User talk:Avb
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[edit] Q RE: Arcayne
On my talk page you suggested the following:
Simply keep your interactions with users who accuse you of untoward behavior to a minimum and on-topic and don't overreact to accusations you know to be incorrect. Avb 14:45, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Sage advice - when one assumes "good intentions", however in this situation there was a strong effort to ban me, which surprisingly stayed in motion despite my frequently pointing out that not a single piece of evidence, not a "diff", not a quote, not even a supporting note from a second user had been presented or cited. It may as well have been Sen. McCarthy speaking.
What is overreaction when one is defending oneself from formal charges whose ultimate sanction is banishment?
Secondly your proscription to effectively 'stay away from the user' is the tool that the attacker wields against others - It is on a near daily basis that this user directly threatens other users with administrative action and banishment, he not only counts upon, he requires, other users to avoid confrontation. It is his Modus Operandi and stock in trade. While researching my own defense I saw literally dozens of incidents in only the last 3 weeks that I went back of him attacking by administrative threat and through a quick waving of various WP policy individuals on numerous article and personal talk pages.
He pressed me because he thought a Public Editor would have just crumbled and not cared, I chose to defend. And it was done with citation and civility - I'm just disappointed that he seems to have been allowed to walk away from such an obvious case of unfounded, uncited, and abusive manipulation of the system. 75.57.165.180 (talk) 15:35, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Just checked my edit via the history tab and noticed the old stuff you'd already dealt with. Well I guess if both Arcayne and I take exception that your comments don't fully agree with either side - you must be doing something right :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.165.180 (talk) 15:42, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- :) Point taken. And thank you for the concise and fair advice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.165.180 (talk) 21:17, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Just popping in.....
I just want to say hello, it's been awhile since we've spoken and for some reason I just thought about you so I thought I would pop in and let you know! I hope all is well and you are enjoying. I didn't check you contributions, so I really don't know if you are active or not but I am willing to chance it that you are and will see this. You take care of yourself and I hope to hear from you soon to hear how things are going (note my new email address if that is the course you decide to take.) Be healthy my friend, --CrohnieGalTalk 16:38, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] NYC Meetup: June 1, 2008
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New York City Meetup
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, elect a board of directors, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).
We'll also review our recent Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event, and make preparations for our exciting successor Wiki Week bonanza, being planned with Columbia University students for September or October.
In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.
You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.
Also, check out our regional US Wikimedia chapters blog Wiki Northeast (and we're open to guest posts).
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 23:22, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for comment/TheNautilus
I'd appreciate your input on this, since you are familiar with these problems from this user's other account. Tim Vickers (talk) 21:21, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
