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I have replied to your question on my talk page. '''<span style="color:#000000;">Royal</span><span style="color:#FFCC00;">broil</span>''' 01:55, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Troubles Arbitration Case: Amendment for discretionary sanctions

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GA reassessment of Daniel Rodríguez ↗

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) ↗

WP:V ↗. <span style="font-family:Comic sans;"><span style="color:green">Corvus cornix</span><sub>''<span style="color:Green">talk</span>''</sub></span> 03:09, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Admin_accusing_me_of_vandalism ↗. <span style="font-family:Comic sans;"><span style="color:green">Corvus cornix</span><sub>''<span style="color:Green">talk</span>''</sub></span> 05:07, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

: Again, my last message still stands. Let's have an open discussion on the article's talk page about what sections you feel need citations. Mr. Darcy <small>talk</small> 01:23, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Leslie Segrete ↗ for deletion

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MSU Interview

Dear MrDarcy,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar ↗, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE ↗, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

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Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)

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The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by 24.11.206.39 ↗ (talk) 03:24, 21 February 2012 (UTC)</span>

The Long Goodbye (novel) ↗

Hi MrDarcy. Would you mind taking a look at the plot summary you wrote for ''The Long Goodbye ↗'' a while ago? It has some internal contradictions and some things that are inadeqately spelled out. It says, for instance, that Roger Wade kills himself while Marlowe was there. Then it says Marlowe later accuses Eileen Wade of killing him. Then it says that Eileen Wade leaves a confession, but it doesn't say what she confesses to (it could be a number of things, since there are at least three people either dead or missing). Could you please fix these three items in the plot summary? Thanks very much. Softlavender (talk) 00:52, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
: By all means, edit as you see fit, but I do not have time to make the edits you're requesting. Mr. Darcy <small>talk</small> 17:19, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
::I've never read the book, so I can't edit the piece. As it is though, it doesn't make sense. If you don't have time to fix the three small items, perhaps the synopsis should simply be deleted. Softlavender (talk) 02:06, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
::UPDATE: I managed to read snippets of the book on GoogleBooks and Amazon, and have cleaned up the contradictory elements of the synopsis. I think it's probably fine now. Softlavender (talk) 03:07, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

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Clarification motion

A case (The Troubles ↗) in which you were involved has been modified by {{oldid2|631252824|Motion|motion}} which changed the wording of the discretionary sanctions section ↗ to clarify that the scope applies to pages, not just articles. For the arbitration committee --<span style="color:#002868;padding:0 4px;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">S Philbrick</span><span style=";padding:0 4px;color:# 000;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">(Talk)</span> 21:04, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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Galician cuisine

Speedy deletion ↗ nomination of :Galician cuisine ↗

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::of course it was not deleted. the nom has been adding rather odds deletion tags to a number of articles, and I left a comment on his user talk page. ''' DGG''' ( talk ) 01:05, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
:::Thanks, DGG. I don't check this very often any more but I was certainly surprised to see the prior post. Mr. Darcy <small>talk</small> 03:07, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

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:Hello MrDarcy, to follow up on what is presumably your message at WP:BN ↗. There is no official way to recover from lost 2FA codes. There is also no way to delete an account. The "good news" is that if your 2FA is lost, your account should be rather secure, as no one will be able to log on to it, so there is no need to hurry to block or globally lock your account. We will remove your local sysop access in a month assuming you do not get your account recovered, log on, and make an edit here. I notice you have not logged any admin actions in a very long time, so even if you do regain control of your account you may want to consider resigning as a sysop by posting at WP:BN ↗. As far as a possible avenue for 2FA recovery goes - you may attempt to initiate this process by contacting WMF staff at: {{email|ca|wikimedia.org}}. Best regards, — <span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span> <sup><span style="color:#009933;">Talk</span></sup> 01:22, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
::Anytime! If you are going to be back around and want any of the user tools (like rollback, etc) feel free to drop me a note (or you can always request at WP:PERM ↗, "former admins" are pretty much afforded any of these :) ) — <span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span> <sup><span style="color:#009933;">Talk</span></sup> 13:46, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

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Hi MrDacy, I saw your name come up at the bureaucrats' noticeboard. A shame to see you step down as an administrator but I can understand why. I remember you helping me out nearly 15 years ago, over the Daniel Rodriguez article and an annoying sockpuppeteer at the time. You were great when I was a clueless newbie - very patient and kind. Thanks for what you did for me back then. I hope you're otherwise well. Acalamari 10:57, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

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Hello! Voting in the '''2025 Arbitration Committee elections ↗''' is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on {{#time:l, j F Y|{{Arbitration Committee candidate/data|2025|end}}-1 day}}. All '''eligible users ↗''' are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee ↗ is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process ↗. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans ↗, topic bans ↗, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy ↗ describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2025 election, please review the candidates ↗ and submit your choices on the '''2025|poll}}|voting page ↗'''. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{tlx|NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. <small>MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:20, 18 November 2025 (UTC)</small>

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