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So it's True?

So you're leaving us officially now? Shame. You'll be missed! --D-Day 22:35, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

If it is about that anon vandal who likes to leave unproven personal attacks, then i have ignored him.

Your just not trying to cool down, instead you are going back into "fights" that you can not win in any case. You need to focus on areas which can make a difference without disruption. And there is still lots of work to do.

But if you just want to fade away, fair enougth, i won't comment nor weep... but i will miss you. -Dynamo_ace Talk

This is not about battle variness or anon vandal (I have no idea of this anon vandal)

The only one responsible of my departure is myself. Since several disturbed people are holding me responsible of RickK's departure, I do not want anything like that over me.

People have contributed in the general level of annoyance I recieve:

1. Kelly Martin banning me from #wikipedia on IRC for me requesting a ban on a MARMOT sockpuppet.
   • I used to admire/worship her... Your role model turning against you is rather hard to swalow.
2. Tony Sidaway threatening to ban me from articles related to kurds for me reverting a sockpuppet
   • User in questions only contribution was tagging random articles with category Kurdistan, also opposed my rfa 3 and is an obvious pov pusher acusing random people of being "turkish/mongol nationalistic" (what ever that means).
   • Sorry Tony but threats are the worst way to comunicate with me you should have known by now. Tony I don't hate you tho.
3. kim_ on irc complaining and presuring me about the IRC channel restrictions forcing me to lift the restrictions
   • Did not even joined the channel after restrictions lifted.
4. Anthre threatening to block me if I dared "force" fr.wiki on to accepting something.
   • A Nl wikipedian (could be Karl Meier or davenbelle who knows) had been revert waring with me interwiki on languages he/she did not had any other contribution but reverting me. All I sugested was the move of a page to meta.wikimedia.
   • I only had two edits on fr wikipedia promting such a threat. Even if this was an idle threat it still served to its purpose. I have not ever been intimidated by threats and I do not intend to start now.

None above should be held accountable of anything. I just want them to know how I feel about it.

I should have left with dignity after my first rfa... Incident after incident, edit after edit its the same story. Comunity simply put is too hostile to work with. Instead of talking, people monopolise and declare ownerships. Such people are not regular users or anons but admins (one being a board member).

Misplaced Pages, the free encyclopedia was a dream for me. The longer it lasts, the more painful it is to awaken from it. I wish there was a pleasant enviorment free from hostilites here.

--Cool Cat 14:46, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Good luck with all your future endeavors CC. Shame you had to go like this. You will be missed dearly. --D-Day 15:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Goodbye Cool cat

You were may favourite wikipedian. --Hamedog 22:54, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, sorry to see you go! Thanks for all your work (it was loads!) and all the best! --JoanneB 00:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I enjoyed working with you, your departure saddens me but I understand. Thank you for the help, advice and support you gave me. --Alf 10:11, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Perseving the dream!

As you have said that you want to be alone, so be it! But if you need someone, i am here.

I have posted a message on the Oh! My goddess! talk page about the postion for a spoken word version of the respective articles become vacant again. If anyone is intrested please go to Talk:Oh My Goddess!.

And i will perseve these pages so that vandels won't gloat about your departure from wikipedia.

Goodbye Cool Cat, you will be missed. -Dynamo_ace Talk

Well since you mentioned Oh My Goddess!... Can you sync Kikuko Inoue with --Cool Cat 12:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

What do you mean? Do you mean take ANN's info and place it into Kikuko Inoue or the other way round. Just want to make sure. -Dynamo_ace Talk

"Copy" ANN stuff to wikipedia. Inoue-san deserves that. :) --Cool Cat 13:28, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I would love to, but it seems my talk and user page is overloaded i think, i keep on having a fatal error. Any way to solve this? -Dynamo_ace Talk

Someone vandalised your talk page. Fixing. --Cool Cat 13:54, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

user:72.21.41.138 vandalilsed the defcon template. Perhaps defcon template should be semiprotected. --Cool Cat 13:57, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

That was easy. --Cool Cat 14:00, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Now to enchance Kikuko Inoue page. -Dynamo_ace Talk

Hmm... the infomation on ANN is not in chronical order but there is a bit i can use to enchance the article. As for all the roles she has been in, some of the roles she have done are only minor, adding them or a nearly every single apperarance may not go down well with other users because they are only minor and not significant apperances or the page could get overloaded if all her apperances are listed.

Therefore, i have included a IMDB link for now, and await your suggestions for improvement. -Dynamo_ace Talk

Do a section for major roles and a subsection (maybe) for minor roles. "Major" role is POV anyways :P. The ANN is ordered alphabeticaly, wikipedia is chronologicaly. i do not see why we shouldnt list her every appearance. We do that for movie stars no? See: Jackie Chan --Cool Cat 15:32, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Big and Little Wong Tin Bar jakie was only 8 years old on this movie. I seriously doubt he had a major role :P --Cool Cat 15:35, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Star of life.gif

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Star of life.gif. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Misplaced Pages (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Misplaced Pages:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Misplaced Pages:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Misplaced Pages page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 11:50, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

This image is exempt from copyrights. The image has a source and I believe that websie created. That image is in the public domain as it is avalible on many ambulances, ER uniforms, and even on ER rooms.

Tell me you were kidding with that warning. --Cool Cat 11:59, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Star of Life was created in 1973 by Leo R. Schwartz, Chief of the Emergency Medical Services branch at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to avoid juridic problems related to the use of derivatives of the Red Cross (like orange cross, green cross, etc.). The Star of Life was registered as a certification mark on February 1, 1977.

1. Image is PD because it was created by a US gov employee.
2. Image was created to evade copyright and juridic problems. Hence by nature... it is designed to evade copyright problems.

Geez. --Cool Cat 12:13, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I haven't seen that sort of ambulance star before, cause I'm in India and here we have a different type of cross. Anyways, the img was tagged as no copyright information, and so I thought I'd asked you. I'm sorry to here you're leaving. So many users are leaving nowadays (freestylefrappe, SWD316 and now you).--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 12:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I highly recomend checking history of an image to see if the tag was modified, which was the case for this image. --Cool Cat 12:17, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I did check the history, and since I'm no great shakes at copyrights, I wasn't sure what was correct since User:Simetrical had commented that The stated reason for the image being public-domain is impossible. Please see Misplaced Pages:Copyright and determine the legal status of the image. I was just checking. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 12:24, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Good riddance old boy

Glad to see you go. This is great news for the project. Erwin

Who are you? I don't think we have met. I am sure I would remember judging from your apathy. --Cool Cat 14:17, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Please refrain from violation of WP:NPA and WP:CIVIL, Erwin, or actions will be taken. That slanderous comment was extremely provocative. -Zero 14:28, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

is it really true?

hey man. you were one of the best. why did you go?? --84.56.56.103 16:47, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Some reasons:

1. Some people intentionaly give me hard time strictly to annoy me. At least I hope that's it. Otherwise why else would they complain about restrictions imposed on an IRC channel and never use it once restrictions were removed.
2. People dont even trust me to hand over admin power after a full year here. People who threatened to leave wikipedia on my forst rfa if I were to be adminise still vote oppose on the 3rd rfa complaining about civility and AGF. Granted adminship is a broken process and my rfa 3 wasnt remotely as bad as rfa 3 but still there are reapearing people voting oppose.
3. People I trust/should trust such as mentors, arbitrators, and board members are giving me a hard time. An arbotrator banned me from #wikipedia for requesting the ban of User:MARMOT who was taunting me in PMs. While the ban from #wikipedia does not slience pms it at least symbolicaly removes marmot from my presence. Youd think people would not ban good users. I got a oard member threating to ban me if I force fr wiki (I dont know how can I do that since I dont know french and had only 2 real edits on fr.wiki). I am not going to slander these individuals any further.
4. I am tired of contributing to a comunity whom the people in charge does not appriciate my prsence and efforts to the point of threatening me with blocks on even the slightest dispute. I would not put up with this even if I were payed, not that I care about money all that much.
   • Even in my last days here I get "the image you uploaded is for deletion" warning for an image designed for PD. But I can't blame the person posting that to my talk page as image history is quite silly.
5. If I stay people will annoy me knowing I wont leave. If I leave they wont annoy me. Also people use me as an excuse to oppose rfas. It is almost at the point of "'''Oppose''' User is a friend of Cool Cat ~~~~"

--Cool Cat 17:16, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

• I realised primary source of my stress is from wikipedians on IRC not on #wikipedia-en-vandalism . Hmm... --Cool Cat 17:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

community

I regret the way the community appears to be treating you. There was a fairly long time in which I misjudged you, and while there may be a few issues where we still probably don't see eye-to-eye (e.g. Userboxes), I am glad we took the time to talk on IRC and were able to work constructively on things. There are some things the community is struggling with, and the well may be partly poisoned -- however you decide I wish you well. Take care. --Improv 04:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

What are the known symptoms of this poison? Any chemical analysis of it avalible? --Cool Cat 08:34, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Replacing images on ViP subpages

You're replacing the images on ViP subpages for particular vandals with the CVU image. Any reason? It just seemed odd when I noticed you doing it. —Matthew Brown (T:C) 16:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

? Hmm... No real reason. Was just bored --Cool Cat 16:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

image edits to vandal profiles

Why are you doing this? Did I miss an important discussion regarding these pages? — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 16:50, Feb. 1, 2006

? Hmm... No real reason. Was just bored --Cool Cat 16:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Help

Hey,

you have helped me before and I was wondering if you could help me out here. I wanted to start a page that would be an anti vandalism page. (Like the Counter-Vandalism Unit). I started a page that explained what it was and when the page would be operative. An admin deleted it and told me to put in on the village pump. I couldnt find a place in the village pump to place my page construction. Could you help me.

(if what i said is confusing, then tell me and I will try to make it easier, because I think i didnt explain this clearly enough)

Thanks

--Activision45 00:03, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Beware that even the best proposals are litteraly "treated like shit".

The semi-protection when I proposed it recieved no sympathy and I was scorned for it, it was later implimented once we had CNN coverage. I am telling you this to be prepared for "wierd comments".

You will be accused of being a "millitary dictator" for example. People will also use Misplaced Pages:Counter Vandalism Unit as another example "why this is a bad idea". ANd people will use it as an excuse to oppose RfAs etc. Some will call it a cabal... Endless nonsense yes.

In addition it will continiously cause you stress. Misplaced Pages:Counter Vandalism Unit only achived to stress me (aside form throtteling vandalism down but no one cares about that).

For example if you have an IRC channel with newly-imposed restrictions

• People complain about the restrictions
• Cause you hours of work to find a way to lift the restrictions and still make the channel "secure".
• Asking people to register their nicks is unnaceptable for example.
• Then once restrictions are gone the person complaining does not EVEN use the channel ONCE or EVEN join the channel.

This is how it will go. I am telling you this in advance so you know whats waiting you.

If you are willing to take all that do this: Try creating the page on User:Activision45/proposal (or any name you choose under your userspace).

I'll be able to "guide" you better once I see whay kind of a proposal this is :).

--Cool Cat 12:50, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

RfA

Having expressed strong opposition to my first nomination you may wish to comment on my second.
brenneman 05:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, I noticed your interaction on User talk:Anthere, and also your creation of a joke category (Sock puppets of George W. Bush) and some joke notices on User:George W. Bush and User:☺♥§¡¡PhüçGèõrgëW.Bûsh!‼!♀♪►☻.

I've reverted the joke noticed and deleted the category. No harm done, but please don't play that game again.

Could you explain what happened on the other wikis? What parts were you trying to move to meta? I'm asking this as your mentor, so please take this as a semi-official query on behalf of the English Misplaced Pages. If people on other wikis are getting upset at you, they would expect us, as the people who know you best, to play a part in resolving any problems. --Tony Sidaway 11:10, 3 February 2006 (UTC)