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Unfortunately, I will be away from Misplaced Pages for a few months. My access to the site has been limited and I can only get on during a few hours a week. However, during summer my schedule changes, and thus I am unable to get back on Misplaced Pages.

You may contact me however, at Wikisource or by email (keep me updated on the arbcom case, I will be able to respond)...

I'm not really sure when I'll be returning. Possibly in August or September... although I signed up to take AP Chemistry, AP Language, AP U.S. History, Pre-Calculus, Spanish 4, Physics, and Eschatology and Hermaneutics. Don't know how the homework load will be. But rest assured... I'll be back.

--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:51, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Update 6/14/2006: It's not quite as complete as I thought. Apparently I can access some pages of the site and possibly edit (this is the test edit). But I'm still going to spend less time on Misplaced Pages for a while. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 02:07, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Update 6/15/2006: Well starting on the 17th my Internet connection will go downhill (due to a vacation with a Windows 98 computer and AOL). I won't even try to edit unless there's an emergency for 6 weeks or so. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:51, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Archive pages:

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• /Archive5 (mass move wars vol 1 before my limitations) (use next time)

All hell breaks loose

Oh, what a pain. SPUI moved a couple of pages in Washington, seeing what he could get away with, so I posted yet another notice about it. As usual, nobody wanted to do anything about it, so I reverted him. I guess that was the signal to get going again. I almost prefer it this way: maybe starting up the move wars again will rouse a few admins out of their torpor and negotiations would get started again. List of Washington State Routes did get page protected, finally; I guess that's progress.

I reverted every page in Washington. If you're planning on doing pages in other pages and want help, let me know. --phh (/_c) 03:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

• I've also reverted a few. He's back at it across as many states as he can. JohnnyBGood t c 23:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

• In addition, he's picking nitpicky edit battles regarding several Florida State Roads and the southern terminus of Interstate 75 (he's insisting on "near Miami" instead of the more appropriate (and more correct) "in Hialeah"). All of this has recently been transformed from a striding for the truth to a battle of egos, with SPUI reverting the addition of references and insisting on the misapplication of his favorite two (from a single, often self-contradictory source). B.Wind 03:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Go to the RFC and AN-I. For now I can only be on on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. My apologies. I'll move back what I can. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 00:00, 26 April 2006 (UTC) Let me show you an example of B.Wind's edits. State Road 500A is a short connection between US 441 (unsigned SR 500) and SR 19 in Tavares. That section used to be longer, and there are other former alignments. B.Wind is redirecting SR 500A to U.S. Route 192, which has some information on one of the former alignments. --SPUI (T - C - RFC - Curpsbot problems) 06:55, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

"you need consensus before mass moving pages, sorry."

I love how you mass moved pages without consensus with this edit summary. I love it enough that I have reverted with the same summary. --SPUI (T - C - RFC - Curpsbot problems) 20:35, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

He's at it again...=

He's quietly moving all CA route pages. JohnnyBGood t c 20:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Little help here

Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject California State Highways. You know the arguments better then me. JohnnyBGood t c 20:25, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Put mildly the shit hit the perverbial fan. He went ahead and started moving the remaining half of CASRs that were at California State Route XX over to State Route XX (California). I countered by moving all of them back. He countered me on about half of them, I countered back on about half of those. Plus in the middle of it Nohat attacked CA 17 and put it back at Califoria State Highway 17. Plus SPUI and I have been going at it over Interstate 93 and Interstate 75. JohnnyBGood t c 23:21, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

ArbCom

In the road naming dispute, you have been named in a disputant @ Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration this is the required notification diff -- Tawker 00:59, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

User:SPUI is at it again on Utah

He changed the list for Utah for his State Route X (Utah) and Interstate 15 (Utah) scheme... Admrb♉ltz (t • c • log) 17:23, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

And all the created state routes. Admrb♉ltz (t • c • log) 17:25, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Aslo did the same for at least that i can see on Pennsylvania highway, PA Route 611. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 21:03, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I've been nice to him up until this point, but that's just moronic. Didn't he say so himself that we don't title articles using abbreviations? Maybe we should start moving the Washington State articles to SR 3 and the like? Ummm, no... -- Northenglish 03:40, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

 You're just trying to confuse the issue. The names of the routes, as used by WSDOT, are State Route X, abbreviated SR X.
 We don't put pages at abbreviations - Interstate 90, not I-90. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 21:52, 
 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Proof of my previous comment found at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Washington_State_Highways -- Northenglish 19:27, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Highway Moves

I'm a little cautious on doing this, but I started the WikiProject Virginia Highways yesterday, and our NCs state that the article is "Virginia State Highway X". Route 895 (Virginia) and Route 76 (Virginia) are a few of the articles that do not follow this NC. I found that much of the articles that follow this are in the Richmond area. Looking at the history, it was SPUI who moved those from Virginia State Highway 895, etc. There are other articles in the state, such as Virginia State Highway 86 (in the south of the state) and Virginia State Highway 28 and 267 that both follow our current convention. Seeing the controversy that is currently ensuing, I don't know what I should do about the vigilante articles. If I'm correct, it would seem that we are coming to an understanding that the NCs are by highway system, correct? I'm holding off on moving the other articles because I don't want it to be taken as an act of hostility and cause me to get banned or anything. But I do need some help because this whole situation is very confusing to me. So two questions:

1) Are we coming to a general agreement like the one I mentioned above?

2) If so, and I do move the articles in say, a week, will there be any repercussions to me for bringing them in line with the NCs of our WikiProject?

Thanks, --MPD01605 18:53, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

WA-16 Spur

Every record--both published by WSDOT, and every map I've seen that marks Purdy Drive as a numbered highway--lists it as 302 Spur. There is no 302 Spur in Allyn. 302 was rerouted north of Allyn a few years ago, but the old routing is no longer in the state highway system. -- Northenglish 22:58, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Arbcom

Do you know how much longer we're going to have to wait to get a ruling on this? JohnnyBGood t c 17:41, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Looks like Arbcom has accepted the RFA however for the wrong reason it appears. JohnnyBGood t c 00:07, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

HW NC's

Do we have any decisions on this? I have people asking me questions, creating new Virginia highway pages not in line with what we're currently trying to do, and I don't know what to tell them. Thanks, --MPD01605 (T / C) 21:24, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Here we go again...

Misplaced Pages:State route naming conventions poll

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Highways

Hello,

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

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --Tony Sidaway 17:58, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

What evidence shall we gather together? JohnnyBGood t c 18:12, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Please stop making articles worse. I will continue to revert, as my reversions improve the articles. --SPUI (T - C) 23:17, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Stop going against consensus. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Stop going against common sense. --SPUI (T - C) 23:19, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Common sense means going with what people want. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:20, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

That's wrong and you know it. --SPUI (T - C) 23:22, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I wonder why that page isn't in the WP namespace. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:23, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Nice non sequitur. --SPUI (T - C) 23:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Just because Misplaced Pages explains a philosophy doesn't necessarily make it correct. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:25, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Just because you and a bunch of other misguided editors think your crap infobox is better doesn't make it so. --SPUI (T - C) 23:26, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

POV. Go and get consensus for ur infobox.--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:27, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

ur infobox sux lol --SPUI (T - C) 23:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Great. We're down to juvenile responses now. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:29, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

no u started da shitty speling lol

Seriously, I don't get what you see in that infobox. It's bloated shit that you've gotten used to. --SPUI (T - C) 23:31, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

POV. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

<> bloody hell, does anyone here think http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=State_Route_14_%28California%29&oldid=57439311 is better than http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=State_Route_14_%28California%29&oldid=57439685 ?

<spectie> , SPUIs infobox is better

Other outside views have been similar. --SPUI (T - C) 23:36, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

The result of the debate was to modify routeboxca2, despite what SPUI would like to admit. -- Northenglish 23:37, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

"The result of the groupthink was to modify routeboxca2, despite what SPUI would like to admit." Fixed for you. Oh, and I do agree that your misguided "debate" had a "result" to bloat the infoboxes. --SPUI (T - C) 00:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I like mine the best. So nyeh. </sarcasm> (I also believe in the concepts of "simpler is better" and "modularity", so YMMV) —Rob (talk) 03:44, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to see you go

I notice on WP:WASH that you're listed as the "leader" of the project. IMHO, there's nothing in the WikiProject that requires a defined leader, but would you like me to take over this post for you? -- Northenglish 02:07, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Not a prob. Email me if there's probs. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 18:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Left Behind

I notice your edits to add "references" to some articles have placed a good citation reference in the associated template. Only thing is the template appears after the "references" tag in the articles so nothing appears. :: Kevinalewis : /_(Desk) 09:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Conservative_notice_board

Hello, I noticed that you identify as a conservative Wikipedian. So I would like to invite you to post any conservative issues you might have over at the new project page, Misplaced Pages:Conservative_notice_board. Thanks. --Facto 05:40, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Iraq and the War on Terrorism

Misplaced Pages:WOT has opened its straw poll, and is open to discussion. Rangeley 00:59, 19 June 2006 (UTC)