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Hi BigHaz (I take it you're another Aussie by Kommissar Rex :), I hope you like the place and choose to stay.
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Dysprosia 10:47, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Now that I'm here, feel free to put any questions/concerns/comments below (preferably in their own section) if you want me to respond. Please specify where you want any responses (if they're necessary). Unless otherwise specified - or unless there's a good reason to do so - I'll reply here. Further, I can and will reply to deliberately inflammatory remarks in order to provide context, should the situation escalate or be at risk of doing so. BigHaz 07:28, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I made the page The Queen v Carroll. It needs some expanding, some of which I will do as I get the chance. Specifically the High Court's decision needs some elaboration and the response section could use some more info. Psychobabble
This was no vandalism. He is an ex-member of Aum Shinrikyo and wanted to show (in an awkward way) that the word cult suicide was closely related to persecution of minority religions and minorities. He thinks that cults are a stigmatized, persecuted minorities like dirty jews. I understand were he is coming from and I think he is right to some extent but I do not agree with his edits. Andries 19:35, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Your edit comment: It's a start. A start? It's more detailed that most other Aussie TV articles! Great work! -- Chuq 09:26, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
If you get me in trouble with Kevin I will be very cross at you. I think it is a much better photo than the rather po-faced one that was there before. Adam 05:42, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Thanks for that edit. I didn't see the anon's edit this time, though I have been watching the page - one of the funnier ones, perhaps. Still, this is becoming a little repetative. It's not even as if the page is particularly wonderful... Smoddy | Talk 23:56, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
curious, n: 3. Arousing interest because of novelty or strangeness: a curious fact. [1]
Hello, mate, I see that you are interested in Eurovision. Would you like to be involved in connecting with more eurovision wikipedians to do up the eurovision pages in a more coherent manner? I have come across the Eurovision wikiproject page, which seems to have been dormant for over two years. It may be an idea to have a look there and see how we could improve the eurovision coverage. I have done up the Congratulations (Eurovision) page so far and put notes about it on the pages of those who performed there. Best regards from Australia, Blnguyen 23:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I'd say that Du Bist is very likely to be kept, according the song proposed policy/guideline. Thanks for the notice, I hardly go to AfD these days. Since becoming an admin, I've mostly been deleting things rather than debating them. Blnguyen | rant-line 08:30, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Please do not revert other users' edits. If you have a complaint with the verifiability of content, mark it as lacking a citation or contact an administrator. Thank you. Clever curmudgeon 23:18, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
The edit is not trolling is it a legitimate edit so please do not revert it or I will stalk your contributions and revert all of your edits if you do not provide citations.
I hearby award this Working Man's Barnstar to User:BigHaz for his incredible dedication levels in recording Eurovision winners.-- V. Joe 01:50, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
I thought you might like to know that I've created a stub article about this former Eurovision winner. Feel free to help build it! Dweller 12:12, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not sure that a song that wasn't actually part of the contest deserves its own article. Do you think it fulfils the notability criteria? Would an elegant solution be to merge the content into the page for the performers, as per less notable songs by any notable musician? -- Dweller 08:43, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Which picture are you talking about exactly. If it is the promotional picture for the worldwide release of Mambo, it is indeed a screen shot. You can view the video at www.HelenaPaparizou.EU under videos and mambo (eu) Greekboy 04:37, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your message. I don't think I know you. If I did, you'd probably know that you're wasting your time leaving messages like that on my talkpage. Next time, try hello before throwing the warnings around. It's a lot nicer. Grace Note 07:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm probably not the best admin to close the AfD, as I recently accused the nom of trolling on his talk page. I'm sure someone will make the AfD rounds soon and close this. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 08:20, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi there BigHaz. I just put Ruffus as the ESC Estonians, and redirected Ruffus (Estonian band) there. The other Irish group looks like it could be deleted to be perfectly honest. Thanks. Blnguyen | rant-line 01:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for removing the non-neutral statement on singer Carola's article. Thanks for taking the time and effort. I cannot easily spot statements like that in articles that I am not familliar with. Cheers. -- Starionwolf 04:56, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
I notice you reverted this change another user made. Can you provide a reference for this preferred usage, as, to me, "stadia" sounds rather old-fashioned, even mock-learned. Apologies if Wiki policy supports your change; I'm leaving it in for now. You might not have noticed but it was also discussed at the article's talk page. -- Guinnog 13:38, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your great effort on cleaning up the article. It looks way better now, and very representable. -- Omernos 08:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Looks like you're really going for it, eh? :) A nice surprise for me, while on "New Pages" patrol, to see Kaelakee Hääl pop up. I could hardly believe it :) Keep it up! EuroSong talk 01:23, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there BiHaz. almost up to Ireland. Would you mind if I did some of those songs. I wish they would bring back the jury so that the Irish ballad records more deserved vicotries. Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 08:01, 12 July 2006 (UTC).
I attempted to scare him off....it was sarcastic. Anyways he hardly gets a slap for saying he is raping children, please. Is there anybody with out a bias here? W/e, it is all subjective. You personally attacked me by hurting my feelings, but meh. I apologize for breaking wikipolicy.
I must say you have embarked on a really tiresome mission - there are a few hundreds of ESC entries to date! Unfortunately, for most of them it is really hard to tell anything more than what you can find out at the Diggiloo Trush, or what goes into the artist/country article anyway. So, I am afraid these will remain "permastubs". Also, as concerns the interpretation of the lyrics, please be aware that there sometimes is more than one possible interpretation, so you might have quite a lot controversies within this area.
With regard to such less "notable" ESC entries, as well as one-hit-wonder participants, how about having them all described in "country in the ESC in a given year" article, where the selection process and all other related trivia and stuff would go? This would make for a more substantial article in terms of size, as well as spare the readers some clicking. I was also wondering whether you might find the Template:Infobox ESC entry useful. Bravada, talk - 11:14, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm sure there's a good technical reason both for doing this (particularly without telling me) and the fact that the userboxes you've changed don't all actually come out as userboxes, but if you get the chance would you mind fixing the mess so that my userboxes in fact are userboxes and not ugly-looking code? BigHaz 07:03, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello BigHaz. Can you look at this template that User:Alexandru Busa created please? I think that Alexandru is a big Ruslana fan judging by his contribs and the POV is shown in this template. AFAIK, the 14 most popular songs were selected irrespective of whether the artist was dead ( Domenico Modugno), in seclusion/refused ( ABBA and France Gall), so I feel that Alexandru gives us the impression that Ruslana snubbed the show when she was in fact not selected for the show. I feel she should not be there as she was not even selected and I think the template gives us the false impression that she was...unless I'm wrong and she was selected and refused them permission to use her song... Blnguyen | rant-line 02:55, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminder. Xiong Chiamiov :: contact :: 15:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know, however the more i look at the article the more i agree with what people are saying. It definately needs re-wording if it does stay but i now dont think it should, thanks for pointing it out. ( Neostinker)
I don't have the slightest idea of what you're trying to tell me. User:Ejrrjs says What? 23:28, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there BigHaz, I recently expanded this stub creation of yours, so I decided to nominate for inclusion on the Template:Did you know on the Main Page. I did put your name on the nomination as the orginal creator also at Template talk:Did you know, but it appears the updating admin forgot to send you this postcard. If you create an article with something interesting, please nominate yourself - it doesn't even have to be very weird. Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 01:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
-- Grue 19:19, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
I still will have to talk to Alexandru because I feel that the template is POV, as I don't think his posts addressed my point. Sertab and Helena performed their song in truncated form because they were selected as the 14 finalists and I didn't think that it was up to this Svalte chap to select the 14 finalists. As for the montage, I wrote the description in the
Congratulations (Eurovision) article from my watching of my recording of the show. There was a winners' montage but there were only about 15 or so, for about 10 seconds each, it had Marie N, Charlotte Nilsson, Secret Garden, Niamh Kavanagh, Herreys, Bucks Fizz, Marie Myriam... and more but those were the most recent ones which were shown and Ruslana was not in it and I feel that they (EBU) would have just chosen whichever songs they liked as they owned the footage irrespective of what the artists thought (dead or alive). Thanks,
Blnguyen |
rant-line 01:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC).
Owh, sorry.. I just registered yesterday and I know nothing much... Imoeng 08:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. An anon prodded this. Seems from his edits he doesn't like Shiri Maimon. I have depordded. Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 03:18, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Thats a shame because I think someone with your weight and articulation skills would help to resolve this particular situation. And really, its just one of many articles that are heavily biased against Turkey. Anyway, I understand your decision to keep out of this. Regards-- Kilhan 12:40, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
In making my comments, I tried to see what Wikipedia policy said, and follow it. Carfiend 16:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thanks for adding the template, I had previewed it and forgotten to save. have to watch for this type of hoax articles with false references. -- Astrokey 44 23:49, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | → | Archive 5 |
Hi BigHaz (I take it you're another Aussie by Kommissar Rex :), I hope you like the place and choose to stay.
Some links that may be of use:
Check out the Wikipedia:New user log, or here's some stuff you can do, if you want:
You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)
Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.
Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.
Have fun, and keep contributing :)
Dysprosia 10:47, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Now that I'm here, feel free to put any questions/concerns/comments below (preferably in their own section) if you want me to respond. Please specify where you want any responses (if they're necessary). Unless otherwise specified - or unless there's a good reason to do so - I'll reply here. Further, I can and will reply to deliberately inflammatory remarks in order to provide context, should the situation escalate or be at risk of doing so. BigHaz 07:28, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I made the page The Queen v Carroll. It needs some expanding, some of which I will do as I get the chance. Specifically the High Court's decision needs some elaboration and the response section could use some more info. Psychobabble
This was no vandalism. He is an ex-member of Aum Shinrikyo and wanted to show (in an awkward way) that the word cult suicide was closely related to persecution of minority religions and minorities. He thinks that cults are a stigmatized, persecuted minorities like dirty jews. I understand were he is coming from and I think he is right to some extent but I do not agree with his edits. Andries 19:35, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Your edit comment: It's a start. A start? It's more detailed that most other Aussie TV articles! Great work! -- Chuq 09:26, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
If you get me in trouble with Kevin I will be very cross at you. I think it is a much better photo than the rather po-faced one that was there before. Adam 05:42, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Thanks for that edit. I didn't see the anon's edit this time, though I have been watching the page - one of the funnier ones, perhaps. Still, this is becoming a little repetative. It's not even as if the page is particularly wonderful... Smoddy | Talk 23:56, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
curious, n: 3. Arousing interest because of novelty or strangeness: a curious fact. [1]
Hello, mate, I see that you are interested in Eurovision. Would you like to be involved in connecting with more eurovision wikipedians to do up the eurovision pages in a more coherent manner? I have come across the Eurovision wikiproject page, which seems to have been dormant for over two years. It may be an idea to have a look there and see how we could improve the eurovision coverage. I have done up the Congratulations (Eurovision) page so far and put notes about it on the pages of those who performed there. Best regards from Australia, Blnguyen 23:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I'd say that Du Bist is very likely to be kept, according the song proposed policy/guideline. Thanks for the notice, I hardly go to AfD these days. Since becoming an admin, I've mostly been deleting things rather than debating them. Blnguyen | rant-line 08:30, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Please do not revert other users' edits. If you have a complaint with the verifiability of content, mark it as lacking a citation or contact an administrator. Thank you. Clever curmudgeon 23:18, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
The edit is not trolling is it a legitimate edit so please do not revert it or I will stalk your contributions and revert all of your edits if you do not provide citations.
I hearby award this Working Man's Barnstar to User:BigHaz for his incredible dedication levels in recording Eurovision winners.-- V. Joe 01:50, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
I thought you might like to know that I've created a stub article about this former Eurovision winner. Feel free to help build it! Dweller 12:12, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not sure that a song that wasn't actually part of the contest deserves its own article. Do you think it fulfils the notability criteria? Would an elegant solution be to merge the content into the page for the performers, as per less notable songs by any notable musician? -- Dweller 08:43, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Which picture are you talking about exactly. If it is the promotional picture for the worldwide release of Mambo, it is indeed a screen shot. You can view the video at www.HelenaPaparizou.EU under videos and mambo (eu) Greekboy 04:37, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your message. I don't think I know you. If I did, you'd probably know that you're wasting your time leaving messages like that on my talkpage. Next time, try hello before throwing the warnings around. It's a lot nicer. Grace Note 07:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm probably not the best admin to close the AfD, as I recently accused the nom of trolling on his talk page. I'm sure someone will make the AfD rounds soon and close this. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 08:20, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi there BigHaz. I just put Ruffus as the ESC Estonians, and redirected Ruffus (Estonian band) there. The other Irish group looks like it could be deleted to be perfectly honest. Thanks. Blnguyen | rant-line 01:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for removing the non-neutral statement on singer Carola's article. Thanks for taking the time and effort. I cannot easily spot statements like that in articles that I am not familliar with. Cheers. -- Starionwolf 04:56, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
I notice you reverted this change another user made. Can you provide a reference for this preferred usage, as, to me, "stadia" sounds rather old-fashioned, even mock-learned. Apologies if Wiki policy supports your change; I'm leaving it in for now. You might not have noticed but it was also discussed at the article's talk page. -- Guinnog 13:38, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your great effort on cleaning up the article. It looks way better now, and very representable. -- Omernos 08:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Looks like you're really going for it, eh? :) A nice surprise for me, while on "New Pages" patrol, to see Kaelakee Hääl pop up. I could hardly believe it :) Keep it up! EuroSong talk 01:23, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there BiHaz. almost up to Ireland. Would you mind if I did some of those songs. I wish they would bring back the jury so that the Irish ballad records more deserved vicotries. Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 08:01, 12 July 2006 (UTC).
I attempted to scare him off....it was sarcastic. Anyways he hardly gets a slap for saying he is raping children, please. Is there anybody with out a bias here? W/e, it is all subjective. You personally attacked me by hurting my feelings, but meh. I apologize for breaking wikipolicy.
I must say you have embarked on a really tiresome mission - there are a few hundreds of ESC entries to date! Unfortunately, for most of them it is really hard to tell anything more than what you can find out at the Diggiloo Trush, or what goes into the artist/country article anyway. So, I am afraid these will remain "permastubs". Also, as concerns the interpretation of the lyrics, please be aware that there sometimes is more than one possible interpretation, so you might have quite a lot controversies within this area.
With regard to such less "notable" ESC entries, as well as one-hit-wonder participants, how about having them all described in "country in the ESC in a given year" article, where the selection process and all other related trivia and stuff would go? This would make for a more substantial article in terms of size, as well as spare the readers some clicking. I was also wondering whether you might find the Template:Infobox ESC entry useful. Bravada, talk - 11:14, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm sure there's a good technical reason both for doing this (particularly without telling me) and the fact that the userboxes you've changed don't all actually come out as userboxes, but if you get the chance would you mind fixing the mess so that my userboxes in fact are userboxes and not ugly-looking code? BigHaz 07:03, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello BigHaz. Can you look at this template that User:Alexandru Busa created please? I think that Alexandru is a big Ruslana fan judging by his contribs and the POV is shown in this template. AFAIK, the 14 most popular songs were selected irrespective of whether the artist was dead ( Domenico Modugno), in seclusion/refused ( ABBA and France Gall), so I feel that Alexandru gives us the impression that Ruslana snubbed the show when she was in fact not selected for the show. I feel she should not be there as she was not even selected and I think the template gives us the false impression that she was...unless I'm wrong and she was selected and refused them permission to use her song... Blnguyen | rant-line 02:55, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminder. Xiong Chiamiov :: contact :: 15:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know, however the more i look at the article the more i agree with what people are saying. It definately needs re-wording if it does stay but i now dont think it should, thanks for pointing it out. ( Neostinker)
I don't have the slightest idea of what you're trying to tell me. User:Ejrrjs says What? 23:28, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there BigHaz, I recently expanded this stub creation of yours, so I decided to nominate for inclusion on the Template:Did you know on the Main Page. I did put your name on the nomination as the orginal creator also at Template talk:Did you know, but it appears the updating admin forgot to send you this postcard. If you create an article with something interesting, please nominate yourself - it doesn't even have to be very weird. Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 01:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
-- Grue 19:19, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
I still will have to talk to Alexandru because I feel that the template is POV, as I don't think his posts addressed my point. Sertab and Helena performed their song in truncated form because they were selected as the 14 finalists and I didn't think that it was up to this Svalte chap to select the 14 finalists. As for the montage, I wrote the description in the
Congratulations (Eurovision) article from my watching of my recording of the show. There was a winners' montage but there were only about 15 or so, for about 10 seconds each, it had Marie N, Charlotte Nilsson, Secret Garden, Niamh Kavanagh, Herreys, Bucks Fizz, Marie Myriam... and more but those were the most recent ones which were shown and Ruslana was not in it and I feel that they (EBU) would have just chosen whichever songs they liked as they owned the footage irrespective of what the artists thought (dead or alive). Thanks,
Blnguyen |
rant-line 01:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC).
Owh, sorry.. I just registered yesterday and I know nothing much... Imoeng 08:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. An anon prodded this. Seems from his edits he doesn't like Shiri Maimon. I have depordded. Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 03:18, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Thats a shame because I think someone with your weight and articulation skills would help to resolve this particular situation. And really, its just one of many articles that are heavily biased against Turkey. Anyway, I understand your decision to keep out of this. Regards-- Kilhan 12:40, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
In making my comments, I tried to see what Wikipedia policy said, and follow it. Carfiend 16:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thanks for adding the template, I had previewed it and forgotten to save. have to watch for this type of hoax articles with false references. -- Astrokey 44 23:49, 25 July 2006 (UTC)