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Have a great break

Have a great break from the fun and frolics of Misplaced Pages. But don't forget to come back, now. We need sane contributors to balance the insane ones. lol Slán User talk:Jtdirl 03:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

I just love that comment. lol. And so true. User talk:Jtdirl 03:35, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

You know where to find me :) Redwolf24 (talk) 03:39, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Peace profound. encephalon 03:49, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

We'll meet again. Now, who said that? Titoxd 03:55, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Please do resume regular editing at some point at the future, but enjoy your break nonetheless :).--Sean|Black 05:08, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Enjoy your break, and come back soon! Flcelloguy (A note?) 21:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

More jokes as promised

There are two people walking down the street: one is a viola player...The other doesn't have any money either! :-D

Why don't viola players suffer from haemorrhoids? Because all the arseholes are in the violin section!

(one not relating to violas!) What happens when you play a blues song backwords? Your wife comes back to you, you get out of jail, your dog comes back to life...

Whats the definition of a gentleman? Someone who can play the viola, but doesn't!

Last one...How do you get the viola section to sound like the horn section? Have them miss every other note!

• P.S. Hurry back to the wiki KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 07:53, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi there Bratsche. I would like to thank you for your kind words on my talk page. I am back and editing again, much refreshed. Thanks again, hope you wont be gone too long. Cheers Banes 10:01, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for kindly welcoming me into Esperanza. I'm looking forward to being an active contributor when I am more able to take the time. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 15:49, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

re: Welcome to Esperanza!

Thanks for the informative note. I joined up because Esperanza kept me within the project a wee bit ago, and more importantly, showed me that other editors thought well of my contributions to the project. It's a fine idea... I'm glad to be a part of it. Thanks again, Blackcap (talk) 18:30, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Validation?

Hi! You said on TFD that "a validation Mediawiki feature is in the works, and should be deployed soon". Do you have some more information on this? Radiant_>|< 00:08, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your attention and your courtesy. Tom Haws 02:26, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your nomination and your kindness

Hi, Bratsche. Just want to say a big thank you for nominating me and also for the kind things you wrote about me. I was amazed at how much support I got from people with whom I disagree! I saw from your page recently that you weren't going to be around much, so I was very glad to see your congratulations on my page this morning, because I particularly wanted to thank you. Hope you'll be around a little more than you have indicated, and that I'll be able to help you some time. Thanks again. Cheers. AnnH 12:58, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

WP:MIND

Hello. Round four of Misplaced Pages Mind Benders will open on Thursday, December 1. This round will be drastically different from round three; part one will consist of a creative project, and part two will be developed from there. The full details will be released when the round opens. Time and speed should not be major factors in this round; thus, there is no exact opening time for the round as speed will not factor into the scoring. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 00:04, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

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Happy Thanksgiving!

SWD316 18:44, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza Elections

Hello, Bratsche. You haven't been here the last few days, so you basically missed a really sad day in Misplaced Pages. Essjay quit. :( He left instructions to start the Esperanza elections for both Tranche B of the Advisory Committee and for Admin General very soon. There is currently some discussion going backstage at Misplaced Pages talk:Esperanza/December 2005 elections, which you might be interested in seeing. Titoxd 01:12, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Babel

Could you consider adding this template to your userpage? It is very helpful in case translators are needed and such.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 15:41, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Viola Joke

Hi, Bratsche...don't want to bother you, so just reply when you get time.

I wanted to know if you had heard this viola joke: During a rehearsal, the conductor takes out a piece of music and says, "Let's begin at measure five." First chair violist replies, "Sorry, Maestro...we don't have measure numbers!"--ViolinGirl 23:28, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey, thanks! That was a really funny joke, I hadn't heard it before. (The idea behind mine is that violists can't count up to five! :) Ok, have a nice day!--ViolinGirl 17:32, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Administrator abuse

Hello, first of all, this is isn't about you! I'd like to know if you could check Zatanna article. I've been blocked for no reason because of a stupid content. The administrator Voice_of_All(MTG) (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) blocked me as you can see in here User talk:Red-skinned femme-fatale black-latex-clad b-tch from Hell. Thank you in advance! 200.162.245.104 16:42, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza elections

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EffK is forced to Abandon a Corrupted Misplaced Pages

I refer you to my response of a few moments ago at 15 December ],http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/EffK/Evidence#3_December_2005 EffK 03:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

News from Esperanza

Hello, fellow Esperanzians! This is just a friendly reminder that elections for Administrator General and two advisory council positions have just begun. Voting will last until Friday, December 30, so make sure you exercise your right to vote! Also, I'm pleased to announce the creation of the Esperanza mailing list. I urge all members to join; see Misplaced Pages:Esperanza/Contact for more information. All you need to do is email me and I will activate your account. This will be a great way to relax, stay in touch, and hear important announcements. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?)

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thanks

thanks for reverting that dumb vandal by that gay fool:P

you are an admin an't you?

>x<ino 05:01, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I seem to have caused trouble

Hi, Bratsche. It's always good to hear from you, even when the subject of your message is one that I don't feel particularly comfortable about :-( and I'm glad to see that you seem to be contributing regularly again.

I did not know Essjay particularly well, but was unhappy with his Misplaced Pages:Catholic Church of Misplaced Pages (now moved to User:Sam Korn/Catholic Church of Misplaced Pages), and I sent him a polite note a few months ago, pointing that out. He made it clear that he would be happy to userfy it, and that if it came to a vote, he expected that the members would vote to keep it, those who opposed would vote to delete it, and others would vote according to their conscience.

When you kindly nominated me for adminship, Essjay voted to support. (I don't know whether or not he had forgotten my name as one who had complained about his "church".) When my RfA was successful, I began to thank people, but got quite busy with assignments, and had to interrupt my thank yous. I still logged on occasionally, and during that period, Essjay's church did come to a vote. I voted to delete it., and he put a message on his user page (later deleted) saying something like "If it goes, I go. Permanently." I felt a bit embarrassed, knowing that he was one of the people I still had to thank, and that one of my first actions as an administrator had been to offend him, but I did not in any way regret having voted to delete that church. Then, although the vote had not closed and was very much looking like a "keep" consensus, he did a heavy edit on his userpage (now deleted), changing examples of "I am" to "Before I was martyred, I was". He also put Image:Wikistress3D 4 v3.jpg on his page, quoting underneath, as the caption, the words of Jesus from the Cross: "It is finished". He wrote on the church page: The Wikipope has been martyred. Support messages came flooding in, with remarks from his supporters about the people who hadn't been nice to him (presumably meaning those who had voted to delete his church). The wub posted to the vote for deletion page linking to that massive userpage edit (now a broken link because of the deletion) with "Congratulations!! Look what you did." A few people made snide remarks about his departure. I had no part in those remarks. The church was moved to Sam Korn's user space, and Sam edited with a remark about people "not being nice to one another"

When my college pressure died down a little, I resumed my thank yous. Having seen this, I decided not to thank Essjay. I did, however, thank Redwolf24 (who had been, as far as I know, a good friend of Essjay, and who had clearly supported that church), trying to explain the reason for my vote. I have not received a reply.

The next step in this saga was that Essjay came back, saw that R. fiend had edited an article and had then reverted three times, and mistakenly counted his edit as a revert, and blocked for making four reverts. I was sure (and am still sure) that there were not four reverts. I asked for advice here, and was told it would be appropriate to unblock. I did so, almost simultaneously with Sam Korn. Essjay came back and saw what we had done, reinstated the block, extended by twelve hours because R. fiend had reverted non-vandalism with the rollback button, left an indignant message on my talk page, another at Sam's, and another at R. fiend's. I saw this when I got up in the morning, but was rushing into work, and just left another message at WP:AN/3RR, hoping that someone else would deal with it. It was getting more and more embarrassing for me. I unexpectedly had a free period at work, logged on from a staff computer, saw that nobody else had handled it, so unblocked again. Another admin, Extreme Unction, left a message saying that it was clearly not a 3RR violation, and that he was going to unblock if nobody else had done so. When I got home, I left a message for Essjay, which I have now copied to my own talk page, in case he deletes his. Sam also left a message for him. When Essjay saw the new messages, he deleted his own user page with the block log summary "Taking the hint".

I'm frankly stunned at the amount of ill feeling that this has caused, and certainly don't want to make matters worse by making lengthy comments on his reaction. Since he is getting so much support from his friends, I assume that he has done a lot of good here, and I did notice his kindness (and yours, by the way!) to Private Butcher. I will say, though, that I think his reaction has been unfair on me, as it seems to imply that I should have refrained from voting (politely) to delete something which I and many other Catholics found offensive, simply because my vote might make someone feel unappreciated, and that I should have left an incorrect block in place for the same reason. (I would not have unblocked if I had felt that a block was over harsh; but this one was based on a miscalculation of the number of reverts.) I did not intend the unblocking to be seen as criticism, and am quite shocked by what he wrote on his user page afterwards (no diff, as it's been deleted):

My Misplaced Pages career came to an end in November 2005 after a number of stressors were capped off by a vitriolic and hateful attack against my work. Additional controversy arose on December 16 when a minor admin action (taken after reading a story on Yahoo! News about attacks on Misplaced Pages) received heavy criticism. As I obviously am unable to take even the slightest action without being attacked (by one of those who wanted me gone in the first place), I won't make the mistake of contributing again.

(I did not heavily criticize him; I did not attack him; and I did not want him gone in the first place.)

I note that the heading of your message to me was "request", but you didn't actually make a request. Did you want me to leave a message for him? I think the wisest thing for me is to stay well away from his talk page. I have already explained to him why I didn't originally leave a message to discuss the block. I could not in sincerity express regret for having voted to delete his church, or for having unblocked R. fiend, and I think that a message saying that I don't regret what I did but that I regret that he's upset would offend him even more. If there is anything that you'd like me to do, please don't hesitate to suggest it, though.

Apologies if this very long message is cluttering up your page. In a way, I'm using you to get all this off my chest! It has been very unpleasant. Having managed to avoid major disputes on Terri Schiavo, Ordination of women, Pope Benedict XVI, and abortion, I was not expecting this :-(

Thanks again for your message. Cheers. AnnH 11:32, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Welcome back

Glad to see you back. Hope you had a good break and that you have a happy holiday season.--Dakota 02:03, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Guettarda 18:49, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy Crimbo!

Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. File:Pressie.gif, in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! File:Unclecrimbo.gif Dr. McCrimbo 23:22, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

Hi, Bratsche! I hope you have an enjoyable and relaxing winter break. :) Take care, Sango123 (talk) 00:05, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, Bratsche! Hope it's a wonderful one! (happy New Year, too!)--ViolinGirl 15:11, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA and Merry Christmas

Hi Bratsche! Thank you for your kind support on my RfA. -- Szvest 17:29, 25 December 2005 (UTC)  

RfA thanks from Deathphoenix

Hi Cmd. Bratsche of the Barnstarium Army,

I just wanted to thank you for supporting me in my RfA and for your offer of congratulations afterward. To tell you the truth, I was surprised by all the support I've gotten. I never saw myself as more than an occasional Wiki-hobbyist.

My wife sends her curses, as Misplaced Pages will likely suck up more of my time. She jokingly (I think) said she was tempted to log on to Misplaced Pages just to vote Oppose and let everyone know that she didn't want her husband to be an admin.

I'll make sure your trust in me is founded. --Deathphoenix 14:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

awb

Thanks, but as you use the program it seems to be corrupting some text, like here, are you using windows 98? Martin 10:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah yes, ME is pretty much the same as 98. you have actually done me a massive favour, as now I am certain of what the problem is. Unfortunately I don't know if I can make it so it does work on 98/ME, hmmmmm. Thanks a lot. Martin 16:07, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Paul Preissner and protection

Hi Bratsche, thanks for the note & advice. --Deathphoenix 18:00, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza members

Hi there Bratsche. I noticed a few mistakes on the Esperanza members list and since you edited it earlier, can I point them out to you? Only two mistakes made. First is KingTT is added to the current members and the inactive members. He is inactive so please remove him from the active. Next is the mistake to, well, my name. I left Misplaced Pages a while ago and someone put me under the former members, I would like to be readded to the active members if it's not to much trouble. Thanks! SWD316 22:11, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Scratch that last statement about my name, Tito took care of that. If you could take care of the KingTT mistake for me? Thanks! SWD316 22:14, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

2006

Hello, I wish you and your family a prosperous and happy New Year 2006! We shall surely remain actively involved in the Project Misplaced Pages. --Bhadani 17:18, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza elections

Thanks for voting for me in the Esperanza elections. I've been appointed to the Advisory Committee, thanks to your show of confidence in me. I'll do my best to make you proud, but please feel free to ask me for help at any time or to give me tips as to what you would like to do. Thanks for being an active member of Esperanza! I'll see you around. Titoxd 00:54, 31 December 2005 (UTC)