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Interview

Hi. I'm doing a study about Misplaced Pages (particularly about sysops) for my Masters in Communications and Media Studies at Monash Uni, and was wondering if you would be so kind as to take some time to talk to me. I'm mostly interested in what your day-to-day activities are and your relationship with other sysops and editors. It shouldn't take more than 30 minutes.

Please let me know if you're interested/willing. It would be immensely appreciated :) Cheers, --In continente (talk) 08:29, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi In continente, I'd be happy to help you with your research. Feel free to email me. Regards, Sarah 01:00, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! Truly appreciated. Replied by email so we can arrange. Regards, In continente (talk) 08:41, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Solid work

I've been working non-stop in real-life for a couple of days and have come back tonight briefly to notice your solid work on H & A articles. Just thought I'd say that and wish you a hello. But I'll also ask if you had observed Bidgee's frustration reach the stage of retirement? I've just found out this evening.--VirtualSteve 13:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Steve. Yes, I logged onto MSN yesterday and was going to say hey to you but noticed you had the "busy" sign up. Hope you got your work finished. No, I didn't know anything about Bidgee. I hardly ever use my watchlist at the moment so I often don't see things like that unless someone tells me or I coincidentally end up on the same page. I hope he takes a break and then comes back as it would be a real shame to lose him. I had a really good impression of him when we were in Canberra and he is one I feel is a genuinely nice guy who just wants to help out and contribute as best he can and I would be very disappointed to see him leave. By the way, I have some Glam pictures ready to upload and will try to do that over the weekend. Trust you are well and taking care of yourself. Cheers, Sarah 01:08, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, I see he has the retired sign up. I hope he reconsiders after a break. I understand how he feels, though, as we all know this can be an extremely frustrating place (and we don't get paid anywhere near enough money to put up with the crap!) Sarah 01:39, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm just frustrated at all the hard work (by others including myself) put in to some articles just goes flying right out the window, the lack of action done for some Administrators whom seem not to care about those who have breached the 3RR and say that the reporter was disurpive and who was the one that breached the policy, and at this stage rather put my time and effort into Commons and my studies then Misplaced Pages ATM. 120.16.146.242 (talk) 02:09, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

I can certainly understand that frustration. I've spend most of the last year on a succession of wikibreaks due to frustration at various things that go on around these parts. I'm glad to know that you'll at lease be around Commons, so we won't be losing you completely. :) Sarah 03:06, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

I echo Sarah's thoughts my friend. If When you come back you know that you can always come and ask for my opinion and assistance. I am sorry I wasn't around at the time this all went down. Anyway enjoy the rest and think how high your marks at TAFE are going to be now that you have all this addition time.--VirtualSteve 06:18, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

I just felt that it was best to retire, but I've not lost any sleep over it (other then a thunderstorm waking me up at 2am this morning). :) I'm hoping of heading to Temora tomorrow (No Tommorra jokes ;) ) to see the Sabre take to the skies. Bidgee (talk) 10:15, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

• PS on the subject of Bidgee's good work have you noticed the userbox at the top of my talk page (idea started by Bidgee and slightly influenced by me). It might be nice if we could make it standard fare for WMAus members?--VirtualSteve 06:20, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Steve. I'm very pleased to hear from you and hope your workload has slowed down a little. :) I noticed Bidgee's WMAu membership userbox after we got home from Canberra, a couple of weeks ago, I guess. I'm not sure how to make it standard for members? I have minutes from the committee meeting we had just before glam which are now before the committee for approval and the requisite time for committee consideration and approval is nearly up, so I shall be sending them out to the members list in the next day or two and I guess I could mention that you and Bidgee have created a new userbox for WMAu members? I'm not sure what else could be done to make it available...I guess another alternative would be to mention it on the general Wikimedia Australia mailing list but there's lots of non-member on that list so it probably isn't an ideal place. Was there something in particular that you had in mind? Sarah 12:17, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Hey Sarah - sorry my comment about the userbox was just off the cuff. Just pride in being a member - no need for anything else to be done.--VirtualSteve 23:55, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Maybe just give the members a nudge to use it. ;) :P (Only being sarcastic). Bidgee (talk) 00:12, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Hello Sarah, I´m writing to you because my article about "Uhlmann Pac-Systeme" was deleted. I don´t understand why this is so because the same article also exists in the German Misplaced Pages. I only translated it. With the article I only wanted to inform about this German company and its products. I never intended to use the article for advertising purposes. What shall I do now? Could you please help me? Thank´s a lot! Kartonierer (talk) 13:51, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Editors

I noticed that incident you had with D climacus. The user is very hard to work with even when being semi-retired ATM.

Cheers for blocking the sock spammer on the Albury article, I've missed a lot today as I've just came back from a hospital visit (May be on and offline during the week as a family member is sick). Bidgee (talk) 11:16, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

User:Bidgee. Please don’t start rumors about me. This was the first time I talked to you on here, Thanks--David | 22:00, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Huh? What a load of rubbish. Next time you tell a load of lies about being the first time talking to me, get your facts straight. I've given you a chance but you blew it. Bidgee (talk) 23:24, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm Sorry for the comments on your talk page. I hope you forgive me for my immaturity. It wont happen agene. I hope you will understand.--David | 00:04, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Bidgee, I'm very sorry to hear about your relative and I hope they have a speedy recovery. No probs about the block. I had blocked them the other day and tried to patiently explain our policies/guidelines to them in the hope they may stop and turn around and be constructive, but it appears they're only interested in spamming their website link. If they keep it up, we may just have to add it to the blacklist.

David, no one is starting rumours about you, though you are doing a good job of starting rumours about yourself. I would still like to know about your past history on this site as it's quite apparent this is not your first account. Most genuinely new users with only a couple of weeks here do not start lecturing and reprimanding admins and experienced editors. Now in this incident, we have you, with less than a month's experience and 1,000 edits, nearly all automated, who has managed to get into several disputes already and has already been stripped of rollback for misuse, and on the other side, Bidgee, a user with more than 20,000 edits, more than 2500 images, 51 new articles and four years experience on this project. Please. Stop causing problems with other editors because I can guarantee you that you will be the one who comes off second best. I told you that I thought you were a sock and who of and your response was to immediately archive my comment without response - that's not the response of an innocent person. If you continue starting confrontations and causing problems with other editors and admins who are making good faith edits, I will start an SPI report about you. Having just now looked at your edits on Steve's talk page, I will just add that its beyond obvious to me that you are Eddie Segoura avoiding your community ban, again. Sarah 01:29, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

• Your information also noted by me Sarah. Thank you.--VirtualSteve 01:42, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Steve. I'm beyond certain that it's Eddie. I don't even have a slight doubt now that I've looked at his edits in the last day or two. I don't want to say too much on-site as it will just educate him. I'm going to go ahead and block him if there's even a hint of any further problems with other users or wasting other people's time for his own entertainment. There's not really any point in a checkuser as he's been doing this for four years now and he's learned all the tricks to get around the CU but the behavioural evidence is usually very compelling and it is very much so with this account. I think I might start collecting diffs (privately, off-site) so that I have them ready in the event that we decide to block the account. Sarah 06:39, 8 September 2009 (UTC)