User talk:Koavf

Welcome

welcome! TedErnst | talk 12:44, 7 August 2006 (EDT)

Message from my userpage

Welcome Justin!

We have a tradition of either redirecting this page to your namespace in the main article space, or leaving it. Two examples, my login is my name, so it shows in recent changes, and redirects to the main namespace or this example. This is a discussion in process, let me know what you think! Nice to have you here. Best, MarkDilley (oh, btw, I am a Hoosier by birth, Indianapolis also, although I moved to SE MI early on)

Your thoughts on upgrade and logo

Hi Justin, can you check out, contribute if you want - WikiIndex:Admin_Notes#October_2010_Upgrade_Thoughts - best, MarkDilley

message re: upgrade path & moves

Hello, please check out WikiIndex:NewLogoDecision and WikiIndex:Spring 2011 Upgrade Path. Also, I am moving some of your move edits back to the main namespace - a couple of them are WikiIdeas and I think fit with what WikiIndex was envisioned. Not a steadfast rule, please discuss if you would like. Best, MarkDilley

Congratulations

For your new admin access :) --YiFei | talk 10:43, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks I hope that I can be an asset. I like the idea of fostering some community amongst wikis. Koavf (talk) 15:37, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Template:Wikivoyage, edit summaries and HotCat

Hi - I was just wondering the reason for this edit? I'm aware that removing spaces either side of hyphens/dashes is an American method, and is often found in Wikipedia - but it doesn;t reflect international English (and also makes it difficult, if not impossible for machine translators to correctly translate). I trust you are aware we don't have to follow the Wikipedia Manual of Style here on WikiIndex - we want to reach out to an international audience!

Can I also ask that you try to remember completing the edit summary before saving edits, please. Edit summaries are important for those who track the wiki activity via the Recent changes.

I also noticed you are using something called HotCat - is that a new extension installed somewhere? Can you link me to it so I can look at it please? Best regards Sean, aka Hoof Hearted • _Admin • talk2HH 02:50, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Dashes As I understand it, spaced ndashes/non-spaced mdashes is standard English. If you want a spaced ndash, that's up to you of course. I don't know anything about difficult with machine reading, but I believe you. As far as HotCat goes, it's from Wikimedia Commons. If you want it, see: User:Koavf/monobook.js. You can copy/paste it if you want. Koavf (talk) 03:36, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Deleting Spam

Could you clear the deletion field ("Other/additional reason") before you delete a spam please?.....you are moving the spam from the main page to the logs where it will remain....forever!... (Original author of this message: Comets) (We don't have the ability to delete logs :() --YiFei | talk 11:37, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiIndex:AbuseFilters

Could you take care of them later? --YiFei | talk 14:27, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Ping? --YiFei | talk 08:42, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm here It's an open tab in my browser. I've already made one small change and I'm still reading. Thanks, though... Koavf (talk) 10:21, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome and thanks for fixing that spelling error. Actually I mean creating and fixing filters to disable any new kinds of spams (I have lost my ability to do so). :) --YiFei | talk 10:55, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Right I figured as much. This is just going to take some time. Koavf (talk) 18:16, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks :) --YiFei | talk 10:08, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

I think Special:AbuseFilter/12 should be improved to match the ugg spamming with some other keywords such as "boots?" "store" "size" etc. --YiFei | talk 18:32, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Thugz For some reason, this brand is aggressively spammed here and at two other wikis where I am an admin. It's preposterous. Koavf (talk) 18:39, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Works :) See Special:AbuseLog --YiFei | talk 09:36, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Notability of users

"Are we going to make a page about every wiki user or just someone who has some notability...?" Category:Wiki People says "this is a list of people who consider themselves to be part of the wiki community and their associations to various Wiki sites". I would say that PeterKa probably considers himself part of the wiki community. Shall we change that page to say "this is a list of notable people . . ."?

Either way, another question is, are we going to actually make use of Template:Delete and invite discussion, or just have sysops delete pages summarily? Pages deleted in that manner can be undeleted, but then we have the classic problem that non-sysops are unable to view the page and therefore cannot give very well-informed input about whether undeletion would be a good idea. If we are going to use the template, then sysops will need to periodically close those discussions; that didn't happen with the last round of deletion proposals. They sat there for weeks, so I closed them myself as "keep" or "no consensus" since there was in fact no consensus to delete (hardly anyone saw fit to weigh in on those talk pages). Leucosticte (talk) 17:19, 17 May 2014 (UTC)