User talk:SPECIFICO

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GA reassessment for Murray Rothbard article

Murray Rothbard, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.

WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#WP:TPNO violation by User:SPECIFICO

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Austrian economics closed

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

1. Pages related to the Austrian school of economics and the Ludwig von Mises Institute, broadly construed, are placed under discretionary sanctions. This sanction supersedes the existing community sanctions.
2. Steeletrap (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from editing articles and other pages relating to the Austrian school of economics, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, or persons associated with them, either living or deceased. Steeletrap may request the lifting or modification of this topic-ban not less than one year from the close of this case.
3. SPECIFICO (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from editing articles and other pages relating to the Ludwig von Mises Institute or persons associated with it, either living or deceased. This topic-ban does not extend to articles concerning Austrian economics but not related to the Ludwig von Mises Institute; however, should SPECIFICO edit problematically in the broader area, the topic-ban may be broadened if necessary through the discretionary sanctions. SPECIFICO may request the lifting or modification of this topic-ban not less than one year from the close of this case.
4. Carolmooredc (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from editing articles and other pages relating to the Austrian school of economics, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, or persons associated with them, either living or deceased. Carolmooredc may request the lifting or modification of this topic-ban not less than one year from the close of this case.
5. Editors who have not previously been involved in editing the articles at issue in this case are urged to review these articles to ensure that they are in compliance with the applicable policies and best practices, including neutrality and the policies governing biographical content.

For the Arbitration Committee, Rockfang (talk) 23:33, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Discuss this

Notice of RfC and request for participation

There is an RfC in which your participation would be greatly appreciated:

• Talk:Gun_control#RfC:_Remove_Nazi_gun_control_argument.3F

Thank you. --Lightbreather (talk) 14:50, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Notice of RfC 2 and request for participation

There is an RfC on the Gun politics in the U.S. talk page which may be of interest to editors who participated in "RfC: Remove Nazi gun control argument?" on the Gun control talk page.

• RfC: Replace existing Nazi gun control paragraphs?

Thank you. --Lightbreather (talk) 22:23, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

The B-word

Just a reminder: It is banned on WP. Violators will be banned. Steeletrap (talk) 06:05, 1 May 2014 (UTC) And I'm not talking about bitch or bastard. You know which word I'm talking about. It's far, far worse. Steeletrap (talk) 06:06, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Molyneux

This discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Writing to inform you that you should consider the Molyneux article as associated with the Mises Institute, and so falls under the provisions of your topic ban (detailed at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Austrian economics#SPECIFICO topic-banned. Feel free to raise concerns about future citations that are needed on the talk page. -- Netoholic @ 18:39, 8 May 2014 (UTC) I've left a response on the Arbitration page. Molyneux is not associated with the Mises Institute, but if he were associated, the ban would also prohibit me from commenting on the article talk page. SPECIFICO talk 21:37, 8 May 2014 (UTC) I feel like I was being nice to give you just a simple notification, with no prejudice. The article has several references to Mises, and Molyneux has obviously been a frequent topic there [1]. Besides, even if he is a tangent subject to Mises, your ban has provisions to expand as necessary. I will be happy to refer this or future edits to the administrators noticeboard in the future. -- Netoholic @ 23:51, 8 May 2014 (UTC) I see no basis for your claims. File a complaint at Arbcom if you wish, but do not post on my talk page again. Thanks. SPECIFICO talk 23:55, 8 May 2014 (UTC) Stuff I'm not banned from: [[2] [3] [4] SPECIFICO talk 00:25, 9 May 2014 (UTC) [5] [6] [7] [8] SPECIFICO talk 01:58, 9 May 2014 (UTC) [9] SPECIFICO talk 02:09, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

grudges are about the most useless thing in the world

In my time n Wikipedia, I have done my darndest not to hold any grudge against anyone at all. My posts are, to the best of my ability, aimed in line with policies and guidelines (especially BLP), and never at personalities. Though I am aware of some editors whose sole raison d'être appears to be to track my every edit :( and make snide asides about me. Cheers. Collect (talk) 20:33, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

You know that I do neither of those things. As best I can recall we are on the same article/talk no more than once a month. Am I missing something? If so please don't hesitate to be explicit about it. When something is bothering me, I tend to be rather direct about it. Sometimes people take offence at that, but if you feel that I've said something to express veiled displeasure with you, it's very unlikely I did that intentionally. You said something about us not being the best of friends, but I don't recall interacting with you much at all. As to indirectness, I tend to err on the other side. Just ask Srich, who's regularly calling "bullshit" when I post on his talk page. Anyway thanks for the visit. SPECIFICO talk 22:47, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

I did not assert that you did <g>. Only that I can point to some who do :( and with whom I do not correspond well. Email me for examples <g>. And might you tell me where I made a comment about "friends"? If so, I meant no insult, for sure. Cheers. Collect (talk) 23:03, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Not best friends, or something similar, on the Arbcom thread, no matter. It sounds as if we're on the same page. SPECIFICO talk 23:06, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

I have been known to say that more-or-less to show that my positions are based, as best I can, on factors other than "standing up for friends" which one does see at times around here. I make decisions based on facts, and never on personalities, which annoys the heck out of some people <g>. Cheers. Collect (talk) 23:40, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense. SPECIFICO talk 23:43, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

And so I get "officially added" as a disputant in the ArbCom case of course -- you may recognize the cast of characters <g>. [10] and the "evidence" on ,my evilness (shades of Despicable Me). Naturally the addition was just about at the deadline, but lurkers are free to join in the exercise, to be sure. Collect (talk) 12:45, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

American politics arbitration evidence

Hi. You contributed to a recent RFC about this topic area. This message is to notify you that the arbitration proceedings at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics are underway, and evidence about all disruptive edits to articles within this topic is being accepted at the relevant case page. If you wish to submit evidence for the committee to consider in reaching its decision, please do so now. The evidence phase of the case ends soon, and evidence submitted after the deadline may not be considered. Further advice on submitting evidence, and what evidence the committee will accept, is linked at the top of the evidence page. Please contact me or the other drafting arbitrator if you require more time to submit evidence. Thank you. For the Arbitration Committee, AGK [•] 14:15, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Caplan

Please look at Mises.org/Caplan. Also note he has published in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics ([11]). – S. Rich (talk) 23:10, 10 May 2014 (UTC)