User talk:Susiebowers

Welcome!

Hello, Susiebowers, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Despite the rather fraught nature of the converstaion at Talk:Susanna Centlivre, I hope you stick around - there are plenty of articles to be getting on with. -- ALoan (Talk) 20:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I welcome your welcome and intend to stay indeed. Susiebowers 23:29, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to user page

I like them! scribblingwoman 23:19, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Simple, and to the point. --Susiebowers 13:18, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am blocked...

I am connected to a network in which about 300 students and teachers use the same IP address. I have never vandalized! I am committed to providing a service to Wikipedia, not in harming pages. Can I please edit from this network connection again?

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

Autoblock of 198.164.159.4 lifted or expired.

Request handled by: BigDT 03:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have unblocked 198.164.159.4 and reblocked with anon only. That should clear up the problem for you. If it doesn't, please let me know. --BigDT 03:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yay! Thanks BigDT--Susiebowers 13:57, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Women writers

Thanks for taking the trouble to let me know about this deleted category - by chance I only noticed the deletion (as a result of attempting to use the category) and was adding my voice to the protest at the same time you let me know! A depressing decision which I do hope can be successfully appealed... Dsp13 00:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just (finally) submitted the category for review for reinstatement. Fingers crossed. scribblingwoman 14:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

categories

Hi Susie

Thanks for the note about not adding articles to a categ and its subcat -- I was going to drop you a line, but great to see that you got there ahead of me :) Keep up the good work!

BTW, are you aware that Category:Women writers was referred back to CFD (see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 March 23#Category:Women_writers). It may yet be deleted. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)

Also, sorry for not replying sooner to your kind note on my talk page about the deletion review. I do try to be open to changing my mind at CFD, but I have to confess that I don't always get there ... and I find CFD a rather frustrating process. Some regular contributors to CFD always vote to delete any category by gender, regardless of the arguments in favour and in spite of the guideline WP:CATGRS. I'm afraid that it's a bit of a vicious circle, and part of a wider problem: there is a strong anti-intellectual current at CFD, and although there are some very good and thoughtful regulars, CFD works best with fairly simple issues. When it encounters a more complex issue such as the relevance of gender, CFD can often break down quite badly, with too many contributors wrongly confusing gender blindness with gender neutrality, and a hard core who regard any categorisation relating to womens role in the world as part of some left-wing conspiracy. :(

I love the idea of wikipedia, but sometimes the practice can be disillusioning. I usually just try to focus on the bits which go well ... --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:53, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]