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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Talk2chun (talk | contribs) at 22:02, 31 January 2017 (→Closing of "Questions" on Talk:Mehmet Oz: new section). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Note to admins reviewing any of my admin actions (expand to read).

I am often busy in that "real life" of which you may have read.

Blocks are the most serious things we can do: they prevent users from interacting with Wikipedia. Block reviews are urgent. Unless I say otherwise in the block message on the user's talk page, I am happy for any uninvolved admin to unblock a user I have blocked, provided that there is good evidence that the problem that caused the block will not be repeated. All I ask is that you leave a courtesy note here and/or on WP:ANI, and that you are open to re-blocking if I believe the problem is not resolved - in other words, you can undo the block, but if I strongly feel that the issue is still live, you re-block and we take it to the admin boards. The same applies in spades to blocks with talk page access revoked. You are free to restore talk page access of a user for whom I have revoked it, unless it's been imposed or restored following debate on the admin boards.

User:DGG also has my permission to undelete or unprotect any article I have deleted and/or salted, with the same request to leave a courtesy note, and I'll rarely complain if any uninvolved admin does this either, but there's usually much less urgency about an undeletion so I would prefer to discuss it first - or ask DGG, two heads are always better than one. I may well add others in time, DGG is just one person with whom I frequently interact whose judgment I trust implicitly.

Any WP:BLP issue which requires you to undo an admin action of mine, go right ahead, but please post it immediately on WP:AN or WP:ANI for review.

The usual definition of uninvolved applies: you're not currently in an argument with me, you're not part of the original dispute or an editor of the affected article... you know. Apply WP:CLUE. Guy (Help!) 20:55, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

— - Robert A. Heinlein
Obligatory disclaimer
I work for Dell Computer but nothing I say or do here is said or done on behalf of Dell. You knew that, right?

About me

JzG reacting to yet another drama

I am in my early fifties, British, have been married for over quarter of a century to the world's most tolerant woman, and have two adult children. I am an amateur baritone and professional nerd. I do not tolerate racism, or any kind of bigotry. I sometimes, to my chagrin, mention that I have been an admin for a long time: some people think this is me invoking admin status in order to subdue dissent, actually it's just me as a middle aged parent of young adults saying "oh no, not this shit again". I am British, I have the British sense of humour (correctly spelled) and I absolutely do not have an accent, since I went to a thousand-year-old school. Everything I do or say could be wrong. I try always to be open to that possibility. If you think I am wrong, please just talk to me nicely, and it can all be sorted out like grown-ups. Guy (Help!) 23:49, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Predatory open access publishing

These publishers are on Beall's list, feel free to suggest others with DOI roots I can work on.

Vanity press

An on-demand print house, masquerading as an academic publisher:

Citation spamming

Multiple additions of citations to the same author from predatory and other journals, by multiple editors with no history other than adding that material (i.e. probable citation spamming):

Unofficially official

Woo

I have a large and disruptive building project starting, and I'll be doing a significant part of the work myself. Email me if there's anything urgent. Guy (Help!) 22:48, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Globalwarming Awareness2007 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Globalwarming Awareness2007. Since you had some involvement with the Globalwarming Awareness2007 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. KATMAKROFAN (talk) 03:51, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Closing of "Questions" on Talk:Mehmet Oz

Dear JzG, I've noticed that you've closed the discussions around my questions at Talk:Mehmet Oz#Questions. I've left a similar message here on this matter, but have since reverted it. After having taken the time to reflect on the events, I have decided that, as much as it hurt for me to have to read it, your judgement on the nature of my questions was correct. I'll take this as an opportunity to better learn how to better contribute to Wikipedia. I'll just end here by thanking you for this moment of learning, it has not only revealed the inadequacy of my attempt to help (due, I think, to my inexperience around here), but also a bit about myself.--talk2Chun(talk) (contributions) 22:02, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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