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This block by Reaper Eternal

I'm inclined to overturn it. An admin action, which includes an AFD closure, cannot simply be undone because a non-admin disagrees with it. Sarek was perfectly entitled to revert as many times as he wished, in my view, though simply full-protecting the AFD would have been the smarter course of action. Would appreciate comments before I go ahead and do this. NW (Talk) 19:10, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Waiting for comments is fine -- I'd rather have this talked out properly than have a hasty reversal cause more drama.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:15, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm fine with an unblock, as my main reason for the block (repeatedly and rapidly pressing rollback and doing nothing else, which was disrupting the AFD process), is not going to continue. Additionally, this block is hardly preventative of anything, since TreasuryTag is now indefblocked for repeated disruption. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:33, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Actually, I'm inclined to decline Sarek's unblock request, with the greatest respect to him, though I think 10 days is a little on the excessive side. Sarek: you know (or should have known) that just whacking rollback isn't going to help anything. You could (and should) have sought assistance from others, or tried to resolve your differences on a talk page, or just left it. And you should know better by now than to get involved in anything concerning TreasuryTag—it's clear the two of you are never going to see eye to eye. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:41, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Too late now, but Sarek, you really should have known better. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:42, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Non admin, sorta-involved (but still better than nothing) comment

Totally agree with NuclearWarfare (but not nuclear warfare) - that wasn't the way to have that argument, but it was still fine with policy. Am not convinced TT violated 3RR EITHER but that's a different discussion. Egg Centric 19:17, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Night Terrors at AfD

What is up with that? I don't understand how that is a bad faith nomination to start with and the second restart calling this into question should not have been speedily closed by you, in my judgment — you should have found someone else to confirm the call. I'm not saying it is or is not deletable, just that the speedy keep given the (bad) sourcing showing was sketchy — and the second speedy keep seemingly an interested action, which is not what any of us are looking for in AfD closers as I'm sure you'll agree. Carrite (talk) 02:33, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:03, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

SarekofVulcan (prince Hall birthplace)

We do not actually know where Prince Hall was born. There is no written record of his birth. We do know that he was the servant of William Hall of Boston beginning in 1749. We have two hints of the birthplace of Prince Hall: (1) he once referred to England as "home" and (2) he referred to his lodge as African Lodge, his school as African School and originated and/or signed legislative petitions of "Africans" in Boston.

If you can verify Prince Hall's place of birth, please state document and date of publishing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.255.61.133 (talk) 20:17, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't know. However, I am not going to let stand edits that change the statement that a particular source said one thing into another thing. If you object to what the source said, make a case on the article talkpage for removing the whole thing.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:02, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Word to the wise

Hi Sarek. I recently closed the AN/I discussing your recent actions as I judged it was not looking for admin action and was not likely to lead to any further resolution. I note in full disclosure that I supported you in May when you reconfirmed. This is just a friendly reminder that the closer of your reconfirmation counseled you to be extra careful with WP:INVOLVED. While I personally did not think that what you did recently was all that egregious, and certainly not a desysop issue in itself, on the other hand I do not think I would have done it myself. I think those who commented at the AN/I discussion did have a point, especially in conjunction with the RfA outcome. Would you be able to make a short statement that reflects your learning from these recent events, and answers the good-faith concerns of HJMitchell and others? No hurry and I won't be that upset if you don't do it, but I thought it might be a nice and productive next step. With my very best wishes, --John (talk) 06:05, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

I'll consider this later, when I'm sure I'm thinking straight -- stayed home today with some sort of bug.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 22:40, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

I am sorry you've been under the weather. I hope you feel better soon. Take your time, as I say. --John (talk) 00:49, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank You!

Hi Sarek, Thank you for your input regarding the bio about me. It was very helpful. BTW, was it you who suggested I had too much written under the lead photo to include my 1952 change of name? If so -- take a look at how much is under Peter Sellers picture. I know I'm not nearly as notable as he, but thought that once you (or whomever it was) saw the amount of text under his picture, my name change info might be able to be restored. I've already scanned and sent documentation of the change to Killiondude as e-mail attachements. If you would like the same, just give me an e-address to send them to. Best Wishes, Peggy Adler User| Bxzooo 16:41, 4 September 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bxzooo (talk • contribs)

Speedies

Hi SarekOfVulcan, I wanted to follow-up to your question about why various pages I tagged appeared to be a hoax to me. They were all drawing upon this page: User:WP_1.0_bot/Tables/Project/Arminianism which seems to be copied from a different Wikiproject and were displaying article numbers which had no correlation to the subject in question. It appears that once you speedy deleted that subpage many of the other articles no longer are including that content. But some still are such as: Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Arminianism articles by quality statistics. I hope that clears up my logic and concern, and trust you will be able to help clean up the mess that subpage has created on other pages. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 16:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I got it eventually. I'll check that other page.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:08, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

It is a confusing web to trace as there are lots of transcluded pages which appear to be part of a page when they are not. Thank you for looking into it and helping to clean it up. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 16:31, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

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Israel Brodie

Reading between the lines of this (which may or may not be reliable) Brodie may have been a Grand Chaplain in the Grand Lodge of Victoria (Australia)... This may account for his going right to Past Grand Chaplain in UGLE (ie UGLE was recognizing his previous position in GL Victoria). I am digging for more. Blueboar (talk) 15:48, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Gerhardt Cycleplane

Your comment that the Gossomer Condor was the first successful Human-powered aircraft is way off-base. There were many successful Human-powered aircraft long before it. I don't know who came up with that but you would be wise to toss it. Please use the discussion section in the future before deleting properly referenced information. - Ken keisel (talk) 23:06, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

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Your behavior is approaching stalking

In the last week you have followed my edits with your own edits on 11 different articles, including several articles that you obviously have little knowledge about (see Gerhardt Cycleplane above). Your behavior is becoming increasingly creepy, and approaching the Misplaced Pages definition of Stalking. Please cease making edits to every article I edit or I will have no choice to report your actions on the appropriate Misplaced Pages resolution board. - Ken keisel (talk) 22:16, 13 September 2011 (UTC)