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Jennifer Carpenter (academic)

if you are going to criticize me for arguing at AfD that consensus should change on a guideline, pick an afd where I make that argument, not one where i support the established guideline, (which in fact is what I almost always do; it is generally not difficult to find a WP guideline to fit my views of what ought to be done.) WP:PROF was my basis at Jennifer Carpenter (academic). I'm not asking for an apology, because others have commented quite enough. I'll be glad to argue with you over the validity of using AfD to change guidelines--but first you might want to see Misplaced Pages:Policies and guidelines#Sources of Misplaced Pages policy, especially point one. Changing practice is the most effective way of changing guidelines, according to that policy page. DGG (talk) 05:44, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

I agree there are better examples of your disruptive behavior like here: Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/Jak_&_Daxter_vehicles Drawn Some (talk) 13:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Or here: Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/Dryads_in_popular_culture Drawn Some (talk) 02:41, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

RfD bulk nominations

Hi Drawn Some, just wanted to drop you a friendly note about the formatting of your "dried cherry" RfDs. Please compare the original format with the format now, after I refactored it during the closing. I think you'll agree it is more compact and readable. When nominating multiple redirects for exactly the same reason, it is usually easier on everybody to just put all the redirects under one heading, instead of separate headings. Cheers, --Aervanath (talk) 11:04, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, that's helpful. Drawn Some (talk) 01:04, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I've asked for more eyes on this

Hello, Drawn Some. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Drawn Some seems to be wikistalking User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ). Thank you. -- Banjeboi 07:43, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Be very careful how you interact with this editor, their favourite trick is to interact with you for a bit and then say you are stalking them and that you are homophobic (regardless of if the original incident was around those topics). When their complaints go nowhere (and it seems more editors think they are a "boy who cried wolf"), they will leave for a bit claiming "stress" but will continue to badmouth you. --89.168.187.231 (talk) 09:31, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning. I have already had to ask Benjiboi to leave me alone and stop pestering me once before, you can look at my talk page archive and see. This time I am hoping he just gets bored and finds someone else to harass without me having to insist. Drawn Some (talk) 16:58, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Interesting, an anon and you are now attacking my character. Anon, I have never acted as you accuse but if you actually believe that to be true please feel free to use your actual account and raise my behaviours in any forum you feel appropriate including my talkpage. Drawn Some, that last "pestering" was when I quite reasonably questioned what looked to be your pointy use of the rescue tag, for which you avoided giving a direct answer when three different editors had the same concern, frankly I had forgot about the incident until you brought it up. Seems my hunch on this situation was more spot on than I thought and I'm sorry I feel that way. I hope in the future I have nothing but full trust in your actions as I really don't enjoy spending time on these interpersonal dust-ups. Whatever is going on between you and RAN I hope will also be resolved as I think you both have plenty to offer the project. -- Banjeboi 19:49, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I have not attacked your character. I merely commented on your actions which are offensive. Drawn Some (talk) 19:20, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry you feel asking for clarification is in any way offensive, that is how consensus is built. -- Banjeboi 02:27, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of redirects

Following your addition to Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Peter Pumyea II I thought you should know that if a page is deleted, any redirects to it are usually deleted at the same time - they become candidates for speedy deletion under criterion G8. Guest9999 (talk) 18:24, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

In my experience the closing administrator normally does this as a matter of course, I'm not sure but it may be a feature of some the scripts that some admins use to close AfDs. There are also bots with administrator flags which operate to do this task (example: User:Yet Another Redirect Cleanup Bot) so one way or another they usually get deleted without having to be specifically tagged. If you do across examples then it may be worth tagging it for deletion (db-redirnone is the appropriate template) but with the processes in place it's normally not necessary and redirects aren't generally mentioned at AfD. Hope that helps, regards Guest9999 (talk) 19:46, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Rev War Officers

Per your comment I took a look at the article and tagged it for notability. Is it appropriate per not a directory to have an article seeking to list all officers from New Jersey in a given war? Why would this state or this war be special in that respect. "Officers from New York in World War 2" would be a logical extension. So would extending the list to soldiers of every rank. People doing genealogical research like to look up such information, but they also look up "Passengers from Germany to the United States in the 18th century"or "Persons in the 1790 census" so that desire does not mean that every person of genealogical interest belongs in a list in this encyclopedia. Edison (talk) 15:09, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Wal-Mart (disambiguation) at DR

Just letting you know that the discussion for Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Wal-Mart (disambiguation) (3rd nomination) has been listed for deletion review at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2009 July 15. You may be interested in commenting. Tatterfly (talk) 18:31, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Guinea Bissau and Russia

thanks, it was one of those true barrel scrapes that comes from googling the 2 countries and inserting anything you can find into bilateral articles. LibStar (talk) 05:03, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem, I can't believe someone would try to put that in a bilateral relations article. I have my suspicions about why this particular editor behaves the way he does and I don't think he can help the way he acts. Drawn Some (talk) 05:05, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

ANI notification

Hello, Drawn Some. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.. Alansohn (talk) 20:37, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Deja Vu

Now the attention is off you and RAN is claiming to have a new "wikistalker". . Niteshift36 (talk) 14:32, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I was on vacation and I was talking about this guy to some friends and they agreed he probably has issues he can't help and that he's not actually hurting anybody. I will still try to clean up after him some when I have time. Drawn Some (talk) 10:39, 6 August 2009 (UTC)