User talk:Jtneill/Archive/2012

Deletion policy
If you have a moment, could you stop by here and here and see what you think? Would really like your input. --HappyCamper 17:22, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Query about socks
Hi Jtneil, saw you on the bureaucrats list, thought I'd come to you for advice. There's a cross-wiki sockmaster, Kalki, who's been indef blocked at en.wikipedia and en.wikinews for socking. I've noticed he's setup a sockfarm here, too: Category:Sockpuppets of Kalki. I've tagged them as such, based on Checkuser information from multiple other wikis. These tagged socks are all ✅ from other wiki investigations. Can they be blocked here, as well? Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 06:37, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank-you for bringing this to our attention, Cirt. I've posted to get some further input from the en.wv community. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 20:17, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, thank you. :) -- Cirt (talk) 04:39, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

PLE feedback
James, you're also listed in the PLE examples here - I'm reinviting all participants from back then. Feel free to chip in, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat + Identi.ca 05:47, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Usurp user:Cliff talk
I have been waiting for this usurp request to be either done, or denied, to begin building my courses. I appreciate your attention to the usurpation page. Thanks, Clifsportland (talk) 13:57, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Australia support
Might be possible. Would need to know the kind of support desired and how much money. Can't make any promises but I can try. --LauraHale (talk) 14:41, 12 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I got back today. (Er.  Yesterday.)  Should be available next week to sit down as that might be easier. Brain not fully engaged.  A bit jet lagged.  Sounds like it should be easy enough in some ways. --LauraHale (talk) 14:59, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Trying to understand issues.
Hi, I was trying to understand the issues revolving around this deletion request. Here are some questions I have... Thenub314 (talk) 02:39, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Do you think this is your student?
 * Did he raise concerns with you at some point before contributing? You both seem to reference some conversation that you each have different memories of.
 * Did your syllabus/assignments make clear contributing here is voluntary? What did they say?
 * While there seems to have been collaboration "offline", Do you think that the vast majority of the edits are by this student? (It is a little tough to tell by looking as there are long stretches of IP edits.)
 * Since your the instructor, do you know offhand are there going to be future students who will work on this book?
 * Hi Thenub314, thanks for asking:

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 03:07, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, to the best of my knowledgeUser:Miz.mira is the account used by the student as part of participating in the Motivation and emotion unit.
 * I do not recall the student raising concerns about contributing to Wikiversity prior recent content removal. I can't find any record of concern expressed in writing prior to what is logged on User talk:Miz.mira. We seem to have different recollections about a face-to-face conversation about the chapter assessment item. My recollection is that the student sought clarification about the nature of the book chapter exercise.
 * The unit outline does not state that contributions to Wikiversity are voluntary. It states that "The chapter should be constructed as a single page on English Wikiversity and be linked to from the Table of Contents".
 * The student has been the major contributor to the Motivation and emotion/Book/Shopaholic page. I have made largely editorial changes, with some redrafting. Other students made some relatively minor but useful contributions directly to the page and to the talk page, much of which appears to have then been incorporated into the page.
 * The Motivation and emotion/Book learning and assessment exercise has been conducted with two class cohorts to date (2010 and 2011), with approximately 90 students each. I won't be teaching the unit in 2012, so it is unlikely to be built much upon this year. It is quite likely that I will teach the unit again in 2013 and at this stage I would expect that the class would continue to work on the book.

Custodianship
Dear SB Johnny, could you please comment here? Kind regards, Mathonius (talk) 19:59, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Usurpation Request
Hello. Please could you take a look at my usurpation request, located here. Please note, this message has also been left on SB Johnny's talk page. Many thanks. Ready12 (talk) 19:36, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * It's been two weeks since the notification. Is there any update on this? Thanks, Ready12 (talk) 19:03, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Why did you mess with Jromanch0088 User Space?

 * He has lost an article enes100 and two stubs within that article.
 * I am his teacher and am trying to grade his work.
 * We can only find his personal work on the second project.
 * I have restored everything I can. What is missing is his work on the first project.
 * This, to my best knowledge, was the old url.
 * Can you restore it?

1sfoerster (talk) 17:43, 17 April 2012 (UTC)


 * AFAIK, Jtneill hasn't deleted anything. Jromanch0088 added several works under http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/En.wikiversity.org/wiki/ . Jtneill seems to have made an attemp to correct this by moving pages under http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Jromanch0088/, but seems like at least one page was missed. -- dark lama  19:49, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know, 1stfoerster. Sorry about the confusion. The original URL for that work was in the main space here: http://En.wikiversity.org/wiki/En.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Jromanch0088/enes100/My_work . I've now moved that page into the user space here: User:Jromanch0088/enes100/My work and left more specific details about the moved pages I moved here: User talk:Jromanch0088. Let me know if I can do anything else. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 21:34, 17 April 2012 (UTC)


 * There are four levels of pages, three are root documents where teams of students are summarizing work ... just one type of page belongs at the user level ... see general engineering projects ... I just removed a move command from puttputt team page1sfoerster (talk) 16:58, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

FrequentIntenseMatureSuggestiveThemes
Heads up! This account is an incarnation of a young boy who is engaging in multi-wiki sockpuppetry. On Wikiversity he exists as the following: For context, see Stewards' noticeboard and Meta:User:Mathonius/Reports/BrandonSky (The accounts with no edits here have nevertheless caused disruption on other wikis, so they should be treated about the same as the other accounts).--Jasper Deng (talk) 22:17, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * User:BrandonSkyHTFFan04
 * User:BrandonSkyPimenta (his original account, 0 edits here)
 * User:HTFFanBrandon04 (locked, 0 edits here)
 * User:ImBrandonSky (0 edits here)
 * User:189.70.92.232 (IP address)

Confused
I am confused.--Deathlaser (talk) 16:31, 14 May 2012 (UTC)--Deathlaser (talk) 16:31, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Confused about what? -- Jtneill - Talk - c 04:13, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

PDF download in wikiversity has serious problems
Dear Jtneill,

When I create a PDF of a page and download it, I receive the following message.

The file you are trying to download does not exist: Maybe it has been deleted and needs to be regenerated.

Can you solve it?

Best,

--Ertunc (talk) 03:13, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I just tried and it worked OK for me. I went via left hand navigation bar - Print/Export - Download as PDF. Could you try again and let us know more details if it doesn't work? Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 03:31, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

--Ertunc (talk)
 * I have tried to download the generated PDF of the following page

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Microfluid_Mechanics_Chapter_5._Internal_Flows without any success.--121.145.85.154 06:12, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I tried this page and had similar problems. I suspect it is breaking to do with rendering the page e.g., perhaps due to the math markup. To troubleshoot further, I suggest the discussion page for the mw:Extension:Collection tool. You could troubleshoot yourself by breaking up the page into components, and trying to each component separately to pdf. In the meantime, I suggest using Printable version, which does work with this page. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 06:29, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

reame DEEPAK
aboutChanging_username I am sul owner Deepak. my home wiki ml.wikipedia .diff. please rename me --117.204.86.217 14:57, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Rename requests for White Cat
Hi, any news regarding the usurp/rename request of White Cat at Changing_username? I'm unsure it would give you those issues, if you rename the target username first as Barras pointed. Please lemme know if you find any more issues, so we can proceed with this and finally close the global rename request :) Snowolf How can I help? 10:09, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Move & merge

 * User:とある白い猫 (usurped) -> User:とある白い猫 (and histories merged)
 * User talk:とある白い猫 (usurped) -> User talk:とある白い猫 (and histories merged)

Hi, can you preform above move? Thanks. -- Cat chi? 09:35, 5 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I've moved the histories over - but there didn't seem much point in merging the redirects/deletes. Hope this is OK? -- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:36, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * As you wish. Your message to me was deleted tho. :p Thanks :) -- Cat chi? 10:37, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Rename
Hi! If it's not too much trouble, could you please have a look at my request for username change here? Thanks! -Orashmatash (talk) 18:27, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Request
Hello. Could you please deal with this request?--M.Gedawy 20:06, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello
Hi James, JMH (talk) 03:51, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank You
Hi James, thanks for all your help with the today's training and with the overall project.

--hannahpb 03:51, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Sandbot request
Hello. Could you please take a look at Bots/Status? Thanks.  Hazard-SJ  ±   19:49, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Posted an item on Behaviour Management section of Caregiving and Dementia page
Hi James Thank you for patiently training us on Friday. It's a whole new world of communication in Wiki. I've posted a new item on the Behaviour Management page, it's 1.2 An example of caregiver training (about 500 words) If it's not quite up to standard I don't mind if you delete or move the post to "Essays", just felt I had to put something up.

Cheers, Jenny JMH (talk) 05:21, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Table slippage!
Hi James, I've had a go at adding a table along with some other content on the Allied Health topic page. It looked ok in preview but has slipped into the TOC somehow. Any advice or help gratefully received. Thanks again for the great training day. cheers Liz LizM (talk) 23:32, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

New paragraph added to Behavioural Symptoms/Caregiving and dementia page - QLD DTSC
Hi James Hope all is well with you. Just letting you know of a paragraph added to the BPSD topic of the Caregiving and dementia page. It contains a link to an ABC program Lateline, strictly it's about the misuse of antipsychotics but in the context of behavioural symptoms of dementia. Cheers, JMH (talk) 05:46, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Thoughts on the table
Hi James I've just had a go at adding some content to the DTSC Allied health topic Table for alternative resources by state/territory. Two things: 1) Novice users are not going to be sure how to add information so I may need to add some instructions and 2)If it is going to be used - and useful - it's going to need to be a bigger and more complex table in order to organise information meaningfully. Eg I noticed that the Independent Living Centre website ilc.com.au is actually a WA resource so I added another column for category (of which there are 15 or so but not all necessarily need individual state based info) and added the QLD equivalent but ideally we would have each state's ILC listed together. AND then if I want to add another couple of resources... it is not easy to build this by just adding on as it goes. What do you think?? Thanks LizLizM (talk) 06:25, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Changing Username Request
Hi! I wanted to let you know that I have posted a Changing Username request at Changing_username. I appreciate your assistance!

CuriousOne (talk) 22:03, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up, Dave - it's now done. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:38, 1 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the extremely prompt response! Dave Braunschweig (talk) 12:39, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Another numbered section for BPSD topic
Hi James Hope all is well with you, I'm beavering away on the BPSD topic of the Caregiving and dementia article. I'm wondering if you could please add another subsection after the Overview. Maybe we could call it 'How do we know what BPSD looks like?' or 'Background and Context of BPSD' to go before 'Responding to Unmet Needs' which we already have.

Sorry, I made a large edit last week but hadn't signed in first. Probably you can tell from the IP address it was me, I'll try to always sign in each time.

Thank you kindly, Jenny JMH (talk) 01:54, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Pinging me...
Hi James. It's probably better to ping me on my talk rather than email... the address my wiki accounts are connected to is my "garbage account", which I only check one a week or so. Unfortunately I can't make my WV email go to a "real" account without also making my WP account do that at the same time, and I tend to get a lot of "garbage" from that direction. (BTW, Mike has his account set to send him email when you leave a message on his talk, so the same probably applies to him.)

I hope the year has been good to you, and that your time spent on WV has been fruitful! --SB_Johnny talk 22:34, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Crowdsourcing research & investigative journalism on crony capitalism
What would you suggest I do to try to develop the idea of crowdsourcing research and investigative journalism on crony capitalism? I asked this of User:Pi zero, who is active with en.wikinews. S/he suggested Wikiversity might be appropriate for the research part.

I believe the US (and the world) needs a platform that will support crowdsourcing research tying the large amounts of money spent on lobbying and campaign finance to the benefits received by crony capitalists. With the right foundation, I think this idea can grow rapidly and have a major impact in reducing the corrosive effect of money in politics.

The best home for such that I can think of is someplace under the Wikimedia Foundation.

I've received tentative approval from http://www.rootstrikers.org/szelena, the "Campaign Director" and number 2 person at Rootstrikers after the founder Lawrence Lessig to create such under Rootstrikers. However, I think Wikimedia Foundation would be a better host for this for the following reasons:


 * The Wikimedia reputation could attract help from the kind of people needed for this to be successful.
 * Wikimedia's rules for how people work together, etc., could help immensely pushing people to write from a neutral point of view, which I think we need to gain the kind of credibility that I think this issue needs. User:Pi zero said that Wikiversity did not worry about this -- at least not to the extent that it is pushed with other Wikimedia projects.
 * In the course of analyses of this type, I would expect that volunteers working on research like this will find improvements to make to Wikipedia articles. It would be easier for them to do that if they were already working under the Wikimedia Foundation.  In this way, an effort like this could become an indirect source of new volunteers to edit Wikipedia articles -- and maybe other Wikiversity projects.
 * When an analysis is completed or substantially updated, if it were housed under the Wikimedia Foundation, it would be easier for people to then translate that work into Wikinews articles.

Comments? Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 04:45, 27 December 2012 (UTC)