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NCISfan2

Thanks for your comments on User:NCISfan2's talk page. This is getting out of hand, although there's a little more than meets the eye where 206 is concerned. I'm considering an incident report of some sort; any thoughts on what the next move might be? Secret investigations and template abuse are not good signs; I know this is a school-aged user, but he may lack the maturity to be participating here. --Drmargi (talk) 23:53, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, I have no idea what to do about the guy. I'm not sure if it's a lack of maturity, competence, or something else entirely. I'd like to see him turn it around, but I haven't seen that he's interested in hearing constructive criticism. I'd hoped someone would take him in hand, but then he declared himself adopted by an editor who has hardly been seen in 2012. If someone else takes the lead in going down the dispute resolution path I'd be happy to help out as I can, but he'd have to first acknowledge that there's a problem for that to be effective. Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 00:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm inclined to agree with 206, that this is beyond the point of simple ignoring. He doesn't seem to understand, or care to understand rules, he's predatory in his use of warning templates, and frankly, he doesn't seem to quite have a grip on what he can and cannot do around here. I want to read his edit history back a month or two, then have a think. No one incident is all that bad, but when we begin to add them up, they fall into a pattern that doesn't neatly fit into any of the conventional forms of dispute resolution. He's an odd one, all right. --Drmargi (talk) 02:59, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I may have dumb-lucked across the answer. Check out this edit: [1] and this: [2]. Notice the common ground: Lego, Roblox, NCIS and a fascination with editing his user page, but few other edits. I hear ducks quacking. What do you think? --Drmargi (talk) 14:39, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It wouldn't surprise me, but then, there's not a lot about this kid that would surprise me at this point. The similarity of the sigs quacks to me. Time to open a report at WP:SPI? Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 03:30, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SPI is open here: [3]. Your'e right about the signature. --Drmargi (talk) 13:10, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Aaaand, he's blocked. --Drmargi (talk) 13:34, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A friendly hello

We crossed swords briefly regarding Solano County but I want to say hello in a more friendly way, and not leave you with a grim impression. I live in Oakland but I've quite enjoyed a handful of trips to Healdsburg, mainly to mix sound for jazz festival shows at the Raven. I have not yet written Bear Republic Brewery but I may some day, because I like Racer 5 IPA so much. I've biked along West Dry Creek with friends for wine tasting, but I have not yet visited Pug's Leap whose cheese is just fantastic. (There's another article to write!) Anyway, cheers to you on a wet Friday. Binksternet (talk) 21:26, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh… Don't get me started on the many places in Healdsburg, California that should have articles but don't. Off the top of my head, and besides the ones you mention, there's:
But yeah, it's a great place to live! Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 03:30, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Healdsburg appears to have avoided, narrowly, the sort of utopian communities that set up shop in and around Santa Rosa a century ago, such as Fountain Grove and Altruria, and Icaria Speranza near Cloverdale. Then there's all the commune fuss around Ukiah starting with Mann Ranch in the 1960s. To me, Healdsburg is idyllic enough as it is.
The Raven is just a classic rectangular shoebox-shaped movie venue, not really conducive to good sound, yet they have so many famous performers come through. My favorite was Charlie Haden who I had assisted one time at the Monterey Jazz Festival in the early '90s with his Liberation Music Orchestra—a horrible, horrible train wreck of a show punctuated by Haden screaming at the other musicians and even the gospel choir because they were too loud for his painful tinnitus. By June 2008, though, he had mellowed considerably and his hearing problems had been sorted out; Haden's show that night at the Raven was inspired, enchanting and riveting. I was struck dumb at the difference between the two gigs. Binksternet (talk) 05:04, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
That sounds to me like the Healdsburg article needs some coverage of the Seventh-day Adventist Church era, then (see Pacific Union College#History for more, although now I should add Rio Lindo Academy to the list above as well). They're why a town with ~10K people has a "University Avenue."

I think that with a little work, the Raven could be an absolutely amazing place for live music—I'm always baffled (like when driving out to Sebastopol's Studio E) why more concerts aren't held in H'burg. Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 05:43, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Talk:Miloš Obilić

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 Not done

-Good catch

On Ali A. Tehrani. DGG ( talk ) 04:52, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just part o' the job, sir… (and thanks!). Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 05:43, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Further details at User talk:Ali.A.Tehrani and WT:WikiProject Medicine#Hoax ?.

Entry for Mega Wars III

Dori, I have not been able to get on recently but I just read your email which was I believe because I placed a reference to the topic to a page I maintain. I am not sure I understand why you think this is for promotional purposes since I get no income from this and really don't talk about myself except in context of the topic. The two references in the topic to articles by Maury Markowitz both produce 404 page not found errors. I think I have one of those articles on my site but truthfully the only thing I have done with the site recently is pay the bill.

I love and use Wikipedia and would like to add to it but I am not sure about how to do it within the guidelines, which I will go back and reread after this.

For instance I have been working on a post describing the Houston Techfest, which I founded and have run for the last 5 years. We have had almost 1,000 people attending and we are moving to a new venue this year. I just mention myself in passing, in context, but I wonder if this would be viewed as promotional also?

I will go back and re-read the guidelines but any guidance you can provide would be welcome. Thank you,

Starhawk (talk) 18:28, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your edit to MegaWars III: please read User:DoriSmith/onCOI. Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 01:31, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wiidakko

help triage some feedback

Hey guys.

I appreciate this isn't quite what you signed up for, but I figured as people who are already pretty good at evaluating whether material is useful or not useful through Special:NewPages, you might be interested :). Over the last few months we've been developing the new Article Feedback Tool, which features a free text box. it is imperative that we work out in advance what proportion of feedback is useful or not so we can adjust the design accordingly and not overwhelm you with nonsense.

This is being done through the Feedback Evaluation System (FES), a tool that lets editors run through a stream of comments, selecting their value and viability, so we know what type of design should be promoted or avoided. We're about to start a new round of evaluations, beginning with an office hours session tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to help preemptively kill poor feedback, come along to #wikimedia-office and we'll show you how to use the tool. If you can't make it, send me an email at okeyes@wikimedia.org or drop a note on my talkpage, and I'm happy to give you a quick walkthrough in a one-on-one session :).

All the best, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:39, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Gahame surname

Hi Dori

I have read the articles you mentioned and understand that enough is enough with regard my surname Gahame edits. I do hope that I will continue to improve over time and I am putting more effort in to the Paletta surname, which seems ok at the moment.

Thanks for your feedback.

Regards

Robert

21.3.2012

(Robert gahame (talk) 07:41, 21 March 2012 (UTC))[reply]

Moved this (and my response) to User talk:Robert gahame#Please stop creating identical articles.

User page

Hi

I was unaware that my User page was viewable to everyone. I have asked GB fan to delete Paletta from User page and I am also glad that you have deleted Gahame from User page. Hope all is ok now.

Regards

Robert

(Robert gahame (talk) 08:53, 22 March 2012 (UTC))[reply]

22.3.2012

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