User talk:Krenair

Duramax
This is now my 5th time reverting that edit on the page. It's purely a rumor and it's been around for years now.--Dana60Cummins (talk) 18:24, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I see. Sorry! --Krenair (talk) 18:28, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I appreciate your understanding.  --Dana60Cummins (talk) 18:34, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Your request for rollback
Hi Krenair. After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback: If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! CharlieEchoTango ( contact ) 00:47, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
 * Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
 * Rollback should never be used to edit war.
 * If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
 * Use common sense.

Thanks
Thanks for reverting silly vandalism to my user page, good work! . . dave souza, talk 17:41, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Johnnie White (Irish republican)
Please be more careful when reverting with huggle. This revert meant that you added back in some defamatory information about the article subject and the user trying to remove it had to come into the IRC help channel to get it removed. Just be a little more careful in future, thanks. Ooh Bunnies! Leave a message :) 01:08, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, sorry. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 01:17, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Just for your information, it could not had been defamatory, or defamation, in the eyes of the law, in any part of the United Kingdom or in the Republic of Ireland, if the subject had already been dead and deceased. — KC9TV 01:07, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Imidacloprid. And imidacloprid and bees
Hello, I do not want to be disruptive and I want to collaborate. Every change I make they revert. Their story is one sided and extreme. Certainly not neutral. Imidacloprid and bees is not about water. Yet they quote a partial paragraph In a document that in the same paragraph says it is safe and does not leach.

I added a viable quote about trees and bees and they take it out. He just reverts. Please tell me what I can do as I work with this material, know a lot about it, and find it very upsetting to have them trash this.

Also while some of their info is accurate. They do not allow the US govt reports and university experts who say this issue is about monoculture, mites, disease, and the fact these are artificial man made hives that are sprayed purposely with pesticides to kill parasites.

This material is 100 times safer than the toxins it replaced. It is currently saving 100's of thousands of trees from EMerald ash borer, Asian long horned borer, hemlock wholly Adelaide, and others.

Thank you. I will not edit war and want to be a neutral and collaborative; which I was able to establish with Gandy on imidacloprid. Looking forward to your response. Treeguyenvironmentalist (talk) 17:41, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The problem was that you guys were undoing different things from each other. It looked like an edit war. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 18:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Sandbox
I see you have reverted edits to both the sandbox and its subsequent talk sandbox. Don't revert changes to these (notably blankings). The bot will restore the headers. People can write and delete whatever they want on those pages (as long as its not disruptive or offensive). Calabe1992 20:22, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I noticed the bot was fixing it sometimes but it seemed quite slow so I went ahead and restored the header myself. Wasn't aware I was supposed to completely ignore blankings on that page. Noted, thanks. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 20:24, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hang on a minute, [ you did exactly the same thing]... -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 20:35, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I reverted them because without the header, their text was misleading (DO NOT RESTORE, IT WILL REMAIN BLANK FOR TODAY). They were deliberately removing the header to make the page appear broken. Calabe1992 21:17, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I thought you said that should be left to the bot. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 21:20, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Krenair, I see no reason you shouldn't clean up the sand box. Sometimes doing so is very useful, and at the worst it is doing something which would have been done by a bot soon, so nothing has been lost except a minute of your time. I don't understand why anyone would object. Also, I would have thought that if "People can write and delete whatever they want on those pages", then that includes you cleaning it up if you want to. JamesBWatson (talk) 18:51, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * James, what I was originally referring to was something like this, where a Huggle reversion to the Sandbox was made (sorry I wasn't specific before). Doing so will generate a warning on the user's talk page, which doesn't really apply here (unless, of course, you use the revert/no warn button). I generally do not revert the Sandbox using Huggle unless someone has made an offensive or other unacceptable edit. Calabe1992 01:43, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, that puts a very different light on the matter, Krenair. In fact on this occasion the Huggle edit produced not just a talk page warning, but a report at Administrator intervention against vandalism, which was certainly not appropriate for an edit which consisted simply of emptying the sanddbox. The problem here was not reverting the sandbox, but rather inappropriate use of Huggle. When you revert with Huggle, if you use the big red button on the left with an exclamation mark, then Huggle will usually automatically produce a talk page warning or a report at AIV. However, there are other ways of using Huggle. For example, you can use the smaller red button further to the right to avoid automatic messages, or you can click on the little downward pointing triangle immediately next to the big red button to customise the messaging. It is essential to stop and think when using Huggle. It is not good enough to simply see that a page has been blanked, and click on the big button without a further thought: rather, it is necessary to consider each case, and make an intelligent assessment as to whether the blanking should be reverted, and if so whether a warning message on the user's talk page is appropriate. Checking each time in this way slows down the use of Huggle considerably, but it is essential to do so. You are just as responsible for your edits when using automated tools as when editing manually. In this case reverting the sandbox edit was harmless or even slightly helpful, but the AIV report was totally wrong. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:37, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * So I understand now that reverting blankings of the sandbox is pointless and warning/reporting for it is wrong. As for my thought process before clicking the button, I can assure you it wasn't simply that I noticed the page had been blanked. I'm also already quite familiar with what most of Huggle's buttons do. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 15:27, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Victim of Xen
Hello,

There are 4 external references of notability in the reference section and there is only a single un-biased descriptor.

I'd like to ask why you have reapplied warnings that are not helpful to the Victim of Xen article and also inappropriate.

Sincerely,

--Smolders (talk) 23:37, 3 April 2012 (UTC) Sam

Because it has significant coverage from only two of the sources. One of which isn't reliable. You should also explain in edit summaries why you are removing such tags. They're not supposed to be helpful to the article, but to editors. They're also completely appropriate. Please do not add messages to the top of my talk page, use the 'New section' button. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 23:50, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Hello,

That was not a duplicate link that you removed. Amaranth Games and Aldorlea Games are two different organizations that are significant within the rpg ingie gaming niche. You can even view their Wikipedia articles. Please revert back the references, because Smolders can not add games to those website (the must be added by Amaranth Games and Aldorlea Games themselves). The sources are all regular contributors to independent gaming and I'm not sure how you can say they are unreliable.

Furthermore, the vested interest doesn't make those warnings appropriate. The article itself is entirely unbiased an unpromotional. Warnings like that deter and disrespect the credability of an article, that would otherwise be taken as it is.

There's no call for either warning considering the neutrality and citations.

Sincerely,

--Smolders (talk) 00:02, 4 April 2012 (UTC) Sam

Actually it sort of was. The URL provided for the duplicate reference was http://www.indiegamemag.com/victim-of-xen-review-female-fantasy. If you check the article then you'll see that the URL occured twice. The second of which is correct because it bears the correct date and title. I think you put the wrong URL for the one I removed. As for the notability template, I'm not sure anymore, and I'd like to avoid being involved in a dispute over it. I'll wait to see what the person who originally added it (Breawycker) says. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 00:25, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Hello,

Thanks for bringing that to my attention! I'll get the proper link up right away!

Sincerely,

--Smolders (talk) 01:04, 4 April 2012 (UTC) Sam

Krenair,

Bwilkins is abusing administration powers by deleting the article, "Victim of Xen" despite it's significance (citations, neutrality, quality, etc). Can you please me in keeping Wikipedia, and Bwilkins, informed about the infraction?

Sam Smolders (talk) 13:51, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

I can't do anything about it. Even if I could I wouldn't necessarily agree that it was abusive. Please politely take it up with Bwilkins, or see WP:DRV.-- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 13:59, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Krenair,

This is untrue! You, as an entity, have the power to discover truth and influence decision (others). If you feel that the Bwilkins' action was justified, then please explain your reasoning, so that you may improve me (odd choice of words, maybe, but that's how it is). If you feel, as I, that the article contained real information (RE: The citations and further improvement of facts), then I encourage you to mention this to Bwilkins for the same reason we are speaking.

Sam Smolders (talk) 15:21, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

I can't find out what the contents of the article were when it was deleted. I therefore can't decide whether it was justified or not. I did ask #wikipedia-en earlier, and an admin said "Technically software doesn't fall under A7. However, that article wouldn't get saved at AFD and I think it's be beaurocratic to restore it." -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 15:30, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Krenair,

The article was the same as when you viewed it ("Victim of Xen is a role-playing video game...etc") with the same citations.

I added "It has been noted for it's gender-swap story." and moved those two review citations down next to that (since that's the first thing those sources talk about).

Shortly before it was deleted, I was working to display the basic cover art image.

Sincerely,

Sam Smolders (talk) 15:47, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

UK isn't authoritarian.
Are you living in a cave? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745 - 79.66.86.84 (talk) 20:31, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Those laws haven't even been properly announced yet, forget approved by parliament. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 20:32, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the heads up on that comment! Cheers, Bagheera (talk) 19:34, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Talkback: New message

 * I replied some time ago ... thought p'haps you weren't 'watching' ... ? --  Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 13:08, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Talkback: Another new message for you

 * Have a look at my Talk page! Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 00:03, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Rollback
Hi Krenair, why have your reverted my edits to the Square Kilometre Array page? I'm not sure I understand the protocol here. I altered some inacurate content and deleted some biased information to keep the page neutral. Skatelescope (talk) 15:50, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Just a disinterested observer here. Several editors have reverted you. Firstly you've been removing substantial content without either using an edit summary to explain the removal or discussing what amount to major changes on the article talk page first. Secondly your edits appear to be removing negative views of the project and adding positive ones. Given your user name suggests you are associated with the project there is a concern that you have a conflict of interest and are using Wikipedia to promote the organisation. QU TalkQu 15:59, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I stated my reason in the edit summary. You [ removed] [ content] without explaining why. Also, basically what QuiteUnusual said. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 16:03, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Messaging
How do I send you a message? Is this it? Hypesmasher (talk) 00:32, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

I can see your message, so yes, that's right. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 00:33, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Flag of China.
What I did was not vandalism. The Flag of China is the Flag of the People's Republic of China, per and according to both the United Nations and "the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook", full stop, just as the same as the name "Britain" means usually the same thing as the name "the United Kingdom". Common sense. "Bold, but not reckless", remember? — KC9TV 01:42, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Britain means the same thing as United Kingdom? Please tell me you're not serious. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 13:52, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

IP 173.12.59.97
This is a school IP. I think that disabling editing on this IP might help. I'm sorry for all the stuff thats happening. (I also use that IP except I log in)Lifeicles (talk) 19:18, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * It appears an admin has done just that. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 19:23, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I noticed. Lifeicles (talk) 14:59, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

CVUA
Electriccatfish2 (talk) 18:29, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Welcome
On behalf of the CVU academy myself, Achowat, (Co-coordinators) and Theopolisme (deputy coordinator welcome you to training budding anti-vandals. It is reccomended that you watchlist: Counter-Vandalism_Unit/Academy/Status, Counter-Vandalism_Unit/Academy/Enroll, ourmain talk page, and our questions page. Also, make sure you read Counter-Vandalism_Unit/Academy/Instruction_methods. Cheers, Dan653 (talk) 19:54, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Dan might be taking him, but if he doesn't want to, would you be willing to take him? Electriccatfish2 (talk) 01:32, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I think I'm going to wait to see what tools he wants to use first. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 15:22, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Thanks for reporting SovietMonster, or whatever the heck his username is.

Ebikeguy (talk) 19:40, 21 June 2012 (UTC) 

JmaJeremy
Hi! Can you please take him? Electriccatfish2 (talk) 22:54, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Sesamevoila
Can you please take Sesamevoila? I think that you will make a great instructor and want to get you started. Electriccatfish2 (talk) 23:03, 3 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I was going to accept but it looks like you've done it now. Krenair  (talk &bull; contribs) 00:14, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Please read talk pages
Please read talk pages before making edits, as on your last edit to the Krispy Kreme rapper page is completely outside of what I have discussed in the talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.80.228.19 (talk) 21:59, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

User:Jschnur
Would you take him? He would like to use Twinkle. Dan653 (talk) 13:38, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

CVUA - Jschnur
Hi Krenair, I've downloaded HUGGLE but can't log in. Probably because I haven't got roll back rights yet. BTW would it be a good idea to have special page for our CVUA interactions? Jschnur (talk) 23:37, 15 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Yeah, you'll need to request and be granted rollback before you can try it. We could create User talk:Jschnur/CVUA? -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 23:44, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * User talk:Jschnur/CVUA created. I'll request rollback shortly. Jschnur (talk) 02:18, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

FYI - My request for rollback is in progress. Jschnur (talk) 22:55, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

John Hardy (Jewelry)
Hello,

What about the John Hardy (jewelry) page appears like an advertisement or is not neutral? What can be changed to remove the tags?

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blockc (talk • contribs) 01:59, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you're asking me this, I just replaced the tags which you removed. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 12:49, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't think that the tags belong there and I think they should be removed. I'd like to know why you think they should be there? Thanks for your help with this!Blockc (talk) 01:18, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

I can't remember why I thought that anymore. Reading over the article again, it seems to be okay. I've removed the tags. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 01:27, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your great work on Wikipedia! Blockc (talk) 01:31, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

mdachungary
Hi,

so can I change it or I have to create a new account?

Best, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdachungary (talk • contribs) 14:12, 23 August 2012‎
 * It may be possible to get a rename, but I would suggest just registering a new account. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 13:32, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

ok, I created a new account (llabossa) but now I received a notification that it's a sockpuppet. How does it effect my edits? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Llabossa (talk • contribs) 18:28, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Simply post a message on both userpages that you've changed accounts. That is a perfectly acceptable reason for having multiple accounts. For more information, take a look at WP:SOCK, particularly the section on acceptable uses of alternate accounts. Quinxorin (talk) 18:32, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations
Hi Krenair. First of all, congratulations on you becoming a bureaucrat on MediaWiki. I expect that your extra duties there may be the reason I have'nt heard from you in over a month. I hope it is nothing more serious than that. I assume that you have User_talk:Jschnur/CVUA on your watchlist  and that you are aware that I'm waiting for your next post to that page. If you are too busy to continue with your CVUA instructing please let me know. Regards. Jschnur (talk) 00:08, 28 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry I haven't been around for a while, I've been having trouble with my internet connection, been on holiday, at friends' houses, and have generally been a bit busy over the past month. I'm sorry I didn't notice your post on your CVUA page, it seems I didn't get an email about it (I just checked "E-mail me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" in my preferences though, so I shouldn't miss an edit there again). -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 00:33, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I totally understand. Please don't take my concern as impatience. We are all volunteers and give our time when and if we are able to. My own contributions wax and wane depending on circumstance. I hope you enjoyed your holiday. As far as CVUA is concerned, I hope I have improved in your eyes. I certainly try to AGF more than in the past and I have been taking more interest in new page patrolling. I am also taking a greater interest in the higher standards required for BLPs. Still making mistakes of course but sometimes my bad reverts result in engagement with editors that ultimately lead to pleasing outcomes. The important thing is to apologise when you get it wrong and to encourage users to keep contributing constructively. Cheers. Jschnur (talk) 01:13, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Manual:Edit token
Hello Alexander, now I am able to read mediawikiwiki:Manual:Edit token in Firefox 15. Yesterday this was not the case, all I got to see was some "Russian" text. But I think the problem is or was my laptop in combination with Firefox 15. I was not able to update the Java plugin for Firefox, it crashed every time. It is ok now. I promise I will not change any more '''

Citation bot
I was told that you restarted it last time it died. Can you dod that again. Report back any errors of course :-(    AManWithNoPlan (talk) 01:16, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I think something is wrong with the infrastructure - SGE shows a lighttpd job running but it is returning 503s... -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 01:18, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Restarted and it's back up. Previous job ID was 3960944 started at 2020-06-01 22:59:07, new job ID is 1646. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 01:20, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 01:30, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * can you do https://tools.wmflabs.org/translation-server/web now. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:27, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Have you tried asking first? -- Krenair  (talk &bull; contribs) 22:37, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I did, but the last personal email I got from him was about some family issues that were taking all his time? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:51, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I restarted it but now it just 404s things. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 00:58, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh I see, I just assumed it would display a UI. Turns out it's just a deployment of Zotero translation-server,  etc work. -- Krenair  (talk &bull; contribs) 01:09, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 01:16, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

petscan-issue (Gateway timeout)
Hi, you are shown as the last one, who restarted petscan (April 4). petscan is again showing gateway timeout for quite some days. Can you restart the cluster again? I have so far had no success trying to contact the administrators Magnus Manske or Andrew Bogott, so I hope you can help.

NB: there seems to be some fundamental issue with the petscan installation. How can an investigation into the petscan software be initiated?

Greetings from Germany --Wikipeter-HH (talk) 10:12, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, Andrew Bogott is a Wikimedia Cloud VPS admin, he is unlikely to know anything about this particular service running on top of Cloud VPS. I'm afraid Magnus needs to be responsive to the maintenance needs of his service or it should not keep running. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 18:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Template editor revoked due to inactivity
Hello Krenair. This message is to notify you that I have removed your template editor user right because you have been inactive for a year or more. This removal is merely procedural in nature and serves to mitigate the potential risks of having inactive accounts retain sensitive permissions. Should you require access again, please make a request at Requests for permissions/Template editor. Thank you for your past contributions to the project and best wishes, --Blablubbs (talk) 21:59, 14 July 2022 (UTC)