Press Release: Attempts to identify concensus meeting with opposition

Several people have recently told me that I should follow concensus, the "holy grail" of Misplaced Pages. They won me over:

I'm seeking to ascertain and identify what is current concensus on some policy that many seem to think needs to be changed -based on recent actions in contravention of policy: Featured Article policy and RfA policy, but people just want to run their mouths -instead of helping define what exactly the current concensus is, so I can know what policy is supported, and what policy is ignored as "outdated."--GordonWatts 17:27, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Press Release: My concerns re RfA were not allowed to be posted publicly

• "If the rights of one are violated, the rights of all are at risk." --Thomas Paine

Taxman, an admin, told me here that "The much better way to handle the issue if you think there is a serious problem in the way the RFA policy is handled would be to let your RFA stay removed then bring the issue up on the RFA talk page and point to that discussion from relevant other places," which presumably include this page here.

Some of you recall my recent "failed" RfA applicant, and my concerns are surely specific to myself, but my attempt to discuss my concerns was opposed: Admins at the talk page of my RfA, Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship/GordonWatts, locked both the RfA (vote closed) --and its talk page! (Their excuse that my problems were only "general" did not have merit: My problems, while they surely affect a "general" wide range of users, were also specific to me as well, but they were afraid to have that material posted, and I did not have unblock magic.)

So, since these are "system-wide" problems that affect loads of persons, here are the locations where discussion is currently held:

• Main page: Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship#Some_general_RfA_Problems:_Taxman_said_this_was_the_page_for_it

• Misc. Discussions: User_talk:Jimbo_Wales

• User_talk:GordonWatts/RfA (Backup, in case someone tampers with links above -plus I've saved a copy on my computer, in case some deletionist Admin trots into town.)

--GordonWatts 22:52, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Current News: Name-change due in part to RfA

In my RfA (Request for Adminship), Uncle Ed agreed to support me if I dropped DotCom from user name --here and I agreed to his proposal. It looks more professional to be GordonWatts, than GordonWattsDotCom, so the user account was switched over.--GordonWatts 03:12, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

1. Archive 1:The approximately 67 kb archive of my first talk page.
2. Archive 2:The 2nd archive of my first talk page is of unknown length, since the edit dialogue doesn't tell me the KB length (probably less than 40 or 45Kb, or whatever is the cutoff minimum), but it appears smaller than the 66 kb 1st archive.
3. Archive 3:The 3rd archive, 47 Kb in length.
4. Archive 4:The 4th archive, which is about 96 kilobytes long.--GordonWatts 13:34, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to my talk page

Please be aware that I may -or may not -check my page for messages. Email is an alternate, but not totally reliable, method of contact. Of course, more conventional methods of communication also exist, such as telephone calls, U.S. postal mail, visits, FAX transmissions, and the like. To my global neighbors, thank you for visiting, even if we have some disagreements on occasion. Take care,

--GordonWattsDotCom 11:31, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

For additional contact data, please see User:GordonWattsDotCom#Contact_Info.--GordonWatts 22:54, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Current News: Name-change due in part to RfA

In my RfA (Request for Adminship), Uncle Ed agreed to support me if I dropped DotCom from user name --here and I agreed to his proposal. It looks more professional to be GordonWatts, than GordonWattsDotCom, so the user account was switched over.--GordonWatts 03:13, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Brief introduction webpage

I don't feel like making an elaborate user page, but here below links to four of my pages:

Sincerely,

Gordon Watts (aka --GordonWattsDotCom 12:47, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC))

Some quick links

>^.^< http://HomeTown.AOL.com/Gww1210

>^.^< http://www.GeoCities.com/Gordon_Watts32313

>^.^< http://GordonWatts.com

>^.^< http://Gordon_Watts.Tripod.com/consumer.html

Education

FSU

Also, I went to The Florida State University, in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated with a double major with honors in Biological and Chemical Sciences. (Go 'noles!) I am class of 2000.

UEI, An electronics college

Prior to that, I went to United Electronics Institute, now doing business as Florida Metropolitan University. To clarify, UEI was at 3924 Coconut Palm Drive, in the Sable Park region of Tampa, Florida. I am class of 1988.

High School

For high school, I went to Plant City Senior High School, Plant City, Florida. I am class of 1984.

Education in the real world's school of hard knocks

Oh, yeah: All that electronic college did me good: I'm a HAM EXTRA operator (There are three levels: Technician, then General, and then the highers, Extra: Zzzap!!) My call sign is N2GY. You can look me up on:

http://www.qrz.com or http://www.arrl.org or even http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls if you know how. Here:

http://www.qrz.com/callsign/N2GY and http://www.arrl.org/fcc/fcclook.php3?call=n2gy

are my pages in QRZ and ARRL.

"Flash" Gordon Wayne Watts

Contact Info

More Contact Information for me: ...in case you want to get in contact with me, please note that I don't monitor this page much, so the methods below, namely email, telephone, and U.S. Postal Mail are more convenient:

• Gordon Wayne Watts http://GordonWatts.com
• BS, The Florida State University, Biological and Chemical Sciences
• AS, United Electronics Institute
• ALWAYS FAITHFUL - To God
• 821 Alicia Road, Lakeland, FLA, USA 33801-2113 http://HomeTown.AOL.com/Gww1210 or http://www.GeoCities.com/Gordon_Watts32313 or http://Gordon_Watts.Tripod.com/consumer.html
• Home: (863) 688-9880 Work: (863) 686-3411 Voice&FAX: (863) 687-6141
• Gww1210@aol.com ; Gww12102002@Yahoo.com
• Truth is the strongest, most stable force in the Universe.
• TRUTH doesn't bend to the will of tyrants.
• Gordon Wayne Watts
• Get Truth.

"First, they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me." (Martin Niemoller, given credit for a quotation in The Harper Religious and Inspirational Quotation Companion, ed. Margaret Pepper (New York: Harper &Row, 1989), 429 -as cited on page 44, note 17, of Religious Cleansing in the American Republic, by Keith A. Fornier, Copyright 1993, by Liberty, Life, and Family Publications.

(Actually, they may not have come for the Jews first, as it's far more likely they came for the prisoners, mentally handicapped, and other so-called "inferiors" first -as historians tell us -so they could get "practiced up;" But, they did come for them -due to the silence of their neighbors -and due, in part, to their own silence. So the general idea is correct: "Speak up now, or forever hold your peace." --Gordon)

Test re Terri photos

Notes to Self

Spacing in Misplaced Pages

Thanks for pointing that out... I don't think I would have noticed. But, you're absolutely right, wikipedia truncates double-spacing when they display the output. How rude! --JonGwynne 15:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome, JonGwynne! I think there's a way to do spaces manually:   Let's see if it works.          Next sentence.--GordonWattsDotCom 16:46, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you all for the barnstars: I hope to live up to your expectations

I, Redwolf24, award you this barn star for helping those who need help and for going out of your way to make wikipedia and its citizens better.

• You're welcome, Redwolf24. (For others who've had trouble making subdirectories, here's the diff for what you were asking.) If anyone else has the same problem, they can do like you did: Simply type in the web address with the desired extention, and get the "edit window," and then edit away. Take care,--GordonWattsDotCom 2 July 2005 03:20 (UTC)

• Thanks Wagon, and thanks for your contributions.--GordonWattsDotCom 23:10, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

I hereby award you The Photographer's Barnstar for the trouble you recently went to in taking original photos of Terri Schiavo's grave and of the hospice where she died. Your contributions are appreciated. Ann Heneghan 11:04, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

• You're welcome, Ann, and thank you for your acknowledgement and recognition.--GordonWattsDotCom 01:01, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

• You are certainly a good neighbor, Boris B! Thx! ~ I hope I am deserving of these barnstars, in consideration of how I certainly have detractors -and I hope they remember I have tried to work with them and listen --whether I agree or disagree. Well, I trust my guardian angels and Great Protector to keep me while I sleep -which is certain to be sooner than later, and may He keep and protect editor neighbors of mine who sometimes disagree too, because they mean well and offer me many new ideas. I hope I can offer positive in return to help make both my friends and critics happy and content.--GordonWattsDotCom 05:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship (RfA)

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/GordonWatts --GordonWattsDotCom 15:35, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

• "If the rights of one are violated, the rights of all are at risk." --Thomas Paine