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Nonsense

Please stop being a Dick. At least check the diffs before reverting article improvements.

Grow up, Stalker Boy. What improvements would those be? "It's famous, I swear it is!" Or did you slip in a link to the Starwood Festival while I wasn't looking? Need those Google hits! --Calton | Talk 19:46, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Uh huh. And the notability? Once again, "Because I said"? Not a Misplaced Pages-approved source. At least check the tags before removing them, Stalker Boy. --Calton | Talk 19:52, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

An accredited educational institute authorized by the state to confer a Master's degree is notable

And the state standards for a "Master's degree" are what, then? --Calton | Talk 19:57, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like the topic for an article about education in Washington State. Feel free to research and write.
I know this may be difficult for you, but try being intellectually honest instead of blathering about irrelevancies. In words of few syllables: you claim a "Master's degree" automatically equals notability, skipping over whether "Master's degree" has a relevant meaning.
However, the precise definition is not needed... Since I never asked for a "precise definition", it's difficult to tell whom you're arguing with. Hint: making up arguments and attributing them to someone you're arguing with isn't on the up and up.
...to establish that a school is reputable and notable within its field and state. See, that's where the whole "reliable sources" bit comes in, and "because I said so" fails. --Calton | Talk 20:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Looks like you just earned yourself a block for 3RR unless you revert
Ah, so you'd rather rely on ruleslawyering than backing up your claims, eh? I know this may be difficult for you, but try intellectual honesty, Stalker Boi, you'll feel better about yourself. I guess now you can insert whatever spamlinks you like, eh? --Calton | Talk 20:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Calton, I would advise you treat the user with dignity and respect. Incivilty shouldn't be tolerated on wikipedia.--Certified.Gangsta 06:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Lu Sheng-yen

Thanks for your help. That is much better work than I could have done on the topic. —Hanuman Das 15:45, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

RfC on Mattisse/Timmy12

Hello. Just letting you know that an RfC has been opened on Mattisse, here. As it provides strong circumstantial evidence that Timmy12 is a sockpuppet of Mattisse intentionally using two computers to evade checkuser, I thought you might want to comment. I don't really care what side you weigh in on, but I know you've been in a position to observe at least part of the situation and any view would be helpful. —Hanuman Das 11:15, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

OK I've removed your name from point 7. --Salix alba (talk) 22:28, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your response. You may be right, an RfC against Timmy12 might have been a better idea... —Hanuman Das 15:08, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Post on AN/I

Your most recent post on AN/I was removed by another user (the reason given was that help requests are inappropriate on AN/I). If you want to request an admin action not connected to an incident, you may want to post on the main Administrator's noticeboard. --ais523 15:37, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

One for your kartika

Rudolf Steiner's views on race and ethnicity —Hanuman Das 06:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Wow! Nothing at all to do on my watchlist this AM. Somebody must be doing something right. I noticed your additions to Namkhai Norbu. I thought you didn't know all that much about Buddhism.... Ekajati (yakity-yak) 14:45, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the category

To Indian rock cut architecture. If I can't find a category on another article to copy, then I'm at a lost how to find one. So, thanks! Mattisse(talk) 22:09, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, maybe you can keep your eye on it because I don't know anything about hierarchies either. I know they exist -- that it is important what order the categories are in, right? Is the most general category supposed to go on the bottom, then work it's way up to more specific, or the other way arount, or does it matter? I should pay more attention to that, but when I look at articles I can't tell why the categories are in a particular order. Mattisse(talk) 22:53, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
In songs some seem to have a dozen cateories: song:1953, song:single, song:blues, song:American, song:Elvis Presley, song:hot 100, song:songwriter Johnny Mercer, song:Hall of Fame etc., even song:Mississippi -- I'm not being accurate here but you get the drift. I'm glad there are people like you that take care of all that! So, thanks again! Mattisse(talk) 23:20, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Mattisse RfC

Would you possibly reconsider signing the Mattisse RfC? Hanuman Das has dropped out, but you also tried to resolve the issue, so can endorse it... -999 (Talk) 17:09, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, I can understand and respect your position. Seems like Timmy12 is gone, but if he comes back and repeats the same multiple driveby tagging without discussion, I may go ahead and open an RfC on it. I have seen other users who do the same blocked really quickly (e.g. InnerJustice (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)) and I'm not sure why Timmy12 shouldn't also be. -999 (Talk) 17:26, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Speak of the devil... I see just after posting this that Timmy12 is back and posting crazy paranoia on the Mediation page... -999 (Talk) 17:56, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Starwood mediation

Several parties are trying to do an endrun around the mediation process (after it has worked, no less). Please add your input to the "consensus" they are falsely trying to create on the mediation page. —Hanuman Das 02:47, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Singing Bowl & Namkha & Phurba

Ekajati: as a protector of the teaching of Dzogchen and non-duality please have a look over my edits to Singing Bowl, Namkha and Phurba for probity. I noticed you edited Trul Khor and thought you may be interested. Thanking you in anticipation B9 hummingbird hovering 01:37, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Ganachakra

Ekajati: i noticed you contend the relationship between yab-yum and sex magic in the discussion section of ganachakra. So what were Padmasambhava and Mandarava and Yeshe Tsogyal doing in those caves? I would like to establish linkages between both articles and I invite dialogue with you to establish a workable solution. Namaste B9 hummingbird hovering 02:47, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tibetan_Buddhism This has not been very active but it may be of interest. Sylvain1972 21:40, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Deletions

I was just discussing some of the recent deletions and attempts at the same with Hanuman Das of articles I had created. Two of them, Robert Lee "Skip" Ellison and Taylor Ellwood, must have been speedy deletions (I suspect by Pigman) that I missed out on the discussion of. (By the way, what's the story on creating a watchlist?) I think they were notable, especially Skip, and he pointed out that he's on the "article needed" list in the Neo-Paganism project page. Is there someplace I could find my original text, or is it lost in the ozone? Maybe I could beef them up and re-submit.

Two more that were targetted were Sally Eaton and George R. Harker, but the response was so overwhelming to keep them that the challenge was dropped. One more currently being considered is Tannin Schwartzstein, which you may wish to weigh in on. I must admit, however, that her's is the weakest case of the lot, at least by virtue of the information I've been able to gather. Pigman has, however, declared that he believes that at least a third of the articles I've created lack notability and should be deleted (and of course all the internal links).

By the way, I've just added my name to the Neo-Pagan project page. Rosencomet 02:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Starwood

Thanks for your response. I've set up a mediation page at Talk:Starwood Festival/mediation where I've addressed the issues raised on my talk page.

Peace! - Che Nuevara 06:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


Musart

I posted this on Che's talk page, too.

I find this to be rather bizarre, and a good example of how the folks on the other side of this issue have had a pattern of manipulating things either for their own amusement or to put the actual editors of the articles in question in a bad light. I had nothing to do with the Musart article, which was created by "Flinders", apparently a sock-puppet. He/she also created the Ann Hill & Anne Hill articles, claiming she was a "frequent speaker at the Starwood Festival" (she exists, but has never appeared at Starwood). At one point the name Anne Rice was changed to Anne Hill. (Someone also accused me of linking to and messing with the Andrew Cohen article, though as far as I know it was never linked to the Starwood page, nor did he appear there.)

I'm not saying Musart isn't deserving of an article, and I could create one, but this one had only two facts that were not false: the very first line ("Musart is a musical art company founded by Muruga Booker."), and the links to the Musart website. (Pigman, oddly enough, just took down those links.) The rest of the article seems to be a cut & paste job from part of the Starwood Festival article as it stood at the time of the Musart's article's creation. (Muruga Booker actually asked me about it in a conversation 2 days ago, assuming I had created it, and wondered why the content was so very wrong.) This kind of behavior - fake articles linked to Starwood, constant demands for citations, subsequent accusations that the citations constituted linkspam and google-bombing - all seems to have started with Matisse just 7 days after my first contribution to a Misplaced Pages article. Rosencomet 17:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I'm trying to find a civil way of putting this: I believe it would be helpful and useful to Misplaced Pages if you spent a little more time contributing edits and verifiable information to articles and a little less time worrying about other editor's actions as sockpuppets. Whether a sock of Mattisse started the Musart article is immaterial to my mind, no one owns the page. My current concern is that there is no supporting documentation for this event/group. I just want to know it's a real event because I've never heard of it. (My having heard of it isn't a test of its notability, I just don't know.) I'm not asking for citations up the whazoo, just something. --Pigman (talk • contribs) 19:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Skip Ellison

Could you tell me if the original text for the deleted article I created on Robert Lee "Skip" Ellison still exists somewhere that I could cut & paste it from? Also, on the Starwood Mediation issue, I think Pigman might have a point regarding the Association for Consciousness Exploration links. I would be willing to take them down, except a few where they're obviously pertinent (like the Starwood Festival and WinterStar Symposium articles themselves). Should I, or would this be a bad idea while the mediation is going on? Rosencomet 17:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Never mind. I found it on answers.com. The page is up now. Robert Lee "Skip" Ellison. Rosencomet 19:42, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Interesting

I came across an article written by User:LiftWaffen called What Witches Do, about a book by Stewart Farrar. LiftWaffen both created the article, with a link to the Starwood Festival, then added a link to ACE. I never saw the article before. What's particularly interesting is that LiftWaffen is, evidentally, a sock of Matisse who has been permanently blocked! If the issue of the links to Starwood ends up boiling down, in part, to there being too many (which IMO is why a few admins think there is an issue at all), it would be good to know just how many such links were created by Matisse and Co., like the Musart article and this one. (And do books often get their own articles? Well, I suppose a few are very influential in and of themselves: Moby Dick, A Christmas Carol, Stranger in a Strange Land, Catcher in the Rye, The Bible...)Rosencomet 00:10, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Jahbulon

Care to take a look to see if you think the article is encyclopedic? I've opened 2 RfCs to bring in some fresh blood. I think only one or two editors are insisting on keeping the tag on the article. —Hanuman Das 04:15, 9 December 2006 (UTC)


Starwood Link History

Posted on Ars Scriptor & Che's talk pages.

A couple of fellow editors suggested that I appraise you of these facts. I realize I have already posted some of this information, but for the sake of organizing it I will put it all here together. I'm sorry if it's long.

The following information is just to show that while Matisse was wildly tagging articles linked to Starwood Festival with "citation needed" tags, later to call on many editors to help in a campaign to delete them, then have them taken down as linkspam and google-bombing, she was ALSO CREATING articles with links to Starwood Festival herself, then calling them to the attention of other editors as examples of how there were too many articles linked to it and that I was "out of control". I believe that most of the objections by editors other than Matisse and socks of Matisse (who have weighed in multiple times in discussions about both the links and the notability of individual articles I've written in order to create the illusion that she had major support in the Wiki community) were swayed, in great part, by this campaign to create a "Major Problem" where one did not exist. (Ironic, since a running theme of the event is conspiracy theory & the Illuminati...)


1. The Musart article (linked to Starwood Festival, Association for Consciousness Exploration, and WinterStar Symposium) was created August 25th by Flinders, a sock of Matisse, 12 days after my first Wiki input. The Answers.com text mentioned below about Musart (point 6) is obviously cribbed from the Wiki article she created, yet she speaks as if she "found" this evidence that this issue is not minor!

2. The "What Witches Do" article was created on September 3rd by LiftWaffen, another Matisse sock. She returned the next day to add a link to Association for Consciousness Exploration.

3. Andrew Cohen, mentioned below by Matisse on Salix Alba's page as a "Starwood Speaker", has never appeared at Starwood nor has his page been linked to the Starwood page.

4. There are links to Musart on the "Chalino Sánchez" and "Lucero" articles that I believe are incorrect, and probably refer to the record company DiscosMusart, which has no Wiki article.


5. Here is what Matisse said to BostonMa about Musart in November:

hopeless mediation

Hi. I wrote a question on the Starwood Mediation page and got an unsatisfactory answer from Rosencomet. Plus I notices another article waiting in the wings: Musart. Do you think we should ask for another mediator? Ours seems to be missing in action. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 01:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I must agree. It is hopeless and would be a waste of your time. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 02:02, 19 November 2006 (UTC)


6. This was posted on Salix Alba's talk page the same day:

Hi again! Check out Musart. it is waiting in the wings to have bunches of names added. Mattisse(talk) 01:13, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Check this out from Answers.com If, by chance, you think this is minor. Mattisse(talk) 03:23, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

And 8 days later:

Maybe you would weigh in on the Andrew Cohen talk page (a Starwood Festival speaker) as there is a discussion on what type of links to include as external links. The particular link in question may not be a good example to defend, but at least it's the start of a general discussion. Mattisse(talk) 16:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


7. Now this one was on Pigman's talk page just a few days ago. I've included Ekajati's comment.

I just ran across this: Musart. The links at the bottom are bad. One goes nowhere. The other pertains if anything to this: Musart Records -- which I wrote (not very well) trying to sort out the problem regarding various (legitimate) artists whose articles list this label -- none of which are in that list on Musart. What to do? Perhaps you know. Thank you. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 02:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
As you can see, it's the usual Starwood Festival crowd listed. I wonder if this is hopeless. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 02:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Oh, now this is not funny, Mattisse. That article, as you have to know, was started by Flinders, who was confirmed by CheckUser as one of your sockpuppets. Ekajati (yakity-yak) 14:56, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


8. This non-explanation of the creation of the Musart article was posted on BostonMa's talk page. I've included Hanuman Das' input:

I clicked on the name, Flinders, and it was identified as a sockpuppet of my account. I don't know what else to say. I was not aware of all the accounts identified as mine - rather I should say I recognise the names now but I don't always know what they have done. I am not clear what was going on at that time. At the time I explained my role in the matter. The result is though that I am not always aware when one of my sockpuppets created an article. If will explain the situation in any degree of detail you desire. I don't know what level of detail is appropriate here. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 16:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Further explanation: That I personally did not create the sockpuppets but they were created on my computer, as proved by CheckUser. There was an unusual sitation. Relatives, including my daughter and her children, suddenly were in my house. In the middle of this was when I was doing backlogs in the wikify bin (to get away from real life stress) and AFD'd Philip Farber. This was just after Netsnipe had identified a suite of similar articles and ADFed the whole suite. I asked him what to do but he was busy with his admin election. I used bad judgment and tagged too many articles. 999 attacked me. I became upset, being already upset because of outside events. I talked about it too much to my visitors, none of whom were involved with Misplaced Pages. I don't know really what happened. Part of what was going on here meant that I was not home always. I do know that I left my granddaughter alone, at that time not realising that Misplaced Pages was such a dangerous place, so she did somethings on Misplaced Pages unsupervised. I guess I should look back and see exactly what. Someone emailed me that she put her age on her user page and that I should delete that. I tried but was not allowed. Then an admin believed she was my granddaughter and did delete it or do something with it. To tell you the truth, I don't really want to know what these various accounts did because it starts to give me bad feelings about my family -- whether they were trying to harm me or help me I don't know. And it has affected our relationship since then. Let me know if you have any questions. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 17:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Please excuse me for butting in here, but this is the same excuse she used for the previous sockpuppet incident (pre-Rosencomet). See Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for checkuser/Case/Listerin. I believe that User:Salix alba was involved in that incident. —Hanuman Das 17:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I looked at the discussion and I don't quite get what I did that was so wrong. I asked Paul Pigman a question. At the time I didn't know it was a Flinders article. Flinders did whatever in the past. In any case, I would not have done anything to a Starwood article myself. That is why I asked someone. If I repeat the same story regarding events around that time, what else should I do? It's only because Musart Records came up on my watch list as "unsourced" that I even looked at it. Because I write and edit so many record label articles, I did not get the connection at first. I do not understand this place. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 22:58, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

9. I must say that this is a pretty bizarre situation. Matisse has used sock-puppets for a long time to disrupt the work of a number of editors in various ways, and seems to openly admit it here, and I find that strange enough (since, perhaps because I'm a newcomer, I just don't see what she gets out of this kind of behavior except sowing anger and frustration among hard-working volunteers), but phrases like "I was not aware of all the accounts identified as mine - rather I should say I recognise the names now but I don't always know what they have done." or "I am not always aware when one of my sockpuppets created an article" make me wonder how she can EVER be held accountable for what she does. It sounds bi-polar to me (I'm not diagnosing, just saying what it sounds like). She seems not to know what she has done, or perhaps even what she is doing. In a different way, I find the attempt to shift the blame to unspecified family members even more disturbing.

Matisse seems to have a talent for creating trouble and drawing well-meaning people into the fray. I don't see how the issue under mediation can be discussed without at least airing these facts, and allowing those who have been swayed to believe that there is a serious situation that must be nipped in the bud to understand that, at least to some extent, it has not only been exaggerated but increased and manipulated by the very person that brought it to their attention and enlisted their help. Rosencomet 00:02, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Tantra massage

Could you add to your watchlist? Some massage therapist from Austin, TX is trying to use a non-encyclopedic unverified article to promote his own massage studio. He doesn't seem to understand the problem with this... —Hanuman Das 05:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, at the moment I have not enough time to explain you the case... Please be patient and I will add some more information about the theme. Meanwhile you can inform you in the German Misplaced Pages about the reasons for the deletion the topic! --Edi Goetschel 15:40, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
P.S. I found the link for the discussion about the deletion in the German Misplaced Pages: Misplaced Pages:Löschkandidaten/24. November 2006. It's an old story that the German Tantramassage Association, which has only a very small number of members, tries to define and represent what the so called Tantramassage is and invented a history about it that isn't true at all (Andro as inventor of this massage etc.). In the German speaking countries most of the so called Tantramassage is just a another word for a sort of prostitution. --Edi Goetschel 15:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Jahbulon again

Oh, and if you could keep an eye on this article too. Someone seems to be removing cited information from it. I'd rather not be the only one putting it back. —Hanuman Das 05:41, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I have opened a discussion on the AfD talkpage you may be interested in. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LessHeard vanU (talk • contribs) 00:07, 15 December 2006 (UTC).

Oh, and the AfD on Thelemapedia seems to be deadlocked, if you happen to have an opinion. —Hanuman Das 06:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Ars Scriptor

I just clicked on User:Ars Scriptor, and got a notice saying that he/she had retired. Rosencomet 16:01, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Indian rock cut architecture

Thanks for noticing and reverting the removal of dates on the article. I hadn't picked up on that. What do you think of the categories? The cave/temples can be Buddhist, Jain, Hindu . . . Sincerely, Mattisse 16:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I know (or think I do)

if you are interested in my version. Also, I too was not ootified ot the newest arbitration although included like you. Sincerely, Mattisse 04:23, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Starwood link Arbitration

I'm sorry you weren't notified. I initially listed only Rosencomet and Hanuman Das. I did notify them. I added myself at a later time when it was apparent all parties should be included. Someone else added the other names. Mattisse was added by the clerk. I didn't think I should notify you since someone else added you. --Pigman (talk • contribs) 04:29, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up on this arbitration thingy. As you can tell from my remarks there, I'm getting pretty sick of this whole cluster-f***, but that doesn't mean I don't want to know what's going on, especially if I'm named as an involved party.
I only wish I had the time to research all the details and permutations, including Mattisse's possibly bad-faith editing and sockpuppetry.
*sigh*
Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 16:40, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the Barnstars! Glad someone thinks I've done SOMETHING to contribute, even if it's just adding weirdness :-). That is kind of my second profession.

I was glad to see 999 weigh in on the arbitration, and I really appreciate your input. I have a glitch in my e-mail that has stopped me from being able to send ANY e-mails out for some reason (though I can receive them), but that doesn't stop me from posting on Wiki. I don't get it at all. But it has hampered my ability to talk to anyone I might be able to enlist aid from.

I was about to add my opinions to the Arbitration and saw that the arbitor has recused himself. What does this mean? (I mean, I know what it means to recuse yourself if you are a judge, but does this mean the arbitration is still on or what?)

Also, I saw that the page for Skip Ellison has been merged with a page that doesn't mention him anywhere. I think that's kind of odd for an author of 4 books, etc. I mean, just because he's the present ArchDruid of ADF doesn't mean he has no personal accomplishments. Is there anything to do, or should I just wait until he writes another book or something and try again?

Oh, and you were quite right: I don't know anything about what happened to Hanuman Das. I sure hope it's something that can be straightened out, and I particularly hope that I didn't cause his problems by virtue of his support of my input to Misplaced Pages. Rosencomet 02:52, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Harassment & Racism

Stop icon This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on others again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. This is extremely inappropriate and violates WP:CIVIL. - WeniWidiWiki 01:13, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

CR FAQ Book Info

The print/dead tree version of the book is not out yet and is a project conceived after the web version went live in June, 2006. It's intended mostly as a convenience to libraries and people needing a permanent reference copy. It's will be print-on-demand so there is no excess stock to get rid of or a certain number needed to be sold to make back the "investment". All profits from the sale of the book will be going to a specific and well-established Gaelic-language preservation group who's name escapes me at the moment but is totally unconnected and independent of the writers. --Pigman (talk • contribs) 18:21, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I don't doubt that, Paul. I just don't see how that's any different from ACE, which is also not-for-profit. If that's important in your case, surely it's important in his case too, eh? Ekajati (yakity-yak) 14:43, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
There are at least one point of difference: The CR FAQ book project's monetary information is more transparent. I'll readily supply any information on the project upon request. Costs on lulu.com are fixed, known, and easily verified. Profits from the sale will not even be handled by us but go directly to the charity. I would personally be surprised if the book sold more than a few hundred copies. Somehow, I doubt a print version of information available for free on the web is going to be a big seller. --Pigman (talk • contribs) 17:10, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

The Prodigals

I was wondering if you could help with a minor issue. On the Starwood Festival page there is a red link to the Celtic rock band The Prodigals. The band has a Wiki page, one that I have nothing to do with, nor is it linked to the Starwood page (although Starwood is probably a good credit for them). I just don't know how to activate that link TO the page, though, since it's headed "Prodigals, The (New York Irish band)". Here's a link. . Thanks, Rosencomet 18:22, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Starwood

Hello,

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Starwood. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Starwood/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Starwood/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --Srikeit 00:58, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Arbitration

Well, the arbitration is obviously open. I would appreciate any advice you can give me as to how to proceed (or not proceed). Someone named User:RasputinJSvengali has already deleted the fact that the Starwood Festival is run by ACE, information which was in the Starwood Festival article when it was created over a year before I first inputted anything to Misplaced Pages. I have been assembling whatever "3rd party sources" I can find for articles I've created, but I'm not sure I know how to properly list them as references. Since they are not to the ACE website, I hope they will be taken as fulfilling what was asked for. I suspect, however, that nothing will satisfy these folks. Rosencomet 15:40, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Some action taken

I have just done a round of deletions of names from the Starwood festival page and a few deletions of Starwood mentions on other pages. I also assembled some 3rd-party sources referencing Starwood appearances on the part of many of the subjects who had mentions in their articles and added them. Some include interviews by the subjects discussing these appearances. I also provided links to a couple articles that had only been referred to in the past. (I would not be suprised if I did some of these wrong, in that I may have put links in the body of the text that belonged in the "Reference" section and such, and I welcome anyone changing such errors.) I hope this demonstrates my desire to improve articles and satisfy requests for 3rd-party sources. I have not added to the Starwood Festival page, only subtracted (though I did ask someone to fix a link to a band's page), and though I have added to the Jeff Rosenbaum article it was only to beef it up to avoid its deletion. If it can pass muster, I plan not to edit it any more, and I hope to ask others to handle any direct additions to the Starwood, WinterStar and ACE articles. I may still make more deletions to them for a while. Rosencomet 20:58, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Category:Tibetan Buddhists

Hi, you started Category:Tibetan Buddhists a while ago, and I'd like to ask you something about that. It's not clear whether it is supposed to be a category for Tibetan people who believe in Buddhism, or for anyone who believes in Tibetan Buddhism. If it's the former, we should be careful to keep articles like Namgyal Rinpoche out; if it's the latter, then it shouldn't be a subcat of Category:Buddhists by nationality and Category:Tibetan people.—Nat Krause 23:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

included Dianomd-Cutter.org link at Michael Roach per discussion we still had and User:HumanDas' requirements of inlcusion

When we had the discussion about including the critical link mainly User:HumanDas and user:Ekajati were against it. All other editors were for including or at least not against it. Because user.HumanDas argued:

I am happy to include a critical link - as long as the publishers of the site have the balls to put their names on it. I can create a site that trashes you in a few moments work (if I knew your identity) - would you want that information then linked to by WP? —Hanuman Das 23:36, 24 September 2006 (UTC) (see archive2)

I now inlclude the link and the responsible person, because the website owner gives his name on the website, see: http://www.diamond-cutter.org/about/about.html Regards, --Kt66 12:42, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Starwood Festival & RasputinJSvengali

First of all, Happy New Year to you.

I have just left this note on User:CheNuevara's talk page:

I have just seen an action taken by User: RasputinJSvengali during this arbitration (and, as far as I know, an ongoing mediation) which not only rewrites the text of the article and deletes the entire "Featured Speakers" and "Featured Entertainers" sections, but adds "Satanists" and "the Illuminates_of_Thanateros" to the list of people attending. I am afraid that this has been done to bait me into a revert war during the arbitration. As an objective party who has offered to help with my efforts to rectify the problems caused by the disagreements between myself and other editors, I would like to ask you to reverse this action and request that User: RasputinJSvengali refrain from such actions. For several weeks I have only reduced the number of links and added 3rd party citations, all of which were requested by editors during the mediation, and have engaged in civil discussion on issues related to the article on the discussion page without actually doing the editing (except for one grammatical edit). Thank you. Rosencomet 17:55, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Diversion

Hi there!

There are a few names I think should divert to certain articles, but I don't know how to do that and/or propose it. If you have the time, here are the suggestions:

Thanks, Rosencomet 19:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Plastic Paddy

Up for deletion again: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Plastic Paddy. -999 (Talk) 03:46, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

B9 hummingbird hovering

One-Eyed-One... i am endeavouring to progress an article on "Saccidananda" modelled on the German Wiki artice "Sat-Chit-Ananda" and have posted a request for translation assistance from the German Wikikins. I have also asked this Wiki Project crew on Devanagari (http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Devan%C4%81gar%C4%AB#Saccid.C4.81nanda_vigraha) about the appropriate romanised Wiki-convention for the title of the article.

Interestingly, I am logged in and do not have the ability to create a new article. What is going on with that I ask you? Namaste in agape and walking my talk in beauty B9 hummingbird hovering 16:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:AMA Requests for Assistance/Requests/November 2006/Mattisse

Hi Ekajati! Mattisse has requested assistance. She has mentioned you in her request. I am starting to look into the issue. Any background information you could give me would be very welcome. Cheers. SilkTork 20:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

WTF?

Email me. I am trying to figure out which users are supposed to have been your socks, the links in the template don't work. Something seems wrong here. Blnguyen has also recused himself from the arbitration. Was he involved in any content dispute with you or your supposed socks? I'm guessing you don't know much more than I do... 999 (Talk) 06:27, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Undeserved block

Well, what a kick in the ass, User:Blnguyen. I work as a waitress in a cafe with free wireless and a few computers. I come into work early so I can spend half-an-hour or maybe an hour catching up on my watchlist before my shift starts, and this is the thanks I get. And not even a note on my talk page about it, I have to go to WP:AN/I to find the ludicrous reasoning.

I couldn't possibly be A Ramachandran, because I couldn't possibly have created the following article in his "top ten" list: List of vacuum tubes. I haven't got a technical bone in my body. Check my edit history, I've never touched a technical article.

As for Tunnels of Set, he's pretty far from my interests. I start from Vajrayana which takes me as far as Tantra, from there to Sex magic (and making sure the two are not used interchangably). That necessarily involves me somewhat peripherally with Thelema and Aleister Crowley, but it doesn't take me all the way to the devil!

Anyway, I've looked through the first page of their contributions, and these look like exemplary editors. I see no edit warring, no personal attacks, in fact, I see them both attempting to mediate in other user's disputes. Take a look through them yourselves, I don't have time this AM to post diffs.

Also, I find it quite unlikely that this user is Hanuman Das. It appears that he is actually working with Hamsacharya dan on Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath. Read User talk:Hamsacharya dan#AfD and sources and on down. Hanuman Das and Hamsacharya dan were bitterly opposed on that article and were edit warring, leading to both being blocked for 3RR on several occasions, IIRC. Check their block logs and the article history. And check out his edits in the Misplaced Pages namespace: , he actually posts several times on behalf of Hamsacharya dan, about impersonation and the use of his legal name. If that's Hanuman Das, he's certainly changed his stripes. I thought a user had to actually violate policy with a sockpuppet in order to be blocked.

So, I have a formal request. I know you won't believe me saying that some other user is not my sockpuppet, so let's assume that they are. I have no intention of editing myself any more, this is my last edit. I will not continue to contribute to a site that let's Mattisse off with only a few hours of blocking after using 18 sockpuppets, and using them abusively, and then blocks me for two months, for allegedly using sockpuppets which are not abusive at all and which in particular appear to have stayed away from Starwood and all the parties involved in it. So please exchange my block with A Ramachandran's. That is, block me indefinitely and give A. Ramachandran my two month block. And please consider reducing or eliminating that block. If he were my sockpuppet, I would be proud of the way he has behaved on Misplaced Pages. Ekajati (yakity-yak) 15:25, 22 January 2007 (UTC)