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I have asked at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Haymarket affair/1 for review of the good article status you gave to Haymarket affair at Talk:Haymarket_affair/Archive_3#Good_article_nomination_on_hold. I'm sure you are aware of the controversy surrounding this article. I will review the discussion at Talk:Haymarket_affair/Archive_3#Good_article_nomination_on_hold and notify the numerous wikiprojects listed on the talk page. User:Fred Bauder Talk 15:36, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

I just wanted to let you know that I have had to delete the above image that you uploaded. It was brought to my attention that the image comes from another website. Although we don't consider an additional copyright on images that are faithful reproductions (i.e. Amazon thumbnails) of the cover, this was a posed photograph of the entire book. For this reason it fails the reproducibility requirement of WP:FUR (i.e. someone could make a free version of the image if they had access to the book). My apologies if this is in fact an image you created yourself. --Errant ^(chat!) 11:56, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

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Date: Saturday, March 17, 2012 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (PT)

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Hello Steven, I am sending this message to editors who signed up for the Women's History Month Edit-a-thon. Please help spread the word. HighBeam Research--an online, pay-for-use search engine for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias has agreed to give free, full-access, 1-year accounts for up to 1000 Wikipedia editors to use. HighBeam has access to over 80 million articles from 6,500 publications, most of which are not available for free elsewhere on the internet. Aside from a free 7-day trial (credit card required), access to HighBeam would cost $30 per month or $200 per year for the first year and $300 for subsequent years, so this is a wonderful, free, no-strings-attached opportunity. To qualify, editors must have at least a 1 year-old account with 1000 edits. Please add your name to the WP:HighBeam/Applications account sign-up page if you are interested. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 18:43, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome. — Isarra (talk) 20:50, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Steven hope your well. I currently have the above up for GAC having worked on it for the last few months. Leno has recieved a extensive PR and my intensions are to take it to FAC. I see from the reviewers list that theatre and performing are listed as two of your interests so feel this will be right up your street! Could you oblige with a quick review? -- Cassianto (talk) 21:32, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the barnstar :)

Just want you to know that you played an instrumental role in my becoming a Wikipedian, and I'm eternally grateful for it. Even if we sometimes disagree on the inclusionist/deletionist split :) I'll always look up to your amazing contributions to the sum of all human knowledge. You rock. Accedie^{talk to me} 01:48, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello Steven! Thank you for letting me know about my mistakes. I am new to Wikipedia and was not aware of that. I will continue trying to make improvements though! danni1125 (talk) 18:07, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Steven. On the donkey article, you might want to look at the diffs of Dana boomer's last edit prior to the extensive work JLAN did to create the present version. Dana was working on this article quite a bit until JLAN stepped in (and well, me too, as I have concerns about JLAN). At that point, Dana stepped out. You might want to look at the work she did and see what can be restored and salvaged. Because I filed an ANI on JLAN due to his involvement on Donkey, Burro and Large Black (pig), I hesitate to do much content work on the donkey article myself. But if others see useful edits, well, just to draw your attention to Dana's work. Montanabw^(talk) 18:41, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

:I don't precisely understand what this editor is up to, or what the problem is. I see some edits that look vaguely okay, but then I also see you had to revert them ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donkey&diff=474666988&oldid=474659772 ]) because they removed citations and cited content with no backing sources. Is it just that this user is wikistalking Dana still? (I have caught up on the last ANI thread BTW, and I think Worm's recommendations to all still should be given close attention by all...) Steven Walling • talk 22:28, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

::Yeah, same guy. Long, long history with that editor at WPEQ, not only with me & Dana, though I tend to take point when we get these sorts showing up, (why he is so mean to Dana is a mystery to me other than I suspect he has issues with women in general, but I cannot suss out motives). No recent problems on this article since said editor's last spat with SMC, but I'm not the best one to be going into this particular article due to the ANI and past history, and if I make massive changes, it will just be fat on the fire with this user, whose issues with me are obvious (see ridiculous discussion over feeding straw). But the article does need improvement, and while the other editor did add some useful material (some of the reorganization probably works as well as what was before, and his pointing out errors in using "filly/colt" lingo was probably correct, even if his tone was so aggravating that I got pissed just on principle) but also messed up a bunch of things (material in nutrition section was problematic, stuff on US history evidences not having a clear understanding of US history) But all that aside, point is, Dana did a BUNCH of sandboxing on it prior to moving her edits over, she clearly was starting to move it toward GA, but when said other editor began working on the same article, he changed a bunch of things, much with dubious sourcing to a book no one else has access to, and threw a huge chunk of Dana's carefully researched history section, and she has stepped back from the conflict. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donkey&diff=474874462&oldid=468155341 diff to Dana's last "clean" version here]) So, if you think some or much of her work from December should be restored, I'm for it. I'm also willing to keep eyes on the article, offer opinions, suggestions and small edits to all. But I'm not the one to lead this improvement effort. And I won't kick if you merge the jenny article, either. Montanabw^(talk) 17:52, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Not sure if adding sections to "talk" page is best way to reply to you, or if wikipedia has any sort of IM system? x3

In any event, yeah I just noticed the Project Glass -> Siri link due to browsing the topic. But on the topic of fixing disambiguation links broadly, is this something anyone has built automated support for?

For example, a bot which scans looking for links to disambiguation pages, displays them for editors to decide which second-level link is appropriate, and then fixes the link in-situ? Or is the modus operandi to visit pages and plow through edits by hand? A quick scan over the project page didn't clarify that bit for me.

Put simply, if you've got a "which of these links is the right one?" flashcard webapp, I could put some time into using it. If you don't, but there are good 'bot building blocks out there, I could guage how hard such a beast would be to make. What's the state of this presently?

Danke Steven, haff gud tay. :3 JesseT77 (talk) 00:49, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks, Steven. I was a bit unsure of website citations - and didn't find an example of a 'good' url citation on the Help:citations page (just a bad one!). Let me know if the addition I made to the Beatrix Potter page is appropriate.--Anasuyas (talk) 02:03, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing; I hadn't noticed myself until you mentioned it. Anjwalker ^Talk 08:28, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Steven, I added external references (mainly postscapes that is quite relevant)

I've removed the component picture from the article. Shall I remove it from Commons?

Image deleted, I will contact the guys and tell them they shall release some CC content (images) to be used on wikipedia.

Also, I removed the warnings since I've added other sources! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simone Cicero (talk • contribs) 10:58, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

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This drake is one my two ducks. We also expect their ducklings in three weeks.. Cheers, Jernej — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bartol666 (talk • contribs) 15:13, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, Steven. I am new to Wikipedia, so I don't know whether this is the right way to answer to your message. Anyway, enjoy the nice cat.

Regarding my Skype's edit, their "blog" seems to be the single offcial site where they "explain" the new features of new versions. And in the forum url, it's some staff which explains that automatic updates cannot be disabled. Who else could better know about an automatic defect (even if they want to include it amongst the list of "features") of a program than the manufacturer ifself?

Anyway, thank you very much for you attention and recommendation, which I will try to remember in the future.

Best regards,

- José, now Pawiko

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hey how do i do a search for these tags:

{{User San Francisco resident}}

{{User San Francisco Bay Area}}

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:hahahahaha I just found out how im an idiot

:Why thankee sir. :) Steven Walling • talk 22:54, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

::Ouch! Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 00:11, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your help. I didn't want to make any edits that were too big since the two sources I snagged seemed to offer different ideas of their history. I think I just need to find some more sources and figure out what happened one. One source mentions Europeans, while another just Ethiopians. If you have any other material I could use to source, that'd be great. Yaminator ^talk 01:00, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

:Okay, I'll try to find more sources to help us reconcile the ones already there. Thanks for getting back to me. :) Steven Walling • talk 19:09, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

:: Super! I did a few searches in Google Scholar and a lot of the papers I retrieved were mostly grounded in the natural sciences, especially medicine, mentioning a certain type of disease. I'm not very familiar with cattle diseases at all, so I fear it went right over my head. (If you know anything about them, it'd likely be a very useful thing to add seeing as how often it's cited. Titles include things like "[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3024.1991.tb00294.x/abstract Susceptibility of N'Dama and Boran cattle to tsetse-transmitted primary and rechallenge infections with a homologous serodeme of Trypanosoma congolense]"). I'll try looking into some Social Sciences databases and see if I can find anything of use. And if it helps, the two books I cited were on google books. So everything on the page is accessible online, which should help in cross-checking. Thanks again for your help! :) Yaminator ^talk 21:34, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Steven,

Thank you for the welcome. I appreaciate it. I will certainly be in touch if I need any help or have questions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.63.231.48 (talk) 19:34, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

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No problem! Nice article, keep it up! Ruigeroeland (talk) 07:20, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Um, you just changed it back to bold for everyone. Was this intentional? --Yair rand (talk) 22:17, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

:No, I didn't see that he included the bolding in the rev that I reverted to. I will fix it to the previous version now that I posted on the VPT. Steven Walling • talk 22:21, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

::That bit of styling you just removed had nothing to do with the watchlist bolding... --Yair rand (talk) 22:24, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

::The bolding was not done by a CSS change, it was done by a change to the MW configuration. Part of the styling added by Edokter removed the bolding. --Yair rand (talk) 22:26, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

:::Well shit. That's what I get for trying to boldly revert a bold change that was too bold. I am happy to self-revert any portion if it's mucking with other things. Steven Walling • talk 22:28, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

• That went well :) User Acceptance Testing - the key to a successful implementation. I do this stuff for a living and, OK, I don't have global users, but it really is unacceptable to be testing in a live environment. You need a test environment and a pool of testers (who are not the developers) who will quickly filter out the 'this gives me a migraine' changes. And you need better comms. Get someone to code a bot to put notices around. Use the Signpost. Use any comms tools you can. Everyone always complains when things change, and I know half the users (probably more like 90% here) would never notice any discussion, but even most of the people who hang around the technical areas didn't know this was coming. I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here, and you're already quietly throttling the developers, but y'know :) --Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:43, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
• To be clear: to my knowledge the configuration change was not a WMF initiative, and my revert was definitely not a work-related thing. And yes, I agree about testing environments and communications, though I think Erwin was acting totally in good faith and not trying to slip anything under the radar. I think it's good for community members to be bold (even more so than staff in their work environment), but applying BRD here would mean the change needs to be reverted for now. Steven Walling • talk 22:48, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

::: Bold editing of an article is fine. Bold messing with the interface without warning is terribly disruptive to a lot of people. WP:BRD is just an essay, and I cannot think that it was ever imagined anyone would try applying it to the user interface. Look at the various policies that have arisen on automated, semi-automated and general 100mph editing - the consensus is shifting to a view that there has to be a consensus before the run of editing - either a specific bot approval, a request for the action, or a general consensus like the AWB general fixes. I think there is actually a danger in allowing even Erwin (who does really good shit man) to make sudden and unexpected changes, that the community will become even more suspicious of "developers" (and I don't think they distinguish between paid staff and volunteers here). That's my two penn'orth anyway. It's a bit of a storm in a latte in this case, but it's worth bearing in mind. Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:58, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

My account, Gary_Johnston, has no email address associated with it. I get the following error message:

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Well and good, but with no email address for the account, I am in sort of a limbo world since email addresses are required for just about everything on wiki.

Please help. What can I do short of creating an entirely new account, which I do not want to do.

/gj/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.143.250.30 (talk) 21:16, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

:Replied on your talk. Steven Walling • talk 04:27, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Hey VanTucky, It's been almost 5 years since you first welcomed me to Wikipedia! I don't think we've directly interacted since then, but I did realize some years ago that you're now Steven Walling (well, I guess you always were, but you know what I mean) and are working for the Foundation. So, belated congratulations to you. Thanks for the advice you gave Scott at User talk:Scottdelaney1067#In response to your feedback. Dennis Brown and I have been trying to rein him in a bit, but I don't know how effective we've been. Hopefully input from other editors will help him get the message. He has enthusiasm and the potential to be a valuable editor, but still seems a little too gung-ho – Dennis and I have expressed the concern that he'll run up against someone who'll bite back at him hard. I responded to your message to him on his talk page with a suggestion of possibly getting a mentor at WP:CVUA. Perhaps you could help keep an eye on him. Thanks. Mojoworker (talk) 16:41, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

:Thanks for the congrats, and glad you remember the welcome. :) I will be sure to check in with Scott. Steven Walling • talk 04:35, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Just a heads up you might get some flak for your semi-prot as there's been edit warring on the part of established editors too. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 06:58, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

:If folks want to contest it that's okay with me. Checking the history, all I can see is an IP edit warring to remove cited content. People can quibble about whether that's vandalism or a legit content dispute that should be resolve through DR bureaucracy, but I'm not personally interested in the subject, just trying to resolve the WP:RFP request. ;-) Steven Walling • talk 07:02, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

::Steven, can you please restore my last edit to the article and then re-lock it? The subject of the article has been subject to an extremely vicious smear campaign by and in the Australian media; my last edit sheds some light on that fact. User Skyring alias Pete has repeatedly baited other editors, inserted edits with a biased POV, removed any edits or sources which suggest that the article's subject should be presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court, and has been maliciously editing the article. (And yes; I am sure the same will be said of me by him, but that's how it goes). 121.216.230.139 (talk) 07:12, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

:::Thanks for your comment, and for participating. However, from what I [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craig_Thomson_affair&diff=497018312&oldid=497014361 can see], the edit involved a primary source which is contested on the article's talk page. It's not my place to decide that dispute. Steven Walling • talk 07:17, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

::::Thank you for the reply. Given the above, can the article please be listed for speedy deletion as an attack page? 121.216.230.139 (talk) 07:42, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

See Talk:Horse rings in Portland. I don't have the time to do the research, but interesting and cool topic. Montanabw^(talk) 17:03, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi! Welcome to the fourth issue of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter for the Teahouse!

• Teahouse pilot wraps up after 13 weeks After being piloted on English Wikipedia starting in February, the Teahouse wrapped up its pilot period on May 27, 2012. We expect this is just the beginning for the Teahouse and hope the project will continue to grow in the months to come!

Thank you and congratulations to all of the community members who participated - and continue to participate!

• What you've all been waiting for: Teahouse Pilot Report is released! We look forward to your feedback on the methodology and outcomes of this pilot project.
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:*409 new editors participated during the entire pilot period, with about 40 new editors participating in the Teahouse per week.

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• Women participate in the Teahouse 28% of Teahouse participants were women, up from 9% of editors on Wikipedia in general, good news for this project which aimed to have impact on the gender gap too - but still lots to be done here!
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Hi, Steven! Just wanted to let you know the Education Program team is hosting an Article Review Party at the SF Wikimedia Foundation office on Sunday, June 24th (from 11ish–3ish). We'll provide food, drinks, music, and laughter. You just provide your brilliant mind and acute eye for reviewing articles. If you can spare an hour or two, please sign up and join us on this mirthful occasion. Hope to see you there! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 18:26, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Given the sprot (which I agree with completely) I thought I would just mention that I have started reviewing the Commons images for this category. I'm finding a number of single account offerings which look a little suspicious to me - if there is anything cross wiki I'll let folk know. Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:39, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

:Yeah, it's likely it's like the pr0n situation: folks quickly realize that if they license correctly they can give us a glut of photos of a product. Steven Walling • talk 23:51, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for participating in my RFA! I appreciate your support. Zagalejo^^^ 05:59, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi Steven, I just wanted to make sure that you saw [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121025.html this]. You can reply to the list or ping me on my talk page. If you would prefer to use private email that's ok too. I feel that we support similar goals here, and I am sure other editors do as well. The questions are about implementation, and I am cautiously optimistic that we in the community can arrive at a consensus on one form or another of implementation. Pine^✉ 09:05, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

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Dear Author/Steven Walling

My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address recently edited an article on Artificial Insemination. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article and or other health-related articles. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please reply via my talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance.

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I was superexcited to meet you in D.C., and you are even more dashing in person than you are in your photos. The guy who does nothing but wake up and fix comma splices is my hero, too. --David Shankbone 02:28, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

:Aw, shucks. Thanks man. Next time I am in the NYC area we should get a drink! Steven Walling • talk 07:05, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

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:Thanks to both you and Ryan for paying attention. I'm back online all day, so I'll keep an eye out and will self-apply protection if needs be. Steven Walling • talk 17:26, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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oh man you just cost me a ton of work due to conflicting edits. i see you are starting to work on this so i will stop now. enjoy! Jytdog (talk) 23:24, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

::it's OK knock yourself out I should go do something else for a while, like ride my bike. :) Jytdog (talk) 23:34, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Steven - thank you so much for your feedback!! I am looking for other sources. How many should I find so that the "This article needs additional citations for verification" box can be removed?

This is the first page I created, so bear with me!

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Hi Steven, I've started a thread on Talk:Foswiki asking for a bit of feedback on your recent edits. It would be nice if you could leave a few words before I revert your edits again. Thanks. Nuddlegg (talk) 06:30, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for the quick response! I have reviewed the five pillars. I will begin my edits, and update you along the way. Thanks for your help!

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I have completed edits to the introduction and history sections. I would appreciate it if you could review, correct or comment on the neutrality, content, and citations.

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:Will do. Thanks for the heads up! Steven Walling • talk 17:53, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Steven! I noticed you waded into the toxic gumbo mess today. I know how much you know about its prior history, but the edit is controversial, and has been reverted by several editors, only to be added back by a decidedly uncivil IP. There's no place for it in the article about this dish; all it discusses is a folk use of the word, and might have a place in the hurricane's article at best. Unfortunately, none of the involved editors started a discussion of the edit, so I've done that now in the hope we can arrive at a civil consensus. DoRD has already semi'd the article once to stop the IP, but we can but hope discussion will help. --Drmargi (talk) 03:27, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

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I've had a stab at revising {{Poultry}} as you suggested. Because of the large differences beween the species used, I thought this was best organised on a 'bird' basis. I have included all the birds in the Poultry article, although some might dispute whether all birds on here should be classified as 'Poultry'. I've tried to arrange the lists in the following order - Species (most common if known), List of breed or species, Family taxon, Uses or products, Housing system, Welfare, Other.

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Good to hear you on NPR this a.m.! Keep up the good work! Valfontis (talk) 23:19, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

:Yeah, I heard him too. David1217 ^{What I've done} 22:30, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you. I have added the url for the article that was used as a source of information.Rickking1001 (talk) 04:52, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

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Hi Steven. A while ago you suggested we expand the Poultry template. I worked very hard on this and then submitted it for comments. There was only one from an editor, Stemonitis. Prior to this, Stemonitis and I had got close to an edit war over some taxonomic details on Pain in invertebrates (taxonomy is not my specialist subject, but I wanted the article to be clear to the non-taxonomist reader). Anyway, Stemonitis suddenly began editing various articles I started and then made comments on the template, making me feel this had become a vendetta. I made changes to the Poultry template according to comments by Stemonitis and another editor I asked to have a look for an independent opinion. But, this is still apparently not enough and ‎Stemonitis has reverted to the old template which is misleading and inaccurate. Please could you look at the new Poultry template I developed and let me know what you think. All the best. __DrChrissy (talk) 17:01, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Hey. I sympathize with you about having someone seemingly follow you around. But I'm not sure how the shorter version is inaccurate or misleading. Just incomplete perhaps. Steven Walling • talk 22:09, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for your contributions to skeuomorph. I wrote dubious (which you undid) on the image of the car with fake wood siding because it needs a citation. Please see Talk:Skeuomorph#Examples_and_images:_with_citations_only_please. Everybody (including me -- the fake floorboards are my original photograph) have great ideas for illustrating skeumorphs. That's the problem. The article is a victim of its own sucess. As User:K8_fan wrote on Talk:Skeuomorph "I've been monitoring this article for quite some time ... it's such a cool term that loads of new users visit here and add one - and the list gets longer and eventually gets pruned. Rinse, repeat." Really everything needs citations on this page, otherwise it gets sever unreferenced content creep.

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Hi, I hope you will be joining us tomorrow afternoon at the Edit-a-thon at Tech Liminal, in Oakland. We'll be working on articles relating to women and democracy (and anything else that interests you). It's sponsored by the California League of Women Voters, Tech Liminal, and me.

If this is the first you are hearing of this event, my apologies for the last-minute notice! I announced it on the [http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf San Francisco email list] and by a banner on your watchlist, but I neglected to look at the San Francisco invitation list until this evening. If you can't make it this time, I hope to see you at a similar event soon! -Pete (talk) 04:54, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Hello Steven! Wishing you a very Happy Merry Christmas :) TheGeneralUser (talk) 20:33, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

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FYI, Steven! --Another Believer _(Talk) 16:46, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

I started an essay I think will have thought value. Feel free to add from your experience or that of others or from hypotheticals. Nick Levinson (talk) 19:48, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Hey there, just a quick reminder about the edit-a-thon you signed up for tomorrow afternoon at Tech Liminal. Hope to see you! -Pete (talk) 03:57, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Might you reconsider the RFPP? It would only be for a week or two, this is turning into an edit war between the two factions. Most contribs are not participating in the discussion on the talk page and keep re-adding the information without discussion - ignoring BRD altogether.

If you would, please revert the most recent and lock it down so they will be forced to discuss the disputed information. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 07:10, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

I see that you deleted someone's entry that did not have sources. Revision as of 18:38, 3 February 2013 (edit)

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I tried to see if I could contact them--I suspect it is an indigenous person unfamiliar with how to do the sourcing required.

There is a series of a dozen essays from professional scholars and indigenous people that iMediaEthics, an award winning news site that is published by our foundation Art Science Research Laboratory, co-founded with my late husband Stephen Jay Gould that should be suitable and support Mohawkvellum's statement . Since I already am engaged with James Cantor to restore a section on this Jared Diamond bio page that was stable for many years, I fear, if I add anything from this series, of being accused of conflict of interest even though Mondo Times and Google Publisher etc recognize iMediaEthics as a legitimate media business news site.

Can you advise? Here is an example http://www.imediaethics.org/News/170/Rebutting_jared_diamonds_savage_portrait__.php and here http://www.imediaethics.org/News/152/The_new_yorker_rsquos_second_crisis_of_conscience__.php . This blog, Savage Minds, is consider authoritative in Pacific anthropology and endorses the Sillitoe, Kuwimb essay as most authoritative on the subject of Diamond's claims about tribal warfare in the New yorker article that led to Diamond being sued.

As I posted on the Talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jared_Diamond , the timing of this deletion of an entire section, in perception or reality, is suspect as it occurred on the very day Diamond's book pub date. Also with precision, on the same book launch day, the the word "forthcoming" was removed from the front of Diamond's new book title as if intimately part of the launch.

A Tiggarjay commented from a notice board that he would help "sort things out" but I am left with dealing with Cantor on my own with no feedback? I am inexperienced with conventions or battles (I see Cantor is very familiar ). I would really appreciate some help and advice? Thank you.

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I think the only reason I was declined the request to have the article on Jat Airways semi-protected was because your were less familiar with the airline and other variables regarding it--I'm sure if you were familiar with the basics on Airbus's delivery queue, you would recognize that the IP edits are basically trying to exaggerate the airline's orders of new aircraft. If you look at the edits of IP 92.60.225.228 (see below line 152 upon clicking the link you posted) that you posted when you declined the request, it can be seen that he has not only deleted my correct references and added false ones (e.g. the Bhutan Air reference), but he/she changes the ATR-72-500 order to ATR-72-600, and likewise from Airbus A319 to Airbus A319E w/sharklets, Airbus A320 to Airbus A320neo, etc (see the fleet section if you are interested in reconsidering your decision). In the references that I put, the airline is only leasing ATR-72-500s as well as regular A319s and A320s. The A320neo and A319E with sharklets are false information because a) in none of the references does it say so, and b) the neo/sharklet versions are recently announced models and the queue for orders of the type are so occupied that even if Jat were to order them now, they would never come before 2017 at the very earliest; as you can see in the article's fleet section, the IP editors claim that such models are being delivered in 2015, and of course they put this in place of a reference I put that was once there. All I ask for, if it still seems impossible to see that the IP users are vandalizing (including deleting my references and replacing them with off-topic ones), is whether it's okay for me to send another request for the sake of not trying to get into an edit conflict with them. Zastavafan76 (talk) 17:56, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

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I'm looking to get some informal feedback on an idea related to editor retention and editor recognition, before I try posting something at Village Pump Ideas.

The draft is here

I got some feedback from Dennis Brown and Drmies, which I have tried to incorporate. I'd like to get a little more before I open it up to the world.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 17:11, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

:Great idea, I'll try and leave some comments tonight. Steven Walling • talk 18:00, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

::Thanks. --SPhilbrick(Talk) 18:35, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations on exporting a tiny bit more American priggishness to a global audience. When you're done celebrating this little victory against potential offensiveness, feel free to do as thorough a job as I foolishly bothered to do in tidying up the loose ends effected by moving the page from where it had errantly lain, seldom remarked upon, for just shy of four years. Anyway, since my efforts are not appreciated, they will no longer be forthcoming. Congratulations once again. LaFoiblesse (talk (but don't really)) 17:41, 15 March 2013 (GMT)

:You need to keep a civil tone. As you can see from [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donkey_milk&action=history the page history], when you edit something, it goes out in to people's watchlists and typically follow up edits ensue. You did perfectly fine job trying to fix the awkward naming of the article, and my follow up move was not a personal judgement. And by the way, the victory is not over imagined offensiveness, but over unnecessary grammatical complexity. Steven Walling • talk 20:34, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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We really need a better tutorial that newbies can be asked to go

through -- the kind that autogenerates a userpage for you at the end

based on your completion. That would make this sort of drama harder

to conjure up. [regarding: the recent U.Toronto psych class drama] – SJ +

The problem is much more complex than that, in my experience.

We actually do now have pretty comprehensive training guides (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training) and a budding list of low-stakes things for newcomers to do right away (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GettingStarted). Even programs like IEG experimented with this kind of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Tutorial

Even if these students had gone through an onboarding process with a user page wizard and successful completion of 1-10 first decent article edits, they're going to cause a fuss if they make nearly 1,000 new pages on a certain topic in a coordinated area.

: True. But that's a different sort of issue than "copyvios/plagiarism". I also think we need a better tutorial for Editors/Reviewers -- so that a % of newbies can be encouraged to 'think like a curator' and act as critic of others rather than just writer. It doesn't take a 1:1 ratio for this to be helpful - even a bad editor will start to see things differently by putting on a different hat. – SJ +

The attitude of existing editors tends to change when you move from a naturally and independently motivated group of people creating thousands of new items of their own volition, to one where people are joining because someone made a coordinated campaign. It automatically creates a situation where the recruiting entity is viewed as responsible for the quality of their work. Whether that is fair or not is debatable, but it's the reality of the situation.

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Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland
Theme: Hyperlocal list-making

This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at [http://oaklandwiki.org/Lake_Merritt Lake Merritt], next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal [http://www.oaklandwiki.org Oakland Wiki]. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

• Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland ([http://oaklandwiki.org/The_Great_American_Wiknic_2013 here]) (Oakland Wiki)
• Nearest BART: 19th Street
• Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
• Street parking abounds

:Thank you so much Tom! You're too kind. All I did was shuffle some bits around really. Steven Walling • talk 01:29, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Just letting you know that I am proposing a merge of cow pony into stock horse. "Cow pony" is just an old slang colloquialism. Unlike polo pony, the word is not really used much by practitioners today. As far as adding it to a list or something, see what I did at List_of_horse_breeds#Types_of_horse. Montanabw^(talk) 21:33, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

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Your clear conflicts of interest show through on the Warby Parker page. I will take it over. You should avoid editing it going forward unless edits are approved beforehand. Additionally, you should stay very very far from discussing anything relevant to price or marketing which you have clearly emphasized in your copy. Zippypie (talk) 18:59, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

:{{replyto|Zippypie}} Uh, sorry. But you can't take over pages, and you can't just go around accusing people of bad faith or conflicts of interest. If there are things you think should be changed in the article, go ahead and change them, or bring them up on the talk page. You don't need to make threats and be a dick. Steven Walling • talk 19:03, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Woah there cowboy, watch the language and be civil. Ad hominem attacks have no place here. I have the page in my watched list and will be monitoring it due to the obvious (and honestly admitted) conflicts of interest admitted by previous editors. I am not making any threats I am simply politely informing you of this beforehand. Additionally, it is bad form to revert verifiable edits which are properly sourced. I hope you will be more civil going forward. Zippypie (talk) 23:15, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

:I'm sure Mr. Walling appreciates the lesson in civility, especially when delivered on such an olive branch. tedder (talk) 01:53, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

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• Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
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Hi there Steven Walling! I've noticed you have yourself listed as a member of the Food and Drink Wikiproject. Unfortunately it looks like the project has been slowly sliding into inactivity except for a couple of people. That makes me a sad potato, and nobody likes a sad potato amirite?

If you'd like to turn my frown upside down, can you do two small things?

First off, go here and add {{tl|Tick}} ({{Tick}}) next to your name if you're still part of the project.

Second, go to the project talkpage and participate in a discussion about how to make the project more active, and how to go about making articles in our area of interest a lot better.

You don't want to make me cry, do you? Potatoes have a lot of eyes you know. So come on, join in! :)

— The Potato Hose 18:27, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Steven, this user is not David A. Wiley (I confirmed via email). I've blocked and will revert the rest of the edits. Thanks for catching this! -Pete (talk) 17:24, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

: Thanks Pete! Steven Walling • talk 18:19, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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Thank for your interest in the Template:History of Christianity and your block to enforce discussion. I did not, however, understand your advice to take my "disputes there... to the Talk page", etc. since that is what I have been doing. tahc ^chat 18:12, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

:Posting to the talk page but also continuing the reverts is not really ending the edit war. The point is to cease back-and-forth editing until the discussion has reached some kind of conclusion. If the other person will not engage in the discussion or you have reached an impasse, ask for a third opinion. Steven Walling • talk 18:15, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Steven,

Thank you for contacting me about the goat breed articles. I have responded to your comments on the corresponding talk page.

Neelix (talk) 22:03, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

:Hi Steven,

:It has been three days since I responded to your comments, and I see that you have been editing other articles even up to today. We aren't going to come to an agreement on these articles if we don't discuss them. If no objections are made over the coming couple days, I think that I would be justified in reverting your bold splits.

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::{{mention|Neelix}} thanks for the courtesy reminder. I'll reply on the talk page now. Steven Walling • talk 18:33, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

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seen? --Isderion (talk) 22:55, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

:Thanks for the poke. Will reply today. :) Steven Walling • talk 18:20, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

::really? :) --Isderion (talk) 16:30, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

{{trout}}...William 19:53, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

:Oh thanks, dick. Steven Walling • talk 19:54, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Incidentally, if you want your actions to be clearly understood as being taken in a personal capacity [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback&diff=prev&oldid=563594458], then it might be helpful if you avoid going out of your way to mention that you work for the WMF when explaining them. Like, for example, in your message to me announcing that I had been reverted.

Oh, and for the record, admins are generally encouraged to discuss issues first rather than simply reverting each other. I announced my change at WP:VE/F, and would have been happy to discuss it further, but you felt a need to revert first and then tell me how I was clearly wrong. Frankly, your approach to this issue felt more than a little rude. Dragons flight (talk) 01:18, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

:I apologize, sincerely, if you felt slighted or disrespected in any way. Since you didn't mention any discussion in your comment, I could only assume you were being bold as you said, and had not announced/discussed the change beforehand. In the spirit of WP:BRD and because this is a primary action on the edit interface, I do think the right thing to do was to revert for now and discuss the proposal to change it. Steven Walling • talk 04:46, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

::"I could only assume...", except that's not true. You could have asked, or you could have checked what links here on the message, or you could have checked WP:VE/F, or could have checked the bugzilla entry which mentions that there was discussion on VE/F, etc. Editing the interface at all is "bold", but is seems unreasonable to assume that anyone would change the interface without having a reason for it, which you could have learned with a little effort.

::On the broader point, I agree that ultimately the right thing to do is have the VE team change the default label, but with hundreds of bugs to work on I didn't imagine something like this was high on their priority list. On the other hand this is one of the few frequently repeated UI complaints that we can locally do something about without having to wait for the VE team. I would have assumed that enwiki would settle on something, probably with some iteration, and then the VE team would probably copy us. Personally, I don't see the point of reverting back to a bad interface just to hold a discussion that might hopefully make the interface even better. We can do these things iteratively. Dragons flight (talk) 05:45, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for your reply re: "new user mode". I have responded to the original Teahouse post, and also have a direct reply to your message on my talk page.

In short, this whole experience has turned up a number of resources, and I see the challenge, at this point as: how do we put this motley mess of widgets together into a reasonable toolkit? I see your tool, "new user mode" as an important, integral part of that toolkit, and that the problem is not so much the tool itself, but rather in how the tool was being used.

I know I've got some pretty lengthy replies, so please, no rush, but when you have a moment, you're welcome to consider my thoughts and see if we can work together on a simple but effective solution.

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{{trout}}

I'm giving both of you a whack for that exchange on my user talk page. I'm putting you on guard that I'm armed, and I'm ready to use it. I will get the two of you to play nice. You may check out my response ... you will find that I've decided to take preemptive action, and established a Debate Arena to make sure the discussion that the two of you clearly need to have, with each other, happens fairly, fully, and that neither of you get hurt in the process. I know full well you're really on the same side of things, but I've got to get the both of you to see that. I'm doing this for your own protection. I'm not going to let a discussion turn abusive on my page. I insist on treating the both of you, fairly, equally, and professionally. We will get to a resolution of your differences. I know both of you mean well ... you just can't see that, yet. You will, trust me. I've been an underdog in an unfair fight far too long to let it happen to someone else.

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I don't know if you've seen my previous comments on your exchange or not, but if you have, then I must apologize that I won't be able to moderate your discussion. Unfortunately, I've gotten some bad news and will have to be leaving soon. Thanks for your help, and I wish you the best of luck in your future affairs.

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:{{ping|Khazar2}} Hey, many thanks for the award! This is a great looking award, and super fun to get. Is there a list of potential winners out there, so I could help spread some appreciation for others? As for the Million Award... I'm just fine with a mere half. ;) Steven Walling • talk 05:04, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

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