I did not know that. Thanks. I wonder why it's like that. SteveSims 21:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Not a vandalism. Something went wrong with the upload. Crazy stuff got inserted in the browser's POST stream, I think.
I'll agree with your removal of the overly long Dutch word from the article; (main reason being; it doesnt really do much for the text that the shorter long examples didn't). I just thought I should comment on the soft hyphen. They are defined in HTML but it's a longstanding request in the browsers you tried ( bugzilla 9101 since 1999, Konqueror bug 33855 since 2001, and Dillo bug 486) Can't really call it a bug as ignoring them is allowed in the spec, but it's the little things like that you expect to work in the 'good' browsers. :\ They work properly in IE, Opera, and apparently Safari as well though. — Muke Tever 03:03, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
"Arraignment" was correct. Look it up. -- Dominus 04:28, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi - The by day entries in WP:CFD are generally automatically created by a bot ( User:NekoDaemon) that runs every day at midnight GMT (although it seems not to have run today). What it does is create a new subpage named for the day, and copies into this subpage a header with the date and the comment text you see if you edit any of the existing days. Then, it adds the {{Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/date}} line to WP:CFD. Referencing the subpage this way treats it like a template (includes the contents in the WP:CFD page when you look at it), and (I'd really consider this a bug) the "edit" links for subsections on the included page edit the included page rather than the including page (this is true for any template). This sort of mechanism is used on a number of high traffic pages to try to minimize edit collisions. I'll ask user:AllyUnion who is the bots creator what happened today. -- Rick Block ( talk) 22:35, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
Articles on Wikipedia are written generally either in International English or American English. æ is used in IE, not in AE. Irish articles are written in IE. Changing spellings on Irish topics to American English is not acceptable on Wikipedia and is reverted. æ is used in IE and in Hiberno-English. FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 01:08, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Under Wikipedia rules mediaeval, medieval or mediæval are all acceptable and I know many Irish writers — I am one of the many — do use mediæval, sometimes mediaeval but never medieval (which grates on me the same way as color for colour and check for cheque). Personally I was taught in both school and university in Ireland to write it as mediæval. It is an acceptable variant of English in British English and Hiberno-English so please do not replace it. Once the variant is accepted, and it is, it should not be replaced under Wikipedia MoS rules. FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 02:01, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
æ is simply the original way of writing ae. The letters can be written either way and both are correct. æ declined in usage in the 20th century because it was difficult to type on old typewriters. With the appearance of wordprocessing æ can be typed easily using a standard key (alt " on macs, for example) æ is once again being used by many people rather than write ae. Both are valid.
Individual spellings are not a matter on or off a syllabus. It is a less used variant because of manual typewriting problems, so it had to be typed as ae but 100% legitimate to use and with the appearance of word processing, as I have mentioned, many users have returned to using æ. It is also fully legitimate to use on Wikipedia. So do not remove it. Such removals will simply be reverted by the many users who, quite correctly, use it. Users are perfectly entitled to use it here. You can write the letters ae separately if you wish, but people do not have to. It is up to them, not you, to decide to use it. (If you look at the insert box on your screen you will see that Wikipedia facilitates people who wish to use it by giving œ, Œ, Æ and æ as typing options.
FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 04:59, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
It is cobblers, not to say insulting, to say that "no normal person" uses æ. They do. If you remove words with æ it will be treated as vandalism, reported as such as treated under Wikipedia rules as in cases where people willfully change BE to AE, or AE into BE, when it has been pointed out that the article is entitled to use the them. You clearly know less about language use and forms of spelling that can be used than you think you know. FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 06:43, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
So, "no normal person" uses æ; perhaps not. I reverted your edit to restore æ. My comment was ‘revert in memory of George William Russell’. Perhaps he wasn’t normal; he wrote about ‘the færy world’ and those who ‘live only in the æther’, while others dwell ‘up the æry mountains’. Perhaps he wasn’t normal. He didn’t adhere to the spelling found in your Oxford Compact English Dictionary; he didn’t because he lived in Rathgar Avenue, at its junction with Kenilworth Square. I would appreciate it if you left words spelt as Dubliners would spell them, in articles about Dublin alone, rather than imposing your Oxford spelling. Thank you, -- ClemMcGann 09:09, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Please bear the following in mind next time you're in the vicinity of the Proinsias De Rossa article, and indeed in general:
Gronky 21:15, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
I see I am not the first person to take issue with your habit of making an edit, and then using the summary for that edit as a forum to reply to someone instead of summarizing what the edit is. Your edit had nothing to do with my edit, or the GNU toolchain which is what I edited. It doesn't seem appropriate to try to offer a rebuttal in the summary. If you have something to discuss, use the discussion page. Perhaps something like "mention that GNU utilties are more stable than proprietary unix" would have been a more accurate summary of your edit?
As to your actual edit, GNU utilities are not proven to be better than anything, "better" is a subjective term, and therefore cannot be proven. Since you decided to go with "stable", your summary rebuttal doesn't even make sense. None the less, I do not believe that the GNU utilties have been proven to be more stable. Your reference shows that 5 years ago, the GNU utilties were proven to handle random input better, but I don't think that is the same thing as "stable", and is nowhere close to "better". And of course they were only compared to the notoriously bad utilties in proprietary systems, not against any quality software. Personally, I think that paragraph sounds weird now with two seperate and different quality statements, maybe if you want to have information on the quality of GNU utilities we can come up with a whole seperate paragraph just for that info?
Also, you seem to have a very GNU-centric mindset, so please keep in mind that many people consider the GNU utilities to be junk and not worth using at all. In fact, people even go out of their way to create free, secure and reliable alternatives to GNU utilties, see the BSDs for instance, particularly OpenBSD. Remember that your personal opinion of the GNU software is not factual information about GNU software. So if you do want to keep quality information in the article, keep in mind that it will need to contain both points of view. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Generic Player ( talk • contribs) 18:07, August 30, 2005
Hi Gronky,
I noticed Njyoder ( talk · contribs) hostile behaviour on the Richard Stallman article. I would like to point out that this user is on personal attack parole from a previous RfAr [1] for precisely this reason and if you feel he is unfairly making personal attacks against you, you can report him for such. Axon ( talk| contribs) 09:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
Thank you on correcting Dillo to be correct from a "GNU/FSF way". Let's continue making wikipedia a bit more aware of Free Software and the GNU project. Rvalles 23:23, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
There have been a few new candidates for speedy deletion added over the past month or two. A new CSD I5 allows for unused fair use or unfree images that have been on the site for seven days to be speedy deleted. So, if you re-upload the image and use it in an article, you should be okay. Thanks, JYolkowski // talk 01:20, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for reinserting it. I was partial to that picture myself. 172 | Talk 05:19, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
I noticed you changed the phrasing in the Black box article from
to
Could you please explain to me the difference between the two versions? - It seems to me that your addition is redundant. Thanks, Nihiltres 17:44, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Egad. I'm using Firefox and the text on this page get progressively smaller with every FearEireann signature. - Joshuapaquin 01:46, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
I must say I support you on your GNU-related edits. It's sad to see people calling Linux an operating system. Also, someone is trying to remove Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/GNU/kFreeBSD on the ground that it's not an operating system. Thought it'd be good to let you know. Geronimooo 13:19, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
NetBSD isn't Free Software, you shouldn't go randomly changing to FSFisms in the articles about systems that entirely do not agree with the FSF. You can't just go adding stuff that is GNU to articles, because that's adding point of view to them, which is really bad when it's not even the subject's point of view. Janizary 06:16, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Hey, Gronky! I believe we have not yet finished our discussion. I had an "epiphany" recently, and I realized that perhaps, you should go ahead with your "overseas filipino communities" suggestion, or whatever title you see fit. Good luck, and Merry Christmas! :) -- Noypi380 07:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I've been working a bit on the article recently and would like to get some feedback, could you let me know what you think needs adding/is missing etc. from the article. Thanks - FrancisTyers 17:11, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Why is Free Software not a subset of Open Source software? — Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 02:42, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Wow, I made that suggestion nearly half a year ago, and then completely forgotten about it (along with the ~1000 other posts I've made). And then, not haven't gotten a message since the summer, today it says "You have new messages." I'm glad you started the portal, I mean - since the German and French Wikipedia both have one, surely the English Wikipedia should have one (considering Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, ... all speak English). I'll try to contribute as much as I can, but I go college so that's why I mainly stopped contributing to Wikipedia since September. In fact, much of what I know about free software comes directly from Wikipedia articles. I put up a picture and "did you know" on Portal:free software. It's not much, but it's a start. Great job on what you did so far! - Hyad 06:33, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
You've probably seen me (admittedly) trolling on the Richard Stallman talk page. My own observation is tending to lead me to believe that your degree of regard for Richard Stallman is primarily emotionally based, and non-objective. I'm willing to acknowledge that my own dislike of some elements of his behaviour probably is also; but I've noticed that certain people's unreasoning worship of him is as much the cause of my dislike of him as his own attitudes/statements at times.
My primary grievances with him are that a) he seems very much to try and insist that his philosophy is the only one that can be legitimately followed, and that b) despite the size and number of his genuine contributions, as I noted on the talk page, for some inexplicable reason, he and his followers such as yourself continue to attempt to take credit for things for which credit does not honestly belong to him. Given that, on reflection I can see that my problems are with some specific behaviour here...I do not know the man personally, and would not try to claim that I do.
These are not reservations which I alone hold, either...I have seen them noted by a considerable number of other people in the past as well. I will also acknowledge having been gratuitously provocative on the talk page at times, but said provocation has been a product of genuine frustration and confusion; this man has genuinely done much to be respected for, but recognition for that which he genuinely has done on its own does not seem to be enough for him. I also do not understand why he seems to be so deeply threatened by the idea that other people wish to hold beliefs which are not necessarily in conformity with his own. That to me genuinely does not seem conducive to the kind of freedom which he claims to want people to have. I cannot help but assume that surely a part of any meaningful freedom would have to be the freedom to disagree with him. Petrus4 22:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Cyberjunkie has nominated for deletion the template that gives your portal round corners. He's trying to delete 3 templates I created. Please help maintain selective design amongst portals and support these three templates. Here's the link: Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion#Portal:Box-header-round. They are listed sequentially. There isn't much time left, and it's lucky I found out at all. -- Go for it! 03:50, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I saw this edit - do you have an proove for this? Just a source would be enough for me. -- Liquidat 14:22, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
If a misunderstanding is held by a large enough section of society, it will sometimes be wrong in Wikipedia - and when someone tries to fix it, they may be out-numbered by people who are sure that their misunderstanding is correct.
One example that people talk about is that if Wikipedia was started hundreds of years ago, it's article about Earth would say that the Earth is flat.
There are many modern-day examples related to the GNU operating system, the GNU project, and free software.
Hi Gronky, I saw this on your user page, but I did not click the top right edit button there to say this: I am aware of this type of thing elsewhere in life and in Wiki. Like the origin of the name White Rhino, which I think I have fixed. Then while being a Wiki user I discovered that my long held belief that the maiden name of Simon van der Stel's wife form Stellenbosch was Bosch, is a misbelief. Then in 1986 I was tought about Groupthink and we see today that George Bush junior is guilty of allowing it to occur. Gregorydavid 07:19, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Don't links like this [7] belong on the Talk pages, not the actual articles themselves? AlistairMcMillan 20:46, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for helping on the Chavez corrections ! Sandy 14:56, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I think you misread the article. OSI Certified is a strong trademark of the Open Source Initiative. Please do not disparage this mark further. Open Source, even though unregistered, and aruably currently unregisterable, is a weak trademark of the Open Source Initiative. We might not prevail in defending it in court, but there is no harm in our claiming it to be a trademark. RussNelson 03:12, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
No problem in adding my recent Talk:FOSS history discussion to Alternative terms for free software. However, were you asking me to reduce/compose/insert the info into the main article, or simply copy the gist of what I wrote in Talk:FOSS into Talk:Alternative terms for free software?
BTW, do I know you, as in "have we ever talked by phone or any other non-electronic-text medium?" No specifics needed, just some of your style of argment sounds familiar. I, stupidly yet gleefully (I clearly have masochistic tendencies), have decided to be me. Not enough experience in online role-playing in my background, I suspect.
I was amused by the aptness of your comments to the effect of "if you don't reply, the most negative interpretation ends up 'winning' the discussion... thus forcing a lot of self-defensive work instead of real composition and addition to Wikipedia." I have, um, discovered that the hard way lately... 8^) It's too bad, really, since the same amount of effort applied to adding to content would often be far more beneficial to everyone in the long term. It's not that different from free software: adding new code to fix problems in free software is in the long term a much more powerful approach than doing nothing but critiquing code and leaving the (often much harder) constructive work to be done by others. It also sort of conflicts with the original admonitions of Wikipedia to "be bold!" and "feel free to add!", doesn't it? Cheers, Terry Bollinger 04:25, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested. Best wishes, Samsara ( talk • contribs) 17:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
You write:
In view of the need for verifiability to cited public sources, I think that the same principles as in WP:AUTO apply here and I should not do more than correct obvious errors. But to answer some of your questions (and you'll need to find public sources for anything you wish to include), the article should be at CodeSourcery and personally I doubt the utility of leaving a redirect at the mis-spaced Code Sourcery, founded 1997, Chief Sourcerer Mark Mitchell (GCC Release Manager), "based" Granite Bay, California but this is hardly meaningful or significant for a completely distributed company, 19 staff (all technical) but I don't think you'll find a public source to cite for this figure, the bulk of Sourcery G++ is free software (there are proprietary debug stubs for connecting to proprietary interfaces on various boards, and proprietary Eclipse plugins) as is all of Sourcery VSIPL++ and QMTest (the C++ ABI Testsuite is the one purely proprietary product, and there is internal code not released at all), I don't know what you mean by a free software policy (all changes to the free software components are contributed upstream where acceptable upstream; we are an FSF Corporate Patron [8]). Joseph Myers 00:55, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I've taken the liberty of changing my sig html up a bit. Is this better for you? — JT (TRAiNER4) T· C· E 22:10, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
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I created an amendment for fair use in portals, as well as submitted to village pump, see here: Wikipedia:Fair use/Amendment/Fair use images in portals#Also. It would be great if you could express your support there. ddcc 21:51, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, it was probably inappropriate. My bad. Neilc 11:20, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
dear gronky! i said something ok Karl Marx talk page about your concerns. you might want to read it. -- Arash red 06:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I don't know any "X Windows". I guess you mean the X Window System. -- mms 21:14, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
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In an edit you wrote that "licence is the noun, license is the verb". If so, why than GNU General Public License? -- mms 09:11, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, actually I changed it because of the redirect. :) I prefer British myself. (Not a native speaker, though) 80.233.255.7 15:22, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Not all linux contain GNU. So GNU/Linux is only a subset of Linux that has GNU tools. Micropolygon 13:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
(Deindent)... Wouldn't NoGNU-Linux be better off as Unix-Linux? 92.0.138.3 ( talk) 11:54, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, no, it doesn't mess with talk page archiving at all; it combines a lot of the talk page template clutter (templates related to peer reviews, FA and GA status) into one {{ ArticleHistory}} template. It can be done by hand, but GimmeBot does it automatically; I'm just doing the prep work. For a sample, look at Talk:The Simpsons. I think you'll like it! SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Gronky. I think that a little more work on Linux would bring it to Featured Article status. I would be grateful for your comments here. Thanks. Axl 12:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for pointing it out.
Dsigal 02:59, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
It was curious that they were all the same. Thank you. MichaelNetzer 22:14, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Gronky! Since it has been a month since you nominated the Free software portal for peer review, I hope you received good feedback on how the portal could be improved. If you would like, you could keep the portal listed at the portal peer review for more suggestions for improvement and ask the Wikipedians here for feedback. Also, if you think the portal is ready, you could nominate the portal for featured status. Either way, I hope you've received helpful reviews! Cheers, S.D. 16:08, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Ah, I see. I apologize, I meant no harm. Geekman314( contact me) 21:47, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I am contacting everyone who participated in the discussion that became inactive in December. Due to the length of the previous discussion, I have proposed a new amendment and you like you to weigh in so that we may actually have a consensus on this matter as it doesn't seem there exists one either way. - ΖαππερΝαππερ Babel Alexandria
Ok, well I'm glad you corrected the nouns that were in the body. The reason I edited in the first place was because the title spelling did not match its usage within the body, so I corrected the spelling that I was familiar with so that title and usage within the body were consistent. Question: For differences like this, what is typically done in Wikipedia? Why is the Wikipedia page at Color spelled the American way, for instance? Thanks. Jeff schiller 13:33, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your message on my talk page. Please see my reply here. Cheers-- Edcolins 17:57, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
According to wikicharts صفحهٔ اصلی which you created is one of our top 1000 most popular 'articles' :) Haukur 10:06, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
If you want Gnu/communism to be discussed for deletion, there are three steps you need to take. See WP:AFD. -- RHaworth 16:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Gronky. Yes, the abilty to write a good article is important, but it seems to me the Wiki editorial gang is going for style over substance with a decided preference to delete/revert rather than taking the time to improve the entries. The fact that Francis has trouble seeing the connection between the Children of the Code site and spelling reform verifies this opinion in 50ft tall letters.
I think all of you need to reread the Whats Great About Wiki essay. You have obviously strayed far away from the ideals touted there. JO 753 04:10, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
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Usually the nom counts as a Delete vote, and really does not need to vote. When people say "per nom," they mean that the reason why they are voting Delete is the same reason stated in the nominating statement. Panoptical 20:25, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you semi-reverted my change to the wording of the mention of TG4. I was hoping we could discuss this and come to an agreement so that we're not simply reverting each other. To me this explanation seems unnecessary for a couple of reasons. First, it's mentioned higher up on the page so doesn't come completely out of nowhere. Second, someone has since added a link to that same mention. If someone is confused as to what TG4 is, they can simply check the link. Furthermore, the wordier explanation seems to break up the flow of the language to me. I'd like to hear your own viewpoint so that we can perhaps come up with some form of compromise. — Leftmostcat 09:10, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hey Gronky, I'm a new article writer. I have written an article on GGobi and am looking for any helpful feedback. It is free software so I thought you might have an interest in it. Thanks for the help in advance. Lynn08 03:06, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, sorry for the late reply. It's good to see Wikipedia users who do know the history of GNU and understand the difference between GNU/Linux and Linux. To me, the fact that links to GNU/Linux are being removed seems like being contrary to the Wikipedia's objectives of developing useful educational neutral content, as talking about "Linux distributions" is not neutral (it's openly anti-GNU) and neither useful nor educational (it makes people believe wrong things about the status of GNU and fails to help readers understand what a GNU/Linux distro is composed of) and is also unhistorical. It's very bad that some have resorted to some sort of "delinking war" to remove GNU/Linux links, as this makes Wikipedia biased. I just hope there are enough people here who know the GNU history and understand the extend of GNU code in every GNU/Linux distro (bash, grep, libc, emacs, gnome, just to name a few GNU software programs found in nearly every distro), otherwise those who don't know it or are biased against it may succeed in making Wikipedia less neutral :( NerdyNSK 22:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
At Portal talk:Free software you wrote, "I've finally finished the tabs, and I can't find nicer tabs in any portal. These ones rock - and to top it off, I think they're even the best documented tabs." <-- can you point me to the documentation? I'm looking for something like Wikipedia:Portal/Instructions. Thanks. -- JWSchmidt 14:47, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
It gets too complicated to lay out the full story in the lead. It goes 1987-1997 Labour MP for Glasgow Hillhead; 1997-2003 Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvin; 2003-2004 Independent MP for Glasgow Kelvin; 2004-2005 Respect MP for Glasgow Kelvin; 2005- Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow. The whole story is set out in the article and probably isn't worth summarising in the lead. Fys. Ta fys aym. 21:54, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
see User_talk:Lentower#A_Merge_of_Free_Software_and_Open_Source_Software.3F.3F for my reply. I prefer that these talk page discussions be on a single page. Lentower 18:49, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Gronky, your help is needed in the mentioned articles. Jimmi Hugh thinks talking about proprietary software is just propaganda and does disgrace Wikipedia. -- mms ( talk) 19:12, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the link. I'll make sure to contribute, as free software is very important to me, and we need to inform everyone about it. P.S. how dare that person change all the GNU/Linux links to Linux (unless it was about the kernel). Afarnen ( talk) 16:02, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Would you support keeping the current article's text, but using the target article's name? If there is nothing to merge from the target article, what do you think should be done with it? If you don't think that is the better name, should we delete it or redirect it to wherever the current article eventually is? -- Karnesky ( talk) 21:34, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Errr, strongly agreeing with the premise of personal attacks (even in part) isn't that much better than making them onesself. You're better than that. Chris Cunningham ( talk) 10:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Gronky, I restored the links you removed from the Ohloh description in Free software movement. I don't see how linking to metrics and quantitative analyses (i.e. a factual description of what ohloh does) means saying how great the service is. -- DarTar ( talk) 12:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I want to complete it and use it to substitute the "Release changes under a different licence" columns in Comparison of free software licences but, I'm not sure on how to order them, any ideas? I was thinking that there has to a better way then just putting them alphabetically. Also, if you know someone who has a good bit of legal knowledge, please ask them too. Mike92591 ( talk) 03:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
On Portal talk:Free software a recent comment of yours refers to "one Wikipedia, Thumperward" - did you mean "one Wikipedia editor"? Guy Harris ( talk) 21:08, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
I've asked you to refrain from this kind of canvassing action in the past; I'm pretty sure that doing so on your user page is against policy. There's no need for this, and I don't see that it's likely to persuade anyone who wasn't previously convinced that I was in the wrong. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 19:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
If you use {{User GNU}} on your user page, it will be listed in category:Wikipedians who use GNU. I was surprised that there is still no category:Wikipedians who use GNU/Linux. -- mms ( talk) 21:39, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
please, aid to neutralize and to improve this article that is in favor of being erased. It is a popular distribution in Latin America and that is entering Europe, and the European Union even contracted the creative company of Rxart to work in project MANCOOSI. excuse my English please. Thank you very much, I hope that it can help me.-- 190.49.162.85 ( talk) 19:22, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much to help me, I will consider your advice. Ah this one my usuary name, already I registered myself.-- Bostokrev ( talk) 11:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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Good day Gronky,
His method is to block all users who disagree.
He left me this message:
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As you know this person has been provoking and in violation of wikipedia rules because I do not agree with him. WP:BITE
His behavior cannot cannot be accepted. It is a completely wrong from him to aim to block users that do not agree with his POV. -- Grandscribe ( talk) 13:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
see: User_talk:Mike92591/proposals/guideline_for_names_related_to_Linux#Question_from_Gronky Mike92591 ( talk) 17:47, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I see we just lost this logo due to licensing incompatibility with the BSD Daemon. Not much way around that except to create a new version sans daemon, unless you know anyone who's in a position to grant an exception on copyleft for the GNU head. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 12:22, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hello Gronky
I have been very busy on some projects beyond Wikipedia. I just want to say hello.
Keep up the good work!
-- Grandscribe ( talk) 19:37, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
We really need to get this sorted out. If there's really no way we can come to an agreement on whether to use "Linux" or "GNU/Linux" then we should attempt a rephrase which avoids this. I've posted to the talk page there, and Grandscribe agreed with the compromise, so I'd appreciate if you could help out with this. Likewise for other cases where the use of "Linux" or "GNU/Linux" might be contentious. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 23:30, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Let's have a look at some of your mass-reverts:
And so on and so on. That's just in the first few; your reverts were indisciminate and lowered the quality of a significant number of articles. Rather than contacting me about it, or taking it to a wider forum, you immediately contacted another user to tell him that my edits were "vandalism", while mass-reverting (both things which you go out of your way to deride on your userspace soapbox).
Anyway, it's reasonably easy to keep track of these edits individually. Due to your refusal to follow the norms of the project in respecting a consensus which you disagree with, I'll have to argue each one of these changes on the individual article talk pages. They are almost all straightforward copyedits, so I don't imagine any of them will be controversial, but it'll take me some time. I do not expect you to continue to refer to content disputes as "vandalism", nor to continue to use your userspace to attack other Wikipedians, especially when you're doing so with a quote from Jimbo Wales which is so logically fallacious that there's a well-read essay on the subject which you are aware of. Should this continue, I'll be forced to take this to a user conduct RfC, as this obstructionism in the name of preserving your point of view on articles is a significant impedance to the improvement of our free software coverage (not least because it appears to be your primary contribution to the project at this point).
Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 17:14, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
If you two really think that "Linux" is incorrect and should be referred to as "GNU/Linux" in all instances, how about you have some balls and try to get the "Linux" article moved. Instead of running around quietly editing all the links to point to a redirect. AlistairMcMillan ( talk) 16:58, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks. O sama KReply? on my talk page, please 16:49, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you copy pasted
Les Snuls from the french language wikipedia.Ok I see you're translating it now. You know you can always do this as a user sub page so you can use the wikiengine.
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You could remove SFLC from the intro if you want (if nothing, because the sentence seems lost there), but it would be on you then to find it's suitable place. In I don't think a link is sufficient. However, there's really no need to correct "license". Thanks. -- Paxcoder ( talk) 16:11, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for your comment on my talk page. I initially figured "licence" was a mistake, since the respective category (ie. the name for the free software "license" category) uses that spelling. Anyway, thanks for clearing it up, appreciate it. -- CoolingGibbon ( talk) 08:09, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
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Would you like to help improve the article on GNU ?
Have a look at the article, history and discussion page. -- Grandscribe ( talk) 04:59, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I've posted a comment explaining that the GCC compiler did not guarantee pointer subtraction. Chris Chittleborough removed it saying the reference I added was cryptic. I posted it again adding another "less cryptic" reference. You removed it stating "an encyclopedia article is not the place to explain pointers, and this isn't criticism, it's a bug, GCC (and LLVM, and MSC) have hundreds or thousands of bugs".
I think you got it wrong, like I did. I also though it was a bug of GCC, and posted it in GCC's bug tracker. The guys there explained to me that it is not a bug, pointer arithmetic is just not guaranteed in some cases. So they closed my bug report as invalid because it is not a bug, it is supposed to be like that, and it won't change.
I was very surprised, obviously, and I got confirmation from them, just to make sure. And they confirmed it. I think the community should know this, but I'm having a hard time keeping the post up. The bug tracking conversation is very long, and I was very upset to realise that it was not a bug (and so it wouldn't be fixed), so I think it is easy for someone in your position to think I posted it out of spite. But that wasn't the case. I didn't lie in the Wikipedia post. I didn't distort. I didn't make anything up. I didn't take it out of context. It is a very serious deliberate characteristic of GCC that has been officially corroborated by 2 elements of the GCC bug track team and I don't know why my post keeps being removed.
What would I need to do to keep the post? Should I take out the names of the 2 guys? Should I add more of their names? Should I explain the context better? Should I make sure to point out it is not a bug and that GCC is designed deliberately like that? Should I paste the text from the GCC tracking team where they say GCC is like that by design and that they have no intention to change it? Should I remove the pointers example and replace it with a textual description? Please help me out here, I think it will be a shame if this information isn't publicized as a criticism to GCC. Even more, I think it is more relevant and more clearly backed up that the current criticism where a guy just says its crappy and buggy and more and doesn't really substiantiate his claims. My post is well corroborated, so, in comparison, I was expecting it to stick.
So could you please help me with this?
Thanks!
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Thanks again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.132.57.247 ( talk) 15:25, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hello. Three people - myself included - are in favor of restoring the item on drowning on the List of common misconceptions. I thought I'd let you know, to make sure you have the chance to have your say.
Hans Adler hits the nail on the head on the talk page: the misconception is not that trashing and shouting are a part of the situation. The misconception is that they're the default, that people who don't do either aren't drowning. I may edit the item to emphasize this. Note that our article on drowning covers the issue in its lead, and mentions (with a cite) later, that most people drown without signs of distress. -- Kiz o r 22:13, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
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Can you please take a look at the Bash page and help correct the damage being done by a certain user Msnicki? He is engaged in an edit war against me and in his desperation is launching false accusations of vandalism and "blocking threats". -- Grandscribe ( talk) 21:14, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
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I noticed you changed instances of "license" to "licence" in proprietary software to correct recent changes, but I couldn't find any recent versions which used the other spelling. (Except in the link to free software licence which is itself inconsistent with software license.) Could you clarify? I noticed the note about "licence" being the correct noun form in non-American Englishes on your user page, though it seems that WP:RETAIN would apply. – Pnm ( talk) 23:26, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
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Check the talk page and you'll see my response. The courses are different. Prof Wrong ( talk) 12:21, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
You are welcome to consider my poll in favour to rename the Linux article to GNU/Linux, posted by the end of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux#Linux_is_a_.2AKERNEL.2A.2C_Not_an_OS — Preceding unsigned comment added by Medende ( talk • contribs) 12:09, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
I've tolerated your continued soapboxing up until now because it indicates to most editors that you're quite happy to personally attack those who disagree with your POV if you think it aids your cause (and because your need to soapbox and canvas editors demonstrates quite how little support you have), but I could summarily remove that list based on WP:POLEMIC if I so desired. Don't bank on us abandoning NPOV on your say-so any time soon; I've remained an editor in good standing (even made admin, despite blatant off-wiki canvassing to FSF affiliates during my second RFA) even when you appealed directly to Jimbo and when someone from the FSF tried to get me fired, so I dare say that your position isn't anywhere near as strong as you continually repeat it to be. The next time you go around fragrantly canvassing editors in an effort to blacken my name I'll open an RFC/U on your behaviour: I shouldn't have to take time off improving the encyclopedia to deal with your harassment and POV-pushing every few months because you see Wikipedia as an ideological battleground. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 11:09, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I am someone following this foolishness for a while. I believe I understand your confusion and would like to give you a quick debriefing.(I would write it in the article talk page but due to the toxic environment, I have neither permission(500/30) nor desire to write there.) The term originated from the alleged collusion between game journalists and developers. So according to the people who first used the term; gamergate controversy was about this collusion, hence the supporter of gamergate are people who are against those journos and devs like Quinn. But the notability of the tag mostly comes from the death threats and harassment of these devs and journalists by some gamergate supporters. In short, the "gate" part of gamergate is not the harassment and death threats, it is the exposed collusion and later cover ups(but those may be pretenses for harassment depending on which side you are) Darwinian Ape talk 18:23, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
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I did not know that. Thanks. I wonder why it's like that. SteveSims 21:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Not a vandalism. Something went wrong with the upload. Crazy stuff got inserted in the browser's POST stream, I think.
I'll agree with your removal of the overly long Dutch word from the article; (main reason being; it doesnt really do much for the text that the shorter long examples didn't). I just thought I should comment on the soft hyphen. They are defined in HTML but it's a longstanding request in the browsers you tried ( bugzilla 9101 since 1999, Konqueror bug 33855 since 2001, and Dillo bug 486) Can't really call it a bug as ignoring them is allowed in the spec, but it's the little things like that you expect to work in the 'good' browsers. :\ They work properly in IE, Opera, and apparently Safari as well though. — Muke Tever 03:03, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
"Arraignment" was correct. Look it up. -- Dominus 04:28, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi - The by day entries in WP:CFD are generally automatically created by a bot ( User:NekoDaemon) that runs every day at midnight GMT (although it seems not to have run today). What it does is create a new subpage named for the day, and copies into this subpage a header with the date and the comment text you see if you edit any of the existing days. Then, it adds the {{Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/date}} line to WP:CFD. Referencing the subpage this way treats it like a template (includes the contents in the WP:CFD page when you look at it), and (I'd really consider this a bug) the "edit" links for subsections on the included page edit the included page rather than the including page (this is true for any template). This sort of mechanism is used on a number of high traffic pages to try to minimize edit collisions. I'll ask user:AllyUnion who is the bots creator what happened today. -- Rick Block ( talk) 22:35, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
Articles on Wikipedia are written generally either in International English or American English. æ is used in IE, not in AE. Irish articles are written in IE. Changing spellings on Irish topics to American English is not acceptable on Wikipedia and is reverted. æ is used in IE and in Hiberno-English. FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 01:08, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Under Wikipedia rules mediaeval, medieval or mediæval are all acceptable and I know many Irish writers — I am one of the many — do use mediæval, sometimes mediaeval but never medieval (which grates on me the same way as color for colour and check for cheque). Personally I was taught in both school and university in Ireland to write it as mediæval. It is an acceptable variant of English in British English and Hiberno-English so please do not replace it. Once the variant is accepted, and it is, it should not be replaced under Wikipedia MoS rules. FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 02:01, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
æ is simply the original way of writing ae. The letters can be written either way and both are correct. æ declined in usage in the 20th century because it was difficult to type on old typewriters. With the appearance of wordprocessing æ can be typed easily using a standard key (alt " on macs, for example) æ is once again being used by many people rather than write ae. Both are valid.
Individual spellings are not a matter on or off a syllabus. It is a less used variant because of manual typewriting problems, so it had to be typed as ae but 100% legitimate to use and with the appearance of word processing, as I have mentioned, many users have returned to using æ. It is also fully legitimate to use on Wikipedia. So do not remove it. Such removals will simply be reverted by the many users who, quite correctly, use it. Users are perfectly entitled to use it here. You can write the letters ae separately if you wish, but people do not have to. It is up to them, not you, to decide to use it. (If you look at the insert box on your screen you will see that Wikipedia facilitates people who wish to use it by giving œ, Œ, Æ and æ as typing options.
FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 04:59, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
It is cobblers, not to say insulting, to say that "no normal person" uses æ. They do. If you remove words with æ it will be treated as vandalism, reported as such as treated under Wikipedia rules as in cases where people willfully change BE to AE, or AE into BE, when it has been pointed out that the article is entitled to use the them. You clearly know less about language use and forms of spelling that can be used than you think you know. FearÉIREANN \ (caint) 06:43, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
So, "no normal person" uses æ; perhaps not. I reverted your edit to restore æ. My comment was ‘revert in memory of George William Russell’. Perhaps he wasn’t normal; he wrote about ‘the færy world’ and those who ‘live only in the æther’, while others dwell ‘up the æry mountains’. Perhaps he wasn’t normal. He didn’t adhere to the spelling found in your Oxford Compact English Dictionary; he didn’t because he lived in Rathgar Avenue, at its junction with Kenilworth Square. I would appreciate it if you left words spelt as Dubliners would spell them, in articles about Dublin alone, rather than imposing your Oxford spelling. Thank you, -- ClemMcGann 09:09, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Please bear the following in mind next time you're in the vicinity of the Proinsias De Rossa article, and indeed in general:
Gronky 21:15, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
I see I am not the first person to take issue with your habit of making an edit, and then using the summary for that edit as a forum to reply to someone instead of summarizing what the edit is. Your edit had nothing to do with my edit, or the GNU toolchain which is what I edited. It doesn't seem appropriate to try to offer a rebuttal in the summary. If you have something to discuss, use the discussion page. Perhaps something like "mention that GNU utilties are more stable than proprietary unix" would have been a more accurate summary of your edit?
As to your actual edit, GNU utilities are not proven to be better than anything, "better" is a subjective term, and therefore cannot be proven. Since you decided to go with "stable", your summary rebuttal doesn't even make sense. None the less, I do not believe that the GNU utilties have been proven to be more stable. Your reference shows that 5 years ago, the GNU utilties were proven to handle random input better, but I don't think that is the same thing as "stable", and is nowhere close to "better". And of course they were only compared to the notoriously bad utilties in proprietary systems, not against any quality software. Personally, I think that paragraph sounds weird now with two seperate and different quality statements, maybe if you want to have information on the quality of GNU utilities we can come up with a whole seperate paragraph just for that info?
Also, you seem to have a very GNU-centric mindset, so please keep in mind that many people consider the GNU utilities to be junk and not worth using at all. In fact, people even go out of their way to create free, secure and reliable alternatives to GNU utilties, see the BSDs for instance, particularly OpenBSD. Remember that your personal opinion of the GNU software is not factual information about GNU software. So if you do want to keep quality information in the article, keep in mind that it will need to contain both points of view. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Generic Player ( talk • contribs) 18:07, August 30, 2005
Hi Gronky,
I noticed Njyoder ( talk · contribs) hostile behaviour on the Richard Stallman article. I would like to point out that this user is on personal attack parole from a previous RfAr [1] for precisely this reason and if you feel he is unfairly making personal attacks against you, you can report him for such. Axon ( talk| contribs) 09:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
Thank you on correcting Dillo to be correct from a "GNU/FSF way". Let's continue making wikipedia a bit more aware of Free Software and the GNU project. Rvalles 23:23, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
There have been a few new candidates for speedy deletion added over the past month or two. A new CSD I5 allows for unused fair use or unfree images that have been on the site for seven days to be speedy deleted. So, if you re-upload the image and use it in an article, you should be okay. Thanks, JYolkowski // talk 01:20, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for reinserting it. I was partial to that picture myself. 172 | Talk 05:19, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
I noticed you changed the phrasing in the Black box article from
to
Could you please explain to me the difference between the two versions? - It seems to me that your addition is redundant. Thanks, Nihiltres 17:44, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Egad. I'm using Firefox and the text on this page get progressively smaller with every FearEireann signature. - Joshuapaquin 01:46, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
I must say I support you on your GNU-related edits. It's sad to see people calling Linux an operating system. Also, someone is trying to remove Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/GNU/kFreeBSD on the ground that it's not an operating system. Thought it'd be good to let you know. Geronimooo 13:19, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
NetBSD isn't Free Software, you shouldn't go randomly changing to FSFisms in the articles about systems that entirely do not agree with the FSF. You can't just go adding stuff that is GNU to articles, because that's adding point of view to them, which is really bad when it's not even the subject's point of view. Janizary 06:16, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Hey, Gronky! I believe we have not yet finished our discussion. I had an "epiphany" recently, and I realized that perhaps, you should go ahead with your "overseas filipino communities" suggestion, or whatever title you see fit. Good luck, and Merry Christmas! :) -- Noypi380 07:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I've been working a bit on the article recently and would like to get some feedback, could you let me know what you think needs adding/is missing etc. from the article. Thanks - FrancisTyers 17:11, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Why is Free Software not a subset of Open Source software? — Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 02:42, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Wow, I made that suggestion nearly half a year ago, and then completely forgotten about it (along with the ~1000 other posts I've made). And then, not haven't gotten a message since the summer, today it says "You have new messages." I'm glad you started the portal, I mean - since the German and French Wikipedia both have one, surely the English Wikipedia should have one (considering Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, ... all speak English). I'll try to contribute as much as I can, but I go college so that's why I mainly stopped contributing to Wikipedia since September. In fact, much of what I know about free software comes directly from Wikipedia articles. I put up a picture and "did you know" on Portal:free software. It's not much, but it's a start. Great job on what you did so far! - Hyad 06:33, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
You've probably seen me (admittedly) trolling on the Richard Stallman talk page. My own observation is tending to lead me to believe that your degree of regard for Richard Stallman is primarily emotionally based, and non-objective. I'm willing to acknowledge that my own dislike of some elements of his behaviour probably is also; but I've noticed that certain people's unreasoning worship of him is as much the cause of my dislike of him as his own attitudes/statements at times.
My primary grievances with him are that a) he seems very much to try and insist that his philosophy is the only one that can be legitimately followed, and that b) despite the size and number of his genuine contributions, as I noted on the talk page, for some inexplicable reason, he and his followers such as yourself continue to attempt to take credit for things for which credit does not honestly belong to him. Given that, on reflection I can see that my problems are with some specific behaviour here...I do not know the man personally, and would not try to claim that I do.
These are not reservations which I alone hold, either...I have seen them noted by a considerable number of other people in the past as well. I will also acknowledge having been gratuitously provocative on the talk page at times, but said provocation has been a product of genuine frustration and confusion; this man has genuinely done much to be respected for, but recognition for that which he genuinely has done on its own does not seem to be enough for him. I also do not understand why he seems to be so deeply threatened by the idea that other people wish to hold beliefs which are not necessarily in conformity with his own. That to me genuinely does not seem conducive to the kind of freedom which he claims to want people to have. I cannot help but assume that surely a part of any meaningful freedom would have to be the freedom to disagree with him. Petrus4 22:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Cyberjunkie has nominated for deletion the template that gives your portal round corners. He's trying to delete 3 templates I created. Please help maintain selective design amongst portals and support these three templates. Here's the link: Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion#Portal:Box-header-round. They are listed sequentially. There isn't much time left, and it's lucky I found out at all. -- Go for it! 03:50, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I saw this edit - do you have an proove for this? Just a source would be enough for me. -- Liquidat 14:22, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
If a misunderstanding is held by a large enough section of society, it will sometimes be wrong in Wikipedia - and when someone tries to fix it, they may be out-numbered by people who are sure that their misunderstanding is correct.
One example that people talk about is that if Wikipedia was started hundreds of years ago, it's article about Earth would say that the Earth is flat.
There are many modern-day examples related to the GNU operating system, the GNU project, and free software.
Hi Gronky, I saw this on your user page, but I did not click the top right edit button there to say this: I am aware of this type of thing elsewhere in life and in Wiki. Like the origin of the name White Rhino, which I think I have fixed. Then while being a Wiki user I discovered that my long held belief that the maiden name of Simon van der Stel's wife form Stellenbosch was Bosch, is a misbelief. Then in 1986 I was tought about Groupthink and we see today that George Bush junior is guilty of allowing it to occur. Gregorydavid 07:19, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Don't links like this [7] belong on the Talk pages, not the actual articles themselves? AlistairMcMillan 20:46, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for helping on the Chavez corrections ! Sandy 14:56, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I think you misread the article. OSI Certified is a strong trademark of the Open Source Initiative. Please do not disparage this mark further. Open Source, even though unregistered, and aruably currently unregisterable, is a weak trademark of the Open Source Initiative. We might not prevail in defending it in court, but there is no harm in our claiming it to be a trademark. RussNelson 03:12, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
No problem in adding my recent Talk:FOSS history discussion to Alternative terms for free software. However, were you asking me to reduce/compose/insert the info into the main article, or simply copy the gist of what I wrote in Talk:FOSS into Talk:Alternative terms for free software?
BTW, do I know you, as in "have we ever talked by phone or any other non-electronic-text medium?" No specifics needed, just some of your style of argment sounds familiar. I, stupidly yet gleefully (I clearly have masochistic tendencies), have decided to be me. Not enough experience in online role-playing in my background, I suspect.
I was amused by the aptness of your comments to the effect of "if you don't reply, the most negative interpretation ends up 'winning' the discussion... thus forcing a lot of self-defensive work instead of real composition and addition to Wikipedia." I have, um, discovered that the hard way lately... 8^) It's too bad, really, since the same amount of effort applied to adding to content would often be far more beneficial to everyone in the long term. It's not that different from free software: adding new code to fix problems in free software is in the long term a much more powerful approach than doing nothing but critiquing code and leaving the (often much harder) constructive work to be done by others. It also sort of conflicts with the original admonitions of Wikipedia to "be bold!" and "feel free to add!", doesn't it? Cheers, Terry Bollinger 04:25, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested. Best wishes, Samsara ( talk • contribs) 17:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
You write:
In view of the need for verifiability to cited public sources, I think that the same principles as in WP:AUTO apply here and I should not do more than correct obvious errors. But to answer some of your questions (and you'll need to find public sources for anything you wish to include), the article should be at CodeSourcery and personally I doubt the utility of leaving a redirect at the mis-spaced Code Sourcery, founded 1997, Chief Sourcerer Mark Mitchell (GCC Release Manager), "based" Granite Bay, California but this is hardly meaningful or significant for a completely distributed company, 19 staff (all technical) but I don't think you'll find a public source to cite for this figure, the bulk of Sourcery G++ is free software (there are proprietary debug stubs for connecting to proprietary interfaces on various boards, and proprietary Eclipse plugins) as is all of Sourcery VSIPL++ and QMTest (the C++ ABI Testsuite is the one purely proprietary product, and there is internal code not released at all), I don't know what you mean by a free software policy (all changes to the free software components are contributed upstream where acceptable upstream; we are an FSF Corporate Patron [8]). Joseph Myers 00:55, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I've taken the liberty of changing my sig html up a bit. Is this better for you? — JT (TRAiNER4) T· C· E 22:10, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
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I created an amendment for fair use in portals, as well as submitted to village pump, see here: Wikipedia:Fair use/Amendment/Fair use images in portals#Also. It would be great if you could express your support there. ddcc 21:51, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, it was probably inappropriate. My bad. Neilc 11:20, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
dear gronky! i said something ok Karl Marx talk page about your concerns. you might want to read it. -- Arash red 06:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I don't know any "X Windows". I guess you mean the X Window System. -- mms 21:14, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
I have added a "{{ prod}}" template to the article Savane, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also " What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. -- Ezeu 12:14, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
In an edit you wrote that "licence is the noun, license is the verb". If so, why than GNU General Public License? -- mms 09:11, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, actually I changed it because of the redirect. :) I prefer British myself. (Not a native speaker, though) 80.233.255.7 15:22, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Not all linux contain GNU. So GNU/Linux is only a subset of Linux that has GNU tools. Micropolygon 13:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
(Deindent)... Wouldn't NoGNU-Linux be better off as Unix-Linux? 92.0.138.3 ( talk) 11:54, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, no, it doesn't mess with talk page archiving at all; it combines a lot of the talk page template clutter (templates related to peer reviews, FA and GA status) into one {{ ArticleHistory}} template. It can be done by hand, but GimmeBot does it automatically; I'm just doing the prep work. For a sample, look at Talk:The Simpsons. I think you'll like it! SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Gronky. I think that a little more work on Linux would bring it to Featured Article status. I would be grateful for your comments here. Thanks. Axl 12:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for pointing it out.
Dsigal 02:59, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
It was curious that they were all the same. Thank you. MichaelNetzer 22:14, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Gronky! Since it has been a month since you nominated the Free software portal for peer review, I hope you received good feedback on how the portal could be improved. If you would like, you could keep the portal listed at the portal peer review for more suggestions for improvement and ask the Wikipedians here for feedback. Also, if you think the portal is ready, you could nominate the portal for featured status. Either way, I hope you've received helpful reviews! Cheers, S.D. 16:08, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Ah, I see. I apologize, I meant no harm. Geekman314( contact me) 21:47, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I am contacting everyone who participated in the discussion that became inactive in December. Due to the length of the previous discussion, I have proposed a new amendment and you like you to weigh in so that we may actually have a consensus on this matter as it doesn't seem there exists one either way. - ΖαππερΝαππερ Babel Alexandria
Ok, well I'm glad you corrected the nouns that were in the body. The reason I edited in the first place was because the title spelling did not match its usage within the body, so I corrected the spelling that I was familiar with so that title and usage within the body were consistent. Question: For differences like this, what is typically done in Wikipedia? Why is the Wikipedia page at Color spelled the American way, for instance? Thanks. Jeff schiller 13:33, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your message on my talk page. Please see my reply here. Cheers-- Edcolins 17:57, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
According to wikicharts صفحهٔ اصلی which you created is one of our top 1000 most popular 'articles' :) Haukur 10:06, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
If you want Gnu/communism to be discussed for deletion, there are three steps you need to take. See WP:AFD. -- RHaworth 16:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Gronky. Yes, the abilty to write a good article is important, but it seems to me the Wiki editorial gang is going for style over substance with a decided preference to delete/revert rather than taking the time to improve the entries. The fact that Francis has trouble seeing the connection between the Children of the Code site and spelling reform verifies this opinion in 50ft tall letters.
I think all of you need to reread the Whats Great About Wiki essay. You have obviously strayed far away from the ideals touted there. JO 753 04:10, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
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Usually the nom counts as a Delete vote, and really does not need to vote. When people say "per nom," they mean that the reason why they are voting Delete is the same reason stated in the nominating statement. Panoptical 20:25, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you semi-reverted my change to the wording of the mention of TG4. I was hoping we could discuss this and come to an agreement so that we're not simply reverting each other. To me this explanation seems unnecessary for a couple of reasons. First, it's mentioned higher up on the page so doesn't come completely out of nowhere. Second, someone has since added a link to that same mention. If someone is confused as to what TG4 is, they can simply check the link. Furthermore, the wordier explanation seems to break up the flow of the language to me. I'd like to hear your own viewpoint so that we can perhaps come up with some form of compromise. — Leftmostcat 09:10, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hey Gronky, I'm a new article writer. I have written an article on GGobi and am looking for any helpful feedback. It is free software so I thought you might have an interest in it. Thanks for the help in advance. Lynn08 03:06, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, sorry for the late reply. It's good to see Wikipedia users who do know the history of GNU and understand the difference between GNU/Linux and Linux. To me, the fact that links to GNU/Linux are being removed seems like being contrary to the Wikipedia's objectives of developing useful educational neutral content, as talking about "Linux distributions" is not neutral (it's openly anti-GNU) and neither useful nor educational (it makes people believe wrong things about the status of GNU and fails to help readers understand what a GNU/Linux distro is composed of) and is also unhistorical. It's very bad that some have resorted to some sort of "delinking war" to remove GNU/Linux links, as this makes Wikipedia biased. I just hope there are enough people here who know the GNU history and understand the extend of GNU code in every GNU/Linux distro (bash, grep, libc, emacs, gnome, just to name a few GNU software programs found in nearly every distro), otherwise those who don't know it or are biased against it may succeed in making Wikipedia less neutral :( NerdyNSK 22:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
At Portal talk:Free software you wrote, "I've finally finished the tabs, and I can't find nicer tabs in any portal. These ones rock - and to top it off, I think they're even the best documented tabs." <-- can you point me to the documentation? I'm looking for something like Wikipedia:Portal/Instructions. Thanks. -- JWSchmidt 14:47, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
It gets too complicated to lay out the full story in the lead. It goes 1987-1997 Labour MP for Glasgow Hillhead; 1997-2003 Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvin; 2003-2004 Independent MP for Glasgow Kelvin; 2004-2005 Respect MP for Glasgow Kelvin; 2005- Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow. The whole story is set out in the article and probably isn't worth summarising in the lead. Fys. Ta fys aym. 21:54, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
see User_talk:Lentower#A_Merge_of_Free_Software_and_Open_Source_Software.3F.3F for my reply. I prefer that these talk page discussions be on a single page. Lentower 18:49, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Gronky, your help is needed in the mentioned articles. Jimmi Hugh thinks talking about proprietary software is just propaganda and does disgrace Wikipedia. -- mms ( talk) 19:12, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the link. I'll make sure to contribute, as free software is very important to me, and we need to inform everyone about it. P.S. how dare that person change all the GNU/Linux links to Linux (unless it was about the kernel). Afarnen ( talk) 16:02, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Would you support keeping the current article's text, but using the target article's name? If there is nothing to merge from the target article, what do you think should be done with it? If you don't think that is the better name, should we delete it or redirect it to wherever the current article eventually is? -- Karnesky ( talk) 21:34, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Errr, strongly agreeing with the premise of personal attacks (even in part) isn't that much better than making them onesself. You're better than that. Chris Cunningham ( talk) 10:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Gronky, I restored the links you removed from the Ohloh description in Free software movement. I don't see how linking to metrics and quantitative analyses (i.e. a factual description of what ohloh does) means saying how great the service is. -- DarTar ( talk) 12:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I want to complete it and use it to substitute the "Release changes under a different licence" columns in Comparison of free software licences but, I'm not sure on how to order them, any ideas? I was thinking that there has to a better way then just putting them alphabetically. Also, if you know someone who has a good bit of legal knowledge, please ask them too. Mike92591 ( talk) 03:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
On Portal talk:Free software a recent comment of yours refers to "one Wikipedia, Thumperward" - did you mean "one Wikipedia editor"? Guy Harris ( talk) 21:08, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
I've asked you to refrain from this kind of canvassing action in the past; I'm pretty sure that doing so on your user page is against policy. There's no need for this, and I don't see that it's likely to persuade anyone who wasn't previously convinced that I was in the wrong. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 19:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
If you use {{User GNU}} on your user page, it will be listed in category:Wikipedians who use GNU. I was surprised that there is still no category:Wikipedians who use GNU/Linux. -- mms ( talk) 21:39, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
please, aid to neutralize and to improve this article that is in favor of being erased. It is a popular distribution in Latin America and that is entering Europe, and the European Union even contracted the creative company of Rxart to work in project MANCOOSI. excuse my English please. Thank you very much, I hope that it can help me.-- 190.49.162.85 ( talk) 19:22, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much to help me, I will consider your advice. Ah this one my usuary name, already I registered myself.-- Bostokrev ( talk) 11:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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Good day Gronky,
His method is to block all users who disagree.
He left me this message:
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As you know this person has been provoking and in violation of wikipedia rules because I do not agree with him. WP:BITE
His behavior cannot cannot be accepted. It is a completely wrong from him to aim to block users that do not agree with his POV. -- Grandscribe ( talk) 13:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
see: User_talk:Mike92591/proposals/guideline_for_names_related_to_Linux#Question_from_Gronky Mike92591 ( talk) 17:47, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I see we just lost this logo due to licensing incompatibility with the BSD Daemon. Not much way around that except to create a new version sans daemon, unless you know anyone who's in a position to grant an exception on copyleft for the GNU head. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 12:22, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hello Gronky
I have been very busy on some projects beyond Wikipedia. I just want to say hello.
Keep up the good work!
-- Grandscribe ( talk) 19:37, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
We really need to get this sorted out. If there's really no way we can come to an agreement on whether to use "Linux" or "GNU/Linux" then we should attempt a rephrase which avoids this. I've posted to the talk page there, and Grandscribe agreed with the compromise, so I'd appreciate if you could help out with this. Likewise for other cases where the use of "Linux" or "GNU/Linux" might be contentious. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 23:30, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Let's have a look at some of your mass-reverts:
And so on and so on. That's just in the first few; your reverts were indisciminate and lowered the quality of a significant number of articles. Rather than contacting me about it, or taking it to a wider forum, you immediately contacted another user to tell him that my edits were "vandalism", while mass-reverting (both things which you go out of your way to deride on your userspace soapbox).
Anyway, it's reasonably easy to keep track of these edits individually. Due to your refusal to follow the norms of the project in respecting a consensus which you disagree with, I'll have to argue each one of these changes on the individual article talk pages. They are almost all straightforward copyedits, so I don't imagine any of them will be controversial, but it'll take me some time. I do not expect you to continue to refer to content disputes as "vandalism", nor to continue to use your userspace to attack other Wikipedians, especially when you're doing so with a quote from Jimbo Wales which is so logically fallacious that there's a well-read essay on the subject which you are aware of. Should this continue, I'll be forced to take this to a user conduct RfC, as this obstructionism in the name of preserving your point of view on articles is a significant impedance to the improvement of our free software coverage (not least because it appears to be your primary contribution to the project at this point).
Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 17:14, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
If you two really think that "Linux" is incorrect and should be referred to as "GNU/Linux" in all instances, how about you have some balls and try to get the "Linux" article moved. Instead of running around quietly editing all the links to point to a redirect. AlistairMcMillan ( talk) 16:58, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks. O sama KReply? on my talk page, please 16:49, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you copy pasted
Les Snuls from the french language wikipedia.Ok I see you're translating it now. You know you can always do this as a user sub page so you can use the wikiengine.
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You could remove SFLC from the intro if you want (if nothing, because the sentence seems lost there), but it would be on you then to find it's suitable place. In I don't think a link is sufficient. However, there's really no need to correct "license". Thanks. -- Paxcoder ( talk) 16:11, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for your comment on my talk page. I initially figured "licence" was a mistake, since the respective category (ie. the name for the free software "license" category) uses that spelling. Anyway, thanks for clearing it up, appreciate it. -- CoolingGibbon ( talk) 08:09, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
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Would you like to help improve the article on GNU ?
Have a look at the article, history and discussion page. -- Grandscribe ( talk) 04:59, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I've posted a comment explaining that the GCC compiler did not guarantee pointer subtraction. Chris Chittleborough removed it saying the reference I added was cryptic. I posted it again adding another "less cryptic" reference. You removed it stating "an encyclopedia article is not the place to explain pointers, and this isn't criticism, it's a bug, GCC (and LLVM, and MSC) have hundreds or thousands of bugs".
I think you got it wrong, like I did. I also though it was a bug of GCC, and posted it in GCC's bug tracker. The guys there explained to me that it is not a bug, pointer arithmetic is just not guaranteed in some cases. So they closed my bug report as invalid because it is not a bug, it is supposed to be like that, and it won't change.
I was very surprised, obviously, and I got confirmation from them, just to make sure. And they confirmed it. I think the community should know this, but I'm having a hard time keeping the post up. The bug tracking conversation is very long, and I was very upset to realise that it was not a bug (and so it wouldn't be fixed), so I think it is easy for someone in your position to think I posted it out of spite. But that wasn't the case. I didn't lie in the Wikipedia post. I didn't distort. I didn't make anything up. I didn't take it out of context. It is a very serious deliberate characteristic of GCC that has been officially corroborated by 2 elements of the GCC bug track team and I don't know why my post keeps being removed.
What would I need to do to keep the post? Should I take out the names of the 2 guys? Should I add more of their names? Should I explain the context better? Should I make sure to point out it is not a bug and that GCC is designed deliberately like that? Should I paste the text from the GCC tracking team where they say GCC is like that by design and that they have no intention to change it? Should I remove the pointers example and replace it with a textual description? Please help me out here, I think it will be a shame if this information isn't publicized as a criticism to GCC. Even more, I think it is more relevant and more clearly backed up that the current criticism where a guy just says its crappy and buggy and more and doesn't really substiantiate his claims. My post is well corroborated, so, in comparison, I was expecting it to stick.
So could you please help me with this?
Thanks!
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Thanks again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.132.57.247 ( talk) 15:25, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hello. Three people - myself included - are in favor of restoring the item on drowning on the List of common misconceptions. I thought I'd let you know, to make sure you have the chance to have your say.
Hans Adler hits the nail on the head on the talk page: the misconception is not that trashing and shouting are a part of the situation. The misconception is that they're the default, that people who don't do either aren't drowning. I may edit the item to emphasize this. Note that our article on drowning covers the issue in its lead, and mentions (with a cite) later, that most people drown without signs of distress. -- Kiz o r 22:13, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
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Can you please take a look at the Bash page and help correct the damage being done by a certain user Msnicki? He is engaged in an edit war against me and in his desperation is launching false accusations of vandalism and "blocking threats". -- Grandscribe ( talk) 21:14, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
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I noticed you changed instances of "license" to "licence" in proprietary software to correct recent changes, but I couldn't find any recent versions which used the other spelling. (Except in the link to free software licence which is itself inconsistent with software license.) Could you clarify? I noticed the note about "licence" being the correct noun form in non-American Englishes on your user page, though it seems that WP:RETAIN would apply. – Pnm ( talk) 23:26, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
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Check the talk page and you'll see my response. The courses are different. Prof Wrong ( talk) 12:21, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
You are welcome to consider my poll in favour to rename the Linux article to GNU/Linux, posted by the end of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux#Linux_is_a_.2AKERNEL.2A.2C_Not_an_OS — Preceding unsigned comment added by Medende ( talk • contribs) 12:09, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
I've tolerated your continued soapboxing up until now because it indicates to most editors that you're quite happy to personally attack those who disagree with your POV if you think it aids your cause (and because your need to soapbox and canvas editors demonstrates quite how little support you have), but I could summarily remove that list based on WP:POLEMIC if I so desired. Don't bank on us abandoning NPOV on your say-so any time soon; I've remained an editor in good standing (even made admin, despite blatant off-wiki canvassing to FSF affiliates during my second RFA) even when you appealed directly to Jimbo and when someone from the FSF tried to get me fired, so I dare say that your position isn't anywhere near as strong as you continually repeat it to be. The next time you go around fragrantly canvassing editors in an effort to blacken my name I'll open an RFC/U on your behaviour: I shouldn't have to take time off improving the encyclopedia to deal with your harassment and POV-pushing every few months because you see Wikipedia as an ideological battleground. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 11:09, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I am someone following this foolishness for a while. I believe I understand your confusion and would like to give you a quick debriefing.(I would write it in the article talk page but due to the toxic environment, I have neither permission(500/30) nor desire to write there.) The term originated from the alleged collusion between game journalists and developers. So according to the people who first used the term; gamergate controversy was about this collusion, hence the supporter of gamergate are people who are against those journos and devs like Quinn. But the notability of the tag mostly comes from the death threats and harassment of these devs and journalists by some gamergate supporters. In short, the "gate" part of gamergate is not the harassment and death threats, it is the exposed collusion and later cover ups(but those may be pretenses for harassment depending on which side you are) Darwinian Ape talk 18:23, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
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