Three of the items I listed have received the checkmark in green symbol (in the March 25, 28, and 30th lists respectively). Will all three therefore be listed and if so about when? Also, will I be notified? Thanks! Sincerley, -- A Nobody My talk 02:46, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I recently created a little graphic to illustrate mushing, but I'm having problems getting it to display correctly. In Wikipedia, it's riddled with jpg artifacts; What's the best way to eliminate these and get a file Wikipedia will accept? JKBrooks85 ( talk) 04:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Willing to re-run? Just look at you. Over 200 featured credits at enWP alone, enviable experience and knowledge of wiki policy, former admin, and most importantly, you've learned from the mistake because of which you resigned as a sysop. If you're willing to run for re-adminship, I would be deeply honored to nominate you (and I'm sure many other users would, too). Dylan620 : Chat 21:35, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Wow. No need to actually run the RfA, just call over a crat with the anointing oil.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 22:13, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you all very very much. :) What I'd really much rather have than a few tools that aren't very important, is my good name back. I was the only administrator in the history of Wikipedia for whom recall was rendered involuntary. My RfC was obsolete twelve hours after it opened when it proceeded to RFAR. The proposed decision went up less than 24 hours after arbitration opened, and before I could assemble or post half my evidence one-third of the entire Committee had voted. That all unfolded over Thanksgiving weekend regarding one 75-minute block that I had long since reversed with apologies. Yes, that was a bad block and I remain very sorry for it, but ArbCom's response seemed excessive. So rather than file my own appeal (which would be selfish) for the last year and a half I have endeavored to prevent similar arbitration excesses from happening to anybody else, and to correct them when they do occur. One more administrator wouldn't make much difference to what this site is, but a culture that values character over power--that would be impressive. If anyone files an appeal of my arbitration decision, I would be eternally grateful. Warm respect and regards,
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I have to say - your RfA would be interesting. But yes, you are honest and you are open to conversation. Those are two things that are definitely required traits. Ottava Rima ( talk) 03:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
(outdent) User:John Carter/Durova revised to reflect wishes expressed above. John Carter ( talk) 13:37, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Apropos of nothing other than the surprising number of people who are commenting at this thread, may I make a request? ScienceApologist is working on a featured article drive for the optics article and he could really use your help. As many of you know he cannot edit onsite, so his draft is here. Your eyes to review the article, copyedit, etc. would really help. Whether or not anything comes of the main thread above, it would be delightful to help him become the first Wikipedian to write a featured article while sitebanned. And it would really be good for Wikipedia to have a better article on this important subject. Technical expertise not required for review: what's most needed are people with general educations to say this part is unclear; could you explain the context? Please spread the word. Durova Charge! 18:28, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova. A picture of deceased Wikipedia editor User:Jeffpw laughing as he tries to balance three birds on himself was placed on this article. His mother sent the photo to us. It was quite a collaborative effort between three different editors to improve the image. I put a caption that directly referenced the section it is found under. There are few graphic illustrations on the article, yet one editor is edit-warring to remove it. Could you take a look and offer your opinion? --David Shankbone 14:56, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Durova, would you mind recreating this article. I plan on expanding it as well as establishing notability that he has gained in the past year. Thanks, Grsz 11 20:11, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
(Posting this here as you usually seem the best person to ask, but anyone else feel free to answer)
Hi – do you have any ideas about how to fix up this image to clean up its issues? It's one that would be a really useful one to have on Tunnel Railway – it shows the tunnels as they were in the mid-1980s, 20 years after being abandoned but before deteriorating completely. However, it's scanned from a 25-year-old transparency, and has obvious problems with sharpness and color balance. My first thought is that the simplest solution may be to translate the whole thing into grayscale, but obviously it would be a shame to lose the color if there's any way to salvage it – can you suggest anything? (The article itself is currently at FAC, so I'm also going to ask on the FAC request itself.)
Many thanks! – iride scent 21:39, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
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Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Typhoid inoculation2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 5, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-04-05. This one came a little late because I wanted to put some distance between it and File:The cow pock.jpg. howcheng { chat} 23:45, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Both captions look perfect. Thank you very much. :) Durova Charge! 01:22, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
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I never bore you any animosity. I think you id a silly thing, and that caused a frustrating roadblock in something that badly needed to happen, but I've never borne any animosity about it. I've no idea why you'd think I did. Guy ( Help!) 17:54, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
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I find your style most unpleasant to deal with, the way you seem to assume bad faith of me and pick fights. You comment on many disputes. This makes it hard for me to do anything on this site without joining the same conversation as you on occasion. I dislike the way you keep threatening me with process. Please, if you have a problem with me, find a trustworthy intermediary to address it. Pick any arbitrator. Tell them your concern and ask them to talk to me. Please stay off my talk page. Jehochman Talk 06:06, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Actually, when we wrote the policy on threats we specifically worded it so that it could not be construed as applying to statements of intention to use proper site processes. To say that someone fails to recuse when appropriate is no accusation of bad faith; indeed, I have delayed formal dispute resolution considerably in the hope that it could be avoided altogether. It often happens that when Person A accuses Person B of something B isn't doing, it's because A is doing it himself, so in that light your edit summary here is disappointing but not really surprising. "Despise" me if you must; the feeling is not mutual. I prefer to separate the conduct from the individual. For the present I'll hold out the hope that you ate a bad fish tonight, or caught the flu, or had a blown tire or something like that and it's not really personal. Heading to bed now (it's late in my time zone, must be an ungodly hour in yours). Best wishes, Durova Charge! 06:53, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Twice in the past half year I have initiated RFARs where I could have named you as a party but didn't. The people you specify are some of Wikipedia's finest contributors. It's good to know that you trust them. Durova Charge! 17:19, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
I went off your comments here and made the switch on optics, so that the editors there become aware there is another version. I wanted to notify you since I pulled this from your talk page / blog. Certainly feel free to revert. It just strikes me the best people to do what you want (makie it less dense) are SA himself and the people on optics. This is about 80k of new material, and fairly dense material at that. My temptation in thinking about what you wanted is to expand some of the sections (which would pull it up to about 200k) but also break this apart into a bunch of sub articles, but I would rather have broad community discussion. jbolden1517 Talk 15:17, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
We're using your clever Hamlet image. :) Awadewit ( talk) 18:24, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
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Durova, I don't recognize this editor name at WP:GO? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:17, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
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Your contributions to the JzG RfC only increase my already considerable respect for you. I would just like to mention one little thing: I'm not convinced that criticizing the conduct of another editor (on the talk page) was relevant, necessary or productive. However, I really appreciate your contribution to the discussion, which except for that one little point is absolutely right on target, very wise. Thank you. And by the way, while I'm here I noticed the SA optics article. That's fantastic! Maybe we should all get ourselves sitebanned from time to time so we have time to actually write articles. ☺ Coppertwig ( talk) 13:31, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi there; Could you please look at [ [1]] and give an opinion? -- Anthony.bradbury "talk" 15:11, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
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Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:German instrument of surrender2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 7, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-05-07. howcheng { chat} 15:48, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Both look great; excellent choices for the timing. :) Durova Charge! 16:08, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Back to our regularly scheduled POTD items, File:Cowardly lion2.jpg is coming up on April 11. howcheng { chat} 17:10, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
[2] About SA's optics edits by proxy. -- KP Botany ( talk) 22:46, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
edit due to the ban, and the folks who decide that question is arbcom. A clearcut answer will settle the situation to which the arbcom enforcement request is made. I think arbcom is best to settle that issue. (edit conflict). Thanks for posting the license. I will look at it. -- KP Botany ( talk) 23:28, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
What's the license issue? You say the port is a license problem, I asked for a link to the license, and you just gave a link to an edit of the page. What's the license issue? It can't be used? Why not? --
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I asked another user for clarification on the copyright issue. I'm having a hard time following what your concern is. [3] -- KP Botany ( talk) 23:14, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
And I'm doing my best to be reasonable. The optics article was underdeveloped, uncontroversial, important, and quiet. You took no interest in it until you discovered that ScienceApologist was working to improve it. Immediately you opened an arbitration enforcement thread, although there was already ample evidence onsite that no violation of the arbitration case had occurred. You notified me of it only after you had initiated it, then refused to accept my assurances that it was unnecessary. Yesterday I went over to the Optics talk page, which had gotten zero posts for eleven months, to find you had freshly posted this among other choice comments:
Which could reasonably be construed to be in violation of this policy clause:
This is taking on the appearance that you are raising every procedural objection imaginable to impede the progress of a featured article drive for a topic in which you demonstrate no other interest than antipathy toward its principal author. And in doing so you are also also disrupting other featured content work: I am writing up a featured picture nomination about the Suez Canal and interrupted it twice in order to answer you here, and this is pushing back another restoration which is currently on another open window on my system.
Also, the immediate transfer of data you have been seeking (for no clearly articulated reason) would place unreasonable burden upon my limited time as the primary author implements new edits and I transfer them. When I suggested you instead perform the transfers--if that's really so important to get it here immediately--you changed the subject. Note also a clause from our civility policy:
Now clarify things please if I have misunderstood somehow. Otherwise, if this continues much further, I may very well open an administrative noticeboard thread regarding you for violating WP:BAN and WP:CIVIL, plus the remarkably WP:POINTy accomplishment of interfering with three featured content drives simultaneously. Durova Charge! 00:04, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you; that sounds very useful. :) Durova Charge! 15:14, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
لenna vecia 12:41, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
What an acute comment! I just could not stop giggling for minutes.-- Caspian blue 17:38, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Durova. I'm curious how you stumbled across the merge discussion, given you're not a part of the project, and I don't remember seeing you editing a hurricane article. ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk) 18:34, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hello, knowing your skills in the clean up of images. Could you please clean up this piece? M.K. ( talk) 11:44, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
So I imagine you knitting quietly, on a comfy chair while PBS' Masterpiece Theatre is on, or NPR, which is better for your eyes because you have reading glasses perched on your nose, with a long, thin chain keeping them around your neck. Knitting your sockpuppets, and collecting a stash of props for them. When in walks a family member or friend getting some coffee.
"Whatcha making?" the family member asks.
"A sockpuppet" says Durova.
Beat. Pause. (This is where I might forgo the coffee and turn and walk out of the room, but no, the relative soldiers on...)
"Are you going to be putting on a show?" asks the relative, wondering where the children might come from.
"No, this is a Wikipedia sockpuppet."
The relative cries.
I have two bookshelves full of material that I keep constantly stocked, rotating all the time while I'm working on an article. My brother and sister-in-law come over and read the titles and ask me, "Who the hell reads all this?" I do, apparently. Should I start to make knitted characters to represent the faceless denizens of the cyberworld I inhabit, the mocking would never end. I, at least, find the trolls to be very funny. The ruler. Classic. Fergus MacTroll! Lulz. It says "Fairrrrrrgus", rolling that R like a Flamenco dancer. You entertained me, at least. Consider that how you will. -- Moni3 ( talk) 16:51, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you very much, Durova. You're the one who deserves the applause, though. Both of those articles have come up from nothing in the past few days, and you've lead the effort. Well done to you! :-) — Anonymous Dissident Talk 02:43, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hey, I asked Iridescent for some advise regarding potential images from Michael Jackson's forthcoming concerts. I'm quite sure the venue will make a well published ban on taking cameras and video recorders into the arena. That said, some people will obviously get away with it, a million people are going. So it raises the question, can we accept these images if the venue has a ban in place? Your advise is appreciated. — R 2 19:19, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Hullo. Dropping a note to say I'm proposing File:Ambrose Everett Burnside.jpg for delisting as a Featured Picture. I put up a higher resolution, less agressively restored version. -- Michel Vuijlsteke ( talk) 03:51, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
On behalf of the Kindness campaign, I just wanted to wish my fellow Wikipedians a Happy Easter! Sincerely, -- A Nobody My talk 06:09, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Three of the items I listed have received the checkmark in green symbol (in the March 25, 28, and 30th lists respectively). Will all three therefore be listed and if so about when? Also, will I be notified? Thanks! Sincerley, -- A Nobody My talk 02:46, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I recently created a little graphic to illustrate mushing, but I'm having problems getting it to display correctly. In Wikipedia, it's riddled with jpg artifacts; What's the best way to eliminate these and get a file Wikipedia will accept? JKBrooks85 ( talk) 04:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Willing to re-run? Just look at you. Over 200 featured credits at enWP alone, enviable experience and knowledge of wiki policy, former admin, and most importantly, you've learned from the mistake because of which you resigned as a sysop. If you're willing to run for re-adminship, I would be deeply honored to nominate you (and I'm sure many other users would, too). Dylan620 : Chat 21:35, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Wow. No need to actually run the RfA, just call over a crat with the anointing oil.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 22:13, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you all very very much. :) What I'd really much rather have than a few tools that aren't very important, is my good name back. I was the only administrator in the history of Wikipedia for whom recall was rendered involuntary. My RfC was obsolete twelve hours after it opened when it proceeded to RFAR. The proposed decision went up less than 24 hours after arbitration opened, and before I could assemble or post half my evidence one-third of the entire Committee had voted. That all unfolded over Thanksgiving weekend regarding one 75-minute block that I had long since reversed with apologies. Yes, that was a bad block and I remain very sorry for it, but ArbCom's response seemed excessive. So rather than file my own appeal (which would be selfish) for the last year and a half I have endeavored to prevent similar arbitration excesses from happening to anybody else, and to correct them when they do occur. One more administrator wouldn't make much difference to what this site is, but a culture that values character over power--that would be impressive. If anyone files an appeal of my arbitration decision, I would be eternally grateful. Warm respect and regards,
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I have to say - your RfA would be interesting. But yes, you are honest and you are open to conversation. Those are two things that are definitely required traits. Ottava Rima ( talk) 03:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
(outdent) User:John Carter/Durova revised to reflect wishes expressed above. John Carter ( talk) 13:37, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Apropos of nothing other than the surprising number of people who are commenting at this thread, may I make a request? ScienceApologist is working on a featured article drive for the optics article and he could really use your help. As many of you know he cannot edit onsite, so his draft is here. Your eyes to review the article, copyedit, etc. would really help. Whether or not anything comes of the main thread above, it would be delightful to help him become the first Wikipedian to write a featured article while sitebanned. And it would really be good for Wikipedia to have a better article on this important subject. Technical expertise not required for review: what's most needed are people with general educations to say this part is unclear; could you explain the context? Please spread the word. Durova Charge! 18:28, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova. A picture of deceased Wikipedia editor User:Jeffpw laughing as he tries to balance three birds on himself was placed on this article. His mother sent the photo to us. It was quite a collaborative effort between three different editors to improve the image. I put a caption that directly referenced the section it is found under. There are few graphic illustrations on the article, yet one editor is edit-warring to remove it. Could you take a look and offer your opinion? --David Shankbone 14:56, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Durova, would you mind recreating this article. I plan on expanding it as well as establishing notability that he has gained in the past year. Thanks, Grsz 11 20:11, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
(Posting this here as you usually seem the best person to ask, but anyone else feel free to answer)
Hi – do you have any ideas about how to fix up this image to clean up its issues? It's one that would be a really useful one to have on Tunnel Railway – it shows the tunnels as they were in the mid-1980s, 20 years after being abandoned but before deteriorating completely. However, it's scanned from a 25-year-old transparency, and has obvious problems with sharpness and color balance. My first thought is that the simplest solution may be to translate the whole thing into grayscale, but obviously it would be a shame to lose the color if there's any way to salvage it – can you suggest anything? (The article itself is currently at FAC, so I'm also going to ask on the FAC request itself.)
Many thanks! – iride scent 21:39, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
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Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Typhoid inoculation2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 5, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-04-05. This one came a little late because I wanted to put some distance between it and File:The cow pock.jpg. howcheng { chat} 23:45, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Both captions look perfect. Thank you very much. :) Durova Charge! 01:22, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
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I never bore you any animosity. I think you id a silly thing, and that caused a frustrating roadblock in something that badly needed to happen, but I've never borne any animosity about it. I've no idea why you'd think I did. Guy ( Help!) 17:54, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
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I find your style most unpleasant to deal with, the way you seem to assume bad faith of me and pick fights. You comment on many disputes. This makes it hard for me to do anything on this site without joining the same conversation as you on occasion. I dislike the way you keep threatening me with process. Please, if you have a problem with me, find a trustworthy intermediary to address it. Pick any arbitrator. Tell them your concern and ask them to talk to me. Please stay off my talk page. Jehochman Talk 06:06, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Actually, when we wrote the policy on threats we specifically worded it so that it could not be construed as applying to statements of intention to use proper site processes. To say that someone fails to recuse when appropriate is no accusation of bad faith; indeed, I have delayed formal dispute resolution considerably in the hope that it could be avoided altogether. It often happens that when Person A accuses Person B of something B isn't doing, it's because A is doing it himself, so in that light your edit summary here is disappointing but not really surprising. "Despise" me if you must; the feeling is not mutual. I prefer to separate the conduct from the individual. For the present I'll hold out the hope that you ate a bad fish tonight, or caught the flu, or had a blown tire or something like that and it's not really personal. Heading to bed now (it's late in my time zone, must be an ungodly hour in yours). Best wishes, Durova Charge! 06:53, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Twice in the past half year I have initiated RFARs where I could have named you as a party but didn't. The people you specify are some of Wikipedia's finest contributors. It's good to know that you trust them. Durova Charge! 17:19, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
I went off your comments here and made the switch on optics, so that the editors there become aware there is another version. I wanted to notify you since I pulled this from your talk page / blog. Certainly feel free to revert. It just strikes me the best people to do what you want (makie it less dense) are SA himself and the people on optics. This is about 80k of new material, and fairly dense material at that. My temptation in thinking about what you wanted is to expand some of the sections (which would pull it up to about 200k) but also break this apart into a bunch of sub articles, but I would rather have broad community discussion. jbolden1517 Talk 15:17, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
We're using your clever Hamlet image. :) Awadewit ( talk) 18:24, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
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Your contributions to the JzG RfC only increase my already considerable respect for you. I would just like to mention one little thing: I'm not convinced that criticizing the conduct of another editor (on the talk page) was relevant, necessary or productive. However, I really appreciate your contribution to the discussion, which except for that one little point is absolutely right on target, very wise. Thank you. And by the way, while I'm here I noticed the SA optics article. That's fantastic! Maybe we should all get ourselves sitebanned from time to time so we have time to actually write articles. ☺ Coppertwig ( talk) 13:31, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi there; Could you please look at [ [1]] and give an opinion? -- Anthony.bradbury "talk" 15:11, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
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Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:German instrument of surrender2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 7, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-05-07. howcheng { chat} 15:48, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Both look great; excellent choices for the timing. :) Durova Charge! 16:08, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Back to our regularly scheduled POTD items, File:Cowardly lion2.jpg is coming up on April 11. howcheng { chat} 17:10, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
[2] About SA's optics edits by proxy. -- KP Botany ( talk) 22:46, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
edit due to the ban, and the folks who decide that question is arbcom. A clearcut answer will settle the situation to which the arbcom enforcement request is made. I think arbcom is best to settle that issue. (edit conflict). Thanks for posting the license. I will look at it. -- KP Botany ( talk) 23:28, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
What's the license issue? You say the port is a license problem, I asked for a link to the license, and you just gave a link to an edit of the page. What's the license issue? It can't be used? Why not? --
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I asked another user for clarification on the copyright issue. I'm having a hard time following what your concern is. [3] -- KP Botany ( talk) 23:14, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
And I'm doing my best to be reasonable. The optics article was underdeveloped, uncontroversial, important, and quiet. You took no interest in it until you discovered that ScienceApologist was working to improve it. Immediately you opened an arbitration enforcement thread, although there was already ample evidence onsite that no violation of the arbitration case had occurred. You notified me of it only after you had initiated it, then refused to accept my assurances that it was unnecessary. Yesterday I went over to the Optics talk page, which had gotten zero posts for eleven months, to find you had freshly posted this among other choice comments:
Which could reasonably be construed to be in violation of this policy clause:
This is taking on the appearance that you are raising every procedural objection imaginable to impede the progress of a featured article drive for a topic in which you demonstrate no other interest than antipathy toward its principal author. And in doing so you are also also disrupting other featured content work: I am writing up a featured picture nomination about the Suez Canal and interrupted it twice in order to answer you here, and this is pushing back another restoration which is currently on another open window on my system.
Also, the immediate transfer of data you have been seeking (for no clearly articulated reason) would place unreasonable burden upon my limited time as the primary author implements new edits and I transfer them. When I suggested you instead perform the transfers--if that's really so important to get it here immediately--you changed the subject. Note also a clause from our civility policy:
Now clarify things please if I have misunderstood somehow. Otherwise, if this continues much further, I may very well open an administrative noticeboard thread regarding you for violating WP:BAN and WP:CIVIL, plus the remarkably WP:POINTy accomplishment of interfering with three featured content drives simultaneously. Durova Charge! 00:04, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you; that sounds very useful. :) Durova Charge! 15:14, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
لenna vecia 12:41, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
What an acute comment! I just could not stop giggling for minutes.-- Caspian blue 17:38, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Durova. I'm curious how you stumbled across the merge discussion, given you're not a part of the project, and I don't remember seeing you editing a hurricane article. ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk) 18:34, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hello, knowing your skills in the clean up of images. Could you please clean up this piece? M.K. ( talk) 11:44, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
So I imagine you knitting quietly, on a comfy chair while PBS' Masterpiece Theatre is on, or NPR, which is better for your eyes because you have reading glasses perched on your nose, with a long, thin chain keeping them around your neck. Knitting your sockpuppets, and collecting a stash of props for them. When in walks a family member or friend getting some coffee.
"Whatcha making?" the family member asks.
"A sockpuppet" says Durova.
Beat. Pause. (This is where I might forgo the coffee and turn and walk out of the room, but no, the relative soldiers on...)
"Are you going to be putting on a show?" asks the relative, wondering where the children might come from.
"No, this is a Wikipedia sockpuppet."
The relative cries.
I have two bookshelves full of material that I keep constantly stocked, rotating all the time while I'm working on an article. My brother and sister-in-law come over and read the titles and ask me, "Who the hell reads all this?" I do, apparently. Should I start to make knitted characters to represent the faceless denizens of the cyberworld I inhabit, the mocking would never end. I, at least, find the trolls to be very funny. The ruler. Classic. Fergus MacTroll! Lulz. It says "Fairrrrrrgus", rolling that R like a Flamenco dancer. You entertained me, at least. Consider that how you will. -- Moni3 ( talk) 16:51, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting the Oxford bid to hold Wikimania 2010! We're currently in the final stages of the bid process - the jury will be announcing their decision by the 16th April. We're currently putting together the local team for the bid (who will do what if the bid wins); if you're able to be on the local team, please put your name in the appropriate place on m:Wikimania 2010/Bids/Oxford/Team. We'd also welcome anything you can do to help refine the bid in these last few days. If you have any questions, please let me or User:Seddon know. Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 21:51, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much, Durova. You're the one who deserves the applause, though. Both of those articles have come up from nothing in the past few days, and you've lead the effort. Well done to you! :-) — Anonymous Dissident Talk 02:43, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hey, I asked Iridescent for some advise regarding potential images from Michael Jackson's forthcoming concerts. I'm quite sure the venue will make a well published ban on taking cameras and video recorders into the arena. That said, some people will obviously get away with it, a million people are going. So it raises the question, can we accept these images if the venue has a ban in place? Your advise is appreciated. — R 2 19:19, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Hullo. Dropping a note to say I'm proposing File:Ambrose Everett Burnside.jpg for delisting as a Featured Picture. I put up a higher resolution, less agressively restored version. -- Michel Vuijlsteke ( talk) 03:51, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
On behalf of the Kindness campaign, I just wanted to wish my fellow Wikipedians a Happy Easter! Sincerely, -- A Nobody My talk 06:09, 12 April 2009 (UTC)