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I am busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries. Feel free to poke me on my talk page, by e-mail, or by AIM via the screen name "Ned Scott", for anything trivial or important.

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MER-C

I like both of you. I've asked him to stop reverting, and I'm sure you'll do the same. I have no idea what state the files are in, but let's just leave them that way and discuss what to do at WP:AN. - Jehochman 05:01, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Fine, I'll stop reverting. -- Ned Scott 05:02, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

You must really hate Pushing Daisies

Because you don't want fans to come and learn about their favorite characters or people who missed episodes to read the recaps. Jasonbres

If you disagree with Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines then I suggest you go to the talk pages of those guidelines. This has nothing to do with my like or dislike for the show. -- Ned Scott 01:15, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Seems very inconsistent with what has been standard practice on other shows, especially for one with this amount of buzz and critical acclaim. Why are television episode and character articles so suddenly a primary target? -- 128.138.42.218 02:02, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

The only inconsistency that exists is because of a flaw in how Misplaced Pages works, and a lack of man power to address every issue before it grows out of control. More often than not, new editors do not know of our existing guidelines, or the rationales behind those guidelines. Even existing editors make these articles, with the argument that other articles exist. Sub-articles for fiction are a "target" for cleanup right now because they're one of the largest areas of articles where we have such problems. The popularity of a show is normally not a factor, but rather how much real-world information these articles can give us. At the very least, these articles need to be trimmed and grown on a list article until they contain enough real-world information. -- Ned Scott 02:07, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Television review

Ned, It should not be in use unless it reaches consensus and is accepted as a guideline. Maybe you should get a significant number of users to show some support and get it approved. The policy has recently been clarified that proposals need to progress or be marked rejected. We've had too many persnial proposals confusing the users. I'm just trying to clear the list of stale proposals. Cheers! --Kevin Murray 02:35, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't like being lectured for no reason.

Perhaps you saw something which wasn't actually sarcasm as something that was. TTN is not the sort of person, from what I've observed, to be sarcastic with; everything I say on his talkpage is very serious. But if you're going to go and tell me not to be "sarcastic", pardon me for saying so, but I think there should be a liable basis for it. Wilhelmina Will 06:27, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

For example. Or plastering his talk page with cookie templates while asking him to undo his changes. -- Ned Scott 06:33, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

'Twasn't sarcasm. Besides, he and I had some "issues" several weeks back, and those cookies were my way of being sweet and appealing for others sake, rather than saying that he's a coward not to even apologize to the creators of those pages, or people who claimed credit for them, and explain what's wrong with them - which I shamefully said in several incidents. You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar, and while everyone may think he needs to take a tip from that statement, sometimes even the tip-givers need a taste of their own medicine. There was no sarcasm with the cookies. As for the crack-dealing stuff, like I said, I knew a man once, who always inserted "I'm not going into it with you" in every discussion; and he was in the cocaine dealing business. I can be very paranoid at times, and even the slightest, most-absurd-but-still-possible implications to these things heighten my suspicions. But if you're asking me to force myself to change my personal demeanor, which is a difficult, twelve-years-at-the-least-are-wasted-on-it process, I'm afraid this is the only thing I can say in response: "You can greet me sometimes in the moonshine." Which is a basic way of saying "I am not even there", or "Not even crazy, uncle", or "Not even dead, daughter", or "No door". Wilhelmina Will 07:01, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Ambrose Chase

Based on WP:WAF and WP:FICT, as well as WP:PLOT and WP:V I redirected Ambrose Chase back to Planetary (comics). To my mind there's no real need at this stage for an article on a bit-part character in a minor series to receive an article, especially not one with no outside sources and which simply summarises the plot of the comics. Someone has challenged that redirect, and I'd appreciate your thoughts at Talk:Ambrose Chase. Steve block Talk 15:26, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

fair use images in character lists

Hey Ned Scott, I noticed your conversation about fair use in lists where you said that there is no blanket ban on non-free images in lists. I just wanted confirmation whether this definitely includes character lists such as this. I can see that illustrating every character was excessive, but after they were initially deleted we reduced our images to only a few per page; however, they have since been deleted too. Gung adin ♦ 18:23, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Notification of Request for Arbitration "TTN, part Deux"

I've requested Arbitration regarding TTN's numerous edits to TV and other fiction articles, and included you as an "involved party" in the request. The request can be found at Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration#TTN.2C_part_Deux, and you should add a statement to the section somewhere under mine. Thanks. -- Y|yukichigai (_ramble argue ) 21:13, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Magic words

If you don't understand this, just ignore it.... You may be interested in meta:Help:Magic words. There are options for {{urlencode}}. Cheers. --MZMcBride 02:29, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Holy crap, this is exactly what I'm looking for :D Thank you sooo much. -- Ned Scott 02:39, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Cardcaptor Sakura images

Several Cardcaptor Sakura episodes and Clow Cards images was removed. In the Clow Cards article edits history, I was seeing your various edits, and imaginated you as the image removal. Was you the person who removed those Cardcaptor Sakura images? --Blean 11:54, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

No, most of those images have been removed because they have been deleted for not having a non-free rationale (see WP:FURG). I've been very busy lately, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to add the rationales to all of the images before they are deleted, so I've saved local copies of everything I could to my computer. I have, however, removed many images from Clow Cards, since we're only allowed to use one image per character in those kinds of situations. This is a better option than what some other editors wanted to do, which was remove the images completely. -- Ned Scott 21:47, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer. I only wanted to know it 'cause the images stayed by a long time loaded in Misplaced Pages, and by this fact I don't understood at that moment the cause of the fast removal of the images. --Blean 23:48, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Clow Cards

85 fair use images which are under copyright restrictions is not only too much for one article, but if in effect breaking the law - please revert yourself. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

It's a good thing I didn't put 85 fair use images in one article, isn't it. -- Ned Scott (talk) 23:13, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, just got up to my 68th Anime Edit, thanks for checking some mistakes I made on The Hope Card and some on The Bubbles. Thanks for not deleting my new edit of that the Bubbles Card. " On it's card, Bubbles...." Blueknightex (talk) 22:02, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

You have been blocked

I've blocked for 24 hours for edit-warring on Clow Cards. Continuing to revert a user without proper discussion is very unproductive. Maxim 23:26, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

{{unblock|There is clearly a misunderstanding here. I not only gave proper discussion, but only reverted to weed out bad images. I do not intend to edit war -- Ned Scott (talk) 23:27, 19 November 2007 (UTC)}}

Your edit warring was quite disruptive. Fair use is damaging to the project, and your continued addition (there were 85(!) fair use images in the article at one point) of them without any logical explanation is quite a serious abuse of editing privileges. Fair use images must demonstrate the subject of the article - the images in Clow Cards clearly did not. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:34, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

Does look like a misunderstanding, since you were removing images up until you were blocked. But your edit summaries before that are not clear to me. — Carl (CBM · talk) 23:36, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Request handled by: — Carl (CBM · talk) 23:36, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. -- Ned Scott (talk) 23:41, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

However, there are still 44 (!!!) fair-use images in that article. I am going to stub it back down to the two that Ryan suggested earlier, then it can be discussed on the talk page which, if any, images should be re-inserted. ELIMINATORJR 23:39, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Fine by me. I honestly am in favor of limiting non-free images, and I find it very ironic that people are talking to me about something I'm normally telling other people. -- Ned Scott (talk) 23:41, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Yuri (term)

Thanks for putting up the unprotect request. :) -Malkinann (talk) 06:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Reply

Hi Ned,

Your rhetoric was a little harsh, but I'll let that go. Here's the sad fact: as a closer of a DRV, I am constrained to abide by consensus at the DRV. While I can consult the prior XfD as a matter of record, I cannot make independent judgments about it: that is for DRV consensus to decide. Now that I have closed, I can look at this XfD and disdain what JzG did: he acted poorly, hurt the project by so doing, and should have known better. That is my personal opinion, formed post-DRV. At the DRV, though, there was a consensus that, process-defects aside, the deletion should be endorsed as the right result. You may call it a "slap in the face" if you like, but I could not -- in good conscience -- slap the large majority (who addressed the issue directly, and called JzG's harm minimal) in the face by overturning. Moreover, see the comments at my talk to Pixelface: the deletion supporters, besides addressing the JzG issue directly and rebuffing it under WP:NOT a bureaucracy, were the only folks to address the underlying merit of the template, an issue that deletion opponents (so roused by JzG, and past history of the category depopulation, completely irrelevant to DRV) failed to address. By the argument and by the numbers, the consensus was clear and I judged it in the only reasonable way open to me, despite the "bad taste" JzG's actions left behind. Best wishes, Xoloz (talk) 14:35, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

As a closer of a DRV you are constrained by the deletion policy, not mob rule. The fact that the same discussion was closed by another admin as overturn (via a mistake in counting days) shows that the "consensus" you speak of is not something as clear cut as you make it sound like. Nor was this just about JzG's specific involvement. This is nothing more than one set of editors wanting to put the nail in the coffin, and I'd really like it if you wouldn't bullshit me otherwise. -- Ned Scott 05:53, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

And note that I have long since stopped supporting the template's use, but none the less, it is an insult to address the issue by abusing the deletion process. -- Ned Scott 05:57, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Aaah, who the heck am I kidding. When I stop and think about it, I'm mildly irritated by the situation, but really can't blame you for doing what you think is right. Especially given that the outcome of all of this doesn't actually change anything. Sorry for my harsh words, and my over-reaction. -- Ned Scott 06:36, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Transclusion help

Hi Ned, I note that you set up the transclusion between the Lost season articles and the Lost episode list. I wonder if you could help me do a similar thing for The Wire. I've set up the first season article at The Wire (season 1) and copied the transclusion as best I can at List of The Wire episodes. I'm wondering how you got List of Lost episodes to exclude the short plot summaries from the transcluded content?--Opark 77 (talk) 15:45, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

While I tried to avoid using a second template, I ended up making Template:Episode list/Lost. This meta template still uses Template:Episode list, but based on if it is on a list of episodes page or not, will decide which parameters to show. Any stylistic changes to {{Episode list}} will be automatically seen, so maintenance is rather minimal even with a second template. And since the template is a sub-page of Template:Episode list, keeping track of such templates will be easier. -- Ned Scott 09:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

So basically, every place where you use {{Episode list}} you would instead use {{Episode list/Show Name}}. -- Ned Scott 09:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help.--Opark 77 (talk) 16:15, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Transwiki-ing

Hi Ned,

I'm writing an proposal to the Case Closed/Detective Conan community to start a CC/DC wiki, partly due to the consistant notability sword that is hanging over our heads. The problem here is, even I point readers to WP:FICT, it'd be a bit too complex to get the idea. What is your perferred way of saying the existance of such a "sword"? --Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 23:55, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, you can see some of what I've said to the Digimon WikiProject on WT:DIGI. I've also got some notes on the transwiking experience I've had at User:Ned Scott/transwiki. I can probably summarize it a bit better at this point, but my mind is a bit of mush as this point, and I think this might be my last entry to Misplaced Pages for tonight (I still wanted to reply to your message to let you know that I got it). I can probably come up with a nice summary explanation sometime tomorrow that would be usable for not just your situation, but many others. -- Ned Scott 10:08, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

It's a few days more than "tomorrow"-- it does not matter; see if I made it correctly: The interpretation of the notability guideline in Misplaced Pages on fictional material is still under dispute.As a matter of fact, some would consider whatever content that does not connect to real life would be Misplaced Pages:Fancruft and should be removed, and they are not in the minority. It remained the hanging sword over any anime/manga content, and Conan is clearly not exempt. --Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 19:46, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Picaroon (t) 21:01, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

MfD?

Can I get you to retract that and come back to talking at the talk page? I'm not going to revert your redirect again, I've asked V not to, etc. Talking is better than process. (He says well aware of the irony.)
CygnetSaIad (talk) 05:19, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I've replaced the redirect until there is consensus that the RfC is not an earth-shatteringly bad idea. - CygnetSaIad (talk) 05:34, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

HaHa!

Both our brains exploded at the same time in Rfc. I think that means you owe me a coke! sNkrSnee | t.p. 06:06, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Importer needed

Do you know where I can find one? Is there even a list of them? There are many articles that are in need of a transwiki at WikiProject Video games/Cleanup. _{« ₣ullMetal ₣alcon »} 15:34, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the slow response. An importer is simply anyone with admin access on the target wiki. I can, however, assist in showing how to prepare the files for the admin. Anyone can export (using http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special:Export&pages=ARTICLE_NAME&history=1&action=submit and not Special:Export, since it is a bit.. broken). The file needs to be saved as something.xml, then use a text editor to find and replace all occurrences of "</username>" with "@en.wikipedia.org</username>". For many sites, such as Wikia, there is a file size limit of about 1.9 MBs, so larger files will need to be split, and smaller files can be combined to save time. I'm thinking of throwing together a quick how-to so that anyone can prepare files. Also, if you cannot find an active admin on the target wiki, and if it is hosted by Wikia, often a Wikia staffer will be willing to help out. -- Ned Scott 07:45, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Digimon Page elimination

Are you the one whose been deleting the List of (Insert Digimon Level Here) Digimon pages? I remember the mass-merging of them, but linking them to another Digimon Wiki (there's already a Wikimon) is presumably ridiculous. Rtkat3 (Rtkat3) 3:42, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Two of the lists have already been deleted by AfD (not by me, I am not an admin on en.wiki), and it stands to reason that these ones will as well. I have placed softredirects so people will know where to look for them, and because I haven't imported the full page histories yet. AfDs on these lists are inevitable, and that is not something that I decided. -- Ned Scott 02:39, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

It looks like Izzyq (talk · contribs) has been reverting some of these soft redirects, tonight; I wasn't sure what an appropriate response might be, as I haven't been privy to whatever discussions/decisions led to this. Just bringing it to your attention for whatever handling seems best. – Luna Santin (talk) 10:19, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

So far, Rtkat3's message and the actions of Izzyq have been the only ones to really disapprove of all of this. Via the WikiProject tag {{WikiProject DIGI}}, every talk page has a notice about this, and the discussion was started late September. Out of convenance I'd like to have the page histories of the lists easily accessible, since I haven't been able to properly import them to Digimon Wiki (due to the file size limit on Special:Import), but other than that, there's not much standing in the way of more AfDs like the one for Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of Rookie Digimon (Part 1). -- Ned Scott 07:51, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Episode articles not asserting notability

The template that populated this is no longer extant, and even if it was populated manually, it's not useful, as it only lists by the title of the article, and not by the show, which makes it hard to get the entire season from it. So I nominated it for deletion. Just a heads up. I (talk) 04:41, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. -- Ned Scott 04:41, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

I believe that the current population of that category were manually added by me - I see that it's debris, so have no problem with it going. I'm sure the arbitration case will largely determine what's next... --Jack Merridew 08:00, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Peace
		For trying to defuse a current, unpleasant situation with thoughtfulness, wisdom, and kindness, and to let you know that your efforts are appreciated. SlimVirgin 05:31, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, but I'm not sure if it's right for me to have a barnstar of peace considering how I have gotten a bit hot-headed a few times in all of this. -- Ned Scott 07:46, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Personal attack

This is not acceptable. Please stop or you could be blocked. • Lawrence Cohen 21:43, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

"You could be blocked?" That's going a bit far. You could have a sea-gull drop a coconut on your head, etc. It's much more useful to actually just talk to people rather than threatening them. <talking> While the thrust of your comment (re:attention whoring) was probably correct, the way you said it might inflame an already tense situation. Would you be willing to go and re-write it in a nice-as-pie way? Thanks </talking>
CygnetSaIad (talk) 23:59, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Err, just to be clear: I didn't mean you were correct to call KM that, but that you were correct we didn't need it in general. - CygnetSaIad (talk) 00:01, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Clow Cards (list)

Cheers Ned, I was a little unsure how to handle this one - I just don't think there needs to be two articles on the subject. A redirect seems like the best course of action. Ryan Postlethwaite 18:46, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

It looks like he was thinking he could add the images back in without being noticed if he did it on another page. -- Ned Scott 18:47, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Well he's not sharp enough to fool us! :-) Ryan Postlethwaite 18:49, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

I only thinked I can add the images if they are added in an article focused in the list of cards, how they was putted in other articles by very time. And I don't liked this "well he's not sharp enough to fool us", because this was not my objective. --Blean 23:30, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections comments

Hi. Regarding your recent comments on candidate votes pages, unfortunately, they are too long and should be made at the voting talk page. This determination was reached on prior consensus on the ArbCom Elections talk page. I've gone ahead and moved them appropriately, but feel free to edit my move to your liking. However, extended comments, like the ones you provided, belong on the talk page. Thanks, and forgive the inconvenience. - Mtmelendez 01:06, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure if I'm seeing it. The few I thought you might be talking about still seem to be there.. -- Ned Scott 01:51, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I found it. -- Ned Scott 01:52, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Speedy close of Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/User:Prester John (2nd nomination)

Hey Ned,

I'm sure you figured you were going to take heat for that, so let me see if I can't reduce it to a mild indian burn. GlassCobra is right--MfD is indeed for the discussion of userpage content, while AN/I is for the discussion of editor behavior, etc. I'd like to suggest that you let the discussion resume; otherwise I can guarantee it will show up on DRV. --jonny-mt_(c)I'm on editor review! 06:45, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

If you look a little bit into the history you'll see that this is a behavior issue. He's had other subpages deleted, and his userpage has even been protected over this. This isn't an issue you can just delete, because the issue is with the editor. Plus, the edit history of his talk page is a good way to tell people the kind of trolling he's attempted, so I'm not sure why you'd want to erase that. There are also some versions of his userpage that do not contain offensive content (at least not enough to violate policy). If he keeps doing this, he'll get blocked. -- Ned Scott 06:51, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I see what you're saying, but admins can access the deleted history of the userpage if they need to--unless I'm horribly mistaken, there are even grounds for temporarily restoring deleted pages to another location with the history intact if a discussion demands it. As for the existence of non-controversial versions of the userpage, given that WP:UP specifies that a userpage is primarily the domain of the user it belongs to, the only binding way to affect change is to reach a consensus through discussion. No offense, but given the nature of the close (non-admin close on a clearly controversial issue), I'm going to go ahead and list it at WP:DRV provided someone hasn't already beaten me to the punch. Feel free to bring those point up there if you'd like! --jonny-mt_(c)I'm on editor review! 07:01, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I'm dumb. I thought WP:DRV could be used for contested closes as well as contested deletions, but after looking through the active discussions that seems not to be the case. I'll content myself with commenting on the thread you opened at AN/I instead. --jonny-mt_(c)I'm on editor review! 07:07, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

You don't have to use DRV to contest the close, just revert my closing edit (which someone else has already done). -- Ned Scott 07:10, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, to be honest, I figured that if you reverted GlassCobra's edit, you would most likely revert mine as well, which is why I brought it here for discussion. I see you've left it open now; thank you very much for that, and I'll comment on it later today once things have settled down a little. --jonny-mt_(c)I'm on editor review! 07:18, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Transwiki'ing

Hi Ned,

I was reading your statement at Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters and found it most interesting.

I too have been concerned about the fact that there is a large overlap between the set of article subjects which aren't notable by Misplaced Pages's standards, and the set of article subjects which a lot of people really really want to write articles about. And I too thought that moving content to Wikia wikis might be a workable solution (I was coming from the point of view of seeing numerous World of Warcraft related articles being deleted, and wishing more people would contribute to WoWWiki rather than getting demoralised at their work not become welcomed on Misplaced Pages)

I tried to start a discussion about a month back at Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy)/Archive 3#Soft redirects to Wikia wikis and other non-Wikimedia GFDL projects, didn't get a lot of responses though. One concern that User:Kaustuv raised was "Wikia is Mr. Wales' attempt to turn the wiki model into a profitable venture. Misplaced Pages has strongly resisted all attempts at commercial endorsements, and should resist promoting for-profit wikis even if they perform the laudable task of finding a home for articles that do not fit Misplaced Pages's scope." That doesn't bother me, I'm more concerned with the spread of free content and the encouraging of people who wish to create it, than with whether someone might be getting some ad revenue from it! But I can imagine quite a few people sharing Kaustuv's reluctance.

Anyway, keep me in mind if there's anything I can do to help with this sort of thing. --Stormie (talk) 22:57, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I've written a few more things from the experience I've had so far with a transwiki for WP:DIGI, at User:Ned Scott/transwiki. It's funny that you mention softredirects, because I've already softredirected some of the Digimon lists, and there hasn't been much objection. There's also a template that you can use that will work with any Wikia wiki or any other wiki that has interwiki support, Template:FreeContentMeta. From that one can create a specific template, like the one I did for Template:Digimon Wiki. The main template was nominated for deletion in the past, here, which also touches on some of the issues you were asking about.

I think what users like Kaustuv seem to forget is that we don't support Wikia because it has any relation to Misplaced Pages, but rather we support it because they also support the GFDL. So while some users might view it as some kind of commercial endorsement, it's not, because the offer to link to an external wiki is open for any GFDL wiki. It's also a major misconception that Wikia is making big bucks over this simply because they are not a "non-profit" group. Realistically speaking, Wikia could not exist as a non-profit site. Misplaced Pages barely covers the bills with donations, and we're a lot better known than Wikia, so there's no way Wikia could support themselves the same way we do.

There's also a new website that has people talking, Veropedia. Some people don't like it because they're locked copies of good Misplaced Pages articles, and they're not non-profit. Other people love it because it gives a place to put articles that are, for the most part, complete, a place where they don't have to worry about vandalism or degrading over time. I'm sure the issues about Misplaced Pages and how we relate to external wikis will get even more exposure because of this as well.

I want to really dive into making some guidelines and other help pages for people, helping them to reuse Misplaced Pages content on other sites. I'm even thinking of making a WikiProject for it, so it's good to know that there are other people who have a positive attitude about external wikis. -- Ned Scott 02:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for those pointers, the TfD discussion on Template:FreeContentMeta was particularly interesting since the discussion largely concerned the "is it advertising? and is that bad?" question. Earlier today, purely as a "stick my head over the parapet and see if it gets shot off" move, I created a soft redirect from Kel'Thuzad to - it was speedily deleted as "G11, blatant advertising". :-)

The transwiki'ing is less of an issue on the Warcraft side, as most of the time, it's not a matter of there being good content on Misplaced Pages that needs transwiki'ing to wowwiki, but rather there already being a superior article over at wowwiki that people just need to be pointed at.

But yes, it really is a multi-faceted and complex issue, and one which (as several people stated in that "Episodes and characters" RFAr) really needs to be sorted out. I liked User:Ursasapien's statement there: "Misplaced Pages must deal with the issue of fiction related articles, preferably sooner than later. Two broad groups are focused on this issue and a wiki-war has developed." A WikiProject might be a good approach, I'd certainly like to help however I can. --Stormie (talk) 06:19, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Reading further through that TfD, it gets a bit depressing. Phil Sandifer gave the example of Jedi using such a navbox, as seen in this version. The template that was done with, Template:Wookieepedia box was nominated for deletion, and the nominator immediately removed the template from Jedi () saying "rm {{Wookieepedia box}} per tfd".. then the TfD ended with a "keep" consensus, but the removed template was forgotten about. :-( --Stormie (talk) 06:34, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism warning

I object to being labelled a troll. Think about it. —Ian Spackman (talk) 20:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Ian Spackman's feelings are understandable. It would be more effective, and polite, to avoid using the word troll when removing talk page comments. A simple pointer to the correct forum for discussion would suffice, and reduce stress for all involved. — Carl (CBM · talk) 21:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

True. I guess I just reacted to the harshness of how he worded the comment. While I don't believe it to be fair to Durova, it still wasn't trolling. My apologies to Ian. -- Ned Scott 01:14, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

TestTemplates

hi - I often like the old ones better too. Glad the page is continuing. Tvoz |talk 07:00, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind

I know you and me have had our moments, and I still don't quite know what to make of you. But you sure made me blink twice with how well you handled that Spackman question. I'm not even taking sides in that whole mess, but you really stood up. Anyway, I'm probably not long for the wiki world myself, so I just wanted to say that before I disappear. Whoever you are, you showed me a good side. I hope you can believe that I'm sincere in that. Regards, sNkrSnee | ¿qué? 15:51, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Notability (fiction)

I'm not going to tag war, it's pointless. The people involved in the debate at that point felt it was the right tag, it'd been discussed and there was a consensus. I strongly object to your characterisation of the dispute as retarded, I expected more of you somehow, it felt beneath you. Still, this things happen. Happy editing, Hiding T 23:36, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

look, Ned, it is clear that there is no agreement on it. Why try to pretend otherwise? Lets either say so , and have a moratorium, or find some sort of temporary compromise. I dont know if consensus will or will not support me--it seems among equally divided among those who have joined in so far, but it is a little absurd to fight over whether we are fighting. We are, so lets do it in a reasonably orderly fashion at least. DGG (talk) 02:11, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I'll go link diving tonight and show you otherwise. On one hand we've got people saying WP:FICT isn't strict enough, on the other we have people saying WP:FICT is too strict, and more often than not both hands are not reading the guideline, but complaining about how people use it in AfDs. -- Ned Scott 05:03, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

But still.. I guess it was silly of me to remove the tag. I should not fear dispute, and have faith that the guideline will stand up or evolve properly. -- Ned Scott 05:26, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I've got ownership issues?

Thank you for the personal attack on my talk page and in your edit summary. I'm going to consider an rfc because at the minute your behavour is objectionable. Four of us have been editing that page and we've all been happy discussing on the talk page and working out a consensus. You're the only one to insist on reversion. Happy editing. Hiding T 23:06, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Personal attack? And now you're going to consider an RFC because you're not getting your way right away again? Jesus, Hiding, I don't even disagree with your view! Calm down. -- Ned Scott 23:07, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm not the one who needs to calm down here. People were engaged in a good faith attempt to establish something, and another editor just rides past and undoes it all for no other reason than because he can. It's not your ball to take away Ned. And you want to look at your language throughout all of this. "retarded" "hypocritical" "impatient" "ranting". You're not exactly the font of civility and good faith. You may need to reread WP:CONSENSUS, where it details how consensus is built through editing. We make edits, other people make edits based on their opinion. But no bother, I'll go and find some other people to play with. Hiding T 23:18, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and you said to me "you've been pretty much acting on your own". Either there were four of us or there wasn't. I reckon there was and I think the edit history backs me up on that. Hiding T 23:22, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm asking you to have some patience. No matter how much good faith there is, a guideline built with a weak consensus only works to bite us in the ass later on. You are also removing things that don't even need to be removed, and are wording some things in ways that could be better presented to avoid confusion. Heaven forbid you use the draft page that was set up for this. -- Ned Scott 02:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

You let us know when we can start editing the page again, or even better, the particular wording you have an issue with. I can't see any value in discussing good faith with someone who believes he will get bit in the ass later on. I haven't got a position to protect here, I'm just interested in getting the page to fit better with WP:V, WP:NPV, WP:NOR, WP:NOT, WP:N and WP:GTD. Oh, and last time I checked this was a wiki. Every page is a draft. Hiding T 09:45, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

With that logic how about you go make some large scale rewrites to WP:V or WP:BLP and see if you get reverted there as well? -- Ned Scott 17:46, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Go check the edit history of WP:V. I've never touched WP:BLP, that came down from Jimbo. I think I rewrote WP:WEB over 2 hours, from memory. I remember when we changed VFD to AFD one wet Saturday as well, and created MFD from the fluff found under the sofa. It's a wiki. I don't mind getting reverted. I object when people revert me with objectionable language, insult me and accuse me of ownership and yet fail to detail a single issue they have with the change. Reversion for process issues is no good reason, per WP:CONSENSUS. At some point you might even let me know what was wrong with the rewrite, and I might still be interested in discussing it. I appreciate the apology at my talk page, and I apologise if you feel I'm being harsh, but from where I'm sitting I have no idea what it is you object to. If you're looking for the killer idea that will get everyone to stop and agree, I think you have to give up the ghost. Still, all the best and see you around the place. Hiding T 00:50, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Here's something for you

My old notability proposal, back when we didn't have notability guidance. Misplaced Pages:Notability/Historical/Significance. It might prove useful. I might crib the disputed section for WP:FICT. Hiding T 21:45, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

WP:HOTTIE

Not that I'm going to complain about the re-creation of the redirect; however, you might wish to take a look at the MFD for the article, which ended in Userifying. :) GlassCobra 19:43, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

DRV notice

I have listed Template:FGwiki on WP:DRV at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2007 December 13#Template:FGwiki. -- Ned Scott 06:45, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank Ned. If there is a particular issue you'd like me to comment on, please let me know. Otherwise I'll just watch with interest.

I'm on the fence with this one. I don't think the case for this deletion was entirely made, but at the same time the template didn't perform its intended function — Family Guy articles on Misplaced Pages continued to receive tons of unencyclopedic information better suited for Family Guy Wiki (Goofs and deep, non-notable trivia being my peeves). And per nom, that wiki still isn't up to the WP:EL standard, IMO. / edg ☺ ☭ 07:07, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Digimon Dynasty

Isn't there anyway to save it? I was trying really hard to create it. I was doing it for a friend, and I wasn't trying to advertise. I didn't even add a link. Please, isn't there another solution besides deletion? (I love entei (talk) 04:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC))

my reply -- Ned Scott 04:51, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the link. I posted it there. (I love entei (talk) 04:58, 17 December 2007 (UTC))

Merry Christmas

Blessed editing, and...

Happy Holidays from Marlith /C

Credits: This card was inspired by Macy's 123, assistant of V's Shop

Marlith /C 05:39, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Could you explain?

Your comment? I was calling attention to the use of the word sociopaths, which struck me as uncivil and counterproductive. You indented my comment and replied, but I'm unclear how you intended that. Durova 02:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

The formating change should not have actually changed the indentation of your comment. ** and :* should result in the same thing. My reply was also to that user, and not directed at you. -- Ned Scott 03:01, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. Best wishes. Durova 03:29, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Good Idea

Well done for this . We need to archive the whole page if you ask me and provide an easy to follow summary with Masem's latest draft on offer for !voting. Eusebeus (talk) 05:27, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

A gesture

Hi, I just noticed this edit. While I do applicate the gesture, I do not mind working with you. You are more than welcome to restore that specific comment.

The idea behind the RFC at least from my perspective was an over focus against my edits. That was my concern. That is how I viewed the issue. I am saying this merely to establish my perspective and not trying to accuse you or anything. I do admit being a bit jumpy on the issue of WP:HA, but that is per my experience with users unrelated to you. I hope you understand that. I merely do not want a rehash of that experience. This should not prevent me working with you or prevent you from working with me.

I am more than happy to work with people so long as they are not trolls or vandals. You disqualify being either a troll or a vandal so I would have no issues working with you on various topics. This is a collaborative encyclopedia and collaboration is the key to enhancing it. A good number of the people I work with closely on[REDACTED] now used to be former "enemies". Though I never viewed you as an enemy, I don't think that should prevent working collaboratively. :P I do not think you can really avoid me forever on[REDACTED] just as I cannot avoid you forever - given our common interests.

I look forward in working with you should you take this offer. If not, we can continue how things had been for a while.

Oh and btw I am taking things somewhat slow until the arbcom case concludes on episode/character articles.

-- Cat 15:14, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate that. -- Ned Scott 20:19, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Elonka 3

Hi Ned, thank you for your participation in my RfA, though of course I am a bit disappointed that you switched from neutral to oppose. Please do rest assured that I paid close attention to everything that was said in the debate, and where possible, I will try to incorporate the (constructive) criticism towards being a better admin. I am going to take things slowly for now -- I'm working my way through the Misplaced Pages:New admin school, double-checking the relevant policies, and will gradually phase into the use of the new tools. I sincerely doubt you'll see anything controversial coming from my new access level. My main goals are to help out with various backlogs, though I also fully intend to keep on writing articles, as there are a few more that I definitely want to get to WP:FA status. If you do ever have any concerns about my activities as an administrator, or if you can think of any way that we can finally "bury the hatchet" and move forward, I encourage you to let me know. My door is always open. --El on ka 02:24, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

namespace check thingymajig

Hi Ned. Re: the delete "Template begin" discussion. I'd like to add something to the template to let people know not to use it but I don't know what a "namespace check thingymajig" is. :-) Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks. —Noah 04:37, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Replace the template with this code and it will prevent the template from being used in the article namespace:

{{ #ifeq: {{NAMESPACE}} | | {{warning|] has been depreciated and should not be used in articles}} |<nowiki/>
{{{!}} style="position:relative; margin: 0 0 0.5em 1em; border-collapse: collapse; float:right; clear:right; width:200px;" border="1" cellpadding="0"
{{!}}- style="text-align:center;"
! style="background: {{{color}}};" {{!}}<div style="float:right; font-size:70%; padding:0 .5em 0 2em">]</div>'''{{{name}}}''' }}<nowiki/>
<noinclude>
]
]
</noinclude>

-- Ned Scott 04:52, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

And just to be clear, that notice would only show up in the article namespace. It will act normally in the Talk, User, User talk, Misplaced Pages, etc name spaces. -- Ned Scott 06:27, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I doubt I would have figured that out on my own. :-) —Noah 07:08, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

WP:EPISODE disputed.

See the talk page. See wikien-l. WP:EPISODE is definitely disputed. Stevage 05:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

If you do not wish to leave a comment on the talk page, I will remove the tag again. The dispute tag is not meant to be used when a minority is at odds with the greater consensus. -- Ned Scott 05:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't see any comment from Stevage about this; I'll remove the tag. --Jack Merridew 06:20, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, I was going to wait until morning, but I guess that works too. -- Ned Scott 06:26, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

External links to wikis

Hi. =) The conversation on the Heroes discussion page has continued somewhat, however I'm not sure if the points at hand are being understood by those disagreeing with the concept of external linking. If you have any helpful comments that may assist please feel free. =) --Centish (talk) 05:08, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Rejected?

have been tagged as rejected — thoughts? --Jack Merridew 06:25, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Merge proposal

It has been proposed that WP:EPISODE be merged into WP:WAF. Your input is desired, so please comment here. Ursasapien (talk) 11:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

WP:NOT edits

Sorry, I caught yours in removing some un-discussed stuff. I am not really of the opinion that BOLD is really an effective defense in policy article edits. - Arcayne () 15:39, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem. -- Ned Scott 02:18, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Transwiking, etc.

Thanks for coming by reading my list of templates to transwiki. I have added some more templates needed, but I'm not sure if that's all of it, especially there're some more estoric templates that gone down, downstream... Please add templates if you see fit to add, thanks. Also check if any of these of templates caused problems after transwiking, according to your experience.

On the other hand, while people are still discussing about WP:FICT, I wonder if User:Doczilla has been a bit early to start putting on in-universe tags on character articles...?

--Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 01:06, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For making a tough DRV nomination. You know which one. Someone had to do it; thanks for stepping up to the plate. Durova 05:01, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Reply

You're welcome. And thank you for leaving lame personal attacks on my doorstep. I shall clean it up myself momentarily. —Kurykh 07:04, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

You can't expect to be treated with respect if you do things like endorse a backdoor deletion on that DRV. -- Ned Scott 07:06, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Then I can do without your respect. I am not a pandering type of person. —Kurykh 07:09, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

You OK in there?

I've been watching the FICT debate (which growing horror, as you'll know if you know me at all) and noticed the depth of your involvement. Initially I was largely amused at the way refreshing my watchlist would change all the rest but keep talk:fict by Ned Scott where it was. But let's be honest here - the quality of your comments has been degenerating. Today (the 23rd) you've lapsed into expletives, told other people what they think, focused on how tired you are and made statements that can be taken as insults without too much of a stretch. Coming here, I see you've made statements that need no interpretation at all to be insults because you don't need to respect their target. But how we conduct ourselves isn't a matter of how others act, it's a matter of how we act. We write in a medium of pure communication without really having a clue as to how to use it; limiting ourselves to basic politeness isn't as much a part of collaborative editing than a requirement for it to be possible at all. You're a long-time editor. You know this. --Kizor _{is in a constant state of flux} 05:29, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused by this. I re-looked at all of my contribs to these discussions after reading your message to me, and I'm not seeing what you are seeing. For one, the reason I'm showing up so often on your watch list is because I tend to make an edit for each comment I respond to, rather than making a single general reply, or making them all in one edit. Here's a few diffs I chose at random: , , , . Even this is really isn't close to what you've described, but is probably the "worst" I've done tonight. Overall, I understand your concerns, and sometimes I let the frustration of the debate get to me, but this is certainly not a "degenerating" issue. -- Ned Scott 05:52, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey Ned

We may not agree, but at least we know each other as hardcore pedians. Why is FICT needed? I've asked on that page, but I don't think it's constructive to ask it again. I've forgotten what the reasoning is. Could you refresh my memory? - Peregrine Fisher (talk) 08:22, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Zanthalon

The block of Zanthalon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was based on his pro-pedophile activism. Fred Bauder (talk) 13:11, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Responded on your talk page. -- Ned Scott 05:25, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Block discussion

We already told you that any discussions about unblocking this user must occur via private chat with the ArbCom. The relevant information can be read here. User:Zscout370 05:43, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

We're not talking about problematic behavior or someone who was advocating pedophile userboxes. Fred's view might make sense in some situations, but this certainly was not a result of the arbcom case, and it's complete paranoia. Unless you actually have an arbcom ruling to back up the statement, Fred's individual viewpoint is not enough. It's absurd to think that a discussion of this nature would harm Misplaced Pages or the Foundation. -- Ned Scott 05:51, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Fred has contacted me before and stated that all unblock discussions about similar editors must be done off Misplaced Pages. I was also involved in an block and unblock of similar users and all discussions were closed by Fred or other ArbCom members, citing that very link I gave you. User:Zscout370 05:53, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

It's not up to Fred. Unless it was actually agreed upon by a majority of the arbs, and not just him. I won't revert the AN/I discussion, but I certainly will discuss this issue. Fred made a block that was outside what was applicable from the arbcom case. We do not ban people for being pedophiles, we ban them for making userboxes or trying to promote it. The user self-identified long before the arbcom case, and no one ever told him that the content needed to be removed. I'm sure he would have done it himself if he had known. (and for the record, I am not a pedophile). -- Ned Scott 05:57, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

I know you're not one, that isn't my concern. However, I am doing everything I can to try and not have you get banned over something as this. If you are asking me if this was clarified in a case somewhere, I don't see it. I was just a clarification by Fred and enforced by the Committee. Even Jimbo enforced it on an occasion that I was involved. Just play it safe and email arbcom. User:Zscout370 06:03, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough, and thank you for your honest concern. -- Ned Scott 06:07, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

My other suggestion is to scour the mailing lists and see if there is some sort of endorsement there. That seems to be where Fred wanted all discussion of this unblock closed. User:Zscout370 06:15, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

He commented on this specific unblock, or are you talking about the past discussion? -- Ned Scott 06:17, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

In the link posted on the ANI now (sorry about the rollback function, undo wasn't working for me), he commented on the general policy on how we deal with said editors. User:Zscout370 06:22, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Episodes_and_characters

The above Arbitration case has closed, and the final decision can be viewed at the link above. The parties are urged to work collaboratively and constructively with the broader community and the editors committed to working on the articles in question to develop and implement a generally acceptable approach to resolving the underlying content dispute.

For the Arbitration Committee,
— Rlevse • Talk • 14:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Mercury's RfA

Just a heads up. Mercury did ask for the bit back at the bureaucrat noticeboard, but Dan (who has since supported the RfA) said that since he gave up the bit under controversial circumstances, he'd have to reapply via the normal means. AniMate 06:53, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I just saw that and commented on the b'crat board. Thank you anyways for the heads up. -- Ned Scott 06:56, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikia

Welcome to the annex and thanks for the help. Much appreciated :) Renmiri (talk) 16:58, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Darn! forgot to sign in... That was Renmiri above Renmiri (talk) 16:58, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Episodes_and_characters/Workshop

Thanks for letting me know - where can I go to find the results? Geĸrίtz (talk) 23:57, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters#Final decision. -- Ned Scott 00:20, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks - doesn't seem like a very concrete action plan. For example, the user who deleted/redirected all Malcolm In The Middle and Scrubs episodes - should he revert his changes? (I would vote Yes). Thanks again... Geĸrίtz (talk) 23:55, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

m:Wikicommunity

Here is a proposed off-Misplaced Pages site for community-building. If you would like to signify interest in the Wikicommunity project, please put your name at m:Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikicommunity.Sarsaparilla (talk) 05:13, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

futurama list

Been thinking about it, and maybe its just better to keep it the way it was, as it somewhat clear already. The sortable list is just going to cause problems as I believe the sort will only apply to each season and not the whole list, so it wont automatically put all the broadcast season 2 episodes together in one place, but just sort those episodes that are under the current topic. Sorting works better if there is only one season of the show....just some thoughts Grande13 (talk) 23:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

True, but does the broadcast/production re-order cross seasons? I haven't looked at them all yet. -- Ned Scott 23:10, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't believe it does. Grande13 (talk) 23:29, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it would be much of a problem, then. However, there might be a way to make all four tables change with one click.. I'll look into it. -- Ned Scott 23:57, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

You're not in favor of fair use?

Please, I beg of you, do not take this as an attack. I'm amazed that you state you're not in favor of fair use yet (and other edits) you seem quite happy to edit war the images back into the articles. I'm frankly surprised. Mind, I think you're right now...the only way out of this is to include as much and as many of them as liberally as possible as it's the only way out of this. I'm just startled to see you doing this. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:34, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I believe in limiting the amount of fair use images on Misplaced Pages, and allowing reasonable uses that our policy allows. Though, I'm not sure you are in a position to judge other people by their past contributions. -- Ned Scott 06:05, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm not judging you. I just had hopes that you were a detached voice in this debate who could come in and wield some good upon the debate. But, since you're obviously willing to edit war to your preferred version, I despair. Maybe Masem is that voice. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:06, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm getting pretty convinced that you're nothing but a troll at this point. -- Ned Scott 00:03, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

And that's assuming good faith. Assuming bad faith would be to assume you're just a dumbass. -- Ned Scott 00:04, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the merge of WP:EPISODE

I replied some on my talk page, however, I wanted to give you a more full answer here. I had set January 7th as a reasonable time to end the discussion/RfC. As I saw it, editors were generally in favor of merging EPISODE and this had been done in both the drafts already. I took it upon myself, yesterday morning, to redirect EPISODE to WP:WAF. I was reverted twice and called a vandal. That, incidentally, is why the merge tag disappeared from WAF. I had already redirected EPISODE and felt the matter was settled. I do not think EPISODE is even necessary. All the "clean-up police" need is WP:N, WP:NOT#PLOT, WP:FICT, and WP:WAF. Bignole contended EPISODE needed to be archived/marked historical. I do not see a purpose for this. Anyway, I have developed some affinity for you as an editor much like myself. I see you as thoughtful and consistent, but sometimes your passion causes momentary outburst. You are quick to apologize and keen to renew your commitment to cooperation and making this encyclopedia great. I have some trouble with patience, especially when no patience is afforded articles lacking notability, but I am trying to work cooperatively to make the encyclopedia better. Ursasapien (talk) 09:12, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I can certainly relate to those moments of frustration. As for what to do with WP:EPISODE, well the page itself could be marked as historical, or it could even just be put back the way it originally was, and moved back to Misplaced Pages:Centralized discussion/Television episodes. The redirect might be nice for a sub-section of WP:FICT or WP:WAF, or just some kind of "disambig" page for anything related to TV episodes, such as Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (television) and Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Television, etc. -- Ned Scott 09:47, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Eyes

You're welcome to wade in on that page, for waterboarding. We've been trying desperately to get ever more eyes on there, as some of the SPAs have gone out of their way to stonewall application of NPOV, between the various sockpuppets and other SPAs launching into harassment and personal attacks. More experienced eyes and voices are always better. Lawrence Cohen 00:54, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello Ned. As you might expect, Lawrence here is only telling you half of the truth. Here's the other half. I suspect that I'm the "SPA" he described at WP:ANI as "very, very aggressive." I know a WP:OWN violation when I see one, and you are definitely on the right track with this group. They arrived at Waterboarding en masse from another article, Blackwater Worldwide. They have an SPA of their own called Inertia Tensor who mysteriously agrees with them about everything, and is really over the top while they appear more restrained. (Bad hand account anyone?) Ever since anyone had the nerve to challenge their WP:OWNership of the article, they've been trying to delegitimize us with one sockpuppet accusation after another. Personally, I survived two RFCUs in a week with findings of Unrelated. In fact, more than half the people who have been accused resulted in findings of Unrelated or Declined.

What Lawrence hasn't told you is that a veteran WP editor who disagreed with him, who was never in the slightest bit of trouble before arriving at this article, was blocked two weeks for sockpuppetry because he has a shared IP address - and was unblocked by the Checkuser admin who originally ran the RFCU on him, after less than six days of a two-week block. And the admin who had blocked him, in response to the RFCU result, actually posted an apology on the editor's Talk page: "Sorry about the mess." Lawrence isn't telling you the whole truth about what's been going on at that article, or his multiple failed sockpuppet accusations. (He's only telling you about the third one because it was briefly, partially successful.) I encourage all interested admins to review the constant efforts to delegitimize editors who disagree with this cabal, by leaving reams of warnings on User Talk pages and misrepresenting the evidence in an RfC. Their constant efforts to bend the rules of honest inquiry are a sight to behold. They're pushing their POV with a Caterpillar bulldozer. Take a good look.

I already posted all of this at WP:ANI and the instant response was to archive the thread, so I am turning to you. You know that Lawrence and his little group of friends are trying to WP:OWN the article and they're Wikilawyering like Clarence Darrow. Give me some help here. Neutral Good (talk) 02:41, 9 January 2008 (UTC)