User talk:Theda

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Hi Theda! Women around the world who edit and contribute to Wikipedia are coming together to celebrate each other's work, support one another, and engage new women to also join in on the empowering experience of shaping the sum of all the world's knowledge - through the WikiWomen's Collaborative. As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved! You can do this by: Liking the WikiWomen's Collaborative on Facebook and share your tips, projects, and connect with other WikiWomen Join the conversation on our Twitter feed Reading and writing for our blog channel We can't wait to have you involved, and feel free to drop by our meta page (under construction) to see how else you can get involved! Can't wait to have you involved! SarahStierch (talk) 05:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You indefinitely protected User:Sango123 in March 2007. It's been over six years now. Could you please unprotect this page? --MZMcBride (talk) 20:51, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to William Desmond Taylor may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "[]"s. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page. Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 03:58, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I trust you didn't really mean to do this. ;) Favonian (talk) 19:43, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was trying to add the shortcut "WP:RAR" because it redirects to the policy page WP:Removing administrator rights. I don't think you made the right choice about removing it. Please put it back if possible. If not, leave me a message saying why not. 2602:304:CE27:9C69:699A:F9D3:80F6:5EE1 (talk) 01:19, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That particular edition has been reverted before [1]. You also did not leave an edit summary Edit summary which is useful to other editors checking your edits. Also there are a few other username very similar to yours containing only numbers and letters, any input on that--Theda 02:53, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) It appears to be an IPV6 IP address. I assumed that they were an IP editor, bu now I see that it is actually their username! 220 of ^Borg 03:24, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that way but may well be something else [2] but who am I to point a finger. There are a quite a few of them curiously, just take a look at my contribs and one at least one more [3]. Might best report to them to WP:UAA, Maybe another admin may recognize has input if only on WP:IMPERSONATOR, they apparently arent going to render one. I would but I have to get bed to make a morning appointment.--Theda 03:53, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wishing Theda a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! --George (Talk · Contribs · CentralAuth · Log) 16:31, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Jcl arrow teens.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 01:52, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Theda.

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) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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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

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Obituaries

• 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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13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

I noticed that you placed the page Fupa (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) under creation protection. However, it shares the same meaning, "fat upper pubic area", with the acronym F.U.P.A., which still stands as a redirect to Abdominal obesity. Would you be willing to remove the creation protection for Fupa so that I can redirect it to Abdominal obesity? Otherwise, I will start the process of deleting F.U.P.A. for consistency. 9³ 16:15, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Theda. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 18:31, 7 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Normally when posting these anniversary messages, I look up the applicable RfA to figure out how long the recipient has been an admin, so I can customize the header of the message I post. I couldn't find your RfA under your old username nor could I find any log of said action. I can only assume there's a reason for this. There's evidence that you deleted your userpage in June 2007, so you've been an admin for at least that long. Chris Troutman (talk) 23:17, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I was. Yes I had a name change for good reason. Theda 23:56, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next several days. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time, and that you have not been inactive from administrative tasks for a five year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. Further, following a community discussion in March of 2018, administrators suspended for inactivity who have not had any logged administrative activity for five years will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — JJMC89 bot 00:03, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions have been removed. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time, and that you have not been inactive from administrative tasks for a five year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. Further, following a community discussion in March of 2018, administrators suspended for inactivity who have not had any logged administrative activity for five years will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:05, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Theda. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 18:35, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]