Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 21:37, 12 January 2006

Welcome!

Hello Will Beback/Revisions, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The five pillars of Misplaced Pages
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Misplaced Pages:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  --bainer (talk) 09:43, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Hmm

Am I missing something? Causality maybE? — HopeSeekr of xMule (Talk) 21:17, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words, Will! I had great fun taking the pics, but it's even more fun finding uses for them on Misplaced Pages. Infratec 11:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Cyberstalking

Can you state your reasons for removing content at Cyberstalking? It showed up as pozssible blanking vandalism on my RC patrol screen. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 22:22, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

It is the text of a deleted article, gang stalking, that the author has tried to recreate repeatedly. -Will Beback 22:25, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

But some of the material is salvageable... Do you have a link to the AfD for that article? ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 22:34, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Most of it looks like original research. -Will Beback 22:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Will be back as what?

Just curious - why did you change your username? Marcuse 02:46, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Curious editors. -Will Beback 06:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

User formerkly known as Willmcw, and reason for name change

go here and scroll toward the bottom for judgement of wiki admins against User:Willmcw who is now User:Will Beback. It seems clear this user is attempting to distance himself from these official rulings against him. notice each one was unanimous. It is important to follow closely now because it appears he is reverting at will another article under the same tactics,

Former username: user:Willmcw

• admins Final Decision Message left on User:Willmcw's discussion page

W.W. Behrens, Jr. :: Future Thought Leadership as MentorshipART

See also

These articles provide some perspective on W.W. Behrens, Jr.'s transforming his Art of War (Zero Sum Game) military academy training.

He became an interdisciplinary engineer-scientist who championed an alternative (All-WinWin) Art of Peace using social networking ...
RJBurkhart 12:40, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

• Ernest Thompson Seton
• Global brain
• Thinklets

Username change

A reminder that you need to redirect your previous userpage before the name change. Also, your old account needs to be blocked indef so no one can impersonate you and this page protected. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 16:43, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Where do you find all of this? I asked around about how to do all of this and those steps weren't mentioned. -Will Beback 17:04, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Read Misplaced Pages:Changing_username#Instructions. That is what I did when I changed my username just recently:

1. Recreated and blocked my previous account to prevent someone else creating the account and impersonating me.
2. Moved and redirected my userpage and talk page to my new name.

≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 19:40, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I didn't change my username. I'm stopping use of one and starting use of another. The old account still exists. Thanks though. -Will Beback 19:46, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

So you have now two accounts with admin privileges? That seems quite unusual... If you have decided to switch names for good, I would suggest that your request a deletion of the old account and still go through the username change. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 19:56, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

No, the admin flag was transferred to this username. There were too many edits, over 20K, to go through a username change. -Will Beback 19:58, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I had 10,000 edits but after asking nicely the devs managed to do the name change during off-peak time... Nevertheless, I would think that the name change instructions still apply to you, because the only reason you had to do it this way was the number of edits on the previous account. You may want to ask the bureaucrat that assisted you with the admin privilege switch for clarification. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 20:08, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I'm not doing a name change, so I'm not following the name change instructions. I have followed the instructions that Angela gave me. Obviously this is not a step that I've taken lightly, but I needed to do something to cut down on the number of editors trying to harass me by posting (what they presume is) my personal information. I appreciate your understanding. -Will Beback 20:21, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I see. I changed my username for the same reason, but was asked to redirect my old userpages to the new ones. As for my oppose vote to your nomination to the mediation committee, I hope you don't take it personally. I respect you as a capable editor, but I sincerely don't think you have the necessary aptitude for that role. Hope that my vote will not impair our ability to continue collaborating in WP. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 00:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Edits

Will why were my edits on the BAPS article reverted? I have justified my reasons for editing in the discussion page.

I've responded at Talk:BAPS. -Will Beback 06:20, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I still love you

...oh my yes. We'll be absolutely IRRITATING! All year! It's going to be GREAT! I was up until 3:30am last night; I'm tired, hung over, and thoroughly satisfied. ;) · Katefan0/mrp 16:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Unsiged dis'es

If civility was important to you, you would have critized all parties to the debate, rather than just single me out. You might have also signed your comment. I can take criticism, but if calling comments "balderdash" is acceptable (you didn't criticize it), now I know the correct lingo to use, although balderdash and useless are somewhat similar. Carlossuarez46 22:37, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Part of the problems is that all these categories are inescapably arbitrary, and there is overlap of all kinds. Thank you for being reasonable. Haiduc 23:32, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Biff Rose # 2

Thanks for the reply. I'll reply on WP:MC soon. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 22:13, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

David R. Hawkins' knighthood

Hello. I was wondering if you would mind taking the time to research Hawkins' knighthood claim and edit his entry with what you find? Perhaps add an entry for the source of his knighthood as well? I remember you wrote that the Prince he referenced does not exist. Many websites still say the "Danish crown" knighted him. I would research it, but I don't really have time to, and I respect that you already started down this path. Thanks for the consideration. --66.31.144.141 22:46, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Can....

Can you remove the Clean-up tag on Fictional resistance movements and groups ? Martial Law 05:21, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Please stop

...harassing me.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Morton devonshire (talk • contribs)

Would you please just leave me alone! Morton devonshire 01:49, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Why did you delete my comment?

Discussion page of W. Patrick Lang. Was it something I said?--csloat 02:17, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - I figured it probably wasn't intentional but I guess you never know :) -csloat 02:45, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

National Review article

That National Review article is highly biased and is not a good reference. I'm not saying I disagree with it, I really don't care. But opinion pieces are not proper references. I'm going to ask for a third opinion though. It might be ok if there is some trustworthy info. --DanielCD 03:46, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I've responded at talk:Curley v. NAMBLA. Cheers, -Will Beback 03:59, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Likewise, I replied there. I think you are right. Cheers x 2. --DanielCD 04:08, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh so this is you!

n/t - Guettarda 14:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Irritating

Yes, we will be absolutely irritating. We have been waiting on this opportunity for quite some time. My goodness what a great game. I would love to meet you again in Tempe if it will be a similar event. We each have to bring along new QB's though. I bet the Buckeys are licking their chops for their rematch with us in Sept. And of course if ou gets that Peterson guy to stay healthy... Anyways, thanks for the congratulations - you Trojans were a worthy foe! Johntex\ 04:59, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for message

Thanks Naserke 18:55, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Virago

Just got your message. Wow! And thank you! Slrubenstein | Talk 15:12, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I have never vandalised Misplaced Pages

I have never read this article on 'Cattle' until today. I must say that I found your note to me somewhat offensive as I never vandalised wikipedia or even looked at the article you refer to. It may be that every AOL user comes up the same (as we sem to be classified as multiple users) but rest assured I have not done anything untoward. Ben

baps etc

I wish that I could say "sure, no problem!", but I don't think that it will be quite that easy. I think that the followers of these sects are more interested in a PR outlet than in contributing to a collaborative encyclopedia. There is probably an emailing-list out there somewhere encouraging followers to systematically revert to the dogmatic versions. I will see what I can do however. — goethean ॐ 18:10, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Will Beback abuses power

there is an RfC and a few other procedures going on about you in admin land, as you know. You're latest move has bee ndocumented as an abuse of power. one who yearns for meditation title perhpas should not so frequently ban those that they disagree with in edits of an article, should they? you go girl!!!216.175.117.65

Congratulations...

...you've been called a rouge admin.

My bad

On the Hilton thing.

I'll retire for the day.

grazon 21:37, 12 January 2006 (UTC)