User talk:Guy Macon

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"Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about strong views the way that a natural history museum feels about tigers. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection. We put up all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem." --WP:TIGER

Barnstars & other Farm Animals

Don't know what it was I did to deserve a barnstar, but it's much appreciated.

Bigdumbdinosaur (talk) 04:33, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Monty Hall with Bayes

As I'm not allowed to comment on the MHP related pages, I write to you here. I want to inform you that the recently by Glrx introduced section in the MHP article, on the use of Bayes' theorem, is possibly Own Research, but at least mathematically incorrect. Nijdam (talk) 07:50, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I will deal with it.

BTW, you can always feel free to post here about any concerns you have. I may not always agree but I will always listen. I made (EDIT: Glkanter) the same offer but had to block his email address because of repeated personal attacks -- and now I see that he has managed to convert his one year ban to a lifetime ban.

ACK! I wrote "Glrx" when I meant "Glkanter"!!! Glrx did nothing wrong!!! (I am Sooo sorry. Please forgive me, everybody. Guy Macon (talk) 09:49, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Whether or not the arbcom actions were all appropriate is one of the areas where I am staying neutral, but I can say that I fully agree with them in the case of some users and completely disagree in the case of other users. Guy Macon (talk) 07:59, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

I admire your neutrality! How about an example of those e-mailed personal attacks? 76.190.225.244 (talk) 08:24, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

I have a policy of never revealing the content of emails without permission (in rare cases I will show an email to law enforcement). And I posted the wrong name - see above. Guy Macon (talk) 09:49, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

(Glkanter trying to pick a fight again deleted. - Glkanter, if you don't stop this, I will be forced to seek a ban on a range of IP addresses to stop you. That could hurt innocent third parties who happen to have an IP address in that range. Please have some consideration for them and knock it off. Guy Macon (talk) 09:49, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

The following is primarily for anyone who is reading this and wishes to object (which I encourage) to what I wrote above. :

This is a clear case of Wikipedia:Ignore all rules: "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it."

Not having Nijdam's input makes it harder for me to improve Wikipedia.

Bad behavior is not an issue; should you misbehave (I haven't seen it yet) I will simply delete the comment. It's my talk page and I am free to do that.

Conflict is not an issue. If someone comes here and picks a fight with him I will tell them to stop and/or delete the comment. Likewise he takes the bait.

Undue influence is not an issue. I take all comments under advisement and make my own decisions based upon what I think is best for Wikipedia.

Nijdam, if anyone criticizes you by claiming that posting to my talk page violates the ban, refer them to me - I take full responsibility for giving permission and encouraging the posts. I believe that doing so is the right thing to do, but of course I am open to discussion and willing to be convinced that I am wrong. Guy Macon (talk) 09:49, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

That approach would seem to conflict with all your prior proclamations of the importance of knowing and following all rules. No need for an editor to bother with arbcom appeals, reliable sources or good faith, he can just pal around with Guy Macon. Guy Macon knows what's best for Wikipedia (and his own ability to improve Wikipedia) to a much greater degree than the arbcom. [Deleting the relevant arbcom sanction I posted does not negate it's force and affect.] 76.190.225.244 (talk) 13:03, 4 September 2011 (UTC)