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Saint Philomena

Dear Jredmond,

Please, may I ask if you would invite Fulumenae back. I would think she took too much to heart the situation over the Saint Philomena article. I'v placed, in the talk page of the same article pointers that clarify. I do not know her. But I do think her expertese would be of value. After all, alot of the right was on her side over Saint Philomena's article page and talk page. An Encyclopedia has to be all embracing, and I came up against this with the Saint Athanasius' article page, but followed, with your Editors help the correct procedure. The same problem is on the Hosius of Corduba article page.

Revert wars are of course bad, but then it is in the past and for sensitive souls this menia is taken to heart unlike any other.

MacOfJesus (talk) 14:59, 20 September 2009 (UTC) MacOfJesus (talk) 09:47, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Userfying autobio pages

Hi. I saw you "userfied" Ian Joseph Scott just now. That's a useful thing to do, but there are two things you should do as a follow-up:

Add {{db-r2}} to the redirect which is left behind on the original page, so that it gets deleted,
Tell the user what you have done. There is a standard template {{Userfy warning|pagename}} you can use for that; I don't myself like it very much and have made up one which I cut and paste from a text file - you can see a sample of it at User talk:Suresh778, and you are welcome to copy and adapt it if you like.

Actually, I am beginning to think that userfying these autobios is a bit of a waste of time because they almost never continue as constructive editors - they are nearly all here only to post about themselves. Still, it is a more friendly and less WP:BITEy way to deal with them than speedying. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:25, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid the above almost comes under the heading of WP:DTTR - your nearly-clear talk page gave me the impression you were a new-ish user, which I see is far from the case. My apologies. JohnCD (talk) 20:31, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about assuming I'm new; you aren't the first to make that mistake. I think I need to change that 'archives' box so that it's more prominent.

I agree that userfying autobios is much less WP:BITEy, but I disagree that it's a waste of time. Abandoned user pages gather dust quietly, but article deletion logs are readily available and associate the user's name with "spam" or "not notable" or other less-than-favorable terms. This inevitably causes drama later on — and let's face it, the last thing Wikipedia needs more of is drama.

Thanks for the reminder about the db-r2 template, though. I keep forgetting about that. - Jredmond (talk) 21:12, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's a good point, I will continue to userfy. I did a check back recently - of my last 50 userfications, just 3 had many any subsequent edit that wasn't about themselves. JohnCD (talk) 21:21, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS page move

I don't want to be rude, but you essentially renamed a major Foundation project without asking...

At the very least you need to float a proposal on this one, rather than just do it.

Please revert and open a discussion. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 21:41, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't rename the whole project, I just changed how enwiki would refer to it. Let's discuss this further on WT:VRT, though, so that it's easier for other people to weigh in if they want to. - Jredmond (talk) 21:59, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Audit subcommittee mailing list

Congratulations. Please email myself or Risker using special:Email, so we know it's you, and tell us which email address you wish to be added to the audit subcommittee mailing list. Thatcher 21:52, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Please check your mail. - Jredmond (talk) 22:31, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to participate in SecurePoll feedback and workshop

As you participated in the recent Audit Subcommittee election, or in one of two requests for comment that relate to the use of SecurePoll for elections on this project, you are invited to participate in the SecurePoll feedback and workshop. Your comments, suggestions and observations are welcome.

For the Arbitration Committee,
Risker (talk) 08:25, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CU + OS

Hello Jredmond, I have granted you CU and OS flag. You can subscribe to checkuser-l and contact an op for access to #wikimedia-checkuser and #wikimedia-oversights. Congratulations and regards, LeinaD (t) 11:48, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright

Hi, this is regarding File:Ruslan Sirota.jpg – the appropriate e-mail has been sent on Nov. 9, if you could please look into this issue as soon as possible it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 15:41, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please note this response. Let's keep any discussion centralised, so please respond there. Thank you so much, m:Mark W (Mwpnl) ¦ talk 17:25, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Audit Subcommittee

Hi. I have asked a followup question at the now quite delayed Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee/Audit_Subcommittee#Regarding_disputed_oversights_for_an_Arbitrator. If there isn't an explanation forthcoming within the next 48 hours regarding the mandate of the subcommittee, I will ask that it be folded back up as failed. Hipocrite (talk) 19:52, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Jredmond's Day!

User:Jredmond has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Jredmond's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Jredmond!

Peace,
Rlevse
01:19, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:19, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weekend

The weekend now being unambiguously, globaly, certainly over, I'm going to have to insist that the Audit Subcommittee release a statement in a specified timeframe. If the comittee cannot release a statement within the next 24 hours, I'm going to mark the comittee as historical and sugest a return to the "loud shouting and backchannel influence peddling" method of audit. Hipocrite (talk) 14:05, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration case involving you.

I have opened a case to attempt to get some clarity on the mandate of the Audit Subcomittee. The case can be found at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Audit_Subcommittee. You are a named party only in your capacity as a member of the Committee. Hipocrite (talk) 18:25, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you for releasing the report. It is difficult for any comittee to write a document. I apologize for being such a bother through the process, and merely hope that no one holds it against anyone. Hipocrite (talk) 14:05, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Season's greetings

Thank you for being one of the people who has made 2009 such an interesting and enlightening year for me. It has certainly had its challenges, but also many highlights. I wish you peace and contentment in 2010, and a joyous holiday season to you and yours.

In honour of the season, I hope you will enjoy a little musical token. Your choice: traditional or cheeky.

Best, Risker (talk) 02:38, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year

Best Wishes for 2010, FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 13:07, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

re: Wikipedia:Contact us/temp

Hey there, Happy New Year! I just came across Wikipedia:Contact us/temp and was wondering if this page is still necessary? or if not can we delete it? Regards, œ ^™ 08:09, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I was using that space as a staging ground for a rewrite/simplification of WP:CONTACT. The rewrite is still on my to-do list, but I can userfy that page in the meantime. - Jredmond (talk) 18:43, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My response to the AUSC report

is here [1]. I want to make absolutely sure you've been given a chance to respond to it. -- JohnWBarber (talk) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Jim In Miami w-Hat.jpg

Hello, Jredmond! I sort of picked your name out of a hat, as I see you are an administrator on the Volunteer Response Team. I'm trying to get an image into WP Commons, and I originally uploaded it off of Flickr, thinking it was a probably unknown source taken illegally at a Doors concert. After the image barely survived FfD, an administrator gave me time to find the correct source, or it would be put up for deletion again. I went so far as to contact a professional photographer that was at the infamous Miami concert, David E. LeVine. He e-mailed me back on my personal G-mail account, and I posted his response here. I sent both my original e-mail to Mr. LeVine and his response to me to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org on January 31, and have yet to receive any response whatsoever.

I appreciate your time in reading this, and I'm hoping that if you cannot help me, perhaps you can point me in the direction I need to go to get this image on the Commons. I appreciate any response you can give me at your earliest convenience. Thank you! Doc9871 (talk) 09:12, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Add a "public interest" clause to Oversight

A proposal to add a "public interest" clause to Wikipedia:Oversight has started at Wikipedia_talk:Oversight#Proposal_for_new_.27public_interest.27_clause. SilkTork *^YES! 10:31, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for the corrective edit. It seems that vandalism came from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:204.184.70.4 and this is not the first time that ip has vandalized as it has been warned as far back as Jan. 2010.98.82.103.91 (talk) 19:43, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Chicago 3.1

You participated in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Chicago 3. I thought you might want to sign up for Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Chicago 3.1 from 10:30-11:45 a.m. on Saturday May 1, 2010 at the UIC Student Center West.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 22:38, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Thaksin Shinawatra

Thanks for jumping on those recent edits to Talk:Thaksin Shinawatra by User:124.157.190.228. It seemed inappropriate, especially given the rather violent tone, but I'm still pretty new to Wikipedia and wasn't completely sure where the "line" was on talk pages (still learning). One newbie question: should this policy also extend to what this anonymous editor just did to their own talk page (User talk:124.157.190.228)? -- Bgpaulus (talk) 18:49, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In this case, yes; the anon's talk page should have been (and has been) deleted. Attacks are never appropriate on the wiki, even on user talk pages. - Jredmond (talk) 19:11, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

Sorry, however that's not possible. It will be changed back in 30 minutes. Please bear with me, I'm pulling a prank, so fuck off.

That's lovely. Please explain why the rest of the planet has to endure your silly little prank. - Jredmond (talk) 16:21, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lu Xun Article

Sorry, I was looking at the edit summary and saw that user using the F word.--Katieh5584 (talk) 20:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's OK - nothing we can't undo. Just be more careful about that in the future. - Jredmond (talk) 20:22, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Thank you for reverting the Vandalism that occured on my User Page! - Fumitol|talk|cont 16:07, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania talk

Would you please urgently confirm your talk here: [2]? The reminders may have gone to the spambox, especially if you are using gmail. Thanks.--Yaroslav Blanter (talk) 09:34, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

URGENT: Wikimania2010 - Please confirm/cancel your presentation and add a 30-word summary

Dear Author,

As you probably know, the results from the review (which are here: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Review_results) are available for some time already. However, we are still waiting for your confirmation/cancellation and/or 30-word summary of your talk. We have sent notifications to all the authors twice, however, it seems that some of these emails could end up in spam folders (especially in gmail). As we need to create a final program schedule soon, could you please confirm/cancel your presentations as soon as possible or contact me (my email: jacek.jankowski@deri.org) if you are still not sure?

We are going to close the page with the review results from editing TODAY. From that time unconfirmed presentations AND presentations without 30-word summaries will be considered as CANCELLED.

Best regards,

Jacek Jankowski,
Wikimania PC Chair  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacek Jankowski (talk • contribs) 13:23, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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