User talk:Black Kite

I'm not around all the time. If you urgently require action on some admin-related issue, it may be better to contact another admin. Admins - if I haven't edited for a while and you genuinely believe I have made an error, please feel free to reverse it.

Regarding my Edit Warring warning

I am aware of the 3 revert rule, and have no intentions to revert indefinitely. You have written "To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors." This is exactly what I have done and none of the other people involved in this edit war have engaged. From the very point when I made this edit, I have asked for a response on the talk page. All 3 people who have reverted my post (yourself included) have not given me a response. Could you kindly do so? Bosstopher (talk) 20:27, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think NorthbySouthBaranof's comment on the talk page (which sums the issue up) together with mine and others edit-summaries make it quite clear, do they not? Black Kite (talk) 20:28, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I do not think so. Hence why I wrote a response to them before making my edit justifying my position. Baranof's comment only explains why the sources shouldnt be used to accuse anti-GamerGate people of being behind the DDoS. It does not justify leaving it out of the article altogether. I have posted why I think this is warranted article space in the talk page, and not of the edit summaries have even remotely adressed any of the points i have made, with the first edit comment made by Tarc [unless I failed to understand it] being just plain factually incorrect. A response to my post in the talk page is warranted in this situation. Bosstopher (talk) 20:42, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Since, even if the event actually happened, we don't know who was actually behind it and whether it was relevant to GamerGate itself, that's (one of) the problem(s). Black Kite (talk) 20:46, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - I have addressed this point in both my talk page response (which brings up the comparison to the indiegogo hacking), and in the edit i made itself, which specifically points out how the claim that thread page for GamerGate on the escapist [rather than any other part of the website] was DDoSed. Could you kindly respond to these points on the GamerGate talk page itself. I ask this so that other editors can join into the discussion. Is it also ok if I copy and paste this discussion into the talk page for further clarity or do you object? Also what reason do we have to suspect the DDoS didnt happen at all. Nobody has brought up any reasons for these suspicions on the talk page. Bosstopher (talk) 20:54, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      - There's no point in engaging this user. He ignores rules, proof, and common sense. He clearly has an agenda and abuses his power to enforce it. He deletes discussions that he doesn't like, deletes mentions that not everybody agrees with his view, deletes any trace that the story being told might not be true. I've already engaged him over a similar issue. Really no point. It's like talking to a tree. Watch this page's history to see what I mean. Capilleary (talk) 12:09, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gresford disaster

The reason for my doubt about the copyright status of the song is that, currently, anonymous works in the UK seem to be copyright protected for 70 years (see for example commons:Commons:Anonymous works). Although this would put it out of copyright in the UK this means it would have been in copyright on the date of restoration (see Wikipedia:Non-U.S. copyrights) and so would be copyrighted in the US for 95 years from publication and so still in copyright in the US (again see the commons page or WP:PD. I'm far from convinced by my reasoning but am concerned enough to tag it. Do you have a different take on the situation?

Not at all, as I said I wasn't sure, so since the article was on the main page I thought the best course of action was to remove the possible copyvio until we could work out exactly what the situation was. Black Kite (talk) 17:33, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Admin

As you are an Admin, you should say so on your userpage. When you made this edit, I looked and then reverted as an NAC closure. Please do not expect us gnomes to look at the admin list, or guess. Thanks. – S. Rich (talk) 07:53, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Small question

Sorry to trouble you with minor question: in your closing of the EC ANI you mentioned the loss of 2 editors this week. I assume Sitush was one; who was the other? I missed that. DeCausa (talk) 08:40, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Flyer22. -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 08:45, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks. DeCausa (talk) 08:53, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]