Fred Bauder wrote:
From: "Tony Wilson" list@redhill.net.au
Tony
(Tannin)
(By the way, what happened to the nomination for JTDirl? That one seems to have fallen through the cracks. It's been ages.)
I continue to object to sysop status for JTDirl. Take a look at the nasty comment on my talk page:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fred_Bauder especially on the last line:
"lol FearÉIREANN"
I made no mistake in objecting to him.
Without committing myself one way or the other about sysops, I find Fred's claim of a so-called "nasty comment" to be an egregious distortion of fact. The entire end reads as follows:
I thought I better let you know that this does crop up via the google search. Feel free, BTW, to erase this message if you want. For all our disagreements, I think it deeply wrong that the above accusation comes up against your name on google. lol FearÉIREANN http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jtdirl
This last paragraph and the much longer posting that precedes it seems very conciliatory. The most relevant distortion seems to involve treating the "Fear" part of the nickname as some kind of imperative. Fred may not have noticed that JTDirl lives in Dublin, and his most abiding contributions have been in matters of Irish interest. I would assign Fred the homework of looking up "fear" in a Gaelic dictionary.
May I suggest to JTDirl that an article on Irish Gaelic comparable to TAW's article on Polish would be most welcome at Wiktionary.
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