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Hello! Can we semi-protect my talkpage for 1 month, thanks! --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:09, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

@Thegooduser: Done Operator873^talkconnect 01:45, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank You --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:46, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Also, I've asked on Simple Talk, but something's not right/ is going wrong with Wikipedia on my browser, can we hop on IRC to discuss this? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:58, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

@Thegooduser: Of course. Operator873^talkconnect 01:59, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Sure, give me 2 mins --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:05, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

In Ale Gasn

Am I allowed to add the information of the article without the copyrighted lyrics? ~ 204.14.73.214 (talk) 21:33, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

The lyrics would be fine, generally here. But you copied a significant portion of the article as well. You should review this page and this page before copying anything else. Operator873^talkconnect 21:35, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

User:Operator873/MyBarnstars/1

How did you make such cool colors there? I'm Planning to change this banner here, but haven't yet, but I've seen your cool colors, and wanted to know how to do something like that for the banner there. --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:12, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

The linear gradient is background: linear-gradient(to right, #000000, #5454ff, #000000); and there's more you can do with it. :) Operator873^talkconnect 00:15, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It's certainly a very cool looking barnstar indeed :) --IWI (talk) 00:20, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Kindness

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For being so very welcoming to all editors, new and old. :) --IWI (talk) 11:17, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

We sent you an e-mail

Hello Operator873/Archive 9,

Really sorry for the inconvenience. This is a gentle note to request that you check your email. We sent you a message titled "The Community Insights survey is coming!". If you have questions, email surveys@wikimedia.org.

You can see my explanation here.

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excuse me?

Regarding the Grand Prince of Tuscany, I think you'll find the edit removing the links to pages about the same boy/child was in actual fact more of an act of "vandalism" than me reverting the edit to ere-include them. Look before you accuse please. 146.198.120.158 (talk) 18:22, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

@146.198.120.158: Your edit added cross wiki links which isn't allowed here. Also please ensure you do not copy articles from other languages and use a machine translator. It quite often doesn't work. Operator873^talkconnect 18:26, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Revert

Hi Operator. Just letting you know that I have reverted this change of yours. It was not vandalism, but a false positive, as Santa Clarita Diet was cancelled in 2019. Thanks, --IWI (talk) 22:32, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

@ImprovedWikiImprovment: Thank you very much my friend. You answer the age old question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Operator873^talkconnect 22:38, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Haha thanks a lot. :) --IWI (talk) 22:46, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

I thought "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" was spanish --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:02, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

:) It is the mother of the Spanish and many, many other languages, Latin. Operator873^talkconnect 00:05, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Yup, which is why it looks like if Spanish and French had a baby. :) --IWI (talk) 00:10, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

LOL. Just like Chinese is the mother of Korean and Japanese. Number three is produced "san" in all three languages (Chinese not sure, but for Cantonese it is) . --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:13, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Kinda, although Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian (among others) actually directly come from Latin. They are all pretty similar to each other overall. Yeah China has influenced everything around it, lol. :) --IWI (talk) 00:16, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

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See Romance languages :) Operator873^talkconnect 00:17, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Since, I know Cantonese, When I learn Japanese Kanji, it actually messes me up, and makes it harder, because I keep mixing it up with Cantonese words. --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:19, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

AWB

Hello, can you add me to the AWB check page, I perform some actions which would require access to AWB. Thanks --Synoman Barris (talk) 12:15, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

@Synoman Barris: You'll need to go here and request access. Your request should also include exactly what you intend to do with AWB and how long you need access to it. Operator873^talkconnect 12:22, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Done --Synoman Barris (talk) 12:29, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Deletion

As an admin aren’t you supposed to consider.I took a lot of time making that category and I planned to add more pages to it. Five minutes and you delete it. I don’t find this welcoming and I don’t want to waste my time with a community so unwelcoming!--Synoman Barris (talk) 12:49, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

If you do not intend to follow the community's rules here then that may be best for you. Operator873^talkconnect 12:51, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

I never intended to be unkind or any of sort, it’s just that having your pages deleted so fast...I hope you understand how that’s so frustrating. Please forgive me for being so rude and I hope we can be friends again. I came here to write articles and that’s what I’ll exactly do. Otherwise I have also made a request at the check page talk. Cheers --Synoman Barris (talk) 12:56, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Rhabdomyolysis, Tracer_Oreo

I wanted to make a page n simple english wikipedia, full version, with all the information a man would need to know. I reverted your edits because I didn't like them. Please stay out of my work

Patrolled

Can We mark, RFD, and RFP pages, as patrolled? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:12, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

@Thegooduser: do you mean like Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/SomePage? Operator873^talkconnect 01:00, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Yep. Sorry for the 17 minute late reply, I was doing my homework which I procrastinated for 14 days, last minute. --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:18, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Yep. I always do when I see one that hasn't been marked. :) Operator873^talkconnect 01:27, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Thegooduser: You can pretty much mark any new page as patrolled. However, it doesn't serve as much purpose to mark administrative pages as patrolled, so it might not be a good use of time and effort. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:20, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

873gear.com/irc and freenode

Hey. I'm getting "*** Notice -- You need to identify via SASL to use this server" and "Closing Link: 873gear.com (SASL access only) (irc)" and can't use freenode. Is this a bug or did I mess something up on my end? --DannyS712 (talk) 15:45, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

@DannyS712: Apologies for the delay in answering, I'm mobile right now. So the version was recently updated which changed how SASL is configured. Right click on your freenode connection and pick Edit Connection. Then scroll to the very bottom, select SASL PLAIN and enter your freenode account and password. Let me know if that works. Operator873^talkconnect 16:22, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, it did (I figured that out after messing around for a bit) thanks DannyS712 (talk) 19:26, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Another Account

If I make another account, for use on a school/outside computer, do I need to put a different email in it? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 22:14, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Thegooduser: I was able to use the same email for my alternate account without any issues. --IWI (talk) 22:24, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

ImprovedWikiImprovement Class is boring, so I might as well edit Wikipedia instead :P --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 22:27, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

@Thegooduser: Ha! Btw, I didn't get this ping as I spell "improvement" as "improvment" :P (don't ask why). Yeah I use my alt account in college too :) --IWI (talk) 22:46, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

ImprovedWikiImprovment LOL. I forgot to bring up people at my school vandalise Wikipedia, so I hope I won't get blocked for logging in. If I'm logged in, will the other computers/devices that go on Wikipedia, be "not logged in"? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 22:50, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

@Thegooduser: As long as "anonymous users only" is in the block log, you should be good. Otherwise, you would need IP block exemption if your school is blocked. I know mine was, at least on enwiki. Yes only your device will be logged in, although I would reccomend hitting "log out" before you leave the PC. --IWI (talk) 23:01, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

I go on Google Maps too during class sometimes --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:46, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Username change

If I change my username from "Thegooduser" to "天ぷら”　can someone else be able to take "thegooduser" after I change it? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:47, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Thegooduser: No, it will be protected via the title-blacklist system. Should someone wants to create the account, it needs to have title blacklist overrride permission which will be sysops and some special groups (like stewards). You can create a doppelgänger account to prevent impersonation at the old username, just after rename ask someone with the permission, I am more than happy to help create one if needed. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 16:26, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Will all my edits move to the new username, once I rename? Once a user, had 500 edits that didn't move over, what happens if something similar happens to me? (I'm still deciding whether to do it or not) --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 22:18, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Good work on reverting that vandalism

It keeps this wiki clean from vandals. Thank you.--Derpdart56 (talk) 15:16, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Sock Puppet account

Hey Operator873! The I believe the account of Ngozikalu903 is a sockpuppet account for the blocked user Ngozikalu7435. Ngozikalu7435's edits to Deaths in 2020 is similar to those made by Ngozikalu903, frequently adding Charlie Rose. If possible can the sock puppet account be blocked? --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 05:28, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Alternate Account for School use

Hi, Operator873. While I know it's not a good idea, and as I mentioned above, I can't help it but to edit at school. Given that people vandalise Wikipedia in my school, If I wanted an IPBE, how does that work, also, can I get the rollback and patroller right on the alternate account? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:55, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

@Thegooduser: just because there are badly behaved people at school doesn't mean you can't use your main account there. It is quite obvious when an account is associated with IP vandalism and when it's not. In this case, you'll be fine to use your main account at school. If you're affected by a school ban on this project, I'd be very surprised, but we'll look at IPBE then if it's needed. Operator873^talkconnect 03:10, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Revert of my edit to "Information_entropy"

Hello - you recently reverted my edit to the Information entropy article due to a reason of "do not add cross-wiki links". Do you have a policy reason for this or is this just your opinion? Concerning the former, I have found language that actually states it is advisable to add inter-wiki links between the Simple English WP and other WP sites which is exactly what I did. Also, pre-empting the notion that "cross-wiki" links differ from "inter-wiki" links, in the context of Wikipedia sites, this would be incorrect. When discussing Wikipedia sites, "cross-wiki" and "inter-wiki" links are the exact same thing.

WP is a big place and I surely do not claim to know every bit and piece of it so if you have a policy reference that supports not making the edits I made, then great - chalk it up to TILT. However, if there isn't any real policy against this, then in a few days, I will re-post my edits - Thanks. VeritasSapientia (talk) 23:06, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

@VeritasSapientia: Thank you for your kind question. You may want to see this section of WP:Interwiki. Specifically the sentence that says very clearly that interwiki (or crosswiki) links should be kept to a minimum. Instead of linking to the English Wikipedia, we'd rather an article here be created. Thus keeping interwiki links to an absolute minimum. If there is no conceivable route to creating the appropriate article or if it's not prudent to recreate, for example a global policy covered at meta, then interwiki links are appropriate. However using an interwiki link to "fix" a red link here is not helpful. We would prefer the article be created, or the red link left in place as I said on your talk page. Red links are good things here and we like them. If you disagree or would like a 3rd opinion, I'm sure one of my talk page stalkers can help out, or you can ask the community for input. Operator873^talkconnect 23:29, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @VeritasSapientia: One issue with internal links to other Wikipedias is this: If an article links to enwiki because there is no article here, then if we ever do have an article here we would need to find all those enwiki links to change them to local links. That would be difficult to do even if someone thought to do it. (I doubt that everyone who creates an article here thinks to check for crosswiki links.) I will tell you that I routinely change crosswiki links to local links unless the other Wikipedia is the definitive source for something (for example, article counts on another Wikipedia). --Auntof6 (talk) 00:18, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Apologies but I'm just not seeing any useful reason here except a maintenance concern if a Simple Wiki article is created later on. I obviously do not share that concern because I view part of my editor mission to be facilitating easy access to information for the reader. To me, this is consistent with using inter-wiki links to relevant information when no other access option exists. And if that means I need to keep track of where I made inter- vs. intra-wiki links so I can then go back and check, than that's what I need to do - kinda part of what I signed up for when I jumped in this pool... :=)

Anyway, thanks for your input - filing this under we agree to disagree. VeritasSapientia (talk) 01:49, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

@VeritasSapientia: why not file it under reasons to write more articles on Simple English Wikipedia? This seems like the more constructive solution. Besides, we are all here to make a better Simple English encyclopedia. Operator873^talkconnect 02:11, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Please don't misunderstand --- writing more articles is always a central element of my WP editor mission objectives and is also my preferred option when there is a gap. However, in that interim period between now and when that article is published, I see value in providing the reader with easy access to related content. The easy access part was the focus of this discussion. VeritasSapientia (talk) 02:57, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

@VeritasSapientia: No misunderstanding occurred. No malice received or sent. In fact, let us collaborate here. How can I empower you? How can I help? Operator873^talkconnect 03:01, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

@VeritasSapientia: I too think links to the English Wikipedia are not helpful. Firstly, for the reasons outlined above: interwiki links will probably never be changed to the simplewiki link when an article is created. Secondly, our target audience are people who struggle with English, so a link to a complex English Wikipedia article is not helpful at all. People are most likely here because they could not understand a complex English Wikipedia article. In fact, one might not even realise they have changed to a different Wikipedia once clicking the link. I hope this answers your concerns, please ask more questions if you need to :) --IWI (talk) 14:42, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

User:Abdul Latif Bin Hassan

I received an email from this user asking for an explanation of why he was blocked. Since you did the block, could you leave him a message explaining why? Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:16, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Will do. Operator873^talkconnect 12:06, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

remove page exclusion Rodrigo Barbosy

Hello recently, you placed the Rodrigo Barbosy page for exclusion due to lack of references, now I have added the references. Now I ask you who is an administrator to remove the exclusion from the article, so that you can continue the contribution of the Rodrigo Barbosy article. Bot Edguas 14:00, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

@Bot Edguas: The article has been nominated for deletion. The community will now decide to keep or delete the article. I cannot undo the process, but you can comment on the discussion and provide your reasoning for keeping the article. Operator873^talkconnect 14:04, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

@Bot Edguas: extra ping that will actually work Operator873^talkconnect 12:24, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Adding pings

I noticed that you added a ping with this edit on your talk page. FYI, pings work only if you sign your post in the same edit, which it doesn't look like you did here. The doc for enwiki's copy if the template says, "The notification will work successfully only if you sign your post in the same edit in which you use this template." HTH. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:24, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

@Auntof6: Thanks for the heads up. I was exceptionally tired yesterday after a long night and no sleep. Good catch though! Operator873^talkconnect 12:24, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

about the article Rodrigo Barbosy

Hello, I ask you to remove the request to delete the article Rodrigo Barbosy some time ago the article was proposed for deletion, I already added sources to the article I adjusted some things and I keep adjusting for the improvement of the article, you are an administrator and I know what measure you should take in this case thank you for your time a hug. Bot Edguas 18:12, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

@Bot Edguas: Since I'm the person who proposed the article should be deleted, I can take no further action in the issue. You should participate in the discussion if you want the community to keep the article. Operator873^talkconnect 20:46, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello, Operator873. You have a new email! Please check it at your convenience.
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Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 03:35, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Arshifakhan61 spam

You deleted Ashmita Kaur Bakshi the last few times... well, it's back. I tried tagging it but they removed the speedy tag. Sigh. Spicy (talk) 15:50, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

It is back again and they are constantly removing tags. We should salt the page to get rid of this problem again and again.--Saroj Uprety (talk) 15:20, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Supress Logs

Hi Operator873! Sorry to bother, but I am going to rename my username soon, because people at school, seen my Wikipedia username before, and also there have been times where I've gotten trolled (by email or on wiki) for my username I have right now. After I get renamed to protect my privacy on wiki, can I have the redirect/logs from my old username to the new username suppressed, if possible. I already know which new username I will choose, but I'm wondering if the logs can be suppressed, before I do so --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:07, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Ronald Reagan protection

Hey Operator873, would it be possible to add an edit protection for Ronald Reagan? It's been receiving quite the amount of vandalism-related edits from unregistered users. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 08:15, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

	Merry Christmas Operator873
	Hi Operator873, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas (if you celebrate it)/holiday season and a very happy and healthy New Year, Thank you for all your contributions to the Simple English Wikipedia :),    --IWI (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Also good luck on your new job :) --IWI (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

IP vandalism, removed from VIP

I really think it is necessary to block this IP address: Special:Contributions/174.101.151.228 Given that they have been vandalizing for months or years, just about all their edits are vandalism, and their talk page looks like this (35 warnings), and they have been blocked 11 times in the past 1.5 years, I think blocking them would be compliant with the blocking policy. It's true that they didn't vandalize for some number of hours, but they could vandalize again any day. Thanks. Naddruf (talk) 23:46, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

@Naddruf: I appreciate the concern here and it does appear to be a remarkably static IP address from what is likely a single user. However, I'd rather make the block while the IP is active vs more than 30 hours later. I'll keep and eye on it. Operator873^talkconnect 23:51, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello

• Hope you're doing well during this holiday season! --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 23:21, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

I'm doing quite well! I hope you and yours are doing well too. Operator873^talkconnect 23:23, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

I'm currently on Winter Break, so I am taking advantage of the time to do some Wikipedia Editing, and Japanese course catching up. Have a Happy New Year! --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 23:27, 29 December 2020 (UTC)