User talk:Linuxbeak/Archive4

Thank you
Very much for your kind support of my adminship. I'll do my best to live up to your and my other supporters' expectations. If you have any comments or concerns on my actions as an administrator, please let me know. Thank you! — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 14:46, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration accepted
Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing has been accepted. Please place evidence at Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing/Evidence. You may advance suggestions and make comments at Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing/Workshop Fred Bauder 15:21, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Personal info
It's a shame that you felt that you had to remove your personal info due to ridiculous legal threats. Think Wikimedia would defend its editors in an actual lawsuit? Seems unlikely, but the result could be a serious chilling of people contributing. Of course, in any lawsuit, the First Amendment would eventually win, but what Wikipedia editor wants to spend the resources defending that right? We do this for fun, after all. Good luck. —Cleared as filed. 23:21, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
 * That's quite alright. In fact, a lot of the personal info that I have there is actually incorrect. I already told Brandt my real location because he doesn't have a leg to stand on in terms of defamation. I'm not worried about him, and frankly neither should anyone else. Linuxbeak | Talk 18:08, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree that he doesn't have a leg to stand on, but you never know what people like that are willing to spend their money on, and even a frivilous lawsuit has to be replied to in some way. Hopefully it all comes to nothing. —Cleared as filed. 23:20, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, we'll see. |Alex Schenck | Linuxbeak 02:15, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Daniel Brandt
Awesome, I've always wanted someone to hate me :D Obli 22:09, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

User page
Just wanted to let you know your user page is 800x600 busting. reducing the size of the image would help. Just my pet project. :") - RoyBoy 800 04:41, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Your user page
Hi LB, I protected your user page just now because of vandalism. I'll leave you to unprotect it when you're ready to. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) 12:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Slim. I'm unprotecting now; all of that information is old and outdated anyway. Just some Encyclopedia Dramatica trolls thinking that they make me angry. Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 13:18, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Great
Its months since I touched Greatest wiki, and I never discovered who any of the admins were, but I will have a look over the weekend and see if there is any way I can help. Write me an em,ail if you want, SqueakBox 14:54, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

It has totally changed and my old account disappeared. Hope it worked out, SqueakBox 03:51, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

problem
I'm on vacation. I'll look at whatever this is about, probably no earlier than monday so I hope there isn't any urgency to it. SchmuckyTheCat 08:34, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Merci beaucoup
Hi, Linuxbreak! Thanks for your vote of support on my nomination to become an administrator. I passed, and my floor rag has since been bestowed upon me. Please let me know if you need me to help with anything in particular! —BrianSmithson 16:55, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Your new sig
(I believe it's a new sig, since you already did it twice...)

Please close the link to your user talk before the closing parens, not after. --cesarb 22:46, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Holy cow
Just catching up on WP:AN and saw something I never expected, possibly the most gracious, forgiving and cool-headed act I have ever seen on Wikipedia. Scrolled down a bit further and that was beaten, by you again! Anyway I hope all goes well with Jarlaxle and MARMOT. the wub  "?!"  00:28, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Your user page
I deleted it to remove some of the personal info put there by vandals (as Fvw did at Jimbo's user page during the Ashida Kim attacks. 1) Delete page 2) undelete bad versions 3) move to User:Linuxbeak/foo 4) delete User:Linuxbeak/foo 5) undelete good stuff at User:Linuxbeak

R e  dwolf24  (talk) 05:13, 13 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I figured you were gone, as you left IRC. Also, they're still there cause I saw you ask WTF I was doing, so I just restored it all ;-) R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 05:24, 13 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Actually I was gonna proceed as planned, but you restored it. Now that you know how to remove them, feel free. That is if you feel necessary. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 05:28, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

You rock
Hi. I just wanted to say that I think that you may be one of the coolest guys in the world. Viscous personal attacks, trolling, vandalism.. and you've forgiven them. That's totally awesome. You deserve a medal. Consider me a member of your personal fanclub :).--Sean|Bla ck 07:45, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Welcoming back your former "enemies" (Well done!)
Hi, Linuxbeak. I'm delighted that you've been able to accept Jarlaxle and Marmot back into the fold. Let's hope it works out. God bless! Ann Heneghan (talk) 22:16, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

possible sock of Wik/Gzornenplatz
Since you've been negotiating with formerly hard-banned users, perhaps you could try contacting another long-banned user. He's been using multiple socks, but the current one seems to be User:Ylevisuba. It would be great to bring him back into the fold. -- Curps 03:35, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Something I found
Hey. While wandering around the wiki a bit, I found something that you may want to look at: Vandalism in progress/JarlaxleArtemis. Since the "threat" has been resolved, I imagine that this will cause more bad blood between Jarlaxle and the community. I only wish to bring this to your attention, do with it what you will. Thanks.--Sean|Bla ck 08:42, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the nudge; I completely forgot about that. I will have that removed later today. Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 15:25, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

My Rfa
I appreciate your concern about my edits and Bishonen's commentary. To me, it isn't a time thing and though good behavior over time helps to wash away the mistakes of the past, it doesn't erase them. While the comment along the lines of POV foreigner leftist (or something like that) appears to be idiotic and insulting, I was actually being tongue in cheek. I realize it was insulting and can hardly be construed as funny by any stretch of the imagination. Oftentimes, I do see edit summaries that state something like, revert POV, revert POV pushing, and even revert mindless edit....etc, my comment about foreigners was adolescent. My ex wife was Canadian and my current girlfriend is Croatian so in reality I like "foreigners" (I'm just an ugly American after all). Regardless, those edit summaries were harsh and wrong. Bishonen's argument was an education for me. I saw on the WP:AN that two editors were in disagreement (actually one was harrassing the other) and decided to, for no reason other than good faith, to "break it up". I came into the battlezone with only the most recent edits of each party to go on. I made comments that I didn't have time to research all the issues and meant that. I was merely hoping to see if two editors could just "go to their corners" and let things cool off. Bishonen's comment that I backpeddled is not really what happened. After a few examples by El C and 172 I became educated and then told Silverback to "cease fire" and I also told him that he was going to get in over his head (or something like that). It appears I took a stand, but I didn't, it was just a good faith effort to try and avoid long drawn out Rfc's and arbitrations. I learned my lesson to both not stick my nose in things and to have my facts straight before I intervene. I also want to make clear that I didn't solicit this admin thing and have been appraoched numerous times for a couple of months by a number of editors to allow them to nominate me, so I finally agreed, even though I questioned my own chances. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that if nothing else, I do know where my weaknesses are and what I need to work on. I knew them already and that is why there hasn't been the same kind of silliness in editing summaries for several months now. Have a good day.--MONGO 19:07, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Greetings from the United Federation of Planets
You may find the folowing template of interest :) -- Cool CatTalk 02:46, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!
Hi Linuxbeak, Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Regards, Joann e B 14:00, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Ianblair23's RfA
G'day Linuxbeak, I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. It closed with the final tally of 57/0/0. I can only hope I can live up to the expectations that this wonderful community of ours demands from each of its administrators. If you ever need anything, please just let me know. Cheers! -- Ianblair23 (talk) 03:22, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

User: SchmuckyTheCat
A day worth of edits on LJ Drama were reverted by User: SchmuckyTheCat today stating that they were very untrue. In fact, I was correcting terrible inaccuracies in the existing article made by SchmuckyTheCat, including the libellous statements about Ed Rodriguez that were blatantly false. He quotes Encyclopaedia Dramatica as reference, yet Encyclopaedia Dramatica's own mission statement states that it is a parody and hence that its content is deliberately untrue. Using this kind of reference in an encylopaedia article is ludicruous. Even ED's own article about Ed Rodriguez, slanderous though it is, states clearly that he was guilty only of statutory rape, not of child molestation. In my mind, there is a whopping great difference between the two, which gets down to the issue of consent. LJ Drama's incorrect coverage of the issue is precisely what LJ Drama stands for - they lie about people and cause problems.

I really didn't want to get in to an edit war, but what he did was outright vandalism. I don't mind if he edits things, and perhaps he knows a few more things about the inner workings of that organisation than I do, but just blatantly deleting all Neutral Point of View facts is ridiculous. His own articles are terribly point of view orientated, and he pushes a particular line, that is consistent with a support of an organisation such as LJ Drama and Encyclopaedia Dramatica.

As I noticed, rather amusingly, the creators of Enyclopaedia Dramatica, girlvinyl and jameth, both have Wikipedia accounts, and both of them vandalised the Encyclopaedia Dramatica page! Considering that the page was deleted 4 times with votes, and then added back in 20 different forms by vandals - the self same people who created the site - I question why it is valid to remain on wikipedia full stop. And if it does remain, shouldn't it be pushed more in line with accurate information?

LJ Drama and Encyclopaedia Dramatica users have boasted about vandalising Wikipedia, and I looked at a lot of pages on their mission statements which say that that is their aim in using Wikipedia. User SchmuckyTheCat seems to be a part of that.

Why I am writing to you is because I saw on his user page, after he left a comment to explain why he vandalised the page, that you were asking him to stop Dramatica users from attacking you.

Please, I do not want an edit war with someone of this level of maturity, who deliberately lies and distorts truth. I noticed the large number of complaints on his user page as well. Please can there be some protection against him spreading these lies. Ta. 203.122.225.241 11:10, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Template:User new message
How do you like it? Remind you of something?--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 13:15, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

List of dictators
Hey there, I would be grateful for your assistance in countering the systematic vandalism of a admin on the List of Dictators page. An administrator is blanking the page every few hours, without any AfD or anything. Yours,

jucifer 23:10, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Pigsonthewing Arbitration case injunctions
Two temporary injunctions have been made in the Arbitration case involving Pigsonthewing, which will hold until the conclusion of the Arbitration. Firstly, he is banned from editing any page in Karmafist's user space (but not user talk space); any sysop may block him for a short time, up to three days, for any edit violating this injunction, and all such edits may be reverted by any editor without regard to the limitations of the three revert rule. Secondly, due to repeated personal attacks, he is subject to a standard personal attack parole: any administrator may ban him for a short time, up to three days, for any edit which, in the opinion of that administrator, constitutes a personal attack.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 20:09, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Friendly Chat
How you doing, buddy? Been busy lately? I just saw your name on this "hit list" and became very concerned. What is it all about? You know that you're my good friend and I don't like when somebody messes with you. Let me know Tony the Marine 05:37, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Bullying from User:Braaad
Thanks for the support, but I've dealt with his type before. I'll just take a deep breath, count to ten, and debate whether or not to point out just how wrong he is. Again. McNeight 20:13, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I caught him modifying the Billy Mitchell Award page as well. FWIW, the reg that states that a Mitchell Award is superior to an Eagle Scout is Air Force Recruiting Service Instruction (AFRSI) 36-2001, 01 APR 2005, Table 2.1, Rule #8. PDF available (can you tell I used to be in admin ;). McNeight 02:33, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


 * You probably know about all of this already, but there has been some interesting times on Talk:Civil Air Patrol, and perhaps some resolution (finally) on Civil Air Patrol. McNeight 00:40, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I read what you said on McNeight's talk page and I agree we have to do something re user:Braaad. I wasn't too happy when I saw he had edited one of the archived discussions this morning. Thanks for reverting that. (BTW, is there a template that says "This is an archived discussion, please don't change it." or something that we should put on the archives?) Since I don't know the guidelines for administrative action against a user for something like this, let me know what I can do to help. Grant 21:09, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Other CAP Wiki
Linuxbeak, since I know you have been very active with the Civil Air Patrol article I thought I would point out a new CAP related wiki over at CadetStuff. CadetStuff Wiki is intended to harness the collective wisdom cadets and seniors who work with cadets to create documents that others will find useful in running their squadrons and activities. Come by and check it out. Grant 00:11, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Economic fascism
Economic fascism, which you deleted after an AfD, has been recreated by User:RJII. I am not sure that it "substantially a recreation of previously deleted content", however. Would you mind taking a look? Jkelly 17:05, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Comparing the deleted version to the new one shows a much more encyclopedic article. I wouldn't be too worried about it. Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 18:18, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I have not seen the previous version, but I disagree about the current one. I find it highly unencyclopedic, as it discusses a particular minority interpretation of fascist economic policies. I certainly don't object to presenting such minority views in wikipedia, but I do object to giving them their own articles. Therefore I have nominated economic fascism for deletion. -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 07:35, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Just In Case You Don't See It On IRC
Arbitration Committee Elections December 2005/Candidate statements/Karmafist

Reverting vandalism all the way
Hi, I just came across Sasuke and I noticed that you had reverted the last vandalism edit; the edit shortly before that had also been vandalism but wasn't removed, so it might pay to always check the history before reverting. I noticed the exact same situation on Jan (you weren't involved), and I fear that this is a pretty general problem. Cheers, AxelBoldt 22:49, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Protection of GWB
Hi Linuxbeak. Just so you know, there is a conversation trending strongly against protection of George W. Bush on WP:AN/I, since if we are to wait for the vandalism to subside we must wait several years. -Splash talk 16:02, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

ViP
Hey Linuxbeak. I just wanted to let you know that I went ahead and deleted Vandalism in progress/JarlaxleArtemis and Long term abuse/MARMOT becuase I felt that they would only cause further strife between them and the community. If you have any issues with this, please let me know. Thanks.--Sean|Bla ck 00:35, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Semi-protection
I saw you just reverted vandalism on George W. Bush, and wondered what you thought about the proposals to curb what's going on there. If you have time, check out Semi-protection policy, and weigh in (there's a bit of a large discussion page, so be prepared.) Hope to see you there. - Mys  e  kurity ( have you seen this? ) 05:48, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

P.S. I know you're a dev, so would you mind telling us unenlightened folk how things run, would this be possible/likely to happen/would you mind coding something for the test wiki? Thanks!

The Register
Oh dear, you know when you've been mocked by El Reg http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/06/wikipedia_bio/page2.html


 * I love how they convienently took it all out of context. Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 16:18, 6 December 2005 (UTC)


 * What do you expect from The Register? It's a rag filled with nothing but luddites and nay-sayers.  They are unthinkingly against whatever is popular in technology.  Not to say whatever is popular is good, I don't drink that kool-aid either, but they are just as biased as the champions of tech, just in the other direction.  Grant 19:06, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Help with Fencing Article
Hi Linuxbeak,

I had seen the fencing article on Wiki previously, and thought it needed some expansion. Good to see somebody take on the challenge. I am willing to pitch in and provide some assistance. As a backgrounder, I am a long time (25+ years) fencer (sport, mostly foil) in Canada. I've competed in many tournaments in Canada, and have run a couple of fencing clubs. Let me know if there's something I can help you with.

Whpq 21:23, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Rhode Island
Hey there, I see you're from Rhode Island! I recently moved to Providence to work at Trinity Repertory Company, and today I added the RI category to my user page and noticed you were on there. Very cool. Cheers! Ëvilphoenix Burn! 03:56, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Feliz Cumpleaño


'''Alex, You are one of my best friends here and I wish you the best. May God bless you and your family always! Your friend Tony the Marine 02:57, 8 December 2005 (UTC)


 * To Tony and Antonio: You two are also among my best friends on Wikipedia and I love you both for everything you two have done for me. God bless you! Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 04:04, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy birthday from me as well! Thryduulf 09:21, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Final decision
The arbitration commitee has reached a final decision in the Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing case. Raul654 18:18, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

A thank you from Ann
Hi, Linuxbeak (or do I call you Alex?), I just want to thank you for voting to support me in my RfA. I know I'm very late thanking you, but I've been a bit caught up with college work recently. I hope I'll live up to the expectations of those who voted for me. Please let me know if you ever have a problem with any admin action that I carry out. And I see, in coming to your talk page to thank you, that I seem to have just missed a birthday. I'd have made a special effort to get this message to you yesterday, if I had known. Anyway, I'm sending you one of my apple turnovers, which I uploaded last week to give to some wiki-friends, and to insert into the puff pastry article, which I intend to work on over the Christmas holidays. Hope you like it! Thanks again. Cheers. AnnH (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2005 (UTC) (P.S. I've changed my username for greater anonymity, but you can probably work out who I am!)

Braaad again
Yeah, it was kinda immature, but he saw it and immediately deleted it. I also think we've got enough evidence that 68.112.201.90 and Braaad are the same person. So, go for it. McNeight 21:04, 10 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Wilco, but I've got to find an IRC client first (been a while since I used IRC for anything). Give me a few minutes. McNeight 21:16, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

You see the edits 68.112.201.90 made today? Try here and here. Grant 06:08, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I am 5 years old
You make me cry.
 * Boo hoo. Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 22:25, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

How much longer on the Fencing overhaul?
Is Fencing/Featured article overhaul still alive? Fplay 07:33, 12 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes. I'm sorry for not making much progress as of late; we're in finals right now and I've been busy. As soon as finals are over, I'll continue the overhaul. Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 17:32, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

French Spoken Articles
As somebody who speaks French, I thought you might be able to give me a hand. I'm trying to teach myself French, and I'm trying to do it in an organic way. The first thing I'm doing is getting use to the sound of the language, without knowing what it means. So far I've been downloading a number of French podcasts, and was wondering if there were any French language Wikipedia spoken articles. I was having a hard time finding them, not speaking French. Coould you let me know if there are any and where I could find them? It doesn't matter what the subject is, just that it's in French. Thanks! Grant 22:06, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Undying gratitude
Looks like the admin at perverted-justice is retracting the statement after I sent him some evidence as to the meaning of my name and my efforts to remove the article in question. I appreciate your help more than I can express. - Lucky 6.9 01:56, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Alex, how can I possibly thank you? This is the single worst online experience I've ever been involved with and I'm not entirely sure I want to stay on after this. I thought I was contributing to something worthwhile and now, we have this. Hell, I've been fighting the co-opting of this site by people with an agenda. God bless you, buddy. - Lucky 6.9 04:32, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Your letter
What can I say but...thanks. Again. I'm still not entirely convinced I want to stay on Wikipedia after this, but thanks nevertheless. I hope that letter works. In fact, I know it will. - Lucky 6.9 18:49, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks yet again. We'll see what happens. - Lucky 6.9 19:08, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Parents for the Online Safety of Children
Do you have a link for this organization? --Gbleem 19:00, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

One more (last?) time with User:Braaad and User:68.112.201.90
I'm really trying to turn the other cheek on this whole thing, but just how much of this and this am I supposed to take? Am I on my own for writing up an RfC? McNeight 20:52, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Yikes. *sigh* Take it up with the admin noticeboard. Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 20:58, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Op ed
I may leave a comment there. I'm not going on the attack if I do since the webmaster was so accomodating. Thanks for the heads-up. Will you please keep me posted? - Lucky 6.9 23:43, 13 December 2005 (UTC)