User talk:Stwalkerster/Archive February 2013

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Help Please
Good afternoon, I was asked to revisit a page (Simone Star née: Simone T Taylor, Detroit, MI) that was in the process of being created several years ago. The article will need to be completely rewritten, however I read the following:

"A page with this title has previously been deleted. If you are creating a new page with different content..." - further: "23:36, 26 October 2008 Stwalkerster (talk | contribs) deleted page Simone Star - (Expired PROD, concern was: non notable band. lacks outside sources. Mama Spiritual not an important label.  - Correct Use Of Techno not by Simone Star. claim of award not sourced)"

A lot has changed over the years - sources were available but not included (my fault); and more sources are available now as well. The message stated to contact you prior to resuming the editing process, and, if I'm reading it correctly, asks for sources:

Recent awards include #1 in the Punk category: Ourstage.com - as well as consistently finishing in either the Top 10 or Top 40 throughout 2012.

Another recent series of awards were from Brevard Live as Best Original Band, Favorite Keyboard Player & Ambassador of the year (as Simone & The Supercats). 2012

This link on p9 will also verify that as Simone and The Supercats, she was voted Best Original Band the year prior (2011).

Other sources related to her role in the band 'Teknotika' include MusicBrainz listing for her work on Rio Mania, 2005 as Simone Star AS Gigi Galaxy. More of her work is found here: MusicBrainz - credited again as Gigi Galaxy.

A contributor to technology recycling programs, Simone is the only known independent musician actively endorsed by the CD Recycling Center of America

A review from the respected Steve Gilmore may be found here.

A write up on Simone with the Supercats is found here. And another one from the Tampa Examiner is theexaminer.com /article/8-21-concert (EDIT: filter was removing the link)

> Correct/Understood: Mama Spiritual is not a significant label - it is her own indie publishing label via ASCAP. Mama Spiritual Music. She also is listed as Simone Tamar McReynolds on ASCAP as well.

I hope that I have been able to clarify this article and I look forward to your response. If I have overlooked anything, please do let me know. I am a novice at this process. Thank you in advance for your guidance and support,

Bkezer (talk) 18:52, 11 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey!
 * I've undeleted the old page, and moved it into your userspace here: User:Bkezer/Simone Star.
 * You can edit it and prepare it as you want in this area, then you can place {{subst:submit}} at the top of that page for someone else to review and give feedback on for you :)
 * Have fun!  &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  00:05, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

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ACC Bug
Please see this request. When you look at it, you see one other IP request, when you reserve it, you see a different other IP request. The number seems to be right but the list doesn't work.— cyberpower ChatAbsent 15:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * - I'm seeing the same request both reserved and unreserved.  &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  16:10, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Did you see the comments?— cyberpower ChatOffline 16:17, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Found the issue, need to be a non-admin user on the tool with the request unreserved to see the other request, which has to be old-style.  &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  16:25, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

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Accountcreator flag
I would like to volunteer in account creation, what should I do to join this group (and get awarded the flag)1? –BuickCenturyDriver 10:20, 28 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello BuickCenturyDriver. I hope stwalkerster won't mind, but I'd like to take a moment to respond on his behalf as an administrator of the WP:ACC project myself.  To be honest, your reason for requesting the flag in the first place  combined with what you said above about getting "awarded" the ACC flag makes us look negatively on your request to join ACC.  As ST noted in his decline of your permissions request, the accountcreator flag is specifically and only for those who assist in the account creation process or otherwise need to create a lot of user accounts.  If you were to, say, join ACC for the sole purpose of being able to edit editnotices - so you're active for a while then stop - you would get suspended for inactivity from ACC and have your accountcreator flag revoked.  Being able to edit editnotices is a side-effect of being able to override the username blacklist (actually, the title blacklist), nothing more, and the flag is treated accordingly.  In addition, even joining ACC is no guarantee that the flag will be granted; granting of the accountcreator flag is still at administrators' discretion, but you must at least either be a member of ACC or in a special program that requires you to create more accounts than normally allowed by the rate-limiter to be eligible for the flag.


 * If you are genuinely interested in working with ACC, I'd suggest waiting a while (more than a week; maybe a month or two) before you try to re-apply, as if you were to now, we would likely decline your request as an attempt to gain the flag for reasons other than assisting at ACC. In addition, you are not identified to the Wikimedia Foundation.  We require all prospective and current ACC member to identify to the WMF, like CheckUsers and Oversighters are required to, because of the private data we handle there.  To identify (summed up), you must submit proof of your real-life identity to the WMF.  The details of the process are explained here.  Your request to join will not be considered or discussed internally until you've identified; likewise, if you are unable to identify or unwilling to identify, you cannot join ACC.  There are other factors involved when we consider requests to join ACC, such as how well your grasp of Wikipedia policy is perceived, previous blocks, and such.  If you are genuinely interested in assisting us at Account Creation, please first read the ACC Guide to see what's involved, then identify to the Wikimedia Foundation, then reapply to join ACC by sending an email to the Accounts Creation mailing list at [mailto:accounts-enwiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org accounts-enwiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org].  However, if your primary goal is to get the account creator flag as opposed to helping out at account creation, be advised that getting approved to join ACC is no guarantee that you will be granted the flag, and certainly not for a while after you join.


 * If you have any further questions about what I've written here or about the ACC application process, feel free to ask stwalkerster, myself, or any of the other ACC admins. Sincerely,  FastLizard4  (talk•contribs) 10:57, 28 February 2013 (UTC)