User talk:Kudpung/Archive Feb, Mar, Apr, May 2014

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	For your never-ending contributions to WP:PERM...looks like a one-man show these days... ƬheStrikeΣagle sorties 04:50, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Eagle. Most active admins have their preferred areas of interest. Time for me to take a break from PERM for a while and let some of the newer admins test their wings :) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:15, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Cos we swoop in and take the easy ones. :P Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:29, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

The above editor have ignored my message at the Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, I reverted it. Can you kindly intervene. I think he doesn't understand the seriousness of vandalism. Thanks.--Mishae (talk) 05:59, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

this edit messed the things up (although I fixed it now)....But I don't think those edits warrant a block... ƬheStrikeΣagle ^sorties 06:08, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes it does. Have you checked Euromaidan article? How about Pope Pius V? They are not that small and if they are there are many. Look for example here. What do you call it? Have you seen their warnings here, here and here? And this have going on since May 2013, with no one do anything about it! Care to explain why, @Strike Eagle:? Do you and user @Callanecc: understand that those IP users were braking syntaxes in many articles and their edits were mostly focused on spacing and substitution of cite web/news with Citation as well as substituting {{Uk icon}} with Ukrainian for example. Do you see that {{uk icon}} is better visually then its basic counterpart? And doing such edits as those above mentioned are disruptive according to WP:DISR policy, and no one will deny that!--Mishae (talk) 06:21, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

What does Strike Eagle want to say about this edit after my revert?!--Mishae (talk) 00:04, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Trust

Move Like This
by 28bytes

I translated, duck attack on the German Main page ;) - thank you for trust and thanks (seen for Dieter Simon the latest) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:11, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Private communications

Over the last several months you have made a series of escalating attacks on my views about the admin system, wilfully misrepresenting them in crass ways and persistently disregarding the actual views I have expressed. When you were finally challenged on this matter you fell silent. Other admins I have had no prior contact with, and who do not appear to have read those engagements between you and me, have mysteriously appeared out of the blue and attacked me along the same lines that you do. More recently, Drmies has made a similar series of crass attacks, mirroring the same nonsense you attribute to me.

Have you been communicating in private with admins, such as these ones, about what you perceive as my sins? --Epipelagic (talk) 22:24, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Your comments over the years in places where I regularly post have not gone unnoticed by other users. If you feel you are being attacked or misrepresented, you may wish to use various tools available to you to review the proximity of your comments with those of others, reflect upon their context and veracity, and consider whether or not your postings require further comment from others. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:40, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

As usual, you didn't answer my query. Please answer the question. --Epipelagic (talk) 05:57, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Well, I was "summoned" here, and there is a diff concerning me above. Just for the record, I saw Kudpung at Wikimania 2012, but have I think never communicated with him in any way: our paths have simply not crossed. Epipelagic, I don't doubt you are a fine member of the community here; but there is something about proponents of divisive views that ends up being self-fulfilling. It is perfectly easy to reason out why that is. Now I need to get back to work. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:16, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for leaving a notice of this conversation on my talk page. I had joined the conversation on AN: Indefinite block of Eric Corbett because I saw his comments on a talk page, and had not realised at first it was a conversation about a sheep in lambs clothing. My views on that particular editors foul mouth are well published and known not least by the man himself.

My comment on your talk page was triggered by what you wrote here when you wrote "Individual admin have much too much freedom to punish content builders" because I think your use of rhetoric to imply there are "content builders" and "admins" is a false dichotomy and I gave two examples of two admins (forgetting at the time what was then a new fangled device of alerting any user linked into a conversation -- which lead CM to the page). I did not attack you I told you what I thought, and hoped by the examples I gave I could help to let you see that it is a false dichotomy. It was not triggered by any conversation that you had with Kudpung, either because I had noticed them, or because Kudpung brought them to my attention.

As your specific question to Kudpung. I obviously can not answer for Kudpung but I can say that I have not had any communication of any sort with Kudpung away from Wikipedia. There is a tool called stalker available for encounters on Wikipedia which is used to check on sockpuppet accounts but can be used for this purpose:

• Stalker: Kudpung PBS
• Stalker: Epipelagic PBS
• Stalker: Kudpung PBS Epipelagic

To the best of my recollection I have not discussed any edit made by you with Kudpung on Wikipedia, but please check the above and see if my recollection is correct. -- PBS (talk) 11:22, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Charles and PBS. It would have been sufficient if Kudpung had just replied "No!", instead of milking it like this and making further attacks. --Epipelagic (talk) 21:28, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Epipelagic, please do not post on this talk page again. Thank you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:33, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

A hand-typed thank you

Hi Kudpung, thanks for your support and thank you for being the first to do so! I was quite nervous when I submitted the RfB and I was refreshing the page every minute for twenty minutes before you showed up! :) While I'm here, thanks for all the work you do at the various permissions pages; I think you do a great job there. Acalamari 18:48, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Major Plato rewrite

Attention is needed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Philosophy and at every Plato related image, template and article. It looks as though User:Mercer.philosophy in collaboration with User:Nathan.besteman is doing a major rewrite of all Plato related pictures, templates, and articles. This widespread vandalism appears to be the work of some sort of 'Socrates' cultists, to credit Socrates as the real mind behind Plato. This, of course is not only perversely wrong, and counter to all existent scholarship, but undermines the credibility of all philosophy articles in Wikipedia.

As a side note, there is no point in my attempting to correct this situation, since it would only lead to an edit war against a collaborative vandal. Wikipedia rules automatically in favor of any collaboration, whether the collaborators be constructive or destructive. BlueMist (talk) 08:36, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi NY Amateur. I have not reviewed the situation because we have other places where you can best voice your concerns. You should take it up with the editor(s) concerned and on the respective article talk pages, and then seek WP:DR if that is unfruitful. I 'm afraid therefore that I cannot concur with your 'side note'. I also find that your signature is confusing. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:16, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply, Kudpung. I'll try WP:DR.

In the philosophy area (please see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Philosophy) there simply aren't enough concerned editors to make a democratic system work. There, any two editors can out-vote an objector and proceed to do whatever they wish. That is the difference between your collaborative experience as an admin, and mine as an editor. If you or other admins do not oversee the philosophy section, it can quickly become almost entirely worthless. That is why I am asking you. Btw, Can I change my user ID to BlueMist or Blue_Mist, which is what I really would like it to be? I assume not. BlueMist (talk) 10:43, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but with over 16,000 articles on my watchlists and a couple of other projects to take care of I just can't take on anything else. As regards your user name, User:Blue Mist does not appear to be taken so read Wikipedia:Changing username and follow the instructions there. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:18, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Rudra john cena

Looking over this user's logs, I see exactly one new page review since he agreed to stop at 12:47 on 27 January (on his talk page). That one was a speedy deletion nom that resulted in a speedy deletion for advertising. One speedy tag does not a patroller make. I submit that while this user clearly has competency issues, acknowledging that they have effectively stopped attempting to patrol would be more constructive at this time. Thoughts? VQuakr (talk) 09:03, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

I admit I'm pretty hot on the heels of NPP reviews, but I did in fact say: '...whether or not your patrols are accurate...' As the major protagonist for reform and improvement of NPP for several years, I admit that sometimes my comments are not perhaps as helpful as they may be, but he was asked by several admins to desist. There is a WP:NPRSCHOOL that he is welcome to visit but if he wants to police the encyclopedia, he could perhaps start with anti vandalism, but even there he would need 200 edits to be accepted at that academy. At the moment, he's probably more in line for an adoption programme. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:26, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

At this point, his crappy NPPing is the least critical out of a number of serious issues. I am going to follow up with him in detail today, if you would be willing to hold off on any administrative corrections for a little longer. BTW, sincere thanks for your hard work in pushing NPP to be better; it is an issue dear to me as well! VQuakr (talk) 16:15, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Don't worry - the only thing an admin can do is block, but poor NPPing is hardly a blockable offense. At the very worst, we hang a Tban on patrolling but even that is extremely rare. His English is also too poor to be really in command of any reliable policing of content. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:21, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Restoration of PROD article

Hello, Kudpung. A few weeks ago you put a PROD on Philip Moon (actor)., and I deleted it. I am letting you know that I have now restored the article, following a request on my talk page, so that you can consider whether to take it to AfD. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:57, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

No problems. If Blofeld says he wants to reference it he probably will but I couldn't find any substantial sources beyond the IMDB mention. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:09, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

I'll have a go, I remember him in The Big Lebowski.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:11, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Looks good, Blofeld. Well done :) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:31, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, will try to add a bit more still. If you have an actor who you might think is worthy of deletion in the future let me know! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:33, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Will do. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:36, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Please remove my rollback/reviewer rights

As you've been the one giving me these rights I kindly ask to remove my rollback/reviewer rights, as I'll be leaving Wikipedia for good. Also it would be nice to fully protect my talk page, so no one can post any messages any more. Best regards and take care. Stormmeteo (talk) 22:51, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:53, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 123#Merge the Page Curation and Patrol logs?

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 123#Merge the Page Curation and Patrol logs?. VQuakr (talk) 00:31, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

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Right, but where does it say so?

Regarding , would you mind adding a link or a footnote with explanation there? I added the "fact" there because this sentence didn't make it clear where this statement is backed up by a policy or practice, and because several other similarly potentially dubious claims are ref'ed with footnotes. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:17, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

See your talk page. You may wish to inform yourself before making such edits. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:20, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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Message from Cowhen1966

Hello Kudpung, I bumped into you when I accepted an invitation to the Teahouse. I scrolled down various editorial articles and one of them caught my attention. I clicked on to your comments and found out that you are an administrator. I have not been here for even a month and frankly, I did not know that being on here could be so stressful. I am Ghanaian by descent but have lived in the United Kingdom for over thirty years. I am a mature individual and recently took up writing as a hobby. I have a PHD in English language and I'm a retired teacher. What brought me on here is my interest in Ghanain history and celebrity. I have recently been researching various notable personalities. Maybe, not as big as Kofi Annan and reasonably quiet for their type of success. I decided to do some research on someone who has been around for ages and notable in the Ghanaian community. My aim was to take the reader go through some of our rich culture in the arts, education and politics. I also wanted someone who is an expatriate and is making strides in both the Christian and Ghanaian community. On my travels I have met some interesting people on here. I have met some very very nice editors who have visited my article and made very few changes. However, I stumbled upon three editors on the live chat who go by the name Siteku, Howicus and Huon. The latter has not visited my article. Siteku I gather or may stand corrected, is a patroller of new articles. He has been very vicious both verbally and on my talk page. I have been trying to contact administrators but find Wikipedia a bit of a maze. I really like to progress on to other things and maybe do more research and write about various things that interest me as well help Wikipedia in any way that I can. I guess in a nutshell, these individuals have made me feel unwelcomed. At one point during a live chat, they insinuated that I knew this person. They asked me to reference all my sources which I have done. But I think they are concentrating on one aspect of the person's career which is music. They have suggested I should remove the reference to the newspaper articles written by Christian Today, remove references to Robert's own website and YouTube. I am happy to do that now because frankly, I'm just tired of fighting about editorial style etc. the only reference to the website is with regards to where they are right now. I thought the articles by Christian Today were ok. and Youtube and I must stress there is not a lot on social media about this individual anyway, was to support how far back this individual goes. And I clearly stated that "old recordings have emerged" . I my self had copies of these songs years ago and I have lost them. I am prepared to remove any sources that they may deem unfit. I hope you can advise me as to what to do because I really wanted the reader to experience a taste of Ghanaian history through the eyes of celebrity. Please feel free to read the correspondence between myself and these two individuals. I do not want to make enemies on here, I just want to use my gifts and little knowledge. Thank youCowhen1966 (talk) 14:25, 16 February 2014 (UTC)Cowhen1966 (talk) 15:04, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Just to note, Huon is also an administrator. Thanks, Matty.007 15:06, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

I don't immediately see where I am involved in the issues you list. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:45, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Articles on banks

You may be interested in a comment on my talk page. If the university is the one it seems to be, we will have obvious problems giving the usual sort of assistance. DGG ( talk ) 23:28, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi DGG}. Thanks's for the heads up. I can only concur 100% with your comment. It also reflects my own underderstanding of corporate notability after having followed all the advice you have provided to me and others on such issues. Occasionally we may have been at odds over one or two AfDs in the past in this series of issues, but that was before I fully understood you excellent reasoning. While I encourage the teaching of the correct use and editing of Wikipedia in institutes of higher learning, I remain skeptical however over the value and ethic of editing tasks being set as formal homework assignments for degree courses. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:56, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

One of the problems, the location of the institution, has now been solved--it's a cooperative project between the Chinese university and the Unviersity of Toronto, and therefore there's a way we can safely offer assistance. See User:Uttsinghuajoint2014/Course Page. I expanded the substantial part of my advice to the talk p. there. And of course I agree with you that it's absurd for a class grade to depend on the vagaries of what we do at WP. The faculty should set the standards for the coursework on its own merit. Depending on us to evaluate people is a little ridiculous. (I believe , in fact, that this is the advice the ed. project gives also) DGG ( talk ) 16:33, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Sa Kaeo City F.C.

I don't know if you'd like to look in there. I've talkbacked both projects. The Thai link is on the SK FC page. Peridon (talk) 16:05, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, can't be of much help with this. Sa Kaeow is a smallish province capital and I think it would be unlikely for there to be two major league professional clubs in the province. Best thing to do would be to contact the creator(s) of the articles. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:39, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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Your assistance please

I looked at User talk:Sherurcij for the first time in a long time in January, and left four requests for userification at WP:REFUND. In those requests I said if I didn't think the articles had anything worth preserving in them I would place a {{db-u1}} on them. That is what I did with Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed. Al-Bashir Al-Faqih I changed to a redirect, then moved the redirect to article space.

My request for userification of Abdel Hadi al-Tunsi was declined, because it was deleted at afd, not prod, and I was advised to direct my request to you.

I will probably find Abdel Hadi al-Tunsi is not notable enough for a standalone article by today's standards. As with the other requests I will apply a {{db-u1}} if there is nothing of value. If there is enough to justify limited coverage in another article, I'll merge that material, and then, like Al-Bashir Al-Faqih I'll change it to a redirect, then move the redirect to article space.

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Irondome checking in

Greetings! Hope you are well and all is good with you and yours. I have had the life changing but positive experience thing over the past 3 months that one reads about but feels strangely familiar and normal when it actually happens and one begins to process it. There is nothing new under the sun seems to sum it up. Bottom line is I am ready to start editing again, but on a whole new level. I have not had the chance to check thr threads, but any movement on the great admin debate, etc? Any breakthroughs or positive new concepts on admin selection-related topics since December, when I had to go on Wikibreak? A short precis of your thoughts on this topic or any interesting grneral WP trends would be well appreciated. Authoritative because you always know the pulse of WP, so do not protest! :) Cheers from the usual suspect, a.k.a. Irondome (talk) 03:19, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

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Question

Hi. Remember all those articles that got deleted because they dimmed to be not notable because I wrote then from external links (including 2 photographers)? Well, I have an idea, will citing their work make them notable? Like I can't provide online references because sometimes they don't have their work printed out online, but I receive plenty of magazines that I can use for their work, and Wikipedia doesn't have policy against magazines considering that a photographer that works with specific and well-respected magazines such as Smithsonian, National Geographic and others is much notable than an amateur photographer who shoots for himself. Like, I know that online sources are better since they are more verifiable, but sometimes there is nothing but the official site, while the work is in subscription magazines. Another question, do you or any other Wikipedians receive any subscription magazines (just out of curiosity)? Will be glad to receive an advice. --Mishae (talk) 00:16, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Request for review/mentorship

Hi Kudpung, I was just reviewing the discussions here looking for experienced NPPers. When I created my account, I started looking for ways I would like to participate in the project and have traditionally been more interested in reviewing than creating (outside wikipedia). I came across NPP and read all the associated information, studied the CSD/AfD/PROPD pages and relevant policies and guidelines. I saw that it's pasted everywhere that NPP should be left to "experienced users" and knew full well that I didn't fit that category. After reviewing the pages mentioned above I decided to give it a try and try to take it slow and see if I felt out of my league. I've passed over several pages I didn't feel capable enough to mark but have marked several others. So, long story short, I went looking for a place to request someone review [my log] and give me feedback. You mentioned on the discussion above that you occassionally review patrollers activity and provide feedback, so I came here. I feel like I've done enough to allow an experienced NPPer to say "stop patrolling" or "try doing more/less of X", etc. I'll watch here, or on my talk page. Thanks! C1776M^Talk 13:17, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

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• Traffic report: War and awards
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RfA request

Will you please nominate me for an RfA? Mackatackastewart (talk) 10:54, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

deletion

About Aharonz1/stress...

Your reason (speedy deletion G2) does NOT work in the user name space. Just saying ... Aharonz1 (talk) 11:36, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

• @Aharonz1: Aharonz1/stress wasn't in the user name space... perhaps you wanted to create User:Aharonz1/stress? Just saying ... Worm^TT(talk) 11:59, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 March 2014

• Forum: Wikimedia Commons mission: free media for the world or only Wikimedia projects?
  Non-US editors and chapters have taken issue with a multitude of image deletions done on the Wikimedia Commons to comply with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, a US law that brought the country into compliance with the Berne Convention.

• WikiProject report: We have history
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• Interview: Nate Ott: the writer behind 71 articles in the largest-ever good topic
  In a record-breaker, the English Wikipedia has a new largest good topic: the 71-article Light cruisers of Germany, which concerns the light cruisers used by Germany during the 20th century.

• Featured content: Spot the bulldozer
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• News and notes: Foundation-supported Wikipedian in residence faces scrutiny
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• Traffic report: Into thin air
  The utterly mystifying events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has not fallen from the sky so much as vanished from it entirely, has left an information-starved public scrambling for precedents, some logical, some... not.

• Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report
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Enzon Pharmaceuticals

Just a heads-up that I have restored this article, which you PRODded in December, following this request at WP:REFUND. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:58, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Conflict

Can you help resolve a conflict at Oliver Bierhoff, Michael Ballack, and Mehmet Ekici? See, I added archiveurls and removed whitespace along with it. It shouldn't be an issue since I added archiveurl, right? So, users User:Walter Gorlitz, User:Jared Preston, and User:Jaellee restored the white space and I consider it a disruptive editing. Like, honestly wont you agree that restoring whitespace is as destructive as removing it? Also, somebody pointed me to not use http and https when citing YouTube and Wayback Machine and since I deleted it from my talkpage in 2014 I can't find it. Can you please help with both issues. Thank you.--Mishae (talk) 15:48, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

No need to resolve the conflict Kudpung. Whitespace is not destructive, it's used by many editors, whose edit tool uses monospaced fonts, for aligning content. Several editors, those listed above an anonymous ones as well, have asked to Mishae to stop removing the whitespace but Mishae would rather edit war than edit cooperatively.

Initially, I was adding http: to the archiveurl parameters, but now that Mishae has explained that it's not necessary, I have stopped doing that, but there's really no reason to remove whitespace and add URLs on new lines. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:03, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Original poster should also be aware of WP:3RR. Jared Preston (talk) 16:07, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Although the conflict have been resolved I should point out that no anonymous users have came to my talkpage and that it was them who edited against consensus. Therefore, while I inserted archiveurl and removed unnecessary whitespaces (in sections for example), user Walter Görlitz would come in and insert them back, which in my opinion is disruptive since he doesn't add anything and therefore do it for edit count. I at least, do archiving, which is a huge part of an edit and is improvement to an encyclopedia while user Walter Görlitz is here to toss his marginal opinions at you and edit war with me. If its not hard I would like to hear your opinion on the case, considering that we know each other.--Mishae (talk) 05:43, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Request for nomination as an admin

You mentioned that you're the type of person who would be willing to sponsor someone as an administrator on Wikipedia. I tried nominating myself back in 2005 after I'd only been here a couple of years and that was shot down, mainly because I guess it was felt I hadn't taken it all that seriously.

Now, nine years later I think I've gone as far as I can as a regular editor and I think my behavior and the quality of my many thousands of edits and talents indicate I qualify to become an admin. I'll give you some examples.

• Check almost any page on area codes for the United States, like List of California area codes or Area code 202 and you'll find the map I did for them, which is now using SVG instead of PNG so the map resizes automatically and without blur.
• Every area code page for North America has a box in it indicating the area codes near to it or in the same state, so someone can navigate to nearby area codes.
• Some of the area codes Area Code 602, have maps that are marked with a clickmap so you can click on the page representing a nearby area code and move to it.
• Check out 2013, 2014 and 2015, the first one's first paragraph says "2013 was a" the second says "2014 is the current year, and is a" and 2015 says "2015 will be a". Guess what happens on January 1? Just what it did before when we changed years to 2014. 2014 will say "2014 was a," 2015 will say "2015 is the current year, and is a" and 2016 will still say "2016 will be a," and this all happened automatically through template syntax, it eliminates temporal editing, the page is automatically accurate without manual intervention.
• Look at the main page for Wiktionary. Do you know why it has an alphabetical index on it? Because I thought of it first, and put it on there (this was back in the days when anyone could edit the main page.) It's become one of the important features.
• Look at my own user page, notice I have implemented "tabbed wikipedia" where my page points to all of the years I was here and individual years can be navigated to. I documented and streamlined this feature so it was easy for anyone to use on their pages.

This is just some of the things I have done to make Wikipedia a better place, and I think with Administrator privileges I can do more things to make things better. Like, say I have an idea for a really good improvement to the main page, I can discuss that - that is a big change that I wouldn't do without getting a consensus - and if there's no objection then I can implement it without having to beg someone to do it for me. For less important but otherwise protected pages where I can see there is room for a really good improvement, I can just offer it.

But I do think I would qualify and I'd like your input and whether you think I would be worth sponsoring as an administrator. I've asked a couple other people, not to try to play one off against the other, but so that if I'm not up to snuff you or they can give me some input into where I'm deficient. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) (talk) 21:01, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

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• Comment: A foolish request
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• Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates
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• News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced
  Results for the two-stage 2013 Commons Picture of the Year have been announced. This year's winning photograph (above) shows a lightbulb that has been cracked, allowing inert gas to escape—and oxygen to enter, so that the tungsten filament burns. From the flames rise elegant curls of blue smoke.

• Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own
  Four articles, two lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia
  On 3 April, we will roll out some changes to the typography of Wikipedia's default Vector skin, to increase readability for users on all devices and platforms. After five months of testing, four major iterations, and through close collaboration with the global Wikimedia community, who provided more than 100 threads of feedback, we’ve arrived at a solution which improves the primary reading and editing experience for all users.

• Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?
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Remember me?

About a year ago I told you my intention of someday becoming a sysop. Although I've been progressing slower than expected, I still think I've come a long way. I have a article that I worked on. I am writing to you so you could could give an opinion on my progress. NintendoFan (Talk, Contribs) 12:56, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

GOCE March drive wrapup

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Wikimania scholarship withdraw

I applied for a WM London scholarship. It seems I can not attend this year. I sent an email to them and requested to cancel my application. I have not received any reply. Will you please check it quickly so that the slot gets open for another deserving candidate? --Tito☸Dutta 11:17, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

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• WikiProject report: Deutschland in English
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• Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
  The annual Wikimedia Conference is about to start in Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Germany, which won the bid to hold the event over three others. This will be the fifth time the chapter has hosted the Wikimedia Conference—it did so from 2009 to 2012, with attendance ranging from 100 to 180 Wikimedians. This year 160 people are expected at the four-day event, which is mainly for representatives of affiliated Wikimedia organisations. The conference has been built around two themes: Organisation, structures, and grants and Success and impact.

• Featured content: April Fools
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• Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
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• Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
  "I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on Facebook said it looked 'skepchickal', which she loved."

• Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
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April blitz wrap-up and May copyediting drive invitation

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The Signpost: 23 April 2014

• Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
  The annual Wikimedia Conference wound up last Sunday, 13 April—a four-day meeting costing several hundred thousand dollars, hosted in Berlin by Wikimedia Germany and attended by more than 100 Wikimedians.

• Op-ed: Five things a Wikipedian in residence can do
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• News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
  Cynthia Ashley-Nelson, who edited as "Cindamuse" on the Wikimedia projects, passed away in her sleep at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin on 10 April.

• WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism
  This week, we visited WikiProject Catholicism.

• Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
  After just over a month of deliberation, the Wikimania jury has selected Wikimedia Mexico's bid to host Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City, with a proposed date of 15–19 July.

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request for adminship

Hi I was an administrator until 2006 when i stepped down after overreaction to a newbie user's political bias. I feel that after eight long years of exile and many thousands of edits, that i have redeemed myself and should be allowed back. Can you help me? Paul Austin (talk) 19:16, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Paul. Just a note that Kudpung last edited nearly two months ago, and we know not why (or at least, I don't). You don't seem in any particular hurry(!), but even so, it may be worth aiming this request at another name on Wikipedia:Request an RfA nomination. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:29, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

hi!! i would like to know why my article was deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bkweli (talk • contribs) 15:28, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Hello again

Are you still around? You have done some great work; I hope your absence is only temporary. bobrayner (talk) 15:17, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 April 2014

• News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal
  Like hammering a square peg into a round hole, the Wikimedia Foundation has submitted a draft annual plan for 2014–15 to its own Funds Dissemination Committee. Unlike the WMF's submission to the FDC's inaugural round in October 2012, the "proposal" does not seek funding.

• Traffic report: Going to the Doggs
  Not much to report this week. The same post-Easter celebrations (4/20, Earth Day) were popular again this year, except last year we were still reeling from the Boston Marathon bombing.

• Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director
  The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that its new executive director will be Lila Tretikov, until now a chief product officer in Silicon Valley.

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afc

I think I've worked out a two sentence sketch of what I would suggest as the replacement procedure and included it in a comment here. I'm posssibly going to propose it at VP shortly, with a notice at AfC talk. DGG ( talk ) 21:17, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

• News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?
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• Traffic report: TMZedia
  For all the claims of Wikipedia bringing the world's knowledge to all who want it, it seems the human race most wants is a tabloid newspaper; a quick source for TV listings, pop culture facts, celebrity gossip and, above all, scandal—with some nice juicy racism thrown in too.

• In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director
  In a live video stream on 1 May, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that Lila Tretikov will be replacing Sue Gardner, its executive director. Gardner, who has been in the position since 2007, declared her intention to leave more than a year ago.

• WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three
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  Boston Children's Hospital postdoctoral fellow David McIver and a team have determined that using page view statistics from Wikipedia, they can track flu progression better than the Center for Disease Control can using Google searches.

• WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision
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• Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity
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• News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia
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Tata Medical Center in New Town Rajarhat is a renowned institute for treating cancer patients. It has been started by the Tata Group as was the Tata Memorial Center in Mumbai. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DorkDoctor (talk • contribs) 12:40, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

• News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
  Last Sunday the board of Wikimedia Germany passed 9–1 a vote of no confidence in the chapter's executive director, Pavel Richter, who has held the position since 2009. With more than 50 employees, an annual budget approaching $10 million, and the right to conduct its own fundraising through the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) site banners, Wikimedia Germany is the second-largest organisation in the movement after the WMF itself. The decision was announced on the Wikimedia mailing list by the chapter chair, Nikolas Becker.

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Kudpung

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Oi! Where are you? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:27, 24 May 2014 (UTC).

I miss him too. —Anne Delong (talk) 22:38, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

We've talked about this at WP:WER. I've tried to contact him 3 times, others have as well. Frankly, I'm concerned. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 22:45, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

I sense you may be temporarily totally cheesed off with the project. But I am concerned too, whatever your reasons may be. Respect Irondome (talk) 22:56, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

He and I have talked off wiki a fair amount in the past, I am pretty sure he would have replied to me if he saw the email, regardless of how cheesed he might be at whatever. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 22:59, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

And his status indicator says "around". —Anne Delong (talk) 23:16, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure how good he was at updating that. Last I knew, he was in good health, but he is a mature man. I worry for his health. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 23:52, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Should we escalate this in some way. I fully share concerns expressed. Even if it is "nothing", it is our moral responsibility as a community to raise a concern at some higher level. Better to be safe etc Irondome (talk) 00:01, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

There is no "escalate" that I know of. WP:WER talked about it, several tried to contact him, I've pointed people towards others that knew him. He lives 11 times zones away so I can't pop by his house. Not sure what else could be done. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 00:03, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Can we not involve WMF some way? Can we establish contact with Thai Wikipedians. Some may live close. I know, he is often on the road and he may have a WP connection locally. He seems very actively engaged in local projects too. Irondome (talk) 00:09, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

I don't think WMF would be interested, they don't get involved with the community unless they have to, or it is part of an outreach, but you can try. I dropped a note to the only person I know that might know someone near him. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 00:14, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

What about a posting on Jimbo's page expressing our concern. I don't think that is an overreaction. Irondome (talk) 00:24, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

I wouldn't. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 00:32, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

I agree with Dennis; don't post anything on Jimbo's talk page or AN or anything like that yet. That can only serve to stir speculation, obfuscation, and loss of the central point. Go Phightins! 01:30, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

No, I wasn't going to escalate like that. Just causes DRAMA. I thanked Dennis when he posted this, it was wise. Maybe the WMF email approach, but nothing else. I wonder if Anna is watching this? Irondome (talk) 12:15, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

These sorts of threads are less helpful than most understand. You have no idea how these threads can carry unhelpful comments so easily. Talking about 'Jimbos talk page' and similar is outright dumb. Contact me offline if you want my explanation as to why. I had quite a bit to do with him in person at Hong Kong wikimania last year. I live outside of Thailand, and have had a brother-in-law who lives there (Thailand) just turned up by a flight today... My recommendation is to keep trying offline contact attempts, and shut up and be patient. Adding cascading fears etc here is not useful. satusuro

Just as a quick update; I've dropped him a line to see if he could check in. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 21:42, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Not to cause needless drama and worry, but you don't suppose he's been in an accident do you?—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 23:08, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

It is one thing to be concerned, but please don't speculate. Several of us that know him reasonably well are trying to contact him using a variety of means. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 00:28, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Sorry. My life experience has always taught me to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 21:52, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Survey for editors who mentor newcomer

Dear Wikipedia Ambassador,

I am seeking input on your experience as a mentor to new Wikipedians. This survey is designed to provide insight for the development of a new mentorship support tool on Wikipedia. If you have a moment, please take this survey, it should not take more than 10 minutes of your time to complete.

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Also, if you are able to, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send the following survey to the mentee you worked with:

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Thank you in advance for your participation, Gabriel Mugar 13:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Contact me, please

Hi Kudpung, I wonder if you would be so kind as to send me a quick email? Thanks. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 21:40, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey Kudpung, thanks a lot for the congratulations; it wasn't as bad as it's made out to be, at least for me . Glad to see/hear you're well; hope to see you back on Wikipedia with some regularity at some point, but no matter how active you plan to be, thanks for dropping by, and I hope real life is treating you well. God bless -- Go Phightins! 20:37, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Could you assist?

Hi, I PRODed Pimbongkod Chankaew as Only a runner up, not notable. None of the refs state that she will replace the winner - the Guardian and NBCnews say "It was unclear whether the first runner-up, Pimbongkod Chankaew, would replace Weluree as Thailand's representative at the global competition, Miss Universe 2014". This was removed by an IP claiming that reference (http://morning-news.bectero.com/m/main.php?m=newsdetail&nid=19131 - in Thai) says she will represent Thailand. Google Translate, is not good, but I don't see that fact there - but I can't be sure. Could you see if that reference does say she will be representing Thailand? If it's not there, then I'll go for an AfD. Thanks.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:13, 12 June 2014 (UTC) Strike out - I found a nice Thai lady to check it out for me.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 17:01, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

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