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archive 4(11/0/08-02/01/09), archive 5 (02/01/09-06/20/09) [edit] TaggingHi, I saw you added the expand template to lots of stubs. Expand tags should never be placed on stubs. See the documentation on Template:Expand. Garion96 (talk) 13:37, 19 July 2009 (UTC) [edit] Closure of mediation on UN MapHi. I was mediating this and feel we were reasonably close to an agreement. There hasn't been activity for a few days but there was a good deal before then and people were getting close, I feel. In any event I'm a little perturbed that you should close this without at least signalling your intentions: I put quite a lot of time into this, as did all those who participated. What's the procedure for reopening it? Adell 1150 (talk) 20:26, 20 July 2009 (UTC) [edit] Closure of mediation caseWhy did this case get closed? Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-04-27/List of charities accused of ties to terrorism Nothing was really resolved in that matter, and, although there has been little activity i still consider the issue to be outstanding. What steps do you recommend I take at this point? Thank you in advance. Bonewah (talk) 13:30, 20 July 2009 (UTC) [edit] emailfyi, I usually have email disabled as I have a problem with what I see as the usual canvassing that occurs through the use of email, something I do not wish to take part in. I enabled it so that you can send me an email, though I will likely disable it once you do. So, in the future, if you do want to send me an email give me a heads up so that I can enable the feature. Thanks, nableezy - 21:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC) [edit] Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-07-25/The Age of ReasonI see you took on the Age of Reason mediation case about a week ago. Can you let us know when the mediation will begin? Thanks. Awadewit (talk) 21:03, 31 July 2009 (UTC) [edit] Poll on Ireland article names
[edit] RFC - for your informationA number of users stated that informal means were not likely to help or be desired in the discussion with Bishonen earlier, and suggested that either formal discussion, or discussion at a neutral venue, was preferable. I have therefore posted a statement of concern at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Bishonen (2). As the question/s were initially noted by yourself, I am advising you of the updated venue. FT2 (Talk | email) 06:41, 3 August 2009 (UTC) [edit] ThanksThanks for understanding me. LeUrsidae96 (talk) 07:52, 3 August 2009 (UTC) [edit] Proactive requestThis article could use the assistance of one or more mediators experienced with particularly controversial topic areas, as well as the attention of one or more uninvolved administrators. There is a typical pattern of long talk page posts, sprawling policy disputes that often take on an overall "wikilawyerish" tone, stagnant progress, and little administrative oversight. There were two arbitration cases centered around this article/topic: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sathya and Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sathya Sai Baba 2. Any assistance you can provide in finding editors to fill the mediator and administrator roles for the Sathya Sai Baba topic would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! --Vassyana (talk) 12:31, 6 August 2009 (UTC) [edit] Re:Weird rollback...?Wow... I must have slipped on my mouse or something... I didnt even realize i did that. Oops. Thanx for contacting me about it, though. I'll be more careful in the future. --Wyatt915✍ 01:21, 9 August 2009 (UTC) [edit] Defamation of Mr. BerriThe article you have written to be allegedly be a biography of Mr. Nabih Berri, the current Speaker of Parliament of Lebanon, is nothing but an absurd defamation. Kindly, you are requested to either remove it, or at least remove your own opinions from it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.229.235.38 (talk) 15:21, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
[edit] community facilitationHello Xavexgoem, thanks for taking a look at the WP:CF project and for saying hello on Skype. This is a hectic week for real-time chat, but I'd like to discuss the project more with you on-wiki. If you have time to take one of the issues listed at Wikipedia:Community Issues and try to synthesize the existing discussion on Future or Perennial proposals pages about it, that might be a practical way to figure out what CF is good for and what modifications the idea needs. Be well, +sj+ 03:51, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Please helpI took on a case a while ago regarding a dispute about inserting a Polish name for a place in an article. [1]. Unfourtunatley I've run into some IRL problems and will be absent from Wikipedia for a while, so I cannot mediate this case anymore. May you please take over for me? Thanks, -- Raziel teatime 18:34, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Polish-Ukrainian mediationHey there again Xavexgoem. Yes I would be happy to participate in this mediation.radek (talk) 00:24, 17 September 2009 (UTC) Thanks for taking care of us again :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 03:05, 17 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] WatchmakerIf you could take a look at Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2009-08-27/American_Watchmakers-Clockmakers_Institute, let me know if you have any advice about how to proceed. Gigs (talk) 01:01, 17 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] I am finding it hard to understand thisWhat advice can you give?
[edit] page moveAs you appear to be currently online, would you mind deleting Talk:Quds Day and moving Talk:International al-Quds Day to Talk:Quds Day? The project page was moved but an admin needs to do the talk page. nableezy - 17:18, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] why the close?I am confused about this. It may take a month or so till people are ready to resume discussions there, but the process seemed to be quite helpful...? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 01:17, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Quickie mediationThank you for your efforts, but I think this is only going to be resolved by giving Jaakobou the boot - it is about time he was banned from the article. He is wasting everyone's time with utter tendentiousness. I won't be wasting any further time on him. -- ChrisO (talk) 15:17, 4 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:The C of ENot speedy, Snow and WP:IAR; if the disputed content is voluntarily removed, there is no purpose in further debate, and both his and your decisions are to be commended. It all makes for a better working environment, and anything that minimises the drama can only facilitate that. In retrospect, CofE should have perhaps been engaged in discussion and the issues explained earlier, and from that perspective, perhaps an MfD was a tad heavy-handed. However, I think all will walk away from this, forget it, and move forwards. Whether CofE will realise his ambition to be an Admin remains clouded by this incident, and has probably delayed it by at least six months. You acted correctly in the circumstances, in my view, FWIW. Rodhullandemu 23:25, 11 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] You're pretty funny.I just happened upon the Wrong Version article. Isn't sarcasm great? There must be a barnstar for making someone laugh...BRB -- Rico 02:32, 12 October 2009 (UTC) {{subst:The Barnstar of Good Humor}}, maybe. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:32, 14 October 2009 (UTC) I award me this award:
[edit] Something to think aboutI don't suppose that you've followed the Mattisse ArbCom case? (No? I'll take it as proof of natural good sense.) IMO it's a much bigger version of Scuro's problems with the ADHD case. At the moment, they're trying to find a way to get useful information to the mentors (four of them, I think) without having a dozen editors dump knee-jerk "defense" and "opposition" statements on the pages about every little thing. And, like Scuro, Mattisse really doesn't want the conversation on her user talk page. (Anyone who gets that many complaints would develop a twitch whenever the new message box pops up.) You might want to look over WP:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification#Request_for_clarification:_Wikipedia:Arbitration.2FRequests.2FCase.2FMattisse It appears that they currently believe that not identifying basic ground rules from the very start (e.g., "Report perceived problems on this page" or "Mattisse should not edit this section" or "If you can't explain in less than 50 words, then it's voluntary drama, not a problem", or whatever might be useful) has exacerbated the mess, especially after Mattisse started removing negative comments from the centralized complaint page. I don't have a specific solution to offer you, but you might want to consider their problems and see how many of them you can avoid. I'm sure you agree with me that there's no virtue in making this any more drama-oriented than necessary. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:32, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Jaakobou's time machineI'm afraid things seem to be escalating regarding Jaakobou's bending of the time-space continuum on Muhammad al-Durrah - he is now attempting to delete sources that contradict his preferred chronology. He is currently attempting to push the issue on the reliable sources noticeboard. I wonder if you would like to say something there about your attempt to mediate this dispute? Please see [2]. -- ChrisO (talk) 00:05, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/WikiProject Economics GuidelinesHey Xav. I've got the preliminaries out of the way - are you okay to take a lead on it from here? Ryan PostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 12:57, 15 October 2009 (UTC) You need to police the page, as one disputant was unable to control his desire to make a threaded reply, even though you'd specifically said that you didn't want such. —SlamDiego←T 14:01, 17 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] skipIt was kind of you to offer the out, but I for one have been pretty powerless to bring skip back, and an editor whose efforts would be essential to drawing skip back wants him gone. I've not interacted with Skip as much as have some other editors, and don't know that much about his over-all editing, but he and I managed to have our disagreements without getting our backs up. I wasn't part of the pile-on, and I've previously summoned admins when he's been abused on the WikiProject page. —SlamDiego←T 09:35, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] SorrySorry. In the future I will try harder to avoid responding. --LK (talk) 13:46, 19 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-07-20/List of charities accused of ties to terrorismYou pinged this case to see if it was still active, as far as Im concerned, it is. Thanks Bonewah (talk) 13:21, 26 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] Did I forget to thank you? ..[edit] RfCThere is an RfC in the International reaction to the 2009 Honduran military coup. -- Rico 15:47, 28 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] FYII removed the autoblock associated with User:Brews ohare's block, whom you unblocked yesterday. I presume it was uncontroversial since you performed the unblock yourself. Please let me know if that's incorrect. Frank | talk 21:55, 29 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] ?why have you closed my thread? So far only 2 editors commented. Loosmark (talk) 23:17, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] ThanksWow, that was so quick – a big thank you for removing the attempted outing attempt, Xavexgoem! Anti-Nationalist (talk) 01:20, 31 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] Soliciting AdviceHello! I am a newer mediator at WP:MEDCAB. A situation in an ongoing discussion I am mediating has begun to prove vexing. Since you are a MEDCAB coordinator and experienced mediator, I would like to get your opinion.
Thanks in advance for your advice! —Finn Casey * * * 01:32, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Skip SievertI'd like to note yet another personal attack from Skip at Talk:Howard Scott. If you have the power to ban him, at least for a week or two, it would save dozens of editors a lot of grief. JQ (talk) 05:45, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Ed BoksI don't understand what's going on here. No matter who initially created the article, it was improved by others, starting with me. I added proper sources and tried to fix the POV issues, and now it's being deleted apparently because of who initially created it. I would appreciate it if you could clarify this matter for me because frankly I'm a bit confused by all this. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:16, 3 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Attacks at AFD AN/IHello--You left this comment. Another admin (llywrch) left this one. I just wanted to get a feel for "what happens next" in regard to that AN/I. Is the discussion effectively over now, or is it worth continuing? Is it your judgment that we should let things lie until there are more problems, and then message you (or head to ArbCom, about which I know almost nothing)? Would we start another AN/I if there is a repeat of similar troubles? Should we consider Skipsievert "officially warned" to change their behavior in some way? Anyway, thanks. I'm just trying to figure out where things lie. I'm going to leave a similar message for llywrch. CRETOG8(t/c) 02:57, 3 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holly KinserYou raised some good points that I considered before sitting down to write this article. With my comments, I hope I was able to assuage your concerns over it. I am thinking that the Wikipedia:Lead section needs some expansion. Perhaps you would want to work with me on it? Also, I appreciate the "well written" comment. I worked really hard on that one.--Blargh29 (talk) 03:36, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Request for arbitrationYou are involved in a recently-filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Skipsievert and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the following resources may be of use— Thanks, The Four Deuces (talk) 19:48, 3 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] ANISince you mentioned closing [4]. I have pointed out that he has been involved in the discussion and consensus standards make it clear that involved users are not to closed. The whole issue was over an involved user trying to close and impose sanctions. Also, other people have made it clear that only univolved users can have a voice in the discussions, and many of the oppose votes are nullified by their admittance of being involved. Could you please sort out these issues so there doesn't have to be yet another ANI thread because of an out of process push for such things? Ottava Rima (talk) 04:06, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] About the last comments on MediationHey Xav, as you recommended I won’t reply to MarshalN20 directly as I don’t want to end up in a long threaded discussion. However I think that his interventions so far illustrate my problem and I think there are some things he mentioned in his last comment require some comments from me.
Sorry for the length but I think those points should be clear before we continue. --Erebedhel - Talk 19:38, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] SalahI have a suggestion to your comment on the talk page. // Gbern3 (talk) 17:25, 5 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Invitation to participate in SecurePoll feedback and workshopAs you participated in the recent Audit Subcommittee election, or in one of two requests for comment that relate to the use of SecurePoll for elections on this project, you are invited to participate in the SecurePoll feedback and workshop. Your comments, suggestions and observations are welcome. [edit] Mediation cabal case Race and IntelligenceI just noticed this new mediation cabal case, Race and Intelligence. It so happens that I am somewhat familiar with the academic literature, as my research is primarily on economics, education and development. I would also like to participate in order to observe how mediation is conducted, as I would like to volunteer as a mediator in the future. Is it appropriate for me to sit in on the mediation and offer comments based on my expertise? If I can participate, how should I do so? Should I just comment on the page as I feel appropriate? I promise to be reticent and restrained in my comments, and will likely only comment briefly, if at all. thanks, --LK (talk) 05:47, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] IRCI found an irc app on my iPhone! What channels are you usually on? Just note I won't be on for a while though. Cheers! Reubzz (talk) 13:04, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] R+I mediationWe need to find some framework or objective procedure to get to a conclusion at some point in the Race/Intel mediation. I feel that the debates are just restarting in a new place (although calmer which is good progress), and if there is no definiate "timetable" or "method" that we follow, I don't see this getting anywhere soon. I would reccomend we issue some statement that lists the issues to be discussed in the forms of statements. These statements would be the bottom of the pyramid that would lead us to the top of the issue. Facing the problem of "Should the Hereditarian viewpoint get coverage and if so, how much?" is not the best way to immediately start. Some parties have proposed good ideas to review the heart of the matter including the validity and reliability of sources involved, and reviewing other central (but not direct) issues. Lastly, in the end we cannot just determine how much coverage the viewpoint can recieve. A series of mutual guidelines needs to be drawn up eventually about what the coverage would include (if included at all); this would avert future conflicts. Reubzz (talk) 01:25, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Tien Shan Pai article mediationHi, Xavexgoem. I am putting up essentially identical text on GrooveDog's page, just for full disclosure. I was wondering what is going on with the mediation attempt that I initiated. I can see that it was relisted as new, and am curious as to what that indicates. Considering that the problem has essentially exploded in complexity (with the addition of two more extremely contentious editors) since I initiated the mediation attempt, what do you think I should do? Should I include them in the mediation attempt? Should I withdraw my mediation request and see if equilibrium on the article can be reached with more voices? Should we simply continue as is? This is an argument that is full of emotion and energy on what is essentially a very minor page (even in the Wikipedia Martial Arts project). So I can very much understand a certain reluctance to become involved in such a messy matter. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Junzi (talk) 01:52, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-07-20/List of charities accused of ties to terrorismHi, you dropped by my medcab case a couple of weeks ago and Im hoping you can help me out. It seems our moderator User:Vicenarian has retired and our case is still ongoing. What do you recommend I do at this point? Thanks in advance. Bonewah (talk) 21:37, 18 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Request for talk page protectionAs you know I am mediating a dispute on the article 'Race and Intelligence'. As I have noted near the bottom of the page, I have posted a deadline for final statements before I evaulate the issues and set out an agenda to work with. I would like to request that you protect the talk page for 48 hours to allow this to take its course. Thanks and Cheers! --Reubzz (talk) 23:38, 19 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Carnatic Music
[edit] What can I doI feel I am being gang-up on by administrators after a dispute had been resolved. It seems now I am being harassed by them. Roger Zoel (talk) 22:13, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I already know that! But the admins keep bothering me on my talk page. "Police state" is my perception at the moment. I want them to stop harasing me, since the issue has been resolved. Roger Zoel (talk) 22:21, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Candidate reviewHi, I was reviewing your candidacy for my voter guide, and found myself perplexed by something... Why don't you have a userpage? I usually like to check userpages to get a sense of who a person is, what their interests are, maybe a bit of information about their "real-life" persona. Is there a reason that you are choosing not to provide that information? --Elonka 18:15, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] The Chariot (band)I have responded to your concerns at the GA review. Thanks, -- Noj r (talk) 02:35, 27 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Happy Thanksgiving!I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk 07:15, 27 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Requested move (please comment)Hey Xavexgoem, I know that you have been quite involved with the Honduras/coup articles, and I would appreciate your comment here: Talk:Chronology_of_events_of_the_2009_Honduran_coup_d'état#Requested_move I hope that you can kind of understand the logic of what I was saying there, even if you don't agree with the move. Thanks! Moogwrench (talk) 12:44, 28 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Editor assistanceI saw your offer at WP:EA #88. I would appreciate either advice or mediation. I'm an admin, but am not active in (or any good at) WP:DR. I am in a dispute with another editor, User:Lambanog. The dispute is about the status of the short-lived First Philippine Republic as (a) an insurgency or (b) a sovereign state — I say (a), backed up by copious cites, but feel that alternative views deserve due weight if cite-supported; Lambanog says (b) but cannot or will not provide supporting cites (I've looked without success for sources supporting his view). This point has historically been a point of contention in a number of articles about the Philippines (explained ad nauseum on the talk pages of one of the articles mentioned below). I had created this article (an old version) in hopes of it becoming a wikilinkable consensus-supported take on the point at My take on our differences is that they involve strong nationalistic POV feelings on the part of Lambanog and a fixation on WP:V on my part. Discussion on the talk pages of those articles escalated at one point to this incident report by me against Lambanog, which I withdrew after he pointed out that I had not dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's of WP:DR (and because neither of us had the stomach to go through official DR). I summed up my take on the dispute on his talk page here. Currently, the second article (the first is now a redirect) remains in NPOV dispute and Lambanog edits according to his view of the point at issue (e.g., this recent edit). Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:48, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I haven't pointed him explicitly at the BURDEN section of WP:V. The closest I've come is here, to which he responded that the problem is not WP:V, it is POV -- apparently he feels that my not presenting (being unable to) cite-supported material supporting his POV constitutes a NPOV problem with the article. Re the explain option, I'm open that and have even looked unsuccessfully for sources supporting his POV. At one point in the incident report discussion, he said "One could use Westphalian principles just as effectively to argue [on behalf of his POV]"; apparently, he feels that it is an NPOV violation for the article(s) not to make such an argument, though I feel that it would be WP:OR to do so (we haven't discussed that). The only compromise I see would be to say that sovereignty was in dispute during the period of the First Philippine Republic (1stPR) as it was I see today that I've missed seeing a question by him on 26 Nov on that talk page about putting the article(s) up for AfD. I think that would replace the drop the issue option. I could try to open up the WP:BURDEN and WP:OR issues, I guess, but I think that I would just be continuing to bang my head against the wall. Think that should be the next step (along with a mention of our discussion here, in the interest of disclosure)? Wtmitchell Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:01, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] User:ReubzzI wonder whether you can find out what is going on with this newly arrived and inexperienced editor, who is supposedly acting as a mediator. He hasn't edited WP for about one week. This seems very odd. Has he decided that he needs a wikibreak after his spell of editing from November 5-22? Thanks in advance, Mathsci (talk) 00:42, 29 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] POTD notificationHi Xav, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Ottoman surrender of Jerusalem restored.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 9, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-12-09. howcheng {chat} 23:08, 4 December 2009 (UTC) [edit] 2010 WikiCup Signups Reconfirmation!To ensure that everyone who signed up is still committed to participating in the 2010 WikiCup, it is required that you remove your name from this list! By removing your name, you are not removing yourself from the WikiCup. This is simply a way for the judges to take note of who has not yet reconfirmed their participation. If you have not removed your name from that list by December 30th, 2009 (by 23:59 (UTC)) then your name will be removed from the WikiCup. It's worth noting the rules have changed, likely after you signed up. The changes made thus far are:
If you have any final concerns about the WikiCup's rules and regulations, please ask them now, before the Cup begins to avoid last minute problems. You may come to the WikiCup's talk page, or any of the judge's user talk pages. We're looking forwards to a great 2010 WikiCup! On behalf of the WikiCup judges, iMatthew talk at 03:48, 5 December 2009 (UTC) [edit] RfC at 2009 Honduran coup d'état regarding mention of the constitutional crisis in the ledeHey Xavexgoem, sorry to bother you again, but since there has been a lot of revert activity regarding this issue, I thought you might like to opine. I'd like your opinion, and that of other editors that have been interested in the Honduran articles, at Talk:2009_Honduran_coup_d'état#RfC:_Do_the_sources_support_the_mention_of_coup_as_part_of_the_constitutional_crisis_in_the_lede_of_this_article.3F. Thanks! Moogwrench (talk) 21:24, 5 December 2009 (UTC) |
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