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My crap Stuff and nonsense This user is an administrator on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify) This user has a userpage on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. 15,000+ This user has made over 15,000 contributions to Misplaced Pages Smert' spamionem! This user is a member of WikiProject Spam. BEng This user has a Bachelor of Engineering degree. Reading January 2025 5 Sunday 8:14 pm UTC Were this admin to act in a foolish, trollish, or dickish way, he is open to being slapped with a large trout.

I check in most evenings, and occasionally some days during the day. I am on UK time (I can see Greenwich Royal Observatory from my office). If you post a reply at 8pm EST and get no reply by 10pm, it's likely because I'm asleep. My wiki interests at the moment are limited. I still handle some OTRS tickets.

I am under considerable personal stress at the moment; my father died and I have a lot of other stuff going on in RL including a new job as senior engineer for enterprise storage and virtual infrastructure in a Fortune 500 company. Great job, lots of shiny expensive toys, big responsibility. But Misplaced Pages is still one of my top hobbies, and I come here to do what I can. I respond much better to polite requests than to demands. People who taunt me with "I dare you to block me" may have cause to regret it, as may I. Don't even think of trying to drag me into one of the many cesspits this project offers, I will likely choose only those disputes where I don't actually care too much. Not coming to your party? It's because I've decided it will make me unhappy. Sorry about that.

Above all, please do not try to provoke me to anger, it's not difficult to do, so it's not in the least bit clever, and experience indicates that some at least who deliberately make my life more miserable than it needs to be, have been banned and stayed that way. Make an effort to assume good faith and let's see if we can't get along. Guy (Help!) 22:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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• My take on the Durova incident.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Istria&diff=192329190&oldid=189359747

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Paul Barresi

Hey there. Paul Barresi has been fully protected since April. If you have a minute, could you take a look and see where the article is and if it can be unprotected in the near future? Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 15:52, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

• Probably not as long as there are warriors for WP:TRUTH on the talk page. I'll ask Jimbo. Guy (Help!) 17:31, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

When you get a chance...

would appreciate your input on the Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Editing_Restriction proposal, so it can be enacted or dismissed soon. Cheers - Ncmvocalist (talk) 16:16, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

How about Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Request_for_review:_Consistant_misattribution_of_cited_sources while you're looking? I'm having a hard time attracting interest...
brenneman 08:19, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:TABOO

Hi. Interested in your thoughts on this. Peter Damian (talk) 18:30, 22 July 2008 (UTC).

Thanks

... for showing faith in me re. that unblock request. I really appreciate it :) - Alison 05:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

• De nada. If someone trustworthy is prepared to take on the task of rehabilitating a past problem user, and they show that they accept that their past behaviour was a problem and show sincere commitment to the project and to avoiding past mistakes, then it's time to WP:AGF. As my friend Harry says, "trust but verify", I'm sure you will be watching for anything nasty on the horizon, and that's good enough for me. Guy (Help!) 07:42, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Seconded. Thank you so much JzG. It was so encouraging to have your comments there. ~Eliz81 04:55, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

thank you very much

For the clarification on ANI. I have already been labeled a pro-pedophilia activist on Wiki Review, and was becoming scared, indeed about editing here. Your post came as a relief to me. Thank you very much for clarifying the remark. Jeffpw (talk) 12:41, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

• Not at all, sorry it was ambiguous. This is very sensitive, I should have been more careful. See also WP:TABOO noted above, which makes a fair point. Guy (Help!) 14:31, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

cultural reference?

Have you seen the movie The Princess Bride?

The context here is the delicate poor sourcing spat on ANI. There is a line from the movie which would make a great userbox for situations like this. Happy editing. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 17:18, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

• Do tell? I've never seen it. Malcolm is more my line in films, although I think Cry Freedom is the best I have seen as an all-round experience. Guy (Help!) 17:39, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

After Wallace Shawn's character responds to several repeated plot developments with "Inconceivable", Mandy Patinkin's tells him, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." This from youtube has the quote, but listening to Shawn's self righteous lisps of disbelief leading up to this is truly precious. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 17:59, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

I hope you see the relevance to this and similar cases. A good userbox it would make though, no? Baccyak4H (Yak!) 18:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Wholesale reverts

Guy, you should know better than to do a wholesale revert to a version that dates several years back. If you have an issue, bring it up on the talk page for consensus and discussion, or attempt a RFC as SA has done in the past. Or at the very least, let me know about it first. seicer | talk | contribs 12:50, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

• It was a featured version. The new version is the result of sustained POV-pushing, and the subject of a self-congratulatory article by the POV-pusher concerned in the fringe journal which has co-ordinated this abuse for years. Guy (Help!) 13:43, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

• Right, and I think someone made a statement at AN to the effect of, the version from mediation (which had a lot of components from the featured version) had become too watered down. I share those concerns -- but I'd like to see it on the talk page first :) seicer | talk | contribs 13:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

Hey, I did not know you had retired/are tired ... But I just want to convey my condolences, Steve (Slrubenstein | Talk 13:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC))

If you're still not retired, can you look at this?

• WP:ANI#Lucyintheskywithdada : racist and personal attacks

I don't know whether you're resting but Lucyintheskywithdada whom you observed is reported by his usual behaviors. I would appreciate if you leave a note there. Thanks.--Caspian blue (talk) 08:59, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

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