User talk:Roux/Archives/2011/September

The Borrowers Afloat
Thanks so much for your lovely comment, Roux. I was glad to create the page. At the time, I had just come back from seeing Arrietty in the cinema, so was on a bit of a Borrowers high. Thanks again. --jayunderscorezero (talk) 07:52, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Shreyanjali16
hello

thank you for the amazing work that you have been doing on Wikipedia regarding copyright violation. However I would like to mention that I do not think my article could be further paraphrased as it is a government bill and it would be wrong to paraphrase the bill in my own words. However if u still feel there is scope for paraphrasing, please provide me with assistance and help me to build a better article. Shreyanjali16 (talk) 05:22, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * It is not wrong to paraphrase the bill. For an example, look at Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That should help. → ROUX   ₪  05:41, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

thank you for replying. I will be working on the necessary changes you have asked me to make. But I would request you to restore the rest of the article only if you do not find any copyvios in those sections. As per the suggestions given to me I will work on the Bill part on my sand box and once I have completed I shall post you the link to my sand box for your verification. thank you for helping out.

Shreyanjali16 (talk) 09:01, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
Suraj T  05:11, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

ilwoo99
I know this is probably going to offend you, but do you know of any reason why they would have copied your signature and modified it poorly? I ask because on the O Broadcasting System AfD they had a significantly malformed signature to the point that they copied the squigle character for your talk page link and was going to link to your talk page. Thanks for listening to my concerns. Hasteur (talk) 14:10, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Your guess is as good as mine. → ROUX   ₪  17:37, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

News and progress from RfA reform 2011
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The number of nominations continues to nosedive seriously, according to  these monthly figures. We know why this is, and if the trend continues our reserve of active admins will soon be underwater. Wikipedia now needs suitable editors to come forward. This can only be achieved either through changes to the current system, a radical alternative, or by fiat from elsewhere.

A lot of work is constantly being done behind the scenes by the coordinators and task force members, such as monitoring the talk pages, discussing new ideas, organising  the project  pages, researching  statistics and keeping  them  up  to  date. You'll also see for example that  we have recently  made tables to  compare how other Wikipedias choose  their sysops, and some tools have been developed to more closely examine !voters' habits.

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 * 1) Improving the environment  that  surrounds RfA in  order to  encourage mature, experienced editors of the right  calibre to  come forward, pass the interview, and dedicate some of their  time to  admin  tasks.
 * 2) Discouraging, in the nicest  way  possible of course, those whose RfA will be obvious NOTNOW or SNOW, and to  guide them towards the advice pages.

We already know what's wrong with RfA - let's not clutter the project with perennial chat. RFA2011 is now ready to propose some of the elements of reform, and all the task force needs to do now is to pre-draft those proposals in the project's workspace, agree on the wording, and then offer them for central discussion where the entire Wikipedia community will be more than welcome to express their opinions in  order to  build consensus.

New tool Check your RfA !voting history! Since the editors' RfA !vote counter at X!-Tools has been down for a long while, we now have a new RfA Vote Counter to replace it. A significant improvement on the former tool, it provides a a complete breakdown of an editor's RfA votes, together with an analysis of the participant's voting pattern.

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