User talk:Cecropia/Archive 7

I am now a sysop !? :-)
Thank you for letting me know that I am now a sysop. And thank you for the tips. I'll exercise my new WikiJanitorial Powers cautiously. :-) -- PFHLai 07:15, 2004 Aug 29 (UTC)


 * As will I. Thank you for the introduction. :-) Mike H 02:30, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

RfC on Axis of evil / Asses of evil filed
See RfC here regarding this:

Axis of evil Should "AssesOfEvil.png" (see image on this page) be included in the article under guise of "parody"?

Your comments are appreciated.

05:36, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Laws of war
Please see: Talk:Laws_of_war – Philip Baird Shearer 19:10, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

When you get back see Talk:Laws_of_war: Philip Baird Shearer 15:38, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

"lower threshold for consideration of promotion"
Out of curiosity, what is the "lower threshold for consideration of promotion" to adminship? Is it 80%? Jayjg 22:26, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the quick response. Jayjg 00:43, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

George W. Bush military service controversy
Yeah, too bad it wasn't actually protected. I thought it might work. ;) But they did stop the edit war for the moment, and went to bed, and that's a contribution, right? ;) -Joseph (Talk) 11:08, 2004 Sep 17 (UTC)

I'm a Sysop!
Brilliant, thanks! :)  – Andre ( talk )  17:54, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Vote
See Votes for deletion/Occupation of Palestine

Offensive "Wiki(Nazi)" "logo"
Please review the offensive created by User:Guanabot. Thank you for looking into this as it casts Wikipedia in a terrible light. IZAK 11:04, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Going over the line
I've been ignoring a series of increasingly personal attacks against me by User:Irate on the Votes_for_deletion/Occupation_of_Palestine page. However, User:Irate has now listed my user page as a Vfd candidate for deletion. Any suggestions on how to proceed? Jayjg 21:58, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Jayjg 02:03, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Army
Long overdue answer to your question at abu ghraib talk:


 * I have to ask a question about your military experience, because it is oddly out of my experience--even given that there were 15-20 years between our service experiences. First, why were you in service only two years the first time--enlistment is three years minimum unless you're drafted. Second, when you reenlisted, why did you go through basic training AGAIN. That's extraordinary. Third, what was you MOS and AIT training?


 * I honestly don't understand why you would have a problem with possible moral issues. John Kerry's 1971 charges aside, a lot of highly moral people have served in the U.S. armed forces and been able to deal with possible moral ambiguities, such as the helicopter pilot who brought the My Lai Massacre to an end.


 * Since you appear to have been on an officer track (I was just a buck sergeant) surely you must have had some concept of what the Army was about, especially to re-enlist after a break.

In 1982 you could enlist for a 2-year term. So I did.

I had to do basic again, because there was a long gap between Dec 1983 when I got out (ETSed) and Feb 1986 when I enlisted again. Besides, I was out of shape.

My MOS the first time was 63B Light Wheel Vehicle and Power Generator Mechanic. Did basic and AIT at Fort Dix. Second time I was 11B, but after doing a combined basic/AIT course at Ft. Benning, I was steered upon arrival at Fort Campbell, KY, into clerical work (I could type, so they let me loose an a Lanier No Problem Typewriter, then worked my way up to Lotus 1-2-3 and Ashton Tate "Multimate III" for DOS -- very high-tech for those days!)

While at Benning I came across some Training Manuals on army ethics. They covered the My Lai thing. I learned that the pressures were so hard on this Warrant Officer (the pilot) that he didn't tell anyone - not a chaplain, not his congressman - but kept his mouth shut until he was discharged. And even then, it took him several months before he could say anything. And it was only then that the investigation began. I took this to mean that reporting atrocities isn't as easy as one might think. Oh, sure, he told the guys to stop and thereby kept them from murdering the ENTIRE village, but that wasn't the hard part.

Eventually I found out more things and decided I was being naive about the army, so I got out. And now you know much more than you ever wanted to! Cheers... --Uncle Ed 00:36, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the message. Question, though... erm... where are my sysoppy powers hidden? Oh, wait, I see, way up there at the top. Swanky. What about the special quick revert button, though? I see "block" in my Watchlist for IPs now, .. oh, hm. "Rollback". I'm guessing that rolls back the page to that version in the diff. Okay then. Anyway, I could just delete this and claim that I knew all this from the beginning, but it's funny, so I'm keeping it. Thanks again. :) --Golbez 21:24, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)