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::'''I will often consent to remain silent, but I am NOT one who insists others must claim to like what they do NOT; claim to accept as FAIR and JUST what they truly CANNOT; and I am NOT inclined to imply that I am happy or content and not distressed when others attempt to pressure me to do such things either.''' I am a person of very MANY intense beliefs and passions which I actually do believe I keep under proper control with ''respect'' for the passions and limitations of others — and I am very glad for the opportunity to assert, that despite the ''impressions'' I know that I can sometimes make with many of my efforts to provide Honest INDICATIONS of things, I am usually NOT quite so thoroughly angry as I can sometimes ''seem''. ALWAYS I have a reservoir of amusement at MY OWN absurdities, as well as those which I can perceive in others, and I know that it is MUCH harder to convey intense passions and firm opinions ALL bounded with genuine good will and generally benevolent disposition through text messages than it is in personal face to face exchanges — and I have always been aware of that. '''About all I can do is assert that I close, as I began, with genuine good will and a wish to provide genuine [[Blessings]] to all.''' ~ <font style= "color:white;background:silver">♞[[q:en:User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[q:en:User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]·[[User talk:Kalki|†]]·[[q:en:User:Kalki/index|⚓]]⊙[[q:en:User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[q:en:User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</font> 09:58, 4 April 2013 (UTC) + tweaks
::'''I will often consent to remain silent, but I am NOT one who insists others must claim to like what they do NOT; claim to accept as FAIR and JUST what they truly CANNOT; and I am NOT inclined to imply that I am happy or content and not distressed when others attempt to pressure me to do such things either.''' I am a person of very MANY intense beliefs and passions which I actually do believe I keep under proper control with ''respect'' for the passions and limitations of others — and I am very glad for the opportunity to assert, that despite the ''impressions'' I know that I can sometimes make with many of my efforts to provide Honest INDICATIONS of things, I am usually NOT quite so thoroughly angry as I can sometimes ''seem''. ALWAYS I have a reservoir of amusement at MY OWN absurdities, as well as those which I can perceive in others, and I know that it is MUCH harder to convey intense passions and firm opinions ALL bounded with genuine good will and generally benevolent disposition through text messages than it is in personal face to face exchanges — and I have always been aware of that. '''About all I can do is assert that I close, as I began, with genuine good will and a wish to provide genuine [[Blessings]] to all.''' ~ <font style= "color:white;background:silver">♞[[q:en:User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[q:en:User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]·[[User talk:Kalki|†]]·[[q:en:User:Kalki/index|⚓]]⊙[[q:en:User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[q:en:User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</font> 09:58, 4 April 2013 (UTC) + tweaks
:: One of the FIRST things I will do IF or WHEN I become unblocked is archive much of this pages LONG past discussions, within the first day or so. I of course cannot even do that at this point. ''So it goes...'' ~ <font style= "color:white;background:silver">♞[[q:en:User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[q:en:User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]·[[User talk:Kalki|†]]·[[q:en:User:Kalki/index|⚓]]⊙[[q:en:User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[q:en:User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</font> 10:14, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
:: One of the FIRST things I will do IF or WHEN I become unblocked is archive much of this pages LONG past discussions, within the first day or so. I of course cannot even do that at this point. ''So it goes...'' ~ <font style= "color:white;background:silver">♞[[q:en:User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[q:en:User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]·[[User talk:Kalki|†]]·[[q:en:User:Kalki/index|⚓]]⊙[[q:en:User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[q:en:User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</font> 10:14, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Kalki, I know you accept the restriction to edit with just one account, but could you go further and, in the interest of clarity, acknowledge that allowing sockpuppetry can be, and is, "dangerous" to the project? Thanks. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 00:58, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
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'''Of course I am willing to acknowledge that "Sockpuppetry" (meaning the use of alternate accounts in devious ways expressly forbidden by Wikipeda policies) is not merely "dangerous" but actually DETRIMENTAL to the project, and it also IS NOT what I ever intended to DO''' — nor something I believe I have actually ever even ''evidently '''seemed''''' to do on THIS particular project — or ANY project, in even minor ways, other than Wikiquote. '''I do NOT believe that having multiple accounts is INNATELY detrimental — but it ''certainly'' IS ''dangerous'' — as ALL things can be.''' I have ''agreed'' to NOT to begin using any alternate accounts without prior official approval, which I might not in fact ever seek — but I tend to like keeping my own and others options open — and NOT insisting that anyone's must be closed unnaturally.

'''I assert that whether it is incidental or deliberate there are MANY ways we mortals are quite regularly deceptive of each other in many ways.''' I consider it at least somewhat deceptive to ignore or dismiss the COPIOUS amounts of evidence that my accounts were used OVERWHELMINGLY in BENIGN ways, to simply [[q:User:Kalki/index|'''CREATE''' and add to wikiquote pages]] in relative [[anonymity]], and to wish to focus entirely upon the few incidents where I made statements or took such actions as have been described as "deceptive". I believe those who are emphasizing such designations clearly realize they were NOT actually lies, and I would believe them also ''capable'' of realizing they were not actually ''maliciously'' deceitful — though some seem very inclined to believe or assert or imply that they were. I believe that it is somewhat deceptive for anyone to suggest that after asserting the VAST amounts of time and effort involved in finding even THOSE, to imply that there might be much more to be found, when in truth I have asserted previously that I believe the checkusers have indeed managed to find the most damaging of all the ''apparent'' evidence I can recall ever having produced, with only perhaps one or two other incidents of incidental accidents which came to my mind, years ago, and which I cannot even recall at this point.

'''All forms of deliberate or incidental deceits are CERTAINLY dangerous''', ''especially'' malicious or callous deceit, but even what might pass as benevolent or good-intentioned deceits are always dangerous as well — and of course in MANY or even most situations, even the most sincere forms of HONESTY can be dangerous — for many are ignorant and confused in many ways, and thus LIFE itself is ALWAYS dangerous — and yet obviously far more preferable to MOST than any alternative. Desiring to PROMOTE LOVE and PEACE through greater awareness of many forms of truth are DANGEROUS among those MORE interested in promoting hatreds or disregard of those they do not like or do not wish to trust, and inclined to be proud of their own POWER to PUNISH and constrain others, for whatever reasons they perceive fit, and believe to be justifiable.

'''I have read what I believe to be some VERY misinformed or perhaps rather disingenuous assertions made upon the debate page and been quite appalled at the distortions of facts which have sometimes occurred and been presented AS IF they were absolutely indisputable facts.''' My character and intentions have sometimes been called into question or actively denigrated in ways that I find a bit more than slightly irritating, but I retain a will to forgive any errors on the parts of others, and hope that eventually most who are hostile or supportive of me will be able to forgive any errors I might have made. I have thought upon the matters off and on, while I did other things, since late yesterday, after reading your request and the discussions which prompted it, and though there are MANY more things I have some will to indicate, I will content myself with making note of just a few.

I would like to NOTE: ALL MY LIFE, in diverse situations, I have PREFERRED to act in relatively ANONYMOUS ways, and would have certainly have PREFERRED to have NEVER been publicly declared to have had so many accounts<!-- (many of the purposes of which I myself have as yet never clearly declared, out of discretion and concerns which might ''eventually'' be revealed) -->. Yet, after the SUDDEN disclosure not simply of their existence or even their number, which might have been reasonable, but of an extensive and public LISTING of ALL that could be reliably identified or suspected at the time,<!-- which I believe was FAR more disruptive of MANY things of great importance than most of my adversaries about this issue have ANY idea of,--> I simply went about my business of serving Wikiquote and other Wikimedia projects as best I could, and sometimes continued using those accounts for constructive edits, as I had '''since 2003''' — but after the actions of desysoping at Wikiquote in '''December 2009''', this time ONLY after OPENLY declaring those there to be mine with such notices as THIS which follows:

<div align="center" cellspacing="3" style="margin: 1em 4em; border: 2px solid #faf9b2; background-color: #faf9b2;"> <big> <big> "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." </big> </big> <br> '''Foundational Principles against overly-controlling forces developing on the wikis.''' <br> Even if you have read them before, PLEASE EXAMINE ANEW: '''[[Wikipedia:Ignore all rules|Wikipedia:Ignore all rules]]''', and the other links available there, including [[Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_democracy|the links delineating much which Wikipedia was NOT]].''' <br> These were some of the earliest directives established by the founding workers on the Wikimedia projects. <br>
"'''Ignore all rules: If rules make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the wiki, then ignore them entirely and go about your business.'''" ~ [[Wikipedia:Historical archive/RulesToConsider|RulesToConsider]] <br>
"[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules&diff=70516723 IAR is policy, always has been]" ~ Wikipedia founder [[Jimmy Wales]] <br> '''This is an account of [[q:User:Kalki|Kalki]], who has also used many other account-names here, some since the very first days of this Wiki.'''
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And I believe it is THIS which prompted a few further contentions, with one admin who declared that any account I had should simply be abandoned or blocked, which was NOT something that had ever been asserted before, and WITHOUT clear community mandate for this went about summarily doing so at times, whenever I labelled an account with the above notice and began using it. Amidst this environment, in '''October 2010''' Cirt took the opportunity of a brief and relatively minor edit dispute I had with him to SUDDENLY block my MAIN account, AND my most commonly used IPs at that time were also blocked — preventing my ability to edit on ANY wikimedia wiki — and Cirt went about DEFACING all my account pages which he could, and the generally positive Life-affirming quotations and assertions I had placed upon them. He quite presumptively, and I believe DECEPTIVELY, labelling them "SOCKPUPPETS" which I continue to assert they NEVER were, in the most negative sense — and certainly it is not how they were ever intended to be used, though there are a few edits made by a few on ''Wikiquote'' which in the ignorance or ''dismissal'' of MANY other facts can be made to look deplorable and perhaps even malevolent. I restored MUCH but not yet all of the work I had done on many of these on the user page '''[[q:User:Kalki/Restorations|Restorations]]''' (VERY LARGE PAGE) simply to provide anyone interested a clearer idea of what generally positive and beautiful messages they had once had upon them, prior to their defacement.

I wish to assert my belief that there certainly NEVER has been ANY strong and genuine evidence of ANY such misbehavior with ANY of my accounts on THIS wiki (beyond that of those who insist I should not have created so many, and hold that to be something innately improper, and suspiciously like many vandals have done). I do not believe that anyone is likely to find any such "misbehavior", beyond the creation of such accounts, because I honestly do NOT recall making even such relatively slight slips here, among my thousands of edits, as I made or am purported to have made, at Wikiquote among my tens of thousands. '''I repeat that I have ALSO consented to NOT edit from ANY other account than the Kalki account, without official authorization, and IF I am ever interested in editing from any others I will OPENLY request the ability to do so, and IF that permission is granted, I will be willing to inform checkusers of ANY alternate account I thus use.'''

Though I too am very capable of harsh assessments and assertions, unlike some who I believe have often been in haste to harshly judge and severely condemn others in rather absolutist ways, I believe that I have been VERY patient and will remain patient, even with those most insistent on finding apparent reasons or excuses to continue to constrain me, and I am in no great hurry to prove all the complex points which I believe I eventually can, even to many of those most prone to ignore or deny them.

'''I truly believe that the more we KNOW of the character of [[Humanity]], and the ways it can be exalted or denigrated, polluted, corrupted, and yet eventually redeemed from many paths of error, the more we can know of the character of ourselves and of other individuals.''' I, like many others before me, am inclined to assert that the more we are inclined to judge and condemn others the less we CAN know of that which is truly beautiful and beautifully true about ALL in ALL. That does NOT mean we cannot be harsh and angry towards those most destructive of MANY of those aspects of beauty, but it does mean we are and can be willing to forgive, and to pardon so much as we honorably can.

There is much more which I am inclined to say regarding what I believe to be VERY incorrect impressions and assessments about MANY matters — but I know that some people I believe to desire simplistic agreement with their opinions or abject submission to their will and desires would not like to hear much of that, so I remain extremely reserved about indicating many of these things, and probably will be for some months, or even years — until MANY more significant facts are ''clearly'' AVAILABLE and PRESENTED for others assessments. '''I have extreme confidence that there will be extensive reassessments of MANY matters eventually, and that I and any of those who have erred more severely than myself will be forgiven for assessments made in states of confusion and ignorance about many of these matters.'''

Partly because I once again encounter those willing to denigrate and deride many of my assertions, AS IF they were entirely contemptible, because they are BEYOND their particular ranges of patience or perception or acceptance of the beauty and worth of others who must for some reasons persist in disagreeing with them, I will speak more rigorously and boldly than I have before about some aspects of my awareness and appreciation of MANY things.

In the hours that have passed since reading some of the comments on the discussion pages relating to this new request, I have been occupied with MANY things, and considering how best to respond to some of the presumptions I believe evident. I will not deny that I have thought of far HARSHER and perhaps eventually necessary things to say — and a few far gentler and less helpful things to say, which might, possibly, have pleased some more, and comforted and consoled them, and even such things as I would NEVER say, such as might sycophantically assert that they clearly have FAR greater understanding of ALL the situations involved in past or present actions than I — for I have a very profound and strong conscience and know that such words would not actually help them or anyone else to better understand the actual circumstance of this or any other question very much at all.

'''I certainly am NOT a person who seeks to promote ANY particular forms of faith or trust in Humanity or Universe as might be named or rigorously defined in the sectarian ways of ANY political or religious creeds, but I certainly DO seek to promote very many ''general'' forms of Faith, Hope and Charity — and to RESPECT very MANY specific forms of each as are willing to do that as well — whether those who embrace them label themselves Humanists, Universalists, Absurdists, Agnostics or ANY other specifier of proper forms of particular faiths and doubts. '''An absurdist such as I can embrace and recognize the beauty of MANY diverse traditions, and I do not doubt that those who are most wisely absurdists can get along well, whether they are personally most inclined to be absurdist atheists, agnostic, pagan, jew, christian, muslim, bahai, buddhist, hindu, jain, stoic, taoist, dudeist or any other serious or silly traditions that can be named.'''

Though I have long been an absurdist, I long kept that designation primarily to myself, but now have begun to call myself one prominently in recent months, because I know it is something that many might easily mock as merely "absurd" and "stupid" in very ignorant absolutist and exclusionist ways, and yet something most people CANNOT get an easy handle upon to do so, as I seek to acknowledge and embrace and exalt MUCH of the GOOD and Truth and Beauty I perceive in ALL people and ALL things — even many of those who have long been among the most loathsome, dishonest, and deceitful adversaries of myself and humanity, and the ways of true eternal grace. I certainly am NOT claiming to be speaking of anyone here — but rather primarily of such people so ignorant and confused as seek to needlessly and wantonly inflict harm and suffering and unrighteous constraints upon the lives and liberties of others, as extensively as they can, in such ways as are actually far worse than I or anyone else I know has ever been assaulted, or could easily be assaulted by anyone who works or has ever worked here.

In this world where there already has ''long'' been MUCH potential for good denied, obstructed, and denigrated by many of those hostile to anyone who see clearly by any other lights than their own, and strive relentlessly towards any other aims or goals than those they clearly can see and endorse, I trust that through the ways of Truth and Grace and forgiveness of sins, through the mercies of the All within and beyond all, that there shall come be paths of far greater righteousness and joy, for most, than many have yet become blessed to know. '''I believe that such faith, hope and charity can be endorsed by anyone who embraces MANY broad ranges of humanism, universalism, rationalism or mysticism.'''

As dangers are being spoken of, quite insistently, by those opposed to the removal of block, which I believe I could probably have easily PREVENTED, had I actually BEEN INFORMED and had KNOWN about moves to do this, and which I believe occurred BECAUSE of what I believe was actually a quite wrongful and improper series of SUDDEN and extensive acts of severe and open hostility towards my dignity and that of others, which have resulted in some incidental but repairable damage to my own reputation, and produced such confusions as will exist to the enduring detriment to that of others, and which resulted in my block here even before I had ANY knowledge that it was even being considered.

I have already honestly and fairly apologized and attempted to further apologize for some of the errors I might have made, or did make, in regard to some situations, and I remain quite willing to forgive ANY and all errors on the parts of others in those past episodes, and I am VERY sincere in asserting that<!-- , even though I might eventually further clarify SOME matters in ways that others might regard as harsh, or even unfair, and MOST can, as yet, have but little awareness of, at this point in time, but which I truly believe to be irrefutable facts in favor of my stances upon some significant issues, though I concede that in some significant issues, I might myself be wrong -->.

'''As an absurdist I am an EXTREME relativist, opposed to MANY or even MOST forms of [[absolutism]], INCLUDING any extremely [[absurd]] absolutist denials of absolutes such as some extreme [[q:nihilists|nihilists]] embrace, as well as the absolutist presumptions of their own absolute or supreme righteousness, as many [[q:authoritarians|authoritarians]] would like to assert and insist upon others deferring to AS IF they were unquestionable.''' I am someone who had plumbed and probed MANY of the depths and heights and broad and multi-dimensional aspects of absurdist philosophies when I was but a VERY young child<!-- , and I believe with MUCH confidence that MOST people have never yet had so extensively rational and mystical a range of examinations of MANY aspects of MANY things as I have EXPERIENCED in my life, because they are VERY prone to assume they already KNOW all that NEED be known by anyone -->.

THUS, I am someone who is absurdly QUITE willing to recognize MUCH of the beauty of ANY and ALL, to the fullest extent of my capacities — even those most hostile to recognizing or appreciating many of my own, or those of such people as I most genuinely and extensively cherish and praise. And with all that having been said, I believe it is a good point to stop and procede on to other matters, and close with my sincere and honest asssertion of wishes for '''[[q:Blessings|Blessings]] to all.''' ~ <font style= "color:white;background:silver">♞[[q:en:User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[q:en:User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]·[[User talk:Kalki|†]]·[[q:en:User:Kalki/index|⚓]]⊙[[q:en:User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[q:en:User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</font> 10:44, 8 April 2013 (UTC) + tweaks

Revision as of 11:15, 8 April 2013

The Signpost
6 November 2024

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Whoah! Thanks for the call on that bad link in the article on Benjamin Franklin. I just fixed it. RK

You could very well be right. Fix it as you see fit. And by the way, welcome to Wikipedia :-) Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 14:18, Oct 11, 2003 (UTC)

Creating a lynx template here:

This section is entirely obsolete — I might archive most of this page within a month or so...

This is an attempt to create a template named Lynx, if such hasn't been created already. It is intended to provide an option for a set of simple links to other Wikimedia projects or places within them at the bottom of any page that uses it. ~ Kalki

[[Template:Lynx]]  : this is designed to provide links to places within Wikimedia projects {{lynx}}

{{Kalki}} this is designed to provide an updatable personal message about things at Wikiquote and other projects, to anyone who is interested. (Probably not too many, at this point.)

Kate Bush

Thanks for the comment. I'm staggering through the list, then I have to 'get creative' and actually say something about them that's NPOV - which is going to be damn hard! LOL. Re: My name; Actually it's my real name (as in used in RL) just using my surname as letters. Yeah, I've one of those double barrelled surnames. :). Usually I use a variety of user names (Dark Matter, Glint, Atreides etc.) but for this and a few other sites I'm not afraid to use my own.

BTW. Feel free to add to the Kate Bush album pages. I only have to add Live at the Hammersmith Odeon (I was there!!!!) and I'm done. --Martin TB 18:33, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I actually saw her twice!. I booked, and went to see her at the London Palladium. Some time later we heard that she was adding extra nights at Hammersmith as a tribute to one of the engineers that died on the tour. I went to the night that was recorded (with my friend Richard). After the show, we waited until 3am to watch her leave, then walked home as the sun was rising. It was a magical night. BTW as a result of this exchange I just looked into my keep it forever box. I have have a pristine copy of the tour programme (with postcards and 1 flyer). My Lionheart (Kate Bush fan club) membership card - I was member no. 3148 - and a few of the newsletters she sent out :). I', off to read them for a bit :D -- Martin TB 19:26, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikiquote

Thanks! I just was promoted to a Wikiquote administrator a couple days ago. I'm afraid I can't change the upload screen – it would take a developer to do that – but I'll bring it up. It sounds like a good idea.

I have some more ideas for Wikiquote that I'd love to bring up with you sometime. I'll talk to you later. – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 04:44, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)


Wiki Quotes

On a Google search I found a Wiki Quote attributed to John Maynard Keynes. I do not wish to edit that site so if you would reasd the note I left about this at Talk:Carl Melchior and fix it, that would be appreciated. - Ted Wilkes 16:52, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Classic Rock

Hello. I was wondering if you would like to participate in my classic rock survey. I'm trying to find the most like classic rock song. There is more information on my user page. Hope you participate! RENTASTRAWBERRY FOR LET? röck 21:24, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

They Might Be Giants

Just a note to let you know that the link on your user page points to the band, not the film. -TDK 11:19, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Username change request

Yes - I have made this request across all projects. Thanks! BD2412 T 19:19, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hi Kalki, thanks for blocking my doppleganger, over at Wikiquote. Paul August ☎ 05:49, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. ~ Kalki 08:13, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eleanor Farjeon

I've added a paragraph to this. Hope you don't mind.[dj5dj]

"The lamps are going out......"

TRIKER 16:58, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct about the Earl Grey quote business. It was my first attempt, and I made a lot of errors, both as to form and content. I find Wikiquote very counter-intuitive and difficult to use. For example - this is in reference to something in WIKIQUOTE, but it wound up here, and I don't know how to move it!!!But, I just love that quote - "The lamps are going out...." It's hard to find a more prescient quote than that. Thanks for your help and guidance.

Cut and paste move?

I can't work out quite what you did Jan 7 at Baltasar Gracián. I suspect that it was a cut-and-paste move that separated the article from its history, but maybe I'm wrong, maybe you did some kind of merge? Your edit summary doesn't make it clear. Anyway, if my understanding is correct: could you please see Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves? And, especially, in the future, if you want to move something that you cannot move yourself, could you please use Wikipedia:Requested moves? Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 04:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the combining action I took there a couple weeks ago was in response to the situation apparently being something of a "troublesome case" with both pages having divergent edits. It is confusing, but the title of the non-redirect page had become "Baltasar Gracián y Morales" rather than the preferred "Baltasar Gracián"
Here is the history of Baltasar Gracián y Morales (which I believed might have originally been named "Baltasar Gracián" but had been moved prior to page moves showing up in the edit histories) which had edits from 18 December 2004 - 23 December 2006 prior to my making it a redirect on 7 January 2007:
16:59, 7 January 2007 Kalki (Talk | contribs) (REDIRECT Baltasar Gracián)
04:37, 23 December 2006 STBotD (Talk | contribs) m (robot Removing: io:Baltasar Gracián)
21:35, 20 December 2006 FlaBot (Talk | contribs) m (robot Adding: gl:Baltasar Gracián)
20:44, 13 December 2006 85.55.161.4 (Talk) (→External links - Link FA|es)
23:55, 5 December 2006 Slutbot (Talk | contribs) (→The Art of Worldly Wisdom)
23:50, 5 December 2006 Slutbot (Talk | contribs)
22:08, 2 December 2006 85.53.4.159 (Talk) (→Biography)
15:15, 28 November 2006 68.55.189.140 (Talk)
15:15, 28 November 2006 68.55.189.140 (Talk)
22:57, 4 October 2006 Fernando S. Aldado (Talk | contribs) (+commons tag)
17:36, 22 September 2006 Bolivian Unicyclist (Talk | contribs) m (dab)
02:15, 15 September 2006 Kencf (Talk | contribs) (→The Art of Worldly Wisdom - Style.)
20:55, 7 September 2006 Kencf (Talk | contribs) (→The Criticón - ac - →The Art of Worldly Wisdom)
21:20, 4 August 2006 OrphanBot (Talk | contribs) (Removing image by request; see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Stamps wrongly claimed as Fair use: serious copyright problem)
18:21, 29 July 2006 70.108.155.133 (Talk) (→Works)
20:51, 18 July 2006 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) m (→Works - restore an English-language title, cannot imagine a reason to omit; it was anonymously removed without summary)
20:18, 14 July 2006 71.252.12.252 (Talk) (→Works)
04:39, 11 July 2006 70.108.195.128 (Talk) (→Works)
00:18, 4 April 2006 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) m (→The Criticón - rv eccentric capitalization)
17:44, 29 March 2006 Sethmahoney (Talk | contribs) (→The Criticón - copyedit)
04:13, 23 March 2006 YurikBot (Talk | contribs) m (robot Adding: sv:Baltasar Gracián y Morales)
02:21, 26 February 2006 212.112.43.190 (Talk) (++bs:)
22:48, 20 February 2006 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (→Quote - rm near-random quote. But feel free to start a Wikiquote or Wikisource page.)
01:00, 15 February 2006 69.89.103.39 (Talk) (→References - ==Quote== Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.)
15:19, 11 February 2006 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (correct an apparent mistranslation from Spanish)
15:16, 11 February 2006 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (→Biography - link Tarazona, Aragon)
21:16, 30 January 2006 209.90.162.10 (Talk) (io)
20:30, 29 November 2005 68.39.174.238 (Talk) (Revert possible suspiscious changes by a known vandal)
14:41, 27 October 2005 24.55.228.130 (Talk) (→Biography)
22:58, 18 October 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (→External links - recovered "dead" link from the Internet Archive)
00:54, 18 October 2005 67.188.130.125 (Talk) (Removed dead link.)
02:59, 8 October 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (Add 1911 citation explicitly in references)
02:54, 8 October 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (→Critical Reception - restore, but be clear where this came from)
02:27, 7 October 2005 WhatWouldEmperorNortonDo (Talk | contribs) (deleted pov opinion on Gracian)
16:49, 16 September 2005 Cafe Nervosa (Talk | contribs) m (correctted link to Belmonte, Spain)
16:30, 16 September 2005 Cafe Nervosa (Talk | contribs) (Added picture of stamp with portrait)
22:38, 15 September 2005 64.166.224.222 (Talk) (→Works)
22:34, 15 September 2005 64.166.224.222 (Talk) (→The Criticón)
01:12, 15 September 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (rm generic Image:Example.jpg)
09:58, 14 September 2005 Cesaracn (Talk | contribs)
09:54, 14 September 2005 Cesaracn (Talk | contribs)
09:26, 14 September 2005 200.157.150.4 (Talk)
09:22, 14 September 2005 200.157.150.4 (Talk) (→Biography)
09:00, 14 September 2005 200.157.150.4 (Talk)
11:51, 9 August 2005 YurikBot (Talk | contribs) m (robot Modifying: he)
14:00, 3 August 2005 Bobo192 (Talk | contribs) (Removed repeated word)
12:08, 31 July 2005 Chobot (Talk | contribs) m (robot Adding: he)
15:00, 26 July 2005 170.140.45.164 (Talk) (→External links)
13:00, 14 July 2005 Chobot (Talk | contribs) m (robot Adding: pt)
16:02, 10 July 2005 217.185.252.6 (Talk) (+de:)
13:40, 6 July 2005 KSchutte (Talk | contribs) (→External links)
05:21, 1 July 2005 82.123.192.32 (Talk) (interlanguage fr)
20:44, 24 June 2005 PDH (Talk | contribs) (merge complete)
20:43, 24 June 2005 PDH (Talk | contribs)
22:49, 19 June 2005 KSchutte (Talk | contribs)
16:35, 21 May 2005 Jfpierce (Talk | contribs) m (fixed ko: link)
16:33, 21 May 2005 Jfpierce (Talk | contribs) m (+es +sk)
07:35, 14 January 2005 218.39.226.173 (Talk)
14:05, 18 December 2004 82.43.133.29 (Talk)
Here is the history of Baltasar Gracián (the most generally used name) which had edits from 21 March 2005 to 24 June 2005. I moved back the contents of the page that had been merged into Baltasar Gracián y Morales (rather than the preferred name "Baltasar Gracián") by PDH on 24 June 2005.
00:58, 23 January 2007 Physicq210 (Talk | contribs) m (Reverted edits by 128.143.230.22 (talk) to last version by Kalki)
00:35, 23 January 2007 128.143.230.22 (Talk) (→External links)
16:58, 7 January 2007 Kalki (Talk | contribs) (moving contents of Baltasar Gracián y Morales to preserve page histories of both)
20:43, 24 June 2005 PDH (Talk | contribs)
16:15, 22 June 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) ( {{merge}} ==> {{mergefrom}}: this is the better article and the better title)
22:49, 19 June 2005 KSchutte (Talk | contribs)
15:44, 26 April 2005 Dwbird2 (Talk | contribs) (Removed from "Needing translation" category, removed stub template)
01:00, 8 April 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (rm {{cleanup-translation}} tag)
06:28, 7 April 2005 Mona-Lynn (Talk | contribs) (I think it's done now)
06:14, 7 April 2005 Mona-Lynn (Talk | contribs) (→The Criticón - gilipolla=dunce)
21:10, 3 April 2005 Drini (Talk | contribs) (→Biography - Saragosa is a Texas town)
21:06, 3 April 2005 Drini (Talk | contribs) (→Works - critick --> critic)
21:04, 3 April 2005 Drini (Talk | contribs) (→Biography)
21:02, 3 April 2005 Drini (Talk | contribs) (→The Criticón - minor changes on wording)
16:43, 1 April 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (→The Criticón - translating one more thing)
16:38, 1 April 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (some further translation; only a few phrases remain to be done)
06:00, 1 April 2005 Lectonar (Talk | contribs) m
05:00, 1 April 2005 Mona-Lynn (Talk | contribs) (did some rewording and translation)
04:53, 31 March 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (more translation)
04:15, 31 March 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (→Biography - translated a bit more)
22:26, 27 March 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (→Works - Almost certainly correction of a typo; see talk)
13:22, 26 March 2005 Timo Laine (Talk | contribs) m (Fixed a link)
13:56, 24 March 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (These are famous enough under their Spanish titles that the Spanish titles should be given)
06:01, 24 March 2005 Evil saltine (Talk | contribs) m (→Biography)
05:58, 24 March 2005 Evil saltine (Talk | contribs) (→Biography)
14:08, 23 March 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (→Biography - did a bit of translation; one phrase in this paragraph I'm not sure how to translate)
13:57, 23 March 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (→References - No reason to link these titles; they don't merit articles of their own. I leave it to someone else's judgment on the authors.)
13:55, 23 March 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (→Works - 2 questions on spelling in titles)
13:53, 23 March 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (→Biography - Spelling fell between two stools)
10:36, 23 March 2005 Morning star (Talk | contribs) (translated works, added link, early bio)
01:31, 22 March 2005 Jmabel (Talk | contribs) (Added note on status of this, after interchange with the person who created it; also Category:Wikipedia articles that need translation)
14:32, 21 March 2005 Morning star (Talk | contribs) (stub with Spanish text, references, links, languages, and category)
~ Kalki 15:00, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Logo134WikiJULBracketts2cc-150.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Logo134WikiJULBracketts2cc-150.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. The Sunshine Man 17:18, 10 June 2007 (UTC) The Sunshine Man 17:18, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Response.

No, I am not that Link on Wikiquotes. - A Link to the Past (talk) 18:14, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sarah Morgan Bryan(t?) Piatt

I'm not 100% sure either way - Bartlett's Quotations includes the "t", so that's what I went with. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:34, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, now that I see that every other source omits that "t", I am convinced that Bartlett's was wrong. Damn them. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:15, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander Herrmann

Thanks for adding the photo. I included more, but could not provide copywrite. If you can add more, it would make the article better.

— Mtpascoe (talk · contribs)

HELLO

See THIS. Stayinganonfornow (talk) 05:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Mercy (Vertigo) for deletion

A discussion has begun about whether the article Mercy (Vertigo), which you created or to which you contributed, should be deleted. While contributions are welcome, an article may be deleted if it is inconsistent with Wikipedia policies and guidelines for inclusion, explained in the deletion policy.

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Blocked

I have proposed to unblock you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal to unblock User:Kalki. Obviously you will not be able to participate in the discussion there, but I will let you know if any comment on your part is requested. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:54, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just visited to check in on some information and saw that I had a message here. I was planning to address the issue myself after a few more months — but your efforts on my behalf are very appreciated. I was slightly surprised Cirt had been able to produce so vile a result with his cross-wiki harassment, and considered it beneath my dignity and interest to waste too much of my time responding, until other matters were resolved. I now have some hope of being able to edit again here, sooner than I had thought I might — and though we might disagree on some significant matters, and perhaps always shall, this effort on your part definitely merits my thanks. Blessings ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:13, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Please note User:Beeblebrox's comment on this discussion, and let me know if you would like me to convey a response. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:11, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the opportunity to make a few points. I will make note that I DO wish to become unblocked, and have long wished it, but had MANY other concerns of greater priority to focus upon. As you well know, I am an absurdist who generally embraces an anarchistic ethos and do not like to artificially bind myself nor anyone else in some often unreliable contrivances built upon words, ignorance, arrogance and Naïveté, and the frauds and shams which people often embrace based upon these.
Some of the reasons why I did not make a request IMMEDIATELY upon Cirt's crosswiki harassment some years ago involve the fact that I did not immediately even become aware it was occurring. As he had QUITE IMPROPERLY used his admin status to block my IP as a means of stifling my responses to his quite malicious behavior, whereby he obviously sought to ravage my reputation as well as my abilities to edit on WQ and other WIkimedia wikis. As I had not much to do at Wikiquote for some time while the blocks there were in place, I believe I did not actually even learn of his accusations here until some time after they had been successful, and still had MANY other matters to take care of. In deference to others demands, I eventually agreed to NOT use multiple account names at Wikiquote, under what I still consider a genuinely UNETHICAL imposition upon me — as I insist and continue to insist I never did ANYTHING actually improper with ANY of my accounts — and certainly never deliberately. Since that time I believe I have NOT edited nor even attempted to edit here, quite DISGUSTED at the logical incompetence exhibited by some people who took drastic actions on the FLIMSY evidence of my having ever deliberately done ANYTHING wrong, here or elsewhere. I immediately forgave others involved, as having been DUPED, and can forgive even Cirt, who I believe quite maliciously did much of the duping, but I cannot honestly deny DISGUST. I recognize he had what I regard as morally low-level competence in convincing some that my peculiar forms of integrity and defiance of IMMORAL demands was something despicable, and to be scorned and punished — here and at a couple other wikis where I was NOT generally as active and known. I believe I didn't find out about those until MONTHS after they occurred.
I can express without equivocation that if this account is unblocked, as I believe it certainly SHOULD be, I have NO intentions of being disruptive here — and NEVER HAVE HAD ANY — and will use it simply to contribute in worthy ways — as I had ALWAYS been doing prior to Cirt's obsessive assaults upon my character and reputation. To any whom it may concern, I send Blessings ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:11, 30 March 2013 (UTC) + tweaks[reply]
  • Need to make the point that the investigation in 2008 and 2009 of the more than hundred accounts that you created was a crosswiki investigation done by checkusers and stewards, and brought to Wikiquote by a Wikiquote Checkuser at the request of a group of checkusers. Attempting to shift the blame off of yourself to other people (like Aphaia) who had to look into the matter and bring it to the communities attention is what caused the situation to escalate. FloNight♥♥♥♥ 22:06, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • I do not attempt to shift blame for MY actions onto ANYONE else — I have acknowledged that my actions have been SIGNIFICANTLY involved in other people's problems as well as my own, and as a person of considerable integrity and awareness of MANY aspects of MANY things, I accept that there ARE conflicts of aims, intentions and understandings at work ALWAYS in all human endeavors. That said, I honestly do get somewhat irritated when anyone, no matter how generally admirable insists any particular person or group is to blame for ALL the problems in a situation — as an intensely honest and perceptive absurdist I have LONG understood that there are NECESSARY and unavoidable forms of ignorance and confusion as well as awareness at work in ALL of us — and I have tried to assess the best paths of options based upon what I know and believe — not upon what others believe I should know, believe, wish or desire. When there are conflicts I tend to stick to asserting what I perceive to be truths, and what I believe to be the most honorable and beneficial paths of determination, even though I am often quite aware many of the forms of perception and aims guiding me are NOT going to be easily understandable by others. I truly wish you well, and I thank you for asserting that there seems to be no clear reason to have me blocked from editing here. I hope that if or when the block is at last lifted that I will prove myself far worthier of trust as a genuinely honest friend and ally than ANY who have ever accused me of malicious or extremely inconsiderate or entirely unjust actions. I can concede there has been reasons for SUSPICION, and IRRITATION — I do NOT concede that there has been reason for punishments so extreme and callous as some have wished to inflict, and to some extent HAVE inflicted, not only upon me, but upon others — and I wish to state unequivocally that I certainly do NOT seek any form of "retribution" or "revenge" upon ANYONE, not even the most malicious of anyone who might have been misguided — I simply wish to resume here with a resolve to state the truth — and TRY to state it in the MOST appropriate ways — and as with as much GOOD HUMOR and GOOD WILL as I can. Thank you again, and Blessings to you and to all. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 09:55, 4 April 2013 (UTC) + tweaks[reply]

Absurdist Observations

Comments from WQ in relation to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal to unblock User:Kalki
This was posted at the Wikiquote village pump, and I will perhaps update it here as time goes by…
Participants here may be interested in this proposal to unblock User:Kalki on en.wiki. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:54, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks much, for posting this notice here; I actually would not have thought to do so. I certainly invite anyone to comment. I have been burdened by that block for years now since one of the most extensive assaults upon my character by Cirt (which have occurred sporadically over the years). I forgive him for having been so morally incompetent as to wish to constrain my proper rights to edit here and elsewhere, and certainly forgive those who were duped by his subterfuges, but I would certainly like to have that quite unjust and improper block, based primarily upon his accusations, soon be lifted. Blessings to all. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:29, 30 March 2013 (UTC) + tweaks[reply]
I noticed that you accuse me on that page in rather harsh terms: "Kalki routinely brought out the socks to back him up whenever another editor disagreed with him." I assert that this is simply a FALSEHOOD. There are a very few cases where such might have been mis-perceived to have occurred — but even in those it was usually quite inadvertent and unavoidable, and NOT something I intentionally aimed to do — and NEVER something I routinely or even deliberately did. In the years in which I was an admin and bureaucrat here I maintained many alternate accounts without seeking to establish too much of personality profile in regards to any of them — and NEVER a false one. You might characterize that as a "will to deceive" in ways you might wish to characterize as sinister, but I characterize it as a will to simply evade becoming a target of other people's bigoted delusions on MANY diverse issues — which is ironically something I believe HAS occurred. I truly wish you well, despite your vehement hostility to even allowing me to EDIT at all; and though I do not expect to persuade you, or alter your disposition, I truly seek to send you and all, what Blessings I can. So it goes… ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:24, 30 March 2013 (UTC) + tweaks[reply]

I post this here to defend myself a bit more directly and extensively on this wiki, and as I hold Cirt (talk · contribs) to be primarily responsible for much of this mess, I hope that he will examine his conscience and take this chance to redeem himself a bit, and support an unblocking of me here. He has been quite vociferous at times in defense of Freedom of speech — and has recently thanked me for some of my defenses of it in regard to his actions and aims, and I would like to provide him an opportunity to actually do something I would be thankful for, and openly recognize that I should not be blocked from editing here. I had many accounts, and he made that SEEM a crime in itself, but whatever few incidents might have looked "suspicious" or in any way damnable at Wikiquote, of the TENS OF THOUSANDS of edits I have done there, I believe I can certainly say that I NEVER improperly misused ANY accounts here, in ANY way — and certainly have NEVER sought to so. I am a very forgiving person, generally, and I will be glad to put this irritating matter as entirely behind me as I properly can. I hope that justice can at last be done, and the improper loss of my ability to edit on this worthy project can at last be corrected, and editing privileges restored. I will have to be leaving soon, and might not be back for a few hours, but wish to end with Blessings to all. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:51, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It has been proposed in the discussion that a Checkuser review be done before any restoration of your editing rights here. I presume that you have not engaged in any further use of multiple accounts, and that such a review will show as much. However, to be crystal clear on this point, do you agree that if your editing rights are restored, you will edit from this account, and this account only? Cheers! bd2412 T 01:07, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I certainly can understand and accede to such a request or demand here, where I once was known primarily to a few who noted my contributions at Wikiquote and Wikisource, and I am far less familiar to many who remain active, especially since I did not attempt to make any efforts on my own behalf here prior to this. THUS: I agree to edit here under NO account other than the Kalki account until such issues as might be involved can be openly resolved, and such restrictions removed.
I can state right now that I have full confidence that checkusers will be able to confirm that that I am NOT editing under any other accounts, because despite the inconvenience to myself and my previous ability to maintain extensive cross-wiki links, I have NOT edited here under ANY account name, since my Kalki account was blocked, BECAUSE I am a person of far greater and more rigorous integrity than most, and recognized that the though block itself was LUDICROUSLY UNJUST and FALSELY presumptive of guilt and vile intentions, I was willing to comply with rules which constrain a blocked user from editing.
I truly do wish some people had been as logically methodic in making thorough assessments of the actual situation before they attempted to attack my integrity, reputation and proper rights, as some are now being when they have been presented with a request to have proper respect for them restored.
I believe that my resumptions of activity here will NOT be anything that should alarm any person of genuine honesty and integrity — but might disturb only those who are most prone to the habitual denigrating and denying the rights of others — because they might continue to seek to find evidence of ill will where none actually exists — beyond that projected from their own rather disturbed minds onto others.
I know that I certainly do NOT fit into the ranges of the cliché and bigoted assessments quite popular among many who seek to casually identify themselves or others with labels which imply they should be absolutely trusted — and others absolutely distrusted. I honestly intend to never fit in with ANY sort of cliques of those who think their particular forms of groupthink mentalities and aims should be dominant and embraced by everyone without any dissent or disagreement permitted. Though I can and do forgive people for being so ignorant and confused as to embrace them, I have always honestly despised such attitudes as mislead many into oppressing others unjustly, and all my life have opposed them vigorously in many ways — and thus I have been hated and feared by those who do fear exposure of such truths as are not flattering to them and their dispositions and assumptions. I yet trust and have always trusted the general integrity of Humanity — which was one of the things which made Wikipedia a great and worthy project, and which permits it to remain one, despite the sniping, deceits and delusions of many who would vie for power and conquest over others rather permit many diverse voices to effectively indicate such truths as could lead many to a truly proper respect and love of others differences and diverse potentials as genuinely profound morality demands.
I thank anyone involved in this for their conscientious considerations, and expect that if my editing abilities are restored, I will simply resume being a very conscientious editor quite methodically respectful of truths and humanity, and disrespectful of such bigotries, prejudices and presumptions as regularly denigrate and degrade human beings. I know I can be harsh in stating truths, but unlike many I prefer to stick to honest indications of truths, and encourage others to do the same, and do NOT insist that my own or anyone else's presumptive assumptions be accepted or agreed with by others for their basic rights as autonomous human beings to be respected. Blessings to all. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:21, 31 March 2013 (UTC) + tweaks[reply]
I just did a review of my previous statements, and as I was somewhat rushed in all my previous commentary, and had to get some sleep, this my first chance to review it entirely at leisure, and fully rested. As bd2412, who on his own initiative put in this request on my behalf well knows, I can be somewhat harsh at times, but I believe he is very familiar with and respects my honesty and integrity, even though we often have very strong disagreements on various issues.
I am not and have never been a deliberate violator of ANY agreements I have made here or elsewhere, and I have ever been a person who seeks to MINIMIZE the pressures on anyone, which many have promoted, towards various forms of dishonesty or active suppression of genuinely honest and concerned expressions. If such things make some people uncomfortable, so be it — I certainly am NOT someone out to make others feel miserable or become irritated in ANY unnecessary or unjust ways. One person who commented, who I cannot clearly recall ever interacting with before stated: "This user is in my top rank of the untrustworthy here... a multiple sockmaster who abused our processes to push their viewpoints. Why invite a proven moral cheater back into the fold?" — I do choose to make extremely honest opposition to the presumptions at work in such a statement — I assert I am NOT someone who has "abused" ANY processes to "push their viewpoints" and certainly have NOT been "a proven moral cheater" — and vigorously assert that some of those who have PRESUMED me such have been so. I can and do forgive those inclined to make such assumptions, and I look forward to maintaining such integrity as will eventually impel anyone of even normal levels of rational integrity to reject such accusations.
From my somewhat biased perspectives as an individual human being whose primary agenda in LIFE is to promote the virtues of humility, courage, honesty and compassion, in very non-partisan ways, I can state full belief that I NEVER participated on this wiki or any others as merely as some small-minded bigoted agenda pusher, and have actively sought to be considerate as is properly possible, even to those who are. To the extent I had any notable reputation at all, my reputation on the Wikimedia projects (MOST of which I have long retained some level of obscure presence on without any problems, before and since it began to come under assault by people who disagreed with me on various issues), was one of a diligent worker and vigorous and highly respected vandal fighter. Prior to that I had DECLINED suggestions by various well respected people that I become a checkuser myself, because I was NOT interested in having such levels of power, and privately considered it as potentially being perceived as involving something of a conflict of interests. I honestly believe people who do NOT abuse them, SHOULD have the right to various accounts to retain anonymity, and unless clear acts of deliberate vandalism or violation of necessary policies occur from related accounts or IPs, one should generally give others the benefit of doubts. By agreeing to restrict myself to one account in editing here, as I have ALREADY long actually done due to my OWN sense of moral integrity, I agree to constrain myself far more than I would have others constrained — something I know many of my most presumptuous adversaries would likely be loathe to do.
Having made a few more statements in regard to this issue, I know get back to other tasks, including probably a bit of editing on Wikiquote. I will check back here at various times to see how things are progressing, and look forward to once again eventually being regarded by others as an honorable contributed here, as I always had been, prior to what I consider to have been Cirt's massive and rather EXTREMELY malicious assaults on my reputation a few years back. I can forgive his past hostilities, have no animosity towards him, and though I would not go so far or be so dishonest as to say I greatly trust or respect him, I believe we can remain civil towards each other, as I have certainly always striven to be. I send my good will to all — and may all who are inclined to note the celebration have a HAPPY EASTER. Blessings ~ File:Dont panic.svg ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:11, 31 March 2013 (UTC) + tweaks[reply]
I truly believe that I have been willing to make far more attempts than most to get along with EVERYONE. What I have ALWAYS declined to do is be DISHONEST and say that I agree with them when I do NOT. I often do not and CANNOT hate what others are inclined to hate, nor pretend to greatly love what others seem to love or pretend to love. That tends to make some people very angry — especially those most inclined to insist that that FIRM agreement on most things or all things is a requisite for proper human society. I might remain a heretic in saying so — but I firmly believe honesty and respect for Truth, Justice, Unity based on such trusts as grow with honesty, and LIBERTY acknowledging and permitting divergences of aims are necessary for any truly lasting and enduring human society.
I will often consent to remain silent, but I am NOT one who insists others must claim to like what they do NOT; claim to accept as FAIR and JUST what they truly CANNOT; and I am NOT inclined to imply that I am happy or content and not distressed when others attempt to pressure me to do such things either. I am a person of very MANY intense beliefs and passions which I actually do believe I keep under proper control with respect for the passions and limitations of others — and I am very glad for the opportunity to assert, that despite the impressions I know that I can sometimes make with many of my efforts to provide Honest INDICATIONS of things, I am usually NOT quite so thoroughly angry as I can sometimes seem. ALWAYS I have a reservoir of amusement at MY OWN absurdities, as well as those which I can perceive in others, and I know that it is MUCH harder to convey intense passions and firm opinions ALL bounded with genuine good will and generally benevolent disposition through text messages than it is in personal face to face exchanges — and I have always been aware of that. About all I can do is assert that I close, as I began, with genuine good will and a wish to provide genuine Blessings to all. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 09:58, 4 April 2013 (UTC) + tweaks[reply]
One of the FIRST things I will do IF or WHEN I become unblocked is archive much of this pages LONG past discussions, within the first day or so. I of course cannot even do that at this point. So it goes... ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:14, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kalki, I know you accept the restriction to edit with just one account, but could you go further and, in the interest of clarity, acknowledge that allowing sockpuppetry can be, and is, "dangerous" to the project? Thanks. ~ DanielTom (talk) 00:58, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Of course I am willing to acknowledge that "Sockpuppetry" (meaning the use of alternate accounts in devious ways expressly forbidden by Wikipeda policies) is not merely "dangerous" but actually DETRIMENTAL to the project, and it also IS NOT what I ever intended to DO — nor something I believe I have actually ever even evidently seemed to do on THIS particular project — or ANY project, in even minor ways, other than Wikiquote. I do NOT believe that having multiple accounts is INNATELY detrimental — but it certainly IS dangerous — as ALL things can be. I have agreed to NOT to begin using any alternate accounts without prior official approval, which I might not in fact ever seek — but I tend to like keeping my own and others options open — and NOT insisting that anyone's must be closed unnaturally.

I assert that whether it is incidental or deliberate there are MANY ways we mortals are quite regularly deceptive of each other in many ways. I consider it at least somewhat deceptive to ignore or dismiss the COPIOUS amounts of evidence that my accounts were used OVERWHELMINGLY in BENIGN ways, to simply CREATE and add to wikiquote pages in relative anonymity, and to wish to focus entirely upon the few incidents where I made statements or took such actions as have been described as "deceptive". I believe those who are emphasizing such designations clearly realize they were NOT actually lies, and I would believe them also capable of realizing they were not actually maliciously deceitful — though some seem very inclined to believe or assert or imply that they were. I believe that it is somewhat deceptive for anyone to suggest that after asserting the VAST amounts of time and effort involved in finding even THOSE, to imply that there might be much more to be found, when in truth I have asserted previously that I believe the checkusers have indeed managed to find the most damaging of all the apparent evidence I can recall ever having produced, with only perhaps one or two other incidents of incidental accidents which came to my mind, years ago, and which I cannot even recall at this point.

All forms of deliberate or incidental deceits are CERTAINLY dangerous, especially malicious or callous deceit, but even what might pass as benevolent or good-intentioned deceits are always dangerous as well — and of course in MANY or even most situations, even the most sincere forms of HONESTY can be dangerous — for many are ignorant and confused in many ways, and thus LIFE itself is ALWAYS dangerous — and yet obviously far more preferable to MOST than any alternative. Desiring to PROMOTE LOVE and PEACE through greater awareness of many forms of truth are DANGEROUS among those MORE interested in promoting hatreds or disregard of those they do not like or do not wish to trust, and inclined to be proud of their own POWER to PUNISH and constrain others, for whatever reasons they perceive fit, and believe to be justifiable.

I have read what I believe to be some VERY misinformed or perhaps rather disingenuous assertions made upon the debate page and been quite appalled at the distortions of facts which have sometimes occurred and been presented AS IF they were absolutely indisputable facts. My character and intentions have sometimes been called into question or actively denigrated in ways that I find a bit more than slightly irritating, but I retain a will to forgive any errors on the parts of others, and hope that eventually most who are hostile or supportive of me will be able to forgive any errors I might have made. I have thought upon the matters off and on, while I did other things, since late yesterday, after reading your request and the discussions which prompted it, and though there are MANY more things I have some will to indicate, I will content myself with making note of just a few.

I would like to NOTE: ALL MY LIFE, in diverse situations, I have PREFERRED to act in relatively ANONYMOUS ways, and would have certainly have PREFERRED to have NEVER been publicly declared to have had so many accounts. Yet, after the SUDDEN disclosure not simply of their existence or even their number, which might have been reasonable, but of an extensive and public LISTING of ALL that could be reliably identified or suspected at the time, I simply went about my business of serving Wikiquote and other Wikimedia projects as best I could, and sometimes continued using those accounts for constructive edits, as I had since 2003 — but after the actions of desysoping at Wikiquote in December 2009, this time ONLY after OPENLY declaring those there to be mine with such notices as THIS which follows:

"If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it."
Foundational Principles against overly-controlling forces developing on the wikis.
Even if you have read them before, PLEASE EXAMINE ANEW: Wikipedia:Ignore all rules, and the other links available there, including the links delineating much which Wikipedia was NOT.
These were some of the earliest directives established by the founding workers on the Wikimedia projects.

"Ignore all rules: If rules make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the wiki, then ignore them entirely and go about your business." ~ RulesToConsider
"IAR is policy, always has been" ~ Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
This is an account of Kalki, who has also used many other account-names here, some since the very first days of this Wiki.

And I believe it is THIS which prompted a few further contentions, with one admin who declared that any account I had should simply be abandoned or blocked, which was NOT something that had ever been asserted before, and WITHOUT clear community mandate for this went about summarily doing so at times, whenever I labelled an account with the above notice and began using it. Amidst this environment, in October 2010 Cirt took the opportunity of a brief and relatively minor edit dispute I had with him to SUDDENLY block my MAIN account, AND my most commonly used IPs at that time were also blocked — preventing my ability to edit on ANY wikimedia wiki — and Cirt went about DEFACING all my account pages which he could, and the generally positive Life-affirming quotations and assertions I had placed upon them. He quite presumptively, and I believe DECEPTIVELY, labelling them "SOCKPUPPETS" which I continue to assert they NEVER were, in the most negative sense — and certainly it is not how they were ever intended to be used, though there are a few edits made by a few on Wikiquote which in the ignorance or dismissal of MANY other facts can be made to look deplorable and perhaps even malevolent. I restored MUCH but not yet all of the work I had done on many of these on the user page Restorations (VERY LARGE PAGE) simply to provide anyone interested a clearer idea of what generally positive and beautiful messages they had once had upon them, prior to their defacement.

I wish to assert my belief that there certainly NEVER has been ANY strong and genuine evidence of ANY such misbehavior with ANY of my accounts on THIS wiki (beyond that of those who insist I should not have created so many, and hold that to be something innately improper, and suspiciously like many vandals have done). I do not believe that anyone is likely to find any such "misbehavior", beyond the creation of such accounts, because I honestly do NOT recall making even such relatively slight slips here, among my thousands of edits, as I made or am purported to have made, at Wikiquote among my tens of thousands. I repeat that I have ALSO consented to NOT edit from ANY other account than the Kalki account, without official authorization, and IF I am ever interested in editing from any others I will OPENLY request the ability to do so, and IF that permission is granted, I will be willing to inform checkusers of ANY alternate account I thus use.

Though I too am very capable of harsh assessments and assertions, unlike some who I believe have often been in haste to harshly judge and severely condemn others in rather absolutist ways, I believe that I have been VERY patient and will remain patient, even with those most insistent on finding apparent reasons or excuses to continue to constrain me, and I am in no great hurry to prove all the complex points which I believe I eventually can, even to many of those most prone to ignore or deny them.

I truly believe that the more we KNOW of the character of Humanity, and the ways it can be exalted or denigrated, polluted, corrupted, and yet eventually redeemed from many paths of error, the more we can know of the character of ourselves and of other individuals. I, like many others before me, am inclined to assert that the more we are inclined to judge and condemn others the less we CAN know of that which is truly beautiful and beautifully true about ALL in ALL. That does NOT mean we cannot be harsh and angry towards those most destructive of MANY of those aspects of beauty, but it does mean we are and can be willing to forgive, and to pardon so much as we honorably can.

There is much more which I am inclined to say regarding what I believe to be VERY incorrect impressions and assessments about MANY matters — but I know that some people I believe to desire simplistic agreement with their opinions or abject submission to their will and desires would not like to hear much of that, so I remain extremely reserved about indicating many of these things, and probably will be for some months, or even years — until MANY more significant facts are clearly AVAILABLE and PRESENTED for others assessments. I have extreme confidence that there will be extensive reassessments of MANY matters eventually, and that I and any of those who have erred more severely than myself will be forgiven for assessments made in states of confusion and ignorance about many of these matters.

Partly because I once again encounter those willing to denigrate and deride many of my assertions, AS IF they were entirely contemptible, because they are BEYOND their particular ranges of patience or perception or acceptance of the beauty and worth of others who must for some reasons persist in disagreeing with them, I will speak more rigorously and boldly than I have before about some aspects of my awareness and appreciation of MANY things.

In the hours that have passed since reading some of the comments on the discussion pages relating to this new request, I have been occupied with MANY things, and considering how best to respond to some of the presumptions I believe evident. I will not deny that I have thought of far HARSHER and perhaps eventually necessary things to say — and a few far gentler and less helpful things to say, which might, possibly, have pleased some more, and comforted and consoled them, and even such things as I would NEVER say, such as might sycophantically assert that they clearly have FAR greater understanding of ALL the situations involved in past or present actions than I — for I have a very profound and strong conscience and know that such words would not actually help them or anyone else to better understand the actual circumstance of this or any other question very much at all.

I certainly am NOT a person who seeks to promote ANY particular forms of faith or trust in Humanity or Universe as might be named or rigorously defined in the sectarian ways of ANY political or religious creeds, but I certainly DO seek to promote very many general forms of Faith, Hope and Charity — and to RESPECT very MANY specific forms of each as are willing to do that as well — whether those who embrace them label themselves Humanists, Universalists, Absurdists, Agnostics or ANY other specifier of proper forms of particular faiths and doubts. An absurdist such as I can embrace and recognize the beauty of MANY diverse traditions, and I do not doubt that those who are most wisely absurdists can get along well, whether they are personally most inclined to be absurdist atheists, agnostic, pagan, jew, christian, muslim, bahai, buddhist, hindu, jain, stoic, taoist, dudeist or any other serious or silly traditions that can be named.

Though I have long been an absurdist, I long kept that designation primarily to myself, but now have begun to call myself one prominently in recent months, because I know it is something that many might easily mock as merely "absurd" and "stupid" in very ignorant absolutist and exclusionist ways, and yet something most people CANNOT get an easy handle upon to do so, as I seek to acknowledge and embrace and exalt MUCH of the GOOD and Truth and Beauty I perceive in ALL people and ALL things — even many of those who have long been among the most loathsome, dishonest, and deceitful adversaries of myself and humanity, and the ways of true eternal grace. I certainly am NOT claiming to be speaking of anyone here — but rather primarily of such people so ignorant and confused as seek to needlessly and wantonly inflict harm and suffering and unrighteous constraints upon the lives and liberties of others, as extensively as they can, in such ways as are actually far worse than I or anyone else I know has ever been assaulted, or could easily be assaulted by anyone who works or has ever worked here.

In this world where there already has long been MUCH potential for good denied, obstructed, and denigrated by many of those hostile to anyone who see clearly by any other lights than their own, and strive relentlessly towards any other aims or goals than those they clearly can see and endorse, I trust that through the ways of Truth and Grace and forgiveness of sins, through the mercies of the All within and beyond all, that there shall come be paths of far greater righteousness and joy, for most, than many have yet become blessed to know. I believe that such faith, hope and charity can be endorsed by anyone who embraces MANY broad ranges of humanism, universalism, rationalism or mysticism.

As dangers are being spoken of, quite insistently, by those opposed to the removal of block, which I believe I could probably have easily PREVENTED, had I actually BEEN INFORMED and had KNOWN about moves to do this, and which I believe occurred BECAUSE of what I believe was actually a quite wrongful and improper series of SUDDEN and extensive acts of severe and open hostility towards my dignity and that of others, which have resulted in some incidental but repairable damage to my own reputation, and produced such confusions as will exist to the enduring detriment to that of others, and which resulted in my block here even before I had ANY knowledge that it was even being considered.

I have already honestly and fairly apologized and attempted to further apologize for some of the errors I might have made, or did make, in regard to some situations, and I remain quite willing to forgive ANY and all errors on the parts of others in those past episodes, and I am VERY sincere in asserting that.

As an absurdist I am an EXTREME relativist, opposed to MANY or even MOST forms of absolutism, INCLUDING any extremely absurd absolutist denials of absolutes such as some extreme nihilists embrace, as well as the absolutist presumptions of their own absolute or supreme righteousness, as many authoritarians would like to assert and insist upon others deferring to AS IF they were unquestionable. I am someone who had plumbed and probed MANY of the depths and heights and broad and multi-dimensional aspects of absurdist philosophies when I was but a VERY young child.

THUS, I am someone who is absurdly QUITE willing to recognize MUCH of the beauty of ANY and ALL, to the fullest extent of my capacities — even those most hostile to recognizing or appreciating many of my own, or those of such people as I most genuinely and extensively cherish and praise. And with all that having been said, I believe it is a good point to stop and procede on to other matters, and close with my sincere and honest asssertion of wishes for Blessings to all. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:44, 8 April 2013 (UTC) + tweaks[reply]

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