User talk:Babajobu/archive1

 Babajobu was once up for adminship!! He got pwned!

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About hush harbors

 * "Haterade"? That's an overused (street) term I do not use.  (I don't know anyone who does.)  And, no.  I don't just go off on people, unless I'm provoked -- and sometimes not even then. :p


 * I don't know that hush harbors, except in the context of religious practice (and not necessarily Christian religious practice, as your article states), merit a separate article. As a separate phenomenon -- often, the crudest of clearings in a wooded area -- hush harbors can be most effectively treated in an article treating African-American syncretic religious practice -- which, I think, merits fuller treatment in African American culture; or, as has been suggested earlier, in a separate article on the African American church.  Then "hush harbor" could simply redirect to those pieces.  However, praisehouses/meetinghouses have a very particular history, and I think they might deserve separate treatment.  deeceevoice 14:52, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, the street can be a pretty fertile place, and haterade is a great term. Thanks for the feedback on hush harbor. Your comments confirm for me that I'm really not up to the job of expanding it or placing it in a more appropriate context. I just don't know enough. However, I think it's very notable, very interesting, an important part of American cultural history, and very much merits some form of treatment in Wikipedia, perhaps--as you suggest--as part of an article on African-American religious practice. For now, I'll just leave it there hope it attracts some work for contributors more knowledgeable in this area. Thanks. Babajobu 16:02, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

HBCU recruitment

 * What is up with the "please sign your real name" request on the HBCU page??? What's the logic? Plenty of us would rather take a hot poker up the arse than start throwing our real names around cyberspace. You can be sure that plenty of people at HBCUs feel the same way. For the good of this very worthwhile project, I think the bizarro request for real names should be dropped. Babajobu 20:37, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) Babajobu 04:43, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not a bizarro request, participants will be seeking out school officals and thus will be in a professional enviroment where anonymity would not be will recieved. The page exist so that the officials and subequntently the students we want them to recruit have a page to refer to that explains the projects goals and validates that the representative they met with is involved with the project, its sort of a portal. Ultimatley no one recruited is obligated to join the outreach, and therefore they do not have to remain anonymous. However, if you are interesred in participating in the project but not being a representative, I suppose the representatives and the notice in question could be moved to their own section within the participants list. -JCarriker 04:20, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Baba, I agree -- though that's not what's keeping me from signing up. JCarriker, well, then, what's the "e-mail this user" function good for? Why not simply use that to maintain editor anonymity? deeceevoice 10:13, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Trolltalk VfD
Um, I haven't used my powers for any particular purpose; I've voted on a VfD, just like every other editor here has a right to do. Jayjg (talk) 04:32, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

White people
And who the hell made you the thought police? lol Further, my response is no more over the top (and certainly more accurate) than your "everytime [sic] someone says something with which you disagree." Further, what I say to someone else on my talk page (or theirs) is none of your business. Thank you so much. deeceevoice 8 July 2005 08:53 (UTC)

I think you missed my point. The italicizing of "everytime" was about your hyperbolic mischaracterization (both in frequency of ocurrence and nature) of my responses on this web site. The "sic" was a reflexive, noncritical one (being a writer/editor) which I chose not to inhibit in light of the circumstances. You're flat-out wrong in this regard. Additionally, because your experience is not mine, you cannot school me on when and when not to make "racialist" remarks. Again, you are neither the thought nor the etiquette police, so stop frontin' like one -- at least on my talk page. Peace. (You know I love you, darlin'. :) Stop buggin'.) deeceevoice 8 July 2005 09:24 (UTC)

Cool (aesthetic)
Thanks for dropping by to register your support for keeping the article. Frankly, I never thought the VfD had a snowball's chance in hell. Just some arrogant "contributor" who knew nothing of the subject matter who objected to his inept edits being reverted. Petty. The article is far from perfect, but it'll get better w/time. Peace 2 u. :) deeceevoice 02:30, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi
I am on a RfC now, your input wuld be welcome. --Germen 13:52, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure, where's the RfC? Babajobu 13:58, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Templates

 * Can you point me to a page that shows how to create a template? Thanks. Babajobu 18:42, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Sure, take a look at the wikimedia help page:


 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template

Usually it's easier just to copy an existing, similar template and work from there. &mdash; RJH 18:47, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Religious presecution by...
Nopes, i did intend on it being a series, and i did have best intentions for it. well, thats the last time I start an article. --Irishpunktom\talk 20:18, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Religious Persecution by Jews
You say that
 * [I] disagree with the claim that I'm ignorant of this material.

In that case this page, which you seem to have taken under your wing, fails to show it. The recent edits are an improvement BTW, but what I want to see is a series of stubs listing the major episodes. (If you know the material then there should be no problem with your naming them. Of course if you need some help I can give it to you, at least in terms of knowing what to look for and research.)

Be advised that this series is corrupt by being sundered from the existing Religious persecution article and the category Category:Religious persecution.

I have come to agree with others the Irishpuknktom created the series as a cover for this article being an anti-semetic rant. That does not mean that an article on this subject is inately bad or irredeamable. However, the series is very much off on the wrong foot, and in any case needs to be integrated into what already exists. --EMS | Talk 14:51, 21 July 2005 (UTC)


 * My impression is that Irishpunktom used the Religious Persecution by Muslims article as a starting point for the series, but I could be wrong. In any case, that is irrelevant to its actually being a good series if it is done properly.


 * The Russian area you asked about is called the Jewish Autonomous Region. It was meant to be an area set aside for Jewish settlement. Apparently Stalin's purges put an end to it as such a sanctuary and I am unsure of its current status, other than that the region still technically exists. --EMS | Talk 15:05, 21 July 2005 (UTC)


 * One more thing: I think that these edits will be too little, too late to save it from being Vfd-ed.  My advice is (assuming that it is deleted) to fall back, research what is on Wikipedia and well as what this article should cover, and then try again with a much better article.
 * This theme can escape deletion, but you need to show at the outset that the concerns about being inherently POV (other than the overall theme) is not necessarily a problem. Also realize that this will always come up for VfD at first:  There are some people who will always object to a "the Jews did this wrong" POV.  However, a knowledgable and well-written article will survive VfD.  The trouble is that you have to create that article first instead of struggling to pull it off now.


 * BTW - I know of no incidents involving the JAR. Given the situation, any persecution would more likely have been politically motivated instead of religously anyway. --EMS | Talk 15:23, 21 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Kindly calm down. I suspect that Religious Persecution by Muslims will survive.  There is no consensus for deleting it.  However, this article most likely will not at this time.  So do save the source somewhere (like in your user space) and work on it more and try again later.
 * You are doing now as you should have done three days ago. But let's wait and see.  I will look in later and see if what you are doing has any staying power.  At this time, I cannot help due to the 3RR rule, and I stand by my remarks of yesterday that I cannot guard this page on my own.  --EMS | Talk 15:44, 21 July 2005 (UTC)


 * From my reading Jews have the biggest thing against killing people. Even to go on to say that if you save one persons life you have saved the world. -- &#9786;A dam1213 &#9786;  Talk+|WWW 10:25, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

VfD
Hello. I've noticed that you are quite pressured with the ongoing VfD, and that you believe that the delete votes mirror ethnocentrism and related paranoia. However, insults (e.g., "panicky ethnocentrists"; "Get over your paranoia!") are problematic at Wikipedia. See WP:Civility; WP:NPA; WP:AGF. I've noticed that a couple others have been violating WP:Civility and WP:AGF, as well, and you'd best inform them of that (if you plan to respond to them). (P.S. I've responded to your (partial) rebuttal of my comment on the VfD page). Cheers, HKT talk 00:44, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Calling someone paranoid and ethnocentric is a breach of Wikipedia policy. It's not productive; it provides identification of your problems with other editors, but it doesn't address those issues. Perhaps you now feel that continuing to address such issues wouldn't accomplish anything. If so, you're right about steering clear of potentially hot issues. HKT talk 01:08, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

It's emphatically not acceptable to be insulted, and it's equally unacceptable to defend yourself with insulting retorts. 'Round here, if ya wanna get involved ya gotta bear the heat (or respond by logically refuting insults with substantial responses). HKT talk 01:19, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

I am going to second that. All that you are doing by antagonizing others is to put more nails into the coffin the article.

I repeat: If you hit a bee hive, you are going to get stung. There is no way that any article that you write on persecution by us Jews is not going to go through the VfD process. However, a well written and well defended article will get past it. c You need to realize that people like Jayjg are personally offended by the implication that Jews are less than perfect and see that automatically as an anti-semetic attack. You also need to realize that they are irrelevant because of it. They will scream original research, NPOV, and WP:POINT until they are blue in the face, and so be it.

So you really want to kick those people in the teeth? Then let's see you produce an article on the topic that I (or at least others) can support. Let's see it cover the Hasmonean dynasty and it's excesses. Let's see it at least mention the JDL (if you know what that is). Let's not worry about European incidents unless you have specific examples. (After all, when you are a Jewish kingdom surrounded by Christian states, you don't want to give your neighbors an added excuse to invade you. So I doubt that any persecution went on places like that.)  You claim to be knowledgable, but I suspect that you don't yet know what you do not know.

My interest in Wikipedia is science, not religion. So I lack the knowledge, resources, and interest to help with this project. I am here to defend the subject of persecution by Jews against attacks that it is inherently anti-Semitic. That is all. However, there is some relevance here. In science, someone every so often comes up with what they think is a good idea, and has it beaten down. Often that person just gets and stays angry, blaming everyone except themselves and the inadequacy of their research for the failure of their idea. These people end up ranting and raging and never get anywhere because they refuse to acknowledge and correct their mistakes.

If all that you can be is angry, you will never produce an article that can get past a VfD challenge. You are being offered a lot of valuable feedback in the VfD process. That is what you should be paying attention to, and not people like Jayjg whom you are right in saying will never fail to find something wrong with an article on that topic. Remeber that even with your improvements and my approval of the project, my VfD vote for this article remains strong delete. I assure you that I am quite capable of issuing a stong keep also, but you have a lot of work to do to create an article that can earn that.

I strongly suggest that you stop listening to the inevitable insults and get to work on improving the article. --EMS | Talk 02:09, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

On improving Religious Persecution by Jews
This is a sensitive and inflamatory topic, such that a badly written article cannot in good conscience be left in place.

That is why you need to work on it in your user space. Identify those of us who are willing to help, and work it in User:Babajobu/Religious_persecution_by_Jews. Later, when you have a better product, you can try to return it to the article space. I repeat that as I found it, the article was an anti-semetic rant. It is better now, but I retain doubts that it will stay that way because of the open nature of Wikipedia and the apparent lack of a defending community. However, a better article may well attract defenders. --EMS | Talk 02:48, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

RE: VfD
The Hasmonean kings conquored a neighboring kingdom, Ideomea, and forcedits inhabitants to convert to Judaism. That is probably the worst case of religous persecution in our history. Zionism also should be covered, if not because it is a source of said persecution then because it has been called that. (This is not to say the there should be broad coverage of it, but instead enough to put it in context and link to the relevant Wikipedia articles productively.)

You say that you are "science-y". Then look on this as a research project, and not a chance to do a mind dump. (Research for Wikipedia articles is actually quite encouraged. It is OK for the research to be orginal within Wikipedia, but not for the thesis being covered to lack external description and coverage.) --EMS | Talk 02:48, 22 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Working on the article later is fine. In fact I strongly advise it.  Don't forget to copy it over while you can, and remember that I will be happy to support an article that respectfully and comprehensively states the relevant facts.  --EMS | Talk 03:02, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

FYI: The VfD of Religious persecution by Jews may fail
I won't make any guarentees or promises that this will be the case. What I can say is that I have learned the a 2/3 majority is needed to establish a consensus over whether a page should be deleted or not. This VfD is at that threshhold. So I cannot say that the page will stay, but neither can I say that it will go. In the end, it will be up to the administrators to decide the issue. (The lack of an obvious consensus will help, but in the end this will be a judgement call on their part.)

If the page stays (or even if it does not at this time), work is still needed. What you need to do is to look over the current Wikipedia record on persecution, and bind your articles to it as tightly as you can. You also need to explicitly cite sources in a references section and get the Idemean conquest in there. Also, I will help to guard the page again, since this VfD effort may have created a group of editors ready and willing to update and guard it.

In the meantime, the template/navigation bar I worked on is probably going to be deleted. JFW put it up for deletion (I would think out of spite), and the request is just sailing through. However, I now see why: Pages like that attact people who want to add all sorts of odd links to it without adding the articles. A scientologist is trying to add the relevant entries. Baha'i certainly cannot be far behind. Also, there has been so much internal conflict between Chistian groups that seperate pages can be written for each denomination it seems. Given that, the use of a category scheme is better. That way, the relevant article has exist to have anything added to the category. --EMS | Talk 06:26, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

In the meantime
Good job getting the source out of the article space. Now realize that you can create subpages in the user space. just click on User:Babajobu/Religious persecution by Jews and you can start a subpage for drafting the revised article. Just move the article text there. (It is needed if you are drafting multiple articles anyway.)

I think that you are right that the name needs to be changed. Overall you have walked into a claptrap set up by Irishpunktom to justify an anti-semitic rant. That the write-up is getting more infomred and less accusatory is not at all to his liking. Hence his view that the series as a whole either stays or goes.

In any case, there is a lot to learn both about this subject and about how to present it. --EMS | Talk 18:00, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Bolding redirects
The reason for bolding the name of Cypros at Antipater the Idumaean is that Cypros redirects there, so that the surprised reader, looking for Cypros, will see that (s)he has not been misdirected. If you approve of this service to the reader, perhaps you'd restore the bolding. --20:53, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

User:IZAK
I don't know you, nor would I bet that I'd find you a very agreeable person were we to hash out and compare our respective ideas, but User:IZAK's tone in the current active VfD violates a number of pertinent Wikipedia policies. If you're willing (and are genuinely interested in resolution without being condescending toward those with whom you disagree), head over to his Talk page, where I'll be attempting clarification/mediation/resolution concerning his incivility and personal attacks. Shem(talk) 09:19, 26 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes indeed, I suggest you go over to User talk:IZAK and see what antics User:Shem is capable of, and how I deal with him. It will open your eyes. Thanks. IZAK 10:26, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Incivility
You've "duly noted" that incivility is unacceptable, but you have continued to both initiate it and respond to it. That last attack on User:Ambi is a case in point. Technically, that edit could be deleted by any user; it had no substance and only intimidation value. Please hold back on your impulses. Thanks, HKT talk 17:36, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Gentle jibe?! You were attempting to discredit a vote, which you've done several times unprovoked (unless you consider a Delete vote provocative). True, there have also been provocative Delete votes on the VfD, but you and others seem to be dealing them sufficiently (and beyond). HKT talk 22:30, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

SIIEG invitation
please see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Islam:SIIEG --Zeno of Elea 05:56, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your work in removing honorifics from Islam related articles. Klonimus 09:08, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nice work on the Dilpaizer Aslam article. Klonimus 01:14, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

VfD pollution
Ril enlisted Persecution by Muslims for VfD again, just 24 hours after the article withstood the first VfD. You might be interested to watch it. --Germen (Talk | Contribs ) 10:17, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Existentializer
Just for your information: Existentializer banned for "suspicion" based on someone's vandalizing his user page. This is way out of line. Ni-ju-Ichi 05:17, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Donkeys
The reason why I keep removing donkeys is that I hate them. lol. Just joking!! As you can see the article is properly wikified with a wikilink to donkey and so the see also section is redundant. That's the reason I removed it. "See Also" refers to something that's generally not mentioned in the article but close associated with the topic and "donkey" link was repetitive. Idleguy 13:11, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Pl. see User_talk:Idleguy Idleguy 13:38, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Prophet-removal campaign
Some anti-Muslim activists have gone on a Wikipedia compaign to erase all use of the word "prophet" in connection with Muhammad.

It is true that when some Muslims contribute to Wikipedia, they write things like "the Prophet Muhammad, PBUH" and suchlike. That can be NPOVed as "the prophet Muhammad". It is not POV to describe someone as a prophet. That's a religious role, like shaman or priest. Use of the word does not imply that one recognizes Muhammad as a TRUE prophet, or THE prophet. Prophet is routinely used to describe the Hebrew prophets, frex, and no one believes that this implies conversion to Judaism or Christianity. Please stop the prophet-removal campaign. Zora 22:20, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I think this is something the whole community should discuss. Not just you and me, not just the anti-Muslims and Muslim apologists, the whole community, because it affects thousands of religious articles. I'll put up an RfC, though that doesn't guarantee that anyone will pay attention. Zora 22:46, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


 * After looking at the RfC directions for a while, I ended up posting the question at the Village Pump, in the Policy section. Zora 23:12, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh dang, I got hit by the "save/preview" bug again. I click save page and leave, not realizing that the software has given me a "preview only" notice. So when I leave, all my work is gone. Pisses me off, that does. I'll try adding it again. Zora 23:36, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

The nuclear cleanup option
Votes for deletion/Actual effects of invading Iraq. I've been bold with this - thought you might like to comment. --Doc (?) 23:39, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Columbine High School massacre
I saw your mentioning that the article needs more work. Exactly what did you mean (content, wording, or format)? Thanks. Pentawing 21:54, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Can you suggest any more improvements? Thanks. Pentawing 22:23, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey. I was the person who originally nominated this article for featured status, but, due to Hurricane Katrina, I've been without internet since August 25th and that means no wiki.  I like your edits, they make the article flow a lot better!  I wouldn't have any objection to you continuing to better the article.  As Pentawing said, I want to eventually get it featured on the front page (in a way, it already is, since it's an April 20th featured anniversary).  If you see anything that affects a NPOV without being backed up by a source, or that's irrelevant to the article, change it.  I want it to be as spick and span as possible before the vultures over a the front page nominations area get to it.  Thanks. PRueda29 19:43, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

xd2 template
I've reverted your xd2 template from Jockstrap Joeseph and one other (I forget which) as the set of articles is presently undergoing the existing VfD at Articles for deletion/Pink dragon, but the author had removed the tags. &mdash; Lomn | Talk / RfC 18:32:22, 2005-08-31 (UTC)
 * I've got no objection to co-listing it; just didn't know if they'd play nicely together or not. &mdash; Lomn | Talk / RfC 18:36:36, 2005-08-31 (UTC)

Blanking new article
Would you mind saying why you have blanked my new article.??Thanks 16:09, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * To which article are you referring? Babajobu 16:11, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Exclusionist Light current 16:13, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Because I'm an inclusionist. If you look at the List of Inclusionist Wikipedians, you will see that I'm on it. As such, I am opposed to your Exclusionist program, by which you seek to keep information off of Wikipedia. Thus I deleted your article.


 * Actually, though, that's not the only reason I deleted it. I also deleted it because it is not an appropriate article for the main namespace, but perhaps rather for Meta-Wiki or the Wikipedia namespace. Also, the article wasn't serious: it contained assertions about the subjects being "superior beings", and what not. So there were lots of reasons what it was suitable for blanking and hard deletion. Babajobu 16:19, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * So, your inclusionist policy is to DELETE my new article? Or were you joking here? Sounds pretty hypocritical to me. As for seriousness, look at some of the other definitions: inclusionist, deletionist, immediatist, eventualist. All of these have some element of humor in them. I would state that my article is just as appropriate as the ones Ive just mentioned so I would ask you to revert your deletion please. If it need to go in WP namespace then please move it there. Dont just blank peoples work! Light current 16:34, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

All those articles are redirects to metawiki! I've got no problem with your article (including humor) in metawiki...it just shouldn't be a standard Wikipedia article. That's not the place for it! Babajobu 16:39, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * OK Could you please redirect it for me as I m not sure how to do it . Thanks :-) Light current 16:49, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Just go to This page, create a membership, and then get started. Babajobu 16:58, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * And I changed the wiki article to a redirect to the meta page. Babajobu 17:00, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I have now found the deleted content and put it on the page in MetaWikiLand :-) Light current 17:40, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism
BYT put my article on this informative book up for VfD, I'd be honored if you'd take a look at the article and its VfD and share your opinions. Thanks. User:Klonimus/AINB Klonimus 07:59, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

VfD Campaign against books critical to Islam
Recently I've been filling out the category Category:Books critical of Islam with articles about a contemporary books that are critical of Islam. One would think that documenting a verifiyable sub genre of books would not cause offense. But sadly this is not the case. I urge all wikipedian's concerned with having an encyclopedic encyclopedia to look at the following articles and their VfD's. Klonimus 23:34, 4 September 2005 (UTC)


 * The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism
 * Islam and Terrorism: What the Quran Really Teaches About Christianity, Violence and the Goals of the Islamic Jihad
 * Islam and the Jews: The Unfinished Battle

Muhammad, prophet of Islam
User Emiellaendiay (I think I've spelled that right) is slowly and quietly changing "Islamic prophet Muhammad" to "Muhammad, prophet of Islam". I left a message on her page saying that I felt that the second phrase seemed just too pious and POV and asking her not to continue the campaign. I don't know if you're still on your "secular language" roll, but this is something up your alley. I'm not motivated to change all her edits so far back -- we can tolerate a little variation, IMHO. However, I'm feeling that a steady diet of "Muhammad, prophet of Islam" would be cloying.

Am I just reacting to nothing, or do you too feel that the phrase smacks of piety? Zora 13:01, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Works on Ayyavazhi
If you are intrested there are some works in newly expanded articles Kaliyan and Kalicchi. -  Vaikunda   &   Raja 

Copy editing
Hey Babajobu, I've come across some of your copy editing today, and just want to say what a pleasure it is to see someone improve the writing so effortlessly. Thank you for doing it. ;-) SlimVirgin (talk) 05:30, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

"Massacre"
Babajobu:

I think it would be a good thing (particularly if you're in line with Esperanza's goals) to remove negative references to other Wikipedians from your userpage. Massacre is a bit too close to a death threat for comfort. -- Essjay ·  Talk 23:17, 21 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Truly ridiculous. JCarriker is one of my favorite Wikipedians, we're not some cabal to overthrow him. And the word massacrer should NEVER be used in such context. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 23:42, 21 September 2005 (UTC)


 * My lord, the whole thing was intended as satire. I'd be of Ambi's bent on this. The threat to leave and form a "Provisional Government in Exile" for a Wikipedia group devoted to propagating positive feelings is manifestly absurd and satirical. Plotting "revolutionary strategy" and the "massacre" of a voluntary board of spreaders of good feelings should be so, too. Nevertheless, I will remove the word. Babajobu 23:49, 21 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Terrible timing and taste. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:11, 22 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, but I just can't take this seriously. This is a group devoted to SPREADING POSITIVE FEELINGS and it has quickly broken down into a morass of mutual recriminations and wounded egos. How tasteless is that?? Babajobu 00:13, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

My concern was more for individuals unfamiliar with the situation who might misread your comments and take them seriously. Considering that at least some of the people who have been following the Esperanza incidents have been confused, I don't think it was outside possibility for someone who hadn't been following it to be confused and potentially upset. All around, it's just best to avoid anything that skirts on implying violence against other users. -- Essjay ·  Talk 16:19, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

The last time I'm spamming you all with Esperanza stuff
Hello Babajobu. As you may or may not know, there have been some troubles with Esperanza. So now, as a last ditch to save the community, please vote at Esperanza/Reform on all neccisary polls. P.S. I'm very sorry for spamming you all with these messages, and this will be the last time. I recommend putting ESP on your watchlist. Cheers and please look at that, let's stop the civil war then. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 02:42, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Category:Vegetarians
I've stuck this on the AfD listing as well, but I figured you might want to see it directly. Categories only show up to 200 entries at a time, hit the next 200link there and you'll find IBS atop this list. &mdash; Lomn | Talk / RfC 18:00, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Numbers
Under 101? Interesting &mdash; I usually use "under 100". Be prepared for opposition, though; some editors can't even bear to see numbers under ten written out (I've been fighting this for some time on a whole set of pop-music articles). Good luck! --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 13:27, 23 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I coudn't agree more. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 14:08, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Babajobu, My multi-racial, gender-neutral friend!
Goddamn nice user page you have here, son. Kade 17:07, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Also, a query: Are you really a Unificationist? Kade 03:41, 24 September 2005 (UTC)


 * No. Babajobu 03:42, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

You have me at a disadvantage
Who are you? The name rings a bell, but I can't place it. (Nothing I do is proper). Babajobu
 * It's hardly a disadvantage, I'm afraid I must confess to not knowing you either. As for you having met me before, I've been around the web a few times and used to edit here very frequently, but had a sort of wikibreak since the beginning of this year. Barring any sudden surfacing memories, let's just start again: Hello, I'm fvw. Pleased to meet you. --fvw *  23:22, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Was your edit summary not directed at me? ("I thought you were only going to edit proper articles") Babajobu 23:24, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, no, I apologise for any misunderstanding I may have caused. Jeff Merkey (User:Gadugi and a few anon users) has been creating articles about the people he feels are attacking him. Yesterday he promised to stop creating these articles but Internet Lynch Mob is a continuation and partial reposting of the same material again, which doesn't exactly give me warm fluffy feelings. Sorry you got caught in the middle, for what it's worth your cleanup was excellent. --fvw *  23:30, 23 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Ehmm, was this some sort of in-joke I'm missing? Otherwise you may want to consider retracting it, both on the basis of WP:CIV and just plain not being needlessly unpleasant to people. --fvw *  00:02, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Numbers format
In case you miss my note in the Tamil people history, check out Manual of Style (dates and numbers); proper format is "10th century" rather than "tenth century", and % is used when the number isn't spelled out ("10%" or "ten percent"). Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the page, though; I'm really happy with how it's evolving in general. -Silence 12:51, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

WP:NPA

 * On second thought, since Mr. Nygaard is a cranky, illiterate jackass...

Just a friendly reminder. N (t/c) 15:39, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Link plz Kade 19:42, 24 September 2005 (UTC)


 * LOL, it was an edit summary. But if you want to see the very lengthy exchange that prompted it, go to Village pump (policy) and look under "Wikipedia has a numbers problem". Babajobu 21:46, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Your response on my talk page was the nicest I've ever seen for pointing out a violation of any sort. N (t/c) 22:15, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

List of vegetarians / Vegetarianism of Adolph Hitler
Are you aware that User:Wyss is referencing the Institute for Historical Review? It is not a good idea to fork the article because now this discussion is spread across two articles instead of one. This is a common tactic of people who are waging edit wars. See POV fork. --Viriditas | Talk 02:26, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

I already tried to politely ask Viriditas to avoid any attempts to leverage that innocent mistake of mine into a distraction. I removed the reference within seconds of reading his remark that they're Holocaust deniers.

On another subject, I'm not sure he realizes you proposed the article. Wyss 04:33, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Numbers/Dates
I'm nearly done with the dates, thank goodnes, about 900 more. I've visited the talk page about numbers, there seems to be fairly good support for spelling them out, but less for making it policy. Rich Farmbrough 15:51, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Double page
Hello. I am asking you because your name I saw in Recent changes, so you are online. There are 2 pages about the same thing: Oliveira_de_Azemeis and one linked from the Discussion page. How does one normally deal with these? --Dangherous 15:48, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

AH veg
Thanks for catching the "late" 1930s ref to Lucas that someone inserted... I've noticed many vegetarian websites incorrectly refer to it in order to "spin" the anecdote as aggressively as possible. So far as removing a that goes, it's in no way an unacceptable ellipsis, but this is a wiki, so my investment in highly smoothed and flowed prose is much less. Thanks btw, for all the constructive input! Wyss 22:48, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

"Muhammad, final prophet of Islam"
In Aisha, Anonymous Editor is insisting on the above phrase as a description. I took it out and he replaced it. Are you still concerned with "de-pietized" descriptions of Muhammad, or would you prefer to stay out of this? I've clashed with AE over pietistic edits already today, and I'd just as soon retire and let someone else argue with him. Zora 01:16, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

More veggie
I truly believe that if people looked as hard at the rest of the people on List of vegetarians as they have with AH, 80% of that list would be gone. Wyss 20:11, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Veggie stuff
Hey Babajobu, thanks for your note. I'd say the organic label is only in part to do with what's put in the soil and on the produce, but also about how the animals are reared. The regulations vary between countries, but will normally preclude the overuse of antibiotics, which means the animals can't be kept in the usual crowded conditions. Prohibiting the use of growth hormones rules out the disfigured condition animals end up in (pigs being unable to stand up etc), and the rules on what they're allowed to eat tends to mean they suffer less illness (the classic example being cows who were fed cows ending up with mad cow disease). Also, farmers who go organic are small-scale farmers who tend to care about their animals, or at least care more. Most factory farms aren't run by farmers, but by huge corporations that have nothing to do with agriculture. Poultry production in the U.S., for example, is controlled by just 50 corporations, the second largest of which alone sold 5.3 billion pounds of chicken and 310 million pounds of turkey in 2004. It's these huge (almost unfathomable) numbers of animals being sold very cheaply that causes the abuse &mdash; makes the abuse necessary, in fact. Cruelty-free products can't be available to people of all incomes &mdash; unless we're talking govt subsidies, and that'll never happen &mdash; because raising animals well and in something close to a natural environment is a slow, expensive business. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:22, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Babajobu, do you think smart and intelligent people are "selectively" (for innocent and way understandable reasons) simply missing the chronology involved? Wyss 12:33, 30 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I think there is understandable discomfort with creating a chronology that will indicate that Hitler appears to have eaten no meat at all from 1942 to 1944. Babajobu 09:54, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Black Irish
This seems to be your baby, so I hope the following is of interest. No doubt the term is of limited use, but if you watch gaelic sports teams from Cork and Kerry on TV you will usually observe one or two players with distinctive dark complexions and colouring - I take it that the term refers to this type of people. The explanations for the presence of this type, especially in the western parts of those counties, are based either on myth (Milesians (Irish)) or just daft speculation (survivors of the Spanish Armada). But there was an extended contact between Iberia and south-west Ireland, when Spanish and Portuguese fishing fleets used that part of the country as a base for their expeditions into the north Atlantic, reaching as far as Newfoundland; this activity continued from at least the mid-15thC. to the mid 17thC., but the details have been lost with the extension of English authority in Ireland and the decline of the Spanish empire. Evidence of the extent of the connection isn't great, but there are remains of Spanish fish processing plants along the coast, and prior to its destruction in the Elizabethan wars of the late 16thC. the town of Dingle in west Kerry was described as built in the Spanish style. Whether or not there was a contribution to the native gene pool requires DNA investigation (and bear in mind that fishing communities probably survived better during periods when entire populations were wiped out by war and famine). Leaving aside the terminology, this may help to explain why a separate type of Irish people should be identified by casual observation. What do you fink? Should I just stick it in the article?shtove 12:09, 30 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah, go for it, sounds like useful and interesting info to me. Babajobu 08:31, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

I REMOVE MY AWARD AGAIN YOU IMPOSTER pretending to be a admin + beuraract + causeing me a lot of trouble on irc.
-- &#9786;A dam1213 &#9786;  Talk+|WWW 07:22, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

An RfA
I thought that maybe you would be interested in this request for adminship: Requests for adminship/Anonymous editor -- Karl Meier 12:29, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

A.E. RfA
While I did express concerns about POV editing, I find Anonymous Editor generally reasonable in discussion, and don't see any reason to think he would abuse his admin privileges. In addition, I think that Wikipedia would benefit from multiple POVs. Also, I think the Muslim related articles get a lot of vandalism, and it would be helpful to have an admin patrolling them more regularly. Jayjg (talk) 16:46, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

About your comment
Adam, thanks for voting in my RfA, you can have your award back but please do not leave comments on my Userpage, that's what talk page is for. Thanks. Babajobu 10:00, 31 October 2005 (UTC) After removing it you put it back, and even added to your user page which is why I removed it. I probably should of just put it on your talk page. -- &#9786;A dam1213 &#9786;  Talk+|WWW 10:16, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

If you get me back my permanet access level 10 in #wikipedia-en-vandalism I will change my comment to something along the lines of this user is improving in neutral. The loss of the access is the main reason I am against you and still a little for pretending to be an admin + beuracrat -- &#9786;A dam1213 &#9786;  Talk+|WWW 10:27, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

After the you slapping me and I joked about kicking you [10:27] Jtkiefer: because I do not have faith that you'd be willing to show restraint if you got into a situation where you felt you wanted to kick or ban someone

-- &#9786;<font color="#FF9900">A dam1213 &#9786;  Talk+|WWW 10:45, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

well.... you could explain that you knew it was a joke when I said it was

look the joke did not cause me really any problems loosing my access did. Its not a bribe kind of thing its if you can remove my main reason for being against you I dont have one any more do I? -- &#9786;<font color="#FF9900">A dam1213 &#9786;  Talk+|WWW 11:50, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Notability
Hi. You flagged Carrot Capers(Camp Lazlo) for speedy deletion because it had no assertion of notability. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion. While an assertion of importance/significance is a criteria for speedy deletion, this only applies to biographical articles. An example of such an article would be like an article named "Johnathon James Doe" which said "Johnathon Doe is a really cool kid." If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 04:23, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 beheading in Indonesia title
Change that title back to what it was. If you want to change something then you better discuss it on the talk page first thanks. --LightofTruth 06:25, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I discussed it on IRC with a bunch of admins. They said this was the proper format. Babajobu 06:26, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I disagree, it is not specific enough to related to the topic at hand . The article is not about 2005 beheadings in Indonesia, it is about a specific event related to the beheading of 3 girls on Oct 30 2005. Get it? --LightofTruth 06:33, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, but events such as this are usually identified by their year. Unless there have been other beheadings in Indonesia this year, in which case we can add the month and day to the title. Cheers. Babajobu 06:35, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Just add something that mentions the 3 Christian girls in the title OK? .--LightofTruth 06:57, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Hey!
It's me. :-) bogdan | Talk 11:42, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Babster
In general I think you do have a serious shot at being made an admin if you can get ~40 or so votes to compensate for 8 or so votes from the muslim/dhimmi contingent. If you look at the bulk of the oppose votes they are about about various fixable things. So I think that if you keep your nose clean and practice good habits, you have a very good shot at being made an admin soon. Certainly you will be made an admin before I will ever be !!! Klonimus 09:24, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

RFA
Hi! As you know, your RFA bid did not receive the necessary level of support needed to promote you. This does not mean you are unfit for adminship, instead reflect on why the nom failed and try again later. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  03:31, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Please vote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Ramallite

Damour
Hello Babajobu. You know the Damour massacre article that we constantly edit, it looks like somebody created a duplicate by starting Damour. I cleaned it up a little, by just talking about the town of Damour. What do you think we should do about this duplicate article, nominate it for deletion, or make it a redirecet to Damour massacre? Regards, --Gramaic | Talk 20:33, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you very much for supporting my rather contentious request for adminship, but now that I've been promoted, I'd like to do a little dance here *DANCES*. If you have any specific issues/problems with me, please feel free to state them on my talk page so that I can work to prevent them in the future, and thanks once again! ALKIVAR &trade; 07:34, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Hey, thanks for supporting my RfA. I'll see you on IRC. — Phil Welch 22:13, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Cleaning up after Louis Epstein
Using my bot I cleaned up after that guy all the way to 08:32, 4 August 2003, which was his first edit. My algorithm might have skipped some occurences, as for example, it does not put spacing after parentheses and only after periods and commas, but still, it is a big progress.

I do not plan to use the bot in the future, as I have plenty of others things to do, and again, I dislike the guy for reasons you saw on his RfAr.

As such, you are on your own cleaning up after him from here into the future. Please note that this job is not as easy as you may think, it will take big effort and a lot of commitment. Please do notify the ArbCom at Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration as soon as you feel you are not keeping up with the job in a timely manner as you promised.

I do hope that your offer of cleaning up after him will not let this guy escape unpunished. I believe he is one of the people who while a good contributor, makes life harder for everybody else, and as such, Wikipedia will be better off without him than with him.

Good luck, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:26, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

So, how do you know Klonimus?
I recommended that your Guild's motto be "Fuck Islam" as a cynical joke but he didn't get it. I don't think he and I would get along very well, unfortunately. My sardonic, Kafka-esque Libertarianism doesn't match well with his pure Christopher Hitchens-esque anti-Islamic Fascism mission. Kade 21:27, 10 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I just know Klonimus from around Wikipedia, and from SIIEG. He's a good dude. I don't know his politics exactly, but he's no fascist as far as I can tell (and Hitchens certainly isn't!). Anyway, one might think of me as the love child you and Klonimus will never have, combining Hitchensish love of Enlightenment values with a crotchety libertarianism. Some other mischief maker suggested SIIEG's motto should be "SIIEG Heil!", which was funny, but unfair. Nothing fascist or Nazi about a commitment to removing religious bias from an encyclopedia. Babajobu 21:53, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Anti-Islamic Fascism. Not Fascism. Kade 07:20, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank You
I noticed your edit at Jewish ethnic divisions. I am grateful for you coming to my defence. You don't know the grief Jayjg has become. He has come to constantly revert every edit of mine (valid as you yourself have seen) under the guise of "bad" or "poor English" (which is personally insulting) if the edit conflicts with his agenda. The ignorant user does not understand that I think, speak and thus type in Australian English, which being closest to British English would make the conventions of his English the "poor" ones. How many times have I heard ignorant ill-spoken English-speaking North Americans say to us Commonwealth English-speakers that we don't make sense, or that we speak pompously. No, we speak PROPERLY, that's our only problem. In any case, this linguistic excuse is a front of his, and has nothing to do with my edits. I have brought this to the attention of some admins but nothing has been done, and he continues going to most of my edits and reverts everything with no consideration of my valid arguments. Once again, thank you. Al-Andalus 04:49, 11 November 2005 (UTC).

Help at Shia Islam
The Shia Islam article is turning into a mosque handout and I've already got my hands full fighting with two Shi'a editors in numerous other articles. You're one of the SIIEGers who's generally fair (as opposed to malicious), so I'm asking for help. Could you go there and removing all the bowing and genuflecting in front of the Prophet Muhammad, Ali, and the Ahl-ul-Bayt? That is just not encyclopedic. Zora 20:51, 11 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Babajobu, that's a good first pass. The more serious underlying distortions are still there, but at least the article isn't totally embarrassing now. I hope you have the energy to keep working on it. I'm trying to write a NPOV history of Shi'a Islam right now, but it's taking LOTS of time to do the research. It may take me months.


 * Zereshk said that he had announced on a Shi'a message board that Shi'a were being persecuted on Wikipedia, so we may expect more eruptions of Shi'a enthusiasm. Zora 22:00, 11 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Zora, another editor and I have sparred a bit in edit summaries and on the talk page about whether term "Shi'ite" can be said to be incorrect. Interested in your feedback. Babajobu 00:01, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Zora's attacks
She has called me worse things (such as "uneducated, mentally psychotic,..." etc). Would you like me to give you a list? Please stop taking sides when you dont know this vicious racist. She has had clashes with other Iranian editors as well. Would you like me to contact them for you?--Zereshk 00:55, 12 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes. She helps muslims.....if they are not Shi'a.


 * How is it that no full time Shi'a editor on WP supports Zora?


 * She does a GREAT service to zionists by attacking the Shia so maliciously. Especially that she hates Iranians too.


 * And by the way. I saw your edits. They look fine to me. Thanx.


 * Im sorry. But Zora has never supported the Shi'a. I am a Shi'a. She refuses to accept any Hadith as relaible, she dismisses Qom and any sources from it as relaible (which speaks volumes about her). When presented with sources from Najaf, she just calls Shias as "unreliable" and "suspect".


 * No akhi, I refuse to give her any credit. She is an enemy of the Shi'a for insulting them continuously. With "friends" like that, who needs enemies?--Zereshk 01:14, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

It seems youre not aware of the religious ethnic-spectrum of American politics. Im not talking about the famous hedonistic diasporic Iranian Jews living in LA. Im talking about these guys: The elite mainstream American Jew that goes to Yale or Brown or NYU, and ends up with a top career in US govt. In fact Dianne Feinstein, a famous CAL jew who you must know, once proposed to ban all Iranian students from studying in the US. In fact it is because of this very group of elites in American politics that Iran and the US are enemies, despite common strategic interests. Like Zora, the claim-to-know-it-all American Jews think they know better than Israelis about the welfare of the Jewish state. (Zora thinks she knows more about Islam or Iran than I do). If it werent for the American Jews (which Israel has often criticized), and if it werent for reactionary dumb-ass retrogrades like Iran's new president, Iran and the US would be friends now.--Zereshk 03:09, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

New User
i thought i put that little timmy stuff back to its original copy sorry i didn't believe that it would work BrokenGlass 04:57, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

and how did you make that message look like it does all spaced and with some words as links?

thanks for the welcome and everything but man this stuff just looks a little bit to large for me i think i'll just stick to reading articlesBrokenGlass 05:01, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

wow you guys take this serious thats alot to read lol my name is mike and yours? BrokenGlass

Mike Lookinland
Wow. Are you really that interested in Mike Lookinland? So quick to revert edits. I'm sure he's glad you're watching him like a hawk. He'll drink to that!

Jtkiefer's RFB
 

Thanks for your support on my request for bureaucratship.

The final outcome was (17/17/4) meaning that it failed, if you have any advice on how I can be a better editor or administrator please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again for your support. Jtkiefer T - 20:27, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

User:Thekat103
The above user replaced the article at Lars Ulrich with what seems to be your user page (here's the diff). Not sure what thats about but thought you'd find it interesting. Have a nice day :-) - <FONT COLOR="#003366">orion <FONT COLOR="#999999">eight  <font size=-2>(talk) 03:25, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Degrassi Episode Guide
My edits to that page were not vandalism. They were small edits pertaining to what actually happened on the show. --Boycottthecaf 06:46, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: My God, this image is disgusting.
Further commentary on Image:Virgin Killer.jpg can be found at Talk:Virgin Killer. It's not goatse for crying out loud. &mdash; <font color="006000" title="User:Freakofnurture">F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( <font color="006000" title="User talk:Freakofnurture">TALK )  08:12, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

It looks more like people might find it to be too similar to child pornography for their tastes, not that I approve of censoring it. Kade 22:25, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Fascism
I was trying to illustrate that Klonimus's whole goal here is keeping it clean of Wahhabi-sect sympathizers' skewed perspectives. Mine is more making sure Socialists don't try to constantly paint everything with a Marxist brush....I've been that way ever since I heard people trying to claim that Nazis were socialist. Yes, their name is short for "National Socialists", but simply calling yourself a socialist and behaving like one are two very different things. Kade 22:24, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Jan Cox
please stop vandalizing Jan Cox, philosopher page. I insist on it.


 * That was an error, I thought the page was a copyvio, sorry. I've restored the text. Babajobu 03:20, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I insist on people using proper signatures. Kade 06:08, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Me too, but that guy's a n00b. Babajobu 07:14, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

E-mail
Yes, Babajou, I got the e-mail. Thank you for sending it. I have been mulling it over, but I have a number of concerns around privacy which I have not yet resolved. Jayjg <small style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) 17:55, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Islamofascism
Please do not reinstate this article. It's been months since people decided to redirect it to the appropriate article. Yuber(talk) 00:26, 19 November 2005 (UTC)


 * The definition of "appropriate" is subjective. Kade 01:57, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

It might be the subject of disagreement, but it's not subjective. In any case, there was clear consensus that it be a redirect; those wanting to resurrect it or change the target of the redirect should make their case on the Talk page, not act unilaterally. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 18:25, 19 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Your figures are a little out; they were in fact:
 * Delete: 8
 * Redirect (or delete): 23
 * Keep: 22
 * Sock-puppets, vague, etc.: 6
 * (see User talk:Mel Etitis/Afd-Islamofascism for a breakdown).
 * More important than bare figures at the AfD page, though, are the reasons given (many of the keep votes, for example, were either based on incorrect or misunderstood Google figures, the misuse of Google figures, or open Islamophobia), and the discussions on the Talk page of the article. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 11:26, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

RfC vs Mel
If you want to do this, which I think is a good idea, contact me. It's very important to rewind this, so as to establish a chain of abuse ending in mel's silent protect/redirect. Mel has been up for RfC before, and I'm sure that it's possible to find plenty of other people he has pissed off with high handed behavior. Klonimus 06:00, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Klonimus, I'd like to wait and see whether he decides to drop a comment or two on to the talk page. I've had a couple interactions with Mel before and he always seemed fine to me. I'm hoping he'll show up, apologize for not giving a more thorough explanation, and then offer it. We'll see. Babajobu 06:09, 21 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, Mel got owned on WP:AER. Thanks for all your work in this. Klonimus 21:38, 22 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Klonimus, yeah, I'm very glad that the article is back up and unprotected. Thanks to you, too, for your involvment. Babajobu 02:01, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!
Hi Babajobu, Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Regards, Joann e B 15:44, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

MONGO RfA
I truly appreciate your support on my RfA and will do all I can to ensure you know that you made a good choice. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you!--MONGO 09:30, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

please view
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fred_Bauder#complete_failure_of_wikipedia_NPOV_policy

Cockles and Hackles Alive, Alive O
Hey, I've been involved in some articles you've been involved in and seen some of your edits. I think they're reasonable, even when you step over the line and start calling people donkey-haters. Surprised you weren't banned for that. But seriously, I just wanted to say hey and I'm sorry I missed your RfA. Woulda voted yes. Oh, and re: your post on Islamofascism: I believe you meant "hackles" when you wrote "cockles." I take it that you are using cockles in the sense of "cockles of my heart," which refers to ventricles, which could imply that raised cockles raise blood pressure. But I surmise, rather, that you meant hackles, as in "raised hackles, which rise on the back of one's neck when confronting, um, moronic 3RR sock-pupeteers. Anyway, hope you won't take this tiny criticism ill. I figure whether I'm right on this or not, from your history I can count on you to at least have a sense of humor about it. PS: what the hell was that Ken Bogan page about? Cheers.IronDuke 04:06, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes I do
Yes I do. []. My post to User:HappyCamper is manifestly relevant to the discussion, and I plan to replace it. I'd like your opinion on whether the user who removed it is entitled to do so. BrandonYusufToropov 12:59, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

The post is relevant to the discussion, wouldn't you agree?
Again, I'd like your opinion. I have no doubt that admins will get involved at some point, but edit work on this page must be conducted without one user deleting relevant communication from the talk page. Please respond. BrandonYusufToropov 13:13, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

User in question is now removing MY comments from MY talk page
[]


 * Do you have any real doubt now about what's going on here?


 * Can you think of any legitimate reason he would be so very eager for me not to post a message about User:FluffyPinkKittensOfDoom?


 * Are you quite sure you're not next?

Agree with me or disagree with me, I stand behind my edits, and I don't screw around with other people's talk pages. As for the guy you're trying to be "reasonable" with on Islamofascism -- let's just say the jury is still out. And it was precisely because manipulation like this could happen that I was so dead-set against the page, by the way, which is now moving into full-blown "Mussolini probably took shahada" mode.

I realize you're probably sorry you got involved with this stupid page, and I feel for you, but I really would like your clear feedback on whether that message I posted on the talk page can be unilaterally removed by an interested party. BrandonYusufToropov 13:37, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Kike
dammit baba! leave it alone! I'll let you know when you can touch it! :-) (I mean "gimme some time here...I'm working on it")  Tom e rTALK 16:32, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * no, probably not...although I know a lot of Jews who call each other "kike" in amiable banter. :-p  Tom e rTALK 16:42, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Alright, I hurt my back and neck pretty badly on monday, so I've gotta lie down for a while. I'm done futzing around with kike for now, so have at it. BYT may be stopping by as well... Tom e rTALK 17:29, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


 * .....are you jewish, Bob? Kade 18:04, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Kade, I transcend all traditional categories. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, male, female, Irish, Japanese, American, et cetera. I transcend it all. Why do you ask? And since you asked, what is your guess? Babajobu 19:25, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Well lets fucking see. You are..
 * A. - Vehemently opposed to pro-muslim POV in Wikipedia.
 * B. - Editing an article about the derogatory term for Jews, "Kike".
 * C. - Involved in editing articles like "Religious persecution by Jews".
 * Kade 21:39, 3 December 2005 (UTC) EDIT: D. - You're a vegetarian, that's borderline Kosher.


 * So in conclusion, yeah, I think there's a strong probability you are in fact, Jewish. Maybe reform Judaism, if I had to guess. Kade 20:25, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm...hmmm...interesting. Babajobu 20:48, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


 * ...You know it's not nice to jerk around your friends like this. &12Appropriate emoticon conveying emotion. Kade 21:22, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Wow. I never would have guessed. You certainly don't look Druish! Tom e rTALK 02:23, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

You're e-stalking me.
For real. It's creepy. Cut it out. Kade 20:05, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I keep trying to stop, but I can't. Sorry. You'll just have to deal with it. Babajobu 20:22, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I'll cry rape. Kade 22:51, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

I have a new fan
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kade#Idiot
 * Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! I can't believe he wrote that completely vitriolic reaction to my one-sentence comment that he was an absolute lunatic. Kade 17:53, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kade#L._Paul_Bremer_speech_at_Clark_University - Man, I seem to really attract people who want to write at length about how I'm wrong. Kade 16:55, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

This Louis Epstein guy...
...why in the almighty name of FUCK are you cleaning up after him? Kade 09:01, 4 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Because I am a wonderful person, and I spend my real life skipping around doing good deeds out of the kindness of my heart, and naturally I do the same in Wikipedia. Babajobu 20:59, 4 December 2005 (UTC)


 * You're a really bad liar. Kade 06:46, 5 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Okay, then I do it because I'm obsessive-compulsive and cleaning up punctuation makes the voices stop. Babajobu 07:05, 5 December 2005 (UTC)


 * See, that may not be true, but I could at least believe it. Kade 18:30, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Rabin murder conspiracy
Hey Baba, I am not joking when I say that Gidonb may be paid to take care of wiki for the killers of Yitzhak Rabin. There a few places that are relevent to Rabin murder. rabin murder conspiracy,shimon peres, yigal amir, yitzhak rabin, barry chamish, kempler video. Gidonb is on all those pages deleting stuff. He will delete the links. He tried to delete Kempler video, When he failed in the delete he edits. Barry Chamish does not have a link to barry's site. On english Gidonb is becoming somewhat successful... In hebrew you cannot make a article or mention kempler video even on the rabin murder conspiracy page. Gidonb may be working on both languages and it may be his job.. So don't expect reasonable behavior. It is hard for you to believe what I am writing.. go through the history and it is really wierd. Gidonb had a partner previously.. but it seems like Gidonb is still at it..Kempler video 18:30, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I'll see your "Sex Offender" talk page, and raise you a crazy conservative.
From the talkpage of User:BigDaddy777 - '' It's too late dude.

I've got all the goods on you guys I need.

Now it's on to the people who finance Wikipedia.

I GUARANTEE you when I'm done with presenting the evidence, you won't be getting a RED CENT from anyone but liberal donors.

A far left wacked out organization financed by purely left wing funding.

Try selling the American People THAT as a neutral encyclopedia...

I told you guys this was gonna be a win:win for me.

I win if I stayed and helped changed Wikipedia.

or

I win if I PROVED beyond a shadow of doubt to reasonable people (not these dungeons and dragons playactors I've been dealing with) that this place is what I told user ngb the first days I came here -

A liberal cesspool of far left kooks controlling what is said on the political pages.

So, block me now, block me forever, you were a day late and a buck or two short. T he damage has been done.

I will take the ENORMOUS PASSION I have to reform Wikipedia to the funding sources and make sure ANY conservative or fair minded person sees this how utterly contemptable the left wing bias is in here. And when I do...watch the non-liberal funding dry up.

This plan has been in place from almost the beginning but I wanted to see if reformation was possible. But the final straw for you guys was that anti-Semetic Jew baiting slur from JamesMLane. Wait till the donors find out this pure bigotry was spewed by one of the MOST RESPECTED liberals in here. There's gonna be a lot of 'splainin to do over that one. lol!

Face it: In very short order, Wikipedia will rightfully become known throghout the world as the official encyclopedia for DemocraticUnderground.Com and nothing else....

Your pal,

Big Daddy

Ps Special thanks to all the liberals in here that censor conservatives and treat them like Negroes in the south in the 50's. I really could not have done what I'm about to do without you. Think I won't?....I think you all know better...''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BigDaddy777#Doc_Block



That guy's pretty hardcore. But there are a lot of political kooks on wikipedia, but a dearth of both registered sex offendors and people who like to impersonate registered sex offendors. I think User:Kenneth Patrick Bogan is stil the king of crazy wiki events. Babajobu 13:49, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Ali Sina
Babajobu, could you please help in Ali Sina's talk page? The user OceanSpalsh is back again with his/her personal attacks. Thanks in advance. Cheers -- Svest 23:36, 12 December 2005 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;
 * Thanks Baba! Well, the reason I contacted you was mainly because of the hate speech the user is into! It's not really because of the edit war. Apart from that Ali's talk page, Ocean never listened to any mediator and never stopped or changed his attitude toward a civil one. This is his former talk page before deleting all of it. Cheers -- Svest 23:59, 12 December 2005 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;
 * As far as Muslims are concerned any criticism of Islam is hate speech. I have been a Muslim for five years and know perfectly the hatred that Muslims have for apostates and the level of intolerance towards their critics. Been there, done that myself, without even being aware of it. It all seemed normal to do. Today I find myself on the other side of the fence. Quoting opinions contrary to those believed by Muslims is not hate speech. The Quran is filled with hate speech. Look at the article Ali Sina for example: that is hate speech. The very language is despiteful. My every contribution to Islamofascims, Islamofobia and Ali Sina are removed. The only reason is because they are not in agreement with Islamic creed. We must not allow Wikipedia to be converted into an Islamic tool of propaganda. Both views must be expressed equally. Take the example of Sina’s page. There we have six comments made by anonymous Muslims calling him all names including a mischievous liar, a rabid anti Islamist, Islamophobe, etc. In the paragraph that said “Ali Sina is a controversial personality” I quoted an example of how diverse are the opinions of Sina’s fans from those of his foes. This is not to agree with those opinions. Muslims resisted this example tooth and nail, with all inane and invalid excuses. I made it clear that this is not an endorsement of those views and the notability of the people making those allegations or praises are not important. They are just a sample of what people say about him. It goes from one extreme to another. I think both examples should be stated so the claim that he is a controversial is supported with these examples. Why Muslims do not want to have any mention of what Sina’s fans say about him and only the insults of his foes are mentioned? Any fool will see this article is written by people with an axe to grind against it subject.
 * Since I joined Wikipedia, every contribution I made was removed and reverted and incidentally those who removed them were invariably Muslims. Am I not allowed to put the two together and conclude that this is Islamic zealotry at work? OceanSplash13.Dec. 2005 18:20
 * "We must not allow Wikipedia to be converted into an Islamic tool of propaganda." OceanSplash, I agree with this comment and I dislike it when members of any community try to turn "their" corner of Wikipedia into a launching ground for unctuous apologetics for their belief system. I've felt that articles on Islam have a particular tendency to get laden down with "Peace be upon him", and "the Glorious Quran" and so forth, so I understand your concern in this area. However, it's important to remember that there are many Muslim Wikipedians of good intent who will listen to a fair argument and work with others to arrive at a consensus. I haven't been involved in the Ali Sina article, so I can't really say much about what's gone on there, but I would just suggest that it might be useful to take a breather and let your frustrations settle before re-engaging. You also might want to consider joining SIIEG, a guild for people who share your interest in ensuring that articles on Islam retain a balanced, non-apologetic perspective. But remember, WP:NPA and WP:AGF are requirements for SIIEG members! We do not want to "fight" Islam or Muslim Wikipedians, but to improve balance and quality of Islam-related articles. Babajobu 20:20, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that good post, Baba -- I agree with every single solitary word. No apologetics, no propaganda, on anybody's part. This is a secular encyclopedia. Ocean, I hope you and I can do a lot of good work together. Dialogue is good, attacks are bad. BYT 23:00, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Thank you Baba I joined SIIEG and added it to my watchlist. Good to meet you BYT. I did not see your name in SIIEG. That seems to be an excellent project. Please join. Also we should let each other know the articles we are wroking on so we can come to each other's help and not allow Muslims bully us. They work in gangs. There is no way one individual can stand five especially when the self aponted mediator is also a Muslim. This is highly unethical to belong to a religion and at the same time act as mediator. Isn't this a flagrant conflict of interests? Go to Ali Sina, Islamophobia and Islamofascism and see how our religious friends are tossing me around.OceanSplash13.Dec. 2005 23:25


 * Thanks, BYT. And obviously I agree that apologetics are by no means an exclusively Muslim vice in Wikipedia. Communal cheer-leading is found everywhere. It's a tricky balance, because obviously members of each community are best equipped to provide information about what their faith-community believes, but they are also most likely to write in a syrupy and celebratory manner. OceanSplash, at the SIIEG talk page people often post updates and notes regarding articles that are of particular concern at any given moment. I agree with you that involved parties should never serve as "mediators", on Islam-related articles or others. It's very bad practice. Also, BYT is Muslim! I don't think he will respond well to the notion that Muslim editors "work in gangs"...that's a good example of how indelicate language might alienate someone who would otherwise be willing to work with you. Anyway, this whole Wikipedia notion of members of different faith communities collaboratively editing entries on each other's religions is a new and very messy enterprise...I'm sure we'll all get more skilled at it as time goes by. Babajobu 02:00, 14 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Dear Baba: Your words are wise. But I am sorry for not sharing your optimism. I prefer not to have my back to Muslims. My best Muslim friends turned against me once I told them I am out. They were not just ignorant Muslims but doctors and professors. Many of them subtly expressed their desire to see me dead, even though no one actually threatened me. I saw it wise to move to another country and keep my whereabouts guarded. I think I can do without Muslim cooperation and have little need for their friendship. They will stab their best friends in the back. I do not trust their smiles and offers of friendship. That is called Taqiyyah (the art of deception or what they term as “diplomacy”). That is their way to lull you into a false sense of security. Sorry BYT, nothing personal my friend. Once you leave Islam you will understand everything I say and I would love to sit and share our experiences while sipping our cold beers. I played that game of deception too without even thinking about it or being conscious of it. I too got involved into censoring facts about Islam just as Anonymous Editor so zealotry doing here. I wrote articles lying about Islam to present a false image of it, without even thinking this is dishonest. All notions of good and bad faded. All that mattered was da’wa. It was so natural to lie and all seemed so okay. I don’t dislike the Muslim converts here. I feel sympathy for them as I see myself in them. I hope that they too wake up and see the truth. What they do not know is that they have become agents of evil.OceanSplash14.Dec. 2005 02:48

Thanks guys (Babajobu, BYT and of course Ocean as well apart from his personal judgments) for your cooperation. This is how it should be. I hope this will serve as example of how to deal with common articles and find out an understanding so we can enhance the quality of this encyclopedia. Good job! -- Svest 01:43, 15 December 2005 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;

A message to Ocean
Ocean, the only person I contacted regarding our situation was Babajobu. Him and me had also some misunderstandings in the past and I came here and nowhere else because I believed it would be a wise idea and avoiding arbitration or any support from the favourite side. I hope I succeeded as I believe I've been acting with good faith since I got to know this place. Same as you. No difference. The issue is very simple, though I may be wrong in terms of editing, I may not be wrong in treating you well as a fellow and a collaborator. It may happen at work; you and your Chinese co-worker may not agree about some business dealing details but it doesn't mean she is your enemy or a communist (not to offend any communist; just an example). It may be about the procedure or the way we do work! It happens that she is Chinese, as it's happened that my name is Fayssal. There are no conspiracies envolved here; there are only 'mistrusts and misunderstandings. We've come here as volunteers to add information not to censor it!!! The question is what information should the actual ignorant (my POV) generation and the ones to come should learn. We are full of life and discussing in good faith. So please, hoping that we are going through a better path, personal arguments, misconceptions and misunderstandings based on one's experience are better to be avoided. We don't want people coming here seeking knowledge to read about our nonsense arguments on talk pages. Now you have the SIIEG and also the Muslim Guild that you can join as well to discuss your concerns. That is the main purpose why those guilds were established. Let's do it! Cheers -- Svest 02:13, 15 December 2005 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;

Esperanza elections
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Who'd have thunk it?
After our run in some time ago over some article I can't even remember, I didn't think I'd see myself on the same side of a vote as you. This SEIIG thing is rigoddamndiculous, in my humble opinion. But at least we're decent editors ;-) -Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 03:39, 16 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah, you and I were agreeing on something else recently (maybe the Islamofascism AfD, I'm not sure), and I checked your userpage and remembered we'd had a run-in in days of yore. Ah well, such is the nature of the wiki. Nice as it is to be "one of the few good ones" ;-), alas, whatever brownie points we bring to SIIEG may not be enough to save it this time. A few overzealous members shouldn't condemn any wikiguild to the dustbin...I think this AfD is just a chance for people to get a cheap PC frisson, even though I don't think SIIEG is intrinsically un-PC. Ah well, we'll see how it goes. Babajobu 03:55, 16 December 2005 (UTC)


 * As I pointed out to SV, there are far worse people involved with some of the other Islam guilds... Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 04:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Babajobu
The barnstar really does make me feel better. Holding the line against religious fundamentalism is exhausting, and sometimes I feel very alone. Zora 04:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Dear Zora: How do Muslims become fundamentalists and even terrorists? It is when they read the Quran and try to do what it says. So how can you make them less fundamentalists without telling them that Muhammad was not a prophet but a liar? I don’t know if you are a sincere person or not. What you wrote above makes one think that you are. If you are, take a look at this sermon. Read all of it and tell me how can you convince Muslims this is wrong when whatever is said in this sermon is based on the Quran? Read my talk page and also what I wrote to Mr. Wales. If what you said above is truely heartfelt and not just a meaningless clitche, please reas all the three links I gave you and give me your feedback. If you honestly want to see change, I have the solution. But you must be willing to use your commonsense and think out of box. OceanSplash. 16 Dec. 2005 05:50

OceanSplash's question

 * OceanSplash, I'm too tired to check this out right now. Will do so within 24 hours or so. Babajobu 06:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)