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''See also:''
* [[/Archive 1|First load of talking]]
* [[/Archive 2|Second load of talking]]
* [[/Archive 3|Third load of talking]]
* [[/Archive 4|Fourth load of talking]]
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==Thanks, much clearer==
Is there some place to flag near-duplicate articles if one doesn't want to do the merge themselves? Seems like there should be. Just making one a redir with no notification doesn't seem right.
:Hmmm...taking a step back, I think you should consider moving the '''accompanied by your reasoning''' sentence back towards the top ot the section--maybe on it's own line between the top two sentences of the section. People that are just on the page to find out how to vote (IE not reading the whole page) may stop after the the first six votes. [[User:Niteowlneils|Niteowlneils]] 06:26, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I think you need to wait more than 2 days before claiming consensus. A lot of people spent a lot of time converting subst to msg at [[Wikipedia:List of stubs without msg]], so I expect they might object. [[User:Angela|Angela]][[user talk:Angela|.]] 00:52, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)
You could advertise it on the pump, which is what most people do, but it's a bit too crowded there lately, so maybe [[WP:RfC]] would be better. [[User:Angela|Angela]][[user talk:Angela|.]] 02:12, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)
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As an occasional contributor to the [[grandfather paradox]] article, I'm hoping that you have some familiarity with [[Newcomb's paradox]]. I am asking for informed comment on that article to head off what might become an edit war. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. [[User:Rossami|Rossami]]
== What is "WWWQ" about?? ==
An [[List of radio stations in Georgia (U.S. state)|Atlanta FM radio station]] with [[call letters]] "WWWQ" located at 100.5 FM. If this article title bothers you, you may re-direct to WWWQ-FM. User 66.32.110.151
== I made a re-direct ==
Did you remember what you put on [[Talk:List of radio stations in Georgia (U.S. state)]]?? Well, I made what you think is a better title into a re-direct. [[User:66.32.159.199|66.32.159.199]] 18:30, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
==Yo Olive, a Barnstar!!==
He he, sorry I could resist that ''Olive'' thing..how are you Oliver?
Because you are an appreciated friend I have given you a Barnstar award. I hope you enjoy it!
[[God]] bless you!
Sincerely yours,
your friend,
"[[User:AntonioMartin|Antonio My voices tell me to get out of here!!!! Martin]]"
==Szent-Györgyi==
Actually it's not sure Albert Szent-Györgyi and that Thoroczko-Szent-Györgyi guy are related. Translated literally, Szent-Györgyi (or Szentgyörgyi) means 'a person from Szent-György'. The trouble is, there are several towns and villages called Szentgyörgy in Hungary, and with do not know which one Albert Szent-Gyögyi's name refers to. It may be Torockószentgyörgy, but also Marosszentgyörgy, Somogyszentgyörgy etc.
==Come join the AIW==
You are currently listed as an honorary member of the [[m:Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians|Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians]], we encourage you to become a full-fledged member. [[User:Posiduck|Posiduck]] 04:26, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
== Status of Slogan: Naming Convention? ==
Aloha. I was wondering what the status is for naming Slogan articles. I see that you reverted a slew of them in March 2003, but I can't find anything in the naming convention pages that discuss this. Can you tell me how to name slogan pages? Thanks in advance. --[[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] 06:38, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
== Where are you? ==
You haven't left have you? Hope you come back. [[User:Dori|Dori]] | [[User talk:Dori|Talk]] 05:43, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
== Article Licensing ==
Hi, I've [[User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project|started a drive]] to get users to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the [[Creative Commons]] Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 [[Creative Commons License|License]]s or into the [[public ___domain]] if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the [[GFDL]], but it allows '''other projects''', such as [[WikiTravel]], to use our articles. Since you are among the [[Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits|top 1000]] Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
*[[User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ|Multi-Licensing FAQ]] - Lots of questions answered
*[[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|Multi-Licensing Guide]]
*[[User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project|Free the Rambot Articles Project]]
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "'''<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>'''" template into their user page, but there are other options at [[Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace#Licensing Templates|Template messages/User namespace]]. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
:'''Option 1'''
:<nowiki>I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:</nowiki>
:<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>
'''OR'''
:'''Option 2'''
:<nowiki>I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:</nowiki>
:<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public ___domain, you could replace "'''<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>'''" with "'''<nowiki>{{MultiLicensePD}}</nowiki>'''". If you only prefer using the [[GFDL]], I would like to know that too. ''Please let me know'' what you think at my '''[[User talk:Ram-Man|talk page]]'''. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. [[User:Ram-Man|<nowiki></nowiki>]] – [[User:Ram-Man|Ram-Man]] <sup>([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new comment]) ([[User talk:Ram-Man|talk]])</sup>[[<nowiki></nowiki>]] 13:44, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
== What happened? ==
"We regret to inform you that Oliver Pereira is no longer with us." Please tell me that is from some vandal and not a family member or friend giving us bad news... --[[User:Maveric149|mav]] 03:03, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
: Thanks for the note. But I am still here! I have no idea who edited my page, or why, but I expect it was just some silly prankster... I've just fixed the page. (I forgot to sign in first, but the last edit to my user page was me.) And I'll reply to the other messages on this page later... -- [[User:Oliver Pereira|Oliver P.]] 09:57, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
::That's a big relief. :) --[[User:Maveric149|mav]] 10:19, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
== Greetings! ==
[[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of notable schools in the United States|Hello]]!
== And yet more schools on [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]] ==
Hello Oliver,
As of March 31, 2005, there are an additional (10) articles listed for deletion under the POV notion that schools are non-notable (even though this is invalid reasoning as per the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Deletion_policy|deletion policy]]). Please be aware that the following schools are actively being discussed and voted upon:
* [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Blake Junior High School|VfD: Blake Junior High School]] (renominated)
* [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Coppell High School|VfD: Coppell High School]]
* [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Eirias High School|VfD: Eirias High School]]
* [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Franklin High School|VfD: Franklin High School]]
* [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Frensham school|VfD: Frensham school]]
* [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Lake Dow Christian Academy|VfD: Lake Dow Christian Academy]]
* [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Ngee ann secondary school|VfD: Ngee Ann Secondary School]]
* [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Oak Hills High School|VfD: Oak Hills High School]]
* [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Saklan Valley School|VfD: Saklan Valley School]]
* [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Toowoomba Grammar School|VfD: Toowoomba Grammar School]]
In response to this cyclical ordeal, a '''[[User:GRider/Schoolwatch|Schoolwatch programme]]''' has been initiated in order to indentify school-related articles which may need improvement and to help foster and encourage continued organic growth. Please feel free to add this page to your watchlist and make contributions as you are able; better articles make for a better Wikipedia. Your comments are welcome and I thank you for your time. --[[User:GRider|GRider]]\<sup>[[User_talk:GRider|talk]]</sup>
== the issue of school articles ==
In November 2003, you participated in a VfD debate over [[Sunset High School (Portland)]]. The debate was archived under [[Talk:Sunset High School (Portland)]]. The issue over this article remains contested. moreover, there still does not exist a wikipedia policy (as far as i can tell) over what to do in regards to articles about specific U.S. public school. The article in question has been re-nominated for VfD at [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland)]]. My hope is that a real consensus can come out of the debate, and a real policy can take shape. Take part if you are so willing. [[User:Kingturtle|Kingturtle]] 02:11, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
P.S. The history of the debate can also be reviewed and discussed at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Precedents#Are_high_schools_encyclopedic.3F_-_Yes Are high schools encyclopedic?].
When are you coming back? [[User:Deb|Deb]] 16:42, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
== Neutral Wikipedia? ==
Dear Wikipedia administrator
I am writting you about the issue of Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia, Macedonian Slavs (like Wikipedia calls the Macedonians) and the problem between Macedonia and Greece about the term Macedonia.
I am aware that this issue is largely discussed here, at Wikipedia, and Wikipedia claims that it is trying to take a neutral side. But, that is not the case. Wikipedia is everything except neutral in this question. In the following lines I will explain you why.
From the text in Wikipedia most of the people will conclude that Macedonian nation appeared during the World War 2 and Tito was the one who 'invented' us. The family of my wife (she is Mexican) read this and asked me is it truth. That was actually the first time I read what Wikipedia says about my nation, which was a direct reason for my reaction.
My grandfather is born in 1911th. Yesterday I had a talk with him. He took a part in the strugle for independence since 1925th and he took a part in the 2nd world war. He is alive and personal prove that Wikipedia is full of bullshit and lies about our origin. He spent half of his life proving and fighting for that. He was shot 3 times, all 3 from the Bulgarians who wanted to ocupy Macedonia in the Balkan wars and in the WW1 and WW2. Just a 1 min with him will show you how many lies you suport in Wikipedia.
I tried to edit some of the text few days ago, but everithing I wrote was deleted. And all I wrote were facts.
Fact 1. Macedonians (or Macedonian Slavs, like ONLY Wikipedia, Greece and Cyprus calls us) is the only nation of many living in the area concentrated inside the borders of the geographical region of Macedonia.
This is a pure fact, something that you can even find on the CIA web page. Can you give any fact to deny my fact? If you can not, why you erased it from Wikipedia?
Fact 2. Republic of Macedonia has diplomatic relations with about 150 countries in the world. Wikipedia says that "at least 20" countries recognize Macedonia under the name Macedonia. Guess what? That number is more than 100. And this is an officially confirmed by our ministery for foreighn affairs.
Fact 3. Wikipedia says that my country Contraversialy calls itself Republic of Macedonia. This is a pure example of taking a side in the problem. Why you don't say that Greece contraversialy deny us the use of the name Macedonia?
If you intended to be neutral, just write that we have the naming problem with Greece, but do not call my name "contraversial"!!!
Fact 4. While explaining about the antient Macedonia, its kings etc. you highly support the claim for their Greek origin. I can give you 1000s of facts that that is not truth and I beleive that some Greek guy can give you 1000s facts that those claims are truth. That was 2400 years ago and there is no chanse for us to know the real situation. We can only guess.
But, when you give the Greek suported version, why you ignore the version suported by the newaged Macedonians? In this moment I can give you 10 names of internationally respected scientist supporting our theory. If you are neutral, why you ignore it?
Fact 5. Wikipedia says that the Turkish Empire were calling us Bulgarians. Strange, because the Turks were recognizing the uniqueness of our nation since the moment they occupied the teritory of Macedonia. Actually, the Turkish history archives are the biggest prove of our existance, history and culture. Did anyone of you ever read anything from those archives? Even on the birth certificate of Khemal Ataturk says that he is born in Bitola, Macedonia. And his autobiography is full of memories of his childhood spend with the Macedonians.
Fact 6. Wikipedia ignores the egsodus of the Macedonian people from Greece and says they were running because they were supporters of the comunists. 1/3 of the Macedonians have origin from this part of Macedonia. They were runned away from there by force and you can find many historical proves for that. Again, big part of my family has origin from there. As a matter of fact, my grand-grand father was married to a Greek woman, my grand-grand mother. But, no matter of that, his house was burned and he was forced to run away for his life and the life of his family.
How dare you deny this? Do you know that even today my grand father is not allowed to visit Greece, because he was a kid when his family runned away from there?
Fact 7. There are about 500 000 Macedonians that live outside Macedonia, mostly in Canada, Australia, USA, Sweden etc. At least 1/3 moved there before 1930s. If we were a product of Tito, how can you explain that even they feel of Macedonian nationality? I have a family in USA which moved there in 1927th. Their ancestors (my cousins) do not even know how to talk Macedonian well. But, they still feel Macedonian. One of them is even one of the financiers of the party of the Macedonians in Bulgaria, trying to help their strugle to keep their national identity. I repeat, first time he visited Macedonia was in 1995th, far after Tito. And his family moved in USA in 1927th, far before Tito.
Fact 8. Wikipedia claims that the book of Macedonian songs by Dimitar Miladinov is actually Bulgarian. Have you maybe seen a original copy of the book, printed in Croatia? IT says clearly "Macedonian". Not to mention that the same author wrote one of the most important books in the Macedonian history "For the Macedonian issues", again printed in Croatia, where it clearly talks about the Macedonian nation and non-Bulgarian origin.
All this was simply erased from the database. I didn't erase anything when editing these pages, I support the other side and I do not want to hide their facts. But why Wikipedia wants to hide our facts, which show that we are not a product of Tito's ambitions for the Aegean Sea. In Tito's time, the Yugoslav army was far superior in the region. If he wanted the Aegean Sea, he would get it very easily.
Many things in Wikipedia are very offensive for the nowdays Macedonians. Wikipedia simply ignores us, gives us a new name and supports the theories of denial of our existance, culture and history.
I will try to give you an example that includes with Mexico. I beleive that you know that the Maya civilisation was invaded by the Spanish kingdom. Spanish were ruling Mexico for centuries and millions of Spanish people moved at Mexican teritory. Later, after the liberation war, Mexicans formed its own country.
Fact 1. Mayas were living in Mexico (same as Antique Macedonians).
Fact 2. Spanish invaded them and great number of Spanish people moved to Mexico (The Slavs moved on the theritory of Macedonia and there was no reported fights or movements of people away from the teritory where the Slavs settled).
Fact 3. Nowdays, everyone of the Mexican is aware that they are partly Spanish, but they still have Mayan origin (Wikipedia says that the people living in Republic of Macedonia are Slavs. When there was no reported resetling of the Antique Macedonians, how is possible they not to mix with the Slavs? It is a fact that the nowdays Macedonians are not same as the Antique Macedonians, but they certanly have a significant part of their genes. Same as I beleive that Greece has a part of their Genes, but they are definitly not their direct ancestors).
Fact 4. Mexican speak Spanish. Reason: The Spanish culture was superior in that time. (The Antique Macedonians accepted the Helenic culture, including a variation of the Greek language. Reason: the Helenic culture was superior in that time. Everyone who knows at least little history will know that Hellenic and Greek are not synonims. Greek is nation, Hellenic is religion/culture. USA and England both speak English, both are mostly cristians, but they are SEPARATE nations. Aren't they? Same happens to Germany and Austria, or Serbia and Croatia, or Canada and France, or Brazil and Portugal, or the rest of Latin America and Spain)
And here is a comment about the claims of the Bulgarians, that the Macedonians are actually Bulgarians.
If that is truth, I am going to kill myself. Bulgarians through the history made the worst for my nation. During the strugle of the Macedonian people for independence from the Turkish empire, at the end of the 19th and begginbing of the 20th century, the Bulgarians were the ones who killed the most of our revolutionaries, including 4 members of my close family which were members of the Macedonian revolutionary organization (VMRO). Whis is not something that I was told by Tito. My grandfather (the same grandfather from above) was in fact a member of the same organization. He personaly knew many of the revolutioners that Bulgarians claim are theirs, including 2 of the leaders: Goce Delcev and Gorce Petrov. They were Macedonians and they all gave their lives for free and independent Macedonia and they had nothing to do with Bulgaria. There was a part of them who were Bulgarians inserted in the organizations, who were actually the killers of the real Macedonian revolutioners, because it was in Bulgarian interest to weaken the organization, so they could take the lead in the organization and later put Macedonia in the hands of the Bulgarians. Thanks god, they did not succeed.
Wikipedia claims that VMRO was pro-Bulgarian and the revolutioners were Bulgarian fighters. You suposed to see the face of my 94 year old grandfather when I told him your claims.
Neurtal Wikipedia? I do not think so.
At the end I have to ask for Wikipedia NOT TO TAKE A SIDE IN THIS. I am not asking to remove the Greek and Bulgarian side of the story. But, why you ignore our claims, which are suported by many non-Greek and non-Bulgarian scientists and very largely through the web.
There are just about 2-2.5 million Macedonians around the world. We do not have enought influence and strenght as Greece has, which is much more powerful and richer country than Macedonia.
The Macedonian-Greek question is too hard and too complicated to solve. History can be interpreted in 1000 ways, especially on a teritory like the Balcany, where there are so many nations on so little space. Fortunately, DNA testings are getting more and more reliable and soon it will be possible to be used to acuratelly show the origin of our nations. I hope that then the denyal of me, my history, culture and existance will finaly stop. It is very disapointing that Wikipedia takes a part in all that.
With all the respect,
Igor Šterbinski
Skopje, Macedonia
is@on.net.mk
== Fast reverting ==
How did you revert the edits of [[203.59.163.34]] so quickly? --[[User:Commander Keane|Commander Keane]] 10:33, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
==How am I finding it?==
A bit crap, actually. I'd like to see more of the "old crowd" back. [[User:Deb|Deb]] 14:42, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
== [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Obscure_topics]] ==
Oliver,<br/>
I'm changing this [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AVerifiability&diff=1646761&oldid=1646745] to a different version. I'll place a comment on the talk page when I do, happy to discuss it there.<br/>[[User:Aaron Brenneman|<span style="color:#2f4f4f;">brenneman</span>]][[User Talk:Aaron Brenneman|<sup style="color:#2f4f4f;">(t)</sup>]][[Special:Contributions/Aaron Brenneman|<sup style="color:#2f4f4f;">(c)</sup>]] 02:16, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
== RfC related to Verifiablity and Reputable Sources ==
Please check out and comment on the Rfc filed against me for trying to have NBP libel about me removed.
[[Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/69.253.195.228]]
== [[Emma Watson]] ==
Hello. [[Actress]], as you can see, redirects to [[actor]]. It's my understanding of Wikipedia style that piped links are supposed to be used as minimally as possible. Any reason you keep changing it? [[User:RadioKirk|<span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; color: #161;">Radio</span>]][[Special:Contributions/RadioKirk|<span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; color: #161;">Kirk</span>]] [[User talk:RadioKirk|<span style="font-size: 10px; color: #161;">talk to me</span>]] 22:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
:I have been pointed [[WP:R#Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken|here]]. I sit corrected. :) [[User:RadioKirk|<span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; color: #161;">Radio</span>]][[Special:Contributions/RadioKirk|<span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; color: #161;">Kirk</span>]] [[User talk:RadioKirk|<span style="font-size: 10px; color: #161;">talk to me</span>]] 04:36, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
::Hey, thanks for the note. As you can see above, I've already conceded I was wrong. :) [[User:RadioKirk|<span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; color: #161;">Radio</span>]][[Special:Contributions/RadioKirk|<span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; color: #161;">Kirk</span>]] [[User talk:RadioKirk|<span style="font-size: 10px; color: #161;">talk to me</span>]] 22:29, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
==Speedy deletion of [[:Image:Gujarat.png]]==
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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding <code>{{tl|hangon}}</code> to '''the top of [[:Image:Gujarat.png|the page that has been nominated for deletion]]''' (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on '''[[ Talk:Image:Gujarat.png|the talk page]]''' explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for ''speedy'' deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. <!-- Template:Db-redundantimage-notice --> [[User:Ilikepie2221|<span style="font-family:Segoe Print; color:#6B4226;">Pie is good</span>]] [[User talk:Ilikepie2221|<span style="font-family:Segoe Script; color:#78AB46;"><small><sup>(Apple is the best)</sup></small></span>]] 17:37, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
== Natural and legal rights article(s) ==
You seem to be making a lot of very bold changes going against consensus established in previous discussions. I would like it if you would revert your recent changes to these articles and bring your point of contention to the discussion page rather than taking such unilateral action. --[[User:Pfhorrest|Pfhorrest]] ([[User talk:Pfhorrest|talk]]) 01:01, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
==[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion|Articles for deletion]] nomination of [[:David Cook (line of succession)]]==
<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0">[[File:Ambox warning pn.svg|42px]]</div>I have nominated [[David Cook (line of succession)]], an article that you created, for [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy|deletion]]. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Cook (line of succession)]]. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.{{-}}Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. <!-- Template:AFDWarning --> [[User talk:Algebraist|Algebraist]] 03:18, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
==Unreferenced BLPs==
[[File:Information.svg|30px]] Hello Oliver Pereira! Thank you for your contributions. I am a [[WP:BOT|bot]] alerting you that '''1''' of the articles that you created is tagged as an[[Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Sources| Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person]]. Please note that all biographies of living persons '''must be sourced'''. If you were to add [[WP:RELIABLE|reliable]], [[WP:SECONDARY|secondary]] [[WP:SOURCES|sources]] to this article, it would greatly help us with the current ''[[:Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:All_unreferenced_BLPs}}]]'' article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{tl|unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:
# [[Nigel Buxton]] - <small>{{findsources|Nigel Buxton}}</small>
Thanks!--[[User:DASHBot|DASHBot]] ([[User talk:DASHBot|talk]]) 23:00, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
==RfD nomination of [[:Slogan: War on terror]]==
I have nominated {{la|Slogan: War on terror}} for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 March 8#Slogan: War on terror|the discussion page]]. Thank you. [[User:JokerXtreme|JokerXtreme]] ([[User talk:JokerXtreme|talk]]) 14:32, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
== Ford Prefect (HHG) listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] ==
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect [[Ford Prefect (HHG)]]. Since you had some involvement with the ''Ford Prefect (HHG)'' redirect, you might want to participate in [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 July 18#Ford Prefect (HHG)|the redirect discussion]] (if you have not already done so). <!-- from Template:RFDNote --> [[User:HairyWombat|HairyWombat]] ([[User talk:HairyWombat|talk]]) 23:33, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Later. I withdrew it. (I forgot to check on Google for links outside of Wikipedia.) [[User:HairyWombat|HairyWombat]] ([[User talk:HairyWombat|talk]]) 06:54, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
== Your place in history ==
*The debate on high school notability has never ended, and in my bizarre fascination in putting together [[User:Milowent/History of High School AfDs]] I couldn't help note that were an early supporter of having articles on high schools. Jimbo has recently descended from the heavens to suggest that somehow most high school articles will be deleted over time (despite an 8 year AfD history to the contrary), see [[Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(high_schools)#Requested_move]]. If you have any interest, that is. Cheers, and thanks for your early efforts that kept wikipedia from being a complete loss.--'''[[User:Milowent|Milowent]]''' • <small><sup style="position:relative">[[User talk:Milowent|talk]]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-3.2ex;*left:-5.5ex;">[[Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue|blp-r]]</span></sup></small> 18:40, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
**Milowent, thank you for the note, and thank you especially for continuing to fight the good fight! I am afraid that I've pretty much given up. The concept that Wikipedia was purportedly founded on could so easily have made it the perfect encyclopaedia, but it was overrun by editors who desperately wanted it to be so much less, and Jimbo turned out to be with them. So with not even Jimbo supporting the potential of the project, is there anything that can be done??? -- [[User:Oliver Pereira|Oliver P.]] ([[User talk:Oliver Pereira#top|talk]]) 20:31, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
::*Though Jimbo could always pull the plug, I suppose, I believe the collective nature of wikipedia means that [[User:Milowent/Essays/Insights#Articles_Find_A_Way:_The_Malcolm_Effect|content find ways]] to exist, no matter what rulessmall groups of editors try to impose. It may be far from perfect, but its still the largest compendium of human knowledge ever created. I'm sure someday I'll give up too, but others will follow, I hope!--'''[[User:Milowent|Milowent]]''' • <small><sup style="position:relative">[[User talk:Milowent|talk]]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-3.2ex;*left:-5.5ex;">[[Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue|blp-r]]</span></sup></small> 22:03, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
== Mentioned at WT:RFA ==
Hi Oliver,
I recently initiated a discussion at [[Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship#consensus_can_change]] about reconfirmation of early sysops. A few people asked whether there are early sysops who should be reconfirmed, and I have mentioned you as an example of an early sysop who I believe the community would not successfully reconfirmed. I am sorry to highlight you and not others sysops from the same era who may not be using the tools appropriately. I have nothing specific against you; you were merely the first sysop I saw that had recent log entries which were problematic. <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] <sup>'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''</sup></span> 02:25, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
== Nomination of [[Trays]] for deletion ==
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The article will be discussed at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trays ]] until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
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== MSU Interview ==
Dear Oliver Pereira,
My name is Jonathan Obar [[user:Jaobar]], I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community[[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_82#Learn_to_be_a_Wikipedia_Administrator_-_New_class_at_MSU|HERE]], where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
* Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
* Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
* All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
* All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
* The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name[[User:Jaobar/Admins_to_Interview_List_1|HERE]] instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar --[[User:Jaobar|Jaobar]] ([[User talk:Jaobar|talk]]) <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/24.11.206.39|24.11.206.39]] ([[User talk:24.11.206.39|talk]]) 03:39, 21 February 2012 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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== Proposed deletion of [[Mispronunciation]] ==
It's currently in a very short form quite different to your original, but looking back over the history I can't see any evidence that there was ever an encyclopedic article here. Hence, I've tagged it for PROD. Template message below. [[User:Yunshui|Yunshui]] '''[[User talk:Yunshui|雲]][[Special:Contributions/Yunshui|水]]''' 13:59, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
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The article [[Mispronunciation]] has been [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|proposed for deletion]]  because of the following concern:
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== Nomination of [[:Monosexuality]] for deletion ==
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A new user group, [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reviewers|'''New Page Reviewer''']], has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at [[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/New page reviewer|PERM]]. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Templates|here]] but very often a friendly custom message works best.
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:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-add.svg|20px]] [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/NinjaRobotPirate|NinjaRobotPirate]] • [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Schwede66|Schwede66]] • [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/K6ka|K6ka]] • [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ealdgyth|Ealdgyth]] • [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ferret|Ferret]] • [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Cyberpower678 2|Cyberpower678]] • [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Mz7|Mz7]] • [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Primefac 2|Primefac]] • [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Dodger67 2|Dodger67]]
:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg|20px]] [[Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2017#January 2017|Briangotts]] • [[Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2017#January 2017|JeremyA]] • [[Special:Permalink/762731058#Desysop request|BU Rob13]]
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:*[[Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016]] closed with no consensus for implementing [[Wikipedia:Pending changes#Effect of various protection levels|Pending changes level 2]] with new criteria for use.
:*Following [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Activity requirements|an RfC]], an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.
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:*When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. ([[Phab:T34950|T34950]])
:*Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Make PC2 no longer available to admins|RfC]] closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. ([[Phab:T156448|T156448]])
:* The Foundation has [[:mailarchive:wikimedia-l/2017-January/086013.html|announced]] a new [[meta:Community health initiative|community health initiative]] to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.
[[File:Scale of justice 2.svg|20px]] '''Arbitration'''
:*The Arbitration Committee released [[Special:Permalink/762120256#Response to the Wikimedia Foundation statement on paid editing and outing|a response]] to the Wikimedia Foundation's [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation statement on paid editing and outing|statement on paid editing and outing]].
[[File:Nuvola apps knewsticker.png|20px]] '''Obituaries'''
:* [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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== Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular) ==
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.
Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are [[Wikipedia:Administrators#Security|required]] to "have strong passwords and [[Wikipedia:Personal security practices|follow appropriate personal security practices]]." We have [[Special:Permalink/891851004#Return of permissions for compromised administrator accounts|updated]] our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, [[WP:2FA|two-factor authentication]] remains an ''optional'' means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.
For the Arbitration Committee, -[[User:Cameron11598|Cameron11598]] 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)</small>
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== Nomination of [[:Monosexuality]] for deletion ==
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== Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity ==
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== Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity ==
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== Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity ==
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== London meetup bicententary ==
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FYI, the [[:meta:Meetup/London/200|200th London Meetup]] is happening tomorrow, Sunday 14 January. You may be interested as you were present at the [[Wikipedia:Meetup/London_1|very first one]] ''(pictured)''! Note that it is now at [https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/all-pubs/england/london/penderels-oak-holborn Penderel's Oak] on [[High Holborn]] by the [[Great Turnstile]]. [[user:Andrew Davidson|Andrew]]🐉([[user talk:Andrew Davidson|talk]]) 14:10, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
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