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Welcome to Misplaced Pages!!!

Hello Pax Arcane! Welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Misplaced Pages:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ Getting Started Misplaced Pages Tutorial How to edit a page The five pillars of Misplaced Pages Manual of Style Be bold in editing How to write a great article WikiProjects Getting your info out there Neutral Point of View Attribution Cite your sources Uploading images Image use policy Getting more Misplaced Pages rules Policy Library Getting Help New contributors' help page Where to ask a question Help Desk Frequently Asked Questions Getting along Wikiquette Civility Sign your posts Wikipedians Conflict resolution Getting technical Pages needing attention Peer review Utilities Village pump

≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 04:52, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Autoblocks

Y	Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s): Autoblock of 130.94.123.179 lifted or expired. Request handled by: ~ Riana ⁂ 13:19, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Y	Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s): Autoblock of 207.195.245.98 lifted but I am raising an eyebrow here... How can you be on the same IP than a vandal twice? Request handled by: -- lucasbfr 22:54, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Y	Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s): Autoblock of 128.241.109.105 lifted or expired. Request handled by:  Netsnipe  ►  06:58, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

• To Admins that may notice, is there some way for this user to avoid these problems in the future, and keep using his anonymizer for privacy/security issues? Curt Wilhelm VonSavage 03:23, 29 October 2007 (UTC).

Nope. There's nothing we can do about it. And I should point out that editing via anonymizers are prohibited under the Misplaced Pages:Open proxies policy. If you're sick of being autoblocked, ask your ISP to allocate you a static IP address or refer them to Misplaced Pages:WikiProject on XFFs if a proxy is being used. --  Netsnipe  ►  06:58, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for providing User:Arcana imperii Ascendo tuum with this info. I myself was also unaware of these policies you cited above regarding Misplaced Pages:Open proxies. Curt Wilhelm VonSavage 07:30, 29 October 2007 (UTC).

Careful to Avoid Personal Attacks

Arcana- I am not saying that you are doing this deliberately but some of your comments on the talk page of "Werner Erhard" could be construed as combative. Remember to comment on the edits not the editor. Good luck to you as well. :)Ebay3 17:40, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I acknowledge what you've written. I just don't mince words, is all. I really do not have the luxury of time to discuss about discussions. I have to write to get a thought across concerning an edit or a non-NPOV edit/statement, and I'm not here for the latter...any emotive component anyone gets out of the text is what's there for them. I appreciate your communication. Best wishes- Arcana imperii Ascendo tuum 21:03, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate that you appreciate that you are all in communication. Just kiddin, I couldn't resist jumping on the jargon bandwagon. Curt Wilhelm VonSavage 21:06, 26 October 2007 (UTC).

Your handle

"State secrets up yours" Very funny... You asked : Jossi...Jossi...Where have I heard that name before See the top of this talk page for a reminder. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 18:15, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

• laughs...yeah, I remembered later when looking back. ;) Arcana imperii Ascendo tuum 18:57, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Henrik's RfA thanks!

Thanks for supporting my RfA, it closed today with a final tally of 39 supports, 1 oppose and 1 neutral. As always, if you ever see me doing anything which would cause you to regret giving me your support, let me know. henrik•talk 19:01, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you bunches!

Thank you so much for suppporting my RfA. I was promoted with a total of (44/1/0) - a vote of confidence from the community that I find humbling and motivating. I will not abuse your trust. Look forward to working with you! (Esprit15d 21:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC))

OhanaUnited's RfA

Thanks for voting at my RfA. Unfortunately, the result stands at 51 support, 21 oppose and 7 neutral which means that I did not succeed. As many expressed their appreciation of my works in featured portals during my RfA, I will fill up the vacuum position of director in featured portal candidates to maintain the standards of featured contents in addition to my active role in Good articles. Have a great day. OhanaUnited 04:13, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Y	Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s): Autoblock of 128.241.109.31 lifted or expired. Request handled by:  Netsnipe  ►  02:39, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Been vs. Weed and Landmark Education Corporation

I was unable to find an article with this title. I did find one called Landmark Education ligigation, but it had not been deleted. Please give me a little more information, and I can investigate your concerns. Also, I am unsure of why you were unable to edit the Landmark Education page. Try again and let me know if you can this time. Additionally, your only talk page is an archive, which is not advisable. See if you can fix this. Let me know if you have any other questions.--Esprit15d(۝ • ۞ • ▲) 19:18, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Everything about my talk page is kinda jury-rigged. I messed something up I can't fix. The Been Weed page has apparently been deleted by User:Triplejumper, or that section in the Landmark Education litigation section has been deleted by said user. Any help I can do, lemme know. Arcana imperii Ascendo tuum 00:03, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Thankspam

...for your participation, criticism, and support in my recent RfA, which succeeded with a final count of 90/1/1. I appreciate all of your kind words, criticism, and suggestions. I extend a special thanks to Acalamari for his nomination, and Dihydrogen Monoxide and Husond for their coaching and nominations. If you need help in any administrative matters, please contact me.

personal attacks

Please do not refer to other editors edits as hack jobs, especially on an article that is the subject of an m:OTRS complaint. I have reverted your recent edits to Werner Erhard per complaints to the Wikimedia Foundation. Please do not reinsert them further. ⇒SWATJester 05:04, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I referred to the edits as hack jobs. When you reverted what you did was essentially bowing down to special interest groups who began to edit after abandoning the discussion process. I ask you to respectfully consider the reverts and look at the situation, not the POV complaintants. Arcana imperii Ascendo tuum (talk) 05:19, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Referring to the edits as hack jobs is unhelpful and uncivil. As for "bowing down to special interest groups" there is nothing of the sort. This is not a battleground, nor a soapbox for you to fight a war against "special interest groups". ⇒SWATJester 05:27, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I was doing the civil thing by engaging in discussion to reach a compromise with the material. The discussions were ignored and the editors went ahead with edits some of the other editors didn't necessarily agree on. No soapbox here. I wanted to revert back to where we were as editors on the discussion page before some editors went ahead and edited. I ask you to respectfully take a look at the discussion page and follow what happened. Arcana imperii Ascendo tuum (talk) 05:40, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

It may be that there is no soapbox, but there is more going on with that page than what is apparent on the talk page, per information provided to OTRS. ⇒SWATJester 06:10, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

You're right. But I think the info provided to OTRS may have been inaccurate, and I've requested MedCab to clear up some of the fundamental problems the editors (myself included) are having editing this article. Is it possible for me to obtain a copy of the OTRS ticket so that I know what's going on that I may be unaware of? Arcana imperii Ascendo tuum (talk) 06:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

See WP:OTRS. The contents of emails sent to the OTRS addresses are confidential. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 06:47, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Mediation-cabal stuff

Hi:

May I attach myself in some way to Misplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-11-17 Werner Erhard ?

-- Pedant17 (talk) 00:18, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I sure as hell hope you can. Open a Medcab yourself with your complaints regarding the view of "Pressman's book as a novel" and piggyback on. Arcana imperii Ascendo tuum (talk) 01:24, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your vote

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a vote of (53/0/1). As a token of my appreciation, please accept this bowl of tzatziki. I feel honored to be trusted by so many of you. Misplaced Pages is such a large community, that my acceptance in the face of such large numbers truly is humbling. I will use my new tools to continue the tasks for which you entrusted them to me. Gratefully, EncycloPetey (talk) 18:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the barnstar

That was a pleasant surprise! How did you know that I always wanted the peace star? And congratulations on your new name! May I call you "Pax"? ;-) — Sebastian 00:21, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

You're quite welcome! And yes, "Pax" is the prefered nom vera. Peace and continued success as an admin and editor. Pax Arcane (talk) 02:21, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

{{207.67.148.160|Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "Kwikniterebel". The reason given for Kwikniterebel's block is: "Abusing sock puppet accounts".|FisherQueen|718331}}

The above IP address is an anonymizer address. As has been stated before, it is against policy for you to edit with them. Please do not edit with this IP. The Evil Spartan (talk) 03:24, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

The policy said it was discouraged, but if it is now prohibited, so be it. Please remove the notice from my page. I am not using the software. Thanks! Pax Arcane (talk) 04:30, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Apologies. I'm still looking through the evidence, and it just looks like a lot of people (unfortunately) use the anonymizer. I mean to remove the tag but I missed your userpage. You should be able to edit now. Try refreshing your cache and going to WP:SANDBOX. In any case, there's a good chance your anonymizer will have an option to only disable editing Misplaced Pages and Wikimedia pages; you might try that.The Evil Spartan (talk) 04:48, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

When the evidence is sorted, does the blox box up there go away? --Pax Arcane 05:40, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

RE:Help with biased editor providing WP:3O

I am sorry I am just now replying; it got lost among my other notes. I have replied on the talk page of the article.--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 18:33, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Still, I appreciate you taking the time out. A lot of chunks got hacked out, you're right. I have a copy of the paper if you're interested in reading it, the study. It's pretty benign but noteworthy for the reasons I just included responding to the webpage in question (responding to your second 3O). Feel free if you need any info. I feel as though the WP:3O process was hijacked by a an non-NPOV editor who should have recused themselves. --Pax Arcane 18:40, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I just broke the 3-Revert Rule. Ole Joe Fresco should be here in a jiffy to scold me! --Pax Arcane 04:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Save yourself the trouble and self-revert :) ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 04:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Yessir, occifer! --Pax Arcane 05:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Canvassing

Hi, please don't canvass for support when you are involved in an editing dispute. Also please be careful how you describe another editor's actions, in particular never describe good faith edits, however misguided, as anything like vandalism. The appropriate venue to recruit more eyes to a dispute is requests for comment. Thanks, Guy (Help!) 17:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate the advice...and THEN noticed you must be on Jossi's (Joseph's) speed-dial. This is helping for the piece I am writing...I won't retire on the pay, but I've got enough to not worry about the rent for HEY HEY! Happy New Year! BTW: If you're retired, act as such. Get rid of your account and stop handling favors for friends. Peace! --Pax Arcane 18:11, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

FYI, I have not asked anyone to intervene. It would be a good idea you start assuming good faith for a change. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 18:19, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

FYI, how would you know that unless you were constantly hovering over my account for some reason? Jossi, you're as trustworthy as a cult leader. ;) Happy New Year! You're as trustworthy as they come! A saint! A prophet? You're all good in my book, sir. :) --Pax Arcane 18:29, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

WP:3RR Warning

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly, as you are doing at Landmark Education. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. Rather than reverting, discuss disputed changes on the talk page. The revision you want is not going to be implemented by edit warring. Thank you. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:50, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. You made the papes, btw...for being as crooked as they come. Kudos! Don't ever, ever, ever admonish me about NPOV again. Consider this a divorce. --Pax Arcane 00:58, 7 February 2008 (UTC)