Dear Dan100: I am so sorry, I should have really explained an awful lot of things to you about the medcab page immediately when you became a regular, and also I made something of an unfair assumption of control. You see, the thing is for a long time I pretty much was the Mediation Cabal - although others listed themselves on the page, I was pretty much the only mediator, and thus consequently have behaved as the dictator of the Mediation Cabal, the oligarch, perhaps. The old version (the one you reverted to) was my rewrite of Kim Bruning's original version of the page, after Kim asked me to take over the medcab and make it work again; at the time, there was nobody else active doing mediation on that page (well, almost nobody) and thus there was nobody to discuss the changes to the page with :) I should have recognised that you had now become a regular mediator, and that you would take objection to the changes. However, now I've completed them all and you can see them finished, perhaps you might see the advantages of the improved version. The older version, whereby a "cookie cutter" template was substituted onto the page for each mediation request, was in fact a stopgap version I knocked together rather rapidly until I had the time to implement a transcluded version. In the end, Kim and I decided that transclusion probably wouldn't work very well (as can be seen from the Arbcom page) and we decided a list of links to each request, having one mediation request per page, would solve the problems encountered with the old style. Let me enumerate a few issues:
Indeed, I don't feel that the new version has lead to more complexity for the user - it only involves an extra step of pasting one more subst: on the main page, which I hardly think is difficult, and indeed it may be clearer how the process works now since it can be viewed at-a-glance. There should, in theory, be no more cases of people writing over each other's mediation requests, and also it should require less work maintaining the page. I most appreciate your comments on the above. If it really is intolerable, then I will change it back. However, I invite you to go over the page now I have changed it, and decide whether or not it really is worse or better. (It may have looked much worse before it was finished; I have migrated all of the cases over onto their own subpages). All the best, -- NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 00:23, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Dan100: Do you have any sources at all to justify your rather drastic edits on Gulf War syndrome and Depleted Uranium? I've been trying to be as careful as possible. If you look closely you will see that all of my work has been justified with direct reference to the peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature. May I ask the same of you, please? Nrcprm2026 04:27, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Pardon me, but you have apparently reverted Gulf War syndrome again "as per talk" when you have in fact not touched the Talk:Gulf War syndrome page or this section of your talk page in three days. Do you intend to answer any questions about whether you are able to find any sources, let alone peer-reviewed sources from the medical and scientific literature such as I have been providing to justify all of my sustantial edits, or do you intend to contine claiming that you are acting "as per talk" while avoiding the questions posed to you in talk? Is this the behavior of an ethical editor, or is it more similar to the acts of someone who has some ulterior motive? Do you mind explaining your interest(s) in the topic? Nrcprm2026 19:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I withdraw my questions. I can see from your Depleted uranium edits that you are apparently just objecting to the loss of information. However, you too need to be careful about that when reverting. I hope you like my merge there, and I hope in the future you will consider similar merges instead of reversion. James P. S. 22:25, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello Dan100! People don't seem to be voting on your MC nomination too much as we'd like more to judge you on. The MC is also flooded with cases, and this should also confirm if you really want to do mediation: so go to WP:RFM and pick a case and notify the parties and put it under the appropriate heading. Also update Template:MedComOpenTasks with your case, adding that you're a deputy mediator. Feel free to ask me or one of the others listed at Template:Medcom for help. Cheers, Redwolf24 ( talk) 10:01, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Dan100, you keep adding the Tentative info under Music Videos, and people keep deleting it. Instead of getting into revert wars with these people, why don't you cite a reference or address it on the Discussion page. I personally haven't heard anything about a 'Tentative' video, and obviously neither have others. I'm sure you have something to base your information off of, so please make a reference in order to save us countless reversions. Avengerx 16:12, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Please don't revert the slander in the Fabian Basabe back again. Fabian Basabe contacted the Help Desk mailing list and asked for the POV content to be removed, which User:Jareth did, and the offending editor posted it back again. I have deleted it twice now, and you came along and reverted. Zoe ( 216.234.130.130 21:06, 19 December 2005 (UTC))
Please STOP! and revert your reversion. Zoe ( 216.234.130.130 21:07, 19 December 2005 (UTC))
Dan? Hello? Zoe ( 216.234.130.130 21:09, 19 December 2005 (UTC))
So you just revert without reading what you're reverting? The accusations of lies and covering up his homosexuality are more acceptable edits than my reversions of them? If I were logged in, you wouldn't be doing this, but because I'm editing as an anon my edits get no consideration from you, huh? Notice that I was not the first person to revert these accusations, they are being reverted every day by two or three different editors. Read what you are reverting before you revert them. Zoe ( 216.234.130.130 21:14, 19 December 2005 (UTC))
Everyone slow down!!
OK, Zoe you need to explain yourself when blanking articles, and a two-word edit summary is not enough. Use the talk page. Hurricane, I don't dispute the article's content, I was only reverting apparent vandalism. Dan100 ( Talk) 21:27, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, about the article, Access Virus, I couldn't find anything so I was just on my way to revert the deletion I made. Sorry if what I did was wrong, If I just suspect a copy vio, I delete, then do a lengthy search If I can not find anything I revert back. So again sorry if that is the wrong way to handle copy vio's or suspected ones. And thanks for reverting, in this case I was wrong. KnowledgeOf Self | talk 21:07, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I was wondering why you were reverting the article to a version with some rather POV statements? I know that the article lists several sources like the Tribune and the Post, but it doesn't link to any article verifying that to be true (the links are to the Wiki articles on the Tribune and Post) -- the only external links provided look like glorified tabloids. Could be wrong, but I don't know if we should allow the text to remain there unless its properly sourced. Thanks. .:. Jareth.:. babelfish 21:18, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
IPs write that sort of edit summary all the time with no evidence for their claims - it's impossible to view that as anything other than simple vandalism. A proper explanation on the talk page and an edit summary of "see talk" was all that was needed. Dan100 ( Talk) 21:25, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting your change, Dan. Zoe ( 216.234.130.130 23:06, 19 December 2005 (UTC))
Please don't mangle the AfD template so much. The "cluttered formatting" includes the code for the [show]/[hide] box; this is comonly use by editors to see some shortcuts they can use to aid in their AfD work. Jamie ( talk/ contribs) 12:09, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Greetings:
I noticed that, in your recent changes to Template:Afd, you removed the javascript functionality that provided a reasonably quick and painless AFD nomination process. I don't know if this was what you intended; I certainly haven't the foggiest clue which bits of the template add the javascript functionality, except in a broad sense, so I can certainly understand how one could make make what appears to be an innocent change only to discover later that the change was more profound than had been anticipated. I also know that it is quite common for editors and admins to surf Wikipedia without javascript enabled; when the template was recently changed to shift the maintenance text into the javascript block, several editors and admins complained about it on the talk page because they had javascript turned off and didn't see the link to the maintenance text.
All of which is to say that I suspect your removal of the javascript functionality was inadvertent. As the discussion on the Template's talk page indicates that the maintenance text (whether included inline or via javascript) is considered extremely useful by those who do a lot of RC Patrol, I have restored the bits that seem to provide the javascript functionality while keeping your other changes (the link to the deletion templates and the linkification of "Articles for Deletion") intact.
All the best.
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Thanks for taking it on. Where to start...where to start...
I won't pretend that I'm totally innocent in this field. I certianly got a bit cavalier in the face of what I feel are obvious, often unecyclopedic/irrelevant POV edits, but it's apparent that working toward reason and trying to form a consensus through talk and/or editing is not working. In the two articles with few editors, the articles become worse with his additions. In many of the other articles he's contributed to, most notably the Republican Party, his edits were quickly snuffed out due to a large contributing userbase that wasn't willing to see consensus bucked.
Not sure where to go from that point on. I'm glad you're willing to help with this, I look forward to seeing this out. -- badlydrawnjeff 15:03, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I could also make a long list of this user being abusive and petty but I'll be brief.
-- 8bitJake 17:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like to note that this user has just admitted to Wiki Stalking me. The last time I checked he was not an admin and he crossed a line when he did that. I wish he would leave me alone. Honestly if I never run into this user again I would be quite happy. -- 8bitJake 18:06, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I think it is clear that this user has been obsessing over me. That is why his attacks on my defense in this mediation is much longer than my actual defense and he seems to be hitting the refresh list constantly to see if I made any contributions. It is not appropriate for him to act as a constant censor biased against me. That can't be healthy. -- 8bitJake 18:22, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the help. Hopefully it'll work itself out, we'll see. -- badlydrawnjeff 19:10, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Sure, thanks for letting me know. I am very disgusted and disapppointed with most policies/guidelines lately, they just seem to be making more disputes rather than less. karmafist 16:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Dan, Let me think about this and give you an answer later today. I'm not optimistic about the effectiveness of the Wiki way of settling disputes between those who say 2+2=4 and those that insist that the sum must equal 5 because they say so. Splitting the difference and calling it 4.5 is not my idea of good scholarship. (I'm still shaking my head in disbelief over the persistence of one Wiki "statistician" who is still insisting that scientists cannot use a lower P value than 0.05 for the level of statistical significance -- despite my pointing out to him that the Wiki entry for statistical significance -- which he cited in support of his opinion -- says that researchers can. My experience here has certainly been enlightening. Not pleasant, but enlightening. Let me consider. Andrew ~~
Hi Dan, before I can decide whether to participate in mediation, I need to know what it would involve. If it is mediation to determine the most truthful and accurate article, then yes. If it is mediation to reach a compromise between truth and falsehood, than no. Best, Andrew Askolnick 17:16, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
When you ask if I'm interested in mediation, what involvement are you asking of me? I don't think making a rewrite as a neutral party compels me to be a party needing mediation. Any issues regarding that I've resolved that by agreeing not to edit the article anymore, so there's no DR need there. If you're asking me to take some other role, I think I would have to recuse due to involvement. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 23:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for working on the medcab. I have removed my name from the list of active mediators. Demi T/ C 19:27, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Dan, please refer to the email I sent you regarding this account. Is is a returning vandal through and through. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 08:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that you have a tendency to blank discussion pages of anonymous IPs when you leave warning messages. Would you mind not doing that any more? Talk pages can be very helpful in evaluating a vandals history and past warnings or discussions. If you are concerned that a specific page is too long, please move and archive the discussions rather than clearing it. Besides that, it always seems a little strange to have an anonymous talk page pop up on my watchlist when it looks as if you're the only editor involved in the conversation. ;-) Thank you and happy holidays, Hall Monitor 21:42, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Well we're going to have to disagree, and I will continue to blank IP talk pages (you can always look in the history). Feel free to rv me if you feel it is necessary. Dan100 ( Talk) 19:08, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Dan. I think you might have misunderstood the redirection of the one-revert rule to WP:ROWN. The intent was not to get rid of the rule or prevent people from referring to it. The intent is centralize the various "rules" regarding reversion in one place. WP:ROWN is essentially a superset of the various rules that seek to limit or avoid reverts. With redirects, any reference to the one-revert rule (such as 1RR) will lead them to WP:ROWN, which has information on the one-revert rules as well as other guidelines for avoiding reverts. If possible could you take a look at the one-revert rule section at WP:ROWN and add whatever information you believe should be included here? Right now it has the essentials, but I'm sure it could be bulked up. Thanks! Carbonite | Talk 12:58, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I reverted the changes you made, because what we had there was what was agreed to by a 103-4 vote. If you want changes made, let's discuss it at Template:Sprotected, ok? "This is going to be on alot of pages". Maybe, maybe not. I don't think we know yet. I just don't like making changes before it's fully bugfree and implemented. Anyway, let's discuss it. -- Woohookitty (cat scratches) 15:54, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I therefore don't see your edit as valid. Dan100 ( Talk) 16:10, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Dan, You were right to revert the article on Bobov because 205.188.116.6 vandalized the page. But user Bobover1 changed the article from a NPOV to a one sided opinion.
Therefore I'm reverting it back to the last NPOV. I'm on top of it; on all articles regarding Bobov; to stop this nonesense.
See my other comments & explanations that I left on the edit summaries & talk pages on all articles regarding Bobov. Issac 22:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Dan,
Thanks for the concern. :) I don't have a job that really allows me to do much stuff on the internet when I'm working -- in fact, it really occupies almost all of my free time. So I'm only able to come on Wikipedia very much when I'm on hiatus from work. :)
kmccoy (talk) 23:20, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Sorry, it must have been some bug in the wiki software. I took a look at the user's contributions 12 hours ago and they appeared be less than 500. Withdrawing oppose. -- Natalinasmpf 17:46, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that you wrote to Rachel Brown's page asking for her to come back. I thought that I should point out to you that she left permanently, and will likely never return, especially given that 4 other accounts were banned indefinitely after a (ridiculous) claim that they were sock puppets of Rachel Brown's. If you want to see details of what happened, I have compiled a page here: User:Zordrac/Poetlister. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 20:18, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I noticed your unban. Thanks. I have let Poetlister know. I have never communicated with any of the others, but I am sure that they will figure it out soon enough. I hope that this can work towards resolving this, and the whopping great "Lists of Jews" dispute that started the whole mess. In my opinion, all of the articles should be nominated for deletion and perhaps just put in to categories instead, so as to get around this dispute. Why have lists over such controversial topics? And people setting up their own versions of who is a jew doesn't help either. Anyway, thanks. I am sure it'll make a great christmas present for everyone. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 20:51, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Could you please take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR#User:Themindset and see what you think? No one has replied so far and I am worried that this may be turned a blind eye too despite the lying and fudging of facts (specifically, "I only made two reverts", when in fact the user made doubt that) Wikipedia Admins.
It's saddening that things like this seem go un-noticed until brought up on Wikipedia. I know you have been getting some bad news in the press lately but the system itself on the surface looks like it works well. I'm surprised no one noticed this one though (Or decided to make a special exception to the rules?) -- 85.12.17.26 21:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Please note that User:Mistress Selina Kyle just got banned for breaking 3RR. This seems to be him/her operating from their IP in a retaliatory attempt to block me. I only made 3 reverts, the other one was an unrelated image edit. This "user" is pretending to be an outsider, but one would have to ask why would an outsider take such a particular interest, and immediately after User:Mistress Selina Kyle was given a 24 hour block? Themindset 21:14, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
That's enough, kids. I've a tonne of info to plough through here, and I'll get to you shortly, but for now please have your argument elsewhere! Dan100 ( Talk) 21:26, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi sorry to bother you what with the message above, but I just replied to your message at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RR#User:Themindset, I would be very grateful if you could go read
As well as the other three reverts, his first edit listed there was in fact a revert, one of a long line or reverts by him and an anonymous editor over whether to keep the picture. 85.12.17.26 22:06, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I really appreciate the barnstar you gave me, for my changes to the {{ copyvio}} template. When I came up with them, I also felt they were remarkably elegant, and it's really nice to get apprecation for them. Thanks! JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:21, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Okay Dan, I'll explain my reverts immediately, but could you also please explain your additions/deletions, then we'll both save a lot of time? Joe Mabel may yet want to make changes, because he feels the current wording is a bit harsh (the bit about any unsourced edit being removable), and although I don't agree with him, I see his point and won't revert him, though if you do, I also won't revert you. Despite our disagreements, I hope you accept that I'm editing in good faith, and being fussy only because I've been up against a thousand POV pushers and their various attempts to squeeze through loopholes. It's WP:FUSSY, not WP:OWN. ;-) I sent you two emails by the way. I hope you got them.
All the best to you, Dan, for Christmas/Hanukkah. SlimVirgin (talk) 10:15, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I've got the bot up and running again, I've put it in a loop so if it shuts down it will wait 10 minutes and then start again. I've also reduced its line rate to waiting 0.4 seconds between each line (was 0.3 seconds) so hopefully it won't get booted for flooding so easily. After Christmas I'll find out more about getting the flood protection turned off by freenode (needs Wikipedia to tell them it's a legit bot apparently). When it does restart it will be quiet, so you'll need to tell it to speak again. Currently this can only be done from #wikipedia-en-vandalism... Have a happy Christmas -- pgk( talk) 14:33, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
There is, in my opinion, solid evidence to support the allegations of sockpuppetry, based on CheckUser evidence. However, that evidence is private and cannot be published without breaching the policy we have on CheckUser data. The fact remains that for you to state that there is no evidence fails to assume good faith on your part. I think you are treading on treacherous ground here. Kelly Martin ( talk) 15:44, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
It sounds like someone's been accusing me of something. I just wish that people would stop being hostile and work to try to get along. It is frustrating sometimes that no matter how much I work to try to prove to someone that I am not against them and am not trying to fight with them, some people still insist that I am against them, and therefore think that harassing me or stalking me or going to great lengths to attack me is reasonable. Apparently I am being threatened with being banned because I tried to help a newbie in trouble and tried to right a wrong. And also being threatened with being banned because I have 2 people stalking me. So if the powers that be deem that I am required to allow people to harass me and stalk me and that I am forbidden from helping anyone out, then fine, they can ban me. I don't come here to deal with nonsense. Nobody should ever have to put up with treatment like that. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 17:38, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Your votes were done anonymously according to [23]. Could you fix them by logging in to meta, then confirming your votes ? Thanks in advance Anthere 09:15, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
OK, then... :-) Nixdorf 15:50, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
Somehow, you managed to list it within InShaneee's RFA page. I'm not sure how you managed that, but I fixed it. — Matthew Brown ( T: C) 10:54, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for supporting my request for adminship. If there's ever something I can help you out with please drop me a note. Happy holidays! Jacoplane 16:31, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm a newish admin and I wanted to ask you about the {{sprotect}} tag I've been seeing on a number of articles in recent days (Such as the article Nigger). I always thought protecting a page was supposed to be done only occasionally but this type of protecting now seems to be almost trendy. Has the threshhold for doing this limited protection been lowered? Is the consensus that we can semiprotect a page if it merely is a target for frequent vandalism? Thanks for passing on any info on this. Best,-- Alabamaboy 00:55, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Dan100,
I'm sure you unprotected the Biff Rose page in good faith, but I wish you had communicated with the admin who protected it, first. (I'm only assuming you didn't.) We have had a spate of extremely antisocial behavior from unregistered users on that page. A user on that page has been calling my home phone number as well, in the middle of the night.
After you unprotected it, on 00:48, 27 December 2005, someone posted a revision on the Biff Rose page...using a new username consisting of MY home phone number. This is serious. This is blatant stalker behavior and an invasion of my privacy. It is probably illegal as well.
Please reconsider your unprotection. Thank you. -- Sojambi Pinola 07:55, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Ahhh, so you're the IP who mediated on the anal sex drawing case! Nice work Dan100 ( Talk) 15:30, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Dan100: Thank you so much for the barnstar; it is greatly appreciated, and I am honoured that my actions on the medcab page did indeed assist you. :) By the way, I went AWOL since I was away at my grandparents 23-26 Dec for Christmas (real life, 'ya know, isn't it such an inconvenience... :-D ) and I have returned once more to do battle down at the Medcab. I do hope you don't consider it impudent of me to re-add myself under Coordinators. Thank you for all of your hard work down at the Medcab; undoubtedly, had you not joined our merry throng, we would still have a one-man Cabal (i.e. myself!) rather than the emerging star we have today. All the best, -- NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 16:50, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Dan, please continue to mediate. I have reason to believe that the anon user has since registered as User:3833. I and others have reverted the page numerous times only to have the link re-added amid accusations of censorship. Thanks for your help. - Cybjorg 18:48, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello Dan, I would like to know how we are progressing here. I read where Dominic will continue to remove all links to www.truthroom.com on all articles irregardless of what happens here. Since this is his position I wonder if I should go directly to arbitration so as to settle this dispute once and for all. Thank you for your time. Whatif
Thanks for your help with the Biff Rose situation. There are so many socks in play that it's confusing. - Willmcw 18:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Dan100. Thanks for coming around. :) I think that, through the power of positive collaboration, the community here has reached a consensus on the controversy at hand. Thanks for checking in with us! -- Animated Cascade talk 20:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC) (CC'ed to Talk:JT LeRoy)
Hello Dan and Animaed Cascade, I, too, am very happy that our negotiations and collaboration produced such a posiitive result. However, we now have a new editor to the page who is making changes with no regard to comments and discussion on the talk page. The new edits are not neutral. The editor admits to not even having read the author. This is of concern to me. I do not want this to devolve into a tit-for-tat revert fest and am unsure of how to address it. I also fear that this will be the case in the future--there is a past precedence for malicious edits on this page. If folks do not respect neutrality in the article, what is the recommended procedure? Grilledcheese 13:08, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Aloha Dan! I wanted to thank you belatedly for intervening in and offering to keep an eye on the dispute re the JT LeRoy article -- The Cabal is on the job :-) . After noting back in October that I know Mr LeRoy personally, I became subject to various attacks, the most harmless accusation being that I was a sock puppet of Ms Albert. (In another arena, despite my best joint efforts to achieve compromise with JereKrischel whose views on Hawaiian sovereignty and history are mostly the opposite of mine, I was attacked by Zora as trying to push an agenda re that topic.) Accordingly I thought it best simply to recuse myself from Wikipedia entirely for awhile. Despite all WP's good-conduct policies, some editors approach their chosen subjects with unusual personal venom -- your mediation helps restore my faith that such things can be contained, and I hope to be returning soon. IslandGyrl 01:58, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Whoops! Sorry about that, when you're doing as many things at once as I am, it's easy to lose track there. Speaking of which, i'm heading over to AN/I right now. karmafist 08:55, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
G'day Dan!
Another case (was thomas jefferson....) was solved on Cabal Mediation. All the best! -- Bonaparte talk 12:35, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the ones that spend lots of their time on Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. message boards (for no good reason, may I add), are. Then again, I'd say the same can probably be reciprocated about Brighton fans who hang around the Crystal Palace BBS. -- Kiand 21:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I have updated the mediation request with the new information. Thanks. -- BenjaminTsai Talk 01:12, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Just thought you might like to know I couldn't stand by and watch Ed be railroaded. I've nominated him for adminship again. Gateman1997 04:24, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Dan100, now that I'm an administrator, I just wanted to thank you for your support on my RfA. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 02:35, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Contrary to communist theory proposed by Marx and Engles and later adapted by Lenin, Stalin, Mao the People's Republic of China; the largest country whose ruling party refers to itself as communist, runs Special Economic Zones dedicated to capitalist enterprise, free from central government control. After opening up trade to the world under Deng Xiaoping, the People's Republic of China runs some of the most economically free regions in the world, including Hong Kong, which is regarded by the Hoover Institute and the Wall Street Journal as the world's freest economy [25].
These Special Economic Zones have few restrictions upon businesses, industries, imports and exports, including the elimination of duties, and a free price system. Since the opening of the Free Trade Zones China has maintained a growth rate of over 8%, and originally saw growth rates around 12%. These Special Economic Zones are different than the State Capitalism, as practiced in the Soviet Union, because the SEZs allow for capitalists to build and expand their industries and private property, free from the control of the central government. SEZ's operate under market economy rather than the state capitalist top down command economy approach.
According to China.org "After opening Shenzhen and other three coastal cities in South China as special economic regions and then dozens of economic and technological development zones in the 1980s, the country introduced free trade zones in the early 1990s in 15 coast cities, including Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Tianjin." [26]
Several other self proclaimed communist countries have also made pro market reforms in the last few decades including Vietnam.
what do you propose?
The only thing that needs to be done is add alittle more info on other market reforms and find the appropriate place within the communist article...which really means cleaning up the headings and reorgnizing them...which i will do as soon as the communist editors delete my section with no discussion for the 35th time. (Gibby 06:00, 31 December 2005 (UTC))
When you delete a page, please make sure to delete the associated talk pages ( Template talk:Mosblock & Template talk:Styles4). -- Netoholic @ 17:01, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
User:Jtdirl just undeleted all of the templates you removed as a violation of policy. Since he was the creator of these same templates, doesn't this violate Wikipedia procedure? Firebug 22:51, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
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Greetings Dan100, I wish to offer my gratitude for supporting me on my recent nomination for adminship, which passed with the final tally of 65/4/3. If you would ever desire my assistance in anything, or wish to give me feedback on any actions I take, feel free to let me know. Cheers! Elle vécut heureusement toujours dorénavant ( Be eudaimonic!) 08:01, 1 January 2006 (UTC) |
hi,
allabout2006 and his ips are back to destroying the alkyl nitrites article, and i was wondering if you could help keep an eye on it as you were doing a few weeks ago. thanks -- Heah talk 15:52, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
What's going on at with the "joke" templates? Unless you want to use the somewhat-smarmy
, as it now stands Level 1 (use sandbox), Level 2 (Could be seen as vandalism), and Level 3 (Warning) are all the message. Doesn't seem to make sense to give the same message two or three times. You mind if I have a go at it? Herostratus 05:09, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Can I be in your place head mediator? Bonaparte talk 15:28, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Greetings, Dan100! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! — Nightstallion (?) 07:47, 4 January 2006 (UTC) |
Thank you for your support of my RfA, and for your generous comment. I appreciate your confidence. Best wishes for a happy new year, Tom Harrison Talk 13:23, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your support in my recent succesful RFA. I appreciate the trust you have shown in me. Kind regards, -- TimPope 17:37, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
i have filed an RfC concerning the behavior of User:Allabout2006 and his socks on Alkyl nitrites which can be found here. you reverted his edits a couple times. comments would be appreciated. thanks. -- Heah talk 04:21, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I responded to your comments. Sorry for the month-long delay, got carried away with work etc. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 08:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, you've warned this user for vandalizing pages. He did it again: [27] -- Roland2 21:23, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Did you intentionally remove all of the warnings/etc on User_talk:142.46.54.4 with this edit? If so, in the future could you simply archive it instead? I just reblocked and had to go back to the block log to see it was a repeat vandal and then through the page history to see what had happened in the past and then readjust the block. Thanks. Wikibofh( talk)
... here. BD2412 T 02:39, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
The burden of evidence lies with the editor who has made the edit. Editors should therefore provide references From WP:V. Sources are required. Please revert. [[Sam Korn]] 13:27, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
hi, Please Vote here "keep" : Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rosario Poidimani (3 nomination). Regards, M.deSousa 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Please contribute to the discussions. Uncle G 12:33, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, my name is Federico (alias Pain) and I am creating a section for nominating the best user page, I was wondering if you were interested in joining the project.
The project has just started, and we need help to spread the word and ameliorate it.
Wikipedia:Votes for best User page
Best regards, Federico Pistono ✆ ✍ 14:28, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thank you for sprotecting that page it was sadly needed -- semi-protection is the best thing yet on the wiki Yuckfoo 00:30, 24 December 2005 (UTC)