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Happy holidays! I hope your New Year will be a good one.

You've been kind enough in the past to protect pages in my user space. Could you please do the same for a new page I just created, User:Beyond My Ken/RfA criteria? Thanks, Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:33, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

 Done, sorry for the delay :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 15:25, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

No problem. Thank you very much. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:38, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Vgreleasenew. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Vgreleasenew redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Lordtobi (✉) 10:58, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey Salv, could you help me with a French request? I think we need OTRS confirmation of identity for File:Alternative Libertaire 1984 6.jpg. The uploader's claim to authorship is believable, but I'd like to have confirmation from an official address on file in case it's ever challenged. But the user only speaks le français. What do you think, and could you help? czar 17:16, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

From reading the editor's userpage, and other discussions elsewhere (including the talk page of their frwiki article), it appears there is not the shadow of a doubt amongst frwiki's community that the editor is in fact Roger Noël (aka Babar), a well-known Belgian militant and editor. Basically what you want is a confirmation that the account does in fact belong to this person (like we would require to unblock enwiki accounts blocked for "famous-uname")? I don't think that's necessary, although I understand why it would be helpful in the case of future discussion. That being said, judging by the quantity of talk page messages on his commons talk page about deletion of files where evidence of permission was requested to be sent to OTRS, I strongly doubt he'll comply with a request for identity confirmation. On enwiki we would be able to compel him to by blocking the account to protect his name, but frwiki is a different ballgame altogether. But he's definitely a fascinating militant and activist character :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 17:28, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Wasn't looking for punitive action—just didn't want works attributed to "Roger Noel" to be deleted in the future if an editor challenged whether the uploader was indeed the figure. I just found Ticket:2013082210006422—does this work for confirmation of identity, or is it only for specific images? czar 17:46, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

It's specifically for that image and comes from a general e-mail (Orange is France's Verizon, so to speak), so it doesn't really add anything to what's already on-wiki. Plus, he's been fighting in AUTOBIO/auto-promo debates for years about his frwiki articles, there are other editors who obliquely mention knowing him off-wiki... I'm absolutely convinced it is him. Whether or not that would stand up to scrutiny in a commons deletion request.... probably depends on the weather. :p ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 17:54, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Hello Salvidrim!. I applied for UTRS access on 7 January but am still waiting for approval. Do you know how long it usually takes? Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 05:45, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, now  approved. Unfortunately there is currently no "alert" for new account requests and we haven't yet put in place a way to disallow non-admins from requesting accounts, which we why we still require manual account activation. I've done it for you right now so let me know if you have any questions. At some point in the future we're already planning migrating to an OAuth login system where admins would be able to login to UTRS without needing to "sign up" for a separate account, and it will also prevent any non-admins from attempting to get UTRS access. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 14:24, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Wishing Salvidrim!/Q1 2017 Archive a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Mz7 (talk) 04:27, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Goddamn it already? I'm sure Wikipedia is the cause of at least a few of the grey hairs that have been slowly infesting my head... ;) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 06:25, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey Salv. Have you read this article on the Top Ten Wikipedia Stories of 2016. I noticed they mentioned you in it. GamerPro64 04:04, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

• Thanks! I'm a reader of The Wikipedia so would've surely stumbled on that eventually. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 13:53, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Ah, sorry. Didn't realize. --JustBerry (talk) 04:54, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

• Don't apologize. You couldn't have known, and even if you did, pinging me was absolutely the right thing to do. I appreciate the notification regardless. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 05:15, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

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• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Done ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:14, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

The IP address is definitely still editing. 73.81.155.76 (talk · contribs), 73.81.155.120 (talk · contribs), 2600:387:3:805:0:0:0:56 (talk · contribs) and 2600:387:3:803:0:0:0:7F (talk · contribs) all appear to be the same editor, editing the same topics (Wild Love (Cashmere Cat album), The Ride (Nelly Furtado album), All Your Fault: Pt. 1) with the same battleground mentality, the same mobile edits, the same recent pop music articles that was pointed out in a filing under one of their previous incarnations, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Smoore95GAGA (it was previously pointed out elsewhere that the IPs and blocked accounts have had similar edit summaries, and targets, as one of their favourites is Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, as several of 73.81 IPs have edited there, and several of the accounts blocked under Smoore95GAGA edited there). I would open another SPI, but that one sat there for over a month and that's why the IP addresses are now stale; because they are now using different ones. Ss112 22:57, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

The first and best thing might be to get the articles SPP'ed. If he broadens to other articles we can think about a rangeblock. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 15:21, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

As discussed on Discord, I'd be very grateful if you'd translate this article, or even just parts of it: [1]. Of course, there's no hurry :) ~Mable (chat) 15:06, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 Done, @Maplestrip:! You can copy the "cite magazine" template from the collapse header for in-article citations, it's completed. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 17:44, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

In case it wasn't clear yet from the Discord chat, thanks you a lot! I owe you! ~Mable (chat) 17:58, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

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

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He was the one causing the vandalism on it, not me. Can you please ban him, he's the one that keeps removing Charles Martinet's filmography and vandalizing it, without a reason. He doesn't explain it in his edit summeries, he's doing it on purpose as harassment. 174.192.14.73 (talk) 21:14, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) He's a long-term, experienced editor, in good standing with community. I find it hard to believe that, after years of constructive editing, he just started vandalizing random articles. A summary like this is either dishonest, or not very well thought out... Sergecross73 msg me 21:48, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

• You are both involved in a content dispute over whether it is appropriate to include an unreferenced filmography into Charles Martinet's article. Edit warring is never appropriate and I've protected the page. You are welcome to start a talk page discussion on the article's talk page. You can find guidance here: WP:BRD. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 21:56, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

I think you can unprotect my talk page. I'm not all that bothered if they want to post rubbish there. I can ignore it. --The1337gamer (talk) 08:31, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Hey Salvidrim, I saw your name on the list of people who have access to Nintendo Power. Do you happen to have issues from 2003 and 2004? I'm working on The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and am looking for the Wind Waker review in April 2003, issue 167, p. 132, and/or the article on the "Nintendo Power Awards" from June 2004, issue 180. Thanks,--Cúchullain ^t/c 03:13, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Unfortunately not! My parents subscribed when I was a kid (mid-90s) but these issues are lost in time, and I've only re-subscribed by myself in 2010. Sorry! :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 04:06, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for checking!--Cúchullain ^t/c 13:45, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading File:Karen Greenlee drawing.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:22, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

I reinstated the image myself, because I would love to see this image stay in the article. I don't know if my changes were enough, however. Salvidrim, I assume you have the source of this image (Apocalypse Culture) - could you write something about the image in its description using the source? ~Mable (chat) 18:40, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

I avoided reinstating because I was currently discussing it with Hullaballoo Wolfowitz and wanted to avoid the appearance of warring (I skipped the R part of BRD :p) but I do agree it should remain and am hoping HW can either agree or convince me otherwise. ;) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 18:54, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Semi-related to User talk:Fastily#File:Symbol template class.svg; Would you use your administrator glasses to see if any of the following local files contained {{keep local}} or {{keep local high-risk}} before they were deleted for me?:

• File:Example.gif
• File:Symbol question.svg
• File:Symbol c class.svg
• File:Stop hand.svg
• File:Symbol support vote.svg
• File:Disambig.svg
• File:Disambig gray.svg
• File:Red pog.svg
• File:Heckert GNU white.svg
• File:Wikinews-logo-51px.png
• File:Soccerball mask.svg
• File:Flag of France.svg
• File:Crystal Clear app ktip.png
• File:Ambox warning yellow.svg

If you do so, thanks in advance. Best Regards, — Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 04:52, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Godsy: They all did except File:Example.gif, File:Wikinews-logo-51px.png, and all from the same batch of edits by Anomie in October 2011, "{{Keep local high-risk|reason=it is one of the 100 most-used files on the English Wikipedia}}"