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RfAR, Killian Documents

Not sure where to put this, so I'll pick on you; please feel free to copy this note to more appropriate places if there are some. Part of the uproaring is at Killian_documents_authenticity_issues (and its talk page.) As well, I'm going to be off-line until sometime late Monday evening, so my non-reply to anything left on my talk page, email, or elsewhere is merely that I haven't read it yet. Thanks, htom. htom 05:09, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm back. htom 12:56, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

RFA Prod

Hi Ryan, I have to say I really like the idea of the RFA prod mentioned on WT:RFA, I know it's Gaillimh's idea but you look like you've taken it on board. You mentioned you had a guinea pig for this but if you need another one I'll be willing to help out. And I would have no problems running a normal RFA in parallel or afterwards. Let me know if I can help out. 15:18, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey, yeah I'm going to work on it over the weekend, might need to go through the village pump first, but it's going to be quite a big task getting all the CAT's sorted, and proposal of how to transclude it onto the main RfA page - you seem like a template king, so when I've got it sorted, could you take a look? I'm guessing it's going to be Sunday before I get it up and running. Your more than welcome to try it out, if it fails, consider yourself nommed by me! Ryan Postlethwaite 15:43, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

No probs at all, one the best I know for parsers etc is User:Gracenotes but on the format, wording, or integrating it within RFA, etc, just let me know if I can help. Cheers 16:13, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

No rush, I'll still be here, and I've been busy as over the last week preparing for a selection baord coming up on Friday to make my position permanent, so stressful times ahead for all it seems ;). Take it easy. 06:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject

I'm guessing you don't know about this, because if you did, I would think you would be a member of it. I found it in Alison's categories: This. --TeckWiz is now R Contribs_@(Let's go Yankees!) 05:14, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Are you a member? --TeckWiz is now R Contribs_@(Let's go Yankees!) 23:12, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey R (Mr Teck)! Actually, someone else suggested I join WP:PHARM last week, what I'm currently doing is looking through the articles in their scope and seeing what I can do to help. I certainly am going to join, I just don't want to go into it half heartidly (I think by next monday I will be a firm member!), cheers for kicking me into action with it! Ryan Postlethwaite 23:16, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Excellent! It'd be great to have you on-board over there. There's a lot to do - Alison ☺ 23:20, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I've just joined :-) Might take a short break from the admin tasks and do some pharmocalogical editing for a bit - it's probably better for my degree! Ryan Postlethwaite 23:31, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey there, and welcome! I've replied to your post on the project Talk page. Feel free to get cracking any time—as Alison said, there's much work to be done ;) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 23:42, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Gwernol

Ryan

I am quite certain that I fully blocked this user's page, and the logs support this statement. Is there a bug somewhere?--Anthony.bradbury 23:46, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Looking at the page now, I see that it is only blocked level 2 (new and unregistered). I have amended to admin only, which I am quite certain I originally did.--Anthony.bradbury 23:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

OK, your comment noted.--Anthony.bradbury 23:54, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Welcome and the darkside

Thanks for the welcome, it is much appreciated. All of the hard work you did as part of the RFC and everything is very much appreciated. I know ther is an essay out there somewhere about the value of defending your fellow wikipedians, and you hvae done that admirably. For the life of me, I cannot find the link so you have my apologies for that. Thanks again! -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 14:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Yay, I found the link! why we should defend each other -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 14:10, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert

Thanks for the cleanup of the vandalism on my userpage, I wouldn't have seen it while I was offline. Nihiltres 16:46, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem, I think the users block now anyway. Ryan Postlethwaite 16:47, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Ditto. Thanks a lot for reverting the vandalism on my talk page! Cheers. Will (aka Wimt) 16:56, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

....Not a problem again :-) Ryan Postlethwaite 16:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for blocking troll

Thanks for blocking the apprentice troll just now. I suspect he'll be back just as soon as he can and earning himself a longer block. Nunquam Dormio 17:10, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Thank you, Ryan Postlethwaite, for your constructive comments in my recent RFA, which passed with 86 support, 8 oppose, and 5 neutral !votes. I will keep in mind all your suggestions and/or concerns, and will try to live up to your standards. Please, if you have any comments or complaints about my actions as an administrator, leave a note on my talk page, and I will respond as soon as I possibly can, without frying my brain, of course. Thank you once more, · AndonicO

RfA

I hate to use phrases used ad nauseum in the past, but I really did think you were an admin. Are you quite sure you're not? I will certainly support you, and if this position has not been taken , I would be thrilled to support you. Please let me know ASAP.--Anthony.bradbury 00:19, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, you are, as I thought. Please look at your userpage and tell me what is going on?--Anthony.bradbury 00:25, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

He IS allready an admin. The thing on his page is just a test of an idea of his. -Mschel 00:29, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Ryan, I am fully aware that there is a great deal of ongoing discussion about the whole RfA subject, and I am presently in e-mail contact with User:Durin on this topic. We agree that RfA is broken, and needs repairing. But. If a new user puts your template on his user page, and no-one notices it, are you happy for him to be sysopped? Or, assuming that you are not, what control do you propose on this? Just this week a new user, whose name I will not divulge (except by e-mail, if you ask) put himself up for RfA with a total edit count of 142. OK, he might well have been spotted. But if not?--Anthony.bradbury 12:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

RfA

Ryan

There is a vast amount of ongoing discussion on this topic, and there seems to be an assumption that a simple vote is intrinsically bad. But in reality, is a vote from the community actually a bad way to choose admins?--Anthony.bradbury 12:42, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

The key to it is, that people are still going to check through users contribs, there are many users that seam to get kicks off opposing candidates for stupid reasons, and if want to do this here, all the have to do is remove the template, all it takes is one person to remove the template and it's game over. If you take a look at the proposal, you'll also notice that the closing 'crat gives the candidate a final check over to make sure they're suitable for the job. I would also propose that a bot is created that could list the candidates by the date that the template was added, so it would be easier for people to distinguish who is about to be sysopped so in effect, who needs mopre attention paid to there contribs. If the candidate has the template removed, it's no big deal - one person doesn't want them to be an admin and they are encouraged to run with the normal RfA procedure straight away. Obviously 143 edits is nowhere near sufficient to be an administrator, but at the end of the day - it's no big deal, the emphasis should be put on will they abuse the tools? Not are the experienced in all namespaces. I'm actually interested to hear your idea's on the RfA system, have you and Durin had any thoughts? The key should be a simpler system that promotes more candidates. Ryan Postlethwaite 12:43, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

note, I actually think a straight vote would be for the best, a simple support or oppose, thats how they do ArbCom appointments and it works fine. Get over 70% and you'll become an admin. Ryan Postlethwaite 12:44, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

AldeBaer/Kncyu38

Kncyu38 has changed his name to AldeBaer and is herassing me again. He has reverted the MvR page, against consensus and Jimbo guidelines when no one active there, to include again the prejudiced propaganda that calls me a pagan, etc. Not to mention it violates the undue weight and tiny minority jimbo guidlines as only 2 self proclaimed propaganda books, with sinlge sentences devoted to MvR, make such crack pot claims. I find this driven desire to include prejudiced propaganda as the sole source (or at all really) to be a serious violation of Wiki. what can I do to stop this once and for all? He is trying to get me banned too. Thanks. JohnHistory 14:49, 1 May 2007 (UTC)johnHistory

Replied here. —AldeBaer 16:30, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

adjusting end times in RfA

Not that it matters much, but I'm just curious: why did you change the end time of my RfA from 02:43 to 02:46? As you can see here, I saved the full form at 02:43. Errabee 15:47, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Very much so! Thanks. Errabee 15:54, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

BTW, I couldn't help but notice your name. Are you by any chance related to Pete Postlethwaite? Sorry if you get asked that once too many times. Feel free to not answer this. Errabee 16:54, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I would love to say I am related to the great Pete Postlethwaite (I think he's a great actor)...... But unfortunately I'm not! (You wouldn't believe how many times I get asked that!!), thank you for taking an interest! Ryan Postlethwaite 16:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for adjusting mine too then. I was rounding to the nearest quarter hour, but I should have striven for greater accuracy ! At least I know that I won't get a run of opposes in the last five minutes now. Have fun. --Steve _(Stephen) 00:37, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Your RfA

Hi, I know this is (very!) late but I thought I'd tell you that user:Aquasplash who supported you on your RfA was me, I had abandoned this account after the comments at my second RfA which I reconsidered the next day after realising it was stupid, I'd left this account so I wasn't violating WP:SOCK as I didnt vote as Tellyaddict as well, just thought I'd give you a heads up.Tellyaddict 18:10, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Naughty boy! I'll let you off this once as you did support my RfA! Any chance you could provide a link to your last RfA? Cheers Ryan Postlethwaite 18:46, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Lol, seriously though if you want to check exactly you can lol, my second and failed RfA is here, I was not going to run but when the nom was created I thought I might as well, I have asked User:Husond to give me admin coaching, he says he will in a few days but he's busy in real life he says, thanks! Tellyaddict 18:52, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

RE: Your report on WP:RFCN

Oh, uh, I forgot to mention that I already took it to administrators noticeboard, and they told me to take it to you guys. So...? -- Reaper X 18:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Well I was oblivious to the fact the user has already been blocked. Everything's good, case resolved. -- Reaper X 18:42, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I only realised that you had been directed to RFCN from AN/I after I posted it on there, User:HighInBC blocked, so I removed the new thread on AN/I, as you say, it's all resolved now :-) Ryan Postlethwaite 18:44, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Displaying members of categories

I came across Misplaced Pages:Proposed adminship. I also came across User:Durin/test and realized the difficulty of trancluding categories, at least if you want the category members to show. :-P After many cups of coffee, several swear words directed at MediaWiki and a hunk of searching, I found a way to display the contents of a category. Here is the edit showing the functional implementation of the solution. It uses the CategoryTree extension of MediaWiki. Cheers! :O) Vassyana 05:48, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Wow thats great, thanks for your effort here (I hope you didn't get too stressed with it!). It seams that all it would need is for the CategoryTree extension to be placed where we transclude the page to, or would it work simply as an addition to the category? Any ideas? Ryan Postlethwaite 10:34, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem. It was just a matter of coming across Durin's comment regarding the problem. At that point, my natural curiosity and stubbornness took over insisting that surely there was some way to transclude category contents. It wasn't stressful at all really. I quite enjoy digging up information when I've my mind set to find it. :) The CT extension would need to be placed where the category is transcluded. Be well! Vassyana 08:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Gohar Shahi

Dear Administration,

Please be informed that I am the office bearer of Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam an international spiritual movement founded by His Holiness Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi in 1980 in Pakistan and being an office bearer I am responsible to propagate and preach activities on Internet. His Holiness Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi is an internationally renowned spiritual personality with hundred thousands of followers in Pakistan and across the world. We have several online website to serve this purpose and I am officially authorized from His Holiness Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi.

I take full responsibility of the content placed on http://en.wikipedia.org/Gohar_Shahi by me. Therefore, may I request you to kindly restore my article on His Holiness Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi?

Look forward to your positive response.

I am surprised on such rude and biased behavior of English Misplaced Pages. Why such rude behavior with me? I uploaded an article on His Holiness Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, a world renowned spiritual personality and I took the full responsibility of the contents in spite of that my article was deleted even I gave an explanation being a responsible person of representative of His Holiness Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi but no response at all!

What is this?

You claim to be world’s largest 💕 THAT ANY ONE CAN EDIT but on contrary to this slogan, your policies are totally adverse to your slogan?

I am an authorized representative of His Holiness Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi and want to write an article, so that WIKIPEDIA should have at least a profile of world renowned spiritual personality who enlightened hundred thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims without any discrimination of cast, creed or sect.

I would highly appreciate, if you could kindly allow me to upload an article.

Look forward to an urgent response.

Regards, --سگِ گوھرشاہی 11:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I've replied at WP:AN. Ryan Postlethwaite 11:21, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

User:144.32.17.104

While you're at it, maybe you could cool down his mate (or sock) at the suspiciously similar IP User:144.32.17.102. 2 computers next to each other in a school / college comes to mind for no apparent reason... --Dweller 12:57, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Blocked, along with IP:144.32.17.105 who decided to vandalise my userpage :-) Ryan Postlethwaite 13:03, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah. I wonder how many computers are in the cluster?!?!? lol --Dweller 13:04, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Ta again

Thanks for the userpage revert and block. Fellow is getting less creative. – Riana_ऋ 13:19, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Retirement

I would just like to tell you that I am retiring from Misplaced Pages, I have registered a new account and I am going to start fresh and edit under that name, not because of any actions on Misplaced Pages or users of Misplaced Pages but just to start fresh. I dont want to make a big deal out of it but thought I should tell you so you know. More info See you around! Tellyaddict 16:48, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

Hello. You recently added a comment here regarding my opposition of the user's rfa. I thank you for alerting me of my mistake. I have removed my comments and am in the process of apologizing to several editors (for example, here). I never meant to hurt or bite anyone. I was just stating my opinion regarding the rfa. Again, I thank you and hope for your forgiveness. Yours truly, Boricuaeddie 23:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Boricuaeddie has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Multi account

Might I ask what is the point of this and especially this? >Radiant< 09:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Of course you can Radiant!, I created those accounts per requests from new users that couldn't create an account at Misplaced Pages:Request an account, does that explain things?! Ryan Postlethwaite 09:18, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay. I was just confused by that, and I hadn't seen the "request an account" process before. Thanks! >Radiant< 09:28, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Well it's good to know people are looking out for the integrity of wikipedia, cheers for showing concern. Ryan Postlethwaite 09:50, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Use of old vandal warning templates.

I noticed you're still using the old {{test5}} template rather than, say, the newer {{uw-block1}} template. I think that we're were all asked to use the newer templates and just wondered if you missed the word or I misread the memo.

WP:UW describes what's been going on.

Atlant 15:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey Atlant, hmmmm I'm not too sure on this one myself, for warning templates I always uses the uw- templates, I used to use the {{uw-block1}} and {{uw-block3}} templates after blocking, but I really don't like then, the {{test5}} and {{test7}} templates are more in keeping with the warnings. I'll move back to the uw- warnings then as you are probably right, I do that a concern with the old style templates and that is they don't tell a user how to appeal a block ({{Unblock}}). Cheers for the advice. Ryan Postlethwaite 15:32, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Eyup fella, was just coming here to see how the RFA prod was coming on, and saw the message above. Just out of interest if there anything particular you don't like about {{uw-block1}}, I take it you know we have various flavours of block to meet what ever the mood dictates as well as the standard three. Let me know if there's owt specific and I'll see what I/WP:UW can do. Cheers 16:32, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Is that new username page a go?

I wasn't sure if the username report page was a go yet--that's why I refactored my report. But apparently it must be ... thanks. Blueboy96 16:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

It's not officially in use yet, but there's a few monitoring it so people will see it if names get reported there. It should be ready to report to properly in the next couple of days. Ryan Postlethwaite 16:38, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Was wondering because Twinkle is already reporting usernames directly there.Blueboy96 16:43, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Done

Email is enabled. David Füchs 23:16, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Did so just now. Thanks again. David Füchs 23:26, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Humping

Are you leaning over my shoulder?--Anthony.bradbury 00:54, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I like to butt into everyones talk pages, especially when I see something funny! Ryan Postlethwaite 07:45, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

'scuse me. Do you mind? You're standing right in the way of Tony's monitor and I want a look-in too :) - Alison ☺ 08:07, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Tick, tock...

File:Hourglass.gif

And you'll have mail off me in the morning (sorry, I can't load hotmail with my connection tonight) - and so will you Phaedriel. Ryan Postlethwaite 00:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick... Phaedriel - 00:22, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

hmmmm, you can't expect me to email back to yours without some thought! I just don't want to send a 1 liner - I've been thinking about what to right for long enough time, so it's time for your email tomorrow!! Ryan Postlethwaite 19:10, 6 May 2007 (UTC)