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Hi, folks! --Grue 05:29, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

This page is a free speech zone. Tell me what you really think. Do not remove comments of other users, even if you think they could be personal attacks.

Archive

• User:Grue/archive1 (-\infty - 01/06/2005)
• User:Grue/archive2 (01/06/2005 - 01/11/2005)
• User:Grue/archive3 (01/11/2005 - 01/02/2006)
• User:Grue/archive4 (01/02/2006 - 01/05/2006)

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list of stereotypes

I found that on your userpage by a search. I really like it and have been trying to improve it. I know it's your's but I hope you don't mind. I am trying to make it better. DyslexicEditor 09:44, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Currently it's in a horrible state. If you want to clean it up, that would be great.  Grue  10:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

It would be good to regularly save it in a text file in case an admin decides to delete it, you can put it up on a web page. DyslexicEditor 19:57, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hello, Grue, and thank you for vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 62/2/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. As I acclimate myself to my new tools, feel free to let me know how you believe I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! RadioKirk talk to me 05:38, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Closing of infidel userbox

Hey, just wondering, wouldn't recreate in userspace be a better compromise? There were a fair number of people on "undelete" and then "keep deleted" as well as a fair number of people in the middle ground saying "userfy". This is probably the best compromise available, as what a lot of us really just have problems with is unencyclopedic templates in general. There's no reason this thing needs to be a template. --Cyde Weys 18:55, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for voting in my RfA!

Just a moment to say thanks for voting in my RfA! I appreciated the comment; the nom didn't get consensus but I'm still glad I accepted it. - Amgine 20:53, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Question

How do you reconcile your vote with T1, as currently written (you can refresh your memory at WP:CSD)? Mackensen (talk) 19:44, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Your vote on my RFA

Thank you for voting on my RFA! I decided to withdraw my self-nomination since the people don't see me as an experienced figure yet. Hopefully in the future, my RFAs will be more meticulously planned, and perhaps even more peer reviewed. You didn't seem to leave a comment, so I don't know why in particular you voted. Nice signature, by the way! —THIS IS MESSEDOCKER (TALK) 20:20, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Hi Grue,

Thank you for supporting my RFA! Unfortunately it did not succeed mainly because most opposers wanted me to spend more time on Misplaced Pages. Thank you for your faith in me & looking forward to your continued support in the future.

Cheers

Srikeit 09:35, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

about Cyde Weys

Hey I noticed our comment on the undelete userbox page. Is there anyway to start a request for comment on Cyde on his userbox deletion spree? Aeon 03:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA Thank You!

Thanks Grue,

I am honored by your support in my recent successful request for adminship. As an administrator, I am your servant, ready to help however I can. (In your case, since you've had the tools longer than I, my best use might be menial labor!) My talk page is always open; should you need anything, or should you see me making a mistake -- probably a common occurrence -- please do let me know. I will depend on the good sense of the community to keep me from making a complete fool of myself! :) In gratitude, Xoloz 18:00, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

PS. You're one of the folks I'm most counting on, because you have the courage to stand apart from the "herd" on the basis of principle -- so please, please share any objections you have with my admin conduct.

Re: Userboxes (yet another proposal)

Seeing how you opposed the first question on Mackensen's Poll (arguably the most important), I would like to show you my essay on what should be done with userboxes. It is hopefully a new and unseen way of resolving this conflict.

Thanks,
// True _Sora 20:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Rougelike

To follow up what I said on WP:AN, this is truly excellent work :-). Please tell me it's a beta, so much more could be done with this idea... in particular, I don't think this game will be complete until I can cast File RFAR with radius 3 and take down every user around me. --Sam Blanning 19:22, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
If you don't mind, I'd like to keep the discussion here rather than fragmenting it across our separate talk pages.

Uh, in fact this is supposed to be a final version. But I may have some excessive free time in summer, so I may add some more stuff. If you can compile a list of suggestions and mail it to me, that would be excellent.  Grue  21:52, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

By the 'beta' comment I didn't mean the game was deficient in any way - just that if you wanted to run with the idea of Misplaced Pages as a rougelike, there are a lot of possibilities. I'll try to get my thoughts in order and send you that email in case you ever do get that free time. --Sam Blanning 22:28, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey Grue, just wondering if you've ever played Nethack, and if so, what classes have you Ascended? --Cyde↔Weys 22:29, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I played it, but not very much. I prefer ADOM or Dungeon Crawl. The only roguelike that I ever won is DoomRL. I tend to do stupid things when playing longer games...  Grue  07:06, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Hrmm, I played ADOM but couldn't really get into it. It seemed like it lacked focus too much ... a lot of skills, a bit less actual dungeon crawling. I never beat DoomRL either, farthest I ever got was level eight or something. But as for Nethack, I've Ascended at least five different classes since 3.3.1 (I lost some log files along the way). --Cyde↔Weys 10:17, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you, Grue, for voting in my RFA. It closed with a final result of 75/1/0. Now that I am an administrator here, I will continue to improve this encyclopedia, using my new tools to revert vandalism, block persistent vandals, protect pages that have been vandalized intensively, and close AFD discussions. Any questions? Please contact me by adding a new section on my talk page. Again, thanks to all of you who participated!!! -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:11, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank-you

The count is in, and now I join the crew who wield the mops and pails. Thanks for your support! I pledge to serve both you and Jimbo Wales. If you have anything you need, then please don't think to hesitate. For I am the very model of a grateful admin designate! ♫Bucketsofg✐♪

Merci beaucoup!

Thank you, Grue! Thank you for voting for my recent RfA, which passed (to my extreme surprise and shock) with a total tally of 66/15/2. For that, I would like to thank you and offer a helping hand in any admin-related tasks that may be required -- it's as simple as leaving a message on my talkpage. Thanks again! -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 22:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

No veiled personal insults

C'mon man, please try to be nice. --Cyde↔Weys 07:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm trying... But I get real pissed off when stuff on my userpage suddenly gets deleted!  Grue  07:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Grue

I've been eaten by a Grue. Just thought you would like to know. Whispering 05:09, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments in Lar's RfA!

We are here to build an encyclopedia!

Hi, and thank you for your comments in my request for adminship! With a final tally of (109/5/1), I have been entrusted with adminship. It's been several weeks since the conclusion of the process, so hopefully you've had a chance to see me in action. Please let me know what you think! Fortunately my nom went through and wasn't "eaten by a grue" .... Thanks again! ++Lar: t/c 03:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Adverts: Like The Beatles?... Like LEGO?... In a WikiProject that classifies?... Are you an accountable admin?... Got DYK?...

Migrating into user namespace

Hi Grue,
you are a steadfast supporter of userboxes, so I thought I'd inform you of my move. I have started mirroring migrating userboxes into my user namespace, akin to the German model.
The (over)eager admins don't have the T1 excuse to delete them there and this might end the battles. What do you think? CharonX 19:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Template:User Christian

Within the past month, Template:User Christian has been edit warred over, speedily deleted, gone through deletion review , brought back to TfD and had the TfD resolved with a keep on the 28th. (See Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 May 20.) Less than 72 hours later, it has been speedily deleted and the earth salted, by user User:Improv. An admin overturning this would be the start of a wheel war. Speedily deleting 72 hours after a keep TfD result seems to me something that needs to be brought up on deletion review. My impression is that if I were the one to do so, a fair review would not occur. Can you do something appropriate? GRBerry 21:04, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Burning bridges, building walls - I have little hope for any adminsitrative action, except if Jimbo himself were to weight in. Basically we have a cabal of 5 or 6 adminstrators who are hellbent on pushing through the new speedy deletion "policy", disregarding consensus or existing conventions. I made a post regarding recent T2 "policy" mass-deletions on the adminstrative incident board but it sits there, dead in the water, ignored by all. Several RFC and RFA have been launched against the participating administrators, but in the end the pro-userbox admins got the short end of the stick. The sad truth is, I think the battle for the Template space is lost.However, I will not give up, I started migrating userboxes as templates into userspace (aka the German solution, also looked favorably by Jimbo) which should be a showstopper for the hardliner anti-userbox administrators. While templatespace has the (as we know now) easily abusable T1 criteria, Userspace does not. Should they continue their actions there I hope we can expect additional support from the community and have a much better standing in ArbCom decisions, as they cannot use T1 as a figleaf there. BTW, I rescued the template as good as I could, it live now in my userbox space (see my sig). CharonX talk Userboxes 22:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Is your homepage eaten by spyware ads?

Hi Grue,

I visited your homepage today, and a pop-up there advertised errorsafe, which symantec doesn't really like. Do you receive such ads when you visit the site? Thanks, Andjam 06:43, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I know it's not your fault - maybe a note on your user page warning about the ad for spyware might be a good idea though. Andjam 08:12, 1 June 2006 (UTC) (Amended by Andjam 08:14, 1 June 2006 (UTC))

FYI

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Israeli_apartheid_%28phrase%29

Template:NoMultilicense

I believe (and I'm not alone in this) that the speedy deletion of this template was unwarranted; can you demonstrate that this template was being divisive? If not, the decision seems at least questionable and I would suggest putting the template back and submitting it to the normal TfD process instead to get a clear consensus. Thanks. — squell 18:46, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

A haiku of thanks

Thanks for your support

In my RfA, which passed!

Wise I'll try to be.

Hopefully you'll find that a good username is a good judge of character! Thanks again.

-- Natalya 03:18, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Deletion review of List of tongue-twisters

I'm notifying you because you voted recently at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review#List of tongue-twisters. Since your vote, additional information (merely, the fact that the content was transwikied to Wikiquote) has emerged. I'd therefore like to ask you to revise (or confirm) your vote in light of this additional information. Thank you, and sorry for bothering you about his. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:28, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

The German solution - userspace userboxes

Grue, not sure if you had noticed yet but there is an effort being worked on to get userboxes over to userspace in line with some of Jimbo's comments a few days back. You can read more about it at Misplaced Pages:The German solution. As you've been fairly active on this issue over the months you may have some valuable insight to provide. Thanks. --StuffOfInterest 01:43, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Grue, thank you very much for your support in my recent Request for adminship, it passed with a final tally of (65/3/3) - which I find both amazing and humbling. I wish I had time to thank everyone personally, but I'm afraid all I can offer is this token of my gratitude. I hope to live up to your expectations/hopes. If at any stage you need to contact me, for help or a request or to point out a mistake in my conduct, please make sure to tell me on my talk page. --Fir0002 08:23, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey

I just wanted to say Thanks for the cool user box. I just lifted it from your page. I'm a libertarian, too.. Like your page.. Adios for now. Josie the pussy cat 21:59, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

AFD

Please review Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of relationships with age disparity and please take a side.

Thank you for your support

Why?

Why did you revert my revert of vandalism?!?TheCooler