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Your RfA

I think you should consider withdrawing your RfA. If you work on getting a bit more experienced, I think you'll easily pass in a year or so if you don't have any major problems, but I think it's too early in your Wikipedia career to be pursuing an admin position. Withdrawing the RfA now will at least save you from going through a full RfA that at this point in time doesn't look like it is going to succeed. Inks.LWC (talk) 03:59, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

I'd concur with the above. I could possibly see supporting the next time around, so don't get discouraged. --Rs chen 7754 05:17, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

I agree as well, I wanted to get sone more input before withdrawing. Vaca tion 9 12:06, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

br'erly treats

I added my praise to neutral and would also recommend to collect more input first, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:12, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

ps: I see that I said so too late ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:14, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

I hated being the in neutral column, but RfA demands honesty. Unquestionably, you want to do good things for Wikipedia and have the best interest of the encyclopedia at heart. When you are experienced enough, I look forward to supporting you, and I know you will make a great admin in time. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 13:42, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, and thank you everybody for expressing your opinions. I have certainly taken your opinions to heart. Vaca tion 9 14:18, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Having looked at your contributions, I'm sure you'll make a great admin when the time is ready. You're already doing a lot of the right things, so it's all just down to getting the right experience now - I look forward to being able to support you in the future. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:21, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Vacation9! I didn't post at your RFA, so I just wanted to take a minute to let you know that I've been very impressed with your contributions to the encyclopedia so far. Your bot work has been outstanding and your command of the English language is great. The maturity concerns and lack-of-experience concerns are self-correcting problems that time alone can solve. I would be happy to support a second RFA bid at some time in the future. Best, -- Dianna (talk) 16:07, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
I second all of the above comments. Although I did not participate in your RfA (and had I gotten the chance to comment, I would unfortunately have been opposed at this time), I've seen your name around plenty and I think that with some more experience, you will eventually be ready for adminship. When that day comes, I'll have no hesitation in supporting you. =) Kurtis ^(talk) 08:45, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

FA closing

I noticed that VoxelBot's FA closing task hasn't run since February 27. I'm a little concerned because delayed closures will exacerbate the problem we discussed recently, in that the bot is not using the actual timestamp of closure by the FAC/FAR delegate but rather its own timestamp—which will now be many days off from reality. I see you may have been distracted with RfA business (sorry to hear it didn't go well). Other VoxelBot tasks seem to be running, though; is the FA task simply not automated yet? Thanks as always for your help. Maralia (talk) 04:08, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Hmm... The FA/FL task is scheduled to run at 10:00 UTC daily. It looks like it ran fine this morning. Maybe there was an outage on where VoxelBot is run. Vaca tion 9 12:37, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm glad to see it has run this morning. The bot is still not removing the Featured article tools from the FAC subpages, nor removing GAs-promoted-to-FAs from WP:GA. Hope you can get those functions working.

If you don't foresee having the time/energy to work on adding the delegate timestamp and oldid functions, just let me know and put the code up somewhere; I can always pester someone else. Thanks again. Maralia (talk) 16:42, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Hmmm.. I thought I implemented the remove from GA function, but I guess it's not working... Or maybe I just dreamed implementing it??? Anyway, I'm working on a different project and anyway don't have much time to work on this, the code is up at my GitHub, but I warn anybody looking at it that it was put together quickly and it is very cluttered. Vaca tion 9 16:49, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. Looks like the bot didn't run this task yesterday or today, although the vandalism and notability stats tasks have been running the whole time. Any ideas? Maralia (talk) 17:51, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I typed && instead of and when fixing it last time so there were syntax errors. Just ran it manually. Vaca tion 9 18:04, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

To clarify, there are no errors now. A manual run worked and it's back to it's regularly scheduled daily runs now. Let me know if there are any more issues. Vaca tion 9 03:31, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

New Section

Sorry for the accident. I was changing it. Thanks for doing it for me!----Me

What accident? I see no accident, I see vandalism. Vaca tion 9 22:31, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 March 2013

Op-ed: We must do more to turn readers into editors

News and notes: Outing of editor causes firestorm

Featured content: Slow week for featured content

WikiProject report: WikiProject Television Stations

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EdwardsBot (talk) 21:53, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Voxel

Hi Vacation9, Voxel is sleeping again. I had to update Vandalism Info manually almost 11 hours since Voxel last updated it. Arctic Kangaroo 08:14, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 March 2013

From the editor: Signpost–Wikizine merger

News and notes: Finance committee updates

Featured content: Batman, three birds and a Mercedes

Arbitration report: Doncram case closes; arbitrator resigns

WikiProject report: Setting a precedent

Technology report: Article Feedback reversal

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EdwardsBot (talk) 08:50, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Article Feedback deployment

Hey Vacation9; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:09, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Hello Vacation9, I will be celebrating my birthday on 19 March. So, I would like to give you a treat. If you decide to "eat" the cookie, please reply by placing {{subst:munch}} on my talk page. I hope this cookie has made your day better. Cheers!

Arctic Kangaroo 15:25, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Voxel

Hi Vacation9, Voxel is down yet again. I don't understand why all of a sudden he keeps breaking down. :( Arctic Kangaroo 05:55, 20 March 2013 (UTC)