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Bet you never thought you'd get a barnstar from me...

		The Original Barnstar
		For your comment on the Wikimedia-l mailing list: "I find the idea of blocking dissenting voices repugnant and fundamentally against the Community value of openness and transparency. Dissent is not the same thing as disruption or being uncivil, I think the lines are becoming dangerously blurred in this area and we are in danger of seeing a super stupid dramafest being fueled." Best wishes, —Tim Davenport, Corvallis, OR (USA) /// Carrite (talk) 16:51, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Surgical discussion

Hi Fae, it's vinesh from Imperial College here. Can I ask if you are available for an email thread to discuss the surgical instruments project we have going on and Toni approached you about? I tried to email you from this page, it didn't work. Could you please send me an email through my login? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinnypatel (talk • contribs) 12:31, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Fae. You made a comment on this page which was kind of upsetting ('anti gay'). Perhaps I could explain the context. I had been discussing the idea of a stable version of Misplaced Pages articles with user:Anthonyhcole. Anthony can verify this, and you can actually see the button as developed here. The idea is that once the stable version of the article is developed, you can (i) click the button to go it, and (ii) also diff the current version of the article to the stable version, in case of any useful improvements that could be incorporated into a new stable version. Because I was then banned from en.wikipedia, I developed this at Commons. I had no idea it was not allowed there. To test the concept, I included some imaginary vandalism of the "X is gay" schoolkid kind you typically see on Wikimedia sites. It had not even entered my mind that the name I used was the same as another user: rather, I had in mind a typical American schoolboy vandal. That was all. The idea that this was some kind of homophobic remark is absurd. Quite the opposite. With hindsight it was a stupid thing to do, given the possibility of misinterpretation, and because of the user name, which honestly had not occurred to me.

Regarding use of commons, if you look back on my edit history, you see a lot of useful stuff before the en ban, but it was difficult to do much while banned from en. I would like to continue that at some point. For example, I would like to load images from my collection of incunabula, such as this one.

So please accept my apologies for being stupid, and please accept my assurance that no slur was intended, either in general or against any specific user. Absolutely none was intended. Peter Damian (talk) 10:51, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Yep. Peter and I had two meetings, with other Wikipedians, last August where we discussed at length the concept of stable (reviewed, reliable, locked) versions of our best Misplaced Pages articles. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 11:14, 18 April 2015 (UTC)