User talk:Camembert

Talk page archives are here, here, here, here, here and here.

If you're here about an image or other media item with no source: all images I made are in the public domain (unless there's some legal reason you know of why they cannot be); all clips from CDs or LPs were uploaded under fair use ages ago when there was no clear policy on such things--if you think they should be deleted now, then by all means delete them.

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wikimusic
Hi, Camembert, I saw you're interested in (classical) music. Maybe you would like to talk about the possible creating of a Wikimusic? There are no real plans right now, but we would like your imput! Please add you comment at this page, and put your name on the list if you want to stay informed. If you would want to, you can add your email as well. In front of you reaction I thank you for your enthousiasm. If you know someone who might be interested, don't hesitate, and give him/her the link! (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/gebruiker:Effeietsanders/project:Wikimusic), even if they are not active on wikipedia. Spread the word!!! effeietsanders 13:53, 9 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Good luck with it; I'm afraid it's not for me right now, however. --Camembert

Classical music of the United Kingdom
Hello, I noticed your work on masque and wondered if you might be any good on the article above which is a UK Collaboration of the week. We're not currently doing fantastically well, I would venture to suggest. --bodnotbod 21:18, 7 November 2005 (UTC)


 * What I wrote at masque was basically rubbish. It's a good job somebody completely redid it. Anyway, I'm three months late on this one, as usual.... --Camembert

WikiProject Tunings, Temperaments, and Scales
Would you be interested in joining my proposed WikiProject, WikiProject Tunings, Temperaments, and Scales? —Keenan Pepper 20:23, 19 November 2005 (UTC)


 * If I were still here, I daresay I would be--good luck with it. --Camembert

Improving Instrument Articles?
In the hope that you might return, I leave you a message! Maybe I'll still be interested if/when you reply! In any case, I noted that you've written many, if not most, of the articles on musical instruments, and was curious if maybe you would like to hash out and start a WikiProject with the intent of making said pages more quickly readable and standardized (say, by making a template that would include Hornbostel-Sachs classification, "common" classification (e.g. woodwind, brass, percussion, etc.), famous works including it, and so forth.) If you're interested, just drop me a line on my talk page, and we can start discussing such a project.

-- Pipian 01:04, 5 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Sounds intriguing--another one where I have to say I'd be interested if I were still here, but... Good luck with it :) --Camembert

Johann Caspar Fischer
There are no sources or references for this article. Please provide them. TheRingess 08:04, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


 * My primary reference for the article was most likely the sixth edition of the Grove dictionary. I didn't generally provide references for articles where the information could be checked in any one of a dozen standard reference works--shoddy of me, I know. Anyway, I see somebody else has stuck some references in now, so all is well, I hope. --Camembert

Staccato
Hello Lee. Image:With staccato.ogg was unfortunately deleted, despite the note on your user page that your contributions are PD. Are you able to reupload it please? Image:Without staccato.ogg was also deleted and has been apparently re-uploaded by someone, but doesn't seem to work. See this version of Staccato for the old links to it. Also, you need to go to Special:Preferences and confirm your email if you want people to contact you that way (as per wikitech-l). Angela. 04:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I have restored these files. --Gmaxwell 05:05, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, both. I've confirmed my email address now, too. --Camembert 18:18, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Charles Ives FARC
The article Charles Ives has been listed on Featured article removal candidates (Featured article removal candidates/Charles Ives), by me, as it has no inline citations and thus does not meet the featured article criteria at What is a featured article?: "A featured article has the following attributes" 2.b. "'factually accurate' includes the supporting of facts with specific evidence and external citations...these include a "References" section where the references are set out, complemented where appropriate by inline citations."

I'm writing you because you contributed to the article. If you did the latter you may be able to add inline citations where appropriate much easier than someone unaquainted with the sources used. I thought you might be interested in the FARC or in saving the article from FAR by adding citations. Thanks. Hyacinth 11:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I expect this has been dealt with now, but just in case: most of the stuff I wrote in these types of articles could, I believe, be confirmed in any one of a dozen references (Grove should cover most of it; if not, anything I put in the "Further reading" or "External links" sections probably would). I did usually cite quotes and more obscure info exactly (if I didn't, it was an oversight), but giving inline references for info that can be checked in a lot of places can, it seems to me, lead to problems in a project like Wikipedia ("Ludwig van Beethoven was a German (Tovey, 1923) composer (Grove, 1878) of classical music (Rolland, 1903)" etc; I exaggerate, but you get the idea). --Camembert 18:31, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Image with link
Hello! See please this Image_talk.--Mmsoft 20:56, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Have done--it's perfectly OK to delete it, as far as I'm concerned, since it's been replaced with the chess template now. --Camembert 18:40, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

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 * Ah, this soothing green box is much nicer than the old red one :) Anyway, looks like it's been deleted now, which is fine by me. --Camembert 18:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Redirect vote
Hi, I see you had interest in the Britain/Great Britain article. There is now a Redirect Britain to Great Britain vote on the page. El Gringo 19:19, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

need contributions to culture article
Hello Camembert - I saw your contributions to the page on abstract art. Some of its content overlaps with the nascent Culture of New York City article. It needs lots of revising and fleshing out. If you get a chance, check it out. Your contributions would be welcome. Wv235 22:32, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't really have time to get involved right now, but good luck with it! --Camembert 18:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

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IMAGES ON MEDIA COMMONS
Hi, I'm translating in italian your aticle about Basso Continuo. I need your images. Could you put all media in the mediacommons, so I can use (with your permission) your contributes?

Thanks

87.8.163.71 00:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


 * The images are all in the public domain, so I would think you could do it yourself. --Camembert 15:08, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Chess images
Hi, since all the chess-related articles are using Template:Chess diagram now, many of the images you uploaded are orphaned now. You don't mind if I put them up for deletion, do you? --Fritz S. (Talk) 11:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Don't mind at all--feel free. --Camembert 15:08, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

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 * Duly tagged. --Camembert 23:51, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

FYI
Don't want to fight about this, it is water under the bridge. But, this points in a different policy direction. As I say, no harm done now. --Doc 09:09, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

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Re: List of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven
Thought you might like to know: I submitted a Featured List Nomination for this list, of which you seem to be a major author. I did some tinkering around the edges (lead, references, section headers, etc.) first. Cheers! &mdash;Turangalila talk 00:40, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Selfmate
I read your comment on the Selfmate page regarding "gives checkmate to Black," and now the wording at least makes sense, but I think it's somewhat ambiguous (it confused me, a native-speaking chess player). I think rewording would certainly make it more clear. Thanks! --Romanempire 14:44, 27 April 2007 (UTC)


 * In retrospect, I probably read it as "gives checkmate for black." In any case "checkmates Black" is very clear and I sheepishly see now that you've already changed it.  Awesome.  --Romanempire 14:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Mahler (disambiguation)
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 * What a deeply stupid message.

Some more chess image deletions
Hi, you seem to have already said that deleting these are ok by you, but just for the record I have listed the remainder of these (I think) here: Images and media for deletion/2007 May 30. --Sherool (talk) 14:25, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

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Proposal to write stubs on each cantata
Hi, My proposal is to write fast stubs of all remaining cantatas with basic links to get more info and possibly some music. What about the 1 minute samples of classical.com? Later, the complete info, like it has been greatly done so far on a few of them. Please let me know. Adrian Comollo (talk) 01:16, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

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Award
I would like to present to you the I Edited Jimbo Wales' Userpage Barnstar! — ComputerGuy890100  Talk to meWhat I've done to help Wikipedia 23:16, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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Ernest Hemingway project?
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Speedy deletion nomination of Glenn Gould
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Blast from the past
I'm talking about interaction on Wikipedia, er, not too long from now, so went to look back at my welcome message today, which I hadn't seen in roughly forever. Thanks again for making my first talk page interaction here one that made me want to come back. Cheers, Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 09:39, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Camembert! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 9 of the articles that you created  are  Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the list:

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 * Given the numbers, I think this must be the most amusing use of the word "greatly" I've seen in some time. Still, I'll get round to it eventually, I suppose. --Camembert (talk) 03:47, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

The word 'fuck' listed at Redirects for discussion
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 * Since this is now deleted, I've raised the matter on User talk:Od Mishehu. --Camembert (talk) 18:35, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ladislav Kupkovič


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 * Don't be silly - he's in Grove. --Camembert (talk) 18:36, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Stephin Merritt
Ok this is going to sound crazy but stick with me. In 2002 you performed this edit, in a recent interview Stephin points out all mistakes in his Wikipedia article on of them is that he was not born in 1966. Do you have any clue where you got this information? I'm to figure out how mistaken information can get passed along in article for 8 years, to further complicate it, it looks like for the past 8 years writers have been using this article as a source and quoting the wrong date. Ridernyc (talk) 13:20, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
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Chess problem and Chess
Hi, as a past contributor to Chess problem could you revist the article and add any references you may have. There is an issue of summarised work in Chess that is also largely unreferenced. 03:03, 13 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by SunCreator (talk • contribs)

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MSU Interview
Dear Camembert,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
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 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk)23:22, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Peter Blake (artist) for deletion
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Invitation to join the Ten Year Society
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I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.

Best regards, &mdash; Hex  (❝ ?! <font color="#000">❞)  17:02, 17 October 2012 (UTC).

Nomination of Plunderphonics for deletion
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Conlon Nancarrow article problem
Hi Camembert. I've tagged Conlon Nancarrow to ask the copyvio investigation team to investigate its strong similarity to http://www.schott-music.com/shop/persons/featured/conlon-nancarrow/. However, I see some reasons to suspect that it could have been a backwards copy (for example, the Wayback machine appears not to know the Schott page, even though the text is several years old). I'm letting you know as the article creator, in the hope that you may know something that would speed up the investigation. This is a personal message, not a template. Best regards, --Stfg (talk) 15:21, 23 January 2013 (UTC)


 * (You know this already, but for the record: I replied on your talk page. --Camembert (talk))

Proposed deletion of Librettist


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Global account
Hi Camembert! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:24, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Precious
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Thank you, Lee, for beginning essential articles on music such as Mauricio Kagel, Anton Webern, Polytonality, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, for images and for quoting: "A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection." - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:24, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Four years ago, you were recipient no. 1263 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:55, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Look, you are editor No. 7 for Penderecki, - thank you, and see also --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:04, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of English Wikipedia Quality Survey for deletion
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Virginia Tech Project Invite
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

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.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

English Wikipedia Quality Survey listed at Redirects for discussion
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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
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Administrator changes
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Arbitration
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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 01:15, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Jethro Tull for deletion
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ArbCom 2019 special circular
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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:14, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Ami Yoshida for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ami Yoshida is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Ami Yoshida until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. ~ Ase1este charge-paritytime 18:12, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:34, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users
Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement
22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:12, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed&#32;if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of January 2023.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. —&thinsp;JJMC89 bot 08:33, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed&#32;if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of January 2023.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. —&thinsp;JJMC89 bot 00:55, 1 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Love how Wikipedia continues to find new ways to patronise you through automation.


 * Some years ago, I created the WP:RFA page to try and make the process of becoming an admin quicker and more transparent. The ideal then was that everyone should be an admin, and the only reason they weren't was that admins could perform certain actions that could only be undone by a developer. Therefore, it made sense to withhold those powers until there was good reason to believe they wouldn't be abused. A village isn't governed in the same way as a megalopolis, no doubt, but this still makes me very sad. --Camembert (talk)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions have been removed.

Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux  Talk 02:19, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 17:37, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

London meetup bicententary
FYI, the 200th London Meetup is happening tomorrow, Sunday 14 January. You may be interested as you were present at the very first one (pictured)! Note that it is now at Penderel's Oak on High Holborn by the Great Turnstile. Andrew🐉(talk) 13:18, 13 January 2024 (UTC)