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re:Global account

Hi Classicfilms! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to ping me with {{ping|DerHexer}}. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 00:49, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi DerHexer,

Thanks so much - these are all my accounts that I set up quite a number of years ago and stopped using. Unfortunately, I did not enable an email address with them and I have forgotten the passwords. I tried to recover them but was unable to because I did not create an email address for them. Is it possible for you to delete the accounts so that I can start over? I'm not sure what to do at this point. Thanks for bringing this to my attention - Classicfilms (talk) 01:57, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

I've usurped the 0 edit account on metawiki. For the other ones I will let insert the email address you have set for your global account so that you can request a new password and afterwards merge your local accounts. I'll let you know when you can proceed. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:18, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Perfect - and no rush. As I said, I haven't used them in years - though now, maybe I will! Thanks again and I'll just wait to hear from you. -Classicfilms (talk) 19:14, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

 Done, all three accounts now have your email address set so that you can easily merge them into your global account via Special:MergeAccount - Hoo man (talk) 00:11, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

@Classicfilms: The former comment requires your attention. ;-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 00:20, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Ok, but I just realized that the Italian Wikipedia account is not mine - the rest are. Could you remove the Italian account before I do anything else? Thank you. -Classicfilms (talk) 03:12, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

The account on the Italian Wikipedia has been automatically created for you because you apparently visited it while being logged in to your global account. That's nothing to worry about. Cheers, Hoo man (talk) 11:15, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Great - I finished the process so I should be "unified." :-) -Classicfilms (talk) 23:59, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Re: Global account

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Global login Tony Sidaway

Thanks for your note. During the course of unifying my accounts I discovered one on es for which I cannot muster a password. That means it's almost certainly a third party account created in my name for a joke, an impression which is strengthened by the single functionally useless edit made in 2005 and by the absence of any user page.

I have no use for access to es, so leaving it as it is would do no harm that I'm aware of. You may want to clean it up using your super Steward powers, though.

I have no way of contacting the owner of the Tony Sidaway account on es because I have no functioning account there and I don't want to get involved. My Spanish is only good as long as I don't try to write coherent grammatical sentences. --TS 13:44, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

As the eswiki account has no visible edits, I've usurped it according to m:Usurpation policy. Hence, your global account is now completed. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 14:00, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

But it doesn't bother me. Actually I like it the way it is. Thank you. Hafspajen (talk) 20:15, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

@Hafspajen: I can completely understand that but need to tell you that it could happen that during SUL finalization your enwiki account might be forcibly renamed as it's not part of the global account. For avoiding that, I firmly recommend you to unify your account. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:24, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

What is that, SUL finalization. Hafspajen (talk) 20:25, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Have a look at m:Single User Login finalisation announcement (and for further information m:Help:Unified login) please. :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:38, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

• But I don't want to do this. I am happy to have different accounts. There is also different passwords for them and it gives increased security. I don't WANT to participate more on cross-wiki than I do now. Hafspajen (talk) 09:54, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

And my username is rather unique, can't imagine anyone having the same, so it will not clash with other users who have the same account name. My username is a nonsense word that coming up from a scrabble game party once. Hafspajen (talk) 09:57, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Well, I just wanted to tell you that it will happen, that I recommend you to do that on your own instead of leaving it to the Wikimedia Foundation, and that I'm providing my help whenever it's needed. :-) Ofc, it's up to you to do that. And I would have preferred another solution for global accounts too. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 12:10, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year DerHexer!

Happy New Year!

DerHexer,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Hafspajen (talk) 10:07, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2015}} to user talk pages.

Thank you, have a nice turn of the year too. :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 12:11, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Re: Unified accounts

Howdy, I have basically been ignoring global accounts as long as I can. I am not going to do it until forced. Mitch32^{(I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance)} 00:57, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi Mitchazenia! SUL finalization will definitely be completed by about April 2015. By then, all accounts will be unified somehow. I'm not sure whether the Wikimedia Foundation is more capable of merging your local accounts than you. I strongly recommend you to do that on your own before they do. Ofc, you can postpone that for some time but if you need help for merging your accounts once it is necessary, you can count on me at any time. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 01:05, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I am just very nitpicky. I've known this was going to happen since late 2013, and it keeps getting postponed. I am in no hurry. Mitch32^{(I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance)} 04:47, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Special merge accounts - please help

Hi. Thank you for your email. I have successfully merged my account, for my wikipedia.org account, but am finding things difficult, with regard to my wikimedia.commons account, because I have a different password for that account. Could you please help me, with suggestions of how I can replace my present wikimedia.commons account password with my wikipedia.org account password, so that the two accounts will be unified. Thank you. Figaro (talk) 06:37, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

@Figaro: Wasn't it possible to submit a second password on Special:MergeAccount? Please also try to enter your enwiki password at c:Special:MergeAccount. If both fail, please drop me a note so that I can get this fixed. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 12:13, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Done! Thank you for your help. Wishing you a very happy New Year for 2015. All the best. Figaro (talk) 08:33, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome and a happy new year for you too! :-) I've usurped a couple accounts with no visible edits, few will be usurped during SUL finalization till April 2015. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:05, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Merge accounts question

Thanks for your message about global accounts - it's news to me. I've followed what I think is the procedure and have merged my en.wikipedia.org and commons accounts, but there are also accounts on es.wikipedia.org (with 2 edits), fr.wikipedia.org (0 edits), fr.wikiversity.org (0 edits) and it.wikipedia.org (0 edits) - not me as far as I know. (I have edited anonymously on French Wikipedia but don't recall ever having registered there.) Can I assume that I will keep "ownership" of the user name across the entirety of Wiki?

Happy New Year. Emeraude (talk) 14:16, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

By the way, @DerHexer: means nothing to me. Any clues? Emeraude (talk) 14:17, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

@Emeraude: I've usurped all accounts with no visible edits so that only the eswiki is left over. It will be usurped during SUL finalization till April 2015 which will complete your global account. The ping is part of the Echo notifications. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:30, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I will look into pings when I get time. Emeraude (talk) 11:09, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

merge problem

i have a prob lem in unifying accounts. I never edited on wikibooks but a different person did so years ago also named rjensen. now what? Rjensen (talk) 14:21, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

As this account had no visible edits, I've usurped it according to m:Usurpation policy. Your global account is now completed! :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:01, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear DerHexer,
HAPPY NEW YEAR Hoping 2015 will be a great year for you! Thank you for your contributions!
From a fellow editor,
--FWiW Bzuk (talk)

This message promotes WikiLove. Originally created by Nahnah4 (see "invisible note").

Thank you! :-) A happy new year for you too! —DerHexer (Talk) 22:02, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Merge accounts

Thank you for your post about merging accounts. Yes, i would absolutely love to have SUL account! But I´m not sure that is possible. If you look at the global contributions: The contributions to French WP and -1 edit- on commons is by another (French-speaking) person. They have not been active for years. I would especially love to have the commons-account: I created TheRealHuldra over there instead. I also created this, just as a SUL-account, basically to be used for linking articles. (en.wp is my "home" wiki: I´ve been here since 2005, and have about 30 K edits). I am also "Huldra" on meta, and I believe on no.wp.....but I have forgotten the password to it! The password to meta is the same as for en.wp. This is a mess, isn´t it? If all my accounts could be collected in one SUL-account, with one password, then that would be a dream... Cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:07, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

@Huldra: In late January 2015, an account merge tool will be available for that purpose. It allows stewards like me to merge two or more global accounts. Hence, you have to make all your local account global accounts. Local accounts without visible edits as on nowiki can be usurped according to m:Usurpation policy. I can do that when you've merged your account on Special:MergeAccount. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 12:18, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Ok, I have merged the Huldra-accounts. However, these I could not merge:

• commons.wikimedia.org
• fr.wikipedia.org
• nn.wikipedia.org
• no.wikipedia.org
• sv.wikipedia.org

Commons and fr.wp is not me, apparently a French lady who edited years ago. Nn.wikipedia.org and sv.wikipedia.org have no edits, so I understand that I can have them? No.wikipedia.org is a problem, as that was my account, and I am absolutely unable to remember the password, and have no email connected to it, it seems. Is there any sense in making my commons-account TheRealHuldra global, as I apparently cannot get the "Huldra" name on commons? Cheers, Huldra (talk) 16:36, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

@Huldra: According to m:Usurpation policy, I've usurped all three local accounts (including the nowiki account) which had no visible edits. Till April 2015, the commonswiki and frwiki accounts will be usurped too. Afterwards, stewards will be able to merge two or more global accounts upon request. Therefor, an account merge tool will be provided by late January 2015. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 17:55, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

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Account merger - Haukurth / Haukur accounts

Hi! Thank you for your message on my talk page. Maybe you could help me with this merger thing. If you look at User:Haukurth you can see interwiki links to my other homepages. In some cases I have the username 'Haukur', in some cases 'Haukurth'. How should we proceed? Haukur (talk) 17:42, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

@Haukurth: An account merge tool is expected to be available for stewards by late January 2015. Then we can merge two or more global accounts. Therefor, it's necessary that you merge both of your accounts. If there are still local accounts clashing with your global accounts, we may need to wait until April 2015 when SUL finalization will be completed and all global accounts unique. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 19:25, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Deleting

Hi, why did you delete my page? Since I am working in the German Wikipedia I have difficulties with my english page in my global account. This especially, because people like you delete without respect for my work. Regards --Orik (talk) 08:42, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Hallo Orik! Für die SUL-Finalisierung werden alle Benutzerkonten jetzt eindeutig globale. Das enwiki-Konto Orik und weitere andere waren mit deinem globalen Konto nicht verbunden. Da sie keine Bearbeitungen hatten, habe ich sie gemäß m:Usurpation policy umbenannt. Gern kann ich aber dein Konto auch mit einem anderen globalen Konto, das du vielleicht für enwiki oder andere Projekte anstatt Orik benutzt hast, zusammenführen, sobald wir Stewards das Account-Merge-Tool haben (erwartet Ende Januar 2015) und deine Konten alle eindeutig globale sind. Du kannst dich dann und natürlich auch allen anderen Fragen gern an mich wenden. :-) Grüße, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:55, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Global Account Unification

Thanks for your message on my UserTalk page regarding global account unification, and I apologize for the delay in responding as I was on vacation with limited access to reliable Internet service for the last two weeks. I attempted to create a global account using my existing Username and password per the instructions you provided, but was unsuccessful in doing so. Any further assistance you can provide in resolving this issue would be most appreciated. --TommyBoy (talk) 05:07, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi TommyBoy! According to Special:CentralAuth/TommyBoy, you successfully created a global account. Unfortunately, you could not complete the unification of all local accounts. As three of these had no visible edits, I've usurped them according to m:Usurpation policy. Hence, there's only one single account left which will be usurped during SUL finalization till April 2015 without your intervention. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:56, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Global account question

Hi. Thank you for contacting me about my lack of a global account. The reason I have always steered clear of this is that I have 10 accounts in several different language Wikipedias, in at least six of which my username is other than the one I use here, and I am worried about losing my other usernames and their associated histories if I go for this global account. Is this a justified concern, or am I just misunderstanding what is meant by a "global account"? In short:

• What is the advantage of having a global account?
• What is the disadvantage of not having one?
• If I do obtain one, what effect, if any, will this have on my accounts on the Welsh-, Spanish-, Dutch-language etc. etc. Wikipedias?

-- Picapica (talk) 11:24, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

@Picapica: By submitting the password for Picapica once at Special:MergeAccount, all Picapica accounts which share the same password will be added to your global account. You can (and I recommend you to) do the very same for your other accounts as all accounts will be unified somehow, if not by yourself possibly by the Wikimedia Foundation itself. Once you have done this, you can easily edit any wiki using your username without having to register new local accounts or logging in each time separately. Additionally, your username is protected on all wikis, and there will be no more accounts with the same username that could be used by different people which would result in clashes that had to be resolved during SUL finalization. Besides, new technical support like global watchlists or notifications will be made possible as soon as all accounts are unique. Once all your accounts are completed global ones, stewards could merge their names and edits upon their request as soon as the account merge tool will be available for us, that's expected to be late January/early February. That merge action would combine all your edits done by multiple accounts with one global account, Picapica for example. Of course, you can still keep them separated if you prefer. If you have any problem with doing that, I'm confident that we can solve them together. :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 13:46, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Unification

I have unified accounts on all WPs, except the German: I attempted to make an account at the German WP, Benutzer:DGG , but have never been able to access it--it was 7 years ago, i forgot why. I don't think it ever edited; could you usurp it, and add it in to my accounts? (I also have a unified account at DGG (NYPL) as an ambassador at NYPL--that does include deWP. ) DGG ( talk ) 04:12, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

@DGG: As far as I can see on Special:CentralAuth/DGG, the enwiktionary account neither is connected to your global account. Have you been using a different password over there? If so please also merge this account with your global one by submitting its password on Special:MergeAccount. If you've forgotten your password but have set an email address, you can request a new temporary one which allows you to set a new password which you can also submit. If neither of both applies, the account will be (as well as the dewiki account which has no own edits but only imported one) automatically usurped during SUL finalization till April 2015 by the Wikimedia Foundation which will make your account a completed global one. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 01:22, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

the eventual usurpation would seem the easiest course. I apparently must have used a different password, that I don't remember. thanks. DGG ( talk ) 01:26, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Aspirex - Unified accounts

From following the steps, I appear to have created a global account out of just my EN-Wikipedia account, and there is a three-year-old zero-edit commons account of the same name which may or may not be mine (I can't remember setting it up) which is not attached to the global account. Just want to confirm that this achieves the primary aim of protecting my username in the global account space and this zero-edit account will essentially cause no other administrative burden. Aspirex (talk) 11:33, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

@Aspirex: I've usurped the 0 edit account following the m:Usurpation policy which makes your account a completed global one. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:42, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Unified accounts (as if you didn't see enough of that kind of message already  :) )

DerHexer,

I saw your note on my page, that you for the heads up. There are certain wikipedias (I:E wikispecias, Wikidata ..etc) that just don't appeal to me, and as such, I would have no problem allowing someone else to login to them with the name I'm using here. As my account is active on en.wikipedia, (over 1000 edits ) my understanding is that it could not be usurped, of course, if I'm wrong, please let me know. Thanks KoshVorlon Je Suis Charlie 17:00, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

@KoshVorlon: I do understand your reasoning. The Wikimedia Foundation nonetheless decided to make all accounts unique global ones because this process on the one hand allows each one to easily edit any wiki using their username without having to register new local accounts or logging in each time separately. Additionally, their username is protected on all wikis, and there will be no more accounts with the same username that could be used by different people which would result in clashes (or bugs when articles are imported on other wikis in order to comply with the Creative Commons license for translations for example) that had to be resolved and will be resolved now during the SUL finalization. On the other hand, new technical support like global watchlists or notifications will be made possible as soon as all accounts are unique which will also make it easier for you to stay updated with your other local accounts if you wish. For that reason, I recommend you to create your global account on your own instead of leaving that to the automatic processes of the Wikimedia Foundation. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 01:14, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

@DerHexer: Let me restate then, don't you think it would be a waste of resources for me to have an account on a wikipedia I would never use ? KoshVorlon Je Suis Charlie 12:07, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

@KoshVorlon: I don't think so because it will exist by April 2015 anyway and will be just another name for the same accounts you already use while it provides advantages for you and others that you can use or not. If you were thinking about performance issues, extra work, or the like, don't worry. Creating a global account will not result in any of these things. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:50, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on unified accounts

Thank you for your work on notifying users of the Single User Login finalisation announcement. I wasn't aware of this and greatly appreciate the opportunity to deal with the issue before the auto renaming. —  AjaxSmack  18:03, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

@AjaxSmack: You're welcome! The Wikimedia Foundation itself will also notify affected users somehow. But I don't know whether they will do that automatically or with a script (besides village pump notes, central notices, and the like), and if they have the ability to deal with all responses and problems alone. That's why I started my initiative for notifying the most active users across wiki with special focus on these wikis where I'm kinda active. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 01:06, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Unified accounts

Thanks for your message, but I have forgotten the usernames and passwords of the DE and NL accunts I made and of the wikimedia commons account. Is there any way in which I can retrieve them? Thank you in advance Jurriaan (talk) 19:24, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

@Jurriaan: Do you have set an email address for these accounts? If so you can request a temporary password which will be send to you. Once you have set a new password, you can unify these accounts by submitting their passwords in Special:MergeAccount. If not they will most likely be automatically usurped during SUL finalization till April 2015. And as they indicate no connection to your enwiki account (e.g. on their respective userpages), system administrators cannot merge them either. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 00:56, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Unified accounts

Hi there - thanks for your message. I've completed the first stage of the process; however, there are three other accounts on fr, it and sv with the same username, which are not mine. The fr account here is fairly active, and I would prefer not to interfere with it. Can I request that priority is given to the fr account in the overall merge process, or is it too late for that? Tevildo (talk) 23:26, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

@Tevildo: I've usurped two accounts with no visible edits following the m:Usurpation policy. The remaining account on frwiki will be automatically usurped by the Wikimedia Foundation during SUL finalization till April 2015 and ofc notified in advance per mail and talk page message that the unification of all accounts affects their account. This process allows you to easily edit any wiki using your username without having to register new local accounts or logging in each time separately. Additionally, your username is protected on all wikis, and there will be no more accounts with the same username that could be used by different people which would result in clashes that had to be resolved and will be resolved now during the SUL finalization. Besides, new technical support like global watchlists or notifications will be made possible as soon as all accounts are unique. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 00:52, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Unified accounts

Hello DerHexer, thanks for your message.

I completed the first stage of the process, but there is one other account on pl wikipedia with the same username which is not mine. I noticed that the current account has zero edits. What can i do for this? What process i must follow next? Thanks! Marios26 (Talk) 06:17, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

@Marios26: I've usurped it following the m:Usurpation policy so that your account is now a completed global one. :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 13:23, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot mate, everything is ok now! Marios26 (Talk) 18:22, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Unifying accounts

Thanks for the note on unifying my account. Unfortunately, I couldn't complete it because there is a conflicting account on es wikipedia that isn't mine. What should I do?—Tetracube (talk) 18:34, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

@Tetracube: I've usurped it following the m:Usurpation policy which completed your global account. :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 00:21, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Login to Wikipedia

Hello, I entered my username and Was told change your password. I tried several times but the result did not achieve (Wikimedia Foundation Error). In your view, what is the problem? This brings up → Due to a privacy issue with the Wikimedia Labs databases, your old password may be vulnerable. Please set a new and different password to secure your account. We apologize for the inconvenience.Serzhik (talk) 06:23, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

@Serzhik: This problem was fixed yesterday, you should be able to login again. If you have further question, please don't hesitate to contact me. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:32, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

BV’s global account

(from user’s WP.fr talk page)
Hi Mister BV! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Cheers, DerHexer (discuter) 17 janvier 2015 à 13:01 (CET)

Hello DerHexer,
I am aware of the upcoming unification. However, I do not wish to merge my several accounts into a single one. It is on purpose that I keep them as they currently are. Regards. -- Mister BV (talk) 16:34, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

@Mister BV: I do understand your reasoning. The Wikimedia Foundation nonetheless decided to make all accounts unique global ones because this process on the one hand allows each one to easily edit any wiki using their username without having to register new local accounts or logging in each time separately. Additionally, their username is protected on all wikis, and there will be no more accounts with the same username that could be used by different people which would result in clashes (or bugs when articles are imported on other wikis in order to comply with the Creative Commons license for translations for example) that had to be resolved and will be resolved now during the SUL finalization. On the other hand, new technical support like global watchlists or notifications will be made possible as soon as all accounts are unique which will also make it easier for you to stay updated with your other local accounts if you wish. For that reason, I recommend you to create your global account on your own instead of leaving that to the automatic processes of the Wikimedia Foundation. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me again. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:59, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Accounts with different passwords

My home account is at the English Wiki, but I have an account at the German Wiki that has a slightly different password (but the same user ID). I also have an account at the Mandarin Chinese Wiki with a different user ID (波士顿马克）, and I'm not sure whether its password matches the German or the English account. Your utility did not list my Mandarin account. It did list accounts for me on the French Wiki and the English Wiktionary, where I have apparently made comments while signed into my English Wiki account. It also listed accounts for me on the Spanish, Galician, Mongolian, and Dutch Wikis, where I don't have user pages and don't think I have ever added content. How can I sort this out? Thanks. Marco polo (talk) 20:21, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

@Marco polo: By submitting your both passwords for Marco polo at Special:MergeAccount, all Marco polo accounts which share these passwords will be added to your global account. You can (and I recommend you to) do the very same for your other accounts as all accounts will be unified somehow, if not by yourself possibly by the Wikimedia Foundation itself. Once you have done this, you can easily edit any wiki using your username without having to register new local accounts or logging in each time separately. Additionally, your username is protected on all wikis, and there will be no more accounts with the same username that could be used by different people which would result in clashes that had to be resolved during SUL finalization. Besides, new technical support like global watchlists or notifications will be made possible as soon as all accounts are unique. If accounts which are not yours but share the same username clash with your global account, they will be usurped during SUL finalization till April 2015 by the Wikimedia Foundation which will complete your global accounts. Once all your accounts are completed global ones, stewards could merge their names and edits upon their request as soon as the account merge tool will be available for us, that's expected to be late January/early February. That merge action would combine all your edits done by multiple accounts with one global account, Marco polo for example. Of course, you can still keep them separated if you prefer. If you have any problem with doing that, I'm confident that we can solve them together. :-) —DerHexer (Talk) 23:53, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi, so I provided both passwords on Special:MergeAccount, and my accounts for the English Wiki, German Wiki, and English Wiktionary were linked. My username still shows up as linked to the other Wikis I mentioned above, but since I don't really contribute to those Wikis and am not sure how my username got there, it's fine with me if those accounts are usurped. My only remaining concern is my account on the Mandarin Wiki under the username 波士顿马克. Because the username is different, this account does not show up on Special:MergeAccount. Also, I prefer to keep my Chinese username, because it uses Chinese characters, which are normal in a Chinese language context. I would prefer not to use my Roman-character username because those characters would be out of place there. Am I in danger of losing my account under 波士顿马克, which shares the same email address as the "Marco polo" account? Thanks. Marco polo (talk) 16:44, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

@Marco polo: I've usurped all local Marco polo accounts following the m:Usurpation policy as none of them had visible edits. Since your 波士顿马克 is also completed, you can either keep them separated or get them merged into 波士顿马克 for example as soon as the account merge tool will be available for Stewards. That's up on you. :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 09:50, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Unifying Account error

Thx. Process completed, however couldn't link to en.wikinews.org successfully. Feel free to investigate. SpikeJones (talk) 05:31, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@SpikeJones: The remaining account on enwikinews will be automatically usurped by the Wikimedia Foundation during SUL finalization till April 2015 which will complete your global account. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 09:46, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

User:Pianist merging

Login unification incomplete. I merged the following accounts.

   commons.wikimedia.org
   meta.wikimedia.org
   ru.wikipedia.org
   ru.wikiquote.org

And these are not my accounts:

   az.wikipedia.org
   da.wikipedia.org
   de.wikipedia.org
   en.wikipedia.org
   en.wikiversity.org
   es.wikipedia.org
   fa.wikipedia.org
   fi.wikipedia.org
   hu.wikipedia.org
   ja.wikipedia.org
   ka.wikipedia.org
   pl.wikipedia.org
   sl.wikipedia.org
   sr.wikipedia.org
   tr.wikipedia.org
   zh.wikipedia.org

--Pianist 17:15, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

@Pianist ru: Is it correct that you own both accounts, Pianist and Pianist ru? Once all your accounts are completed global ones (which will be automatically done by the Wikimedia Foundation during SUL finalization till April 2015), stewards could merge their names and edits upon their request as soon as the account merge tool will be available for us, that's expected to be February. That merge action would combine all your edits done by multiple accounts with one global account, Pianist for example. Of course, you can still keep them separated if you prefer. If you have any problem with doing that, I'm confident that we can solve them together. :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:26, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi. What do I need to do to merge user:Pianist_ru to user:Pianist? --Pianist 08:44, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

@Pianist ru: Unfortunately, global accounts with different usernames cannot be merged at the moment. An account merge tool is developed but needs further bugfixing before we stewards can use it. People will be notified when it can be used. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:49, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

You should ...

Hello Hexenmeister, I agree with the content of your statement here, but have some feedback about the form, if you're interested. Beginning with "You should ..." has a number of disadvantages:

1. "You" is ambiguous unless you're looking into someone's eyes or have their ear on the phone. This is illustrated neatly here: In a forum, it usually refers to the previous poster. Someone familiar with the concept of COI on Wikipedia will get the context, but that may not be the case here, where the addressee may not even realize that you're talking to them. (I understand that you originally posted this in a different location, but it just is a great example for how ambiguity can arise inadvertently.)
2. It is natural for people to take it personally, by which I mean that the brain switches from being able to reason to a fight-or-flight instinct shortcut, which is often not helpful, particularly when you're asking people to act reasonably.
3. You should avoid the word "should". This word is like "or else ..." in that it leaves out the motivation. (Of course, it's very useful if you don't want to reveal your reason, as a two-year old friend of mine discovered when he wanted his mother to play with him, and said "You should not do your homework!") The uncertainty can add to the decrease of reasoning skills.

Please don't let this take away from the fact that I am thankful for you for volunteering your time here, and for mopping up WP:CHUS. — Sebastian 20:25, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Sebastian! Da wir ja beide deutsche Muttersprachler sind, lieber auf Deutsch, okay? Geht zumindest schneller bei mir und ich kann präziser sein, wie du ja aus dem Kommentar merkst. ;-) Auf wen ich mich bezog, sollte aus Einrückung und Inhalt ersichtlich sein. Den Kommentar auf dich zu beziehen, erachte ich als nur schwer möglich, zudem bezogen sich alle weiteren, in gleicher Weise eingerückten Kommentare ebenfalls auf den ursprünglichen Antragssteller. Üblicherweise antworte ich auch nicht so direkt-persönlich, wie du ja bezüglich des Tenors korrekt festgestellt hast, doch erschien mir dieser irrationale Umgang mit COI eine direktere Antwort zu verlangen, damit das Gegenüber sich doch vlt. mit der Hand an die Stirn schlägt, wenn es realisiert, dass der Ansatz etwas zu kurz gedacht war. Nichtsdestotrotz erachte ich jedermann als verantwortlich für seine eigenen Handlungen, weswegen mein Kommentar grundsätzlich nur empfehlenden Charakter haben kann. Mit der Ergänzung better unterstreiche ich dennoch die Dringlichkeit und versuche noch einmal, dem Gegenüber deutlich vor Augen zu führen, was er da eigentlich beabsichtigte. Danke für das Lob für meine Arbeit auf WP:CHUS! Und über gute Hinweise zur Verbesserung und Präzisierung meines Englischs bin ich immer dankbar! :-) Hoffentlich ergibt meine vlt. etwas verworrene Erklärung Sinn für dich. Grüße, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:44, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Klar, Deutsch ist auch eine schöne Sprache!

Das "vor Augen führen" ist oft nicht so einfach wie wir denken. Was uns als ein Balken im Auge des Anderen erscheint, ist für den Anderen nicht einmal ein Splitter. Ich halte es also im vorliegenden Fall für sehr unwahrscheinlich, dass sich dein Gegenüber mit der Hand an die Stirn schlägt. Das können wir nicht von jemand erwarten, der neu in einer Gruppe ist; dann neigen wir alle mehr zur de:Fight-or-flight-Reaktion. (Am wahrscheinlichsten halte ich die Reaktion "Die können mich doch alle mal ...") Aber mir ging es nicht um ihn, sondern um dich. Hast du eine Annäherung der Hand and die Stirn in Erwägung gezogen? Die Reaktion, die ich mir erhofft hatte, wäre "Ach, danke, daran habe ich gar nicht gedacht!" gewesen. — Sebastian 22:20, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Nunja, wir haben klare und strenge Regeln, wie Benutzer bei einem COI zu agieren haben. Da ich davon ausgehe, dass man ein intrinsisches Interesse daran hat, hier pro se zu agieren, sollte der korrekte Umgang möglichst schnell klargemacht werden, ein Link auf WP:COI wäre meinerseits sicherlich noch zielführender gewesen. Nur um das festzuhalten: Anders als vielleicht recht üblich in der englischsprachigen Wikipedia mache ich mich an verschiedenen Stellen stark, dass Organisationen, Firmen und relevante Personen Fakten auch in eigener Sache korrigieren können und biete meine Hilfe dafür bspw. im Mentorenprogramm der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia, im Support-Team und auf diversen (teils selbstorganisierten) Veranstaltungen an. Wichtig ist dennoch dabei, dass man sich an unsere Spielregeln hält: Neutralität sowohl in der Auswahl als auch in der Darstellung der Inhalte und zwingende Belegung der Aussagen sowie das Fernhalten aus kritischen Abschnitten und Statements. Ohne die Akzeptanz dieser Prämissen wird eine Zusammenarbeit aber kaum fruchten. Dazu sollte man aber, wie du ja festgestellt hast, eher die Hand reichen, gern hätte ich bspw. die eines Mentors vermittelt. Grüße, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:40, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Organisationen &c. auch in eigener Sache korrigieren

Das hört sich nach einer sehr guten Initiative an! Da wünsche ich dir viel Erfolg! Ich denke, das wäre auch auf en:WP sehr gut. Ich habe hier einige Bearbeitungsscharmützel erlebt, die leicht mit einer ausgestreckten Hand hätten vermieden werden können, und in einigen Fällen konnte ich dies tun, indem ich die Personen, die im Artikel besprochen wurden, direkt kontaktierte. — Sebastian 22:55, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Re: Name change and global account

Hi DerHexer,

thanks for your reply to my | request. I tried to follow your advice and tried to create a global account. When I try to submit my password, I get a notification that the password is incorrect. Indeed, as "home wiki for this account (listed below)" I find the spanish Wikipedia where apparently somebody else has an account with the same username. How can I cope with this conflict?

Thanks, Tragaldabas

Responded there. —DerHexer (Talk) 20:34, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

User:A Texas Historian

On 14 November you automatically moved a bunch of pages from User:Awardgive to User:A Texas Historian's space.

The following three pages, according to the log were "over redirect", but looking at the history it seems that A Texas Historian had already moved them (leading to circular redirects).

• User talk:A Texas Historian/Archive 1
• User talk:A Texas Historian/Archive 2
• User talk:A Texas Historian

Can you see if the first two can be restored from deleted versions, and at least hist-merge the third?

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:40, 30 January 2015 (UTC).

@Rich Farmbrough: Thanks for your catch and apologies for my late response! That's a heavy bug which I reported on phabricator:T89051 and will be handled by legoktm. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:45, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

The problem is that the content and history has been overwritten. Is the history recoverable using histmerge? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:36, 28 April 2015 (UTC).

Unification of user name

• Hello! Thank you for leaving a message on my talk page regarding account unification. I'm mostly active on tr.wiki where I'm under the username Bahar. My accounts on az.wiki, fr.wiki, it.wiki, nl.wiki, ja.wiki, pl.wiki, simple.wiki are also under "Bahar" whereas my en.wiki and de.wiki accounts are under Bahar101. My ru.wiki account is under "Baharişka". Would it be possible to unite them all under Bahar? Thank you, Bahar (Spring in Turkish) ✍ 00:13, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

@Bahar101: I've usurped the all local Bahar accounts with no visible following the m:Usurpation policy, the remaining ones will be automatically usurped during SUL finalization till April 2015 by the Wikimedia Foundation. Now you should create a global account for your Bahar101 account too by once submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount. Once all your accounts are completed global ones, stewards could merge their names and edits upon their request as soon as the account merge tool will be available for us, that's expected to be late February. That merge action would combine all your edits done by multiple accounts with one global account, Bahar for example. Of course, you can still keep them separated if you prefer. If you have any problem with doing that, I'm confident that we can solve them together. :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:24, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

merge accounts

Hi,

I have two accounts. First is my main account I use at my own comp, corvus (old one, works at Heberew wiki only) and the second is this one, I use at my office comp. I want to use both of them. If I mege them they will become one accout? Corvus-TAU (talk) 14:20, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

@Corvus-TAU: Please create a global account for your Corvus account by once submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount. If some local accounts cannot be attached to your global account, either I can usurp them following the m:Usurpation policy or they will be automatically usurped during SUL finalization till April 2015 by the Wikimedia Foundation. Once all your accounts are completed global ones, stewards could merge their names and edits upon their request as soon as the account merge tool will be available for us, that's expected to be late February. That merge action would combine all your edits done by multiple accounts with one global account, Corvus for example. Of course, you can still keep them separated if you prefer. If you have any problem with doing that, I'm confident that we can solve them together. :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

@Corvus-TAU: Please look at the section before as I made a mistake with the notifications ping. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm confused

I saw a log entry that you moved User:Sequoiadb to User:Ark43420 as part of a user name change. Something may have got lost here

• I couldn't see that why the user hadn't been blocked for infringing our user name policy
• if the user had been blocked, I couldn't see that, nor could I see any request for an unblock and user name change, which usualy also involves a commitment not to edit the company or product page concerned Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:26, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm not suggesting that there is anything wrong here, just seeking clarification Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:26, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't know why the account was not blocked. But it would have been temporarily unblocked anyway to let it request a new username. A hint on WP:COI is useful indeed and still should be added to their talk page but I cannot see how this is related to the rename itself. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:36, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Attempted unification apparently failed

Guten Tag, DerHexer:

I attempted to unify my accounts after receiving your recent message. I only got so far before I was informed that the unification failed. It may be that other people could be using my same Username in other languages. I would have no knowledge of any foreign language accounts, etc., that may be using Backspace as their Username, since I only edit the English-language version. The most I would do with another language version would be to read it, which I often do in French and German, but no editing has ever been done. Should I pursue this further, or stop here, since I do not have any intention of editing in any language but English? Backspace (talk) 22:45, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

@Backspace: You successfully created the global account but as you realized, some local accounts clash with your newly created global account. I could usurp a couple of them following the m:Usurpation policy as they had no visible edits shown. The remaining ones will be automatically usurped during SUL finalization till April 2015 by the Wikimedia Foundation which will complete your global account. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:40, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Unification

Thanks for your note. I have a few other accounts I use sometimes (notably, ru:user:NYC JD), but since the usernames are not identical, I'm guessing they cannot be unified? I'm a bit confused. -- Y not? 18:44, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

@Y: Apologies for my late response first. I recommend you to create a global NYC JD account nonetheless which will become a completed global account by April 2015 too. Because once all your accounts are completed global ones, stewards could merge their names and edits upon their request as soon as the account merge tool will be available for us. That merge action would combine all your edits done by multiple accounts with one global account, Y for example. Of course, you can still keep them separated if you prefer. If you have any problem with doing that, I'm confident that we can solve them together. :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 19:38, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Random Cookie Passing By

BigBryan0 has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

Just a random cookie just for you! Enjoy!

To spread the goodness of cookies, you can add {{subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!

Thank you! —DerHexer (Talk) 10:46, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Account unification problem

Hi. I could not unify my en.wikipedia account (user: Andrei nacu) with my Commons and ro.wikipedia accounts. Can you please see if I can take over the unused Andrein account on en.wikipedia.org (not mine, but unused anyway) and delete the "Andrei nacu" account, or rename the "Andrei nacu" account as "Andrein"? Thanks. Andrei nacu (talk) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Andrein 19 February 2015 17:43 (UTC)

I have taken my issue to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Username_changes Andrei nacu (talk) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Andrein 21 February 2015 11:41 (UTC)

@Andrein: The problem seems to be solved. :-) Unfortunately, I couldn't help you at the weekend because I have busy with a wikipedia photography event. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 19:41, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Probleme auf der englischen Wikipedia

Hallo. Ich habe auf der englischen Wikipedia ernsthafte Probleme. Da du der einzige deutshsprechende Admin auf der englischen Wikipedia bist hätte ich bitte gewusst ob du mir mit meinen Problemen helfen könntest? Ich hab auf Grund dieser Probleme auf der englischen Wikipedia an Selbstmord gedacht. Ich bin auch deswegen in psychotherapeutischen Behandlung. Kannst du mir bitte helfen und mir zuhören? Danke! 188.23.189.254 (talk) 18:50, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Der Psychotherapeut sollte dir deutlich besser helfen können als jemand, der im Projekt selbst aktiv ist. Gern kannst du mir aber eine Wikimail mit deinem Fall schreiben, ich werde sie in jedem Fall lesen. Grüße und gute Besserung, —DerHexer (Talk) 19:45, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Hallo. Danke dass du dich für Einverstanden erklärst mir zuzuhören. Eine Wikimail kann ich dir leider nicht schicken da ich derzeitig unangemeldet bin aber ich wäre dir sehr dankbar wenn du mir eine Email an meine Email Adresse: [email protected] schickst und dann erklär ich dir all meine Probleme, die ich auf der englischen Wikipedia habe. Bitte schick so bald wie möglich mir eine Email. Ich wäre dir sehr dankbar. 188.23.189.254 (talk) 21:11, 22 February 2015 (UTC) Hallo... Ich warte ehrlich gesagt schon seit Tagen auf deine Antwort. Ich wäre dir wirklich sehr dankbar wenn du mir helfen könntest. Meine Email Adresse hab ich dir schon gegeben. Ich warte noch auf deine Email. 194.118.250.222 (talk) 12:23, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Nunja, anderthalb Tage sind für mich nicht seit Tagen. Nach einem vollen langem Wochenende muss man am Montag vielleicht auch mal die liegengebliebenen Sachen erledigen (und fertig bin ich mit denen auch noch nicht). Hast aber nun meine Mailadresse. Grüße, —DerHexer (Talk) 12:36, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Hallo. Ich hab dir letztens wieder eine Email geschickt. Hast du meine Email bekommen? 188.23.209.208 (talk) 13:27, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Ja, les ich mir beizeiten intensiver durch, bin derzeit auf einer Konferenz. Grüße, —DerHexer (Talk) 09:16, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

News

Hi, thanks for renaming my username and we having a report of Caven Day and Francis Taylor have been plotted to spam me on Youtube and everything else. Should protect my username so Caven and Francis won't destroy my Wikipedia username.

In other news: Star Trek actor (you can guess) who played Spock has died today at the age of 83.

- BilboBaggins34 (talk)

You're welcome. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:46, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Unifying accounts

Martin,

Per your message to me in (ahem) January I have unified my accounts. However, it keeps asking about one, on the Malayalam Wikipedia (my.wikipedia.org) that I did not start and seems to have been in the past created for malicious editing purposes, resulting in an indefinite block over there. If you can handle this, tell the software to disregard it in unifying my accounts as it is not one I started. Thank you. Daniel Case (talk) 21:59, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

@Daniel Case: As this account had no visible edits and is blocked, I could usurp it following the m:Usurpation policy. That completed your global account. :-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks (I don't think I'll be editing there anytime soon, but at least this way it won't be used maliciously). Daniel Case (talk) 14:05, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Top Gear (2002)

With the moves, redirects and deletes I now can't find this page. Where is the current version? SPACKlick (talk) 12:41, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

With that many revisions, unfortunately it takes some time. Thank you! P.S.: Afaics, Graham87 succeeded in merging these histories and the article is back in place. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 12:51, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

For the right of Account Creators

Hello Stewards sir, I am an active user in newiki. The Bureaucrat on newiki told me that you can grant me the right of account creator. so, as per the decission of community I request you yo click here and go to the page on newiki where newiki community has supported me and provide the right of Account Creator.Thank tou.-बेनुपराज पौडेल (talk) 16:37, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

@बेनुपराज पौडेल: Done by a fellow of mine. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:35, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

SUL

Hi, can you please look at my my usurpation request: Misbeliever → Kacir. There is a problem with english account "Kacir". What do you think? Is it possible Xeno's proposal, as he wrote? Thank you.--Kacir (talk) 15:26, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Responded there. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:37, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Ja, ich verstehe, danke.--Kacir (talk) 00:26, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I just wanted to ask if the tool you have been talking about, is it working now? Thanx.--Kacir (talk) 21:47, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

@Kacir: Thanks for the reminder! I did not respond for a while because there are no good news. The prototype globalusermerge tool is uber-buggy and will be deprecated. At least we decided to create a new system like the global rename request queue. But that will take time till at least next year and can only be used in few constellations (accounts not older than 2008/5, not too many edits, split during SUL finalization), in short development windows, and a short time span, for security reasons. My recommendation (similar to Xeno's before) would be to abandon the current 113 Kacir edits on enwiki by letting me rename them to a third place of your choice (e.g. Misbeliever-Kacir or the like), have the current 1,301 Misbeliever edits on enwiki renamed to Misbeliever and finally merge them with your global Misbeliever account on your own for sake of getting one account on all wikis. But I do completely understand if you want these 113 edits to be attributed to your account. I just cannot promise that we can or are allowed to merge them. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:13, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

@Xeno: In case you haven't heard about the delay of the globalusermerge tool yet. If that's unknown to enwiki please help me spread the word. I wrote a longish blog post on this topic in our German signpost equivalent. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:16, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed something about it the last time I popped over to SRUC, but thank you for the additional info. I removed our advice about account merges, for now. –xeno^talk 11:52, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

@DerHexer: Thank you for info and explanation. Do I understand correctly that I would have to abandon account "Kacir" at all versions? For all that I'm giving up intention to renaming, it's not such an important issue . Cheers--Kacir (talk) 12:10, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

@Kacir: Okay, where should I move it to? Usually something like Kacir (usurped) but I can also make Misbeliever-Kacir or anything that works on Special:CentralAuth. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 12:39, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much for offer once more. I don't want to move/merge account, really no problem for me. Cheers,--Kacir (talk) 13:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

I see. I wasn't sure what to do now. Keep rockin! ;-) Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 13:19, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

• @Kacir: I believe what DerHexer was suggesting was: a local rename of enwiki:Kacir to enwiki:Kacir-Misbeliever and then a local rename of enwiki:Misbeliever to enwiki:Kacir which would let you have most of your enwiki edits on your "Kacir" name. Not to "abandon account Kacir" everywhere. –xeno^talk 13:39, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Woops, mixed up initial and final account. ^^ Kacir would be the username you'd get on all wikis. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 13:50, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Oof :), sorry for a questiom, so as result I would have mixed up username (e.g. something-Kacir) on all wikis? Do I see it correctly?--Kacir (talk) 14:05, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

No, you will have Kacir on all wikis. But the some-100 edits on enwiki made by the Kacir account would be moved to something like Kacir-Misbeliever/Kacir (old); and the some-1,300 edits on enwiki made by the Misbeliever account would have become part of your global Kacir account. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 14:10, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Wow, I see! So, can you please make these steps, as you suggested: en wiki rename to Kacir-Misbeliever and next ones up to merging. Best regards--Kacir (talk) 14:52, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

@Kacir: I did so. Please visit now Special:MergeAccount and combine both accounts by adding the requested passwords. Have fun! Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 19:09, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Dexter for a quick action. I had a little trouble with logging in :), but hope I have done everything well. Thank you to @Xeno: as well. Cheers,--Misbeliever 22:40, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Messy account merging User:Luk <--> c:User:Lucasbfr

Hi,

Is the forced merge still ongoing next month? The page on Mediawiki seems to be quite dead. Due to the length of my username, there's obviously some clashes (especially, ironically, on frwp). Do you know how things will end up for me? CentralAuth for lucasbfr / CentralAuth for Luk. Cheers, -- Luk ^talk 14:19, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

@Luk: It's definitely going to happen around April 15. But you don't have to worry about your username. As you can see on Special:CentralAuth/Luk, you created the global account. Therefore, you will keep it according to the scheme. The other accounts were notified on the upcoming rename actions that will result in a complete global account for you. Of course, once both your global accounts are completed and we stewards can use the account merge tool, we chould merge both of them. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 14:26, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Wow, I dodged a bullet here apparently! Vielen Dank :) -- Luk ^talk 14:49, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Diverman

• Diverman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• DivermanAU (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Please see this comment regarding them changing username/SUL. It was in response to this comment you left them. I'm not sure they followed the correct procedure for that, but I'm not sure what the correct process is either. Could you offer them some guidance? Stickee (talk) 04:51, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

@Stickee: As far as I can see, both accounts are used by the same person, aren't they? Under these circumstances, they can be merged. That can be done with the upcoming account merge tool that needs further development the next two months. But as there are no overlapping edits, I could now easily rename DivermanAU@enwikisource to Diverman where Diverman@enwiki could merge them on his own. As soon as the account merge tool is ready, the remaining 22 edits of DivermanAU@enwiki can be merged with the global Diverman account. For these steps, I just need confirmation of both accounts. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:35, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into this. The issue is that I had an account on Wikisource called "Diverman" and was told I had to change it due to name restructuring/merging across platforms. I was prompted to change it from Diverman, so I did (I didn't want to change it, but thought I'd better comply). So I changed it to DivermanAU on Wikisource and it changed too on Wikipedia. DivermanAU (talk) 19:42, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

@DivermanAU: But User:Diverman is your account, isn't it? Then you just had to merge it with your wikisource account by submitting your password once on Special:MergeAccount. As both accounts are now divided, I could undo the rename action. Can you please confirm with your enwiki Diverman account and enwikisource DivermanAU account on their respective talk pages? Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 19:53, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

@DerHexer: Hi, I've added comments on both of my talk pages. I appreciate your help. The notification of the change of my Wikisource userID from Diverman is listed on my Wikisource talk page. Keegan Peterzell said my account clashed with another Wikimedia account. I think once I changed it as instructed on Wikisource, it flowed across to Wikipedia. DivermanAU (talk) 02:29, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

@Diverman: Can you too please confirm here that you are DivermanAU and the DivermanAU@enwikisource account can be renamed to Diverman@enwikisource where you can integrate it into your Diverman global account by submitting its password on Special:MergeAccount. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:07, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Probleme auf der englischen Wikipedia - Errinerung

Hallo. Da ich schon längere Zeit auf deine Antwort per Email warte, schildere ich das Problem hier. Dieses Problem auf der englischen Wikipedia hab ich schon seit Jahren. Ich hab mir vor knapp 10 Jahren einen Benutzeraccount auf der englischen Wikipedia angelegt und mit diesem Benutzer hab ich Beiträge über meine Stadt, wo ich wohne und über islamische Fundamentalisten wie Osama bin Laden gemacht und danach hab ich einen Beitrag auf die Administratorenseite gemacht wo erst recht jeder Mensch auf der Welt Zugriff auf meine Beiträge haben kann und lesen kann dass ich Beiträge über meine Heimatstadt gemacht hab usw. Das ist mir alles total unangenehm. Ich hab das Gefühl dass ich meine Heimatstadt an die Öffentlichkeit der ganzen Welt verraten habe. Jetzt hab ich das Englische Wikipedia Team per Email kontaktiert und die haben mir gesagt, dass sie Benutzerbeiträge niemals löschen und das macht mich richtig deppressiv. Da braucht nur meiner Heimatstadt etwas passieren. Ich will nicht haben dass auf der englischen Wikipedia meine Beiträge für den Rest meines ganzen Lebens gespeichert bleiben. Gibt es da Möglichkeiten dass du das Oversight Team der englischen Wikipedia kontaktierst, dass da einige meiner Benutzerbeiträge ausnahmsweise gelöscht werden? (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Weil))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) ich hab dieses Problem an dem englischen Team geschrieben und so stur wie sie sind wollen sie meine Beiträge nie entfernen weil das angeblich problematisch für irgend so einer blöden Lizenz sein soll. Kannst du mir helfen? Es ist wirklich heftig. 188.22.171.57 (talk) 18:50, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Leider habe ich große Zweifel daran, dass ich die dafür gewählten Benutzer, die auch deutlich mehr Erfahrung auf diesem Gebiet haben, davon überzeugen kann, gegen die Policy zu entscheiden. Grüße, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:03, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Versteh schon... aber kannst du dich nicht in meine Lage versetzen dass mir das komplett unangenehm ist was ich auf der englischen Wikipedia aufgeführt habe? Gäbe es da keine Möglichkeit, das Oversight Team oder Jimbo Wales zu kontaktieren und dass du ihnen mein Anliegen auf Englisch genau beschreibst? Ich versteh eins nicht. Normalerweise werden auf der englischen Wikipedia Beiträge die etwas mit persönlichen Daten zu tun haben sofort entfernt und Beiträge die ich über meine Heimadstadt und über Denkmalnamen, die neben meiner Wohnung sind werden auf der Wikipedia nicht entfernt?? Sogar noch schlimmer, dass diese Beiträge für den Rest meines ganzen Lebens für jeden Mensch auf dieser Welt sichtbar sind? Wie würdest du dich fühlen wenn du meine Probleme hättest? Versuch dich bitte mal in meine Lage zu versetzen. Jetzt hätte ich bitte gewusst ob du da wirklich NICHTS unternehmen kannst? Könntest du dich mit dem obersten Team der Wikipedia nicht in Verbidnung setzen und ihnen mein Problem schildern?? Der Grund warum ich dich hier angeschrieben habe ist weil du der einzig deutschsprachige Administrator auf der englischen Wikipedia bist und die englische Wikipedia mag zwar interessanter sein als die deutschsprachige Wikipedia weil es da mehr Artikel gibt und weil die Wikipedia original in Englisch entstanden ist. Bitte schau dass du da was machen könntest. Wenn du erfolgreich bist dann rettest du prinzipiell mein Leben dass ich wieder keine Depressionen mehr hab wenn das Problem gelöst ist. Gruß! 188.22.171.57 (talk) 21:36, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Username

Hello, I was informed that my username will be changed because of other instances of the name on other versions of Wikipedia. I was looking at those other users and they don't appear to be active. How do I keep my username here and possible be given the same username on other projects? If not, why would they get to keep the name and not me? Archangel (talk) 01:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

@Archangel: Hi! According to Special:CentralAuth/Archangel a sysop on slwiki with the same username got the global account as per this scheme. I'm afraid you either have to convince him to change his name what will most likely not happen or you can request a fresh username on Special:GlobalRenameRequest. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:49, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Not going to happen, I created this username and expected to be able to use it. I'm disappointed and won't be editing Wikipedia. You can cancel my account now. Archangel (talk) 03:11, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

@Archangel: I'm sorry to hear that and do understand that you're cheesed. Complaints can be taken to Keegan (WMF) who can explain more deeply why this decision was made. A very similar username would still be possible and will look much better than Archangel~enwiki. Unfortunately, we cannot close accounts, for further information in this regard please have a look at WP:RTV. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 09:04, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

@Archangel: I am terribly sorry to hear this as well. I completely understand why you are upset about this. All usernames are being consolidated to global ones so that each individual has a unique name across all wikis. This has been a site feature that was first proposed in 2004 and has been the most popular, and significant, request from account holders since. It's unfair to you and the other Archangel accounts that your name is not unique and you cannot use it across all projects to access global features, and it's unfair that you were able to register the name after the other account already existed.

The other Archangel account is older, has more edits, registered the global name, and has administrator rights on a wiki. It should be and is the global Archangel. There is absolutely no way to consolidate the 2.8 million of 84 million clashing accounts that is absolutely fair to everyone. However, as DerHexer says, you are free to request a similar username at Special:GlobalRenameRequest which will transfer your contributions and the new account name will also be global in nature and will be yours across all the wikis, never having to go through this experience again.

I know it may sound trite to you, but I am genuinely sorry about this necessity. It should have happened over a decade ago, well before either your account or the Slovenian one was registered. While I cannot fix the past, please let me know if there is anything that I can do, aside from renaming the other user, to ease this transition.

Should you think on it and truly make the decision to leave, I understand why and wish you the best. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:18, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

WP:CLEANSTART

As this is kind of related to what Archangel was saying: you may have saw in your inboxes (and elsewhere) that I admitted that I probably violated this policy of "Clean start", due to me saying I was a different user back before April 2009, but had stated that I had discontinued it due to certain vandals trying to bring me down. The note that I missed was that the account could not be used again for editing and the new account can't be related to the old one. Obviously, if a revert on that specific userpage counts, then I had already done so years ago. So there can't be any exceptions even six years later to merge that old account into this? Vernon 19:51, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

@DerHexer: I deeply apologize for what I did to myself on IRC. I promise that I will never do something or think to do something like that again. Vernon 19:51, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

What I mean't to extend from the first comment on the last sentence was when the disruption probably stopped... Vernon 20:36, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

I can't follow. What mail are you referring to? Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:38, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

The SUL merger of the old account moving into the one I'm using now, but I forgot about this policy stating that it cannot be used again, even though I now regret saying that six years later. I dug myself in a deep hole I think, since I made bad edits on my user talk page linking to the user talk page, on a wiki not associated with WMF at all. Vernon 07:53, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Translation of a Kurier story?

Hi! I'm working on a sister projects report and as a part of that I'm doing background research at the moment. It was mentioned in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-03-25/News and notes that a Wikiversity focus piece was writer for the Kurier around that time in 2013, but I can't even find it, let alone read it. Can you direct me to it and/or what would your advice on getting an English-language translation of this be? ResMar 19:21, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

@Resident Mario: As far as I can tell from the archives, there have been three larger stories on Wikiversity in 2013: 1, 2, 3. For translations go with Google Translate. If you can't guess what a paragraph means, I can help you. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:03, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

bitte löschen

Hallo DerHexer, kannst du bitte Dexter (Consul 263) löschen. Den habe ich falsch verschoben und ich hab' keine Ahnung, wie man einen Löschantrag in der englischen Wiki stellt. Vielen Dank --Μίκυθος (talk) 07:25, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

@Mikythos: Erledigt. Grüße, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:41, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

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Ich weiß ja nicht, wie es hier genau gehandhabt wird und als ich das damlas angesprochen habe, wurde mir einfach gesagt, dass ich Pech gehabt hätte, aber diesen Artikel habe ich ursprünglich hier angelegt. Allerdings wurde es später kopiert und (urheberrechtlich falsch) eben auf der anderen Seite neu draufgesetzt. Das ärgert mich noch immer und in der deutschen Wikipedia würde man da einfach die Versionen zusammenlegen. Das muss doch hier bestimmt auch möglich sein, dann kann die Weiterleitung auch gelöscht werden. Die erste (ältere Version als meine) war eine Weiterleitung. Wenn man die löscht, könnte es eventuell nicht allzu krumm in der Versionshistorie werden (irgendwie war das das Argument auf die Anfrage, wieso die Versionen nicht einfach zusammengelegt werden können). --Wikiolo (talk) 16:09, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

@Wikiolo: Hab ich jetzt so zusammengelegt, wie du es beschrieben hast. Hätte ich auch gemacht unter Beibehaltung des Redirects. Grüße, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:37, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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löschen Weiterleitung

Hallo derHexer, kannst du mal bitte diese komische Weiterleitung löschen. Ich möchte nach "Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus" verschieben, nur steht Longina mir im Wege. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucius_Aelius_Lamia_Plautius_Aelianus&redirect=no Danke sehr. --Μίκυθος (talk) 15:31, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

@Mikythos: Ich hab den Artikel gleich mal an die richtige Stelle verschoben. Ist so hoffentlich korrekt. Grüße, —DerHexer (Talk) 17:34, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Ja, alles Bestens. Danke --Μίκυθος (talk) 07:18, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Vergleich der Versionsgeschichte

Hallo, ich habe eine Frage. Ist es in Wikipedia technisch möglich, eine Artikeländerung zu löschen, so dass es nicht in der Versionsgeschichte auftaucht und auch nicht die Anzahl der gelöschten Beiträge des Benutzers erhöht? --Fb8 (talk) 17:41, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

@Fb8: Dies dürfte derzeit eher nicht möglich sein. Grüße, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:06, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Könnte die "Wikipedia:Selective deletion", bei der weder Methode A noch B benutzt wird dies leisten? --Fb8 (talk) 21:09, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Bei Wikipedia gibt es doch Wikipedia-Admins/Bürokraten/..., also die gewählten Funktionsträger und andererseits die Techniker, die den Betrieb der Server in Schuss halten. Gibt es jemanden, der beides ist, also gewählte Funktion innehat und Techniker ist? --Fb8 (talk) 21:25, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Etwas anderes: Ich hatte am 31.10./1.11. auf Diskussionsseiten von IPs (de:Benutzer Diskussion:84.142.112.140,de:Benutzer Diskussion:84.142.73.234 in der dt. Wikipedia geschrieben, die wurden am 2.11. gelöscht. Kannst Du nachsehen, ob es da eine Rückmeldung gegeben hat? --Fb8 (talk) 21:41, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks, I will vote soonish. —DerHexer (Talk) 18:01, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you! Same to you and your! Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:16, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Ἡ Βικιπαιδεία ἑλληνιστί

Hi there, I am contacting you here as this seems to be the wiki you are most active in. There is currently an ongoing proposal with regards to having an ancient Greek Wikipedia, accompanied by an active incubator wiki that has plenty of articles already. I thought I would let you know as you have an interest and knowledge of ancient Greek, so you're more than welcome to participate if you find it worthwhile. Gts-tg (talk) 11:07, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Good luck with this approach! Recently, I read Harry Potter in Ancient Greek and it was much fun. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 00:52, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Cordially Asking for your Professional Opinion

User:DerHexer, I am turning to you for your unbiased and professional opinion about an edit on the archaeological site Emmaus Nicopolis article, a place in Israel, and where I have suggested a more neutral edit so as to read: "The site today is inside Canada Park and is maintained by the Jewish National Fund of Canada," as opposed to the current edit that reads: "The site today is inside Canada Park in the West Bank, and maintained by the Jewish National Fund of Canada." As it stands, two Arab editors have joined in on the Talk-Page discussion (see: Talk:Emmaus Nicopolis#Location of Emmaus-Nicopolis (Imwas)) to voice their general disapproval at implying the archaeological site is in Israel, while Jewish participants (including myself) have wanted to omit the words "West Bank" in the article, that is to say, to keep it neutral, without mentioning Israel, neither the West Bank. What do you think we should do with respect to this edit? Can you give your advice on how we ought to proceed and to reach a compromise?Davidbena (talk) 22:57, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Hm, tricky question. I'd go with your version but can understand that any version is biased. I don't think there's an easy solution. Why not adding something like “according to X it's part of A while Y claim it to be part of B” or the like? Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 13:53, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks.Davidbena (talk) 15:44, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

IP block

Hello, DerHexer, could you take a look at this block? It's been in place for eight years with no prior history and my search shows it is closed. Indef seems to be a bit strong unless I'm missing something. :) -- Cheers, Riley 05:58, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

@Riley Huntley: Indeed, eight years is a long time. My proxy checker did not find open ports anymore. But I found this spam report, also with recent activities. Do you think it's worth a try to unblock this IP for now? Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:28, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

You're right, I have found other spam reports as well. Seems you have a whole batch blocked at WT:WP OP. My only interest is the account creation block on it and it's effect that I cannot further discuss. Not sure if anon only is an option, I'm no admin. -- Cheers, Riley 21:47, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Riley Huntley: I'm not sure whether it's useful to have the OPs blocked with account creation enabled. If they are no open proxies anymore, they should, of course, be unblocked. But I cannot think of any use of account creation enabled when those account cannot edit afterwards. Or am I wrong? Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 09:18, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Import

[1] I am curious what's this? where can I read about import? Staszek Lem (talk) 20:53, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for page importation is the best place to reach. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:59, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

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Old deletion of talkpage question

On 23:00, 22 December 2007 you deleted page Talk:Halogen Software as an orphaned talk page. Just wondering why and when it was orphaned? Could you please post your answer on my talkpage. Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 15:18, 26 October 2016 (UTC)please ping me

Ottawahitech, the article was deleted in 2007 twice (see log). I deleted the talk page when it was orphaned. The text says that the author wants to recreate it. Apparently, that did not happen till 2016, right? Please don't hesitate to contact me for further information. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 17:35, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Hilfe

Hallo DerHexer, ich brauche deine Hilfe. Du bist der einzige Admin, den ich in der englischen Wiki kenne und du kennst dich auch in Geschichte aus. Ich habe ein Problem in den List of Roman consuls‎. Immer wenn ich eine Änderungen durchführe, macht ein gewisser ‎Llywrch sie wieder rückgängig mit der Begründung, dass seine Fußnoten korrekt seien und ich Fußnoten machen soll. Dabei sind meine Änderungen aus der neusten Literatur (PIR V sogar von 2015) und aus der Epigraphik-Datenbank, nicht wie seine aus den 70er und 80er Jahre. Er selbst schrieb, dass ich Fußnoten mit einarbeiten sollte, dass habe ich getan, und was passiert, er machst rückgängig. Ich habe sogar Schreibfehler korrigiert, die wurden rückgängig gemacht, also hat der es nicht wirklich angeschaut, was ich geschrieben habe. Kannst du da mal bitte reinschauen, ich kann mich im Englischen nicht so gut ausdrücken. Jahre lang habe ich neben der Deutschen Liste auch die Englische gepflegt. Niemand hat sich um sie gekümmert. Seit Februar wird die von den ‎Llywrch geentert und viele neue Daten wurden rückgängig gemacht. Man kommt da nicht mehr ran. Zureden hilft nicht. Sowas dickköpfiges wie den habe ich noch nicht erlebt. Danke --Μίκυθος (talk) 18:47, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Hello. Please excuse my use of English for, while I have some skill with German, I am far from fluent with the language. In a way I agree with Mikythos here: we do need some kind of mediation. Allow me to explain my side of the dispute.

Mithykos clearly knows the material & has made useful contributions to that page & related ones. However, he does not seem to understand some basics about the English Wikipedia. One is that all articles should be thoroughly provided with citations -- which is a task I undertook for List of Roman consuls. Since I knew it was going to be a major change, I have tried to be open & transparent about what I have been doing. One criterion I have followed is to only add material which has reliable sources. Unfortunately, this means far too often that older authorities are cited -- at one point I was forced to rely on a source published in the 1950s -- due to lack of more recent authorities. Further, at times a more recent article or authority will provide information that must be integrated into the material of an older source, but to do that properly one -- or at least I -- needs to understand how that information was determined.

However, Mithykos believes that adding information from what he believes are the latest (& apparently best) sources is best, regardless if he understands how that information was produced. I have been trying to explain this to him: as I said, he knows the material & has pointed me to some important sources. (Perhaps I have not made my debt to him clear enough; if so, I apologize.) However, when I ask him where he found the information, he simply points me to (for example) the Epigraphik-Datenbank itself, not to a specific part of that database. While that database is a valuable resource, I have found it contains only part of the information: for example, Roman inscriptions are often damaged, & an epigrapher will often restore missing text. Some are more skillful than others at this: Géza Alföldy, for example, restored an entire inscription on an aqueduct from only the peg holes that held the missing letters. Nevertheless, no matter how skillfully done restored passages are opinions, not facts, & the reasons of the restoration need to be understood before they are accepted.

When I point this out to him, he obviously does not understand & gets frustrated. But instead of asking further explanations -- which I would be happy to provide -- he engages in destructive behavior. Look at how he got into an edit war over Avitus because he disagreed with the complete name of that Roman Emperor. (For the record, I actually think he's right in that instance, but because he would revert the passage in question 4 times in 24 hours to prove his point, instead of performing the required research & providing it for all to read, I had to insist on a compromise. Better that than to have no mention of the better information as well as having him banned from the English Wikipedia for edit warring.) Again, I very much would like his help -- I don't pretend to know everything about this subject -- but until he understands the importance of both providing useful citations & understanding the sources he's citing, Mithykos is not contributing constructively to the revision of this article. Until he does understand, I believe he'd be more help & happier working on other articles. -- llywrch (talk) 20:47, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Das Problem bei Llywrch ist wohl auch, dass er nur abschreibt ohne sich selbst Gedanken zu machen. Beispiel: Die Konsuln Valerius Patruinus und Antonius Saturninus. Durch seine "Verbesserungen" stand das Paar nun im Jahr 82 und 83. Ich machte ihn darauf aufmerksam. Wohl Error bei ihm, und die Folge, das Paar wurde komplett entfernt. Dabei habe ich ihn die Lösung präsentiert. Ein weiteres Beispiel: Das seit gut 16 Jahre bekannte Paar Aelius Oculatus und Gavius Atticus im Jahre 85. Ich zitierte aus der PIR und verlinkte den in der Internet-PIR vorhandenen Artikel dazu. Er hätte nur anklicken können. Ich weiß nicht was ich noch machen soll. Man, ich zitiere aus der Prosopgraphia Imperii Romani, erstellt von den renommiertesten Historikern auf diesen Gebiet (aber nur ab Buchstabe P, die anderen sind mir auch schon zu alt). An der Liste zu arbeiten ist nicht einfach nur abschreiben, man sollte sich auch selbst Gedanken machen, ob das Eine sich mit den Anderen nicht beißt. Bei den letzten Änderungen schrieb er gar, dass bis zum Jahr 160 alles zitiert ist und machte mit einen Klick alles wieder rückgängig. Es gibt sozusagen nichts mehr Neues. Und wie er oben schrieb, soll ich mich nun von hier verziehen. Nach gut 10 Jahren Korrektur in der Liste. Armselig. --Μίκυθος (talk) 08:42, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Nein, er sagt nicht, dass du dich verziehen sollst. "Better that than ... having him banned from the English Wikipedia for edit warring heißt: Er zieht lieber einen (faulen) Kompromiss vor, als dass Du gesperrt wirst. Jonathan Groß (talk) 09:52, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Aha danke :-) Ich hab' den Text nur mal schnell überflogen, weil ich seine Romane von woanders her kenne. Wobei meine Bearbeitungen keine (faulen) Kompromisse sein sollen. --Μίκυθος (talk) 12:37, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

@Jonathan Groß: I wouldn't use the word "faulen"; I'd prefer the word "einfach". Wenn man es einfach macht, kann man einfach ausbessern. Und einfach verbessern.

@Mikythos: As I pointed out above, the PIR only provides conclusions -- conclusions by experts, of course -- but not any of the reasoning that led them to these conclusions. As an example of what I'm working with, have a look at the articles published by Werner Eck, who writes in German; much of his work is available on academia.edu. Eck sets out the reasons for his conclusions, so when his results conflict with an earlier -- or later -- authority, one can look at how he arrived at his conclusions & compare his reasons with the other authority. And if there is no simple way to reconcile the two (for example, one is citing a primary source that directly supports his opinion while the other is inferring from several different sources that could be interpreted in other ways) then one resorts to putting the name(s) to the List of undated Roman consuls because the date is ambiguous. And some experts, such as Giuseppe Camodeca, will provide information buried in the text, which is easily overlooked unless you read & understand the entire article. But this is something I doubt DerHexer is interested in, so I could explain this further on your talk page if you are interested. -- llywrch (talk) 20:48, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Der Hexer has other things to do. You argue with Werner Eck, I know his works. Werner Eck is the Publisher of the PIR, so, where is your problem? His works are also used there. And why do you threaten me with blocking? You're invade in the list like a Berserker and rebuild. --Μίκυθος (talk) 06:11, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

I didn't say I disagree with him: I'm using him as an example of someone who provides his reasoning. And the reason you could have been blocked was that you violated the The three-revert rule -- which is a sign you are the one who is not willing to work with other contributors. I'm feeling as if I'm talking to a wall. -- llywrch (talk) 21:11, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Well, these are my last words in the English Wikipedia: If you have questions to the Romans, you will find me in the German Wikipedia. Otherwise: Bye. End! --Μίκυθος (talk) 09:10, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi, and sorry for my late response. I'm not an expert in Roman history, my field is Greek antiquity, in particular mythology, philosophy, and historiography (as I studied Classical literature). For that reason, I asked other experts from German Wikipedia to help here (namely Jonathan Groß and others). I don't know whether this problem is solved now (having lost one author here does not seem to like like). Unfortunately, I would need a lot of time to check everything, articles as well as primary and secondary sources, first, when others can help better. Nevertheless, if I can help bringing experts together, don't hesitate to contact me again. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:01, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi DerHexer.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

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Mandatory notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. TomStar81 (Talk) 13:14, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:50, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:59, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, Merry Christmas to you, too. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:41, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, DerHexer

(Charles R. Knight, 1922)

Thank you for all you did for this project in 2016, DerHexer. May your house be safe, and may you and those having the privilege of your company enjoy good health in a Happy New Year 2017! Kind regards, Lotje (talk) 15:49, 5 January 2017 (UTC) Pass on! Send this greeting by adding {{subst:User:Sam Sailor/Templates/HappyNewYear}} to user talk pages. Automatic level-2 heading and auto-signing included.

Thank you very much! I wish you a happy new year, too. :-) —DerHexer (Talk) 17:57, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Hello

I saw you are telling people to merge their accounts, and I'd like to know how am I supposed to do that? Or am I not included in this matter, and that is just for a selected few people? In any case, the idea of securing my username accross multiple wikipedias seemed like a nice plan.

Kaiserlicher Ritter (talk) 03:52, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

@Kaiserlicher Ritter: The unification of accounts was completed some months ago. You do have secured your name now accross all wikis. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 14:46, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

WMCON17

		The Real-Life Barnstar
		Thank you for your very kind and friendly effort in taking us around your city :) Rehman 20:06, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! That was a very nice toor, indeed. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:50, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Accountschließung

Da du auch als EN-Admin gelistet bist, hier eine Anfrage zum Abschluss meiner Accountschließung.

siehe

https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administratoren/Anfragen&diff=166540757&oldid=166538616#Accountschlie.C3.9Fung

(Betrifft die Seiten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mat11001 , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mat11001 und den englischen Account.)

Grüße Mat11001 (talk) 09:42, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Danke fuer Deine Anfrage. Es sieht so aus als wenn das bei der Englischen Wikipedia nicht so einfact ist. Ich frage mich mal schlau.

Thanks for your request for a self-block of your user account. Unlike the German Wikipedia, it seems that isn't quite so straightforward on the English Wikipedia (see, for example, these requirements). I will seek advice from others. Beeblebrox, could you please comment? DerHexer, I see you've also been asked about the block. Schwede66 20:16, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Advice by Beeblebrox would be nice, indeed. I cannot see much harm in completing self-blocking requests. There were tons of these on German Wikipedia without any much harm from them. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 15:04, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

There are no official rules regarding self-requested blocks here. The admins who do them do so at their own discretion in the spirit of WP:IAR. Personally I do not do indefinite self-requested blocks, I see it as more of a tool for taking a break, not leaving forever. WP:VANISH and or setting the break enforcer to a very long time frame are other options, and the break enforcer is one you can do yourself if you find you wish to leave but are unable to simply stop editing for whatever reason. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:58, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

@Mat11001: I've indefinitely blocked your account now per your own request. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 17:46, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Revision jumper

I am again unable to get the revision jumper to work. Any time I click "next to last editor" it shows (no difference). Natureium (talk) 19:01, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

@Natureium: The bug is now reported on phab:T173816 where I will take care of this (hopefully rather sooner than later). Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 19:50, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Admin confidence survey

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Protection of User talk:Jojhnjoy

Can I please ask why you have protected the page User talk:Jojhnjoy, per "User request within own user space"? A user who has had their topic ban extended into a full block, for 6 months. This would seem to run against the policy decision taken here: Wikipedia_talk:Protection_policy/Archive_15#Own_userspace_pages_protection_policy Andy Dingley (talk) 21:22, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Okay, I was not aware of this change but I don't think that this fully applies here. If they are blocked anyways (not just banned), why should any interaction be helpful there for anyone when they are excluded from the project, especially since “Prevent this user from editing their own talk page while blocked” was activated? User talk pages should be no sandboxes for third parties when the user is not available. If any edit is required there, for example when new block conditions needs to be added (due to sock abuse, or the like), any administrator can add that information. Further, when users retire or vanish, a page protection could also be set to make it clear that the users are not available, or was that changed, too? According to their user page, they also retired during the block time which could be another reason to protect the page. If you still think, the protection was not appropriate per you linked policy decision, feel free to undo my action. Thanks in advance. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 21:35, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

You linked Wikipedia:Protection_policy#User_pages as justification for this action. A policy that specifically states, "as long as a need exists—pages in userspace should not be automatically or pre-emptively protected". So what was this "need"? Or was it merely a (presumably emailed) request. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:55, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

It was a request by mail and I chose that comment because I thought it would fit best for request by user. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:05, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

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Seasons' Greetings

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 04:37, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much, have a good year 2018, too! Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:46, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	good job 1996PK (talk | contribs) 04:54, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! :-) —DerHexer (Talk) 14:02, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Greek

Hey DerHexer! I saw that you are a Greek speaker and I was wondering if you can take a look at this draft and tell me your thoughts on the sources? This person appears to be someone who should be notable but most of the searches I've performed, well, I can't tell if they're referring to him or another person of the same name. Thanks! CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 13:45, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I only know Ancient Greek and not Modern Greek. Sorry about that but I cannot read these sources either. :-( —DerHexer (Talk) 02:11, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

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Precious

images and account unification

Thank you for Laocoön, for portraits of olympic athlets and featured pictures, for admin services such as account unification and renaming, for hexerwerk with German, Greek and Latin, - Martin, repeating from ten years ago, and two users found the same: you are an awesome Wikipedian!

Awesome

Ten years!

Awesome by two users the same day, 10 years ago! A first! - Happy 2019! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:02, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: What a super nice surprise. :-) You even found my monumental opus, the translation of my featured article from German Wikipedia. I was so busy with Commons recently so that I haven't had much time to work on it. But I really hope that I can finish it this year. I took so many pictures of gymnastics so that I feel very sure to make Glossary of gymnastics terms very colourful. There is some more 85,000 photos from the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics that needs to be edited, uploaded, and added to the respective articles. With all this tasks here and my duties as a stewards and user on Commons and German Wikipedia, I sadly don't think that I will have much time to repeat my intensive work as an administrator here but I hope that the tools will help me whenever I could have a need for them. Have a nice weekend. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 16:10, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for plenty of detail! Extra nice weekend on vacation, see January image when you click on Happy. Made up my mind today to improve Bach's BWV 1 to featured article ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:31, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

A year ago, you were recipient no. 2125 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:39, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind reminder! :) —DerHexer (Talk) 18:39, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Cross-wiki harassment

I just blocked SpaceMusk on Wikipedia -en for harassing another editor, and then got this at an obscure talkpage [2]. A global block would be appreciated at this point. Acroterion (talk) 19:45, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

I locked this sock. Regards --Schniggendiller talk 01:39, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Applied

for De Gruyter:-) Curiously; why it is not over the Library platform? ∯WBG^converse 06:21, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

@Winged Blades of Godric: (Using my staff account:) I have absolutely no idea. Wikimedia Deutschland took over from a German volunteer without much interaction with the Wikimedia Foundation and the organizers of TWL. The process how to get access may have changed since then so that it maybe cannot be handled through the Library platform. Unfortunately, we don't have many resources to dig deeper into that. Best, Martin Rulsch (WMDE) (talk) 11:45, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

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Bitte um Sperrung

Hallo DerHexer,

darf ich Dich um Sperrung meines Accounts für enWP bitten? Andernfalls werde ich angesichts dieses -m.E. an der Grenze zur Kriminalität kratzenden- aus deWP ausstrahlenden, dort bereits das SG beschäftigenden Vorgangs und der hiesigen Art, damit umzugehen ([3], [4]) früher oder später etwas sagen oder tun, das ich später bereuen werde. --Domitius Ulpianus (talk) 09:07, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

@Domitius Ulpianus: Hab ich so umgesetzt. Grüße, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:24, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Possible Haukur / Haukurth merger

Hi, DerHexer! A few years ago we spoke on the issue of possibly merging my 'Haukur' and 'Haukurth' accounts.[5] Do you still handle that sort of thing? Haukur (talk) 14:50, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

@Haukur: Unfortunately, that tool created a lot of broken accounts so that account merge was disabled. At the moment, we cannot merge any accounts. It's only possible to have one local account per local wiki attached to a global account. In other words, I could have DerHexer@enwiki and DerHexerTest@dewiki merged but had to leave the DerHexer@dewiki and DerHexerTest@enwiki unattached. Does this help? Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 09:52, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Schutz meiner Disk.-Seite

Hallo DerHexer,

ich kenne die Gepflogenheiten hier in en.WP nicht, aber ist es evtl. möglich meine Benutzer-Disk-Seite für längere Zeit vor Bearbeitungen durch IPs und neue Benutzer zu schützen?

Ich bin hier in en.WP ja eh nicht aktiv; von daher sollte das meines Erachtens doch kein Problem sein, oder?

Der auch in der de.WP ja allseits bekannte Unitymedia-Troll "tobt" dort ständig herum...

Gruß aus dem de.wiktionary --Udo T. (talk) 14:15, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Hallo DerHexer, ein anderer Admin hat meine Disk.-Seite nun geschützt, allerdings nur für 3 Tage. Es ist in hohem Maße davon auszugehen, dass es dann wieder losgehen wird. Könntest Du den Schutz evtl. deutlich verlängern? Ich bin hier, wie bereits erwähnt, so gut wie nicht aktiv. Gruß --Udo T. (talk) 14:45, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

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Good luck

豊かな十年へようこそ/WELCOME TO THE D20s

Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune.
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Thank you, same for you! :-) —DerHexer (Talk) 20:51, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Multilingual case

Wondering if I could get your help looking into this case. May relate to this.[6] But not sure. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:53, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

@Doc James: I've left a comment on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ventus55. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 01:57, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Yah. Might be a different multilingual case. Are you able to work with an EN CU on this? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:48, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

"Stammbaum" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Stammbaum. Since you had some involvement with the Stammbaum redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Tango Mike Bravo (talk) 08:06, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

• Stammbaum is a template redirect that is used to help importing pages from de.wiki that contain family trees and similar diagrams. Tango Mike Bravo (talk) 08:32, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm not vandalizing

@DerHexer: I didn't vandalize, llike the warning you put on my talk page in 2008 said. I am the only person using this IP and I have no idea who the hell vandalized!

That's 12 years old. It seems very likely that the IP address has changed its owner in the meantime … —DerHexer (Talk) 08:08, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Thank you! :) —DerHexer (Talk) 17:27, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

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Mistake

Sorry for reverting your edit. It was a mistake. –Cupper52^Discuss! 11:02, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Hey, no problem. :-) Happy festive season! —DerHexer (Talk) 21:51, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

2020 Winter Youth Olympics

Please do not add photos in results boxes on xxx at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics articles. This is against WP:MOS and WP:Olympics. 20:13, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

@Sportsfan 1234: Sorry, I just saw your message now. Thanks for the information but neither on the first nor on the second page I can see anything that disallows adding photos there. Instead, I have seen this at various other pages and for me it seems to be the most obvious place where photos make sense. I could do galleries under these boxes if you prefer (or refer me to any guideline) that but I do find it less readible, to be honest. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 00:08, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

PS: I've reverted your edits because they made the articles worse. Please let us find a better solution before you undo useful additions to Wikipedia articles. With your reverts, you also removed my fixes of names and added Commons categories. A full revert is not useful and could be considered as disruptive. For the Columbia article I've implemented the compromise with galleries instead of photos within the boxes. What do you think. —DerHexer (Talk) 00:14, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

I do not think galleries are a fix either. Something like this [7] where the pictures lies to the right of the results box is good. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 01:11, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

This does not work very well for short sections with many athletes like these ones; galleries at the end of the section make much more sense, in my opinion, and are already widely used on English Wikipedia. Where is the guideline which prevents me from choosing whatever I think fits best? I couldn't find it in the two links. Thanks for pointing me to the right section. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 01:22, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

There doesn't need to be images for all athletes. One per section is more than sufficient. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 02:20, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

And that's your single position as well, right? My and the position of many others who edit such pages is that each athlete can have a photo if available. Therefore, I will continue this work later today and expect you to respect other editing behavior. Thanks in advance. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 08:55, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

@Sportsfan 1234: Please continue here if you disagree and do not revert blindly. User can be blocked for ignoring WP:3RR. —DerHexer (Talk) 00:34, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:46, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! :) —DerHexer (Talk) 18:54, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Minor fixes to userscripts

Hey DerHexer, it looks like you've got some user scripts using bare javascript global wg-style variables. These are phab:T72470 deprecated, and while I don't think there's a timeline for their removal, it's been that way for a while. It's usually a straightforward fix, all uses need to use mw.config.get, such as converting wgTitle to mw.config.get('wgTitle'). There's some more info at mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users)#Global wg variables. The pages are User:DerHexer/rollback.js and User:DerHexer/revert.js. I can take care of cleaning them up for you if you like, just let me know! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 12:18, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, I've fixed both of them now. It would have been fine with me if you had fixed it, too. :-) Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:00, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Request for Shrek movie article's protection level be lifted.

I want to add more information and a little clean up to a protected page; the "Shrek" movie article. I suggest that the page's semi-protected indefinite be lifted, so that I can be able to add the information. It could use some room for reception and plot sections.213.107.64.77 (talk) 04:59, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Sure, let's give it a try. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 12:53, 18 April 2021 (UTC)