I'm catching up after a busy couple of days. To save cluttering up the list with a whole stack of little posts, in no particular order:
1: Various comments in several threads re shouting on talk pages and in edit summaries, mostly to do with "Communist state" (which is now, by the way, in excellent shape - pending destructive reverts, of course) by Mav and others. I agree. "Vandalisim" is not the appropriate term to use here. In this connection, a semi-apology from Fred. Thankyou Fred. Apology accepted. (At least I am taking it as an apology, and on that basis I'll say no more about the matter, just look forward to working with you on other entries in the future).
2: sonyalebrun@hotmail.com: Hacker attack at Wikipedia. MyRedDice saved his picture onto a public computer & other wonderful related stuff. Best laugh I've had in ages. Thankyou Jimbo for sharing that with us.
3: Various nominations for admin status: Kingturtle, Someone Else, Abe Sokolov, Minesweeper, Slrubenstein, Hephaestos, and several others as well. I second (fifth, ninth? whatever) the nominations. There were one or two names I didn't recognise (I probably work on different specialties much of the time), but I trust the consensus here. Mav (and others) wouldn't have suggested them if they were not good people. Did anyone nominate Jimfbleak and Arpingstone yet? If not, we should. They are both careful, hardworking contributors, with level heads and a proven record of solid contribuions.
Tony Wilson (Tannin)
I direct your attention to the exhibit of fine Wikipetiquette below, from [[Talk:Communist state]]. It's enough to make me sentimental--I haven't been YELLED AT, threatened with banning, been called rude, a nuisance, dense, and lazy since LMS was around.
THIS IS NOT AN ARTICLE ON THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC THEORY OF MARXISM-LENINISM. THIS IS AN ARTICLE ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE STRUCTURE OF A COMMUNIST STATE!!!!!! READ THE ARCHIVED PAGES SO THAT I DON'T HAVE TO REPEAT WHAT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
ALSO, SITE OWNER JIMBO WALES AGREES THAT FRED'S CONTENT DOESN'T BELONG IN THIS ARTICLE (SEE THE MAILING LIST), SO YOUR EFFORTS TO INSERT FRED'S (PERHAPS YOUR) POV COULD GET YOU BANNED. --172
As I said before, your shouting is rude. You also have a deep misunderstanding of Wikipetiquette, Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines, and Jimbo's role. I hope you will consider improving your understanding. --The Cunctator
I know that it's rude. So is trying to insert your POV after JTD, Tannin, Tarquin, other users, and I have probably written well over a hundred pages on this page, user pages, and the mailing lists explaining why these poorly written paragraphs don't belong here. And here you come, interjecting yourself in the debate, being a further nuisance. I doubt that all of us could say anything else to convince you; you seem far too dense. So quit being so lazy and why don't you go through all our explanations and do some research to see if we're not all engaging in some kind of conspiracy and making these arguments up ourselves? 172