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Smert' spamionem! This user is a member of WikiProject Spam.

I check in most mornings and most evenings, and occasionally some days during the day. I am on UK time (I can see Greenwich Royal Observatory from my new office). If you post a reply at 8pm EST and get no reply by 10pm, it's likely because I'm asleep. My wiki interests at the moment are limited. I still handle some OTRS tickets.

I am under considerable personal stress at the moment; my father died and I have a lot of other stuff going on in RL including a new job as senior engineer for enterprise storage and virtual infrastructure in a Fortune 500 company. Great job, lots of shiny expensive toys, big responsibility. But Misplaced Pages is still one of my top hobbies, and I come here to do what I can. I respond much better to polite requests than to demands. People who taunt me with "I dare you to block me" may have cause to regret it, as may I. Don't even think of trying to drag me into one of the many cesspits this project offers, I will likely choose only those disputes where I don't actually care too much. Not coming to your party? It's because I've decided it will make me unhappy. Sorry about that.

Above all, please do not try to provoke me to anger, it's not difficult to do, so it's not in the least bit clever, and experience indicates that some at least who deliberately make my life more miserable than it needs to be, have been banned and stayed that way. Make an effort to assume good faith and let's see if we can't get along. Guy (Help!) 22:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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Were this admin to act in a foolish, trollish, or dickish way, he is open to being slapped with a large trout.

the internets is populated by eggshells armed with hammers

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Note to self

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Istria&diff=192329190&oldid=189359747

Your input requested regarding reliable sources

Any insights you might offer to this discussion would be helpful and appreciated.  : ) --MPerel 03:48, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

On a repeated spammer

Hello,I recently reverted edits by 59.152.98.158. I have been tracking this anonymous user for a while,as he has made edits from another IP: 59.152.99.184. I have managed to trace this user to this user page: user:hatashe.I have also made a request to blacklist the link he keeps adding. Got any advice? - Amog | 09:34, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

• Mediawiki talk:spam-blacklist or WT:WPSPAM would both be appropriate venues to discuss this, I will go to the blacklist talk. Guy (Help!) 10:40, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. That guy was getting on my nerves. Amog | 13:04, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

FYI

Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration#Allegations_of_state_terrorism_by_the_United_States Inclusionist (talk) 05:08, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

G'day Guy

I've been speaking to a few OTRS folk recently, and have thought about talking about this aspect of the project in a 'Not The Misplaced Pages Weekly podcast - which as you probably know is just a recorded conversation about wiki related stuff..... can I persuade you along at any time? - all it would take is your willingness, and preferably a skype account (although we could connect on a landline / mobile if that works better.....) - let me know your thoughts... cheers... Privatemusings (talk) 11:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

• Not really. I don't have time, and Skype is banned on my company's computers anyway. Cary Bass is a better bet for this. Guy (Help!) 08:10, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

AfD

Hi. You commented on a previous AfD debate on the article Hattrick. There is a new AfD here. Regards, Bastun 05:26, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

My edits

You are the second person to revert my edits, the Encyclopedia Dramatica article does exist now. So is there another reason or is it just a mistake? --I LIVE IN A HAT (talk) 14:46, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

• Go away you ED-spamming worthless troll. I think that covers it. Guy (Help!) 14:59, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Another nail in the coffin of the encycloapedia

We now have an "article" on the self-aggrandizing sophomoric shithole that is Encyclopedia Dramatica. Way to go. That really improves the encyclopaedia, just like the countless band vanity articles we get. Fact is, nobody who is not already a member of the ED community gives a toss about the worthless place, and their retaliation against our original deletion showed that deletion was unambiguously correct. The purpose of the article is solely tro validate their tawdry little website and persuade themselves that the hours they spend there are of more merit to humanity than hours spent masturbating. They are wrong. Guy (Help!) 14:59, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

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