User talk:SirkusSystems

List of computer viruses queries.

If you have come to this page due to the work I have carried out on the List of computer viruses page, and the lists associated with it, please read my reasoning for such actions before undoing any of the amendments I have made.

I have deleted the majority of the redlinks on this page and the following pages List of computer viruses (A-D), List of computer viruses (E-K), List of computer viruses (L-R) and List of computer viruses (S-Z).

This has dramatically reduced the size of these lists, and I hope has increased its clarity. Prior to undertaking this action, the majority of these lists contained redlinks to viruses that had no corresponding article, nor were ever likely to as they were poorly documented or considered obsolete.

I have previously tried expanding upon these redlink articles by creating new articles for them, however these articles have then been immediately subject to deletion due to not being notable enough. Due to this I have had no choice but to delete these redlinks without expanding on them further.

Before adding further viruses to this list, or undoing my work, please consider that that a smaller list of viruses with Wikipedia articles is much more useful, than a list of redlink viruses that are likely to never have articles.

Thanks for taking the time to read this message. Any feedback you wish to provide is greatly appriciated.

Many thanks

Sirkus (talk) 14:10, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of computer viruses merger

Sorry, I was away, so I only just saw your message, but it looks like you have completed the merge in any case. Thanks. --Jameboy (talk) 11:39, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Telugu Desam Party

Hi, I removed the copyedit tag for Telugu Desam Party as I saw your January note about the plagiarism (I don't think it's right to be asked to fix grammar and stuff for copy/pasted material_. Anyway, when it's sufficiently rewritten, can you resubmit it for copyediting? -AngusWOOF (talk) 01:38, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment

Hello SirkusSystems, I'm here onbehalf of WP:ORPHAN in which you are also a participant. So, we want your opinion to a WP:ORPHAN related matter. It is a proposal by Technical 13. Please have a look here. Your opinion (i.e support, oppose etc) are very much appreciated there. Thank you. By Jim Cartar through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Backlog drive

Hello SirkusSystems,

WikiProject Orphanage is holding a month long Backlog Elimination Drive to de-orphan articles which have orphan tags!
The goal is to eliminate the backlog of orphan articles. There are currently 53281 articles which have orphan tags. The drive is running from April 12, 2014 to May 12, 2014.

Awards will be given out for all editors participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive. To add your name in the participants list click here.
So start de-orphaning articles! Click here to see the list of articles need de-orphaning.
Visit Suggestions for how to de-orphan an article to know more!

Thanks. _{Opt-out Instructions} by Jim Cartar on behalf of WikiProject Orphanage through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:21, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of AirCop

The article AirCop has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable computer virus.

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deOrphaning script

Hello everyone! I was just working on responding to a couple bug reports for a script that I worked up as part of a request from this project, and I noticed that only a couple people (who weren't even on this mailing list) are actually using the script. A little history on the script: In March of 2014, Jim Cartar came to my user talk page and said he needed some help in acquiring a script for a backlog drive that he was working on that could keep track of and score deOrphanings for a scored backlog drive. I took that request to the project's talk page (BackLog Drive "DO" (De-Orphaning) script proposal) and there was near unanimous support for this. I thought about the proposal and decided the best way to do it was to build a new script (which is still no where near as comprehensive as Manishearth's OrphanTabs) and build into it a mechanism that will make BLD scoring easy.

What I'm wondering at this point is, since there appears to be only two people using the script, should I continue to develop this script with a goal of using it for scoring BLDs or just debug the existing script and leave it at that. Thanks for any replies or comments.

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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WikiProject Computer Security user status

Hello SirkusSystems,

I would just like to inquire on your status on WikiProject Computer Security as the list of WikiProject Computer Security/Members is going to be improved to list active and inactive users.

This is update is being done according to a request for comments on the WikiProject Computer Security talk page. Be sure to state your status at the User status section in the WikiProject Computer Security talk page before the end of four weeks as this will state your status as inactive in the project if not done before then.

FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 21:33, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, SirkusSystems. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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