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9/11 cultural impact discussion
Would you please provide your opinion any of the proposals given on the 9/11 article talk page?--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 16:32, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Re:Best wishes
Wow, thanks. It's refreshing to have someone compliment me on my maturity rather than point out my age.
- Anyway, keep up what you do - we need level-headed editors. :) Toa Nidhiki05 02:59, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- My pleasure...if indeed your age is what you claim, I am the one that may need lessons from you in maturity for I seem to lack it at times when I most need it. Best wishes!--MONGO 03:01, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
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Fan mail
As you said, wow. "Amanda", the NYU student who "trying to understand the ins and outs of Wiki to further her knowledge of the online encyclopedia", certainly has a deep voice, no? It added a certain entertainment value to my otherwise mundane Monday morning. Antandrus (talk) 19:04, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- Well, lessons learned the hard way...besides the threats to you and others which sounded like you were all headed to some waterboarding experiences at GITMO, I was particularily amused by how she changes all your delete votes to keep at the Afd! I don't think I've ever seen that before...MONGO 19:44, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Arbitration Committee RfC
I have started one at Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee 3. If you would like to add yourself as a certifying party and perhaps make a statement, it would be appreciated. Also, if you would like to change the formatting a bit, please feel free. This is my first RfC creation and this also isn't a common type of RfC, so I used a generalized format. Silverseren 23:46, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Mountain ranges in Idaho
Mongo, I'll put it up this afternoon if you promise to fix all the links to DAB pages so the bots don't attack me. --Mike Cline (talk) 18:51, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
- Isn't that a pain...the BOTS are taking over! While some useful, others hardly give a feller the time to make an adjusting edit...I will surely help you on this, but the speed and determination of these BOT-zoids will make it tough to guarantee that they won't show up en masse at your talkpage with warnings of impending doom.--MONGO 18:57, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
- Its done at List of mountain ranges in Idaho --Mike Cline (talk) 19:20, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ah oh...too fast...I am just now heading out...won't be much help until 6pm CST...oops.--MONGO 19:22, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
- Its done at List of mountain ranges in Idaho --Mike Cline (talk) 19:20, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Missouri River
....is at FAC. I'm ok on the prose and formatting but am not hugely familiar with it, so might benefit from review by a local.....Casliber (talk · contribs) 01:05, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- Sure...will take a look...I live 12 miles from the river, but spend more time near the Platte River which flows into it. Nice to hear from you.--MONGO 01:20, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Tom harrison
Concerning what you said to Mkat, when an editor essentially starts Godwinning an article in such a blatant manner I think admins tend to give out lengthy sanctions. An ARBPIA case recently was filed on an editor who kept trying to insert the Nazi flag into the belligerents section of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War article alongside the Arab states and that editor also got indeffed. As to your comment about my history with him, I didn't file the request out of any hostility to Tom. Obviously he was intent on inserting woefully inappropriate statements into prominent parts of the article that essentially smeared all adherents of 9/11 conspiracy theories as antisemitic even after I asked him to stop. Something that far off the reservation should generally not be overlooked, in my opinion, and I have overlooked a lot.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 23:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- What is it that is "far off the reservation" in your opinion...perhaps I am overlooking something.--MONGO 23:38, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- The basic problem with Tom's edits 2, 3 and 4 is that it looks like he was purposely putting stuff into the article to make CT look bad, as opposed to simply writing about it neutrally.
- Also, while I think the For Dummies books meet Misplaced Pages's standards for reliability, it doesn't look good. It's a shame, too, because there are stronger sources as I pointed out at the talk page of AE.
- But indefinite banning of a productive editor for a first time offense is beyond the pale. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 00:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- The For Dummies series of books are generally well reviewed and authoritative...so if the admins in this matter had been doing a decent job they may have considered that The Devils Advocate, the filer of this request for arbcom enforcement, had himself been topic banned in this area for 30 days not too long ago and has had 2 blocks placed against him also due to this topic area...and Tom harrison commented at the arbcom enforcement request against The Devils Advocate back in November...Tom has been editing for 8 years, never been blocked or topic banned and the admins in this case seem to have no idea what a benefit it has been to have Tom harrison work in this difficult topic area and yet always remain cool, always use reliable sources and be a tremendous benefit to Misplaced Pages...his "reward" for doing such a fine job is to be told to go away it seems...I am totally disgusted...these admins have done no justice here.--MONGO 00:20, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Also, many the CT's regarding 9/11 DO HAVE a strong anti-Jewish undertones...the entire CT that "no Jews died on 9/11" was indeed hate mongering from anti-Jewish sources...just to be clear, I am not Jewish, nor is Tom Harrison I don't think.--MONGO 00:25, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- But indefinite banning of a productive editor for a first time offense is beyond the pale. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 00:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- I know, and I pointed that out at AE talk. AQFK (talk) 01:05, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've only been consulting the banning admin...I haven't yet asked why the one admin who gave a 30 day topic ban to TDA but supported an indefinite ban on Tom Harrison...I've worked with Tom harrison a long time on this website and I know he is meek and he isn't ever going to want this to be some drama-bomb for him...you have no idea what level of harassment he has sidestepped in his efforts to keep the CT's at bay...this injustice is not going to stand.--MONGO 01:45, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- I know, and I pointed that out at AE talk. AQFK (talk) 01:05, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- For example, adding in the editorial voice the claim that 9/11 conspiracy theories "in fact" articulate antisemitic themes while "ostensibly" blaming others was plainly in appropriate. Putting it in the lede of the article was even more inappropriate. The things Tom was inserting were all in the editorial voice, all placed high up in the article, and all highly inflammatory. Don't you think saying 9/11 conspiracy theories and all other conspiracy theories have their origin in "hatred and fear of Jews" is inflammatory?
- Now, as to the fact that he has been involved for a long time, I think that would have worked well had he not made insertions like that three times in a row despite the obviously objectionable nature of the edits. Also, Tom probably did himself no favors with the kind of responses he left on the AE case. Seems to me this is symptomatic of the issues with any article on conspiracy theories. People who plainly express their disdain for conspiracy theories too often use WP:V as a way to ignore basically every other policy at times plainly running afoul of common sense. It is also taken too readily that any editor that tries to have articles be less absolute about describing the conspiracy theories must agree with them and therefore must be editing tendentiously. Unfortunately, this is the result of a systemic bias that goes well beyond Misplaced Pages.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 02:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- It was a momentary lapse in reason. Apart from this one incident, has Tom H seemed reasonable to you? Do you honestly think he deserves an indefinite topic ban? AQFK (talk) 02:04, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- I don't even think I would say that...the diffs provided by TDA didn't = indefinite ban...if there was an edit war going on, why not protect the page...instead, some overzealous admins wanted to show their "power" by once again overreacting.--MONGO 02:11, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- It was a momentary lapse in reason. Apart from this one incident, has Tom H seemed reasonable to you? Do you honestly think he deserves an indefinite topic ban? AQFK (talk) 02:04, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Really, I don't like it when anyone is given an indef, but sometimes people dig their own graves and there is not much to do about it. While an editor with a long editing history and clean block log gets a lot more consideration and good will there are plenty of things they can do to lose it all. Had Tom made one edit like that, I think the admins might have given him some slack, but three edits like that obviously exhausted his good will. Take a step back and imagine if it was the other way around like some article on skeptics getting repeated edits essentially claiming skeptics are all religion-hating Stalinists. Even if the editor was also otherwise productive I imagine you would be less sympathetic to them. Sometimes admins really do overstep, but I think you will have a hard time convincing anyone that this was one of those times. I am sure if Tom goes on making good contributions elsewhere there will be some positive consideration of a future appeal provided he is apologetic about those actions.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 06:18, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Don't post here again...ever.MONGO 12:23, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Walmarting article 6 years later...
Maybe there was some way to email you, but I didn't figure it out, so I am ccing you on your talk page:
Forwarded message ----------
From: Beth Wellington <communitypoweredreporting@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:12 PM Subject: Why reliable new editors/ female editors may be discouraged To: Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org> Cc: Alan Aycock <aycock@uwm.edu>, John Aycock <aycock@ucalgary.ca>
Fabrice,
Since, in your new position, you are tasked w. encouraging new editors, I thought this might be of interest...
In 2005, I spent lot of time editing the article "Walmarting" to prevent it from being deleted as I knew that it was an academic neologism from writing about Wal-mart for the New River Free Press.
Today, scanning down my talk page, I happened to notice an old entry from Alan Aycock. an antropologist at the University of Wisconsin under the user name Aaycock. http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/anthropology/faculty/aycock.cfm
His name showed in red, which I knew it hadn't at the time he wrote me: Beth, I'm the Anthropology professor referred to in the links for this entry. I've attempted to fill out the definition of Walmarting a little based on my own reading of the (amazingly substantial) literature. I've striven for a NPOV, though I'm not entirely satisfied on this score and would welcome further interventions! best, Alan Aycock (aycock@uwm.edu) Note: The preceeding unsigned comment was added by--Aacock 07:47, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
It turned out his user name had been deleted in 2008 by MZMcBride, whomever that may be, s/he has no bio on the user page, but from the talk page appears to be very active. Here's what I left at that user's page:
Walmarting article. Not sure why you deleted this user as he is an anthropologist, Alan Aycock, Ph.D. who coined the term and indicated on my talk page back in 2006 that he had edited my work to clarify the concept when the article was in danger of deletion. (cur | prev) 09:49, 30 April 2006 Aaycock (talk | contribs) (5,725 bytes) (→Background) (undo) (cur | prev) 07:54, 30 April 2006 Aaycock (talk | contribs) (5,692 bytes) (→Background) (undo) (cur | prev) 07:40, 30 April 2006 Aaycock (talk | contribs) (5,639 bytes) (→Background) (undo)
He even wrote about the experience of editing in this article: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/EJ854850.pdf
In the article, you will see that he even encouraged his students. Also in that article, hs co-author John Aycock notes:
Thanks to one Misplaced Pages entry, I was sent on a wild goose chase while preparing my lecture for a computer science class. And after all this...,1588 still persists in the Misplaced Pages universe – the digging I’ve done constitutes original research, which is prohibited content according to Misplaced Pages policy (Misplaced Pages, c). Ironically, if Aycock were to pubish the results of his digging in an article on the topic, rather than about Misplaced Pages and I were to cite them, they wouldn't be "original research."
BTW, User MONGO was very helpful and pleasant in dealing w. me on the article. And yet for some reason he lost his sysop privileges and was unable to get them reinstated.
Forgot to name stamp: --Beth Wellington (talk) 19:47, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
B.
- At left under toolbox there is a link "email this user"...but you have to have your email enabled as well. It's been a loooong time, but nice to hear to hear from you. Walmarting is still an article, User:Aacock was an account deleted under category for speedy deletion, nonexistent user ...--MONGO 07:01, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Parking spot for reference
Neat!
Thanks, I didn't even know there was a Cowstar! It will help keep me from having a cow. 
Jayjg 20:38, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- Well, that one is my own invention!--MONGO 22:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Re:
More like he needs anyone who questions the result of the case banned; God-forbid we do so, because questioning an admin will cause something mind-bogglingly terrible to happen! All this really does it give more legitimacy to the argument that he is seeking retaliatory blocks/bans against anyone who has done something he doesn't like. Toa Nidhiki05 23:25, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- Well, that is well put. I generally really hate questioning adminstrators...they aren't paid to do what they do and most of them do just fine...I imagine even the three involved in this affair are probably fine overall. The issue I have is that the parameters make it difficult for the administrators to dwelve deeper into the situation so that they may make a more impartial assessment....3 edits possibly construed as problematic enough to warrant an indefinite topic ban vs. the (I'm probably underestimating) 5000 edits to the same topic area that no one else found an issue with. There isn't much justice sometimes, not here or in real ife...about all Tom can hope for now should he even want to edit 9/11 pages again is that the one administrator Tim, will discuss the situation with WGFinley...--MONGO 23:34, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, its sad. The ban is entire inappropriate as an indef, but at least Tom is fighting it now. Toa Nidhiki05 23:46, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- It was overkill...--MONGO 23:57, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- Odd, but this is an impressive first edit.--MONGO 00:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- And how long it stayed dormant until then. Can't imagine why. --DHeyward (talk) 05:45, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- Good to see you DHeyward...and interesting...MONGO 12:49, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- And how long it stayed dormant until then. Can't imagine why. --DHeyward (talk) 05:45, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, its sad. The ban is entire inappropriate as an indef, but at least Tom is fighting it now. Toa Nidhiki05 23:46, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
And maybe or or or - lots of same habits. Remember Cplot? --DHeyward (talk) 08:41, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Not the only comparative tools available as it only compares similar pages edited...
- Since I answered your question to the best of my ability, MONGO, would you please remove these comments and stop fishing?--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 20:47, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
List(s) of trails in Wyoming
Dave, just finished off a set of list of the trails of Wyoming for your editing pleasure. List of trails in Wyoming. Let the bots begin. --Mike Cline (talk) 22:19, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
- Nice...yeah...lots of redlined links...I keep repeatedly seeing people say the majority of articles have already been written...that isn't true by a long shot.--MONGO 03:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
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Headgear
Can you get stations in Kansas City with that? Acroterion (talk) 19:41, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
- I can reach all the way to Greenland and see how the latest invasion is going...--MONGO 19:52, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
- I didn't think the Vikings had digital TV. Make sure to put a carefully crafted lining of tinfoil in to keep the satellite control channels from getting in. Acroterion (talk) 20:02, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
- Make sure it's real tin. Aluminum just amplifies their signal. Tom Harrison 21:43, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
- Oh it's tin lined already...from the finest tin mines in Norway, with a shell of bronze...I use it only for ceremonial purposes...in actual battle such as at the 9/11 articles, I wear the Modular Integrated Communications Helmet...--MONGO 22:55, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
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May I?
I'd like to include your "We need to fight to the end to do everything possible to keep paid corporate hacks off this website" (J.Wales's talk) on my user page. Would you feel comfortable with that? If not, would it be OK with you for me to quote it without attribution? Writegeist (talk) 20:24, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
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--MONGO 22:12, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
- Spiffing. Writegeist (talk) 05:31, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Notification
I find edits like this to be unacceptable, so I am raising the possibility of a topic ban for you here. --John (talk) 17:11, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Okie dokie.MONGO 17:31, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Results...so many efforts to get me sanctioned and so little success equals HOUNDING...and HARASSMENT.MONGO 11:04, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Firstly...
Secondly...
Thirdly...
Double standard...
- ...yet...not only we unblock our pals who call other heinous things...but when they persist with further nastiness, not only does this get ignored, but those complaining about it are badgered...
Never ending support of self proclaimed SPA Thomas Basboll...now topic banned from 9/11 pages... Diffs coming
Heinious harassment against Arthur Rubin... Diffs coming
Further commentary regarding how the 9/11 pages are controlled by "nationalists"..that they are a "toilet"...diffs coming
NPA... nice...This on 3/29 led to htis and just prior to that ...
Calling editors "liars"...diffs coming
Unrelated but appalling that we see admins acting in such a fashion...
Response to AE comment
I respect the position to have it focused on the attacks, but I think the warning section plays into that. People reading an article on the attacks would probably want to know if officials had any inkling that something like that would happen and would want to at least get some information about that in the article. Really I think the "Attackers and their background stuff" as well as the "casualties section" are the things that should be seriously trimmed as they probably contain way more information than necessary, some it possibly being mentioned elsewhere in the article, and prevent us from actually detailing information about the attacks. The investigations and memorials sections should be similarly trimmed, in my opinion.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 22:36, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- TDA....I have the article watchlisted...post comments there please and I will respond there.--MONGO 00:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
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Reminder to self....
We need to fight to the end....
... to do everything possible to keep paid corporate hacks off this website...From Jimbo talk/Archive 99. Mind if I quote you when appropriate? My focus is political hacks but probably the only difference is the pay scale. See WP:Paid Operatives for an essay I'm working on. ```Buster Seven Talk 20:06, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Above...another editor asked me the same thing...so my answer is still the same...
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Dispute resolution
(crosspost from my user talk page to ensure MONGO reads it)
- Hipocrite, if you look higher up on that BLPN page, you will see I had participated in a previous discussion on the same issue, BEFORE you did. So, actually, you followed me to that topic. MONGO, same thing. You know that I was in the Pentagon during the 9/11 attacks, so I have more than a passing interest in the topic. That's the only topic, as far as I know, where our paths of crossed in the last few years. You, however, have followed me around. A certain recent MfD vote ring any bells? For you two to follow me around and then accuse me of following YOU takes a lot of gall. While we're here, Hipocrite, stop threatening other editors and calling them racists. MONGO, why don't you and the other 9/11 editors stop the campaign against The Devil's Advocate? I will post this on both your talk pages to make sure you get it. Cla68 (talk) 02:16, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- I can easily demonstrate with diffs that you have been actively seeking various sanctions against me since at least 2007...I didn't even participate in the climate change arbcom case and be thankful for that...MONGO 03:31, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- MONGO, when you posted the ArbCom threat on my talk page today, I didn't have your userpage on my watchlist. Did you have my userpage on your watchlist? Cla68 (talk) 04:35, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- I do for two reasons...you're always causing others grief and you're a prominent editor...you got two editors right now telling you to back off...so...back off.MONGO 11:37, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the honesty. I don't have you on my watchlist because I don't have a goal of trying to get you in trouble. My only issue with you is the way you and the other 9/11 regulars are excessively personalizing the dispute over the conspiracy theories. I don't remember if I told you in detail my experience at the Pentagon before. I stayed in the building while almost everyone else went for the exits. No bravery on my part, just morbid curiosity (for real). As a result, I have some firsthand experience with some of the terrible injuries that came out of that. I still vividly remember leaning over an Army LTC to shield his terrible burns from the sun, because it was a brilliantly clear and sunny day that day. I remember he was grunting softly from the pain, which stayed with me more than if he had been screaming. Now, if I can have that memory and not be offended by the conspiracy theories, can't you? Treat them as any other dissenting viewpoint for any other article in Misplaced Pages. You know an admin has left Misplaced Pages because of the hard time you and other editors gave him for banning Tom Harrison. Can you give it a rest? Cla68 (talk) 22:22, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- That admin admitted to a COI and resigned their adminship under a self proclaimed cloud...so no, I don't feel the least bit sorry they relinquished their tools. No one said they had to stop editing altogether...I get rather tired of admins that, when confronted with preposterous actions on their part, instead of admitting that may have acted with excessive force, stonewall and either run away or refuse to be reasonable...the indefinite topic ban on Tom was totally unreasonable, the strong turnout in favor of overturning that ban after 30 days showed clearly how excessive their enforcement action was...I don't bother for long trying to reason with the unreasonable. The 9/11 CT's aren't a "dissenting viewpoint"...they are non-science (nonsense) and everytime we let a little of that nonsense in the articles, it is still never enough...they want more and more...and that is why we have other articles already dedicated to that nonsense, but for the CTers, that still isn't enough...what facinates me so much is the ONLY time I see you at any 9/11 page is to ask why the the CT's aren't mentioned or why their isn't more coverage of them...you have a history of turning out plenty of FA level work, but you never make any useful edits to 9/11 pages...me thinks you go there to do what you do simply to stir the pot, not to actually be constructive. I've rewritten sections, added tons of refs, cleaned up prose, followed MOS...yet you don't bother to do anything but complain about the lack of CT stuff...frankly, it looks like trolling. The LTC...was that Birdwell?--MONGO 03:48, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- MONGO, I am sorry you feel that way. Cla68 (talk) 08:16, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
- Hereforward, I am self-imposing a ban on noticeboards, afd's, Rfc's and other non-article based areas in which you are a prominent player...by doing so, I hope you'll reciprocate in kind. I would much rather have you resume your excellent article work and by my not wasting your time arguing over petty nothings, we'll both have more free time to dedicate to the primary reason we are here.--MONGO 19:08, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
- MONGO, I am sorry you feel that way. Cla68 (talk) 08:16, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
- That admin admitted to a COI and resigned their adminship under a self proclaimed cloud...so no, I don't feel the least bit sorry they relinquished their tools. No one said they had to stop editing altogether...I get rather tired of admins that, when confronted with preposterous actions on their part, instead of admitting that may have acted with excessive force, stonewall and either run away or refuse to be reasonable...the indefinite topic ban on Tom was totally unreasonable, the strong turnout in favor of overturning that ban after 30 days showed clearly how excessive their enforcement action was...I don't bother for long trying to reason with the unreasonable. The 9/11 CT's aren't a "dissenting viewpoint"...they are non-science (nonsense) and everytime we let a little of that nonsense in the articles, it is still never enough...they want more and more...and that is why we have other articles already dedicated to that nonsense, but for the CTers, that still isn't enough...what facinates me so much is the ONLY time I see you at any 9/11 page is to ask why the the CT's aren't mentioned or why their isn't more coverage of them...you have a history of turning out plenty of FA level work, but you never make any useful edits to 9/11 pages...me thinks you go there to do what you do simply to stir the pot, not to actually be constructive. I've rewritten sections, added tons of refs, cleaned up prose, followed MOS...yet you don't bother to do anything but complain about the lack of CT stuff...frankly, it looks like trolling. The LTC...was that Birdwell?--MONGO 03:48, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the honesty. I don't have you on my watchlist because I don't have a goal of trying to get you in trouble. My only issue with you is the way you and the other 9/11 regulars are excessively personalizing the dispute over the conspiracy theories. I don't remember if I told you in detail my experience at the Pentagon before. I stayed in the building while almost everyone else went for the exits. No bravery on my part, just morbid curiosity (for real). As a result, I have some firsthand experience with some of the terrible injuries that came out of that. I still vividly remember leaning over an Army LTC to shield his terrible burns from the sun, because it was a brilliantly clear and sunny day that day. I remember he was grunting softly from the pain, which stayed with me more than if he had been screaming. Now, if I can have that memory and not be offended by the conspiracy theories, can't you? Treat them as any other dissenting viewpoint for any other article in Misplaced Pages. You know an admin has left Misplaced Pages because of the hard time you and other editors gave him for banning Tom Harrison. Can you give it a rest? Cla68 (talk) 22:22, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- I do for two reasons...you're always causing others grief and you're a prominent editor...you got two editors right now telling you to back off...so...back off.MONGO 11:37, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- MONGO, when you posted the ArbCom threat on my talk page today, I didn't have your userpage on my watchlist. Did you have my userpage on your watchlist? Cla68 (talk) 04:35, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
AE
I have closed the report concerning you on WP:AE. No action was taken against you save an admonishment for incivility. We recognize this topic area can lead to frustration but would encourage you to avoid be incivil in the process. Future instances could result in sanctions. --WGFinley (talk) 23:42, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Dispute resolution survey
 Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello MONGO. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Misplaced Pages, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang 23:25, 5 April 2012 (UTC) |
Speedy deletion declined: Grand Teton National Park Discovery and Visitors Center
Hello MONGO. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Grand Teton National Park Discovery and Visitors Center, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: R3 only applies to recent redirects. Use WP:RFD instead. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz /Stalk 02:20, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
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