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Timeless Triple Crown Imperial v Alexander the Great
Hi, I recently put in a "nomination" for the Timeless Triple Crown - Imperial Napoleonic as it was 2007 when I got the award & all are still GA/FC etc. (I only recently became that there was such a thing as the Timeless Triple Crown) I have just realised that my Alexander the Great Edition triple laurel crown was more than 5 years ago (27 August 2009) & all are still GA/FA, FL etc. Would it be best to remove the Imperial Napoleonic one & go straight for the Alexander the Great one to reduce duplication, work in checking etc?&mdash; Rod talk 20:23, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * @Rod: Indeed, since it would have to be upgraded anyways :)  → Call me  Hahc  21  20:24, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * OK will do. However looking again at The Triple Crown stuff (for the first time in ages) I think I have a couple of articles qualifying for Universal Triple Crown - Bath, Somerset appears to be FA on English, Hebrew & Swedish (although I didn't have any part in the process for other languages) & don't know if they qualify as "Wikipedias with an established featured content process". Somerset appears to be FA on English, Spanish and Polish.&mdash; Rod talk 20:34, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I noticed you added "Only users who are significant contributors to all featured versions of the article(s) are eligible for this award." to Triple Crown so I guess that answers that question, but now another query/nomination (putting it here because of the comment about non-standard nominations being put on your talk page)... I think I'm eligible for the Steeplechase Triple Crown; I have 13 FAs, 16 Featured lists, 2 Featured Topics, 1 Featured Portal & 1 Featured Picture, so 5 of the 6 possible areas. See list at the bottom of my userpage "Achievements in the format for "Crown Awards".&mdash; Rod talk 21:51, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hey. Yes, I forgot to add that note a while ago when somebody else asked me about the matter. About Steeplechase, those awards were given in a yearly event, which last took place on October-November 2013. This year, I was so busy I didn't have the chance to organize the event. Steeplechase Crowns are awarded to users who, over a period of a month (the duration of the event), manage to get several pieces of content to featured status.  → Call me  Hahc  21  22:03, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * That's not my reading of "Steeplechase Triple Crown. given to a major contributor to at least 5 of Wikipedia's 6 types of featured content" or the 5 winners at Triple Crown/Steeplechase winners. I wasn't referring to Triple Crown/Steeplechase winners (where I was one of the winners).&mdash; Rod talk 08:01, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Several of the winners of this award achieved their five types of featured content over longer periods of time:
 * User:Mitchazenia - April 2008, June 2008, July 2008, July 2008, July 2008
 * User:Imzadi1979 - May 2008, Sept 2008, Sept 2010, June 2010, July 2010
 * User:TonyTheTiger - March 2007, March 2007, Nov 2007, July 2008, FT unclear date
 * User:Bencherlite - Sept 2009, Feb 2010, Feb 2011, Sept 2008, Jan 2011
 * User:Crisco 1492 - Sept 2012, June 2012, Sept 2011, Aug 2006, Sept 2012
 * Therefore would you be kind enough to consider that again?&mdash; Rod talk 09:33, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll take a nother look in a bit. I've been sick and unable to edit as much as I'd like.  → Call me  Hahc  21  18:12, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

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The 2014 WikiCup champion is, who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. , 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. , WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

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re Workshop page on the Landmark Worldwide Arbitration case
I note that the published deadline for the workshop phase was 6th November, but material continues to be posted there. As some of that material amounts to further allegations against me, I have been unsure whether to respond or not. After some agonising I decided to do so, but don't feel entirely comfortable. What is the procedure in situations like this? It seems to me that the Arbitration process is not being fully respected if published dates are ignored. If a phase is not being explicitly extended for some reason, might it be a good idea if clerks were to lock the pages as deadlines expire?

And one minor procedural query: is there a specific timezone implied for the expiry of a phase, or are editors free to assume one they choose? Thanks.

(nb. this is a duplicate of an enquiry to Sphilbrick) DaveApter (talk) 18:11, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

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AC Noticeboard formatting mess
Hi. Could you take a look at the "Waldorf education" and "Banning Policy closed" sections of WP:AC/N? The quotebox from the "Waldorf education" section has been pushed down into the "Banning Policy closed" section — and if viewed using Firefox, the quoteboxes in the two sections are superimposed one on top of the other, making the text unreadable.

This happened right after the latest archival action by "Lowercase sigmabot III", and I reported it on Sigma's talk page (User talk:Σ/Archive/2014/November), but the bot people are insisting it's not their fault or responsibility. Since you are one of the arb clerks (and the one who posted the "Banning Policy closed" notice), I thought I should bring it up with you and see if you have any ideas on how to fix the problem so that all the text on the noticeboard page can be read.

I also reported this problem to Callanecc, but then I noticed they said they'd have limited Internet access until December, so I'm letting you know about it as well. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 02:10, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I see and I know what's happening, but I don't have a fix in mind. I'll take another look tomorrow.  → Call me  Hahc  21  02:19, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I made a couple of trivial changes to WP:AC/N and the problem is fixed for me, at least on Firefox on the Mac. On Safari and Chrome the problem of overlapping quote boxes didn't occur. A diagnosis of the cause was given by User:Redrose64 at User talk:Σ/Archive/2014/November. This makes it sound as though the problem is browser-dependent. EdJohnston (talk) 02:53, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * It's not fixed for me. The Waldorf quotebox has moved a few lines up, but it's still overlapping the Banning Policy quotebox (Firefox/Linux).  When I try it in Google Chrome, the quoteboxes don't overlap, but the Waldorf quotebox is still in the wrong place (under the section heading and first line of text of the Banning Policy section).  The problem may well be browser-dependent, but IMO it still needs to be fixed so that all (or, at least, most) users will be able to see the material correctly.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 03:17, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I see to the wikicode, but those will not have had the desired effects. Removing the  has served only to break the numbering in the box under "Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Banning Policy closed" - the points should be numbered 1 to 4, they are now 1 to 3 - preceded by one without a number which now has the appearance of an introductory passage. Adding two blank lines where blank lines already existed will merely have displaced some text very slightly.
 * Those changes - or at least the first of them - need to be reverted; and what is then needed is to convince text that should appear below that first box to actually appear there. There are several ways of doing this, but the two simplest are to de-float the by giving it none, or to add a strategically-placed  (for example, between that  and the text beginning "For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:10, 28 September 2014 (UTC)") - I would fix it up myself, but I am not permitted to, because I'm not an arbcom clerk. -- Red rose64 (talk) 10:39, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * by is essentially the same as adding a, but doesn't fix the numbering that was broken in the first edit by . -- Red rose64 (talk) 13:23, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping, I wasn't aware of this conversation. I was hoping to find a way to get content on the left to behave as though the left hand edge of the box on the right is the right margin of the page, but it's beyond my skill level (I also failed when trying this the other day on my user talk page) so I just went with the basic and hacky solution I did, which resolves the main problem but leaves things rather inelegant. I see the numbering problem but I'm not going to make any changes to the content on that page. Thryduulf (talk) 13:33, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I think I solved the issue. it's a bit of an unorthodox solution, I'd say, but one that works, I think. Let me know if it did.  → Call me  Hahc  21  14:03, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes it works for me (Firefox). Generally, using tables for layouts is not recommended because it can cause problems for those using screen readers, I don't know if this applies to single-cell tables though. Thryduulf (talk) 14:42, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * There was no need to convert the boxes to tables (and the numbering is still broken). After Thryduulf's edit, all that was needed was to revert which would have fixed that broken numbering. -- Red rose64 (talk) 14:57, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The "Waldorf education" quotebox is being displayed in the right place now, when I look at the page in either Firefox or Chrome. I note, though, that the first of the four remedies for the Banning Policy case (starting with "For actions discussed within this case") no longer has a number.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 15:38, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I reverted the last seven edits, to get back to the version left by : changing the boxes to tables makes comparison of text difficult, which may make it look like we're sneaking through changes to the text via the back door: and we should not be altering the decisions of ArbCom in any way. I then applied which is the minimum necessary change to make those boxes readable. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:05, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

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Ramón Agüero
Can you also delete Ramon Aguero?--Yankees10 03:25, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Nuked. Thanks for letting me know about it.  → Call me  Hahc  21  03:26, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

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The 1989 World Tour
I asked you about your protection of The 1989 World Tour on the ArbCom election questions page, but so far you haven't answered (you are of course not obliged to answer any questions there). However, as this involves a possible misuse of admin tools that may need reversion, I bring it here. As far as I can tell, you fully move protected the page The 1989 World Tour for "move warring", even though it seems that you were the only one to haev ever moved that page (over an older version of the page that you previously deleted, and which you should have history merged).

Can you please explain this apparently incorrect move-protection, and (assuming no good explanation exists) undo it? Fram (talk) 15:06, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 * There has been, for the past months, a group of users move-warring all the tour articles from Taylor Swift. I took the precautionary measure to move-protect the article to avoid it being moved back and forth. It is a temporary protection that I am keeping track of, and which I will remove in due course. I don't consider it to be a misuse of admin tools whatsoever (I am actually surprised that you would consider it so). Also, I didn't histmerge them because one was an almost exact copy of the other.  → Call me  Hahc  21  16:30, 2 December 2014 (UTC)


 * The Red Tour (and the redirect Red Tour) are not move protected (protection expired in May). It was moved twice in 2013 by one single user. You moved it back in April of this year. Speak Now World Tour is not and has never been protected and has never been moved. Fearless Tour is not and has never been protected or moved. So, your "There has been, for the past months, a group of users move-warring all the tour articles from Taylor Swift." seems to be completely wrong. Of the four tour articles, one had been moved twice in 2013... So yes, it is a misuse of admin tools (even ignoring the fact that you had content-edited the Red Tour before your move-plus-protection, making you involved in that case). As for the histmerge: if two articles are an almost exact copy, then acknowledging the one that was first is the right thing to do. Now, you have removed all trace of the original creator of the article from the history. Fram (talk) 07:43, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

So, do you really think that someone who makes up excuses to defend his admin actions, and when caught red-handed then silently undoes his action without acknowledging his mistake or otherwise indicating what make him change his mind, would be a good ArbCom member? How are you supposed to judge e.g. administrators and decide whether they should be desysopped, admonished, or otherwise judged, if you can't even honestly defend your own actions or admit your own mistakes? The honourable thing would be to withdraw your ArbCom candidature, try another year (or two) of being an admin (and editor), and perhaps then reconsider running for ArbCom. Fram (talk) 14:36, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I am impressed by the amount of AGF you put into this comment. I have been extremely busy and came to Wikipedia only to remove the protection. I don't think it was a mistake to do the protection, but I don't really care enough to try and defend it. I didn't change my mind, but I realized that the protection was no longer necessary. I had my reasons to protect it when I protected it. Now about my ArbCom candidacy: I won't withdraw. If that's the ultimate goal you are trying to accomplish with all the comments, questions, etc. you have done the past days, I'd advice you to give up. It won't work. I ran for a reason and I stick to my decisions.  → Call me  Hahc  21  16:56, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't AGF when someone has shown not to be worth it anymore. You may run for ArbCom "for a reason", but if it is equally well-supported as the reasons you give for protecting this article, or not restoring the history, or for not removing your copyvios, or for speedy deleting the song (below), then I'm glad that my reaction after your first few strange and unsatisfactory replies has been shown to be more than correct. You can not be trusted with the admin tools, and thus can even be less trusted as an arbcom member. I withdraw my suggestion to run again in a few more times: please never attempt this again. Fram (talk) 19:27, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * "I don't AGF when someone has shown not to be worth it anymore." And this is the point where the conversation ends. Please bring any concerns you might have somewhere else.  → Call me  Hahc  21  19:39, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Admin actions
You have sometimes done a "delete and redirect" when closing AfDs, e.g. for Millionaires (The Script song). Why not simply a redirect without deleting the history? Your close of Articles for deletion/Millionaires (The Script song) is also rather dubious, and looks more like a supervote than an actual close.

You have also deleted the first 138 revisions of Physical (Enrique Iglesias song) as "Non-notable song article.". This is not a speecy deletion criterion, and the article was recreated the next day. Any policy-based reason for this deletion? Fram (talk) 15:31, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * A simple answer: WP:NSONGS. Take a look at it.  → Call me  Hahc  21  16:58, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll probably start a WP:AN section tomorrow about your complete lack of ADMINACCT and knowledge of our policies and of what is expected from an admin (and even more from an ARBCOM member). I suggest you reread NSONGS and the acceptable reasons for speedy deletions before then, and change your reply accordingly. Perhaps you may reconsider the reply you gave in the previous section as well, as it is equally unsatisfactory. Fram (talk) 19:22, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Sure, go ahead.  → Call me  Hahc  21  19:42, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

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Universal Triple Crown
I've just discovered a set of 20 images is now featured here, on Commons, and, unexpectedly, on Farsi Wikipedia. Can I request a Universal Triple Crown? And should I check for others first, and get the full list for you? Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:28, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
 * OMG Adam. 20?! Okay, get the list and I'll make the rest :)  → Call me  Hahc  21  20:29, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Wow! Nice work Adam! Kaldari (talk) 22:56, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
 * And, of course, Kaldari, you get one for the first item on the list. Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:59, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Okay, let's start. I'll put sets together. Not in chronological order.

I apologize in advance for any errors. Persian is particularly hard to copy paste when there's both LTR and RTL text. Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:31, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Universal Triple Crown (2)
Hate to be a pain, but any idea when this will be done? Only poking because it went way up your talk page now. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:58, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It'll take a while, so I will be doing it bit by bit. I won't remove the section off my talk page until it's all done :)  → Call me  Hahc  21  16:40, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, no worries! Just I know that talk page messages can go up the page and be lost. Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:46, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * @Adam Cuerden: I see the table every day. Why do you have so many! Makes my work almost never-ending :(  → Call me  Hahc  21  04:17, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Heh. I'm afraid that was me adding another. (I don't know how to make a smiley that looks suitably sheepish) Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:20, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Questions
So I turned on Twinkle and already I feel like it'll make changes that will greatly impact everything I will do when I use it. So while I figure out what to do, I'm wondering if there's a way for me to figure out how to log-in my previous CSDs. Do you know? GamerPro64 02:26, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Just make sure to have CSD and PROD logging turned on. Having Twinkle isn't that radical, it just adds some options that you can ignore if you want. I don't use most of them.  The tagging and template features are ok, but I still add a personal note to them most of the time, or don't use TW at all and just use a personal note only. In my log User:Dennis Brown/CSD log and PROD log, I tend to go through and explain the blue links from time to time, for my own sanity. Dennis 2&cent; 02:34, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * But its the most beautiful thing, Dennis. I have the ability to warn myself that I'm vandalizing. But to be serious, I haven't used it yet but I already like Twinkle. Even if the mascot looks like a melted M. Bison. GamerPro64  02:44, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * @: Twinkle can't find your previous CSD nominations, but I can. It'll take some time, given how busy I am, but I'll happily do it for you.  → Call me  Hahc  21  02:54, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * All right cool. Thanks. GamerPro64  03:02, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

McKinsey & Company
Hi Hahc21. I've been working on getting this article GAN-ready, culling through it top-down; I've been correcting citations and whatnot myself, but leaving anything more significant on Talk (I have a COI). Crisco's been helping me, but it's a huge, complex article and he's gotten busy with other stuff. I was wondering if you had a bit of time to work with it on me following COI best practices. We're getting pretty close to GAN-ready, but it still needs a new Lede and has some POV/weight issues, etc. There's some content Crisco's removed a couple of times that My2011 keeps re-instating and we started a discussion, but he hasn't been online much for quite some time.

BTW - you're on arbitration now? Or were you always? CorporateM (Talk) 01:00, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I might be able to take a look later. I still have those big tables you see here waiting for me to process them. I guess I took a vacation longer than necessary heh. And yes, I've been part of ArbCom (as a clerk) since January 2013.  → Call me  Hahc  21  01:05, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Cool, no rush. I just have a couple things at the bottom of Talk right now, but whenever you have time, I'll keep culling through it and posting anything controversial on Talk. CorporateM (Talk) 01:23, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

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 * Arising from the above I've requested a contributor copyright investigation be opened to examine concerns with your edits. The request can be found at Contributor copyright investigations.  For some suggestions on responding, please see Contributor copyright investigations. —Psychonaut (talk) 13:38, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
 * @Psychonaut: I think explained exactly what happened there. However, two things: i) Thanks  for taking a bit of your time to expain things there; and ii) I'd appreciate if somebody could help me check all the castle articles I wrote. I think there were three or four, and they might have copyvios. It was an attempt to write articles on a different topic, but it went catastrophic so I stopped. I am unable to fix the copyvios myself si if somebody weighs in, I would be grateful.  → Call me   Hahc  21  14:31, 4 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Hahc21, if you are open to Admin recall please provide a link to your admin recall page. Thanks. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:38, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Put another way, Hahc21, please decide under what circumstances you'll agree to be desysopped or the community will decide for itself. If I were you, I'd announce an indefinite wikibreak and stay away for a year or so. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 19:56, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hahc21: Please see this suggestion. BMK (talk) 23:54, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * @Kudpung, BMK: Recall won't be necessary.  → Call me  Hahc  21  18:51, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I think your decision was the right one, I salute you for making it. BMK (talk) 19:43, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

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Leaving?
Hahc21, I'm sorry to see the nasty business you recently had to go through. I noticed your userpage has been deleted. Does this indicate you'll be retiring? Not sure what you'll do, but thank you for all your services to Wikipedia. Cheers,  Snuggums ( talk  /  edits ) 23:13, 7 December 2014 (UTC)


 * This looks like another case of swatting a fly with a sledgehammer to me. A little good faith and some work to correct errors goes a long way.  Montanabw (talk)  23:30, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I wish this did not develop in the way it did because everyone makes mistakes in new fields. I don't think that they are in all cases grounds for action of the type taken here by multiple people, although in other cases, of perhaps long-term serious problems over a large bulk of the editor's work over a long period of time, some such concerns might be legitimate.
 * I can and do understand wanting to put this behind you, and can't fault you for doing so. I do however hope that if you ever see fit to return you realize that the majority of us would welcome you back quickly. John Carter (talk) 16:04, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hey Harold! It's sad to know you're leaving. But regardless, good luck out there! Erick (talk) 16:08, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hahc21, as I said just the other day, You are an excellent Wikipedian. I admire that you've stepped down from a couple of areas, I never believed they were your strong points - but the important things you do online, keeping people together, are so essential to this encyclopedia. Don't be too disheartened that you've had a tough week - you'll come out stronger on the other side. Worm TT(talk ) 11:56, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * Adding image Sorrow which fits you edit notice nicely, - thinking of you and your thinking, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:31, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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Happy holidays, despite it all....
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Thank you for quality articles on games and albums, such as Sinistar: Unleashed, for featured lists on Latin American performers, such as Ricardo Arjona discography, for reviewing more than 100 Good articles, and for the recognition of the merits of others in their quality contributions and reviews, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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