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Knights Cross of the Iron Cross
Thank you for your kind offer. Yes, if you could email a copy to [redacted] I'd appreciate it. Happy holidays. Czolgolz (talk) 23:35, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 01:08, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, friend. I really appreciate this. And thanks for redacting my e-mail, I was just about to do that! Czolgolz (talk) 01:17, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I revdeleted it (view by sysops only) if you want it further purged I can put in an oversighters request, let me know. — xaosflux  Talk 01:26, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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My status as a mass message sender
Hi Xaosflux, when you granted me mms you said "+mms per Special:Diff/695514542 at WP:PERM for ArbCom clerking purposes". Was this constructed to prevent me from other uses, i.e. can I answer requests at Wikipedia talk:Mass message senders? I understand completely if it's just for clerking, I just wanted to make sure I was clear on my restrictions. Thanks! Kharkiv07 ( T ) 02:58, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello, so long as you have a good understanding of WP:MMS and WP:CANVASS; I think it is fine for you to process requests from others. Please keep in mind, others are very likely to have malformed requests, errors, etc.  I suggest you very carefully review any request, especially if it is to a large audience.  Before sending anyone else's mass message out, I usually send it to my self or one of my alt-accounts only - to make sure it doesn't break the pages.  One thing to check on user talk pages is to add continuing text after the section, and start a new section - make sure the page isn't broken by unclosed tags etc.  I normally add a html comment to the message with the name of the requester and a link to the request as well.  I will note your user rights logs that this is for general purposes.  Happy editing, —  xaosflux  Talk 03:22, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * For example, see the notes I just placed at Wikipedia_talk:Mass_message_senders on an example of a request that needed tweaking, and how it was demonstrated in testing. — xaosflux  Talk 03:51, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarification, I'll be careful! Kharkiv07  ( T ) 13:11, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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This is a cute pet on my fave to love without it. This is a local photo. See that is really cut with eye. Seeing the pet.

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Category:Films directed by David MacDonald (director) ⋅
Hi Xaosflux

I was just wondering what happened with Category:Films directed by David MacDonald (director)?

I had tagged Category:Films directed by David MacDonald for speedy renaming to Category:Films directed by David MacDonald (director), and listed it at WP:CFD/S.

I was just looking at the CFD/S list, and saw that the line was redlinked, but still listed.

A few checks, and I see that you created the new page and deleted the old one, that your bot Fluxbot updated the pages in the category.

It all seems to have been done OK, although the category page should really have been moved rather than copy-pasted, to preserve attribution. But that's no biggie.

However, my reason for posting is that I am puzzled about why you did this before the 48-hour waiting period had expired, and why you didn't remove the item for WP:CFD/S when done?

Was there some particular hurry? -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:19, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi there, so short story - was trying to verify a general bot processing problem that is going around (Bot_owners'_noticeboard) so I looked for one of the least controversial tasks I could find to do a short run on, happened to be this WP:CFDS. Not that there was really anything that we had to have attribution for on the category page, but I did just clean that up now with a history merge. I haven't really worked WP:CFDS lately, but in the past these usually got left on the page until a batch were done, so people could see progress. I don't plan on running any more anytime soon - let me know if you have any other concerns. —  xaosflux  Talk 16:10, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah, fair enough. There was nothing controversial or out of order, it just seemed a little odd.  But it makes sense now!
 * Thanks for processing it, and for the explanation. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:12, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello
Let me apologize if I made the wrong request. I was just trying to protect a page but I don't know how to do it. How can I protect a page? For example my user page. Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank R 1981 (talk • contribs).
 * - Hi there Frank, for the most part pages are not protected at all, that's one of the aspects of being a Wiki. Protection is a broad measure that only administrators can use, for example if I applied full page protection to User:Frank R 1981 then it means that no one can change it anymore, not even you. If you do want to nominate a page for protection, you can list it here: WP:RFPP. If you can explain what you are trying to accomplish, I may have some other suggestions for how to proceed.  —  xaosflux  Talk 03:51, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your help my friend. I hope I don't have to use the protection option anytime soon, but it was good to know how some stuff in Wikipedia work. ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank R 1981 (talk • contribs).
 * You are welcome. — xaosflux  Talk 04:22, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Persistent page title
Hi Xaosflux. I have another question. A couple of days ago I edited a Wikipedia page and requested that it be moved to a previous title since the move feature is not available for previous page titles. In spite of being moved to a different title (which is correctly displayed on the article), Google Search still shows it with the old title. How can I completely get rid of it? The page in question is Lake Junin which, when a google search in english is done, still displays the name Chinchayqucha. Thanks in advance for any help. Frank R 1981 (talk) 16:44, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Everything actually looks like it should; the page title is now at Lake Junin, but we left a redirect behind at Chinchayqucha in case anything was linked to it; google caches usually take a bit to update it should in time. — xaosflux  Talk 17:07, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you Xaosflux. I feel relieved because I thought I messed up something. Well, I guess it's all in Google's hands now. ;) Frank R 1981 (talk) 17:15, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Protecting the unprotected
Hello Xf,

I noticed that you protected the page User talk:Jimbo Wales/Unprotected. Protecting that page defeats its purpose, which is to allow folks an avenue to appeal to Jimbo, even when his regular talk page is semi-protected. His regular talk page is a valuable resource to the community IMHO but gets hit with lots of trolling from anons. But he likes to have a way for appeals to be made. Thus the idea of having an unprotected page. On the unprotected page, very little damage can be done, because it will simply be anons talking to Jimbo, or anons talking to anons. This was discussed in some detail at

In any case, I'll request that you not protect that page, or at least be very careful and only protect it when absolutely needed. Let me know if I can be of any help.

Sincerely,

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 05:26, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I only protected this page from being moved away to another page, so that a vandal can't make it inaccessible. — xaosflux  Talk 14:14, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, I see. Sorry for the mistake and thanks for move-protecting it!  Smallbones( smalltalk ) 14:33, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you very much for your very quick help here. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 15:53, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Change to WP:AN page
Hi. I've reverted your edit, as it's a long-standing transclusion from the closure page to the AN page, and we keep the status quo. You were bold, I reverted it, so feel free to start a discussion on the relevant talkpage to gain a consensus about this. Of course, you're also free to help out in clearing the backlog too, so it no longer becomes an issue. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 07:54, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yup, was trying to be BOLD, no worries on the revert. — xaosflux  Talk 14:41, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

ENB
Hi,

I was just looking through the code/history of WP:ENB to figure out why it wasn't archiving and think that I found the issue. Here it looks like you archived some old ambassador applications by placing the archive top above the level-2 header (i.e. outside the application) and later manually archived here based on section headings rather than archive top. I actually have to run now, so can't look through it to figure out what that affected (I'm only operating under the presumption that's why it's not updating, i.e. a stray DoNotArchiveUntil or something). Could you take a look?

Thanks --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:28, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I think I got that noticeboard all cleaned up now, ran a large manual archiving, kicked the bot counter up, and closed out some old failed applications and archived them too. Will need to see if it resolves during next archive period. —  xaosflux  Talk 05:14, 24 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Great. Thanks, by the way, for being one of the only people following up with the ambassador applications. You may be interested to check out User talk:Tokyogirl79/Wikipedia:WikiProject Online Ambassadors, where a few of us (me with my volunteer account, i.e. not connected to Wiki Ed) are talking about where to take that program / how to revitalize it. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

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I totally could not figure out how to directly talk back to you from the Account Creator request, but I wanted to 1) answer your question that I am affiliated with Harn Museum and the event, and 2) to say thanks.

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Looking at the "shells" you created at WT:MMS I see that you changed the content model. The MediaWiki docs didn't help much... care to explain how this works and how you actually change it? I am very curious &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  21:46, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The "short answer" is go here: Special:ChangeContentModel. I can work on a long answer later :D  —  xaosflux  Talk 22:15, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Also for JUST MMS you can alternatively use: Special:CreateMassMessageList. — xaosflux  Talk 22:15, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Here's a ping too :D — xaosflux  Talk 22:27, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Woah, User:MusikAnimal/Test is now JS, but no .js extension! I don't really understand a use-case, but very cool!!! I'll have to read more about the mass message list stuff, that is new to me as well &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  23:04, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yup, don't go breaking the wiki now :D Note, .js pages are protected by the backend, but some of the others are not (thus why users can move those "shell" pages to use them - standard protection is ALSO available if say you make a massmessage content page that needs to not be moved or edited. —  xaosflux  Talk 23:47, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * That one sure is messy - I added some post closing notes to the page, I'm sure they won't solve any NAC or RELIST issues - but are not intended to - just getting one more page off the backlog. For what it is worth, I disagree with the removal of the additional comments by the anon editor, and did use them in closing the discussion. —  xaosflux  Talk 12:53, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * Sorry, missed that - there is a "confirmed" flag we can manually put on new account - but now that you are autoconfirmed you should be good to go. — xaosflux  Talk 20:40, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

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I just did this. 103.6.159.83 (talk) 06:33, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the note, I did revert your removal of the other person's comment - but added your concern. You can't just "say" someone is banned, it needs to be justified and documented before removing notes; can you provide a SPI/AN/etc discussion about this address or range to back up your claim? —  xaosflux  Talk 13:21, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * I didn't upload that file. — xaosflux  Talk 16:58, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

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MfD closures
Hi: You closed the discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:How to make a simple braid as delete, but the page at Draft:How to make a simple braid has not been deleted. Just a heads up. Cheers, North America1000 03:55, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 14:01, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Also, for Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Wombo draft, you deleted Draft:Wombo draft but did not delete the article another user added later to the nomination, Draft:Wombo. North America1000 04:04, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 14:01, 27 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you, I was going through so many of them I must of closed some tabs early. — xaosflux  Talk 14:01, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It happens. Cheers, North America1000 14:07, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, Xaosflux!
Thanks for approving my request for account creator status for our upcoming edit-a-thon. I understand that with great power comes great responsibility, and I'll use my powers only for good. — Sodapopinski7 (talk) 15:14, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Open Requests for permissions (rollback)
I have requested rollback rights and I haven't heard anything back, could you please review my request? Thank you! &mdash; Music1201  talk  20:18, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * See response there. Also, you shouldn't focus on "minimum guidelines". —  xaosflux  Talk 21:39, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Can you provide further detail on why my request was denied. I have 1) A valid reason for using those rights and 2) Proof that I can be trusted with the rights and a demonstration of previous vandalism fighting. &mdash; Music1201  talk  03:03, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * See my notes on that page, your recent reversions of other editors, without engaging them for productive conversation, fails to demonstrate that you will only revert when strictly appropriate. I suggest you continue to edit for at least a month before going through the request process a third time. —  xaosflux  Talk 03:08, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

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Page you deleted and then undeleted has been renominated
If you have time, could you look at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Cinteotl/stats? (The original MFD was Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Fearofreprisal/stats.)

I also am not sure if I should inform User:Cinteotl. Part of your reason for undeleting was apparently because I had not informed him. (Cinteotl gave it as a reason you should undelete, but the only reason you yourself gave was that the MFD had not been supported by anyone and was later contested.) I think (it was a long time ago) that my reason for not informing Cinteotl was that I believed informing him would constitute baiting him into violating his TBAN (I believed the creation of the page itself was a TBAN-violation -- I don't remember if anyone agreed with me). The TBAN is still in place, so I am not sure if he should be informed this time; ArbCom doubled down on his TBAN.

Any thoughts?

Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 02:27, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I notified him, put some specific instructions for him, and moved some conversations from that nomination to its talk page. I'm sure I've done SOMETHING wrong in all of this - but I think it is what is best to move forward. —  xaosflux  Talk 02:53, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

extendedconfirmed
Hi - I'm going to be off line for a bit, if anything I did in the last few hours related to this new group has broken anything, please don't wait to consult me - just revert and leave a note. — xaosflux  Talk 03:28, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * back on - looks like the place didn't burn down :D — xaosflux  Talk 11:13, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Extendedconfirmed padlock colour
Where should I go if I want to try and get the colour of the padlock changed? I feel as though the dark blue is too obtrusive at the moment and a nice, light blue padlock would work a lot better. is the current one, and is what I'm suggesting. <font face="Papyrus"><font color="#35BA22">Anarchyte <font color="#1b2eac"> (<font color="#2D8C1F">work  &#124; <font color="#2D8C1F">talk )   06:48, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd start at Wikipedia talk:Protection policy - it is controlled in templates and modules - but that page will get more traffic. — xaosflux  Talk 11:14, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed user right
Why is it suddenly being added automatically to a large group of people (ie those on my watch list). Thanks. Doug Weller talk 09:47, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Ignore that, I hadn't read the latest ArbCom emails. Doug Weller  talk 09:54, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

RFA opened
I really, honestly don't know why the burden is on me to clarify whether Cinteotl is allowed argue that the page should stay (I'm not the one under the TBAN), but I went ahead and opened it anyway. If you want to comment, it's here. Cheers! Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 13:11, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you, the reason why is because it is in his userspace and the arguments for venue change do not appear frivolous, if this was a page elsewhere on the encyclopedia I would not have suggested the same. I did comment, thank you for letting me know about this issue. —  xaosflux  Talk 14:27, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Request for administrative attention
Hi. Sorry to bother you with this out of the blue, but appears to be absent, I've bothered  so much recently that it's probably starting to get annoying, and you've struck me (around the place) as being smart and reasonable (and technically inclined), so luckily for you ;-) here I am.

Would you consider taking a look at an ongoing problem that I already reported to WP:ANEW where Slakr responded in agreement that the editor was warring but no action was taken?

The editor reported is continuing to guard his version of Acetone peroxide against many other editor's wishes, and has taken to telling me to take deep breaths and calm down (which unsurprisingly pisses me off).

They're standing in the way of simple maintenance deletion of Multiple issues 2 which they created to sidestep consensus and push ahead with changes they desire, currently being discussed derailed at Multiple issues - a discussion where again I am being told how I think and how I shouldn't.

I admit to being at the end of my tether and have unwatched all the related pages in this fiasco, for fear of overstepping my own personal line in the sand and saying something unacceptable. But because of this, the situations are likely not going to be resolved any time soon.

If you could please take a few minutes to review the situation as you find it, and if nothing else, fix the disagreeable use of on Acetone peroxide in accordance with multiple editor's wishes, that'd be great. Then, if you feel so inclined, perhaps you could reinstate the speedy delete I placed on (single use, substantial copy)?

Again, I realise this is out of the blue, and off the beaten track, but I've already taken the correct path, and fell flat on my face; Slakr may have agreed that the editor is warring, but with no follow up, it was ineffective. <b style='font:1rem Arial;color:#066;text-decoration:inherit;'>f<i style='font-size:.7em;color:#0bb;'>red</i>g<i style='font-size:.7em;color:#0bb;'>andt</i></b> 14:40, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Sooooo is this whole fiasco about whether or not an optional parameter should be added to Template:Multiple issues? As far as the use of the alt-template on an article until that gets resolved, I don't think it has any real impact on the project and can be ignored until the template issue is resolved - if it is at an impasse the questions on forking that template would be: is it hurting anything? —  xaosflux  Talk 15:43, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking a look. No, it's not the end of the world, and the sky is not falling. Should the will of one editor be imposed on all opposition and by implication be supported? Technically, there's hardly a ripple on the waters, but as a matter of principle, great waves are smashing against a listing ship (yay for words). <b style='font:1rem Arial;color:#066;text-decoration:inherit;'>f<i style='font-size:.7em;color:#0bb;'>red</i>g<i style='font-size:.7em;color:#0bb;'>andt</i></b> 18:26, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * My opinion is to update Template:Multiple issues to support the additional parameter, once the RfC is closed one way or the other - bring the new template to TfD - if the consensus is that the parameter is not appropriate, then working around consensus via a fork is bound to fail as well. — xaosflux  Talk 18:58, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The discussion at Template talk:Multiple issues overall leans against allowing editors to change the main talk link, and in favour of instead, of allowing the abbreviated children to show their own. As such, at this time, adding the proposed parameter would be contrary to consensus. But in truth, no matter the result of that discussion (which as far as I'm concerned is neither here nor there. que sera), the editor is still not conceding to the wishes of multiple other editors in the article space. Anyhoo, never mind. These things are sent to try us. <b style='font:1rem Arial;color:#066;text-decoration:inherit;'>f<i style='font-size:.7em;color:#0bb;'>red</i>g<i style='font-size:.7em;color:#0bb;'>andt</i></b> 21:06, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Extended Confirmed
My understanding is that the right is auto-promoted, but I don't seem to have it (even though I qualify). I don't see an "Edit" link on Gamergate controversy anymore. Is there something I need to do to activate the right?--Jorm (talk) 01:43, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Whoah. That was cool. I was promoted immediately upon saving the edit right above. This is an interesting MediaWiki bug but one I doubt will ever be fixed.  --Jorm (talk) 02:05, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I think it is more of a feature then a bug - the update to the new group only fires "on edit" otherwise it would kill the servers to have to check "on read". — xaosflux  Talk 03:08, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The bug is that even though I had earned the promotion, it wasn't viable when I went to a protected page. The smart solution to the bug is to check on read when you first go to a page that has that level of protection.
 * Also, it wouldn't kill the servers to do on read calculations in this case; it would only happen for logged in users, of which there are a very, very small percentage compared to the actual readership. In fact, all logged in users bypass the cache and are served freshly compiled PHP whenever they hit a page, and the calculation of their user rights could happen then.
 * (For context, I served as the senior designer at the WMF for about five years and have a pretty solid understanding of MediaWiki internals).
 * Anyways, it's small potatoes. Maybe I'll mention it to Ori and see what he says.--Jorm (talk) 03:28, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * True logged in is much less, here is the change that enabled it: T126607 if you want to get right to the tech details. — xaosflux  Talk 03:58, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah, Krenair handled it. Yeah, no one is going to fix that. It's the easiest solution and that's how MW rolls. --Jorm (talk) 04:01, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * Replied. — xaosflux  Talk 04:04, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

User:DumbBOT
Would you please join in the discussion at User talk:DumbBOT regarding the bot's persistent creation of categories? Asking you because you removed the blacklist entry that was preventing the bot from doing some of these creations; it's started up the creations again, as Oiyarbepsy has noted in the discussion at the bot's talk page. I'd like to put back this blacklist entry, but I don't want it to look like I'm wheelwarring. Nyttend (talk) 00:40, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, I think you've misunderstood my second request. Abuse reports is already on the robots.txt exclusion, but the project was renamed to Abuse response and there are several pages under the new name and several under the previous one. The situation is similar to long-term abuse, but the projects are separate. I think 4 separate new entries would need to be added to the robots.txt page as was done with long-term abuse due to stragglers. Thanks. Pteroinae alternate (talk) 05:21, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
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Template:User fb-4
Hi. On Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User fb-4 you missed Template:User fb-3 for deletion as well. <g> Le Deluge (talk) 18:25, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, I've been working on the Redefy Real Estate draft for a few months. I've submitted it a few times and have been making revisions. This is my first Wiki so I was surprised to see that it was deleted by you. Could I have that code at least so I can continue working? Thank you. SRoberts1988 (talk) 21:02, 2 May 2016 (UTC)Susha Roberts
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