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User:Adrian is a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgements About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are In Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They are Deletionist.

hello me.

A freshly archived user_talk page always looks lonely without a post :(

I love the smell of fresh archival at 0'dark-30 :)

—— Adrian Lamo ·· 2007-01-08 12:21Z

Can't have you talking to yourself

I mean, people might think you were some kind of crazy person! Hope you had a good Christmas and NY. Thought I'd bring the following rather fun RfA to your attention: ProtectionBot. As implied by the title this is to be Wiki's first AdminBot. Amusing opposes based on robots taking over the world aside, one of the big stumbling blocks is the refusal to release the code as it might fall into the hands of Vandals who could design some horrific VandalBot vs. Wiki's general policy of releasing such things. Thought the debate might be of interest to you- net security and all... 17:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WJBscribe (talk • contribs) 2007-01-08 09:50:04.

O_o

Adrian! Good luck and all! !!!65.13.3.52 01:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I answered you on my talk page. Shaundakulbara 03:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

unregistered IPs in AFD

I removed your strikethrough of an IP's vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sexy Losers. You're wrong, IP's do count, especially if they give a valid keep rationale. In any case, this is not your decision to make; the closing admin will weigh everything, and you certainly don't need to remind the admin how to weigh an IP's contribution. The only sensible thing to add can be an {{spa}} template sometimes, but if an IP has a long editing history here and no significant history of vandalism, then they are absolutely welcome to participate in AFD. Please do not tell them that they can't, this is against the spirit of WP:BITE. Thanks in advance, — coelacan talk — 22:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Righto. Thanks for your replies. For what it's worth, your tone did not give me any indication of grumpiness or anything like that. I thought you were quite cordial. But... =) maybe I'm just desensitized from the venom I receive here (and decorate my user page with). I won myself a Penny Arcade reference last night: User talk:CyberAnth/Deletion Talk#Take a look at this! Later, — coelacan talk — 07:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Fist_to_the_head!.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Fist_to_the_head!.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. MECU≈talk 01:11, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Closing AfDs

Non-administrators may not close AfDs unless before the five day mark unless it is a painfully obvious snow-ball clause-type situation. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ebony Anpu does not yet meet that standard. Additionally, your use of rollback-type tools in reverting your inappropriate close without comment was in itself inappropriate. Please be more careful and courteous when dealing with other folks. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:16, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, your warnings to users 80.154.39.13 and 80.154.33.243 were very inappropriate, and I have deleted them. To warn a user for 3RR when you yourself have made the improper reversions (without comment) displays a lack of appreciation of proper process. Again, please be more careful. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I have denied and removed your requests for page protection for the articles, per the reasoning above. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:26, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Also, I am going to ask other admins to take a look at this. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: IP AfD noms

By the way I should say I don't entirely agree with your close (though my reasons have nothing to do whether you're an admin or not). WP:AFD does not say IPs are forbidden to nominate articles for deletion(or that they 'lack standing'), it says: "Note that if you are editing under an IP address because you have not yet created a user account, you will not be able to complete the AfD process, as anonymous contributors are currently unable to create new pages ". Once the AfD page is created, there is nothing to stop IPs from contributing and if properly expressed their views should be as valid as anyone else's. So I don't think all delete !votes are by IPs is a valid close rationale. The opinion: "You can't write an article based on a bunch of self-published fan site