User talk:Robjordan

United Kingdom FAQ

The UK FAQ page you've made should stick to UK-specific FAQs. Visitors should be pointed to the general FAQ for general questions about the ride. This will avoid a lot of duplication! – Nsayers 08:19, 28 Apr 2006 (PDT)

Special:RequestAccount

[1] :-) - Erik Baas 16:40, 18 June 2012 (PDT)

Account request from "toby"

Hi, Rob. Is there any reason for keeping this account request from "toby" "on hold" ? - Erik Baas 15:56, 2 November 2012 (PDT)

Never mind, I've "accepted" the request, we'll see what happens. - Erik Baas 14:18, 4 November 2012 (PST)

Wiki migration

Thanks for letting me know on my talk page. Let's hope it goes well, this time. I would like to ask you two things:

• Please do install also the parser functions extension in the php.
• Please, grant me at least admin rights, so as to e.g. delete (such as the unnecessary redirect Czech Republic, moved to Czechia), and to edit common js, css and protected templates — and also so as not to become reverted and suddenly blocked by anyone lacking a decent conscience: without warning, and after my simply awaiting its end, again without warning extending the block in a futile attempt to force me into contacting him privately, despite my earlier refusal to conspire out of the view of all readers [especially after my sensing his usage of technically false pretenses during even earlier discussions]). That has kept me 10 years away from (then and still) highly needed work, that I'm doing now. Don't worry, I don't hold grudges, but I don't want to see it repeated at any time either.
• Perhaps it is safer to grant 'bureaucrat' rights instead, because of the severe dangers of inexperienced site-wide replacing, which I would do. Then ensure:
  $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['replacetext'] = true;
  $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['suppressredirect'] = true;

Good luck.
SomeHuman (talk) 16:45-18:13, 22 April 2020 (PDT)

According to English wikipedia, Czech Republic is the official name. I suggest rolling back this move to Czechia. - Erik Baas (talk) 15:37, 23 April 2020 (PDT)

As far as I know, not one other country ever showed its "official name" in the List of rides. You could have read such in my move justification, before suggesting to roll back. You might also read, or refer to, WP more carefully: "The Czech Republic also known by its short-form name, Czechia" or look at the page wikipedia:Czech Republic (disambiguation) and more importantly (with my emphasis in bold) wikipedia:Czechia (disambiguation): "Czechia is the official short form name of the Czech Republic." The naming of articles on WP is often the result of personal political viewpoints, despite the rules — unless you can explain why else this article would exist: wikipedia:Name of the Czech Republic, which opens with (again with my emphasis in bold): "The Czech Republic's official formal and short names at the United Nations are Česká republika and Česko in Czech, and the Czech Republic and Czechia in English." And its chapter 'Adoption of Czechia' shows samples of who beside us are using that name, even as the sole form. Also the 'Wikipedians' in Czechia are up-to-date: their article is named Česko.

Compare with another WP article, e.g. "Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium" and many others. Here, there is no 'Kingdom of Belgium' redirect page: The World Naked Bike Ride wiki goes with only the everyday short names all the time and had only one exception, which I corrected, and which should be followed by deletion of the stand-alone redirect page and redirect category. I rarely happen to do things without proper investigation and giving it some serious thought. This implies my properly having taken care of all consequences of the move.
SomeHuman (talk) 00:44-06:32, 24 April 2020 (PDT)

Thanks, Rob, for the news you dropped on my talk page. One technical surprise: Even after logging off and on again, I do not have a 'Delete' or 'Rename' [or is it 'Move'} (or such dropping down from a 'More'). Never mind: As before with the move, being granted a higher authorization, now also the delete can easily be performed from the url. It may take a while before I'll be doing something in js. I'll check out the search/replace one of these days.

By the way, your response was quick enough. Being a 'bureaucrat' at a minor encyclopaedia strictly about my home city, I'm waiting since weeks for the default skin to be set back to Vector (for which a quite different look is set up in the css). Though I had even sent him the exact $wg and userOptions commands, so he wouldn't need to look it up, still, I won't be holding my breath soon. ;-)
SomeHuman (talk) 15:18, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Re: Folkestone‎‎

Hello, Rob.

• I deleted a couple of duplicated files, but didn't yet find the time to explain that to SimonMRnudey‎‎, sorry about that. S. doesn't seem to know that a file can be renamed, but rather uploads the same one again, with another title.
• I deleted File:2021POSTER (2021).gif and wanted to keep Med.gif, because the latter has a (long!) history of updates. Renaming the file would have been a far better solution.
• 2021POSTER_(2021).gif ("a much clearer, better name") is no correct title either, at least the word "Folkestone" should be in it. My suggestion: "Folkestone poster 2021.gif". Otherwise someone else might upload a file with the same title for their own WNBR (in some other city), like has happened a couple of time before already.
• You wrote I "have disrupted the page", that's not true: I fixed the filename, so nothing was "disrupted". I did however change the layout of the page, because it was much too wide for a normal computer screen. And I removed the blank images S. was using for spacing and centering the text, because that's just wrong. I used HTML, the way it should be.

So, no disruption at all, just maintenance and keeping pages readable for everybody. - Erik Baas (talk) 17:54, 29 April 2021 (UTC)