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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)

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)

WQ Transclusion reply

ANI British Pakistanis closed with no action

To prevent any action, the ANI incident was closed by User:Bwilkins at 13:44, 19 May 2012 (dif-2473). Meanwhile, I was posting my !votes to that thread (dif-5650), and those 2nd carefully considered comments were reverted (and thrown away), rather than re-closing the thread 20 minutes later. Sorry for all the wasted effort (and it was also a huge waste of time on my part). I suspect that many ANI threads are closed-no-action to reduce the size of the ANI page. Bwilkins suggested to perhaps post to WP:RFC/U, which might be the better way to get results, without the pressure to close a detailed thread to make the ANI page smaller. No reply needed, as you have more experience in these matters than I, and you can spend your time working other issues. Thanks. -Wikid77 15:00, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

WWI Editathon

Hi Fae,

I don't know if you've decided yet whether or not you'll be attending the World War I editathon, but if you're still interested, there are definitely places available.

Just to let you know we've finalised the list of academics who'll be attending the editathon next month, along with their areas of specialisation. If any of these are topics you'd be particularly interested in collaborating on, or you want to suggest articles in those fields that need work, please do make a note on the page - it'd be great if we could have some suggested topics ready in advance.

Any questions, do let me know... Andrew Gray (talk) 15:15, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Close...

Hi Fae! I fully endorse your action at Light-year - indeed, I was drawn there by the protection request, but decided to edit and discuss the article instead of handling the protection request. But you very slightly missed the point. It's not metric vs. imperial, is metric (m) vs. metric (km) - arguably, even more trivial. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 14:40, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

I know that was the main discussion, I was probably over interpreting recent edits that were in the comparison to other measurements section (including miles). I'm happy to let it ride either way, particularly as some folks can't stand the use of the convert template where it's not really needed. Cheers --Fæ (talk) 14:45, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikiversity

I heard a very good interview on the BBC yesterday about the Monmouth effort (send my kudos along to Ashley!), but I was a bit stunned to hear him bring up Wikiversity (which our mutual good friend Jimbo once described as "the wild west of wikimedia"). Wikiversity is in pretty bad shape (has been for a while), and I noticed that you haven't really had any experience there. Wikiversity is badly understaffed, and would definitely benefit if you could spare some "gnome-admin" time. The rules are different there, so I can make you an admin tomorrow as long as you agree to take it slow and allow me to review your button usage.

Among other things, WV's different rules mean that it could host material about "local celebrities" (I understand you've had an AfD issue?), unsourced stories from the community's elders to capture oral histories (what was it like during WW2? what was it like before automobiles?), and who knows what else... I suppose the possibilities are endless.

Are you up for a plunge into the waters of the wild west ;-)? --SB_Johnny | ✌ 17:46, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

thanks

hi thanks for welcome — Preceding unsigned comment added by Poklet2 (talk • contribs) 20:06, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Request for arbitration

You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests#Fæ and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the following resources may be of use—

• Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests#Requests for Arbitration;
• Misplaced Pages:Arbitration guide.

Thanks,

--Guerillero | My Talk 22:05, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Guerillero, can you pass on the fact that I am travelling tomorrow to attend the funeral of my 20 year old niece on Friday. Hopefully others can explain why this Arbitration request suffers from a lack of evidence of any Misplaced Pages dispute resolution raised since his last failed Arbitration request. I do not have time or the inclination to look into the matter this week for obvious reasons. The fact that the person raising this case has written on Wikipediocracy, this month, about his private meeting with Eric Barbour should be of interest to many and appears to directly relate to the nature of his complaints about matters off Misplaced Pages. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 22:22, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Randy Bott

It is interesting that you do not like to have material deleted, but you are all too willing to delete material of others. If you dispute the material or feel there is inadequate documentation, you may so state, but you choose to wholesale delete because you do not agree with the material posted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevezdude1 (talk • contribs) 22:10, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

The material you posted was part rant, part copied from other Misplaced Pages articles. It was definitely not appropriate for the biography of a living person. ~Adjwilley (talk) 22:19, 23 May 2012 (UTC)