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Wikipedians by politics

• Hi Larix! Yes, I'm supporting keeping these categories. Thanks for notifying me! Ronline ✉ 02:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• I find it interesting that the nominator cites "vote stuffing," yet this is the first time I've been contacted for ANYTHING on AFD, let alone by a category. Thesquire 04:20, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for the notification about the VfD. I have cast my vote as a Strong Keep. --Peter McGinley 05:20, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for spreading the word on this one - I'll defend against any attempt to cut down on the number of pastel coloured boxes on my user page. Ironically, this is the first time I've been asked to vote based on my political categorisation... --Hitchhiker89 09:58, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for the heads up Larix Dankru 12:53, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• hello larix. i'd like to reiterate Ron, Thesq, Pete, Hitch & Dank's comments. thanks mate. Veej 13:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

• Thanks for telling me about the cfd for liberal Wikipedians. Yeltensic42.618 18:03, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• I'll join the "thank you"-choir. Nice one, compadre. Voted for keeping. Kind regards, --Twisturbed Tachyon 17:20, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Userboxes

• Thanks. Can I interest you perhaps in a vegan, anarchist, lennonist, or skeptical of astrology template? Daykart 11:46, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for the compliment, and for the Humanist userbox. Very nice one. :·D --¿ WhyBeNormal ? 19:14, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Awards

• Thanks for the barnstar. I awarded you one, too. Yeltensic42.618 17:59, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

• Hi Larix! Thanks for the barnstar as well! I think what you did was really great, particularly in informing us of what was taking place. Despite the accusations of vote-stuffing, I think it's perfectly legitimate and should be done more. I would love to see even more categories about Wikipedians, since it's a really good way of knowing like-minded people. And freedom of political expression is a key element at Misplaced Pages, which should be rewarded. I've hence given you a barnstar too. Once again - Thanks!! Ronline ✉ 09:37, 26 December 2005 (UTC) PS: What do you think of the new Misplaced Pages:Stable versions proposal. Personally, I'm against it, since it's anti-liberal for Misplaced Pages. What do you think?

• Hi, thank you for my barnstar! The 'noedit' thing in my user page is just to remove those annoying 'edit' links for each section which look really ugly, not to stop others from editing my page. I see you've already been awarded two barnstars for your work defending the Wikipedians by politics categories but I'd like to give you this:

to say thanks for alerting me and everyone else to the vote and for giving me a barnstar! --Hitchhiker89 12:29, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

• Larix, thanks very much for the barnstar! Your diligence and presence here at Misplaced Pages is truly appreciated by me and many others! Эйрон Кинни 21:20, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

• I appriciate the barnstar which you gave me. Thanks! Peter McGinley 01:11, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for the barnstar! -- Tetraminoe 09:27, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

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If you have any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again. --Romeo Bravo 19:32, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey, no not realy, but just add one of these (pd-self states no copyright)

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Romeo Bravo 20:20, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Categories and Userboxes

Hi Larix! Thanks for the user freedom box, I've added it to my user page. I think it's great that there's now a user box that can unite all people with these views regarding Misplaced Pages! Is there still dispute on whether categories and userboxes on personal views should be deleted? I think that there's a growing movement in Misplaced Pages to basically mistreat the community (through the denial or rights and expression) in the interests of "creating a (fair, NPOV) encyclopedia". I don't think people realise that it is only through a liberal, vibrant community that that very task can be best achieved. I'd love to help on anything that can further this cause! Thanks, Ronline ✉ 00:42, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey thanks for telling me about that, I'll think about putting it on there, but I've had trouble getting the formatting to work out right for the ones I have. So I might try to clear that up first. Yeltensic42.618 15:51, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:User freedom

I have changed the image on the template because the original was of unknown copyright status, and queued for deletion. (Posted here as well, since I don't know if you are still watching my userpage). Ian_ID:540053 16:33, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Entertainers who died aged x etc. categories

Hi, you said you find the young died categories interesting but you didn't say anything about the others. I would appreciate it if you could change your vote to keep just for Category:Prematurely deceased entertainers and Category:Entertainers who committed suicide and delete the rest so we can get consensus Misplaced Pages:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005_December_29#Category:Entertainers_who_died_aged_x_etc._categories Thanks Arniep 22:34, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

"inhuman rights"

Thank you for your question. I answered it on my talk page. —James S. 10:32, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes, cats

Thanks for telling me about that. It's getting to the point that I'm afraid that if I go on vacation or something and don't go online, I'll return and find that my userpage is gone. Yeltensic42.618 23:27, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Larix! Thanks for telling me about the vote. I'm really confused, however, as to what proposal is best. I've read the page over and over again but I'm really not getting anywhere, since it's really cluttered and confusing with all those proposals. Which proposal do you think is the best to maintain the userboxes? Deano's proposal? Ronline ✉ 04:08, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for informing me. As you might have noticed, I commented on the relevant page. This whole affair is just totally absurd. Thank you for being on the sane (no typo) side. :) Kind regards, --Twisturbed Tachyon 12:47, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Beware of edit conflicts

I know there was an edit conflict but when you changed your comments on Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion/userbox templates concerning beliefs and convictions, you deleted my contribution. Please be careful not to do this. David | Talk 12:00, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

TFD

I notice that you listed Template:User evolution for deletion. I'm having trouble finding the discussion section for that particular nomination. Could you post a link on my talk page? Thanks! --Mareino 15:05, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

A few hours ago you listed User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/User liberal for deletion also and it's not on the main tfd page... can you please add? -- Jbamb 16:14, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, maybe I should state this right here. I didn't list those templates, someone else did. In fact I'm vehemently opposed to the deletion. As he didn't feel like tagging them, I did instead. If you and others want to vote about it, here's the link: Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion/userbox templates concerning beliefs and convictions Larix 16:20, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for addding the TfD template to the userboxes the deletionists are after. I really think that until then it was a stealth discussion, with many userbox users unaware of what was going on. And wonder of wonders! The consensus is now clearly for Keep. Good work there. TCC (talk) (contribs) 09:17, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Xenaphon's block

Hi Larix! I've contacted User:Jayjg, who blocked Xenaphon indefinitely, for more information regarding the block. It turns out that he was banned first for personal attacks, for 24 hours, and then was blocked indefinitely by Jayjg for sockpuppeting (however, it doesn't say anywhere who he was a sockpuppet of). Thanks for telling me about this! The other thing I'd like to ask you about is the arbitrary deletion of userboxes and categories based on political viewpoints. Obviously, there is currently a great deal of argument on this issue, and no consensus has been reached yet (UPDATE: Consensus appears to have been reached on TfD in favour of keeping POV userboxes, but there is still debate on the anti-userbox policy), but I have heard numerous reports of admins already starting to delete categories and even userboxes simply because they personally believe that these shouldn't be taking place. Are there any concrete examples of this? I know that User:Tony Sidaway has been accused of this, and has acted unintuitively and quite disrespectfully in recent times, which I find quite unacceptable. Hopefully the whole issue will be resolved, with the userboxes and categories kept, as consensus and the majority says. Thanks, Ronline ✉ 06:01, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Larix, I have a few questions. Why are you interested in Xenaphon's block? Why do you think he was blocked for comments on Tony Sidaway's page? Why aren't you interested in the similar block to Xenophon of Ephesus? Jayjg 15:01, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Translation request

Hi. I wrote the article Regent Parrot mostly by translating the Dutch article at nl:Bergparkiet. There were some words etc. where my Dutch let me down, and those remain commented out. I'd appreciate it if you could edit the article and finish the translation. Thanks for your time and attention. Cheers, Tomer 09:59, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

If you looked in on the article, thanks for your time...my questions have been answered. :-) Tomer 20:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you very much for awarding me a barnstar. I am very greatful and I am also happy with the area where it is placed. Thanks again, Shell. --Shell 16:15, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

RfC for Tony Sidaway

I have started to formulate the Request for Comment concerning Tony Sidaway's behavior at my personal sandbox; the subpage is here. Since you expressed interest in supporting such an action, I thought you might like to help formulate the RfC; feel free to edit the proposal. Rogue 9 09:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Moving ahead with the RfC

Clicky. This needs to go forward now before the issue grows stale; I just hope it's enough. It can still be improved while on the RfC page. Rogue 9 16:16, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

User Freedom template

Hi - Could you or someone else re-protect Template:User_freedom ? I have had to revert 2 Tfd attempts by User:MarkSweep , who by the way deleted it during a debate on Jan.22.

VWN en WCN

Beste Larix Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org . Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 16:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Walmarting deletion vote

As a fellow eventualist inclusionist (hey, where's our user box?) you may want to look at this, as the article was only a day old when it was nominated for deletion and there was a long list of delete votes before there was a single keep one. I tried to add a few links to examples to strengthen the article and also added the see also links to related terms. Otherwise I don't have the time right now to work on it. Thanks! I'll post to the includsionist page. Feel free to write a few folks if you see fit.--Beth Wellington 01:48, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar, OTR & PUA Review

FYI. You may want to look and comment here: Misplaced Pages:Barnstar and award proposals/Proposed Changes. For your reference, the guidelines are referenced here: Barnstar Proposal Guidelines. Thanks -- evrik 18:32, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Possessivecat.jpg

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Boylover and girllover userboxes

Thank you for your input into the discussion at Misplaced Pages:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_February_5#Template:User_paedophile. It is unfortunate that this template was deleted with neither a good reason nor a clear consensus. I believe that by using language that lacks the criminal/abusive connotations, we can satisfy the concerns of the delete voters and create useful, less controversial userboxes. So I created Template:User boylover and Template:User girllover last night.

Unfortunately, Doc glasgow speedy deleted these templates, citing T1. T1 did not apply, and you can tell him so. Your vote at Misplaced Pages:Deletion_review/Userbox_debates#Template:User_boylover_and_Template:User_girllover will be much appreciated. Seahen 15:25, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

userboxes

Hey Larix, please keep in mind that Misplaced Pages is first and foremost an encyclopedia. A bunch of admins and I have looked over your contribution history and we really don't see anything indicating that you're here to do anything other than mess around with userboxes. If you want to run your own personal website you can put whatever you want on there; but when you're on Misplaced Pages, you're here to work on the encyclopedia. Got it? --Cyde Weys 22:46, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

In your RfA you said you'd stay away from userboxes. Now you use your adminship to silence people who have another view on userboxes as you do. "Got it?" Larix 21:02, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Userboxen

Hey Larix,

As you've been the most outspoken proponent of keeping userboxes, I'd really like your support of my proposal, which is attempting to rectify the situation by moving all the userboxes out of the Template: namespace (which will then be NPOV) into a newly created Userbox: namespace. It keeps all userboxes, including POV ones, while fixing the problem of POVs in the Template: space- which, overall, has been the major problem. Thanks! // True _Sora 04:07, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Template:User Nogus

• John Reid 04:39, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Anti-Semitic people

Vote They are attempting to close the +cat AGAIN, please vote to KEEP.

Vote

Please vote 64.229.209.85 22:22, 23 November 2006 (UTC)