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78.26's RFA Appreciation award

The 78.26 RFA Appreciation award
Thank you for the participation and support at my RFA. It is truly appreciated. I hope to be of further help around here, and if you see me doing something dumb, you know where to find me. Again, I thank you. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 01:27, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Wrong person

You seem to think that I did an edit on an article about the Nile. This is not the case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.170.154.175 (talk) 16:33, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Inappropriate speedy tagging

Hi, I noticed this edit where you tagged an unreferenced stub about a concert tour for speedy deletion as an obvious hoax. I'm wondering what about that article made you think it was an obvious hoax? The musician is an active, living musician, the album the tour is promoting was released last month, it is entierly plausible, likely even, that the article is not a hoax. So, why that particular speedy? ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 15:39, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

That said, now that I've done a little research, I see no evidence that this actually exists; meaning it likely is a hoax. I see a lot of chatter from people wanting her to do a tour, and a lot of speculation that she will/should/might do a tour, but no evidence that there is a tour planned for those cities and those dates. So it might well be a hoax, but it's still not an obvious hoax, which is what the speedy tag is for. I'm putting a prod tag on it. ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 15:45, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Widr

Pratyya (Hello!) — is wishing you a Happy New Year! Welcome the 2016. Wishing you a happy and fruitful 2016 with good health and your wishes come true! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year! May the 2016 go well for you.

Spread the New Year cheer by adding {{subst:User:Pratyya Ghosh/Happy New Year}} to their talk page with a Happy New Year message.

Thanks! Same to you. Widr (talk) 20:47, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Widr!

Happy New Year!

Widr,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Liz Read! Talk! 21:28, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


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Thanks! Same to you. Widr (talk) 21:51, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Widr!

Widr, I wish you and those dear to you
golden days of love and joy in a

Happy New Year 2016!

Best regards,
Sam Sailor Talk! 01:13, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Pass on!
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Thanks! Same to you. Widr (talk) 10:30, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

sorry

So sorry. I misread it. The campaign is suspended but he did not die. His aide was in the crash and died. Dumbhead 52 (talk) 17:13, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

It's okay. We have to be very careful with BLPs, hence the strongly worded warning. Widr (talk) 17:18, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Capitalization of artistic works

Regarding your recent edit on Maddie Ziegler, "It's Like Summer" is an artistic work which was released with a capital "L" in "like". I understand the grammar reasons for your change, however I assumed it was more encyclopedic to style artistic titles as they were released? You wouldn't change an artistic title because the artist misspelt a word, so wouldn't the same apply to grammar errors? Is there a conventional exceptions of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Composition titles for artistic works? Just being curious, Regards Sgcosh (talk) 15:39, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Well, it's the Wikipedia MOS. See also articles such as Moves like Jagger, Love You like a Love Song and Love Me like You Do. I think we should be consistent with these titles. Widr (talk) 15:48, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
Completely understand the need for consistency on Wikipedia. Thanks for your quick response. Sgcosh (talk) 15:56, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

You and others sent me a note just now. This is my reply

I wrote the original bio on Henry Cele. Every since, several of you all have been steady altering what I wrote. You did not ask me before you changed it. I feel that because Henry Cele is a black man, you are besmirching his good name. You all added content that could not be verified and I'll not have my name attached to it. Nobody cared to write on this great actor before me. Now you want to take issue with me? I wrote the original bio, so since you all have no respect for the time and effort and expertise I put into it, I deleted it. You all can create whatever you please, but picking on me is unacceptable. You do not have my permission to use my writings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruckermisikir2 (talk • contribs) 10:24, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

I just saw this. This isn't your article. If anything, it's Kalenga's article. By editing wikipedia's articles, you agree to conditions and you should know that you allow your writing to be edited. Player072 (talk) 00:14, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
You do not own the article, and you can't just blank it. If you have issues with the content, take it to the article's talk page, or fix whatever problems you find. Continuous blanking will only get you blocked. Widr (talk) 10:34, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

That was fun!

Good times, good times. Never a dull moment. Safehaven86 (talk) 22:13, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Indeed. Widr (talk) 22:18, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Policy discussion in progress

There is a policy discussion in progress at the Manual of Style which affects the capitalization of "like" in titles, a question in which you previously participated at "Love Me like You Do". Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — LlywelynII 04:36, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Loli

Hi, Thanks for the notification. I have found my mistake again after reading the sandbox and i'm still trying my best to edit. Sorry about my mistake, i was not have any experience about how to make it appear constructively. Many thanks for your advice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theair7672 (talk • contribs) 18:22, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

No worries. I will leave some more helpful links on your talk page in a moment. Widr (talk) 18:41, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

SPI

Thanks for keeping on top of the Taokaka socks. BethNaught (talk) 22:24, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Having AIV on my watchlist makes it easy, unfortunately. It seems that every other IP and most of the new accounts reporting there are Taokaka's socks. Widr (talk) 22:42, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Joe Montana

Thank you for being the Wikipedia police. Factchekor (talk) 00:42, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Regarding the editor that keeps adding unacceptable content to my User page

I'm pretty sure that the IP editor that just shat my page (66.167.141.42) (literally) is the same blocked IP editor that made the same edit previously (67.100.126.117), as well as (66.167.141.247). I can provide diffs if needed, but all the evidence is here[1] and here[2]. I'm pretty sure the vandal editor is trying to bait me into violating 3RR on 1940 United States Census. I'm not sure if this is WP:AN3 or WP:AVI, though. Boomer VialHolla 12:34, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

@Boomer Vial: They seem to have stopped for now. You may want to ask for an admin to semiprotect your userpage if more vandalism occurs. Widr (talk) 13:20, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Ok, will do. Boomer VialHolla 13:23, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

FYI

Just letting you know: [3] Montanabw(talk) 03:29, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

please help translate this message into the local language
The Cure Award
In 2015 you were one of the top 300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs, and we would love to collaborate further.

Thanks again :) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 03:59, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

John Hanson

I did not make those changes. So you know — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.106.197.96 (talk) 22:39, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

@74.106.197.96: Which is why the edit was tagged as being done by your IP[4]? Boomer VialHolla 22:45, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

My Wikipedia account

please delete my Wikipedia account, I don't understand Wikipedia and I just want my account blocked, erased, deleted, permanently. yours sincerely Mtdh48 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtdh48 (talk • contribs) 20:05, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

@Mtdh48: Accounts can't be deleted, but you can just simply stop using it. Widr (talk) 20:11, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

my brothers know the password of my accounts and they hack into them, so please could you atleast block my Wikipedia account? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtdh48 (talk • contribs) 20:13, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

You can make a request for an admin to block your account on your user talk page, but I can't guarantee it will be successful. Widr (talk) 20:20, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

File:State cover1.jpg listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect File:State cover1.jpg. Since you had some involvement with the File:State cover1.jpg redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Ricky81682 (talk) 23:46, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Adminship

Ever considered it? I'm pretty sure I've brought this up before — MusikAnimal talk 17:32, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal: Oh yes, you have mentioned it at some point. And yeah, I have thought about it at times, even seriously. I'm not against the idea in general; certainly it would help with the stuff that I'm mostly doing here. Widr (talk) 17:51, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
That is my thought! You also seem to work during school hours in the US, when we're currently short of admins. Gilliam, Edgar181 and myself (and a few other helping hands) can't take on every report =P If you are truly interested (don't want to pressure you), I can look into getting someone to co-nominate with me, as I'm not too great with my words. Between your extensive content contributions and very much admin-y day to day work I think the RfA would go quite smoothly. I'll get back to you! — MusikAnimal talk 18:11, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
@MusikAnimal: Ok, that's a deal then. You have convinced me with almost zero pressuring. ;-) Widr (talk) 18:41, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Are you able to chat via email? You can reach me at Special:EmailUser/MusikAnimal — MusikAnimal talk 19:05, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
@MusikAnimal: Just a moment, I'll have to see. Never used Wikipedia email before. Widr (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Rollback

Hi can i be rollback 71.172.15.243 (talk) 14:40, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

You would need to register an account first. Widr (talk) 14:42, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Ennio Morricone

Hello Widr! I added the Film "Duck, you sucker!" (aka A Fistful of Dynamite aka Once Upon a Time… the Revolution) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_You_Sucker! in the list of the films of Sergio Leone where Maestro Morricone did the score because the Film is part of the so called "Once Upon a Time Trilogy" (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_You_Sucker!). In the List is mentioned the "Dollars Trilogy" and so it is necessary to list all the three films of the "Once Upon a Time Trilogy" completely - which was my intention with adding "Duck, you sucker!" - or write instead of the three film titels only "Once Upon a Time Trilogy". But in my opinion it is better to mention all three titles: "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "Once Upon a Time in America" are famous an the score is well known. But the score of "Duck, you sucker!" is also outstanding as it is quoted here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_You_Sucker!#cite_note-nyt-6 but sadly it is not so famous. Best Regards Riegerin (talk) 09:45, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

@Riegerin: Apologies for removing your edit. I have restored it now, as it was clearly a misclick on my part. Widr (talk) 10:13, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry about the vandalism, my account was breached, I just made it today. I have changed my password so hopefully this will cease. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulsmith1995 (talk • contribs) 17:24, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

RfA nomination

— MusikAnimal talk 16:54, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Good luck!

Good luck on your RfA, (if you can actually call it "good luck") and remember that no matter what happens, adminship is not a promotion, it's a position of trust. (You can't be promoted in a job where you make no money.) You're gonna see a lot of people say really irritating things about you. Don't let it get under your skin. That is all. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:14, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

@Cyphoidbomb: Thanks! I fully agree with you. Widr (talk) 10:20, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

An IP editor you've had recent dealings with

Hi. I noticed you had dealings with Special:Contributions/59.101.189.107 recently; they were just here too, and if this looks to you like repremandable editing, you might want to add it to their list. Why am I not warning them? I'm passing the buck (at least I'm honest). fredgandt 01:37, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

@Fred Gandt: Thanks! As it's nothing malicious, more like test edits like the previous ones, I will pass it as well. Widr (talk) 11:21, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
I'm glad it's not just me :-) They seem more confused than hell-bent. fredgandt 15:53, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
@Fred Gandt: Yeah, all harmless so far. Widr (talk) 15:56, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Special Barnstar
my vote for your RFA! Winterysteppe (talk) 20:26, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
@Winterysteppe: Thanks! Widr (talk) 20:31, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

A beer for you!

For the stress of the RfA. I think you will absolutely pass! :D Jdcomix (talk) 20:44, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
@Jdcomix: Thanks! Almost bedtime for me now, so I'll save your beer for later. ;-) Widr (talk) 20:50, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Your RfA

Even though I don't vote these days, I still watch.

You're doing swimmingly!

(Partly this post is to give you encouragement. The other part is to revive the use of "swimmingly" as a daily word.)

Seriously, though, swimmingly, you are doing swimmingly.

Swimmingly yours,

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:57, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Swimmingly!

@Anna Frodesiak: Hehe, thanks for the kind words! Widr (talk) 13:09, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
And a belated welcome to WP:100. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:11, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
@Cyphoidbomb: Thanks again! Widr (talk) 15:05, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Sorry!

This is a school computer, and the edit that was made on "Government of Russia" was definitely not constructive. I am ashamed that such behavior occurs at this school, and I am glad that Wikipedia corrected it. Thanks for notifying this IP address. Note: Since this is a school computer, a reply to this message may well go to the person who made that nonconstructive change in the first place, so please do not reply. JM 67.158.89.51 (talk) 19:22, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

Best of luck with your RFA, looks like you'll pass to me :) — Omni Flames (talk contribs) 22:46, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
@Omni Flames: Thanks! Widr (talk) 05:35, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

early but congrats!

Congrats on RFA as of now! Could change but unlikely to tip balance! Winterysteppe (talk) 05:06, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

@Winterysteppe: Thanks! Widr (talk) 05:35, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
To be saved until you become an admin. This must be stressful for you. Enjoy! Peter Sam Fan 19:14, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
@Peter SamFan: Thanks! Widr (talk) 19:20, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
You're welcome! Peter Sam Fan 19:20, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Username reports question at RFA

You've stated that you would block User:Channel2 per WP:ORGNAME and WP:ISU. A name such as that could refer to one of the organisations called Channel 2, but it could be an acceptable username, for example, if it's "Channel" with a number added because that name is already taken, or even a new account created by User:Channel. Unless there are edits that indicate a connection with an organisation it would be better to warn, and wait before blocking - it may be just a coincidence, as I assume it is with your username and the radio station WIDR. Peter James (talk) 23:43, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

@Peter James: Fair point, thank you. It's not rare that we have reports that are far from being cut-and-dried, so further examination is often needed. Widr (talk) 06:08, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

My question on your RFA "What is your legacy to wikipedia?" I like the answer

To be fair, I think my question was really swinging the hammer at you. It was a loaded question that could have been answered in so many ways, I would hav a hard time answering it too. I personally think you handled it. I like the confidence. Aisde from that, I liked that you are confident you belive your eits are good and positive so I decided to support you. All the best Winterysteppe (talk) 03:17, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

@Winterysteppe: Thanks! Widr (talk) 06:08, 24 March 2016 (UTC)