User talk:Timotheus Canens/Archives/2013/12

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive
 Hello, Timotheus Canens:

WikiProject AFC is holding a two month long Backlog Elimination Drive!

The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from December 1st, 2013 – January 31st, 2014.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

A new version of our AfC helper script has been released! It includes many bug fixes, new improvements and features, code enhancements, and more. If you want to see a full list of changes, visit the changelog. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:07, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive
 Hello, Timotheus Canens:

WikiProject AFC is holding a two month long Backlog Elimination Drive!

The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from December 1st, 2013 – January 31st, 2014.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

A new version of our AfC helper script has been released! It includes many bug fixes, new improvements and features, code enhancements, and more. If you want to see a full list of changes, visit the changelog. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks. EdwardsBot (talk) 09:17, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

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Blocked IPs

 * Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard

There is a serious backlog of about 20K individual IPs that are blocked without expiration. I have broken the IPs into groups of 5000: m:User:とある白い猫/English Wikipedia open proxy candidates. So they are effectively blocked until time ends. This creates considerable potential collateral damage as the owners of IPs tend to be not very consistent. Some of these IPs are on dynamic ranges which results in arbitrary blocks of good users. Vast majority of the blocks go back years all the way to 2004 - some were preemptively blocked. Nowadays even open proxies normally do not get indefinite blocks.

The problem is that no single admin wants to review this many IPs and very few have the technical capability to review. Such a technical review would be non-trivial for individual IPs which in my humble opinion would be a complete waste of time. I feel ArbCom could step in and provide criteria for bulk action. A bulk unblock of all indefinite blocks (with exceptions if the specific single IP unblocks are contested) before - say - 2010 would be a good start.

Open proxies tend to be better handled at meta as open proxies are a global problem for all wikis.

-- A Certain White Cat chi? 11:31, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

AfD participation
You topic banned me in Nov 2012. A few days ago, I was invited to take part in an AfD for the magazine "Pensee", presumably because I created the article. Does my topic ban extend to my participation in the AfD? -- Iantresman 14:22 8 September 2013

No recusal?
I expected a recusal here. Please strike your vote and change to "recuse". —Neotarf (talk) 03:27, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
 * No. Previous routine editor, administrator or arbitrator interactions are not usually grounds for recusal. T. Canens (talk) 03:31, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Timotheus, I was not referring to a matter that could be described as "routine", but to your involvement in another matter--not at en.wp--which I would recall to you. I hesitate to mention the specifics in such a public venue. Thus I was surprised not to see you recuse from the current matter. Will you please consider doing so? —Neotarf (talk) 04:09, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
 * On what basis do you feel you cannot recuse? —Neotarf (talk) 10:46, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I do not recuse unless it has been demonstrated to me that I should recuse, not the other way around. Considering that I barely edit outside en.wp, I'm not sure what you are referring to. Feel free to refresh my memory by email if you don't want to write about it on-wiki. T. Canens (talk) 11:00, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
 * A reply has been made by email. —Neotarf (talk) 11:38, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see what you are talking about now. I was contacted once, almost a month ago, then completely forgot about it. I thought you might have been referring to it, but then your "not at en.wp" reference threw me off. Anyway, it's been archived now, but if it hadn't been I would have recused for this occasion. T. Canens (talk) 21:59, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

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Appeal POV RfC closure: John Calvin
I submitted this request for editor to close an RfC. But what happened was a person who self-describes as a Reformed Presbyterian (i.e. an admirer of Calvin) closed the discussion with no change to the article, which I had flagged as having a NPOV problem. The votes were 50/50 with all the people describing themselves on their talk pages as Calvinists (Reformed), voting for no change, and anyone not having a Calvinist background voting to change the section of the article to improve NPOV. I don't believe an editor who is a Calvinist (or an anti-Calvinist) should be deciding how to close a contentious POV discussion. Please advise me what the next step should be. I don't know how to request a review of this closure. Am I allowed to revert it? Talk:John_Calvin The previous RfCs Talk:John_Calvin Markewilliams (talk) 04:00, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

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Talkback
Northamerica1000(talk) 05:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

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Redirect template
In July of 2012, you fully protected the template Redirect template, and I was wondering if you would mind allowing access to that template by template editors? I'd like to improve it a bit as I've proposed on it's talk page. I was going to list it at WP:RFP, but I thought I should first check with you. –  Paine Ellsworth   C LIMAX ! 02:36, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm fine with it. I'm not in a position to log into my admin account right now, though, so you'll have to find someone else to make the change. T. Canens (talk) 12:24, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! I'll go ahead and list it at RFP.  Joys! –   Paine Ellsworth   C LIMAX ! 22:30, 30 December 2013 (UTC)