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Proposed deletion of Ken Crawford (astrophotographer)


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archiving
My archives still aren't working like I want them to work. Isn't there a way I can add the month/day/yr on the archive box so I don't always have to do a search to find my archives? I saw some examples at Help:Archiving_a_talk_page, but I don't know how to add the numbering system to what I have. Can you show me how? Thanks in advance Atsme  &#9775; talk  03:23, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * ..BTW I was about to tag it for deletion but since it was used in some userpages. I was waiting. You may go ahead even with an XfD.  The Herald 12:31, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Surf Easy
- have a question for you...when I travel outside the U.S., I cannot connect to Netflix, so a friend suggested Surf Easy. From what I gather, Surf Easy works kinda like Vonage, or Magic Jack in that one's internet traffic is intercepted (pinged?) by the Surf Easy IP, and sent from there so Netflix thinks you are in the U.S. Is that how it works? Then I got to thinking...is this how some editors get in trouble for sock puppetry, or whatever term is used? Would Surf Easy make it look like I am not Atsme when I'm editing WP? I have it disabled because I certainly don't want to do anything that would go against WP policy. Atsme  &#9775; talk  16:20, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Well I am not sure about that. When you log into your account, your IP will not be visible but if you use your ip' for logging in into more a/cs then sockpuppetry matters. You don't have to ping me me when you edit my talk page. The notification is sent for me.  The Herald 12:24, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok - that makes sense. TY  Atsme  &#9775;  talk  20:44, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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Regarding your discussion closes at Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 April 7
I just wanted to let you know that I have reopened the two discussions you had closed at Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 April 7. It is customary that a discussion on WP:RFD remain open for 7 days unless there are certain circumstances as outlined on Deletion process that allows for a discussion to be closed earlier. Also, another page that could help with understanding how/when to close discussions listed on RFD is Redirects for discussion/Administrator instructions, even though I would imagine that you have already looked at it since you seem to have a clear understanding of how RfD top and RfD bottom work.

Also, I would recommend that you look at two other pages: Non-admin closure and Snowball clause. The first page outlines appropriate situations for a non-admin to close a discussion, and the second page provides a clearer understanding on when it may be appropriate to close a discussion early when there are enough "Oppose" votes (or in the case of RFD, "Keep" votes.)

I tend to perform some non-admin closures from time-to-time, so I'm a bit familiar with this process. Also, I would recommend placing a before your signature when closing any discussions. It helps other editors know the situation in which the discussion was closed. (Everything I have said here I learned from experience, trials, and errors.) Anyways, hope this information helps, especially considering that WP:RFD currently has a rather extensive backlog, so help in closing these discussions is appreciated, as long as the closes are done in a proper manner that other editors will not object. Steel1943 (talk) 17:23, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Alright.. The Herald 09:58, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Auto indexing for archives, I think
Ok - I added what I think is an auto indexing feature for my archives. I created a page called User_talk:Atsme/Archive_index. On that page is the bracketed code for creating an index page, but it has the following in the code, and I don't know if I'm supposed to substitute my own info in those places or leave as is: NAMESPACE and BASEPAGENAME The instructions were to first include the archive code at the top of my user talk page which includes #titleparts:TALKPAGENAME - and then include the above code on the created index page. Is that transclusion? As you can tell, I'm thoroughly confused. What I'm trying to achieve is #1 numbered archives, and #2 a separate index page listing the archives with maybe a date reference for easy look-up all done automatically. If you will please look at the code I included at the top of User talk:Atsme and also at User_talk:Atsme/Archive_index to see if I did it correctly? Thx in advance Atsme  &#9775; talk  18:15, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Well..in this case, I am not sure about that. I think to ping for that. Please fix this Cobi... The Herald  10:02, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Atsme, I have no idea what you are trying to accomplish. You're (trying to) transclude something deep inside ClueBot III's user space.  What documentation are you following?  Also, your talk page is not archived by CB3, so it knows nothing about you.  -- Cobi(t&#124;c&#124;b) 01:59, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

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