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There is no Cabal

User:Dendodge/Yes

This user is a member of the Wikipedia Ultra Secret Inner Inner Cabal, a cabal so secret that not only am I not allowed to know who the other members are, I am not even allowed to know if there are any other members, and if I ever did find out that anyone else was a member I would have to kill them immediately.

You can contact WUSIIC on #wikipedia-ultra-secret-inner-inner-cabal on Freenode. As a courtesy you are requested to kill yourself afterwards.


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This user is tired of silly drama on Wikipedia.
If you are going to be a dick, please be a giant dick, so we can ban you quickly and save time. Thank you so much.

I check in most evenings, and occasionally some days during the day. I am on UK time (I can see Greenwich Royal Observatory from my office). If you post a reply at 8pm EST and get no reply by 10pm, it's likely because I'm asleep. My wiki interests at the moment are limited. I still handle some OTRS tickets. You can find me on facebook: my profile. Please include your WP username if sending a friend request.

Dispute resolution, Bible style - and actually an excellent model on Wikipedia as well.

If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.'

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

— Matthew 18:15

Please do not try to provoke me to anger, it's not difficult to do, so it's not in the least bit clever, and experience indicates that some at least who deliberately make my life more miserable than it needs to be, have been banned and stayed that way. Make an effort to assume good faith and let's see if we can't get along. Guy (Help!) 22:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

the internets is populated by eggshells armed with hammers

Note to self

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Istria&diff=192329190&oldid=189359747

Hey

You've got mail. Khoikhoi 23:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unprotect request for "Emerald City Supporters" article

Wikipedia used to have an article on Emerald City Supporters (ECS), which is a group of supporters of the Seattle Sounders (association) football team. The article got deleted in January 2007, the reason being cited was non-notable. That was a fair decision. Then somebody tried to add the page in August 2008 and it got deleted again, and after it was added again the same day, you deleted it and protected the page. These were also fair decisions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_City_Supporters

Now, the circumstances have since changed, and Emerald City Supporters has become a notable group, and I'd like to ask you to unprotect the page so that I can add it. I will add an article with more information than just a stub, and will include references.

Up until this year the ECS supported the Seattle Sounders who played in the USL division one, a minor league in North America. Now the ECS supports Seattle Sounders FC, which is a new club that plays on the highest level of US/Canadian soccer, Major League Soccer (MLS). The group has been around since 2005 and now has 600 members. As a source for this number and the group's general notability I can cite this article from Seattle Times, the main spreadsheet newspaper in Seattle:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannyoneil/2008952027_oneil31.html

There are also a number of other references that illustrate the notability of the ECS:

http://www.europeanweekly.net/pages/soccer/soccer2.htm

http://www.stadionwelt.de/neu/sw_fans/index.php?folder=sites&site=news_detail&news_id=1940 (in German)

http://www.themindofscads.com/2008/03/supporter-groups.html

I would also like to point out that a number of other supporter groups of MLS teams have articles in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Major_League_Soccer_fan_clubs

I would argue that many of these groups are less notable than Emerald City Supporters.

--Ludvigant (talk) 02:04, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/JzG3

I've filed a request for comment on your use of admin tools while involved. I regret that this has become necessary; I think you know that your response is suggested. --Abd (talk) 03:14, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • You are a complete waste of my limited time. I am seriously wondering if you are on the autistic spectrum, your obsession with this is beyond any rational explanation. Guy (Help!) 08:33, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Just so you know, this RFC no longer has two certifiers but I have extended the 48 hours for certification until 1.10 UTC 6 April. Spartaz Humbug! 01:13, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks. Guy (Help!) 19:24, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry to bother you, Guy, but I thought maybe I should let you know that some other people have certified it. ☺Coppertwig (talk) 19:32, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh how amazing. Dan "every link is sacred" Tobias, the perennial gadfly and borderline troll, a perfect example of the kind of people Abd has on is side. What an absolute waste of the foundation's resources that is going to be. And to think he got it certified by WP:CANVASSing, too. Oh the irony. Guy (Help!) 17:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/JzG_3

A bit overboard :P It would be better if you closed that, and then went to challenge the certification at WT:RFC. I think that you will get the same result going either way, and the second way will cause way less drama. --Enric Naval (talk) 20:21, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Feel free to do just that, I am walking away from the whole mess. There's no realistic chance it will do any good at all, the problem is Abd and there's no way Abd is ever going to realise it. Guy (Help!) 21:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Guy sorry I had to close that MfD. You may well be right and the RfC may back fire at Abd. But you do need to act with calmness and exemplary behaviour. A day off my do wonders. --Salix (talk): 21:52, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Mate, I haven't the time to act with anything at all. I have $2m of projects to deliver by the end of the month and around another $2m backed up behind that. I've bought two CLARiiON SANs this year already and there's another in the works, plus I have some fiendishly difficult Bach to learn. As will be absolutely obvious to anyone who checks the (lack of) basis for the complaint, I've been close to inactive for quite a while. Guy (Help!) 11:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What Bach are you working on? I just did a concert with Christ lag in Todesbanden and his mass in G major, and I'm looking forward to the B minor mass next spring. Hal peridol (talk) 16:40, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Motets, with Singet dem Herrn being the tricky one. http://www.readingbachchoir.org.uk/concert3.html has details. Last Easter we did the St Matthew Passion (in the original German) with a period instrument band and Charles Medlam on gamba, it was the closest thing to a flawless concert I have ever experienced, absolutely magical. Guy (Help!) 16:54, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Some really nice repertoire in that concert. I always enjoy singing Bach, although I sometimes think that he hated basses :) Hal peridol (talk) 11:34, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He must have hated choirs. St Matthew's Passion alternates between chorals that bore me to death and pieces where you have to start on a random pitch, shut up a few seconds later, start on another random pitch etc. --Hans Adler (talk) 13:03, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think he loved choirs, he gave them things to sing which are thrilling and challenging. Did he hate basses? I don't think so. But I am a baritone so I don't have a problem with the occasional F# or G :-) Guy (Help!) 19:35, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, Cantata BWV 56. How could he have hated basses? Mathsci (talk) 22:50, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please refactor

(refactored out concerns about the comments above) Ikip (talk) 11:37, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It would reflect well on Guy if he refactored the comment. It would reflect really well on you if you didn't badger him and break into friendly conversations with demands and outrage that you've already expressed in various other forums. MastCell Talk 19:07, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
And it would reflecte even better on Abd if he showed some signs of just occasionaly accepting a consensus that goes against him. But he doesn't Ever. And somehow this is always the fault of everybody else. Guy (Help!) 08:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies Mastcell. I refactored out the comment, which I hope helps, and created a new subsection. I didn't mean to ruin the flow of the conversation. Ikip (talk) 11:52, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Site to blacklist?

Hello Guy, as far as I remember (from the "Cold Fusion" affaire) you're also an administrator on meta.

I noticed that on it.wiki there's a link that's frequently used as source, http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Now, I checked both the site and its record on pir.org, and noticed that it's a private site, with no reliability; further is sort of Bible-spamming site.

Since a lot of religion-related articles use that website as only source I report it to you for you discuss on meta whether keep it or insert in in the meta blacklist. Thanks for your attention :) SERGIUS (CATUS NIGER) 19:59, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Good grief - on the fornt page it talks about "dioceses", clearly not a site with any form of peer-review or fact checking! Guy (Help!) 21:12, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I looked osme more, I don't know what the meta community can do to help but I have lodged a request. Guy (Help!) 14:09, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What problem with "dioceses" would fact-checking identify? Captain Nemo III (talk) 20:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Notice for Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests

Hi, I see that the requested notice has been posted at Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests/Archive_45 rather than Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests. I wonder if you can fix that? Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 17:45, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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