User talk:STSC

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London Meetup - January 12, 2008

Hi! There's going to be a London Wikipedia Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over at Wikipedia:Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 03:10, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London

Wikimedia UK logo

Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008

Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map

More information: Wikipedia:Meetup/London 12

Hello,

I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.

If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Wikipedia enthusiasts in which we chat about Wikipedia and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.

The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!

Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!

Request for Comment on Phoenix7777

If my memory serves, you've had issues with User:Phoenix7777 sabotaging your edits in Senkaku Islands dispute back at ~Sept 2010. I've filed a complaint about him to User:Magog_the_Ogre for his recent edit-warring. If you have anything to add, please post in that thread. Bobthefish2 (talk) 07:00, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Just to let you know, User:Phoenix7777 has called into question of one of your edits, which he (unsurprisingly) reverted. Bobthefish2 (talk) 05:59, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

minor edits on Senkaku Islands dispute

While I think (I'm not certain) that I agree with your last 3 edits, I don't think all of them should be marked as "minor". The last one, in particular, removed a whole quotation from the article. Now, that quote, especially the way it was introduced, probably doesn't belong in the article, I don't think it's removal counts as minor. The reason I mention this is that marking the removal of so much text, even if justified, makes it seem like you're trying to "hide" your changes, thus increasing tensions on the pages. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:14, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Kiyoshi Inoue

Please give some thought to my responses to your edits at Talk:Senkaku Islands#Kiyoshi Inoue. I hope you construe my comments as thoughtful, practical, and forward-looking. --Tenmei (talk) 07:49, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

October 2010

Please do not attack other editors, as you did here: User talk:Bobthefish2. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. this edit is not appropriate. Please edit it and remove the direct personal attack.  Chzz  ►  08:42, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

I don't see a major problem with that edit. "Evil" can have multiple interpretations. Since we don't edit the same pages, it's kind of weird that you'd stalk our talk pages and read what we write. That's considering nobody has filed any complaints on your talk pages. Bobthefish2 (talk) 09:17, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Motorcycle Accident

I'm not active on Wikipedia due to a recent motorcycle accident. STSC (talk) 06:12, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to learn about this -- best wishes for a speedy recovery. --Tenmei (talk) 15:24, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Tolstoy

In part, this is a follow-up to the problems you are helping to resolve at Senkaku Islands and Senkaku Islands dispute.

I wonder if you have previously stumbled across this quote?

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. -- Leo Tolstoy, 1994

For me, this concept has resonance in a variety of Wikipedia settings. These sentences were introduced to me by someone interested in Metonymy and WP:Polling is not a substitute for discussion ≠ WP:Straw poll. Although I still haven't resolved what I think about the context, I do come back again and again to Tolstoy's words.

Perhaps these words might be usefully stored in the back of your mind? --Tenmei (talk) 15:24, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

RfC Senkaku Islands

The RfC provides an opportunity for additional comment by other interested editors. Can you frame a constructive response to Bobthefish2 pivotal question: Even if the policy does not recommend the use of Senkaku/Diaoyu-style dual names, is our situation exceptional enough to make it a good solution?

In this RfC context, please consider an overview here? --Tenmei (talk) 06:43, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

London Wikimedia Fundraiser

Good evening! This is a friendly message from Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry, inviting you to the London Wikimedia Fundraising party on 19th December 2010, in approximately one week. This party is being held at an artistic London venue with room for approximately 300 people, and is being funded by Ed Saperia, a non-Wikipedian who has a reputation for holding exclusive events all over London. This year, he wants to help Wikipedia, and is subsidising a charity event for us. We're keen to get as many Wikimedians coming as possible, and we already have approximately 200 guests, including members of the press, and some mystery guests! More details can be found at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/London - expect an Eigenharp, a mulled wine hot tub, a free hog roast, a haybale amphitheatre and more. If you're interested in coming - and we'd love to have you - please go to the ten.wikipedia page and follow the link to the Facebook event. Signing up on Facebook will add you to the party guestlist. Entry fee is a heavily subsidised £5 and entry is restricted to over 18s. It promises to be a 10th birthday party to remember! If you have any questions, please email me at chasemewiki at gmail.com.

Hope we'll see you there, (and apologies for the talk page spam) - Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 00:00, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Appeal

This user's request to have autoblock on their IP address lifted has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

STSC (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Accept reason: Done. TNXMan 16:13, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Diaoyu Islands

Don't start a revert war with them. Those Japanese editors are very keen at being Wiki-lawyers and slamming users with "warnings". Let's just get the two pages locked so that they will move on and go mess with better-monitored pages like "Japan in World War II" and "Nanjing Massacre".

By the way, have you recovered from your motorcycle accident? Bobthefish2 (talk) 08:45, 27 January 2011 (UTC)