User talk:Jdforrester

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Do not post IRC cloak requests here; go to the automatic page instead.

I'm much more likely to spot a message sent to my English Wikipedia talk page, w:en:User talk:Jdforrester. There is also my archival sub-page.


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[edit] CC my post to Jimbo abut GUSurvey

Here. Something needs to be done. --Piotrus 20:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 4x4 square templates nominated for deletion

Hello Jdforrester. I've nominated a number of most-perfect magic square templates for deletion. You participated in an earlier discussion in 2005 that was never closed; if you'd like to comment again, please see Meta:Requests for deletion#4x4_type_squares. —{admin} Pathoschild 02:35:26, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! Have responded there - and I agree with you, this time. :-)
James F. (talk) 14:19, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] #Wikimedia-Checkuser

Hello Jdforrester, how are you? I learned today that there is a #Wikimedia-checkuser chat room, and I also know that none of the current checkusers on en.wb have access to it. Some of our CUs are cross-project CUs and admins, so I think it would be a valuable addition. Do you think you could add the following 3 usernames?

  • wknight8111
  • Mike_lifeguard
  • SB_Johnny

We have two other CUs that aren't active on IRC, so I don't think we need to worry about them quite yet. Let me know if you need anything, like confirmation or whatever. Thanks! --Whiteknight (meta) (Books) 14:31, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

+me too; I noticed I have no acces to #wikimedia-checkuser. Can you include WalterBE and WalterB1 / cloak @wikimedia/WalterBE please? I am a steward. --Walter 22:13, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Done!
James F. (talk) 22:19, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Please me also. I am a checkuser on ar WP. [1] [2] My IRC nick: meno25wiki cloak: wikimedia/Meno25. Thanks. --Meno25 22:41, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania template

Hi! I'm aware that redlinks in general is a good thing, but as I see it, a bid requires an active group behind it, and as such, a bid is not something someone might create just to get rid of a redlink (as you would with an article in Wikipedia). As for the discussion; where has this taken place? There is nothing on the talkpage, and no mention of it in the template history. Everything there, is an edit summary from you about restoring them and adding Gdansk. If there has been any discussion on this, someone should place a link on the talkpage, or at least mention it in an edit summary to notify others who may not be very active on meta.

As for the cities in red; the links were added on July 15. when the template was created. I removed them on August 10., nearly a month after. I wont oppose other bids in any way, competition is just healthy. But at the same time, I see no point in keeping them there, especially when nothing have been done about them so far, and also when there is nothing to stop them from inserting the various countries when they actually get started. As for my COI; yeah, I'm involved in one of the bids. I'm working to create a bid which will lead to what I believe will be the best Wikimania ever. But at the same time I cannot for any good reason see why this should be a problem, as a) competition is healthy, and b) Wikimania 2010 should go to the group with the best bid, even if this is someone else but the team I'm involved with! I understand that I might be concieved as having a COI in this, but I removed the links for other reasons than to sabotage or stop other bids from occuring. As for the minor edit; this is not an excuse in any way, but the "mark every edit as minor" option in the preferences was on. It has since been set to not mark them as such. I will not revert myself, as I don't agree with you in this case, at least not right now. If you decide to revert me that's fine, but please link to the discussion you mentioned! Bjelleklang -- talk 23:17, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] IRC Logging

James, would you confirm whether or not the proposal at IRC guidelines/wikipedia/Public logging is intended to include #admins as well? Cheers --Mcginnly 17:11, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't believe it is. If it were, I would refuse assent, of course.
James F. (talk) 08:32, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry but...

I'm not able to request an IRC cloack on any automatic page. It seems that the page have crashed. What can I do to request it?. Kind regards: --Dferg (talk) 19:36, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what advice I can give - the system appears to be working fine for me. What steps did you take that cause it to fail to work? What do you mean by "crash" - does it stop responding? Not render? Something else?
James F. (talk) 11:48, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Well, when I click on the link it appears the following sentence: Could not establish connection to MySQL server.(this is an account on the toolserver). I don't know how to do cause Sean Whitton didn't answer to my message. Regards: Dferg (talk) 18:35, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Ah, forgive me; my link at the top of the page is very old. This should work.
James F. (talk) 21:02, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Mmm, sorry X mark.svg it doesn't works. I see a completely white page. I tried to refresh the page but it still doesn't works. I don't know how to do. May be a bug?. Regards.
Dferg (talk) 08:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Apparently this was a problem created by the Toolserver being changed so much by the sysadmins. Should now work.
James F. (talk) 11:14, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

from W:es:User talk:Dferg

(fuera sangría) Yes check.svg Done, but another user requested the cloack instead of me cause I'm still not able to see the page. Thank you: --Dferg (discusión) 21px 09:13 1 oct 2008 (UTC)

[edit] IRC cloak

I'm w:en:User:Khoikhoi, IRC user khoikhoi and khoikhoi_ (linked to the former). I would like to have the cloak "wikipedia/khoikhoi". Thanks in advance. Khoikhoi 06:26, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Did you try the request system? Cbrown1023 talk 20:57, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Ah, wasn't aware that there was one. Anyways, I think Jdforrester gave me a cloak regardless. Thanks. Khoikhoi 05:10, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] October admin confirmations

Just to let you know that, per Meta:Admin#Poll after a year, your local rights on meta are up for their annual reconfirmation at Meta:Administrators/confirm. WJBscribe (talk) 21:56, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] waiting for an IRC Cloak request

Hi Jdforrester, I've tried to get an IRC cloak two weeks ago. I've followed all the steps and I'm still waiting for the cloak to arrive. Could you have a look at it? Thanks in advance for your time, regards, JacobH 17:20, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] request system is offline

$ wget -S http://stable.toolserver.org/wmfgcbot/request
--2008-12-14 06:16:57--  http://stable.toolserver.org/
Resolving stable.toolserver.org... 91.198.174.202
Connecting to stable.toolserver.org|91.198.174.202|:80
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
  Server: Sun-Java-System-Web-Server/7.0
  Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:16:53 GMT
  Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
  Content-length: 0
  Connection: keep-alive
2008-12-14 06:16:57 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

Can I has a "wikipedia/Enric_Naval" cloack? (I'll try the request system again tomorrow) --Enric Naval 05:19, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User rights

Please sign see here if you wish to continue holding user rights here. Thanks, Majorly talk 15:12, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Notice of removal of adminship

Hello,

I regret to inform you that, in accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and as a result of your inactivity, you have been automatically stripped of your adminship. Please see Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2009 for details. Kind regards, —Anonymous DissidentTalk 14:54, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Don't be shy about requesting adminship again in the future if you want to be an admin again; on Meta at least this should still be no big deal :) Sj+ translate 03:09, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
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