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| Thank you for your note to missed PumpkinSky, with special treats - all the way to the bottom line please, for United Nations Convention Against Torture, 8 years ago, and the title story, - we talked about your part in it ;) --] (]) 08:06, 2 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| :Hmm? Not a problem, but... sorry, what are you saying? ] (]) 11:34, 2 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| ::I thought I said enough, trying harder: click the title of the story, scroll all the way to the bottom line (a link to an improvement of the article ] on 31 October 2004), the link to the article with the story is the line above it, - it actually told me a detail I did not know ;) --] (]) 11:48, 2 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| :::I'm looking around on and I can't find ''anything'' relating to me personally. Am I looking in the wrong spot? ] (]) 00:49, 3 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| *As a side note pertaining to ], I've known him for several years now (i.e. back in the days when there was no "PumpkinSky", just some guy calling himself "Rlevse" with a fancy green signature and a bunch of advanced permissions). He's a great guy, really — he was (and I think remains) a superlative Wikipedian. He's made some excellent content contributions (albeit somewhat marred by the close paraphrasing issues, but it's not ''that'' big of a deal) and was also very active in maintenance areas. As an administrator, his name was practically ubiquitous with ]; for a long time, I saw him as sort of a poster child for the idea of applying a zero tolerance policy towards ]. He was probably the overall most stringent arbitrator during his time on the committee, advocating sanctions in most cases as a means to remedy the situation — he had supported banning several productive contributors if he found that their personalities were incompatible with the project's collaborative environment. I didn't always agree with him, but I at least respected his perspective on matters. Rlevse vanished from the project in October 2010 due to... well, ], but then he came back in 2011. I actually had no idea PumpkinSky was the very same user as Rlevse until July 2012 when he posted on my talk page about me submitting an ] to become an administrator (he'd offered to nominate me back in March 2009). I've seen PumpkinSky around quite a bit, but never did I suspect a thing until I visited his userpage. ] (]) 01:28, 3 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| ::Thank you, - your history around here is much longer than mine, Rlevse vanishing was the first time that I noticed on this project what people do to people. The person behind Rlevse grew up, I think, and did not support this time to ban a productive contributor ;) - I hope he will grow up further to ignore ] as long as the right people trust him, --] (]) 09:58, 3 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| ::The link above was deleted, again ;) --] (]) 07:23, 4 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
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| == The "troll" link of candidacy not in good faith == | |||
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| Asking you to retract accusing me of being a troll. Context is important. You are obviously not around long enough to know what made me take long wiki-breaks since November 2008 (that was my first time running for ArbCom and I was controversially blocked by another candidate before the election. A block later arbitrator FT2 deemed unwarranted according to my block log. This incident is documented here ] with supporting diffs) or the background of my block log (many of which are 1 second apology blocks). Don't call me a troll when you don't know the whole story. Retract the personal attack--] (]) 07:44, 15 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| :I've been registered since June 2008, so I do remember things from back then pretty well. What does that have to do with your ArbCom candidacy today? You don't honestly expect to be elected, do you? | |||
| :In any case, I went ahead and that segment of my opposition to your candidacy. Just as an aside, I did not make a personal attack — I was accusing you of trolling based on your recent actions, not explicitly calling you one. The reason I would say something like that is because ] can only be stretched so far, and when somebody runs for ArbCom or does something else when there is clearly no chance of them succeeding, it is hard for them to be taken seriously. ] (]) 14:05, 15 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
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| ...for me to question an entry in a voters' guide, but I cannot resist: | |||
| #"What does that even mean?" -- Happy to answer a question about this on the respective page, but I thought that the answer is obvious: Arbitration does no sentencing, only findings of fact. This might not be the case everywhere in the world. I should probably have considered that when writing that phrase. My bad. | |||
| #"Technically he is right" -- Then what's the problem? I checked all elected users, and I considered founder-appointed editors irrelevant, as this was an election statement. | |||
| #"how would a Checkuser be able to find the username of someone who created a subsequently deleted page if they are unable to ''view'' deleted pages to begin with?" -- CheckUsers have that ability. | |||
| #"professor" -- unfortunately not. Our institution is not a university, thus I may not use that title. | |||
| I understand your other concerns, and I'm not asking for an opinion change. The "incoherent" comment hurts a bit, though. Cheers, ] (]) 21:16, 15 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| :No, it's perfectly fine — I'm actually really glad you've addressed my concerns. Plus, I just learned that CheckUsers have the ability to view deleted revisions or pages without +sysop, something I wouldn't have known otherwise. =) | |||
| :Sorry if you took offense at the abruptness of my rationale. Reading through it now, it does admittedly seem a bit too blunt. It's just that I had trouble making out what you meant in your paragraph and had a hard time following your train of thought. I'm going to strike that part out. I hope you have no hard feelings against me. | |||
| :Take care, and good luck. =) ] (]) 00:17, 16 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| :: No hard feelings at all, and thanks for reconsidering. Cheers, ] (]) 06:20, 16 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
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| :Thanks for the heads up. By the way, despite not being behind you in your ArbCom bid, I really do think you're a huge asset to Misplaced Pages and hope you'll continue to contribute here for many years to come. ] (]) 01:40, 23 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
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| Hi, I see you're interested in African history, would you possibly be interested in a ]? ] (]) 20:53, 7 September 2024 (UTC) | |||
| I don't know if you watch the talk page of your guide, but I wanted to make sure you noticed I had left you a note there. :-) — ] <sup>]</sup> 03:38, 24 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| :Sure! I'll check it out right now. =) ] (]) 03:38, 24 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| ::{{tl|ygm}}. — ] <sup>]</sup> 05:24, 24 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| :{{ping|Kowal2701}} I'll have to look into it sometime. 😉 ] ] 09:44, 19 September 2024 (UTC) | |||
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| For me to spend time agonizing over Scott would be pretty pathetic. For me to have a problem with an Arbcom that conveniently ignores all existing policies whenever it has a goal that it would like to achieve seems reasonable.—](]) 01:12, 28 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
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| :Oh, OK. Thanks for clearing that up. I'll update my guide once my internet connection is less shitty. Hope you aren't offended by anything I've said, and thank you so much for all the hard work you put into this site. It's greatly appreciated. ] (]) 01:16, 28 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
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| I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: ] Thank you for considering this request. ] (]) 08:46, 29 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| :Sure thing. Admittedly, I don't enjoy partaking in drama beyond just giving my $0.02 here and there, but I guess making my views known in this instance would give another perspective on things. ] (]) 11:34, 29 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| ::Thank you for that reasonable response. Your 2 cent's is needed, and appreciated. ] (]) 12:11, 29 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
| :::Yep. I'm going to take some time to finish the rest, but it'll be done soon. =) ] (]) 19:03, 29 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
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| Please don't browbeat editors bacause their oppose rationales don't meet your standards. Unless, of course, you intend to do the same to those who support without rationales. I realize you're trying to score points for RfA2, but it's quite unbecoming. ] (]) 21:26, 2 January 2013 (UTC) | |||
| :The view that it is important for oppose !votes in RfAs to have some stated rationale is hardly Kurtis's alone, and I didn't think that his short and courteous comment to the last opposer in the currently pending RfA constituted "browbeating." Regards, ] (]) 23:24, 2 January 2013 (UTC) | |||
| ::Wow, Kurtis! When you have the likes of NYB answering for you, your next RfA is ''guaranteed'' to pass. ] (]) 23:40, 2 January 2013 (UTC) | |||
| :::Not true, I don't think ... I supported Kurtis last time, right, and it didn't help (or at least it didn't help ''enough'').... Regards, ] (]) 23:43, 2 January 2013 (UTC) | |||
| ::::Actually, you abstained from my RfA NYB (or had otherwise forgotten to support, thinking you had already done so). But, you ''did'' revert a sockpuppet after they had participated, which I thanked you for. =) ] ] 02:02, 3 January 2013 (UTC) | |||
| *@Joefromrandb — I've been active at RfA for years, even back at the time when I wasn't sure if I'd wanted to be an administrator or not. My only intention in the comment I left Cmach at ] was to give him some helpful advice when it comes to participating in an RfA. A support vote is something in which doesn't necessarily need a lengthy rationale; by signing your name there, you are in effect saying that you trust the candidate not to misuse or abuse the tools based on what you have seen of them (although it does help when you provide reasoning, and I typically do so). When opposing, you are saying that you do ''not'' feel comfortable with them having the tools at this time, which means you should give them a valid reason (eg. misunderstanding of certain core policies, some past issues with CSD tagging, etc) so they will learn from the experience and perhaps be able to better prepare themselves for a second attempt. And having the support of someone who is highly regarded by a broad segment of the community is no guarantee of passing an RfA or gaining some other position of trust; NYB actually is known for being lenient, in RfA and elsewhere, so those with stricter standards may not always put so much stock into his stance when expressing theirs because it's an entirely different perspective. ] ] 02:02, 3 January 2013 (UTC) | |||
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| I liked your statement and have long ago dropped the issue. The only reason I am appealing what I can only call the letter k topic ban is I would like to be able to use the full keyboard in making corrections, and not being able to make corrections went far beyond what was requested, plus how can anyone call it a consensus for a topic ban if there was strong opposition to the topic ban? ] (]) 02:31, 13 January 2013 (UTC) | |||
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