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New intro in FG-verse

I know you said that you wanted to distance yourself from the subject for a while, but I have just comprehensively re-written a new intro on Falun Gong. If you have a bit of time please just have one quick look to copyedit and proofread to make sure I have everything right. Thanks! Colipon+(Talk) 23:25, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

• I feel I really need to stay away for a while longer, if you don't mind. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 03:10, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

DAB links

Please avoid converting direct links (such as Kent County, Rhode Island) into links to disambiguation pages (such as Kent County). Instead, consider piping the link (as [[Kent County, Rhode Island|Kent County]]) to achieve the desired result without rendering the link less useful. Oddly, you're the second experienced editor this week to make this specific edit to the WLKW article. - Dravecky (talk) 14:49, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for your note. It was my mistake, my eyes were blurred. ;-) You will have noticed that the other similar links I changed to [[City, State]]. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 14:56, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Edna Parker and year links

I thought you and the others agreed to leave the status quo as-is until the discussion was decided?

Further, your "final warning" is very flawed and reflective of you, not me. I did NOT revert edits three times in a 24-hour period, so that is a false charge. Further, it is a conflict of interest for you to be both involved in the matter as a point of discussion AND also as a point of enforcing "penalties." In short, it's like trying to win a chess game by knocking the pieces off the board. Cyber-bullying and threats to block are NOT productive and NOT good arguments, either. Far from a WIKI-LAWYERING accusation, it seemed an acceptable and reasonable compromise to link the sentence in the Jiroemon Kimura article directly to the year 1897, rather than his year-of-birth/year-of-death listing at the top. However, it seems to me that you are more interested in "winning" than being fair, more interested in bullying than being reasonable. As such, I will take this matter to higher authorities.Ryoung122 22:24, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

• Yea, you do that. I don't have any conflict of interest. I'm just interested in ensuring style guidelines are enforced - which is either obligatory or recommended practice. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 01:41, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

• RYoung122's actions in this sorry mess have been deplorable. He edited against community consensus; he deleted guidelines because they didn't suit him (that's right RYoung122: why delete parts of the guideline if you really believed you were editing within them?); he reverted bot edits (bots that he knew full-well were sanctioned, and would only run if they arrose from community consensus); he warred over those edits; he accused people of canvassing, but did exactly the same thing; he shouted at people via his edits; he accused editors of cabal-like activity; etc. Please—bring on scrutiny of this atrocious episode.  HWV258.  03:17, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Signature

I hearby trout you for using a font similar to Comic Sans in your signature. That is all. — Huntster (t @ c) 03:43, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

• Gosh! I didn't realise it was a troutable offence! I copied your shadow, but needed to differentiate in view of the shadow's increasing popularity with other editors. ;-) Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 03:53, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

• • Well, I suppose if you have an arguable reason for this offence I'll have to let it slide. Still, be careful in your search for individuality...you may find it slides even *further* away! ;D — Huntster (t @ c) 04:11, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
    • LOL Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 04:13, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
    • The quest for individuality via a signature that is "different" is disturbing.  HWV258.  04:16, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
      • Sure that what you do marks you out, but it doesn't stop corporations spending millions each year on logos and corporate imaging. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 04:28, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
        • I was just having a shot at myself for spending so long to find a way to get the dot after my username to blink (although it doesn't blink in all browsers).  HWV258.  04:47, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
          • It's very subtle and easily missed. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 04:53, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
            • Unlike me.  HWV258.  04:58, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
            • Confucius, why are you talking to yourself? — Huntster (t @ c) 05:46, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
              • Must be my age. You can trout me once more if you catch me doing it again. ;-) Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 05:54, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

SilkTork *^YES! 10:53, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Hong Kong

Hello ! I have nominated this article : Hong Kong for FAR. Can you give your opinion here : Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hong Kong/archive2. Thanks. Toutvientapoint (talk) 13:50, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Akmal Shaikh

Hi. I have put the GA Review on hold for seven days to allow time for the issues detailed on Talk:Akmal Shaikh/GA1 to be addressed. Any questions please get in touch. SilkTork *^YES! 12:22, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Your VOTE 2 vote at CDA

Hi Ohconfucius,

Firstly, apologies for this long message! I may need a response from you directly underneath it, per (3) below.

You are receiving this message as you voted in VOTE 2 at the recent Community de-Adminship 'Proposal Finalization' Poll. Unfortunately, there is a hitch regarding the "none" vote that can theoretically affect all votes.

1) Background of VOTE 2:

In a working example of CDA; ater the 'discussion and polling phase' is over, if the "rule of thumb" baseline percentage for Support votes has been reached, the bureaucrats can start to decide whether to desysop an admin, based in part on the evidence of the prior debate. This 'baseline' has now been slightly-adjusted to 65% (from 70%) per VOTE 1. VOTE 2 was asking if there is a ballpark area where the community consensus is so strong, that the bureaucrats should consider desysopping 'automatically'. This 'threshold' was set at 80%, and could change pending agreement on the VOTE 2 results.

This was VOTE 2;

Do you prefer a 'desysop threshold' of 80% or 90%, or having none at all?

As a "rule of thumb", the Bureaucrats will automatically de-sysop the Administrator standing under CDA if the percentage reaches this 'threshold'. Currently it is 80% (per proposal 5.4).

Please vote "80" or "90", or "None", giving a second preference if you have one.

This is the VOTE 2 question without any ambiguity;

Do you prefer a "rule of thumb" 'auto-desysop' percentage of 80%, 90%, or "none"?

Where "none" means that there is no need for a point where the bureaucrats can automatically desysop.

Please vote "80" or "90", or "None", giving a second preference if you have one.

2) What was wrong with VOTE 2?

Since the poll, it has been suggested that ambiguity in the term "none at all" could have affected some of the votes. Consequently there has been no consensus over what percentage to settle on, or how to create a new compromise percentage. The poll results are summarised here.

3) HOW TO CLARIFY YOUR VOTE:

Directly below this querying message, please can you;

• Clarify what you meant if you voted "none".

• In cases where the question was genuinely misunderstood, change your initial vote if you wish to (please explain the ambiguity, and don't forget to leave a second choice if you have one).

• Please do nothing if you interpreted the question correctly (or just confirm this if you wish), as this query cannot be a new vote.

I realise that many of you clarified your meaning after your initial vote, but the only realistic way to move forward is to be as inclusive as possible in this vote query. I will copy any responses from this talk page and place them at CDA Summaries for analysis. Sorry for the inconvenience,

Matt Lewis (talk) 23:28, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Mail

Hi, I've just dropped you a mail. --JN466 23:14, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Attention needed

Hey Ohconfucius, could be you please have a look at the articles 50 Cent Party and Propaganda in the People's Republic of China which I think has severe NPOV problem. Thanks! --Defender of torch (talk) 07:24, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

• Hmmm. Ordinarily, I'd take on the invitation. However, I noticed that User:Dilip rajeev has been active at both of these. It is very possible, to my mind, that he may be at least partly responsible for the WP:NPOV issues. However, there is a long history of conflict between us, and any contact with him generates unnecessary stress for me. I'll see what I can do. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 01:45, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Final discussion for Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:

1. Proposal to Close This RfC
2. Alternate proposal to close this RFC: we don't need a whole new layer of bureaucracy

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 03:23, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

a request

Some time ago you came across an article that you had questions about. Rather than pose those quetions on its talk page, or on the talk page(s) of the contributors who had worked on that article you nominated it for deletion.

You did not inform the contributor who started the article. So they did not have an opportunity to respond to your questions. While the deletion policies highly recommend nominators observe the courtesy of leaving a heads-up on talk page(s) of the individual who started or uploaded, and on those of other major contributors, it is not strictly required.

The way I see it we all have a limited store of good faith. I for one appreciate it when other contributors do observe the courtesies our policies recommend, as it avoids unnecessarily draining my limited store of good faith.

It was a long time ago -- maybe you do leave courtesy heads-ups on other contributor's talk page now. But, if you don't, is there any chance you would consider doing so in future?

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 16:59, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Overlinking on Miley Cyrus

I disagree with many of your removals, so I'm going to re-add a few of them (not all). For example, you removed all internal links to pop music. You removed the only link to Toronto. I'm fine with the more obvious ones, like certain instruments, etc. "Overlinking" can be defined as both "too many links in an article" and "more than one internal link". Let me know if you think I'm absolutely in the wrong. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 01:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for your feedback. I note that you objected to 'many' of the links I removed, but you home in on two in particular. The article is already quite densely linked with many which are important and highly germane to the article. I felt that the links I removed were actually distractive. FYI, the links I removed were: Singer, actress, author, songwriter, musician, model, Vocals, guitar, piano, Toronto, Canada, English language, London, United States of America, Fox News, United Kingdom, Australia, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The New York Times, YouTube, New York City. I felt that, in the context of this article, all of these terms are common, banal and/or not terribly germane to the subject, and where a reader would have little objection to doing a search for him/herself. In the highly unlikely event that a person arriving at the article would not know what the term 'pop music' meant, I suppose I would apologise and ask him/her kindly where he/she has been for the last half century. As for the link to Toronto, where her family lived only briefly, most would know where it was, thus I do not believe it is of any importance to the article. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 02:25, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

• Hi, thanks for explaining your decision. I can see the Toronto explanation perfectly and I'll agree with you, especially in light of her not having really lived there. I do disagree with not linking pop music, though. Although it's not standard or required, there seems to be a consistency of keeping the genres listed in an album's infobox linked. It's not a matter of where the reader has been for the last half century, this is an unfair argument for anything. It's a matter of definition. I'll attest to the fact that there are so many genres, it's almost disgusting, but people love making them up to fit the latest trend. But even the larger, "blanket" genres should be easily accessible with a click of a button, and this is definitely an advantage to having an online encyclopedia. In this case, the genre is far more relevant to the artist and the article than many of the links you'd removed earlier. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 02:54, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

• I understand where you are coming from, but I would add I would argue against linking rock music, but not the sub-genres, such as gothic, indie, punk, grunge...

  By the same token, link to Baroque pop, Bubblegum pop, Dance-pop , Electropop, Europop, Indie pop, Operatic pop, Power pop, Sophisti-pop, Space age pop, Sunshine pop, Teen pop, Country pop, Disco, Dream pop, Jangle pop, Pop punk, Pop rap, Pop rock, Psychedelic pop, Technopop, Urban pop, by all means, but I feel that Pop music is sufficiently wide to cover almost all known musical genres, and is utterly banal these days, so it makes little sense to link to it. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 03:35, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

• Well, in addition to the definition of pop music, there's the history, and obviously these main genres have large articles devoted to them that should be connected with their respective music. Banality can't be helped. If the genre is listed, and in the Miley article, it's the only genre listed, probably precisely because it covers the whole gamut of her sub-genres, then it should be internally linked at least once. For specific songs' articles that are categorized into specific sub-genres, then I can see why pop shouldn't be linked or even listed—the sub-genre does it for you. –Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 06:53, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Changes to Hobbit / LotR

These pages use British English with Oxford spelling and therefore prefer -ize to -ise. Thu (talk) 15:29, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

• Well, you learn something new every day! I was taught British always spell '~ise' and not '~ize'. It's the Yanks who always use '~ize'. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 15:53, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
• Tell me, is the Oxford spelling 'honorable' or 'honourable'; 'favorable' or 'favourable'; 'amorous' or 'amourous'? Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 15:58, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

I don't have a paper dictionary to hand but my spelling checker reckons 'honourable', 'favourable' & 'amorous' (which look right to me). Thu (talk)

Ta! Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 16:29, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Spelling in Diesel and wire

From a quick look, it appears that you have changed uniformly American spelling in the Diesel and wire articles to uniformly British spelling. This is contrary to WP:RETAIN. Can you explain your thinking? Thanks Ccrrccrr (talk) 20:35, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

• I was not acting unilaterally, but based on the {{British English}} tags placed on the talk page of the articles concerned. The mixed spelling is quite common, so I thought nothing of it and just maade them uniform. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 00:45, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I hadn't noticed that tag. Nor had I noticed any "mixed spelling"--can you cite an example? It would seem to me that the tag was wrong--otherwise your edits would not have been needed. I'll ask the editor who added that tag. Ccrrccrr (talk) 15:57, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

The tag on diesel engine was added by an anonymous user. A check of the spelling on that date shows more ize than ise. So it would seem that there's no basis for the tag. I'd revert both the tag and your edits, but that looks like a lot of work, since there were many other good edits mixed in, and it's not an issue of substance. Maybe I'll revert the tag and add a note. Ccrrccrr (talk) 16:12, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

OK, I checked an early version and it did in fact start in British. So that one should remain British.Ccrrccrr (talk) 16:16, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to investigate. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 16:18, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

PRC Barnstar

We're getting a little confused about your barnstar, which you put on WP:*. We're currently discussing it in WT:WPWPA, so if you don't mind could you sort things out there? Thanks. Kayau Voting IS evil 13:19, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm wondering if you've seen this message? I've put up this message a while ago, but you have not yet commented. I understand that you may be very busy, so this is just a reminder. Kayau Voting IS evil 12:22, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

RfC/User on PCPP

Hello. Please be aware that I have opened an RfC about the conduct of PCPP (talk · contribs).--Asdfg12345 01:11, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

• You forgot to sign it. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 01:44, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh. Thanks. --Asdfg12345 01:46, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

The RfC on the Community de-Adminship proposal has begun

The RfC on the Community de-Adminship proposal was started on the 22nd Feb, and it runs for 28 days. Please note that the existing CDA proposal was (in the end) run as something of a working compromise, so CDA is still largely being floated as an idea.

Also note that, although the RfC is in 'poll format' (Support, Oppose, and Neutral, with Comments underneath), this RfC is still essentially a 'Request for Comment'. Currently, similar comments on CDA's value are being made under all three polls.

Whatever you vote, your vote is welcome!

Regards, Matt Lewis (talk) 10:46, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Ching Hai

Hello. You may be interested in taking a look at that page and assessing how it may be improved. I have already tampered with it slightly. Just in case you are interested in these Chinese religious groups. I don't believe there are any trolls hiding under the bridge over there. --TheSoundAndTheFury (talk) 05:29, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

• She seems like some sort of gaudy fashion designer who styles herself as a religious guru. Add to that the interesting dimension of influence peddling and corruption. Seems to be nothing all that insidious in terms of mind-control and manipulation, yet there are still those who would refer to her as a 'cult leader'. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 02:38, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

ANI on Dilip rajeev

Note that I've made an outline of Dilip's recent editing behavior here.--PCPP (talk) 13:22, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

thx :P Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 14:03, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

I've voted. You probably should have taken him to AE to have the FLG probation remedies applied. Anyway, we'll see how this one goes. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 14:11, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Whoah! Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 15:23, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Dilip has now attempted to revert the current Persecution of Falun Gong article into one from July 2009. -_- --PCPP (talk) 17:39, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Copyediting of football clubs

Hello. In tables in Aston Villa F.C., you've changed align=center to align=centre. The table markup requires the US spelling to work properly: see Aston Villa F.C.#Notable managers, where the numeric columns are now left-aligned rather than centred. Please could you change them back, and anywhere else where you may have done the same. thanks,Struway2 (talk) 08:39, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Your post

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

In reply to your recent post, you should note that false warnings are frowned upon, and I'd also add that you are a fine one to speak of "stalking" when you seem to appear on pages shortly after Tony does in an apparent effort to "tag-team" him. One of the reasons why it is important to research events rather than just leap in with fake, unsubstantiated "warnings" is that it helps to avoid posts that make you look foolish. Even the most cursory of examination of my contributions list - freely and easily accessible through my signature in addition to the usual methods - would demonstrate thousands upon thousands of edits to television-related articles, especially to the main articles for individual series. It is ludicrous to toss around false accusations of "stalking" when Tony1's actions tonight caused my watchlist to light up like a Christmas tree. --Ckatz^chat_spy 08:08, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

• How was it a "false warning"??? You were disagreeing with Tony about delinking News networks, and the next thing I know, you are making wholescale reverts of otherwise productive edits which, admittedly, included some delinked networks. You then have the nerve to come here and accuse me of tag-teaming? Merry Christmas! Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 08:12, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

When one has hundreds of television articles on one's watchlist, and in one evening dozens of those articles surface with similar edits, it does draw one's eyes. Add to that that I had already explained the problem to Tony, and he had replied that h was going to address the problem. Next thing I know, the same issue is being repeated with the script. I was quite clear in explaining the issue, in explaining why I reverted (it being much faster to reapply a corrected script than to manually correct the problem delinkings), and to offer to help. When you show up and make accusations of "stalking", I have to take issue with it. --Ckatz^chat_spy 08:28, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Speedy deletion declined: Franke's widefield pinhole camera

Hello Ohconfucius. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Franke's widefield pinhole camera, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: type of camera not person band or organisation. Thank you. ϢereSpielChequers 13:48, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

• thanks. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 13:49, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
  • However I have no objection to your prod of it. ϢereSpielChequers 17:12, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

bureaucranilly

so now you need to inform dilip of the new ANI-thread ... Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 14:06, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

This is absolutely ridiculous. Colipon+(Talk) 15:23, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

This would just be so much easier, right? --Asdfg12345 00:05, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

• This, and a for him to recant his belief in Falun Gong, would be infinitely better. ;-) (-; Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 01:37, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi

Please have a look at this, might be interesting: http://club.kdnet.net/newbbs/dispbbs.asp?boardid=1&star=9&replyid=5817667&id=3002628&skin=0&page=1

文 章提交者：monachus 加帖在 猫眼看人 【凯迪网络】 http://www.kdnet.net

汉语的缺陷 及给中国文化的影响早有定论，为民族自尊的原因而只在学术界小范围内讨论。

1 语言，语法不精确，导致 不能建 立有清晰内涵和外延界定的抽象概念。 而概念的缺乏直接干扰中国文化逻辑学的产生。自然也就没有逻辑思维了。

2 象形文字没有进一步转为字母化的符号体系。缺乏丰富的符号体系来表征抽象概念，符号工具的缺乏使得中国古代数学家已经非常接近微积分，而最终无法创造微积 分的原因， 符号对概念的抽象替代-“算 符”。也是现代量子力学的基石。

3 长期接触图像化的象形文字，使中国人的大脑长于形象思维， 弱于抽象思维。长于艺术，文学，人际关系，弱于自然科学，法律。

文章提交者：monachus 加帖在 猫眼看人 【凯迪网络】 http://www.kdnet.net

符 号不仅可以代表概念，还可以代表概念之间由逻辑关系而形成的一个相对固定的结合体，量子力学中的算符就起这种功能

丰富的符号体系造就现 代科学。

象形文字的汉字让中国人无法形成符号体系。

另外， 音形不联系的汉字难学难记， 没有三年艰苦的学习难以读书看报，中国的文盲数量比例非常高。

而表音体系能说即能读， 儿童可以更早的接触文字信息，智力开发也更早。

汉 字难学 ，使得儿童接触同样数量的文字信息比表音文字教育体系下的儿童有1-2年的迟滞，而这1-2年的迟滞对智力发育带来的危害非常大。 Arilang ^talk 06:43, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

GA Review of Akmal Shaikh on hold

The GA review of the Akmal Shaikh article has been on hold for over 30 days. It is near to being passed, but the Akmal_Shaikh#Reaction section needs editing to reduce the amount of direct quotation as per Wikipedia:Quotations, and also to be trimmed in general to meet GA criteria 3(b): "stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail". Any assistance in this matter would be appreciated. SilkTork *^YES! 10:38, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

This user helped promote Akmal Shaikh to good article status.

I have an English / French questions

Tony recommend that I contact you regarding this question... Would you mind looking at a thread I started at the medicine portal at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Are_these_terms_synonymous.3F? I would love your feedback there, if you have time? ---kilbad (talk) 23:48, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi

Please have a look and give some comments:User:Arilang1234/Comparison between written English and written Chinese Draft Arilang ^talk 06:24, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

West End theatre

Hey, Im sure your intentions were correct but your recent editing to the table over at West End theatre messed up the way the closing dates were listed due when sorted chronologically. The numerical dates are left there purely for coding reasons so that the table displays correctly when they are sorted. Regards.Mark E (talk) 20:39, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Image size

Hi. You made two images on the Hasan page smaller than the standard 180, without a rationale for diverging from the standard. If anything, the full body one should be larger, and I see no reason for either to be smaller than the MOS standard.--Epeefleche (talk) 17:29, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

• I have no problem with them both being 165 or 170. It seemed pretty obvious to me that the Awlaki image was excessively prominent - it was larger than all the other images on the page. It defaulted to 220px because no file size was chosen. The Hasan was set at the marginally lower 175px. Of course, the 220px default thumbnail image size was quite rightly increased from the previous width of 180px, but that size was meant as an optional setting, and for horizontal (not vertical) images. The Awlaki image, using the same ratio as the default, should have been 165px; the Hasan image, 175px. I just elected for convenience sake to make them both 150px. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 13:23, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Shaoguan incident

The article Shaoguan incident you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Shaoguan incident for things which need to be addressed. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 01:38, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Cite error

Hi. On 29 Mar, 01.55, when you edited Gao Zhisheng, you added a ref <ref name=nyt_surfaces/> that caused a cite error. Could you check it? Cossaxx (talk) 04:05, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

• thanks for notifying. now fixed. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 07:00, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

		WikiProject Hong Kong Award
		Thanks for making that article about the five constituencies referendum a great one. Kayau Voting IS evil 10:53, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

• Much appreciated, thank you. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 11:15, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Urumchi riots FAC

Hey Ohconfucius, thanks for nominating this article for FAC again! I have been thinking of doing it soon too, but one thing I think I forgot to mention on the talk page is that Moni3 has volunteered to do a copyedit and I was waiting until that before nominating. (But, come to think of it, I was just now starting to think about nudging her about that, since it's been a while since we discussed it, and perhaps a new FAC is a good way to nudge ;) )

rʨanaɢ (talk) 20:10, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Earthquake, again

New article 2010 China earthquake? Arilang ^talk 03:31, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

• Probably: 7.9, killing 500+. The only thing against is that it's in a remote area, and as such is likely to have a minor impact. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 03:50, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

• • Twitter accounts to watch:

1. http://twitter.com/wentommy
2. http://twitter.com/sfchoi8964
3. http://twitter.com/ndzk
4. http://twitter.com/gonewater

Arilang ^talk 09:02, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

AN/I: Abuse of sysop tools, and failure to follow consensus – Causa sui

Hello. This is to let you know that there is now a discussion at AN/I regarding an issue that you commented on here.--Epeefleche (talk) 06:08, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

What, exactly, was the point of that?

OC, I'm confused. I'd expect that sort of nonsense from certain other parties, but at least you had seemed a bit more reasonable. How was your last post at the links page supposed to contribute to a positive discussion? --Ckatz^chat_spy 09:59, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

• I apologise. I was sincerely trying to talk to you. I stated my rationale to you as best I could, through several posts, but your responses seemed to continually indicate that I have been talking past you all this time. It left me at a considerable loss for words, wondering in what manner you expected me to respond to you... Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 11:19, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

FYI

You might want to weigh in here. --causa sui (talk) 15:46, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Edit wars

I'm hardly surprised to see that you have recently had an altercation with Kwamikagami. I have been plagued with his personal attacks and incivility for months on various RfCs, article talk, and user talk pages. I generally take the other course and remain almost unctuously polite - which seems to incite even more of his abuse. I've therefore been seriously considering escalating a complaint (no easy decision) about his behaviour which is absolutely inappropriate for a sysop, but firstly I'm not sure how to do this, secondly, I would need support from a whole lot more people he has insulted, and thirdly, I am very suspicious that he canvasses off-Wiki support for his weak, strawman arguments, systematic disruptive editing, and revert wars.--Kudpung (talk) 09:37, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for the heads up. I object to his corrupt, and abusive use of Admin powers. I don't know about off-wiki canvassing, but I believe he has his own little gang. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 09:56, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

You're a confusing person!

You can't put up with on more little admin? :( Btw, didn't I do a GA review for you? You're very familiar but I can't quite place it... HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

• Ridiculous little argument I've seen often being used for no good reason. Strange thing is that your RfA somehow seemed naked without it. ;-) BTW, this was the GA you review where I was one of the main editors. Have a good day. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 01:56, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Of course! The best hour of telly I've seen in a long time! All the best, ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:58, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Question

And how exactly did you learn of my interest?

But in fact, I followed a link from WT:NOR, which I am as entitled to do as any other editor. I believe my restriction has lapsed in any case. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 03:39, 27 April 2010 (UTC)