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This is a pretty sensitive topic so I prefer to discuss it over mail. Regards, --Eurodyne (talk) 00:34, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

• (talk page stalker) Just FYI, DQ has been pretty busy and/or otherwise preoccupied these days so if it is something time-sensitive you might want to also reach out to someone else who can help, either directly or via the CU or ArbCom e-mail contacts. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 00:45, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
• Sensitive is not the word I would use. You can mention one, without referring to the other. As I have said before (or at least that I thought I had said before), given your history, I'm not ok with handling your requests off-wiki, and will not be responding to the email. If you would like to discuss it here, that's fine. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 05:41, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

I believe that number of accounts and account status should be private. Anyways, I would like a clean start and you put a sanction on me saying I could not create any other accounts. I'm not clean starting to pass an RFA or anything but I have leaked some personal information before and would not like to be identified in the future. After this, I promise to limit myself to one account and stop using this one. Eurodyne (talk) 21:15, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

What's the point of deferring the close?

I'll take my desysopping as gracefully as I can, but it would be nice if someone on Arbcom would take notice of TRM having forced false information into an article after its veracity had been challenged. Maybe some time will allow someone to notice that no remedy is aimed at that, and that TRM has never admitted that the contents of his edits were in violation of policy even if all edit-warring concerns were set aside.—Kww(talk) 19:20, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

If I inserted false information then it was absolutely accidental; ten years of working hard on content appears to have been entirely overlooked. This is all about the poor judgement and poor vision of certain admins. It would also be nice if someone on Arbcom would take notice of Kww having forced BLP violations into articles as I noted in the talk pages of the case. Kww has never admitted that the contents of some of his edits were in violation of his own implementation of his interpretation of policy. But I think we're already clear that this will fall on deaf ears. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:54, 31 July 2015 (UTC) with apologies to you DeltaQuad, this kind of soapboxing/forum-shopping is an inappropriate use of your talk page.

• Thank you both for your comments, I'll try and formulate a response tomorrow. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 05:07, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

  It's not necessary for you to respond to my comment at all, of course that doesn't preclude a response to Kww. However, I see this as a sign of a polemic and problematic attitude that needs no further comment. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:23, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

I would like to discuss...

A possible removal of my sanction stating my one account rule. I'm willing to discuss it here. --Eurodyne (talk) 03:42, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Eurodyne. Right now my concern is that you haven't abided by the spirit of your unblock conditions, particularly the Admin shopping one. You've definitely got it down to the letter, but that is it. Since our issues a few months ago with that, you've been rather inactive. So I haven't seen the positive trend I'd like to see before removing the restriction of the new account. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 07:00, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

After a few months of good, active, contributions, are you willing to remove my active sanctions? eurodyne (talk) 03:38, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

UTRS

While it's tempting to go deny a bunch of unblocks out of pettiness, you probably would like to go disable my UTRS account instead of presenting me with that temptation.—Kww(talk) 00:25, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) DQ often being otherwise busy à lot of the time, I've proceeded with deactivating your UTRS account. Thank you for your diligence in notifying us, and thanks a lot for your dutiful service throughout the years. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:00, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Global locks

DeltaQuadBot reported an account for bad username, but the account had been globally locked about half an hour before the bot reported it. Could you tell the bot to check for locked accounts, so that it doesn't report them and so that it can remove them automatically if they get locked after they're reported? It's hardly a big deal, but it would just be a little more convenient and avoid making the bot look silly. Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 16:35, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Definitely something I can look into, I'd just have to see how the API works for global locks and I doubt it would be that would be hard at all to code or test. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 06:51, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Archival of talk page

Yo DQ! I know you're otherwise occupied, so I've taken some liberty to archive your talk page, especially since it was growing rather cluttered thanks to automated deliveries. I've only archived the automated stuff and whatever had already been responded to. Hope you don't mind too much, I know it's pretty... bold? But I'm trying to be helpful and support you however I can. In the same spirit, I've unsubscribed you from the two automatic deliveries for now, feel free to re-add your name if you wanted to keep receiving them, or if you wish to resume in the future. It was done here and here. I wish you well and hope you see you around again, in good spirits, whenever it becomes possible again. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 03:14, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you sir. I need to stay on Tech ambassadors for the sake of UTRS/DQB, but they don't have to stick in the archive. But ya, sadly keeping way too busy these days but always an email away. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 06:49, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

No problem, I've never been happier to be reverted. ;) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 13:47, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Sorry to bug you

...but the open ticket UTRS report that transcludes to Category:Requests for unblock hasn't updated in eons. Did you set that up? No biggie, but I thought I'd mention it. Cheers, --Jezebel's Ponyo 23:14, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

DeltaQuadBot (talk · contribs) hasn't updated User:DeltaQuad/UTRS Appeals since July 26th, but has continued its other tasks. I've looked through DQ & DQB's userspace and can't seem to find a "shutoff" that might have been inadvertently triggered. My next best guess would be an issue on Labs (I remember at some point in the past Labs had logged DBQ out for some reason?). I'll e-mail DQ about it, just in case! ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 00:24, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Sigh...bloody labs again. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 00:51, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

And stuck again. Could you please give it a nudge/prod/bludgeon when you have a spare moment? Thanks, --Jezebel's Ponyo 22:48, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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• Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function.

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• There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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• VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC.
• The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool.
• VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead.
• Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

• The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9.

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21:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

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• A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support.
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Problems

• There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed.
• The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed.

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
• The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters.
• The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page.

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Future changes

• The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours.
• Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places.

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list

Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Misplaced Pages it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Misplaced Pages to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and MusikAnimal 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

@Samwalton9 and MusikAnimal: As far as I understand, I am still waiting on moderation for my subscription. -- DQ mobile (ʞlɐʇ) 18:00, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

DeltaQuadBot

Hi! I noticed that when someone tags a report at WP:UAA/BOT with {{UAA|e}}, DeltaQuadBot removes the report but does not move it to the holding pen. Since the {{UAA|e}} tag indicates that the user's edits should be monitored, I think it would be best if these reports were placed in the holding pen. Maybe you could edit the bot so that it places reports with {{UAA|e}} in the holding pen, similarly to what it does with e.g. {{UAA|d}}? Belchior90 (talk) 19:10, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

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Recent changes

• You can now use the Wikidata query service.
• Belarusian-Taraškievica Misplaced Pages was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved.
• Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems.

Problems

• There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed.
• The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

• ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations.
• The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon.

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16:18, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 15 December

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As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are beginning the transition to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 22 December 2015) to retain their access. You are receiving this email because you have access to nonpublic information and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy.

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You've got mail!

Vanjagenije (talk) 08:41, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

@Vanjagenije: Never recieved. -- DQ mobile (ʞlɐʇ) 17:57, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Admin attention and suggestion Required

User:D4iNa4 is recently returned from an SPI block and started edit warring and removal of contents about Pakistan victory 1 and a Picture 2 from with a really blatent reasons, for which he was warned for Edit Warring by a user on his talk page 3,since then he started warring logged out 4 and oversighted the details.Now can you Please tell what can i do about this Duck. HIAS (talk) 19:18, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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Recent changes

• There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here.
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong.
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Misplaced Pages article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users.

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time.
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week.
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms.
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it.
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Special VU

Hey DQ. What was the deal with User:Special VU? I noticed their articles and was somewhat suspicious, but is there some history I should be aware of? Thanks, Sam Walton (talk) 15:53, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

You've got... a Github notification

Can you check there? Thanks. --Rschen7754 04:00, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-40

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Recent changes

• In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them.
• UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look.
• You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one.
• When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well.
• You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50.
• The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded.
• MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers.

Problems

• Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
• There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it.
• The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan.

Meetings

• You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering.
• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Urgent UTRS fix needed

--Jezebel's Ponyo 20:18, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile.
• The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
• UploadWizard will remind users to add a category.
• UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use.
• A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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18:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

e-cigs arb case

Hi, thanks for agreeing to take over this case. We've just passed the revised PD date with no outcome in sight, I wonder if I could impose upon you to make a post at Misplaced Pages talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Editor conduct in e-cigs articles/Proposed decision to indicate to case participants when you expect there might be a resolution? Understandably, some of the parties to the case, who might be facing some form of serious sanction, have been left in limbo for almost six weeks now, and I'm sure some guidance on when the case might be concluded would be warmly welcomed and provide them with some certainty. Lankiveil 11:20, 9 October 2015 (UTC).

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Recent changes

• The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
• You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing.
• Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Reminder: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 15 December

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

I wanted to follow-up on an message I sent you in September regarding the need for you to sign a confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) in order to maintain your access from Wikimedia to nonpublic information.

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) to retain their access. You are receiving this message because you have access to nonpublic information and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015, you will lose your access to nonpublic information.

Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

If you have any questions or experience any problems while signing the new agreement, please visit this talk page or email me (gvarnumwikimedia.org). Again, please sign this confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 31 December 2015) to retain your access to nonpublic information. If you do not wish to retain this access, please let me know and we will forward your request to the appropriate individuals.

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Tech News: 2015-43

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Recent changes

• Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Problems

• A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed.
• Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week.
• The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen.

Changes this week

• Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week.
• Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44

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Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools.
• You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor.
• When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted.
• Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces.

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Request of Removal of Sanctions

Hi DeltaQuad.

It's been a few months since I last came to you and have been making active and positive contributions to the project. I haven't violated any of the sanctions since my unblock a year ago listed here. Regards, eurodyne (talk) 02:01, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Eurodyne:, I haven't forgot about your request, just have been busy with ArbCom work. Give me a short while and i'll get back to you. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 06:38, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Alright, I'll look forward to that. eurodyne (talk) 17:26, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

My one question for the moment is: Will you abandon your account globally or just locally? -- Amanda (aka DQ) 04:52, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

I've decided to stick with this account. I'm not abandoning anything. I'd just like to edit sanction free from now. eurodyne (talk) 06:21, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

How do you feel about vacating all except sanction 1 for the time being? That would give time to assess how you handle the release from the other ones before letting you go to create a new account? That obviously wouldn't stop any admin for blocking you again if you did violate some of the wording of the expired sanctions, but I feel like a BASC appeal would not be the best use of our resources considering your track record up and to this point. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 02:16, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

I don't plan on creating any new accounts any time soon so I guess that would be alright. I'd rather just walk away clean, but if you feel that specific sanction needs to stay, there's not much I can do about it. I'm willing to take your offer now as long as I can request full removal later. eurodyne (talk) 06:51, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Willing to go ahead with that. You can take this as official confirmation that only the first bullet point of the original unblock sanctions now remains in affect. Feel free to come back a little down the road and we'll absolutely consider the last one. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 08:45, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Quite urgent, if you have time. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:04, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

A question about WP:ARCA

I hope you can answer this question, I cant seem to find the answer. Looking at the PD in e-cig it is looking like it may be necessary for me to file at WP:ARCA once the case closes in order to bring evidence. I am a little confused looking at the WP:ARCA page as to its purpose. Specifically is it to request to be allowed to present evidence and in effect reopen the case once it is closed, or is it to present the evidence itself there? AlbinoFerret 21:06, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

@AlbinoFerret: You can specify your evidence at that location. It will not re-open the case, merely request a review. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 08:47, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

The 1000 word limit is a problem, I have extensive evidence, 6000 words and 228 diffs and the NPOV portion alone is about 75 diffs and needs the that many to show a persistent pattern. Can I please have a place to show the entire evidence or at least a good chunk of it? I started a section yesterday night but it is only a small fraction of what I have and may not be the best examples because of the limit. AlbinoFerret 15:24, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm willing to grant an extension of some sort, but could you user space the material, and I'll see what I can do to look into the limit? -- Amanda (aka DQ) 17:05, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Not a problem, it was simple copy and paste. Here is a link User:AlbinoFerret/sandbox/evidence. 23:46, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

AlbinoFerret, so a few recommendations to help the numbers:

1. If a diff says something, don't quote it, just link it.
2. Show us 3-4 examples of what your trying to present. We can get the point without an essay being written. If you feel you really need to make your point, double that at the MOST. Choose your strongest points. Particularly, the "NPOV/Negative Advocacy" section is what I refer to.
3. Don't represent evidence, especially after it was in the final decision. Maybe note the FoF at best. "Gaming the system" is what i'm referring to here.
4. If possible present what you would like done. Always makes a clarification/amendment of the case request (Arbitration Requests for Clarification and Amendment) easier.

-- Amanda (aka DQ) 09:56, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Understood, The only reason I quoted what an edit was to show it didnt match the source, but I will trim it down. The only reason so much is there, is because it was found. The only thing I think needs more than 3 or 4 is the NPOV, but the limit also effects bringing in other stuff. I will not add gaming the system. I thought it was clear what I want done, but I will clarify that right now. If I can have more words, please let me know the new limit. AlbinoFerret 13:35, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

I have made some changes, I am having trouble lowering the NPOV section, all of it looks extremely bad to me. But I did change a few to stronger ones. I need to take a break from WP to take my wife to the doctor, I will come back to it later today. AlbinoFerret 14:22, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

• I wonder if you might be making unnecessarily heavy weather of this, AlbinoFerret? If your objective is a topic ban for QuackGuru, just pop along to WP:AE with a link to the Arbcom decision and diffs of the things he's done since the case closed. 42 edits to Electronic cigarette in three days not counting 15 edits to the talk page, including several pre-emptive changes while talk page discussions are ongoing; issuing inappropriate "warnings" to other editors (by which I mean, me)----there's a clear pattern of controlling behaviour there which shows he's disregarded the Committee's words completely. Even though I predicted exactly this ("A glance at QG's block log ought to tell you he does not listen to admonishments or warnings"), I'm nevertheless amazed by how blatant about it he's being. I personally think it's open-and-shut.

  Also, Arbitration Enforcement will be a vastly quicker route than getting a decision out of the current committee.—S Marshall T/C 15:05, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

While there are examples recently added from after the arbcom case, I will not be using them at ARCA due to space limitations. As I understand it, nothing would stop anyone from going to AE now or at some point in the near future with that evidence and what you have gathered S Marshall. One thing AE might not be able to deal with is Cloudjpk, who is an SPA that appears from the evidence presented to be a meatpuppet. If I am wrong about that, please let me know. AlbinoFerret 17:45, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

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Keilana (talk) 16:15, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Username? (Not important, just curious)

This is neither a) any of my business, b) important, or c) urgent, so I won't be offended if your just revert the post -- how did you come up with "DeltaQuad" as an account name? NE Ent 03:12, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Pehaps this could be a plausible origin. Dr. K. 03:19, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

That it right there ^. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 08:43, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

The next year and ArbCom

Since my first year is coming to a close with the Arbitration Committee, I would like to take the time with the community to go over how I as an individual Arbitrator can improve to serve the community better. I obviously won't agree with every view point here, but I would like to at least view and/or respond to the comments made by willing parties. This is just for me only, and is not a review of the committee's actions as a whole, but my individual contribution to the Committee. If you would like to see me be proactive in specific matters, please do list them briefly below. I look forward to reading the comments. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 08:52, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Nice to see an arb doing this. I think others have done similar things in the past (I had a userspace page for people to make complaints at, but that didn't work that well). Have you considered keeping a log of your workflow over the year, so it is clearer how that could be managed? It would also be something that would help when having a review or discussion like this. It might not feel like it, but people don't really follow in great detail what each individual arb does. :-) Carcharoth (talk) 23:22, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Would you explain this

Why it was done. https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special:Log/block&page=Marlinsfan1988

Thanks Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 16:19, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Other than the user was evading a previous block in place, I can't really say much more than that as the information includes quite sensitive data. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 17:04, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

It was just that he/she seems to have been editing in a mundane sort of way for some time before this block happened, with seemingly nothing to suggest any evasion (such as making the sort of controversial edits that would justify making an evasion). There is also this ] and this ] and this ] which I wonder might be connected to this block. Nomoskedasticity has been implying they are connected. If so, it seems a bit suspicious to block for unstated reasons when the individual is involved in an ongoing AfD discussion and has not been mentioned in those sockpuppet investigations. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 17:34, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

I can tell you with certainty that it is not that sockmaster. And I can understand your concern about the AfD votes, but this person isn't allowed to contribute to the encyclopedia at this time. I hope that answers your concerns. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 17:43, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. That's OK. If there is not a connection then it isn't an issue, and I accept that a blocked editor has no right to be voting in an AfD under another name. Though I don't know why it should be a secret who the blocked editor is. By "implying" I meant that Nomoskedasticity had mentioned the block on the AfD, which, given the ongoing issue of edits by representatives of OMICS, and by socks, and whether they should all be blocked, inevitably carried with it the implication that Marlinsfan1988 was such an editor. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 17:59, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Your user page

Just a brief note to say how much I respect your integrity and courage in disclosing intensely personal material to the community. I have nothing but admiration for you as none of this can have been easy. I don't always agree with what you say but I do have the highest respect for you as an arbitrator. Thank you for your service. May it long continue,  Roger Davies 08:49, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Second this. That was my response when I saw the change on my watchlist. Doug Weller (talk) 17:12, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

In this case (the edit to Jimbo's talk page), I agree that Rev-Del works just as well as oversighting. Thanks for being so quick. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  10:04, 21 November 2015 (UTC)