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I prefer to keep conversations in one place in order to make it easier to follow them. Therefore, if I have begun a conversation with you elsewhere, that is where I would prefer you reply and is probably where I will reply to you.

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Staying true to form

The IP editor you blocked in the Westies article immediately came back and made the same revert . Then he turned around and went to the talk page and.....well........ He's not going to comply. Niteshift36 (talk) 22:32, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Appears this issue has gone Stale. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:47, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Nope. He did it again today . He is also editing under the account User:ForceRecon84 and using the article talk page and my talk page to harrass RepublicanJacobite. Niteshift36 (talk) 00:55, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

neo-geo Picture

Hi I saw you uploaded a neo-geo cab picture. I'm trying to develop french neo-geo mvs article and i'm looking for pictures to illustrate it. If you still have your neo-geo cab, is it possible for you to upload pictures ?

what would be nice : front side with shot of the coin door, and the insert memory card area. a a shot really nearby butoon to show buttons and joysktiskcs. It it possible to take a picture (or some) of your mvs board without the crate that we can see components

Thanks before, and best regards --Arcade Padawan (talk) 21:29, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi. Just got back in town and may be able to help with some of this soon. However I won't be able to provide a shot of the sticks and buttons, per this discussion. My NeoGeo is custom painted and the painting contains trademarked characters and weapons from Meal Slug. In case you haven't seen them, I have also uploaded File:Neogeocart.JPG and File:Neogeoguts.JPG, which are both on Commons and may be reused elsewhere. I can probably get some other useful shots such as you requested as well. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:43, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi, yes i already used one of your pics, but i crooped it that it only shows the mvs system (i gave you copyright, the pic is on commons).

OK, all shoots you can take are wellcome, upload what you can.

I will try to add your neogeo cart --Arcade Padawan (talk) 22:39, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

BigzMMA and Civility

Hello, you were recently involved in declining a unblock request by User:BigzMMA with regard to civility and personal attacks. I wish to draw your attention to a specific thread on the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard entitled WP:MMANOT, WT:MMANOT. BigzMMA has been making remarks about the other user in the dispute (User:Papaursa) and was warned to ceace making the attacks. A short time ago they made yet annother personal attack and I told them straight out they needed to strike their personal attacks from their latest posting, gave a 1 hour deadline prior to involving an administrator, and dropped a talk page notice on their talk page. As it's now been over 2 hours (I decided to be reasonable), I request that you please evaluate BigzMMA's statements and comment at their talk page. I am also posting this to the talk pages of other administrators who have dealt with BigzMMA before to form a consensus on how to improve the inter-editor communcation. Thank you Hasteur (talk) 19:41, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Looks like that's now been referred elsewhere. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:46, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Block of North Koreans on the board

Hello, Beeblebrox. I have just done something that I have never done before, namely over-ride another admin's block with a different block. You blocked North Koreans on the board with a username block. However, I was very unhappy with a block that invited the user to continue to edit ("Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username.") for a user whose only edits were vandalism. I have replaced the block with a vandalism only block. If you strongly disagree then please restore your original block: I will not regard it as wheel warring, and I will not make any objection. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

I wouldn't say I strongly disagree with it, but it does seem rather pointless to modify a block 19 days later just to change the reason, especially in light of the facts that they made exactly two edits, were never warned for vandalism as is normally done for a vandalism block, and have not appealed my block. Even if I had hardblocked them, the autoblock would be long expired by now so I'm unclear on why this was so upsetting to you, but whatever. Beeblebrox (talk) 05:10, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm afraid somehow I failed to notice that the block was 19 days old: I thought it was a new block. How on earth I made that mistake I can't imagine. Under the circumstances I agree that what I did was completely pointless. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:29, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Recent Porchcorpter MfDs

Was there a reason you didn't discuss the pages with him first, just taking them straight to MfD? Seems to me that this could have been done with a little more pleasantly. Worm · (talk) 22:05, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

He has consistently been unreceptive to anything I have to say, so it seemed better to seek a consensus than to argue with him directly. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:35, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

That's fair enough, for future reference, you could always come via me :) Worm · (talk) 23:01, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Dungarvan County Council

Hi, as I explained on the talk page, this appears to have no content on the subject of the article: the infobox relates to a Town Council, not the same thing at all. So I reckon it has zero content and thus should be speedied. PamD 22:17, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm not positive that would get us around the problem, but that fact that Dungarvan Town Council is a bluelink does. I've deleted it as WP:CSD#A10. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:35, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Note: It's not covered unless you count the redirect. ~ R.T.G 23:49, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Oi put that back

You just deleted Dungarvan County Council. You deleted it without waiting. Undelete it thank you. I only started it yesterday and went to do something else and come back. You aren't supposed to delete anything so quickly as that if it is not vandalism and you know that or you shouldn't be permitted to delete anything. Thank you. ~ R.T.G 23:36, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi, please read the thread directly above this one. Their own webpage, which you linked to in that article clearly identifies the organization as town council, and not a county council. That organization is already covered elsewhere on Misplaced Pages. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:41, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

I'll just put what I had in an *2* edit confilt with you there and will read that then. If you want to get all picky you should click the link you claim it duplicates. Apologies for mixing up town and council in the title but I'd rather you just undelete it so I don't have to go all over the infobox again which actually took a little while. The content is supposed to be at Dungarvan Town Council at which the is no content currently. Is that okay? Dungarvan County Council could be a redirect because there isn't one and it's just an easy mistake if you are looking through county councils. Sorry if I sound aggrivated now I am just surprised is all. 23:44, 3 December 2011 (UTC)~ R.T.G

I was in the way of not being in a rush about doing it either I might have done it tomorrow or something... ~ R.T.G 23:47, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Your infobox is now at User:RTG/Dungarvan County Council where you can work with it at your leisure until it is actually an article. Articles should normally have some content. It shouldn't be that hard to come up with at least one sentence on the subject. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:50, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Spot on cheers. ~ R.T.G 00:09, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Company Page

Can you undelete Offworld Games I'm just starting the article and you deleted within a minute or so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gordonrios (talk • contribs) 20:02, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

The criteria for speedy deletion apply at all times, regardless of the age of the article. Further, this was just an infobox and did not have a single line of text. It is clearly not ready for article space, and it is also likely that the subject is not sufficiently notable for an entry. Therefore I have userfied it so that you can work to resolve these problems before reposting it, it is now at User:Gordonrios/Offworld Games. (in the future please use the "New section" tab to post new comments at the bottom of talk pages, thanks.) Beeblebrox (talk) 20:13, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

City of Westminster

Beeblebrox, could you possibly restore the section on Banksy that was the subject of the edit war in the page on City of Westminster? Now that the page is blocked (for which many thanks) I am no longer in a position to edit it, and therefore unable to restore the section. I imagine that the anonymous IP edits will start up again as soon as the protection is removed, but I will cross that bridge when I come to it. Thanks in advance for your patience and assistance - Asteuartw (talk) 16:18, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, can't do that. I went with full protection to stop the edit warring, not to take a side in it. See . Beeblebrox (talk) 16:22, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Oh dear, in that case how is one supposed to resolve an edit conflict? What is needed is surely some kind of 3rd party review, else we will simply have an indefinite edit war, which can be in no-one's interest. I requested the block in order to try to resolve things, not simply to freeze the page. My mistake perhaps? Thanks in advance for any clarification. Asteuartw (talk) 16:54, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Not a mistake, or I wouldn't have protected the page. However page protection is merely an administrative action and not part of our dispute resolution system. WP:3O, WP:RFC and WP:DRN are some of the options for soliciting outside opinions. Beeblebrox (talk) 04:17, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

It seems rather sad that "Asteuartw" is determined to get his own way despite the lack of support for his position. Is there any form of gentle system-generated discipline which can be imposed until an undertaking is provided to abide by the rules he is so fond of quoting ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.199.27.146 (talk) 16:46, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Uh, no. We don't do "discipline". As I already said, WP:DR is how disputes are resolved. Beeblebrox (talk) 04:17, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

This is all very nice but "we" (whoever that means) seem ready to distribute commendations for what is perceived to be sensible use of Misplaced Pages so it would seem logical to have some method of showing disapproval.

However, having observed your comment in the next section, perhaps some constructive activity in the real world would be rather more appropriate than gatecrashing someone else's imaginary squabbles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.199.27.167 (talk) 14:38, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

renewed edit-warring on Developed country

As soon as the page protection expired, Bluesurfers (talk · contribs) is at it again . Furthermore, I am certain he is a sock of HOOTmag (talk · contribs), see here . Thanks, Athenean (talk) 03:48, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

I am involved in dealing with a crisis at my job at the moment and it's not likely to be resolved for a few more days, so I really don't have time to look into this right now. Edit warring can be reported at WP:AN3, sockpuppetry at WP:SPI. Beeblebrox (talk) 04:23, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Hasteur (talk) 04:37, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Short apology

I didn't remember to type the third b.Jasper Deng (talk) 06:26, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

AfD review

You closed the AfD with "No consensus". I'd like to nominate it again, since no references have been provided. According to what I read here, I don't know if I have to directly ask you to open it again, or I have to open a deletion review. I'll appreciate your help. Thanks. --Xtv - (my talk) - (que dius que què?) 15:40, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

• Deletion review would be needed only if you believed that the closing was inappropriate and you wanted to challenge it. If you want to re-nominate in an attempt to arrive at a consensus you are perfectly free to go ahead and do that right now. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:21, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok, thanks.--Xtv - (my talk) - (que dius que què?) 10:37, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

CSD proposal

Hey, I was disappointed when you didn't chime in here. I'd love to hear your thoughts! causa sui (talk) 04:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard#Richard Arthur Norton: Revisiting topic ban; Should it be removed or made indefinite?

Hi Beeblebrox. You participated in Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive228#Richard Arthur Norton copyright violations, in which a one-month topic ban on creating new articles and making page moves was imposed on Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk · contribs). The closing admin has asked for community input about whether to remove the topic ban or make it indefinite at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard#Richard Arthur Norton: Revisiting topic ban; Should it be removed or made indefinite?. Cunard (talk) 08:50, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

Thank you very much for unblocking me and giving me a chance to help the website. DylanWhittaker (talk) 19:11, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

User:Brandonfarris

You unblocked this user here, did you log the conditions anywhere ? and if not should the be ? as they have now been archived off the users talk page. Mtking 06:31, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Well, Brandon is obviously aware of what he has agreed to, and I'm not sure there is a place for logging simple unblock conditions. Beeblebrox (talk) 07:15, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for comment/GoodDay

Hi Beeblebrox

Things seem to have died down at Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for comment/GoodDay to a point where I think we could draw a line under the proceedings. Those who posted concerns at the final Concluded? section would appear to be satisfied to the extent that they have now added their names to the 'short' list of those who support the summary. I'd therefore like to invite you to do close this RfC/U, if you agree that such a move would be appropriate at this time. Regards. Endrick Shellycoat 21:42, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

It's looking pretty ready for a close. I'm at work right now, but I should have a chunk of time later on to write up a proper close. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:46, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Had a bit of time sooner than I thought, so I've done the close, but I've just been called back in. If nobody else gets to it I'll do the cleanup with listing template and such later. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:11, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

 Done Yet another false alarm at work, so I've finished up delisting and archiving the results. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:39, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment

Hi. Um, will an editor be blocked indefinetly if they are caught doing the same thing (edit warring, personal attacks, etc.) over and over again? Abhijay /_Deeds 06:59, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Eventually. Beeblebrox (talk) 07:01, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Rfa talk

Beeblebrox...why do we leave what would in most cases be nothing but disruptive talkpage banter standing for the sake of...what exactly? I don't question your PP there as I did one edit and had no intention of reverting anyone...but hum...Malleus' comment was for what purpose you suspect? How did IT contribute to constructive dialogue?--MONGO 03:16, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

As always, the protection has nothing to do with the dispute itslf and everything to do with stopping an edit war. The only other option was to liberally hand out short blocks to everyone involved. That seemed unlikely to help calm the situation. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:19, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough....and I support the action but feel it was on the wrong version. Unconstructive talkpage commentary that is deliberately designed to insult should be removed.--MONGO 03:22, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

User:Gunmetal Angel block

Hey there. The above editor and I have worked together before on some genre-warring issues, and he asked me to look into his current block. I'm a little concerned that he was blocked along with the genre warrior he was engaged with; he was quite a distance from 3RR on that article. I've suggested that he ask for an unblock, but would also like to ask if you'd take another look and consider at least a reduction considering the attempted edits by the other editor did appear to be less than sourced from a quick glance. Cheers. Tony Fox (arf!) 03:20, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

If you have worked on edit warring issues before I'm sure you must be aware that the quality of the edits is not a relevant factor and 3RR is not an entitlement, especially after already having been blocked repeatedly for the edit warring. Beeblebrox (talk) 05:18, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough. I feel that GMA's edits are generally in the right as genre warriors tend to be very single-minded - note that the opposing editor in this question basically said in at least one edit summary 'I'll be glad to discuss this but I'm going to make my edits first' - and believe that the block - after a single informal warning - is excessive in this case. I would encourage another look, if possible; I understand if you feel otherwise, however. Tony Fox (arf!) 06:49, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure what was unclear to you about my point that the quality of the edits is not the issue. Unless the other user was outright vandalizing that is simply not relevant. He was just blocked last month for edit warring. That block was for four days. I don't see how extending the block period by three days is excessive, and I don't see you saying that he wasn't, in fact, edit warring so I'm afraid I don't see any compelling case presented to reconsider. Beeblebrox (talk) 07:20, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

I disagree with your stance, but thank you for your consideration. Tony Fox (arf!) 20:35, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

You might want to take another look at GAs talk page, we've already worked it out. He has agreed to limit himself to 1RR on genre related edits and I have unblocked him. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:02, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Beeblebrox, Gunmetal Angel is back at AN3 in WP:AN3#User:69.225.21.51 and User:Gunmetal Angel reported by User:Abhijay (Result: ) for a genre war. He has not broken 3RR or 1RR, but he has been consistently reverting his preferred genres back into the article over an extended period. Perhaps that deal should have been for 1RR/week. Your original action seems fine, but I'm leaving the AN3 report for someone else to close. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 14:51, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Note that the report is based on an incident from before the latest block, and has been declined as stale. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:20, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

rfc/u ?

I thought 3 of us (LibStar, mmeyers, and I) had certified the Hentzer RFC/U? What did we miss? Nobody Ent (Gerardw) 18:57, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

There is a section entitled "Users certifying the basis for this dispute" that must be signed by at least 2 users withing 48 hours of the RFC being listed. 48 hours after it was listed the section was blank. At the time I deleted it, yours was the only signature. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:00, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

I think it's reasonable to think LibStar or mmeyers intended to certify but just didn't understand the format properly. I know they had included diffs of their attempts to address the situation -- is this a recoverable error? Nobody Ent (Gerardw) 19:07, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm inclined to counsel you that this is an RFC that has very little chance of leading to the result you want, but if LibStar were to post here to that effect I could restore the page. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:09, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Interesting that you think I have a particular result in mind; but in any event I'll notify LibStar. Nobody Ent (Gerardw) 19:13, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Not sure what you think I meant by that, the RFC has another section called "desired outcome." Since you certified the RFC it doesn't require the use of imagination to determine that that was your desired result. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:22, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Oops. Well, you can hardly me expect to discuss intelligently the contents of a page that someone went up and deleted! Seriously, I mostly suggested this as a means of support to LibStart and mmeyers who are getting very frustrated with the lack of communication; if there already is a fairly clear community consensus that an editor could work essentially in isolation I sincerely am not aware of it. I'll be fine with whatever the consensus turns to be. Mostly I wanted more input than was happening at WQA. Nobody Ent (Gerardw) 19:33, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

BeetleBrox, could you please restore this RFC. Nobody Ent, is willing to certify. LibStar (talk) 23:13, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

You guys really aren't making this easy. Hes's the only one who 'did certify it. It needs at least one more user to do so. Would you be that user? Beeblebrox (talk)|

yes I would. LibStar (talk) 13:12, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Lol. Meta-bureaucracy fail. Frankly, I don't see point of this RfC/U after I've read the WQA thread. It's absolutely the same thing, with the same participants. ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 05:52, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I've restored it, please certify it ASAP. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:28, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Here's a cookie

…For coming to a good conclusion on a situation I was a tad upset in. Also, I'll keep it cool on the deathcore bands. (= GunMetal Angel 19:33, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail, when it comes i wanna wail… MAAIIILLLLL!!

• GunMetal Angel 19:24, 24 December 2011 (UTC) •

Porchcorpter

I just noticed that this is back, with a full copy of the original ban proposal in its history with Porchcorpter's rebuttals appended. He seems determined to keep a copy of it hidden somewhere in his user pages. Do you think we should do anything about it? -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 03:15, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

• replied by email. Beeblebrox (talk) 04:32, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

• Note: Does not violate any userspace guidelines, there are no personal attacks there now, no comments are even on contributors. And since it has been said in the MFD to link it to the archive, it is now linked to the archive. (Would you mind signing my guestbook?) -Porch corpter (talk/contribs) 08:15, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Btw, in case, I've worked lots with Worm and I've got now much more knowledge about the policies and guidelines on Misplaced Pages. I've even passed Worm's adoption and got the barnstar for passing. (Would you mind signing my guestbook?) -Porch corpter (talk/contribs) 09:21, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Which makes one wonder why you wanted to recreate this page at all, if you've supposdly matured so much as an editor. Literally nobody besides you feels that the topic ban was problematic, and it expired some time ago anyway. But really, I don't give two shits why you recreated it and I certainly don't want to hear any of your nonsensical reasons for doing so. Keep your little bitter pity party of a page if you makes you feel like you've accomplished something. Beeblebrox (talk)

AN/I Notice

Notice of discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Eagles247 restoring personal attacks. Thank you. (Would you mind signing my guestbook?) -Porch corpter (talk/contribs) 05:44, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Way to go. The WP:BOOMERANG has been tossed, don't be surprised whn it comes back and whacks you in the noggin. Beeblebrox (talk) 05:58, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Notice of Wikiquette Assistance discussion

Hello, Beeblebrox. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Wikiquette assistance regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. (Would you mind signing my guestbook?) -Porch corpter (talk/contribs) 00:48, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Whoa - the bent bits of wood are flying today! -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 00:51, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Porchcrop, I've told you I don't intend to communicagte directly with you anymore. I've asked you to stay off my talk page. As usual, being polite and hoping you could grasp such simple concepts has failed. It seems a less nuanced approach is called for, so FUCK OFF. Don't post here, don't talk to me, just fuck off. Open all the idiotic noticeboard posts you want about me, I won't be paying any mind to your idiotic drama mongering any further. In closing, don't forget to fuck off. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:33, 29 December 2011 (UTC)