Ruy Lopez

Would you be interested in an online interview?

Dear Ruy Lopez,

I am a student in Seoul National University doing a research project on Wikipedia. I am very impressed about your insight regarding Wikipedia. Reading your page, I see you are truly concerned about the quality of Wikipedia articles, and I appreciate your efforts to find reasonable alternatives. So I thought you could provide some opinions really worthwhile. So, would it be possible for you to take some time off and give an online interview via E-mail or online messenger? It would provide my project a lively voice of an actual editor, and this will be of a great meaning; your experience, concerns, opinions and ideas would add a lot to my project. Actually I'm in real need of something concrete; for my project is about the mechanism a version of explanation is settled, and as you will probably guess, understanding such things involves a lot more than just watching some explicit process. Again, I would really, really appreciate your help.

It will not take that long; in fact everything will depend completely upon your will. If you are willing to give some help, would you mind contacting me on my User Talk page within April? Thanks a lot.

Sincerely, Little Sheepherd

Little Sheepherd (talk) 05:31, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

== Thanks! ==0

I'm really glad you made contact. Can you tell me your e-mail address? MSN would be even better... You can mail me, or it would be even better to chat(tell me the time convenient for you). Do you use MSN?

Little Sheepherd (talk) 05:40, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

John W. Nields Jr.

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Proposed deletion of John W. Nields Jr.

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Gaza aid shipment

Hi Ruy, I undid your change to the Israel's intention to deliver aid. However in note of your concerns I reworded it to Israel's promise. This is unbiased and readily verifiable in multiple RS's Zuchinni one (talk) 13:56, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Ruy, you are making A LOT of edits yet you are not participating in the discussion. Please read over the talk section and discuss changes before making them. You have already undone more than one thing put in place by a consensus of editors in the Talk section. You are in danger of getting banned due to the 1RR protection currently in this article. Please participate. Zuchinni one (talk) 14:08, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

A cursory look at your user history shows you are a sock puppet account. Amazing you are so knowledgeable in the rules when you've only made a handful of edits before massively intervening on this article over the past days. As you are a sock puppet and not a real user, further discussion with you is pointless. Ruy Lopez (talk) 14:13, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes I see what you mean, the suggestion that Israel's promise to take possession of the aid then deliver it themselves belongs in the lead, but that a qualification of the six ships as ships carrying aid does not belong in the lead raised flags. Similarly the ascribed motivation, that the GFF wanted to breach a blockade rather than deliver humanitarian aid. It's like a guy whose partner is in labour and bundles her into his car to speed to the hospital, suggesting his motivation is to break traffic laws, not get her to the hospital. RS basically describe the ships as carrying aid, whereas some edits left the lead describing the ships as carrying militants hehehe. Still, Zuchinni played the voice of reason well, no? Respectfully, RomaC (talk) 14:26, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Also, only 1% of aid to Gaza has ever gotten through. Also, Israel could have announced this supposed deal to the flotilla before they departed, not by megaphone/ship-radio a few minutes before they sent commandos to kill unarmed passengers. The whole point of the flotilla is Israel is blockading food, medicine etc. If Israel was letting food and medicine in, the flotilla would never have existed. Ruy Lopez (talk) 14:30, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Ruy, in case you haven't seen it, here is an interesting article on how the wiki article had been anti-Israel! Tireless defenders have been working to improve it. [1] —Regards— KeptSouth (talk) 14:51, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Interesting comment there by "Ezra" "Still, worth looking behind the scenes to see just what type of individuals are involved in creating & editing wiki pages." I wonder what you think he could mean by that?— KeptSouth (talk) 14:55, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

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Reverted AmericaSpeaks changes

Hi,

I noticed that you deleted all the content on AmericaSpeaks and replaced it with a link to an accusation that they are an "astro-turf" group. In fact, their latest event, "AmericaSpeaks: Our Budget, Our Economy" a National Town Meeting about the US federal budget (with a focus on the long-term deficit) came under fire from both the Right and the Left, with defenders on both sides as well. It seems perfectly reasonable to me to add a section to the list of Projects on "Our Budget, Our Economy" with mention of this back-and-forth -- but not to replace their entire listing with a single accusation. I have rolled back your changes for now, and if no one adds a section on the above project by early next week, I will do so (at which point of course you could add any references you feel are appropriate). I have tried to offer below a fairly wide-ranging set of links to opinion pieces on both sides, the results, and some first-hand accounts.

Thank you.

Roz Lemieux

[Full disclosure: I work for a firm that was contracted to help put together the event's online presence. It was my experience that the organizers went to *great* lengths to recruit participants from across the political spectrum and provide materials vetted by both right and left-leaning advisors.]

Rozlemieux (talk) 12:48, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Supporters:

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/archon-fung/public-deliberation-the-l_b_627983.html
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-newmark/americaspeaks-town-halls_b_617303.html
• http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/06/a_defense_of_the_america_speak.html

Detractors:

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/america-speaks-back-derai_b_619465.html (critique from the left -- note that the actual results did not at all resemble Baker's predictions)
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-hickey/in-deficit-town-meetings_b_627030.html (left-leaning, post-event)
• http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/06/the_america_speaks_forums_and.html (critique from political science perspective)
• http://video.foxnews.com/v/4262098/tax-hikes-needed-to-cut-debt (critique from the right)

Participants & Organizers:

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carolyn-lukensmeyer/a-national-discussion-our_b_614775.html
• http://p2tools.blogspot.com/2010/06/successful-virtual-deliberation-part-of.html
• http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20100701-OPINION-7010384
• Tea Party: http://teapartychicago.netboots.net/posts/here-is-what-actually-occurred-at-the-america-speaks-town-meeting
• Crooks and Liars (left): http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/america-speaks-will-politicians-liste
• http://citypaper.net/blogs/clog/2010/06/28/americaspeaks-post-mortem/

Results presented to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform for its public meeting on Wednesday, June 30, 2010:

• http://usabudgetdiscussion.org/written-testimony-for-the-national-commission-on-fiscal-responsibility-and-reform/

Oh Suzanna

Hi, regarding this post http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:Arundhati_Roy#Oh_Susanna... Do you have any supporting reliable citations to support it? I am considering removing it as it could be personal imformation that could harm the living person, please explain and please either delete or offer a citation. Off2riorob (talk) 13:15, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Please ignore this as after further investigation I see it is citable, excuse me. Off2riorob (talk) 14:57, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

You may ..

You may have caused me to leave the 'pedia for a time but I'm BAAAAAACK--198 (talk) 00:43, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm the Anti-Communist guy.--198 (talk) 00:55, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of List of Americans in the Venona papers for deletion

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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I'm sorry

I'm sorry for getting mad at you a while back.

CJK (talk) 23:05, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

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