User talk:Consumed Crustacean

The Name of the Herschel (Mimantean crater) Article
I have been making comments about the change of the name of Herschel (Mimantean crater) from Herschel (crater on Mimas) on the talk page. There has been no response. No response is a reasonable response, but I want to make sure that no response is not the simple result of not noticing the discussion. I do not add all of the pages I edit to my watch list.

E-mail is a nice idea, but I do not have an e-mail address. --Fartherred (talk) 00:13, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * If you first see this thread after this comment, the matter seems pretty well settled now. --Fartherred (talk) 16:42, 22 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, sorry about that. I haven't been keeping up-to-date with Wikipedia, hence the email suggestion. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 05:59, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

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 over 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 and that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions). 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) 05:11, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Perfectly fine, Mr. Bot. I've only made a dozen or so edits over the past several months, and all of those logged-out. No sure when the last time I used the bucket was. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 07:01, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, that comment will probably count as an edit and keep you on the admin rolls for another year. (I'm not 100% certain, but I think that's the way it works.) In any event, hoping you're well and noting we've missed you. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 17:08, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah. Well, whatever. I'm fine, thank you. I've been editing, just at a steady, low rate on my IP address. I usually can't be bothered to log in. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 03:49, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Although it might be useful to become somewhat active again. I've rewritten a few articles as an IP, and it's somewhat hard to keep track of them or receive feedback when you're account-less. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 04:10, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Talkback
Here is a template for you Retartist (talk) 03:46, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

FYI
FYI:. CC.
 * Yeah, I got it. Sorry, I'm staying out of this. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 18:43, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tabletop Simulator has been accepted
 Tabletop Simulator, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Sulfurboy (talk) 02:33, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
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Location map conversions
Hi. Thanks for helping convert location maps from templates to modules. A few notes, though: Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:54, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
 * All parameters should be converted (you omitted "type").
 * Templates should never redirect to modules. No page at all should exist where the template used to be, and any redirect templates need to be re-created as redirect modules (or, if nothing transcludes them, they can just be deleted).
 * No redirects should be left behind in template space at all, including doc pages.
 * Talk pages should be moved from the template to the module (e.g., Template talk:Location map Canada to Module talk:Location map/data/Canada).
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 * Gotcha, thanks for cleaning it up. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 01:55, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Have a nice day :) Thanks for the work you do.

Alanhaugen (talk) 09:30, 23 September 2015 (UTC) 

Regarding User talk:Haozch
Hi Crustacean, thank you for your ping. Mind if you can enlighten me as to the circumstances of the article and its content? From what I've seen I assume that the user who created the article was probably the creator of the website where the article content was lifted from; from what I understand from policy that without expressed permission of the author himself, the article is a CSD for copyvio.

I get that he must give expressed permission, but I wonder if by doing so that he must release his own content from copyright, I wonder what are the future ramifications for him concerning his licensing and IP rights that he has over his own content, especially if for example some of his content is from Twitter, and depending of Twitter's T&Cs, I'm not sure if he can claim copyright on that content. Hope you get what I mean. Cheers, Optakeover  (Talk)  08:40, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, mind if I raise this - I don't assume bad faith, but if he is editing out of China, how is he able to do that? Optakeover  (Talk)  08:46, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The special circumstances (i.e., good chance it's his own material, or at the very least material from an organization he's associated with) warrant some extra care and instruction to the user. G12 is also only supposed to be used when it's unambiguous copyright violation, but since he hasn't actually made a claim or contested the speedy himself that's probably fine. I've both added a comment on his talk page and emailed him, so in my opinion it's all good now.
 * RE: Twitter, China, etc.:
 * He doesn't have to release it from copyright, he has to agree to relicense to be compatible with Wikipedia's licenses.
 * Twitter's T&Cs don't in any way remove his ownership over his own content. They require that he also give them permission to use it, but that's all. None of the article content is on Twitter anyways, it's taken from / based on the Apache Eagle documentation.
 * Not sure what China has to do with anything.
 * Cheers! -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 18:44, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure about the GNU licence, but for the CC licence, agreeing to licence content on CC means that the creator doesn't give up copyright on the content, but cannot release it from the CC licence; which effectively means that the copyright claim cannot be used with regards to users of the content who hasn't broken the licence. As for China, I just wonder if it has anything to do with Tor, since such services has to be used by Chinese people in order to circumvent their internet blocking. But I make no accusations and assume good faith. I just wonder if such concerns are legitimate and rational. Thanks anyway, for your reply. Optakeover  (Talk)  06:14, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

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Game Engine article
I want to see a good Game Engine article, care to write one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alanhaugen (talk • contribs) 23:14, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, was thinking about working on it. But right now, work, life, etc. don't leave me with a whole lot of time. Maybe I'll consider it again when Mirage ships. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 23:22, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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 * Enabled. If I suddenly go rogue it's either me, or someone's tortured my Wikipedia and phone password out of me. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 00:00, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
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Fuk listed at Redirects for discussion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Cartes du Ciel


A tag has been placed on Cartes du Ciel, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Nomination of Cartes du Ciel for deletion
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"Coy (Disambiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion
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