User talk:Malinaccier/June 2009

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I would like to thank you for coming out and participating in my Request for Adminship, which closed unsuccessfully at (48/8/6) based on my withdrawal. I withdrew because in my opinion I need to focus on problems with my content contributions before I can proceed with expanding my responsibilities. Overall I feel that the RfA has improved me as an editor and in turn some articles which in my eyes is successful. Thank you again for your participation. Cheers and happy editing.--kelapstick (talk) 18:58, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

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Many thanks! :-) Colds7ream (talk) 23:40, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which succeeded with 56 in support, 12 in opposition and 3 neutral votes. I am truly honored by the trust that the community has placed in me. Whether you supported me, opposed me, or if you only posted questions or commented om my RfA, I thank you for your input and I will be looking at the reasons that people opposed me so I can improve in those areas :). If you ever need anything please feel free to ask me and I would be happy to help you :). All the Best, Mifter (talk)

Mifter (talk) 23:44, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

User:Colds7ream/RfA

I noticed you closed Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2009 June 8#Warp pipe (disambiguation) but it did not seem finished to me. I'm pretty sure the normal close after a week or so did not apply in it's usual way because the discussion seemed to be postponed until there was a decision at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warp Pipe (software developer) (2nd nomination). You closed it very shortly after the very impotent information, of what the AFD decision was became available.--Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 02:40, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

I also have a concern about the closure of this RfD. You closed it with the decision to redirect it to the page concerning recurring mario gameplay elements... However, this page does not contain any information about Warp Pipes, making the redirect confusing. Surely if there is no information anywhere on Wikipedia concerning the topic Warp Pipe, it should not have a redirect? Even the page Warp Pipe itself was deleted with no redirect. --Taelus (talk) 15:45, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

I have now added into the article a section about Warp Pipes, and redirected other relevant terms, so the redirect is now valid. --Taelus (talk) 16:35, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Malinaccier. I've changed the font color on my user an talk pages. Is it easier to look at now? Also, would you like me to change the color for the links as well? Timmeh!_{(review me)} 16:08, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

The WikiCup Newsletter (last week)

The WikiCup Newsletter Round III, Issue 1 - June 7, 2009 Archive before | Archive after Pool leaders In this round of the WikiCup, the top contestant from each pool, along with four wildcards, will advance to the next round. The pool leaders are: Pool A Mitchazenia (40) Pool B Scorpion0422 (38) Pool C Candlewicke (68) Pool D Theleftorium (100) Wildcard leaders Durova (75) Juliancolton (47) Useight (46) Shoemaker's Holiday (35) For a full guide see Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2009/Full All scores are accurate as of 12:15, 7 June 2009 (UTC) Content Leaders As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most: Featured articles Nobody Featured lists Nobody Featured topics Nobody Featured pictures Shoemaker's Holiday (1) Featured sounds Nobody Featured portals Nobody Good topics Nobody Good articles Theleftorium (3) Did you know? items Mitchazenia (1) Wrestlinglover (1) In the news items Candlewicke (5) For Round 1 stats, see Newsletter 10. For Round 2 stats, see Newsletter 18. WikiCup At a Glance As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a Round 3 total of: 0 Featured articles 0 Featured lists 0 Featured topic 1 Featured pictures 0 Featured sounds 0 Featured portal 0 Good topic 6 Good articles 2 Did you know? items 5 In the news items This combines with the Round 1 totals and the Round 2 totals to make a grand total of: 25 Featured articles 47 Featured lists 3 Featured topics 176 Featured pictures 24 Featured sounds 2 Featured portal 3 Good topics 208 Good articles 448 Did you know? items 87 In the news items Biggest Jumps The difference between each contestant's point total from last week, and their point total from this week are: Rank User LF TF D 1 Theleftorium 0 100 100 2 Durova 0 75 75 3 Candlewicke 0 68 68 4 Juliancolton 0 47 47 5 Useight 0 46 46 6 Mitchazenia 0 40 40 7 Scorpion0422 0 38 38 8 Shoemaker's Holiday 0 35 35 9 Rlevse 0 14 14 10 Wrestlinglover 0 12 12 11 ThinkBlue 0 6 6 12 GaryKing 0 3 3 13 the_ed17 0 3 3 14 Sasata 0 0 0 15 Paxse 0 0 0 16 Ottava Rima 0 0 0 LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores This was generated from this diff. From the Judges Wow, what a big start to Round 3! We already have people past the 50 point mark, in one week. We can tell that this round is going to be tight, and we'll likely see every Top 8 contestant with over 500 (maybe 400) points by the end of this round. Keep working hard! – weburiedoursecretsinthegarden,  iMatthew :  Chat  , and The Helpful One If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list.

The WikiCup Newsletter (this week)

The WikiCup Newsletter Round III, Issue 2 - June 14, 2009 Archive before | Archive after Pool leaders In this round of the WikiCup, the top contestant from each pool, along with four wildcards, will advance to the next round. The pool leaders are: Pool A Mitchazenia (74) Pool B Scorpion0422 (51) Pool C Candlewicke (171) Pool D Theleftorium (228) Wildcard leaders Juliancolton (118) Durova (106) Wrestlinglover (59) Useight (59) For a full guide see Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2009/Full All scores are accurate as of 17:52, 13 June 2009 (UTC) Content Leaders As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most: Featured articles Juliancolton (1) Featured lists Nobody Featured topics Nobody Featured pictures Shoemaker's Holiday (1) Featured sounds Nobody Featured portals Nobody Good topics ThinkBlue (1) Good articles Theleftorium (7) Did you know? items Candlewicke (4) In the news items Candlewicke (13) For Round 1 stats, see Newsletter 10. For Round 2 stats, see Newsletter 18. WikiCup At a Glance As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a Round 3 total of: 1 Featured articles 0 Featured lists 0 Featured topic 1 Featured pictures 0 Featured sounds 0 Featured portal 1 Good topic 14 Good articles 9 Did you know? items 13 In the news items This combines with the Round 1 totals and the Round 2 totals to make a grand total of: 26 Featured articles 47 Featured lists 3 Featured topics 176 Featured pictures 24 Featured sounds 2 Featured portal 4 Good topics 216 Good articles 455 Did you know? items 95 In the news items Biggest Jumps The difference between each contestant's point total from last week, and their point total from this week are: Rank User LF TF D 1 Theleftorium 132 228 96 2 Candlewicke 85 171 86 3 Juliancolton 50 118 68 4 Sasata 0 46 46 5 Wrestlinglover 19 59 40 6 Mitchazenia 40 74 34 7 Durova 75 106 31 8 ThinkBlue 7 37 30 9 Useight 46 59 13 10 Scorpion0422 41 51 10 LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores This was generated from this diff. From the Judges Turns out last week's newsletter was never sent out. Sorry about that! Since we already had it done, we are sending you both. This newsletter is the one for this week though. Anyway, we're seeing you guys working really hard. There are a few of you over 100 points in the first two weeks. Also, we have switched Ottava Rima from Pool D to Pool B, and Shoemaker's Holiday (who has withdrawn) from Pool B to Pool D. Scorpion0422 is more than likely to withdraw before this round ends, because he will be inactive next round. That would leave 2 contestants in Pool B. So, to make things fairly even, we have switched the two contestants. Sorry for all of the confusion! Finally, we know it's very early, but you can already sign up for the 2010 WikiCup, here! We want to get everything ready way in advance for next year. So we opened the list up, and we'll start working things out in September/October, most likely. Information is all on the page, and you may leave any questions on the talk page. So go sign up before your favorite flag is taken! 'weburiedoursecretsinthegarden,  iMatthew :  Chat  , and The Helpful One If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list.

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Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 11:47, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing that up on my RfA. It made me take a look back and realize that my oppose and neutral !votes were very inappropriate, considering I was basing them on one isolated incident, the details of which were vague to begin with. I know you hold no grudge, but I feel bad about my !vote. So, I'd just like to apologize for that and let you know that, for what it's worth, if your RfA were held today I would have supported. Timmeh 01:40, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt response regarding Autoreview. Cheers. History2007 (talk) 18:02, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:09, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your message, but isn't that what this is for? Mjroots (talk)

Thanks, I didn't realise JVbot was up for retirement. Nice to be trusted though. Mjroots (talk) 18:38, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

I saw your addition of this flag to my account, and then followed through the discussion directly above to the discussion on the pump. I think I get what this is about now, and I have no problem at all with that being added to my account.

Just one comment that I wanted to make. I'm not sure from where the stats are pulled that indicate someone has created enough articles to be considered for this flag. In my case, I've created very few actual articles — possibly no more than five. However, I have created a number of redirects as part of my regular gnoming activity — likely a hundred or more — and I'm concerned that those might be skewing the totals.

That being said, I've been here for a while now, I've done good work, and I understand how things are supposed to be done, so I'm confident that the Wiki's not endangered by my having this particular flag. I just wanted to check in with you, in case my theory is right. Thanks, Mlaffs (talk) 19:39, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

You're too kind. I'm just doing what comes naturally. But I'm never one to turn down bright shiny hardware, so thanks very much.

In coming back here to respond, I took a look at your user page, as I'm wont to do when I encounter someone for the first time. Upon seeing your note about admin coaching/advice, I dug a little deeper and found your coaching page. I'm seriously impressed; you've obviously put a lot of thought into this. So I thought to myself that I'd knock on your door for a cup of sugar while I was here. I have an editor review running right now — well, less running than plodding, actually — and while I wasn't planning on looking for coaching per se, I was going to ask if you might be willing to have a look and contribute there if you had the time. And wouldn't you know, when I went to that page to copy the link for posting here, you'd already posted a question! Too funny... I'll respond there shortly, and I'd absolutely welcome any feedback you might care to provide. Mlaffs (talk) 20:24, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Wow, that was unexpected! Thanks for the offer, and I think I'd have to say yes. If I understand the process correctly, the nominator creates a subpage for the nomination, and then I have to answer the basic questions and promote it at the main RfA page. I'd like to make sure I have the maximum availability to answer the early rush of questions — and not incidentally to make sure I've had time to consider the usual questions properly — so I might want to hold off on actually accepting the nom and promoting the page until later in the week. Thursday afternoon, likely, if that's not a problem, just in case you were thinking of this being an imminent thing.

For what it's worth, completely fair comment at the Editor Review as well about my lack of content creation. That's really the one thing that's held me back from taking this possibility too seriously, as I won't be surprised if I get raked for it. I do have a featured list nomination live right now. It's not an article that I started, but I did make significant enhancements to it and took it through peer review, as much to understand and experience the whole process as for any other reason. Ironically, I'm probably really qualified to create content, if such a concept exists; journalism degree, advanced research skills, significant experience in financial writing and editing, etc. I think it's just that there's no topic I'm passionate enough about that I've ever wanted to build an article up from scratch. I'm also so heavily involved in projects at work that take a long time to unfold and aren't inherently satisfying; my real charge here comes from the immediacy of being able to make the small changes that tend to go unnoticed, but that allow me to see the instant results. That's particularly the case with disambiguation, where one change to point a link in a template to the right place can ripple across dozens or even hundreds of articles and very quietly improve the user experience for a lot of people.

Anyway, that's a lot of words to say thanks for the feedback, the vote of confidence, and for your trust in making the offer. Even if adminship itself is "no big deal"^TM, I think it is a big deal to put your name and reputation on the line by nominating someone, and I don't take that lightly. Mlaffs (talk) 00:25, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

296? Really? I can only see that being possible if that's including creating disambiguation pages, which I've done a decent amount of — in fact, I'm defending one at AfD even as we speak. I don't minimize the value of that work, but I think someone might get the wrong impression from that stat otherwise. As for actual articles, I've only created four: 1999 Major League Baseball Draft, 1998 Major League Baseball Draft, 1997 Major League Baseball Draft (I sense a trend developing!), and 1996 Major League Baseball Draft.

This is actually shedding a little more light on the discussion that got the ball rolling on all this. The whitelist you were using for granting that flag was probably properly ignoring the redirects I'd created, but counting the dab pages as new articles. Mlaffs (talk) 19:17, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Cool tool — hadn't seen that before. I forgot about the TSX lists too; my bad. You're right that from the perspective of new page patrol, counting the dab pages makes perfect sense. I was thinking more about the impending RfA. I wouldn't want to quote that total as any gauge of the work that I'd done here. I wouldn't want to quote any numbers, in fact, but especially not that one.

As an update, I've been reading through a number of the recent RfAs, trying to get my brain working on some of the questions that seem to be uppermost on people's minds these days. It's an interesting exercise, and one I'd actually encourage anyone to do, even if they weren't thinking about adminship. Anyway, I think I'm pretty much ready, so I'm good to go if you're still targeting tomorrow, or anytime before that if it's more convenient for you. Mlaffs (talk) 19:35, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for giving me access, I shall endeavour to be responsible ;) danno 21:34, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

The WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter Round III, Issue 3 - June 22, 2009 Archive before | Archive after Pool leaders In this round of the WikiCup, the top contestant from each pool, along with four wildcards, will advance to the next round. The pool leaders are: Pool A Sasata (221) Pool B Scorpion0422 (279) Pool C Candlewicke (291) Pool D Theleftorium (336) Wildcard leaders Juliancolton (217) Durova (114) Wrestlinglover (112) ThinkBlue (107) For a full guide see Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2009/Full All scores are accurate as of 22:20, 22 June 2009 (UTC) Content Leaders As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most: Featured articles Juliancolton (1) Scorpion0422 (1) the_ed17 (1) Featured lists Scorpion0422 (2) Rlevse (2) Featured topics Nobody Featured pictures Shoemaker's Holiday (1) Sasata (1) Featured sounds Nobody Featured portals Juliancolton (1) Good topics ThinkBlue (1) Good articles Theleftorium (10) Did you know? items Ottava Rima (17) Candlewicke (17) In the news items Candlewicke (16) For Round 1 stats, see Newsletter 10. For Round 2 stats, see Newsletter 18. WikiCup At a Glance As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a Round 3 total of: 3 Featured articles 5 Featured lists 0 Featured topic 2 Featured pictures 0 Featured sounds 1 Featured portal 1 Good topic 26 Good articles 49 Did you know? items 16 In the news items This combines with the Round 1 totals and the Round 2 totals to make a grand total of: 28 Featured articles 52 Featured lists 3 Featured topics 177 Featured pictures 24 Featured sounds 3 Featured portal 4 Good topics 228 Good articles 496 Did you know? items 98 In the news items Biggest Jumps The difference between each contestant's point total from last week, and their point total from this week are: Rank User LF TF D 1 Scorpion0422 51 279 225 2 Sasata 46 221 175 3 Candlewicke 171 291 120 4 Theleftorium 228 336 108 5 Juliancolton 118 217 99 6 ThinkBlue 37 107 70 6 Rlevse 15 85 70 8 the_ed17 14 70 56 9 Wrestlinglover 59 112 53 10 Ottava Rima 46 94 48 LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores This was generated from this diff. From the Judges Lots of big jumps this week. Some are past/approaching 300, and our current top 8 are all above 100! Sorry for the late delivery! 'weburiedoursecretsinthegarden,  iMatthew :  Chat  , and The Helpful One If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list.

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Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:01, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks there. It didn't even work the first time, and I knew that something wouldn't probably work the second time, and you were right on it ther. Thanks again. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 03:07, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Okay, it's live. Thanks again, and here goes nothing! Mlaffs (talk) 21:19, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

The WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter Round III, Issue 4 - June 28, 2009 Archive before | Archive after Pool leaders In this round of the WikiCup, the top contestant from each pool, along with four wildcards, will advance to the next round. The pool leaders are: Pool A Sasata (311) Pool B Scorpion0422 (316) Pool C Candlewicke (319) Pool D Theleftorium (409) Wildcard leaders Juliancolton (232) Wrestlinglover (183) Mitchazenia (160) ThinkBlue (142) For a full guide see Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2009/Full All scores are accurate as of 21:30, 28 June 2009 (UTC) Content Leaders As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most: Featured articles Juliancolton (1) Scorpion0422 (1) the_ed17 (1) Featured lists Scorpion0422 (3) Wrestlinglover (3) Featured topics Nobody Featured pictures Sasata (1) Featured sounds Nobody Featured portals Juliancolton (1) Good topics ThinkBlue (1) Good articles Theleftorium (12) Did you know? items Candlewicke (20) In the news items Candlewicke (17) For Round 1 stats, see Newsletter 10. For Round 2 stats, see Newsletter 18. WikiCup At a Glance As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a Round 3 total of: 3 Featured articles 8 Featured lists 0 Featured topics 2 Featured pictures 0 Featured sounds 1 Featured portal 1 Good topic 33 Good articles 54 Did you know? items 17 In the news items This combines with the Round 1 totals and the Round 2 totals to make a grand total of: 28 Featured articles 55 Featured lists 3 Featured topics 177 Featured pictures 24 Featured sounds 3 Featured portal 4 Good topics 235 Good articles 501 Did you know? items 99 In the news items Biggest Jumps The difference between each contestant's point total from last week, and their point total from this week are: Rank User LF TF D 1 Sasata 180 311 131 2 Theleftorium 301 409 108 3 Wrestlinglover 108 183 75 4 Mitchazenia 88 160 72 5 Scorpion0422 245 316 71 6= Candlewicke 267 319 52 6= Juliancolton 180 232 52 8 Rlevse 55 105 50 9 Ottava Rima 94 134 40 10 ThinkBlue 104 142 38 LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores This was generated from this diff. From the Judges A good week for all involved - however some really need to pick up the pace, lounging on very low scores. Come on, it's half way in now! 'weburiedoursecretsinthegarden,  iMatthew :  Chat  , and The Helpful One If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list.

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