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Hi CrohnieGal. I assume you have looked at most things by now with regards to CD and possible treatment options - though by the sounds of the above it may all be somewhat late in the day. I do remember hearing about deliberate helminth infestation as an interesting novel approach to management, and believe they were running some trials / research at the Mayo some years back if my memory serves me well, and was looking promising from preliminary results. Not sure if this may help, but putting a link here for your perusal anyhow. [1]. I do appreciate that there is a lot of dubious alternative medicine claims with regards to treating CD - and the mainstream doesn't offer a lot of hope either - I have a family member with the same condition who has suffered at the hands of both. --Antoniolus (talk) 06:09, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks yes I've heard of this for a long time. It was also my wishful magic pill theory too as I was newly diagnosed when I heard of the worms and MAP which I clung to for a long time. But it isn't the way to a cure, but hopefully maybe they will help understand the disease a bit better. It does help some. I haven't tried it myself but a couple of people I knew tried it for a while and it helped for a while but then for some reason after time it stopped helping. Last I remember was you could get them in Europe. I even talked to the doc to see if I could be guinny pig for this before it went out of the states, but nope never happened. The same goes for MAP. I still have hopes though for both of these to produce something even if it's knowledge to understand CD better. Getting the worms is hard and expensive over here in the states and not paid by health insurance. Thanks for the link though, much appreciated to be thought about. I have my hopes on stem cell research which I am hoping the new government will approve the research now.

If your relative is into the alternate, hopefully with mainstream GI that s/he like, trust, communicates with well, the MAP treatment helped a friend of mine in N. FL until he couldn't afford to take it anymore. I believe there is some info on the Crohn's disease article about this if you would like to look. I had to redo my machine and lost all my favorites so I don't have the links easily accessable to me yet. I wish you and your relative well, thanks again, --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:28, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Yes it all looked like an interesting idea at the time - but I suspect it will end up not being a treatment modality in its own right, but rather serve to deepen our physiological understanding of CD and UC, and possibly other inflammatory bowel conditions as they present. It certainly is providing useful input into autoimmune theory generally, and in time will no doubt come up with valid therapeutic protocols that provide long term management strategies (I doubt that 'cures' for autoimmune disease will be found, but always hoping). The cousin concerned is now solely under orthodox care, and has been taking immunosuppressive drugs for over a year and getting on well with them in terms of managing his condition. The long term effects are a bit of a concern, but for him at the moment (he's only 20) it is providing him with quality of life after having had a very difficult adolescence. He still has a fair few foods on his 'flare up' list which will bring on all the symptoms for a few days if he indulges, whether consciously or not.

There is still so much to learn about this condition before medicine will have it cracked, but I suspect it will get there, probably with a little help from CAM theories. There is an unfortunate reality in orthodox medicine that once a condition has been labeled and identified, a single treatment approach is called for in order to create reproducibility of treatment regimes. I think this is one of the reasons that inflammatory bowel disease has remained elusive in terms of viable treatment options from the orthodoxy. A multifaceted approach may have far better chances of success - all the cases of long term remission I have heard of have necessitated that - but the regimes can be hard to maintain in todays society, especially in the US. By the way - active inflammatory bowel disease is specifically contraindicated with regards to colon cleansing and hydrotherapy - though I have no doubt that there are many quacks out there that disregard that and make all sorts of false promises. I am guessing that you have tried all the various probiotics out there, herbs, dietary regimes and restrictions, juicing programs and the likes - some of which seem to help for some sufferers, if only anecdotally. -Antoniolus (talk) 23:21, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

To me Stem cell research and gene research are important researches needed, hopefully the new government in the US will now allow stem research for diseases like mine. It always saddens me to hear of a young person with this disease. I hope he knows that what I call my "No-No" food list changes and surprisingly often. It really changes after surgeries but that is to be expected but mine has changes recently and I am surgery free now for over two years. (Not so long of a time but considering they want to cut me open in '07, I think it's great I've almost made it through '08, knock wood, and hard!!) But I ocassionally test things on my no list just for this fact except for things I definitely know that if I eat it I will be sick or hospitalised, nuts fall into this area do to strictures and adhesions . But tell your cousin, of course if you are interested to, that a lot of IBD people put too much on their list of not to eat just because of a bad reaction one time. This doesn't necessarily mean the food caused the flare up thus this is how food lists can get so long. It could have meant that it was a bad day or so or the food itself wasn't cook properly for 'your system' to handle and so forth. Having a long list of no foods has it's draw backs as I am sure you know like nutrient balance. So he should test one of his no foods about every three months. Doing it one at a time is obvious so you know if you react, starting with the easiest one for the normal system. Anyways this is what I do. I don't know if CAM is going to help a lot with these diseases, I have tried quite a few of them from yogurt specially made, juice, papapaya, enzymes, good bacteria and so on and so far not much of a difference for me though with strictures and adhesions it's hard either way I go. Well thanks, I'm enjoying this conversation. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:27, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, he's learning, and does try things again on an infrequent basis - often by accident I think, which is when he has his 'aha' moments, and makes him realise that it is not psychsomatic, though he does appreciate a PS link there too when he has things he 'knows' are bad for him. Poor kid, he has had a rough ride as you all do with IBD. Anyhow, Crohnie I have been doing a little research for another article to do with probiotics (not wiki, though there may be some inclusions eventually when I have trawled through some of the research) and ended up pursuing a CD / UC thread which was just loaded with papers re CD and probiotics - benefits and pitfalls. Some interesting info there, especially some insightful papers regarding the nature of different strains and just emphasising just how different strains can be in terms of effectiveness (albeit with the same name, different variant, different manufacturer), and one of the papers had some interesting elements with regards to the importance of high doses of both pre and probiotics to maintain displacement of the irritative organisms (one of the suggested mechanisms behind the aetiopathogenesis of IBD as you are no doubt well aware of).

One thing that seems fairly evident from the research is that different strains have different effects in terms of CD, and no doubt that will also vary considerably from individual to individual depending on your specific microflora spectra. I suspect that the orthodoxy is a little way away from coming up with a system to specifically target the 'missing' species in individuals with IBD and supplement specific tailored probiotics - though I guess they will come around to it eventually. Orthodoxy doesn't like tailored treatment in that regard - its hard work, and even harder to research, hard to monitor - just hard period - one size fits all would be so much more convenient! Then on top of that microflora spectra are dynamic, depending on environmental and dietary factors, and no doubt many others - so the strain blend a sufferer may benefit from this week may be different to next week. Damn inconvenient. Just my thoughts on the matter of course, but seems like a bit of a no brainer when you read the research abstracts, and the concepts of individualised probiotic formulations are already out there in certain areas. Out of interest, have you tried doing all the things you mention simultaneously? I only ask as it is something I have seen frequently clinically that people test lots of individual modalities and therapeutic regimens, but all separately. Which is great if you want to research upon yourself, but not necessarily the best way forward to get well. Think you are pretty brave to want to guinea pig yourself for stem cell research, but I guess anything has got to be worth a try. From most of the postulated pathogenetic mechanisms written about online in the latest pubs, I am not sure how stem cell therapy would work for CD, but no doubt those clever boffins in the lab have figured it all out.

Links below, look forward to continuing the conversation, and hope you find them of some use / interest. If only that other topic which shall remain nameless had so much research ...

[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] --Antoniolus (talk) 12:11, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Just had a quick glance at the WP CD page, and seems like probiotics aren't mentioned there. Would seem to be somewhat of an omission amongst the prospective treatments listed considering the wealth of research that has been done and by the looks of things is continuing to be done. Many of the most contemporary papers on PubMed seem to be pointing towards microflora modification as some of the more promising treatment options, albeit still requiring further study and refinement. No mention either strangely enough of diet / nutrition, which seems a little odd considering an intestinal complaint with reasonably well known if underinvestigated dietary responsiveness. And a whole host of other extensively researched pharmaceutical options. I will get to a little editing on the subject when I have time.--Antoniolus (talk) 14:11, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Just wanted to say I think you talk a great deal more sense than most here. Alun (talk) 12:19, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I try watching and understanding first before I comment even when angry. When angry, people say things they wouldn't say when cooler heads prevail. But lately here, everyone is going crazy and the anger is held like a security blanket for later use which is not needed nor cool. Things here have to change, the power struggle going on is totally unacceptable and if a dozen RFC's or other actions are needed to stop what's been going on for awhile now is needed than I say go for it. I don't know the history going on but I am catching up and it is sad to see what I am seeing. I am just a lowly editor but aren't they all supposed to be only 'lowly' editors with some extra tools?

I like your idea of administrators and arbs having term limits. I don't think every editor should have the tools, but term limits of like a year or two I think would stop the power ideas and allow fresh blood so that long feuds like this didn't keep happening. It's unfortunate that some really think they are better because of the status they hold. I am not saying all administrators or arbs behave like this but there is surely enough of them right now who have lost the trust of the community that time limits would help this problem. Having to be voted back in to the rights to hold the specialities would at least allow the click groups to end. Anyways, if you were to think of starting to do something like this with term limits I would appreciate it if you would keep me in mind because I do have strong feelings that this should be in effect now. I just don't know where it would be applicable to do this nor have the people to support this idea (I don't think but..) Anyways thanks again, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:43, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Ivan Milat/Backpacker Murders merge proposal

Hi, Crohnie. I just stumbled upon my September proposal to merge these two articles on the Ivan Milat talk page. I completely forgot about it. Geesh! If you have a second, would you mind weighing in on the proposal? There has been only one other "vote", and I'd like more input before I move forward, as it's a fairly well-known case. Thanks! mo ^talk 22:17, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

I responded on the merge of these two articles. I want you to know you caught me by surprise by your new sig, though I like it, it's easier to write! :) Let me know if I can help though like I said there I have never done a merge or any of the other things like moving a page, doing a deletion or so forth. Never got that interested in learning to do any of these kinds of procedures yet. I guess though it's about time I learn something new again so I'll start reading up on how to do these things and see if I can help in this area too. Thanks for asking for my opinion, again let me know if there is anything else I can help with. I have the two pages on my watchlist too now so I'll be watching to see if I can jump in. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:55, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your input! I've merged a couple articles, so I'll tackle these in the next week or so. I hope all is well with you. mo ^talk 15:33, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

No problem, again if I can help let me know. Things here are one hour at a time. I hope you are well. --CrohnieGal^Talk 16:05, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Whitman

Heh. I see you found my discussion with Victor9876. We've been known to talk, to argue, to p/o each other, but mostly, we try to be cooperative. Wildhartlivie (talk) 01:09, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I didn't see any problems going on with the two of you, lots of conversations are better than some of the stuff I see go on. I'll take the way the two of you are doing it to the way some others here do it. At least the two of you are actually improving the article, it's looking better last I saw. Personally, I'd like to see even less pictures on the page but that's ok, they aren't overwhelming like they were before. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:14, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

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Thank you

Thank you for your kind note on Wildhartlivie's talk page. I must have missed it when it was posted, and it probably got archived before I could read it.

Well, my "taking a step back" didn't end up happening after all. I ended up being pulled into the conflict between EmilEikS and Wildhartlivie and posted an ANI about EmilEikS. It was suggested that Wildhartlivie take it to WP:RFCC, which she did here. The request for comment requires two "[u]sers who tried and failed to resolve the dispute" to certify the basis for the dispute by posting evidence of their attempts to resolve the conflict within 48 hours or the request will be deleted.

I'm looking at the history of Wildhartlivie's talk page in preparation for my post (that's how I came across your sweet note) and noticed that you mentioned going to an admin about the Mae West flag icon conflict. If you are up to it (I have a bit of an idea about what you're going through because my father had Crohn's Disease), I would greatly appreciate it if you could post evidence related to how you tried to settle the dispute. Take care, mo ^talk 10:26, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I added your talk page to my watchlist, so feel free to reply here. mo ^talk 10:31, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh crud, I just re-read your note and realized that you were talking about Werdnawerdna. I need some sleep...badly! mo ^talk 10:34, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey no problem! Just remember I do watch a lot of pages so if I can help some place, esp like a content dispute pop in and let me know the article and the dispute. I usually check out the ref (s) and then whats being said to come to my conclusions. We may not agree all the time but I still would try to be fair to the article/project. Sorry to hear you know Crohn's, it kept me up all night last night. :( I hope your dad is in remission, boy I'd love to know what that is. Take care. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:45, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

This is hard to say, but here goes: My dad died in 2005 from cancer, which my family and I suspect started in his colon and moved to his liver. It may very well be because he was misdiagnosed for 20 years. I hope I don't scare you by telling you this, and I'm sending you "good sleep vibes". Best regards, mo ^talk 12:50, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about your Dad passing, my own died in 1985 from ignoring a bleeding ulcer of all things that led to complications. As for me, they test me so often that they would find cancer in it's womb state for the most part. I am just angry that my body seems to hate itself and is destroying it. Now my spine is going and I am having loss of feeling except extreme pain in my left arm, this is now starting in my right one too. This disease sucks, sorry, can't think of a more 'civil' word for it. But I take it one hour at a time these days, as I do my sleeping lately. Wikipedia is good for me to think about good things, like helping the project which in returns helps others with knowledge. I might be stupid thinking like this but it works for me so I guess that's what counts! :)--CrohnieGal^Talk 13:38, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Balloons for you!

momoricks ^{make my day} has given you balloons! Balloons are meant to uplift the morale of people with an illness, and has hopefully made your day a little better. Spread good health by giving someone else who is a bit ill a balloon.

Spread the good health by adding {{subst:Balloons}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

I admire your constantly upbeat attitude and am proud to call you a Wikifriend.

Thank you very much, it's very much appreciated and boy is it needed today. I love the thought you express, thank you very much for thinking of me like this! --CrohnieGal^Talk 19:37, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

You are so very welcome. I'm going to ask Wildhartlivie to look at your question on my talk page. I'm still learning about sockpuppetry (it's freakin' complicated!) while she has first-hand experience investigating it (see her SS page). momoricks ^{make my day} 23:21, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

About the mouse in his pocket

The editor in question allegedly works on behalf of a group, for which he acted as a Deputy Chairman at some point. It's a complicated intertwining of several groups with disparate purposes which are related mostly by what seems to be the same core group of people. One of them had a photo collection which they released to the public domain on Wiki Commons (that would the person on whose article he's worked the most on). When he first started arguing about things he talked a lot about the board of directors of one or another of the groups and how he was working on WP with their permission. When he posted, he used "we" a lot in an effort, I suppose, to bolster his status by referring to backing. Sometimes he refers to the board, sometimes as office mates, etc. He kind of dropped that language when one of the administrators told him that the conversation was with one editor and he didn't care about his board, they were irrelevant. There's a word for all of this, but I can't use it here. It starts with cluster. A sock puppet is an alternate account of a registered user, mostly used to either support the other username in content disputes, voting, etc. I didn't file a sock report on this, only because the second account stopped being used when I brought up the sock question and the second account "retired". I am certain if a sock report were filed or a checkuser request was made, it would show that the two accounts came from the same IP. Two separate people can use the same IP and have usernames, but one person cannot have multiple accounts and use them in this way. There are a few circumstances where two accounts are allowed, such as in running bots, etc. Does this answer your question? Wildhartlivie (talk) 06:04, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Would you suggest that Crohnie make a checkuser request on the user she has encountered? momoricks ^{make my day} 08:58, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks that does explain 'the mouse in the pocket' for me because, yes I was thinking socking or even meat puppet with what I have read. Now that you cleared this up for me, I will go back and see what I see and either file a checkuser account, which I don't think is needed sincd the one account retired, or reply to the RFC. Thanks again, --CrohnieGal^Talk 10:22, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Ah, jeez. I misunderstood Crohnie's note on my talk page and thought she was asking about a different editor from the one related to the Rfc. Sorry for the confusion! momoricks ^{make my day} 21:47, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Marky Mark

I've opened a request for comment on an issue about apologies at Talk:Mark Wahlberg#Request for Comment. Would you mind looking at the issue and leaving your comment? Thank you!! Wildhartlivie (talk) 05:56, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

I responded after reading everything through. I hope what I said helps resolve this issue. I personally don't like interviews like this for just this reason that the problems of putting informative information in is very difficult. Even though it is a WP:Reliable source by all means there is no way to put the interview in and choose one sentence or sentences without running afoul of many of the core policies that I am sure you know. Let me know if I need to expand or anything on my reasoning there, not even a cup of coffee in yet! :) --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:42, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Alternative names for chronic fatigue syndrome

Hi, since you have previously shown an interest in the topic of CFS, this is to inform you that I have started an attempt to resolve a long list of existing disputes on Alternative names for chronic fatigue syndrome. You are welcome to participate. Guido den Broeder (talk, visit) 21:51, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

OMG

Please go here and shout out. Wildhartlivie (talk) 09:44, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

OMG is an understatement!! I went there, wasn't the nicest thing I saw upon just awakening without even a sip of coffee. I have shared this with a couple others too. --CrohnieGal^Talk 10:52, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry you had an abrupt awakening. Non sequitir: Are you supposed to drink coffee? Look at my contributions and you can see who he targeted for the category, since I removed almost all of them myself. Wildhartlivie (talk) 11:06, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking out the garbage. Oh the editor hit some very beautiful people too, unbelievable that people have thought process like this. As for coffee not everyone with Crohn's has problems with coffee or as far as that goes anything specific in the diet. It's all very personal, thus very hard to figure out what not to eat or drink, thank goodness coffee isn't one of my no-no's! It would be awful too if chocolate reacted bad to me!

Something else I found this morning that I find disgusting [29] and after I worked so hard to get to know all of the people to make an intelligent vote then I see something like this. I am furious anyone would do this, canvassing offline to vote a person off the arb and not do it in a fair and just way. What a morning at Wiki!! --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:22, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Tip of the hat

Just a quick note to thank you for your posts discussing GdB at ANI. I have a lot of respect for your views and the way you expressed them. Anyone who's as capable as your are, of showing sympathy, arguing eloquently and reducing the overall drama level, is most welcome at ANI. I hope you have a good day. Regards, SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 15:13, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much, your comments are very much appreciated. --CrohnieGal^Talk 15:21, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Rajesh Shah at Homeopathy

A closer look suggests he may belong. Have a read of his Lancet paper.LeadSongDog (talk) 16:53, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry didn't look closely, thanks for catching it and being so nice about it too. Thanks again,--CrohnieGal^Talk 18:10, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Kathryn Grayson

Since I'm working down a "needs infobox" list and I've come to this name, I opened a discussion at Talk:Kathryn Grayson#Infobox, to which I'm guessing you're supportive and will say so? Heh. Thanks. Wildhartlivie (talk) 13:31, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Wildhartlivie is this you? If so would you specify what you are talking about? I went to the link you have and you aren't there just anon IP. I see something from you that has been removed but I don't understand what is going on here. Please specify if you would, esp. if this is you. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 13:23, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Apparently I'm brain dead this morning. Yes, it's me and somehow I managed to remove my note when I updated a project banner. Let's try again. Wildhartlivie (talk) 13:31, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Ok I thought so from looking at my watchlist but then going to the link all I saw was an anon IP that I didn't know. Been borrowing my pain meds? (joke for anyone watchining, can't believe I am putting a disclaimer for this, oh well!) I'll take a look now, thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 13:40, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

re: Thank you

No problem, any time. I know how it is for IPs to vandalize your user/talk pages for no apparent reason ;) Cheers! Apparition11 (talk) 14:50, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

lol. If only all my mistakes made somebody smile, most of them just make me look like an idiot :) Happy editing to you, too! Apparition11 (talk) 15:27, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: FYI

Hi Crohnie, thank you for the note about the spam. I went to report it yesterday and noticed it has been reported by another user here. Apparently we're gonna have to deal with it until the abuse filter is implemented. I certainly hope that is sooner rather than later. Regards, momoricks (make my day) 23:43, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Ok just wanted to make sure you were aware of it. I scrammbled the URL so that no one would actually click it. They said on the board to scramble and not post it in full so that is what I have done! (Don't remember if it was scrambled when I sent the message to you though so if not, please do scramble it too, thanks.) Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:35, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

I removed it from my page when I saw it. How do I scramble it? momoricks (make my day) 23:50, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

I just went and looked at my post and it's already scrambled there so I am assuming you mean the link that was originally posted to you that you removed by the spammer? Well on the board they used the # to block out parts of the address, ie. ._#####alk_.com. If you have it archived I would suggest either doing this or just deleting it all together. I think they are scrambling it to prevent someone from accidently clicking but in all honesty I'm not positive about their reasoning. Sscrambling it does make sense to me esp. since I got my computer highjscked not long ago with a link here. Hubby took days to rebuild my system and still is working on some things. So I am all for preventing others from accidently getting hit with any kind of problems. I was hit with a nasty virus like the trojan virus and it was nasty. Let me know if this explains your question. I just got online, our ISP was down since midnight, along with our cable, boy am I junky! :) Well let me know, --CrohnieGal^Talk 14:30, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm thinking it was taken care of when I deleted it. Thanks! momoricks (make my day) 03:23, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

re:Whitman

Thanks, I saw what was going on. Apparently consensus can be overridden by administrators if they don't like the image. I've contacted Victor on the remaining images, and it seems like all that happened was that he misstated the name of the library: The Austin History Center is a division of the Austin Public Library. The image is clearly supportive of the article; the source name was just unclear. I've found the contact information if necessary. Wildhartlivie (talk) 21:55, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

ANI draft

User_talk:WLU/RFC#Just_in_case, feel free to add. WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 15:53, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll take a look. --CrohnieGal^Talk 16:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Please take your time. I'm certain there will be no shortage of volunteers; the best might be to focus on your own attempts to help (doc review, advice, etc) since that's what you are most familiar with. Your friendly, civil and sympathetic efforts are both impressive and instructive when paired with the responses received. WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 20:43, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Ok, sounds good to me. I hope I will be received that way this time around since I have to admit I am very disappointed this time around with the situation and esp. the response I received to my questions from him. But I will review it all so I am thoroughly understanding all of the complaints, suggestions and so on so that I can make a civil but this time a reasonable response to how this should be handled in the immediate future. I really do believe that without the disruptions, the editors there can bring the article up to good or even a FA status. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 20:49, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

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Filmography

Hi. After the changes we've all been using on filmography tables for a long time, someone who has never risen to say anything about WP:ACTOR or actor articles, changed back our filmography template, saying it hadn't been discussed. I opened a discussion here, to officially get consensus. Would you? Thanks. Wildhartlivie (talk) 14:47, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi, can you give me a bit more background or links so that I can make a better educated opinion? I trust your judgement but I don't know anything at all about this so I need more info to go on. I clicked the links you have there but to be honest it doesn't show me what the problem is that you are trying to work out. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 14:57, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

The difference isn't all that much, just 3 fairly minor changes, which have all been accepted tacitly, just not on the talk page. The guy, who has had nothing to do with actor pages, etc., noticed and reverted it all. The version he changed back to is this and the version we all seem to like is this one. Functionally, the differences look like Miranda Otto#Filmography and awards vs. Eric Bana#Filmography. Wildhartlivie (talk) 15:43, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and done, --CrohnieGal^Talk 15:49, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Ta, as they say! Wildhartlivie (talk) 16:01, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

I saw that you'd spoken up, thanks. I left a note on Kingturtle's talk page to the IP. I wouldn't post on any of their talk pages, speaking for myself. It would be inciteful. This is frustrating to me, it's an obvious block violation, since one of the usernames has been linked to another. Be careful, though, or you'll be pulled into it. I'm down for a some zzz's. Wildhartlivie (talk) 15:11, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem there, I don't go where this editor goes and I also don't participate in behaviors simular to this. To stressful for me thus not healthy! --CrohnieGal^Talk 15:15, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your fast revert, the IP must have a bad temper. Thanks again! -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 21:08, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem, --CrohnieGal^Talk 21:16, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Guido den Broeder

Required notice to all parties involved with the Guido den Broeder ban/block/discussion: I have appealed the ban on his behalf at WP:RFAR. Cosmic Latte (talk) 19:18, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and sorry it came to all of this. --CrohnieGal^Talk 09:57, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

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Same to you, commented more on your talk page, Happy Healthy Holidays to everyone! --CrohnieGal^Talk 15:12, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Best wishes to you and yours! --Ronz (talk) 19:26, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Ronz, I had a wonderful time with the family the past two days. I go to both the Chanukah and then Christmas party. It was fun seeing family and friends though a bit exhausting. I hope you also enjoyed yourself and had a wonderful day. Hav a Happy & Healthy New Year too. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:47, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

re:Dahmer

Hi. Yeah, I've been watching this since he first added content from his book. I approached him about this a few days ago when he first added to the Dahmer article (see User talk:Bijouworld). One of my concerns was that it gave more weight to one victim over the others, but moreso, that it gave weight to an eyewitness rather than the actual victim being discussed. At that time, he made this addition, which I reverted. He moved it here and toned it down quite a bit, which seemed to me to make it more appropriate. That it used more references than just his book lended it credibility. I think he did make an effort to remove the self-promotion from it and all I did today was change back the book link and thought perhaps I should find the Google book link for it, since it is more acceptable.

Overall, there isn't anything wrong with including more information about victims, and perhaps the circumstances of their deaths, which this addition did for at least one victim. I've thought it would help the article if there was more victim/death information about them, but I don't think there's all that much out there. That's partially why I left the Weinberger content in the article. I'd really prefer to see more victim content added than lose what is really a bit of interesting history. That there was a person who was an eyewitness to any of that is significant, I think. Wildhartlivie (talk) 19:03, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Ok fair enough but this is still very concerning to me; Both Jones and Weinberger were employees of Bijou Video, a gay pornographic adult video distributor The bold video link he is adding from what I could see to other articles too. Is this part of his book too? Did he write it? In other words do you know if there is any history connected to him personally? I did notice you were watching him, as was I. I also reverted him when he added the victim friends info in there becaue it seemed like a stretch to add. If that person was a relative or something closer I can see it but to me it just as undo weight issues as it is still. I think I am getting cranky now, had physical therapy today and got my arm yanked and tugged and lord knows that I am really sore and tired, maybe I need to take a break and look at this again tomorrow with new eyes?! Thoughts if any? Anyways, I am watching too and to be honest was going to revert the additions he made today but then you edited which made me back off and give it more thought, thanks for that. :) --CrohnieGal^Talk 19:15, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Also from looking around I don't know policy on this] but when a warning like this is needed is this allowed? I don't go to pages on porn so this might be the right thing to do but this looks like pushing a website against WP:SPAM. I didn't do anything about this either but maybe....

Another thing, incase you didn't notice he reverted you again. I think something needs to be done here but what I am not sure. Like I said something feel wrong, hokey. --CrohnieGal^Talk 19:28, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

That reversion does change things a bit and I'm going to take it on. I have to look at policy on the adult content caveats on the Toushin page. They/he/whatever are starting to step over boundaries. Wildhartlivie (talk) 19:49, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank goodness, I guess maybe I'm not totally nuts! Thanks so much, --CrohnieGal^Talk 19:51, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Dream Guy took greater exception to the recent changes and removed it altogether. I'm not sure I'd have gone that far, given what I said above about more information on all the victims, but I'm not inclined to argue about it. I suspect the contributor will end up blocked for COI pushing. Wildhartlivie (talk) 02:17, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Personally I agree to the agressive response to all of this behavior. OrangeMike has indef. the account which 'they' are disputing. Why do these kinds of accounts always sound like they have a mouse in their pocket with using us, we and so forth. :) Smashville has declined the unblock. Dream Guy is going to try to get that one article deleted which I also agree with so I will try to keep an eye out for the deletion discussion since the article reads like an advert. I was tired and didn't feel so good yesterday so I was questioning myself, so needless to say I was happy to see that even with my condidions not being the best I was right that something was seriously hokey about this account. Thanks again for helping me out with this. I really appreciate it. I know better than to stay online when I am not feeling well and have a lot of meds working against my brain. You really helped me to be able to stay focused which you have no idea how much that helps me and means to me. Thanks again for helping me out, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:34, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Wishing you the very best for the season. Guettarda (talk) 01:32, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much Guettarda, same to you. I hope you had a wonderful holiday. I wish for you and yours a very Healthy & Happy New Year to come! Happy editing too! Thanks for thinking of me, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:37, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

Hi Crohnie, thought it was time I dropped by to say hello again. And what better time to do so than Christmas? Anyway, I hope that you're ok and that Santa brought you some nice presents! :-) Vitaminman (talk) 11:41, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey Vitaminman, wonderful to hear from you. I hope you too had a wonderful holiday. I haven't seen you around lately but I am sure are editing will pass each other again in the New Year. Have a Happy & Healthy New Year! --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:49, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I've been a little quiet on Wikipedia just lately as my real (i.e. non-virtual) life has been very busy just recently. I've got a bunch of Wiki articles that intend to work on in the new year, so I'm sure we'll pass each other again soon. Take care in the meantime. Vitaminman (talk) 16:40, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

For anyone"s info

I just want to inform that the changes being made to my user page by WLU are being done with my permission, thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 21:00, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

And on that note, I've just been asked (told) that I'm helping prepare dinner, so I've got to go. Have a look at what I've started with - if you'd like, you could give me an idea of what you think works and what doesn't, or what you'd like to see. I'll play with it until you're satisfied (I like learning about the coding tricks and stuff, and it's a nice, relaxing hobby for the holidays and will be a bit of fun to ease me out of post-guido editing). WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 21:51, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Wow, you were very busy while I was gone! I can't wait to see what else you plan to do. I love it so far! I was surprised to see the pictures as I do know how much you do not like them. Go ahead and do whatever you like to the page, I have no complaints at all. I tried myself to organize everything and just couldn't do it like you are, and I did spend a lot of time getting it to what it looked like. I really like the box with the info in them. It makes it much easier to find what I might be looking for. So if you still feel like playing with go ahead. Thank you very much for what you are doing, --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:47, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy new year!

I see from your userpage that you've got a fourth surgery due. I hope you had a Crohns' free Christmas and have a good 2009! Lugnuts (talk) 18:55, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Commented on Lugnuts talk page. Right now things are really hard for me physically so patience with me is appreciated. I also appreciate the nice comments you made, thanks for that too, it really helps with the sadness I have been feeling over everything. Where have we passed each other here? I cannot remember seeing you around where I am but it's probably do do a major brain fart and lots of meds. Just curious about this. Anyways, Have a Happy Healthy New Year! --CrohnieGal^Talk 00:27, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I've seen the contributions you've made to the main Crohns article (a subject close to my heart - nearly 9 years to the day since my first, and hopefully last, surgery). And I've been keeping an eye on this list too. Again, have a good 2009! Lugnuts (talk) 10:52, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Nice to meet you a fellow Crohnie. Congtats on the lack of surgeries that's great. I am holding back my 4 surgery and made it through another year without one, that's is now 3 years I've finally made without a surgery. A record for me. I'll se you around I'm sure. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:56, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I've been in remission since Jan 2000. I was told to expect re-occurances of the symptoms within 18-24 months, but I've been OK since then, touch wood. The main problem was when it first happened, it took so long to find out what it was. I hope I never have another barium meal as long as I live...! Lugnuts (talk) 17:56, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

That's wonderful, that's a long time for a remission. I know of only one other person who has had a remission for this long. Do you still take meds too prevent? I hear you on the barium meal but personally I hate the cleansing garbage the most though the pills are by far the better way. Except all the drinking one has to do to get the pills to work! But I am really happy for you, I hope your remission last your lifetime. I too had trouble getting diagnosed. I got sick in '99 and finally went into emergency exploratory surgery at 75 lbs in early '01 to find the damage and remove it. I think this has a lot to do with why I have so much trouble now. It's really hard to deal with at times so I enjoy getting reminders that some day I too might regain remission and hold it again. Thanks for sharing, --CrohnieGal^Talk 18:09, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying

The rollback got me confused for a bit ("Curse of the Zodiac"), but then I got it right, and yes the saved page should not have my name. I contribute very infrequently, and only in rather small additions to get some detail in an entry. So, sometimes I have trouble remembering the exact way to do something. Thanks for your note, and a Happy New Year to you too.Deep Atlantic Blue (talk) 23:07, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for understanding. In no time at all these things will become second hand edits, not really thought about but just done the right way. Be patient and happy editing, --CrohnieGal^Talk 00:46, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

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For the good wishes. Yes, I'm more or less vanishing. I'm sticking around a little while while I remove some pers. info., and to finish a couple of ongoing conversations. So, no drama, no big deal, and I'm not intending to make it otherwise. Happy New Year and happy editing, Backin72 (n.b.) 10:24, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't realise you were leaving, I just thought you were doing a name change and removing personal info from the site. If you would like to talk please don't hesitate to email me. Take care and I hope you decide to just make it a wikibreak for awhile and that you will be back. Either way, good luck to you, --CrohnieGal^Talk 15:27, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

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I don't think your response to this is unprecedented. It's obvious a lot of people share your concerns, and I personally feel it is a thinly based hate article, small minded, unscholarly, POV and anti-Semitic. My outsider advice is to let the process work. Since this person has been restricted from disruptive editing, it seems to me that a remedy will be forthcoming. I supported the deletion and the topic ban. Just hang in there! Wildhartlivie (talk) 18:12, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, having a bad wiki day today. --CrohnieGal^Talk 18:14, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Request for comment on user

Hi Crohnie, Happy new year! it is rough new year at CFS and I get frustrated some times there is a wave from new patient advocates attacking me now Guido is banned, I do not all ways have best response to those attacks, i am trying to be more polite but it is hard. Some editors at Chronic fatigue syndrome want to ban me. That is a later step in a dispute process, but it can start with a request for comment about me and i think comments from outside are good. I sent some people the guidelines [30] for when they want request comment on me. Just for your info!! Thx, RetroS1mone talk 14:01, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I made a comment there. Things have been very active there so it's hard for me to catch up on all of it. I do find it troubling that canvassing maybe going on as the one editor talked about a lot not being happy with the article as is, which you asked about under the recruiting thread. I didn't see the editor who made the comment respond to you so I asked again for a response. I am having some problems which is causing me serious problems right now and so focusing is very difficult for me. I am trying to read the new refs being supplied but it's slow for me to do and some don't have links on the talk page. If you can supply me a list to look at with the links, just a list of the refs with links to the site it sure would help me out. Keep me informed if you would. I have a gut feeling going on in me that I am going to see if I can figure out if my I am right or not. But this will have to wait until I can get my meds tomorrow or the next day. Thanks and Happy & healthy 2009 for you too. --CrohnieGal^Talk 18:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

IBD

I responded on my page. I had missed your post.Die4Dixie (talk) 06:31, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

That's ok, I saw your response, email sent! :) --CrohnieGal^Talk 16:53, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hey, Crohnie, I just noticed your evidence (I don't exactly follow the case). Nice one! Bishonen | talk 16:33, 10 January 2009 (UTC).

Thanks, I've been trying to follow along with what is going on but some of it is just too long and confusing to follow for me. I do think though that some editors are using this case to allow the policy to be changed in the project when other ways have failed. Oh by the way, I read what you wrote and you were right on too. I think a lot of editors need to be called out on their proposals. Some of the proposals are surpassing the ridiculous to me, like redifining words or catch phrases. I hope you will comment some more on some of the proposals being brought up too. I like how you shoot from the hip and say it how it really is. Thanks though, --CrohnieGal^Talk 16:52, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

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I don't read Shot Info's statement as saying anything like that[31], how am I missing this? could you clarify here for me please? Although I will say that if she does try to preemptively disenfranchise people by adding their names to her "lists" then she's in for a rude awakening imo. That's too blatant manipulation for even her fans I would think. KillerChihuahua^?!? 14:36, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Clarification: I see where SI says it looks like Elonka is trying to do that, but not that he thinks it would actually effectively have that result. I think perhaps I'm reading too much into your post on Elonka's page, if so apologies. KillerChihuahua^?!? 14:41, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

[32] This is his exact word with a cut and paste'\:

"It should be noted that Elonka (per her revised recall conditions, written post her first set of conditions by which she was actually recalled under) uses these "lists" to then paint the picture that people on these lists are being monitored by her and hence are ineligible to even participate in her recalling. It also needs to be noted that the Community has given admins considerable "powers" (aka the "tools") to do the job that Elonka discusses below. Why on earth does she need more powers - especially those not granted by the Community - is largely beyond me and many other editors. Of course Elonka fails to answer the actual issues but continues to point the finger at all those other people out there. Shot info (talk) 04:08, 19 January 2009 (UTC)" To me this reads that the lists makes editor's ineligible to participate per her new conditons she set up for any further recalls of her. Am I reading this incorrectly? --CrohnieGal^Talk 14:50, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

It reads to me that SI is saying that's E's intention - but not that he agrees at all. In other words, he is, for lack of a better word, stating "j'accuse!". KillerChihuahua^?!? 14:59, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Well I asked her about it, lets see her answer. I don't like these lists and have stated so many times. But I also don't want my names to remain if there is a possible chance that I will be ignored on comments do to being on any of these kinds of lists. Please read her recall criteria if you haven't. I see it as impossible to do a recall to her without going to arbitration with the way it is written, Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 15:13, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

My thoughts: I see where she has "Neutral: * Not from an editor who has been warned by me within the last year" on her New recall rules, which means you and SI are correct in your interpretation of her "rules" because basically she has declared as though by fiat that all she has to do to render any future vote moot is to "warn" you at least once a year. Some of her "warnings" are absurd, I am sorry to say. I just found out that an extraordinarily silly and pompous post she left on my page she actually considered "warning" me, and she left virtually the same "warning" with B. However, remember that recall is voluntary, and that she changed rules in midstream at her last recall and decided she wasn't going to keep her word has only cost her the respect of editors and not strengthened her standing or position in any way. Generally speaking, ArbCom is the only way for an Admin to be de-adminned. CrzyRussian and Durova are the only two recalled admins who come to mind who actually stepped down - altho there certainly may have been others, perhaps several others. the page Wikipedia:Former administrators doesn't specify. Frankly, I don't necessarily want or desire her to step down, just to cease her disruptive and divisive actions. I find it very distasteful that she has set up these "rules" for herself, though - no one counts if she "warns" them? Bah!

And if you read the notice at the top of my talk page, you will find that I do indeed watchlist pages where I have recently posted. KillerChihuahua^?!? 15:54, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

So basically over a dozen people are now ineligible to comment if a new recall was set, that is sad. I don't want her to step down either, at least not yet. But saying that, I find it very disappointing that editors are being cast away like this. If something would go to arb to make a decision, would these lists of editors be a major consideration for them? I don't watch it a lot there though I do have it watchlisted. But I saw the last recall fiasco, and almost quit the site with what went on there and on peoples talk pages about the recall. I responded to the thread about having a real recall process instated since I truely believe that there should be a way for the community to take the tools that they have given. I am very saddened by all of this. If you look at my block log, contribution list etc, you will see that I am a long term editor, not a good editor but I do try hard here. I feel that I am on some kind of scarlet A list that diminishes my input on things. Would it be bad for me to go to the different locations and remove my name from them since I am on the lists mostly for comments made to talk page and not because of edit wars or other policy behavior problems? I find this all quite confusing at this time. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 16:11, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

No, they are not. She says they are: and by her "rules" they cannot be counted. But she cannot prevent them from speaking and she cannot prevent them from adding their voice to any and all discussions about the suitability (or lack thereof) of any of her actions. KillerChihuahua^?!? 16:21, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Regarding removing your name: You may wish to list any "lists" at WP:MFD. Removing your name could lead to More Drama, although at least one editor is doing so: Verbal removed his name in protest. KillerChihuahua^?!? 16:24, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your time and explanations. I will think on it a bit before I decide whether or not to delete my name as Verbal has. I have notified Shot_Info about this conversation so if he would like to comment here about anything we said he can. Thanks again, --CrohnieGal^Talk 16:29, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

You are more than welcome if I've been any help at all. Remember that the reason this is on ANI, etc, is because many people disagree with Elonka's activities. Its not as tho she can declare something and, hey presto! it is so!. So don't fret too much, ok? KillerChihuahua^?!? 16:49, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hi! Yes, I'm alive - trying to wait out excessive snow, excessive cold, now excessive rain, and the unmitigated desire to just sleep (I did a marathon session yesterday). I'm still editing, still waging battles (as I see from above, you are), and just keeping on. How are you? Wildhartlivie (talk) 16:47, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm in Florida and we just went through a cold spell here that was quite different then the norm for us. I also like to sleep when it's cold or bad weather.  :) Where are you at if you don't mind me asking? The weather other places makes me look like a wimp when I complain about weather highs in the mid 60's and lows in in the low 40's to high high 30's but hey, I'm a Floridian who's never even seen snow before! :) The cold weather here has been playing havoc with my health though. I have deteriation going on in my spine that is assumed to be caused because of my immune problems and this cold weather has me in constant pain even with my meds. But I am trying to cope the best I can. I unfortunately have the doctors lining up again to see me which I hate. So far two of them within three days and I know my GI is going to be calling soon to say hello where are you since I haven't seen him since he dropped me in the hospital for three days. That hospitalization was a waste of time and money since he didn't do anything to change his help of me, so I've been on strike! But I'll survive, I always do. I just wish my body would like me a little more. I haven't been doing too much here, some vandal patrol and one case where a serious case of WP:COI was going on. I brought that to the attention of an administrator not realizing how nasty the person would get with legal threats and all but it seems to have worked out. Well keep in touch and stay well, --CrohnieGal^Talk 10:33, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, don't strike the doctors to the point that it's a detriment to you. Use 'em when you need 'em. I'm in Indiana, if that tells you anything. If it doesn't, in the past two weeks, we've had one snow storm that dumped a foot of snow, then a night of -14, then another "mini-storm" that only left us with about 6 more inches. Now this week, at this precise minute, it's 51 degrees, we have strong winds and rain coming and potential tornadoes. Hey, at least the snow melted... at least part of it. But this isn't spring. We'll have some snow within a week. Oh, and the weather man just said there is flood warnings in the northern part of the state. It's schizophrenic weather time here. I essentially stayed in bed last week. My heated mattress pad is heaven and I'd gather round my books and sprite and television and just "hunkered down", as we say in Indiana, along with nucular, according to Dave Letterman. I've been cranky and had a couple of Wiki-fights I probably should have avoided, but like I said, I've been cranky. Stay bundled! Wildhartlivie (talk) 11:40, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Ok you've got it bad there. The weather here has been beautiful esp. the past few days. Our highs are in the low 70's and I can't complain. The good thing about all of this is my a/c bill is going to look wonderful. We had the heat on for a few days but it didn't have to work too hard so that good. This is the first times in quite some time that we even put the heat on. It sure smells horrible burning the coils off. We moved in here about 9 months ago and the place was empty for around 2 years so it smelled like the place was going to burn down, yuck. I know that I have to see the docs but it seems in the past year they keep wanting to put me in the hospital and keep talking about surgery. Since I've had three already, I am not in any rush for another surgery. Now they are talking about neck surgery, I'm losing all feelings except pain in both my arms, and another gut resection. So I will say hello but I'm not ready for any kind of surgery, not yet anyways. :( Stay warm, --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:54, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Larry Sanger article

I noticed your comment about the Larry Sanger article---you leveled some quite harsh criticism at a user for pointing out an edit he considered vandalism. I'm not sure whether you were looking at the version of the article he was referring to. Rvcx (talk) 12:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes I did look, I just didn't see what the editor was saying and felt what was be said was close to a personal attack and not vandalism. I don't understand what problems the editor finds with NPOV and thus I asked. But the comments made were over the top and not at all helpful towards building the article. I don't know what else to say until I see more of what the concerns are with the article. I understand the concerns with the editor but that's not what I need to know. I need to be able to understand what the complaints are with the section mentioned. Hope this helps, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:59, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

I just want to add that I responded more at the Larry Sanger talk page about this. I tried to clearify myself a little better too. Sorry for any confusion I might have caused. --CrohnieGal^Talk 15:08, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

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Hey again

There is a new "old issue" at Talk:Mae West#Notable person should or should not be named in photo caption? that you might have an opinion on. It may be all going away though. Wildhartlivie (talk) 00:51, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Responded at editors talk page. --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:30, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Right now, I think it's not a problem. The IP is rangeblocked, so he can't get on from the wider 217.209... IP at all. He can elsewhere - the commons, the Swedish WP - but not here.

I'm not sure about the Diane Downs article. If I read your note right, you are saying she didn't buy the gun, it was one her husband had stolen?? I haven't read the book about her for years, so my recollection is fuzzy and a bit mixed up with details from the movie with Farrah Fawcett. The part about the bullet casings, though, is quite awkward. None of that is cited, so there's no verification to check. Wildhartlivie (talk) 02:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your responses. As for the Diane Downs article, I just read the book by Ann Rule and yes I am saying she took the gun from her X in Arizona. The article reads horribly, alot is because of vandals attacking it. I am battling the flu right now but I think I will try to clean the article up some soon if nobody beats me to it. Getting refs for the article shouldn't be difficult at all to do. When I do get to it, may I ask you to do a check of my edits? I usually only do vandal patrol and minor things until recently when I did some major edits at the Crohn's disease article. I have tried to stay away from that one, I mean doing any real edits, because of my user name. But the vandals got the best of me and I had to take out some of the nonesense. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 13:15, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi!

We haven't corresponded for a while, so I wanted to swing by and say hi. I hope all is well with you. momoricks (make my day) 01:25, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey good to hear from you. How are you doing? I am battling with the flu and some new medical problems but overall I guess I'm ok. I am working on trying to be WP:Bold and edit articles more. I usually do just minor things like vandal patrol, spelling etc. but decided that I should try to work more with some of the articles. I shamelessly started my boldness with the Crohn's disease article but I do have another editor checking me to make sure my POV stays out of my edits.  :) So far I have not been reverted so I guess I did ok. ;) Take care and please keep in touch. What are you working on? --CrohnieGal^Talk 13:19, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that you have the winter crud. I've been able to fight it off so far. *knocking on wood* It's great that you're feeling comfortable enough to do substantial edits. Wiki is lucky to have another conscientious editor. Nothing new going on in my real life, although all the depressing news headlines have caused me to back off from crime articles for awhile. Lately, I've been having fun clicking the "Random article" link and cleaning up whatever I find. You take care too...I hope you kick the crud to the curb soon. :) momoricks (make my day) 23:05, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Didn't know if you saw

I posted a question in response to your comment a few days back - if you have any wording suggestions, they'd be quite welcome. Cross-posting below, and the original is near the bottom of Talk:Charles_Whitman#Request_for_arbitration, just above the subheader A fresh perspective:
"Thank you - but if you could point to specific examples of where you think sourced and/or well-worded content was lost, and where you think wording was improved, it would be extremely helpful. So far, you're the first of five people who have commented on content to say that there's a halfway point (which in my experience is a good thing). Up to now, we've only had three "it's all better" (including myself) and one "it's all worse", and that doesn't leave much room for compromise. arimareiji (talk) 18:40, 1 March 2009 (UTC)"
For that matter, it's just fine if you'd rather respond in another section or in a new one. Just let me know where to look. ^_^ arimareiji (talk) 14:04, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

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Ray_Joseph_Cormier

Crohnie,

Thank you so much for your help. If you read the arguments, as much as certain participants annoyed me, I do believe in civil discourse even if there is a diametrically opposed POV. I think reasoned argument is best. As far as I´m concerned, what is past is past. I don´t hold personal grudges. It does not make a happy, contented person. As it says in the Book: jealousy is cruel as the grave, but Love IS strong as death.

As I said, now I will wait an see how my BLP is improved.

There is also this Wiki link verifying my candidacy for the Ontario Legislative Assembly. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Ottawa_Centre_(provincial_electoral_district)

I would appreciate it if you would add this link, though, and edit the Article accordingly.

Thanks again for your help. Peace, and God Bless you. DoDaCanaDa (talk) 20:27, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

• Hi! You were asking what relevance the story about Phelps and his pot bong had with my BLP? In the current version it reads: In January 1984 he was arrested for possession of hashish for the purpose of trafficking and sentenced to two months in jail.

While I will not deny the truth of this verifiable fact, the bold headline in the Reference verifies, PROPHET SEES CANADA AS THE NEW ISRAEL. The job of an Editor in a BLP is to pick and choose what tidbits of information with which to portray the subject. This is why the fundamental principle of NPOV is so important in producing an Encyclopedia with the highest standards of accurate, unbiased information.

From my POV, what the Editor chose to present to readers, would leave a negative impression with many. If the Editor saw the BOLD print, and chose that, it would leave a positive impression. I have no problem with the hash conviction left in, as long as it is counterbalanced with the BOLD HEADLINE from the SAME Reference. By itself, it is not fair or balanced. That´s it! That´s all!

This is a small example of what I was talking about the power of the media that could crucify me.

DoDaCanaDa (talk) 23:44, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Crohnie,

I just saw now that edit you made concerning the 1st day of TV in the House of Commons. That is a great link. I am so very pleased. Thank you.

For such an historic occasion all the Galleries were full, the one for the Public and the many reserved for Dignitaries and Special Guests.

I was in the front row of the Public Gallery at the brass railing. When proceedings started, I placed the gag over my mouth and rested my chin on the railing. A security guard came and pulled it down, off my mouth. I replaced it. He motioned for me to leave. I shook my head NO and held on to the railing. Three of them then started pounding me, and pulling my long hair trying to get me out. I held on as long as I could without making a sound. It took a long time.

I have almost 100% certainty the video of that exists in the archives somewhere. Would they want that to be seen on National TV that night? I think not. DoDaCanaDa (talk) 14:54, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi, from the research I did after rereading the article a couple of times, I felt that this was important and needed to be sourced. Also from my research, the government seemed to try hard to control what was to be broadcasted, so I would be surprised if the video was televised. But you do bring up an interesting thought, I wonder if the video was ever finally released somewhere for the public to see. I did read most of the links on your facebook. I did not know that I could look at your page without signing up and didn't click the link for a long time, until the day I actually edited the page. I am not savy about things like this too well. :) I still have more to read there and I do have it saved on my computer for easier access to the link. I'm glad though that you liked my edits, it's always good to hear that because I am not a bold editor. Be well, --CrohnieGal^Talk 16:04, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

• Be Bold! On reflection, you can always clarify a point, add or delete. Since the possibility of an edit war is over, my BLP is now open for all Editors with an open mind and a NPOV, who want to improve it, to do so.

DoDaCanaDa (talk) 18:19, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

• If, a Public spotlight is turned on me, all of that will become public knowledge. The media will dig it up.

Because I was there and didn´t see it on TV, I can hardly wait to see the video of me standing at the podium of the President of the United States on a Secret Service restricted balcony in the Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, where President Ford was expected momentarily to speak to thousands of witnesses in the Lobby below.

It was all a surprise to me, standing there, waving to the crowd, and ABC, CBS and NBC broadcasting live. It was pre-cable. That´s all there was to watch on TV in America that night. This was during the 200th Anniversary of the American Revolution at the Republican National Convention.

I had the very same image as in the picture ´2nd Police Warning for God´s Emissary. I couldn´t have planned it better myself, as if to lend authority to the numerous References. It is a revolutionary image at a Republican Convention. Actually, the Vice President of the United States gave me the finger.You can see it here [33]

I was eye level with him across the street on a Hotel roof patio. The Yippies brought a big yellow school bus on the grass of Penn Valley Park across the street. Standing on the roof of the Bus, with a portable microphone, I was hot. The crowd of other guys and girls on the bus roof were all touching me as I spoke, massaging me. This was a real unexpected, pleasant surprise. I spoke for 90 minutes. When the V.P. came on the patio, we were at the same level. He didn´t like my speech as the speakers loudly reverberated against the Hotel windows. With all the media present the probability is much video exists recording that.

Many of the current Republican Party Congressional Leaders were young when they attended that Convention. When the media approaches them asking, ¨Do you remember a guy at the Crown Center during the ´76 Convention......?¨ it will all come out.

A man devises his ways, but The Lord directs his steps.

DoDaCanaDa (talk) 00:11, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

• I thought you might be interested in seeing what User talk: Sarcasticidealist is doing with the BLP. This is only the first Section, but with all the References he has in hand, I can hardly wait to see the rest.

Peace DoDaCanaDa (talk) 21:34, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Crohnie, I'm finally getting to that review - the time change from San Diego to home is preventing me from sleeping, so I'm finally making the time. It's diff-by-diff unfortunately - detailed but page loading will be time-consuming.

• [34] this is fine, but were it me, I'd use a citation template. Do you know about diberri? If you plug in the pubmed number (in this case, 15157822, which can be found at the end of the hyperlink and on the pubmed page just after the abstract - PMID: 15157822) it will automatically generate the citation template for you. All you have to do is put it on the page between <ref></ref> tags. Also note that this is an Elsevier full-text article. People with access to the Elsevier databases through universities or work can download the full texts via a password, so in this case I would also include the url (http://www.bpgastro.com/article/S1521-6918(03)00166-5/abstract) because it can be helpful. It also has a digital object identifier (doi:10.1016/j.bpg.2003.12.003) which is yet another way of linking to external pages. In my opinion, these are all nice things to have for the reader - makes it considerably easier to verify the content. For me, I would include all of them, even though they are to a large extent redundant. Adding the reference was a very good thing, these cosmetic changes simply make it a tiny bit easier (and help out readers looking at a print version).
• [35] fine as well; the diff should show the reviewer what you've done, so for me the edit summary is unnecessary; more useful in my mind is the statement "Removed per WP:PROVEIT" because it gives a policy-based reason for removal, and one that can not be argued with. Unsourced information can be removed without challenge and it's up to the person who wants the information included to provide the citation. But that's just my opinion.
• [36] again fine. This is another situation where I would cite a policy (in this case, MOS:LINK or even better, WP:OVERLINK). An experienced editor will know what you're doing. An inexperienced editor won't, but by providing the link in your edit summary, they have a place to go. Again, this is my preference, and you really should decide for yourself what you think is the most useful or preferred summary. The idea would probably be both your prose description (which is easy to understand) and my hyperlink (which goes to a policy for unfamiliar readers), but realistically the edit summary box is very short and you may not have room. Plus, both take time to type out!
• [37] the same, all good. Here you use {{citation needed}}, {{fact}} or {{cn}} will also work and are shorter to type out. Ultimately it won't matter because SmackBot will change it to {{fact|date = March 2009}} irrespective of its original form. Since SmackBot recognizes all of these templates, I can't defend any one of them as superior. The only thing you could do, if you really love saving server space, is put it directly at it's ultimate final form and save the wiki servers a diff of smackbot having to do it, but even I'm not that anal retentive. Pardon the Freud reference on a page related to gastrointestinal problems.
• [38] ditto. Remember, these can be outright removed per WP:PROVEIT. By tagging them, you are essentially saying "I believe this information is probably legitimate, but could be improved with a citation". That's valuable (though tracking down the citation is of course a best practice - a very time consuming best practice).
• [39] ditto, though abscess is actually still linked a couple times more in the page. If you're going to hit a word for WP:OVERLINK, I like to be thorough and review the whole page. On a page this long, it might be worth repeating perhaps three times if it's an important concept (like "gastrointestinal tract") - once in the lead, once in the first instance in the body, and a third time if it comes up much further down the page. But it's a judgement call. I also note that this page links to wiktionary for perineum when there is a wikipedia page for it. I'd have switched that. Doesn't perineum have a...vivid picture?
• [40] this seems fine, but if it's a good point, it might be worth mining the European commission comments for the original source and including it in the page. This seems like very important information, and I would suggest tracking down the original source and including it. That it appears to be a genetic-environmental interaction is quite fascinating in my mind, but it depends on who thinks this and how prominent an idea it is. If it's widespread accepted, it really should be included. If it's minority, then WP:UNDUE is an issue. Also, the statement "Research has indicated that Crohn's disease has a strong genetic link.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ccfa.org/reuters/geneticlink | title = Crohn's disease has strong genetic link: study | publisher = [[Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America]] | date = 2007-04-16 | accessdate = 2008-04-20 }}</ref>" is sourced to a dubious web page. In this case, I would have tracked down the original citation and used that. I know CCFA is probably a reasonable source, but pubmed and peer reviewed journals are always better in my mind.
• [41] this I was quite surprised to see you remove, and am curious why. Those seem like good journals to be sourcing for both the page and the information. The last couple sentences I might remove if they're not found in the sources, but to remove the sentences immediately before the reference strikes me as generally something I would only do if there were pretty clear evidence the use of the sources was undue weight. In my opinion, WP:UNDUE stuff is just about the most difficult judgement call that can be made on wikipedia, and requires considerable familiarity with both the relevant science, and your own POV. If you've got an opinion, this is where you must be careful about how much your bias could affect your editing. I can't say if this is an appropriate removal or not, because I just don't know enough; were I to object to the removal, my starting point would be reviewing eMedicine, the National Institutes of Health and related high-level pages for statements to either side. The association is correlational, but that isn't the same as a hypothesis that has no data to support it.
• [42] a letter to the editor generally is not a good idea to use as a source, so this is appropriate. Were it me, I would have dug a bit to see if there were better sources to support this idea and simply replaced it. However, if it's only supported by a LTTE, that certainly suggests it is undue weight to include it and also suggests that it's a very good idea to remove it. Again, this is a judgement call that needs to be made by a relative expert (or at least informed party). My only other suggestion would be to cite the more specific guideline of WP:MEDRS rather than WP:RS, but that's arguable.
• [43] seems fine, good changes.
• [44] this seems a bit weasel-wordy, and I would personally only use it if the journal article stated this explicitly (it may, I don't know, but your edit summary suggests it does). Also, this is a time-sensitive article. As the information ages, those further studies may be done and the page should be updated accordingly. Because I may not get to the page to do so, I prefer to use wordings that are not time sensitive. Actually, I'd be tempted to remove this entire paragraph - the specific carbohydrate diet always struck me as pseudoscience, and it's only the fact that an actual journal mentions it in the title that keeps me from removing it. Essentially, unless there's more than prospective studies and hypotheses on either of these issues, I'd lean towards removing it outright as too prospective and running the risk of POV-pushing. SCD in particular always read like an advertisement. Final point, your addition to the naltrexone (sp) sentence is a sentence fragment I believe.
• [45] ya, this is what I mentioned before - I would dig up the original study and source that, appending the BBC article as a lay-summary. WP:MEDRS and MEDMOS are both quite explicit that popular press, even the best of them, tend to screw up medical ideas and topics.
• [46] nice! Smackdown! Excellent catch.
• [47] good expansion, but it's a bit how-to-ish for me. I would suggest rewording so, while remaining close to the source, you are stating it more as an association (i.e. "X, Y and Z have been shown to reduce symptoms and A, B and C can do K, J and L" gives the same information as "You should do X, Y and Z because it will help", which is very much a WP:NOT problem).
• [48] good intentions, but food diary is a redirect and fiber should probably link to dietary fiber. Direct links to the appropriate sections and pages are immensely helpful to readers, particularly when there is ambiguity. Part of this requires knowing which pages are ambiguous, which only comes with experience (i.e. I know dietary fiber is the appropriate page because I've spent WAAAAYYYYYY TOO MUCH TIME HERE). Do you have popups installed? If so, you can use it to check any wikilinks you add to the page, to make sure it is going to the appropriate one without having to use a second window. But if your computer is glitchy, you may end up crashing a lot. I know internet explorer does so a lot, but firefox doesn't. If you're not already using firefox, I recommend it highly.
• [49] the section could probably still be expanded, but it's a judgement call. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's inappropriate, though it should have been at the top of the section in the first place. Anyway, if you think the pathophysiology section is comprehensive, you are perfectly justified in removing it. You're the subject-matter expert of the two of us, so you are better equipped to decide if stuff is missing or not. One thing I would do though, would be to track down Brunner and Suddarth and actually cite it. Most people don't know what Brunner and Suddarth is, and just the names doesn't help.
• [50] same comment, this is a judgement call (I will point out that the section seems quite short - is that because there is not much to say? I certainly don't know). The invisible comment does call for social impact, and it certainly seems like a valid idea. For me the reason to remove an expand tag isn't because it has been there a long time, it's because the section has been expanded and completed. {{NPOV}} I would remove after a long enough period of time with no attention (whoever thinks it is NPOV should be working on it with other editors), but expand I would not unless I thought someone was being pointy a la Guido.
• The section on Immune system contains the words "contrary to the prevailing view..." which is an enormous red flag for me that someone is axe-grinding and POV-pushing. That's usually code for "the doctor's are too stupid to realize that X condition is actually caused by Y aspect of Western life, which can be cured by Z pseudoscientific practice/Eastern medical tradition/completely unproven theoretical treatment that will make me money". As OrangeMarlin or ScienceApologist what they think, I'm pretty sure they'll back me up :) This issue seems more like something that should be presented as a series of subsections rather than a point-counterpoint.
• [51] this edit was sourced originally to the European Commission report. If it's a solid source, I'd suggest replacing it rather than fact tagging it. There's now a wonderful bot that'll rescue lost ref name tags (User:OrphanBot, a fantastic idea) but it didn't pick up on this. I think it only captures the ref given a limited subset of parameters (recent, not too many intervening diffs, has to have time to kick in). I would avoid the EC report only if you are certain it is a dubious source; as the European equivalent of the FDA or NIH, it may be valid. Otherwise, unless WP:UNDUE is an issue, I would suggest mining it for sources in order to reference this statement.
• (skipping a bunch of intervening vandalism) [52] this I later remove outright, so see the talk page for my comments. But those look like good, experienced editor comments to adjust a page to better reflect sources. So I'm saying good job here.
• [53] OK, here's a tough one. See, it was unsourced, so you can remove it per WP:PROVEIT. But it was originally sourced, and you were the one to remove the source. I would suggest that in this case, it is a good idea to do a bit of research and determine if it's actually legitimate and should be included with the appropriate sourcing. Your emedicine link is somewhat equivocal, it might be worth doing a bit more digging. May I suggest thinking about it a bit more, looking into the research a bit more, then deciding if it's worth it? If you are convinced that it's not a good addition to the page, I would suggest pasting it to the talk page and giving your reasoning. Though with the tiny bit of reading I just did, I'm inclined to support your removal - it's a very long page and it's debatable whether it should discuss proven uncertainties.

Wow, you're never going to ask for my help again. Overall I think your changes are good; there are some cosmetic and best-practices that would be good habits to develop. In a few cases there may be UNDUE issues, but none are so problematic that I would worry too much and consider reinstating your self-imposed topic ban. Measured, gradual efforts to improve the page are, in my opinion, very much within your abilities. Naturally, if you do run into POV disputes or other conflicts with other editors, then an external review may be warranted to ensure you are not being overwhelmed by your own POV and issues.

Look, I don't praise very much or very well - I'm saying you should keep editing the page as you are certainly a net force for good. I think your voluntary topic ban is preventing wikipedia from improving through the efforts of a knowledgeable and dedicated editor very conscious and conscientious of their own limitations. The few areas that may be questionable, if you are not sure of yourself I would suggest raising the issues on the talk page and asking an outside party to review (User:SandyGeorgia is a favourite of mine, as is User:Jfdwolff). It's only canvassing if you're in a content dispute, if you're concerned over your own objectivity then you are certainly better off asking for that external review. In all my experience with you, I think the far greater danger is that you'll doubt and withdraw too quickly rather than going crazy and turning the page into your own private mouthpiece for what you think Crohn's disease should say.

So, go-go-gadget-keyboard. BE BOLD!!! BOLDER!!! WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 04:22, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Good morning, and wow, I didn't expect you to take so much time on this for me but I really do appreciate your input. You have some really good thoughts here. I am really bad at remembering the exact policy words to put in for things like WP:PROVEIT and so on. What I did at the beginning was kind of clean up to check for vandising, POV pushing, {{CN}} and so on. Then I started at the top and went through each ref and compared it to what it said in the article, adding, deleting or changing in someway. Then I did the wikilinks. I worked on this for a few days, don't remember exactly how long but I spent quite a bit of time on it trying to be accurate. I am going to go through each of your bullets and see what you are suggesting in the next few days, (I am battling the flu with a bad cold so I am even slower than norm.). I will respond to each bullet above as needed to you pointing you to the response in the edit summary. Thanks a lot though, I really did learn a lot here and appreciate all the effort you just did for me. It's so sweet of you to take time like this to help me out. I was worried that I was being to agressive but with what you pointed out, I don't think I was. I know why I did most of what I did and I think you'll agree with my thinking. I'll have more to say too, thanks so much, --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:05, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure. I couldn't sleep last night, so this is the result. I ended up being quite surprised at the results, that's a good 3000 words by the way, the equivalent of twelve standard pages. I am a pedantic douchebag! Anyway, I hope the overall message you get from this is that you should have confidence in your edits as most of the changes were good; the only improvements are purely cosmetic. However, the difference between a good article and a featured article in many cases seem to be cosmetic rather than substantive, so...

As for remembering what PROVEIT, UNDUE and other WP: links are, you just have to keep trying. I normally edit with at least two windows open so I can check, and even then I usually end up having to correct a red link or two. You know my other secret cheat? If I persistently forget the shortcut for a link I use a lot, I just make one up. Check out these page histories: [54], [55], and I know there's more. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 14:50, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Anyway, wikipedia is not done, so it's not like you have to hurry on this.

Oh my, I never saw that before, at least I don't remember it. Cute! I usually have at least two windows up and sometimes a third to do searches. I also have the pop ups on but it does freeze me up ocassionally but not too badly. I am in no rush to edit right now. Having a bad week, got the flu, then left with a serious cold that is unrelenting, lost my engagement ring on my left hand that now has no feeling in it except for pain so I didn't notice when I lost it or where. :( Then to top it off the TV decided it didn't like us anymore and kept arcing and shutting itself off so off we went today for a new one. There is no such thing now as an inexpensive decent TV these days with the new rules coming into effect. So this week has been the pits and I am only up to hump day! Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 16:11, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Whitman talk page

I am really sorry that you were the target of attack from the editor on that page. It was undeserved, incivil and out of line. I apologize that you had to endure that. Wildhartlivie (talk) 00:06, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey not your fault at all. I was just surprised by the turn of behavior after being requested to come. But it's ok, I just wanted you to have a chance to respond incase you disagreed with my opinion or not. It's ok though, thanks, I'll go see what happened next after I left, --CrohnieGal^Talk 09:46, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I know, but still... it was out of line. I had a say about, though. Wildhartlivie (talk) 11:15, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes I say that you did and so did Victor, thanks to both of you. Not up to dealing with that kind of behavior, so thanks again. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:55, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

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Actually, it looks to me as if he's not so much adding quotes as he is making the quotes that are there more obvious. [56] Be that as it may, I personally think that overuse of quotes is the tool of a lazy writer. :)) I think WP:QUOTE backs me up on this. Among other things like proper attribution, it says "editors should try to work quotations into the body of the article", "while quotations are an indispensable part of Wikipedia, try not to overuse them. Too many quotes take away from the encyclopedic feel of Wikipedia. Also, editors should avoid long quotations if they can keep them short. Long quotations not only add to the length of many articles that are already too long, but they also crowd the actual article and remove attention from other information", "[q]uotations should generally be worked into the article text, so as not to inhibit the pace, flow and organization of the article", and finally, all of Wikipedia:Quote#When not to use quotations. I think either in stand-out quotes or as it appeared to be before, the quotes need to be drastically reduced. Hope that helps!! Wildhartlivie (talk) 11:46, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I agree, the cquote templates should be removed and at some point, the actual quotes that were already there should be better incorporated into the article. One or maybe two distinctive quotes by themselves is much more effective than multiple ones. Wildhartlivie (talk) 12:17, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I totally agree, maybe I can get to it tomorrow or so. I am just too out of it today to do anything serious here. I would make stupid mistakes and so I will wait until I feel better and get some sleep. Thanks for the feedback, you are a sweetheart, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:38, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh gosh, thanks for the barnstar. I know McVeigh isn't going anywhere, he'll wait. You get some rest and get to feeling better!!! Wildhartlivie (talk) 02:17, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

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Health freedom movement

Hello Crohnie! I see that somebody has added one of the organizations back that I removed from the "Organizations and campaigners" section. As you know, despite a long search I was unable to find any reliable sources WP:RS to indicate that this organization is notable. Without reliable sources, I feel that although the organization seems to be notable in the movement, to include it in this article would contravene WP:ORG. What do you think? Vitaminman (talk) 06:29, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Howdy, I just took a look and found that the user has been indefinitely blocked [57] so I reverted back to your last edit. I did the revert per the indefinite and WP:ORG (which was new to me thanks!). Good catch on this. Take care, --CrohnieGal^Talk 10:07, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

OK. Good detective work!! (I replied on my talk page too, btw). Vitaminman (talk) 13:02, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello again! I see that the material has already been added back into the article by anonymous editors. Do you know a friendly admin who could take a look at this and advise? It might be worth checking whether either of them are the user that was blocked. Also, I've left a note on the article's talk page in case the editors concerned are not aware of the rules. Vitaminman (talk) 19:44, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

I just took a peek and saw the latest. Mastcell reverted the inclusion once also so there seems to be administrator with an eye on things. I did revert again with the summary to the anon IP to read the talk and edit summaries of the three editors who gave advice on how to admit what they are trying to do. Let's see what happens now. I'll go for admin help if we actually need it but lets see first if they back off or give some WP:RS and not just personal opinions about truth and all. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 09:25, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

I see that DivaNtrainin is back and am wondering whether he/she is contravening any of the revert rules? For whatever reason, he/she seems to want to undo any mention of the first sentence of this United Nations News Agency article: [58]. Might the advice of a friendly admin may be useful here, do you think? Vitaminman (talk) 21:52, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

outdented I just took a look and reverted back with reasons. I believe Keepcalmandcarryon is administrator, if not s/he has a good rep with edits as far as I know. I hope this solves the situation. I'll continue to watch but let me know if there is something I miss. Thanks, be well, --CrohnieGal^Talk 09:37, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Okay, many thanks. I'll keep an eye on it too, of course. Hope things are going well for you. Vitaminman (talk) 13:08, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

The unending HTML coding

There are no silly questions. The br with the <> around it is HTML coding. HTML coding is what web programmers use to format a webpage layout. Using that one has the same effect as if you hit the return key on a typewriter or the return key on the computer. It forces a hard break in the text. I don't know why people use it here, though. All you have to do is space down a space. I don't have a website to explain all that coding, but there are probably thousands of pages that will give you a rundown of HTML codes.

Removing your post erases it from the page, but not the page history, if that's what you mean. I wasn't clear on that question. Thanks for endorsing the barnstar!! Wildhartlivie (talk) 12:08, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Do you think if I do a Google search of HTML codes I would learn more? My question was did the editor, it wasn't me but another editor, who removed the br <> change anything that should be reverted? Thanks for the explanation though, I do understand what you said and it really did help me understand. Hey, as for the barnstars, the one I gave and the other one, I really believe you are a great asset to the project and deserve the acknowledgements you are receiving. Keep up the good work and all the help you so freely offer. You are a pleasure to work with. :) --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:23, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Aw shucks, thanks. No, there was nothing that needed to be reverted. For a change, an IP editor actually did the right thing. There really is little use for the <br> code here that I have found, except for forcing a break in infoboxes and tables, like we do on filmographies to make the awards appear as a list rather than a run on sentence presentation. You can always run a search, but you don't need to unless you feel compelled. By the way, Rossrs was the one who mostly worked Sharon Tate up to a featured article. Besides disagreeing that it should be split, I also wanted to protect Rossrs' article. Splitting it would be more of a "Look what I did!!" sort of thing that would take Rossrs' work on Tate somewhere else. It is a fresh approach to the same old story, isn't it? Wildhartlivie (talk) 12:36, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks I understand totally now. I won't waste my time right now anyways looking up the coding. As for the Sharon Tate article, I really did appreciate the writing in this article. He did an excellent job. He kept it in order and kept the interest there for the reader to 'want' to continue reading it to the end which I must say a lot of articles are disorganized that I lose interest in finishing it. It's ashame that someone would go through efforts like that but yes I see it happen way too often unfortunately. I just needed to state how I felt when I read the article and this editor did such a good job. For goodness sake, getting an article to a FA status isn't a little thing here, why on earth would people try to break up an FA article is beyond my understanding I guess.  :) --CrohnieGal^Talk 13:07, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't think the point was to really to break it up in bad faith. A lot of people want to see victims removed from the perpetrator, but that's totally inappropriate in this case. Ah well. Wildhartlivie (talk) 14:04, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't mean to make it sound like this time was a bad faith attempt but reading what I wrote did sound that way. I meant in general that it is attempted way too often. But I agree with you that for this article breaking it apart wouldn't be a good move since the article is written in good taste about the victim and how her life was ended in such a useless and tragic way. --CrohnieGal^Talk 16:06, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

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FYI, to anyone who lurks here

I had minor surgery done and I am a little out of it with the discomfort and waiting for results from the doc. I had a growth removed which is being biopsied from the corner of my mouth and inside my mouth. Not really worried about cancer but of course this is a possibility esp. with my extensive medical history. So if I make mistakes please except my apologies in advance. Cross your fingers for me too! Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:33, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Zodiac

It appears that Berean Hunter has taken the initiative and removed it. I have to agree, it appears this is all the work of a television reporter and his current theory of the crime. My understanding is that Jack Tarrance is dead, so it's not a BLP issue, but you're right, it is undue weight and a whole lot of speculation.

In other news, I do hope you're feeling better and everything comes out all right. Rest!!! Wildhartlivie (talk) 12:45, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, didn't see the change. I am about to go back to bed again, thanks again. --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:49, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I am not sure what I can do here (not looked at it yet) it is certainly not my area of expertise you sure you got the right guy? But yeah I will check it out. Copied to my own and to yours depending on where you prefer to look. Will check the talk pages on article (useless aren't they). Sorry to hear you're not feeling well. SimonTrew (talk) 07:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I had a quick look and I really think you must have the wrong guy. I know nothing about any of this. If I am mistaken, please feel free to send me another talk. Hope you feel better soon. SimonTrew (talk) 07:13, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Hey there. I realised my mistake. I was looking at someone else's history list on their user talk. I didn't notice straight away because a few of the topics we have in common... but Zodiac ain't one of em :) Anyway never a bad thing to make a friend. Keep well. SimonTrew (talk) 13:52, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

No problem at all, thanks for clarifying for me though. Still good to meet you. I hope are paths cross someday. --CrohnieGal^Talk 14:39, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

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I appreciate your input at the Serial killer talk page. How's your work on Crohn's related stuff going? momoricks (make my day) 12:36, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

No problem with responding as I agree with your opinion on that. I did a lot of cleanup on the Crohn's disease article awhile ago and it went really well I think. I had another edior check me since I do have an obvious strong opinion about this subject. If you have time and/or interest take a read of the article and give an opinion. The review pointed out some things I needed to take a look at but overall I seemed to have stayed quite neutral with only minor things to look at which is good. I am not that bold when it comes to editing article pages so this was a big step for me because I am getting a bit bolder with the help of another editor reminding me to be WP:BOLD. :) How are you doing? Well I hope. Things here in RL are on pins and needles a bit, see my notice above, but it will be ok. Take care and let me know if there is anything else I can address there or anywhere else that I am active in since I am having serious focusing problems lately. That would be appreciated and not canvassing since I am requesting you to help. (at least I hope, the canvassing rules are a strange ranger type rule to me.) Take care and be well, I'm getting ready to go lie down again. --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:55, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I'd be happy to look at the article and offer any suggestions I may have. RL is impairing my ability to focus lately also, especially on crime-related pages. The news is oversaturated with negativity, sometimes I can't take it anymore. Speaking of crime-related pages, I saw your request for opinions on the Serial killer talk page. I'll try to give my two cents soon. Don't worry, the canvassing policy doesn't apply to requests for help on articles. Take care of yourself, hon. momoricks (make my day) 05:47, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh boy do I hear you about RL being oversaturated with negativity. I just told my husband yesterday that I wish for the old days of fist fight in the playgrounds vs guns to square off with someone your mad at. It's really depressing lately with all the news of late about shootings and so on. In case you can't tell, I am for major gun controls. Jeesh as long as I have been with my husband 35 years this July, if we had a gun in the house we would be dead ten times over. :) I take a break from my usual watchlist and go on vandal patrol which I find helps me get focus back a bit more. Though it seems lately that this place is becoming one big drama fest which is sad. I don't understand why anyone would make it their ultimate goal to disrupt and destroy like so many do here. I actually thought things would be different here than in most places on the net but I guess I am a bit naive too. Thanks for taking a look. Take your time, I'm never in a hurry about anything. You take care of yourself. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:04, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Manson

I'm not sure I understand why it was deleted either. I think perhaps it is based on the fact that there were too many copies of that photo uploaded as soon as it was released and none of them had proper attribution or licensing, even this one. Despite what some claim, the newest photo wasn't a mugshot, it was a routine prison identification photo and the state of California does not routinely designate their photos as public domain release. The one that we have on the page was released as PD and that's why it shows up everywhere. This photo was the only one of the several that weren't deleted as multiples or other reasons. Mostly, though, I think it was because the uploader continued to claim that the photo was essentially public domain and he did not at any time attempt to update the licensing or provide a valid rationale for its fair-use. I wasn't about to add one for him because of how crappy he treated me when it was being discussed regarding his insistence that it be the main photo in the article. Fair-use rationale doesn't allow for use in the infobox when there is a free-use one available and he was less than civil about it. Don't fret though, it will get re-uploaded and properly licensed at some point. Fair-use/free-use is quite complicated and sometimes it only depends on how skilled the wording is. Wildhartlivie (talk) 10:33, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

I missed the editors behavior or have forgotten it. I probably should have reread the talk page but I didn't. I just saw the picture deleted and following the links to see what the reasoning was. I found the editor who deleted it seems to delete a lot of images. I have around four photos or so that I have from myself on the project but only one I did myself and still I needed help from an experienced editor because someone wanted it deleted saying it was described wrong. I explained that the name was given by my dermotoligist and so it wasn't wrong. You can see the pictures I have donated to the project on my user page. I think that with all links available which are WP:RS it should be put back into the article with maybe a short explanation from the sources. One of the links, don't remember off hand which one, said that it was available to use. I don't know how to do this as I have had others put my photos into articles. I guess I think that this update is worthy to the article since it is new info. Thanks for your response though, I guess I'll wait until someone has the time and/or interest to put it back into the article. I guess part of my problem is the editor who removed it was the one who put it up for deletion and then deleted it shortly there after. Plus the history shows a lot of deletions in this manner which I feel is not appropriate. Oh well, sorry I'm guess I'm a little pissy this morning.  :) Thanks again for your time and explanation. --CrohnieGal^Talk 10:54, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Well, in the interest of good faith, which admittedly is often difficult around here, keep in mind that certain editors work in specific places and the people who delete files and articles have to be administrators. I note that Quadell works quite often in images and images for deletion. It's probably a thankless job, but in most cases, the deletions are based on improper licensing, invalid fair-use, or a consensus of editors weighing in. I don't bother a lot with images, but when I have, I have to admit, grudgingly in some cases, that the decision was fair based on the rationales given. I want to correct you though, so you don't misinterpret. Quadell didn't nominate the Manson image for deletion, PhilKnight nominated it. It did get the full 15 days for comment between nomination and deletion. I didn't go through to see if Quadell nominates and deletes the same photos, but I usually don't see that. I know that sometimes it feels as if they are super-vigilant, and it's probably correct to say that the people who deal with images probably apply policy more stringently than in other areas. I'm not sure if that's altogether a bad thing, though. There is a lot of invalid uploading and copyright is something I think the project tries to take seriously. In the case of images, it's usually a lot more obvious of a copyright infringement than in text. I think the best thing to do in this case is wait for a while until California releases the photo for wider use than attributed to the state as fair-use. They usually do. Wildhartlivie (talk) 11:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Ok fair enough, guess it might be time for me to take a break. I am getting pissy about things and when that happens I usually break away for awhile and do other things. I guess my attitude isn't helped waiting to see if the phone rings. But thanks for the clarity and helping me realize that I am getting too 'emotional' about things. Thanks again, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:04, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

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Chronic pain

Hi CrohnieGal. I noticed you reversed my entry Vitamin D Supplementation under Alternative Therapies. Do you think it might be better placed in the Pain Management article? (I just wanted to get it out of Pain where there's been a heated discussion over its therapeutic merits) Anthony (talk) 22:22, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I read with the interesting discussion going on at Pain that you pointed me to. I haven't read the article yet so I can't comment on this discussion yet. I reverted you because I found adding the category like you did didn't really show any connection for me. But reading some of the sources like this one, I see what it is you are trying to do. I reverted myself with a suggestion that maybe it should be added to the article, which one i'm not sure, with references so that the reader understands why Vit. D might be helpful. It might be useful to articles like Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis and articles like this since many patients have absorptions issues. Anyways, just a thought. Obviously I don't know a lot about Vit. D with pain issues but I do deal daily with chronic pain, see my user page if interested, and I now understand why my level of D is blood checked on my routine blood testings. Well I'm straying a bit, but I did revert myself. I hope I have answered your question clearly, if not please don't hesitate to ask more or again. :) Take care, --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:10, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

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wikipedia is information center and it can contain informations and practices observed by different population

Please do not impose your rule on wikipedia. It is just an information portal and not a medical record where doctors are looking for writing their prescription. Accordingly the articles can contain history, methods, faith and practices about each subject. It is also not a western only portal or a race portal where the practices of some races and societies will be highlighted and others will be ignored.

I am from India and in all over india neem is using in the treatment of chickenpox. If you do not know about it please stay away or try to find out by googling about the subject.

In my view if any special practice is observing about chicken pox in Africa, it also should be mentioned here. So that this article will be helpful for somebody looking for some information about chickenpox treatment by African. So please stay away if you do not know about some subject or information. That is why wikepedia is allowing volunteers to do editing as it will be the first hand information. unsigned comment by User:123.2.228.162

Situation dealt with on Chickenpox article by another editor. May I suggest you use the talk page to discuss your changes and use refs to add information instead of WP:OR. Also, please remember to sign your posts in the future. It helps editors know who they are talking to, thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:34, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Cadillac Deville

I understand your concern about the recent re-writes on the Deville page, but the information was verified. From an automotie standpoint, it was significant why the Deville was redesigned because of rival Lincoln sales. Also, the remark about Cadillac's 1980 V6 engine being the first non-V8 engine since 1914 is not correct - Cadillac made 12 and 16 cylinder cars in the 1920's and '30's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.101.83.140 (talk) 17:23, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I reverted you to a previous version that reverted you do to policy problems like POV, OR etc. I don't know cars and was just doing random patrol when I saw this and agreed with this other editor. I will bounce it back to them to see if they want to explain it to you. May I suggest you taking your concerns to the talk page instead reverting editors? Also, please remember to sign your postings. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 17:42, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Internet killers

In this case, I had to go with delete. I've watched a little bit what is going on here and this article was created by a person who is a freelance writer who sometimes writes about crime. I see it as an attempt to legitimize a term so that it can become established in writing, but not that it already is. It is synthesis in my eyes. Not that I don't think it may one day become part of the vernacular, but right it isn't. It's a chance to expand upon the recent Craigslist killing to create new fodder. I'm not convinced. Thanks for pointing this out though. I may not be around all of the time for a while, having personal health/family problems that might take me away. Hope you're doing well! Wildhartlivie (talk) 16:32, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

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I've replied to your comment at User talk:Coppertwig#providing summaries of Abd's comments. ☺Coppertwig (talk) 14:17, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Responded back to you there. I have you on my watchlist! :) Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 19:13, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Headsup: a discussion wrt the possibility of renaming

"Internet homicide" has commenced at Talk:Internet_homicide#Name. ↜Just me, here, now … 20:26, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know, I've commented there. Thanks again, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:26, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

PS: You do realize that your signature is impossible to read, at least on IE browser. :) --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:27, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the input wrt my signature, Crohnie. (I've made it bigger. It's supposed to look messy which means a bit illegible, though. Wuddya think? Ahem. In any case, to the matter at hand... ) You may not be all that hot on the topic of Internet homicide [sic] -'s even getting article-space treatment but, be that as it may, I've just now suggested a new name for the article, which does exist, for the time being, in any case, here: Talk:Internet homicide#Proposal. If we'd be so lucky that you've a spare moment to comment or share any preference you might have wrt a title for the article that will exist at least for the time being, I'd greatly appreciate it. (p/s Should you comment and should your choice happen to be "Internet killer," on the theory perhaps that a topic on a tabloid meme should have the name most closely associated with the meme, if you'd also consider suggesting a secondary choice, I'd appreciate that too. That is, if it would seem that a majority of others disapprove of this term for a title on the theory that acceptance of it would be too much like WPdia was endorsing some of the common suppositions behind the meme; that said, should there come to be substantial support for a straightforward title of "Internet killer," I wouldn't mind since in sincerity I don't have much of an aversion to it. Little long-winded in that last sentence, though: sorry.) ↜Just M E  here , now 07:46, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I popped over but to be honest I find the talk page very difficult to follow at times. Your signature is a lot better for me to see now, thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 14:45, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

thanks for being here

Hi Hi, CrohnieGal, i just wanted to say thank you for being here. It feels encouraging to encounter an editor like you for several reasons. First, i have had my own issues with troublesome focus, interpersonal complications, the minefields of conflict, and the aggravations of personal illness as impediments to the editing process (as i used to mention in an old version of my UserPage.) Second, i am just glad to see another person who is "out of the closet" about their medical issues, frank and honest, rather than letting embarassment or cultural conditioning inhibit the free exchange of information and ideas. Third, i am glad to see somebody who simply supports the basic premise of Wikipedia editing, which involves "show us the Reliable Sources!" as the pathway to including information and perspectives in our writing. I wish more people could understand the fundamental importance.

One of my best friends from all the way back in High School (decades ago) is also a long-term survivor with Crohn's and so i do have a sincere sympathy for the complications this can bring. And since i've had HIV for twenty years and have been disabled for most of the recent decade, i can personally empathize with the way things get so difficult when we are trying to do our best to contribute but we are frustrated by the problems which often start "from within" before our fingers even touch the keyboard. I've had my share of Erythema Nodosum because of AIDS-related complex messes and a number of medication allergies; and i've had other editors get mad at me because they perceive me as "manic-depressive" (their accusation). I'm not really manic nor depressive, but i do admit that the cannabinoids and myriad other HIV medications clearly cause swings in my moods and my functionality and my ability to pleasantly interact with people online, and i've made a number of personal mistakes as a result of "hitting the Save Button too soon" when i probably should have backed away and given things more time to be formulated properly. On the bright side, i've only ever been temporarily blocked once; so perhaps that's a good indication of the leeway and charitable graciousness which many Wikipedians extend to those of us whose human shortcomings are occasionally problematic.

Anyway, i just want you to know that i think it's marvelous to see people more and more in this day and age who are overcoming the archaic stigma of disability, and allowing ourselves to be visible in spite of the way it's sometimes uncomfortable for the rest of the world to accept us into their midst. There are a couple of things i've found online which i hope you will enjoy. Here is an excellent guide to Removing Bias: APA Guidelines for Non-Handicapping Language. Here is a Google search for "does he take sugar?" where i hope you will read some of the touching stories which affirm in such a positive way (i originally found that expression in the writings of Stephen Hawking.) Wishing you peace and a pleasant day! ~_{Teledildonix314}~^Talk~_4-1-1~ 21:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. I've never has a problem telling my medical to others. When I got diagnosed through surgery with Crohn's disease I'd never heard of it and it scared me to death. With researching it and talking to others with the same problems as me, I learned that there was nothing to be afraid of, just a lot of work. The best thing though that I could think of after the help and support I got from others was to let this chronic disease get know about. Over the years since I got diagnosed, (diagnosed in 2001) awareness has changed a lot. I was totally shocked when I first heard the words Crohn's disease of the TV. It is difficult to live with acute medical problems and I can tell you have had a lot of difficulty. Aids scares many people who don't understand unfortunately. If you ever want to talk about things feel free to email me. I do understand, I promise. My nephew has aids too and we used to talk weekly by phone or he came to visit. Unfortinately I've loss contact with him since he moves around a lot and we moved, so I'm not sure if he got our new contact info. This makes me sad because I don't know where he is or how he is doing. To me information is power. I am going back into surgery in the next few weeks do to new problems I have that may have something to do with my immune system. Odd years are bad for me as they seem to always want to send me to surgery. They tried for another resection in 2007 getting me into the hospital for a few days do to some problems I have with strictures and blockages, but I wasn't ready for another surgery and manage to get past the idea. This time I can't say no to it since I am losing the use of my arms and hands. The acute pain is also an incentive. Anyways, feel like chatting, venting or whatever, drop by. I am pretty open and have heard it all by now. :) Be well, and take care of yourself. I hope you are in a remission. Boy, remission sounds so wonderful. I had one once for about 8 months and boy did I enjoy the time. :) --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:12, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

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A teddy for you

Thanks so much for the Mother's Day wishes. You are in my thoughts. Please keep me posted regarding your surgery. If you'd rather correspond via email, the link is at the top of my user and talk pages. Take care, momoricks 03:13, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the cute teddy, I put it on my user page. :) That got me working a bit on my user page again. I am lousy with some of this coding stuff so it's good to practice a bit. I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day. I had my mom, son, daughter in law and my loving husband with me. We had a good time catching up on things and of course a nice meal which everyone helped me with. I really enjoyed being with them all. I had to calm them down about my upcoming surgery. My mother cancelled her vacation that she was going on in late July. I think I might have talked her into going again but to be honest, I doubt it. She is definitely the stereotype Jewish mother. :) But I think I calmed some of their worrying. Anyways, I'll try to update you via email on what's going if you are interested. Feel free to email me too anytime you wish. If I'm not here I am sure my dear hubby will be monitoring my computer to update friends who are checking on me. Take care and talk to you again soon. --CrohnieGal^Talk 10:53, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

testing signature

--CrohnieGal^Talk 11:01, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Ok it's the correct color here again, I wonder why Crohnie is black on my user page? Gremlins?  :) Oh well, another thing weird going on that I don't understand. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:01, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject User Rehab

Would you be interested in joining this project? We need more editors who share a burden for rescuing promising editors who have gotten into serious trouble because of behavioral issues. IF (a fundamental condition!) they are interested in reforming and adapting to our standards of conduct, and are also willing to abide by our policies and guidelines, rather than constantly subverting them, we can offer to help them return to Wikipedia as constructive editors. Right now many if not most users who have been banned are still active here, but they are here as socks or anonymous IPs who may or may not be constructive. We should offer them a proper way to return. If you think this is a good idea, please join us. -- Brangifer (talk) 04:23, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I'd like to thank you for inviting me to join the project, I am very appreciative of your good opinion of me, and to assure you that my "Delete" view on the Mfd is not a judgment on the participants; I very much believe that the volunteers there mean well and are good-intentioned - I think the project is inherently flawed due to its nature. KillerChihuahua^?!? 20:42, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about this. I have to admit I am shocked that it got to AFD so quickly since the project is so young. I do have to admit I felt uneasy with some of the comments being made at the editors who signed up. I didn't sign up to become a member of a drama fest. I really feel this project may do some good for the project and want to see if I can help it and see what the final outcome of what the editors put together looks like. I didn't take any offense though from you so I do appreciate what you had to say. Thanks again, --CrohnieGal^Talk 10:42, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks, it's on my user page, though with the AFD now I'm not sure for how long. Thanks though, --CrohnieGal^Talk 10:44, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

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Happy Crohnie's Day!

Crohnie has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, so I've officially declared today as Crohnie's Day! For your ability to pull though Crohn's Disease and still be able to perform fantastic work around the wiki, enjoy being the star of the day, dear Crohnie! Signed, Dylan (chat, work, ping, sign)

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Users like you are heroes, IMO. --Dylan620 _{Efforts · Toolbox} 00:06, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much. This was a complete surprise to me. I appreciate your thoughts very much, esp. since I will be going on a break here soon for surgery. Thanks again for taking time to drop in and be so nice with this kind message to me. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:33, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Summary of changes

• In this one, I moved the {{divhide|end}} template to after the last barnstar in the section. The {{divhide}} template uses {{divhide|TITLE}} to know where to start, and {{divhide|end}} to know where to end. Everything that you "put in" the box, you have to put between these arguments. In my next edit I remove a bit of whitespace just to tidy a bit. Kinda makes your {{userpage}} crowd the table of contents though.
• The next set of my contribs are all the archive combining I was doing. Essentially, instead of MiszaBot creating a new archive when it has 60,000 characters in it, I'm telling it to wait until it has 250,000 characters - fewer new pages are created this way. Also, it looks like it skipped archives 6-14 and went right from archive 5 to archive 15 (looks like it added a 10 instead of a 1 to the new archive number, not sure why).
  • Here I paste the contents of archives 2, 3, 4 and 5 into archive 1. I also adjusted the adoption notice that was at the top; templates like that put pages into categories, and it's not super useful to have your talk page archive in said category (putting it on your user page is still a good idea, so long as you are still considered adopted).
  • Here I paste the contents of archives 15, 16 and 17 into archive 2. In archive 15 I also screw up, then fix a {{d}} speedy deletion template. I use the same template in archives 16 and 17 to get them deleted as well. You won't need archives 15-17 for a LOOOOOONG time if your earlier archives are 250K (I'm barely at archive 6). Note that if I take a while to type this notice, you may not be able to see the diffs of the pages that I've tagged for speedy deletion.
  • Here, here, here, here and here I adjust your template header to {{atn}} which has handy little links that allow you to navigate between different archives. Neat, huh?
• Here I adjust MiszaBot to counter 2 instead of 17 and 250K instead of 60.

Let me know if you've any questions, basically that's a lot of text to say I made your archives bigger and put your barnstar in the divbox WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 13:08, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

...and I'm right, the archive pages 15-17 were deleted. One other adjustment I'll be making - I'll change your archive box so you can see all of them, and give approximate dates that they cover. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 14:12, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I was still having the the hide/show boxes not working which I finally just did a refresh and it now works so it was my browser. Thanks for helping me out, you're a darling to take the time to help. I've been watching what is going on with you. Keep calm, it's seems they are coming out of the woodwork! :) Thanks again, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:33, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Rehab

If I could be assured that all of the "rehabilitators" had your sense of perspective I'd say go ahead with the project. Mentors can be filtered by edit count, time on project and so on, but there's no practical way to filter so that only those with sound judgment are allowed to be mentors. I don't want to name any names, but when you read the comments made by some of the proponents I think you'll understand what I mean. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 15:35, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree with some of your concerns and some of the concerns being brought up at the talk page. I know only a few of the editors working on the rehab page and I know for sure they have the same ideas about things as I do. I think it would be good though to see what can be made of this. I really do believe it could be useful to the project. We just have to figure out a way to make it what we are really trying to do and not a free ride to editors who are only here for disruption. But I am reading and listening to what everyone is saying. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:38, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: Question

Heya, when is your surgery? I hope you're not in too much pain or discomfort. Thanks for pointing this out. Apparently you're not the only one suffering from brain fog. :) I'll remove it and the Notes section. One of these days (or years) I'm gonna get my hands on some of those books in the bibliography that aren't cited and have a heyday. Hope you have a good Memorial Day weekend! momoricks 23:20, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I have an appt next week with the surgeon, so I'll find out all the details then, or at least get an idea I hope.  ;) Glad I wasn't missing something when I asked about the note. Thanks for fixing. I'll be posting a wikibreak when I will be going off line. Wish me luck, --CrohnieGal^Talk 12:40, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Sending good vibes your way! momoricks 23:44, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

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Fixed format on your ANI comment

I just wanted to let you know that I fixed the format on your ANI comment regarding Abd. You had accidentally put your asterisk inside the bold marks, and I switched them out. I just didn't want you to think I'd changed anything in your actual post if you're watching ANI. Unitanode 13:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Responded at user's page for a thank you for my error. Very much appreciated! --CrohnieGal^Talk 14:32, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

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WP:SOAP

Per SOAP, please make a similar edit as BullRangifer has done to your user page. Thanks. -- Levine2112 ^discuss 17:08, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Done. But to be honest, I don't see any WP:SOAP violations with this being on my user page or anyone elses. I watch the boards and see editors question outside sites on editors user's page and usually it's not a problem. They are usually deleted if it sends others to a hate site or a site that is negative to the project here. So I really don't see the problem but I did as you requested. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 09:06, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Crohnie, I've reworded this a bit more, I hope you don't mind. Having userboxes with external links to lobbying organisations would be a rather bad precedent. Please revert me if you disagree strongly with this. Tim Vickers (talk) 17:07, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

No problem, I have respect for you so I have no problem with your adjustment at this time. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 13:04, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Crohnie. Tim Vickers (talk) 22:42, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Crohnie, just making sure that you are aware of my response to your concerns. I left nearly the same response on the AN board. -- Levine2112 ^discuss 01:49, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

I saw your response in both locations but didn't respond for two reasons 1) I was upset with the way this was handled & 2) there was no response needed from me since I didn't do any of that which you commented on. This still could have and probably should have been handled via talk pages. Since this went up to ANI, I am aware of three other editors who now have the box on their pages in some way. But I hear you, have a good day, don't know what else I can say about this. --CrohnieGal^Talk 09:27, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

I wasn't looking for a response necessarily, just acknowledgement that your saw it. You said that you were quite upset with me; thus, I wanted to make sure that you were aware of my apologies and of your misinterpretation of what I had written. I wasn't accusing you of ignoring or rebuffing my talk page request to you; rather I wanted to make it clear that I felt you simply hadn't read my request yet but I always assumed that you would do the right thing once you had. At the same time, however, other editors had ignored and rebuffed my talk page request and hence I made the decision to bring the matter to the attention of the admins at WP:AN - where I am happy to say that the matter was quickly resolved amicably (other than some gross and unneccessary incivility hurled in my direction - but I am big enough to simply ignore such petulance. Water off a ducks back and such.) Anyhow, thanks for reading and I hope you have accepted my sincere apologies for any perceived incivility - it certainly wasn't my intent to offend anyone and that goes doubly for you (since you weren't the one telling me to "fuck off" or launching into repeated personal attacks on my character and motivations). I had always assumed that you would do the right thing once you were aware of my talk page request to you. And now I am glad to see that my good faith assumption about you proved indeed to be correct (as evidenced above). Thank you for your utter compliance, complete civility and patient understanding on this matter. -- Levine2112 ^discuss 20:28, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

No problems really, I saw your response but didn't think to reply to it, that's my mistake sorry. I should have acknowledge you and I didn't. I think evrything is ok now though. Have a good day, --CrohnieGal^Talk 09:13, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Oops sorry!!!!

Sorry for my change in Bailando. It was a mistake caused by the fact that in the Hebrew wikipedia anonymus users allways get a preview page before the page is saved, even if they hit the 'save page' button. I thought i'll get a preview page because I don't have a user - just like in the Hebrew wikipedia. Instead, The page was saved..... Silly me! of-course, I never meant to do this on purpose. I'd just cancel the edit after seeing the preview page........ Sorry! 77.125.8.85 (talk) 15:52, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

No problem, easily fixed, happy editing. --CrohnieGal^Talk 15:54, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

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How u doin'?

Hey, gal. Did your surgery go smoothly? I hope your recovery is going well. momoricks 06:48, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

I haven't had it yet need to get my weight up to 115 from my 98. It's hard though with the Crohn's. I am drinking Ensure and eating a lot of empty calories, goo thing I love chocolate. I hope to be able in a month or two. The surgeon thinks I am too physically weak to survive surgery so he is waiting. I'll post when and if I can get this done. How are you doing? I hope you are fine. --CrohnieGal^Talk 08:59, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Yow! That's quite a few pounds. Bring on the chocolate! Starbucks Strawberries and Cream drinks and Frappuchinos have a ton of calories, if you like those. :) Nothing new to report here...same stuff, different day. Have a good one, momoricks 01:51, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

I am actually getting sick of it! I eat two gallons of ice cream a week with magic toppings (the sauce that gets hard on top of ice cream). Along with every meal I have donuts or chocolate something. Heck a small chocolate fudge cake lasted me three days. So it's starting to feel more like work. ;) Glad you are well. I just got up to hearing Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett both died yesterday. The news has been busy about this and I suspect so have the articles. I'll talk to you soon. --CrohnieGal^Talk 08:58, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Dang, that was the case with my husband (who also has Crohn's) before he had his surgery - he was so underweight and in such bad shape they said there was a good chance he would not survive it. I'm happy to report that he did very well indeed, altho the predicted 3-hour surgery took over 8 hours. Its been about 3 years since then and he's now chubby!!! So chin up, hopefully yours will go as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KillerChihuahua (talk • contribs) date

Hi, well my first Crohn's surgery I went in as emergency and weighed only 75 lbs. and the surgery last double as long as it should have but I survived too with amazement from my surgeon who didn't expect me to. I've always had to fight to get weight and keep it so I doubt that will change. Thanks for the positives though as I need it.  :) Thanks, I'll figure out how to put a signed and dated signature up since you forgot to sign. I've never done it before. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 15:03, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

He never could either, but when they put him on Remicade he did much better, and now they've switched him to Cimzia he's actually able to stay a little plump which of course is where the docs want him (so he has a little cushion in case he has one of those dreadful episodes of sudden weight loss Crohn's sufferers are prone to having.) KillerChihuahua^?!? 15:25, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

I totally understand wanting a weight cushion. :) I was up to 115 lbs. prior to this new problem with my spine degenerating, which they think is related to my CD. I just want it fixed already. Having someone tell me to eat all day is driving me crazy! :) I am not on a meds for my Crohn's right now. My Pentasa stopped working and I need to find the time, the money for a new GI in my area. I just don't feel like all the tests that I know a new doc would demand of me, yuck! I started Neurontin last Friday for the pain in my arms, hands, neck and feet and it's actually helping. I got started at a low dose and after three days I bump up until I'm taking three doses a day. I think when I get to that dose I will be a lot happier. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 15:41, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

You might want to aks your dr about cimzia, see if its a possibility for you. KillerChihuahua^?!? 18:25, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks good idea, I will probably see my regular GI at least once more and I'll ask him. He's a good doc and understands me well but he listen and answers which is always a plus to me to have doc with bedside manners to communicated and explain things. I'll have to study up on this new med, new to me at least. I don't know much about. Thanks,--CrohnieGal^Talk 21:38, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

I reverted your edits on Talk:Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards

Hello. I reverted your edits since they blanked the page. I don't think that you blanked the page intentionally, I just think it's polite to inform others of their edits being reverted. Yours, Kotiwalo (talk) 14:37, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Responded on users talk page, but thank you, it was in error and I really appreciate you assuming good faith. Thanks again, --CrohnieGal^Talk 14:44, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

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Landfills with zombies?

Hi,

I've re-undone the undo that you undid to Landfills, re-removing the section on zombies that are emerging from them. Looks like you're using a script to monitor undos without reasons given. The previous undoer didn't provide a reason for removing the nonsense from the article. You might want to begin looking at the message-less undos before undoing them, as some may be legit!

That being said, if we really are under attack from landfill-provided zombies, know of any sources? I'll want to grab my shotgun... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.10.74.2 (talk) 16:52, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, at first I thought this post was weird but anyone reading this don't worry, this editor is making a good point! Sorry about that, I was on vandal patrol and it was tagged as vandalism and I didn't read it just reverted. Thanks for the fix. I usually go to your talk page too but with you having an IP I won't since I don't know if you'll have the same IP. But thank you for catching this error of mine, it reminds me to read a bit more. --CrohnieGal^Talk 09:18, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey

Long time no talk, how have you been? I'm househunting and haven't been editing much lately. Hope you're well. Peace, delldot ∇. 16:38, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi Dell, it sure has been awhile. Good luck on the house hunting, we did that a little over a year ago and it is time consuming and hard to find what you will be living in for a long time. We were lucky because my son is a home appraiser so he helped us with a lot of help of his friends in different parts of the business. I am trying to prepare my body for another surgery. If I get everything going in the right direction my surgery looks like I'll have it the beginning of Aug. My spine is degenerating. I have explained a little bit of this on my User:Crohnie user page. I have a lot of damage occurring fast so they hope the surgery will slow things down. The surgery will be through my throat to my spine with the replacement of a disk. I really don't look forward to this at all. If you want to chat more openly, drop me an email. You know you are always welcomed to pop in. I am always happy to hear from friends. As for Wikipedia, I do a lot of vandal patroling but I do try to keep a few articles on my watchlist updated. Typing though is very hard for me right now with the pain and nerve damage I have. Anyways that's all I can say here about things. RL is really busting my chops at this time. I have to admit I am a bit worried about the outcome of the upcoming surgery. There are just too many risks not to be. Take care, --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:44, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Request for comment regarding conduct of User:Frei Hans

I have requested comment on the conduct of User:Frei Hans. As you have been involved in this dispute to some extent, I would appreciate it if you could comment. Papa November (talk) 14:59, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I did make a response. I hope he is now listening, --CrohnieGal^Talk 17:07, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

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Just want to direct your attention to remarks I’ve posted on the talk page of the "Charles Manson" article. They’re headed "Melcher transcript" and have to do with a link that I added to the article and that you reasonably deleted.JohnBonaccorsi (talk) 06:53, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

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On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 12:28, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Something odd happened: [59]. Wrong button? William M. Connolley (talk) 13:04, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Responded at users talk page. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 20:29, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

No need to apologize!

Hi Crohnie: I realized immediately that it was an unintentional mistake - sometimes I accidentally activate the mouse when I don't mean to, so I took no offence at all. In fact it's good that sensible people like you are reading all this stuff, which could easily mushroom out of control. Best regards, Mathsci (talk) 20:20, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi Mathsci, I was just getting ready to stop by and apologize to you too. I made the mistake and didn't fix it myself because it was caught almost as quickly as the button I hit by mistake. Yes I am watching and reading this case. I don't understand why it left the community to a arb case. I thought the community was actually handling things quite well but I guess I missed something though I still haven't figured out what. I am about to leave the computer for the day now but I'll be back reading tomorrow. I will make a comment if and when I see something(s) that I might be able to add to the situation. Right now I am just trying to figure out what this case is actually going to be about. I see they did figure out who is named in the case which was weird in it's own rights. Anyways, thanks for being so gracious with me and my mistake. i think my worse mistake was not coming by your talk page and apologizing after it happened. Thanks, --CrohnieGal^Talk 20:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

For those who maybe lurking..

Today marks 30 years of marriage! If we can do, you can, really! :) Have a great day everyone. --CrohnieGal^Talk 09:44, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations! Given the prevailing culture, what you have done can be seen as an act of rebellion. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 15:48, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I needed a good laugh Boris. :) We just chilled all day. We have family time today at lunch. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:45, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Congrats! momoricks 19:28, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, we just got back from lunch with the family. We had a wonderful time. Thanks again, --CrohnieGal^Talk 19:35, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Abd's request for 'mediation'

Long-time lurker, first time caller here. Congratulations on thirty years!

I happened to see your query on Abd's talk page. I'm assuming that he's referring to this message on my talk page: User talk:TenOfAllTrades#Your email response to me regarding William M. Connolley. The post to my talk page was a duplicate of the request that he sent to me by email, to which I had previously replied — and rejected. (The sense of my first response was identical to what appears on my talk page, though both were typed from scratch.)

I don't know where Abd is getting the idea that he was "solicit[ing] mediation", however. He was looking for someone who would repeat and reinforce his own interpretation of the situation and relay his threats to WMC. To wit: "I'm looking for someone whom WMC might trust who would, upon becoming informed more fully about the situation, intercede to prevent him from being take to ArbComm over this." Abd also refers to the recently-concluded Arbitration that involved him and JzG, where he makes the unfounded assertion that JzG escaped desysopping by the skin of his teeth. (I believe that I've corrected that misinterpretation before, but Abd insists on repeating it.) Abd followed up with implicit threats that WMC could be swiftly desysopped if he didn't capitulate immediately and completely.

That isn't a request for mediation; that's saber-rattling. I have a history of criticising Abd's conduct, so I find it rather weakly credible that Abd hoped to receive from me anything but a figleaf to cover his desire for an immediate Arbitration. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:57, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I "got the idea that I was soliciting mediation" because that is exactly what I was doing. I did it in a diffuse way with JzG, ArbComm did not like how long I took to escalate that, so I was going for something faster. I picked someone who is an experienced administrator and whom I thought would be sympathetic to WMC. It was, perhaps, a long shot.

As to "skin of his teeth," had he been a less popular administrator, the bit would have been lost, other admins have lost it for less. JzG, it was explained to me, was cut a lot of slack because of his monumental work with OTRS. And even with the sanction being only a reprimand, JzG stopped editing entirely. My theory is that he was burned out; that explains the incivility that led to his previous reprimand by ArbComm; and when he couldn't blow off steam by incivility (it was gross), he started using tools in, shall we say, a less patient manner.

Was I looking for someone who would "repeat and reinforce" my own interpretation? Well, that's one possibility. The other is that a second admin might be able to explain to me where I was wrong. TOAT would also not have to agree with my interpretation to recognize that there was a risk, of substantial disruption if nothing else. Consider what has happened already in connection with this. Mathsci and WMC edit warred on the RfAr page, WMC edit warred on Talk:Hipocrite, with an admin who retired, possibly with that being one of the last straws. It's kind of amazing that WMC wasn't blocked; he directly defied promises from two clerks that they would block for any more edit warring. WMC just reverted a clerk. He might get away with it, but these things add up.

One thing is clear: there is nothing wrong with what I did to solicit TOAT's involvement, and I'm quite sure that ArbComm will confirm that. TOAT lost an opportunity. Consider the possibility that ArbComm confirms my claim of action while involved, as it did similarly with JzG. WMC has far more long-standing reputation for administrative abuse, he's been very, very controversial, more than JzG, I'd say. I don't have a crystal ball, but I think it's unlikely that WMC will escape without a reprimand, at least. One might note that I haven't asked for desysopping, at least not yet, but I suspect that others will.

Crohnie, if you look at the ban discussion on AN/I where I was community banned, and then look at those who, at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/JzG 3, back in April, called for me to be banned, you'll see what was going on and why I asked for a speedy close. There are enough editors upset about that case that they will take the opportunities presented to get what they've wanted for some time now. And this is a popular faction; they do not represent a majority of editors, but they can assemble strong local support when they are motivated. What I saw was that enough of them would continue to pile in that true consensus would be unlikely at AN/I, which isn't watched by most editors. That is, an outcome would be "ban" or "no consensus," depending a bit on the quirks of who decides to close, and who was available to comment, and to have continued to contest it would definitely have expanding the disruption. Remember, in the RfC, two-thirds of editors supported me being banned, even though ArbComm did confirm my claims. I decided that a month's topic ban wasn't worth the disruption, and the issue was going to have to go to ArbComm anyway. It's just one article and just one editor. If there were not crucial issues involved which affect many editors, with ongoing damage in many areas, I might have dropped it entirely. Just notice how many editors have been warned for incivility and other misbehavior just in a few days; I didn't create those disruptions; this is a faction which is quite accustomed to getting its way, and which believes that whatever they do to promote their view of Wikipedia is legitimate. And it's time that this be confronted. How deeply it will be confronted at this time, I don't know. But this is a start. --Abd (talk) 05:59, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

There a lot to absorb here because I don't usually follow arbcom cases. To me those are usually the drama fest in big time. What I don't get here is what is it you, Abd are trying to accomplish? You say you aren't going for WMC administrators bits in one breath and then say you are. It can't be both ways. I think the community is upset with you for a lot of different reasons that you are not acknowledging. JzG has stopped editing but you feel it wasn't because of you. Well I know you chased him for a long time with threats to him to lose his bit or more. Your over analyzing others in my opinion. So. what is it you are trying to accomplish with this arbcom case because to be honest with you, this should never have left the community and I don't understand why the arbs were in such a rush, they started voting really fast to accept. I got to say something there but I had already known that it was going to a case. Something is fishy here. I don't know if things are being said outside this project but if it is it sure makes it hard for people like me who want to be involved but doesn't have all the information. Thanks to both of you though, I will be still trying to understand all of this. --CrohnieGal^Talk 11:44, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

While that might have been what you were thinking, none of those things are what you wrote. You didn't ask for a "mediator" or "mediation" anywhere in your email; you explicitly stated that you were "looking for someone...who would...intercede to prevent [WMC] from being take to ArbComm over this." I believe that the plain language of your message speaks for itself, and that your after-the-fact interpretation of it reads things into the text that just aren't there. At the time, the email looked to me like it was heavy on self-justification for your jump direct to Arbitration, and very thin indeed on interest in mediation or open to any change in your own conduct. I'm not sure that Crohnie's talk page is the proper venue for this, however. Make your arguments at the Arbitration, and let the Arbs sort it out. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:38, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Sure, but Crohnie asked. I also believe the plain text speaks for itself; I guess it depends on who is listening to it, and what assumptions they hold, and I certainly don't deny your experience, nor do I assume anything but good faith on your part. --Abd (talk) 18:53, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't mind the chatter here at all. What I still don't understand is this, what is this case about? I just commented on one proposal about WP:Meat puppets. What I've read on the evidence page so far is a lot of small bickering and a lot of wiki talk. Where's the beef in this case? I still don't see it, maybe I'm not looking at it correctly. But I sure would appreciate someone explaining exactly what this case is supposed to accomplish. --CrohnieGal^Talk 19:41, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

What it's about is controversial! I'll try to explain some, but it will be explained in my evidence and proposals on the workshop page. Right now I've got two little girls to take care of. However, to set your mind in the proper frame, notice how quickly the arbitrators accepted the case. Essentially, there is a deep conflict, much deeper than meets the eye at first; there are arbitrators who are quite aware of it. That's why you are having difficulty understanding it. From one side, the case is about or will be about getting rid of Abd or at least restricting him to prevent further alleged disruption. From the other side, the case is about long-term administrative abuse and factional POV-pushing, with a number of administrators supporting it. If you look at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/JzG 3, you'll see that I presented, civilly and evenly, a practically airtight case of administrative use of tools while involved both in content and in dispute with editors blocked or banned. Very simple case, in fact, much simpler than the present one. However, you can easily see, two-thirds of editors !voting called for or supported calls for me to be banned. Let me translate this: I was supporting policy, as I had seen ArbComm make clear on many occasions. And the policy supported is very unpopular with a substantial faction of editors. Most of the editors !voting at AN/I for my ban, recently, were the same editors who had been calling for me to be banned long before. This made it impossible for the dispute to be resolved below ArbComm; sufficient disruption would arise that consensus would not be found, just possibly some majority view, which can be increasingly divisive. WMC is the specific administrator involved, but, in fact, it's larger than that; still the focus will be on WMC and myself; Enric Naval also made himself a party. I've found it necessary to show the existence of the faction, the "cabal," because to understand the actions of the parties (and Hipocrite and some others) without this knowledge will be largely impossible. That showing has only begun. So far, I've just explained how, over a year ago, I became aware of this tight grouping of editors and administrators. That story continues, and the patterns that will be shown are far too extensive to be mere coincidence.

I'm perfectly aware of WP:TINC. I will either succeed, here, or I'll probably be history, as those laughing about how ridiculous this all is are predicting, see User talk:William M. Connolley as of late. However, Crohnie, it might not be at all difficult for you to understand, in your position, why Wikipedia is not the center of my life; it is, rather, a project that I set out to assist with a substantial investment of time, based on extensive related experience, and some of these things work out and some don't. I have seven children and five grandchildren, the two youngest children are 6, from Ethiopia, and almost 8, from China, and I'd like to leave them all a better world, and Wikipedia is one possible piece of that, but there are many others, so many causes, so little time. I'm 65 and have prostate cancer, which will probably be symptom-free for a long time, detected very early, and, even with no treatment, I'm probably more likely to die from something else. Yet my mother died recently at 96, and the prostate cancer was a wake-up call: I'm not going to live forever. So every day is important to me. And thanks for asking about the "beef."

The cabal believes that it is acting in the best interests of Wikipedia, but the problem is that, in general, in spite of the extensive experience of some, it has a poor understanding of what the best interests are. By using blocks and bans to repress dissent, they have been gradually fouling the nest, building up reservoirs of ill-will. Consider that Scibaby, who gets mentioned in this case because of one single revert I made at Talk:GoRight, was blocked and banned by involved administrators, and that Scibaby, as a result, has created probably over 300 sock puppets. If the action was necessary, perhaps this could be justified. But there never was the discussion, in fact. So we have huge disruption being set up, building over time. WMC has been the subject of media reports over his alleged biased use of tools. The reports are not without foundation, if not always based on an understanding of how Wikipedia works.

If there is a charge of involvement, recusal should, in fact, be immediate. It does not matter if the charges are true or not, and the claims that the bad guys will then charge involvement are actually irrelevant. Someone who is claiming that many administrators are "against him" had better be able to defend this charge before ArbComm, or else there will be a community ban, and quickly. Recusal does not mean reversal of actions. Recusal actually avoids unnecessary conflict. WMC blocked me, let's assume that the block was legitimate for a moment. I charged involvement. He should immediately recuse, withdrawing from further action. I'm still blocked! All that recusal means is that the particular administrator abstains from further action with that user; but because the admin may have special knowledge, recusal doesn't necessarily mean that the admin does nothing; involved editors may present charges and evidence, and involved administrators are expected to request admin assistance at a noticeboard like anyone else; the big flap over uninvolved editors and community bans is over the necessary "consensus of uninvolved editors," which is a separate matter from who can comment in a discussion or make a report. --Abd (talk) 21:21, 18 July 2009 (UTC)