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DYK for Anthony Hewitt (baseball)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:39, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

@Casliber: - There was a problem with the phrasing of the hook, so it never appeared. What should I do about this (see WT:DYK#Pulled hook (ii)) Go Phightins! 01:48, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
I would have thought just reversing the promotion template at Template:Did you know nominations/Anthony Hewitt (baseball) and re-reviewing....should be straightforward...?Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:08, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
BlueMoonset just posted a link on how to return a pulled hook to the nomination area, so I've done it. You can find it at the bottom of this section: Template_talk:Did_you_know#Articles_created.2Fexpanded_on_June_13 Belle (talk) 07:29, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Help. I need an admin!

I got a message today from someone enquiring as to why NOS Marine Forensics Program still had a speedy deletion template on it from April. I of course had no answer, lacking the magic buttons you now have. So, I will punt this to you. The article apparently went thru an AfD at about the same time, but there is an unambigous copyvio, plus it was created by a now infinity blocked editor, Sint Maarten. I had no answer for the dude, and I am hoping you can either resolve this (I'd be curious to know how it happened), or provide some explanation to us. Thanks GP. John from Idegon (talk) 03:12, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Hey John, hope all is well. I am headed to bed now, so I don't really have time right now to dig in on this, but it appears that the alleged copyright violation is actually of material in the public domain, so I guess that nullifies the copyvio concern. I don't know why the template is still there ... the AfD was closed as no consensus. Hmm. I'm confused too. DGG removed the CSD template in April, and it was added back today by a new editor, one Ventus Castellum. I will investigate this further tomorrow, or perhaps a stalker can help you tonight. Thanks for bringing this up, John, and have a nice evening (you still have a few hours out west  ) Go Phightins! 03:33, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
Nm..I got played. Ventus Castellum is yet another sock of Sint Maarten. I should have looked further before bugging you. Didn't look all that close at the history. John from Idegon (talk) 15:23, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Availability note, and request ...

Fellow Wikipedians,

Beginning Sunday (June 22), I will be going away for two weeks (a week mission trip, and then another week of real life fun  ), during which time I will have very little if any internet access. First, fellow admins, you are welcome to revert anything or "pick up any ball" while I am gone. Also, if on June 30 after the Phillies play, or July 1 before they play, could someone save an archive of the Phillies stats' page on Baseball Reference (this page) so I can use it when I get back to keep working on 2014 Philadelphia Phillies season (I am using end-of-month stats). Thanks, and I look forward to my return. Happy editing!

Go Phightins! 17:50, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Mission and fun....it don't get better than that. That is unless you can figure out a way to minister to professional baseball players so you could go to games as your mission.  :) John from Idegon (talk) 18:30, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Go Phightins!. Thank you for your carefully explained close at Talk:The Bible and homosexuality#RFC: Which translation of the Bible to use? in response to an WP:ANRFC request here. I hope you continue to help resolve ANRFC disputes if you have the time and inclination. Closers who are willing to provide detailed rationales of their decisions are sorely needed. Thank you again! Cunard (talk) 05:03, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

No problem Cunard. Happy to help. Go Phightins! 11:26, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

The IP reverting the Halladay material

Quickly pursuing the relevant material related to the "banned user", this IP seems to have been instrumental in getting him banned and has some sort of personal vendetta against him for some reason. Doesnt seem to want to give up or discuss his/her actions. Spanneraol (talk) 19:23, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Preposterous. Thanks for your help. Go Phightins! 19:32, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

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ElNiñoMonstruo

Hi I need help with this user. I know I do not and I'm tired of it. In my talk page only has charge of daily bother, I decided to archive my talk page if kept bothering me and it was useless to do that. Leaves a Mensagem to leave me alone; and all I did was make fun of my. In my talk page has generated only edit wars with me.I know my English is not very good, but I know I do.

Here I leave the message in Spanish, if needed

Hola necesito ayuda con éste usuario. Ya no sé que hacer y estoy cansado de él. En mi página de discusión solo se ha encargado de molestarme a diario, decidí archivar mi discusión para ver si así dejaba de molestarme y fue inútil hacer eso. Le deje un mensjae para que me deje en paz; y lo único que hizo fue burlarse de mi. En mi página de discusión solo ha generado guerras de ediciones conmigo. Sé que mi inglés no es muy bueno, pero ya no sé que hacer.--Jorge Horan (talk) 00:53, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

From what I see, this user does not have problems only with me, see here. Where it looks like he is falling in edit wars with the user Hotwiki. --Jorge Horan (talk) 01:09, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello! Sorry for the disturb but I can't take Jorge Horan's behavior anymore, he keeps on undoing my edits especially at Reina de Corazones (2014 telenovela) because he thinks that all my edits is always incorrect, I just added a short story plot and removed an unnecessary photo but he just keeps on reverting my edits. He is the one who is obsessed with reverting edit-warring and not me. -ElNiñoMonstruo (talk) 01:46, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
I restored the comments. Not sure if ElNiñoMonstruo was trying to delete that previous edit or it was one of the strange conflicts that happen, but all is restored, regardless. I will leave the actual dispute to GP. Dennis Brown |  | WER 01:53, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Jake Diekman

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Greetings

Usually, I don't go on IRC channels these days, but let me know when you will be online(UTC) and the name of channel. Thanks OccultZone (TalkContributionsLog) 07:47, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Carlos Ruiz (baseball)

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:43, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jake Diekman

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WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's   Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C,   Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with   Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to   12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from   Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from   Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of   Sven Manguard (submissions).

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June 2014

I believe that there is confusion with Nick Jr. and Nick Jr. (block). I think Nick Jr. should be just about Noggin and the 24/7 channel Nick Jr. should be put with the block. Logan Holmes (talk · contribs) 19:41, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Huh? I am not sure I have any involvement with this, or fully understand what the issue is ... Go Phightins! 17:54, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Maitre d Calendar

I noticed that the Tea House calendar is still mostly for 2013 and doesn't even come up to the current month in 2014. Do you know why that is? Did someone just forget to change the year, or have the calendars for the months left in 2014 not been added yet? I didn't want to be bold since I wasn't clear on the situation. Zell Faze (talk) 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

As near as I can tell, the position of maitre d' is inactive. You may want to ask at the Teahouse talk page. Go Phightins! 17:54, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Triple Crown

 
Congrats to Go Phightins! as we award this Standard Triple Crown for great work on improving content on Wikipedia. Well done. → Call me Hahc21 20:38, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Also, congrats on becoming an admin :) → Call me Hahc21 20:38, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Go Phightins! 17:54, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Your adminship!

Congratulations! This totally slipped past me! :) ·addshore· talk to me! 16:05, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! It's an interesting new set of buttons :-) Go Phightins! 17:54, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Anthony Hewitt (baseball)

  Hello! Your submission of Anthony Hewitt (baseball) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:09, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Anthony Hewitt (baseball)

Gatoclass (talk) 04:32, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Please help me grade someone's test

By the way, congratulations on your adminship! I have made the choice to accept an adoptee but I realize I am not as qualified as I thought. I definitely started to use your adoption course lessons but it is hard for me to grade tests and answer questions because I did not create them. Some of their answers are humorous but also outright incorrect. They seem so eager to want to learn how Wikipedia works. Can you please help me? Here is a link: User:JHUbal27/Adopt/LesVegas. Thank you!

Grades I would have given:

  • Q1- 3/5 (completely missed the part about verifiability)
  • Q2- 3.5/5 (missed neutral point of view policy)
  • Q3- 5/5 (correct about synthesizing sources)
  • Q4- 3/5 (missed the part about Sarah Palin)
  • Q5- 4.5/5 (what about a new ice cream flavor)
  • Q6- 1/5 (completely off-topic)
  • Q7- 1/5 (wrong and immature)
  • Q8- 2/5 (correct, but an immature answer)

Total: 23/40 (57.5%)

~~JHUbal27 09:03, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Hey JHUbal27. Adopting is harder than it looks :-) By the looks of it, the user didn't take the test very seriously. I might ask him or her to go back one more time and make sure the answers demonstrate what they learned about the policy, rather than simply humorous remarks. Go Phightins! 12:26, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

A Late Congrats

I've been on hiatus for weeks and noticed you had a successful RFA over that period. Congratulation and good luck. I say that because a few months ago I did write to you about my intentions of nomination you personally and you declined wanting to wait a couple more months. Looks like it was worth to wait. NintendoFan (Talk, Contribs) 09:19, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks - yup, just needed a few months to square things away. Go Phightins! 12:26, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

July 08

Had left a message on your talk page, [1] Got archived and you were inactive. If you are back, can you get on IRC today? Thanks let me know the channel too. OccultZone (TalkContributionsLog) 02:36, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Hey OccultZone. I promise I have not been ignoring this message. Would you be free tomorrow (July 10) any time after 4 PM EDT? Go Phightins! 03:21, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Just message here whenever you are online. Thanks OccultZone (TalkContributionsLog) 03:33, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
All right. Thanks for your patience. Go Phightins! 03:35, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Which channel? OccultZone (TalkContributionsLog) 12:27, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

@OccultZone: #wiki-baseball now ? Go Phightins! 01:09, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

I am there. OccultZone (TalkContributionsLog) 01:54, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Mike Miller (basketball player)

Mr. Phightins, Mike Miller sure could use 40 hours of semi-p while he and the Cavaliers negotiate a contract. Can you help? As usual, I'm three and out, and the article needs to be reverted to "free agent" status. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 02:41, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

  Done Go Phightins! 03:01, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

No worries :)

No worries about my toes at that AN3 report - protect or not as you see fit. I would argue against blocking unless things continue/escalate, but I think we are on the same page there. - 2/0 (cont.) 17:27, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Chrome is at FAC

Nominated Chrome for FAC today, FYI: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/California Chrome/archive1. Montanabw(talk) 22:45, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Great! I will try to review either over the weekend or next week. Go Phightins! 23:27, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the start, it primed the pump nicely. Another reviewer suggested I try to chop some stuff and I did; would value more eyes on the body of the text, particularly the racing details. Montanabw(talk) 05:17, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
No problem. I will try to look at it again by the end of the week, but if I don't get to it, I am leaving for vacation for two weeks on Friday during which I will not have internet access (a blessing and a curse). If the FAC is still up when I get back, I can definitely look at it then; if not, hopefully it'll already be a FA :-) Go Phightins! 12:11, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

LeBron protection

If the time comes during this week that he officially chooses his number should I send you a message? I would guess someone will try and get a hold of you the moment this news comes out...but if not. cliffsteinman -- Discuss 18:38, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Absolutely. Thanks, Cliffsteinman. Go Phightins! 18:44, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Let's talk Eddy

Thanks for the nom. I'm happy with the backlog but never enough. Did you notice the "first Dual" just above yours? I thought to award them the same week, as co-Awardees. Your thoughts? My 9former) assistant for two weeks, Jim C, is on a two-year hiatus (?) so I hope you can do the honors this Sunday. I will be in the middle of a cornfield in Central Illinois...no PC. If you would like I can dispense future awards. Just not this weekend. Let me know. TRA! ```Buster Seven Talk 19:57, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

I can definitely do this week. I will then be away for two more weeks, and then can resume my role as "awarder" for the foreseeable future (except for those whom I nominate). As for the double award, I don't know. I haven't read it carefully enough. We can probably discuss that more later. Yeah, I don't know what's up with Jim. He was an interesting fellow. Thanks for dropping by! Go Phightins! 19:59, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
RE Above: I will do this week and next. :~) Enjoy your time off.```Buster Seven Talk 18:29, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! And Bob's second came on cue :-) Go Phightins! 21:15, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Media Viewer RfC case opened

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The Signpost: 16 July 2014

July edition of The Inside Corner

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Farewell...

Because of this, I am likely going to be indeffed. It's been nice knowing you, Go Phightins!... NintendoFan (Talk, Contribs) 19:37, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Mentioned at AE

Your name was mentioned by the submitter of WP:AE#Ezzex. This was a request for ARBPIA sanctions (for POV-pushing) against an editor who you warned on 17 July in this ANI thread. Referring to the topic of the I/P conflict, you stated "I am going to strongly urge you to make sure that all of your edits on that topic are dedicated to the improvement of the article rather than promulgating or refuting an ideology." The submitter of the AE seems to be complaining that your advice has not been taken. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 02:23, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

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The Inside Corner : July 27, 2014

What's in the latest edition of WikiProject Baseball's newsletter:

Your GA nomination of 2014 GoDaddy Bowl

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 2014 GoDaddy Bowl you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CRwikiCA -- CRwikiCA (talk) 23:01, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

I'm back

I am back and though busy, will at least be on occasionally over the next few weeks. It appears it was an eventful two weeks while I was away ... if someone would like to neutrally and succinctly recap the drama, I would appreciate it. Hope all is well. Go Phightins! 17:12, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

  • This weeks Eddy? ```Buster Seven Talk 15:33, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
    •   Done Thanks for the reminder and for picking it up the last few weeks. Go Phightins! 16:05, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2014 GoDaddy Bowl

The article 2014 GoDaddy Bowl you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold  . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:2014 GoDaddy Bowl for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CRwikiCA -- CRwikiCA (talk) 23:41, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

CRwikiCA - thanks for taking up the GAN. I am going to be extremely busy over the next week or two in real life. If you wouldn't mind keeping it on hold for a little while longer, I will be more than happy to address your concerns. Thanks! Go Phightins! 17:12, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
No problem, let me know when you're done. CRwikiCA talk 22:10, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Media Viewer RfC draft principles & findings

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Panhead2014's insistance in edit warring and accusing other people.

Hi there, man! How are you?

Just to give you a little background over Panhead's claims, I'll post some links below:

1)WP:FOOTY discussion over his edits in Sergio Busquets and Míchel Salgado, where he claims that I (and some other users) have a personal problem with him (which is definitely not true);

2)The block logs related to the user;

3)His constantly claims that Gringoladomenega is acting wrong and is having a nuisance behavior. In this same discussion it was explained why he was blocked and why his requests to unblocking were denied by five admins.

Thanks, MYS77 02:48, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Note: both users were warned about this discussion. MYS77 02:49, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Also, Panhead clearly violates WP:OWNERSHIP, WP:CIVIL, WP:BRD, WP:3RR. And in WP:FOOTY discussion, is also pretty clear that he doesn't want to reach a consensus, but wants to impose his edits ahead of others. Cheers, MYS77
And now resumed war editions of the same items before being locked twice. 5 August 2014 (UTC) Gringoladomenega talk