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Help Needed

I need your help! Do u know how to make template on wiki? I setup my own wiki on a server and now it doesnot have any extensions or templated and i am totally blank! and the internet searching is so stupid it didnt told me anything! I am waiting for your help ! BurhanAhmed (talk • contribs) 02:54, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

OK, slow down. I'm not much good with templates, but if you tell me what it is you;re trying to do, I might be bale to help or refer you to someone else. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:53, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Re: John Toolan

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07:01, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

William McGregor

I may have messed up here, not sure. I started a page on William Roy McGregor, then when checking for potential inbound links found there were several other people with a similar name. The article "William McGregor" referred to a football manager, while others were a politician, Governor of Newfoundland etc. which (my bias) seemed more important. So I moved "William McGregor" to William McGregor (football), and turned William McGregor into a disambiguation page, then into a redirect to William McGregor (disambiguation). Starting to clean up, I find that the football article is a featured article. Should it be moved back? If you think it should, please go ahead. If not, I will clean up links to the disambig. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 18:23, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, you've done everything right. There doesn't seem to be a primary topic (one person with greater notbaility than all the others combined), so William McGregor should be a dab, William McGregor (disambiguation) should redirect there (I just switched them round), and all articles listed there should have a hatnote, use:
For other people named William McGregor, see William McGregor (disambiguation).
--Oh, and that redirect link is deliberate. It helps with fixing dab links. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:32, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
  • Cleaned up - no more links from mainspace or main portal pages. I had no idea there were so many football articles, and so much repetition in them! Happy to say five of the links should have been to the Canadian politician or the Queensland governor. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:26, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
There are few things more popular than football on Wikipedia! I wouldn't be surprised many of those are a bit of a walled garden and probably one editor's group of pet articles. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:39, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Reminder

Don't forget to log I-P arbitration enforcement blocks at WP:ARBPIA. PhilKnight (talk) 18:45, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh, of course. I got sidetracked. thanks for the reminder. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:46, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

204.185.66.15

Just a little heads up - You blocked User:204.185.66.15 some days ago, well, they're back, with more vandalism. Eik Corell (talk) 20:43, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Try reporting them to WP:AIV. Tofutwitch11-Chat -How'd I do? 20:46, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Blocked for a week. IP is registered to the University of Missouri. You'd think their students would have something better to do, wouldn't you! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:23, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed move

Hi HJ, I'm wondering you you be able to help me. I noticed you moved John Rocha (fashion designer) to "John Rocha". I propose that Victoria Square Shopping Centre (Belfast) also ought to be moved to "Victoria Square Shopping Centre". Would you be able to move this the correct way? Or if you disagree, feel free to say why. But I think stating Belfast is unnecessary since there is only on such centre. Cheers --NorthernCounties (talk) 21:04, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

It would seem to be a good idea to move it there, since the disambiguator is unnecessary. Since Victoria Square Shopping Centre doesn't currently exist, it would probably be better for you to be bold and move it. The only reason I'm hesitant to do so myself is because I don't like to give the impression that I'm acting in some sort of "official" admin capacity . HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:34, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick response. And I understand your hesitance, I've now moved the page accordingly and it can now be found at Victoria Square Shopping Centre. Cheers again, --NorthernCounties (talk) 23:24, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Unrollback

I would like to drop the rollback privilege. It makes me "crazy". Thank you! Perseus (t • c) 00:33, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Removed. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:40, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Requesting Move

Hello. Could you please move User:Biglulu/Astro Empires to Astro Empires please? Thank you. --Biglulu (talk) 00:35, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Done. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:41, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

User talk:Namiba

Take a look... but if you're gone for the night, I'm inclined to cutting this block to time served. Courcelles 00:57, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

It's 1am. I'm too tired to properly evaluate an unblock request, but I trust your judgement, so do what you think is best. I also blocked the IP they were edit warring with (last entry in my block log), just so you have all the facts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:01, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Cool. I'm going to leave the IP blocked, as their edits were promotional, just not vandalism. (I tend to be inclined to cut first-timers a break in these cases, where the revert was likely right and the editor just got a touch too enthusiastic.) Courcelles 01:11, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
You probably would have noticed anyway: I left a note of disappointment about this block at User talk:Courcelles. --Pgallert (talk) 08:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

If you have a moment would you please take a look at this

Hello HJ Mitchell. If you have a moment, and the inclination, would you please take a look at the thread that I started here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Thoroughbred racing#Problematic edits. I apologize for bothering you with this but I know that you are a conscientious admin and I am bumping up against a couple of things. First, I get a sense that the Thoroughbred project has become dormant and I don't know how long it will be before someone responds to my message. Next based on the edit history and the number of deleted articles that this editor has created we seem to have (at best) a young fan who is playing around here. Lastly, I am trying to fend off the sandman and I just could not find a message board that seemed appropriate to pass this on to. Please let me know where best it would have been to express this concern and I will use it in the future. Of course if you do not want to deal with this that would not bother me at all and, again, my apologies for dumping this on you. Thank you for your time and best cheers of the season. MarnetteD | Talk 05:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

OK. Why don't you start by explaining what the problem is, bearing in mind that I know nothing about horses! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:55, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Apologies for not being more thorough as my eyes were drooping. First off the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century definitely shows on page five [1] that they listed Man o' War number one and Secretariat number 2 so the 2nd, 3rd and 4th edits that they made on Dec 8th Special:Contributions/Zenyattathegreat introduced deliberate factual errors. A check of the earlier Dec and Nov edits shows that they all had to be reversed as POV or inaccurate info. Sadly no one took the time to warn them after reversing those edits. There last two edits yesterday were to create this article Top Racehorses In History which has no sourcing and looks to be a vanity list stating the editors opinion about this. A look at the editors talk page User_talk:Zenyattathegreat shows that they have created at least two other articles that have been deleted so they are aware of that situation. Fortunately, the new article has been tagged so it will likely be deleted a week from now. Having typed all of this I guess my main concern was that there be more eyes on this editors entries in case they continued on with their editing after I had gone to sleep and, since I could not think of another message board to leave my concerns on and knowing the time difference between us I knew that you would be back here to check things while I was still sawing logs. Thanks again for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 16:46, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Forgive my ignorance, but is there any way that those edits could have been an honest mistake or that he thought he was correct in making them? It's not the typical kind of addition of profanity type of vandalism. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:41, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I doubt it. All of their edits have had to be reversed and they have inaccurately changed numbers before including this one [2]. I suspect that this is a youngster who is using wikipedia as a plaything but that does just as much damage as profanity vandals. With all of that I don't think that there is anything else to do at the moment and again thanks for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 18:56, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Very well, I've deleted the article under a broad interpretation of G3 and indef'd them. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:21, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks one more time. Hopefully, should they return, they will want to stop messing around and edit in a useful fashion. Cheers and happier editing for the rest of the day. MarnetteD | Talk 19:32, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
No problem. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:33, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

talkback

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JamesBWatson (talk) 12:15, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Editing

Hello - can I disturb you? If one of my edits has been reverted, how can I find out which edit it was? Thanks in advance. Denisarona (talk) 15:01, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

How do you know it's been reverted if you don't know what the edit was? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:05, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
My edit count gives a total number of edits and the number of edits reverted/deleted (currently 2). Denisarona (talk) 17:29, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Deleted edits are different from edits that have been reverted. They're edits you've made to pages that were later deleted. They're nothing to worry about, I have 1,127. Only admins can see them, but I can tell you that yours were a grammar fix to Vic Hitler which was later deleted by PROD an a couple of spelling fixes on Greg Akcelrod, which was deleted after an AfD. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Understood. Thanks very much for all your help. Denisarona (talk) 18:45, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

RE:Reviewer permission

Thanks. Now I can experience what the users on Straw Poll 1 and 2 were complaining about :D --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 16:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

edit warring

Hello I made a edit having to do with the CEO's arrestwikileaks and I believe it falls under WP:NPOV and it keeps getting deleted by user:Ianmacm and other users I tried to discuss it on talk but to no avail I admit I might have edit warred myself I'm still new but if you could look into it I would appreciate it. Please respond on my talk. P.S. I also place this message on Wifione talk but I think he is offline so I contacted you.TucsonDavid (talk) 17:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

I would suggest you discuss it on the talk page. I'm inclined to agree with those who say it's not relevant to the WL article. Regardless, it's not worth edit warring over. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:05, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Well if you agree then I accept it. Because you are a neutral third party thanks for your help. BTW how do you get the penny for your thoughts saying after your name do you type it each time?TucsonDavid (talk) 18:15, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

You can change your sig in your preferences, see WP:SIG for guidance and dos and don'ts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:26, 9 December 2010 (UTC)


User:Julissa&&Abby

Why I think it's an attack page.

It's a page consisting of unverifiable statements about the Elizabethan period followed with insinuations of daily activities and personal information. [Quoted material removed per instructions for CSD:10]

This lousy t-shirt (talk) 21:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

That's a lot of reading between the lines for what looks like a child rambling about what they studied at school, but feel free to re-tag it and see what other admins make of it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:04, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I retagged it as CSD:3 hoax. Thanks!  :) This lousy t-shirt (talk) 21:27, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Attack page

Does an attack page like the one shown just below need oversight? Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:26, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

[name redacted] is currently a student and [identifiable material redacted]. He is a graduate of [identifiable material redacted] in Richmond, Virginia.[1]

Background: Nicknames: "Half-Mast"- a self-inflicted nickname "worst quarterback in America"-[name redacted]; said in the heat of the moment. "Douche"-again, self-inflicted "the hole"-due to his lack of a chest "Big Bird"-inherited from [name redacted].

Atletic Prowess: Fourth or Fifth string quarterback, depending on who attends practice. 6'4" with the body of an "offensive lineman" -[name redacted]. That's all his athletic prowess. Oh, and he's a decent intramural baasketball player.

Accquatences: Freshman year: [name redacted] Valentine's Day with [name redacted]-(didn't go so well)

Sophmomore Year: [name redacted]: First Girlfriend, lasted one month Megan...wait Morgan somethingrather-Miss Teen New Hampshire Becka Wald-Hence the nickname

Personal: IR major-not smart enough to be polical science Born with a concave chest, better known as the hole or the occulus. If you hit him there he will die. Indecive personality...very womanly... Only wears Khakis, never jeans One good thing about him is his awesome flow Stole plates from the cafeteria and got caught...suspended from football for the second time as a result. The first time was after he was caught hanging out with [name redacted]. Once googled searched: "how to get rid of a hickey" Touches guys scrotums on a regular basis as a quarterback...but that's just his excuse.

Well I dunno about what HJ thinks, but I personally think deletion (which is what happened here) ought to be sufficient. As it stands now, the only people who can see the article are admins like HJ and myself... so if it's not visible to the public, I don't think we need to go any further on it. Tabercil (talk) 04:11, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. Reaper Eternal (talk) 04:17, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
As long as it's deleted it should be OK. No admin in their right mind would restore it. If you have concerns in future, though, email them to User:Oversight (the email address for the account is the OS mailing list) and they'll decide whether or not it's necessary. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:48, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

RFAR notification on behalf of blocked user Anyuse110

You are involved in a recently-filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#Cousin Marriage and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the following resources may be of use—

Thanks, Alexandr Dmitri (talk) 12:58, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Tbappeal

I must say I don't understand the rationale for blocking Tbappeal (talk · contribs) at all, let alone an indefinite block. Can you let me know what your reasoning is? --Nlu (talk) 17:08, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

The username represents an organisation, contrary to the username policy, hence the {{softerblock}}. AIV was the wrong place for the report (it should have gone to UAA), but company/organisation usernames are routinely blocked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:11, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
OK, thanks. --Nlu (talk) 17:15, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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Pending Changes

I've noticed that fewer and fewer pages with pending changes are turning up to be reviewed. I also see that no consensus was reached in the discussion about the process. It said that pages protected by it prior to the review would remain protected. What's happening with it? Is it being phased out? Are new pages being added? Are pages being removed? If the answer to the last two questions is no and yes then eventually there will be no pages carrying this protection; so what will happen then? — Fly by Night (talk) 21:18, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I have no idea, and I'm pretty sure nobody does. As I understand it, there was a trial and, months after the trial was supposed to be finished, there was a poll. There had to be a clear consensus in the poll to continue the use of PC, which there wasn't, but Jimbo vetoed it. Personally, I think it has i's less than ideal, but it has some uses, so I occasionally put articles on it when it's viable alternative to semi-protection. It seems to have got faster, though whether that's developer intervention, less articles on it so less strain on the server or just my imagination (or a combination of the three) I have no idea. Basically, if you can make a case for PC instead semi, I would think most admins at RfPP would at least hear you out. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:07, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
What did Jimbo veto? The poll, or scrapping it because of lack of consensus? I agree with your earlier comments. I've searched high and low and I can't find a definitive answer. I thought it was just me being dense; but, for once, maybe not :-) — Fly by Night (talk) 15:46, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Block me please

I know that I just asked for rollback to be removed, but I will be away for a while, and I don't want to edit Wikipedia, so can you block me from now until January 2? Thanks, --Perseus (t • c) 23:20, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I believe there exists a tool called "Wikibreak Enforcer"... —Jeremy (v^_^v Hyper Combo K.O.!) 23:21, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Ya beat me, Wikibreak Enforcer can be found here. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 23:23, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Some people just prefer to do it the ol' fashioned way. Besides the wikibreak is easily cheated, the autoblock less so! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:35, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

IP account

Hi Harry. You already blocked User talk:138.162.8.58 in September. This account is used for a monumental amount of vandalism and sock puppetry, and has already accumulated more final warnings. I am gathering information on what might be a major SP (which I'll need your help on later) concerning this account and a registered user, so could you consider blocking this account again in the meantime based on the complaints alone? Cheers, --Kudpung (talk) 02:51, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

It's a US Navy IP, which makes it sensitive, so I'm reluctant to go for a long block and I can see why most admin are reluctant to block at all. I've blocked that one and the other IP from the same place for a month and reported it to the noticeboard on Meta. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:47, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

My alt's request on WP:PERM/C

Just leaving you a message here in case you're the admin who reviews the request, and since you approved this account's Rollback request. Since this account is for public use, I'd rather have as few rights as possible, but I would like to be able to use Huggle/Rollback on it, so if possible (and if you review it) could you grant me rollback as well, but just confirmed and rollback? If not, no worries, I'll go through the proper channels, but if you could, it would be much appreciated. Thanks, dmz 03:49, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Done by Courcelles. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:48, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Yep, but thanks for checking! dmz 22:10, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Samsung Group

Hey HJ!

Your assistance on Talk:Samsung Group would be greatly appreciated regarding the Michael Breen article. I'm trying to explain to an experienced editor why he can't just remove the sections from the Samsung Group article regarding controversies and price fixing. Your admin experience would be very much appreciated!--5 albert square (talk) 12:59, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

I've raised everything at WP:3O now. What a day!--5 albert square (talk) 18:16, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Close

Hey, can you close this. I don't care your consensus, although, I am pretty sure of it.... Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 01:30, 12 December 2010 (UTC)  Done Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 02:28, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey

Hey HJ, how are ya? Long time no talk. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 21:55, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Well what a pleasant surprise! I'm not too bad. In need of a short wikibreak and a job and some money, but such is life! It's been far too long since we've talked. How are you? And what brings you to my talk page (though, of course, you're always welcome here) out of the blue? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Nice pun. DC T•C 22:13, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Oh very good! That was unintended, but amusing nonetheless! ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:13, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I know I've been busy and know that you're busy... that's why I haven't shown my face around here. ;) I'm great dealing with school and stuff. I hope besides here and your PL you're doing good. Like DC nice pun though not the first time I've seen that. Well, I was wondering if you're not too busy you can do me a favor only if you're not too busy. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 23:47, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm sure I can find the time to help you out, what do you need? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:48, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
A copy-edit for the episode summaries for 30 Rock (season 4). The season is currently at FLC and there's an oppose because of the prose. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 23:51, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Evidently Courcelles is neglecting those pesky articles and not observing his admin holiday! ;) Sure, it's not very long. I'll take a look tomorrow afternoon. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Hope you're doing well in real life, haven't talked to you in a while :) Pssst, I'm Fridae'sDoom, got a name change Take care bud! Regards, —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 12:29pm • 01:29, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
I know who you are, but why the name change? What was wrong with FD? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:44, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Any help you can give would be appreciated. I've been trying... but I'm not much of a copyeditor. Courcelles 19:55, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
FD... it was a bit, childish. I chose that when I was still young and very, very naive and stupid. Check my editing history back then and you'll see what I mean lol >.> —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 10:08pm • 11:08, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Histomerge?

Don't supposed you could answer this request for me by any chance? -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 | talk2me 15:50, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Done. I put the Cheryl Cole stuff back in your sandbox for you as well! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:56, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. Cheryl Cole stuff? -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 | talk2me 22:06, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
The earlier revisions of User:Lil-unique1/Sandbox/4. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:28, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Perseus block

I thought we strongly discouraged blocks for the purpose of wikibreaking? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 04:27, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Well there's no policy specifically prohibiting it and even a category for admins willing to consider such blocks. As long as they're in good standing and not trying to evade scrutiny, I don't see a problem with it, personally. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:13, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Please remove my rights

I am retiring (I think) so please remove my user rights, as well as my AWB whitelisting. Thanks. access_denied (talk) 09:08, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Removal of personal information

Its not urgent, but can you remove my edits to my userpage before June 2009 as they contain personal information? Thanks. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 14:50, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Done. Deletion and selective undeletion was the simplest way of doing it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:26, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks :). -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 15:27, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Ping

I sent you an email. DC T•C 18:26, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Mediation help

Hi HJ Mitchell. I've remarked your contributions to the ITN template, and I appreciate your work as administrator done there. I just want to ask you for a little mediation on the candidates page where unfortunately the user Crnorizec persistently states something without citing reliable sources, rejects reports covered by media, uses confrontational tone and apparently plays with the rules. I tolerated this and tried to improve the relations with him, which was obviously refused. Best regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 21:55, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Anyway, seems the response has come and I can handle the problem with no mediation. Excuse me for the disruption. Regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 22:25, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of Communist states Archive index page

No clue why you did so. The index bot will fill in the content as it did on Talk:Misanthropy/Archive index. Please don't do that again. Lycurgus (talk) 23:05, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, HJ Mitchell!
At this wonderful time of year, I would like to give season’s greetings to all the fellow Wikipedians I have interacted with in the past! May you have a wonderful holiday season! The ArbiterTalk 02:28, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello, HJ Mitchell. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

--5 albert square (talk) 03:18, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

And you have more mail - check your emails! --5 albert square (talk) 22:07, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

AfD notification

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald I. Barker. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 15:46, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Questions

Dear HJ Mitchell, Let me first thank you again for clarifying this fact. I will try to learn more.

I have two questions:
1- What is the correct idea in this talk page about BCE&CE vs. BC&AD ?
2- Is there a chance for me to be given this feature? *** in fact *** (contact) 19:34, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi. 1) Since BCE/CE is the established format in that article, you'll need to establish a consensus to change it, but you're unlikely to get it because no format is more valid than the other, so there's no reason to change it. 2) Maybe, but you'll need quite a bit of experience at reverting vandalism. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:46, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Dustin Moseley

His signing is now official [3]. Can you please unlock the page? --Muboshgu (talk) 20:49, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

 Done HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:53, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. Source here says it only happened today. Some people like to jump the gun. --Muboshgu (talk) 20:56, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Colm Meaney

Thanks for protecting this page on the 9th. The IPs from Ireland have picked back up with their insertion of unsourced info so if you could protect it again for a few days it would be appreciated. The thing that is sad is that in one of its incarnation the editor did find a source for including this style of info on a different article [4]. As ever thanks for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 23:24, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reaction. I know that is now after midnight your time so I doubly appreciate your efforts. MarnetteD | Talk 00:15, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
No problem. If on'y people would realise that nobody give a flying f*ck about which football team he supports or doesn't support, especially when you haven't got a source for it! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:16, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Oops it looks like the protection template was added and the actual protection wasn't. You may already have logged off (and they probably have in Ireland too) so if you could take a look at things tomorrow that should be good. MarnetteD | Talk 00:19, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I could have sworn I did that the first time round... HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:22, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Its been an odd day here. I've had a couple of edits where I was positive that I hit the save page button and it had cleared only to find later that the edit hadn't taken. It looks good now so thanks again. MarnetteD | Talk 00:25, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Rollback permissions for experienced user

Good evening, HJ. I recently supported the nomination of Paralympiakos at WP:RFP/R. Based on this user's experience with pages that are frequently the subject of vandalism, I suggested he apply for rollback on his talk page. The discussion of rollback permissions is on hold for your feedback. If you could add your input, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for your time.--GnoworTC 06:45, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

The ball is in his court. His request was declined because he needs to take it up with me if he wants rollback again. He's quite welcome to come and discuss it with me and if he can convince me that he won't misuse it for a third time (he's had it removed twice), then I'll consider it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:36, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Taio Cruz

Hi - could you do semi-protect the Taio Cruz page again? Or do something? It's just getting ridiculous. Thanks so much!Ravenscroft32 (talk) 13:39, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Well I'm not going to protect it again because it's just come off a two-week protection and you've gone and reignited the same edit war that necessitated the protection last time. I'd suggest you knock it off and discuss it on the talk page or you'll end up blocked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:52, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Unite Against Fascism

Hi HJ,

First of all, thanks for your attention to the page - it really needs admin oversight, and even if you are unable to focus on it, I hope another admin can. Alas, I'm not sure that asking us to discuss things amongst ourselves will be effective, as communication on this issue has basically broken down. There are two issues here, which seem to me (at least) very clear.

  • One, and the easier one to deal with, is that the introduction of the contentious material has been allowed to stay, rather than the usual default BRD position of it not staying until consensus is reached.
  • The second issue, which really needs admin attention (or some kind of arbitrator) is what I and other editors see as a violation of some fairly well set-out sourcing principles, namely, that labelling (first sentence descriptions) need impeccable sourcing, and that the editors on the UAF page who are inserting the material are absolutely not following this. Moreover, this appears to be a pointy edit battle inspired by their dislike of descriptions on other pages of far or radical right wing groups. (the sourcing they've suggested for the dispute at times has been genuinely farcical) I hate to get all edit-history about this, but they've a goodly collection of blocks for POV edit warring amongst themselves, while those opposing them are (myself included) reluctant to go above 1RR, let alone 3RR. If I'm going about this in the wrong way, I'd appreciate that feedback too.VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 16:41, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I would ppoint oout that I have stated in the past (and currently) that I am against all non self applied labaling iin either intro or info boxes (and indead in articels where thier opinoons are being sourced). My objection is that if we allow labels to be applied because a majority of RS that have expressed a view have called X this then we apply that accross the board. I would also point out that 'the other side' have cherry picked sources (and then complained when its been pointed out they support the terms inclusion). Have mis-represented RSN consensus and have consistantly assuemed bad faith. Neither side (and I include my self in this) have exaclty a stearling record over this issue. I think thats the point made at ANI, both sides need to calm down.Slatersteven (talk) 17:11, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I understand the point you're making, but, as I said at ANEW, it's not plausible to use a "block the lot of'em" approach here. Sometimes it's tempting to say you can all bugger off for a few days and sometimes it works, but I think it would only postpone the bickering and edit warring until the blocks expired. If talk page discussion is proving fruitless, then some sort of formal dispute resolution might help. You might think the dispute has got further than where third opinion would be useful (or your might think it's worth a try), or perhaps some from of mediation or an RfC? You've got a week of full protection, so it's not really urgent. You might want to explore the options over the next few days. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:35, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Nagging sock

You recently blocked Regnad kcin75 (talk · contribs) for a day, but rather than wait he created Nick Danger75 (talk · contribs). The latter has been indeffed, but I'll leave it to you to decide if the master should have his stay in the sin bin extended. Favonian (talk) 19:42, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Is he trying to get himself indef'd? I'll decide what to do with the master in a minute. Thanks for the note. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:46, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Looks like that's exactly what he wants: [5] Favonian (talk) 20:35, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
And I was going to be nice and only extend their block for a few days. Ah well, they have their wish! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:40, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Process question (eventually)

Thanks for your note - I'll ask a serious question, which I hope doesn't come across too negative. There's a lot of things to think about when deleting a Prod, and I've tried to do a decent job. I check to make sure the original editor has been notified, or, if not,t hat there is an acceptable reason for not notifying. I try not to take the rationale for granted, but check to make sure (at least at a cursory level) that the article really isn't very good. I check what links here, so I can take care of other links to the article. There are some things I do not do - if the article doesn't make a reasonable assertion of notability, I don't independently look into it. That's what the notice and the week is for (I handle CSDs slightly differently).

I check to make sure there isn't a blunder on the date, for example, if the notice went out on the 14th, and it is the 14th, something is wrong. I haven't run across such an example yet. However, what I do not do is check to ensure that it has been seven days to the hour. That's what computers are for. I assume the posting isn't manual but handled by a bot or something administrative system. I don't know who is in charge of that. Do you? Because it makes no sense to ask an admin to check the time stamp, when a computer can do it. If the system is not working, it should be fixed.

I do note the message says " The following articles have been proposed for deletion for around 7 days" with "around" in bold. I don't know why it says that. One possible reason is someone figured out that the posting was sometimes too early, and didn't want to fix it, so changed the message. But the message makes no sense if our rule is that at least seven days must pass. We either need to amend the rule, or amend the process. When an article appears in the list, absent some malfunction, it should be eligible. This seems so obvious, I find it hard to imagine a disagreement, but it wouldn't be the first time I've proposed something that seemed obvious, yet some disagreed (I think editors should be notified, but I failed in my attempt to make notification mandatory.) Is there any reason why you think articles should appear in the list that are not yet eligible in terms of time?--SPhilbrickT 19:44, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

I believe User:Cydebot creates that list at midnight UTC. It's intended as a list of all PRODS expiring today (meaning they could have anything from a few seconds to 23 hours and 59 minutes left) rather than a list of expired PRODs. WP:PRODSUM has a chronological list of PRODs with the time of their expiry and there's Category:Expired proposed deletions, though that requires constant checking, so it's kind of a case of whichever annoyance you're willing to put up with. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:02, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the source, I'll chat with Cyde.--SPhilbrickT 20:07, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

The Dark Knight Rises

Just a heads up that this redirection page may need to be watched or semi-protected. Good day! − Jhenderson 777 19:48, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

I've fully protected it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:07, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Dojarca at AE

I strongly disagree with your comment at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Result of the appeal by Dojarca. Please see my comment here: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Discussion among uninvolved editors about the appeal by Dojarca. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 20:05, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

The only comment I see from you in that section is directed at Fut. perf., not me. I'm not sure what you'd like me to say when your comments and mine are on different matters—I explained why their edits were disruptive, you're talking about their socking. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:16, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
You seem to be commenting on the socking issue, and your comment appeared after I started writing my statement, at that time directed to Future Perf. I do not understand your accusation of "using an undisclosed alternate account to edit AE". In fact, In my comment I ask that a specific example of an inappropriate edit (socking) be presented. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 20:43, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Using more than one account to participate in the same discussion without publicly disclosing the connection is sock-puppetry. Whether that's what they meant to do, I reserve judgement, but it's what they did and it's clearly against policy. To put it in context, I have an alternate account, User:Whisky drinker, but I make the connection abundantly clear, so if I were to edit in the same discussions as I do with this account, everybody can tell (from the signature and the userpage) that there is one person behind the two accounts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:54, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
My argument is that I cannot find a single case where the two accounts have participated in the same discussion. (They share some time-separated edits in uncontroversial articles.) Two unrelated discussions in WP:AE is not "the same discussion". What MathFacts did was forgot to log out before commenting on the Dojarca case, thus revealing his alternate account. That may be stupid, but not sanctionable. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 21:22, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
P.S. – For what its worth, MathFacts did "publicly disclose" that he is Dojarca. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 21:26, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
OK, A) diff please, where did he declare the connection? B) this edit is by the sock in the AE appeal regarding the master and C) you are aware that my name doesn't appear anywhere in the block logs of either sock or master, aren't you? This isn't "my" block, but I'm intrigued enough that I'll listen to any argument that the accounts weren't being used abusively. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:38, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Michael and Mandy Stroyer

I was probably taking AGF too far. Good call. --GraemeL (talk) 21:27, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

There's nothing wrong with AGF, but, regardless of whose sock it is, they don't seem interested in contributing constructively. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:39, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

How to get a discussion on a discussion page?

Dear Mr. Mitchell, Here is an response and edited text to an edit I am trying to do. user talk:D c weber . A question for you is, what is the procedure to get a discussion going? I put my edited copy on the discussion page of Talk:Tests_of_general_relativity#Tests_of_general_relativity_theory last month , but no one responded. So, I added a POV-section tag to the page so that it would flag the section as open for discussion. D c weber (talk) 17:49, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

My suggestion would be to contact a few of the people who were reverting you the other day on their talk pages and point them to the talk page and ask for their input. You might also want to let User:Favonian you're doing that. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:55, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Mitchell, I have 2 related questions, 1) I was blocked because I put a label of POV-section on a section that had discussion commencing on the discussion page. Isn't the purpose of the label to let readers know that there is a discussion going on on the discussion tab? Was I incorrect to add the label or was the administrator user:Favonian incorrect to block me?, 2) In the discussion, the administrator user:Favonian is now telling me that there is an organization, called "NPA", that is not a reliable source. But, the main Wiki premise at [WP:RS]] is that "Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources, making sure that all majority and significant minority views that have appeared in reliable, published sources are covered". (emphasis on "all" and on "significant") Question is, how & who defines what a "significant minority" is? Are there "significant minorities" that are banned from Wiki (& so not considered part of the "all")?D c weber (talk) 13:52, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Just want to clear the air

Hey HJ. Just wanted to clear the air, or start a conversation to do so since we've bumped into each other a couple times over the past couple days. Been hopping back on Huggle as of late and doing my best to fight vandalism. As time has gone on, I've been deferring more and more to the anonymous editor's apparent good faith edits, even if unsourced. In fact, I've been trying to toss out a fair few welcome templates to try to spread the love. I understand your disagreement on Paralympiakos' nomination for rollback. I hadn't seen the withdrawal of those privilege's prior to nominating (despite lots of edits via huggle, sometimes I don't know how to use the logs pages as well as I should). I appreciate your contributions and your quick follow-up when you're online. If there's anything that you think I can do better, please feel free to let me know. Hope you're having a great day!--GnoworTC 19:39, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

The message is appreciated. :) I don't yet have a strong opinion on Paralympiakos' rollback, but he's very unlikely to find an admin who would restore it without him discussing it with me (because most would consider it discourteous to reverse my action without talking to me). Obviously I'm inclined against restoring it because I removed it in the first place, but he's more than welcome to come here and discuss it with me. Anyway, you have a good Christmas. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:08, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Unblock request of User:Sllewellyn7

Hello HJ Mitchell. User:Sllewellyn7 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards, eo (talk) 21:13, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Correct ID is Sllewellyn7 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 22:32, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
I've left a note with my opinion on the user's page after looking over his talk page, just thought I should let you know. If you don't agree with it, feel free to ignore it. dmz 22:52, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Question

Would it be okay for me to close something like this as  Already done by .... if that is the case, as in the example? Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 00:39, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I certainly don't have a problem with it as long as you add by Example (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) after it to make it clear you didn't grant it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:41, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 00:50, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
What if, an editor like yourself, puts nd in the edit summary, but forgets to put {{notdone}} on the page for the bot, would I be able to treat it the same way? Thanks, Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 21:41, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
AKA,  Not done per HJ Mitchell (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 21:41, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Probably best to point it out to me, since a decline should be accompanied by a rationale, which should come from an admin. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:43, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
I was referring to if they left a rationale, but forgot the not done, but makes sense. Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 21:44, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Well if I leave a comment but not a template, there's usually a reason for it—I might want to hear back from the editor or I might want input from other admins. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:51, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

FYI

User_talk:Pm_master#December_2010. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 22:15, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Undeletion

Hi. Can zou undelete article Elektronika kroz istoriju and move it to the creator's user space? It is urgent -- Bojan  Talk  02:50, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

You'd need to talk to Jac16888 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:53, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
I thought about that, bu he is quite inactive, and this is urgent. -- Bojan  Talk  02:54, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Why is it so urgent? I have to say, the article doesn't look like it's suitable for the English Wikipedia. I can email it to you if you want. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:56, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Based on his last couple of posts, his(?) grasp of english may be a bit tenuous. HalfShadow 02:59, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
It is part of collaboration with University of Montenegro. Students write articles on electronics for Wikipedia, and today is last for submitting their works. The guy who wrote this article didn't realize that this is English Wikipedia, therefore, his professor wont's see his work. Therefore, I beg og you just to undelete article and move to his userspase. -- Bojan  Talk  03:03, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Done. It'll be deleted again in 24 hours. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:06, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Bojan  Talk  03:08, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Closing {{Replaceable fair use disputed}}

Thanks for declining at File:Ayrton Senna and Adriane Galisteu.jpg. To finish off the process, could you tag the file with {{Rk}}? - Pointillist (talk) 14:07, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Here's your cake!
You can have these too!

Hey HJ Happy Birthday! DC T•C 06:23, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Really? It is? Cool! Happy Birthday HJ! :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 06:31, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Stalk page talker says : Happy birthday but I am poor and have no gifts. I'm sure you'll understand. :D [CharlieEchoTango] 06:42, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Ha! Thanks guys! Nice of you to come all the way over here just for that. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:28, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Say this on my watchlist..... Happy birthday :) --Addihockey10e-mail 13:30, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:36, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Happy Birthday! Have a good day. :) - JuneGloom Schmooze 13:59, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Heres a birthday cake for you ;) happy birthday ...maybe a bouncy castle afterwards.... ...you never know... afterparty? my apologies for the huge links, tinyurl is blocked... :( --Addihockey10e-mail 14:07, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

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Happy birthday, best wishes to you. Strange Passerby (talk • contribs) 14:30, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm physic. Or because he posted it. Your choice. DC T•C 17:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
I think I'm going to choose the latter :). Yeah, I should've been more attentive for his talk page notice, I think. Best regards, HeyMid (contribs) 17:04, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
I prefer the former, personally. ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:19, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
HJ's a Simpson! :p Happy birthday, HJ! dmz 20:30, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
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Happy Birthday HJ Mitchell(I wrote it extra big for you :D)Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 21:22, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

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Don't drink it to fast, I don't have any more. Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 21:26, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
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Happy Birthday HJ Mitchell! Have some wine on your birthday. It tastes better than that whiskey you drink (not that I would know...) Cheers, Mr R00t Talk 'tribs 02:53, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Happy birthday! :) Airplaneman ✈ 05:31, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
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