User talk:Guanaco/archive4

Katelyn Faber

Could you weigh in at the bottom of the Talk Page for Katelyn Faber regarding the inclusion of an image of her? User:Tufflaw, who unsuccessfully tried to have the entire article deleted back in December 2005 insists on censoring/deleting it for extremely specious reasons, and I've been asked to gather a consensus. Please read the bottom two sections of that page. Thanks. Nightscream 18:48, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Template:User Totalbox

Thanks for reverting. John Reid 22:51, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

Reach out Reach out is a program aimed at allowing users to bring issues that they have had in Wikipedia to a listening, sympathetic and caring audience: "No one can know how we feel if we do not say. We cannot expect to get understanding if we do not ask for it. No one will dispute that sometimes life's issues are too much for one person. It is fair to say that sometimes Wikipedia's problems fall under the same heading. This is a place where you can bring the bruises that can sometimes be got on this project for attention." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Note from the editor Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone!

The last AC meeting (full log) Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before. Bans and Access level changes (apart from autovoice) in the IRC channel are to be reported at the new log. In the IRC channel, there is going to be only one bot at a time. The charter requires members to have 150 edits and 2 weeks editing. Why this is the case will be clarified. A new Code of Conduct will be drafted by JoanneB and proposed to the Esperanza community. The NPA reform idea is to be dropped officially. Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on. The Advisory Council is not going to be proposed to be expanded by the Advisory Council themselves, if others want to propose it, they will listen. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for adding the photo of Caroline_Thompson to Deceased_Wikipedians. --Alabamaboy 21:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I didn't add it; I only added {{clear}} to fix the formatting. —Guanaco 22:39, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Re MarkSweep, did you know about his deletions of Chechnya-related userboxen?

They were {{Template:User independent Chechnya}} and {{Template:User Russian Chechnya}}. BTW, I think highlights rather than the full text of WP:UBD#* would be more effective. StrangerInParadise 06:43, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks.

Thanks for fixing my comments at the RfAr. I believe MarkSweep is way out of control. There's a line to be drawn and he's past it. — natha(?)nrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 12:31, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Sockpuppets

While in the course of investigating some requests at wikipedia:Requests for Checkuser, it was discovered (and later confirmed) that you were behind a string of grossly inappropriate sockpuppets, including (but not limited to) User:Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running!, User:A. Beesley, and User:AIDS reappraisal. user:Jack Bauer, Wikipedia admin, user:Jack Bauer vs. Chuck Norris, user:Nina Myers vs. Wikipedia, user:Tony Almeida on a wikibreak, user:Walt Cummings, Wikimedia steward. Since the subtle approach was ignored, I'm asking you plainly - do you have anything to say in response? Raul654 05:57, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't notice the talk message. I would have explained it there, but I logged out before I received the message. The accounts were a test of Curps' bot and the other methods of dealing with borderline-inappropriate usernames, impostors, and vandal accounts; it's good to know that these are being handled seriously. I am trying to coordinate the efforts of Curps and the freenode channel #vandalism-en-wp (CVU) to make the system more efficient.

I am curious how this came up at wikipedia:Requests for Checkuser. I am not responsible for any of the usernames listed there. —Guanaco 21:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Nobody on #vandalism-en-wp knows anything about this "coordination". Kelly Martin (talk) 00:59, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

One of my ideas is to filter accounts that will be autoblocked by Curps from the account creation reports, preventing wasted effort and channel spam. Accounts like "Crups on wheels" would not even appear in #vandalism-en-wp, but no such plan is actively being implemented yet. —Guanaco 01:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Then by all means, please direct us towards some user who can vouch for the fact that your sockpuppetry was done in good faith. Raul654 02:45, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Are you looking for hard evidence or users who trust me? The only thing concrete I can find for now is Wikipedia:Assume good faith. Please review that page before posting here again. —Guanaco 03:36, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

You said you were coordinating your efforts to test the various bots, so presumably somebody knew of your activities (As Karynn said, nobody in #vandalism-en-wp has heard of you). We are looking for one of those people, so they can confirm your story - please direct us to him/her. If you cannot provide such a person, we cannot help but face the possiblity that you are lying to us Raul654 03:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I will ask a few people to confirm that I had discussed the coordination idea. If I had been acting out of malice, I would have actually vandalized Wikipedia. I could easily write vandalbots or secretly add inaccuracies to articles, yet I continue to clean up vandalism, with the exception of today. Today I have been unable to rollback actual vandals; please unblock 68.103.186.123 to remedy this. —Guanaco 03:54, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

(As Karynn said, nobody in #vandalism-en-wp has heard of you) - If no one in there has heard of me, then I cannot confirm anything with anyone. —Guanaco 03:55, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

C ould you please just tell us who you discussed the coordination idea with. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 06:44, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I am not going to subject anyone else to this lynch mob. I will ask them myself. —Guanaco 20:59, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[1] - brenneman^{L} 07:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Main Page

Wait...there were goatse images?! What? Hah — Ilyanep (Talk) 05:19, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Your barnstar award to Sjakkalle

Dear Guanaco: Although I wouldn't presume to censure when or under what grounds people award barnstars to other users, the widely accepted practice when encountering administrative action is to discuss the matter with the administrator who carried out the action, not simply revert the action; doing so is widely considered "wheel warring", which is frowned upon by both the Arbitration Committee and the community at large. Such reversion is, besides, discourteous and liable to increase editing temperature, which is not what administrators should be encouraging on Wikipedia. I do think it is inappropriate that you awarded Sjakkalle a barnstar with the reason "I award you this Editor's Barnstar for your efforts in reversing unfair actions by other administrators" [2] as you are essentially attempting to encourage wheel warring amongst administrators which is not acceptable on Wikipedia; you did so under my request that he follow standard levels of courtesy in letting me know he reverted my administrative actions. WP:POINT violations are not acceptable under any circumstances, in my view. I would ask that you show slightly more sensitivity to the needs of community versus your own ideals of what constitutes unfair action on the part of other administrators. Please think over this, and try to please remember that Wikipedia is meant to be a collaborative effort where people work together and discuss, not where people attempt to create battles with one another over decision making. Best regards, --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 22:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Barnstar Brigade The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date: "Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Information Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks!

The last AC meeting (full log) The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details. The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page. The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly. A plea from the editor... The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

My talk page

• Thanks for blocking those guys, I was at my wits end. pm_shef 04:14, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

  Let me know if they return. —Guanaco 04:16, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Spam

If you check Saxifrage's or Sam Blannings talk pages you will see that I am actually using the Bold-Revert-discuss method to try to get the link added. There was a message posted about the link in the talk page that was not responded to and Sam said that after a week I should add the link and see if a USER protests the link being added. Thanks for understanding. Also, if you were to look at what Pro-lick actually posted it was vadilism. I have been reverting those pages to an appropriate page for awhile now, and have been thanked by admin for doing so. I'm trying to edit wikipedia in an appropriate manor now, please help me. (Emoholic 16:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC))

Lou Franklin block

I assume you're following his Arbitration... you should probably mention your block over on the workshop there. Georgewilliamherbert 07:26, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

The block has been reset to a week anyway. —Guanaco 21:41, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Final decision

The arbitration committee has reached a final decision in the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al case. Raul654 00:18, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Feeling stressed?

Cheer up. Let the guys with the sysop tools take care of the vandals. Now you should have plenty of time to do some "real" editing. I suggest taking some time to work on developing the content of some articles. And, of course, if you happen to run across one of those pesky little vandals, just report it to AIV. --TantalumTelluride 05:07, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Desysopped

Please refer to [3] as proof that you are no longer an admin and should therefore no longer mention yourself as a current admin. --69.117.7.63 02:34, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter!

Please put all tasty Easter wishes here!

Happy Easter! These special Easter eggs were laid just for you by an evil bunny! — nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 05:42, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter from someone you not long ago blocked apparently without thinking twice. But let the bygone be bygone. All the best from your Friendly Neighbour 12:04, 16 April 2006 (UTC).

Happy Easter! --Misza13 ^{T C} 16:54, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Arbitration

Based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Guanaco%2C_MarkSweep%2C_et_al You are no longer an admin, and therefore I removed your name from the mediation committee.--Freestyle.king 07:01, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

That seems untoward. I don't see anywhere on Wikipedia:Mediation Committee that adminship is a requirement, nor on Wikipedia talk:Mediation Committee that this has been discussed. - brenneman^{L} 07:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Neither could I. I've reverted Freestyle.king's edits until he can show there's either consensus for Guanaco to be removed or that there's a rule stating mediators must also be sysops. —Locke Cole • t • c 07:37, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

This removal seems to be based on a personal vendetta. [4] —Guanaco 00:28, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

A false assumption.--Freestyle.king 04:25, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey Guanaco

I saw you on the stress list at Esperanza. I just wanted to let you know that I know how nasty it can get around here. I'm on that stress list, too. I'm new but have had a large group of mean manipulating people come down on me for making some edits on their page.

One was an admin. I told her what I thought about the way she was acting and now she's probably watching me or somehting. Not that I care what any of them think, because honestly, I don't.

I don't know what's going on around here, but I don't like it. There's definitely a big group of people that like to swarm in on certain others and harass them till they finally drive them out.

I'm getting tired of it already and I haven't been here long at all.

Anyway I hope you feel better and it works out well for you. If you need anything please leave me a message anytime.
peace Maggiethewolfstar 05:53, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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Hi

You might want to take a look at the NAMBLA page. There's another dispute regarding the categorization. And will beback has, as usual, opportunistically decided to champion the cause although he raised no complaints about the categorization for the past two months. It seems as though editors are trying to insert changes to the categorization without first reaching a consensus on the issue. Corax 01:21, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Guanaco, I also invite you to look over the matter. The more experienced editors the better. Cheers, -Will Beback 08:34, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. Stressbusters The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! Note from the editor As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

np

Hopefully it help, at least a little! Comments welcome at Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#CSD:Tx. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:43, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Withdraw

This might be interpreted as a personal attack - [5]. Please consider withdrawing it. --Doc ^ask? 17:28, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I will not withdraw it. It is not a personal attack; it is an impersonal attack directed at users who try to defeat Wikipedia's consensus-based decision-making process. If it offends you, I ask that you seriously reconsider your decision to edit Wikipedia. —Guanaco 17:37, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Knock it off. Let's debate the issues and not attack people, personally or otherwise. I've reverted it for you. --Doc ^ask? 17:46, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

If you don't like my comment, respond to it. Do not delete my comments. —Guanaco 17:49, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

(ec) Guanaco, I don't agree with the removal of the comment, but could I ask you to tone down your comments a bit? Calling people "bullies" and ideas "bullshit", and then reverting several times is inappropriate; remember that discussion should always come first, and that you should extend good faith and civility as much as possible. I know that this is a heated debate, but such remarks tend to antagonize the situation further. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 17:54, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I assumed good faith, but my assumption was disproved. Certain users are bullies, and certain ideas are bullshit. I have expressed this in more politically correct terms in the past, and I didn't seem to be understood, but out of respect for your request, I will try being politically correct one more time. —Guanaco 18:17, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

If some ideas are wrong, then let's debate the ideas. If some users are acting wrongly, then let's debate that. But hiding behind 'Certain users are...' without being willing to name names and debate the matter is frankly less than helpful, and not at all civil. --Doc ^ask? 18:21, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I've blocked you for three hours for edit warring over, and repeating, this personal attack, despite polite requests by other editors that you remove it. --Tony Sidaway 19:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Clearly a partisan gesture. I'll discuss this further when I am able to edit freely. —Guanaco 21:32, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

You may wish to see WP:AN#Guanaco. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 21:50, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

There was an autoblock, which I undid. --Tony Sidaway 01:01, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

User_independent_Quebec

Hi, I saw [6] that you've restored the "User Independent Quebec" template in March, well, it has been deleted, again. I don't know why, it's a political stance like another, it's neither racist or inflammatory. It seems unfair, if this template is deleeted, why the templates for capitalism and social democracy can remain ? -PhDP 23:09, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Featured article status

Will you help me get some articles to meet featured status?? --Sunfazer | Talk 21:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Banned users --> RW77

I've reinstated the language related to Rainbowwarrior1977's ban; the Arbitration Committee was asked specifically to clarify whether he was indeed banned, or just blocked indefinately with thier approval, and did so. He is banned, not blocked, but banned, for an indefinate period of time. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 01:32, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Mediation Committee Business

Dear Fellow Mediators: I'm writing to all mediators listed as active to point out several emergent issues that require the immediate attention of all active mediators. The Committee has come to a place where we can neither provide the function we were created to provide (timely formal mediaton for the English Wikipedia community) nor correct matters to be able to provide that function. In specific, we cannot perform any mediations, because most mediators are no longer taking cases, and we cannot add new mediators, because mediators are no longer responding to requests to join the Committee. I am in a place where I continually accept new cases for the committee, only to see them go stale after several months because there is no mediator willing to take it, and where I deny candidates a place on the committee because no mediator will speak up in support of them. I ask that all mediators take ten minutes to look over the following matters: There are five requests to join the Mediation Committee, three with no comments whatsoever, and two that have been up for more than a month without sufficient commentary to determine a consensus on promotion. Wikipedia:Mediation_Committee#Master_of_Puppets Wikipedia:Mediation_Committee#Wisden17 Wikipedia:Mediation_Committee#Journalist Wikipedia:Mediation_Committee#Cadr Wikipedia:Mediation_Committee#.5Edemon There are four unassigned mediation cases, and will likely be at least two additional ones within the week. Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Merging of self-consciousness and self-awareness Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Netflix Links Section Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/A Bridge Too Far Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Ken Mehlman I beg, beseech, and pray each Mediator to please take a few moments to at the very least comment on the five candidates, and to consider taking one of the open cases. We are at a place where we are literally relying on the kindness of strangers: Almost all cases are being taken by non-Commitee volunteers at this point. Putting the open tasks page (which only changes when we add a new case), and the main committee page on your watchlist so you will know when new nominations and cases are added, would go a long way to helping the Committee succeed. (If having the main page pop up on your watchlist every time someone else comments in a nomination is too annoying, I can move them to subpages like RFA, so that the page will only change when a new nomination is added.) Additionally, I ask that all mediators check that they have a current email address subscribed to the Mediation Committee mailing list, mediation-l, to avoid the need for future talk page messages of this sort. My apologies for having to air the committee's dirty laundry in this manner, but I fear it is the only way to get everyone together to bring the Committee back to life. For the convenience of those who simply cannot be involved due to time constraints, I will be listing those that do not participate in any Committee activities as mediators emeriti, so that we have a clearer picture of who exactly we have available to take cases. I am, by separate posting, asking all mediators emeriti to return to actively participating in the requests to join the commmittee. Yours respectfully, Essjay (Talk • Connect) 02:26, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Pokemon Damage Formula

I noticed that you seemed to be the only one changing and updating this formula. Do you have a source for this formula or is it original research? --Crossmr 04:29, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

It's someone else's research. I just algebraically simplified it. —Guanaco 20:10, 11 June 2006 (UTC)