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Fritz Bot

I've discussed a lot of things with User talk:Fritzpoll. Now the proposals have been made at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 22:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Mmm well I've been nominated many times in the past of course, just a week ago somebody said they would donate $100 to wikipedia if I was elected to the Wikimedia Board. But I;ve always tried to focus entirely on encyclopedic content at times but everybody knows certain tools would help me considerably. Occasionally I get frustrated with even basic tasks I can't perform e.g Category:Cities, towns and villages in Thailand half of the articles are unnecessary under (city). I tried to move them back to the plain names (the provincial equivalents are called ... Province anyway) but of course I was prevented from doing so. I think most people assume I'm an admin anyway. I must admit I'm a bit rusty on certain admin tools and procedures but nothing a bit of examination and homework wouldn't fix. I'll sleep on it ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 21:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

HI. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I am certain if I was made an admin I would try to ensure I set an exemplary standard to all. However much I have put into wikipedia, there are some editors I find disagreeable on here and they would have a field day of searching my full history to stop me. Given that I am highly passionate some people are extremely difficult to be patient with, particularly if they are preventing me from helping the site. It is a shame as all I ask for is some extra maintenance tools to make my work more efficient. I hope you or anybody else doesn't consider me a lesser editor because I won't accept. Best Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 11:37, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Best of luck with the election anyway. I'm sure you would be an excellent asset to wikimedia. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 11:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:Moar Images

Hi MBisanz, apologies for not replying to your message sooner, I've been on a wikibreak for the past few weeks. The problem images never end, do they :p. I don't have much time to spare at the moment, but I'll fix what I can from AWeenieMan's lists. All the best, Bláthnaid 18:56, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

BTW, good luck in the Board election! Bláthnaid 19:02, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

History merge

Seriously - why did you just do that history merge? The betacommand threads were completely seperate - we don't merge threads like that. WP:AN/B isn't Betacommands personal complaints board, it was for dealing with his image related concenrs. His sock thread was completely seperate and your move was a very bad idea indeed. This isn't how we deal with AN subpages. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:35, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

I proposed it at Wikipedia_talk:Administrators'_noticeboard/Betacommand_blocked_for_sockpuppetry in response to a suggestion yesterday. And Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Betacommand says its purpose is "This a centralized page of all discussion pertaining to User:Betacommand and his bot User:BetacommandBot." Merging them together makes it easier to see all of the issues related to him in one thread, rather than having multiple, unlinked subpages for each incident. I have not merged the talk pages, since you asked me to stop after I had done the main page move and before I did the talk page move. MBisanz talk 23:39, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
No, it's two seperate issues completely - WP:AN/B isn't for every single betacommand thread, when we have a large thread like the sock one, it moves to a seperate subpage so it's documented in one place, not with a lot of other things in there as well. We certainly don't do a history merge - what happens when people start looking for diffs for a future arb case and they suddenly can't find them on the page they edited? History merges are for articles, not threaded discussion like this. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:42, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
AFAIK, and per the instructions on ANB, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Betacommand has been used for every BC related thread since we started having a lot of threads at the beginning of this year. And the diffs will still appear in people's contribs, since it was a history merge. MBisanz talk 23:47, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
This was a completely different thread, and should have stayed where it was. There are no instructions for AN/B - it's not a recognised noticeboard and no, the diffs won't show up in the place where people think they made the edit because you merged it. Don't do history merges like this again. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:50, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I'll use WP:RM next time, but the message on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Betacommand should be changed to indicate its either closed or only for image issues and what should I do with the 2 dangling talk pages? MBisanz talk 00:08, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
No, don't use RM, just either don't do it, or copy it across, so if someone (like I am) is annoyed about it, you can move it back. I'll sort WP:AN/B out tomorrow. Ryan Postlethwaite 00:12, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
And East718 using his amazing powers has fixed it. I still think it and the other AN page should be joined more closely, but, o, well, not a lengthy discussion on. MBisanz talk 02:48, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I missed you the 1st time around!

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral.

Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations.

Thank you again, VanTucky

Thank you from Horologium

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed unanimously with the support of 100 editors. Your kindness is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Wizardman, Black Falcon and jc37 for nominating me. — Horologium

Did you receive my email?

I sent you a Wikipedia email about a confidential matter. Did you receive it? Thanks. --Abd (talk) 01:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I received it, and as the name in question does not link to a real life identity and was confirmed as a sockpuppet, I've restored the tag for those investigating future ban attempts by the user in question. Please consider MFDing the page or asking uninvolved administrators to review the situation. MBisanz talk 01:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Before taking up the time of other administrators or going to MfD (the latter could be harmful), I'll send one more brief email. I think I realize, now, what happened. I had actually forgotten about your previous involvement. --Abd (talk) 13:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I have the email, but am at class, so I'll review it when I'm home later. MBisanz talk 21:40, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
No rush. Thanks. --Abd (talk) 22:01, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

G'day Candidate!

First I thought I'd offer a thank you for being brave / foolish enough to put your hat in the ring as a candidate for election to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! - I wonder if you might have any time, interest, and enthusiasm to record a brief 10 / 15 minute audio interview about yourself / the reasons for your candidature / your wiki philosophy etc. etc. ? - I've been promoting a project on the english wikipedia called NotTheWikipediaWeekly - which is a grassroots effort to promote good communications through (semi) regular 'podcasts'.

If you have a couple of moments free, would you mind taking a look at this page and signing up if you're interested! It'd be great to chat with each and every one of you, and I hope you'll be amenable to this idea! Let me know if you've any questions at all, thought perhaps my english wikipedia talk page is the best spot.

The best of luck, and kind regards,

Privatemusings (talk) 03:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Shapiros10 requesting unblock at WP:ANI

Hi Matt. You placed the block, and now there is a request at ANI to unblock. This editor's request for unblock was already declined at unblock-en-l on May 1st, but that might just have been a reflection of your earlier decision. EdJohnston (talk) 21:51, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Fritzpoll Bot

Hi. Uploading has begun. We are creating an entire directory of missing articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places. However the bot will need approval and I am concerned that few people are acknowledging the importance of it as nobody has posted on the Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot for days. Remember it was given a 100 article trial first? Well even that has not taken place yet because it needed to be flagged I think. Any thoughts on what to do? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 12:27, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Mmm according to Fritz it still needs to be flagged or something. Apparently a safety feature prevented him from adding an article to the mainspace although it permits him to use it in the workspace. Perhaps you could clear it up with him what the problem is? Thanks ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 19:49, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah 4 days. That may have been what the problem is. Well we'll have to see if it works. Thanks for the tip. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 19:51, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Just to clarify here - the bot made 100 edits in creating the list initially, because I daftly output the list items one at a time. The trial did not specify 100 articles, but 100 edits, so strictly I'd be violating the trial conditions to proceed further. Although I have now fixed the bot to output entire pages of lists, I'd rather not do anything to precipitate a block without clarification from BAG. Fritzpoll (talk) 09:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Hey MBisanz. I would like to thank you for your support in my RfA and the confidence expressed thereby. I appreciate your trust. :) Best wishes, —αἰτίας •discussion• 18:38, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Please attend

Any one who has seen my work on wikipedia, i cordially invite you to attend My latest RFA which i will attend in a short time. Thankyou, cheers

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Here you go! BJ (talk) 21:10, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

RFA ready

My RFA is ready:Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Bjaco18 BJ (talk) 21:43, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Template:bbblock

Please see: Wikipedia talk:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 May 8#restore. Thanks - Nabla (talk) 00:28, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

my RfA - Ta!

Gwen gleans, wending keen by the wikirindle.Thanks for supporting my RfA, which went through 93/12/5. I'll be steadfast in this trust the en.Wikipedia community has given me. Cheers! Gwen Gale (talk) 01:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Gwen gleans, wending keen by the wikirindle.

Thanks for supporting my RfA, which went through 93/12/5. I'll be steadfast in this trust the en.Wikipedia community has given me. Cheers! Gwen Gale (talk) 01:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)


Were getting close but.....

I think that David has pretty well agreed to Johns version so I urge yoo to include Johns version in your list so John wont feel slighted. Jpks version is also very close to what John has proposed as a compromise. I am hoping John will agree to the slight change that Jpk has made so we can continue to move forward. SI still has to weigh in but I do not see him posing much resistance. Anyway do what you think is best and thanks for your participation thus far, :Albion moonlight (talk) 09:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. 09:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Renata3

Hi, now that's a walk down the memory lane. I had three noms: one above (rejected by me), second also rejected, and the third that passed. I do not know what's the policy on keeping old rejected RFA noms, and I don't really care. So please do with them whatever you see fit. And good luck in board elections! Renata (talk) 21:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

To acknowledge--

Matthew, thank you very much for your help and reference. I wish you all the best for your candidacy. 67.180.135.133 (talk) 04:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)Lantana1167.180.135.133 (talk) 04:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

As you may know, you blocked me from editing. After some discussion with other admins, Jimbo and Arb Com, I have been unblocked and openly declared my sockpuppets. I firstly would like to smile and say thanks. It gave me time to think over my actions. Also, if I could, I would vote for you in the board of trustees election, because you are a great admin. Good Luck. SimpsonsFan08 talk Sign Here Please and take an Award 08:33, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

NYC Meetup presentation

Hi, I just want to remind you I've scheduled you to present about Wikipedia:Admin coaching at the meetup this Sunday, consistent with what we talked about before. Thanks.--Pharos (talk) 21:11, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Australian Defense AfD...

While I happen to agree with the closure's outcome, I don't know if you're OK with it closing in ~one day. Just wanted to give you a courtesy heads up. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 14:11, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

No worries. Good luck with the election and it appears from the comment above that I'll see you Sunday. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 19:40, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
You don't have to worry anymore about that, MBisanz. User:Useight, User:Steve Crossin and I have discussed the matter and my future closing. The problem with the diff above was that I closed it too early, right? Well, I have learned from that from the discussion we had and the pages I read (WP:KEEP, WP:NAC, and WP:SNOW). Comments? -- RyRy (talk) 01:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Wtf you did?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ochota_massacre&diff=203321465&oldid=203319961

God, I hate the vandals like you. --Captain Obvious and his crime-fighting dog (talk) 19:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks (for two things)

Hi MBisanz: Firstly, thank you for supporting my RfA which closed today as successful; thanks for the questions as well. Secondly, thanks again for the Bot permission - I ran it this evening, and seems to have been 99% successful (there was a possible typo in one of the villages in the list which had been overlooked). Best wishes Fritzpoll (talk) 20:01, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Housekeeping deletion

Thanks for asking. Please delete the adminship page for me. I appreciated the thought of the person who created it, but I am something of a lightning rod for cranks.--Cberlet (talk) 13:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Admin Coaching

Thanks MBisanz! I'll be out during the morning (today, the 28th), but should get started on creating that page around 2:00 this afternoon. Thanks again, and good luck in being elected to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 07:23, May 28, 2008 (UTC)

I have analysed my previous RfA, see here for my dissection. As mentioned on the page, there were only three reasons for it failing, so I have only been able to comment on these three. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 15:56, May 28, 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For keeping an eye on my talk page while I've been out, and protecting me from hordes of block evading socks, I hereby award User:MBisanz the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar along with some hearty thanks. Hersfold (t/a/c) 23:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for keeping an eye on things, I really do appreciate it. I don't know how often I'll get connections like this, but it's good to know the people who ignore or don't notice the vacation banner still get their questions answered (not that I am in any way asking anyone do it - if they go ignored, it's their own fault!). Thanks again, and good luck on the Board campaign once again (I probably will miss them, unfortunately). Hersfold non-admin(t/a/c) 23:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

The deletion of Harambee Hills was racist, sexist and smells of favoritism

Harambee Hills is an important addition to WIKIPEDIA

And another thing, if you continue to omit Harambee Hills, you just may as well delete the whole listing of webcomics, cartoonists, everything related to webcomics, etc Oh, or does the Harambee Hills creator need to be a white, American and male to be includes on Wikipedia? User talk:Milesaurus

Listen this is an important article. I even edited down the characters listing. There are not many African-American cartoonists listed on the Wiki. Also, there are hundreds of Webcomics on the Wiki, New and Old! Are you stated that WIKI is only for White cartoonist? ((User talk:Milesaurus))


we might want to think about salting this due to repeated recreations.--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 19:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

and the latest incarnation isn't even the same text so I don't feel comfortable A7ing it. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 20:20, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
ETA, by that I mean isn't even an article. Is his comments on talk and in article space TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 20:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
NM, Sarcasticidealist took care of it. Sorry for the orange bar overload! TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 20:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, I really had no idea what was going on, as I'd never edited or deleted the page in question. MBisanz talk 21:42, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Nor had you edited his other article, so I was totally confused how he landed here and not on my own. May have seen your name on someone else's talk. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 23:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Steward2007

I'm disapointed you did not accept this editors good faith explanation that killing me was a sufficent reason to be un-blocked. Seemed perfectly reasonable IMHO.... :) Pedro :  Chat  22:51, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

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Coachee added

I added a new coachee. See my talk page, the coach status page, and I also saved the AC questions as a blank slate here: User:Rlevse/AC, so it can be easily copied. Seems you and I started a trend with that one! — Rlevse • Talk • 11:10, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

A potential impasse

Please read the latest contribution to the Yarrow mediation page and take note of the question that is asked by me below. Hi everybody

I just noticed that the Yarrow article is no longer protected. I am quite willing to add Aletas version to it and ask that it be protected at the 1st sign of an edit war. I will not make this edit until I am certain that it is not a violation of the mediation process. If it is I will move to have the mediation proceess declared unresolved

Albion moonlight (talk) 01
00, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Bringing in new parties and or polling.

Jpk now wants us to bring in new parties to the mediated discussion space. Is this allowed ? What about polling ? I am not giving up on the mediation process just yet. Arbitration and article bans may be the only real solution now but I am still willing to try and settle this dispute through mediation.

Albion moonlight (talk) 06:57, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:Goatsecx2.jpg

Please explain your reason for deleting the above image, thanks --  Chzz  ►  05:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

You uploaded that image as a renamed image to get around the intent of a page salting. You were on IRC at the time and were advised by a number of users and admins to cease uploading such non-free shock images without discussion. You refused, so I deleted the image as a recreation of a deleted image and as an invalid non-free image. MBisanz talk 21:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Great to meet you today

I really enjoyed it. I have to say, your photo with the tag reminds me so much of our badge tags when I lived/worked in Japan. Need to find one of those photos, it will make you chuckle I think. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 02:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Wow, I like the PPT. I think you did fine without it though. My one aversion to PPT is people reading screens rather than talking -- I think we had talking down pat :) The academy scares me slightly -- very formal and no doubt educational but I have a desire to send in a clown and make them laugh. Have a good day! TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 14:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Infrogmation

Hi, I believe I have it enabled again. (It was years ago, and I thought it still was. I guess all the emails I've been getting recently have been via Commons.) Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 06:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! MBisanz talk 06:39, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Election

Hello, I saw an ad for the election, and after reading over the profiles, I would like to vote for you, but it says that I am not qualified to vote. I believe I meet the criteria (see my userpage for stats) and am hoping you can either tell me whether I don't meet the criteria or who I can contact to find out. Best --Eustress (talk) 18:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Hiya, thanks for the support, but yea, your thoughts were right, you don't have 600 edits made before 1 March 2008, so your name isn't on the list of people eligible to vote. Of course, that just means you have to wait till next year to vote (or maybe run yourself) :) MBisanz talk 19:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Which Wikispace must these edits be in? I have plenty of edits in WikiEnglish, but the voting must be for something different. --Eustress (talk) 23:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

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Template:Possibly-unfree-mural

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