User:JWSchmidt/sandbox

Category:Maintained articles | Articles for deletion/Old | Protected page | Special:Unwatchedpages Regional Internet Registry


 * We have 2,144,514 registered user accounts, of which 1,000 (or 0.05%) belong to administrators. 3 September 2006
 * 5,981,792 registered user accounts, of which 1,424 have administrative tools. 10 December 2007
 * 9,844,845 user accounts, 156,700 active last 30 days, 1,661 admins 9June 2009

Art Gallery
I think there should be a community Art Gallery inside Wikipedia for images used in Wikipedia. This project may have to become a meta-wiki project.

See: Featured pictures.

I am using this image (TestJWS.jpg) to test how bots treat uploaded files.

overuse of anonymity
I agree with the spirit of this essay. I am interested in exploring ways to keep the "everyone can edit" philosophy while at the same time protecting the encyclopedia from pranks and vandals. Wikipedia already has a "two-layer" system of pages; actual articles and their associated talk pages. Maybe there could be two types of Wikipedia editors, call them class A and class B editors. Class B would be the default category of editors. Under this plan, if you edit Wikipedia without first creating a user name then you would be in class B and your edits will not automatically show up on the pages of any articles that you try to edit. If you were a class B editor your attempted edits of articles would be converted into notes posted to a special section of the corresponding article talk pages, a section that would list all such edits by class B editors. The notes would say, "User:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx made [link to a page that shows what the edit would look like|an edit] ." Class B editors would be free to come to the talk page and discuss edits that they try to make to the article. The key point is that the edits by class B editors would only show up on the talk pages of articles.

Class A editors would be able to look at edits by class B editors and approve them, reject them, or flag them as vandalism. Each time that a class A editor looks at and rejects an edit by a class B editor, a short message saying "edit rejecteded by User:so-and-so would be placed under the class B edit in the list of such edits and the class A editor would be expected to provide a reason for the rejection. Edits flaged as vandalism by class A editors would trigger review of that class B editor's activity by administrators. If a class A editor approved the edit, then the edit would be made to the article and the history page would indicate both the class B editor who made the edit and the class A editor who approved the edit.

How would class A editors be created? I am in favor of a fairly strict system involving email verification. To become a class A editor, you would have to provide Wikipedia with an "official" email address. This means an email address provided to paying customers of an ISP, an email address provided to a registered student by an accredited school or any similar email account that is tracable to the person using the email account. Wikipedia would keep a list of approved ISPs, schools and other well-managed providers of tracable email addresses. Only people using such email accounts would be able to become class A editors after going through an email verification process.

Such a system would still allow all Wikipedia users to edit, but only the edits of class A editors would show up on article pages. Class A editors could still vandalize articles, but the goal would be to make it easy to block them from editing while at the same time making it not be easy for vandals to keep obtaining new email accounts that could be used to create new Class A Wikipedia user accounts. I think this system would require a minimal amount of cooperation from ISPs so that it would be a trivial matter for Wikipedia to block all email accounts provided by an ISP to any given customer. Many ISPs provide one master email account to each customer and a group of additional accounts. It should not be hard to make it so that if Wikipedia blocked one such account, then all others associated with that customer would also be blocked. This system would also make it easy for law enforcement to trace any class A editor involved in adding illegal content to Wikipedia.

other ideas

 * 2006 proposed approval for anonymous edits

Maintenence
User:JWSchmidt/maintenance

Moving userboxes
German userbox solution see

neutrino sandbox
my old user page

Introduction

Sandbox

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Templates
"bonk the trolls on the head before they get too socially involved with the site" (source)

"The tool is to be used to fight vandalism or check abuse of sockpuppets, for example when there is a suspicion of illegal voting. It must be used only to prevent damage to one or several of Wikimedia projects." | CheckUser Policy | Requests for CheckUser | Requests for checkuser/Case

Homeopathy

 * Plans for topic bans 09:09, 31 January 2008
 * homeopathy warning template 10:13, 31 January 2008
 * Talk:Homeopathy/Article probation with list of topic bans and list of notifications
 * Editors must be individually notified of article probation before being banned - article probation page 21:38, 31 January 2008
 * 22:16, 1 February 2008 "Article-banned from Talk:Homeopathy for 24 hrs for incivility" "rude, uncivil, and disruptive of discussions"
 * 22:17, 1 February 2008 "infophile banned from talk for 24 hrs"
 * Its still insulting - Infophile edit at Homeopathy talk page that provoked the ban
 * 22:40, 1 February 2008 "indefinitely banned from Talk:Homeopathy for disruptive comments"
 * This IP address is banned from further edits to Talk:Homeopathy for disruptive edits to that article 22:40, 1 February 2008
 * Science is too narrow a field to attempt to understand homeopathy in by 213.200.67.154 at Talk:Homeopathy (13:46, 1 February 2008)
 * Talk:Homeopathy after the point when the two topic bans were imposed. No evidence that either commont caused disruption.

bans
I thought I understood bans until I saw this....which comes first, the block or the ban? I wonder if it is time to have better records of community bans? There should be a transparent path back through the process that leads to the ban.


 * Special:Log/block

July
BandCon

August









 * [Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#OrphanBot_too_restrictive.2C_stirring_up_trouble complaint]




 * - 20 May 2006






 * - SBC Communications - 1 August 2006
 * - 26 July 2006 to current
 * - 14 October 2005 to 7 April 2006
 * - 28 April 2006 to current
 * - 7 May 2006 to 29 July 2006 then blocked, "sockpuppet account of banned editor User:Daniel Brandt"
 * - SBC Communications 17 May 2006
 * - Level 3 Communications  Inc. Broomfield, CO. 3 April 2006
 * - SBC Communications - Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Daniel Brandt
 * - 16 April 2006 to 18 April 2006
 * - 24 November 2005 to 17 January 2006
 * - 21 May 2005 to 25 May 2005 Requests for arbitration/Internodeuser
 * - Agile Communications, Adelaide. "internode"

August

 * - 2005, Double Helix
 * - March, Double Helix
 * - April, Double Helix
 * - August, Double Helix
 * - August

July
According to the replies to this noticeboard/Incidents#blocked user evading block.3B Amorrow vs CanadianCaesar|Incident report, the banned user Amorrow is known to editusing IP addresses that start numbers such as 75, 68 and 67. Augaeth started the King's College DNA controversy article and is listed as a suspected puppet of Amorrow.
 * -Watson
 * -Watson & Crick
 * -Watson
 * -Watson & Crick & Franklin & King's College DNA controversy
 * -Watson
 * -Watson
 * -Crick
 * -Crick
 * -Crick
 * -Crick
 * - original creator of the "controversy" section of Crick
 * -Crick
 * - original creator of the "controversy" section of Crick

others

 * 1) - collateral damage block?
 * 2) - collateral damage block?


 * 1) user page nonsense, etc


 * 1) squid vandal
 * 2) Clay


 * 1) username
 * 2) username
 * 3) userpage vandal

Talk:Valerie Plame | Talk:Larry C. Johnson | Talk:Plame affair
 * 1) possible origin of Mr j galt, NLP, scientology
 * 2) Jan 21 on Johnson and Plame, but also a 2 August in Talk:Neuro-linguistic programming
 * 3) Nov 6 first plame edit, Jan 7 last in Plame affair
 * 4) 11 November 2005 first Valerie Plame edit: (Revert POV Warrior Commodore Sloat Blantant), Jan 2 Plame affair and Johnson --> Jan 17-19 ADELPHIA-CABLE-3; keeping list of scientologists
 * 5) Jan 15 ADELPHIA-CABLE-8


 * 1) blocked for fixing a copyvio?




 * - 2/21, 3/10, 4/3, 4/5, 4/20, 4/26, 4/28 - (29 April cleaning by Shimgray) S C school
 * - 3/10
 * - 3/13, 3/14
 * - 4/19
 * - 5/2
 * - 5/13
 * - 6/13

password vandal

 * 1) - changed my Wikipedia account password
 * 2) user page nonsense, etc
 * 1) user page nonsense, etc

LV

 * 1)   all three at once on March 20, again on November 14, 83 comes back in December.
 * 2) - master list Las Vegas School System

other
 * 1) New York City Public Schools
 * 2) Wheels!
 * 3) Orange County Department of Education
 * 4) BellSouth
 * 5) Arapahoe School District Littleton, Colorado
 * 6) k-12 Ionia, Michigan
 * 7) Wheels?
 * 8)  Windsor Board of Education
 * 9) Crick
 * 10) "don't be fooled"
 * 11) - one of several used in mass attack on Wales page
 * 12) - intro page instruction deletion
 * 13) - intro page copyvio
 * 14) - Michigan school
 * 15) Colorado Springs School District 11
 * 16) - intro page instruction deletion


 * 1) - Florida Department of Education, Tallahassee
 * 2) - Florida Department of Education, Tallahassee
 * 3) - Florida Department of Education, Tallahassee
 * 4) - Florida Department of Education
 * 5) www.marion.k12.fl.us # Ft. McCoy School or the HS.


 * 1) listed as an assigned IP address with URL for abuse reports.
 * 2) Wikipedia vandal
 * 3) hit my user page. Road Runner NON-PORTABLE IP


 * 1) U.S. Congress

Puppetry



 * 1) - The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy Deletion review/The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy
 * 2) - Articles for deletion/Democracy & Nature
 * 3) - also used for signatures
 * 4) -Urbana- Narap43 says this is Cardan
 * 5) - related Urbana IP
 * 6) - pup3 | see: Sockpuppeting - DisposableAccount ,Paulcardan, Llbb, Bbll


 * 1) - Articles for deletion/The International Network for Inclusive Democracy
 * 2) - deleted Inclusive Democracy for copyright violation
 * 3) - Democracy & Nature 2nd deletion | John Bambenek
 * 4) - new vote puppet
 * 5) - Articles for deletion/John Bambenek
 * 6) on going edit dispute and deletion war see, multiple people at University of Illinois? Inclusive Democracy
 * 7) - trying to remove Inclusive Democracy, only edit
 * 8) related IP
 * 9) - related IP at Inclusive Democracy
 * 10) - related IP at Democracy & Nature
 * 11) - first Amsterdan IP creates Inclusive Democracy
 * 12) - second Amsterdan IP


 * 1) Articles for deletion/Takis Fotopoulos

Deleted

 * Bryson Voirin - and protected, repeated claims by creator about notability.
 * - creator Articles for deletion/Bryson Voirin
 * - supporter
 * - supporter
 * James Voirin - | re-create after deletion
 * Articles for deletion/James Voirin
 * - supporter
 * - supporter
 * Articles for deletion/Medical controversies
 * Articles for deletion/Quantum Pharmaceuticals

Votes
Requests for CheckUser

Arbitration Committee

 * Ajwebb -voted no, too little experience
 * AntonioMartin -no, could find no evidence of potential for wise arbitration
 * Aranda56 - out of election
 * Aytakin -voted no, too little experience
 * blankfaze -voted no, not active -withdrew
 * Charles Matthews -yes, an actual Wikipedian -y1 (#2) --> onto Arbcom
 * Dbiv -support -y2 (#10)
 * DG -no, see question about advertising
 * 1 Dmcdevit -too young?(#6) --> onto Arbcom fell for paulcardan's story
 * Dogbreathcanada -no, too new - withdrew
 * DoctorMike -no, too new
 * Doktorbuk -no, expects to fail
 * Edivorce -no, too new
 * Emt147 -withdrew
 * Everyking -no, made an admin too early --> Peter Principle - Everyking, de-adminned in September 2006
 * 2 Filiocht -left the project? (#3) --> onto Arbcom
 * Fred Bauder -yes, record, seems to have made all of the correct enemies -y3 (#4) --> continues on Arbcom
 * Golbez -yes, correct answer on user boxes -y4 (#18)
 * Guapovia -no, too new
 * Ilyanep - no, put question on questions page about secret vote, got reply - need supporters of open wiki systems (#11)
 * Improv - support, past work on conflict resolution -y5 (#13)
 * Ingoolemo -no, no or weak answers to questions like: When two or more policies apply and conflict, what do you do?
 * James F. -support, record of work for the 'pedia -y6 (#9)
 * Jayjg via "support" button -y7 (#7) --> onto Arbcom
 * Jpgordon -no, "if I want to insult the Prophet on a talk page, I kinda think that's within the limits of generally accepted civility" Talk:Qur'an/Picture Controversy <-- the talk page "In short, WP:CIVIL should be modified or interpreted to grant the right to say "Fuck off" on one's own User talk page, and only there"(source)
 * Jtkiefer -no, too new
 * Karmafist -no, wants to take Wikipedia in the wrong direction - see also - desysoped February 6, 2006
 * Kelly Martin -withdrew
 * Kitch -no, maybe I take Wikipedia too seriously
 * Kim Bruning -support, a real Wikipedian -y8 (#17)
 * 3 Kingturtle -need to read more history "arbiters should not know the usernames or identities of those involved in a dispute" <-- not realistic
 * KyleHamilton -no, too new
 * LawAndOrder -no, too new
 * LuckyLuke -no, experience
 * Luigi30 -no, IRC record
 * 4 Mackensen -need to read more history (#15) --> onto Arbcom
 * Magicalsaumy -no, experience
 * 5 Mailer Diablo -need to read more history, username?
 * Maywither -no, too new
 * 6 Merovingian -need to read more history (#14)
 * Mikkalai -withdrew
 * Mindspillage - yes, best candidate statement -y9 (#1) --> continues on Arbcom
 * 7 Morven -need to read more history (#8) --> onto Arbcom
 * 8 Nandesuka -maybe just too quick to admin, etc (#16)
 * Requests for arbitration/Locke Cole Netoholic -no, may not count (late vote).
 * NSLE withdrew too new?
 * 9 Phroziac no significant article contributions? (#21)
 * PZFUN -no; text and image copyright issues (#20)
 * Quaque -no, too new
 * Ral315 -no, need more than a janitor (#19)
 * Redwolf24 -Candidate withdrew on 11 January 2006
 * RomaC -no, too new withdrew
 * Ronline - no, suggested hierarchy with ombudsman over arbcom
 * Rowlan -no, too new
 * 10 Sam Korn -?, "Complete and obsessive dedication to Wikipedia" but not really interested in articles, where is the RFA? smoddy? (#12) --> onto Arbcom
 * Sam Spade -no, recent positions on direction of wikipedia, User:JackLynch, Carl Sagan was a pantheist, I can vouch for that questionable judgements "Aids kills fags dead is not, imo,'homophobic hate speech'"
 * Silverback -no, may inflame rather than settle disputes
 * SimonP -support -y10 (#5) --> onto Arbcom
 * Skyscrap27 -no, too new
 * Snowspinner -no, civility
 * Svartalf -no, no evidence of ability to arbitrate wisely - withdrew
 * SVera1NY -no, too new
 * Terenceong1992 -withdrew
 * Requests for arbitration/Tony Sidaway Tony Sidaway - not in election -Wikipedia Signpost/2006-09-25/Clerk resigns
 * Trilemma -no, past record
 * Tznkai -no, past record
 * Ultraexactzz -no, too new
 * Z.Spy -Candidate withdrew on January 10, 2006

2007 Arb Com

 * election update
 * General comments: I'm very picky when it comes to ArbCom candidate "support" votes. First, I think adminship should be no big deal and I view it as the obvious path to other positions of trust: not an admin = not getting my vote for ArbCom. Several Wikipedia admins have self-destructed, and this "shakeout" process can take a while. I like to see a clean record as an admin for close (if not more) than a year before I'm comfortable giving support for an ArbCom candidate. Since we are here to make an encyclopedia I think ArbCom members should have a clear record of some serious main namespace editing....and I'm fairly picky in what I view as "serious". Lastly, I look carefully at the edit histories of candidates for evidence of maturity, evidence of coherent thinking and evidence of good judgment.
 * Adam Cuerden, withdrew - I'll never understand people who cannot be bothered to write edit summaries.....the issue was raised here and improved some but still. helpful? WTF?, Homeopathic Materia Medica
 * Requests for arbitration/Matthew Hoffman/Proposed decision
 * Alexia Death, Questions for the candidate, Arb Com case, withdrew
 * Danny: "I run Veropedia, Inc." "I will not be answering any further questions"
 * David Fuchs - Requests for adminship/David Fuchs, encyclopedia of pop culture
 * Deskana, rfa, questions, prior accounts?, main namespace experience?
 * Endlessdan, straight stone cold chillin
 * FayssalF, rfa, questions
 * FT2, withdrawn rfa, second rfa, questions
 * Giano, "I am not an Administrator and have never wanted to be", questions, are we pissed yet?, edit summaries?, which accounts? voted no
 * Hemlock Martinis, rfa...42/15/3...April 2007, questions
 * Jeepday
 * John Reaves, rfa March 2007, questions
 * JoshuaZ, "my areas of interest, especially in pseudoscience topics and fringe science topics.....'career politician'"
 * Manning Bartlett, admin, wtf, questions
 * MastCell, rfa, intent of using it to edit articles that might personally identify me
 * Mercury
 * Misza13, I mostly do maintenance
 * Monsieurdl, questions
 * Moreschi, veropedia
 * Newyorkbrad, Requests for adminship/Newyorkbrad, clerk, questions
 * Phil Sandifer
 * Physchim62, Requests for adminship/Physchim62, questions, Requests for arbitration/Sadi Carnot, Hesperian, "unnecessary block" but the Arb Com thought otherwise, withdrew, resigned
 * Pilotguy
 * Raul654, admin, etc, questions
 * Rebecca, admin, etc, questions
 * Ryan Postlethwaite, withdrew
 * Sam Blacketer, rfa April 2007, questions
 * Shell Kinney, rfa, questions
 * Stifle
 * Swatjester. good editing, Waco Siege, Battle of Mogadishu (1993). civility, quality is job 1, even headed, a real eye for the pov &
 * Thebainer, rfa, questions voted yes
 * White Cat, questions
 * Will Beback, rfa, questions
 * Wizardman, withdrew