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Old RfA "archives"
I've noticed (while stalking your edits trying to find out what recently happened) that you created a lot of those old-RfA-"archives". If I understand it correctly, it was Matthew Bisanz's idea to create them, so I contacted him here with my concern that, while generally practical, those pages should contain some sort of hatnote with a link to the source page which contains the actual history. Everyme 08:00, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Very old reverts?
Just out of curiosity, why did you revert this?
 * You voted on it about 7 months after it ended. It says "no edits should be made" for a reason.  Majorly  talk  20:06, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. No clue why I did that.  But, still, I'm curious why anybody is going back and cleaning up 3-year old administrativia?  -- RoySmith (talk) 20:24, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm reorganising and updating the archives, and will be preparing some stats.  Majorly  talk  20:37, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * OK. Be sure to include stats on how many clueless newbies voted more than 6 months late :-)  -- RoySmith (talk) 21:23, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Revising the history of RFAs
I've raised this issue at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Please feel free to comment on it there. Jayjg (talk) 02:00, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll not comment on it there, but here. I'm astonished at how often someone will do something here that they find useful. Like cleaning up those old numbers. Someone else mistrusts it and claims bad faith. Someone else says it shouldn't be done because it's useless, a waste of time. However, the community wastes far more time debating it, than in simply letting it happen, and only addressing it if something seriously harmful is going on (more harmful than a single editor allegedly wasting their time). As I'm sure you know, if you changed those stats in a way that could not be defended, you'd be in serious hot water. But, apparently, you didn't -- even if, possibly, you made a mistake somewhere. I'm sure you had a good reason; you are presenting statistics, and you want the statistics to reflect what actually happened, not to incorporate old errors. If you don't fix the old errors, someone could try to impeach your statistics. So you are fixing the old errors. Right? Good luck. --Abd (talk) 14:37, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Yep, I'm fixing the old tallies to reflect the vote. If Jayjg and others want to have inaccurate archives, then they can. It doesn't bother me massively, I have them accurate on my stats.  Majorly  talk  14:59, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Currently running bots
To be entirely fair, you could also mention other running bots, for example my "outrageous" username and pagemove blocking bot (currently mentioned on my talk page) and likewise "unapproved" image deletion bot (not mentioned anywhere currently, due to its impeccable work). There are also other regulars I see running, so do your research properly if you believe such statements really aid your crusade (hint: they don't). Миша 13 11:06, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * This is not a crusade, quit violating policy and trying to weasel your way out of it.  Majorly  talk  12:03, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * So, I'm helping you gather "evidence" and get called a vermin in return? Also, you should know well what policy I am following, so your cries for "policy violation" are likewise purely rethoric. Миша 13 17:15, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Weaseling your way out of something has nothing to do with vermin. You are not being helpful. Tombomp (talk/contribs) 17:21, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Likewise. Миша 13 17:34, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Successful RFB stats
Just in case you didn't see it on WT:RFA, I have put together User:Useight/RFB Stats, which is just about completed, with the same information that you're doing for successful RFAs. Feel free to use that copy rather than start one from scratch. Useight (talk) 15:05, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Completeness of stats
Majorly, nice work on the stats. Just for completeness in my record, my 128/0/0 was my second RFA - the first was conducted as Requests for adminship/Budgiekiller. Cheers! The Rambling Man (talk) 12:34, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * LOL... my wife was the reason you changed your name... I never realized who you were... but she was shocked when she first saw your name... and had to look it up!--- Balloonman  PoppaBalloon 05:55, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

RfA stat suggestion
Perhaps User:Majorly/RfA/Stats should get broken up by year? If they get done up as subpages, with their table headers noinclude'ed, you could then combine them on a single catch-all page for the times that people want to compare all the stats, but it'd be more manageable when updates need to be made (300k is a lot of data to edit just to add a single line).

Just a thought. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I could go ahead and make the subpages to show you. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 15:31, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I know exactly what you mean, and was planning to do so myself. It'd be helpful if you could split them up. (But I'd like to make it clear to everyone that these stats aren't mine, and probably should be moved to project space... maybe deleting the old stats in the process...)  Majorly  talk  15:39, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Trolling
Majorly, please refrain from trolling and incivility amidst your intense jubilation at finally getting your mortal enemy blocked. It's starting to get a little annoying. Erik the Red  2 ( AVE · CAESAR ) 03:24, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Please refrain from telling me what to do. Cheers!  Majorly  talk  11:58, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I have warned Erik over his behavious on his talk page.-- Serviam  (talk)  16:17, 20 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Majorly, both you and Erik the Red 2 need to stay away from each other. Neither one of you is looking very good right now, and you're both distracting from the discussion about Kurt.  As well, you're shooting yourself in the foot with your very heated approach: .  Even if other editors say things you think are unreasonable, you don't need to respond with such abrasiveness. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 19:29, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * It's he that is coming here warning me for "trolling". I only commented on his userpage in response to Serviam. I don't have any intention of talking to him.  Majorly  talk  19:33, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Maybe the term 'trolling' should be struck from the Wikipedia collective vocabulary. There are better ways of describing unhelpful behaviour. &mdash; Werdna  •  talk  06:15, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Blanking
It may not have been your intention, but this edit removed another editor's contribution to a discussion. I have undone it. DuncanHill (talk) 23:27, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * It was accidental. I have left a note with the user.  Majorly  talk  23:28, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, cool. DuncanHill (talk) 23:30, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

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User:Alex9891
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Wikimedia UK 2.0 Vote
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London 14
In case you were not already aware, London 14 is scheduled for October 12. Best, WilliamH (talk) 11:24, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

RfA stat summary page
So WBOSITG beat me to breaking the stats out into individual pages, but I still wanted to create a summary page. The result is User:Majorly/RfA/Stats/all. Good times. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 15:18, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Tiptoety
Hi. I think you might be overly harsh on Tiptoety; the problem, if it is a problem, is that Peter Damian is banned. We can't fix that by ignoring his rather pointed evasion of the ban, which I am told (with no real first-hand knowledge) was well-founded per evidence that can't be shared publicly due to privacy concerns. If you want to go to Jimbo or ArbCom and request a time-limit to the ban or a relaxation with mentorship or something, I'll happily do what little I can to help, but I don't think it's fair to blame the janitor in this case as I think it was a reasonable interpretation of policy and the correct response to a somewhat pointed bit of ban evasion. If you're in contact with Peter off-wiki do please counsel him not to queer his pitch by further sockpuppetry; there is nothing more calculated to make relaxation of a ban near impossible to negotiate, as you know. Guy (Help!) 22:03, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

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Deletion
You need to notify people when you put up their article for deletion. Thanks. Fresheneesz (talk) 23:39, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Old RfAs
I hope you don't mind very much about my reverting the tallies on the old RfAs. (I still haven't finished doing that.) I recognize that you did a lot of work there and that the results of your work are valuable. I myself got interesting information from the table you produced. At least the information is still there in the page histories, even after I revert. Later analysts can still refer to the "Majorly tallies". Some of the work you did – such as deleting late votes that came after the RfA was closed – I am not intending to revert. ☺ Coppertwig (talk) 14:46, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Time for resolution
Hiya. For several months now, the article naming for 18th Century British royals has been ever-which-where — all over the shop. In an attempt to solve this, I have prepared a page for discussion: here. Please, please, please come and discuss, even contribute to the Poll. Cheers! DBD 15:36, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

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Wisdom's RFA
Although I supported, that may have been one of the best-worded opposes I've ever heard. &mdash; Ceran (sing / see) 18:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Shame he took it so badly, even though I opposed he's a very dedicated Wikipedian, who in time could have been a great admin.  Al Tally  talk  13:37, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

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Hey
I would appreciate if you didn't pontificate about me off-site. "disgustingly uncivil editors". Well, well, well. Ceoil sláinte 05:26, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 * OK.  Al Tally  talk  13:37, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Just to let you know....
Per this, your right, no kidding. 220.239.47.163 (talk) 04:34, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, probably.  Al Tally  talk  13:36, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

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