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This user is a member of the Misplaced Pages Ultra Secret Inner Inner Cabal, a cabal so secret that not only am I not allowed to know who the other members are, I am not even allowed to know if there are any other members, and if I ever did find out that anyone else was a member I would have to kill them immediately. You can contact WUSIIC on #wikipedia-ultra-secret-inner-inner-cabal on Freenode. As a courtesy you are requested to kill yourself afterwards.

My crap Stuff and nonsense This user is an administrator on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify) This user has a userpage on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. 15,000+ This user has made over 15,000 contributions to Misplaced Pages Smert' spamionem! This user is a member of WikiProject Spam. BEng This user has a Bachelor of Engineering degree. Reading January 2025 17 Friday 2:03 pm UTC Were this admin to act in a foolish, trollish, or dickish way, he is open to being slapped with a large trout.

I check in most evenings, and occasionally some days during the day. I am on UK time (I can see Greenwich Royal Observatory from my office). If you post a reply at 8pm EST and get no reply by 10pm, it's likely because I'm asleep. My wiki interests at the moment are limited. I still handle some OTRS tickets.

Dispute resolution, Bible style - and actually an excellent model on Misplaced Pages as well.

If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.'

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

— Matthew 18:15

Please do not try to provoke me to anger, it's not difficult to do, so it's not in the least bit clever, and experience indicates that some at least who deliberately make my life more miserable than it needs to be, have been banned and stayed that way. Make an effort to assume good faith and let's see if we can't get along. Guy (Help!) 22:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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• User talk:Raul654/Civil POV pushing - extremely interesting debate on what I feel is one of the worst problems on Misplaced Pages right now.

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Argh - just realised you are a cycling fan anyway so removed this mini-rant ;-)

Poulenc

...is a good distraction, and for eloquent understatement, with quirky asides, is about the antipodes of the administrators' whinge-board. Good choice. I think I'll put some on myself: maybe the Gloria. Antandrus (talk) 16:26, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

• We have an interesting selection for the November concert: Rameau, Josquin, Messiaen, Fauré, but mostly Poulenc, Un soir de neige and Sept chansons. Very interesting to sing, not easy but sounds fantastic. I am becoming increasingly fond of the French Catholic influenced choral repertoire, I also recommend the Duruflé Requiem. And for a bit of fun, Charpentier's Messe de minuit. Guy (Help!) 19:36, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi, not sure if you want to wade into this unfinished business

Would like to minimize the drama on this if possible. On 30 October 2007, after he started playing around on ANI, you blocked the single purpose account User talk:Masai warrior indefinatly for disruption on LaRouche related articles. At the end of that editor's career as M.w., he had begun ramping up his editing.

On 3 November 2007, User_talk:Terrawatt made his first edit, and has since made several tens per month of edits to LaRouche related articles, consistent with the end of M.w.'s editing. The pattern of edit summaries, as far as they exist, are also consistent.

I'm afraid the Wikistalk results are not as good as I'd like them, given the short history of M.w. and the tendency for LaRouche warriors to shift onto another article after their disruption has been paralyzed. However, the edits to an article on a minor French political candidate are telling and he is surprisingly one of the few LaRouche warriors to hit up the article on the German wing.

Would you care to take the time (and subsequent moaning from the other socks) to block a disruptive LaRouche warrior who you did your best to nip in the bud, or would you prefer I develop things a little further and take this to SSP/AN/I? John Nevard (talk) 00:08, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

I had been meaning to raise the issue of this sock puppetry too. I don't think that TW is the only active sock. If I'm correct then the socks have been used to circumvent 3RR and are trying to skew consensus, so they are being used abusively. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 01:24, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

There are proper avenues in which to pursue sockpuppet complaints, ANI and requests for checkusers. For two editors engaged in a content dispute to seek a out a sympathetic admin to help them win it, is corrupt, and a solicitation for Use of administrator tools in disputes. --Marvin Diode (talk) 14:22, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Luckily I am not in dispute with any of these editors, and cleaning up when banned users empty their sock drawer all over the place is hardly controversial. Discussion between admins is a perfectly normal and acceptable way to resolve issues like this. Guy (Help!) 18:07, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

It's neither normal nor acceptable when parties to a dispute seek out an ally whose bias corresponds to their own, instead of putting it on ANI for the general community to assess. --Marvin Diode (talk) 20:52, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

In which case it's just as well that I have no obvious on-wiki relationship with the requesters, have never heard of LaRouche before the arbitration case and am not even American. Guy (Help!) 21:52, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

I knew I should have kept this to the Guy-Nevard-WBB mailing list! John Nevard (talk) 22:18, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

What's the point of having a super secret inner cabal if we then tip our hand on Misplaced Pages like this? Do try to keep up at the back there!" Guy (Help!) 08:37, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Long Time No Talk...

Sorry to hear about all of your family troubles since I've been gone. I've decided to start editing again, a little. I figure the enormous pile of crap I stirred up has died down and my stalkers are long gone. I won't be an admin ever again, that's for sure. If there's any cleanup or editing you need me to take a look at, you know where I am...  RasputinAXP  00:20, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

• Hey, good to see you back. Guy (Help!) 08:27, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Remote Viewing

I am having a difficult time finding any valid criticism of the work of Stephan A. Schwartz; acceptable to Schwartz by anyone other than Stephan A. Schwartz himself. See Remote Viewing discussion page. How very odd. Perhaps the raising of money from investors for Schwartz's projects has something to do with it. Somebody is paying for this stuff. But then I do have a suspicious nature. Maybe I have seen too much hanky panky. The study of deception does affect you. User: Kazuba 02:25, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

• What, you mean that a remote viewing participant is WP:OWNing the article and insisting that only pro-RV sources are reliable? But that's unthinkable! Oh, wait, no, it's Situation Normal. Guy (Help!) 08:22, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

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