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Hello!

Your boot recently informed an IP-number that he/she should sign the insult they recently placed on my discussion-page. I was insulted by this IP because I have reverted unreferenced changes the IP made which gave a great impression of being POW. I have posted a report on the IP:s behaviour on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Was this the right place to put my report?

This was the attack made by the IP on my user-page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Aciram&diff=434274094&oldid=432663388

As you are an administrator, I wonder: can I remove the insult from my discussion-page? I have been told that you should not remove posts from discussion-pages. I also hope that you can direct me to the right place in wp to post my report on the IP, if I have placed it on the rong place now. Thank you! --Aciram (talk) 18:52, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, you can remove stuff from your own talk page if you so desire. =) --slakr^\ talk / 23:02, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

So I can remove anything I like from my talkpage, even if it was written by someone else? I see. Thank you very much!--Aciram (talk) 13:09, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes—within reason—and there are some exceptions to this. See the user page guideline for the details. Additionally you shouldn't alter/remove people's comments in a way that misrepresents what they said, for example. Other than that, you're basically free to remove stuff from your talk page. However it's highly encouraged, for practical reasons, to not remove comments but to archive them to a subpage instead. That way you and others can easily point people to past discussions or reference them yourself without having to sift through a myriad of diffs in your talk page's page history to find a discussion from ages ago. --slakr^\ talk / 13:22, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

...but when it comes to vandalism, it's convention to just remove them outright instead of archiving them. :P --slakr^\ talk / 13:23, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see. Basically, it is wrong to change what people have written by, for example, leave some of it and delete the rest, but not to delete everything they have written. I think I understand. --Aciram (talk) 17:39, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help so far! I'm going to list some of the improvements I'd like to see. No pressure

• The "author" field is a bit of a problem, but I think it is better to leave it out rather than duplicate the "creator" field. I made those distinct parameters because the "creator" (e.g.., House of Representatives or the National Park Service) is often not the "author" (e.g., the employee of the agency, or the person whose testimony or evidence became part of the congressional record). Perhaps there could be an optional author field in the form where the user manually tells the grabber the author, and if left blank the parameter is omitted. It defaults to "Author not provided or unknown." in the template when omitted.
•  Done In "Variant control numbers," I think it would be more readable for the editors if each new line is also on a new line in the wikitext, rather than just separated by a <br>.
•  Done In the "Location" field, I really want to omit all that extraneous contact information. These are always in the same format, so perhaps " PHONE:" and all information on that line after that can be disregarded? We just want the location where the physical idem is housed; readers can go to the actual catalog record for contact information.
• I am adding a "General notes" parameter to mirror the "General note(s)" field in ARC (e.g., [1]).
•  Done There appear to be many ways to display the dates. Right now the grabber just works with "Production date(s)", which is probably based on the examples I supplied, but there can also be "Coverage date(s)", "Broadcast date(s)", "Release date(s)", and "Copyright date(s)".
•  Done Also, for the date outputs, it would be useful to convert them to Commons format rather than simply copying. All NARA dates are displayed as MM/DD/YYYY , MM/YYYY, or YYYY, so it should be parsable to use commons:Template:Date in the format {{date|YYYY|MM|DD}}.
• I'm not entirely sure how to handle the "TIFF" part. The idea is that if it is a high-quality TIFF from the National Archives' master files, it should be placed in a separate category. Maybe a "TIFF?" box, already checked by default, and if it is unchecked the "|TIFF=yes" will be omitted?
•  Done Right now, the tool outputs the descriptive template, but I imagined it also outputting the entire necessary page text. That means == {{int:filedesc}} == at the top and the licensing at the bottom. This gets a little tricky because not all NARA items will use the same copyright tag. {{PD-USGov}} is acceptable, though non-specific, for most cases, so the default output should look like this:

== {{int:license}} ==

{{NARA-cooperation}}

{{PD-USGov}}

• Maybe another field where the user could optionally enter the agency's code for the copyright license? For example, "Congress," "Interior," or "Military-Navy" would make {{PD-USGov-Congress}}, {{PD-USGov-Interior}}, or {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}} instead.

Hopefully these are doable and make sense. And I'm sure I'll have more eventually. ;-) But the tool is already really useful! Dominic·t 16:06, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Other issues:
  • Something went wrong with the date field. It now gives all dates as "{{date|1970|01|01}}" (e.g. [2], [3], [4])
  • It's still having trouble with "Coverage Dates" ([5] vs. [6])
  • It doesn't seem to work with file units. File units are the (optional) subgrouping in between actual items and series. That is, every item belongs to a series and record group, but some also belong to a file unit. Compare the hierarchy tabs for [7] and [8]. Currently, you'll notice that [9] puts the file unit in the "Series" parameter, when it should put the series there and put the file unit in a "|File unit=" field.
• Thanks for your work earlier today. :-) Dominic·t 03:46, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy. As a new administrator, I stumbled on an unblock request from a user account that was blocked by IP. Details are here. I initially enabled "Anon only" on the block, but then reverted after reading the policy about open proxies. I'd like to make a suggestion though. Could you please have ProcseeBot use some sort of "Report unblock requests here" type message in the block rationale in the future? It would've saved me the confusion.--v/r - TP 01:46, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In view of your earlier statement (and what little I may know of you in regards to your desire to not be involved in arbitration stuff), I've asked you a question at the MickMacNee case workshop; the question is in response to the comment you made there. Regards, Ncmvocalist (talk) 09:32, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And I've asked a follow up (hopefully it's distilled enough so that there is no lack of clarity in what I am trying to ascertain). Ncmvocalist (talk) 01:07, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have left you with a response there which may be of relevance in the future. Unless you wish to clarify anything you've said earlier, I have no further questions. Thank you for your responses and I'll leave it at that. Ncmvocalist (talk) 06:47, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Thanks for your kind note on my talk page. I am new to editing Wikipedia and I am mainly interested in working on materials related to Nepal. Currently (and actually for about a year now) I am trying to upgrade the .svg image of the Coat of Arms of Nepal (Image). I even uploaded an upgraded version of the .svg file last summer but at some point later on an administrator took off the new image. I also uploaded a .gif file which was converted to .png by another user. This image (fortunately) has not been taken down image.

The continued use of this inaccurate image is particularly bothering because almost everyone on the Internet seems to be using the current image.

Also, it seems I can't re-upload the upgraded version of the file because it has already faced deletion once. Therefore I thought of asking you for help.

Thanks a lot for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely PraShree (talk) 04:16, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This matter has been resolved (almost). Thanks. PraShree (talk) 23:39, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

When you have the chance, you may want to check this out. He appears to be up to his old tricks. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 20:10, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]