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please unprotect the page Sakshama, when[REDACTED] is having articles for techfest, techniche and other technical fetivals. then why not a article for sakshama, a technical festival which was started from a small town of india in the year 2007 and now it is going to celebrate it's third version and it has been said as no #1 technical festival of north india. so i want to write a page for it please unprotect it. you can find more at http://sakshama.org or you can find the same communities on orkut and other social web Aashish K Mahaswary (talk) 11:21, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

You can ignore this; I have pointed the user to WP:RFPU/WP:DRV. He didn't know how to reach an admin and so left talk messages for a page-full of recent changes editors. Stifle (talk) 16:06, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

election advice

Since Lady C's untimely demise, and your withdrawal, do you have any advice on which candidates for ArbCom should be considered? Trout Ice Cream (talk) 06:22, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Eat 'em all. Project going dogs. bishzilla _ROARR!! 06:33, 23 November 2008 (UTC).

'Zilla is Correct! Am Preparing Election Doggerel as we Do Speak! DOGRIGGR (deflea) 08:15, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Dear Bishzilla, are you sure you won't reconsider your withdrawal? America has just elected a black man. Surely green will be acceptable to wikipedia. Without you I'm just left with the usual list of little users and scant ways to express my big sulk (advice on sulking welcome, but must be better than Guy Browning's ). --Joopercoopers (talk) 19:39, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Speaking of Lady C. When is the old bag gonna be buried? GoodDay (talk) 21:22, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

On NWA.Rep

Hi Bishzilla. Recently you protected User talk:NWA.Rep against further editing, but now User:Swatjester blanked the page. Could you please undo that admins edits? NWA.Rep spoke of admins who have some real issues with their powers and responsibilities, and this seems like exactly the case! If you don't mind, could you also protect NWA.Rep's userpage? Swatjester and User:Gwen Gale removed content there as well, ignoring WP:BLP#Non-article space and acting like a censor.

I think it is a shame that a Wikipedian gave up after a conflict, and that some admins (not even regular editors, admins!) still can't leave him in peace. I hope you can help out. Thanks. --Soetermans | is listening | what he'd do now? 19:21, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps we need a new policy: Misplaced Pages: Don't dance on the grave. :-( Bishonen | talk 20:09, 23 November 2008 (UTC).

Thanks Bish! --Soetermans | is listening | what he'd do now? 00:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

If you revert me I won't edit-war over this, but I think the guideline is clear. If you'll forgive my reverting you without touching base, we can discuss any disagreement.--chaser - t 02:15, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Chaser. I guess it's not clear, in that case. The way it's formulated, "The Misplaced Pages community generally frowns upon simulating the MediaWiki interface, and it should be avoided except when necessary for testing purposes", is a compromise after a hot debate on the matter some time ago. Some people wanted the guideline to say that SMIs, such as joke message bars, are verboten, and anybody can remove them; the other faction was as strongly against such encroachment on the traditional Misplaced Pages "wide latitude to users to manage their user space as they see fit" (quoting the guideline text from a little higher up). The text finally agreed on does not say "feel free to remove them", it says the "community generally frowns upon" them. Not everybody frowns; and those who do, get to go ahead and frown, not to use brute force in the matter. "Should be avoided" is not the same as "is not allowed"; it's simply more frowning. When the matter was last made a big issue of, I argued against forcible removal, because I feel that users should not be overridden in the management of their userspace for such trivial reasons as "the joke isn't funny" (who gets to decide that, seriously?). By contrast: some users have removed content on NWA.Rep's userpage that they considered sexist or aggressively nationalist; those are non-trivial matters, and I have not restored any of it. But the New Message bar is trivial; it's really not necessary to humiliate the user further over such a thing. I'm restoring it. (I have moved this conversation to WT:USER; please respond there if you want to discuss.) Bishonen | talk 10:36, 24 November 2008 (UTC).

Bish, I hadn't seen that there was anything on AN/I about this. However, I think you've known me long enough to know I'm not "acting as a censor" or some other nonsense, but rather attempting to remove what is clearly a personal attack and accusations against other users. Perhaps Soetermans ought to think a bit more before making ridiculous accusations. ⇒SWATJester 02:28, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Swat. Sure, I know your intentions were of the best, but I'm going with ANI. Bishonen | talk 10:36, 24 November 2008 (UTC).

The Dream Lives On

With or without you. Misplaced Pages:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2008/Vote/Bishzilla Little users show great respect. Need 'Zilla on arbcom. Tex (talk) 19:33, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Hehe, respectful votes even when not running! Flattering! :-D But oh noes, Little Stupid already post on vote page! Ruin good impression! bishzilla _ROARR!! 16:09, 4 December 2008 (UTC).

Could you adopt ScienceApologist?

And teach him how to properly make humorous snarky comments? Or should I try LadyC's page? Pcap ping 02:20, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Little lady unfortunately deceased, see encomiums here. Try User:Giano perhaps? bishzilla _ROARR!! 16:03, 4 December 2008 (UTC).

Eh, Giano takes himself seriously. Won't do SA any good, he already takes his mission here too seriously. No room for disgruntled scientists in Bishzilla's pocket? Pcap ping 16:25, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Heh

|Promethean chuckles| Just wanted to let you know that going over your Talk page archive gave me allot of laughs.   «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk) 15:14, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

It made you laugh so much you had to ask for the deletion of the 'Zilla's campaign poster? Tex (talk) 15:26, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Only looked at the archives after nominating it for deletion.   «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk) 21:55, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Snow keep! ROARRR !! bishzilla _ROARR!! 23:55, 9 December 2008 (UTC).

Saggar fired pottery

Would you consider semi-protection of this article, please, in view of the long edit war that has been going on there, by apparently one person using about eight IP addresses? Marshall46 (talk) 00:12, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Was just considering what you suggest. Looking now. bishzilla _ROARR!! 09:35, 15 December 2008 (UTC).

Toolzz use pleezzz

Dear great green scaly one - please delete User:Joopercoopers/Queen's House and User:Joopercoopers/Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal and associated subpages. Many thanks. --Joopercoopers (talk) 21:27, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Oi! I like those. Risker (talk) 21:43, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Subpages? Que? bishzilla _ROARR!! 09:33, 15 December 2008 (UTC).

Thanks Bishzilla - having a clean out of subpages too:

• user:Joopercoopers/Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal/Statistics
• user:Joopercoopers/Taj Mahal/Review
• user:Joopercoopers/Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal/Gallery
• user:Joopercoopers/Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal/Timeline
• user:Joopercoopers/Supplement
• user:Joopercoopers/ActiveTab
• user:Joopercoopers/Dark Ages
• user:Joopercoopers/Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal/Maps
• user:Joopercoopers/Tabbed articles
• user:Joopercoopers/comment
• User:Joopercoopers/sandbox

Kind regards --Joopercoopers (talk) 10:11, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh noes hrair! bishzilla _ROARR!! 10:39, 15 December 2008 (UTC).

Little Stupid, Superstar

Fishapod stars in music video! . . dave souza, talk 22:09, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Does this creature have a agent?! Could make a mint that way, or do we have to go to get a mint? Powerzilla (talk) 01:13, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Little Stupid launch song-and-dance career under new name Tiktaalik. More dignified!

Poddie officially unbearable. Bishzilla very unfortunate mother. Happy splashing! bishapod splash! 05:52, 15 December 2008 (UTC).

Much amusement ensues

Great edit summary. Physiological response to pleasure on reading same has been audibly expressed. Good change. --Moonriddengirl 21:43, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Hehe, thank you little user. Bishzilla English skills excellent! bishzilla _ROARR!! 23:01, 22 December 2008 (UTC).

Merry Christmas

Lack of time and the credit crunch have restricted my activities this year. But have a good one and don't eat too many turkeys--Santa (talk) 13:02, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

'Zilla breathe delicately on the little Santa. Just for a tan. bishzilla _ROARR!! 10:29, 26 December 2008 (UTC).

Deification

I often feel uncomfortable approaching a 70 storey green lizard asking for favours so when talking to some of the pitchfork wielding grockles in the pub the other night, we decided perhaps its best to make offerings. Please accept this as a token of my esteem - suffice to say there's now a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu. My fit of pique has abated and I'll have some time over Christmas to look at the Queen's house properly. Would you mind undeleting User:Joopercoopers/Queen's House? Sorry about the hokey cokey. --Joopercoopers (talk) 13:11, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, JC, I see you fluttering about on the wiki as I write, so I have undeleted the above-noted page. I will, however, leave your humble offerings to our beloved Bishzilla, who no doubt will enjoy the spectacle of a one-eyed yellow idol. You could, however, pop by my page and explain to me exactly what a "grockle" is. For some reason, I imagine a rather awkward, heavyset fellow whose pants are too short. Risker (talk) 15:54, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

"spectacle of a one-eyed yellow idol" - now only requires a monocle. --Joopercoopers (talk) 16:07, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Tee-hee ! Little Risker good straightman ! bishzilla _ROARR!! 10:25, 26 December 2008 (UTC).

Happy holidays

Thanks for making 2008 an interesting and enlightening year for me; you have graciously advised me on how best to serve our community as an administrator (I believe "eating vandals" was part of your advice) and I've always found your comments amusing, helpful or thought-provoking—I'll let you guess which ones are which!

New shirt

Good shirt for /zilla, here. Maybe come in size 1000X? --Justallofthem (talk) 18:24, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Handsome shirt! Little JustaHulk not vote zilla? bishzilla _ROARR!! 21:01, 30 December 2008 (UTC).

RFAR

I have named you at Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration#Biszilla. You may wish to make a statement. Durova 22:27, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Arbitration on illicit oversight? Not happening. Arbitration over a single block? Instantaneous. That's the Misplaced Pages way: getting even with everyone who ever did you wrong, ignoring every wrong done by others, and trying to get to the top of the heap. Utgard Loki (talk) 14:17, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Well it looks like I missed all Teh Dramah, but it also looks like ArbCom is well on its way to rejecting. Meh. She posted on ANI, was overturned, all handled. Why take to ArbCom? KillerChihuahua 14:29, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Ug!

You promise not block FT2 again? Promise not use block button on opponents? Breath on opponents much better. Yes? Please tell little arbs. Jehochman 04:15, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Promising is a very simplistic viewpoint! I need a clear desk and a more appropriate venue before I can promise anything. Say around Easter? It requires full comprehensive details of a matter taking place during the course of a year, from a very wide range of on- and off-site venues. It also has to fit round my work and others' work, my real life, and other historic matters, and to coincide with a family season, a new arbcom season and the start of the working year. Some people, indeed, might lazily dash off a 3 line note by way of reply to your recklessly short and simple question. That's not my way ! Now I will go check various large archives, with review item by item where a search cannot be specified, to ensure accuracy, and to ensure the balancing of that with a few overriding issues, if applicable, such as privacy of users, WMF requirements, ability to cite emails and getting permission if needed, and so on. In this case since I'm being asked about someone else's actions, that were discussed by others, and in others' emails, I'd like to be sure I've done that task carefully, so I need a few weeks to provide an unabridged statement. Can you think of a single reason a dishonest person would do so? It is an act of only high ethics and integrity. I hope this reassures. Feel free tell little arbs. bishzilla _ROARR!! 14:52, 14 January 2009 (UTC).