User talk:Iridescent

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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

This is a tough one. She doesn't seem to be in Contemporary Authors, which is extremely comprehensive. [1] Here's one, and I shall look further. [2]--Poetlister 10:32, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks... This is a weird case, as I know from experience that she is genuinely influential on the current American scene, with multiple publications etc, but every mention I can find of her is either reviews, or passing mentions ("this work by XXX is obviously inspired by Hot Teen Sluts by CO'KA"). An odd one. – iridescent 15:46, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

General note to TPS's – I suspect that if me and Poetlister between us can't dig up the sources, the sources aren't there, but if anyone can dig out some reliable sources on her, please point me towards them. I'm aware of the links here, but there don't seem to be enough biographical sources, as opposed to reviews, to build an unbiased article around. – iridescent 00:51, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Admin to admin question

So there I was earlier this month trying to help a newbie, User:Sloanbella to learn the ropes as she was creating what was obviously an autobiographical article. When other editors started cleaning Sloan Bella up, she and what appears to be a cavalcade of socks (User:Kristysixt, User:Margaret wendt) kept returning the questionable, poorly sourced information. User:Brilliant Pebbles managed to check all the various "references" out and found errors and omissions, including some on SB's own website. At that point, it went to AfD - SB isn't notable, the references are junk, and the AfD was closed delete. A new sock, User:Flygirl14, showed up yesterday (just after the delete) and recreated the article, with few variations. I deleted as a CSD recreation, but she has now recreated again (after a major edit to the AfD, since fixed by someone else). Should I AfD it again, delete and salt it, or get someone else to do the dirty work? Your thoughts? Risker (talk) 22:34, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

I think there's enough history here to salt it – they can always appeal. If it were me, I think there's enough here to warrant an RFCU to flush out any other socks; it would probably be worth asking Alison as I never understand when you can and can't perform RFCU. – iridescent 22:40, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. As it turns out, on closer reading of her post on the AfD, she has made legal threats aimed at me, so I am washing my hands of it. I had done a review of the reference sources on the version I deleted, and I'll pass that on to another editor who can post it on the talk page of the article. Luna Santin and GRBerry seem to have taken an interest as well. Risker (talk) 22:55, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

It doesn't really say much for her psychic powers if she needs to beg you to provide her with your real name, does it? – iridescent 23:10, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

*wipes away tears of laughter* I am going to go back and re-read the lovely "RFA congratulations" message left for me by Killer Chihuahua. It seems I've gotten to use all of her steps to being a good admin this week. As my granny used to say "I shoulda stood in bed." Risker (talk) 23:12, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

You can't call yourself a real admin until you have at least one thread like this gracing your talkpage (I make that one 50k). – iridescent 23:15, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Every time you cascading-protect-salt a page, a server kitty dies.

(For the record) Please don't salt; it makes the kitties in the server cry -->
Oh... I just clicked WP:SALT and realised it's pointing somewhere different to before. Anyways... just use the protect tab at the top of a nonexistant page to "salt". Rant over. —Giggy 09:52, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

While I don't even bother to keep track of the changes to protection policy, I think cascade-protection has disappeared. At least, the "cascade protect" option has disappeared from the WP:TW toolset. – iridescent 00:54, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure cascade protection is still an option. (I seem to remember seeing a recent argument in some page's protection log about whether or not you are allowed to apply cascading semi-protection) It's just that, other than the Main Page, there really isn't anything that ever needs to be cascade protected, so Azatoth must have removed it from Twinkle so that overzealous admins (not you) don't use it. Don't quote me on that, though. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 04:01, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

There certainly are potential grounds where cascading protection is necessary; if an article is under attack from /b/ or ED, they generally attack all the templates transcluded as well. (Which is why our main page these days generally looks like this). – iridescent 16:10, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Neverwinter

irid, I just had another look at the Neverwinter Nights thing because Prom3th3an is questioning the validity of the block and in looking at the edit Xp reverted what you might not of noticed (neither did I originally) was that it also removed all the bottom page stuff (reflist, templates, cats, and iw links). Thus, when done without an edit summary would certainly look like a typical "chop off the bottom half of the page" vandalism at quick glance. –xenocidic (talk) 16:35, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Replied there to keep the conversation together, although I suspect you won't agree with what I say. – iridescent 16:41, 13 July 2008 (UTC)