User talk:Amorymeltzer

Amory has a very distracting family and will likely be editing erratically until the kids stop being cute.

This is Amorymeltzer's talk page, where you can send them messages and comments.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help. Assume good faith Be polite and avoid personal attacks Be welcoming to newcomers Seek dispute resolution if needed

Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31Auto-archiving period: 14 days

22:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick & thorough cleanup job relating to ultimate (sport) ! --JBL (talk) 13:25, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Danke! The real tragedy is that my tea got cold... ~ Amory (u • t • c) 14:46, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, yeah i was guessing that was not correct. But that page was never an article and redirects to the national basketball team, makes no sense, tbh. Kante4 (talk) 21:09, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

​ The team article mentions Hamza Ruhezamihigo as a member of the current roster, that seems to make sense to me. Without knowing anything about the player or the team, it might be reasonable for the redirect to be deleted per WP:REDLINK, but G8 is definitely not the way to do that; WP:RFD if you think it'd be better gone. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 21:46, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Like i said i was not sure what would fit. ;) Thanks again. Kante4 (talk) 22:01, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors February 2018 News Welcome to the February 2018 GOCE newsletter in which you will find Guild updates since the December edition. We got to a great start for the year, holding the backlog at nine months. 100 requests were submitted in the first 6 weeks of the year and were swiftly handled with an average completion time of 9 days. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< Coordinator elections: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2018 were elected. Jonesey95 remained as lead coordinator and Corrine, Miniapolis and Tdslk as assistant coordinators. Keira1996 stepped down as assistant coordinator and was replaced by Reidgreg. Thanks to all who participated! End of year reports were prepared for 2016 and 2017, providing a detailed look at the Guild's long-term progress. January drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2017 from our backlog and all December 2017 Requests (a total of 275 articles). As with previous years, the January drive was an outstanding success and by the end of the month all but 57 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 38 who signed up, 21 editors recorded 259 copy edits (490,256 words). February blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 February, focusing on Requests and the last articles tagged in May 2017. At the end of the week there were only 14 pending requests, with none older than 20 days. Of the 11 who signed up, 10 editors completed 35 copy edits (98,538 words). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Reidgreg. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:59, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have just one small point to clear up in relation to our conversation at User talk:CASSIOPEIA. It doesn't really concern CASSIOPEIA, and I get the feeling that she (or he?) doesn't want discussion to continue there, so I am posting here. You said "I don't know where you get three years from. This is not a consistently active editor since 2015." I evidently didn't express myself clearly, resulting in your misunderstanding me. When I wrote "the sole user of the IP address in question during the last three years " I didn't mean that this editor had been using the IP address for three years, I just meant that this editor was the only person to have used the IP address at any time since three years ago. Sorry that I evidently didn't make that clear. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 17:45, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 17:59, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello. I’ve come across a couple of accounts, User:Kitsunewarlock (quite possibly also using IP:216.7.144.60) and User:Kyrt-Ryder, who seem to have been trying to use their userpages to conduct a role playing game in 2013, although it didn’t get very far. It’s the first one I've seen for a while and I’ve tagged their pages but I thought it would be worth highlighting them to a sysop. I’m hesitant to suggest blocking because it was in 2013 and it seems unlikely they’ll come back. Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 14:06, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

​Nice find! Your U5s have all been done, I think it's fine to leave things there. Seems to be folks from the Bleach Gotei site, which is basically what you describe. No need to block — should they come back, no reason they can't be productive — but thanks for picking it up! I can't find evidence of it, but I think there used to be more of this sort of thing a decade plus ago; talk pages were much more forum-y. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 14:47, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

Thank you for the notification, Amory but I think you misunderstood the intent of that article. I could be totally wrong, but the context is urban slang: Beb is an anagram for babe. Often used to describe your love towards a human being in a platonic relationship, and has nothing to do with Babi_(mythology), although I can see why such a thought would come to mind. See Urban Dictionary which explains the words "beb" & "bebs". Also, the SPA sourced the article to Discord which takes you to a site you have to join. I researched further and discovered that it's a gamer site for the Boosted Animals Community. ^{Atsme📞📧} 14:45, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Atsme: Yes indeed, but I was trying to point you to the page's full history. For 13 years, it was a redirect, until today when it was replaced with the content you describe. That content was clearly A11, but that's a hijacking of the page. That's why I declined the speedy, to not throw the baby out with the bathwater, and pointed it to where it can be useful. I'm open to an RfD, but that's neither here nor there. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 14:51, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I read the history of the page and prior redirect, and read the article it was directed to, and there is nothing in that article that mentions "Beb" or anything even close. Geb (with a "G") was the father of Osiris. In the original article 13 yrs ago, it falsely claimed that Beb is the "first-born son of Osiris according to the Book of the Dead. Little else is known about him. Alternative: Bebti, Baba, Babu. The only son of Osiris was Horus, a god of the sky, so for 13+/- years, Beb has remained in our encyclopedia as a total hoax and deserves to be speedy deleted, please? ^{Atsme📞📧} 15:31, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's why I pointed it to Babi (mythology); interwiki links and some random searching suggest Beb was used to refer to this God. I just realized I didn't open an RfD as I had intended, so I'll go do that now! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 15:51, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]