User talk:Coren/Archives/2010/September

Suppressing revisions

I imagine if someone else were editing logged out as often as you do, their requests for having their IP suppressed would (eventually) be denied. Be more careful or just give up the damn game. It's not as though anyone cares which IP you're using. And even in some alternate universe in which someone did, they'd surely have it by now anyway. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:16, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your solicitous attention. Perhaps, then, you could solve my problem? Since about r64057 my session cookies seem to invalidate themselves randomly every couple of hours without warning, your vast fount of wisdom surely has a solution at hand? That'd be even more helpful than your most excellent advice. — Coren ^(talk) 04:24, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Try a different browser? A few thousand people seem to be able to edit around here everyday without issue (or at least without session issues!). --MZMcBride (talk) 04:31, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

every day* 75.183.116.243 (talk) 04:43, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

+1, irony? — Coren ^(talk) 15:02, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

It seems the obvious solution would be to set your skin to something other than the default. Or, at least, the display font. That way it would be obvious that you weren't logged in. For example, the default edit font is Courier New. You can change that, if not in preferences, then in your .css. Pretty easy to tell the difference between Courier New and, say, Verdana. Lara 05:00, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

The problem is when my session seemingly breaks between edit and commit; I notice immediately that I got logged off, but the change was saved. MZMcBride may have overstated the matter of frequency a bit, mind you, and it doesn't occur that often — but it's damn annoying when it does. — Coren ^(talk) 15:01, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

You could hit preview first. A habit I cannot get myself into, personally. This random signing out thing happens to me if I switch between browsers. I prefer Chrome, but if I open a link from IRC, it open in Firefox (because I use CZ), and then I get logged out from Chrome because I've logged in on FF. PITA.... Anyway, it's not irony considering I did it on purpose (above). It's not as fun poking MZ when he knows it's me. Lara 03:11, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Reply

Replied at my talk page. Hope you are doing well. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 19:51, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I am, thanks. We'll respond to your email shortly. — Coren ^(talk) 19:53, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Dinhata (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and Sitai (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

I think CorenSearchBot has made a mistake. The link [[1]] leads to some materials linked with “Fairy Tale of a KOCH Princess, strings of Pain and Happiness and the forgotten Privy Purse!”. The only thing common is that both link to Cooch Behar district. Otherwise there is nothing in common. There is no question of copyright violation in this case, as I have collected the material from Government websites providing information about Indian elections. The text is in my own language. The same pattern has been used by me and other Wikipedians on numerous pages. Please arrange to remove the copyright tags. - Chandan Guha (talk) 02:28, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Climate change proposal typo

Your support vote for the logging proposal in the climate change arbitration is missing a signature. Tasty monster (=TS ) 03:13, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

So it did. Fix't. Thanks. — Coren ^(talk) 04:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

RTV

Coren, I believe WP:RTV does leave open the option to return as the same user, unless I'm misinterpreting the text at RTV (it is a bit confusing). Here is the text from RTV which seems to permit return: " if the user does return these pages may be undeleted or unblanked, and could be linked to any new account they create (if any). Of course the return of users in good standing or reformed "problem users" is welcomed if they happen to change their mind." ATren (talk) 05:17, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, the intent is the same; the vanishing allowed by RTV is undone by a return. I think that whether it's the same account or another is immaterial: the courtesy of blanking things is contingent on not returning. — Coren ^(talk) 12:40, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Essentially, exercising the right to vanish requires you to use no accounts, not because you're forbidden from editing under any accounts, but because editing from any account is by nature giving up the right to vanish. No? Heimstern Läufer (talk) 13:01, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Exactly. — Coren ^(talk) 13:03, 6 September 2010 (UTC)