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Nominating AIV for MfD

Catastrophe averted. Misclicked twinkle? Will 01:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, messing with the scripts. Apologies, Mercury 01:53, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Pandora's box indeed. (:-)- Mtmelendez 02:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Gorn Confederation

You marked Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Gorn Confederation with the {{closing template but did not actually close the discussion. Since it had been longer than the 1 hour recommended by the template and something seems to have come up for you, I removed it to encourage someone else to close. Hope you are well. Eluchil404 08:57, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protection of RuneScape

On WP:RPP, you said you had semi-protected RuneScape, as I requested; however, the page's log says you unprotected the already unprotected page instead, and it still isn't semi-protected. (I checked this by logging out and trying to edit it.) Could you please semi-protect the page? Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 17:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

I've had three misses with this new script. Bear with me while I get used to it. Protected. Regards, Mercury 17:56, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Protection requests

I apologise for requesting those. I thought I was trying to be helpful, but I've done it wrongly requesting those. Sorry. --Solumeiras 18:03, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Your request was civil and logical. There are guidelines and such the help us determine where to apply protection. There was no harm in the request. No apology is needed. Keep up the good work. :) Mercury 18:04, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks. You're an excellent admin yourself. Feel free to review me at my editor review soon... --Solumeiras 18:18, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

RFA for Jonathan

I just wanted to let you know that I was actually able to see where you were coming from when Acalamari put it in terms of WP:Assume good faith. By the way, I just saw his RFA was closed, should that have been done? It was closed by a non-admin, which is unusual. Drop me a line and let me know what you think. Happy editing! Icestorm815 21:44, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Sure. SNOW is not a policy, but something that we sometimes use. The RFA was highly unlikely to pass. Before I became an admin I've closed a couple that were highly unlikely to pass. It serves to prevent hard feelings and cuts a discussion short that has a particular end in sight. Only those experienced editors, admins or not, should be closing discussions as SNOW. Anymore questions be glad to answer. Mercury 05:21, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Dominionism

You're usually good at these things. Can you protect the article. We've got me and bunch of others (some of whom are now participating admins), and some others on the other side edit warring. I'm at 3RR (no warning or blocking necessary). Can you protect the article and help build a consensus? The other side is wrong BTW :) OrangeMarlin 19:15, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I've protected the article, I'll see if anyone is interested in some informal mediation. Mercury 19:53, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!!!! OrangeMarlin 20:05, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Email

E kala mai. You have an email. --Ali'i 13:57, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

As do you. Mercury 13:58, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I've created a monster

Best wishes with your candidacy! It was a pleasant surprise to see you'd thrown your hat into the ring. Warmly, Durova 04:59, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, and you as well. I think I'm clueful enough to be an asset, so we shall see if the community will permit me to do this. I hope so, I have the desire. Mercury 17:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Whig's back.

So far, so good, but if you're not monitoring him, I'm going to have to reblock him.° Adam Cuerden 00:53, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Mercury, does this appear to be an unreasonable edit? Whig 02:38, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome back. I'm not all up with the subject, I think it would be dependent on the source. What does the sourcing say? Regards, Mercury 02:57, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Google kali bichromicum and there are many sources. What statement needs better sourcing? Whig 03:00, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick google link. :) When I change or add an assertion, I try to add a reliable source. It helps me to have some ground to stand on if ever my edits get challenged. In the beginning, I used external links but as I learned Misplaced Pages, I started using what I believe are reliable sources. I'm not saying that this is you saying headache, but its always better to point at a source and say "This source asserts "headache". Regards, Mercury 03:21, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Should I add back my edit and add an RS? I don't want to provoke an edit war. Adam deleted it . Whig 03:34, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

This would be an area where niceties are going to be important. Propose the Source on the talk page, and leave Adam a message on his talk page pointing him to the talk page. Ask him if he has any objections, if not, re add the edit. This prevents hard feelings in a content dispute, Downside, it may take time for Adam to respond. But hey, the article won't rot in a day. :) Regards, Mercury 03:36, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I think I see the confusion here, the edit history is concealed because there are several consolidated there. As far as it being a headache remedy, that is stated on the HeadOn article itself. Whig 03:43, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

It's not one of the defining facts about Potassium dichromate that it's used in homeopathy, funnily enough. Almost every basic substance and botanical is. Adam Cuerden 08:20, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Also, this comment:

There are a number of physical models proposed, including Bénard cells, vibrations, etc. We don't have instruments that I'm aware can prove which physical model is correct at this time, but we do know by the first law of thermodynamics that all energy is conserved, and we do know from quantum mechanics that particles and waves are physically interchangable. The atomic limit is not a real limit in physics. Whig 00:20, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Is profoundly stupid. Adam Cuerden 08:20, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

? Mercury 11:18, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

In context, he's basically listing a lot of physics terms and claiming one of them is the proof of homeopathy, though he doesn't know which one. Adam Cuerden 15:04, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

• sigh* he hasn't changed. I've reblocked him. He was starting to advocate for removing all criticism of Homeopathy from the lead again. The fellow does not understand NPOV, and is incapable of doing so. Adam Cuerden 20:21, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Why nearly block?

Why consider blocking me? You can see that I didn't take the 3RR policy as a permission to 3RR anywhere (see the St Johnsbury article), in contrast to Polaron actually committing a 4RR; and that I noted that I'd not go any farther, despite the 4RR. Nyttend 01:04, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Any xRR beyond one , is disruptive. What you two were doing warranted a block, but since you are both contributing editors and I did not see any aggravating factors, I protected the pages involved. I normally issue out userblocks for this sort of thing. See WP:Edit warring. Regards, Mercury 01:22, 15 November 2007 (UTC)