User talk:とある白い猫/Archive/2012/05

Question
Could I nominate you for adminship? You seem a good editor. :D --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 09:01, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi! Any reason why you want to nominate me all of a sudden? -- A Certain White Cat chi? 10:55, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I saw you come up in Recent Changes and reviewed your edits, and thought that you were ready. :) --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 10:59, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * As you wish. I am not confident that it would pass though. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 12:56, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Tom, if you are going ahead with this (I am neutral on whether it's a good idea or not), I strongly suggest that you also review the proposed candidate's past enwiki RfAs, and prepare a rationale as to how exactly - in detail - the proposed candidate's recent edits prove that they have addressed whatever the concerns were in the previous RfAs. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 13:02, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I share the concern. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 14:41, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I could not find the RfA links. Are there any? --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 17:16, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm not really sure I'm neutral, I think it's not a great idea (no offense whatsoever to A Certain White Cat).

Tom, one of the first interactions we had was you leaving me a message on my talk page asking if I wanted you to nominate me for admin. It struck me as very odd because I really didn't know you and was pretty confident you really didn't know about me (as an editor). Since that time I've seen you ask a couple dozen different people if they wanted you to nominate them. I believe that each has said no. One of the big reasons, and I could be off base - perhaps it's just me, is that when and if I'm ever nominated, I want it to be because someone with experience in Wikipedia has seen things that I've done, noticed my interactions with others, seen my participation in AfD, NPP, CSD, AN, etc. and come to the conclusion that I'd be a good admin. I believe that would make the nomination much more meaningful for me, and for those that are going to evaluate me. To be blunt, I want to be nominated eventually by someone whose opinion I respect, and who has the respect of the community.

I don't know A Certain White Cat from adam, and I'm sure they are terrific as an editor, but please take the advice given above and know the person you are nominating. I would hate to see an RfA go badly by a poorly conceived nomination just because an RfA nomination is on your 'to do' list. As always, just my 2 cents.   Wikipelli Talk   18:55, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn my idea of the RFA per finding the past RfA's and old user accounts. --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 19:01, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Your account at :slwiki
I have renamed you to sl:Uporabnik:とある白い猫 on :slwiki, you should reconnect that account to SUL now. I had to move the existing user とある白い猫 out of the way (now sl:Uporabnik:とある白い猫 (doubled) because you visited the wiki while logged in elsewhere and it created a new account automatically. — Yerpo Eh? 17:41, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Counter-Vandalism Unit in the Signpost
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on the Counter-Vandalism Unit for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 04:46, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Certainly. However I am rather busy until Friday. Would it be a problem if I were to answer the questions after that point. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 13:16, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
 * That's fine. The interview is scheduled to be published June 11. -Mabeenot (talk) 14:52, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
 * By the way is there any special reason why you want to interview me? The questions appear a bit generic because CVU grew out of my userspace. I am not complaining, just trying to establish what you want to know. :) -- A Certain White Cat chi? 18:12, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I've invited several contributors from CVU to participate in the interview, which is why the questions are geared toward the many facets of the project. I wanted to make sure you were part of the interview since you started the CVU. I hope you'll be able to share with us why you started the CVU, some of the challenges associated with building it, and how it has grown. -Mabeenot (talk) 22:22, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd be very interested. I'll try to see what I can do. I am unsure if this is what you are looking for though as the questions on the signpost page are a bit too generic for me to answer to the questions you poised here. Could you perhaps come up with questions specifically for me like the ones you asked here? This can be an interview for the following week's signpost if you like. perhaps a follow-up to this weeks signpost. What do you think? -- A Certain White Cat chi? 00:19, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Your motivation for starting the project can be your answer to the first question, since you didn't really have to join the project like everyone else. I've added an open-ended question at the end where you can share other thoughts. Unfortunately, we have other projects scheduled for the following weeks, so we can't dedicate more than one week to a given project. -Mabeenot (talk) 01:34, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Template:Membership
I was not notified of this deletion. I am rather shocked that months of work was deleted over such minor comments by few IPs. Please restore these templates. I have already filed a deletion review at Deletion review/Log/2012 May 25 -- A Certain White Cat chi? 20:10, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Is there a particular reason why you didn't try Step 1? This almost certainly could have been resolved quickly.  Plastikspork ―Œ (talk)  23:35, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I thought I was following procedure... :/ I don't deal with deletions undeletions normally. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 23:41, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem, we can always drag the whole thing out for a week. Your point about the IP not following the "recommended procedure" since you were not notified carries quite a bit of weight with me, although doesn't with others since it is only a recommendation.  Whenever I find that to be the case, my standard response is to relist the discussion, no matter how many other editors have voiced an opinion.  I am also more than happy to have my bot do a regexp search and replace to help fix the templates if the final resolution is to userfy. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ (talk)  23:48, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Users aren't required to be notified, I know this. I just strongly feel the deletion discussion was inadequate.
 * A regex would be difficult to construct since it is countless templates within templates among parser functions. If you can pull it off, be my guest but I think it is wasted energy. It also complicates my ability to improve. It is certainly not a standard practice to dump hundreds of templates on userspace just because 2-3 users wish it. I think they are being unreasonable and complicating my ability to develop this template further for no good reason. They have not expressed any reason why the pages cannot be in template namespace aside from a pollution remark.
 * Also I think the template can be used on infoboxes without the code development since it is one transclusion per page. This wasn't something I was thinking before the deletion discussion since I was too focused on large lists with multiple transclusions rather than a single transclusion. The main obstacle is I need assistance in gathering membership dates for individual countries. This is easy for 1 country but when you deal with ~200 it becomes a chore.
 * -- A Certain White Cat chi? 00:10, 28 May 2012 (UTC)