User talk:Kingboyk/Archive 29

 Now in page histories and on talk pages etc, the names of blocked users are striked out. Makes it much easier to see at a glance if a page has attracted socks, SPAs, vandals, etc... --kingboyk (talk) 17:45, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , Oh, that's all it does? I may have had that one installed, or a similar script, as I definitely view blocked editors account names with strikes through them. I'll e-mail you with a further question. Doug Mehus T · C  17:54, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm a bit busy for email atm, and if I open email I might then get distracted by other emails. Can you ask another admin or ask on IRC/Discord? --kingboyk (talk) 18:00, 25 February 2020 (UTC)--kingboyk (talk) 18:00, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * No worries. It's probably not urgent since it only apparently involves a few U.S. roadways. Doug Mehus T · C  18:03, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Right. And if it becomes urgent, somebody else will notice. I might, btw, have a vague recollection of US roadways being a controversial topic at some point or another... Hmm. Anyway, back to content creation! --kingboyk (talk) 18:09, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I've got other things to do so, as much as I'd like to look into it, I'm just going to assume good-faith. Nevertheless, I seem to have attracted a follower here on English Wikipedia, if you know what I mean. ;-) Doug Mehus T · C  03:16, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Update: was the user in question and they were indeed a sock. --kingboyk (talk) 19:22, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Could you...
Would you be so kind as to redo the rationale for ECP on Ntinda Vocational Training Institute? The reason given is a link that doesn't go to where it was intended. Likewise, a quick summary would be appropriate in this regard, especially for an action featured prominently on WP:AN. Thanks! Buffs (talk) 17:12, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello Buffs. I've not been informed of any discussion at ANI. Is my action being disputed? I am quite happy to undo it if it is. The protection was in response to a request at RFPP (link at the time was Requests_for_page_protection). I'll be back in a few minutes (dinner is ready). --kingboyk (talk) 17:19, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean (it's in the log at the top of ANI, rather than a discussion, hence no notification). I've redone the protection. Please leave me another message if there is still a problem; if there is silence or a thanks I will assume all is now OK. --kingboyk (talk) 17:52, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * WP:AN, not WP:ANI. I get that it was initially due to the RFPP request, but for something that is so long-enduring, a link to something that will not exist in a week is inadequate justification, IMHO. A simple summary (as you've provided: "Repeatedly recreated. Protection requested at WP:RFPP.") is significantly better; thank you. Buffs (talk) 19:53, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Abhirami Suresh
Hi, thanks for this compliment :) I am almost done with the draft. Can I request you to please review the draft for its suitability for including it in the Wikipedia ? All the references used are independent sources, I believe it satisfies WP:BASIC and WP:ENTERTAINER. 2409:4073:2097:144D:E8D2:E103:96CC:8A67 (talk) 19:00, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! Sorry, but I'm too busy to accept your request at the moment. I'm afraid you'll have to wait for a random AFC reviewer to get to it. --kingboyk (talk) 19:06, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok. No hurry, complete your existing commitments, or I'll wait for a random reviewer. 2409:4073:2097:144D:E8D2:E103:96CC:8A67 (talk) 19:16, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Article published :-) 2409:4073:204:248E:9424:A9AF:B3CD:2D22 (talk) 10:58, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Congratulations again! You got super lucky to have it reviewed so quickly, but maybe it's karma for coming back to me with a list of references, and for getting a deleted-at-AFD article up to scratch such that it could pass a legit AFC review :) Really well done. --kingboyk (talk) 14:45, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Review of two of my PRODs
If you have a minute, can you review two of my PRODs, Westbank Centre Exchange and Mark Bunting, with the view to possibly endorsing them, as you did with execution pattern? In the latter case, I used WP:BLPPROD instead of the WP:PROD template and I see from the PRODs on the creator's talk page, other editors have been using a regular PROD tag, so if the PROD tag would be more appropriate, can you update it to that and endorse?

Cheers,

Doug Mehus T · C  03:05, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Doug Mehus, Endorsement doesn't really achieve anything other than possibly making the reviewing admin's decision a tiny bit easier; so effectively, you're asking me to make the job easier of an admin who has chosen to work the deletion queues at a time when I am focusing on work and content creation :) The programming PROD was a special case because as a programmer I felt compelled to look it up, and a detailed comment on a Stack Overflow question about it suggested it's probably "made up" (the Stack Overflow post is now pending deletion too, as a result).
 * There are important differences between PROD and BLPPROD. I was going to attempt to summarise the differences, but scanning through the policies it's quite complicated so I recommend you read them again yourself as a refresher. A couple of interesting points to tide you over: Editors are allowed to PROD again if a BLP PROD is removed (see note 1). 2) You're allowed to put a WP:BLPPROD tag back (with the original timestamp!) if it is removed without a source being added (Proposed_deletion_of_biographies_of_living_people).
 * Westbank Centre Exchange does not need endorsement.
 * I'm not fully caffeinated yet so I suggest you double check the veracity of the following (and the foregoing!) before acting:
 * Now the bad news. I don't believe Mark Bunting was eligible for BLPPROD when you tagged it. There is an External Links section with a link to a page which says that he has worked at BNN and CTV. This supports 2 or more assertions in the article. The quality of the source does not appear to matter: "To place a BLPPROD tag, the process requires that the article contains no sources in any form (as references, external links, etc.) which support any statements made about the person in the biography." My thinking here is that you should retract the BLPPROD yourself, and PROD it, to correct the mistake. If I de-BLPPROD it then you re-PROD it the same day, it's technically allowed from what I can tell (unless I'm missing something in the policy about having to wait X days before renomination; as I said I need coffee :)) but way messier.
 * I can revisit the above after coffee if necessary - just let me know if you feel any of my reply is incorrect or if you need more help. --kingboyk (talk) 15:35, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , Let me amend the Mark Bunting one to a PROD then, since this isn't a bureaucracy. Your endorsement would be helpful, though, particularly in that case since it's a change of PROD. Doug Mehus T · C  15:44, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * You don't need to ping me on my own user talk page Doug :) - the 'new' and improved "orange bar of doom" is notification enough! --kingboyk (talk) 15:50, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, darn reply-link always defaults to including previous usernames, so I sometimes forget about that. Yes, I also find the "orange bar of doom" to be far too intrusive. Why was this added anyway? Is a notification not enough? Doug Mehus T · C  15:59, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * The contemporary orange bar of doom is but a mere annoyance if an annoyance at all. The original one ran the entire width of the page and was about the size of a maintenance template. It was a hateful thing; thank goodness it is no longer with us! The link I gave explains why we have the current one.
 * The latest Tech News says we're getting a built-in reply feature soon which should be cool. --kingboyk (talk) 16:29, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, that's excellent news about the built-in reply feature! I had suggested converting reply-link to a Gadget at a village pump, but was told that due to its bugs, it likely wasn't ready for being a gadget. Someone else further replied that there was an outstanding Phabricator ticket about converting it to an extension (I believe that was the terminology used), but added that it had been pending for a long time. It seems that it's finally ready for production release! Awesome news! I suspect will be pleased, at least in the sense that they won't need to spend time fixing sanity check signature errors with reply-link anymore. ;-) Doug Mehus  T · C  16:37, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Heh. I just realised your account is older than mine! You must already know about the bad old orange bar of doom then! --kingboyk (talk) 01:34, 29 February 2020 (UTC) (noob)
 * Yeah, I have a five-digit userID...I was inactive for many years, though—2004-2017 or so, so you've lapped me both in content creation and edits. I am a long-time editor in the sense that I had an account. So, while I'd qualify for the highest service award in terms of tenure, I'm still the newbie (or newbie-ish when it comes to the awards) when it comes to edits. One thing that surprised me, though, is that in the Cabayi RfA right now...the editor only has about 7,500 manual, non-semi-automated and non-automated edits despite having a couple hundred thousand edits. (It's reason for some of the "opposes.") I don't necessarily subscribe to the idea that editors need to have a lot of content creation, but they do need to have some. My content creation is so minimal—CKOO-FM, Progressive Senate Group, Brent Cotter, and Judith Keating being the only articles I've created (though I've substantially contributed to other Okanagan radio station articles, West Kelowna Warriors, Independent Soldiers (got my first WP:HEY at AfD for saving it, after I dePRODded it), and Canadian Senators Group). In the spring, when I'm done this diploma program I'm doing, I'm going to focus on writing articles on Canadian provincial prisons, as we have so few and I'm sure there are many more that are notable. Doug Mehus  T · C  01:48, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Yup! I'm following the progress of the WMF group working on the "new reply-link" (they call it DiscussionTools), and have even talked with them once or twice. Here's to a brighter future where we all don't have to care about getting indentation right :) Enterprisey (talk!) 18:59, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Doug isn't going to have to worry about this for a while, as he's got himself blocked. As for the future, let's hope it's not orange :) --kingboyk (talk) 20:13, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

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Moved to User talk:Sandrah.Akol, with thanks. --kingboyk (talk) 19:34, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

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 * Interesting blast from the past Carcharoth, thank you. --kingboyk (talk) 16:51, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

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