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Hello Mikaey :) I haven't really been active on Wikipedia for the past few months. I just noticed you managed to attain adminship. Congratulations! Not bad for 4 months since your last RfA Neu_tralle 11:06, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Mikaey, Devil's advocate 03:55, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mikaey; just to let you know I've added another proposed remedy (possibly in lieu of enacting your proposal) at the Tothwolf ANI discussion for the reasons I stated. Ncmvocalist (talk) 06:22, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mikaey,

I just noticed that my post for IJango has been removed. I also noticed the comments of Leo Bloom for the deletion. He recommended me to contact you first.

I would like to request a temporary undeletion of the article, but the procedure says that first I should contact the administrator.

Two main reasons were posted for the deletion:

1. Irrelevance of the product.
2. It was being frequently edited by a "new" user and converted in an unacceptable article (blatant publicity).

I am not sure if the first argument - relevance - matters at all. iJango is a scam, and my main purpose was to expose it as such. I considered that this had a double merit: (1) document the existence of this scam, and (2) help people who was not sure if this was a real way to make money, or it was a scam.

About argument 2 -- constant attempts to "fix" the article -- I would say that that is an unfortunate side effect of the open collaboration environment of Wikipedia. Many other articles have been victims of vicious and repeated attacks, vandalism, malicious edits, etc., and that has not been a reason for deletion, but rather for protection.

At this point I am asking for your advice. I would like to have the article temporarily restored and restricted of any changes, to see its history after I created it, and then restore it or enhance it, and have it protected from malicious changes. However, maybe I should just put it in a list of known scams (I have not checked out yet if there is an article about scams).

I don't remember creating an article that was deleted before, so I am asking you for your help to figure out the best way to handle this situation.

Thank you for your time, and I am looking forward to receiving your response.

Best wishes,

Luis —Preceding unsigned comment added by Luiscolorado (talk • contribs) 20:23, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Luis,

While I admire your motives, I'd have to cite two principles:

• Articles on Wikipedia should have a neutral point of view, therefore, articles shouldn't make the assumption that things are scams, unless the claim is backed up by multiple, reliable sources.
• Wikipedia is not a how-to site, and should not give advice.

Based on that, I am going to decline to undelete the article. If you would like to start from scratch, I suggest creating a page in your own userspace, and building the article up from there.

Thanks, Mikaey, Devil's advocate 02:06, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Are the tasks listed at User:ListasBot fully up to date? A substantial update to {{WPBiography}} will hopefully take place in the next few days, and this will require a number of changes to the bot's behaviour. Regards. PC78 (talk) 22:59, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated the task list (task 3 is inactive due to community request, and I never did add task 6 to the list). What's the nature of the overhaul? Mikaey, Devil's advocate 16:30, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Conversion to {{WPBannerMeta}}, primarily. A few parameters will be depreacted, a few new ones will be added. There's also been a lot of discussion regarding the |priority= parameter, so changes are likely to be implemented there. PC78 (talk) 16:46, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey,

Tothwolf is currently accusing 3 simultaneous users (including me) of wikistalking, harassment, and meatpuppetry at arbcom. I intend to use User:Mikaey/Tothwolf as evidence of his long history of making the same accusations against numerous, unrelated users. could you please provide me with a copy of this page now that it's gone to arbcom? thanks. Theserialcomma (talk) 16:14, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See previous WP:REFUND request and response. [1] (Note that I did not file the RFAR, an uninvolved administrator did and it was also supported by other uninvolved administrators). --Tothwolf (talk) 17:45, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like someone already took care of this for you. Mikaey, Devil's advocate 05:11, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would you make a simple statement of your interaction with Tothwolf here? Even one sentence that says the characterizations of your existing statements are correctly representing your opinion would be helpful. Miami33139 (talk) 20:33, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]