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Vandalism from 157.91.107.13

In addition to any additional action you deem appropriate (i.e. banning), the provider of his/her IP address is a school in Indiana, which has been notified of the nature and times of the infractions on SCOTUS and Brown v. Board of Education, with an advisory to have stern words. Simon Dodd 15:28, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

please stop making this article evil!

There is a horribly pro-condom/anti-life view being expressed in this 'article' please stop re-adding it, I've already fixed the article, now don't change it anymore!--64.12.116.197 18:14, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but your changes to the article made it, in my view, way less neutral than it was. I see you've made a note on the talk page. Please discuss changes there when you consider controversial, big changes like that! --JoanneB 20:06, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

My rant

Thanks. I agree with your analogy too. Something's broken here, and we need to fix it. I just wish someone read the rant and figured that there's things to be done. I'm back in limited capacity, so I can relax the new few days, then I'll think some more and come back fully, hopefully. Meanwhile, keep whacking the vandals... I had already caught up to you in the number of edits, and now I'll lose ground again... ;) :) Titoxd 06:24, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

:-) I'm glad your back anyway, even if it's just partly. And yes, something is very much broken right now. If you ever want to chat, and get stuff off your chest, you know where to find me :-) --JoanneB 12:32, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

See Joanne, we're poopular :)

User:JoanneB aka The Misplaced Pages Prostitute, User:Ohmygod!theykilled JoanneB and User:Woohookitty sleeps with prostitutes. I do not! :) --Woohookitty 12:04, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I really am going to charge contributions for my fanclub, I think. With all those fans out there, that should be pretty lucrative ;-) Let's just take it as a compliment that those vandals are annoyed by us enough to try and annoy us back! --JoanneB 12:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

with 82.110.216.127 - a bit late but stil...

82.110.216.127 posted in the guest book on my site. It was never shown as it is set for enries to be approved first.

Name: your gay 
Page coments are about (/site) (main page): your gay 
Comments: your gay 
how did you find this page: beccasue you blocked me and cause your gay 
do you like my site: no ts pirty gay 
what improvements should i make: make it not gaay 
what is your favorite thing on my site: the gayness 
Name: 82.110.216.127 
Page coments are about (/site) (main page):  
Comments: Faggot! Why the hell did you ban me from wikipedia?!?!?!? 
how did you find this page: Mianus 
do you like my site: No its as gay as you 
what improvements should i make: Make it good 
what is your favorite thing on my site: The fact that you smell bad 

They have a different IP now probably. Thanks for ban you put on them. --Adam1213 Talk + 10:16, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Badly moved page

Hi JoanneB, I remember you helped me when I screwed up an article move some time ago, and I thought I might ask if you could move Adventured of Tintin back to its original name Minor characters in Tintin? Someone made an unnecessary mess out of it. Poulsen 05:14, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi again, now the article has been moved to Adventures of Tintin, which is evenly confusing as that isn't a good article name for for a description of Minor characters in Tintin. I hope you can help me, or please let me know who can, as a lengthy voting-to-move process shouldn't be due in order to revert this established article back to its original place. Poulsen 11:22, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Done! Regards, --JoanneB 11:41, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you so much, that's really perfect! Thank you for your time :) Poulsen 12:26, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you very much for moving back the page to its original name. Things have been further complicated by the fact the page was moved twice by different people who didn't take the time to think twice about the move. Anyway, there is still a problem : The talk page hasn't been moved. It is still under Talk:Adventures of Tintin. So can you please also move Talk:Adventures of Tintin --> Talk:Minor characters in Tintin? Thank you very much in advance. Glaurung 07:11, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

A big thank you for your help! Glaurung 14:27, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Many thanks for your Speedy Support on my request for adminiship, I'm sure you'll be glad to know the final result was 92/1/0. I am now an administrator and (as always) if I do anything you have issue with, please talk about it with me. Proost! --Alf 08:51, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

Hey man,I need to know much. I am creating a user page for myself and want to know how I can get images from outside and keep them on my user page. Also,while editing,how can you change an image into a new one from your saved pictures on your computer.Batzarro 16:08, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, sorry it took me so long to respond! You might want to look at this page: Misplaced Pages:Uploading images, I think it will answer your question. Regards, --JoanneB 11:22, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Could you help me?

Could you add Gerard Way to your watchlist? it's being left in a vandalized state for hours on end. I've added it to #w-e-v but it keeps being taken off by someone. So we're having a protection war on it and I want to avoid it. Thanks for your help. --Woohookitty 20:24, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

It's on my watchlist, I'll keep an eye on it! --JoanneB 11:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Watchlist

How does a Watchlist work? Batzarro 09:44, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Basically, it allows you to keep track on certain pages. You can add articles to it by clicking the 'watch' tab. When you log in, you'll see a link to your watchlist in the top right corner of the page, and there you'll see the most recent changes to the articles that are part of your watchlist. --JoanneB 11:26, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Pentagram

Just wondering why you reverted the page without discussion. Lentilsoup 11:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I did so while I was patrolling the recent changes for vandalism, because you deleted the complete article (without discussion), to replace it with information about another band. I was planning to leave you a message about it afterwards, but something else came up, sorry about that. --JoanneB 11:23, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I did not delete the article, I moved it to a more appropriate page. Do you know anything about either band called Pentagram? Are you a fan of doom metal? If (as I suspect) the answer to both questions is "No", why did you revert my changes without discussion? Lentilsoup 11:32, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Because from what you were doing, it was not clear what you were doing and why. You did not provide an edit summary, so when you removed the text from that article, it was not obvious that you were 'moving it to a more appropriate page'. By the way, regarding those moves, please take a look at Help:Renaming (moving) a page, since the way you are moving those pages is not the right procedure. I'm a bit surprised by your emphasis on me doing stuff without discussion while you are renaming and moving pages without discussion yourself. The only thing I did was move stuff back to the way it was, since I did not see an explanation or discussion about it on the talk page or anywhere else. --JoanneB 11:40, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I didn't discuss it because I thought the need for the change would have been obvious to anyone who knew anything about the topic. You also reverted the page again after I had explained the change on the talk page, and accused me of vandalism without bothering to look at the facts. If I were unfamiliar with Misplaced Pages, this episode would not have encouraged me to continue contributing to it. Fortunately, I already know that it attracts control freaks and busybodies who enjoy throwing their weight around. Lentilsoup 11:54, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

If you were more familiar with the amount of vandalism that Misplaced Pages has to endure every day, you might understand a bit better why I did what I did. You might have meant well, but in the beginning, that was not clear, and when you repeated your action, the move was still performed wrong, so I reverted it again. As for the vandalism warning: I did not see your message on the talk page then, sorry about that. I have now fixed all of that (or I hope I have), so now the page history has been restored. As for the 'control freaks and busybodies who enjoy throwing their weight around' - please read Misplaced Pages:No personal attacks. I still wish you all the best and hope you'll have a good time contributing to Misplaced Pages. Regards, --JoanneB 12:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Rama

Hello JoanneB, thanks for correcting me on the rename / move of Rama. Actually this had been discussed, scattered between the article talk page, my talk page, and that of Pizzadeliveryboy who had previously moved it. I'm aware of standard practice on moving and renaming, but forgot that the old Rama redirect page would no longer have any history with it. Could I ask you to correct the other such copy move I made at the same time please. That's for the current Ravana article, which now has no edit history. Thanks, Imc 15:40, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, no problem! I corrected the other one as well. Regards, --JoanneB 17:01, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Mornington Crescent

Semi-protect

The Jesus article has received some recent anon vandalism, semi-protect?Gator (talk) 14:59, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I've looked at the last 500 edits (not individually, of course..) and it doesn't really look like there's more anon vandalism today or this week than before. I think we'll have to accept that articles like that are high profile.. Luckily, many editors have it on their watchlist and the RC patrollers are pretty alert on it, so vandalism on pages like this rarely goes undetected for long. Regards, --JoanneB 15:02, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

195.93.21.35 Vandalism

Hey, Doktorb here. I note I have been blocked, just as I was getting my teeth into Filton and Bradley Stoke!

I know being an AOL user means putting up with this kind of thing, but unless the actual user was creating merry Hell, could the block be removed at the earliest possibility so I can get on with creating new articles from Constituencies in the next United Kingdom general election ??

Many thanks - I want to apologise for being a tricky AOL user as well, mind...

. doktorb | words 19:05, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi! I only blocked for an hour, so you would have been unblocked in a few minutes anyway, but I unblocked it now so you should be fine. Let me know if you're not! Regards, --JoanneB 19:10, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for blocking Crazy-eyztheonly1

Thankyou for blocking Crazy-eyztheonly1 just now. I am fairly new here and am trying to get involved with the community a bit - primarily by doing RC patrol. It is edifying to know that my first "confrontation" was watched on by someone who determined that my "test1" and "test2" were appropriate (I assume). So yeah, thanks! Also, it is a milestone for me to have had my talk page vandalised - now I'll have to go and get a new userbox to tally the experience. Lol. Witty lama 13:58, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Dear Joanne

Dear Joanne, could you please do something regarding this guy? You'll understand what I mean as soon as you click on that link... Thanks! – Phædriel ♥ - 21:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I see :-) Blocked him yesterday (just forgot to say so here), thanks for reporting! --JoanneB 19:02, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Now what was the inspiration for this user's name I wonder :s -> User:Billy On Bannana Peels --Alf 13:25, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

LOL :-) Will we see you in the chat channel today (not an obligation, just making sure you'll be able to if you want to)? If you need any help with the verification/identification stuff, let me know! --JoanneB 13:27, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Yup you'll see me later, am verified an all that jazz. Just at work on IE6 with no Chatzilla on works machine (I'm only allowed personal laptop use at weekends) so can't join you 'til I get home :( --Alf 13:36, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Ok, see you later then! I didn't see you on the new list, that's why I asked (the vandalism channel is invite only now). See Misplaced Pages:Counter Vandalism Unit/IRC Channel Verifications. --JoanneB 14:34, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Yup, no problem there JoanneB - was up til way past my bedtime last night/this morning following the process and making sure I could get in, should be no problem. Thanks for the extra thought. --Alf 14:42, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

In that case I'll ask Essjay why you're not on the list! No big deal of course, it just had me puzzled :-) See you later! --JoanneB 14:43, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

IRC Bot

As I'm editing from school and I don't have access to IRC, is xd-bot working, or is it dreadfully lagging like it did yesterday? Titoxd 18:05, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi! It was working alright, but it left because of excess flood... --JoanneB 19:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Transportation in NYC

Hello Joanne - I notice you've done work on the New York City article. The Transportation in New York City sub article has really come along and has been nominated to be a US Collaboration of the Week. Check it out and if you like it, please vote for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/WP:USCOTW We need all the votes we can get! Wv235 04:07, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Dutch language

Hello, I wondered whether you could help me with a translation of an acronym that's used here? I'm wondering about: Wieteke Cramer (1.500m) uitzending o.v.b., as I'm not quite sure what o.v.b. means. Thanks for any help you can give! Sam Vimes 13:27, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure it means 'onder voorbehoud', which translates as "with reservations" or "with (a certain) proviso". In this context, for some reason they are not sure yet if she'll be sent to the Olympic Games. Hope this helps, let me know if it doesn't or if you have any other questions! --JoanneB 13:38, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply! Sam Vimes 13:46, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: IRC channel

Not a problem. Thanks for letting me in. (ESkog) 23:41, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou

Hey there! Thanks for all your help. I think you deserve this for all your efforts. Thanks also for officially welcoming me, its about time somebody did! See you in the channels, --Ali K 08:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism to User:Commander Keane

Oh what a complete mess. That’s the last time I’m ever leaving my computer unattended again. Sorry for what appeared to be me vandalising his page. I was just talking to the school’s technician and when I returned I realised that the guy sitting next to me had edited under my account. I’m so sorry and I realise I may have to explain this again in the course of the next few days. By the way, the IP address I was using was 194.80.20.10, and I am pretty sure whoever it was vandalising under that address before was the same person who edited under my name. — FireFox • T • 13:36, 24 January 2006

Ashida Kim vandalism

You had some Ashida Kim vandalism to your userpage; I did a history cleansing to remove it from the page history. If you notice anything askew, it's probably my fault, just ask me about it in IRC. Essjay 07:28, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

An Esperanzial note

As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Misplaced Pages:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Celestianpower 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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block

thanks a lot for your help. apologies if the helpme tag was the wrong way to go about it; i didn't want to put up unblock as my username wasn't blocked, but i did put that up on the ip talk page. so again, thanks a whole lot! --Heah 23:19, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

New help system

The new help system is incredible! Thanks for showing me how this works. Googie man 17:07, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

But no one is helping me!

I have asked a simple question: what is the next step? The criteria are being ignored by the administrators who have thus far posted, and it is unclear to me who decides in this matter. Is it a question of convincing one administrator of the merits? I can understand an individual administrator deciding, For my part, I shall exercise my administrator's discretion by checking BBC, Google, etc., for guidance I can also understand one saying, At the end of the day, Misplaced Pages is not a glocal news service, so let's see what the gloal news services say, and just aggregate. I will turn the question back on you: is it not odd that CNN and BBC have not covered this? Doesn't it seem anomalous? Not making the main page is one thing, not listed at all is indefensible. StrangerInParadise 16:28, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

One of the main things you need to consider is that Misplaced Pages doesn't make the news, nor does it report it, it mainly reports what others are reporting. I do not have any insights in the reasons that other resources have not covered it yet, I don't think any Wikipedian can answer that. I play no role in deciding which stories appear on the main page and I'm afraid I can't help you any further. The reason that I removed the {{helpme}} tag from your page is that it had appeared in the channel (#wikipedia-bootcamp) and that we were aware of your request. The tag is mainly meant for 'newbie' questions for using and editing the Misplaced Pages encyclopedia, for discussions about the justifiability of an item not appearing on the main page, I advise you to discuss it on the appropriate page Misplaced Pages:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates and its talk page. I'm sorry I can't be of further assistance! --JoanneB 17:15, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

One of the main things you need to consider is that Misplaced Pages doesn't make the news, nor does it report it

I considered, acknowledged and discussed it, yes. I also gave a long list list of news outlets covering the issue. I'm very clear on what Misplaced Pages is and is not. What I am not clear on is why administrators are apparently ignoring the stated guidelines. I did not ask you why it was not covered by BBC, etc: I asked whether you thought it was unusual. In other words, perhaps the rule of thumb in use does not in this case serve the actual policy. StrangerInParadise 17:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I should clarify as well. There should be a proper place to contest this, and call for a vote, other than the candidate page (which I have already swamped, as no one will tell me what to do next). I'm thinking that this is an editorial issue, and so both editors and admins should have a vote, like an Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion process/ page, but need process guidance. StrangerInParadise 17:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Parken image

Hi. Can you help me finding the right fair use-license to Image:Parken.jpg? I have seen the list but I didn't find some thing. I have been "threaten" with to get some images deleted if I didn't came up with a lisence, as I however found. It would be annoying if it got deleted.

As talked about on User talk:Kalaha and User talk:Poulsen may it could be registered as fair use when Parken is cultural importent for Denmark.

Hi, there's a reason that you can't find an appropriate fair use template: I don't think there's any way that using this image can be qualified as fair use. I'm afraid the image can't be used, so it probably will be deleted... Perhaps you could request an image of it, by placing it in this category: http://en.wikipedia.org/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs. Regards, --JoanneB 20:44, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

WP:ESP/AC

Hey! Thanks for signing up in Misplaced Pages:Esperanza's Admin coaching program. Since you've volunteered to help train a user, I've assigned Aaron to you and to your partner, Mailer Diablo. Please make sure to be kind and helpful to your coachee. If you have any questions, let me know. Thanks again! Titoxd 23:47, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I'm checking in just to say hello! (Especially since I have no idea what the next step is!) --Aaron 02:15, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

loving a vandal

Okay, JoanneB. I realize that you and the CurpsBot and Alkivar all love me, but you can't keep blocking me as a way of expressing your feelings. Even though you wouldn't be the first chick from the netherlands that has had CapnCrack in her netherregions, it's just not right. A vandal and an administrator. It would never work. So I have to ask you to stop blocking me and stop advancing on me. Krappa 00:57, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

• User has been blocked, see : Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Block of Krappa. - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 01:11, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, Mailer Diablo, you're so silly. You can block a vandal all you want to, but you can never block JoanneB's undying love for a vandal. It's sad, really. Choctawfarm 18:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Shirley Maheu

Maheu's official biography at the Parliamentary website lists Feb 1, 2006 as the date of her death. 70.28.159.194 04:48, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I'll revert what I reverted to the article. I hope you understand that I did this only out of caution: it wouldn't have been the first time that a politician had been pronounced 'dead' in an article as a 'joke', and since there were no sources for this news given... Thanks for letting me know! --JoanneB 09:07, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

I was not angry at you, or wikipedia, I was mad at the world because I was having a bad day. I hope that I did not offend you. I dont know where you are from but the death of canadian senators happens often (as they serve till age 75) and of the 99 sitting senators, perhaps only one or two (Hugh Segal most likely) can be named by the average canadian, and I'd venture to guess most of the people who know who Segal is dont know he's even in the senate. I was upset because I had found out via Misplaced Pages's "Canadian Senate" page, and so updated the "Party Standings" page to match. the data I found was on Parliament's website, which is a good place for this information. I dont think the death of a canadian senator's ever been questioned (in fact, every time someone informs us someone is dead via the canadian senate page, I update the party standings page without even checking, something I should not do) but in the future I will include the link when someone dies. Retirements however are recorded on the page itself and I hope I dont need links for that. Pellaken 13:22, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

BTW, the death of canadian senators is almost never reported on by the media, unless that senator is well known for some reason (for example, Mr.Segal) and even then it's usually a short article. Senators here are more similar to the british Lords then the US Senate in that they are relativly powerless. Pellaken 13:26, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

RfA Thanks!

User Page award

Congratulations, JoanneB! Your user page has been nominated for the Esperanza User Page Award! Five judges will look over your user page and award it 1-10 points in four categories:

• Attractiveness: general layout, considering colour scheme and/or use of tables if applicable
• Usefulness: links to subpages or editing aids, helpful information
• Interesting-ness: quirky, unique, captivating, or funny content
• General niceness: at the judges' discretion

But first, you must be chosen as a finalist. If your user page is chosen as one of the five finalists, you'll have the chance to win an award created just for having a great user page!

More information can be found on this page.

smurrayinchester 18:14, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, I wish I had something better to say...

All I can say I hope your holding up alright. Please take this flower. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 19:00, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching

Hey JoanneB, I'd like to let you know that your admin in training is leaving Misplaced Pages because he thinks you and your admin partner have been ignoring him, he doesn't know about what happened...and I don't feel comfortable telling him why you haven't been responding to him. Could you let him know that you didn't mean to ignore him? KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 01:58, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

• Please accept my condolences on your grandmother's passing, I sincerely hope that you are well. I don't really use IRC (though I can revive it if there is a need), the quickest method to reach me would probably be via email. - Mailer Diablo 18:14, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Mackmuerry

Can I block it too? ;-) - Just zis  Guy, you know? / 13:19, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Sure, be my guest ;-) --JoanneB 13:21, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

A few people round here are mighty fast on the reverts - all but one of my revert attempts after I first spotted him on JzG's page were too late! :-) Good work, well done. --kingboyk 13:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Computers!

I'm sorry about that, blame the computer. I will talk to you in IRC, until then, stay well --Ali K 14:42, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Help

Thanks, that was quick. One time I came on here on someone else's account and they had a thing that allowed them to see a small dropdown screen when floating on a link. How do I find that? Mutebutton 15:58, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again. Another question. I've seen pages that are subpages before, but i'm unsure on how to make them. How is that done? Mutebutton 16:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

That's where i've seen them before. Once again, thank you for your help. Is there anything I can assist you with? Also, condolences on your grandmother. Mutebutton 16:46, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks !

Thanks, Joanne ... I completely goofed, and didn't need help after all. Still a clueless newbie :-)) Sandy 23:10, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Have you seen...

This --pgk 21:38, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Domo Arigato

--Cool Cat 23:16, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching

Hi JoanneB ... my condolences about your grandmother. I think I'm feeling up to speed again, so I'm ready to start the coaching thing sometime soon if you and Mailer diablo are... --Aaron 22:18, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Great! See you soon then! By the way, what is your preferred mode of communication? Talk pages, IRC, e-mail? --JoanneB 18:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Any of those are fine by me, but I have to admit I'm sort of fond of the Admin coaching page that Sango123 and Banes set up for Gryffindor. --Aaron 03:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

• The format looks good, and I think have different subsequent scenarios (that he hasn't explored just yet) lined-up for him too. ;) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 16:57, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Designatedhitter

I've put something on WP:ANI about his behaviour last night. Could you leave a comment please? Sceptre 10:50, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Celestianpower 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
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Happy Valentines

Happy Valentines Day! — FireFox • T • 10:15, 14 February 2006

Edit conflict

Lol you edit conflicted me with that vandal. :) Keep up the good anti-vandal work! Happy Valentines Day! Banez 16:23, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm still here!

Just a quick note to let you know I'm not intentionally ignoring the Admin Coaching page. I didn't have time to respond Sunday night, and when I did have time yesterday, the Misplaced Pages servers were down. I'll be responding later tonight. See you then! --Aaron 17:40, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

<3

Karmafist's Neutral Proposal

I have a request of my fellow candidates, and of the voters -- that all candidates give a vote to every other candidate.

It may seem that this request goes against the idea that leadership and potential leadership of our group should be neutral, a precedent that has been followed since the beginning of Esperanza by JCarriker, but I beg to disagree.

For one, mathematically all votes would be cancelled out, but unlike if we stayed silent, we are showing an affirmation of our support for each other.

To me, that's what Esperanza's about. I've had disagreements with many people in Esperanza, but i'll always support them in some form or another as long as I believe as they'll do the same for me -- as long as we're unified in a belief that kindness can cure the ills of Misplaced Pages as a whole.

Karmafist 04:08, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

• Wikizach supports this request
• Dakota Kahn supports this request and did this in the last election for maintaining neutrality.

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The Election

It looks like it's gonna be a close one, so if we tie, i'll give you my vote. Hey, it's the least I can do for that advice you gave me on the chocolate. ;-) Karmafist 04:14, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Big Spring, Texas

Thanks for semi-protecting the page. It's been tiresome dealing with the anon individual who insists on adding the blatantly POV essay to the article. All attempts to reason with the individual have been futile. Given the actions of this person (refusing to respect consensus on the talk page, using deceptive edit summaries, is there any recourse that can be taken besides 3RR reports and semiprotection? It's not obvious vandalism, but to me it does seem to be obvious POV-pushing and refusal to work within the guidelines of Misplaced Pages. OhNoitsJamie 18:31, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

This is getting to be ridiculous. , . Is an RFC the only way to solve this? OhNoitsJamie 21:50, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

I have discovered that my account "Happyjoe" is blocked from editing due to some sort of misunderstanding over the Big Spring, TX article. Please remove this block so that I may complete necessary editing on other articles. Thank you for your timely assistance in resolving this problem... Happyjoe 69.145.215.206 03:14, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Your pupil finally showed up!

Hi JoanneB! I finally posted my responses to the first set of questions. I apologize for taking so long; first Real Life got in the way for a day or two, and then my own perfectionistic procrastination kept causing my to put it off (basically I spent so long ruminating over the questions in my mind in order to "get it right" that I let it get in the way of actually typing out any answers). I finally realized I was making way too much out of it (it's a learning process after all, not a final exam) and made myself sit down and finish it. So when you get a chance, let me know how badly I messed up. ;) Thanks! --Aaron 02:18, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

VWN en WCN

Beste allemaal Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org . Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 15:37, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey

I blame the time differences for us missing each other everyday! So don't worry about it and i will talk to you soon, --Ali K 03:58, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

A note from the Admin Coaching coordinator

Hello, coaches. As you can see, there is a significant backlog at the Esperanza Admin Coaching program. Since we do not want users to have to wait forever to get assigned, I'm asking all of you for a status report. If you feel that you are done, that your coachee is not active enough, or that you could handle the extra load from another coachee, please tell me in my talk page as soon as possible. Thanks! Titoxd 06:49, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

JoanneB, thank you vey much for your support in the Esperanza Advisory Council election.--Dakota ~ ° 19:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Elections

Hello Joanne: Thank you very much for the support on the ongoing Esperanza elections. While it looks like I may not be receiving a post , I would still like to say that I appreciate your vote, and that I hope we all continue working for a better Misplaced Pages. Thanks, Bratsche 19:36, 26 February 2006 (UTC)