User talk:Jclemens

Welcome, correspondents If you're here because I deleted an article you think should be undeleted, please read this first and remember--Most of the time, I didn't write the text that appears in the deletion summary.
N.B. I don't respond well to either fawning or abuse. Talk to me like a peer, assume good faith, and you'll find I reciprocate in my helpfulness.

Functionary Assistance My ability to help as a checkuser, oversighter, or arbitrator in individual matters is currently limited by my positional and non-Wikipedia obligations. For non-trivial assistance, especially that which requires extensive consideration of private correspondence, you will likely get a faster response by asking another functionary.

Position Essays may help you understand my point of view with regard to...

• Notability of Fictional Topics
• Articles for Deletion
• Blocks
• My RfA Standards

Administrator Goals Doing my best to improve the tiny little wedge in the top center:

E-mail

I would really appreciate it if you wouldn’t just ignore my replies to your e-mail. Providing no response to certain questions is something I see from arbitrators pretty often, in response to both me and other editors, and I’ve never understood what editors are supposed to infer from it. It’s even happened after the arbitrator had told me ahead of time that they were available for me to ask them something, such as here.

Any of the times when this happens, if there’s something inappropriate about what I’m trying to ask, I’d like to just be told that. If the arbitrators have decided to not do anything in response to what I’m asking, or they don’t know the answer, I’d like to be told that also. Having silence as a response could mean any one of these things, and I’m not prophetic enough to be able to figure out which it is. Does ArbCom view it as beneficial to keep me in the dark about this? --Captain Occam (talk) 06:19, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

The default presumption is that we're too busy and/or discussing it. Send me another email telling me which email you're referring to and I'll try to provide a more specific explanation in reply to that email. Jclemens (talk) 14:27, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I've done that. --Captain Occam (talk) 01:29, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Aha! NOW I know what you're talking about... will reply in email later tonight. Jclemens (talk) 01:34, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

You’ll be getting back to me about this again, won’t you? I know I probably seem impatient now, but from what I’ve told you about my experience, you might be able to understand why after I’ve waited around a day for an admin to respond to me, I start to worry that they’ve forgotten about my request. --Captain Occam (talk) 05:00, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Will you be getting back to me about this again tonight? You told me on the 29th that you’d be available again Sunday evening. And as I said in my e-mail, there’s a disadvantage to postponing dealing with this. --Captain Occam (talk) 04:51, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

New Essay

Wikipedia:You are not irreplaceable Comments welcome here or there. Jclemens (talk) 06:28, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

You've been mentioned at ANI :)

Hi. I just wanted to let you know that your name has been drawn into ANI in reference to the Marina Poplavskaya situation, since you're the agent working with her via OTRS. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:49, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

It's nice to be mentioned at ANI as a potential solution, rather than a part of a problem, eh? :-) I'll try and get back with her when I return from my evening engagement. Jclemens (talk) 00:09, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

LOL! Amen. :D --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:05, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Portal:Justin Bieber

You could add the Portuguese language in the Portal: Justin Bieber? Already have a portal in that language. Fernando Ferry (talk) 22:13, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Our correspondence

Can you please not just leave me hanging like this? You told me on the 29th that you’d be available again on Sunday, but I haven’t heard from you again since then. As I said in my original comment here, when an admin abruptly stops responding to me in a discussion, I’m never able to know what I’m supposed to conclude from that. If you’ve decided this topic doesn’t deserve your attention, then I’d like to just be told that, as long as you also explain why you changed your mind about whether it does.

You might remember there was something else I wanted to ask you, which isn’t related to the original topic. I think the second question will be a lot easier to answer. But if you’re not going to reply to my e-mails anymore, it won’t be possible for me to get an answer to my other question either. --Captain Occam (talk) 06:33, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

The only conclusion you can draw is that I'm too busy to deal with your particular request. While I do make an effort to get to things in a timely manner, individual requests for Wikipedia efforts come after all other Wikipedia obligations, which in turn come after my family, school, and volunteer firefighting obligations--the latter of which are particularly unpredictable, I'm afraid. Jclemens (talk) 14:19, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

OK, thanks for explaining that. Do you have any prediction about when you’ll have more time to discuss things like this? The issue I e-mailed you about initially might be stale by then, but I’d like to at least know when is a good time to ask you my other question. --Captain Occam (talk) 21:26, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Replied in email. Jclemens (talk) 03:11, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me. I’ve gone ahead and asked you my second question now, because it indirectly relates to the answer to what you were asking me. Hopefully answering this question won’t require as much work from you as the first thing I asked. The specific thing I’m requesting is something that I know ArbCom allows fairly often, even if my reasons for requesting it are different from most people’s.

This is the last thing I need right now, so once this last request is resolved I’ll be ready to stop nagging you. --Captain Occam (talk) 18:08, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Kenneth Eng

Can you check if there was ever an article for "Kenneth Eng"? It seems to have been deleted, if so could you supply me with an archive of the article? Redhanker (talk) 16:06, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, it has been deleted multiple times. Ask User:King of Hearts if you want a copy back, I'd suggest. Jclemens (talk) 02:02, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Tom Hatton

Hi there, I'd like to create the page Tom Hatton (actor) who was previously deleted. The content is about the same person and it was suggested to contact the relevant user. I believe the page was initially deleted due to non-notable recognition on the subject's early work, however the subject has now received substantial global recognition for his work including and not limited to the Sony Production 'In The Qube'. I feel it would be of value to add a wikipedia page to the 60 million viewers who identify with the subject. Please could you advise. Hattock79 (talk) 00:55, 9 August 2011 (UTC)