User talk:MediaMangler/Archive

Merkey Article

Please stop removing content from Wikipedia; it is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Waya sahoni 19:20, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I restored verified content in place of your unverified claims. This is a content dispute, not vandalism. -- MediaMangler 20:27, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Semi-automated template substitution

• This page was modified to semi-automatically substitute templates using Pathoschild's template list. // Tawker 19:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Removal of Dispute and NPOV Tags

Removal of these tags is a violation of Wikipedia Policy and you can be blocked for it. A dispute has been opened. Like it or not, other editors are going to review this article and you and your friends who spin and distort content had better get used to it. Waya sahoni 06:30, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Unless you actually provide some verifiable facts to support your position, the tags will eventually be removed again. I may have jumped the gun. — MediaMangler 06:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Touch the tags again and I'll ask one of the Administrators working on the project to block you from doing so again. I am not here to rain on your parade, but you and your associates are using Wikipedia as a platform for political and anti-competitive rhetoric about this person. I am here to write about their Native American contributions. This person is native and notable, and I do not appreciate information from our people being skewed and spun by you and your compatriots. The grownups have arrived -- behave and act like you are housebroken on this site. My patience with your antics and vitriolic commentary and personal attacks is at an end. Waya sahoni 06:53, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry Merkey, I won't remove the tags. I'll leave that for one of the admins when they block your current account in accord with your permanent block. — MediaMangler 06:59, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

More personal attacks and poison. No sense reasoning with someone like you. Waya sahoni 07:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Reverting to Dubious Sources barred by RFC Jeffrey Vernon Merkey

Please do not attempt a revert war on the content. It will only be restored tommorrow and a possible meditation case opened to enforce the RFC. Thanks. Waya sahoni 03:27, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

If Mediamangler won't revert your deletions on the Jeffrey Vernon Merkey article, I will. I'm sure I'm not alone. You've ignored consensus on both the LKML and Jeffrey Vernon Merkey articles. You lost that RFC. You deliberately chose not to count the 9 votes who voted against you in the only way possible that didn't mean signing their name to either a misrepresentation of their argument or an ad-hominem attack on themselves, both written by you. Go ahead and open mediation if you like. Maybe it'll catch the admin's attention long enough for them to do something about this autobiographical POV-warring of yours. --Aim Here 03:53, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Reverting Vandalism on Waya Sahoni User Page

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. Waya sahoni 05:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

You are named in an ARBCOM Proceeding regarding Jeffrey Vernon Merkey Article

See WP:ARBCOM for the details. Waya sahoni 04:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Sockpuppet template: unintended consequences

Thanks for the tip about the unintended consequences of my full quotation of the text from WP:SOCK at User_talk:Talks_to_birds#Let.27s_Drop_the_Charade

Certainly not what I had in mind :-/

-- talks_to_birds 23:25, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Answers Please

• You say Waya sahoni made threats after being blocked? Can you point the wiki locations out so I can view them for myself? This is the only way I'll accept that he did make the alleged threats. Otherwise, I'll continue to believe he did not make any threats after being blocked. --Bookofsecrets 05:24, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• It does not matter what Jimbo Wales thinks of Jeff. Jimbo is afraid of being sued by a lawyer, Jeff Merkey. --Bookofsecrets 11:56, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Stop Censorship

I'm continually dumbfounded by the ignorants on Wikipedia pretending to know something when they don't, and as yourself, their sole contribution is to censor. You're one of those who should be banned. Someone with LIMITED knowledge of Astrology is pretending that they're qualified to make pronouncements regarding "modern Astrology". So, I was setting the record straight as regarding what SERIOUS cutting edge Astrologers are doing - since I'm one of them! Stick to topics you're capable of understanding. I'll have to report the fakes, as yourself, and the ignorants who keep censoring the Police State article. 67.0.219.193 19:08, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of content from Jeffrey Vernon Merkey

I have sent you the email from my home address. Please do not take any hasty actions. Danny 17:26, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

RfC request

I have been attacked one time too many by User:Andrew Homer - see his response to my last request he stop personal attacks [1] I am going to start an RfC and I was hoping you would certify it as a user who tried to resolve the problem. If you will leave a message about this on my talk page I set up for this purpose, you can also see more about it as I am drafting the RfC there.

Regards, Lundse 10:16, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Calling programmers

We need coders for the WikiProject Disambigation fixer. We need to make a program to make faster and easier the fixing of links. We will be happy if you could check the project. You can Help! --Neo139 09:07, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Riders in the chariot

Do you mean that even a referenced quotation is not permitted in a user page? No quotes at all? Tony 15:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm no expert, but my understanding is that the only provision allowing for verbatim quotation of a copyrighted work is fair-use. Wikipedia policy prohibits fair-use on user pages. A quotation might be usable in an article about the author, but even then fair-use requires it to be very short. Note, that the limitations on fair-use is not just an arbitrary fiat from Wikipedia but rather is a requirement imposed upon Wikipedia by copyright.

Once again, it was Danny who actually deleted the text. The Wikimedia Foundation pays him to deal with such issues (among others). He is one of the people taking calls from irate copyright holders and I'm sure he has been forced to learn more about copyright than I ever want to know. -- MediaMangler 15:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Trolling, crosspost

I commented on User talk:Aim Here concerning your block, which I believe to be have been very unwarranted. If you have concerns about any user's actions, then please have the decency to discuss it with them directly. Don't covertly add them to some list of suspects. --MediaMangler 07:44, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

MediaMangler, stop trolling. It's disruptive. This is your only warning.

For the benefit of others reading this, the only thing out of line here is that after a year and a half of stalking and harassment of Merkey, trolls still aren't being blocked on site. This is going to change.

If you have concerns about any user's actions, then please have the decency to discuss it with them directly. ... see [2]

I've made some notes at User talk:Duk/SPTA for anyone interested. --Duk 15:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

DC Meetup notice

Greetings. There is going to be a Washington DC Wikipedia meetup on next Saturday, July 21st at 5pm in DC. Since you are listed in Category:Wikipedians_in_Maryland, I thought I'd invite you to come. I'm sorry about the short notice for the meeting. Hopefully we'll do somewhat better in that regard next time. If you can't come but want to make sure that you are informed of future meetings be sure to list yourself under "but let me know about future events", and if you don't want to get any future direct notices \(like this one\), you can list yourself under "I'm not interested in attending any others either" on the DC meetup page.--Gmaxwell 00:26, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Responded on meetup page. --MediaMangler 00:52, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, MediaMangler! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be. Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany | finger on pulse Wikipedia:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board | finger on pulse

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 21:10, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Banned user Jeff Merkey has returned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/166.70.238.44

166.70.238.44 is from United States(US) in region North America

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Trace complete —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.168.27.220 (talk) 15:40, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia meetup

As someone who may live or work near Washington D.C., you may be interested - if you've not heard already - about the meetup scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, at Union Station. For details, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4.

You are receiving this automated message because your userpage appears in Category:Wikipedians in Maryland. Melon‑Bot (STOP!) 18:52, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for identifying yourself on my Talk page as someone who patrols the Pseudoscience category for edits that object to the egregious and reprehensible culture war that is being effected by those such as yourself who enable and facilitate it. On my talk page you will see a discussion in which i explain my brief edit protest and why i will not be attempting to repulse the psuedoskeptics such as yourself who are destroying Wikipedia's coverage of things which pseudoskeptics dislike (divination, alternative therapies, novel religions, etc.).-- self-ref (nagasiva yronwode) (talk) 06:31, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Request for Clarification on Pseudoscience Category Arbitration

Request for clarification on Pseudoscience Category implementation -- Let's get some expert guidance from the Arbcom on the use of this pejorative category tag.-- self-ref (nagasiva yronwode) (talk) 03:24, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, June 6, 2009

The 7th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, June 6th, starting at 5 p.m. The event will be at Bertucci's, near George Washington University and the Foggy Bottom metro station. It will follow the Apps for Democracy open source event at GWU. For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 7. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.)
Delivered by The Helpful Bot at 20:05, 2 June 2009 (UTC) to report errors, please leave a note here.

Volunteer opportunity in Bethesda, Thursday, July 16

The Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting an all-day Academy at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday, July 16. The team that will be teaching at the Academy, a mix of paid staff and volunteers, is looking for four more volunteers to be teaching assistants, providing one-to-one assistance in workshops whenever a workshop participant has a problem following the instructional directions. (We currently have two editors signed up as teaching assistants, and are looking for a total of six.)

The NIH editing workshops are only for two hours, but volunteers are asked to meet the Wikimedia Foundation team at the hotel in Bethesda at about 7:15 a.m. (time to be finalized shortly) and to stay for the entire day, which ends at 4:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. (The full schedule can be found here.)

The team is not necessarily looking for expert editors (though they are welcome), just people who can help novices who might get stuck when trying to do some basic things. If you've been an editor for at least 3 months, and have done at least 500 edits, you probably qualify.

If you're interested, please send John Broughton an email. If you might be interested, but would like further information, please post a note on his user talk page, so that he can respond there, and others can see what was asked.

(You have received this posting because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland or DC. --EdwardsBot (talk) 02:16, 10 July 2009 (UTC))

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, September 26

The 8th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, September 26, starting at 6 p.m. The event will be at Burma Restaurant (740 6th St, NW near the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station). For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 8. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.) --EdwardsBot (talk) 07:00, 23 September 2009 (UTC)