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	Hi Tony. You reinstated (at 1:18, 13 Jan 06) the indefinite block of MSK with the comment "Disruptive troll, block was removed against strong support on WP:AN/I". Including both previous discussion and more recent comments after that (]), I'd say the indefinite block does not have sufficient support at this time. I'd ask you to reconsider and suggest an alternative to an indefinite block (some suggestions have been made). Thanks. ] <sup>]</sup> 22:39, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

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	Hi, I noticed that you took part in the AFD on Sharon Tendler. Well the article that was previously made before the Sharon Tendler article, which got redirected towards it is now up for deletion. I thought you might like to vote. ]. Thanks ] 23:05, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

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	== The Gibraltar articles ==
	You un SP them today with the notation that the vandal has hopefully gotten bored. He hasn't. :) It's blocked user ], who hits the talk pages of both articles every single day. Long term alerts on ViP has a long listing on him. He's vowed to "never be silenced", so I doubt he's going away anytime soon. Re SP for now. --]<sup>]</sup> 00:05, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

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	:In fact, G hit the talk page of Disputed status of Gibraltar using the IP of 212.120.225.244 just 2 hours before you unprotected the History of Gibraltar article. Main problem is that not only does he use a dynamic IP but its 8 ranges. I tried a massive range block and got roasted on it, so the only option is SP for now. --]<sup>]</sup> 00:17, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

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			Hello Tony Sidaway,
	* The deletion process seems to have been inverted. Now, userboxes are being speedily deleted and then people are left to argue about it afterwards without being able to see the actual template. Speedy deletion is only for cases where it is obvious that the userbox would be soundly defeated at the tfd page. With the level of the debate here I think it is obvious that were these listed at tfd, there would not be an overwhelming majority to delete. Please follow the tfd process from now on. Speedy deletion causes nothing but strife within the wikipedia community. With a transparent tfd process, even the inclusionist will see that process has been followed and will not have as much reason to be upset. Divisive userboxes have a possiblity to be harmful - the userbox wars are destroying the wikipedia community. Please use tfd from now on.--]] 22:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

			You are currently noted as a participant of the ]. With much of the activity in this task force about ten years ago, I think it's time for a revival. Global warming is getting a lot of attention in the media now and it's therefore important our articles are up-to-date, accurate and neutral.
	: Thanks for the notification. If I reply, I'll do so on DRV. --]\|] 00:13, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
	::That was some comment. I wish more admins where like that whith cruft pages, like slang lists.]<sup>]\|]\|]</sup> 07:57, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

			I've updated the task force page and the to do list and invite you to have a look at the page again, add something to the TO DO list or start collaborating by improving one of our many articles. If climate change has lost your interest, feel free to remove your name from the participants list.
	==On Templates==

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	Regarding the candidates' question on templates: My feeling is that the desire to 'personalize' one's online identity, the same desire that created smilies, has now created templates. Probably they are harmless ('fun') in most cases, but there exists the potential, as in the swastika example cited, for severe templates to open severe divisions in the 'community.'

			== Re: Time I stopped being a curmudgeon about signs of appreciation's barnstar ==
	But I would ask, as Misplaced Pages seems to be evolving exponentially, will there really be such a thing as the 'Misplaced Pages community' in the future? Or will special interest bands proliferate, so that edit wars will be fought between two (or more) armies of like-minded editors. Armies need uniforms, coats of arms etc. Could templates be the beginning of something like that? That would be my concern.] 16:36, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

			You did THAT to the ''']''' article—in ''2015''?!?!!! That is one ''well deserved'' barnstar, lemme tell you! The nostalgia! My best friend and I were following ''], ], ]'' and other then-'']'' fare of the time, several days a week, so we saw that blow up real-time! Dude, I mean...'''''dude'''''. Dang.
	: Thanks. Interesting thoughts, nice to see someone who isn't scared to blue sky. --]\|] 02:40, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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	::with the posible exception of schoolwatch every attempt to put together a group to active anything other than short term vandalism has failed. Most people do not want to get involved in draining month long conflicts.] 02:47, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

			Thank you for all your hard work, there and elsewhere! Thank you very much! —] (]) 10:33, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
	That's an interesting comparison. I suppose next thing you'll do is say I'm a poacher-turned-gamekeeper! :) But seriously, schoolwatch was about the encyclopedia. Of course it galvanised quite a lot of people into action. But I've come from Usenet where I've seen many long, long feuds, some of them passing on from one generation of Usenet posters to the next (can anyone really remember what was so awful about Stephen Boursy?) --]\|] 02:54, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

			Thanks. I worked hard on several controversial articles for a long time, and I think my work was appreciated. ] is one, ] is another, and there were many others. ] 22:23, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
	:under most conditions the boloody minded individualism of wikipedians prevents any organised attempt to get them to work together. School watch is the only exception I can think of.11:59, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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			== Moving to inactive ==
	Hello Mr. Sidaway,

			Hi, FYI the climate change task force is now a stand-alone project (]). You were once listed as active at the task force but from your contribs it appears you are in (semi?) wiki retirement. I've therefore taken liberty to move your name to the inactive list, but feel free to rejoin us any time! ] (]) 20:40, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
	I note you have asked, on 14 Jan., to support my classification that you have indicated you are an "elite" user. I consider the RFC moribund, but I did wish to reply to you. Quite honestly, I would have expected you to stipulate to my classification of you; do ''you'' really think you ''aren't'' an elite user? Anyway, note that I was flexible in defining my term: words "similar" to "I can do this because I can get away with it" will do. For you, we have:

			== Hope you're doing well, whatever you're up to ==
	"Of course IAR is egocentric! You need to be an ''egomaniac'' to use it, and a ''very accomplished one to get away with it''. --Tony SidawayTalk 18:13, 17 October 2005 (UTC)"

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			Thanks for the good wishes. I'm largely disengaging from all social forums, as indicated . There's still time for me to reconnect with my solipsistic side, I hope. Only by shutting out ] can I have any peace, which for some reason seems to involve lots of microcontroller stuff and obscure programming languages. --] 13:38, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
	"That's why only egomaniacs ever use this method. It's like a tightrope walk. ''The idiots may try it, but they don't get away with it, so it's a self-correcting mechanism.'' --Tony SidawayTalk 19:45, 17 October 2005 (UTC)"
			:If I could find it, I'd send you lyrics to a song where the singer, in first person, places a cell call to someone else, asking if the other party received his email. The conversation goes live into the mens room when the singer walks in on an occupied stall. He wants to talk about techno weenie who piled it all up on a sheet of plywood, doused it with crisco, set it afire, and disappeared into the Rockies leaving only an address at the corner store. But the ironic refrain claims the speaker isn't a victim of the techno world "oops, didn't know the stall was occ-uuuuu-piiiiied....." Good for you, and if you can stand a bit of zombi speak, I have ] (]) 14:28, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
			:: I've returned to the coastline between the rivers Tyne and Wear, which I choose to call Mesopotamia for obvious reasons. Nature is very much evident here, where I grew up. I get out onto the coastal walks whenever I can. --] 19:05, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
			::: Awesome! I just returned from a forest school outting (classic version) with multiple families. The kiddos turned up many species of mushrooms, saprophytic vascular plants, a tree frog, multiple salamanders, various aquatic creepie crawlies which in our area indicate a stream has high water quality. This made me quite happy since not that long ago that stream had problems. Enjoy your anti digital reawakening! I haven't managed to pull the plug yet, obviously. ] (]) 20:18, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
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	"''A good empirical reason to trust me is that I'm nearly always right''. On hypothetical examples, well they're not a lot of use if they're immediately disowned as soon as they're examined and found wanting. For an example to mean anything, surely it would have to make some kind of sense. This didn't. --Tony SidawayTalk 05:23, 25 October 2005 (UTC)"

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	There ya go. Note that I just got this from perusing our conversations at your talk archive. Now, I'm not keen to argue this matter (as we have agreed in the past, arguments between us do little good), so I'm content simply to advance the view that the above evidence provides an at least debatable case for an elitist self-classification by you. You asked me to justify the others; I will do so only when asked by them to do so; as I'm a busy fellow, and the RfC is moribund. If you care about being "nearly always right", I trust you've considered that I had supporting evidence in mind when I advanced the categorization for each and all of you. If you wish to discuss this matter further, please contact my talk page, as I do not, and will not, watch yours. Best wishes, ] 02:12, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
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	: When I challenged this statement, this was the kind of reply I expected. I've said nowhere that I think I'm elite or untouchable. I emphasized the vulnerability of my approach at the time. And now it's several months later and I'm still taking carefully thought out but very bold actions. And I'm still here. I'm not elite and one day I may come a cropper. I only observe that, so far, I seem to be making enough good decisions, and nimbly sidestepping the consequences of any bad decisions, that I'm doing okay. The impression that I'm elite comes solely after the fact. When I start to do something I've no idea whether it will end up in my being arbcommed up to the hilt--indeed I never give such concerns a moment's thought), which may go some way towards explaining my boldness. --]\|] 02:47, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
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	::Your reply is fair enough. Your own thoughts on your status are exclusively your perogative; as long as you concede that you may give an elitist impression (which concession you seem to give above), I have no qualm with what you've said (except that I'm not sure "nimbly sidestepping the consequences of any bad decisions" is commendable -- I'd rather you accept the consequences of bad choices, as I try to do myself.) In fact, I'd whole-heartedly commend your boldness, if you were quicker to acknowledge mistakes ("I'm nearly always right" certainly gives the impression you might have more than average difficulty recognizing these mistakes), and less stalwart in defending questionable choices to the utmost. You are still here, and I am ''just barely'' hanging on, so that is an accomplishment I must admire. Best wishes, ] 03:05, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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	Well if I were really as blockheaded and lacking in self-awareness as you seem to thing, I probably ''wouldn't'' still be here. At least, I wouldn't be an administrator any longer. Just a thought. --]\|] 04:28, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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	::I don't think you're "block-headed" at all; without a doubt, of those who use IAR in the manner you do, you are the most sensible in defending yourself, and your intellect is obvious. I ''do'' think you're a tad low on self-awareness, since you mentioned it, but nobody's perfect. I'd be more than happy to have a non-adversarial working relationship with you, but several of your choices cross the line from ''boldness'' into -- if not quite ''disruption'' -- let's just say, ''unfriendliness''. In all frankness, I do think you would not be administrator if you were not long-tenured, although I admit your security here is aided by your admirable habit of playing devil's advocate for the downtrodden on occasion. Best wishes, ] 16:51, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
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	We have an apparent inconsistency. You have undeleted two articles AfDd with apparent bad-faith nom but with 100% consensus delete (on a small poll). It makes sense to me, if we are going to question Sleepyhead's AfD noms, to relist both the above, or even the lot. Or DRV the lot. But not to cherry-pick and unilaterally undelete. Maybe you have a 100% record of excellent judgment, I certainly don't so I would have gone back to the community. Is this to do with your ArbCom Super Powers? I am not disputing that some / all voters in those debates may have been ill-informed (I would have voted Keep on both, I think, judging by their content), I'm just puzzled by the inconsistency. Humour me, I only got sysoped today :-) - ] <sup>]]</sup>/<sub>]]</sub> ] '']'' 23:04, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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	: I'm not an arbitrator, and I'm not all-knowing. I just went down the list and randomly chose one article about a company I'd heard of and some more about companies I hadn't heard of. The former, on a little research, proved to be an obvious keeper so I undeleted. Of the latter, one struck me as an obvious keeper: a listed company with a turnover of some Euro 30m. Now I don't know what our guidelines say about this and I don't care, if we're deleting articles about listed companies with significant turnovers then we're being silly buggers. If guidelines are wrong they should be ignored until they're fixed.

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	: The news that these listings were all made to make a point is the icing on the cake, but I don't see that as a problem. I don't mind if you want to go through the formalities of listing them all for deletion again. If anything important gets deleted I'll just rewrite the article in question so it cannot be deleted. And I can. I'm not a methodical worker, I'm just a troubleshooter. --]\|] 23:59, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
			i love kittens!!111

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	::I have absolutely no problem with bringing these articles to DRV, and actually very little problem with them being undeleted pending that process especially given that the nomination was quite likely in bad faith, but unilateral undeletion with ''no'' process whatsoever? That way surely lies anarchy, chaos, wheel wars and madness. - ] <sup>]]</sup>/<sub>]]</sub> ] '']'' 10:33, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
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	:: I don't see the problem. The only people wheel warring are a few process wonks, and it's easy enough to shut them up with a rewrite. Been there, done that. --]\|] 11:26, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
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	I've posted ] on DRV to see if we can get a consensus for your actions. It's fine with me if it's undeleted while the discussion is active. I suggest you defend it there, because I had little to say about it. -] 04:13, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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	You undeleted that ] article twice? Come on, you know that unilaterally subverting AFD process in that manner is unacceptable. If a newbie had been recreating deleted articles like that, no one would think twice before blocking. As an admin, I am disappointed that you did this. You have been blocked for 24 hours, however, I have watchlisted this talkpage and I will be willing to reconsider if I see some note requesting it. ] ] 08:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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	I'll request it, provided he takes the article to deletion review and not restore it again. Tony may have signed off for now anyway.--] 08:33, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

			== A goat for you! ==
	I will ask for a request from Tony himself before I consider unblocking. I need to see some acknowledgment that this kind of out of process undeletion flies in the face of community consensus and is unacceptable. ] ] 08:35, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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	:Consensus is officially not policy. Look it up and read the talk page. And well done on escalating the deletion wheel wars - ] 12:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
			Hope you're doing well Tony.

	~~I'm still around. I'd appreciate an unblock. --~~]\|] 08:38, 18 ~~January~~ ~~2006~~ (UTC)		] (]) 16:09, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
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	And for the record, I steadfastly and absolutely refute any suggestion that undeletion of an article about a publicly listed company with a Euro 30m turnover is unacceptable. --]\|] 08:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
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	I see you also undeleted ] out of process. I will not unblock just because of a request, and especially not if you steadfastly stick to saying that it was all OK. This was just plain disruption. ] ] 08:41, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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	No problem. It absolutely is not disruption to undelete an article that should not have been deleted in the first place. --]\|] 08:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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	Um, you deleted the ''Tally'' article? Wow! Did you actually bother to read it? --]\|] 08:58, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
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	Time for me to be on a limb here....Tony states that the article is noteworthy enough to not deserve deletion, yet didn't vote to keep it, just happened to spot it, recognized it as notable and restored it twice. Now the articles are at ] and he doesn't have an opportunity to voice his vote and they will both be lost. Provided he agrees to stick to the concensus there and not restore them, I favor lifting his block.--] 09:03, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
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	No problem. Both articles are no-brainer keeps, I was just doing the obvious thing. --]\|] 09:04, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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	The DRV debate is up for five days. Tony's block will have expired well in time for him to voice his opinion there if he so desires. ] ] 09:05, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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	No problem. We're going to have to do something about these false claims of disruption, though. --]\|] 09:08, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

	Looks like the deletionists are more interested in keeping the articles out due to argument over assumed violation of concensus than they are at actually looking to see if the articles are noteworthy.--] 09:20, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
	:Look more like pro process people than deletionists. Doing stuff out of process to such a great degree tends to be a great way to increase the oposition to what you are trying to do.] 09:25, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
	::I understand. However, to now delete the articles for the sake of protecting process seems like retribution and the only thing that suffers is those articles.--] 09:29, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

	Yes, that's what it's about. There is a serious difference of opinion between (not deletionists, really) process people and do-the-right-thing-and-bugger-process people. Broadly speaking the process people tend to look at an AfD and see if the t's were crossed and the i's were all dotted, whereas the do-the-right-thing people will look at the content that was deleted, and who cares if the debate looks okay. --]\|] 09:27, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

	:Of course you relise the prolem with your "do-the-right-thing" aproach is that for example it would be quite posible for me to go through all the kept articles and delete all the schools. Of course I'm not going to do this but then I tend to respect process since with 700 odd admins the alturnative is undesirable.] 11:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

	:: Well the difference is that when I do an undeletion it usually sticks (as in this case). I think you'd have to agree that trying unilaterally to delete all the school articles would be unsuccessful. So before you do the right thing you have to be pretty sure that, when the dust settles, it will be seen that your judgement was sound. Mine generally is, at least on undeletions. --]\|] 21:44, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

	::I have '''unblocked''' Tony - as he has indicated that he will not undelete these items again. I reaslise that there are issues outstanding, but blocks are preventative not punative, and since we no longer need to prevent him, there is no reason for a continued block. If those unhappy wish to persue this further then RfC, ANI and Arbcom are open to them (and that's process for you). --] ] 09:37, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

	I've rewritten ] (most of the content of the article pointlessly deleted by Sjakkalle was written by me, after the AfD, in any case, so there wasn't a lot of rewriting to do) I'll do the same job on SuperOffice in due course. This should effectively kill any silly process-bound shenanigans, unless and until either article is listed for deletion. --]\|] 10:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)


	: The total rewrite of ] is also now complete. --]\|] 11:23, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

	==Theft==
	Yes, I'll steal it. But if it happened when you were expecting it, that wouldn't be theft! :-D --]\|] 00:04, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
	:Hmm... Then what is it? :) --<small>]<sup>]\|]</sup></small> 09:49, 18 January 2006 (UTC)


	: Procrastination, of course! --]\|] 17:17, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
	::Midaswell steal mine too, Mr. Sidaway! -]<sup>]</sup> 17:24, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

	On looking at Cool Cat's code I decided not to. It was very complicated and I quite like my organisation, so maybe I'll just steal the rather nice colors. --]\|] 23:47, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

	==Blocked?==
	Err... Ok... WTF? Why would anyone want to block you? --<small>]<sup>]\|]</sup></small> 10:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

	Hmm a quick read of your usertalk page shows that several users are regulars here and I do not like their comments.... Are they giving you a hard time? --<small>]<sup>]\|]</sup></small> 11:00, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

	:No, they're just a little upset that I undeleted two articles. It's okay now, I just rewrote them from the ground up, which should keep us all happy. --]\|] 11:24, 18 January 2006 (UTC)



	== Message on my talkpage left by a fellow Mega Man fan ==

	I thought you might get a laugh or two out of this: () -]<sup>]</sup> 19:15, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

	: I found it completely incomprehensible. Very good! :) --]\|] 17:37, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
	::Pure speculation, but I think by "DOOD", he meant the slang term "dude". That's all I could figure out beyond that. :) -]<sup>]</sup> 17:49, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

	==TDC is at it again==

	I watch TDC's user page, and someone mentioned on his talk page that he is in a another revert war about ]. He is at it again, adding nothing or next to nothing and deleting much more. I mentioned your user page on the talk page if TDC continues.] 19:52, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

	: I've warned both him and ] to stop or be blocked. --]\|] 20:17, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

	::Thanks Tony - I will limit my comments on ] to the talk page. I agree that edit warring is unproductive; the problem is what to do with editors who are determined to delete information at all costs -- TDC seems compelled to delete quotations from published sources that do not agree with his POV. He is now doing it on ] as well - I reverted his change once but I won't get into an edit war there too if he reverts again. I have no desire to edit war with this person. --] 21:19, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

	::: Excuse me, but the quote is nothing more than a third rate smear, and constitues half the article. His criticism is still there, sans the length . ] 21:23, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

	::::I responded on ]. This is not a "third rate smear" but the opinion of an acknowledged expert in the field of counterterrorism -- one not normally given to use terms like "crackpot" loosely. I am not interested in the name-calling aspect of the quote; I am interested in the fact that known terrorism experts -- and Bergen is one of many on this count -- consider her theories totally baseless. I will not revert but I will be rewording and adding information from some of the following sources indicating that they too believe Mylroie is not credible: Gunaratna, Burke, Leiken, Benjamin, perhaps others. All of these are experts in the field -- i.e. they are degreed and credentialed in the field and they have solid reputations for peer-reviewed research in the field (unlike Mylroie, whose books would never survive peer review if they ever had to do it). None of them are name-callers, I don't know anyone else they dismiss like this, but their opinion of Mylroie is unanimously contemptuous. I think that the fact that a self-styled expert is roundly repudiated by most credentialed experts in the field is noteworthy, especially if that self-styled expert has had an undue influence on powerful government actors.--] 21:35, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

	Please take discussion to the relevant talk page. --]\|] 21:38, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

	== Alliance of Catholic Wikipedians ==

	Thank you for deleting it as a violation of NPOV. I don't know how familiar you are with a particular RfAr in progress, but if it had been accepted, it would have been exactly the "proof" that a particular troll is looking for that there is a Vatican plot to suppress the truth about the Vatican's role in the ]. ] 21:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

	== ] ==

	Thanks for your contribution to the Deletion Review. Unfortunately the articles have been removed from their categories by ] - see ]. You might also want to take a look at the note on my talk page. I am seriously considering an admin conduct RFC over this. ] \| ] 00:39, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

	== Some consistancy, please ==
	(cross-posted from AfD)<br/>
	I'd suggest that if you're going to ''remove'' comments like '"You appear to be fundementally misunderstanding what a link like the second one means. Which is odd, because I am pretty sure I explained it to you last time we deleted something like this. I'll see if I can find the link where I explain to you that there" as "sniping" than you should stop ''making'' comments like '"You're just going to have to accept that this is a really major company in its home market, Aaron."' - ]]] 23:09, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

	: Sorry, I'll try to stop saying things that might somehow provoke you, but you know you're an incredibly touchy guy. What is wrong with saying that you'll have to accept that it's a really major company in its home market? It is a fact that Tally is a major Indian company and that you were at that time attempting to argue that it should be deleted. If you think that's sniping I apologise and I won't do it again.

	: On my removal, it was because it seems to be in the nature of a personal attack. You raised some event from months ago, and used it to imply an ongoing and chronic lack of comprehension. I of course removed it as an irrelevant bit of silliness, while keeping your substantive point and rebutting it. --]\|] 23:42, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

	So the situation now is that I've deleted all the sniping and counter-sniping. Nobody else wants to read it, I certainly don't. And it doesn't address the issues at hand: various attempts to delete articles that rather a lot of people seem to think are quite useful. --]\|] 00:32, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	== RE:] ==

	Hello, the article is originally in Chinese, then translated into English by Sephodwyrm, whom I personally know, who posted it on another forum. Somehow someone decided to copy-paste it here, and Sephodwyrm alerted me to this page, where I marked it as a copyvio either from the original Chinese or from the translated version. -- <font color="#FF0000">'''Миборовский'''</font> <sup>]\|]\|]\|]\|]\|]!</sup> 02:46, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	Thanks. I'll just delete it. It's had months of sitting there. --]\|] 03:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	== It's 'bout time! ==

	I'd say this is a polite way of saying that the userboxes that are dividing folks into political-religious-ideological factions are about to strangely disappear...--] 11:58, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	: I've been waiting for that unequivocal statement for two weeks. --]\|] 14:42, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	== ] ==

	Mr. Sidaway, may I inquire why you removed <nowiki>{{user en-5}}</nowiki> from your babel..? Perhaps a <nowiki>{{user en-4}}</nowiki> would be sufficent..? Of course it is your userpage; I didn't meean to be imposing... but you know. :) -]<sup>]</sup> 16:13, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	: I don't know how it got there. I'm a native speaker of English, specifically standard British English and my local North-East dialect, but not a professional writer or speaker. --]\|] 16:22, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
	::Yes you are. You have not been giving yourself much credit...and furthurmore, it states, can ''contribute with a professional level of english''. A EN-4 infobox should at least be inserted in your babel, based on your usage in various conversations. -]<sup>]</sup> 16:28, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	Thanks, but I don't agree. ] uses English in a way that I could never match. He is what I would describe as a user who communicates in English at the level of a professional. --]\|] 17:40, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
	::No. Its a matter of mastery. <nowiki>{{User en-4}}</nowiki> states: ''This user contributes with a near-native level of english''. You have mastered a wide variety of vocablary; and are therefore above the "near-native" threshold. So "User en-5" is sufficent. Please do not belitte your ability in regard to the usage of the english language as various editors besides yourself know better. -]<sup>]</sup> 18:06, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	*Also, I noticed the template was dark red - possibly an offense to your eye problem. I've changed the template so that its easier on your eyes now. :) -]<sup>]</sup> 18:09, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	Since you've put it back and you mean it as a compliment, I accept it with gracious thanks. --]\|] 19:49, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	==]==

	I've deleted this again as a violation of ]. Just thought you should know. ] <sup>(])</sup> 17:26, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
	: No complaints from me. --]\|] 11:04, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

	::So if someone doesn't trust Jimbo, and make their opinion known, they make an attack? --] 20:11, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

	: I'd draw the line where a user constructs a template and associated category in order to promote the idea that Jimbo is untrustworthy. At the very least it breaches good faith. --]\|] 22:01, 22 January 2006 (UTC)



	See also...this new junk: ] notice boilerplate message...me thinking of deleting it, but not sure of criteria for a speedy on this one...maybe take it to CFD?--] 19:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
	:Well...it's gone already...nevermind!--] 19:49, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

	== Your opinion ==

	Hello again, Mr. sidaway. I'd like you to see these situations : ( and ). Please do not hesitate to step in if the situation gets out of hand, as several wikipedia policies have been breached by this user despite my entreties. -]<sup>]</sup> 19:22, 21 January 2006 (UTC)


	: I think you're doing very well. Please continue to take steps to keep the conflict of opinion civilised. If he attacks you, remember that I'm proud of you and you don't need to defend yourself aggressively. On the substantive points, perhaps you can agree to compromise by saying in the article that the US version does not give ages but the Japanese version states that they're 16 and 17. --]\|] 19:48, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
	::I did state the ages were not in the US versions in my first comment, and the article states it in the Trivia section as well. I think this user is a tad young (conjecture based on their writing style and comments) and needs to be informed on wikpedia policies and guidelines; I think a <nowiki>welcome</nowiki> template is in order to set things straight. Oh, and looking at this user's userpage, respectively, I think he is a ''she''. :)-]<sup>]</sup> 20:16, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	Thanks. Yes, I think a "welcome" message would be a good idea and I'll ask someone suitably neutral to do this. --]\|] 22:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
	::Too late.... :) I hope this does not muddy the waters... I only want to help.-]<sup>]</sup> 22:13, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

	==Wiki 4 Christ==

	I noticed you talking about user categories being used to harness support in votes and discussions. I just wondered if you were aware of ] See also the 'Network of Christian Wikipedians' at . Sorry if I should've brought this up somewhere else, by the way.--] ] ] 23:37, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

	==]==
	Hi Tony, I only meant it in a light hearted way, and seeing as he wrote the troll comment himself and the image is free use I am not sure why people are getting so upset about it. ] 02:36, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
	:Tony, he put the comment on his userpage himself . ] 03:00, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

	== ] ==
	All I did was put deleted page on it. Mushroom is the one who redeleted the page. If you feel like the afd vote was in error, take it up at DRV or talk to Mushroom. --]<sup>]</sup> 08:24, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

	: Well of course it was in error, but I'm trying to deal with the aftermath. I'll undelete the history as Aaron will be unlikely to be able to play silly games with it in its current protected state. --]\|] 08:33, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
	::That was uncalled for. Your "history" undeletion before simply amounted to a complete restoration and placing the {{tl\|deletedpage}} on an unprotected page. I do apologise if my attempts to understand if you were actually ingnoring, for all practical purposes, ''two'' AfD results offended you. Can you perhaps point to other examples of where deleted pages have had their history restored in this manner? - ]]] 08:42, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


	Read the section on WP:DRV describing the process. Putting a "deletedpage" cap or similar on the top is all that is necessary to enable the history of any article to be undeleted, though of course we don't do that with copyright infringements. I've no idea what you were up to, but as woohookitty has protected the cap page there should be no further problems. I wasn't offended at all, just wondering what on earth you were up to. , --]\|] 08:50, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
	:Tony, by leaving the page in that state ''uprotected'' you are clearly violating the spirit of that section. There was less than a page of material there, if you simply wanted to "re-write" it into ], than you could have copied that material into a scratch sub-page in your user space. There is no need to preserve GFDL for a re-write. There is, in fact, no conceivable reason to have the page in the state that it is in barring some sense of satisfaction it may give you, or perhaps some gamesmanship where you're angling for another undeletion. Wikilawyer much? - ]]] 09:09, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

	Oh I disagree with you on the idea that I violated the spirit. Protection should be reserved for cases where there's a clear need--you coming along and poking around with it doesn't demonstrate that need. However it's currently protected by Woohookitty so don't worry.

	It's true that I could have temp undeleted and userfied. The two strategies achieve the same object. As for "angling for another undeletion", I ''have'' undeleted, and when the article rewrite is complete the histories will be merged. That's the whole point. --]\|] 09:20, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

	: And that's precisely what I've done. A perfectly good article saved by spending a few minutes just changing the primary subject. Why wasn't that done in the first place?

	: Aaron, when you state that actions that I take have ''no conceivable reason'', please consider that we vary in our powers of imagination, and some of us can conceive far more than others. --]\|] 10:15, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

	==Rimini and TomorrowNow==
	If that's what you want to do, then that's fine with me. I nominated Rimini because it was previously deleted, and because I am still not completely convinced this company is any more notable than so many others; I sort of think we have to wait and see. Any company can get a little press write-up, it's not like it's listed on the Dow. My main beef was with the Ravin article, because it was the sort of nauseating vanity I hate (even after the clean-up it was still pretty bad). -] 21:03, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


	: Looked like a fairly normal bio to me. Some of the stuff needed trimming, but I think it made more sense as a single article about him than two articles about his companies. --]\|] 21:49, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

	== What "edit warring"? ==

	I've reverted edits yes, but only once and by two different users. That's not edit warring, I would've thought even you would know what edit warring is and that's definitely not under the definition.. It looks like you're just trying to get flimsy excuses to ban me as as everyone already knows, you have some kind of personal thing against me (calling me an "asshole" on wikipediareview.com, making loads of posts trying to justify bans for me, etc)... --''] <sup>'''<span style="color:#800080">(</span>'''] ¦ ]'''<span style="color:#800080">)</span>'''</sup>'' 23:18, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

	If you're behaving yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

	On Misplaced Pages Review, I said you "regularly blocked for acting like an asshole" and cited three articles I had written about your block history on Misplaced Pages:

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	Those posts comprise a block-by-block description of the circumstances of each block. I made them to refute suggestions that the blocks were part of an unjustified campaign against you on account of your opposition to the deletion of userboxes and your involvement in an RfC against Kelly Martin.

	I note further that you have been blocked twice since then, each time for 24 hours:

	# 21:22, 18 January 2006 {{admin\|Tznkai}} blocked "]" with an expiry time of 24 hours (Blocked for uncivil disrpution and personal attacks. User was warned and broke her own agreement. See ])
	# 00:38, 21 January 2006 {{admin\|MarkSweep}} blocked "]" with an expiry time of 24 hours (vandalism of ])

	I notice also that ''neither'' of the administrators who blocked you in those instances had blocked you before.

	On edit warring, I'd say that what Jtkiefer, you and malber have been involved in matches the description of an edit war. I'm also a little concerned about what is going on on ]. with various parties removing well sourced information. Go easy there. --]\|] 23:43, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

	:I hope you're having fun with trolling the trolls on WP Review. Lir showed up on #uncyclopedia this morning ;-) - ] 16:35, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

	==Thanks for your inspiration==

	First sentence of ]. Further ideas welcomed! I have a structure there ... - ] 16:35, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

	: You, sir, are sick! Sick, I say! I shall have pleasure suing you in a court of law in ]. --]\|] 23:33, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

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	On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ] (]) 02:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


	: Oh, so you're clerking, then? Let me know if you need help. --]\|] 02:52, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

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I've updated the task force page and the to do list and invite you to have a look at the page again, add something to the TO DO list or start collaborating by improving one of our many articles. If climate change has lost your interest, feel free to remove your name from the participants list.

Femke Nijsse (talk) 16:36, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Re: Time I stopped being a curmudgeon about signs of appreciation's barnstar

You did THAT to the Gamergate article—in 2015?!?!!! That is one well deserved barnstar, lemme tell you! The nostalgia! My best friend and I were following The Jimquisition, Unskippable, Zero Punctuation and other then-The Escapist fare of the time, several days a week, so we saw that blow up real-time! Dude, I mean...dude. Dang.

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Thank you for all your hard work, there and elsewhere! Thank you very much! —Geekdiva (talk) 10:33, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I worked hard on several controversial articles for a long time, and I think my work was appreciated. Global warming is one, Gamergate controversy is another, and there were many others. TS 22:23, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

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Moving to inactive

Hi, FYI the climate change task force is now a stand-alone project (WP:WikiProject Climate change). You were once listed as active at the task force but from your contribs it appears you are in (semi?) wiki retirement. I've therefore taken liberty to move your name to the inactive list, but feel free to rejoin us any time! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:40, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Hope you're doing well, whatever you're up to

Thanks for the good wishes. I'm largely disengaging from all social forums, as indicated here . There's still time for me to reconnect with my solipsistic side, I hope. Only by shutting out all you zombies can I have any peace, which for some reason seems to involve lots of microcontroller stuff and obscure programming languages. --TS 13:38, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

If I could find it, I'd send you lyrics to a song where the singer, in first person, places a cell call to someone else, asking if the other party received his email. The conversation goes live into the mens room when the singer walks in on an occupied stall. He wants to talk about techno weenie who piled it all up on a sheet of plywood, doused it with crisco, set it afire, and disappeared into the Rockies leaving only an address at the corner store. But the ironic refrain claims the speaker isn't a victim of the techno world "oops, didn't know the stall was occ-uuuuu-piiiiied....." Good for you, and if you can stand a bit of zombi speak, I have just what the doctor ordered NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:28, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

I've returned to the coastline between the rivers Tyne and Wear, which I choose to call Mesopotamia for obvious reasons. Nature is very much evident here, where I grew up. I get out onto the coastal walks whenever I can. --TS 19:05, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Awesome! I just returned from a forest school outting (classic version) with multiple families. The kiddos turned up many species of mushrooms, saprophytic vascular plants, a tree frog, multiple salamanders, various aquatic creepie crawlies which in our area indicate a stream has high water quality. This made me quite happy since not that long ago that stream had problems. Enjoy your anti digital reawakening! I haven't managed to pull the plug yet, obviously. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:18, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

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My username is suitable for Misplaced Pages editing? User:WeTalkWiki 14:33, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for asking. I see no problem with your username, though I'm hardly up to date with current practice on Misplaced Pages. If you find the username being challenged, and this makes it difficult to improve Misplaced Pages, I believe you can ask for it to be changed. I'm sure you realise that the purpose of the wiki is to produce a great encyclopedia, it isn't for experiments in what constitutes a valid identifier. --TS 22:43, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

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Userboxes

Hey Tony. I made a user box using one of your quotes. User:Slightsmile/Userboxes/wikilawyering. Slight Smile 17:41, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

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A kitten for you!

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A goat for you!

Hope you're doing well Tony.

Herostratus (talk) 16:09, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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