User talk:Il Castrato

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Hello, Il Castrato! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Battle of the Alamo

Hi, Il Castrato, I've noticed that you like to hang out at the Battle of the Alamo article. Are you interested in collaborating to get the article to FAC? I'm currently up to my ears in research material. I'd love to have another set of eyes read some of the books so that the research phase can end sooner. If you like writing instead, a lot of my notes are typed, so I could put them somewhere where you are someone else could convert them to real prose. Or, if you prefer, you can just clean up my prose once I'm ready to dump it into the article, you're doing a good job so far! Thanks, Karanacs (talk) 17:38, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Knights Hospitaller

Thank you for stopping the edit war on Knights Hospitaller. Would you please discuss the deletions made to the article on the discussion page? The other editor has given his reasons for his changes. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 13:53, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(Wow! I don't know what I was eating (drinking? smoking?) on November 28 to think I knew anything about KH!). You are the expert. I am now trying to focus on my specialty which is Geography. My suggestions since they don't seem willing to cooperate is to try to get them for three revert (probably won't work), vandalism (probably will not only won't work but will backfire!) or take them to mediation which is tedious and time consuming but will shut them up once and for all. Or, if it doesn't, take them to arbitration at which time, admins will tell them what to do! I have never been this far. Mediation is usually enought. Sorry I can't be of more help. Student7 (talk) 21:05, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. I do not have the power to unprotect/protect. This is now a perfect setup for mediation IMO. It's a pain and takes forever but you will almost always get a resolution, even if the others get sick of talking or decline to talk and move on. Note that if the others decline to mediate, that is okay too as long as they opposed you. It is typical that it gets frozen in the "wrong" position. The fanatics are a good deal more persistent than normal editors. At least I hope that is the case here! If mediation is unsucessful, touch base with me. :) Good luck! Student7 (talk) 13:09, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:41, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]