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This user is a member of the Misplaced Pages Ultra Secret Inner Inner Cabal, a cabal so secret that not only am I not allowed to know who the other members are, I am not even allowed to know if there are any other members, and if I ever did find out that anyone else was a member I would have to kill them immediately. You can contact WUSIIC on #wikipedia-ultra-secret-inner-inner-cabal on Freenode. As a courtesy you are requested to kill yourself afterwards.

JzG is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Misplaced Pages after a few days.

My crap Stuff and nonsense This user is an administrator on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify) This user has a userpage on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. 15,000+ This user has made over 15,000 contributions to Misplaced Pages Smert' spamionem! This user is a member of WikiProject Spam. BEng This user has a Bachelor of Engineering degree. Reading December 2024 30 Monday 8:03 pm UTC Were this admin to act in a foolish, trollish, or dickish way, he is open to being slapped with a large trout.

I check in most evenings, and occasionally some days during the day. I am on UK time (I can see Greenwich Royal Observatory from my office). If you post a reply at 8pm EST and get no reply by 10pm, it's likely because I'm asleep. My wiki interests at the moment are limited. I still handle some OTRS tickets.

Dispute resolution, Bible style - and actually an excellent model on Misplaced Pages as well.

If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.'

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

— Matthew 18:15

Please do not try to provoke me to anger, it's not difficult to do, so it's not in the least bit clever, and experience indicates that some at least who deliberately make my life more miserable than it needs to be, have been banned and stayed that way. Make an effort to assume good faith and let's see if we can't get along. Guy (Help!) 22:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• Please see User:JzG/Harassment links.

the internets is populated by eggshells armed with hammers

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• User talk:Raul654/Civil POV pushing - extremely interesting debate on what I feel is one of the worst problems on Misplaced Pages right now.

Note to self

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Istria&diff=192329190&oldid=189359747

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Cycling events

Argh - just realised you are a cycling fan anyway so removed this mini-rant ;-)

WP:ANI

Following your note her, can you remind him to stop things such as . -- User:Docu

Wikibreak

I'm taking a few days off, I have some things that a re filling my time and Misplaced Pages is (as always) an irresistable distraction. Guy

Earthquake engineering

Sorry to pester, but Talk:Earthquake engineering#Situation needs the input of a cool, patient head. My own is sore from banging it against the wall for the last couple of days. Apparently we can't commit plagiarism on Misplaced Pages, because we're not 'authors' — we're 'Wikipedians'.

Shustov doesn't seem to see why he should fix his own copy & paste work unless someone else (me, to be specific) hunts down all his copying. Either he can't remember what he copied himself, or can't be bothered to figure it out. I'm *this* close to stripping the article back to a stub, and restoring only original content that I can verify was added by other editors. Bloody nuisance, it is. If he is who he claims to be, shouldn't he know better? TenOfAllTrades(talk) 18:07, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for having a look in. As I look at the rest of the article, I'm starting to wonder if all of Shustov's contributions are "good and original". There's still more plagiarized stuff that I haven't reported on the talk page. There's also quite a bit that is directly copied out of Shustov's own work. (Depending on where, or if, he's published it there probably isn't a copyright or licensing problem, but I do worry about the undue weight and conflict of interest issues.) It's very worrying, and stubbing the article – while I meant it as hyperbole before – might actually be the only way to get a 'clean' article. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:36, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

It is my strong suspicion that he is engaging in original research and novel synthesis, as well as plagiarism, but I do not know the subject well enough. Guy (Help!) 20:38, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm. Well, looking at his contributions to earthquake engineering, explosion protection, shake-table video, and the others, he certainly doesn't seem to have trouble referring to his own work in our articles.... TenOfAllTrades(talk) 03:33, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Probable troll

This is a little random, but I'm coming to you because you don't put up with nonsense from disruptive editors. Would you please have a look at Mwahcysl (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and his contributions? I honestly don't see any constructive edits, and while he's not a vandal per se, edits such as and and make me question his purposes here. If you think this should be raised instead at the drama board, I'll gladly take it there. Thanks! // Chris 21:51, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Again on Cold Fusion

Hi JzG, sorry to bother you again, but it seems we have a little problem on it.wiki. BTW of the blacklisted site, there's an user that states there's also useful material, freely released by scientists who wrote about Cold Fusion, and asked for those documents to be whitelisted. Now the question is: have en.wiki either blacklisted the whole site or left some deeplinks to some given documents in white list (In other words: what do we lose in terms of knowledge if we blacklist that site)? Thanks again for your attention. Sergio † BC™ (Write me!) 18:35, 5 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackcat it (talk • contribs)

• Some of it is not freely released, and much of it is heavily editorialised. It fails our reliable sourcing guidelines, and I would bet even money that it it is Jed Rothwell (the site owner) who is arguing for it. Guy (Help!) 13:22, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Guy, that's an inappropriate comment, it's irrelevant who raised the issue. The use of a total advocacy site as a place to view released documents that were themselves from a reliable source is an appropriate use, provided the link is specific, i.e., just picks up the document and not the framing that may be placed by the site owner. (A more general pointing to a page that contains the document or a link to it might be proper, but is definitely more questionable.) The site might contain a *lot* of material that is inappropriate and unusable, but that should not prevent usage of what is appropriate. The needs of the project and of the readers should be paramount, and being able to read original articles serves both. Further, when the topic is the controversy, sometimes reference to advocacy sites is relevant, under some conditions, as a source that an attributed claim from a notable source was made. These are decisions, ultimately, to be made by consensus. --Abd (talk) 15:09, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I do not know I if I really want to get involved with this issue, but it seems to me that enforcing "reliable sourcing guidelines" is a missuse of the SPAM blacklisting process. At a minimum it creates the impression that blacklisting is used to enforce a POV, or win edit wars. I hinted at the problem earlier on User:Jehochman's talk page: Misuse of spam filter to enforce POV. I did not complain to you directly, as I did not think you were a party in this debate. Anyway, this is what I said earlier:

In these two edits User JzG (talk · contribs) removed vital references from the article on Martin Fleischmann. The first was the removal of the URL-line in an well formed {{Citation}} template, the referred file being a PDF copy of a peer-reviewed paper in Physics Letters A, available on-line at a cold fusion related repository lenr-canr.org. The second was the complete removal of the reference to the original press real, on-line at newenergytimes.com. I tried to restore the link and reference, but was prevented by the spam filter. I do not know what is happening here, but I find it very fishy.

-- Petri Krohn (talk) 13:56, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Vital references? I don't think so. Not when they are published on the hack website of a fringe group. Anything truly vital will be published in, and citable from, a reliable source rather than something like lenr-canr, which has been relentlessly spammed and promoted by the site owner to the point that he is now de facto banned. Guy (Help!) 15:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Am I to understand from your comment, that you are personally involved in this editing dispute? -- Petri Krohn (talk) 15:50, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't know if routine process for challenging spam filter inclusion has been followed yet. If the sites were added by Guy, then, of course, requesting that he reverse this would be an early step. Above, there is implied such a request. It looks like Guy denied it. Okay, next step. --Abd (talk) 15:09, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Just driving by, but there are many cases where crappy sites are listed in the spam blacklist and in the XlinkxRevertBot lists just for being crappy unreliable sites, even though they are not "spammed" per se. It isn't an abuse of process, it's just a poorly named list.—Kww(talk) 16:22, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks for your attention JzG, are you going to include lenr-canr.org in meta.wikimedia's spam list too? Sergio † BC™ (Write me!) 18:19, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

On DickLyon

Hello JzG. You have been a little involved in editing the articles related to Blanchard's theory Bailey's book, etc. You likely have read what goes on between myself and DickLyon. Could you help me to resolve my apparently personal dispute with DickLyon? I know we disagree over the merger proposal. This is not about that. This is about the fact that I provide reasons for why I write what I write and he just insults me. I have never insulted him in any way.

Now I am no angel. The user Jokestress and I have mixed it up in the past. Last time out she took the fact that I was the guest of a border in the home of Dierdre Mc Closkey (You should have an idea of who that is from reading on the subject if nothing else). She wrote that I broke into her house. I threatened legal action. Yeah I sould not have done that. I believe an admin or bureaucrat totally deleted that text because I have tried to find it. I also mixed it up with the user User:AliceJMarkham she took it as an insult that I refered to him as a male. But "Alice" said on her talk page] "I am a Transgendered person. More specifically, a male who cross-dresses as a female." The last user I called female by assuming from their name and user page was MariontheLibrarian who is known now as user James cantor. I plead no contest to not being a wiki saint.

However Dick's insults feel different. Because he basically has decided he is not going to write anything and will just complain in a way that is at least impolite if not outright insulting. He may be refarining from editing the actual article due to COI. But if that's the case then how can his COI not invalidate his comments on talk pages? That's not what I am going for though.

Basically what I want is to avert this mess going to a higher level of conflict resolution. Please help. --Hfarmer (talk) 23:00, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, JzG, from the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Willking1979 (talk) 13:47, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Please remove lenr-canr.org from the spam blacklist

JzG, please remove lenr-canr.org, added by you December 18, 2008, to the local spam blacklist. This is a library of papers and the decision to link to an individual paper, as citations, which you have made impossible by the blacklisting, is one which should be made individually, citation by citation. On the face of it, lenr-canr, as a library of papers, would be a source which we should allow as an external link; however, this is a separate matter. Your use of your administrative tools, in this case, may have been improper, you are clearly involved.

It's much simpler if you remove the site than if we go through more complex processes involving other editors. Thanks. --Abd (talk) 19:43, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

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