User talk:Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry/New Archives/2012/February

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MSU Interview
Dear Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry,

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) 02:34, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Permission request
User:mbz1 has posted your email reply (you speaking for ArbCom) on meta. It was deleted from view by a meta admin, but it's still visible in the history there. Would you (and ArbCom) agree to make that reply public for the sake of simplifying the drama? ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 06:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree to release that, although I'm pretty annoyed at Mbz1 for releasing it without the courtesy of asking first. I can't speak for ArbCom, though, sadly - I'm not on ArbCom at the moment. The Cavalry (Message me) 12:33, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Protane, nomiated for deletion
Protane has been nominated for deletion. You may wish to contribute to the discussion: Articles for deletion/Protane.--Louiedog (talk) 03:50, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Abortion article titles notification
Hey Chase me ladies, I&#39;m the Cavalry. This is just a notification that a binding, structured community discussion has been opened by myself and Steven Zhang on behalf of the Arbitration Committee. As you were named as a involved party in the Abortion case, you may already know that remedy 5.1 called for a "systematic discussion and voting on article names". This remedy is now being fulfilled with this discussion. If you would like to participate, the discussion is taking place at WP:RFC/AAT. All the best,  Whenaxis  talk &middot; &#32;contribs &#124; DR goes to Wikimania! 23:00, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

ebook lin
Hi, Thanks for the reference of the free ebook. (You contacted me because I'm involved in the business project.

The link that you gave me lead to an expired link. Do you have a new link?Dogru144 (talk) 15:06, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I'll get in touch with the person who contacted me and see what they can do! The Cavalry (Message me) 15:10, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you
For the polite alert about a potential business resource. Much appreciated! -- — Keithbob • Talk  • 17:43, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the information! Shawnc (talk) 21:26, 23 February 2012 (UTC)