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Congratulations, you are an administrator (again)

Hi Sarek. I am pleased to report that I have closed your request for adminship as successful. Welcome (back) to the admin corps. Cheers, 28bytes (talk) 05:28, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

  • "Live long and prosper," Sarek of Vulcan. "I am expressing multiple attitudes simultaneously." Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 05:47, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congratulations! — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 06:27, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congratulations! --j⚛e deckertalk 07:05, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Thank you for taking on a tough but necessary job again. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:09, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • And bonus points for the live commentary on your own RfA over at Wikipediocracy. Class. --Mkativerata (talk) 07:39, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congrats BMK (talk) 08:13, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Well done. DBaK (talk) 09:54, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congratulations --Tito Dutta (talk) 10:46, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Awesome! Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:03, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congratulations! JodyB talk 11:21, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congratulations :) –Davey2010Talk 12:07, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congratulations on regaining the tools. Use them wisely. VegasCasinoKid (talk) 12:46, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congratulations on your successful fourth RfA. Epic Genius (talk) 13:42, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congrats, don't mess up this time. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 14:14, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congratulations. Not that it's my habit to threaten my fellow admins, but don't let me down! ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:32, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Though an opposer, I'd like to congratulate you on your promotion! --AmaryllisGardener talk 14:55, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congratulations and good luck, SarekOfVulcan! Liz Read! Talk! 15:34, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congrats! :) --Biblioworm 15:41, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congratulations and thank you for taking on the additional duties again.- MrX 16:00, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Well done! In these times of economic hardship I'm afraid you'll have to reuse your previously awarded T-shirt.  Philg88 ♦talk 18:50, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congrats! ///EuroCarGT 21:23, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Welcome back. Here are your old mop and pail! Edison (talk) 21:36, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Fifth floor men's room is a catastrophe--get to work! :) --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 23:48, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
  • I opposed but I'm not trying to be your enemy. In fact I hope you'll be highly active in the coming years. Dif-tor heh smusma? —Soap— 01:58, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Thank you for volunteering again. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 02:21, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congratulations, well done. :) Orphan Wiki 13:40, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Congrats Mabuska (talk) 14:33, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Happy days, and congratulations! --Drmargi (talk) 17:40, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Even though I wasn't involved in the vote, not even close for adminship, and have tense relations from the brawl, I'd like to congratulate you as I believe good faith and expectations is what everyone should strive for. HanSangYoon (talk) 10:27, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Sorry I missed your RfA; I would definitely have been in the support column. Glad to hear that you got the bit back. Kurtis (talk) 10:21, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Hey Sarek, congratulations. Welcome back. Drmies (talk) 20:12, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
  • It's good to see you back, Sarek! Sorry I missed your RfA. Kaldari (talk) 00:41, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Quick note

Thanks for your note; I've responded. Nyttend (talk) 03:55, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Didn't get it.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 04:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
I used Special:Emailuser, so it went to the address you've put in Special:Preferences. I got the normal "email sent" screen, so I don't think I made any mistakes. Nyttend (talk) 05:12, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Worked that time. *shrug* --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 05:27, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Sorry

I'm sorry about the loss of Spock.--198.201.23.10 (talk) 19:19, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I doubt I ever saw any first-run episodes, but the reruns were a large part of my childhood... --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:56, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Sad event indeed. Well, I suppose Spock Mk II is still around. Or is he 'Alt Spock' or 'Nu Spock'? --220 of Borg 07:39, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

I was trying to do the same

but kept getting e/c'd. --Floquenbeam (talk) 22:23, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

I had the same problem. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 22:24, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Protest against heavy-handed blocking of the Bitcoin article.

In my opinion your two week block of the Bitcoin page is rather heavy-handed. Spock would not have approved. Kraainem (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kraainem (talk • contribs) 19:46, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Surely you can block the editor/s doing the harm? You have God-like blocking powers, don´t you? And you certainly do use your absolute blocking powers like the God of Blocking! So, use your Godly blocking powers on the culprit editor/s. Can you not? Don´t tell me you are, in fact, impotent in blocking them? I would never believe you. Why block the article? That looks really stupid to me. You seem to have lost your logic ability as a result of being the God of Blocking . #IamCharlie Kraainem (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kraainem (talk • contribs) 21:49, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Blocking IPs is frequently not effective - it's too easy to jump to the next one. Semi-protection is more effective. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 22:08, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. Kraainem (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kraainem (talk • contribs) 22:19, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

String or Precusision

You win this round Sarek. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aedw3089 (talk • contribs) 03:24, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

It's not about winning. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 03:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Edit to William Shatner

Hi SarkeOfVulcan,

The IRS relates directly to the parodied video that Shatner commented on in his tweet. Hope this information helps

SocialMediaSlaveSocialmediaslave (talk) 19:47, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, but what you added indicates that it's a parody of Trek in general, rather than Shatner in particular. Therefore, I don't think it belongs in his article. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:49, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

JOE SWEENEY 1961

Dear Mr. Spock, Sarek, Vulcan, whatever your real name is... My wording is not a threat, it is reality. This is the 3rd time in two years I have legitimately tried to respectfully correct slanderous comments from a Wikipedia site against our business. One of your administrators has already agreed to remove the wording that some anonymous poster keeps returning to the site. I will leave the management of your site to you and the other "administrators" or experts. We are a private company with employees who are proud of what they do. Calling them pirates, looters and thieves in a factual section of your site is slander. I know, I have spoke to our lawyers. They told me to attempt to change it one last time. As I said, if the content is removed, facts are clearly defined in the proper sections, and opinions are simply that, opinions, then I retract my threat of legal action at this time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JOE SWEENEY 1961 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

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war

Mr. Sarek, I see you have a wise name and I see that you have the wisest names of any recent RFA so I ask you a question.

This is purely theoretical and doesn't ask you to research a specific article.

What is an edit war? 1. An editor (#2), maybe in cahoots with another (editor #3) keeps taking out an edit. The original editor explains it and often changes the edit to reflect comments received. However, #2 and 3 simply remove the edit and offer no compromises.

2. #2 and 3 may be trying to sanitize the article so the person(s) mentioned in the article look good to the public.

3. How about threatening an editor by putting nasty warnings on your page?

Should we just give up and let the bullies win? I think "yes" most of the time. Actually, there are several articles where this seems to be even worse but I won't touch those articles because conflict is guaranteed in those.

Wowee Zowee public (talk) 19:44, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

STOP

stop I oppose you. Stop editing ____ or you will be blocked. Wowee Zowee public (talk) 19:46, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

See what I mean? Of course, you are an administrator so you cannot be blocked short of murder. Wowee Zowee public (talk) 19:46, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

You Said "Not Now." Has It Been Long Enough?

Hi Sarek,

I asked you (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SarekOfVulcan&action=edit&section=new) to consider my blocking case, basically asked you to consider unblocking me, or to defend me otherwise. That was like a month ago. Any chance, or should I just I just forget it? It would be useful to have a conversation about it but my talkpage and Wikipedia email is cut off to me, and Wikipedia's team of proxy IP police is hyperactive and muscular. If you want to steer me to your email somehow here, or some other place to talk, I'll get there. If you decide my case is too hot to handle, or that I'm, heh, justly banned after my five or six years of productive content editing, then let me know that too and I'll move on. Colton Cosmic.

I don't feel that I can comment on your case yet. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:48, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
Here's what I wrote Thyrduulf on 14 Jan. after Arbcom rejected my appeal without explanation: "Thryduulf, you said in your campaign for Arbcom that arbs must be prepared to clarify their decisions when asked. I call on you to explain why Arbcom has affirmed my ban on the then-now-and-future false charge that I socked Wikipedia. For five or six years I created probably ten articles, and hugely contributed to a score of others. Timotheus Canens just wipes me out with a click of his twinkle button, and you're going to go along? I say tell me why." He sent no response. WP:ADMIN says administrators must explain their actions, but I guess he didn't feel like it. Colton Cosmic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.57.143.144 (talk • contribs)

Editorous

I don't know why we just don't indef him. He's been attacking the article for a month now as a IP as well. --NeilN talk to me 19:15, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Probably not an atrocious idea, but let's try protecting it for a while as well. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:16, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Already done, actually, I'm behind the times. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:18, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Protection will be useless when his block expires in a week. --NeilN talk to me 19:22, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

About the Meat-Puppetry Policy: What is going on?

I just went on Wikipedia:Meat puppetry, the page where it states Wikipedians not to commit meat puppetry. As you have been aware, I was formerly accused of it. However, when I went in the policy page, on the top it said, "This is a failed proposal". Does that mean meat-puppetry banning failed to become part of the Wikipedia policy? I don't understand what's going on. Since you're now an admin, I am reporting this strange issue to you. HanSangYoon (talk) 03:21, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

As that page says, the current policy is listed at WP:MEAT. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 13:44, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Is WP:MEAT and the original page any different? HanSangYoon (talk) 21:37, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
@HanSangYoon: WP:MEAT is policy, the other wording is not. --NeilN talk to me 21:51, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

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Addition of File:Ursula Andress in bikini.jpg to Dr. No (film)

The addition of this image to that article is inappropriate, per Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Images_2 #6. There is a dedicated article to the depiction of this white bikini in that film already, located at White bikini of Ursula Andress. Consider Afghan Girl, whose famous image appeared on the cover of National Geographic. The only place that image is used is on the article about the photograph, despite it being made famous by National Geographic. Consider Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, which famous image is iconic to the Battle of Iwo Jima, is Joe Rosenthal's most well known work, and is arguable iconic of the Pacific War, yet the image does not appear on any of those articles. I could go on for a while here. Given our guideline on this, I am removing File:Ursula Andress in bikini.jpg from Dr. No (film), as the use there is inappropriate, and adding another link to the White bikini of Ursula Andress article. Please do not restore it. I am also removing the rationale for Dr. No (film) from the image, and re-tagging it as orphaned. If you wish to retain the image, it might be worth replacing the usage of File:Ursula Andress in Dr. No.jpg on Honey Rider and White bikini of Ursula Andress, but having both images is overkill. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 21:18, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Eh, it was just a thought. I don't have strong feelings about it, it can stand as it is. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:22, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Jr. comma RfC

You're invited to participate in the discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#RfC:_Guidance_on_commas_before_Jr._and_Sr. Dohn joe (talk) 02:14, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Split, Croatia - Inhabitants Nonsense

So how do we change nonsense that is written about inhabitants of Split? I tried to change it many times so far but some of you keep changing it back. What is the problem? I am inhabitant of Split and I find that article ridiculous. I am active on many forums and discussions about Split, I'm into its history but I never heard for many of that stuff. Now I have joined Wikipedia in order to change that stupidity. Please inform me what is necessary to do in order to change it!? DelmatST (talk) 19:51, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Tell us on the talk page why the references cited in that text are incorrect. Even better, supply correct ones. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 03:53, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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RfC: Guidance on commas after Jr. and Sr.

Following the closure of a recent RfC you participated in, I have started an RfC on the separate but related issue of commas after Jr. and Sr.. Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) § RfC: Guidance on commas after Jr. and Sr. and feel free to comment there. Thanks! —sroc 💬 06:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

if bankers could be legally accused because what they did online was seen

by raising interest... how about the wikepedias harrasment. there is harassment law in the usa. can these not be threshed out... snowden can even find hidden secrets.. don't tell me that wikipedia is not going to pay billions later..pacquiao is even suedToweringpeaks3 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 12:29, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I will report you to the white house using your ability to frighten people not to fight wikepedias harrassment-

white house has a free access to allToweringpeaks3 (talk) 12:40, 22 May 2015 (UTC)Sarek of Vulcan watch out

http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/cyberstalking-and-cyberharassment-laws.aspx

Are you not aware of this? is wikipedia exempted??? You included will be fined and imprisoned for harassment.. harassment is very much implemented in all countries-http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/cyberstalking-and-cyberharassment-laws.aspx so I will gather all laws of harrasment of all countries so those affected will come out of the open — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toweringpeaks3 (talk • contribs) 12:52, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

people victimized are already tired of your harassment and these has go out of the open- we are people not as special as you think

remember that... you are nothing but just a human being don't tell me that because you are in position you can just do anything- this is what i tell you that you are not superior than anyone else so stop harassing people and don't frighten us for we have been harassed eversince. before you do editor work read about harassment laws first so you won't be an imbecile making laws out of nothing... there is no exemption in harrasmment — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toweringpeaks3 (talk • contribs) 13:03, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

You want to block me-- I am here to inform you that you are working thinking you are doing harasssment work because taht is what your conscious say but

the person receiving it has high blood pressure, nervous etc. You are such a bastard to kill. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toweringpeaks3 (talk • contribs) 13:13, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

ANI

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Chaheel Riens (talk) 13:26, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the assist. :-) -- SarekOfVulcan 15:16, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Uncle Sam needs you!

Greetings, Sarek. Could you be convinced to take on a little new XfD work? Closing dmin Martin Hoekstra has been MIA at TfD since March, and, these days, long-time TfD closer Plastikspork is only showing up every 10 to 14 days to close just a handful of TfD discussions. No other admin is closing TfDs right now. Could you be talked into closing just a couple of TfDs per day, and I'll see if I can recruit two or three more admins to help on that same basis? I would be happy to help in any way possible, including pointing you in the direction of relevant guidelines and essays. Please let me know. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:59, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do, but my connectivity is iffy right now. You want to pay my net bill in exchange for a specified number of TfD closings? :-) Otherwise, I'll get to them as public access allows. -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 02:30, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Your messages from Toweringpeaks3

You have put them back, I take it you're not bothered by them. I thought they were harassment so I removed them for you but if you want to keep them then fair enough.--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 14:46, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Not a problem. Thanks for having my back. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:20, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

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Books and Bytes - Issue 12

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Institute for Cultural Diplomacy. New entrance

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Books and Bytes - Issue 14

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Merry Christmas, Sarek!

And may all your days be merry and bright . . . Live long and prosper. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:42, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Dirtlawyer1! Peace and long life, and a logical new year to you. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:27, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Holidays

Happy holidays to you! Omnedon (talk) 16:04, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Likewise, sir. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:39, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year, SarekOfVulcan!

Happy New Year!

SarekOfVulcan,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Liz Read! Talk! 23:47, 31 December 2015 (UTC)


Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
Thanks, Liz! I hope you have a great 2016 as well. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 02:50, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Graig Weich

Thanks, but I think I should sit this one out, and trust the community to reach a valid consensus. Nightscream (talk) 19:58, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:59, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
  • Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
  • A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
  • Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:16, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Doncram case amendment

The Doncram arbitration case is amended as follows:

Passed 10 to 0 by motion at 13:11, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

For the Arbitration Committee, Miniapolis 13:17, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Please stop deleting article entries on Kshama Sawant Justin Renquist and United Progressive Party USA pages

It is clear to me that your edits and deletions are biased. Why don't you use a REAL name? WHO are you? I think this is clear anti-Bernie Bias and I highly suspect you are a HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTER. ARE YOU?

jax --Jaxmullins (talk) 03:05, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Appealing discretionary sanctions on MOS and naming conventions?

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation#Discretionary sanctions

Six of the named parties in the dispute are no longer active on Wikipedia, and several of those are blocked/SBANned. ArbCom has gone through four cycles since then. What exactly is meant by "discretionary sanctions" also seems to have changed significantly.

I was considering appealing for this to be removed now that the dust appears to have settled in the intervening four years, but I was wondering if you could provide me some context that might convince me not to?

Note: I was one of the primary targets of Kauffner, LittleBenW and JoshuSasori, and was subject to several outing attempts and severe real-world harassment over the "issues" of "diacritics" (and apostrophes!) in page titles, so I do appreciate that this is, or was at one time, a very serious issue. Please don't mistake me for someone who wants to engage in disruption and avoid discretionary sanctions -- I just don't like outdated and draconian measures being applied to such a broad range of pages.

Cheers!

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:39, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

At this point, I haven't been active enough to have a terribly accurate opinion on this subject. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:27, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 17

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Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria

  • New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
  • Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
  • New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!

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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Gillian Duffy

Please consider taking the protection off Gillian Duffy. It is no longer a burning issue. I think it should only have been protection against article creation anyway. I just want to edit the redirect so it is better focused to United Kingdom general election, 2010#Bigotgate.--Penbat (talk) 08:20, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Penbat, that seems like a reasonable change. I'd raise it as an {{FPER}} on Talk:United Kingdom general election, 2010. It's not the best place for the request, but I think it's the best place for the discussion. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:27, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 18

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Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

  • New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
  • Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
  • TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
  • OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Activity

Happened to notice that you, like me, have not been too active here lately. And thought I'd send a greeting. Hope all is well. Omnedon (talk) 02:22, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Well is a relative term. :-) The main reason is that I don't have internet at home besides on my mobile. (And not being able to pay for internet gives you a general idea of how my life is going...) Thank you for your concern, though. I hope things are relatively ok for you. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 02:25, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Protecting "Separatist Movements of India".

I wish a level of protection is accorded to this page that prevents User:Mar4d from repeating his POV edits there. Please take a couple of mins to glance over my post at [[1]] 117.194.229.245 (talk) 12:38, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Michael Shrimpton

This is not only not withdrawing his LT, but making it worse. Unbeliveable this one! Muffled Pocketed 16:57, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Indeed. Well, he's out for now... --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:59, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, SarekOfVulcan. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

  • Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
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File:WPAbortion-logo.svg

Greetings, does File:WPAbortion-logo.svg still need complete protection or would upload protection suffice? I've been going through fully protected files to see which ones can be downgraded. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:59, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Jo-Jo Eumerus, I don't dare touch it. If there's a way to abuse less-than-full protection on this one, people will find it. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 05:39, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Three years ago ...
practical purposes
... you were recipient
no. 643 of Precious,
a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:42, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 19

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Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

  • New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
  • New Library Card Platform and Conference news
  • Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

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19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi SarekOfVulcan.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, SarekOfVulcan. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, SarekOfVulcan. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Category:Order of the Virtues (Egypt) has been nominated for discussion

Category:Order of the Virtues (Egypt), which you created, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. 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.RevelationDirect (talk) 03:33, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 20

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Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)

  • Partner resource expansions
  • New search tool for finding TWL resources
  • #1lib1ref 2017
  • Wikidata Visiting Scholar

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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

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Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
  • Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
  • The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

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On this day, 2 years ago...

Wishing SarekOfVulcan/Archive 21 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Lepricavark (talk) 05:12, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Are you still around?

Just wanted to let you know I mentioned you on WP:ANI re User:Beyond My Ken previously User:Ed Fitzgerald and his continual edit warring with me over image size, layout, etc. Skyerise (talk) 05:22, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

On and off. I don't have a reliable wifi/laptop combination, so I don't do much at the moment. I'll look at it. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:02, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day

Happy First Edit Day, SarekOfVulcan, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! UNSC Luke 1021 (talk) 10:14, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Request for Comment: the Onion "incident" in the article of Congressman John Fleming

I would appreciate you weighing in again in this discussion that started in 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_Fleming_(American_politician)#Request_for_Comment:_2017_discussion_on_The_Onion_.22incident..22. Thank you!Tomuchtalk (talk) 15:29, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 21

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Books & Bytes
Issue 21, January-March 2017
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

  • #1lib1ref 2017
  • Wikipedia Library User Group
  • Wikipedia + Libraries at Wikimedia Conference 2017
  • Spotlight: Library Card Platform

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:54, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

A plea for advice

After posting this I noticed that you may be on low-activity status. At first I decided to leave it up just in case you could take a look, now I've gone ahead and removed my request—and I recommend going back to read it from the diffs only if you are feeling a bit masochistic. It's a teensy bit wordy. Factchecker_atyourservice 14:32, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 22

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Books & Bytes
Issue 22, April-May 2017

  • New and expanded research accounts
  • Global branches update
  • Spotlight: OCLC Partnership
  • Bytes in brief

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:35, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Book

Hope things are going OK. I noticed you were briefly active, and then it occurred to me that I had gotten out "The Price of the Phoenix" a while back but never actually read it as I had intended. So that's next on my list. Omnedon (talk) 18:25, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Sunday July 16: New England Wiknic @ Cambridge, MA

Sunday July 16, 1-5pm: New England Wiknic

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Books and Bytes - Issue 23

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Books & Bytes
Issue 23, June-July 2017

  • Library card
  • User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship
  • Bytes in brief

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:03, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for page protection#Charlie Elphicke

SarekOfVulcan, [2] shows diff on 16 October 2017 as the edit that first raised an issue of copyright implications; the original image, CharlieElphicke.jpg was replaced on diff [3] by Parroque with the current image, Official portrait of Charlie Elphicke crop 2.jpg as shown on the article page, and that was the start of the series of back-and-forth edits; the justification of my own edits was that CharlieElphicke.jpg looked like a photograph of the article subject on a television show (copyright); hence I tagged it for speedy deletion of commons (see [4]), and wanted to revert back to Official portrait of Charlie Elphicke crop 2.jpg, but anon editors kept reverting my edits, despite me trying to explain why I didn't want CharlieElphicke.jpg to be re-added back to the article.

Therefore I'm very confused; if the copyright concern is with Official portrait of Charlie Elphicke crop 2.jpg, then the image did state terms of licence, although it is presently unclear to me if the image licence is compatible for use on Wikipedia, although https://pds.blog.parliament.uk/2017/07/21/mp-official-portraits-open-source-images/ (where the licence terms is shown on the image summary) does suggest the image may be released on CC BY 3.0, so there doesn't seem to be a current copyright question with this particular image, unless the licence terms is not clear, or doesn't suggest it is compatible for use on Wikipedia. If however the copyright concern is with CharlieElphicke.jpg, then I was pretty certain the image was copyrighted, hence I tagged it for speedy on Commons; however the discussion on the article subject's talk page didn't make clear which image does the copyright concerns apply to.

But I do agree there is a content dispute nonetheless; but with the speedy deletion of one of the proposed images (the original one, CharlieElphicke.jpg) then there really isn't a choice here. If the image licence of Official portrait of Charlie Elphicke crop 2.jpg is compatible, then the image should stand; besides, even if it is not an official portrait of the article subject as raised by others, so long as it is certain the image depicts the correct person it purports to depict, then the image is fully legitimate to illustrate the subject in question.

Sorry to make this message as I want to clear my conscience here, and if you object to a discussion taking place here, I don't mind continuing this on an appropriate discussion page. Optakeover(U)(T)(C) 14:14, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

I'd rather have this discussion take place on Elphicke's page, rather than mine. The licensing wasn't clear to me when I looked at it, which is why I just full-protected it on whatever the current version was. I figured that a discussion would quickly establish what was acceptable. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:30, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 24

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Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017

  • User Group update
  • Global branches update
    • Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
  • Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
  • Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
  • Bytes in brief

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Precious four years!

Precious
Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:17, 24 October 2017 (UTC) Awww, thanks! :-)

Help

You just deleted a list of stars article whose author is at ANI here. If you look at the book created (it's linked in my post at the bottom of the ANI section), he admits being a 14 year old kid. I'd think the ANI thread should be closed per WP:CHILD and dealt with quietly. Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 18:33, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

WP:CHILD doesn't say that you can't reveal your age.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:34, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For fielding all those protected edit requests at Talk:Catalonia. Heck, you don't need a barnstar, you need a medal. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 18:34, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

added Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
removed Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.
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Jack Martins

Please stop altering the Jack Martins Wikipedia Page. All information on the page is factual and has no inclination as per voting preference or influencing voters. The information on Wikipedia is aimed to help people have an easy place to gather the information and brush up on subjects/people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LMB2239 (talk • contribs) 17:05, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

LMB2239, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of facts. Just because it's accurate doesn't mean it belongs in an article. See Paul LePage for an example of a politician's article - no polling, no list of supporters. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:10, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Quick question

What's the purpose of {{xt}} tags? Natureium (talk) 20:43, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Old habit. I should have used {{tq}} instead. They format in a very similar manner, anyway... --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:46, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Thanks. I had been wondering what the green text I kept seeing was for, but didn't know what to search for. Natureium (talk) 21:00, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Quick (Eastop) question

Thank you for your welcome to Wikipedia! Newbie question: I created a page about an eminent tubist friend (Jens Bjørn-Larsen) and published the article. I guess I was premature as it got moved to "draft" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Jens_Bj%C3%B8rn-Larsen) with no explanation (that I could find) about why. My guess is that it contained no external references...? Any tips and help you can give me would be most appreciated. Nicholas Eastop - Scenkonstmuseet (talk) 11:25, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

I have added a few references and given the paragraphs titles. Nicholas Eastop - Scenkonstmuseet (talk) 11:36, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

I have just started reading the links you sent me in your greeting message - something I obviously should have done before doing anything else... excessive eagerness! If you have time to get involved please do so, otherwise I'm sure I'll get to grips with it myself having read all the intro info in the links. Thanks again! Nicholas Eastop - Scenkonstmuseet (talk) 11:43, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

@Nicholas Eastop - Scenkonstmuseet:, there's a lot of cleanup to do there, both in the sourcing and formatting realms. I'll do what I can to help, but I don't think I can get it all the way there. For example, you link to the Concours de Geneve page as a reference for Bjorn-Larsen winning the competition, but their archives don't go back that far. Perhaps you could find a contemporary news story reporting on the results? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:15, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me. Would the wikipedia page about the Concours de Geneve do as a reference? All the winners are listed there. The archive on the website I referenced to is searchable, so the info is there. They only list the most recent winners though. Nicholas Eastop - Scenkonstmuseet (talk) 14:30, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia can't serve as a reference for itself, sorry. We'd need an independent list of winners, either from the Concours or from a reliable source. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:44, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Editing "Knanaya Region"

Thank you for reviewing and giving your feedback. I only started working on this. I will fix the suggestions within few days. Can you show me one or two exampled of "grammar, style" error. I am entering data from the United States. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacobbijo1 (talk • contribs) 19:07, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Knanaya Region is a subdivision, for example. A bit later, there's a period inside the text of a link, instead of outside. Then there's the general style, and lack of independent sourcing. I was going to suggest you look at Diocese of Providence, but it has some of the same issues that this article does. Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland is a bit better. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:18, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Behavioral and content dispute

Hi! Im contacting you because you are listed as an editor willing to provide behavioral and content assistance. I would like you to take a look at the content dispute and the behavior of the editors Katolophyromai, Khirurg and Dr. K as well Kuru, the administrator that backs them .

The full content dispute of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pythagoras is found here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=811537461 since a fellow friend editor Dr. K who seems to be a meatpuppet of the editor I am having the dispute with erased my last entry. I would like you to look at the sources I have provided and my analysis on the source his has provided (which leaves out plenty of ancient biographers that state Pythagoras's father was from Tyre) and to bring an objective view into this discussion.

I would also like you to look into this editors behaviors as him and fellow editor friends (Dr K and Khirurg) seem to be meatpuppets as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Meatpuppetry. When editor Katolophyromai felt like he was losing the debate he resorted to accusing me of sockpuppeting to his fellow meatpuppet Dr. K which you can look at here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dr.K.#ViamarisBalbi_is_back_under_two_new_sockpuppet_accounts

This is the second (or perhaps third) time Katolophyromai and Khirurg has gotten help from his fellow friend editor Dr. K who does not participate in the discussions/talk page in a productive/objective way but is always ready to take their side and game the system as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gaming_the_system to support his friend editors with their edit reversals. The previous time they accused ViamarisBalbi of personal attacks against the editor he was having a content dispute and got him blocked when in reality if you look at his appeal on his talk page he really wasnt making personal attacks. Dr. K always resorts to administrator Kuru who always takes their side and does not seem to care that editors Katolophyromai, Khirurg and Dr. K are involved in the edit reversal of sourced contents which is obvious vandalism and POV pushing. You can see previous examples of their meatpuppetry in the following cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thales_of_Miletus#Phoenicia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thales_of_Miletus#Trash_source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thales_of_Miletus#Ancient_sources_and_19th_century_sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Euclid#Arabian_sources_of_Euclid https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euclid&diff=810206844&oldid=810205477 (Here Dr. K supports Khirug act of vandalism in which Khirug puts down a statement from a very legitimate source and adds his own and removes an important blue link in the sentence) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atomism&diff=809056910&oldid=808621458 (Here Khirug removed ViamarisBalbi edit that has a legitimate source and later here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atomism&diff=810213721&oldid=810211103 Dr. K helps him doing the same Khirug does it again here without a legitimate reason/discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atomism&diff=810230721&oldid=810221056

Katolophyromai, Khirurg and Dr. K as well Kuru, all edit on similar articles related to Ancient Greece and Greek nationalism. It also happens that their usernames all sound Greek and start with letter K which makes their connection seem a bit too obvious and suspicious. I would highly appreciate your time and help on looking on this. ViamarisBalbi and I believe that legitimate sockpuppeting might be the only way to stop this harassment since filling ISP reports for meatpuppeting sometimes get lost in limbo or take too long to be reviewed and these editors wont stop Wikihouding as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Harassment#Wikihounding and continue their witch hunt as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Witch_hunt to prevent ViamarisBalbi and CalinicoFire from making sourced contributions. Thanks CalinicoFire (talk) 23:10, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you!

The Original Barnstar
Garrett:— Thank you for running for ArbCom and thank you for pulling out of the race at the appropriate moment. You read the cards correctly in both instances; if you actually do want to be part of that shit-show, I have a hunch that your run in 2017 will count as a big positive in a 2018 campaign. But, really, aren't there better ways to spend one's life? best regards, —tim /// Carrite (talk) 03:00, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Hey, why?

Hey, why did you withdraw from the ArbCom election? Just because you thought a sufficiency of acceptable candidates had offered themselves since your nomination? I'm not sure about that. Anyway, Bishzilla wanted to support the little user! :-( Bishonen | talk 17:31, 25 November 2017 (UTC).

I hope it wasn't because I didn't mark you yet as "will support for sure", because I was still thinking, and might have supported, motivated by the lovely poem mock. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:53, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

It's ok, I'll explain later. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:55, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Bishonen, Gerda Arendt - I just got really concerned about my ability to meet my existing obligations if I added Arbcom on top of them. Even during the election phase, I felt I was spending more time than I should keeping on top of things, and it seemed like it would only get worse if I actually made the top 8. While one of the voter guides ticked me off enough to want to stay in and show them, sanity unfortunately struck. :) -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:31, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
Sad, that sanity ;) - You probably saw the simple question to one of the candidates, "Are you mad?", a question I don't have to ask because what can a candidate say but yes. Happy sanity, but now we victims (insert acceptable word) will be left with one sane arb less. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:54, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
Sarek, I hope that guide wasn't mine. I noticed that you patrolled my guide page right after I posted it, and I'm worried that my very mild oppose, in the context of what I say in the introduction, appeared harsher to you than what I intended. If so, I am sincerely sorry. --Tryptofish (talk) 00:09, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Oh, no, it wasn't you. If you want to read through the others and guess, you'll probably get it right. :) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 00:17, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
  • I just want you to know that I'm sorry to see that you'd withdrawn, but I certainly understand your reasons. FWIW, I planned on !voting for you. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:21, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the !vote of confidence. :) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 00:24, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
    • Me too. Drmies (talk) 02:48, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
    • Sucks to see that you withdrew - you were one of the stronger candidates in recent memory. But it is a major commitment, and I completely understand why you changed your mind. If you ever decide to run again, know that I'll almost certainly be one of your supporters. Kurtis (talk) 18:22, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Mysterious, un-relevant comments

Hello, please refrain from using 'mysterious' and comments that 'do not involve you' on other people's talk pages :) Thank You ReeceTheHawk (talk) 20:41, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

ReeceTheHawk, this is a community. When an editor doesn't follow community rules, it involves everyone. -SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:56, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

What's wrong with asking questions during the voting period?

There's more than a week still to go till the end of the elections, and some candidates haven't answered all the previously-asked questions either (e.g. [5]). Banedon (talk) 20:42, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

That's under their control - they had enough time to answer those if they wanted. I saw the question raised somewhere, but I can't remember where, and I don't think there was a consensus either to keep or remove late questions. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:49, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
(watching:) I'd not interfere, it's up to the candidate, no? I got all my questions answered, and was able to support six. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:55, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Honestly that sounds pretty unfair to me. You withdrew as a candidate because answering questions took too much time. Is it fair to assume then that the other candidates had enough time to answer the questions if they wanted? Banedon (talk) 21:20, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Um, no, that's not why I withdrew.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:21, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

So...

You happened to come across a page you have zero connection to, and removed a PROD without understanding the issues that led to it being added.

Now I'm going to have to AFD my own article to get it deleted. Thanks a lot. Modernponderer (talk) 19:30, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

I see that you're trying to revamp the structure there. I'm just not convinced that this is the best way to go about it, so I want to make sure other people chime in. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:36, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

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Re WP:OWN

Hi Fellow editor, apologies if it appears above is the case. It's just that some of the India related articles are very contentious and people (especially those that tend to be quite religious) try and WP:Censor genuine references. I think the case here is more WP:Lazy on my part! :) all the best and I will be more careful SH 14:28, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

@Sikh-history: Thanks for understanding my concerns. Happy editing! :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:30, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

The biography of Anand Chandrasekharan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Chandrasekaran

The biography is written by a PR agency. Why are you persisting on maintaining a promotional page and material?

For example: citation 7 [1] is not correct and not working (404)

No citation exists for After graduating from Stanford University in 2001, he co-founded Aeroprise,[6] one of the early innovators in personalized mobile applications software. How can we verify "The early innovators..." part?

I am new to wikipedia. I am also factually aware of the fact that there's an agency with a retainer to maintain and publish this page. Scalengineer (talk) 21:51, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ http://www.bmc.com/news/press-releases/2011/BMC-Software-Acquires-Aeroprise.html

#MeToo

Thanks SarekOfVulcan for your edit on Me Too (hashtag). On reflection an RfC would have been more appropriate than the AfD I proposed. I'm a little more eagle-eyed on potential defamation issues than some as I'm from Australia where it's easier to defame someone than in other jurisdictions, but I jumped the gun a bit there I think; not enough sleep... Kb.au (talk) 15:53, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

Just notifying you that I've filed a complaint against you for trying to protect a self-admitted paid editor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#User:SarekOfVulcan 70.112.229.80 (talk) 23:56, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

canvasing

I have deleted the damn thing and cannot find it.Slatersteven (talk) 14:59, 8 December 2017 (UTC) Found it, this is the text

"Hi Slatersteven

please note that User Darkness Shines is under this sanction: "You are required to remain civil. As a condition of your unblock, you must acknowledge that any edit which, in the opinion of an uninvolved administrator, contains personal attacks or gross incivility will be met with blocks of escalating length, ending with an indefinite block after the fourth offense." https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=653629653

He was reminded of the sanctions just days ago here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Callanecc#TBAN

please check and compare with edits like this https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antisemitism_in_the_Labour_Party&diff=prev&oldid=814292069 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antisemitism_in_the_Labour_Party&diff=prev&oldid=814292527

I' not active on English Wikipedia so I cannot report this myself.

Cheers"

So I have no idea what it is all about.Slatersteven (talk) 15:00, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

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Clearing backlog, need your input

On November 22, you were in the process of dealing with User talk:YriyChirichenko's unblock request, and it looks like it was abandoned. Since the unblock request is weeks old, we need to clear it out. It looks like the user has responded to your questions. --Jayron32 16:21, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm not seeing anything that convinces me to unblock, but I'm not willing to decline at this point. Someone else will need to decide. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:28, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

OAR move request

It seems to me Primefac has the right to withdraw and close his own move request if nobody else supported it. I know it's that way for AfDs anyway. But I'm involved so I won't revert you. Smartyllama (talk) 15:42, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

There was one other opinion given. A move back to Russia is unlikely, but... Nah, you're probably right. Reverting. Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:44, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Request

Hi, I'm an admin in Azerbaijani Wikipedia. We were just wondering is it possible to create archivebot and patrol system for Az.Wikipedia? --Azerifactory (talk) 20:45, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 25

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Republic of Catalonia (2017)

As you are the protecting admin, can you please fix the double redirect to Catalan declaration of independence. Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 12:15, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

I was beaten to it. Thanks! --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 13:49, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Question about iBan block

While I customarily don't question an admin action, I am curious to know why you imposed the block. Please respond at the ANI discussion. It's for my own future reference. Thank you in advance. Atsme📞📧 16:56, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Already done. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:01, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasonal yuletide felicitations...

to you. Omnedon (talk) 15:53, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Holiday cheers!!

Christmas tree worm, (Spirobranchus gigantic)

Atsme📞📧 19:27, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
Time To Spread A Little
Happy Holiday Cheer!!
I decorated a special kind of Christmas tree
in the spirit of the season.

 What's especially nice about
this digitized version:
*it doesn't need water
*won't catch fire
*and batteries aren't required.
Thank you for all you do on WP!!

Wishing you a prosperous New Year!!

🍸🎁 🎉

Replied at AN

I forgot to ping you. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 15:49, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

@Coffee: likewise I'm sure :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:50, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
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