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RFA nomination request

Hello! I saw your name at WP:REQUESTNOM, and I would appreciate if you would take a look at my edits and tell me if you think I am ready for RFA or not. I have been a wikipedia editor for five years, and while my edit count is low (~5,000), I think my contributions have been significant - 2 GAs, over 100 articles created, around 1500 new pages patrolled, and also lots of categorizing, referencing, GA reviews, and so forth. Recently I have noticed a persistent backlog at CAT:CSD and I would like to help reduce it, so I am looking into becoming an admin. Thanks, --Cerebellum (talk) 01:48, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry I couldn't respond for so long. Will look into this and respond by email. Kind regards. Wifione 05:34, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello

Wifione, I think you should know about this and this. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 08:39, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks Vejvančický. Appreciate the note. Replied considerably. Do contact me for any further assistance. Kind regards. Wifione 05:33, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Are you Nichalp? --SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:42, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Smokey. No, I'm not. Do write back for any other assistance. Best regards. Wifione 19:16, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 20:31, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome. Wifione 09:49, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

done with 2nd chance

Thanks for the unprotect. As I went to edit it I realized I was mistaken -- I was confused because it references a notice only visible to blocked users. Please reprotect and apologies for the unnecessary work. Nobody Ent 13:16, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

• No problems at all. It's wonderful to see you around. Write back for any future assistance. Kind regards. Wifione 13:19, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Potential Administrator

I just came across work of the vandal-fighter "User:Jim1138" today and don't see him on the Active Administrator list. Seems like someone who might be able to use the power tools... best, —Tim //// Carrite (talk) 18:13, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks for the note. I'll trawl through his contributions today and check his candidacy out. Please do keep referring possible admin candidates to me (or to any nominator). Your references are highly appreciated by me. Kind regards. Wifione 03:13, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

hi

u get paid?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.175.30.77 (talk) 09:36, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

• Are you user Bignotebook5 by any chance? Wifione 14:39, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Cratship

Hi there. Someone else has mentioned you at Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for adminship#Suggestion for new crats and I support them - are you interested? Regards, GiantSnowman 13:31, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

• Hi GS. Forget the crat thing, it's lovely to see you dropping by. How is the administration bit going on? Hope you're enjoying the stuff you're doing. Like I mentioned, great to see you around. Wifione 14:37, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

• Sure we can't twist your arm? Yeah it's going well thanks, taking it slowly but growing in confidence all the time. Hope you're well, keep safe, GiantSnowman 17:06, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

• To you too, best always :) Wifione 17:16, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Star

Thank you. Of course, being diligent against vandalism takes time away from developing articles. Oh well, we do what we can. BollyJeff || talk 18:28, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

True. Whenever you might need admin assistance, do tell. Best. Wifione 18:15, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far. Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Thanks for the message

Yes, I need to educate myself substantially more before I become an administrator. I am slowly working through the WP:ARL. Though, given my short attention span, I may have reached the height of my career. Thanks for the message. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 10:35, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Well, the way you're going, you've got a lot of perseverance. There're many who'll guide you whenever you need help, including me. So don't hesitate to ask whenever you need help. Wifione 17:08, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

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Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Handle-o-Meter (2nd nomination)

Hello. Willing to discuss this close? - Aaron Brenneman (talk) 07:56, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Of course. Please do tell. Best. Wifione 17:15, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

St. Eugene Catholic Elementary School

Based on the comments made in Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/St. Eugene Catholic Elementary School, could you please indefinitely fully protect St. Eugene Catholic Elementary School as it was before you deleted it? Otherwise, the attack/hoax content will just continue resurfacing. Could you also please delete St. Eugene's Catholic Elementary School (note the possessive s) and recreate it as a protected redirect, for the same reason that the original article was deleted? Thanks. —KuyaBriBri 13:53, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the note. Kind regards. Wifione 17:23, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

I noticed you took care of the issue with the possessive page using revdel. I'm completely okay with that, but could you please do the same to and as well? Thanks. —KuyaBriBri 18:51, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Done. Thanks again. Wifione 05:03, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/UFC 140 (2nd nomination)

Given a number of the !vote keeps have been found to be users socking, can you re-look at the above re-list ? Mtking 00:45, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Actually another person has already commented and I possibly cannot now reverse my relisting. So let it run for another few days and I'll see how it goes. Do please come back if any editor attacks you even slightly. There'll be an immediate long block. Best. Wifione 13:10, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

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Confirm! Wifione 13:30, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: Adminship?

Thanks for your kind words. I have no idea where you have come across me on the project, we don't seem to overlap much in areas covered! While I am honoured by your consideration, I don't think adminship would suit me at the moment: the vast majority of my editing is in article expansion/creation, and I only tend to stray into administrative areas occasionally, so I'm not sure how much use the tools would really be to me? Thank you again, Harrias 14:05, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Actually, with as outstanding an editing background as the one you have, it'll not be required that you really indulge in administration throughout. For example, prepared DYK hook sets are placed in queues by administrators, and your involvement there would complement both your interest and the project's. That's just one example. I'll again request you to reconsider your decision, more for the project's benefit. And oh, anyone interested in cricket would sometime or the other come across you. Wifione 14:15, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Well, I've just spent the last hour reading through the RfA guidelines and advice, and flicking through some recent RfAs, both successful and unsuccessful. I've had a look around at what I do on the site, where I'm active, and where I might like to be more active. After this consideration, I have decided that I will accept your nomination: but first I'd like to give you a brief idea of my answers to each of the three initial questions in the AfD so that you might form more of an idea about whether you wish to nominate me.

1. On the whole I would continue to add to Misplaced Pages primarily as a content editor: creating and expanding articles and working towards Good and Featured status. As part of this, I spend time at WP:DYK, and would (as you suggested) be able to transfer prepared hook sets into the queue, something there have been some lapses and close calls with recently. Beyond that I envision that it would primarily be "as I come across it" adminning: within my area of primary areas of editing, things that I come across that need admin intervention. Beyond that I would always be willing to get involved in something when requested by a User.
2. In my opinion my best contributions are my articles, both new and expansions. Primarily cricket based, but with dalliances into a variety of different places at times. I am most proud of my only FA, Herbie Hewett, but am also proud of creating articles that I don't particularly have a desire to move onto Good or Featured status such as Juan Martínez de Recalde, second-in-command of the Spanish Armada.
3. I've had very few conflicts with other editors: I'm a pretty chilled out sort of person, so I tend not to get into such situations. One case I do recall was when I got a bit snappy with User:Djln here. I disagreed with what he'd done, but I shouldn't have left the message I did. Generally, if something does irritate me on Misplaced Pages, I'll take a break from my computer for a bit, and then revisit it later when I'll be able to make a more rational decision.

I should also note that with regard to the timings of a potential nomination, I'm not going to be able to be online next weekend much at all. Regards, Harrias 16:01, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind reconsideration and the efforts to answer the questions. If it's alright with you, I'll prefer continuing further discussions over email. Do please expect an email from me in the next 24 hours. Kind regards. Wifione 17:11, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: Hi Tim

Hey Wifione, thank you for your message. I have thought a few times about running for adminship, but I'm not sure I have enough experience writing articles to pass. Believe it or not, I actually have more fun with the technical stuff than with article-creation and maintenance. However, if you don't think that would be an issue, than I'd love to try an RfA. Thanks again, Tim1357 20:24, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Great that at least you gave it a good thought. I'll be continuing the discussions over email with you. Please expect an email in the next 24 hours. Kind regards. Wifione 17:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Josh Samman Misplaced Pages

The page for MMA fighter Josh Samman got deleted, was wondering why? (email add redacted). Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.53.78.8 (talk) 19:05, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

• The article was nominated for deletion by an editor and after discussions, was deleted by me. Please read the discussions at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Josh Samman to gather an idea. Please write back if the discussions aren't clear enough. Thanks. Wifione 09:16, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Josh Samman

Hello, I am the author of the wikipedia page. I believe the following links establish significant independent coverage: http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20120222/SPORTS/202220332/Four-Tallahassee-fighters-get-ready-MMA-event-Atlanta Television http://www.wctv.tv/insidethegame/headlines/38167309.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Fo84P1tCY

If i worked them into the citation of the article, can i create the article again? Please reconsider. Patrick Donahue — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thecrow1313 (talk • contribs) 23:05, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

• Patrick hi. Yes you can create the article again provided you confirm that you've read up on the following policies and guidelines pages that I'm linking below:

WP:BLP; policy on why we consider articles on living persons very carefully

WP:Notability; WP:Notability (people); WP:Notability (sports); guidelines on what can and cannot be included on Misplaced Pages

WP:Verifiability; policy on what kind of sources qualify for proving notability

WP:Reliable sources; guideline explaining helpful examples of sources that qualify on our verifiability policy.

WP:NPOV; policy on why articles should be written with a neutral point of view.

I liked the wctv source. The Tallahassee source is iffy, with just passing references. The youtube source is not acceptable for proving notability as it is a primary source. It can be used later in external linking. Write back to me for any additional help. Wifione 09:04, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

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Widefox (talk) 16:11, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

FYI

Someone you recently gave rollbacker rights to just did this . We might want to keep an eye out on this one. Dave (talk) 14:32, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

• Hi Dave. I see no problems in the edit. What might have caught your eye? Best. Wifione 15:00, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
  • Two earthquakes spaced 2 years apart briefly caused a highway literally on the other side of the world (quite literally, almost a full 12 time zones apart) to magically jump about 450 miles (720 km) to the south and to the other side of the Grand Canyon?. This would be no different than me saying that during those two earthquakes the M6 Motorway was briefly moved to France, or during those two earthquakes Japan briefly had a land connection to the Philippines. This was blatant and absurd vandalism.
  • I'll admit that maybe it was 2AM where this poster was from and they were really tired, and had it happened during more normal hours they would have caught that this was obvious and absurd vandalism. And in that sense maybe I overreacted. However, for a tool that demands knowing legitimate edits from obvious vandalism, this was a miss. Dave (talk) 15:18, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Good you caught it. Let's give the him a lease, shall we. On the other side, he didn't use the rollback, so there's no question of castigating him for using or not using the rollback tool. In all, well caught, chapter closed. Thanks for the note. Wifione 15:20, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

50 edits/reverts a day!!!!!!

I have been working at rate of reverting 50 cases of vandalism a day. Now can I have Rollback tools. After a fortnight I will have approximately 500 edits (my target). Also, after 50 edits day I start feeling really dizzy, no joke.--UserWOLfan112 Talk 18:04, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

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