User talk:Jredmond

Saint Philomena
Dear Jredmond,

Please, may I ask if you would invite Fulumenae back. I would think she took too much to heart the situation over the Saint Philomena article. I'v placed, in the talk page of the same article pointers that clarify. I do not know her. But I do think her expertese would be of value. After all, alot of the right was on her side over Saint Philomena's article page and talk page. An Encyclopedia has to be all embracing, and I came up against this with the Saint Athanasius' article page, but followed, with your Editors help the correct procedure. The same problem is on the Hosius of Corduba article page.

Revert wars are of course bad, but then it is in the past and for sensitive souls this menia is taken to heart unlike any other.

MacOfJesus (talk) 14:59, 20 September 2009 (UTC) MacOfJesus (talk) 09:47, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Userfying autobio pages
Hi. I saw you "userfied" Ian Joseph Scott just now. That's a useful thing to do, but there are two things you should do as a follow-up:
 * Add to the redirect which is left behind on the original page, so that it gets deleted,
 * Tell the user what you have done. There is a standard template you can use for that; I don't myself like it very much and have made up one which I cut and paste from a text file - you can see a sample of it at User talk:Suresh778, and you are welcome to copy and adapt it if you like.

Actually, I am beginning to think that userfying these autobios is a bit of a waste of time because they almost never continue as constructive editors - they are nearly all here only to post about themselves. Still, it is a more friendly and less WP:BITEy way to deal with them than speedying. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:25, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid the above almost comes under the heading of WP:DTTR - your nearly-clear talk page gave me the impression you were a new-ish user, which I see is far from the case. My apologies. JohnCD (talk) 20:31, 24 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Don't worry about assuming I'm new; you aren't the first to make that mistake. I think I need to change that 'archives' box so that it's more prominent.


 * I agree that userfying autobios is much less WP:BITEy, but I disagree that it's a waste of time. Abandoned user pages gather dust quietly, but article deletion logs are readily available and associate the user's name with "spam" or "not notable" or other less-than-favorable terms.  This inevitably causes drama later on &mdash; and let's face it, the last thing Wikipedia needs more of is drama.


 * Thanks for the reminder about the db-r2 template, though. I keep forgetting about that. - Jredmond (talk) 21:12, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's a good point, I will continue to userfy. I did a check back recently - of my last 50 userfications, just 3 had many any subsequent edit that wasn't about themselves. JohnCD (talk) 21:21, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

OTRS page move
I don't want to be rude, but you essentially renamed a major Foundation project without asking...

At the very least you need to float a proposal on this one, rather than just do it.

Please revert and open a discussion. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 21:41, 5 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I didn't rename the whole project, I just changed how enwiki would refer to it. Let's discuss this further on WT:VRT, though, so that it's easier for other people to weigh in if they want to. - Jredmond (talk) 21:59, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Audit subcommittee mailing list
Congratulations. Please email myself or Risker using special:Email, so we know it's you, and tell us which email address you wish to be added to the audit subcommittee mailing list. Thatcher 21:52, 10 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Please check your mail. - Jredmond (talk) 22:31, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in SecurePoll feedback and workshop
As you participated in the recent Audit Subcommittee election, or in one of two requests for comment that relate to the use of SecurePoll for elections on this project, you are invited to participate in the SecurePoll feedback and workshop. Your comments, suggestions and observations are welcome. For the Arbitration Committee, Risker (talk) 08:25, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

CU + OS
Hello Jredmond, I have granted you CU and OS flag. You can subscribe to checkuser-l and contact an op for access to #wikimedia-checkuser and #wikimedia-oversights. Congratulations and regards, Leina D  ( t )  11:48, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Image copyright
Hi, this is regarding File:Ruslan Sirota.jpg – the appropriate e-mail has been sent on Nov. 9, if you could please look into this issue as soon as possible it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 15:41, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Please note this response. Let's keep any discussion centralised, so please respond there. Thank you so much, m:Mark W (Mwpnl) ¦  talk  17:25, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Audit Subcommittee
Hi. I have asked a followup question at the now quite delayed Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee/Audit_Subcommittee If there isn't an explanation forthcoming within the next 48 hours regarding the mandate of the subcommittee, I will ask that it be folded back up as failed. Hipocrite (talk) 19:52, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Happy Jredmond's Day!
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk  • 01:19, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Weekend
The weekend now being unambiguously, globaly, certainly over, I'm going to have to insist that the Audit Subcommittee release a statement in a specified timeframe. If the comittee cannot release a statement within the next 24 hours, I'm going to mark the comittee as historical and sugest a return to the "loud shouting and backchannel influence peddling" method of audit. Hipocrite (talk) 14:05, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Arbitration case involving you.
I have opened a case to attempt to get some clarity on the mandate of the Audit Subcomittee. The case can be found at Arbitration/Requests/Case. You are a named party only in your capacity as a member of the Committee. Hipocrite (talk) 18:25, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for releasing the report. It is difficult for any comittee to write a document. I apologize for being such a bother through the process, and merely hope that no one holds it against anyone. Hipocrite (talk) 14:05, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

re: Wikipedia:Contact us/temp
Hey there, Happy New Year! I just came across Contact us/temp and was wondering if this page is still necessary? or if not can we delete it? Regards, &oelig; &trade; 08:09, 5 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I was using that space as a staging ground for a rewrite/simplification of WP:CONTACT.  The rewrite is still on my to-do list, but I can userfy that page in the meantime. - Jredmond (talk) 18:43, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

My response to the AUSC report
is here. I want to make absolutely sure you've been given a chance to respond to it. -- JohnWBarber (talk) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

File:Jim In Miami w-Hat.jpg
Hello, Jredmond! I sort of picked your name out of a hat, as I see you are an administrator on the Volunteer Response Team. I'm trying to get an image into WP Commons, and I originally uploaded it off of Flickr, thinking it was a probably unknown source taken illegally at a Doors concert. After the image barely survived FfD, an administrator gave me time to find the correct source, or it would be put up for deletion again. I went so far as to contact a professional photographer that was at the infamous Miami concert, David E. LeVine. He e-mailed me back on my personal G-mail account, and I posted his response here. I sent both my original e-mail to Mr. LeVine and his response to me to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org on January 31, and have yet to receive any response whatsoever.

I appreciate your time in reading this, and I'm hoping that if you cannot help me, perhaps you can point me in the direction I need to go to get this image on the Commons. I appreciate any response you can give me at your earliest convenience. Thank you! Doc9871 (talk) 09:12, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Add a "public interest" clause to Oversight
A proposal to add a "public interest" clause to Oversight has started at Wikipedia_talk:Oversight.  SilkTork  *YES! 10:31, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for the corrective edit. It seems that vandalism came from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:204.184.70.4 and this is not the first time that ip has vandalized as it has been warned as far back as Jan. 2010.98.82.103.91 (talk) 19:43, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Chicago 3.1
You participated in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Chicago 3. I thought you might want to sign up for Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Chicago 3.1 from 10:30-11:45 a.m. on Saturday May 1, 2010 at the UIC Student Center West.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 22:38, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Thaksin Shinawatra
Thanks for jumping on those recent edits to Talk:Thaksin Shinawatra by User:124.157.190.228. It seemed inappropriate, especially given the rather violent tone, but I'm still pretty new to Wikipedia and wasn't completely sure where the "line" was on talk pages (still learning). One newbie question: should this policy also extend to what this anonymous editor just did to their own talk page (User talk:124.157.190.228)? -- Bgpaulus (talk) 18:49, 8 April 2010 (UTC)


 * In this case, yes; the anon's talk page should have been (and has been) deleted. Attacks are never appropriate on the wiki, even on user talk pages. - Jredmond (talk) 19:11, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry
Sorry, however that's not possible. It will be changed back in 30 minutes. Please bear with me, I'm pulling a prank, so fuck off.


 * That's lovely. Please explain why the rest of the planet has to endure your silly little prank. - Jredmond (talk) 16:21, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Lu Xun Article
Sorry, I was looking at the edit summary and saw that user using the F word.--Katieh5584 (talk) 20:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)


 * It's OK - nothing we can't undo. Just be more careful about that in the future. - Jredmond (talk) 20:22, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism
Thank you for reverting the Vandalism that occured on my User Page! - Fumitol &#124;talk &#124;cont 16:07, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikimania talk
Would you please urgently confirm your talk here: ? The reminders may have gone to the spambox, especially if you are using gmail. Thanks.--Yaroslav Blanter (talk) 09:34, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

OTRS Requests
Hello, Jredmond. I saw your name in the admins @ otrs-wiki. I wrote to admin requests on June 29th. I ask you: Can you take a look here. I'm sorry to bother you. Good work. Goodday -- taysin  (talk)  12:09, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Seeking advice
Since you've served significantly longer than I have, maybe you would have some good input at Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee/Audit_Subcommittee. Thanks.  MBisanz  talk 02:07, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Meetup in St. Louis for Wikipedia's tenth anniversary
Hello Jredmond. I would like to invite you to a meetup this Saturday at 5 PM at the City Museum to celebrate Wikipedia's tenth anniversary. Even if you cannot make it, please drop your name at Meetup/St. Louis in the regrets section or watchlist that page to be informed about future meetups in St. Louis. Hope to see you this weekend or at a future meetup. Cheers.--Chaser (talk) 06:29, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Identifiable people images
Hi, I saw you on the OTRS volunteer list and was wondering if you could help direct me to the proper way to show consent from the subject of an image where the person is identifiable. The photographer has sent in an OTRS ticket, and the subject is his wife. He said that his wife knew the image was being used on WP and was happy about it. But an RFC recently closed to remove the image until further consent from the subject could be confirmed. How do I got about doing this? Have the subject write OTRS? Thanks! Dreadstar ☥  17:41, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Years
Hi, since your name's down on this project, I'm just writing to let you know that there's a discussion going on at the moment on how to format events – and in particular, events that go on for multiple days – on year pages. Your input would be appreciated. — Smjg (talk) 18:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear Jredmond,

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.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * 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) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 23:10, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

NPV Yao Jiaxin murder case
Regarding the subject of this article, the individual was executed for murder. However, this has been a high-profile rancorous case in China and the title of the article is Yao Jiaxin murder case rather than (say) a more factually accurate Yao Jiaxin execution case. I suspect that any attempt to rename this article would lead to an edit war and so ask for your help in deciding if, what and how to address this apparent deviation from NPV. Enquire (talk) 20:28, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

W800 discussion
Dear Sir, There is a discussion about a copyrighted free text about the motor kawasaki W800. They told me to verify the text with this service which you are one of different team leaders. How do I proceed to prove this text is user-free? :: inquiries about re-using text or media Sincerly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.130.196.218 (talk) 16:39, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Upcoming Wikimedia events in Missouri and Kansas!
You're invited to 3 exciting events Wikipedians are planning in your region this June—a tour and meetup at the National Archives in Kansas City, and Wiknics in Wichita and St. Louis:

Meetup St. Louis
If you are in the STL area on the 23rd, we'd like you to come to our local St. Louis meetup. Details here. If you are interested, please add yourself to the list and our Facebook group. Thank you. Marcus Qwertyus   18:24, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

You're invited to Wikipedia Takes St. Louis!


Dust off your Polaroid camera and pack your best lenses. The first-ever Wikipedia Takes St. Louis photo hunt kicks off Sat, Sept. 15, around noon in downtown St. Louis. Tour the streets of the Rome of the West with other Wikipedians and even learn a little St. Louis history. This event is a fun and collaborative way to enhance St. Louis articles with visual content. Novice photographers welcome! Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 06:53, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Please
Please, can you check the email I sent to en-wikimedia about the Hikikomori article? and tell me if it's correct?. Thank you. Kotjap (talk) 13:00, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

PGP-Key
Hello Jredmond, the PGP-key you provide on your user-page is expired. Could you please renew it so it can be more usable? :-). --DaB. (talk) 13:19, 18 August 2013 (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) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Discussion on Jimmy's talk page
Hi. Jimmy has opened a discussion at User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 164 and some have suggested OTRS could play a role in one or more of the proposals. Would you be interested in commenting? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 08:20, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

StL Wiknic 2014
You are invited to join us at our Wiknic on Sun, July 6, 2014: St. Louis Wiknic. Hope to see you there! Mark Schierbecker (talk) 23:25, 1 July 2014 (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 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) 02:17, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Notification of imminent 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 several days. 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) 00:30, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Inactivity
Hi Jredmond, due to your recent inactivity, I have now removed your sysop userright. Thank you for all your hard work WormTT(talk) 07:11, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Tha Fakest (Tupac Imposter)


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, introducing inappropriate pages, such as Tha Fakest (Tupac Imposter), is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Under section G3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, the page has been nominated for deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Steel1943 (talk) 16:26, 28 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Wait, are you templating me because of this?


 * 16:51, 8 July 2009 Jredmond (talk | contribs) moved page Tha Fakest (Tupac Imposter) to Tha Realest over redirect (revert - this is not the place to insert your opinions on his style.)


 * If so, please be a little more cautious with the tools; there's no need to try to shame me for redirecting things eight years ago. - Jredmond (talk) 00:23, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:53, 13 December 2019 (UTC)