User talk:Abigail-II

I hope you'll reconsider. I've seen your work and it's extremely high quality. Don't let a few bad apples get to you. →Raul654 00:13, Jun 13, 2004 (UTC)

In fact, I did use talk pages. --Marcus2

For background, please take a look at the pre-blanking version of this very page.[1]. -- Curps 00:27, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Goodbye

from the pump

It was fun while it lasted. But I've no interest in working here as long as people just delete what they don't like without discussing it on the appropriate talk pages. There are more mature places on the internet to work. abigail@abigail.nl. Abigail

Oh dear, this is unfortunate. Abigail has done some sterling work on snooker players, and in general has been very dilligent doing unpleasant work on taxoboxes and other unexciting things. I was verging on nominating her for adminship ;( As far as I can tell, Abigail's unhappiness stems from a (frankly rather mild) category dispute. Abigail: please come back. Stuff like this happens all the time, and things generally aren't as contentious as they seem (okay, the anon who threated to behead me was somewhat contentious). It turns out I've read wikipedia's constitution (a privilege granted me by my inner membership of the 9th cabal, occupied only by myself and Jimbo's cat) and it turns out that, like the mob, once you're in, you're in. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 00:21, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I did not threaten to behead you. Were you talking about me? --Marcus2

Oh no (sorry folks, probably wasn't clear about that). That was some crazy dude, months ago. Sorry for any confusion. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 00:42, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Just so you know, Abigail, despite referring to himself in the feminine gender, is a he. Jdavidb 22:16, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

For background, please see the pre-blanking version of User_talk:Abigail-II (see [2]).

I would urge her to un-blank her talk page and respond. You demand a discussion, and you've got one, so please participate in it. -- Curps 00:39, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

From what I see here, (s)he did not demand a discussion, just stated his/her leaving. I don't think you are in the position to urge her (is it a her?) to do anything... Pfortuny 19:01, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Abigail is Abigail. Abigail transcends binary classification. PhilHibbs 09:20, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The demands for discussion were made in her modification comments for the pages in question (the ones she added to the category), and also in the "category for deletion" page (since removed). She said, don't revert my changes without discussing it first. -- Curps 20:16, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

If you ever return...

If you ever return.....I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}}. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 18:01, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

another "if you return"

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. It looks like you've left, but if you come back and are at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. I've marked you on this list as "inactve". Feel free to update this as well. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) July 3, 2005 17:11 (UTC)

User Categorisation

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Europe page as living in or being associated with Europe. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Europe for instructions.--Rmky87 23:22, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Checkered flag.png

Image deletion warning

Image:Checkered flag.png has been listed at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, because the image is redundant with Image:Auto Racing Chequered.svg.

Typical

This person did the exact same thing on PerlMonks, at least twice (maybe three times). 71.133.74.137 02:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And for similar reasons - clueless/witless people. There are people of more energy in mind and body who find it a definite drag to have to explain everything, including things people should already know. Abigail is curt and knowledgeable. The combination irked some people, who then focussed on trivia like what 'sex' Abigail was. It is, and was, infuriating, and he left, yes, twice. The twice part says something quite admirable, I think. He couldn't stand idiots, but still wanted to help others. Unfortunately the idiots won. The others lost, and still mourn. So, yes, typical. Shenme 01:08, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use Image:Kinnie_bottle_2001.jpg

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Albigensian Crusade

I'm contacting you out of courtesy as you have contributed to the page and may wish to supply your own citations. If you feel this doesn't matter to you, please ignore it. This page was rated as a Good Article, but has been downgraded because nobody did the donkeywork of listing the attributions to the various statements provided, which is after all a fairly serious dereliction of duty in what's suppoed to be a historical record. Having discussed the withdrawal of GA with LuciferMorgan, I give notice that I am sitting down with the three classic original source texts (Puylaurens, Vaux-de-Cernay and de Tudèle - the last in the Livre de Poche edition as the Martin-Chabot is long out of print) to add the missing inline citations to this page. I do not intend at this point to make any textual alterations, but if comments are made which are NOT justified, be prepared to state your sources now.

Jel 21:07, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS this is being sent as a round-robin to all who contributed: it just so happens that it's exactly what you complain never happens. However, I'm taking all evening warning people, which I'm doing because it's a fairly important addition to a page which isn't a minor detail of history, it's a major turning point in 2 nations' history and in religion. I wouldn't normally do so, but count on anyone interested picking up on the change by having an alert set on any pages they feel are important. Try that on any pages you change and you'll pick up on anyone undoing something you can justify - you can then argue it out any take them to an Administrator if you can't resolve it between yourselves.

moles

As an established editor of the article Mole (animal), your input is solicited on the Talk page to help resolve an ongoing dispute as to the nature and scope of the article. Chrisrus (talk) 16:56, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Regnum

Template:Regnum has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 20:22, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Abigail-II! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 5 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Yvonne van Gennip - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 17:45, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:ISO standards

ArbCom elections are now open!

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