User talk:John Carter/Archives/2014/November

WikiCup 2014: The results
The 2014 WikiCup champion is, who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. , 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. , WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:


 * wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 181 featured pictures in the final round.
 * wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 65 did you knows in the final round.
 * wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for four featured articles in the final round.
 * wins the prize for fourth place
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins the GA prize for 27 good articles in round 2 and the review prize for 28 good article reviews in round 1.
 * wins the FL prize for three featured lists in round 2.
 * wins the FPo prize his work on featured portals.
 * wins the topic prize for a nine-article featured topic in round 3.
 * wins the news prize for 28 in the news articles in round 3.

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. and 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Landmark Worldwide
You deleted "" from Landmark Worldwide because: "'the templates really look odd in the main article, certainly until there actually are decisions'" usage of this template is neccessary to show a current dispute in progress, not a conclusion. Hiding the status of a page is not something you should want to do. Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 13:34, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Lunatic asylum
Even I looked it up on Heritage Quest and the only thing I could find was this. Pretty much what you came up with. I don't think the parish is of any significance. Thanks for the assistance! - NQ (talk)  22:32, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Note
It was Orson Scott Card's hero Lieberman who is quoted in the thread as basically identifying himself as a John F. Kennedy Democrat. Meanwhile, Card himself has terms his position within the party as being a Daniel Patrick Moynihan (or other figures) Democrat.--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 19:16, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Iban modification
See Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Historicity_of_Jesus/Workshop. Cheers, NativeForeigner Talk 04:50, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

RfC
As you participated in a previous related discussion you are invited to comment at Administrators/RfC for an Admin Review Board. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:11, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

DangerousPanda arbitation request opened
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration and have not been listed as a party. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/DangerousPanda. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/DangerousPanda/Evidence. Please add your evidence by 3 December 2014, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/DangerousPanda/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:36, 19 November 2014 (UTC). Message delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

Your comment to Reguyla
Reguyla has no talk page access, it is in poor taste to get the last critical word in when he cannot respond.

Please consider reverting yourself in the interest of not prolonging this drama any further or give him any more things to complain about being unfair. Chillum 20:54, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

I see now you were responding to a ping and the timing is such that you may not have noticed the change in the block. Please disregard my "poor taste" comment if this is the case. I still think reverting would be a good idea. Chillum 20:57, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Your comment on User talk:Reguyla‎
Hi John, would you consider removing this comment that you added to Reguyla's talk page? Considering the context of someone having their talk page removed for using it to call other people abusive negatives, etc, it's unattractively ironic for someone else to immediately come along and post content of the same style to his talk page, especially when he now can't respond. Yes, Reguyla was giving as good as he got, but that's not a reason to keep "giving". Leaving provocative commentary there now does nothing except inflame a situation that should be becoming less drama-ridden. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 20:59, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Oops, I crossed with Chillum saying basically the same thing, sorry for hitting you multiple times. My request remains, however. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 21:00, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Revised my comment
Hi John. I clarified and fleshed-out my comment here after you responded. I don't think it has distorted your response at all, but if you'd prefer me to add my addendum below your comment, just ask. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 21:16, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Tojikiston Soveti
Hi, care to project tag this, can't remember if it had its own tag or the central Asia one. Neither are very active unfortunately to my knowledge.♦ Dr. Blofeld  16:04, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Can you tag Cushing Eells?♦ Dr. Blofeld  22:32, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks
For your thoughtful participation in the village pump thread. Obviously I was just testing the waters following the other RfA discussion, but I was surprised at how unimaginative and paranoid my fellow wikipedians are. Although probably I should have phrased it in a less set in stone way, obviously the one year and 3000 edits was just an example that could be negotiated, just as the possibility of separating certain tools out, and creating a better desysop process etc. But clearly noone actually believes in the basic principles of wikipedia here - namely that many think better than one and that people can organize themselves without hierarchy. Sad, but predictable.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 23:32, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I think the idea might well get some more support if some of the concerns were more clearly addressed. Some sort of similar proposal, possibly with maybe a bit greater qualifiers (1-1/2 years of productive editing of some sort without "significant" block time, maybe) might work. I like the idea of some sort of "default" adminship confirmation after some period provided certain conditions are met and there are no particular reasons presented in a review setting to deny it being given, and I think that sort of proposal, maybe in an article to the Signpost or as a proposal, might get some more positive response. I think there is a reasonable chance that maybe some sort of arb com reform and/or admin reform might be strongly considered after the current election, particularly in the unlikely event a non-admin gets elected to ArbCom, and maybe then the idea might get some more reasonable response. If at that time I can help at all, let me know. John Carter (talk) 23:52, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

In answer to your question
Well, everything else has been duly buried, but the question is still valid. No, there does not appear to be a technical solution within our current blocking software by which a user can be repeatedly blocked on successive days for the same time period day after day. I suspect, however, that an adminbot could be programmed to do so, given the correct authorization and direction, and it would need to be carefully monitored by real administrators in case it went offline, failed to log in, or had some other type of malfunction. Risker (talk) 01:24, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate opened
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate/Evidence. Please add your evidence by December 11, 2014, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 22:28, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Moved comment
I moved your comment from WP:VPR to WT:Canvassing (it will still reflect at VPR), you left your comment at a transcluded copy instead of the original discussion. -- lTopGunl (talk) 16:21, 28 November 2014 (UTC)