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Help with religion merge?

Someone over at the Religion wikiproject is looking for admin help: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion#Proposed merger of Ancestor Worship and Veneration of the dead --Alynna (talk) 11:20, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I'll take a look and help them out. Mairi (talk) 12:56, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for merging! I really appreciate your help. (Now all I have to do is put my money where my mouth is and try put the page in order.)VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 14:34, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Help me with new template

Hi I want your help to add a new template which may look better than now for Northern Province, Sri Lanka without changing any material in it. especially motto is not visible and it look old when comparing with other countries regional templates. Will you please help me by adding new template for it. Thank you --BlueLankan 15:44, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Template for Sri Lankan provinces

Thank you so much for your new template. --BlueLankan 21:16, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Category:Bondage

Hello! I see you've created Category:Bondage. I was wondering, since it is a subcategory of Category:BDSM, shouldn't all articles in Category:Bondage that only deal with bondage be removed from the supercategory Category:BDSM? JIP | Talk 15:01, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, they should (with the possible exception of the article bondage). I hadn't gotten around to moving most of them.-Mairi (talk) 15:23, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

ROC-politician-stub and ROC-university-stub

May I know where had the articles categorised with this tagged gone? China-stub or Taiwan-stub? Montemonte (talk) 21:18, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Help me with Template of Sri Lankan Province

Hi Hw r u ?. I need your help to clean up template for Northern Province, Sri Lanka which may look better than now. especially demonym and legislature are not in the template. can you please hel pme out in it?? Thank you. --BlueLankan 15:50, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Mary of Bethany

Care to take a look at this? It looks like someone's stripped a bunch of the formatting and added large blocks of unformatted text. --Alynna (talk) 00:39, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Spadone?

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External Fertilisation

What animals fertilise externally? How do they fertilise externally? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.28.180.118 (talk) 11:43, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't know why you're asking me this, as I don't know much about the topic, but external fertilization explains how it happens. Many species of fish do so, including salmon. -Mairi (talk) 14:59, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

SfD

Hi, Mairi. I'm all done orphaning {{PL-stub}} and I've moved it to the "to delete" section of SfD. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 23:27, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Mairi! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 938 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

1. José Reyes Baeza Terrazas - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
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Subpages for protected templates

Hello, as the admin who closed some of the decisions on Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2009/June/6 I am hoping to avoid a trip to WP:DRV and to ask you to reconsider your closures of those discussions. I apologise in advance for restoring Template:PRChina-stub/doc: I didn't realise that this was also under discussion as your deletion summary simply said "orphaned" rather than linking to the SfD discussion.

Regarding the group nomination for {{Judaism-stub/doc}}, {{Islam-stub/doc}}, {{Gospel-music-stub/doc}}, {{Christianity-stub/doc}}, {{Geology-stub/doc}} and {{Soft-drink-stub/doc}}, it seems that there wasn't really consensus to delete these. Furthermore some of the arguments of those arguing to delete does not seem particularly strong, appealing to "past precedent". The main concern that was raised is that separate documentation for stub templates would duplicate and possibly contradict the instructions at WP:STUB. The use of centralised documentation Template:Stub documentation allays those fears, I believe. The intention is not to use these pages for documentation; it is only to store categories and interwiki links so that editors can maintain these without the intervention of an administrator. This is standard practice when templates are protected.

Look forward to hearing your views. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:10, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Precedent on how stubs are done, in absence of any reason why individual cases are unique, is often used as reasoning on WP:SFD. In addition, the use of /doc pages for interwiki links (and categories, although {{asbox}} does that for stub templates) wasn't the main focuse of the discussion, instead the use as general documentation was. And that use most people found unnecessary. It's impossible to know what consensus would have been if interwiki links were the (sole) intended purpose of the /doc templates (and, since only some of the templates are protected, it's possible it would vary depending on the template).

As far as {{PRChina-stub/doc}}, I don't recall why I put that for the deletion summary, instead of linking to WP:SFD. My mistake there.

Has there been any more recent discussion at WP:WSS (or elsewhere) regarding /doc for stub templates? To me, it would seem to be better to discuss and reach consensus on the general issue of /doc templates, rather than the deletion of these 6 specifically. --Mairi (talk) 16:12, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I haven't had any conversation with WSS about this pages recently. This is mainly because, as I mentioned above, it is standard practice across the template namespace to put categories and interwiki links into an unprotected /doc page. This is not an issue confined to stub-sorting, but an issue with templates in general. Perhaps I didn't make myself clear in those deletion discussions. There were a few similar debates around that time, and I was getting bored repeating my reasoning each time, so I started to link to my previous post rather than type it again! I was never advocating having separate documentation on these pages, and I don't think many other people were. Now that you understand the intention of these /doc pages, would you be happy if I recreated them for the sole purpose of category and interwiki links? I am planning to do this for all protected stub templates, not just these six. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:52, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Part of the problem with those debates seems to have been too many different conceptions of /docs, and possibly people misunderstanding each other. While you weren't advocating separate documentation on those, some others appeared to be ("a customized notice about where to use the stub as it relates to the subject is perfectly valid reason for the inclusion of a documents page"). So people reacted to that, and not the simpler idea of just a page for interwiki and category links.

Personally, I have no objection to /doc pages for protected stub templates; they make sense. Do note, however, that not all of those are protected -- {{soft-drink-stub}} and {{Gospel-music-stub}} aren't. So I have no objection to those 4 being recreated, along with new ones for other protected stub templates. That isn't to say, however, that other people won't have problems with them and they might end up on SFD again. Hopefully that won't happen, but it might if there isn't some discussion/consensus somewhere else first. -Mairi (talk) 17:39, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of emoticons

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File source and copyright licensing problem with File:US Anthony dollar coin reverse.jpg

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MSU Interview

Dear Mairi,

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 communityHERE, where 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 nameHERE 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) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 04:00, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Eastern Catholicism stubs

Hi Mairi. I am working on stub sorting and I have placed a proposal related to Eastern Catholicism. Would you be so kind and write your opinion on it here? Thank you! Regards, --Fadesga (talk) 14:27, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

File:US Anthony dollar coin reverse.jpg missing description details

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Merge discussion for Pangender

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Category:Swinging

Category:Swinging, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 17:15, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I am proposing that this category be renamed to Category:Swinging (sexual practice) to avoid confusion with commons:category:Swinging. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 17:21, 23 January 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)

What can be done about the troll with multiple vandalism only accounts?

Hi! Sorry to bug you but I see that you're an administrator and thus by definition more experienced in Wikipedia editing than me. I have a question regarding the troll who keeps vandalizing Surtr‎, Sinmara‎, Jötunn and probably other articles I'm not following, generally adding defamatory words such as 'devil'. Is there any way that administrators can freeze their IP and their ability to make one after another vandalism-only sock puppet? Thanks Trilobitealive (talk) 00:21, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

It is possibly to block IP addresses for vandalism. However, since IP addresses change, blocks are generally for a short period of time so as not to block other, non-vandal users. And, if their IP addresses changes (and they seem to have one that does), it's even harder for a block to step them effectively without catching other users.

General policy is to warn first, and then block. I put a warning on the most recent IP (User talk:2601:9:700:62B:450F:F1D9:E364:1D13). If they continue, you should give them another warning (in addition to the reverting). If it continues, or you get to warning level 4, post on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, and an administrator can block if appropriate. Mairi (talk) 14:54, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, that is a start. I started out conscientiously warning them but gave up because their mode of operating appears to make an edit or two from one address then switch to another. It got to feeling pointless as they went from one account to another. It occurred to me that they might be one of the perverted subtype of troll who somehow feeds on our collective politeness, our collective attempt to avoid biting and to avoid insults. Another thing which occurred to me that this isn't a troll but some sort of perverted religious believer who truly believes they are on some sort of jihad against the infidel heathens. So in the end I started reverting them with minimal effort, although I will admit to breaking the spirit of not insulting on my last two edits, which is when I sought your guidance. If you review the history of these articles you'll see that there are other several other editors involved in this Whac-a-mole reversion but the mole keeps coming back.Trilobitealive (talk) 00:48, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

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Please help

Please withdraw your nomination for speedy deletion. I am in the process of moving Jane Foster to Jane Foster Zlatovski. There is a slight delay because the move has to be done by an administrator. I tried making the move myself but was informed that the move had to be done by an administrator. If there is another article with this name then of course they have to be merged unless they are two different people. I have already created a disambiguation page for Jane Foster but did not realize that this process could become so convoluted. You may have wanted to check my editing history. If you had, you probably would have noticed that this is not exactly not my first article. New page patrollers need appreciation and so let me express that appreciation for your efforts. The Very Best of Regards,

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Invite to join Stub Improvement WikiProject

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Mairi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

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If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

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Category:Archbishops of Westminster has been nominated for renaming

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Wow, I sure created a bunch of these 15 (!?!) years ago. No opinion on what happens to them now, beyond consistency with the other categories. Mairi (talk) 17:15, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

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