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Spring cleaning?

Well, it would be, if you lived Down Under. If you still have energy left after this whirlwind of housecleaning on your userpage, please consider coming over to help me get rid of old magazines, books I'll never read again, and bric-a-brac I've been too sentimental to throw away. Not that my userpage has this problem.... (Drat, maybe I should have paid you that $50 to find out how far away you live before asking, but then I've never dealt with PayPal.) Pardon my snotty cheerful irrelevance and irreverence; when a neighbor beats the dusty parlour rug out on the front lawn, I'm the brat who'll shout "ouch!" at each stroke, or sing something to the rhythm, so perhaps you're getting off easy by comparison.   ;) – SAJordan talkcontribs 05:38, 29 Nov 2006 (UTC).

In reply to your reply: suggestions? Dunno; you can see I haven't done much with my own (it started with the single line "An occasional visitor"); but I look at beautiful userpages like Essjay's and take mental notes, learning wikicoding from their example. I'm sure you've seen pages you admired as much; as Heinlein said of storywriting techniques, steal from the best and file off the serial numbers. I don't know whether our tastes are similar, so any other suggestion I make might be useless to you. That said, at the moment I'm leaning toward a utilitarian userpage for myself that can fit on one screen, so if I add much more information, I'd probably use small text in multiple columns, with few and small (if any) graphic elements or boxes. This would be much less pretty than a userpage like Essjay's, so the idea probably demonstrates either a deficient aesthetic sense or a low aesthetic priority on my part. (Also, currently I'm indef-blocked from Commons on a false charge of "making threats", so I can't add my own graphics.) – SAJordan talkcontribs 06:01, 30 Nov 2006 (UTC).
Elaragirl has also recently redesigned her userpage, very nicely, so take a look there. – SAJordan talkcontribs 18:01, 19 Dec 2006 (UTC).

Diana Ross Playground

My contribution was not vandalism, please see the talk section of said article for my arguments about what Bernhardt was saying and why is diva (negative and unsourced usage) okay but bitch not? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.183.100.99 (talk • contribs) 06:42, 4 December 2006 (UTC).


Diana Ross

My words are not nonsense, you obviously cannot read English.

see talk thereof--24.183.100.99 23:48, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Your input is requested

Your input would be appreciated at this Request for Comments. Kelly Martin (talk) 15:45, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Immediate intervention needed

One of the signatories to the mediation at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television), Yaksha (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) is continuing to act in bad faith, by continuing to unilaterally move hundreds of articles, without consensus or any attempt to proceed through WP:RM. Do you have any authority to request a block, or to put a "freeze" on such moves while the mediation process is on-going? Or what other action do you recommend? Multiple attempts to ask Yaksha to stop have not been successful, and I am concerned that unless there is immediate intervention, Yaksha is just going to continue on, moving hundreds more pages, escalating the dispute and further complicating the situation. --Elonka 19:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

FYI, I have requested a block at WP:ANI, in case you would like to participate: WP:ANI#Requesting block for non-consensus page moves. --Elonka 19:45, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you.  :) --Elonka 20:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, Yaksha is not complying. :/ Do you have a recommendation for a next step? --Elonka 01:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Understood, I think. At least: My understanding, is that MEDCOM has no official authority on anything, it can only make recommendations, but it's entirely voluntary as to whether or not anyone has to pay attention to those recommendations, correct? At no point (to my knowledge) did I say that anything coming out of MedCom was binding, nor did I say that you'd given any kind of "ruling" on the guideline. There are a few people claiming that I said all kinds of things, but there have been a lot of bogus "Elonka said" claims throughout this process.  ;) In reality, I believe that I've been trying to be very careful as to my interpretation of what you said, and I've been very carefully always linking to diffs as backup.[1][2][3][4][5] If you think that anything that I said was misleading, I do apologize, and would blame it on the "hurried" nature of my posts. This "time pressure" situation is frustrating, as rather than having a day or so to contemplate an action, it seems that rapid responses are necessary because of how quickly these moves are being pushed through.
In any case, I see that the mediation was rejected, which saddens me. :/ If you do have any recommendations for how to further proceed at this point, I would be most grateful for any advice. --Elonka 02:45, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
"MedCom has confirmed that there is not currently consensus, and has issued a "cease and desist" on further moves" Gee, that sure sounds like you said they've given a "ruling". --Milo H Minderbinder 13:31, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I apologize if my comments to you were harsh, one in particular was made in response to what was claimed that you said instead of what you actually said. I didn't go back and read your original comment before posting my response, and that was a mistake on my part. I respect your opinion, thanks for the clarification. --Milo H Minderbinder 20:58, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Nomination?

Ok, you said you fixed the page where I blanked my nomination. I really dont even want anyone to know I ever nominated myself... I'm actually quite embarrassed I did that, with what little experience I have. That's why I blanked the page. I dont even want there to be a record of it...Any way you can remove it?--Cookie 08:14, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello, ^demon. I would advise against blanking it and instead leave it as a normal archive, although I think that either way would be acceptable, as long as a statement is placed to look in the history. (I'm not sure if his intention is to not have the page viewable at first, or just not in the records, but if you do decide to keep it blanked, I would recommend at least having a link to the history on the page.) However, I'm inclined to keep the nomination as it is: it will always be in the history, and attempting to hide it wouldn't really achieve anything, in my opinion. We could instead explain to him that if he continues making good contributions, it's unlikely that anyone would bring up a failed nomination here. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 02:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Landmark Education

While I support the effort of folks to resolve the dispute I don't consider myself to be an involved party. As I said at Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Landmark Education, I've only been slightly enagaged, mostly some talk page comments a month ago. If you as mediator think that my participation in the mediation would help then I'd be willing to then I'll be happy to help. Cheers, -Will Beback · † · 22:11, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Mediation: Resubmit or edit original?

Hi there. I have a question about a mediation request I recently put up: Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation/Toyotomi_Hideyoshi. Unfortunately, I didn't include the names of the "Involved Parties" as I thought they'd do that themselves as/if they agreed to mediatation. My question is whether I can edit that mediation request page or should I resubmit it from scratch? Thanks. Geeman 10:15, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

MediationBot

Ah, thanks for fixing that. —ShadowHalo 23:10, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Mediation Request Regarding Octothorp

  • I've had my inclusion of the above term, at the top of the article, on the Number sign reverted twice by the same Wikipedian. Can you please intervene and ressolve the dispute?
Also, my opponent has defended his position on his talk page, instead of the Artcle.
Essentially, my position is that WP policy frawns up self-research or opinions. Since I have established that Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines octothorp as the term whose meaning is the symbol #, User:Dicklyon must accept my position to include the term next to Number sign.
Yours truly,--Ludvikus 19:50, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Signature and Xmas Box

Hi. thanks for the messages and I've now stopped putting the Merry Christmas boxes while welcoming the new users, thanks for letting me know about the server information, if you wouldnt mind, would you please revert the merry xmas box if you can or do whatever you were going to do, anyway thanks for your advice, also another thing: how do you change your signature becuase I noticed yours is 'demon' then 'omg plz' which is a link to your talk page and your user page, so I would be appreciative if you could tell me how so I could change mine. Thanks!

Regards..........Tellyaddict 12:52, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Help on the Signatures

Hi, I've tried to change my signature with the help of your code and I did it successfully once and now when I sign my name it keeps repeating the time, day and date so it appears twice, and I don't understand how to stop this from happening and now its not appearing (my signature so I have had to write my name instead of sigining it), please help! Thanks.........Tellyaddict

Your talk page

Could you check this page, since you have managed to add it to Category:WikiProject Fire Service, which is not quite correct. You are probably using the articel template instead of the user template - see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fire_Service#Project_templates --ArmadilloFromHellGateBridge 14:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Signature

Hi, with the help of you I finally can get my signature working again, you were right, it was not working because I was signing pages with four tildes and it was signing my signature and putting the date on twice and putting my whole user page as my singature! It'll take me a while to get used to typing three tildes on the keyboard instead of just clicking on four on the Wikipedia tools. Anyway; thanks for your help and quick relpies. Thanks; and have a Merry Christmas! TellyaddictTalk 13:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


Wikipedia Club of New York

Come see: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Club of New York. —ExplorerCDT 14:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I do the NYC to Virginia trip often, but send me an e-mail, i'll put your name on the e-mail list, you'll keep updated, and if you can come up for something, feel free to come up. I imagine "commitment" will be very loose with us —ExplorerCDT 15:01, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

About your club

I live nowhere near New York, only coming up there to visit my family sometimes. Thanks for the offer, though!--CJ King 19:24, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

I am very sorry, I meant to talk to the person above me. Sorry!!--CJ King 03:53, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


Evolution

How is that the very people that are censoring the discussion are allowed to quash the mediation? How is this possible? The people that are accused of conspiring to keep the discussion as they see fit are the ones that are allowed to say "Naw, we don't want to arbitrate, we don't want to get into trouble for abusing our powers."

Can you explain this to me? What will ever happen to mods that abuse their power? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ymous (talk • contribs) 17:48, 28 December 2006 (UTC).

Med Com Nominations

Good evening (GMT time); I hope you're having a nice night. Just dropping by to let you know I've posted my nomination at the Meditation Committee nominations area, in the event that you choose to support, oppose or otherwise comment on my nomination.

Cheers and regards,
Anthonycfc 22:09, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

My problems

Ah, thanks. Well, can I send you an e-mail? I'd like to tell you my problems with a mail. Sergeant Gerzi 18:14, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, I've sent you a mail. Give me a shout if you haven't received it. Sergeant Gerzi 15:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Have you received my mail? Sergeant Gerzi 15:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
OK, I've sent you another mail. Sergeant Gerzi 15:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Nudging along a case

Good morning (GMT time); as you may know, I am not a member of the Mediation Commitee. However, seeing that a case was being delayed because one participant had not given his consent to having a non-medcom member mediating his case, I decided to act upon this.

I hope that this is acceptable by your standards; if not, I am happy to revert my invitation to the user.

Cheers and regards,
Anthonycfc [T • C] 00:54, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

UoP mediation

Any additional guidance you could give would be appreciated. N6 08:20, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Mediation Committee Pending Cases

Good afternoon (GMT time); there are a number of pending cases at Requests for Mediation. I would be more than willing to take one on - it would benefit the Committee by clearing part of the RfM backlog, and benefit me as it would help demonstrate to the Committee my mediation abilities pending my current nomination.

However, the acceptance of the case requires a member of the committee, and therefore I am requesting a case. I would be more than happy to take any case accepted, but I do have my eye on this one and I'd get started immediately if it was accepted.

Cheers and regards,
Anthonycfc [T • C] 15:27, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I have offered to take WP:MEDCOM/Jews for Jesus 2. Would you care to reject or approve as you see fit, on behalf of the Mediation Committee?
Cheers and regards,
Anthonycfc [T • C] 21:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Thanks for contributing to my RfA! Thank you for your support in my my RfA, which passed with a tally of 117/0/1. I hope that my conduct as an admin lives up to the somewhat flattering confidence the community has shown in me. I'd like to say I'm glad my noms gave me a good summary and that my answers to the questions were found helpful; with any luck all my future comments will be similarly constructive. Please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page should you need anything or want to discuss something with me.--Nilfanion (talk) 16:16, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey Buddy

Hey demon,

I liked your User page info, I'd like to get to know you better can we talk?

Cheers Za

Return

Thanks!. I saw a couple items waiting there for a while. Should be easy enough. -Ste|vertigo 00:21, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I like you!

You're funny.:)NinaOdell | Talk 00:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

About blocking vandals

The warning ladder does not apply when you are clearly being disruptive and making personal attacks. The edits you referred to by 199.111.20.34, especially the last ones, are indefensible. WP:RBI. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 19:38, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Mediation Committee nomination

Good morning (GMT time); I see that you have opposed my nomination to the Mediation Committee. This position means a lot to me, and so I'd greatly appreciate any feedback from you (such as key reasons for failure) so that I can learn from yourself, and improve as a Mediator and Wikipedian.

In particular I'd appreciate any comments that you have on the current Mediation Committee case that I am mediating, WP:RfM/Jews for Jesus (2).

Kindest regards,
Anthonycfc [T • C] 00:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

John Edward mediation

Hi ^demon, I got back from my trip, but I'm totally sick and won't be able to participate until I get better. Probably a few days at most - I hope! I havn't even looked at any of it, I don't want to get sucked into it and make my recovery take even longer... :) Thanks! 21:04, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks ^demon! I appreciate your putting in the mediation delay. Don't catch this flu, it's terrible. I'm still recovering, but hope to be back in action in a couple of days. I'm supposed to travel again next week, but I'll try to particpate from my destination - if the mediation starts by then. Dreadlocke ☥ 00:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm starting to feel much better and am slowly starting to contribute again! Thanks so much for your help and understanding! Dreadlocke ☥ 03:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm back to normal, so if you want to take the case off hold, I'm ready to go! Dreadlocke ☥ 22:01, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Aline Murray Kilmer

Hi there. I'm not going to get into a revert war with you over on Aline Murray Kilmer, because that would be petty. However, you may wish also to 'correct' the sentence immediately before the one you edited, which reads "...she graduated in 1908", thus keeping usage consistent within the article. Have a sparkly nice day. — mholland 21:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

How strange... that comment wasn't meant for you at all! Ignore me, I've clearly gone slightly mad. — mholland 21:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

...Actually, no, I'm not mad. User:ExplorerCDT appears to have copied your talk page header and left the new discussion link pointing here. — mholland 21:41, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the instructions

Hi ^demon, thanks for instructions for accepting and declining mediation cases. Sorry for troubling to fix all of them. I would take care of it from now. Regards, Shyam (T/C) 22:37, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your work

Thanks for repairing: Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Travb (talk) 02:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

you rock! Thanks for all your help.
The Working Man's Barnstar
The Working Man's Barnstar may be awarded to those who work tirelessly and endlessly on the more laborious or repetitive of Wikipedia tasks.

Thanks for making sure the mediation page works flawlessly, a job that I personally would never want to do.

Hats off to you! Travb (talk) 18:59, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

WP:RfM/Religious Significance of Jerusalem

Good evening; I've placed a request at the above page, in the hope of assisting the Mediation Committee in another case. I am completely unwilling to mediate it without the complete permission of the Committee, and, since you are the original Committee member who accepted the case, I am placing this request on your talk page.

I've placed a few notes on the request page, regarding my other case, etc... which are quite important.

Awaiting your response,
Anthonycfc [T • C] 17:52, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Can you delete the request for mediation for African American Vernacular English?

I plan on refiling the request for mediation for the article African American Vernacular English, it was rejected because only one party was listed as being involved although two had signed up to mediate. I forgot to add the other party to the 'involved parties'. I want to re-request a mediation but when I try it just takes me to that same page. So could you please delete it so I can refile it? Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/African American Vernacular English Wikidudeman (talk) 02:46, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

How can a user be banned from editing a page?

I am requesting User Sean D Martin be banned from editing the Stephanie Adams article. Not only has he distorted facts, but he constantly attacks users, even the person the article is about. Please help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cle0patr4 (talk • contribs) 20:29, 7 February 2007 (UTC).

I recently posted a mediation request...

Was it rejected because I didn't add content to that request? It's my first time doing something like that and am just now learning about this stuff. I never this big a problem in other pages I edited.--Iamstillhiro1112 00:59, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok,

So how do I go about fixing that, am I able to edit the original page, or do I have to create a new one?--Iamstillhiro1112 02:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Requests for mediation/John Edward

I just noticed that the request was "on hold" because Dreadlocke contacted you saying that he was 'feeling a bit under the weather'. However Dreadlocke has been posting frequently since then. I do believe that the mediation should start back up again because right now the Article could use some major edits that might conflict with this mediation.Wikidudeman (talk) 07:16, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

User Dreadlocke seems to be well now. He said he was feeling 'under the weather' 3 weeks ago and has been contributing often since then. I wanted to see the mediation continue because I wanted to remove the "POV dispute" tag from the top of the John Edward article. No one has justified it's being there.Wikidudeman (talk) 10:41, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Your !vote regarding the one-man-one-woman userbox

Hi, regarding your !vote on the one-man-one-woman userbox. I respect your opinion, but Quentin Smith has brought up a very essential issue. Basically your !vote seems to boil down to WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Still, knowing and showing one's bias is important, especially when one is on the mediation comittee. Anyway, should I ever find myself in a situation that requires mediation I hope you won't mind if I turn to you. Best Wishes! CharonX/talk 15:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

So, do I wait?

Sorry to ask again demon, but trying to request for that Ermac mediation again brings me up to the Rejected request page. So can you comment on what I need to do? Should I simply wait until that page is removed? Cause from what I understand tr;ying to edit that article is bad.--Iamstillhiro1112 23:16, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:Lang-de

I have un-deprecated the template. Can you undo your edits that replaced it until there is consensus on the Template talk:Lang-de that it should be in fact deprecated? Unlike a TFD discussion, the addition of the "deprecated" category to a template is an action that can be done without consensus or discussion and without notifying the users of the template, so I don't think the template should be replaced by a bot. Kusma (討論) 06:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Edward mediation

Oh, yes ^demon, I'm ready to rumble with the mediation! I left you two messages that I was well, and ready to go on Jan 31st and on Feb 13th,[6], [7]. I guess I left them in the wrong place on your talk page? I'm not sure why this is upsetting wikidudeman so much, since he has played no part in it. I believe his interest in this may have been enhanced due to a recent dispute he and I had over what I viewed as his uncivil remarks. Dreadlocke ☥ 19:32, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Community enforced mediation

Do you have a comment on my response to your criticism? I'd like to gain consensus to move forward with an experimental try of the proposal. Several members of the arbitration committee and Jimbo have supported the idea and six volunteers have stepped forward to become trainee mediators. If there's anything specific that I haven't considered yet and need to adjust, please let me know on the proposal talk page. It's a bit confusing to follow your comments since you refer to another proposal at the same time. Cordially, DurovaCharge! 21:02, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

RfM

Thanks for letting me know, Chad. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:57, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know also. --MPerel ( talk | contrib) 04:05, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

MC Chair

Echoing what I've said a couple of times on the mailing list, congratulations on your appointment[8], and I'm sure you'll do a fantastic job. Again, repeating myself, "...if you need anything adminy done, my talk page/email is ever-welcoming :)". Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 00:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Housecleaning

I filled the form out right. Chuck Marean 22:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh. Also, These images are needed for the article I'm writing. Please undelete them. I can not take these pictures myself.

  • Image:Upright vacuum cleaner.jpg
  • Image:Scrub sponges.jpg
  • Image:Yarn toilet brush.jpg

-- Chuck Marean 23:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Since the other party doesn't want mediation, should the mediation notice be removed from the article's page? I guess permission is needed for those images, since I could theoretically buy the procucts and take the pictures myself. What I want to know is how to reserve a name for an article, since it will eventually be ready for peer review.--Chuck Marean 21:01, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Signature

Hi ^demon,

Just to alert you to this: It's probably unwise to substitute your sig. It places unecessary toll on the servers, and it's much more conservative to simply place the code in the appropriate field in your user preferences, and to check the "raw signature" checkbox. Thanks! Geekman314(contact me) 16:22, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

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