User talk:Finlay McWalter/archive14

Sentence of the week
Hi Finlay, for this "so the possibility of TX being in play, perhaps in 8 years, is not the psephological nebbishness it probably is today. " - you get my incredibly irregularly awarded sentence of the week commendation! Thanks for the refs and comment, you gave me chuckle (and hope for my depressing current state of residence). Cheers, SemanticMantis (talk) 18:26, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Please revoke talk page access
For. User made an. Thanks! Linguist If you reply here, please add    to your message 23:37, 16 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Meh, let him rant. In any event, it's rarely appropriate for the blocking admin to also be the one to revoke access. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 23:41, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Talk page access has now been revoked. Linguist  If you reply here, please add    to your message 23:49, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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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 However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less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)

Pizzagate
I presume you didn't want to add that back to the article. PanydThe muffin is not subtle 17:17, 7 December 2016 (UTC)


 * What makes you think that? -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 17:54, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
 * On first look I was linking it to the recent conspiracy theory furor but having just been reverted myself I now know that this is an actual thing that doesn't involve maniacs with shotguns. The world is an odd place. PanydThe muffin is not subtle 18:25, 7 December 2016 (UTC)


 * If it resurfaces, we can put an edit notice on that article (and maybe some comment text in that section) directly people to Pizzagate (conspiracy theory). But the overspill that the football article saw (which seems to have been due to one person, thwarted in their attempts to make/edit the conspiracy article) seems to have abated. If the conspiracy article ends up being protected we might see further overspill, but absent that the football article is probably okay. I'd wager that, in a week or two, the locus of internet crazy will have moved to some other nonsense. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 21:17, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Personal Atttacks - Philip Morris
Hello, please refrain from personal attacks. &#39;Pedia Trician (talk) 22:31, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Brie Bella
Hi, You reverted vandalism that happened on Brie Bella. However there are just words and the infobox is not appearing. I have tried to edit here and there to try and get the infobox to show but apparently it is not working. I was hoping you could fix this. Thanks Plum3600 (talk) 14:38, 22 May 2017 (UTC)


 * There was an unclosed link, in the section mentioning John Cena. I removed that, and the infobox renders okay.  I didn't simply fix the link, because the rest of the article body doesn't mention Cena, and so I don't know if that's true or not. If it is, feel free to restore the content as you see fit - US professional wrestling seems to blur the lines between its internal fantasy story and the real world to such an extent that I'm not confident I can evaluate sources about living people in that milieu at all. Thanks for noticing the defect; hopefully there wasn't other collateral damage in all that mess, but let me know if you see anything else. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 14:51, 22 May 2017 (UTC)