User talk:Cowman109/Archive 6

Signpost updated for December 26th.

The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery

Volume 2, Issue 52	26 December 2006	About the Signpost

Seven arbitrators chosen	Wikipedia classroom assignments on the rise
WikiWorld comic: "Molasses"	News and notes: Stewards appointed, milestones
Wikipedia in the news	Features and admins
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News	The Report on Lengthy Litigation

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 07:05, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Signpost updated for January 2nd, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery

Volume 3, Issue 1	2 January 2007	About the Signpost

Effort to modify fair use policy aborted	Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion
WikiWorld comic: "Thagomizer"	News and notes: Fundraiser continues, milestones
Wikipedia in the news	Features and admins
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News	The Report on Lengthy Litigation

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 07:13, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Ecole Polytechnique Massacre article and 'Dina'

I need someone's assistance or the admin person 'Dina' is going to prevent me from making changes to the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre article. This is an ongoing problem since before Christmas as there are too many who are unwilling to consider the social implications of the Montreal Massacre and to have it reflect that. I did put in a request for mediation on 1 Jan, but an hour later Dina put in a request for comment against me, and had several of her buddies testify the problem was me. Today I put a note on the Cabal page for assistance and then decided to wrote to you. I am also having more problems simply inserting changes on that article on the Montreal Massacre, though I am doing it the same way, and wonder if someone with knowledge of technology can make it more difficult. I did ask Dina for help on this but am not getting it. What would help most of all is if she would leave my posts in. Suemcp 10:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

COWMAN, I HAVE READ your responses.I didn't know I couldn't suggest my own website. But there is someone who does think my website is worth having on there, and he has written a few times to the discussion about it, and again this evening, giving his endorselment of the website. But now Dina is asking for a Wikipedia editor to mediate, I guess. And I have applied, as I said, but not gotten anyone. But I need someone 'on my side' she says now, or she will cut me out. We have already been trhough the 'talk' part that you suggested, but it hadn't been about 'talk'. It's been about who has the power to have their will followed. I really do need someone to take a look at it. The external website link is just a first step. of course,. There are several other changes I would like to have really thought about, instead of being simply cast out by people who have already made up their minds on this. Would you please come into this. It is a political matter. The website I started isn't simply my voice There are many different perspectives. It's not a po;lular one, to think that feminists and social change were in part responsible for the creating the situation which left Marc Lepine feeling he wanted to do something about being rejected by the engineering school. And even the way it's been worded now, it is being made to look as though he wasn't committed or intelligent enough. Suemcp 22:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Signpost updated for January 8th, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery

Volume 3, Issue 2	8 January 2007	About the Signpost

Special: 2006 in Review	Another newspaper columnist found to have plagiarized Wikipedia
Blogs track attempts to manipulate articles	Nutritional beef cooks PR editor
WikiWorld comic: "Facial Hair"	News and notes: Fundraiser continues, milestones
Features and admins	Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Report on Lengthy Litigation

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 06:39, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

164.116.107.39

The IP 164.116.107.39 has had a long history of vandalism, and was blocked three times. Someone from their technology department emailed me with the following: "Mike,

I just wanted to let you know that 164.116.107.39 is the IP for the Ephrata School District. We have been blocked from editing content on Wikipedia. As we have hundreds of students able to submit changes to Wikipedia I ask that the block would not be lifted." I agree with you on how a request isn't enough to block someone, but would it be possible to use a soft block so people can register at home then login at school? What would you recommend I tell the the person? Should I be posting this in a different location? Thanks! Mike6271 03:36, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

IP addresses aren't generally blocked indefinitely unless they are open proxies, but as this is an odd case I would suggest you make a post on WP:ANI explaining the situation to get the opinion of more administrators to see if there is some sort of consensus on what to do. An action like that probably isn't something a single administrator should do. Cowman109^Talk 03:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/ran

You may be interested that this was closed. AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 20:50, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Um, *scratches head* Well that's interesting. I could have sworn people are supposed to be told of when they're being accused of being a sockpuppet of someone. Ah, well. Cowman109^Talk 06:32, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Why the blacklist doesn't work

In case you didn't see it at the RfA. "blogs/.myspace/.com" won't match "blog.myspace.com", will it? -Amarkov ^blah_edits 04:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Yaay, I was right. -Amarkov ^blah_edits 04:24, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Ahah, so guess it was a typo after all. Sorry for not reverting my edit there, too - I suddenly got thrown offline and couldn't get back on, to say the least :D. Cowman109^Talk 19:33, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Signpost updated for January 15th, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery

Volume 3, Issue 3	15 January 2007	About the Signpost

Special: 2006 in Review, Part II	New arbitrators interviewed
Cascading protection feature added	WikiWorld comic: "Apples and Oranges"
News and notes: Fundraiser breaks $1,000,000, milestones	Wikipedia in the News
Features and admins	Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Report on Lengthy Litigation

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 05:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Could you help with some research?

Greetings Cowman109,

I'm currently in the middle of a PhD at the University of Bath, UK. I'm examining the way that mediation differs between face-to-face, video-conferenced and text-based meetings. You can get a gist of the research from my (somewhat sparse) homepage here.

I've been trawling through the MediationCabal archives and have noticed that you've mediated in number of cases. Would you be willing to spare some time to talk to me about your experiences mediating? It'd help me out no end!

If you'd like some more info, you can leave a message on my talkpage or contact me via the e-mail on my homepage.

Many thanks

Matt
MattB2 12:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom case closure

I'm sorry I wasn't clear on the ArbCom clerks case ... all I meant was I'd handle the closure if no one else claimed it, since Thatcher131 identified this as a case that an unofficial "helper" could take. If you are around and have time, please you do it. Newyorkbrad 04:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, um, alright *scratches head*. I guess I'll do it then :P. Cowman109^Talk 05:06, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I'm glad to see the case finally finished.  :) --Elonka 04:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Mediation

I am mediating a dispute at Talk:Shawn Hornbeck regarding the inclusion of DOB into the article. I can't make progress and I am unsure how to proceed. Could you take a look and perhaps help me. Any assistance would be appreciated. Regards, Navou ^banter 17:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for working with me on this, do you have any suggestions for the way I started the process? Navou ^banter 03:43, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Northwich Victoria

It seems that your version of the NVFC article is being attacked despite being protected. The sockpuppet is back Ram4eva 19:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, no harm comes from them trying to disrupt that subpage, so there's little to worry about, really. Cowman109^Talk 20:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Ye gods, you're right, definitely a typo, saying that it's your sockpuppet. Sorry about that, I'll change the block conditions accordingly. --Deathphoenix ʕ 21:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Please update Open cases

I have made a number of changes to the Open cases on the case list. --Ideogram 21:43, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cowman109^Talk 22:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Signpost updated for January 22nd, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery

Volume 3, Issue 4	22 January 2007	About the Signpost

Wikipedia modifies handling of "nofollow" tag	WikiWorld comic: "Truthiness"
News and notes: Talk page template, milestones	Wikipedia in the News
Features and admins	The Report on Lengthy Litigation

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 06:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

For you...

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For manually updating the Mediation Cabal cases while the bot doesn't work, I, AndonicO, award you the Working Man's Barnstar. | AndonicO Talk · Sign Here 22:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Bot malfunction?

I explained the issue at the administrators' noticeboard. Could you unblock the bot now? Jogers (talk) 14:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

New warning templates

Are you aware that the list of user warning templates on your user page is out of date? The new list is at WP:UWT. Will (Talk - contribs) 20:40, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah, why thank you. Cowman109^Talk 21:06, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: K37

Okay, go on and unblock him. I'll restore his user and user talk pages. --Coredesat 22:17, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and restored the userpage already :D. Cowman109^Talk 22:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

You should inform this user that his unblock is expressly contingent on staying as far away as possible from myself, MONGO and any other user he is actively harassing on other websites. Hipocrite - «Talk» 00:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

If the user starts to harass people, the block of course will be looked at once more. I don't believe the user has done anything wrong, so best just to WP:AGF that this user won't be the same as others who have harassed you. Cowman109^Talk 00:05, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

The user admits to being one of the users harassing myself and MONGO. This is my final polite request that you make his unblock contingent on him staying as far away from myself and MONGO as possible. Hipocrite - «Talk» 01:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Omura article/help please

Crum375 has reverted the POV template I put above the article, saying that it is not very non-neutral as a whole. I have said that as a WP editor who strongly disputes the neutrality of the article, I have the right to have this template up, is this correct or am I mistaken?

4) A critical statement from the NZ Tribunial that is forming a big part of the article, from exactly the same official NZ Tribunial citation being used for all the other statement states that:

Dr. Gorringe gave evidence as to the background relating to PMRT (or BDORT) and attributed the origin of it to Dr. Yoshiaki Omura and produced some written material relating to the Omura technique (exhibits 31 and 42). However, it would appear from a perusal of those materials that the technique which Dr. Gorringe practices is different from that practiced by Dr. Omura and therefore the Omura materials do not assist the Tribunal to any real extent.

Crum375 is arguing that this is "confusing" and so not allowed. Obviously it is important because it makes the Tribunial report have a different 'light' on things altogether. (It also corresponds with what Omura states in the above quote from his statement). I strongly contest this and see this as clear POV omission, and see no reason to omitt it except POV. Can you help with this please.

Thank you.Richardmalter 08:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Supected Sockpuppet removing legitimate warnings

Our own User:Hkelkar has just returned under a new name User:Rumpelstiltskin223 and has been removing legitimate suspected sockpuppeteer template from his user page.This is a gross violation of Wikipedia's Mediation Cabals and policies.[Please see this84.9.109.192 23:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Please see this post of mine. This user 84.xx is himself a sock of a banned user Mustafa Bhai and has been WP:STALKing and harassing me for some time now with this nonsense because I reverted his POV in an article. Rumpelstiltskin223 23:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Uh, I'm not sure I understand how exactly this concerns me. This would be best left to WP:ANI. Cowman109^Talk 00:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Mediation Cabal coordinators

• Removed self from the medcab pages as coordinator
• Set you as primary contact for the IRC channel. Pertinent information has been left with MemoServ on IRC.
• Set Keitei as secondary contact for the IRC channel. She has the same information.
• If you need a tiebreaker, I suggest contacting User:Kim Bruning.
• I'm not watching this talkpage. If you need to talk to me for some reason, I'd suggest email.

Good luck. ~Kylu (u|t) 02:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Signpost updated for January 29th, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery

Volume 3, Issue 5	29 January 2007	About the Signpost

Foundation names advisory board, new hires	Court decisions citing Wikipedia proliferate
Microsoft approach to improving articles opens can of worms	WikiWorld comic: "Hyperthymesia"
News and notes: Investigation board deprecated, milestones	Features and admins
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News	The Report on Lengthy Litigation

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 17:26, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Completed requests

February isn't January ... good catch! :) Newyorkbrad 00:23, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Hurray! :D Cowman109^Talk 00:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Template

Where can I found all wikismile templates :)NAHID 12:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

They are currently at User:Cowman109/Smile, User:Cowman109/Smile2, and User:Cowman109/Smile3. Not sure what I'm going to do about fixing them now that the cross-namespace redirects have been deleted.. Cowman109^Talk 21:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

*But I think They should be added in Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace. I found one of this smile on an user talk page. Without any link it's hard to find these smiles. NAHID 07:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Tommypowell

I've started a thread over at the BLP noticboard to get some outside opinions about his constant reinsertion of exact birthdates on underaged victims of crimes. I'd like you to comment as well, and I'm going to leave a notice on his page as well. AniMate 23:59, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Request for Comments

I am considering filing a RfC regarding this WP:BLP issue, any objections? Navou ^banter / _{review me} 21:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't think there is too much public opinion either way on the issue so I'm not sure if much will come out of it, but I suppose it couldn't hurt. Cowman109^Talk 21:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Signpost updated for February 5th, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery

Volume 3, Issue 6	5 February 2007	About the Signpost

Foundation organizational changes enacted	Group of arbitrators makes public statement about IRC
AstroTurf PR firm discovered astroturfing	WikiWorld comic: "Clabbers"
News and notes: More legal citations, milestones	Wikipedia in the News
Features and admins	Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Report on Lengthy Litigation

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 04:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Amazona (wrestler)

Can you put it on afd? I dont have/want a account so it wont let me:(

Followup

Hmmm I dont think the "afd" worked right, it looks like an outdated page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Amazona_%28wrestler%29_2)

Fixed it, sorry :D Cowman109^Talk 22:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Brandon Buddy

Just wondering about your deletion of the Bradon Buddy article; yes, it was recreated, but you must admit the consensus to delete at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brandon Buddy was a little sad at three people with no idea about daytime TV. The AfD was reargued a bit on the Talk page and the newest AfD notice was removed, so I'm not sure why you deleted it so fast. TAnthony 22:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

It was a recent AFD, so the best path right now would be deletion review. Cowman109^Talk 22:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Adam W. Nelson

Why'd you delete the article on such a wonderful man???? What's the matter, who cares if he isn't a generic, coke snorting Hollywood celebrity? He's a part of Luther College in Regina and if there is an article for Luther, there should be one for Adam. He helps make the school what it is.

The coke-snorting celebrities generally have some sort of verifiable information about them. The article that you wrote had no sources and was not verifiable in any way in its state. If you can find sources and can assert the subject's notability, then by all means you can recreate it. Cowman109^Talk 01:52, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Arbitration clerking

I would like to submit your name to the arbitration committee for consideration of a formal full appointment to arbitration clerk. Having opened and closed a few cases and seen how things work generally, do you feel interested enough to make a reasonable committment to clerking? There's no specific requirement, just that it's not very useful to have clerks who get bored or busy after one or two cases. Thatcher131 20:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I'd certainly be interested, but just for the record I'm leaving for the next two weeks on a community service trip with some people in my school, so if anything is done within that time I won't be available. I am fine making a commitment to clerking, however, so yes I'd be interested. Cowman109^Talk 20:40, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

OK. I'll email AC. They're pretty slow anyway. See you when you get back. Thatcher131 20:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Signpost updated for February 12th, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery

Volume 3, Issue 7	12 February 2007	About the Signpost

US government agencies discovered editing	Comment prompts discussion of Wikimedia's financial situation
Board recapitulates licensing policy principles	WikiWorld comic: "Extreme ironing"
News and notes: Picture of the Year, milestones	Features and admins
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News	The Report on Lengthy Litigation

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 05:01, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Status

Mind taking a look at this, since you know the details for our little friend? Thanks. —Xyrael / 22:29, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Pardon the intrusion, but the header on Cowman109's userpage says that he is on a two-week trip/wikibreak, so you might need to ask someone else. Regards, Newyorkbrad 22:40, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Wiarthurhu

I posted a note on User_talk:Wiarthurhu#Youtube_video, Sales2007 (talk · contribs) may be a new sock of that user. They posted a link to a video that indef blocked Wiarthurhu (talk · contribs) and his child made and posted to the same article. Seems unlikely to me that someone else would post that same video. Is this a check user item? Is there any action that should be taken? --Dual Freq 22:38, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2007-02-05_Eminem_Album_Articles

I think you can close it out - it looks like the user finally got the point. Only had to explain citations and their necessity five times.Daemon8666 07:29, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Signpost updated for February 19th, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery

Volume 3, Issue 8	19 February 2007	About the Signpost

From the editor
Arbitrator Dmcdevit resigns; replacements to be appointed	Essay questions Wikipedia's success: Abort, Retry, Fail?
In US, half of Wikipedia traffic comes from Google	WikiWorld comic: "Tony Clifton"
News and notes: Brief outage, milestones	Wikipedia in the News
Features and admins	Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Report on Lengthy Litigation

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 07:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Clerkship

Hey,

We've decided to officially appoint you as an Arbitration Clerk - my congratulations and commiserations, both (;-)).

For the Committee.

James F. (talk) 17:47, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Signpost updated for February 26th, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery

Volume 3, Issue 9	26 February 2007	About the Signpost

Three users temporarily desysopped after wheel war	Peppers article stays deleted
Pro golfer sues over libelous statements	Report from the Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia
WikiWorld comic: "Pet skunk"	News and notes: New arbitrators appointed, milestones
Features and admins	Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Report on Lengthy Litigation

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 08:11, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

To Cowman109,

I am not satisfied with the way cabalcase : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2007-02-10_Bates_Method is processed. Is it possible to bring this case to a higher level with a arbitration.

I think it has become also a behavioral issue. The mediator for example who closed the case did not give any argument. Comprising action came from the other party ( famousdog ). In fact there was no real conversation about the subject. Which is in fact very simple. It is whether or not the batesmethod is a program or an educational program. Gladly receive your feedback Seeyou 21:05, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

To bring the case to arbitration you should see WP:RFAR and follow the instructions there. A link to the above case would be evidence that other attempts at dispute resolution have been made. Cowman109^Talk 21:26, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 02:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}

Signpost updated for March 5th, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery

Volume 3, Issue 10	5 March 2007	About the Signpost

New Yorker correction dogs arbitrator into departure	WikiWorld comic: "The Rutles"
News and notes: Picture of the Year, milestones	Features and admins
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News	The Report on Lengthy Litigation

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 06:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Nortwich Victoria

Hello I'm making a dutch translation for Nortwich Victoria F.C. but the page is protected by you, could you add nl:Nortwich Victoria FC, thank you. Waterloo1974