Howdy Bainer. Is there any chance that more inline refs could be added to this article? There are some paragraphs with no inline refs at all. I did a survey of Australian FAs at User:Blnguyen/AusFA and I some articles would be better off being improved now rather than face the hassle of an FAR down the track. Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 03:37, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Would just like to say your question has been answered, and I would like to say thank you for the opportunity to express a better self-description. Regards, Rudget Contributions 15:51, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Just letting you know, there was an article in last Saturday's Sydney Morning Herald paper about Mr Al-Kateb. Apparently he's been given a permanent visa and is now allowed to stay in Australia indefinitely. There was a lot of info on the court case and so on that might be good to expand the article even further. I'm on a wikibreak, but if you didn't get the article I'll keep it and do some work on it later. Just reply to this here - I'll read your reply. JRG 05:36, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
I became involved at R&I early in the year through merging another article from an AfD (forgot the name), which had much interesting research but was not appropriate as a stand alone. This merged data was later broken out and ended up as an appendix table to the Test Data (child article). An example of the post merge pre-breakup R&I article is here: [1] (including the merged table). This might be a good reference in your endeavor to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Good luck! -- Kevin Murray 10:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Melbourne Meetup
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Hello Thebainer! The Melburnians are having another meet-up! Please consult this page if you are interested to participate in the discussion! Thanks! Phgao 03:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for doing that merge--- it didn't look like fun! futurebird 14:52, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
I am asking you to protect the current reversion of the R&I article which reflects your compilation of the various articles, for a period of a week and then semi-protection for an additional two weeks. With the best of intentions too much has happened too quickly including additions in a time where we are trying to consolidate. As the massive amount of recent micro edits was impossible to evaluate, I've reverted to your lat version. We really need some time to evaluate and form a plan. I like the KISS overview approach, but this is an emotionaly charged topic and there will be no clear path. Thanks! -- Kevin Murray 09:26, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
If you do decide to create the tool we discussed on #wikipedia-en-admins, could you let me know on my talk page? Cheers, JACO PLANE • 2007-11-13 17:29
The nomination was to redirect to Mad Men. Besides my nomination, three additional !votes were to redirect per the nomination or to the more specific Mad Men#Episodes. Only two said to redirect to a separate list article. Additionally, the list was separately AFDed and the outcome was to redirect to Mad Men because there was no content for a list article. There is little or no support for a separate list article and undoing that redirect so as to redirect the episode articles there ignores the consensus of the episode list AFD and the strong majority of the collective episode AFD. Please redirect to the main article in line with the expressed consensus of the community. Otto4711 05:05, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your message. I have left a reply on my talk page. -- Pixelface 14:17, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Thebainer,
I just wanted to stop by and thank you for your comment on my talk page regarding my conflict with Pixelface. Your point is well-taken, and although my comment intended both to ask Liquidfinale for help and let Pixelface know that revert-warring would get him nowhere, I understand that it does not add to the discussion at hand and will avoid similar comments in the future.
However, I also wanted to double-check a couple of things with you to make sure I am interpreting WP:3RR correctly. My understanding is that the purpose of the three-revert rule is not only to prevent two editors from engaging in an edit war, but to provide a source of relief when one editor reverts the changes of multiple editors. That is, if changes made by a single editor to an article are disagreeable to a group of editors working on that article, the fact that the group as a whole can revert the changes more than three times means that the current consensus will be preserved and the topic will be forced to the talkspace, as the sole editor going against this apparent consensus can only revert it three times in total without being subject to a block.
To that end, I've seen several instances of editors asking for backup when dealing with edit warring on other users' talk pages. So if you could, I'd appreciate any guidance you could offer regarding 1) whether or not my interpretation of WP:3RR above is correct and 2) whether or not recruiting other editors for help is acceptable under the same. (Given your comment on my talk page, I assume that if the latter is all right, help should be sought on the talk page of the user you are seeking it from rather than the talk page of the user you are in disagreement with.)
Thank you in advance! -- jonny-mt( t)( c) Tell me what you think! 04:31, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
I did not know that. Redirects from page moves are never deleted unless they're nonsense titles, correct? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 20:56, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey, will you be coming along on Sunday? cheers -- pfctdayelise ( talk) 11:41, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Was tagged with 'needing sections' so I added some. Hope you do not mind. It's a very well written article. Thanks for your work on it! Awotter ( talk) 12:01, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I'm Ral315, editor of the Wikipedia Signpost. We're interviewing all ArbCom candidates for an article next week, and your response is requested.
Please respond on my talk page. We'll probably go to press late Monday or early Tuesday (UTC), but late responses will be added as they're submitted. Thanks, Ral315 » 04:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
For taking on and fixing David Southall on short notice. east.718 at 13:08, November 27, 2007 |
Great rewrite on this article. It had been on my radar for a while, being in poor condition, but I had not moved into doing anything on it. It's looking a lot better now. — BillC talk 20:32, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
I've repiled to your comments on your e-mail. Please let me know if this is disabled, and we can set up a private covnersation aontehr way. It explaines why I've removed your warning, and why in this case they are inappropriate. Thanks. - BillCJ ( talk) 04:37, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello! As we did for last year's election, we are again compiling a Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Summary table. This table contains a column "Portfolio" for links that display candidates' pertinent skills. I will be going through each candidate's statements and gradually populate the column, but this may take some time. Please feel free to add some links in the form [link|c] if you feel it shows conflict resolution skills, or [link|o] otherwise. It would also be helpful if you can check if the information about you is correct.
My motivation is that as a voter, I don't want to just rely on a candidate's words, but also see their actions. Moreover, I believe a portfolio of "model cases" to remember in difficult situations can be useful for each candidate, as well. I believe that conflict resolution skills are most pertinent to the position, but if you want to highlight other skills, please feel free to use a new letter and add it to Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Summary table#Columns of this table. — Sebastian 05:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Please do not remove content my userpage. If you have concerns there are avenues with which to discuss them, where you can provide examples of policy to support your contentions which can be challenged and discussed. I contend that I am permitted to warn other parties that I will disclose material if I feel that they are in violation of the principles of Wikipedia, or the law. I have read WP:Userpage and note that, per WP:Userpage#Removal of inappropriate content, that it requires the communities consideration of what is inappropriate. You may wish to bring up the matter at WP:AN, but you are not permitted to remove content that you personally disapprove of. Should you continue to remove content without consensus then you are edit warring and are thus liable for sanction. This is not yet a warning, just a reminder. LessHeard vanU 12:15, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Bainer, can you explain to me how to interpret the results from a WHOIS report? You remarked on ANI about 203.109.223.1 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log). I'd like to know how you can tell that it is a a dynamic dsl address and such, thanks. - JodyB talk 18:24, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi I have Commons:Commons:Project scope concerns on this image. Also the license is problematic as it needs to be GFDL per screen capture. -- Cat chi? 10:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for moving Charles Kingston (politician) back to Charles Kingston and fixing the DAB page at Charles Kingston (disambiguation). I really should have done that originally, and I think I was on brain-freeze when I did the DAB-ing. I agree that the Australian politician justifies primary usage. Snocrates 21:09, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Just letting you know, when you update Did You Know you're supposed to send out credits to the authors/nominators. Thanks. Red rocket boy 13:27, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Remove it please. I give up. The fair use inclusionists have come up with a contortionist explanation for how this article is not a list of characters at all, but instead is an article about characters and thus it's ok to have a fair use image for every character or even a few hundred for every character for all I know. I give up. I've been worn down. Wikipedia isn't a free content encyclopedia, and our m:mission be damned. They want as much fair use as possible, let them have it. I argued ad nauseum at [3]. I give up. They win. Please let them put as much fair use onto the article as possible. I recommend a few hundred images. Maybe even a few thousand. I'm quite sure it'd be a featured list then. Don't worry about the criteria at Wikipedia:Featured list criteria which clearly make this out as a list. That's wrong too. THIS article is UNIQUE! It's a non-list of characters acting as an article about the characters including all the characters...or something. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 21:34, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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You concluded a AfD five weeks ago on a list of articles that had been spun off from the original. The result was split between delete and keep and you reccomende merge. The article was redirected, but the content was never merged (the same applies to all the other articles), and the editors who nominated it are now claiming treating the article as though it had been deleted. The parent artcile is a complete shambles now, because nobody can agree to merge any of the things that you recmmende to be merged back into the article. Thus every section now has a "see main template" that links back to the top of the article.
This is in no way your fault. However, there was no consensus to delete, yet that is the net effect, an extraordianry thing considering the amount of careful sourcing that went into these 8 articles, perhaps 1000 sources. Lobojo ( talk) 04:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
As the closer of the "Race and intelligence (XXX)" series AfD, I was wondering if you would care to explain the matter to User:Lobojo; this needs an uninvolved perspective. See here and here. Thanks. Guettarda ( talk) 04:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Ahh...missed the section above this one. Guettarda ( talk) 04:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
I've posted a call on WP:AWNB to try and get some style guidelines for our pages on individual parliaments. I know you've created a few of these, so I was wondering if you might have any suggestions. Rebecca ( talk) 06:56, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
I have unblocked following a request. I had previously commented here regarding the request, the details of which are in the history. Sorry about the flip-flopping. LessHeard vanU ( talk) 15:33, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
I notice that you turned a merge notice on this article into a template. I'm not really sure that a merge has been discussed seriously for some time now. It may be worth checking the talk page with a view to removing the proposal as moribund. -- Tony Sidaway 06:21, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey there bainer. Just letting you know that the article's GA nomination is on hold, with comments at User:Miranda/SuevHill. I can help out to some extent, but I figure it's good if you (as the nom) set the ball rolling. Cheers, — Dihydrogen Monoxide ( Review) 23:13, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
I have filed a request for arbitration which involves you. Please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Giano_II. John254 04:43, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Congrats on your new appointment as Arbitrator! Good luck, and don't wear yourself out :) Majorly ( talk) 22:53, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations!!! I'm sure you will do well, serving on arbcom. -- Aude ( talk) 23:15, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Welcome aboard. :-) FloNight ( talk) 23:18, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations! Kirill 23:33, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
An Arbitration case involving you 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/IRC/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/IRC/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher 00:43, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey, that API method is neat! I hope it won't make the other arbitrators' heads spin. I'm sure you'll be able to explain it to them. I had one other thought while looking at that table. One of the page protections expired naturally. The one that ran out at 21:38 on 25 December. Maybe you could add a row to the table to make it clearer that: (a) edit warring didn't start up again straightaway; and (b) the next edits were to an unprotected page (some might take the absence of an unprotection to mean that the page was still protected). Carcharoth ( talk) 03:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I wanted to thank you for putting up your table of evidence in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/IRC. It reminded me of a similar submission made years ago by one of our very best—it too was exhaustive, neutral, and fair. Submissions to /Evidence and /Workshop pages often make for difficult reading; quite apart from their often painful content, they are by their very nature partisan. I imagine it must be difficult sometimes for neutral third parties to form fair conclusions from the evidence at hand. Your work should go some way in making this a little easier in this instance—and it's good that it does, for it's a fairly important case. Kind regards — Encephalon 11:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Reminder, there are two more days in order to address the issues raised in Sue v Hill GAC. miranda 06:30, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello, congrats on the Arbcom election. Unless you let me know otherwise I will assume you are not planning to be significantly involved in chapter planning stuff, e.g. writing model rules. Although your assistance would of course be welcome. -- pfctdayelise ( talk) 13:11, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
I really didn't think that a simple request for a civility strikethrough would turn up as arbitration evidence. Please remove it; it's trivial. Or if you insist on using it please include the entire exchange. Durova Charge! 07:11, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
You may want to take a look; I questioned a piece of your analysis over here: Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/IRC/Evidence#(2)_Geogre_edited_a_protected_page?. Thanks for all the work. Jd2718 ( talk) 04:26, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Bainer, Thanks for considering the issue. Just a quick question before I present some info. Where do you want the discussion to proceed? On the talk page of the RFARB page? Or should I add another comment under previous one? Or under your comment?-- Thomas Basboll ( talk) 09:40, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations on your ArbCom candidacy as well. Acalamari 18:07, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
I added another comment at RFAR regarding Basboll which can be read here Please reconsider.-- MONGO 19:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for your time on this. As I've noted at RFARB, I've decided to withdraw from Wikipedia. I only have time to contribute very narrowly to the site, and this apparently raises suspicions about my motives, which in turn causes much more grief (for myself and others) than my contributions justify. I have many good ideas about how situations like this could be dealt with, of course, and what is wrong with MONGO's approach, but I can see now that what I want is for the community's culture to change quite radically. Working to bring that about presupposes a commitment to WP that I have so far not had an occasion to form (mainly because of MONGO and his supporters). WP is not all bad, in my view, but the cons have simply outweighed the pros. Once again, thanks for your time.-- Thomas Basboll ( talk) 11:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Well spotted. I'd quite forgotten those interactions, which in retrospect make me ask a chastened question: what on earth got into me? Getting upset isn't a good reason to act nastily. For more evidence of my shortness of temper which led to minor disputes becoming exacerbated, see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Tony Sidaway 4. -- Tony Sidaway 15:12, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi there! I see that you closed this AfD at the end of October, but haven't cleaned-up the related articles, yet. Any idea when you'll be able to complete the process? I've never seen an AfD abandoned like this, and I'm tnos ure what to do about the involved articles. -- Mikeblas ( talk) 19:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I reverted your edit to the blocking policy. It does not address the indefinite options, so I have addressed it with this edit. Lets discuss. M-ercury at 11:39, January 10, 2008
Yes, I'm aware of that, which is why I was soliciting for views on whether to apply the probation without any further warnings. Hopefully they're now aware that any more silliness will result in sanctions straight away. BLACKKITE 15:41, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed last night that we don't have any article on Frank Galbally. It'd be a pretty useful one to have, because he was such a well known figure, but I've got a to-do list a mile long already and I probably won't get around to it for ages, and I figure it's more your area than mine. Any chance you'd be able to whip up something on him? Rebecca ( talk) 10:07, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Howdy Bainer. Is there any chance that more inline refs could be added to this article? There are some paragraphs with no inline refs at all. I did a survey of Australian FAs at User:Blnguyen/AusFA and I some articles would be better off being improved now rather than face the hassle of an FAR down the track. Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 03:37, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Would just like to say your question has been answered, and I would like to say thank you for the opportunity to express a better self-description. Regards, Rudget Contributions 15:51, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Just letting you know, there was an article in last Saturday's Sydney Morning Herald paper about Mr Al-Kateb. Apparently he's been given a permanent visa and is now allowed to stay in Australia indefinitely. There was a lot of info on the court case and so on that might be good to expand the article even further. I'm on a wikibreak, but if you didn't get the article I'll keep it and do some work on it later. Just reply to this here - I'll read your reply. JRG 05:36, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
I became involved at R&I early in the year through merging another article from an AfD (forgot the name), which had much interesting research but was not appropriate as a stand alone. This merged data was later broken out and ended up as an appendix table to the Test Data (child article). An example of the post merge pre-breakup R&I article is here: [1] (including the merged table). This might be a good reference in your endeavor to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Good luck! -- Kevin Murray 10:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Melbourne Meetup
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Hello Thebainer! The Melburnians are having another meet-up! Please consult this page if you are interested to participate in the discussion! Thanks! Phgao 03:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for doing that merge--- it didn't look like fun! futurebird 14:52, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
I am asking you to protect the current reversion of the R&I article which reflects your compilation of the various articles, for a period of a week and then semi-protection for an additional two weeks. With the best of intentions too much has happened too quickly including additions in a time where we are trying to consolidate. As the massive amount of recent micro edits was impossible to evaluate, I've reverted to your lat version. We really need some time to evaluate and form a plan. I like the KISS overview approach, but this is an emotionaly charged topic and there will be no clear path. Thanks! -- Kevin Murray 09:26, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
If you do decide to create the tool we discussed on #wikipedia-en-admins, could you let me know on my talk page? Cheers, JACO PLANE • 2007-11-13 17:29
The nomination was to redirect to Mad Men. Besides my nomination, three additional !votes were to redirect per the nomination or to the more specific Mad Men#Episodes. Only two said to redirect to a separate list article. Additionally, the list was separately AFDed and the outcome was to redirect to Mad Men because there was no content for a list article. There is little or no support for a separate list article and undoing that redirect so as to redirect the episode articles there ignores the consensus of the episode list AFD and the strong majority of the collective episode AFD. Please redirect to the main article in line with the expressed consensus of the community. Otto4711 05:05, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your message. I have left a reply on my talk page. -- Pixelface 14:17, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Thebainer,
I just wanted to stop by and thank you for your comment on my talk page regarding my conflict with Pixelface. Your point is well-taken, and although my comment intended both to ask Liquidfinale for help and let Pixelface know that revert-warring would get him nowhere, I understand that it does not add to the discussion at hand and will avoid similar comments in the future.
However, I also wanted to double-check a couple of things with you to make sure I am interpreting WP:3RR correctly. My understanding is that the purpose of the three-revert rule is not only to prevent two editors from engaging in an edit war, but to provide a source of relief when one editor reverts the changes of multiple editors. That is, if changes made by a single editor to an article are disagreeable to a group of editors working on that article, the fact that the group as a whole can revert the changes more than three times means that the current consensus will be preserved and the topic will be forced to the talkspace, as the sole editor going against this apparent consensus can only revert it three times in total without being subject to a block.
To that end, I've seen several instances of editors asking for backup when dealing with edit warring on other users' talk pages. So if you could, I'd appreciate any guidance you could offer regarding 1) whether or not my interpretation of WP:3RR above is correct and 2) whether or not recruiting other editors for help is acceptable under the same. (Given your comment on my talk page, I assume that if the latter is all right, help should be sought on the talk page of the user you are seeking it from rather than the talk page of the user you are in disagreement with.)
Thank you in advance! -- jonny-mt( t)( c) Tell me what you think! 04:31, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
I did not know that. Redirects from page moves are never deleted unless they're nonsense titles, correct? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 20:56, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey, will you be coming along on Sunday? cheers -- pfctdayelise ( talk) 11:41, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Was tagged with 'needing sections' so I added some. Hope you do not mind. It's a very well written article. Thanks for your work on it! Awotter ( talk) 12:01, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I'm Ral315, editor of the Wikipedia Signpost. We're interviewing all ArbCom candidates for an article next week, and your response is requested.
Please respond on my talk page. We'll probably go to press late Monday or early Tuesday (UTC), but late responses will be added as they're submitted. Thanks, Ral315 » 04:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
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For taking on and fixing David Southall on short notice. east.718 at 13:08, November 27, 2007 |
Great rewrite on this article. It had been on my radar for a while, being in poor condition, but I had not moved into doing anything on it. It's looking a lot better now. — BillC talk 20:32, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
I've repiled to your comments on your e-mail. Please let me know if this is disabled, and we can set up a private covnersation aontehr way. It explaines why I've removed your warning, and why in this case they are inappropriate. Thanks. - BillCJ ( talk) 04:37, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello! As we did for last year's election, we are again compiling a Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Summary table. This table contains a column "Portfolio" for links that display candidates' pertinent skills. I will be going through each candidate's statements and gradually populate the column, but this may take some time. Please feel free to add some links in the form [link|c] if you feel it shows conflict resolution skills, or [link|o] otherwise. It would also be helpful if you can check if the information about you is correct.
My motivation is that as a voter, I don't want to just rely on a candidate's words, but also see their actions. Moreover, I believe a portfolio of "model cases" to remember in difficult situations can be useful for each candidate, as well. I believe that conflict resolution skills are most pertinent to the position, but if you want to highlight other skills, please feel free to use a new letter and add it to Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Summary table#Columns of this table. — Sebastian 05:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Please do not remove content my userpage. If you have concerns there are avenues with which to discuss them, where you can provide examples of policy to support your contentions which can be challenged and discussed. I contend that I am permitted to warn other parties that I will disclose material if I feel that they are in violation of the principles of Wikipedia, or the law. I have read WP:Userpage and note that, per WP:Userpage#Removal of inappropriate content, that it requires the communities consideration of what is inappropriate. You may wish to bring up the matter at WP:AN, but you are not permitted to remove content that you personally disapprove of. Should you continue to remove content without consensus then you are edit warring and are thus liable for sanction. This is not yet a warning, just a reminder. LessHeard vanU 12:15, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Bainer, can you explain to me how to interpret the results from a WHOIS report? You remarked on ANI about 203.109.223.1 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log). I'd like to know how you can tell that it is a a dynamic dsl address and such, thanks. - JodyB talk 18:24, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi I have Commons:Commons:Project scope concerns on this image. Also the license is problematic as it needs to be GFDL per screen capture. -- Cat chi? 10:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for moving Charles Kingston (politician) back to Charles Kingston and fixing the DAB page at Charles Kingston (disambiguation). I really should have done that originally, and I think I was on brain-freeze when I did the DAB-ing. I agree that the Australian politician justifies primary usage. Snocrates 21:09, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Just letting you know, when you update Did You Know you're supposed to send out credits to the authors/nominators. Thanks. Red rocket boy 13:27, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Remove it please. I give up. The fair use inclusionists have come up with a contortionist explanation for how this article is not a list of characters at all, but instead is an article about characters and thus it's ok to have a fair use image for every character or even a few hundred for every character for all I know. I give up. I've been worn down. Wikipedia isn't a free content encyclopedia, and our m:mission be damned. They want as much fair use as possible, let them have it. I argued ad nauseum at [3]. I give up. They win. Please let them put as much fair use onto the article as possible. I recommend a few hundred images. Maybe even a few thousand. I'm quite sure it'd be a featured list then. Don't worry about the criteria at Wikipedia:Featured list criteria which clearly make this out as a list. That's wrong too. THIS article is UNIQUE! It's a non-list of characters acting as an article about the characters including all the characters...or something. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 21:34, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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You concluded a AfD five weeks ago on a list of articles that had been spun off from the original. The result was split between delete and keep and you reccomende merge. The article was redirected, but the content was never merged (the same applies to all the other articles), and the editors who nominated it are now claiming treating the article as though it had been deleted. The parent artcile is a complete shambles now, because nobody can agree to merge any of the things that you recmmende to be merged back into the article. Thus every section now has a "see main template" that links back to the top of the article.
This is in no way your fault. However, there was no consensus to delete, yet that is the net effect, an extraordianry thing considering the amount of careful sourcing that went into these 8 articles, perhaps 1000 sources. Lobojo ( talk) 04:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
As the closer of the "Race and intelligence (XXX)" series AfD, I was wondering if you would care to explain the matter to User:Lobojo; this needs an uninvolved perspective. See here and here. Thanks. Guettarda ( talk) 04:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Ahh...missed the section above this one. Guettarda ( talk) 04:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
I've posted a call on WP:AWNB to try and get some style guidelines for our pages on individual parliaments. I know you've created a few of these, so I was wondering if you might have any suggestions. Rebecca ( talk) 06:56, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
I have unblocked following a request. I had previously commented here regarding the request, the details of which are in the history. Sorry about the flip-flopping. LessHeard vanU ( talk) 15:33, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
I notice that you turned a merge notice on this article into a template. I'm not really sure that a merge has been discussed seriously for some time now. It may be worth checking the talk page with a view to removing the proposal as moribund. -- Tony Sidaway 06:21, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey there bainer. Just letting you know that the article's GA nomination is on hold, with comments at User:Miranda/SuevHill. I can help out to some extent, but I figure it's good if you (as the nom) set the ball rolling. Cheers, — Dihydrogen Monoxide ( Review) 23:13, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
I have filed a request for arbitration which involves you. Please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Giano_II. John254 04:43, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Congrats on your new appointment as Arbitrator! Good luck, and don't wear yourself out :) Majorly ( talk) 22:53, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations!!! I'm sure you will do well, serving on arbcom. -- Aude ( talk) 23:15, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Welcome aboard. :-) FloNight ( talk) 23:18, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations! Kirill 23:33, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
An Arbitration case involving you 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/IRC/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/IRC/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher 00:43, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey, that API method is neat! I hope it won't make the other arbitrators' heads spin. I'm sure you'll be able to explain it to them. I had one other thought while looking at that table. One of the page protections expired naturally. The one that ran out at 21:38 on 25 December. Maybe you could add a row to the table to make it clearer that: (a) edit warring didn't start up again straightaway; and (b) the next edits were to an unprotected page (some might take the absence of an unprotection to mean that the page was still protected). Carcharoth ( talk) 03:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I wanted to thank you for putting up your table of evidence in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/IRC. It reminded me of a similar submission made years ago by one of our very best—it too was exhaustive, neutral, and fair. Submissions to /Evidence and /Workshop pages often make for difficult reading; quite apart from their often painful content, they are by their very nature partisan. I imagine it must be difficult sometimes for neutral third parties to form fair conclusions from the evidence at hand. Your work should go some way in making this a little easier in this instance—and it's good that it does, for it's a fairly important case. Kind regards — Encephalon 11:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Reminder, there are two more days in order to address the issues raised in Sue v Hill GAC. miranda 06:30, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello, congrats on the Arbcom election. Unless you let me know otherwise I will assume you are not planning to be significantly involved in chapter planning stuff, e.g. writing model rules. Although your assistance would of course be welcome. -- pfctdayelise ( talk) 13:11, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
I really didn't think that a simple request for a civility strikethrough would turn up as arbitration evidence. Please remove it; it's trivial. Or if you insist on using it please include the entire exchange. Durova Charge! 07:11, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
You may want to take a look; I questioned a piece of your analysis over here: Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/IRC/Evidence#(2)_Geogre_edited_a_protected_page?. Thanks for all the work. Jd2718 ( talk) 04:26, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Bainer, Thanks for considering the issue. Just a quick question before I present some info. Where do you want the discussion to proceed? On the talk page of the RFARB page? Or should I add another comment under previous one? Or under your comment?-- Thomas Basboll ( talk) 09:40, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations on your ArbCom candidacy as well. Acalamari 18:07, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
I added another comment at RFAR regarding Basboll which can be read here Please reconsider.-- MONGO 19:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for your time on this. As I've noted at RFARB, I've decided to withdraw from Wikipedia. I only have time to contribute very narrowly to the site, and this apparently raises suspicions about my motives, which in turn causes much more grief (for myself and others) than my contributions justify. I have many good ideas about how situations like this could be dealt with, of course, and what is wrong with MONGO's approach, but I can see now that what I want is for the community's culture to change quite radically. Working to bring that about presupposes a commitment to WP that I have so far not had an occasion to form (mainly because of MONGO and his supporters). WP is not all bad, in my view, but the cons have simply outweighed the pros. Once again, thanks for your time.-- Thomas Basboll ( talk) 11:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Well spotted. I'd quite forgotten those interactions, which in retrospect make me ask a chastened question: what on earth got into me? Getting upset isn't a good reason to act nastily. For more evidence of my shortness of temper which led to minor disputes becoming exacerbated, see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Tony Sidaway 4. -- Tony Sidaway 15:12, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi there! I see that you closed this AfD at the end of October, but haven't cleaned-up the related articles, yet. Any idea when you'll be able to complete the process? I've never seen an AfD abandoned like this, and I'm tnos ure what to do about the involved articles. -- Mikeblas ( talk) 19:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I reverted your edit to the blocking policy. It does not address the indefinite options, so I have addressed it with this edit. Lets discuss. M-ercury at 11:39, January 10, 2008
Yes, I'm aware of that, which is why I was soliciting for views on whether to apply the probation without any further warnings. Hopefully they're now aware that any more silliness will result in sanctions straight away. BLACKKITE 15:41, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed last night that we don't have any article on Frank Galbally. It'd be a pretty useful one to have, because he was such a well known figure, but I've got a to-do list a mile long already and I probably won't get around to it for ages, and I figure it's more your area than mine. Any chance you'd be able to whip up something on him? Rebecca ( talk) 10:07, 15 January 2008 (UTC)