User talk:Chuck SMITH

(This has been moved from Talk:ChuckSmith)

AfD nomination of Friendship book[edit]

Friendship book, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Friendship book satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Friendship book and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Friendship book during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Eliz81 ^(talk)^(contribs) 18:07, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome[edit]

Welcome, Chuck! Especially looking forward to your contributions on pages related to Christianity. <>< tbc

(This has been moved from Talk:Chuck Smith)

Hi Chuck! Just wanted to thank you for inspiring me to read through Ignatius and Polycarp's letters so I could try to answer your question at Resurrection of Jesus Christ/Talkarchive. Hope that helps. --Wesley

Hey Chuck, your reverting of Greyhound racing convinces me that there is some type of bug in the wiki software. Somebody already reverted the page from the "3333333333" stub. Check out the original stub again, and then try to view another revision. Do this a couple of times and you will see "33333333" displayed as the "current" version (even though the text is fine in edit mode). I am having the same problem with the Beryllium article -- I will make some changes, preview them, make sure they render OK, then save. But then what I see displayed is a previous revision of the page -- even though the code for the page looks fine in edit mode. This same thing happens even when I totally disable caching on several different browsers on both my wintel and lintel boxen. --User:maveric149

Hey Chuck, on your page you have this:

"I don't think I'm very good at writing content unless I'm really passionate about something (which I'm told I'm not supposed to do on here)."

I beg to differ. I'm very passionate about film, especially Ingmar Bergman, Joel & Ethan Coen, & Francois Truffaut films, but I just try to keep my opinion or any unverifiable info out of my writing (I don't always succeed, and people invariably come and mop up, as should be done). It's just a different kind of writing than most people are used to; have you kept at it? (I will note that I've started avoiding anything explicitly political--those discussions quickly become more than they're worth, IMHO). just curious, Koyaanis Qatsi, Sunday, March 31, 2002

Well, I've probably written half of the articles about Esperanto (meaning half of each article, not half of the number of articles) :-) so I do keep writing about stuff I'm passionate about, although I do occasionally get beat on for editing pages too boldly! (which is good) I have to admit though that most of my energy lately has been going into the Esperanto wikipedia and then I write about whatever I feel like. :-) It's quite interesting seeing a wikipedia through its early stages of development again... --Chuck Smith

Which reminds me: Hey Chuck, are you going to the ELNA Kongreso in Sacramento in June? We should have a Vikipedio presentation or something... Brion VIBBER

No, but I nominate you to speak about the Vikipedio at the ELNA Kongreso. :o) I am however planning to go to the Internacia Junulara Kongreso and the Universala Kongreso in Brazil this year (and I hope to speak about the Vikipedio at the UK). Afterwards I plan to travel Europe for a year using Esperanto as my main language (like Amanda Higley)... I'm gonna save a fortune since I won't to pay for lodging because of the Pasporta Servo. :) --Chuck Smith

Ooh, sounds like fun! That unruly thing called airfare is keeping me close to home for the forseeable future, alas. I'll try to come up with something for the EK, hopefully based around the brochure-to-be. I may want to bring some pamphlets in English as well for people to give to friends, relatives, strangers on the street. All Wikipedia is good wikipedia, no? Brion VIBBER

Well, through the Esperanto travel services you can get roundtrip airfare to Brazil and back for less than $800. It's quite amazing really. I'm also subscribing to a travel service that does the same thing in English, but it cost me $100 for a lifetime membership. :-( Probably at the seminar you will want to show how easy the wikipedia is to edit as well as showing some of the other language wikipedias.

Now that I'm thinking about it, would a multilingual wiki about Esperanto work well? I mean would it be possible to have multiple languages in one wiki? We need more national language resources about Esperanto for people who don't yet speak the language. What do you think? --Chuck Smith

Hmm, that could be interesting. Might be nice to have something to supplement or take the place of the aging Multlingva Informcentro... Could link to the wikipedia articles too. :) Brion VIBBER

How would supporting, say, Russian, Japanese and Chinese on the same wiki work? --Chuck Smith

The magic of Unicode should help that immensely. I'll have to play with things a bit to make the interface language user-selectable, though. --Brion VIBBER

Important note for all sysops: There is a bug in the administrative move feature that truncates the moved history and changes the edit times. Please do not use this feature until this bug is fixed. More information can be found in the talk of Brion VIBBER and maveric149. Thank you. --maveric149

Howdy Chuck. Since you seem to have an interest in the mathematics articles, I wanted to call to your attention the WikiProject we're developing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics, which attempts to provide some standards and goals for math articles. Contributions requested and welcomed! Chas zzz brown 21:55 Dec 1, 2002 (UTC)

As requested, I've moved your watchlist to the new account name. --Brion 15:38 Dec 3, 2002 (UTC)

Chuck I've seen on your user page that you're recently trying to teach yourself Dutch and Slovene. What a two different languages you've picked. Since Slovene is my native, I am just informing you here if you need any assistance regarding Slovene, you're very wellcome. I can give you some if needed. I am trying to write in Slovene Wikipedia, but it is still in swathe, mainly because of its interface -- where there's a lot of work to be done. Get my best regards. Lep pozdrav in živjo... And finally thank you for correcting Crystal's words about Slovene. --XJamRastafire 00:38 Jan 10, 2003 (UTC)~

How have you decided that the X-System, esperanto.org, and Esperanto newsgroups are "irrelevant" to an article on Esperanto? Konfuzite via, Oliver P. 15:37 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)

The X-System belongs on the article about Esperanto grammar, where it is now. Esperanto.net is much superior to Esperanto.org, so it is not necessary here (plus it seems unprofessional). The Esperanto newsgroups are not useful to English speakers who can't speak Esperanto and just want information about Esperanto. If they speak Esperanto, they can find out about them in the Esperanto Wikipedia. --Chuck SMITH

Ah, you meant "unneeded", rather than "irrelevant". ("Irrelevant" would mean that they didn't relate to the subject of the article, which isn't the case here.) The writing system is orthography, not grammar. Tell you what, can I put a link in Esperanto to Esperanto orthography, and move x-system there? The x-system article spends half its time talking about Unicode and the h-system anyway! As for the newsgroups, alt.esperanto.beginner and alt.esperanto.komencanto are specifically for beginners, who would be scared off by the Esperanto Wikipedia. Heck, I'm scared of it, and I became an Esperantist more than eight years ago. :) Any objections to my putting those two back in? -- Oliver P. 16:41 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)

Great idea! You can go ahead and put the newsgroups back in, but perhaps they would go better under Esperanto culture... I don't know. In Wikipedia, we try to keep our external links down to a minimum, just to the really outstanding webpages. I even removed the link to esperanto.org from the English page of esperanto.net, because of its lack of professionalism. We used to have 12 external links from this Wikipedia article and I weeded it down to the 4 most essential and now I see more popping up... Also, don't be scared of the Esperanto Wikipedia, we don't bite. ;-) --Chuck SMITH

Chuck,

In response to your invitation to talk via Instant Messenger, I'm sorry but I don't know what that is. I've vaguely heard the name, but it's not something I'd know how to have access to.

As regards the specifics of your comment: Talk:Esperanto culture is probably the place for me to reply, which I'll do probably fairly soon.

Regards,

--Trainspotter 13:19 7 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi. Candidates for Brilliant Prose need to be nominated on Wikipedia:Brilliant prose candidates. RickK 02:27, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hey, I answered you on User:stardust's discussion page. --Chuck SMITH 02:35, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Have replied. Trainspotter 17:27, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Sonja Elen Kisa[edit]

Check out Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Sonja_Elen_Kisa if you want to participate.

RFC pages on VfD[edit]

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:28, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing[edit]

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Image:1963-BHHk.jpg[edit]

Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:1963-BHHk.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 02:25, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Nice coincidence[edit]

Hey Chuck, I know you! I met you in the train from Utrecht to Rotterdam about 1 1/2 years ago and we had a lengthy talk about Esperanto. Unfortunately I haven't become a real Esperantist (yet); recently I went to the IEA bookshop however and bought an Asterix comic in Esperanto. I see you're doing a lot here and of course at eo: - have become a wikimaniac myself recently, but not here. My English is too poor, you know. Caesarion 19:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

(You can remove this after having read it - it's no use for other people)

Science pearls[edit]

Hi,

I address you as the ambassador of your wikipedia. Please notice the above project.

This project, more than other projects, will benefit from inter-wiki cooperation. Can you post a message regarding this project at your wikipedia village pump?

Thanks for your help, APH from the English wiki

NYC wpans[edit]

Who else in NY might I want to contact? Did you ever make it to another of the meetups there? +sj +

Esperanto Wikipedia deletions[edit]

Hi Chuck,

someone has uploaded copyrighted material to the Esperanto Wikipedia. I was looking for a way to list it for deletion but there is no eo: section at the Multilingual speedy deletions page at Meta. Is there a deletion template for eo:? If so, it should be listed there. If not, I guess I should just list the file in question itself, right?. TerokNor 21:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Could you tell me what the article in question was? --Chuck SMITH 08:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

{{User Pennsylvania}}[edit]

I was clearing out Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Pennsylvania. I added this template to your page. Feel free to remove it, and thanks for understanding. --evrik 04:33, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Calgary Esperanto Centre[edit]

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Calgary Esperanto Centre, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Calgary Esperanto Centre. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Brianyoumans 07:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is not really a discussion under the proposed deletion process - you just tag the article for deletion, and after five days an admin will look at the article and either delete it or decide that it needs more discussion. I'm not sure what the usual procedure is for recreating an article deleted like this; there is a deletion review process, or you could just recreate it. Brianyoumans 20:43, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Esperanto Wikipedia: Policy re "krokodilado"?[edit]

Hi. What's the policy about "krokodilado" on Esperanto Wikipedia? (E.g. http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquistador ) -- Writtenonsand 17:15, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is no policy about krokodilado on the Esperanto Wikipedia. --Chuck SMITH 12:51, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Toki Pona[edit]

I removed your comments from Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona_(2nd_nomination), as it is generally desired to archive these debates as they are at the time of the closure of the deletion. If you want to 'appeal' the deletion decision, the place to do it is Wikipedia:Deletion_Review, although I believe they suggest you discuss your concerns with the closing admin first. - Aagtbdfoua 22:31, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show[edit]

You are listed as one of the earlier editors of this article that still maintains their membership. I invite you to visit the peer review for the current article here.--Amadscientist 09:01, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

JSPWiki a "core application in the Glassfish Application Server" - please explain[edit]

Hello,

In your revision of the JSPWiki article as of 05:28, 27 June 2006, you added the following sentence: "JSPWiki is included as a core application in the Glassfish Application Server." This sentence has persisted to this day. Could you explain what you meant by this sentence? I've installed Glassfish on my computer, and subsequently performed two system-wide searches for "jspwiki" and "JSPWiki", respectively, which have yielded no result. Itayb 10:02, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I recently wrote a message to the JSPWiki list asking for more details. You can follow the discussion at http://www.ecyrd.com/pipermail/jspwiki-users/2007-September/005004.html --Chuck SMITH 12:33, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Danko, Chuck. Will do. Itayb 14:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

File:1963-BHHk.jpg[edit]

Just to let you know that I recently copied the above image that you uploaded to Wikipedia over to WikiMedia Commons, the Wikimedia central media repository for all free media. The image had been tagged with the {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} template. Your image is now available to all Wikimedia projects at the following location: Commons:File:1963-BHHk.jpg. The original version of the image uploaded to Wikipedia has been tagged with WP:CSD#I8. Cheers! --Captain-tucker (talk) 02:07, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your user page[edit]

I found your old user page while checking out some old deleted contributions. I have history merged it, so that all edits are in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 15:56, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:Esperanto Wikipedia advert for Pasporta Servo.bmp listed for deletion[edit]

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Esperanto Wikipedia advert for Pasporta Servo.bmp, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Papa November (talk) 13:57, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your old user name and my further work on your user page[edit]

Hi Chuck, I've been exploring very old edits of Wikipedia and found a username you used in 2001, ChuckSmith (talk · contribs). I've just created an account with that name, and redirected the user and talk pages of that old account to your current user and talk pages. Since you abandoned the ChuckSmith account before the MediaWiki software was installed on Wikipedia, it was left wide open and malcontents might have been able to register it. It's now possible to import edits from the Nostalgia Wikipedia, so I've imported all the edits that were made by the ChuckSmith account to the current English Wikipedia database. Some of those edits involved your old user page, so that's why I was moving it around again. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 12:52, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mind Map[edit]

Hello Chuck! I am just curious where you first learnt about Mind Mapping and Mind Maps. I am beginning a long research project on this topic and noticed that you were one of the first contributors to the Mind Map article. Thanks. -- Contributions/Skychildandsonofthesun SKY _child 18:48, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Esperanto music for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Esperanto music is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Esperanto music (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:29, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

LibraryThing-o en Esperanto[edit]

Kara amiko! La tradukado de LibraryThing-o al Esperanto bone progresis. Dankegon al "Annix"! Vidu http://epo.librarything.com/zeitgeist/language/epo paĝon pri la ĝis nun plej ofte aldonitaj verkoj kaj aŭtoroj. Tamen necesas pligrandigi la bazon de la esperantlingvaj kunlaborantoj, de la esperantlingvaj libroemuloj. Bv. sekvi (provizorajn) klarigojn haveblajn ĉe http://epo.librarything.com/topic/134789 . Antaŭdankon! ‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏T‏·‏m‏:‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 20:50, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society[edit]

Dear Chuck,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.

Best regards, — Hex (❝?!❞) 11:18, 22 November 2012 (UTC).[reply]

Nomination of Toki Pona for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Toki Pona is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toki Pona (4th nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:45, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Friendship book[edit]

The article Friendship book has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No sources. Could be a total invention.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. GeorgeLouis (talk) 06:29, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your user page[edit]

Hi Chuck, I found your user talk page at User talk:ChuckSmith while doing some wikiarchaeology. . I have restored all of its earliest surviving revisions from old copies of the Wikipedia database, so they are available to everyone now. I have also history merged your current talk page with its older edits at Talk:Chuck Smith (pastor). Hope you don't mind. Graham87 06:48, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity[edit]

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Extended confirmed protection[edit]

Hello, Chuck SMITH. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
This message was sent to the administrators' mass message list. To opt-out of future messages, please remove yourself from the list. 17:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins[edit]

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A new user right for New Page Patrollers[edit]

Hi Chuck SMITH.

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.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

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)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open![edit]

Hello, Chuck SMITH. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open![edit]

Hello, Chuck SMITH. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

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A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
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Technical news

When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
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Arbitration

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13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity[edit]

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 01:30, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity[edit]

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next several days. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:08, 24 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity[edit]

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions have been removed pending your return. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:58, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Tony Buzan for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tony Buzan is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tony Buzan until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Guy (Help!) 19:10, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society[edit]

Dear Chuck SMITH,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.

Best regards, Urhixidur (talk) 16:39, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Friendship book for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Friendship book is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Friendship book (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 17:41, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you![edit]

Thanks for starting the article on Online community 17 years ago. A new concept then and more relevant now! Bluerasberry (talk) 19:11, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]