User talk:Seraphinamaitreyi

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Hi, I notice that you're interested in Irreducible complexity and the question of the relationship of intelligent design to creationism. You'll find more information on the question in that ID article and in s:Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District/2:Context: it's also worth reading the rest of the judgement, particularly s:Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District/4:Whether ID Is Science.

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The contributors to the articles continually strive to adhere to these to the letter. .. dave souza, talk 21:31, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of List of iconic smokers

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Absurd. It was a list, not "gibberish." Nietzschean-Dissident 20:34, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

On Semites and antisemitism

Regarding your comment at Talk:Islam and antisemitism, please see the third box at the top of that page. Thanks. -- Hi Ev 20:52, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy notice of mention at ArbComm

I have mentioned your username in evidence presented at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Matthew Hoffman/Evidence. Your contributions were mentioned to provide context prior to the central events of the case. GRBerry 00:44, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What??? Nietzschean-Dissident 20:37, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Liberal Eugenics

I've improved the Liberal eugenics article. Any comments? --Loremaster (talk) 02:06, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Check the sources before tagging

I've removed your {dubious} tags ([1]) from the breast cancer article. Both statements were supported by footnotes from reputable, reliable sources (the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, and Cancer Research UK).

I'm not even sure what you found dubious about the statements—breast cancer in men is rarer than in women, but still represents about 1% of all breast cancer cases. If you have specific concerns, please review the footnoted material and discuss your questions on the article talk page. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:11, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they do. Just look at the footnotes before you tag next time, m'kay? TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:08, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't email me further until you look at the article footnotes. If you can't be bothered to read the linked articles, you can at least read the titles. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, after a look at some of your other recent contributions, I'm quite worried about your use of {dubious} tags in general. Perhaps you ought to use some different tools for a while. Questioning whether or not nicotine is addictive ([2]) hasn't been a defensible position for some decades, and the statements are well-supported by high-quality references in the same paragraph. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:26, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't email me further; I don't really need diatribes about post-modernistic breakdown of centralized meaning in my inbox. Any communication you wish to have with me from now on can take place on-wiki. And please do read breast, since you seem to be unclear on what a breast is. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 18:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pandeism

Your past commentary suggests you'd have more insight you might like to share respecting Pandeism. If so please do so. Pandeist (talk) 06:00, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability 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, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:49, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:45, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red World Contest

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Problem with your custom signature

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More information about custom signatures is available at Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing how everyone sees your signature. If you have followed these instructions and still want help, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Signatures. 19:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Your email

I'm not sure what you're referring to specifically, but this account isn't blocked, and hasn't ever been [3] – and certainly not by me. Your IP might be, but I can't help you without specifics. If you tell me more about the issue you are facing, I'm happy to take a look.

For what it's worth, administrator is not a paid position that I could be fired from; also, – and that's just a general observation – calling people obtuse liars and/or far right extremists has a tendency to make them less inclined to try and help you out. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:22, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response. You could, I suppose, send me an image via email but I suspect that might not be necessary. By the sound of it, it's most likely that you encountered a block against an IP range owned by a hosting provider, which are frequently blocked pre-emptively because many people on proxies refuse to play nice (see WP:NOP). Is it possible that you are using a VPN or similar application? If so, please turn it off, clear your browser cache and cookies, and see if that resolves the issue. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:38, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How will that end an actual block? (btw, the "fired" comment was more metaphor. I know no one gets paid on here.) Nietzschean-Dissident 20:45, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

You aren't blocked, the VPN is. Turning it off and clearing your cookies should allow you to edit freely. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:52, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since you've edited your userpage following this conversation (something you wouldn't be able to do while blocked), I'll consider the block issue resolved.

I'll leave you with a piece of advice for your future endeavours on Wikipedia. The things you wrote to me via email, as well as the things you wrote in your UTRS appeal were blatantly abusive. They fly in the face of Wikipedia's guiding conduct principle, which is to assume that others are acting in good faith, and they take a tone that is plainly incompatible with a collaborative environment. Don't call other editors obtuse, don't call them fascists, don't call them liars. Not "metaphorically", not if you think they were in the wrong, just don't. People frequently get blocked for less. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:08, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Thank you.

Since I'm here let me ask, is there some way to edit my user name?

Although it's still my legal name, I prefer not to go by that anymore.

Thank you, and deeply sorry for my rudeness. My life is pretty chaotic dealing with caregiving for my 83-yr-old father with dementia who has threatedn to kill me about seven times. nHypervigillaoce from that, and little and crappy sleep... maybe you can understand... nt that this excuses it. I just saw the page saying that you were the one who blocked me, and know I hadn't done anything (I had not edited anything at all on here since 2020(?)

Thank you again. So sorry for the insults. Nietzschean-Dissident 18:52, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate your apology, and I'm sorry to hear about your dad. I hope that things get better soon.

Regarding username changes: That can be done, see Wikipedia:Changing username for the details. The simplest option is probably to use the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest (note that renames are a bit more complicated than on some other websites, so they require human intervention and probably won't be processed instantly). On the subject of usernames, could you adjust your signature when you get a chance? At present, yours doesn't contain any links to your user or user talk page, which makes it impossible for people to find your account without looking at page histories (the absence of links also breaks some tools and scripts – the "reply" feature doesn't like it, for example). There's some guidance about this at WP:Signatures, and a templated message in the the thread above that might also be useful.

I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any other questions. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:37, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that.

PS: unfortunately, there is no getting better with dementia. :'(

I hope you have a good weekend. Nietzschean-Dissident 23:04, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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