User talk:FlippyFlink

Thanks for the boneless update

Your updated list is better than what I had, showing more than just post count.

However, could you adjust it to be as narrow as possible, with a smaller font in the heading? Wikimedia is biased against image width so the extra whitespace between columns makes the overall image smaller and harder to read when auto-resized by the Wikimedia software.

Although the data could technically be rendered as a textual wikitable in the article, I tend to lean in favor of the image format for this, because it is hard to vandalize an image but trivially easy to vandalize a table, and to do subtle vandalism changes that most editors would miss. Also, due to the dynamic nature of usenet, the image serves as a fixed snapshot or record, of statistical data that is constantly in flux.

DMahalko (talk) 03:21, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

What did you think about the deletion notice you received?

Hi FlippyFlink,

In November you received a message about either "Nomination for deletion" or "Proposed deletion" of an article you created. I'd like to ask you a few quick questions:

1. Was the message helpful? Were the instructions clear and easy to follow?
2. If not, how do you think the message could be improved?
3. What do you think about the deletion process in general? Do you understand how to contest a deletion?

You can feel free to answer on my talk page or send me your response by email (mpinchukwikimedia.org). (I won't quote you or link your answers to your username if you don't feel comfortable with that.) Your feedback is incredibly useful for improving the content of deletion notifications, so please take a minute to think about and answer these questions. Thank you! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 21:48, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

7zip + MultiPar

Hi, I noticed that you added info to the Parchive article about a pending feature request to add recovery data to 7zip. This is already possible using MultiPar and a supplementary batch script. See: Parchive#cite_note-15. Could you update your 7zip feature request at sourceforge to mention that? It might make it easier for the 7zip devs to add the feature if they can cooperate with the author of MultiPar and use his code within 7zip. Badon (talk) 19:05, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Wildcard certificates

note: wild card characters in the subject aren't allowed according to rfc5280, openldap for instance matches certificate's subject following rfc5280. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.93.81.142 (talk) 08:19, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

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January 2016

Please do not use Wikipedia to promote businesses, such as you did in the article AC power plugs and sockets. Wikipedia is not the Yellow pages. If you want to list a company for potential customers to find, please consider alternative outlets. Thank you. ZH8000 (talk) 07:38, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Active Directory Services for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Active Directory Services is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Active Directory Services until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 05:51, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

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Disambiguation link notification for April 15

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Proposed deletion of PIVX

The article PIVX has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Article was deleted 2 months ago for failing to satisfy WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PIVX). Recreated article still doesn't cite sufficiently good sources to establish notability.

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Speedy deletion nomination of PIVX

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A tag has been placed on PIVX, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

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Disambiguation link notification for October 6

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Ways to improve EPrivacy Regulation (European Union)

Hi, I'm Cwmhiraeth. FlippyFlink, thanks for creating EPrivacy Regulation (European Union)!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This article would be better placed in WikiSource rather than Wikipedia.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

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Cardano page

Since it was literally just deleted in the AFD, I've moved it to Draft:Cardano (platform) so someone doesn't speedy-delete it as a recreation of a just-deleted page. This way you can develop it to a stage where it has enough good refs to survive :-) - David Gerard (talk) 21:21, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

General sanctions alert

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A community decision has authorised the use of general sanctions for pages related to the blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The details of these sanctions are described here. All pages that are broadly related to these topics are subject to a one revert per twenty-four hours restriction, as described here.

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