User talk:Jtneill/Archive/2014

Mentorship
Thanks for your offer for mentorship. What happens now? Sidelight12 Talk 02:09, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * If you can wait until I become a bureaucrat, which I hope will be quite soon, then my first act as bureaucrat will be to make you a custodian. Then you enter a probationary period.--Collingwood (talk) 12:20, 27 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Sidelight has been a probationary custodian for enough time to have a clue about his suitability. He's not suitable, not without more active mentorship and guidance. I'll discuss in detail if needed, this note is prompted by his effective threat to block me for doing what I never did and would not do. Too often, he doesn't understand what is going on, yet he may be willing to block. I'll provide links if you need them. (I'm not asking for removal of custodian rights. I have not assessed his overall value as a custodian.) —Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:33, 2 January 2014 (UTC)


 * No, I didn't threaten to block you over this. You have been offense, and crossed the line before. Don't offend people, then start wondering. So, I understand why glimmerguard would get irritated. You are not a custodian, and you try to dictate as if you are a custodian, then tell others not to use even their regular user privileges. If anyone is not capable of being a custodian, its someone who has been removed from it many times over. This is not up to abd. - Sidelight12 Talk 15:44, 2 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I've requested that a mentor guide the mentee. The comment above shows the problem. I have not "tried to dictate" as if I were a custodian, and it appears that Sidelight thinks that dictating is what custodians do. I have acted as any ordinary user may act. "Effective threat" refers to a statement, taken in context, that shows that blocks are under consideration, he is "offended." When the custodian then tells the user what to do, that's a threat. Sidelight did then tell me what to do (or, specifically, what not to do. What he told me was proper, the only problem was that I wasn't doing it. At all.) I've seen enough, myself. James, if you need links, I'll provide them.
 * Obviously, if it is my behavior that is a problem, and by raising this here, I'm inviting correction. However, Wikiversity is famous for being a colossal mess, and I've been acting to create order without becoming repressive. That will occasionally ruffle some feathers, but it's been working, and others are now helping. —Abd (discuss • contribs) 16:14, 2 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I don't dictate, in fact, I'm very lenient. That is what you try to do. I had no intent on taking action recently, just telling you not to irritate glimmerjack. I'm not the problem. Stop distorting things. You're out of line, but keep trying. - Sidelight12 Talk 16:22, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Files Missing License Information
I've cleaned up all of the files that were missing license information. The only ones left are in the Motivation and Emotion books. The list is at Resources with Files Pending Deletion. Do you want these deleted, or kept and tagged as fair use? -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:40, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Welcome Back
Welcome back! Could you take a look at Changing username? Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:40, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Also, another welcome back from me, happy to see you here! Also, see Candidates for Custodianship/Marshallsumter. --Goldenburg111 23:46, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Welcome back - Sidelight12 Talk 05:57, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

My involvement in Wikiversity "governance and maintenance"
James, you unblocked me possibly in consideration of a promise, I'll repeat it here:
 * To avoid what led to the block I have a clear intention: not to become involved in Wikiversity governance and general maintenance. It was not welcome, even where I was enforcing long-established policy.
 * I will work only on educational resources of interest to me and value to users. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 19:15, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

That was my intention at the time. However, gradually, I have indeed become involved in what could be called "governance and maintenance." There has been no disruption, and it seems I'm being effective, with the active cooperation and collaboration of the community.

Nevertheless, please let me know if you have any concerns. You may warn me about any behavior, and you always have the right, as an unblocking administrator, to undo your action. You do not need a reason. I will remain grateful in any case, for all that you have done for me and the project.

And I assume you will return to activity soon, so, welcome back! --Abd (discuss • contribs) 19:11, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Caregiving and Dementia Topics
Hi James - it has been a long time but I have been doing some updating of Allied Health and would like to add another Topic for QLD - Sexualities. Can you help with this please. Thanks Liz -- LizM (discuss • contribs) 03:44, 3 February 2014 (UTC) James, I have updated the Sexualities and Dementia page. Discussed with Sandra who confirmed it does fit as a project under the BPSD topic as does the new project, Veterans- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Dementia.Thanks for your help. Cheers, --LizM (discuss • contribs) 05:25, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Probationary custodians
James, we have 3 probationary custodians
 * [Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/Ruy Pugliesi|Ruy Pugliesi], 30 October 2011. Currently inactive. Mentor: SB Johnny.
 * [Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/Sidelight12|Sidelight12], 4 September 2013, Mentor: Jtneill.
 * [Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/Dave Braunschweig], 4 September 2013, Mentor: Jtneill.

These are all far beyond the normal probationary period. Will you ping SB_Johnny about Ruy? Are you ready to make a recommendation for your users?

We also have another candidate for probationary custodian, one who, once upon a time, would routinely have found a mentor. If we have another active permanent custodian, he could find a mentor, I suspect.

Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 01:28, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I forgot that I had already placed this request, and wrote another with more detail.... --Abd (discuss • contribs) 18:57, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Username change
Hi Jtneill, could you please help me with my request at Changing username/Usurpations? Thanks. Scott Martin (discuss • contribs) 10:46, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I have clerked the request and recommend usurpation, reasons and links given there. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 16:06, 11 March 2014 (UTC)


 * There is a possible fork that should be fixed. There is
 * Changing username and
 * Changing username/Usurpations.


 * The second page was intended as a page of instructions. Scott Martin used it for the request. I moved his request to the Changing username page. Those instructions need some care and the Changing username page needs clerking. I'll look at it, definitely the instructions could be made clearer. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 19:07, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

GLAM subscription
I removed the Colloquium from the distribution list on meta, per the considerations given on talk:Colloquium. Since you are the one who added it, I'm pinging you, no action is needed unless you want to comment. Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 17:09, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Rename request
Please see this. Sorry for the late reply. -- Faizan Al-Badri (discuss • contribs) 16:05, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The user supplied the necessary confirmation. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 18:53, 15 March 2014 (UTC)


 * There are a number of pending requests. I have reviewed all of them to find what may be needed. All but one are ready, AFAIK (BCG999 → RandomDSdevel still needs a confirmation), I have emailed the user. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 18:29, 20 March 2014 (UTC)


 * James, please see Changing_username and handle the requests. It should be quick, it's all set up except for that one. Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 23:32, 23 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for chasing me up and making them so easy to check/do. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:33, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * And thank you for all your work.
 * Some requests you left in place, shifting from rename to usurpation, could possibly have been done. The problem is automatic account creation. A user is changing their username globally. They may have an account elsewhere. As soon as this is an SUL account, it can automatically create a local account. That happened with Jakec, more than three weeks after King jakob c 2 made the rename request. If the old account has no edits, and as long as it has been verified that the changing user is the SUL user, as was done, there is no need for a notice to the local SUL talk page, etc.
 * I had been under the impression that the local accounts were not automatically created until the user looks at the wiki while logged in elsewhere. From the Global Account Manager for Jakec, that's unlikely, because 19 wikis have the same automatic account creation time. It doesn't happen globally, because other wikis have later SUL attachment times. Frankly, I don't understand it. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 00:34, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

my Wikiversity user name
Hi James,

I ran across an item on wikiversity.org that I felt needed an update and, never having used wikiversity before, decided to create wikiversity account. I noticed that some users had simple two character user names, presumably their real-world initials, so I chose my initials "lm" as my user name.

I was quite prepared to be informed that user name "lm" was already taken and to choose some other variant of my initials or some part of my full name.

What I was not prepared for was to be informed that the user name "lm" was rejected because it was "too similar" to another user name ("l m"). This troubles me for two reasons:

1) The only reason I can imagine for a rejecting a new user name for being "too similar" to an existing user name would be the suspicion that the newly registered user might want to masquerade as the existing user. If this is indeed the reasoning, then it seems to be a violation of the "assumption of good faith" and as such leans toward "unciviliity"

2) I'm no expert at navigating the wikiversity web site, but I have been unable to find any record of a user named "l m" or any variation of same that I could easily imagine, on the list at https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=l&group=&limit=500 Judging by the size of the user list, I surmise that if such a user doesn't exist now, it never did... so what really was the problem in the first place?

I finally created a user name of "lm_too_similar_wtf", and was offended yet again by having the underscore characters changed to spaces. I'm a computer programmer by profession, so I recognize what a pain it is to allow whitespace characters in identifiers. I also recognize that, in the interest of pleasing one's users, one can jump through some hoops and allow that anyway. But to automatically force a non-whitespace character in an identifier to a whitespace character seems, at best, pointless to me.

Please pardon me for rambling. I suspect you are not the author of the relevant software and are probably not the author of the relevant user policies either.

As you seem to be the only "Bureaucrat" level user who has been active in the last three months (as of 2014/02/15, according to the Support staff directory page), I respectfully ask your assistance in having my user name changed from "lm_too_similar_wtf" to just "lm" (not to include the quotation marks).

Thanks for listening.

lm

--Lm too similar wtf (discuss • contribs) 18:40, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Rename requests
There are five open renaming requests on Changing username, with my recommendation (all are good, ready to go). The oldest is from December, 2013.

There were issues in several requests with "existing account": CentralAuth can automatically create local accounts, sometimes with no local action at all. If a local account is created automatically for an SUL account, and we know the user requesting rename is that account, from verification elsewhere or here, it should not be necessary to go through the normal usurpation notification process. Juandev did edit as the target account name, but this simply creates unmergeable edits, we should not require that. This is not the same as a usurpation of an old account.

If I make any errors there, please let me know. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:23, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Probationary custodian read to go for permanent?
James, you have, on his talk page, implied approval the probationary work of User:Dave Braunschweig as ready to go for permanent. It would loosen the custodianship situation if can proceed expeditiously. If you don't have time to create the discussion, but you consent here, explicitly, recommending permanent custodianship as his mentor, I will clerk that for you to start the comment period, citing your approval here. Okay? --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:30, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Changing username
Hi Jtneill, I saw that you were a crat on wikiversity, and was wondering if, when you have a moment, you could have a look at my usurpation request for User:ArchiveBot, here. Thanks, F ASTILY  09:07, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Usurpation
Hello,

you seem to be the only active crat. Can I ask you to usurp my own name and rename me, please.--Juandev (discuss • contribs) 18:36, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Lost Wikinewb
Hello, I was referred to you by someone who had answered a question I had in the Colloquium. I used to be a Wiktionary editor, but it has been awhile since my last visit. Anyway, I just wanted to know where to go as far as psychology project information is concerned. I've already visited the Psychology portal, but it looked inactive. More information about me is in my profile. Thanks! --BrienWest (discuss • contribs) 20:50, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the expedient reply. Right now I am taking a summer cognitive psychology course, and figured that I would start editing that page for starters.  I'm a computer science major that's using Wikiversity to help myself, and others, learn about coding and whatever else interests I may have.  Also, have you visited course sites? --BrienWest (discuss • contribs) 14:45, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi
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An important message about renaming users
Dear Jtneill,

I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.

Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.

Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 18:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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Please Add my Subject to the list of topics being covered: Anger Outlets, What Works?
Hi James

Could you please add my topic:"Anger Outlets, what really works?" to the list of topics being covered this semester?

Apologies on the late start - I hope to have my head around wikiversity soon!

Kind Regards

Student id:u3091458 - wikiversity login: avalokiteshvara222

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✅ -- Jtneill - Talk - c 14:04, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Candidates for Custodianship/Dave Braunschweig
As a bureaucrat, please close this discussion. It's been two weeks. Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:14, 12 September 2014 (UTC) ✅ -- Jtneill - Talk - c 13:27, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Probationary custodians again
We have three open probationary custodian situations:

Ruy Pugilesi

 * probationary period started 30 October 2011.
 * PC's last edit was 28 August, 2013. edits Live 291, Deleted 48.
 * Last sysop log actions: 28 August, 2013
 * Mentor is inactive. Only one edit in last year: 23:32, 29 November 2013. no logged actions since 09:27, 30 June 2012.

Sidelight12

 * Probationary period started 4 September 2013
 * Active. edits Live, 3,590, Deleted 132.
 * Sysop log shows current activity.
 * Mentor is you.

Dave Braunschweig

 * Probationary period started 4 September 2013.
 * Active. edits Live, 13,405, Deleted 567.
 * Sysop log shows current activity.

In addition we have an open candidacy with no volunteer mentor, being one of our most active users:

Marshallsumter

 * Active. edits Live, 14,601, Deleted 14.

Suggestions
All three present probationary custodians are ready for some kind of action, one way or another, the normal probationary period being long completed. I.e.,
 * Ruy Pugliesi is inactive, and never was seriously active. His mentor can be asked if he wants to make a recommendation. If not, Ruy may be asked if he wants to continue with a new mentor. If there is a recommendation for promotion, then the permanent process may be opened up, but at this point, the conclusion would be obvious.
 * Sidelight12 and Dave Braunschweig are ready for mentor recommendation and probably consideration for permanent. Both have been active and have a demonstrated commitment to helping Wikiversity. I have some concerns, but these can be addressed.
 * If at least one new permanent custodian is created, then we have a possible mentor for the remaining candidate. Thanks for considering this. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 18:56, 22 February 2014 (UTC)


 * James? Do you need assistance clerking those pages? Do you have recommendations as mentor? --Abd (discuss • contribs) 01:42, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much, Abd - agree with all these and will get them moving hopefully in next few days. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 06:21, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Any update on this? I wondered it myself too you know. :)
 * In case you have problems keeping up with the crat stuff, I could assist on the rename request page as I did before. Trijnstel (discuss • contribs) 12:28, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Dispute resolution
Hi. Can you nip the discussion on my talkpage in the bud. I tried to do what is right, from a user's inappropriate actions. Abd said he will not get involved in Wikiversity policies, in the past. He is controlling, and expects custodians to be his puppets. I wanted dispute resolution, and I will not resign. I believe I am doing a good job as a custodian. I have good reason for my actions, and I think he is trying to repress me. If I went about a situation wrong, I had the right intent, and can be corrected without that abuse.

Even though I try to make my actions translucent, user:abd is trying to pry and control. He sends me an email allegedly intended for someone else. Then he sends another email saying that is a mistake, and gives the impression he wants dispute resolution, then he does the opposite. Thank you for your time. - Sidelight12 Talk 14:27, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I was hoping to avoid a broad confrontation on this. Your review of your mentored custodian's actions is appropriate and desired (and already requested above). I have suggested two alternative paths. If he resigns, he could still maintain his candidacy, as mine was maintained -- even against my opinion! -- when I was first desysopped. He has enough action history to assess his performance. Or he could agree to Candidates for Custodianship/Standard stop agreement which allows nuanced restraint by any custodian. There are many problems, and the core problem has been a rejection of review of his actions by those with more wiki experience and understanding. That's not just me.


 * If needed, I'll go to Custodian feedback. He's defiant, so, in the absence of action by you and in the absence of something like the stop agreement -- I'll wait a while -- I'll do it. If you need a list of problems, I will create it in my user space (where it could be deleted at my request). But the latest incident alone is adequate to make the point. See his talk page.


 * "... I try to make my actions translucent....* My suggestion of his resignation came today, after he revision-deleted his own comments on the Talk page of the user he blocked. He also did a number of other revision deletions today, and others on the 25th that were unnecessary -- and useless, since the comments remained. The deletion log, and on his Talk page today, he said he intended to delete that discussion of his actions from his user talk page. The user has shown a persistent lack of understanding of the role of custodians, and has been unwilling to learn.
 * I did accidentally send him an email that was intended for another, then an apology, when I discovered the error. That email contains private information. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:27, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Probationary custodianship again
Hi, James! Glad to see you active. We've been having fun. I'm pinging you again about probationary custodianship, there are two current probationary custodians, long past the standard period. Do you need any support in handling this? If it is difficult for you, for whatever reason, to make a recommendation, nevertheless the actual decision on "permanent" is up to the community. It's just that established process requires that you list the requests, it does not actually require recommendations, though you are certainly free and encouraged to make them.

So by when will you list the requests, or at least consent to them being listed on your behalf? Thanks for everything you have done for Wikiversity. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 17:25, 12 August 2014 (UTC)


 * James, it's been two weeks with no response. Absent your objection, I will organize a vote on permanent custodianship for Dave Braunschweig. Once again, thanks for all you have done and continue to do for Wikiversity, it's greatly appreciated. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 13:56, 26 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Abd. Please feel free to take action and nominate Dave Braunschweig - it has been far too long and I am remiss as mentor for not yet actioning. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:34, 28 August 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅. Candidates for Custodianship/Dave Braunschweig. Thanks for your response. For the future, I may make a template similar to what I've just done, to make it easier to review a candidate's custodianship stats. I did not state that you were recommending, because, in fact, you did not. Rather, you permitted, which may be just right. This may then allow you to later review the comments, neutrally, and action the result. I'll ping you after a decent delay if no other 'crat has acted. In any case, let me know if there is any problem. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:59, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Custodianship consensus apparent
James, it has been ten days since the voting opened on Dave's permanent custodianship. The policy allows closure in a week. Consensus is apparent. Given the high consensus, may I suggest that you implement this? --Abd (discuss • contribs) 13:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Please restrain your mentee Sidelight or withdraw your mentorship
James, the situation with Sidelight is becoming a crisis. He is stirring up hornet's nests, libelling a user, violating what we should have as Child protection policy (if we followed what Wikipedia does, he'd have been blocked already, unless he stopped upon warning), and was never responsive to criticism as a probationary custodian.

See:
 * WV:RCA
 * WV:Candidates for Custodianship/Dave Braunschweig
 * and


 * also see Requests for comment/Abd's disruption on Wikiversity

He canvassed Ottava Rima to participate on RCA, and attempted to bring in one or two stewards. The real issue is "child protection" which is sometimes one of the most volatile and dangerous topics possible. I address this on Candidates for Custodianship/Dave Braunschweig/Privacy issue, separately, because it may be appropriate to revision delete the response (along with Sidelight12's allegations). If this situation continues, I expect I may be going to meta myself.

Please:
 * Restrain your mentee, or
 * Withdraw your mentorship.

It is clear that he would not be approved for permanent custodianship, so there is no point in creating a vote, unless you were to disagree with me and recommend him. If you withdraw your mentorship, he has 48 hours to find a new mentor, by our policy. While you could go to meta immediately and request removal of tools, he has not been abusing the tools lately, so there is no emergency on that account, though his behavior has become disruptively erratic. At the end of the 48 hours, if there is no mentor, and if he has not resigned the tools, any user here could point stewards to our policy and his custodian rights would be removed.

I would rather not file a Community Review over this, if it can be avoided. It could be stirring a hornet's nest, and intricately intertwined with privacy issues. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 14:06, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Dear JTneill, I'm sorry about this situation, but I have nothing to apologize for of my actions. First of all, I haven't canvassed, because I informed all parties of who were mentioned, and that included people who would probably side with abd. Impartial stewards who are not busy need to comment on this, so what's the problem with telling stewards I mentioned their comments? There are not enough stewards here. Now if I broke a rule about Child protection policy, there are three others even more guilty of it who were directly involved with in this issue. Now Abd, says he wants information redacted, but when I wanted information redacted from my userpage I get attacked for it. Also, I haven't libeled anyone, take a look at the user's contribution history. Please don't make your decision based on abd's claims. If you want to withdraw my mentorship, that's fine by me, but I propose don't do it without also taking action against abd, and without taking a look at Dave's acts. This is not abd's choice, and how he wants to act like he dictates the rules is irrelevant. Abd has caused disruption on numerous occasions. It is a false claim by abd, of whether or not I would be approved for custodianship. Thank you for your time, and for your mentorship. - Sidelight12 Talk 03:44, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Sidelight was just warned on meta for what he did here, and his complaint there, which did libel a user, was revision-deleted.


 * Above, he links to the old contributions of the user he libelled, and claims that the three of us (Dave, myself, and the other user) are guilty of violating child protection policy, while not denying the obvious: he is violating global policy or practice on the issue. And that's what happens with this topic: people believe they are justified in violating the policy because of the seriousness of the offense they are alleging.


 * These are serious charges, for which he has no evidence; further, Wikipedia, which has the most developed policy on this, prohibits making these charges on-wiki, and users who make them are warned and blocked. Users on Wikipedia are told to email ArbCom with complaints. Globally, stewards require email as well, Sidelight was told to email stewards-l if he has evidence.


 * (I emailed them to notify them of Sidelight's violations, per policy, and they acted with revision deletion and warning as linked above.) Yes, he notified everyone he "mentioned," which included inactive users whose only notability was ancient history, old conflicts with me, and he knew that. Thus he incited a certain user who was properly banned from interaction with me, to proceed to interact on the RCA ban request. That user has, in fact, been blocked elsewhere for accusing others of violating child protection policy.


 * Please withdraw mentorship.


 * James, as you know, there were many complaints about me when you were my mentor. At any time you could have withdrawn your mentorship, but you neither confirmed the complaints, warning me, or withdrawing, nor did you defend me or my actions against assault. Later, in one case, (where you were not my mentor), you reviewed the action that led to my first desysopping, and confirmed that it was within custodial discretion. For daring that, a Community Review was started, attempting to remove your administrative rights.


 * Please act on (or reject) this request promptly; if you cannot find the time to supervise a mentee, please withdraw without prejudice, you need not blame Sidelight, but it is dangerous to have probationary custodians without supervision, and I intend to edit the custodian policy pages to cover this contingency. I set up Candidates for Custodianship/Standard stop agreement to provide some protection, but that has not been used. I had agreed to it, but it was ignored and much more disruptive process was used to handle my alleged transgressions.


 * By the way, I attempted to email you on this. You have an email account with a provider that rejects WMF mail showing my major email service provider. it bounced, and my provider (yahoo) classifies such bounces as spam. I resent the mail to you yesterday, I don't know if you received it yet. I think we need a private custodians mailing list, with only custodians subscribed, to handle requests which should be confidential. I have handled issues like this in the past with email to a known active custodian.


 * One of Sidelights complaints about me is in the RCA filing:
 * Conducted in sneaky behavior, in part by using email for resolution, ...
 * Sidelight is referring to my use of email to handle a possible privacy policy violation.


 * Sidelight has been mostly inactive as a custodian, so there will be little or no loss if his probationary custodianship is revoked. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 14:17, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Wait a minute. It's ok for abd to make accusations? I provided links for my claims. This is nothing but Wikilawyering from abd, and trying to downplay and ignore the diffs I have shown. It's a conflict of interest for him to try to get involved in the custodial process. I haven't broken any child protection policy. This isn't an old issue, I dealt with this after coming back to Wikiversity after frustration from his mess. I plan to be more active, I was in fact active before abd's harassments. This is a current issue, from an ongoing systematic disruption. I didn't conduct a privacy violation as someone falsely accused me of. I'm not at fault if someone sends an email to the wrong user, plus I was referring to the email he sent meant for me. He himself mentioned outloud he sent it, so repeating what he already confirmed is not ok now? Abd tries to gain sympathy for his own mistakes, by blaming me for it? At Meta, someone mentioned the situation to me, but no one warned me. Abd conveniently ignores all the diffs, and points I make, then tries to override it with his false logic. Jtneill, I'm sorry this happened on your userpage, but I have to respond to this properly. Abd has no business interfering with custodial processes, where he thinks he has more say than everyone else. I believe I did nothing wrong. I also understand the tools, so Jtneill doesn't have blame here either. Thank you for your time, anyways. - Sidelight12 Talk 22:31, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Sidelight again violating policy
James, Sidelight has again demonstrated that his possession of the tools is dangerous. You have neither confirmed his actions, defending him, nor have you requested him to change his behavior, nor have you withdrawn mentorship. I have now filed Custodian_feedback because of his action today, and his pugnacious response. If you are unable to supervise your mentee, please state you are withdrawing mentorship. That would give him 48 hours to find another mentor. It might simplify the situation. However, if this does not resolve, the next step is Community Review. Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 23:58, 13 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I did nothing wrong here. I blocked someone's email account, not their ability to contribute here. My actions were done for the safety of Wikiversity. Let me get something straight, Abd jeopardized your administrator-ship, when you mentored him? You gave him another chance, then he made a threat towards your administrative-ship last month? I stand by my actions, and I know how to use the tools. JTneill has no blame here, and neither do I. - Sidelight12 Talk 03:07, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Urgent
Hello Jtneill,

please review my statement at Notices for custodians at your earlier convenience, as you are the only active bureaucrat. Thank you for your time, Snowolf How can I help? 17:37, 16 October 2014 (UTC) ✅ -- Jtneill - Talk - c 13:30, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

PDF download
Dear Jtneill

The pdf download prepares pdf of the following page with wrong format and missing content. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Fluid_Mechanics_for_MAP/Fluid_Dynamics

I metioned that before. You have said that it works. I tested again it does not work.

There was no problem before, while we get the text in one column. Now the text compiled in two columns and the above mentioned problems exists.

Can you help me? I prepared the pages and the course for my classes and now I can not use it properly.

Best

Özgür Ertunç Ertunc (discuss • contribs) 07:39, 4 November 2014 (UTC)