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Thanks for correcting me - here - on the community ban. Time to RTFM again! Angus McLellan (Talk) 21:40, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Law/Assessment

Hello, I've made some suggestions for the assessment department for WP Law and listed them at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Law/Assessment. I can help with a lot of whatever is needed to update the assessment department for WP Law. I do some assessment in WP Tax but I want to include assessment in WP Law as well particularly since there are so many unassessed articles. EECavazos (talk) 21:16, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Thnaks

thanks for order

Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 06:37, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

ANI archiving

Ahhh, thank you so much for helping me try to archive WP:ANI! I thought I was the only one getting enraged at sitting there watching that whole stupid page load in my browser. (BTW, your talk page could use a bit of a snip too! ) —Wknight94 (talk) 19:00, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Heh, no problem  :) Google is ticking me off so much though...refusing to load and all...of all the times it doesn't work. Ncmvocalist (talk) 19:22, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

I was just coming here to say the same thing! Isn't there a bot that archives, though, or has this seriously always been manually done? I'm sure I missed the memo. I can help as well here and there, what parameters are you using to archive? 24hrs? 48? Keeper ǀ 76 19:48, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

The bot does it based on inactivity in the thread... which means that it can't use human judgment to see which threads are obviously over and done with, even if they've only been inactive for a short period of time. --Jaysweet (talk) 19:54, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

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That bot goes either too slow or too fast - not that I can blame it; it'll never know if something is actually resolved or not. It's set at archiving threads that don't get responses for 24 hours. I wanted to archive about 10 resolved threads (some aren't marked either!) yesterday, but thought I'd leave it for a day - got rid of them into the archives with some more now. :) Not using any real parameters - generally, if it's something that's done from my own judgement, I've put it away. Ncmvocalist (talk) 20:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

• I wonder if a 12 hour absence of action might be a more useful parameter - it gives the half of the world that was asleep when the discussion paused chance to add to it if required... Obviously, there will still be the "Please will admin close XfD" - "Done" that can clear, but anything that has/requests opinion should be kept for a while longer (IMO). — Preceding unsigned comment added by LessHeard vanU (talk • contribs)

I just wanted to take the time to thank you for archiving AN/I. Great work. It needs it. Synergy 14:38, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Apologies

I was doing several things at once and thought that was on the main AN/I page. Apologies. -Jéské 20:19, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

It's okay. :) Ncmvocalist (talk) 09:13, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

I read it

I read it quite clearly. If you had actually read what I wrote, you would notice that 1) I expressed dissatisfaction that the thread was closed only 8 minutes after the last message and 2) that I felt administrator action may still be required. Part of a section being "closed" doesn't mean the entire section is closed as I frequently see sub sections of discussions closed while the debate carries on around them. 90 minutes after a comment in a section is too soon to archive it, whether you feel further admin intervention is required or not, obviously another editor did.--Crossmr (talk) 05:18, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Kossack4Truth topic ban

MastCell just clarified this. Kossack4Truth is under restriction as per this discussion on ANI--Cailil 17:08, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

What to do?

I guess you've followed it, so I'm not adding anything really. I just noticed (via an indirect mention on Talk:Obama), that Kossack4Truth filed both a 3RR and a WP:ANI with various accusations against me. No notice on my talk page about any of this, of course (by anyone, interestingly). It appears the complaint tries to muster together four distinct edits I made, concerning two completely unrelated topics on the Obama page. It's frustrating, obviously; but it does appear that the various admins, including you, did the right thing with the reports.

I'm a bit worried about what to do with such things into the future. Of course, I may or may not learn of any administrative pages at all. But I more-or-less assume that K4T will continue to try to incite conflict and engage in various wikilawyering. I suppose in this case, the fact I never saw it until everything was already closed was for the best. Any sage words on how to walk the line of contentious editors while trying to keep hot-button articles free of unencyclopedic content? LotLE×talk 00:36, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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Stop archiving the Bedford thread - it's now open to review, it's not just resolved like that. Ryan Postlethwaite 15:54, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Beat me to it, but I hope you see NCM that I'm not the only bothered by your presumptive editing here. Beam 15:59, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

You're right..

ANi is not a forum. And, following that correct statement, you are not the owner of that forum. I don't take particular issue with your manual archiving (others do), although it worries me that your judgement is apparently supreme, but 7 minutes after a unilateral 'founder backed and enacted' desysop and you want to stop the convo? C'mon, it's not a forum, but this is a big event. Until there is a satisfactory way to comment on this event or until the community decides that ANi isn't the right place to discuss this happening why don't you chill out? Go have a cigarette, come back in 20 minutes. Respectfully and peacefully, Beam 15:58, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Sometimes it's funny like that. The most stupid lamest things end up being the loudest most asshole filled threads and then the most serious issues are calm and civil. Beam 19:30, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee report

You have been named as a party in a report seeking a hearing by the Arbitration Committee concerning events at Talk:Barack Obama and WP:ANI. I have posted the report at the Talk Page for WP:RFAR since the main page is semi-protected. Feel free to add your statement, and please transfer the report to the main RFAR page if you see fit to do so. Thanks. 74.94.99.17 (talk) 18:53, 27 July 2008 (UTC)