User talk:168...

I am very sorry 168...Very sorry :-( User:Anthere

I hope you don't let this stop you editing here. Whilst I disagree with your protection of pages you were involved in, I do understand the point you were trying to make. I disagree only with your methods, not your intentions and I hope you'll be back. Angela. 17:00, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

I'm sorry that this has happened and I also hope that you will be back. BCorr € Брайен 17:07, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

Likewise, me. --Lexor|Talk 17:08, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I agree with the above sentiments. Your contributions here are very valuable. →Raul654 17:17, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

[Peak to 168...:] It just occurred to me that your "civil disobedience" campaign to have a certain user "banned" may have been based on some flawed assumptions about certain technicial aspects of a "ban". (In essence, it's not possible to ban a person.) Perhaps if you had understood these limitations, you would have seen the wisdom of the approach that I had argued for and which Anthere has now implemented (community action with sysop support). I am not writing to say "I told you so" but in the hope that you will see that some of your actions were, at least to some extent, based on some flawed assumptions, and that as a result you will cheerfully rejoin the fray.Peak 17:31, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Don't let all this nonsense drive you away. Your contributions to articles are both valued and worthwhile. Allow someone else to fight the idiots, and concentrate on the quality edits that we remember of you. Stewart Adcock 18:26, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I could not agree more with Stewart Adcock's statement. -- Cyan 19:39, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

168, I only recently began following disputes on the DNA page, and was just informed that you are leaving Wikipidia. I hope you will reconsider. You and I have had edit conflicts in the past; this is not the time to rehash old feelings but I want to make clear, as I hope it was clear in the past, that I respect your knowledge and have valued your contributions to Wikipedia. I believe very strongly in the importance of a community of Wikipedians; that requires a good deal of compromise and patience on the part of contributors. This is not easy; I think most people -- certainly I -- sometimes fall short. That is why I have strived both to forgive others, and to ask others to forgive me. Sometimes I do not have the energy for this and have simply had to take a break from Wikipedia. I sincerly hope that this is what you are doing, and I hope you will come back to work with us. Slrubenstein

sigh

168, I am very upset to hear of your fate. I disagree 100% with what has transpired. The punishment in no way fits the crime. And there simply is not enough forgiveness in this case. With such injustice, I fear we will fall into a French Revolution scenario, in which everyone goes on trial for trivial things, and the guillotine is invoked on one and all. I suppose we each need to wonder...who's next. You continue to have my support. I value your work and your efforts. Kingturtle 00:27, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Nobody should be happy when the human equivalents of hyper-aggressive bees set up territory here. Actually, I unfairly demean the bees. At least they are protecting a hive that has something of value in it, real honey and not swamp gas. Don't let the hornets win. "French Revolution" is the appropriate simile, I fear. Somehow we have to have a society that sorts out the hornets. P0M 21:25, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

After reading up on what has transpired, I agree with Kingturtle and P0M. You seem to have been stripped of your powers by a developer who has now made the same mistake(without causing anyone to bat an eye) that you made. Hopefully this can all be sorted out and you will get your powers back. Keep up the good work and don't let anyone get to you. Perl 00:23, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Mav v. 168...

The request for arbitration in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Mav v. 168 was accepted on April 20, 2004. Please present evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Mav v. 168/Evidence. Fred Bauder 11:17, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)

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I hope you'll decide to resume contributing here. You're contributions to our articles have been very valuable (I'm thinking of DNA in particular). →Raul654 05:23, Apr 21, 2004 (UTC)

I second that. But the way many users treated you earlier this year was shameful, so I can understand your reservations about returning. 172 10:57, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man ^{(comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)) (talk)}[[]] 13:53, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)