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Archive 1: 1st March - 6th June 2006

Thank You

Thank you for supporting my Request for Adminship! I appreciate it and will do my best to maintain the faith you have shown in me! – Ben W Bell talk 07:15, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Anarchism

I haven't breached WP:3RR. My sourced edits have been repeatedly deleted, and I'm just reinserting them. If you look into the matter more thoroughly, you'll see that this has nothing to do with reverts and much more to do with a few users trying to delete edits that don't conform to their POV. --AaronS 21:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Good call. Thanks for your concern, too. This article is a terrible mess, and I commend anybody who tries to take a stab at it. I had taken a long hiatus from it, and I think I shall do the same, again. --AaronS 21:18, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Hogeye

I'm very convinced that's Hogeye, for a whole slew of reasons. It's very clear that a number of IPs are being used to make the same edit, suggesting someone is using multiple IPs. Hogeye has an extensive history of using open proxies, maybe the most extensive on record (see suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Hogeye) and has a mountain of disregard for 3RR and other policies (just as a few quick examples, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]). The pattern of these "random IP" edits are also very much Hogeye's style, (i.e. reverting to a very old version that supports his ideology, and attacking specific users through edit summaries). Also, some of the edits have been very clearly made through open proxies, as indicated by the slashes some open proxy sites generate ([7] [8]). I'm highly convinced that all these IPs are the same user, and that that user is Hogeye. He doesn't do much to hide it, and one of the IPs made dialogue in the anarchism talk page under "H." In the past he has actually signed explicitly under "Hogeye", even when he was banned. I appreciate other administrators becoming involved with this article, because I'll freely admit I have my own POV of the subject, and one that is contradictory to Hogeye's. I try to intervene as little as possible, but often it's not a page looked after by many other administrators. I actually wasn't involved in Hogeye's ban, which was related to violation of the 3RR, I've just been resetting it after it's been violated. But to be sure, there is a clear pattern to Hogeye's editing. As for the article, the version being used by the IPs is old, maybe a week, and some of the text that is inserted was written by Hogeye months ago. Such reversions are highly controversial, and as they clearly do not have consensus of most editors of the article, should be reverted. Some of his individual points are certainly worthy of discussion on the talk page, but should not be made unilaterally. Sarge Baldy 22:17, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Irony

While I sympathize greatly with your frustration over the edit war over Anarchism (been there, done that, got the Tshirt), I do find it somewhat ironic that there is somewhat a state of Anarchy in the page. It just appeals to my twisted sense of humor - Vedexent (talk · contribs) 22:32, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks so much!

Thanks for wishing me luck with that problem, I appreciate the thought! ~Kylu (u|t) 04:44, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

(This text here makes it individual and unique, Captainj!)

My RfA

Hello, Captainj, and thank you for voting on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 84/1/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. I will be slowly acclimating myself to my new tools over the next months, but welcome any and all feedback and suggestions on how I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! Kukini 15:04, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment requested on Emancipation

I've been reverting the addition of what seems to me to be a fairly obvious idiosyncratic entry on the Emancipation disambiguation page (diff). I'm trying to get some additional comment on this - please also see User_talk:FredrickS#Emancipation. - David Oberst 00:53, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Dear Captainj,

Thank you for being involved with the emancipation brawl. I must take responsibility for not conducting this better, but I can also only function at the max of my capabilities (as I hope is the case for all of us). I need to address something you addressed incorrectly about my first entry. I quote you: "And then, to make it worse, your first quotation, still don't explicitly mention PR (I didn't even bother to read the rest)."

[[9]] on suffrage of blacks, emancipation, and proportional representation. See point 2 in respect to the third paragraph under heading 'Improving Race Relations.' This link contains the words Political Representation as the header to the 12 point delivery. It explains what the 12 points are about (the benefits of PR). It is an edited delivery (but not by me), so the reader will understand what this manifest is talking about:

"[Proportional representation's] advantages over the majority vote may be roughly stated as follows:"

(which is then followed by those twelve points). Point number two states:

"2. It secures nearly complete representation of the whole body of voters in plural elections, by permitting each considerable interest of political society to take to itself its just share of representation by its own votes."

Then: in reference to every person being able to elect their own representatives, the (racist) complaint is addressed that blacks would then also get their own representatives. It is referred to later in the third paragraph under heading 'Improving Race Relations:'

"Unquestionably there is a large mass of honest opinion in the country opposed to colored suffrage, and many of those who support it in Congress and out of Congress put their support of it upon the ground of necessity -- upon the ground that in order to secure the fruits of emancipation it is necessary that the emancipated be armed with the power of self defense."

As a last note: Foreign dictionaries are of importance for a Disambiguity page. When many European articles are translated into English (for it is the current global language) then the reader should be helped to understand the immediate translation.

I pride myself in having put 'suffragettes' on this page. I am currently trying to place 'marxism' on this page. According to me, if there is a need to explain a version of a word, it should be noted on the disambiguity page. Since marxism is such a stark delivery of the political context, I expect that nobody will dare to touch it (though maybe the emancipation of women will get pushed back to 'history.'

It is okay if you do not want to communicate on this any further. I understand that I have stressed you to the max already. Best regards. FredrickS 16:35, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

August Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: To-Do List The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential! What's New? In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs. To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed! The In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created. Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program. There is a page for discussing the front page redesign. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiproject Proposal

Hi, I am posting this message to everyone who has edited on animal rights or animal welfare related articles in the last couple of months. I have just created a proposal for a WikiProject to help co-ordinate editors on the many articles under the mentioned subjects. If you would like to find out about it or show your support for such a project, please visit User:Localzuk/Animal Rights Proposal and Wikipedia:WikiProject/List of proposed projects#WikiProject Animal Rights and Welfare. Cheers, Localzuk ^(talk) 10:38, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Peer review/Socialist Studies (1989)/archive1

I note from Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics that you're a member of WikiProjects Politics and are based in the UK. I was wondering if you might be able to contribute to a peer review of Socialist Studies, a political group in the UK active since 1991. The request for peer review can be found at Wikipedia:Peer review/Socialist Studies (1989)/archive1. —Psychonaut 05:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

This needs to be solved

I have taken the "List of Companies" problem (what to do with an entire class of articles that get repeatedly submitted for deletion en mass?) for debate to two different places. This really needs to be solved once and for all (we can't keep debating the same stuff for eternity). Would you take a look at either the discussion on the Village Pump or the relevant wikiproject? Aditya Kabir 15:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Global Brain

Hello Captainj,

I am rewriting the Global Brain article that has been deleted because of its poor quality. I did get the history of the edits, and I noticed that you once cleaned the article up, noticing some copyright issues (many things were copy-pastes of the "Global Brain FAQ"). It was true of course; but the ironic thing is that the author who made this copy-paste is the author of this FAQ (Francis Heylighen, my collaborator)!

Do you have any idea of what could have been done to avoid this absurd situation?

Best regards, Clément Vidal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clementvidal (talk • contribs) 15:49, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Invitation

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Circle packing on a strip

I'm not sure if you're still interested, but you asked a question here about 5 years ago, and it's finally been answered :). --99of9 (talk) 04:59, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

List of prominent members, Savile Club

Your comment about plausibility....I knew all these members personally and their membership can be vouched for in the irregularly published membership Lists of the Savile Club.

John Turtle — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.142.65 (talk) 11:52, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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Possible removal of AWB access due to inactivity

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