User talk:Broken/H2g2bob

Hello, h2g2bob, and welcome to the Simple English Wiktionary!

We hope you are happy editing here. Some helpful pages to begin with are Wiktionary:Community Portal, Wiktionary:Useful, Help:Contents, Wiktionary:Rules, and Wiktionary:How to edit.

If you want to talk with other members or ask a question, you can visit Wiktionary:Simple talk. Administrators can also help you with more difficult problems. You can also ask me for help. The best way to do that is to leave a message on my talk page. Just remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing "~~~~" (four tildes) at the end of your words.

Good luck and happy editing! Gerard Foley 04:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Admin Access

I notice you do a lot of work here from time to time. Have you ever considered becoming an administrator? Gerard Foley 22:23, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello. I'd be glad to help out in any way I can, and it'd be good to be an administrator. However, I'd probably only be able to help out properly during term-time (at my university) when I have a decent internet connection that actually works. Anyway, if this isn't a problem, I'd love to help out as an administrator. --H2g2bob 23:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

You need to go to wiktionary:Administrators and put a note there saying you are requesting admin access, then you need to make the request at Meta. Here is the block of text you need to place there:

===== Simple English Wiktionary =====

I request sysop access on ''simple.wiktionary'':

*'''Language Code:''' simple
*'''Local Request Link:''' [[simple:wikt:Wiktionary:Administrators]]
*'''Local User Page:''' [[simple:wikt:User:H2g2bob]]

Thank you. ~~~~

Gerard Foley 21:44, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Administrator

Congratulations! Following your request here, I have made you administrator. Please check the sysop information here. -Romihatza 13:31 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Yay! --H2g2bob 15:36, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

You were given admin access to en.Wiktionary by mistake, this has now been fixed. Gerard Foley 05:48, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

small letters in titles?

It would be great if you could comment on this at Wiktionary:Simple talk. Thanks Gerard Foley 01:37, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Your input would be appreciated at Wiktionary:Administrators#Patrolled edits. Thanks! Flcelloguy 17:21, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Bureaucrat

You're now a bureaucrat, congratulations. Gerard Foley 14:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Huzzar!

Hi H2g2bob! Belated congratulations on you promotion to bureaucrat!

Thanks for your comments here. I copied my response from there to here on your own talk page. I didn't expect anyone else to comment, but I'm certainly glad you did! I think you have the right idea when you say that we don't agree on whether SEWikipedia is also a dictionary, but I would say it is more subtle than that. He doesn't verbally claim that it is a dictionary, he just thinks that putting short "descriptions" (which I would call definitions) over there is what we should do ("to help users"), rather than putting them here, and that SEWikipedia should link to EWikt (which I am willing to accept, even though it doesn't help the majority of simple users) and should not link to SEWikt. I admit that I am glad to know that you agree with me in general. I definitely agree that it is silly to not acknowledge us and that we are probably (I would say definitely) needed. As far as not understanding our interest in making this work, I would say that he perfectly understands my interest in making it work, but that he thinks I am the only one who feels that way. I think you may be right about him not being actually rude to anyone (on researching more, it seems that it is mostly vandals who complain about him, rather unimpressively), and I mistakenly attributed an unsigned comment to him, though he is still rather uncivil in his way of implying that if they don't like how the project is (how he is acting), they should leave. All this is under w:User talk:Angela, the section on Dispute resolution. I agree strongly with your statements about his pettiness and his dictatorial attitude, especially when you say, "This may not be a democracy, but he isn't the leader of the dictatorship."

As for those three options, I'd say we should do a combination. First, we can start copying anything worth saving over right now, as you say. However, I don't think that means we should wait on the other things. I think the next step I would prefer would be you talking to him to try to get him to come around, though I don't plan to absent myself from any further general discussion in the meantime. My guess is that he won't agree to anything with you either, but it's possible, mostly because you will say things a little differently from the way I do, and because responding to two people is not the same as responding to one. If you have tried and failed to come to a compromise with him, then I say we get some form of mediation, definitely letting him know what we are doing and preferably with his agreement, but without it if necessary. I have a feeling he may be very much against mediation, since he tends to seem petty and unreasonable and want to run things his way no matter what, but that's a chance we'll have to take.

Thank you, Flcelloguy, for the use of your talk page for this. I'll also be putting this comment on h2g2bob's talk page (as you can see I have, h2g2bob), so you can delete it if you feel the need. Or you can join in the discussion! I think we can all agree that all good-faith comments are welcome.  :) --Cromwellt|talk 21:09, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

h2g2

I recently stumbled across the h2g2 article on English Wikipedia, and now I understand your username here.  :) I decided to sign up over there, with the same username I use here, but I couldn't find you because there are tons of Bobs over there. Drop me a note so I can find you!  :) --Cromwellt|talk 16:50, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello,

Sorry for the wait, I've been away most of easter. Anyway, yes, the name's from h2g2 - I'm bob mcbob. To be honest, I don't post there very much any more, but still read some of the entries.

--H2g2bob 10:29, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Simple English projects

I'm leaving this message both here and on your En Wikipedia talk page, hoping that you'll see it and respond soon. Remember Netoholic and his hypocritical campaign against all simple English projects except SEWikipedia? Well, because of some developments in the situation at SEWikipedia, he's taken it to the next level. He has proposed that those projects be closed. I know you don't want that to happen, so please vote oppose. I made a sort of advisory banner for the Main Page of all those projects, which makes it convenient for you to vote:

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Advisory: Some users from other projects are trying to close Simple English Wiktionary, SEWikibooks, and SEWikiquote, even though we've barely begun! If you think these projects should not be closed, vote oppose here and here.

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Thanks for taking a moment and helping stop this outrage! --Cromwellt|talk|contris 07:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Done! Added some oppose comments for simple wiktionary, because it really is worthwhile. --H2g2bob 14:28, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Bot

Hoi,
I have started to run an interwiki bot run on the simple wiktionary for a first time.. It does create links to and from some 30 wiktionaries now, and it will include links to many others.

Thanks, GerardM 10:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Can you flag this as a bot account so that it won't flood RC? Thanks! Flcelloguy 14:34, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Done (at last!) Sorry about the delay :( --H2g2bob 20:31, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Wanted Pages

Right now the wanted pages are not updating. Can we do something about that?--Brett 12:12, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't believe that anything can be done; on the English Wikipedia, this page is currently disabled. — Wenli ^{(reply here)} 21:39, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I've hacked together a version using the MediaWiki API here: http://ccgi.dbatley.plus.com/cgi-bin/wpbot/wantedpages.py?site=simple . It's not great (and is badly written), but should probably suffice for now. --H2g2bob 01:44, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

לערי ריינהארט

Hi H2g2bob! You are a « bureaucrat» at « wikt:en: » . Can you please rename my account clicking here. Thanks in advance! Best regards
‏‪·לערי ריינהארט·T‏·m‏:‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me·‏‬‏ 07:53, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Privileges

Hi, h2g2bob! Can you please flag User:WenliBot as a bot, per Wiktionary:Simple_talk#User:WenliBot, and flag User:Wenli as a sysop per WT:A#User:Wenli? Thanks! — Wenli ^{(reply here)} 00:18, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, please. And User:Tygartl1 too, please.--Brett 22:23, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Could you also flag User:MonoBot? Mønobi 18:34, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Done --H2g2bob 18:48, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I'm not a bot. I'm looking for sysop status, as is user:Wenli. (See Wiktionary:Administrators.) - Tygartl1 ^-talk- 18:51, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, please revoke bot status from Tygartl1 and grant sysop status to Wenli and Tygartl1. You can do this by going to Special:Makesysop. --User:Wenli (on vacation) 203.124.2.24 12:58, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry - my mistake. Should be fixed now --H2g2bob 14:03, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! - Tygartl1 ^-talk- 14:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Name change request

Hi. I have another request for you. Could you please change my username to user:Tygrrr so that it matches my name on other wikis. Thank you! - Tygartl1 ^-talk- 20:36, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem - done --H2g2bob 14:56, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Bureaucrat

• poke* Could you take a look at the administrator page, and give bureaucrat right to User:Brett. Thanks. Also, just a question, why does your userpage redirect here? Majorly (talk) 13:33, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

desysop

Hi, there's currently a discussion on whether to remove sysop and bureaucrat rights from your account. Please see this and make a statement if you wish. Thanks, Tempodivalse [talk] 16:39, 19 September 2009 (UTC)