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Contents
- 1 Happy New Year Beeblebrox!
- 2 Happy New Year, Beeblebrox!
- 3 Happy New Year, Beeblebrox!
- 4 Happy New Year!
- 5 Happy New Year, Beeblebrox
- 6 good faith chaos at Chinese stock market crash (2015–present)
- 7 ANI notice
- 8 UnbiasedVictory sock
- 9 Thanks
- 10 Lord Laitinen
- 11 Your oversight block
- 12 Dunning–Kruger effect
- 13 New admin project
- 14 User:Detectionist - Some confusion, wanting your input, please
- 15 About WP:FLOW
- 16 I have sent you an email.
- 17 Self-requested block: WikiBreak Enforcer doesn't work
- 18 rfc & essay
- 19 Lukaslt13
- 20 Bios
Happy New Year Beeblebrox!
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Happy New Year!
Amaury (talk) 17:57, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Beeblebrox
good faith chaos at Chinese stock market crash (2015–present)
Hey, I don't really pay attention to adminly things, and don't know where to complain, but you seem to have interacted with User:EggyEggPercent, no wait, I mean User:George Ho. If you could add some order to the chaos he.they is/are causing at Chinese stock market crash (2015–present), it would generate good karma for you in your next username. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 01:34, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- Lingzhi mistakens me with EggyEggPercent. EggyEggPercent used "financial quake" or something, while I... I'm too tired to deal with slander. --George Ho (talk) 02:39, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- Slander? At worst, a simple case of mistaken identity. But the FIRST thing is to stop moving things on your own without WP:CONSENSUS. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 03:10, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
ANI notice
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Unblock request. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 20:38, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- I didn't know I was supposed to give you notice. Sorry, no offense intended. Since you were the blocking admin it makes sense that you should review it. I hope you will. Thanks. BlueBonnet 21:07, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
UnbiasedVictory sock
Yet another sock of this blocked user has popped up: Detectionist (talk) came into existence hours after No fear here (talk) was blocked, and is repeating, word for word, the former user's edits to the Battle of New Orleans. HLGallon (talk) 11:03, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
- Yep, blocked and tagged, page protected. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:50, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for your help earlier. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 22:15, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:25, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Lord Laitinen
I wanted to request the rollback permission. I have been a reviewer (appointed by you) for several months now, and I have used that tool to counter vandalism and many other types of disruptive editing dozens, if not hundreds of times. Also, I have acquainted myself with Twinkle's rollback features so as to prepare myself for the "real thing." If you find my recent contributions lack what is necessary to be appointed a rollbacker, I would appreciate any advice you can spare. I hope you consider my recent contributions to be worthy of a second permission, and I thank you for your time, once again. Lord Laitinen (talk) 00:24, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Lord Laitinen (t · c · del · cross-wiki · SUL · wikichecker · xtools · supercount · pages created · non-automated edits · BLP edits · logs (block • rights) · arb · spi) (assign permissions)( · · · · · · )
- Done. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:47, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Your oversight block
I suspect this is exactly the kind of thing you had suppressed, and had told her not to reiterate. I've revdel'd it, to be going on with, and removed talkpage access. Please undo these actions if I'm barking up the wrong tree.Bishonen | talk 23:00, 22 January 2016 (UTC).
Dunning–Kruger effect
Some good; some bad. Extend PC? --George Ho (talk) 01:05, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
New admin project
Is there any admins interested in policing article content rather than claim OR is a content dispute? We can start a new project for specialty admins to enforce the rules.
I mentioned the above on the talk page for the new essay. I would like to create a new project for admins to help enforce the rules such as OR. What do you think? QuackGuru (talk) 18:18, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
- Admins are responsible for stopping disruption, when we start taking sides in editorial disputes, we become involved and cannot take administrative action. On the other hand, if it is clearly established that a specific editor is consistently adding OR to articles, admins can and will block them. I've done it many times. So, I'm afraid I don't really agree with the premise. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:25, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
- Specialty admins could solve the issue with OR but I do not know how this could be done. How can an admin decide what is OR? I provided evidence on the chiropractic talk page but it was ignored. I am not interesting in getting another editor blocked for adding OR twice. QuackGuru (talk) 18:31, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
User:Detectionist - Some confusion, wanting your input, please
Hello! So, I stuck my foot into something of a puzzle you could perhaps help me with. I saw you had blocked (and also reviewed and declined an unblock of) User:Detectionist as a sockpuppet of User:UnbiasedVictory. However, looking over User:UnbiasedVictory, they aren't blocked for sockpuppetry at the moment at all - it looks like User:HJ_Mitchell cleared them of any wrongdoing on that front. User:C-3PO, HCR was created and posted an unblock request, admitting to being User:Detectionist and saying they wanted to be unblocked and cleared for normal Wikipedia use. So, initially, since they were apparently requesting from an alternate account to a blocked account, I blocked them. However, I rescinded the block on noticing that the supposed sockmaster, UnbiasedVictory, was not actually blocked. I hope you can grasp why I'm a little confused here, and I'm trying to figure out if I've screwed up or not. The relationship between these three accounts now is pretty confusing to me at this point. I've reached out to C-3PO, HCR for clarification on their talk page, but as the blocking admin for the account they explicitly linked themselves to, I thought maybe you could clarify, and also that I owed you some contact to make sure I'm not inadvertently going over your head on a valid block placed by you. - Vianello (Talk) 07:44, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
- I'm obviously not Beeblebrox, but as I do watch the War of 1812 page I did want to point out that User:UnbiasedVictory has been globally blocked since 22:02, 25 March 2015, three months after that last unblock. UnbiasedVictory's block was by steward Vituzzu. --Noren (talk) 08:16, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you. And User:Noren pointed out the same on my talk page. I understand the situation now. Much obliged, and sorry to bother you, Beeblebrox! - Vianello (Talk) 08:38, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
- No bother at all, I'm always willing to explaina block, even easier if someone else does it for me! Beeblebrox (talk) 19:46, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you. And User:Noren pointed out the same on my talk page. I understand the situation now. Much obliged, and sorry to bother you, Beeblebrox! - Vianello (Talk) 08:38, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
About WP:FLOW
I lodged a protest on the result of Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)'s "Talk about Flow again" section because I am satisfied with the result (the result is "This feature has been strongly rejected by the community, and the WMF isn't even trying to fix it anymore."). I think the WMF should allow all language versions' Wikipedia users to enable Flow feature which skipped the community's consensus, and the current policy on Flow is irrational. So I would like to call WMF change the policy on Flow in your talk page, thank you.--Shwangtianyuan Happy Chinese New Year to everyone 00:21, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
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- Your comment is kind of hard to parse, but if you want to have a conversation with the WMF about this, you are not only on the wrong page, you are on the wrong website. To start a discussion about global or WMF policy, as opposed to just the english Wikipedia, you'll need to go to the Meta-wiki. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:18, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
I have sent you an email.
Hello Beeblebrox. Just letting you know that I have sent you an email. I look forward to your reply at your earliest convenience. Regards, --Ches (talk) 18:30, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Self-requested block: WikiBreak Enforcer doesn't work
I would like to be blocked till March 9th. (I have read your requirements). The WikiBreak Enforcer does not work, probably because I'm using Internet Explorer. Peter Sam Fan | talk 20:13, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
- Not done. With only five article edits you fail the first one of my conditions for considering such a block. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:33, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
rfc & essay
Your essay is quite good. Unfortunately I was not aware of it prior :) Although I had a specific proposal in mind, I was intentionally vague, to allow the plurality of ideas to come out. I was either planning on a magic consensus to form, or a consensus for "something" which would be followed by a multiple choice rfc to actually make an implementation choice. As you rightly point out in your essay tho, the multiple choices often fail to achieve consensus. In any case, I have reformulated to what I actually think we should do. I suppose if that doesn't gain consensus, others could propose other ideas. Thanks for the feedback. Gaijin42 (talk) 22:49, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Lukaslt13
I see that Lukaslt13 has been indeffed, for poor competence with English. I find this sad. Yes, his English is poor, and sometimes incomprehensible. But poor English, where it matters in an article, can be corrected. His intentions were good. He has created at least one article which still exists: Navikai. He is 13 years old, and no doubt his English will improve. I have made what I believe were constructive edits to Wikipedias in languages I cannot read, without being blocked from them. Maproom (talk) 19:56, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
- And that was after the block, when he had to know he needed to show some degree of competence in the English language to be unblocked. Look, nobody enjoys doing blocks like this, but sometimes they have to be done. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:01, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
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- That quotation is from a talk page, where it is harmless (though totally incomprehensible). He could sometimes communicate constructively, e.g. here. Overall, he seemed preferable to the users I come across who routinely ignore attempts to communicate with them – and I have never heard of one of those being indeffed for it. Maproom (talk) 10:08, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) I have to say I think you are missing the point there. It does not matter that that comment is not in an article, what matters is that it shows that the guy simply can not speak English! And that example you gave was only barely comprehensible and contains such gems as "P.s kind of want to, and the use of such a design. It is important that the copy of the others" - he's using machine translation for anything more than just a few words, for sure. We are developing an English language encyclopedia here, and people who can not speak English tend to be a net negative to the project - even if some of their work actually sticks, they cost more in other people's efforts than they contribute. As Beeblebrox says, we don't like blocking such people, but I really do agree that it is sometimes necessary and that this is one of those cases. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:35, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
- Also, his article Navikai might well be a copyright violation. The same text appears in a number of places on a Google search, eg http://www.topentity.com/navikai/ - I don't know how many might be Wikipedia mirrors, but the article was certainly not written in his own words as the English is far too good. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:40, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
- I guess my point is that I doubt difficulty in communicating in English is grounds for an indef. I have edited cs:Wikipedia, and admitted there that I know no Czech, without them blocking me. Editors who refuse to communicate in any language don't get indeffed for it. As for the Navikai article: the English was initially comprehensible, but not good. I helped to improve it. The topentity page includes my improvements. Maproom (talk) 17:36, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
- But how long does it take for someone so young to learn sufficient English? A year? 2 years? Indef doesn't mean for ever, and all he needs to do is make an unblock request when he has improved his English sufficiently, and then he can be unblocked. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:03, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
- I guess my point is that I doubt difficulty in communicating in English is grounds for an indef. I have edited cs:Wikipedia, and admitted there that I know no Czech, without them blocking me. Editors who refuse to communicate in any language don't get indeffed for it. As for the Navikai article: the English was initially comprehensible, but not good. I helped to improve it. The topentity page includes my improvements. Maproom (talk) 17:36, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
- That quotation is from a talk page, where it is harmless (though totally incomprehensible). He could sometimes communicate constructively, e.g. here. Overall, he seemed preferable to the users I come across who routinely ignore attempts to communicate with them – and I have never heard of one of those being indeffed for it. Maproom (talk) 10:08, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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- The block was not for "difficulty communicating in English" it was for gross incompetence and apparent use of machine translation in an attempt to substitute for an utter lack of any knowledge of English at all
- I have in fact blocked several users over the years for not communicating at all, and I'm not the only one. Communication is essential on a collaborative project.
- That this is apparently not how they do things on the Czech Wikipedia is irrelevant.
- Lukaslt13 is free to try and craft an appeal via WP:UTRS at anytime. If you are in communication with him you might want to advise him not to compare a block from a website with bieing raped next time, that certainly didn't help his case.
- I do not believe further discussion here will change the situation, block requests from third parties are generally not considered valid.
I hope that sufficiently clarifies matters. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:18, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Bios
I see you recently followed up an edit of mine from 2011, there were a bunch of other biographies that I felt had UNDUE concerns, your recent edit makes me feel as if I didn't go far enough. See [1]. Hope all is well, –xenotalk 11:14, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
- If he had been convicted of murder or something, or it was a big media thing like when Winona Ryder got charged with shoplifting, I could see it, but a speeding ticket seems like a pretty ridiculous thing to mention even if he was initially arrested for it. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:09, 4 March 2016 (UTC)