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My recent RfB

Thank you so much for your participation in my recent RfB. Though it closed with 72% support (below the required 90%), I'm still quite pleased at the outpouring of support shown by a fair percentage of the community.

I'm currently tabulating and calculating all opposing and neutral arguments to help me better address the community's concerns about my abilities as a bureaucrat. If you'd like, you can follow my progress (and/or provide additional suggestions) at User:EVula/admin/RfB notes. Thanks again! EVula // talk // ☯ // 04:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

sprotection on Regina SK article

Please consider lifting your semi-protection of Regina, Saskatchewan. You semi-protected it on 19 March 2007 [1] with the summary "IP edit war". BigNate37_(T) 17:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

• Done. Bucketsofg 17:41, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Thanks! BigNate37_(T) 21:47, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome! Mill cleaner —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mill cleaner (talk • contribs)

My RFA

I replied to your oppose vote. I hope you don't mind. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 20:40, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

I replied again, it's rather messy though, but that's the best that I could write without my spell and grammar checker. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 21:09, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (2nd nomination)

Hello, I am contacting you because you participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Francesco Dionigi, which resulted in the deletion of Francesco Dionigi. A new article has been created about the same person, Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro. I have nominated it for deletion, and you may wish to read the new article and comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (2nd nomination). --Akhilleus (talk) 06:57, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Your comment would be appreciated

• At the stub Genealogia deorum gentilium I just made an article from. Please edit to make any improvements you can see or give me some suggestions on the article Talk Page. Thanks.--Doug ^talk 12:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I have tried to address the concerns you expressed at my RfA. Even though I feel that edit was BLP compliant, I don't think you'll find anything else objectionable if you go through more of my mainspace edits. Take care! -- But|seriously|folks  03:29, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the follow-up and good wishes. Same to you! -- But|seriously|folks  04:40, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Christianity and Buddhism

You said: "Keep. The topic is encyclopedic. Period. Is the article a mess? Yup. WP:SOFIXIT. Bucketsofg 13:01, 10 July 2007 (UTC)"

Your vote only counts if the topic stays at "Christianity and Buddhism," though. Remember the title WAS "Buddhist influences on Christianity." THAT topic was not encyclopedic. WhisperToMe 16:41, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Question

Hi there,

Can you please explain your edit summary here and on a few other images sourced from the same site?

Do you mean that because the source doesnt assert copyright, it is alright to take from such sources? What then will prevent me from dumping the best pictures stolen from elsewhere on my blog and then uploading it onto wiki from my blog? Where ofcourse, there wont be a 'copyright assertion' in sight!

Also, age of the inscription has nothing to do with copyright. Nobody is claiming copyright over the inscription itself. Copyright is only over the photograph of the inscription. The pyramids are 5-6 thousand years old. But if I take a photograph of the pyramids, the rights of the photograph belongs to me unless I release it. Please explain your removal of my tags. Thanks. Sarvagnya 18:20, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

??? Sarvagnya 09:59, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

My RfB

Thank you, Bucketsofg, for participating in my RfB, which ended unsuccessfully with a final tally of (80/22/3). I shall continue to work on behalf of the community's interests and improve according to your suggestions. Most sincere regards, Húsönd 23:11, 10 July 2007 (UTC) Obrigado, Bucketsofg, por participares no meu RfB, que terminou sem sucesso com um resultado final de (80/22/3). Continuarei a trabalhar em prol dos interesses da comunidade e a melhorar segundo vossas sugestões. Calorosos cumprimentos, Húsönd 23:11, 10 July 2007 (UTC) Thanks • Obrigado • Gracias • Merci • Danke • Спасибо • Tack • Kiitos Esker • Köszönöm • Takk • Grazie • Hvala • ありがとう • 謝謝 • 谢谢

Thank you!

Thanks in part to your support, I am Wikipedia's newest bureaucrat. I will do my best to live up to your confidence and kind words. Andre (talk) 09:15, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Happy Bucketsofg's Day!

Bucketsofg has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Bucketsofg's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Bucketsofg! A record of your Day will always be kept here. Love, Phaedriel 19:32, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Pg79fig1.jpg

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Circus metal (again)

Hello. I am messaging you about the recreation (I believe for the fifth time) of the article Circus metal. I have seen you have participated in a previous AfD procedure for the article, and I would think you would be interested to give your opinion in the most recent one. Thanks in advance.

ZOUAVMAN LE ZOUAVE 10:49, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Reply

I wish that were true, but I doubt it. Thanks for your attention on the matter, I respect your decision.►Chris Nelson 20:16, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• I wish this person would compromise, but he will not compromise. You an see his behavior continues here and here. This has stemmed from this discussion. He has already asserted that he WP:OWNs these articles and even went so far as to tell a user that he wanted to do all the Miami Dolphins userboxes. He has insulted me and violated a number of policies and guidelines. I did not violate 3RR. I went through articles and edited them to reflect a compromise that must be used to satisfy both sides of the issue. He then engaged me in edit warring (not the other way around). If you want me to go through dispute resolution, i will, but i don't think that's needed when he has brazenly asserted "I have already proven why my way is correct, and if you can't get it then that's on you." Jmfangio| ►Chat  02:53, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry you've been dragged into this. My comments:

• The edits I've made on Culpepper are accurate, and that is what he simply cannot get. He pretended to offer a compromise, but it was just what he wanted all along. And it was wrong.
• I don't own anything and never claim to. But I am making accurate edits and I stand by them for the good of the encyclopedia.
• Yes, I did ask User:Phbasketball6 if I could do the Miami Dolphins player infoboxes, because it's my favorite team and I enjoy editing them. We were going to split up teams to edit, and I asked if I could do the Dolphins. He happily agreed and asked if he could do the Eagles and Cardinals, and I said I wouldn't edit those. No problem there.
• Jmfangio did violate 3RR, he seems completely delusional about this. You said so yourself.
• Regarding "edit warring", I'll point out that it takes two parties to edit war, neither one more responsible than the other.
• I did prove my side correct, he just doesn't want to accept reason.

Again, I'm sorry you've been brought into this.►Chris Nelson 03:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/North American monetary union.

Hi. I've reverted your closure of the AFD, as the speedy keeping guidelines mentions nothing about articles nominated in a vandalised/disruptive state, and I still feel as if the article has some fundamental issues which need addressing. Thanks, Will ^(talk) 18:17, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, close it at as a SNOW tommorow (if you can close it as SNOW). Will ^(talk) 18:37, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Elonka 2

Thank you for taking the time to participate at the discussion in my Request for Adminship. Unfortunately the nomination did not succeed, but please rest assured that I am still in full support of the Wikipedia project. I listened carefully to all concerns, and will do my best to incorporate all of the constructive advice that I received, into my future actions on Wikipedia. If you can think of any other ways that I can further improve, please let me know. Best wishes, Elonka 04:57, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Ken Boessenkool

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article Ken Boessenkool, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. Deiz talk 13:36, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Deletion query

Hi, can you tell me why you deleted the article "Academic Citizenship" on Feb 01 this year. I can't find any info about this in the deletion log. Thanks, Barbara 130.216.169.36 05:13, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Help

I'm currently trapped in a seemingly never-ending revert war with GoldDragon on the Joe Volpe page. There are basically two main points of contention: whether or not information relating to Roy Cullen's riding association should be included, and what the article text should be for the "placement agency" section. Any comment you could provide would be appreciated. CJCurrie 04:08, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Undo semi-protect

I just checked the logs for St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and you have had it semiprotected since Dec. of 2006. Could you unblock it now? I think the edit warring has calmed down. 71.131.29.183 03:30, 3 October 2007 (UTC) (not logged in User:Hairchrm.

Sean Morrison: deletion question

I would like to know why this page was deleted and/or what I could do that would make it acceptable to repost the page without fear of deletion. For instance, Sean Morrison has won the following awards, and is notable for a number of other reasons. Also, I would like access to the text of the deleted page.

These awards include, according to the Detroit News, "The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2003, Wired Magazine's Rave Award for Science in 2003 and Technology Review magazine's list of 100 innovators in 2002. Morrison earned the prestigious title of investigator from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2000. He became one of more than 300 scientists at research institutes around the county chosen because of his potential to make significant contributions to science" http://detnews.com/specialreports/2006/michiganians/morrison.htm.

If I add information such as this, then is the page acceptable in terms of the notability standards?Aptanalogy (talk) 02:04, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Model Wikipedian Song

Hey there,

just a quick note to let you know that we've put your RfA Candidate's Song on the phone system of the new Wikimedia Foundation office in San Francisco, as the "on hold" music. :-) Thanks for recording it - we'll put other fun, free licensed music on the system as well.

Best, --Eloquence* 02:44, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

RE: email

Responded to the latest, yesterday. Regards, El_C 10:21, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

RfA song

I didn't expect to see many other Wikipedians in London, Ontario as well - and of all people, I find the creator of my favourite song parody :-). Cheers, —paranomia^{happy harry's high club} 22:10, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Song

Hallo, I am from the german Wikipedia from the sociologic section, and I found out that you wrote a song text on http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Song . We want to know the reason(s) why you wrote this song. It would be kind of you to leave an english (or german) comment on http://de.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedistik/Soziologie/Musik&action=edit&redlink=1 . Thank you --84.166.123.219 (talk) 07:30, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

User Talk

Hey, Bucketsofg. I need to ask you, why did you delete my 'Finding Mimo' article? Reply here: Micky 1234567890123 (talk) 19:03, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for replying to me so quickly Bucketsofg! Micky 1234567890123 (talk) 13:20, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

By the way, I want to apologize for mistaking your user name (BucketsOFG) for Bucketsfrog. I promise it will never happen again! Micky 1234567890123 (talk) 13:25, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

AIV

Please go to WP:AIV. Thanks -- IRP ☎ 02:03, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Seems to be dealt with. Bucketsofg 02:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Just read about and listened to your great song! I see you already have a Barnstar of Good Humour for it; no one has ever deserved it more. You are the model of a modern Wicomedian! Unschool 05:42, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

The laughpoint is awarded to users that make one laugh. Introduced by User:Extreme Unction. - And that song deserves much more than one barnstar! -- Avi (talk) 21:26, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Request for semi-protection

Hi there - was looking around, heard your song and wanted to ask sprotection for the page scurvy as it gets constant vandalism, probably due to lots of schools using it. Thanks! --Cpt ricard (talk) 05:32, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

I just came from scurvy after making a small cleanup. The vandalism has abated, so please consider lifting the sprotect. Thanks! Cmprince (talk) 14:53, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm still of the mind to keep semi-permanent sprotect on - like I mentioned on the talk page for scurvy, I think it's mostly schools and libraries where kids have to do projects on it and well . . . idle hands. . . . . We can try removing it but we'd have to keep an eye out right away.--Cpt ricard (talk) 04:10, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Shona Holmes

An article that you have been involved in editing, Shona Holmes, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shona Holmes. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. I'm relisting this article and you participated in the first discussion so I'm contacting you if you want to be apart of this discussion. Fire 55 (talk) 21:11, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Your RFA song! :)

I hope you dont mind that I have your music and song on my userpage... I added a thanks to you. The song is great! Thanks.--Rockstone (talk) 00:16, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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1. De Lafontaine - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/The RfA Candidate's Song

Hiya,

Looks like you're the author of that, and I just wanted to say - it's great! I love it.

Before I'd heard of it, I had a bit of a thought about using the lyrics of the Major-General song to link to 'interesting' articles, maybe for my user page, and started writing bits, like;

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,

I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,

I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical

From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;

I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,

I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,

About binomial theorem I`m teeming with a lot o` news,

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

...and I mentioned it to KFP (talk · contribs), and he told me about the RfA song.

I was briefly a bit disappointed that my idea was not as original as I'd thought, but I loved the song, and that more than made up for it.

It is superb, and I just wanted to say - thanks.  Chzz  ►  18:55, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for the message, and I'm glad you like it. Feel free to improve it if you like. Bucketsofg 13:32, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Toi (name)

Hey man. I have tagged Toi (name) for deletion as an unneeded redlink disambig. Informing you per your edit comment in the page's history. Kahuroa (talk) 10:21, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

joseph resto

birth:august 18 2000 age:10 ocoporation: singer and actor year active: 2004 - present —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.14.159.188 (talk) 11:26, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Bucketsofg,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk)23:22, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Euxinia

Please give some input, thanks. https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:Canfield_ocean Prokaryotes (talk) 20:47, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

AN

I've mentioned you at AN: Q5W5 (talk · contribs) borrowed your user userpage, creating the impresion that they were an admin instead of a user of five days' standing. Acroterion (talk) 03:38, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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Precious five years!

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:32, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

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ArbCom 2019 special circular

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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

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Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
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