User talk:Shirik/Archives/2013/October

Yahoo Chess

You deleted the Chess On Yahoo Games article that I and another editor had written. It had reliable sources, are you sure you deleted it properly? Can you please re-evaluate this? It had reliable sources. Fishface gurl (talk) 02:28, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

The entire article was promotional, not encyclopedic; the sources were not the issue. Statements like "is one of the premier Internet chess servers" is something you would find in an advertisement, not an encyclopedia article; and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The entire article was written in this tone. If you really want, I can restore it to a draft location where you can work on it, but it will need quite a bit of work to become a neutral article. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 02:32, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

OK, thanks, that will do. Thank you. Fishface gurl (talk) 02:33, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

I've restored it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Chess on Yahoo! Games. This will allow it to go through a review before it "goes live", to ensure this has been cleaned up and doesn't get deleted again. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 02:38, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Ok thanks. Fishface gurl (talk) 02:41, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

GOCE September 2013 drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors September 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter The September 2013 drive wrap-up is now ready for review. Sign up for the October blitz! – Your project coordinators: Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95 and The Utahraptor. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 05:14, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Error report

Master, I detected an error in the tor network while processing a request. The response was 551 Servers unavailable. Please see the logs for more information. My knowledge of the tor network state is now inconsistent, so I am halting further activity until you intervene.. --TorNodeBot (talk) 17:12, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Error report

Master, I detected an error in the tor network while processing a request. The response was 551 Servers unavailable. Please see the logs for more information. My knowledge of the tor network state is now inconsistent, so I am halting further activity until you intervene.. --TorNodeBot (talk) 17:03, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

GOCE Blitz wrap-up; join us for the November drive

Guild of Copy Editors October Blitz wrap-up Participation: Out of eleven people who signed up for this blitz, eight copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we copy edited 42 articles from WikiProject Film's backlog, reducing it by a net of 34 articles. Hope to see you at the November drive in a few days! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95 and The Utahraptor. Sign up for the November drive! To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:29, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

SPI talk page

I see you moved a comment I put on the talk page of this SPI to the actual SPI page.

I thought about putting it there but I did not, because it was directed at people following the investigation, not the investigators. I do not think my comment will be helpful in the investigation itself, but it will be helpful for those trying to understand why the investigation is needed and why, even if the investigation comes up "clean," further action may be taken related to the edits these editors have made.

I assume that since you moved it, you are more familiar with the checkuser process than I am and that you moved it for procedural reasons. I respect that and I thank you for taking care of this clerical task. I just wanted you to know and I wanted to go "on the record" that it was not my original intent that my comments be considered by the checkusers or other investigators. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 15:57, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

By the way, I found out about this because I got a very unusual notification:

Shirik mentioned you on [No page] talk page in "[[[No page]#Clerk.2C_CheckUser.2C_and.2For_patrolling_admin_comments|Clerk, CheckUser, and/or pa...]]".

[No page] - now that got my attention, so I checked your contribution history and found the edits and moves. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 16:01, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Fair enough. I moved it because it seemed like relevant background information. Honestly, the commentary on the talk page would have likely gone unnoticed if I didn't see it in the feed, so that's why I moved it. The other problem is that after archiving, your comment would be out of place, because the talk page isn't archived and so your comment could look like it was meant for a future investigation. In general, comments on the talk page should be relevant to all investigations on that user, not just one particular one (as in this case). Anyway, I think your comment is in general helpful to the investigation anyway, at least for just general background information, so it makes sense to put it in there with the case. (With regards to the strange notification: it was probably caused by my history merge, which it may not be well-suited to handling.) --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 16:56, 31 October 2013 (UTC)