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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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.)
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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))[reply]

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)[reply]

Jeff V. Merkey

He's indefinitely blocked. I see absolutely no reason to discuss what he might do in the future. Can you please refactor your recent comments on the talk page to focus on the article and its content? Thanks! --Ronz (talk) 18:51, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I do find it amusing how much editing this banned editor [[1]] continues to perform to his own bio. --MediaMangler (talk) 02:12, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I think you've done a very good job of cooling off a rapidly escalating dispute.

Yes, the sockpuppetry concerns me as well. I was hoping there would be others monitoring the article that would have stepped in by now. --Ronz (talk) 02:42, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Now I need to consider how -- or even whether or not I should -- respond to Merkey's complaint on WP:BLP. Ehh, why bother? --MediaMangler (talk) 02:50, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have retracted the BLP complaint. I think we understand one another better now. I had no idea you worked for the DOD, so welcome brother. :) 166.70.238.46 (talk) 02:28, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't call me your brother, it makes me nauseous. My opinion of your character and reliability has not changed one iota. The fact that for four years of your life you contributed to the defense of the nation should be mentioned in your bio, but does not compare to the notability of your subsequent actions. You are banned from this site. Stay away. --MediaMangler (talk) 15:35, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]