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A sincere apology

I truly apologize for your loss and my ignorance of such a tragic loss to you, and I sincerely offer my sympathies and condolences. My intention of such use of the word was not to compare you to a terrorist; however, it has unfortunately construed in such a manner, which is understandable, and therefore have retracted my comments in the light of such unfortunate repercussions. Although you may have indicated that you may not accept my apology, I do wish to say sorry for hurting your feelings with a stray comments and at the heat of the moment and I do hope that you accept this apology as a misstep and misunderstanding on my part. I know you wish to pursue an avenue to censure me for such an inappropriate and impersonal comment, and I will dutifully accept such a measure and dutifully accept any consequences due to my misbehavior. With heartfelt remorse, ²¹⁰physicq (c) 21:55, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

-=The follow comment is posted here and at the user's talk page=-

Physicq, I accept your apology with good faith. I know you did not know my history as it is a very touchy subject I yet am trying to get over. I apologize myself for allowing work and other factors to influence my mood when posting and allowing my feeling outside of wikipedia to affect my comments towards you and others. I honestly believe you are a good editor and have made many worthy, quality edits to wikipedia. My comments were out of line and I appologize for that. I hope you can accept my apology for my uncivil behavior. --Brian_{(view my history)}/^{(How am I doing?)} 22:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In a gesture of reconciliation, I also extend a hand to accept your apology. I myself have made incivil comments to you before this unfortunate incident, and I apologize for such missteps. I have removed the offending comment, and I wish to ask if any more can be done to undo my wrong. --²¹⁰physicq (c) 22:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am very glad we were able to reconsil. I hope in the future we can work together to do many quality edits to wikipedia. You have done all that is needed to be done. I appreciate your candor and I thank you for accepting my apology as well. --Brian_{(view my history)}/^{(How am I doing?)} 22:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I likewise agree with your sentiments, and I hope that we can put this tragic incident behind us. --²¹⁰physicq (c) 22:12, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In lue of this, I have gone back an self censored myself, removing all uncivil comments. I believe leaving them there will just 'rub raw nerves' and could start more uncivil behavior from others just joining in. I felt that since we have come to an agreeement I was out of line with the uncivil remarks and the jihad comment was hurtful, there is no reason to leave them up, allowing any hurt feelings to fester. --Brian_{(view my history)}/^{(How am I doing?)} 22:20, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I have reciprocally retracted my own comments, however unfortunately forced to leave one due to a third party unfortunately responding to my comment. However, the comment has been struck out and a note of retraction issued. --²¹⁰physicq (c) 22:24, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That is completely understandable and totally acceptable. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help you today or anytime in the future --Brian_{(view my history)}/^{(How am I doing?)} 22:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Query on Desysopping

You asked in a deletion review where desysopping should be discussed, after someone else pointed out that deletion review is not the right place. Here are my thoughts:

First, it is always best to try to have a civil conversation with another user that you are disagreeing with. In my mind, one of the benefits of really working to follow Wikipedia:Assume good faith is that I sometimes can step back and see someway in which they may have been trying to improve Wikipedia.

If that fails, further processes for dispute resolution are described at Wikipedia:Resolving disputes. In an admin conduct dispute, the next avenues might be a request at WP:AN/I or a user conduct based request for comment at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct. GRBerry 03:33, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WPND

Brian, I just noticed that you have never added your name to the list of WPND participants. I would encourage you to list yourself so we can know just who is a part of the project. Have a nice day! --Matth e wUND^(talk) 07:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

you suck

you suck, asshole -- 01:45, 5 January 2007 86.42.155.95 (I re-reverted this edit. I don't mind people speaking their minds on my chat. I don't care for vandalism, but he just left a message anonomously which while is funny and doesn't much matter to me. Still might as well have a record of it --Brian_{(view my history)}/^{(How am I doing?)} 18:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Notice Concerning an AfD on 123 Pleasant Street

I am providing this notice because you recently (Closed January 1, 2007) provided an opinion concerning keep/delete or other comments relating to the AfD for the article 123 Pleasant Street. This AfD had an announced result of a consensus to "Keep." A User or Users dissatisfied with this outcome have intitated a process other than the public AfD to overturn this result. The article is presently once again listed on a AfD discussion. To assure that your original comments and opinions are considered you should immediately again expression them in the Current AfD

I am providing this notice after consulting with the Admin closing the AfD. Edivorce 14:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blair Witch Edits

You might find it useful to realize a few Wikipedia policies. First of all, we don't allow uncited info. Tons of uncited info in the article means it either finds citations right quick, or th uncited info gets cut. Period. If you have any sort of issue with this, you might want to ask a few questions, rather than calling a good faith editor a vandal. It is a failure of AGF/ Consider this a friendly reminder. :) If you aren't prepared to roll up your sleeves and do the work, don't get pissy when someone removes the unfinished work. Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 08:23, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter - Issue 1

The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter

Issue 1

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Welcome to the WPND Newsletter!
This is the first issue of the new WikiProject North Dakota newsletter. You're receiving this because you have previously signed up to be a member of WPND. If you do not wish to receive future issues, please add your name to the opt-out list.

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News
-Assessments-
An intial round of assessments was recently done on all pages within the scope of WPND. These initial assessments...all 1,200+ of them...were done by MatthewUND. Matthew tried to generally follow the assessment guidelines found at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment.

To see the assessment of any North Dakota page, simply go to the page's talk page and check the WPND banner. The assessment is presented in a color-coded field in the WPND banner. To change an assessment, edit the page and change the word after "class=" in the WPND banner. Add one of the following codes:

Stub - for very small articles

Start - for slightly longer, higher quality articles

B - for high quality articles of an appropriate length

List - for lists

Cat - for categories

Template - for templates

NA - for pages that are not articles, templates, or categories

Any WPND member should feel free to change any page's assessment. However, keep in mind that there are assessments (particularly GA for "Good Article" or FA for "Featured Article") which can't be applied without having gone through a nomination process.

Current project statistics

North Dakota articles		Importance
North Dakota articles		None	Total
Quality
	FA	1	1
	A
	GA	2	2
	B	41	41
	Start	709	709
	Stub	573	573
	Assessed	1326	1326
	Unassessed	0	0
	Total	1326	1326

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The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter - Issue 2 - July 2007

The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter

Issue 2 - July 2007

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Current project statistics

North Dakota articles		Importance
North Dakota articles		None	Total
Quality
	FA	1	1
	A
	GA	2	2
	B	45	45
	Start	727	727
	Stub	659	659
	Assessed	1434	1434
	Unassessed	6	6
	Total	1440	1440

News
---North Dakota Portal---
Wikipedia now has a new portal devoted exclusively to the state of North Dakota. Check out Portal:North Dakota.

WPND member NDCompuGeek has constructed the initial framework for the portal and it should now be easy to update the portal on a month-by-month basis. The portal will serve as a kind of "front door" for people using Wikipedia to learn more about North Dakota. It is a great starting point for branching out into the many aspects of the state.

Each month a different article, picture, city, and biography will be showcased along with current news and happenings from around the state. The July version of the portal showcases the Mandan tribe, Governor John Hoeven, and the capital city of Bismarck.

Visit the portal's talk page to share your opinions and ideas regarding the portal.

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The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter - Issue 3 - August 2007

The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter

Issue 3 - August 2007

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New North Dakota articles

News
---Grand Forks now a Featured Article---
Grand Forks, North Dakota was recently designated as a Featured Article. This means that the article has gone through a nomination process in which it was reviewed and its quality was assessed. The fact that this article made it through the process shows that it is a high quality, well-written, well-sourced article. Currently, there are only a little over 1,500 Featured Articles in the almost two million articles on the English language Wikipedia. That means that only about one in 1,270 articles has been given this designation.

The Grand Forks article is a great example to follow when working on other city articles, particularly those about North Dakota cities. We would be very well off if our other major city articles were similar to the Grand Forks article. Keep the Grand Forks article bookmarked and refer to its structure and style when you work on similar articles.

---New assessment parameter---
You're likely aware that all WPND articles now include a quality rating located on the article's talk page. Now, a new assessment parameter is being implemented. The importance rating aims to gauge the "importance" of the article's subject as it relates to North Dakota. As an example, Bismarck, North Dakota would not be considered as being very important in relation to the country or the world, but it is of top importance when considering just the state of North Dakota.

The importance of each article is gauged as either Top, High, Mid, or Low. Since "importance" is a rather subjective term, some WPND members are trying to come up with a general set of guidelines. Check out this thread on the WPND talk page to see proposals and to share your own opinions of what is and isn't "important" in the state.

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