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I was thinking about going though and purging some inactive users, as I've seen some that've been inactive for 2 years, possibly more. Any objections? --Isro! ^chatter 16:52, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, if you mean removing editors from the individual day pages who left Wikipedia, be sure to leave {{Birthday Committee/Inactive}} on their talk page so they know to re-add themselves should they return. Also, if they were a prolific editor you might list them at WP:MIA, as well. Chris Troutman (talk) 22:07, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for those links, I'll get started then! --Isro! ^chatter 17:01, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If someone's indef blocked, but has been active > 6 months ago, should I remove them or leave them? It was a voluntary block, otherwise, I would've just removed them. --Isro! ^chatter 18:54, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just to note, I'm also adding adminship years to admin birthdays, as it's listed as a rule, and will be helpful for the new admin b-day template. --Isro! ^chatter 20:01, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

January's done! Onto Feb. --Isro! ^chatter 18:59, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the adminship anniversary messages, but I don't need two on the day and another the day after. One message on behalf of the committee is plenty. Thryduulf (talk) 17:02, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thryduulf, Wow, three messages from what I can see. Congrats on the anniversary, btw. I think members are a bit exuberant about making sure messages make it to everyone, sort of like answering questions at the Teahouse. Hopefully it's taken into consideration and thank you for the kindly reminder and I, for one, appreciate your service to the encyclopedia and community. --ARoseWolf 17:15, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you would prefer not to be listed, Thryduulf, you won't receive any messages. We don't otherwise take individual preferences into account. Our current direction is "More than one person from the committee may send messages to the same person and belated greetings are ok too but we can revisit that since you're the only editor out of hundreds that seemed to have a problem of this nature. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:35, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Thryduulf: I understand your POV but I think what is worth celebrating is worth celebrating. I even imagine a situation where a celebrant can get up to 20 wishes. A similar situation happened a few days ago where an admin removed the wishes we sent from someone else's talk page which brought a little problem. I was very unimpressed that day because a part of this project says "More than one member can post on a talk page" and besides, no one is forcing anyone on this list. We post base on names we see here. For me, I don't check talk page if the person has received a message or not. Like you can see on my userpage, the names of those celebrating today are already there, I just click from there and post my message. In a nutshell, you received a message because your name is somewhere, if your no longer want to receive such messages, then you might maybe consider removing your name. Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 18:46, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have noticed that this too-many-messages thing is currently happening at User talk:Redrose64 (permalink). That editor hasn't said anything about the repeating messages, but surely one is enough.

How can I unsubscribe so that the committee don't send me any of these kinds of messages?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:58, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Trappist the monk, have you added your name to any of the categories? --ARoseWolf 14:58, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Which categories? The project page lists Category:Current Wikipedia birthdays which is populated by a variety of userboxes; none of which I have. The category page suggests adding the text |wikibirthday=no inside your {{User Wikipedian for}} box but since I haven't got that box, that method won't work. I periodically get adminship anniversary messages apparently from the same committee that deliver the happy-first-edit-day messages.

So, my question remains unanswered. How can I unsubscribe so that the committee don't send me any of these kinds of messages?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:40, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Trappist the monk, try doing this, go to the template page of your anniversary date i.e Wikipedia:Birthday Committee/Calendar/May/18( For those whose anniversary day is 18 May) and remove your name. I think from there you ought not to receive the messages since you won't appear in the templates. Hope that helps. Cheers --Megan B.... ^{It’s all coming to me} till the end of time 15:57, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, now unsubscribed. Thank you.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:18, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

We shouldn't be adding names for anyone but ourselves anyway, meaning only those that want to be notified should be notified by adding their own names to a category or the calendar listed on the project page. I am glad this got resolved for you, @Trappist the monk. --ARoseWolf 16:58, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Several places tell me that I can add my WikiBirthday to the calendar ... but they give no indication of HOW to do that. Clicking on today on that calendar displays a list of today's events - but again, no clue how that gets generated or how to update it. How can an editor add their first edit date (or actual birthday) to the system? Gronk Oz (talk) 02:27, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gronk Oz, on the project page you see the calendar and under it a description of today's events. At the bottom of that box there are two links under "Other events". Choose the "this year" link. You will see the entire year in monthly calendars by scrolling down the page. Choose the month and day you want by clicking on it. You can edit the source like you would for any other article or page, add your name in the format as others have for the proper category and publish. :) --ARoseWolf 13:47, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ARoseWolf: Thanks for the reply. Done it now. I naïvely thought that these entries would be pulled from some kind of database query; it never occurred to me that it was just hard-coded text like this.--Gronk Oz (talk) 14:51, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've edited {{Happy Adminship}} so that it now automatically retrieves the year someone became an admin if it is listed on the Birthday Calendar (like this), and mentions the anniversary number if so (e.g. "happy fourth anniversary"). Many admins on the Birthday Calendar have not listed the year, so as we go through the calendar this year, I'd encourage adding them! (Courtesy pinging @The Herald as I know you're active in this area.) Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 15:46, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sdkb, Thanks a lot. Can something similar be done for first edit too, if possible? I'm not good with codes. Thanks. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 16:13, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@The Herald, done for that, and for {{Happy Bureaucratship}} and {{Happy Birthday}} as well!

There are many years to be added on the calendar, and despite my edit to the instructions, they won't happen naturally because people tend to just copy what's there already. So I hope that Birthday Committee members can add the years as we cycle through the calendar this year — once we've done that, we'll be good to go for the future! Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 05:42, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, thank you for the birthday wishes each year. It's a very kind gesture. I received the good wishes a few days ago and wanted to remove myself from your 3 October calendar as the date isn't right; I had a prior account that Arbcom agreed to courtesy-vanish when I ran for admin. Anyway, I can't find myself in your calendar and am thus puzzled why I received the message. My "true birthday" is 5 August 2007, by the way. I'd be happy to receive messages on that day. Schwede66 05:38, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, it was from Adr28382 as per the contribs page. I can't find the entry either. But I'll add yours to August 5th gladly. Thanks. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 07:27, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Schwede66, I wished you for your first edit day which is on 4th October. I am sorry for being one day late (I wished you on 5th October). I don't remember where I got your entry from. It seems that your entry has been removed or is missing. Anyways, thank you for pointing out your confusion.. Adr28382 (talk) 05:53, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]