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== Thanks == == Welcome back! ==


Welcome back Rdsmith4, long time no see! If you are in need of some of the "lesser" rights related tools feel free to drop me a note - or you can go visit ] to see what's changed. Happy editing, — ] <sup>]</sup> 02:53, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for changing my username from CyberThing to DalekChicken. ] (]) 08:45, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
:Thanks mate! Hope you've been well. Gosh, the permissions system is quite a bit more fine-grained than I recall. Well, not having them all is already making me itchy, but I think I'll make do for now. :-) ] 05:20, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
A belated (so belated you seem to have gone again) welcome back from me. --] (]) <small>Become ]</small> 14:44, 18 July 2017 (UTC)


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I know that this is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay late to ask the question, but why was Willy on Wheels blocked? Was it vandalism? ] (]) 15:13, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Rdsmith4, I wanted to ask something regarding templates at RfA. When you , you used the "on hold" templates while reading it. Out of curiosity, what are these templates called? I know what the ones for successful/unsuccessful RfAs are, but not hold. I know I don't need to use them, but I would like to know what they're called just for my own reference. Thanks. ] 18:43, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
:Thanks for the quick reply and answer to my question: it was appreciated. ] 18:59, 24 May 2008 (UTC)


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I'm not thinking of renaming my account any time soon, or in the forseeable future, but what is the policy on renaming administrators? Would I (potentially) have to re-register the old account name at some point, for example? ] <small>(]?)</small> 18:22, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
:That's basically what I thought. Thank you. Regards, ] <small>(]?)</small> 18:36, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


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Thanks for having renamed my account so quickly. ] (]) 23:07, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
:I would like to thank you too! it was a nice surprise, after the 1st reply I got, I gave up.. Thanks! ] (]) 18:13, 1 June 2008 (UTC)


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:Please rename my User-Account Nup in "Former User 23". The best would be, that there is no more visible on the user's page the discussios and the history. In the german wikipedia it was possible to do that (administrator, buerocrat) Thank you vey much in advice! And then please delete these contributions here, thank you! ] (]) 10:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


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About , what is the "guest" bug ? I would add that as I haven't many contributions on :en with the username malta_fr, I don't mind if it isn't merged with malta. What matter to me is to be able to log in with the username Malta. bye, ] (]) 12:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
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I found your most recent comment at WP:BN quite interesting, for two reasons:
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#Because the other part of what you’re saying matches very closely with a similar theory of mine: Everyone has a reptilian brain (which produces instinctive reactions), and a primate brain (which thinks rationally). Some people think that humans use their primate brain to decide what to do. When I’m having a good day, I tend to believe people use their primate brain to overcome, as best they can, their normal desire to do what their reptilian brain tells them to do. When I’m having a bad day, I tend to think people use their primate brain primarily to come up with rational-sounding justifications for doing what their reptilian brain tells them to do. We’re all reptiles, it’s just humans have evolved a way to make it look like we aren’t.


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When I first contributed to that thread, to be honest I kind of thought I was at WT:RFA. It's gotten pretty esoteric for WP:BN... --] (]) 19:12, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


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Sure - no problem. It's just been a frustrating evening - "hey that guy, he's guilty of...something..not sure what..not going to present any diffs but he's surely guilty!" --] (]) 01:11, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
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Since comments are going to get lost on that large thread about AN and AN/I, I thought I might copy mine here to make sure you saw it (since, unlike many others, I agree!). Here it is: As someone who has recently been described as using AN and AN/I as a "home away from home" I think getting rid of both of them is a fine idea. The purpose of AN is mostly as a community noticeboard, for which we already have ]. There is no need for it to be unduly focused on administrators - admins aren't a separate class, and no issues concern admins exclusively. The other subpages of AN could just as easily be subpages of some other place, and they all serve a specific function that serves to weed out general or unfocused complaints. I'd suggest, though, that AN and AN/I '''not be redirected''' to whatever the replacement is - instead, leave it as a map of the various noticeboards so that CN et al don't become new dumping grounds for the same old crap.


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The only other thing I'd add to that is this: You're a crat, so judging consensus is supposed to be your thing. I'd say that in this situation you might consider going with a "rough consensus" because, like all things AN or AN/I, it will be discussed forever and a clear consensus is unlikely to ever be apparent. On the other hand, the utility of reorganizing the pages like that seems obvious to me (and I should know...). Objectors will probably come to the same realization in time. <strong style="color:#000">]</strong> 00:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


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== Small bureaucratic request ==


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Hi Rdsmith4, I noticed that when you , you changed his rights from "rollbacker" to "rollbacker, sysop". If it's all right with you, when you promote someone to adminship, can you please make sure that rights made redundant by sysop (i.e. rollback, account-creator, and ip-block-exempt) are de-checked when you're in ]? Having the promoting bureaucrat remove the rights while promoting an editor to adminship saves other admins from themselves, and also prevents the userrights log from being clogged up with unnecessary rights changes. It's up to you, of course, but it would be appreciated if you did this. Thank you. ] 19:06, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
:In all fairness, I personally don't have any problem with keeping a user with "rollbacker, sysop" groups combined, and there isn't any harm in keeping them together. However, there do seem to be a lot of users who believe it's more organized and less cluttery (is that a word?) to keep sysops and rollbackers separate, and that users with the former right grouped with the latter make it harder to keep track of everyone who has rollback. In addition, some admins also remove the rollback right from admins who are in that group, therefore filling the userrights log with useless entries. I hope this explanation is satisfactory. ] 19:28, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
::You're welcome, and thank you for your consideration. ] 20:21, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


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Hi Rdsmith4, I just noticed that you've come online. Well, I've been searching for a bureaucrat for some time, and I was wondering, can you, since you're active, close ] and ] please? They're both a few hours overdue. Thanks. ] 02:03, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
:Thanks for closing them, and thanks also for the quick response! :) ] 02:47, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

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Thank you for fulfilling my username change request! ] (]) 21:05, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/Holly_Ann_Collins I think that you should get a user that is fluent in dutch should go over it. Some of the sources are in my native language Dutch. Thank you. --] (]) 21:05, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

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Thank you for closing this contentious RfA, thank you very much. If it's not too much too ask, can you please explain how you evaluated the all the comments and reached your decision? Thank you. ] 20:46, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
:That's a reasonable explanation, and I thank you for it. I wasn't challenging your decision, rather, since it was a major RFA, I was simply curious to know what your evaluation was. Thank you for providing your answer. Best wishes. ] 19:30, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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As I can recall wikipedias policy is to refer to countries under their legal name as it is accepted by the UN.
however if one looks at the todays 7/9/08 first page/on this day section on will propably see "independence day of Republic of Macedonia"... however there is no such state as this. THE OFFICIAL NAME IS: Former Yugoslavic Republic Of Macedonia F.Y.R.O.M.
May I remind you also that the are currently negotiations taking place for the removal of continuation of the "Macedonia" bit in the name. Wikipedias neutrality policy dictates that the temporary official name should be used....
If so possible I propose the creation of a bot to undertake the job of fixing this isue.
As unimportand as it might seam to you:
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2) it is malinforming and incorrect
3) it means a great deal for the current countries in the dispute
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:This IP seems to have spammed all the crats on this. <span style="font-family: verdana;"> — ] • ] • </span> 10:07, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

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Dan,

What does the Creative Commons license mean for usage. I work for a publishing company and I was looking for a photo of a Rolls Royce Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament and found yours on Wiki. I don't understand the usage. Can I use this image?

Bruce Borich

== Photo permission ==

Dan,

What does the Creative Commons license mean for usage. I work for a publishing company and I was looking for a photo of a Rolls Royce Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament and found yours on Wiki. I don't understand the usage. Can I use this image?

Bruce Borich
bborich@sov-soc.com

== Photo permission ==

Dan,

What does the Creative Commons license mean for usage. I work for a publishing company and I was looking for a photo of a Rolls Royce Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament and found yours on Wiki. I don't understand the usage. Can I use this image?

Bruce Borich
bborich@sov-soc.com

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What is the latest?--] <small>(]/]/]/]/]) </small> 03:15, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

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Closed by SNOW or by nom's request? ] <sup>(]&mdash;])</sup> 04:19, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
::Seems odd, since he repeatedly said he wanted it left open... though I agree it needed to be closed. But whatever, later! ] <sup>(]&mdash;])</sup> 04:26, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
:I second the question: closed by ] or by nominator's request? If closed by snow I actually suggest you please reopen it and allow the editor to withdraw gracefully. ] (]) 04:57, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
::Just so you know, while I feel bad for EotW, your early closure of that RFA was the right thing to do.It was turning into a slugfest like few others, and if I had had time last night, I would have asked EotW if I could close it. I was going to ask him this morning, but you already had. I think it's good for bureaucrats to intervene and end the mudslinging in RFA's like that one was. I wish you (crats in general, not you ''personally'') would be more proactive in striking crappy opposes rather than leaving us wondering if you are going to count them or no. ]]] 15:05, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

== Thank you. ==

I really appreciate comment. That's '''exactly''' how I feel. I think the opposes due to that question are a bit silly, and like you said, my answer to that question shouldn't reflect who I am as an editor. I'm afraid though, that it's a bit to late though, I'm already at 74%. <span style="font-family: tahoma">'''] (])'''</span> 00:38, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

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Sic. ] (]) 12:16, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

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== A question I have been dying to ask someone ==

I notice via the block log of {{userblock|Willy on Wheels}} that you banned him from Misplaced Pages. I have been dying to learn this: why did you ban WoW from Misplaced Pages? What did Willy do to get himself banned?

P.S.: Per to ], I am concerned that {{userblock|Krazy Komodo}} may be a sockpuppet of Willy. Pay close attention to the last line in the edit.

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== Happy New Year! ==

Dear Rdsmith4,

Wishing you a happy new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.

Kind regards,

''']''' ] 21:21, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

== Can my talk page be renamed ==

Is it possible to remove the (usurp) from the title of my talk page?--''''']]]''''' 02:59, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
:Thank you so much.--''''']]]''''' 03:07, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
::Alright, thank you.--''''']]]''''' 04:12, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
:::Looks like we need to contact a developer, my edits were not reassigned.--''''']]]''''' 23:48, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
::::Truco contacted me asking for help. It appears the edit history is still seperate. Any progress on this? If you're too busy I can try asking at the B'crat noticeboard for further help ] (]) 11:14, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
:::::Thanks for your response and your effort. I know the developers can be a pretty busy bunch. I've let Truco know and explained the situation. ] (]) 09:57, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

== Edit reassignment ==

I was previously known as {{User|SWik78}} and have recently usurped {{User|Big Bird}}. The rename was done on January 18 but my edits have not yet been re-assigned. I apologize if this seems as a trivial thing to bother you over but I wasn't sure if this is normal due to server lag since ] quotes "at most a day" for re-assignment to be done.

Thanks! ] <small>(] • ])</small> 15:47, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

:(]) This is most likely because you have a high amount of edits. The only thing you can do is sit and wait. If it takes more than a week, I would try contacting a developer. ''']''' ] 15:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

::Sounds like a plan. Thanks. ] <small>(] • ])</small> 16:09, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

:Majorly's right. This has happened several times lately -- you're not the only one in this boat. I guess the databases are struggling lately. (Majorly -- thanks for the helpful response.) &mdash; ] | ] 23:02, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

== Vandal usernames ==

Can you do anything to keep him from just recreating the same bunch of names once you've renamed them? ] (]) 03:58, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hi! You might be interested in the discussion at ]. Thank you. ] (]) 15:09, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
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== Ottava Rima ==

Were you in communication with anyone about when you intended to close the RFA for Ottava Rima? Thanks. ] (]) 14:03, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

==RfA closing==
Hi Rdsmith4, sorry to bother you. The RfA you recently closed, ], has become the subject of edit warring because the nominee left a number of comments right before closing, and now some people who disagree with the comments have been reverting them after the closing. My impression was that the page should not be edited once it's closed, but I don't know if there are exceptions. Anyway, I'm wondering if it would be possible to have the page protected for a couple days. I left a note to similar effect at ]. <b class="Unicode">]</b>&nbsp;<small><sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub></small> 14:09, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

== Closed RfA ==

. People feel the need to try and edit something that has ended. ] (]) 15:23, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
:Oh, and I'm just posting this because I think it is funny. I know that other people posted. However, the rule of comedy is to repeat something three times - obviously, people are unable to take things seriously. :) ] (]) 15:24, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
::By the way, remind me later to chat with you about your Annapolis photo. That was right next to where I lived for a while. ] (]) 15:25, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

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== Heads up ==

]. They should have come here first, rather than immediately jumping to the 'crat noticeboard (especially since your closure statement said you'd be happy to answer any questions), but that can't be helped. Would have been nice if you'd been notified of the BN thread, but that ''can'' be helped. :) ] <span style="color: #999;">// ] // ] //</span> 22:40, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

== My oppose on an ] you closed ==

I am curious if you took any opposes into account that did not have anything to do with "...Ottava Rima's comments about Dave's citation practices." I am asking because it appears you didn't address them in your closing statement. I do understand that long essays aren't standard in closing comments, but I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.--] (]) 02:06, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

== Question ==

Just in case you did not see it, I have left a on ] for you. Regards, —&nbsp;]<span style="color: #999;">&nbsp;//&nbsp;</span>] 19:11, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
:Thanks for the heads-up. I've spotted it and replied. &mdash; ] | ] 20:52, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
::Dan, congrats on how well you are responding to this mess. I applaud your discipline.] (]) 20:55, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
::{{ec}} You're welcome for the heads-up. Many thanks for your detailed reply there! :) Best wishes, —&nbsp;]<span style="color: #999;">&nbsp;//&nbsp;</span>] 20:57, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

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== disputed involvement ==

I thank you for you comments, but I dispute your involvment in the project and I respectfuly request you to denounce your outdated authority or reapply for bureaucrat status as you are almost not involved in the project. Looking at your recent edits is a simple denial of your statements. Are you stating that you intend to become more involved in the project? You are almost not involved here, apart from this disputed decision. (] (]) 21:33, 12 July 2009 (UTC))
:I dispute this request. Rdsmith4 is among our few long-term users, and his number of recent edits is irrelevant; he is very much a member of the community, and still has my trust. –''']'''&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;] 21:43, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
::In fact Juliancolton, if you are coming here to declare your trust for Rdsmith4 then I agree with you. lets take it to the community as a discussion and a vote. (] (]) 21:50, 12 July 2009 (UTC))
Juliancolton, If I had wanted to discuss this with you, I would be in another place. (] (]) 21:46, 12 July 2009 (UTC))
:This is a public talk page; if you wished to talk to Dan in private, you could have done so via e-mail, IRC, or one of the many off-wiki communication venues. –''']'''&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;] 22:11, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
:@Off2riorob: Considering that Rdsmith4 is not in ], I don't think that your request will achieve much given that Rdsmith4 did not abuse his bureaucrat tools. —&nbsp;]<span style="color: #999;">&nbsp;//&nbsp;</span>] 22:22, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

== RFC of Malleus Fatuorum ==

I invite you to comment on ], which I have filed.--] (]) 18:37, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
:No thanks. &mdash; ] | ] 19:50, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

== Usurpation of my global account ==

First of all, sorry for disturb you but i have to ask someone and i choose you. Now, i'm using account in local WikiTurkish. I want to take and use global account too. So i did write a message to ]. He was very kind he applied for changing his username. After he apply one of sysops wanted one more approve from him but he's not a active user so he didn't answer it. Finally they didn't chenge his username. You may read message archive from here ], i wrote him one more message one moths ago but he didn't reply me. Could you change his name as ] and give me my global account please?

Here's his application for changing his name... ] --] (]) 15:34, 28 August 2009 (UTC) ()

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== Thanks ==
Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my talk page! -- ''']''' (], ]) 07:35, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

== ] ==

Can you confirm that renaming ] is simply to remove his ]? I sincerely hope that this is not the first step in planning to allow him to edit again. ] (]) 00:34, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
:Replied on your talk page. &mdash; ] | ] 02:36, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm a little confused by some of this. A user rename to avoid Google searches &c is perfectly fine, no problem there (although the sig's are still everywhere and will get picked up). Is the new User:Guido den Broeder account a scrambled password/unusable/non-usurpable account? (Forgive me if I'm reading the logs wrong here) Additionally, my understanding is that GdB had commented elsewhere on the internet using links to his en:wiki user talk page. Do these latest rename actions leave open the possibility of others clicking onto a confusing "create this now" page? I'm not saying that any pages using the editor's actual name should say "OMG this user is baninated!!", just asking about the possibility for confusion. ] (]) 19:53, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
:Thanks for the response and yes, RTV is overriding. If you are in private communication with GdB (and if my concern is valid), you might let him know that renaming the user account does nothing about existing sig's in talk pages, so Google is still going to find them, if I read robots.txt properly, and various mirror sites will be indexed by their own rules. A certain "Vanished user" once changed all their sig's, although they were not banned when they did it. Not sure how to proceed there.

:I'll think about creating/annotating various pages. I would envision "This page has been moved and blanked as a courtesy to the editor." with possibly a link to the new user page. Would a link contravene RTV?

:My remaining concern is whether the account is usurpable or not. I don't think GdB would be trying this and I don't know if it's already a SUL account. My concern is whether any clues are sufficiently left for a future usurpation request. For instance, I know enough French language to go register the account on any number of wikis and maybe take over the en:wiki account. A technical issue indeed and rest assured I won't be trying it, but nevertheless a technicality. Thanks & regards! ] (]) 21:10, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
::And how unfortunate it would be for some other person, with the same not-very-uncommon name, to innocently request that username, without any knowledge of what would happen. ] (]) 21:35, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

== Kww 3 - Bureaucrat discussion ==

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I've opened a bureaucrat chat in relation to this RfA as I don't think the outcome is particularly clear cut. If you have a moment, I'd appreciate your input. <strong style="font-variant:small-caps">] ]</strong> 20:06, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

== Guido den Broeder ==

I don't recall for sure, but I thought he was indef'd. →] <sup>'']''</sup> ]← 20:36, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

:Indeed, he was; his block was reinstated by Arbcom some time ago. Although presumably he will not be editing, as it appears his block has carried over, I will note for the record that he did not advise the Arbitration Committee of his plan to rename; see the relevant Arbcom expectations ]. I would ask that you reinstate the redirects in this case. While Guido may claim that this is a privacy issue, in fact he uses this name widely on the internet, and uses it when discussing his activities on Misplaced Pages; given those facts, it is difficult to say that this is truly a "privacy" rename. Provided a link remains to the former account, however, I rather hope no additional action will be required. ] (]) 21:23, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

::I asked because I thought the "right to vanish" only applied to ''users in good standing'', and it does not seem like Broeder is in good standing. →] <sup>'']''</sup> ]← 21:26, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
:::Guido is definitely NOT in good standing, he dodged an arbcom ruling doing this, and Risker is correct, any claim that this is a privacy issue simply doesn't wash. <span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — ] • ] • </span> 21:41, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
:This user was banned under his old name and so remains banned under his new name (as I have now pointed out several times), and I have registered the old name and scrambled the password to avoid its being recreated. This rename in no way affects his status as a banned user. I would not have granted his request if there were any indication that he intended some mischief by it - but there is none. And, as always, everything is recorded in the logs for posterity (in response to Risker's comment). I fail to see any problems. &mdash; ] | ] 22:28, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
::The problems are two: 1) he dodged the arbcom policy, 2) the "privacy" claim does not wash here.<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — ] • ] • </span> 22:33, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
:::The mistake was in the edit summary, "User has exercised his right to vanish from the English Misplaced Pages." That's not the case at all. It's simply a rename of a banned user - whose new name appears in the logs, but will only be known to those who happened to catch it today. →] <sup>'']''</sup> ]← 22:38, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

::Dan, the problem is that in the last 24 hours I have been asked to oversight redirects, pages, and log entries because of the RTV claim. I just want to make sure that these things don't happen, because he really does not have a right to vanish, and we don't want to lose track of banned users. I'm often the easiest-to-contact oversighter, which is probably why I got the requests, but most others would not have known that oversighting the logs was not appropriate if they saw the "RTV" in the summary. I don't have a problem with the general concept of the rename. ] (]) 22:44, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

:Fair enough. I wrote "right to vanish" because that is what I intended it to be - I do not like to deny RTV to anyone, so long as there is no chance of its being used to evade a ban or other such. But I see a great many users have a keen interest in keeping track of this particular user, and since he's clearly not 'in good standing,' I won't argue the point any further. I yield my stake in this matter to the ArbCom and those who have dealt with him in the past. &mdash; ] | ] 00:01, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
::Thanks, Dan. Generally speaking, I stand behind your philosophy of liberal renaming and wouldn't want you to change :-) This is very definitely a rare and unusual situation. I should clarify that none of the requests for oversighting/suppression came from you; apparently the user showed up in IRC to pass through a request - logged in under his RL name - and as I was online, I got the requests. Thanks for understanding. ] (]) 00:51, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

== Cracket, a stool. ==

Dear Sir,
I have recently used the term "cracket" in a somewhat humorous manner; in order to describe a three legged stool which had been put to use in order to bear a tea tray. I know the term is (or was) used in the coal mining areas of Northumberland and Durham. I feel that the term might have been used in East Anglia, but I cannot give a definite source of the word in that area.
Any further information would be welcome, as Northumbrian dialects owe a lot to Norse influence. Eg Face = Fjace; Table = Tjable just to give two examples.
John McNally
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== Leo Koch ==

Heh, so there's two of us at least who read Ebert's blog! ] ] 11:42, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

== Christening ==

Hi, I see you reverted my edit of christening to naming back to christening. You say it is secular. No it is not. the word comes from the baptism of babies into the Christian religion. Hence the first 6 letters. It is a red flag to a bull to non christians even if you can't see that yourself. So as christening is offensive to some (if not to you) and naming is offensive to none then wouldn't naming be a better word? It offends me as a non Christian and I know for a fact it offends muslims and some jews I have spoken to. It's easy in the western world to use words like this without realising they cause offense but one of my objectives is to make wikipedia friendly to all cultures over the world. So whenever I come across words like christening and crusade I always edit them. Do you really mind?
] (]) 19:27, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

:This may help: ]. As you see from that article the word christening applies to ships that have been launched using an actual Christian or sub-Christian ritual. If a thing was just named, in no particular ceremony then it was just named, not christened, which is a second reason for not using the word. ] (]) 19:33, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Sure, <u>christening</u> is etymologically related to <u>Christ</u>, and events of christening in earlier days necessarily involved a specifically Christian ritual. But, as I have pointed out, the term is regularly used today throughout the English-speaking world (with which I think I have a reasonably wide familiarity) to denote ''any old event'', including a totally secular one, of bestowing a name; to a lesser degree, the same goes for <u>baptism</u>.

The secularization of the verb <u>christen</u> with respect to the naming of ships, as long ago as the seventeenth century, is in fact described in the very article you mentioned, in the ] section. If you'd prefer a dictionary attestation, consider the fifth definition of <u>christen</u> given by the OED (online edition): "''gen.'' To name, give a name to; often with complement, to call by the name of. ''colloq.''", citing a 1725 quotation in which the naming of a species of worm is called a christening, and an 1887 quotation in which the United States government is said to have christened a river in Alaska. Plainly neither of these was a ritual of the (or indeed any) Church.

As for <u>baptism</u>, it has become a philosophical term of art for any act of bestowing a name or other referring phrase in the work of ] and ], both secular thinkers. But I grant this is a bit more tenuous, as it is a technical sense of the term used by a particular group of specialists; however, the same does not go for <u>christen</u>: its secular sense is in extremely widespread informal use, as suggested by the OED tagging it "colloq."

Notice that a great many English words - indeed a great many words in any language whose speakers have been historically Christian - have historically carried Christian connotations, but have lost them as Christianity has become less significant to the societies using the words. Deeply buried in the histories of many terms having to do with "inspiration" and the like lies an imagery of divine intervention; similarly, the method of clinical psychology, and psychoanalysis before it, has its roots in medieval Christian pastoral and especially confessional practices; its terminology reflects this history as well.

So, while I appreciate your interest in eliminating Christian biases (or, presumably, culture-specific biases of any kind) from Misplaced Pages, I think you are going about it in the wrong way. Etymology - the history of words, both of their forms and their meanings - is the wrong place to look for these biases. If you try to remove all historically Christian words from Misplaced Pages in a consistent and systematic way, you will quickly realize that this is a truly enormous task, which moreover would cripple article-writers by depriving them of a large portion of their verbal resources.

Instead, I suggest that you look to ''current usage'' in Standard English, either American or UK/Commonwealth (Misplaced Pages has traditionally been split between these according to the topic of each article). If you do this, I think you will find no reason to object to the word <u>christen</u>.

As for its being potentially offensive - well, it is not thought to be so by speakers of Standard English. The claim that it is offensive is an ideologically-motivated political tactic intended to bring about a change in Standard English, but it is not the proper role of Misplaced Pages to promote such changes: this would amount to taking sides in a political struggle. Misplaced Pages has traditionally avoided problems of the politics of language - how many people must find a word offensive before we exclude it from Misplaced Pages? how can we verify claims of offensiveness, lest we go around expurgating from our vocabulary any word that anybody objects to? - by using Standard English as documented by widely accepted authorities like dictionaries. I admit this approach is not without its shortcomings, but it's the best and most practical we've come up with so far.

<u>Crusade</u> is a different matter, of course, since ''in current usage'' it implies a negative value judgment of its referent: to call something a crusade is also to indicate that you disapprove of it. It is excluded from Misplaced Pages purely on grounds of its non-neutrality, not because of any supposed religious connotation. Cheers &mdash; ] | ] 21:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

:Well you certainly have given me a worthy reply! I appreciate what you say about the secularization of words, colloquial so to speak, but to many the original meanings are still understood. The dictionary definitions are to name at baptism or dedicate (as a ship) by a ceremony suggestive of baptism and the colloquial comes a long way down. Similar things that irritate are AD (Anno Domini) - clearly not applicable to other religions who prefer CE (Common Era) and BCE. So many publishers avoid them. Even in Misplaced Pages I can see CE sometimes being used in preference to AD and there is even an article on the subject. I didn't know crusade was excluded. But it is also often used without realizing its true meaning, as in "a crusade against drink driving".

I understand too your worry that expurgating any old words someone objects to could get out of hand. However these words are already expurgated from publications that know the difference, for example the BBC news. Misplaced Pages is of course written by many people, most of whom are in the USA or at least in English speaking countries and may be unaware of the connotations. Because the writers are predominantly in the Western culture Misplaced Pages will always have that leaning. It can't be avoided. I certainly do not systematically go through Wiki editing those words, only when I come across one that stands out as being incorrect I will take that opportunity. Yes there are similar abused words from other religions that I might also be tempted to edit. Zen for example.

Again I say to you that christening is offensive to a great many whereas naming is not. But I don't feel *that* strongly about it. Leave it as christen if you must.

Thanks for the discussion. ] (]) 21:42, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

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Change it completely from User:The spesh man to User:Spesh531 ], ], and 17:51, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

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== Crat statement draft ==

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Following the drama at BN, I'm trying to come up with a statement all Crats could agree to. Please take a look, below.
I am quite content to do this onwiki -we have always worked transparently, except where secrecy is essential (ie RTV). I think we should be able to wordsmith a statement acceptable to all, and I think it's an important thing to do.
# In my opinion, this issue has come about through an unfortunate proliferation of documentation: policy, guideline, how-to etc
# I am not convinced that there is community consensus on all of the points encapsulated in those various pages
# I am unhappy at what may be described as some or all of: inconsistencies, inaccuracies or lack of clarity in that documentation
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Thank you for quality articles such as Max Mosley, for beginning articles such as Montserrat Caballé and Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, fo categories such as Formula One Grands Prix, for service from 2004, including later admin and bureaucrat service, for "I remain entirely attached to the project and committed to its aims", - Dan, repeating (24 October 2008): you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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