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Sean Whitton is very busy in real life due to school and is thus effectively on wikibreak. He will be continuing with IRC Group Contact and ComProj duties but will generally be inactive otherwise. Please use e-mail rather than talk pages for communication.

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[edit] New Name! :)

Hey Xyrael Sean :-); see you around! anthony[cfc] 13:49, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] User:MedcabBot 2

Can I get the current version of the code? This seems to be broken. --Ideogram 21:28, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] MedcabBot bugfix

I have found and fixed a bug in MedcabBot. Let me know how to get the fix to you and into the running code. --Ideogram 14:12, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IRC

Hi Sean, please excuse my poor english. In order to get a cloak from you I have registred myself and my E-Mail-Addy. Recently I was due to problems in my real life not much online. In this time I have forgotten my Password on #wikipedia-de. Is it possible to send it in a E-Mail? -- Benutzer:AchatesAchates 20:10, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. I entered /stats p and it told me, that you are the only staffer on #wikipedia-de. Achates 10:35, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
I hope I'm not to dumb for IRC. ;) I left you and Madkiss a note. I hope I did it correct. Achates 15:22, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I changed my Nick from Achates to _Achates, I hope that was no fatal error. After reading your message on my dewiki-Usertalk I changed it back. Achates 16:22, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] MedcabBot

MedcabBot appears to have stopped working Could you have a look? Addhoc 16:01, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your userpage draft

I've filled in some more stuff, but there are a couple things that I need to know before I move on:

  1. Do you like the purple-ish color header, or the blue?
  2. What kind of things would you like in the right column?
  3. Is there anything that isn't on the page now that you would like there to be?

Cheers, Sean William @ 23:15, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Access

JodyBWik@wikipedia/jodyb- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/JodyB JodyB talk 15:43, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] To keep my promise...

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Later_with_Jools_Holland&diff=34162723&oldid=34162665 -- Achates 21:58, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm glad, that you like it. :)
Me translating meta? Bad Idea! Unless you think, that exact work is overrated. (Or will I get Assistance there?) There was less Improvent than Improvisation. Achates 10:42, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sean, could you help...

... Andries (talk · contribs) with getting started with the mediation case. See Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_mediation/Prem_Rawat_2. Thank you. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 16:43, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Mediation request

I noticed you are a part of the mediation committee. Please help me out with this vital issue. This mediation request needs to be resumed. The dispute is based primarily on two users, others were later invited. The mediation should not be cancelled due to one disruptive user who has played a minor role. The naming policy has not yet been taken into consideration. This isssue has long been unresolved. Please let me know if this mediation can be continued, or let me know what can be done otherwise. It is very important that this be solved. --Shamir1 20:59, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] changes/moves

Thx. I can't believe I forgot to sign. Draeya 03:46, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Morrison

Hi Sean, I thought we agreed at the talk page to move the disputed albums to a separate section, so I don't understand why they were removed instead. I'm going to go ahead and replace the information (minus album covers); if you don't agree with this please comment at the talk page. Thanks! Cmprince 17:31, 15 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Bryan Ferry

In [this] revision you removed a Bryan Ferry quote, with the argument "Removing unsourced material per WP:BLP based on an OTRS ticket." I don't understand this yet, because the source was right there. (Reference number 21, the original interview as published by "Die Welt", in German.) Because that was the original publication that caused the controversy, I think it deserves a place in the article. Maybe reference 21 was placed in the wrong place, looking at it now I think it should be placed directly after the quote. My question to you: were you aware that the material was sourced? If not, is it OK if I put it back? If you were aware, could you explain your reason for removing it more? --Pie.er 08:54, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Are you able to help with my research?

Hello Sean/Xyrael,

I'm currently in the middle of a PhD at the University of Bath, UK. I'm examining the way that mediation differs between face-to-face, video-conferenced and text-based meetings. You can get a gist of the research from my (somewhat sparse) homepage here.

I notice that you've mediated in number of cases. Would you be willing to spare some time to talk to me about your experiences mediating? It'd help me out no end!

If you'd like some more info, you can leave a message on my talkpage or contact me via the e-mail on my homepage.

Many thanks

MattB2 15:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit reverted, not vandal. What to do? Why?

Hi Sean:

I made an edit to a page (ICMI) that has to do with an international congress on math ed (ICME) that I'm helping organize. ICMI is a commission of the International Mathematical Union and ICME is one of the activities that they make happen. Well, a wiki editor (Giggy) used this vandalism tool to automatically revert my edit. What can I do? I left a message but I haven't received an answer. Why would he assume that I am a vandal? I had not logged in, are IP users automatically assumed to be vandals? I'll keep trying to contact him but I would like to know why I was tagged as a vandal? Also, in case he doesn't answer, how long should I wait before attempting to redo the edit? Could you take a minute to give me an idea. Thanks. Echoedgar 00:01, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MedCab bot

The MedCab bot seems to have not updated the cases in the past several days. Could you take a look at the issue? Thanks! Vassyana 15:02, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Ideogram has asked me to take over running a bot for Medcab. Misza13's willing to do this for me (since the toolserver staff has not yet managed to approve my account) and would like to use the MedcabBot account. Is okay with you? ~Kylu (u|t) 22:44, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
I have no clue what the pass is. Would you mind transferring the botinfo files to him on toolserver pls? ~Kylu (u|t) 16:34, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] WP:CVU status

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[edit] Recent changes for Icelandic projects

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[edit] LoCE

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[edit] VandalProof

Hi, I was recently approved for Vandalproof, but when I try to use it it informs me that the user list is corrupt, could you help me. Thanks in advance. Samuel 18:31, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] User:Sean Whitton/Vandalize

Just as a heads up, this is at MFD, here. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 23:29, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] VP

You may need to check out the users that have applied to VP. Dreamy \*/!$! 01:49, 23 September 2007 (UTC) P.S.:There are about 10 that don't have enough Mainspace edits. Dreamy \*/!$! 01:49, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

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I am Earle_Martin on freenode and I would like the cloak wikimedia/Earle-Martin. Thanks. -- Earle Martin [t/c] 11:11, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

If you do not have one yet, please follow the instructions on the toolserver form. Cbrown1023 talk 19:34, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Abuse of powers by Wegge on channel #wikipedia-da

We have a serious problem on #wikipedia-da, where the main ops "Wegge" (though no longer an administrator on da.wikipedia.org) made threats towards me and told me to delete certain parts of my user page or he would ban me permanently. Since I refused to succumb to his threats he permanently banned me.

Furthermore, he violated my privacy, by changing the topic to a text that reads "John Doe is permanently banned from the channel due to threats and other disturbing behaviour". John Doe was instead my full name.

I have log file evidence to support the above, including his threats. --Law Lord 09:35, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Issue seems resolved, for now, since the ban has been lifted. --Law Lord 19:17, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cloak request trouble

I'm trying to set up my IRC cloak. I got the nick, alt, link, and email done. But I can't get the msg to work at the very end of the cloak request page. Everytime it tells me that send is an unknown command. My IRC name is also Rlevse. Can you help? Thanks. Rlevse 13:04, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I managed to get into the chat forums, and they helped me get a msg to seanw, now I just need a cloak and I"m in the admin forums. Sean, I just need the cloak now.Rlevse 13:59, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Happy Birthday

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[edit] Cloaks

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You've reached maximum memo limit...so what do I do??? JonathanT@C 20:31, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

I just said that I sent you a memo...is that okay? JonathanT@C 20:32, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

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See also http://www.valancourtbooks.com/themysteriouswarning.html, which however omits the subtitle...Colin4C (talk) 21:22, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

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Hey Sean. Just letting you know that the cloaks system at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~swhitton/cloaks now has a SQL error which might have something to do with the latest toolserver maintenance. Thanks for your time :) — E talk 23:27, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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