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please Help Me!
Hi please review this article Thanks. Draft:Majid_Mozaffari — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amir ghpro (talk • contribs) 14:26, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Amir ghpro: How many more times would you like me to decline it? You have to make a case for notability, not just spam citations from unknown sources. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:40, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
question re role at WP:HIST
hi. thanks for your great help with WP:HIST! I was wondering, could I please list you as a "coordinator" there? your terrific work with helping to maintain the project, and manage the members list, shows that you are already fulfilling a valuable role there. I hope that's ok. feel free to let me know. you can ping me here, if you reply here. thanks! --Sm8900 (talk) 13:30, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Sm8900: I must decline your invitation. I am not a member of that WikiProject and am no longer contributing in the main namespace. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:46, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Thank you!
Thank you for your note on my 10th anniversary of my first edit day! Can't believe it's been 10 years. It was great to be notified about it. LovelyEdit talkedits
A cookie for you!
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Thanks for wishing so many people a happy birthday! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 12:10, 14 April 2022 (UTC) |
@Mr Reading Turtle: Thanks for the thanks! While some editors don't care at all about receiving recognition in a general sense, some editors really appreciate it; some crave that personal message. The work you and I and others perform is editor retention, as it is quite normal for some folks to get disillusioned on this website. After all, the encyclopedia only exists because of our fellow editors. Chris Troutman (talk) 12:14, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
In Appreciation
Hello, I wish to thank you for bringing to my attention the mistakes I made on Missing Wikipedians. I very much appreciate it and I have learned from it all thanks to you. Hope to see you again, thanks! IMiss2010 (talk) 13:55, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
- @IMiss2010: Your quite welcome. I appreciate your contributions to WP:MIA and I'm happy to see you continue. I always want to encourage everyone be the best that they can be. If ever you want help learning other aspects of Wikipedia, feel free to ask. I (and those editors who stalk my talk page) would be glad to point you in the right direction. We're all in this together. Chris Troutman (talk) 14:02, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
Notice of ANI discussion
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Húsönd 23:11, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
Extendedconfirmed and extendedmover
Hi Chris. I was looking through some stuff on Quarry and noticed something funny about you: You're not extendedconfirmed. In fact yours is the only active account that lacks extendedconfirmed but has other rights (excluding confirmed, bot, and sysop), other than two former admins who haven't edited since they were desysopped and thus haven't been autopromoted. I took a look at the context, and I see that you requested having your MMS and extendedmover rights removed; shortly after, your MMS and extendedconfirmed rights were removed. It's been about 18 months since then, so perhaps you've already noticed by now, but just thought I'd point it out in case you hadn't. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 13:05, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Tamzin: Thanks for pointing this out; perhaps there was indeed a mistake made by the admin involved. I might at some point look into getting the matter resolved so my username isn't a spurious entry on that query. That said, I gave up editing in the main namespace with rare exceptions, so I don't need to be extendedconfirmed as it would be a userright I would not use, in contravention of Wikipedia:HATSHOP. Thanks again for your careful attention. Chris Troutman (talk) 15:26, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Your comment at BN
I genuinely don't understand what you're saying and have enough respect for your username to be interested to know what you mean. Would you mind explaining it? In my defence, I'm tired (you can probably tell... this comment is unnecessarily tangled) and it's probably obvious, so I'll apologise now! --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 20:54, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Dweller: I've been carefully considering my response. I realized that a fulsome reply would involve much research into the past discussions about 'crat discretionary range that brought us here. In the interests of providing a useful answer now, I'll explain that my earlier comment pointed to the 2019 expansion of discretionary range taking adminship requests out of the hands of editors and into the hands of 'crats who can now divine the voters' intent as well as disregard votes which shouldn't count. If RfA were a pure vote 158 supports and 72 opposes is still 68.7% and we live with the math deciding. Those who make too much of adminship couldn't accept math and they pushed ever-expanding "discretionary range." The 2019 RfC was the final straw for me and I quit paying attention to RfA. Now that RfA is a political decision, the bureaucrats are thoroughly politicized, far from the boring button-pushers we as a community used to trust. Perhaps this is why they're talking now about picking someone else for that button-pushing job. Questions like how much should bureaucrats weigh re-confirmations misses the point that 'crats can just argue for their preference. There is no math involved because the entire system was compromised. I hope that helps. Chris Troutman (talk) 17:39, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
- Wow. There's a lot there. I disagree with a lot (most) of it, but I'm grateful for you taking the time to explain yourself and I didn't come here for an argument. Peace. --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 19:43, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
- There is a lot there. You seem to be proposing a purely formulaic approach to deciding consensus with any consideration of strength of argument? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:52, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
- Strength of argument is fine for XfD, where you often have few comments either way. RfA's get plenty of participation. And while you might like to make or break candidates based upon particular criteria, what actually happens is a political discussion where we collectively decide which candidates will bear a huge ego inflation as they can block our accounts and delete our content. I've never had one of my votes at RfA thrown out but I'm not going to participate in a system where my input can be so easily disregarded on such a weighty matter. ARBCOM is straight vote. What good is accomplished by not allowing RfA to be a vote? Perhaps it is you, not me the misanthrope, who doesn't trust the community of your fellow editors. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:24, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Thanks
Hey! i saw that you reviewed my page. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by DiegoonusRHF (talk • contribs) 01:01, 10 May 2022 (UTC)