User talk:Christopher Parham/Archive04

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Archive 1 -- November 21, 2004 to October 14, 2005

Archive 2 -- October 14, 2005 to December 5, 2005

Archive 3 -- December 5, 2005 to January 11, 2006

[edit] my RfA

I would like to express my thanks to all the good people who spent their valuable time time and effort working on my (failed) RfA voting. Especially for those who actually voted to support me :). Lets move on and make together our Wikipedia an even greater place abakharev 09:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dude,

I'm expressing non-heteronormative information in non-standard rhetoric. I represent the lower echelons of society. The dregs, as you bourgeoise may say. The worthless. But i have black pride, and a voice!

• I have my eye on you, User:67.43.20.52. Christopher Parham (talk) 21:00, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

noooooooooooooooo

[edit] My RfA

Thank you for supporting me on my successful RfA! It passed with a final tally of 40/9/1. If there's anything I can do to help, just ask! Sceptre ^(Talk)

[edit] My RfA

Christopher Parham, thank you very much for supporting me during my recent RfA campaign! Thanks to you, I am now an admin. Please drop by if you need anything - I'll be glad to help you. Once again, thanks! --M@thwiz2020 22:53, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Thanks Christopher Parham/Archive04

Thanks for your recent support on my RfA. It passed with a final vote of 24/1/2 :-). If you ever need anything, feel free to leave me a message! --Admrboltz (T | C) 04:37, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Opposition to Adminship

• • • You Wrote: Oppose, suggest withdrawal. Nomination statement decietful

Could you please explain how it was deceitful? I had/have no intent of it being so, so any comments you have will make me revise what I have written. Thanks User:Dueyfinster 21:25, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Regarding your recent comment on my userpage, can you quote references of edits? I do alot of editing on my PDA, which I accept I did not fully explain, other than that, I cannot recount or see a history of absence of user comments which I have made. Sorry just cleaned up comments, added sig. Duey Finster 22:10, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Belated thanks

I now have a few extra tabs at the top of my Wikipedia pages. Thanks for your support. Banno 07:52, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFA thanks

Thanks for supporting me in my RFA. --TimPope 13:51, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Alternative education

Hello, My name is Master Scott Hall (you can call me Scott). I am relatively new contributing to Wikipedia, though I have been a user of it for some time. I am currently soliciting additional participation in a WikiProject that been launched on the subject of alternative education.

Before finding Wikipedia, my wife and I were seriously considering, but not quite convinced, to home educate our children. After discovering the depth, scope, and long-term goals of Wikipedia, as well as the individuals driving it, I am convinced that WP has the potential to revolutionize homeschooling and other forms of alternative education. I am also convinced that some form of home education is the right choice for my family. I have, however, been somewhat discouraged by the oversight of home education in most of the education related projects on WP. There are many potential reasons for this discrepency, but I have resolved to try to do something about it.

Although I personally have very limited experience in building complex WikiProjects, -templates, -portals, etc., I am confident that the right team has been assembled to tackle these issues. I have noticed that you seem to have an interest and some experience in this area. I would like to invite you to join this effort to make Wikipedia the resource for the home education of our children. If you are interested, please visit the WikiProject page we have set up. Interest and feedback to date have been very promising. We hope you will consider joining our team. Thank you. Master Scott Hall 22:12, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Update: The proposed project on Homeschooling was met with a very positive response. As a result, the project has been ugraded to an official WikiProject and can be found at WikiProject Alternative education. We have several experienced Wikipedians on board, as well as some new faces. We still need contributors with backgrounds in education, education theory and philosophy, and specific alternative education methods, such as homeschooling, charter schools, and E-learning from both teacher and student perspectives. There is also a lack of quality resources regarding anti-alternative education issues. If are interested in contributing or just have an interest, please visit the project page, or if you prefer, ask us a question. Thank you again, Master Scott Hall 18:45, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thank you for your support in my RfA. Dsmdgold 20:09, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A dear friend from WOT

You may or may not recall a WOTer named "Fenriswolf", who is an aggressive Chinese nationalist (pro-Mao, Stalin, all that good stuff). Having rubbed him the wrong way on this separate forum, he has decided to harass me on this site. This began a few months ago when the first encounter took the form of him vandalizing my user page. Since then he has been shadowing my every edit, changing and outright reverting the most minute of my contributions. You can get the full details at this ANI post. Perhaps you might be able to assist or have input in this matter. I would certainly appreciate suggestions, particularly as the ANI goes ignored. --TJive 05:44, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

BTW my e-mail (through Wiki) is a good way to discuss this if you can spare the time to. Thanks. --TJive 05:45, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

I can understand your caution (and I appreciate any involvement) but I feel it will be fruitless. His actions and rationale have a zealous quasi-messianic character to them. --TJive 06:20, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Reverts still continue [1] (Political compass, Iraq sanctions, etc.), and he is following to other articles like Chinese Cuban and Party for Socialism and Liberation. Yet he can not make any response on talk. --TJive 06:00, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Succesful RfA!

Thank you for your support during my RfA! The community has decided to make me an administrator, and there's work to be done. I look forward to seeing you around the project in the future, and if you see me do anything dumb, let me know right away! Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 23:24, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your vote on the RFR poll

Hi, Christopher Parham, you voted oppose on the requests for rollback privileges consensus poll, suggesting that people who would like rollback should just become admins instead - that being an admin is "no big deal". While I think that in an "ideal" Wikipedia, this would indeed be the case, I believe that over time standards for becoming an administrator have clearly risen. This is apparent by looking at the RFA system throughout Wikipedia's existence - intially, all one had to do to become an admin was just ask nicely, now we have a complicated procedure. A recent proposal on the RFA talk page for requiring at least 30 minimum support votes and a significant number of existing contributions was given some serious consideration. There is frequent talk of "bad admins slipping through the RFA net", and while you may not agree with that philosophy of adminship it is undeniable that the standards have risen.

Because of this, candidates who pass are already very experienced with Wikipedia. While this in itself is no bad thing, it means that for the month or so before they become admins they are not being given the tools an admin has which would help them to improve Wikipedia, by removing vandalism and performing administrative tasks such as moving pages. The qualities which make a good administrator are not determined by length of stay on Wikipedia or number of friends you have, but by personality and character. Time at Wikipedia only gives familiarity with the way things are done here. However, being at Wikipedia for an extra month doesn't grant any special insight into the ability to determine which edits are vandalism and which are not. This is why I believe that we should hand out rollback to contributors who are clearly here to improve Wikipedia but won't pass the RFA procedure because of their percieved lack of familiarity with policy by some Wikipedians. I think that adminship should be no big deal, like you, however I see just two ways to make sure Wikipedians can quickly and efficiently remove vandalism - either by all those who believe adminship should be no big deal involving themselves much more in RFA, or by supporting this proposal and giving out rollback to good contributors who have not yet been here long enough to become admins. We have to remember that our ultimate aim here is to produce an encyclopedia, and we should balance the idealism of "adminship should be no big deal" with the pragmatism of granting rollback to our best non-admin contributors. I would be very grateful if you would reconsider your viewpoint on this issue. Thanks, Talrias (t | e | c) 13:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

For your kind support of my Rfa, which passed. If you should ever have any complaints about my admin actions, please let me know. Also, should you ever need my help with anything, please do not hesitate to ask! Thanks again! All the best Banez 17:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] So many redirects...

I know the heading doesn't make sense to you, but it does to me... anywho, I left a little note here and didn't know if you would see it, so now I'm letting you know. So, well, now you know. Cheers. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 20:11, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism On Sons of Liberty

Sorry, I don't know what the hell happened. I had no idea that I did that until I saw "new messages" and realized when I brought the history page up (twice that happened). I'm trying to deal with this as quick as possible because I don't want to be known as vandalizing pages. One thing, I don't see why you deleted my post of taking out "The legendary Solid Snake of Philantropy" because he is not really considered legendary for the acts he did in Philanthropy. He is a legend (considered) when you look at all his operations in general.

[edit] Forgot username

(Name? I have no name. 19:24, 3 February 2006 (UTC)) I sent that message above. I don't know how to edit that little part so I just put it here.

[edit] government

take a peak at government talk Ace Diamond 03:01, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA Thanks!

Okay, this is perhaps a bit overdue, but thank-you for your support in my recent RfA! I passed with a final vote count consensus of (82/1/0), which was a lot of support that I really appreciate. I'll try to live up to the expectations; and on that note, if there's ever something I do wrong (or don't do right), please spit in my general direction. Cheers! --PeruvianLlama^(spit) 05:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey.

Hello. How are you?

[edit] My RFA

My admin request went up in flames. (But thanks anyways!)

Hey, Christopher Parham, I wanted to thank you for your support of my (unfortunately unsuccessful) request for adminship. The final tally was 37/16/5, which fell short of the needed 75-80% for "consensus". I don't know if or when I'll go up for nomination again, but even if I don't, I will try not to betray the trust that you and 36 others were willing to place in me. Thanks for having faith in me... and happy editing! (I would like to add that I did contribute to one of the Federalist Papers after seeing the note on your user page. So there. =P) Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 00:22, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Query about vandal reverts

From my talk page:

You described this edit [2] as a vandal reversion, however it does not appear that the edit you reverted was vandalistic. Care to comment? Christopher Parham (talk) 07:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

We crossposted reverts of 66.198.34.52. Sorry about that. --Marinus 07:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't "vandalizing," I was keeping it reals, beotch.

[edit] Joke's RfA

Hi Christopher, thanks for your support in my (successful) RfA! –Joke 16:10, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFA

Hi, just wanted to thank you for voting on my RFA, which went through with a count of (58/0/1), far better than I'd expected. I intend to take things slowly and start using the extra abilities gradually, but if there's anything I can do just leave a message. Cheers, CTOAGN (talk) 13:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship Vote

I want to sincerely thank you for voting on my adminship nomination. Whenever I mess up, please let me know. I want to learn from my mistakes so they don't become patterns. Superm401 - Talk 05:01, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Test4a

Please look at the Tfd once again; the claim is that it is redundant to {{test4}}. No one would have to type anything out. -- Avi 03:25, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE:DRV

Lol, sorry about that. Didnt see it lol - • | Đܧ§§Ť | • ^{T | C} 22:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thomas Pynchon FA

Hello. I noticed on the Thomas Pynchon FA page that you remarked "Monicadude's objection should be addressed". Monicasdude has now struck off the objection and replaced it with a support vote.

Best wishes, Anville 08:10, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thank you Hello Christopher Parham, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 63/4/3. I am honoured by the community support and pledge to serve the project as best as I can. CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 16:36, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] (break)

Having left another of your trollings on my page, Mr. Parham, a kind word of advice: when you decide to be a partisan snitch in the service of the St. Rand, be prepared to be called on it. Your attempt to grandstand using my talkpage yet again is duly noted, but otherwise ignored. --Daniel 00:56, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for supporting my RfA. It was successful and I hope to be a good administrator. Essexmutant 11:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for taking the time to vote in my RfA, which passed with a final vote of 54/2/1 despite my obvious inadequacy for the job. I'll do my level best to use the mop and bucket — or, as I said in my RfA, plunger — responsibly. Of course, in the best tradition of politicans everywhere, I've already broken a campaign promise (I blocked a vandal last night despite having said "I don't anticipate using the blocking tool very often"). Nevertheless, I'll try not to let the unbridled power corrupt me. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 14:56, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:RFA/Quarl

Hi Christopher, thanks for your support in my RFA, which succeeded. If I can ever improve or help in any way, please let me know! :) —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-02-16 11:49Z

[edit] RFA Thanks

Thank you! Hello Christopher Parham/Archive04, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 98/2/0. If there is anything I can do to help you, please leave me a message on my talk page! -- xaosflux Talk

[edit] Thank you!

Thank you very much for your support during my recent Admin election, I appreciate the trust that you have put in me. Please contact me if you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding my work as an admin.

Kind Regards, Elf-friend 07:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for your vote My request for adminship passed with a final result of 78/2/0. Hopefully I will live up to everyone's expectations. Please ask if I can ever help out with anything in the future. Martyman - 09:14, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFA

At the page Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Alex Bakharev 2 you did not explicitely write "suport", and it seems that your vote is not counted. If you really voted for support, please write this word. mikka (t) 08:12, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I assure you, I've seen sillier objections. You may have noticed, people like to chat within the voting sections. Formally, your entry is not distinguishable from idle chat. mikka (t) 08:18, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage

Yes, no problems. At least you actually asked first, and did not just delete without my knowledge, which is the most infuriating thing about this whole userbox deletion war that is being waged at present.--Rob McKay 08:19, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thank you for your support of my request for adminship. I'm delighted that the RfA ultimately succeeded with a final consensus of 52/1/0, so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any comments regarding my editing, or I can help you at any point in the future, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Again, thank you!

[edit] how dare you!

how are you going to try and delete my list of ips schools? This is for everyone to add on just cause you don't live here doesn't mean you can just try and hate indianapolis and anything from it.

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for voting! Although this is a bit late in coming, I want to thank you for voting (no matter what your vote was) in my recent request for adminship. You might be aware that it did not pass due to a lack of consensus. The final tally was 21/9/10. I think I will try again this spring or summer after I have gained a bit more experience and met a few more fellow editors. Thanks again!

--MatthewUND^(talk) 05:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

With apologies for the impersonal AWB-ness of the message... Thanks for your support on my recent request for adminship. It passed at 91/1/0, and I hope I can continue to deserve the community's trust. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you, and if I make a mistake be sure to tell me. My talk page is always open. (ESkog)^(Talk) 02:42, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your voting!

Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.

If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thank you for supporting my successful request for adminship. I'll try to put the admin tools to good and responsible use. If I do anything wrong you know where to find me. Raven4x4x 07:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thank you for supporting my successful request for adminship. I'll try to put the admin tools to good and responsible use. If I do anything wrong you know where to find me. Raven4x4x 07:29, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks

[edit] Thanks for your support

Thank you for supporting me in my request for adminship! It ended with a tally of 39/5/4, and I am now an admin. I'm glad to have earned the trust of the community, and I will make use of it responsibly. Of course, you can let me know of any comments or concerns you have.

With a million articles in front of me, I'd better get mopping.

rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 05:11, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

This user thinks it is ironic that thanks for supporting Cyde's successful RFA came in the form of a userbox.

Here's a userbox for you. --Cyde Weys 04:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

I'm leaving this macrophage, a particularly hungry white blood cell on your talk page, I just finished a rewrite of its article and realized they're not so different from administrators, as they keep their surroundings clean, doing away with anything that's not supposed to be there...
Anyway, with that short lecture on cell biology done with, I'd like to thank you for your vote on my RfA, which passed with (49/2/0), I'll do my best to not let you down, and if you see me heading towards a common newbie mistake, please nudge me in the right direction :)

--Obli (Talk)^? 20:44, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hey Christopher Parham/Archive04, how is it going? Thank you for supporting my Request for adminship! It passed with a final vote of 73/1/1, which means that I have been granted adminship! I look forward to using these tools to enhance and maintain this wonderful site. I will continue regular article/project contributions, but I will also allocate a sizable portion of my wikischedule toward administrative duties :) Thanks again, and if you have any questions/comments/tips, please let me know! — Deckiller 04:35, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

| Hi Christopher. My goodness, you get a lot of these! I thought long and hard about bucking the trend, but decided in the end to make this vulture-themed message. Admins are sort of like vultures, cleaning things up and whatnot... well, as long as you don't think too much about it. Anyway, I wanted to thank you for taking the time to consider my RfA, which passed this morning. If there's ever anything I can help you with, just ask; you know where to find me. ×Meegs 07:46, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

This hippo looks contented.

Thanks for your support in my RfA. It passed, with a final tally of 62/0/1. I'm touched by all the kind comments it attracted, and hope I'll be of some use with my new tools. You know where I am if you need to shout at me. Flowerparty? 15:54, 11 March 2006 (UTC)