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You made an addition to that article if I am not mistaken. My surname is Behnke and I would be interested in your source and where you've seen the family crest. Kossmoboleat (talk) 05:07, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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• Tried to fix it. --evrik ^(talk) 18:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article's been there for years. I fixed your entry. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:52, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Made my day it did. --evrik ^(talk) 18:47, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Are you still working on the Frisky Dingo page? If so, perhaps we could try to build on some of the ideas you had bullet-pointed. (Animation style and tone).  Hazardous Matt  15:32, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. I haven't looked at the page in a while, but I'd be interested in helping. I'll put a couple suggestions on the talk page, because I don't think I know the terminology to write about animation. ike9898 (talk) 15:12, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent. I'll see what wording I can provide to help out.  Hazardous Matt  12:49, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi.

I'm contacting you because you were involved in the discussion concerning the renaming of the lists of basic topics.

I ran into resistance when I attempted to rename the set.

Therefore, the name change hasn't been completed, because the previous discussion wasn't widespread enough, nor announced in enough places.

I've submitted a new proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to rename the pages called List of basic x topics to Topic outline of x.

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I noticed you making some good contributions to these articles. It would be helpful if you could add references to the sources you are using for the information. ike9898 (talk) 00:51, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I have just begun with this group because the history of several of these people is interwoven in different sources, most of which already are cited in a couple of the articles... my first step requires assembling the data for each individual article. I plan to add the references later, where they will be most functional and avoiding constant repetition. I'll be working on these for quite a while and will place the references when I begin to polish. -- 83d40m (talk) 22:20, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I will review those associated articles as well, because I like to see all related ones in agreement and contributing to the knowledge of a topic for our readers. 83d40m (talk) 22:48, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Any reason why you would want to delete my photo "Dubbo Terraced Houses"? I took the photo last year and added it to the page for Dubbo New South Wales, then also posted a copy to "Terraced House" in the Australian section as it is of interest to terraced house enthusiasts in general. Please explain. Cheers MichaelGG - --MichaelGG (talk) 12:47, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You mean " Image:Terrace in Dubbo New South Wales.jpg "? It's still there. A while back there was a group project that I participated in that eliminated duplicate pictures, meaning that there was more than one copy of the exact same picture uploaded. The intent was to only eliminate duplicates that were not used in any article. It's possible I goofed. ike9898 (talk) 16:08, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, Ike - I had received a 'bot' message no doubt generated by your project. Obviously a good idea to remove 'dead' material clogging up good ol' Wikipedia's hard drives. Will keep an eye on the two pictures involved. Cheers mate --MichaelGG (talk) 01:17, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I fit the Stuff you need to do to be a autocomfirmed user, but I still can get it even though I try to do the stuff you can only do if you are one. Help please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raggonix (talk • contribs)

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I was just cleaning up the pages to make them a little less cluttered. Philly jawn (talk) 20:33, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I was looking for the North Pennsylvania Railroad wikilink for the Jenkintown-Wyncote (SEPTA station) article, but I wasn't able to find it. Thanks for adding what I couldn't. ----DanTD (talk) 04:21, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you added a merge template to the sandblasting article, however there isn't any discussion of it on that page or the abrasive blasting page. Seeing how you added the temp, can you start a topic about it? Thanks! Wizard191 (talk) 15:44, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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In case you aren't aware, there's a whole category of diocese stubs. I don't see why San Isidro in particular has been singled out for deletion. Yes the article is a stub, but that doesn't mean it ought to be deleted. Upon further consideration, I owe you an apology. I had left off my usual header. Thanks for the catch. Benkenobi18 (talk) 23:24, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Roman_Catholic_dioceses_in_Argentina

I changed that number back to 152 because there is no mention of 126 anywhere in the refs listed. The newest one says 152 attributed deaths in Mexico. Nskrill (talk) 21:17, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

All I did was change the number of attributed deaths in Mexico to 152 after someone changed it to 126 without backing up the change. And yes, you did change it back to 126 after I changed it, see here. Nskrill (talk) 21:24, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You changed a lot more than the number on that edit. See this diff. Since you made so many unconstructive changes without providing a rationale, I reverted your whole edit. That's the only time an edit of mine changed one of the numbers. ike9898 (talk) 21:32, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That is very strange, I did in fact only change the number. You probably made an edit while I was editing the number and the software did not pick up the conflict. I will now change the number back to 152. Nskrill (talk) 21:37, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, no, its all good. I wasnt upset by your comment, but rather the fact that it wasn't being used. I'll admit, it was a bit amaturish in retrospect. No harm, no foul, eh?Drew R. Smith (talk) 21:03, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. Next time, can you indicate which sentence has a proofing problem instead of deleting the entire section? Thanks. Woodstiger38 (talk) 20:15, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I got your message regarding plagiarism. I did not write those sections. I guess some just cut and paste to save time. How is the section now? Woodstiger38 (talk) 20:45, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Okay, almost two years, but I finally put up a Chalk talk page to respond to your question from January 2008. Pepso2 (talk) 16:17, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Good. Works much better that way. Pepso2 (talk) 15:50, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Gathering Hoest info is like assembling a giant jigsaw puzzle. Pepso2 (talk) 13:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I found the list in Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines, then did some Googling to fill in the gaps.Shortride (talk) 14:55, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, I think you created the above list way back in 2003. Well I have been editing it on and off since 2008 pretty much got it to where it stands now, what do you think.--intraining ^{Jack In} 09:32, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Ike9898. 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.
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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 Ike9898.

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) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ike9898. 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. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ike9898. 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)[reply]

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

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

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.

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.

13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes

Amortias • Deckiller • BU Rob13

Ronnotel • Islander • Chamal N • Isomorphic • Keeper76 • Lord Voldemort • Shereth • Bdesham • Pjacobi

Guideline and policy news

• A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
• AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
• Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
• The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.

Technical news

• A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
• Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
• A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

Administrator changes

TheDJ

Xnuala • CJ • Oldelpaso • Berean Hunter • Jimbo Wales • Andrew c • Karanacs • Modemac • Scott

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
• The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
• An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
• After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

Technical news

• After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
• Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).

Administrator changes

Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim

Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
• Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

Technical news

• You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
• There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
• Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

Miscellaneous

• Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes

Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn

ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
• Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
• An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.

Technical news

• Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes

Happyme22 • Dragons flight

Zad68

Guideline and policy news

• The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.

Technical news

• Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
• A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.

Miscellaneous

• A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
• A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
• Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

Administrator changes

Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 ^{(first RfA to reach WP:300)}

Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

• Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
• A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
• An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news

• LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
• The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

Administrator changes

Nakon • Scott

Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news

• ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
• Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.

Technical news

• You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
• Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
• In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

• Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.