (talk) 04:13, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

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River Stumpf made accounts Thespinlight and Eldergeese who involved editing like Kurt Travis page. 123.136.106.113 (talk) 01:42, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Fausto Veranzio

As you can see in the Talk page, registered users agreed to remove the nationality (Italian or Croatian) of this polymath from Dalmatia. I am unsure we can speak of edit war here. The user insisting in writing that this polymath is Croatian, is an IP address who actually never participated to the discussion. Silvio1973 (talk) 15:57, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Point taken. I might have been sleepy when I protected it. Let's try pending change control: established editors can approve edits before they are visible to the public. —EncMstr (talk) 20:18, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Well, the existing version is the result of a consensus driven by the decision to remove any reference to the nationality of this polymath. The rationale of the decision was that in the most reliable English sources the nationality is never stated. Silvio1973 (talk) 20:55, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello! May I know what is the problem with my edits? It is enough to read Uskoks of Senj reference regarding Veranzio. The reference is not about Faust per se, but the reference is about his uncle Antonio Veranzio (Antun Vrančić). First Vrancic came to Sibenik around the middle of the 14th century from Bosnia and was already a nobleman. Hungarian king again confirmed the noble status. P.S. My old IP was 95.156.172.21 https://books.google.ba/books?id=ht_-CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT159&lpg=PT159&dq=uskoks+of+senj&source=bl&ots=mMYabZa0pW&sig=Qdn6c3osax1xRLK5u2BLOImsTww&hl=bs&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEyPum3Z_LAhVzb5oKHcb6Bns4ChDoAQgsMAI#v=snippet&q=vran%C4%8Di%C4%87&f=false 95.156.172.225 (talk) 14:59, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

See the discussion at the talk page talk:Fausto Veranzio where the consensus is that omitting his nationality is the best idea. As far as I could see, the rest of your edits were fine, though other editors might have different opinions. —EncMstr (talk) 16:21, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Galimard

i didnt get why u deleted my article.? and its also troubling me to leave my questions i dont know where i can talk with some one about dfrnt topics. help me Shajia Anees (talk) 11:11, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

@Shajia Anees: As I explained on your talk page, there were no reliable sources cited in the article. The subject may well be notable, but there was not enough article content to determine that.

What is dfrnt? Perhaps if you spell it out I can direct you to an appropriate Wikiproject or article where you can discuss it. —EncMstr (talk) 15:50, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Portland Farmers Market (Oregon) Page

These questions are in reference to the edits I recently made to the Portland Farmers Market (Oregon) page. Would you please let me know which edit(s) I made seemed less than neutral? I felt that all of the significant views I posted were appropriately cited, and that all information I posted was fairly and proportionately represented, without editorial bias. I am not associated with the organization, but do live in Portland and am familiar with the organization. The information that is currently on the page is incredibly outdated, with almost none of the information being accurate or current. I would like for the page to accurately represent the organization, so please let me know which of my edits were neutral enough and which weren't, and I am happy to make any necessary changes.

PDXFoodie (talk) 17:17, 21 April 2016 (UTC)PDXFoodie

@PDXFoodie: Because of the close timing and the close similarity to the recent edit by Haley, I expect you are the same editor.

As I explained earlier, the market is not primarily some legal entity for Wikipedia article purposes. 99.9+% of readers consider the market to be the physical arena of vendors. There are several other points, the most non-neutral being a "mission statement" which is used only by management and sales, not encyclopedic articles. Also, please review very carefully our conflict of interest guidelines which has the key guideline You are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles. Instead, please make suggestions on the article's talk page so that neutral editors may consider and discuss appropriate edits. —EncMstr (talk) 17:03, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. I honestly am not Haley, but I know that is someone who is affiliated with the market, and know that she did recently try to edit this page. I thought I would then try to make edits since she was not allowed to. Could this page just be completely deleted then, if the information cannot be updated? The article has little to no accurate information, and would be incredibly misleading to anyone reading it. You say that most readers consider Portland Farmers Market to be the physical market, not the organization itself. If you would like the article to reflect that, then it needs to have information on the seven different actual markets that the organization manages. Right now the first paragraph only talks about the market on Saturdays. The rest of the article talks about a winter market that is no longer active, dates for the King market that are not accurate, and it doesn't mention the other 5 markets that are under the Portland Farmers Market umbrella. Please just remove the entire article if you will not allow me to make the appropriate change. PDXFoodie (talk) 20:23, 25 April 2016 (UTC)PDXFoodie

Old news

Hi EncMstr, ArbCom got an email from a school district where you applied a range block in 2014; see User talk:152.157.0.0/16. I'm trying to figure out how best to help them. I told them that they could place an unblock request and get in contact with you, so this is a heads-up; perhaps you can check in on them (either that talk page or one of the ones in that range--I don't know if they know how all that works) in the next couple of days. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:24, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up.

I don't see any discussion there, not even a challenge to the block. I suppose it would be hard for a blocked IP in that range to know where to look. How does that work? Do IPs see information about the range block, or just their own block?

I recall there is a tool to show range contributions, but I don't recall how to do it. That might be enough to see if an individual IP requested unblocking. The collective editing history is at Special:Contributions/152.157.0.0/16. It takes a long time to show.

I looked around a bit at WP:ARB but I don't see anything related. Do you know where to look? I take it you know because you have the checkuser and oversight bits? —EncMstr (talk) 02:50, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Hmmm, I looked through all the contributions for the entire range. There was one in 2015 and one in 2016: both were vandalism. Not an unblock request. —EncMstr (talk) 02:57, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

hamellr

Thanks for reverting that edit! I was not able to find the section on how to do so. Do you have a direct link to it by chance? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamellr (talk • contribs) 18:07, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Ostroski is back again

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Same M/O, creating fake articles on talkpages, as well as template and redirect page (already reverted):

• Talk:Agrithgrá / White footprint
• Talk:Tsunami creature of Tōhoku

Thanks for dealing with this so promptly - I can't find any more at the moment - the last few IP addresses I listed had historic edits (~1 year old), and I'm not aware of anything more recent, apart from this latest burst of activity. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 09:10, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Your edit on the LS-based small block page

I don't mean to tell you how to do your job (god knows I hate it when people tell me how to do mine), but that edit on the LS engine page wasn't unsourced, per se. Every aluminum block LS engine uses cast iron cylinder liners. Carguy1701 (talk) 01:59, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

I didn't see any citation for the new information, but I think I understand your meaning. It looks like large sections of those articles are not carefully sourced. All I was doing was following around an editor who added a lot of unsourced exposition and removing it. Feel free to add that work back. It would be great if you would include a citation to a reliable source. Thanks, —EncMstr (talk) 04:08, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Linus Torvalds

I would agree that the Sarah Sharpe controversy content can be presented in the article if its balanced, but not in the section labeled "Personal Life" since his relationship with kernel developers has nothing to do with his personal life. Please go back and look that over if you think it belongs in the section "Personal Life". It may belong in a section about his professional life. My issue with the content in the section its listed in. Thanks in advance for any assistance with this content. 204.228.136.62 (talk) 02:46, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Google coordinate extraction

On your subpage you mention that "Google takes a snapshot of Wikipedia every few months". But it looks to me as if they haven't updated that data for several years. Also the link to their FAQ appears dead. Do you know anything about this? Do you have any contacts at Google to ask if they're planning on any more updates? Thanks for any info. —Steve Summit (talk) 06:03, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

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• A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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User:72.171.50.11

EncMstr, you blocked User:72.171.50.11 for disruptive editing in August, primarily for consistently adding unsourced OR to slews of articles. The user has returned to the same sorts of edits now that the block has expired. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 17:36, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! - BilCat (talk) 18:05, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the heads up! —EncMstr (talk) 19:39, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

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