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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Jonah Ayers (talk | contribs) at 06:17, 26 September 2005 (Oh oh oh ok.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

I have found that they are indeed official websites. I contacted a webmaster and even he agreed that it would be an easy mistake to make. Nonetheless, I was wrong. I apologize to you for accusing you of vandalism by adding them. Cheers, -Willmcw 04:29, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Welcome

Greetings and welcome to wikipedia. Please excuse the rude treatment you've received from the administrator who has engaged most of your attention thus far. He has a bad habit of disregarding Misplaced Pages:Please do not bite the newcomers, especially where a newcomer has made edits to an article or subject he deems to be his territory. You should not let a hostile reception deter you from participating here and I hope you will stay. While editing I encourage you to review Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines located here. Please make a good faith attempt at abiding by each, and if you believe that another user you have encountered is not doing so a proper recourse is to inform him/her of it. Thanks and welcome once again. Rangerdude 23:30, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Checking in

I'd be happy to help out here. The first thing I will do is protect you. That is my number one goal. Next, the article.

In that regard, do not make one more edit to the article until you and I go over 3RR and what it is. You want to avoid an edit war.

Check in with me and we can chat. If you like, we can go to IRC freenode.net if you have ChatZilla, or we can chat on Yahoo. paul klenk 06:36, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Jonah, I have evaluated the Biff Rose page for possible violations of 3RR (there are none in the period I checked), and have left comments on its talk page, with one additional comment to you. Let me know if you have questions. Also, although it may be justified, I can't think of any good purpose to the remarks about stalking (except those in messages) which you've placed as sort of "notifications" on your page. Even old messages, which eventually become stale -- should be eventually removed and archived, keeping your talk page -- and therefore you -- free of any negativity. This is a complicated place, and you see to be doing very well. Just let me know if you have any questions, and thanks for coming to me for help. paul klenk

wikistalking

Hi - I saw your message that Willmcw is harassing and stalking you as well. As you may know I'm currently seeking arbitration against him for harassing me over a period of several months. From what you describe he appears to be stalking you as well. He frequently does this and it's almost always aimed at chasing an editor he doesn't like off of wikipedia. He's a prime example of the very worst kind of editors here and unfortunately he has many friends in the admin pool who aid and abet his dirty work (not all admins are like that though...fortunately). My advice would be to begin assembling a list of the evidence of cases where he has harassed you and any case where he's broken wikipedia policy. You should then consider posting a complaint about him to Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, asking for a neutral outside party to help. Be sure to note the reasons why his behavior is a problem - it violates the good faith assumption, it is uncivil, it is disruptive, and it is a form of harassment. There are also several strong precedents in previous arbcom cases that have found wikistalking to be a bannable offense. Unfortunately Willmcw is very vengeful and will likely attempt to retaliate against you for doing this - either by stepping up the stalking or posting a counter-complaint against you (or both). Don't let it get to you though. The best defense against his type is a good offense - both to keep him busy and to direct community scrutiny onto his behavior, which he often tries to slip into backpages and obscure articles where he thinks he can get away with violating wikipedia policy.

I have begun compiling a log of frivolous edits by Willmcw as evidence of WikiStalking, which I will submit as evidence if the Arbcom decides to accept this case. You may want to do the same. --HK 00:19, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Arriving here

Ah, someone had requested (on WP:RfD) the deletion of a redirect at Wikistalking (because it went from article space to Misplaced Pages: space). I was simply fixing all the pages that used it, before deleting it. (If you look at my edit, I just piped the link directly to the target.) Noel (talk) 02:33, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

I suppose,

But if - Loran Frazier 05:22, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Biff

Jonah, I invested a great deal of time the other day trying to help and protect you. I have noticed your recent revert at Biff. I am advising you to undo your revert, for your own best interest. I'm sorry, but you seem to be missing something about what we're trying to do here. This is an attempt to help you, Jonah. paul klenk 01:18, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Here I am won't you please let this go now....Jonah Ayers 18:11, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

"The brown pigeon," Jonah? I'm afraid I have no idea of what you mean. -Sojambi Pinola 00:35, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Wow! I had it all wrong. Sorry. You're a wonderful guy, Jonah! You live near me. Let's meet for lunch and work this all out. Still don't know what the brown pigeon is, though. - Sojambi Pinola 06:52, 25 September 2005 (UTC) Ugh, this guy too

Marking edits

Jonah, it may have been a mistake, but you cannot mark an edit as "minor," as you did on the Biff page, when it obviously changes so much content, especially disputed content. Minor edits are for adding wiki edits, correcting spelling or spacing, and suchlike. This is why this feature is not made available to new accounts. When you abuse this feature, you also abuse the trust of your fellow editors, and they will become less and less willing to work with you. Please keep this in mind. paul klenk talk 22:37, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

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Jonah, you seem quite upset about Biff Rose. I'll grant you from what I've read he is quite the racist. While that is personally upsetting to me as well, the article has to stick to facts with neutral language. I think the current wording is quite clear about his racism:

Rose's newer recordings are more controversial. His later songs make use of ethnic stereotypes and contain racist and anti-semitic language in their lyrics.

Do you have a problem with this wording?

I haven't studied the edit history overly much. But, it does seem like you've deleted a few facts about Biff that added some tiny bit of notability to what seems a rather tiny career. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like maybe you've done that because you don't like the man. That's not a good reason.

What I would support is a bit more detail on his racism, maybe another couple sentences, if it has produced any citable public controversy. In other words, if there is an existing controversy about his racism in the press or major websites or some such, I'm for reporting it in more detail. If there isn't, wikipedia isn't really the place to create a controversy. And given the character of his racism, if there isn't a public controversy it's only because Biff is currently a nobody. In that case, his current racism in his current works is really only a footnote to an expired career, so the current sentence seems quite sufficient.

Also, I think you would find it helpful in your wikipedia interactions to not have lists of vandals on your page. At least not unless you can back it up with an obvious case. I know many of those names, and I don't believe any of them is a vandal. So, the list tends to make people suspicious of you, rather than them. By the way, I tagged your ip address with a reference to your name. That's just so that people can track the conversation when they look at contributions; it's not an attack. Derex 02:48, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Oh oh oh ok.

Anonymous IP

Jonah,

Someone from an anonymous IP has taken credit for edits you have made under your logged-in. He has also claimed that he has come to me for help in the past, which he hasn't. However, you have.

Did you leave those messages to me under that anonymous IP, or is someone falsely claiming this? Either this anonymous IP is you, or it isn't. Which is it, please?

paul klenk 06:03, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

p.s. I object to having my name being placed under a list of "trouble makers and vandals" on this page. Further, I am an ally of no one. Please remove my name from this list. If you ever want to talk through this and work things out, I am happy to do so. This is an attempt to resolve a dispute. paul klenk 06:05, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

No way. This is useless. I'm not your pawn. You are a troublemaker. Make your accusations somewhere else. Jonah Ayers 06:17, 26 September 2005 (UTC) 06:17, 26 September 2005 (UTC)