User talk:Grobertson

Notes to self:

• Manual of Style

Speedy tagging

Hey, when you tag something for speedy deletion, if you want to use a reason, you need to use {{deletebecause}} or {{db}}. {{d}} and {{delete}} don't allow a reason to be entered. --Phroziac^(talk) 19:22, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner

-- Mamawrites 00:09, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Interplanetary Superhighway

Publications of agencies of the US Government are in the public domain; thus, using information copied verbatim from the NSF's website is not a copyright violation. Kurt Weber 19:52, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Zahira College Colombo

Hey Mr.Grobertson The Article about Zahira College is not a copyright violation... The other website you have qouted is my friends and I have given permission for him to publish and add to it. So that we can add to wikipedia later.. Just because you find an article that is in Wikipedia, that is present somewhere else how can you get to the conclusion that it is a copyright violation!!! please revert back my article.. I have spent a lot of time creating this article.. regards Arsath

Link Fix

Hi! I hope you don't mind, but I fixed the link you had to the Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal on Caleb Murdock's page. Dreadlocke 04:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Your mediation case: Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-06-19 Jane Roberts

You have the case listed as "In Mediation - Closing" but I don't see any mediation activity on the page. Normally we use "Closed/Closing" to refer to a case that is finished and ready for archiving, but it appears you're just opening the case. I'm afraid I don't follow: Is the case actually closed, or did you mean something else?

Thanks! :D ~Kylu (u|t) 01:23, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Seemed to calm down of itself, so I'm just holding it open until I'm sure everything's ok. Grobertson 11:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Disemvoweling and Barbara Bauer

Hi. I'm the other person who put up the Wikipedia:AMA_Requests_for_Assistance note regarding the article Disemvoweling. Having read that User:Marky48 had accidentally put his request where it might not get noticed, I wanted to help get the process going, because Marky48 seemed unwilling to negotiate under mediation with User:The prophet wizard of the crayon cake. I'd originally requested a Cabal mediator to try to calm down the adversarial nature of the discussions.

Yesterday, User:JulesH, aware he could not revert Mark's edit again under WP:3RR, asked for assistance. Rather than simply revert, I changed the single most disputed word in Mark's version, and tried again to do a rewrite that would be acceptable to all. I was nevertheless amazed and pleased that Marky48 said he would accept my edit. I was even more amazed and pleased when someone with no history on the article gave it a good overhaul, improved it in organization as well as NPOV, and received Marky48's acquiescence on that, too. Marky48 then renewed his complaint about the Cordray link on the Barbara Bauer article, so I did my best to rewrite that one into acceptability as well, without leaving out entirely an important part of the Barbara Bauer controversy. Mark accepted that, too - with more complaints and accusations, but he accepted it.

I've been relieved all day at the apparent cease-fire, but now I find he's still complaining about me as well as User:JulesH. I'm not going to give you chapter and verse here, but if you look at the History and Talk pages for both articles (including the very long series of comments that JulesH archived today), I think you'll see a pattern of behavior from each of the parties involved, one that doesn't match Mark's belief that he is the innocent crusader for NPOV, ganged up upon by partisans. It is true that most of the parties involved have read and commented on the blog Making Light, and have mentioned the edit war in a couple of threads there. However, if you look at the citations suggested, edits attempted, and the tenor of the comments, you'll find that they don't fit well with accusations of our trying to one-sidedly promote the owner of Making Light or punish the Cordrays.

Why do I mention all this? Self-defense, mostly. I'm not looking to harm or punish User:Marky48 in any way, but I sure would like to see him stop maligning me. That probably won't happen for a while, but at least I can point you toward discovering for yourself that I'm not the villain or henchman (henchwoman?) Mark believes me to be.

Incidentally, Barbara Bauer has made three attempts (that I know of) to whitewash her article, two of them last night. This has nothing whatever to do with Marky48, but I mention it because no one has given her (User:Cannoliq) a formal warning so far.

Thank you. Karen 05:25, 21 June 2006 (UTC)