Herb Schildt thanked me for getting the violations of BLP out of the article last winter. I'm under no obligation to be civil in a medium which is being deliberately used to destroy people and cause them pain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.218.138.106 ( talk) 17:58, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Coneslayer,
Could you please tell me why you reverted "The Shocker" article back to the 1:33 p.m. Oct. 3, 2006 edit of "The Shocker"? I intentionally put the variation of "The Eye of the Storm" on that page because it is a REAL variation. Although there is no citation, much of the page lacks citations. I see no reason for you to remove my addition. I am going to put it back in the article. I would appreciate if you did not remove it. If there is a reason that you are removing it, please tell me. Thank you.
-Ben Potts
Hey Coneslayer: Thanks for the Great Circle Mapper link; it's pretty cool - I mean, very useful tool.
Bwefler 16:29 (MST), 4 Mar 2005
Ah! I see we were both reverting Tides of Blood at the same time. I was one version older than you - but I don't mean to suggest that it was better! Musser 19:52, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting the vandalism on the Muay Thai page! Appreciate it! -- 84.217.115.202 23:57, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Your changes turned a set of proper links to Wikipedia articles into links to redirects (check goose and geese, for example). You gave no reason for your changes in the edit summary or one the Talk page, so I reverted until I found out what was going on. Could you do that? As the person who originally wrote the article was American, I had to assume that he knew something of what he was talking about, and had a reason for writing what he did, so an unexplained change (accompanied by breaking the Wikilinks) seemed safer to revert (also, see [1], [2]). Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 22:17, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Glad you liked the list. Of course, it's overgeneralised here too; for example, in our present garden we'd have to put dunnocks and wrens (and possibly coal tits) in the top ten, and starlings and wood pigeons would drop off the bottom, while in our London garden we'd have had to omit chaffinches and collared doves and add jays and magpies.
I've replaced the older U.S. list with the 2005 list from the Great Backyard Bird Count (thanks for putting me on to that). Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 18:45, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You've got to admit, whoever wrote "It is also the only sport stadium in the united states made totaly out of foam rubber" showed more inspiration than the average vandal on this site. d:) Wahkeenah 15:22, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
It's official!' The first-ever L.A. Wiki Meetup will be occuring on July 25th, 2005. Are you coming? Would you like to help host? More details on the Meetup page. Be sure to check back regularly for updates! - Eric 2 July 2005 11:45 (UTC)
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We attempted to put a couple of commercial links to our company on to your website. A day later we were sent this by you
“Welcome to Wikipedia. Please be aware that Wikipedia is not a forum for advertising. The commercial links you're adding to numerous pages are being removed. -- Coneslayer 15:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)” We are sorry for the misunderstanding and now understand that it is not possible to have commerical links. The reason we tried in the first place is that on one of your pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time we came across a commerical link to one of our competitors and so we were wondering if this is a mistake.
the link we saw on that page is “ Time Servers NTP Time Servers” and goes to http://www.timetools.com
Russ
Please stop harassing me. I changed it back immediately, so obviously you need to lay off. Thanks -- Chrisottjr 23:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey, thanks, it seems you have paid me in kind for reverting the vandalism to your user page. I appreciate it. Best, Irongargoyle 21:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
This is honestly a question:
I am not trying to be some smart-ass who wants to find loop-holes in your rules.
CAN I or CAN I NOT act like a jerk as I wish on my userpage as long as it isn't addressed toward anyone or anything in particular?
I know you read it, because you had asked me to review the civility policy. (I don't expect you to remember details or anything.)
Keep in mind, that I DID change it and that I am NOT trying to argue with you. I am just expressing how I feel, and you have every right to say, "Hey, well that's not how things work around here. So TOUGH LUCK!".
The ONLY reason why I thought that content was acceptable was because it's a User Page. It doesn't even show up in normal Wikipedia searches. I just don't see how it could be offensive if noone goes there barring people who have seen my name on edit history and/or administrators. Not to mention: It was plain jerkiness! It wasn't aimed at anyone or anything.
Also, one more thing: Are you atleast allowed to use profane language on your user page if it is not referring to anyone or anything?
-Thanks A LOT! MLCamp 18:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
-I am sorry, also another question. It's personal, I just noticed YOUR userpage (lovely compared to mine)
Do you just like birding or birds in general? I love to watch birds but I also own several. A Congo African grey and Two tiels (White face pied, and pied... uh and two cats, a dog and a ferret) I was just wondering. Seems like an odd hobby for a non-bird owner. Then again, I wouldn't know. Sorry about this type of question... I just thought I would add it in there...
-Thanks MLCamp 18:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, my removal of the term here was simply because it's implied without the word and is inherently redundant. My comment has to do with a pet peeve of mine that the prefix "pre" is migrating in common use from "before (modified word)" to mean "the (modified word) that occurred before." While obviously connected tangentially to the context here, it was not the (only) reason I removed the word. JDoorj a m Talk 23:09, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
I noticed you watch Keck Observatory, what do you think about merging Keck Interferometer with it? IvoShandor 12:09, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
OK, maybe my updated summary at Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars was a little lurid. But then again, "the page contains material which is kept because it is considered humorous." I'll rewrite it again and try to strike a balance. Eleland 16:57, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
I appreciate that. Also consider the context, and consider others who may be acting like dicks. It takes two to tango so to speak. 64.236.121.129 16:14, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I think I read an official ruling on wikipedia that used the word nazi, and having to do with being pedantic with rules. That's where I got it from. 64.236.121.129 ( talk) 22:03, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Maybe you can clarify something for me. I'm not convinced that Fir's opinion on what is meant by "caption" makes a lot of sense. The regular, "below-image in article" caption may be different in different articles. If the FPC caption is not the POTD caption, who gets to decide on that? To me, the POTD caption is an integral part of an FP, and should probably be guided by consensus-finding. This not being the case would explain the low quality of biology-related POTD captions I've sometimes seen if this is how things work. Samsara ( talk • contribs) 15:19, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
You realize what you are doing is trolling right? Please don't continue in this behavior. 64.236.121.129 ( talk) 19:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
anonymous user has edits only on the talk:cat page, and it's pure trolling, not good-faith at all - particularly when the editor attacks another editor uncivilly for a simple response. i'm unclear why you're encouraging this behavior. Anastrophe ( talk) 19:08, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I see your Iglesias, and raise you a Strindberg (or however one phrases it). Your reply raised a hearty chuckle. SaundersW ( talk) 18:57, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
I appreciate your response. Corvus cornix talk 20:29, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
I realise that you added the "fact" tag as a joke to your Mockingbird reply, but the tag does more than add the well-known "citation needed" text. It also adds the page to (and, I believe, a number of other places), which is combed by a number of wikiprojects. I appreciate your levity and even got a smile out of it myself, but I believe that misusing it can cause headaches for others down the line. I hope you don't mind that I have removed the tag. Plasticup T/ C 18:27, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
And mind your own business, you boring little man. You might be useful though for something: please delete my username and page and all that rubbish if you can. Such a mistake, joining this bunch of freaks. Ethanoylchloride ( talk) 18:36, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Re. your comments on my page, god only knows what you're talking about: strange jargon. As for 'possibly not fitting in', I dearly hope that I don't fit in. What a terrible prospect. Goodbye. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ethanoylchloride ( talk • contribs) 18:45, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
It wasn't Encyclopædia Brown - but something very like! DuncanHill ( talk) 16:27, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks again for your great answer. I must've missed it before. Cheers! Utan Vax ( talk) 23:49, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hiya, Mr. Slayer. Just wanted to thank you for the advice you gave me on the reference desk. After a brief but embarrassing period where I was setting the FreeNAS root directory as the sharepoint (causing all sorts of wonderful shenanigans), I got it up and running! Thanks for your help - would never have known what to do without it. Badger Drink ( talk) 03:59, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
At the top it says: "This page is for discussion of the Reference Desks only. Please don't post comments here that don't relate to the Reference Desks." That material does not fit the bill, which is why it was collapsed – not deleted, as it should have been, but collapsed. Please explain in what way Bugs' revert was helpful to discussion of the Reference Desks. Malcolm XIV ( talk) 15:42, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
You were correct to redact the non-free holocaust image that I have since replaced with a public domain one. I apologise for any inference that this was holocaust denial on your part. Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 21:00, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Don't edit war on other peoples' talk pages. Especially when you are reverting their comments on their own pages. Doing so doesn't diffuse problems, it escalates them. If you have a problem with a personal attack, then involve a third party or make another post asking for the the user to self-revert. For my money, being told you are trolling isn't enough of a personal attack to merit a huge mess. I recommend you be the bigger man/woman and just leave it there. Protonk ( talk) 04:15, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
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Herb Schildt thanked me for getting the violations of BLP out of the article last winter. I'm under no obligation to be civil in a medium which is being deliberately used to destroy people and cause them pain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.218.138.106 ( talk) 17:58, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Coneslayer,
Could you please tell me why you reverted "The Shocker" article back to the 1:33 p.m. Oct. 3, 2006 edit of "The Shocker"? I intentionally put the variation of "The Eye of the Storm" on that page because it is a REAL variation. Although there is no citation, much of the page lacks citations. I see no reason for you to remove my addition. I am going to put it back in the article. I would appreciate if you did not remove it. If there is a reason that you are removing it, please tell me. Thank you.
-Ben Potts
Hey Coneslayer: Thanks for the Great Circle Mapper link; it's pretty cool - I mean, very useful tool.
Bwefler 16:29 (MST), 4 Mar 2005
Ah! I see we were both reverting Tides of Blood at the same time. I was one version older than you - but I don't mean to suggest that it was better! Musser 19:52, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting the vandalism on the Muay Thai page! Appreciate it! -- 84.217.115.202 23:57, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Your changes turned a set of proper links to Wikipedia articles into links to redirects (check goose and geese, for example). You gave no reason for your changes in the edit summary or one the Talk page, so I reverted until I found out what was going on. Could you do that? As the person who originally wrote the article was American, I had to assume that he knew something of what he was talking about, and had a reason for writing what he did, so an unexplained change (accompanied by breaking the Wikilinks) seemed safer to revert (also, see [1], [2]). Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 22:17, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Glad you liked the list. Of course, it's overgeneralised here too; for example, in our present garden we'd have to put dunnocks and wrens (and possibly coal tits) in the top ten, and starlings and wood pigeons would drop off the bottom, while in our London garden we'd have had to omit chaffinches and collared doves and add jays and magpies.
I've replaced the older U.S. list with the 2005 list from the Great Backyard Bird Count (thanks for putting me on to that). Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 18:45, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You've got to admit, whoever wrote "It is also the only sport stadium in the united states made totaly out of foam rubber" showed more inspiration than the average vandal on this site. d:) Wahkeenah 15:22, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
It's official!' The first-ever L.A. Wiki Meetup will be occuring on July 25th, 2005. Are you coming? Would you like to help host? More details on the Meetup page. Be sure to check back regularly for updates! - Eric 2 July 2005 11:45 (UTC)
Since you are in Lancaster, I'd like to point out the relatively new California WikiProject, and Southern California WikiProject. Please check out the web pages and see if there is anything you are interested in. BlankVerse ∅ 09:56, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
We attempted to put a couple of commercial links to our company on to your website. A day later we were sent this by you
“Welcome to Wikipedia. Please be aware that Wikipedia is not a forum for advertising. The commercial links you're adding to numerous pages are being removed. -- Coneslayer 15:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)” We are sorry for the misunderstanding and now understand that it is not possible to have commerical links. The reason we tried in the first place is that on one of your pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time we came across a commerical link to one of our competitors and so we were wondering if this is a mistake.
the link we saw on that page is “ Time Servers NTP Time Servers” and goes to http://www.timetools.com
Russ
Please stop harassing me. I changed it back immediately, so obviously you need to lay off. Thanks -- Chrisottjr 23:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey, thanks, it seems you have paid me in kind for reverting the vandalism to your user page. I appreciate it. Best, Irongargoyle 21:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
This is honestly a question:
I am not trying to be some smart-ass who wants to find loop-holes in your rules.
CAN I or CAN I NOT act like a jerk as I wish on my userpage as long as it isn't addressed toward anyone or anything in particular?
I know you read it, because you had asked me to review the civility policy. (I don't expect you to remember details or anything.)
Keep in mind, that I DID change it and that I am NOT trying to argue with you. I am just expressing how I feel, and you have every right to say, "Hey, well that's not how things work around here. So TOUGH LUCK!".
The ONLY reason why I thought that content was acceptable was because it's a User Page. It doesn't even show up in normal Wikipedia searches. I just don't see how it could be offensive if noone goes there barring people who have seen my name on edit history and/or administrators. Not to mention: It was plain jerkiness! It wasn't aimed at anyone or anything.
Also, one more thing: Are you atleast allowed to use profane language on your user page if it is not referring to anyone or anything?
-Thanks A LOT! MLCamp 18:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
-I am sorry, also another question. It's personal, I just noticed YOUR userpage (lovely compared to mine)
Do you just like birding or birds in general? I love to watch birds but I also own several. A Congo African grey and Two tiels (White face pied, and pied... uh and two cats, a dog and a ferret) I was just wondering. Seems like an odd hobby for a non-bird owner. Then again, I wouldn't know. Sorry about this type of question... I just thought I would add it in there...
-Thanks MLCamp 18:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, my removal of the term here was simply because it's implied without the word and is inherently redundant. My comment has to do with a pet peeve of mine that the prefix "pre" is migrating in common use from "before (modified word)" to mean "the (modified word) that occurred before." While obviously connected tangentially to the context here, it was not the (only) reason I removed the word. JDoorj a m Talk 23:09, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
I noticed you watch Keck Observatory, what do you think about merging Keck Interferometer with it? IvoShandor 12:09, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
OK, maybe my updated summary at Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars was a little lurid. But then again, "the page contains material which is kept because it is considered humorous." I'll rewrite it again and try to strike a balance. Eleland 16:57, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
I appreciate that. Also consider the context, and consider others who may be acting like dicks. It takes two to tango so to speak. 64.236.121.129 16:14, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I think I read an official ruling on wikipedia that used the word nazi, and having to do with being pedantic with rules. That's where I got it from. 64.236.121.129 ( talk) 22:03, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Maybe you can clarify something for me. I'm not convinced that Fir's opinion on what is meant by "caption" makes a lot of sense. The regular, "below-image in article" caption may be different in different articles. If the FPC caption is not the POTD caption, who gets to decide on that? To me, the POTD caption is an integral part of an FP, and should probably be guided by consensus-finding. This not being the case would explain the low quality of biology-related POTD captions I've sometimes seen if this is how things work. Samsara ( talk • contribs) 15:19, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
You realize what you are doing is trolling right? Please don't continue in this behavior. 64.236.121.129 ( talk) 19:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
anonymous user has edits only on the talk:cat page, and it's pure trolling, not good-faith at all - particularly when the editor attacks another editor uncivilly for a simple response. i'm unclear why you're encouraging this behavior. Anastrophe ( talk) 19:08, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I see your Iglesias, and raise you a Strindberg (or however one phrases it). Your reply raised a hearty chuckle. SaundersW ( talk) 18:57, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
I appreciate your response. Corvus cornix talk 20:29, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
I realise that you added the "fact" tag as a joke to your Mockingbird reply, but the tag does more than add the well-known "citation needed" text. It also adds the page to (and, I believe, a number of other places), which is combed by a number of wikiprojects. I appreciate your levity and even got a smile out of it myself, but I believe that misusing it can cause headaches for others down the line. I hope you don't mind that I have removed the tag. Plasticup T/ C 18:27, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
And mind your own business, you boring little man. You might be useful though for something: please delete my username and page and all that rubbish if you can. Such a mistake, joining this bunch of freaks. Ethanoylchloride ( talk) 18:36, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Re. your comments on my page, god only knows what you're talking about: strange jargon. As for 'possibly not fitting in', I dearly hope that I don't fit in. What a terrible prospect. Goodbye. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ethanoylchloride ( talk • contribs) 18:45, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
It wasn't Encyclopædia Brown - but something very like! DuncanHill ( talk) 16:27, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks again for your great answer. I must've missed it before. Cheers! Utan Vax ( talk) 23:49, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hiya, Mr. Slayer. Just wanted to thank you for the advice you gave me on the reference desk. After a brief but embarrassing period where I was setting the FreeNAS root directory as the sharepoint (causing all sorts of wonderful shenanigans), I got it up and running! Thanks for your help - would never have known what to do without it. Badger Drink ( talk) 03:59, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
At the top it says: "This page is for discussion of the Reference Desks only. Please don't post comments here that don't relate to the Reference Desks." That material does not fit the bill, which is why it was collapsed – not deleted, as it should have been, but collapsed. Please explain in what way Bugs' revert was helpful to discussion of the Reference Desks. Malcolm XIV ( talk) 15:42, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
You were correct to redact the non-free holocaust image that I have since replaced with a public domain one. I apologise for any inference that this was holocaust denial on your part. Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 21:00, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Don't edit war on other peoples' talk pages. Especially when you are reverting their comments on their own pages. Doing so doesn't diffuse problems, it escalates them. If you have a problem with a personal attack, then involve a third party or make another post asking for the the user to self-revert. For my money, being told you are trolling isn't enough of a personal attack to merit a huge mess. I recommend you be the bigger man/woman and just leave it there. Protonk ( talk) 04:15, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
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