User talk:Kudpung/Archive Jan 2016

Happy New Year, Kudpung!


Happy New Year! Kudpung, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. – Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 11:56, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


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Happy New Year, Kudpung
  Pr at yya  (Hello!) — is wishing you a  Happy New Year ! Welcome the  2016 . Wishing you a happy and fruitful 2016 with good health and your wishes come true! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year! May the 2016 go well for you.

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Happy New Year!
Hello. Best wishes for the new year. It was a bit sad to see you relinquish the tools, but I don't blame you. Judging by your user page you and I have a lot in common, in addition to being retired, the only big difference being that I don't live in Thailand... Cheers, Tom Thomas.W talk 23:12, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

WP:ANI discussion
I saw you closed the discussion at the ANI regarding Volunteer Marek's behavior. Could you explain what exactly is meant by WP:TITLECHANGES ("Changing one controversial title to another without a discussion that leads to consensus is strongly discouraged....Any potentially controversial proposal to change a title should be advertised at Wikipedia:Requested moves, and consensus reached before any change is made") Your closing of the threat just shows that nobody actually cares about it. And once again, it wasn't about the dispute, it's about the sheer ignorance of rules.HerkusMonte (talk) 06:02, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

P.S.: Just wanted to add that WP:DRN (which you suggested to use) explicitly states "this noticeboard is for content disputes only", while my ANI appeal was not about content but about behavior, the intentional violation of basic rules of WP:RM (WP:RMCI, WP:RMNAC) and WP:TITLECHANGES. WP:3O was neither appropriate because more than just 2 editors were involved. HerkusMonte (talk) 13:41, 11 January 2016 (UTC)


 * There is too much belief  that  all  content  disputes have to  be resolved by  coming  to  ANI  and expecting  admins to block or ban users involved in content disputes. Whether or not some guidelines have been transgressed does not  mean either that  admins MUST impose a block  or a ban to  resolve a situation. Whether or not  DRN or 3O  are the appropriate venues for this particular dispute is besides the pint -  the real  location  is the article talk  page and we should make an effort  to mediate and steer the participants towards it  rather than waving a drill  sergeant's baton  at  them. Feel  free to  reopen the case if you  wish -  I  don't  mind, but heavy-handed use of admin  tools is one of the reasons I  no  longer wanted to belong  to  that  user group.--Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:59, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

In case you haven't noticed!
https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-articleinfo/ is operational again. You can look up some pages now.—cyberpower  Chat:Online 15:14, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey, how did that get fixed?! Who did it?! TIA! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 03:49, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Next meetups in North-West England
Hello. This is just to let you know that the next wikimeets in North-West England will take place in:
 * Manchester on 23rd January 2016
 * Liverpool on 27th February 2016

Please sign up on the relevant wikimeet page if you can make them! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:10, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

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Success Academy Charter Schools -- assistance requested
Hello, Kudpung

We corresponded a number of months ago about how best to address inaccuracies and other issues in the article about Success Academy Charter Schools, and you advised me to engage the editors on the Talk page. Since then, the editors and I have had some lengthy discussions -- none of them particularly fruitful, but at least there was a dialogue. In the last few weeks, however, I have posted and reposted requests about some problems with the page that I consider quite urgent, and I have received no reply from any of the editors. If you could advise me as to how best to call their attention to my posts, so we can restart the conversation, I would be most appreciative.

Thank you. Bev at Success Academy (talk) 23:02, 25 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi . From what I can see, most of the contributions over the past 14 months have been from admins or other very experienced editors such as for example. The others seem to be mostly 'throw in' edits by passing SPAs. Perhaps you should go ahead and make the required edits - you appear to have a good grasp of our neutrality requiremenrs. No everything needs to be sourced - only claims that might raise contentious objections. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:54, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Thailand semi'd since August
Greetings! I received a legitimate edit request for Thailand on my user talk page from an new user earlier and in carrying it out, I noticed it's been semi'd since August. Things seemed to have quieted down now and, since you were the one who protected it, I thought I'd ask if you think it might be time to try un-protecting it and see what happens? Cheers!--William Thweatt TalkContribs 13:36, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi. With articles like Thailand, things are only ever quiet because  it's been protected. If you want to start a requst for unprotection, you are welcome to do so, but personally I would be reluctant o unprotect it at all. Even while protected there are problematic edita added by confirmed accounts. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:44, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, it was just a thought. I meant that the political events in Thailand that precipitated all the vandalism last year have quieted down (obviously the article will be more stable if it's permanently protected). However, I trust your judgement.--William Thweatt TalkContribs 22:24, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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