User talk:Asheiou

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Accreditation

So: guess who is now an Accredited Reporter! I will take action to add you to the proper lists, archive your request, format your card thing etc. soon. I wish we had a devoted email address for you -- but we don't at this time -- part of our many infrastructure issues. But: You're legitimately legit now!!--Bddpaux (talk) 20:46, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

@Bddpaux I have ash@asheiou.uk so we're good email wise. A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 20:53, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

I responded very quickly between doing things, so let me just actually say thanks for approving the request and letting me know! @Bddpaux I'm glad to get a resolution to that request :) A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 21:01, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Congrats! Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 01:13, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

@Michael.C.Wright Thank you ^^ A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 01:15, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations. Welcome to the (other) cabal. To clarify, we do have a domain, wn-reporters.org, and associated mailserver. You can ask acagastya (the mailserver admin) about configuring an email address for you. Heavy Water (talk) 22:25, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

@Acagastya would this be possible? A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 22:28, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Sure. Let me know what's your IRC nick on libera.chat; I will tell you the whole procedure there. •–• 09:26, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

It's Asheiou :) A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 09:30, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I am there now, please ping me once you are there. •–• 17:41, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Deletion of userpage

@Pathoschild I had this wiki on the skip list for my global userpage migration request. Can this please be reverted? A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 20:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Done! Sorry about that; that was a typo when I updated the script for the latest Toolforge changes. —Pathoschild (talk) 21:07, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

No worries, thanks ^^ A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 21:53, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Your article

It was tagged stale but you're new information helps out, thank you @Asheiou BigKrow (talk) 22:40, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer!

So, this is a LEEEETLE early in terms of when you became an Accredited Reporter, but I believe you will use the credentials wisely! Give me a shout if I can help. I will get your nomination page archived/cleaned up soon. [I really need to work on my skills at archiving pages!] Bddpaux (talk) 17:38, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

@Bddpaux I'll see about reviewing an article soon, thank you! A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 21:18, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

@Asheiou, @Bddpaux, well done!!!! BigKrow (talk) 21:29, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't think there was a consensus there... Heavy Water (talk) 06:10, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Well, it was COMFORTABLY over 50% in support. In light of our thin-as-tissue-paper infrastructure, I made a move. I am optimistic about this user. We badly need Reporters reporting and Reviewers reviewing around these parts -- NOT people bogging down in the micro-level bog of Wiki-policy-flotsam.--Bddpaux (talk) 16:51, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Bddpaux: By my count, "three supporters who I think you'll agree are obviously too inexperienced to have suffrage, one who you might consider experienced who opposed, your support, and now my oppose." Heavy Water (talk) 02:10, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

• @Heavy Water I lost sleep over this last night, and that's pathetic. At my stage in the life cycle: I refuse to do pathetic. Locking my ego in a box, I will say this: From Accredited Reporter to Reviewer in less than 30 days is a piece of bad comedy. I am guilty of being a bit too optimistic. This needs to be said: This user has actually done pretty much nothing "wrong" per se, other than being an eager beaver. They should at LEAST be given the opportunity to show their mettle as a Reviewer. This project is held together by 2 drops of glue and a candy wrapper. This year, we have gone 15 days (quite a few times) without a single reviewer taking ANY meaningful action on pending stories. We barely have Reviewers doing a damn thing around this place. Obviously: I smiled a bit too quickly on this RfP. The fact remains: It is hard as heck to mentor a Reviewer unless that person has the Reviewer bit -- not impossible, but hard. Given our tissue paper bedrock, your Churchillian list of questions for potential Reviewers is positively LAUGHABLE, however. Although I am unaware of a molecule of policy in this regard, I will impose a certain type of purgatory on myself over the next 12 months: On all things like this, I will either vote or be the Admin. who takes action -- but I won't do both. In medical terms, let's call that "best practice" for a little while. We've had some wicked weather around my area and I have a lot of that to deal with at home. I will not utter another syllable about this matter. Do as thou wilt. I am stepping away for a few days, but will return soon.--Bddpaux (talk) 13:43, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Article

In a matter of a few hours, I may have an article for you to review.--Bddpaux (talk) 16:51, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

A totally different article entirely

Rapidly approaching stale; good starting point for your first review! Look carefully and the Talk page -- but don't drown in what you find there, either! Just make sure there aren't too many STRAIGHT, DIRECT QUOTES from source article(s). I am trying to be optimistic about this whole 'Pre-review' thing...--Bddpaux (talk) 16:55, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikinews:Flagged revisions/Requests for permissions/Asheiou

I am sorry that the request descended into chaos. I do not see any point in keeping it open. I have removed the permission from your account and closed the request. Please don't be disheartened but do keep contributing and make another request after a bit more experience (as that seems to be the main objection at this time). [₂₄Cr][talk] 17:08, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

I made the request with no expectation of getting it or not, I just wanted to help out. If the community sees it that I am not the right person at the right time, that's a decision I'll respect. I do not want controversy, my goal was not to rock the boat, I just see endless problems with this wiki and no-one coming up with any solutions that people will actually accept.

// If one person being busy is enough to completely destroy this site's output, surely the goal should shift to training people on how to review. I sincerely don't think I'd ever be ready to fully review articles without someone stepping in to provide guidance over the first few. At the moment, the system requires you to have knowledge that you can't easily acquire, as more and more articles rot in the corner. It pains me to see people's work going from the jotter straight into the bin because no-one here has the time to review articles. And that's a chronic problem that's not going to be resolved by not giving people who want to help the tools and information they need.

// If the current reviewers want to help, I think the best course of action would be for them to write down EVERYTHING they do while reviewing, maybe even make a video or article about their whole process, and then allowing people to learn from how things are meant to work. Being given questions whose answers are hidden in page after page of policy and opinion pieces, without any reference to that anywhere else, is counterproductive and is going to leave this website in the same mess it's already in.

That's the bulk of my opinion about this. A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 19:24, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

I deeply concur......

....with the one I choose not to name. This entire pile of STINK has very little to do with you and shouldn't leave ANY fragrance on you. An Administrator (me) who has been here for about 16 years acted a hair faster than would've been advisable. Your only crime was (as I've mentioned) being a bit of an eager beaver. My action to make you a Reviewer has been overridden, closed and archived. There could've been some work arounds on that, but I digress. Please -- do not run away. Your presence here is needed and valued. Keep getting the news. Keep reporting the news. That is the absolute bedrock of what we do here. I am sorry if any of this has caused you anxiety/grief or whatever.
Heck... I might nominate you for Reviewer down the road! I am serious: Don't run away. Contact me on my talk page or even via email if I can help you in some manner. Keep at it!--Bddpaux (talk) 18:05, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Hiya, I know I didn't do anything wrong, I just hate watching controversy bring out the worst in people. I need a few weeks to recompose myself after this whole mess, and then I'll come back. A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 19:12, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

We are all volunteers here. Good things happen at this place, I promise. Please come back soon.--Bddpaux (talk) 19:25, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

I've been here long enough to see the good that can come out of it. I'm not being scared off by this whole mess — tensions get high when people care about things, especially when people have conflicting opinions. I don't think less of any individual or of the project as a whole because of everyone having different ideas, even if those different ideas ended up coming out quite explosively. We're all in this for the same reasons, at the end of the day: to share and report on things that matter to us. A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 19:29, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

About everything

I don't want to overshare, but I'm going through a lot right now (not related to anything going on here) and I don't need to have my emails and notifications filled with arguing, so this is a preemptive note that if you have anything to debate, please take it somewhere else. I've already said my piece and now I need a bit of time to sit back and process. I'm okay expanding or clarifying anything I've already said, but any discussion not directly related to me should please stay somewhere else. Cheers. A.S. Thawley (talk) (calendar) 21:14, 31 May 2024 (UTC)