User talk:Xoloz

This is my talk page. Like most Wikipedians, I reserve the right to refactor it for archival reasons. Please do not mark any message addition as "minor"; if you do, I won't know that you've written. Please do write: I'm lonely. Xoloz

My talk archives are here: archive1, archive2, archive3, archive4, archive5, archive6, archive7, archive8, archive9, archive10, archive11, and archive12.

NIL

Hi, you have deleted the page for NIL, an implementation of Lisp. The page for deletion was Nil (programming langauge) which was a joke programming language. Could you please re-instate the page for NIL? Nilboy 20:15, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

The text for Nil (programming lanaguge) described a joke language. This was deleted last week. The text for NIL was my edit to the following (taken from Google's cache)

/nil/ 1. New Implementation of Lisp. A language intended to be the successor of MacLisp. A large Lisp, implemented mostly in VAX assembly language. A forerunner of Common LISP.

["NIL: A Perspective", Jon L. White, MACSYMA Users' Conf Proc, 1979].

History of Lisp: New Implementation of Lisp (NIL), S-1 Lisp

This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.

When Nil (programming language) was deleted I used this to do a redirect to the real language NIL which was not the subject of the AFD request. Could you please re-instate the page for NIL? Nilboy 11:48, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks from StuffOfInterest

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which finished with a tally of 52/6/1 (~90%). It was an interesting process which gave me a chance to learn a bit about myself and about the community. My intention now is to slowly ease into using those additional buttons on my page. No use being over eager and mucking up the works. The support of all those who went over my record and/or rallied to my defense after the big oppose vote was instumental to the success of this review. Again, thank you! --StuffOfInterest 11:33, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

I may have just broke DRV

Not sure what I did wrong, but the proper log isn't coming up, even though I think I did it right. Sorry, I know you know how to do it... --badlydrawnjeff talk 13:14, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Question about blocking

Please check the page I deleted here. It is obviously vandalism and an attack/threat page. My question is what is the appropriate sanction considering the nature of the threat and the fact that some information that might be able to used to identify the target was revealed? Thanks for your feedback, Irongargoyle 15:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! Irongargoyle 15:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Hillman/Archive13

Hi, Xoloz, can you unprotect and delete this? I have used {{Db-userreq}} to request deletion of all my user pages and all my user talk pages, including the David.Mestel negotation since this is obviously moot. Thanks for all your help with various such matters in the past. ---CH 16:36, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Why are you leaving? :( Xoloz 16:42, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Can you delete User talk:Hillman too?

Er... why am I leaving? That's what I have been trying to explain for about a year! Short history:

1. arrived, got intrigued, wrote or rewrote many articles,
2. found myself spending more and more time trying to revert bad edits utterly destroying my previous hard work, plus dealing with increasing levels of harassment,
3. gave up on content creation and focused on reforming policymaking and streamlining policy enforcement, which led to more harassment,
4. acknowledged no hope of reforming policymaking, hence no hope of creating new policies which would support knowledgeable science editors, hence no hope of returning to content creation (the only activity I ever wanted to pursue here), so decided to try to write exit statements answering your question in detail, which led to even more harassment,
5. finally cut my losses and walked away from everything I had ever tried to do here.

Sadly, this seems to be the consistent pattern followed by many of the editors with special knowledge or expertise whose long-term presence should surely be most valued for purposes of constructing a credible encyclopedia. The sad thing is, all I ever wanted to do here was write about math and physics, focusing on technical aspects which many would no doubt expect to be relatively uncontroversial!

Thanks for deleting User talk:Hillman/Archive13. I guess User:Hillman/Archive could be my wikitombeau, although I don't much care if that is deleted too. I'd like to remove User talk:Hillman since leaving it seems tantamount to inviting more harassment :-( and the same is probably true for User:Hillman/Archive.

Thanks again for all your help, Xoloz. I've encountered some very nice individuals here. I hope I remember them long after I've forgotten the not so nice ones! :-)

I sincerely hope that despite my pessimism the remaining community can somehow pull off a miracle and save (the encyclopedic function of) Wikipedia from self-destructing. Good luck and best wishes to all editors of good faith!---CH 17:24, 10 October 2006 (UTC)