Aqwis

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The space exploration section in the 2000's article

Hope you are still up for this. If so, please help me fix it up when you get the chance. By the way, i've been to Bergen twice in my life - last time was a year and a half ago. TheCuriousGnome (talk) 07:45, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

space exploration disucussion

please return to talk page discussion on 2000s and be helping to decided what is important to put in there. it is not good now at all. 70.153.230.93 (talk) 01:12, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I have been very busy for the past few days. I will, however, comment on the article shortly. --Aqwis (talk) 15:58, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Tromsø

Thanks for the correction on Tromsø. I usually check the names added by anonymous IPs, but quite often they are not notable or it is simply vandalism, and it has become instinctive for me to revert if the person doesn't have an article. Sorry for not checking it. Hayden120 (talk) 10:19, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

No worries. :) --Aqwis (talk) 10:49, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Medicinernes Skiklub Svartor

Hello. I am contacting you because you are listed as a participant for WikiProject Norway, and the above-mentioned article is sourced by all Norwegian-language references. Moreover, the references do not appear to support notability; they might be mere trivial references to the subject. Since these sources are all offline, and I do not speak or read Norwegian, I'm hoping whether you can assist me in determining whether the article qualifies for speedy deletion. Many thanks! - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 12:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Rollback

May I have rollback rights?--Curtis23's Usalions 20:26, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you.--Curtis23's Usalions 02:13, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Note: his request had been denied at WP:RFPERM (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 13:02, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Consider his request re-reviewed, then. --Aqwis (talk) 13:17, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Just a note that HJ Mitchell, who originally denied the request, has said he's fine with this. But imho, it doesn't seem entirely appropriate to just go along with it when you discover you've been forum shopped and have inadvertently overrode another administrator's decision without discussing it with them. Still, all's well that ends well, I'm happy with him keeping the rollback right. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 18:35, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Rollback

Can I please have rollback rights? MichaelJackson231 (talk) 11:38, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit filter managers group

Hey Aqwis, I was wondering if you could help me get into the edit filter managers group, please? If you want to, comment here/question me here! Thanks! Endofskull (talk) 22:52, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Corncuopia Institute page

Hello Aqwis,

I'm not sure if you can help with this, I just clicked an 'A' administrator - if you can help I'd appreciate it.

I keep writing a page for the Cornucopia Institute, and it keeps getting deleted. I have made sure to comply with as many of the rules I can find, I've adjusted the format so it follows the style of other organization's pages similar to this one so I don't understand why it's so quickly deleted?!? Can you help?

I tried to communicate with the people who deleted them prior but their talk boxes wouldn't work for me. I was going to attempt to put a 'hangon' tag on the article, but I couldn't find it like I was directed to. I'm trying to write a legitimate article for this organization because I believe firmly they should be on here and would be useful on here. I've done as much reading as I can and am not sure what to do next.

Please help. Gardenerlynn (talk) 02:04, 1 October 2010 (UTC)gardenerlynn

Proposed deletion of List of people from Molde

The article List of people from Molde has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

per suggestion merged to Molde no incoming links except redirects to delete when prod expires

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 16:59, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations Aqwis, your image Image:Fløyen view on Bergen edit.jpg was the Random Picture of the Day! It looked like this:

Random picture of the day

Bergen as seen from nearby Fløyen

Image credit: Aqwis (talk · contribs)

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- [[::User:Presidentman|Presidentman]] (talk · contribs) (Talkback) Random Picture of the Day 01:31, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Request for Userfication

Hello,

I very recently published an article on Wikipedia and it was quickly deleted. The article was called "Stigma Identity Management", and I believe it to have been wrongfully deleted. I was wondering if you would be willing to userfy the page for me or at least provide a second opinion on why the article fell under the category of "promotional", as I can see nothing promotional about it. Any assistance you can provide is much appreciate. Thank you.

IdentityManagement (talk) 15:00, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

I was the admin who deleted that article. I'm restoring it to mainspace under the name "Stigma management" , as the title used "Stigma Identity Management" does not seem to be in use. (and, given the user name, I assumed COI & promotionalism of a related service, which may have been over-hasty. I havealso advised the user to take another username. DGG ( talk ) 15:25, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Aqwis,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 04:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but I am currently too busy to participate in this. --Aqwis (talk) 17:06, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Please rollback vandalism

I am new here and cannot rollback, but there is vandalism on Wikipedia:Files for upload. Please roll it back. Thanks. Rarkenin (talk) 15:39, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Someone rolled it back just after you posted. --Aqwis (talk) 17:07, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

You might want to zap this while you're at it

Hi saw you just zapped Car trim level acronym, see Trim level acronym as well, this is the third creation of the same page in 24 hours. Cheers! CaptainScreebo ^Parley! 21:10, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Gone. --Aqwis (talk) 21:13, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Saw that, btw, user just recreated Car trim level acronym as a redirect to Car Acronym. Don't know if this is okay? Leave it up to you and your mop ;-) CaptainScreebo ^Parley! 21:48, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Probably fine. --Aqwis (talk) 22:40, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Rhythm of Black Lines

I didn't get a chance to see this before it was A7'ed (looks like it got tagged and deleted very quickly), but given that the band has a release on Gold Standard Laboratories and a bio and two reviewed albums on Allmusic ([1]), this doesn't look like a clear-cut case. Would you mind restoring it so I can take a second look and see if it merits inclusion? I suppose you could PROD it along the way, which would at least give me time to look over its current state. Chubbles (talk) 01:26, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Done. --Aqwis (talk) 14:00, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Frigiliana

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:FrigilianaPano3.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Julia\talk 18:31, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Well that was quite unexpected! --Aqwis (talk) 22:14, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

WP Norway in the Signpost

The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Norway for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot (talk) 18:49, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Aqwis,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:FrigilianaPano3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 9, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-02-09. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:13, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:20, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Hemp

Hello, could you as an administrator please have a look here and help out, thanks. HempFan (talk) 20:33, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, Aqwis. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

• Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
• A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
This message was sent to the administrators' mass message list. To opt-out of future messages, please remove yourself from the list. 17:47, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

I appreciate Your Contributions To the Wikipedia community . I Doff my hat for you. with all due respect i wish To humbly seek your Help in contesting or reviewing and restoring an article by Name Olagist that has been Marked for speedy Deletion. i strongly believe in you and i believe i didn't go out of context in writing the article rather it was due to its immense Contribution to the Nigerian Education Sector . i hope to hear from you soon . Thanks in Anticipation Mikebilz (talk) 19:11, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Aqwis.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Aqwis. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

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• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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