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Totally agree...
With your position the Wikipedia Adventure nonsense. I think I object when it become routine to add it to new user's page on the grounds that it's silly but was, of course, just shouted down. NE Ent 17:22, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

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I have mentioned
you here RE Kevin's EFM rights. Regards, Only in death does duty end (talk) 09:09, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey Reaper -

Thanks for throwing a bunch of rights on my account. Although unfortunately I really can't do edu outreach without a couple tools that are only in the admin toolset (most of my past or theoretical future edu contracts essentially specify that I need to be able to delete inappropriately posted student info faster than I can normally find an admin or OSer,) I'm not poofing from Wikipedia, and will make use of the rights packages - including EFM. I self-granted it at Wikiconf USA 2015 after all non-admin attendees were autoblocked and due to an undocumented feature or bug, it let me see more information about the unusual block logs, which let me track down the editor in question and fix the issue before the four or five CU's present trying to figure it out (amusingly, including a lot of IAR checkusering...) I greatly appreciate the vote of confidence, but if another admin wants to push the issue, please strip the right off of my account if there's even a chance of you getting put before arb accused of wheelwarring. (Actually, - it occurs to me that wheelwarring does have an exception if the first admin is okay with the decision being modified.  Although it's obviously preferable to do that ex-ante instead of ex-post, if you're okay with the action, would you mind stating so explicitly?)  Although I don't think this is technically wheelwarring since that has a rather important clause in it - "administrator tools are then used in a combative fashion to undo or redo the action" - I'm sure some people will disagree with me.

Either way, seriously, thanks. After that turkeyshoot, it certainly makes it less unpleasant feeling to have a sysop I don't have hugely substantial previous interactions with put on useful rights without me explicitly requesting them. Best, User:Kevin Gorman | talk page


 * Hi Reaper Eternal, to be clear, 100% I do not consider your reversal of my action to be wheel warring; my note on the other page was the further action without discussion would be running afoul of future wheel accusations - more of a warning to others to not start getting click happy. (I will clarify that I am NOT making a wheel accusation on that other page).  I also am not going to initiate any dispute resolution on this, but may participate in consensus building if others do. —  xaosflux  Talk 00:57, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Posted: Special:Diff/700852805. — xaosflux  Talk 01:00, 21 January 2016 (UTC)


 * (posting here to try to centralize some of this), I do personally think that in light of the current activities, you should not jump in to edit filter management (you have no logged filter modifications to date); if you decide you want to contribute in that area - I suggest you start with assisting at the false positive board, etc for a while; be active on the ef noticeboard - and then request edit access in a while if you want to contribute that way. To a lesser extent, I'm not seeing any recent activity with restricted templates or modules, so to a lesser extent   may not be the most appropriate either.  I have no opinion on the other flags that RE added.  As with any of these permission, if you ask for it to be removed it can be - there is no "cloud" rules for the flags, nor is there any "automatic reinstatement" process.  The general matter of former admins' restricted EFM flags is being discussed at the EF noticeboard, no consensus has yet formed for future guidelines.  Best regards, —  xaosflux  Talk 00:57, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * - you're right that I don't do EF management as a general rule. There have been a couple times in the past where I've pointed out errors in private EF's for other people to fix (and other WMF wikis where I have done active EF management.)  The reason why I originally granted myself the flag - and the reason why it would be potentially useful in the future - is that due to an undocumented feature/bug, it actively allows you to view more information about otherwise obtuse block log entries than you normally could.  A CU/OS/admin was sitting next to an admin/efm was sitting next to an admin was sitting to an efm, and the two people who could see the most about an unusual block log entry were the admin/efm, and the efm.  Adding EFM to myself let me see more details of the block and let me narrow it down enough to undo (or at this point, since arbcom shooting galleries always end the same way, point an admin towards how to undo,) an autoblock that was effecting a major national event.  The fact that I haven't done EF management directly on ENWP (although I have troubleshot a number of problematic EF's - I just haven't been confident enough to commit them myself,) and the fact that even if whatever quirky was going on at NARA I could still track down the person causing the root issue but could no longer unautoblock them myself is why I'm not incredi-attached to the idea of keeping the flag at this point. Similarly with TE it's something that I'd rather keep, partly because the one set of articles that there's no way I'm not completing myself will eventually require the creation of a number of new templates and some edits to TE-protected templates, but I'm certainly not about to break a random lua module that I don't understand - which is why again, if someone pushes about it too hard, losing it for now isn't a huge deal for me.  I wish I was more reliably on the internet so that I could post a suitable dissection of the, er, interestingness of the decision (well, tonight I'm pretty much on, but having done an immunoglobulin infusion today, I'm in enough physical pain that I wouldn't want to try.) User:Kevin Gorman | talk page 06:15, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

I rather doubt that Kevin Gorman, who, having possessed EFM for months, will suddenly decide to make malicious filters. And even if he does, so what? It would at best cause a major inconvenience for all of 3-5 minutes before he would be indeffed for vandalism and the filter automatically shut off. He has put it to good use at Wikiconferences or whatever they're called before so I see no reason whatsoever that he should lose EFM. If ArbCom had de-opped him for logged out vandalism or other malicious actions, then, yeah, it would make sense. However, that was not the case. He was de-opped for administrator actions not aligned with community consensus. Edit filters don't require the same level of "good judgment" sysop does. All they're meant for is stopping blatant vandalism, sockpuppets, and spam&mdash;edits nobody considers useful.

Finally, given that I of all people gave him these userrights, when our sole previous interactions consist of him taking me before ArbCom, writing that "Reaper Eternal should have all of his advanced privileges stripped by motion", and I vehemently opposing his ArbCom candidacy, writing that "[Kevin Gorman] will be a tremendous detriment to the arbitration committee and to his fellow arbitrators", should be making people reconsider their actions here. I just glanced over the ArbCom case, and honestly the arbitrators and some posters there should take a good long look in the mirror and ask themselves if this is who they truly want to be. I'm frankly disgusted with the level of character assassination that went on there. See you all later. I'm really disappointed in Wikipedia right now. Reaper Eternal (talk) 06:48, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Reaper... despite our past interactions, seriously, thank you for being able to look a that case as it is, and not as it somehow got twisted in to being. User:Kevin Gorman | talk page 19:37, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

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Can you recheck some new stuff
See Sockpuppet investigations/Soft skin, where after you did your initial check for sleepers/IP blocks underlying sock farm, a new sock farm has popped up. Thanks! -- Jayron 32 18:50, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.

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Unprotect
Hey. I saw you protected Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire back in 2011. Might be worth unprotecting to see if the vandalism has abated? --Odie5533 (talk) 21:38, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Unprotected. Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 23:03, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

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Rollback request
Hi Reaper,

I'd like to request rollback rights, please. In addition to the garden variety vandalism that regularly occurs on high traffic and popular pages, which I do revert when I see it, as best as I can - it's really darn frustrating to see massive vandalism like this and be unable to fix it. Many thanks. X4n6 (talk) 04:17, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Granted. Unfortunately, in that case, rollback would not have helped since it only undoes all of the edits by the most recent editor. Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 23:14, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Understood. But happy to help where I can. So thanks again! Regards. X4n6 (talk) 06:31, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

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Parameter changed
You may have noticed that a number of your userpages are presently in Category:Fix. This is because that category is used temporarily to track deprecated usage of a certain parameter.

On User:Reaper Eternal/articles please replace all 4 instances of "icon_nr" by "sortkey", and your pages will disappear from that tracking category and template usage will be optimized. Debresser (talk) 18:32, 24 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your prompt reaction to my request. I see you removed two parameters altogether. Just that you should know, if you would replace "icon_nr" by "sortkey", the functionality would remain. The "extra_offset" parameter indeed was completely deprecated. Debresser (talk) 11:47, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

IPBE RfC v2
As you commented on WP:IBE RfC Grant exemptions to users in good standing on request, you may wish to also comment on my alternative proposal, WP:IBE RfC Automatically grant IPBE to users by proof of work alone. Sai ¿? ✍ 11:37, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Account Creator
It's been a very long time, so this is a long shot. You did however say to contact you. :p

You ok throwing that back at me? I'm returning from retirement and figured "Eh, why not try?". Rgoodermote (talk) 08:18, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Returned. Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 23:02, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Cheers to you too and thank you! Rgoodermote (talk) 23:14, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

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Just letting you know that I ain't forgotten about him :P 24.114.89.94 (talk) 00:00, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Rangeblock
Came across this range block - 	202.45.119.0/24 appears to be indefinite according to list of blocks, just checking if this is intentional, an oops moment or the interface gone pfft again. Amortias (T)(C) 21:11, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * That was deliberate given the extreme levels of vandalism (and occasional constant sock puppetry) that would immediately resume upon the block's expiry. Eventually, after ten years of endless vandalism, I indeffed it until the school gets its students under control or the IP block gets reassigned. I can try unblocking and monitoring if you think it's under control. Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:10, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
 * That's fine, just couldn't see anything in the block log explaining it and I know indefinite IP blocks are rare so just wanted to make sure it wast an oops block. Amortias (T)(C) 14:57, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

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→<font color="#BA0000">Σ <font color="#036">σ <font color="#036">ς. (Sigma) 06:33, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Don't have it. Reaper Eternal (talk) 11:10, 1 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Weird, I've sent it again. Or at least, I've sent all that I recall of it. →<font color="#BA0000">Σ <font color="#036">σ <font color="#036">ς . (Sigma) 02:48, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

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Abuse filters
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202.45.119.0/24
Hello Reaper Eternal. Please review the block on this range. It currently doesn't have an expiration. Mike V said it was related to ACC, which is where I've run into it a couple times. Thanks. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 20:13, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello again. Have you had a chance to review this with regard to WP:IPBLENGTH? —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 22:51, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
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KidMax
Hello, Reaper Eternal. I'm sorry about my CSD tagging of that page. I was a bit too quick to interpret it as impersonation of or an attack against me, as it contained what looked like a copy-paste of the "Wikipedian infobox" that I have on my userpage. As a matter of fact, I did have second thoughts about whether it was an attack page or not after I had tagged it, as the user may have wanted to use that template for their own page, but again I just wasn't sure. And then after I tagged the page, the user copied the speedy notification I had left them and put it on their page, and I thought this might also be an attempt at impersonating me. I report to and clerk at UAA regularly and I recently started watching Special:NewPages, so I speedy-tag pages quite a lot, and do sometimes make mistakes while tagging. I've decided I'm going to stop for a while and instead contribute mostly to articles. Linguist If you reply here, please add    to your message 16:10, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
 * First Place -
 * Second Place -
 * Third Place -

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 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
 * Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
 * Featured List – produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
 * Featured Portal – produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
 * Featured Topic – and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
 * Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
 * Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
 * In The News – and, each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
 * Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
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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.

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