User talk:Ryan Postlethwaite

Thank-you so much Ryan. I hope it doesn't sound wierd, but being able to do this and reach people he knew kinda makes me feel close to him. And I know he'd want me to try and do this. He lived so far away from us and now he's gone forever. Did I do this right? Jeffssister (talk) 16:56, 9 August 2008 (UTC)jeffssister

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IRC request

Can you help me get access to the en-admin channel? I'm DOUG_WELLER on IRC. I see you work for one of my favourite companies! ThanksDoug Weller (talk) 11:21, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Looks like you need to register your account. Use /msg nickserv register password email@address.tld where password is the password you want to use and email@address.tld is a valid e-mail address. More information is available at WP:IRC. --MZMcBride (talk) 17:09, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

I see MZM took care of this for me - thanks. I'm sure you wouldn't love Lakeland so much if you had to work there ;-) Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 18:04, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

I can imagine that. Actually the instructions I saw suggested contacting somone like you to speed up the registration process - "If you wish to access a non-public channel, please add your name and details below. Alternatively it can be quicker to leave a note on the talk page of any user of that channel (who might be able to help, or can add you to the access list) who may see it, or another appropriate talk page."  I admit that although I've used IRC before, I don't understand how this works and how I avoid putting a password somewhere people can see it. Doug Weller (talk) 18:16, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Right - choose a nickname (something like Dougweller) and log into freenode. Then you need to register - when you're logged in, type /msg nickserv register password email@address.tld where password is the password you want to use and email@address.tld (as MZMcBride said above). Don't worry, nobody will see your password - it goes straight to something called the nick server. You think you're typing into the channel, but the "/msg nickserv" part stops you typing into the channel. Does that make any more sense? Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 18:19, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I understand, thanks. I thought I'd done that before and it didn't work, but clearly I did something wrong. I've done that, received an email, followed those instructions./join #wikipedia-en-admins tells me I need an invitation from an existing member. Doug Weller (talk) 18:31, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, what's your nickname? Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 18:34, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

It's DOUG_WELLER (don't ask me how it got all caps, is that standard?), thanks. Doug Weller (talk) 18:44, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Excellent - now you need to type /cs invite #wikipedia-en-admins        - you should get an invite through from that because I've added you to the access list. You'll need to type that every time to get in. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 18:47, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm in (once I realised I'd put a space in before a command!). Doug Weller (talk) 19:11, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

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Requesting uninvolved opinion

There is a discussion at Talk:Liancourt Rocks regarding:

1. Whether the proposed Disputed Islands infobox is neutral in its presentation of basic article information
2. Whether there is a valid reason to exclude the proposed infobox from the article

I should note that I am involved in the discussion, but I do not want to influence your opinion should you choose to offer one. I merely want some uninvolved editors to view the discussion and then offer an opinion. If you choose to participate, please post your opinion in the RFC comments section there. Thank you for your time. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 05:32, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

User_talk:MBisanz/RfBan

See my post just a couple of sections above yours. Perhaps what we could do is make it clear that "my" section is one for the Crats to post in/discuss the issue and "yours" is for community consensus? What do you think? Seems a little too proscriptive for Wikipedia (it probably won't work!) but seems worthwhile trying... --Dweller (talk) 10:47, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, that sounds cool - that was the reason why I didn't post under you. I should make it clear that I personally think you'd be good at closing these discussions, as I'm sure the newer crats would be. It's just a big change, and completely out of the remit that we give the crats at the current point in time. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 10:55, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

I'll make it so. --Dweller (talk) 11:12, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Kurt restrictions

Hello!

Your plan to re-integrate Kurt back into the project does seem very thoughtful and carefully planned out. But I did want to mention that the main reason for the last thread on WP:ANI against him was in relation to his (perceived or otherwise) attitude towards newbies. There was also the thread he started at Wikipedia talk:Request an account/Administrators in relation to him being denied access to the ACC due to the tool administrators' lack of faith the he wouldn't bite the newbies. I guess what I'm trying to say is that a restriction of interaction between Kurt and new users might not be completely unreasonable once we take into consideration all of the reasons beind the initial decision to indef-block him. What do you think?

Peace! SWik78 (talk • contribs) 14:48, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Is this OK?

Is it OK to translate La fiesta de quince años en México, and load it into English Wikipedia? -- IRP (talk) 22:37, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

For that. I wonder whether it would be of good taste to create a page with my alternate account, and then decline the speedy in my admin account...so thanks for declining it! ;) « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 23:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK 2.0 Vote

Hi you signed up as being interested in being a memeber of wikimedia UK 2.0. Just a reminder the that the vote for the inital board at m:Wikimedia UK v2.0/Vote ends next Saturday (September 25th).Geni 03:21, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protect blizzard

Should the blizzard article be semi-protected due to excessive vandalism? -- IRP (talk) 23:48, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Yup, it should be. I've protected it for three days. You can always request protection at WP:RFPP if you want a faster response, but thanks for the note anyway. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 08:56, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Unmerged merge

Back on 5 Sep, you adjudicated an AfD for Ingild, Eoppa, and Eafa, with the outcome of Merge. I just noticed that the Eafa and Eoppa pages are back in all their glory, including the old AfD banner, while the history shows no modification since the 29 Aug initiation of the AfD process. Your implementation of the outcome seems to have had a very short t½. What's up with that? Agricolae (talk) 06:23, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Could you merge them over please? I see I forgot to add the merge tag in this case. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 08:54, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Don't know how, unless you just mean editing the page to change it to a redirect. The odd thing is that it was done, after the AfD they appropriately redirected (I checked), but then they somehow returned to an earlier version without leaving any record of the changes. Agricolae (talk) 15:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Twinkle and Rollback

Hm, I arguably misused Twinkle in a single series of reverts against some encyclopedically challenged folks and you unilaterally decided to remove it for two weeks. But here you seem far more cautious. Has that to do with a difference between Twinkle and Rollback? Everyme 12:07, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

The thing is, he didn't actually misuse the tool per se. He's only used it to revert vandalism, although to be fair it's most probably his own vandalism. It would be extremely punitive to remove a tool that he hasn't misused, although I'm concerned with the fact he's been using it to mess around with his own vandalism, hence why I supported removal, but didn't feel the evidence was strong enough for me to remove it on my own accord. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 13:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

RfC deletion

Ryan, I've temporarily undeleted the RfC you just deleted so that I can recover some diffs requested by Jehochman on AN/I. I'll re-delete it shortly. -- ChrisO (talk) 13:25, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

No problem, it should probably have been there in the first place if I'm being honest. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 13:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I'll leave you a note when I'm done. -- ChrisO (talk) 13:49, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I've re-deleted the RfC now - key diffs are at WP:AN/I#Disruption of Battle of Opis. Any comments would be welcomed. -- ChrisO (talk) 14:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Umm huh?

That thread[1] was archived prematurely by the bot - it had been date tagged but the bot somehow didn't read it. Why are you reverting this? It's a current topic? -- Banjeboi 22:01, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

You keep adding new timestamps so it wouldn't get archived which was getting disruptive. Jimbo has chosen not to answer you, which basically means he has denied to listen to your appeal. Jimbo hasn't overturned an arbcom decision ever, and I highly doubt he would do in this case. If you really want to take this further, you should email him directly, not keep messing with his archiving system. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 22:07, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

You may have missed that Jimbo wrote Thanks, I have seen this, and I am looking into it. Benjiboi, are you intending to edit articles on this topic if the ban is lifted? From what I have seen so far, it does not look like overturning the ArbCom on procedural grounds makes sense. So it seems we need to turn a bit toward the content issue, which looks to me to be complex, and it will take me a few days (at best) to study it (and a couple of weeks is more likely). --Jimbo Wales (talk) 15:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

I was hardly being disruptive or messing with archiving. Both of us were simply adding sate-stamping to address the 2-day archiving on that talkpage. Other solutions are welcome. -- Banjeboi 22:15, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

The two day archiving is there for a reason and the thread had been up for 8 days because of you adding additional time stamps - that's why it was getting disruptive. Email might get a response, but he's not going to overide arbcom - you're just going to have to live with it. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 22:22, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I disagree this was disruption but understand why you see it that way. I'd prefer to let Jimbo speak for himself but appreciate your opinion on the matter. -- Banjeboi 22:45, 26 September 2008 (UTC)