User talk:Steven Crossin/Archive 56

Perseverance
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Welcome back! TransporterMan ( TALK ) 17:57, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks . I'm not really sure where I'm gonna fit in nowadays since dispute resolution was always my thing on Wikipedia (heck, i have the dispute resolution barnstar as a tattoo) but I hope to find something to do on here. Steven   Crossin  02:09, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Wanna sink your teeth into something different? check out WP:RETENTION, where there's changes being done. GoodDay (talk) 04:38, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Are you still doing mentoring?
Hi Steve, are you mentoring new editors? If so I may have a candidate for you. Check out. He (I'm kinda assuming a male here) has gotten himself into some trouble and is currently blocked. But he has expressed what sounds like genuine regret and a desire to contribute constructively. Alas there are some WP:CIR concerns here so I've set mentoring as a condition for unblocking. Anyway if your interested drop a line on their talk page and see if your both amenable. If your not, just reply to me here. Thanks! -Ad Orientem (talk) 21:15, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm afraid I'm not really, at this stage. I don't really have the time to keep an eye on users at this stage. Sorry. Steven   Crossin  14:29, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
 * No problem. Thanks for the note. -Ad Orientem (talk) 14:30, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

DRN thread re singapore
Yes it needs moderating. Jytdog (talk) 20:22, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

I look forward to your input and mediation. Wrigleygum (talk) 16:21, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail!
--Cameron11598 (Talk) 16:33, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Also from me. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 03:03, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * +1, same reason. GABgab 19:26, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Steve's a wikifriend of mine and I have some independent means of contacting him if y'all aren't getting a response. Can y'all tell me what's going on? Regards, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 22:53, 21 April 2017 (UTC) (friend and page stalker)
 * Sick friend in US that I'm helping. I've responded to all the above via email. Steven   Crossin  00:20, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

You got mail, again.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 04:46, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

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Missed you
At the Melbourne number 33 meetup I figure you might have already contributed to the 5 theme strategy survey If not, contact! JarrahTree 02:16, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

AfD close
Thank you for your words at ANI. I'd like to discuss the close with you, both because of the issues I have with it, and to clear up any misconception that I have any issues with your motive for closing, or with you personally. I see you've only recently returned from an extended break. It's regrettable that you've been dragged into an ANI drama-fest as a reward for your sincere efforts to help. I may not have a chance to post a complete statement until later tonight or possibly even tomorrow. I figured I'd drop you a quick note in the meanwhile to let you know that there was never any personal animosity on my part about this. Joefromrandb (talk) 01:08, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, that's completely fine. I didn't take the comments or the reversion personally, though it did take me by surprise. I have been away for some time, but I have closed my fair share of AFDs over the years. I have noted on ANI that I am not overly fussed if an admin wishes to overturn my closure, as it is their right to do so, but I do disagree that my closure was a supervote, I merely judged the consensus as I saw it and weighed it with policy. Of course, I am happy to discuss further, and I of course am human, so if my close is overturned, I am not overly fussed, but I would hope that if it is overturned, it is because my decision was incorrect, not merely because it was me that closed the AFD. Cheers, Steven   Crossin  01:59, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * While I disagree with your closure of the AfD, I want to state for the record that I think you have handled this entire incident in a very gracious and commendable manner. Lepricavark (talk) 02:22, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I appreciate that. I'm not really phased as to whether the result is overturned or not - I periodically review old AFDs and close them when I see a consensus. I haven't been around for some time, and the conclusion I came to may have been incorrect (and I have asked for my closure to be reviewed at AN). Not much really phases me. I've dealt with more contentious topics before. Steven   Crossin  02:30, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

DRN coordinator
Hey, hope you're doing well. I was inactive for a long time and just saw that you wrote your name up in the prior coordinators list for August-September. Did you mean to nominate yourself as the coordinator? If so, go to the current coordinator's page (linked somewhere from the DRN coordination page :) and change it to your name. Hope to see you more at the DRN! Yashovardhan (talk) 16:14, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:14, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Four years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:24, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Adopt a User list
Hi Steven. I'm trying to sort out who's currently available and unavailable to adopt new users at Adopt-a-user/Adoptee's Area/Adopters. I saw a note from Mar 2017 about your unavailability for mentoring, but wondered whether this extended to general adoption, too? If it is a problem, you or I probably ought to change your flag at that page to 'unavailable'.

I was also a bit worried about the confusion that using your old username there might give a potential adoptee, and whether you'd like to have it updated to Crossin. Do let me know.

(If you have the time, I'd also be interested in your views on whether past adoptees could be listed in the template, assuming they're agreeble?. I'm sure some new adoptees might be encouraged if they can see some of the recent past successes. I've only just signed up to help out there, but feel how information is presented there, and who's listed, is all a bit of a shambles. I don't have much confidence at present that there's a true picture of availability given, both amongst adopter availability and especially amongst those seeking to find one. I thought I'd 'be bold' and do a bit of house-keeping!) Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 00:13, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * PS: I've just checked and realised you've not edited here since July 2017, so for now, at least, I'll mark you as 'unavailable' so as not to waste any potential adoptee's time in trying to contact you. Cheers, Nick Moyes (talk)

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Disputes on a talk page
Hi. I'd like to have an independent third party look at a talk page dispute (is this even a thing)? I removed a reference in the reference by User:Hanbud to a Japanese source citing the rules of verifiability. He has been aggressively trolling me ever since. I've tried to compromise (removing references on the talk page to my own recent publications) to keep the peace, but he seems determined to push his agenda ahead of everything else. In the last couple of days, for the first time ever in many years of editing, there have been multiple failed attempts to log into my account. I'm not saying it's Hanbud, but I'm not in dispute with anyone else and have not been for many years now. I'm an expert on the text discussed on the page (four peer-reviewed articles in the last 4 years). The problem is on the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Heart_Sutra Section 26 and 27. Jayarava (talk) 13:08, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

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Unblock req
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MedComm page
While removing and adjusting pages around the now closed MedComm I found User:Steven_Crossin/MedCom which appears to be a 2012 version of the main MedComm page. To avoid confusion can we delete this UP#COPY of the page? Legacypac (talk) 04:52, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I mean, it doesn't link to anywhere from what I see? Is it really needed?  Steven   Crossin  05:27, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I found it searching for MedComm related pages. Easy to delete. No use as it is pretty close to the now "historical" page. Legacypac (talk) 05:37, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd rather hang on to it. Might give me some inspiration in future, to be honest. Steven   Crossin  05:38, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

DRN EGS
In Dispute_resolution_noticeboard there's been no response from the other parties but that's probably because the OP hasn't notified them. Or are you preaching to the choir? Best regards, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 04:27, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah, of course, idiot here forgot the basics and just decided to resolve the dispute. I'll ping the parties. What do you think of my assessment, though? Steven   Crossin  05:03, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I haven't looked at the article or the talk page discussion, but your assessment certainly seems keen and manifestly reasonable on its face. Hope you and yours are well. We have our first grandchild and are spending a lot of time ooh-ing and ah-ing (and babysitting). Best regards, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 05:46, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

William Henry Newdigate
Hi Steven Crossin, I've run into a problem which is new to me and would appreciate some help. The background is detailed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019_February_11#William_Henry_Newdigate cheers Paul venter (talk) 16:37, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Dispute resolution awaiting filing
When I discovered the List of Royal Navy admirals I undertook to contribute and have extended it greatly...up to the limits of where I think it can reasonably extend, to the Acts of Union 1707 which is also the (not completely enforced) starting date for the List of British Army full generals. In recent times the user NavOps has been demanding that it extend to earlier periods and accused me of claiming "Ownership of content" and "violating consensus" for maintaining the position that had unanimous support among contributors until he arrived: the pre-Union navy did not have a fully enough evolved concept of fixed ranks independent of commands held for such persons to be listed on a common basis. (When I started there were only post-Victorian admirals listed). He has told me (on my talk page) he would be filing on the DRN and I have stopped contributing waiting for his filing to appear so I can respond. If I actually claimed "ownership of content" I would be deleting my contributions, but I am not proposing to do that; I DO regard all my work as wasted and the article as no longer worth my attention unless the exclusion of pre-Union admirals is maintained and the language he inserted criticizing the exclusion is removed. Either way I want this to move forward and I don't know how long he's going to take.LE (talk) 18:58, 27 February 2019 (UTC)


 * (Talk page lurker response:) Just FYI, Steve only comes around occasionally these days and has not edited since the end of December. If you wish dispute resolution click on that link and choose one of the options there. Note, however, that all content dispute resolution processes except, perhaps, request for comments require extensive talk page discussion of the dispute at the article talk page and it does not appear to me that any such discussion has occurred. Note, moreover, that DRN will not accept a dispute at all if it is solely over claims of page ownership, as that is a conduct matter and DRN does not handle conduct matters. Regards, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 21:06, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

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Adoption
Hey there. I was wondering if you were still doing adoption and if so, am I supposed to complete the course before becoming an adoptee or while. Thank-you for your time! Jamie653 (talk) 23:32, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, not anymore. I’m not really active here anymore. Best of luck. Steven   Crossin  23:33, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank-you for the help. Jamie653 (talk) 23:48, 19 March 2019 (UTC)