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Problem with IP editor
Hi. I really need some administrator-to-administrator advice. Can you offer your opinions on Question 2 - 5 that I've posed at the top of this discussion?

Everyone else participating there is only focusing on Question 1, which I thought would be answered more quickly and straightforwardly, and is already being discussed at Talk:Kobe Bryant sexual assault case If you want to offer your insights on Question 1 as well, can you do so there? Thanks! Nightscream (talk) 05:21, 5 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Your response to questions 3, 4, and 5 here would be useful. Since that discussion is archived, you can respond to me on my talk page, I guess.


 * I could also use your opinion on Question 1, but if you can, please chime in on that article's talk page here. We really need more experienced editors and admins speaking there. Thanks! Nightscream (talk) 19:18, 10 January 2012 (UTC)


 * And btw, fisking merely means a point-by-point rebuttal. But this does not require, by definition, inserting the responses inside the original post. I myself employ fisking, which you can see in my posts on Jimmy's talk page and the article talk page, but I just place my responses afterward, sometimes quoting the passage I'm responding to. In any event, thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 00:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, and there's also Trisha Meili and Pamela Bowman, who both eventually came forward to publicly identify themselves voluntarily. I mentioned both of them on the article talk page discussion. Nightscream (talk) 20:16, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

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Barnstar
Uh ... thanks, but are you sure that was me? I don't remember being part of any long discussion of notability. What were the particulars? Daniel Case (talk) 03:54, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, you had on the light blue sweater? Bearian (talk) 22:25, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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W. John Walsh
I note that you had an opinion on this article during an AfD discussion which was closed as no consensus and wanted to suggest that you open another such discussion. If you look for his book, you'll find it's selfpublished through Smashwords and is an expansion of his Ph.D. thesis, which was from University of Wales Lampeter -- a rather dodgy university that apparently had great difficulty in maintaining academic standards. He's had a single peer-reviewed publication, according to his CV. 209.53.143.56 (talk) 17:23, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * This was nominated a year ago at Articles for deletion/W. John Walsh. I would prefer to wait more than that time to discuss possible deletion again. Bearian (talk) 19:35, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

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USRD WikiProject Newsletter, Winter 2012

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Guidance, Navigation and Control
I love how you deprodded it without giving a reason. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:47, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * So say that in your edit summary or on the talk page, so it doesn't look like you're removing the prod just for the sake of removing the prod. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I placed a reason on the talk page, per your request. Bearian (talk) 01:55, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

ITF Seafarers Trust
This might be useful http://www.fishnewseu.com/latest-news/world/7134-donations-announced-by-seafarers-trust.html

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MSU Interview
Dear Bearian,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 15:46, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Dogs Against Romney
I undid the following edit of yours because it seems too far removed from the topic of the article, which is about Seamus: In February 2012, a Dogs Against Romney protestor was Terry stopped by police on suspicion of animal abuse, but he only had a stuffed animal in the carrier on top of his motor vehicle. While I understand the interest of this story among animal lovers, I think the story has more to do with the campaign against Romney than it has to do with Seamus, or the original 1983 incident. If you strongly disagree with my decision, feel free to restore the edit, or possibly rewrite the sentence so that it is more closely tied to the rest of the article. Thank you. Debbie W. 04:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem; I'll look at it later. Bearian (talk) 19:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Donald Ross: Belated thanks
Hi Bearian!

Thanks for looking at the article, and catching the typo in Donald Ross: (I was so worried about avoiding the spelling from my often typed R. Tyrrell Rockafellar that I made a new typo!)

Best regards, Kiefer .Wolfowitz 20:05, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Welcome, LOL. My typing skills have gotten much worse since I became a teacher. Bearian (talk) 20:09, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Thomas Larsen/Wikipedia game
I closed Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Thomas Larsen/Wikipedia game as withdrawn which caused all but one of today's MfD nominations to be collapsed. I was wondering if you could take a look. SL93 (talk) 18:41, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

FYI - Courtesy Notification
As I was intent on changing my position to a simple Keep in the Articles for deletion/John Kerry VVAW controversy petition, I have asked the closing admin to consider re-opening the AfD to accommodate that position change. JakeInJoisey (talk) 04:59, 12 February 2012 (UTC) L Faraone  03:50, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Metriorrhynchus
I noticed that you created this redirect about four years ago. Yes, this genus of beetles lives! A redirect would be nonsense, redirecting to a fish genus, and thus hurt the project. Yet deletion of the page would also hurt the project, as virtually all genera of living creatures are notable. Bearian (talk) 17:49, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Nice work! The spelling Metriorrhynchus is an occasional lapsus calami (slip of the pen) for Metriorhynchus, the Jurassic crocodilian. But obviously, a nice article on the beetle genus of the same name is preferable, especially with redirects in place on both articles, as you've done. Nice work! (And good job, Funk, on this small correction!). Happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester  01:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Notable
You lost two/thirds of the number. The Articles for deletion/Fractal fraction comment from you says, "50,000" but it is 155,000 and growing about 30,000/day. I do not know where it will top our at. Nick Beeson (talk) 03:28, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
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Articles for deletion/Afro-Dutch
I've closed the AfD as keep. Please expand the article and add references to help avoid another AfD! Deryck C. 16:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

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Kitten
Thank you for the kitten and the pun that went with her! This is certainly going on my user page. Deryck C. 14:56, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

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AFD: Men and feminism
FYI, I've nominated the article "Men and feminism" for deletion. You were active on its previous delete discussion, so I thought I'd let you know.

The delete discussion is here: Articles_for_deletion/Men_and_feminism_(2nd_nomination)

Equaaldoors (talk) 21:43, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

AfD for romney neologism
Although I initially voted for Keep for the article on the romney neologism, I now lean toward merge with the Seamus article. You stated on the AfD page that we can merge the info in another article before the AfD is closed. I'd be glad to do that, but I'm not sure how to do that merger without getting complaints that I violated WP:NPOV, WP:NOTE, WP:UNDUE, WP:NEO, etc.

The info about the romney neologism previously had a sentence on the Seamus page, and it was removed. If you look at Talk:Seamus (dog), the introduction of any new info onto that article has been very contentious. Do you have any advice? Debbie W. 23:38, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your help with the Seamus article. I will check the references of the neologism material, and merge it into the Seamus article.Debbie W. 00:01, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I implemented a 'pendente lite' merger of the romney neologism with the Seamus article. At this point the AfD for romney neologism is somewhat moot. Once again, thanks.Debbie W. 05:00, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Ichthus: January 2012
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RE: Articles for deletion/AnthillPro closed
Thank you. You have succeeded in keeping this new editor around for a while. I found "The Gardner interview" from your talk page. --how timely and correct in my case. I am much reassured that this is not simply a waste of my time. I am looking forward to working on the Wikipedia AnthillPro article, and I thank you and Chris the Paleontologist for the opportunity. ElodieAndco (talk) 20:33, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

inre Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation (2nd nomination)
How about a redirect to a nice home ready for it at Star Trek fan productions ?  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 08:20, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

RFC - International recognition of South Sudan - Redirect target
This RFC is related to the recent AfD you participated at. Japinderum (talk) 08:14, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

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Heartland
Thanks for the note. I was convinced by the arguments of he other editors that had made the point that it was indeed undue, especially after re-reading the "see also" policy and the discussion about the "see also" on talk page. I stand willing to be convinced otherwise of course. Capitalismojo (talk) 21:04, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: A barnstar for you!
Thx! Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic (talk) 07:13, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

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Whisky with food
This was created by an obvious sock puppet while the puppetmaster was blocked. Of course it's also unsourced although there are many potential sources and given some other edits I've seen I'm sure they've been used. Dougweller (talk) 10:00, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up! Bearian (talk) 18:55, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Evercore Wealth Management
Bearian,

Thank you for your comments, I am new to posting on Wikipedia and would very much appreciate any guidance you could provide as to "issues" with the existing page.

Evercore Wealth Management is one of the largest wealth managers in the United Statesd (Barron's survey 2010), the fastest growing RIA (registered investment advisor) according to Investment News, and THE wealth management subsidiary of Evercore, as is mentioned on the parent company's wiki page.

Please let me know how you believe I could add value within the content of the article.

Thanks Again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Halligan96 (talk • contribs) 14:14, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Starmanres
Hey, just so you know, Starmanres has gotten a couple of warnings and there's an ongoing discussion on my talk page about the Arpaio crap he inserted. Might consider reverting your warning - he's been pretty well warned, trounced and somewhat bitten at this point. Mind, his views aren't going to change and I suspect we'll see him try to put more stuff in at some point, but right now it may be too much. Ravensfire ( talk ) 21:20, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * OK. will do rt now. Bearian (talk) 21:21, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! And five years?  Sheesh - old timer!  (well done, btw!  well done!)  Ravensfire ( talk ) 21:49, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Donald Trump, Jr.
Thanks for fixing Donald Trump, Jr.. I was just running Huggle, but I remember that one as it seemed almost too bizarre to be true. I probably reverted 400 edits that day. Thanks for doing some real work! Jim1138 (talk) 10:31, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

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Some baklava for you!

 * Thank you, I love baklava! Bearian (talk) 15:38, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Just saying thank you
I've appreciated your comments on the whole COI mess, even when I didn't agree with all of them. This is an issue which goes to the very heart of what we do here. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  14:22, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * As they say in Unamunda, from All in the Timing, Velcro. Bearian (talk) 20:20, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Dr. Mario (HELP)
Hello. Two users, one who recently created an account and the other who is under IP, are constantly undoing constructive edits on the Dr. Mario article. Messages were left on the article's talk page as well as on users' talk pages for explanations of their edits, but no answers were provided. Since the edits are unconstructive and quite disruptive, not contributing to ameliorate the article in any way, I would ask to semi-protect the article, or do any other action to stop the users from constantly undoing modifications. Thank you. --MaxDawsonC (talk) 15:26, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The users in question are Willsnoogbaroots and the other one's IP address is 77.97.87.115. --MaxDawsonC (talk) 15:30, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The case is solved. Sorry for disturbing you. --MaxDawsonC (talk) 16:05, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem, but I may go for three or four days between editing sessions. Bearian (talk) 15:37, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

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New Page Patrolling
Hi Bearian,

I was patrolling the new pages and I noticed that many of the pages had already been patrolled by you, but you forgot to mark them as patrolled. If you could go back through your history and do that that would be great! I have already done two of them for you that I came across.

Regards, Athleek123 (talk) 00:51, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

BCRW
Hi Bearian,

Thanks for contributing to the article for Barnard Center for Research on Women!! I'm using this stub as an example for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Barnard tomorrow, and appreciate how quickly you added content. I will certainly draw attention to this. However, I"ve removed the information about Columbia and the Barnard-Columbia Hillel, as it does not relate to BCRW and clouds the (current) purpose of the stub. I hope this is alright.

Thanks again for your contribution and happy editing!!!

All my best, mwacha — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mwacha (talk • contribs) 01:34, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

John D'Agostino started the dubai oil exchange and is the person who brought capitalistic price mechanism to the Middle East. If the entry is not notable, then neither is The new york mercantile exchange nor the Dubai Mercantile Exchange. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.183.128.148 (talk) 02:38, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Tea
Thanks for the cup of tea - although at 6:30 a.m. before I catch my flight for vacation I'm having coffee ;-) --<font color="336699" size="2"  face="comic sans ms">David <font color="336699" size="2" face="comic sans ms">Shankbone  10:21, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks. When the weather gets nice I hope to take a gogd picture or two. Peter Flass (talk) 11:47, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

San Jose Hospital & Trauma Center article
Thanks for taking the time to try to get someone to take notice of this article. I could not find much info on the hospital, but I have seen it and know it is the only hospital in the vicinity. I think the powers that be would do better to leave the article as a stub. There is surely someone who can find info on the article. I plan to sent a query to one of the Cavite websites asking for something. Again, thanks for all your effort.Bill Pollard (talk) 13:27, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I think there might be some actions you performed where you deleted the page but didn't carry out the move. In looking at the logs, I see for instance Glossary of textile terms is a redlink. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 16:08, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I am confused. Actually, I have avoiding getting involved in any moves personally.  Someone else deleted Glossary of textile terms and I deleted Talk:Glossary of textile terms because there was no mainspace article, per WP:CSD.  No move was neeeded.   There was one case, Saint-Paulin_(cheese), which I deleted to make room for a move by another editor.  When I delete the one page, I see it as a conflict of interest to make the move in such cases.  What do you want me to do exactly? Bearian (talk) 18:05, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * P.S. In a few other cases, I deleted articles or sandboxes that were later re-created. It's not my job to mop up the same mess twice. Bearian (talk) 18:08, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was the person who asked for the Saint-Paulin (cheese) move. The point is that in situations like this, the deletion and the move usually should be done atomically, ie, either both or neither.  If I proposed to move United States to United States of America (ie, to reverse the current redirect), the administrator who handled it should not simply delete United States of America and leave it as a redlink; it has many incoming links.  There is no notification to the requester when the deletion has been done, so they would have to remember to check for it in their watchlist; if they fail to remember, it remains a redlink indefinitely (and it really shouldn't remain a redlink even temporarily). -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 18:25, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Regarding Glossary of textile terms, the log seemed to indicate that you delete both the page and its talk page (17:34, 29 February 2012). Anyways, I don't know the circumstances of it, I just noticed a redlink in conjunction with a G6 page-move edit summary, and wondered if it was a similar case to the cheese page. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 18:25, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh gosh, that's too much work and gives to much power to one person. I won't do that again! Bearian (talk) 18:28, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

William Schwartz
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