User talk:NoSeptember/archives/early 2008

James Blunt merge
Hi NoSeptember - Thanks for agreeing to do the history merge. I have added the rewritten text into the article proper now, and the history from User:Risker/blunt can now be merged to the article. You are correct, only the history from December and January needs to be merged in; the previous events were simple sandbox work unrelated to the rewrite. I appreciate your assistance. Risker (talk) 13:52, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. It seems this history merge thing is a rare talent, it is good to know someone who possesses it.  :-)  Risker (talk) 14:32, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Merging workspace articles with mainspace articles
I saw the work you did on James Blunt, and was wondering if you could do the same for me at Elise Primavera? I have replaced the content already, but the histories are still separate. Could you remedy that for me? The userspace where I created most of the content now in the article is at User:Bellwether_BC/Sandbox/Elise_Primavera. Thanks in advance! Bellwether B  C  05:27, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll look at it, but since deletion is part of the process I won't touch it until it is no longer a recent DYK entry on the Main Page. NoSeptember  17:02, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * There's only one edit to the userpage version. I worked it up off-wiki. Actually, I was the one who contributed the majority of the content to the version that made DYK, as a friend of mine (Alice) started a stub for it shortly before I replaced the stub with my content. Thanks for taking a look. Bellwether B  C  17:08, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Btw, have you looked at School and university projects? It may have useful tips for your book club. Cheers, NoSeptember  17:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I will check it out. Thanks for the tip! Bellwether B  C  17:21, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much for the merge! You're the best! Bellwether B  C  19:05, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Rollback
Hi. I felt like testing out my new toy and rather than give it to some random test account, I +rollbackered you. You clearly meet the requirements and if I recall correctly you were strongly in favour of it during the poll phase. – Steel 23:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * :O Controversial choice! I failed my last RfA and all :( – Gurch 02:04, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * We need someone to come up with a rollbacker logo. Who should we ask? NoSeptember  02:12, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ... user access levels have logos now? – Gurch 02:15, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Little mops on admin pages are quite common. People need an image for the soon to be created rollback userboxes ;). NoSeptember  02:20, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Eww, userboxes. Well a backwards arrowhead should do fine.


 * – Gurch 02:24, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, let's share that with the world and see if it catches on ;) NoSeptember  02:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar!
 Both for your recent comment at WP:BN, and my subsequent reading of your userpage (You are getting verry sleepy.....) - jc37 06:21, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Hey! Wake up, I'm trying to thank you here. ;) NoSeptember  12:54, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Lol, you're very welcome. Ironic in that not long after giving you that, I (for some still unknown reason) couldn't save any edits (except to my sandabox). The whole thing was odd, to say the least.
 * And I have to admit that the pendulous Wikiglobe with your text is one of the best things I've seen on a userpage (I may have to "borrow" it sometime : ) - jc37 09:39, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

My Rollback Request
Thanks for granting me the Rollback tool, reverting vandalism going to be much more easier now!--Kushan I.A.K.J (talk) 14:24, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, be sure you know the rules of when it is Ok and not Ok to use the tool. Cheers, NoSeptember  14:29, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Administrator history
I was just reading the Editors' Guide to Wikipedia, and found a link to History of Wikipedian processes and people. The whole page is very poor, but the admin history section is shocking in its brevity. I seem to remember you have been gathering some information about the early stages of adminship. Would you be able to add anything there? Carcharoth (talk) 17:22, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I have some stuff on promotion procedure here: User:NoSeptember/crat stats, and some chat from old-timers here: User talk:NoSeptember/Early admins (20 Sept 2002), but not much about how the admin tools worked at the time, which can be found here: WikiProject on Adminship/Role of admins. Cheers, NoSeptember  18:41, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I added those links over there. I read that page again (the one I pointed you at), and it is a truly sad summary of parts of the history of Wikipedia. I'm sure the full story is much more interesting. Carcharoth (talk) 20:31, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Also take a look at these: 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 for general wikipedia history. NoSeptember  21:01, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, though some of those are very poor as well! :-/ Carcharoth (talk) 22:12, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

User:NoSeptember/admincount/chart
Hi, could you possibly update this graph if you have time? I rather like it, but don't quite understand how you worked out the numbers enough to update it myself. WjBscribe 20:37, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * First I would update User:NoSeptember/Admin stats and then use the "Total with admin rights" column to help me determine the break points and the date ranges for each tenth (for calculations on this, see User talk:NoSeptember/admincount/chart). Without an "Admin stats" update, I could use User:NoSeptember/admincount for the 2007 data. I was thinking of doing this since the calendar year has ended, but it will be next week at earliest I think. Updated. NoSeptember  20:58, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. WjBscribe 21:46, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * If you like it so much, why don't I see you transcluding it anywhere? ;) NoSeptember  21:48, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair point - that does save me from having to remember where to find it. I haven't added to any of the projectspace pages on admins as I suspect its too wide for 4:3 screens? WjBscribe 22:00, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * How narrow do you need it? The short version: User:NoSeptember/admincount/chart/short could possibly be made to fit. NoSeptember  22:11, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hadn't seen that one - yes that should fit fine. WjBscribe 22:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Btw, have you seen this page - User:Gmaxwell/adminship map - and this chart - Image:Adminshipmap checked 20070804161930.png - which create a record of who has nominated who at RfA? Its just about got every RfA up to the end of October 2007. WjBscribe 22:06, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes I've seen it and have linked to it. (See reply above as well). NoSeptember  22:11, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * There's an entry I'm having trouble with - you may have more luck. From, it seems that Anthere was nominated by someone on the list. I've looked through the mailing lists for the time and can't work out who nominated her. Fancy seeing if you can't work it out? Otherwise I'm going to give up and just ask her :-)... WjBscribe 22:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No luck with that, just because someone said Anthere was nominated doesn't mean that it could not have been a self-nom as most were back then. If you ever run across mailing list posts that show when someone requested or was granted adminship in 2003 or 2002, please add a link to: User:NoSeptember/RfA chronological - I have linked as many as I have found so far. Cheers, NoSeptember  14:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Adminship

 * Thank you. And it's on to year 3 of adminship :O. NoSeptember  11:25, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * -- Nadir D Steinmetz 11:48, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you. NoSeptember  11:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Rollback
Thanks for the swift help. Cheers. M URGH disc.  11:13, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * You're welcome, your record made it easy to grant. NoSeptember  11:25, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Great advise

 * Thank you, I'm glad you like the content :-). And it's always nice to return from a short break with something nice on my talk page. NoSeptember  21:37, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

My Rfa
I wish to thank you for being supportive of my effort to regain my adminship. Though it was not successful, your support was still very much appreciated. I also wanted to thank you for restoring the rollback function to me a short time ago. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you!--MONGO 06:26, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you
Wei Wenhua You get the credit for starting the article that has become a focus of much outrage in our community for what happened to the article's subject. Not often does Jimbo Wales blank his user and user talk pages for anything, but this one did it. Since you are not editing all that actively right now, I thought I should give you a heads up on this, and congratulations for being on top of important current events. Cheers, NoSeptember 21:54, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your message.Sorry for the delay in replying.It is because of people like you that Wikipedia runs.There is also Alexander Sdvizhkov,Sayed Perwiz Kaambaksh and a series Sri Lankan Tamil journalists.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 00:25, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Rollback
I have granted rollback rights to your account. The reason for this is that, after a review of some of your contributions, I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended use of reverting vandalism: I do not believe you will abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see New admin school/Rollback and Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Cheers, NoSeptember  21:20, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I didn't know my edits had been noticed. I really appreciate it. I will do my best to use this new tool efficiently to revert vandalism, and I will most likely not use this feature in cases of edit wars. If I do abuse this priviledge, I grant you the right to remove rollback (although you probably have much better things to do with your time than checking my use of the rollback feature). Thank you for your trust! Regards,  Zouavman   Le   Zouave   21:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I share Zouavman's sentiment. I thought about applying for rollback rights but didn't feel familiar enough with it; I'll make sure to read the links you provided first. Thanks for the noticing! --Maxamegalon2000 16:39, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Granting rollback
I noticed this edit, which is similar to the text I use when giving someone rollback. :) In future you can use User:Acalamari/Rollback if you wish, which is a template I've decided to create for informing users of giving them rollback. Acalamari 23:24, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, yes I borrowed your text, as it was well written, though I think I may change "I" to "we" and make other tweaks in the future. Cheers, NoSeptember  04:34, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Feel free to improve the template. Acalamari 17:20, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Struck part of my last post out: I found User:NoSeptember/Rollback. I like the wording on that, and might alternate between the two templates. Thanks! Acalamari 20:55, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Rollback
Hi, thanks for having thought of me last month when rollback rolled out. I was gunshy at the time because there was a controversy about how it was done, but it's been over a month and things seem to have settled down. Would you mind giving it to me once again? There are several hundred more articles on my watchlist now and it'd be useful. Thanks, Durova Charge! 18:51, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. NoSeptember  19:08, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you. :) Durova Charge! 20:17, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

rollback
Thank you. I really appreciate it. :) The Wookieepedian (talk) 23:57, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
I was wondering why that had suddenly appeared on a list of contribs! One Night In Hackney 303  15:54, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Rollback messages for others
I don't mean to be telling you how to communicate with other users, but I noticed you're linking to the rollback grant messages. These were designed to be subst'd like other user-talk templates and so include links to all the relevant tutorials and explanations. Obviously you're free to keep doing whatever, but if you want you can just type. Cheers. &mdash;dgies tc 16:09, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * True, but all these users I'm contacting are experienced users who know how we usually use template messages and can easily follow the links, so I thought I'd reduce the actual clutter on their talk pages by just leaving the link to the full spiel. Otherwise I feel like I'm "templating the regulars" :-)  NoSeptember  16:30, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Another rollback thanks
I appreciate your action in granting me rollback. I plan to study the various pages about the new system, so as to be able to use rollback with confidence, because I often edit political articles and I expect heavy vandalism as the campaign goes on. In 2004, the Bush and Kerry pages were being vandalized incessantly. This year we'll probably have even more juvenile minds to contend with, so the new tool will come in handy. JamesMLane t c 18:04, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Rollback
Why thank you! Sorry; I missed your message earlier because it was surrounded by fair-use and other image-related warnings from BetacommandBot. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 (talk) 17:12, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Still more rollback
Thanks! —Mira 19:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for deleting Template:User:Anon126

WP:LA
Hi - Just FYI, I noticed my WP:LA update script had a bug due to a change in the output format of special:listusers. All of the admin lists (active/semi-active/inactive) are missing admins without user pages from 22 Feb to today (it's fixed now). Looks like you haven't updated User:NoSeptember/Admin stats in a while, but if you do there will be a minor anomaly in the counts due to this (if you get them from historical versions of these lists). -- Rick Block (talk) 15:19, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the information. It will affect the February end of month figures on that page when I get around to updating it (except for total admins which I track directly from NUMBEROFADMINS at User:NoSeptember/admincount). Are you saying that the admin names are not listed on the page, in addition to the count being wrong? Is it easy to figure out how many were missed in each category at the end of February?  NoSeptember  16:59, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, the names aren't there. Diffs as of today (and 22 Feb) should show the folks who don't have userpages (there aren't that many).  I haven't really checked, but I'd expect the inactives are the same.  Active vs. semi-active would be difficult to tell, although you could get their contributions and figure it out  (I'd argue it's not that important - just count them as active).  -- Rick Block (talk) 19:21, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Well it shouldn't be too hard to figure out who has dropped off the list by comparing it to the last good version. I just need to remember to do it whenever I get to doing the update.  Thanks.  NoSeptember  19:45, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Inactives as of the end of Feb are missing 2 (gator1 and izehar), so there should have been 175 (counting Jasonr). 3 semi-actives were dropped as of 22 Feb (bbatsell, jni, and woggly) and all were restored as semi-active as of today (!), so there should have been 299.  Rather than figure out who they all are, I'd say the rest were active (total count minus 474).  This would put the number of actives at 1035 based on your end of Feb count of 1509 (although the comment the tool puts on the WP:LA update says it counted 1017 active and I find it hard to believe there are 18 active admins without user pages).  Hmmm.   Looking at the counts as of today, the tool says 186 inactive, 320 semi-active, and 1010 active for a total of 1516 (yet NUMBEROFADMINS says 1514).   Looking at the code some more the active count is off (high) by 3 (just fixed that as well - BTW the  active count skips someone who has requested not to appear in any of the lists, so the sum of the number in the inactives list, plus number in the semi-actives list, plus the number in the edit summary of the WP:LA update should typically be one short).
 * I could spend some more time figuring out what happened with the end of Feb numbers - is it worthwhile? -- Rick Block (talk) 20:44, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No, its not worth spending any more time on. These numbers fluctuate anyway. ps: are you aware of the tracking pages done by SQLBot (ie. User:SQL/Nadmins)? NoSeptember  21:20, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No, I was not aware of SQLBot (thanks). Do you know if anyone got around to writing a bot to generate the features and admins bit for the signpost, per Bot requests/Archive 15?  Seems like it shouldn't be too hard. -- Rick Block (talk) 22:55, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I have no particular info on that, from the edit history it appears that OhanaUnited does it manually, so talk to him. The reason I knew about SQL is because I was the one who requested that he start tracking admins, and I did that because he was already tracking the number of rollbackers (at a request from Gurch). Cheers,  NoSeptember  14:04, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day
-- S M S  Talk 19:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Adminship before MediaWiki
Did you catch my message about Wikipedia adminship before 2002 at User talk:NoSeptember/Early admins (20 Sept 2002)? Graham 87 14:44, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. Cheers, NoSeptember  16:30, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks
Thanks for your support at my recent Request for adminship. I hope you find I live up to your expectations. Best, Risker (talk) 16:15, 16 May 2008 (UTC)