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Thanks for the inspiration!

Inspiration for real-life creativity award

Hey there! I saw your article, Dead Women Crossing, Oklahoma, on DYK a while back. My goal this summer has been to write six short plays, and your article proved to be an intriguing basis for the first of six that I wrote, aptly titled Dead Women Crossing. It turned out to be an exciting mystery, and though I changed many of the details and, in fact, assigned the blame for the crime to someone other than the person to whom the article assigned it, it still proved a very solid and mysterious basis in fact. I just wanted to give you props for starting the article that inspired this one-act. Thanks so much, and keep it up! BobAmnertiopsis ∴_ChatMe! 03:11, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for letting me know my work was useful for you! It is the best award any wikipedia contributor could get. Good luck with your work.--Mbz1 (talk) 03:16, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're so welcome. It was an intriguing article. BobAmnertiopsis ∴_ChatMe! 03:26, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

Per your email request today, I've indefinitely blocked you. Take care, Rd232 ^talk 10:15, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

Hi Mila,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Bluff erosion in Pacifica 2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 26, 2011. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2011-07-26. howcheng {chat} 02:45, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations

Congratulations on getting today's feature picture on the main page. I'm also sorry to see that you've allowed the bullies push you into despair to leave the project. You are a valued editor and have contributed more in several days than they have since they registered. I understand that you are leaving the project because of trolls and administrators that are acting on their behalf. I'm hoping to see you back when you are ready. --Shuki (talk) 06:19, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for kind words, Shuki! Actually I was going to leave the project for quite some time because I am busy in real life, and not because of trolls and wikihounds. Leaving the project because of trolls and their pet administrators acting on their requests means allow them to win. It is not for me. But you are right about trolls taking over the project. In June of 2005 RickK, who I believe was an administrator had this to say: "There is a fatal flaw in the system. Vandals, trolls and malactors are given respect, whereas those who are here to actually create an encyclopedia, and to do meaningful work, are slapped in the face and not given the support needed to do the work they need to do." It is sad that now in July of 2011 (6 years after it was said) I could sign under each statement RickK made. I also could sign under this comment that definitely is true concerning quite a few administrators: "The way you dish out blocks is worse than any admin I've ever seen, but you cannot or will not accept that there is a problem. You lack the judgement, and the thickness of skin, to do the job properly; you lack the compassion, humanity and humility to admit it when you fuck up". OK, I guess I'd better stop here :-) Best wishes, and happy editing to you,Shuki.--Mbz1 (talk) 17:47, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for "compassion, humanity and humility"! I makes me sad to see the best leaving. Looks like I could have written my essay on "rejected" also for you, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:05, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for kind words,Gerda. I've just read some editor's contributions, and it made me sad seeing such interesting content contributor got so desperate that they decided to leave.It was very kind of you,Gerda, to be there for this person, when they needed some words of support. Best wishes, and happy editing.--Mbz1 (talk) 13:05, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Marvellous photos of natural optical phenomena

I just want to express my sincere gratitude to Mbz1 for making these fantastic photos of spectacular natural optical phenomena publicly available. I used her photos in two of my research papers published in professional scientific journals:

Mishchenko, M. I., 2009: Gustav Mie and the fundamental concept of electromagnetic scattering by particles: a perspective, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 110, 1210-1222

Mishchenko, M. I., and L. D. Travis, 2008: Gustav Mie and the evolving discipline of electromagnetic scattering by particles, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 89, 1853-1861

In both cases Mbz1's photos served as vivid illustrations of profound physical laws controlling the interaction of light with small cloud particles suspended in air. I hope Mbz1 will continue to make such photos and post them on the web -- this is a great service to both professional scientists, amateur researchers, and all admirers of nature.

Thank you for the kind words.Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 10:59, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:The best way to avoid ever being blocked

This discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

Wikipedia:The best way to avoid ever being blocked, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:The best way to avoid ever being blocked and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:The best way to avoid ever being blocked during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Nik thestoned 08:40, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the funniest MfD I've ever got, and for making fun of me :-) I like to laugh even, if the subject is myself, and I mean it. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 13:22, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd hardly call it making fun of you when you requested the block yourself by email... Nik thestoned 11:45, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's OK. I really do not mind, if somebody making fun of myself.As a matter of fact I am the first one to make fun of myself, and it is funny that an editor who is blocked indefinitely was not able to follow her own simple instructions :-) in order not to get blocked :-) Besides no matter of the outcome of this MfD I am having a great time with this. First of all during the three days it was nominated it got many more views than it got during its prior lifespan (so my work did not go down in vain :-)), second of all I am really enjoying some laughable arguments of two File:TrollFace.svg

(I hope they recognize themselves in these pictures :-) ), so thanks to you I am having a good time all around with this MfD. Cheers.--Mbz1 (talk) 16:00, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Come back!

Come back! We need you! Your contributions were invaluable!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:14, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the kind words, but I am afraid that now after my blocking administrator has retired coming back for me would be quite impossible :-) On a more serious note I am busy in a real life. I might come back one day, but it will not be any time soon. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 15:44, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

notice

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Tarc (talk) 19:24, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mbz1, I've reblocked without talkpage access, as this breaches our informal email agreement on what sort of use of your talkpage while blocked is acceptable. Sorry, but there it is. On the bright side, you now have no excuse at all not to seek out greener pastures. Rd232 ^talk 19:38, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea why this prolific user would be denied talk page access for saying "trolls" with a pair of cartoons, while this edit summary raised no eyebrows, even as that editor seemed involved with some odd argument about moving around comments on this userpage which doubtless had some role in provoking this response. I'm just glad that Mbz1 and his exceptional photography are still welcome on Commons, which still remembers that content should always be the highest priority. Wnt (talk) 21:03, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wnt, it is actually much worse than that. Do you rememberthis AfD? In your vote you commented on the personal attacks made against the author of the article mbz1. You said " Especially I ask that the ad hominem arguments against the editor who started the article be ignored - I've been running into a glut of these arguments with santorum, Marcus Bachmann, even Bernard Lewinsky ... they are perverting the whole AfD process into a series of political trials, where articles are judged based on "whose side" they were created for and which side can get out the vote as needed. ". Then a few days later an absolutely innocent essays Mbz1 wrote was nominated on deletion. The same user that attacked Mbz1 on AfD now comes to MfD with more personal attacks. When that user is asked by another user to elaborate what she meant, she simply ignores the question. A few hours later yet another user comes up to the same MfD with more personal attacks and more false accusations against mbz1 "This is not reflective of anything other than the personal opinion of one of the worst battleground- mentality pov-warriors to grace the I-P topic area in recent memory. Repeatedly blocked and now indef'ed, this last finger-in-the-eye to the Wikipedia community should not be left to stand." What that user is voting about? Does this humors essay has anything at all to do with I/P conflict not to say that all accusations of that user are very, very far from the reality. The vast majority of Mbz1's articles have nothing to do with I/P conflict, and the ones that do, well, what POV Mbz1 pushed with Allah Made Me Funny or with Yoni Jesner and Ahmed Khatib or with The Mountain of Israeli-Palestinian Friendship or with Arab rescue efforts during the Holocaust? Should I go on with this list? What other editor wrote such articles about the opposite side of the conflict?

After Mbz1 is personally attacked a few times in the same MfD she responds to the attacks in the only place she was able to do it on her own talk page. One of the attackers takes her to AN, and bah her talk page access is removed without giving her an opportunity to say a single word in her defense. It is much worse than Kangaroo court. Now Mbz1's talk page access is removed and her attackers are not even warned. Way to go Wikipedia. Broccolo (talk) 16:34, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mbz1 was blocked at her request, and as I said there was a private agreement not to use her talkpage while blocked for attacking other editors. Concurrently, it is very bad form to come to a blocked user's talkpage to attack them, so I hope there will be no more of that. But even concerned/interested comments like yours are not really necessary or helpful at this point. Those interested in talking to her can reach her at Commons, where her account is not blocked (though not currently active). Rd232 ^talk 10:22, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmmm... Well, as someone who's had many, many POV differences with Mbz1, frankly I'd suggest her talkpage access ought to be restored. It seems to me that talkpage access being restricted is a rather extreme, "bind and gag" measure, which ought to be reserved for grossly disruptive behavior. Mbz1 may a persistent I-P warrior and the source of constant consternation, but this strikes me as pretty far from grossly disruptive behavior.

Without trying to appear too critical of Rd232 - "private agreement"s are probably not the best way to operate, particularly in cases where the editor you're going into a "private agreement" with is often the source of wikilawyering. NickCT (talk) 13:18, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mbz1's exit involved private issues, which required a private agreement to resolve. I've restored access now (before seeing your comment). Rd232 ^talk 08:22, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok Rd232. I guess without having the details of the "private issues", one can only assume you acting properly and in good faith. Thanks for restoring the access. NickCT (talk) 13:42, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mbz1, talkpage restored. Please be very careful not to use it make comments which may be construed as attacks on other editors, regardless of what other editors are saying here or elsewhere. Rd232 ^talk 08:22, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Arabic Mein Kampf

On 4 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Arabic Mein Kampf, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Arabic translation of Mein Kampf has been a bestseller in parts of the Middle East? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 00:13, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for an interesting article! It's now at Portal:Germany. I tell others editors: feel free to place DYK related to Germany there yourself. Feel free?! - I took your caring words above to my heart, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:32, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please come back in your own time

I do hope you will come back at some stage, Mbz1. You can be exasperating and high maintenance, and I get really annoyed with how volatile you get and with some of your politics. You are also magnificently off field and deliciously creative. If Wikipedia can't accommodate you, that is a really serious indictment of Wikipedia, not of you. --Epipelagic (talk) 14:07, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's right, and then Jimbo complains wikipedia is loosing contributors. Broccolo (talk) 19:40, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Request permission to use image

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing on behalf of Singapore's National Parks Board. My company is right now at pre-production stage of a multimedia presentation, for the project "Gardens by the Bay" located in Marina South, Singapore. Gardens by the the Bay is a city garden and is currently under construction. Some key features and activities of the garden include conservatories for cool climate plants, mass floral displays showcasing horticulture and floriculture.

We are creating a video (comprising of various photos as well as stock footage of different events and happenings that are a result of climate change and global warming) aims to educate the public on global issues related to climate change. While researching online, I found a picture on this site (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glaciers_and_Icebergs_at_Cape_York.jpg) that is perfect for our purpose as we are looking at real untouched pics, documentary-like visuals. Thus I am writing you this email to seek your permission to use the picture.

This exhibition will be completed in June - Year 2012 and we hope you will have the opportunity to visit the site in the near future.

Hope to receive a reply from you soon : )

Jayne Multimedia People Pte Ltd Singapore — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.75.202.48 (talk) 02:53, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great Photos!

I am a professor at the University of Montana Western in Dillon, and I am co-authoring the second edition of the Roadside Geology of the Yellowstone Country with Dr. William J. Fritz. I was searching the web for a photo of Grand Prismatic and found your pictures. The book we are publishing is through Mountain Press, and we do not have budget for purchasing photos. However, we appropriately credit all photos. I was wondering if it would be possible to use a few of your photos from Yellowstone in the book? Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to hearing back from you.

Cordially, Dr. Robert C. Thomas Professor of Geology The University of Montana Western

Well, it is time to say goodby

Why I asked to be blocked

There was a record in my block log that became a constant torture to me. So I asked to be blocked in order to remove this record, but later on, after I was blocked, I realized that it was not the record itself that tortured me, but rather it was my own behavior, when I cowardly agreed on humiliating and unwarranted unblock conditions, and in this I have nobody to blame but myself. Of course it is only a website, but I suddenly thought: what if in a real life I would agree to say something that is going against my principles as easy as I did here,on wikipedia, and it was this thought that tortured me. Now, when I am blocked, I feel better. I am trying to think about this as that I turned the clock back, that I have never agreed to be unblocked by betraying myself.Of course it is not exactly honest approach, the clock cannot be turned back,but it was the best I could have done. That's why I no longer care about my block log's record, if somebody wants to bring back the record in question, please do.It is not the redaction of my block log's record that is important to me, but the block itself, and that's why I've decided to follow tarc's wish, and to add template indefinitely blocked user to my talk page (would appreciate somebody adds the same template to my user page as well.)

I'd also like to say very clear: I will never sock. As I explained above this self-requested block was requested to come to terms not with wikipedia, but with myself. That's why I am going to respect this block, and I will never violate it. It is also why I cannot appeal the block. If back in December, I've chosen to stay blocked and appealed it to ArbCom, it would have been the right thing to do. Now appealing self-requested block would be a very silly thing to do. So no appeal is possible for me in my situation, which means I will never (what a scary word "never") come back.

I know that probably most of you would have difficulties in understanding the meaning of what I said above. Well, it is because I came from a different culture, and because of my English, but I tried to explain my feeling the best I could.

Rd232

I'd like to thank Rd232 for being kind and brave. The redaction that he did in my block log was a courageous thing to do. A few days ago Rd232 removed my talk page access. He was right to do it. I promised to him in a private email do not use my talk page to attack other users even, if I am attacked myself. I broken my promise, and my talk page access was removed. I was very hurt, when it happened, but now I am glad that I was proven that my block is for real because of the reasons I stated above. The more real my block is the better I feel.

I'd like to apologize to Rd232 for letting him down.

I am very sorry that Rd232 decided to retire because he is one of a very few administrators who were making difference in dispute resolution process.

HJ Mitchell

I will never be able to express how thankful I am to HJ Mitchell who on two occasions kindly reverted grave dancing posts from my talk page.

I'd also like to ask everybody to be kinder to each other, most of all to people who are down, who cannot respond. We all, including me, should remember "Do not do to others that which you do not want them to do to you".

Having said this, I personally became much stronger over the last few days, and I no longer ask you to be kind to me. Everybody, and I mean everybody, is welcome to this talk page, and is welcome to say whatever he/she wishes to say about me, if it makes him/her feel better.

Goodby

I'd like to thank everybody who stopped by in the last few days. I wish you a happy editing, and... well... it is a time to say goodby.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:42, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]