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You're right, I misread the policy. The version I read said:
Email addresses and URLs (such as "Alice@example.com" and "Example.com"). Plain domain names (without .com, .co.kr, etc.) are sometimes acceptable, such as when the purpose is simply to identify the user as a person, but they are inappropriate if they promote a commercial Web page.
I misread the period after the ) as a , which would have implied that emails are ok in limited circumstances, which I believed the user met. However this wasn't the case, and my reading of the policy was inaccurate. wctaiwan has reworded that section, so it will be less likely to misread. I will leave a comment at the RfCN about my confusion and mistake. Sorry about that, Legoktm (talk) 05:10, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Bot updates for MILHIST showcase
Hey, I was wondering if you'd had a chance to add the MILHIST showcase page update tasks to Legobot's schedule? Like I said before, it's not urgent, but I wanted to make sure it doesn't drop off the radar. Thanks! Kirill14:54, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to Legoktm for being kind enough and having enough foresight to realize the importance of new pages. you are an asset to the project. thank you Igottheconch (talk) 09:26, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
No worries, glad to see you've added more content to it. I also noticed that it's currently 474B, are you interested in making it a DYK? Just needs a 3x expansion :) Legoktm (talk) 18:43, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Adminship
Hi Legoktm! Are you by any chance interested in running for adminship? I noticed you while patrolling CAT:CSD and from my quick look it seems you are more than ready. If you like I can do a more in-depth review of your contribs, and if everything looks good, I can nominate you. Let me know what you think. Best — Mr. Stradivarius09:48, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, I had already talked to a few other editors about doing an RfA rather soon, I guess I'll go poke them again. Though if you do have some free time and are willing to take a look, I would appreciate it :)
See above. He answered a helpme totally wrong, got a new editor totally mixed up ... they ended up filing an RFC/N which meant a lot more work for others. Basics like the username policy are, like, basic. (✉→BWilkins←✎) 23:48, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Admins aren't expected to be perfect... I wonder how many admins are aware that email addresses are no longer permitted. --Rschen775400:14, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Just going to footnote that even though I've been an admin for over 7 years, I still have to glance over policies a lot of the time (especially considering that several came well after I passed RFA). What matters more is how an admin responds to a mistake, in my book. As long as they have proved themselves reasonably competent, we don't expect perfection; we expect admins to be teachable. --Rschen775408:08, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, admins who don't learn from their mistakes are what are bad. Everyone makes mistakes, basic, complex, large, small... it's a wiki. We fix them, we learn, we move on, and we do not bite people for honest mistakes when they are acting in good faith, even if they broke the entire site. It's only if they don't learn that it becomes an issue, which is why it's also good to see a potential candidate make mistakes ahead of time so we have some idea if that's going to happen when it can really matter. -— Isarra༆08:45, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
@Bwilkins: I'm sorry a mistake like that would lead to an oppose from you. I wasn't aware that my mistake led to more work by others, if there's anyway I can reduce that please let me know. At least one positive thing came out of all of that, I spent a good amount of time reading and re-reading the username policy the other day, so I can safely say I won't make a mistake like that again :) Legoktm (talk) 07:54, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, when you say not available to anyone else, does this mean, no one can view them? Sorry I'm still new at this, just making sure. Do I need another reference? Thanks for the input. βrỴḇṛỹ1999 (talk) 10:28, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Ok I figured it out, I believe you were meaning, that my reference just went to the home page, but then you had to search from there. I figured it out. βrỴḇṛỹ1999 (talk) 10:48, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
What's Wikimedia I? A google search didn't turn up anything for me. Also the noticeboard is designed to support English Misplaced Pages requests for WMF attention/collaboration, not Wikimedia in whole. Biosthmors (talk) 05:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
If it's only for the english Misplaced Pages, would you propose also having one on every other language and project that the WMF community liaisons would need to follow as well? -— Isarra༆07:17, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #43
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Misplaced Pages ()
Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
Working on property parser function for the client
Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
Resumed work on linked data interface
References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Misplaced Pages for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
Open Tasks for You
Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
