User talk:Alexandria/Archive 2

Your unblock of Jclemens again
I posted on your page four days ago, calling you out on the way you undid Floquenbeam's block of Jclemens; not the fact of the unblock, but the manner. Block and unblock reasons, such as your phrase "vindictive block", stay forever in the block log, as an unjust mark against a very respected admin. I suppose you know you're supposed to respond to criticism against your admin actions? I understand that RL comes first, but if you're too busy to defend or explain what you must have known was a controversial action and a provocative unblock reason, you should simply have left the action itself to somebody else to perform. Since you posted (in response to Tznkai) several hours after my questions about your unblock, I suppose you've seen them; but you still haven't replied. Bishonen &#124; talk 22:59, 25 October 2012 (UTC).
 * P.S., another three weeks later: still no reply. Does your lovely edit notice "Drama llamas aren't welcome" mean you have no interest in criticism of your admin actions? Bishonen &#124; talk 19:11, 14 November 2012 (UTC).
 * It's hard to see how this comment isn't stirring up drama, considering that this was three weeks ago, and everyone else has largely moved on. --Rschen7754 21:02, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps, but the initial comment was certainly timely, and was never answered. Nikkimaria (talk) 21:11, 14 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Rschen, is it your opinion that when WP:ADMIN states that "Administrators are expected to respond promptly and civilly to queries about their Wikipedia-related conduct and administrator actions", there's an implication that "alternatively, administrators can stonewall queries about their actions and wait for time to pass"? Does that principle really work for you? Bishonen &#124; talk 23:13, 14 November 2012 (UTC).
 * It says nowhere that admins are expected to respond to bad-faith accusations and hounding. Alexandria isn't responding. If you want this dealt with, go to ANI or ArbCom, but take it off her talk page, because you're not getting an answer. --Rschen7754 02:06, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Rschen7754,
 * A follow-up after three weeks (for a civil request, blessed by WP:Administrator guidelines quoted above) is not hounding. You are out of line with your "bad faith accusations" accusation.
 * This is an administrator who takes has taken many breaks of extended non-editing, so a polite follow-up is certainly a reasonable action. Kiefer  .Wolfowitz  18:09, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but no. This happened three weeks ago; it's time to move on. WP:STICK. --Rschen7754 19:44, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * There are plenty of administrators watching this page. Why don't you let another administrator take over the cliches...? Kiefer  .Wolfowitz  22:29, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Multiple admins have asked you to drop the stick (see Ironholds above). Meanwhile, ArbCom and ANI are wide open, if you want to do something that doesn't constitute hounding. --Rschen7754 22:31, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I asked questions which were answered, with some help from Ironholds. Another question has been asked, to which a response is due, by the administration policy. Ironholds has ignored this topic, of course. Kiefer  .Wolfowitz  22:36, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Jonathan Cohen (vintner)
Jonathan Cohen (vintner) why was this page removed by Alexandria? Fujix100 (talk) 22:59, 18 December 2012 (UTC)1700 Fujix100 18 December 2012
 * I moved this comment from Alexandria's Archive 2 page. The user accidentally posted it there instead of here. As far as that article (Jonathan Cohen (vintner)) is concerned, it was deleted as being completely a hoax article. It was part of a larger hoax editing. See discussion here: User:Vivisel/cohen cruse ruse. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 23:37, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Sir!
sir i have a problem, this user is doing Edit war, I sent to him two warning messages about that, but not paying attention. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cinema_of_the_United_States&action=history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/TheClown90 see the record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/TheClown90

greetings MervinVillarreal (talk) 21:07, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Your input is requested
Greetings, ! If we have not met, I'm. I've come here to ask you to take part in the survey at User:AutomaticStrikeout/Are admins interested in a RfB?. I am trying to gauge the general level of interest that administrators have in running for cratship, as well as pinpoint the factors that affect that interest level. Your input will be appreciated. Happy editing, AutomaticStrikeout (T • C • Sign AAPT) 01:44, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Notification of automated file description generation
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Wiki Loves Pride 2014
Hi Alexandria. In case you are not aware, there is an upcoming campaign to improve coverage of LGBT-related topics on Wikipedia, culminating with an international edit-a-thon on June 21. See Wiki Loves Pride 2014 for more information. If you are interested, you might consider creating a page for a major city (or cities!) near you, with a list of LGBT-related articles that need to be created or improved. This would be a tremendous help to Wikipedia and coverage of LGBT culture and history. Thanks for your consideration, and please let me know if you have any questions! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:04, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Wisconsin Highway 141
I have nominated the redirect (that you created) for deletion since it's confusing a state highway for a federal route. You can comment at Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 June 8.  Royal broil  02:52, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

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Proposed deletion of Hales Corners Lutheran Church


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Speedy deletion nomination of Uttarakhand community web portal


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ArbCom 2019 special circular
   

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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
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