User talk:JzG

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This user is tired of silly drama on Wikipedia.
My crap
Stuff and nonsense

I check in most evenings, and occasionally some days during the day. I am on UK time (I can see Greenwich Royal Observatory from my office). If you post a reply at 8pm EST and get no reply by 10pm, it's likely because I'm asleep. My wiki interests at the moment are limited. I still handle some OTRS tickets.

I am under considerable personal stress at the moment; my father died and I have a lot of other stuff going on in RL including a new job as senior engineer for enterprise storage and virtual infrastructure in a Fortune 500 company. Great job, lots of shiny expensive toys, big responsibility. But Wikipedia is still one of my top hobbies, and I come here to do what I can. I respond much better to polite requests than to demands. People who taunt me with "I dare you to block me" may have cause to regret it, as may I. Don't even think of trying to drag me into one of the many cesspits this project offers, I will likely choose only those disputes where I don't actually care too much. Not coming to your party? It's because I've decided it will make me unhappy. Sorry about that.

Above all, please do not try to provoke me to anger, it's not difficult to do, so it's not in the least bit clever, and experience indicates that some at least who deliberately make my life more miserable than it needs to be, have been banned and stayed that way. Make an effort to assume good faith and let's see if we can't get along. Guy (Help!) 22:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Note to self

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[edit] Thanks

Thank you for your work against fringe lunacy on Wikipedia. I'm glad someone does it. Just wanted to say that. 65.190.89.154 (talk) 06:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Houston Chronicle is blacklisted?

I hope you don't mind my asking, but I'm wondering how can a major metropolitan newspaper like the Houston Chronicle not be allowed as a reference source? It was removed from Ivan Dixon.--69.22.254.108 (talk) 18:06, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Houston Chronicle is blacklisted?

I hope you don't mind my asking, but I'm wondering how can a major metropolitan newspaper like the Houston Chronicle not be allowed as a reference source? It was removed from Ivan Dixon.--69.22.254.108 (talk) 18:05, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

The link removed was not to the Houston Chronicle (the official site of which is not blacklisted), but, instead, to postchronicle.com, an unrelated site that, as User:JzG/unreliable sources sets out, seems to aggregate (copyrighted) news and opinion content published by other sources, sometimes without attribution. (My adduction of User:JzG/unreliable sources should not (not that anyone's interested) be understood as reflective of my adopting anything more than Guy's factual findings; I am not at all sure that I concur in Guy's analysis of the appropriateness of the site's being linked to (or used as a source) in mainspace, and I was not certain that I thought his listing the site at MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist to have been fully consistent with the policies, both substantive and procedural, that should guide our use of the blacklist, but I did not, having concluded that at least two of the three purposes for blacklisting were persuasive, undertake to dispute the issue at the blacklist talk page, and readily confess that I don't know [and, having abandoned the issue, don't really need to know] whether anyone else raised there any objections to the listing.) Joe 07:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC)