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			== canvassing ==

			I have also asked by email some usred who are against me and who have asked for ban me. Is it canvassing? At any rate, I am asking for users who have been involved in the matter. You are also invited to comment there. -- <font face="Berlin Sans FB" color="#ffffff" size="2"><span style="color:black; text-shadow:orange 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]]</span></font> 16:34, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

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Block request

Thank you, for making the "block" which I requested in Kuru's talk page. Let's see where he/she pops up next. I'll let you know. Take care. Tony the Marine (talk) 20:37, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Once again Thank you for reverting me at "File:Tony Santiago.jpg", I don'y know what happened, that vandal got me all mixed up. Tony the Marine (talk) 02:04, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Children's names

Hi Sarek, My older daughter, Tenney Whedon Walsh, is an actress with raves reviews both on & off Broadway. And though not the subject of a Misplaced Pages article, she can be easily found (as Tenney Walsh) with a Google search. My younger daughter, Avery Dension Walsh's husband, Adam I. Lapidus, is the subject of a Misplaced Pages article and my original article referenced both Tenney & Avery in the text, itself, with a link to my son-in-law. Can I put my daughters and the link back into the text? Or at least have under my photo, "Two daughters" rather than merely "2"? Regards, Bxzooo 14:28, 19 September 2011 (UTC) (talk)

Discussions about article content should go on the article talk page, not various user pages -- that way, you get a better sense of consensus.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:37, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiProjects interested in "Militant Atheism"

Could you please explain more about why you have recently removed several WikiProjects mentioned as being interested in the article "Militant atheism"? The article discusses issues which clearly involve Christianity, and other religions, so I think they could be restored. Cody7777777 (talk) 19:53, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

News and progress from RfA reform 2011

RfA reform: ...and what you can do now.
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RfA reform: ...and what you can do now.

(You are receiving this message because you are either a task force member, or you have contributed to recent discussions on any of these pages.)

The number of nominations continues to nosedive seriously, according to these monthly figures. We know why this is, and if the trend continues our reserve of active admins will soon be underwater. Misplaced Pages now needs suitable editors to come forward. This can only be achieved either through changes to the current system, a radical alternative, or by fiat from elsewhere.

A lot of work is constantly being done behind the scenes by the coordinators and task force members, such as monitoring the talk pages, discussing new ideas, organising the project pages, researching statistics and keeping them up to date. You'll also see for example that we have recently made tables to compare how other Wikipedias choose their sysops, and some tools have been developed to more closely examine !voters' habits.

The purpose of WP:RFA2011 is to focus attention on specific issues of our admin selection process and to develop RfC proposals for solutions to improve them. For this, we have organised the project into dedicated sections each with their own discussion pages. It is important to understand that all Misplaced Pages policy changes take a long time to implement whether or not the discussions appear to be active - getting the proposals right before offering them for discussion by the broader community is crucial to the success of any RfC. Consider keeping the pages and their talk pages on your watchlist; do check out older threads before starting a new one on topics that have been discussed already, and if you start a new thread, please revisit it regularly to follow up on new comments.

The object of WP:RFA2011 is not to make it either easier or harder to become an admin - those criteria are set by those who !vote at each RfA. By providing a unique venue for developing ideas for change independent of the general discussion at WT:RFA, the project has two clearly defined goals:

Improving the environment that surrounds RfA in order to encourage mature, experienced editors of the right calibre to come forward, pass the interview, and dedicate some of their time to admin tasks.
Discouraging, in the nicest way possible of course, those whose RfA will be obvious NOTNOW or SNOW, and to guide them towards the advice pages.

The fastest way is through improvement to the current system. Workspace is however also available within the project pages to suggest and discuss ideas that are not strictly within the remit of this project. Users are invited to make use of these pages where they will offer maximum exposure to the broader community, rather than individual projects in user space.

We already know what's wrong with RfA - let's not clutter the project with perennial chat. RFA2011 is now ready to propose some of the elements of reform, and all the task force needs to do now is to pre-draft those proposals in the project's workspace, agree on the wording, and then offer them for central discussion where the entire Misplaced Pages community will be more than welcome to express their opinions in order to build consensus.

New tool Check your RfA !voting history! Since the editors' RfA !vote counter at X!-Tools has been down for a long while, we now have a new RfA Vote Counter to replace it. A significant improvement on the former tool, it provides a a complete breakdown of an editor's RfA votes, together with an analysis of the participant's voting pattern.

Are you ready to help? Although the main engine of RFA2011 is its task force, constructive comments from any editors are always welcome on the project's various talk pages. The main reasons why WT:RfA was never successful in getting anything done are that threads on different aspects of RfA are all mixed together, and are then archived where nobody remembers them and where they are hard to find - the same is true of ad hoc threads on the founder's talk page.

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TT

I have not yet checked on the fallout elsewhere but wanted to say that I think your change in duration for the TT block was a good call. Agathoclea (talk) 16:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

I saw that BWilkins had suggested it to Fram, but Fram hadn't edited since then. Since their first post in the unblock review said to go ahead and change it, and there wasn't a firm consensus in the AN discussion to leave the block intact, I figured reducing it was the right thing to do.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:41, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Why do I keep forgetting it's only the 26th? *sigh* For some reason, I thought that request had been sitting overnight.... --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:59, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

I think it was a good call to reduce the time - my reason for supporting an indefinite block was that we shouldn't give people excess chances, but as the 1 week thing was part of the unblock agreement from the start of September it seems right to follow it. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 18:41, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

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Ken keisel

Do we need to initiate a WP:CCI on this editor? I was unaware of the copyright problems outside of aviation, but it sounds a bit more serious than I'd anticipated.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 02:23, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure. You might want to do a random check of articles he's started before opening a full-blown CCI. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 02:36, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

In addition to Kokosing Gap Trail and the apparent problem with Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, you should also be aware of this additional apparent - if smallish - example. Diff. JohnInDC (talk) 20:52, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Would it be silly of me to ask what sources Ken cited when he added the material in 2008 that he claimed to have written himself? - BilCat (talk) 17:31, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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Thanx for adding "Authority Control"!

Hi "Sarek", Thanx for your addition of 10/1/20011 at "Peggy Adler". Best Wishes, Bxzooo 15:58, 4 October 2011 (UTC) (talk)

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Can you work on yet another a new template?

Noting your reputation on Misplaced Pages Review, let me suggest your identity remain protected.

Also, I would like to see a new and widely applied template.

Gist would be This Administrator is an Obvious Jerk

I think you would get much recognition for work on this project, which is much in keeping with Misplaced Pages ethos.

Even "jimbo" would maybe love your for this, and invite you for dinner or something.

Frankly is brilliant idea. I offer this freely for your own benefit.

Calamitybrook (talk) 06:39, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

canvassing

I have also asked by email some usred who are against me and who have asked for ban me. Is it canvassing? At any rate, I am asking for users who have been involved in the matter. You are also invited to comment there. -- ClaudioSantos ¿? 16:34, 6 October 2011 (UTC)