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Thygard - Talk - Contribs - Email ---- 06:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Nihonjoe: The results are up for the other checkuser request: [1]. Thanks for your help. Tortfeasor 00:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
please change opening paragraph into
Liancourt rocks are islets in the Sea of Japan(East Sea). The islets are a claimed area by South Korea, where the islets are known as Dokdo, and Japan,where the islets are known as Takeshima.South Korea classifies the islets as part of Ulleung County, Noth Gyeonsang Province, while Japan classifies them as part of Okinoshima Town, Oki District, Shimane Prefecture.
from current in protected article Dokto.Agreement was made in opening paragraph(12). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Forestfarmer ( talk • contribs) .
Please update the article as Talk:Norimitsu_Onishi#source_addition_and_update. I added some references that was causing the revert war and I think the updated article is a good restarting point. Thank you.-- Jjok 02:50, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi NihonJoe,
I figured I'd leave you a note since I know you're an administrator of many articles in this region of the world and you expressed a bit of interest in the discussion.
I am not 100% certain of how this kind of thing works, but it seems that the discussion has been fairly fruitful. We seem to have come to the conclusion that Imjin Wars is not really used in English. LactoseTI summed up the main opinions as this:
After this summary, people kept discussing, etc., and it seems to have levelled off.
Since it seems the strong consensus of current editors is to move it to Hideyoshi's Invasions, what was suggested is that we might be able to move and unprotect the page and move it to this name since it seems more appropriate. Since this has happened over a short period of time, it might be nice not to have plastered on it that this is "definitely the only name we'll consider" but instead let discussion continues--if it shifts to another name, we can move it then. As there was no advertised poll of the name, it seems this might be the best way to go. The thing is it's nice to get the protection off so the article doesn't look as "half finished."
It should be noted that out of that 11, there are at least 2 users who admit that it's not used in English, but would like to keep it with that name any way (when looking at the naming convention rules, they seem to back off, though).
Everyone seems to have calmed down a lot, and my (and others') hope is that removing protection won't just immediately result in a move war. The thing is, it seems almost impossible that the consensus will shift to keep the article at its current name, and I suppose there will always be 1 or 2 people that refuse to go along with the end result--hopefully they won't just click the "move" button. If this happens, perhaps we could reprotect it and go through more formal procedures.
If there is a different procedure to unprotect the page rather than just asking for it, let me know. Komdori 19:56, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
I'd appreciate some help with Taeguk_Warrior. I noticed he removed the PUI tags from the image pages, so replaced them and warned him (stupid me, I thought maybe he didn't realize not to remove it since he put more copyright information there). Unfortunately, he removed them again as well as my warning not to remove them from his talk page. He's been blocked (numerous times) for this before. Just thought now to report him on the vandalism page, but will leave this here since you were involved in the past/might like to know. (Sorry, should have thought of that first!) LactoseTI 02:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
I must say I disagree with you totally. Taking the tag off the Imjin War article just made things worse. Also, who says the discussion is stable? There is a heated debate going on about the title and it just got worse. Currently, several editors have claimed using a botched "consensus" they brought up and claim that everybody agrees.
Please read the discussion. It is NOT stable as you see it. I disagree with it and everybody on the other side of the debate will reject is as well. The move was made so rudely too, with the editor saying to "discuss and debate" this, placing a boulder in front of the others.
REVERT back to Imjin Wars. It is currently the used title and the editors shouldn't be able to move without consent of the others. Good friend100 16:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I think I have fixed the problem with the extra code appearing outside the template. It appears to have been caused by the importance-switch table not being closed off properly. [2] However, I have still got to find a way to have the importance field disappear when blank, and I also noticed that the class-category is not being assigned correctly. I will try and work through the code over the next day or so in order to remove these last two bugs. Road Wizard 00:02, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
I found this Go term, "Tempo Top Four", on another wiki: http://senseis.xmp.net/?TempoFour
What is its rōmaji? WhisperToMe 05:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
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I thought about creating the article myself, but I wasn't certain if it would be "encyclopedic" enough. At least you thought he was noteworthy enough to merit a Wiki-mention; arigatō gozaimasu... Ranma9617 05:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Nihonjoe. Now that the List of Anime article is history, would I be violating any sort of Wiki ethics or protocol by creating a chronologically-ordered article entitled List of 1960s Anime or List of 1960s Japanese animation, or something along the lines of what I mentioned in the deletion discussion? It would take me a while to put the thing together into a presentable form first, but I think it would be useful. The '60s are the only decade that interest me enough to edit and maintain, but other editors would be free to create articles for other decades. Rizzleboffin 23:09, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Point taken; based on your suggestion I just turned off the program that was watching his page for blanking. Can I at least revert removal of tags from the images themselves (rather than his talk page)? I have no problem with him, and I have seen a couple decent edits he has made.
My current (homebrew) vandalism program watches pages I tag as recently vandalized and pops up "repeat vandalism." I suppose this could end up in edit wars like with him in this case (I didn't give it much thought because it generally is effective at stopping things like page blanking). Do you think this script in general is bad/leads to edit wars easily? I'd like to avoid it, though if it's on anything besides a talk page, I would think it a good idea?
Thanks for your help and suggestions — LactoseTI T 06:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I need to get this question answered, as no one else has so far. Once I'm satisfied the merger has happened, then what? Do I have to re-list the page for deletion or what? Second I think the Japanese bit is already discussed in the same depth in the existing Japanese war crimes article. So surely the merger has already been fulfilled. So again, what do I do? Cheers, John Smith's 23:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering the best procedure to follow--I thought I'd drop you a note since you were the blocking admin. It seems Taeguk Warrior is clearly avoiding the blocks people put on him, but I'm not sure if it's worth opening an investigation since I think it would be hard to stop, and he seems to restrict himself to minor "vandalism" at most while avoiding the blocks these days.
On Talk:Masutatsu_Oyama, he admits his IP is 71.124.113.216, from a pool of Verizon DSL IP's. On the article Masutatsu_Oyama, during his block there are edits from IP's from this pool, including 72.69.105.138, 71.124.36.224, 71.124.34.4, etc. I didn't notice at first they were all from the same pool, but not only do they have blatantly the same edit patterns, the last of these got blocked several times for the exact same reasons as Taeguk_Warrior. Furthermore, one of them copied warnings with distinctive wording from Taeguk Warrior's page and pasted it on mine (in bad faith). The only time these IP's show up is when the main account is blocked.
I was hoping you could share your thoughts. When blocked, he seems to sometimes calm down a bit, but still pushes his POV/blanks minor bits of content (like, for example, that Masutatsu_Oyama had Japanese permanent residency). I had thought of asking to semi-protect that particular page, but it seems a bit extreme since it's not really being seriously vandalized. For a few days I went in and tried to tweak it to find a compromise, but it seems like he just reverts back to his version in the morning. I don't want to edit war over it; it's just not worth it.
Any suggestions? Should I both opening an investigation? If so it seems a bit of a stroke of luck that he happened to mention his IP at one point. Request semi-protection? It might help, but for just a bit of content blanking? Ignore it? At this point, I'd be willing to give ignoring it a try--with the exception of blanking image tags, I'd just as soon not edit anything on which he's involved--it just is too viscious of an environment. There are plenty of other articles that need work. The only thing I'm concerned about is that he seems to follow me around (to the point that he hotlinked my contributions on his user page). He's been around for a month or two; I was hoping with a few blocks he'd just calm down--I was surprised and pleased at how some rather extreme people became mellow and calm after a single 1 hour block and turned into great editors--but this guy has been blocked for about half the time he's been on Wikipedia, and he just seeems to skirt it using a huge pool of dynamic IP's--obviously there is no way you can block all of Verizon DSL.
Let me know what you think. Sorry for the book! — LactoseTI T 04:25, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
I've determined there to be 2 things causing revert-wars in the Japan article:
I think "problem #1" should be tackled first, avoiding the History and Culture sections. Just start moving stuff to their respective "main articles." Can we start a concerted effort to do this? -- Endroit 15:54, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Since you have already improved the Kikuko Inoue article I guess you are more than approporate to discuss the future of seiyu articles. Many articles such as Aya Hisakawa would benefit from your fine tuning but I think we want to have more out of siyu articles than just lists. I'd like to debate which way to go. -- Cat out 20:00, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
It seems that you are starting to get some impostors. Please see Category:Imposters of Nihonjoe to see the ones that have been caught impersonating you. I am letting you know so that if someone vandalizes something and is impersonating you, that you would be prepared to defend yourself from some mistaken charges. Jesse Viviano 22:28, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, it's been more than 5 days for the start of the deletion thread, but no one has "processed" it. It's obvious the general opinion is to merge, so can you make an "official" statement on the listing to that effect [3], or get someone to do it? Cheers, John Smith's 20:35, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I have just got tired that this ridiculous POV-pushing article was allowed to stay on for so long. Wikipedia just sometimes really ticks me off, because I excelled at history at uni, but have only as much weight as someone that dropped subjects like history as soon as they left school. I wouldn't mind if I thought for a second that some of the other editors had any real academic background, but normally I find it's nothing like that.... John Smith's 22:08, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if there's a kanji-to-romaji converter online somewhere. When doing research one of the most annoying things is to take the kanji name of Japanese people and convert them to English. Also, I'm looking for a large map of Japan showing the borders of all the prefectures (but not necessarily their names). -- Миборо в ский 21:05, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for the heads-up. -- Merovingian - Talk 08:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Nihonjoe. Why did you revert an article of Atashin'chi? I apologize if I seem to have done that I am wrong. I'm sorry.-- 125.28.132.7 04:42, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi - please note that neither of these stubs is appropriate for schools. Instead they should go under {{ school-stub}}. Additionally, each continent with the exceptions of Africa and South America have their own stub for schools along the formula of continent-school-stub. :) Aelfthrytha 20:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Greetings. Thanks for trying to clean up improperly-tagged fair-use images, but I think you might have been too hasty. Image:Cantonbulldog.gif was listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems, and had been removed from Canton, Massachusetts temporarily while we decided whether it was fair use or not. (That's why it had an {{ imagevio}} tag in the image description page.) In this case, it's no great loss, and deleting it was probably what the community would have decided anyway, but in the future, it would be best to keep note of two things:
Again, thanks for your work! I hope this helps. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) ( bounties) 12:39, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Since you're the banning admin--no big deal, but Appleby is still around editing from his ip here 24.17.96.104. It's kind of irritating because he keeps making edits like this: [ [4]]. I haven't had much time to edit lately, but I've been reading the diffs and constantly weasel words are coming from that ip, as well as dubious fact changes like this [ [5]], [ [6]], [ [7]], and [ [8]], etc.. It was so much like Appleby that I actually looked up his old checkuser request and was kind of surprised to find it was the same ip. At first I started tagging them as needing sources, but he's really on a roll today... Not a huge problem, and I guess ip's can't be permabanned, but is there anything that can be done? He's been editing from that IP since mid-May, so if he can change his IP he hasn't bothered for a long time. Komdori 01:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Joe, I've been having a bit of trouble with Miborovsky recently. I've offered to talk things over (on his talk page), but each time he kept ignoring it. Now he's been making stupid comments on the Mao Zedong talk page and to be honest I'm getting a bit tired of it. Do you know him well enough to have a chat with him and ask him to "give over", or can you recommend another way to deal with this? As I said, he doesn't want to talk unless it's to be petty, so I'm not sure what to do. John Smith's 19:07, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
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Archive 5 | ← | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | → | Archive 15 |
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WikiProject Japan Barnsensu Award | |
I Thygard hereby award you this barnsensu for your great work on a wide range of Japan related articles. |
Thygard - Talk - Contribs - Email ---- 06:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Nihonjoe: The results are up for the other checkuser request: [1]. Thanks for your help. Tortfeasor 00:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
please change opening paragraph into
Liancourt rocks are islets in the Sea of Japan(East Sea). The islets are a claimed area by South Korea, where the islets are known as Dokdo, and Japan,where the islets are known as Takeshima.South Korea classifies the islets as part of Ulleung County, Noth Gyeonsang Province, while Japan classifies them as part of Okinoshima Town, Oki District, Shimane Prefecture.
from current in protected article Dokto.Agreement was made in opening paragraph(12). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Forestfarmer ( talk • contribs) .
Please update the article as Talk:Norimitsu_Onishi#source_addition_and_update. I added some references that was causing the revert war and I think the updated article is a good restarting point. Thank you.-- Jjok 02:50, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi NihonJoe,
I figured I'd leave you a note since I know you're an administrator of many articles in this region of the world and you expressed a bit of interest in the discussion.
I am not 100% certain of how this kind of thing works, but it seems that the discussion has been fairly fruitful. We seem to have come to the conclusion that Imjin Wars is not really used in English. LactoseTI summed up the main opinions as this:
After this summary, people kept discussing, etc., and it seems to have levelled off.
Since it seems the strong consensus of current editors is to move it to Hideyoshi's Invasions, what was suggested is that we might be able to move and unprotect the page and move it to this name since it seems more appropriate. Since this has happened over a short period of time, it might be nice not to have plastered on it that this is "definitely the only name we'll consider" but instead let discussion continues--if it shifts to another name, we can move it then. As there was no advertised poll of the name, it seems this might be the best way to go. The thing is it's nice to get the protection off so the article doesn't look as "half finished."
It should be noted that out of that 11, there are at least 2 users who admit that it's not used in English, but would like to keep it with that name any way (when looking at the naming convention rules, they seem to back off, though).
Everyone seems to have calmed down a lot, and my (and others') hope is that removing protection won't just immediately result in a move war. The thing is, it seems almost impossible that the consensus will shift to keep the article at its current name, and I suppose there will always be 1 or 2 people that refuse to go along with the end result--hopefully they won't just click the "move" button. If this happens, perhaps we could reprotect it and go through more formal procedures.
If there is a different procedure to unprotect the page rather than just asking for it, let me know. Komdori 19:56, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
I'd appreciate some help with Taeguk_Warrior. I noticed he removed the PUI tags from the image pages, so replaced them and warned him (stupid me, I thought maybe he didn't realize not to remove it since he put more copyright information there). Unfortunately, he removed them again as well as my warning not to remove them from his talk page. He's been blocked (numerous times) for this before. Just thought now to report him on the vandalism page, but will leave this here since you were involved in the past/might like to know. (Sorry, should have thought of that first!) LactoseTI 02:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
I must say I disagree with you totally. Taking the tag off the Imjin War article just made things worse. Also, who says the discussion is stable? There is a heated debate going on about the title and it just got worse. Currently, several editors have claimed using a botched "consensus" they brought up and claim that everybody agrees.
Please read the discussion. It is NOT stable as you see it. I disagree with it and everybody on the other side of the debate will reject is as well. The move was made so rudely too, with the editor saying to "discuss and debate" this, placing a boulder in front of the others.
REVERT back to Imjin Wars. It is currently the used title and the editors shouldn't be able to move without consent of the others. Good friend100 16:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I think I have fixed the problem with the extra code appearing outside the template. It appears to have been caused by the importance-switch table not being closed off properly. [2] However, I have still got to find a way to have the importance field disappear when blank, and I also noticed that the class-category is not being assigned correctly. I will try and work through the code over the next day or so in order to remove these last two bugs. Road Wizard 00:02, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
I found this Go term, "Tempo Top Four", on another wiki: http://senseis.xmp.net/?TempoFour
What is its rōmaji? WhisperToMe 05:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
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I thought about creating the article myself, but I wasn't certain if it would be "encyclopedic" enough. At least you thought he was noteworthy enough to merit a Wiki-mention; arigatō gozaimasu... Ranma9617 05:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Nihonjoe. Now that the List of Anime article is history, would I be violating any sort of Wiki ethics or protocol by creating a chronologically-ordered article entitled List of 1960s Anime or List of 1960s Japanese animation, or something along the lines of what I mentioned in the deletion discussion? It would take me a while to put the thing together into a presentable form first, but I think it would be useful. The '60s are the only decade that interest me enough to edit and maintain, but other editors would be free to create articles for other decades. Rizzleboffin 23:09, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Point taken; based on your suggestion I just turned off the program that was watching his page for blanking. Can I at least revert removal of tags from the images themselves (rather than his talk page)? I have no problem with him, and I have seen a couple decent edits he has made.
My current (homebrew) vandalism program watches pages I tag as recently vandalized and pops up "repeat vandalism." I suppose this could end up in edit wars like with him in this case (I didn't give it much thought because it generally is effective at stopping things like page blanking). Do you think this script in general is bad/leads to edit wars easily? I'd like to avoid it, though if it's on anything besides a talk page, I would think it a good idea?
Thanks for your help and suggestions — LactoseTI T 06:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I need to get this question answered, as no one else has so far. Once I'm satisfied the merger has happened, then what? Do I have to re-list the page for deletion or what? Second I think the Japanese bit is already discussed in the same depth in the existing Japanese war crimes article. So surely the merger has already been fulfilled. So again, what do I do? Cheers, John Smith's 23:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering the best procedure to follow--I thought I'd drop you a note since you were the blocking admin. It seems Taeguk Warrior is clearly avoiding the blocks people put on him, but I'm not sure if it's worth opening an investigation since I think it would be hard to stop, and he seems to restrict himself to minor "vandalism" at most while avoiding the blocks these days.
On Talk:Masutatsu_Oyama, he admits his IP is 71.124.113.216, from a pool of Verizon DSL IP's. On the article Masutatsu_Oyama, during his block there are edits from IP's from this pool, including 72.69.105.138, 71.124.36.224, 71.124.34.4, etc. I didn't notice at first they were all from the same pool, but not only do they have blatantly the same edit patterns, the last of these got blocked several times for the exact same reasons as Taeguk_Warrior. Furthermore, one of them copied warnings with distinctive wording from Taeguk Warrior's page and pasted it on mine (in bad faith). The only time these IP's show up is when the main account is blocked.
I was hoping you could share your thoughts. When blocked, he seems to sometimes calm down a bit, but still pushes his POV/blanks minor bits of content (like, for example, that Masutatsu_Oyama had Japanese permanent residency). I had thought of asking to semi-protect that particular page, but it seems a bit extreme since it's not really being seriously vandalized. For a few days I went in and tried to tweak it to find a compromise, but it seems like he just reverts back to his version in the morning. I don't want to edit war over it; it's just not worth it.
Any suggestions? Should I both opening an investigation? If so it seems a bit of a stroke of luck that he happened to mention his IP at one point. Request semi-protection? It might help, but for just a bit of content blanking? Ignore it? At this point, I'd be willing to give ignoring it a try--with the exception of blanking image tags, I'd just as soon not edit anything on which he's involved--it just is too viscious of an environment. There are plenty of other articles that need work. The only thing I'm concerned about is that he seems to follow me around (to the point that he hotlinked my contributions on his user page). He's been around for a month or two; I was hoping with a few blocks he'd just calm down--I was surprised and pleased at how some rather extreme people became mellow and calm after a single 1 hour block and turned into great editors--but this guy has been blocked for about half the time he's been on Wikipedia, and he just seeems to skirt it using a huge pool of dynamic IP's--obviously there is no way you can block all of Verizon DSL.
Let me know what you think. Sorry for the book! — LactoseTI T 04:25, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
I've determined there to be 2 things causing revert-wars in the Japan article:
I think "problem #1" should be tackled first, avoiding the History and Culture sections. Just start moving stuff to their respective "main articles." Can we start a concerted effort to do this? -- Endroit 15:54, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Since you have already improved the Kikuko Inoue article I guess you are more than approporate to discuss the future of seiyu articles. Many articles such as Aya Hisakawa would benefit from your fine tuning but I think we want to have more out of siyu articles than just lists. I'd like to debate which way to go. -- Cat out 20:00, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
It seems that you are starting to get some impostors. Please see Category:Imposters of Nihonjoe to see the ones that have been caught impersonating you. I am letting you know so that if someone vandalizes something and is impersonating you, that you would be prepared to defend yourself from some mistaken charges. Jesse Viviano 22:28, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, it's been more than 5 days for the start of the deletion thread, but no one has "processed" it. It's obvious the general opinion is to merge, so can you make an "official" statement on the listing to that effect [3], or get someone to do it? Cheers, John Smith's 20:35, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I have just got tired that this ridiculous POV-pushing article was allowed to stay on for so long. Wikipedia just sometimes really ticks me off, because I excelled at history at uni, but have only as much weight as someone that dropped subjects like history as soon as they left school. I wouldn't mind if I thought for a second that some of the other editors had any real academic background, but normally I find it's nothing like that.... John Smith's 22:08, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if there's a kanji-to-romaji converter online somewhere. When doing research one of the most annoying things is to take the kanji name of Japanese people and convert them to English. Also, I'm looking for a large map of Japan showing the borders of all the prefectures (but not necessarily their names). -- Миборо в ский 21:05, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for the heads-up. -- Merovingian - Talk 08:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Nihonjoe. Why did you revert an article of Atashin'chi? I apologize if I seem to have done that I am wrong. I'm sorry.-- 125.28.132.7 04:42, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi - please note that neither of these stubs is appropriate for schools. Instead they should go under {{ school-stub}}. Additionally, each continent with the exceptions of Africa and South America have their own stub for schools along the formula of continent-school-stub. :) Aelfthrytha 20:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Greetings. Thanks for trying to clean up improperly-tagged fair-use images, but I think you might have been too hasty. Image:Cantonbulldog.gif was listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems, and had been removed from Canton, Massachusetts temporarily while we decided whether it was fair use or not. (That's why it had an {{ imagevio}} tag in the image description page.) In this case, it's no great loss, and deleting it was probably what the community would have decided anyway, but in the future, it would be best to keep note of two things:
Again, thanks for your work! I hope this helps. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) ( bounties) 12:39, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Since you're the banning admin--no big deal, but Appleby is still around editing from his ip here 24.17.96.104. It's kind of irritating because he keeps making edits like this: [ [4]]. I haven't had much time to edit lately, but I've been reading the diffs and constantly weasel words are coming from that ip, as well as dubious fact changes like this [ [5]], [ [6]], [ [7]], and [ [8]], etc.. It was so much like Appleby that I actually looked up his old checkuser request and was kind of surprised to find it was the same ip. At first I started tagging them as needing sources, but he's really on a roll today... Not a huge problem, and I guess ip's can't be permabanned, but is there anything that can be done? He's been editing from that IP since mid-May, so if he can change his IP he hasn't bothered for a long time. Komdori 01:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Joe, I've been having a bit of trouble with Miborovsky recently. I've offered to talk things over (on his talk page), but each time he kept ignoring it. Now he's been making stupid comments on the Mao Zedong talk page and to be honest I'm getting a bit tired of it. Do you know him well enough to have a chat with him and ask him to "give over", or can you recommend another way to deal with this? As I said, he doesn't want to talk unless it's to be petty, so I'm not sure what to do. John Smith's 19:07, 31 August 2006 (UTC)