In case you're interested, I have started a proposal to have Mihkaw napew banned from responding to comments on the Language reference desk. The relevant thread is WT:RD#This is not working. rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 13:32, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Would you be so kind as to move the deleted article to my userspace? Thanks in advance, or if there's an issue just let me know. Cheerios. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 04:06, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
/* Wineries */ Adding some content from deleted article [[Valhalla Vineyards]], rewritten from sources
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infringing revision. If the majority of the content was copied, the easiest and probably best solution is to restore and redirect, but deleting the revision outright (no merge) is a valid option.
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talk) 05:17, 6 January 2010 (UTC)Thank you for the exhaustive list of items. Flatscan ( talk) 05:20, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
What struck me is where you said "AfD is not a vote, but has to be decided on its merits" - I thought AfD worked on consensus, not whatever the supposed rules/proposed guidelines purportedly say, but how they are actually applied in practice. I thought it was headed no consensus, but i'm not gonna lose sleep over the close though, and moving some useful information to the AVA article was a good step.-- Milowent ( talk) 05:36, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Sebastian I can not believe you have no no clue about The Associated Press, http://www.ap.com/, and their standards for stories. If you actually do not then it seems to me if you were doing do diligence when deciding this case you would have at least looked up the AP. Maybe you should have looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press. Now I have not looked at the AFD for this one, and I do not care if the winery is of note or not, but according to my reading of the sacred wikipedia rules coverage by the AP wire service would make the place one of note.
There seems to be a pattern of wikepedia gods having a distinct lack of clues and also having no idea how to find the clues.
-Brett Wynkoop Wynkoop ( talk) 05:38, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I support your closure and believe it was well founded in policy. If this some how makes its way over to DRV, I hope that someone will please inform me on my talk page as I don't track that section of Wikipedia very often. JBsupreme ( talk) 23:08, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
This case has been submitted to deletion review at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2010_January_6#Valhalla_Vineyards. I am currently busy off wiki and am not following that discussion; if my input is required, please let me know here or e-mail me. — Sebastian 20:02, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Ok one thing I hate about this whole wikipedia crap is that there is no way to have direct communication with someone. So Sebastian how about emailing me directly wynkoop--AT--bropera.org.
Beyond that if you took it upon yourself to do something different with the Brooklyn Repertory Opera article than what the outcome of the discussion was..... which was "no resolution" which according to the sacred wikipedia rules means that it stays then why didn't you just delete the damn thing. I already have it archived elsewhere and it has exactly no need to be under my account.
As to your comment 'article itself contains peacock language, such as "made history" ', I ask can you find anywhere else in any opera house at any time predating June 2010 the role of Ulrica sung by a counter-tenor? That sir is history making in opera, and it was not my edit that put that information into the article. Do you even know what a counter-tenor is? Had you really read the article you would see that was a fact that was backed up by an independent source.
I must say you and the entire culture of wikiland seems to have played into the hand of singingzombie very well.
So I would appreciate some direct private communication with you since you are the one that set yourself up as a god on this matter.....My thought is that the world is better served not having the article on the site at all, but I have no clue how to delete it.
I really have no interest in editing any articles on this site, so while I suppose I should be flattered at your symbolic gesture I have to say why would I want to put in the effort to contribute my knowledge here when any fool can muck up any page and make them totally unreliable. I am an expert in several fields, but I am fairly sure you will not see me contributing my expertise to anything here. If I want to publish things I know on the web I can put them on my own web site. Most of my web sites rank higher in search engine placement than the wikipedia pages on the same subjects, and I know that some fool with an axe to grind like singingzombie will not be able to trash the pages.
BTW singingzombie is a fellow named Theodore Shulman who sang in the chorus of Brooklyn Repertory Opera, and for some reason unknown to me started making threats against members of the company and the company as an entity. Yep I broke the sacred rule of not telling who someone on wikipedia is....who the hell cares!
Just thought of something else....Did you listen, yes LISTEN, to the one citation that was an audio file?
Way too much crap in the land of the wiki.
-Brett Wynkoop
You can e-mail me by clicking the "E-mail this user" link in the toolbox. (This is usually in the left sidebar on userpages. You probably need to have e-mail enabled in your preferences for that.)
Wikipedia is not perfect, and it mirrors every human folly. I still believe that, in the big picture, the good more often prevails than the bad, or else we would not have gotten to where we are. But often we only get there only after much drama; in fact, it often feels like an opera! Part of Wikipedia's problem is that, just like you, most knowledgeable people have no interest in contributing. I don't know how this can be changed.
I am not a god; I am subject to deletion reviews, and if you find I made a mistake that path is open to you. But they will not accept arguments like ""; BTW, I have since become aware of a mistake; I underestimated the role of comprimario singers. I would not make that statement now, but I don't think it would change the decision. As for the audio file, can you please be more specific and provide a link?
If you seriously rather have no page than the one I userfied, then you can simply delete its content - that is your prerogative since it is in your userspace - and an administrator will subsequently remove the page history. I would be sad about that, though, because I sincerely hope that your opera has a bright future, in which case we will be happy about the article. — Sebastian 19:58, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Well you just proved to me that you did not even read the page if you did not find the link to the audio file. Like I said this wikipedia stuff is pretty much so much $#@@!$%^&%$$. You set yourself up as god, but are not even able to totally read the page and find an audio reference that was clearly on the page.
As a simple mortal in the land of wikipedia I suggest a great god such as yourself learn to read the pages he is exercising his god like powers over.
Since you seem to want me to edit things around here maybe I should take a cue from Ted and start nominating pages for deletion just for the fun of watching you folks argue about things of which you have no clue.
Listen to the audio file.....anyone that can read English can find it on the page.
As far as your being happy to have the page at some point in the future I have spent more time on this in the last 14 days than the last year. Not all the edits from 199.89.147.xxx were mine, but they did all come from the BRO offices, so they could have been done by any of several members. To me it is much more important to work on http://www.bropera.org/2009-2010/veil-of-forgetfulness "The Veil of Forgetfulness" our second world premier than muck about here. It is very odd to me that someone as ill versed with the subject of opera, as you seem to be, is the one who decides what stays and goes in a discussion centered on opera.
Do email me when you have found the audio clip (CLUE: EXTERNAL LINKS :ENDCLUE). According to your sacred wikipedia rules this establishes BRO as being a company of note. In case one of the regular wiki fools deletes the page before you go to it you can find an archive at:
http://www.bropera.org/history/Brooklyn_Repertory_Opera.html
That archive will also be where any new information is recorded. Should you in your godlike way ever decide that we are noteworthy you may view the company history at that url.
-Brett Wynkoop Wynkoop ( talk) 04:55, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Ok I just checked and I find nothing in the toolbox area about emailing. You have my email address be good enough to email me. Yep this no doubt means I am a clueless in the land of wiki, but you should at least have some clues on how to use email I would suspect.
-Brett Wynkoop Wynkoop ( talk) 05:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Done. Feel free to let me know if things pick back up in the future.-- Dycedarg ж 20:24, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
How do you do this for nay other page ? Thanks Taprobanus ( talk) 22:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Just a friendly notice that I have formally proposed to move three pages at Talk:African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968). Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 18:21, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
你的语言能力真利害 -- 法语,中文,日语,意大利语都会说!Hopefully you can use them to spread peace around the corners of the globe. Bis später!- Dpr ( talk) 23:27, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
With regards to this edit, it would be better to ask questions like this on the talk page, since it's not directly relevant to the OP's question. Vimescarrot ( talk) 16:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
I replied to your question here. I hope I didn't miss anything. :-) -- Menti fisto 08:09, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
you are correct that pozidrive was designed for improved cam-out resistance a compared to the legacy '4-tooth' connectors (aka phillips).
Mostly from my personal experience working on cars, but also supported by my mechanical eng classes, spline and torx operate high torque with less axial force required than pozidrive. I would attribute this to more drive area (perhaps better stated, higher moment of the drive area, since it the teeth have small cross sections but are at a large radius)
I would be surprised if the original patents for spline drive spell out mechanical analysis of spline vs posidrive, assuming there is one I could find, and I'm not going to try to FEA it :)
Anyway, wanted to agree with you in part, but since I don't have any verifiable sources I couldn't think of how to get it into the article.
I'm confident the original statement, spline & torx bests posidrive with regards to camout. WHile I find that intuitive after thinking it over, I could see a person without a mechanical background scratching there head as to why one is choosen over the other.
I'd invite you to help straighten it out :)
(adding to this confusion, there are additional, orthogonal, reasons why these new fasteners appear - such as OEM's wanting something new that no-one has drivers for. Was it GM and torx?)
thanks, Mboard182 ( talk) 08:35, 2 March 2010 (UTC)mboard182
Hello and thank you for the interest. I would myself be interested in further information on what exactly was meant by helm signals. These were referred to in various sources I was quoting, presuming we are talking about the loss of HMS Victoria by collision with Camperdown. My understanding is that they are not talking about ordinary flag signals but about separate dedicated helm repeater signals which indicate the degree of turn being applied. At the time I did find a little bit of information about this, enough to convince me it want nonsense, but I don't recall now where it was. I think it involved balls and cones or something of the sort which could be raised and lowered to indicate what the ship was doing. Sandpiper ( talk) 08:19, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello Sebastian Helm, PericlesofAthens here. I left you a brief message at Talk:Shen Kuo about the proposal to amend the lead section. Have a look. Regards.-- Pericles of Athens Talk 01:33, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
See [1]. — Sebastian 23:41, 5 April 2010 (UTC)*Sorry , I corrected it now. Many thanks. -- Ghaly ( talk) 16:54, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Ooh! I really like your unwatched template. Do you have a watched template, too? I'll have to check, and may steal 'em for my own. <watching for now> - UtherSRG (talk) 18:38, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if you're still interested in this stuff, but I initiated a discussion about Tamilnet on the reliable sources noticeboard. You're input is always welcome. -- snowolfD4 ( talk / @ ) 14:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
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There are a LOT of historical referencee of these ancedotes s to malaria in famous figures. Oliver Cromwell is supposed to have died of malaria because he refused to use the 'Jesuit's bark' (quinine). Descriptions of malaria at that time may not have been entirely reliable. This situation is changing with the advent of PCR to show the presence or absense of malaria or other diseases in famous persons. Wallace seems to have had several well documented episodes of malaria and sunsequently claimed that his theory of evolution occured to him during one such episode. I included this note in Plasmodium because it does not really belong in the History of Malaria page but is - at least in my humble opinion - of some interest to students of malaria. I will dig out more of these. If you dont this this is the right place for such material I would be grateful if you could suggest a suitable place for them. DrMicro ( talk) 10:24, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have seen a note you lived in wiki about harmonic singing, so i live my comment. If you whant to know anything more about this kind of singing you can ask me, so i give you any usfull information... I hope I can help. Abraham —Preceding unsigned comment added by Keperson ( talk • contribs) 03:13, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I've noticed colors in some signatures, and I have no idea how to do that! can you tell me? ~Monk Preston ( talk) 23:22, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
It's not that I'm being vain, I'm just interested in how to work wikipedia, and this Shiny thing waa the first thing that really popped out at me! ~Monk Preston ( talk) 21:38, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Also, before I get in trouble, am I allowed to do the below? (You can delete it when you tell me if I can)
Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. -- SineBot ( talk) 21:42, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Sent one your way. Regards, AGK 00:06, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
I feel as though I am being bullied out of Wikipedia when all I do for the most part is qualitatively improve articles by adding citations. I have a group of malign editors that have formed a cohort against me. They have searched really hard to find a few matters of dispute out of my 20,000 or more edits that I have made to this Project. I would appreciate some of your time.
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For your help on the flotilla page. My sense is that there are a number of socks -- quite an unusual number of editors with little edit history but clear knowledge in wp, editing in tandem as to deletes and comments on the talk page. More sysop attention couldn't hurt.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 22:24, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Self-revert. The section I moved/expanded was HIGHLY relevant since the organization trying to break up the blockage, designed to stop weapon smuggling to Muslim terrorists, had previously smuggled weapons to other Muslim terrorists. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 22:27, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
I modified a section in the "background" section that refers to the IHH's background in smuggling weapons, money and militants to jihadists. Since the blockade is meant to prevent such smuggling from occurring then it is highly relevant to know their backgrounds and motivations in this area and shouldn't be shuffled off to some article that nobody will read. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 22:41, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Okay, sorry if I come off as testy (I'm used to dealing with less reasonable people), but I'm a bit confused about your statement. I didn't include anything about "Israel's position wrt(?) IHH" but rather in the background section I commented that the IHH had smuggled weapons in the past, which is what the blockade is supposed to prevent. Also, I'd actually prefer if you reverted/partially self-reverted at least that part back in since I don't want to break 1rr myself - even though I haven't "really" reverted anyone, I just moved someone else's section, expanded it and corrected a spelling error. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 22:58, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
That was basically the section before I modified it. Here was the section after I added the bit about weapon smuggling which was:
He also stated that they were used as a front organization to help smuggle money, weapons and militants into Bosnia and Afghanistan. [1] [2]
The article is specifically regarding this latest incident and presumably implies reasons the IFF would have for inciting violence. I can understand cutting off the first part of the section that didn't deal with weapon smuggling, perhaps a brief, "ties with terrorists" sort of thing since I don't believe their ties w/ Al Qaeda or the plot to bomb LAX are directly relevant. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 23:51, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, I strongly disagree since I think context is very important in things like this - especially where the intent of the people is to create a propaganda celebre, and to misinform as many people as possible before the truth gets out. I won't revert you or report you breaking 1rr, but I hope you reconsider. Thanks for being polite. Cheers. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 02:14, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, glancing at the edit history of the article and your edit summaries it looks like you've removed content 6-7 times which are obviously going to be reverts. Your moves and reinsertions likely also count as reverts. I don't particularly mind since the article is quite "busy" right now, but the concern is that those who aren't following 1rr will dictate content and I believe I saw several other admins engaging in this behavior as well. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 05:53, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, I generally deal w/ topics where there is a lot of wiki-lawyering done in order to ban/block others. My idea, and I could be wrong, was that admins generally are supposed to prevent edit warring in such topics, but perhaps this is simply part of the subculture I learned to edit in. Cheers. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 21:53, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Yes, regarding those specific edits the 2nd one would be a violation of 1rr. But as I said, I really don't care, we may disagree, but you don't seem to be a prick. Personally I think a lot of the rules around here need to go since many of them are simply abused by POV pushers to get rid of opposing viewpoints. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 22:16, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Regarding the root cause this legal analysis of the Gaza blockade may interest editors here.--- Nomen Nescio Gnothi seauton contributions 00:51, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps it is the due of some confusion that we are engaged in a not so necessary conversation that I worry might soon become unpleasant. Walky-talky ( talk) 03:13, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip about matériel instead of material. I didn't knew it was used as a military term. My first language is French so I thought there was a misspelling. So I read the definition and it was indeed from French language so the "é" is right.
JT9001 ( talk) 01:03, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi! You wrote on my german Userpage that you propose to install a disambiguation page for userpages that start with Sebastian. Personally I think that this is a good idea since it would help finding those users. I think we should do this both on the English and German wikipedia - and maybe even spread the idea to other first/last name users. -- Sebastian.Dietrich ( talk) 07:13, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hallo Sebastian, das halte ich für eine gute Idee und sehr großzügig von Dir. -- Sebastian Wallroth ( talk) 09:30, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
So, I changed the pages; any other interested editors please add yourself as you see fit. — Sebastian 17:35, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Excuse my anonymity but I don't have a wikipedia account. I wanted to let you know that User:VerdaTeo is a sockpuppet account of User:Brandini who is vandalizing articles adding fake information about esperanto to polarize and antagonize people who want to learn esperanto with people who do not. Sorry for bothering you and thank you for your time.-- 190.50.167.58 ( talk) 08:14, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. On August 18 you redirected Leymah Gbowee to Pray the Devil Back to Hell. She seems like a noteworthy person who deserves her own article. Did you simply create a blank page with her name on it and link it to the film? If I wanted to add information to her page, is it possible to unlink it? Thank you! USchick ( talk) 02:07, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
I put category:Ethnic cleansing up on the Request for comments noticeboard. Time to get something moving there. -- 红卫兵 ( talk) 11:09, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I started Wikipedia:WikiProject Nonviolence. Hope you're still interested. Kingturtle ( talk) 18:13, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
There is no reason to upload that locally when we have File:United-nations-peace-sculpture.jpg which you can use. If you don't like the size of the image, then try Wikipedia:Picture tutorial, which will direct you how to resize an image. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 04:52, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Sebastian. I'm responding here to a question you raised at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2010 August 28#File:116px-United-nations-peace-sculpture.jpg, because the discussion over there has been closed and apparently I'm not supposed to add anything to it.
You argued that File:116px-United-nations-peace-sculpture.jpg, which has a file size of 4364 bytes, would be better than using File:United-nations-peace-sculpture.jpg scaled down to 116 pixels wide, because the full image is 1.82 MB. While it is true that the full 7.5-megapixel photo is 1.82 MB, the 116-pixel-wide thumbnail ( here) is just 7709 bytes, and this thumbnail is cached so that the server has to generate it only once. So your argument doesn't hold water—the difference in server load and bandwidth usage between the 4364-byte image and the 7709-byte thumbnail is pretty irrelevant.
The reason that images in signatures are frowned upon is that including even a small image, say four or eight kilobytes, significantly increases the number of bytes that have to be downloaded, on a percentage basis. For example, my signature is just 48 bytes of wiki markup, which translates into 123 bytes of generated HTML. Adding a 4000-byte image to that would increase the size by over 3200%. Since talk pages may easily include hundreds of signatures, this bloat would have a great cumulative effect.
You also quoted Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance, at which Simetrical wrote, "…you can definitely slow down the loading of pages if you cram them with 100 KB images." This is quite true, but in the case of the United Nations peace sculpture we weren't talking about 100-KB images—we were talking about a 4364-byte image versus a 7709-byte image.
I hope this has answered your questions. Please let me know if something is still unclear. — Bkell ( talk) 20:40, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Leymah Gbowee is now an article and I nominated it for Wikipedia:Did you know, check it out! :-) USchick ( talk) 22:16, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Just to note to say I apologize for leaving the discussion and I will return shortly. I'm in the middle of finishing up a GA review. Peace. Viriditas ( talk) 02:04, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Ok, so my account is acting up, but i am Oldforgecrash. Thanks for talking to KingTurle about the crash and the page. I also want to thank you for not lashing out at me for some things i said to KingTurle. You helped work things out, and i am not so worked up and mad at KingTurtle anymore. Just i live in a family where death comes pretty close to home, so i freaked. Thanks again!
Hi, on Template_Talk:Supranational_European_Bodies, you commented that it would be good to have a link to an enlarged version of the template. I created such a link, a page on Supranational_European_Bodies. However it was put up for speedy deletion, for being a sub-stub. If you wish to comment, please do so on Talk:Supranational_European_Bodies. CS Miller ( talk) 14:52, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
I have proposed renaming the African-American Civil Rights Movement pages. You can participate in the discussion at: Talk:African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955–1968)#Proposed_Move Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 23:30, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
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In case you're interested, I have started a proposal to have Mihkaw napew banned from responding to comments on the Language reference desk. The relevant thread is WT:RD#This is not working. rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 13:32, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Would you be so kind as to move the deleted article to my userspace? Thanks in advance, or if there's an issue just let me know. Cheerios. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 04:06, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
/* Wineries */ Adding some content from deleted article [[Valhalla Vineyards]], rewritten from sources
) and
delete the
infringing revision. If the majority of the content was copied, the easiest and probably best solution is to restore and redirect, but deleting the revision outright (no merge) is a valid option.
Flatscan (
talk) 05:17, 6 January 2010 (UTC)Thank you for the exhaustive list of items. Flatscan ( talk) 05:20, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
What struck me is where you said "AfD is not a vote, but has to be decided on its merits" - I thought AfD worked on consensus, not whatever the supposed rules/proposed guidelines purportedly say, but how they are actually applied in practice. I thought it was headed no consensus, but i'm not gonna lose sleep over the close though, and moving some useful information to the AVA article was a good step.-- Milowent ( talk) 05:36, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Sebastian I can not believe you have no no clue about The Associated Press, http://www.ap.com/, and their standards for stories. If you actually do not then it seems to me if you were doing do diligence when deciding this case you would have at least looked up the AP. Maybe you should have looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press. Now I have not looked at the AFD for this one, and I do not care if the winery is of note or not, but according to my reading of the sacred wikipedia rules coverage by the AP wire service would make the place one of note.
There seems to be a pattern of wikepedia gods having a distinct lack of clues and also having no idea how to find the clues.
-Brett Wynkoop Wynkoop ( talk) 05:38, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I support your closure and believe it was well founded in policy. If this some how makes its way over to DRV, I hope that someone will please inform me on my talk page as I don't track that section of Wikipedia very often. JBsupreme ( talk) 23:08, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
This case has been submitted to deletion review at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2010_January_6#Valhalla_Vineyards. I am currently busy off wiki and am not following that discussion; if my input is required, please let me know here or e-mail me. — Sebastian 20:02, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Ok one thing I hate about this whole wikipedia crap is that there is no way to have direct communication with someone. So Sebastian how about emailing me directly wynkoop--AT--bropera.org.
Beyond that if you took it upon yourself to do something different with the Brooklyn Repertory Opera article than what the outcome of the discussion was..... which was "no resolution" which according to the sacred wikipedia rules means that it stays then why didn't you just delete the damn thing. I already have it archived elsewhere and it has exactly no need to be under my account.
As to your comment 'article itself contains peacock language, such as "made history" ', I ask can you find anywhere else in any opera house at any time predating June 2010 the role of Ulrica sung by a counter-tenor? That sir is history making in opera, and it was not my edit that put that information into the article. Do you even know what a counter-tenor is? Had you really read the article you would see that was a fact that was backed up by an independent source.
I must say you and the entire culture of wikiland seems to have played into the hand of singingzombie very well.
So I would appreciate some direct private communication with you since you are the one that set yourself up as a god on this matter.....My thought is that the world is better served not having the article on the site at all, but I have no clue how to delete it.
I really have no interest in editing any articles on this site, so while I suppose I should be flattered at your symbolic gesture I have to say why would I want to put in the effort to contribute my knowledge here when any fool can muck up any page and make them totally unreliable. I am an expert in several fields, but I am fairly sure you will not see me contributing my expertise to anything here. If I want to publish things I know on the web I can put them on my own web site. Most of my web sites rank higher in search engine placement than the wikipedia pages on the same subjects, and I know that some fool with an axe to grind like singingzombie will not be able to trash the pages.
BTW singingzombie is a fellow named Theodore Shulman who sang in the chorus of Brooklyn Repertory Opera, and for some reason unknown to me started making threats against members of the company and the company as an entity. Yep I broke the sacred rule of not telling who someone on wikipedia is....who the hell cares!
Just thought of something else....Did you listen, yes LISTEN, to the one citation that was an audio file?
Way too much crap in the land of the wiki.
-Brett Wynkoop
You can e-mail me by clicking the "E-mail this user" link in the toolbox. (This is usually in the left sidebar on userpages. You probably need to have e-mail enabled in your preferences for that.)
Wikipedia is not perfect, and it mirrors every human folly. I still believe that, in the big picture, the good more often prevails than the bad, or else we would not have gotten to where we are. But often we only get there only after much drama; in fact, it often feels like an opera! Part of Wikipedia's problem is that, just like you, most knowledgeable people have no interest in contributing. I don't know how this can be changed.
I am not a god; I am subject to deletion reviews, and if you find I made a mistake that path is open to you. But they will not accept arguments like ""; BTW, I have since become aware of a mistake; I underestimated the role of comprimario singers. I would not make that statement now, but I don't think it would change the decision. As for the audio file, can you please be more specific and provide a link?
If you seriously rather have no page than the one I userfied, then you can simply delete its content - that is your prerogative since it is in your userspace - and an administrator will subsequently remove the page history. I would be sad about that, though, because I sincerely hope that your opera has a bright future, in which case we will be happy about the article. — Sebastian 19:58, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Well you just proved to me that you did not even read the page if you did not find the link to the audio file. Like I said this wikipedia stuff is pretty much so much $#@@!$%^&%$$. You set yourself up as god, but are not even able to totally read the page and find an audio reference that was clearly on the page.
As a simple mortal in the land of wikipedia I suggest a great god such as yourself learn to read the pages he is exercising his god like powers over.
Since you seem to want me to edit things around here maybe I should take a cue from Ted and start nominating pages for deletion just for the fun of watching you folks argue about things of which you have no clue.
Listen to the audio file.....anyone that can read English can find it on the page.
As far as your being happy to have the page at some point in the future I have spent more time on this in the last 14 days than the last year. Not all the edits from 199.89.147.xxx were mine, but they did all come from the BRO offices, so they could have been done by any of several members. To me it is much more important to work on http://www.bropera.org/2009-2010/veil-of-forgetfulness "The Veil of Forgetfulness" our second world premier than muck about here. It is very odd to me that someone as ill versed with the subject of opera, as you seem to be, is the one who decides what stays and goes in a discussion centered on opera.
Do email me when you have found the audio clip (CLUE: EXTERNAL LINKS :ENDCLUE). According to your sacred wikipedia rules this establishes BRO as being a company of note. In case one of the regular wiki fools deletes the page before you go to it you can find an archive at:
http://www.bropera.org/history/Brooklyn_Repertory_Opera.html
That archive will also be where any new information is recorded. Should you in your godlike way ever decide that we are noteworthy you may view the company history at that url.
-Brett Wynkoop Wynkoop ( talk) 04:55, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Ok I just checked and I find nothing in the toolbox area about emailing. You have my email address be good enough to email me. Yep this no doubt means I am a clueless in the land of wiki, but you should at least have some clues on how to use email I would suspect.
-Brett Wynkoop Wynkoop ( talk) 05:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Done. Feel free to let me know if things pick back up in the future.-- Dycedarg ж 20:24, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
How do you do this for nay other page ? Thanks Taprobanus ( talk) 22:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Just a friendly notice that I have formally proposed to move three pages at Talk:African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968). Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 18:21, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
你的语言能力真利害 -- 法语,中文,日语,意大利语都会说!Hopefully you can use them to spread peace around the corners of the globe. Bis später!- Dpr ( talk) 23:27, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
With regards to this edit, it would be better to ask questions like this on the talk page, since it's not directly relevant to the OP's question. Vimescarrot ( talk) 16:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
I replied to your question here. I hope I didn't miss anything. :-) -- Menti fisto 08:09, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
you are correct that pozidrive was designed for improved cam-out resistance a compared to the legacy '4-tooth' connectors (aka phillips).
Mostly from my personal experience working on cars, but also supported by my mechanical eng classes, spline and torx operate high torque with less axial force required than pozidrive. I would attribute this to more drive area (perhaps better stated, higher moment of the drive area, since it the teeth have small cross sections but are at a large radius)
I would be surprised if the original patents for spline drive spell out mechanical analysis of spline vs posidrive, assuming there is one I could find, and I'm not going to try to FEA it :)
Anyway, wanted to agree with you in part, but since I don't have any verifiable sources I couldn't think of how to get it into the article.
I'm confident the original statement, spline & torx bests posidrive with regards to camout. WHile I find that intuitive after thinking it over, I could see a person without a mechanical background scratching there head as to why one is choosen over the other.
I'd invite you to help straighten it out :)
(adding to this confusion, there are additional, orthogonal, reasons why these new fasteners appear - such as OEM's wanting something new that no-one has drivers for. Was it GM and torx?)
thanks, Mboard182 ( talk) 08:35, 2 March 2010 (UTC)mboard182
Hello and thank you for the interest. I would myself be interested in further information on what exactly was meant by helm signals. These were referred to in various sources I was quoting, presuming we are talking about the loss of HMS Victoria by collision with Camperdown. My understanding is that they are not talking about ordinary flag signals but about separate dedicated helm repeater signals which indicate the degree of turn being applied. At the time I did find a little bit of information about this, enough to convince me it want nonsense, but I don't recall now where it was. I think it involved balls and cones or something of the sort which could be raised and lowered to indicate what the ship was doing. Sandpiper ( talk) 08:19, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello Sebastian Helm, PericlesofAthens here. I left you a brief message at Talk:Shen Kuo about the proposal to amend the lead section. Have a look. Regards.-- Pericles of Athens Talk 01:33, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
See [1]. — Sebastian 23:41, 5 April 2010 (UTC)*Sorry , I corrected it now. Many thanks. -- Ghaly ( talk) 16:54, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Ooh! I really like your unwatched template. Do you have a watched template, too? I'll have to check, and may steal 'em for my own. <watching for now> - UtherSRG (talk) 18:38, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if you're still interested in this stuff, but I initiated a discussion about Tamilnet on the reliable sources noticeboard. You're input is always welcome. -- snowolfD4 ( talk / @ ) 14:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
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There are a LOT of historical referencee of these ancedotes s to malaria in famous figures. Oliver Cromwell is supposed to have died of malaria because he refused to use the 'Jesuit's bark' (quinine). Descriptions of malaria at that time may not have been entirely reliable. This situation is changing with the advent of PCR to show the presence or absense of malaria or other diseases in famous persons. Wallace seems to have had several well documented episodes of malaria and sunsequently claimed that his theory of evolution occured to him during one such episode. I included this note in Plasmodium because it does not really belong in the History of Malaria page but is - at least in my humble opinion - of some interest to students of malaria. I will dig out more of these. If you dont this this is the right place for such material I would be grateful if you could suggest a suitable place for them. DrMicro ( talk) 10:24, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have seen a note you lived in wiki about harmonic singing, so i live my comment. If you whant to know anything more about this kind of singing you can ask me, so i give you any usfull information... I hope I can help. Abraham —Preceding unsigned comment added by Keperson ( talk • contribs) 03:13, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I've noticed colors in some signatures, and I have no idea how to do that! can you tell me? ~Monk Preston ( talk) 23:22, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
It's not that I'm being vain, I'm just interested in how to work wikipedia, and this Shiny thing waa the first thing that really popped out at me! ~Monk Preston ( talk) 21:38, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Also, before I get in trouble, am I allowed to do the below? (You can delete it when you tell me if I can)
Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. -- SineBot ( talk) 21:42, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Sent one your way. Regards, AGK 00:06, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
I feel as though I am being bullied out of Wikipedia when all I do for the most part is qualitatively improve articles by adding citations. I have a group of malign editors that have formed a cohort against me. They have searched really hard to find a few matters of dispute out of my 20,000 or more edits that I have made to this Project. I would appreciate some of your time.
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For your help on the flotilla page. My sense is that there are a number of socks -- quite an unusual number of editors with little edit history but clear knowledge in wp, editing in tandem as to deletes and comments on the talk page. More sysop attention couldn't hurt.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 22:24, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Self-revert. The section I moved/expanded was HIGHLY relevant since the organization trying to break up the blockage, designed to stop weapon smuggling to Muslim terrorists, had previously smuggled weapons to other Muslim terrorists. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 22:27, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
I modified a section in the "background" section that refers to the IHH's background in smuggling weapons, money and militants to jihadists. Since the blockade is meant to prevent such smuggling from occurring then it is highly relevant to know their backgrounds and motivations in this area and shouldn't be shuffled off to some article that nobody will read. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 22:41, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Okay, sorry if I come off as testy (I'm used to dealing with less reasonable people), but I'm a bit confused about your statement. I didn't include anything about "Israel's position wrt(?) IHH" but rather in the background section I commented that the IHH had smuggled weapons in the past, which is what the blockade is supposed to prevent. Also, I'd actually prefer if you reverted/partially self-reverted at least that part back in since I don't want to break 1rr myself - even though I haven't "really" reverted anyone, I just moved someone else's section, expanded it and corrected a spelling error. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 22:58, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
That was basically the section before I modified it. Here was the section after I added the bit about weapon smuggling which was:
He also stated that they were used as a front organization to help smuggle money, weapons and militants into Bosnia and Afghanistan. [1] [2]
The article is specifically regarding this latest incident and presumably implies reasons the IFF would have for inciting violence. I can understand cutting off the first part of the section that didn't deal with weapon smuggling, perhaps a brief, "ties with terrorists" sort of thing since I don't believe their ties w/ Al Qaeda or the plot to bomb LAX are directly relevant. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 23:51, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, I strongly disagree since I think context is very important in things like this - especially where the intent of the people is to create a propaganda celebre, and to misinform as many people as possible before the truth gets out. I won't revert you or report you breaking 1rr, but I hope you reconsider. Thanks for being polite. Cheers. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 02:14, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, glancing at the edit history of the article and your edit summaries it looks like you've removed content 6-7 times which are obviously going to be reverts. Your moves and reinsertions likely also count as reverts. I don't particularly mind since the article is quite "busy" right now, but the concern is that those who aren't following 1rr will dictate content and I believe I saw several other admins engaging in this behavior as well. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 05:53, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, I generally deal w/ topics where there is a lot of wiki-lawyering done in order to ban/block others. My idea, and I could be wrong, was that admins generally are supposed to prevent edit warring in such topics, but perhaps this is simply part of the subculture I learned to edit in. Cheers. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 21:53, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Yes, regarding those specific edits the 2nd one would be a violation of 1rr. But as I said, I really don't care, we may disagree, but you don't seem to be a prick. Personally I think a lot of the rules around here need to go since many of them are simply abused by POV pushers to get rid of opposing viewpoints. TheGoodLocust ( talk) 22:16, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Regarding the root cause this legal analysis of the Gaza blockade may interest editors here.--- Nomen Nescio Gnothi seauton contributions 00:51, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps it is the due of some confusion that we are engaged in a not so necessary conversation that I worry might soon become unpleasant. Walky-talky ( talk) 03:13, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip about matériel instead of material. I didn't knew it was used as a military term. My first language is French so I thought there was a misspelling. So I read the definition and it was indeed from French language so the "é" is right.
JT9001 ( talk) 01:03, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi! You wrote on my german Userpage that you propose to install a disambiguation page for userpages that start with Sebastian. Personally I think that this is a good idea since it would help finding those users. I think we should do this both on the English and German wikipedia - and maybe even spread the idea to other first/last name users. -- Sebastian.Dietrich ( talk) 07:13, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hallo Sebastian, das halte ich für eine gute Idee und sehr großzügig von Dir. -- Sebastian Wallroth ( talk) 09:30, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
So, I changed the pages; any other interested editors please add yourself as you see fit. — Sebastian 17:35, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Excuse my anonymity but I don't have a wikipedia account. I wanted to let you know that User:VerdaTeo is a sockpuppet account of User:Brandini who is vandalizing articles adding fake information about esperanto to polarize and antagonize people who want to learn esperanto with people who do not. Sorry for bothering you and thank you for your time.-- 190.50.167.58 ( talk) 08:14, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. On August 18 you redirected Leymah Gbowee to Pray the Devil Back to Hell. She seems like a noteworthy person who deserves her own article. Did you simply create a blank page with her name on it and link it to the film? If I wanted to add information to her page, is it possible to unlink it? Thank you! USchick ( talk) 02:07, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
I put category:Ethnic cleansing up on the Request for comments noticeboard. Time to get something moving there. -- 红卫兵 ( talk) 11:09, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I started Wikipedia:WikiProject Nonviolence. Hope you're still interested. Kingturtle ( talk) 18:13, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
There is no reason to upload that locally when we have File:United-nations-peace-sculpture.jpg which you can use. If you don't like the size of the image, then try Wikipedia:Picture tutorial, which will direct you how to resize an image. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 04:52, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Sebastian. I'm responding here to a question you raised at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2010 August 28#File:116px-United-nations-peace-sculpture.jpg, because the discussion over there has been closed and apparently I'm not supposed to add anything to it.
You argued that File:116px-United-nations-peace-sculpture.jpg, which has a file size of 4364 bytes, would be better than using File:United-nations-peace-sculpture.jpg scaled down to 116 pixels wide, because the full image is 1.82 MB. While it is true that the full 7.5-megapixel photo is 1.82 MB, the 116-pixel-wide thumbnail ( here) is just 7709 bytes, and this thumbnail is cached so that the server has to generate it only once. So your argument doesn't hold water—the difference in server load and bandwidth usage between the 4364-byte image and the 7709-byte thumbnail is pretty irrelevant.
The reason that images in signatures are frowned upon is that including even a small image, say four or eight kilobytes, significantly increases the number of bytes that have to be downloaded, on a percentage basis. For example, my signature is just 48 bytes of wiki markup, which translates into 123 bytes of generated HTML. Adding a 4000-byte image to that would increase the size by over 3200%. Since talk pages may easily include hundreds of signatures, this bloat would have a great cumulative effect.
You also quoted Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance, at which Simetrical wrote, "…you can definitely slow down the loading of pages if you cram them with 100 KB images." This is quite true, but in the case of the United Nations peace sculpture we weren't talking about 100-KB images—we were talking about a 4364-byte image versus a 7709-byte image.
I hope this has answered your questions. Please let me know if something is still unclear. — Bkell ( talk) 20:40, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Leymah Gbowee is now an article and I nominated it for Wikipedia:Did you know, check it out! :-) USchick ( talk) 22:16, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Just to note to say I apologize for leaving the discussion and I will return shortly. I'm in the middle of finishing up a GA review. Peace. Viriditas ( talk) 02:04, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Ok, so my account is acting up, but i am Oldforgecrash. Thanks for talking to KingTurle about the crash and the page. I also want to thank you for not lashing out at me for some things i said to KingTurle. You helped work things out, and i am not so worked up and mad at KingTurtle anymore. Just i live in a family where death comes pretty close to home, so i freaked. Thanks again!
Hi, on Template_Talk:Supranational_European_Bodies, you commented that it would be good to have a link to an enlarged version of the template. I created such a link, a page on Supranational_European_Bodies. However it was put up for speedy deletion, for being a sub-stub. If you wish to comment, please do so on Talk:Supranational_European_Bodies. CS Miller ( talk) 14:52, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
I have proposed renaming the African-American Civil Rights Movement pages. You can participate in the discussion at: Talk:African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955–1968)#Proposed_Move Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 23:30, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
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