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Last archived October 27, 2004.

State terrorism

Hey, Ambi, could you protect the State terrorism article. I, and others, have made DETAILED points in talk, and it keeps getting reverted by people with an agenda. They have no leg to stand on, they've been repeatedly proved wrong (go to the bottom of talk and see "Big edit, reasons why", and note they think that 170 MILLION people have died due to TERRORISM (by states) in the last 100 years -- It's patent nonsense). Anyways, take a look, please. Thanks. Terrapin 14:02, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

HistoryBuffEr's RFC against Proteus

You might be interested in this: Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_comment/Proteus. Regards, Jayjg 21:39, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Canadian notice board vs. WikiProject

My intention was for the two to complement each other, eg. the WikiProject page as a simple list of topics and the notice board for any and all discussion (eg. coordinating efforts, discussing article formats, categories, etc.) I just think the notice board page could get unwieldy really fast if we try to do everything on one page. If people feel it's too duplicative, though, then I'll delete the other page. Bearcat 05:59, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• OK, fair enough. Killed the other page, moved the content I'd added to the notice board. Bearcat 06:24, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• laugh...you do give good guilt trip. You wouldn't happen to be a parent, would you? Bearcat 01:38, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

I know you're (supposed to :-) be away at the moment, but anyway, thanks for your support in my adminship nomination. JOHN COLLISON 14:53, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Palestinian/Israeli issues

In case it'd be helpful, I have decent RL experience moderating Israel-Palestine issues, have a strong stomach for the topic, no particular bias towards either side, and would be happy to help in any way I can with such conflicts. --Improv 18:04, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Terrorist categories

Misplaced Pages:Categories for deletion has two lists of categories related to terrorists up for deletion. Jayjg 20:46, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Schools

Since you are General Secretary of the Deletionists, and I saw some reference to your having non-deletionist tendencies with respect to schools, I was wondering if you could share your views on school inclusion overall. Thanks. Posiduck 03:55, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Link suggester on Lake Burley Griffin

Hi Ambi, I've run the Link Suggester tool on the Lake Burley Griffin article, in both selective and exhaustive modes (the real thing will only use selective). The exhaustive list is very very long and is probably 95% wrong or not worth linking to - I only included the exhaustive list in case it was of use, so don't hesitate to delete it straight away if it's not useful. All the best, Nickj 06:03, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Nosing in

Why are you nosing in on talk page comments of mine that you are not a party to, such as at User talk:RickK? Please advise. 216.153.214.94 08:21, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Editing the requests of others

Could you and RickK please be more careful with your edits? You've managed to wipe out a change of mine to *MY* request on the Page Protection page. Thanks much :)

Victorian MPs

It's all here Adam 15:15, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Mediation

 AlexR is unfortunately at it again.  In violation of the mediation process, he attempted to effectively add a new version of the Joan of Arc entry in the Cross-Dressing article  - while claiming that he was allegedly preserving the entry from modification rather than vice-versa. You can see that his "reverted" version (at 19:44:16 on 30 Oct) included a new addition, added by an anonymous user today and conveniently retained by AlexR's "reversion", which included text designed to cast doubt on the historical evidence (this time using a different specious argument). Since the new version was consistent with AlexR's basic views, it would seem to have been an attempt to add new material on the sly while mediation is supposed to be underway. This was accompanied by a flood of revisions to both "Cross-Dressing" and "Joan of Arc" by two other names (JohnBaptist and Switisweti) posting one right after another in both articles. This is either a remarkable coincidence, or classic "sockpuppet" activity. I have therefore reverted it back to the form it had at the beginning of mediation, and I would ask that you please protect the article against further tampering after reverting whatever additional vandalism these users might engage in. Frankly, I think it's also time to finally ban AlexR as a "troll", as another admin suggested, given this type of behavior. AWilliamson 22:44, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Lake Burley Griffin references

Just saw the message about Lake Burley Griffin references! sorry 'bout that... somehow I missed ur message. Will fix it up now. - Ta bu shi da yu 11:46, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

ADW General Secretary

Congratulations! You have been unanimously elected as the first General Secretary of the ADW. The votes may be seen at /Election1, and you may formally accept the position on the ADW page if you so desire. Enjoy your new position. --Slowking Man 22:31, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)

Ambi You Hurt My Feelings

Hi Ambi, I don't think I've had the pleasure of writing to you before. I really apreciate the fact that at least you expressed the reason for opposing me and in a way I understand. I see that your a very good administrator and I hope you become a good lawyer. The only thing that I can say about the Joaquin Phoenix saga is that it was a misunderstanding on my part but, it was solved with everybody becoming friends in the end. I guess it was a case of beginners ignorence. I hope that you can count me among your Wikipedian friends, I would like that. Take care.

Tony the Marine

Thank You Ambi

Ambi, thank you for your support. I must tell you that I read some of the comments in your talk page and that I am very impressed because people look up to you with high esteem. If I become an administrator I promise not to let you and the rest of group down. I'm glad that I count on you as a Wikipedian friend. Take care.

Tony the Marine

Hottest 100s

I've done some more work on Triple J Hottest 100, 2003. I think it would be a good idea to get this one perfected before starting on the rest. It's looking pretty good already! -- Chuq 23:20, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Village Pump Proposal

Ambi, I would like your input on my proposal (or some variant of my proposal) on the village pump. Thank you. Posiduck 23:16, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

From a fan

Hi :) Just wanted to let you know that your amazing work, your myriads of new articles wo. Australia and those other little known countries and your initiative don't go unnoticed! You're one of Misplaced Pages's treasures! Keep up the good work you do :) Dysprosia 11:37, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Dedham, Massachusetts

Your particpation in the un-justified deletion (via non-discussed reverts) of a factually accurate, non-POV, historical fact from that page has contributed to causing that page to be "protected". Therefore, I am asking you to particpate in the dialog at Talk:Dedham, Massachusetts which the "protection" notice calls for. Either that, or please leave a message for Mirv and request that the page be unprotected. This message will be reposted here daily (approximately) until you acknowledge it on the Dedham, Massachusetts talk page. Thank you 216.153.214.94 03:45, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It's not a threat, and you are now obligated to converse at Dedham, Massachusetts 216.153.214.94 05:46, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC) PS: You are the one making threats. Does that make you a bully? 216.153.214.94 05:46, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

i still like you ambi, even though you are a "bully" ;) --kizzle 09:06, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

Ambi, respecting your edit to Dedham, Massachusetts, were you interested in Dedham, Massachusetts or the establishment clause or were you there to revert Rex? Fred Bauder 12:43, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

Your turn's coming

I believe you will eventually be an arbitrator. One of the decisions we made at the beginning of establishment of procedure was that deliberations would be in private. I opposed that, advocating public deliberations. We simply never implemented that decision and there are the proposed decisions for you and everyone else to comment on. Obviously there are starts and stops and wrong turns as the various arbitrators bring their perspectives to the table. One of my failings is to give second and third chances to someone and then when they don't come though after a long effort to reform them, throw the book at them. Other arbitrators have different approaches. I'm trying a new approach and giving a pass to those who got sucked into committing offenses themselves as they tried to deal with this very troublesome user by referring to their infractions as "petty offenses". In the past we have applied mild sanctions such as a one day ban. Fred Bauder 14:11, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

You do understand that "troublesome" users, if they have a large supply of disparate IP addresses can simply re-incarnate themselves, yes? Wouldn't it be a gas if "Rex" has long since already re-joined under a new name and already has 1,500+ edits and has taken a more subtle approach? What will everyone do if they find out three months from now, that this new (unknown to us) editor (or re-incarnation/sockpuppet whichever term you prefer) is already earning accolades from many long-timed editors with such comments as "good job on that, thanks", etc? What would the Wiki cabal do if indeed they unkowingly promote one (or more) Rex alter-ego(s) to Admin? It's more possible than your think and frankly, would be very funny. 216.153.214.94 18:40, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think Fred's right about your future role. Thanks for the note at the Gene Poole case. I had foolishly moved too quickly yesterday, and had thought there wasn't enough evidence concerning Micronation -- there was, though the complainants had done an iffy job of presenting it -- thank goodness Fred invested the time to explain more thoroughly. I don't see complaints on the evidence page for any other article, though -- if Gene has a problem at Sealand or any other micronation article, I don't know about it. Anyway, I guess I'll go back to pondering what a good decision is -- between the two sides involved in that case, I've been "feedback"ed into a corner. :-) Best of luck on your exams, Jwrosenzweig 15:05, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

You're too fast!

Everytime I create an Australian article, before I can add it to the list you've already done it. Please slow down to make me feel more useful. ;) Shane King 05:48, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)

Stubs

Sorry if my stubs offend you. I cannot see that I have left anything for others to "clean up" at Kingaroy. I'll revert to my paid computer editing today. Thortful 20:55, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

On my opinions

I'm pretty sure I'm on the arbitration committee to take action in a way that I believe is consistent with the interests of Misplaced Pages and its community, not to reflect "community consensus". I think time has shown that people are pretty well able to listen to or ignore my opinions and arguments no matter which stage I have. Minority opinions are generally a good thing. The Cunctator 22:01, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Alamein diagram

I'm in the process of whipping up some more right now! Though most of the other lines are quite long, so bear with me. I'm using Visio rather than Paint, which makes things a lot easier. I'm quite proud of my new City Loop diagram too! :) T.P.K. 12:33, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ambi, I Need You

Hi Ambi, How's that for a heading? I want to know if you can make a speedy deletion. Go to List of Puerto Ricans, then click on "history". Check out the insulting version of User:68.219.120.241. I would like that version completely deleted from the history page. Can you do that for me? Let me know. Thank you for everything. Tony the Marine

Thank you

Thanks for answering, today I learned something new! User:Marine 69-71

AFL medals

There's quite a bit that will be added into these pages over time I imagine - I just want to get the basics up and running as quickly as possible. But I'll add the Norm Smith winners in now—do you have a source for the Rising Star awards? Any others you can suggest while we're at it? █ T █ P █ K █ 11:10, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Netoholic

I see what you mean by "Antisocial to the extreme. Regularly does controversial things unilaterally. Would very likely end up a rogue admin." on the WP:RFA page! Damn. - Ta bu shi da yu 15:17, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)