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"Please just drop it"

Hi. Your entreaty has only raised more questions than it sought to suppress, in particular these. Any chance of a response? Cheers. -- Jack of Oz 22:58, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Why the stonewall? -- Jack of Oz 02:45, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Don't worry yourself (any more than you already have = 0) about this. I've found the answer I was after, @ User talk:Joseph A. Spadaro#Help. It's best encapsulated by JamesBWatson to Joseph:

• You were not making any "speculation", but simply asking for a fact. There was nothing whatever wrong with doing so, and Medeis's criticism was totally unfounded. That has now been explained repeatedly, and if Medeis still doesn't understand, then I don't see anything more that can be done about that.; and
• In your original post, you were clearly asking for information about what Pistorius said: "So, according to his story, did he say ... What reason did he give? Or did he just say ..." All of that is asking for factual information, not "speculation", and to call it a "BLP violation" is absurd.

I'll be sure to add you to my List of Extremely Unhelpful Administrators.

Bye now. -- Jack of Oz 20:24, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

How about the list of "extremely busy administrators"? For faster response, always email. Guy (Help!) 23:27, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

So busy that you have no time to answer not 1, not 2, but 3 requests for information? But not so busy that you can respond when I tell you I've finally found what I needed elsewhere? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Being unavailable at the usual channels of wiki-communication for a number of days, with no notices about such unavailability, makes a mockery of being an administrator, really. We can do better than this, I think. -- Jack of Oz 00:25, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

MediaWiki is a brilliant platform for collaborative document editing, and a shit platform for real-time communication. Feel free to email me any time, I endeavour to reply within 24 hours. I can check email on my phone, I typically do not check Misplaced Pages messages when on a customer site. Please try to meet me halfway. My workload is unpredictable and varies between doing it in my sleep and working round the clock. Unhelpful is not a term often applied to me (other than by quacks, but I don't care about them). Busy, on the other hand, is. Guy (Help!) 00:32, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining. I think you at least owe it to potential supplicants to let them know the above, by way of a general notice at the head of your talk page. You applied to be an administrator, nobody forced you. When you tell editors to "drop it" or anything else, it's not unreasonable for them to want to have something to say about it, or some questions to ask about it, and when you appear to be totally ignoring them for the best part of a week, that is not a good perception and it just creates ill feeling (as per above, which I've now struck). Cheers. -- Jack of Oz 00:46, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Marsden

Ping! -- Hoary (talk) 06:09, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions 2013 review: Draft v3

Hi. You have commented on Draft v1 or v2 in the Arbitration Committee's 2013 review of the discretionary sanctions system. I thought you'd like to know Draft v3 has now been posted to the main review page. You are very welcome to comment on it on the review talk page. Regards, AGK 00:15, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

You sent me a message but I don't know the proper way to respond

Obviously, a living person (Jeanine di Giovani) is spending a great deal of energy editing her own biography, and I don't believe that the version she tries to impose on other is on par with the Misplaced Pages standards, specially re. neutrality.

I also believe strongly that if this person wants to be the subject of such a long biography, the darkest side of her achievements should be exposed as well as the more honorable ones.

There was a consensus 2 months ago among various Misplaced Pages contributors that her bio was too long and, that the "controversy" part of her bio should be kept. Now a few days ago, someone (most probably her) reverted the bio to a longer, totally unbalanced, version of her bio. Hence my astonishment that such behaviour can be tolerated.

Regards.

Posting here was the right way to respond, thank you.

The person adding content to the article, is not the subject, as far as I can tell. The content they add is largely correct and adds important missing facts, but as you have rightly identified, it is worded in a way that is not compliant with policy.

However: reverting that text is also a problem, because it gives the appearance of being determined to exclude facts which reflect better on the subject than those you have added.

At this point I would advise you to register an account, and engage in civil discussion with user:TheTzatz and work out how to include the missing facts in a way that is compliant with policy.

We're not interested in making a judgment about the subject based on any one past event, though. Don't make the mistake of believing that the otne of the article should be dominated by the French comments. Guy (Help!) 17:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Request to remove protection on Lyndsey Turner to create page

Hello! I ask for permission to create a page for Lyndsey Turner, as I understand that you have protected it. She has directed major plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Harold Pinter Theatre. She is currently directing Rebecca Hall in Machinal on Broadway. She has also been recently nominated for the 2014 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director for Chimerica, arguably the best reviewed play in the 2013 theatre calendar. She was also nominated for a Evening Standard Award.

I can provide several reliable sources for the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AkiraKinomoto (talk • contribs) 03:40, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

There has been a long-term problem with somebody using that article to harass the subject. I am uncomfortable with this request. Guy (Help!) 09:12, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

John Frederick Nelson

Please see bottom message on my talk page. I hate uploading photos I haven't taken. Kittybrewster ☎ 15:21, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Junior Writers Awards‎

Hi JzG, I noticed that you deleted Junior Writers Awards per G5, blocked/banned user. I have two thoughts: The blocked user was blocked because they were describing themselves as a corporation, in vio of the username policy. An individual came back and re-created the article. They may have a COI, but this doesn't preclude them from editing, so it's not like sockpuppetry or anything--they were forced to abandon that username. Secondly, I think the more recent version of the article was far less offensive and spam-laden as previous incarnations, and assuming that notability could be properly established, the article may have made the cut. This is not a criticism of your call, I'm only floating a different perspective, having seen the evolution of the article. Regards! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:11, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

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