DerHexer

I want to add reliable first hand information to a protected page; the "Edward Smith (sea captain)" article. There are several weak paragraphs that go against more reliable evidence. And this article gives a completely inaccurate account of Smith's reaction to the crisis. The "Sinking of the RMS Titanic" article claims he was effective and even heroic whereas the Smith article says he was in a state of nervous collapse which has now been disputed. I suggest that the page's semi-protected indefinite be lifted, so that I can be able to add the information (I have asked user "Brookie" who blocked the page the same suggestion but they seem to not be as active anymore) The page talks about the account by Robert William Daniels of seeing Smith in the bridge and dying there, while it goes against all the more reliable evidence from other survivors - including the enquiry testimony of the second radio officer Harold Bride, not one of the thousands of far-fetched newspaper accounts given by passengers like Daniels - that Smith may instead have jumped into the sea just before the bridge was submerged, and possibly even nearly reached collapsible B (notice: I say possibly, and indeed Smith's fate will remain uncertain): it is not even certain that Daniels was really still aboard when the ship sank, and IF he was, he was in the extreme stern (newspaper account by the fireman Thomas Patrick Dillon, which is also the only source that placed Daniels aboard - many Titanic historians are instead convinced that he was already in a lifeboat by this time, and there is no way he could have reached the extreme stern if he was near the bridge when it began to flood, because from that moment to the moment the Titanic sank only five minutes or so passed, and there is no way he could have walked up the slanting deck for al the length of the ship. Moreover, all the survivor accounts (see enquiry testimonies) are unanimous in saying that the fore end of the boat deck, where the bridge was, was submerged in a very quick and violent manner, like a "tidal wave" had struck it: it had not flooded slowly like Daniels said. Excuse me for being so commanding but this second hand account has been repeated for nearly several years and is not a reliable account.79.68.150.165 (talk) 07:59, 25 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I don't know why I am contacted here because I have not set the protection. Please put an unprotect request on WP:Unprotect. Thanks, —DerHexer (Talk) 08:33, 25 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

hello. I have a question. How did you become a steward in Wikipedia Ulaş jesus (talk) 18:49, 2 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Well, I was active on German Wikipedia and looked beyond its borders, first on English and Spanish Wikipedia. A fellow dewiki user told me that SWMT needs many more helping hands and I had a look into it. It made fun to me but it has limitations when you are not a steward (there had been no global sysops, global accounts, or anything else like that yet). So I applied for it and luckily was elected. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 19:37, 2 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

what kind of changes have you made.this position is not given to everyone.as far as I know Ulaş jesus (talk) 09:44, 3 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Please have a look at the SWMT link. The activities this group does (and which led to my steward candidacy) are described there. It might be worth to have a look at m:Stewards/Elections, too, where you can find all applications of successful candidates. Best —DerHexer (Talk) 12:05, 3 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

I understand, thanks Ulaş jesus (talk) 12:48, 3 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullan%C4%B1c%C4%B1:DerHexer do you know Turkish Ulaş jesus (talk) 13:03, 3 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the kind wishes! :D —DerHexer (Talk) 16:39, 20 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hallo Axel,

ich hoffe, ich gerate hier an jemanden, der die Richtlinien des WP:COMMONNAME durchsetzen kann, ich weiß nicht mehr weiter, der Kern der Diskussion, wann und wo denn bewiesen wurde, dass Nur-Sultan im Englischen benutzt wird (der neue Name der Stadt seit 2 Jahren, benannt nach dem undemokratischen Diktator Nursultan Nazarbajev) wurde schlichtweg nicht beantwortet /die Diskussion abgebrochen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Move_review/Log/2021_November

Das ist der Link zu der Diskussion beim „Move review“ und natürlich der auf der Diskussionsseite von Nur-Sultan.

Es wurde nie bewiesen und war auch nachweislich nie richtig, dass die Stadt Astana im Englischen Nur-Sultan genannt wurde.

Dass es auch immer noch nicht der Fall ist, haben User:Toddy1 und ich bewiesen, wie sichtbar hier:

As it is written, the numbers stem from searching Nur Sultan with and without the hyphen, but still, if taken together,the numbers for Nur-Sultan and Nur Sultan (hopefully not including the namegiving Kazakhian politician, this has to be checked as well) the results in 2021 for Nur-Sultan alone remain more than 10 percent or more than 700 entries lower than for Astana only, in 2020 it was over 2000 more entries / 20 % higher.

Aus irgendeinem mir nicht ersichtlichen Grund, richten sich aber einige Aktivisten hier auf Wikipedia wohlwissentlich nicht an die eigenen Richtlinien, vermutlich aus politischen Gründen.

Bitte hilf mit, Wikipedias Richtlinien beizubehalten und nicht die Entscheidungen politischen Aktivisten (pro eines Diktators) zu überlassen.

--Tecumseh*1301 (talk) 19:33, 8 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, what Tecumseh*1301 should have said was that the results were identical whether searching for "Nur-Sultan" or "Nur Sultan". See en:User talk:Tecumseh*1301#Ah but what if "Nur Sultan" gives different hits than "Nur-Sultan".-- Toddy1 (talk) 20:23, 8 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi DerHexer. We're currently having an informal look through inactive users with autopatrolled, and I noticed that earlier this year, you granted autopatrolled to Eileen Miedtank (WMDE) and Sandro Halank (WMDE). Whilst I have no doubt that they are both fine Wikimedians, neither have many edits on enwiki (Eileen has zero) and neither have ever created a page here. Since this is not our usual process for awarding user rights and they seem to have no need for autopatrolled specifically, would you mind if I revoked it from both users? – Joe (talk) 14:33, 20 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi, Joe Roe. Of course, I've double-check if I can grant autopatrolled by myself or any other formal process is needed. ;) According to Wikipedia:Autopatrolled, “You can request the right […] from an administrator who is familiar with your work.”. Eileen is responsible for updates on user pages of former WMDE staff members (and I am familiar with this work). Unlike dewiki, English Wikipedia requires an autoconfirmed/controlled status to be able to do that on other people's user pages so that she asked me to get that right for that purpose. Some of Wikimedia Deutschland's employees do have an account on enwiki, too, but not many. For that reason, it does not happen that often that she would need it. Back at that time, it was not her who updated the user page but it was her colleague Sandro, see this edit, who also approached me. The reason why she has not used it in a similar way is simple, as I was told: There was no need to do that for any other WMDE staff member who had an enwiki user page yet. Besides that, Wikimedia Deutschland employees are not allowed to edit content pages; and they very rarely edit metapages on English Wikipedia at all so that I am not hugely surprised by the low edit counts of either of both on English Wikipedia (Sandro, for example, has more than 2,000 edits on dewiki alone, very recent ones, too). But I am aware that they both will need it for the given task. Certainly, such updates could also be done by other users but to me it makes way more sense when it is clear that the edits were done within the same area of work and not by third parties. What do you think about that? Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 15:52, 20 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the quick response. You are of course perfectly entitled to grant people rights, I am just questioning whether you needed to do so in this instance. There is perhaps some confusion between autopatrolled and (auto)confirmed? A user needs to be confirmed to create pages on enwiki. Usually this happens automatically—what we call autoconfirmed—but it's also routine for an admin to manually give it out as you did here. But autopatrolled shouldn't be needed to create user pages or for any other aspect of their work. In fact, it has no affect on a user's ability to edit whatsoever – it just removes pages they create from the new page patrol queue. Autopatrolled is what I am proposing to remove. – Joe (talk) 16:07, 20 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Yes, they have probably requested autopatrolled because they didn't know better and I initially granted it. The actual rights attached to a group is very different on a global level (where I as a Wikimedia steward are nowadays way more active than English Wikipedia). So when I checked Special:ListGroupRights, I noticed that confirmed was the one they needed (for Edit pages protected as "Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access" (editsemiprotected) likely), so that I also added that right 1, 2. I cannot remember why I did not replace it instead of adding it. But I agree, having autopatrolled on their accounts doesn't seem necessary to me for their task. So yes, I think that it could be removed. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 16:22, 20 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Aha. I see that dewiki doesn't even have an equivalent to our autopatrol, so that probably didn't help either. Thanks for your understanding. – Joe (talk) 16:34, 20 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

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18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I'm not sure how familiar you are with Benutzer:Friedjof, who was banned from dewiki for copyright violations (among other things). An alternative account of his is now creating unattributed translations here. Before taking him to ANI (he has been made aware of attribution requirements on enwiki before and it seems like the problematic behaviour is just going to shift from dewiki to enwiki), I thought it would be best to ask someone more familiar with the situation.

Do you think my concerns are overblown? 15 (talk) 16:21, 26 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

I will be off for the next couple of days and can only look into it from Tuesday on. You could reach out to AFBorchert who confirmed Friedjof's block. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:37, 26 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Ok, thanks for letting me know. 15 (talk) 09:14, 27 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:31, 27 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! :) —DerHexer (Talk) 00:06, 13 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Idoghor Melody. It's even a special anniversary, 15 years! Thanks for the reminder, and let's celebrate together. :) Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:58, 20 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

@DerHexer: I'll celebrate with you for sure, just send some snacks and Pepsi over...😅 Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 12:01, 20 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hey DerHexer, I know you deleted the redirect page Talk:ABC-9 and your edit summary says unnecessary redirect. I think, unnecessary is not a reason to delete, so can you please undelete this redirect to a talk page. Thanks, from Bas. Bassie f (talk) 03:06, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Talk:ABC-9 before it’s deletion previously targeted to Talk:ABC (TV station) which has since been moved to Talk:ABC Canberra (TV station) Bassie f (talk) 03:10, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

That has been 15+ years ago. I don't mind if you create a new redirect … —DerHexer (Talk) 07:41, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

If I create a new redirect from Talk:ABC-9 to Talk:ABC Canberra (TV station), will you restore the page history, DerHexer? Bassie f (talk) 20:48, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

I created a new redirect Talk:ABC-9 just now, Also DerHexer can you please restore the page history for this redirect. Bassie f (talk) 20:54, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

It's by no means necessary to restore the history of a redirect. The threshold of originality is zero. But for whatever it's worth, I've restored the previous redirect. —DerHexer (Talk) 21:14, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

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

— Moops ^⋠T⋡ 05:24, 2 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, same for you! Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 09:04, 2 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:35, 27 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! :) —DerHexer (Talk) 09:37, 27 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

I simply LOVE the work you did on this page back in 2019, adding the gallery images that illustrate how Tkachyov's namesake move is performed. Absolutely brilliant, and though pretty unique in context, nevertheless very helpful as it is one of the most basic skills at the elite level for both men and women gymnasts. Fantastic. I love it! QuakerIlK (talk) 19:24, 25 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the nice feedback. :D —DerHexer (Talk) 22:49, 1 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your nice message! :) —DerHexer (Talk) 09:39, 20 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Me and the lads were poking around pointlessly and unable to figure this out.

Apparently, it's supposed to be impossible to merge or delete user accounts on the English Wikipedia, or at least so I'm given to understand. But then, on Special:Log, there is a tab for "user merge log". This has only a single entry, ever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=usermerge&user=&page=&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpfilters%5B%5D=newusers&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist

which is that in 2017, you apparently merged User:YuviPanda with User:Yuvipanda -- and then deleted the second account. But your user rights log says you've only ever been a normal sysop on this site, so whatever you have access to, I should too, right? But I don't -- there's no special page I can use to merge user accounts. How is that even possible? So anyway, uh, I have absolutely no idea what is going on with this. Do you? jp×g🗯️ 07:40, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

@JPxG: Hi, yes, I think that am able ot help with that. :)

There was a global account merge tool planned for the 2013–15 SUL finalisation. However, not local administrators but only global Wikimedia Stewards were supposed to perform such actions: You can find the special page for global user rights here and a list of global users with the groups they are in here on enwiki.

Because I was heavily involved in communications of the project, I had the pleasure of a first test in production. A WMF employee asked two of his volunteer accounts to be merged. My action was logged globally but also in local logs in all wikis where they had local accounts (what you could see on enwiki). Unfortunately, the merge got stuck and never was fully completed (phab:T104686) because of problems with the Translate and WikiLove extensions (phab:T104739, phab:T104740). For a long time, he couldn't even use either of both accounts! All in all, WMF staff found no solution to building a working global merge tool and declined all such wishes as technically not feasible (Community Wishlist Survey 2017, 2019).

Feel free to dig deeper into that. It's one of my special areas of activity. ;D I'm proud to be the only person who ever used a global merge tool and bricked a user account! xD Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 10:05, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Congratulations, and thanks for your many contributions to the Wikimedia movement! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:34, 7 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the nice words! :) —DerHexer (Talk) 22:49, 1 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, and likewise! :) —DerHexer (Talk) 22:48, 1 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

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