Re Tried To Help An Odd Editor And Now Not Sure What To Do   Re your message Oh yes I remember that user name  I saw his request for adminship at various places  I dont think its really necessary to up the warnings  My suggestion is to nicely offer to help again  If he declines well there isnt much you can do then  You cant force him to accept your help   And dont forget that you really are not under any obligation to help  As for the adopting thing you can nicely point him to the adopter criteria saying something like he might want to read it before he adopts somebody  As for his adoptees better to leave them alone instead of intervening  I think they will eventually figure things out when he is either unresponsive or unhelpful  He reminds me of another young eager editor  That didnt turn out too well but maybe this time it will be different  My main advice would be to be gentle  Being more forceful isnt likely to work    Oh one more thing Like I said you are not obligated to help  If you dont want to help yet you dont want to strand him Im willing to give helping a shot    Replied here    Re  your message I see that  has offered to adopt him  Instead of jumping in the middle lets see how she does  One person helping out is better than two I think  Its better to have a single person as contact  I will leave her a note offering to help out if necessary though    Is your email address still with a certain ISP that is five letters long  I noticed you disabled your email on here    Replied here    Re your message Oh right you contacted me first  Back in July you sent me an email  I was going to email you something  I just wanted to make sure that the address you used is still valid    Replied here    Re your message Hopefully it will  If not well Ill try again    Replied here    Re your message Thats too bad   I see he took a parting shot at you and another editor but I suspect what did it was the last two comments left on his Talk page  I think he left once before though