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Wish you were here

*huggles* ——Possum (talk) 16:19, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I miss you <3 --creaɯy!^Talk 16:20, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Come back home, Coffee! iMatthew (talk) 12:36, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

*facehuggle* SRSLY - Lucifer (Talk) 14:41, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Please come back, ya, rly we want you back.--Res2216firestar 01:01, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

YES I HOPE YOU COME BACK SOON. *HUGGLES*. OH BY THE WAY, HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS-LOCK DAY! :-) –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 02:00, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

I wish you return back soon, my old friend ! If choose to return back I wish to share the code for autoassessment bot ;) -- Tinu Cherian - 05:46, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Featured List contest

Hey Coffee, this is IMatthew (talk · contribs), co-coordinator of the WikiCup; just informing you of the Featured List contest, starting this coming Friday. You may want to check it out; it will keep you busy for the time being before the WikiCup starts around January. Thanks for listening! iMatthew (talk) 22:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

AAU reminder notice

A friendly reminder from the Adopt-a-User project =)

Hey there Coffee! This is a friendly reminder to update your status at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters whenever it is appropriate in order to provide new users with the most up-to-date information on available adopters. Also please note that we will be removing adopters who have not edited in 60 days. If you become active again (and we hope you do!) please feel free to re-add yourself. Cheers!

• Notice delivery by xenobot 14:10, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Done. Six months late. :/ لennavecia 19:47, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

A Happy Birthday wish from the BRC and لennavecia

Chet!!! You're getting old! Not really, but still... HAPPY BIRTHDAY! So, I know you're not able to read this right now, but surely you'll check some time. Best, really, I suppose, considering I got you a present, but Jimbo stole it. :( I got you some chocolates, too, but after I opened them and took the pic, ... >_> Dude, they looked really good! So, yea, I ate them, BUT... srsly, I'll get you some more later, k? Anyway, uhm, I looked for a card for you on Commons, but dude, there was nothing good. Anyway, we miss you, and we hope you are well. Just know that while you may be out of sight, you are not out of mind. We talk about you often (and it's not even shit talk! I promise!! :D) and we're all excited for your epic return! So, from me and the BRC with love:

14:47, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

-Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 14:53, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Hope you have a nice day, and come back soon! Majorly ^talk 16:33, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy birthday kid, and stay out of trouble. Hope everything ends well for you. You know how to get in touch. east718 // talk // email // 02:31, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

...didn't I just do this on Facebook? EVula // talk // ☯ // 02:55, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy birthday. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 03:02, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy birthday! Mike H. Fierce! 03:25, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy birthday Chet! :D krimpet✽ 03:55, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Chet, 2 things:

1. Happy
2. Birthday

// roux   04:05, 5 December 2008 (UTC) (formerly this guy)

Thinking of you night and day...

Missing you always. Come back when you can. Sam ^Blab 23:26, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear Coffee,

Wishing you a happy new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.

Kind regards,

Majorly talk 21:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Miss you, buddy

As much as ever. Hope you come back soon :-) Steve Crossin ^Talk/₂₄ 00:54, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Whenever you come back...

I saw from here that it's been exactly two years since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 01:13, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Seconded :D  NEDRAG  18:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

G'day

Hey everyone! Thanks for the birthday card Lara (and BRC), I'm doing ok atm, I've joined the USAF, still in DHS, but I'll be out in 2 weeks and then go to BMT \o/. Then after the 8 weeks of BMT I'll come back to Wikipedia (no I'm not counting my chickens before they hatch). I miss all of you. Oh and don't call mah caseworker and inform her I was on teh internetz plz ;). I'll try to get on again before BMT. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 16:18, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Haha, it's so great to hear from you! I'm so glad that you are doing well. You sound very happy. Congrats on the air force & good luck with BMT! :) hmwithτ 17:31, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh my god! It's so good to hear from you! I'm glad you're still OK. *huggles*. I've missed you a lot. Hope to hear from you soon :-) Steve Crossin ^Talk/₂₄ 00:22, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

!!!!! \o/ Synergy 00:25, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

YAY!!! \o/ CHET! So glad to hear from you! We speak of you often in BRC and keep "We miss Chet!" in the topic. Dude, email me with someone I can contact to get your BMT address. I'll write you all the time. It helps so much. Mail call was the worst when my name wasn't called. Hopefully I get a chance to talk to you before you go.... give you some PROTIPS! XD I'm so glad you're doing well, Chet! <3 لennavecia 00:32, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

OMG BLONGY!!! Hi. Majorly talk 13:52, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

ZOMG BLONGY!!!!!! I know you prolly wont check this for atleast a few weeks, but ITS GREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU!!! This was a crappy day so far with too much work... but this made my day!! Hope you are fine and hope to see you soon. Take Care!! :DDDDDDDD Lucifer (Talk) 03:01, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Update on Chet

Chet called me today to let me know how he's been doing and he gave me permission to share his story here on his talk page.

Chet grew up in an abusive home. He revealed this to the members of the BRC early last year. Following a particularly bad incident, he ran away, contacted me and, with the help of various members of the BRC, we contacted the local police, the child abuse hotline, and the Department of Health Services in his state. After a good deal of unnecessary and ridiculous drama and fighting, the involvement of his boss and pastor, and a call into the local judge, he was removed from his home and put into foster care.

Some of you may have seen the message (now partially oversighted) Chet left on my talk page in October, informing me of the group home he'd been placed in. Those of you who were clued in may recall that the woman I spoke to at the home claimed that Chet had "hacked the computer system" in order to leave that message. I figured that meant "he snuck onto the computer and logged on the internet when no one was looking." Apparently, however, he really did hack into their computer system, change the administrator passwords on three computers, and get past restrictions to access the internet. That's our boy! So, yea. Bad times from that. Then he tried to contact me after than, and they issued a court order prohibiting him from doing it again. :| Eep. I had no idea.

Anyway, he's now emancipated. He left his group home today and is on his way to United States Air Force basic military training where he'll be for eight weeks (hopefully no more), then he'll be off to tech school. He's going to give me the address to write him in boot camp once he gets that first phone call, so if anyone is compelled to write him while he's there (which, having been through it, I can't express how important it is to hear your name during mail call... the more times, the better!), let me know on my talk page and I'll be sure to get that address to you.

He's very happy, extremely excited to be starting his life and experiencing—for the first time in his life—some freedom. Well, actually, strike that. Military life doesn't really qualify as freedom, but you get the idea. If you would like to talk to him, I can pass your phone number on to him. If you don't trust me with your digits, then you're SOL until he gets back here. So, other than that, there's details on his parents, but it's disappointing news, so I'll just skip it. If you have questions, let me know. لennavecia 01:04, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S. Chet sends his love and gratitude to the_undertow, Bullzeye, Astral Enigma, Mike H, hmwith, and east718.

Yes, I knew of this quite some time ago. I'm glad he's OK. Looking forward to hearing his voice again :). Steve Crossin ^Talk/_{Help us mediate!} 01:13, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Hurrah! Glad to hear he's landing on his feet! //roux   01:54, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Crazy happy to hear it. EVula // talk // ☯ // 02:58, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks so much for posting this, Lara. I knew most of it, but it's nice to hear everything's still going well. I hope that I can also hear Chet again soon. :) I also hope that he doesn't get into too much trouble trying to get online. :P Still miss you, Chet! hmwithτ 05:07, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Chet shared a lot of this with me some time ago. I'm glad he's doing ok now. His situation made me really think how lucky I have been in my own life, and how much I take for granted. Send him my best wishes - if he wants to talk to me, I'm happy to give my number to pass on. Majorly talk 11:33, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for sharing this information. I've wondered about him since I had not heard recent update. Really glad to hear that he is free to choose his own path in life now. FloNight♥♥♥ 20:58, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

What wonderful news! I am so sorry he got in trouble for contacting you. :-( Please let him know we all wish him the best, and are pulling for him. KillerChihuahua^?!? 22:05, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

You have my best wishes. Acalamari 01:55, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Same. ^ --MZMcBride (talk) 03:23, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh my, this is good news. Glad to hear he's getting on well and finally experiencing some level of liberty :) Chet, if you're reading this, life here has been hard without your madcap humour particularly on teh evilz that is IRC. I really hope you get on well with everything you try in life, and I hope you enjoy your training and time with the USAF. I also hope that you eventually get back onto Wikipedia sooner rather than later - you can cut the drama and have a slice. We need someone to burn that cake.  GARDEN  22:12, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Good luck, Chet. As an ex-BRC member, I already knew (about his history; I had left before it got this bad) and I'm glad that he's all-right now. Especially after the shit he went through. I have to agree, the BRC is actually a good thing. It's a good thing he was able to rely on us/them, and vice-versa. Again, good luck! :) Sceptre ^(talk) 22:44, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Another update

Chet text messaged me today to let me know he had landed in San Antonio, thus he is now beginning eight weeks of basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base. When I was in, flights started on Thursday and our first phone call was, I believe, Sunday. Since he has apparently started on a Tuesday, I'm not sure when to expect his mail address. By Sunday, at least, hopefully earlier. So again, if you are interested in sending him a letter or a few, drop your sig here and I'll get it to you. لennavecia 04:15, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Address

I have it. If you want it, put your name in the "Address" section of my talk page. لennavecia 21:54, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

:D

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Coffee&diff=next&oldid=262858341

That's...

just...

incredibly...

great news! Welcome back, Chet! (X! · talk)  · @825  ·  18:48, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Good to be back, --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 19:03, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

• Wow, welcome back Chet! :D Glad things seem to be doing pretty well for you now. *huggles* Jamie^☆S93 21:05, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

THREE THINGS

1. Hooray!
2. I got stupid busy with exams, but Monday will be sending you a surpriiiiiiise
3. There is no third thing.

//roux   18:54, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Hah it's great to see you! I'm interested in what you'll give me Monday... --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 19:05, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Holy Shit!

...welcome back buddy. :) Syn 20:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 20:42, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Second that welcome. Great to hear! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 21:49, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

About time :). Did you get my letter? Steve Crossin ^{The clock is ticking....} 23:50, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes I did. Happy to here you're doing well now too. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 14:43, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

User:Juliancolton/Blink -Juliancolton | ^Talk 22:08, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

*SNUGGLES*

I just realized this morning that I have a letter I wrote to you, but never mailed. I feel stupid now. Basic points from the letter:

1. I resigned my adminship the end of January and got it back the beginning of April to do BLP work. And, just so you know, I requested my bit back from EVula via cellular text message... cause that's how I roll. XD My reason for coming back when I did (as I planned to take a longer break) was basically to spite Raul654.
2. WP:OTRS.
3. You should have gotten shittons of letters, but I'm disappointed to know most people who promised to write (see my talk page) did not.
4. Your handwriting is extremely difficult to read.
5. What job are you going into?

That's pretty much it. There were some more personal details in the letter, but nothing of much importance. Basic military job info about myself and another BRC member. We'll talk about it later.

Glad you're doing well, buddy! <3 So proud of you... I knew you'd do well. لennavecia 22:28, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes I was rather disappointed at the turnout of letters, but now I've graduated so it doesn't really matter. My handwriting does suck... especially when I write fast, and by flashlight ;). I'm going into Computer Operations, which was my first choice, I'll be going to Keesler AFB, in Biloxi, MS on Monday for tech school which is 12 weeks.

Anyways I did appreciate the letters you wrote, and the few people you were able to get to write, as you know it means a lot to get mail in BMT. Thank you for everything. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 15:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

*GLOMP!!!*

COFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Just like stabbing lara here, I have a letter mostly composed, that i have not had a chance to finish and mail :( (I know i am terrible). But what the hell, GREAT TO SEE YOU BACK! I was off the grid this weekend, and only logged on to wiki now. Thats some great news I am returning to.

My letter was a bit more depressing though, with all the deaths and scandals :P

In any case, I'm very proud of you and glad to know you are doing well. Keep us posted on your status. Next time we intend to send you letters, we'll ask people to drop little notes in PM/channel and then consolidate them and mail them out. People are just way too lazy to write a full sized letter and then put it in an envelope and then mail it... jerks. Benders Game 15:03, 29 June 2009 (UTC) (formerly Lucifer_Cat)

Heh so you are the one who took my nicks on irc? ;) It's good to hear from you, perhaps you can scan the letter and email it? --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 15:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

:)

Chet,

Congrats on everything. I'm so excited for you to be back. Good, good news.

Talk to you soon,

hmwithτ 16:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll try to chat, or call. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 15:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Arbitration motion regarding User:Coffee

Per a motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

Coffee's administrator privileges are restored, effective immediately. He is reminded to abide by all policies and guidelines governing the conduct of administrators.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Tiptoety ^talk 15:43, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Discuss this

Thank you. I shall use the tools correctly as usual. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 14:34, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Welcome back :-)

Welcome back :-) FloNight♥♥♥ 16:30, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, glad to be back again. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 15:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Glad to see you back as well! Icestorm815 • Talk 17:03, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 15:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Welcome back to the fold mate. :) Orderinchaos 09:01, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey, glad to be here. :) --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 15:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Say! Welcome back dude! Long time no see!!!! --Mixwell!^Talk 22:16, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Yea!

↑ \o/ .. yea! to the thread above. hey Coffee, I know you don't know me yet, and I'm sorry I haven't gotten any real mail out to you. I do want to thank you though for what you are doing to defend our freedom and our country! Anyway, My name is "Ched" (yep, real life name), and after hearing so many great things about you I am so glad you'll be able to get back to the 'pedia. Your first task, should you choose to accept it, is to teach me WTH I'm supposed to be doing with these extra couple buttons ... lol. And I need some backup, Lara is already pointing sawed-off shotguns at me ... lol. Seriously though, welcome back; and I look forward to getting to know you. — Ched :  ?  16:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello, I'd be more than happy to help you with anything you need, especially since you have the first three letters of my name ;). Just drop by this here talk page and leave a note of what you need at anytime, and I'll get back with you. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 15:39, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Okie dokie: Escape the Fate - should I have protected this for longer than 24 hours?, or perhaps not at all? (it was on RFPP). — Ched :  ?  16:54, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

My advice here would have been to not protect it, there aren't a lot of edits to the page per day, and the amount of vandalism was about 1-2 a day, which can be handled pretty well by huggle users. Basically my rule is if there are several IPs and non-confirmed users vandalizing an article more than twice every 3-4 hours, usually with some recurrence it merits protection, something like this for example. The usual length for semi-protections is about 1 week, so that people don't have to ask for it to be protected every other day. Eventually it will come natural as to whether it should be protected and how long. Hope that helps. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 20:40, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, actually, that helps a lot. Policies and guidelines don't always give you numbers to work with - so practical experience is something I value greatly. Thanks Chet, it helps a lot. ;) — Ched :  ?  21:18, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Confirmation

I'm [Coffee] on IRC. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 22:02, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Spotlight relaunch

Some users have decided to try and relaunch the spotlight project, and I am informing all users that were on the previous list of participants.

We thought that, rather than discuss it, it would be more effective to simply start, and try to make it work again. Therefore, we are currently working on an article.

Anyone is welcome to get involved, so please come to the #wikipedia-spotlight channel on the freenode IRC network (see the IRC tutorial for help with IRC). You can get instant access using freenode webchat.

 Chzz  ►  17:21, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Shameless.... "Thankspam"?

Hi Coffee. I just want to let you know that your opinions and comments were greatly appreciated on my rfa - especially this one. Thanks for helping me out there!  :)

		Your Opinion is More Important than You Think Barnstar
		Awarded to Coffee for this truly noteworthy remark. Keep it up! -FASTILY (TALK) 03:44, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem mate, I strongly detest when people stereotype without knowledge of the facts. While it is true that some teens are generally immature, it doesn't mean they all are. Congrats on receiving the tools, if you ever need help drop me a note. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 16:16, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Motto of the Day

Hi there, Coffee! Thought you might be interested in Motto of the Day, a collaborative (and totally voluntary) effort by a group of Wikipedians to create original, inspirational mottos. Have a good motto idea? Share it here, comment on some of the mottos there or just pass this message onto your friends.

MOTD Needs Your Help!

Delivered By –pjoef (talk • contribs) 13:26, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Removing backlinks

Please don't remove backlinks like this, unless there is no chance of another article existing. Thank you. --NE2 15:37, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

That's an automated process done by WP:TW, following backlinks isn't really of my interest, and I probably won't change my TW configuration for it either, especially since there isn't even an article for it right now and the redlinks really aren't necessary, but whatever suits you. Thank you anyway. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 02:15, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of large parts of French_cuisine

I'm new, so I'm not too sure how to revert the last three deletion on French Cuisine by Special:Contributions/76.74.69.150 / User_talk:76.74.69.150 Could you help me. Thanks --Anneyh (talk) 20:19, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, I gave it a try by reverting one edit after the other. Within 10 days this will disappear! --Anneyh (talk) 07:45, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Bottler (IRC client)

Would you be willing to restore Bottler (IRC client) as a redirect to XDCC#Bottler so I can merge the usable material? Thanks! --Tothwolf (talk) 00:09, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

I emailed you the contents if you needed that, you're more than welcome to create a redirect if so needed. Hope that helps! --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 00:17, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I wanted to merge material though, which would mean it would have to be restored behind a redirect for attribution and GFDL compliance purposes. There was also a very very long AN/I discussion related to these AfDs which ended up on it's own subpage. (link to last section with summary) --Tothwolf (talk) 00:28, 7 October 2009 (UTC)