User talk:Coren/Archives/2012/February

CorenSearchBot needs another resurrection

D: Do you want me to set up something on the Toolserver to ping you if he hasn't edited for twelve hours or something? Cheers, — madman 01:48, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

User:CorenSearchBot/manual working?

• User:CorenSearchBot/manual working? Tks! Ling.Nut3 (talk) 07:18, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

  Please see above; CorenSearchBot hasn't been running since 31 January 2011. Hopefully it will be back soon. — madman 19:52, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Bruno Benetton Free Band

Hi there, my article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy. I have added serious links released by the Slovak News Agency, its the national news agency.

can you check it?

is it right now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Benetton_Free_Band — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mustiphi (talk • contribs) 21:31, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

thank you very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mustiphi (talk • contribs) 21:29, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Telling students about Google Summer of Code

Coren, do you by chance instruct college students? If so, could you help me get out the word about the Google Summer of Code program and about MediaWiki's participation? Thanks. Sumanah (talk) 02:40, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Betacommand 3

See Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Betacommand 3/Proposed decision#2.1 vs 6. --John Vandenberg ^(chat) 23:47, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

I guess JV beat me here, but here's another request anyway. Your opinion on remedy 6 is the difference between failure and passing. Buffs (talk) 22:13, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

cv bot down?

Since 30.01 no new changes at /manual and there are some requests waiting... mabdul 01:42, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Coren,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 02:41, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

RainbowDash / Futtershy and an unsuccessful ArbCom candidate

[1], [2] – Out of curiosity, are you the unsuccessful ArbCom candidate mentioned in these diff's? --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 16:28, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

An Indian stamp

I suspect that the file File:Stthomas cross.jpg, is copyrighted. It is a postal stamp issued by the Government of India.Neduvelilmathew (talk) 06:08, 17 February 2012 (UTC) Neduvelilmathew (talk) 15:31, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

my version of your userpage.

I liked your idea of a user page. so i copied it! Abc123456person (talk) 20:27, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Titleblacklist

Hello Coren, back in '09 you added two lines to the title blacklist pertaining to Betty Patrick, diff #1 and diff #2. Normal blacklisting already blocks account creations, so the second line with <newaccountsonly> either is 100% redundant or actually overwrites the one before. I would suggest that this second line be removed. Regards, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 06:11, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

The Devil's Labyrinth

Hello. Your bot left a message on The Devil's Labyrinth saying I copied copyrighted material from www.johnsaul.com. However, I wrote what was posted on the flap of the hardcover book that I have. I didn't copy it from johnsaul.com, it may seem that way though. Just wanted to make that clear :) Thank you. Creativity97 03:12, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Creativity97, if it was on the flap of the book, it's absolutely copyrighted and you need to remove it from the article, please. You'd need permission from the publisher to publish it on Wikipedia, as material on Wikipedia must be free. Thanks, — madman 06:24, 29 February 2012 (UTC)