User talk:RoySmith/Archive 5

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User:SOPHIAN
Not sure how User:SOPHIAN just appeared and deleted the indef tag from his talk page?--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 09:44, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * He's still blocked. Blocked users can still edit their own talk pages.  The ability to edit your own talk page can be prevented, but it hardly seems worth the effort.  -- RoySmith (talk) 14:58, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikis Take Manhattan
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You're invited!
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Wikipedia Day NYC
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AfD protection
Sorry I spontaneously semi-protected Articles for deletion/Church of Reality (2nd nomination) when I saw that sock swarm, before I noticed you had previously undone a similar protection. Feel free to revert if you feel it shouldn't be protected. Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:55, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I noticed :-). I think I'm going to unprotect it again.  The page is already a disaster, and protecting it isn't going to change that.  Besides, the last thing we want to do is give a justification for bringing this to Deletion Review, if it doesn't go the way some people want.  Not that I expect we'll avoid that anyway, but why give additional excuses?  -- RoySmith (talk) 19:25, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

NYC Wikipedia Meetup Sunday, March 21
In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wikipedia Day NYC, plan for the next stages of projects like Wikipedia at the Library and Lights Camera Wiki, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, for example User:ScienceApologist will present on "climate change, alternative medicine, UFOs and Transcendental Meditation" (see the November meeting's minutes).

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AfD
Please check out: Articles for deletion/Series of tubes (3rd nomination). Thanks. Kitfoxxe (talk) 14:24, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Geography of New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary
Wrote back at concerned article, just to keep discussion in one place. ThanksDjflem (talk) 14:37, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

NYC Wikipedia Meetup Saturday, May 22
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History section deleted from article about Meetup.com
Noticed the latest edit to the article was HelgeStenstrom deleting the entire History section. On the article's talk page Helge said Helge deleted section because of the "This article or section reads like a news release ..." tag on the section. Thought you should know because you recently edited the article. --EarthFurst (talk) 22:29, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Shout-out AfD
Hi, The Afd for Shout-out was malformed, I've fixed it but you need to visit the AfD page and give your rationale for deletion. Cheers Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 20:56, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I thought something went wrong.  I was using the Twinkle automation and something didn't look right.  -- RoySmith (talk) 00:49, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

complicated
The PC trial is complicated. It is structured so it will be very difficult to make a valid conclusion. One can offer an unsupported opinion after the trial but the trial was poorly structured if it was to be a scientific experiment or comparison study.

If there is to be too many rules, administrators can no longer be volunteers and must have rigorous training and have specific rules to follow to administer the too many rules. This is not a criticism but a general look at structure. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 16:22, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Gentlemen's agreement
I was wondering if you might like to take another look at Gentlemen's agreement/Articles for deletion/Gentlemen's agreement since I've added some content and references to the article. Thanks! Cheers! Location (talk) 06:14, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It looks a lot better than it did. Thanks.  -- RoySmith (talk) 12:57, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Pending Changes
My definition of lying is "a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth". Regardless of intentions, when someone says something untruthfully mistakenly or out of ignorance, its still lying. The message should have changed 'before the trial began. The change in that little message is much easier than organizing a site-wide pending changes trial. It was not changed and it was probably a mistake, but it doesn't change the fact that as of right now, that message deceives all the rookie users who edit. If you don't notice the problem, I have nothing more to say to you. Feed back  ☎ 19:00, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Just came across something you wrote three years ago
It was at Deletion review/Log/2007 May 31:
 * This is a real live young woman we're talking about. I'm the person who deleted the article and closed the AfD. I don't particularly care if A7 applies or not. I don't particularly care if the abuse of power by certain admins angers some people. There's no grand principle at stake here which says that every article which can be written must be written. Move on to something important. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:18, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Just wanted to pop in and say "well said"! NW ( Talk ) 13:42, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Ugh, that mess. Thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:18, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Wiki-Conference NYC (2nd annual)
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Re:Your WP:CSD#G11 deletion of Sparx Systems
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Bronx/The Bronx
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Bongomatic The Bored
If you read User talk:Bongomatic, you'll see that there's a DYK credit up for grabs if you want it. I think that I cited all of the necessary sources. I'll double-check later. Incidentally: Bongomatic The Bored has mis-spelled "residence organ" thanks to you. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 01:54, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia NYC Meetup Sat Oct 16
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Bugatti Veyron
Hi, I have reverted your change to the Bugatti Veyron article. The top speeds are clearly cited in the referenced sources. There are extensive discussions on the talk page about this topic. They are not absurd, they are accurate. Please see the talk page here. I did the same thing when I first came across the page; There are quite a few issues with the statistics (hence the tags) but the speed is one that is not in dispute. Thanks. Bertcocaine (talk) 10:12, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll respond at Talk:Bugatti_Veyron -- RoySmith (talk) 14:36, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Roy, your response makes interesting reading - I've continued the discussion there if you'd care to review? Thanks. Bertcocaine (talk) 00:35, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

NYC Meetup: Saturday, December 4
Our next Wikipedia NYC Meetup is this weekend on Saturday Dec 4 at Brooklyn Museum during their awesome First Saturdays program, starting at 5 PM.

A particular highlight for the wiki crowd will be 'Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968', and the accompanying "WikiPop" project, with specially-created Wikipedia articles on the artists displayed on iPads in the gallery.

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DCB-224
After I finished the article on the VRB-25, I had meant to write an article on the DCB-224, but I got involved as an Admin on Commons and never got it going. Thanks for reading my mind. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 02:02, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you enjoyed the article. I'm just a stub at this point; I might expand it if I get the time.  At the moment, I'm putting my efforts into User:RoySmith/Automatic Lamp Changer.  DCB-224 was just a side-track, to fill out a redlink in the main article.  I like your image File:VRB-25 system diagram.png; that should also be useful in my article.  -- RoySmith (talk) 03:11, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

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Nomination of Playground 52 for deletion
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Wikipedia:The Musical in NYC Oct 22
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All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and here !--Pharos (talk) 04:59, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Merengue (software) for deletion
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AfD and PROD notifications
Hi RoySmith,

Back in December, you got either an AfD or PROD notification, which was part of the template testing project's experiments. If you could go here and leave us some feedback about what you think about the new versions of the templates we tested (there are links to the templates), that would be very useful. (You can also email me at mpinchuk@undefinedwikimedia.org if you want.) Thanks! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 20:24, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear RoySmith,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.9.34.167 (talk) 20:55, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Re: Pivotal Labs
I've written on Talk:Pivotal Labs. Andrevan@ 06:54, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Lamp changer
Hello, I just copied your talk page about Lamp changer to "normal" page. Thanks a lot about this nice data about it. I was curious after seeing this : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocal5/7320246444 Ocal5 (talk) 10:55, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Metric system
?? "Jkjk" for the edit summary? NawlinWiki (talk) 14:20, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I was trying to track down some kind of CSS markup bug and forgot to copy the article to my user space before hacking away it it. I realized my error as soon as I hit Save and was in the process of reverting it when you got there first.  Sorry about that.  -- RoySmith (talk) 14:22, 3 October 2012 (UTC)


 * PS -- If you're interested, Village_pump_(technical) -- RoySmith (talk) 16:14, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Ways to improve Station P (ocean measurement site)
Hi, I'm Biciklista10. RoySmith, thanks for creating Station P (ocean measurement site)!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Consider adding to the article and possible adding a link to the coordinates

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.Biciklista10 (talk) 02:40, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Closing the Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Abortion article titles RfC
Hey Roy! I've been informed that you put the abortion titles RfC out of it's misery. Would you care to write a closing statement on the RfC page and archive it? Otherwise it may appear that it is still under discussion. Kaldari (talk) 00:45, 23 October 2012 (UTC)


 * The page is already protected, so there's little chance somebody will come along and continue the debate there. I'm not really familiar with the RfC process and procedures, so I'd prefer to let some other admin (who is more familiar) perform the action you request.  Sorry I couldn't be of more help.  -- RoySmith (talk) 02:16, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Followup RFC to WP:RFC/AAT now in community feedback phase
Hello. As a participant in Requests for comment/Abortion article titles, you may wish to register an opinion on its followup RFC, Requests for comment/Abortion advocacy movement coverage, which is now in its community feedback phase. Please note that WP:RFC/AAMC is not simply a repeat of WP:RFC/AAT, and is attempting to achieve better results by asking a more narrowly-focused, policy-based question of the community. Assumptions based on the previous RFC should be discarded before participation, particularly the assumption that Wikipedia has or inherently needs to have articles covering generalized perspective on each side of abortion advocacy, and that what we are trying to do is come up with labels for that. Thanks! —chaos5023 20:31, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Goes to the Movies in NYC this Saturday Dec 1
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All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and at meetup.com!--Pharos (talk) 07:44, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Celebration and Mini-Conference in NYC Saturday Feb 23
You are invited to celebrate Wikipedia Day and the 12th anniversary (!) of the founding of the site at Wikipedia Day NYC on Saturday February 23, 2013 at New York University; sign up for Wikipedia Day NYC here, or at bit.ly/wikidaynyu. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience!--Pharos (talk) 03:09, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Meetup NYC this Sunday April 14
Hi RoySmith! You're invited to our next meeting for Wikipedia Meetup NYC on Sunday April 14 -this weekend- at Symposium Greek Restaurant @ 544 W 113th St (in the back room), on the Upper West Side in the Columbia University area.

Please sign up, and add your ideas to the agenda for Sunday. Thanks!

Delivered on behalf of User:Pharos, 18:00, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Great Googly Moogly
I've been active for the past few years editing on Wiktionary, and tonight, researching the etymology of the Japanese word 高句麗 (Kōkuri, their pronunciation of Goguryeo), I discovered an idiomatic turn of phrase in Japanese, mokuri kokuri or kokuri mokuri, originally referring to the combined Mongolian and Goguryeo invasion forces of the late 1200s, but since then used to mean "something awful, horrible, unfortunate, etc.". Translating a citation quote and trying to come up with an English turn of phrase that might have the same kind of reduplicated sounds led me right to googly moogly, and then searching on that led me to the past discussion about that phrase here on WP.

That said, do you have any insights for the etymology of the English phrase googly moogly? Might it derive from the Japanese?

Curious, -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 06:21, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Maria Dumlao
Hi, could you outline for me why you deleted this article? I was very specific about how it *did* meet GNG. thanks


 * My role in closing the AfD was to figure out if the people who had participated in the discussion had reached consensus. Reading what everybody had written, I judged that consensus had been reached, and that the consensus was to delete.  Note that consensus doesn't mean "everybody agrees".  -- RoySmith (talk) 19:48, 29 January 2014 (UTC)