User talk:Phaedriel/Archive 63

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Sharon, I do not give up easily. Since we last contacted I have got married again, approaching fifth anniversary, and am very happy. But i would still like to her from you, if you ever look at this site. We never met, but we spoke, and I appreciated your friendship. --

... Till 07:39, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

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Back in early May of 'aught-seven, if I'm reading things right, you deleted a page I'd created. At any rate, your name is the one which shows up on the now red-linked page as having deleted it, and so I hope this little comment on your talk page isn't wholly out of place. The comment informing me of its deletion on my own talk page -- the first communication I ever received from any other user here on Wikipedia -- lists only an IP address as its author and reads in part "your recent additions . . . are considered nonsense". Unfortunately, while the page which I'd created might or might not have been "nonsense", it was to me no more than the culmination of my first foray here into editing pages, all of which I believed in quite passionately and engaged myself in with doubtless considerably more fervour and zeal than editorial restraint -- let alone any understanding of policy. Not knowing anything about how Wikipedia really worked behind the scenes, I read the word "additions" as referring to the total sum of my contributions up 'til then.

Now I grant you (since I've only just recently begun to delve into editing articles again) that whatever it is which I wrote at that time almost certainly did, in fact, constitute mostly original research. This is the primary reason I haven't even tried to revert it. My own intent in having created the page was to document the existence and rôle of "underground" newspapers within the Gay world. At any rate, other things caught my interest and I decided in the end to walk away rather than get into some sort of argument about a bunch of arcane policies and things on Wikipedia that I didn't even start to understand.

Now -- for whatever it is worth -- since that time I did go on as a gay man to a brief but quite respectable career as a reporter working in mainstream public radio. I covered the historically complex election of 2008 from every conceivable angle and saw things up close with my own eyes which very few people on earth ever see. My whole world opened up, and panoramically, at that: I went in very short order from tellin' drunks that their ex-lovers had been brutally murdered to interviewing presidential candidates, covering uranium mining on the Navajo nation in some depth, and touring Sandia National Laboratory's Z Machine in person on three separate occasions. I went directly from the thankless, bloody trenches of amateur LGBT advocacy journalism into a phœnomenally busy, professional working broadcast newsroom wherein history was made each and every day that I was there. My time in public radio alone is enough for me to say now with full, complete, and total confidence that my entire life has been quite well worthwhile.

I owe whoever it was who deleted that now red-linked page I'd created a certain debt of gratitude. I certainly could never have done near as much as I did near as well as I did if I hadn't been made aware -- a bit brusquely, perhaps -- of how some of the viewpoints and perspectives I embraced wholeheartedly and largely without question were in fact received by persons other than the small handful of gay men whom I'd pretty much surrounded myself with protectively.

I do not question your intent in having deleted the page, assuming (for discussion's sake) that it was in fact you who deleted it. I have no intent whatever to revive it at this point mainly because my own interests have led me on to other, more important things. But entirely regardless how my page's deletion was intended by whoever actually deleted it, that act in fact served to "break me out" of a very tight echo chamber, as it were; and the results of that "breakout" have been, on the whole, I dare say, a net positive.

Just a cursory glance on my part of your page here gives me the impression of a severely overworked moderator whom I'm hoping isn't giving themselves too hard a time second-guessing their own actions half a decade since their last recorded edit -- even if they did suffer the sort of temporary burnout which is regrettably endemic among folks who volunteer their time and expertise in service of some greater good. I don't know anything about you, really, and it's probably none of my business, except that I would not want you to suffer any more at this point for anything you might have ever said on my talk page to me. I'll leave you with a respectful little offering here of a sandpainting a friend of mine made recently: it's the first picture I ever uploaded to wikimedia, and I only got around to doing that much this morning.

The real Wikipedia I use each day now because I've genuinely come to love it is infinitely better than a hypothetical Wikipedia all filled with spam which I'd just visit now and then because I'd made some silly little entry no one else might even ever bother reading. Thank you for that much, even if it wasn't you who actually deleted my page.

And of course, if it was you, thank you all the more. :^) :^)

Be well. Xeltifon (talk) 02:03, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

So many years, and i still think of you. Just hope that everything is great, as you are. --WhiteWriter^speaks 00:23, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. I've seen some things get a bit rough for some other admins and others around here a lot, and even though I don't myself remember ever having contact with you, I hope that, if circumstances change to allow you to return, you would realize how much that would probably change things for the better for some of the harried and haggard editors here. But, one way or another, best of luck with everything, and if anyone here ever can do anything for you, or if you see something you wish addressed, drop me an e-mail and I can see what can be done. John Carter (talk) 00:35, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

You haven't edited in 5 years... What happened? There seems to be no history of you leaving any message like "I'm leaving Wikipedia"... Scientific Alan 2^{(Talk to the hand)(What I did)(Me)} 05:06, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

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I won't name the discussions where your calm, wise voice would be greatly appreciated, but your name came up with discussing the situations with another member of IPNA.....just wanted to pass on my best regards, and hope that you are well. You are much missed.Skookum1 (talk) 03:49, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

indeed. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:45, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Agree Tvoz/talk 18:27, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

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Don't you think?

You know what would be really ironic? If you've actually been editing Wikipedia this whole time but with another account, in cogneto. Anyway, you've been gone a long time but your efforts were much appreciated and are still remembered by many. MezzoMezzo (talk) 06:35, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

I don't think she is, I'd recognize her wise edits and quiet, calming and judicious voice......much needed lately re many Native American/First Nations issues.Skookum1 (talk) 06:56, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

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