User talk:Bwrs/archive

thank-you note
Thanks so much for your support in myRfA, which closed successfully this morning. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 19:13, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Reply to emails
We blank suspected copyright violations because Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL, and anything that might be copyrighted has to be removed quickly to prevent problems. The text is still accessible in the history, so it's not that huge a deal. I'd recommend making your suggestion at WT:Copyright problems, as it's going to get much wider reception and comment there.

As for your image question, you could try posting a request at Images for upload. As long as you are logged in, however, your IP address cannot be accessed except through the checkuser tool, which is only usable by a handful of trusted users for a handful of specific reasons, most generally to confirm or deny sockpuppetry. In your case, however, I'd recommend uploading the image off-site somewhere, then putting in a request at IFU.

Could I also ask why you needed to email me? It's usually easier to get in touch with me through my talk page, and emails are generally for private or non-Wikipedia-related communication. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 17:33, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

random thoughts
Wow, speedy deletion really is speedy! A few seconds after I tagged the article on craylix for speedy deletion as incoherent nonsense, somebody contested the speedy by removing the speedy-deletion template. A few seconds after that, I went in to the article to put a template with an edit summary of "contested speedy," but it had already been deleted. The entire series of transactions took less than one minute. Bwrs (talk) 16:37, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

About Synnex Corp
Yo! i work for Synnex dude... The info on wiki is not updated. check synnex.com or Synnergy( official publication of Synnex) Fleurbutterfly —Preceding comment was added at 21:02, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. Is Synnergy published on the web, by any chance? Bwrs (talk) 21:16, 25 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Don't believe so dude. It's an internal pub. And the Synnex web hasn't been updated, i have reason believe.

Fleurbutterfly 21:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)


 * And there must be some kind of mistake, the headquarters at California was not at Fremont but @ Irvine.

Fleurbutterfly 21:28, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * This is the thing, though, Canada does not use 5-digit postal codes. Bwrs (talk) 21:36, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Lady Isabella Hervey
You undid my addition about her bulimia and the quote about her Playboy photo shoot. Why? The quote about the photo shoot was relevant to that part of the paragraph, and her struggle with bulimia is relevant as an event of her life. Jonjames1986 (talk) 04:39, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think it is an invasion of privacy since she herself was talking about it in an interview with Closer magazine. I wasn't able to find a transcript of the interview, but an article on http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/isabella-hervey-reveals-disorder-$8644.htm mentions a few of her quotes regarding her behavior, I think this implies an openness about her struggle with it and so it's able to be included. Jonjames1986 (talk) 14:29, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay. Bwrs (talk) 15:59, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Section 28
Hi Bwrs. The word "liberal" does not mean exactly the same as "left-wing" in most of the world outside the US, and so writing liberal in articles on British topics actually introduces POV. Besides, the councils were called by their friends and critics, now and at the time, "left-wing"-- why would you want to hide it behind another term, anyway?

As to "loony left", this is a phrase the tabloids used at the time to whip up public feeling against these councils; its use here as a reference is encyclopedic. (The article it linked to explains the phrase and its use, and it's appropriate to link to it. To hide the link to Loony left behind a link to something else is merely confusing.  The Wednesday Island (talk) 16:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback. I was under the impression that both left-wing and right-wing have pejorative connotations, and I wanted it to sound more neutral.  I apologize if I had inadvertently introduced geographic bias.
 * By the way, I am in the habit of wikilinking words on talk pages to related articles in the manner you describe. You make a good point about how that might not be appropriate for mainspace articles.  Bwrs (talk) 18:48, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

RFR
"I actually do more editing while not logged in, than while logged in. But I assume that the rollback feature can only be granted to usernames, and not to IP addresses?  Thanks.  Bwrs (talk) 15:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)"

Yes that's right. No IP can be granted user rights. Are you asking also for rollback on your account? Best, PeterSymonds (talk)  15:36, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Not yet, maybe later. I don't login often enough.  When my IP changes, I'll probably start logging in more regularly (unless the new IP develops a good contribution history before I notice that it changed).  Thanks for asking though – and for the quick reply.  Bwrs (talk) 15:42, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No probs. :) PeterSymonds (talk)  16:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Reply to my talk page
Yeah, it was just an edit conflict. I used that automatic script, and when I clicked decline, it was still normal.  Soxred  93  03:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * There are more copies. I am going to decline some of them – maybe all. Bwrs (talk) 03:27, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Cross-post: Quick question
I am curious as to whether the mediation committee has "clerks," similar to the arbitration committee and WP:RFCU. I assume not, but I figured that it wouldn't hurt to ask. Bwrs (talk) 02:26, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The Mediation Committee does not have Clerks, no; this is presumably because it has no requirement for Clerks, unlike the Arbitration Committee, which concluded at the time of the Clerks' creation, that it required them. Anthøny 18:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Huh?
Just to be clear, you aren't in any way related to User:Wrs1864 (who's also edited Open Mail Relay)? ff m 
 * Lol.  I poked here when I noticed the edit on open relays also.   No, to the best of my knowledge, we have nothing in common other than "wrs" in our user names.  Oh, and I agree that your edits improved the article, I guess we have that in common too.  ;-) Wrs1864 (talk) 01:37, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No. Bwrs is actually an abbreviation for a business that I was thinking about starting but never got off the ground.  Bwrs (talk) 01:58, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

ID
I came across a comment you left for DS. You are not the only person who thinks ID is non-neutral. In my opinion, mediation would not be useful if the mediator was some random passerby, but it could be useful if the mediator was well-respected for his/her experience in writing unbiased articles on controversial subjects. Gnixon (talk) 17:11, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * That's a powerful argument to have the mediation done by the Mediation Committee. However, there is also the question of whether we should narrow the scope of the debate before going to mediation or just take the entire article and all the editors including you, me, and everybody else and go there.  I am in favor of the latter, but it won't work if any major participants in the debate aren't, as mediation by definition requires the assent of all parties. Bwrs (talk) 18:19, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I guess I think my issues with those likely to be open to mediation could still be pursued by direct communication, but that can't take place while others (who I doubt would participate honestly in mediation) are poisoning the well. I'm not sure how mediation would address my complaints about conduct, and I don't know what specific content debate should be focused on for mediation.   Gnixon (talk) 21:26, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe that all involved editors are able to participate honestly in mediation. As for content disputes, my question is whether the article is slanted against Intelligent Design.  I do not think that calling it "pseudoscience" does justice to the complexity of the issue.  Any and all editors, feel free to edit the version of the lead in my userspace.  Bwrs (talk) 23:54, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Regarding adjustment of my comments
No problem at all. If I'm unsure I try to state the gender neutrally or avoid it. Do you have any thoughts on the potential rememdies and such? I'm always curious what other folks think, as I have zero ability to predict the results of these hearings. --Rocksanddirt (talk) 04:04, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem with neutral gender. It's just that since the gender is known, I fixed it.  As for remedies:  anybody who outs anybody, or attempts to do so, should get a long-term ban from editing Wikipedia.  And generally ArbCom should abstain from making somebody an administrator under controversial circumstances; it would take clear and convincing evidence of an irregularity in the election (e.g., sockpuppetry confirmed by CheckUser) for me to advocate installing somebody as an admin. who lost an RFA, without a new RFA.  Yes, I realize that C68 was winning the RFA when SV asked for the vote to be extended, but I think that the extension of the vote was done in good faith, even if mistaken, and even if it was not done in good faith it does not count as the type of gross irregularity that would call for overturning the result.  Other than what I've already said, I would abstain from formally proposing a remedy until ArbCom issues a finding of fact as to who (if anybody) attempted to out editors.  (I realize that by then it would be too late for me to suggest anything, but that's fine with me.)  Bwrs (talk) 04:48, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I might add that extending an RFA falls within the sound discretion of bureaucrats, and that's part of the reason why it's so hard to become one. Bwrs (talk) 05:12, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
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Courtesy note
You are receiving this note because of your participation in WT:Revision deletion, which is referred to in VPR. –xeno talk  14:13, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Locum (disambiguation)


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 * You will be pleased to know that I have no objection to the deletion of this article. Bwrs (talk) 05:00, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

RFA revert
Is there a reason you did this? When you strike an RFA vote, you have to indent it, or the numbering still counts your vote- see, it is still listed as #59, while the vote after yours is listed as #60. Courcelles (talk) 22:01, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I see your point now. Bwrs (talk) 22:14, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you very much for your support and comments in my RfA. It was an eye-opening experience. I will not be trying for it again any time soon, though. Cgoodwin (talk) 07:33, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank semi-spam
Thanks for your support at my RfA, which has been closed as successful. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 15:56, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks (regarding carotid siphon)
You're probably correct on that one. The page has been taken down anyhow (sigh) although I think there were a number of reasons contributing to this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jefferson61345 (talk • contribs) 09:42, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Your move of Rochester Police Department
Out of curiosity, why did you create a disambiguation page if there were no (and still aren't) other articles of similar names? How did you know that the "The municipal police department in Rochester, Minnesota" would meet the notability requirements set forth in WP:ORG? Would you put your money where your mouth is and research and create a Rochester Police Department (Rochester, Minnesota) article? -- DanielPenfield (talk) 15:36, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Scotuslink
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Caucus
Thanks for your editing at caucus - I think that's an improvement. hamiltonstone (talk) 23:17, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. I appreciate the compliment. Bwrs (talk) 23:32, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

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Article Feedback deployment
Hey Bwrs; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:11, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Global rollbacker
Are you a global rollbacker? Ryan Vesey 04:07, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No, just on the English Wikipedia. Why?  Bwrs (talk) 14:54, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

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If you got the time to check out the refs formatting for Hildegard Björck it would be appreciated. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:16, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I do not know the language. The only way I knew it was derived from the Swedish Wikipedia article is that I ran the Swedish Wikipedia article through Google Translate. Bwrs (talk) 22:33, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

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List of court cases citing to Wikipedia
In 2008. you created List of court cases citing to Wikipedia (and some variations of that) as a cross namespace soft redirect to Wikipedia as a court source. Is there some reason you made it a soft redirect? My understanding it that cross namespace redirects are almost always hare unless there is some technical reason (such as redirecting to a sister project) that would prevent a hard redirect from working. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk • contribs) 22:06, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't understand your comment. What do you mean by "hare"?  Do you mean that cross-namespace redirects are prohibited?  If that is the case, you are welcome to request its deletion.  Otherwise, I do not understand what you meant.  Thank you.  Bwrs (talk) 00:14, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * "hare" is a typo, it was supposed to be "hard". I don't want them deleted, these seams like good cross namespace redirects to me (we do have plenty of Lists of court cases). I just don't see why these redirects should be soft rather then hard. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 01:29, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * According to my edit summary, the reason I changed it to a "soft" redirect was that there were 2 competing lists, so it is not clear which one should be the target. At the time, I decided to soft-redirect them to the "better" list, but I could easily have made a disambiguation page instead. Bwrs (talk) 01:43, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I must have missed that edit summery. Is the other list Wikipedia in judicial opinions? Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 02:01, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I honestly don't remember. But when I went looking for the second list that I might have been referring to, that's the one that I found. Bwrs (talk) 02:10, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * The judicial opinions page says the court source page is the main page (the exact quote is "For a table of a much larger selection of opinions which have used Wikipedia as a source, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a court source"), so mind if I change those soft redirects to hard redirects? The court source page lists the judicial opinions page in its see also. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 07:51, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * No, I don't mind at all. Bwrs (talk) 08:49, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 09:33, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

FYI
I nominated SENSITIVE for deletion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:SENSITIVE. Debresser (talk) 19:31, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Digital mailroom
Could you pick up on the statement at Talk:Digital mailroom with regard to copyright and potential COI? I have locked the OTRS ticket but this seems advice that can readily be given openly rather than by closed email correspondence. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 12:39, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I had no idea you might also have a COI. I'll take a separate look off-wiki. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 13:49, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * sorry, I thought your message (above) was alluding to it. Otherwise I wouldn't even have thought of it as an issue.  My only declareable interest is that I currently happen to work in a digital mailroom of the type described in the article. Bwrs (talk) 14:06, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * No worries, someone else has offered to provide some guidance, hopefully that will suffice. --Fæ (talk) 14:12, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Kayanza Roadmap
I believe this refers to the proposal for Burundi's new electoral code, which has just been passed by the National Assembly.--Pharos (talk) 09:35, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

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