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- About My PROD tagging
The discretion I use when deciding whether or not to place a PROD tag on a BLP is simple: is it referenced? If not, I place a tag. If it's poorly referenced, I look a bit deeper, and either place the tag, or stub-ify. I never take much more than a minute or so, and I'm not going to research 50K+ unreferenced BLPs. The tagging has worked, as several of the articles are now being sourced. I'm not going to stop doing it, so I respectfully ask that any notifications that someone has removed the PROD (while adding references) leave out any lectures on that issue. It's not going to change.
Here is where I will be manually archiving any DYK or ITN notices.
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I edit some political articles; please read this before accusing me of bias.
My votes in the last four presidential elections: Clinton, Bush, Bush, Obama. I do not have a bias for (or against) any political party.
Heard the news
... of your latest warning, but can't find the discussion. I'm appalled. For the record, you can call me Sandy, Georgia, SG, SandyG, or whatever comes to mind. (Well, not really anything, better not call me dull, lifeless or boring ... but I'm still shocked. Malleus once called me a word I had to go look up ! :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:19, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- I removed it, because it was pointless and stupid to keep it around. Thanks for your support, though! Scottaka UnitAnode 02:23, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- I found a few pieces, and am flumoxxed. To make it even better, the admin who warned you once told me to fuck off, and I forgave and forgot ! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:24, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- It struck me as odd, because he's normally been quite sensible in my only interactions with him. Needless to say, his enabling of Mr Sidaway's insistence on having me refer to him by his first name seemed odd to me. Scottaka UnitAnode 02:32, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- Well, it came up elsewhere because I referred to an editor by what is clearly his first name, and he objected. Guess he expects me to type out his full long name everytime I address him ... so best not to address him at all! This place gets whackier and whackier by the day ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:47, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- Your last sentence could not be more true -- though I think you mean "wackier" and "wackier" ... ;) Scottaka UnitAnode 02:49, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- I thought it looked funny ... I'm tired. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:50, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- It did look "funny", but no worries! After the 3/4 of an hour I wasted on the name kerfuffle, I appreciated the chuckle. :) Scottaka UnitAnode 02:52, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- I thought it looked funny ... I'm tired. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:50, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- Your last sentence could not be more true -- though I think you mean "wackier" and "wackier" ... ;) Scottaka UnitAnode 02:49, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- Well, it came up elsewhere because I referred to an editor by what is clearly his first name, and he objected. Guess he expects me to type out his full long name everytime I address him ... so best not to address him at all! This place gets whackier and whackier by the day ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:47, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- It struck me as odd, because he's normally been quite sensible in my only interactions with him. Needless to say, his enabling of Mr Sidaway's insistence on having me refer to him by his first name seemed odd to me. Scottaka UnitAnode 02:32, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- I found a few pieces, and am flumoxxed. To make it even better, the admin who warned you once told me to fuck off, and I forgave and forgot ! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:24, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
I may just leave for good (or awhile)
This whole climate change nonsense, where administrators are using their few extra buttons to bully other editors even about using surnames to refer to people is just out of control. LHvU was way out of line with what he did, and Johnathan E. Hochman has jumped into the fray as well. Both seem to have the misapprehension that having a few extra buttons at the top of your page somehow makes you a superuser of sorts, able to make demands of your fellow editors. I say, "Bullshit", and if that's the way that the powers-that-be are going to allow this project to be run, then I also say "Fuck it" and keep the change. Scottaka UnitAnode 04:27, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- It's very easy to get discouraged, and sometimes a timeout clears your head. The project is obviously doomed to failure, but that doesn't really matter; all that matters is that the worthwhile content survives in an open and easily accessible way elsewhere. The 95% of crap is best dumped and forgotten. --Malleus Fatuorum 04:36, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- This whole thing is just utter bullshit. Now he's tagging my comments as "inappropriate" and refusing to explain why, then threatening to block me for removing the inane tag. Jonathan E. Hochman is inserting himself into situations that he doesn't understand, and throwing the weight of his extra buttons around in a way that is utterly unbecoming. What LHvU did was strange, but Jonathan E. Hochman's behavior is just way beyond the pale. Scottaka UnitAnode 04:40, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- The civility police are out of control, so until there's a mechanism in place to get those lunatics out of office you (and I) need to tread very carefully. --Malleus Fatuorum 04:43, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- I'd be interested in seeing how Jonathan E. Hochman justified blocking me for "incivility" simply based on my post outlining how humorous I found his and LHvU's umbrage at my usage of the honorable Mr Tony Sidaway's surname by way of addressing him. That would definitely be an interesting discussion! Scottaka UnitAnode 04:47, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- The civility police are out of control, so until there's a mechanism in place to get those lunatics out of office you (and I) need to tread very carefully. --Malleus Fatuorum 04:43, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
WikiCup 2010 February newsletter
Round one is over, and round two has begun! Congratulations to the 64 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our first round. A special well done goes to 
Sasata (submissions), our round one winner (1010 points), and to 
Hunter Kahn (submissions) and 
TonyTheTiger (submissions), who were second and third respectively (640 points/605 points). Sasata was awarded the most points for both good articles (300 points) and featured articles (600 points), and TonyTheTiger was awarded the most for featured topics (225 points), while Hunter Kahn claimed the most for good topics (70). 
Staxringold (submissions) claimed the most featured lists (240 points) and featured pictures (35 points), 
Geschichte (submissions) claimed the most for Did you know? entries (490 points), 
Jujutacular (submissions) claimed the most for featured sounds (70 points) and 
Candlewicke (submissions) claimed the most for In the news entries (40 points). No one claimed a featured portal or valued picture.
Credits awarded after the end of round one but before round two may be claimed in round two, but remember the rule that content must have been worked on in some significant way during 2010 by you for you to claim points. The groups for round two will be placed up shortly, and the submissions' pages will be blanked. This round will continue until 28 April, when the top two users from each group, as well as 16 wildcards, will progress to round three. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup; thank you to all doing this last round, and particularly to those helping at Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, by email or on IRC. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 00:56, 1 March 2010 (UTC)