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Regarding my advocacy case

Just wanted to let you know, I've sent you email. If for some reason it doesn't reach you, I'd appreciate it if you would send me an email -- my address is stored. I could really use your advice. Thanks in advance. -- (Lee)Bailey^(talk) 21:02, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

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Hello Wisden17

Hello how are you keeping? I hope you are still active on wikipedia and enjoying your break. We'll have to catch up soon! Newton2 11:54, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Hey Wisden!! Want to thank you for Opus Dei mediation. Just checked mediation procedure, and there's no more to wait for. Thought all the while there's a formal ruling coming out or something. Hope I was not a pain in the neck. ;) Truly appreciated your work, Wisden! Ndss 14:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

David L Cook Article/Wikipediatrix

Wisden17, we are having a continual problem with one of the editors by the name of Wikipediatrix. She continues to go through our contributions and makes edits to everything that we have posted. There is not a problem with that and we invite her contributions, however she gets way to personal into them. She tags everything and does not give any reason of why she is tagging something. She has had many run ins with other editors and administrators about her editing. They have told her to stop tagging without explaining why she is doing so. She ignores this admonishment and continues to do so. When we asak her why she tags things she goes on to tell us to stop berating her and just make the changes? How can one do this? We have cited things and she has gone right behind us and removed them and asked for cites again. This last time we edited the David L Cook article and took the stuff out that she had tagged and she went right back added the edits back onto the article and then removed them again? We are at our witts end with this woman. She has turned this into a personal issue. She is not nice to anyone who questions her and finally, she does not explain herself or her edits and tags. This is not the purpose of Wikipedia. This is supposed to be a community that works together. If she sees something wrong what would it hurt her to be a good editor and fix it? Not her! She tags it and then gets upset when questioned. We need help. We would prefer to have her blocked from our articles so that she cannot continue to do this to us. We have no problem with someone wanting to edit or give suggestions, we just do not have time to continue to bicker with this woman who is seemingly on a Rambo quest. Thank you for any help you can give us. IAMAS Corporation 15:52 22, Aug 2006 (UTC)

• You've been mis-led by this user's signature. (User:Iamascorp appears to be a rôle account, and the people there are using a link to an article about the company in the main article namespace as the account's signature.) The article in question is David L. Cook, and Wikipediatrix is requesting that sources be cited using the usual mechanisms. Please don't advise editors to simply remove source citation requests without citing sources. We insist upon sources here. Uncle G 00:30, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I have not mislead anyone. They are taking an entry where I refered this article over to our publicity department in order to make sure I did not imput a personal POV. Wikipediatrix said that the article read like a press release done by Mr. Cook's press agent. I never said this was an issue about the IAMAS Corporation, I said in the heading it was about the David L Cook article in question. As far as citing, I have cited and Wikipediatrix has removed any cites I have put on. I do not have a problem with her asking for cited material, what I do have a problem with is her bad attitude and failure to explain her tags. Wikipedia is here for us to work as a community and if you see an article needs something don't just tag stuff without explaination. If you are going to take so much time to tag something why don't you take the same time to help fix it? I think that makes a little more sense. IAMAS Corporation 02:12, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

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help

Dude i need help where are you.Mr.Willison 29 2006 aug 1:09

Joining?

What is espanraza and how do I join.User:Mr.Willison 6:26 am 2 sept 2006

Mediation advice

Hi, awhile back you said to let you know if I needed a hand. On Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Talk:Ross Jeffries, one of the involved parties, WoodenBuddha (talk | contribs), appears to be on wikibreak, and subsequently has not replied to the request for consent (or non-consent) to me mediating I left on his/her talk page on July 19, 2006. One of the other parties, Masssiveego (talk | contribs), is understandably in a hurry to begin mediation, and asked that mediation either begin by September 5, 2006, or that the case be closed. Wikipedia:Mediation#What_will_happen_when_you_ask_for_mediation_.3F states that "If any party fails to agree, the mediation will be rejected, as mediation cannot take place without the agreement of all parties." However, I think (some) progress could be made even without WoodenBuddha, who does not appear (at least not that I have noticed) to be involved in any of the secondary issues. As for the primary issues, WoodenBuddha and SecondSight seem to be more or less in agreement. So, I was wondering which you think would be best - closing the case, or starting without WoodenBuddha? Thanks! Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 15:57, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice. It didn't take you long to respond, I only posted on the mailing list because I noticed your edit history has been sporadic lately. I don't think it's that WoodenBuddha is unwilling, just that he/she isn't around (perhaps a summer vacation). But in any case, thanks for the advice, as this is my first formal case, I was fairly nervous about this. Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 22:52, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Mediation advice

Dear Wisden17, I would like to ask for your advice regarding the following wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma_Kumaris_World_Spiritual_University It is about the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University. There has been plenty of talk and discussions in the "discussion" page about this. The problem is that the original authors of this page dislike Brahma Kumaris. These authors had a negative experience with this Spiritual institution. One of the main authors if not the main author is: User:195.82.106.244 This user currently runs a website : brahmakumaris.info which again is against the BK institution.

Even though members of BK have attempted to work with User:195.82.106.244 as you could see in the discussion page, it has been of no avail. In the meantime, BK (Brahma Kumaris) image is being hurt since this article is being copied by other wiki like sites like answers.com. What we request (as stated in the discussion pages) is for this article to be written without obvious bias and in good faith with the aim of informing the public.

Please advice. Thank you. --avyakt7 21:03, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

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MedCom inactivity

It has been noticed that the MedCom has been rather inactive lately, and concern has been noted on the Admin noticeboard. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive248#Requests for mediation has ground to a halt. Anyways, I thought you might like to take a look. Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 22:33, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Mediation for the articles.

I have placed an mediation tag for the article Mase after an edit war invoked LMZ00 to place negative comments on my talk page, posting vandal tags without confirmation from other users, and numerous comments left addressing myself about the editing of this article. I had enough of the editing and bickering of this article. I have placed the tag on the article. If there's anything else I should do? I have the versions in question. Here's mine [1] and here's Lmz00's [2]. Thanks. LILVOKA 17:27, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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I have never edited any of the information on Wikipedia. Why did you accuse me of doing so? Furthermore, I know that I have NEVER search for information on The Junkies.

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I have been following the article entitled "El Universal (Mexico City)." Recently, the user cjwirth has been making changes to it, that in my opinion are both biased and out of context. They do not speak the truth. I reverted his changes and issued a warning in his User's page advising him that he should document any changes with sources so we would reach a consensus. He has keep on modifying the article without following the issued guidelines, so I decided to come here and ask for your help as a mediator. Thanks.

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VP Ongoing Issue

For some reason my name has been removed from the list of authorized users. I was added by Betacommand here [3], and he welcommed me here[4]. I had difficulties using it, did everything I could myself, was unable to, so I requested assistance here [5]. Instead of assistance, I was removed from the list. Because I have had difficulties on wikipedia recieving help from administrators when requested, this message is in essence a generic template I am writing on all moderators' talk pages and discussion boards in the hopes of recieving if nothing else a response - ideally, however, a solution. Thank you very much and apologies for my impatience. Gregorof/(T) 05:35, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

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Need some help with POV

Hi, Wisden17. I could really use some help with what I believe is a POV fork with the Historicity of Jesus article. I tried to contribute to the article and clean up some of the POV after reading about concerns on the talk page, and had my work reverted 3 times in less than a day. 3 contributors are working in concert to maintain their exclusive "majority" view. The archives show them discussing how to donate 2 reverts each in order to avoid the 3RR. The history of this page is contentious. I've tried to discuss this out on the talk page, but am still having my attempts to address the POV removed. Any advice or help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Please fell free to respond on my talk page. Thank you in advance. Phyesalis 05:06, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

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Hi i had a warning message about edits i'd made to the "Deconomies of scale" page...anyway, i never made edits, dont know what "deconomies of scale" are and have never heard of Tosh Ayres...I don't know what's going on. Does this mean my Ip has been hacked?

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Opus Dei

Hi! I've been drawn into this article because I evaluated it for Good Article status. There are several folk who are saying things about a mediation ruling you made on the article. I cannot make out from what they are saying or from the give-and-take in the mediation discussion as to what the problem is (other than some love and some hate the organization) and what solution you all came to. Also, I'm a bit confused since I didn't think a mediation decision was at all binding on non-parties. Could you email me with some thoughts. (beyond: run away! run VERY FAR away!) 8-) --CTSWyneken^(talk) 11:49, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

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Clerk for Requests for Checkuser

Hey Wisden17,

I am messaging you to ask whether you would be interested in reassuming your role as a Request for Checkuser clerk. Currently, the clerk duties are being shared among three experienced clerks, and we have added two new clerks, who are currently in the learning stage. We are currently experiencing backlogs and long waiting times for some actions to occur.

As you are currently listed under "inactive" on our clerk roster, we're asking that if you are willing to resume these clerk activities, please leave a message on my user talk page ^{(quick link)}. A number of things have changed, so we reccommend re-reading Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Clerks/Guide. The guide is currently being rewritten, but the new and updated version should be available by 00:00 December 12, 2006 (UTC) at the latest.

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Hi there. I saw your name at the AMA members' list, even though I'm not looking for an advocate to represent me per se (not yet, anyway). I'd appreciate some advice with the 2004 Madrid train bombings article. It seems we're headed for RfA. I'd like some impartial advice on how to resolve this dispute. Briefly, an editor is supporting a 'conspiracy theory' led by a Spanish newspaper (El Mundo) about the authorship of the attack (Islamists vs Spaniards). The amount of space dedicated to this theory and to the El Mundo claims (and certain deletions of text contradicting those claims) has severely irritated the other editors. References against these statements exist, the problem is that the principal source (El Pais) has a subscription policy, and online refs cannot be provided for every single El Mundo claim. So, the article is quite POV right now. An investigation of 1400+ pages by the Spanish Judicial system found no consistent evidence of involvement by Spanish terrorists, but again we have limited access to this source. There is a heavy dispute going on at the talk page. I'd appreciate some input. Thanks for your time and patience. :) Raystorm 11:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

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Ronald Ryan

Hello,

Ronald Ryan was the last man executed in Australia.

I am in "dispute" with an unregistered user about that article. This user appears to be passionate about the abolition of the death penalty (which is fine) and uses the Ronald Ryan article as a soapbox (which isn't).

There are reputable sources, including his priest (who was not his confessor) who have said they heard him confess to shooting a prison warder (though without an intention to kill, he simply wished to escape from gaol). Fr. Brosnan (his priest) can in no way be regarded as a antagonistic witness.

I have provided (primary & secondary) sources for my additions (see the history) and User:Richard69 simply says:

• all the witnesses to the confessions are dead, (of course, Ryan was executed in 1967)
• the confessions are hearsay, (all confessions are hearsay, that is their nature, unless the offender admits the offence to the court)
• his barrister thought him not guilty (I am a Victorian barrister and we are often the last to know the truth of the matter, it's not our job to know that)

and then he reverts my changes.

I have tried to initiate a discussion on the talk page. The only response I get is the addition of more "evidence" that he could not have been guilty.

What should I do next? A revert war will solve nothing. I would be grateful for any assistance you can provide. Avalon 06:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

VP Help

i noticed you are a mod for vp. i was recently approved (still on the list, in fact), but the software insists on telling me that i am not on the user list. can you help me with this? ty. the_undertow ^talk 01:55, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Wisden has not edited since September of yesteryear. See Special:Contributions/Wisden17. Perhaps you can ask someone else? Best of luck, Armed Blowfish (talk|mail) 14:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Vandal Proof

The User List is corrupted and the program instructed me to contact a moderator. -Vcelloho 15:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Same here...thanks for your time. Jmlk17 22:14, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

July 2007 GAC backlog elimination drive

A new elimination drive of the backlog at Wikipedia:Good article candidates will take place from the month of July through August 12, 2007. There are currently about 130 articles that need to be reviewed right now. If you are interested in helping with the drive, then please visit Wikipedia:Good article candidates backlog elimination drive and record the articles that you have reviewed. Awards will be given based on the number of reviews completed. Since the potential amount of reviewers may significantly increase, please make sure to add :{{GAReview}} underneath the article you are reviewing to ensure that only one person is reviewing each article. Additionally, the GA criteria may have been modified since your last review, so look over the criteria again to help you to determine if a candidate is GA-worthy. If you have any questions about this drive or the review process, leave a message on the drive's talk page. Please help to eradicate the backlog to cut down on the waiting time for articles to be reviewed.

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Replaceable fair use Image:Billportrait.jpg

Replaceable fair use

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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for November 2007

The November 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the December 2007 issue. Dr. Cash 01:25, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Alice Ottley Image

Hi, I noticed that you uploaded Image:Ao-crest.gif. I am afraid that this image is now orphaned and so will be deleted soon. If you wish to use this image in the future, please upload it to the Wiki commons.

Regards, Dewarw (talk) 18:22, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Image:Ao-crest.gif, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

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Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on [[Talk:Image:Ao-crest.gif|the article's talk page]] explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Dewarw (talk) 18:25, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Image:Ao-crest.gif

I have deleted this file because it was replaced in the article with another image and, as a non-free image, should not be kept while not used in an article. It can be restored if you feel your image would be a better choice for the article, but to avoid an edit war please discuss at Talk:The_Alice_Ottley_School or with the user who replaced it at User talk:Dewarw. —Random832 19:47, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Note that, contrary to the above, the image should not be re-uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, that recommendation really only applies to freely licensed images.—Random832 19:52, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for December 2007

The December 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the January 2008 issue. Dr. Cash 01:21, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

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