User talk:Sluzzelin

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RFA Thanks

Thanks for your strong support at my recent Request for adminship. I’ve come to associate your username with common sense and good advice, so your kind words are especially appreciated. I hope you find I live up to your expectations. Best, Risker (talk) 13:41, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations and good luck, Risker! And thanks for the friendly comment. ---Sluzzelin talk 06:37, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Your sensitivity to language...

...as in your pertinent remarks on my Language ref desk query, is greatly valued. Keep up the good work, and may I say: I look forward to further collaborations in the future when I gear up to working more intensively and systematically (rather than my recent sporadic, limited manner) on mainspace pages. -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 16:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated, your questions are always interesting, answering them makes the desk feel useful, and I look forward too! ---Sluzzelin talk 06:37, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Proposal

Since you were heavily involved in the discussion at Wikipedia:Responding to suicidal individuals some time ago I thought you might be interested in discussing the merits of a similar but slightly different proposal here. I would be very interested in your opinion. Cheers, --S.dedalus (talk) 00:41, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for notifying me, S.dedalus. To refresh my memory, I had to go back quite a bit in time and found my "heavy involvement" consisting of three posts in this thread, basically saying "Yeah, I've seen it happen at the reference desk, but I have no clue what to do", "no, there really are unbelievably insensitive editors, but I have no clue what to do", and "I don't think there is a lot we can do". ;)

I've occasionally grazed through recurring threads on this topic. You might be interested in the relatively recent discussions at Wikipedia talk:Threats of violence. Forcing it into official policy won't be the way to go, nor will nudging people into a formulistic procedure. I see you as an open-minded thinker, and wish you good luck. If you manage to establish a quiet corner where things can get reported and handled with discretion and without long discussions and without drama, then I will support by reporting anything of concern I might come across. I'd rather not get involved in discussions though, I have zero professional expertise in this field, and it is too emotionally burdened. Best wishes. ---Sluzzelin talk 12:10, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Westermarkt, Amsterdam

Thanks for your interest and thoroughness on my recent query. I realized in advance that there was some crossover between describing the statue's location relative to Westermarkt vs. Westerkerk, but I'm obliged to adhere to the source text. So I still remain somewhat unsure how to word this caption... but as further pursuit falls along the lines of "independent research" and accordingly discouraged, your input is surely appreciated! -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 11:54, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Heh, I checked some travel guides:

"Nearby, on the south side of the church by Prinsengracht" (Rough Guide, 2003)

"Mari Andriessen's statue of Frank (dated 1977) stands nearby, at the corner of Westermarkt and Prinsengracht." (Time Out, 2005)

"A statue of Anne Frank by Mari Andriessen stands on the south side of the nearby Westerkerk" (This Way Guides, 2000).

I sometimes don't know where WP:V ends and WP:SYNTH begins. For some reason I was reminded of this change which made me chuckle (and hit revert). ---Sluzzelin talk 13:04, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for you

and my thanks for your support and advice on the 71.+ -- it's getting aggressive and that's the giveaway clue to this one. It's good to know you're there as ever Sluzzelin, : ) 08:22, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Footy edits

Hi. Sorry I missed your note. Both of those look fine. PS What's "Euro 2008"? --Dweller (talk) 10:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

<sobs> --Dweller (talk) 10:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

European Eye and Hair Colour

Thank you for your vast upgrade of my rather snippy answer on the RD Humanities today. The more we learn about DNA and how very little difference there is between the human groups (races, tribes, nations, what have you), the less patience I have of anything that smacks of attempts to differentiate us, or even merely emphasize the differences, on what I perceive as silliness. I did rather pre-judge the questioner, though, and you were both kinder and more helpful. I will blame it on the heat (33 degrees C). ៛ Bielle (talk) 19:46, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, I wouldn't worry, Bielle, and of course I share your sentiments. Race and skin color seem to be among the refdesk's fixations. Erm that is not only the refdesk's, I've been following the tedious debates on race and intelligence and other places for almost two years. Did you see the recent excitement and drama regarding "white pride" (if not, don't go looking for it, it's depressing). I'm always falling through all categories and there's no space for me on these charts. My grandparents were born in four different countries on three different continents, so where's my userbox? ---Sluzzelin talk 20:06, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Deleted user page

I've restored the user page. Do me a favor, eh? Put a note on there explaining the situation a bit so that other admins know to leave the page alone. : - ) And if you would like the full protection re-applied to that user page, just let me know. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)