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WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter January 2008
WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter January 2008

--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC (talk) 05:19, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Franklin Coverup Hoax
The use of "Hoax" in this title is just one more example of POV pushing. Apostle12 (talk) 01:28, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Take Two: Request for change in consensus
Take Two: Request for change in consensus. Change title to "Franklin Child Abuse Allegations"

"A small group of editors can reach a consensual decision, but when the article gains wider attention, others may then disagree. The original group should not block further change on grounds that they already have made a decision. No one person, and no (limited) group of people, can unilaterally declare that community consensus has changed, or that it is fixed and determined."

The existing title "Franklin Coverup Hoax" is, in the opinion of many who have commented (Gyrofrog, Awfultin, Wayne, Tom1976, Conexion, Apostle 12), fatally biased. To start out saying that the subject material is a "hoax" is indefensible, especially when that point of view is hardly universal. A specially called county grand jury used the word "hoax;" that is all. And there is ample reason to believe that those who comprised the jury had a vested interest in protecting local people.

In the previous section, various editors commented on their support for, or opposition to, a name change to "Franklin Coverup Incident." Those who commented over the space of several days included Sherurcij, PopeFauveXXIII, Wayne, Orange Mike, Apostle12, and Rosicrucian.

Orange Mike came up with a suggestion: How about "Franklin Child Abuse Allegations"? Neutral, takes no position regarding "hoax" or "coverup" claims.

I support this newly proposed title change and am asking for additional comments at this time from concerned editors. Apostle12 (talk) 20:16, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Responded on the article's Talk page. Thanks, --MCB (talk) 00:22, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

newspaper article
Hey MCB, My name is Mary and I'm a San Francisco-based reporter working on a story about Wikipedia. May I interview you? Thanks for your time, Mary [redacted] phone [email redacted]

sorry, that last one wasn't properly signed
Hey MCB, My name is Mary and I'm a San Francisco-based reporter working on a story about Wikipedia. May I interview you? Thanks for your time, Mary [redacted] phone [email redacted] Marynega (talk) 03:31, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Mary, I responded by email; if it didn't reach you please post here again. I removed them from the post to avoid spam/etc. --MCB (talk) 06:01, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

SubGenii
I've responded to your comments on my talk page. In a nutshell, what I've said is that I took the category Category:SubGenii and divided it into "by nationality" categories. I take no position on whether or not the original category was appropriately applied. Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:10, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Russell Longcore article, deleted 22 Feb 08
Dear Sir:

I would like to start a discussion on getting my article re-posted. I noted at the deletion page that your name is listed as the admin who did the deletion.

I have further information and references that can be added to the page that are published verifications of my article information. I'm new to this process, and need some patience on the part of an administrator who will work with me on this project.

My personal email address is [redacted]. I'm not even sure how to continue dialogue with you inside of Wiki.

Russell Longcore —Preceding unsigned comment added by Authorboy1 (talk • contribs) 20:47, 9 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Russell, I replied on your talk page, and you can follow up there. --MCB (talk) 04:19, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

and
user:Pulsecommunications created 'Holiday Mojo'; User:Jacintafrilay created 'holiday mojo', of identical content. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 07:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Russell Longcore article, deleted 22 Feb 08
Dear Sir:

I realize I'm not as advanced a user as you, but it appears that I have absolutely no say in this matter, and you editors can do whatever you choose to do. I'm not mad, just frustrated and my perception is colored by that frustration.

OK, I will have my publisher write the article. Since you and victoriagirl have all the power, and you won't allow me to revise the original article...I'll have the publisher write the article.

Sorry that we cannot reach some sort of compromise.

Russ Longcore —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.12.169.113 (talk) 00:08, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Responded on User talk:65.12.169.113 with a copy to User talk:Authorboy1. --MCB (talk) 01:49, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Russell Longcore article, deleted 22 Feb 08
Dear Sir:

If I cannot write the article, and my publisher cannot write the article, who can?

Who wrote the article for John Grisham? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.12.169.113 (talk) 19:31, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Harry and Louise Article
I am a personal friend of Louise Clark, and I would like to know why you keep deleting my updates to the Harry and Louise article. The article is unbiased and does not showcase Porter Novelli or Goddard Claussen. The article you keep reverting back to is factually inaccurate and not well written. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hilarykoehl (talk • contribs) 18:25, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Spelling.
You recently bothered me regarding spelling changes.

If you are referring to the "Gold" article, it was littered with spelling inconsistencies in both forms of English. It has been reverted to its incorrect form in violation of Wiki policy by a seemingly zealous user called "User:Ohnoitsjamie".

When an original form of an article was in one form of English; and amendments added in another form of English. Wikipedia policy is that articles are kept consistently in the original form of English used (rather than separating them into two forms as is the case with Norwegian into Nynorsk and Bokmal).

For details of Wiki policy please read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Consistency_within_articles

It is also against Wiki policy to immediately refer to article changes as Vandalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism

I'm aware of Wikipedia policy, I've been on it for about 5 years. I can't remember doing anything to the DoD page, but I can see my username on the history (there are two usernames on this PC). I can't even remember visiting that page ever. I've got a good idea who did it; this is a shared computer.

Cheers The Ancient Clan of Pimps and Hustlers (talk) 00:03, 26 March 2008 (UTC).

Junction Solutions and COI
Thanks for uncovering the COI with Maggie Rabe, and exposing her out-and-out lie. I was beginning to doubt my instincts. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 06:47, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Very good detective work. There's gotta be a barnstar somewhere around here for that sort of thing. Let me rummage around here a bit... - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 06:51, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Here we go!

Re: Your [my] contributions to WP:UAA
I understand your points, many of which are the reasons that I never delete any usernames listed there. I simply give my assessment (which can be made incorrect by my inability to access deleted content). George D. Watson  (Dendodge). Talk Help 21:29, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I thought it was a blatant violation but an administrator said it was fine. I presumed (s)he would know better so I put that template on it as a compromise.  George D. Watson  (Dendodge). Talk Help 07:07, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Block of ZODi90000005555
Why did you block ZODi90000005555? The user doesn't seem to have any contributions. I really hope you didn't place this block just to protest against the username policy...  r speer  / ɹəəds ɹ  16:58, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Not a "protest", simply doing what the vast majority of admins would have done before or after the supposed "policy change" of April 4, which was not supported by consensus, and was put through by a small (but vocal) minority faction of editors. As you are participating at WP:AN, you can see that it's pretty obvious that there was, and is, no consensus to make the changes that you made at the time, and that they do not enjoy universal, or even wide, support. If the change had been proposed in a single place, with a poll mechanism, and with interested parties notified, and it resulted in a consensus, that would be fine, and I'd consider the result a good policy, whatever it might be. That was not done here. --MCB (talk) 17:51, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The change was presented in the single appropriate place, with interested parties notified several times on UAA and in a couple of noticeboard threads. Polls are evil and not necessary to establish consensus. You're seriously blocking newbies because you didn't get a poll? Don't do that.
 * Why don't you instead tell me what you think is wrong with the current policy, and how blocking ZODi90000005555 without discussion helped Wikipedia?  r speer  / ɹəəds ɹ  21:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Polls are not evil and are very widely used, for everything from RfAs to deletion discussions to policy changes, and have the advantage of being completely transparent and unambiguous. Trying to claim a consensus from a bunch of scattered discussion topics over a period of 8 months, rather than an explicit proposal and poll, does not seem to me to be a very fair, effective, and transparent process. I have seen significant objection to your policy change (KnightLago, EVula, AzaToth, Rlevse, Scetoaux, and myself, just looking at the discussion in WP:AN) and I think the right thing to do is just undo the April 4 change to WP:U, and if you want to make an explicit proposal, make it, and we'll do a proper poll. --MCB (talk) 22:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * And I've seen significant support from it from even more people who have actually followed the discussion, considered the issues involved, and expressed their opinions on WT:U.
 * The issues involved are complex; when enforcing the username policy, you have to keep in mind how it interacts with other policies such as the vandalism policy, and now, unified login as well. A poll would just invite people to show up saying "I don't like it, it makes it harder to just click buttons in TWINKLE and forget about it". Wikipedia policy is not just a popularity contest, it's an ongoing discussion. And it's been my experience that talking to people on WT:U, with all the context available, tends to make them less gung-ho about blocking people for "confusion". Look at how it happened with Ryan Postlethwaite, who endorsed "confusion" blocks for a long time, but now supports the new policy and has made tools for it such as the holding pen.
 * Consensus isn't about numbers, it's about discussion, and you haven't held up your own end of the discussion. A brief flareup on WP:AN where most people are unaware of the issues involved isn't enough to undo months of work. Instead of quibbling over what a consensus is, why don't you join the discussion and justify your version of the username policy?  r speer  / ɹəəds ɹ  04:43, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to join the discussion, though I've certainly made my views clear in the past (on your user talk page, among other places). I don't think the policy needs any particular change, though the one thing I'd like to see, and may work on, is a set of different uw-ublock templates that clarify the reason for the block and the degree to which the user is welcome to return. (One example, I forget who drafted it but I thanked them, is uw-spamublock.) The template for a confusing username would intentionally be non-BITEy, and just tell the user that they're welcome to come back with a new name. Templates for spammers, hatemongers, disrupters, etc., less so. Somewhere in the middle would be one for something like User:IHackYourWiki which might be a vandal or might just be a kid who thinks he's being cool. --MCB (talk) 05:07, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Wait, if you don't think the policy needs any particular change, why are you changing it? I don't think your views are clear at all; I have no idea why you are doing this. Also, why did you accuse me of "wheel-warring" in an edit summary when no admin powers have been involved, and what does it mean when you're telling me to discuss, but all the discussion of your version on WT:U has been done by me and not you? It's like I've entered Bizarro World.  r speer  / ɹəəds ɹ  05:23, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * But on a different note, I think the new templates are a great idea. I would be happy to help create them. I think we could even get people to use them without having to vote on it.  r speer  / ɹəəds ɹ  05:26, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * What I meant was that the policy does not need any particular change from what I had reverted it to earlier today. Apologies if that was unclear. --MCB (talk) 05:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * That wasn't a simple revert. You created a new version of the policy by picking and choosing edits to undo, and you haven't discussed why that version would be an improvement over anything. Why would you undo just those edits, and not all the other edits that have ever been made to the policy based on discussion? And again, what is your motivation for doing this at all?  r speer  / ɹəəds ɹ  05:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

It wasn't a literal revert (rollback), it was an undo, and I undid your change of April 4 (plus one edit that added to your change). That returned the policy to the status quo ante, which is what I suggested in WP:AN, said I was going to do, and then did. The other subsequent edits were housekeeping changes (if that's not the case, please feel free to point that out and fix it; I'm certainly capable of making mistakes). It's exactly the same as when you remove old vandalism from an article where someone has fixed typos subsequent to that -- you don't revert to the version before the vandalism, because that would remove all the fixes, which is harmful. You undo, either using the undo function, or manually. This seems elementary to me. But as I said in WT:U, if you have a proposal to make, make it, in explicit language, and open the floor for opinions. --MCB (talk) 05:55, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. I'm three weeks ahead of you there. The specific proposal came a few edits later, and you would still see it on the talk page if you were to read it. WT:UAA was notified both before and after the discussion. The result was not a resounding unanimous consensus, as it never is when it comes to policy, but it was certainly strong enough consensus to make the change. So why would you insist that I do this again? What would be different this time? I don't have infinite time to spend on Wikipedia.  r speer  /  ɹəəds ɹ  06:07, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

"Wheel warring"
I really wish you would withdraw your accusation of "wheel warring". I have not used my admin powers against anything you have done. I even refrained from undoing your inappropriate block (lucky for us that the newbie was patient enough to start a new account himself). What has transpired tonight was a disagreement. Admins can and often do disagree.  r speer  / ɹəəds ɹ  06:31, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I missed that last night. I posted that in hasty error, briefly thinking WP:U was a protected page, which of course makes no sense. You may consider it withdrawn with my apologies, and when I find my reference to it on the talk page I'll strike it. I don't know how to redact an edit summary, though. --MCB (talk) 06:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Getting down to consensus
Hello! It seems like you have a personal conflict with Rspeer? Hmm, maybe ask WP:3O or WP:MEDCAB to help out with that.

In the meanwhile, there's a policy page to maintain. Could you provide your reasoning or defense of your preferred version on Wikipedia_talk:Username_policy?

Your input is very important to me, and I really want to hear back.

Like I said there, if you've had a previous discussion on the matter, you can link to that too, and I'll just ask questions about that if i have any.

Sound reasonable? Remember to have fun! :-) --Kim Bruning (talk) 19:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello! You've made some procedural comments, but you still haven't stated why one approach or the other is to be preferred? Could you please do so? Like I've said, it's also ok if you can link to previous discussion on that matter, anywhere on the wiki, if I've missed it.


 * Project namespace pages are supposed to describe the known best practices for wikipedia. Please help out with that! Thank you very much! :-)


 * --Kim Bruning (talk) 00:43, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Come back over
Hey, I think you should return to the discussion at U. Things have calmed down and we are now directly discussing the issues. Rspeer posted a long history that is quite interesting. Please return and offer your opinion on the issue. KnightLago (talk) 23:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Reassess Sourdough Article
Somebody in the project needs to upgrade Sourdough, it certainly has graduated from Start and looks to me like it may be A-class now (pics, refs, citations, etc.). Thank you...Rep07 (talk) 07:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: James...Oil
It was pure spam...yeah...that was what I was thinking. But after the declined csd g11 request and the declined uaa request. I hesitated to rereport to uaa (although I was about to do that) or retag for g11.  User  Dœ αTΩC 21:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Just want to let you know (since you were the one who deleted this user's user page for g11), that I filed a sockpuppetry case for the oil guy. See Suspected_sock_puppets/James-van-blaricum-oil if you want to participate in the discussion.  User  Dœ αTΩC 16:33, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Here we go again. He's back User:James-van-blaricum-signal-oil  User  Dœ αTΩC 14:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Update - Blocked by User:Daniel Case  User  Dœ αTΩC 14:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Doug
Michael,

As someone whose opinion I respect, would you mind taking a look at the claims of, who's going all Eric Cartman over my crime of adding Category:Temporary Wikipedian userpages to the talk pages of about-to-be-blocked spammers?

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just doing some basic housekeeping. He seems to think some sort of horrible miscarriage of justice is going to happen, and the addition of the "User" prefix imbues pages with some sort of special status. --Calton | Talk 22:16, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Happy to check it out. I'll reply here since I don't really have enough context to join the thread that's on your user talk page. I confess I don't know enough about CAT:TEMP to understand the controversy: are pages in that category automatically deleted by a bot at some future date? A pointer to the discussion would be useful; there was reference to a thread in WP:AN but it appears to have been archived, unless I'm missing it. It's unclear whether he (or others) is objecting in substance (arguing that the pages should not be deleted at all), or objecting regarding process (arguing that they shouldn't be tagged until the user is blocked). Cheers, MCB (talk) 02:20, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Kruthik
Hello! :) In March, Kruthik was nominated for deletion. At the time, there was no suitable page for this article to be redirected to, so based on the consensus, you deleted the article. I have created a new page, List of Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 edition monsters, which which would be a proper destination to merge and/or redirect the article to. I'm wondering if it's possible to restore the original article, and turn it into a redirect, thus preserving the edit history? BOZ (talk) 18:00, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied on your user talk page; you may keep discussion there if you like. Cheers, MCB (talk) 21:00, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi there! I have added the source for the Kruthik to the list page; you'll find the entry near the bottom. BOZ (talk) 15:44, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello, I haven't heard back from you. Would you please reconsider a restore of the edit history (for possible merging) and a redirect to List of Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 edition monsters? Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 15:51, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Block of DOI bot
Hi,

I'd be grateful if you could lift the block on, so I can work on fixing bugs in the code. I only intend to use the bot on sandbox pages until the outcome of the request for approval for the extended features, but may have some free time tomorrow, so it would be useful if I could test edits in my user sandbox, so as to amend the code in response to current issues.

Many thanks,

Smith609  Talk  10:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

N.B. the bot is currently disabled at the server end, so it won't commit any edits when unblocked.

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter June 2008
WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter June 2008


 * --Chef Tanner (talk) 16:50, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Julius Baer
Hi! I want to re-write/heavily edit the Julius Baer entry in Wikipedia (with sources/citations, of course). I understand that a bank of its size and reputation can come under much scrutiny through Wikipedia, but such a bank also deserves more verifiable information on such a widely used forum such as Wikipedia. I Hello! I have entirely re-written the offending article I started (Philosophy of travel) - I see what you mean about it being the wrong style. Is it more appropriate now? I think it now has more of a useable framework. I took off the prod notice - was that the correct thing to do? Is it now safe? Must I do anything else? Bannister54 (talk) 10:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)Bannister54

Authorization for CountryBot?
Hi, User:CountryBot was identified on WP:UAA as an account ending in "-bot" that was not an authorized bot. It does not appear in Bots/Status or Bots/Requests for approval. I have blocked it until this is cleared up. Please advise. --MCB (talk) 19:33, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I wasn't aware that bots had to be authorized before their accounts were created. I wasn't intending on making any edits with the bot until/if it was approved. You are welcome to leave it blocked if you like. Thanks for the message. Kaldari (talk) 22:25, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Pixelsmart
jpgordon left a rather blunt critique of this block beneath the unblock request. I am strongly considering an unblock ... when an ArbCom member says that, I think we really ought to do it. Do you have anything else to add to this one. Daniel Case (talk) 03:11, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Somebody else took care of it. While I suppose he should change his username, since the source of that violation is non-notable and unworthy of an article at the moment it really won't be an issue for a while. Daniel Case (talk) 13:38, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

SF Meetup #6
You received this invite because you added your name to the Invite list. If you don't wish to be invited any more, simply remove your name. Thanks. -- Shakata Ga Nai Talk 05:37, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Southasia1234
Hi MCB, thanks so much for your greeting. I am still learning all this and have really struggled to get the page uploaded and to make it appropriate enough for the guidelines. Given this I cannot thank you enough for your comments. I completely agree with: (a) username issue, and (b)COI clause.

Pertaining to issue (a), please see the following step:

Southasia1234 → Swj2103 Current name: Southasia1234 (talk · contribs · logs · block log) Requested name: Swj2103 (SUL conflicts?) (rename user) Reason: Current Username connected with page/username policy. Southasia1234 (talk) 04:17, 23 June 2008 (UTC) Y Done Kingturtle (talk) 12:28, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Given this can you please edit my page and remove the username policy violation? Thanks so much.

Also, do you have any guides on how to make the page more COI compliant. I looked at the Times, Newsweek, WSJ, even Times of India pages and they all use the same kind of text and language, and they all are promoting the periodical. How can I do the same? I am wondering how I can comply with the clauses if I cannot make edits to the pages for ethical reasons. The periodical has been in publication for decades and it would be great to have a wikipedia information page for it.

Looking forward to your guidance, help and advice. Thanks again.

Southasia1234 (talk)

Deletion of stub-sorting tags?
Hi, not sure why SmackBot would remove three valid stub-sorting tags as it did to Pink Saturday, in this edit. Is there a rule about too many stub types (in which case at least one or more valid ones should be left)? I checked on those stub types as well, and they do not seem to be deprecated. Please advise. Thanks and keep up the good work, MCB (talk) 03:48, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Basically WP:AWB removes stub tags from articles over a certain size. Rich Farmbrough, 09:18 26 June 2008 (GMT).
 * Thanks. If I understand your response, it means that the metric used is AWB's, and not SmackBot's directly. If that's the case, perhaps (if it's not too ambitious) you might consider programming SmackBot to include the expand tag when it removes certain stub templates due to article length, per this from WP:STUB: "Many articles still marked as stubs have in fact been expanded beyond what is regarded as stub size. If an article is too large to be considered a stub but still needs expansion, replace the stub template with an expand template (no article should contain both a stub template and an expand template)." Best, MCB (talk) 18:46, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox hotel
An editor tried reverting your deletion of the stars/diamonds field in this infobox, and is now arguing that the fields are appropriate because stars and diamonds are "statistics". Interesting. Skeezix1000 (talk) 22:15, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Saw that, thanks. Will respond there. --MCB (talk) 22:55, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter July 2008
WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter July 2008


 * --Chef Tanner (talk) 15:39, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Template:Afd/sandbox
Is Template:Afd/sandbox still needed? GregManninLB (talk) 17:37, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Greetings
Hi..I am a wikipedia newbie and you guided me right on fixing my user name. (bot issue). I am looking to start editing/contributing on arts, music, humanities articles. Thanks for setting me straight. Psychobotox (talk) 20:51, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

source
OK, sir. Source is well needed, check WP:CITE, i the source is unknown, we may not able to host it there.--OsamaK 20:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

SF Meetup #7
You received this invite because you added your name to the Invite list. If you don't wish to be invited any more, simply remove your name. Thanks. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 06:01, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:UAA reports
Thanks for your vote of confidence. I thought for a second that I was beginning to lose the plot! – ukexpat (talk) 18:11, 1 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I've relisted some entries removed by User:Shereth from WP:UAA -- including two that had been originally removed by User:Rspeer and re-removed by him -- and it appears he's editwarring to exclude those two on the grounds that "two admins had already rejected them", namely himself and Rspeer. Maybe they should have been removed, but he's clearly not the one who should be deciding that. Mind having a look and weighing in, providing a sanity check? --Calton | Talk 00:00, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, will do. --MCB (talk) 05:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC)


 * My efforts at WP:UAA have not gone unnoticed -- I'm being accused of monstrous and most unspecified crimes at WP:AN/I and they're voting on a topic ban on me. Have they gone insane, or have I? --Calton | Talk 09:35, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

You're in this as much as I am
There is one easy way for me to relax and not be so stressed about protecting newbies from username blocks: I'd like you to stop functionally undoing everything I do. If I remove some names, you assume I must be wrong and put them back (with a haughty message on my talk page, no less). If I stick up for a new user with a clever CS joke as a name, you stick up for the edit warrior who got him blocked and say that you can't possibly assume good faith from someone with a 40-character name. If I organize months of discussion toward a consensus about how to reasonably apply the username policy, you try to break up the consensus by subjecting it to a poll, and then when you don't get the poll you want you go around encouraging admins to flout the new policy.

If I try to make WT:UAA stick to the issues, you put your personal conflict with me on center stage.

I don't consider it a good thing that you can't assume good faith from a user such as User:GUID-FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF. Maybe if you had read his user page you would get why the name is clever, but really, it shouldn't matter whether you personally get it or not. The current situation where hundreds of users hold a veto over every new username (and basically anyone can get a username blocked if they don't like it) is ridiculous, and it's been observed as such by people outside the English Wikipedia community. Maybe our community wouldn't be shrinking if we didn't have hundreds of bouncers at the door.

I wish I understood what your goal was for Wikipedia, and why it's so important to you that it's worth sacrificing the newbies who get in the way of it. Maybe you can help me understand. Maybe we can talk things through before the next time you go behind my back to undo what I'm doing.  r speer  / ɹəəds ɹ  15:04, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied at WT:U. --MCB (talk) 22:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if you have this in your watchlist or not
MediaWiki_talk:Usernameblacklist. There's a global one on meta now, too. Thanks. Kylu (talk) 03:01, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Community forum
A Community forum has been set up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink/Article guidelines for the various Food and Drink projects to develop a set of Manual of Style guidelines for use in articles under the auspices of all the related Food and Drink WikiProjects and task forces. This would be similar to the MoS guidelines for biographies or legal articles.

Please feel free to comment.

--Jeremy ( Blah blah... ) 10:03, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area roll call
Hello from WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area!

As part of a recent update to our project main page we are conducting a roll call to check which members are still active and interested in working on bay area related content. If you are still interested in participating, simply move your username from the inactive section of the participant list to the active section. I hope you will find the redesigned project pages helpful, and I wanted to welcome you back to the project. If you want you can take a look at the newly redesigned:


 * [[Image:Crystal Clear app Community Help.png|25px|]]Main Page
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear app Login Manager.png|25px|]]Talk page
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As well as the existing pages:
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear app clean.png|25px|]]Assessment
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear app kedit.png|25px|]]Article Worklist
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear app kdict.png|25px|]]Watchlist
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear action editdelete.png|25px|]] Deletion sorting (California)

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page, and add it to your watchlist, if it isn't already.

Again, hi! -Optigan13 (talk) 07:48, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Image:CRJ College Livery.jpg
Hi, I just wanted to let you know of two things. First, I created a section on the talk page for this image to try to address the point you raised. Second, I fixed the deletion template I had mistakenly added with the parameter for an old image and set the date parameter for today so the day for deletion is now Wednesday instead of Saturday.Oroso (talk) 07:01, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

New Welcome Lodge
There may be a deletion review on New Welcome Lodge pending, User_talk:MSJapan. JASpencer (talk) 15:14, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Just for your information, I've usernameblocked User:Administrator following his recent vandalism. Exploding Boy (talk) 18:01, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Good call, thanks. I removed the name from WP:UAAHP. --MCB (talk) 18:12, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Jaffa
You're right that saying that Jaffa is "one of the world's oldest ports" is "not a particularly controversial claim", I just thought it's a pretty extraordinary (doubtless true, but still extraordinary) claim and could benenfit from an inline citation. Therefore, I'm writting to commend you on adding the citation although you didn't agree that it was needed. When we put collaborative effort ahead of our own preferences and judgements on specific points, it is then that we really become better Wikipedians. Thanks and kudos. - Boston (talk) 16:09, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Polyvios Kossivas
Thank you for your instructive AfD vote. As you might have suspected, this was my first AfD, and I wasn't sure how to deal with it. CapnZapp (talk) 11:18, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Interesting edit summary
This edit of yours has an interesting summary. It references wp:Biographies of living persons, and yet he's dead. NJGW (talk) 13:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

You've Been Mentioned in the |Harvey Milk Talk Page
The prior section on Milk and the Peoples Temple to which you commented upon has been deleted. A short sentence was re-added. That has since been deleted, by two of the same editors as before.

SandyGeorge stated that you made prior comments. I noted your prior quote ("However, it seems to me that three well-sourced sentences about People's Temple in a biographical article of this length is clearly not "undue weight", and a similar treatment of Oliver Sipple would be appropriate as well.")

Because both SandyGeorge and I raised your name, I thought I'd inform you that the discussion is occurring |here.Mosedschurte (talk) 23:57, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Tenderloin,_San_Francisco,_California
i now realise that the unsourced allegations you referred to when you added the fact tags to my edit can be described as original research. feel free to remove my edit, since it violates wp:or. Badmachine (talk) 08:25, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Change of Username
Rocksky (talk) 23:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)RockskyRocksky (talk) 23:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC) Hello MCB,

I have changed my username netskybot to a new username to abide by the rules. Thank you for the info.

Talk:Pacman_Jones
I would like to solicit feedback concerning moving this to Adam Jones (football). It makes sense to me, but is there consensus? Please opine in the section of the article talk page. Cheers, Dlohcierekim&#39;s sock (talk) 20:39, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

IRDT Blocked
Hello, since you are the blocking admin, you may want to see this page. I honestly feel that it should be deleted, but I can't think of the policy at the moment.— Dæ dαlusContribs /Improve 06:35, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the pointer. There's no real speedy-deletion criteria that applies to it, nor is there any particular danger or threat in just leaving it until it can be deleted via MfD. I'm not quite sure of what IRDT was trying to show in copying the AN/I thread there, but I don't see any urgency in deleting it. Best, MCB (talk) 06:54, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: October 2008
Please use the new section tab when writing on my wall. On another note, how many warnings do I get before being banned?

Just wondering, not that I want to be banned or planning to. TaleOfSevenSpades (talk) 18:22, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

User:PAHouseGOP
I see that you have blocked User:PAHouseGOP, and I would like to speak up on behalf of him. I do believe that this editor may have started as a political spammer, but he has since changed his ways and is well on his way to becoming a good editor. In fact, his work has been extremely helpful--expanding biographical coverage of republican members of the PA House of Representatives. I would hate to scare off this editor (who apparently loves the tedium required to do that many pages) just because of a bad username.

If you look at his talk page you can see that several editors (including myself and User talk:Montco) have been in contact with him over some of his actions. If nothing else, his username indicated a bias and COI, and we have been extra watchful over his work; we corrected and cleaned up some sloppy edits and impermissible actions (like adding copyvio text). But in the last few weeks he has improved considerably. So, I respectfully ask that you unblock him and allow him to change his username.--HoboJones (talk) 03:51, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 04:37, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Hi! I'd like to remind you that you got some Chinese grammatical errors on your user page and talk page in Chinese Wiki. 我不使用中國字非常好，所以如果您想要傳送訊息給我，請你到我的英文維基百科討論頁. 謝謝您！ 我不太懂中文，如果您希望留言給我，請到我在英文維基百科的討論頁. 謝謝您！ "你好中國朋友！" I guess that you wanna say "Hello/Hi Chinese!", but it's quite odd to say "您好中國朋友". It is better to change it to "您好"(Hello).
 * The sentance show on your talk page
 * I do some modify on it
 * aother sentance show on your user page

ps. I'm sorry that if I have disturbed or bothered you. -Chinese Wiki's sysop- J.W  ong  10:39, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the help! I replied on your ZH talk page. Best, MCB (talk) 20:39, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

RE: Hoagie
Hi,

Have you looked at the discussion over the last year, or just the most recent "vote?" I got involve in this as a cleanup without an axe to grind, but I'm concerned that this process is being pushed through by a combination of forum shopping and sheer will. I really don't feel that strongly about the isseus, but I'm really concerned about the processes being employed. --Kevin Murray (talk) 01:49, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

vandalism report
Hi MCB I want to report Heartyyoungsailor since (s)he vandalized elephantiasis recently and I saw your message on his/her talk page. SanderB (talk) 19:24, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

wondergirls/lakshmix/ziggymaster/etc
I noticed that you commented on the report that I filed regarding these editors.

I was wondering if you could have a look at one more user for me, please?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pds0101

This account seems to have made limited edits but most of the edits made are on articles also edited by one of the above three editors. Also the Pds0101 account is starting to become quite prominent on the South Korea article, which is the most edited article for all of the above.

As far as I was concerned there were 4 accounts used by the same person, the Lakshmix and Wondergirls accounts have been indef blocked, but the Ziggymaster and Pds0101 have not - while the user might deserve to have one account, the use of multiple accounts is making it seem as if certain consensus exists, when in fact it is just one editor.

What do you think? Should the Ziggymaster account have been blocked as well? Do you think Pds0101 is the same editor?

カンチョーSennen Goroshi ! (talk) 03:45, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Photo request
Hi, I noticed that you are in Pleasanton. I was wondering if you might have some time to go to Alviso Adobe Community Park and get some pictures. If not, no big deal. Thanks.  howcheng  {chat} 23:39, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Proposal to delete
Please give us a thumbs up or down whether we should delete Global city in Talk:Global_city Kransky (talk) 14:11, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Edit warring
Hello, I pick you at random MCB, as an admin who is online who just blocked someone, hoping you will look at this:

Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring

I know admins are loathe to undo what other admins have done, so I understand if you don't want to touch it. Thank you. Ikip (talk) 01:18, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Picture Nebelung1-MaggieO-MCB.jpg
I sent You an email. Harald wehner (talk) 18:43, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the email - I will upload the photo to the Commons. Best, MCB (talk) 20:54, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

An exciting opportunity to get involved!
As a member of the Aviation WikiProject or one of its subprojects, you may be interested in testing your skills in the Aviation Contest! I created this contest, not to pit editor against editor, but to promote article improvement and project participation and camraderie. Hopefully you will agree with its usefulness. Sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here. The first round of the contest may not start until September 1st-unless a large number of editors signup and are ready to compete immediately! Since this contest is just beginning, please give feedback here, or let me know what you think on my talkpage. -  Trevor  MacInnis   contribs  01:10, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Help with notability issue on Häagen-Dazs article?
Hi MCB.

Re: Talk:Häagen-Dazs/Archives/2013.

I appreciate any review, input, insight, or help you could offer here, as an editor +/or as an admin. Is this a case where some level of article protection is called for? I thought of pointing them @ wikinews, but don't edit or use it, so don't know if it fits there. I note the article has other issues and needs. I prefer you reply here, not my talk page, to keep our discussion in one place. Note one of the editors has made deletions to Leonard H. Tower, Jr.. At least the GCC/GNU diff deletion should probably be reversed.Thanks either way. Lentower (talk)


 * Hi Len, thanks for the message; I'm leaving on a trip tomorrow and it may be a while before I can look at this in any detail. There's a whole brou-ha-ha brewing in that section of the talk page already... --MCB (talk) 09:38, 21 December 2009 (UTC)


 * MCB, thanks. Yes, . Enjoy your trip. Lentower (talk) 14:15, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

SF Meetup #11
This is posted to the groups by request. Please sign up on the Invite list for future announcements. Thanks. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 23:42, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Musee-national-exterior-MCB.jpg
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Copy to Commons: Beef Wellington
Hello,

I found these great pictures you uploaded File:Beef-wellington1a-MCB.jpg File:Beef-wellington2-MCB.jpg

Sadly they are not on Commons and therefore can't be used in other Wikimedia projects. It would be great if you could upload them to Commons, too.

Thanks --Wikieditoroftoday (talk) 00:34, 19 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I did it myself now --Wikieditoroftoday (talk) 22:15, 7 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much - sorry I was not able to get to it, it has been a very busy week for me. Best, MCB (talk) 01:25, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:Colin-Ferguson-mugshot.jpg
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Nomination of Aaron Durley for deletion
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File copyright problem with File:Grey-female-longhaired-cat-MaggieO-MCB.jpg
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 * Copyright tag was removed by a vandal. Restored. --MCB (talk) 19:27, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Tennant and Moffat
Hello... FYI, I've had to revert your addition to the Tennant article (regarding his supposed engagement). I'm not crazy about doing so, but text regarding the (possible) relationship with Moffat has been problematic for a very long time. Many IPs and new editors have added material based on rumours they have seen, but there has never been a reliable source to confirm it. I reviewed the Mail article, and could not see any indication of where they sourced the report from. I also did a search on Wikipedia and found a sizeable discussion that suggests we should not use the Mail as a source without having other reliable sources to confirm what they are saying. If it is true, I'm sure we'll see it published in a source that meets our requirements in short order (especially given Tennant's popularity). --Ckatz chat spy  02:07, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

The Great American Wiknic
Hi there! In the past, you've expressed an interest in local meetups of Wikipedians. Well, here's your chance! On Saturday, June 25, we'll be joining Wikipedians in cities all over the country for the first annual Great American Wiknic -- the picnic that anyone can edit! We'll meet up at a park in SF -- hopefully in the sun -- all other details are still in deliberation!

If this sounds fun, please add your name to the list: Meetup/San Francisco/Wiknic and add that page to your watchlist. (And of course, feel free to edit that page with your ideas, questions, etc.) I look forward to wiknicking with you! -Pete (talk) 23:55, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear MCB,

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) 04:06, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

You're invited! - Wiki Loves Monuments - San Francisco Events
Hi! As part of Wiki Loves Monuments, we're organizing two photo events in the San Francisco Bay Area and one in Yosemite National Park. We hope you can come out and participate! Feel free to contact User:Almonroth with questions or concerns.

There are three events planned:


 * September 15, Saturday - A bike ride along San Francisco's waterfront
 * September 22-23rd, Saturday-Sunday - Wiki Takes Yosemite
 * September 29, Saturday - A sunset and harvest moon bridges, palace, boats and tower tour

We look forward to seeing you there!

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File permission problem with File:Lux-middle-school-maggieo.jpg
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Edit-a-thon tomorrow (Saturday) in Oakland
Hi, I hope you will be joining us tomorrow afternoon at the Edit-a-thon at Tech Liminal, in Oakland. We'll be working on articles relating to women and democracy (and anything else that interests you). It's sponsored by the California League of Women Voters, Tech Liminal, and me.

If this is the first you are hearing of this event, my apologies for the last-minute notice! I announced it on the San Francisco email list and by a banner on your watchlist, but I neglected to look at the San Francisco invitation list until this evening. If you can't make it this time, I hope to see you at a similar event soon! -Pete (talk) 04:48, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Hotels
I've been making some efforts to rejuvenate WikiProject Hotels, and since you're a member of the project, please feel free to contribute there if anything comes to mind. Also, please feel free to discuss matters at the project's talk page. Northamerica1000(talk) 08:54, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Wiknic 2013
"Wiknic 2013 Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland Theme: Hyperlocal list-making" This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

Location and Directions

 * Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
 * Nearest BART: 19th Street
 * Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
 * Street parking abounds

EdwardsBot (talk) 04:50, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

You're invited...
to two upcoming Bay Area events:
 * Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
 * Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.

I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:18, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

WP:FOOD Needs You!
Hi there MCB! I've noticed you have yourself listed as a member of the Food and Drink Wikiproject. Unfortunately it looks like the project has been slowly sliding into inactivity except for a couple of people. That makes me a sad potato, and nobody likes a sad potato amirite?

If you'd like to turn my frown upside down, can you do two small things?

First off, go here and add Tick (✅) next to your name if you're still part of the project.

Second, go to the project talkpage and participate in a discussion about how to make the project more active, and how to go about making articles in our area of interest a lot better.

You don't want to make me cry, do you? Potatoes have a lot of eyes you know. So come on, join in! :)

— The Potato Hose 18:32, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter - September 2013

 * Posted by Northamerica1000(talk) 02:22, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

WP:Food
It would be appreciated if you joined in the conversation occurring at WT:Food regarding the layout and presentation of the project's main page. Northamerica1000(talk) 03:33, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter - October 2013

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Request for comment
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Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter – March 2016
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Bay Area WikiSalon series kickoff, April 27
Please join us in San Francisco!



The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area will gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. We have two brief presentations lined up for our kickoff event in downtown San Francisco:


 * The Nueva Upper School recently hosted the first ever high school Wikipedia edit-a-thon. We will hear what interests them about Wikipedia, what they have learned so far, and what they hope to achieve.
 * Photojournalist Kris Schreier Lyseggen, author of The Women of San Quentin: The Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons, will tell us about her work and how she researched the topic.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.

For further details, see here: Bay Area WikiSalon, April 2016

We hope to see you -- and until then, happy editing! - Pete, Ben & Wayne

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series on May 25
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2016

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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have:


 * A brief report on Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Publice Library, coordinated by Merrilee:
 * What topics might we cover in a follow up?
 * Find out more about resources your public library provides to help with editing (hint, it's more than just books!)
 * Special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
 * Join in on an in person Wikidojo!
 * Are you curious how your peers approach writing a Wikipedia article? This exercise, pioneered by Wikipedians Nikola Kalchev and Vassia Atanassova in 2015 and conducted in many places around the world, will help us all - from first-time wiki users to veteran Wikipedians - share ideas, while building an article together. If you have ideas (relating to Bay Area history, ideally) about a new article we could build (stubs and short existing articles are fine), please submit them ahead of time to coordinator Pete Forsyth. (User talk page or email is fine.)
 * Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016

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REMINDER/invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m.
Please join us in downtown San Francisco tonight!



If you cannot join in person or want to view portions later:
 * To join via Hangout on Air
 * Via YouTube Stream

We will have:


 * Light snacks, and time to mingle
 * A brief report on the Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Public Library, that was coordinated by Wiki editor Merrilee
 * A special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
 * Join in on a brief in person Wikidojo!
 * Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!

Please register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjLRrSTlEkGOPTQ-h6A0WvSFI4ZmIUl6jEHp_RYas-E/viewform and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.

For further details, see: Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016

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Late breaking invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, July 27 (Wednesday) - change of venue - tonight
Please join us in the Mission at Noisebridge (one time change of venue)!



We hope you can join us today, Wednesday, from 6 p.m. on, at our July Bay Area WikiSalon. This month only, we are going to be at Noisebridge, a hackerspace/makerspace 1.5 blocks from the 16th & Mission BART station (see the link for directions). Some of us will be working on the Wikipedia article on basic income. [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bay_Area_WikiSalon_July_2016 All info here]. Some good news - we do not have to be as strict about advance RSVP at Noisebridge, so bring spontaneous guests! ([//docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHtIIcEtUPqLtbG6BXCAs-A6u6bdK6aW3z_jBNiA5lnTHKog/viewform Registering] ahead of time is still helpful, as always, as it will help us plan ahead.)

Come and hang out, have some light snacks. Wi-Fi is available, so please bring your editing device if you plan to edit.

Also, Pete just published a writeup of the Wikidojo exercise we did last month. Your comments welcome, if he missed anything! http://wikistrategies.net/ghost-town-royals-wikidojo

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. Mark you calendars now.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend.

See you soon! ,, and  | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:05, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

The WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter (August 2016)
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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, August 31
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



Hi folks,

We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have a brief presentation for your education and possible enjoyment:


 * Former EFF intern Marta Belcher will discuss crowdsourcing her Stanford Law School graduation speech using a wiki. The "WikiSpeech" was the subject of prominent national media attention in 2015, and more than half of her classmates contributed to writing and editing the commencement address via a wiki.

Please note: You should register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, August 2016

See you soon! ,, and  | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:05, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Tonight: Live and archived links for Bay Area WikiSalon
Bay Area WikiSalon, Wednesday, August 31:

If you cannot join us in person tonight, we are streaming (and later archiving) the presentation by former EFF intern Marta Belcher. We expect her to be live starting between 6:30 or 6:45 p.m. PDT and talking and taking questions for about 30 minutes thereafter.

Here is the YouTube stream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t8V79s2-og Here is the link to join the Hangout on Air: https://hangouts.google.com/call/ezrol7dafjfwxfh2ilpkjyxoaue

You can search for it on the Commons and YouTube later too.

Wayne, Pete, Ben, and Stephen MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:50, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter: September 2016
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:04, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, September 28
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



Hi folks,

We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no formal agenda to allow people to freely share ideas and perhaps learn about Wikipedia through hands-on editing. Co-organizer Ben Creasy will be looking at election-related articles to enhance the information available in the upcoming November elections.



Co-organizer Stephen LaPorte has suggested doing an upload-a-thon for Wiki Loves Monuments. Niki, the California coordinator for WLM will be in attendance. WLM is an annual event and the official dealine is Friday the 30th for submissions to count towards awards.

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, or a stool and do your own thing.



Please note: You should register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, September 2016. Mark your calendars now for the 3rd Wednesday in October, the 26th, when we will have a brief presentation.

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WikiProject Food and drink Newsletter: October 2016
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Request for clarification
Hi MCB,

I recently transferred one of your uploaded files (File:Musee-national-interior-MCB.jpg) to Wikimedia Commons. Please clarify which "Musée national" this image depicts, as there are many. Thanks! MB298 (talk) 05:05, 12 October 2016 (UTC) (when you reply to this message please notify me)
 * Done. Thanks! MCB (talk) 19:09, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

You are invited to a Wednesday evening event in SF
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



Hi folks,

Please copy and share this on other talk pages. We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather at the Wikimedia Foundation lounge to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no meaty agenda this month, but we will allow a brief period for:


 * Open mic for anybody who attended [//wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Main_Page WikiConference North America 2016] in San Diego last week and wants to share their takeaway
 * Question & answer
 * Open mic for announcements
 * Maybe a focus on some topical election article editing with Ben?

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, a stool or counter and do your own thing.

Please note: You should [//docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjLRrSTlEkGOPTQ-h6A0WvSFI4ZmIUl6jEHp_RYas-E register here], and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, October 2016. PS: Mark your calendars ahead now for the 3rd Wednesday in November, the 30th (the week after Thanksgiving), at 6 p.m. when our WikiSalon will host a super awesome top secret mystery guest mingling in our midst. We will announce specifics at the upcoming WikiSalon.

See you soon! ,, , Jacob, and | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:51, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter: November 2016
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:28, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

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.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Everybody is invited to the November 30 Bay Area WikiSalon
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



Details and RSVP here.

See you soon! ,, and | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:54, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Bay Area WikiSalon series: Everybody is invited this Wednesday evening at 6
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki and open-source enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

Before and after the brief presentation we allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks.

In addition, this month we will have:
 * a brief presentation from (Jim Heaphy) about the Wikipedia Teahouse
 * spontaneous lightning talks from the floor
 * community announcements from the floor

For details and to RSVP see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, December 2016

See you soon! and | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

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P.S. Any help spreading the word through social media or other avenues is most welcome! We plan to announce this on various sites and invite various groups; if you would like to join in, check our meta planning page, and please note any announcements you are sending out: Monthly WikiSalon in San Francisco

Please feel free to add to, refine, reorganize or edit the above linked page: it is a wiki!

We need more helpers and organizers, so if you see a need, please jump in, or talk to us about it! You can add your username to the meta page where appropriate, or create a new role! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:44, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Reminder invitation to the December Bay Area WikiSalon
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



Hi, everybody.

We are excited to remind you of the ninth in the Bay Area WikiSalon series that is coming up this Wednesday evening at 6 p.m.


 * Details (RSVP suggested) here (RSVP helps us know how much food and drink to bring in)

What is a WikiSalon? A monthly safe and inclusive meatspace event conducted in organized chaos and we all clean up the mess afterwards. Livestream links for the presentation are available during presentation months, and will be forthcoming for those of you that cannot attend. December is a presentation month. Hope to see you there! (and ) - co-organizers Any last minute questions or suggestions? Please ping or email Ben or me. | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:10, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Archived link for December Bay Area WikiSalon
Hi, y'all. In case you missed it and want to watch the archive reel; the topic was The Wikipedia Teahouse and the presenter was well respected Wikimedian Jim Heaphy [[User:Cullen328]]


 * [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeJim1n2uiY Archive link] (also includes intro, announcements, and a lightning talk)


 * Details about Bay Area WikiSalon for December here

The full title of Jim's presentation was: Welcoming and Helping New Editors: A Month at the Wikipedia Teahouse: an overview of the Teahouse and an analysis of over 300 Teahouse conversations during the month of August, 2016

Jim gave a longer version of this presentation in October at [//wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Main_Page WikiConference North America 2016] in San Diego, California.

Cheers! Co-organizer - and co-organizer  | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

PS: Mark your calendars now for Sunday, January 15 at 2 p.m. which will be Wikipedia's 16th Birthday party hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon! Details to follow soon. If you want to help plan it, get in touch with us ASAP! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:43, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

You are invited to a birthday bash to Celebrate Wikipedia's 16th Birthday!
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



Wikipedia Day 16 SF is a fun Birthday bash and edit-a-thon on Sunday, January 15, 2017, hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon at the Wikimedia Foundation's Chip Deubner Lounge in the South of Market Street business district.



For details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Meetup/SF/Wikipedia Day 2017

The San Francisco gathering is one of a number of Wikipedia Day celebrations worldwide.

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PS: We need volunteers to help make this a fun and worthwhile event. Please add your name to the Project page, and what you can offer. It is a wiki, so please make direct edits to the page.

Bay Area WikiSalon usually meets the last Wednesday evening of every month as an inclusive and safe place to collaborate, mingle, munch and learn about new projects and ideas. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:52, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Reminder invitation to the Wikipedia Day 16 birthday bash & edit-a-thon
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



Wikipedia Day 16 SF is a fun Birthday bash and edit-a-thon on Sunday, January 15, 2017, hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon at the Wikimedia Foundation's Chip Deubner Lounge in the South of Market Street business district and everybody is invited!



See you Sunday! , and

PS: We still need more volunteers to help make this a fun and worthwhile event. Please add what you can offer and your name to the Project page or Talk about it. It is a wiki, so please make direct edits to the Project page. The event is already growing due to volunteers that have stepped up so far.


 * Bay Area WikiSalon meets one evening of every month as an inclusive and safe place to collaborate, mingle, munch or learn about new projects and ideas.

Note: the previous invitation had a bum wikilink. Sorry! | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this notice) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:43, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for February 22
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. Please note: You should RSVP here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in. For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, February 2017

See you soon! and | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Bay Area WikiSalon February reminder
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 6 p.m. For details and to RSVP: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, February 2017 See you soon! and (co-coordinators) | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:58, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

UCSF project
Hi! I am currently revamping the UCSF project. I created lots of pages and added a lot of content, but there is so much still to do. I saw that you are part of the SFBA task force, so I thought you might be interested and I wanted to invite you to collaborate once more. In particular, we need to add content, do maintenance, and we really would benefit from pictures, so if you are in SF and could help that would be great. Thanks!Eccekevin (talk) 15:10, 26 July 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 02:28, 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.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

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

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

The WikiEagle - January 2022
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:36, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users
Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

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.

If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.

We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement
22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed&#32;if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of January 2023.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. —&thinsp;JJMC89 bot 08:51, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Request for information
Hello MCB. For the photograph you posted of the Prison de la Sante' (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La-Sante-Prison-MCB.jpg), do you remember what was the direction of the photograph? If you tell me I'll add that data to the picture. Thank you for your time. -- User — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:2FC0:F:81D9:9D27:E036:57C9 (talk) 18:52, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the question. Luckily, I remember exactly where I was standing when I made the photo -- it was in my room at the Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel, looking across to the prison two streets away. That is almost exactly north of the hotel, just a few degrees to the east. Hope this helps. Best, MCB (talk) 23:53, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Thank you for your past contributions to the project. —&thinsp;JJMC89 bot 01:00, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions have been removed.

Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux  Talk 03:15, 1 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Acknowledged. MCB (talk) 08:15, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ambassador City Jomtien


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