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[edit] Welcome to RomaC's Talk page!

If you post something here I will (eventually) respond on this page, so check back please. Just start at the bottom, write something interesting/informative/amusing and then sign your post by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ).

[edit] Arbcom candidate userbox

Greetings. I've made a new userbox for arbcom candidates to show on their userpages so that visiters will know they're running.

{{User arbcom nom}}

If you'd like to place it on your userpage, feel free. Regards, – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 02:29, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Doylestown

Thanks for deleting the band-cruft. *Zero* Google hits tells the tale. Robert A.West (Talk) 14:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Request for a third opinion

Gregbrown You are listed on the 'third opinions' page, and I chose your name at random. Thank you in advance for considering this. Last week, I placed, onto the Jack Benny biography page, an External Link entitled 'Jack Benny Audio history free MP3 book.' http://www.geocities.com/jackbennyhistory Minutes after I put the link up, an Administrator took the link down. I looked at my online traffic checker (Statcounter.com), and it is almost certain that this Administrator did not even click on the link -- seeing what was on the site -- before he took the link down. If this is the case, all of the later explanations given about why he took down the link are for naught (in my opinion), because all he knew about the link were the words on the External Link: 'Jack Benny Audio History free MP3 book'

My question is how much consideration an Administrator should give to an External Link before acting upon it. Relatedly, what is the procedure an Administrator should follow when acting upon an External Link.

There is discussion about this on my talk page, and I went to the Cabal prior to coming to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2007-02-13_Easy_question_for_mediators A person on the Cabal suggested bringing in a third opinion. Thank you.

Gregbrown 00:47, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello Greg, I don't have a lot of time right now but my gut feeling is that the link was perceived as advertising/spam and deleted for that reason. If that is the case, my concern would be with determining whether that might have been a hasty and/or incorrect conclusion based on the name of the link alone. I assume you're arguing that the link is not advertising/spam. I'll look at the discussion pages later and comment there. RomaC 02:06, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Gregbrown Thank you very much. I truly hope that this can be resolved to everyone's satisfaction.

Thanks again I appreciate your help here. My note to you a few hours ago (it was in this spot) said that I was trying to find the third party comment. Now, I see that you put your comment into my Talk page(I thought that all comments went to the bottom of a page), so I thank you for giving a reply. I will make more progress, and I appreciate your help. Gregbrown 23:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello!

Hey there. Always nice to see someone using the policy trifecta.

I hope you have a nice holiday in Germany!

--Kim Bruning 13:00, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Admin coaching request

Hi,

I'm glad to see you are interested in developing your wiki-knowhow by seeing admin coaching. Without any prior judgement whether you are ready or not to seek others views on adminship, it is always good to see others aiming to improve themselves. If you are looking for occasional hints and tips on your editing, I would be glad to give you some to-the-point feedback and pointers, and a helping hand for a while.

(Of course what you do with them, and how others view your work, is down to you always!)

If you're interested, you'll want as a first step to set yourself up with an email account, and then let me know. FT2 (Talk | email) 19:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Striking your vote

Hello RomaC,

Thank you for your interest in the Wikimedia Board Election. The Election Committee regretfully informs you that your previous vote was received in error and will be struck according to the election rules, described below.

The Election Committee regretfully announces today that we will have to remove approximately 220 votes submitted. These votes were cast by people not entitled to vote. The election rules state that users must have at least 400 edits by June 1 to be eligible to vote.

The voter lists we sent to Software in the Public Interest (our third party election partner) initially were wrong, and one of your account was eventually included to our initial list. There was a bug in the edit counting program and the sent list contained every account with 201 or more edits, instead of 400 or more edits. So large numbers of people were qualified according to the software who shouldn't be. The bug has been fixed and an amended list was sent to SPI already.

Our first (and wrong) list contains 80,458 accounts as qualified. The proper number of qualified voters in the SPI list is now 52,750. As of the morning of July 4 (UTC), there are 2,773 unique voters and 220 people, including you, have voted who are not qualified based upon this identified error.

In accordance with voting regulations the Election Committee will strike those approximately 220 votes due to lack of voting eligibility. The list of struck votes is available at https://wikimedia.spi-inc.org/index.php/List_of_struck_votes.

We are aware of the possibility that some of the people affected may have other accounts with more than 400 edits, and hence may still be eligible to vote. We encourage you to consider voting again from another account, if you have one. If you have no other account eligible to vote, we hope you reach the criteria in the next Election, and expect to see your participation to the future Elections.

Your comments, questions or messages to the Committee would be appreciated, you can make them at m:Talk:Board elections/2007/en. Other language versions are available at m:Translation requests/Eleccom mail, 07-05.

Again, we would like to deeply apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,
Kizu Naoko
Philippe
Jon Harald Søby
Newyorkbrad
Tim Starling


For Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee

[edit] Talk:Gordon Ramsay

sorry for the delay but I have finally replied to your last comment re the "vegetarian" pizza incident -- Barliner  talk  18:33, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] article note

i replied to your concerns, at the article talk page. thanks. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 19:09, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mediation Cabal

A case has opened in the WP:Mediation Cabal and a user has listed you as an involved party, related to edits/comments at Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The case is located at Wikipedia talk:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-01-09 Israeli-Palestinian conflict‎, please feel free to comment on the article talk page. Thank you. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 23:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

PS. I felt like it was time to open a mediation case, since in spite of all the contention, dissent and new proceedings curently going on, as well as edit-protections on several entries, there are actually very few active mediation efforts for any articles right now. so this is a step in hopefully a right direction. by the way, did you know that a single MedCab case can cover a few articles at once? so this seems like possibly an appropriate way to go. thanks. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 23:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I responded on Addhoc's talk page, thanks. RomaC (talk) 04:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Watch out for wiki-addiction

Ouch, 3rd opinion, and RC patrol? I hope you don't get *too* addicted. Have fun! :-)

--Kim Bruning (talk) 02:00, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

thanks kim, I have actually been on Wiki for four years now, but recently found some time (chilly outside), so stepped in a bit more, and seem to have landed in the fire hehehe RomaC (talk) 03:13, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, — Rlevse • Talk • 22:21, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Philostophy lyrics

I'm copy-pasting this from the Greggery Peccary talkpage, just to make sure you get the heads up. The correct lyric is actually "of". It makes sense when considering the quote in the context of the song. DeNameland, being an experienced philostopher, would be loathe to give too straight an answer to either central dilemma (either the cause of the New Brown Clouds, or, on a meta level, whether Greggary is the bad guy for creating the calender or if the young hipsters are just freaking out over nothing). Saying that "time is an affliction" would be casting his vote squarely on the side of the hipsters. Rather, what DeNameland is saying is that there is an affliction attached to time - similar to saying a pregnant woman is "with child". And, specifically, that afflicition is, as he leans towards proclaiming, that the EONS ARE CLOSING. A much more notable site within the Zappa community - in fact, the site from which your link seems to have copy-pasted the lyrics - has it as "of", further reinforcing my above statement. --Badger Drink (talk) 19:18, 12 January 2008 (UTC)