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My laptop died at RCC, so I'm more likely than not going to be unable to work on the Signpost until it gets fixed. Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:13, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Jaws FAC

Can you continue the suggestions you started on the Jaws FAC? The previous ones covered only the first parts, but were much helpful! Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 21:34, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Question at a RM

Hey Tony. I was just glancing through the RM backlog and there's a question for you on one of your noms, see Talk:Systemic linguistics. Best, Jenks24 (talk) 09:33, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Jenks. Will take a look. Tony (talk) 13:22, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Common names

I'd be grateful if you could have a look at: Wikipedia_talk:Article_titles#Common_names. Thanks. --Kleinzach 01:33, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

I hit the same en dash problem you did in SCOTUS=

You might be amused or gratified to see my reply to an accusation of carelessness that popped up on my talk page today. If not, sorry to interrupt you. Cheers! Chris the speller  15:57, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

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I answered on my talk page. Aside from my hesitations voiced there, I'd need to know where Crisco gets the FC stats from. MathewTownsend (talk) 17:15, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Mathew. I've replied at your talk. Tony (talk) 03:11, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

My statement to Elen

My statement to Elen of the Roads (talk · contribs) about our dispute regarding WT:AT recognizability was so long I put it in a separate file, User:Born2cycle/DearElen. If you have a chance to look it over, and let me know if you find any inaccuracies or other problems with it, I would appreciate it. If you don't mind, please leave comments about it at User talk:Born2cycle/DearElen. Thanks! --Born2cycle (talk) 18:57, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Really not interested in looking at anything but short, succinct posts, and even then this is way down my list of priorities at the moment. Could I ask that you write short rather than long in future, and engage in dialogue with editors rather than produce monologues? While I'll express an occasional opinion (and think you should not change the policy prematurely), this is no big deal for me. I don't want to be whipped up into some maelstrom about it. Tony (talk) 03:11, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

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I have filed a request for the Arbitration Committee to look at long-term issues with editing in the Article Titles and MOS areas at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Article titles/MOS. Your input would be welcome. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 22:51, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

I included you as someone who had been heavily involved in the topics. I didn't review your contributions in enough detail to see if there was a current problem, but I did see that there wasn't anything really obvious right now, unlike some of the other parties. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:37, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

My immediate and continuing reaction, too. I thought there had to be a behavioural problem. And as usual, the destructive thing about AC pages is that the peanut gallery is allowed to smear parties with mud-bombs without proper evidence, and to refer to quite irrelevant previous cases to depict some editors as long-term trouble-makers. Got a grudge? Attend AC hearings, take rotten fruit, throw. I don't appreciate this. There will surely be difficulty in pinning down exactly what the problem is generally, and working out why it's been brought to AC rather than AN or ANI, which would be more in balance with the matter. AC's remit is on the behavioural, not the content, side. So isn't the application destructive all-round? Tony (talk) 15:48, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Note that it's possible to be a party to a case and drift through almost completely untouched -- I was a party to the recent Abortion case, but had no evidence presented regarding me, and only presented (iirc) 2 diffs myself. No findings, no sanctions. And it is the behavioral problem I'm hoping Arbcom can address -- I have no position on the content issues of the moment, and barely know what they are. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:58, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Yet you scoped this to include the whole of MoS? WP:MOSLEAD? And a basic problem is in your selection of parties. Can you have a look at the contributors list for the many people who have edited far more than I have at the page, especially recently, but are strangely not named as parties? Tony (talk) 04:15, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Fæ

A request for comments has been opened on administrator User:Fæ. You are being notified due to your prior participation in ANI, RfA, or RfC discussions regarding this user. Thank you, MadmanBot (talk) 20:05, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Article titles and capitalisation case

An arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation. Evidence that you wish the Arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence sub-page, at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation/Evidence. Please add your evidence by February 12, 2012, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can contribute to the case workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Alexandr Dmitri (talk) 15:04, 29 January 2012 (UTC)