User talk:Mathsci/Archive 22

Happy New Year

In your arbcom comment here[1] you've mixed your metaphors. Please don't do that. It opens up a can of worms that needs to be derailed before it can take flight. Mr. Language Person (talk) 15:43, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

I did it for Ryan since he traditionally would be regarded as being from Up North (to be honest I'm originally from even further up there but still south of the border). Mathsci (talk) 15:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Your assistance is welcome if you have any interest in Grange Furniture or Prelle Silk. Merci. ChildofMidnight (talk) 03:41, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello. You always catch me when I'm in California, so I'm not sure I can be of much help at the moment. Happy New Year to you too. Mathsci (talk) 05:12, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Re:Satt 2

I'm fairly certain all/most of his uploads should be deleted. I'm giving him a chance to come clean about it... J Milburn (talk) 22:48, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

New ANI created.

I believe I should give you a heads-up on this ANI regarding Proofreader77 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Proofreader77_Established_record_of_continuous_unrelenting_Disruptive_Editing

--Tombaker321 (talk) 09:09, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

hey

I saw this edit of yours: [2] how can you see how many people that are watching your talkpage? --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 12:00, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

It is one of the newer options on the associated history page. Mathsci (talk) 17:09, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Reply

Hiya, I replied on my talkpage. BTW, I'm probably going to be passing through Marseille in a few months. If you're still there, would you like to get together for a coffee or something? I always enjoy meeting another Wikipedians.  :) --Elonka 17:23, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

@ Elonka: I'm in Cambridge at the moment, but will be back in Aix-en-Provence at the end of March. Although Marseille is fascinating, Aix is a more charming place to have a wikipedia meetup. (In fact one of the pictures in the gallery shows the horodateur next to my apartment and the church where I am allowed to play the organ.)

@ PHG. I have a little bit of experience in contributing edits about the archaeology of Marseille and the Côte Bleue. For example I added details about the recent CNRS dig near Gare St Charles and wrote La Couronne, Bouches-du-Rhône while writing La Vieille Charité. Glanum is described as having hellenstic influences, because of contacts with Massalia, but as being originally built by Celto-Ligurians. It is situated outside St Remy next to St-Paul-le-Mausolée. This is not what you have written. Read this reference for example [3] or this [4], etc. Glanum was excavated by Henri Rolland (1887-1970) [5] [6] [7]. The well-established consensus is that hellenistic Massilia exerted an influence on the settlements in Southern Provence, but that is not what you have written. It seems to be agreed that the archaeological findings in Glanum date from the second century BC. Even with Marseille, you don't mention that extensive parts of the Greek port can be seen in the Jardin des Vestiges in the centre of town. The original settlement was in the Panier quarter of Marseille. That is recorded in books on the history of Marseille (like the one used for writing the references in the main article). You seem to have gone one step too far in implying that the Greeks settled parts of Provence rather than that Marseille exerted an influence. You are simply misrepresenting the sources in order to push a personal point of view. I'm sorry, but that is not the way to contribute to this encyclopedia. Mathsci (talk) 07:17, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

AE thread

You asked to be kept informed, so FYI, the AE thread has been filed at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Request concerning Per Honor et Gloria. --Elonka 23:00, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Since it appears that the AE thread was not the proper venue, the request for the extension of the topic ban on PHG has instead been filed here. You may wish to move your statement to that location, or if you give me your permission, I can handle it. --Elonka 07:39, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Race and Intelligence

I know you haven't participated in the mediation lately. But I think this one thread could really benefit from your take:

[8]

Slrubenstein | Talk 20:17, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

ArbCom case

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:Arbitration/Requests/Case/ChildofMidnight/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/ChildofMidnight/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 04:36, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Auguste Pavie

Hi, you added a reference to Orborne 2007 to Auguste Pavie in 2008 (and later fixed it to Osborne 2007). Did you mean the book Osborne, Milton (2006), The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future, Allen & Unwin, p. 129–134, ISBN 1741148936 that is among general references or some other? Thanks. Svick (talk) 19:11, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

What else could it have been if I consistently use harvnb and harvtxt? Mathsci (talk) 00:39, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I just wanted to be sure. Svick (talk) 01:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Abd and GoRight

G'day Mathsci. I don't know you and you don't know me but so long as we're being called a cabal we may as well act like one, right? (j/k)

So I'm somewhat perplexed as to what (if anything) to do about User:Abd and possibly also User:GoRight (who exhibits similar editing characteristics). As you've already noted, Abd appears to be angling towards some sort of "mistrial" claim because he's blocked (ironically for comments made in the request), because "any useful clarification would require more discussion than can be accomplished at RfAr/Clarification"(?), and because he claims I interfered with his request by pointing out that we've been here before. This is presumably a prelude to another timesink RfAr.

If he would just respect the editing restriction as intended (which surely is obvious unless you have a severe case of selective hearing) then many of the problems would go away, but as it stands he has a remarkable ability to turn even routine matters into full on goat rodeos. Perhaps we have little left to do but wait for him to hang himself by getting "community banned for persistent disruption and wikilawyering"? -- samj _in^out 13:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, hopefully this will put an end to the madness (at least for me). -- samj _in^out 22:26, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

As you might have gathered I have been away from home (on a conference), so have not been looking at wikipedia. The cabal thing is nothing new - just another way of Abd and GoRight trying to deflect attention from their own disruption. I think they are beginning to tire out almost everybody, including most of ArbCom. Mathsci (talk) 07:05, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Meetup in Cambridge, 27 March

See Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 6 - much as before. We'd be glad to see you. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:36, 22 March 2010 (UTC)