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post Sat 18th July 2009, 9:46pm
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Some of the more hilarious rhetoric, most but not all in the pot-kettle department

WMC
  • "my attention was drawn to CF"
    (we used to call it stalking)
  • admits to protecting a page version for amusement value
  • "A often seemed confused about the terms of the ban"
    (that would be "an indeterminate period of approximately a month" which "remains, to be reviewed in approximately another month" )

Enric Naval
  • "Abd believes that he knows better than other users"
    (of course, it's Enric itself who knows best)
  • "Abd says that hoaxes should not be deleted, and hoaxers tolerated"
    (Abd said that hoaxes should be blanked by any user instead of deleted by admins)
  • "Abd assumes the existance of bad-faith cabals"
    (I wonder where he gets that idea from?)
  • "Abd performs experiments with democracy"
    (outrageous)
  • "Abd sees no problem at all with his very long posts"
    (subheading 25 out of 27 total in Enric's evidence)

Mathsci
  • "Abd has made unfounded statements about William M. Connolley" / "WMC is part of some covert off-wiki conspiracy." / "Since this case began he has written that WMC has been "coddling" me."
    (Such as by blocking people who annoy Mathsci, whom WMC meets for drinks IRL)
  • "Abd claims to have scientific expertise"
    (Mathsci claims to be a scientist but his expertise is in pure mathematics)
  • "Abd appears to be supported by a small tag team"
    (Mathsci's being a little larger)
  • "My brief involvement on Talk:Cold fusion has been minimal and constructive"
    (16 edits, including "Abd's contributions here seem to be extremely skewed." "In view of his poor namespace editing record, my advice to Abd is to attempt to edit a non-controversial article on science in order to get more experience in handling scientific sourcing in a completely neutral context. That might be a valuable eye-opener." "Abd is not the person to lead discussions here.")
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post Sun 19th July 2009, 9:36am
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QUOTE(Grep @ Sat 18th July 2009, 9:46pm) *


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Mathsci
  • "Abd has made unfounded statements about William M. Connolley" / "WMC is part of some covert off-wiki conspiracy." / "Since this case began he has written that WMC has been "coddling" me."
    (Such as by blocking people who annoy Mathsci, whom WMC meets for drinks IRL)
  • "Abd claims to have scientific expertise"
    (Mathsci claims to be a scientist but his expertise is in pure mathematics)
  • "Abd appears to be supported by a small tag team"
    (Mathsci's being a little larger)
  • "My brief involvement on Talk:Cold fusion has been minimal and constructive"
    (16 edits, including "Abd's contributions here seem to be extremely skewed." "In view of his poor namespace editing record, my advice to Abd is to attempt to edit a non-controversial article on science in order to get more experience in handling scientific sourcing in a completely neutral context. That might be a valuable eye-opener." "Abd is not the person to lead discussions here.")


Possibly also theoretical physics - there was a Seminaire Bourbaki on my work in the 1990s.

What about the paper of Eric Sheldon that started my comments?

Feel free to go on picking cherries ... bravo ! rolleyes.gif

I should also add that I forgot William's birthday on April 6. If he were alive today, Anthony Blunt would probably have given me a good spanking for that. scream.gif

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post Sun 19th July 2009, 12:52pm
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Mathsci, do you think that William M. Connolley is an exemplary admin?
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post Sun 19th July 2009, 3:16pm
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QUOTE(Cla68 @ Sun 19th July 2009, 12:52pm) *

Mathsci, do you think that William M. Connolley is an exemplary admin?


Not particularly: he clearly has his own style.

I think that MastCell and Alison are or were exemplary admins. They both have regrettably suffered from varying degrees of burn-out. Either of them would have got my vote for ArbCom last time round had they stood. I have no complaints at all about Casliber or Newyorkbrad, who again seem exemplary.

I also admire both Dbachmann and Slrubenstein, even though they're often diametrically opposed and both have strong personalities. No different from the real world really.

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post Sun 19th July 2009, 8:11pm
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Well one wildy protesting sock - Arkady Renkov - has just had his posts removed from this ArbCom case and been indef blocked.

It'll be interesting to see who his puppetmaster is.

Any ideas who it might be Grep? banned.gif

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post Mon 20th July 2009, 6:27am
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QUOTE(Mathsci @ Sun 19th July 2009, 9:11pm) *

Well one wildy protesting sock - Arkady Renkov - has just had his posts removed from this ArbCom case and been indef blocked.

It'll be interesting to see who his puppetmaster is.

Any ideas who it might be Grep? banned.gif


The Mathsci team doing the standard good-hand bad-hand thing to discredit the opposition?
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QUOTE(Grep @ Mon 20th July 2009, 6:27am) *

QUOTE(Mathsci @ Sun 19th July 2009, 9:11pm) *

Well one wildy protesting sock - Arkady Renkov - has just had his posts removed from this ArbCom case and been indef blocked.

It'll be interesting to see who his puppetmaster is.

Any ideas who it might be Grep? banned.gif


The Mathsci team doing the standard good-hand bad-hand thing to discredit the opposition?


Of course you're right.

And what's more the team involves the acting clerk Hersfold.

We already made a wax doll of Grep in the early hours of the morning and are taking turns with pins. Some are more impatient than others. I'm not quite sure how accurate the effigy was - two eyes or one, we couldn't quite decide.

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QUOTE(Mathsci @ Mon 20th July 2009, 7:52am) *

We already made a wax doll of Grep in the early hours of the morning and are taking turns with pins. Some are more impatient than others. I'm not quite sure how accurate the effigy was - two eyes or one, we couldn't quite decide.

tongue.gif Heh, didn´t they tell you when you joined? This is the Mos Eisley Cantina.

One eye.

Oh, and a late welcome to the Review. You are giving Obesity competition here! biggrin.gif
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post Mon 20th July 2009, 9:12am
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QUOTE(The Adversary @ Mon 20th July 2009, 9:03am) *

QUOTE(Mathsci @ Mon 20th July 2009, 7:52am) *

We already made a wax doll of Grep in the early hours of the morning and are taking turns with pins. Some are more impatient than others. I'm not quite sure how accurate the effigy was - two eyes or one, we couldn't quite decide.

tongue.gif Heh, didn´t they tell you when you joined? This is the Mos Eisley Cantina.

One eye.

Oh, and a late welcome to the Review. You are giving Obesity competition here! biggrin.gif


He he he.

That reminds me - I still have to go to the new Harry Potter film here in France.

Finding it in VO (i.e. English) could be a problem. Having seen Woody Allen's Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy dubbed into French I have learnt to be careful.

On the other hand I might learn the French for "git". I don't even know what it is in US English, although I could easily provide a string of examples. biggrin.gif

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QUOTE(Mathsci @ Mon 20th July 2009, 9:12am) *

He he he.

That reminds me - I still have to go to the new Harry Potter film here in France.

Finding it in VO (i.e. English) could be a problem. Having seen Woody Allen's Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy dubbed into French I have learnt to be careful.

On the other hand I might learn the French for "git". I don't even know what it is in US English, although I could easily provide a string of examples. biggrin.gif

Going totally off-topic here (Sorry, Somey!) ..but living in a tiny little non-English-speaking country (like I do) has its advantages: we never dub movies..with the possible exception of children-movies (read:Disney). And nobody has ever wanted to see films dubbed. What, miss a language-lesson!

Eh, but what is "git"? (They didn´t teach me that!)
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post Mon 20th July 2009, 2:35pm
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Going totally off-topic here (Sorry, Somey!)


Don't apologize -- I tend to think of it as "streams of consciousness" conversation. wink.gif
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QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Mon 20th July 2009, 2:35pm) *

Don't apologize -- I tend to think of it as "streams of consciousness" conversation. wink.gif


Ah, but whenever I see any of horseys post, my "streams of consciousness" goes to how to..... make a male horse to be calmer and better-behaved.....

And I don't apologize for this, at all biggrin.gif

We all have our dreams evilgrin.gif
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Ah, but whenever I see any of horseys post, my "streams of consciousness" goes to how to..... make a male horse to be calmer and better-behaved.....


What are you talking about? I am calm and well-behaved in these forums -- you should see me in the real world! wink.gif
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What are you talking about? I am calm and well-behaved in these forums --

Oh, so you already are castrated? Splendid! tongue.gif
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Grep   Abd-William M. Connolley   Sat 18th July 2009, 9:46pm
Mathsci   Eh, but what is "git"? (They didn´t t...   Mon 20th July 2009, 10:46am
The Adversary   [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(British_sl...   Mon 20th July 2009, 10:57am
A Horse With No Name   [quote name='A Horse With No Name' post='185026' ...   Mon 20th July 2009, 6:47pm
The Adversary   Ha ha...not. But that's why this Horsey like...   Mon 20th July 2009, 7:04pm
A Horse With No Name   You forgot a tiny issue (for you): those guys hav...   Mon 20th July 2009, 7:30pm
Malleus   Ha ha...not. But that's why this Horsey lik...   Tue 21st July 2009, 3:52am
Herschelkrustofsky   I should also add that I forgot William's bir...   Mon 20th July 2009, 12:25am
Mathsci   I should also add that I forgot William's bi...   Mon 20th July 2009, 4:54am
dtobias   Is WMC anything like the WMDs they didn't find...   Sun 19th July 2009, 1:19pm
A Horse With No Name   Is WMC anything like the WMDs they didn't fin...   Sun 19th July 2009, 1:31pm
dtobias   Perhaps there could be a rather ruder version of t...   Mon 20th July 2009, 5:57pm
Abd   How incredibly boring, I come here looking for som...   Mon 20th July 2009, 8:07pm
Somey   How incredibly boring, I come here looking for som...   Mon 20th July 2009, 8:11pm
The Adversary   [i]Low interest? About 75 percent of this thread ...   Mon 20th July 2009, 8:22pm
GlassBeadGame   [i]Low interest? About 75 percent of this thread...   Mon 20th July 2009, 8:57pm
The Adversary   Mr. Horse seems to make a good number of comment...   Mon 20th July 2009, 9:14pm
Lar   Oh, I don´t want you to ban him, I just would li...   Mon 20th July 2009, 10:55pm
tarantino   [quote name='The Adversary' post='185087' date='M...   Tue 21st July 2009, 1:17am
Lar   Horsey is a [url=http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-...   Tue 21st July 2009, 3:09am
Milton Roe   Horsey is a [url=http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is...   Tue 21st July 2009, 3:44am
A Horse With No Name   I think you're selling him a bit short. What ...   Tue 21st July 2009, 11:20am
A Horse With No Name   Oh, I don´t want you to ban him, I just would lik...   Tue 21st July 2009, 12:52am
sbrown   Mr. Horse seems to make a good number of comments...   Mon 20th July 2009, 9:34pm
Cla68   How incredibly boring, I come here looking for so...   Tue 21st July 2009, 12:01am
Mathsci   If you want WMC's behavior to be corrected, y...   Tue 21st July 2009, 2:15am
Abd   Isn't the case a little more restricted than ...   Tue 21st July 2009, 6:24am
Mathsci   It might give you some clue, something which you ...   Tue 21st July 2009, 7:28am
EricBarbour   Grandad, I never left university, you silly oid co...   Tue 21st July 2009, 9:08am
Mathsci   Keep talking, asshole. Keep making snark about yo...   Tue 21st July 2009, 9:19am
Abd   Grandad, I never left university, you silly oid c...   Tue 21st July 2009, 6:49pm
Mathsci   In any case, if any of you are familiar with th...   Wed 22nd July 2009, 12:02am
Abd   OMG, Grandad, not another lecture on your crackp...   Wed 22nd July 2009, 4:06am
Mathsci   Thanks for the link, Mathsci, I haven't seen ...   Wed 22nd July 2009, 7:20am
Cla68   [quote name='Cla68' post='185101' date='Tue 21st ...   Tue 21st July 2009, 6:29am
Abd   Okay, finally, something to chew on. ABD, what ...   Tue 21st July 2009, 6:10am
Mathsci   How incredibly boring, I come here looking for so...   Tue 21st July 2009, 1:54am
Grep   On-WP, you are dense with incivility, here, you a...   Tue 21st July 2009, 5:05pm
Mathsci   On-WP, you are dense with incivility, here, you ...   Tue 21st July 2009, 10:49pm
Milton Roe   The other is far more serious and worrying - it ...   Tue 21st July 2009, 11:07pm
Viridae   WR members are usually interested in this sort of ...   Tue 21st July 2009, 12:27pm
Cla68   WR members are usually interested in this sort of...   Tue 21st July 2009, 12:48pm
Mathsci   Mathsci, do you think that WMC was correct in rem...   Tue 21st July 2009, 4:10pm
Cla68   Mathsci, do you think that WMC was correct in re...   Wed 22nd July 2009, 12:30am
Mathsci   [quote name='Mathsci' post='185218' date='Tue 21s...   Wed 22nd July 2009, 12:44am
Cla68   Are you not, Sir, the most pretentious, snivelli...   Wed 22nd July 2009, 1:50am
EricBarbour   a) this thread belongs in the tarpit; b) it's ...   Wed 22nd July 2009, 8:01am
Mathsci   Wasn't there somebody in this thread asking wh...   Wed 22nd July 2009, 5:30pm
Somey   Look, folks, I've been trying to be nice about...   Wed 22nd July 2009, 5:56pm
Abd   I can tell before I write this that it's going...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 3:11am
Grep   There are certainly a number of serious issues her...   Wed 22nd July 2009, 6:48pm
Abd   There are certainly a number of serious issues he...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 4:45am
Milton Roe   First of all, I'm convinced that low-energy n...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 3:41pm
Abd   I figured that with a modest investment of about...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 11:32pm
Somey   I guess I should be more careful what I ask for, e...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 5:46am
Mathsci   The problem is that Abd is wasting everybody's...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 7:38am
Somey   Meanwhile, Somey, why would anybody discuss this c...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 7:52am
EricBarbour   In most cases like this, the controlling forces ev...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 8:12am
Abd   These boys are enjoying typing at each other too ...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 12:56pm
EricBarbour   Compromise was tried. With JzG, I tried for about ...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 11:27pm
Abd   Sorry, but I have looked at various WP pages and ...   Fri 24th July 2009, 3:10am
Abd   In most cases like this, the controlling forces e...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 1:25pm
Grep   The problem is that Abd is wasting everybody...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 6:47pm
Milton Roe   Maybe, maybe not. Wikipedia Review isn't the...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 8:23pm
Grep   The Wikipedia isn't the place to decide ANY i...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 8:53pm
Milton Roe   [quote name='Milton Roe' post='185574' date='Thu ...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 9:09pm
Abd   Yes, and all could have been avoided if somebody ...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 10:34pm
Abd   I guess I should be more careful what I ask for, ...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 1:43pm
Robert Roberts   As a "witness" my eyes glaze over ever...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 10:15am
Abd   As a "witness" my eyes glaze over eve...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 12:37pm
Mathsci   Mathsi is an arrogant asshole. Act I, Scene V...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 11:11pm
Abd   [quote name='Abd' post='185495' date='Thu 23rd Ju...   Fri 24th July 2009, 2:52am
Mathsci   Mathsci, care to let us know more about your rea...   Fri 24th July 2009, 6:17am
EricBarbour   My favourite colour is blue. My operating system ...   Sat 25th July 2009, 7:39am
A Horse With No Name   Abd, can you believe that we are soon arriving at ...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 2:00pm
Abd   Abd, can you believe that we are soon arriving at...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 10:08pm
A Horse With No Name   Yes, next month. Some little known facts about th...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 11:57pm
Herschelkrustofsky   This saga seems to encapsulate all of the worst an...   Thu 23rd July 2009, 2:51pm
Enric_Naval   Reading this thread in its enterity ranges among t...   Fri 24th July 2009, 1:25pm
Grep   Reading this thread in its enterity ranges among ...   Fri 24th July 2009, 6:33pm
Enric_Naval   Reading this thread in its enterity ranges among...   Sat 25th July 2009, 1:02am
Mathsci   What team?   Fri 24th July 2009, 11:38pm
Milton Roe   What team? The Bourbaki Mathsci team. We're ...   Sat 25th July 2009, 1:00am
A Horse With No Name   * I have a problem with WR becoming a place to ex...   Sat 25th July 2009, 1:41am
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