User talk:Peter M Dodge/Header

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My contributions are dedicated to the memory of Reena Lysander and the others I have lost, as the wikipedians who have supported me.
This user is on a indefinite and possibly personal wikibreak due to a series of events in his personal life. Likely he will continue his responsibility of CheckUser clerking as much as possible, and comment on other's talk pages occasionally, but he will not be contributing to the encyclopedia proper, he is simply not in the state of mind for it.
If you have come here to offer your support, it is appreciated, but please also take the time to also help Editor at Large, Elaragirl, and Kyoko who are enduring much harder times than I right now.
Welcome to Wizardry Dragon's Talk Page
  • StatusOnline
  • HealthUnwell
  • WikistressHigh
  • Real life StressI give up
Welcome to my Talk Page

This is the talk page of Peter M Dodge. I respond to all comments here, as it becomes difficult to keep up with the volume otherwise; if I believe immediate notice is necessary, I may copy the response to your talk page.

Be sure your request belongs here; most routine requests dealing with permissions (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser stuff) should go to a noticeboard rather than an individual talk page. See the links in the toolbox below. Disputes between editors, especially content disputes, belong in formal dispute resolution, not here; if you raise them here, I'm just going to say "I don't get involved" and send you to dispute resolution, so save time and head there now.

If you left a comment and didn't get a response from me, ninety-nine times out of one hundred, I was busy and forgot to answer; poke me, and I'll be sure to do it. However, if you left a comment that you expected would elicit an angry response, and instead received no response, then I probably didn't forget, I just didn't respond. I reserve the right to archive personal attacks, incivility, or canvassing separately and immediately. Severe instances may simply be deleted.

Others are encouraged to help out and respond to posts here. Plenty of angry and clueless posts find their way here, and to my email; in the vast majority, I find that the writer has misunderstood some difficult aspect of Wikipedia. Though I may seem to have everything under control, I appreciate having others help out and back me up.

If you are here to ask about something, or ask for something, please be clear about the context of your request. If you have concerns or wish to as for something in regards to cases being overseen by the Mediation Committee or Arbitration Committee, or about a request for checkuser, please specify.

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November 08.06, November 18.06, December 22.06, December 25.06,
December 30.06, January 16.06, January 17.06, January 22.06,
January 30.06, February 01.07, March 03.07
Announcements
  • I am currently experiencing health difficulties. I may not respond to requests or comments quickly. Please be patient.
  • Due to events in real life, and their reprecussions, I'm probably not myself. I may or may not reply to posts here. Please don't be offended if I don't, or it I seem out of sorts or even uncivil. I'm extremely stressed right now.
  • There has been a lot of canvassing here over ArbCom decisions, RfAs, AfDs, and the like. Canvassing is bad and very un-wiki. In fact, it states right in WP:SPAM:
The Arbitration Committee has ruled that "[t]he occasional light use of cross-posting to talk pages is part of Wikipedia's common practice. However, excessive cross-posting goes against current Wikipedia community norms. In a broader context, it is unwiki. "1. Wikipedia editors are therefore not to engage in aggressive cross-posting in order to influence votes, discussions, requests for adminship, requests for comment, etc.
  • Regarding VandalProof: If you're here to post a message about a warning that has been left on your userpage or an edit summary attributes the wrong user, there's no need, it's a bug in the software that is under investigation over at WP:VP2. Just remove the warning from your userpage (but leave an Edit Summary explaining why) and all will once again be well with the world.
  • Do not, under any circumstances, remove posts from this page without my permission. Non-vandalism posts, regardless of merit, should not be removed or reverted; anyone observing the removal of information from this page by anyone other than myself should blanket revert on sight.
  • For all those that participated in my RFA - your opinions were much respected and appreciated. I withdrew after a day because the harassment of the oppose !voters was simply unacceptable to me, and against my wiki philosophy. In shorter words, it was unwiki. If the community feels I would make a good administrator a couple months or so in the future, I will reconsider then.
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