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{{user:CzechOut/Sig}} | {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}19:39: Tue 21 Aug 2012 </span><br> | ||
summarizing the opinions of [[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]], [[User:Azes13|Azes13]], and [[User:Revanvolatrelundar|Revanvolatrelundar]], and passed without objection by [[user:Mini-mitch|Mini-mitch]], [[user:Skittles the hog|Skittles the hog]] and [[user:Josiah Rowe|Josiah Rowe]] | summarizing the opinions of [[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]], [[User:Azes13|Azes13]], and [[User:Revanvolatrelundar|Revanvolatrelundar]], and passed without objection by [[user:Mini-mitch|Mini-mitch]], [[user:Skittles the hog|Skittles the hog]] and [[user:Josiah Rowe|Josiah Rowe]] | ||
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== Hypercube message== | == Hypercube message== | ||
Please see [[forum:Hypercube message]] for instructions on how to customise the message box. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} | Please see [[forum:Hypercube message]] for instructions on how to customise the message box. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}16:34: Wed 22 Aug 2012 </span> | ||
:I'm sorry. I really don't know how to simplify my language any further. I've been asked the question a lot, so I wanted to keep my language clear. Perhaps you're not noticing that there are clickable links in the text of [[Forum:Hypercube message]]? I suggest returning to the thread, re-reading it, and clicking the links. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} | :I'm sorry. I really don't know how to simplify my language any further. I've been asked the question a lot, so I wanted to keep my language clear. Perhaps you're not noticing that there are clickable links in the text of [[Forum:Hypercube message]]? I suggest returning to the thread, re-reading it, and clicking the links. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}22:20: Wed 22 Aug 2012 </span> | ||
== Signature and user page ettiquette == | == Signature and user page ettiquette == | ||
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Note that [[T:UVAN]] was one of those pages that you just agreed to follow or you'd be kicked off the wiki for good. I'm lettin' this one slide, mainly cause I don't want to immediately trash the work that was put into your ban reversal over the last week. | Note that [[T:UVAN]] was one of those pages that you just agreed to follow or you'd be kicked off the wiki for good. I'm lettin' this one slide, mainly cause I don't want to immediately trash the work that was put into your ban reversal over the last week. | ||
I urge you to carefully read everything that was linked [[#Welcome back|above]]. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} | I urge you to carefully read everything that was linked [[#Welcome back|above]]. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}16:34: Wed 22 Aug 2012 </span> | ||
== What's up with the duplicate categories? == | == What's up with the duplicate categories? == | ||
Please don't add duplicate categories to pages, as you did at [[Bessie]]. Please come to chat so I can try to set you right. You're blocked for 10 minutes (less now) just to put the brakes on your current editing pattern. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} | Please don't add duplicate categories to pages, as you did at [[Bessie]]. Please come to chat so I can try to set you right. You're blocked for 10 minutes (less now) just to put the brakes on your current editing pattern. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}18:08: Fri 24 Aug 2012 </span> | ||
== Test == | == Test == | ||
Testing your talk page, as per your request at [[Special:Chat]]. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} | Testing your talk page, as per your request at [[Special:Chat]]. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}19:26: Fri 24 Aug 2012 </span> | ||
==Space before categories== | ==Space before categories== | ||
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::As an aside, when leaving a message on someone's page, please don't post it in the middle of another discussion. Please remember to start a new section. I seem to recall this was something we talked about prior to your blocking. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} {{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 00:54: Fri 31 Aug 2012</span> | ::As an aside, when leaving a message on someone's page, please don't post it in the middle of another discussion. Please remember to start a new section. I seem to recall this was something we talked about prior to your blocking. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} {{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 00:54: Fri 31 Aug 2012</span> | ||
== Disagreement == | |||
I'm sorry you feel that I've been reminding people of your earlier blocking. I've taken great care to allow you to turn over a new leaf as much as is practically possible. I suppose I did slip up in the most recent message [[#Reformed individuals]] and use the word "blocking". I had been consciously trying to avoid that, which is why in the earlier message in the same section I had used the more neutral word, "absence". Certainly, the required message at [[User:Dr. Anonymous1]] was carefully worded to be perfectly neutral. All it says is that you were once Patrick Watt; it says nothing about that account being blocked. | |||
You are at complete liberty to properly archive this page as it currently stands so as to partially hide the references to your past blocking. You were even encouraged to do so at [[#Welcome back]]. | |||
That said, I'm not sure what sort of linguistic legerdemain you expected out of me when talking about a decision reached when you weren't here. I ''had'' to make ''some'' sort of reference to your past just to answer your question. The reason that these categories have been removed is because — while you were away — we decided to axe them. | |||
Also, the terms of your return — to which you agreed at [[#Agreement]], were that you were ''very definitely'' on probation. That's just the deal. So, yes, we want you turn over a new leaf. But realistically you ''are'' very much on a kind of parole. Expect for admin to say things like, "Hey, remember a year ago when I told you about ''x''? That still applies." In particular, note the final bulleted point of the agreement: | |||
:If at any point, over any issue, you directly defy an admin, you will be permanently banned without chance of reprieve. | |||
That obviously includes anything you've ''already'' been told by admin at [[user talk:Patrick Watt]]. So, yeah, you've realistically got to expect that I and the rest of the admin staff might make mention of things from your past. | |||
Course, if you just re-read that page and abide by the things you've been told there, we'd have no need to reference them again. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} {{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 17:43: Fri 31 Aug 2012</span> | |||
:Sorry, there's no way to downsize that message. It's a standard size and will, of ''technical'' necessity, remain. | |||
:You mentioned that you "accept[ed] my apology". It's important that you understand that I wasn't asking your forgiveness. I was explaining how things are. If I were you, I'd be happy that you escaped permanent exile, instead of trying to nitpick the terms of your return. Yes, we'll ''try'' not to ''stress'' your past mistakes. But you honestly have no cause to complain if an admin uses the word "blocked" in connection with you. You ''were'' blocked. It's not a slur or a personal attack to say that. What you did was frankly inexcusable. It's some what miraculous that you've been allowed to return. So you're being a little more than cheeky to complain about us simply mentioning your previous exile. As [[user:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] stressed in your reinstatement discussion, '''you do not have a clean slate'''. We want you to turn over a new leaf — but we can't help but remember the diseased tree from which you fell. | |||
:My advice is that you just chill. Have fun editing, but don't be so sensitive. You're going to have to accept the fact that you ''were'' blocked. The less emphasis you place on having been blocked, the more likely we are to forget about it. Complaining about my use of the word "blocked" has only served to make the issue ''bigger''. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} {{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 20:50: Fri 31 Aug 2012</span> | |||
== Dalek Caan image == | |||
I'm leaning towards no even as a stopgap given how thumbnail jpegs could easily be down to 40kb or less and the old image was over 100kb. Well, the image's been deleted by an admin at this point, so whatever my thoughts were are moot. -- [[User:Tybort|Tybort]] ([[User talk:Tybort|talk page]]) | |||
==New pages== | |||
Please remember to preview any pages you create before publishing them, just so you can spot any mistakes before the article goes live. Also, please abide by [[T:BOLD]] as I've noticed you have forgotten this necessity on occasion. Thanks--{{User:Skittles the hog/sig}} 20:45, September 7, 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Banned from chat == | |||
Heya :) Just been checking with [[community:user:Trellar|Trellar]] on this one. [[User:Skittles the hog|Skittles the hog]] banned you prior to a major change in the way that the chat feature worked. Since you were, at the time, infinitely banned, no one here thought it necessary to follow up on the effects to your account. When I switched to a javascript-based system for adding user tags to people's user pages, it picked up on the antiquated "banned from chat" flag that you had. | |||
Unfortunately, I've got no way to turn it off, because the flag is obsolete. According to Trellar, you should have been thrown a new flag, but you weren't. Trellar has now escalated this problem up to an engineer, who should be fixing things forthwith. | |||
Sorry for another reminder of your unfortunate past. Rest assured it wasn't an intentional sleight by the admin staff. We remain committed to giving you as clean a slate as is possible. | |||
I've got no ETA for the removal of this tag other than "soon". {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 22:18: Thu 15 Nov 2012</span> | |||
:....and fixed! {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 22:19: Thu 15 Nov 2012</span> | |||
::Fastest "soon" in history! [[User:Rappy 4187|Rappy]] <staff/> 22:23, November 15, 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Nine background == | |||
Nine was chosen because we were at an impasse. ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'' was very much the end of an era. We wanted to immediately dismiss Amy, Rory and River from the desktop upon transmission of that episode, but we didn't immediately have anything from the current series to replace it with. So we had to go back. Nine, and for that matter Rose, had never been featured in any of our backgrounds, so it seemed like a good time to slip in a little love for the "second first Doctor". {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 20:58: Thu 06 Dec 2012</span> 20:58, December 6, 2012 (UTC) | |||
{{Christmas greetings}} | |||
== Quotation marks == | |||
Hi! Please take a look at [[Thread:131641]] regarding quotation marks. The last message in the post deals with where punctuation goes when using quotation marks; it depends on what's being quoted. The quotation marks you've changed today have been reverted back to the wiki-accepted English form. Thanks! [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 16:47, July 17, 2014 (UTC) |