User talk:Roy Howard Mills
Admin request
Hello. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Stephan Schulz has been undone because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 22:13, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
- Yes I meant to undo that one but you were VERY quick, so well done to you. Basically I was using the article as a template for requesting my own application and I forgot that I was still inside that article. Thanks all the same. talk) 22:16, 2 April 2016 (UTC)]
- Yeah, I figured that it's what you were doing. No worries; all fixed! :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 22:16, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
- Also, I highly recommend that you read RFA application. You'll save yourself a lot of time and pain by doing so :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 22:21, 2 April 2016 (UTC)]
- Yep. Read it now and it appears I was premature. Best to keep it as a skeleton base for the big day!! :) talk) 22:54, 2 April 2016 (UTC)]
- Yep. Read it now and it appears I was premature. Best to keep it as a skeleton base for the big day!! :)
- Also, I highly recommend that you read
- Yeah, I figured that it's what you were doing. No worries; all fixed! :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 22:16, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
April 2016
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, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Bishonen | talk 10:04, 3 April 2016 (UTC)Unblock and rename
Roy Howard Mills (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
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Obviously I need my edits to remain in tact and tethered to my history, I have created pages, and this also means my application for administration should remain in tact, at least so it be known that I have come to this project with high ambitions.
Thanks
- PS. The name I have requested is fictional, not my real name. talk) 22:55, 3 April 2016 (UTC)]
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SPI
Please, don't post suspicions at SPI unless you have some actual evidence, as it just causes bad blood if the accusation is incorrect. Additionally, please don't ask questions about the contents of deleted content, or the exact reasons for which someone was blocked; by definition, if something's deleted, it's because there's a reason we don't want it seen, and given that you don't have access to deleted contributions or checkuser data, you can't see the histories so comments like "doesn't appear to have made a single contribution" aren't helpful. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but sock investigations are a complex area which are really best left to those with the experience and tools to analyse patterns fully; if you want to help on Wikipedia, there are a lot of places where your help would be valuable. ‑
- Sorry I didn't know about "deleted contributions" being out of public view. I take your points, all of them. Roy Howard Mills (talk) 18:54, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
I would like to add to and extend the comments from Iridescent above, and to say, please slow down. You are proceeding WAY too fast, and trying WAY to hard, to do things you are not yet competent to do. Recent example: at an SPI investigation you said you thought sysops are able to see users' IP addresses. Someone who doesn't know the difference between an
- Yes, got all that. Best thing to do with the request for adminship is to leave it dormant. Editors need to know I am keen but at least I will avoid editing it for a good year let's say. I need to get other tools first, ability to review pages and be a pending change reviewer etc. Or even a checkuser might be a nice thing to go for. To be honest Melanie, I really now have nothing more to add at the SPI, I've given all the evidence I can provide so there's no point me hanging around any longer. So from here on in, unless my name is called (which I doubt), I won't return to that page. It's fresh avenues from here!!!! Roy Howard Mills (talk) 21:17, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
John Farnham edit warring
FYI : All editors are expected to follow
You're Back in the Room edit warring
I see that you are engaged in an edit war with another user at
- Thank you Melanie but 86.158.232.106 is a vandal who was blanking information and not using the talk page, I was up against disruptive editing. Roy Howard Mills (talk) 18:47, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
- Then explain why you think so. You have said nothing at the talk page, and your edit summaries of "(no edit summary)", "Stop mucking around", and "Stop this now" are completely unhelpful. Helpful edit summaries would be things like "unexplained removal of content", "restoring referenced content", "removing unsourced content", and the like. Simply reverting without explanation, or worse yet reverting with unpleasant comments to the other party, are likely to be interpreted as edit warring. --MelanieN (talk) 19:19, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, in future I'll use the summary more. Roy Howard Mills (talk) 22:54, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
- Then explain why you think so. You have said nothing at the talk page, and your edit summaries of "(no edit summary)", "Stop mucking around", and "Stop this now" are completely unhelpful. Helpful edit summaries would be things like "unexplained removal of content", "restoring referenced content", "removing unsourced content", and the like. Simply reverting without explanation, or worse yet reverting with unpleasant comments to the other party, are likely to be interpreted as edit warring. --MelanieN (talk) 19:19, 20 April 2016 (UTC)