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Sylvia the Fair

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Speedy deletion nomination of Sylvia the Fair

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Sylvia (again)

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Hi James, welcome to Wikipedia! Sorry for the tags above, they were placed in error. Thanks for adding Sylvia the Fair, but although it is in the public domain, Wikipedia is not a repository for public domain content. Fortunately, our sister-project Wikisource does exactly this. I've added a template to the top of the page which should get it transfered over ("transwikied") in the next week or so. If it doesn't, I might do it myself. I hope that helps. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask me on my talkpage!  -- Lear's Fool 10:36, 20 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks User: Lear's Fool!. I really appreciate it. JamesChambers666 (talk) 21:05, 20 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
 
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Comment

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I saw your question to Moonriddengirl. Please see this page, Vladimir Putin's Second Cabinet and various pages in Category:Government of Russia. Hodja Nasreddin (talk) 23:06, 27 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Best Russian source about this on the internet by Pribylovsky if can read or translate Russian.Hodja Nasreddin (talk) 01:42, 28 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

April 2011

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  Welcome to Wikipedia. Please be aware of Wikipedia's policy that biographical information about living persons must not include unsupported or inaccurate statements. Whenever you add possibly controversial statements about a living person to an article or any other Wikipedia page, as you did to Rick Ross (consultant), you must include proper sources. If you don't know how to cite a source, you may want to read Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners for guidelines. Thank you. Off2riorob (talk) 14:05, 7 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Third opinion

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I am not qualified to give a third opinion, as I have pretty much no knowledge on the topic. However I did see the other edit warring so I placed a warning template on his talk page. Keep up the great work! Intoronto1125TalkContributions 18:57, 24 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Do not out other editors.

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  This is your only warning; if you purposefully and blatantly harass a fellow Wikipedian again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. You have repeatedly tried to provide personal information about Keyser Sözetigho, and accurate or not that is not allowed. The editor has specifically declined to reveal their real identity, it is not your place to do so. One more attempt to do so, and you will be indefinitely blocked from Wikipedia. -- Atama 19:17, 25 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

It is relevant given his obvious conflict of interest. I'll be taking it up with other administrators. He is running a personal blog that is attacking an organization and then attacking that organization here. Please review my edits. You will find that I have no ax to grind.--JamesChambers666 (talk) 21:58, 25 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Well James I see you are still obsessing and attracting Mr.tighe, me and a blog. First I will not confirm or deney who I am I take my name Keyser Sözetigho from the movie the Usual suspects. I had quite a bit of difficulty in getting Keyser Söze as it appears to be a popular moniker. The usual suspects is my favorite movie and I am a fan of the blog Saratogaindecline. Maybe I took some NXIVM classes and want my money back. Maybe my 18 year old sister joined this cult or one like i. Maybe I’m related to 35-year-old Kristin Snyder the environmentalist who vanished from an Alaska hotel after taking NXIVM classes. Her body was never found. But you seem to think I’m posting from “Russian servers” Perhaps with your keen investigative skills you should be in law enforcement I see you chose the numbers 666 in your name. I believe that is the number of the beast. Did I accuse you of being a beast? Instead of obsessing over my identity why don’t you concentrate on my edits? I’m sure you don’t like them but each one is referenced to a publication and not cult recurring material. I find the unsubstantiated claims of Mr.Ranier to be the smartest, fastest and also good at judo absurd. Wiki administrators are well aware that I and link 1914 are at different locations using different computers but you complain away. I guess next you will claim I’m using a proxy. Wiki isn’t about you promoting NXIVM but about fair neutral information. I am thinking of starting some wiki pages of my own. 1. On the disappearance of Kristin Snyder 2. The highly controversial visit of the NXIVM sponsored trip of the Dali Lama to Albany You will of course be able to enter your own edits if they need wiki NPOV standards Keyser Sözetigho (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:29, 26 May 2011 (UTC).Reply

This is funny, I choose 1914 as it was widely predicted to be the year the world would end. I thought it apropos a as a Christian cult predicted this year. Little did I know that number would link me to a conspiracy involving "Russians” Good thing I didn’t choose 1917,that would make me a Bolshevik or heaven forbid 2001 that would make a terrorist.Link1914 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:23, 26 May 2011 (UTC).Reply

"isn’t about you promoting NXIVM but about fair neutral information" What part of that don't you understand. Cutting and posting material from NXIVM produced propaganda is far from neutral.All I am doing is presenting a balanced view. So if NXIVM is a cult that is my belief others can decide whatever they want. But this is not a promotional website for NXIVMLink1914 (talk)

Review my edits. You will find that I never once copied and pasted anything about NXIVM or anything else.JamesChambers666 (talk) 03:39, 26 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks...

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...for your contributions to NXIVM! Chrisrus (talk) 04:14, 26 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Edits on NXIVM Page

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Hi JamesChambers, I have been reviewing your edits on the NXIVM page and wanted to thank you for them! U21980 (talk) 04:28, 26 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Yes perhaps you are right. NXIVM is nothing but the world’s best self-improvement program lead by the smartest and most ethical man in the world. Now I suppose you want to go on to Jeffrey Dahmer and for the sake of neutrality describe him as having an unusual eating disorder.Keyser Sözetigho (talk)


I believe it was in bad faith for you to heavily edit the article on NXIVM and then agree to and support a no editing agreement. This is typical NXIVM behavior.Link1914 (talk)

Keyser and Link, one and the same person, confirmed by admin (see post below), are you really going to accuse James of bad faith on Wikipedia when you were parading around with two usernames making non-neutral edits to pages? U21980 (talk) 16:07, 26 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Link1914 is Keyser

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The following message was recently posted on a board by an admin: Comment: Just as a heads-up to all involved in this discussion, it was confirmed that Link1914 == Keyser Sözetigho. I've blocked Link as a sockpuppet but have left Keyser Sözetigho alone as he is involved in this discussion. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to ask me. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 15:27, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks JamesChambers for filing the petition to get confirm this link. I would have done it myself but since I have recently joined Wikipedia, I am still learning all the ins and outs that come along with it. U21980 (talk) 16:08, 26 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

So as you know Jim being an employees of NXIVM, NXIVM critics only post from public portals. They have to be very carefull for their own safety. Prehaps if you read the entire newspaper accounts instead of posting carefully placed edits you would relieze that, So link and Soze shared a portal that doesn’t stop the campaign for fairness and objectivity. Till next time I will edit for fairness,carefully cite my sources and if at the end of the day nxivm apears to be a cult,maybe thats because it is.NXIVMwatch (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:45, 26 May 2011 (UTC).Reply

I would like a citation for the information you have already posted on here that indicate the following: "Jim being an employees of NXIVM, NXIVM critics only post from public portals." As far I can tell, I haven't seen any NXIVM employees roaming about, but I have seen plenty NXIVM critics (two - three if you count Link and Keyser as one person just one). So if these are baseless accusations that are being spread, I would appreciate it if we do not post them in the first place (you have made the same accusations about me). U21980 (talk) 23:35, 26 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Sylvia the Fair

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The article Sylvia the Fair has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Transwiki'd article to enWS (per request). Alternatively redirect this to author's page, list work there with a wikilink to s:Sylvia the Fair

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A beer for you!

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  Thought you might like a beer. Chrisrus (talk) 05:32, 3 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

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