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please email me if my attention is required, Abd is hiding under a rock is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Misplaced Pages soon.

Alternatively, I may not be back at all, more than occasionally, I have no crystal ball, and real life beckons invitingly.

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WELCOME TO Abd TALK

WARNING: Reading the screeds, tomes, or rants of Abd has been known to cause serious damage to mental health. One editor, a long-time Wikipedian, in spite of warnings from a real-life organization dedicated to protecting the planet from the likes of Abd, actually read Abd's comments and thought he understood them.

After reading, his behavior became erratic. He proposed WP:PRX and insisted on promoting it. Continuing after he was unblocked, and in spite of his extensive experience, with many thousands of edits,he created a hoax article and actually made a joke in mainspace. When he was unblocked from that, he created a non-notable article on Easter Bunny Hotline, and was finally considered banned. What had really happened? His brain had turned to Dog vomit slime mold (see illustration).

Caution is advised.

this looks like a violation of your ban

It's OK that you comment on The Ghost RfC. But then you went and you made a revert to the article. This looks like you are inserting yourself in the middle of an existing dispute, and you are banned from doing that. Indeed, it looks like you are trying to be the arbiter of how much consensus that text needs to have in order to be in the lead. Please stop that. --Enric Naval (talk) 07:36, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

This is the first time that this ban has been interpreted to prohibit me from making edits to articles. You acknowledge that I'm allowed to comment in polls, and you seem to interpret the RfCs as polls. I agree, and that's why I commented. However, while my edit may have an application to a dispute taking place on the article talk page and at WP:NPOV, my argument for removal was not derived from that discussion, it was based on a plain application of standards for ledes, and it was independent from the dispute, which has mostly been about sourcing standards. It might be noticed that I did not remove text from the body of the article itself, so my removal did not in itself take a position on the issue that has generated so much heat. I could say a great deal more but won't because it would, in fact, be about a factional battle, a "dispute." And that would include wondering why, you, Enric, end up so much concerned about this, and Verbal, who reverted my edit as a ban violation. I'll do all of that off-wiki. Enjoy.

Meanwhile, if any neutral admin wishes to clarify how the ban prevents me from editing articles, as a kind of clear warning so that I can avoid repeating an offense, I will respect the interpretation pending review. As Enric Naval was highly involved in the RfAr which resulted in my "MYOB" ban, he was literally a party, self-named as such, I can't take his warning here as being adequate to establish a violation.

Alternatively, any admin (neutral or not) may warn me that he or she would block me if the offense was repeated, but without the clarification, it won't be helpful, and a block warning like that from an admin involved in dispute with me would violate recusal policy as much as a block. Helpful comments, though, are welcome from anyone, involved or not. --Abd (talk) 15:19, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

I have asked for clarification at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification#Request_for_clarification:_Abd-William_M._Connolley_.28Abd.27s_restriction.29. --Enric Naval (talk) 16:05, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, Enric. --Abd (talk) 17:23, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

I have made an AE request at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Abd. --Enric Naval (talk) 08:34, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Outside of non-contentious cleanup and facilitation for existing projects, response to comments here, and unfinished work at RfAr, I am voluntarily ceasing editing Misplaced Pages, due to an interpretation of my MYOB ban that is so tight that, had I known it would be interpreted this way, I would not have returned to editing when my original site ban expired. I will only return if this extreme interpretation does not stand. An arbitrator I consider neutral has issued an opinion in the above cited RfAr/Clarification that I must take as the clarification requested above, pending a final decision.

Thanks to all those who have supported my work. It wasn't enough, but you tried, against difficulties. Thanks as well to all those who opposed my work, making issues clear, the experience has been invaluable, and I hope you and the project, as well, benefited from it in the long run. I will watch my Talk page here from time to time, and should remain reachable by email, and I am also active (and intend to remain active while permitted) on Misplaced Pages Review.

Please understand that I cannot comment, on-wiki, on any editorial dispute, but I can (and will) make such comment off-wiki, according to accepted norms. --Abd (talk) 22:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)