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Event coordinator

Hi, the English Misplaced Pages recently created a new user permission for editors involved in off-wiki outreach work, event coordinator. This new permission allows users to mark accounts for confirmed for up to 10 days, and also allows them to create accounts for events without rate limits without some of the features of the account creator right that aren't used at edit-a-thons and other events. I have added the event coordinator permission to your account and removed the account creator permission, as you appear to have been using it mainly for outreach work.

This should have no noticeable impact on your ability to create accounts, and will give you the extra ability to temporarily confirm accounts if you need to. For more information, you can see the information page on the right, or you can ask me if you have any questions. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:32, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Commandos 1968 poster.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:13, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Days Inn.svg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:32, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Honoring your request that I return

About ten years ago, you requested on my talk page that I not leave Misplaced Pages, or that I consider returning at some point. Well, I did return a couple days ago, and my very first post was deleted as I finished it by User:Guy Macon, without asking any questions or offering any assistance. My post was a personal message to Jimbo Wales and Larry Sanger containing a draft proposal for a new project on global climate change, and requesting their input. That is, it was a personal message requesting advice. But they never saw my message. It was deleted from their talk pages almost immediately by someone who apparently did not like the proposal and was unwilling to allow it to even be seen by Wales or Sanger. Let's be clear, this was not an edit to an article or creation of an article. It was merely a request for input on an idea that was not yet ready for editing.

User:Guy Macon was not content to merely delete my message. He started stalking me around Misplaced Pages and posting derogatory comments everywhere I left a message, including on the talk pages of Coppertwig and Elonka, and added abusive comments to my talk page, calling me a liar, baiting me, and generally being an uncivil person. Don't be surprised if a similar comment shows up here.

So my return to Misplaced Pages was met at the door by an arbitrary lack of civility, stalking, and later a threat to delete my sandbox, where I had placed my proposal for further work, threats to block me, and an ANI complaint, generally harassing me and attempting to bully me into submission. As a result, I may not stay here very long, due to systematic efforts to drive me out of Misplaced Pages, for reasons unknown to me. And the upshot is that editors are now apparently discouraged from communicating with each other about ideas on talk pages, something I find at least ironic and not in the best interests of Misplaced Pages. Take a look at recent entries on my talk page and you'll see what I mean. So now I don't know what to do, short of leaving again. Anyway, just wanted you to know that I did hear your request and I did return, if only briefly. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 19:23, 7 November 2018 (UTC)