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While it is apparent to me that I still do not have the passion and commitment to contribute to the project full time I feel I can now do a little "wiki-gnoming" once in a while, so I am returning to "semi retired" status. I am <u>not</u> back, simply taking responsibility for the edits I do.
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My name is '''Mark James Slater'''. I was born 30th October 1959, in West ]. I am married with two children. I now live in ], ]. I believe in taking the consequences of my actions, for good or bad (although my wife does not agree that this happens in practice!)

I realise that many Wikipedians use "their" page to indicate what fine, unique and intelligent individuals they are, how valuable they are to the WikiCommunity, and to generally make themselves appear interesting and amusing. I guess that this is my attempt...

== A(n Amended) Short Statement of Intent ==

I am very pleased to be appointed an and oversighter as I believed that I am more effective in those roles than as an editor only. Primarily, I am here to make this place more editor friendly. I will do what is asked of me, provided it is within my competence and the rules, policies and guidelines of Misplaced Pages, and will strive to act in a transparent and accountable manner. With the above in mind, I will respond to your emails and respect your privacy - but please see my ] above as I do not care to conduct my day to day Wikilife outside of the scrutiny of my peers, where possible. I will not participate in IRC discussions, nor in the exchange of emails outside of that is necessary for me to function as an an oversighter or sysop. If I do partake in private conversations, as part of my editor or admin roles, and determine that there is a conflict of interest between the request for privacy and accountability I shall <u>always</u> opt for disclosure. I realise this may exclude me from certain aspects of the administrative remit but, to be frank, I consider this a benefit.

Regarding the above, now that I have the responsibility of access to the Oversight flags and the mailing lists and other sensitive information I will be scrupulous in conducting my self in strict compliance to the WMF privacy policy. I shall only divulge personal information obtained by any enhanced access that may be entrusted to me to persons with equal or greater responsibility to confidentiality.

Please feel free to let me try and help you.

== Make of This What You Will ==
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I wish I had the t-shirt that proclaims <blockquote><font face="comic sans ms"><big>"Je suis Marxiste (tendance ]!"</big></font></blockquote>
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'An owner of an "essential" business during the 2020 UK Spring Lock-Down'
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==== We do not wish to deprecate the role of Jimbo Wales as regards directing the activities of Misplaced Pages because he is incapable, but because the community is capable of assuming that role ====
Is the project capable of running its own affairs, of conducting the business of producing an encyclopedia? '''Perhaps.''' Is it inclined to conduct the running of the business of producing an encyclopedia? '''Not presently.''' Should it be allowed to take over responsibility for conducting the business of producing the encyclopedia when those currently responsible deem fit? '''No.''' Should the community determine when it is capable of taking over the responsibility for conducting the business of producing the encyclopedia? '''Yes!'''<br>
LessHeard vanU/Mark James Slater 15th July 2009


=== More Frippery than albums by David Bowie, King Crimson, Talking Heads and Eno Put Together ===



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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | for your hard work cleaning up the Penwith articles ] 16:41, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I gladly present Mark James Slater with this award for never failing to put arrogant nob'eds in their place. ] 19:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC) |style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | A trophy just for you! ] &#124; ] 13:06, 15 April 2013 (UTC).
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=== re Edit Summaries ===
If you have an issue with my edit summaries, I have an issue with you thinking that the whole English speaking world will know that you were referring to a small part of hicksville, USA. It doesn't. Add the fucking nations name. ] (]) 12:16, 13 August 2016 (UTC) To lessen aggravation of oversensitive personages, edit summaries comprising of '''Murica!'' is the preferred exampler of arrogance/ignorance. ] (]) 17:25, 7 February 2023 (UTC)


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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | "The Surreal Barnstar may be awarded to any Wikipedian who adds a 'special flavour' to the community by acting as a sort of wildcard". I gladly award this Barnstar to LessHeard vanU, who has no fear of lesser beings, and who is a genuinely committed editor. I thank him profusely. ] 20:18, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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] '''The Beatles Wikifish ]'''

For ], I, ], hereby award you with a ] 12:59, 11 June 2007 (UTC)</small><]]. Enjoy! --] 18:58, 28 April 2007 (UTC)


] A really neat "''flower on a flag''" image presented by ] to me for ].

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for your work on the InfoArt cleanup project. ] 21:52, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
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{{User:TomStar81/Spelling|]|] (]) 20:36, 21 July 2007 (UTC)}}



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] I hereby award you, with all due solemnity (which is to say not very much at all) this highly prestigious and edible award "'''The Sandwich of Exceptional Excellence'''". I award this to the editors who do good work in all the various places I bump into them, and also to editors who look a little bit hungry. Wear it with pride, noble wiki-warrior! Best regards, ] 23:34, 29 July 2007 (UTC)


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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For giving peace to my mind in a time of great turmoil with your clear thinking and quick action , I can never thank you enough ] 17:20, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your ability to think against the flow, which led the Privatemusings case to an amicable solution. — ] 19:13, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray; color: {{{textcolor|black}}}" | For being one of the folks who does the scut work without expecting plaudits or groveling, and with respect for those whose path you cross. ] (]) 01:44, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I see you alot on ], dealing with reports and blocking vandals. I've seen you on AIV quite a lot, and I want you to know your tireless work has not gone un-noticed. :) <font face="Lucida Calligraphy" color="red">] ] ]</font> 23:16, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
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. Thank goodness someone is keeping on top of those new forms. ] (]) 22:02, 31 May 2008 (UTC)]]<br>{{User:Lucasbfr/Admin open to trout slapping}}<br><br><br>
:(I am placing this here, in the same way that I have included the Beatles Wikifish, the late and lamented "Dancing peanut butter jelly bean thingie" thingy, and the ""The Sandwich of Exceptional Excellence" award, of examples in how a little personal act by an individual can make this place such a great place to participate in.)


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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I am always terrible at choosing the right barnstar, but your sage adminship and infinite patience deserve recognition! Cheers, ] 16:05, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
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''']''' would like to give ] the following barnstar for helping her with preventing personal attacks :)
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Thanks! ]] 21:19, 30 August 2008 (UTC)


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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your facing ] from dastardly IP editors after semiprotecting the ] article. If it gets hot in that helmet, feel free to don one of ]. And keep your head down, it's valuable around here! ] (]) 17:17, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For helping a Burba in the struggle against vandalism :) Muchas gracias, Less :) ] (]) 11:41, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Dear LessHeard vanU, I present this barnstar to you, in personal recognition of the work you do behind the scenes, no doubt tedious, but '''''needed'''''. My support, thanks, and good luck wishes are with you! <p style="font-family: Comic Sans">] | ] | ]</p> 09:17, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | To LessHeard vanU, because he is a fine and fair administrator. Period. ] (]) 23:28, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For acknowledging an old mistake at ]. What a '']'' ! ] (]) 18:56, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
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''']''' has been identified as an '''''Awesome Wikipedian''''',<br />
and therefore, I've officially declared today as ]!<br />
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,<br />
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear {{{nickname|{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>PAGENAME}}}}}!

Peace,<br />]<br /><includeonly>~~</includeonly>~<includeonly>~~</includeonly>

<small>A record of your Day will always be kept ].</small>
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. Kindly leave the stage ;o) ➲<span style="font-family:arial narrow;"> ''']''' <sup><u>]</u></sup></span> 20:49, 9 June 2009 (UTC)]]


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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For you unblocking O Fenian because the blocking administrator was in serious error I, Rascal the Peaceful award you this barnstar. You really made a good descion in joining Misplaced Pages. ] (]) 00:36, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your drafting of the "rough page," "advancing a reasoning on why and how a policy for removing administrator privileges might be proposed."
:And for submitting same to Jimbo Wales today.
:You have my 100% support, respect, and admiration!!! ] (]) 23:26, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I appreciate your administrative services to ] Your contributions, closes in particular, are helping the project. ] (]) 02:08, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
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] carrying ] safely across the ].]] The Tightrope Award is bestowed on ] for his daring use of "brilliant" and "Tony Sidaway" in the same sentence. ] | ] 18:10, 24 August 2010 (UTC)




{{User:RexxS/Podstar|For all your efforts in cheering up Bishonen. --] (]) 18:04, 24 August 2010 (UTC)}}




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] of effort (very dry, served with a hacksaw), decorated with the sugar icing squiggles of optimism, is awarded to LHVU by ].]]











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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Somewhat belatedly awarded to LessHeard vanU <br /> <br /><br />&nbsp;] 11:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for your assistance recently. Cheers! ] (]) 02:24, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
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'''balance'''<br />
Thank you for your contributions that made people praise your integrity, resilience and diligence, for your balanced words on the balance between principles and loyalties, for "your ability to think against the flow", with "respect for those whose path you cross" - repeating: you are an ] (30 April 2009)!

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''Dear Reader, I hope you have enjoyed contemplating the above frippery as much as I enjoyed receiving them...''

=== Admin Stats and WP:RECALL ===

{{Admin|LessHeard vanU}}<br>
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; 1 x test, by self.

I am not in the category ]. I do not believe in a process that enables individuals or groups with an agenda to pursue an action to desysop an administrator for reasons unconnected with the use of the tools. I also do not believe in any impediment that constrains an administrator from acting ], or otherwise limits the ability to act in what the individual believes is to the greater good of the project.

However, I consider that should my use of the sysop tools be so (word ''de joure'') egregious as to lose the confidence of the community in my ability to use them impartially and in keeping with the office then a couple of people - or just one in a couple of instances - of good standing in the community and not involved in any current or recent dispute with me need only to come to my talkpage and request that I give up the mop. I will then consider my position, and if persuaded set down the tools.

The above is not a recall process, just an indication that I wish only to continue as an admin while I have the confidence of the majority of the community. As such it does not seek to limit any person from bringing an RfC, or RfAr, regarding my conduct should they so desire.

=== Administrator Reconfirmation ===
==== ThankSpam ====

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Thank you for participating in my ], which passed with a final tally of ''153/39/22''. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (], ] and ] especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read ]'s support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record.<br>I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. ] (])

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I do believe that there should be a method by which admins can be reviewed without there necessarily being instances or patterns of actions so poor as to trigger RfC/OAR/RfAR, but with more consequence than that which other venues of review currently offer. My preferred solution was to re-run a RFA but requesting commentators to concentrate on the admin activity. Although my RecFA was successful in that I retained access to the flags, and I gained some useful input in how some aspects of my sysop work was percieved, I cannot say that it served its other purpose in establishing a procedure to that end. There appears to be no momentum in promoting the RFA system as a singular method, and considerable antipathy generally otherwise. Perhaps it may be something that could be considered as an option in a RfC or OAR. Self servingly (an accusation made during the process, not without grounds), I can now say to anyone who complains that the admin "corp" remains largely unaccountable, ''"Well, I tried..."''

==== "I'm In With the ''Out'' Crowd" ====
This user is a member of ]; a group of editors seeking to address the role of administrators and their interaction with other editors.

However, this user heartily endorses the following comment, originally posted on Jimbo Wales' talkpage;<blockquote>''Well, it also rather begs the question of what behavior we ''want'' from admins. Is pressuring them to increase activity always best for the project? In terms of real world politics, I tend to think that politicians who behave a certain way in the hopes of securing reelection are not necessarily putting the attention to ''doing'' the job properly, which will sometimes anger people when done right. Too, while greater levels of participation are fabulous, we are dealing with volunteers here, and volunteerism tends to ebb and flow with interest, energy and time. To me, it seems that routine reconfirmations would siphon off time and attention from other activities by the admins up for reconfirmation as well as those who like/dislike them. And it would do nothing to address the immediate needs experienced by Editor A when Admin B is mistreating him (for up to one or two years, depending on length of reconfirmation). An ''efficient'' method would attend to those admins who ''do'' cause problems without generating unnecessary process around those who do not. An ''effective'' method would reform inappropriate admin behavior where possible and remove from adminship those who prove unable (or unwilling) to reform, with a goal of providing fair hearing to all parties. We don't want to lose or alienate any good volunteers, admin or otherwise. --] <sup>]</sup> 15:17, 9 May 2011 (UTC)''</blockquote>...now, all we need is to effect the detail!

=== Misplaced Pages vs. Stupidia ===
''"This has to stop..."'' (JoshuaZ 01.09.09) I should not be permitted to delete items like (since undeleted and expanded - although still not referenced) because... it exists! If anyone can show me where on the page is any indication it exists, then I concede the point - but don't bother looking at the parent article (I already have) because it is not noted. Is there a reference or source given? Nope. So the only thing available to a Misplaced Pages reader to prove its existence is... that article.<br>
Likewise, try searching for ] in Google - and exclude WP and its mirrors. Result? Nothing. You can find the Christian Democratic Union Party of Lebanon, who incidentally seems to share the same leader as the one in the WP article, but not the one in WP.<small>Hey! It seems that the above has been moved to ] - so it only takes deleting '''factually incorrect''' former article to get it sorted. Result!</small><br>
Or, you cannot remove a disambig page which links to only one subject (a baron, who was the only holder of the title since they died without issue) which is a redlink anyway... I am particularly perplexed by this; a disambig page for one subject, for whom no-one has yet created an entry...<br>
"Something is better than nothing at all"? This purports to be an encyclopedia, where "If a job's worth doing, then it is worth doing well."

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=== Anon ip editors have edit hours on their side ===

If there really are 99 vandal ip editors for every good ip editor, then ip editing works. The vandal ip's create perhaps 1 hours work each on average to clean up. That is 99 hours work. The remaining good ip editor contributes perhaps 2 hours per day, for five days a week for 3 months. That equals 130 hours, or a gain of 31 hours to Misplaced Pages. Thus removing ip editing is to the detriment of WP.

=== Useful tools ===

How to edit a haggered page ; type http:(//)en.wikipedia.org(/)w(/)index.php?action=edit&title=(article name) (remove brackets!) in address bar, and go looking for an unprotected template. Disinfect and save template.

If you plug the IP into http://samspade.org/ and it shows "ASSIGNED PA", it's likely to be permanent over a term of months and can usually be safely blocked for such periods/

To compare two editors editing crossover - http://toolserver.org/~pietrodn/intersectContribs.php

== My Individual Contributions To The Repository of Knowledge That is Misplaced Pages ==

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Adding the name of the Nation(ality) in pages lacking same - which I have termed "countering Hickism", the belief that all English speaking people will instinctively know the country of the city/State mentioned (and they may do, but encyclopedias require standards for all not assumptions).

Removing '''''wuffle''''' (personal detail that is irrelevant to the article - "When not designing processor architecture, s/he enjoys playing softball with their children and Softy the cat".)

Something to do - a review of some mini stubs of less than 250bytes which have not been edited in a year: ] Only 1500, or a bit more...
Didn't touch the dates - but have now finished <s>a</s>, <s>b</s>, <s>c</s>, <s>d</s>, <s>e</s>, <s>f</s>, <s>g</s>

== Alternate Accounts ==

I have created the following accounts;

] - anti impersonation, '''''plus''''' alternate editing account where there may be a security risk (cyber cafes, friends computers, ], etc.) in using this account.

] - anti impersonation, inactive.

] - anti impersonation, inactive.


== Presence on ] ==

I am "'''LessHorrid vanU'''" on the above site. Not only do I log on to record any opinions that I may have on various topics, but I also log on when I only read the content. If anyone wishes to civilly discuss my participation on that site I am happy to oblige. I also respect the right of anyone to hold an opinion on my or anyone else's participation on that site, although I often wish those whose opinion regarding said participation does not concur with mine would extend me the same courtesy as I extend them.

A note for the unwary; The Misplaced Pages Review Kabal ''always'' speaks with one voice... admittedly, that voice appears to be saying various differing and often contrary things - and rather seems to be arguing with itself - but it is certainly '''"one voice"''': if only because someone at Misplaced Pages has said so, and anything you read on Misplaced Pages <u>must</u> be true.

Update: I am even less active there than I am here, these days.

== ''In Memoriam'' ==
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Latest revision as of 07:50, 25 October 2023

SEMI-RETIRED This user is no longer very active on Misplaced Pages.

While it is apparent to me that I still do not have the passion and commitment to contribute to the project full time I feel I can now do a little "wiki-gnoming" once in a while, so I am returning to "semi retired" status. I am not back, simply taking responsibility for the edits I do.

Mark
'An owner of an "essential" business during the 2020 UK Spring Lock-Down'



The Modest Trophy Whore Trophy
A trophy just for you! Bishonen | talk 13:06, 15 April 2013 (UTC).


re Edit Summaries

If you have an issue with my edit summaries, I have an issue with you thinking that the whole English speaking world will know that you were referring to a small part of hicksville, USA. It doesn't. Add the fucking nations name. LessHeard vanU (talk) 12:16, 13 August 2016 (UTC) To lessen aggravation of oversensitive personages, edit summaries comprising of 'Murica! is the preferred exampler of arrogance/ignorance. LessHeard vanU (talk) 17:25, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

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