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April 29: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday April 29, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our inaugural evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday April 29 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street Featuring a keynote talk this month on Lady Librarians & Feminist Epistemologies! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:28, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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Using Misplaced Pages as a blog

So Brad, what about WP:NOTBLOG are you exempt from and why? Are you allowed to continue to run a blog because you are an admin? a former arbitrator? I'm curious what makes it ok that you have a page called User:Newyorkbrad/Newyorkbradblog and treat it like a blog, on Misplaced Pages, when such things aren't allowed. I'm sure I will surely be blocked for even asking such a question, but it seems rather silly to me that someone who is supposed to be upholding Misplaced Pages's policies so flagrantly disregards them. Would it be ok if I created a subtalkpage and did the same thing? How long would it take for that page to be deleted and for me to be blocked with a summary pointing to WP:NOTBLOG, my opinion is it wouldn't take long. 96.255.237.170 (talk) 01:19, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

While the section summary is not qualified, the rest of the section at WP:NOTBLOG makes it clear that its is talking about using your userspace for things unrelated to Misplaced Pages. The reality is that someone would probably be a lot quicker to challenge you, as an IP editor, if you started a similar user space blog, but if it was of the same quality as Newyorkbrad's I would hope the result would be the same for the both of you. Someone could also definitely write a Misplaced Pages related blog in their userspace that we would reject, the nature of the content matters as much as the form factor. Monty₈₄₅ 01:44, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) It would be clearly permissible for me to have created each one of my series of posts as a separate short essay, either in my userspace or in Misplaced Pages space, because my subjects are directly related to Misplaced Pages and concern issues of importance to the project. Instead, I have chosen to collate the postings on a single page as a convenience both to myself and to readers. That is a matter of formatting only, and does not transform my appropriate commentaries into an irrelevant personal page that would raise an issue under the userspace guidelines. I fear that you may have allowed a shorthand slogan such as "NOTBLOG" to substitute for thoughtful consideration of what I have had to say. Newyorkbrad (talk) 01:54, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Precious again, for stepping forward for what's right

standing strong
Thank you for speaking up with decency and fairness, treating editors as living people: "there was and is a human being who contributed his time and efforts to the project", - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (20 September 2007, 13 October 2008)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:57, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Three years ago, you were the 99th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, - what you said can't be repeated too often. When the human being was unblocked in 2012, joy was unlimited and will not be forgotten, "for stepping forward for what's right and for everyone!" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:00, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 16:37, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:01, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

You earned this, man. Bravo. John Carter (talk) 22:14, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

New Newyorkbradblog entry

A test of Misplaced Pages quality improvement. Newyorkbrad (talk) 16:59, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Nazi gun control theory

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Nazi gun control theory#Godsy's preferred lead. Should article be locked down/protected? If so, which version, and for how long? Thanks. Lightbreather (talk) 22:36, 20 April 2015 (UTC)Template:Z48

• • Thank you very much for thinking of me, but for a number of reasons, I'd prefer to stay away from this particular topic. Thank you for your understanding. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 02:26, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Hillary Rodham Clinton - Move Discussion

Hi,

This is a notification to let you know that there is a requested move discussion ongoing at Talk:Hillary_Rodham_Clinton/April_2015_move_request#Requested_move. You are receiving this notification because you have previously participated in some capacity in naming discussions related to the article in question.

Thanks. And have a nice day. NickCT (talk) 18:49, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Arbitration enforcement question

Hi Newyorkbrad. I'm new to AE and probably don't know all the rules. You wrote that the violation I reported for Eric Corbett was three weeks old; is there a statute of limitations on ArbCom remedies for personal attacks and topic bans? I apologize for the belated request for enforcement (I only just saw the edit in question). gobonobo 20:53, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

There is no specific "statute of limitations." However, on AE as on other noticeboards, "stale" reports generally will not get acted on unless they are part of an ongoing problem. The purpose of sanctions is to prevent disruption. If an edit was made some time ago and no one raised an issue with it at the time, it is often better to let it alone rather than rekindle an issue that might otherwise have petered out. Newyorkbrad (talk) 20:58, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

To which I might add that a one-week block would mean nothing to me anyway. Eric Corbett 21:02, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Eric, that's helpful now, I don't think. Newyorkbrad (talk) 21:06, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Then we'll have to disagree, and not for the first time. Eric Corbett 21:08, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

You've been in a privileged position for far too long NYB, you really don't understand how this project really works. I'm just an oink, I see how it really works. Eric Corbett 21:13, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification Newyorkbrad. I would argue that this is an ongoing problem, with Eric today opining in the same thread that GGTF supporters "have blocked up their ears and closed their eyes to the reality". gobonobo 21:11, 26 April 2015 (UTC)