User talk:Redux

The Redux Archives

• Blast from the past I
• Blast from the past II
• Blast from the past III
• Blast from the past IV
• Blast from the past V
• Blast from the past VI
• Blast from the past VII
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• Blast from the past IX

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Happy editing, Isomorphic 04:10, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations, you're an admin! Please try to be conservative in the use of your new capabilities. Best regards, The Uninvited Co., Inc. 22:41, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

You're now a bureaucrat, so jump in and help out where you can. Follow the discussions at the bureaucrat's noticeboard and use your new powers for good of course. :) - Taxman ^Talk 15:08, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, after I pestered Suisi, she gave you the oversite bit. Happy editing. Raul654 00:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Redux. As requested on meta, your check-user flag is now active.

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Rollback

It seems from your latest post to the Bureaucrat noticeboard that you haven't seen how fast this issue has moved. Administrators were given the ability to assign and remove "rollback" permissions a few days ago, see the user rights log [1] or the new Requests for rollback board. WjBscribe 03:05, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Both Jimbo and Anthere have commented on the implementation - Jimbo here and Anthere here. WjBscribe 17:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Dooku.jpg)

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Senate front.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Senate.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 14:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sai de Baixo DVD.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 14:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sai de Baixo I.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 14:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sai de Baixo II.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 14:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sai de Baixo III.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 14:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Saint Silvester 05.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 16:06, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sonic shower.jpg

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 Done. Boy, those old uploads are turning out to be a real handful... ;) Redux (talk) 16:01, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Timeofyourlife.jpg

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 Done I changed the template in use to {{fairusein|ARTICLENAME}}, which includes the name of the article where fair use is claimed. I believe that takes care of the concern... Redux (talk) 13:40, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Cidade dos Homens 1.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 16:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Cidade dos Homens 2.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 16:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Cidade dos Homens 3.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 16:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

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 Done Redux (talk) 16:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Charitas.jpg

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I've ascertained that it is reasonably possible to obtain a free similar. Despite the fact that the image is used in promotional touristic material,since this image is not free and the copyright holder is uncertain and difficult to determine, I have nuked the image myself. Redux (talk) 16:14, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:City of Men.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 16:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:CHU#Bradsoroka → Brad Soroka

Generally the practice is to leave a note asking them to confirm the request, rather than rejecting it and requiring a new request. I've merged the two requests so that they are archived together when the other one is accepted; I'll undo this if you have any objection. —Random832 17:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

If it works, no problem. We used to ask for logged-in confirmation, until we created the template. After the template's inception, we started declining requests that failed to follow the basic instructions. Declining and asking people to repost when the basic instructions are not followed also served the purpose of preventing people from trying to fix the links in the template, which would normally only make it worse. In order to optimize the time the Bcrats would spend in renames, we were making it clear that if a user didn't take the time to read simple instructions, the requests would be denied, which would cause people to read the instructions, thus preventing silly mistakes that caused us to take more and more time to handle simple requests.
Most of this, however, was before clerks started helping out with renames. With the help of the clerks, there's less of a need for us to be too concerned with wasting time fixing silly mistakes. But I guess I was on "automatic". Thanks for the help.
As a matter of fact, you don't even need to wait until the repost is accepted (if it hasn't been already by now, I haven't checked), you can go ahead and merge now, if you want to. Cheers, Redux (talk) 22:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

I meant I'd already merged it, actually (converting your "not done" to a "bureaucrat note" to prevent premature archiving as denied). I'm considering changing the template at some point, actually (maybe to a two-stage template to where one template subst's and there's another template hiding all the urlencode complexity) to make fixing the links easier (generally it only gets halfway fixed when CURRENT and NEW are left in place) —Random832 23:04, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi!

Rename me, please, from Russkij to Andrijko Z. (with dot) --Russkij (talk) 13:42, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Admin

Can you train me so I can be closer to having a chance of becoming an admin. --Some people are gay. Get over it! 19:36, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Saint Silvester 05.jpg

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User talk:S marky 90

This guy has made several edits to Venice Marco Polo Airport that are a bit odd such as adding this section. I don't think that they are vandalising and they do seem willing to communicate, User talk:CambridgeBayWeather#Review. Based on what they are editing I am guessing they speak Italian and wondered if you could try and see what they are up to before someone blocks them. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 17:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC) Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 14:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Shespies.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 02:47, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Split infinitve on Lewis page

Just got your message. I read the page on s.i.'s differently than you, it would seem. But I see your solution - moving "successfully" to the end - as the easiest thing here. I was more concerned with emphasizing "defence" here but was too lazy to make the one change... Feel free to go back and clean up the text to make it read more encyclopedic. (The page still needs to be re-jigged as the "controversies" section really is a bit of a mess.) Cheers. Canada Jack (talk) 04:17, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Bureaucrat discussion - Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/Riana

Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/Riana/Bureaucrat discussion

Having briefly discussed this request with Deskana and as we did not think this is a case where a lone bureaucrat should determine the outcome of the discussion, I have created a subpage to allow for bureaucrats to discuss the matter. If you have time, I would be grateful if you could review the RfB and express an opinion as to what outcome you believe is appropriate. WjBscribe 02:22, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Petropolis Imperial Museum.jpg

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The image I had uploaded has been replaced with a completely different version, uploaded by Limongi. I've verified that the user has been notified as well. Since the image he uploaded is not a different version of the previous image, but rather a different image altogether, this will have to be looked into by him. Redux (talk) 16:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Obiwan.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 16:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Obiwan1.jpg

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Someone else seems to have already taken care of it. Redux (talk) 16:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:NYM.jpg

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Someone else seems to have already taken care of it. Redux (talk) 16:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Mandrake 1.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 16:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Mandrake 2.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 16:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Mandrake 3.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 16:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Mandrake 5.jpg

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 Done Redux (talk) 16:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Brasil Bandeira.gif

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Tone correction thanks

Belated thanks for correcting my tone on the 2008 Aussie GP article; that was written when I was half-awake at the end of the race (US F1 fans lose a lot of sleep!) and had just heard Bob Varsha mention it, using the "debacle" terminology. I must remember to be very careful about Wiki-ing when I'm sleep-deprived! Rdfox 76 (talk) 13:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

How to login with my former username

Hi. Before some time you renamed my account from cyrilic to latin letters, thanks. But now, with the unified login system, I need it back. The problem is that I cannot login to my old account - User:Петър Петров - the password is not accepted and there is no email address active for this account. Can you/someone else help me — how can I login with my former username? Please reply to my talk page, thanks. --Petar Petrov (talk) 19:04, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. Thanks for your quick reply and cooperation. Most probably you are right about "you probably created a different password for it, and you might have forgotten all about it by now." — if the account Петър Петров was left free after renaming, I would re-create it to prevent abuse. In that case the password is gone, of course. Yes, please send the current User:Петър Петров account to some better place (/dev/null) and then move back User:Petar Petrov as User:Петър Петров. If necessary, I hereby agree to have both accounts userchecked. Thanks. --Petar Petrov (talk) 08:07, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Great, it seems I have to wait for Bug 13507... Until then, please ignore my request. --Petar Petrov (talk) 08:22, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

My global account was deleted. I have asked for account usurpation. --Petar Petrov (talk) 10:29, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

 Done: Usurpation completed, SUL account unified. Thanks for your support. --Петър Петров (talk) 13:57, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

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I nuked the image myself, thanks. It wasn't being used on any articles anyway. No need to keep it, then. Redux (talk) 14:29, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Misbehaviour by Volkovbot

VolkovBot (which you approved) vandalized http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_and_Newton_calculus_controversy. When I left a message on ru:User talk:VolkovBot as requested the page in Russian was incomprehensible and my signature Xxanthippe (talk) 23:06, 6 April 2008 (UTC) appeared as my IP number. Continued editing gave odd text behaviour and I had to reboot my computer to get things working again. I think this bot should be blocked on the English Wiki until its problems have been sorted out. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:06, 6 April 2008 (UTC).

This is interwiki link to Bengali wikipedia, not vandalism at all. --VolkovBot (talk) 06:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

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 Done Taken care of, thank you. Redux (talk) 15:50, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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 Done Taken care of, thank you. Redux (talk) 15:50, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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 Done Taken care of, thank you. Redux (talk) 17:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

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 Done Taken care of, thank you. Redux (talk) 17:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Blocked IP Address still editting!!??

I recently blocked the ip. 202.1.192.1 and later noticed that it made another edit after i blocked the ip. how could this possibly happen. Please see the [print Scrn] i took. Also take this matter in to consideration and check how this happend. Thank you!

--~GlaCiouS~ (talk) 16:25, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Changing my username

Hello,
I registered myself under the username "Eldads" because "Eldad" seemed to be occupied. I believe the person who registered under that name had no contributions to Wikipedia. Could you please help me change my user name, in compliance with my user name in Hebrew and all the other Wikipedias? Thanking you in advance, Eldad (talk) 08:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Of course, "Eldads" can remain (as a redirection), but I prefer to have "Eldad" as my main user name. If it's not too much to ask, please leave me a short message on my Hebrew Wikipedia talk page, so that I know that you have addressed my request. Eldad (talk) 09:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

PS. I have just turned also to WJBscribe, as I'm not sure you are around. Hope it's Ok with you. Eldad (talk) 19:47, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

WJBscribe has just attended to my request. Thank you, too. Eldad (talk) 20:26, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

E-mail

Te enviei um e-mail. Fred Xavier (talk) 16:10, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Other possible tennis articles to be renamed

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Conchita Martinez, Cedric Pioline, Dominika Cibulkova, Francoise Durr, Goran Ivanisevic, Hana Mandlikova, Helena Sukova, Ilie Nastase, Jadwiga Jędrzejowska, Jan Kodes, Jana Novotna, Lilí de Álvarez, Mima Jaušovec, Renáta Tomanová, Věra Suková, Yola Ramírez, Zsuzsa Körmöczy. No doubt there are many more. See, e.g., List of female tennis players and List of male tennis players. Tennis expert (talk) 07:47, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

See also List of tennis tournaments. Tennis expert (talk) 07:49, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Indeed. Thanks. :) I only tried to make a note on the discussion on the talk pages of entries on some of the more prominent players that might need to be moved. No doubt it will take a team effort to both compile the full list of articles and to ultimately move all the articles that will need moving. Redux (talk) 14:42, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

RfB closure thanks

Hello, Redux.

I wanted to personally thank you for taking part in the discussion regarding the closure of my candidacy for bureaucratship. As you know, after your discussion, you decided that there was sufficient significant and varied opposition to my candidacy, and thus no consensus to promote. Although personally disappointed, I both understand and respect your decision, especially in light of historical conservatism the project has had when selecting its bureaucrats. As these discussions are specifically not mathematical, but qualitative as well, even after the discussions at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RfB bar and Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/RfB bar, I fully understand that your collective decision here was based on "significant and varied" for which there is sufficient evidence. So, while I cannot say I am happy with the decision, I can say that I am satisfied with the care taken to make it, and accepting of your collective judgment. On a personal note, as I based the time between my first two RfB's on your third one, perhaps I may share in your "third-time charm" success, IF I decide to submit another candidacy. But as for now, that is in the indefinite future, if ever. Once again, thank you for your participation. -- Avi (talk) 21:24, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Brazilian football players turned into weasels

On 8 May 2008, a certain User:Drfubar tagged dozens of Brazilian football biographies as having {{weasel}} words, even when the articles contained only player statistics and basic data. Some Brazilian football player articles were also marked in the same manner by some IP user. Pode fazer alguma coisa neste caso?--Wloveral (talk) 22:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks and obrigado.--Wloveral (talk) 14:40, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I think a lot of those articles and football articles in general are very bias. They contain person viewpoint mildly disguised behind tricky wording without any sources. Thank you for your message Redux, i have read up on weasel words and found that whilst all the pages marked of me are occurring in bias, weasel words are perhaps not the best choice of marker in many respects. I apologise for any inconvenience about this but i think the perspective of many of these articles needs to be examined carefully. The trouble with many of the less major article on footballers is that only a few people know specific data/info about them, therefore they will be rarely edited looked at. This generally means in many cases they hold a strong bias as they have had just one or a couple of writers/workers. I began looking at Brazilian footballers as this is an area of knowledge i have. I will go over them again and place more appropriate tags and raise discussion on the relevant talk pages! Thank you! Oh and the ip edits were also me, i forgot to log in. Drfubar (talk) 19:39, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Maybe what we have in many of these Brazilian (and other nationalities) football player biography articles is {{peacock}}. --Wloveral (talk) 13:53, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Potential superpowers

Olá Redux! Há uma discussão ocorrendo em Talk:Potential superpowers#Removal of Brazil e gostaríamos da sua opinião. Obrigado pela atenção! Felipe C.S ^{( talk )} 00:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Humm, the discussion had already been closed by the time I found your link. Sorry. Redux (talk) 18:35, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Tennis

Hello Redux! I have moved several tennis articles to the titles with diacritics and now I see it was some discussion about it on WPP Tennis a while ago. Well, I think this case is much more wide than just tennis-centered and should be subjected to global discussion on WP. Several points are on my mind: 1.) No regional WikiProject has been notified about the proposed change. 2.) Indeed, it is a global issue, roughly there are tens of thousands articles with diacritics on WP. 3.) As for tennis articles, almost all interwikis use real names (with diacritics), it is unusual for EN Wiki to be the only one not using them. 4.) I see you are from Portugal, "de-diacritization" of articles would affect also Portuguese articles, e.g. Portimão and many others. 5.) Hope you will do good at Euro and beat Czechs in the group. ;)

I propose we can start somewhere a global discussion about this because current situation makes double standards and confusion. I remember when same issue was discussed at ice hockey WikiProject. Many players play NHL in the USA and are known by their "plain" names there, still the WPP decided to allow diacritics in titles. There are no problem since then and I'd like to point out that vast majority of project members are Americans and Canadians. Have a nice day and please let me know what we could do. I am also admin so we can make some joint initiative. Cheers. :) - Darwinek (talk) 20:34, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I see your points, still I think regional wikiprojects should've been notified, after all not everybody follows WPP Tennis and related articles. I am afraid the point of "being known internationally in English as ..." is relative. On the ice hockey one, people admitted it is self-evident the names of e.g. Slavic players would be without diacritics since admins of NHL websites don't use Slavic keyboard. Main argument for allowing diacritics was that there is always diacritics-free redirect which allows other users easily find the article. Situation was also resolved by adding, e.g. ČĎĚ, (known in English as CDE) to the article lead. I respect your WPP Tennis discussion but personally I think some new poll should be arranged and all sides (to call it such) would be notified and invited. "Wikipedia is not a democracy" is only a rigid formula, truth is that voting is used throughout WP to determine and resolve many issues. This new voting has several advantages I see. First of all it would be binding. Second, it would be respected because of its clarity. And last but not least no one then could complain. After all, Jimmy made WP:IAR for exactly such situations. You may think I try to push your change back, honestly I favour diacritics but I will respect every voting outcome. Silent consensus of cca 8 people on WPP Tennis is not a solid foundation for the change. And honestly I don't know how this voting would end. Many users are pro-diacritics, many are anti, outcome would be maybe close, but fair. Therefore I propose we make a voting with clearly set rules (i.e. what majority to use) but not only a voting of "are you for or against?" but also to present the situation as you or WPP Tennis see it and the other side also, to introduce both sides' points to non-involved users. This would be fair, clear and outcome binding as I said before. - Darwinek (talk) 09:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, I see your points, specifically about the tennis-ice hockey difference. Truth is, it is a highly controversial measure to reject original spelling of someone's name in the name of English language which has nothing to do with individual's name. After all it will do only more trouble as the confusion with naming is high especially for newcomers. It is also not binding, therefore moving the article one way or another cannot be considered as vandalism. It will cause troubles till the day the rules will be widely discussed and properly altered to reflect the common sense and the real situation we have here. EN Wikipedia is English-language indeed but it is a flagship of all Wikipedias, beacon of "multi-everything", we both know this very good, right. :) As such it should lean towards tollerance of different/original variants of names. If there would be on EN Wiki only guys from the UK and the US, we wouldn't be discussing this thing. Current rules on naming are confusing, rigid and wrong. They will be changed in the future for sure, as no one is able to stop the progress which is a continual process which keeps rollin' and rollin'. Just look where was WP three years ago, also in the case of article names. It is hardly possible the same rules will be here after 10 years from now. - Darwinek (talk) 15:49, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Diacritics are used throughout Wikipedia, and they have been deemed compatible with UE NC policy. If one wishes to move an article to a non-diacritic version, a RM should be held, as this is certainly a controversial move.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 13:51, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

I am sure that in virtually every case, if you just look at popularity, the no diacritics version will be more popular. That does not make it more correct.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 20:55, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

And I will say again: your arguments are convincing, but you need to go through a WP:RM process. There have been objections, and I don't believe you have advertised the move widely (WP:VP], etc.).--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 09:33, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello Redux. Would you please chime in on this request? Thanks! Tennis expert (talk) 03:25, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

The request was granted: 1, 2. What is the point of spending a ton of time making these name changes if administrators and others are going to revert them, apparently without consequence? Darwinek has reverted about 15 name changes so far. Cheers. Tennis expert (talk) 06:19, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

A new request to Darwinek has been made but not yet granted. Tennis expert (talk) 06:30, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

That request also was granted. Tennis expert (talk) 17:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

The first note concerning a user's editing of English-language tennis player names has been placed on the Administrators' Noticeboard, here. Tennis expert (talk) 18:01, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Also, please see this and this. Tennis expert (talk) 07:49, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Redux, the renaming of the tennis articles is in the process of being undone. I did what I could, but now there's nothing more I can do about it. I'm being called names, having my good faith questioned, labeled as a disrupter, and threatened with blocks. Therefore, I am withdrawing from this exercise. I feel like I was left twisting slowly in the wind without support. But maybe that's just a personal failing of mine. Tennis expert (talk) 09:38, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Most of the undoing is recorded here Tennis expert (talk) 21:02, 1 June 2008 (UTC) and here. Tennis expert (talk) 14:14, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

See also this. Tennis expert (talk) 20:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

The tennis moves discussion was closed, prematurely and erroneously in my opinion. Please refer to this and this. Best regards. Tennis expert (talk) 21:57, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Account created automatically

I have noticed that in Dhivehi Wikipedia there has been many automatically created users. I wonder what this mean? Please have a look at [2]. Thanks! Your help seeker, ;)

--~GlaCiouS~ (talk) 18:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Pedido urgente

Enviei um email pra ti. Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt ✉ 03:15, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Help in login unification

Hello-- I was attempting to unify my accounts with the new global unification process, when I discovered there is a "Yamara" on the Portugese Wikipedia. To the best of my ability to investigate, it looks like this user has made no edits there. According to Wikimedia, I need a bureaucrat to help me sort this out, and you seemed the natural choice from the list they provided. What do I need to do to globalize? Thanks in advance, Yamara ✉ 12:26, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

An inter-wiki deletion question

Redux -

Since you're a native Portuguese speaker and a fluent Spanish speaker, could you take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carlos Botelho, and consider what to do with pt:Bottelho and es:Bottelho? Evidently this is an unknown Portuguese sculptor, born in 1964, who shares a name with another genuinely notable Portuguese sculptor born in 1899, who has created unreferenced articles about himself on a number of different wikis. His articles have been deleted on the English, German, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Slovenian Wikipedias. Would you consider whether to do the same in pt and es? Regards — Dan | talk 04:05, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely. I'll make a direct request for the pt admins to handle it on pt.wiki, and I will ask a es admin I know to handle it on es.wiki. Shouldn't take too long. Redux (talk) 20:36, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

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Indef block of User:82.198.232.115

Per Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses, "IP addresses should almost never be indefinitely blocked". Surely simple vandalism is not one of those "almost" scenerios. I have unblocked indefinitely blocked IP addresses that have done far worse than that. Any objections to unblocking, or at least unblocking and reblocking for a set length of time? (I notice the user has had only 3 blocks prior to yours, all fairly short, so the 2.5 month block seems more than enough). VegaDark (talk) 03:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Same goes for User:12.103.156.83 and User:216.220.101.115, although blocked for different reasons. It it my understanding that IP addresses should pretty much never be blocked indefinitely, except in an extreme circumstance (perhaps an OTRS or WP:OFFICE action). VegaDark (talk) 03:44, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Single User Login

Hi, I would like to usurp the account User:TSK with 0 edits as TSK is my SUL account, see sul:TSK. Currently I only have an account in the German wikipedia and the SUL account; I do not have an account in the English wikipedia so far. Can you please rename the TSK account here? Thanks in advance, regards 155.56.68.220 (talk) 09:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Mensagem wiki-pt

Olá, deixei-lhe uma mensagem na wiki pt [3]. Obrigado, GoEThe (talk) 16:25, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Sonic shower

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Notice

A few of the links to articles that you have created, as well as an image you link to for...some reason, are in red. Just thought I'd let you know.RayvnEQ (talk) 13:25, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

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About the Brazilian Imperial Family

Hello Redux! I´m a brazilian and I´ve been for quite some time helping the portuguese Wikipedia. Now I´m translating my texts from it to the english Wikipedia, as in the article about Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil and Luís, Prince Imperial. There are many more, as the articles bout the economy of the Brazilian Empire, and also the Political system, etc...

What made me surprised is to see that in the english Wikipedia considers the opinion of "Astrid Bousten" (I think that´s the name) which as far as I know from a few monarchists, it isn´t a historian (she is still in college) and even less "renown". What I heard too, but that we shouldn´t consider, as it is nothing more than personal gossip, is that she was once a man she was involved with the monarchist movement supporting Luís of Orleans-Braganza. Something happened that she quit from it and started supporting the Petrópolis branch. I know that it was something related to her sex change surgery and as Luís of Orleans-braganza and his brother Bertrand are devoted chatolics didn´t accept it well at all. I know you must be thinking I´m insane, but you can check an interview with her in here (you´re going to need to use some kind of translator): http://www.diarioweb.com.br/noticias/imp.asp?id=13425

But, about the brazilian Imperial Family, I must confess that I did not see so far any book that considers Dom Pedro Gastão the true heir. The brazilian historian Heitor Lyra who wrote the best portuguese biography of Dom Pedro II (so said another historian, José Murilo de Carvalho on his Pedro II´s biography) wrote in the last of the three books about the second emperor about Dom Pedro de Alcânantara´s renounce. The british (or is it american?) Roderick J. Barman wrote in his biography of Princess Isabel the same about dom Pedro´s renounce. Barsa Enciclopedia also mentions the renounce. All three considers Luís, second son of Isabel, her heir. I believe you should look for impartial views and not in monarchists sites.

If you like to, I could put in here the actual text and pages of the books that I wrote above so that you could look them by yourself. --Lecen (talk) 15:27, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

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(240) - Por causa de um defeito físico no braço direito (o que aliás não o impossibilitaria de reinar, como se viu com o Imperador Guilherme II da Alemanha, que tinha o mesmo defeito), pensou-se, num dado momento, afastá-lo da sucessão do trono. Dom Pedro, como se sabe, abriria mão mais tarde, depois de seu casamento com uma senhora que não pertencia a nenhuma casa reinante, dos seus direitos em favor de seu irmão Dom Luís.

In english: (240) - Because of a physical defect in the right arm (by the way it would not disable him to reign, as seen with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, that had the same defect), was thought, at that time, to move away him from the succession of the throne. Don Peter, would drop later, as it is known, after his marriage with one lady who did not belong to a reigning house, of his rights in favour of his brother Don Luis.

Page 207

Book: História de Dom Pedro II: Declínio (1880-1891)

Author: Heitor Lyra

Year: 1977

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BRAGANÇA (dinastia)

[...]

Seu filho, Pedro II, reinou até 1889. D. Isabel, sua filha, herdeira do trono, e mulher de Gastão d´Orléans, conde d´Eu, transmitiu seus direitos ao filho primogênito, D. Pedro, que renunciou à sucessão. D. Luís d´Orléans e Bragança, seu irmão, tornou-se príncipe imperial e, depois dele, seu filho, D. Pedro Henrique.

In english: BRAGANZA (dynasty)

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His son, Peter II, reigned up to 1889. D. Isabel, his daughter, heiress to the throne, and wife of Gaston d´Orléans, count of Eu, transmitted her rights to her elder son, D. Peter, who resigned the succession. D. Louis d´Orléans and Braganza, his brother, became prince imperial and the after him, his son, Peter Henry.

Page 210

Book: BARSA Enciclopedia volume 4 (Batráquio - Camarão, Filipe) - in colaboration with Enciclopaedia Britannica

Author: several

Year: 1992

--Lecen (talk) 15:53, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bureaucrats

Hi! As a bureaucrat on Wikipedia, I'd very much appreciate it if you would fill in your details on the newly updated Bureaucrats page. Thanks! Majorly ^talk 14:29, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks for the note. Cheers, Redux (talk) 17:37, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

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 Done The file has been reinserted in the respective article. Redux (talk) 19:01, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Me again ;)

Hi! Thank you on managing my account on en.wiki. I would be glad if you contact the local Bureaucrats at the pt.wiki project and do that instead of me. Thank you very much! Cheers, Conquistador (talk) 00:50, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Data Crystal

Me and my mate were wondering if there is any way of taking over (becoming a bureaucrat) on this wiki: Data crystal , we are asking you because it has been inactive for a long time, and we were hoping to try and take over to help fix it up. I have tried asking people on this wiki but no one is ever on besides me, the only other contributions are random IP addresses that spam the articles (even more then they already are). If you could please reply on my talk page it would be highly appreciated, thanks (This message has been sent to most bureaucrat's). --MỸŠŦЄЯỸЊӘҒҒ (talk) 13:53, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

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Split

Hey, man. Would you please take a look at this and this? —Lesfer ^(t/c/@) 14:20, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Just out of curiosity...

Why did you not promote User:S@bre locally? — Aitias // discussion 19:56, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Just in case you do not know, the workaround does work on the local interface as well — there's no need to use the steward interface. — Aitias // discussion 19:58, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, if you use Special:UserRights you have to provide the username (resp. # + User ID in this case) as well. Then there appears a link to the user page of the user whose rights you are changing. That seems pretty safe as well. Would you mind explaining why it can not be handled this way? Thank you. :) — Aitias // discussion 20:36, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Sock based favour

A user appeared on my scope (Orion777) who I think might be a sock operated by HenryWinklestein. He has edited in the same tone, displayed signs of being an experienced wikipedian (Use of . to remove red link username) and now moved on to blank HW's talk and user pages (To wipe any sock accusations). I was wondering if you would consent to just checking this over and giving it a prod to see if it goes quack? It seems to be developing into, if not a sock farm, a sock market garden. Thank you in advance. --Narson ~ Talk • 20:41, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Single-purpose account

This user Wikireader41 seems to be a single purpose account pl check.User:Yousaf465 (talk)

Email

I sent you a Wikipedia email a few days ago but have not seen a reply. Could you check your email next Time you're on please? Many thanks,  Roger Davies ^talk 19:05, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

This note is to advise you that the Arbitration Committee have resolved by motion (13/15 arbitrators supporting) to remove access to CheckUser and Oversight on grounds of inactivity from editors who have not used the tools in the past twelve months. Access may be applied for afresh via CheckUser and Oversight elections.  Roger Davies ^talk 12:03, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

bruno quote Gutta cavat etc

source please! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.16.96.50 (talk) 10:16, 7 May 2009 (UTC)