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Hi!
My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller and video producer for the Wikimedia Foundation. I'll be looking to capture stories about Wikimedians at Wikimania in London in a week. Here is an example of the kind of thing that I'm aiming to do. I saw that you're attending Wikimania and I was wondering if you might have some time to talk about the pop-star work do you on Wikimedia projects. Anyway let me know if you are interested, I'll be at Wikimania from the 6th-10th of August and would need maybe 30 minutes of your time. I can answer any questions you may have. I’m best reached at vgrigas(at)wikimedia.org
Thanks!
Regarding this edit, I think you meant January and not July :P SNUGGUMS (talk · contribs) 20:28, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey there, I want to work on the Christina Aguilera awards page, however I would first like to ask your advice. On the "Beyonce awards page" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Beyonc%C3%A9#Wealth magazine + online rankings and polls, including, forbes, sexiest lists, vocals ext are considered "awards"(I counted over 150 online polls alone listed as awards on her page).Why is this allowed for her page but has been removed from every other singers including Christina, Britney, P!NK, Mariah ext?
Your advice would be greatly appreciated CJBXT720 (talk) 09:30, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
Wow, I've just read the christina aguilera official page and im kind of upset. I dont really edit main biographical pages but i am shocked at the level of missing detail and the extremely bias edits being done especially by user HD. Wikipedia is supposed to be neutral, but this page is an absolute mess from start to end, with large sections of inforamtion removed without any valid reason(..e.g legacy section, removing the impact of dirrty >>reason cited = redundant information). However, no impact of dirrty was previously mentioned.A biographical page should not read like a hate or fan page, but notable achievements and failures should be noted and included in such articles. I have also just viewed HD's talk page and seen several other complaints of their bias editing.
Could you look into the matter? I would greatly appreciate it? Maybe start a group discussion on the matter(as i am not sure how to) , but at the moment the page just looks ridic hate page.
Hope to hear from you
CJBXT720 (talk) 11:48, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi Acalamari, is it possible for you to grant pending changes reviewer tool to me? There are many Indian actor and music articles I have on my watchlist which have PC on them, but I am not able to verify or approve the changes done my new users. If there is another appropriate location, please tell me. Sorry for any inconvenience. :) —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 11:03, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
For anyone watching my talk page who might also be going, I'll be attending the final day of Wikimania 2014 in London tomorrow. Acalamari 18:57, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey There
I would like to Thank You for sticking up for me on the Christina Official page. Firstly, I dont belong to any forums, I simply dont have the time for that. Second, Ive liked Christina ever since I went to her Back To Basics tour thats it. Lastly, my edits are always neutral. I respect wiki policies and other users input, i only raise issues when i feel that its slightly biased. The reason I brought up the mess page was because of the large section of text being removed and the constant mention of Mariah Carey in her as if the page had been edit by a Mariah Carey fan. Thats about it.
Again, thank you for placing faith in my edits,
Regards CJBXT720 (talk) 10:34, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Acalamari. I'm a little confused here. Every username I've seen that contains the names of musical artists has been blocked. For instance, when I have reported band names to UAA, they have been blocked. I'm pretty sure we don't allow band names, though I doubt that there is a rule written anywhere on it. I guess it could be deemed promotional. - Hoops gza (talk) 22:21, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi - I was hoping you could help me. I was trying to clean up some persistent, repeated vandalism, and attempted to remove/decline Draft:Alisha Heng, but I didn't realize my not being an AfC participant would cause problems for the script (it still ran at least partially, but I'm not sure it completed successfully). I noticed you declined this particular submission previously, so I thought I'd see if you could help make sure whatever I just did hasn't left any problems behind. Sorry, and thanks! --Fru1tbat (talk) 17:17, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Sir with all sense of humility and responsibility as an editor in good standing, who has been reverting and reporting cases of WP:Vandalism, hereby request your permission of a Rollback Right. Sir, granting me this right will improve my efficiency and productivity. Thanks in anticipation sir. Wikicology (talk) 17:09, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
you may what to rethink the toy ("rollback") you gave this person Skippypeanuts (talk) 04:56, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello, this is a a test account of NickGibson3900. I created this account to see what been blocked is like. As you are a sysop I am requesting a block. NickGibson3900 - Test account (talk) (NickGibson3900 (talk)) 06:21, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello there,I'm that user who's been the victim of editing the Fields Medal page(i.e.I got blocked with charge of Vandalism.).I've got three question:1)When the current protected status of that page ends,Does the page current contents remain in place or they are replaced with the old version? 2)I've prepared a new and somehow comprehensive table about Fields medalists.I posted this table on the discussion section of the Fields Medal page,and I request for comments about this(If You come there and see my that table I will be really glad,and don't forget to put your comment about it down there!;-)),but so far,just one person did so.Is it normal? 3)Should I submit a request for edit to replace the new table with current one?Or should I wait for reaching a consensus?Thank You. Rezameyqani (talk) 07:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)Rezameyqani (talk) 08:17, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure that it was a good idea to delete User talk:VanishedUser000000000. According to WP:VANISH, "User talk pages are rarely deleted", and I don't know of any reasons why it needed to go away in this case. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:31, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
I shall consider a page redirect later WarrenRodwell (talk) 13:38, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Dear Acalamari,
I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.
As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.
Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.
The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.
Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.
In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.
Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.
Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 18:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Acalamari, the PROD on the article "Heavy Metal Lover" expired, and would need administrative action. So can you review it and then either delete the article or redirect it to Born This Way? —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 18:33, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Regarding this, why not simply semi-protect the article yourself since your account has the ability? Snuggums (talk / edits) 11:34, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Acalamari, would you please see the discussion I just started on the Pussycat Dolls talk page. Thanks. ----Design (talk) 08:57, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
...for your nice "Welcome Back.' -- Cheers, Cecropia (talk) 19:16, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
I wanna become an adminstrator — Preceding unsigned comment added by Donyi Taga (talk • contribs) 05:31, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello Acalamari, following a un-protection request I've lowered an OLD protection you placed on this article from SPP to PC1; if you are still monitoring it and see high vandalism levels, feel free to revert my action without discussion. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 03:21, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Acalamari,
Recently on the talk page for Mariah Carey, dispute arose over whether she is a singer and songwriter or a singer-songwriter. From what Calvin999 said, she is a singer-songwriter for writing 99% of lyrics, composition, and such on her first six albums and for still being intricately involved in her creation process. JennKR argued that she is not (at least not nowadays) one due to having lots of work from other songwriters, producers, etc. Not sure if you noticed, but I pinged you there for input, since you've often edited articles with the summary "not a singer-songwriter". Jenn also raised RFC at WP:WikiProject Music with regards to what constitutes a singer-songwriter.
What is your take? Snuggums (talk / edits) 22:54, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for this bit of Idiot Control. I was trying to sort it out but you beat me to it. :) Best wishes 77.96.249.228 (talk) 20:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
He/she added unreliable source for other genre on Avril Lavigne (album), especially Myspace. 183.171.160.52 (talk) 01:05, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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Acalamari, can you delete the above redirect so that Eau De Gaga can be moved to the above namespace? Thanks :) —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 05:16, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Acalamari, need your suggestion on the above user. He/She goes on continuously adding false certification to the "Shake It Off" article including unsourced content. Numerous warnings and explanations have fallen to deaf ears and the user pays no attention to it. Each and every week the Billboard charts are published and the user goes on adding the same content over and over again. What to do? I have even threatened to report for administrative action and block, asked him/her to come to my talk page if clarification is needed, but alas those messages get deleted. The thing is that I cannot go to WP:AIV since he/she does not do it consecutively and it is indeed vandalism. —Indian:BIO [ ChitChat ] 06:33, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Katy Perry was successful, she shall be TFA for her 30th birthday! Snuggums (talk / edits) 05:53, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
Congrats on being a Wikipedian for exactly 8 years now! Snuggums (talk / edits) 17:27, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Acalamari, Thank you for taking out the time for advising and guiding me in the right direction. I'll do my best again and contribute here whenever I can. Best Regards. TheGeneralUser (talk) 20:07, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Acalamari Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct way to request comment from another admin, but I'm not satisfied with the unfair & misleading manner in which an admin has evaluated my report on edit warring/enabled the reported user's behavior, and I'd like for another admin to give their input (please take note of the comments section, and the primary issue). I'd really appreciate it, and please let know the correct way to go about it if this isn't.--Lpdte77 (talk) 19:34, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello Acalamari:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
– Snuggums (talk / edits) 21:02, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
I've made an appeal to the AN board that has gone unattended by an uninvolved admin for some time. It's become rather stale and I'd very much like a resolution one way or another. I sought you and two other editors out because I've appreciated your judgement in previous instances. Please understand that this isn't an appeal for your help, that's neither appropriate nor especially constructive. Instead I simply want this matter attended to by competent people who can impart a measure of finality at WP:AN. I'll totally understand your declining to review my appeal but I hope you'll consider giving it some of your time, even if it's to refer another administrator. GraniteSand (talk) 12:48, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you again Acalamari, but the previous block does not seem to have had any effect on the above user. He/She is back to causing nuisance on the Taylor Swift articles again. Just now he/she added false certification to 1989 (Taylor Swift album), removed the AFD template from Holy Ground (Taylor Swift song), adding MAriah's image to Shake It Off (Taylor Swift song) even though it was deleted countless times, etc. Really pissed off. —Indian:BIO [ ChitChat ] 13:58, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
Doesn't a film that originated in French retain its French name, i.e. Les Invasions barbares? FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:32, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
I did, I left a message in the Talk page. (N0n3up (talk) 11:52, 6 November 2014 (UTC))
Hi,
I have known and use wikipedia for years but it's just now that I am trying to create a biography for a living person. I know you're busy but I would greatly appreciate if the following sources I have are more than sufficient. I really need help on checking if these are verifiable ones in accordance to wiki's standard. I can gather some more if the need be. My email is pm@anzinternationalinc.com. I would sincerely appreciate any help you can extend. Thank you very much.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2013/04/14/7060354.htm https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ed-decosta/ascend-umVsELUY/ http://johnmaxwellteam.com/edify/ http://eddecosta.com/ http://eddecosta.com/blog/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/eddecosta http://www.be.wvu.edu/faculty_staff/ed_decosta https://www.youtube.com/user/edwarddecosta http://www.amazon.com/Ascend-Coachs-Roadmap-Per... http://www.ascendtheprogram.com/ http://coachfederation.org/members/landing.cfm?... http://www.salesgravy.com/community/profile/ede... http://theboomerbusinessowner.com/2014/08/tbbo-... http://theboomerbusinessowner.com/wp-content/up... http://www.doseofleadership.com/ed-decosta/ http://www.margueritecrespillo.com/tag/ed-decos... http://www.ipeccoaches.com/coach/west-virginia-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQIiLxRWrag — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChiefCatalystEdDeCosta (talk • contribs) 04:50, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the warm welcome, it's so good to see a familiar face! — BranStark (talk) 13:09, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Back again adding OR, false certification and fancrufty content. Had to revert two such edits (one was sourced but it was bordeline peacocky). No edit summary and no point in leaving warning templates. Enough lesson learnt. —Indian:BIO [ ChitChat ] 14:29, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello! Any chances, please, for you to have a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Software § Date format in release history sections of Linux articles and possibly comment there by providing your point of view? The whole thing is pretty much poorly discussed with only a few editors actually discussing it, while it seems to be affecting more than a few articles (and the date format seems to be extending beyond the tables into references, please see history of the Linux distribution article). Any contributions to the discussion would be highly appreciated! — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 02:40, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello Acalamari,
I noticed that my sysop rights were removed (per Wikipedia policy, so nothing wrong with that). I'm curious if I could have those rights re-instated - also: where should I post such a request to formally align with Wikipedia policy? (I've been to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard, but there doesn't seem to be any clear indication as to where I should place such a request.) Thank you for your attention to the matter. JW..[ T..C ] 08:59, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
A new user created a bunch of articles, which all took a great degree of effort and time, relating to different bus stops in Norway. Each article was nominated for deletion for being non-notable and you can see the discussion taking place here which is fine, I even voted for their deletion. However, the user (who I feel was only trying to enhance the project in good faith) was blocked for disruptive editing without a single warning. It bugs me that he was treated worse than a traditional vandal who generally gets warned 4 times before being blocked. I've brought it up with the admin who blocked him, but looking through her talk page history, she's previously been brought to ANI for similar trigger happy bahviour. I was just wondering if I could get a second opinion from you whether her behavior appropriate and in accordance with policy. Surely blocking policy hasn't changed this much in the 5 years I was absent? — BranStark (talk) 15:40, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
User:Bladesmulti is undoing most of my edits on personal basis. and threatening me for Legal threat .So I want you to block him. AmRit GhiMire "Ranjit" 15:20, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Acalamari!
You are such an experienced and excellent editor! Hats off to you! Enjoy this Cupcake! - Kunalrks (talk) 10:02, 22 November 2014 (UTC) |
help to people whenever you can
Thank you for tireless quality contributions to articles on performers such as Fergie (singer), for creating templates, and for help to people, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (11 June 2007, 20 December 2008, 22 April 2009)!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:36, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Two years ago, you were the 312th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:51, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello Acalamari, Can I ask for your advice/action please? User Mr RNGAnderson keeps deleting the lead photograph from the Cincinnati article, without giving any reason. I have asked for a reason and reinstated twice, but we are now on at least the third reversion, again without reason. I have asked for an explanation on the editors Talk page to no avail. Best regards, David, David J Johnson (talk) 16:08, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
Since you blocked editing, in the Personal life section please add: "On October 17th 2014, Sheen announced through a press release that he and Rossi had mutually decided to end their engagement and relationship".Healkids (talk) 03:05, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
"Charlie Sheen Ends Engagement to Brett Rossi: People.com". PEOPLE.com. Healkids (talk) 03:32, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
of course!Healkids (talk) 02:49, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
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