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Ninja

Did you want a userbox like this? Matty.007 18:33, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

User:Matty.007/World Class Ninja

Adminship

Many thanks for your note Buffbills, I am flattered, but for now I am far too busy in real life. Moonraker (talk) 02:37, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Reply

After once again going over it after seeing that other consoles not part of certain generations were placed in those templates due to the time of their release, I've decided to place the consoles back in the template. Nintendocan (talk) 20:22, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Admins

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Admins, I have noticed that a certain IP address is creating "articles" on Template talk:Serbia-writer-stub. Should I attempt to speedy delete it per G2? Or should we take the "articles", and turn them into the AFC? buffbills (talk)

I took care of it. Thanks for the heads up.--v/r - TP 13:28, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Wycombe Boys

Hello, and thanks for taking an interest. Unfortunately the article you've found is also a hoax on a wiki that appears to allow such things. It says the team reached the last 16 of the UEFA Europa League, and were FA Cup runners up in 2012. These competitions are for major professional clubs, not boys teams. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 12:29, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

I see that I've been inducted into your Anti-Vandalism Hall of Fame. I'm honored to be one of your first inductees, and I thank you for it. Here, have a brownie, fresh out of the oven! Lugia2453 (talk) 19:59, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! buffbills (talk) 20:39, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Secret Page

I found your secret page! Matty.007 17:11, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Congrats! Your treat is coming right away. What treat would you like? buffbills (talk) 17:12, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

How did you reply before I posted the message??? Matty.007 18:25, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

What do you mean? buffbills7701 19:55, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Whoops, I mis-read the times. Sorry! Matty.007 20:29, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: One True Vine

Hello Buffbills7701. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of One True Vine, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A9 does not apply if the artist has an article. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz /_Stalk 02:20, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Guess I didn't fully read A9. Thought it was basically like A8. buffbills7701 02:23, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

ANI vs. AIV

Yo, Buffbills! Thanks for reporting the vandalizing IP; I've blocked. Just so you know, though, these kinds of things don't need to be reported at ANI; we actually have a specialized board for them at Administrator intervention against vandalism, or AIV for short. It's a little bit quicker and easier to report them there. No worries, though; thanks again! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:00, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm kinda new here, so I didn't know that. buffbills7701

Yep! Like I said, it's no big deal; it happens a lot, and it gets admin attention either way, so it still works. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:04, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Recruiting Center

Sounds good to me. I'll post the first steps over at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Good articles/Recruitment Centre/Recruiter Central/Archives/Buffbills7701 and we will go from there. Wizardman 15:21, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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Some bubble tea for you!

Just wanted to say thanks for your review of Anonymous (group) specifically, and for getting involved in GA reviewing generally--we always need help with the queue there. If there's ever a way I can help in your future reviews, or if you just want a second opinion on one, please don't hesitate to ask. -- Khazar2 (talk) 01:07, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I thought that reviewing it was a bit hard, but once I got the hang of it, it was really easy. Again, thanks! buffbills7701 01:08, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Just wanted to offer you two minor technical suggestions, if you don't mind. First, when you create a review, don't change the "reviewer" text up at the top; this confuses the bot that manually updates WP:GAN. Second, don't forget when promoting an article to add it to the main GAs list (not just the recent passes list), like so. Thanks again for your help in reviewing. I particularly appreciate your ambition in taking on some big topics! Those often sit in our queue for far too long. -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:28, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Scotland in the Modern era GA

Many thanks for your review of the article. I also appreciate you taking on some of these long articles.--SabreBD (talk) 18:22, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. I just want to get the longer ones out of the way so they don't have to wait 4 months before getting reviewed. buffbills7701

GA reassessment of C.A. Peñarol

I do not believe that an article you listed earlier today, C.A. Peñarol, meets the GA criteria, and I have consequently opened a GA reassessment, which you can find here. Eric Corbett 21:33, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

• I agree with this request. Eric's previous comment, which you removed here, can in no way be construed as a personal attack. Drmies (talk) 21:59, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
• And seriously, you made that claim again, here--come on now. That article has problems, the GA review was not thorough enough, those are facts. Stating obvious facts is not an "attack". Drmies (talk) 22:00, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm not arguing with the review, it's just the attack that really annoys me. He said that he's just stating the obvious, but as an old saying goes, "If you've got nothing nice to say, don't say it." buffbills7701 22:03, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Huh? He can't say nothing. Eric (and me too) is a Good Article writer and reviewer. If he sees an article that's listed as a GA and it does not meet the standards, how can he say nothing? It is not an attack. Drmies (talk) 22:07, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm pretty positive that there is a nicer way to say it than basically, you stink. buffbills7701 22:08, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

I didn't say that you stunk. I said your GA reviews are sub-standard, which they are. You rush them, you don't read the article properly, you insist on things that are not part of the GA criteria such as citations in the lead ... in short you're not a very good GA reviewer. And the consequence of that is that you make the GA process a laughing stock. Eric Corbett 22:13, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

How about a deal. I take a short WikiBreak from GA, until I can be better at reviewing. Deal? buffbills7701 22:16, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

In what way would a short break magically transform you into a better GA reviewer? Here's a different deal. Let me help you with your next GA review. I'd also suggest that you might like to try writing a GA yourself before reviewing the work of others. Eric Corbett 22:27, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

I'll take your deal about helping me. I don't want to create one because I know how hard it is, and I really felt that C.A. Peñarol deserved the GA. Also, I'll just tell you that I'm too busy today to review another one. How about tomorrow? buffbills7701 22:33, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

You're rushing it again. Take some time to try and write a GA yourself. How can you assess the work of others if you've never done that work yourself? Eric Corbett 22:37, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Fine. I'll try writing one. buffbills7701

GA reviews are hard. If they wouldn't be, we wouldn't have a backlog. Any help is much appreciated but, as Eric points out, it requires experience--which can be gained by writing and by studying the comments on one's writing. There's ins and outs (I pointed out the flag issue), and in this case the prose really wasn't up to par. It's not your fault that it wasn't, but you can't pass it without doing a really detailed review/copy edit. If it were me, I'd have turned it down for prose issues: just look at this edit I just made, and I'm not even convinced that I brought the level up to GA status, consistently. Lots of the ins and outs go well beyond that, and knowing that takes fairly intimate knowledge of WP:MOS (the earlier remark on citations in the lead are a case in point). I think that Eric and I both have a reputation for being hard-asses (or, in Dutch, "comma fuckers), but GA level requires that, in my opinion. The thing to do, if you want to continue reviewing (and again, we welcome the help), is to learn. I've been here for years and I'm still learning, and Eric is the best there is. (I'm not buttering him up--he don't need no more butter.) You made friends with Wizardman? Good--Wizardman is a pro as well. And feel free to ask us; you might not always hear what you want to hear, but we'll give it to you straight. Best, Drmies (talk) 22:49, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor

Hey Buffbills7701,

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:52, 28 June 2013 (UTC)