User talk:Shoemaker's Holiday
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Goodbye, Wikipedia. The corruption of Arbcom, as amply set out in the recent e-mail exchange I had with them, where promises were made, broken, and they literally used me being upset at their actions as an excuse to refuse to actually review those actions. Further, gross favouritism - consider cases like GianoII, who knows one of the Arbcom, and so was protected for years, versus me making a statement that requires some straining to see as a violation in the first place, and getting a block of the full length and a nasty message. Evidently, if you do what they explicitly permit you to do in their decision, then politely comment when someone tries to use your work in a gambit, that's blockable.
I had been gone for five months. I had only returned for a week. Arbcom has been corrupt at the least since the Matthew Hoffman case - the one so egregious they were forced, eventually, to make a public statement admitting wrongdoing. They have clearly learned nothing.
Wikipedia is not worth myor your time.Shoemaker's Holidaytalk14:19, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
 | An image created by you has been promoted tofeatured picture status Your image,File:Antonio da Trento - The Tiburtine sibyl and the Emperor Augustus.jpg, was nominated onWikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so atWikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution!Makeemlighter (talk)15:26, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply] |
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Because you've contributed to FPC either recently or in the past, I'm letting you know about the above poll on the basis of which we may develop proposals to change our procedures and criteria. Regards,Papa Lima Whiskey (talk)09:27, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Cite web2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion atthe template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. -— Gadget850 (Ed) talk20:17, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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YourFeatured sound candidate has been promoted Your nomination forfeatured sound status,File:Whiskers' purr edit.ogg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another sound, please do so atWikipedia:Featured sound candidates.Jujutacular T · C17:46, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply] |
Hi, just standing in for seresin, doing the Signpost Features and admins page this week. I can't see how to search for the end of last month's archives. I presume there have been no promotions or demotions over the past week. Thx.Tony(talk)13:42, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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— raekyT23:45, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there. Im looking to have a writing competition held in September and I am looking for a couple people to help me with their thoughts and ideas. I have had some input on the competition and have had several chats with people outside the wikipedia talk pages and I have decided to keep the competition limited to the following restraints:
1. Judges and competitors are separate and there has to be a finite list of them.
2. The competition should range from a few days to no more than 2 weeks, depending on the theme. Not a year long competition and not multiple stages.
3. The theme will be either creating ONE new article, expanding a stub, illustrating a large article with no pictures, editing an article in crisis or something similar to these ideas. If its successful we can have more competitions with other themes.
4. My general idea (but this needs serious development) is to have each article judged two or three times. The top ten are then announced as finalists and every judge then reviews those articles and the top three are announced.
4. Simple is good. Decide theme, decide rules, find people, define judges, define scoring criteria, assign topic or stub or whatever, come up with a way to discourage other users from working on the page (by far most difficult part requiring a lot of ingenuity and good ideas). Judge. Sounds simpler than it really is doesn´t it?
5. Keep it informal, simple and fun.
6. Find a name for it.
Wanna help me with this? I´ll set up a new page and hope to build a team of three people to make this happen.
Shabidoo |Talk18:25, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
A long time ago you were part of the discussion onthe WP:BELIEFS proposal. I went away for a while and I am trying to come back slowly, so I thought I would start with updating that page and reactivating the conversation. Please join in if you still would like to be part of that discussion.Low Sea (talk)20:19, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, Shoemaker, I'd welcome your opinions on the above :) Thanks. --Xxglennxx (talk •cont.)01:10, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello Shoemaker's Holiday. Followinga request for comment in May 2025, the community has decided to implement an activity requirement for theautopatrolled permission. Because your account has not edited in the last three years, the autopatrolled permission has been removed from your account. This action is purely procedural and does not affect your ability to create articles; if you return to actively creating articles, you may request that the permission be restored throughthe normal process. When returning, please consider taking some time to re-familiarize yourself with common practices and how they may have changed over the past few years if you wish to request the permission back. Thank you for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and we hope to see you again soon.MediaWiki message delivery (talk)06:19, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]