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• In science, any compromise between a correct statement and a wrong statement is a wrong statement. Thanks, user:Stephan Schulz.
• Sad now. Special:Contributions/Geogre.
• My Last.fm profile

cmt

Long time no see

Glad you're enjoying your music. Couldn't resist having a look at Gibraltar. I thought I'd test the waters! Glad to see you're still spreading sanity and good sense around, BTW. Stephen B Streater (talk) 22:20, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

• What-ho, nice to see you! Are you into cloud computing at all? I guess SaaS is one way you might be delivering your software these days. If you're interested send me an email and we can meet up at a CloudCamp sometime - they are great fun and not in the least formal (). Guys like Joe Baguley from Quest and Simon Wardley from Canonical, the Ubuntu guys, are regular fixtures, and I have some good mates who meet (or rather tweet) up for #storagebeers. Guy (Help!) 22:39, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

• I supposed this is a good recent summary. I'm particularly pleased to have had 1,000,000 hours of professionally shot video go through our system (so far!). Your Camp looks like fun - I'll get back to you on that. Stephen B Streater (talk) 09:06, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

• Cool. It would be good to see you there, I bet you'd also make an entertaining speaker. We like people who can give real-world use cases and describe what's been good and bad about the model. Guy (Help!) 09:36, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

• It's sounding more attractive by the minute... My Cloud Computing talk and panel discussion at BVE 2010 was packed :-) Stephen B Streater (talk) 11:23, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

• This is arranged. I'll let you know the details when I have them. Stephen B Streater (talk) 18:53, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

• Excellent! I will look forward to it. Guy (Help!) 23:38, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Happy JzG's Day!

User:JzG has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as JzG's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear JzG! Peace, Rlevse 00:03, 19 March 2010 (UTC) A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:03, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 00:09, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Not that awesome: I completely failed to meet Jimbo et. al. for a beer yesterday. Guy (Help!) 22:18, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

... as did 99.999374% of Misplaced Pages editors active in the last year. Your point? LessHeard vanU (talk) 23:57, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

most of them weren't asked, though. 93.186.23.211 (talk) 20:27, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

And that's bad how? Congratulations anyway. Your recent contributions to noticeboards have been some of your very best. Spartaz

08:13, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

No user page?

I saw your name in a discussion so I thought I would look into it because I suspected you were a sock. Here's a user with no userpage that seems to be doing administrator things. I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out who, or what you are. I found that you are an Autoreviewer but not a sysop and created the account in 2006. I should not have to spend any time trying to figure out who you are or what your priviledges are because they should be on your userpage. There needs to be a policy that admins must have user pages that clearly state they are an admin. - Stillwaterising (talk) 23:02, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't agree. Stephen B Streater (talk) 23:16, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations, you have worked out why I have no user page. Am I an admin? Technically no, I am taking a holiday from the sysop bit right now, but check Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/JzG and my logs. We're not into badge collecting at Misplaced Pages, it's all about whether a given statement makes sense and is rooted in policy. And if that doesn't work for you then try WP:ROUGE. Guy (Help!) 23:42, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations (again)! Stephen B Streater (talk) 08:47, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Help requested

Hi. Following your helpful advice, I've been taking a break from anything controversial, doing wikignome stuff like categorization of Economics article. But now I've been dragged into trouble again. I had previously edited Richard Lindzen, adding some material*, which was then deleted by an editor, reinstated by others etc. The editor in question then started an RfC process, which included (what I regarded as) a personal attack on me, joined by another editor. I stated that I wouldn't comment on the substantive question, but sought to respond to the attacks, which only produced more attacks.

Then, perhaps foolishly, I Googled the editors in question (both editing under real names, like me) and found that both of them had engaged in canvassing for Wiki editors on 'climate sceptic' sites, and asked them about it. So, things have got out of hand. I'm going to avoid this article altogether from now on, but if you would be willing to take a look, that would be great.

• This was a series of statements by Lindzen about global warming, of which I had been critical off-wiki (starting before I knew Lindzen to be the source) but for which I gave a straightforward NPOV account in my edit. Apart from the two editors mentioned, no one else has opposed the edit. But, since I don't have a good grasp of the rules on this kind of thing, I'm just going to steer clear from now on.JQ (talk) 02:57, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

OK, if you have links to the off-wiki canvassing that would be helpful. Guy (Help!) 06:54, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Here's one. This Watts up With That post , comment #12 by Mark reads

"Mark (14:50:45) :

man their is a ton of them all working in tandem, i can only make 3 edits a day to an article, they can team up and undo it without breaking the 3edit rule. This is impossible :(

anyone want to go and undo changes to this article other than by mark nutley

http://en.wikipedia.org/Rajendra_K._Pachauri

Please do soJQ (talk) 10:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Here's the other .JQ (talk) 10:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

BTW, I had been ignoring the ANI thread against me and Tim Lambert, on the assumption that the problem was resolved, but I went back and discovered that User:Thegoodlocust , has been stalking my Facebook page (and yours). I guess he must have somehow got access to WMCs page so he could see the friend list. I am seriously annoyed about this.

But, I don't plan to pursue this any more. There are plenty of places where I can make useful contributions without so much grief. JQ (talk) 10:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Mario Morello

What was the point of deleting the article I had started about Mario Morello? As I clearly indicated, there is an article about Mario Morello in the Italian version of wikipedia and, as far as I know, nobody has tried to delete it: it:Mario Morello Monegasque (talk) 13:54, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

• See WP:OTHERSTUFF. It was deleted as failing to assert encyclopaedic notability, the notability standards vary from project to project and this was a single sentence only with no cited sources, we strongly depracate unsourced "biographies". If you want the content moved to your userspace in order to add reliable independent sources then I can do that. Guy (Help!) 15:59, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

r&I mediation

please do not close mediations unilaterally, without first establishing consensus on the mediation page. thanks. --Ludwigs2 17:04, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

• Absolutely every action on Misplaced Pages is unilateral. You seem to be very determined not to hear the voices counselling you to step away form this one. Guy (Help!) 17:08, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

• • I left you a note in my talk. Xavexgoem has withdrawn his opposition to my continuing the mediation - please see the ANI thread. There is no consensus anywhere to close the mediation; not in ANI, not on the mediation page, nowhere. I've opened an ANI thread about your unfounded closure Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Problem_on_Race_and_Intelligence_mediation - you may wish to respond. --Ludwigs2 17:29, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

• I think you are exhibiting stubbornness. I think you will fail. I have already said that. Guy (Help!) 17:35, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

and you may be right on both counts, I don't know. however, the R&I mediation was not going anywhere before I got there, and so the worst-case scenario is that the situation is just the same as it was before. I think I can do better than that.

I'll make you a deal, though. give me 2 weeks more, and if we haven't made significant progress in getting the article in order at that time, I will open a thread on the mediation page and suggest we close the mediation myself. will that work for you? --Ludwigs2 17:45, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

OK, that sounds fair. Guy (Help!) 18:35, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Mk5384

Are you honestly telling me that you blocked me for reporting anothers attacks against me?

• And I just blocked you again for block evasion. Sorry about that. Guy (Help!) 19:30, 28 March 2010 (UTC)