User talk:Matanya

Welcome to Meta!

Hello מתניה, and welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). If you would like, feel free to ask me questions on my talk page. Happy editing! Ottava Rima (talk) 14:27, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!. מתניה 16:44, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi, thank you for providing translation for my statement. I appreciate it. Good luck with the election. Bennylin 02:29, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

My pleasure. good luck. מתניה 07:53, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you מתניה.Jayantanth 09:33, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

you welcome :) use it wisely. מתניה 09:38, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks User:Matanya . Jayantanth 20:35, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Bots

Hi! Maybe I'm just misunderstanding something, but shouldn't a bot normally edit for at least a week or make over 100 edits before it can be auto-approved per the bot policy? I noticed vo:User:Ripchip Bot is just 3 days old with about 40 edits. Regards, Jafeluv 13:04, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi. she got the bot flag because local 'crats asked for it on the local discussion page. you can see the links. I didn't give her a flag on the rest from the reason you mentioned. Matanya 14:01, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, sorry, I can't see it. You mean vo:Vükiped:Bots? The last edit on that page is the posting of Ripchip Bot's request on 8 March, isn't it? Jafeluv 07:55, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

my bad, I've seen the bot policy, not the request. Matanya 13:56, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

removal of talk page content

You appear to have removed some content that I put on my user talk page, and you claimed that you did so to remove "private data". The only possible part of what I posted that might appear to be "private data" was my own email address, which is not a private address. There were also some imaginary "conversations" that I wrote and copies of some user talk page discussions, such as that from your user talk page, but there was no reason for you to remove the content that I posted. Please return the content that I put on my user talk page to my user talk page. --JWSurf 17:56, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

As a blocked user, that misused the admin and 'crat tools, I don't think you understand the meaning of private data. As a matter of fact I won't do so. Matanya 19:20, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

"misused the admin and 'crat tools" <-- What are you talking about?

"I don't think you understand the meaning of private data" <-- I think you are wrong, but that does not matter. There was no "private data" in what I posted to my user talk page. In case you still have not read what I posted, you can see what I posted here. Please return the content that I put on my user talk page to my user talk page. --JWSurf 19:37, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm very disappointed to see you spread that post to another place. The discussion is repeating itself, so I'm off it. You totally lack the knowledge of what personal data means. And your email is a personal data as well, but you chose to reveal it. I have nothing to add to this subject and I won't reply on this subject anymore. Matanya 20:34, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

"I'm very disappointed to see you spread that post to another place" <-- Why? If you read it you can see that there is no "personal data" in what I posted. I did include an email address that is my own, but that is my business. "The discussion is repeating itself" <-- only because you will not explain your removal of talk page content from my user talk page. "I won't reply on this subject anymore" <-- Your failure to explain your action to me seems to be a violation of policy. --JWSurf 20:50, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Choix d'Haifa pour Wikimania

Parlant très mal l'anglais, je n'ai pas très bien compris votre message sur ma page de discussion. Sachez cependant que je n'ai rien contre Israël en lui-même (j'aurais pensé la même chose si l'événement avait été organisé dans un certain nombre d'autres pays), mais beaucoup contre l'organisation d'événements tels que Wikimania dans ce pays, vu le contexte actuel. Je trouve cela déplacé. Maintenant, pour Haifa 2011, c'est sans doute trop tard. Mais j'espère que certains tiendront compte de mes remarques pour les choix des prochaines années. Autres pays, autres problèmes 78.250.243.101 01:36, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

thanks. I understood your point of view. best Matanya 07:27, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

global block

can you globally block my ip for infinity so I can see where I get block'd? 70.52.144.218 23:30, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

You will get blocked on all wikimedia sites. I don't see any need doing it. 07:14, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

E-mail

Sent you a quick one. No real need for a reply. Courcelles 08:21, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

I saw the mail before this message :) Matanya 08:22, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations, Dear Administrator!

Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano | Nederlands | Português | Русский | edit

An offering for our new administrator from your comrades... (our budget is smaller than Commons)

Matanya, congratulations! You now have the rights of administrator on Meta. Please take a moment to read the Meta:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat, and Meta:Requests for deletion, but also Talk:Spam blacklist and Talk:Interwiki map), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings, or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care.

A tip: add this page Meta:Administrators' discussion index to your watchlist, it tracks the latest activity to various sections of many of the important pages.

Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikimedia-admin @ irc.freenode.net. You may find Commons:Guide to adminship to be useful reading although it doesn't always completely apply here at Meta.

Please also check or add your entry to Meta:Administrators#List_of_administrators and the Template:List of administrators.

-- Mentifisto 11:16, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Confusion

Hello Matanya,

I just read your message on kbd.wiki. Thank you for going into all this trouble and letting me know, and there is no need to apologize, of course. But to be honest, I am confused.

I occasionally see cratship requests being denied due to size of the wiki (Don't see the logic behind it though), but I don't understand why adminship became temporary all of a sudden.

I'd surely appreciate it if you could specify the policy in question.

Best

Vito Genovese 20:42, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much for understanding the situation, I have removed your crat rights. The relevant policy is: here. Matanya 07:22, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Removal of photo

Hi:

Recently a photo was removed from the David Levy Wikiquote and Wikipedia. Given all the rules and guidelines it appears I had submitted everything properly but apparently not. I need assistance in uploading the photo. What should I do differently to upload the photo. It is not a copyright photo and was provided by the author.

reference: (cur | prev) 17:07, 3 May 2011 CommonsDelinker (Talk | contribs) m (3,708 bytes) (Removing "DavidLevy_Pepperdine.jpg", it has been deleted from Commons by Matanya because: Media missing permission as of 18 March 2011.) (undo)

I can be reached at omar@computersystemanalyst.com

Hello, thanks for notifying me. you should follow commons:COM:OTRS. If you have any difficulties please let me know. Best Matanya 16:35, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Oversight undone @dewiki

Hi Matanya, I've undone your oversight actions in dewiki. None of them were compatible with the policy. Thanks for your work in general anyway. Kind regards Sargoth 08:14, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me. Matanya 08:26, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi

Just wanted to remember you about the flood flag. :D --WizardOfOz ^talk 17:46, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

You have got a point... thanks. Matanya 17:47, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Others opinion is not to hide it. so you can decide. :D --WizardOfOz ^talk 17:48, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

on IRC? the heck with this ISP... Matanya 17:49, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Please Block

Please Block User:Blowdrycarpet. He has a promotional Username and have been adding Promotional things to Sandbox. Vibhijain 10:05, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

talkback

Hello, Matanya. You have new messages at Jamesofur's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Oppression in Chinese wikipedia

I have posted a cases about oppression in Chinese wikipedia. Looking forward to your assisstance, recommendations or judgment. Thank you very much.--Coekon 08:17, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

TUSC token 5d5bb987e4661439f3c73948c66bacc2

I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!

Admin access for Ora Unu on pflwiki

Hi Matanya , thank you for granting Ora Unu admin access on pflwiki. I wonder why you did that temporarely for six months and not permanent. Is this this a new rule? Of course, that's not a big problem, why could extend it in six months :-). Kind regards, --Holder 04:28, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I granted temp adminship, since the community is really small. If on the next term it will be bigger, no problem granting permanent. best Matanya 07:03, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

selamatkan aku

Hello, are you steward? Help me! Because I was blocked there (accusation) canvassing at Indonesian Wikipedia. And lately I've never done anything like that. Just look list contribution at there. Please (if possible) revoked the block status.

Oh ya, I also ask to release the SockPuppet I was there named id:User: Erik Evermtus at Indonesian Wikipedia because this account will be used as a substitute if the main account stolen by others such as id:User:Kenrick95Sock. Thank you --Erik Evrest 04:49, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I can't revoke local blocks. Did you talk to whom blocked you? Matanya 07:03, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Help me! That means the same as abuse of authority. So blocking is a feasible status revoked and the blocker can be removed his admin status--Erik Evrest 12:12, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

There is no point in repeating the same text as at barras's talk page. Matanya 12:25, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Temporaries

Hi! Please remember to move removed temporary permission sections from SRAT to the archive after processing as the instruction in the page header indicate. That way the next permissions to expire will be at the top and it's easier to keep track of them. Cheers, Jafeluv 07:33, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi! thanks for that, my memory leakage is getting worse ;) Matanya 07:37, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Leak of private email by Vibhijain

Hi,

Understand your a steward on meta. I dont normally make such requests however there is something I would like you to look into. A private email sent by me to a user (Vibhijain) was leaked by him here [1]. I dont deny the email nor do I see any wrong in it. I dint intend to do anything about it as I felt though the guy is immature he has tremendous potential to do good on wiki globally. This guy was warned not to leak private emails on meta, but he retorted "... This can't be considered a as warning at all."! Just wondering if anything can be done about this. I dont want to scare this guy of wikipedia, hes just 13 at the same time he needs to be dealt with by a firm hand. Hope you can help. Cheers, AroundTheGlobe 17:33, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I've added some words there. best Matanya 19:26, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Global lock of Poetlister accounts

• Poetlister, 26 June 2011 ‎ (cross-wiki abuse: Abusing multiple accounts:)
• Cato, 26 June 2011 (cross-wiki abuse: Abusing multiple accounts), unset ‎(Not SUL'ed)
• Longfellow, 5 June 2011 (cross-wiki abuse)
• Quillercouch, 5 June 2011 ‎(cross-wiki abuse)

Were these actions based on a discussion somewhere, open or closed, or is there evidence of recent "cross-wiki abuse" or "abusing multiple accounts"?

Thanks. --Abd 22:07, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

hello, the discussion is here Requests for comment/Poetlister and Cato. You may also see theose local blocks on those accounts. best Matanya 22:24, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

That discussion ended, last comment, 14 September, 2008, and was for information, no decision was made on action. Are you saying that your global locks were based on what was done before then by Poetlister?

From Poetlister global contributions, the only account of the above that was active recently was on Wikiversity, where he is a user in good standing and has not been a problem. So the only effect of the global lock is to prevent him from editing there.

Is there a wiki where Poetlister was recently causing disruption, perhaps something I missed? If not, would you consider unlocking, at least Poetlister, which seems to be the name by which he is most widely known. Thanks. --Abd 22:52, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

For full discloser I would expect you to link to this thread, where my name is mentioned. I see that this is not a clear cut. Would you mind If I'll ask other steward to review this, I feel that since I locked it I might be in conflict of interes, as I would want to protect my action. You may choose any steward you wish. Matanya 23:02, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Consulting is fine, of course. This would be speedily resolved if you unlock, at least Poetlister, if you can conclude from consideration that the lock isn't necessary, but you are not required to do anything, I was asking you first because it was your action. If you wish, I'll request on the global locking page. I prefer not to select a steward, because I'd prefer a sympathetic one! -- and I don't test my friends that way. But I might request a 'crat delink on Wikiversity, where the user has positive contributions and there have been no problems. Do you care to disclose what led you to your action? Thanks! --Abd 00:08, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your civil response. I'd appricate using global unlock page. The reason of this lock was vandal account cleaning, in which I found those accounts and reviwed there contributions. I saw no harm locking them, and I'm not sure I was wrong. best Matanya 05:07, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

I am likewise concerned over the lock of Poetlister. The user is, or rather was contributing positively to enwikiversity. Locking a user who is editing in good faith, regardless of past history, doesn't sit well with me. The harm comes from the good contributions which are lost as a result of him not being allowed to edit anymore, when his only recent edits have been productive. Ajraddatz (Talk) 05:11, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

• Steward requests/Global. Thanks. --Abd 01:50, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Getting the ballot dump from the last election

Hi Matanya! Thanks again for the great work you did helping out with the board election. I have been doing some number crunching on various wikimedia datasets [2]. The ballot data, removed of voter names of course, is going to be made public at some point, but the sooner that could happen, the better. I don't always have this much free time to learn from datasets, and we also have a referendum scheduled for August. Aside from looking for bugs in the interface, I'd also like to do exploratory factor analysis to try to learn about our electorate and its diversity. --Alecmconroy 07:45, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your words. I don't have it, and I think no one from the committee has, better try to ask JHS if he knows how do get it, might be you need a dev. best Matanya 07:52, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Mass desysop on en-wiki

Hi there. Per your user page on en-wiki I'm asking you here about a set of steward actions you took recently. See here (old version) and here and the clarification section I started at the end of the latter thread. What I'm trying to find out is whether this was a one-off misunderstanding or a systemic failure. Would you be able to comment here or there about this? I've also made a comment here. Thanks. Carcharoth 10:49, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello, glad you came here to discuss this issue. One thing that doesn't reduce my responsibility regarding this wrong action, as you can see in the logs, is that I wasn't the only steward how fulfilled this request. For example: here. Anyway, to get to the point, I have learned my lesson form this failure, and a rush removal of such, wouldn't happen on my side again. Moreover, I have checked where was my point of failure, and I found out that my mistake was I didn't read the result of the vote carefully enough and missed this very important detail. I sincerely apologizes about this action, and hope no harm had happened. Thank you for pointing this out, and I'll appreciate if you'll quote my words on the relevant pages. sorry and best Matanya 11:32, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for such a prompt response and for the general apology. I'll add a diff of what you've said here to the permissions board and over on en-wiki. Carcharoth 12:00, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

en.ws request

Hey Matanya,

I got your message, I can help. If it is a private matter send it to my email. - Theornamentalist 16:12, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I have sent to details to user:Zhaladshar but it seems he didn't do much about it. if you can please make it happen, I'll appreciate it. best Matanya

did you send anything to me? I am unsure what you are asking for. - Theornamentalist 16:54, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

I FW it to you. Matanya 17:02, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

• I've noted the sequence of events here Cygnis insignis 01:49, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Matanya 05:47, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Local unblock

Hi!

I'm an editor/admin on Portuguese Wikibooks and noticed that this action inadvertently prevented the user to edit on that project, where as already mentioned here, he gives valuable contributions (both in discussions about the project and the development of the content of wikibooks - namely b:pt:Logística). I tried to undo that locally (by going to b:pt:Special:Block/Vapmachado), but I wasn't successful. Could you help me with this issue?

Thank you for your help. Best regards, Helder 16:45, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello, This user has being abusing many wikis within wikis and outside the wikiworld. His lock shouldn't be removed in my opinion, but if you wish to let him edit on ptwikibooks two options are available: 1) the user should be renamed locally, so the lock wouldn't affect him. 2) you can ask anther steward to review the action, and if he finds it was wrong, he can remove it. best Matanya 17:04, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi again!

I've asked on our Village Pump what other editors think about unbloking user Vapmachado on that project, and since they are favorable, I followed your suggestion and contacted another steward (see Anthere's talk page) to have a second opinion about this. Thank you for your help. Helder 21:11, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. good luck with it. Matanya 06:15, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

But I am no more a steward... Anthere 00:42, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

Hello, Matanya.

Maybe you find a bit useful this template, once you are used to grant such permission over here.

Regards, Ruy Pugliesi^◥ 03:48, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Matanya 18:45, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

188.51.0.32

Hello. Yesterday I posted on VR a complaint about an IP spammer, who seems to be back as 188.51.0.32 [cross-wiki-contribs] — IP info — [gblock]. The problem is that the Toolserver fails to open a page with cross-wiki contributions, which makes tracking down the vandal harder. Yesterday I manually came across four projects where he left traces behind, today I decided to report it here on sight just after his reappearance on ukwiki. Do you have a technical possibility to find every edit by 188.55.9.180 [cross-wiki-contribs] — IP info — [gblock] and 188.51.0.32 [cross-wiki-contribs] — IP info — [gblock]? Otherwise I have no clue about how to revert everything. --Microcell 20:38, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi, technically I could run it my self using API. However, my computer is dead, and therefor I can't write any bot. You might want to ask some other bot writers here in meta. Matanya 20:42, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Maybe there is a special noticeboard around for placing such requests when, for example, something is out of service? --Microcell 20:50, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Not that I know. Matanya 20:52, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests/Permissions/Approved_temporary&diff=2784485&oldid=2760660

1. PLEASE mark the removal of expired permission at Steward requests/Permissions/Approved temporary before archiving, as you removed the expired administrator flag of Reder@sg.wikipedia without noting the removal before archiving. I just noted the removal.
2. THANK you for understanding.
3. SORRY, because you just archived today's expiring permissions too fast, I was misled to enter a comment about the bureaucrat flag of rohit rawat@hiwiktionary into the wrong section. Therefore, I just reverted your archiving to enter more comment. Once the bureaucrat flag of rohit rawat@hiwiktionary is resolved, the requests may be much more properly archived.--Jusjih 09:54, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

No problem @ all 3. Thanks Matanya 09:57, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Some concerns regarding 小躍@hak.wikipedia

Hi Matanya, I have some concerns regarding the approval of sysop flag for 小躍@hak.wikipedia. He requested for sysop at 02:12 3rd Aug. Within an hour 3 accounts were created [3] [4] [5]. These were the only accounts that supported his application. When someone questioned this on zhwikipedia, he immediately go and block these three accounts for one year, but the reason was 'spam'.

I am quite concerned over this case. Though his application would've been approved even no one voted support, these accounts are extremely likely to be sockpuppets, and to have someone who uses sockpuppets in RfA is very disturbing. --Bencmq 07:08, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

agreed, will investigate. Matanya 12:18, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

you are right, bit removed. Matanya 12:05, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot --Bencmq 16:03, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

confusion

hello, I have seen you have archived some steward request for temp adminship in the closed archive, shouldn't they be in the temp unexpired page? Matanya 13:54, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello Matanya. Normally stewards have to add temp adminships to Steward requests/Permissions/Approved temporary when they grant the access, not when they archive. As I use a script that automatically archives steward requests every day, they go to the normal archives too, but I'm not sure that's a big issue if they are duplicate this way, as long as they stay in the archives.

But never mind, I will check all 2011 permissions archives to be sure nobody has been forgotten, and update the temp list consequently. Thanks, and have a good evening ! ;) -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 14:45, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

 Done Everything is okay now. But I dunno what I could do to solve this issue in the long-term... Stewards, when they give temporary access, never use the same words, so it would be hard to do this automatically (sometimes they never use temporary or expire in their message :P). I think that the best way to prevent this would be to increase their awareness. -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 16:12, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

thank you very much, will note that in future. Matanya 17:45, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

help me (again)

Please, I was blocked again at Indonesian Wikipedia. I do not bully really. I just told to reconsider their decision. I even talked more and more refined in every voters as well. And again, on the nomination before I even do worse than that blocked why do not I? Or because I was mocking the id:User:Sentausa "Si Lamban dari WikiLand" (The Delay of WikiLand) I scoff at id:User:Ezagren "Anak Durhako" (Son of Lawless) ? It's just a joke wrote again. Similarly, id:User:Mimihitam give a nickname to id:User:Willy2000 "BadutWiki" (ClownWiki) in here ==> id:User talk:Willy2000/arsip3#Interwiki. Please consider again, have mercy on me to cook I have to enjoy the Christmas holiday with iron bars in the state like this. Similarly, the blocking period before this where I have to go through the school holidays with the same situation like this. Try to imagine if you are so I do it how? --Erik Evrest 01:22, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

hello, please contact local admins. Matanya 05:13, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Shalom, I tell you, I will not hard you're like i difficult Mr Barras. But actually I wanted to make a statement to local officials just do not want to hear so please understand and convey to them because Wikipedia is a place where the principle of absolute freedom of opinion upheld. Anyway about the reason for blocking it (Bullying / harassment: vandalism) is to be honest I've never done especially in the user page vandalism (especially the board) Look at this -> http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istimewa:Kontribusi_pengguna/Erik_Evrest But the intimidation did not occur to the voters agree on the nomination of the status of the AP article "TV" just is not verysevereand just told to consider it because I developed the article has been painstakingly and appropriate. Understandably because of the pemvoting is thenewbie. But the problem of harassment that yes indeed just beingjoke(kidding) as I alluded to earlier. In addition, blocking is extremely outrageous because this includes my old user in Indonesia Wikipedia (already since 2009) Then I've also actively contribute in the Indonesia Wikipedia. Plus I never vandalize the article and just a matter of socialization alone against fellow users. So the wealthy should not be treated the anon who usually fleasrich(like mutually IP addresses that are not captured by the board) So it was warned I should be rich by Albertus Aditya like this ==> id:User talk:Erik Evrest/Arsip 2011#Ttg: Ringkasan penyuntingan. Or if not blocked by reason ofpacifiedjust as is done by Mimihitam ==> http://id.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Istimewa%3ACatatan&type=block&user=&page=Pengguna%3AMimihitam&year=&month=-1 I also do not want just a shortened blocked period. Bear, after all, obviously I do not do that. --Erik Evrest 03:53, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello, as told to you by barras, stewards do not act if local active admins are presence. Matanya 06:12, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

oversight undone @de-wiki - once again .oOo.

Hi. I've undone your oversight 2 actions in de-wiki. None of them were compatible with the policy. So please.... thnx --Nolispanmo 08:14, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

I apologize. Further details were given via IRC. Matanya 08:28, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Hard problem

Hi, I have an important question. In our Wiki, we had approved (with consensus) that every user should have more than 75 percents of the votes to be an admin (In English Wikipedia it's 70%). All of our sysops had been an admin with a bigger than 75% of the votes. Currently there is a RfA voting and the nominated user has a percentage between 70 & 75. The problem is here that some of our bureaucrats said he may be an admin with a percentage more than 70! I know this is very unsound, but I wanna know if they do this and the user became an admin with a percentage less than 75, then what we can do? 30% of the opposites are the admin, and the NPov-nullity of the user was proved with many discussions, but it seems that our bureaucrats want to neglect all of the rules and make him an admin. If it happened, where can we go for protest? Can we want a Steward to judge this problem instead of our bureaucrats? Beforehand thanks 178.131.116.193 18:38, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

hello, usually steards don't act where they are active bureaucrats. if you think the bureaucrats are ignoring the rules you may open an RFC. Matanya 20:31, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

GedawyBot

Hey Matanya, I posted some concerns about GedawyBot's editing on ar.wiktionary at SRB. I notice you flagged the bot on a few other Arabic wikis. Maybe it would be a good idea to check if it's doing similar things on those projects? Regards, Jafeluv 09:35, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I see what you mean. Will check. Matanya 11:44, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

new check user

Hello, I am Penn Station. Thanks for giving check user access to me on jawiki. I would like to use checkuser wiki and checkuser-l + checkuser IRC channel. Could you please arrange this for me? Or if something is needed, please let me know. Thanks in advance. --Penn Station 13:31, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I have sent you an email with instruction. Matanya 13:37, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Temorary permissions

Hello Matanya. Just a refresher course about archival here, see previous discussion ;-)

Do you think I should write a script to detect archived requests about temporary permissions where rights have not been removed ? I'm sure there are some. Best regards, -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 14:36, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Please see Talk:Steward_requests/Permissions#A_new_template_for_temp_sysop_access. Let's try to find a solution that will work for everybody ;) -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 12:08, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. I have replied there. Matanya 18:24, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

he/en help needed

Hi Matanya, I was looking for someone who speaks Hebrew and English, and found you :-)

Could you please have a short look at en:Automatic milking and then at he:חליבה מכנית? Interwiki links connect these articles to each other (as well as other language articles; see also the Commons category). Now I want to know what exactly the Hebrew article is about. From the used images and the few English words in it I guess that it's about milking dairy cattle in general, about milking machines, or about types of milking parlors (see the bits below the "סוגי מחלובים" heading), but not especially about automatic milking ("milking robots"). So either interwiki links have to be corrected globally (I would do that if I knew what the Hebrew article is about, and which other topics would match better), or the images in the Hebrew article (and maybe parts of the text) have to be changed/updated to actually reflect its topic. I hope you can help out a bit in this case. Many thanks in advance --:bdk: 14:15, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, glad to help :) the Hebrew article is about any type of mechanical milking, which one of those types is automatic milking. Might be better to link an article about any type of non-handed milking. best Matanya 15:02, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

That was a quick reply! Thanks for clarification. --:bdk: 15:29, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Please remove my sysop rights

Thanks, Ranbar 18:58, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

ksh-Wikipedia needs your help

Hi Matanya, you helped us yesterday at ksh-wikipedia by reversing a change caused by vandalism. ksh-wikipedia is suffering since nearly 2 weeks under extreme vandalism. There seems to be one person who deletes the contents of up to 10 pages per day substituting it by different sentences. They all have one thing in common. The new sentence always contains the words "Harald Krichel". I have heard that there is a possiblity to block saving special words by adding a filter. Is this correct? Can you help us at ksh-wikipedia. Although I am an administrator at this small wikipedia I do not know how to add this to our wiki. It would be very kind if you could be of help. Regards --BBKurt 07:22, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I will take care of this issue later today. Matanya 09:28, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --BBKurt 20:21, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

The Admin's Barnstar

		The Admin's Barnstar
		Not a piece of WikiLove, but a thank you for all your help and tireless work. :) Béria Lima msg 13:52, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Your help at ksh-Wikipedia

Thank you very much for your support at ksh-Wikipedia. I think it worked very well. --BBKurt 15:46, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

My pleasure :) Matanya 15:49, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Crat flag

Is granted, congrats! --WizardOfOz ^talk 20:47, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Matanya 06:20, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

SRB

Hello Matanya. May we use your language habilities here? Best regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 14:11, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi, sent him a mail, and texted him. Matanya 14:54, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Is it allowed in Wikipedia?

To keep in the pages of wiki Administrator's personnel thesis? at http://sd.wikipedia.org ? Other problem is We call Computer as same in English, but admin forcibly used his word Ganpukar of Computer. I have proof that thousands of published books called it Computer not Ganpukar. If some one oppose him he started abusive language. That is the reason sd.wikipedia.org never got attraction to Sindhi community. Plz check record there. Other things are he locked CSS due to that on the same site there are lot of font styles appeared there. He is not able to set commonCSS or Monocss. We are in trouble to work in our local Sindhi language. I don't know where to say for this problem. Record history says all the situation there. I appeal plz warn him to follow en.wikipedia.org rules, other wise he will continue use his personnel details and personnel promoted articles there. Dear I am sorry If u r not right person to say all about this, Plz suggest me where I can raise this issue. My sd.wikipedia.org ID is same. His thesis is not a violetion? http://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/ماحولياتي_انتظام_ڪاڻ_اُپُگِرَهِي_عَڪس_ضماءُ_۽_درجه_بنديءَ_جي_طريقن_جو_اَڀياس

Alixafar 01:08, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello, please raise this issue in RFC. I'm sorry I can't assist more, my wiki-time is very short nowadays. Matanya 05:58, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

global editinterface rights

Hi,

the original work is done, but I'm still finding other things to fix (just yesterday at br.wikisource, for example). If it's not a problem, I'd like to keep the flag for a couple of days more, until I finish a general check on all wikisources. Thanks, Candalua 09:21, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

No problem, please just let me know when you are done. Matanya 10:05, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi Matanya, you can remove the flag now, thank you Candalua 22:18, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

 Done thank you. Matanya 05:57, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

expiration

Hi Matanya, I would like to remind you that the term of adminship of User:Bellavista1957 on Persian Wikisource has expired but he still has his adminship right. His RfA that just one user voted for him cannot be considered valid anymore. Could you please remove his adminship privilege? Regards from Iran to all Israeli people. Americophile 11:18, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi,  Done. thanks for notifying me and best regards. Matanya 11:50, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Dear Matanya: for your information, Americophile is a vandalist in Wikipedia farsi who is being blocked for six months until the end of the March 2012. Since October 2011, he has explored wikisource farsi and since then he is attacking and harrassing me on a daily basis. Now he has given you false informaion about my adminship status. First of all, Mardetanha has extended my adminship beginning 16 july , 3 months plus six months and plus 12 months. Regarding RFA , Americophile has given you false information. in between, Americophile tried to organize de-administration, five users voted for me and two users , Americophile and Huji who has not been active in Wikisource Farsi in 3 years and had only 60 edits voted against me whereas, other users appreciated my work, and requested that Americophile be blocked for six months as he is in Wikipedia Farsi. New voting in my favor. Regards from Iran to all Israeli people, you have to consider it in a very special light and meaning. Look at commons category:2011 attack on the British Embassy in Iran ., you will see that Americophile who took all these photos was part of the crowd who attacked the British Embassy. Even you can find photos taken by him from inside the embassy. Giving wrong information to an Steward to harass me and damaging wikisource Farsi shows clearly his intentions. My best regards.--Bellavista1957 14:58, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello there. I have noticed your email, but since I can't find any extension by mardetanha, I have send him the request, since he handled this. Matanya 15:35, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, I'm currently blocked on FA:WP but it is completely irrelevant to your de-adminship process on Persian Wikisource (Wikisource is a completely different project than Wikipedia). About your claims of attacking and harassment, this user talk page is not an appropriate place to make a complaint against me; if you really think that I'm attacking or harassing you on Persian Wikisource, you can easily make a complaint on administrators' noticeboard on Persian Wikisource. There is no false information about your adminship term. User:Mardetanha suggested you a temporary three-month adminship and you agreed and the term of your adminship has expired about 1 month ago. And I think there is no need to mention that User:Huji is an established user of Persian Wikipedia (and a brilliant sysop there) and a sysop on Meta (here), so you can not describe him an evil user as you did about me. I will also make a complaint against you on administrators' noticeboard of Meta because of accusing me to be a member of those stupid attackers on British Embassy in Tehran and being affiliated to Basiji forces. I love photojournalism and take lots of photos about incidents taking place in Iran. Regards from Iran Americophile 15:47, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Dear Matanya, I also want to draw your attention to the fact that User:Bellavista1957 blocked me for 6 month for nothing (maybe because I was blocked on fawp :-) but fortunately User:Mardetanha, who is a sysop there, unblocked me in a few moments. And I want to draw your attention to the fact that User:Bellavista1957 has been blocked several times on fawp (It's irrelevant but I did this because he did the same about me). I'm also an established user of Commons and your colleague there. It really made me upset when he accused me of being hostile towards Israeli people. I love all people and it doesn't matter where they live, whether in Israel or in Iran. Americophile 16:25, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Abusive content

Hi Matanya. At viwikipedia there is, however, a content-abusive page created by the vandalizing IP, which you can see here. Please remove it as well. Thank you for your works at viwikipedia and Happy new year! PRENN (talk) 14:37, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi,  Done. best Matanya 14:39, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Non-steward edits from a steward account during a period where the encyclopaedia is unavailable for normal editing

Would you like to explain how this diff from en. represents Steward work while the encyclopaedia is uneditable due to community consensus. It looks like normal content or gnoming work; not stewardship. Fifelfoo 08:43, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Fisrt, as I said on IRC, I apologize. the sequence was this way: 1) I have Noscript installed, so no js was applied on me. 2) I wrongly calculated the time-zone difference between me and UTC. 3) I wasn't aware stewards have the technical ability to edit, and since I got no warning or so, I edited. sincerely apologies. Matanya 08:48, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your rapid explanation! Everyone does this from time to time :). Happy editing when the blackout has lifted! Fifelfoo 08:56, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Please rename

Hi, Matanya. I created an image file commons:File:ILjunction-rashpun.png. The name rashpun (with an "a" and a "u" is an incorrect tranliteration. My mistake. The name should be commons:File:ILjunction-rishpon.png (with an "i" and an "o". I placed a rename request on the file's discussion page. I hope you could take care of this. The file links to one page. I will fix the link as soon as the renaming is complete. TY --Atefrat Talk 10:22, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Wow, that was fast. TY --Atefrat Talk 10:46, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

user:NordNordWest was faster than me. best Matanya 10:49, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

OH, YEAH. Just noticed that ! ! ! --Atefrat Talk 10:54, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

usurp

hi matanya, thankyou for your help on irc.. as you mentioned, to usurp my account in sq wiki i have requested all the three bureaucrats of sq wiki on 6th march at their talk page..but there is no reply till now.. so i have requested here Steward requests/SUL requests..please check it.. again thankyou for your help:)--Shanmugamp7 (talk) 16:12, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

87 . 106 . 214 . 138

You blocked that IP but it is not a public proxy, it is a private VPN network and you must pay to use that IP. Please unblock it.

 Done Matanya (talk) 19:58, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much. CobraSA (talk) 00:16, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Unlock and unblock

Hi Matanya. I removed the lock of RemyRai (talk · contribs) and the global block of 83.201.77.138 (talk · contribs) - and therefore also some blocks on mediawiki.org. It turned out to be unrelated to some cross-wiki vandal and I couldn't discover anything which he could've done wrong (either on mediawiki.org with the account or on fr.wikipedia anonymously). Hopefully you can understand my actions. Thanks in advance for your response. Kind regards, Trijnstel_talk 22:28, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Sure, sorry for the wrong action. Matanya (talk) 05:58, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Question about lock

What made you think that https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Meepmeepmeep123 is a long term abuser? Just the username? Not a lock based on evidence (edits, CU data?) I do not believe you assumed good faith here and just "jumped the gun". --Bsadowski1 (talk) 22:37, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

I just ran a check on that user from en.wiki, and the data is not matching Meepsheep's normal patterns, nor does the underlying IP appear to be an open proxy or anything after scanning it. MuZemike (talk) 22:49, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

You are right, I apologizes. Matanya (talk) 05:59, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Question about you direct jumping in mr@wikipedia

Hi, Matanya

I don’t know why you have taken decision on Mrathi Wikipedia to ban the user. I was in discussion with the people involved on that issue that time which has taken now wrong turn. I don’t know you understand Marathi or not, but it may have been better if you may have allowed the local decision to be handled by the local admins, instead jumping in directly; which has now created lot of shouting and confusions in community. Check on village pump. There is no point in asking Sankalp now. Can you please clarify why you jump in ? Is there any request from marathi admins ? Your answer will very much appreciated and will help to resolve the issue. Thanks Hari.hari (talk) 14:24, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello there, Sorry for inconvenience. I was requested to act on IRC as a result of abuse. ope it helps. If you need anything else don't hesitate to ask. Matanya (talk) 14:28, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Matanya for quick response,

Can you please tell me whether it is been told by admin or non admin and possibly the member’s name. Which will be very helpful to resolve the issue. - Hari.hari (talk)

User:Mathonius. Matanya (talk) 18:34, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

See nl:Overleg gebruiker:Mathonius#mr@wikipedia (permalink) and mr:User talk:Mathonius#Apologies (permalink). Mathonius (talk) 19:08, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

User:212.121.219.1

• 212.121.219.1 [cross-wiki-contribs] — IP info — [gblock]

User:212.121.219.1 who is permanently blocked in the English, Assyrian, Navaho, Saterland Frisian, Thai and Welsh Wikipedias and temporarily blocked in various other Wikipedias and in Wikimdia Commons is spamming the same images cross-wiki. User:212.121.219.1 Global Edits,

The user was the subject of serious acts of vandalism as had been the case in English Wikipedia until the permanent block: English Wikipedia User talk:212.121.219.1

Other spammings from this address is happening cross-wiki and relentlessly so. Apart from vandalism I am afraid that this user has the ability to hack because some of the articles this user edited on were briefly disrupted.

Saguamundi (from the German Wikipedia ) 09:54, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, the user is already globally blocked. Matanya (talk) 10:02, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

ta:பகுப்பு:திணைகள்

I see you have deleted the above Category and marked it as "vandal". Can you claify how it becomes vandalism? It's an important part of Tamil grammar.--61.245.172.17 09:39, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi, the content was "fuck your network". Matanya (talk) 09:40, 22 May 2012 (UTC)