User talk:Shirik/Archives/2013/October

Yahoo Chess
You deleted the Chess On Yahoo Games article that I and another editor had written. It had reliable sources, are you sure you deleted it properly? Can you please re-evaluate this? It had reliable sources. Fishface gurl (talk) 02:28, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The entire article was promotional, not encyclopedic; the sources were not the issue. Statements like "is one of the premier Internet chess servers" is something you would find in an advertisement, not an encyclopedia article; and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The entire article was written in this tone. If you really want, I can restore it to a draft location where you can work on it, but it will need quite a bit of work to become a neutral article. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 02:32, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks, that will do. Thank you. Fishface gurl (talk) 02:33, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I've restored it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Chess on Yahoo! Games. This will allow it to go through a review before it "goes live", to ensure this has been cleaned up and doesn't get deleted again. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 02:38, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Ok thanks. Fishface gurl (talk) 02:41, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Error report
Master, I detected an error in the tor network while processing a request. The response was. Please see the logs for more information. My knowledge of the tor network state is now inconsistent, so I am halting further activity until you intervene.. --TorNodeBot (talk) 17:12, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Error report
Master, I detected an error in the tor network while processing a request. The response was. Please see the logs for more information. My knowledge of the tor network state is now inconsistent, so I am halting further activity until you intervene.. --TorNodeBot (talk) 17:03, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

SPI talk page
I see you moved a comment I put on the talk page of this SPI to the actual SPI page.

I thought about putting it there but I did not, because it was directed at people following the investigation, not the investigators. I do not think my comment will be helpful in the investigation itself, but it will be helpful for those trying to understand why the investigation is needed and why, even if the investigation comes up "clean," further action may be taken related to the edits these editors have made.

I assume that since you moved it, you are more familiar with the checkuser process than I am and that you moved it for procedural reasons. I respect that and I thank you for taking care of this clerical task. I just wanted you to know and I wanted to go "on the record" that it was not my original intent that my comments be considered by the checkusers or other investigators. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  15:57, 31 October 2013 (UTC)


 * By the way, I found out about this because I got a very unusual notification:
 * Shirik mentioned you on [No page] talk page in "Clerk, CheckUser, and/or pa...".
 * [No page] - now that got my attention, so I checked your contribution history and found the edits and moves. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  16:01, 31 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Fair enough. I moved it because it seemed like relevant background information. Honestly, the commentary on the talk page would have likely gone unnoticed if I didn't see it in the feed, so that's why I moved it. The other problem is that after archiving, your comment would be out of place, because the talk page isn't archived and so your comment could look like it was meant for a future investigation. In general, comments on the talk page should be relevant to all investigations on that user, not just one particular one (as in this case). Anyway, I think your comment is in general helpful to the investigation anyway, at least for just general background information, so it makes sense to put it in there with the case. (With regards to the strange notification: it was probably caused by my history merge, which it may not be well-suited to handling.) -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 16:56, 31 October 2013 (UTC)