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The Signpost: 29 January 2014
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The Signpost: 29 January 2014
- Traffic report: Six strikes out
- WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
- News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
- Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
recall
I am contacting you today as one of the users listed at User:Secret/recall. In case you were not aware, Secret has once again resigned his admin status and is once again about to ask for it back. I am concerned that this behavior constitutes the sort of erratic behavior that this recall mechanism was designed to deal with and am asking all other users listed there to add their opinion at the talk page of the recall subpage. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:17, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
- Responded and stalking talk page. John F. Lewis (talk) 00:31, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 12 February 2014
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Please comment on changes to the AfC mailing list
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The Signpost: 26 March 2014
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- Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
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Help
There is AFCH error in my page. Please correct it.--prathamprakash29 16:34, 7 May 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prathamprakash29 (talk • contribs)
The Signpost: 07 May 2014
- Traffic report: TMZedia
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RFA closing procedures
Thank you for partly closing Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Koavf. A full list of instructions can be found at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Promotions and RfX closures. I went ahead and completed the following steps that were missed:
- Removing the 'Voice Your Opinion' link on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Koavf
- Add the summary to Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies (Chronological) and Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies
- Update the unsuccessful count at Wikipedia:Successful requests for adminship/2014
Cheers, Mkdwtalk 17:09, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
- Oh sorry. Thanks for telling me and completing them. John F. Lewis (talk) 17:10, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
- No problem. I actually noticed you completed a step that wasn't listed at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Promotions and RfX closures so I added it to the instructions. Mkdwtalk 17:16, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
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Notification of a June AfC BackLog Drive
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Hello John F. Lewis:
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Your Revert
Nuuuu! Thanks for the revert though. --JustBerry (talk) 17:40, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
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- Traffic report: Autumn in summer
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- News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
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- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
- Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees
- Featured content: Politics, ships, art, and cyclones
The Signpost: 18 June 2014
- News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use
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- Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
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The Signpost: 16 July 2014
- Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile
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- Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun
Simone Moro
Do you have an eyewitness account, you are finally admitting the Moro. That's what you have sources you need??? Germania Breslau (talk) 12:08, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
MV arbitration case
Upon checking just now, I find the RfC was also advertised here, which is the usual place for discussions of site-wide interest. It was removed from the template about three weeks later. This should probably be mentioned as well; would you be amenable to adding it? Best, Andreas JN466 03:15, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
- Sure, I'll amend it shortly. Thanks, John F. Lewis (talk) 11:59, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Done John F. Lewis (talk) 14:24, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks. Andreas JN466 16:07, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Adoption. (Sort of)
Since I'm a Semi experienced editor I was wondering if I could take just your Deletion and both of the vandalism courses you have. I use twinkle.
The Courses: User:John F. Lewis/Adopt/Deletion User:John F. Lewis/Adopt/Vandalism 1.1 User:John F. Lewis/Adopt/Vandalism 1.2
Also quick question: when do you use only warning?
Thanks, Bobherry talk 17:43, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
- You're free to read the pages and do the tasks at the end then ask me to look over it all but I'm not really too active with anything outside of account creation here any more :) John F. Lewis (talk) 17:47, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 July 2014
- Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel
- Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
- News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
- Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!
Another paragraph was removed by an anon here Is this a valid removal or should it be restored? Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 08:48, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
- Looking at the ticket; seems legit. John F. Lewis (talk) 08:50, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 July 2014
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The Signpost: 06 August 2014
- Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview
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- Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
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The Signpost: 03 September 2014
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Thanks for taking care of the issues through OTRS. I have had this article on my watchlist for years. Not only do I coordinate WP:WPSCH but by pure coincidence the place is located in my home town. There is always a lot of local conjecture surrounding the place but the Wikipedia article must be kept neutral. Let me know on my talk page if at any time you would like me to semi protect the page. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:21, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 01 October 2014
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The semi protection hasn't worked and a confirmed editor replaced the removed content. I have reverted and placed the article under full protection but you may need to explain at some later stage about the OTRS ticket, without of course disclosing any confidential information. Regards, --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:12, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for the update. Will do if necessary within policy. John F. Lewis (talk) 06:42, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 08 October 2014
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The Signpost: 15 October 2014
- Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
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