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Hi Syrthiss, Sorry about replying this way. It seemed simplest option at the time (well, I'm upsidedown and clinging to the learning curve). Thank you for your kind welcome and advice. Yes: I would appreciate merging my two user IDs under John Collis. Password problem with the first, so I created second with hopes gaining access to fix it. Thanks again, John Collis John Collis (talk) 13:57, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Again, many thanks for your excellent help and guidance. I'll be trying hard not to be a pest. Cheers Syrthiss John Collis (talk) 14:06, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How can i connect with Syrthiss to discuss something? I am at [email protected] I need some tech help . — Preceding unsigned comment added by JonathanGreen42 (talk • contribs) 18:01, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Syrthiss,

A page I added of Dr. Gad Nassi, a notable researcher in the Turkish Jewry's heritage, was recently deleted by you. The reason for deletion was copyright violation, with http://www.gadnassi.com/biography/. Dr. Gad Nassi sent an email requested by Wikipedia (I hereby affirm that...) to the following email: [email protected]. In this email Dr. Nassi stated that he allows me to copy his biography from gadnassi.com - his official website. Please let me know to which email to send his approval in case you haven't received it, so I'll be able to upload the page again.

Best Regards, Alon Avraham (aloncpu)

Dear Mr. Avraham, that is indeed the proper email address. Thanks for your and Dr. Nassi's attention. Once the staff at the office review his email we can restore the article immediately, but I don't have any way myself to view those emails and I don't know how much of a queue there is to review. Hopefully we should have his article restored soon. In the meantime I will remove those warnings from your page. Regards, Syrthiss (talk) 22:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick response. Alon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aloncpu (talk • contribs) 22:06, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Syrthiss, Can I reload Gad Nassi information? Neither Dr. Nassi or myself received any feedback to the email mentioned above until today. Best Regards, Alon Avraham (aloncpu) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aloncpu (talk • contribs) 18:14, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for moving the item from my user to my talk page :) Fiddle Faddle (talk) 20:06, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem! Syrthiss (talk) 12:14, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Syrthiss. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of

Jawadreventon (talk) 22:18, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't delete it. It still exists (hence why it is a bluelink in your sectio header). However, until such time as you can say more about it than 2 sentences or it becomes notable on its own,

WP:NSONGS says that we redirect it to the artist. I felt that wasn't very useful to link it to the artist without knowing where it came from, so I redirected it to the soundtrack it came from where the artist is linked. Cheers. Syrthiss (talk) 22:32, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply

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Despite looking at a sample of the user's edits, I managed to miss the spam links. Had I seen them I would certainly not have unblocked. I could simply reblock, or I could wait to see how the editor edits now, keeping a possible reblock in reserve. My inclination is to do the latter, but do you have any opinion?

Yah, since they are unblocked now I'm willing to see how the progress. I certainly wouldn't reblock them immediately. Thx for the note! :) Syrthiss (talk) 14:59, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Thanks for your opinion.

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Thanks for reverting vandalism to my user page. --Nlu (talk) 15:31, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for checking with me, but at the moment I'm dealing with a family medical issue and am not able to attend to wikipedia much. Please use your best judgement, and I have no objections ever to another admin reversing my actions especially if they feel that circumstances have changed. Thanks! Syrthiss (talk) 13:47, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please delete my photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Summit_Singh_Thakur.jpg

Summit Singh Thakur 06:46, 6 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding

I'm sorry, it looks like it resides on Wikipedia Commons, not here. In general, administrators on one of the wikipedia sites are not administrators on other wikipedia sites. You will have to request deletion there. Syrthiss (talk) 12:09, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Syrthiss. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of

I added new notible sources and I will be adding more. Any further advice would be benificial, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Friskuk (talk • contribs) 17:08, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

... and I was out of the loop for a while. I noticed this, and was wondering which policy or guideline you were referring to. I'm familiar with the

Dunno that there is anything specific. That is just one of the standard templates in twinkle. Essentially, my view of leaving a templated warning on someone's page where it doesn't apply is that one is being disruptive. Does that help? Syrthiss (talk) 22:22, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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It is obvious that the edits I am striking through are acts of sockpuppetry by someone trying to pad his side's !votes in the AfD. You will note that I have not even commented on the page so as to avoid appearance of !vote-stacking myself.

Striking sockpuppetry is valid. I have not changed their words and it is still legible, just marked for the sockpuppetry that it constitutes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.115.153.88 (talk) 12:41, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nintendude64 is a redlink. Until it is no longer a redlink and a checkuser has confirmed your suspicions, I will continue to revert your edits as unsubstantiated. If you have proof, you should present it. Regards, Syrthiss (talk) 12:47, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to ask but why did you revert my attempt to fix a nonsensical template on that page? SkepticAnonymous (talk) 12:51, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't. This shows that essentially you did the same fix that I did (the template change doesn't show in that diff). However, the IP that fucked up the template also seems to be intent that another editor is a sockmaster and deserves to have his edits struck (the section above, and all the changes in the diff with the <s> </s> bits. Do not restore the IP's edits, please. Syrthiss (talk) 12:55, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I myself am starting to think the same editor is a sockmaster based on edit history and extreme vitriol in his posts and those of several of the IP socks. If you would like I'll be happy to submit that page myself at this point. Having been subject to his personal attacks on the original talkpage and now here, it's quite rough. SkepticAnonymous (talk) 12:57, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please do, then. If you cannot create the sockpuppet investigation page, let me know and I can create it and let you fill in your evidence. Syrthiss (talk) 12:59, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try. I've never done one of these before. SkepticAnonymous (talk) 13:02, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if you wanted to do it informally - tell me here why you feel they are a sockmaster. If you can give specific instances that make you suspicious, and I agree, I can go craft the SPI myself. If I look and it doesn't look reasonable, I can tell you that as well. Syrthiss (talk) 13:05, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Created it. Take a look please, let me know? SkepticAnonymous (talk) 13:21, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am starting to worry similarly about efforts by a number of random IP editors to continually re-add content to the

I edited the SPI to the standard template, which places it in the queue and lets the checkusers know exactly what IPs and users they should be looking at. To request protection, that is done at

WP:RFPP. I can say that a sockpuppetry accusation against Nintendude64, in my estimation, is shaky. Not that there doesn't appear to be a concerted effort by IPs to push a agenda...but from what I can see (I am not a checkuser) its hard to make a connection that it clearly is Nintendude64. It could just as easily be unrelated, which is what I expect the checkuser report will be. Syrthiss (talk) 13:40, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply

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Ok. I have placed a protection request here: [2]SkepticAnonymous (talk) 13:49, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

More IPsocks and

I have warned all 3 of you for edit warring. It is not clearly vandalism, so you are not able to freely revert their edits. Similarly, they are not free to reinstate their edits because you are clearly not vandalizing the article either. I don't feel that I can act in protecting the article, but I can certainly block any one of you who makes changes to it. At this moment, I am treating Prozacstan and BabyDoc23 as the same user pending confirmation at the SPI. Syrthiss (talk) 14:12, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Having looked at this this morning after the brouhaha on two page deletion discussions, I think you and your friends went WAY overboard in how you handled this new user. I see a lot of

An ounce of kindness might have saved the situation, it's a pity you have none to give. Instead of a new user learning the system, now we have a new user who's been blocked in a manner that looks punitive, for over a week.

Per WP:BLOCK: Blocks should not be punitive When blocking may not be used: Cool-down blocks

As near as I can read it, at least from my opinion, BOTH of these were routinely violated by those involved in blocking the user as well as those who continually bombarded the talk page while refusing to have the slightest bit of empathy regarding what was upsetting them.

It's my fear that we've lost someone that would have been a good editor, and someone who had the presence of mind to try to head off a problem before it exploded - yet instead of getting help when they called for it, they got the wikipedia equivalent of a gang beating from those who were supposed to help. This may have just run them off for good, or it might even turn them into a vandal in retaliation. That would be a very sad outcome. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.196.233.155 (talk) 11:38, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Because you appear to be the current blocking admin, I feel I should mention to you: I have cleaned off the inappropriate

WP:NPA attack on SkepticAnonymous's talk page, as well as leaving my own note

regarding my feelings of the situation.

• Syrthiss, Just so you know this is
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Thanks DQ. I'm not all that sure that the IP is SkepticAnonymous, since I would assume that someone with the IPs knowledge would have been more adept at trolling. That said, I'm not going to contest the blocks. To the IP - when you made your post, my only blocking action regarding SkepticAnonymous was to remove their talkpage access for the remainder of the block. DeltaQuad was the holder of the block, having extended it to 5 days for block evasion. Since I had stated that I would support an unblock with three very clear conditions, and they seemed intent on not giving up on the third (that Edgar101's block for edit warring was not ADMIN ABUSE!!111!!!!), I removed their talkpage access to prevent them digging themselves further. I realize they were upset, and in my experience they weren't going to get less upset by anything anyone had to say to them. I'm sorry there were personal attacks on that page later in the day, but as I am not omnipresent I had logged off by that point. It is not general practice to fully protect a user's talkpage, and any of those attacks could and should have been reported and reverted through regular channels. Also, I had clearly tried to help them by pointing them to RFPP and by formatting their SPI request, but I have a conflict of interest in this area so my ability to act in an administrative capacity was limited. Syrthiss (talk) 12:20, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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No, there was someone back in 2008 that had their name changed to Nicehumor. If you look at the logs, Solarturbine (this one, not the old one) made an account just a few days ago. Its odd, but it happens. :) Syrthiss (talk) 14:27, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know if that appears in the logs for everyone or just for admins, though. Syrthiss (talk) 14:27, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I can't see it, but clearly that's what has happened cheersTheroadislong (talk) 14:30, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I'd like to thank you for getting rid of this annoying sockpuppet, despite the fact that no formal report has been made about it (I haven't had the time for that). Though I have to say that I would've preferred to let him talk a bit more so that I'll have even more compelling evidence against him :) -- CoolKoon (talk) 13:37, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Solarturbine (talk) 14:49, 14 May 2012 (UTC) please help me in using this talk page and improve my article i am unbale to do it Solarturbine (talk) 14:51, 14 May 2012 (UTC) i am unbale to understand what are the things that i should do in order to improve my wikipedia article. although there are 5 warning i am not getting what iam exactly supoosed to do. one thing that i would be doing is increase number of refrences. as i dint get time to do that i will do it as soon as possible..please help....[reply]

Hi there Solarturbine. Sorry, the issue that i was warning you about was specifically that you were adding 'references' to other wikipedia articles. For example, you mentioned the

reliable sources that support the statement and link them as well. I hope this helps, and you can reply here if you have any more questions. Syrthiss (talk) 15:49, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply

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The templates {{sofixit}} and {{solookitup}} contain the text: "Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the Edit this page link" because MediaWiki:Edit has not been edited since 2008. In monobook the tab is called "Edit this page", in the current default style vector it is simply called "Edit". Arcandam (talk) 16:32, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Arcandam. I'd go and change it, but I'm wary about boldy doing it. It does make sense to have the text say what the page actually looks like, so don't get me wrong. Its just that I'd hate to go change it innocently and have the server grind to a halt (like back in the day when people tried to revdel stuff from George W. Bush by deleting it and selectively undeleting) because it is going through and updating all the transclusion links or something. My suggestion if you are inclined would bring it up on WP:AN and ask if someone knows that it won't bog the server down and if so can they change it. I assume you were asking me in the first place because it requires admin bits to edit? Cheers. Syrthiss (talk) 16:44, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Syrthiss! No worries, it has been done at least twice before as an April Fools' Day joke, and that did not cause armageddon (as far as I know). Sofixit has no transclusions because it is automatically substituted by a bot. Another option is to change the templates so that they no longer use MediaWiki:Edit. I am not sure what the best solution is so I will ask my techsupport. Thanks, Arcandam (talk) 17:01, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I removed the speedy deletion you placed here [3] and instead redirected the article to the target, which appears to be the intent of the initial creation. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 16:29, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Its a fair cop. I didn't even look at the target. The user was creating a bunch of other soapbox articles, so I just assumed it was the same stuff that would be speedied. Syrthiss (talk) 16:33, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - the user definitely has problematic article creation habits. I'm guessing the bulk of the articles should be speedied soon. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 16:50, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

it's a server software that exists for real this is a fact. Not the best, not the worst. Just one of the many servers.--Hiddenray (talk) 13:06, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That is fine, however (1) you were adding it to multiple articles where that was the only mention of it and (2) the article which alerted me to your edits specifically states that items added to it need to have a stable wikipedia article before being added. Regards, Syrthiss (talk) 13:10, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

and I see you re-added the content. I really do recommend you revert yourself. If you continue with this behavior you will likely be blocked for spamming. Syrthiss (talk) 13:12, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

why are you writing here? this conflicts with my answers --Hiddenray (talk) 13:23, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The inclusion in comparison lists doesn't seem to me a bad thing, but a dedicated page seems to me a bit too much as it isn't a Microsoft's product. I restored the pages, if you haven't noticed this. I see that all other server sare linked with a main article and if this is a mandatory requirement, maybe it's better to cancel/revert the edits because i don't want to write a whole new page now, nor i think a new dedicated article is useful anyway. But in the end i feel like you want to delete everything, so nothing else matters --Hiddenray (talk) 13:23, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that! -- The Anome (talk) 12:28, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Heh np Anome. :) Syrthiss (talk) 12:30, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Syrthiss, You recently reverted an update to a business page that I had made with the spam/advertising justification. I was wondering if you could point out which parts you find objectionable. We're happy to make revisions to the text, we're just looking to update the page with some new information. Sleep Country Canada is a well established business that has gained a significant amount of media attention for its various community and charity engagements. As I mentioned our intent is not to advertise on Wikipedia, we would just like to ensure the information on our page is well written and accurate. We're happy to work with any feedback you may have.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SamJReis (talk • contribs) 14:36, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've just gotten back.

First: for the brief time you aided me in trying to understand wikipedia policies and navigate the fucked up, minefield type bullshit of all the forms and everything, thanks I guess.

Second: I've wiped my talk page, including all the lying crap from that abusive shit DeltaQuad who I know now IMPERSONATED me on IRC and was using IP edits himself and then blaming me for them to justify increasing his blocks.

I'm going to get back to editing. If DeltaQuad or one of his cronies wants to pull this corrupt lying shit yet again, then I will cease to try to be a productive editor and will fuck up any page I ever get linked to from then on just to waste all of your time as much as I can.

SIGNED. SkepticAnonymous (talk) 12:52, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Accusations without evidence are not likely to be taken seriously. It is entirely possible that the IPs that edited were associated neither with you nor DeltaQuad, but were someone else trying to frame you. Since I am not a checkuser, I cannot help you in this matter. Regards, Syrthiss (talk) 13:45, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Last year you deleted an article about the kickboxer Marc Vlieger, with the reason that it wasn't an objective article/important individual. I don't know what that article looked like, but I've written a new one, it's in my userpage, could you please revert the deletion so that I can edit it? Znertu (talk) 10:29, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The deleted article is not protected, you may move your draft article to that location if you'd like. Please provide more reliable sources though for Mr. Vlieger to establish his notability. The two that you link do not seem to meet the burden of 'significant coverage', so the article may be nominated for deletion. Regards, Syrthiss (talk) 11:52, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I'll add some other sources in time. Regards. Znertu (talk) 20:35, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for removing the IP's vandalism from my page (and thanks for blocking him too ! ) I appreciate it  :) "....We are all Kosh...."  <-Babylon-5-> 12:31, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not a prob :) Syrthiss (talk) 12:38, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, Syrthiss, for keeping my user pages free of vandalism. Pinethicket (talk) 12:36, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problem.  :) I didn't look at the edits, but if you think any of them need to be revdel'ed let me know. Syrthiss (talk) 12:38, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for listing those user pages at MfD. I opened Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Derunlrw. If you have time, please keep an eye on the investigation for the outcome and list any further found pages at MfD. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:06, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Another of your MfD listings inspired my request for a "User pages with excessive unrelated content" bot, here. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:11, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's an interesting idea. Hopefully it gains some traction. :) Syrthiss (talk) 12:16, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Syrthiss,

Thanks for your recent attention and tags to the ScrumbleShip page. One of the members of the game's community created the page, and I have since edited it for clarity, content, and proof of notability. I have worked to address your tags, and if you review the page you'll find there are five independent, reliable sources that cover ScrumbleShip in varying degrees of specificity and depth - the least deep of which being a mention in an entry by a well-known (in the indie space sims circle) blogger. There are three articles specifically about ScrumbleShip and an interview with Dirkson, the game's creator.

The page is also no longer an orphan, as two entries - "Voxel" and "List of space flight simulator games" now link to it.

Please give the page another look and either let me know what you think, or take action as you see fit.

Best regards,

Dubyrunning (talk) 17:19, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dubyrunning, I'm sorry. I don't believe that an unreleased indie game covered trivially by a few blogs meets our

general notability requirements. That isn't to say that it never will, or that my opinion is the final say. I did a gnews search and got 0 hits. Thanks for checking in with me. Regards, Syrthiss (talk) 12:04, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply

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Also, "ScrumbleShip" meets the Notability Guidelines' requirements by their own definitions. They state: "'Significant coverage' means that sources address the subject directly in detail. . . Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention but it need not be the main topic of the source material." "Reliable sources" are those with "editorial integrity to allow verifiable evaluation of notability," and are not "self-published."

In "ScrumbleShip's" case, the game is the sole topic of three articles (including a lengthy interview with the game's creator) on gaming blogs, and occupies a lengthy segment of a known gaming podcast. To me, this is non-trivial coverage. The blogs and podcast feature identified authors who clearly strive for editorial integrity.

In sum, it seems that, by the Notability Guidelines' own definitions, "ScrumbleShip" meets the requirements as the center of attention in several reliable third-party sources. The fact that these sources are not mainstream media does not make them any less reliable or relevant to the topic for which they're cited. I do, however, understand and respect that you disagree.

Edit: I copying this conversation to the "ScrumbleShip" Talk page so we can hopefully build some consensus on the notability issue. In future, please respond there.

Best, Dubyrunning (talk) 14:53, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, understand all that. If I really had a strong opinion, I'd have already nominated it for deletion. The fact that I haven't indicates my uncertainty in my position. Best of luck, Syrthiss (talk) 14:59, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Syrthiss:

I'm sorry that I found the Pragmatic.ly page I created today has been deleted(This is my first time creating page). May I get more detail about the reason? Because I know a lot pages almost did the same thing (just introduced a software) like:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basecamp_(software)
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingle
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teambox

Or maybe I used some emotional words make you feel it like a advertisement？ And would you please tell me where I could find the deleted page's content? I think I can do some editing if possible.

Thanks. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Poshboytl (talk • contribs) 12:37, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Another editor had flagged it as an advertisement. In particular, the language in the article seemed more like a brochure for the product, and doesn't really establish why it is notable with multiple reliable sources external to the company. As for the other articles you mention, they too perhaps are adverts. Two of them have undergone deletion discussions, and one of them was deleted previously because of the discussions...so I'm not really sure that they should be held up as examples of what to emulate.

If you would like the contents of the deleted article, I can copy them to User:Poshboytl/Pragmatic.ly if you'd like so you can work on them. Syrthiss (talk) 13:11, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Thanks very much for your hard work and the explanation. Please help me copy it to User:Poshboytl/Pragmatic.ly, so I could do more work on it.

If possible, would you please give me a good sample which is about introducing a software.

Thanks again. :) Poshboytl (talk) 13:43, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I have moved it. I was looking down the table of project management software and honestly, it will be a hard area to write in. You might look at

eGroupWare to get a better idea of how to phrase things. I say it is hard to write in this area, because both of these examples have either undergone deletion discussions or been deleted and recreated later. Hope this helps. Syrthiss (talk) 13:57, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply

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The reason it's in my sandbox is for practice for such tables in the actual articles. But you can now have it up for deletion, since I don't use it much anymore. I've uploaded the code to an online notepad. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 12:35, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Replied at users page, got distracted from replying here this morning. Syrthiss (talk) 18:16, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for blocking 165.138.18.100. I was getting ready to report him for vandalism. Good job! "....We are all Kosh...."  <-Babylon-5-> 18:14, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Np! Not too smart on their part, considering they just came off a 2 year block. Cheers, Syrthiss (talk) 18:15, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Join the discussion to un-delete Category:Gay Wikipedians! If you want. Ncboy2010 (talk) 13:14, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. If it is any consolation it appears that /most/ of the "canvassed" accounts were uhm... abandoned. Sorry about that, I've posted to the LGBT wikiproject talk page.. I'm going to let it go it's course now. I'm not terribly hopeful. Sorry to have bothered you. Ncboy2010 (talk) 13:26, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Its not a prob, just wanted to make sure you knew. :) Syrthiss (talk) 13:37, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No, despite having been here and editing since 2010, I've not done much by way of deletions, discussions, et cetera. I'll keep it in mind for the future! Ncboy2010 (talk) 20:57, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Syrthiss; perhaps this user's [4] edit history, as well as their user and talk pages, need to be expunged, given the appearance of actual names and phone numbers. Thanks, 99.168.82.114 (talk) 13:05, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Was already figuring out how best to handle it. Think I'm going to pass it on to oversight based on the revdel pagetext, they may have an easier time of it. Thanks! Syrthiss (talk) 13:10, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good. A little online research suggests that kids adopted their teacher's name, and possibly their home phone number.... by the way, back in the day Etacar11 was one of my favorite editors. 99.168.82.114 (talk) 13:12, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

yep, and thx for the kind word. I'll let her know! Syrthiss (talk) 14:40, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in

In this issue:

• Background: A brief overview of the DR ecosystem.
• Research: The most recent DR data
• Survey results: Highlights from Steven Zhang's April 2012 survey
• Activity analysis: Where DR happened, broken down by the top DR forums
• DR Noticeboard comparison: How the newest DR forum has progressed between May and August
• Discussion update: Checking up on the Wikiquette Assistance close debate
• Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?

--The Olive Branch 19:32, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Backstage at the Smithsonian Libraries is part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2012, the second annual continent-wide campaign to bring Wikipedia and libraries together with on-site events. Running this fall through October and November, libraries (and archives) will open their doors to help build a lasting relationship with their local Wikipedian community.

Organized by Wikimedia DC, this event will take place on October 12, 2012, and will include new editor training, a "backstage pass" tour of the National Museum of Natural History, and an edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Kirill ^[talk] 18:50, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I notice that on Sept 12th, you applied a short-term block on User:66.110.211.66 for vandalism. Today that user blanked the RepRap page (I rolled-back). I think a longer block is required. Sadly, this appears to be a shared IP.

Thanks! SteveBaker (talk) 14:15, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Did, thanks. I don't have a lot of patience with recidivism, and the other edits from the IP were all crap as well so I'm fine with a longer block. Thanks! Syrthiss (talk) 14:25, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi sorry for the late reply I haven't been on much lately and when I have I have neglected my talk page. In regards to User:Alucard 16/Big Brother1 and User:Alucard 16/BB10USA are rough drafts of two Big Brother articles that I was working on. I plan to go back to them and finish up them its just finding the sources for the articles are a very big task and take up a considerable amount of time. Since I am done with school I am going to finish up User:Alucard 16/Big Brother1 soon. Sorry for the late reply. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 20:09, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. Did you need that page undeleted so you can work from it? Syrthiss (talk) 15:14, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For catching that vandalism on my page (and for blocking him as well ) !  KoshVorlon. We are all Kosh ...  18:18, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Syrthiss, I am contacting you regarding TIBI CLENCI page on Wikipedia, it was proposed for speedy deletion but we would like to kindly ask to review it, I have added all the quotation and rely all the affirmations to other known websites. Tibi Clenci is an wonderful artist and deserves a wiki page. Please let us know about. Thank you, My regards, Radu Dobrea (talk)

   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Radudobrea (talk • contribs) 10:09, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply] 

You do realize that I made this request back in 2009? 3 years ago? The fact that you were able to edit the page shows that it was indeed not deleted. Thanks. Syrthiss (talk) 11:14, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:20, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

...well I do not consider it vandalism to tell the truth, but accept your edit! :p [personal attack removed, YCALAM warned on his talk-page. --User:DMacks] 15:20, 20 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by You Can Act Like A Man (talk • contribs) [reply]

You might want to consider semi-protecting the user page for User:Berpulson as it appears an IP editor is trying to remove the SOCK notice on their page. I would imagine it would be important to keep that page for the moment. Tiggerjay (talk) 22:41, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

December 10 is

Kirill ^[talk] 14:12, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please join Wikimedia DC and four other local media nonprofits—the National Press Club's Young Members Committee, 100Reporters, IRE and the Fund for Investigative Journalism—in winding down another year with a night of well-mannered frivolity.

The festivities will take place on Friday evening from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM in the Zenger Room on the 13th Floor of the National Press Club, located on 529 14th Street NW, near Metro Center. There will be meat and vegetarian appetizers as well as a cash bar with specially reduced drink prices all night long. In addition, we will be exhibiting the finalists of the Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest at the event.

Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 04:36, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A bit of an odd one, this. Are there any grounds for deletion of User:Reema_Welling/sandbox? You blocked the creator for NLT yesterday. - Sitush (talk) 13:37, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I'm not sure how to handle that exactly. It's not exactly an attack page, and gives another example for why the NLT block is valid (and had I seen it back in October, that's when I would have blocked). However, not like the NLT block needs more justification other than the edit summary threat at Pooja Welling. I think I'll mfd it. It clearly isn't going to ever develop into an article with that kind of start. Syrthiss (talk) 13:52, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks. I ran through the CSD rationales and could find nothing suitable. Clean forgot about MfD. Obviously. I'm use to being the subject of attacks and threats, of which the examples from Reema Welling really are trivial; nonetheless, the most thing can ever be is a focus for more unjustified awkwardness. - Sitush (talk) 14:21, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You may recall blocking

Three times now. I've no idea why they do not just comment at the AfD but it is impossible to get a note on a SPA dynamic IP's talk page fast enough to make any difference. - Sitush (talk) 10:08, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. Yeah, I often have no idea why people take the more difficult route. I expect she feels completely in the right and that we are somehow some conspiracy to keep her sister in obscurity. Syrthiss (talk) 12:41, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please join Wikimedia DC for Happy Hour at the Capitol City Brewery at Metro Center on Thursday, February 28 at 6 p.m. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 34. Hope to see you there! Harej (talk) 02:22, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Syrthiss, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)

There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!

• Please sign up here
• Announcement on Cato's blog
• Background from Cato sponsor Jim Harper's perspective
• Background from Wikipedian Pete Forsyth's perspective

Hope to see you there! -Pete (talk) 19:31, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Guapo's at Tenleytown-AU on Saturday, March 9 at 5 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 13:57, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked two accounts as socks - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Indianathlete2016. I knew something rang a bell (but wasn't called Quasimodo...). He's quite determined and will probably re-surface. Peridon (talk) 17:27, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Heheh I noticed. I hadn't realized he had done this before or I would have blocked sooner. Oh well. I'll keep an eye out in the future, thanks! :) Syrthiss (talk) 17:30, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for losing patience and tagging it... Peridon (talk) 17:32, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays (talk) 23:12, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You deleted two of my articles Ekantipur.com and Myrepublica.com. I have seen many article which resembles as I have created. Please, instruct me how can I be able to get those articles back as they have a very high significance with Nepalese people. Thanks Ashishlohorung (talk) 05:09, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You need to establish why they have a very high significance in the article. Just saying 'they have the highest web traffic' is not enough. Make sure that they meet

WP:GNG, keep the language neutral, and establish a reason why they are notable. That doesn't mean you need to have the entire article finished before you publish it, but have enough that there's some reason to keep it. Regards, Syrthiss (talk) 12:00, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply

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I want to edit those two articles to expand it to add more notable materials. So can you please restore them ? Ashishlohorung (talk) 06:56, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, restored to

User:Ashishlohorung/Ekantipur.com. Regards, Syrthiss (talk) 17:31, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply

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Thanks for the restore. However, I have added bit of references. Is that enough to make it live ? Ashishlohorung (talk) 06:12, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No. The bbc link in the Myrepublica.com is a trivial mention, in that the story linked is not about myrepublica.com but only that the site is mentioned in one sentence. That's like reporting on Barack Obama and saying that he answered a question from a given reporter at a news conference. The alexa rank for Ekantipur.com is itself not sufficient - what you really need are things like non-trivial mentions in other articles (a bbc article about how important Myrepublica.com is, or they won awards for their coverage). They don't need to be in english, either, if that would help show the significance. Please keep in mind that I am not the ultimate judge in this - you can move them back into the articles at any time, but they are likely to be deleted again by someone unless you can show or make a plausible claim to notability. Hope this helps, Syrthiss (talk) 13:41, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Syrthiss, thanks for the info. I am always struggling to find sources of some of the genuine artilces in the internet. As I am in learning phase, could you provide me some help in this regard? There are many articles about my culture which has been deleted or afraid to create in Wikipedia to fear that they don't have proper online references. Ekantipur.com and Myrepublica.com is the widely mostly used online news portal in Nepal but i think they lack third party's proper review to include in Wikipedia. I am still not sure how can I make those article more notable? Please help thanks.Ashishlohorung (talk) 06:09, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

yeah but it seems he/she never finished it as you can search on google. https://www.google.com/?hl=de#hl=de&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=rwanda+russia+relations&oq=rwanda+russia+relations&fp=7345aeabe963768c

Everything which is written in wikipedia belongs to the community, its a waste to not make an article of it.--Quandapanda (talk) 13:05, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I'm putting the Yeast article through a Good Article Reassessment. I've left some comments on the review page: Talk:Yeast/GA2, and the review is on hold for an initial seven days. As you are one of the main contributors to the article, I thought you might be interested. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 22:29, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, April 13 at 5:30 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

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Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:

On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.

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We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill ^[talk] 20:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, May 11 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

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so good tea Asishbantawa (talk) 11:53, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I recently made an update to a page in order to correct an edit that wrongfully listed that a company was recently bought by another company. The updated information that I posted came directly from the public description of this company. By you removing my edit, the incorrect information had now returned. The user that created the edit I was trying to overturn has posted information that could be viewed as harmful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Columbiajames (talk • contribs) 11:51, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Syrthiss. I have removed this page from Category:Ice hockey teams in Kazakhstan, because this page is already exist:

Hey there. Just wanted to let you know that you created quite a mess with moving the files around. Please don't do that unless you know what you are doing. There was an older page at

Ertis Pavlo that had a longer history than the pages you created, so I moved that to your desired name and restored the history. Will repeat this at your talkpage because it's really important that you understand this. Cheers. Syrthiss (talk) 14:13, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply

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Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!

On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.

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Since you have over 100 edits at

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

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Luce and Lunder Edit-a-thon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum You're invited to the Luce and Lunder Edit-a-thon, part of a series of edit-a-thons organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to add and expand articles about American art and artists on Wikipedia. This event will include a catered lunch and special tours of the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and the Lunder Conservation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 9:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 19, 2013 Smithsonian American Art Museum Meet at G Street Lobby (9th St. & G St. NW, Washington, D.C.) Capacity is limited, so please sign up today! If you would not like to receive future messages about meetups, please remove your name from our distribution list. Message delivered by Dominic·t 03:13, 12 July 2013 (UTC).[reply]

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Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 5 at our K Street office.

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You may be interested in the deletion proposal related to Category: Professionals. Regards, XOttawahitech (talk) 18:06, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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You have been mentioned at Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians. XOttawahitech (talk) 14:33, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Good to know someone noticed I was gone. Sorry I didn't get to comment on your category deletion discussion. Wikipedia was just one more source of frustration that I didn't need at a frustrating time. Hope you are doing well. :) Syrthiss (talk) 14:44, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You probably don’t remember, but I remember you fondly as one of the good samaritans who stepped in to help in my near-fatal wiki-collision at the beginning of February 2012. One regret I have is that I have not been able to reciprocate in respect to user: Telanian183 who seems to have been hit by a secondary wiki-collision after stepping in as well.

As far as frustrations go, I often feel that way myself. I have good days and bad days on Wikipedia, but your note here is definitely tipping the scale in the right direction. XOttawahitech (talk) 13:29, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Heh I do indeed remember. I'm glad I was of some help. :) Hopefully cool people being kind to each other can help stave off the bad days for all of us. Syrthiss (talk) 14:03, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You are still being missed. Ottawahitech (talk) 22:11, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for a special WikiSalon at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library's Digital Commons Center. We will gather at 3 PM on Sunday, October 13, 2013 to discuss an important topic: what can Wikipedia and the DC area do to help each other? We hope to hear your thoughts and suggestions; if you have an idea you would like to pursue, please let us know and we will help!

Following the WikiSalon, we will be having dinner at a nearby restaurant, Ella's Wood Fired Pizza.

If you're interested in attending, please sign up at the event page. We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 02:33, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey!

You are invited to two upcoming events in DC:

• Meetup at Capitol City Brewery on Saturday, January 25 at 6 PM. Please join us for dinner, drinks, socializing, and discussing Wikimedia DC activities and events. All are welcome! RSVP on the linked page or through Meetup.
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Hello there!

Our February WikiSalon is coming up on Sunday, February 23. Join us at our gathering of Wikipedia enthusiasts at the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery with an optional dinner after. As usual, all are welcome. Care to join us?

Also, if you are available, there is an American Art Edit-a-thon being held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Professor Andrew Lih's COMM-535 class at American University on Tuesday, February 11 from 2 to 5 PM. Please RSVP on the linked page if you are interested.

If you have any ideas or preferences for meetups, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC.

Thank you, and hope to see you at our upcoming events! Harej (talk) 18:42, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments

Greetings!

Wikimedia DC has yet another busy month in June. Whether you're a newcomer to Wikipedia or have years of experience, we're happy to see you come. Here's what's coming up:

• On Wednesday, June 11 from 7 to 9 PM come to the WikiSalon at the Cove co-working space. Hang out with Wikipedia enthusiasts!
• Saturday, June 14 is the Frederick County History Edit-a-Thon from 11 AM to 4 PM. Help improve local history on Wikipedia.
• The following Saturday, June 21, is the June Meetup. Dinner and drinks with Wikipedians!
• Come on Tuesday, June 24 for the Wikipedia in Your Library edit-a-thon at GWU on local and LGBT history.
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Wikipedia is better with friends, so why not come out to an event?

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I am pleased to announce our fourth annual picnic, the Great American Wiknic, will take place at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, July 13 from 1 to 5 PM (rain date: July 20). We will be hanging out by the statue of Dante Alighieri, a statue that was donated to the park in 1921 as a tribute to Italian Americans. Read more about the statue on Wikipedia. If you would like to sign up for the picnic, you can do so here. When signing up, say what you’re going to bring!

July will also feature the second annual Great American Wiknic in Frederick, Maryland. This year’s Frederick picnic will take place on Sunday, July 6 at Baker Park. Sign up here for the Frederick picnic.

What else is going on in July? We have the American Chemical Society Edit-a-Thon on Saturday, July 12, dedicated to notable chemists, and our monthly WikiSalon on Wednesday, July 16.

We hope to see you at our upcoming events!

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Greetings!

Sorry for the last minute update, but our friends at the DC Historical Society have scheduled a Battle of Fort Stevens Edit-a-Thon to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battle fought in the District. The event will last from noon to 2 PM on Wednesday, July 30. Hope you can make it!

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Come one and come all. To a presentation at the Laurel Historical Society about how you can help verify, validate, and edit the information that is on the front line of local history.

• Show the Internet who is the better editor.
• Be the creator of culture that you know you are.
• Spread the knowledge of noteworthy people who no one but you cares about.
• Lead the charge to a better Wikipedia --- eventually.

Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:08, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

See you at the Laurel Pool Room, 9th and Main Street, Laurel, MD on Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 7:00 PM EST. See http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205494212/ for more information. Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:13, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiSalon is a special meetup usually held during the first and third full weeks of every month, from 7 PM to 9 PM. It's an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss Wikimedia wikis and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own.

If you're coming by Metro, the closest station is Dupont Circle (on the Red Line). If you're driving, a lot of parking opens up downtown after 6:30 PM, so finding a parking space (even a free one) should be easy. Once you've found the building, go to Cove on the second floor. We will be in the conference room.

When: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Where: The Cove, Dupont Circle, 1730 Connecticut Avenue NW, 2nd floor, 20009, DC

For more information, see http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205500822/

My best regards, Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:26, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia DC's Upcoming meetups

• Thursday, September 11: “Wikipedia and YOUR History: Taking Control of the Internet, One Article at a Time!”

  A presentation at the Laurel Historical Society about how you can help verify, validate, and edit the information that is on the front line of local history. Laurel Pool Room, 9th and Main Street in Laurel, MD. 7 PM.

• Wednesday, September 17: WikiSalon

  Come for the pizza, stay for the conversation. 7 PM – 9 PM

• Saturday, September 20: September Meetup

  Get dinner and drinks with fellow Wikipedians! 6 PM

• Sunday, September 21: Laurel History Edit-a-Thon

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Hi, I saw your category at Category:United States military images and it states that Images taken or made by US military are Under United States copyright law, such images are public domain. Ive just written this article here: Wilhelm Tranow, and on the off chance I searched Google images for a picture of the man, and came across a picture of it, here: Tranow]. Is that image copyright under US law? Its obviously a image take sometime before or during the second world war. It has obviously been taken from some archive, originally by TICOM who were US and British military but theese folk who are now selling it. What I'm fundamentally asking, is there a process which I can do through to get hold of this image. Can an argument be made that it is in the public domain? scope_creep 18:44, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! Well, for one even though I created the category, that was likely during my work on what used to be categories for deletion so while my account is the one that made it, I was acting solely as an administrator and have no connection to the topic.

All that said, I don't think there is a useful path forward regarding *that* image from *that* source. You could ask them if they would be willing to release the image under CC by SA but I expect they will say that even though the original was PD they post processed it or expended conservation resources and thus have made a claim now to the image as a derivative work. I've been away for a while, but there's probably a wikiproject on military history that might know of a better way to acquire the image if you want to poke around for it.

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Hi Syrthiss, I have unblocked the above user that was block by you in 2011. Their reasoning was fair enough to me, there hasn't been a sign of socking, and after 6-7 years, it seems to be a "lesson learned". I noticed you haven't edited since October, and I'm not sure of your timetable to return, so I wanted to make you aware of this. RickinBaltimore (talk) 17:37, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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