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The Obama Article

Bobblehead, saying Obama was born in Hawaii is not a verifiable fact either, and may cause damage to the citizens of the United States of America. Putting that he was born in Hawaii is currently not verifiable by irrefutable evidence. Thus, it is not pursuant to Misplaced Pages's standards concerning Biographies of Living Persons.

Should you block my speech in the Obama discussion, I will speak to my attorney and file for damages against you specifically, for abusing your position as an Administrator of Misplaced Pages, to deny me my right to protection under the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

The GNU Free Documentation License does not allow you to use your position as an Administrator to destroy talk that is valid and not vandalism. I have not vandalized the talk page, and have not edit warred. I am not going to have my right to First Amendment protection denied to me, and legally, you can not deny me from editing Misplaced Pages because of an opinion you hold. It was reverted originally for the given reason of "not worth discussion", which is an opinion, not a fact. Banning me and reverting my discussion on the Obama thread will be reported to the proper legal authorities and to the head Administrators of Misplaced Pages, and they will possibly revoke your administrative privileges for violating the Constitution of the United States of America.

-FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 00:43, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s): Well, while I was writing FisherQueen a message, User:Sandahl has already unblocked you. — Aitias // discussion 00:52, 23 February 2009 (UTC) Request handled by: — Aitias // discussion 00:52, 23 February 2009 (UTC) Unblocking administrator: Please check for active autoblocks on this user after accepting the unblock request.

Oops. Blocked the wrong person. I'm a naughty admin who needs to be spanked. I'm sorry!-FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 00:48, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Plus side.. I now have an entry in my block log. I shall wear it as a badge of honor.;) --Bobblehead 00:50, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Edit conflict. I am certain it was accidental so I unblocked.—Sandahl (talk) 00:51, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

How about clearing the autoblock on my IP? :)--Bobblehead 00:54, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Try it now, I think I cleared it. -MBK₀₀₄ 00:57, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! autoblock cleared. --Bobblehead 00:58, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

One thing though, what's a head administrator of Misplaced Pages? Oh, erm, forget I asked :P Gwen Gale (talk) 00:53, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

That's me. I'm the Head Administrator of Misplaced Pages. So you can see how badly the whole project is doomed. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 00:59, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I see, thank you and very slick head administering there, too, very much so :) Gwen Gale (talk) 01:09, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Never fear, Misplaced Pages was doomed long before you became Head Administrator. :) --Bobblehead 01:30, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning

I won't do those kinds of edits anymore. But I still think my edits were funny, not vandalism. I knew they would be corrected in a very short amount of time, and I hope some people here got the humor in them. If my overall edit history is 99.9% legitimate edits, I think I should be cut some slack for the other 0.1%. But since you were kind enough to warn me, I won't do it anymore. Thanks for the warning - it's way better than a ban or a block. I won't do those kinds of edits anymore.

Obama has repeatedly said that he wanted to raise taxes on the rich and on capital gains. Whatever you tax, you get less of. The stock market is forward looking, and it has been tanking ever since it became apparent that Obama would probably be the next President. How did you think the stock market would react to Obama's proposals? Do think investors are happy with Obama's plan to raise the capital gains tax? Countries in western Euorope have raised their gasoline tax in order to discourage people from using gasoline - so why would Obama's promise to raise the captial gains tax not cause investors to flee the stock market? Personally, I think we should tax carbon dioxide emissions, gasoline, coal emissions, and other forms of pollution, instead of taxing income and jobs. Income and jobs are good - pollution and global warming are bad. We should tax the bad stuff, not the good stuff. Grundle2600 (talk) 14:31, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Grundle / ARRA chat

I said I'll stop but he really gets on my nerves with his conspiracy theories against President Obama and his right wing rants. He even puts them on user talk pages, including mine and as you can see above, yours.TomCat4680 (talk) 21:46, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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Right wing? Ha! Check out my userpage. I am pro choice, I favor legalizing drugs, legalizing gay marriage, and ending the embargo against Cuba. Just because I oppose a bill that the public never got to read doesn't mean I'm a right winger. Grundle2600 (talk) 12:49, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Original Research?

I've started a discussion in Talk:Seattle_Sounders_FC on your claim of original research when you reverted my most recent edit. It seemed like I cited the references pretty well. Help me understand where you're coming from on this. --Skotywa 07:49, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the explanation on the article talk page. Makes sense, and I agree with you now. Thank you also for being so polite in how you handled my questions. I appreciate it. --Skotywa 02:30, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

SIAs

Hi there. Could you, please, explain, why so many changes like this one were made without first consulting with WP:RUSSIA? Thank you.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:03, February 26, 2009 (UTC)

Russia dab pages

Re your edit (swapping template SIA for Russia disambig using AWB). Was there any decision to do so ? If yes, then the manual for {{Russia disambig}} must say something to the end: "this template must supercedes must replace Russia disambig" and similar templates.", preferrably with the link to the discussion in the talk page. Can you do this? I am saying so because it is not immeditaely evident that the replacement of a more detailed category "Set indices on Russian inhabited localities" by a much broader and hence much larger " Russia disambiguation" - 7-bubёn >t 16:09, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

P.S. I see that not only me who expresses concern about doing such masive chanes without explanations anywhere. There is nothing in Template talk:SIA nor in Template talk:Russia disambig. There is no deletion discussion for Category:Set_indices_on_Russia. Your edit summaries do not give a clue. Sprry, but I am reverting your change while it is easy to do so (no one edited the pages): it is much easier to depopulate a category than to repopulate it. Please discuss in WP Russia. - 7-bubёn >t 16:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough.;) I'll pop over and point everyone to the various discussions about the inappropriate use of SIAs. :) --Bobblehead 17:25, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Just as an FYI, I added a comment to the opposite effect (i.e., about the appropriate use of SIAs :)). You might want to review it before posting to WT:RUSSIA. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:38, February 26, 2009 (UTC)

Too late. :) --Bobblehead 17:42, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

No biggie :) Consider my earlier post as a response to your note on WT:RUSSIA. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:57, February 26, 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Barack Obama

This about a remark you posted on Talk:Barack Obama. I went through WP:NOT#NEWS and kept wondering how did that policy fit into the point being raised by me. Seems that you just wanted mention your viewpoint even though it was completely irrelevant to the concerned topic. --128.211.201.161 (talk) 02:28, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Email

The formatting came across poorly. The email was literally: Sounders FC / The Outlook signature / my message. I at first assumed it was a confirmation email too but after looking at it I think someone over there just didn't care enough to add a salutation or full sentences. Overall, my plan failed. Maybe I'll call them or look at any literature received on game day.Cptnono (talk) 19:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks.Cptnono (talk) 20:05, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Barack Obama FAR

I have nominated Barack Obama for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. -- Avi (talk) 20:52, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Objection to your edits

It may violate Misplaced Pages policy, but the U.S. Constituion is more important. How am I supposed to message you like you do me? Is there a "Misplaced Pages email" or some such thing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by A16529 (talk • contribs)

Your own page says that you're a progressive (usually meaning liberal). You always delete any mention of Obama's alleged lack of qualifications to hold the office of POTUS on his page, and the current page. I may be violating Misplaced Pages policy, but the United States Constitution is far more important. Obama refuses to release his birth certificate; why, if he has nothing to hide? (Did you even read the citations I put?)I plan on going into the military, but even though I have yet to take the oath, I intend to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, even if I get blocked for eternity. I will continue to post some form of what I have been putting because something suspicious is going on in our world. I will continue as I have been until the matter has been resolved properly (unless, of course,you wish to reword my entry in an "acceptable" way that meets your "policy".) In the meantime, I highly encourage you and anyone else to look at the citations I noted and other articles by going to obamaforgery.com and searching eligbility and Obama on www.wnd.com (World Net Daily) Thanks for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by A16529 (talk • contribs) 05:52, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Meat?

Hi. I noticed your message on Grundel's talk page indicating WP:MEAT? Was that directed at one of us? I would hope you're not suggesting that I am a meatpuppet of Grundel. One look at my history on[REDACTED] would indicate otherwise. I am interested in conflict resolution, which is what drew my attention to Grundel. I contacted him, we had no previous contact. I have never in my knowledge, previously edited a article that Grundel edited before today. My only action on Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009 was to tag it, and leave it to uninvolved editors at WikiProject Law to deal with. I hope that clears that up. Sephiroth storm (talk) 21:13, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I wasn't accusing you of being a meatpuppet of Grundel, just noting the policy as Grundel seemed to take your offer as an offer for meatpuppetish activities. --Bobblehead 21:34, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry, I'm sure he'll understand what I'm trying to do very soon. I do hope he can become a good editor. Sephiroth storm (talk) 23:49, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I always want to follow the[REDACTED] rules. I had never even heard the term "meat puppet" until today. I don't want any meat puppets, or anything else that violates the[REDACTED] rules. Grundle2600 (talk) 00:18, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Obama

I have unprotected the article. I also left a note at ANI to make sure the article is well watched for the next few days. KnightLago (talk) 01:57, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Invitation to Meetup/Seattle6, a focus group

Hello. I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington (Seattle campus), and my group is reaching out to Wikipedians in the Puget Sound area. We're hosting a focus group designed to gather information on what Wikipedians would like to know about each other when interacting on Misplaced Pages. Our end goal is to create an embedded application that helps people quickly know more about others' history and activity on Misplaced Pages, and we feel our design will be much more useful if it's based on insights of users like you.

I'm hoping that the chance to help out local researchers, to engage in lively face-to-face discussion with other Seattle Wikipedians, and to contribute to Misplaced Pages in a new way will entice you to join us. The session lasts 2 hours and snacks are provided. Sessions will be held on UW Seattle campus - directions will be sent after registration. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated!

Willing and able to help us out? RSVP here. Want to know more? Visit our user talk page . Please help us contact other local Wikipedians, too! Commprac01 (talk) 21:21, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

ANI

As the user didn't see fit to inform you, you have been mentioned at ANI. Grsz 00:30, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I saw and was responding. Just typing slow because I'm multi-tasking. Thanks for the notification. --Bobblehead 00:33, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Arbcom

You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case#User:Stevertigo's disruptive trolling and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. As threaded discussion is not permitted on most arbitration pages, please ensure that you make all comments in your own section only. Additionally, the guide to arbitration and the Arbitration Committee's procedures may be of use.

Thanks,