User talk:Bcorr

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Welcome

Hey Bcorr :) I hope you like the place and choose to stay.

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Nice work on Sovereignty association! However, don't forget to bold the title in your introduction. You can use three 's, like '''bold'''.

Keep contributing! :) Dysprosia 04:44, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Archived talk

September 2004

• CVA reply to Bcorr

Dear Brian

We respond to you but hope this is not a protracted affair as our computer resource time is restricted.

This matter is quite ridiculous and ended a while ago as far as we were concerned. When silly comments were posted regarding the ‘Partisan’ talk page, and bizarre claims of statement - when what was actually said was there to be read - we did not respond but left it to its own devises. It was also clear it was attracting people who appeared to have little idea (and perhaps interest) and were just climbing on some sort of bandwagon.

As said, we left the page alone and did not comment further and see no point and do not wish to engage in any further dialogue. Matters went quite for a while until someone posted a fragment under Italian Partisans. We never commented on this page yet Halibutt decided to continuously harass our individual talk page, demanding we do comment on this page?

In respect of our individual talk page, we would have thought this is ‘our’ talk page? As such, we husband and maintain it as we see fit and look forward to questions where we can be of assistance. We understand this site is an ‘open encyclopaedia’ and not designed to be a common internet forum, in which we hardly every take part, though I’m sure some individual members do. When chit-chat occurs on our talk page which is of no relevance or use to general readers, we delete it from time to time to keep the page to a minimum and leave only questions and answers that may benefit the general reader. In our opinion we do not invite anyone to edit our individual page, just because the system allows it, and regard it bad manners. If we post a question to another talk page and get no response, quite logically we believe the person chooses not to reply - end of matter. Halibutt seems to have a problem with this concept and appears to take great affront if ‘hints’ are made? Surprisingly, he also appears to feel at liberty and justified to affront others whenever the mood takes him?

We have no time or great interest in resurrecting old matters and ask you please advise Halibutt and his confederates to ignore us as we have nothing further to discuss. We will of course reciprocate. Hopefully a simple solution.

Regards CVA 00:56, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Dear CVA -- thanks for your reply. I believe that Halibutt considers the matter resolved (see above).

Cheers, BCorr|Брайен 13:05, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Not entirely, I still demand apologies. Racism must not be tolerated. Anyway, have a nice trip. [[User:Halibutt|Halibu tt]] 13:59, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)

• 33451/Mr. Grinch

I just wanted to let you know that it looks like we've managed to resolve this matter without resorting to mediation. See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/33451. Thanks for your assistance and good luck resolving the rest of the disputes you're dealing with. --Michael Snow 20:53, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the note -- I appreciate it and your work to resolve this matter. BCorr|Брайен 13:05, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• Main Page link

Are you still seeing the link in "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" as red, underlined and bold? If so, have you tried clearing your browser cache... or are you using a non-MonoBook skin? Thanks, Tom- 15:42, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the note -- I actually edited the template so that only the workd "Wikipedia" was linked after my comments, so I think that it's all fine now. Thanks again, BCorr|Брайен 15:11, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Er... yes, but I'd like to link "the free encyclopedia" too, but not have it display as a link. Are you still seeing "Wikipedia" as non-normal text? Tom- 16:06, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm... -- it works fine, except on my watchlist all I get is "From Wikipedia" in bold, w/o a link and w/ no other text... -- and my skin is a custon skin based on Monobook User:Bcorr/myskin.css and I'm using Mozilla 1.6b http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.6b/ ...

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 16:35, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Okay, it's just your skin making it red and bold. You can copy this from the main stylesheet to make it look like regular text (which is how it'll look for just about everyone else)...

#bodyContent #siteSub a { color: #000; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; padding-right: 0; }

Cheers, Tom- 22:55, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• Objection to something on your user page

Hello Bcorr, I just want to record a minor objection to something on your user page, which states "Show the door to trolls, vandals, and wiki-anarchists ...", with wiki-anarchists linked to Anarchism. According to the actual anarchism article, anarchy (as the term is used by anarchists) is "a society based on voluntary cooperation of free individuals. Philosophical anarchist thought does not intend to advocate chaos or anomie — it intends "anarchy" to refer to a manner of human relations that is intentionally established and maintained." As far as I can see, voluntary co-operation of free individuals is an excellent description of the Wikipedia ideal, which includes typical anarchist concepts like mutual aid (voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit), community-driven self-management and shared, public use of resources rather than restricted private property. So I would argue that the best Wikipedians could be called "wiki-anarchists" and that trolls and vandals have nothing to do with wiki-anarchists. - pir 10:04, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hi pir -- I have to respectfully disagree with you. If you look at the Anarchy section of the page, you will see the following lines which fit my sense of how anarchism applies to some individuals at Wikipedia: However, in anarchist philosophies, anarchy means an "anarchist society", that is, a society where individuals are free from coercion. This is followed by, Anarchist theories have a fundamental critique of government, a vision of a society without government, and a proposed method of reaching such a society. I don't agree that at Wikipedia we are "free individuals" and I do believe in a government of sorts here at Wikipedia. For an example of a similar project which embraces a more anarchic philosophy along the lines you've laid out above, see Wikinfo.

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 15:11, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• MC application

Hi Brian. Just in case you didn't see, Grunt has applied to join the mediation committee. It looks as though few of the committee have noticed the application though (at least, few have voted so far). Regards -- sannse (talk) 19:57, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks so much, sannse! -- BCorr|Брайен 20:36, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• Snowspinner/orthogonal

I'm sorry, I don't think I would be the best person to mediate this as my views on the matter are far from neutral. Angela . 21:17, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

No need to apologize, Angela :-) I was just following up on the request. I'll let them know. Thanks, BCorr|Брайен

• Bush

Since you protected the page on the wrong version ;), could you remove Gzornenplatz's inane "notice" at the top of the page when you put in the {{protected}}, which I assume you're going to do? Since it's not part of the article and just an attempt to score points off me, I don't think it's inappropriate to nix it. Also, while this page does get a lot of vandalism (which is dealt with easily enough), it's important to note that what Kevin baas calls vandalism is just content conflict. He is reverting to the point of restoring the link to a mirror of the Wikipedia article. V V 14:26, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

No problem, VV -- and I hope that we can all work this out. Many thanks, BCorr|Брайен 14:34, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• Mediation

Update from Rex071404, here [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404 ]] 21:33, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 22:02, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I have posed (2) mediation questions for Nysus, here [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404

]] 15:24, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• Support

Thank you very much for your support during my recent run for adminship. I appreciated it very much. If you would like to talk sometime, please drop me a note on my talk page or email me. Mike H 23:43, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

• The Orthogonal-Snowspinner Mediation

I noticed you contacted Danny about doing this, but don't appear to have got a response. I've just been talking to Orthogonal, who's wondering what's happening with it. It'd be good if this could be taken care of - any ideas? Ambi 23:52, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hi Ambi -- actually, Danny said yes here. Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 15:42, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• How'd you do that?

I entered my first page on Herman Wells. Whithin minutes you snagged it, eddited it and reposted it. So do you monitor these additions constantly? Very Impressive non the less.

Hi, User:155.201.35.53 -- if you register, you too will be able to move pages like that one -- and monitor new changes as well. Peace, and I hope you stick around. BCorr|Брайен 15:55, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thank you

I registered as Jamtexas.