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The Signpost: 29 January 2014

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Template:HABS

I recently ended the redirect from Template:HABS to Template:PD-USGov-Interior-HABS. You may need to update the link on your page User:Legoktm/AWB/TR/All copyright templates. Thanks, Elizabeth Linden Rahway (talk) 04:11, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-06

08:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

  • Traffic report: Six strikes out
    There are times when this job is hard. As an analogy, imagine navigating in fog at night, except you don't know where you are, you don't know where you want to go, and your flashlight keeps dying on you.
  • WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
    Contests have existed almost as long as the English Wikipedia. Contestants have expanded hundreds of articles and made tens of thousands of edits. Although it may seem as though there aren't any negatives to contests, they have occasionally become a divisive topic on the English Wikipedia.
  • News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
    Wiki-PR, a public relations agency, whose employees used a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts to create, edit, and maintain several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients, has told Business Insider that it was demonized by the online encyclopedia. Jordan French, Wiki-PR's CEO, said he believes the Wikimedia Foundation "painted" his company to look like an "evil entity" that is "scrubbing truths from Wikipedia".

Legobot is malfunctioning

Legobot is going bonkers, removing and re-adding a single GAN like clockwork every ten minutes since 9 this morning. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 22:05, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

It just did it again!--Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 22:16, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

February 2014

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.--Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 22:19, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

I think this is petty

I just wanted to stop by and tell you I think your block of User talk:138.162.8.59 is pretty petty. I have no doubt you'll block this one too but I think its pretty low to block me just because you don't like the message I am making that Wikipedia needs to do something about the abusive admins. Although I don't think you are one of them, this block for "trolling and disruption" seems like a message to people not to criticize admin conduct. 138.162.8.58 (talk) 20:33, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

You were right! Now blocked. Legoktm (talk) 00:07, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Information icon This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:52, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the pings, I've commented and will try to keep an eye on the discussion. Legoktm (talk) 04:36, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Category:Commons category with local link same as on Wikidata, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor (talk) 06:56, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

recall

I am contacting you today as one of the users listed at User:Secret/recall. In case you were not aware, Secret has once again resigned his admin status and is once again about to ask for it back. I am concerned that this behavior constitutes the sort of erratic behavior that this recall mechanism was designed to deal with and am asking all other users listed there to add their opinion at the talk page of the recall subpage. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:18, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Promotional accounts issues

Hello Legoktm, I noticed you closed this SPI case, it took care of the socks and meats at the time, however the issue still rages on. Urbaninformative has seemingly made many other contributions, to make it seem he is not a SPA, however today he again created Demetrice Nguyen (after failing to create it at Deezy), the edit summary when he created it was "spelling errors". This subject's article has been created by the various promotional accounts under names such as Deezy (has been created 7 times and was salted in the past), Demetrice jackson (salted) and Demetrice Jackson (salted). This subject has had articles deleted twice at AfD, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deezy and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Demetrice Jackson, which both resulted in clear delete. However, on top of this, the page for Deezy's record label Last Kings Entertainment, where possible socks, definitely meatpuppets; User talk: Dare2beyou, User: 108.60.242.214, User talk: BriannaManagement and User talk: Pmasontheatre have all been editing, along with the record label's navbox Template:Last Kings Entertainment. All of these accounts are clearly SPA and promotional accounts. What do you think should be done? I think Deezy and Demetrice Nguyen should be salted for one, but all these sock/meatpuppets need to be taken care of. STATic message me! 22:17, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, I've been busy with RL stuff lately. If you still need help with the situation, I would suggest contacting another, more-active, clerk (WP:SPI/C); they're all super helpful people. Legoktm (talk) 08:33, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-07

09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TFA Protector Bot 2

Ping... BencherliteTalk 14:57, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

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MMS request

Wikipedia talk:Mass message senders#TransporterMan request. Would appreciate your consideration. Thanks in advance, either way. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 22:55, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done Legoktm (talk) 01:14, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-08

08:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 February 2014

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  • Traffic report: Chilly Valentines
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March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive

It's that time again! Starting on March 1, there will be another GAN Backlog Drive! There will be several changes compared to previous drives:

  • This drive will introduce a new component to it; a point system. In a nutshell, older nominations are worth more points than newer nominations. The top 3 participants who have the points will be awarded the Golden, Silver, or Bronze Wikipedia Puzzle Piece Trophy, respectively.
  • Unlike the December 2013 Backlog Drive, earning an additional barnstar if you reached your goal has been removed.
  • The allowance to have insufficient reviews has been lowered to 2 before being disqualified.
  • An exception to the rule that all reviews must be completed before the deadline has been created.

Also, something that I thought I would share with all of you is that we raised $20.88 (USD) for the WMF in the December 2013 drive. It may not sound like a lot but considering that that was raised just because we reviewed articles, I would say that's pretty good! With that success, pledges can be made for the upcoming drive if you wish.

More info regarding the drive and full descriptions regarding the changes to this drive can be found on the the drive page. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message on the drive talk page.

I look forward to your participation and hope that because of it, some day the backlog will be gone!

--Dom497

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:58, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on changes to the AfC mailing list

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Tech News: 2014-09

10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

I am Nicolas Choukroun

Why did you deleted my biography? I didn't killed enough people to be noticable? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.164.208.178 (talk) 14:35, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Request to reinstate my Wikipedia page

Hi, can you please tell me what steps I need to take in order to get my Wikipedia page reinstated? I understand that I had not returned to edit it in quite some time, but people often refer to it when casting TV/Movies which is how I make my living. Often, morning radio show hosts and podcasters refer to this page. I'll admit that I'm no superstar, but I do have a significant body of work with which many people in entertainment are very familiar. From Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place to the Farrelly Bros. film The Ringer to voicing cartoons on Saturday Night Live. I also voice two major characters on Curious George the animated series.

I'll promise to update it with fresh and exciting copy if you can please return the page.

Here's an article from GQ which mentions me prominently for one of my first noteable efforts, the cult hit Dana Carvey show: http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201108/dana-carvey-oral-history-dana-carvey-show

I was awarded the Mastermind Award from The Riverfront Times (A Village Voice publication) Here is a cover article published in that weekly paper: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2009-09-02/news/big-funny-founder-bill-chott-fellow-improv-tricksters-aim-to-bring-back-glory-days-st-louis-sketch-comedy/

My list of credits on IMDb is extensive: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0159273/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

I portrayed "Mr. Laritate", Selena Gomez's principal in 23 episodes of Disney's Wizards of Waverly place, over four season on the Emmy award winning show. I portray the Announcer on SNL"s Ambiguously Gay Duo and The X-Presidents. I was in the cast of the Dana Carvey Show, along with Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert, and I was in the cast and on the poster for the film The Ringer, a Farrelly Bros. film starring Johnny Knoxville.

I won the Broadway Wolrd Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical as Fred Mertz in I Love Lucy Live I won "Best Improv Coach" in a nation-wide I've received awards from both my college and my high school for being a noteable alumni.

Please let me know what I can do to prove my wiki-worthiness. A list of charities I work with is also available. I can start a write in campaign to prove my relevance, as I have a very large fan base. I hate to brag, and sound like I have a huge ego, but I feel that I merit a Wikipedia page, and I hope you'll agree.

Sincerely,


Bill Chott


— Preceding unsigned comment added by Billchott (talk • contribs) 22:41, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Articles for creation March 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Legoktm:

WikiProject AFC is holding a month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from March 1, 2014 to March 31, 2014.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 1000 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

A new version of our AfC helper script has been released! It includes many bug fixes, new improvements and features, code enhancements, and more. If you want to see a full list of changes, visit the changelog. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks.
Posted by Northamerica1000 (talk) on 02:12, 28 February 2014 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk), on behalf of WikiProject Articles for creation

The Signpost: 26 February 2014

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