User talk:Michael Snow

What a year! My first year in Wiki, a featured article and now administrator. Thank you for your support. Michael, your vote of confidence was very special for me. I'll be looking forward for your advice and guidance. Tony the Marine

And thanks for posting the "breaking news". It was certainly helpful to know in advance there would be downtime, and to have an idea of when we could edit again. — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:00, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikijunior name vote

m:Wikijunior project name Voting will end June 6, 2005 at 11:30 am EST. -- user:Zanimum

Thanks

I do little enough here, being probably one of the most inactive of admins and working in a limited field, a minority-interest one at that. What I do, I try to do as well as I can, and I have to admit that I found being mentioned twice in the wonderful Signpost much more exciting than getting a barnstar. Filiocht | Blarneyman 07:23, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Passwords

I don't know if the Signpost does any investigative reporting, but there seem to be several people (including me) whose passwords suddenly stopped working (see User talk:Raul654#Urgent! Help!). There were no new contributions from the accounts and we were able to get new passwords e-mailed. This has affected some who may not have entered an e-mail address (see Wikipedia:Help desk#Password trouble). Raul suggests that this may be a lot more widespread than just a few users: User talk:Raul654#Password trouble. Feel free to ignore this if it's not interesting. — Knowledge Seeker দ 19:19, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hot scoop

Here's something to get people talking -- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/RFC →Raul654 19:29, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Mediation committee

Thanks for your support in my self-nomination for the mediation committee. Mgm|^(talk) 21:53, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Also thanks for contacting the current mediators. I appreciate the effort. Mgm|^(talk) 22:40, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Careful, now...

Don't want to encourage me; if that's what I get perhaps I'll do it more often. :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:37, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Signpost question

Hey, I have a question for you. It looks like I missed a fairly important story (a new procedure for delisting featured articles), so today, someone added it to my article. I'm wondering what should be done about that - I know that I only ever read the signpost on Monday, and then wait until next week, and I'm thinking that that is pretty common. So it doesn't make sense then to be adding new sections to the articles on Wednesday, right? Let me know what you think – I'm thinking it would be best to move it to the newsroom and then just put it in next week's issue. --Spangineer (háblame) 10:46, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Unprotecting Nagorno-Karabakh and others

Hi Michael,

The pages you've unprotected were protected for long enough, so you rightfully chose to unprotect them. But at the same time, just in case if you dont know, you should bear in mind that these pages (Nagorno-Karabakh, Caucasian Albania, Artsakh, Karabakh, Nakhichevan, Arran (Azerbaijan) and many others) were protected from vandal Rovoam, who's become w/o exagerration the most obsessive and persistent vandal in the history of Wikipedia. I am putting regular disclaimers on all his know anon IPs, so if you haven't read them, please, have a look and be informed.--Tabib 04:56, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

village pump exchange re admins run amok

Hi - Has anyone let know about the conversation at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Admin run amok?? It seems pretty obvious to me the user is looking for something along the lines of You're right, this shouldn't have happened. I'm sorry. We'll try to make sure nothing like this happens again., without any defensiveness and without any snarky remarks, but so far has (mostly) gotten not our fault, we did nothing wrong, and, BTW, you're stupid. Do you think you might be able to contribute an appropriate apology? Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:38, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Michael. I'd like to make it clear that I'm absolutely not looking for any apologies. As you said it, I don't believe you have anything to apologize for. In fact, I actually believe that it is I who owe you an apology: I was overly critical of you out of some frustration that really had nothing to do with you. I know that what happened there, if anything, was an honest mistake. Apart from that, I started that discussion in the VP so that the general procedure for blocking/unblocking pages could perhaps be refined, since I felt it appears to be too automatic, meaning that pages that have been blocked are unblocked after some time has elapsed, and that doesn't always mean that the issue, whatever it may be, has been resolved in the page, since, as I've said in the VP, the circumstances may vary considerably. That was it, I thought about starting a topic after I learned that you had unblocked the page because a certain time had passed (BrokenSegue informed me, in the History page I only saw "unprotected", and there was no comments from you in the Talk page at the time). But I should have stuck to the main point I was trying to make, and that's why I never brought it up during our exchange in the article's talk page: I had already admitted to having exaggerated in the VP, and I didn't want to give this any extra breath. I did not mean to offend you in any way, sorry if I might have done that.
As for the point itself, I agree with Rick. I was not looking for any personal apologies, but the people who commented in the topic, most of them Admins, I believe, have shown a surprising unwillingness to approach the issue I raised, instead, they've assumed what appears to be a corporatist attitude and decided that the best defense was to attack me. Regards, Redux 01:40, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi again. Thank you for your words. As you said, it was a combination of miscommunication and misunderstandings. Whenever something happens in an article that I find strange, I always give the benefit of the doubt to registered users that have been around for at least some time. I believe I skipped that, at least to a certain extent, out of a certain impatience in connection with that article and the troubles that that anon has been generating over there, which doesn't excuse my hastiness. I can understand that people might have misinterpreted or misjudged my intentions in the VP, but it was rather unexpected that several people, and as you said, good people who do serious work here, all spring jumped to a counterattack, without trying to clarify things or discuss the topic. In fact, I could see that there was no real analysis going on there, since they'd say to me "you should have done this and that first", without realizing that I had already done this and that, or that the situation did not call for this and that. I believe that there's more than one lesson to be learned from this. I'll see if I can still salvage that discussion though, please feel free to participate. Regards, Redux 04:54, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the deletions

Hi, thank you for pointing out the links on Talk:Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen concerning my temp pages, and for deleting them after the move. I hadn't considered moving them to my User page, or even originally proposing them there. Thanks for the info and cleanup. <>Who ?¿? 02:50, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Adminship

I appreciate the vote of confidence. I've been thinking about a self-nom for a while, mostly so I can contribute to a bit of the grunt work in cleaning up copyvios, the VfD backlog, and fixing cut & paste moves. I would have no objection if you saw fit to nominate me. Cheers, TenOfAllTrades(talk) 02:36, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Theo RFA

Thank you for supporting my nomination. I particularly appreciate it given your reservations about David Helvarg.—Theo (Talk) 05:49, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Signpost

I'm sorry if I started too late and appeared unreliable. However, I have been working for the last hour on a draft.

Regards, lots of issues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lotsofissues) | leave me a message (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lotsofissues&action=edit&section=new) 09:43, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've finished my initial draft and it looks like we've reached two different results and styles. User:Lotsofissues/press620 I'll leave it up to you.

Adminship JoJan

Tanks for your support. JoJan 14:16, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: Possible change for VFD Bot

I wouldn't mind... All you need is the six lines of dates, separated on each line. If you want to place it on to a different page, let me know when the change is effective, then I'll correct the VFD Bot to edit the page you want me to. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:12, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oh, one other thing. While I don't mind you wanting to merge the two pages, I understand both are frequently visited. I will gladly have the VFD Bot update a VFD section on Goings-on, but as for the merging part, you should confirm and discuss that with others first. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:17, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for your support for my adminship. I know it's no big deal, but I do appreciate your taking the time to vote. Cheers, -Willmcw 06:59, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

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