User talk:BirgitteSB

Award for participation

Proofread of the Month September 2009 Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey Proofread of the Month October 2009 Old-Time Recipes for Home Made Wines Cordials and Liqueurs Proofread of the Month November 2009 Special: Validation month Proofread of the Month December 2009 Handel Proofread of the Month bonus award February 2010 Mars Proofread of the Month May 2010 Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet and other profitable tales Proofread of the Month May 2010 Extra-curricular validation Proofread of the Month June 2010 Persia Proofread of the Month November 2010 Special: Validation month Proofread of the Month January 2011 The Harvard Classics Proofread of the Month June 2011 The Life of Michael Angelo

LarryGilbert

Hi BirgitteSB and happy new year! WS:ADMIN#LarryGilbert appears ready to be closed. --John Vandenberg ^(chat) 22:47, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

ru:Викитека:Вавилонский форум (the Babylonian Scriptorium)

Hello! The ru-ws community decide to open a special discussion page for a foreigners, who don't understand Russian. We guess that a lack of foreign languages' knowledge is a considerable obstacle to our international collaboration. A primary (but not only) goals is a interwikis and identification of translations. Could you make an announcement at Wikisource:Scriptorium (or somewhere else) for a English-spoken contributors? -- Sergey kudryavtsev (talk) 10:12, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

I will be happy to make an announcement.--BirgitteSB 23:49, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

re Blocking

Before blocking an editor for an issue as nebulous as disruption, it is really important an administrator first communicates the problem they see to the editor with a clear warning. It seems to me that you overlooked this in regards to Wild Wolf, but hope you can understand how this needs to be our best practice when issuing blocks. Please be sure to give clears warnings in the future.--BirgitteSB 00:32, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I fully agree with you and you are correct about that. Cirt (talk) 00:45, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

FYI

I made a comment mentioning (and thanking) you, at WS:AN. Please see [1]. Again, thank you, Cirt (talk) 00:58, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. I just started a new sub thread there, but I did not direct the discussion on you. I think it would be good to clarify the issue before closing the thread.--BirgitteSB 01:13, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Nod, okay thanks. Cirt (talk) 01:30, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Bot flag request

Hello! I not found the place on this wiki, where i can write a request for a bot flag. Therefore i write it here.

I reqest a flag for SKbot. It based on my own class library and written on Object Pascal / Delphi. A code has a full unicode support. I plan use the bot for a various ad-hoc tasks, when complex algorithm needed and standalone bot is not effective. The test task is completed (see bot's contribution).

Personally i'm a professional DB programmer with 15 year experience. -- Sergey kudryavtsev (talk) 10:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

You need to make the request at Wikisource:Administrators' noticeboard#Bots Wikisource:Scriptorium and gain consensus for the flag there. I am technically illiterate, so I really do rely on the consensus part. --BirgitteSB 01:57, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Well, i do it there. -- Sergey kudryavtsev (talk) 13:03, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Could you sum up the disscussion concerning Wikisource:Scriptorium#Please Bot flag request for SKbot? Already three weeks is passed... -- Sergey kudryavtsev (talk) 13:00, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

I have asked everyone to clarify. Everyone seemed supportive of the bot flag, but they never clarified if they found your responses acceptable when they asked you for more information. I imagine that silence most likely means they found it acceptable but I will feel better if they are explicit.--BirgitteSB 14:09, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

This is now flagged.--BirgitteSB 02:47, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Moving MakerFairePedia to Meta

You're right, I always get Wikisource confused with Wikibooks. Meta or Wikibooks should work, but this is more appropriate for Meta. 71.198.176.22 23:32, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Okay they all have sdelete tags. Thanks! 71.198.176.22 00:17, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Unifying global account: Anshul

Hi, I am Anshul. I am unable to complete my SUL partly because I have forgotten my password/email here. My account here has zero edits. Could you please rename it to "Anshul (old)"? I am making this request based on the discussion here. Thanks, --120.138.117.230 19:13, 6 July 2010 (UTC) (Anshul)

This has now been done. Thanks!--BirgitteSB 03:46, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a ton! I have finally achieved my SUL! --Anshul (talk) 17:26, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Unifying global account: Richard Harvey

Hi, I am the editor that Anshul referred to above here, regarding unify global accounts, however I have still not had my account reset, as of yet to unify my Wikisource account. I have gone down the route of trying to get a new password sent, however my e-mail address will have also changed since then. Could you please work your 'Magic' with my account. Richard Harvey.

The rename is done. Hope that helps.--BirgitteSB 02:53, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Excellent, many Thanks. Richard Harvey (talk) 08:08, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Bot flag request for BenchBot

Hello! After a little discussion in the scriptorium, I would like to request a flag for User:BenchBot. Cheers, stephen (talk) 21:50, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay, I have been busier than I anticipated in meatspace. I see Z took care of it. --BirgitteSB 11:25, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

User name changes.

Hi, hope this finds you and yours well...

While going about the usual housekeeping I've come across a user, User:PopMusicBuff, who at initially wanted to delete both his user page along with it's talk page. I was leary of deleting both, given the user name's possible shenanigans regarding attempted contributions & since the talk page was tagged a few weeks earlier with the standard {{welcome}} banners, so I simply reverted the talk page back to that revision and deleted the user page as requested at that point.

Since then, another user attempted to point the talk page [2] to a different user page on Wikipedia, w:User:AGiorgio08, which was then edited again to cause a Double redirect loop pointing back to the talk page itself (see Special:DoubleRedirects). Upon further investigation, it turns out that the WP user w:User:PopMusicBuff secured a name change to w:User:AGiorgio08 on WP earlier this month. I get the feeling either the user did not know to ask for a rename on WS as well or would rather not have the new account name associated with the old account name's history or contributions.

My under-developed admin-instinct tells me that I should move the talk page to under the new user named account then possibly delete it (as per the original user's request) to preserve the fact (for WS records at least) that the user has changed the account name from PopMusicBuff to AGiorgio08 globally. I figure best to check with the expert first... Thanks. George Orwell III (talk) 02:19, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Given the lack of of substantial contributions on en.WS, I personally wouldn't worry about preserving the record. But since you are worried, I suggest you ask him why he wants the page deleted. The best way to develop your admin instinct is to try and figure what you think is going on with someone, and then step back from the assumptions you came up with and ask them about it non-judgmentally; hoping that you will find out your guesses were wrong. You can only improve your instinct when you figure out where it leads you wrong.--BirgitteSB 05:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Your points well taken here. I also think that I'm being overly concerned more due to the activity over on WP [3] than anything done to/on WS. Never really saw an account in effect merged into an already existing account and then calling that "renamed". Nor have I come across edits moved to a "secure server" or whatever those June 2010 edits went to over on the WP log either. Truth is - I'd rather delete the remnants of the old WS User and be done with the whole thing since he/she did not really contribute here on WS anyway. George Orwell III (talk) 05:17, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Edits to your Poetry Portal sub-pages

Hi,

Hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of tweaking your User: -space's Poetry portal to free up the odd template:/portal: names that were being used sort of incorrectly. There is an effort to finally utilize the Portal: namespace on WS and some of those templates and their sub-pages were contrary to what is being attempted elsewhere was all.

I'll get around to making an actual "box portal skeleton" that one can just copy & paste that works properly rather than that myth folks have tried to import from wikipedia without much success on WS. Again - sorry for the intrusion. George Orwell III (talk) 23:13, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Your statements

I take it from your statements that you do not realize that I have been connected to the Poetlister matter dating back a long time, helped in revealing much of his abuse, and have been providing information to the Stewards and local CUs of more problematic activity stemming from Poetlister's multiple accounts, including multiple emails from multiple names used at Wikisource and a new female identity that Poetlister was pretending to have in a repeat of the Taxwoman problem. Ottava Rima (talk) 06:23, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

No I did not. I imagine from John's statement that they didn't believe they had permission to share emails you had asked to keep confidential. Although perhaps I should have read between the lines of a few comments better, that was not explicitly shared with me. There was a similar email sent out to an admin after the discussion was underway at WS:ADMIN; that was the first I became aware that he was continuing such a pretense.--BirgitteSB 12:38, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Archiving adminship discussions

Hi BirgitteSB and Zhaladshar. I think the adminship discussions are ready to be archived; do you agree with my doing so as follows? Angr unanimously confirmed, Durova & Zyephyrus retired, and Longfellow's nomination declined. —Pathoschild 19:17:13, 02 January 2011 (UTC)

I didn't read this that closely until now. I just took as a prod turn over the monthlies, which had slip my mind with other events. I archived the confirmed and left the other two until a steward acts on them. Longfellow's adminship had an edit today I believe of someone changed their support to oppose, but I already said I wouldn't close it once I started writing to convince others to Oppose. --BirgitteSB 20:06, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

AN

RE:Edit I think you missed a key word in this edit. Should the word "publicly" have followed "taken part" in your statement? Jeepday (talk) 11:51, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

I never saw them really discuss their actions at all. Their style is pretty much to talk about what they interested in going forward and letting their vagueness about the past allow the reader to assume they are in agreement with the readers disapproval. "Mistakes were made" sort of thing.--BirgitteSB 02:02, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Admin...

Thanks, am juggling quite a bit this time of year…so timeliness may slip a wee bit…JamAKiska (talk) 13:33, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Bot requests pending at Scriptorium

I mentioned to Zhaladshar on the 30th (here) that mine, Spangineer's and Eliyak's bot requests are pending at Scriptorium. In case, you're around sooner and could flag us, I thought I'd let you know as well. Thanks. --Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 16:12, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

I will flag them shortly.--BirgitteSB 18:10, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm asking people who have commented to clarify their positions, but I understood the standard per WS:BOTS was lack of opposition, not affirmative support. Not trying to argue, just want to clarify, since I didn't actually see any actual opposition, the closest being Cyg's comment that the initial purpose could be accomplished with scripts and buttons.

Sorry for suggesting Eliyak's bot was ready for flagging, I hadn't looked at how many edits he'd done and thought he'd made a run based on off project comments he'd made.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 19:01, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I am not personally technically inclined so whenever I am not entirely sure that people who are more knowledgeable approve of the bot script I prod for clarification. I have never been willing to flag bots I don't personally understand without some reassurance from others in the community. If WS:BOTS implies otherwise, it is a poor codification of my general practice regarding bot flags. I suppose Z might handle things differently, but I don't believe I have much altered my practices over the years.--BirgitteSB 19:47, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

That's fine; again, I wasn't trying to argue it, I'm really new to bots and our policy is not very detailed which has its positives and negatives. Thanks for taking care of it.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 20:10, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Interwiki bot

I've got a notice up at Scriptorium (Wikisource:Scriptorium#Interwiki-Bot) that I intend to run a interwiki language bot named User:Interwiki-Bot. It has been acknowledged by others that language link bots don't require formal approval so whenever you get to it I'd request a flag for this bot. It only does interwiki language links.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 11:35, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

I made a couple inquires at the Scriptorium. I am instinctively uncomfortable with this, but open-minded.--BirgitteSB 19:10, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Rename user Alexandre.mbm to AlexandreMBM please

Hello!

I don't see pages for local requests for change of names in this wiki. Rename Alexandre.mbm (sulutil) to AlexandreMBM (sulutil) please.

Reason: AlexandreMBM is my SUL account and I want to continue Steward requests/SUL requests#Alexandre.mbm.

Confirmation link: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests%2FSUL_requests&action=historysubmit&diff=2440684&oldid=2440589

Thank you.

Alexandre.mbm (talk) 04:38, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

PS.: I am posting copy of this message in User talk:Zhaladshar (the crat other).

If around ...

it would be great if you could take a peek at Wikisource:Administrators Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 15:49, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Never mind. Zhaladshar has been. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:48, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Advice

Hi.

I'd like to know how to escalate an issue regarding copyright violation to somebody with some actual legal standing. -- George Orwell III (talk) 14:19, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

I wish I could offer you directions, but that simply isn't the kind of support the Foundation offers to volunteers. In other words, I have never succeeded in such a pursuit and resigned myself to the idea that such a thing is impossible years ago. I am sure you will try anyways, and I would not fault you for rejecting my analysis. It is quite the way of things.--BirgitteSB 22:57, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

I see. Well thank you for replying. If there is no way to seek or obtain actual legal advice, then the whole idea that participating in discussions related to legal matters such as copyright really is nothing more than academic on WS - or a popularity contest at worst.

I will refrain from entering into discussions where the actual law is not relevant or simply goes far above the layman's ability to read it and draw legitimate conclusions from it themselves. Thanks again for replying anyway. I believe, you are still wrong in the case of the Unabomber's work because he never lawfully waived his rights from the work which is what "placing in public domain" entails in the eyes of the law (among other deficiencies) nevertheless. -- George Orwell III (talk) 23:26, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

While I happen to believe my analysis correct, I have seen enough reversals and counter-reversals to have little confidence in any moment's conclusion. On the other hand, I have seen enough improvement to build my confidence in eventualism wrt copyright. We are always trending closer to the best possible understanding of copyright.--BirgitteSB 23:45, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Change username Killer Magikarp to AddThreeAndFive

You're a bureaucrat right? Can you change my username from Killer Magikarp to AddThreeAndFive? I recently changed to this name on my home wiki and am now trying to change all my accounts. Here's the proof. Thank you! Killer Magikarp (talk) 20:50, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Done you may still have to officially unify under SUL after all renames are complete--BirgitteSB 13:36, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Name Change

I am considering changing my ID from Jeepday to my given name. I don't really have anything to hide on a personal level, so I imagine it would only be technical challenges. Would you mind sharing your thoughts on topic?

• Are there Technical challenges, SUL Jeepday SUL JeepdaySock?
• On a personal level what are your thoughts on using a given name for ID?
• Jeepday (talk) 23:09, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

I don't see any technical challenges so long as you given name is equally available. Renames break SUL reservations, so you will have to rename first then unify. I don't have a strong opinion about handles personally. I don't use my given name, and the only problem it causes is a little awkwardness at introductions during meatspace meetings. If you plan on on seeking some official role in a chapter or WMF or some professional association with your volunteer work here, then it would probably be a good idea to rename. Otherwise I don't think there is much benefit.--BirgitteSB 12:13, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your thoughts. JeepdaySock (talk) 10:49, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

SUL User:Obelix

User:Obelix is unified everywhere except here on en.wikisource. Can You help him by renaming the present unsuled account which has no edits here, that he can use the Obelix-username also here on enws? (His ask for help on sv.wikipedia.) He tells he was denied this some years ago, but I do not know exactly why. -- Lavallen (talk) 17:47, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes. /90.129.41.142 23:56, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Done--BirgitteSB 16:43, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you! Obelix (talk) 13:30, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

missing bureaucrat noticeboard on this wiki

Hi. You are listed as a bureaucrat on this wiki, but so is at least one other person. To contact a bureaucrat, in order to usurp accounts and similar, users have to send duplicate messages, rather than post at a single place. Please create a bureaucrat noticeboard of some sort and list it at meta:Index of pages where renaming can be requested. If it already exists, please list it there! Thank you. --Joy-temporary (talk) 11:35, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

There is a section for this at the administrators noticeboard. I will add it to the meta index.--BirgitteSB 16:27, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

FWIW, I have created a redirect for Bureaucrats' noticebard to WS:AN#Bureaucrats. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:53, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Good idea!--BirgitteSB 01:57, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

phe-bot

Please flag User:phe-bot per Wikisource:Scriptorium#phe-bot. Thanks. --Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 14:06, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

• I didn't know the other crat was active, I've posted to Wikisource:Administrators'_noticeboard#phe-bot, in case he gets to it first.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 21:32, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

You were fine to ask here. I wasn't ignoring you because you hadn't filled out the proper for ;). I just didn't have time to figure out the weirdness of Phe-bot when I was online earlier today. I spent some more time looking into and still can't figure it out. Phe-bot has a bot flag, but there is no log entry. I go to the page for user rights and both bot and autopatoller are selected. I am stumped.--BirgitteSB 22:54, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

• There wasn't anything weird going on, except I forgot how to interface with the logs.--BirgitteSB 23:21, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
  • It would have helped if I had checked before my second post above. User:Zhaladshar flagged the bot 4 minutes after I posted the first time but didn't mention it anywhere. Possibly User:Billinghurst contacted him through other methods as we were discussing the flag on IRC when I posted here. Thanks for the trouble.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 08:20, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

User rename request

Hi, I'd like my account "White Cat" be renamed to "とある白い猫". Thanks. -- Cat ^chi? 09:43, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Barack Obama's speech

As the original creator and wikifier of that 2002 speech, I want to know why this was determined to be a copyright violation, and who reported it as such. Quite frankly, I don't believe it. 75.60.18.245 02:40, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Check the archives of WS:CV — billinghurst sDrewth 03:04, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikisource:Possible_copyright_violations/Archives/2011-08#Barack_Obama.27s_Iraq_Speech — billinghurst sDrewth 03:07, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

TemplateScript

Hello BirgitteSB. You have TemplateScript in your MonoBook JavaScript; I'm slowly replacing that version of TemplateScript with a revamped new version (which is compatible with the recent MediaWiki changes and fixes several issues). Are you still using MonoBook and TemplateScript? Shall I update the code to the latest version, and possibly move your scripts to User:BirgitteSB/common.js (which is used for all skins)? —Pathoschild 02:14:27, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

No I am using vector. I suppose I should delete that page or would that break something?-BirgitteSB 00:26, 16 December 2011 (UTC)