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You created this short cut and, as far as I can see, you're the only one using it. I can sort of guess where you're coming from, but could you update the text of Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument, or at least on its talk page, to explain your reasoning? Mark Hurd (talk) 00:20, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You've lost me - Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument seems pretty clear, what is it that you feel needs updating? pablo 10:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't quite get how *.* corresponds to it. Mark Hurd (talk) 00:15, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually looking closer, I get it even less. I thought it was a short cut for Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!, which is actually a different page! Mark Hurd (talk) 00:28, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. Tough crowd. pablo 09:50, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My intention was to add it to the Shortcuts box inside the Essay box at the top of the page, until I saw you were the creator and only user of it. Mark Hurd (talk) 01:31, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Early days - either people will use it, or they won't. pablo 21:16, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ARS Discussion closure

I see that you have closed a discussion on the ARS talk page. Just a note, it is entirely appropriate to post a neutrally-worded notification on a WikiProject's talk page when the WikiProject is being discussed at ANI. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:42, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct. pablo 15:02, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bungled move

{{adminhelp}} Please could someone move User:Pablo X/Lauren Hodges to Lauren Hodges? I moved the talk page there in error and now can't move the article page. Thanks. pablo 23:39, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Chris (talk) 01:46, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. pablo 06:11, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

RE wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=next&oldid=437476811

Made me giggle :p

Poor kittenz

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that is what they meant to do, if they wanted to correct me probably better to leave them to talk to me? If I screwed up though, sorry, I tried to read WP:WITHDRAWN and WP:CLOSEAFD it as carefully as possible --Mistress Selina Kyle ^{(Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉)} 09:52, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pre-emptive strike - I appreciate the sentiment of tea, kittens etc, but not the templates so much. I think it was perfectly fine to close the AfD, just the way you did it made it look as though it was actually closed by the nominator. It's not a huge problem though.☺ pablo 10:17, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

if you look on Clarityfiend (talk · contribs)'s talk page they replied saying they had meant to close it properly but just didn't know how as I had guessed

It's cos it's all hidden under "administrator instructions" which gives a "not for me" reaction in the average person who then doesn't even want to look under the hood to se what's there - Probably another thing I should update, it seems it's still the same as years ago that mostly instructions and template stuff gets kind of left to rot except by a very few people lol

--Mistress Selina Kyle ^{(Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉)} 10:26, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think I tried a non-admin close once and gave up because I didn't want to spend half an hour reading up on it. No worries - I think it's fine now, and if not I'm sure someone will come along and sort it out.☕ pablo 12:24, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Moni3's ANI analysis

Hi pablo - - the discussion about Moni's ANI analysis got moved to userspace for now. If you're interested then please feel free to join us at User:Manning Bartlett/Moni3 ANI analysis. Cheers Manning (talk) 11:18, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know, Manning - I've watchlisted. pablo 11:38, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge discussion for FUBAR

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NFI

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IP block exempt

HER AIM IS TRUE

Excellent service from moonlighting Apple employee. Again.

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Thanks Alison, that's just the job! pablo 07:56, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Yoghurt

COOL STORY, PAL

"It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine"

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Hi there — I'm a Scottish yoghurt eater — the only times I *EVER* hear it pronounced with a short 'o' are (English) adverts on my TV.

What's your take on this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Circusofdeath (talk • contribs) 22:20, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there — I'm a Glaswegian supermarket manager, and an overwhelming majority of my customers pronounce it with a short 'o'.
I'm not, actually, but that should demonstrate how much anonymous internet anecdotal evidence is worth. pablo 09:07, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	After a day that has been no fun, your comment that we shouldn't change WP:CIVIL to include profanities made me smile. Wee Curry Monster talk 18:18, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers; tough crowd there and it's a challenge to slip one in now and again. pablo 19:22, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Another Barnstar!

	The Joker's Barnstar
	I, thesteve, hereby award you this humour Barnstar for most gratuitous use of the word 'twat' on wikipedia.

Thank you, thank you very much. pablo 08:14, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

I noticed a problem on your talkpage: not enough kittens.

Arcandam (talk) 14:08, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well thanks; I don't know why, but ta anyway. pablo 20:27, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Precious

	eight years
	Thank you for contributing to this project for eight years today! You defended endangered articles and endangered users and added thought-provoking humor, you Fictional Wikipedia editor in popular culture, using your "wit as a pitchfork" and driving "the brute off". You are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:01, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, Gerda. pablo 10:16, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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ONE WOULD HAVE LING'RING WARS, WITH LITTLE COST;
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concerning your comments towards me at

Since they closed the discussion I can't respond to your comments at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents there. Obviously if you don't understand what something even is, you can't determine if its article should be deleted or not, so TPH nominations were wrong. You then bring up something from 3 years ago, where the AFD for an article ended in a snow keep. [1] "And why did you feel qualified to resist the rewrite of the History of quaternions article pablo 13:14, 5 September 2012 (UTC)" Resist the rewrite? You mean, resist the total deletion of the article after it ended in snow keep? [2] I undid the replacement of the article with a redirect, since the AFD ended in snow keep, I did not get involved at all in the rewrite. Why would you bring something three years old and totally unrelated up at all? Dream Focus 04:25, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Disappointing to see several editors piled on to try to argue against Dream, all of whom seemed to assume he doesn't understand Lagrangian–Eulerian advection. I guess its as Dream's too cool to always express himself with the prescision of an elite egghead. Or maybe its as deletionists are just too selective in what they like to study to know that by far the most common use for this sort of algorithm is to generate particle physics for computer games. Don't forget Dream is one of our most respected gameing specialists!

This isnt really about games of course, but about deletionists who want to destroy what ever they don't like or understand, regardless of the harm this does to the encylopedia, to interested readers, or to the editors who have laboured to create our articles.

You know, while I often don't understand where youre coming from, Ive noticed over the years that you have a nicely developed sense of style. I don't think you really belong with the deletionists. Why not join the rescue squad? You could hang with the cool kids such as Dream, the Colonel and Milowent! FeydHuxtable (talk) 13:01, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

@Dream Focus: I will try and explain. Your comment, "Those who studied this in college and understand it are the only ones that should be deciding if any articles don't belong here."^diff seems an odd one, given that you are taking part in the decision-making process for an eclectic range of stuff — at least some of which you clearly know nothing about. Your knee-jerk reversion of amendments to the quaternions article (while it was in the process of being rewritten by people who do understand them is just another example, albeit an old one. Then again, Wikipedia has no requirement to be consistent in one's thinking.
I do think that you are wrong, or at least not entirely correct, about who should edit which articles, though.
@FeydHuxtable: Your musings often cause tea to splutter over my keyboard, and the last couple of sentences very nearly did just that. Although Milowent seems OK.
However, and perhaps more seriously, I don't think of myself as belonging "with the deletionists." Or the "inclusionists." I think the sort of jihadist polemic DF has on his user page and you keep spouting (eg here) is divisive and unhelpful. pablo 15:18, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A shame, youd have been a great addition to the Squad. Few tried harder to avoid divisiveness than Obama in his first few years and that didnt play out so well, sometimes its unavoidable. But maybe youre right, and certainly its good there are some editors who think reasonable compromise is always possible. FeydHuxtable (talk) 15:32, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not a big joiner. But if you are worried about membership figures at the ARS (and perhaps you should be - I can think of at least two excellent article rescuers who, while still carrying out the same sort of edits, no longer wish to be identified or associated with the group) consider this: it is entirely possible that people are put off 'joining' due to the sort of language that the members use– your and DF's constant barbed comments about deletionists for example. (And A Nobody's fake-polite, fake-sincere childish parroting of comments back to the original commenter with the word order partly reversed, Benjiboi's disingenuous "archiving" of any unfavourable materials from Ars talk, relentless self-publicity and sockpuppeting, Ikip's aggressive ad-hominem battleground debating style ... ) pablo 15:59, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Neither A Nobody or Benjiboi have edited in over two and a half years. [3] [4]. I don't see Ikip around much either. And have I made any comments about deletionists in awhile now? Originally certain people identified themselves and their methods by that manner. Now it no longer applies. As for something that happened years ago, as I said, I saw an article that ended in snow keep being replaced by a redirect, and reverted it. If it was in the process of being rewritten, well I certainly didn't know that, and they should've rewritten it before trying to redirect it, or better yet done so in the article itself as they eventually did. Dream Focus 16:31, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am well aware of the chronology. I mentioned those particular editors because theirs were the shirts Feyd was waving recently. No further comment on your actions — you clearly run on a different form of logic to me. And if you think Benjiboi isn't editing, you could well be wrong. pablo 19:22, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Belated thanks

Hi, thanks for the additional keystroke = special characters and diacritics that you left on my page. Very helpful stuff. Truthkeeper (talk) 22:00, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. pablo 09:12, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sanjay Pugalia

Pablo X, Please read the Sanjay Pugalia entry in light of it most recent changes, which includes a notability statement, better organization, further citation, and new material. Currently, its assessment is stub. The most recent changes should merit a reconsideration of a nomination to delete and possibly a raise in status from stub to start. I would be interested in your thoughts. Thank you, Crtew (talk) 05:48, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You've certainly improved it immensely. I won't be withdrawing the nomination, though - the discussion should be left open in case anyone else wishes to contribute. pablo 20:36, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Don't ask me. I'm not a Wikipedian.

Respect

Not a word for not a Wikipedian, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:50, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Gerda. Love your work. pablo 15:00, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Danke --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:36, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[5]. Drmies (talk) 21:50, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

'tis the season

treats for a rusty spork ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:13, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedians

MEH

cba.

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You joined the Category:Wikipedians who are not a Wikipedian, which is being discussed at its entry at Categories nominated for deletion.

You may wish to join the category Category:Wikipedians working towards even enforcement of civility.

Kiefer.Wolfowitz 10:52, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Or my Category:Wikipedians who are not part of The Community - I want it red! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:02, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Meh. I kinda think I've had enough self-categorisation for now. I did like this one, though. pablo 15:32, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Heh

HEH

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In response to this edit to Jimbo's page. Yes, in fact it has been. The odd thing is, I admire wikid's energy, and interest. Sometimes a little too much, but that beats lack of interest. However, a couple recent items got to me, so I had to say something.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 15:27, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with all several of your points. Very enthusiastic. Brilliant if pointed in the right direction. Whatever that is. pablo 00:04, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Information

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH

done.

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I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat (talk) 10:50, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Jebus! Homework eh? Will take a look, but not anytime soon. pablo 11:49, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's certainly fair. Thanks for giving it your consideration. My76Strat (talk) 12:06, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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