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Hi Hahc21, I was just reading your user page and noticed that you are an administrator on Wikidata. By coincidence, earlier today I had this query on my talk page; I wasn't really much help with it because Wikidata is not a place where am I active. Would you mind taking a look to see if you could help at all, please? I would greatly appreciate anything you can do. Thank you. Acalamari 17:32, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, why not. Let me take a look. —

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Thank you for your help! :) Acalamari 17:52, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No problem :) —

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The previous discussion regarding an extension of TFLs on the front page in which you commented, has moved on to an RfC on the Main Page. Your comments and suggestions are once again welcome on this issue. - SchroCat (talk) 11:07, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for quality articles on games and albums, such as

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A year ago, you were the 360th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:44, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you again,

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Thank you for your vote of trust and prayer, - see my talk for the significance of blue. What do you think of Move Like This in Spanish? We did German ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:46, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome :) Wait,

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when? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:13, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe next month. I have some projects already on the list and would like to have them FAC'd first. —

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Hey, long time no talk. I'm looking at the PC 2014 RFC and noticed your name supported proposal one and two. Is that possible? Also, is there really any difference between the two? Dan653 (talk) 03:56, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

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Hello. Several new proposals have been submitted at Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2014 since you last commented on it. You are invited to return to comment on the new proposals. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:14, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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• First, to BedsBookworm, why did you had to mention Cambalachero's topic ban at David Jewett's talk page? The fact that he was later topic banned for "POV-pushing" does not warrant a green card to splash all of his edits as POV pushing. I see that you removed it using ArbCom's remedy as a fiat, which was a bad idea. Yes, you say that it "contradicts multiple reliable sources," but why not give some examples?
• To Langus-TxT, apologies if I gave the impression that I was on Bookworm's side. I am actually not taking sides since this is not my dispute (and I don't usually take sides anyways) and my comments were made using the information Bookworm gave me, which has been partially incorrect, to some extent.

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Hi Hahc- I have a few additional wikis I'd like to add to this UTC. The first and original three FP were nominated by others. I wanted to see how far I could go and in the process had some very interesting cross-cultural experiences. Only including formal FP processes (not including voting for local wiki POTD): English, Persian, and Arabic. To this is added the following wikipedias:Commons Hebrew, German, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, Thai, Azerbaijani, and last but by no means least Polish. Though I’m not sure how one or two of them worked, and one has I believe since closed, this totals 12. A very interesting learning experience… - Godot13 (talk) 07:58, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You were supportive of the idea that Jehochman proposed: "A message is most effective when it matches the format of the media. We're an encyclopedia. On Feb 11, I suggest we fill our front page with articles, blurbs and news about mass spying and privacy. That will send a strong message, and help educate people. It's sort of like what we do on April 1, except serious instead of foolish."

Since this proposal received so much support, I and several others have done our best to begin the process of implementation. That said, the proposal is very controversial with Main Page insiders who have, understandably, objections that boil down to

It's valuable to have feedback from people who oppose any deviation from the status quo, but we really need feedback from people who understood Jehochman idea, supported it, and could tell us whether we're succeeding in "implementing the vision" that Jehochman laid out and how to improve the proposal.

If you have the time, would you lend your view over at Wikipedia:Surveillance awareness day. If you want to see a list of custom content that could be available, we have a Arbitrary mockup #2, that shows lots of proposed content on one page.

Your feedback is most appreciated. --HectorMoffet (talk) 09:56, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I think it's clear that NativeForeigner did intend to effectively unvote from the support camp as evidenced in [1]. Please note the edit sumary as it indicates that he was unvoting, but had not yet struck or come up with a new solution. As I'm a party to the case, I'm not allowed to revert, therefore I request that you undo the change. Hasteur (talk) 01:05, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Have you taken over clerk duties, since Callanecc is currently inactive? Wee Curry Monster talk 12:51, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of us have been keeping an eye on it, but mostly Hahc21. --Rschen7754 19:40, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I just wanted to ask a procedural question that if the clerk changes is it not updated at the case page? Wee Curry Monster talk 20:11, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm yes. I have taken over most duties since Callan is inactive. I don't feel it's necessary to update the page though. Cheers. —

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Howdy. I think I earned another Universal Triple Crown with File:Chaplin The Kid edit.jpg, which is featured on Commons, the English Wikipedia, and the Farsi one. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:51, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yay! I need you to request it at

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I'm really sorry for being a pain, but if you could just clarify (you don't have to review) why you think 4 is suitable for FA status (here) it would be of great help. Otherwise I've been told it will fail and I don't want to go through my third FAC. Cheers, —JennKR | ☎ 16:54, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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No, it's still open! You don't have to review the article if you think there is no concerns, just specify why it meets the FA criteria. —JennKR | ☎ 14:14, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, as you know I am an advocate for the tools being easier to get and easier to take away as well as breaking them out into modules and limiting how long someone is an admin before they have to reapply (I favor 3 years). That's not going to happen though. No one wants it and the admins (not all but the majority of the ones in "power") on this site want it to be as hard as possible to attain so they can kep their leverage over the rest of the editors in the site that have devoted time and effort to it but don't have a clue and are just second class citizens. For what its worth I am sure my vote will be ignored, ridiculed and will have no effect on the outcome of the RFA. But that's life.

Well, I think that if we want to change something, we must start by implementing the change in our way of participation. If I want to take the RfA standards down, I should lower my standards first, and then show the rest that it's not bad doing so. Then, in due course, more people will start doing the same as I did, and the standards will end up being lowered. It's not a fast change, and it takes time, years even, but it can be done. My comment was targeted not at your oppose, since you're free to oppose, but at the fact that your rationale somewhat falls against the very thing you're being an advocate of: change RfA. Why? Because your vote was pretty much like most nit-picky opposers out there who damage the process.

If a user is not knowledgeable of all the tools they are going to get, they must be cautioned enough to not to use them until they learn. And that's what we should evaluate. Or I think that's how it should be. When I was given adminship on Wikidata and Wikivoyage, I was measured by my experience in edits, and by how much trust people had in me to not break the wiki. According to their standards, I met both, and I passed. I was not aware of how revision deletion worked, for example, and I learned. I still have yet to learn a lot of things of the admin toolkit even after almost a year of being a sysop, and I don't expect a RfA candidate to know as much as I do, mostly because they don't have yet the tools. —

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I have been trying since 2008 to change it. Its clear its not going to happen. I have tried nicely and bluntly and now I am to the point where I am just downright rude. I don't even care if I get blocked here anymore. As far as experience I have been an admin for 2 years (at wikia not here) on other sites and I will never ever be an admin here no matter how much I know or can do to help the site. Its not going to happen and that also means that I won't be on any of the other Wikimedia sites as long as I keep the Kumioko name. I shouldn't have to change my name because I wanted to try and change the shitty culture here and pissed off so many people that should have been kicked out of this site that now no one wants to hear it anymore. The sad thing is I am retired from editing here, I haven't edited 1 article since early september and don't plan too anytime soon and I still have more edits this month (about 100 with this edit) than some of the "trusted" ones that are "active". If I was "active" that count would be over 10, 000 (I did 22, 809 so far this month on Wikia and a lot of those could have and would have been here) but my efforts aren't wanted and I am tired of asking abusive admins to implement changes that I shoudl be able to do myself and can't. So I am completely fed up with this site and the attitudes here. So if someone wants my vote at this point they are going to have to be pretty damn near perfect until the bar gets lowered to where it should and needs to be.

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I understand what you feel, and when such a thing happens to me I just remove myself from discussion pages and do what I was supposed to do here from the start: write content. After all, it was the first thing I ever did, and I still do (although not as much as before). I recognized that drama is a bad thing and thus I don't pay attention to AN or ANI anymore. The only place I do it now is at ArbCom and because I volunteered for that, and it's a thing I like to do. I see that you say that nobody wants to see you anymore. And why that matters? If nobody wants me, I just stop talking to everyone and make content. Nobody can stop me from doing good content editing, and that's certainly something you can do alone. —

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I used to think that way but somewhere along the way after doing a few hundred thousand edits, featured/good content, trying to get editors to collaborate, trying to save about 100 dead WikiProjects, etc. if enough people tell you your not trusted, it wears you down. Then when policy is being blatantly violated by those that are trusted and nothing is done about it (particularly by other admins or Arbcom), but your told you can't be trusted because your advocating doing something about the violations...lets just say I don't have any faith in the project anymore. I am also not going to edit and improve articles knowing that I am not trusted or wanted on the site. I don't even revert vandalism anymore, I have half a dozen articles and a template on my watchlist that have been vandalized (not by me just to clarify) and I am waiting to see how long it takes before someonen does it. Some have been there since August (although in fairness some others have been caught) One took 4 months though. Wikipedia is getting worse by the day because no one is even trying to do anything about the problems except letting them get worse and telling me I'm an asshole for, at this point, being blunt and telling them their jerks. Why would I want to participate in that.

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I don't know Kumioko. I think that you are mixing two things that come separate. I see how people shoot each other and I don't bother about it. I used to, but I realized that Wikipedia is about the content, so improving content is the most important thing one should do. After all, it is the very purpose of this website. And to do that you don't need to get editors to collaborate, or to save any Wikiproject, etc. Only two things are needed: sources and a writer, and you have both. I have worked my way through several featured articles on my own (I admit that I've had help and I am very very grateful for that) using that rule, and it has worked for me. I've had several users who have told me that I'm not trusted, or that I am immature. Hell I was even topic banned. And I'm still here, focusing on writing articles. I do a couple more things, I give you that, but my main priority is to work on the articles that interest me, and that won't change even if Jimbo himself tells me that I'm not wanted. —

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Yeah well, other that the occsasional comment from the sidelines I don't need or want to participate in something/somewhere I'm not wanted. Frankly I wish someone would just block me already. I will probably never edit an article here again anyway. Not until some of the problems get fixed and people start enforcing policy and getting rid of those who are abusing it so it will be fun again.

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You've gone through this before, Kumioko, and you're still here. I saw you being blocked, I was the one who reported that you released your password publicly before your account was globally locked, and I saw you being blocked because you used your IP address while being blocked. I saw all that, and I saw you create your most recent account, CleanStart, because you, no matter what, still wish to edit here. So, if you still wish to edit here, and cannot take any of the drama because you hate it, then find a way to have both things :) —

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I removed the oppose comment since its such a big deal. If people paid half as much attention to the abusive admins as they do to my edits this place would be a lot more enjoyable.

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It's okay. I did not reply again because it wasn't a big deal for me. I was just a bit impressed and commented accordingly, and that was it. No reason to continue a path that I knew wasn't going to end well. Though I am grateful that you came to my talk page. —

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Thanks, I came here to respond to your comment because I didn't want to digress the RFA like so many do. As you can see above, it would have taken a lot of space. I asked to be blocked and I was denied, so that was the only way to ensure it would happen. Then I had every intent of editing as an IP, but that wasn't good enough so I was basically forced to create this Username. I would still be editing as an IP if there wasn't such a nasty culture of IP hatred and labelling people as a sockpuppuet. The only reason we need an account is to vote and for email. Everything else should be able to be done as an IP, even if it takes an extra step like using the protection levels. Anyway, I'm done. I think I'm gonna scramble the password on this account and just be done with it.

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Did you know that a blue duck attacks the German Main page right now? I guess with 28 bites, - had to happen on the 28th ;) - there's also Italian, how about Spanish? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:30, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I asked you a question a couple of weeks ago.

In response, you asked me why I mentioned the topic ban? I followed the edit back to Cambalachero and was going to ask him why he made that particular claim when all of the other sources refer to a license granted by José Rondeau. At that point I discovered he was topic banned for using POV sources.

I was simply asking for advice as I said, it seemed odd for another editor to constantly revert to restore information that contradicted the prevailing information in the literature. I could have given examples I suppose, I'll take that as advice for the next time.

I edited as an IP for ages but kept finding I was blocked. I usually log in via the school learning platform even at home and my IP was blocked by a range block against Bedfordshire schools. As an IP you learn about some aspects of policy but I'm finding it very different as a named account. There is a lot I simply don't know about and the way Arbcom works is one of them. Hence, I was simply asking how it worked nothing more. BedsBookworm (talk) 11:54, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Do you think I could borrow you to take a look at this issue? Reviewer says the article may not be stable enough, because there is an ongoing discussion about how to handle pricing information I allege is outdated, but for which no new independent, reliable sources have published (a verification not truth-type thing). I suggested we merely modify the pricing info so it is put into more of a historical, date-stamped type of reference, waiting for new sources to come out and there seems to be support to do something kind of ish like that. I haven't found anyone willing to review the discussion, assess consensus, and make an edit and I'm sorta waiting on it before the next round of the review. CorporateM (Talk) 01:44, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

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Thanks! Whatever you think is best. I just want it resolved so the article can be considered "stable" for the GA review. I don't think anyone cares all that much, but editors are just much more likely to comment than make an edit and it would be inappropriate for me to make the edit myself. Oh the woes of not editing boldly. CorporateM (Talk) 14:30, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Prices removed :) Also, the sentence did not make much sense. You were comparing a feature of the free version with the price of the paid version (see?), so removing the second part was the best option. Cheers. —

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Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution is a good article that has undergone substantial improvements. Peer review just told us to take it FAC. It's at FAC now but hasn't got much feedback. If you have the time, would you look it over and see if it meets our standards or how it can be improved. --HectorMoffet (talk) 17:46, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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		Thank you for all your help at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Recent. I hereby award you this template barnstar as surely it was a great team effort. I will be sure to swing by if ever I have any coding questions. Mkdwtalk 06:33, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! —

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A month ago I would have told myself the same thing. Actually, a month ago, {{u|WNT]] told me this very same thing. If you don't want to learn about the subject it's okay-- i'm in touch with other writers. --HectorMoffet (talk)

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Condescension

Thank you for choosing to address me in such a condescending tone - I can assure you I am fully capable of understanding what "archiving" is as I have an excellent grasp of the English language. I am also more than capable of determining when the use of the word "killing" is used inappropriately and in a distasteful manner. You have obviously achieved your objective of ensuring a minion like me has been suitably put in their place. Congratulations.

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Unfortunately you have not understood the point I was making. Please also be assured I have never had any problems with Admins - other than the misguided actions taken by the one you mention above.

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Feel free to explain your point then, because I certainly do not understand where do you want to go with it. —

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• 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.

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