User talk:Total Eclipse 2017/Archive 2

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Hi Total Eclipse 2017. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have temporarily enabled rollback on your account until 2020-07-11. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
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If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Anarchyte (talk • work) 11:01, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

@Anarchyte: Cool, thanks. Just one question: What happens when rollback expires for me? How do I re-request it? The same way I got it in the first place? Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(Stay at home and wear a mask to prevent the spread)} 20:43, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You can request it again at PERM or drop a note on Anarchyte's talk page. Good luck! -- puddleglum^2.0 22:24, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

@Puddleglum2.0: Thanks! Just a question though, what’s a talk page stalker? Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(Stay at home and wear a mask to prevent the spread)} 22:35, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

It’s someone that watches your talk page like me! Signed,The4lines |||| ^{(You Asked?) (What I have Done.)} 00:31, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

What The4lines said. Read more about how to watch pages at WP:WATCHLIST. All the best, -- puddleglum^2.0 00:51, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@Puddleglum2.0: Haha, I’m watching your talk page, so I guess Im a talk page stalker of you!! LOL! Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(Stay at home and wear a mask to prevent the spread)} 19:23, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

CVU Academy Graduate

Congratulations from both myself and all of the instructors at the Counter Vandalism Unit Academy on your successful completion of the Counter Vandalism Unit Academy. You completed your final exam with a score of 95%. Well done! Further information on your achievement can be found here. Thank you for volunteering to help keep Wikipedia free of vandalism - it is a vital task for the project, and one which is easy to do badly, but not so easy to do well. Thank you for taking the time to learn best practice. If you ever need any advice with anything you come across in the future, you're always welcome to drop a note on my talk page. Hope to see you around! -- puddleglum2.0 19:05, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@Puddleglum2.0: Thanks! Just one question though, how did you come up with my final grade? Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(My profile | My contribs | speak to me)} 23:06, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I reviewed Maryam Amid per your request. Although I made several additional changes to the article, these were mostly beyond the scope of what we normally expect from a copy edit, and overall it looked quite good! A few minor things I did notice:

1. The heading "War with superstition" was a bit clunky and unencyclopedic; I changed it to "Opposition to superstition".
2. "performed my Amid-Semnani" should have been "performed by Amid-Semnani" (although I ended up rephrasing that sentence entirely).
3. "This association also encouraged women to learn handicrafts, and translate several French books into Persian." This seemed weird, and checking the sources two sentences must have been combined. It was in fact Amid who had translated French books, not crafting women in the association.

Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for all your hard work with the Guild! Regards, Tdslk (talk) 02:58, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

@Tdslk: Thanks for the review! The second one was just a typo; my bad. The third one was confusing; thanks for clearing it up. Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(My profile | My contribs | speak to me)} 20:42, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

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Hi Total Eclipse 2017! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Follow-up to Peer review, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread. The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:03, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

I'm new to Wikipedia and I thought my section removal on the page shooting bias was appropriate. Quotes like "The work culture within the police is highly racist, as many recent scandals have shown." don't belong in the article, but I feel most of the section is inappropriate and doesn't belong on an encyclopedia. Should I remove only the paragraphs and sentences I find to be in error, or is section blanking appropriate?

75.81.11.96 (talk) 23:04, 29 May 2020 (UTC) @75.81.11.96: :Unless the entire section is noncompliant with Wikipedia policies, it’s generally better to only remove the bad parts, or replace them with something better. Also, sorry about being so hasty with the revert; i somehow missed the edit summary! Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(talk | contribs)} 23:08, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

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@Mz7: Thank you for granting this! Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(talk | contribs)} 23:29, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

		The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Total Eclipse 2017 for copy edits totaling over 40,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 05:38, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Total Eclipse 2017 for copyediting 36 articles during the GOCE May 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 05:38, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Total Eclipse 2017 for copyediting 29 old articles during the GOCE May 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 05:38, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC. Current events Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests. Drive and blitz reports March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020. Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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@Ed6767: Cool! Just wondering, does redwarn work on Safari? (I’m currently editing from an iPhone...) Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(talk | contribs)} 20:41, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Total Eclipse 2017, probably not completely as Apple kinda sucks in terms of adding newer web APIs, but you can try Chrome or Firefox from the app store? Ed6767 talk! 20:42, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

@Ed6767: Actually no offense but I already use Twinkle and I find it very useful... not sure I’ll need anything else. Sorry! Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(talk | contribs)} 20:45, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Total Eclipse 2017, that's okay, you too! Ed6767 talk! 20:46, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Ed6767, I actually just tried to mkae it work and it didnt. Oh well... Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(talk | contribs)} 20:49, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Total Eclipse 2017! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Faster way to fix typos?, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread. The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:03, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

This account has been blocked indefinitely as a sock puppet of SithJarJar666 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · logs · block log · arb · rfc · lta · SPI · cuwiki) that was created to violate Wikipedia policy. Note that using multiple accounts is allowed, but using them for illegitimate reasons is not, and that all edits made while evading a block or ban may be reverted or deleted. If this account is not a sock puppet, and you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here ~~~~}} below. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:21, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Wow. Just wow. Words cannot express how disappointed I am right now, TE2017 - I'm sure it was great for you, and thanks for your productive contributions, but you waste my time like that? That was good hours of my time! I hope you at least learned something from that. At any rate, please for the love of all things good don't sock again and if you do, try not to waste other peoples time like that? Anyway, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, I do hope that you stay safe, and still wish you all the best. Cheers from a disappointed trainer -- puddleglum^2.0 23:57, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Please understand that if you want to edit Wikipedia again, you will need to get your main account unblocked before making any edits again. When you edit Wikipedia while your account is blocked, you are evading your block and your new accounts will be blocked. If you want my recommendation on where to go from here, I recommend that you wait at least 6 months without any socking. While your waiting, really read WP:GAB and take a few days to compose an unblock request that is at least a paragraph long. It should include that you acknowledge what you did wrong and how you plan to contribute afterwards. I don't agree with Puddleglum2.0's statement that you should sock again. Anyway, I hope that you take this advice and I wish you all the best. Interstellarity (talk) 14:57, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Interstellarity, do you support socking? You say I don't agree with Puddleglum2.0's statement that you should sock again. I personally hope that's a typo! :) Cheers -- puddleglum^2.0 16:18, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

@Puddleglum2.0: I don't support socking. I saw your statement above and it says that you don't support socking and then you said if you do, try not to waste other peoples time like that. I think you could've said it better by telling the user how they can get back to editing in a legitimate manner like I did in my reply above. I'm sorry if I confused you. Interstellarity (talk) 17:13, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

@Puddleglum2.0:@Interstellarity: Well, I don’t know what to say, except maybe I’m sorry. Puddleglum, please understand, I did actually learn a lot from your CVUA training; I wasn’t faking that.

After this edit, I will cease editing on enwiki from any of my accounts for at least 6 months. I will then appeal for unblock and hope I get lucky. I will edit on simple wikipedia in the meantime though, since according to the guide to appealing blocks, constructive editing on another wiki is a good way to get trust from the community. And that’s all I want really: to be a respected Wikipedia editor. That is what I was trying to accomplish with the socking. (It really backfired though; now I’m basically a semi-LTA in the eyes of the community:( Truth is, I’m tired of the socking. I’m tired of the deception. If I’m gonna edit wikipedia, I’m gonna do it right.

Last words: Puddleglum, I hope you continue your CVUA training. Just because your first two graduates (me and Galendalia or whatever his name is) got blocked, doesn’t mean that you are a bad trainer. It just means I’m a bad student.

I wish you both well, and hope to encounter both of you either in six months here or sooner on simple wiki.

Regards, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(talk | contribs | AWB account)} 22:08, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

I don't know much about you, but I don't know how you are to get unblocked if you're a sock of a banned user. ◊PRAHLAD^balaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 16:03, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

@Prahlad balaji: It's called the standard offer. If a blocked user doesn't edit for six months at all on enwiki, they're allowed to request an unblock for their original account publicly on WP:AN/WP:ANI through a willing admin. It's not binding, nor does waiting six months guarantee the user an unblock.Anarchyte (talk • work) 17:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

@Anarchyte: Ok, thanks for the clarification. ◊PRAHLAD^balaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 17:30, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Total Eclipse 2017. I've just noticed all this, and wanted to say that I agree with you that while it is unfortunate that two of Puddleglum2.0's students got blocked, it does not reflect on their training in any way. I actually think that your taking the time to say what you did reflects well on you. Some words of advice then: you don't need to get lucky to be unblocked, you need to make a persuasive case. Refrain from socking, and when the time has elapsed, make a request from your original account. Provide links to any and all sock accounts you have used, and show that you understand (a) why you were blocked originally, and (b) why the community frowns on socking. Be honest, be open, convince people that you won't cause any trouble, and you should be OK. GirthSummit _(blether) 18:37, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2020.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated! Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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