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Greetings. You've devoted much time in the past working on the Louisville, Kentucky article. I thought you'd like to know that it's currently being voted on as a featured article. If you'd like to vote, you can do so at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Louisville, Kentucky. – Quadell ( talk) ( sleuth) 14:28, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
Your userpage says "Destroy Microsoft Encarta and Encyclopædia Britannica. Who needs 'em?" Bit of hyperbole here. :-) Mccready 10:05, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I'm with you on the sentiment but as an historian and wikipedian I usually find book burning a little excessive :-) Mccready 06:14, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey! Are you by any chance Steve Magruder from BPOT ? If so, the world must be pretty small. :-) bogdan | Talk 10:21, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
...and Stevie like to talk about themselves in the third person. Perhaps it has something to do with an excess of male enhancement. Beland has also found it difficult to go on wikibreak. Ah, well. -- Beland 03:41, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Stevie,
thanks for your addition to Jimbo's and my freelets on Wikimania. I did not know, that already so many Wikis about like How-To and WikiWanna do exist, which are implementing my freelet (for prior art and traditional knowledge). It's great, to have learnt about that. Tom -- Wikinaut 23:57, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey, Stevie!!! Just wanted to let you know that your User page wasn't vandalized--or at least not intentionally :-). I am trying to help clean up the Wikipedians/Kentucky subpage. It has been replaced by [[Category:Wikipedians in Kentucky]]. Thanks! Roby Wayne Talk • Hist 20:24, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
Discussion moved to Talk: Direct democracy. This was a discussion about the direct democracy article and there was no real purpose in the discussion being here rather than in the article's talk. — Stevie is the man! Talk | Work 18:34, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I think that the fate of the democracy article will be more or less decided by the Arbitration Committee in this case which should begin soon [1]. Or at least the fate of the democratic peace theory, which I feel is the strongest empirical argument in favor of democracy and therefore currently the most misrepresented in the democracy article. It would be helpful if you have the time to read the two versions of the article and state which version you prefer on the talk page. You may have read the article before, but there have been many recent changes. If you have the time, please correct any errors or tell me so I can correct them. Ultramarine 19:34, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
Congrats on the FA status for our hometown again!!! :-) >: Roby Wayne Talk • Hist 07:50, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
I noticed the "mad" Kentuckyiana deleter struck again. I was going to message him directly but realized s/he was an aol anonymous user, hence no way to figure out who it is. My guess is, it is someone from Indiana that has a thing against Kentucky. -- K3vin 00:49, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Stevie, would you please participate in the discussion at the FR talk page? There is a mild edit war breaking out, and we want to work together as editors to avoid that. Hope to see you there. paul klenk talk 21:29, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Stevie, thanks for stepping in on the side of the truth here. Looks like the Freeps intend to have their way no matter what, though. I saw first hand the sort of things the vile characters who hang out on FR did to try to hurt Andy Stephenson, and it was something I will never forget. There WILL be an Andy Stephenson article here at Wikipedia, and we will make damned sure to make sure that people understand that this terrible thing was done by Freepers. I spoke with Andy just a few days before he died. At that time he was really scared. He woke up blind in one eye. It was the first of the strokes. Also, they had just had an oncology report on his blood, and found that there was cancer all through his system. They believe the strokes were caused by clumps of cancer cells adhering to the walls of blood vessels in the brain. Andy still wanted to live. He wanted to live badly. I told him that I was sure he would and that we would be having lunch together a year from then remembering what a bad patch this was. I knew then I was wrong, but I could not bring myself to tell him that.
You know, I knew there was bad blood between Freepers and DUers before this happened, but I never, EVER thought I would see them doing what they did to interfere with the treatment of a dying man. I would have thought that sort of organized sociopathy was not in their character. I was wrong. BenBurch 19:31, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
I didn't want sidetrack the discussion on village pump about the general usefulness of slang guides, but, my opinion was this: The usefulness of Body parts slang did not outweigh the maintenance cost. And the truth is, nobody was maintaining it. With GWB, it's clearly a useful article, and many many editors do watch it to keep the junk out. I realize that "usefulness" is highly subjective, but that's why we all have our own opinions on Afd, right? Friday (talk) 21:48, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
You're right about NPOV/POV links. I think they're okay, as you say for articles about political parties or other topics that in themselves are POV. Also, they're okay if POV links try to balance each other by including links from across the spectrum of an issues (e.g. democratic-leaning and republican-leaning). NPOV is more a guideline or preference when selecting external links, but is a case-by-case judgment. I've removed that 'criteria' as I prefer to stay away from controversy and disputes, and go with consensus criteria. -- Kmf164 05:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
What are your problems with the operations of a full democracy?-- Landen99 14:51, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Some guy named User:The Literate Engineer just removed the whole list, and called it "clean up". In the remarks for the edit he stated it was in accordance with the AFD results. I checked those results, and it was pretty strongly in favor of Keep. Yet he has deleted the whole list. If you are serious about protecting this thing, you need to watch these bastards.
Do you have this thing on your watch list?
Also, the body parts slang removal was a fiasco, deserving reversal.
It's time to fight back.
Find me on the talk pages for these articles, and join in with your best supporting arguments. We need to counter each and every critical opposition, and do it strongly. Bend over 09:35, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
The shit is about to hit the fan. Bend over 16:56, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't particularly disagree with your removal of these languages from Template: Major programming languages, but I should've noted on that article's talk page that I solicited some opinions about Lasso on Talk: Lasso programming language. The response was unnaturally vehement, many paragraphs from several people — but then, I should've expected that in that forum. As for Lua, I am familiar with it and Lua's article does describe a number of significant commercial applications, but I'm still unsure whether it belongs on the template. Deco 07:51, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | → | Archive 10 |
Greetings. You've devoted much time in the past working on the Louisville, Kentucky article. I thought you'd like to know that it's currently being voted on as a featured article. If you'd like to vote, you can do so at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Louisville, Kentucky. – Quadell ( talk) ( sleuth) 14:28, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
Your userpage says "Destroy Microsoft Encarta and Encyclopædia Britannica. Who needs 'em?" Bit of hyperbole here. :-) Mccready 10:05, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I'm with you on the sentiment but as an historian and wikipedian I usually find book burning a little excessive :-) Mccready 06:14, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey! Are you by any chance Steve Magruder from BPOT ? If so, the world must be pretty small. :-) bogdan | Talk 10:21, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
...and Stevie like to talk about themselves in the third person. Perhaps it has something to do with an excess of male enhancement. Beland has also found it difficult to go on wikibreak. Ah, well. -- Beland 03:41, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Stevie,
thanks for your addition to Jimbo's and my freelets on Wikimania. I did not know, that already so many Wikis about like How-To and WikiWanna do exist, which are implementing my freelet (for prior art and traditional knowledge). It's great, to have learnt about that. Tom -- Wikinaut 23:57, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey, Stevie!!! Just wanted to let you know that your User page wasn't vandalized--or at least not intentionally :-). I am trying to help clean up the Wikipedians/Kentucky subpage. It has been replaced by [[Category:Wikipedians in Kentucky]]. Thanks! Roby Wayne Talk • Hist 20:24, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
Discussion moved to Talk: Direct democracy. This was a discussion about the direct democracy article and there was no real purpose in the discussion being here rather than in the article's talk. — Stevie is the man! Talk | Work 18:34, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I think that the fate of the democracy article will be more or less decided by the Arbitration Committee in this case which should begin soon [1]. Or at least the fate of the democratic peace theory, which I feel is the strongest empirical argument in favor of democracy and therefore currently the most misrepresented in the democracy article. It would be helpful if you have the time to read the two versions of the article and state which version you prefer on the talk page. You may have read the article before, but there have been many recent changes. If you have the time, please correct any errors or tell me so I can correct them. Ultramarine 19:34, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
Congrats on the FA status for our hometown again!!! :-) >: Roby Wayne Talk • Hist 07:50, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
I noticed the "mad" Kentuckyiana deleter struck again. I was going to message him directly but realized s/he was an aol anonymous user, hence no way to figure out who it is. My guess is, it is someone from Indiana that has a thing against Kentucky. -- K3vin 00:49, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Stevie, would you please participate in the discussion at the FR talk page? There is a mild edit war breaking out, and we want to work together as editors to avoid that. Hope to see you there. paul klenk talk 21:29, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Stevie, thanks for stepping in on the side of the truth here. Looks like the Freeps intend to have their way no matter what, though. I saw first hand the sort of things the vile characters who hang out on FR did to try to hurt Andy Stephenson, and it was something I will never forget. There WILL be an Andy Stephenson article here at Wikipedia, and we will make damned sure to make sure that people understand that this terrible thing was done by Freepers. I spoke with Andy just a few days before he died. At that time he was really scared. He woke up blind in one eye. It was the first of the strokes. Also, they had just had an oncology report on his blood, and found that there was cancer all through his system. They believe the strokes were caused by clumps of cancer cells adhering to the walls of blood vessels in the brain. Andy still wanted to live. He wanted to live badly. I told him that I was sure he would and that we would be having lunch together a year from then remembering what a bad patch this was. I knew then I was wrong, but I could not bring myself to tell him that.
You know, I knew there was bad blood between Freepers and DUers before this happened, but I never, EVER thought I would see them doing what they did to interfere with the treatment of a dying man. I would have thought that sort of organized sociopathy was not in their character. I was wrong. BenBurch 19:31, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
I didn't want sidetrack the discussion on village pump about the general usefulness of slang guides, but, my opinion was this: The usefulness of Body parts slang did not outweigh the maintenance cost. And the truth is, nobody was maintaining it. With GWB, it's clearly a useful article, and many many editors do watch it to keep the junk out. I realize that "usefulness" is highly subjective, but that's why we all have our own opinions on Afd, right? Friday (talk) 21:48, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
You're right about NPOV/POV links. I think they're okay, as you say for articles about political parties or other topics that in themselves are POV. Also, they're okay if POV links try to balance each other by including links from across the spectrum of an issues (e.g. democratic-leaning and republican-leaning). NPOV is more a guideline or preference when selecting external links, but is a case-by-case judgment. I've removed that 'criteria' as I prefer to stay away from controversy and disputes, and go with consensus criteria. -- Kmf164 05:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
What are your problems with the operations of a full democracy?-- Landen99 14:51, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Some guy named User:The Literate Engineer just removed the whole list, and called it "clean up". In the remarks for the edit he stated it was in accordance with the AFD results. I checked those results, and it was pretty strongly in favor of Keep. Yet he has deleted the whole list. If you are serious about protecting this thing, you need to watch these bastards.
Do you have this thing on your watch list?
Also, the body parts slang removal was a fiasco, deserving reversal.
It's time to fight back.
Find me on the talk pages for these articles, and join in with your best supporting arguments. We need to counter each and every critical opposition, and do it strongly. Bend over 09:35, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
The shit is about to hit the fan. Bend over 16:56, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't particularly disagree with your removal of these languages from Template: Major programming languages, but I should've noted on that article's talk page that I solicited some opinions about Lasso on Talk: Lasso programming language. The response was unnaturally vehement, many paragraphs from several people — but then, I should've expected that in that forum. As for Lua, I am familiar with it and Lua's article does describe a number of significant commercial applications, but I'm still unsure whether it belongs on the template. Deco 07:51, 13 December 2005 (UTC)