User talk:Tonywalton/Archive-Jan-2008
our sock drama[edit]
See Fisher Queen's talk page. I think it is ending today. :-) Jeffpw (talk) 13:28, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Ben ban/Iamandrewrice apology/block/ban[edit]
Tony, I came across this "situation" for the first time today on ANI. After I left a comment Jeffpw's talk page, a discussion ensued. I left my final comment, which I feel confident that "Ben" will ready, on Jeffpw's page. As I noted your final posting on ANI with regard to this incident and note that you are the blocking admin, I've deferred to you. — ERcheck (talk) 01:11, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Deletion of Diana Thater page[edit]
Hello,
I am trying to amke a page for teh video artist Diana Thater. I am new to wikipedia and am tryuing to follow the guidelines set out in your tutorial. I first created a list of links to ther websites with her exhibitons and then put up a small bio decribing her exhibitons. I was told it would be flagged for deletion because it was blatant promotion. I don't understand, listing exhibitons is how artists create their resume. Diana is an important artist that is sited on many of your other pages. What was wrong with hat I had done? Plus this was an article in progress so now I have to start all over. How do I save somthing that I can work on in my spare time without these objections?
Teenagerobot —Preceding unsigned comment added by Teenagerobot (talk • contribs) 19:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your support in my RfA. It was definitely a dramatic debate, that landed on WP:100! I paid close attention to everything that was said, and, where possible, I will try to incorporate the (constructive) criticism towards being a better administrator. I'm taking things slowly for now, partially because of the holidays and all the off-wiki distractions. :) I'm also working my way through the Wikipedia:New admin school and double-checking the relevant policies, and will gradually phase into the use of the new tools. My main goals are to help out with various backlogs, but I also fully intend to keep on writing articles, as there are several more that I definitely want to get to WP:FA status! Thanks again, and have a great new year, --Elonka 05:40, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
- Yup, absolutely right on "getting the broom out of the closet." To do adminship right, often requires some time spent doing research before that page-protect or user-block, and often I just won't have the time or attention bandwidth to do that. More often than not, I just manage to get on Wikipedia to do some disambig cleanups. However, for those times now that I will have time to do something admin-related, at least I'll now have the tools and can help out! --Elonka 16:50, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
London Meetup - January 12, 2008[edit]
Hi! There's going to be a London Wikipedia Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over at Wikipedia:Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 02:23, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
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I am leaving you this message because recent events have given me concern. When Aaron Brenneman and I, and others, first developed this category well over a year ago, we visualized it as a simple idea. A low hassle, low bureaucracy process. We also visualized it as a process that people would come to trust, in fact as a way of increasing trust in those admins who chose to subscribe to the notion of recall. The very informal approach to who is qualified to recall, what happens during it, and the process in general were all part of that approach. But recent events have suggested that this low structure approach may not be entirely effective. More than one of the recent recalls we have seen have been marred by controversy around what was going to happen, and when. Worse, they were marred by some folk having the perception, rightly or wrongly, that the admin being recalled was trying to change the rules, avoid the process, or in other ways somehow go back on their word. This is bad. It's bad for you the admin, bad for the trust in the process, and bad for the community as a whole. I think a way to address this issue is to increase the predictability of the process in advance. I have tried to do that for myself. In my User:Lar/Accountability page, I have given pretty concrete definitions of the criteria for recall, and of the choices I can make, and of the process for the petition, and of the process for other choices I might make (the modified RfC or the RfAr). I think it would be very helpful if other admins who have voluntarily made themselves subject to recall went to similar detail. It is not necessary to adopt the exact same conditions, steps, criteria, etc. It's just helpful to have SOME. Those are mine, fashion yours as you see fit, I would not be so presumptuous as to say mine are right for you. In fact I urge you not to just adopt mine, as I do change them from time to time without notice, but instead develop your own. You are very welcome to start with mine if you so wish, though. But do something. If you have not already, I urge you to make your process more concrete, now, while there is no pressure and you can think clearly about what you want. Do it now rather than later, during a recall when folk may not react well to perceived changes in process or commitment. Further, I suggest that after you document your process, that you give a reference to it for the benefit of other admins who may want to see what others have done. List it in this table as a resource for the benefit of all. If you use someone else's by reference rather than copy, I suggest you might want to do as Cacharoth did, and give a link to a specific version. Do you have to do these things? Not at all. These are suggestions from me, and me alone, and are entirely up to you to embrace or ignore. I just think that doing this now, thinking now, documenting now, will save you trouble later, if you should for whatever reason happen to be recalled. I apologise if this message seems impersonal, but with over 130 members in the category, leaving a personal message for each of you might not have been feasible, and I feel this is important enough to violate social norms a bit. I hope that's OK. Thanks for your time and consideration, and best wishes. Larry Pieniazek NOTE: You are receiving this message because you are listed in the Wikipedia administrators open to recall category. This is a voluntary category, and you should not be in it if you do not want to be. If you did not list yourself, you may want to review the change records to determine who added you, and ask them why they added you. |
...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "S"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "T"s through "Z"s (and beyond, apparently)! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 20:54, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Variety Charity logo.gif[edit]
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Happy Birthday[edit]
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  Wishing Tonywalton/Archive-Jan-2008 a very happy birthday on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake! | ||