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| '''<span style="color:white;">R E T I R E D</span>'''</div><br>}} | |||
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| ==WP Board of Trustees etc.== | |||
| My comments here will be short and to the point: I'm no longer taking part here. I have received an astounding amount of support, especially by email, but it's time to go. I tried to walk away in August, and managed to do so for quite a while, but I eventually came back, because of the many requests I received urging me to return. Many of you have written to ask me to not leave, to not give up what I have here, but I'm afraid it's time to make a clean break. | |||
| Essay, sorry that you took offence to my queries about expenses for Board members (or more accurately, my misunderstanding of your response) and no, I haven't seen any changes in the description of the Board members' responsibilities etc. as the hot link at the top of the page to the candidates etc. has vanished on my computer. | |||
| I ask that the first steward to see this message please remove my various flags from this wiki, as well as from Meta, Commons, and Wikiquote, and remove the bot flags from my bots, which of course will no longer be running. My tools will be taken down shortly. I had planned to delete my user-space myself, but I don't want anyone to think I was going on a rampage, so instead, I ask that one or more administrators who are friends please delete the 288 pages that form my userspace (leaving only my userpage and this talk page). | |||
| And no, I'm not pushing anything (that ] policy makes sense to me). I believe that I was explicit in expressing my concerns and I'll think that you'll agree that my query resulted in an apparent re-wording of the trustees' responsibilities to more accurately reflect reality. | |||
| I've enjoyed my time here, and done much good work; my time, however, is over, and leaving is the best thing for me and for Misplaced Pages. I walk away happy to be free to go about other things. I hope others will refocus the energy they have spent the past few days in defending and denouncing me to make something here at Misplaced Pages better. | |||
| I think most reasonable Wikipedians understand that the position of trustee is not e-mails and sitting in coffee shops, but after reading some of the nonsense that lands on your talk page from other users, I can understand how you might come to the conclusion that many users are inhabitants of La-La Land. | |||
| With love to all who have been my friends here, <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 03:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| Thanks for your help on the matter. Best regards. ] 20:00, 6 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
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| :The page is ]. Unless you're masquerading as Daniel Mayer, Chief Financial Officer of the Wikimedia Foundaiton, then no, I'm sorry, you weren't responsible; I altered it when I received official word that per diems were indeed availalbe. | |||
| :''Talk page history: , '' | |||
| :I think the fact that we had a 13, a 14, & a 15 year old candidate sign up demonstrates that there '''are''' plenty of editors who aren't aware of what is involved with the position. I suspect strongly that if we were to administer a "What does a trustee do?" quiz, about 90% of regular contributors would fail. | |||
| :Indeed, I do have a lot of la-la-esque posts show up here, but my concerns are less about editors who are in la-la land and more about those who are good, hard working editors who aren't aware of what the trustees do, the amount of time involved, and the potential exposure involved (even if the Foundation does pay for them to attend meetings, the concern about criminal and financial liability came from the Foundation counsel, not me). <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 06:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == EssjayBot III == | |||
| I'd appretiate it if you'd add my talk page to its archiving tasks.''']''' 01:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Sure, I'll have to set it all up (you're the first!) but it should be ready before too long. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 06:16, 7 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Parameters...hmmm...lets see: | |||
| :::1)archive 5 day old stuff (maybe 7 is better, but 5 for now) | |||
| :::2)archive format: "Voice of All/archiveX" (my current ones have the 0 for the tens place digit, like "01", which may have to be moved to just "1", "2" and such. | |||
| :::3)Current number: "06" (maybe it should be moved to just "6") | |||
| :::4)100 Kb arch length | |||
| ::Thanks.''']''' 08:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Username Change:Auriga M36 == | |||
| Thanks, Essjay. | |||
| :No problem! <tt>:)</tt> <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 08:58, 7 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Name changes: == | |||
| About the name changed can you please change mine to Demonblade? I added the request ont he trequest page too. Thanks.] 10:19, 7 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == User name change == | |||
| Hello, essjay, | |||
| would you be good enough to change my usename when you have a spare moment please? I won't be making any more contributions to the site after today, so no longer want my real name on the site. | |||
| The new name isn't important as I won't be using the account again, so if you could change it to, IHaveLeftTheBuilding I would be grateful. | |||
| Thank you. | |||
| --] 15:20, 7 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| P.S. Apologies if I didn't make this request in the correct place. | |||
| :As the top of this talk page says, the correct place to ask for a name change is at ]. Please ask there instead. Thanks, ]]] 16:22, 7 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==WP Board of Trustees etc. == | |||
| A little research solves the perceived problem of good, hard-working editors not knowing what the Board does, no? But I suspect that many good, hard-working editors could care less what a WP trustee does, as they have no desire to sit on the Board. | |||
| Municipal elections (where candidates in Canada are unfettered by political party nomination races) invariably draw a cast of unprepared/ unsuitable candidates out of the woodwork, but generally, things work out for the best in the end in the vast majority of instances. | |||
| But candidates for WP's Board should also know that travel expenses/ per diem's are not paid out automatically, according to WP's by-laws. Unless they are approved by the Board on a case-by-case basis (as I read Article IV, Section 3, anyway), the trustee has to absorb/ pay the expenses. If I'm right on that, that should be known upfront as well by each candidate. Perhaps each candidate should be given an electronic package to help ensure they know what they're getting into. Hope you're enjoying your summer. They never last long enough for my liking. ] 21:18, 7 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Essjaybot II on ] == | |||
| ] could use auto-archiving. —] (] • ]) 03:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == EssjayBot II flag == | |||
| You EssjayBot II to the list of flagged bots, but it ]. Maybe you forgot to flag it? —] (] • ]) 18:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :No, it's an archive bot, so I didn't want it flagged; users should be able to see what it's doing. I added it to the section for maintenence bots without realizing that it was a sub-queue of flagged bots. It should be moved down. <span style="font-family: Verdana">] ]</span> 01:34, 4 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::I can understand that attitude for antivandal bots, but shouldn't archive bots be unobtrusive? —] (] • ]) 03:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Remove an edit from userpage history == | |||
| Hi Essjay, | |||
| I noticed you had oversight rights, and I was hoping you could remove an edit from my user page's history. The diff link is , the vandal was just having fun (I know them in real life, it was all meant to be in good faith according to them and I won't be pursuing the case - ] was the vandal) but in the process they revealed a lot of personal information about me, most of which could be googled but I'd rather not have sitting around in my user page's edit history. I'd appreciate if you could delete the entry. Thanks, ] ] 11:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Editcounter bug == | |||
| So... who do I need to bug/bribe if I've found a bug in your editcounter? <tt>:(</tt> ]]<sup>(])</sup> 22:21, 8 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :The "Report Problems" link on Essjay's edit counter directs a user to Essjay's email. Also, I think Essjay accepts bribes through PayPal :-) Hope that helps. -- ] <sup>]</sup> 23:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Not a bug, merely an inconvenience, but I've noticed that the '''Total edits''' link at the top of the page tries to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/nae - the apostrophe must be throwing something off. Thanks for the new version, though! -- '']']'' 18:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Tools == | |||
| You have created some very useful tools! To create tools on http://www.tools.wikimedia.de, do you need to download some sort of software, or do you write a code that is placed on the website itself? --] 18:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Monobook.js == | |||
| You say that it is easy to remove the admin functions in your Monobook.js. Could you tell me how to do this? I like to keep my Monobook as small as possible, heh. ''']''' <sup></font>]]</sup> 18:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Enhanced edit counter? == | |||
| I find the edit counter very useful. Would it be possible to produce one operating on similar principles that graphs edits by time of day, or time and day of week?--] 22:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| : Well, it's on the toolserver, so it would have the same problems Interiot's edit counter has: German privacy laws. ]]<sup>(])</sup> 23:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Block review == | |||
| Essjay, can you please review of ]. The block reason, and talk messae, is that this was an unapproved bot. I approved a trial run of this bot on ] on ]. It appeared to be a useful bot. Although they do not follow the scrict naming convention for bots, they did "clearly demonstrate that it is a bot" by marking ] as ''robot'', as well as to what it did. The bot operator has mentioned on ] if they should be renamed to a *bot name as well. Thank you, — ] <sup>]</sup> 23:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :You seem to be away from the project. I've gone ahead an this account so that it can continue it's trial run per ]. They will be requesting a username change as well. I will post this on the bot page, if anyone else objects I will reblock right away. When you return, if you want to reblock this account, I waive any ] complaints. Thank you, — ] <sup>]</sup> 00:37, 11 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Archiving Misplaced Pages:Changing username== | |||
| Your bot has archived some still-active ]! | |||
| ] 00:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| *I reverted the un-acted upon requests. Hopefully a beaurecrat (sp?) will take up the slack tonight. I don't want to ask to have Essjaybot II blocked; if it's only ] I can manually watch it for a day or two until someone gets the backlog. ] 01:01, 10 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Archiving ] == | |||
| Can you set your bot to archive entries at ] which have gone two days without any changes? In my experience, if no action has been taken within that time period, it's either been settled or has migrated to a different noticeboard. <b>]<sup>]</sup></b> 01:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Board candidate forum == | |||
| Hi Essjay! Any update on the possible board candidate forum we were discussing before Wikimania? ] 14:56, 10 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==board stuff== | |||
| I would really like that discussion pages with candidates be on meta, rather than subquestions on their talk pages in local projects. Could you change this and open a sub page for each candidate on meta, where people can ask them questions and those interested can quickly go over answers provided rather than to have to fish them ? | |||
| Also, would it not make sense to suggest that candidates provide a bio ? | |||
| Thanks | |||
| Anthere | |||
| == Locked myself out of my bot account == | |||
| I've just locked myself out of my bot account, ], by changing its password to something fiendishly difficult to remember -- and then promptly forgetting it. I've now indefblocked it. I'll create a new account, and re-apply for bot permissions for that account. -- ] 01:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| ], a former NBA basketball player was arrested for pedophilia. ] was NOT arrested for pedophilia. Unfortunately, the accusation has made it's way to the wrong page. The current page is correct but there are history's that have the false accusation. Per Living Bio's I have seen entries with libelous claims get permanently deleted. I am not sure if this is policy or not but it may deserve a look. I am not sure if regular admins can do this or if it's a bureaucrats job. I'd do it myself if I had the tools. --] 03:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :What you want are people with '''oversight''' permission. Essjay is one but seems to be on a break. You can use to find another; there are 25 admins with oversight permission altogether. ] 05:49, 11 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Image:Mindspillage a la Emo.jpg listed for deletion == | |||
| <div style="padding:5px; background-color:#E1F1DE"> An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, ], has been listed at ]. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. ] 12:43, 11 August 2006 (UTC)<!-- Template:Idw --></div> | |||
| == ] == | |||
| Hope you don't mind, I posted this to the B noticeboard too. | |||
| Would you care to close this early. Not just ]. For the good/dignity of the community, I'm not sure this needs to continue to unfold any further.] 15:53, 11 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Just to note, it's been closed, and there was great drama at ANI. ] 01:36, 12 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Every new member I have to know! == | |||
| Could you tell me when there is a new member on Misplaced Pages? Of course, since I'm a member of ], I would want the success of this encyclopedia. Oh, please leave the message on ] in my talk page. Thanks ;)--]]]]]<sup>] ] ]</sup> | |||
| :]. We seem to be getting a few ''thousand'' per day. ]]<sup>(])</sup> 08:42, 12 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::I think maybe he wants Essjay's bot to list all new users at the page, I dunno really... ]<font color="#6D7B8D ">S</font> | ] 09:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| Can you please help me with my new article sir? Thanks in advance.] 04:48, 13 August 2006 (UTC) | |||
Latest revision as of 17:05, 18 October 2023
R E T I R E D
This user is no longer active on Misplaced Pages.
My comments here will be short and to the point: I'm no longer taking part here. I have received an astounding amount of support, especially by email, but it's time to go. I tried to walk away in August, and managed to do so for quite a while, but I eventually came back, because of the many requests I received urging me to return. Many of you have written to ask me to not leave, to not give up what I have here, but I'm afraid it's time to make a clean break.
I ask that the first steward to see this message please remove my various flags from this wiki, as well as from Meta, Commons, and Wikiquote, and remove the bot flags from my bots, which of course will no longer be running. My tools will be taken down shortly. I had planned to delete my user-space myself, but I don't want anyone to think I was going on a rampage, so instead, I ask that one or more administrators who are friends please delete the 288 pages that form my userspace (leaving only my userpage and this talk page).
I've enjoyed my time here, and done much good work; my time, however, is over, and leaving is the best thing for me and for Misplaced Pages. I walk away happy to be free to go about other things. I hope others will refocus the energy they have spent the past few days in defending and denouncing me to make something here at Misplaced Pages better.
With love to all who have been my friends here, Essjay (Talk) 03:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- Talk page history: last revision before departure, messages left after departure