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Hi Jackmcbarn, I have closed your request for adminship as successful. Congratulations on the success and for your place on WP:RFX100. I should mention, however, that while your request was a pass, it would still be wise to take into consideration the concerns raised by the opposition. As always, the administrators' reading list is worth a read and the new admin school is most certainly available if you feel that you might require some practice with the tools in a safe environment prior to applying them elsewhere. All being said and done, good luck with your adminship! Acalamari 20:07, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks everyone! Jackmcbarn (talk) 20:57, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Congratulations on becoming an admin!
Have a beer on the house! :P — Cirt (talk) 22:17, 5 November 2014 (UTC) |
Congratulations! Do a good job! Be nice! EatingGlassIsBad (talk) 16:08, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting out that blocking error. Looks like you just became an admin, so congrats on that!--Yaksar (let's chat) 00:05, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Good job on User:Yaksar, was about to unblock him/her. Sinebot not fast enough to separate wheat from chaff, apparently. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:11, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
I confirm that I have requested an account on the UTRS tool. Jackmcbarn (talk)
You delated my page Fassbender (company) claiming Copyright breach. This copyright was my own and the website is my own! Please can you return thIS page?
Eeggman (talk) 09:39, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Even though I opposed your candidacy, due to your lack of work in the mainspace, I wanted to congratulate you on passing your RFA. Please take it slow with the more disruptive tools in your new kit, particularly the block and delete buttons. Those are the tools most associated with damage to the mainspace and its contributors, and I wish more administrators would think 2 or 3 times before using them. Wishing you the best as a new administrator, LHMask me a question 18:29, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the blocks, but I think we'll still need to protect it. Another IP, from a similar range, has made the identical bogus insertion and immediate undo as has been going on for years. Maybe a few range blocks would be possible. Congrats on the new adminship. Meters (talk) 22:45, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
On adminship! :D -Fimatic (talk | contribs) 02:17, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Recognition of user being a positive impact force in community. Looking over the types of contributions and care admin Jackmcbarn has given so often sets him apart.:) — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikkoBot (talk • contribs) 03:07, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
can I have my article undeleted I haven't finished putting everything :/ there's a lot reference and background of what to put in it. Please let me finish and than you can check it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Golden kingg (talk • contribs) 04:01, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
As well as the two you blocked, there is also Revanth Arappali (talk · contribs). My finger is hovering over the block button, but I thought I would wait and see whether he takes in what I wrote at User talk:Revanth Arappali#Wikipedia is not for writing about yourself. I think he means no harm, he's another of the innumerable newbies who think this is another social-networking site and doesn't understand the difference between user pages and articles. Whether he is likely to make a useful contribution is another matter.
Congratulations on your new mop, by the way! JohnCD (talk) 12:17, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
I have no idea why I why I was replying back to you. HisashiyarouinHisashiyarouinHisashiyarouinHisashiyarouinHisashiyarouinHisashiyarouinHisashiyarouinHisashiyarouinHisashiyarouinHisa
S. Si Trew (talk) 12:53, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Not you, but three at RfD have been closed in the last few days in what I regard as blatantly WP:IDONTLIKEIT. I have taken bold and removed one closure, since it was in no way discussed. I'll do so again with another. It's getting out of hand if people just close discussions down. Please tell me, for example, how Two Steps From Hell got closed with no discussion? It was a redirect, I read the article to seem like what the caps should be, WP:NCCAPS has guidance, it is a blatant close in less than one day without regard to any other good-faith editor. (RfD says they are listed "for about a week"). Si Trew (talk) 00:32, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for speedy deleting Pharmaceutical companies in bangalore. Pharma companies in chennai is another copyvio article that I just nominated for speedy deletion, if you'd like to take a look. NorthAmerica1000 02:03, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Greetings! You had blocked Runwarwick (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) with a soft block earlier this week because of the username. Since that appeared to be the only reason for the block, I have unblocked the user to allow the change.
I thought this was uncontroversial enough to do it without checking with you, but I wanted to make sure you knew that I'd done it. —C.Fred (talk) 14:23, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello Jackmcbarn, you could revert this edition in the article Disney Channel (Latin America)? The picture put back several times the IP (File:Disney Channel 2014 logo.png) can only be used on the article Disney Channel. (see Wikipedia:Non-free content review/Archive 57#File:Disney Channel 2014 logo.png) Thanks! --Mega-buses (discusión / Talk) 14:52, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Oh, I almost forgot. Congratulations on becoming an administrator! --Mega-buses (discusión / Talk) 13:28, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Hey - so regarding UTRS, the rules of WP:INVOLVED still apply. So you really shouldn't handle an unblock request that you were the blocking admin for. That said, the action you took would've been the exact same no matter which admin handled it, so it's not a big deal at all. But in the future, someone else usually comes by within 24 hours.--v/r - TP 19:44, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Please don't take this as criticism, but I thought it might help to offer my perspective. When an editor asks for a page to be unsalted, two things come to mind: the initial reason and age of the protection, and who is the editor asking. Generally, anyone who has autoreviewer rights should (in my opinion) instantly have any 6 year old protected page handed to them. They have already earned the right to be trusted to create articles without them being reviewed. If they fail, AFD works just fine. I see myself as a public servant for people creating and improving articles, so I say yes to any reasonable request unless I can see (and explain) a specific threat in doing so. Collectively, they are the boss, I'm just the janitor with the big ring of keys. Refusing was within policy, I'm not questioning that, I'm just saying that when a guy with a couple dozen FAs and 176k edits asks you to unsalt a page, it's ok to just unprotect the article, as the odds of it being abused are virtually zero, and doing so is the most efficient means to creating articles. Cirt is probably a better judge of what is and isn't a properly sourced article than most admin, honestly. The trust you invest in our editors tends to pay dividends, too. Dennis - 2¢ 14:36, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, I was working today on a draft article about Poland and you deleted it an hour ago. On what ground? What was my mistake in the process? I understood draft pages were made for that (starting and improving articles). As a beginner, I find it pretty discouraging. Pending you answer, wikibenchris — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikibenchris (talk • contribs) 17:59, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Your feedback in this discussion would be greatly appreciated. Warren Cassell, Jr. is up for deletion. Can you share your thoughts in the discussion? Caribbeanbio (talk) 00:05, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
It would be good to resolve this. The Draft:Tombstoning is ready to be published, according to Fiddle Faddle as soon as the RfD is closed. the only gotcha is to not delete the existing talk page, as it has procedurally important history. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:43, 11 November 2014 (UTC).
Hi Jack - still learning about how things work on Wiki - but I wonder if you would be kind enough to check the write up about HP products where I've made a lot of changes to printers - and cite my website http://www.hpplotter.co.uk/upgrade-path-tool against HP Designjet Printers - this is basically a tool I built on my website to allow people to find out the date their printer was first manufactured, date it was made EOL, and the printer that replaced it. I've made a request on the talk page but no-one seems to be getting back to me...are these things instant-ish like in a day or two or can it take months normally for people to respond? I hope you think it is a useful link - best regards PlotterFairy
PlotterFairy (talk) 22:31, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello Jackmcbarn,
You deleted one of my articles because it violated Wikipedia's copyright rules. I am new to Wikipedia and the email I received said the article would remain for 7 days before it would be deleted. I obtained permission from the owner of the website. And I would like to forward that permission to Wikipedia, but now I don't have a link to the article. I spent a great deal of time looking up references for the article and would have to have to re-do it. Can the article be placed back in my Sandbox.
Thank you,
Sunnyzayas (talk) 14:59, 12 November 2014 (UTC) SunnyZayas
Hello :@Jackmcbarn:
Thanks so much for undeleting the article so that I can still have the references. I'm so confused. I requested copyright permission based on this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission I would appreciate your direction on how I go about handling this, please. So, what you are telling me is that my client (The Forum Club) has to forward my requesting email to permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org. Then they have to include this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sunnyzayas/sandbox and the link to their own website? Thank you! Sunnyzayas (talk) 17:08, 13 November 2014 (UTC)sunnyzayas
The page in question is the orphaned redirect left after I moved the page to Girl Scouts Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. --evrik (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:16, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello Jackmcbarn:
I'm not sure, but I believe you may have nominated an article for speedy deletion due to potential copyright issues related to the images in the article. The instructions for contesting the nomination was not possible because of a dead link, and I'm contacting you for your assistance.
This was my first article for Wikipedia, and I’m currently researching for a second article. I followed the guidelines for creating articles. Since this is my first article in the Wikipedia format, I may have made some innocent mistakes, which I have been correcting as I go. Whenever an editor pointed out a potential problem, I addressed it as advised. Such as, related to the tagging the image ((OTRS Pending)) in response to an editor’s notice to me of their concern of files copyright permission problems. For the reasons below, I dispute the nomination for speedy deletion of this page.
I have encountered some difficulty with regard to what appears to be the left-hand not telling the right-hand about approvals/confirmation between Wikipedia and it’s editors.
For example when copyright concerns were first communicated, I contacted the subject of the article as instructed for permission to use his images in the article. Permission was granted in writing by the copyright holder and submitted to Wikipedia Commons, of which, I received confirmation. However, multiple editors have repeatedly tagged images for deletion for possible copyright reasons. The editor Rotten regard did the most recent.
The editor noted that I provided the valid copyright licensing tag, but there was no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release the image. This is confusing to me since I received confirmation of the copyright holders agreement on file with Wikipedia Commons as indicated above.
In the latest instance, I was advised to add the tag ((OTRS Pending)) to each image tagged by the editor to prevent premature deletion, and sent an email to Wikipedia Commons again in which I attached once again the required permission of copyright holder for all the images used in article as proof.
Each time I did this, any deleted images were quickly restored, yet here I am again with another image deleted (File:Draw’n ballet 89-90.jpg). And now, I have received (I believe your) notice on Nov. 11, of nomination for speedy removal of the entire page because of the ((OTRS Pending)) Tags that I was instructed to add to prevent premature deletion of images. I’m at a loss as to what to do to resolve this issue once and for all.
The article was reviewed by editors and accepted as a Biography of a Living Person on October 10, 2014. I put a lot of work into this article and followed the Wikipedia guidelines. As it is my first article, I have had a steep learning curve, and it may not have been a perfect execution. I defer to you, as to how to prevent this from continuing, and correcting the nomination for speedy deletion due to improper Template:OTRS Pending Cc-by-sa-3.0.
I have no idea of how to contact the administrator (if it is not you) related to the speedy deletion nomination due to the OTRS Pending tag, so I can notify them that the proper permissions have been received by copyright holder, and confirmed. There is no link to the page to contest the nomination for speedy deletion and/or button to click as directed in notice of nomination to contest the nomination. I thank you in advance for your timely response. Niknakc (talk) 18:00, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
"nominated an article for speedy deletion due to potential copyright issues related to the images in the article"This never happens. If images are a copyright violation, they're deleted, but the article they're used in is not. An article is only tagged for copyright speedy deletion if its text is a copyright violation.
"The instructions for contesting the nomination was not possible because of a dead link"If by "dead link", you mean a link to a Wikipedia page that doesn't exist, that's normal. You're supposed to create the page with your reasoning.
"I have received (I believe your) notice on Nov. 11, of nomination for speedy removal of the entire page because of the ((OTRS Pending)) Tags that I was instructed to add to prevent premature deletion of images"I'm not sure what notice you're talking about. Can you post a link to it? (And again, don't worry, the page will not be deleted because of images it uses.)
Thanks Jockmcbarn for your help.
Since this is my first article and I'm new to the Wikipedia format, I'm still learning as I go, so I really do appreciate your assistance.
So, for contesting the nomination for speedy deletion, I'm to write on the page that I thought was a dead link, and submit. Correct?
I wrote to you because that "dead page" had a link to you creating a similar page. I know you haven't edited the article, I simply put a link to it in case you were the person making nomination to communicate directly with you.
From what you've said, I made the innocent "newbee" mistake of combining tags, ((OTRS Pending)) and ((CC-by-sa-3.0)) when addressing concern of an editor's of a potential copyright problem, which is what needs to be corrected to fix the nomination for speedy deletion. Correct?
All the images used on the page, I received written permission to use by the copyright holder which was submitted and confirmed by Wikipedia Commons. I'm currently addressing getting this clarified once and for all with Wikipedia Commons.
Again, I appreciate your assistance.Niknakc (talk) 19:39, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
"So, for contesting the nomination for speedy deletion, I'm to write on the page that I thought was a dead link, and submit. Correct?"Yes.
"which is what needs to be corrected to fix the nomination for speedy deletion. Correct?"No. Don't worry about the combined template anymore. That problem is solved now, and it has nothing to do with any other deletions.
Hi Jackmcbarn:
I tried going back to do contest early deletion and I'm confused.
The instruction were — "If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion".
Problem is I can't find the button labelled "Click here to contect this speedy deletion".
What do I need to do if there isn't a way for me to contest. The notice for nomination for speedy deletion was on Nov. 11th, and I need to address this ASAP.
Again, I thank you in advance for your timely response. Niknakc (talk) 19:52, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Before taking any decision on this situation I suggest that you become more informed on this by taking a glance of what user Knight of BAAWA is doing in that article. He is in an edit war againts two users and he has mostly just stopped responding and discussing things in the talk section. He is the person proposing additions to that template and so keeping the result of his latest edit war intervention means keeping things which have not reached consensus but which have been added only through mere force.--Eduen (talk) 02:07, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I want to get the location map module at lvwiki. But we are using redirects for templates; for example, Template:Location map Canada is redirected to Template:Location map Kanāda (Kanāda ir Latvian for Canada). As redirects don't work for modules, I'm thinking of adding new parameters to the module, like here (see the code after the comment). Could this functionality be included in the main module? You can make any changes to the code @lvwiki. The code currently is the same as @enwiki. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 07:41, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
|map_name=Canada
. Then there is check if there is module with such name. There isn't. That's the current check (ok, it checks the same for templates, but currently it isn't important). I would like that module checks if there isn't name with the alias names (parameters name1, name2, ...etc.
); for this particular example — if there is Module:Location map/data/Canada, Module:Location map/data/Canada1 etc. So I think there should be some array of names in the module's code. Now it's clear? :) --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 07:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Jackmcbarn. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using ((db-g12|url=URL of source)). If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with ((subst:copyvio|url=URL of source)).
Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.
I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).
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Thank you for your help to delete "Peda Bommalapuram Puram" and its talk page! – Paine 19:24, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
The article Free Donbass has been nominated for deletion again, again with the same weak (for not saying non-existent) argumentation. I cant contest the deletion as I had been topic banned for 6 months, perhaps Im going even to be punished for talking about the issue on personal talk pages (or thats what I have been told-threatened about). Seems that some users want to erase that article by any means necessary...--HCPUNXKID 23:42, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Jack. Just writing down a few notes to guide you on the block you put on Lagoonaville (talk · contribs):
I have just posted a boatload of currently active usernames that I think are violations at UAA. - Hoops gza (talk) 03:15, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
Mind your own business, ok? Janagewen (talk) 03:53, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. I don't have experience in patrolling new pages, so I used wrong reason for speedy deletion. I will learn better. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 19:22, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
Could you also fully create protect the non-printworthy alternates List of Power Rangers: Dino Charge episodes and List of Power Rangers:Dino Charge episodes? This guy's been up to this shit in the past.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 04:07, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Jack, at WP:SPI, what is ((/SPI/header)), and where can it be found? I think I knew the answer at one point, but, if so, I've forgotten. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:00, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
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i saw that you left 3RR warnings for Yobol and I, but not for cowicide. i fully accept the warning but i don't understand why you didn't warn cowicide as well. new and very impassionated editor who doesn't seem to realize that he/she was as much at fault as we were... the warning from an outside admin would be useful. would you please consider adding the warning there as well? Thank you. (am watching your page so need bothering with ping) Jytdog (talk) 20:51, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
Do not delete others' comments from my talk page. Jeh (talk) 21:08, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
My speedy deletion request was declined by you saying "The reason given is not a valid speedy deletion criterion". But, it fits with deletion criteria G1. I would like to know why it was declined? The request was made on මූලික ගොඩනැගිලි තාක්ෂණය-1 කොටස. --AntonTalk 07:48, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure why you semi-protected Jian Ghomeshi. I don't see any examples of vandalism or other issues from IPs. In light of that I'm requesting that you remove the semi-protection. Tchaliburton (talk) 17:51, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Jack, a couple of things about this user. First, generally an administrator does not decline more than one unblock request from the same user for the same block. I don't believe that "rule" is policy-based so much as convention. Second, the user in response to this particular block has to do more than just pick an appropriate user name. He has to also "Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked. Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked."--Bbb23 (talk) 05:51, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
Greetings. I heard your name mentioned as somebody who knows their way around the tools here. I have heard tell of a tool that allows you to look up articles that mention certain words in sequence, that essentially allows the title of new articles to be searched for and linked to. Do you happen to know it? Regards, Vanamonde93 (talk) 08:22, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
Im sorry mr.jak Abhay K Vincent (talk) 13:44, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
Before the recent changes, both had the same centering. Frietjes (talk) 15:45, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
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