User talk:Russ a boykin

It exists?

[author's note: for posterity's sake, I'd thought I would copy and paste the "talk" page from my IP when I made a slew of anonymous, mostly "wikignome" calibre edits. That said, all of this is likely outdated in some fashion by time you read it--and the links in the boilerplate welcome are helpful right now. I did, in fact, delete my IP; it was a curious move, but I was seized in the grip of paranoia--this was all the more retarded when I realized I used my given name.]

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Ari Fleischer

...but, and I'm sure this is far from the first and last instance[oh, the bigotry that tags along with free speech sometimes], the article on Ari Fleischer has been a recent target of somewhat blatant anti-semitic remarks; as I saw your page and it said you were a member of the judaism wikiproject as well as an rc patroller, I thought perhaps you would be receptive to either watching it or taking some action to protect this page, as I'm not an accounted wikipedian and am somewhat unaware of what to do in these situations. Here's the diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ari_Fleischer&diff=61079846&oldid=61079650.

The way I figure it, regardless of whatever one's political beliefs or views of the man, the fact that he's jewish should not, in any way, be held against him; moreover, the wikipedia article shows up as the fourth item on google for Ari Fleischer, and with all the nonsense in the media about wikipedia we don't need anti-semitism added to the list, I believe. 02:36, 29 June 2006 (UTC) russ.

Thank's for the notice. I will put this on my watchlist, and if the violations get egrigious, I will enlist other help. The edits you refer to were blatantly Anti-Semetic, and you were correct for removing them. Y'yasher Kochachah. -- Avi 16:26, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Help me

Hello Russ a boykin, I'm sorry you took my removal of the {{helpme}} template as an unkind gesture. When a user places the template on their talk page, a bot in the Wikipedia Bootcamp IRC channel detects it and notifies us. Having been notified, I went to your talk page, and noticed that you'd copied another Wikipedia page onto your talk page, thus enabling the {{helpme}} template accidentally. I therefore removed it. Help is certainly available - please feel free to either put the {{helpme}} tag on your talk page, or visit us directly at the above IRC channel. You can even be instantly connected by clicking here. Cheers, and happy editing, Tangot a ngo 10:05, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, okay ;) No problem. - Tangot a ngo 10:56, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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