User talk:John Halloran

April 2009
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Speedy deletion nomination of Nabulion prefix:Talk:Napoleon I of France
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Speedy deletion nomination of Astrology and computers
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 * A problem with an automated tool seemed to leave the wrong notice above, which explains the "hangon" confusion. Apologies for that. Verbal chat  19:28, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

June 2010
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Wikiquette
You might need to see this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts#John_Halloran.C2.A0.28talk.C2.A0.C2.B7_contribs.29 Slatersteven (talk) 19:44, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

WP:WQA
Please see a relevant report about your behaviour here. Verbal chat  19:46, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The "She" wasn't a problem (although it isn't polite where I'm from). The main issue was the rest of the post and your general attitude towards me. In case you missed it, I replied at WQA. Verbal chat  21:28, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for adding actual RS to the article. Could you please address the points raised at WQA and remove the "religious fanatic" comment and other personal attacks. Verbal chat  08:30, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Please respond to the WP:WQA thread. Verbal chat  10:02, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your note, I appreciate the sentiment. I am sure we can get the article into a satisfactory state as soon as we manage to get over the friction created by Verbal's ego. I believe in WP:SPADE as a means to handling disputes. Of course Verbal was within his rights to point a finger at the unsatisfactory references of the article as it stood. But as soon as it became evident that he was trying to boss around an article on a topic he knows nothing about, it is perfectly fine to point out the fact. We should avoid attacking a user's person (that is, second-guess their real life character or circumstances from their online behaviour), but it is perfectly fair game to attack their online behavior, as in, calling a crappy argument crap, a clueless edit clueless, and a pathetic waste of time pathetic.

I hope you appreciate that in order to be considered encyclopedic, the article needs to be a fully referenced account of astrology software packages, without any added commentary. I am confident that it is easy enough to gather the necessary references. I would particularly welcome an overview of popular astrology applications on mobile devices today. --dab (𒁳) 10:47, 6 July 2010 (UTC)