TheSandDoctor

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- TNT ^💖 10:06, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Email send

Trijnstel_talk 16:39, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

@Trijnstel: Your email host returned my message saying I was blocked from emailing you. Strange. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 16:51, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Strange indeed, especially as your email host is not on my blacklist. I've now added your email address to the whitelist. Trijnstel_talk 17:20, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

@Trijnstel: A test email wasn't returned now, so I assume that it arrived safe? --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 07:44, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: Correct. Trijnstel_talk 12:05, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Congratulations

For successfully promoted to GR. Keep up the good work and season greetings.--Cohaf (talk) 07:06, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

@Cohaf: Thank you and the same to you! I hope you had - and continue to have - happy holidays/a belated "Merry Christmas". --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 07:13, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

You too!--Cohaf (talk) 07:15, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Someone attempted impersonation on en wiki --

Dear TSD,

This message is to bring attention to impersonation account(s) happening on en wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/The_Sand_Dentist

You may want to patrol account creation log to monitor impersonation. Thanks.

--73.189.196.129 04:09, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

I appreciate you reaching out with this 73.189.196.129. It has already been dealt with and the account locked as a sock of a long term abuser on enwiki. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 04:20, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Pointless lint filter fixes on discussion pages

Can I ask that your lint fixes be more mindful, rather than pointless. Fixing user talk pages, fixing discussions in forums is not a valuable exercise. Please keep those fixes to content spaces where they make a true difference, rather than this cosmetic noise. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 08:27, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

I partially concur. I am actually not against fixes on talk pages (except that people probably still have those tags in their signature) per se, but currently I have my whole watchlist flooded, I would appreciate if you use bot / flood permissions to do this all. --Base (talk) 08:37, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Agree, got a notification to my talk page /email which could be avoided with flood permissions when making these changes. Thehelpfulone 12:44, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

These should be handled by a bot and go through the normal process of community input. Nihlus 14:24, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

• Thank you for the flood rights suggestion, Thehelpfulone. I will be sure to use them in the future when doing this sort of work. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 17:44, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations, Dear Administrator!

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Congratulations, TheSandDoctor! You now have the rights of an administrator on Meta-Wiki. Please take a moment to read the Meta:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat, and Meta:Requests for deletion, but also Talk:Spam blacklist and Talk:Interwiki map), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings, or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care. Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikimedia-admin^connect. You may find Commons:Guide to adminship to be useful reading although it doesn't always completely apply here at Meta. Please also check or add your entry to Meta:Administrators#List of administrators and the Template:List of administrators. You're also allowed to subscribe the metawiki admins private mailing list. Again, congratulations and welcome to the team. Matiia (talk) 04:48, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Congrats --DannyS712 (talk) 04:50, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Felicitations! —Sgd. Hasley 05:11, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

@DannyS712 and Hasley: Thank you! --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 06:16, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello! and congratulations. I got your email but for some reason I cannot find your subscription request in the queue of pending moderator requests. Could you please file out the form again? If that doesn't work I can try to add you manually (and file a Phab task so they can take a look at the logs and decipher what's going on). Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:25, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio: I tried again. Same info sent per my email. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 14:58, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Request

User:~riley Asked to contact you Hi! English wikipedia Please allow me to IP block exemption and Confirmed users,Autopatrolled trest me(Me global IP block exemption There are teams But not working I want to contribute to the English wiki Please give me this right) I use a VPN to connect to sites Tor,vpn or anonymous proxy abroad, as I do not want to block my account .Thank youপরস (talk) 05:48, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

@পরস: Please see Riley's talk page. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 15:58, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Regarding lint errors

Today I have got bot permissions in Incubator, where I think is the base of all wikis. Now, coming to the point, have you got the script that will help in identifying and fixing these errors? If not, I don't know if it helps, anyway, please check this. Also check this one too. The last one is used by Galobot to find the errors I guess. Adithyak1997 (talk) 19:40, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Grammar Q

Hello. Little doubt. CentralAuth uses the following wording: Globally suppressed by $steward_username for following reason: $reason_here. Shouldn't it be instead for the following reason? Thanks and sorry if this is a silly question. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 22:16, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio: Your suggestion is indeed more correct grammatically speaking. Do feel free to reach out any time if you have questions! I am happy to help --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 04:03, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I'll upload a patch to fix it then. Best regards, stay safe. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:46, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021

Greetings SWMT member,

I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 10 July, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up your name under the appropriate section.

Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 03:21, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello TheSandDoctor. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because it looks that you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2021. If you would like to retain your adminship, please kindly sign there before October 16, 2021. Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:04, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio: Thanks for the heads up. Signed. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 17:32, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Great, thanks :) —MarcoAurelio (talk) 17:36, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio: Logged the actions today, though some are because I forgot a checkbox...oops. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 17:45, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:17, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship (April 2023)

Hello TheSandDoctor,

Pursuant Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/April 2023. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 09, 2023.

Kind regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:22, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Your feedback is requested

Hello TheSandDoctor, We are conducting a poll of global renamers and stewards regarding some future toolings related to some rename requests. Your feedback is requested at the poll on VRT WIKI. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 00:18, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship (April 2024)

Hello TheSandDoctor,

Pursuant to Meta:Administrators/Removal (inactivity) and because you have made fewer than ten (10) logged administrator actions over the past six (6) months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal (inactivity)/April 2024. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 10, 2024.

Kind regards, MF-W 14:36, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Newspapers.com access is being restored

You are receiving this message because our records indicate that you used Newspapers.com via The Wikipedia Library in the past year. Newspapers.com has been affected by a number of technical issues over that time period, which most recently caused it not to work at all. If you aren't already familiar, further details can be found at T322916.

We're pleased to share that we have found a solution which will restore access to Newspapers.com's content! Newspapers.com have agreed to move back to our old method of granting access, whereby users must first register at Newspapers.com, then apply via The Wikipedia Library, and then accounts are upgraded to a subscribing one by Newspapers.com. We have updated Newspapers.com to accept applications in the library, so you can apply now!

This change is unfortunately mutually exclusive with the limited proxy-based access working, so any of the technical workarounds that have been discussed should no longer work, along with any proxy-based access to Newspapers.com. I hope you agree that this brief bump will be worth it in the long run.

As a reminder, this change means that you will need to renew your access on a yearly basis. If you have an email configured in The Wikipedia Library you should receive an email a few weeks before this expiry to remind you to submit an extension request, but brief yearly loss of access may be a side effect of this access method. The good news is that this access method means that you shouldn't encounter any technical problems besides normal operational problems on Newspapers.com's end, which should be few and resolved quickly - otherwise the website should work just as if you were a normal customer.

If you have any questions please ask them at this Meta announcement. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:39, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship (October 2024)

Hello TheSandDoctor,

Pursuant to Meta:Administrators/Removal (inactivity) and because you have made fewer than ten (10) logged administrator actions over the past six (6) months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal (inactivity)/October 2024. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before October 08, 2024.

Kind regards, --MF-W 10:25, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, MF-Warburg. Signed. I was just thinking about this like three days ago, funnily enough (@Mz7: can attest to this). I'll make note that it's always April 1 and October 1 and try and boost my activity all-around. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 16:44, 1 October 2024 (UTC)