User talk:Bearian/ArchivesDec2008

Thank you for participating in my RfA
I just wanted to take a moment to say "thank you" for taking the time and effort to participate in my recent RfA. As you may know, the discussion closed 66/0/1 and I'm now a holder of the mop. I will keep working to improve the encyclopedia and appreciate the trust which you have placed in me. - Dravecky (talk) 00:22, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Curious about. your RfB standards
Your first two criteria are pretty usual ones; your last criterion struck me as a bit strange (the barnstars). I receive barnstars very rarely, if ever; I've been here for around 20 months, so I've received some, but if you narrowed the criterion down to say "received barnstar in last three months,", or more than five in a year, I would fail that criterion, as I got my last barnstar over three months ago; before that, I got one for deleting the Main Page four months ago, another one six months ago, this one seven months ago, this one nine months ago, and another ten months ago. Which are all my barnstars for 2008. I don't think it's fair since although I meet your criterion by letter, I don't feel like I meet its spirit, and it's not for a lack of activity, it's more of me really rarely getting them and not a lack of community "attention" (search Maxim+AN/I (optionally "admin abuse", you'll get some hits. ;-)) Curious to hear what you think,-- Maxim (talk)  00:19, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Jacqueline Saburio
The article about Jacqueline Saburido is worth keeping in wikipedia because she is a notable person.

She is the survivor of a car fire that started when the car she was in was hit by a drunk driver. Despite the terrible accident she has been fighting to get her life back. She is actively taking parts in campaigns to prevent drunk driving and the accidents that come with it.

The Official website of the Texas Department of Transportation has information about her.

http://www.texasdwi.org/jacqui.html

She has appeared on national Television in the US to raise awareness against driving drunk.

Google search will show you this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jacqueline+saburido&btnG=Google+Search&aq=10&oq=jacque Over 150,000 results.

Please reconsider the tag you left. --Grandscribe (talk) 00:44, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I wanted to wait to know what you thought before adding the link. Thanks for doing it.


 * --Grandscribe (talk) 18:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your careful consideration at my successful RfA. Please let me know on my talk page if you have any suggestions for me. Btw, my partner is a lawyer and I'm a wikiholic, so we have similar interests :) - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 00:58, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Best wishes, happy holidays, and say Hi to your honey. Bearian (talk) 15:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Donofrio
It was my mistake (i misread a source, made a change, wanted to revert before i got jumped on). You certainly have nothing to apologize for. Best.Bali ultimate (talk) 19:07, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

RE:AFD
I still beg to differ on this "clearly notable" part. Passing references in a few books does not give notability. He helped someone do something, yes, but I still fail to see this passing WP:RS. Multiple reliable sources. I see 2, and I would call it borderline. Also, I feel it is very un-adminlike to post a comment like you did on someone's talk page. Good faith nominations should not require any comments like that. I don't make bad faith nominations. I prodded that article before, searched for the information using google and the library available here. After coming up with nothing significant, I nominated it. Don't assume bad faith. Undead Warrior (talk) 00:43, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Y
''Typically, modern populations of the southern Middle East have a higher frequency of the related haplogroup J1, whereas the great majority of Haplogroup J representatives among the populations of the Northern Middle East, Europe & South Asia belong to the subclade J2. Haplogroup J2 has been shown to have a more northern distribution in the Middle East, although it exists in significant amounts in the southern middle-east regions, a lesser amount of it was found when compared to its brother haplogroup, J1, which has a more southerly distribution. This suggests that, if the occurrence of Haplogroup J among modern populations of Europe, Central Asia, and South Asia does reflect Neolithic demic diffusion from the Middle East, the source population is more likely to have originated from Anatolia, the Levant or northern Mesopotamia than from regions further south.''

I removed it because of whereas the great majority of Haplogroup J representatives among the populations of the Northern Middle East

In Iraq & Israel J1 & J2 are around the same %
 * In Syria & Jordan J1 is more than J2.


 * The more Southern distribution of J1 is already mentioned in the part I kept.


 * J2 is a low frequency gene that rarely exceeds 30% outside of Iraq, Syria & Turkey. 2 of these nations have more or equal % of J1, so the paragraph give the wrong picture. Cadenas2008 (talk) 23:45, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Do you still edit autism-related topics?
On the rather slumbersome autism noticeboard I notice your name listed as one of the four frequent contributors but I haven't run across you on any autism articles since I started putting them on my watchlist a few months ago. Are you still actively involved? I would like to bring that page up to date. Soap Talk/Contributions 03:55, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

User:Bearian/Rota (schedule)
qv. Bearian&#39;sBooties (talk) 00:13, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism by Richard M.D.
Greetings: My personal inclination is to go ahead and block this user. Near as I can tell, he has posted nothing but garbage with no positive intent. As the primary historian and administrator of the Clemson Wiki (clemsonwiki.com) I can attest to the nonsensical quality of the edits he posted on the mainside wiki about the Clemson fightsong. About the only thing he said that WAS accurate was off-topic and not coined until Atlanta newspaperman and humorist Lewis Grizzard said it in the 1980s or '90s... (I am not a mainside wiki admin...) Mark Sublette (talk) 22:57, 13 December 2008 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette (talk) 22:57, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Illustrations of the rule against perpetuities
Just curious as to why you think this qualifies as a stub? Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 19:02, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism by Margodunleavy
Thank you very much for the Anti-vandalism Barnstar. While I'm at it, Margodunleavy needs to be warned. She made five edits on 11-12 December, all of which were pure vandalism/gibberish. I have reverted them all. Mark Sublette (talk) 20:27, 15 December 2008 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette (talk) 20:27, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

from Undead's rfa
In any case, I am sorry I caused this grief, and have stated so above in so many words. Bearian (talk) 22:20, 17 December 2008 (UTC) --from the rfa
 * Your non-apology apologies continue to evade the main issue. Again, your comment in closing Undead's AFD is the problem, not Undead's response to you (which was neither an "overreaction" nor a "poor reaction" as you have tried to portray it). Do you deny that you insinuated bad faith and that it was wrong to do so? It's important that you address this. Your conduct as an admin sets examples, and you've set a bad one here. At least one other user in the Rfa, Nsk92, has misguidedly echoed your characterization of the AfD nom as "borderline bad faith." 160.39.213.152 (talk) 14:09, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Outreach
WP:OUTREACH now exists in larval stage. Please visit the talkpage to help it pupate. // roux   21:42, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Slants
Yo, we've got another major rightist trying to slant articles. Check out the graphic details on abortion he tried to add: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stenberg_v._Carhart&diff=259241427&oldid=259110331

Thanks. If you ask me, I think it's a Wallamoose sock, but I don't know. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FEdit_warring&diff=259817147&oldid=259816948. Happy holidays. RafaelRGarcia (talk) 23:20, 24 December 2008 (UTC)