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This user advocates '''unified discussion''', if you comment here, I will reply on your talk page and <u>move the entire discussion</u> to your talk page in the process; I would prefer it if you did the same, moving the thread back here for your reply. That way the discussions will always stay together and the intended recipient will see the message alert when he or she logs on. If you create a broken discussion by replying here while leaving my comments on your talk page, I may leave the discussion as is and continue the broken discussion, or I may reunite the discussion in my reply, depending on what I think makes more sense. Thanks. This user advocates '''unified discussion''', if you comment here, I will reply on your talk page and <u>move the entire discussion</u> to your talk page in the process; I would prefer it if you did the same, moving the thread back here for your reply. That way the discussions will always stay together and the intended recipient will see the message alert when he or she logs on. If you create a broken discussion by replying here while leaving my comments on your talk page, I may leave the discussion as is and continue the broken discussion, or I may reunite the discussion in my reply, depending on what I think makes more sense. Thanks.
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Hi Doug!
== Tagging and assessing ==


The nascent ] has decided to bid to host Wikimania in Stellenbosch, South Africa in 2012. This would be the first Wikimania in South Africa, and would be a great advertisement for our country. Please take a look at ]. If you can add to the discussion, please do. If you feel that you are able to do anything to help, please join the and let us know. Even simple messages of support are valued!
To answer your questions as best I can:
# yes, you can (even should) tag the article with {{tl|law-stub}} and also tag the talk page with the law project template, assessing it as a stub. The two tags put the articles into two separate categories, rather than the same category twice (one for the project, one for the stub) so that's not a problem.
# I don't think there's any rule that you can't assess an article you have created or helped with as stub/start/B-class. In fact, I've been merrily assessing biography articles I've written as stub or start. The article grades beyond that (GA/A/FA) are only handed out after more careful consideration, and can't be self-awarded. But no-one's going to mind if you write a stub and call it a stub: what else would it be? If anyone is really bothered that you've assessed an article as a start instead of a stub, or vice versa, they can change it!
# I've not seen tags being signed anywhere. I suspect it's best not to, as it will look slightly odd. If someone really wants to know who tagged and assessed an article, it'll be in the talk page history. If you think that someone might contest the inclusion of the tag or the rating, you could leave a quick note of explanation on the talk-page, but most of the time it will be obvious. If it's not, other editors can either reassess the article or discuss with you / the project whether the tag is required.
Hope all this helps. I've haven't been involved with tagging / assessing of law-related articles, but I can't see why they'd have different standards. Regards, ]] 21:11, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


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I saw your amendment. In Latin, ''fora'' would be correct, but ''forum'', I would think, is now part of the English language to the extent that ''forums'' is an acceptable plural. "Quorum" is close to this status, but not quite there because it doesn't have the widespread currency of ''forum''. Regards --] 21:48, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
:No problem there but I know how pernickerty lawyers can get (I once acted in a case which revolved round the placing of a comma). I doubt if anyone will pull you up over it. WP:Law seems a little out of date and loosely worded in some areas so there's plenty of scope for improvement. Welcome on board!--] 22:27, 9 September 2007 (UTC)


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I'm not sure how the historical tag got onto WP:Reform. I didn't put it there, and I didn't notice it happen. However, as I recall, the discussion did sorta die. As I recall, ] and I were discussing things, and we sorta hit a break-through at about the same time we both seem to have taken breaks.
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What I meant by "take a swipe at" is to look over the reform proposal there and see if/how it needs to be cleaned up - and what it would take to make it work. My guess (and I'm no expert at guidelines, process, etc) is that once it looks good, a notice should be placed at ] and/or ]. And maybe two weeks later, another set of comments should be placed at those places.
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== Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest! ==
My sense is that it looks good, but needs some cleanup and/or clarification. Honestly, though, I haven't read it in three months. Maybe your comments/questions will kick me into helping out with it some more and getting it running :) I firmly believe there are '''many''' dead WikiProjects that need to be merged into active ones or removed.


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A thought that just occurred to me is that admins are part of the AfD process, and may or may not need to be part of the WPfD process. Is there a place for asking admins what they think and/or how they might be needed? Just a thought.
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] invites you to join us again this October and November, ] about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.
Anyway, thanks again for the comment. And let me know what you think and how I can help. -- <span style="background-color: #EECCFF;">]<span style="font-size: smaller;"> (] | ])</span></span> 00:37, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly ] to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.
:Hm. You've just made me rethink this issue.
:I was about to write to you that there isn't a mixed message, mostly because it isn't spelled out anywhere '''how''' to remove WikiProjects. And (I believed) there really hadn't been any WikiProjects removed. But I just did a quick search in the logs of MfD and found out that I was wrong.
:About 280 WikiProjects have been brought up for deletion. I haven't gone through all of them, so I don't know how many have actually been deleted or merged into others, but that's a much larger number than I thought.
:So I was questioning whether ] was even necessary, but I think I've decided that it is. MfD just isn't suited for the kind of discussion that's been suggested at Reform - it isn't specific to WikiProjects, after all.
:I guess I agree that there are mixed messages, but I disagree that WPfD should be done ''within'' WP:Council. My main reason is that WP:Council is a tiny place - there are very few people involved, and (as you can see from the discussion page) not many of them are very active in it. By following up on WPfD and making it an active and useful process, we'll be opening up WP discussions to a much wider audience and getting true consensus. It may not result in as many projects being deleted as we would like, but it may get people involved from related projects and make more wikiprojects active again.
:So what's next? Centralize discussion? That seems appropriate. My suggestion is we do that at the Reform page - or perhaps start a discussion at ] and see if we can get input from others that aren't involved in (or may not know about) WP:Council. Thoughts? -- <span style="background-color: #EECCFF;">]<span style="font-size: smaller;"> (] | ])</span></span> 20:23, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
::Hi, Doug! Please take a look at ] when you get a chance. There are a couple things that need to be addressed before releasing that to a wider audience (like the ]). First among those is there needs to be a guideline page (or just a section of that page) that outlines the options '''Keep''', '''Merge''', '''Userfy''', and '''Delete'''. The templates also need to be created, but I suspect that should wait until there's been wider discussion. -- <span style="background-color: #EECCFF;">]<span style="font-size: smaller;"> (] | ])</span></span> 15:51, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


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As I envisioned Misplaced Pages practice at the time of that content, a deprecated policy or project is one that is no longer active, in use, or in force. Such content has historically been maintained (and marked "historical"). Especially as regards policy, deprecation further indicates the policy that supersedes the historical content, when such a target is available.


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Of course, not everything winds up working that way, and I'm neutral as to whether or not this is a good system ... only that it is my observations on how things have been done. ] 19:28, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
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This is the process that is generally followed whenever anyone wants to recover an article or WikiProject which has previously been deleted, and at least one Project, ] was returned after having been deleted. Just thought you might like to know. ] 01:21, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
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I think to some extent that's a "cover all bases" approach - occasionally some disaster happens (one big one happened some years ago) and they lose all deleted contributions. However, with the number of people and institutions who have downloaded database dumps this is far less of a problem than it once was. I don't believe in deletion as archiving, though - however I do use some deleted pages as a guide to following chains of events which would otherwise be rendered incomprehensible. ] 01:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


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Oh and re the LM MfD - essentially WP Australia is reorganising some of its own subprojects over the next 12 months, there used to be less controls on creating them than there is today. Some have inadequate scope to survive meaningfully and the articles in their scopes suffer as a result as others incorrectly assume the project is looking after them - I recently upgraded all the LM articles and was stunned how many were missing or unmaintained. Any maintenance going on had little or nothing to do with the project. Integrating it into WP:NSW meant we could approach it as a broader challenge. ] 01:06, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
: WP Australia allows considerable autonomy for each project. Currently none of the projects have task forces, mainly due to size issues - i.e. the same 5 editors working on Hunter region articles may well be also working on the rest of NSW as well, so it doesn't make sense to split purposes - but when/if the projects grow then that is the preferred way for them to grow. ] 01:24, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
:: LOL! Sounds like a plan. As for me, I've got to head off to university now and give a presentation on gender issues in education. Fun stuff. (Out of raw curiosity, this is about gender disadvantage in education, being given by me, a male, to a class of whom 85% are female!) ] 01:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


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Sorry, I wasn't aware of the current discussion going on in that regard. I simply made that comment with the belief that you weren't aware of undeletion facilities (which must have been a bit undermining, so I apologise). ''']''' (]) 06:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


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== ''The Bugle'': Issue 224, December 2024 ==
Have you noticed in the discussion at ] the discussion of ]'s proposal for a new ]? I know you are interested in the subject and wanted to make sure you saw what we're talking about. I'm also glad to see that I'm not the only one who supports userfication over deletion of one person projects.--]<sup>(] <small>•</small> ])</sup> 23:43, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


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Would you be interested in trying to make your (proposed) WikiProject becoming a succes by actively involving yourself in a recruitment agency aimed at establishing an active base of participants for a WikiProject?--] 10:31, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

== BTW ==
BTW, I really like the way you do User talk posts, this works great. Also, I left a comment at ] for you.--]<sup>(] <small>•</small> ])</sup> 02:03, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
:I'm a fan of unified discussion : ) - Though I moved the discussion to the MfD talk page for transparency.
:And as for WPC/IP, thanks for the note, I'll comment there. - ] 02:22, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

== Merge ==
I've completed the merge and left a note at ]. Thanks you for participating and helping with the process. If you need anything else on this, please talk page me. — ] <sup>]</sup> 03:11, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
:The history merge feature maintains attribution of prior edits in the final document. Depending on the type of content being merged, it is favorable for maintaining attribution, without it anyone researching for attribution of items would need to read through edit histories, then find other pages, and go through their edit histories. On more then one occasion the R from Merge copy/paste method has ended up with other editors editing the redirect on the old page, creating forks that have to be merged again. History merge is admin-only as reversing it is very time consuming. We don't widely advertise it for ] reasons. — ] <sup>]</sup> 12:19, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

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== The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XIX (September 2007) ==

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==Attention Tag, ]==
I had a discussion with Kirill on this some time ago, and the consensus as I understood it was that if there weren't MAJOR URGENT issues with an article, it shouldn't have the tag. There are tens of thousands of un-ref'd, or badly underref'd articles within the project right now, so with a total of around 120 attention tags, there should be greater issues with an article than that if the tag is applied. Regards ] 06:36, 10 October 2007 (UTC)



== re: ] ==

''So, this was saved but barely, and userfied to your user space. Mind if I do some editing there? Will you be around at all? Will you "watch" the page? You're clearly the subject matter expert and I'm just an interested editor (spent some time in Ninewah Province, Iraq), so I really wouldn't want to be alone on this. If I don't hear otherwise, I'll just start editing when I get the time. Please respond on my talk page (preferably by moving the discussion so it stays together)--]<sup>(] <small>•</small> ])</sup> 22:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)''
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==WikiProject Agriculture==
Thanks for the warm welcome, I wholly agree that this project has long been needed. When I created ] I couldn't believe there wasn't an Agriculture project. I will be pouring over what work needs to be done, and helping out where I can, certainly. You may want to extend an invitation to join to ], he has a degree in some kind of agricultural field, and helped immensely with the Christmas tree article above. ] 22:29, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
:Thank you for inviting me. I see that you've discovered ]. That project is pretty well moribund. I suggest merging everything into Agriculture and inviting the ] over. I think only one or two are active editors. Cheers! ] 23:26, 23 October 2007 (UTC)


== Agriculture banner ==

I think the categories are all set up correctly. Can you show me an example of where the NA class article category is shown? Remember to look at the categories on the bottom rather than in the template itself too. The templates were standardized I don't know how long ago for color and whatnot, but I just assessed ] and the categorization looks right. ] 23:25, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
:All banners are supposed to link to ]. The ], for instance, is the category for all the articles of all projects assessed at that level. None of the banners should be linking directly to that category. If you know of one, let me know so that it can be corrected, because it probably should be. Remember, look at the categories at the bottom of the page, not the banner' statement itself. ] 01:11, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

== basic lists topic coverage banner ==

I don't know how to nest templates. It looks like pretty complex code. ] 01:25, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

==Long comment==
Many people patrol the short pages (you can find it through the special pages link on the side), when one does so and finds that there is no obvious problem, you add a long comment to avoid everyone checking the same OK things over and over again. ] 16:57, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

==Dragonfly==
Hi, Doug, I've removed the WP:farm tag from dragonfly. I can't imagine why any dragonflies are part of that project, but I assume you know what you are doing. The reason I've removed the tag from this page is that I don't believe that '''all''' dragonflies have agricultural importance, and you should just tag the ones that do. To tag the whole order is like tagging ] because silkworms are farmed. ] 05:46, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

==Agriculture==

The agriculture list page and the portal and the template need to be fixed. The template should be shorten down. The list should be expanded. The portal should be updated. Please stop removing the navigation template from article pages. The portal link is already on it and using nav boxes is standared practice. Portal links in place of nav boxes is a bad idea. ] 19:17, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

==Thank you==
Thank you for your warm welcome. I'm sure we can all work together successfully to make Misplaced Pages better. Your leadership is essential for the agriculture project to be all it can be. I could add more cliches here, but you get the idea. I mean everything I've said, I'm not playing games here. You hold the confidence of the troops. Go for it. (Whoops, more cliches. Oh well.) ] 05:43, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

== Thanks for the welcome ==

I've neever seen any other projects who welcome newbies personally. I look forward to editing along side you--]&nbsp;(]&nbsp;'''·''' ]) 10:45, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

== WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter November 2007 ==

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== Things equine ==

Hi Doug,

Feel free to drop me a line any time you want input on a horse issue. I am not watchlisting project ag, but if there is a specific discussion there or elsewhere that involves either horses (in any way) or the America west (where I live, and have a grasp on regional Ag stuff generally), give me a shout and I will pop over and weigh in. But beyond that, I am pretty much confining myself to editing and monitoring the various articles I have watchlisted, which right now is aroung 500. No, I only wish this was ], it really is quality control and I leave good edits alone, or only wordsmith style, not content. (note how many bot reverts say "reverted to last version by Montanabw? I rest my case) It isn't the kids who feel they must comment on equine genitalia or cowboy sexual orientation that annoy me as much as the really creative little trolls who sneak in things like "horses are PURPLE with PINK eyes" into 16 different articles! That and commercial linkspam (www dot myranchrules dot com) ARRGH!! ]<sup>]</sup> 20:39, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

== ] ==

I noticed you placed a note on ] that ] shares its parentage with ]. I removed it, primarily because the project scope on ] is designed to show relevant subprojects. I understand listing the shared parentage on the project itself, but if we start listing all the various "shared parentage" projects on ] the project tree, it'll be a mess. ''']''' <sup>]</sup> 02:34, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

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== WikiProject Firearms ==

Welcome to the WikiProject Firearms. I hope you enjoy being a member.--] 03:28, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

== Infobox? ==
I left you message on my talk page. --'''<font color="black">]</font><font color="blue">]</font>'''<sup><font color="red">]~]</font></sup> 15:17, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

==]==
I think this is a good example of when to use ], especially given the small amount of user links. The user probably meant to use his/her userspace but didn't know how to us it. Either that, or wanted to promote the article ]. But if he/she wants to sign on talk pages, we should reasonably assume most users will want to visit their userpage, and not an article. Go ahead and change it. I'll back you up. - <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt">] <sup><small>(])</small></sup></span> 16:40, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

== re: WP:DELPRO ==

Unified discussions have always struck me as a waste of time but I'll try to keep the thread together for you. I've crafted a reply on my Talk page for you. ] <small>]</small> 23:29, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

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== WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter December 2007 ==

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==Invite to WikiProject Equine==
This is the official word: WikiProject Equine was quietly created by someone while the rest of us were endlessly discussing a WikiProject Horse. We have an official project! So let's go with it, and I am officially inviting you to formally join! Go to ], add your name to the list and see what you can contribute. If you haven't already joined ] or one of the other "child" or "affiliated" wikiprojects at WikiProject Equine, please feel free to do so. Just trying to tag articles with the new templates has awakened me to the fact that there are over 1000 equine articles in Misplaced Pages! (My watchlist alone is now at something like 700+) There's much to do and plenty for everyone! Thanks! ]<sup>]</sup> 09:18, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

== Romania Help ==
Hi - I'm working on a split of ] because someone made a lot of stubs. I based some edits on previously created categories for communes, but I am not so sure that make sense now that I've looked at it more deeply. Do you think it would be better to make categories for communes, for localities, or for communes and villages? There are all three types in the category. Whatever is best, it should be done in a uniform way. I know I made a lot of edits already, but if you (and Romania wikiproject) think something else is best, don't worry -- I'm willing to change it all back. Looking forward to your opinion. <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 01:25, 2 January 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter January 2008 ==

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== RE: Welcome to ] ==

''Welcome, sorry for the delay in getting a message out. The project is slowly reorganizing. The Project page is a bit out of date and needs updating badly. Please check the talk page for more current information and please Tag, Tag, Tag, the talk pages of any article in this topic so we can start trying to coordinate work on articles and give us some suggestions on the talk page for how we can get this Project moving again. Currently there are hundreds of related articles that are not tagged yet. Thanks and again, welcome!--]<sup>(] <small>•</small> ])</sup> 03:27, 6 January 2008 (UTC)''
:Thanks for the welcome. I will tag any untagged articles I come across. --] (], ]) 13:26, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

== M-1 Carbine Revert War ==

The ] article is currently on lock down. An administrator has requested some discussion from memeber of the Firearms Wikiproject. Can you take a look? ] (]) 19:07, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

== The ] Newsletter — Issue XXII (December 2007) ==

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== ] ==

''While I was on an informal wikibreak several new members joined European History, but no changes really since we last talked so things are still badly in need of work. I've added some things to our strategy discussion, changed the "collaboration of the month" unilaterally, and generally tried to clean up a bit, but I could really use some thoughts.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 20:47, 10 January 2008 (UTC)''

:Absolutely. I'm on vacation right now so I will be a little slow for the next couple of days, but I will check it out.
:Cheers - ] 21:40, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

::I've left an advertising proposal on the project talk page. ]. - ] 22:03, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
== Hey what was this about? ==

I wasn't logged in, and I made this edit which you reverted before I could even fix a redlink in it. What was that for? I don't really care as I was still there and I wanted to sign anyway but it seemed like an odd reversion without any edit comment. Please respond on my talk page (unified discussion if you don't mind to much, i.e. cut and paste this there). Thanks.--]<sup>(] <small>•</small> ])</sup> 15:34, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
:sorry, thought you were a vandal--] (]) 15:35, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

== Invitation ==

{{WikiProject Timeline Tracer Invitation}} ]] 11:03, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

== Some-bot-y loves you ==

] must think ] . You might want to add ] to your userpage to prevent this in the future. Good luck! --''']]''' 22:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

== Transylvania Portal ==

I added one current event, from where more can be found at a Romanian newspaper called ]. This is the link: . The story is '''''not''''' the one I added on the portal. I left a similar message on the Portal's talk page. ''']]]''' 15:48, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

] (]) 04:03, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

== ] case ==

Are you working ]? I notice you marked up the case page but the case still shows as "needing a mediator" rather than "open". If you are working this case, would you mind if I joined along with you, I've participated in several ] matters before but never a ] matter and I'm trying to do more work to help people resolve their differences and focus on building the encyclopedia. (If you respond on my talk page, I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd move the whole discussion as I prefer unified discussions). TIA. --]<sup>(] <small>•</small> ])</sup> 04:38, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

:No, I am not handling it. Didn't seem like the parties got the idea of mediation (I interpreted that they wanted to change policy on how 'pedia handles political candidates). Also, I'm a huge Hillary Clinton fan and a life-long Conservative (go figure) so that has COI written all over it. I'll help out (fact checking, sourcing, etc) if you want to co-mediate it, but I'd rather not take the lead. ''']''' <sup>]</sup> 04:42, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

::OK, let's do it. I can't stand Hillary, BTW, but I'm a New England "Liberal Republican" so I've got no horse in this race. You'll have to give me some idea though how this all works. I know the suggestions say to just start talking on the talk page for the article. Additionally, I'd appreciate it if you'd keep an eye on me and don't be afraid to ] me, if I do anything silly.--]<sup>(] <small>•</small> ])</sup> 05:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

::I've opened the case, listed us both as mediators and posted a comment on the article talk page. Based on the discussion on the case page it doesn't look like there is much likelihood of them coming together to work on what we're all here for, but we'll give it a try.--]<sup>(] <small>•</small> ])</sup> 06:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

:::Well a user declined and its a voluntary process, so I closed the case. Downt he road, once the issue gets more defined they may be back. Good job commenting in the case though. ''']''' <sup>]</sup> 07:32, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

==Thank You==
I'd just like to express my gratitude for your sending me the Misplaced Pages:Law template, and for not only telling me how to use ''italics'' on Misplaced Pages, but actually editing my user page and placing the italics where needed. Stuff like that means a lot to a user who hasn't even been on a full two days yet. Consider this your 'barnstar substitute'. :-}] (]) 05:09, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

==WikiAdoption==
I'd be thrilled if you adopted me (in the Wikiverse, that is). If all else fails, as a member of Wikiprojects Law, Mammals, and Firearms, you'd probably know whether or not it's legal to shoot animals tresspassing onto private property...which is debated more often than I'd care to admit at family gatherings. (In my defense, I return them to their owner when feasible.)] (]) 04:07, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

All right, cool. I'm now adopted.] (]) 05:57, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I now have the 'This is a user page, not an enclopedia page' warning at the top of the page, and have installed a sandbox. Now all I have to do is keep the neighborhood cats/WikiTrolls out of it.] (]) 02:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

== Re: Nancy Reagan MedCab request ==

Thanks for watching this. I do intend to complete this request but haven't the time. I will complete this request tomorrow evening. Thanks again and have a great day. ] (]) 05:44, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

::Have begun cabal request but got pulled into conference call that ran very late. Will complete in the next few days. Thanks again for your patience. ] (]) 07:28, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

:::Doug, there seems to be a good volume of detail in my challenges to the NPOV of the Nancy Reagan article with many references, including detailed conversations found on all involved party's talk pages, other user's talk pages, the Nancy Reagan discussion page, the promotion process of the article to FA status, and on the discussion pages of related articles...exactly how much detail am I to use when filling out this form? Should I provide links to examples of the problems I have found, or do you want just a brief summary that will be questioned later? Please advise. Thanks so much. ] (]) 07:49, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

== A Fundamentally Unfair Course of Action Regarding Talk: Phil Hall (US Writer) ==

I am sorry, but I strongly disagree with your course of action regarding the user DoubleCross and myself.

According to Misplaced Pages: "Assuming good faith is about intention, not action. Well-meaning persons make mistakes, and you should correct them when they do."

The user DoubleCross gets a "caution" note for posting a completely irrelevant link to a hostile flamer thread on the IMDB and then threatening to keep reposting it, but I am getting a "warning" for removing it -- and complaining about his perceived trolling behavior? That doesn't strike me as very fair. I believe the proper course of action is having both of us get "caution" notices.

As it stands, this is fundamentally unjust and condones improper behavior on the part of DoubleCross while penalizing me for trying to prevent what I saw as disruptive behavior. ] (]) 21:19, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

*I have clarified that "caution note" is equivalent to a level one warning at the ] and have noted that you dispute the warning on your talk page. Other users can read the discussion and of course you can elaborate (within the bounds of policy regarding userpages) as you feel necessary on your talk page.--]<sup>(] <small>•</small> ])</sup> 22:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Doug, I am politely requesting that the "warning" be removed and replaced with a "caution" note, which you applied to the individual who is the CAUSE of the complaint. Your judgment is harsh and blatantly unfair -- particularly your coddling of the individual whose disruptive behavior is the center of this complaint.

I have to ask if you know this individual and if you are applying a double standard, since your communications with the subject of the complaint is excessively soft and your language in communicating with me comes across as rude and condescending -- particularly in an editing fix of the Phil Hall (US writer) page that is clearly an act of juvenile stick-out-your-tongue sarcasm aimed directly at me (and you know what I am talking about!). ] (]) 01:08, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

==Your "Help" Is Not Wanted==
Doug, in regard to -- in view of your unsatisfactory handling of my report of a possible troll, I would prefer working with someone else on Misplaced Pages.] (]) 10:43, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

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