User talk:Wizardman/Archive21

Courtesy notification - Articles for deletion/List of bow tie wearers (4th nomination)
An article in which you have had an interest, List of bow tie wearers, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/List of bow tie wearers (4th nomination). Thank you. Chase me ladies, I&#39;m the Cavalry (talk) 21:54, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the support!
Thanks for supporting my successful Rfa! Hope to work with you more in the future!--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 19:58, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Meh, indeed!
You are a mensch. Keep on removing the crap! -- Hoary (talk) 04:37, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

User RFC follow-up
Hi, Wizardman, I hoped this day wouldn't come, but I have to say I expected it. On Sept 25 you closed this RFC for User:Florentino floro. He felt vindicated and empowered, and on October 6, he threatened on his talkpage here that "I will have time, later, to en masse review, revise, reverse, modify, amend and/or revert in full, all of your edits-reverts of my contributions, with reasons. Maybe, this month, I will review and revert all your edits, since last year," and yesterday he started to do so. Starting with this edit, he made 25 edits that were re-adding content that he had previously added and that I had removed all back in April 2008 (for example: this was in April and this was yesterday). He sometimes makes useful edits to wikipedia, but these are all, without question, utterly trivial clutter. This also has every appearance of being a kind of edit war--the beginning of a concerted plan--especially since he threatened one and the fact that my edits that are involved all occurred way back in April (April 10-26). I don't know what to do. I can't go to his so-called adopter User:Diligent Terrier, because he has not edited since Sept 30 (coincidentally, just after your closing comments recommended that the two of them work more closely together). I strongly believe that Floro is, on balance, a detriment to wikipedia. He has made over 6000 edits to wikipedia and he still doesn't understand very basic policy. He has not listened to any of the issues brought up in his RFC/U. In a project where consensus is vital, his inability to hear criticism is impossible. It may seem like I am too personally invested in this issue, but I watch his edits because I think somebody has to. Wikipedia would be the worse for it if I didn't. I do it precisely because so many of his edits don't belong in the articles he puts them in. So many unwatched articles get cluttered by his edits, that somebody has to do something about it. I don't know if you have the inclination to get involved. I am coming to you only because you closed the RFC. I am hoping you could recommend a course of action? I apologize for the length of this post. Thanks, xschm (talk) 19:18, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Complaint
I respectfully accuse User:Maxschmelling of bad faith - irrelevant, continuous, unabated stalking-vendetta against me, by daily, since the RFC ended, on September 25, 2008, stalking my edits, by unabated reverting my daily edits, without any good Wikipedia reasons. I stated, that even if Max violated the RFC conclusion against stalking, I did not, since then, revert his daily edits of my edits, but, left, in the meantime, to other editors the discretion to undo, revert or delete Max's edits. I, therefore, made the reservation, that, IN TIME, if I have time, I would examine closely Max's edits-reverts of my daily hard-worked edits, since April, 2008, more or less. Reason: to give ample time for new reliable sources to appear and for other editors to revert Max's vendetta edits, plus, to review Max's reverts based on Wikipedia rules.
 * Now, it is my humble submission, the we editors, of 2 million editors are co-equal and are under supervision of more than 1,500 admins. I and Max cannot say that I and Max cannot revert or modify and delete our, or each others' edits. That is how Wikipedia works. Even my User Page had been continuously edited and one time vandalized. But I never reverted, since those who did edit my User Page did the adding creatively, and I am honored. Max is a very insecure editor - definately, full of anger, hatred and daily annoyed by my edits, amid reliable and noted sources; Max experiences [trauma]], if Max will not be able to stalk-revert my daily edits. Evidence is overwhelming that Max has had no agenda in Wikipedia but to stalk and patrol my edits, when other editors in totality do respect my daily hard researched edits. Max is now, verily, a liability, as disruptive editor and is no longer an asset to Wikipedia. I leave the discretion to the proper Wikipedia authorities to consider blocking Max.

Wikipedia is an evolving encyclopedia created not by a stalker and one editor
... but by more than 2 million editors, and 1,600 administrators. With all due respect, I respectfully quote your judgment: "xxx I have come to the following conclusion. User:Florentino floro is noted to make sure the additions he adds to articles satisfy the guidelines of WP:N. If they don't satisfy WP:N and are trivial additions, do not get annoyed if they are removed, remember that we are building an encyclopedia. xxx The dispute between User:Maxschmelling and Florentino is very evident, and I strongly urge the two to avoid direct confrontation if they can. xxx." Cheers, and Hope you have a good day! --Florentino floro (talk) 08:27, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * IN FINE, I welcome Max's threat to ask for my blocking, if ever, he has any single evidence, that I add and edit without any BBC, etc. reliable source. I am sure Max knows that all my edits-contributions are supported by AFP, Reuters, CNN, BBC and top reliable Wikipedia approved sources, for notability. Max wanted me to be blocked ever since. Allegation-charge is not evidence. Today, I worked hard with more than 6,668 edits, and for sure, I spent about 5 hours for just 10 edits. A cursory perusal of my past 500 contributions reveal, that my 500 edits were seldom reverted, by editors, and for sure, Max daily reverted very many of them, to the damage and irreparable injury to Wikipedia. I submit this hard evidence

Wikicookie


User:Florentino floro has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching!

Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{subst:Cookie}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

--Florentino floro (talk) 08:27, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Removed one edit
FYI: I reverted a complaint at your talk page since it removed content and might have disordered your archive. Hope that's OK. -- Amalthea Talk 00:33, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Arbcom Election - Questions
Hi Wizardman. I've added the remaining three questions from the General Questions list to your Questions for the Candidate page. With those, and the ones you already had, you now have the complete list. I also moved one question directed specifically to you to the Individual questions section. Again, Good luck with your candidacy, UltraExactZZ Claims~ Evidence 15:30, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Invitation-request to comment on ANI, Max v Floro & Floro v Max, for blocking
Hi, may I please request you to submit some comment on myand User:Maxschmelling's twin petitions-complaints on the Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents for blocking. Despite the long RFC, where Max lost, and was warned not to stalk me, since September 25, Max refused to stop stalking me and my edits. This is a sad day for Wikipedia. Cheers. --Florentino floro (talk) 05:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Relevant ANI noticeboard
I doubt I was doing the right thing when I did it, but as an uninvolved party, I decided to provide references regarding the Max/floro situation on ANI (see Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents). No doubt it will only serve to make things worse, but I figured it might be useful for the passerby's to not have to dig through various edits to find the root of the dispute.  Master&amp;  Expert ( Talk ) 08:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your note
It was a long and frustrating process where I really felt I was doing the right thing, but kept not getting quite as much support as I had expected. But I do appreciate that people were at least paying attention. Even if he gets unblocked, I feel a corner has been turned. Thanks, xschm (talk) 07:09, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

tweak to Joel Davis article
thanks --MustardMan09 (talk) 22:53, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom questions
Hi. I'm Ral315, editor of the Wikipedia Signpost. We're interviewing all ArbCom candidates for an article this week, and your response is requested.


 * 1) What positions do you hold (adminship, mediation, etc.), on this or other wikis?
 * 2) Have you been involved in any arbitration cases? In what capacity?
 * 3) Why are you running for the Arbitration Committee?
 * 4) How do you feel the Arbitration Committee has handled cases and other situations over the last year?  Can you provide an examples of situations where you feel the Committee handled a situation exceptionally well, and why?  Any you feel they handled poorly, and why?
 * 5) What is your opinion on confidentiality?  If evidence is submitted privately to the Committee, would you share it with other parties in the case?  Would you make a decision based on confidential information without making it public?
 * 6) Why do you think users should vote for you?
 * 1) How do you feel the Arbitration Committee has handled cases and other situations over the last year?  Can you provide an examples of situations where you feel the Committee handled a situation exceptionally well, and why?  Any you feel they handled poorly, and why?
 * 2) What is your opinion on confidentiality?  If evidence is submitted privately to the Committee, would you share it with other parties in the case?  Would you make a decision based on confidential information without making it public?
 * 3) Why do you think users should vote for you?
 * 1) Why do you think users should vote for you?
 * 1) Why do you think users should vote for you?

Please respond on my talk page. We'll probably go to press on Tuesday, but late responses will be added as they're submitted. Thanks, Ral315 (talk) 10:25, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Signpost updated for November 17, 2008 and before.
Because the Signpost hasn't been sent in a while, to save space, I've condensed all seven issues that were not sent into this archive. Only the three issues from November are below.

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MeeMix undeletion request
Hi Wizardman, I'm the author of the MeeMix article, which was deleted since it was decided it did not achieve sufficient notability, despite having been cited in several places, and several additional arguments that I have brought up.

I found yet another important source which I hope would help it achieve WP notability. Here’s an excerpt of an article about MeeMix that was published in TheMarker, one of Israel’s chief economic newspapers/magazines, and written by one its hi-tech editors. This article was also published in Walla!, a major Israeli news portal. Albeit in Hebrew (a web translation of the article captures its gist), I still believe it should constitute a reliable source, since it is published in important media in Israel, a western world, hi-tech nation, and since already several English-language sources have been cited for MeeMix. As such, I would really appreciate an undelete of the MeeMix article. Thank you. Rabend (talk) 09:44, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving!


I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, --Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, A NobodyMy talk 02:54, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for World's Biggest Liar

 * Congrats on the DYK!  Gazi moff  07:07, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Feedback?
Hello! I have set up Editor review/A Nobody should you wish to comment. Please note that I am notifying a handful of experienced editors who are familiar with me as I am particularly interested in anything they have to add. If you do not wish to comment, that is fine too. All the best! Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk 21:19, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Template:Voice actor
I'm curious why you deleted the above template without it being orphaned first?--Rockfang (talk) 17:24, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I understand that part, but typically, the template is listed in the Templates for deletion/Holding cell, then orphaned, and then deleted. That way, there isn't a left over red linked template left in the articles.--Rockfang (talk) 20:35, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * No need to restore it. Thanks for offering though.--Rockfang (talk) 20:43, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Adminship
I remember that, a while back, you offered to nominate me for adminship and I declined because I hadn't finished my admin coaching. I have now, and wondered if you were still willing to nominate me. One of my coaches may want to as well, so it may be a co-nomination. It's up to you - I just wondered. Den dodge  Talk Contribs 23:48, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

User:Secret/Elston Howard
Back to writing baseball articles I guess, here's my new project, just started but should finish in a couple of weeks, you could help as well. Secret account 17:01, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Res!
No problem. I felt somewhat awkward for opposing with such "force", as about five minutes after clicking "submit", I realized that it really was just a matter of hasty wording. Not exactly a case of "choosing to rush" so much as "if I don't answer this now, it'll nag at me as I try to answer this/that/the other" - or maybe I'm just projecting there. Anyway, best of luck on your candidacy, and I hope some of the other "anti-science" opposers come round as well. This is a close one - I trust that you have a top-notch legal team standing by for the inevitable WP:RECOUNT process. Badger Drink (talk) 20:02, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

RE: Tiny clarification
Ah, okay, well that's actually a mistake on my part; I thought you really were in your first semester, and that did concern me a little. I'll go amend the guide now. Thanks for pointing it out. :) Glass  Cobra  20:50, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Please assist...
Hello, you seem a decent sort and I've spoken with you before. I was wondering if you could help me resolve my current predicament. I've edited consistently on a daily basis for a number of months now and recently absented myself from my online identity for a week in order to engage some more with the real world and prove I am not somehow enslaved by a machine. I have just returned from my wikibreak and am rather alarmed to find that since my departure I have been branded a so-called suspected sockpuppet of an individual who goes by the name of Mr.Verhalter. There appears to be no other indication of such, not even a notice on my talk page to inform me, other than the tag that has been placed on my main user page (and which I have every reason to consider vandalism). Upon my accessing of the situation I came across the user contributions (of which there aren't very many) of the aforementioned individual and am disenheartened to discover that, not only am I now someone else altogether, but I seem to be in the rather misfortunate situation of sharing nothing of my own interests with himself concerned (I think it would be safe to assume he is male judging from his username). Upon this disappointing and depressing discovery I thought I had better enquire into the matter further.

So, setting forth my stall to investigate, I happened upon the user in question who had decided to initiate this disturbing identity crisis I now find myself fully embroiled beneath. This user, in a further bewildering occurrence to add weight to the increasingly bizarre nature of events, identifies as a password. With my new-found appetite for rummaging through user contributions unsatisfied, I thought I'd have a peek at the password's. At which point I discovered (yes, discovered again - I realise too late that I ought to have advised you to be sure you were sitting down when you read this) that the password's appearances were irregular in themselves to say the least. Furthermore, not only were they irregular but they amounted to little more than "suspecting" myself and a pair of IP addresses of an odeous crime, as well as further odeous crimes relating to the vandalism of userpages, some of which appear to be foreign to the password.

By this time I was feeling a tad suspicious, as though I were being taken for a ride. I do not regularly go looking for trouble and yet this appeared to be a sequence of events carried out by an individual or organisation hell-bent on retrieving their pound of flesh through the unleashing of a tidal wave of unproductive vengeance. The answer to me was obvious - immediately before my lengthy absence I had undone the edits of a petty vandal who has since, through the intervention of a collective noun of other users, been banned. The vandal, named here as a Mr. Edgar Twenty-Four had been carrying out a prolonged and rather prolific assault on the article Tony Fenton over the course of the past year before I brought him to the attention of a wider audience. In front of this wider audience he became ever more excitable and, suffering from a severe bout of misbehavioral diarrhoea, he died upon his own sword within the hour.

So anyway, getting to the point, I am left with a hefty tag which has been present upon my page for the guts of one week now, muddying my wallpaper and no doubt my reputation alongside it. I would like to make known in the public sphere that in future should anyone wish to alter my identity that they inform me in person, lest I suffer the embarrassment of being informed personally by another more vigilant user. I ask you or another user in your trust to access this morbid situation and advise upon my dealing with the tag, how I may go about peeling it off legally and safely before it brings the ceiling down with it. --➨ Candlewicke :) Sign/Talk 03:24, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

GA on main page
If you scroll down just a bit lower, you can see that we got an option on GA on its own and doesn't force GA to combine with DYK on main page. OhanaUnitedTalk page 16:49, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Your candidacy
Please note that I have already made an interim vote pending answers to all questions, due to the lack of answer(s) to Q1 which was posted nearly a fortnight ago. If the elections have come at a busy time IRL (despite an active contribution trail), then for transparency, it's important to note the issue as early as possible, on the relevant election page(s) in a location that others are unlikely to overlook. I note that you did the latter, but I don't think exams are scheduled 1 week before they are to be done. In any case, please also note that I've posted further questions. If you could answer all questions within the next couple of days (or by no later than the date you've specified) so that I can (ask you any follow-up questions for clarity and) make a final vote on your candidacy, that'd be great. Cheers, Ncmvocalist (talk) 16:26, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I ask that you review your answers to my questions (to ensure that all of them have been addressed). 24 hours from now, I will be reviewing each candidate and preparing final votes. This is a courtesy note to make you aware that I will not look at any further answers or modifications once this time has lapsed. I apologise for an inconvenience caused, and hope that you've been adequately notified. Thank you for your time, Ncmvocalist (talk) 19:03, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

List of Forgotten Realms characters
Hello.

I'm trying to build List of Forgotten Realms characters as a proper character list. Could you please restore the edit history of Solaufein for me, and redirect it to the list so that we can merge the content in? Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 05:09, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 15:32, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Reassessment
I have not been able to figure out how to request a reassessment of an article. Have spent lots of time browsing everything I could find about it. Do you feel Jacob Truedson Demitz soon will be ready to be reassessed having had all that added and fixed since it was rated C? Reply to discussion there please! Thx! Anonymous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.21.225.53 (talk) 12:56, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Reason
The reason why it is restoring the original language of page size (and not prose size or text size or anything), is that some people since the creation of the "unwritten rules" started using them to justify claims that quotations weren't part of the text, that blockquotes weren't part of it, that summaries weren't part of it, information that seems similar to another page, especially in a background section, information from the original page, etc. This causes a disruption in creating an encyclopedic page, and not just something to display on the main page. Wikipedia is supposed to promote good, well written pages and attract people to edit to them. The new standards discourage this practice and hinder putting forth well written scholarly based articles that completely deal with a topic. Ottava Rima (talk) 20:23, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * That would be rare. I understand the concern. But if someone is building a page that is 10 up to 50k, and 5k is worth of templates, images and the rest (which is an incredibly large amount), it should still deserve to count. I think this would allow for more discretion to allow pages that people have put a lot of work into, instead of hindering those because they made a complete page but just fell short. For example, my page, Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) was put on DYK. However, according to a standard one individual tried to promote, it would have fell short by about 10k. It is a significant expansion, goes through one of Shelley's most complicated works, breaks it down, puts up important background, scholarly interpretation, etc. There are quotes, but they are either interpreted by scholarship, or they are scholarship on the matter. Its not just simple summaries, but a very good academic/researched based page. I use that page because someone attended to put forth the "unwritten rule" interpretation and it was shot down by the community. However, those people then aren't participating as much, or they don't know that the same problems are back. Ottava Rima (talk) 20:36, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

GA Pass
Thanks for approving 1996 Orange Bowl (December). I'll make another pass for wikilinkable items. JKBrooks85 (talk) 21:39, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Article assessments
Hi Wizardman,

I find that User:Esemono added B-class assessments this week to two biographical articles which seem questionable. In fact, it doesn't appear that he's a member of the Biography Project or that these articles were ever submitted for assessment in the first place. See these diffs:


 * Erik S. Kristensen article just created today,


 * Marcus Luttrell,
 * &mdash; JGHowes   talk  15:34, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah sorry about that just copied them from another page without changing the class -- Esemono (talk) 03:05, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Personal thanks
Hi Wizardman. I don't know if you were following it, but that was a hectic final evening of voting in the ArbCom elections! I wanted to thank you for this vote. It was very humbling to receive that support, especially given the timing. I'm going to post a general note on my talk page thanking those who voted on my candidacy, but I wanted to thank you personally, as you were a fellow candidate. Best wishes. Carcharoth (talk) 00:22, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

ANI
There's no point in continuing the pileon if he has actually left. If it is just a ploy, that will become obvious in due course and the archived thread can be reopened. // roux    03:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Though if it gets really archived and he suddenly comes back i'll unarchive it myself. Wizardman  03:31, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * K // roux    03:41, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Mazagon Fort
Hi, thanks for your note. The reason I have kept this on hold for so long is that the primary editor was embroiled in the attacks on Mumbai and asked for a few weeks to get around to this. If nothing happens by the end of the month I will be asking questions, but I'd like to hold off until then. Thanks --Jackyd101 (talk) 08:27, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

2008 Brazilian Grand Prix
Thanks for the review (I'm of the opinion GA reviewers are some of the most undervalued editors on Wikipedia, thanks never loses you anything). I have to say I hadn't really looked at the article since I put it up for GAN almost three weeks ago, I had to read that sentence you mentioned about ten times before I understood what it meant! Anyway, I'm thinking of nominating the article at FAC. Do you think the prose is up to it? It would be my first outing at FAC, and I don't want to get burnt! I also added another picture, I think it needed a bit more colour (color?). Aptery gial  12:57, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll um and ah (or whatever) for a few hours and then make a decision. Aptery  gial  23:13, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * ...and nominated. Aptery  gial  04:38, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Project Chanology
It's a protected talk page, which means editprotected doesn't work. It was protected during the Virgin Killer proxy Hell, which has now been fixed. --129.241.151.140 (talk) 00:55, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Steve Driehaus
I have finished responding to your comments.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:20, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

1994 Gator Bowl GAN
I've made some fixes in regards to your comments. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to fix everything to my satisfaction. I was, in particular, unable to find TV ratings or Coaches' Poll rankings, and that's rather disappointing. JKBrooks85 (talk) 01:07, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Yay! :D
You were appointed after all! :D :D :D J.delanoy gabs adds  04:49, 21 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Congratulations. I'm very pleased with how things worked out. Best of luck. Mathsci (talk) 09:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)


 * (stopping by to say congratulations) OhanaUnited<b style="color:green;">Talk page</b> 19:16, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy First Day Of Winter!
Happy First Day of Winter! Just wishing you a wonderful First Day of Winter 2008!

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere and are entering the season of Summer not Winter then I wish you a happy First Day of Summer 2008! To spread this message to others, add to their talk page with a friendly message.

Congrats on your appointment to the Arbcom and Best of Luck :)! --Mifter (talk) 17:26, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

No content in Category:100s disestablishments
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Admin
Hi Wizardman. Thanks for the admin offer. I would appreciate your nominating me for adminship. Please let me know what I need to do. Thanks again for the kind offer. -- Suntag  ☼  17:26, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the nomination. I'll be gone for the rest of the day, but I'll try to get to the nomination this evening. Thanks again. -- Suntag  ☼  19:14, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Suntag's RFA
Wizardman, I just noticed that you nominated Suntag for admin, and regarding your comments in the nomination, I have been thinking the same thing as you. I have thought about also writing a statement in favor of granting Suntag admin tools, but I haven't participated in RfA before so I'm not 100% sure how everything works...would it be better for me to write a statement to put below yours as a co-nomination or something, or just wait until after the RfA officially opens and then write as much as I want with my support !vote? Thanks, &mdash;Politizer talk / contribs 19:19, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Hey man, how goes? Have a great holiday and New Year, mate. Stay safe! :-) Scarian  Call me Pat!  16:38, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy holidays
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Thanks for making 2008 an interesting and enlightening year for me; I shall look forward to working with you on the Arbitration Committee in the coming year. Wishing you and yours a joyous holiday season, and happiness, health and hopefulness in 2009. I trust you'll enjoy this little token, a favourite performance of Baby, it's Cold Outside, for your holiday amusement. Best, Risker (talk) 22:30, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Orval Grove
I have struck my comments and my oppose. Since you reviewed Steve Driehaus and wrote this one I know you like both sports and politics. I have Jack Kemp at FAC. Feel free to come by and comment and/or support.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:04, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
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A NobodyMy talk is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to their talk page with a friendly message. --A NobodyMy talk 02:41, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Deleted article
Hey, I see that you participated in the Articles for deletion/Kosovo–Nauru relations discussion. The consensus there was to delete the article. Well I am sad to report that the article has been remade by the same user. See here: Kosovo‒Nauru relations. Can we speedy delete this article, or are we going to have to go through the longer deletion process again. And can we stop User:Turkish Flame from creating these dubious articles? --Tocino 19:25, 18 Ocotber 2008 (UTC)

Wilhelm Steinitz
Hi,Wizardman, thanks for reviewing Wilhelm Steinitz. I've posted some responses at Talk:Wilhelm Steinitz/GA1. The main issue is the article structure (chess career in one big chunk). The main problem is that 1873-1893 looks like for Steinitz it was a 20-year theoretical debate punctuated by occasional practical demonstrations. If you can see see a way to divide 1873-1893 into sub-sections without obscuring the connections between the themes I'd be very interested. --Philcha (talk) 18:32, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi,Wizardman, thanks for your help - I know you were also busy with other things such as deputising in DYK for a while. Happ New Year! --Philcha (talk) 09:48, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Congrats!
Wizardman, I devote very little attention to procedural matters around here -- which for the most part, I think, is how I stay sane and keep producing articles. But once in a while, I really regret not keeping up better on things, remembering dates of elections, and so forth. I have been very pleased with all my interactions with you, and consider you one of the more impressive Wikipedians I've come to know. I would have been proud to voice my support for your candidacy, and regret missing the opportunity. Thank you for your service, and best of luck! Hope it doesn't keep you so busy that you can't work on a GA now and again :) -Pete (talk)

Mary Jo Kilroy
I am not sure which of you to talk to, but I have responded to your thoughts.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 09:06, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
 * User:Stepshep seems to be satisfied with Mary Jo Kilroy. How do you think it is going?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:23, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I think I addressed your final concerns.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:35, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the pass. I was wondering if you think the extensive comments should be moved to the GA talk page so that the project banner section is not so cluttered.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 08:30, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Benedict Arnold semiprotection
Re : I've just removed the sprot template, but noticed that you had protected the article for under one minute and wasn't sure whether that happened in error or not. At any rate, there hasn't been any vandalism since then, which may or may not be due to the template at the top. 78.34.133.168 (talk) (User:Everyme) 19:06, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Final nomination?
It seems you've given up on RfA. Any particular reason why? I have always admired your input at RfA. NuclearWarfare  <sup style="color:green;">contact me <sub style="color:purple;">My work 00:27, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Curious here as well -- any particular reason, Wizardman? Glass  Cobra  18:23, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

feedback requested at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Committees
Hi, if you have time, I'd appreciate any feedback on a slightly crazy idea I had at Wikipedia Committees. It's related to the Arbitration Committee. Thanks! <span style="color:#0D670D; font-family:Georgia, Helvetica;">rootology ( C )( T ) 18:32, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

SA
I just saw your awards page and noticed it has you as a yoeman editor. Here's a more appropriate award:

ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 03:39, 30 December 2008 (UTC)


 * However, that's the logo to show you've been on the project for five years, while Wizardman joined shortly after me a little less than three years ago… –  iride scent  18:00, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Advice on where to take dispute
Hello, the RfARB I filed for the dispute involving GabrielVelasquez was declined, however I am still interested in resolving the dispute even if arbitration is not the right venue. Some advice on what I should do now would be very useful: you stated in your response that the community should sort this out - what should I do to get community involvement, bearing in mind that this has already gone through Wikiquette and an RfC/USER. Thank you. Icalanise (talk) 11:06, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

RfA comment
Hi there; I do hope most sincerely that your comment regarding your prediction of no further RfA nominations from your good self does not presage your departure from Wikipedia. We cannot aford to lose experienced admins. --<b style="color:red;">Anthony.bradbury</b><sup style="color:black;">"talk" 22:26, 30 December 2008 (UTC)