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TINMC

Just to let you know, I think I edited the page seconds after you added the "editing in progress" tag! Dan100 (Talk) 20:41, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Kim Bruning

Hi there, Nicholas. I noticed that you're asking Kim to contact you on some wiki page about MedCab issues. He can't, he's blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. Perhaps you missed this edit, and what's on this page? (No, those aren't jokes, he is blocked.) Best wishes, Bishonen | talk 16:29, 17 December 2005 (UTC).

Thank you

I'd like to thank you, first and foremost; if you're receiving this message, it's because I think you were one of the people I adopted as a personal mentor, and who helped to make the whole Misplaced Pages experience more enjoyable.

The fact is, I've got no choice but to leave. The recent sordid affair with User:Deeceevoice and my appalling conduct in that showed me that I have not the calibre required to maintain good relations with users on the wiki. Worse still, I violated almost all of the principles I swore to uphold when I first arrived.

I've now been desysopped, and I plan on devoting a little more time to what I am good at, which is developing. I don't fit in on this side of the servers, but perhaps I can still be of use to the project.

Thank you. Rob Church 20:04, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Your deletion of my user page

I take strong exception to your decision. It would seem to me that users are free on their user pages to express their opinions about the project. Not only is your action precipitous and completely without warning, giving me no opportunity to salvage anything, it as a high-handed, gross abuse of your authority. It appears to be a unilateral decision taken by solely you that is, to my way of thinking, appallingly inappropriate. deeceevoice 00:50, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Nicholas, maybe you should try talking before you delete someone's user page. There's been far too much bad blood here already. No point in WP:POINT. Guettarda 01:02, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

The unfortunate thing is, given your action and given the crap she has been put through in the last week or two, your request probably has only a tiny fraction of the impact it would have had if you'd made it before you deleted her user page. I don't doubt you acted in good faith, but it's a sad mess that has absolutely no upsides, as far as I can see. Guettarda 01:19, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

As for the content of her user page - she says she is quitting. I assume that if she changes her mind and decides to stay, she can be convinced to clean up her page. If she leaves, someone will clean it up in due course. I just wish you had talked first. Guettarda 01:21, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I just came across your comments on Guettarda's talk page. Okay. I really do believe your action was simply a lapse in judgment. My apologies for assuming bad faith, but under the circumstances.... I hope you're feeling better soon. Love, light, joy and all that seasonal crap. No. Seriously, you're cool wit' me. Peace. deeceevoice 21:40, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Spoken Misplaced Pages

Hello, I;ve noticed that you've done a few spoken articles and are currently doing none, I don't know if you can help me, but I'm going to ask anyway. I put up the article Columbine High School massacre, for request for spoken wiki around September 22/23. Since then, no one has really taken it up, one user said he was going to do it, but then stopped contributing in late October and hasn't contributed since. He was about 14 years old, and I don't know how serious he was towards the project. Either way, I'm asking if you could possibly take on the project or see if there are any other participants that you know that could do it. Thanks. -- PRueda29 01:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Get some rest!

--Bishonen | talk 02:12, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

TINMC 2

Thanks for your reply, that makes complete sense and the finished version is a lot better. I saw a half-finished version - that "Stage A,B,C" stuff looked rather over-formal! Dan100 (Talk) 10:44, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

I would like to wish you adn your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year - Guettarda 16:00, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Alienus' dispute

I have completed the "comments by others" section of this dispute. I am happy to enter mediation and would appreciate help on focusing the discussion on the 5 or 6 actual changes that are in dispute. loxley 16:54, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Nicholas, could you help me a little?

i can't find your email address at the moment. this is User:Rbj.

i've been blocked by Phroziac for (IMO) no justifiable reason. he has not stated his reasons to me in any way. only after i sent wikimail to him via the block page, he sent a message to "just calm down" yet still does not explain or justify his block. i'm sure this has something to do with a really nasty editor named Rchamberlin (who is a prolific POV warrior and occasional vandal), but for the life of me, i cannot understand his (Phroziac's) justification for blocking me.

this is the first time since before creating my account that i am on wikipedia using an IP. can you help? r b-j 71.161.209.24 17:26, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

your intervention was helpful, Nicholas (thank you!), but it doesn't change the fact that Rchamberlain (talk · contribs) is editing prolifically with a clear POV axe to grind, and his edits are not careful or thoughtful. it's like he has a nice ATV and thinks the whole wikipedia woods are his to drive over and to leave turds that others have to clean up. i'm giving your soft-ban 24 hours, but i am confonting Rchamberlain with specific issues of arrogant POV edits and his arrogant bad faith, because that is simply what it is. and i have every right to.

also Phroziac was wrong in not contacting me in advance or even at the time of blocking me. that had to be clear. the least he or she could have done is contact me and ask me what is going on, i was not vandalizing Rchamberlain's page at all, and my initial contact was perfectly legit and his responses were completely illegit. i was about to bring this to admin attention when, out of the blue, i was blocked without explanation or prior or contemporaneous notice. and that was wrong. r b-j 20:07, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

By the way, I did not say you were vandalizing. You were just edit warring. And i'm a she. And, in the emails, i forgot to mention that because a blocked user can edit their user talk page, blocking him would do no good anyway. --Phroziac _. o º 20:18, 22 December 2005 (UTC)