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Vandalism

I was about ot remove some vandalism on the William Shakespeare article, but you had beat me to it! Being fairly new to RC patrol, what is the quickest way to revert such edits? Thanks for the help. 0L1 - User - Talk - Contribs - 17:25 22 2006 (UTC)

The quickest method of reversion is the use of a rollback script. To install the script, you can copy the text of User:John254/monobook.js into User:0L1/monobook.js When viewing a diff that includes the latest revision of a page, you should see a link, that, when selected, will revert the page to the last revision not by the latest editor. John254 17:46, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! 0L1 - User - Talk - Contribs - 18:57 22 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Elonka

Thank you for participating in my recent RfA. Unfortunately consensus was not reached, and the nomination was not successful. However, I intend to continue contributing in a positive manner to Misplaced Pages, and if there is anything that I can do in the future to help further address your concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. --Elonka 09:59, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Please accept my thanks for your support in my successful RfA, which I was gratified to learn passed without opposition on October 25, 2006. I am looking forward to serving as an administrator and hope that I prove worthy of your trust. With my best wishes, --MCB 01:08, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protection policy

You recently added quite a drastic change to Misplaced Pages:Semi-protection policy concerning the protection of policy-pages, but I don't believe that two days of discussion constitutes a consensus at all. This requires a much wider input from the community, and there were indeed quite a bit of opposition to this policy. It may be best to first seek input from administrators and from more people from the village pump and give this a few weeks before making any major changes such as this, as this essentially rewrites the semi-protection policy. Thanks. Cowman109 05:23, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the above statement by Cowman109 is misleading. As JYolkowski, the only editor who objected to the proposed amendment, stated "it is absolutely not a requirement that changes to policy pages be discussed beforehand ." Cowman109's purely procedural objection to the amendment, on the basis of its failure to follow the policy making process that he has invented is spectacularly unpersuasive since Misplaced Pages is not a bureaucracy. Furthermore, Cowman109 has essentially taken the position that unregistered users must be permitted to rewrite the semi-protection policy in this manner -- which remained on display for ten minutes before being reverted -- but a change to the policy to semi-protect a relatively small number of pages must not be enacted without several weeks of prior discussion. If all substantive changes to official policies did require such an elaborate process before being effectuated, this would be a strong argument for semi-protection of all official policies, to prevent new and unregistered users from modifying policies in a manner inconsistent with a unpublished process of which they are almost certainly unaware. I don't see how further discussion on this policy amendment will be productive: JYolkowski was the only editor to objecting to the amendment on Misplaced Pages talk:Permanent semi-protection of official policy pages; however, all of his objections were refuted, after which he discontinued his participation in the discussion. By contrast, five established users (including myself) offered strong arguments in favor of the amendment. Cowman109 has offered no substantive objections whatsoever to the amendment, but merely insists that it requires additional process before being enacted, purely for the sake of process itself. For any additional discussion of the amendment to be useful, Cowman109 would need to explain how not semi-protecting all official policies would actually improve Misplaced Pages. John254 13:02, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA

Thank you for your support in my RfA, which passed with a final tally of (56/0/2). It was great to see so much kind support from such competent editors and administrators as commented on my RfA. I know I have much reading to do before I'll feel comfortable enough to use some of the more powerful admin tools, so I'll get right to it. Again, thanks; └  / talk  13:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you...

...for your support of my recent RfA. If I can ever assist you with my new buttons or just to review a page with fresh eyes, do not hesitate to ask. Cheers. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 18:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

{{Semi-protection proposal}}

Please don't post a notice of your policy proposal to all the policy pages. his is not how we publicize policy discussions. In any case, that's clearly material appropriate for a talk page. You should use WP:VP and other centralized locations to announce proposals. Dmcdevit·t 18:09, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Since the policy proposal was to semi-protect all official policy pages, the notices related to a proposed action that would be taken on the specific pages to which the notices were posted. I did not post notices concerning unrelated policy proposals to these pages. John254 18:35, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Also, please see . John254 21:37, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Stop spamming. It's pretty clear this proposal as it stands is not going to be accepted. More reasonably would be to relax the semi-protection policy for policy pages to allow them to be semi-protected on slighter vandalism and for longer periods of time, but this would not be a major change that would warrant spamming all the policy pages on the wiki; a discussion about that belongs at Misplaced Pages talk:Semi-protection policy. We don't, for example, spam the talk pages of every article before making a change to Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources. I hope you remove these messages as zealously as you have added them. —Centrx→talk • 01:07, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

An administrator encouraged me to place these notices. Additionally, such notices appear to be necessary to consider the opinions of a larger number of contributors on this matter, as users who oppose this proposal have frequently insisted that the number of participants in the discussion concerning this proposal is inadequate. John254 01:19, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your support!