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Following up the RfC, I've started a thread at WT:MENTOR here. I've been perusuing the history of that page, and it is quite interesting. Maybe that page should be used more? It also seems to clearly lay out what the difference is between voluntary and involuntary mentorship. It might also help if people link to that page more often (the RfArb clarification thread failed to link to WP:MENTOR). Carcharoth ( talk) 13:23, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
look, in my view your posts concerning me have been escalating things erratically over the last few days, to the point where yesterday you said ' a clear statement would be sufficient for this to be closed down' and today I'm ' mostly a trouble maker in both project and mainspace'. You're aware that I really appreciated the work and time you put in on my mentorship, but I don't think it's fair that you're being so unnecessarily aggressive, and your comments are moving beyond the pale.
I don't know quite what the best thing to happen at the RfC is, but if you'd like to 'have something out' with me, let's get it all out on the table as soon as possible in whatever way you think's best. If you just want nothing to do with me, well that's your prerogative too, but please don't escalate any further - I don't think it's right. Privatemusings ( talk) 05:03, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Jayvdb,
Just found your wikipedia article. George was my grandfather. Are you a relative? I would love to hear from you. My name is Rosalind McConnel, email ros@mcconnel.net.
Kind regards, Ros —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.157.40 ( talk) 14:15, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
You just offered him a bear. Half Shadow 03:28, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Bill Clinton has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Articles are typically reviewed for one week. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. -- Michael Johnson ( talk) 00:32, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello. You removed this section from Elonka's talk page, saying there were no diffs. However Elonka provided the diff of the incident herself in the RfC if you check. It was this incident, where Theresa Knott had to remove the attempted outing. As for the assertion about the after-effects, the person with whom he identified me on-wiki and on various mathematics forums in which I participated, was Alan Weinstein, Chairman of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, whom I know personally. All the information in my post is contained on wikipedia pages. [1] I have sent you a copy of the personal email from his acting Ph.D. supervisor sent on July 25th 2007. On the other hand I don't quite see the point of Elonka quoting a diff where I was outed on WP:AN/I as a sign of my own bad behaviour: Georgiev was blocked for a day by an arbitrator jpgordon and then reblocked indefinitely. [2] Did you look at the block log or Elonka's diff before you wrote your edit summary? Were you suggesting that I was a liar? Mathsci ( talk) 04:07, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I have just filed a user conduct RfC for Tmtoulouse. I'd appreciate it if you could certify it, as you were involved in trying to end the dispute. Thank you. — Hex (❝?!❞) 06:36, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
It seems to have missed a whole lot of stuff yesterday. DS ( talk) 12:34, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello! I am from Croatia. On English, my username is The Lord of Universe.-- Gospodar svemira ( talk) 19:15, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
[3]-- Tznkai ( talk) 21:14, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
Overlapping text makes it unusable. It happened in the last week or so. Pcap ping 09:58, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Good morning. I've posted the list of General Questions to your questions for the candidate page; you already had some individual questions there as well. If you'd prefer a different format, or if you want to sort or move questions around, by all means - feel free. Good luck with your candidacy! UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 13:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
You got mail Secret account 01:46, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Nice edit, thanks, but actually Kitty nominated an old obsolete version of the page by mistake. Hohohoho. Giano ( talk) 09:02, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Here's hoping you're willing to help in my continued obsessive attempts to rid Death of Baby P of sensitive information. this edit used the family surname, and was removed here. Don't know if some oversighting can be done without losing everything else that was added. Ta. GDallimore ( Talk) 22:18, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I'm Ral315, editor of the Wikipedia Signpost. We're interviewing all ArbCom candidates for an article this week, and your response is requested.
Please respond on my talk page. We'll probably go to press on Tuesday, but late responses will be added as they're submitted. Thanks, Ral315 ( talk) 10:25, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed that you removed a thread from Talk:Jewish Internet Defense Force. There is another thread on that page where someone has raised issues about something alleged about him. I suggestd he went to the BLP board to get an expert opinion. He's gone there but all that's happened is some of the people from the JIDF talk apge have continued the argument over there. I got the impression from your previosu action that you are a BLP expert. Could you maybe help?-- Peter cohen ( talk) 22:12, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
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in the archives might be appropriate?). I'll take a closer look at this in a few hours, by which time I should have the first jidf oversight issue off my plate.
John Vandenberg (
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23:17, 23 November 2008 (UTC){{sidebox}}
solution if you feel that would the least disruptive change that is also sufficient. Perhaps a strikethough can also be applied to the specific statements that amount to false claims? Reading yoru suggestions, I'd imagine a side box would explain (i) this incorrect use of Facebook in WP (ii) the fact that in this instance the information was incorrect as was later clarified (iii) the need to be careful when dealing with BLP, including in discussion on talk pages. Feel free to drop me a message on my talk page or via e-mail if that will help, and thank you again for your time on this.
Oboler (
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07:31, 29 November 2008 (UTC)This sequence [4] should have patrols of Deucalionite and Drilnoth but it appears the bot missed them. MBisanz talk 14:19, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
You still doing it? Want me to look over anything (was going through old threads). Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 23:09, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Apologies, the phrase "queer theorists" rather threw me. Abtract ( talk) 08:43, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
My wiki is messed up. Rock Island Public Library. When I click on heading it is not updating. Jacksonbs ( talk) 20:10, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Greetings Mr. Vandenberg
I continue to attempt to place this paragraph on the Wikipedia article about the Jehovah's Witnesses translation of the Bible, the New World Translation:
"The Koine ("Common") Greek words "aion" and "aionios" are generally--though not invariably--translated as "system of things" in the Christian Greek Scriptures of the New World Translation. "Aion" and "aionios" are time-related words. One can confirm the meaning of "aion" and "aionios" in Strongs’ Greek Lexicon #165 and #166. "Aion" corresponds to the English word "Eon" (or Age) and "aionios" corresponds to "eternal" "everlasting" or even "age-during" as in Youngs Literal Translation, or "eonian" as in the Concordant Version. One may also confirm this by consulting nearly any modern translation of the New Testament other than the NWT. Examples: Compare Matthew 13:39,40,49,28:20 Ephesians 2:2,7, Galatians 1:4, Hebrews 9:26 of the NWT with the New American Standard Version, the Revised Standard Version, The New Revised Standard Version, The New International Version, The Amplified Bible, New Century Version, the English Standard Version, the New King James Version, The Message, the Concordant Literal New Testament, Youngs' Literal Translation, JN Darbys' translation, the Emphatic Diaglott (Once published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society), the sublinear of the Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures (Created and published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, but now out of print), or most modern translations of the Christian Greek Scriptures."
This paragraph meets Wikipedia guidelines but continues to be deleted even though I attempt to contact the person doing the deleting. Since the article in question is mainly a sectarian panegyric to said translation, not a proper encyclopedia entry, I conclude my addition is being deleted for sectarian reasons.
I am on a tight writing schedule, currently collaborating with Dr. Eldad Keynan on a book investigating the Talpiot Tomb (the "Lost Tomb of Jesus". Attempting to master the byzantine Wikipedia maze is beyond my time constraints, though I have attempted to navigate it. As for my qualifications I hold a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from the University of Sedona as well as a Master of Metaphysical Science from the University of Metaphysics. I'm the author of two books, and I'm a retired Buddhist priest of the Hongaku Jodo sect of Shin Buddhism. I signed the roster of those willing to work on this project.
I would appreciate a response. Thank you.
Cordially, Nathaniel J. Merritt SunTempleSeer AT aol DOT com
Nathaniel J. Merritt Ph.D. ( talk) 20:36, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the note and information; it's past my bedtime, but I'll look into it first thing tomorrow. Best regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 06:35, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
I don't see my FM-C68-SV answer as conflicting with my desire for speediness. The issue with speed there wasn't the case, it was the Committee. The Arbitrators lacked the will to solve the case and make the hard decisions we elected them to make, and as such the case languished. That case didn't mean we need simpler cases, it just meant we need smarter arbitrators. -- Hemlock Martinis ( talk) 19:01, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi John,
I've raised an issue concerning possible irregularities in the pattern of voting on your ArbCom candidacy on the admins' noticeboard. Please see WP:AN#Possible ethnic block voting in ArbCom elections?. -- ChrisO ( talk) 00:00, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | |
Thank you for pledging to abide by the numerical results of the ArbCom election even though a canvassing campaign may have occurred against you. [5] For trust in your fellow candidates and dedication to the greater health of the community, you've richly deserved this barnstar. Durova Charge! 02:28, 4 December 2008 (UTC) |
I just wanted to note that after next Thursday, I will be back in full force for a month. I plan on putting quite a bit onto Wikisource, and I will be demanding some of your time. Of course thats way better than sitting on some ArbCom, so you should focus your mind on me and only me. :) Ottava Rima ( talk) 02:44, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
You have mail. Ottava Rima ( talk) 19:15, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
In your last comment here, I could be wrong, but I think you meant "as there are open seats" rather than "as there are candidates," no? Or maybe I've just misread. Mackan79 ( talk) 10:33, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Not sure how much this matters, but as promised, I have re-examined the evidence, and clarified my position on the voting page. Best wishes, Fritzpoll ( talk) 13:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
As a new user I spend most of my time reading talk pages (user, article and project) and discovered the Arbcom voting discussion through the AN/I board. I only wish I had spent more time editing so I would have the requisite 150 to cast a vote in your favor. Watching some of the trivial and inane back and forth on WP it's easy to develop a cynical outlook. Your fair and quietly stated posts on the voting discussion page is encouraging. Best of luck. Tide rolls ( talk) 16:20, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
I hope you know, it wasn't a personal thing. It's (opposing your fellow candidates) probably not something that should bother me, but it really does. If you're appointed, I'm sure you'll do a great job. S.D.D.J. Jameson 20:19, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
the beatles article A day in the life is supposed to be symphonic rock since it says so in the article symphonic. but they don't let me put symphonic rock and even blocked me from editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rochabeatlesfan ( talk • contribs) 03:05, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I can not vote in arb election. I not have enough edits, but if I could I'd vote for you. — JoJo • Talk • 22:23, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Was this intentional? Or did something get lost in the window there? -- JayHenry ( talk) 23:12, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I do not agree with your stance on removing Belinda Stronach's name from the talk pages. You can see my stance here: Talk:Bill_Clinton#Bill_Clinton.27s_continued_affairs_and_liasions_with_young_ladies User5802 ( talk) 23:19, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Please note I've posted further questions - if you could answer them within the next couple of days, that'd be great. Cheers, Ncmvocalist ( talk) 09:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I think if you look again at Abstract's edit you'll see that it mostly improved the article ("Mr. Nott" is substandard; "wrote" is an improvement over "was the author of"). Wouldn't it have been better to have fixed the syntax and reordered the sections without a wholesale revert (which, again, is deprecated at WP:REVERT). This would have been a more civil approach and would have incrementally improved the article. Even a problematic editor like Abstract can add value to the overall project. Best regards, Bucketsofg 14:09, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi John, to clarify: I hadn't offered to mediate (and doubt all parties would consider me suitable for that role even if I were to offer). What I offered to do was to open a request, if both sides were agreeable. Then Risker dropped by, quoting WJBscribe, to express that the prospect of mediation shouldn't be used to gain leverage in a dispute. Since I had already mentioned arbitration as a possibility, Risker's reminder was an appropriate one. Good faith is in short supply at that dispute and I didn't want to appear to coerce anyone into mediation.
Meanwhile one of the parties had accused me of trying to sweep matters under the rug. Then that same party announced an intention to add admin conduct issues to the discussion (regarding the same person I was accused of protecting). I got 80% of the way into a reply at AE--how the board isn't equipped to handle admin conduct, etc.--and then thought better of it. If a person believes I'm partisan, then that would look like giving the run-around. The one way to demonstrate that I wasn't shielding anybody was to open RFAR. The dispute was big enough to merit that, and even though I share your desire to resolve the matter on the community level that just wasn't happening. A fair number of disputes go to arbitration because the waters get so muddy that the community doesn't want to wade near them. Durova Charge! 02:52, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
The above-linked ban review has been closed and a motion passed. Jack Merridew ( talk · contribs) is unblocked, conditional to the restrictions and mentorship arrangement set out in the motion, available in full at this link. The three mentors assigned are Casliber ( talk · contribs), Moreschi ( talk · contribs) and yourself.
For the Arbitration Committee,
Daniel (
talk)
10:03, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
I appreciate you banning the harasser, I don't even know who it is. -- Enzuru 05:00, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
This is your note that I posted this. Its my version of things and my feelings. I don't claim to be 100% right, so keep that in mind. I don't have much time to focus on the idea, because I am busy trying to hedge off people trying to radically change the make up of DYK without going through proper community consensus first. Le sigh. Ottava Rima ( talk) 00:17, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Daniel ( talk) 04:22, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for answering my question so quickly. I'm very familiar with Hunter Thompson ( and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago) - hence my uneasiness regarding the quote. I originally enjoyed his writings, but later came to feel that he was having an overall net effect. But I see you are not American (and we differ in age, I suspect), so I appreciate the inspiration you may have drawn from them.
And you reminded me of one of the big reasons I wanted to vote for you originally - your block of Tony Sidaway/ RegenerateThis, standing your ground despite the opinion of a sitting Arbcom member, and your subsequent resignation. I thought you handled the situation with class. You will have an opportunity to use your experience with the underbelly productively, I hope.
I do disagree with your stand on "joke accounts" as I had been on Wikipedia nearly three years (and 55,000 edits) before I recently learned they were allowed and condoned. You might consider some form of allowing joke accounts, since you support them, which would inform the new user of their existence. It is disillusioning to learn of them, after so much heavy emphasis on wrongness of sock puppetry. A new user can can remain clueless to the intricate workings of Wikipedia, and the inexplicable in-group behaviour of entitled editors, as not all editors know about or want to follow the Wiki politics. Regards, — Mattisse ( Talk) 17:24, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed some formatting issues on;
and tweaked it. I see a whole year is missing; if you like, I'll rough it in. Idea is any Middle East-Caucasus edit; w/date, diff, nature of edit, plus edit summary? Seems kinda rote. Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:17, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
John: | I add a few weeks of March '07. Mostly you were editing programming languages then; trying to make a point? See also. Cheers, Jack Merridew 11:15, 12 December 2008 (UTC) |
Cas: | Really; it's not part of the sig. I type the tildes, too. Seez? Jack Merridew 11:15, 12 December 2008 (UTC) |
As you may have noticed, I have collapsed a few of your comments into boxes so that your statement is nearer to the word limit - please note that I did not want to see any statements removed in entirity from this particular request (re: Haines and re: Abtract). Fortunately, even if you don't appreciate what I've done, when you get time, you may remove the boxes and make your own adjustments to ensure your request/statement is closer to the word limit. :) Apologies for any inconvenience caused, Ncmvocalist ( talk) 07:07, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi John. Congratulations on your ArbCom candidacy. I don't know if you were following it, but that was a hectic final evening of voting in the ArbCom elections! I wanted to thank you for this vote, and also the kind comments on my questions page. I'm going to post a general note on my talk page thanking those who voted on my candidacy, but I wanted to thank you personally, as you were a fellow candidate. Best wishes. Carcharoth ( talk) 00:22, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the welcome.
I am excited to participate.
I look foward to learning more and sharing what i know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.173.138.244 ( talk) 03:36, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
A user is deleting my WP:Original research tags on Discrimination against atheists. Can you please help us settle this out? We both broke 3RR, however he posted a warning on my talk page and then this revert happens. Please check the IP. The user then called me a theist during our debate over WP:Original research and asked me to interpret a Qur'anic verse for him. This seems rather out of line to me. -- Enzuru 03:10, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the warm wellcome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Irishflowers ( talk • contribs) 11:42, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Can you help out with a somewhat complicated OTRS matter? If not, can you tell me where I might find somebody who can? I'd be most grateful.
Background: A contributor has added to Charter 08 the full text of a translation of a Chinese manifesto with 300 authors. He reposted an e-mail (subsequently removed for privacy concerns) from the translators granting permission here. The issue was raised to me via e-mail by a contributor who knows that I volunteer frequently at WP:CP and asked me to look to see if the release was sufficient. It isn't, not only because it didn't go through the permissions process, with an OTRS ticket logged, but because it doesn't satisfy GFDL requirements. We may able to get permission from the translator that does.
The complications:
I know you're a sysop on wikisource as well as a member of the OTRS committee, which made you seem the natural person to bug about this. :) Any assistance would be much appreciated. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:55, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Regarding your recent edit to Discrimination against atheists, the reason I added that section originally was because it is not common knowledge that affirmation is a possibility. Indeed, the section is written in such a way to explain that the witness'es oath is not discriminatory. I had a discussion with another editor about this earlier. The section was labeled "current examples" before implying that this was discrimination. I changed it to "current issues" to remove this implication. I want to keep this here not to point out how segregated atheists are in the US, but to inform atheists who come to this page that they have options besides swearing to god. Basically I'm saying, yes, it's not discrimination, but it is relevant and people who come to the page will want to know this. AzureFury ( talk | contribs) 21:49, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
In this interval between the close of Arbcom voting and whatever comes next, this could be a timely opportunity to share a bit of wisdom attributed to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate. I modestly offer a translation of the calligraphy -- with an emphasis not in the original:
I hope this becomes helpful in the year ahead. -- Tenmei ( talk) 04:36, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I want to protect the Chris Brown disambiguation page, as it is constantly vandalised. Could you help? Thanks, Boleyn ( talk) 10:56, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for that, Boleyn ( talk) 11:03, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Your proposed new interface looks a lot like the one that Brion Vibber said was too resource-intensive; I strongly suggest you check it out with him. DS ( talk) 15:09, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
+1 (or, even, +3 :D) for AusCab. Congrats! Daniel ( talk) 23:53, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Congrats and Best Wishes. Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 01:53, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
John...I just entered this edit at the talk page for the User:ProtectionTaggingBot thinking it was your bot. Apologies for the misunderstanding. If you think it's worth an answer, please do. Otherwise just ignore it.
hey John...just curious. I have see that this article was protected by a bot. ProtectionTaggingBot. May I ask why? This article is on my watchlist as it's the only one that I have been able to make a quasi-substantial edit to. I don't see any real controversy on the talk page and the article has been stable for a while (as far as a newbie can tell). So I am just seeking enlightenment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tide rolls ( talk • contribs) 05:32, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for welcoming me :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.60.173.18 ( talk) 15:08, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
See User:Casliber and User:Rlevse — as I know you have ;)
Like a set of your own? If so, point me at an oversight icon; trout's optional. Don't just copy mine; I've still got to cut the imagemap usages. [6] Cheers, Jack Merridew 15:44, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Just wishing you a wonderful First Day of Winter 2008!
Mifter (
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17:25, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Congrats on your appointment to the Arbcom and Best of Luck :)! --
Mifter (
talk)
17:25, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
I was scanning NPP and I found a user who I thought was on your patrol whitelist creating a new page. I checked your bot's patrol log, and to my surprise, I found that it hasn't patrolled anything in 8 hours. I just wanted to see if you were aware of this. Regards, - NuclearWarfare contact me My work 17:32, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations on getting elected to the Arbitration Committee! I wish you luck with your new responsibilities.-- Xp54321 ( Hello! • Contribs) 18:32, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
An editor that you have been involved with in the past has been taken to WP:RFAR#user:ScienceApologist. You are welcome to express your comments at the specific RFAR case. Thank you, seicer | talk | contribs 21:06, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Remember the caption issue I encounter on id:wp? I've proposed fixing the core issue here.
Cheers, Jack Merridew 08:41, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
You may want to see this diff, in which the editor in question replaces a picture with another simply because he doesn't celebrate the holiday it corresponds to. I would see this as a very, very, very, very weak form of POV pushing.— Dæ dαlus Contribs 10:49, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for making 2008 an interesting and enlightening year for me; I shall look forward to working with you on the Arbitration Committee in the coming year.
Wishing you and yours a joyous holiday season, and happiness, health and hopefulness in 2009. I trust you'll enjoy this little token, a favourite performance of
Baby, it's Cold Outside, for your holiday amusement.
Best,
Risker (
talk)
22:26, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
So much well wishing already. :) Well, I hope you have a great holiday. Have a good boxing day too, if you can. :P I should be back in action coming up soon, so, just wait. I have a lot of stuff that I owe you. :)
Ottava Rima (
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05:25, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
John Vandenberg,
I wish you and your family all the best this Christmas and that you also have a Happy and safe new year.
Thankyou for all your contributions to Wikipedia this year and I look forward to seeing many more from you in the future.
Your work around Wikipedia has not gone un-noticed, this notice is testimony to that
Please feel free to drop by my talkpage any time to say Hi, as I will probably say Hi back :)
All the Best.
«l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»
(talk)
First of all, thank you for the welcome message you left me on my talk page. Second, I was reading your user page, and you recommend that people sign their edits using their own name. But, you also say that there are good reasons to remain anonymous or use pseudonymous. Can you elucidate me on those reasons? Thank you again! -- Henrique Camargo ( talk) 02:33, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if you think the vandalism to these 2 pages justifies some level of protection? Thanks for your help, Boleyn ( talk) 20:17, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for looking into it for me, Boleyn ( talk) 10:57, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello! You can see his AfD contributions in chronological order here. One thing that should also be considered is that a number of the ones that closed as delete really look a lot more like no consensus or merge results. Please consider Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rubber-Band Man (Static Shock). That discussion seems much more like a no consensus, a merge, or at least a redirect, but somehow closed as delete with no explanation given. Or Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sennon in which pretty much everyone seemed at least okay with a redirect, but again closed as delete with no rationale as to why a redirect wouldn't be okay. Thus, given these and other questionable delete closes, TTN's "success" rate at AfD is really even more suspect than the raw stats suggest. Best,-- A Nobody My talk 03:53, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Jay, considering the situation in the ME these days, it looks like every anon IP and his brother will be trying to edit the page and insert his/her POV into it. It has already been a contentious article in recent weeks. I was wondering if we could put some kind of semi-protection on it during this intense time? Tundrabuggy ( talk) 16:00, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
What I hadn't realised is that this article December 2008 Gaza Strip airstrikes was started and the talk page is already as big as the whole middle east, lol. Thanks though for looking at it even if our opinions may differ. Is there someway to know if new articles are being started? Tundrabuggy ( talk) 03:37, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. Tundrabuggy ( talk) 05:12, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, if you have time, I'd appreciate any feedback on a slightly crazy idea I had at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Committees. It's related to the Arbitration Committee. Thanks! rootology ( C)( T) 18:33, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Thank you for welcome. i noticed that you deleted my correction of proper spelling of name of khanate. I am wondering why you did this. I am fixing this because I do not understand error, my persion spelling was correctly written. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahin Giray ( talk • contribs) 22:05, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
I see. I did not notice I added more lines. I will read more carefully the materilas you posted on my page. Thanks again. Regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahin Giray ( talk • contribs) 00:20, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
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Following up the RfC, I've started a thread at WT:MENTOR here. I've been perusuing the history of that page, and it is quite interesting. Maybe that page should be used more? It also seems to clearly lay out what the difference is between voluntary and involuntary mentorship. It might also help if people link to that page more often (the RfArb clarification thread failed to link to WP:MENTOR). Carcharoth ( talk) 13:23, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
look, in my view your posts concerning me have been escalating things erratically over the last few days, to the point where yesterday you said ' a clear statement would be sufficient for this to be closed down' and today I'm ' mostly a trouble maker in both project and mainspace'. You're aware that I really appreciated the work and time you put in on my mentorship, but I don't think it's fair that you're being so unnecessarily aggressive, and your comments are moving beyond the pale.
I don't know quite what the best thing to happen at the RfC is, but if you'd like to 'have something out' with me, let's get it all out on the table as soon as possible in whatever way you think's best. If you just want nothing to do with me, well that's your prerogative too, but please don't escalate any further - I don't think it's right. Privatemusings ( talk) 05:03, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Jayvdb,
Just found your wikipedia article. George was my grandfather. Are you a relative? I would love to hear from you. My name is Rosalind McConnel, email ros@mcconnel.net.
Kind regards, Ros —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.157.40 ( talk) 14:15, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
You just offered him a bear. Half Shadow 03:28, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
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Hello. You removed this section from Elonka's talk page, saying there were no diffs. However Elonka provided the diff of the incident herself in the RfC if you check. It was this incident, where Theresa Knott had to remove the attempted outing. As for the assertion about the after-effects, the person with whom he identified me on-wiki and on various mathematics forums in which I participated, was Alan Weinstein, Chairman of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, whom I know personally. All the information in my post is contained on wikipedia pages. [1] I have sent you a copy of the personal email from his acting Ph.D. supervisor sent on July 25th 2007. On the other hand I don't quite see the point of Elonka quoting a diff where I was outed on WP:AN/I as a sign of my own bad behaviour: Georgiev was blocked for a day by an arbitrator jpgordon and then reblocked indefinitely. [2] Did you look at the block log or Elonka's diff before you wrote your edit summary? Were you suggesting that I was a liar? Mathsci ( talk) 04:07, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I have just filed a user conduct RfC for Tmtoulouse. I'd appreciate it if you could certify it, as you were involved in trying to end the dispute. Thank you. — Hex (❝?!❞) 06:36, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
It seems to have missed a whole lot of stuff yesterday. DS ( talk) 12:34, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello! I am from Croatia. On English, my username is The Lord of Universe.-- Gospodar svemira ( talk) 19:15, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
[3]-- Tznkai ( talk) 21:14, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
Overlapping text makes it unusable. It happened in the last week or so. Pcap ping 09:58, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Good morning. I've posted the list of General Questions to your questions for the candidate page; you already had some individual questions there as well. If you'd prefer a different format, or if you want to sort or move questions around, by all means - feel free. Good luck with your candidacy! UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 13:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
You got mail Secret account 01:46, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Nice edit, thanks, but actually Kitty nominated an old obsolete version of the page by mistake. Hohohoho. Giano ( talk) 09:02, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Here's hoping you're willing to help in my continued obsessive attempts to rid Death of Baby P of sensitive information. this edit used the family surname, and was removed here. Don't know if some oversighting can be done without losing everything else that was added. Ta. GDallimore ( Talk) 22:18, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I'm Ral315, editor of the Wikipedia Signpost. We're interviewing all ArbCom candidates for an article this week, and your response is requested.
Please respond on my talk page. We'll probably go to press on Tuesday, but late responses will be added as they're submitted. Thanks, Ral315 ( talk) 10:25, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed that you removed a thread from Talk:Jewish Internet Defense Force. There is another thread on that page where someone has raised issues about something alleged about him. I suggestd he went to the BLP board to get an expert opinion. He's gone there but all that's happened is some of the people from the JIDF talk apge have continued the argument over there. I got the impression from your previosu action that you are a BLP expert. Could you maybe help?-- Peter cohen ( talk) 22:12, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
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in the archives might be appropriate?). I'll take a closer look at this in a few hours, by which time I should have the first jidf oversight issue off my plate.
John Vandenberg (
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23:17, 23 November 2008 (UTC){{sidebox}}
solution if you feel that would the least disruptive change that is also sufficient. Perhaps a strikethough can also be applied to the specific statements that amount to false claims? Reading yoru suggestions, I'd imagine a side box would explain (i) this incorrect use of Facebook in WP (ii) the fact that in this instance the information was incorrect as was later clarified (iii) the need to be careful when dealing with BLP, including in discussion on talk pages. Feel free to drop me a message on my talk page or via e-mail if that will help, and thank you again for your time on this.
Oboler (
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07:31, 29 November 2008 (UTC)This sequence [4] should have patrols of Deucalionite and Drilnoth but it appears the bot missed them. MBisanz talk 14:19, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
You still doing it? Want me to look over anything (was going through old threads). Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 23:09, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Apologies, the phrase "queer theorists" rather threw me. Abtract ( talk) 08:43, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
My wiki is messed up. Rock Island Public Library. When I click on heading it is not updating. Jacksonbs ( talk) 20:10, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Greetings Mr. Vandenberg
I continue to attempt to place this paragraph on the Wikipedia article about the Jehovah's Witnesses translation of the Bible, the New World Translation:
"The Koine ("Common") Greek words "aion" and "aionios" are generally--though not invariably--translated as "system of things" in the Christian Greek Scriptures of the New World Translation. "Aion" and "aionios" are time-related words. One can confirm the meaning of "aion" and "aionios" in Strongs’ Greek Lexicon #165 and #166. "Aion" corresponds to the English word "Eon" (or Age) and "aionios" corresponds to "eternal" "everlasting" or even "age-during" as in Youngs Literal Translation, or "eonian" as in the Concordant Version. One may also confirm this by consulting nearly any modern translation of the New Testament other than the NWT. Examples: Compare Matthew 13:39,40,49,28:20 Ephesians 2:2,7, Galatians 1:4, Hebrews 9:26 of the NWT with the New American Standard Version, the Revised Standard Version, The New Revised Standard Version, The New International Version, The Amplified Bible, New Century Version, the English Standard Version, the New King James Version, The Message, the Concordant Literal New Testament, Youngs' Literal Translation, JN Darbys' translation, the Emphatic Diaglott (Once published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society), the sublinear of the Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures (Created and published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, but now out of print), or most modern translations of the Christian Greek Scriptures."
This paragraph meets Wikipedia guidelines but continues to be deleted even though I attempt to contact the person doing the deleting. Since the article in question is mainly a sectarian panegyric to said translation, not a proper encyclopedia entry, I conclude my addition is being deleted for sectarian reasons.
I am on a tight writing schedule, currently collaborating with Dr. Eldad Keynan on a book investigating the Talpiot Tomb (the "Lost Tomb of Jesus". Attempting to master the byzantine Wikipedia maze is beyond my time constraints, though I have attempted to navigate it. As for my qualifications I hold a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from the University of Sedona as well as a Master of Metaphysical Science from the University of Metaphysics. I'm the author of two books, and I'm a retired Buddhist priest of the Hongaku Jodo sect of Shin Buddhism. I signed the roster of those willing to work on this project.
I would appreciate a response. Thank you.
Cordially, Nathaniel J. Merritt SunTempleSeer AT aol DOT com
Nathaniel J. Merritt Ph.D. ( talk) 20:36, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the note and information; it's past my bedtime, but I'll look into it first thing tomorrow. Best regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 06:35, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
I don't see my FM-C68-SV answer as conflicting with my desire for speediness. The issue with speed there wasn't the case, it was the Committee. The Arbitrators lacked the will to solve the case and make the hard decisions we elected them to make, and as such the case languished. That case didn't mean we need simpler cases, it just meant we need smarter arbitrators. -- Hemlock Martinis ( talk) 19:01, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi John,
I've raised an issue concerning possible irregularities in the pattern of voting on your ArbCom candidacy on the admins' noticeboard. Please see WP:AN#Possible ethnic block voting in ArbCom elections?. -- ChrisO ( talk) 00:00, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for pledging to abide by the numerical results of the ArbCom election even though a canvassing campaign may have occurred against you. [5] For trust in your fellow candidates and dedication to the greater health of the community, you've richly deserved this barnstar. Durova Charge! 02:28, 4 December 2008 (UTC) |
I just wanted to note that after next Thursday, I will be back in full force for a month. I plan on putting quite a bit onto Wikisource, and I will be demanding some of your time. Of course thats way better than sitting on some ArbCom, so you should focus your mind on me and only me. :) Ottava Rima ( talk) 02:44, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
You have mail. Ottava Rima ( talk) 19:15, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
In your last comment here, I could be wrong, but I think you meant "as there are open seats" rather than "as there are candidates," no? Or maybe I've just misread. Mackan79 ( talk) 10:33, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Not sure how much this matters, but as promised, I have re-examined the evidence, and clarified my position on the voting page. Best wishes, Fritzpoll ( talk) 13:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
As a new user I spend most of my time reading talk pages (user, article and project) and discovered the Arbcom voting discussion through the AN/I board. I only wish I had spent more time editing so I would have the requisite 150 to cast a vote in your favor. Watching some of the trivial and inane back and forth on WP it's easy to develop a cynical outlook. Your fair and quietly stated posts on the voting discussion page is encouraging. Best of luck. Tide rolls ( talk) 16:20, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
I hope you know, it wasn't a personal thing. It's (opposing your fellow candidates) probably not something that should bother me, but it really does. If you're appointed, I'm sure you'll do a great job. S.D.D.J. Jameson 20:19, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
the beatles article A day in the life is supposed to be symphonic rock since it says so in the article symphonic. but they don't let me put symphonic rock and even blocked me from editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rochabeatlesfan ( talk • contribs) 03:05, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I can not vote in arb election. I not have enough edits, but if I could I'd vote for you. — JoJo • Talk • 22:23, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Was this intentional? Or did something get lost in the window there? -- JayHenry ( talk) 23:12, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I do not agree with your stance on removing Belinda Stronach's name from the talk pages. You can see my stance here: Talk:Bill_Clinton#Bill_Clinton.27s_continued_affairs_and_liasions_with_young_ladies User5802 ( talk) 23:19, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Please note I've posted further questions - if you could answer them within the next couple of days, that'd be great. Cheers, Ncmvocalist ( talk) 09:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I think if you look again at Abstract's edit you'll see that it mostly improved the article ("Mr. Nott" is substandard; "wrote" is an improvement over "was the author of"). Wouldn't it have been better to have fixed the syntax and reordered the sections without a wholesale revert (which, again, is deprecated at WP:REVERT). This would have been a more civil approach and would have incrementally improved the article. Even a problematic editor like Abstract can add value to the overall project. Best regards, Bucketsofg 14:09, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi John, to clarify: I hadn't offered to mediate (and doubt all parties would consider me suitable for that role even if I were to offer). What I offered to do was to open a request, if both sides were agreeable. Then Risker dropped by, quoting WJBscribe, to express that the prospect of mediation shouldn't be used to gain leverage in a dispute. Since I had already mentioned arbitration as a possibility, Risker's reminder was an appropriate one. Good faith is in short supply at that dispute and I didn't want to appear to coerce anyone into mediation.
Meanwhile one of the parties had accused me of trying to sweep matters under the rug. Then that same party announced an intention to add admin conduct issues to the discussion (regarding the same person I was accused of protecting). I got 80% of the way into a reply at AE--how the board isn't equipped to handle admin conduct, etc.--and then thought better of it. If a person believes I'm partisan, then that would look like giving the run-around. The one way to demonstrate that I wasn't shielding anybody was to open RFAR. The dispute was big enough to merit that, and even though I share your desire to resolve the matter on the community level that just wasn't happening. A fair number of disputes go to arbitration because the waters get so muddy that the community doesn't want to wade near them. Durova Charge! 02:52, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
The above-linked ban review has been closed and a motion passed. Jack Merridew ( talk · contribs) is unblocked, conditional to the restrictions and mentorship arrangement set out in the motion, available in full at this link. The three mentors assigned are Casliber ( talk · contribs), Moreschi ( talk · contribs) and yourself.
For the Arbitration Committee,
Daniel (
talk)
10:03, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
I appreciate you banning the harasser, I don't even know who it is. -- Enzuru 05:00, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
This is your note that I posted this. Its my version of things and my feelings. I don't claim to be 100% right, so keep that in mind. I don't have much time to focus on the idea, because I am busy trying to hedge off people trying to radically change the make up of DYK without going through proper community consensus first. Le sigh. Ottava Rima ( talk) 00:17, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Daniel ( talk) 04:22, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for answering my question so quickly. I'm very familiar with Hunter Thompson ( and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago) - hence my uneasiness regarding the quote. I originally enjoyed his writings, but later came to feel that he was having an overall net effect. But I see you are not American (and we differ in age, I suspect), so I appreciate the inspiration you may have drawn from them.
And you reminded me of one of the big reasons I wanted to vote for you originally - your block of Tony Sidaway/ RegenerateThis, standing your ground despite the opinion of a sitting Arbcom member, and your subsequent resignation. I thought you handled the situation with class. You will have an opportunity to use your experience with the underbelly productively, I hope.
I do disagree with your stand on "joke accounts" as I had been on Wikipedia nearly three years (and 55,000 edits) before I recently learned they were allowed and condoned. You might consider some form of allowing joke accounts, since you support them, which would inform the new user of their existence. It is disillusioning to learn of them, after so much heavy emphasis on wrongness of sock puppetry. A new user can can remain clueless to the intricate workings of Wikipedia, and the inexplicable in-group behaviour of entitled editors, as not all editors know about or want to follow the Wiki politics. Regards, — Mattisse ( Talk) 17:24, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed some formatting issues on;
and tweaked it. I see a whole year is missing; if you like, I'll rough it in. Idea is any Middle East-Caucasus edit; w/date, diff, nature of edit, plus edit summary? Seems kinda rote. Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:17, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
John: | I add a few weeks of March '07. Mostly you were editing programming languages then; trying to make a point? See also. Cheers, Jack Merridew 11:15, 12 December 2008 (UTC) |
Cas: | Really; it's not part of the sig. I type the tildes, too. Seez? Jack Merridew 11:15, 12 December 2008 (UTC) |
As you may have noticed, I have collapsed a few of your comments into boxes so that your statement is nearer to the word limit - please note that I did not want to see any statements removed in entirity from this particular request (re: Haines and re: Abtract). Fortunately, even if you don't appreciate what I've done, when you get time, you may remove the boxes and make your own adjustments to ensure your request/statement is closer to the word limit. :) Apologies for any inconvenience caused, Ncmvocalist ( talk) 07:07, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi John. Congratulations on your ArbCom candidacy. I don't know if you were following it, but that was a hectic final evening of voting in the ArbCom elections! I wanted to thank you for this vote, and also the kind comments on my questions page. I'm going to post a general note on my talk page thanking those who voted on my candidacy, but I wanted to thank you personally, as you were a fellow candidate. Best wishes. Carcharoth ( talk) 00:22, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the welcome.
I am excited to participate.
I look foward to learning more and sharing what i know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.173.138.244 ( talk) 03:36, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
A user is deleting my WP:Original research tags on Discrimination against atheists. Can you please help us settle this out? We both broke 3RR, however he posted a warning on my talk page and then this revert happens. Please check the IP. The user then called me a theist during our debate over WP:Original research and asked me to interpret a Qur'anic verse for him. This seems rather out of line to me. -- Enzuru 03:10, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the warm wellcome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Irishflowers ( talk • contribs) 11:42, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Can you help out with a somewhat complicated OTRS matter? If not, can you tell me where I might find somebody who can? I'd be most grateful.
Background: A contributor has added to Charter 08 the full text of a translation of a Chinese manifesto with 300 authors. He reposted an e-mail (subsequently removed for privacy concerns) from the translators granting permission here. The issue was raised to me via e-mail by a contributor who knows that I volunteer frequently at WP:CP and asked me to look to see if the release was sufficient. It isn't, not only because it didn't go through the permissions process, with an OTRS ticket logged, but because it doesn't satisfy GFDL requirements. We may able to get permission from the translator that does.
The complications:
I know you're a sysop on wikisource as well as a member of the OTRS committee, which made you seem the natural person to bug about this. :) Any assistance would be much appreciated. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:55, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Regarding your recent edit to Discrimination against atheists, the reason I added that section originally was because it is not common knowledge that affirmation is a possibility. Indeed, the section is written in such a way to explain that the witness'es oath is not discriminatory. I had a discussion with another editor about this earlier. The section was labeled "current examples" before implying that this was discrimination. I changed it to "current issues" to remove this implication. I want to keep this here not to point out how segregated atheists are in the US, but to inform atheists who come to this page that they have options besides swearing to god. Basically I'm saying, yes, it's not discrimination, but it is relevant and people who come to the page will want to know this. AzureFury ( talk | contribs) 21:49, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
In this interval between the close of Arbcom voting and whatever comes next, this could be a timely opportunity to share a bit of wisdom attributed to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate. I modestly offer a translation of the calligraphy -- with an emphasis not in the original:
I hope this becomes helpful in the year ahead. -- Tenmei ( talk) 04:36, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I want to protect the Chris Brown disambiguation page, as it is constantly vandalised. Could you help? Thanks, Boleyn ( talk) 10:56, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for that, Boleyn ( talk) 11:03, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Your proposed new interface looks a lot like the one that Brion Vibber said was too resource-intensive; I strongly suggest you check it out with him. DS ( talk) 15:09, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
+1 (or, even, +3 :D) for AusCab. Congrats! Daniel ( talk) 23:53, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Congrats and Best Wishes. Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 01:53, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
John...I just entered this edit at the talk page for the User:ProtectionTaggingBot thinking it was your bot. Apologies for the misunderstanding. If you think it's worth an answer, please do. Otherwise just ignore it.
hey John...just curious. I have see that this article was protected by a bot. ProtectionTaggingBot. May I ask why? This article is on my watchlist as it's the only one that I have been able to make a quasi-substantial edit to. I don't see any real controversy on the talk page and the article has been stable for a while (as far as a newbie can tell). So I am just seeking enlightenment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tide rolls ( talk • contribs) 05:32, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for welcoming me :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.60.173.18 ( talk) 15:08, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
See User:Casliber and User:Rlevse — as I know you have ;)
Like a set of your own? If so, point me at an oversight icon; trout's optional. Don't just copy mine; I've still got to cut the imagemap usages. [6] Cheers, Jack Merridew 15:44, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Just wishing you a wonderful First Day of Winter 2008!
Mifter (
talk)
17:25, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Congrats on your appointment to the Arbcom and Best of Luck :)! --
Mifter (
talk)
17:25, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
I was scanning NPP and I found a user who I thought was on your patrol whitelist creating a new page. I checked your bot's patrol log, and to my surprise, I found that it hasn't patrolled anything in 8 hours. I just wanted to see if you were aware of this. Regards, - NuclearWarfare contact me My work 17:32, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations on getting elected to the Arbitration Committee! I wish you luck with your new responsibilities.-- Xp54321 ( Hello! • Contribs) 18:32, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
An editor that you have been involved with in the past has been taken to WP:RFAR#user:ScienceApologist. You are welcome to express your comments at the specific RFAR case. Thank you, seicer | talk | contribs 21:06, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Remember the caption issue I encounter on id:wp? I've proposed fixing the core issue here.
Cheers, Jack Merridew 08:41, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
You may want to see this diff, in which the editor in question replaces a picture with another simply because he doesn't celebrate the holiday it corresponds to. I would see this as a very, very, very, very weak form of POV pushing.— Dæ dαlus Contribs 10:49, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for making 2008 an interesting and enlightening year for me; I shall look forward to working with you on the Arbitration Committee in the coming year.
Wishing you and yours a joyous holiday season, and happiness, health and hopefulness in 2009. I trust you'll enjoy this little token, a favourite performance of
Baby, it's Cold Outside, for your holiday amusement.
Best,
Risker (
talk)
22:26, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
So much well wishing already. :) Well, I hope you have a great holiday. Have a good boxing day too, if you can. :P I should be back in action coming up soon, so, just wait. I have a lot of stuff that I owe you. :)
Ottava Rima (
talk)
05:25, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
John Vandenberg,
I wish you and your family all the best this Christmas and that you also have a Happy and safe new year.
Thankyou for all your contributions to Wikipedia this year and I look forward to seeing many more from you in the future.
Your work around Wikipedia has not gone un-noticed, this notice is testimony to that
Please feel free to drop by my talkpage any time to say Hi, as I will probably say Hi back :)
All the Best.
«l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»
(talk)
First of all, thank you for the welcome message you left me on my talk page. Second, I was reading your user page, and you recommend that people sign their edits using their own name. But, you also say that there are good reasons to remain anonymous or use pseudonymous. Can you elucidate me on those reasons? Thank you again! -- Henrique Camargo ( talk) 02:33, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if you think the vandalism to these 2 pages justifies some level of protection? Thanks for your help, Boleyn ( talk) 20:17, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for looking into it for me, Boleyn ( talk) 10:57, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello! You can see his AfD contributions in chronological order here. One thing that should also be considered is that a number of the ones that closed as delete really look a lot more like no consensus or merge results. Please consider Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rubber-Band Man (Static Shock). That discussion seems much more like a no consensus, a merge, or at least a redirect, but somehow closed as delete with no explanation given. Or Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sennon in which pretty much everyone seemed at least okay with a redirect, but again closed as delete with no rationale as to why a redirect wouldn't be okay. Thus, given these and other questionable delete closes, TTN's "success" rate at AfD is really even more suspect than the raw stats suggest. Best,-- A Nobody My talk 03:53, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Jay, considering the situation in the ME these days, it looks like every anon IP and his brother will be trying to edit the page and insert his/her POV into it. It has already been a contentious article in recent weeks. I was wondering if we could put some kind of semi-protection on it during this intense time? Tundrabuggy ( talk) 16:00, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
What I hadn't realised is that this article December 2008 Gaza Strip airstrikes was started and the talk page is already as big as the whole middle east, lol. Thanks though for looking at it even if our opinions may differ. Is there someway to know if new articles are being started? Tundrabuggy ( talk) 03:37, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. Tundrabuggy ( talk) 05:12, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, if you have time, I'd appreciate any feedback on a slightly crazy idea I had at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Committees. It's related to the Arbitration Committee. Thanks! rootology ( C)( T) 18:33, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Thank you for welcome. i noticed that you deleted my correction of proper spelling of name of khanate. I am wondering why you did this. I am fixing this because I do not understand error, my persion spelling was correctly written. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahin Giray ( talk • contribs) 22:05, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
I see. I did not notice I added more lines. I will read more carefully the materilas you posted on my page. Thanks again. Regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahin Giray ( talk • contribs) 00:20, 31 December 2008 (UTC)