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Long time, no speak Sarek! Just wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at the airports edit history and consider semi-protecting the page against non-registered users? Cheers NorthernCounties (talk)
I am new to Wikipedia editing and have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I guess I deleted a tag line a few too many times, but I didn't realize that the message meant that I was deleting that specific tag line. I have no idea what I'm doing. I want to add a page for my honor society for my university, no some joke page. I even had the references correct and I kept receiving a message saying it was incorrect. How do I add my page and fix the reference correctly without violating policies? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amelia.butman (talk • contribs) 15:51, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Ok. I think I might have a paraphrased text ready for a new page. However, the resource I am using is directly from the university's alumni page, which is a reliable source as it is affiliated with the university and wouldn't be otherwise. How do I go about fixing this? Thank you for the help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amelia.butman (talk • contribs) 16:11, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
My sincere apologies for attempting to close Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1N4148 per WP:SPEEDYKEEP. Don't know what I was thinking... (Maybe I need to stop editing late at night.) Guoguo12--Talk-- 20:11, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
I've dropped a note on Don's talk page regarding WP:OWN, WP:NPA, WP:EDITWAR, and the consensus model. This is in response to the thread between you two on ANI. I requested that he avoid you for a while to let tempers cool, and I'm therefore requesting that you do the same. Thanks. N419BH 14:19, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
How is this not relevant? The organization is based on enforcing "ethics" but they are making accusations against other groups that share the same policies as they do. If this was any other group I would understand but they operate under the notion of fairness and transparency. Would it not be important if a civil-rights group was found to be actively discriminating against people. Sources properly cited and all information is factual. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.143.20.21 (talk) 21:45, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Did you see the talk page? I got detained by campus police for a half an hour for taking pictures. The three current ones were taken a day or so ago. I haven't added any new ones.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 01:44, 2 April 2011 (UTC) The bigger question is: I have about 20 new pictures but I feel weird about posting them. I feel like I've been censored. I got my Drivers license back from police. btw this isn't a joke even though it's April Fool's day.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 01:46, 2 April 2011 (UTC) I've been pasting complaints on the ANI and ArbCom but the consensus is that probably there's nothing that WP can do. Any ideas?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 01:47, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
(outdent) Exactly. Well put. That said, my view is that the college's fundamental policy is wrong, and perhaps people here will agree. It's a breach of freedom. It's a misuse of police power. It's a violation of the rights of viewers. It's the college trying to extend authority which they don't have. It's an abuse of power. But, overall, there is no clear-cut right-and-wrong here, because I can see partially why it happened. The larger problems include the following: the college is part of larger structures (America, society, the world, the American legal system, inability to deal with crime and terrorism, etc) which have unresolved issues and which gives it conflicting problems. If the college lets anybody photograph anything, it may find itself in court facing spurious lawsuits. It doesn't know. I think there are major problems with the American legal system which are complicated by the fact that technology (cameras, Wikipedia, Internet exposure) are advancing MUCH MORE RAPIDLY than laws regulating their use. Such is life. These issues are complex. If interested, I have POV-oriented writings which you can find from my user page on diverse topics.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 16:05, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Yup, I thought he might do this... as soon as the AFD on Iowa Masonic Library and Museum ended, Doncram reverted the article back to his preferred version of the article. I will try to accommodate his concerns... but he makes it difficult. It is hard to be accommodating when the other side in a dispute does not return the favor. Blueboar (talk) 23:55, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Stop spamming my Wikipedia page. It is really annoying and unnecessary.Theseus1776 (talk) 04:59, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
In my top five successes. :D No worries. As I've explained to others, there's a reason for the AfD process... Dru of Id (talk) 16:43, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello SarekOfVulcan. Monte Melkonian (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards, Sandstein 05:44, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
You might be interested in the conversation I have posted at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Ongoing_AFDs_and_3RR about the ongoing edit war and self-promotion. HHaeyyn89 (talk) 04:49, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
...but if you take a look at the ANI, I might not be around much longer. Again. I have had it. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 05:31, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
User:RaptorHunter has deleted your block notice of him on his talkpage, during his block.
I think that's not quite cricket, but thought I would bring it to your attention to determine whether there is an issue there.--Epeefleche (talk) 02:11, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
For this. That's useful. And thanks also for checking in. Drmies (talk) 16:36, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello. It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on others' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote—in order to influence Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Young_Conservatives_of_Texas. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:45, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
The article Young Conservatives of Texas has been nominated for deletion at AfD. Your input as to whether or not this article meets notability standards is invited. Thank you. Carrite (talk) 17:03, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Watch those reverts -- you're restoring a completely unreferenced promotional section. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:43, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
... on Henry Ford. It's helpful because of that article's high affinity to vandals. I think its high traffic alone (typically 6K pageloads/day), with middle-school kids being overrepresented among the loaders, exposes it to a lot of vandal activity. So thanks again. — ¾-10 02:07, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Since you're not only the last editor of LivingSocial before Aat25, but you're also an admin with more experience with stuff like this than me, I wanted to get your opinion on their edits to the page. I know your edits to the page were minor, but I'd like your input if you're willing to give it. I have little doubt there is a conflict of interest here considering all of their edits have been to LivingSocial, except one, which was to Groupon and changed the infobox to reflect information on LivingSocial, rather than Groupon.
Ignoring COI at the second, while some of the edits were constructive, they removed the cleanup tags (both of which, I feel, are still (if not more) relevant), added a lot of peacocky bloat, and added an entire section basically bragging about their deals with Amazon and Fandango. I'm not sure a full revert would be necessary or if the edits should be cherry-picked for what little valuable information they've left. Thanks for any help you can offer. ICYTIGER'SBLOOD 02:43, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
you refer to this edit [2], but it was done by another editor. surely this editor should be blocked for disruption? LibStar (talk) 04:28, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
The orange bar you were expecting, I assume.
Can you point out the exact quotes that prompted the block, and explain to me why a straight block was the most constructive course of action to resolve any issues you saw?
Amalthea 13:49, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Was wondering if the protection level could be lowered to semi, since our friend's IP range has been blocked. Elockid has already done this for the list page at another editor's request, but I'm pretty sure he was more concerned with the one you locked. KnownAlias contact 18:58, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
I've downgraded it to semi protection per this request. If there's trouble, just ramp it back up to full protection I guess. Airplaneman ✈ 22:37, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Future Films Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 07:11, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Which revert do you think I should undo? Please provide diffs. I presume you are referring to this [3]. When an editor removes content that's cited (on the basis it's not cited) and I restore it when it's clear that it's in the source and being quoted (perhaps too closely for Copyvio reasons), how does that violate the 1RR rule? I did revert myself after I added another citation that was duplicative here [4] but I presume I'm allowed to revert myself.Mattnad (talk) 21:28, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks; didn't realize there were archives. Should there be a tweak to the move screen, now that archive formats are standardized - mostly? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:35, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
In this template discussion, you said "an earlier discussion determined that that was unwarranted overlinking, even done manually." Do you remember the location of that consensus discussion? Could you point me there? — Fourthords | =/\= | 21:36, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
13:37, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
Per your comment at C&A, AFL already has its own article. - Haymaker (talk) 16:44, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
Go for it. Dbpjmuf (talk) 19:45, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Peachy. Dbpjmuf (talk) 20:01, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
It might be a good idea to get some consensus at WP:MED before you continue deleting images from pages. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:04, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
On 27 October 2010 you restored a previously archived RS/N that had been subjected to post-closure editing by User:Dlabtot. While recently attempting to review that RS/N on the subject of World Net Daily's WP:RS status, I noted that User:Dlabtot, subsequent to what should have been your final resolution to his previous breach of WP guidelines for archived content, edited the archive again, this time rendering the previously accepted closure to an unreadable status except by horizontal scrolling (he left a hanging "}".
While I believe that User:Dlabtot's persistent and demonstrated unwillingness to abide by even administrative intervention on this issue should be cause for sanctions, I'll leave that to your discretion but would appreciate your consideration and restoration of the archive to pre-User:Dlabtot's post-archive editing. User:Dlabtot has been notified of this communication. Thanks. JakeInJoisey (talk) 12:54, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Please undo this. I strongly object. The article is currently being discussed and developed and is not the target of heavy vandalism, we don't do pre-emptive protections. There's no basis for this.--Scott Mac 18:56, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Needless drama. Thanks. ╟─TreasuryTag►draftsman─╢ 17:18, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Hey Sarek, Just noticed the ban you proposed on AN. Only had time to look at "current" talk page of the user. Has anyone tried to talk to him/her about these stubs he's creating? Maybe if he was clued in he'd understand a bit better, and work on things in his user space first, then roll them out once they had a bit more meat to them. Just wondering. — Ched : ? 15:26, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
The move of Speed Printing (Grand Forks, North Dakota) was not exactly uncontroversial. I had previously moved it to Speed Printing because there's no other article using that title. I was hoping to see how the discussion would develop. But not that big a deal I suppose. Station1 (talk) 23:12, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
I see you have removed the comments I placed before the dates here in pursuance of an idea I had that editors get to the date and don't read any further before changing it. I think it will be interesting to see what now happens, and whether the current comments are enough. Britmax (talk) 17:20, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
You seem to have reverted her DOB to 1948 Was this deliberate? Britmax (talk) 19:34, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
I thought it might be afterward, triumph of enthusiasm over concentration there. Britmax (talk) 19:37, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I notice you posted this to User talk:Aspire Communications, indicating you had unblocked them. However, near as I can tell, the user is still blocked. I wasn't sure if this was intentional, or perhaps a momentary glitch in a tool, such as Twinkle, which is why I thought I'd point it out. :) Just a friendly heads up. Avicennasis @ 22:11, 23 Nisan 5771 / 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you do the honours with this sock. Mo ainm~Talk 22:30, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Sarek, I beg you to reconsider your block of Avanu since you were quite clearly involved in the edit war, and on the opposite side as Avanu - [6]. Unblocking and leaving the matter to an uninvolved admin would be the right thing to do. Cheers.Griswaldo (talk) 01:14, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Sarek is it really necessary for you to do this and this? Several uninvolved admins and users are now watching his page they can handle the situation perfectly fine. Reverting his actions on his talk page is not helpful and will only provoke more drama. I'm begging you at the very least to stay clear of provoking Avanu further. I hope that is not too much to ask. Cheers.Griswaldo (talk) 14:59, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Sarek since you are unresponsive but continue to take admin action against Avanu I have raised the matter at AN/I. Please see - Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:SarekOfVulcan_and_WP:INVOLVED. Cheers.Griswaldo (talk) 15:53, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
...do you never learn? If someone has violated 3RR in an edit-war with you then you must not block them, but instead ask one of Wikipedia's hundreds of other administrators to do it. Haven't you read WP:UNINVOLVED? Oh, yes, you have – although it took you numerous overturned blocks and an outside-of-policy RevDel to realise it. Abusing rollback in an editing dispute is also frowned upon, hence the word 'abuse'.
I suggest that you apologise to Avanu and explain why it was so urgent to block him that you couldn't wait for someone uninvolved to do it. I also wouldn't mind you apologising to me for falsely labelling a good-faith edit of mine as vandalism, but I can see that that's unlikely. ╟─TreasuryTag►sundries─╢ 07:57, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, you posted on an ANI thread I started regarding Singaporeandy (talk · contribs) ("Comment that may be interpreted as legal threat"), but since your post went in the middle of the thread I didn't notice it and it appears no one responded. In your post you commented that Singaporeandy might have wanted to submit his contribution as an "Invariant Section". Can you explain what this means? I looked at GNU Free Documentation License but that made me even more confused. Does such a submission give a user carte blanche to unilaterally say "this is my edit and no one else can touch it"? —KuyaBriBriTalk 14:14, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
You're right; Maine Question 1 (2009) is currently a redirect page. Are you able to delete that page and move the article to it? Or is there a better solution? NYyankees51 (talk) 14:04, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please tell me what justified semi-protecting Kirkland, Washington for 1 year? Seems a bit excessive considering only 3 unique IPs edited the article in the 5 days between its release from its previous 2-week protection and the time you set the 1-year protection. —KuyaBriBriTalk 18:23, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Unfortunately, this fellow has now followed me over to PhRMA to continue section blank and slow-motion edit warring. He seems well-intentioned. I think an ANI report is not overkill. What other mechanisms are open to us that might be effective for calming things down?Intermittentgardener (talk) 16:22, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Is there any way to speed up the process at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations#Yurtengurt ?
There have been 4 attempts to out me in the last 24 hours.LedRush (talk) 21:30, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
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In this edit and another, you seem to be taking on an enforcement role about issues outside the scope of the block you imposed upon me, and outside the scope of the AN proposal you opened and is ongoing about me. Please note: that is a long-ago-started article. I added a legitimate, sourced statement along with other improvement to the article.
"It's been discussed", meaning that you noticed that Orlady gave her opinion about that, is not a valid reason to wade in as you seem to be doing. Lots of opinions have been stated, and there is NO consensus that areas of NRHP-listed properties and the clarification of numbers of structures cannot be stated. Lvklock argues specifically for that exact information to be kept in. In fact, there are some editors who i've seen argue that every factoid in an infobox must be stated in the text. It's subjective, at best, about what is best to keep in or not, and I think it works best in subjective cases to defer to editors actually positively developing. It is heavy-handed of you in particular to follow me and to dispute, taking on or extending an enforcer role. Please reconsider whether you would revert yourself on that.
Please also answer my questions to you about your enforcer type role or following type role, at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#new issue: false proposals. Why have you not answered there? --doncram 16:57, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at user:Digdig86? It's a vandalism only account. I've reported at AIV but no one's looking right now and they're clogging up the edit history of Ica stones (and vandalising my talk page too, apparently). Ka Faraq Gatri (talk) 17:25, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the friendly warning, I am well aware I am at 3RR on that artcle and am as you suggested taking a break from it as a result. Thanks again. U-Mos (talk) 21:10, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2011 May 1#File:Girl regenerating.png, a deletion discussion for an image you have recently uploaded or commented on. ╟─TreasuryTag►stannary parliament─╢ 21:42, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Courtesy notice that I've mentioned you in regards to the block of U-Mos for 3RR on Day of the Moon. Something seems very odd about how this went down and seeking larger opinion on how the situation should have been handled. WP:ANI#3RR blocking for reverting back to consensus-agreed version?. --MASEM (t) 02:16, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Somehow MiszaBot II at 02:35, 2 May 2011 screwed up the archiving of this discussion, leaving half at WP:AN under the heading "External Links", where it no longer makes sense, and putting the top half at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive223 followed by some weirdly formatted repetitions of the same section. My recommendation is to just recopy the entire discussion as written to Archive 223 (esp since some have complained about Doncram refactoring discussions), but since it's your proposal, I didn't want to just do it myself. Station1 (talk) 05:42, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Please explain why my edits were taken off the Planned Parenthood page. They were properly formatted and well cited. Also, there was some language regarding "reverts" for the topic of "abortion." Planned Parenthood by its admission is more than a non-profit which provides abortion services. Also, my edits were regarding the founder, whose information is included on the page. I have noticed that all negative content regarding this entity is immediately removed after its inclusion. This type of censorship is directly contrary to the policy of wikipedia and to a marketplace of free ideas (especially ideas that are true and well documented.) Seabas73 (talk) 18:42, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Further "reliable" sources have been added. I don't understand how citing to a website which cites specific language cited from Sanger's works, with source and page citations, is not reliable, but in good faith I added another. Please explain this RR thing so that I may fix it. Seabas73 (talk) 19:56, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar | ||
I think it's admirable that anyone would step up and do this, so thank you, even if it gets a bit heated. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:23, 2 May 2011 (UTC) |
FYI, I've left you a new question. Nyttend (talk) 22:43, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
I, Mikhailov Kusserow, hereby award SarekOfVulcan with The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for outstanding achievement in countering vandalism. — Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 04:15, 3 May 2011 (UTC) |
Re: your "sigh" at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/SarekOfVulcan 2--careful who you sigh at, Sarek. I might run for admin and get the bit before you get it back, and then I'll block the hell out of you for sighing out of order. At any rate, now that you can't arbitrarily block people you don't like for a couple of days, how about doing some real work? Ethereal being needs cleaning up, and you'll find a note at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard. I expect you to nominate it for DYK, as a 5x reduction, within two days. To cheer you up, if you need cheering up, I'm pasting a nice puppy here on your page. Happy editing, Drmies (talk) 15:51, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar | ||
You have done well, editor of Vulcan. Keep it coming. Drmies (talk) 03:40, 4 May 2011 (UTC) |
No problem. But, I still don't know why you're doing this to yourself. (Lent is over!) Kenatipo speak! 15:55, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
I have enormous respect that you're doing it, and I'm sorry I've landed in the oppose camp. I mean what I just wrote here - it's quite possible your Q5, and my interpretation of the answer, is a semantic misunderstanding. I'm always open to discussion. Best, Chzz ► 07:11, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Hey dude, this edit by you invoking "developing consensus" somewhere is absurd. I appreciate that you opened a discussion section at wt:NRHP#Straw poll on inclusion of basic info in article text. That discussion, in this current version, is not at all concluded. I am going to reverse your edit now. That will make 3 removals by you and 3 restorations by me. Your edits are removing information that is easily removed later, or better replaced by more specific information; there is no urgency to removing this sourced, valid information. It is not vandalism requiring immediate attention or anything like that. --doncram 23:00, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the link fix. I'm not up to speed with architectural styles, so thought it best to leave as a redlink until someone came along who knew more. - Sitush (talk) 19:21, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
A different issue, for a different article. An article for some teenage reality TV "starlet", which is inappropriately edited on a regular basis, currently has her eye colour showing as hazel-green. This is uncited, and one eager editor keeps trying to change it to brown. I have tried to explain that even though the existing colour may be wrong, changing one uncited statement for another uncited statement doesn't really move things on and, in any event, I am aware that there have been differences of opinion regarding the colour in the past.
I suggested that the contributor find a reliable source; she has come back at me quoting photographic evidence. I have countered that although video stuff can be RS, in this instance I do not feel that it is appropriate since, for example, the starlet might be wearing coloured contact lenses etc (she is a rich, pampered teen girl who also does some modelling, so anything is possible ...). I am insisting that a print/web source be used and have the feeling that this could run on for some time, I know that you are at least temporarily not an admin but you do have the experience: am I right to insist? - Sitush (talk) 20:33, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
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You have inaccurately suggested that I am engaging in "warring" after attempting to undo repeated vandalism of the above referenced article by a clearly biased editor who apparently knows little or nothing about the history covered by this article. I thought article vandalism was not allowed by Wikipedia. It would appear that you may be taking sides with a clearly biased editor who is engaging in article vandalism without careful review of the substance of deleted and contributed content for this article and the Southern Baptist Convention article. Is that the case? The same editor who has waged a campaign to degrade this article also recently tried to delete the entire British America article and was reversed for that attempted sabotage. That evidence of the editor's pattern of frivolous and improper deletion of verifiably accurate content should properly be taken into account when weighing the merit of that editor's editing of this article.
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It's a given in the intelligence/undercover law enforcement community that you do not call attention to yourself. Once you do that, you're open to everything and anything that comes your way. Your second RfA may be brave, but a better route may have been to set out recall conditions, and wait until someone felt strongly enough to invoke them. That way, you can continue doing the work you set out to do. Meanwhile, it's looking like it may not be going the way you hoped, although full marks for trying; meanwhile, yet another admin is unable to function to address the backlogs that persist here. Taking the lesson from Rodhullandemu, perhaps you should have taken a step back from the front line before having to take this move. Nothing personal, and I wish you well. Hengist Pod (talk) 00:02, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Sarek, I think a lot of people are not follwing your RfA as closely as I am. I think a lot of them have not seen your recent responses to peoples concerns. Maybe you could make an extended response to Sven last question in your RfA to more clearly explain your position. That way people may be better able to understand the changes you'd make in the future. You may also want to have a chat with people like Chzz as they said there willing to reconsider their positions. Best of luck to you. - Hydroxonium (T•C•V) 00:04, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
I feel for you, Sarek. I'm sorry that things haven't gone better, especially since you were trying to do the right thing by reconfirming your adminship. Good luck and I hope things turn out for the best. - Hydroxonium (T•C•V) 02:07, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
In response to this – don't make me go back and find the diff of me asking you not to post on my talkpage (I seem to remember it was linked to somewhere early-on in this discussion...); if you really can't restrain yourself from following what goes on there and providing unwanted input, then take it off your watchlist. ╟─TreasuryTag►directorate─╢ 14:48, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
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Dear One, I admire your courage in embarking on this journey at ANI, but I am ready for it to be done now. I trust you implicitly and would like you back. Do you have any idea when this ordeal will be done? Best Wishes, Your joy — DocOfSoc • Talk • 04:23, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi SarekOfVulcan, when I opposed your RFA I said I opposed per somebody else because I hoped you'd loose your bid, and did not believe it is important for you to know the real reason. But your RFA was closed as successful, so I would like to explain to you why I opposed your nomination to help you to realize how to be a better admin.
I opposed your RFA because of your extremely unfair decline of my unblock request.You wrote: "You know well by now that editors are supposed to be notified when they're discussed on ANI, so running around claiming "canvassing" is disingenuous at best." First-of-all the "notified editors" were not discussed on ANI, I was. The "notified editors" were artificially brought to the discussion more than 9 hours!!! after I was unfairly warned and that discussion should have been closed and archived. But let's work with your definition of canvassing. My blocking administrator Gwen Gale was not discussed on ANI, and she was canvassed. Why she was the only admin, who was canvassed? Was it because the user, who canvased her knew that she was willing to act on that bogus ANI request about me? So I ended up being blocked by a canvased administrator Gwen Gale, and you declined my unblock because of my "disingenuous" claim of canvasing? Really?
BTW my block was reviewed and found to be not warranted by administrator:AGK.
Unfair blocks hurt, and sadly unfair blocks often result in even more unfair sanctions because most administrators look at block log versus looking at evidences.
Anyway... I still respect your decision to reconfirm your administrator's status, but if I were you, I would have refused administrator's status now because according to rules your RFA, which was closed later than it should have been closed, and that got less than 70% support votes, failed--Mbz1 (talk) 12:59, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, Sarek. I have started a subsection regarding your reconfirmation Rfa at User talk:Jimbo Wales [7] and want to inform you of same. While I opposed, your reconfirmation is of course confirmed, and I congratulate you. It is my view that you have established a precedent with this Rfa, and it is therefore instructive as a case study in an ongoing discussion regarding Rfa's and related matters. Best wishes, Jusdafax 02:13, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Hey Sarek, I'd just like to spend a minute to congratulate you on taking the step to not only reconfirm community backing of your admin actions, but to respond to and better yourself by their feedback. It really takes someone who understands what adminship is and isn't to do something like that, and I respect you for doing that. Honestly, while you aren't perfect, you make a fine admin, and it really is a shame to see the RfA process so broken here that some people can't recognize that.
Beyond that, on a somewhat related note, I'm really not sure whether to break out laughing at the conspiracy theories around the larger percent of admin support than oppose, or to become very scared that there are actually some people who believe in it. Personally, I look at numbers like that and see that most admins understand the RfA process - they recognize your shortcomings, but they understand that admins aren't necessarily all-perfect beings, nor do they need to be. But, I suppose, people are entitled to their opinion...
Anyways, after reading quite a bit on this and getting a good laugh out of some of it, I just thought that I'd express my appreciation for what you did, and where you plan to take it from here. Best of luck to you, sir. Ajraddatz (Talk) 03:30, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
If you wanted to review, here is your chance. If not I intend to extend the block and revoke talk page access. Prodego talk 16:24, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
Your reconfirmation RfA has been closed as successful. I'm copying my comments from my closure to here as well (reworded to be more directly to you): I closed this discussion as successful—as I believe the consensus is sufficiently in that corner—but with very strong counsel to you toward a much more strict interpretation of WP:INVOLVED than you have used in the past. The overwhelming reason for those opposing (far above any other) was due to concerns that you have regularly become involved as an administrator in areas where you were already involved to one degree or another as an editor; WP:INVOLVED cautions very strongly against this. If you continue down this path, it will likely lead to RFC/U or beyond, and that would not be a useful path to go down. I very strongly suggest a careful reading of all the concerns expressed in the oppose and neutral sections, and then a careful and considered application of those comments with an eye toward avoiding such issues in the future. Please let me know if you have any questions, and congratulations. ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 06:14, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
I'm glad to see you made it through the trial by fire. --Fang Aili talk 07:34, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
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While I don't have an opinion on the AfD itself, Wikipedia:Notability (software) is an essay, so I'm not sure it is wise to use it for AfD. It was written with a slightly different view from Wikipedia:Software notability which is also an essay (there was some very vocal talk page and AfD disagreement at the time both were written). Wikipedia:Software notability itself was actually written on top of (yeah, that guy...) yet another earlier essay with a slightly different take as well (which should probably should be history split at some point). --Tothwolf (talk) 19:59, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
I'll assume you are not familiar with the history between us. If you really want diffs, I can provide them, but I stand behind everything that I have said, which are verifiable accusations, and not name calling. Even today, the entity in question followed me to another article after noticing my name on an unrelated talk page. If you really want to see actual incivility look at this edit summary here. I have never said any such thing to him. If you truly want to be helpful, please advise my stalker to leave me alone, even to the point of putting talkbacks on my talk page. I have no desire to involve myself in his desire for drama, and will certainly do the same. μηδείς (talk) 02:07, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Sarek. Thanks for helping out with the copy-and-paste move cleanup. Could you check my deleted contributions and see if there are any on that page? I think my comments on the move request might have gotten wiped out in the chaos. Thanks, 28bytes (talk) 18:35, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I think I found the house and farm. See the article talk page. Of course I wouldn't dream of adding anything without the consensus of the full photo-reconnaissance team. Kenatipo speak! 18:48, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
((unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~))
, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Ironholds (talk) 14:50, 17 May 2011 (UTC)During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.
I am reporting part of a discussion on Oxyhydrogen. From your intervention on Noticeboard I noticed that it is possible to completely erase not just archive a post. I think the paragraphs below should be erased . How do I petition that? Note that I am involved with publishing and conference organizing but I think the policy on COI allow me to address this issue. "Do you know Santilli ? Guyonthesubway maybe yes, since you are so sure of what you are saying. In regard to my knowledge about Wikipedia, I am used to documenting myself and there are enough BLP COI and more in the various discussions ......Reussi (talk)ReussiReussi (talk) So - you've got a conflict of interest. That's no surprise. Please read up on our policies regarding conflicts of interest. Now as for the previous arguments regarding your friend's support of fringe science and his propensity to attribute conspiracies by his peers to suppress his work - how shall we best describe this? Words that come to mind are: quack, nutter, lunatic, paranoid, delusional, and so on. I think "fringe scientist" would be the more reasonable, and more polite term. The one thing we don't want to do is mislead our readers into believing this fellow is credible. If you would like to suggest alternative wording appropriated for an encyclopedia, please share. Rklawton (talk) 14:41, 16 May 2011 (UTC)" 123reuss (talk)123reuss123reuss (talk) May 24 2011
Can't put it in myself at the moment, but how's this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/characters/The_Ood
"When under the influence of others, Oodkind often undergo a change of eye colour, so watch out for Ood with red or green eyes!" —SarekOfVulcan (talk · contribs) by email
Between the username and contributions, a troll account? OhNoitsJamie Talk 20:16, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Re AbortionGSEN template - I really don't care which category it goes in, but it ought to be in one of that type. If none exists, can you create a suitable one? Rd232 talk 21:15, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
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Got a question for you, Sarek. Drmies (talk) 04:35, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
I saw your prot at Randy Savage. Seems we edit-conflicted on that one. I defer to your judgment. ;) No worries, -- Cirt (talk) 17:45, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
In order to avoid conflict of interest, it's best that you don't ever revdel your own edits (as you did on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents). This was a big point of conflict on your recent reconfirmation RfA, so please do not do this again. Thanks! ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 18:11, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
How did you oversight a revision of WP:EAR without being an oversighter yourself? Or if you didn't, who did? (I understand that for oversight reasons, sometimes you aren't allowed to tell me the answer. Please tell me if that's the case.) Deryck C. 20:52, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Good afternoon. I was warned this morning about a possible WP:OUT violation, and I have taken great care not to make the same mistake. Again, I apologize. If possible, however, can you let me know if a similar insinuation against myself in the Mike McGinn discussion page meets this threshold? Thank you for you help. Thugdog Nasty (talk) 01:14, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi SarekOfVulcan!
You removed the only secondary source on Semmes, which was inserted precisely to meet the BLP requirements and save the article from deletion.
Would you please restore the reference and a synopsis, to meet the BLP/PROD concerns?
Thanks! Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz 20:33, 23 May 2011 (UTC)