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WP:VPP and Hruodlandus

Just FYI: not having seen you post at WP:VPP recently, I don't know whether you saw my comments/links there in your thread on username blocks, about the block of Hruodlandus Brittannici limitis praefectus (the Latin name of the historical Roland), now lifted by the blocking admin. -- Ben 15:14, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! - CHAIRBOY (☎) 15:30, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

"Not-censored" box

Not meaning to "stalk" but rather to learn by example from your contribs, I saw your recent exchange on an article talk page where there'd been repeated requests to censor text, pictures, or the entire article. Thinking, perhaps naively, that one clear statement up front might help reduce the repetition, I came up with the following box, and added it at the top of that talk page. If you'd find it helpful, please use or adapt wherever you deem suitable. -- Ben 17:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

An interesting idea. Let's see how it's received by others. Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 17:57, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Here is the one used in the breast article. you might be able to adapt parts of it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Atomaton (talk • contribs) 20:18, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks, Atomaton!

I have now turned my one-line box into Template:Notcensored. Your longer box I've adapted into Template:Notcensored2, with two minor changes from the original text: 1) removed the blank line from top, 2) used BASEPAGENAME to provide the article name automagically, so that doesn't have to be typed in every time.

It's probably better to "subst" these -- {{subst:notcensored}} or {{subst:notcensored2}} -- rather than make the poor computers transclude them each load. That also reduces the risk of being affected by template vandalism. -- Ben 11:08, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Alright

For now I'll assume you aren't a Cplot sock(looking at what you said you ment by your post). It was just what it appeared to be combined with the fact that you contribs were all recent that made you a suspect. If I see anything to further make you a suspect, however, my opinion of you will change very rapidly. --Wildnox(talk) 03:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your gracious assumption of good faith, and for not biting. -- Ben 05:33, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Alright then

Having read your explanation, I retract my claim that you are a Cplot sockpuppet. I would also like to apologize to you for what must have appeared like a grossly incivil removal of all your comments from my talk page. If you want an explanation of why I removed your comments without reading them, well, see my talk page history. Pretty much every single time I tag one of his socks, Cplot leaves either a snippy remark, or posts one of his giant diatribes, or just blanks the page and fills it with obscenities(, , ). I was on my way out the door as it were, and didn't want the emotional drain of reading yet another childish insult, so I just reverted without even glancing at what you actually said. Rather embarrassing for me. I really hope this doesn't put you off editing or anything. --tjstrf talk 06:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind note, and for your apology, which I both accept and appreciate. Certainly no hard feelings on my part. After what you've been through, it's a wonder you're not seeing Cplot in every shadow of your own home! -- Ben 07:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

No, just in new editors with three(ish) word long noun phrase names who mention federal agents in their posts, show up on policy related pages, and create very short userpages for themselves... The only real part of the pattern you didn't fit was that your name isn't in CamelCaps, and that one's only common, not always true. Just be glad you didn't pick the name User:BenedictTheMoor, or you would have been indef blocked off of an AIV report before you had a chance to even try explaining yourself. --tjstrf talk 07:33, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Now that would have proved a U.S. government plot! ... <skating on thin ice> ... -- Ben 07:49, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

BANNINGS TIME! ok not really... --tjstrf talk 08:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Robert Anton Wilson, who died just a few days ago, was a prolific writer on what I can only roughly summarize as "countercultural" themes, including a series of novels involving conspiracy theories -- starting with the Illuminatus! trilogy he co-authored with Robert Shea. Sometimes real live conspiracy theorists made Wilson himself a figure in their conspiratorial cosmology. One time he was in a radio talk show, and a woman caller launched into a rant at Wilson, concluding with: "... and you're the people behind the international banking system!" Wilson jovially replied: "Well, I certainly won't deny that; it can't help but improve my credit rating!"

If Cplot is bound and determined to insist that You're All Federal Agents, you can be upset by that or have fun with it. Of course you must (to be honest) not claim any such official role, but you might respond: "I can neither confirm nor deny any such statement." "Your entry cannot be accepted at this venue. Please fill out form USG-FARAWAY-2007-01-23bi1776 in triplicate and submit it to the appropriate office." (not saying what office) "Due to recent changes in high-level budget allocations, this file had to be truncated, and your contributions were regrettably relocated to paper storage. Please feel free to consult the copies at Sub-basement level 5 of the FARAWAY Archive Annex." ... and so forth and so on.... What? You want to know what FARAWAY means? F*d*r*l Ag*nts R*nn*ng All W*k*s And Y*h**. There should be a logo for your user page and those of others thus accused. Make this something like the rogue rouge admins, and people might line up to join. Just an idea to mull over. Even if you never actually do any of the above, perhaps thinking about it now and then will let you smile. -- Ben 08:26, 18 January 2007 (UTC)