User talk:Georgewilliamherbert/Archives/2012/August


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Cookies for you!

Have these for a well-thought out, clear, concise explanation of exactly what NLT is and why we have it. - Jorgath (talk) (contribs) 15:24, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Apology

Hi, George. I would like to owe you a sincere apology for my incivil comments at ANI and also for my angry responses towards HanzoHattori/Niemti. Since I have already disengaged with the user in question temporarily, can you please offer me some ideas and/or suggestions on what we should do if Niemti causes further disruption, and if so, can you also point me to the appropriate channels? Thanks, Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 19:32, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

75.51.171.121

I just noticed that he's back to changing a lot of Fred Bauder's work at the Human rights in North Korea page. He's basically coming off to me as a DPRK apologist with no intentions of listening to Bushranger's statement "the well is poisoned". Especially he's not taking it to the talk page and addressing issues which should be discussed on a case-by-case basis. I do not want to revert back to the last edit by Fred in order to violate the rules or something. ViriiK (talk) 10:55, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

I was on the job

My decline was not a "snap-no". The unblock request was in no way sufficient. I would appreciate the same assumption of good faith you have requested for this individual. Had we not edit-conflicted, I would've attempted to explain the unblock process. Regards Tiderolls 01:25, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

I didn't mean to go poke at you with that, my intention was that their second request, which had just gone up, be left alone while we had a chance to chat. Rather than further cycles of inadequate request and decline.
If you were about to go put more in and we ECed then thank you for that, whether it got there or not. I obviously encourage and support that and encourage and support it more in the initial response, to avoid these sorts of situations... 8-P But again, I was not trying to harsh on you particularly. I apologize if it came across that way.
Still may well be a troll but who knows.
Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 01:37, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
I always hope for the best, that's why I follow up. If the unblock request had in any way conformed to the spirit of appeal, I would've constructed my review differently. Thanks for your consideration and accept my apologies for any brusqueness in my approach here. Tiderolls 01:42, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

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This is regarding an incident that you are actively handling. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 03:05, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

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re: use of {{inuse}} template on admin. board threads.

Hello George. I know it [my post] wasn't the ideal suggestion, but it was the best that I could think of at the moment. I do recall in the past that you would post messages that you were looking into a situation, and would post your findings and actions once you had completed your research. I thought that it was a very valuable approach, and allowed others to move on to other areas content that the situation was being reviewed. I personally have never created a template before, but after reading Help:Template and Help:A quick guide to templates then perhaps I'll give it a shot. — Ched :  ?  14:49, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

(late followup but...) I applaud this effort. I just found template:doing, template:checking, template:discussing etc., when looking into that. So a quick {{checking}}~~~~ seems quick... Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 00:28, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Neogeo

While I think that the block was inevitable, I do applaud your efforts to work with the editor. — Ched :  ?  14:26, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks. It took me a couple of days, but the taunting did finally get to me, yeah. Is it OK to remove the Wiki Addiction "outing" from the talk page? --Tenebrae (talk) 02:17, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Ah... I don't see that as outing, just rude. Can you leave his posts alone, if you believe it is outing ask Floquenbeam to review (or another admin; I don't see it but won't object if someone else does). You doing it directly would just inflame them, probably. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 02:22, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

New membership

I was deployed to Afghanistan, forgot my password and could not access my old account. So I created a new one.Moesbob2 (talk) 00:10, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Ok, that makes sense. Did you try the button to email yourself a new password? That may work for you, if you have an email account in your user profile. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 00:24, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
OH? I didn't know there was such a thing. — Ched :  ?  18:05, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PasswordReset, the "Forgot login details" link off the login page? ??? You didn't know that? Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 18:51, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Don't get me wrong, I do feel pretty foolish - but no, I didn't know that. Not really important though - I have the User:Chedzilla which gets the admin. tools away .. so that's good enough if I'm in an unsecured environment. Good to know though. Thanks George. — Ched :  ?  19:04, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Don't feel too bad. I both have commercially administered Mediawiki installations and done some work down in the PHP code on the software, and I am reasonably sure that I don't know more than half the features... Maybe less than that.
That one may be more familiar the longer one does unblock list stuff. Though I'm not active anymore, I've been on the list for over five years now... Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:07, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Reply

I saw your comment. User:Tenebrae calls me a “taunting, jeering, sarcastic and immature anon IP lowering the level of discourse"[1], among many other derogatory things, and then has the nerve to declare incivility. That takes guts. He has acted as if he owns that article for the six years since he created it. And when other editors come along who have been working hard to improve it, he fights as hard as he can to oppose almost every idea and purposely refuses to address any questions or concerns presented, instead choosing to evade the issues by interjecting irrelevant comments. Take a good look at the entire talk page and the article's edit history of List of African-American firsts and it will become abundantly clear to you that he thinks he is the final word on the vast majority of edits people want to make. He also made five edits in five hours yesterday and an administrator had to warn him about it. Are you going to warn him, too? --76.189.114.163 (talk) 02:20, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Look, you really don't want to play the game "But he started it!". That way lies madness and blocked users. If you want to be blocked, just say so. Otherwise, start behaving like a civilized adult in your interactions with him.
If he violates our policy on users not owning article pages then make a case for that POLITELY.
Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 02:26, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
It is not about who started it. The point is that there are two sides to every story. Are you going to warn him also? I showed you the diff. If you need more, there are plenty. I have no interest in continue these attacks that he initiated. --76.189.114.163 (talk) 02:29, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Drimees posted a comment to me ("and I'm sure you feel the same way") and I replied. I violated no rules. Please stop the baseless threats. --76.189.114.163 (talk) 21:13, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the note

Replied on my talk page. FT2 (Talk | email) 09:10, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 August 2012

Re Mail

Hi, I'm just checking whether you received my wiki-email? If not, that would be another potential reason as to why a number of people aren't responding to my requests for advice! >.< Ty. -- Quiddity (talk) 20:48, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

I did receive it but haven't had time to get online on Wikipedia for a day and a half; I'm catching up now. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 00:42, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. Fwiw, I put most of it in the ANI thread, after a few (more hours of) tweaks. I'd still be very interested in private feedback though. -- Quiddity (talk) 01:09, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Blocked

George,

I understand now that I was edit warring, and I apologize for that. I promise that was not my intentions. I feel you were unfair with me, and didn't take into consideration my lack of understanding with the site. Saying "clearly and unambiguously were edit warring on the article and appear on first impression to have created this account yesterday, specifically to do this activity." Is simply not true, and somewhat reckless on your part as an admin. My ignorance is no excuse for breaking the rules, but my ignorance shouldn't be construed in a way that damages my reputation. I am asking that you retract this false statement. Once again, it is not true, and damages my reputation. --Djjamz340 (talk) 04:10, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

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