User talk:Jtneill

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usurp

Hi dear. Plz check and confirm My request in this page.Thanks--Pesare amol 20:59, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

See the section above on Renaming requests. Jt, you are the only 'crat who even responded to my requests. Stewards are starting to say, when they decline to do renaming requests because of the existence of "active" local 'crats, that the communities should remove the 'crats. They could then handle them. The problem is that you aren't inactive, you have edits! Same with SBJ. It seems that they will handle requests if the crats say that, for some reason, they won't be available for an extended period. On the other hand, it should not take long to handle the outstanding requests, I tried to make it easy. If templates are built for requests so that everything is handled almost automatically, I could be even more effective in clerking the page. I'll be happy to work on that. --21:58, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry - in the middle of moving house - I can't do much for at least the next week unless really urgent. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:00, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

I got that one bebe :-). --SB_Johnny ^talk 23:09, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Apparently the user was IRC'ing stewards.... That was the most recent of many requests, seven of which look ready-to-go (I hope I did all the research), the oldest is a usurpation from February, you'd emailed the account being usurped.... I don't think anyone is going to die if their account isn't renamed. But .... --Abd 00:35, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Agreed, the change username and usurp requests are very backlogged. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 21:43, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Abd

Please see. Ottava Rima (talk) 02:51, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Closures needed

Hi James. I have offered to mentor a new arrival. Are you available for button pushing?

Also, Abd's confirmation is on it's 5th day now. I've left a note for Mike on that (and about S Larctia), but I'm too involved to close and you probably are as well due to the history. If Mike's not available, we could ping Cormac and/or do some sort of 'crat chat on the issue.

Thanks! --SB_Johnny ^talk 11:23, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, SBJ - will try to take a look. Am on limited net access ATM due to moving house. Agree if someone uninvolved could close on Abd's nomination that would be preferred from my POV. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:19, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Standard error

Hi. Just noticed, we have two learning resources on standard error, Standard error and Standard error (statistics). I feel that this duplication is unnecessary, but I'm unsure which one should be deleted/redirected. As you created them, have you any suggestions ? Thanks. --S Larctia 18:57, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, S Larctia. I've merged the content and done a redirect. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 02:32, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

acceptable backlinking on posts

Good day,

I created a post 'wireless weather stations' and found it to be removed. I've been trying to discover what is the best and acceptable method of leaving information material on wiki's, such as your own, while not being spammy. To be honest, yes, for the effort, I'd like to have a link back to my site. I feel that it is an acceptable trade. But what is the acceptable parameters to do this please?

Frank --Fthoms137 15:48, 10 October 2011, sig added by Abd 15:34, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

I'll address this on User talk:Fthomas137. I'll check the page out and I assume that you will allow me to undelete if appropriate (I have not yet looked at the deleted page). --Abd 15:34, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Advice please

Hi James, Following on from today's lecture, I'd like to know how to alter the colour in the drop down boxes on my text book page on Emotional Intelligence. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivation_and_emotion/Book/Emotional_intelligence

Many thanks,Ray 58.169.42.158 06:04, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/Leutha

Shouldn't we be moving to the next phase here? ;-). --SB_Johnny ^talk 12:16, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

- Yep, sorry, it's in the long-overdue task pile - there's been relatively little activity from Leutha, so I'm not inclined to nominate for custodianship. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 12:19, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Colour change

Many thanks for your help James. Cheers Ray U112052 22:31, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikiversity name vs other wiki domains (wikipedia, wikicommons, etc.)

Hi James

As I mentioned earlier, my user name for wikiversity doesn't transfer to wikipedia or wikicommons so I had to create a new id (used psychopoesie like twitter). Not sure if I should worry about this now or wait till I finish my book chapter. Advice? --Jeanette 08:28, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Re wikiversity name vs other wiki domains (wikipedia, wikicommons, etc.)

Would prefer to unify under Jeanette user name if possible. Can't say how far I will go into wikiland at this point but I'd prefer it to psychopoesie. Though I'm happy enough with psychopoesie on twitter & that would be my next choice (doubt anyone else has it on wikiversity tho could be surprised!). What do I have to do to start usurpation? Next stop world domination. --Jeanette 12:25, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Re: wikiversity name vs other wiki domains (wikipedia, wikicommons, etc.)

Just checking - went to Commons:Commons:Changing username/Usurp requests but it said that page didn't exit. Is it okay to just create a page for this? J

Problems with my page

Hi James,

Jude here. Something odd is happening with my page. The last box has become super wide and is unreadable. Have no idea how I managed to make that happen. Are you able to fix it please?

Also, can you please paste a table example on my page that I can experiement with? I would also like to add a small side box to place a small example in. Is it possible to paste an example of that too please?

And lastly, my picture of the parts of the elephant is now missing its edit button,so i cant move it around my page anymore. Any suggestions?

thanks in advance, Jude Jay-bird 06:31, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

proposed working title

Hi James, thanks for you ongoing help with my page, I appreciate it.

what do you think of changing my page title to "Life challenges: opportunites for meaning and growth" or "Life challenges: how does meaning help to promote growth?" or, do you have a better suggestion?

thanks,Jude Jay-bird 06:40, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi James, Been thinking some more about my page name proposal, & am not satisfied with my previous sugggestions. I feel that "life challenges" is too 'Pollyanna'for some of the issues that this encompasses, so I would prefer:

"Growth through adversity: why meaning mattters".

What do you think?

Jude

Username changing

Hi, can you please perform this request for me? it's about a week that I requested. Thanks beforehand. MehranVB 06:24, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Table manners

Hi James
The table in my chapter shame will not play nice. It won't stay where I've put it (it shows up at the bottom of the page with all the photos). & I can't make the bottom row merge (it's where I've placed the acknowledgement). I've just used a basic table but would like the option to make it prettier later. So would help to know how to do these 2 things. Just in case it saves you flipping to the page itself - I've copied the table out below. Jeanette 09:22, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Dimension	Shame	Guilt
Object of negative evaluation	The global self	Specific behaviour
Direction of attentional focus and focus of distress	Inward, toward the self	Outward, towards relationship partners
Phenomenology	Feeling "small" and inferior, helpless, powerless, feeling exposed	Tension, regret, remorse, other-oriented concern
Action tendencies	Avoid, hide, withdraw, escape, isolate, a desire to disappear	Approach, amend, repair, confess, apologize
Accompanying emotions	Anger, anxiety, (self-)disgust; typically more painful	Sorrow, empathy; typically less painful
Centrality of public exposure	High	Low
Attributional pattern	Internal, stable, global,uncontrollable	Internal, unstable, specific, controllable
Evolutionary origins	Evolved as part of the rank system	Evolved as part of the caring system
Function	Repair reputation	Repair damaged relationship
Adapted from Kim, Thibodeau & Jorgenson (2011)

re: Table manners

Thanks for the fix. All good now. Also appreciated the tip re the Kalat & Shiota book - I've borrowed it. Regards J

Poing

I think this is ready for buttonage: Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/Ruy Pugliesi‎, if you get a moment. --SB_Johnny ^talk 16:18, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Hey, Jtneill. Sorry for bothering you, but is there something else I am supposed to do there? Regards, Ruy Pugliesi^◥ 23:11, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you ;) Ruy Pugliesi^◥ 02:02, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

What is the copyright of File:Motivation and Emotion - Lecture 08 - Aspects of emotion 2011 6slidesperpage.pdf?

	Thanks for uploading File:Motivation and Emotion - Lecture 08 - Aspects of emotion 2011 6slidesperpage.pdf, but:
		The file needs some copyright information soon to stay at Wikiversity. Please place {{information}} on the file page and fill out who the owner is and the copying terms. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about using files because of copyright law.
		Who owns the rights to this file? Usually this is the work's creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Only the person or company who owns the rights can give permission to use this file freely.
		What are the terms for using this file? Wikiversity accepts open content, public domain, and fair use works (see Wikiversity's Copyright policy). You can place a {{copyright template}} on the file page to signify the copyright terms.
		Please remember to do this for any other files you have uploaded or will upload. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page or the Wikiversity community at the Colloquium. Thank you.

Thenub314 18:49, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Something messed up this template on your talk page, but I am not sure what or why.... Thenub314 18:51, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

The same comments apply to:

• File:Motivation and Emotion - Lecture 08 - Aspects of emotion 2011 3slidesperpage.pdf

Thank-you for picking this up and letting me know. I've fixed it and checked/fixed all Motivation and emotion/Lectures slide handout pages. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 21:15, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments

Hi James, thanks for your comments and suggestions on my chapter on peer infuence. It's very useful as I move towards my final version for submission! ShaunaB 23:04, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

GedawyBot

Hi sir. I made a request for bot flag, I hope you approve it. Thanks..--محمد الجداوي 13:56, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Are there problems?--محمد الجداوي 09:48, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank-you for the bot request. My apologies for a slow response. I've commented: Wikiversity:Bots/Status. Note that I am an en.wv bureaucrat but am novice with regard to bots, so will be guided very much by community consensus in approving/not approving. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 00:38, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Confused

Really confused - can you shed some light on the temporary page of my book chapter??????????? which one am I using? Can I have some comments regarding the content as well please? Margaret

Emotional intelligence

Hi James,

I've just noticed a displkay problem on my page on Emotional Intelligence http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivation_and_emotion/Book/Emotional_intelligence

The External Links section at the very end is not displaying correctly, even though it looks OK in edit mode. Is there something I'm overlooking?

Also, grateful for any overall comments you might have as I will be finalising the chapter tomorrow.

Cheers,

RayU112052 03:07, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks James..Otherwise looking OK? Ray U112052 04:36, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for all the help

Hi James

Thanks for all the help with the wiki. I did enjoy it. Jeanette 21:03, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Editing service acknoledgement

Thank you for your kind editing/moving of my writing 'My Wife' to my own space. Please archive it. Regards!

usurp User:Joy

Can you please have a look at Wikiversity:Changing username#Joy-temporary → Joy? --Joy-temporary 14:52, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

This is actually an important issue. See this discussion at meta, involving this very user, showing the damage from refusing to respond to legit usurpation requests. I set up all the older rename and usurpation requests for ready action, verifying the necessary details after reviewing procedure. However, if it's all going to be useless, I'm not going to continue clerking that page. If you cannot handle these requests, Jtneill -- and SBJ has declined or worse, in the past -- please say so and someone can make a request at meta, citing discussions here. --Abd 14:53, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Y Done by SBJ. --Abd 15:21, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Tx Abd & SBJ -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:41, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Multimedia issue

Hi James. When I downloaded by screencast from screenr it has cut off almost all of the bottom line of my presentation - I'm not sure if this is a screenr thing, or a quicktime/iMovie/Mac thing. Will I lose marks for this? I tried everything in iMovie to fix it... ShaunaB 21:37, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Ah not to worry - I've adjusted some settings and sorted it out. I understand we don't have the submit a downloadable version, I've just downloaded it to do some trimming and include some music (the quality was terrible out of the laptop speakers on the screens recording). I'll be uploading to YouTube once I've edited. Thanks for your help! ShaunaB 21:47, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Nature chapter: just noticed some changes

Hi James, I just noticed the changes you made on my page. I did not include the completion status and I used a different link to the chapter overview because it was over the word limit if I included them. Please take this into consideration when you mark the assignment. I also didn't like it being pink. Noodles&Wedges 09:42, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Meta request

Hi James. Given the sudden moves this morning, I made an emergency request at meta vis-a-vis Abd. Details here.

I think at this point I'd like to see him clearly pass an RfC discussion before returning the buttons... do you agree? --SB_Johnny ^talk 15:09, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

This is standard SBJ opinion. Anyone can file an RfC. He misrepresented the situation at meta. They didn't buy it, so far. Jtneill, if you believe that my continued use of tools, with the vast majority of actions being non-controversial, is a hazard to WV, please do ask me to resign, I will. However, here, on the unblock issue, I'm standing for policy, and a very important one, and my action was easily undone. (And now it's visible why I opposed that custodianship, and why others opposed.) The page deletion issue would also be easily undone if any custodian wants to push for that page standing as-is, in my user space. If the page is returned to WV space, I'd reverse my actions. I just don't think SBJ can have his cake and eat it too, i.e., the idea that this page is not important, it's just my own opinion, and so belongs in my user space, whereas the actual evidence -- and linkage of the page, showed the opposite. SBJ fabricated a "consensus" on this move, which could be discussed if necessary. What, again, was the emergency? As to blocking, there isn't a community consensus to block, and there is clear policy about what's normal without a special consensus, with ample precedents.

In any case, I remain your mentee, and I do request consideration of the sheer volume of routine maintenance I've done, compared to how easy it is to reverse a couple of actions out of hundreds or thousands. Thanks. --Abd 17:24, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

RfC = "Request for Custodianship". Funny names around here ;-). --SB_Johnny ^talk 17:45, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

SBJ, we had a compromise, apparently you are abandoning it. My CC did not close with failure, it closed with a compromise to allow continued benefit to Wikiversity. Otherwise it would have been quite improper for SBJ to close, because of his high involvement. However, policy allows that any custodian who "fails" PC may continue with a mentor, so the close was not a difficult one. However, I do see RfCs coming. For me, for you, and for Poetlister, and we have one open on ban policy. It really should be on block policy. They are distinct, the issues are separate. And I don't have time for this now and over the coming weeks, I believe. --Abd 18:01, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

You seem to have acted on a false premise. Just because it might not be important enough to be in Wikiversity space, doesn't make it unimportant. -- darklama  18:12, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up - I've replied here [1] -- Jtneill - Talk - c 21:43, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Given the circumstances, I think now would be a good time (regardless of what meta decides). I know you're busy, but would you be willing to start a new RfC nomination? A recommendation against would be just as valid as a recommendation for, I think. After this morning's actions (or whatever time of day that was for you), I suspect I'm not the only one wondering when the other shoe will drop, which is never a good feeling. --SB_Johnny ^talk 23:26, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

His tools have been removed by the stewards, on my request. I still think a re-hash of the discussion would be a good thing. --SB_Johnny ^talk 23:52, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the updates - I've re-opened the Abd3 full custodian discussion[2] - gotten run, but this should also go into sitenotice etc. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 00:12, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, but I think we need a "do-over"... maybe a new page, and definitely a new recommendation from the mentor :-). --SB_Johnny ^talk 00:21, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks - I've tidied that page a little by archiving the earlier discussion, but leaving it there for reference. The original recommendation from Draicone (mentor on wiki-break) I think still stands, but we can have a fresh round of discussion now that some time has passed, hopefully leading to a clearer consensus towards either full custodianship or not. Is this OK with you? If not, feel free to tweak. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 05:20, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

I changed the section header to make it easier to follow, but otherwise looks good to me :-). --SB_Johnny ^talk 13:19, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Please review SBJ's action at meta and remedy the damage

[3]. SBJ requested emergency desysop at meta. When this appeared unlikely to succeed, SBJ then misrepresented the situation, by alleging that "we have a "temporary" sysop who has been acting outside of the terms he agreed to."

Not one example of acting outside those terms has even been alleged, not to mention the whole series of actions implied by his language. I did, transiently, attempt to change the terms, but never violated them. The Standard Stop Agreement provides that I can be immediately desysopped if I act contrary to a "stop order" from any custodian. Any custodian, including SBJ, could have, on their own discretion, issued a stop order preventing me from acting with tools, either generally or specifically, and if I had then violated the order, "emergency desysop" would have been allowed, not only by SBJ, but by any user upon presentation of the evidence.

Instead, SBJ is proceeding entirely outside of policy, as he did with the block of Poetlister, bypassing community process. The implication is that SBJ may act without finding consensus, but others cannot. That's ownership of the wiki. If there were some clear and present danger, this would be allowed. But there was not. I don't wheel-war, but if I did, standard stop was available. The danger, then, would be one or at most a handful of errors to reverse. There would have been none, the desysop prevented no problematic actions. I had no plans or occasion to use tools in any controversial way. Absolutely, I would not have unblocked Poetlister1 again. That would have been wheel-warring!

Had I wheel-warred, reversing the action of any custodian, in order to re-stablish a state that I had myself created, undoing the work of a permanent custodian, this could have been considered an implicit violation of the Standard Stop Agreement, even without a stop order. But to take an action based on policy, after discussion -- and this was discussed with SBJ -- is not wheel-warring, especially an unblock action. It's a disagreement. If a desysop can be based solely on a single disagreement with a bureaucrat, who then can misrepresent the situation at meta in order to get action, we have no way for a continued community consensus to be established. It all becomes a matter of personal power.

Jt, I'm asking you to restore the bit, as a restoration of what policy requires, and what was always considered necessary, a CR before removal, with the ultimate result being up to the community. I know you are involved, but so is everyone, most especially SBJ, who has long waited for an opportunity to do what he did.

The wiki will not collapse without my use of tools, and I'm busy at this time anyway. However, a unilateral desysop, bypassing our policies, without an emergency? That's not acceptable. It is not acceptable even if a few users support it, consensus is required for desysop. We have Custodian Feedback and Community Review to avoid this kind of situation, and I proposed and agreed to Standard Stop to allow the community of custodians to handle possible dangerous situations, immediately, without disruption or undue cries of "emergency."

SBJ knows that what might be called his faction may be able to prevent consensus from forming, and what he's asserting is the right to personally determine affairs without consensus and in contradiction to policy. If you look at the voting in my CC, the first pass, and the analysis on the Talk page, you can see what's happening. A similar situation on Wikipedia prevented effective confrontation of a major faction (roughly two dozen editors, including a few administrators) for years, the faction could muster enough votes in any discussion to prevent a consensus against even the most abusive administrator, and they could trivially prevent anyone likely to confront their position from ever gaining administrator status, and the result was years of disruption, major ongoing damage, legions of unnecessarily or even abusively blocked users and vast sock farms (because a percentage of abused users do get mad and do get even), not to mention damaged neutrality, and it's still not over.

I asked SBJ to restore the bit.[4] He did not consent. --Abd 17:24, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Abd, for calling it you see it.

Re: sysop tools request.I guess there are many paths ahead - and I'm not sure which ones we are or should be heading down, but in general I'm reluctant to engage in potentially provocative admin actions without evidence of community consensus one way or another. So, I'm not looking to further escalate the drama here by switching your sysop tools on until the community has had a good chance to voice their view about whether they want that to happen or not.

Re: SB_Johnny's claims in his meta request to have your sysop tools removed. For now, I think following that up on SBJ's talk page is possibly one way forward (I see a conversation is underway).

Re: Vote-stacking. I appreciate the warning - to the extent that this may occur on en.wv, then we should be endeavouring to shine light upon it.

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 20:43, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

I'm not aware of vote-stacking here. That refers to socking to increase votes on the side of a sock master. Rather, a problem is participation bias, which is intrinsic to wikis, which can be difficult to handle, and which can be exacerbated by canvassing. If decisions were made by arguments, as is often claimed, then canvassing (and even socking) would not be a problem, it's only when numbers count that a problem arises. (And with decision-by-argument, canvassing would actually be valuable, soliciting broader comment and thus deeper argument, potentially. WV:Assembly process will *encourage* certain kinds of canvassing, there, making increasing vote counts not necessary, since the Assembly will not make decisions by vote, per se. It's not a decision-making body, it merely reports.)

The discussion on SBJ talk was ended, as far as I could see. It is not my intention to hound anyone by tendentious argument, especially not on their talk page. If I have time, the way forward with my disputes with SBJ is Custodian Feedback, next step. I'm not sure I have time. In a way, not having tools now removes from me the temptation to do RCP and review speedy deletion requests, etc. That's the result of the desysopping, simple. There are others who can do that. --Abd 21:46, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Subpages transcluded into a policy page

[5] made me notice that sections of the Custodianship policy page are transcluded from small subpages. This then allows editing to the policy that will not show up for those watching the policy. Would you mind if I move the subpage content back to the policy page, so that it's clear someone is editing a policy page? That can be important. Thanks. --Abd 17:37, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

I think that's a good idea (to not have it as transcluded so that changes to policy can be more easily tracked). It looks the reason I transcluded this was to allow re-use in this {{Probationary custodian evaluation}} which was designed for transclusion at the start of evaluation periods - although it hasn't been used much in part because I guess doing so is somewhat redundant, but was hoping to more clear/communicative about the discussion period. Thoughts? -- Jtneill - Talk - c 20:53, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Fixed -- Jtneill - Talk - c 21:03, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks also for fixing the five days to 7+ days. I believe we had consensus on that (at least Darklama and I!). I only reverted the entire Darklama change because I was short on time, I assumed that it would all come out in the wash, i.e., discussion and cooperation, Darklama had been doing other good work on policy. --Abd 22:13, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Your transwiki of collapse templates

Broke our collapse process. I noticed this on Wikiversity talk:Custodianship, drove me nuts trying to find what I assumed was my former, unnoticed error, then it occurred to me that maybe the templates had changed, I checked, and behold! They had. I just demonstrated it with a sandbox edit. Your imports overwrote the existing files (?), so I can't just undo it. These templates can be arcane as hell, my guess is that the new versions incorporate other templates or the like that aren't present here, or that are different here. I'll look a little more and if I don't quickly find the problem, I'll go to RCA. Thanks. --Abd 17:46, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Ugh. I looked at your contributions and see that you made many template imports yesterday, and at least one of them I recognize as a template used in the collapse template. It's looking like the history of a file turns into a mess, with an import. Looks like the old history is still there, but when moving from diff to diff, the edits are out of date order. This could be a massive mess, I'll go to RCA immediately instead of later. --Abd 17:55, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

I fixed the collapse problem with [6], restoring an old version. There might be other problems. Obviously, something here is different than on Wikipedia. --Abd 18:21, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi! Thanks for adding the link, and your other assists - it seems like this is a bigger project than I thought it would be, and links will, I think, help a lot if anyone ends up using the material. :) - Bilby 06:11, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for feedback on the Shame chapter

Hi James
Really appreciate the feedback on the shame chapter. It was a really challenging subject. Sorry it was so hard to extract the pearl of wisdom. Think I might have had some trouble as well. Really like what you did end up writing for that. Thanks for spending the time to make some really great suggestions. Regards Jeanette 01:13, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you from newbie

Thanks for your assistance. My lack of etiquette was not intentional; but there is a lot to be learned in this new activity. Please keep me posted when you catch more of my blunders. I propose to collect and catalog them as "The Piman's Blunders". Ray Calvin Baker 05:03, 28 November 2011 (UTC) P.S. I think you are the second actual person I have heard from since I started my user page.

Thank you from newbie

Thanks for your assistance. My lack of etiquette was not intentional; but there is a lot to be learned in this new activity. Please keep me posted when you catch more of my blunders. I propose to collect and catalog them as "The Piman's Blunders". Ray Calvin Baker 05:11, 28 November 2011 (UTC) P.S. I think you are the second actual person I have heard from since I started my user page.

Probationary custodianship

After my little drama last month, I'd like to help out with administrative tasks again, particularly copyright clean-up. I asked SBJ to re-mentor me, but while he'd like me to be a custodian, he'd rather someone else mentored me for round 2. Would you consider taking me on ? I asked Thenub314, and he suggested you. Thanks. --Simone 11:17, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Interest

I have received your message. I will reply what my plan is on my active projects. I will reply this by email before Christmas and we are going to get started. Thanks --Katarighe 21:57, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm actually active in these projects Simple English Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Commons and Incubator to fight for vandalism and spamming. Will you able to mentor me here to get better results, I would like to do so. --Katarighe 22:50, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Emotional Intelligence- Thanks

Hello James,

Just read your kind comments on my multi-media presentation on Emotional Intelligence. Very encouraging. Oops on not giving the presentation public domain authorisation. Bugger! There's always something ;-)Impatient now to discover my final marks. Really enjoyed this subject. It's up there with Psychopathology and Physiological as my favourites to date. Ray V. U112052 07:33, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

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 Confirmed 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 [7] 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 Wikiversity:Chat + Identi.ca 05:47, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

What is the copyright of File:Visualiation of quantitative information 3 slides per page.pdf?

	Thanks for uploading File:Visualiation of quantitative information 3 slides per page.pdf, but:
		The file needs some copyright information soon to stay at Wikiversity. Please place {{information}} on the file page and fill out who the owner is and the copying terms. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about using files because of copyright law.
		Who owns the rights to this file? Usually this is the work's creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Only the person or company who owns the rights can give permission to use this file freely.
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		Please remember to do this for any other files you have uploaded or will upload. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page or the Wikiversity community at the Colloquium. Thank you.

Crochet.david (talk) 12:56, 26 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...

• 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?

Thenub314 (talk) 02:39, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Thenub314, thanks for asking:

• • 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.

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 03:07, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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/<Page>. Jtneill seems to have made an attemp to correct this by moving pages under http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Jromanch0088/<Page>, but seems like at least one page was missed. -- darklama  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#Your projects. 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:

• 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)

For context, see Meta:Stewards' noticeboard#Global disruption by BrandonSkyPimenta/HTFFanBrandon04 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)

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

aboutWikiversity:Changing_username#Dpkpm007_.E2.86.92_Deepak I am sul owner Deepak . my home wiki ml.wikipedia .diff . please rename me --117.204.86.217 14:57, 20 May 2012 (UTC)