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- I flipped a three-sided coin, it came up "no consensus". --Kbdank71 (talk) 20:32, 13 November 2006 (From a talk page discussion)
- Outline my position, which is actually built on a big pile of marbles in a game of kerplunk and the straws are slowly being pulled - Hiding (talk) 08:49, 17 November 2006 (From an edit summary)
- While the essay WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS may be useful for other XfD discussions, it isn't as useful for CfD, due to a commonality of consistancy due to prior consensus. The guideline WP:OCAT is an excellent example of this. And the same seems true for WP:ALLORNOTHING. - jc37 17:12, 9 April 2007
- I think I was more involved with the fiction MOS when it was started than I am now, I have kind of given up on those sort of pages, no sooner do you get it all straight, have a few drinks to celebrate, put the chairs on the table and start mopping up than a whole new crowd walks in ready to get it all straight again. - Hiding 21:03, 2 November 2007 (from a talk page discussion)
- But in my experience, every talk page of XfD closers seems to be filled with vehemence about disagreement of a closure. Nice to know that you've managed to (mostly) somehow avoid that. ("somehow" - you'll have to loan me your special medallion sometime : ) - jc37 00:11, 6 March 2008
- It's a medallion of troll-protection +4. I looted it from a [contentious] AfD along with a masterwork ban-hammer +1, a mop of template sweeping, and 103 gold pieces. IronGargoyle (talk) 05:39, 7 March 2008
- Enjoy reading this text in context : ) (From a talk page discussion starting on 23:57, 21 April 2008 (UTC))
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... for what you said on User talk:SlimVirgin - missing pictured on my talk, with music full of hope and reformation --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:03, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Jc
Hi Jc. I am pleased to see you are active again. I missed you. I hope you are well. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:35, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for closes
Thank you for running through the Requests for Closure page. I try to close the oldest ones that my time allows but the ones that are old are generally that way because they are long, controversial, or both so I have to mentally set aside time for inevitable questions. I admire the efficiency that you were able to show today in attacking these and appreciate the activity. Thanks again. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:30, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note, and happy to help : )
- I too was trying to work on the older ones first, some of the 30-40 day ones appear to still be ongoing.
- Thanks again : ) - jc37 18:35, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for your closes today at WP:ANRFC. It's nice to have admins doing closes and helping with the backlog. –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:33, 4 August 2021 (UTC) |
- Thanks Novem Linguae, very kind of you : ) - jc37 17:25, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
August 2021
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I noticed that you've worked hard lately to provide the community the opportunity and sound choices to resolve some long-standing issues. While there may be some resistance to these offers, I think it's important that people work to find solutions when difficulties are presented. I commend you for your efforts, and I hope that any opposition to your work will not dissuade from continuing some excellent efforts. I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work over many years that you've contributed to the project. TY Jc. — Ched (talk) 16:59, 23 August 2021 (UTC) |
- Wow. Thank you. It is very much appreciated. - jc37 17:23, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
- +1 I appreciate your work as well. Thank you for your proposal, and for allowing others the opportunity to register our disagreement with the current state of affairs. Ruth Bader Ginsberg rightly said that "dissents speak to a future age", and I like to keep that in mind whenever a proposal goes the other way. — Wug·a·po·des 22:17, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you very much. As I note here, I'm a friend of Don Quixote, and have been known to occasionally (to seemingly) tilt at windmills : ) - jc37 22:31, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Jc37, regarding your advice related to these edits, I have found that while there is no Category:Philippine History articles there is a Category:WikiProject Philippine History, I think from some ancient merger of it as a separate Wikiproject. Would restoring the removed code allow for those categories to remain intact? Thanks, CMD (talk) 11:01, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
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Re one of your closes
Are you willing to change this close? Given the result in Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 178#Pending-changes protection of Today's featured article, it's clear there were (in two successive RfCs) a consensus to protect the TFA. There isn't really a good basis to discount votes when, ultimately, the discussion is about changing policy. Fair enough if it's about changing a fundamental long-standing policy, you could say that needs successive RfCs with high participation. But here we're not changing policy, and there were two successive RfCs with more or less the same result. My reading of your close is that it agrees there's a majority for full semi-protection implementation, but you disagreed it amounts to a consensus for more than a trial due to the inertia of extant policy. I don't think that's correct, but the inconvenience of having to run a third RfC wouldn't really outweigh the efforts in making a close challenge except that it seems to have discouraged technical admins sufficiently such that nobody is implementing the close, thus making the entire RfC moot.
To be clear, I'm not really saying the close should be changed because people are unwilling to implement your decision as-is. I'm saying IMO the reading was incorrect, but not worth appealing in itself, but since people aren't willing to implement that reading it's now worth challenging. Basically, would you update your close to drop the 'trial' provisions and recognise the "auto-semi-protection" result? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 02:59, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
- @ProcrastinatingReader: Jc37 hasn't edited since September 24. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:16, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
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You are missed
I miss seeing you around Jc37. I hope you are well and I hope to see you editing again, if only to say hello from time to time. Sincerely.--John Cline (talk) 09:25, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
- Me too. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:34, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
- John Cline, * Pppery *, thank you both for thinking of me : ) - jc37 08:15, 21 March 2022 (UTC)