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Joan of Arc

Hi, what does this article need to meet "good article" standards? If stability is an issue, then how long would an article need to remain stable? Regards, Durova 16:20, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Venus and Adonis (opera)

Hey, I noticed you decided VA wasn't up to GA standards because it didn't have references. I had mistakenly put my reference under "See also". I completely understand if it still isn't up to snuff, I was just wondering if you would reconsider in light of that. Also, sometimes recordings have articles by scholars, so I'm not sure if those would count as references or not. Cheers, Makemi 17:40, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article pendatang asing, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Dewan Rakyat, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 12:17, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Did you know... Lillian Too

Thanks for your comments. I'm new to this so I wasn't sure what to do. But someone wrote me a note warning me that the image would be deleted so I decided to write for permission. In future, if I want to add a fair use rationale, how do I do it? And what do I select from the Licensing drop-down menu? There doesn't seem to be anything suitable there to use for fair use. Thanks. -- S Masters 15:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Please block user 62.49.81.146. He vandalized Münster School of Business Administration and Economics. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lunalona (talk • contribs) .

Xchrisblackx

That anon removing Xchrisblackx may have been him. Xchrisblackx (signs as Dr. Mahongany) posted a note to his own talk page announcing his withdrawal. NoSeptember 16:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

MGS PSP

I was wondering if there is any way i can retrieve the information that was in the Metal Gear Solid (PSP) article? I would like it for my own personal use, had I known that there was going to be a prompt oligarchical deletion I would have backed it up. I'm getting together resources for my soon to be running videogame wiki and would like the information. Is it anywhere?Solidusspriggan

Article rating, content fairs

See Misplaced Pages talk:Article rating for some recent thoughts on article rating & improvement. +sj + 19:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I like WP:GA as a test case, though I vaguely preferred the title of Misplaced Pages:Half-decent articles ;-) We should work on defining how the meta-analysis of GA nominations proceeds. I'm content with people updating the WP:GA list directly, but they should probably also list their new entries on a WP:GAC discussion/candidacy page, to make it easy for others to see what is new and good -- and to veto if they don't like it. +sj +

Mark Busse Page Deletion

http://en.wikipedia.org/Mark_Busse

Mark Busse’s qualifications have been questioned by means of the authenticity of his “Publications,” he is in fact in accordance with three of the stated criterion:

1. "Painters, sculptors, architects, engineers, and other professionals whose work is recognized as exceptional and likely to become a part of the enduring historical record of that field." Mark’s design firm is top notch on a worldwide scale, his clients blanket the globe and stand by his product. Not only is he an internationally known Communication Designer (with awards to back him in print, interface design, and the current highly acclaimed blog.industrialbrand.com), he is also a valued member of the Vancouver art scene, having sold paintings locally and been recognized as a legitimate critic in regards to his degree in Fine Art.

2. "Persons achieving renown or notoriety for their involvement in newsworthy events." Mark has been actively involved in Canstruction Vancouver in support of the Food Bank since its inaugural year, he is a credited script editor on at least three indie/student films (A Beginning, Eating Crow, and Mega-force), and devotes innumerable amounts of time to the success of the non-profit Canadian Society of Graphic Designers.

3. "Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more." A collaborative effort from Mark and Ben from IBC Published Fall 2005 in Graphic Exchange “Why should you have a blog?” in circulation throughout Canada to a lot more than 5 000 individuals. Mark’s interviews of Santa Monica’s Mike Goedecke of “Belief” and Toronto’s “Ze Frank” appear as padding on the IBC blog, but are anything but blog entries. These articles are for the betterment of the creative mind; they dive deeply into strategy, philosophy, and process, where these individuals’ mantras are made accessible to the general public. It is true that some of his articles appear on sites such as if.pfsk and blog.industrialbrand.com, but the fact that they may fall into the category of blog entry is only remotely valid, since the traffic and dedicated readers of these sites far surpass that of most published writers, as does the quality and content of the articles Mark writes.

In accompaniment to the above stated, Mark is on the forefront of Canadian Communication Design; he is a mentor to up and coming designers, he is an instructor at Vancouver Film School, and he is a keystone in the city of Vancouver though charitable contributions and the network of greatness he represents. I can see how some find it reasonable to consider Mark for deletion; however, he represents a new breed of writer/artist. His contributions may seem miniscule to those who are not active enthusiasts of digital culture, branding, design; this is his legacy and an understanding how influential he is may not surface until more people gain insight into his life.

Mark Busse’s Misplaced Pages page sits in a very infantile stage, it only shows crumbs of his story and appears quite vain. Revisions are needed, but it should definitely not be discarded.

toddsmithdesign 13:20, 9 February 2006

Good Article Self-Nominations

I noticed that you nominated several articles as good. I just wanted you to take notice that I failed all but one of them (Democratic Action Party). I know you have have over 13,000 edits and are a administrator and so you should know better than to flood the self-nominations page with articles that clearly do not qualify for the status. You added an article you had created just twenty minutes prior. Now, I can understand if you put up a somewhat good article on the nominations page and it gets rejected, but many of your pages featured poor biographies or dictionary definitions of Malay terms. I can't express enough the aggravation going through all those meaningless nominations caused.

In the future, I highly suggest that you exercise better judgement when nominating an article for good article status. If you flood the self-nominations page again with articles that are clearly unworthy of the distinction, I will simply delete all your nominations (good or not) without commenting on each individual article. joturner 23:10, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Frank Alexander

I've noticed you've deleted the article 'Frank Alexander'. I didn't actually pay much attention to the article; but since User:Malber has felt into the category of purposed defamation, by pointing out an user as a liar, I decided to clean up. Nils Gessinger is a jazz player (www.nilsgessinger.de). He is a famous jazz player in Germany and in São Paulo, Brazil where I live. I'm into jazz therefore I have heard of him. In regards to "Pacifier", someone mispelled it. The right band is "Pacific", a NZ band, the song is Bullitproof, not Bulletproof (of Pacifier) - link http://www.randkmusicmix.com/Artists_P.htm (line 16). I do understand the article doesn't fall into the criteria notability. But I also feel some people have been passing bad judgements on some user or on the artist. Plus, I do not agree with the behaviour of User: Malber on http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Frank_Alexander, passage "Stating the obvious is not a personal attack. Here's a suggesion: perhaps Frank Alexander should spend less time on self promotion and pointing himself out as Ashton Kutcher's friend, and more time on doing something that is actually notable. Then he might actually become famous". I believe it none of our business, but it's my opinion. Finally. I got this TalkPage link through an Orkut community. Thoughtfully, Márcio201.1.1.215 09:04, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

But that's not defamation. It was perhaps a snide remark, but by creating a vanity article (you generally shouldn't start your own biography) you become subject to all sorts of interpretations. Elle _{vécut heureuse} (Be eudaimonic!) 09:22, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

You don't understand. He didn't write his own article. Actually user> peterbradley did it. Please, reply to this subject if you are totally aware of the discussion.

Stresss

Johnleemk stressed out? Anything I can I do? --FloNight 12:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Your apology seems sincere. That is usually helpful. Plus, wasn't this really the straw that broke the camel's back. Lots of high tension around this place for weeks. A regular soap opera! During the DFA discussion, Radiant seemed frustrated by the inaction. I think your summary was just part of the problem. Hopefully Radiant is de-stressing and will be back soon. FloNight 13:13, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Pietras1988 insults

I ask you for reaction to this user behaviour. This is not the first time he insults people on en:Wiki, I think a 24h block for cooling will teach him a lesson. A.J. 14:19, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Proofs:

• - in Polish they were right insulting yoy becoause you talk like 0.

Wouldn't it be better to take it to WP:RFC instead? Outright blocks are supposed to be only for clear-cut vandals IIRC. — Kimchi.sg | Talk 14:58, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Whidden Hall afd

Are you sure there was a genuine lack of consensus on this issue? I got the impression that the appearance of lack of consensus was due to ballot stuffing. — ciphergoth

Hi...I was just about to ask the same thing. Counting the votes (and ignoring unsigned ballot stuffing) I get 10 deletes to 4 keeps, which seems like a delete consensus to me. Is there a WP:DRV process for AfD's that are contentiously closed in favour of "keep"? Zunaid 15:51, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

• Fair enough: let me rephrase. Taking into account the opinions and motivations from users with long edit histories and discounting those views from unregistered users, I find that a consensus to delete had been reached and feel that the AfD was incorrectly closed. I feel that in the least you could re-list immediately and include the arguments of the current debate in its entirety. Zunaid 16:06, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I, too, feel this debate was closed prematurely, but for now will assume good faith and try to get along.

I had a suggestion for how to resolve it that I had intended to place in the debate but have now put on the article's talk page if you're interested in looking at it. Daniel Case 19:24, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I want some consensus; to do so unilaterally in the wake of a contentious deletion vote would not be civil IMO. Also, I have absolutely no familiarity with McMaster and thus couldn't even begin to expand the article in the proper direction. I don't intend to take any action for a few days (especially since I have other fish to fry here). Daniel Case 19:33, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Not to pile on, but I agree with the above comments - the debate was closed too soon IMO (I didn't even see it was posted until it had been closed). Registered users with a history of contributions seemed inclined to delete, and the premature closing prevented any true consensus from developing. TMS63112 19:49, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

As the guy who relisted it, I had actually thought about closing it even earlier as a no consensus. It was clear where it was going, WP:SNOW might have even been invoked. Perhaps we should move this to the AfD's talk page though, if further discussion is needed, so as not to clog up his talk page? --W.marsh

User_talk:Radiant!#On_the_actual_reasons_for_leaving

Props to you for this: but I would not place all or most of the blame at your feet. Everyone's doing the best they can. Thanks for your efforts on behalf of the encyclopedia. ++Lar: t/c 17:35, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

His Site

...continues

It's not a proposal. This is how Misplaced Pages has been run since its inception; if anything, the process is a bit fairer now, since last time we had two dictators (Jimbo and Larry Sanger) whereas now the Board can step in and tell Jimbo to shut it if he really blows it (an unlikely occurrence). And in case you forgot, somebody has to pay for the servers, manage the accounts, buy new servers, maintain them, talk to the media with some authority (honestly, can you imagine an ordinary Wikipedian spreading his personal idea of what Misplaced Pages should be among the media?), etc. You tell me how the wiki can do all this. Misplaced Pages has been run as an autocracy since its founding. So far, there is nothing to indicate this should be changed except the paranoia of some people who can't accept a benevolent dictatorship (but have zero problems whatsoever with private organisations and businesses that, just incidentally, happen to have one CEO/Chairman of the Board/whatever). Johnleemk | Talk 18:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

You need to read before writing, friend.

• The "someone" who pays for the servers isn't necessarily Jimbo - he is continually appealing for donations from people like me. He just seeded them, as you say.
• if people can volunteer to add content to his project, I dare say people can volunteer to maintain servers. they certainly volunteer unhesitatingly to be admins so they can behave like Stanford prison warders, "reverting vandalism" and block people they don't like.
• Why does Misplaced Pages need to talk to the media at all?
• in no way, in any case, does any of this imply the need for autocratic control of content of management of the site. Jimbo could quite easily agree to be treated like any other user. Indeed, he has, on occasion, denied being a GodKing. Are you not putting words into his mouth? ElectricRay 18:33, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

So what do you plan to do? Personally submit your check to a hardware manufacturer, personally take possession of the server, and then...? Furthermore, you are oversimplifying Misplaced Pages's hardware. As someone familiar with internet servers, I can tell you that for maximum efficiency, the servers need to be as close together as possible (so as to reduce delays when transmitting information between master and slave database servers, etc.). How will we maintain our servers if we have one in Kuala Lumpur, one in Brisbane, one in Timbuktu, one in Chicago, and so on? Again, you tell me. Also, in case you forgot, Misplaced Pages is among the most visited websites in the world. We are bound to get queries from the media, and if we don't respond, they can very well just grab something random from our talk pages and use it to totally misrepresent our views (not that they don't already do this with some of Jimbo's or the Board's statements). Regardless of what we call him, Jimbo has very real authority over this website. If he preferred to, he could just phone the guys at the Foundation server farm in Florida and tell them to shut down the servers. He runs this website. He owns the hardware that runs it. If you won't respect his authority and think you can run off with this great anarchist experiment in running a website, then more power to you. But don't bring Misplaced Pages into this. We're here to write an encyclopedia, not be a democracy or bureaucracy (see WP:NOT). Johnleemk | Talk 18:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Walk away. And I don't think I'll be the only one. Indeed, if the above item is anything to go by, you seem to have driven out some perfectly good editors and admins by yourself already. Better get writing your encyclopaedia! ElectricRay 19:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate your civility. ^_^ Johnleemk | Talk 19:24, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to ask the dumb question, but just so I know, are you being sarcastic or not? I genuinely don't know. ElectricRay 22:47, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Regarding your MJ merges

The result of one of these merges was an agreement to delete the merged information, not add it back in. The information is poorly sourced and unwelcome in the article, and I may have to go back and find it to delete it. --Manboobies 22:51, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Well I checked the info, and it seems you only merged in stuff about his house at neverland. Still, the article didn't really need it. Some how Streetwalker made it around 32 KB again so it's all good, tho I'm slightly concerned about where the other stuff went to make it 32KB... :/--Manboobies 14:10, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Article assessment

Hi there. You showed some intrest in the idea of Misplaced Pages:Article rating. This has become Misplaced Pages:Article assessment, which has now started and is accepting submissions under the topic "Natural disasters". It would be great if you could find the time to take a little look at it. violet/riga (t) 16:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Noel Gallagher

"The article constantly refers to him as Noel, which sounds very unprofessional." not as unprofessional as if you kept reffering to him & his brother (who is mentioned constantly through the article) as "Gallagher" so eveyone gets confused. also, why bother with all that mdash shit. A line's a line. Stop being petty, you chimp. Also, why get rid of the trivia bit? And i can't really expand the controversy bit or intergrate it, so what should i do woth all the useful and interesting information therein? --Crestville 18:20, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Where was there a personal attack? Chimp? Or was it because I said "shit"? Neither is intended as a personal attack. You're not one of those are you? Petty, condecending and stuck up admin (ok, that's a bit personal). Despite what you think, the use of "Gallagher" can make the article confusing and makes it seem redundant in places, therefore I have carefully chosen areas where I use christian names so as to distinguish between the brothers. The "obvious" is not always so. Try it. Trivia sections gone, I'll work on the contrvercy section later as another Helpful user suggested a positive solution. In the mean time, take the rod out of your arse and smile!--Crestville 19:04, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

"I've used the method I proposed for handling the naming before on Hey Jude, but I'll admit that it's not always the best solution." - I'm sorry, I don't understand. Could you please explain what you are proposing. also, soz if you thought i was having a pop at you. Calm down man, no need to get stressed. It's just an enyclopedia.--Crestville 20:29, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Intro for The Beatles

Thanks for bringing the Beatles lead section into line with the leading section recommendations. – ApolloCreed 11:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Mege?

How did you conclude that there was a "rough concencus" for merge, when they didnt even have the majority vote?!

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Misconceptions about the Shi'a

--Striver 18:31, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Three weeks of admin tools

Today three weeks have passed since I was granted access to the administrator toolbox. During this time I have made use of it in the following way:

• Protections and unprotections: 1
• Blocks and unblocks: 4
• Deletions and restorations: 69
• Rollbacks: 246

I've found that the rollback tool is much more useful than I'd thought for vandalism patrol. In fact it makes that task so easy that I've been doing it more than before. On the other hand I've been surprised by how little the blocking tool is needed. Having done a significant amount of vandalism patrol I have still only blocked one solitary vandal. The great majority of addresses which send out a vandal edit do so only once. Those who do it more often usually stop after a warning or two. Only rarely is a block actually needed and in those cases someone usually beats me to it.

As a side note I haven't retired from writing articles either. I'm still hoping to bring Freyr up to featured status but even though I've already performed more edits on it than on Hrafnkels saga back in the day, a lot of work remains to be done. Community expectations for featured articles have gone up and so have my own ambitions. I'm currently waiting for a couple of books I ordered to arrive and then I may be able to make the final push.

I'm trying my best to live up to the trust you showed in me by supporting my RFA. If ever you feel uncertain whether I'm using the admin tools in the best interests of the project, let me know. I am at any time willing to relinquish the mop and reapply for it to address concerns people have and ensure that I'm not using the admin tools without being trusted to do so. Haukur 22:42, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Selector calculus AFD closing

Just a courtesy notice that I commented (mostly favourably) on your closing of Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Selector calculus at User talk:Chan-Ho Suh#Selector calculus AFD closing. I don't want to gossip behind your back; much more fun to do it in your face ;) Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 01:24, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

David Saks

Mr.Meek, You were hasty in deleting the article about David Saks. His prominence in Memphis Music history is without parallel. If you had taken the time to review the intensive "notability" bashing by three seasoned wikipedians you would have been able to arrive at a distinct point of departure from their lack of investigative prowess in the matter of this most worthy gentleman. Mr.Saks is not only highly regarded in his own community, but his works are in the Library of Congress. Please take the time to review all of the corresponding material on the Memphis, Tennessee talk page, including all of the cross references, which vindicate him. You should take time to review all of the corresponding elements substantiating the claims for the article, including verifiable sources. On the talk page, it was suggested by one of the compulsive editors,that a visit be made to city hall to verfy the claims. The claim verification was most certainly provided. One of the sources, the Commercial Appeal, was ridiculed as a "small paper" by one user. It's circulation tops 1.5 million readers in the metro community. In the AFD discussion the voters for "delete" are ambiguous and appear at times vindictive in their tone. Mr.Meek,You refer to yourself as a "waffler" in your biography. The Urban Dictionary defines a "waffler as:"0ne who waffles, from the verb waffle, meaning to never settle on a stance on one (or more) issue(s); A waffler usually goes from one side to the other and back again, usually multiple times." At no time could I think of an application of your self-characterized demeanor be better implemented than in the matter of David Saks.

• Your friends in Memphis, and, fans of David Saks.

(66.239.212.131 02:59, 13 February 2006 (UTC))

ps....We are Beatle fans as well...good show on your Beatle work.

Thanks but no thanks

Delete my user and talk pages. freestylefrappe 03:59, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Johnleemk, I just wanted to let you know that I undeleted and blanked his talk page, since it's generally agreed that talk pages shouldn't be deleted. Hope that's OK. — Knowledge Seeker দ 01:54, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Illegal immigrants in Malaysia, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 04:35, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on getting so many of your articles onto DYK! :D — Kimchi.sg | Talk 05:23, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Response to :"Point of This"

This is pretty straightforward. I am proposing a Project to edit articles relating to dispute resolution. As in real life, not internal-to-wikipedia methods, forums, interventions, cabals, patrols etc. Write encyclopedic articles on mediation (article needs a lot of work) community mediation, labor arbitration (articles do not exist). Sorry if this was confusing. --Edivorce 22:05, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Merge

I have a propblem with a single person (you) declaring wich side had the better arguement, totaly ignoring the amounts of votes casted. Could you please refer me to the relevant wikipolicy that proves me wrong in demanding the votecount to be respected? --Striver 04:11, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey Jude article

ok, I'm a total newbie, but I went to the trouble of creating an account so I could comment on "your" Hey Jude material. Maybe this isn't appropriate to an encyclopedia, but it is a cultural phenomenon of the time period in question (1960s and 70s)and so as a history student, I am inclined to think some mention should be made of the fact that many (at least in the US)teenagers of the time believed that the lyrics of "Hey Jude" refered to drug use, specifically "mainlining" heroin. (i.e. "..let her under your skin, then you can begin to make it better"). Until I read the article in wikipedia saying it was about Jules, I had no reason to think otherwise. I was a teenager at that time, too. Everyone in my peer group had "heard" the story, and the Beatles were believed to be a part of the drug culture that was so prominent in that "psychedelic" era. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was supposedly about LSD. Maybe this is how urban legends get started. I remember arguing with several friends who insisted "Puff, the Magic Dragon" (a Peter, Paul & Mary song)was about smoking marijuana. I said it was just a cute folk-song about a little kid's imaginary friend ... but I digress. I realize from reading your user page that you're waay too young to remember any of this--I feel like an old, old woman contributing to an oral history project about ancient times. EllenT 08:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Tony Sidaway

Hi. Since I noticed that you edited the workshop in this case, could I, as a participant, ask you to check it and make sure it gets properly opened. What happened was that Aaron Brenneman opened the workshop page and started adding material. I joined him and asked on IRC for someone to open it as I cannot do that myself. FCYTravis obliged and did a great job but there are some things missing (the parties haven't been officially notified, for instance, and themapplication is still on the main RFAR page and people are still editing it). Could you sort this out?

Also Aaron has been adding material that should be on the evidence page into the workshop. I obviously cannot move it to the right place, but someone should. Thanks. --Tony Sidaway 11:19, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I've been sinking the boot into you a little bit. I hope you don't take it too hard, I took off the steel caps before I did so. Tony may be correct in that the list of diffs is "evidence" but I'm sure you've noticed that he is tremendously controlling with regards to what goes on ArbCom pages. Having the material removed wholesale without even leaving a section header like "summary to be inserted" does give a different impression than trying to work with me, can you agree?
I like you and (in general) agree with the way that you handle things and would hate for you to be pissed off with me.
Oh, and I notified an arbitrator that I had created the workshop page, both on-wiki and on IRC. Sorry that you still had to clean up the mess. If you'd turn your spam filter off so that unregistered scum like me could PM you, I'd have told you that. ^_^
brenneman 06:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

And I've just seen Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Hootenanny (store). Brilliant. - brenneman 06:25, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Your edit summary on the paedophile userbox affair

Hi John, I just want to thank you for your rewrite of the summary, and also your gracious comments at Radiant's talk page. I'm not sure what Radiant had in mind regarding his own comments, and only offered an opinion when Tony sought one. I apologise for pointing the finger so readily, I hadn't realised you wrote the summary, you're an editor I tend to look up to and it appears that where our paths have recently crossed I've fouled up. I hope Radiant will return and enlighten us all a bit more clearly as to the what and the why he left. I hope my comments don't cause you to leave; it would be a shame if the whole mess snowballed any further. Steve block talk 19:23, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Your Comments

I want to thank you on your comments on my manifesto, and please let me know if there's any way to make it acceptable to you, but I honestly don't know how to respond to most of your comment(it was fairly large), so i'll hit on what I saw as the main two points.

1. Democracy. I don't think Misplaced Pages should have any kind of Democracy in it. In Democracy, you have a bit of control, but the same control as an ant would in an ant colony. We can do better than that, and we already do through sociocratic processes (basically any three letter combo with an f in the middle of it nowadays, such as afd, rfc, rfa, rfb, etc.) Just making a "blank for blank" for policies/guidelines(the lower house idea) and an arbcom-esque body to have a check on the "blank for blank" so there's balance.
2. Fear towards the Foundation and Jimbo. It is there, hell i've had it. For the first few days after the wheel war, I had nightmares about Jimbo, in my nightmares he was a drug pusher and he was threatening to cut me off from this place that I love so much and have put so much into. Hell, i've tried hard to stop people who felt like they were just being duped into helping build a product as slave labor for Jimbo that they should try and fix things rather than just walk off in anger. Hell, i've even gone on Misplaced Pages Review and tried to end the anger over there and get some productive thoughts on how to fix things going on over there. Anger sucks, i've seen too much of it over my life.Ultimately though, if we have too much and too rigid hierarchy, especially if that hierarchy is insulated from ideas, we'll grow stagnant. One of the great things about a wiki in general is that it's collaborative, it's a circle. Each person adds their own part, and that part becomes integrated into a new whole. Don't get rid of the circle with a pyramid, or people at the bottom will lose out on that feeling.

Ok, talk to you later. I think Kim has more comments. Karmafist 02:08, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 06:00, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your response to the proposal that I submitted to the Village Pump yesterday on how to attract older, experienced conributers. I really appreciated your kind remarks. mbeychok 16:32, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

We'll Just Have To Agree To Disagree Then

Because I don't think we're connecting here. I am a living example of Jimbo's bad judgement. If he were truly a constitutional monarch, he would have followed policy in regards to Joeyramoney (AGF and BITE, Joeyramoney was a 16 year old kid with under 100 edits who was unaware about the seething mob developing around him), but he didn't. He wheel warred, and when I tried to remind Jimbo that he was just a kid, Jimbo had a hissy fit and stole my adminship.

The very fact that Jimbo could arbitrarily get rid of someone is my concern, Misplaced Pages is getting large enough to be soon in anti-trust territory: one person should not have that much control over such a large information source, especially one who is becoming insulated from differing opinions (by people such as yourself).

If he wants to talk, that's fine. I'm here. Until then, i'm keeping my guard up because i'm addicted to this place and Jimbo might have another temper tantrum at any moment. Karmafist 20:16, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article First Malaysia Plan, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 06:01, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK Mania!

Congratz on your awesome string of new entries in DYK, John! You're giving the entire Misplaced Pages-reading world a lesson in Malaysian political culture! Babajobu 08:33, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFA/Quarl

Hi John, thanks for your encouraging support in my RFA, which succeeded. If I can ever improve or help in any way, please let me know! :) —Quarl 2006-02-16 11:53Z

blocking 24.105.166.19

Hi - 24.105.166.19 continues to add the same nonsense to the Robert Johnson page. Can an anonymous user be blocked permanantly? He certainly deserves it. Thanks, --RobHutten 15:29, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Tan Chee Khoon , which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 17:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Tony Sidaway/Proposed decision

Hi John. If you have time, do you think you could pop into this page and perform the majority calculation for my case? You need to work out how many arbitrators are svailable at present (probably 14 out of the 15, but check anyway on Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee) and how many recused (none, I think). Then the calculation is quite simple. --Tony Sidaway 00:37, 17 February 2006 (UTC)