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Let's make this an opportunity to unhate!

The Fæ classy in crisis LGBT ally Barnstar!

Because we need to show our overwhelming support of what people hate on to create unhate whenever it shows up. I compel everyone that supports unhate to repost this on their user page or talk page and especially on any page that has been the location of LGBT harassment or ignorance, that way the haters will know the only consequence of their hate will be more gayness and education and community. LuciferWildCat (talk) 23:33, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm all for confronting haters back with a big dose of gayness and gay love. Cheers --Fæ (talk) 23:44, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

You must have missed that Russavia got one also. Right above the discussion on Polandballs :) --Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:55, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

I was in a talk today with Bishop Gene Robinson who has his own (severe) personal experiences of harassment and death threats over the last few years, for obvious reasons. His view was that the opposite of love is fear, not hate. It's quite a well thought out point with regard to homophobic attacks and I rather like to think our Wikimedia community could consider a positive aim of ending fear through knowledge, communication and awareness rather than reacting to hatred. --Fæ (talk) 23:05, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm sure some chap in the Bible originated that viewpoint. Something about perfect love casteth out fear...? Elen of the Roads (talk) 23:23, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

I was using a secondary source in line with policy. --Fæ (talk) 23:28, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

LOL :)Elen of the Roads (talk) 23:37, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

It is my honour:

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		Fae, this is for your bravery at the ANI, the willingness to stand up to the abusive bullies who hold the majority there.—Djathinkimacowboy 04:34, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

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		The Special Barnstar
		You deserve two commendations ... plus I just love the rainbow in this one. —Djathinkimacowboy 04:34, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. After a couple of days to think about it, I'm still disgusted at how a small number of people contributing to the ANI thread are arguing that telling anyone to fuck off with their queer agenda could be described as anything other than blatantly homophobic. I have raised the problem of unacceptable homophobia on Misplaced Pages with a couple of the WMF board members I had personal chats with at the Berlin Chapters Conference this weekend. --Fæ (talk) 23:41, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiLove message

Hello, Fæ! Seen that you've liked some of my previous works, I thought that I'd dedicate the cartoon below to you in honour of your Chairmanship of WMUK, as well as to British scientists elsewhere ;) GreyHood 07:09, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the dedication. I see your have honoured Wikimedia UK by highlighting Britain's wonderful capital, our love of freedom and enterprise, our financial leadership, our world-class innovative blue-skies science programmes and, of course, our love of political parody. Now, back to my tea and biscuitz. Cheers --Fæ (talk) 16:50, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

User:Pine/drafts/ENWP Board of Education

You may want to read and comment on User:Pine/drafts/ENWP Board of Education. It proposes amongst other things creating a body that is parallel but does not compete with ArbCom. --LauraHale (talk) 05:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Sig comment

I saw your new signature at AN and just wanted to remind you that images are not permitted in signatures per Misplaced Pages:SIG#Images. You might try adding the following code to get the same effect with text <span style='color: #FF00FF;'>'''▲'''</span>, which shows up as ▲. Hope that helps. MBisanz 19:56, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Or indeed since the orientation is important (or rather, essential) ▼. Worm · (talk) 20:06, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

MBisanz, your apparently obsessive behaviour, including your inability to recognize that your appalling treatment of my personal correspondence from several months ago involving a serious matter failed to show me human decency or personal respect, and your multiple pointless harassing warnings my user talk page are highly disturbing. Go back to the AN thread you seem so interested in and read it properly. No image has ever been part of my signature. For someone with trusted status, your failure of judgement in raising a blatantly out of process RFAR, a pointless and out of process WQA thread (as it was raised in parallel with the open RFAR) and now issuing incorrect warnings about things that never happened, seems to look like a pattern of incompetence when it comes to your ability to look rationally at my contributions to Misplaced Pages. If you have personal problems with me, I urge you to raise these with an administrator you trust independently to review, so they can contact me instead of you. If you have problems with me as a trustee of Wikimedia UK, please raise these with the UK Chief Executive, details at wmuk:Contact us.

Please go away, seriously, I can see no possible good coming from you writing here again with further warnings or unwanted advice, and it now looks as though you are on a personal campaign to hamper my enjoyment of this project. To ensure you understand that, I will remove any comment from here on you make to this page and will not reply to your questions. --Fæ (talk) 21:12, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

o_O Snowolf 21:52, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

An image was clearly part of your signature in this section, specifically File:Pink triangle.svg, which renders as . You signed with an image about ten times. As MBisanz says, we don't allow images in user signatures. We somewhat allow political statements, I guess, but you should probably remove that part too.

Your response to MBisanz's note was inappropriate. Writing long paragraphs doesn't obscure the fact that you were wrong. Just say "okay, I won't use images in the future, thanks for the note" and move on. Attempting to dramatize the situation serves no one. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:11, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Go back and read the AN thread properly, the example text was never part of my signature, I clearly stated that. By the way, Wikipediocracy is not a political movement. --Fæ (talk) 22:21, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict) At the same time though, there's something to be said for not poking the bear. If MBisanz was as prominently involved in a conflict with Fae as Fae suggests, MBisanz may not have been the best person to come comment on this user's signature. I'm not privy to the conflict Fae refers to, but just something to keep in mind in general. Equazcion 22:31, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Struck the clearly bit, I am still convinced I said it somewhere but can't see it myself now, probably due to being tired and it's past my bedtime. The image and text was used inconsistently if you check the times of posting in that thread, it was never a standard signature but a marker text to show that I do not canvass on Wikipediocracy. My signature remains unchanged and has always been uncustomized, it is what you see here after the dashes and is identical on AN. Your Misplaced Pages signature is interpreted to be what you set in your signature preferences per WP:CUSTOMSIG, this was not the case on AN where the inconsistencies were obvious to see. --Fæ (talk) 22:36, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Reinstated clearly as now my eyes are less tired, I find my statement on AN easy to find. I said in that same discussion:

By the way, it's not my signature, only a demonstration that the majority of people posting in this thread so far are Wikipediocracy members which may indicate that we have a problem with the Administrator's Noticeboard being manipulated by a tag team.

--Fæ (talk) 08:11, 7 May 2012 (UTC)