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An account for Misplaced Pages-related email to me exists. However, I check its inbox infrequently, perhaps once or twice a month. I receive few messages there and send none. If you seek my attention for any Misplaced Pages-related matter, please post your concerns on this page (e.g. here). — Athaenara ✉ 22:22, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

• NOTE: I do not hang out on IRC. — Athaenara ✉ 14:00, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

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→ In re: my post on RegentsPark's talk page about inventive piping:

(feed my swans) · (chase my ducks) · (moult with my mallards) · (roll amongst the roses)

(sink with the skaters) · (paddle with the ducks) · (count the magpies) · (one for sorrow)

(sniff out my socks) · (sink with my stocks) · (bail out your boat)

Thanks. Just as I was running out of ideas, you gave me a new one! (I'm sticking with my current one for the time being because it seems so appropriate.) --Regents Park (sink with my stocks) 20:52, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom

→ In re: Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008.
→ See also: Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Candidate statements.

You should run for ArbCom. Jehochman 20:36, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

I should? Say what? — Athaenara ✉ 20:40, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

You have very keen analytic skills, great resistance to trolling, and a tendency to avoid wikipolitics. You have a female username, and females are under-represented on the committee. Jehochman 20:47, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Well. Hmm. So, this would mean that I would have to be nominated, whether by another user or myself, and if elected I would have to subscribe to a mailing list? (that last would annoy me most ;-)

I am quite exceptionally pleased when analytic skills, resistance to trolling, and wikipolitic-o-phobia are commended, but I don't know about the female bit, really. Of course I am a woman, and when I was an undergraduate math major I heard similar arguments (sometimes negatively, e.g. the "you'll have it easy because of affirmative action/PC quotas/reverse discrimination" sort of thing). Being far more enchanted by math than by feminism, I became a bit averse to the issue and I guess I am still.

Truly, I'm thinking no, but when you make suggestions I'm inclined to think they have a worthy basis, so I will give it more thought. — Athaenara ✉ 05:00, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Think yes. --Regents Park (bail out your boat) 21:17, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm not ignoring you, I'm just thinking oh, $#!+ ... — Athaenara ✉ 19:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I had feared that answering questions would take a long time, but it was not all that difficult. I decided to answer most off the top of my head, in order to provide a candid look at my thinking. In some sense, it is more authentic to answer quickly than to try to calculate how to please the most people. The worst that happens is not "winning". We need more people to volunteer who are not interested in power. Jehochman 19:33, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

It's not the questions, and I'm not such a crusader that I feel compelled to throw myself into a fray. It's not wanting to be on a mailing list and not wanting to be part of what looks now like a major cluster fuck (weeding out silly and pointy self-noms would improve it). I don't think any of the current arbs should be re-selected. — Athaenara ✉ 19:00, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Bottom of the ninth on this. You should think about it. Whatever the positives and negatives of arbcom itself, it can always use a few calm people on it. (Of course, even for someone like me at the bottom of the totem pole, wikipedia takes up far more time than is wise ......) --Regents Park (bail out your boat) 20:15, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Hammes Co.

→ In re: Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2008 November 11#Hammes Co.
→ See also: Hammes Company (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views).

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Hammes Co.. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedy-deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmh153 (talk • contribs) 15:07, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the support!

→ In re: Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Aervanath.

Thanks for supporting my successful Rfa! Hope to work with you more in the future! --Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 19:23, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Francis Light House

→ See also: Misplaced Pages:Suspected sock puppets/FrancisLightHouse.

I noticed that you tagged FrancisLightHouse2 as a sockpuppet of FrancisLightHouse. I agree to it and had filed a checkuser request. I am now about to file a sockpuppetry case. If you can, please monitor their edits. Alexius08 (talk) 02:17, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Comprehensive and effective SSP report, good job. — Athaenara ✉ 20:00, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

→ In re: my third opinion on Talk:General William J. Palmer High School#Lance Armstrong.

I appreciate your having a look at this. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:23, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

You are welcome. — Athaenara ✉ 05:40, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

→ In re: this edit.

Thanks for cleaning up after me on WP:3O. I did read that, but reflex made me type in four tildes. Sigh. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:48, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey, you're welcome. — Athaenara ✉ 16:00, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Your userpage

Hi there, just a quick note that your userbox about the University of California, Berkeley has a link to a disambiguation page (namely, Straight). You might want to change it to make it clear what you mean. It Is Me Here 19:50, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, but that is actually intentional. I considered being more specific but made the choice because it's not the only meaning of "straight" which applies. — Athaenara ✉ 20:00, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

No problem, take care. It Is Me Here 20:15, 21 November 2008 (UTC)