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Invitation to comment

As per your comment , I'd like to invite you to comment on whether user:William M. Connolley has abused his power as an administrator to use the rollback button to remove my messages on his user talk page. Thanks in advance. — Instantnood 20:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

My views on the rollback priviledge are well known; it is generally inappropriate to comment on specific cases where one has nothing novel to say, and particularly so when one's actions are percieved throught the prism of the mantle of Arbitration duties, so I choose not to contribute to this particular situation. My apologies if this disappoints you.

James F. (talk) 21:22, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks anyways. :-) — Instantnood 22:26, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

The meaning of OW

To my knowledge, OW stands for "Old Waynflete", and refers to an old boy of Magdalen College School, Oxford. I have no idea whether MCS has a Royal Charter allowing the use of these letters; is it necessary? Tamino 13:19, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

It is to use them in anything other than an informal context, yes. :-)

James F. (talk) 21:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

cloak

can you set a cloak for me on irc? Whopper 21:33, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Of course. It is easiest if you contact me on IRC, however.

James F. (talk) 21:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

#wikipedia-en-admins

Hi, James. Could I be given access permissions for #wikipedia-en-admins please? Thanks. —Whouk (talk) 20:52, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Of course. It is easiest if you contact me on IRC, however.

James F. (talk) 21:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

That channel is still in use? Wow! Do otrs or office people still come there?

In any case I've switched to #wikipedia-en. No more need to log in, and I actually get decently fast admin response there! :-) Kim Bruning 00:42, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, and yes. :-)

James F. (talk) 17:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, so Travb was spamming, but...

Is saying something bad about TBSDY doubleplusungood? SushiGeek 23:24, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Vote stacking for a deletion debate and an attempt to overturn legal policy? Please - in removing the item, I've done him a favour, saving him from (some of) his embarrassment. :-)

James F. (talk) 23:28, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Where exactly does he mention any deletion debate in the comments you removed from SushiGeek's or my talk page? Regardless, it's kind of pointless to revert someone's user talk page edits, since the "you have new messages" notice shows up anyway and people get confused (particularly if you fail to leave an explanation in your edit summary, which is arguably inappropriate anyway). Better to respond on the talk page advising of the evils of vote-stacking. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 00:30, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

At which point we get debates across tens of pages, Eek!

Hmm, how about a link to a central point? Something like a heading on this talk page, for instance. Would that be a good idea in future? Kim Bruning 00:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Ummmm

Pardon me, but why are you deleting messages on my user talk page? Jtmichcock

See above; it was part of a failed attempt to vote-stack, and such things are normally removed for everyone's sanity.

James F. (talk) 23:31, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Removal of comments from my talk page

I am fully capable of censoring my own talk page thank-you. The user in question made fair comments, although I do not support such campaigns. Even though I do not necessarily agree with him, he did nothing to warrant having his comment removed. There was no vandalism, there were no personal attacks... As far as I'm concerned, YOU are the only one who broke a rule. I see that you've deleted comments by travb from many pages. Why? Did he call you a bad name? Or is a petty grudge for some other reason? I ask that you respect the conetent of my talk page and only act if a serious rule has been broken or a violation committed. I happen to like to have the ability to read what's there. --Arch26 04:59, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

See above..

James F. (talk) 17:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Deleting talkpage messages

You deleted a message from my talkpage. Why? And why, even if you had reason, did you not leave a note that you had done so and explaining? Please don't do that again. I like to read all messages left for me, regardless who leaves them. Grace Note 05:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

See above..

James F. (talk) 17:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Autoblock

Thank you for unBlocking me, but the Autoblock is still blocking me my IP is 67.87.251.76. Please unblock it. (I am Using AOL To post this message Lovely Bypasses).--E-Bod 02:25, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Done at the time.

James F. (talk) 17:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

ok

Are you there as James F? I never seem to catch you there. IS there a way i could get one here, or have a time during the weekend soon? Whopper 03:01, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Easiest thing to do is send a memo on IRC, but I am going to be online for most of this weekend.

James F. (talk) 17:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Help on page of Falun_Gong

Hello, Samuel Luo is chronically reverting others. He threatened that "well, we can keep doing this until someone stop us." I don't want to get in a war with him. But the issue is he destroyed my hours' step-by-step edits.

Could you please kindly provide some idea? I don't know other ways. Thank you very much. Fnhddzs 00:43, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, the problem is solved. Thanks! Fnhddzs 18:02, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, I didn't do anything, but... sure. ;-)

James F. (talk) 17:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

IRC, Skype, Exilim

I'll get on IRC again when I have one of them copious free times, I'm still trying to work out how to get the headset to work (Linux recognises it, now to find which shiny rotatink SVG ikon in KDE kontains the prokram to make it work ... probably I should just try the Skype binary) and I haven't had a chance to low-light-test the EX-S600, but it does unbelievably good MPEG-4 video and apparently it comes with a bonus charger. Gosh! - David Gerard 05:37, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Sure you will. ;-)

As to the camera, any update?

James F. (talk) 17:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Greetings, invite

Hello, effeietsanders has nudged me to ask you: I wonder if you would would be interested/have time in september (september 3, if memory serves) to come over to the netherlands and speak at the m:Wikimedia Conference Netherlands, which wikimedia netherlands is trying to set up? Kim Bruning 05:01, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, erm, err, possibly. Not sure what I'd talk about. :-) If you think I'd make a good contributor, I'd be happy to pop over, though.

James F. (talk) 11:36, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok

Read what you wrote on my page. Now pretend I was saying that to you. It all still fits except alot moreso. You could have asked anyone. You could have talked to the people who had gone before. And you could have reacted in a less angry and dismissive way. You are in the wrong here James. Two weeks with no edits from Locke Cole and you decide it is time to goad him again about how he hasn't left? Not editing is a pretty good sign of actually having left. Leave him alone. --CBDunkerson 18:48, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I looked for you on IRC (and I hate IRC), but apparently you aren't around. I'd prefer not to make this a big thing where we bring in 'outside opinions' to re-decide again what was previously decided for the second time (and other redundancies), but if you seriously think that undeleting the page serves some purpose other than aggravating him and keeping him around to request it's deletion again then we can do so. I just don't see how the answer will be anything different than it was last time. --CBDunkerson 20:34, 27 May 2006 (UTC)