User talk:Ready/Archive 1

Stiki
Pasted the welcome template for your ready reference (feel free to remove if you no longer need it). Please take care with stiki, I would suggest you to go through the link wp:VANDAL once more. Please revert only the cases that are clear and undebatable vandalism cases, later on with experience you will learn more about it, thanks, regards --  Ð ℬig XЯaɣ   19:29, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: Conversation carried over to User talk:DBigXray --  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 17:27, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Usurpation of cross-wiki accounts
I am requesting to usurp the user Ready on en.wikiversity. My temporary username on en.wikiversity as per the en.wikiversity requirements is Ready12.  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 19:14, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

I am requesting a rename/usurpation on Commons. My current Commons name is Ready12.  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 19:44, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Rollback
I have granted rollback rights to your account. After a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not 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 will remove it. Good luck and thanks.  An  optimist on the  run!  11:56, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Help
I recently reverted a couple of edits by an IP user here. I was then personally attacked by the user in question in their latest edit summary. I am not fussed about the wording of the article and am happy to leave it as it is, however I was wondering what I can do about the personal attack made towards me. Many thanks.  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 18:29, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I have given the IP an uw-npa2 warning. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:36, 19 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the help. I didn't realise there was a template for this, I'll be sure to check the list of warning templates next time. Thanks and regards,  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 21:26, 19 April 2012 (UTC)


 * use wp:TWINKLE and you would never need to remember the templates, dont worry about vandals a lot of us are here to Shoot 'Em Up--  Ð ℬig  XЯaɣ  11:41, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * ...but what if you are using STiki? Cannot use Twinkle at the same time, can you?
 * -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 11:55, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I use both simultaneously. Stiki in right hand and twinkle in left At the bottom of the Stiki Page there are several links clicking them will open in the browser where you can twinkle them --  Ð ℬig  XЯaɣ  12:12, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * That's good to know. Thank you very much! -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 12:16, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Surely that must mean you are left-handed – I would have thought, hit the keys for STiki, and have the mouse for Twinkle. Isn't that correct?  -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 13:14, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Actually, that's a good point Xray, I never thought to use Twinkle for the warning templates. I do use Twinkle quite frequently, only never for user warnings. Thanks for making the point.  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 14:46, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I cannot see the " At the bottom of the Stiki Page there are several links clicking them will open in the browser where you can twinkle" that DBigXray refers to above.
 * Are you able to throw any light on this? Regards, -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 09:33, 24 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I forgot to reply to this message. When using STiki, there are links at the bottom of the GUI to view the page version/page history/page difference etc.. You can click on one of them and then it'll open the link in your browser, hence you then have a propensity to use Twinkle instead.  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 15:08, 27 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Ready. You are a very helpful person.  BTW – what exactly does GUI stand for?  -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 16:19, 27 April 2012 (UTC)


 * No worries, glad to be a help. And GUI stands for graphical user interface. It's basically where software or applications provide the link between human and computer, so where you can interact with the software. That's in simple terms, in reality it's at least slightly more complicated, but I won't start being picky.  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 18:30, 27 April 2012 (UTC)


 * You are a fountain of knowledge. Once again, thank you.  -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 18:39, 27 April 2012 (UTC)


 * As I said before, no worries. If you need anything else, feel free to start a new section on my talk page. Thanks,  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 18:41, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

(Default button / STiki)
Hello!

Just to thank you for helping me out with that default button. Cheers, Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 23:36, 16 April 2012 (UTC)


 * No worries; if you need anything else, don't hesitate to ask.  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 18:45, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

(Default button / STiki) – A warning about using Stiki
When do I use it, and how does it register on the screen after "pressing" it? Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 17:36, 16 April 2012 (UTC))


 * The default button is simply for if you change/personalise what's in the text field above it (the edit summary). If you've changed the edit summary, clicking the default then resets the edit summary to the default version provided by STiki.  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 17:54, 16 April 2012 (UTC)


 * (...yes, as Ready has correctly explained, it is used to change the edit summary. Sometimes it becomes necessary to change an edit summary while reverting, so just click on the text box on the lower left corner, change the edit summary to a message accordingly, and then press the revert (Vandalism) button. This will revert the vandalism with an edit summary that is inside the box. Once this is done and you see a different case you may not need that special edit summary you had used, so press that default button and you will get the Default stiki summary.)

Hello Ready, For the first time since starting to edit/revert on Wikipedia (June 2011) my User  page has been unpleasantly vandalised. Fortunately, I spotted it only a very few minutes later and reverted. A few minutes later an admin banned this newly registered user (not an IP) indefinately and the IP account for 24 hours (..?) There were only two contributions:
 * the vandalism I had removed with STiki, and
 * the vandalising of my page, which happened immediately afterwards.

My worry is this: on reading your User page you advertise the fact that you are a girl, and I know that you started with STiki a little before I did. I don't want you to experience this, which could be worse if the creep knows your sex. -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 10:51, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your concern, however I can more than handle myself, and am very easygoing. I'm not bothered by any vandalism of my user pages (especially given the fact that I can easily revert it with either rollback or Twinkle), and to be honest by being a user on wikipedia, one is accepting the fact that any of the content they submit and any wikipedia aspects related to them may be vandalised, including possible personal attacks and suchlike that may ensue.


 * More to the point, whereabouts on my userpage does it state that I am, as you say, a girl?  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 14:57, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
 * If you ever get serious vandalism on your user page, any admin will happily semi-protect it, so that IPs and new users can't edit it. JohnCD (talk) 20:32, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeed. That said, I'm not entirely sure why we're having this discussion in the first place, considering I have yet to get any vandalism whatsoever on both my user page and user talk page... touch wood.  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 20:58, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Golding Bird
Do you not follow WP:BRD? The correct thing to do when reverted is to start a discussion, not edit war your version back into the article. "Nightwatchman" is in the OED with that meaning, in fact the main meaning, and in case you don't have access, it is also in Wiktionary and the sources used for the article.

And what are these edits all about? Adding spaces to an article merely to leave an edit summary is a bad thing.  Spinning Spark  13:52, 30 April 2012 (UTC)


 * See WP:SMS for info on making dummy edits for the purpose of adding a summary to the page history.


 * Admittedly, perhaps I should have followed BRD, however I figured you might accept the revert as further explanation was given. I don't wish to split hairs with you, however, so leave the page however you want. Thanks,  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 17:38, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thankyou for compromising, and thankyou for admitting you should have used BRD. I now also now realise you were right about the grammatical agreement issue.  I perfectly understand how to make dummy edits.  My complaint is that these had the effect of obscuring the substative edit in the watchlist, which was a content dispute which should have gone straight to the article talk page, not another revert.  All this on a Featured Article that is about to go on the front page.  I take your comment to mean that you will accept the article being returned to "nightwatchman"; I consider this a WP:ENGVAR issue.  I do not expect to see a further revert.  Spinning  Spark  19:18, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps only the grammatical issue though. Anyway, all good points. Quite harsh wording you've used, but hey, if that's what works for you. If you need anything else, feel free to leave a new message.  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 06:28, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Account Confirmation
To whom it concerns: I confirm this to be my other account.  Ready ( talk  contributions ) 13:58, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Userpage deletion
I've gone ahead and deleted your userpage as requested. Have a great day! &mdash;  JamesR ( talk ) 14:45, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

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