User talk:Srikeit/archive 5

Blnguyen's RfA

 * Yeah, WP:CSD is also piled up, with about 60 for the last hour. I've probably deleted 50-70 already.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 05:39, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism reversion
Thanks for corecting the vandalism on my talk page.--JohnFlaherty 09:34, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Metadata
No, but I'll be watching closely! Good luck, I'm off to bed now and will review progress tomorrow. -- I@n &equiv; talk 17:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Srikeit, is there any advantage in using AWB for this? I couldn't see any.-- I@n &equiv; talk 05:51, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome, will try and contribute to my best :) Rushh 15:52, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Srikeit.
Hi, Srikeit. I forgot to say something to you. Thanks you for catcing vandalism on my page before about 2weeks ago. I haven't had time to send you message. Ahh, Did you already request adminship in RFA? If you requested for becoming admin, I would nominate you to be admin. I think that you usually make more wikipedian friends in Esperanza. Me, too. I try to find more friends in Esperanza. Anyways, Hope you could send me message. Bye, Have a great day. Daniel5127, 06:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Taj Picture
Is fabulous! Keep up the great photographic contributions. Cheers -- Samir  धर्म 09:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism
Hi,

Yes, I think I did make that mistake, but I tried to reverse it. If I screwed up again, apologies. Thanks for the help :) Nach0king 12:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Attention All POTD members!
We are running out of images! We only have 2 completed days so far of images! Please contribute to the image pages. Thanks, -- GeorgeMoney T&middot;C 01:30, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Gulf Oil GA promotion
''Srikeit. Thankyou for promoting Gulf Oil to Good Article status. I will take a look at the GA categorisation in the next few days. Bob'' BScar23625 08:23, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Userpage rollback
Thanks for the revert! Cheers -- Samir  धर्म 14:47, 1 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Guess who? Ref. WP:CHU --Nearly Headless Nick 11:05, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

A haiku of thanks

 * Thanks for your support
 * In my RfA, which passed!
 * Wise I'll try to be.

I'm honored that you think I'm an excellent editor, and hope to live up to your opinion! Thanks again.

-- Nataly a 03:04, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for voting at my RfA
Thank you for the trust that you had in me when you supported my Request for Adminship. The nomination ended successfully and I am actually overwhelmed by the support that I received. Thanks again! -- Kim van der Linde at venus 06:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello


has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing! --Bhadani 09:14, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Attention All POTD members!
Random picture of the day (formerly User:GeorgeMoney/potd) has been nominated for deletion by Hetar because he doesn't like a rule that could have just been discussed on the talk page instead of nominating it for deletion. Please vote on the MfD page. Thanks, GeorgeMoney T&middot;C 15:26, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi
Sorry, I haven't heard of the template about defamation; sometimes I do put in a manual comment about rumourmongering, but I wasn't aware of the template. The week has been pretty normal until today - I was just deleting stuff (it's extremely boring and not at all uplifting) mostly, closing Articles for deletion//France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 (I only got halfway through removing the AfD tag and putting a notice in the talkpage on Friday for a block nomination of about 37 articles) and a few blocks until today - it got interesting when I blocked User:PatCheng this morning for swearing, and then three other editors who he was editing with and against (pro and anti-Chinese Communist Party revert warring) came and started lobbying me to block the other - you can read the whole talk page for the full detail - and then they argued about 3RR and sockpuppets all over the 3RR and CheckUser and gave each other vandalism warnings for doing POV. Need more admins I think, especially those doing NP patrol. Maybe I should nominate some of them. I could nominate you also, but I think mid-July would be a good time to wait until. Also, did you know about Wikihalo nomination/Sango123 - I bumped into the place randomly and it appears not many people know about it. Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 07:27, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Rfa duplicate vote (in Gurch)
Hey, I am still new here so I am not completely read on all policy issues. I noticed that you added a note below my message saying "duplicate vote" when in fact I crossed out my previous vote and changed it to support. Was I not supposed to add it to the support section, and instead just put support under my original neutral post? Thanks. -- SomeStranger ( T  |  C ) 16:49, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
for reverting vandalism on my userpage. --Ton e  19:09, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: DYK
Hi. I have only suggested the DYK. Hope it appears on the main page soon. I like your version too, but that is not unique to ASE. Even the Bombay Stock Exchange started it's working under a Banyan tree. - Aksi_great (talk) 06:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

User page vandalism
Once again, thanks!! :) -- Samir   धर्म

Thanks a ton...
...for reverting vandalism on my userpage. Great day!! --Gurubrahma 09:47, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Your sig
Please shorten it. It makes it difficult to pick stuff out on Administrator intervention against vandalism amoung all that code.Geni 11:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Do you really need to bold it? haveing stuff in front of the Geni 11:52, 7 June 2006 (UTC)


 * yes.Geni 12:31, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Vandal
Hi. Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. I'm not sure if you're an admin, but to let you know that vandal is now operating under the name Shaanxiquake (wow, just like the CIA) and vandelised my page again. Could you block them? Ideally you would hunt them and shoot them, but I'll settle for a block. Why do I get such abuse for thinking Michael Jackson is a bit suspicious? Some weird people out there. Cheers.--Crestville 11:08, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

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How can I make my user page cool like yours, but specific to me of course —Preceding unsigned comment added by XM (talk • contribs) 19:04, 7 June 2006


 * Magic! If you want, you can just copy his code and adapt it so it is for yourself. Master of Puppets FREE BIRD!  19:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Clerk
Hi Srikeit. You caught me on the way to bed. It so happened last night I was helping Essjay convert the old pages into new pages. Prodego is also quite active. If you've looked at the various clerk pages that's basically it. You,
 * Watch new requests
 * fix improper formatting. If users get in an argument, politely ask them to take it to ANI; if the argument gets too long, delete it but leave diff.  If you answer any questions, say as little as possible (avoid this).


 * Completed requests
 * When a request is completed or denied, move it to the proper section. If someone comes back with additional claims, move it back up into outstanding.  Optional, notify the filer.


 * Archiving
 * we have kind of decided to archive after 4 days or after the orginal filer acknowledges the answer. To archive, 1)remove the name of the subpage from the list, 2)tag the subpage with the closing templates, and 3)add the name of the subpage and the name of all the accused socks to the /Case page.

Indexing the archived cases is probably the most complicated part; dealing with back and forth arguments may be more time consuming. Who really knows, though, this is new. Today there were no new requests! Basically, Essjay wants us to deal with the drudge work so he doesn't get burned out. I'm sure it will be a learning experience for everyone (including Essjay). Glad to have you on board. Thatcher131 06:16, 8 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi again. Can you use an edit summary like "archiving" rather than "rm" (to avoid any possible confusion by others)? thanks. Thatcher131 18:34, 8 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I thought it was borderline, since there was at least an allegation. If you look in on Essjay's talk page you will see he is mainly concerned with avoiding the bad feeling that developed when it seemed like Arbcom clerks were doing too much.  There have already been two cases on RFCU where the parties specifically appealed to the clerks for help, so it's likely we conveyed too strong an impression on our first few days.  I personally am going to try and keep my clerking to stopping out of control discussions and fixing formatting problems as much as possible until all of us (including Essjay) get a better idea of how this works.  Good archiving too; I was a bit confused until the first couple times I did it. Thatcher131 18:50, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

It looks like your archives are fine. The cases that don't have the socks listed were put there by Essjay on the first day of the new subpage system. He went through the January archive and manually created subpages for all the old cases and listed them on /Case. I'm sure he would be happy for you to go through and add the socks, but in some cases (Lightbringer, Waya Sahoni, etc.) there are just going to be too many to list. Thatcher131 03:37, 10 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Whoops You need to be careful with the archiving. It's trickier then a straight move because there are a lot of multiple reports on the same people.  Take a time out while I write a longer message. Thatcher131 03:39, 10 June 2006 (UTC)


 * When going through the archives you need to read the requests carefully to make sure you list it under the right name. I recognized two of your mistakes because I've been browsing RFCU and ANI for a while.  In the case of Jimboiain, the actual sock puppet master is, and in the case of ThoMas the puppetmaster is .  If it's not clear from reading the case, you can check the user pages and see how they are tagged.  Since ZoeCroyden and Rgulerdem are repeat vandals, they will probably have more CU cases in the archives, so they should be listed as such.  Why don't you do a page move on each and relist them.


 * When listing multiple cases on the same primary vandal they should be combined on the same page. See DickyRobert for an example.  You'll open the existing page rather than a new page, and paste the new case at the bottom surrounded by the close tags.  It is necessary to at least skim the request to see who is the puppetmaster, if one is identified, and list as such, and if its a repeat puppet master, list on the same page.  (CU was only invented in January of this year, and obviously was not as formal at the begining as it is now.)


 * The other thing is that Essjay wants to keep the multiple checks in roughly chronological order. Fortunately, the CU's on Rgulerdem and ZoeCroydon are the first ones in the archive; however it would be better to finish February first.


 * As far as procedure, no shortcuts unfortunately. I have heard talk of a bot, but the bot's owner is packing to move back home from college, and even if there was a bot some of the older requests are so oddly formatted I don't know how it would work.  I simply open a new page (or go to the existing page of a repeat vandal), paste in the old request with the minimum reformatting necessary, add the close tags and save, then list as usual.  It would be best for vandals with multple reports to be listed on the same page (although an occassional slip won't really hurt anything).


 * I'm getting off for the night so you can work on Feb without causing any edit conflicts with me. Cheers. Thatcher131 04:00, 10 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I was trying to find a couple more examples. One is Requests for checkuser/Case/Braaad, which was actually listed as Henry the Eighth but from the discussion its obvious Braaad is the puppet master.  Of course, I haven't always followed my own advice.  Take a look at Requests for checkuser/Case/Reverend Abramovich (that guy should get a prize!) although it was suspected he was Timecop and Timecop already had his own page, due to the enormous number I left it as its own page.  There's no way it will ever be perfect of course. (also note that GeorgeMoney changed the name of the CU he was listed on so he wouldn't be first on the page (it's now listed under General Eisenhower.)  That's what I had in mind for ZoeCroydon and Rgulerdem. Thatcher131 04:15, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Have another look please
I think there was some confusion as to what was presented, please see my latest comments. Requests for checkuser/Case/Nrcprm2026. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 20:36, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

RE:Rfa
Thank You for your encouraging remarks. I am deeply grateful by your remarks! -- S iva1979 Talk to me  03:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

DYK - Ahmedabad Stock Exchange
Keep it up! Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:52, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Manali
The New part of Manali is called Aleo New-Manali. The name is Aleo. So I have reverted it back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Devanshi.shah (talk • contribs)

Vandalism to my talk page
Thanks for the help with 172.144.192.236 who seems intent on being blocked. I went to WP:AIV to report this IP and you'd got there first. Much appreciated. All the best, Gwernol 16:31, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

CU archive
That's ok. I'm doing one more and then I'm going out. I'm working from the bottom up so just start at the top. :) Thatcher131 18:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think it matters. The only real finding was that Eggster was using an IP and none of the others were related.  Since Eggster is already listed under Young Zaphod, there's nothing new here and we probably won't encounter Jlambert and the others again, so pick any one of the first three. Thatcher131 19:07, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

There are about 14 people with CU permission. If one of them doesn't see the backlog and clear it, someone will probably complain about it. That's not going to be me. Vandals etc. should be blocked without waiting for CU and most of the current open requests are going to get declined anyway, so I don't see any problem if people have to wait a couple of days. Thatcher131 19:59, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Metadata & cricket
I only got as far as updating a few on my watchlist as well as all the Australian captains and the Western Australian players and then ran out of steam. It was a very boring job. Persondata is one of those things that need a critical mass to be useful I think. Hopefully some-one will come up with a tool to automate the update process by scraping data out of the article. I could see an extension off AWB possibly doing this. Yes, it has gone quiet hasn't it? I've been focussing on local articles lately so haven't been paying too much attention to cricket of late, but no doubt interest will pick up later in the year when England tours Australia for the Ashes. A hugely anticipated tour down here. Cricket normally drops off the radar in Aus at this time of the year as the country focusses on AFL football as well as at the moment the Soccer World Cup. I see the Windies are giving your mob a hard time in the Caribbean at the moment. :-( Kind regards and keep up the good work! -- I@n &equiv; talk 01:51, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Quest for Ahmedabad
I like your new signature. Personally, I have never had any problems with anyone's sig, but the shorter the better seems to be the call of the day. 3 DYKs in 3 days was a nice surprise. I have not forgotten Ahmedabad, but things are going at a slow pace just now. I tried to find some good books and have also asked a friends of mine who practically lives in libraries to keep a lookout for good books on Ahmedabad. I have completely exhausted all details in the 2 books that I have. And finding things on the net is not easy. But I have not abandoned Ahmedabad. In fact, 2 out of the 3 DYKs were as a result of my research on Ahmedabad - ASE and Sarabhai. Most of the people here deserve a mention at DYK. - Aksi_great (talk) 09:11, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

RfA/Gurch
Thanks for your support (and your keen eye for a duplicate vote) – Gurch 17:08, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi
So how was your extended weekend break? Did you wish the queen? :P Anyway really glad to have you back. Meet me on Gchat? Cheers
 * OK, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 05:27, 13 June 2006 (UTC).

Thank you
Hi, thank you for voting in my RFA which failed eventually at a result of (91/51/8). I do not plan to run for adminship until a later date. Once again, I will like to thank you for voting. --Terence Ong (talk 14:28, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

RFA
It's support. Anonymous_ _Anonymous  15:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I just realized that I already voted yesterday. :-) Anonymous_  _Anonymous  15:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for Supporting my RfA!
Thanks for supporting my Request for Adminship (despite misspelling "graciously," which I am glad you didn't dock me for), which passed by a margin of 54/6/1. If you see a mistake that I have made (procedural, spelling, or otherwise), please let me know somehow. Thanks again, Ian Manka Talk to me! 23:49, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi Srikeit, Sorry for being so late in thanking you for your support on my RFA. I see you almost everywhere these days. :) I can see you getting the mop very soon. Keep up the good work! - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 05:38, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

RFCU (JamieAdams and others)
I don't get the point. noinclude tags are already added in the Rfcua and Rfcub templates when we close a discussion. When somone comments on an open case, it should be added to the open case. I think JamieAdams is recent enough that the new info should be added to the same page--by noincluding it, you will force users to do extra clicks to find out the earlier history. That's the way it will work when the old case is acutally old, but in this case since it wasn't archived yet, the new info should be visible on the main page.

The real problem is stopping people from being confused and opening repeat cases with new names; we need a way to let them know to add info to the existing page instead. Thatcher131 15:19, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your support
Dear , Thank you very much for your support on my recent RfA. I am pleased to announce that it passed with a tally of 72/11/1, and I am now an administrator. I'll be taking things slowly at first and getting used to the tools, but please let me know if there are any admin jobs I can do to help you, now or in the future. —Cuivi é nen 02:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)