User talk:Lar

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I am Larry Pieniazek, I like LEGO, and I am not notable.

I edit primarily on en.Wikipedia so if you want to leave me a message please use my user talk page there for more information. However I have email enabled here so feel free to email me if you need to.

Boring

Could you spice it up some? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bastique (talk • contribs) .

Why yes I could! Thanks for asking. Was there anything else? Lar 00:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Happy Halloween!

The best to you and yours

Bastique 04:43, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Elections

Hello, sorry, of course I voted in the wrong section. I'm going to correct that. Many thanks. Bests, --10caart 09:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Duplicates

Thank you, it was a copy+paste problem ;) --Slade ♠ 01:07, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Closure

Thanks for the information. Flcelloguy (A note?) 02:38, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

your vote

Hello, you said on Essjay

Essjay needs access here, whether he's active or not. An exception should be made in his case,

I have no idea what you meant as "needs access". And I think you gave no reasoning about the reason "an exception should be made". Could you provide us the basis of your idea at that page? Thanks. --Aphaia 02:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your addition. It was a bitter end but you generalized the reason as "because of the other roles they hold". It is not clear for me however what you think in details and why you think it necessarily. Can you please argue the relevance to local previledges and meta adminship ... perhaps on the talk? Thanks. --Aphaia 06:53, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Sure. perhaps not right away as it's not as pressing since I don't think we have any other "extraordinary cases" coming up next month (but I ought to check the calendar), but just as a thought starter, I'd argue that Angela or Anthere should have this access even if they never did anything with it, given their other roles. (oh and "needs access here"=="have the sysop bit turned on here") ++Lar: t/c 14:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Make a sense; I agree on the case of Board members, and I supposed once developers are better to have sysop access (they theoretically need no further access - they can do it on the shell). However your statement was not on those people who are involved into the Foundation matters or global community, but a person who have some access on the local project. That is why I cannot understand your reasoning, and your explanation about relevance between sysop access on meta and oversight/checkuser on a given local project will be helpful for further discussion. --Aphaia 06:30, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Essjay had more authority than just on en:wp, he was a wikia employee, among a long list of other things. But I see your point, something concrete might be useful... I think a discussion somewhere (other than just on my talk page) around what special criteria are, (with a goal to getting consensus on them from others and maybe even modifying policy?) might be good (we both agree about board members being exempt, we both agree that someone that is say, just a sysop and a 'crat on a local project and nothing else anywhere else isn't "special" and shouldn't be exempt form activity requirements, and maybe we disagree on some others in the middle...)... getting more input might help solidify that. Where do you suggest? (perhaps Meta talk:Administrators/confirm, or perhaps somewhere wider is needed? Thoughts?) Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 11:57, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Checkuser

Hiya, Lar. You've been promoted to checkuser on Commons. Please bear in mind Privacy Policy and its corollary, CheckUser policy when performing checks. Also, please subscribe to checkuser-l, and email checkuser-l-owner@wikipedia.org so that the listadmins know you're allowed on the mailing list. Happy editing! MaxSem 15:43, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

London weather

No problem - there was a bit of a "drive" on orphaned talk pages today. Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:55, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism!

We mentioned this topic elsewhere but I thought it might be better to give you my thoghts here - it is a sort of meta issue and it is possible that others may be interested.

Examples of recent vandalism cross wiki over the past couple of weeks that I have seen.

1. I saw this one vandalise here [1] and then I switched to Books [2]. Not exciting but it does show cross wiki views are worthwhile (& I really don't see the point of warning them again on another wiki - they know what they are doing).
2. User:Nintendude & User:Nintendough. The first is here & Books (& other places I believe), the second is Books and not sure of other wikis. Ok I was alerted to this name by Az1568 (we work quite closely) and it happened while I was offline but both accounts were on same IP, what are the odds that that is the case here and elsewhere (I've blocked the IP for a while on Books).
3. Requests_for_CheckUser_information#Meta This is the tip of the iceberg for this one. <ramble>When I started on Books there was a spate of "On Wheels/Mumfum" vandalisim, it was the reason I self nom'd for admin - fed up with dealing with it with both hands tied, it is the reason I self nom'd for CU - one hand tied is still no fun!</ramble>. CUs on Books are happy to use Cu to find the underlying IP of these vandals and block it (bear in mind the limited duration of CU info). Probably doesn't stop it but it sure reduces it. In this last one the same IP was responsible for more than one attack on Books, it was the same IP here (unblocked) & I'm betting it was the same on on Species (they didn't seem interested). I'd be surprised if that was the limit of the vandalism.

This to me states some of what I see as the problem. This does not really refer to Wikipedia - there are enough vandal fighers there to deal with it and the SWMT do a great job on dealing with the little ones but I do feel there is more room to be pro active. From a books and slightly more general perspective Az & I exchange tips and notes and "heads up" type stuff which seems to work ok but I am certain that more active use of CU against vandalism would help (I am not referring to sockpupettry here - tho thinking about it the wrestling stuff, for example, has hit Books, Commons and Wikipedia to my knowledge so I consider that vandalism), All the best --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

So what is it we need to do? The CU mailing list gives a way to correlate if mention is made there (but so far anyway it seems more concerned with technical matters, not that it couldn't be used that way), right? If there is a real need for faster action there's always IRC too, right? I think this is an interesting topic but am not sure what's needed exactly, or how to get buyin, as it's an example of a place where cross wiki coordination would be beneficial. Not sure that general problem has been solved... ++Lar: t/c 11:54, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Wiki Matrix

Hi there Lar! I just wanted to drop you a line to mention how much I like your Wiki Matrix. It's a great table for listing contact info and membership across Wikimedia projects. In fact, I like it so much that I actually made my own, based on your matrix. Hope this is OK, and if so, thanks in advance! If not, no big deal, just let me know. Cheers mate Gaillimh 22:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

No worries. in fact you might want to circle back in a bit I want to introduce another template to capture a few more of the common configs of URLs etc... Glad you found it of use as a good starting point but I have to credit Kylu for the original idea. ++Lar: t/c 23:09, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Great, thanks a lot! Be sure to keep me updated; I'm looking forward to seeing what you trot out. Gaillimh 00:22, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

I was planning to use this myself. What I wondered was whether it would be a good place to incorporate aspects of protecting identity? Just a thought. Thanks for the matrix idea anyway --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:04, 19 May 2007 (UTC)