User talk:Zeborah

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Hi, Zeborah!
Thanks for tidying up the tenses in the Cathedral Architecture of Western Europe page!

--Amandajm 14:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Excellent work in rescuing the article! Perhaps it would be useful to contact the early delete voters to see if they are aware of the recent changes in the article and if that changes their opinion. I almost missed the revisions and would have hated if my vote had contributed to the article's deletion Aside: Do you think the article would be better named Sociolinguistics in India ? That seems to be a broader subject, which can be addressed using the references that you have located. At a minimum, I think we should have a redirect from that name till a separate article is created on the specific topic. Cheers. Abecedare 19:34, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Planet killer
Hi, I noticed you made a comment to Richard about this and I wanted to inform you about my effort to rewrite the page as a list, draft here: User:Wl219/List of fictional weapons of mass destruction. I'd welcome your comments. Wl219 23:47, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Article Resque Squadron Move Request
Greetings, I'm tring to get the current move request sorted so we can move on to other ones if we need to. Would you mind stating your position in: Article Rescue Squadron Talk #Requested_move, Thanks Fosnez 11:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Elephant's graveyard cleanup
Hiya, this is 66.69.210.78, just letting you know I responded to the request for more info regarding the clean up of the Elephant's graveyard article. See the discussion page for this IP address for the details. User:66.69.210.78 —Preceding comment was added at 04:55, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Joyeux Noël
I just want to wish my fellow Wikipedians a Merry Christmas! Sincerely, -- Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles  Tally-ho! 05:28, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Dangerous Liaisons
hello. thanks for the inquiry. marquise and viscount are titles equivalent to count and countess or in some systems, boron and baroness. the use of the definite article is incorrect, and would be akin to saying, The Marquis de Sade, The Count Dracula, or for that matter, The Queen Elizabeth. i suppose i am remiss for not scanning the page for all occurrences, but that was the only one that stood out. --emerson7 12:41, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism warning
The cumulative edit histories at Mongolia during Tang rule and Articles for deletion/Mongolia during Tang rule are troubling; and I'm especially concerned about the disruptive successes of the one I call "Mr/Ms Anonymous."

As nearly as I can tell, the following vandalism warnings are justified: I don't expect these warnings to be effective, but the gesture does demonstrate that I'm vexed by what I've encountered in what appears to be the work of just one person.
 * 162.84.138.30
 * 162.83.161.11 ‎
 * 162.84.136.193
 * 141.155.153.147

I share this with you as a way of illustrating by contrast how pleased I was to watch your constructive strategy unfold at Articles for deletion/Mongolia during Tang rule.

An unexpected development?
I'm reluctant to put another problem in your lap, but I don't know what else to do? Please bear with me.

What I construe to be a well-meaning editor has changed the name of Mongolia during Tang rule to Inner Asia during the Tang Dynasty ... which throws off the AfD-template in an inconvenient way. The interplay of things wrong with this "move" are too complicated for me to untangle. Are you willing and able to do what is needed? Alternately, will you please pass this problem to someone who can handle it?

My personal interest in this dispute is in ensuring that an informed consensus evolves; and I'm concerned that this new complication may exacerbate something crucial in the fragile process you are trying to shepherd along. --Tenmei (talk) 03:08, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Further development
Please see Talk:Inner Asia during the Tang Dynasty. --Tenmei (talk) 16:00, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for good advice. Also, maybe having things spelled out clearly as you have done -- but directed at me -- will indirectly affect Anon in a constructive way whe he/she reads it?  --Tenmei (talk) 21:52, 3 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry for whatever can be construed as my part in the stressful exchanges of the past week. In retrospect, every well-intentioned contribution just made this situation worse because the most relevant factors were not within the ambit of anything written explicitly presented on the screen in front of me.


 * I regret the extent to which my contributions exacerbated a problem I was trying to mitigate. No one could have been more surprised than me as I continued producing the opposite of intended results.  I'm not unsubtle; but all I can say at this point is that I will continue trying to learn from my mistakes.   I know this isn't much of an apology; but there you have it. --Tenmei (talk) 15:26, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

More than meets the eye
As it turns out, the anonymous IP-editor appears to have been a sock puppet of a banned disruptive contributor specializing in fomenting disputes in articles about East Asian topics. Only by "looking outside the box" (on the basis of information not known to you or me at the time) was it possible to diagnose what was happening from the genesis of Mongolia during Tang rule through the serial WP:AfD threads and thereafter. In short, there was always more to the discussion threads than meets the eye .... --Tenmei (talk) 20:13, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

ArbCom case
An Arbitration case has been opened, and is located here. As I understand it, the open-ended process invites anyone to participate, not only those who contributed to the thread which led to a case being opened.

I wonder if this forum might be worth your investment of time and attention -- if only because of the possibility that you glimpse some better way of dealing with those who would dismiss, deride, or devalue any future contribution labeling anyone "pro-Mongolian" (as if it were a self-evident and obviously perjorative term). This seems rather like those who have sought to diminish my Wikipedia contributions with a label "Japanese" (as if "Japanese" were to be understood an arguably derisive term).

I would guess you probably understand that my primary focus is elsewhere, but I'm still troubled by that "pro-Mongolian" gambit in the AfD thread. It's not so much that the innuendo was introduced, although I'm very clear that it shouldn't have been tolerated by the consensus. What still bothers me particularly is that this derisive tactic proved to be so easy, so effective, so readily accepted by the so-called "uninvolved" or "neutral" others in that discussion thread. I wish there were some way to leverage this ArbCom "event" so that such needless tactics were less easy or that such heedless claims were accorded closer scrutiny? Just a thought ...?

To be frank, I don't quite understand how this will unfold at Requests for arbitration/Tang Dynasty.

Formal notice that the case had been accepted included the following, which I construe as being addressed to anyone who has anything to do with this unraveling knot of problems:
 * Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Tang Dynasty/Evidence.
 * Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible.
 * You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Tang Dynasty/Workshop.

Bottom line: If you can see some way to convert this from a mere academic exercise into something with practical and  practicable  consequences, please share your thoughts with me or with some member of ArbCom. You aren't obliged to do anything, but, as promised, I'm keeping you informed as developments follow one after another.

On an optimistic note, will you join me in hoping that this process can be converted into something which is demonstrably constructive, useful, helpful? --Tenmei (talk) 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Julian Todd
Thanks for pointing that out! I've added the cite to the main Julian Todd article. Artw (talk) 02:59, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Rajeev Janardan‎‎
Duh! I should have searched for Rajiv, but didn't. Must have been having a bad day, glad you did a proper job! pablo hablo. 09:43, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

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So funny, thanks for stopping by the WP:ARS wikiproject talk page. Sometimes I wonder where all these editors are, and weeks, sometimes months later, they appear, as you did, with some really wonderful and in your case, funny, comments. Okip  03:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

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You are dealing with cargo cult encyclopaedia article writing, if you want a name for it. &#9786; Uncle G (talk) 11:30, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
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