User talk:Horologium/December 2013

Big Mac
Five years passed since indef. semi-protection. Lower to "pending changes"? --George Ho (talk) 02:30, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Please take a good look at the article history beginning in 2008 (interestingly, my protection was the last edit of the year). There is no way that I can justify removing protection from that article. It's not like it was the target of a specific vandal, or the subject of an edit war, or collateral damage from some other dispute. It is an irresistible magnet to dozens of mindless vandals who seek out the first thing that pops into their tiny little brains upon which to wreak havoc. I tried short-term protection twice before, and the carnage resumed every time protection ended. There are certain articles which should never be unprotected; this is one of them. (You should be able to figure out some of the others, dealing with anatomy, biologic processes, procreation, and pop-culture topics.) While Pending Changes might work for some articles, this is not one of them, because the signal-to-noise ratio was about nil; very few (if any) of the IP edits were constructive.  Horologium  (talk) 03:28, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Have I to wait five more years for this? George Ho (talk) 05:25, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't see a pressing need to unprotect an article whose history indicates that it was a vandalism magnet long before I ever responded to a request on WP:RFPP to protect it. Look at the 100 edits prior to my indef protection; only 3 IP edits were not reverted (and one of them should have been, but it was wedged in between simultaneous vandalism from two IP addresses. Further, there were a couple of non-autoconfirmed named editors who vandalized the page; semi-protection would have stopped them as well. In fact, looking at the 500 edits prior to my protection, it appears that >90% from anons was vandalism, and that those 500 edits took place in just over 8 months. Since then, there have been 253 edits (total), and the number of vandalism reverts has been minimal. It's nice to have pages that everyone can edit, but (just as we don't let everyone edit the main page or widely transcluded templates) some pages get abused if they are not protected. This is one of them.  Horologium  (talk) 06:29, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Case at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
Hi. I have written here regarding your actions as admin. --IRISZOOM (talk) 02:31, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

SUL request redux
This is a confirmation that I am again requesting a rename on de.wp from w:de:Benutzer:Horologium on en.wp to w:de:Benutzer:Horologium as a means of rectifying the copyright assignment errors on de.wp.  Horologium  (talk) 05:10, 30 December 2013 (UTC)