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Revision as of 18:10, 4 June 2007

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Avoid trivia sections in articles

Dear Salaskan, please don't change the status of officially adopted guidelines like Misplaced Pages:Avoid trivia sections in articles, without first discussing about such things on the guideline's talk page. The guideline went trough a poll that was advertised on the places where such things are usually discussed and thus saw adoptation by a wide group of editors. Policies and guidelines have a high regard within wikipedia and changing them without a single form of discussion, let alone changing their status will not be appreciated by most editors and by some may even be considered vandalism. I see you are a new user, so not many people will be annoyed in that case, but please be more carefull and please read WP:POL. TheDJ (talk • contribs • WikiProject Television) 18:04, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

User:194.122.157.100

Thank you for making a report on Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Misplaced Pages and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, administrators are generally only able to block users if they have received a recent final warning (one that mentions that the user may be blocked) and they have recently vandalized after that warning was given. The reported user has not yet been blocked because it appears this has not occurred yet. If this user continues to vandalize even after their final warning, please report them to the AIV noticeboard again. Thanks. TigerShark 22:30, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Your edits to push poll

Hi, just a note, I made some changes to your edits on push poll; for more, take a look at Talk:Push poll. Thanks! Meelar (talk) 19:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands

Excellent addition to the article. Thank you for it. Jeffpw 11:02, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome, I just thought something was missing in the article so added some text :-). Thanks for the rewrite by the way, it's a bit more clear to read now. Salaskan 15:16, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages can't be GAs

Hi! I thought you'd like to know that I removed your GA nomination of Lincoln. On the Misplaced Pages Talk:Good article candidates it was agreed that disambiguation pages can't become GAs because they are not really articles. Best Wishes! Gutworth 02:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Alright, I can kinda understand that as they indeed aren't really articles, but I thought it was a really good lemma for a DP at least. Thanks! Salaskan 10:47, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello, I am Joe

I just left new comments for you. I do understand your point of view. But how about this other idea? The template could be usable on extreme situations by a sysop and made also available to members of certain projects that are having problems with certain pages. For example, I would like to propose the use of this template at WikiProject Professional Sound Production. I will tell the members that I have tagged the controversial Audio mastering page, and that we need a vote to keep it or delete it. It could be a good experiment and it would give you grounds for complete deletion from the system, if it fails. But, if it works, you would have contributed to the inclusion of another proven useful tool at WP. What do you think?. Thanks for your attention. Jrod2 02:04, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Love Is War

I've moved Love is War back to Love Is War. Seems that you've mistaken "is" for "in" :-) Regards, Jogers (talk) 15:39, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Yep, you're totally right. Excuse me. Salaskan 16:05, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Template Fct

Template {{fct}} which you have used has been Nominated for deletion As you have used it I was wondering if you could vote for it to be kept? Ajuk 23:33, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me! I joined the discussion. Salaskan 23:44, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Love Is War

Looking back at this article, I now have no idea why I added the template, so I've removed it. Sorry about that. (I have also re-italicised the album name, in line with WP:ALBUM#Formatting). Colonies Chris 09:48, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, and thanks for the style addition. Salaskan 09:51, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Your edit to Misplaced Pages:Userbox migration

I reverted your edit to WP:UBM because it makes no sense. All that it's saying is that you can have anything in your userspace within reason, so no pro-nazi or pro-pediphilia (these are real examples and they've been deleted), and no solicitation (which is reasonable anyways). -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 20:00, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Prohibiting nationalsocialistic comments is a violation of WP:NPOV. Misplaced Pages takes no stance on political matters. If someone has far-right views, they have an equal right of expressing it as communists, capitalists etc. have. An entirely other matter would be the advocacy of hate, violence and/or discrimination actively, which is forbidden. When someone places a nazi-flag on their user page, it should be regarded as democracy, however. You can't say you're democratic when it's only "within reason". Democracy permits all viewpoints. Salaskan 20:29, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Per God King, pedophile userboxes are banned (and per WP:ARBCOM, bring it up with them), and Nazi ones are also banned (per God King, bring it up with ArbCom). Sorry. If you ask someone else (which won't do any good), I'd recommend Cyde or an ArbCom member. Please discuss any future major changes on the talk page. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 22:56, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Argumentum ad Jimbonem! :-) Salaskan 14:11, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Then read the mailing lists to find the 20 day 100 email discussion about the Nazi Userbox (it was in January I think). And I don't know where the whole anti-Jimbo sentiment has come from lately). -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 22:44, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Also see Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Pedophilia userbox wheel war. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 22:48, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for these clarifying links. I guess the policy cannot be altered that easily as there have been many months of consensus forming prior to this. I apologise for editing the policy, albeit a very little, without discussion on the talk page. Salaskan 15:57, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Script

{{helpme}} Why doesn't this work?

Have you purged your server cache yet? In Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, hold down the 'Ctrl' button and then click the refresh button on your browser while on your monobook.js page. See if that works. Extranet is now E 22:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks. Salaskan 22:49, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Latin/French influence on English

Hey Salaskan! I've got a few links for you. this one tells you something general about the history of the English language and why it is completely OK that there are so many French terms in there, and these are related to the topic and more for fun: , ; these are WP articles: Ander-Saxon, Inkhorn term. Don't be so puristic! :-) Cheers, Krankman 21:46, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for the links. Will read them soon. I'm quite interested in etymology as of lately. Salaskan 21:48, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but...

...you don't seem to speak English at a near-native level. . United States is as plural as Netherlands: They are both singular in construction. The United States is a country (not *are a country) made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the insular areas; each state in the U.S. is obviously a U.S. state. —_Lumber 13:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, United States in common usage is singular as the word represents one entity (in this case, a country). However, if you entirely pronounce the title, it becomes "List of United States states", which doesn't sound correct. Then what about List of American states? SalaSkan 14:08, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

"U.S. states" *does* sound correct. American state may mean something different. Please don't edit my posts---that link served to prove my point. (Why?) —_Lumber 14:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, why? SalaSkan 14:19, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Because something in that paragraph sounds strange to a native speaker. —_Lumber 14:28, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Go edit it, it's a wiki world ^^ SalaSkan 14:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh no, that's so your gig. —_Lumber 14:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Then stop whining? Or at least tell me what it is, if you care so badly? Thanks in advance. SalaSkan 15:55, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you move a page disruptively, as you did at Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Don't make such tendentious and blatantly POV moves.
—wwoods 18:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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