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Hidden pages
I'd like to inform you that the hidden page you recreated, located at User:Thedeadmanandphenom/Am_i_an_athiest has been deleted by User:DragonflySixtyseven, just like mine at User:iBen/hidden and this user's page. Just wanted to let you know becuase you recreated the page in the past (see "27 revisions restored: I disagree with mass use of force that's based on personal dislike." located here). Sorry to canvas, however I think you might want to join the discussion at User_talk:IBen-- iBentalk/contribs 00:42, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Moi
Ha, foundcha! We were in the same school 2004-2005, the last night of the semester you asked me to write my email address or something on your arm but you never contacted me. --Seko (talk) 17:05, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Wow, looks like I haven't logged in in half a year! I just did and noticed your message. I couldn't find the email link that you mentioned, though. However I think I found you on another site, so I'll pm you there. I'm pretty sure it's you. Seko (talk) 21:48, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Secret pages at WP:MFD
Hi, I've nominated several secret pages for deletion at WP:MFD. Because you restored most of them after they were deleted, you might want to participate in those discussions (permalink). Cunard (talk) 06:32, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of El Goonish Shive
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Tapaaminen
Hei. Huomasin että olet osallistunut keskusteluun sivulla Meetup/Helsinki, joten uskon ettet koe tätä viestiä spämmiksi. Olen pohjustanut keskustelun uudestaan, ja minulla on ehdotettu tapaamispaikkakin mietittynä ihan uusiksi. Mikäli kiinnostusta vielä riittää näinkin pitkän ajan jälkeen, kannattaa käydä tutustumassa ehdotukseeni. -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. (talk) 23:36, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

donating to keep/delete a page/redirect
I think this is strictly against WP:TALK, and is most certainly against the spirit of Wikipedia. It should be removed. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:16, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Heh... and you restored while I was typing the above. Nevermind. ;) - UtherSRG (talk) 11:20, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Heh. For the record, I agree that the talk page section that opened with a proposal to buy an editing decision was in bad taste. However, there was value in the later explanation of why Fox News has made the idea an extraordinarily bad one, and in a ranting Wikipedian being told off. I was behind both, but as you know, my frankly amazing adminship powers make me completely objective and impartial, so that doesn't matter. It turned out that the rant had been removed (by someone else with the edit summary "ffs," but I'll take what I can get), so the educational value wasn't worth bothering anymore. Happy spring, Kiz o r  07:30, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Revision to Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri articles
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Thank you.

Vyeh (talk) 12:59, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:ArrKelaan crash.jpg
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Rules of Sauna WC
Sorry, that was a mistake on my part while cleaning up the article! Will fix it asap :) --Lilduff90 (talk) 16:58, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Protest Warrior
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Miscellany for deletion/Secret pages 2
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Starflight
—Torchiest talk/edits 14:20, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Discussion
What did you want to discuss with me about? IAmSasori (talk) 22:16, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * So are you still interested in discussing something? IAmSasori (talk) 22:37, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Alien Legacy
Thanks for the effort you're doing on Alien Legacy. It was too good a game to be lost in the dustbin of history, and I as well missed that it was proposed for deletion. Hopefully tomorrow (Friday) I'll have time to wean the article down while still finding references. I would be shocked if Computer Gaming World didn't review the game at some point, but I haven't been able to find it. I have the scanned PDF files for the magazine, but have to find if they did a review and what issue it was in. If you find anything from the two sources you mentioned on Jinnai's talk page, those will definitely help as well.Caidh (talk) 21:06, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Using templates in AfD
Hi Kizor,

I noticed your recent participation in Articles for deletion/Virtues of Ultima (2nd nomination). Just a technical note, be careful when you use templates, particularly ones with HTML tags like quote. What happened was that when I tried to close it, the blue box ended at the closing braces of your quote. I've fixed the problem now. An alternative to you can use in the future is "Text".

Regards, King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  ♠ 03:58, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Virtues of Ultima
I didn't even realize it had been nominated, neglecting to put it on my watchlist with the other Ultima articles. Can you find the Pelit news article covering Ultima? I tried using Google translator to search their website, but couldn't get the pages that mention "Ultima" to load up in it. With coverage like that, it should've been a keep. I'm thinking a deletion review is in order. The virtue system is just too notable not have a stand alone article.  D r e a m Focus  05:07, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Join WP:ROALD
-- We hope you can join Mayhem  Mario  18:58, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

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Nomination of Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire for deletion
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MSU Interview
Dear Kizor,

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.
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 * 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) 03:48, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Re: Bastion
Yes, quotes from the game would work fine as a source, and juxtaposed regular/new game + quotes work if it's not obvious from the new game + quote alone. I've reverted myself, so if you find a good quote feel free to just add it in to the article. -- Pres N  16:43, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire for deletion
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Another move request regarding Ukraine and Crimea
Hello, you participated in a previous move request regarding Crimea and Ukraine, so I thought you might be interested in this new request that is intended to address objections to the previous one. Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 00:16, 23 March 2014 (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)

6 years
And I never noticed your message on my talk page about XXXenophile. ...S-sorry? Repku (talk) 10:20, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Global account
Hi Kizor! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 16:29, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

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Talkback
Airplaneman  ✈  17:21, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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MfD nomination of User:Kizor/Boom
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MfD nomination of User:Kizor/Notes
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
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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.

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Nomination of Fictional universe of Harry Potter for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Fictional universe of Harry Potter is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Fictional universe of Harry Potter until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. El cid, el campeador (talk) 05:42, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular
   

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:18, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

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For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

"Girdle of femininity/masculinity" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Girdle of femininity/masculinity. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 11 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Not a very active user (talk) 12:36, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Spellcross for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Spellcross is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Spellcross until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. StarM 19:48, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

"Sunnydale Syndrome" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Sunnydale Syndrome. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 July 25 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Thryduulf (talk) 20:12, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Custom signature fix needed
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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
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How we will see unregistered users
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Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement
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"Porn scanner" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Porn scanner and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 13 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 15:50, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Noble nicknames
Template:Noble nicknames has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Liz Read! Talk! 21:48, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

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SPA tags at the Vector RFC
Hi. This is the second time I'm asking: please stop selectively applying SPA tags (to opposers only), as well as applying them to dynamic IPs (where they don't belong), and please don't restore them after they've been removed (as I have just done). These tags are not helping, and at a very minimum, need to be applied objectively to all SPAs not selectively to just the SPAs that are voting a certain way. You've asked at WP:ANI, and between being reverted by multiple editors on the page, and the answers at ANI, I don't see anyone agreeing with you about applying these tags, so let's just leave them out and move on? Thanks, Levivich (talk) 15:49, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

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