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Fr33kman[change source]

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End date: 18:26, 24 May 2024 (UTC)


I am an experienced admin, checkuser, former OSer and steward. I'd like to request oversightership to help out and to be able to act on problems rather than having to ask for help from an OSer or a steward. Candidate's acceptance: I accept this nomination. -- fr33kman 16:46, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Questions[change source]

Support[change source]

  1. Support Experienced editor and active CU. Our community can rely on them in times of need. DIVINE 17:27, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose[change source]

  1. Oppose I'd like to assume as much good faith as possible, but oversighted diffs were posted to RfCU by you back in December 2023. I don't know why they were oversighted and the answers to the concern at the time were that it was basically a bad choice of wording (link). Having admins who post oversightable material then become oversighters isn't the best of looks for our wiki though, regardless of reasoning. Additionally, I don't see much of a need for oversighters at the moment and it was only in November you got CU again. Those three factors combined tip me into the oppose section, I'm afraid. --Ferien (talk) 20:20, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The Ombuds committee cleared me of that incident. Additionally OS is about suppressing info, nothing to do with CU fr33kman 00:22, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    My vote was indeed nothing to do with CU, it was about you posting oversightable material onwiki, which is definitely relevant here. --Ferien (talk) 06:10, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't recall that. Can you email details? fr33kman 14:06, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The link is above, showing the history of RfCU where this occurred. I don't know the exact details because I'm not an oversighter. --Ferien (talk) 16:56, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Note to self[change source]

Robbie Williams - WPCleaner - check for disam links on all Robbie W albums –Davey2010Talk 14:14, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nominated Under the Radar Volume 1, Under the Radar Volume 2 at EN
Under the Radar Volume 3 was prev closed at AFD as Redirerct back to Robbie W -
Wait for consensus at 1 and 2 - Redirect all 3 to discography page ? (Rw article would be short so would be useless redirecting) –Davey2010Talk 20:12, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Robbie Williams: Live at the O2 - Nominated at EN AFD - wait and see consenus there. –Davey2010Talk 23:45, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Waterloo Road - Create individual series pages, fix Ep list mess (footnotes) –Davey2010Talk 02:41, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Update disco pages –Davey2010Talk 03:05, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Charli XCX discography –Davey2010Talk 18:01, 11 February 2023 (UTC) –Davey2010Talk 03:05, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merc AClass Fix galleries at some point –Davey2010Talk 19:09, 7 July 2023 (UTC) –Davey2010Talk 03:06, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
VW Caddy - Fourth Gen
VWGolf- Fix article, fix links (ie MK etc) –Davey2010Talk 02:34, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Source: Transit connect
Transit custom
Volkswagen Caddy
Volkswagen Golf –Davey2010Talk 20:16, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted Simple talk[change source]

Please do not remove sections from simple talk unless it is vandalism. It will be archived when it is time to be archived. These are kept for historical purposes in the archives for easier finding, even if it does not make sense. Thanks - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 23:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"These are kept for historical purposes"- What's worth keeping here as I'm intrigued?, As stated in the editsum if we kept such posts the page would be full of random letters of the alphabet.... –Davey2010Talk 23:41, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've pasted yours and their comment to the talkpage which I hope resolves this, I just don't see a point or benefit to allowing people to post O, A, M posts to a talkpage but thats my 2p, Have a great day, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 23:46, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. This message is being sent to tell you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Issue with Davey2010". Thank you. Thanks - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 23:47, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for being patient on the ^^ above stuff. I saw emails this early morning and went through what happened. I would have been much more annoyed by this, but you just dealt with it like a pro. Haha, just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your work here and don't let this bother you. Cheers! BRP ever 01:23, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @BRPever, Thank you so much for your kind words they mean a lot to me, I'll be perfectly honest I'm currently indeffed on Commons for incivility and nearly got indeffed on EN for the same reason - So I'm slowly but gradually trying to change the way I approach and deal with things now, I'm not perfect but I'm trying do a better person than I was,
Meh they don't bother me I've had worse lol,
Anyway thanks so much for your lovely words that really do mean a lot to me, I hope you and yours are well, Take care, Warm Regards, Dave /// –Davey2010Talk 01:50, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies[change source]

I wanted to apologize for what I said and did today. It was not right of me to do so. After reading your response to BRP you and I are blocked for the same reason on en wiki. I hope this can be put behind us and we can move forward as a team to build this encyclopaedia. Thanks - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 09:28, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your apology, Without making things worse I feel I should reply to the en block comment - I'm not blocked on en[1], I am blocked on Commons for incivility[2] and unfortunately you're indeffed on en for socking/using an alt[[3] so respectfully not nearly the same reasons,
Anyway I agree we're all here to build an encyclopedia and would much rather we work together than to be at each others throats every time, Have a great day, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 14:39, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is actually a block for incivility. Very long and drawn out issue that even our sysops could not figure out what was going on and still do not. Agreed! Thank you for expressing and explaining your block comment. But yes it was the same thing. The socks were just me wanting to be on there. 🙃 Thanks - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 14:42, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Side note: You got a few short term blocks for it on en wiki lol. I lost count of my socks and for this account I sent it to them to advise them I lost my password and had to create a new account so they blocked it within minutes of me notifying them, but it is what it is. Thanks - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 14:45, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah okay fair enough, EN's not known for being relaxed with anything to be fair lol,
No worries thank you for not taking the comment the wrong way - I spent a good 45 minutes trying to word it in a way that didn't come across in a dickish way so thank you for not taking it the wrong way,
Anyway thank you for your apology, Take care, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 14:57, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your Signature[change source]

Hey! Just wanted to swing by and let you know that I stumbled upon your signature, and I couldn't resist taking some inspiration from it (basically just copy/pasted it T.T)! Hope you don't mind the imitation. Cheers! – Cyber.Eyes2005Talk 14:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Cyber.Eyes.2005, I'll be honest I don't mind people taking inspiration from it but I'd much rather they change the colours than just reusing the entire thing, there's no creativity or uniqueness that makes you stand out :), Not only that most people associate those colours with this idiot ... surely you don't want to be associated with this idiot lol,
Your signature atm doesn't really match your username, i guess for some reason i expected more of a horror feel so black and red etc, But of course it's what you're happy with and if you're happy with it then cool :), Obviously I can't make you change the colours but anyway thanks for your message, Have a great day :), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 14:38, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, it doesn't really match, but the thing is, I didn't really know much about how this formatting works, lol. I've changed it a bit, and yeah, it does really confuse people when two people have the same signature (including myself). Thanks, and have a great day as well. :) – Cyber.Eyes2005Talk 15:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cyber.Eyes.2005, Ah okay fair enough - to be fair I took my signatures from other people but had changed the colours lol, Haha don't worry it HAD confused me too :) Thanks so much for updating it I greatly appreciate that :), I have to say yours actually looks a lot better than mine haha, Many thanks again, –Davey2010Talk 15:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Subpage transcluding[change source]

Hi there. Your subpage User:Davey2010/Dashboard is calling a protection template from somewhere. This is putting it in the category of Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. Can you fix it so it does not transclude into there please? There is a bot from Ferien that does this, however, that page does not have the code on it so the bot cannot remove it because it is being called from something else you have pulled. See User:FerienBot2. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 08:05, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PotsdamLamb, Many thanks for making me aware of this, It doesn't look like there's nothing my end I can do but I'll have a look around and see if I can remove it, The page was supposed to be on my userpage but for some reason it's not and truth be told I've obviously never looked at it since like 2017 so I'll have a look around and if there's nothing I can do then I'll blank it by the end of the day,
Many thanks for making me aware of this, I'll see what I can do. Many thanks, Warm regards. –Davey2010Talk 11:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. I am going through them to find my next cat to work on for the project and that happened to pop-out. So you know, I am working on something similar if you would like to view it and maybe help out where I am stuck at. It is at Template:Admin dashboard Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 12:37, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okie dokie I'll take a look at that and see if I can help :), Happy editing, Many thanks, Warm regards, –Davey2010Talk 12:53, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @PotsdamLamb, I've added "<noinclude></noinclude>" to the protection template at WP:Request for permissions which has removed my page from the category,
Given how easy it was, something tells me you're going to come here later and tell me I've inadvertently introduced a new error somewhere else now :P, Anyway thanks again for making me aware, Many Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 13:20, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Naw I think it should be ok. I did not see any issues when I tested it out on other pages and a lot of pages of the include/noinclude on them. Thanks for taking care of that. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 13:33, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah okay I didn't realise that lol - I searched on EN and didn't get far, tested other things but they didn't remove the cat, Seen someone suggest noinclude, Gave up and decided to assume en:WP:ROLLBACK must be transcluded everywhere and checked out the protection on that page and yeah it was wrapped in that code so thought I'd try it and wish for the best lol.
Anyway no worries, I'm rather amazed it's been there for 7 years and no one's ever mentioned it (I'm guessing you're the only person that's viewed that page in a very long time!), Anyway I'm glad I've fixed it instead of going with my original thought "Well it's on WPs page so it's a WP problem", Thanks again, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 13:45, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yup. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 13:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
and again, if you want to help on that board I am creating, you are more than welcome to. I see Peterdownunder is using it, so my goal is for it to be a whole one stop shop. I am working with the CU team about changing the way they do things so it can pop up for them but for now, I am not gaining much ground. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 13:49, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Dana Tanamachi[change source]

Hi, Davey. Just a note: when an RFD is closed, the RFD template needs to be removed from the page. Someone else has removed it for you. We don't usually encourage non-admin closures, but I think this one was OK. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:20, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Auntof6, Slap on the wrist for me!, My apologies, I was closing 2 AFDs at the same time and completely forgot about the main article page, I'll be honest I've spent 3 weeks on an article and I guess I just wanted a change of scenery for a bit or to do something completely different for a while,
I'm surprised you didn't come here about clogging up recent changes - apologies for that too - I did ask at ANI but understandably everyone was busy so after an hour of waiting I just cracked on with it, Anyway thanks for the heads up about the AFD notice I wont multitask in future :P, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 00:45, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't usually look at recent changes, so I wouldn't have noticed unless someone brought it up! I figure if your changes aren't bothering anyone, then it's not a big deal. -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:48, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Golf Article[change source]

Since it’s in your user space are you ok if I try to fix that cite error? If I can’t it’ll be reverted to prior to me touching it. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 00:23, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PotsdamLamb, Of course you can, I should also add in case you try it - I've tried linking from the page nearest to the page cited (357) as well as used Wayback Machine and Archive.Is and nothing's worked (and using old Google books for linking/wayback/archive.is hasn't worked either) so my plan was to just leave it as it is,
I just felt an old black and white image and some background info on it sort of made it more verifiable than say a 2022 news article on it if that makes sense,
I don't pay for books etc so I don't know why it allows me to view it without issue but doesn't let anyone else view it, Anyway good luck hope you can fix it, Many thanks, –Davey2010Talk 00:51, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. You can also apply to the Wikipedia library which gives you access to some more resources as well. That’s if you don’t already have it.
Library front page Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:07, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@PotsdamLamb, I had no idea that even existed thanks so much!, Could I ask though are you a member of that ?,
One criteria is no active blocks but I'm indeffed on Commons ? I mean Commons is images though .... if I've survived for 10 years on the English Wikipedia without being indeffed then surely that must say something right ?,
Didn't know if it was worth signing up for if I could potentially be declined because of the indef?, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 01:27, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I’m indeffed on ENWP and I have access. If it doesn’t grant you access automatically I believe it allows you the option to request and you can mention it. I’m not sure what the implications of commons blocked would be. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:29, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@PotsdamLamb oh okay fantastic, I'll give a go and see then, Brilliant thank you for that I appreciate that a lot, Many thanks, Warm regards, –Davey2010Talk 01:31, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Very welcome! Yeah all you do is log in with your account. If it doesn’t like you it will tell you so. The work would be if you get denied. It is a great resource to find old works and a lot of open source information that may be subscription only otherwise. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:36, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah okay, I'll check it out properly tomorrow and see how it all goes lol, Yeah they reckon theyve partnered with a good load of paywalled companies etc so I bet there is valuable and useful stuff there, I'll check it out properly tomorrow, Many thanks again for telling me about that, Have a great day, Many Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 01:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Did you have a chance to check this out? Let me know what happens. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:40, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't as I completely forgot!, Will try tomorrow if I don't forget again!, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 01:50, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok so I found the issues.
First, I ran the citation bot against it, which removed some unneeded parameters from the citations. There was still one issue which I had to manually fix. That was you had url-access=subscription twice in one citation. When I removed that, all the issues were gone and it reflects that all of your citations are good to go.
Two other minor things I did was changed the circa to about (simpler english, as c. is not really a simple word or meaning in most cases) and I rephrased that same sentence for ease of reading. You are more than welcome to revert those back.
If you need anything else, please let me know. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 02:10, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure how I ended up adding that twice but many thanks for fixing those, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 16:07, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah something’s are hard to spot but during a preview it told me url= was used twice and only the last parameter would be used. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 19:17, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot remember the name off the bat, but I am sure someone may realize who it is. I have seen this before. This is in regard to Special:Diff/9478011 on VIP. If I remember correctly, they were doing this to music articles in late February/early March. They were so random so it is hard to pinpoint it. Might have to look through all the check users and changes to VIP.

Side note, I am going to look at your article now too (I have had a busy couple of days). I also hope we can get little DYK out of it :). I will let you know what I find. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:36, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PotsdamLamb, Yeah now I think of it I'm sure this happens or used to happen on EN too and I'm sure it was @Binksternet who I always saw revert them?, I remember the name ZestyLemons or something like that but I dont know if this is them either,
Either way this definitely isn't a new user I know that much! :), Haha I'll be honest I thought you already did check the page or that preview source and gave up lol, I'll be honest I've never done DYK stuff before as my creativity in that department is nil lol, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 01:48, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The vandal case may be seen at Long-term abuse/Date-changing vandal from Poland. They used IPs from Poland such as Special:Contributions/31.0.37.29, Special:Contributions/31.0.41.56 and Special:Contributions/176.221.120.24, then they created the username Agnieszka1235. All of these should be blocked. Binksternet (talk) 06:46, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Binksternet Fantastic many thanks for replying, Happy editing, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 16:05, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Binksternet Thanks, I have relayed this post on to our admins. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 07:02, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Binksternet All were blocked. Thanks for the valuable feedback. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 21:33, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is easy. If you can get the article fully developed to at least (I believe, but may be wrong) a GA status, it can be used for a DYK. (Ok so easy for me to say, maybe not easy to do lol). Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah okay if that's the case that's us screwed lol, Meh to be honest I'm quite happy with the way it is (as in non-DYK or GA), Thanks, Happy editing, –Davey2010Talk 01:58, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are you on IRC or Discord? If so, hit me up. Username is the same on both. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 21:32, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately not, Happy editing, Thanks –Davey2010Talk 23:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, do you know where this might be copied from? I can't seem to find it anywhere on enwiki. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 19:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ferien, Oops my apologies, As the other creations were copy/pastes I just blindly assumed this was too, Many thanks for making me aware of this, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 20:24, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's alright. It does look a bit like a copy tho. I might try and look at it more at some point. Thanks :) --Ferien (talk) 20:50, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferien, It does it looks way too perfect to be a brand new newb article, I've also come across Yksnamu who's uploaded images of subjects that Eceerp has created which seems slightly weird, Unfortunately over at en:Sarah Sugden (2005 character) her name's never been linked as far as I can see so I can't find anything to say this ever existed but for sure this definitely isn't a new article, If the article layout is different from the deleted articles and things like "Ref" (in table) aren't present in the deleted articles then that would confirm it's been copied/pasted from somewhere but without evidence I guess there's not a lot one can do, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 22:03, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Zat Knight[change source]

About this edit: special:diff/9503130, the only visible difference is his height (6 ft 7 vs. 6 ft 6). I'm not sure which is correct but enwiki says 6 ft 6. The removal of spaces probably wasn't the purpose of the edit - it may be done automaticaly by the visual editor. Kk.urban (talk) 17:55, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Kk.urban, Many thanks for making me aware I didn't realise they had changed the height, Indeed EN lists it as 6ft 6in so I've reinstated their edit, Thanks again it's much appreciated, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 18:10, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]