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[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/DreamGuy 2

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/DreamGuy 2. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/DreamGuy 2/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/DreamGuy 2/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, David Mestel(Talk) 20:17, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

If you've nothing to add to your statement, I wouldn't bother - it's much more likely to be read as a statement than as an evidence submission. It might be a good idea to append a note to your statement saying that it contains all the evidence you wish to submit. David Mestel(Talk) 20:23, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Madeline L'Engle

Ah damn, thanks for catching my mistake. It's sad (and frustrating) that L'Engle doesn't even get her own obituary page... Cheers, CP 17:03, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article Rescue Squadron image

I really like it. Could you possibly fit it into a userbox somehow? You might need to remove the words. Ichormosquito 18:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of catchphrase used in Grey's Anatomy

Hello! I've just userfied this article so you can check to see whatever content can be merged with the main article. Here's the link

When you're done you can request a db-author if you want or you can keep if you still need for further edits/merging--JForget 23:27, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist

Thank you. ClemRutter 08:05, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] You aren't an Admin?

Why not? -- llywrch 20:32, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi Thespian -- So you want my imperfect opinion about whether you have achieved enough points (yeah, everyone calls them edits -- but in reality, everyone wants to know with a minimum of effort whether they are the right edits) to pass a vote for Adminship.

First, I have to warn you that as one of the few Wikipedians around who are still contributing actively after almost five years, my opinions on what qualifies one to be an Admin are -- how would some folks put it? Old-fashioned? Archaic? I do have certain numerical goals I think every Admin should meet, but only to prove that they have the necessary exposure & experience with the Wikipedia culture to make good calls as an Admin: 3 months, 500 edits, no derogatory information on them (e.g., no blocks or bans). Oh, & that they want to be an Admin: there are a few Wikipedians whom I thin would make fine Admins, but they've made it clear that they don't want the Admin bit.

Then, there is the problem that some people I think would make fine Admins, who want the added responsibilities, failed their RfA vote. Because of that, I wonder if the whole Admin process isn't out of whack, & weighted too heavily towards Wikipedians who fight vandals, revert spammers & slap down troublemakers. If the clique that hangs out at WP:RfA prefers policemen over janitors. After all, Admins don't deal with crowd control -- we all do, & if someone won't obide by community standards then then we leave it to the ArbCom to handle them.But that last part is my own personal opinion about how Wikipedia currently fucntions, & if the mechanism is broken, then we need to intentionally & overtly change the mechanism to fix it.

Anyway, back to your question. Obviously, you pass my criteria, & if it were up to me you'd be an Admin as fast as the servers could update the edit. More importantly, I took a long, careful look at your edit history, & found that I liked what I saw: you talked to people, you tried to be dispassionate about conflicts, your priority was to improve content, rather than to score points with many trivial edits or fight vandalism & other bad guys. There is the problem of a low total edit score -- which I mention because another Wikipedian whom I thought would be a shoo-in had more than twice as many edits as you, yet failed his RfA candidacy -- but if the fact that you've been active only since February/March of this year were emphasized, I think the number of edits should be a non-issue.

I saw that you were involved in the recent DreamGuy RFC -- but IMHO you acted more as a mediating voice, not one of those looking to force some kind of summary decision on his behavior. I think that moderating tone is someting in your favor. (Then again, from having dealt with the guy I've come to a negative opinion about him, so maybe I'm wrong there.) You also wrote an article for the Signpost -- which shows your thoughts about Wikipedia in a manner few other candidates have done. (If writing an article for the Signpost were a requirement to become an Admin, I think Ral315 might have an easier time of finding copy.) Lastly, the fact you want these priviledges for a very specific purpose -- to cleanup the backlog at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist -- is a good thing: I think it's fair to assume that the general reaction to anyone who wants to be an Admin "just because" is one of suspicion. Yes, having the title a wonderful validation that a given person is a valued contributor to Wikipedia, but too many people see it as being more than just that.

So after all of this verbage, I bet you wonder what I suggest you do. The short answer is that it's up to you: nominating yourself (or being nominated) for Adminship is a roll of the dice. Had you twice as many edits since February of this year, I believe it would be a no-brainer. But your situation is a bit more iffy, & I'd hate to see you try, fail & become disillusioned with Wikipedia because you've done some important things. One thing you may want to do is contact another Admin or two for their opinions. I notice you worked with Alison and Ral315 recently: you may want to ask their opinion on the matter. Another Admin to contact would be Durova: she has a good head on her shoulders, & I think she'd give you a straight answer. Feel free to ask any or all of these folks in email, if you want to keep the matter confidential. After all of that, if you still want to be an Admin, let me know. I'd be happy to nominate you -- or just add my cote/opinion. -- llywrch 22:49, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

There is something of a bias against folks who self-nominate, so why risk it? -- llywrch 23:30, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FOF IP Block

Hi Thespian, please check AIN (FOF IP Block). I replied to your comment. Thanks! Mfantoni 05:35, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chris Cosentino

Updated DYK query On 28 October 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chris Cosentino, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 18:57, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Did you receive my email? Please respond. -- llywrch 22:30, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gavin Kaysen

Updated DYK query On 31 October 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gavin Kaysen, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

—Wknight94 (talk) 14:28, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:I appreciate your comments

You are welcome. :) About moving the discussion to the talk page, though I agree that the scope is much larger than your RfA, it is also very pertinent. I feel that, as an RfA page is a discussion page anyway, all discussion should be kept on the main page so that there is maximum participation (unless of course the discussion becomes so huge or irrelevant as to make it disruptive on the main RfA page). So I would prefer that it stays where it is, but if you or any other individual moves it to the talk page, I'm fine with it and won't object. The discussion has gone to Jmlk17's talk page anyway (thanks to you :) and I may continue it there. - TwoOars (Rev) 17:47, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Always appreciate another culinarian

Would love to meet up sometime. However, gastronomy for us at BU is more of a liberal arts approach with no culinary aspect to it Ie. history, anthropology, economics, etc. I on the other hand have worked with many of the techniques used in Molecular gastronomy and would love to chat about it sometime. If you are working with sous-vide, you should really consider getting a temperature controlled water circulator as well. It will help keep the temperature when going for long-term cooking processes, such as cooking a steak to a perfect 110 degrees, which could take up to an hour. In a pot on the stove, you lose that control.

As for the newsletter, up until now I have kept it very project oriented, especially because I am so bogged down with school work and working on articles, the last thing I generally want to do is write yet another thing from my chaotic brain into a newsletter. Your idea seems great though and I think it would fit in well and make the newsletter a little less "business" like, with a bit of fun to it. I agree it would help others potentially cite information as well, I slightly cringe at people not getting the information directly from the book itself though. I am open to the idea though and think we should go ahead with it. If you want contact me on my e-mail which is on my main page. I'd like to keep personal conversations off of Wikipedia. Talk to you soon.--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 02:12, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter November 2007

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter November 2007
--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 04:37, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Random question, unrelated to everything except your username

What sort of thespian are you? On-stage, back-stage, both... I'm always surprised at the number of theatre people I run into on here. :)

Also, completely random, you could put {{Rfa-notice}} on your userpage to provide a handy-dandy link to your RfA. EVula // talk // ☯ // 05:13, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gavin's hook

You'll find it on this template, third from the bottom. The hook read:

...that Gavin Kaysen was undone at the Bocuse d'Or cooking competition because a dishwasher ate part of his entry?

Enjoy :) GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 17:21, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Love your Next Iron Chef edits

I haven't heard from you since you message and would love to talk to you. How did your sous-vide experiment go? I made some greyure cheese "caviar" tonight that I put on top of a country pate with a raspberry foam.--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 06:47, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Morou Ouattara, was selected for DYK!

Updated DYK query On November 3, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Morou Ouattara, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 18:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

I'm pleased to inform you that, consensus having been achieved, you are now an administrator. Please read all the material on the administrators' reading list before testing out your new privileges. For instructions, please see the administrators' how-to guide. Best of luck — Dan | talk 23:36, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Yay! -- llywrch 02:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Unexpected? Probably. Doesn't mean I don't know a good admin candidate when I see one and endorse the proposal accordingly. Congratulations! -Dustin —C.Fred (talk) 03:48, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


Congratulations, and thank you for the message. I am not always right, but I am very confident I was right on this issue. Let me know if you ever need any help. Best wishes, --John 04:52, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Well done, and good luck! And thank you for reading the talk page header and putting your message in the right place :) Neil ☎ 11:15, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] In Remembrance...

Remembrance Day


--nat Alo! Salut! Sunt eu, un haiduc?!?! 03:41, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

Good job there gurlie, sorry I haven't e-mailed you in the last couple days. Been a really busy weekend preparing for classes this week. I should be a bit more settled down tomorrow. --Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 05:38, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hey! Congrats!

Congrats on passing RfA :) If you need anything, feel free to ask! A couple suggestions: Wikipedia:IRC channels/wikipedia-en-admins, is an IRC channel, for admins on the english wikipedia. The folks there are generally plenty patient, and, were great at helping out the newb, at least in my case :) (However, you have to request permission, see the page I linked to). Also, a couple very helpful scripts to have as an admin... Twinkle (for block notices etc), and, CSD AutoReason, which is immensely helpful, in deleting thigs, it gives you a menu of CSD reasons... There's also This, which does the same for protection, also extremely helpful! :)

Anyhow, best of luck, and, if you need anything, feel free to ask :) SQLQuery me! 05:50, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Best of luck. All hands on deck next week! Bearian 13:52, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good job, Ms Admin

Congrats on the successful RfA, from one foodie to another.

- Jeremy (Jerem43 05:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Cancon

Hey! It was me who started The Western Investor article, and brought it to Bearcat's attention when whuzzizname was insisting on deleting it! Anyway, I am delighted to see your success at RfA and was happy to offer support. Congrats, --Paul Erik 13:07, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About your RfA

The admins' T-shirt. Acalamari 17:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
The admins' T-shirt. Acalamari 17:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations on your successful request for adminship. I am glad you passed, and you are welcome for the support. For information on using your new tools, see the school for new admins; you will find it very useful. Good luck! Acalamari 17:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Acalamari 17:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations from me too. Best of luck! PeaceNT 13:04, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm late! And I'm happy for you! I am sure you will do well and (continue to) be a boon to the project. =) ··coelacan 05:47, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Protection Toronto

Hi there. I'd just like to ask why you protected the Toronto article. As far as I can tell it hasn't been the subject of sustained vandalism or edit warring of late, just a couple of minor vandalism on a popular article and some good faith edits that weren't suitable. Ben W Bell talk 21:43, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

That's okay, it's not really a problem and I didn't want to step on another admin's toes by unprotecting it. I was just curious that's all. Well have a good day and good editing. Ben W Bell talk 12:34, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats and request

Congratulations on your Adminship! Since you are an administrator I have a request to make a completely harmless edit in the Battle of Jenin article. It is currently locked because of disputes so I can't do it. "It" is adding the Fatah flag to the combatants section of the infobox in place of the Fatah logo. Whenever you have time may you please do that favor for me and of course the article. Cheers! --Al Ameer son 09:01, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Thats alright, I understand where you're coming from. Thanks anyway! --Al Ameer son 17:21, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kindle article

Sorry, I completely missed your comment on the Suggestions page last week. If you still want to write an article on the Kindle, feel free to for next week's issue. For what it's worth, I've never rejected a well-written story on any subject, so if you think you've got an interesting article, go ahead and write it -- don't worry about my approval :) Ral315 » 06:12, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter December 2007

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter Decemberr 2007
--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 22:36, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Korean cuisine

Hey, can you move the cuisine template to the bottom of the Korean cuisine article when you get a chance, pleeeease.--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC (talk) 00:54, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you administrator lady!!!--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC (talk) 03:32, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] R3-30

Hey Thespian. Craig Norris reads your letter again, this time on their year-end "Top 100" show. How cool is that? Well done! --Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 21:17, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notice re Corinna Fugate

[edit] Corinna Fugate

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[edit] WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter January 2008

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter January 2008
--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC (talk) 05:37, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A request for your consideration regarding CAT:AOTR

...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "S"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "T"s through "Z"s (and beyond, apparently)! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 20:53, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] fair use images on user page

Just looking around, and I found the Target logo on your user page, which is a fair use logo allowed only in the Target Corporation article. Please read Wikipedia:Removal of fair use images. --Geopgeop (T) 17:04, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Corinna Fugate

[edit] Corinna Fugate

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[edit] Please clarify

What article are you talking about? (Or are you talking about my deletion process in general?) --Orange Mike | Talk 18:47, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Anywhere but here alternate.jpg)

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[edit] Deleted Article

On February 1, 2008, the article entitled Gameplasma was deleted. As you are one of the admins on the list for getting the text for review, I was wondering if there was a way I could see the article because I think that either it was wrongly deleted, or I can fix it to make it acceptable. I'm not quite sure what I should do as far as this matter is concerned, so I figured I would just ask you.

Awaiting reply, --GPJCollins (talk) 19:07, 10 April 2008 (UTC)GPJCollins

[edit] Speedy deletion of Image:Western investor show.jpg

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Image:Western investor street.jpg

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[edit] WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter June 2008

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter June 2008

--Chef Tanner (talk) 17:04, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

Thanks for the message, I noticed you have slowed down on editing yourself lately, how are things out there?--Chef Tanner (talk) 00:19, 11 June 2008 (UTC)