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This user is one of the 400 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

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Hello to all fellow Wikipedians. GoodDay 22:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC).

This user has been on Misplaced Pages for 19 years, 1 month and 7 days.

You may be wondering why my archives only start at August 2007. The reason: I didn't archive my pages before that date, I merely deleted them (as I didn't know how to archive). Therefore, if anyone wishes to see material before August 2007? check out this talkpage's 'history'.

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WikiIndaba and Wikipedian in Residence Notice

Dear GoodDay

As a Wikipedian interested in African subjects and specifically Malawi, I would like you to be aware of the following two opportunities:

1. Wikimedia South Africa and WikiAfrica are organising an WikiIndaba for February 2014 – a continental meeting for Africa-based Wikipedians to get together, discuss challenges and drive the agenda for Misplaced Pages from Africa. If you support this initiative, then please sign up on this site: http://wikiindaba.net – we also want to hear what you want the Wiki Indaba to achieve. What are your expectations? What does it need to include? Who and what do you want to see happen at WikiIndaba? What is your area of interest? Languages? Data? Please share your ideas and thoughts on the Community Portal

2. WikiAfrica is looking for a Wikipedian in Residence from Malawi. This might be a position that you would consider. Or it could be the perfect opportunity for someone you know from Malawi, please spread the word! For more details, please look at this page: http://www.wikiafrica.net/wikipedian-in-residence-malawi

If you have any questions about either of the above, please contact isla on isla wikiafrica net : Isla Haddow (talk)

Invitation

Hi. I am conducting a survey of most active Wikipedians, regarding reasons they may reduce their activity. I would be very interested in having you participate in it. Would you be interested? (If you reply to me here, please WP:ECHO me). Thank you for your consideration, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:28, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

@User:Piotrus In this particular case, the answer is fairly self evident. See the top of this page. Nformation 22:50, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Talkpage editing reenabled

Since one year has elapsed since GoodDay was banned, I have reenabled his ability to edit his talkpage, so he can post any request for the lifting or modification of his ban. No comment on the merits of any such request, or whether it should be decided by the ArbCom or the community. Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:55, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

It's been pointed out to me that since this is an ArbCom ban, it's the Committee that will review the appeal request. We are aware of the appeal (see below). Newyorkbrad (talk) 13:26, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Acknowledged. GoodDay (talk) 20:51, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Requesting reinstatement

Dear Arbcom.

• I solemly promise to 'never again' create or engage in drama.
• I shall not accuse any editors of having any ulterior motives.
• All editors are here to help & improve Misplaced Pages, therefore I shall AGF always.
• I hereby will 'never again' engage in 'edit wars' or 'edit spats'.
• When in any discussion on an article, I shall provide 'sources', instead of merely giving my personal opinion.
• There will be no more skirting around my 'Diacritics restriction' or my 'British/Irish topic ban'.
• When consensus is against me, I will accept the result & move on.
• I will control my 'temper', adopting the practice of 'stepping back'.
• I will not blame others, for my own troubles.
• I shall not follow editors around.
• Everyday, I shall strive to improve Misplaced Pages, in full cooperation with the community.
• We are a community & providing a welcoming, friendly working enviroment, is benefical to all.

I thank you (Arbcom) in advance, for reviewing my application. GoodDay (talk) 16:42, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

PS: I can't go through WP:BASC, as I don't have email. I don't know how to set one up :( GoodDay (talk) 15:15, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

• I've sent an email to arbcom-l flagging this for their attention. Courcelles 16:39, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Hello, Courcelles. Do you know if Arbcom has reviewed my application? GoodDay (talk) 21:49, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Here's to a new beginning

You've been missed. Good luck and godspeed. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:01, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. GoodDay (talk) 02:23, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Howdy GoodDay. Shouldn't you be using the unblock template? Maybe you've emailed ArbCom, but if not, you may be waiting a long time before they read your appeal. And anyway, after 12 months you shouldn't have to agree to anything out of the ordinary in terms of restrictions. You've been off for a year now. You should be back on with the same terms as a new editor, IMHO. Good luck. 82.31.27.208 (talk) 14:06, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Unblock templates aren't for banned editors. Also, I don't have email & so I'm not able to contact Arbcom in that manner. GoodDay (talk) 14:27, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

I've alerted ArbCom to your appeal here. Fair warning, they do tend to operate rather slowly. Resolute 16:03, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Going on 3 weeks, now. TBH, I'm getting a tad discouraged :( GoodDay (talk) 20:22, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Please don't. - I happened to mention courage in a different context today, and please feel included on top of that page ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Well GD, they either aren't listening, they can't read, or they just haven't got your message. There are three things you could do.

1) Email arbcom. You must have some email access somewhere. Here's the address: arbcom-appeals-en@lists.wikimedia.org

2) Put this template on your user page: {{adminhelp}}.

3) Try the unblock ticket request system, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Unblock_Ticket_Request_System

Okay, users banned by Arbcom can't just put up an unblock request, but you can ask for assistance using the 3 routes shown here. Wowsers! PeterPunch (talk) 18:03, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Almost a month

Getting more discouraged. GoodDay (talk) 20:20, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

But what are you doing about it? Don't rely on dysfunctional Arbcom watching this page.PeterPunch (talk) 20:50, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Hello GoodDay I understand you get impatient, but I think it's fairly standard that the committee works slooowly (Resolute warned about this above), so I don't think you should interprete it as a bad sign. Don't lose heart, yet. Since you last edited here, Misplaced Pages has got a new notification system; you might try to ping Courcelles or some other ArbCom member (just don't overdo it). You can read about notifications here. (And please don't get into the frustated-with-the-Arbcom-mood that Peter encourages, cause that will definititely not help you). Best wishes, Iselilja (talk) 20:58, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Honestly, I'm not being critical of Arbcom. I realize they're often busy. It's just that I feel so helpless, particulary when there's alot of articles falling behind, due to lack of updates. Some of those articles haven't been updated in over 50 weeks. Knowing I can help out & not being able to, isn't easy for me. GoodDay (talk) 21:03, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

C'mon Iselilja, I'm not suggesting he gets into any mood. Arbcom are hardly busy, so if they can't deal with this straightforward case in such an amount of time, well, that's dysfunctional in my book. And I don't think GD is helping himself to be heard. PeterPunch (talk) 21:06, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

OK, I didn't mean to be negative to you Peter; I apologize if my words came out wrongly. I mentioned the new notification system as a possible way to get a little contact with some arbcom members. Regards, Iselilja (talk) 21:15, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

No offense taken :) PeterPunch (talk) 21:17, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

I really hope you get back so you can update those pages, GoodDay. You might have mentioned that in your appeal, but hopefully they know that you normally do such editing. Iselilja (talk) 21:15, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Iselilja ;) GoodDay (talk) 21:43, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Unban

GoodDay's site-ban is suspended on the following terms: -

• For the period of one year after unblock, if GoodDay violates any user conduct policies at any time, any uninvolved administrator may restore the ban. Furthermore, if GoodDay is given any legitimate block by an administrator during the period, the ban will be restored.

This condition will be posted to GoodDay's user talk page (at which point he will be unable to remove them for one month, so that they are clearly visible to any editors who views his talk page during his transition back to contributing). The condition will also be announced at the "WT:BASC" Misplaced Pages page, and a link to it will be included in the block/unblock log for the account.

For the Arbitration Committee, Worm(talk) 08:13, 21 May 2014 (UTC)