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DragonflySixtyseven (
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5145 edits. And I would like to know whether he/she is a man or a woman.
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16:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
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oh... uh... is this thing on? tap tap tap Um... Yes. I accept the nomination. Th-thank you. I'll, um, I'll work on my answers over the next day or so. DS 23:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC) reply
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A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
What am I particularly proud of? Well, despite not having known much about the struggle for Indian independence,I'm rather pleased with the work I did on Senapati Bapat and Govind Ballabh Pant (which I wrote practically from scratch) and Sardul Singh Caveeshar (and thank you, Bhadani, for an important bit of information). NPOVing Did Six Million Really Die? was quite satisfactory, as was, surprisingly enough, Millie Tant. Jhereg is good, I think, as is Hollywood accounting.
I like my "why we might think you're a sockpuppet so please don't get offended" speech.
There's an interesting little story behind how I came to create the entry for George Robert Vincent, which is on the article's talk page.
Dusky seaside sparrow makes me sad, but I'm proud of it. Musth makes me nervous, but I'm proud of it too. And I've been meaning to incorporate the content of Talk:Metastability in molecules into the article once I get around to creating some proper images. I added some amusing details to Graham Chapman, and I need to go back to Parinya Kiatbusaba and finish rewriting the last few paragraphs. Din-i-Illahi. Birbal. Earth X. De zaak alzheimer.
I'm always quite pleased when I save a valid article from getting deleted, as with Oliver Coipel, Sasha Spesivtsev, Liberty Belle, salary-celery merger, Joseph Ivor Linton. I also enjoy the opportunity to consult with primary sources, such as writing to Norman Spinrad to get details about whether The Iron Dream was banned in Germany, or asking Tobias Wolff if anyone had ever named an asteroid for him.
I resolved a dispute about Stepanakert. A substantial portion of anglerfish is from me, as is almost all of honey guide. Bread and circuses was scarcely more than a dicdef before I got to it. EBaum's World was missing some important information which was rather difficult to convey in a properly neutral fashion, but I think I did a reasonable job. Would you believe that, before I got to it, the article on the sport of bunnock didn't explain what bunnock is? I added the explanation to [[Category:Polish Scouts and Guides]].
At this point, I've still got over a year's worth of edits to pick through in a search for "favorites", but I think that's enough. DS 19:59, 4 October 2005 (UTC) reply
(three hours on Memory Lane later) Well, um, I was in a brief disagreement over the Mister Dressup article - I added a piece of trivia about a parody; User:Thivierr felt it was inappropriate there, and should be in the Radio Free Vestibule article instead; we exchanged... two messages on the topic, and currently I don't think the datum is in either article, because I conceded the point and felt it wasn't worth getting agitated about.
And... okay, the Einar H. Kvaran article, it was created by an anonymous user, I removed a large amount of genealogical information, and then I got a rather distraught note from User:Carptrash. Apparently, he had spent several weeks convincing an octogenarian neighbor of the value of WP, and I had "butchered" the article, thus scaring away the octogenarian, and didn't I know that genealogical information is very important in Icelandic culture, have I never read the Sagas?, and so he had reverted my changes. I spent a while reading up on Icelandic culture, conceded that genealogy is more important in Icelandic culture than I had realized, and then carefully edited the article again, leaving in the information about Einar H. Kvaran's parents, but deleting the information about his sons and nephews (other than their existence) because Wikipedia is not the Sagas, and the article is about Einar, not his sons and nephews. The article summary said "We don't need EVERY detail about his family tree, okay?", and I left an apology for the page creator (which he doesn't seem to have read; sigh). I thought everything was settled, but yesterday I found out that Carptrash had perceived this as an edit war, and had left messages for various Icelandic Wikipedians, asking that they come to his support in this.
Anything else... there were some minor disputes in the Static Shock page, where I twice asked User:Mare-Silverus to stop inserting his own thoughts as to what some of the characters were references to; I resolved this by, quite simply, contacting Static creator Dwayne McDuffie and asking him if Mare's interpretations were correct (answer: no).
There was a very slight dispute at Holy Prepuce - I deleted the reference to Catherine of Siena, it was restored, I deleted it again and left my reasons on the talk page - which was resolved after User:Muriel Gottrop made a helpful suggestion.
Annnnnnnnd.... that's it.
These don't typically cause me stress. If anything on WP causes me stress, it's vandals (well, and edit conflicts, and server problems).
I try to mediate conflicts, to come up with a mutually agreeable solution. Some individuals are resistant to that, and become more and more agitated; for such cases, if they don't storm off in a huff, and instead choose to wreak havoc, the regrettable solution is to issue a temporary block. That's a last resort, of course, following a proper RfC.
If something on WP annoys me, I get up, walk around, read a novel, eat an apple, call my girlfriend, play with the neighbor's dog... if it's something that requires my attention, I take the time to construct a proper response.
DS 22:17, 3 October 2005 (UTC) reply
Final (51/2/0) ended 16:20 October 9, 2005 (UTC)
DragonflySixtyseven (
talk ·
contribs) – About time DragonflySixtyseven was an admin. He/she has been here for over a year, and is very active in spotting Candidates for Speedy Deletion. I collaborated with him/her during the Red Link Recovery project. He/she has
5145 edits. And I would like to know whether he/she is a man or a woman.
— JIP |
Talk
16:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
reply
oh... uh... is this thing on? tap tap tap Um... Yes. I accept the nomination. Th-thank you. I'll, um, I'll work on my answers over the next day or so. DS 23:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC) reply
Support
Oppose
Neutral
Comments
Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
What am I particularly proud of? Well, despite not having known much about the struggle for Indian independence,I'm rather pleased with the work I did on Senapati Bapat and Govind Ballabh Pant (which I wrote practically from scratch) and Sardul Singh Caveeshar (and thank you, Bhadani, for an important bit of information). NPOVing Did Six Million Really Die? was quite satisfactory, as was, surprisingly enough, Millie Tant. Jhereg is good, I think, as is Hollywood accounting.
I like my "why we might think you're a sockpuppet so please don't get offended" speech.
There's an interesting little story behind how I came to create the entry for George Robert Vincent, which is on the article's talk page.
Dusky seaside sparrow makes me sad, but I'm proud of it. Musth makes me nervous, but I'm proud of it too. And I've been meaning to incorporate the content of Talk:Metastability in molecules into the article once I get around to creating some proper images. I added some amusing details to Graham Chapman, and I need to go back to Parinya Kiatbusaba and finish rewriting the last few paragraphs. Din-i-Illahi. Birbal. Earth X. De zaak alzheimer.
I'm always quite pleased when I save a valid article from getting deleted, as with Oliver Coipel, Sasha Spesivtsev, Liberty Belle, salary-celery merger, Joseph Ivor Linton. I also enjoy the opportunity to consult with primary sources, such as writing to Norman Spinrad to get details about whether The Iron Dream was banned in Germany, or asking Tobias Wolff if anyone had ever named an asteroid for him.
I resolved a dispute about Stepanakert. A substantial portion of anglerfish is from me, as is almost all of honey guide. Bread and circuses was scarcely more than a dicdef before I got to it. EBaum's World was missing some important information which was rather difficult to convey in a properly neutral fashion, but I think I did a reasonable job. Would you believe that, before I got to it, the article on the sport of bunnock didn't explain what bunnock is? I added the explanation to [[Category:Polish Scouts and Guides]].
At this point, I've still got over a year's worth of edits to pick through in a search for "favorites", but I think that's enough. DS 19:59, 4 October 2005 (UTC) reply
(three hours on Memory Lane later) Well, um, I was in a brief disagreement over the Mister Dressup article - I added a piece of trivia about a parody; User:Thivierr felt it was inappropriate there, and should be in the Radio Free Vestibule article instead; we exchanged... two messages on the topic, and currently I don't think the datum is in either article, because I conceded the point and felt it wasn't worth getting agitated about.
And... okay, the Einar H. Kvaran article, it was created by an anonymous user, I removed a large amount of genealogical information, and then I got a rather distraught note from User:Carptrash. Apparently, he had spent several weeks convincing an octogenarian neighbor of the value of WP, and I had "butchered" the article, thus scaring away the octogenarian, and didn't I know that genealogical information is very important in Icelandic culture, have I never read the Sagas?, and so he had reverted my changes. I spent a while reading up on Icelandic culture, conceded that genealogy is more important in Icelandic culture than I had realized, and then carefully edited the article again, leaving in the information about Einar H. Kvaran's parents, but deleting the information about his sons and nephews (other than their existence) because Wikipedia is not the Sagas, and the article is about Einar, not his sons and nephews. The article summary said "We don't need EVERY detail about his family tree, okay?", and I left an apology for the page creator (which he doesn't seem to have read; sigh). I thought everything was settled, but yesterday I found out that Carptrash had perceived this as an edit war, and had left messages for various Icelandic Wikipedians, asking that they come to his support in this.
Anything else... there were some minor disputes in the Static Shock page, where I twice asked User:Mare-Silverus to stop inserting his own thoughts as to what some of the characters were references to; I resolved this by, quite simply, contacting Static creator Dwayne McDuffie and asking him if Mare's interpretations were correct (answer: no).
There was a very slight dispute at Holy Prepuce - I deleted the reference to Catherine of Siena, it was restored, I deleted it again and left my reasons on the talk page - which was resolved after User:Muriel Gottrop made a helpful suggestion.
Annnnnnnnd.... that's it.
These don't typically cause me stress. If anything on WP causes me stress, it's vandals (well, and edit conflicts, and server problems).
I try to mediate conflicts, to come up with a mutually agreeable solution. Some individuals are resistant to that, and become more and more agitated; for such cases, if they don't storm off in a huff, and instead choose to wreak havoc, the regrettable solution is to issue a temporary block. That's a last resort, of course, following a proper RfC.
If something on WP annoys me, I get up, walk around, read a novel, eat an apple, call my girlfriend, play with the neighbor's dog... if it's something that requires my attention, I take the time to construct a proper response.
DS 22:17, 3 October 2005 (UTC) reply