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ORBCW

Dear Crz, may I remind you that you stated you'd look over Rabbi Shneur Kotler... also, the picture in Rav Levin's article is not ideal, due to the white surrounding on both sides. I think we may need to cut that.

Also, I just had this idea. What do you think of a page where people put down names of Rabbonim they'd like written about (non-existent at the moment though), even if it's just a stub, and after we've evaluated notability etc, a team of editors volunteer to check this page and write up the articles. This would be different from the ORBCW as it only deals with non-existent rabbonim, and and the aim isn't to improve articles or create really detailed ones, although I concede that could happen. What do you think? With many thanks, Nesher 17:16, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Chuck Marean

I think these edits were also by User:Chuck Marean: after you blocked him. He has made edits with a very similar IP in the past before remembering to login (, , etc), and it fits his MO. --mtz206 (talk) 15:14, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I'll follow-up on the IP tracking. Meanwhile, he continues to blank his talk page. Is a {Wr4} appropriate? --mtz206 (talk) 15:28, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Removed "Prod" from Ciaron O'Reilly

Hi,

I've just removed the Prod you applied to Ciaron O'Reilly - it seems to me that he's recieved significant press coverage for his protests. And additionally, he appears on Misplaced Pages:Requested articles/Social Sciences and Philosophy. If you disagree, perhaps we could have an AfD, which would allow for a bit more debate than a Prod? (At least - maybe it's possible to have debates with prods I just haven't worked out how!!).

Cheers,

--JennyRad 15:38, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

NP. I will consider AfD at a later time. - CrazyRougeian talk/email 15:48, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Jonathan Edwards (Journalist)

I looked and couldnt find anything about this person; I would still throw in my nom for deletion, but its up to your disgression.--Gephart 18:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Tax case: Gregory

Study tax,... it is the joy of life. Bona Fides 19:27, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Mboverload

I'm always interested to read your comments in RfAs -- I'm new to the process and you seem to have shrewd insights and high standards.

If you have the time, I'd be interested to get your impressions of the dynamics I'm seeing in Mboverload's RfA. In particular, take a look at the links I posted in opposing comment #2 and supporting comment #24. I was a bit surprised, but then I may be a bit naive about the way some things work around here. My comments were posted after almost all of the votes were cast so most voters never saw these links. Does this sort of phenomenon occur very often in RfAs? (For what it's worth, I have never had any dealings with either admin -- Cyde or Mboverload -- before this RfA.)

I'm not asking for any action on your part -- just curious as to your reaction.

--A. B. 20:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Novardok

Hi Crz, how's it going! Hope all's well. I'd be much obliged if you can look over Novardok yeshiva for me and add your many improvements. Many thanks, Nesher 22:29, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Someone worth keeping an administrative eye upon...

A new user, User:Mphamilton, has arrived on the seen and is adding some good content and doing some excellent formatting on some West Virginia-related articles. The problem, however, lies in his uploading of copyrighted images with improper tags. He is continuing to do so despite numerous warnings on his talk page. Mind keeping an eye on the situation? This, of course, means I will owe you some copyediting and second opinions. Cheers. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 22:42, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I am Back

Hello once Again, I am editing the Electoral District Trintity-Spadina], but it keeps on getting reverted for some odd reason. If I revert once more, I would have supassed the 3 revert rule. My Contributions to the entry our statistical, I don't undersstand why this should be an edit war. Can you please revert it back to my most recent version and censure the IP for it's misuse. Pete Peters 01:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Malacia

Prod'd. Suffix dicdef with full articles on osteomalacia and chondromalacia already existing. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 01:48, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

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My RfA (with apologies for my failure to have responded sooner)

Okay, so I ought perhaps to explain myself a bit, lest you should think me (a) an ungrateful lout, (b) an arrogant jackass, (c) a mercurial nutjob, or (d) all of the above.; (d) is probably accurate, but I wouldn’t want you to discover that. I ought at first to apologize generally for my failure to have written of late; I have been occupied altogether with maintaining the tennis, American football, baseball, basketball, chess, ice hockey, and golf portals—which, inasmuch as the perfecting of each can consume hours, aren’t a good area for someone with obsessive tendencies—to the exclusion of all other Misplaced Pages work (hence, in large part, my reticence vis-à-vis adminship, about which more in a moment).

I recognize that I ought to have been much clearer in my declining the nomination—and, obviously, that I ought to have written to you, but, as you will see from my contribution history, I was updating the tennis portal in exorbitant (and excrutiating) detail—lest my words should have been construed to mean something much more drastic than I’d intended (perhaps the first instance in many years in which I elected to curtail my verbosity is one in which a more thorough explanation would have been appreciated).

I am not, to be sure, leaving the project. Rather, having fully healed from an abdominal injury, I am resuming fully my exercise program, which, between work at the gym and work at home, comprises nearly seven hours each day (which craziness is perhaps the reason for my having suffered an injury in the first place) and limits the time I have for other pursuits; managing my 20-plus fantasy baseball teams consumes the remainder of my time. I wasn’t intending, then, to leave, but, instead, to be absent for several weeks while adjusting to my new schedule, after which I planned to edit a bit more, although not to undertake any tasks for which admin tools are necessary (indeed, you will notice that nearly all of my contributions of late have been to mainspace or portal space, with almost none in Misplaced Pages space). I have decided, btw, that, since I don’t think I could go a few weeks without editing (worrying, as I would, about my beloved portals), I’m going to make time to edit a bit each day, in order that, when my seven-hour workouts fall to six hours a few weeks in, I’ll be sufficiently familiar with goings-on here to pick up where I’d left off.

My main reason, then, for declining the nomination is not that I have no interest in adminship—there are a few tasks with which I’d try to help—or that I think myself unqualified but, instead, that I simply won’t be around too much over the next three weeks, such that I wouldn’t accomplish much with the tools. To me, an expression by a candidate of a breathless eagerness for the admin tools, especially where a primary use will be blocking editors, is off-putting, but I know that most RfA voters think that the risks associated with supporting a prospective admin are such that someone who won’t use the tools much shouldn’t be supported (and, of course, that a candidate who shows insufficient devotion recently to project space oughtn’t to be approved). I have also, as you will have gathered, been wholly derelict of late in replying to messages on my talk page (having just today replied to messages from as long ago as mid-June)—again, those darned portals–and so my community involvement on the whole has been quite meager, and I’ve been an insular editor, about which RfA voters would surely be concerned (probably rightly).

Once more, the slapdash and cursory nature of my RfA reply wasn’t meant to convey anything other than that I would write more soon thereafter and that I didn’t want Bln to take time writing a co-nomination. I was, I should say, altogether grateful for your expression of trust in me (for the belated nature of which expression I apologize), and I hope that you’ll not infer from my having been less-than-precise in my wording that I am unfit to be a repository of trust, as capricious and unstable.

I ought not to have dispensed with the issue as I did, but I very much wanted to nip the RfA in the bud lest others should see it and get involved. When I have more time to contribute to the project and/or when I become slightly less obsessive about my workouts, following, you know, the advice of, well, everyone, I would surely hope to be an admin, and I’d be rather honored if you should still be inclined to support me. I think I’ll modify the RfA page to note that I’m not so much declining the nomination as asking that it be held in abeyance; if, in the meanwhile, you should find yourself feeling uncomfortable about nominating me, I will, of course, understand entirely.

Thanks once more for the nomination. Please trust that I’m not acting arbitrarily or crazily here and that I didn’t intend melodramatically to intimate that I was leaving the project; I wanted simply to express that I wasn’t prepared for an RfA at this time, with the intention of writing you straightaway. You can guess what got in the way (seriously, you’d think that, having spent so much time on the other portals, I’d not have created the tennis, golf, and ice hockey portals, or that I’d have ensured that other users might get involved with them, lest I should have to be the sole substantive contributor; on the other hand, I obviously own them…). In sum, nothing major or strange going on, simply my inability properly to convey my sentiments with brevity (not that that’s a new thing). Joe 06:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)