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--] | ] 07:13, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

: Excellent guess, and thank you for the pointer to the interesting article, but wrong nonetheless. :) ] 18:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks RE: 3O ==

Thank you for taking the time to render your 3rd opinion on the ] link dispute. --] ] 22:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
:You're very welcome. ] 00:35, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

::I'm very sorry that things got so messy there for you, and that there is now the question of 3RR. As I mentioned at the noticeboard, however, I am convinced that the editor in question was spamming the link. He seemed quite intent on promoting it, ''and'' it was an inappropriate link - the definition of spam vandalism. As such, I believe your edits were to remove simple vandalism, which doesn't count towards 3RR. I hope that the admins agree, and that your "record" remains spotless. Please let me know if there's anything I can do --] ] 22:08, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

:::I feel bad about the whole incident, but it seems to have been settled. Thank you very much for the kind words. ] 19:42, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

::::They were well deserved, your edits in this matter have been nothing but good-faith. Take care --] ] 19:57, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

==Minor edits==

Thanks for bringing a sense of neutrality to that nearly unbearable page. Regarding the edit I marked as minor, I didn't see it as major because all I did was move the three references from the first sentence of the intro to the bottom of the intro. Then, I did what you had suggested on the talk page: mention that those references describe the fact that some believe ACIM is authored by satan. I suppose it was the fact that you had mentioned this already on the talk page that made me consider it a non-major edit. And it is certainly the case that I wasn't trying to slip anything by anyone. How could I, seeing that you had already mentioned this topic in the talk page, and the article about satan as a potential source was already available on the page long before I moved it? -- ] 04:09, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

== re WP:30 ==

Thanks for your attention. ] 04:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

==Authorship of A Course In Miracles==

Thank you for pledging to call him/her on it when he/she makes unfounded accusations with regard to my interest in those articles. I sincerely did not view it as a personal attack that he/she has too much free time. I'd remove it if I could, but I fear that to remove that statement at this point would only lead to more accusations of me "tampering" with things. -- ] 00:02, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

== Categories, etc. ==

Hi there. Just so you know, if you want to reference a Category without placing the page into said Category, you can place a colon after the square brackets and before the word "Category", like this: <nowiki>]</nowiki>, which displays as ]. You can do the same thing too images to prevent them from displaying, eg. <nowiki>]</nowiki> displays as ]. Happy wiki-ing, --] 17:02, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

: Thanks very much for the tip! It's appreciated. ] 17:11, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

== What is all you needed to know? ==

If there is some secret connection between WP and ACIM then I will be more than happy to butt out of this article. ] 17:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

: I needed to know whether you were willing to put aside your grievances and try to work out a way to make productive changes to the ] article. Unfortunately, based on , it appears that you're still too preoccupied with your past grievances for any sort of amicable resolution of the current problem to work. So all I can do is step back and let the process take its course. I have no idea why you think there's some secret connection between WP and ACIM, or why I would be privy to it if there were one, or why you think this issue is relevant to my questions in the first place. Sorry about that. ] 17:47, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
::You mentioned that if this problem went to arbitration that I would end up blocked from the articles. You did not mention anything regarding him. What possible reason am I unaware of that would account for arbitrators to allow for his abuse and block me from making edits that were supported directly by policy? ] 18:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
:::I didn't mention him because I was talking to you, not to him. ] 18:06, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
::::What you said was: "This article has been nominated for deletion. That nomination failed. It was then nominated again. That nomination is in the process of failing again. It seems fairly obvious that the article is going to stick around, regardless of your opinion.". Did you intend to insinuate that I had bad faith about this article? It was not me that nominated the article either of the previous times. And the manner in which you express this, to me says that you consider my opinion unimportant. Is that what you had intended? You repeat it again here as you predict the outcome of arbitration saying, "which will probably wind up in an arbitration that will probably wind up with you getting blocked from the articles." Well thank you for your opinion. It took me nearly a week to get a firm grip on policy and how it relates to guidlines, and so forth. If they are only a bunch of words that don't mean anything, though, then who cares? What a waste of time this was. ] 00:54, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
:::::No, I most certainly did not say--or imply, or even secretly believe--that you had bad faith about the article. You obviously have a sincere, heartfelt opinion that the subject of the article is not notable and should be deleted. Nor did I say--or imply, or even secretly believe--that your opinion is not important. But Misplaced Pages is a product of consensus; there are other people with opinions of their own, and their opinions are also important. And if your belief that an article should be deleted does not reflect consensus, then it will not be carried out, no matter how heartfelt or sincere it is. It is simply impossible for a project like Misplaced Pages to fully and completely reflect the opinions of all of its contributors, especially when it comes to what material should be included in the first place. If one person deeply and sincerely believes that an article should exist, and one person deeply and sincerely believes that it should not, then someone has to lose; the article cannot simultaneously exist and not exist. And on Misplaced Pages, ties are broken in favor of inclusion; that's why a result of "No consensus" in a debate on deletion means that the article is kept. That's simply the way the project has been set up. And as far as my predictions about the outcome of an arbitration go, I'm not saying that I wish for that to happen; it's simply my prediction of a likely outcome. And if and when an arbitration does occur, I will have no vote and no particular say in the outcome; so my prediction has no force whatsoever. I very much hope that you can find a way to resolve the dispute and avoid arbitration altogether; I would encourage you to take part in formal mediation, where your dispute will be heard by a skilled mediator who's much more familiar with Misplaced Pages than I am and who can help you solve the problem. If you feel frustrated by your unfamiliarity with Misplaced Pages policy, then I would also highly encourage you to contact the ], a group of volunteers who will help you navigate the process and achieve your goals. ] 01:14, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

== Why? ==

-- Note from Kickaha Ota to those viewing this page: The following comment from me was left on user JzG's talk page.

I noticed that you added another proposed issue to the RfM for The Great ] Kerfluffle. It's a worthwhile issue, but is it appropriate to modify an RfM after the parties have already agreed to it? It certainly seems appropriate to suggest additional issues to the parties involved, but actually modifying the RfM at that point seems like something that might best be left to the parties and the mediator. (And I admit to being a bit surprised that the parties agreed to the RfM as it was. :) ) Kickaha Ota 14:05, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
:I just want you to know, that I have only been here maybe two weeks. I can easily forgive not signing a message, but deliberately starting an argument with me about topics I did not wish to discuss, and then point out the conversation afterwards to whomever which simply invited more hateful tripe from Andrew; it was rude, it upset me, it affected my real life. I am not as young as you perhaps, but I can respect my youngers, and in the position that you had assumed to be filling, there was no excuse for what you did. And now I read above that you consider this some sort of game. How the heck am I supposed to know anything about RfM?!? While you were pestering me with all of that you had planned, I was working on ] trying to ignore for at least a full day anything to do with ACIM. ] 14:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
::I certainly apologize if I upset you. Can you please explain in more detail why you feel this way? Let me clear up a few things.
::*I was not trying to conceal anything by not signing the RfM notification. If I were trying to conceal my involvement, I would not use my own account, and I would not prominently put my name in the RfM's text.
:::I don't understand what you mean by conceal something. What I mean to say, is that from my perspective, you have been here quite a bit longer than I have. You know about things that I haven't even the foggiest idea exist. You know about RFM and all of those things and what you say above makes me feel like signing now was foolish and I don't even know why.
::::Ste4k, you can look at and see that we started at pretty much the same time. I am a n00b; my userpage says so. We're both inexperienced with this. Neither one of us has had a chance to fully read Misplaced Pages policies yet, so each of us is going to be more knowledgeable than the other on certain policies, just because they're the ones we happen to have read or been pointed to. Both of us are very unfamiliar with working with other people to edit an encyclopedia. Each of us needs to work very hard to remember that newcomers make mistakes, and that things that newcomers say that don't seem right are almost always due to ignorance or inexperience rather than malice. I have failed several times to remember that during our discussions, and I apologize for that. ] 19:59, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
::*I did not deliberately start an argument; I tried to solve an argument already in progress. You filed a . I provided a third opinion, as you requested. You filed a . I provided comments. For you to ''twice'' ask for outside comments regarding this issue, then accuse me of "starting an argument" after responding to ''your requests'', confuses me greatly.
::*If you "did not wish to discuss" the topics involved in the dispute, then your filing of a Third Opinion request and a Request for Comments is very puzzling.
:::I was working on an article that had been discussed in AfD. I had proposed it to be deleted, and it was decided that it was to be merged. I am trying my best to clean up all of this mess in this category. I merged the article and began looking for resources, in the meantime, Andrew had created more files in the category. I was trying as agreed upon to step away from the problem and chill out, be constructive and get some work done on the category. Please see ].
::::Okay, now I understand in more detail where you're coming from, and that's good. But still, when you ask for third parties' comments on a problem, you need to expect that third parties will provide comments on the problem, and that they won't necessarily agree with your own. That doesn't mean that you're wrong; it means that different people can see a problem in different ways, come to different conclusions, and all be perfectly justified in reaching those conclusions. That's particularly true with anything even remotely touching on religion or philosophy. ] 19:59, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
::*I do not consider this "any sort of game". I stated an honest opinion -- that after seeing the depth of the ill feelings that seem to be involved here, I was somewhat surprised that both you and Andrew Parodi agreed to the mediation process. I should have said "''pleasantly'' surprised," because I was.
::*If you feel that my attempts to resolve the dispute were "pestering", again, I apologize. Again, I can only point out that you asked for outside comments, and that in fact, you did so twice.
::*I had no idea that you were unfamiliar with Requests for Mediation. Since you had initiated both a Third Opinion request and a Request for Comment, I assumed that you were familiar with the dispute resolution process. And since you are apparently ''not'' familiar with Requests for Mediation, my attempts to steer you to the ] seems all the more appropriate in hindsight, since one of their main purposes is to help you ''become'' familiar with the process. ] 14:49, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

*I'll make this real clear. I mean what I say, and I say what I mean. I do not play games. I read literally. I do not want any ill feelings between you and me. But I think that you should be much more careful about what your statements imply sometimes. I read the documentation. I try my best to follow what it says to do. I still do not know how severe one should complain, on what topics, nor to whom. It's just a good guess on my part and according to what the documentation says. On one side I see my name being dragged through the mud, the text in my nominations being changed, and my gender purposely being demeaned. And then I am being called someone without AGF. me? So when you say you were surprised that we agreed, it makes no sense to me. I feel like maybe I have been duped. I do not like to play games. If you already know that this course of action is senseless for some reason, then you should be honest and plain and state so. There are TWO issues here. One which I am ignoring, and the other which I am doing my best to concentrate on. Do you understand that? I spoke to you earlier in confidence that it was between me and you. I know that there isn't any privacy here, but calling attention to that conversation, to me, showed bias from you. So later when I read that you are even pleasently surprised, I am thinking again there will be some bias here. But, let me point out to you that I do not think that you read my words carefully. I write very specifically. Your final comments in the for that article state that I am in the incorrect venue to be debating what should be content in the article. If you read carefully what I actually said, I said that the whole idea of this court case being "famous" is simply hogwash. There is nothing, nobody, anywhere, that has heard anything about it. And if we are printing that story, we are actually creating fiction about it, urban legend. That is the effect of original research. Try looking up the brand name "ACIM" on Google and read what you see on the first page. Okay? Your following comments is that it is notable. So, I must therefore ask '''you''' why? Thanks. ] 16:00, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

::If you read always read literally, then I'm afraid you are going to find yourself in a great many conflicts that aren't necessary. People in the real world very often don't speak literally. They leave things out because they make assumptions (which may turn out to be wrong) about what other people are aware of or find interesting. They use slang expressions and specialized terms that aren't meant in their literal way. They use jokes or sarcasm to try to change the subject or defuse tension. (Of course, some people also use jokes or sarcasm to ''cause'' tension, but neither of us are doing that.) They may simply misspeak, especially when they're pressed for time, emotional, or not paying close attention. If you assume that people always speak literally, especially in an informal setting, then you are very often going to misinterpret people. Misplaced Pages is no different, especially on article and user talk pages, which can be ''very'' informal. There are policies to reduce conflicts (like "]", which if you recall I brought up very strongly against Andrew, and refused to accept his excuses). But there is no policy or requirement that people always speak literally, or that they don't joke, or that they always fully explain anything that might be unclear. (Heck, if people tried to talk so precisely that there was no room for any misinterpretation, the resulting comments would probably be so long that we'd all need high-speed Internet connections to read the talk pages.) That's why, if someone says something that seems to suggest an insult or an ulterior motive, it's so important to ask rather than assuming the worst.
::Again, when I said that I was surprised that you and Andrew agreed, it was not meant in any way to imply bad faith on your part (or Andrew's part, for that matter). Unfortunately, people with deeply-felt disputes often can't resolve them amicably, and sometimes don't even ''want'' to resolve them amicably. Heck, look at the archives for the Request for Mediation page; a very large percentage, if not a majority, of mediation requests wind up rejected at the outset because one side or the other, or both, didn't think it would be possible to mediate the conflict, or simply didn't ''want'' to mediate the conflict. Even when both parties are sincere, sometimes they simply can't make it past their differences. So when I said that I was surprised that the two of you accepted, I wasn't intending to slight either of you; it was simply a reflection of the fact that mediations often fail. If I wasn't clear about that, it was because I was posting to an administrator's talk page, and I assumed that the administrator would understand what I had in mind. I forgot that other people might be watching the page, and that ''they'' might not see the remark in the same way that an administrator would; and I apologize for that.
::Talk pages are not private, and my pointing out that conversation doesn't seem to me to be inappropriate. I do apologize for my ''tone'' in pointing it out, though; it resembled a judge reading a verdict far more than one user commenting on an equal user's remarks, and that was uncalled-for.
:::'''accepted''' ] 01:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
::And to explain my comments on the AfD a bit further: The consensus seems to be that the Course itself is notable; "A Course in Miracles" gets about 637,000 Google hits, a quite respectable number. And if the text of a notable work hints that it is the words of such a notable religious figure as Jesus, then a discussion of that claim seems to be an indispensible part of a proper encyclopedic discussion of the Course. I can certainly understand your point of view that the Course itself is not notable and that this aspect of it is particularly not notable; but again, different people with different perspectives can come to different conclusions about the same article and both be justified. ] 19:59, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
:::Regarding Google hits, they are meaningless. Please see remarks to that regard in ]. If Andrew really works hard on this, merges all the information rather than spreading it, he may just be able to find enough valid secondary sources to present a page that people can understand. ] 01:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

==Misplaced Pages mediation==

Thanks for the response. Just to let you know, I have indeed agreed to the mediation, but I have subsequently decided to leave Misplaced Pages. As soon as this issue with that editor (Ste4k, or whatever his name is) is settled, someone else just as obnoxious will come along. It's happened before and it will happen again. Plus, I am back in school and I have a number of other writing projects I should be working on. Misplaced Pages is a distraction for me lately. But thank you for helping with this ugly situation. -- ] 21:07, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

:That's a shame, but if Misplaced Pages is causing you more grief than satisfaction, or if it's hurting the rest of your life, then by all means take a break. Best of luck to you. ] 21:10, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. And, yes, I've decided to leave. Misplaced Pages has caused me stress from the beginning. I have continually been told about the good aspects of this place, and that I should stick around for them, and I ''have'' seen some of the good aspects, but it seems that the annoyances override the good experiences for me. In thinking it over, I realize that I don't agree with the very basis of Misplaced Pages. I agree that a huge problem exists where consensus comes in over credentials, and I don't think it's really trustworthy to have a site that anyone can edit. I think that this will just lead to endless fighting, such as what we have just experiences. I see it all to often on Misplaced Pages, and I find it counter productive. But thank you for helping for a bit there. Take care, 04:04, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

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I accidentally clicked on this page in my watchlist, and the red-on-black color scheme blinded me. A trained parrot is typing this for me, which is very inconvenient, because the parrot only understands Spanish and my Spanish is quite poor. Please send replacement eyeballs. :) Kickaha Ota 17:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

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* Now <i>that's</i> entertainment. ] 20:03, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
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Yeah maybe, but it doesn't line up well on the main screen. It's more of an in-the-box discussion thing.
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By the way I just read the above in "Why?" about your experience. Hope I didn't bite too hard, but you come across as a very experienced user. I think anyone that believes they have what it takes to get in-between two other people to mediate should have at least enough experience under their belt as both of the other people combined. How else could one expect to understand each of the other people involved and at the same time remain neutral? For this reason when you were speaking with JzG, whom is also a very experienced user; i.e. he's an admin, what you had to say seemed to be secretive in nature, because of a common-knowledge that the two of you shared that a newbie like myself hadn't a clue. Basically it looked like you were talking over my head purposely and on an issue that seemed to be very important.
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==Love your username==
:Hi. Just stopping by based on your username. Big fan of Philip José Farmer and the World of Tiers series in particular (though I was very dissapointed with his years later follow-up, More Than Fire). If you remember, in one of the book's introductions (can't remember which--Behind the Walls of Terra?) he said he would be writing a sequel, ''Kickaha's world''. Looks like that will never happen.--] 22:06, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Sorry. I ass-umed. Fairly unusual name.--] 23:23, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
:Not a problem at all. I was flattered, actually. :) ] 23:29, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

==Award!==
''((barnstar moved to user page by KickahaOta))'' ] 05:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC) }}
:Joy! ''*grabs shiny metal object, flees*'' ] 14:03, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

== AFC ==

On the AFC submission "Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center (CSICE)" you stated that an article needs at least one English source. I don't agree entirely with that statement. Sources in other languages are acceptable too. It would probably have been a good idea to see if a Japanese Wikipedian could help out in determining if that was a suitable entry. - ]|] 14:51, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

*Thank you for the comment. I'll remove my decline and flag it for further review. ] 14:54, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
*Wow, great work at AFC. You reviewed almost an entire page of submissions. Of course a mistake can slip through. I usually try to find sources for stuff that appears to be notable, but I would understand if you don't have the time to do that. Where do the AFD-like closure boxes come from? Or more specifically how do you get the "do not alter anymore" instead of just a regular box? - ]|] 15:01, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

::Check out the revised "Creating an article from a submission" instructions on the right side of the ] page. They tell you about the {{t1|afc top}} and {{t1|afc b}} templates that are used to create the boxes, and link to a list of other AfC templates for marking articles as accepted, unsourced, not notable, stark raving mad, and so on. ] 16:50, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

== AfC for deleting articles ==

On your AfD for ] you noted: ''I'm not sure whether it's appropriate for an AfC reviewer to take advantage of the opportunity to get first licks in on the merits of the nomination while creating the page, so I decided that I won't do it when processing AfCs (though other reviewers may reasonably choose to comment)''. I thought I'd weigh in a bit on that. Remember that AfC is "Articles for Creation" and it is not appropriate for that forum to be used as a proxy for deletion. Therefore, not only is it appropriate for you to take "first licks", it is imparative that you do so. Thanks for all your hard work. <font style="font-variant: small-caps;">-- ]<sup>(])</sup></font> 15:20, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
:Just to clarify, what I'm saying is that requests for deletion, editting, or anything other than creating pages in the article namespace should be declined. If you agree with the deletion request, feel free to send it to prod or AFD, but do so only for yourself and not on behalf of an anon from AFC. The reason for this is that banned users might use this as a "loophole" and use AFC editors as a proxy for their mischief. That's trouble none of us need. Thanks again for all your hard work. <font style="font-variant: small-caps;">-- ]<sup>(])</sup></font> 15:41, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
::I think that the AfC and AfD processes are intersecting in an unfortunate way here, and I'm going to start a discussion on that in the AfC and/or AfD talk pages right now. The problem is this: On the one hand, a large part of me agrees with you that AfC reviewers should be able to decline obviously-wrongheaded AfD requests, just like they can decline obviously-wrongheaded articles of any other sort. But on the other hand, AfC reviewers aren't admins; they're just ordinary schmucks. If I decline an AfD request, I'm essentially doing a "close and speedy keep" on the AfD without ever even starting one, which is something that only an admin should normally do. And more to the point, by the time the AfC request is filed, the user has already added the AfD notice to the page (something that an anonymous user can do, just like any other edit). So in order to meaningfully decline the AfD request, I'd have to go and remove the AfD notice from the page -- something that would be ''blatantly'' inappropriate for a non-admin to do. So, under the current policies, I think that simply creating the AfD page so the process can proceed to its speedy-keep conclusion is the best thing that the AfC reviewer can do. But I think we may want to revise the policy in this regard -- perhaps by having a separate mechanism for anonymous users to initiate AfDs, or perhaps by having the AfC reviewer call for administrator intervention. Like I say, I'll start the discussion. ] 16:46, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
:::On the other hand, the user can just register for an account. While there might be a myriad of reasons why a user might not want to log in to create a page, there is no concievable reason why an anon needs to nominate one for deletion. It is not inappropriate to say simply that an AfD request is inappropriate on AfC and if the user wishes to nominate an article for deletion, then they can by creating an account. Just because there is a request on AfC, no one is at all obligated to do it. Remember that you should not do anything through AfC that you wouldn't do yourself without the request. That especially includes AfDs. If you don't support the AfD, you should not nominate it. Its that simple. (BTW -- admins are just ordinary schmucks too. They have no more rights than anyone else on here, just a few more commands.)<font style="font-variant: small-caps;">-- ]<sup>(])</sup></font> 17:52, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
::::If Misplaced Pages policies and procedures are ignored for the moment, I agree with you that that's what I would have done. But again, the article's page already had the AfD tag on it, placed by the anonymous user. That AfD tag doesn't state the author's reasoning for the nomination; that's only stated in the AfC request. So if I simply say "Sorry, but I don't agree with your reasoning" and close the AfC request without taking further action, I'm leaving the half-created, reasonless AfD -- a confusing situation , and one that seems likely to take longer to resolve than just creating the page and letting the process advance towards its speedy-keep conclusion. And if I remove the AfD tag from the article page, there's at least a very strong argument to be made that I'm violating Misplaced Pages policy -- the tag must not be removed until the discussion is closed, and normally only admins close discussions (let alone decide that discussions should not take place in the first place). If the AfC reviewer has the power to "close the discussion", that's exactly the sort of thing that should be clarified in policy, in order to avoid appeals and flamewars and general unpleasantness. In any case, I've now opened up the topic on the AfD talk page, so we can get some consensus on this. ] 18:11, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
:::::Remember -- doing nothing is always an option. And declining anything in AfC isn't final -- any editor has the option to override anyone's decline. Because of this, I disapprove of the "please don't edit" clause in the new box. <font style="font-variant: small-caps;">-- ]<sup>(])</sup></font> 19:44, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
::::::Yes, but the other reviewers are smart enough to know that they can simply remove the "completed" box. The "please do not edit" was intended to solve the problem of anonymous submitters making corrections to their already-declined articles, which would go completely unnoticed by the reviewers. I had suggested asking reviewers to add {{t1|afc changed}} instead, but folks thought that having them start a new submission would be simpler. And yes, doing nothing in response to an AfC request is an option (and a frequently-exercised option :) ) , but it still leaves the half-created AfD. ] 20:01, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
:::::::I understand what the intent of the clause was. However, I think that the phrasing is ambiguous enough that it applies to all users. The subtext of the box tells submitters what to do and doesn't give the same impression of finality to other reviwers. Its best to leave it off. Also, regarding the AfD request put on that page: I believe that that is irrelevant to this discussion. What that user has done on the article page has no bearing or weight on what we do on AfC. There is a bot that looks for AfD "orphans" and deals with them appropriately. It is my belief that the proper course of action is to decline AfD requests on the AfC page and let the AfD process deal with orphans in their own way. There is no policy or procedure issue here at all. <font style="font-variant: small-caps;">-- ]<sup>(])</sup></font> 20:04, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

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:That's very kind; thank you very much. Your points are very cogent and well-presented, and you've convinced me that forbidding anonymous AfDs is the simplest and best way to go. My activity level (in all sorts of activities) tends to surge and recede over time, so I try to be as productive as I can be while I'm interested, and to scale back or take a break when my interests wane. I don't expect Misplaced Pages to be too different in that regard. I'll try to pace myself. ] 01:08, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

== John Shillito Company ==

Hi, yeah the info was copyright from . hope that clears it up. <b><font color="teal">]</font></b>''<sup><font color="teal">]</font></sup>'' <sup><b><font color="teal">]</font></b></sup> 03:34, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

* Thanks! I think it's borderline, but I can certainly see the strong parallels in the text. I've copyvio'ed out the article and written a replacement stub version. ] 18:36, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

== ] ==

I've done a rewrite now, but when you started this article for AFC, it was a copyright violation of the linked fansites. Not sure if that was a mistake due to taking on too many requests in one go, or some other reason, but here's just a quick reminder to make sure it doesn't happen again. :) - ]|] 10:53, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
:Gah! Thanks for the catch! ] 12:13, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

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Hi

if you have ever written a check, like hundreds of millions of people do every day, then an OPEX machine probably processed it when it was sent to a bank.


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