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My crap Stuff and nonsense This user is an administrator on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify) This user has a userpage on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. 15,000+ This user has made over 15,000 contributions to Misplaced Pages Smert' spamionem! This user is a member of WikiProject Spam. BEng This user has a Bachelor of Engineering degree. Reading December 2024 30 Monday 11:39 pm UTC Were this admin to act in a foolish, trollish, or dickish way, he is open to being slapped with a large trout.

I check in most evenings, and occasionally some days during the day. I am on UK time (I can see Greenwich Royal Observatory from my 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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Note to self

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

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)

In all fairness, the thing does seem to have established noteability. I don't really care for it myself, but I can avoid it simply by not going there. Jtrainor (talk) 08:03, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Not really. It's as notable as Jason Fortuny's blog would have been, had that been the place he chose to post his crap. Which is not independently notable. Guy (Help!) 11:46, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Except that apparently a number of proper sources have been found for it. There are plenty of things that have worse sourcing than that. Jtrainor (talk) 17:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

FSVO proper. Guy (Help!) 20:16, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on the subject then. I tend to have a rather liberal view of noteability myself considering my interest in giant robots that don't have many english sources vOv Jtrainor (talk) 05:35, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure. If the robots start harassing people I will delete them, though :-) Guy (Help!) 10:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

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harassment against you

look at the history of this page, there was an IP harassing you --Enric Naval (talk) 07:44, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Just letting you know that the blog that the harasser was going to use to post your details has been closed down due to breach of terms of service --Enric Naval (talk) 03:26, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

protect expired, POV-pusher is back

Hi. You set up protection for Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program a month ago, for which I was grateful - the protection expired May 7th, and the sockpuppet IP editor who you put the sprotect up to block has returned, right on schedule. Could you re-institute the protection, please? Thanks, Dyanega (talk) 23:49, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/C68-FM-SV

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/C68-FM-SV/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/C68-FM-SV/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, John Vandenberg 11:49, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Chaplain Extraordinary

When you created the stub Chaplain Extraordinary in 2006, you said that you intended to consult print sources. Could you come back and upgrade it some? It has been flagged as needing context, which flag I'd have to say I agree with. GRBerry 15:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

• Ah, I had completely forgotten about it (obviously). Will have a dig. Guy (Help!) 15:44, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Sprout Sharing Show deletion

Hi JzG...Might it be possible to recreate this article? If I remember correctly, though it was created by a banned user, I'd done a bit of work on it to bring it up to snuff--and it's linked through the PBS KIDS Sprout article as well. Granted, though it was created by a banned user, I don't think it needs to be wiped off the face of the earth. If you can't put back the article, might you be able to send me the text? I can cobble something together from it, at least. Thanks so much... Gladys J Cortez 18:07, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and just to say: THANK YOU eversomuch for banninating that odious user. Jamesinc14 honks me off to no end. I'm grateful. Gladys J Cortez 18:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

A subsegment of a segment? Good grief. The level of trivia that people want to write about is a source of constant amazement. Guy (Help!) 18:21, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

LOL...yeah, I know. We write about what we know, ya know? I have a fairly small and trivial life at the moment, though I'm working on that...Gladys J Cortez 19:29, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, please

Thank you very much for your reply. Sorry, I was very busy off WP recently, and only today got to do some stuff here, after almost a month away. I would appreciate if you could, please, email me the content of the page, since I do not have a copy. You can just go to my user page and click "E-mail this user". It is always activated. Thank you very much. Dc76\ 18:09, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

• You got mail. Guy (Help!) 18:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Yes, I did. Thank you very much. Cheers. Dc76\ 18:29, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Your Opinion Please on SCO_Skunkware

I tagged SCO_Skunkware with the notability tag and proposed deletion of the article. The article's author (who is also the chief architect of SCO Skunkware) objected to the deletion and has bolstered the article with more references. I don't know what is the normal threshold for deletion, so I would like to get your thoughts on the notability of this subject and if it is worthy of an article, either as it is, or with further work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Captain Nemo III (talk • contribs) 18:37, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not Guy, but IMHO it's notable enough. It has a long history in the industry. SCO UNIX, before Caldera took over and tanked the company, was for a while a major UNIX industry player (more units shipped in the mid-90s than any other UNIX version, for example). This was the major free software source for SCO UNIX at the time. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:15, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

Is there ore vandalism these days, or is it just that it's easy to click the undo button so I can zap more of them in the same time? Stephen B Streater (talk) 19:25, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

• I think vandalism per article is about the same, but there are more articles. Good to see you around still :-) Guy (Help!) 21:46, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Likewise :-) Stephen B Streater (talk) 06:18, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Indeed.

This? Too bloody right. Extremely well said, and thank you for saying it. Tony Fox (arf!) 05:29, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

A request for arbitration involving you has been filed

Please see: Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration#JzG Viridae 09:18, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

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