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Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference
| Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 | |
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  You are invited to join us at Barnard College for Wikipedia Day NYC 2015, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
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All things considered
Despite disagreement with some analysis of yours from time to time, you're a good egg.--Two kinds of porkMakin'Bacon 03:49, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you. Goo goo g'joob. Newyorkbrad (talk) 22:09, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
tasting blood
See ArbCom even though you assiduously avoid it. Cheers. Collect (talk) 12:10, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
The case against me is vexatious indeed - I shall not contend against those who taste blood. The main complaint even includes my essays - so I wrote one which I hope you will appreciate WP:Wikipedia and shipwrights. It would be fun to see how others react, indeed. Warm regards, Collect (talk) 04:20, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
- I will take a look at this when I have more time (see below). I will share my thoughts then if I have any useful thoughts to share that wouldn't be repetitive of what others have said. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 22:11, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Note
I've been busy for the past few days between work and some other commitments. I'll still be mostly offline for the next few days, but should be back around after that. Newyorkbrad (talk) 22:09, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
A superfluously sesquipedalian title which shall immediately betray the author's deluded pretensions to effectual elocution
Rather than make do with the patented 'On _____'--or simply '_____', as it were, I've elected to use this title, instead. I feel it suits me. Polysyllables aside, let's talk business:
You see, I'm somewhat....curious, I suppose. As you may recall, in an action which still, to this day, baffles me, you opted to opine regarding the severity of the punishment I was receiving due to my.....policy contraventions, we'll put it. As aforementioned, I am confused by this. We don't even know each other. I understand that you're an administrator, but there were already several on the case already. Moreover, your requests weren't exactly heeded--I am still under the trammel of an indefinite topic ban upon any and all subjects related to gamergate. Nothing really became of your efforts.
I write this, then, in the hopes that you may answer my questions, and, in so doing, dispel my befuddlement. Good day. Ghost Lourde (talk) 09:58, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
- @Ghost Lourde:First off, apologies for the short delay in my response. I've been mostly offline for a few days (see above).
- Personally, I like the parodic writing style in your section header. You may not be aware of it, but inadvertently or otherwise, you were aping a writing style I've been accused of (cf. User:Newyorkbrad/Bradspeak).
- As for why I addressed the arbitration enforcement thread concerning you, there were two main reasons. The first is that I was one of the members of the Arbitration Committee who was active in the GamerGate arbitration decision. (I was an arbitrator from 2008 to 2014, and continued into January on the GamerGate case since it opened in 2014.) This gave me a great deal of background on the GamerGate-related editing disputes, and therefore I've commented on some (though by no means all) GamerGate-related enforcement requests.
- In that context, I saw the enforcement request against you and, as I always do when I am thinking of commenting or taking admin action involving an editor with whom I'm unfamiliar, I took a look at your userpage and talkpage to see what the editor has chosen to share concerning his or her background and editing interests. As you intended it, your userpage is very descriptive and very introspective. I thought it gave me some insight into why you might be editing the way you were and what advice might be most helpful to you. Every editor is a unique individual and should be treated as such, but after nine years on Wikipedia I have come to recognize certain types of frequently committed "rookie mistakes."
- Of course, I didn't realize as I was typing my advice to you that another administrator was in the process of topic-banning you, thus rendering moot the advice I was giving. But I hope it was useful to you anyway. And I hope this reply is responsive to the question you asked me. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:10, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. Well, yes, you have satisfied my curiosity. Also, yes, the parody *was* inadvertent--it was more of a self-parody, really. Anyway, thank you for responding. Ghost Lourde (talk) 16:54, 26 March 2015 (UTC)