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High schools

• Please note that the article on Arbor View High School, which was improperly deleted despite a clear majority for "keep" was restored on a deletion review. If you had taken the trouble to get you facts straight, I would not have posted here. Landolitan 18:26, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Regarding ownership of talk pages

You may be interested in Misplaced Pages:Removing warnings, a related discussion regarding personal/community ownership of user talk pages. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 22:19, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back.  :-P Silensor 22:15, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Schools

I was forced to reconsider the value that schools added to the encyclopedia when I ran headlong into other major school proponents using the encyclopedia as a platform to cause real-world injury to another person. I reevaluated the schools debate in light of other contributors to the debate treating Misplaced Pages as an internet game, and determined the same was being done with schools. They had won the internet war, as opposed to actively trying to make an encyclopedia better. Hipocrite - «Talk» 06:52, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

This is more of the same baseless rhetoric I've come to expect from Hipocrite these days, unfortunately. The specific "real-world injury" he is referring to is the inclusion of the name of a prominent blogger from Daily Kos, who had gone on record using his full name with several major news organizations about a year ago, then decided to "quit" blogging after someone printed that name recently on Misplaced Pages. The matter is still pending mediation at Misplaced Pages:Requests for mediation/Armando/Daily Kos. This is not a war, this is not a game. I believe we all want to make this a better encyclopedia, but we will not always see eye-to-eye on how that should be accomplished. Sincerely yours, Silensor 07:00, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Geogre

I replied on my Talk, but to repeat: I see no benefit in the two of you fighting. You're never going to agree and it's pointless upping the stakes. It's not as if Geogre is some petty vandal, he is a long-standing and excellent editor. So are you. You have very different views on what amounts ot a religious matter on WP and the best thing is just to leave each other alone. I ahve given Geogre exactly the same advice. Don't pour fuel on the flames, eh? Just zis Guy you know? 09:14, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Notability

(copied from the Hillel Day School AFD) Notability within a community or limited group does not imply notability, and, as stated above, is mostly irrelevant. --Kuzaar 14:25, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• You're right, notability is irrelevant. WP:NN is an essay and "notability" is nowhere listed in WP:DP as a valid criterion for the deletion of a school article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nicodemus75 (talk • contribs) .
  • As I have been talking about in recent AFDs (check my contribs), it is disingenuous to say that notability is irrelevant to Misplaced Pages's deletion policy. Primarily I refer you to the Misplaced Pages speedy deletion policy on groups of people and not-for-profit organizations, in which it plays a major part. Notability is not only an important standard in these CSDs, but it remains a vital tool for determining about what subjects an encyclopedic article can be written. As per my example on another recent school's AFD: Having a large, complex amount of data on a topic of only personal interest to a limited group, for example, pets, does not mean that it is appropriate or necessary to have an article about that subject. This database from a national veterinary service may give detailed, verifiable information on the pet's past, detailed biological information, and so on and so forth, but that nonetheless does not mean that that lets an article about one of these pets, regardless however well-sourced, verifiable and non-original-research it is. This is because Misplaced Pages is not an arbitrary storehouse for information, as per WP:NOT, which lists a few examples. It is notability/importance that gives us this critical threshold, and the fact that the subjects are detailed only by a census or database, however detailed, is evidence that each of the subjects in the census are not important enough to merit their own independant study. That, if nothing else, is why notability is a vital tool to determining what should or should not be the subject of an encyclopedic article in the Misplaced Pages. --Kuzaar 13:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Blocked for a month

I've blocked you for a month for chronic, unrepetant civility and battleground violations, while contributing little other than acrimony. When the month expires, I would hope that you would return to help work on the encyclopedia, rather than diving right back into seeking conflict with other editors. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Frankly, this is an unwarranted, unwarned, undocumented abuse of power, which does not surprise me in the least. I obviously intend to appeal this abusive act which is obviously being perpetrated because you disagree with my positions. I do not see as I have been uncivil, and certainly not in an "chronic" fashion.--Nicodemus75 05:22, 3 August 2006 (UTC)