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For your never-ending contributions to WP:PERM...looks like a one-man show these days... ƬheStrikeΣagle sorties 04:50, 29 January 2014 (UTC) |
I translated, duck attack on the German Main page ;) - thank you for trust and thanks (seen for Dieter Simon the latest) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:11, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Over the last several months you have made a series of escalating attacks on my views about the admin system, wilfully misrepresenting them in crass ways and persistently disregarding the actual views I have expressed. When you were finally challenged on this matter you fell silent. Other admins I have had no prior contact with, and who do not appear to have read those engagements between you and me, have mysteriously appeared out of the blue and attacked me along the same lines that you do. More recently, Drmies has made a similar series of crass attacks, mirroring the same nonsense you attribute to me.
Have you been communicating in private with admins, such as these ones, about what you perceive as my sins? --Epipelagic (talk) 22:24, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Well, I was "summoned" here, and there is a diff concerning me above. Just for the record, I saw Kudpung at Wikimania 2012, but have I think never communicated with him in any way: our paths have simply not crossed. Epipelagic, I don't doubt you are a fine member of the community here; but there is something about proponents of divisive views that ends up being self-fulfilling. It is perfectly easy to reason out why that is. Now I need to get back to work. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:16, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung, thanks for your support and thank you for being the first to do so! I was quite nervous when I submitted the RfB and I was refreshing the page every minute for twenty minutes before you showed up! :) While I'm here, thanks for all the work you do at the various permissions pages; I think you do a great job there. Acalamari 18:48, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Attention is needed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Philosophy and at every Plato related image, template and article. It looks as though User:Mercer.philosophy in collaboration with User:Nathan.besteman is doing a major rewrite of all Plato related pictures, templates, and articles. This widespread vandalism appears to be the work of some sort of 'Socrates' cultists, to credit Socrates as the real mind behind Plato. This, of course is not only perversely wrong, and counter to all existent scholarship, but undermines the credibility of all philosophy articles in Wikipedia.
As a side note, there is no point in my attempting to correct this situation, since it would only lead to an edit war against a collaborative vandal. Wikipedia rules automatically in favor of any collaboration, whether the collaborators be constructive or destructive. BlueMist (talk) 08:36, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Looking over this user's logs, I see exactly one new page review since he agreed to stop at 12:47 on 27 January (on his talk page). That one was a speedy deletion nom that resulted in a speedy deletion for advertising. One speedy tag does not a patroller make. I submit that while this user clearly has competency issues, acknowledging that they have effectively stopped attempting to patrol would be more constructive at this time. Thoughts? VQuakr (talk) 09:03, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Kudpung. A few weeks ago you put a PROD on Philip Moon (actor)., and I deleted it. I am letting you know that I have now restored the article, following a request on my talk page, so that you can consider whether to take it to AfD. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:57, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
As you've been the one giving me these rights I kindly ask to remove my rollback/reviewer rights, as I'll be leaving Wikipedia for good. Also it would be nice to fully protect my talk page, so no one can post any messages any more. Best regards and take care. Stormmeteo (talk) 22:51, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 123#Merge the Page Curation and Patrol logs?. VQuakr (talk) 00:31, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Soham 10:47, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Tito☸Dutta 02:26, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Regarding [1], would you mind adding a link or a footnote with explanation there? I added the "fact" there because this sentence didn't make it clear where this statement is backed up by a policy or practice, and because several other similarly potentially dubious claims are ref'ed with footnotes. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:17, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Kudpung, I bumped into you when I accepted an invitation to the Teahouse. I scrolled down various editorial articles and one of them caught my attention. I clicked on to your comments and found out that you are an administrator. I have not been here for even a month and frankly, I did not know that being on here could be so stressful. I am Ghanaian by descent but have lived in the United Kingdom for over thirty years. I am a mature individual and recently took up writing as a hobby. I have a PHD in English language and I'm a retired teacher. What brought me on here is my interest in Ghanain history and celebrity. I have recently been researching various notable personalities. Maybe, not as big as Kofi Annan and reasonably quiet for their type of success. I decided to do some research on someone who has been around for ages and notable in the Ghanaian community. My aim was to take the reader go through some of our rich culture in the arts, education and politics. I also wanted someone who is an expatriate and is making strides in both the Christian and Ghanaian community. On my travels I have met some interesting people on here. I have met some very very nice editors who have visited my article and made very few changes. However, I stumbled upon three editors on the live chat who go by the name Siteku, Howicus and Huon. The latter has not visited my article. Siteku I gather or may stand corrected, is a patroller of new articles. He has been very vicious both verbally and on my talk page. I have been trying to contact administrators but find Wikipedia a bit of a maze. I really like to progress on to other things and maybe do more research and write about various things that interest me as well help Wikipedia in any way that I can. I guess in a nutshell, these individuals have made me feel unwelcomed. At one point during a live chat, they insinuated that I knew this person. They asked me to reference all my sources which I have done. But I think they are concentrating on one aspect of the person's career which is music. They have suggested I should remove the reference to the newspaper articles written by Christian Today, remove references to Robert's own website and YouTube. I am happy to do that now because frankly, I'm just tired of fighting about editorial style etc. the only reference to the website is with regards to where they are right now. I thought the articles by Christian Today were ok. and Youtube and I must stress there is not a lot on social media about this individual anyway, was to support how far back this individual goes. And I clearly stated that "old recordings have emerged" . I my self had copies of these songs years ago and I have lost them. I am prepared to remove any sources that they may deem unfit. I hope you can advise me as to what to do because I really wanted the reader to experience a taste of Ghanaian history through the eyes of celebrity. Please feel free to read the correspondence between myself and these two individuals. I do not want to make enemies on here, I just want to use my gifts and little knowledge. Thank youCowhen1966 (talk) 14:25, 16 February 2014 (UTC)Cowhen1966 (talk) 15:04, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
You may be interested in a comment on my talk page. If the university is the one it seems to be, we will have obvious problems giving the usual sort of assistance. DGG ( talk ) 23:28, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
I don't know if you'd like to look in there. I've talkbacked both projects. The Thai link is on the SK FC page. Peridon (talk) 16:05, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
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I looked at User talk:Sherurcij for the first time in a long time in January, and left four requests for userification at WP:REFUND. In those requests I said if I didn't think the articles had anything worth preserving in them I would place a ((db-u1)) on them. That is what I did with Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed. Al-Bashir Al-Faqih I changed to a redirect, then moved the redirect to article space.
My request for userification of Abdel Hadi al-Tunsi was declined, because it was deleted at afd, not prod, and I was advised to direct my request to you.
I will probably find Abdel Hadi al-Tunsi is not notable enough for a standalone article by today's standards. As with the other requests I will apply a ((db-u1)) if there is nothing of value. If there is enough to justify limited coverage in another article, I'll merge that material, and then, like Al-Bashir Al-Faqih I'll change it to a redirect, then move the redirect to article space.
Thanks Geo Swan (talk) 21:52, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Editor review#RfC: Should we mark WP:ER as historical?. As you have participated in discussions about this before, you may be interested in the current RfC discussing closing and marking ER as historical. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 02:57, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Remember all those articles that got deleted because they dimmed to be not notable because I wrote then from external links (including 2 photographers)? Well, I have an idea, will citing their work make them notable? Like I can't provide online references because sometimes they don't have their work printed out online, but I receive plenty of magazines that I can use for their work, and Wikipedia doesn't have policy against magazines considering that a photographer that works with specific and well-respected magazines such as Smithsonian, National Geographic and others is much notable than an amateur photographer who shoots for himself. Like, I know that online sources are better since they are more verifiable, but sometimes there is nothing but the official site, while the work is in subscription magazines. Another question, do you or any other Wikipedians receive any subscription magazines (just out of curiosity)? Will be glad to receive an advice. --Mishae (talk) 00:16, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung, I was just reviewing the discussions here looking for experienced NPPers. When I created my account, I started looking for ways I would like to participate in the project and have traditionally been more interested in reviewing than creating (outside wikipedia). I came across NPP and read all the associated information, studied the CSD/AfD/PROPD pages and relevant policies and guidelines. I saw that it's pasted everywhere that NPP should be left to "experienced users" and knew full well that I didn't fit that category. After reviewing the pages mentioned above I decided to give it a try and try to take it slow and see if I felt out of my league. I've passed over several pages I didn't feel capable enough to mark but have marked several others. So, long story short, I went looking for a place to request someone review [my log] and give me feedback. You mentioned on the discussion above that you occassionally review patrollers activity and provide feedback, so I came here. I feel like I've done enough to allow an experienced NPPer to say "stop patrolling" or "try doing more/less of X", etc. I'll watch here, or on my talk page. Thanks! C1776MTalk 13:17, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Will you please nominate me for an RfA? Mackatackastewart (talk) 10:54, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
About Aharonz1/stress...
Your reason (speedy deletion G2) does NOT work in the user name space. Just saying ... Aharonz1 (talk) 11:36, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Just a heads-up that I have restored this article, which you PRODded in December, following this request at WP:REFUND. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:58, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Can you help resolve a conflict at Oliver Bierhoff, Michael Ballack, and Mehmet Ekici? See, I added archiveurls and removed whitespace along with it. It shouldn't be an issue since I added archiveurl, right? So, users User:Walter Gorlitz, User:Jared Preston, and User:Jaellee restored the white space and I consider it a disruptive editing. Like, honestly wont you agree that restoring whitespace is as destructive as removing it? Also, somebody pointed me to not use http and https when citing YouTube and Wayback Machine and since I deleted it from my talkpage in 2014 I can't find it. Can you please help with both issues. Thank you.--Mishae (talk) 15:48, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
You mentioned that you're the type of person who would be willing to sponsor someone as an administrator on Wikipedia. I tried nominating myself back in 2005 after I'd only been here a couple of years and that was shot down, mainly because I guess it was felt I hadn't taken it all that seriously.
Now, nine years later I think I've gone as far as I can as a regular editor and I think my behavior and the quality of my many thousands of edits and talents indicate I qualify to become an admin. I'll give you some examples.
This is just some of the things I have done to make Wikipedia a better place, and I think with Administrator privileges I can do more things to make things better. Like, say I have an idea for a really good improvement to the main page, I can discuss that - that is a big change that I wouldn't do without getting a consensus - and if there's no objection then I can implement it without having to beg someone to do it for me. For less important but otherwise protected pages where I can see there is room for a really good improvement, I can just offer it.
But I do think I would qualify and I'd like your input and whether you think I would be worth sponsoring as an administrator. I've asked a couple other people, not to try to play one off against the other, but so that if I'm not up to snuff you or they can give me some input into where I'm deficient. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) (talk) 21:01, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
About a year ago I told you my intention of someday becoming a sysop. Although I've been progressing slower than expected, I still think I've come a long way. I have a article that I worked on. I am writing to you so you could could give an opinion on my progress. NintendoFan (Talk, Contribs) 12:56, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi I was an administrator until 2006 when i stepped down after overreaction to a newbie user's political bias. I feel that after eight long years of exile and many thousands of edits, that i have redeemed myself and should be allowed back. Can you help me? Paul Austin (talk) 19:16, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
hi!! i would like to know why my article was deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bkweli (talk • contribs) 15:28, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Are you still around? You have done some great work; I hope your absence is only temporary. bobrayner (talk) 15:17, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I think I've worked out a two sentence sketch of what I would suggest as the replacement procedure and included it in a comment here. I'm posssibly going to propose it at VP shortly, with a notice at AfC talk. DGG ( talk ) 21:17, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
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Tata Medical Center in New Town Rajarhat is a renowned institute for treating cancer patients. It has been started by the Tata Group as was the Tata Memorial Center in Mumbai. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DorkDoctor (talk • contribs) 12:40, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
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Oi! Where are you? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:27, 24 May 2014 (UTC).
I agree with Dennis; don't post anything on Jimbo's talk page or AN or anything like that yet. That can only serve to stir speculation, obfuscation, and loss of the central point. Go Phightins! 01:30, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
These sorts of threads are less helpful than most understand. You have no idea how these threads can carry unhelpful comments so easily. Talking about 'Jimbos talk page' and similar is outright dumb. Contact me offline if you want my explanation as to why. I had quite a bit to do with him in person at Hong Kong wikimania last year. I live outside of Thailand, and have had a brother-in-law who lives there (Thailand) just turned up by a flight today... My recommendation is to keep trying offline contact attempts, and shut up and be patient. Adding cascading fears etc here is not useful. satusuro
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Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kudpung, I wonder if you would be so kind as to send me a quick email? Thanks. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 21:40, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey Kudpung, thanks a lot for the congratulations; it wasn't as bad as it's made out to be, at least for me . Glad to see/hear you're well; hope to see you back on Wikipedia with some regularity at some point, but no matter how active you plan to be, thanks for dropping by, and I hope real life is treating you well. God bless -- Go Phightins! 20:37, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I PRODed Pimbongkod Chankaew as Only a runner up, not notable. None of the refs state that she will replace the winner - the Guardian and NBCnews say "It was unclear whether the first runner-up, Pimbongkod Chankaew, would replace Weluree as Thailand's representative at the global competition, Miss Universe 2014". This was removed by an IP claiming that reference (http://morning-news.bectero.com/m/main.php?m=newsdetail&nid=19131 - in Thai) says she will represent Thailand. Google Translate, is not good, but I don't see that fact there - but I can't be sure. Could you see if that reference does say she will be representing Thailand? If it's not there, then I'll go for an AfD. Thanks. Ronhjones (Talk) 20:13, 12 June 2014 (UTC) Strike out - I found a nice Thai lady to check it out for me. Ronhjones (Talk) 17:01, 15 June 2014 (UTC)