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Contents 1 d'Amerval 2 OrphanBot 3 Discussion at Village pump 4 Scope of arbitration on Sathya Sai Baba and user:Andries versus user:SSS108 5 Mailing list sanity... 6 Ray Hanina 7 My RfA 8 Something I just noticed 9 I think your hot! 10 Think Pink RfA Support Thanks! 11 Arbitration 12 irc 13 ED Closing 14 my RfA 15 My user |subpage 16 #wikipedia-en-admins 17 As if 18 You've got a Thank you card! 19 Hey! 20 OTRS 21 Amazing 22 Uncyclopedia POV vandal at it again 23 Nicole Scherzinger 24 Discussion on User talk:Nlu 25 Private arbcom stuff 26 Admin help needed when you have a minute 27 OTRS 28 Board of Trustees elections 29 Bassoonist stubs 30 George Mason 31 For you: 32 election 33 Grace period? 34 A new userbox? 35 Barnstar 36 is this your cup of tea? 37 Polls: 38 Spam Blacklist 39 Nightline 40 I voted for you 41 Board Election Questions 42 Abrasive comments 43 I'm leaving WP for awhile because of recent events 44 VIE 45 I once was confused, but now am... 46 Past AfD nomination of Intercounty Baseball League 47 ArbCom Status 48 Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Giano/Workshop 48.1 Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Giano - recused 49 Leonard Sharrow article 50 P.S. 51 ArbCom question 52 CheckUser on Commons 53 Your excellent essay 54 Vandalism-only account 55 OTRS Request 56 Low Saxon OTRS queue 57 OTRS 58 Welcome back 59 OTRS donation queue 60 What do you think 61 Reply to WikEN-l: An observation 62 About disputed POVs on articles related to post-communist Eastern Europe 63 Dispute over Quote from Newspaper and NPOV on Shepard Smith page 64 Possible new CSD 65 You may be interested in... 66 Meetup 67 OTRS

[edit] d'Amerval

Thanks! That "contemporary version" would be lots of fun, don't you think? But frankly it might be fun to party with Obrecht and Gesualdo ... Antandrus (talk) 01:39, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

It took me a minute, but yeah!!! hapens!!! LOL ... and btw, here's one that made me laugh recently: [1] Hope the summer's going well with you! Antandrus (talk) 05:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OrphanBot

I concur with this. In particular, it's in extremely bad taste to use the Nazi symbolism to "declare war" on another editor, and against Wikipedia policy to make such an offensive statement in reference to another editor; I have removed it. You may disagree with the actions of Carnildo and OrphanBot, but "declaring war" will do you no good. I suggest you attempt to have a civil discussion about the practices you disagree with instead. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 06:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Who cares? OrphanBot doesn't have feelings. So what does it matter? Micoolio101 09:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)Micoolio101

OrphanBot might be a bot, but Carnildo is definately human. Besides, it's good to treat even the bots civilly, that way you stay in practice. :) ~Kylu (u|t) 21:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion at Village pump

Please have a look at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Resolving_content_disputes. Please help me to find the answer to my questions. Thanks.--AndriyK 13:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scope of arbitration on Sathya Sai Baba and user:Andries versus user:SSS108

You chose to accept the case of abritration, but what is the scope of this arbitration, only the article Sathya Sai Baba, or category:Sathya Sai Baba or category:Sathya Sai Baba plus user:Andries? I would like to know because I want to know what I should comment on. Thanks. Andries 11:11, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mailing list sanity...

Why thank you! What particular episode of non-foaming-at-the-mouth-ness prompted this, if you don't mind me asking? JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:05, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ray Hanina

As a arbiter in Wikipedia I hope you will read the words of the Palestinian writer Hanina here: [2]especially the part about History which is where Wikipedia takes part. Best Zeq 10:07, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

[edit] Something I just noticed

I just took a glance at your user page for the first time. You might be interested to know my wife is a direct descendent of Gottfried Weber on her father's side. Unfortunately, she has no musical ability whatsoever. TruthCrusader 10:34, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I think your hot!

Well, :) I just wanted to say I love you. I love your wikipage and I would like to get to know you some more. I hope to talk to you in the future. Patrick --CyclePat 03:28, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

You think her hot... what? You think her hot jazz quartet is great? Her hot biscuits are delicious? Her hot chile is mind-blowing? What? I think something's missing here... —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:25, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Think Pink RfA Support Thanks!

		Thanks for contributing to my successful RfA!
		To the people who have supported my request: I appreciate the show of confidence in me and I hope I live up to your expectations! To the people who opposed the request: I'm certainly not ignoring the constructive criticism and advice you've offered. I thank you as well! ♥! ~Kylu (u|t) 01:03, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I'll talk to you...well, right now, but it doesn't sound as good as "I'll talk to you later!" ~Kylu (u|t) 01:03, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arbitration

Hello, please help with a case about alleged adminship abuse by JzG, which had been rejected by three arbitrators before an administrator warned the accused one and undid part of his actions. The conflict is going on and I do not know how to find a solution. The only arbitrator who has sinced voted on the case is one who in my eyes is in a conflict of interest as he did a very similar block on me in the past that I think was abusive and that was undone by Theresa as it lacked any evidence of wrongdoing by me. I had suggested a change to the blocking policy but the discussion about it has up to now been inconclusive due to a lack of participants. Socafan 02:12, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] irc

mango_juice is really me. Mangojuice^talk 04:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ED Closing

Thanks; that praise means a lot coming from you. Nandesuka 23:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] my RfA

[edit] My user |subpage

Hey, I put the subpage up for speedy deletion since I don't need it anymore. But if my user subpage was showing up on unrelated searches, then maybe you might want to change your prefernces to not search user pages by default. --Kurt 10:42, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm guessing that you might have also seen the link on the "what links here" on the image pages of U.S. currency. --Kurt 11:26, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] #wikipedia-en-admins

I wanted to join the #wikipedia-en-admins IRC channel. My username is Shreshth91 and my registered IRC nick is also Shreshth91. Thanks in advance :) --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 08:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Since you seem to be inactive, I'll aske James F. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 09:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] As if

So there. ++Lar: t/c 02:05, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You've got a Thank you card!

[edit] Hey!

On behalf of Cowman, Kylu, and the rest of the motley MedCabal cabalists, how's it going? At your convenience, I have a situation I'd like to get your input on. I know you're in Boston for the 'Mania, so when you get back, if you could manage to run into me on IRC, I'd appreciate it.

Nice black hat, by the way :-) Cheers, regards, salutations, and all that jazz, CQJ 04:39, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS

Hi Mindspillage, I have been helping new Wikipedians for some time now and am interested in becoming a volunteer for the info-en OTRS queue. I would be grateful if you could consider me as a new member. Thank you, Tangotango 03:24, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Amazing

You are truly one of the most amazing editors. You have your priorities straight, you are an administrator, on the ArbCom (which, in my eyes, is the most prestigious group!) and are just plain amazing. As I type this message, you are at Wikimania, another sign of your devotion. You are a kind editor, and almost over respected. I will stop babbling and cut to the chase. I want to you to go for bureacratship. You are more than qualified. The only reason I did not nominate you myself is Bur. is generally done by self-nom. You really ought to consider it. I know you are busy on other projects, but you should really consider. If you have made an editor like myself sit here for five minutes telling you how great you are, you must be pretty good... Consider it. Viva La Vie Boheme

PS - While I'm here saying how great you are, take this Barnstar. ;)

		The Original Barnstar
		For being so great! Viva La Vie Boheme 01:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and by the way, bassoons are awesome! I don't play, but they rock ;) Viva La Vie Boheme

And you started the article on my favorite classical marimba player, Keiko Abe. I am a percussion person myself. (Am I annoying yet?) Viva La Vie Boheme

[edit] Uncyclopedia POV vandal at it again

He's still about. Just thought I'd let you know, so I don't get into a stupid edit war with this guy. Cheers. --Codeine 19:42, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nicole Scherzinger

Maybe you could help out in the edit war. I'm not sure what to do. Thanks. --Design 14:22, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion on User talk:Nlu

Please take a look at User talk:Nlu. If you believe, too, that my actions were unjustified, I will take User:Mindspillage off my watch list and no longer monitor edits on it. If you believe that my actions were appropriate, please state so. Thanks. --Nlu (talk) 20:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Private arbcom stuff

I have an idea for lowering the temperature on the "admins open to recall" and other "divine right of admins" stuff. It's a proposal for ArbCom, however, and ArbCom alone, rather than the general site, as what I have in mind is a new procedure for AC action. Any way I can outline it and get it to AC consideration? Would it be best to work it up and then e-mail it, or work it up in user space and then drop a link to you and others? (My point being that the wider public would probably misunderstand what I'm proposing, not that it would be disagreeable to them.) Geogre 18:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, to heck with privacy and secrecy. Why would I start being that way now? I'm no good at it. Here it is. [3]. Geogre 18:44, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

You know, if you post stuff with topics like that, all SORTS of riffraf turn up... Nice start, do you want help? ++Lar: t/c 00:06, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Sure. Basically, I'm advocating a new category of action and, I hope, a change of attitude and philosophy so that actions can be more fluid, less traumatic, and more satisfying to the aggrieved. Granted, it's a palliative, but we need one. Kat, if you're out there, let me know what you think. Geogre 22:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Admin help needed when you have a minute

Let me introduce to Uucp, a friend I went to school with, who apparently needs an admin. I told him to come to you for any help. *hugs* notafish }<';> 21:32, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS

Hello Kat! I hear that OTRS has been receiving a lot of messages lately, so I'd like to help out. As you may know, I am an admin on Wikinews and Wikiversity, so it has been demonstrated that I'm trustworthy. Is there anything else I should know? —this is messedrocker (talk) 09:14, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Board of Trustees elections

Hello! This is just a friendly reminder that responses to the "interview" questions for the Wikipedia Signpost are due soon. The important message and questions were left on your meta talk page. If you have not already done so, please kindly take a look at them, and we would appreciate your reply as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:59, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Yup! Thanks again! Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bassoonist stubs

I've added stubs for Leonard Sharrow and Sherman Walt, which I know will make you happy...or at least I hope so. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 18:25, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] George Mason

Saw in your Signpost interview that you go to George Mason. Do you by any chance know Nelson Lund? He teaches constitutional law, but maybe you've met him anyway. Λυδαcιτγ 17:41, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

He's a college friend of my dad's, and his son is a friend of mine.

Are you a weak or strong agnostic? Λυδαcιτγ 20:12, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] For you:

[edit] election

Hi Kathleen! Just got back from the polling booth - voted for you:-) You probably don't know me, but I've seen you around in places where I've lurked. While I don't necessarily endorse every detail of your philosophy, I admire your attitude - which I'd like to see more of in high placed. Hope you make it:-) David Cannon 01:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grace period?

Hi Mindspillage - I have a question about image deletions which I hope you can help me with. Do you know whether there a grace period of 3 hours before such images can be speedily deleted? --HappyCamper 12:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. Actually, I've seen you make some pretty smart decisions regarding images, so I sort of use your judgement as a good example! :-) --HappyCamper 22:16, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A new userbox?

I was going to try to design a bassoon userbox but my skills are so limited that I'll just drop the idea in your virtual lap and hope for the best. It was going to include one of the pictures in the main article and some sensible phrase about playing (or in my case, used to play). Ciao! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 15:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I know, the couple I have done have all been essentially lifted from other boxes and tinkered with, but for some reason this one defeated me. Yours looks just right, and I love what Zappa says, though I may tinker with the phrase for long-term use. We'll see. My brothers tried for years to get me interested in his records, mostly fruitlessly, but now that I'm a middle-aged old codger maybe I'll try again. But his taste in music is awesome; anyone who honors Varèse is OK in my book.

In any case, merci! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 12:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For all you have done for Wikipedia, I award you, Mindspillage, the Original Barnstar. Michael 20:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. Michael 19:42, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] is this your cup of tea?

clicking around wikipedia, I found a sonnet you wrote on geogre's page. it was pretty good, so I wondered if oedilf.com was something you'd be interested in. sort of like wikipedia in a way. and there's poetry involved. but i don't know if you have the time to get a new hobby. but you might find it worth a look.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.205.100.251 (talk • contribs) .

(responding here as I'm not sure if you'll check your talk page) My cup of tea? Oh, gosh, perhaps too much so... as though I need more things to fill my free time. ;-) Thanks for the link! Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

yw. glad you like it.

[edit] Polls:

Hi. I'm just sending out a message for a new study I will be undertaking soon. It will involve surveys & polls to gather information & trends of editors on Wikipedia & other subjects. The data gathering will involve yourself recieving a questionaire on your talk page for you to fill out. I will then collect your questionaire & combine it with data from other editors. If you would like to be a part of this experiment, or know of someone who does, place a "Yes" or "No" below this message. Remember, it's only for fun & you can choose not to fill out all or parts of your questionaire once they arrive. Have a nice day... -- Spawn Man 06:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, sure. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 13:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam Blacklist

Recently you added a domain to the spam black list. [4] At the time this prevented its addition to wikipedia pages. However, a recent experiment shows that it can now be added without being flagged.[5] Has there been a change or is this normal? Sorry for my ignorance in this area.

Another issue is regard to a note i saw on the athletics (track and field) page. As of 14th August I saw an edit that identified the following site www.alltime-athletics.com as SPAM. Why is this page considered SPAM? Is there a link to discussion relating to this? David D. (Talk) 22:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, I'll track down the admin the added it to the list and discuss it with them. Thanks David D. (Talk) 14:42, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nightline

Nice earrings!  :-) Overall it was good to see; they were skeptical, and I wanted a little more than they were able to cram into the segment. And -- hobbies? Heck, who needs hobbies?  ;-) Antandrus (talk) 06:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I voted for you

I just wanted to let you know that I voted for you. Why aren't you announcing your candidacy better? Vote here --JuanMuslim ^1m 16:25, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your support. I'm not announcing widely because I don't think it's the sort of thing one ought to campaign for; I expect everyone who is interested will see who is running when they go to vote. As for the election itself it is advertised prominently in the sitenotice... though I may make it more clear on my userpage that I am running! Mindspillage (spill yours?) 16:56, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Ya, I would hope so. Some people are into it full force, and perhaps you are the best qualified.--JuanMuslim ^1m 18:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Board Election Questions

Why the interest?--JuanMuslim ^1m 18:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Abrasive comments

I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your having noted my efforts to improve. I admit that my edit summaries and comments are sometimes abrasive, but is abrasiveness truly a crime? It formerly took me enormous efforts and emotional strain to daily check my 3,000-entry watchlist for POV edits and trolling. I have recently been persuaded that my character and temperament are perhaps not suited for administrating such a large segment of WP. Since my watchlist is full of entries written by myself and not duplicated in the watchlists of other wikipedians, if ever I see a serious POV problem, I try to inform more forbearing editors that they ought to deal with it. Hopefully this strategy will help me to concentrate on writing articles. Regards, Ghirla ^-трёп- 15:54, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I'm leaving WP for awhile because of recent events

Hi Kat. I've decided to leave the encyclopedia for awhile. As one of the editors I count as friend, and one whom I most respect please share any thoughts you might have on my talk page. Thanks, Paul August ☎ 18:23, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VIE

While that's definitely true for the origin of VIE, the problem nowadays is that many newer users tend to ignore pages in Wikispace unless they're marked as "official" somehow (this is probably a result of the fact that Wikispace is rather messy and byzantine) - and if VIE is just a perceived-as-ignorable essay, they happily keep on asking for votes on e.g. merging, random proposals, etc. I don't particularly like this fact but I can't think of a good way of changing it so far, so imho the least we can do towards educating people is marking clearly which pages are and aren't consensual. $.2 >Radiant< 18:45, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I once was confused, but now am...

I dunno, soemthing. I just discovered that I must have registered here twice. There's my current userinformation, and then there's a "Bill Spencer" registration for someone who did edits in Hindemith & Grünewald (which you noted on that user talk page back in February). That sounds an awful lot like something I would have done; hard for me to imagine there would be a second person with my name hanging out in the same obscure corners. Oh well. Is there any way to consolidate that old username with the current one? Not that it's that important at all at all, but still... Merci! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 12:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Past AfD nomination of Intercounty Baseball League

Mindspillage, just noticed this past AfD and I fully support the decision to keep this article. Anyone familiar with Canadian baseball knows that the IBL is a serious men's baseball league with a long history (since 1919) that has produced several members of Major League Baseball, AAA baseball, AA baseball and A baseball, while also featuring former MLB players and former Negro Leagues players of the past. To delete it would have been a travesty. Additionally, several former IBL players have been inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum in St. Marys, Ontario. Barry Wells 16:50, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Further to the above AfD nomination, I'd like to add that the IBL has had numerous former MLB players in the league, including Fergie Jenkins (who's the only player to have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame), Frank Colman, Denny McLain, Dave Rozema, Paul Spoljaric, Rob Butler, Oscar Judd, Tim Burgess, Mike Kilkenny and several outstanding former Negro Leagues players.

Additionally, many many players have been paid to play (albeit under the table), the league has many corporate sponsors, fans, competent, paid umpires, an official media guy, statistician, record books, commissioner and local TV contracts. It is serious baseball, with most parks (all but one, I believe) charging admission. The 1948 London Majors not only won the Intercounty title, but also the Ontario title, the Canadian title and the Can-Am title. Drinking beer while playing is not permitted, as one user frivously suggested. Many former IBL players have also gone on to baseball scholarships at U.S. universities, pro careers with MLB organizations or AAA ball, AA ball or A ball. The London Majors play at Labatt Park, the undisputed (to date) world's oldest baseball grounds in continuous use since 1877 (a heritage site under the Ontario Heritage Act) -- a park which won the prestigious Beam Clay Award as the best natural grass baseball park in North America in 1989-90. Barry Wells 19:13, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ArbCom Status

Please note that you are currently listed as "inactive" on WP:AC due to the fact that you haven't voted on a proposed decision page in several weeks. Scobell302 22:55, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Giano/Workshop

Hrm. This is heading rapidly off the rails. Here's the breakdown of edits to date:

Aaron Brenneman 24
Tony Sidaway    23
Fred Bauder     18
Kirill Lokshin  3
Dmcdevit        1
MacGyverMagic   1
Grand Total     70

I've asked for input here but perhaps you could wave some magic wand and help Tony and I channel ourselves productivly?

brenneman ^{L} 06:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Giano - recused

Since you recused in this case, would you mind altering the number of recused arbitrators and especially the required number of votes for proposals to pass? I'm not sure how a recusal affects the number. - Mgm|^(talk) 07:52, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leonard Sharrow article

I added some information that I found in his obituary; I stuck the link into the talk page but do not know how to do the actual citation in the article. Where shuold I look for that? The Cite Sources stuff in the help pages seemed way too complex for someone of my advanced age and quickly failing powers of something or other (turned 50 {8-[} on Friday). Merci! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 17:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] P.S.

Today is Shostakovich's 100th. Dust off your copy of the 4th or 9th Symphony to celebrate! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 17:33, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

9th? Boo! Try the First...or one of the ballet or jazz suites... Kurt Weber 14:47, 2 November 2006 (UTC), Shostakovich Fan 4-eva!

[edit] ArbCom question

I saw your edit to /Proposed Decision in the Giano et al. case, changing the required vote numbers because you have decided to recuse yourself in the case, but I assume that Jdforrester being a party is also recused and that should be reflected as well. I can't fix it myself because only the Arbitrators are supposed to edit /Proposed Decision. Thanks, Newyorkbrad 00:08, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CheckUser on Commons

Hi Mindspillage,

Per the CheckUser Policy, I have been granted the checkuser permission on Commons. Thankyou for supporting this request. Requests for checkuser can be made at the Commons:Administrators' noticeboard. Thanks, [ælfəks] 01:47, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your excellent essay

Hi! You probably haven't seen much of me around at Wikipedia, but I've been quite impressed by what you had to say at User:Mindspillage/admin. It's formed the basis of a number of editor reviews that I've given, and has proven very useful for explaining to recent change patrollers how best to approach the activity.

However, it addresses only one of a number of things that I believe should be explained better to new and inexperienced users, many of whom receive exactly the same advice when they request a review. So, I've started to write an essay of my own to address those other issues, drawing on yours as reinforcement. So, I'd just like to ask you two quick questions. :)

1. Do you believe there are any changes that should be made to the content of that essay, so far? If I've screwed anything up, neglected any particular points or said something you utterly disagree with, I'd be really grateful to hear about it. Even a quick glance would be very helpful. :)
2. Secondly, assuming you approve of the content and the sentiment, would you be happy for me to quote your essay (as I already have) in my own? The section that I reproduced is really nicely written, and I think it does a lot to explain the reasoning behind treating vandals as human beings.

Anything you have to say (up to, and including, "your page made my eyes bleed") would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 11:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism-only account

I'd appreciate it if you'd block the vandalism-only account Curtis Clark's Mom. It was evidently created by User:Lufthmark because I called him to task for some copyvios. My user page and user talk page have also been vandalized by a couple of Cal Poly Pomona IP addresses. I'm appreciative that other Wikipedians are willing to help me revert all this, but we all have better things to do. Thanks for your help.--Curtis Clark 13:39, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I believe User:CurtisClark is a sockpuppet of User:Curtis Clark's Mom and I am even more convinced that they are both sockpuppets of User:Lufthmark. I would like User:CurtisClark to change its name because of this; IMO the user is trying to create intentional confusion.--Curtis Clark 03:05, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS Request

Hey Mindspillage. After thinking it over for a few days, I'd like to express my interest in participating in the work that goes on with the english OTRS queue. I am an administrator here on en.wp and I have experience doing this type of work (although I'm sure Wikimedia is a whole different ballgame) for the Mozilla Foundation in processing incoming bug reports for their products for over two years now. If my help would be appreciated, I welcome a reply on your medium of choice, be it user talk page, email, IRC, or even Facebook. :-P Thanks. Zsinj^Talk 14:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Low Saxon OTRS queue

I would like to get set up an OTRS queue under info-nds@wikimedia.org for the Low Saxon Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikisource [to be set up in the near future]). We need an own queue to handle questions and requests, that can't be handled in the public. And no, we don't want to use the general queue under info@wikimedia.org, cause this will unnecessarily slow down the answering of requests in Low Saxon. So, can you help me? And if the answer will be "I'm too busy at the moment" then please also say,

• what exactly has to be done to set up a queue
• what amount of time do these steps need
• and whom could I ask instead (I already asked Elian [no time], Frieda [no time and not able to create queues {although meta:OTRS states the opposite}] and UninvitedCompany [said, he won't set up queues for dead languages. after I explained the language is not dead, he came up with a "won't set up queues for low-traffic languages" policy, but was not able to point to the text of this "policy" or willing to explain the rationale behind the "policy" or the circumstances {how much traffic is "no large amounts of traffic", how do you measure traffic, when traffic is dependant on the creation of the queue?}])

You see me frustrated of the inability of our Wiki (the word means quick!) community to set up a little queue. It is a one-time-job, it's only the setup. I'm running from one wiki to the next and everywhere I get no real answer (or no answer at all). If there is a no-setup-policy with a comprehensible rationale behind it, then point me to it. I hope your answer will be more satisfying than the others before. --::Slomox:: >< 16:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS

Love to volunteer for the OTRS. Auroranorth 12:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back

Feeling better now? :) Scobell302 07:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS donation queue

Hi-- I'm a member of the meta:Fundraising Committee, and Mav suggested it would be useful if I could help deal with the flow on the OTRS donation queue. Though (I think) I might not have as much background as other OTRS volunteers, could you sign me up to help? Thanks, Jeremy Tobacman 18:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Can you also see the message I left on your meta page about the same subject? Thanks.Alex756 03:20, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What do you think

Can you tell me if you think that the indefinetly blocking of my users account is excessive and maybe able to be overturned. I was about to create an informative article on the classic Macintosh Extended Keyboard and who knew I was blocked. I thought me and Starblind were good friends, but his recent actions have left me confused. Any response will be appreciated. He has also left no message. -- Bpazolli

[edit] Reply to WikEN-l: An observation

Perhaps most women are simply smart enough to avoid putting themselves up for a crappy job. ;-)

Sadly, not all of us are that bright. ~Kylu (u|t) 02:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] About disputed POVs on articles related to post-communist Eastern Europe

Hi,

I’m writting this message to you, and to User:BradPatrick and User:Joy, because I still don’t have a full knowledge of how to proceed about Wikipedia administration/mediation/arbitration.

Well, I see there’s a kind of probelm regarding the creation (by myself on november 8) of the article 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, which I’ve redirected to NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. There’s an edit war going: pro-Serbian users are trying to delete my redirect, and even when people (including myself) manifested against the deletion, the user which requested the deletion made the request again.

Please if you can help me to solve this question.

PS: Above all these problems, I don’t know about you, but I think sometimes there’s a kind of “Serbian Volunteer Guard Cabal” of users here in Wikipedia that try to make Wikipedian articles related to Serbia, Kosovo and Yugoslav Wars appear clearly pro-Greater Serbian/pro-Milosevic POV, making these articles to show an interpretation of facts very different from most of the press and academic sources around the world. A similar thing is happening now on Transnistria article, that show a clear pro-Transnistrian government POV, with a long war of arguments going on the discussion page of the article. Well, I don’t know what you can (or can’t) do about all of this, but if you have some answers pplease write to me. Best regards, --MaGioZal 13:50, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dispute over Quote from Newspaper and NPOV on Shepard Smith page

I saw you intervened in a dispute on the Jane Skinner page. I hope you can help out on the Shepard Smith page. There is section called Controversies where there is info about a Battery charge against Smith. A newspaper article was cited with information about the charges being dropped. The quote from the article was "dropped after a confidential payoff". The dispute is over the word "payoff" and that it implies a bribe and is a slam by the author of the article and pushes a point of view. Do quotes from articles have to follow NPOV? I can't find anything that says a quote has to be NPOV. Do you have time to weigh in on this? Thanks Misstory 00:35, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible new CSD

I'm floating around this proposal I've written for a new CSD regarding unsourced articles: User:Dmcdevit/CSD addition. There's quite a bit of explanatory fluff there that I think explains my thinking on the matter. Right now, I'm soliciting input from people before deciding how to go about implementing it. Any thoughts on the talk page would be greatly appreciated. :-) Dmcdevit·t 05:31, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You may be interested in...

this Wikinews interview. Doldrums 11:10, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup

Saw you were disappointed in missing the Philly Meetup. If you're willing to come another 90 minutes north, we have a meetup scheduled for december 9th in NYC. see Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC —ExplorerCDT 01:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

'Spillage! I'll be there! We can do soprano-bassoon duets! Mak (talk) 01:42, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS

Hi Kat, I am a regular the help desk and would like to volunteer for OTRS. I have also sent you an email in this regard. -- Lost^(talk) 03:53, 14 November 2006 (UTC)