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On Civility

I came upon your comments here, and while I haven't nearly read all of it, I have to say: I agree with you 110%. There are so few women on here because there are constant battles over insignificantly petty issues that involve either outright insults and nasty language or sarcasm-dripping posts full of in-jokes or other mockery from someone who believes him/herself to be intellectually superior. Civility isn't clear cut, that's true, but the WMF could easily do something. There could be various "user conduct levels," for example, ranging from green (no violations in the past x days) to red (you get the idea). Let the green/yellow-green users patrol the red/orange-red ones, and let the latter group get flagged more or something. I suppose some would argue that this would bring about a sort of hegemony or tyranny, but given the transparent nature of the site, I doubt this would be much of a problem, and if it is, there will always be ways to ameliorate it.

Anyway I just thought I'd leave my thoughts here, along with some encouragement, because we need to be fighting more proactively for these kinds of changes if we want to reverse Wikipedia's stagnation in growth.

Have a great vacation! - SweetNightmares 03:07, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks and double thanks! Lightbreather (talk) 07:00, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

GOCE July drive and August blitz

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Your concerns have been taken seriously

Just not on Wikipedia. See this statement on FARK. It's amazing that Wikipedia can't get itself together to do the right thing like other sites have. I wonder why. Actually, I don't wonder at all. Wikipedia has always been driven by a conservative, right-leaning libertarian ideology that gives lip service to civil liberties. Anyone who tries to tell you that Wikipedia is "liberal" or leans left, hasn't been paying attention. Viriditas (talk) 08:28, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Viriditas, wittingly or otherwise, you have just described Jimbo Wales to a "T". That right-leaning libertarian ideology is exactly what he subscribes to, at least if our bio on him is accurate. It is also what Carolmooredc subscribes to, as per her own website in its various versions over the years. And you wonder why these people choose to ban others from their talk pages? - Sitush (talk) 00:25, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

ANI by CarolMooreDC

Thanks for your comment. It does deserve a response, but I'd like to avoid commenting on the noticeboard thread which I think should be closed. (IOW, I don't want to add to the drama.) Yes, there are disputes that need DR and editing behaviors that need admin review or RFC/U. But putting all three editors into one thread was the wrong approach. CMDC has brought up SPECIFICO on other noticeboards and this is simply another page in the on-going friction between them. (I've urged an WP:IBAN for them.) Of the two other editors, Two kinds is fairly new with 2,000 edits and one block and Corbet has a good record of editing articles; his block log shows that blocks were usually reverted fairly quickly. (Still, Corbet needs to bite his tongue more often.) But then Carol's own behavior gets thrown into the pot (thankfully that thread got closed quickly). I wish the admins had taken my hint about NOTHERE and closed the mess. Will something constructive come of the thread? I doubt it. The Gender gap project has been around for 10 years now, and this bit of drama on the task force talk page is simply a diversion from what the Project ought to be achieving. (Hopefully a temporary diversion.) IMO a better course of action would be for some of the more senior editors and admins to monitor the project more closely. (For example, SlimVirgin did so to some extent with SPECIFICO.) In accordance with WP:TPO purely personal remarks on the talk pages should be hatted, {{rpa}}'d, or moved to the talk page of the editor who started them. Cheers. – S. Rich (talk) 02:02, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

RfC: Rebecca Bardoux

Hi, notifying all previous talk participants of an RfC: Talk:Rebecca_Bardoux#RfC: Should the article mention her comedy career? -- GreenC 13:45, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

stalking

re blowjob, seriously I am not stalking you, although I know you will find it hard to believe. I saw your post at village pump. Although I will admit that when I see your name scroll by I perhaps pay more attention than to the random editor. Gaijin42 (talk) 02:37, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Regardless of what you say, it feels like hounding/stalking to me. Lightbreather (talk) 03:06, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Well, taking a quick scan through your contribs I can see dozens of recent articles or discussions you are involved in and started that I have not commented on.Where you catch my eye, I do not avoid commenting on your stuff, but I am not hunting you out. On my talk page I said "making waves" I didn't mean that in a negative manner. You are having (or trying to have) influence in many areas. You are making yourself highly visible with lots of wikiproject, noticeboard posts etc. When you advertise your activities like that its inevitable that people will see it and follow up (thats somewhat the point of doing it I think). You aren't making these posts to obscure areas, you are making them in the most heavily trafficked pages of the wiki. Gaijin42 (talk) 03:16, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Sitush-Carol interaction ban

You should know Carol signaled her support for a mutual interaction ban with Sitush. While I understand you do not consider that the best sanction, perhaps it would be good to signal your acquiescence to such a result given that it seems to be the only option that stands a chance at the moment.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 03:49, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Anchors

Copying this from where it was originally:

Not to be unkind, T. - I appreciate thank-yous - but did you see my original reply to you about anchors?[1] I'm really not sure whether the way you used that [2] is how it's meant to be used. I'm not being critical - I'm saying I honestly don't know. You might want to start an "Anchors" discussion at Help talk:Link. Lightbreather (talk) 16:54, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Lightbreather. (By the way, is it OK if I call you LB for short here in future, as the full paraphernalia is really only needed for notification purposes on other pages?) Anyway, yes I did see your reply, and was planning to talk to you about it in due course, but only to ask you did you know of anything even better, or of any specific objections, because as far as I can see they're perfect. I think I am using them as intended, which is seemingly called subsection linking in the relevant section (here). They seem potentially extremely useful, but the section on them (already mentioned above) fails to adequately explain their benefits (or alternatively if there are problems it fails to mention them at all) - but presumably that's something I may want to take up on that place's Talk Page (or just be bold and edit it there myself and see what happens).Tlhslobus (talk) 21:22, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Actually on re-reading, I'm not entirely sure it is what the section means by 'subsection'. But the next section makes clear you can use anchors to link to a row in a table, so I see no reason for not linking to a sentence (which is the logical equivalent of a row in a table), given that it's extremely useful, works, and nobody has said it's forbidden, let alone given a rational reason why it should be. In any case even if it were forbidden by some rule, I'm 100% entitled to take the view that WP:IAR (ignore all rules if they prevent you improving the encyclopedia - one of the 5 Principles of Wikipedia, though unfortunately seemingly the principle most ignored, except for the even more ignored Civility requirements) would override it in this case.

Incidentally if you haven't yet restored your own anchor, I see no reason why you shouldn't do so (unless you really don't want to do it). Tlhslobus (talk) 21:50, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

I've now added a sub-section on 'Linking to part of a section'. Hopefully nobody will object (or alternatively they'll let me know why it's a bad idea, if it is). And assuming it's a good idea, my thanks to again to you, as it wouldn't have happened without you.Tlhslobus (talk) 22:41, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Somewhat qualified apology re 'makes things worse'

Having thought about it, and read about it, I still doubt if it was uncivil, and I'm certain it wasn't "completely uncivil". Nor do I accept that it was some kind of unnecessary addition, as it was necessary (in order not to have a misleading edit summary) to say that I wasn't only reverting due to lack of consensus. However with hindsight I now conclude that I could have said for the first undo something like "undoing today's edits 1 by 1, due no consensus per BRD + removal of vital protection, etc, per Talk" and for subsequent undos something like "continuing today's undos", and that is what I would probably try if there ever is a next time (hopefully there won't be), though I'm not sure it would necessarily be less upsetting in practice (after all, 'removes a vital protection, etc' is just a more specific way of saying 'makes things worse'). But to the extent that I could have done that had it occurred to me that 'makes things worse' would be thought uncivil (something which never did occur to me, though perhaps it should have), I apologize for hurting your feelings, which was never my intention.Tlhslobus (talk) 04:52, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Afterthought: Incidentally, it would probably still have been necessary for me to say something fairly similar in meaning to 'makes things worse' on the Talk Page (indeed arguably 'removes a vital protection, etc' already does that in my alternative summary), although given enough time there is more space there to use soothing phrases to cushion the blow. But time is not something I felt I had, as I was concerned that another edit by somebody else would go in and have to be undone if I was to be able to undo you, and I didn't want to have to revert any more people than strictly necessary. Or else I'd have had to try 'manual reverting', which had other worrying problems of its own. Plus I was worried, rightly or wrongly, that if the undo wasn't done quickly it might never get done at all, as has happened elsewhere in my experience, with regretable consequences. And those are always going to be the kind of problems a reverter faces, at least when reverting changes in the Policy area. 05:03, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

No need to apologize. You didn't hurt my feelings. I simply believe in following the WP:ES consensus re Help:Edit summary#How to summarize, including the last one Avoid inappropriate summaries. But let's not re-hash it, OK? Lightbreather (talk) 17:09, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

rsn

I struck part of my comment at RSN, I feel it was unduly snippy. I apologize. There is much going on both in RL, and on-wiki. In addition to our past friction, I saw some of your recent contribs [3][4] etc where you are tagging folks for notability that have won major awards and been inducted into the hall of fame, clearly passing WP:PORNBIO which made me feel as though you were acting with undue haste - however, even if such is true, two wrongs do not make a right and the issues are not directly related, so I apologize for my snip. Gaijin42 (talk) 03:44, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

A7 declines of two pornographic actor articles

• Jim Enright
• Anthony Crane

Neither of these articles should have been tagged with A7 as both have claims of significance, if for no other reason the awards they've won in the industry. Please don't tag articles like these again. If you want to take them to AfD, that's up to you.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:46, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

I didn't realize there were more: Steve Hatcher and Tami Monroe. I'm not going to add any others if I see them, just decline the A7s, but this feels more like a crusade or incompetent tagging. Therefore, consider this a warning. If I see more of these in the future from you, you risk being blocked for disruptive tagging.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Seriously?

I thought we were cool and it was water under the bridge.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:13, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Nothing personal, Mike. You gave me a virtual beer, which I appreciated, and been nice to me a few times on other occasions, but as a woman editor, there are some things that I am no longer going to ignore. Lightbreather (talk) 18:21, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Oh well, whatever. Just goes to show that apologies and trying to reach out and mend fences are useless on here when people keep bringing up old shit. Some live in the past, others live for today. (Yeah, I'm about as smart as my dogs, I live in the moment!) Be well.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:32, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

It's possible that you're a better man than I. I'm not saying you are - but admitting that it's a possibility. Lightbreather (talk) 18:40, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

It's not about being better, ma'am, but if my stupid and obviously unclever remark did really hurt you to the point where you're still thinking about it months after I said it and you thought my prior apology was a bunch of crap, then I am truly sorry. I'd quote another wise friend of mine who said, "Dude, don't take this serious, it's just the internet", but that would probably offend a group of people still living in their mothers' basements and I'd get the official "Searson is a dirty whore" sanction as a result. :) --Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:46, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

GGTF

Hi Lightbreather, I hope you'll consider restoring your name to the list. We need your energy and ideas! All the best, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 18:41, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

We invite you to join the Gender Gap task force. There you can coordinate with users who are discussing issues that affect the gender gap on Wikipedia (including editor interactions and gender bias in articles). If you would like to get involved, consider signing up or visit the talk page. If you have questions, feel free to contact me or other members of the task force. Happy editing, SlimVirgin (talk) 18:41, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

RfCU

I wonder whether the RfCU is a good idea. He has said he's left for a few months, and he won't object if you remove his name from the GGTF list. If you, in turn, stay away from porn, that's it resolved. It's up to you, of course, but in your shoes I would return to GGTF and just carry on. The risk of the RfCU is that people will post negative comments about your pursuit of the issue, and that will make you feel even more affected by it. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 02:44, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

I know that's a risk, but my gut tells me (based on experience) that if I let it drop and the problem starts up again, then I have to start over - and then the number of my complaints becomes an issue, as if I do them for kicks or something. Lightbreather (talk) 02:58, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

One way forward would be to let it go, don't mention his name or frequent any page that he does, and if it does start again, don't respond, just keep diffs. If it reaches the point where you have enough diffs, open an RfCU (because you won't have responded, it will be clear who has done what). My guess, though, is that he won't interact with or mention you again. If you do the same, it really will be over. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 03:21, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

It's a moot point now, SlimVirgin. I decided to sleep on it, and when I got up this morning Drmies had declined to certify it,[5] so I couldn't pursue it further at RFCU even if I wanted to.

As for your advice about possibly starting an RFCU in the future, I don't see how it could work, because a minimum requirement is that two editors have to have brought the complaint to the problem editor's attention and tried to resolve it. But, as I said, it's moot now. I need to drink coffee and think some more. I might ping you after that, OK? Lightbreather (talk) 15:42, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Federalist

I want you to know that your edits were largely very good, and I appreciate your efforts. Your abilities as an editor have grown and it shows. Capitalismojo (talk) 02:24, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Sig

Did you recently change your signature? If not I think you may be accidentally using 5 tildes when you sign posts, because your name isn't appearing next to several of your recent posts. Gaijin42 (talk) 18:51, 3 October 2014 (UTC)