User talk:Jayron32

emcorrectionalfacilitification

Did you miss the third to the last comment on this thread? μηδείς (talk) 18:04, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Nope, but the moment had passed. --Jayron32 13:41, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

I wasn't expecting a funny comment, it was an anecdote, not a joke. Just wanted to make sure you'd seen it given your comment in a later thread on your fondness for the word. μηδείς (talk) 16:17, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Ah. --Jayron32 22:29, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

RE: Thanks for getting that OTRS ticket

Yeah, no problem. It was a bit tricky this time - too bad there was so much going on at his talk page. Rjd0060 (talk) 03:39, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Robert S. Stewart

Back on August 21 you offered me some help in writing the biography of Robert S. Stewart. I am sorry, but after the violent blast from the editor DG, I almost lost all interest in pursuing the effort on WP. I had only submitted the first cut rough draft and asked for advice on how to edit, polish and complete the task. Finding references for businessmen is not easy. He is not a publicity hound who seeks massive public or academic exposure. But DG trashed any idea of offering me genuine help, just pontificated as if he owned WP. I asked for help five times and got abuse hurled back in my face each time. I asked for previous biographies of businessmen after DG said he had written and edited hundreds of them. Not one came back. I sought out dozens of business biographies and very few appeared. Who's Who is far better than WP for sourcing material but that is not a self-styled acaedemic publicity source either. Any sincere help and advice would be appreciated. Regards --Dawlatbaba (talk) 06:33, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

If you want some good articles about businessmen, here are some that I have found:

• Steve Jobs
• Dan Borislow
• Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet
• Tory Burch
• Charles M. Loring
• David Meerman Scott
• John D. Rockefeller
• Tom Peterson
• Heather Higgins

That's a wide variety of business people from a wide variety of time periods and industries. If you want to see what a decent businessperson article looks like, including the level of references we are looking for, you can find them there. Being a "publicity hound" is not a requirement for having an article at Wikipedia. Being written about in reliable sources is. I'm not sure if I mentioned this last time, but it is very important that we can verify anything written at Wikipedia, and we need a substantial amount of information to put in an article. If you can't find sources for enough information to make a reasonably complete article, then it likely shouldn't be written at Wikipedia. If the sources do exist, use them. If they don't, I'm not quite certain what else to say on that. --Jayron32 13:55, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 September newsletter

We're over half way through the final, and so it is less than a month until we know for certain our 2012 WikiCup champion. Grapple X (submissions) currently leads, followed by Sasata (submissions), Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and Casliber (submissions). However, we have no one resembling a breakaway leader, and so the competition is a long way from over. Next month's newsletter will feature a list of our winners (who are not necessarily only the finalists) and keep your eyes open for an article on the WikiCup in a future edition of The Signpost. The leaders are already on a par with last year's winners, but a long way from the huge scores seen in 2010. That said, a repeat of the competition from 2010 seems unlikely.

It is good to see that three-quarters of our finalists have already scored bonus points this round. This shows that, contrary to criticism that the WikiCup has received in the past, the competition does not merely incentivise the writing of trivial articles; instead, our top competitors are still spending their time contributing to high-importance articles, and bringing them to a high standard. This does a great service to the encyclopedia and its readers. Thank you, and good work!

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Pointy header

Hi. Yes, my header was pointy, and I make no apology for it. When something isn’t making sense to a long-term regular whose mental capacities have not yet been consigned to the dustbin, and he asks 4 times for an explanation, and nobody is forthcoming with any information, and he takes what he considers to be appropriate action, and he gets no support from anyone when that’s reverted – what else is he supposed to do? -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 00:43, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

I didn't say you were wrong in restoring the discussion. I'm sorry if I wasn't involved in that discussion, but in general I have been entirely consistent in my position on closing such discussions. You were fine in what you did. Consider my action an "endorsement with a modification". --Jayron32 02:48, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Jayron. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 21:09, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

On a related matter, best of luck with this from 3 days ago.
My general experience of asking the editor in question to clarify or explain their posts is to be treated to the stony silence you're now getting a taste of. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 02:16, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Editors named Jethro

Should I make a Wikipedia category "Wikipedia editors named Jethro?" --Jethro B 01:05, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

You do what you gotta do. --Jayron32 02:49, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Shaking my head, sent this to the wrong editor. Meant to ask User:I Jethrobot. Sorry. --Jethro B 03:43, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

You do what you gotta do. Fer realz. --Jayron32 03:46, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

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Main Page appearance

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Many events considered central to our modern understanding of chemistry are also considered key discoveries in other scientific and technological fields. Chemistry is therefore often referred to as "the central science", and its history can be traced back to the earliest recorded history. Early ideas that later became incorporated into the modern science of chemistry come from two main sources. Natural philosophers, such as Aristotle and Democritus, used deductive reasoning in an attempt to explain the behavior of the world around them. Alchemists, such as Geber (pictured) and Rhazes, used experimental techniques in an attempt to extend the life or perform material conversions, such as turning base metals into gold. In the 17th century, Robert Boyle's synthesis of the ideas of these two disciplines led to the development of a process of thinking known as the scientific method, whereby the modern science of chemistry was born.

Balls to the wall! --Jayron32 04:19, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Carolina Boys

No intended wheel, just failed to check history, please feel free to restore Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:30, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Don't sweat the small stuff. It happens. --Jayron32 06:31, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Picture Problems

Hey,man. I went to Wikipedia:Uploading images and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial like you suggested and I think I've got it now. Thanks for the help! (I may have more novice questions for you in the near future. Bear with me please, I'm not exactly what you'd call "tech-savvy".) Krueg (talk) 04:09, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Hey, no problem. I'm glad to help out where I can. You can ask me here on my talk page, or ask at either Wikipedia:Teahouse or Wikipedia:Help desk. Good luck! --Jayron32 04:11, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

thanks

thanks for your quick response.if you have time can you answer my another question-how can i send message to members or only editing their talk page is the option? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drshreyans1986n (talk • contribs) 14:29, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Not a problem. You can send a message in two ways. First, you can do what you did here, which is to edit someone's "talk page". This is how most messages should be sent on Wikipedia. You can also email users who have their email enabled by clicking the "email this user" link in the toolbox on the left. However, that is usually only used to communicate private or sensitive information; for most normal Wikipedia business leaving a note on a talk page should be fine. --Jayron32 16:31, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

De gustibus

Wanted to let you know that I enjoyed the "de gustibus" answer on the Ref Desk. If only it could have been the first word on that subject. And the last word. Ah well. — Lomn 22:20, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

FWIW, I'm not sure if someone had stated it first, it would have stopped anything. People like to argue. --Jayron32 22:23, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

No they don't.  :) -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 22:58, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Edit Conflict

Hey,man. I've hit a snag again. There's been a few times where I was editing an article, and when I tried to save my changes, I recieved an error message that said there was an "Edit Conflict". I read the Help article on this, and it gave me a very good defenition of what an Edit Conflict is, but not a lot of instruction on how to resolve the problem. I'm still not sure what I should do if this happens again, besides just starting over (which is getting real old.) Can you help me out? Krueg (talk) 18:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Sure. What you can do when you get an edit conflict, you will now have two edit windows: the top is the current state of the article, and the bottom is what you tried to add. If you copy the text from the bottom window you were trying to add, and put it in the top window (don't delete what others have added, just re-add your own text by copying it and pasting it in) then you can quickly correct the problem. --Jayron32 18:25, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Got it. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. (Also, I'd like to thank you for not mocking me. You've been way nicer to me than some other people. Thanks again!) Krueg (talk) 18:40, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

I don't mock anyone, so I think you may have me confused with someone else, or perhaps you've misinterpreted something I have said. --Jayron32 18:47, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

What? I was thanking you for NOT mocking me....(a few others have). Did I misspell something? Krueg (talk) 18:50, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

OH! Sorry, when you said "You've been nicer to me than some other people" I thought you were implying that I am not nice to other people. What you meant was that other people aren't nice to you!!! Is that why I was confused? Cuz when I first read your statement, it sounded like "other people" were the "other people" I was supposed to be mocking. Instead you meant that "other people" was "other people" that were mocking you? Did I understand you right now? --Jayron32 18:53, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes! Sorry if my grammar confused you. I'll try to be clearer next time. Krueg (talk) 18:55, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Barnstars/Kittens,etc.

Hey,Jay---me again. I was wondering what the heart tab on top of the user pages are for. ("What are Barnstars?" "What are Kittens?",etc.) Also,are there any rules concerning them? (Like, "Would I be breaking a rule by sending them because I'm new?",etc.) (P.S: Sorry for asking a lot of dumb questions. I'm not trying to pester you, and I really do appreciate your help.) Krueg (talk) 22:03, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi, Krueg! Not to speak for Jayron, but those things under the heart tab (they're collectively called "Wikilove") are just little things that you can send to other users as a little token of appreciation. Barnstars are sort of a tradition at Wikipedia; they've been unofficial awards for a (relatively) long time, since 2003. There aren't any rules about handing them out; do it as much as you please for whatever you please! That's what they're there for. I wouldn't recommend slinging thousands around at the drop of a hat, but if you want to give 'em out freely, you're more than welcome to do so. :) Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 22:49, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Gotcha. Thank you! I was afraid I'd get some critical comments on my talk page for violating a rule. (I'm a newbie,so I'm a little hesitant to just click on things.) Thank you for answering me!Krueg (talk) 22:55, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Thanks for your help and advice! :) Krueg (talk) 23:03, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! --Jayron32 01:04, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for your quick and helpful response.

SchizophrenicDingo (talk) 04:09, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Merci beaucoup! --Jayron32 04:11, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Brad Watson is being lenient to us

Brad Watson has kindly cut our sentences[1] "GOD is also telling me to lessen the sentences that I've recently imposed on the administrators and moderators that have been found guilty at forum.Bible.org and Wikipedia." Dougweller (talk) 16:03, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Well, if GOD says so, maybe we should just relent. --Jayron32 16:20, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Oh, wait. He's saying that he's going to lessen his sentences he's enacted against us because God told him to. That's infinitely funnier than what I thought he said when he first read it. Damn. --Jayron32 16:22, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For going above and beyond for Wikipedia, I present you with the Writer's Barnstar. Enjoy. You deserve it. SchizophrenicDingo (talk) 21:39, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! --Jayron32 04:48, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Username

Dunno if you noticed, but the user that you addressed in this edit has an improper role account. No reply here needed: to do or not is entirely your call, just FYI. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 13:44, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

I responded in good faith to help the person who left the message out. I'd rather not block the same person after I was just friendly to them. If it is a problem WP:UAA exists for this exact reason. --Jayron32 13:47, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

No problem, like I said, it's your call. I left a warning on their talk page, perhaps they'll change their name. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 14:05, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

WTA Linz

Hello! Where's find me a article "WTA Linz" which going now? Help me, please--Many baks (talk) 14:52, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Jayron, he asked me this on my talk page as well. I've asked a Russian-speaking editor to give him a hand. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 15:19, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

fyi

Quoted you here: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Is_it_reasonable_to_have_my_integrity_questioned_and_my_edits_reverted_because_I_am_an_ip.3F Nobody Ent 11:32, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Civil War veterans' children

Thank you for your answer! I am the grandson of a veteran and couldn't believe that there could be up to 300 living children of Civil War veterans!. Thank you again! and If I knew how, I would give you the Reference desk barnstar. Iowafromiowa (talk) 12:51, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

It's all good. Your thanks is more than enough. --Jayron32 23:04, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

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AN Close formatting

Your WP:AN close I believe needs some format fixing. Shadowjams (talk) 03:25, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I fixed it already. Thanks for the heads up. The "archive bottom" template needs another </div> or something. I kludged a fix in, but perhaps we need to get that fixed in the template. --Jayron32 03:26, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I just went back and looked at it and I couldn't figure out why it didn't work as you did it the first time... probably something in someone's sig above... let me know if you figure out exactly where it is, it probably should be fixed in either the template (or the person's sig). Shadowjams (talk) 03:28, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Man, I ain't combing through that discussion again. I just spent the better part of an hour tabulating votes, weighing rationales, and trying to work out community consensus. If I look at it any longer, my eyes are gonna bug out. Let's just say that, of the 100+ people who commented the, maybe one has a broken sig. I'm not in much of a mood to figure out who at this point. --Jayron32 03:33, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Ummm... seriously?[2] Doc talk 04:23, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Someone already took care of it. --Jayron32 04:28, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Box-closing problem is due to...something bad...in one of the transcluded or collapsed chunks in it. DMacks (talk) 04:32, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

I don't know. Again, I'm not interested in reading all of that again. --Jayron32 04:35, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I really don't care either:) Banned is banned, closed is closed, etc DMacks (talk) 04:43, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Weird vibes on this las vegas night.... anyway... I was just trying to figure out which weird formatting was fucking up the templates, and jayron knew exactly what I was talking about, although neither of us have the time to really dig in and figure out what it was (which btw is a real pain in the ass if you aren't running wikimedia on your own server and ready to put in some test pages and then check the logs, etc.). Jayron fixed the underlying problem very quickly which I think deserves a barnstar. Anyway, no real discussion here. Good work all around. Only thing remaining is if anyone knows the underlying reason the template failed, it'd be a good thing to fix. Talkpage me or anyone else (I'm not really good at template stuff, but I'll try), so we can fix it. That's all. Shadowjams (talk) 08:21, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

This does need to be private

Hello, Jayron32. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Bielle

I have responded via email. --Jayron32 03:45, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, and returned. Bielle (talk) 04:04, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

And back to you again. --Jayron32 04:09, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Ace! Bielle (talk) 04:28, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Also suppressed. If it's dox, I wanna know! - Alison ^❤ 07:40, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for following up on that, Alison. I had revdeleted it, just as a stopgap. --Jayron32 21:33, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

monarch lists

Hello Jayron32,

I noticed you undid that editor (Ilhador)'s edits on the king of France list. He did it to many different lists and it is such a pain. As I do not have the power or ability to, can you revert his similar doings to the List of Portuguese monarchs (which he changed to King of Portugal) and the List of monarchs of Brazil (which he changed to Emperors of Brazil. I have no idea why he did these edits, but i can't revert them. I appreciate any help at all, Cheers, Cristiano Tomás (talk) 02:50, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

It looks like he reverted himself on the Brazil list. I've undone the Portugal list. --Jayron32 02:55, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you a great deal. I invite you to look at the request for intervention I opened. He has done this many times before. Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (at the very bottom). Once again thank you for reverting. Good editings, Cristiano Tomás (talk) 03:03, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

I've commented at WP:AIV. The edits aren't vandalism, and should be discussed as with any dispute. See WP:BRD. He did the "B". I did the "R". Now you both "D". --Jayron32 03:07, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation newsletter - closing up!

Hey all :).

We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.

However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.

Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:17, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

License

Hi!, I'm sorry to bother you again, but do you know under what license does a picture lie when it's credited to a Twitter account? I asked this on the Help desk but got no response. Thank you. Iowafromiowa (talk) 15:02, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You got your answer already.[3] And if is a serious question ... ah, forget it. Doc talk 15:14, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, yes, I don't know where I take "longetivity" from. Iowafromiowa (talk) 15:18, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Mass moves

Hello, user:Kauffner has recently moved a lot of undiscussed and controversial pages, as the [[Duke of Aquitaine], Duke of Albret, Duke of Noailles, Duke of Narbonne, Duke of Chartres, Duke of Lorraine, and made us a favor of locking every one. I tried to revert them but he deleted my request as here[4]. There's a requested move going on in the [[Talk:Dukes of Albret], in which every other editor has opposed the Kauffner moves. Maybe you could help and avoid the work of another 10 RMs. Jack Bufalo Head (talk) 16:29, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

At this point, WP:DRN is your best option. I'm not jumping into the middle of every controversial move. --Jayron32 17:30, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Help with page moves?

Jayron, would you be willing to help (or direct) me? I created a page to record steps for manually archiving the RefDesks, but named it improperly. Initially, I created it here, then moved it here and then here. The redirect trail probably needs deletion once it's in my user space. Sorry to create a mess, but I was well-intentioned, honest! -- Scray (talk) 23:14, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

 Done. Always glad to be of service. --Jayron32 23:17, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

You da bomb! -- Scray (talk) 23:21, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Any way I can move this to here, or does someone with the bit have to do that? -- Scray (talk) 23:24, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

I've deleted the target for you. You just have fun. --Jayron32 23:27, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, ec'd with you after figuring out all I had to do was copy from the one into the other, then G7 speedy the first. Thanks again. In about 20K edits, I'll go to RFA and pay it forward. Thx. -- Scray (talk) 23:29, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for the quick handling of the problem of the IP address user (vandal) attacking my user talk page. Donner60 (talk) 03:29, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

No problemo! --Jayron32 12:40, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

JEFTA

Hi Jayron32, I've performed an NAC on your RM to move JEFTA into userspace. I broadly agree that redirects to it should be deleted, but looking over what links there, I'm not sure how to proceed. I guess JEFTA previously existed in a different form, and there are extant (but red) links to it. I'm glad to see you're an administrator; I think you can safely take charge of the cleanup then, if that's alright. Since no one else expressed opposition to the move, and even Wnt's opposition wasn't exactly vociferous, I think you should feel sufficiently empowered to do so. Let me know if I can help with anything, but as I'm not an administrator, that probably won't be much. Thanks, BDD (talk) 19:08, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

French Wikipedia

But my French Wikipedia is blocked. Fête (talk) 21:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Civility Barnstar
	For keeping me from getting myself blocked eventually over the AN/I incident gwickwire | Leave a message 04:01, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Domo arigato. --Jayron32 04:03, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Peer review

Please peer review this for me!--Lucky102 (talk) 16:25, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

Luo Xian Xiang, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Thanks, but I didn't create it. I just made an inconsequential edit or two. --Jayron32 22:14, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

When the AFCH script was processing the article, I realised immediately that it had included you erroneously, but decided against reverting myself for an isolated, inexplicable glitch in the programming. If the anomaly recurs, I’ll refer to this instance when notifying those responsible for its maintenance, but otherwise I’m certain that the creator would appreciate further assistance from experienced contributors in improving the article on Luo Xian Xiang. Cheers, Mephistophelian (contact) 19:07, 24 October 2012 (UTC).

It's all good. I'm not really all that knowledgeable in the subject, but I have it watchlisted to keep an eye on it. --Jayron32 19:13, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Happy mole day

Dear Colleague,

Wishing you a warm and happy Mole Day.

--Jethro B 05:52, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

If I had Avogadro's Number of avocado's, I'd make you some guacamole... --Jayron32 16:37, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

No, if you could possess Avogadro's # of avocados, you'd probably have a servant to make me the guacamole! --Jethro B 06:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

RD/L

Just wanted to bring your attention to this. Dismas|^(talk) 05:28, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Weirdness. I have seriously no idea how that happened. Must be a glitch in the matrix or something... --Jayron32 06:17, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Exactly the same sort of weird thing happened to me this morning, Jayron. See User talk:JackofOz#Blanking JG Talk. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 06:35, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Hm. Time for a thread at WP:VPT to see if there's a bug or something? --Jayron32 11:19, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

See the "Apparent bug causing massive text loss when saving" section at VPT if you've not already. Nyttend (talk) 00:33, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your time!

Thank you for your time on answering my question regarding the Electoral College tie on the reference desk. _{Hisham1987 (talk) 16:33, 24 October 2012 (UTC)}

No problem. I find doing stuff like this fun, so it was my pleasure. --Jayron32 16:43, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

User:Walledro

Because he was violating BLP pretty badly with his edit warring, I think you may want to upgrade him to indef. Up to you. Gigs (talk) 15:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

WP:ROPE. If he does the same thing, he can be indeffed then too. No need to rush. Let him have his one chance to reform. --Jayron32 16:33, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

A convivial beer for you!

... for historical integrity plus content/style in your ext.-linked response of "Well..." regarding Chicago's "voting record" on the Humanities Ref Desk. Just so you'll know: this brought a qualified bout of nostalgia from my spouse (Northwestern U. alum from the 1970s) and yrs. truly (a fan of yours on the WP:RD/H). Especially desirable comic relief as we anxiously wait out the U.S. presidential campaign from our perch on the Mediterranean shoreline of the Western Galilee, so we can get down to our own looming elections that promises to be hard-fought and awkward. Keep up the good work! -- Deborahjay (talk) 14:16, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Mmmm. Gracias por la cerveza! Es muy delicioso! --Jayron32 15:03, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Can't find a helpful essay you linked to

Hi. Sorry to bother you, but a little while ago I think you linked from the RefDesk or HelpDesk to a very pertinent essay on the perils of being trigger-happy over WP:LEGAL and the ease with which an outraged article subject can fall foul of rules they don't understand by trying to delete inaccuracies or worse in their article, then threatening legal action when they get reverted. I'm fairly sure the link came from you, but my brain and/or my searching abilities appear to be on strike tonight. If it was you, I'd be grateful for a link to the page in question. Many thanks. - Karenjc 22:51, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles - Participant Clean-up (Final Call)

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A beer for you!

Have a wikiBeer (Zero Calories) for this Hasteur (talk) 20:08, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Sláinte! --Jayron32 20:11, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

New Asymmetric Hydrogenation Wiki for Peer Editing

Hi,

I've recently written up a new page on asymmetric hydrogenation and I'd like to bring it up to Featured Article quality. Since you have some considerable experience with that and the project, I was hoping that you could review the page and help to suggest edits before I bring it to the Good Article/Featured Article crew.

Cheers, Bmalbrecht (talk) 00:19, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Mmmm. I'm kinda busy IRL right now, perhaps not enough time to dedicate to giving it the review it properly deserves. --Jayron32 01:14, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 October newsletter

The 2012 WikiCup has come to a close; congratulations to Cwmhiraeth (submissions), our 2012 champion! Cwmhiraeth joins our exclusive club of previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009), Sturmvogel 66 (2010) and Hurricanehink (2011). Our final standings were as follows:

1. Cwmhiraeth (submissions)
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• Finally, for achieving an incredible bonus point total in the final round, and for bringing the top-importance article frog to featured status, a biostar has been awarded to Cwmhiraeth (submissions).

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New intractable COI draft

I've put up a new draft that removes "must". Let me know what you think. If you do not comment further I'll consider your opposition to remain. Gigs (talk) 13:29, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

The GAN Newsletter (November 2012)

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Legal advice

So you feel that merely telling someone that they may have a legal difficulty is giving legal advice? That question is largely rhetorical because by even going there, advice or not, I violated my own self-imposed boundaries by answering like I did and, ironically (and, indeed, perhaps hypocritically), did so less than an hour after telling a newcomer lawyer that editing within the legal area isn't a good idea. I get a self-whack! for that. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 17:26, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Not sure why you single me out; at least 4 editors objected to the question and its answers. In general, it is best to not even come close. When in doubt, don't answer. --Jayron32 20:47, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

I only approached you because you put the cap on the matter by blanking it and, only then, more to use you as a father confessor for a mea culpa than anything else. You've given me my "go forth and sin no more" and I appreciate it. (I now also understand since I posted my original message, above, that "legal advice" isn't interpreted the way I would as a lawyer, i.e. offering an opinion about a legal matter, but more like the way "legal threat" is interpreted under the no legal threats policy: that once someone moves into that arena that anything that even resembles a threat will be deemed to be one, even if it's not in reality. It would seem that the same is true for legal advice at the RefDesk: anything that resembles legal advice will be deemed so, even if it's not in reality [especially, perhaps, if it comes from someone who self-identifies as a lawyer]. Fair enough and I've got it.) Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 14:30, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Elections

Hopefully the hat note at United States presidential election, 2012 will steer both viewers and editors to the general page, but until that page comes up to snuff it is pointless to take out all of the most important issues. I am going to take out the California death penalty issue if that is still there, though. Apteva (talk) 21:24, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Please leave it all out. At the point of the talk page discussion, there is an overwhelming consensus to keep this about one topic. Instead, convince everyone at the talk page (not me, but everyone else) that it needs to be in this article. --Jayron32 21:27, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

It was only put there by both feedback and talk page request. It is overwelmingly shown by viewer counts that this page is the US elections page. It is clearly an "I don't want anyone to know" issue of taking it out. Apteva (talk) 21:31, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Again, let me restate it again. This needs to be discussed on the article talk page. I am but one editor, and this user talk page is not the correct venue to request, justify, or discuss changes to any article. --Jayron32 21:34, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Correct, but anytime I revert someone I do want to explain to them why it was done. The actual discussion of the revert is occurring on the talk page. Apteva (talk) 21:43, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

All good. --Jayron32 22:25, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

This is not a newsletter

This is just a tribute.

Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.

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Ref desk for chemistry

Hey Jayron,

Any help possible, even a little, would be much appreciated here. It's a very tough problem - got it wrong in 1969, and regretabbly getting it wrong again.

Thank you. --Jethro B 03:10, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Chem barnstar

	The Chemistry Bond Star
	I award you this chemical Bond Star for your unrelenting contribution to Chemistry and Chemicals on Wikipedia.

--Jethro B 05:05, 13 November 2012 (UTC)