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DZK / Richard James Burgess

Just go ahead and remove these sites, I seem to be far too inept for this librarian shit. Keep up the good work, Nagle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DZK (talk • contribs)

Israeli Apartheid arbitration

The move/revert war issue for Israeli Apartheid has been referred to arbitration. See Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration#Move and revert warring at Israeli Apartheid --John Nagle 00:35, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree with the move to arbitration, but please remove the term "wheel war" - moving and reverting moves isn't an administrative action, it's something any user can do. -- ChrisO 00:43, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

One of the messages indicated that moving had been blocked at one point, which is an admin action. Did that happen? --John Nagle 00:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

It was wheel war, there were moves and deletions that can only be done by admins. -- Kim van der Linde 00:53, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Not sure about the moves and deletions point - I was under the impression that any user could do that? But you're certainly right about the move protection; Humus sapiens (I think) un-move-protected the article so that he could move it to Allegations of Israeli apartheid for the fourth time. I've documented the timeline with diffs at WP:RFAR#Statement by ChrisO. Please let me know if I've left any significant points out of the timeline. -- ChrisO 02:56, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Please put your comments in the appropriate place on the arbitration page, not here; the arbitrators won't read this. Thanks. --John Nagle 03:41, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

As per HOTR's precedent, I edited my name on the list to point out that I was not involved in the move/revert war. I hope this is acceptable. Bibigon 06:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

ArbComm

Hi, I think it best if I stay out of the ArbComm case, I don't really have time to deal with it right now and I wasn't involved in the actual revert war. I think if I were to get involved I'd just end up being a magnet for personal attacks that would just distract from the real issues. Homey 06:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

That's really up to ArbComm now. Let's just see what happens. --John Nagle 06:47, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

RfM

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Apartheid RfM

Nagle, Fred Bauder indicated that he supported the idea of mediation, so my guess is the committee may want to wait to see whether that can go ahead, rather than the other way round. Normally, we're supposed to try mediation before asking for arbitration, if at all possible. I was about to file an RfM anyway, so I hope you'll reconsider whether you want to be part of it. Cheers, SlimVirgin 02:49, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

RfAr

John, I saw your note about Zeq. I think you may have misunderstood the nature of an RfAr. Anyone who was involved may be added as a party by anyone, regardless of who has filed the request. The ArbCom may also add anyone at any time, even if they have not been named as a party. The situation is fluid for good reason, because ultimately the point of arbitration is to get issues sorted out, not to wikilawyer. So Zeq is allowed to add himself, and to add others too, if he believes they contributed to the situation. Only the Committee can decide what evidence to include in their assessment. SlimVirgin 06:01, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Zeq never actually added himself as a party; he just made comments. My point was that I'm not claiming that Zeq did anything wrong; he's banned from editing the article, and he didn't. --John Nagle 06:37, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Israeli

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AMC Collectibles

Why is it neccesary to remove an article that largely mirrors a feature of collectible car magazines, a section that discusses what models and toys have been made of a car? On what basis does this article deserve deletion? Who has it offended? Why is the information contained, namely fairly specific and cited information deemed of no consequence? Is this not merely an act of malicious hostility against an editor?? --matador300 07:02, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Hubbert Peak Theory

You've been doing a nice job editing the Hubbert Peak Theory article. The way you reorganized some of the sections a couple of weeks ago was well done. Jkintree 20:01, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. --John Nagle 04:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Similar backgrounds

I've been editing the Allegations of Israeli apartheid article as well as a bunch of others you've edited. I just realized that we have similar backgrounds in computer graphics/animation -- strange. Checked out Animats website, technology and patents. My list of recent publications (including a 2006 ACM TOG paper and two patents) is here . I was in negotiations a few years ago with Softimage with regards them licensing some of my software for inclusion too. I also wrote a package called Deadline which sold fairly well . I did some work for DARPA back in Uni too. Feel free to give me an email and we could grab a beer at SIGGRAPH 2006 in Boston if your going. --Ben Houston 04:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Apartheid Arbcom case

Hi John. I notice that you've suggested that Humus Sapiens might have abused admin authority based on the fact that he "deleted to make way for move", but you seemed to have missed the fact that ChrisO "deleted to make way for move" 3 times. Was that just an oversight? Also, you say at least 3 parties to the arbitration have admin authority, but in fact 6 parties to the arbitration have admin authority. Was that another oversight? Also, you say " a race condition on page protection between Jayjg, Humus Sapiens and ChrisO" occurred, but it appears that only ChrisO was attempting to protect pages, not Humus Sapiens or Jayjg. Am I missing something? --User:MPerel 19:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

As discussed elsewhere, the moves to "Allegations of" were out of policy, so those are the ones of interest. As for who's an admin, I originally put in "at least 3 have admin authority" back when there were fewer participants in the arbitration. I didn't realize we were up to six now. I've fixed the race condition statement. Thanks. --John Nagle 19:47, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

There have always been the same number of participants in the arbitration with the same six admins. And I thought the issue was "wheel warring" not "moves out of policy"? --User:MPerel 19:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Check back in the request for arbitration, where there was a big argument over who was a participant. Two people wanted out, and two people wanted in. --John Nagle 20:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Your comment on the evidence page was made after the case was accepted and all the parties were notified. You may want to fix your incorrect statement about there being only 3 admins on the evidence page. --MPerel 20:54, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Sms.ac

I'm curious as to what your opinion is of the recent Jimbo-intervention at this article? Themindset 04:16, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

• Overreaction, I think. Sms.ac has sent out similar threatening letters in the past, and they haven't actually sued anybody yet. --John Nagle 04:41, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I beg to differ. It is absolutely not an overreaction to see an article with completely unsourced claims like that. QUALITY means something. --Jimbo Wales 02:57, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Full apology here

hopefully you see the before you even know what I am apologizing for

Seizuredog/SeductionWiki.css

Doh, forgot the User. Go ahead and speedy it. --SeizureDog 16:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

References

That's a particular hobby of mine. WHile I prefer in-line/Harvard style (see Actuary ) I still like cleaning up references. I'm about halfway through Circumcision, and that was an unholy mess. But it is a pain to open each reference, check that it is accurately reflected, drill down through the research to see if there is actually a better source, etc. So thanks for the note, it helps :) -- Avi 18:33, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Kiki Carter

This is an effort to create an historical article about the environmental activist Kiki Carter. I am adding sources as requested by the original notice, but the list is exhaustive. Please review the sources on the article page and advise. Eaglefeather11 20:46, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Bot substitution of templates

That is quite a question, and my answer is but a referal to WP:SUBST. Hopefully you'll find all of your answers there. :-) --Zsinj 18:46, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Adding Meople.net to the Attention Economy Entry

I am trying to add the reference to the Meople site which you refer to as "email spam." I am trying to tie Meople to the attention conversation just as Root.net is. Please let me know the best way to do this. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.108.106.207 (talk • contribs)

Actually, the general idea is that Misplaced Pages doesn't carry advertising. Also see WP:VAIN. Thanks. --John Nagle 02:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

District of Columbia Civil Contempt Imprisonment Limitation Act

Copied from FloNight talk

What's going on with District of Columbia Civil Contempt Imprisonment Limitation Act? Your last edit changed a valid link to one with a 404 error. Please recheck your last edit. Thanks. --John Nagle 03:00, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello John Nagle ; - ) In reply to your question, I was reverting the edits of a banned user AMorrow. Feel free to improve the article as needed. You need to make the changes in your own name making sure that you do not violate copyright laws. If you have further questions, leave them on the talk page of the article or my talk page. regards, FloNight 17:38, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Was that from a bot? --John Nagle 17:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

No, why? --FloNight 19:24, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Cheggit

hi, cheggit is fully merged, not merely redirected, to empornium, so it is appropriate. the other one i leave as is. Zzzzz 09:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Moller

I was aware of his advancing dates as you noted on my user page. The difference would be that if he doesn't do it this time, he's going to have to hand back at least $250,000 in deposit money in early 2009 or face fraud accusations. According to the recent WSJ article he links to on his site, he's got a hundred deposits of $25k. Offering to hand a significant chunk of change back if he doesn't hit his deadlines is something new in the long history of Moller's Skycar. TMLutas 21:55, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

He already missed the 2005 deadline. I wonder if he refunded the money. --John Nagle 22:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Shubnikov

The "citation needed" was outside the parentheses, i.e., it looked to me as applied to the whole phrase about repressions of scientists. Anyway, right now I updated Lev Shubnikov and working on details of his fabricated affair that concerned other Ukrainian scientists, UPTI Affair. `'mikka (t) 06:20, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Thoughts on Amnesty or Refocusing of the IA RfA

I just posted this at the IA RfA -- its in a section on just defaulting to a general amnesty for all participants since the current RfA has clearly gone off the rails. I am not sure if you agree with it or not but I would welcome your thoughts since you initiated the RfA and not myself. --Ben Houston 03:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I've posted a reply. Thanks. --John Nagle 03:46, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for your work on Al-Manar

Thanks for the work and the clean up, especially finding its new website, they keep getting taken down.Hypnosadist 21:22, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Dancing Light

I would advise you to drop your tone. You are not entitled to be rude nor demand as you do that I justify my actions. Nothing whatsoever was recreated. The redirect remains protected. The band will redirect to its notable member until and unless that article (Kiki Carter) is deleted. I have also userfied the text of the deleted article to the original creator per s/his request for use elsewhere. I hope and pray that my actions meet with your kind approval - . - CrazyRussian talk/email 00:44, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Inlining fair use images

Re:Talk:Buck_Rogers_(science_fiction)

Fair use images are to be used on article namespaces only. Please read WP:FU if you have any questions on usage of fair use images. Retropunk 18:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Removing that is fine. It was just used there temporarily, until all the relevant articles were updated, which they have been. --John Nagle 18:32, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Miniclip

User has been blocked for 5RR --mboverload@ 22:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. That was wierd. --John Nagle 22:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

John Nagle redirect

Dear sir, I'm working on the Articles requested for more than a year project, and the non-existent John Nagle article was one of the items on the list. As you note elsewhere, there is not really enough material on you on the internet to knock up a proper bio. I unlinked your name on the Nagle's Algorithm page, then redirected John Nagle to Nagel's Algorithm. No offence intended, I'm just cleaning up. Ordinary Person 15:10, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Possible error in escape sequence

Thanks! I think the problem is now fixed. -- Where 18:23, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

UNIQUE USERS PPV PURCHASES (NON-ADULT)

Nah. It was just a vandal. Or a nutter. Doesn't matter. As you say, it's just good that it is now gone :o) ➨ ЯEDVERS 22:39, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

WP:AfD/A bigger, better machine i will be

Done. - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 06:45, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Mediation... activated! :P

Hello! I've accepted your mediation request... sorry for the delay in accepting, we're unusally clogged with stuff at the moment. Check the case page for response. --The Prophet Wizard of the Crayon Cake 16:45, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-08-03 Mosaic: World News from the Middle East

Rewrite of Physics

Thanks for the pointer I think I've created the page under my talk namespace as you've suggested. Now if you can delete the original page, I'd appreaciate it. Also feel free to comment on the changes. Good luck in DGCIII. Tmcsheery 17:35, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

• • • Thought the name sounded Familiar. You need to come by and look at the toys we have. Tmcsheery 17:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, so I can't delete it. Put {{db | Moved to talk space, owner requests deletion}} on the page you want deleted, and someone will do it. --John Nagle 18:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg

Hi. I noticed Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg keeps removing sourced material that you've added. Whenever I've done this on the Israel Shahak page he's done a revert and stated "Please do not remove sourced passages unles you have another reliable source that disputes it." Perhaps you should suggest the same to him? Conch Shell 14:00, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Chris McGreal

Your edit summary referred to "POV vandalism"; this must have been an error, otherwise it would be a shocking breach of WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA. I'm assuming you reverted the wrong article or something; if you have any actual concerns, the article Talk: page awaits. Jayjg 19:10, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Category for pro-Israel organizations

You wrote (→See also - rm what appears to be a random grouping of other media watchdog organizations. This is what categories are for.). I suspect that Category:Pro-Israel organizations would be rather controversial. Is that what you are proposing? We have Category:Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which could be subdivided into the two (or more) sides. But we'd just get revert wars. --John Nagle 22:47, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

The organizations listed were not (or at least not mostly) pro-Israel in any sense. That is why I found this content useless and removed it. It was an apparently random listing of a few miscellaneous media watchdog groups of various politics. - Jmabel | Talk 23:04, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

New article on a complex subject

A new article on a complex subject is looking for more high quality contributors:

Israel lobby in the United States

--Ben Houston 00:49, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I've been mostly doing consumerism this week, taking a break from Israel/Arab issues. --John Nagle 16:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Israeli apartheid

This case has closed and the final decision has been published at the link above.

To summarize: Discussion of global issues which concern use of "apartheid" and all polls shall be at Misplaced Pages:Central discussions/Apartheid with subsidiary dialog on the talk page of affected articles. Based on the difficult and controversial nature of this matter, with the exception of Zeq (talk · contribs), who remains banned from editing the article, the principal participants in this dispute shall be granted an amnesty for past actions, but are strongly encouraged to engage in negotiations. All involved administrators are admonished not use their administrative tools without prior discussion and consensus.

- Mgm| 20:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

List of Birketts

Hi, I see you PRODded this page - did you notice that it had been deleted previously? I'd be inclined to speedy it but don't know if that's possible, as it isn't a "substantially identical copy", as per criterion 4, of the deleted article (which was actually a list). Also, since it was deleted (on grounds of notability) a user has asserted its notability on the talk page. Do you know what the best course of action is? --Blisco 20:53, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Changed "prod" to "speedy". One could argue over whether the article should be deleted as a duplicate or as an empty article, but why bother? --John Nagle 23:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot?

I'm not a bot; I'm doing this by hand. There are multiple things that use the "VA-X" naming, and I feel it is better to make the disambiguation pages now than wait until both articles are written and fix all the links then. --NE2 19:57, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Mirabilis (band) and the speedy removal

The actual wording of Misplaced Pages:Notability (music) says first "A musician or ensemble (note that this includes a band, singer, rapper, orchestra, hip hop crew, DJ, musical theatre group, etc.) is notable if it meets any one of the following criteria:" and the as one of the criteria says "Contains at least one member who was once a part of or later joined a band that is otherwise notable; note that it is often most appropriate to use redirects in place of articles on side projects, early bands and such." Both members were in other groups who have articles. So they didn't qualify as a speedy. Of course they may still be non-notable and get deleted. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 05:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Political notability of Robert Parkyn

The guy was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and an Alderman for 17 years, he is plenty notable. --Cloveious 14:56, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, John.

Lots of strange little edits going down tonight, no? Must be another full moon since my talk page is getting hammered. Thanks for the info.  :) - Lucky 6.9 02:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Thoughts?

Misplaced Pages:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_October_11#Template:Palestine. You'll notice it is the same block of voters who all come in and voted oppose to the renaming here: Talk:Allegations_of_Israeli_apartheid#Requested_move.2C_Retitle_Article_ASAP. It's coordinated block voting and I do not know how to respond to it appropriately. Maybe I should create a mailing list of people who I think will vote with me and call them up when I want to get rid of something I don't like. --Ben 03:42, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

3RR

John, please don't make fake 3RR reports. You've reverted three times as has Jay, so you're both in the same boat. SlimVirgin 17:35, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

John, please do not make spurious 3RR reports in an attempt to harass other editors. Also, please do not use false claims about edits or the Arbitration Committee in an attempt to intimidate other editors over simple content disputes. And finally please stop inserting clearly irrelevant material into articles. Jayjg 17:36, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

That's what dispute resolution is for. Some neutral party is going to have to sort this out. --John Nagle 17:40, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

CAMERA's Founding and Charles Jacobs

CAMERA has posted a brief history, which describes Charles Jacobs as deputy director of the Boston Chapter, not its founder. It has also provided images of documents. Here's the link:

CAMERA's Founding and Charles Jacobs

CAMERA has posted a brief history, which describes Charles Jacobs as deputy director of the Boston Chapter, not its founder. It has also provided images of documents. Here's the link:

http://camera.org/index.asp?x_context=48

Update, sorry for the double posting and late signature: Nehemiah123 02:26, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Your comments

I don't appreciate your comments about me possibly sneaking in changes to the content policies. I helped to write those policies, and have been continually involved in maintaining them. I'm now helping to streamline them, and have put up a proposal to merge them, which is being worked on by several editors. I try to prevent sneaky changes to the content policies, not make them. Your presumption of bad faith is disappointing, to put it mildly. SlimVirgin 20:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

That's a consequence of making many changes without discussing them first on the talk page. It may be harmless, but it's the sort of thing which bears watching. Hence the comment. It's not a big deal. --John Nagle 22:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Your comments II

On my talk page, you asked why I was creating dying mall articles, well... here's your answer. I was just trying to make articles from the over abundance of red links on List of defunct shopping malls. P.Shack 20:43, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Image:AntiWarRallyFeb162003.jpg and New antisemitism

Greetings Nagel, I would recommend that you just add the {{ifd}} tag to that image. The talk page reasoning is extremely valid and additionally the fact that the usage of the image is so against Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons policy that Misplaced Pages can't even credit the artist on the image page (ie: The copyright holder's name is available on request.) combined with the fact that the creative commons license is only for the photograph and not the actual art itself (a photograph of an artist's work does not convey the artist's image rights to the photographer). (→Netscott) 21:53, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

The more you keep trying, the more you expose your POV. ←Humus sapiens 03:19, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

List of Messianic Jewish leaders

I understand and AGF, they intentionally use a similar name to confuse people. ←Humus sapiens 03:19, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Good books

Getting to YES and Getting past No. Highly recommended. --Deodar 01:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup?

I think it's a little harsh to drop a "cleanup" tag on The Silver Branch (Sutcliff novel) with a note "needs a bookbox and ISBN". Request for expansion, perhaps, but cleanup? What is a bookbox, how am I to find out, and why an ISBN? They're tied to individual editions of books, no, so will the ISBN for a 1970/80s edition of a 1950s novel (and I have some of this vintage) be any use? Telsa (talk) 12:15, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages knows quite a bit about ISBN numbers. Take a look at the article, which now has a book infobox. The ISBN number leads you to library catalogs and booksellers. Click on it and see what happens. --John Nagle 17:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

The human herding question...

Hi Nagle, you weighed in with helpful input on the Talk:Herd behavior page about a potential MERGE a while back. It appears that a wiki-consensus has been reached on the merge. There is now a question as to the best name for the new page. I would very much like to have a decently wide consensus before we merge the two (still muddled) articles, so if you would be willing to weigh in, that would really help. (as would input from any other interested wikipedians) N2e 16:36, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Allegations of Israeli apartheid

Regarding your comment that I "continually object to anti-Israel sources" and that I revert if anyone puts them in, here are diffs showing I added material from Ali Abunimah, an American-Palestinian writer; from Jamal Zahalka; an Israeli-Arab member of the Knesset; and from Azmi Bishara; another Israeli-Arab member of the Knesset. All three believe that the term "Israeli apartheid" is accurate.

Have you ever added pro-Israel material to this or any other article?

Please correct what you wrote. SlimVirgin 22:49, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

I get along well with Nagle and not with SlimVirgin, but even I have to admit that SlimVirgin has a long history of good service to Misplaced Pages. Nagle, I think you should give SlimVirgin the benefit of the doubt here. --Ideogram 05:57, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm being too harsh, perhaps. SlimVirgin isn't that bad. But there is an ongoing ownership issue with some articles, particularly that one. --John Nagle 06:12, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Please be patient. She can be abrasive but she means well. --Ideogram 07:36, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Gimble System

Just a quick note on this one. A gimble system is a real and probably notable enough camera term. But in this case, the article is likely a copyvio: . I'm not entirely clear on whether this would qualify as db-copyvio, but if so, it may be worth retagging. ScottW 03:24, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it's Gimbal, which we already have. --John Nagle 04:24, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Ah, of course. I was kind of surprised that this was the first time someone had made an entry. Thanks for pointing that out. ScottW 11:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Please justify your action with regard to "Hasbara Fellowships"

That was the justification: the article failed notability standards and was a violation of Misplaced Pages policy and US copyright law in that it was little more than a verbatim copy of this Web site. Please read policy and the law before you ask that I "justify" anything. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 08:23, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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proposed merger of blister steel into crucible steel

You suggested the merger. I have commented on this several times (but no one else has). Could you please look at it?Peterkingiron 23:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: "Apartheid wall" / "Separation fence"

I understand the problems you might have, and I acknowledge that its inclusion in the timeline might be subject to a discussion determining what is or is not relevant. However, it is mentioned in the entry, which is where one can find reference to the arguments "alleging apartheid". Cheers, Tewfik 22:33, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

It's a mess again; take a look at the last few edits. Someone put in a quote, that got a "citation needed", and if that's left in, it will be deleted. So I put in "called apartheid wall by critics", which is accurate, verifiable, and not too slanted either way. The magic words have to be in there or the usual suspects will delete it as "original research". --John Nagle 00:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you didn't leave this comment on my talk like the last one, but you must be mistaken about what you described. I see no {{cn}} tags or any other edits to the timeline other than yours...(?) Tewfik 02:09, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

This edit added a {{fact}} tag, which outputs "Citation needed". --John Nagle 03:13, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Despite having looked twice, I missed that. As an aside, the timeline is beggining to verge on OR at this point, and I'm afraid that unless very specific criteria are laid out, it would probably be best not to have it at all. Cheers, Tewfik 21:03, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Please don't

...post rubbish warnings on my talk page. I've removed it. <<-armon->> 22:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Paige White vandalism

My assertion would be that some kid called up a few friends and they decided to hit the same article. I'm thinking that's plausible because even with a dynamic IP, don't most ISPs release periodically as opposed to each time you turn off your NIC? I see you have invented an algorithm. As impressive as that may be, I am solely responsible for the 8th layer of the OSI reference model. the_undertow 22:13, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Hollywood undead

I tend to agree, but it was a borderline decision, and sine they do seem to have generated a fair amount of publicity, I thought this at least deserved a formal AfD process. I wouldn't know one of their songs if you blew my ears out with it. My view is purely procedural. The article had been salted, and then after the latest author to start the article (an apparent newbie) had presented quite a few reliable-source citations in the talk page (the only place she could since the main page was salted), and she asked if the page could be reinstated or at least subjected to a deletion review or AfD. I had been the last editor to tag it for a speedy, so I asked an admin (User:NawlinWiki) to unsalt it so the procedure could be carried out. Alas, you tagged it and someone ellse speedy-deleted it before this could take place. I would like to put it back and then begin a formal AfD process, just so we can have something to fall back on when another fan of this band comes along. They seem to have just enough notability to make it a little more than a straight speedy -- and believe me, I've been known to speedy-tag half a dozen new article about bands in less than an hour. Realkyhick 06:42, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

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This case wasn't malformatted, it was poorly justified. I closed it and archived it. --Akhilleus (talk) 18:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

The comment you used closing it was "(Open cases - archiving closed cases; removing malformatted case)". Why do you think it unjustified? When the first postings from an anon are reverts in a disputed area, there's probable cause for investigation, per WP:SOCK: Not surprisingly, sock puppet accounts usually show much greater familiarity with Misplaced Pages and its editing process than most newcomers. They are more likely to use edit summaries, immediately join in edit wars, or participate vocally in procedures like Articles for deletion or Requests for adminship as part of their first few edits. They are also more likely to be brand new or a single purpose account when looking at their contributions summary. I don't really think Jayjg personally was editing as an anon. But it does look like tag-team reversion / meatpuppetry, which WP:SOCK says should be reported as a sockpuppet. If no suspicious edits from anons appear in the relevant articles for a while, I'll consider the problem solved. --John Nagle 18:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Nonsense

Prove it? what nonsense am i adding? Ksharpe126

Article Ksharpe126, which you created, consists of one word: "bleh". --John Nagle 19:20, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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G'day John,

thanks for your message. I'm aware that the original author didn't do much with the page initially, and then blanked it. Ordinarily I'd have happily deleted it.

In this particular case, however, you moved information from it into another article with an edit summary explaining the merge. This is a Good Thing, but it means we can't delete the original article. The reason for this is that all Misplaced Pages contributions are licensed under the GFDL, which requires attribution for every change. At the moment, someone who wants to know who found those references (I assume the references agree with the article?) will see in the history that it was someone from Cellulose acetate film, and looking in that history, will find the real contributor. Without the article, it looks like Nagle (talk · contribs) was the culprit instead.

Now, that's quite involved and messy, and it's been said that Misplaced Pages's GFDL compliance is ... lacking in some respects. This is true. But it's the best system we've got, and it's why we never delete merge targets (unless the deleting admin suffers a momentary lapse of reason, of course). Cheers, fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 12:35, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

That makes sense. We need the history. --John Nagle 15:50, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

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I've blocked you for 8 hours for 3RR on Jewish lobby. You're a very good editor and you've been here long enough to know better. Please engage in less blind reverting and more discussion when the block expires. JoshuaZ 01:18, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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An anonymous editor of collision detection has twice deleted a passage of the article which compares collision detection to root finding, because this editor does not see how these two are related. I have reverted him twice, but due to Misplaced Pages editing guidelines, I am reticent to revert him any more. From your background, I would assume that you understand what's going on, so why don't you drop by on the talk page and give your opinion? Loisel 16:04, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

John,

You should add the comment you made on my page to the discussion on collision detection.

Also, I come from a different background. My technique for doing kinematics is to use an adaptive RK method with dense output. This way you have a polynomial approximation of the path which is good to 10^-6 or whatever your tolerance is. Then I use the Durand-Kerner method to find the roots.

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That seems silly. Were the image not under a free license, it would probably not meet WP:NFCC since it doesn't contributed significantly to the article. And it'd be a bit contradictory for me to write a fair use rationale if I don't know if it should be in the article or if I don't think it should. That's the responsibility of the uploader. ShadowHalo 01:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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No, I didn't semi-protect it. I'm not an administrator, for a start. It has been semi-protected for some time. All I did was categorize the page correctly (into Category:Semi-protected redirects). My previous edits were simply an attempt to create a stub rather than a disambiguation page that didn't actually disambiguate anything (by merit of having only one item in it) – Gurch 16:44, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for spotting that. I did not realize that until after I had added the merge template. --rxnd ( t | € | c ) 04:39, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Apartheid wall request for protection

Hello. It seems this thing has started over, and that you were involved in it before; I not sure about procedure, I haven't myself been involved in that kind of thing before.--Victor falk 13:46, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Looks like you're handling it, which is fine with me. --John Nagle 01:57, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't think the bug still exists, as I believe I've seen that technique applied quite frequently. WP:BATTLE comes to mind. Tewfik 04:10, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

The Yes Guy

Hi John. My recommendation would be to just keep an eye on it and make sure the speedy template stays put, regardless of sock puppets, etc. I suspect an admin will come across it, realize it for the nonsense it is and delete it. I'm not sure what WP:Deletion says about deletion after the hangon template is placed, but I've seen admins delete obvious nonsense even with the template placed. I recommend you contact Irishguy who seems rather active in deletions tonight. And I'll keep an eye on the article too. Cheers! Douglasmtaylor 01:56, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. Maybe there's some hope of turning him into a good editor. Let's see what happens by tomorrow. --John Nagle 02:00, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Pacific Prime Insurance Brokers Tags

Thanks for giving the article the benefit of the doubt instead of blithley deleting it.. Please let me know what i can do to improve the content etc... Scrugbyhk 04:05, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

The best thing is to find external neutral sources, like magazine articles, about the company, and cite them. --John Nagle 04:03, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Apartheid Wall

See the discussion on WP:AN. ELIMINATORJR 02:23, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

You've had your first run-in with Jayjg (talk · contribs), after being an admin for two days. I see your frustration. It's not that serious. Take a look at his edit history. He works on Israel-related issues full time, and he's usually feuding with somebody. He's been admonished by ArbComm twice, once in 2005 and once in 2006. He does good work as an admin most of the time, which is why he's still an admin, and he works very hard, but is inclined towards tantrums when he doesn't get what he wants. --John Nagle 04:10, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

I just read through the whole Jewish Lobby talk page and it certainly was an education in wikilawyering! Noticed both your last section entry and your note on the bottom of Jayjig's page. It seems that there are less obstructionist people doing some edits now - and that the article is as messy as ever and needs work which I don't have time to do.

Plus it seems absurd that even references to "Jewish lobbies" where Jews lobby together on legitimate issues like anti-Semitism within a country or against any discriminatory laws against Jews would NOT be covered in such an article. Jewish lobby (disambiguation) at very least should link to whatever wiki article there might be for Jews lobbying as Jews. I wish SOMEONE would just go back in there and clean it up. Carol Moore 03:03, 11 November 2007 (UTC)User:Carolmooredc User talk:Carolmooredc

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I have commented there. Since the account is currently not active would it be okay to remove the report? If it starts up again you could contact me, or re-report it. LessHeard vanU 20:05, 25 August 2007 (UTC) (I don't know why the talkpage is red and there are no contribs, since I copied it from AIV - oh, well! LessHeard vanU 20:09, 25 August 2007 (UTC))

Discussion steps before next poll or RM

Greetings. I've noticed some of your comments before but I don't think we've ever talked (so to speak). As you probably know, I've began trying to help shape discussions about the article name a few weeks ago. Anyway, I'd like to talk to you because I feel frustrated by your recent comment and DNFT logo at at AoIA. Or, emotions aside, I am concerned about your recent comment aims to frustrate (i.e. nullify) my latest step in trying to facilitate discussion on the article name.

Here's what I gather are your concerns: You don't like the flurry of recent polling/RMs. You see them as a drain and as disruptive. You also see them as premature, given the pending ArbCom case. You seem esp annoyed at greg's recent attempt, so close on the heels of his previous RM and poll. Ok, I can share much of your concern. I agree that such polling is disruptive and counter-productive. (Indeed, a few weeks ago I started a straw poll and quickly rescinded it for this reason.) In my recent comments to greg, I spoke again his polling.

Incidentally, though, I think that greg is not a "troll" per se, if only because he's not deliberately and intentionally disruptive. Mostly, he seems over-enthusiastic and trying to rush deliberations. He even said he felt "rebuked" by my comments. Granted, faced with sharper opposition, he defended and did not withdraw the RM. Nevertheless, as mentioned in the misuse of process section, greg seems like somebody who doesn't realize that the polling/RM process needs to be more restrained. Anyway, and please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think you consider my contributions as trolling. Right?

However, your DNFT is placed after my effort to resist polling/voting, and instead promote discussion and analysis. If your "troll" concern is with the repeated polling, would you please consider moving the DNFT further up the page? Of course, besides the DNFT concern, you also said "We don't need to have this discussion again in yet another location. It's time for the people who want to rename the article to just stop for a while." This seems unnecessary. If Tiamut, Andyvphil, BYT, Alithien, I, and maybe others want to try to synthesize the pro/con arguments, I don't quite see why you'd want to discourage us. I can appreciate you may be weary of the votes, but that doesn't quite seem like grounds for us to stop discussions. Indeed, to avoid useful polls/RM, guidelines suggest that further discussion is warranted. So, I am respectfully asking you to consider retracting your objection, or at least respond to my User Talk about your thinking on this matter. Thanks for hearing me out. HG | Talk 03:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

You wrote "You really deserve to be commended for persevering with the needed renaming, Greg, and for your previous effort with the requested move." That seems to assume that there is a need for renaming, and that that efforts to rename it must persist until renaming occurs. After six failed AfDs, two arbitrations, and some number of rejected rename attempts, starting yet another discussion about renaming issues really does approach trolling. --John Nagle 05:57, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm. I do tend to persist in Talk discussion efforts. Point taken. I've been trying to keep a discussion on track since Aug 7th. I was mostly on wikibreak Aug 12-28 (a period w/some unnecessary voting). Alithien first suggested the synthesis of arguments (10:02, 16 August 2007 (UTC)) instead of voting and upon my return I'm following that constructive idea. But persistent talking is not trolling. To put the DNTF label next to my/Alithien's suggestion is to imply that we are trolling, a serious charge of User misconduct, "bad faith" and "a program of malice". If you think our persistent talk "does approach trolling" -- but you agree that we are not acting with malice or bad faith -- kindly remove the DNTF. Meanwhile, I will formulate a response to calmly explain why I believe further discussion (contra voting) is worthwhile. Thanks again for being responsive yourself. HG | Talk 11:58, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

P.S. In my comment that you've quoted, I agree that it sounds like I commend his previous RM (but meaning his effort, i.e. motivation). But my comment does go on to rebuke his call for a vote. What if my opening sentence read: "You really deserve to be commended for persevering with the needed renaming, Greg, but to call a vote on another specific title is ill-advised and could be disruptive." Though you don't agree on the need for renaming, John, would you find that approach more constructive? HG | Talk 12:09, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

• Ok. Here's why I think the title is worth further discussion. I hope you'll read through it. Even though you will disagree with my analysis, I think you'll recognize that I am motivated by viable reasoning, not malice or bad faith. Please reply either way. Thanks! HG | Talk 16:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Just wanted to encourage you again to look at the link, above, if you don't mind. Thanks. HG | Talk 01:33, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

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Legal Aspects of Ritual Slaughter

I've set up a request for comments at Talk:Bans on ritual slaughter#Request for comments and will leave the article as it is pending the outcome of community input. I've made requests to both the law/society and religion lists. Best, --Shirahadasha 02:08, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Greetings. Hopefully, you'll be pleased with this. I moved (i.e., renamed) the bans article to Legal aspects of ritual slaughter. This doesn't rule out the possibility of merger into the main article ritual slaughter, though I don't think it's necessary anymore myself. Thanks, HG | Talk 23:43, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi! Appreciate your cleanup efforts. Just wanted to mention Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (headings)#Linking (Yeah, a whole manual of style article and not a short one just on headings). Best, --Shirahadasha 02:44, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I have proof read my translation of the motion in the Swedish Riksdag so it should read smoother in the talk page on Ritual slaughter RPSM 02:15, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

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I still haven't gone through the editing tutorial, so sorry, I have got those red things. I was just doing it by feel, sorry about that RPSM 02:33, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Help? Samson Option Article Problems

Thought I'd try you before try "editor assistance" with someone who might find it too trying :-)

Special:Contributions/Tewfik works on the issue from military perspective (evidently 9-5) and wants the whole article merged into nuclear weapons and Israel where it is one sentence with a reference that gives little details.

I am re-writing article to deal with any of his legitimate criticisms, but since his goal is to delete the article, I question the good faith of his criticisms/wiki-lawyering. The only other editor, who had good suggestions, seems to have withdrawn from the discussion.

ESPECIALLY annoying are his deleting quotes from Israel leaders which are the only evidence anyone has of what their nuclear policy is!! You can see them in his mass deletion edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Samson_Option&diff=169360776&oldid=169360633

I’m still willing to put the allegedly “inflammatory” statements by Israel supporters that are widely publicized into a “controversies” section, but those are the kinds of comments that make the topic worthy of its own article! Which is why he wants them out.

I am about to put up the much improved article, but I know he’ll revert everything - especially quotes – with usual or new excuses. So is there some phrase or defense I can use against this or should I go straight to arbitration when it happens? Don't want to have to do that.

Please feel free to look at article, though you might wait to comment until I put up newest improved version later today and he reverts it :-) If you know anyone interested in topic who wants to take a look, send them along. I'm looking around myself. Carol Moore 16:48, 12 November 2007 (UTC)User:Carolmooredc User talk:Carolmooredc

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Nagle's Algothirm Edit & Findings

I am becoming increasingly concerned. The Nagle's algothrithm isnt actually listed in the patch notes for WoW despite edits to both the WoW Wiki and Misplaced Pages (using the wiki itself as a reference. Can you confirm that you are not involved in this 'prank' and that the algorithm is actually notable enough to be listed. At the moment it looks like blatant self-promotion. 21:11, 9 January 2008 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philipwhiuk (talk • contribs)

I have no idea what this is about. Are you concerned that some game or game site is promoting itself on Misplaced Pages, or what? It's not unusual for games to turn off the Nagle algorithm in TCP, though, in an attempt to cut lag. Network overhead goes up, and lag goes down. I try not to edit that article unless it's factually wrong. You can add references if you like; the algorithm is in the standard textbooks on TCP. --John Nagle (talk) 23:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikia Annex is a conflict of interest

I am sort of astounded that so many Wikipedians would defend the Wikia Annex, even if it meant only a 5% threat of the IRS shutting down the 501(c)3 status of the Foundation. This investigative piece may interest you, if you haven't already discovered it. - John Russ Finley (talk) 17:25, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Jewish lobby article

John, I wanted to talk with you about your recent (last week's worth) edits to the Jewish lobby article.

I have two concerns.

One, you're edit warring, and you need to back off that and use the talk page more. You know the rules on this, and I'd appreciate it if you just try to stick to them rather than get yourself in trouble fighting over stuff in article space.

Two, you seem to be consistently talking right past what Jay and Armon are saying on the talk page. The difference between a source documenting usage of a term, and a source documenting significance and definition of a term are two very different things. Anyone can run a google search and find a large number of instances of usage of the term. I don't think anyone doubts or disputes that. Those are factual and real. But those also don't help us define the term, put it into context, describe why it matters and is encyclopedic and so forth.

A linguist, or social or politics commentator, could do an opinion or linguistics research article on the term based on that sort of google search. That independent referencable writeup would then be a source which Misplaced Pages could use. But doing that directly as part of the Misplaced Pages article itself is a violation of WP:NOR as Jay and Armon are pointing out to you.

I'm assuming good faith in this, but there's clearly a problem here. I would appreciate it if you could address the specific issue of original research in the article and sources selection, etc. Preferably on the article talk page, so that everyone can join in appropriately and find some common ground for agreement.

Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 00:13, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah. But the article isn't about the term as an linguistic abstraction. That's what Wictionary is for. It's about the Jewish lobby, which, from the evidence, exists. --John Nagle (talk) 01:01, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I saw your note about the Dr Drakken account. Their initial edits from Dec 30 appear new-user-ish, but I see why you're suspicious. I'll take a closer look this afternoon. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 21:19, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Spivey Records

Hi, John Nagle. I'm sorry you think the Spivey Records article is written like an advertisement. I was attempting to make the entry comprehensive, and was one album away from completion, when you slapped your "advertisement" warning on it. A terrible shock for me, which I have not recovered from. My interest in this article was simply that I used to collect Spivey Records and thought it was an interesting, little-known blues label. When I saw your suggestion that the article be merged with Victoria Spivey, I thought I would respond by making the article interesting and list the albums. I thought I had improved the text, which previously contained some howlers about Bob Dylan's recording career, but clearly you are not impressed. I did try to explain what I was doing on the Spivey talk page, where we were encouraged to post our views on the issue of to merge or not to merge. ] Perhaps we could communicate on that Talk page. pax vobiscum Mick gold (talk) 18:08, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Spivey Records, Part 2

I have replied to the issues you raised about Spivey Records Mick gold (talk) 08:12, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Check for sock-master

I see you're reporting another possible sock-puppet at the ArbCom.

You might be interested to check the editing pattern of your suspect against that of User:Isarig. Oh, no, you can't do that, since the account for Isarig, a very busy editor over several years, who was still around a few months ago (maximum) has been deleted, so you can't check!. PR 16:19, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Spivey Records, Part 3

A second Misplaced Pages editor (who is an internationally renowned authority on blues records) has responded to the issues you raised concerning Spivey Records Mick gold (talk) 19:16, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

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Revert limitation

Based on my investigation of a complaint at WP:AE, I am applying the general sanctions enacted at Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles as follows:

• You are placed on revert limitation. You are limited to one revert per week per page on all pages related to the conflict area, excepting obvious vandalism, subject to a 24 hour block per violation. Reverts must be discussed on the talk page. Mischaracterization of content disputes as "vandalism" will double the block. This restriction expires in 30 days (22 February 2008, 00:00 UTC) unless extended. Thatcher 01:58, 23 January 2008 (UTC)