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Please note the nominations have been posted, and there are standard questions to be answered. Members of the community may also ask questions, so please monitor your nomination(s) until the comment period is concluded on the 18th. Those who are running for both flags have two sections, and two copies of the standard questions -- the first two, at least, are likely to have different answers, so this isn't redundant. (The third one, well, it does.) Thanks for your willingness to serve. Courcelles (talk) 06:35, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Are you familiar with TheRedPenOfDoom?!?!

Are you familiar with the user: TheRedPenOfDoom? Because if you are I will let you know that he/she is being very unreasonable! I have been editing Michiel Huisman's wiki page for quite some time now, and he has been consistently removing info that I add. Everything that I add is completely legit and is sourced. But he/she is still removing and altering stuff. Like for example removing the fact that Michiel was cast opposite Blake Lively in The Age of Adaline, because he/she said that fact that he was going to be co-starring opposite Blake Lively had and I quote "nothing to do with him being named for the role". He/she has been deleting at least around 5 full sentences or more in the last like 3 days from that page. I have worked hard with that page, and when he/she is deleting the FACTS that I add I get mad and uppset. I know you are a admin, im not asking you to necessarily ban him/her but at least make him/her stop. Sebahed (talk) 18:14, 5 March 2015 (UTC)sebahed

@Sebahed and TheRedPenOfDoom: It sounds lie you two need to have a chat on the article's talk page. I'm not going to say one party is right and one is wrong, that's not my place, but the only way these things ever get resolved is through discussion. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:56, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

List of Premier League players with 100 or more goals

Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 18:42, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Yep, upgraded to indef. Thanks. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:58, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 March 2015

Is it appropriate to write a specific admin that wrote on my AE case?

Thanks, Ashtul (talk) 21:08, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

If there's something specific you need to ask them about, it shouldn't be a problem. But be careful that it's not seen as canvassing by asking them to take your 'side'. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:23, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's wiki page

There is something wrong with Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's wiki page where you can't see his template. Can you take a quick look? Sebahed (talk) 22:56, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

@Sebahed:: Nothing major, just a missing pair of brackets! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:01, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Requesting advice

This is an unfortunately somewhat delayed cross-post to an earlier comment at Drmies's talk page.

Please see the following exchange on my user talk page here. I also believe it might be valuable to review the subsequent edits of this newly created account to other articles since then. In a number of ways, this seems to me to be a rather obvious sockpuppet, in a number of ways, of Tgeairn, but I think, under the circumstances, it would be best if someone other than me reviewed the matter and filed either the SPI or the AE request. John Carter (talk) 02:34, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Seriously John? Although I must admit to laughing wholeheartedly at the mess you find yourself in, to try to blame me is complete BS. False flag went out of fashion with GamerGate. Harry, now I owe you two - call it payment for the mess. --Tgeairn (talk) 02:53, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Well it's obviously somebody's sock, and I've blocked it as such. I doubt it's Tgeairn—to sock immediately after an AE request against you was closed with a warning would be like suicide by admin. @Callanecc: fancy taking a look to see who the master is? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:34, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Honestly, based on the available evidence, including this new editor almost immediately going to the List of new religious movements, which is, admittedly, not necessarily one of the most obvious articles and certainly one I haven't edited for some time, I think anyway, as well as the new editor at least in my eyes showing what I see as the same rather simplistic grasp of basic policies and guidelines, as well as it coming almost immediately upon my indicating on the Landmark article talk page that Landmark is apparently significantly discussed in a new book about "cults" by a sometimes somewhat sensationalist but not disreputable author, it very, very much seems to me that the puppetmaster is almost certainly a person concerned about Landmark's reputation and also, honestly, someone who may be perhaps "uncomplicated" enough to believe such a transparently laughable attack would work. To summarize, it shows a bit of arrogance on the behalf of the sockpuppeteer, a rather simplistic grasp of things, and very likely being instigated by someone who cannot abide any sort of criticism, in this case of Landmark. To my eyes, the person who unfortunately seems to me to most nearly possess those characteristics in sufficient strength to be a match is, most likely, Tgeairn. Even DaveApter, who may perhaps show the same level of what some might call uncritical fanaticism about the topic, has also from what I've seen shown a slightly better grasp of conduct and content guidelines than Tgeairn himself. John Carter (talk) 18:04, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Landmark AE

Hi, the AE request on Tgeairn needed to be handled by one or more functionaries. That should have been made clear but it wasn't. Non-functionary admins should have been asked to step back since they didn't have the requisite evidence.

The COI is unequivocal and the POV-pushing through sockpuppeting is unequivocal, among other issues. Callanecc said the sockpuppeting is obvious. That's not something to be ignored.

The AE request needs to be evaluated on the evidence. The non-functionary admins who took part didn't have the necessary evidence and formed their conclusions without it. Would you please reopen the case and ask that it be handled by functionaries? Regards, Manul ~ talk 05:30, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

No. You've conflated several different issues. First, AE is run by admins; functionaries who participate there do so in their capacity as regular admins, so the functionary corps has no mandate to take over AE requests. Second, the functionary corps has no mandate to investigate editors' off-wiki activities; if that's within anybody's mandate, it's ArbCom's. But all the arbitrators are subscribed to the functionaries list, and as it happens I spoke informally to two arbitrators and a functionary before I closed the AE request,none of whom suggested that ArbCom was inclined to take it over. Now, much more importantly, having a conflict of interest is not against policy, especially if it doesn't manifest itself in problematic editing. None of the admins who commented at AE saw Tgeairn's edits as problematic. You need to start focusing on content, not the contributor, and stop casting aspersions, stop alluding to private emails, and stop this unhealthy focus on Tgeairn. Otherwise you'll be sanctioned. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:03, 6 March 2015 (UTC)