User talk:Okip

______________ Since you haven't responded I have removed the copyvio. Please feel free to restore if this is an error and the text you posted was not un-free. Spartaz ^Humbug! 13:47, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

My Response

I've posted my thoughts in the ANI thread. To sum up: I see what you did as a bad idea, but not a violation of anything in specific. The sentiment seems to be that the indef block is excessive, even from some people you wouldn't normally count as fans, but I'm not going to take any action on it one way or the other. I expect that some totally uninvolved admin is probably going to look things over and demote the block to "time served" within the next few hours. Once that happens, we should have a serious conversation about how to best help newbies deal with Wikipolitics, too. For now, hope you're off taking a Wikibreak and de-stressing. If not, do so--the thread will absolutely be just fine without you. Cheers, Jclemens (talk) 17:42, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Concerned

I'm concerned that you seem to think I have some sort of vendetta against you. I don't. In general I am happy for AfD to lead to rapid improvement of articles and I'm on record as supporting its renaming to articles for discussion, as we do for some other content areas; keep and delete have not been the only outcomes for a long time, after all. I don't think much of the whole business of pretending to be the Coastguard saving lives, most of the rescued articles are still marginal even after rescue, but that's just my own personal inclusion standards which I recognise are above the community norm. I am rather more concerned about giving poor advice to people whose behaviour needs modification, and ascribing motives where none exist. Guy (Help!) 18:21, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

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Unblocked

Hi Okip/ikip, I unblocked you yesterday. (In case you didn't already know!) You're being discussed on ANI. --RegentsPark (talk) 13:09, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

congratulations, i would suggest that rather than Girolamo Savonarola, the admins are more like William Chester Minor of the OED. (the history of that project is instructive) cheers. Pohick2 (talk) 14:38, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Deletion nomination of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/Contest/Box

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Please come back!

We need more of you and less deletionists admins who care nothing about the encyclopedia

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (4th nomination)

Hi, Okip. Because you participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (3rd nomination), you may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (4th nomination). Cunard (talk) 02:19, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

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Need help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extentia_Information_Technology This article was suddenly deleted under speedy deletion criteria. Need help restoring it. How can we do a 'fundamental rewrite in order to become encyclopedic' ? You have guided me before. Thanks. Wikiven (talk) 08:09, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

He retired. Anyway, you contact the administrator who closed it, and ask him to restore it. Mention that Google news gives them coverage. [1] Read through those results and find one that really stands out. That'll prove to them that it deserves an article, since that's what most people seem to go by these days. Dream Focus 11:39, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

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