User talk:Timotheus Canens/Archives/2013/12
Hello, Timotheus Canens: WikiProject AFC is holding a two month long Backlog Elimination Drive! Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive. Hello, Timotheus Canens: WikiProject AFC is holding a two month long Backlog Elimination Drive! Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive. Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) at 09:17, 3 December 2013 (UTC) The Signpost: 04 December 2013
Blocked IPsThere is a serious backlog of about 20K individual IPs that are blocked without expiration. I have broken the IPs into groups of 5000: m:User:とある白い猫/English Wikipedia open proxy candidates. So they are effectively blocked until time ends. This creates considerable potential collateral damage as the owners of IPs tend to be not very consistent. Some of these IPs are on dynamic ranges which results in arbitrary blocks of good users. Vast majority of the blocks go back years all the way to 2004 - some were preemptively blocked. Nowadays even open proxies normally do not get indefinite blocks. The problem is that no single admin wants to review this many IPs and very few have the technical capability to review. Such a technical review would be non-trivial for individual IPs which in my humble opinion would be a complete waste of time. I feel ArbCom could step in and provide criteria for bulk action. A bulk unblock of all indefinite blocks (with exceptions if the specific single IP unblocks are contested) before - say - 2010 would be a good start. Open proxies tend to be better handled at meta as open proxies are a global problem for all wikis. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 11:31, 5 December 2013 (UTC) Wikipedia Takes Brooklyn! Saturday September 7
AfD participationYou topic banned me in Nov 2012[1]. A few days ago, I was invited to take part in an AfD for the magazine "Pensee",[2] presumably because I created the article. Does my topic ban extend to my participation in the AfD? -- Iantresman 14:22 8 September 2013 Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Queens Open History Edit-a-Thon" at Queens Library! Friday December 6
No recusal?I expected a recusal here. [3] Please strike your vote and change to "recuse". —Neotarf (talk) 03:27, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
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Appeal POV RfC closure: John CalvinI submitted this request for editor to close an RfC. But what happened was a person who self-describes as a Reformed Presbyterian (i.e. an admirer of Calvin) closed the discussion with no change to the article, which I had flagged as having a NPOV problem. The votes were 50/50 with all the people describing themselves on their talk pages as Calvinists (Reformed), voting for no change, and anyone not having a Calvinist background voting to change the section of the article to improve NPOV. I don't believe an editor who is a Calvinist (or an anti-Calvinist) should be deciding how to close a contentious POV discussion. Please advise me what the next step should be. I don't know how to request a review of this closure. Am I allowed to revert it? Talk:John_Calvin#Request_for_comment:_PoV_section The previous RfCs Talk:John_Calvin#NPOV_dispute_.22Securing_the_Reformation.22_section Markewilliams (talk) 04:00, 17 December 2013 (UTC) The Signpost: 18 December 2013
TalkbackHello, Timotheus Canens. You have new messages at Northamerica1000's talk page.
Message added 05:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Northamerica1000(talk) 05:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC) The Signpost: 25 December 2013
Redirect templateIn July of 2012, you fully protected the template {{Redirect template}}, and I was wondering if you would mind allowing access to that template by template editors? I'd like to improve it a bit as I've proposed on it's talk page. I was going to list it at WP:RFP, but I thought I should first check with you. – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 02:36, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
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