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quite a learning experience, and believe it or not, the FA process for the WS page was quite an eye-opener. But many of us learned a few more things about WP, so even though the article did not achieve FA, I think one day it will and in the process has already (and will further) become a great article. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Shakespeare Authorship article itself. For the past 8 or 9 months, the page has been relatively stable. In the last week, 2 or 3 new editors (and one unfortunate sockpuppet which has already been banned) have made mass deletions of referenced material. No big surprise - all the deletions were Oxfordian or anti-stratfordian. Now this is the page where most of the mainstream editors from the WS FA process said that the authorship information should go. Now,... that info is being deleted, section by section. Unbelievably, in their haste, these editors have even cut the stratfordain disclaimer (that academics dismiss all the alternative candidates) that I had grown to accept. Anyhow, because this is the WikiPjoject Shakespeare, I have been advised, and had already been considering, requesting that the editors of this page take a look at what is going on. Because I have resisted their deletions, they are now waging a campaign to have me declared some sort of SockPuppet for long-time editor BenJonson, even though I don't think he's made an edit for weeks or months. This accusation has been plastered on at least a dozen admin mailboxes - none of which, so far, has fallen for their game. I know the truth, I detest sockkpuppets, and I know that some clever administrator will be able to prove their accusations groundless. In the meantime, however, the page is the one that will suffer. In spite of the fact that most of you are staunch stratfordians, I have also found you to be reasonable and have a sense of fair play. I ask that you look at the talk page and bring some cool heads into the discussion. I ask that you look at the article and its format for the last 8 months, then look at the edits over the last few days. I realize some of you may want to hold your noses as you read the article, but if we are attempting to make these articles better, then the kind of attitudes and accusations and mass deletions goin on on any of these pages should be a cause of concern. Thanks for hearing me out.

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information that comes originally from a language other than English; in that way, for example, we would also be dismissing the French interviews with Christophe Gans purely based on the fact that they were assessed by a third-party and translated into English, then placed as a reference within an article (translations are bound to not be 100% perfect, even when translated by creators of the series themselves due to the differences among languages, but judging a given translation by simply calling it "unofficial" and holding that against it breaks Knowledge's neutral point of view). Furthermore, without production information, the article will never make it beyond B-class (eg. even w/ the references to the Translated Memories translations, the Silent Hill film page has gained GA+ status). The out-of-universe information is vital to separating fact from fiction in a fictional universe and in the context of writing an encylopedia article (see Knowledge:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)). As WikiProject Video Game's featured articles (see Category:WikiProject Video games/Featured articles) demonstrate, framing points such as how the franchise has done internationally in terms of sales and the creation and development behind a character are all essential to making a good article."

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try to learn from this and restrain myself somewhat in future. I've considered leaving Xchanter a note of apology and encouragement as well, but I'm a little ambivalent about it. At any rate, I wanted to thank you and the others who were involved for your patience and good work on this; hopefully the situation will improve. FYI - I'd like to discuss "Censorship and Linkimage" as a seperate topic but I need more coffee first. --

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close- I would certainly organize, or at least participate in some kind of wiki-meeting, but I haven't heard of a single person here who is an editor! Quite strange, considering this is one of the largest and most active websites in the universe. But thank you for your response, and I'm glad to see that we are one step closer to an authoritative encyclopedia. Thanks again,

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rigid, bureaucratic Knowledge. It also seems to be punitive. Maybe I've missed some of his incriminating contribs (the worst I've seen are the legal threats), but I'm slightly sympathetic towards him, and I'm probably going to write some encouraging words to assure him that we're not all a bunch of assholes (not to suggest that either of you were acting that way).

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as much absolutism and ferocity as the former. Hopefully that doesn't sound too bitter. But, I invite you to return, assuming that you tone down the incivility, and eliminate altogether the legal threats. Just browse around some discussion pages to get used to the pattern and tone of interaction between editors.

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kind. I am simply trying to fight the POV deletions by several editors that believe the article should not even exist. Please explain why this white-washing of the authorship issue, by editors who want to censor material, is up to Wiki standards. I really do want to understand the reasoning behind this.

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UPDATE: Warren has called me patently idiotic, all-caps, poor-grammar, and factually incorrect. He really needs to be blocked, and I've had enough of this edit war against him. I need someone like you who is an administrator to intervene. He said that I was trying to picture him as a vandal. It looks

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This is my first refferal to a Knowledge Administrator and you were one of the first on the list. My message here is that User Warren has been significantly editing the Windows 7 page without justification, and has called me "Obtuse" and "Disruptive" when I undid those edits. User Soctr has also been

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Yeah, that's fine. You may want to add it back, with evidence to the reliability article -- because I removed it from there, for the same reasons. I'm a little overzealous, perhaps when watching recent changes, and looked at a from a certain viewpoint it could look like someone annoyed with wikipedia

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Adam - for example - there was several sections, referenced to Mark Anderson's book, that these editors have recently deleted. Properly referenced material from the same book you just added info from. Material that has been there for months and months. So you see, I am not "adding" material of any

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Hi. Sorry you've been dragged into this. It's true, I have an expertise and I make edits about what I know. Felsommerfeld wrote the following about this article: "*I mean why are we even having this discussion? The guy from Stratford wrote it all, period." If he had his way there would be no article

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Thanks for letting me know : ) Things are swamped around here, so I put up half of the material a day or two ago, and completely forgot about the rest. I need to whip myself into shape with this-- I'm finding myself using boring, banal quotes and featured articles like "William Shakespeare". Thanks

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I gotta tell you guys I'm really on the fence here. Firstly, in terms of the issue itself, I sort-of agree with him. Would using a linkimage be so bad? Is this an issue of censorship, or an issue of hiding a graphic image from those who don't want to (or shouldn't)see it? From those who argue the

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is much more helpful than linking to the original document. I can't think of any reason why you wouldn't want this information to be included other than because of a partiality to Webb or a desire to censor Knowledge. Is it not more poignant (and accurate) to speak of the horrible scene rather than

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Hi, I'm glad to see that that there is some progress on the frontier of article validation. I've always been a supporter of the idea, but I always thought it would be struck down by those who treasure the encyclopedia's open-access to all over its reliability. I'm glad to see another Wikipedian so

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BTW - I like what you had to say re: "Intriguing, but few of us at Knowledge are without biases and I don't discredit them for being Oxfordian- it just means they are interested in, passionate, and informed about this subject. If they simply wish to help the encyclopedia by fine-tuning the Oxfordian

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Adam - the status quo you refer to was what has been up on the page from Nov of last year. Only in the last 5 days have these 2 editors, and one banned sockpuppet, deleted bunches of long-standing material, all Oxfordian or Anti-Stratfordian. If you scan the article for the last 8 months, you will

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OK, here's the real test of who the villain is. Type smatprt into google and read through a few pages. I'll guarantee that you'll find that he's been complained about and banned on forums not only for 3PP but also for editing without consensus. His style is to try to get those who complain about him

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Felsommerfeld's accusations of sockpuppetry have gone way too far. He knows, as do the actual long-time editors of this article (of which he is not), that Ben Jonson and I are two very different individuals that happen to see eye to eye on the authorship issue. Feel free to investigate, research or

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Hi Adam, I was happy to get involved in a new area. I hope my activity there was useful. I mostly limited myself to ensuring that new text was properly cited. There seems to be an interesting question involving which sources can be considered reliable references for psuedoscience articles. Obviously

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I enjoyed and appreciate your response, and will do my best to remove the caps. It is my opinion that any retail outlet in the US should be able to sell a printed version of this site. I do not think that is the wrong way to go. That would not allow it to be sold in all countries, but it would be

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That seems perfect, especially combined with the first warning, which was a brilliant excercise in civilty and good faith. If he is really interested in contributing here, your warning will certainly steer him in the right direction; if not, then at least he was warned. Thanks for looking into this;

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is being used to support those words) and then let the reader follow the link, if he/she is so inclined, rather than stick vivid details from an adult novel into the middle of a biographical article that may well be read by a twelve-year old . Perhaps that makes me old-fashioned; so be it. I'd say

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Hey Adam, see my responses to all this, too. I tried to keep some legitimate edits that came in during the work of MDC, and clarified some language. I also removed the term "intelligent stirrup" from the article so no copyright problems. I am OK with also removing any other "Kleenex versus Facial

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And for full disclosure - yes, I have fallen into a few edit wars and even been banned twice (one deserved and one split decision), both of which I regret. Both were with rabid Stratdordians who were attempting to make mass deletions of properly referenced material. So in this case, what is to be

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as rigid as it seems; you've touched on an issue dear to many, and that is censorship. Though unfortunately, "censorship" in terms of book burning and Big Brother has been woefully muddled with censorship in terms of nudity and obscenity, and the liberal mindset has been applied to the latter with

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As for a partiality to Webb, I personally think it's totally absurd (and an act of desperation on the part of the Allen campaign) to hold an author responsible for what is in his/her fictional writings, particularly those set in the past -- but I've haven't expressed that opinion in the talk pages,

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I agree with your recent deletion of sources that are not RS. That particular website is so POV (and so angry) that I am surprised it has resurfaced. Presently, there are one or 2 defenders who have reverted both you and I. I don't want to break the 3R rule so I'm done for the present. Perhaps

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I added enhanced comments regarding the lack of ergonomic tendancies of traditional stirrups and named a patented invention that overcomes some of stirrup's basic design flaws and inherent dangers. To mention a patented product is no more commercial advertising than mentioning a Peacock Stirrup, a

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Adam - this is what I posted on the WS project page: "Mass deletions of material from Shakespeare Authorship Question article" As a regular editor to all things Shakespeare, you all know (and many are sickened) by my interest in the Authorship Question. My last (and first) year here at WP has been

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will never succeed in it's goals if individuals are able to use legal intimidation to quash not only our articles and images, but the very conversations between editors. Even so, I feel like I came close to incivility myself in this case (possibly even crossed the line, but I don't think so). I'll

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That Knowledge chooses to do so when I can find no group of democratically elected, theocratic, authoritarian, or oligarchic government that allows it should at least speak to MY point. Please, if there are a group of school children that are shown these images, let me know what it is, otherwise,

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Before the situation worsens, I'll do as the above user did and remind you that we are not censored. The facts, regardless of how obscene, will be part of Knowledge. It has also come to my attention that you have been "reminding" people of the law regarding child pornography or something of that

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break away stirrup, or a tapadero as the name for the enhanced stirrup is instrumental in the understanding of the feature. The MDC Stirrup can be accessed with the Patents and Trademarks Office and I hope you would consider their being called by name as no more than a reference to the invention.

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Xchanters responses to the warnings seem to confirm my initial diagnosis of trollishness. Using formalities like "Dear Sir" at the head of an insulting post indicates that he's really missing the point. Sorry I dropped this on your plate Adam, but hey, that's what they pay you the big $ $ $ for,

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I will look at the link you mentioned, but it is my intention to fix THIS link. My best wishes for your studies. Wolfram's book "A New Kind of Science" should be essential reading for you. It took me twice to get what the Principle of Computational Equivalence meant. Work it out for yourself.

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I almost agree with you. However the manner in which you are addressing the situation, namely by writing in all caps and suggesting legal recourse is what you need to address. You can try to persuade people to your viewpoint, but please do so civilly. Your best option is probably to argue that

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Hi John. There seems to be a tendency for people to reject an analogy because the two sides of it are not exactly the same. The point I was trying to make was that the details are important in that they indicate the degree of graphicness in these novels. To link to it and require the reader to

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Secondly, in terms of how he has been addressing the issue, I certainly see legal threats and incivility. Perhaps the block was justified, perhaps not. However after talking to him, I did see an ability for rational discussion, and all the block seems to be doing is give him an impression of a

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would be nice. This letter should include a statement like this: "You are disallowed from editing Microsoft Windows Articles pages until you agree to stop inappropriate behavior. A violation of this agreement will result in a permanent ban on editing." Warren should be banned until he keeps his

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were made to a significantly outdated version of the one found here. It also contained inaccurate information (e.g., that there is a logic with a truth value of "unknown") and had wikilinks to non-existent categories (e.g., "Category:CZ Live"). I reverted your changes because of these problems.

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I appreciate you offering Xchanter some support and encouragement at this point. I think that kind of thing is an important follow-up to the warn/block process, but it almost never happens. For any editor that's not totally incorrigable, some positive reinforcement and open dialogue will almost

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case that went exactly that way; an editor made 3 or 4 explicit threats on their own Talkpage and got shutdown practically mid-diatribe. Happily, this one is nowhere near that volatile and I'm pretty sure you got his attention :) Thanks Adam. So how is life as an Admin anyway? Do you make your

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I disagree with your rationale for restoring Xchanter's legal threats. You state that they are not at any one person. They are, actually, targetting everyone who has edited those pages, and it is quite clearly a legal threat. If you look at his contribution history, he has singled out a few

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Firstly, he is indefinitely blocked but can post to his talkpage, but let's not taunt him to do so. Secondly, it is normal when an editor makes a legal threat that they be blocked. If he wants to be unblocked he can request to do so, but we don't go around reposting his legal threat for him.

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One user posted to justify this:"Unofficial translations or not, the material itself remains official. If the material contains important information on production/character conception, etc., it should be included. If we merely dismiss these translations as "unofficial," then we dismiss all

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As a note of clarification, the block had nothing to do with his thoughts on censorship. It was a disruption block because the user was making repeated legal threats, attempting to intimidate users on their talk pages, and repeatedly blanking warnings against that exact behavior. -

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whatever you need to do to confirm this. For starters, BenJonson lives fulltime on the east coast, I on the west. Check our IP's or whatever (I am not that technical to know how you check, but I know you can and immediately clear this up and stop Felsommerfeld from his one-man war.

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certainly help them become a more productive contributor. I know I had become quite agitated when this flurry of activity occurred; the issue of legal threats is my personal "zero tolerance" issue. While statements like "I'll contact my congressman" are pretty clearly not a

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I was going to AN/I to report a troll making some vague legal threats on multiple pages but it looks like you might be online right now. Would it be improper to bring it to your attention? If you are willing to look at it, please review the last 3 or 4 "contributions" from

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Sorry to be writing so much, but you suggested " breaking down huge edits into a series of smaller ones." I tried that, readded several deleted sections, asking for discussion. None came, only continued reverts by Felsommerfeld and Hangemhigh. So what is the next step?

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category that did not belong, but in the course of doing so I clarified the opening paragraph significantly for those who are not philosophy graduate students (you) or philosophy majors (me). Anyway, once I get some spare time, I'll try to work out a compromise. Thanks,

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Okay, but the regardless of which version was used, either from last week or 1500 BC, it seems to me that the only relevant factor is which changes were made. We have addressed most of those, however. Again, I will make some hopefully-non-controvsial changes soon

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but only 4 admins use it. We also used the API for getting the gender field in the profile but, out of 1744 admins, only around 400 have filled this field. But we would benefit from a larger coverage, i.e. possibly knowing the gender of 100% of candidates.

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given the way in which you've voiced your opinions. So, before this gets worse (maybe resulting in a penalty, I'd ask you to contact me or any other editor in good standing for a way to resolve the issue, rather than continuing in the same

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who, in my opinion, has been intent on rewriting the Shakespeare Authorship article for the last year to promote his view that the Earl of Oxford was Shakespeare. I am only interested in article balance. See here for the list of his edits

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page, which uses a majority of sources are from this fan source. They also do not question the translation what so ever and are not citing the foreign-language original. If they cited the original, maybe I wouldn't have such a problem.

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Hello Simoes. Logically speaking, you seem to be overstating the degree of change I exacted upon the article. Let me address each of your points individually. As to whether or not there is a 3rd truth value in some logic, please see

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you are "breaking new ground" and telling the rest of the world that it is wrong. Do you show these pictures to your own children? No, you are a freshman in college, and I WAS ONE ONCE TOO. Have some children and see how you feel.

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on the authorship question at all. Since he cannot kill the article he is trying to edit out anything which challenges his position, including deleting whole sections without input or discussion. Now you know...the rest of the story.

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viewpoint, then that is fine. But, as I'm sure you would agree, bias only becomes a problem when contributors fail to have a respect for neutrality. For example, even as a devout skeptic I still manage to have a neutral debate with

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This doesn't address my first point; videlicet, you effectively reverted to a month-old version of the article and made changes from there. As for your point about trivalent logics, I never claimed there to be no such thing. What I

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Good of you to post on the Shakespeare Authorship discussion page. You MUST read the Life and Times of BenJonson (a Wiki editor here) which is above your post on that page. It should tell you everything you need to know.

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like it but I am really denouncing what he put in as vandalism. It has gone to this extent. This is the fifth time I've warned him to stop his behavior. But I am not an administrator so I need to turn to someone who is.

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Adam, thanks for the input I respect your opinion. However your latest comment seems to have affected the list formatting somewhat - i.e. the number restarts after your comment. Can I ask you to take a look? Thanks.

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listening to my roommates blaring rap. Yea let me know if this guy gets any worse. I titled the message "Vagina/pornography/children". That should get his attention-- Yea these kinds of things usually end up at

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Per your comments, I have added information in the stirrup section and, yes, I am the inventor of the MDC Stirrups(R). I have over 35 years of equestrian background and have been a judge at two Olympic Games.

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over this, and adding it to multiple articles because they were pissed. Obviously, this is not the case. Part of the problems with doing this all the time is I assume a little less good faith than I should...

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irked by this. I've given him three warnings and now it is time for a refferal. I think this user deserves a permanent ban on editing any page (excluding the talk page) about Microsoft Windows. A message to

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By the way - thank you for the Mark Anderson reference. The article used to have many, but ALL have been cut by Felsommerfeld in the last few days. I restored some today and await your input. Best regards

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DOC! Welcome back-- I just got back from playing football outside and I'm filthy, so I need to take a shower, but I'm glad to see you back (and you father). Adminship is fun, and I like being able to block

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I hope that you have a wonderful New Year and will party all night long. If you don't celebrate New year at this time well then happy early or late New Year and I still advise that you have a good time

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Hi, I saw you participated in pages related to radio. I just wanted a little bit of help to correct an article I've tried to translate from French. It's about a French independent Internet radio called

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is at least somewhat revived, with a couple people contributing and a good number of new articles. See the new article list on the main webpage of the project. Hope you can return and participate!

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say is that there is no trivalent logic with a truth value of "unknown" (or, at least, there is none across which I've ever come). If you could cite one, that would be great. The reliability of the

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Smatprt is smart enough to use different IP addresses. Please check out the Shakespeare Authorship discussion about user BenJonson and read the evidence in detail. You can form your own opinion. (

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your understanding. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Adambiswanger1 20:38, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

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Hahah, I knew you'd like that bathroom. Nope, I haven't had any of those professors... I was up there over Halloween weekend. It was about as insane of a time that I've ever had. Enjoy! -

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If you feel that my comments are untrue, please advise as my purpose was to inform and educate as well as name the product (my invention) that remains noteworthy in the stirrup world.

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article. Honestly, I think I've remained civil, although he seems to disagree (and do let me know if you also believe I crossed the line). But given his last message on my talk page

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editors in specific and his text appears to be attempting to menace them. As a result, I'm removing it again not because of 'censorship', but because it's the right thing to do.

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Can you talk to scarian, he is making it impossible to edit pages, he is evil and he doesn't want to talk about even. He accuses me of being Be Black Hole Sun. Please help me. --

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line in a big way, it doesn't even get to ArbCom...the perma-block can be almost instant. Part of what caught my interest is that I had just spent some time reading through an

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It was only officially published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday, so it has not been covered by that many newspapers or news websites as of now. Anyway, see

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The article clearly shows traditional stirrups and plastic stirrups in the background. The article refers to other types of stirrups and mentions their considered benefits.

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He said those things about your "attempts to brand as some kind of vandal", not you. Calling an edit vandalism, and calling an editor a vandal are really the same thing.

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You have contributed a nice picture of the Wanamaker console, thanks for this. Do you have it available in a higher resolution? Would be great to see some more details.

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I'm also posting somewhat similar comments on the talk page; feel free to respond there or here, or both; I'm not going to mention your edit summary there, however.

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Regarding analogies, some are enlightening and some are totally off the mark. It's probably not particularly useful to debate where on the spectrum yours falls.

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Actually, things are very much happening, thankfully - though a lot of the activity is over at the German Foundation chapter. The active page on en right now is

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By the way, I see you're at Syracuse University - I teach at SUNY Potsdam, not so far away! Let me know if you organize any meetups over there. Cheers,

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But this is making me question wikipedia's reliability, as we are supposed to be an encyclopedia. Is this wrong? Or is there another way to solve this?

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this is not censoring, or that this is a case in which the obscenity is so great that a minor measure to make it invisible to children would be proper.

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Hi Adam, I presumed that the link was added before the template below it was added, and the dupe link had not be noticed - so I was removing it as per

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Any chance you can block this IP to only allow registered accounts? You and I have both been reverting. Vandalism is too slow to list at AIV. --

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this page but did not give a protection summary. If this is an actual (not deleted) article, talk, or project page, make sure that it is listed on

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Thanks-- yea I protected it as soon as it went blank because there was a flurry of vandalism, but I fixed it seconds after that. Thanks again,

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Xchanter has been blocked for 24 hours. At this point he is being watched by at least one Admin and probably more. Thanks for your efforts. --

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Hi I think that you have protected the page in a vandalised form (blanc page). Please have a look and revert to a previous version. Thanks

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Warren does explain how his edits are justified, although something needs to be done about his incivility and profanity. I don't think a

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It's nice to know I'm on your watchlist; that was some quick work. Of course I'll be LMAO if you, Mr. Admin, get the same warning :) --

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article is. There can't be one without the other, and alot of people are not even sure what the words "canon" and "non-canon" mean. (

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Just got back online after being off for a few days and I see that the anon is back at it. Can you please consider another block? --

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thanks for the intervention in the bong, popular culture issue. just in case you miss it, I will paste my response here as well.

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done? Decent relevent material simply vanishing because 2 or 3 editors work in tandem to revert together and avoid the 3R rule?

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I very much believe in linking to original documents. But I prefer to say "graphic sexual details", if that is the case (and

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This administrator does not edit very often, so I do not expect him to read this anytime soon. I recommend listing Warren on

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Greetings and long time no chat! I was wondering if you were still active here, as I had a few questions for you. Thanks.

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for a while, and I blocked him for 1 week. Hopefully this'll do the trick. Thanks for keeping me updated on the situation

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for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at

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is your fathers work. However, currently you have the imaged tagged as fair use and thus currently fail criteria #1 at

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read through it is not nearly as helpful as stating it directly in the article, just as explaining the provisions of the

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Tissue" names for other designs that are in there and replae them with generic terms if they are pointed out. However,

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describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to

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Not sure how involved you are with Knowledge as a whole, but here's something you might find particularly interesting:

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is having its featured article status reviewed at the moment. It would be a shame to lose one of the few poetry FAs.

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I can't believe I missed your RfA! Will you use your new Admin powers to block me if I go into the archive and add a

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page back 2006. However, I recently ressurrected the article. I strongly feel that it is needed just as much as the

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We can't downplay how graphic and, well, sick some of this stuff is. That would be like saying "people died in WWII"

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Your recent rewording lost the bolded link to an updated article. Could you reword again to retrieve it? Thanks,

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when someone utters the word "censorship". This is a case of putting an image behind a door; and not a locked one.

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I hope that you can find time to read the testimony of many aggrieved editors on the Administrator's Noticeboard.

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and decide if there is a more suitable tag. If you have questions about your father's rights and wishes ask here:

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on 'Allegations of Human Rights violation against the Indian Army' under 'criticism of the operation' section in

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but wondered if talking to him about it, might be a better choice. I dont think that has got me very far as yet."

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happens to be a Spanish word that is several hundred years old, so I'd hardly say that one has a copyright on it.

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Thus, would you be so kind to write your gender , together with a text comment if you want, on my talk page at

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So how bad is the situation? If he's just started acting this way, I was thinking about leaving this message:

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and I've tried to keep it out of my edits. If it's a controversy, that is a fact, and deserves to be included.

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policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure

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fans are using a fan translation of a Official book only published in Japan for citations. The site is seen

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I see that you are not very active on WP any more so I will wait a few days before declaring "time out". --

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threat, any posting to the effect of "you can/will be arrested for saying that" is absolutely intolerable.

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I'm writing to inform you that we are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States:

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I just know I will lose my cool if I answer back, so your help and advice would be appreciated. Thanks,

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I have no fear! And I guarantee you will find us two different users - or block me FOREVER - I mean it.

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Actually, robot, I was unprotecting it and ensuring that it would not be able to be moved by an anon.

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a good step forward. The baseline here appears to be the unpublishable, which I find unacceptable.

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enthusiasts at that article, and even though I fiercely disagree with them I manage to acknowledge

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Wow, he's actually got a mild deluge of relatively gentle warnings. If you think it would be like

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the same thing about Lynne Cheney and her "lesbian love affair, brothels and attempted rapes";

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Just protecting it from IP/new user moves after having unprotected it completely, robot man.

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as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election,

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has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at

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Can you delete the image so I can ricaricare this image including the license --

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has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at

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Hi Adam, There are already some comments about why an item that doesn't meet the

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