User talk:Shell Kinney

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Welcome to my Talk Page I am retired, so if you're looking to contact me, please use the box over there --->  Contact info Send me an email through Wikipedia or shell.kinneygmail.com ICQ: 12502641 Gtalk: shell.kinney Skype: shell.kinney  So long and thanks for all the fish Thank you for all of the warm wishes and generally nice thoughts sent in my direction. I have retired from all Wikimedia projects and turned in all my extra tools as a security measure (we all appreciate those now, don't we?). For those few of you who were disappointed at not getting a whole ton of gossip out of my explanation for leaving (and didn't think to ask me privately, duh) I can only offer this cartoon as penance. Best of luck to all of you and feel free to keep in touch (see above). Shell babelfish 11:44, 5 July 2011 (UTC) Lianne Tiernan delete -reason? Can you tell me why the article(s) on "Leanne Tiernan" (plus "Murder of Lianne Tiernan" referred to as substantially the same) was (were) deletedCj1340 (talk) 16:39, 23 March 2010 (UTC) Thanks Murder of Lianne Tiernan was deleted in June 2007 after the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murder of Leanne Tiernan; Leanne Tiernan was deleted shortly after since it was simply a repost of the same material. In the future, you can look up deletion reasons yourself by going to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete and searching for the article name. Shell babelfish 22:56, 24 March 2010 (UTC) :) Hello Shell Kinney,  Abu Torsam  has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Possibly delicate issue Shell, can you please take a look at User talk:Ash#Your talk page header? If you are blissfully unfamiliar with the background, please see this ANI thread or this current farce of an MfD. I have encouraged Ash to start an RFC/U to explore their various accusations, but I have run out of patience for their constant and widespread unsubstantiated smears elsewhere. I am only asking for your involvement in the talk page issue - the rest should get sorted out soon enough at RFC. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 23:53, 24 March 2010 (UTC) Oh, and while you're checking that page, please also check how Delicious carbuncle has responded to the Dr process thus far. [1] and [2] 38.109.88.180 (talk) 02:32, 25 March 2010 (UTC) Thank you Thank you for your comments regarding my work on the article Tom Cruise Purple, in the thread at WP:BLPN. -- Cirt (talk) 20:11, 25 March 2010 (UTC) No problem. It looks like you're discussing and finding compromises to improve the article; can't ask for more than that :) Shell babelfish 20:16, 25 March 2010 (UTC) Thank you very much, for acknowledging that I have been doing just that! Most appreciated. ;) -- Cirt (talk) 20:17, 25 March 2010 (UTC) AfD nomination of United States Basketball Association An article that you have been involved in editing, United States Basketball Association, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States Basketball Association. Thank you. Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Mateinsixtynine (talk) 20:16, 29 March 2010 (UTC) Dispute You may know that there is an ongoing dispute between myself and User:Mathsci, who has told me that you are "dealing with this at the moment". Is that correct? If so, I would quite like to move forward as it is all getting rather tiresome. Mathsci has presumably given you his side of the story: since I shall be away for a little while I thought it might be good to let you see it from my point of view. Briefly I have been subject to a sustained program of harassment, hounding, abuse, insult and personal attacks from M. Hounding Topological group. My first edit reverted by M the same day (26/09/2009) as "unhelpful". Restored by consensus on the article talk page. Thomas Octavius Prichard. New article by me PRODded within three hours by M as a "hoax" [3]. The PROD was contested by another user. This was clear bad faith, as the article already had reliable sources available and easy to check online, and M did not go to the article talk page to explain his concerns. (Amazingly M later reversed his position and is now editing the article quite productively.) Semigroup. New section by me reverted by M within five hours as misleading and misreprenting a source [4]. In fact it is not mentioned in that source and another version with reliable source references available online was reverted again by M within five hours as "spurious", "misleading", "speculative", "WP:UNDUE", "WP:SYNTH". Consensus on article talk page suggests that M has simply misunderstood the use of the word "semigroup" here. Harassment Bizarre SPI against me, closed with no action: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Quotient group Complaint to ANI with no previous attempts at dispute resolution, made three hours after SPI closed, clear case of forum-shopping, sank without trace: [5] Abuse, insult and personal attacks At Talk:Charles Sanford Terry (historian), where I had detected a minor error "wikistalking" "account likely to be blocked" [6] "QG has been following me around in a rather creepy way." "All his contributions to wikipedia are creepy." [7] Groundless accusations of sockpuppetry and wikihounding broadcast in numerous venues [8] [9] [10] Numerous edit summaries involving such words as "sockpuppet", "wikistalk", "misleading", "misrepresenting", "trolling", list too long and boring to compile right now See also [11] although to be fair M blanked it later Let me address those recent accusations of sockpuppetry. M alleges that a Checkuser has authorised him to say that I am a sockpuppet of User:A.K.Nole, User:Matilda and User:Maud. I don't know what he has been told, certainly I have not been informed of any such findings. As far as I'm concerned the Nole thing was rejected at the SPI mentioned above. Maud has edited just once, five years ago. Matilda is a retired admin. These allegations as reported by M are just obvious nonsense. Whatever M may or may not have been told, to broadcast these allegations without even troubling to see that they are in fact totally unbelievable is irresponsible and a clear attempt to harass and denigrate me. My position is -- I want to continue editing without finding my work being promptly reverted by Mathsci on spurious grounds accompanied by insults. I can cheerfully undertake not to follow him around either. If you are handling this dispute, please consider whether these actions by User:Mathsci are appropriate, and whether my proposals are acceptable? If not, and someone else is in charge of the case, please would you advise them, and me? If in fact no-one at all is looking into this, please would you do so? Thanks. Quotient group (talk) 17:06, 2 April 2010 (UTC) I am aware of the situation and have been following up. We're now in a position where some of the information is best discussed privately, however, you don't have email enabled. Since I do (and I also have numerous other contacts listed at the top of this page), would you please email me or contact me via another method so we can discuss the results of the checkuser specifically and the current issue more generally. Thanks. Shell babelfish 20:03, 2 April 2010 (UTC) I have enabled email. Quotient group (talk) 21:32, 2 April 2010 (UTC)