User talk:Pknkly/Helpme Requests

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Admin sending private message to user[edit]

{{helpme}} There is a user who's dorm address and room number is given because they are editing under their IP. Can an admin send them a private message (something like what I have below) so attention is not drawn and recorded in their Talk page?

Message I wanted to place in user's talk: This IP address is associated with an address and a room number. I suggest creating a Wiki account for your edits if you don't want this information to be known by people reading your edited articles . If the address and room number are misleading, you may want to contact the (xxx university) admins to have it corrected. Pknkly (talk) 19:00, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have never seen anything like that before. I'm not an admin, but could you possibly link my to where you're seeing that? Private information like that shouldn't be on Wikipedia. Killiondude (talk) 19:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's not possible to send private messages to IP users, only to registered accounts with email enabled. You might want to leave the user a talk page message mind you. – Toon ^(talk) 19:18, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both for responding. Since Toon05 is an Admin I think it best if I worked with Toon. Also, I simply used the link Whois ( http://samspade.org/) on the IP to get the information. So, the information is not kept by Wikipedia, it is within the Whois database. Pknkly (talk) 21:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete obnoxious editor discussion comments[edit]

{{helpme}} Can we delete editor comments like those left at: [[Talk:Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable#WTF?}}? The user was permanently banned from future edits. Is there an article that establishes guidelines or policies for deleteing these types of comments? Pknkly (talk) 13:53, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The guidelines for talk pages are at Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Editing others' comments is generally not advisable, but there are some situations where it is allowed. The section in the guidelines on "Editing comments" describes some examples of when it is ok to edit or remove others' comments, such as when removing libel or deleting material not relevant to improving the article. --Mysdaao ^talk 14:14, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How to process a request for class demotion[edit]

{{helpme}} I would like to recommend that the article on Amanda Congdon (see Talk:Amanda Congdon) be lowered from its current Class=B quality status. Can you get me to the article on how to process my request? I saw it somewhere, but simply can't find it now. Thanks Pknkly (talk) 16:16, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! If you check the relevant WikiProject's assessment criteria, and disagree with the current assessment, you are perfectly entitled to lower the grade of the article yourself, by editing the page, and in the templates, change the field class=B to class=C or lower. Alternatively, you can request reassessment by members of the Wikiproject; as part of the Chicago Wikiproject, this is located here. Generally, members of projects are very busy, so you might not get a response very quickly, if at all. Hope this helps! – Toon ^(talk) 18:04, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Double Check Use of Project Peer Review Process[edit]

Would someone please make sure I'm not messing things up by using what I believe to be a project group specific Peer Review section. I'm concerned I may be following the wrong process, and thereby fouling up more general peer review processes, for requesting articles to be reviewed by project group members for setting a Top priority rating for an article. (Example: Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Peer review/Chicago Blackhawks ). Pknkly (talk) 11:12, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Seems you have followed the instructions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Review perfectly. But I suggest you link the words "Cubs, Bears, and Sox" in your request to their respective articles. You can do that by using a "piped" link, like this: [[Chicago Blackhawks|Blackhawks]]

When you have project specific questions like this, then usually the best place to ask is at the project's talk page. In this case that would be Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chicago. But as I said, it seems you have set up that peer review request just right.

--David Göthberg (talk) 14:29, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CRITIERIA FOR DECLARING { {fansite} }[edit]

{{helpme}} I'm trying to get some info on how to recognize a fansite. When using the wp:fansite, it links to section on links to avoide. Is this a good redirect or one that is in trouble? How can I get to the article that talks about identifying "fansite" article?

I'm not sure I understand your question. The article on fansites is at Fansite. Is that what you're looking for? Any page prefixed by WP: or Wikipedia: is a link to a page in the Wikipedia namespace; that is, pages that provides information about Wikipedia or its sister projects and how to use them. All encyclopedia articles are in the main namespace and have no prefixes. Fansites should not be linked in external links sections, nor are they considered reliable sources such that they make useful resoruces to cite to. Thus linking WP:FANSITE to the Links normally to be avoided section of of our external links policy seems to me to be a proper place for that name to link to.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:57, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pknkly, this article is linked to the {{fansite}} template you have in the section heading, so this might be the article you are looking for. --Frehley ^Space ^Ace 05:18, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fuhghettaboutit or Frehley: If you check back here - just a note of thanks for taking the time out to respond. I believe I understand the WP:fansite redirect - makes sense. I did read the redirect to Fancruft, I have to admit I'm a bit confused. I used the fansite assessment template for several articles and got clobbered! When I got my Wiki account and read the Welcome template I followed the advice on being a bold editor. If we assess an article as fansite it is uncivil, so why have it? I think the answer will come from experience. Until then I'll be timid. Pknkly (talk) 17:32, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Self Help - Project Banners Won't Collapse[edit]

ProjectBanner Don't Collapse or see below.

I have two PCs each running Professional XP and I'm using Firfox 3.0.8 on each. I just noticed today that on one of them the banners do not collapse when the article talk pages have the WikiProjectBanner or WikiProjectBanners templates. Is there something I can do on the PC that does not collapse the project banners? Pknkly (talk) 16:56, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

(no tab) Try purging the cache and check that JavaScript is enabled on the machine that doesn't collapse. Do other JavaScript functions execute on that machine? Do other collapsible things collapse? Happy‑melon 17:50, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

(no tab) Right on! There was a Firefox add on (Java Quick Starter) for controlling Java scripts and the block on Wiki pages had not been removed. Thank you for giving me more edit time and less PC troubleshooting time. Pknkly (talk) 06:54, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Is Savage links a spoof?[edit]

{{helpme}} The below language was placed into the article Help:What links here. Is this a spoof? I don't know how to handle it.

Savage links Pknkly (talk) 05:40, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Link removed since the other side was a nonexistent page. Looks like vandalism to me. Tim Song (talk) 06:01, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]