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please email me if my attention is required, Abd is hiding under a rock is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Misplaced Pages soon.

Alternatively, I may not be back at all, more than occasionally, I have no crystal ball, and real life beckons invitingly.

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WARNING: Reading the screeds, tomes, or rants of Abd has been known to cause serious damage to mental health. One editor, a long-time Wikipedian, in spite of warnings from a real-life organization dedicated to protecting the planet from the likes of Abd, actually read Abd's comments and thought he understood them.

After reading, his behavior became erratic. He proposed WP:PRX and insisted on promoting it. Continuing after he was unblocked, and in spite of his extensive experience, with many thousands of edits,he created a hoax article and actually made a joke in mainspace. When he was unblocked from that, he created a non-notable article on Easter Bunny Hotline, and was finally considered banned. What had really happened? His brain had turned to Dog vomit slime mold (see illustration).

Caution is advised.

Re: Great Repeal Bill

If you want to recreate it I won't stop you, since information still pops up on it. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:33, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Bucklin

You may be interested to know that there is a dispute about the Bucklin voting page ongoing. The issues are:

1. Can the term "Bucklin voting" comprehend systems which allow equal and/or skipped rankings?
2. If so, do such systems meet the IIA and Clone independence criteria?

(One possible answer to either question is that we can't say either way because we don't have relevant citations to reliable sources. In that case, we must choose what we can say.)

Your participation in the discussion might help us attain consensus.

Cheers, Homunq (talk) 01:34, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

FYI

I've recycled your advice. It gave me an audible chuckle then, and still does now. Cheers, –xeno 16:15, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Xeno. Like a stopped clock, perhaps I occasionally get it right. That was a mixture of sarcasm, plain humor, and serious advice; I'm glad that you enjoyed it then, and had forgotten about it completely, which is often true with some of my best work, so I was quite glad, today, to see it. --Abd (talk) 18:14, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

As expected

As you expected, I've filed an enforcement request. You can find it at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Request_concerning_Abd. Hipocrite (talk) 00:28, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

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