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: Yes, but I couldn't eat a whole one. --] 16:32, 9 September 2006 (UTC)


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The user also has a tendency to editorialize in the article; the distinction between describing his personal opinions or experiences, on the one hand, and verifiable information, on the other, seems to be unclear to him. The article needs clean-up, and some useful results are coming out of the discussion, but I for one am often uncomfortable with the tone and style.


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== Task force climate change ==
: Ready to be archived. --] 16:33, 9 September 2006 (UTC)


Hello Tony Sidaway,
== Hiya! ==


You are currently noted as a participant of the ]. With much of the activity in this task force about ten years ago, I think it's time for a revival. Global warming is getting a lot of attention in the media now and it's therefore important our articles are up-to-date, accurate and neutral.
Hey, I just noticed your name on a tweak of that PZ Myers page. So this is where you've gotten to, deep in the bowels of Misplaced Pages.


I've updated the task force page and the to do list and invite you to have a look at the page again, add something to the TO DO list or start collaborating by improving one of our many articles. If climate change has lost your interest, feel free to remove your name from the participants list.
: Like a tapeworm. :) --] 19:42, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


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== Re: Time I stopped being a curmudgeon about signs of appreciation's barnstar ==
All the staff were done in the past. Annoying POV pusher , clearly with a hate/angster against hungarians (see the few previous links, i put in). He even had block(s) for this. How/where can I ask for a third view comment? Or ask for banning him from editing articles related to Hungary and Hungarians? The wikipedia's arbitration pages are better then tha maze was in Crete. :S Can't find anything. --] 11:54, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


You did THAT to the ''']''' article—in ''2015''?!?!!! That is one ''well deserved'' barnstar, lemme tell you! The nostalgia! My best friend and I were following ''], ], ]'' and other then-'']'' fare of the time, several days a week, so we saw that blow up real-time! Dude, I mean...'''''dude'''''. Dang.
: Try making an edit on ], or else ask for mediation. You should in early stages be trying to see if you can persuade the user to stop pushing points of view into articles.


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: If there are at least two editors who have tried, and failed, to resolve the dispute with this user, then try going to ].


Thank you for all your hard work, there and elsewhere! Thank you very much! —] (]) 10:33, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
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: If the user is engaged in persistent edit warring, and the problem is rather urgent, make an edit on ] (] for short) and an administrator will take a look and take action if necessary. --] 12:00, 5 September 2006 (UTC) Thanks. I worked hard on several controversial articles for a long time, and I think my work was appreciated. ] is one, ] is another, and there were many others. ] 22:23, 26 June 2019 (UTC)


== How to control global warming listed at ] ==
Thanks, but it lasts since he regged in. All you mentioned above were all done, since 2003, a ots of times by a lot of users. Guess, the time for an arbitration is here for more than 2 yrs now. Will you help me? I don't know how to do this.--] 12:20, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
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== Moving to inactive ==
: Yes, I'll reformat your application. --] 12:48, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


Hi, FYI the climate change task force is now a stand-alone project (]). You were once listed as active at the task force but from your contribs it appears you are in (semi?) wiki retirement. I've therefore taken liberty to move your name to the inactive list, but feel free to rejoin us any time! ] (]) 20:40, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi. As an editor active in the same area as Juro, I feel that I can (and should) provide some evidence against VinceB's claims. Since you filed the RfA for him/her, could you advise me please where I should write my comment to this case? Thanks in advance. ] 15:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


== Hope you're doing well, whatever you're up to ==
: Sure, you're welcome to make a new section on that application called something like "Statement by ]" and add your own signed comments. Keep it brief and to the point; arbitrators don't like to read long submissions. --] 15:41, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


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Thanks for the good wishes. I'm largely disengaging from all social forums, as indicated . There's still time for me to reconnect with my solipsistic side, I hope. Only by shutting out ] can I have any peace, which for some reason seems to involve lots of microcontroller stuff and obscure programming languages. --] 13:38, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
I doubt VinceB used other means how to resolve his personal dispute with Juro (and btw, I failed to find any particular talk page, where the alleged dispute occurred). As far as I know, Juro has never been mentioned at ]. Unfortunately, I was not able to find the archived cases of ], but I do not remember anyone officially asking for the third opinion in this case. I believe that VinceB's request is unnecessary and it would be nice if he provided any evidence that (1) he/she has a dispute with Juro and (2) he/she used other means of dispute resolution before filing his/her request. ] 15:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
:If I could find it, I'd send you lyrics to a song where the singer, in first person, places a cell call to someone else, asking if the other party received his email. The conversation goes live into the mens room when the singer walks in on an occupied stall. He wants to talk about techno weenie who piled it all up on a sheet of plywood, doused it with crisco, set it afire, and disappeared into the Rockies leaving only an address at the corner store. But the ironic refrain claims the speaker isn't a victim of the techno world "oops, didn't know the stall was occ-uuuuu-piiiiied....." Good for you, and if you can stand a bit of zombi speak, I have ] (]) 14:28, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
:: I've returned to the coastline between the rivers Tyne and Wear, which I choose to call Mesopotamia for obvious reasons. Nature is very much evident here, where I grew up. I get out onto the coastal walks whenever I can. --] 19:05, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
::: Awesome! I just returned from a forest school outting (classic version) with multiple families. The kiddos turned up many species of mushrooms, saprophytic vascular plants, a tree frog, multiple salamanders, various aquatic creepie crawlies which in our area indicate a stream has high water quality. This made me quite happy since not that long ago that stream had problems. Enjoy your anti digital reawakening! I haven't managed to pull the plug yet, obviously. ] (]) 20:18, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, I just realized, you put this on the arbitration page again. I asked for a third opinion, not arbitration (and some help :). See above. --] 16:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC)


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Umm, I simply lost in burocracy :) OMG, just the Pope doesn't have to be asked before arbitration... :D On the other hand, right now the "Mediation" step is next, but I thought I don't have to go through again on these, because others did it, as you can see also, if you give the time for a short preview. I want to stop his actions ''against'' hungarians, he's very agressive and POV pusher. --] 18:02, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
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Replying here as I didn't see that it was relevant to ]. Not sure why anyone would find this offensive or ugly or whatever. Chat rooms are everywhere. People talk to their buddies in them quite frequently. I see nothing offensive about this. I think you're overly sensitive to things being "ugly". ] ] 15:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)


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: Where is the chatroom? When does Carnildo visit it? These are simple enough questions. If there isn't such a chatroom (and I'm not aware of one) then what you were doing sounds like a very, very ugly thing indeed. Maybe there's an innocent explanation. What is the chatroom called? --] 15:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
::Now you're just being silly. I don't see that the project is helped by us sniping at each other, so I see no useful purpose to continuing along these lines. ] ] 15:37, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
::: I was about to ask you to please remove the baseless slur. --] 15:42, 6 September 2006 (UTC)


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I do not take lightly. There was no personal attacks involved. You lost what you had left of my trust in you, if that matters at all to you... You prosecuted me during the Moby Dick thing and I cant forget that and now this, deletion campaign against the CVU, and other things too.


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You are no longer my mentor, I have to trust my mentor and I no longer trust you.
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: It was obvious who you were referring to. I'm sorry that I lost your trust but ] is important and if I didn't do it somebody else (and I know who that somebody is) would have done so. --] 18:12, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
::So saying that essjay banned me is a personal attack (I was actualy nice enough not to mention nicks)? Why are you the one always advocating all actions against me? You might as well indef block me. I pitty myself for all the support I gave to essjay not just my support vote to him on CVU but also my support vote to his burocratship and et al. --<small>] ]</small> 18:15, 6 September 2006 (UTC)


Hey Tony. I made a user box using one of your quotes. ]. ]] 17:41, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
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: Thanks for the advice. I'm really sorry if my comments sound dismissive, That's absolutely not the impression I want to give. I certainly don't regard disagreement as a personal attack. Personal attack I regard as a personal attack, and that alone.


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::At the risk of piling on.. Tony, if you honestly don't intend to come off sounding the way you sound, there are some things you could do to help change it. The best option is to change the way you think. But, forget that- you could also just change the way you ''talk'' and nobody but you would know the difference anyway, so one's about as good as the other. By changing the way you talk, what I mean specifically is things like: stop saying "ridiculous" about any opinions that are different from yours. Stop insisting that your way is the only way things could possibly work. Don't call the reasoned opinons of people different from you "the howling of the mob". It's the little things like this that cause people to find you self-righteous and dismissive. ] ] 00:39, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


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::: Thanks. I don't say "ridiculous" about opinions that aren't the same as mine. Only ones that appear clearly ridiculous, for instance , and . --] 00:51, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
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::: I'm afraid it would not be possible to surgically extract from me my contempt for the howling of the mob. This doesn't mean that I mean ill will to any person who engages in these periodic witch-hunts that I often find myself having to fire-fight, but it does mean I have to confront people with the ugliness of the things they're combining together, as a group, to do.
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::: You couldn't seriously accuse my of being dismissive; I've spent an enormous amount of time and effort explaining my point of view. --] 00:51, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
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:::: No. I read far, far more than I write. This isn't surprising because there is only one of me and there are many people who are not me. And, I think it has to be said, most people are far more prolix then I am. --] 04:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


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::::: I'm not asking about number of words, but about time. Do you spend more time thinking about what the other person is trying to say, or more time thinking about how to help them understand. Over to you. ] 04:34, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


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:::::: It depends. I can express myself well in few words. Others seem to struggle with this and of course it can take a while to wade through a long discussion. --] 04:38, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


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::::::: I think that's true. And yet, there are some good people who come away from a conversation with you, thinking you don't respect them. ] 05:14, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


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::::::: I think you have some very, very serious problems of perception, Irpen. In particular, the allegation that I'm "trying to make " anyone's "life as much troublesome as possible" is appalling and I really do urge you to rethink your contributions to this discussion. --] 05:49, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Hope you're doing well Tony.


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:::::::: Perhaps the problem is that I don't think much of the opinion they have expressed. --] 05:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
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=== Valuing Tony's opinion ===


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:"thinking you don't respect them" isn't really a problem. Other editors care about that no more than Tony cares for their respect. The problem is Tony's between himself and editors who, unlike Tony, actually write content but happen to occasionally disagree with him in non-Main space, where Tony spends all of his edits. Tony <s>tries to make their life as much troublesome as possible</s><!---withdrawn with apology, clearly an overstatement---> uses an utter defiance and intimidation, as well as a real treat of blocks, in order to "prevail" so to speak in the issues of disagreement and in the end, makes his own <s>life here troublesome too</s>wikiexperience a nervewrecking ordeal. He gets an overwhelming support from everyone when he deals with those who come here to troll. He gets none of it from his '''treating anyone who disagrees with him like those trolls'''. It may be a natural consequence of him spending more than anyone else I know with fending of trolls. After the nerve wrecking experience of doing that Tony starts to perceive everyone who disagree with him like a troll. And understandable reaction but a harmful one. That's why I suggested that Tony return to main space editing for a little. --] 05:37, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

::Irpen, hi. Tony and I disagree, often stridently, but he's never treated me as a troll. I just thought I'd point out that your generalization about his behavior is inaccurate, it turns out. Tony is a very good communicator, sometimes, even with people with whom he disagrees. It can be difficult to tease that good communicator out, but he's in there. If you know how to talk to him, he's quite reasonable and easy to work with. Otherwise... maybe not so much, 'cause he's not the type to necessarily meet you halfway. -]<sup>(])</sup> 06:49, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:::I apologize since that was an overgeneralization. While Tony is prominent enough so that I have heard of him before, I never actually interacted with him so I could not have known and my overgeneralization is unjustified. Actually, while he called me things lately, he never used the term "troll" too. From seeing him applying this term clearly to non-trolls but editors who simply disagreed with him, in the last three days of my interacting with Tony I made this unfair generalization from several occurances that I saw. --] 07:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:: Hi Irpen. Are you sure you don't care about Tony's opinion of you? Regards, ] 05:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:::Particularly of Tony's? Not much really. Only in one day Tony accused several editors who wrote much content (which is our main job here) and resolved disagreements in hunderds of articles in good faith in a friendly and collegiate way and gained much respect from the community (but not from Tony) recogized through attained adminships, many wikiawards, respect they get in the article's discussions, etc. in trolling, slurring and stupidity due to their disagreements with what he said and what he did. Just minutes earlier he even to allege that I have "problems with perception" while, as per ] "Abusive edit summaries are particularly ill-regarded." So, no. I apreciate Tony's committment and hard work here but I am not trying to be on his favored side in view of the mentioned above. Nor I am trying to extract any kind of apology from him which, I must say to his credit he occasionally offered with sincerety for his past mistakes which are not directly related to this matter. He did not harm me personally in any way other than the overall, and I am sure unintentional, harm to this project from his lately hardened attitudes. --] 07:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

=== ] ===

Tony, I am sorry to see that your reply was such, especially the second part. "I'm sorry if there are things here that anger you." I am also sorry that things get you angry here. I am even more sorry that Misplaced Pages in its current form cannot accomodate many good editors and a whole bunch of prolific authors of dozens of FAs left already (hopefully they are replaced by the newcomers): 172, Latinus, Wiglaf and many more who left either because of trolls or because of the disrespecting attitudes they received from Misplaced Pages's authoritative figures to which you undoubtedly belong. Personally, I can take such attitudes. While I am not putting myself in the same league as those valuable authors, I am not as brittle as them either (perhaps ''because'' I am not in the same league).

You say you don't want to leave an impression that your response to constructive criticism is dismissive. Well, I tell you that it is and I am not alone at it . When I already clicked "save page" to leave my last message, I noticed the thread above (]) which basically repeated my thoughts very closely. Your response was dismissive there and your very response above is dismissive. You bluntly dismissed my complaints about your attitudes stating that this is not your intention to leave this impression. Your intention matters little. You do leave this impression in most all your actions in the last two days (that's all the time I was watching as I did not interact with you in the past and only knew your name as that of one of the most active and committed admins, which I still think is the case).

I will not repeat any of the things I said lately on this as they are available ]. I added emphasis there for convenience if you would be so kind to reread this thread and the responses you got from various people there, all established contributors, all known to be non-trolls, most known to ''write content'' and all but a few, questioning both your action and your treatment of criticism. Someone was so kind as citing me verbatim at the ] which while likely to be dismissed, I have no objection to since it may help us all by the ArbCom shedding the light of its judgement to the real problem that endangers Misplaced Pages now. It used to be trolls being allowed to harm us all unchecked for months due to the admins indecisiveness. This is fixed now. Now it is ] by a minority of self-righteous administrators, who do us all a lot of good by 90+% of their blocks being on target but with the loss of the remaining 10% outweighing the benefits not because the number of users that fall under 10% but the quality of those users. I don't know whether you read ] in full but judging by your, again defiant, to a very related issue you either not read the whole thing or refused to give it a thought. Anyway, I will add my statement to the developing ArbCom case to share my thoughts on it with the community and the ArbCom members. But now I need some ] --] 00:52, 7 September 2006 (UTC)<br>P.S. I sent you a brief note over an email. Nothing big but you will understand why I chose a private method to communicate this small thing


: I don't get angry here. My judgement may differ from yours, but I'm pretty much making levelheaded, cool judgements that tend to work and seem to make sense on reflection days and weeks after. I'm sorry if you think otherwise. If by "dismissive" you mean that, when talking to someone else, I sometimes express a different opinion than that expressed by that person, you're right. If I didn't do this we wouldn't be able to distinguish my opinion from yours, would we? --] 00:59, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
::With all due respect -- and in general I support what you do -- you don't suffer fools gladly, and you're damn sure about what you know is right; problem is, that can come across as "I'm right so your blather isn't worth listening to." Which, most of the time, it isn't. But I ran into that "dismissiveness" a couple weeks ago, when I squeaked up about that Karl Meier thing. I'm pretty much immune to it -- since I also know I'm right and I also don't suffer fools gladly. But you've decided to take a leadership role in this community, so your tone is more important than you might think it is. I'm not concerned about the reactions of the twits and fools; the quicker they get the point and find a new playground, the better. But the people who are, at worst, slightly misguided, are worth cultivating -- and those are the people who are most likely to be affected by being brushed off by people with more community standing. Feel free to ignore all this and go on exactly as you have been, of course; you're doing great work here, and I certainly appreciate your efforts on Misplaced Pages's behalf. --]<sup><small>]</small></sup> 01:15, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

: I don't know how I could have been more conciliatory on the Karl Meier thing. I took it right to the arbitration committee for clarification. --] 02:27, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
::Sure, that all worked out well -- I'm just describing my reaction to one of your comments early in the discussion ("gosh, that was dismissive", essentially.) I'm not in any way criticizing your actions, just suggesting that your tone is sometimes perhaps not in Misplaced Pages's best interests. --]<sup><small>]</small></sup> 03:05, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

::: Fair enough. --] 03:07, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

=== ] ===
Regarding I would not revert it, but I guess you have not got the point - of course you are entitled to have an opinion different from Irpen's or mine and use somehow strong words to express it, but Ghirlandajo has the same rights on these matter (actually more, since the admins are suppose to have higher standards of behavior). That is all ] 02:48, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

: What Ghirlandajo doesn't have is the right to treat Misplaced Pages as a battleground. --] 03:07, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
::: Sure, AFAIK he doesn't treat it as such - he just creates content and expresses his opinions (sometimes in stronger word that is necessarily). ] 04:39, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


:::: I have to disagree on that. He openly depicts Misplaced Pages as being in a state of warfare "between wikilawyering admins and writing editors of WP". He says " know too well that, if their aberrant behaviour is not exposed in ArbCom, all their mistakes will be buried in the archives of this page, as have been in the past. The question is whether the community is willing to trust these any more" and refers to the bureaucrats who chose to promote Carnildo as "Carnildo's buds". This is open, naked, belligerence of the worst kind. --] 11:59, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
::::: Sorry to interject, but I have to disagree on that. Expressing his opinion on the state of Misplaced Pages in a civil tone without resorting to personal attacks is completely acceptable. Questioning the behavior of beauracrats in pushing through a contentious RfA is also well within the bounds of valid discourse. You are more than welcome to disagree with him, argue with him, or ignore him. But honestly, with no disrespect intended, how could you have thought a 3 hour block would improve the situation in any way? You seem like an intelligent and clear thinking person, how could you appraise the situation, see that he has issues with block-prone administrators, and determine that the best way to defuse his comments was a short and arbitrary block? I apologize for jumping in, I just had to respond. Thank you.&mdash;] 19:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

:::::: Saying a bureaucrat or admin or editor got it wrong is fine. Accusing any of them of ''malfeasance'', without good evidence, and especially doing so habitually and in a bellicose manner, as Ghirlando does, is not. --] 19:05, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

::::::: My dictionary has ''malfeasanace'' as "wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official". So yes, Ghirlandajo suggested miscoduct on the part of the beauracrats for pushing through a contentious RfA. So did a lot of editors. That is not incivility, it is not a personal attack, and it should never result in a block. As for the habitual or bellicose nature of Ghirlandajo's comments, in several of the ones cited in his block he advises other editors to "cool off", "ignore it" , and to "stop bickering and start writing articles". This doesn't sound like a person so hell-bent on the total destruction of all admins that the only possible preventative measure is an emergency 3 hour block before they destroy the entire encyclopedia. Nor do I think it is beneficial or constructive to scan the comments in a contentious but winding down RfA, select a bunch by one editor, and post the diffs on his talk page with the advice to "tone it down". Taking that action, especially knowing the nature of his complaints, how did you think he would react? And when he did react as expected, blocked. That should solve that problem.&mdash;] 21:24, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
:::::::: I would rather agree with Nscheffey. How exactly you thought people would react to a decision, which is at best unprecedented and at worst quite controversial. Would Ghirla been alone to react in such a way, your own reaction would be quite understandable and justified, but it was far from being the case.
:::::::: And incidentally, advising editors to "cool off", "ignore it", and to "stop bickering and start writing articles" is a straightforward lack of tact, bordering on impoliteness. Misplaced Pages is a community, not a totalitarian state in which people get up to work every day and just have to approve the Party's Hard Line. Therefore, their opinion is very important and should be considered, especially in the case of well-established contributors with tens of thousands of edits. Telling him (and I mean especially him, selected from like 30 users who expressed more or less the same feeling) to "cool down" equals to throw oil into the fire, rather than extinguish it. -- ] 00:58, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:::: I have no more to say. Nothing you say justifies Ghirlandajo's ongoing problematic behavior. As an administrator I found his behavior grossly inappropriate. He is welcome to edit Misplaced Pages, but not to use it as a battleground. Nor, for that matter, are any of ''you''. --] 01:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

::Tony, I'll make a couple observations and get out of your hair. Your remark "You couldn't seriously accuse my of being dismissive; I've spent an enormous amount of time and effort explaining my point of view" was fairly illuminating. Not being dismissive involves ''listening to other editors'' even more than it involves explaining your point of view. This is the point you seem to not be getting. Also, you've been dismissive from the very start of this conversation about you being dismissive (see the edit summary ), yet you still say you're not doing it on purpose. I'm still struggling to wrap my brain around that one. ] ] 03:44, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

: There you go again, you see. First I'm dismissive, and then when I remark that I make a huge effort to explain myself to people you say I don't listen. If I didn't listen I obviously wouldn't be able to respond. If you're struggling to make yourself understood it's because you're making statements that are not congruent with the existence of this dialog. --] 11:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

: Let's try again. We seem to be agreed on the following:
:* You perceive my responses to you as dismissive.
:* When you elaborate, it appears that this manifests itself in a feeling that I don't agree with you even after you have made an effort to explain your reasoning.
:* We know that that feeling is valid. People frequently disagree with one another and you and I are no exception.

: So okay. We've established that you and I don't see eye to eye on several issues, including whether or not I listen to you. Having reread this discussion several times now I am convinced that I listened and completely understood your meaning at all times, but I do not agree with your reasoning and I've pointed out several apparent logical inconsistencies in it. If I'm mistaken you could explain in turn how my reasoning is faulty or my perceptions are in error. This would enable the discussion to continue. --] 12:19, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

=== Attitude ===
Tony, your continued intolerable attitude you keep demonstrating here as well as just within last hour by two attacks on people whose only fault is disagreeing with you prompted me to add more to the above.

It is worrying that you fail to answer the concerns brought to you by many users, not trolls but content editors, admins and not, with the same rights and duties like you, with anything but denial. Everyone is tired of pointing out to this attitude of yours because the only thing everyone gets in response is your self-righteousness and more of the same attitude. I have concerns that both certain things you do and the way you do them harm Misplaced Pages unnecessarily. <u>Other editors agree</u>, see eg.] "Tony's Attitude" dialog.

You refuse to listen (while you claim you do, several people pointed to you that you don't) and simply dismiss the points brought to you by several users many times. Only within last day and only at your talk page several people from different places, all respected Wikipedians in good standing, told you all the same thing. Here is a non-inclusive set of examples (there is more above):, , , , . Ok, if you disrespect me that would reduce by 1 the number of ''respected'' ones within a day per your talk page but there are still plenty and you should take it as some food for thought. Now, I am not counting here basically the same things said to you elsewhere (ArbCom statements, WP:AN, WP talk:RfAdm, etc) during this very same day by many more people who you cannot discount because they are all established editors here, content creators and admins.

Your response to each of the users complaining about your being dismissive and defiant was equally self-righteous, dismissive and defiant. To those concerns cited above your responses were: , ,, , , respectively (again, I am talking only those five at your talk page, there are more at this very page and elsewhere).

In two other cases within the same time period and on the very same page of yours you even used an offensive language towards two other admins that gave you an absolutely valid criticism and . I was also surprised to find out that in the latter case your "response" consisted of from what you would have said yourself () had that be you talking to another user and not the other way around like it was this time. When the , you simply ironically citing "". Nevertheless, you obviously do the exact same things for which you block others. I am not requesting you to block yourself for that. And I also think requesting your block would be a poor idea for the very same reason why your block of Ghirla that caused so much stir accompanied by your defiance was an extremely bad move you failed to admit, less apologize.

I just want to reemphasize that several unquestionably reputable wikieditors (not just me regardless of where you put me) are alarmed by the recent developments of your attitude and see it harmful for the climate here. It weighs with heavy costs on the entire project and there are no benefits that somehow justify these costs. I am basically saying this almost merely for the record because I almost have no hope to receive anything from you other than another set of self-righteous statements. If, however, I am wrong, and you take time to analyze the problem with your attitude that several people are trying to convince you to address, you may actually come up with something different and, perhaps, consider changing the way you interact with the community.

As a suggestion, if I may, prompted by your bemusing I notice that in the last two weeks you made in the mainspace. While each and every of them is a useful small thing for some article (fixing redirs, links, protection, etc.) there are no content creating edits among them. I am not looking any further back (I assume you wrote much at some point) and I don't discount the mopping as a very useful activity. I am saying trying to write for a change may actually ease things up a little as well as cool you off and allow others to work in a better climate. You will also find out that others will step in as effectively to replace you in blocking real trolls who harm us all, a job you do superbly. But concentrating on this job, like you do, tends to harden people up so that they start to perceive everyone around them as such, particularly those who disagree, however in good faith. Please, pretty please with sugar on top, cool it!

In no way this problems take away the enormous good you brought to Misplaced Pages by your devotion and hard work. People are not infallible, yourself included. I am begging you to please give it a thought rather than responding at once with would would response be if you do.

Sincerely, --] 02:03, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: You're continuing to mistake listening and disagreeing for not listening. Friday does exactly the same. --] 02:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:::Yes, Friday and others. Now you convinced me. How about other things? Well, never mind. You said it all so superbly! --] 04:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:::: Succinctness is essential, particularly on a wiki. --] 04:51, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

::Tony, I find that a good way to let people know that I'm listening is to paraphrase their argument back to them, and then - without yet replying to it - ask them if I did it correctly. That way, I'll either get a clarification, or a grateful acknowledgement that they really do feel understood. Then I can reply to their argument, secure that we're on the same page going into my reply. Not having studied the current situation, I'm not making any claim about how you may have handled it; please understand my comment here as completely general. In general, though, people respond very well to being affirmed by having their own thoughts correctly articulated by another. -]<sup>(])</sup> 02:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: I think we've gone around this particular mulberry bush enough times. We all know where we stand. You and I have been here before when I've had to deal with ]. A little splashback is inevitable. --] 02:21, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

::Actually, what I just said was not a mulberry bush we've gone around before, and I'm quite explicitly not criticizing you here. I'm just trying to share a very specific strategy for placating upset people. You can take it or leave it, ok? I would take issue with "inevitable", because I've seen people who are quite adept at avoiding it. If my suggestion bothers you, please ignore it. -]<sup>(])</sup> 02:27, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: Yes, I know you don't agree with my strategy. As I say, we've been around this one before. --] 02:31, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

::Our memories must differ. We've never had an interaction about how to let people know that you're listening to them before. Since you appear unreceptive to any kind of suggestions, I'll just fuck off now. -]<sup>(])</sup> 02:38, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:: I'm very sure that we went through this whole thing during the Alienus affair. I seem to manage to make myself understood and I'm not overly concerned with those who believe that I in turn don't understand them. Understanding what someone is trying to say and agreeing with it are two completely different things. Your mileage may vary. --] 02:41, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:::No, the topic of showing someone that you're listening never came up then, and it's the only topic I was trying to address here. We disagreed on numerous points over Alienus, but that wasn't one of them. To take this very exchange as an example, you haven't indicated in any way with your words that you know what I said to you in my initial post here. Your sentence "Understanding what someone is trying to say and agreeing with it are two completely different things" seems to imply that you think I was equating those somehow. I wasn't. If you feel it's necessary to recite truisms like that to me, it leads me to strongly believe that you have no idea where I'm coming from. If you can't see the value in finding out where someone else is coming from, in a communication situation, I guess I can't explain it to you. Best of luck to you, Tony. -]<sup>(])</sup> 02:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: Okay, I'm sure it did but never mind. What you're asking is that I shouldn't just read, understand and respond to what people say to me, but that I should engage in detailed conversation. "So, X." "Ah, you mean X?" "Yes, X." "Oh, yes, X, but then again Y." "Really? I never thought of that."

: A wiki is probably the least suitable medium for that kind of discussion. To take an example, Irpen's latest contribution is an entire essay and goes off on several uninteresting tangents on which I don't feel like bothering to correct him. It would take hours. While it might do his ego a lot of good I don't think it would advance the project.

: I get the message that a small and disparate sampling of editors find my interactions problematic. I think this is inevitable given the kind of things I deal with and the role I play in the project, and I do appreciate that you don't agree with me on that.

: To go back to the start, I have this "self-righteous, dismissive and defiant attitude to people who disagree with my actions" and when I examine this it seems to boil down to the fact that I don't agree with people who don't agree with me. Well I already knew that. --] 03:04, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:::Tony, my ego has nothing to do with it. I know you don't care about my ego and I care even less about your not caring. I get enough appreciation in life and in Misplaced Pages and your contempt matters little, especially since I find out that this is all you have to those who disagree with you. I care about the problems that are caused by your actions. It used to be that their overall effect was overly positive. Lately, the net sum is negative. You don't need me to change my opinion on that and I know you can't care less. I simply watched what was going on. What matters is that those who agree with me happen to be many and those are not trolls that you so superbly blocked all the time (no sarcasm and thank you for that) but those, who unlike you (at least lately) write for Misplaced Pages, which is the goal of this project. --] 04:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

::Tony, thank you for your detailed reply. I feel a lot better about this interaction, and that matters to me, because I need to know that I'm working with people with whom I ''can'' communicate, when it becomes necessary. If that weren't true, I'd have to quit. Maybe that means I'm psychically weak in some way, if so, I thank you for your patient indulgence. (no sarcasm - seriously I appreciate your patience in giving me more attention than you feel should be necessary.) It's true that it's the question of inevitability on which we disagree: You accept a certain amount of static as unavoidable, while I continue to suggest that you could avoid significantly more than you do. It's true that it would take more effort, and at some point there's diminishing returns. I guess our beef is really over where that point is.

::Your last paragraph there is odd. I don't agree with people who don't agree with me either, but I seem to manage to convince them that I've heard and understood their issues, which seems to leave them in a much better mood, and I get basically zero complaints. Maybe it's not your disagreeing with them that upsets them, so much as your unwillingness to do the little things that would dignify them, since what they're really looking for, half the time, is just an affirmation of their individual dignity in what can be a very impersonal and intimidating environment. On the other hand, I'm certain I do less dirty work around here than you do, so maybe it's that. Maybe it's that I'm too lenient with people who show a reluctance to "get it". I will certainly continue to examine my own actions, with an eye to improvement, and I'll reflect on what I can learn from this conversation.

::My intent posting here wasn't to get on your case, or to have any of this discussion, really. I thought I was dropping off a fairly benign suggestion, that could be applied to quickly defuse a situation in which someone is accusing you of not listening to them. I think you might be able to incorporate that trick, without significantly changing your "strategy" - it's just a tool. I think you could probably use it very effectively, if you tried.

::I wish you peace, Tony. -]<sup>(])</sup> 03:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

::: Yes, I'm absolutely sure we all have different thresholds at which we feel our communication is being acknowledged adequately. On a wiki it's probably a very good idea to considerably lower one's expectations of interaction. Someone who cannot do that may encounter severe problems. The project isn't about you and me. Really it isn't. The fewer bits wasted stroking egos the better. --] 03:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

::::I'm willing to accept that what I consider perfectly normal conversation, you consider ego stroking. Sometimes, I manage to help sort out disagreements, and get previously intransigent people to talk with each other productively, so I'm going to keep doing what I do. I'll see you around, I'm sure. -]<sup>(])</sup> 03:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: I'm not one of life's mediators. It takes different ingredients to bake a cake. --] 04:21, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
:::While some ingredients may actually turn less edible (climate) and less nutritious (content). --] 04:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

::Hey, I'm all for cake. Should you ever desire the assistance of one of life's mediators, please don't hesitate to let me know; I'd be delighted to help. -]<sup>(])</sup> 04:25, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
===Conclusion===
Look chaps, I think we've all had a good go and said all we can say on this subject. A few people continue to get steamed up and make all kinds of preposterous allegations that I'm absolutely sure they'll think better of in the morning. So I'll leave it there. No hard feelings, but I think some people in this discussion are simply not going to be mollified no matter how calmly and nicely I continue to deal with their concerns. --] 05:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: Ready to be archived. --] 16:35, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

==Point==
Hi, I think you are to the point I made a bit bellow there: Ghirla vs Community. Disagree? ] 03:28, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: Yes I agree. In my opinion he's treating this project like trench warfare. I think your summation of evidence is very good. --] 03:31, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:: So maybe you should modify (again :]) your statement to that extent? ] 11:56, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

::: No need. You put it well and the arbitrators are very experienced and know the score, so they either agree with us that there is a problem to be arbitrated or they don't. --] 17:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

== Policy on signatures ==

What's the policy on complex signatures again? This is in reference to signature, covering 4 lines in diffs. --] 07:49, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: We have a guideline at ] (] for short). Like most guidelines it's a matter of commonsense. Sometimes politely asking an editor to find a way to reduce the size is met with a positive response. If you decide to make such a request, do explain why having a large signature can cause problems for other editors who may find it hard to locate text in a discussion page. --] 17:03, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

== Need Help ==
Tony Sidaway, may you please look and forward it to ArbCom members? Despite the ArbCom ruling (]), Andries is making questionable edits and pushing forward adding links to his and others Anti-Sathya-Sai-Baba websites. When there is a perceived violation of an ArbCom ruling, how does one file a complaint? Thank you. ] <sup>]-]</sup> 19:14, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: This is a matter to be handled by administrators. I'll deal with it. --] 19:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. ] <sup>]-]</sup> 19:32, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: I've warned him. Please report back to me if there are further problems. --] 19:41, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Tony, there is some confusion whether or not the ArbCom ruling pertains to user pages. For example the re-insertion of a critical and potentially libelous site against Sathya Sai Baba on Andries user page: . I see this as a potential loophole where the critial links against Sathya Sai Baba can be moved from the article page to a user page. May you kindly provide clarification about this? Thanks. ] <sup>]-]</sup> 20:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: I don't think there's a problem with Andries saying he's affiliated with a group and giving its web page on his own user page. Users have some discretion over the contents of their user pages. --] 20:27, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

==]==

Tony, are we going to remove the links critical of ] from the article ] article because it may violate ]? Clearly not, because people can defame anyone they want in their own article. The article ] deals with exactly the same issue. I filed a request for mediation regarding this issue. Both Moore and Priddy have been reported by reputable source i.e. Keven Shepherd in latter case. The dispute about the external link in the article Robert Priddy preceded the arbcom case. I filed a request for mediation regarding this matter.] ] 21:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

: Yes, by all means pursue your dispute to the fullest extent available, as long as you actively don't violate the arbitration ruling. --] 21:40, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
::But it will be clear that I think that in the case of the external links in the ], (or ]) article removing critical links maintained by the subject in question is a ridiculously strict interpretation of the arbcom ruling. ] 21:44, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

::: It may be worth going to ] and starting a request for clarification on this. The arbitrators may be able to tell you what they meant more precisely. --] 21:49, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
::::Yes, I think this should be done, because as far as I understood and still understand it, it is fine to use copies of webpages of reputable sources hosted on saiguru.net or exbaba.com as references. Please note that the website created by SSS108 for Misplaced Pages contains copies of articles taken from exbaba.com so if exbaba.com com is unreliable then necessarily SSS108's website is so too. ] 23:09, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
:::I made a request for clarification ] Sorry for causing you clerks extra work ] 13:42, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

:::: Thanks but that's not a problem. I'd rather you use the dispute resolution process in this way, asking for clarification and causing a little clerical work for one or two of us, than just try to struggle with the ambiguity, which would probably end up causing a lot more work for quite a few of us. It shows a commitment to comply with the rulings and, I'm sure, improves the atmosphere by increasing the regard in which you are held by those who disagree with you, as a fair-minded and cooperative individual. Thank you. --] 00:19, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Andries agreed to the Geocities site under mediation with BostonMA: . The articles on the Geocities site are not articles originally published on Anti-Sai sites. They are newspaper articles whose publication is independent from Anti-Sai sites. Tony, thank you for your help and guidance. Sincerely, ] <sup>]-]</sup> 04:29, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
:My response on Request For Clarification: . Includes recent questionable edits by Andries on the ] talk page where he made a highly questionable edit by moving media articles (which were determined to violate ]) from the ] Article to the Talk Page: . This was discussed in arbitration (), in which I stated that Andries was using the talk pages to promote his Anti-Sai agenda. ] <sup>]-]</sup>
::All the links that I moved from the main article to the talk page were published in the media i.e. reputable sources and my edit was certainly an improvement. I followed ] in removing the media article whose edits were reverted by ] because they violated ] (not quoting non-English sources. ] 17:07, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
::I want to complain about the behavior by SSS108 who removed on-topic non-libellous comments that were no personal attacks on other editors from the Sathya Sai Baba talk page. See here I think that this removal by SSS108 was misguided and inappropriate. ] 17:12, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
::: Without going into detail, it appears to me that SSS108 is interpreting one of the remedies in the arbitration case by removing poorly sourced information from a talk page. Please add a query about this to your request for clarification, so that the arbitrators can tell you both whether or not this was what they intended. While it appears to me on the surface to be a correct interpretation, I haven't really followed the case and I'm not an arbitrator so I cannot tell you definitively what they intended. --] 00:27, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
::::The stated reason why SSS108 removed information from the talk page was not because he considered the information poorly sourced, but because he thought I was ] the talk page with links critical of SSB. I can understand his suspicion, though it was unfounded. (The links did not contain any link to anti-SSB websites.) I thought and still think that I had good reason to make the comments on the talk page. If this is a one-time removal then I have little problem with it and I will not formally report it. In contrast, if SSS108 repeatedly removes information with flimsy motivations from the talk page then I will make a formal complaint about it. ] 08:19, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

==Signature==
Thank you for shortening it. I will make a smaller one since I will be participating on AN/I more often and I do not want it to bother you. --] 01:23, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

: No problem. Thanks for being proactive on this. --] 01:33, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

== Re: What? ==

Sorry, but what percisely do I have to do? --] 10:11, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

: I assume you're responding to my arbitration clerk note about ]. If you don't want to contribute further to that case, you don't need to do anything more (I just read your original statement). If you do have more to contribute, particularly references to relevant edits or discussions, you're welcome to go to ] and start a section for your own evidence. Then add diffs to those edits which you think are relevant to the case. There are further instructions at the top of the page, explaining how to add evidence. --] 10:30, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

==] ArbCom case==
Greetings Tony Sidaway, just wanted to drop you a note of thanks for taking the initiative to request arbitration relative to this article. Hopefully the case will be adopted by the arbitration committee and remedies for all parties will be determined. Thanks again. ] 10:54, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

: I'm not convinced that arbitration is necessary, but I have seen enough high profile fuss and enough worrying mutterings to suspect that we have encountered a fault line in community cohesion and it's worth seeing if something needs to be done. --] 11:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
::Well I've seen about four or five editors throw around the "ownership" label relative to this (and I '''highly''' suspect there are many more). My thinking is the more folks are saying "ownership" the more a case is warranted. That said I do appreciate your hesitations. ] 11:49, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

== IAR ==

Hi, I was asking about IAR and you were explaining it and I think my last question got lost as the thread went in a different direction. Here is my unanswered question. I thank you for your help: ''So everything that has a policy page is a policy. Then the "rules" are...? Essay pages? Then there's ] that says it's both policy and a rule????? Misplaced Pages has "policies" and "guidelines." Maybe guidelines are the rules. ] and included in them are ], ], and ] -- all of these are treated as policy. So WP:IAR means WP:POINT, WP:BITE, and WP:UP can be ignored if it's to make the encyclopedia better? There are also processes, which I do see the IAR applied to with ].'' ----] 11:10, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

: None of the above. --] 11:19, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

::So which things are the rules? You said 3RR does not count as a rule, but ] gives an example of ignoring it with ]. ] 13:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

::: Did I say that 3RR doesn't count as a rule? If I ever did, I was wrong. I always ignore that rule. You can ignore a rule without breaking Misplaced Pages policy, you know. --] 15:34, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

:::: 3RR is listed as policy. Which things are the ignorable rules (if it is to help wikipedia) and which things are the unignorable ones? ] 20:55, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

:::: In cases of such confusion I find that there are no problems if I ]. It takes a bit of getting used to, and honestly when I try to explain it I think I must sound like Yoda or Obi Wan, or that guy out of ]. But it really is nothing more than just using your common sense. It's particularly good for resolving things that don't matter (like quibbles about whether something is a rule or a policy). Misplaced Pages written policies are ''supposed'' to represent distilled commonsense, codified as written rules. If you follow your commonsense then you'll usally find that you're following policy. If you find you're not, but the encyclopedia is still improving, it usually means that the rules are wrong. So we change the rules from time to time to keep up. --] 00:46, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

::::: I think that's the best way I've ever heard anyone explain IAR. --] 02:46, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

== Stuff ==

I appreciate and accept your apology. Incidentally, I've been giving serious thought to quitting the project. This will make it a bit less sour if that's what I decide. --] ] 14:49, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

: Good. I hope you'll feel comfortable about staying, too, if you decide to do that. --] 16:36, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

== Kosovo problem ==

Sorry about my english. Before 3-6 months I have started to bring somme document for the Kosovo but I dont have time to lose with goverments propagander. This is the point. I dont know even you or burokrats can do samthing agains thate. The target is to block every information about the Kosovo subject not only the Kosovo article. Thaks for calling but I dont have time to work agains a goverment.

Sorry about my english my statment is here ], I holpe is not in wrong pleace.

Tung from Prishtina--] 03:03, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

: Thanks. Your English is good enough for me to understand what you mean: that you feel that English Misplaced Pages's coverage of the subject of Kosovo is full of government propaganda (I assume you mean on behalf of the government of Serbia).

: Your statement is in the right place and will be read and understood by the arbitrators. Thanks again. --] 03:11, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

== Reply ==

'''Thanks!!''' I am at last free. :) Cheers, &mdash;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">]</span> 04:19, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

: A rare occasion when I've been the bearer of good news to a subject of arbitration. --] 04:27, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

::Haha... Indeed, you have a very stressful job. And then of course you probably get a lot of crap for just "being the messenger". ;-) &mdash;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">]</span> 04:37, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

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You did THAT to the Gamergate article—in 2015?!?!!! That is one well deserved barnstar, lemme tell you! The nostalgia! My best friend and I were following The Jimquisition, Unskippable, Zero Punctuation and other then-The Escapist fare of the time, several days a week, so we saw that blow up real-time! Dude, I mean...dude. Dang.

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Thanks. I worked hard on several controversial articles for a long time, and I think my work was appreciated. Global warming is one, Gamergate controversy is another, and there were many others. TS 22:23, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks for the good wishes. I'm largely disengaging from all social forums, as indicated here . There's still time for me to reconnect with my solipsistic side, I hope. Only by shutting out all you zombies can I have any peace, which for some reason seems to involve lots of microcontroller stuff and obscure programming languages. --TS 13:38, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

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