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Talk Entries to Justanonymous Below This Line

ANI on Andy

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. ROG5728 (talk) 14:03, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Gun control in the Third Reich dab

I undid your removal of the link to Gun legislation in Germany on the dab page I created for Gun Control in the Third Reich, because the Germany page is where the historic information regarding German gun control can be found. I also think it is more likely that they would be looking for historical information rather than a book (not to downplay the contributions you are making with the book, but trying to help the average reader find the information that they are looking for.) TonyBallioni (talk) 19:11, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

no worries, please take a look at what I did and see if you're ok with it.-Justanonymous (talk) 19:15, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me! TonyBallioni (talk) 19:16, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Gun Control in the Third Reich (book) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Gun Control in the Third Reich (book) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gun Control in the Third Reich (book) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Darkness Shines (talk) 22:12, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Gun_control and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the following resources may be of use—

Thanks,

Gun control arbitration case notice

You were recently listed as a party to a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gun control. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gun control/Evidence. Please add your evidence by January 19, 2014, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gun control/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Bbb23 (talk) 19:18, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gun control/Evidence

The word limit on party sections is 1,000 words. Your section is over 3,000 words. Please reduce the amount of material in your section to comply with the limit. Thanks.

For the Arbitration Committee,

--Bbb23 (talk) 16:20, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have some inline diffs in there. I'm not an expert in this diff technique, I'm just a Contributor who really shouldn't be here, so i hope the inline diffs don't count against me. I also hope it's worth a read. If the content is procedurally discounted, I will be disappointed. I think we're in a dangerous place with this level of profanity, negativity and bullying which I personally think is driving good editors away. Me included. Arbcom needs to decide whether this is to be the lawless cursed earth or whether the rule of law and civility needs to apply.....particularly to contentious articles. We just can't be name calling editors patronizing little trolls or telling people to shut the fuck up, good and great people just won't edit in that environment. You have the authority to decide and set the tone here. -Justanonymous (talk) 02:51, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitrators look at diffs in detail; there is no need for copy-and-pasting what others have said on other pages. For instance, your example of (this) leading to (that) - you could substitute the first green box (the exchange between Andy and Anythingyouwant) with this diff of Andy actually making that comment. An example of this would be that Bbb23 asked you to reduce the amount of in-line material but you believe most of it are worth reading. This way, the arbitrators can see precisely who said what in response to what. Most of the inline diffs can be changed to a link to the diff with a summary - making it easier for the arbitrators to track down what was said where. - Penwhale | ^{dance in the air and follow his steps} 02:56, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

it seems I did it wrong. Unfortunately, my schedule is limiting the amount of time I can spend here and the period for entering and modifying of evidence is now closed I think. If my evidence gets discounted for bad form, I'll learn my lesson for the next time I hope never comes. I was just trying to show the context behind the edits. I'm very apprehensive of being at this level...very new territory for me and frankly a bit afraid I'll be sanctioned, banned, or banished. -Justanonymous (talk) 03:28, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Penwhale Is there a convenient way to count words in the section? (other than say, counting :) ) Gaijin42 (talk) 23:16, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Since we're open until the 25th, I've gone ahead and started to pare down my comments. I cut and pasted the content into MS Word and I get a very quick word count with that but I don't know what platform you're running. I think with this last set of edits, I should be under the limit.-Justanonymous (talk) 23:42, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Paste it into MS Word. — goethean 00:58, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I found this online that might help if you're on a Linux or some mainframe environment. http://www.wordcounttool.com. Full disclaimer, I haven't used that and don't know if they're phishing. Like Goethean says, ms word is likely safest and easiest. -Justanonymous (talk) 02:47, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There used to be a bot that counts the words/diffs for RFAR evidence pages; however, the bot is not active for some reason. I can ask the maintainer of the bot, but otherwise, yeah, have to use word count tools. - Penwhale | ^{dance in the air and follow his steps} 14:09, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

URGENT NOTICE

A large amount of additional evidence has been presented against you in the ongoing ArbCom case about the gun control article. If you assumed that the evidence period would end at 23:59 on 25 January, then please be aware that that has changed.Anythingyouwant (talk) 20:26, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]