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::: On the Farscape episodes, I expect that sources do exist. One was given and others may well exist on BBC. On the Oh My Goddess pages, I don't believe that sources exist - I looked, and found fan sites. My primary concern is that the "defending" editors are flaunting guidelines. They appear to have little interest in actually adding sources and moving the articles away from the plot summary and trivia format. If I close these now, I expect I'll get an edit war in spite of the actual arguments made in the discussions and the applicable guidelines. I looked at the list on your user page and find the prospect of tackling the Drew Carey ones daunting - there are no summaries on the list and it's not even in template format. And there were over two hundred! --] 14:49, 12 September 2007 (UTC) ::: On the Farscape episodes, I expect that sources do exist. One was given and others may well exist on BBC. On the Oh My Goddess pages, I don't believe that sources exist - I looked, and found fan sites. My primary concern is that the "defending" editors are flaunting guidelines. They appear to have little interest in actually adding sources and moving the articles away from the plot summary and trivia format. If I close these now, I expect I'll get an edit war in spite of the actual arguments made in the discussions and the applicable guidelines. I looked at the list on your user page and find the prospect of tackling the Drew Carey ones daunting - there are no summaries on the list and it's not even in template format. And there were over two hundred! --] 14:49, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
::::Like with a lot of other shows (Futurama, Scrubs), I assume that it probably has a decent chunk that can actually make it, but its worthless to think about with the "all or nothing" and "I'm just going to defend these, just cuz" mentalities going. The best thing to do in that situation is to redirect and build up from scratch. With something in that kind of state, its probably better to just either redirect them, and leave it for someone interested, or just do that, but work on it every once and a while. ] 16:38, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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Dear Jack

Dear Jack, you caught just about to leave; but I just wished to drop by and leave you a quick note regarding the issue you just informed me of. It's always sad to come to this, but with the self admitted sockpuppetry for disruptive purposes, I've had no choice but to indef block that account. On a more pleasant note, it's beautiful to see you again; let's hope the future holds in store things as beautiful as this, instead of more stress and worries. Love, Phaedriel - 13:11, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I think you made the right choice re our friend; he will learn something from it — including some of the right things, even though he might not admit it. And he will grow-up some, someday. What ever nonsense he has managed to insert will be found and removed by someone and what ever good edits he made may well end up kept. The was an article in National Geographic recently about Swarm theory (which someone should write)→Swarm intelligence and it mentioned wikipedia; worth a read. Maybe Collective intelligence? --Jack Merridew 13:25, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Episodes

I haven't been feeling too ambitious lately, but if you feel like it, there are a good number of episodes ready to be redirected. You can find them linked from my user page. TTN 14:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll have a look. I'm concerned about the apparent flaunting of guidelines on the Farscape and Oh My Goddess pages. I believe both should be closed and the episode articles redirected; the objections are merely fanish and no one is citing squat in the articles. --Jack Merridew 14:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, Farscape is going to be a hassle (it may just be worth leaving it alone until Fisher gets bored of it), and White Cat has a long history of doing stuff like that (just one example is like twelve AN/I reports about changing his old sigs to match his new username). TTN 14:36, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
On the Farscape episodes, I expect that sources do exist. One was given and others may well exist on BBC. On the Oh My Goddess pages, I don't believe that sources exist - I looked, and found fan sites. My primary concern is that the "defending" editors are flaunting guidelines. They appear to have little interest in actually adding sources and moving the articles away from the plot summary and trivia format. If I close these now, I expect I'll get an edit war in spite of the actual arguments made in the discussions and the applicable guidelines. I looked at the list on your user page and find the prospect of tackling the Drew Carey ones daunting - there are no summaries on the list and it's not even in template format. And there were over two hundred! --Jack Merridew 14:49, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Like with a lot of other shows (Futurama, Scrubs), I assume that it probably has a decent chunk that can actually make it, but its worthless to think about with the "all or nothing" and "I'm just going to defend these, just cuz" mentalities going. The best thing to do in that situation is to redirect and build up from scratch. With something in that kind of state, its probably better to just either redirect them, and leave it for someone interested, or just do that, but work on it every once and a while. TTN 16:38, 12 September 2007 (UTC)