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Common Ground

I respect you at least you are not an anonymous coward. I think we should together. But arent you the least upset that you are not working at software house cos society cannot accept you for who you are???? I am . I can regale with stories of simple anoyances that was purposely inflicted on me to outright abuse. I am sure you probably could as well. For example, I have an out of whack startle response. I would focus on work , my co workers would sneak up on me and scare me cos I would yelp and shake and they would then laugh riotously. I could not get back to work for hours if at all for the day. JoeMele 17:04, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The charter is here. (Relating to Esperanza)

Hello RN, the Charter for Esperanza is up. Take a looksie :) R e dwolf24 (talk) 02:55, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Explanation of gap

Greetings. I did not take a voluntary break from editing Wikipedia from June to August of this year. My husband and I had been sharing a house with a (now former) friend from January; in early June, relations with her began to deteriorate, culminating in my husband and I needing to flee our former residence at half past midnight on a Sunday, after our roommate flipped out and started making threats of violence against us. We then needed to find a new place to live, extract our possessions from the crazy woman's house (still not entirely complete—she refuses to turn over some of our more precious possessions, like my husband's wedding ring), and get our Internet connection hooked back up, in the middle of a telco strike. IceKarma ॐ 23:00, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Thanks for participating and supporting me in my RfA, I hope I will not let you down. I will also take that tip on the edit summary section. Molotov (talk) 18:04, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Esperanza made less bureaucratic

Hello again, I have (unilatterly) taken away the 'assembly' idea, as per my reasons at that edit summary and per Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Charter. I have left the admin general, as some leadership is good. Now, all you have to do is be a member to establish consensus, the whole assembly idea is gone. Also, I have added an advisory committee, of four members, with limited power besides watching over the admin general and making sure he doesn't do anything stupid. Please look at the ammended charter, and I would love a comment. R e dwolf24 (talk) 00:27, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The last time I'm spamming you all with Esperanza stuff

Hello RN. As you may or may not know, there have been some troubles with Esperanza. So now, as a last ditch to save the community, please vote at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Reform on all neccisary polls. P.S. I'm very sorry for spamming you all with these messages, and this will be the last time. I recommend putting ESP on your watchlist. Cheers and please look at that, let's stop the civil war then. R e dwolf24 (talk) 02:51, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Asperger's syndrome

Hi,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Asperger%27s_syndrome#removed_link Thanks. Apokrif 21:58, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mario

Hey, I undid the changes you made to mario, because I feel it is better to keep all the images in the article wrapped by text. By pulling it out of the text it doesn't integrate very well with the words describing Mario's Mushroom ability. Fine, the text on the right is cramped, but is that such a problem? We are only used to having images on the right, but in other cultures images are commonly on the left. Still, take a good look and make the changes that you feel will improve the article. Jacoplane 00:24, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Thanks for your (eventual) support in my RfA. I'm glad you took the time to look into the matter; I think you made some pretty valid points in your initial criticisms. I'm also glad I was able to reassure you on the matter. I guess we will have to agree to disagree on minor edit summaries, but if you see me make an edit you regard as significant that I have marked as minor, do let me know. -R. fiend 15:44, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your support

I would like to thank you for your support of my adminship nomination. --Mb1000 22:37, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RfA

Just to say thanks for supporting my RfA. Please let me know if you see me screw up anytime. --Doc (?) 19:13, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hyperlexia

I was wondering why you removed all references to autism/AS from the hyperlexia article? Most of what I have read about hyperlexia indicates that hyperlexia is probably on the spectrum, though of course there is some dispute over it. (This Google search lists a lot of articles discussing the connection between hyperlexia and autism.) I think that, given this background, it is inappropriate to remove autism from the hyperlexia page; instead, we should perhaps expand the article to address the on-spectrum/off-spectrum perspectives. I am going to post this to the hyperlexia Talk page as well, so if you want to respond there, that would be good. :) ManekiNeko | Talk 20:27, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Responded at the article's talk page :). Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 20:54, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That deletion you mentioned

Just to keep the tangential stuff off of VfU: That deletion of Blogosophy was one of several out-of-process speedied executed by Neutrality that day. At the time, I asked why on his talk page, but he's never responded. Interpret that as you will. Since no-one has actually challenged those deletions (which would almost certainly have been overturned at VfU), he could now perhaps cite WP:IAR but it would seem rather retrospective. -Splash^talk 23:35, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It was? So it was. Well, a few weeks ago Neutrality did some other ones that weren't speedies. However, that particular article, from looking at the deletion log was probably an A1 speedy "Blogosophy means the philosophy of blogging.", with three ext links. However, to delete it citing the afd is not correct. He's an Arbitrator. I rather think they consider themselves to Have Powers at times. -Splash^talk 23:47, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah - I'm glad to see the articles go but I doubt I could pull that off I was an admin. Neutrality has special powers :) Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 23:51, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yeah, they were obvious enough deletes. Just that not-technically-a-speeies cause upset when it might be more easily avoided. Incidentally, Netrality just replied: apparently they were A1/A7 speedies (which that one above was, I agree, but the other was a nursery school). -Splash^talk 00:01, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah - the nursery school thing reminds me of the first time I tried to speedy a band that didn't assert notability :). Some day we will have an A7 rule for bands!!! Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 00:05, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Some day that cannot come too soon. It might actually be worth prodding talk pages of those who were in Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-C after the poll. It was stopped because it was too soon, but it isn't anymore. I did try prodding watchlists, but that rarely works. -Splash^talk 00:19, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Great Year

I don't know about the rest of it, but the Great Year, narrated by James Earl Jones, does exist. The DVD is for sale on Amazon.[1] Cheers. 23skidoo 17:58, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I did a quick Google search and found plenty of references to it being a PBS program, including the Amazon listing itself and several discussion websites where users make comments such as "I saw The Great Year on PBS last night." That's good enough for me. Cheers! 23skidoo 18:07, 25 September

Fair enough - the sources seemed dubious.... but if you think its good I'm not one to disagree :). Thanks! Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 18:15, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Disneyfication

Ryan, I've attempted a rewrite of the stub at Disneyfication. I haven't tried to merge in anything from Disneyization yet, though. What do you think? Joyous (talk) 21:20, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review

:) Ac e tic '^Acid 02:07, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

==Joe's Talk Page==

While I disagree, vehemently, with a lot of Joe's recent comments and actions (oh, you'd noticed), it is my view that he can do what he likes with his own talk page, so long as he does not actually misrepresent what anyone said. Make no mistake, I don't like the big blanking he did, especially as some of my comments (one semi-unfortunate one but also several that I wholeheartedly stand by) were among those deleted. I would prefer that he'd simply archived it, and I would not do the same if our positions were reversed. But as much as I think it was in some respects a poor decision, I think he was nevertheless within his rights. PurplePlatypus 06:20, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My understanding was that Talk page content (other than vandalism) should not be deleted. So I have been reverting Joe's deletions. I will gladly give way to more experienced editors on this issue. But I am uncomfortable with the apparent whitewashing that is occurring. ManekiNeko | Talk 06:35, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's a grey area. In general some people here blank their talk page like that - it's considered poor form but it's not worth edit warring over (rather disappointed that he removed my comment too...). Article talk pages though are a bit less grey and its pretty bad if he just removes it. He should probably put something like "personal attack removed" or something. Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 06:40, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks! If you need any help with those articles or any others, just drop me a note on my talk page. Also, when I make the final push towards FA status on Extraordinary Machine, I would be ecstatic if you were to give a helping hand on the next peer review. Thanks again! :). Extraordinary Machine 15:14, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Journalist's RFA

I want to thank you very much for your vote on my RFA. Greatly apperciated, I owe you one! Journalist | huh? 11 December 2024

Reversing

Can't rollback. Have to revert manually. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:47, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My sandbox

Would you mind keeping an eye on my sandbox? My bot is dumping info right now, and I'm going to bed. If you could, please offset the amount of data that it is loading into the page. Thanks! --AllyUnion (talk) 08:15, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So far, I've moved January off to: User:AllyUnion/January 2005. There is at least 8 more months of data. --AllyUnion (talk) 08:16, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ya, because the amount of data per page is reaching up to around the ballpark of 200k. Splitting it up would be helpful, but I can't do that since I have to bed. <- PDT time zone. --AllyUnion (talk) 08:27, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]