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BEFORE CREATING A USER ACCOUNT,

SO I HAVE BEEN HERE LONGER THAN

1. Stay calm and maintain a professional demeanor. Be patient and remain courteous and civil.
2. Avoid conflict, even when you know you are right. Give other editors the benefit of the doubt.  
3. Assume good faith toward your collaborating editors, if not their edits. Assuming good faith is not intended to be self-destructive, but to avoid conflict.
4. Ignore attacks. Not easily done, but a real timesaver. Attacks and counter-attacks are hazardous to your mental health. The best and most frequently offered administrative advice is to move on, and, if absolutely necessary, return the next day.
5. Don't take it personally. Editors make honest mistakes. Communicating our thoughts is not easily done on the Internet.
6. Don't isolate your interpretation. There are many interpretations other than yours. What you read might NOT be what was meant.
7. Don't think of editing as a competition. WE are cohorts, collaborating to improve our thing.
8. Don't edit when angry or upset. Stay off the article and talk page in question. Never let your anger or frustration be the deciding factor in your behavior.
9. Don't forget the human dimension of Misplaced Pages editing. Keep things in perspective. There is a real, living and breathing, sensitive human on the other side of the discussion.

Ray's Rules

1. You and your problems are not the most important thing in the world.
2. Choose your battles. Yield when it doesn't matter, and stand your ground when it does.
3. Keep a thick skin. Don't let criticism discourage you. Instead, let it teach you.
4. You learn more from listening than from talking. "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." (Wilson Mizner)
5. Don’t waste your time arguing with an idiot.
6. Give other people the same respect that you would want from them. (Matthew 7:12)
7. The surest way to drive yourself crazy is to compare yourself to other people.
8. Take the high road, no matter what the other person does. It will benefit you in the long run. (Romans 12:20)
9. Don’t take yourself too seriously: "We share 99% of our genes with mice, and we even have the genes that could make a tail." (Dr. Jane Rogers, Human Sequencing and Mapping Project Manager, Sanger Institute); "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." (Charles de Gaulle)
10. The most important thing is to be able to look yourself in the mirror. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it's right.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Thanks - but...

... I think you've voted twice. Really appreciate the support though! Cheers GirthSummit _(blether) 14:49, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Just makes you twice the admin now don't it? --NikkeKatski (talk) 16:47, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

:D GirthSummit _(blether) 18:34, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

OMG. I just checked my contributes and you are correct. I will have to learn to contain my enthusiasm! - Ret.Prof (talk) 13:47, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Ret.Prof, at least you supported twice - I'd have been gutted if you'd opposed twice! GirthSummit _(blether) 13:56, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

A Dobos torte for you!

7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it. To give a Dobos torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:19, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words and saying that I earned it (on your talk page) - Ret.Prof (talk) 15:35, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

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Happy New Year

Every good wish and blessing to all those editors who give so very much of their time to make Misplaced Pages a success! - Ret.Prof (talk) 15:12, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:39, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks - Ret.Prof (talk) 16:23, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

COVID-19

Hope everybody keeps well during the pandemic. It is probably a good time to stay home and catch up on our editing! Every good wish and blessing - Ret.Prof (talk) 16:40, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Happy, Happy

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CommanderWaterford (talk) 07:02, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, - Ret.Prof (talk) 15:04, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, Ret.Prof. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! Have a great day! CAPTAIN RAJU 22:07, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks - Ret.Prof (talk) 15:05, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Closure of AfD on Olabisi Akanbi

Hi I believe you have closed this AfD improperly for the following reasons:

• It was only relisted two days ago and should run for another five
• I don't believe you are an administrator and there was no urgent need to close it early
• You expressed a view (not based on policy) in the discussion, and then closed it, which is explicitly not allowed.
• Six editors supported deletion (plus me=7). The article creator and you were the only editors favouring keep. You have explicitly closed against consensus in my view, and this is not acceptable.

For these reasons I'm asking you to undo your close, allow the discussion to continue, and leave it to an admin to close at the appropriate time. Thanks Mccapra (talk) 14:41, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

I have taken the appropiate action and hope the matter has now been resolved. - Ret.Prof (talk) 12:32, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

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