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Re: Red links

Hi; I've responded on the talk page. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 00:52, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Veganism

Thanks for your question. Let's take this discussion to Talk:Veganism. I'll reply there. —Viriditas | Talk 03:09, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

LSP & Welcome to Misplaced Pages!

Hi Coelacan,

Thanks for telling me the Liberale Staatspartij article was moved. A bit late though! I've responded already on both the articles talkpages.

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Ned Lamont

Hi! No problem! I put that pic back! I also look forward to join discussions in Talk Page! Regards,--Sina 00:51, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

T2

You are against T2? —David618 02:35, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I fixed Template:User freedom. There are a lot more users now. —David618 03:20, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Take a look at User:David618/Disappearing Boxes/message1. We should add something about the admins who are deleting userboxes that they dislike and citing T2. —David618 19:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind. I saw that while this is not banned, people are discouraged. —David618 01:50, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

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Goguryeo

The page blanking was just a mistake. I reverted that immediately. The current version is really biased. And i dont think you will agree with me even if i work on the discussion page because i have already read that page and saw what you guys have done. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Goodthings (talk • contribs) .

Maybe you should respect my work, too. I did the reference part, though. You should read them. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Goodthings (talk • contribs) .

And if you have seen, I just translated some sentences from Chinese Japanese and Korean Misplaced Pages of the same topic. They are already validated. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Goodthings (talk • contribs) .

TISM

"how could that be their last appearance if they later performed at big day out?" ... Because after their debut appearance in 1983, the band split and every gig since then has been a reunion gig. --Geniac 05:40, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Conium Page

I moved your Hemlock Society link to the Hemlock article. It doesnt quite fit in an article about the Conium genus.Calibas 03:21, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

If you really want it there I wont change it, I just think it's more suited to the disambiguation page. --Calibas 04:53, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Non-Religion/Irreligion/Secular

Irreligion seems more relevant to those who are non-religious than secular, because secular denotes a society in which there is a freedom of religion, non-religious and irreligion are as they say, no religion. I'd prefer it if there was a "non-religious" article, second to that I'd prefer it if it redirected to irreligious (assuming it could be fixed up). Nick carson 11:37, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

User talk:204.128.204.254

Aloha! I note that you recently put a ban on IP 204.128.204.254. I am a teacher at the school that is associated with this IP. I regularly see these temporary one week bans. It seems to me that the vandalism from this IP is going to be a regular problem since I suspect it is not a single individual that is doing this but probably a bunch of unrelated users. Would it make sense to just block this IP permanently? R. Kevin Doyle 19:21, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

This is to confirm that the IP in question is associated with Mid-Pacific Institute. The (presumably) students who are vandalizing various pages can all register accounts if they wish to make legitimate edits, in my opinion. Thanks for the information and sorry for the convoluted sentences in my original paragraph! R. Kevin Doyle 20:02, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Coelacan/Jennifer Brunner

I've restored the usable parts of the original article to the above page in your userspace. You can move it to mainspace, ideally after updating it. Some of the stuff in the original piece, (eg a bullet point list of campaign promises) isnt really suitable for inclusion on Misplaced Pages, please make sure everything in the new article conforms to the appropriate content policies. Deizio talk 17:55, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Dawkins

Thanks for pointing that nasty typo out for me. I've got no problem with people fixing other people's typos, especially the confusing ones. mensch • t 19:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Talk Dawkins

Re archiving talk:richard dawkins: this edit I don't understand. (1) You broke the archive list, (2) none of the discussions you added back seem to be ongoing and (3) with ur stuff added back the talk is 133kb long (which is a bitch if u log on to the net with a modem like I do, see WP:SIZE). Mikker 20:43, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

All things Ted

I replied on the Dawkins subject. And I am planning to revisit the third wave conversation with you, I just haven't had time to write a coherent opinion. Thanks for helping to research those subjects. Cheers Mr Christopher 05:04, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Giant Land Squid

Can you prove that this is a real cryptid?

perfectblue 19:15, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

The criteria for inclusion on the list of cryptids is a little vague, but one of the main ones is that it has to be real in terms of hypothesis and anecdotal information. It can't be something made up for a TV program. There are people who claim to have seen Bigfoot and researchers who are trying to find it. Can you say the same about the land squid?

perfectblue 21:06, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

A link to an email (referring to the Cretaceous period) and another to a close-up of a flower. Yeah, right. What literature is there about it? Any websites? A book? Totnesmartin 19:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Virtual reality

Which ones do you consider "unrelated"? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.220.61.226 (talk)

Okay, I don't know "who" you are, but seem obviously involved in my "edits".

Okay, first you have to think realistically about what you want to accomplish. You aren't going to successfully redefine "virtual reality" on Misplaced Pages, or even widen the term's popular meaning.

Yeah? Why not? Are you expecting The One to do it? The term is redefining itself at the present time. Maybe you play World of Warcraft, maybe you're aware of the social impact of this (and others) game(s)? Maybe you know that people start to actually die from gaming too much? No drama here, I'm just emphazing on the seriousness of the situation. What is happening now is very important, the technological singularity is on us and we have to reshape our mental perception of what is the Internet, what is the 21th century society, and even more important, what will be our place.

Even if we didn't have thousands of editors who are revert-happy about anything that seems out of place, you would still be violating WP:NOR and that alone will guarantee the eventual grave of your edits.

Wrong, I didn't edit anything inside the pages (except for some typos, maybe). You are violating the consensus ;)

Second, Misplaced Pages already has several articles that deal with the more general concept, like external world skepticism, skeptical hypothesis, brain in a vat, and even specifically thematic motifs of the Matrix series#Philosophy. You could be more productive by contributing usefully to these articles, however, adding semi-related categories is not particularly productive.

Do I have to be productive? And why? I'm not an earner from WP, I don't have any quota to reach, I don't have any result to attain, I don't even have to care. All I morally have to do is being pertinent. I didn't screw anything, I just added my opinion. You think it counts for nothing?

Thanks for the article titles, if I have time, I'll give it a look.

Third, the Internet and Bittorrent are just out. Bittorrent and other p2p has nothing to do with VR, I'm sorry.

Well, you can be because you are wrong. The notions of cyberspace and virtual reality have been clearly defined by William Gibson in his masterwork novel Neuromancer. He even invented the term "Matrix". You'd probably have been right ten years ago, when the Internet was merely a text terminal with few images displaying slowly. It's now totally different. The main topology of the network is changing, in real time! In a few years, most of the metropolis of the world will be fiber optic connected, the information will flow as the speed of light, more than that of the thought, there will be billions of computers and servers full-time online. What will happen then? Do you know?

Listen, I will agree to revert the changes I made on the examples you gave, only if you discuss this with me. Deal?

Ps : maybe I'm Al Gore, hehehe —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.220.61.226 (talk)

why no block?

User:162.39.85.7's last vandalism was less than two hours ago. What was the problem with the report? — coelacan talk — 21:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

They have stoped vandalising, and are therefore no threat. A block should not be seen as punishment, but as an action to stop further damage to the encyclopedia - in this case it isnt occuring. Viridae 21:13, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

bernie's

The problem hyperlink is in the second paragraph on the windows vista article. Now it's not going to what it was going to before; it goes to a plain grey page with the writing:

<link rel="copyright" href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/

so the hyperlink needs redirecting to the P2P article I think. Just go to the Vista article and click on the hyperlink. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MJConnolly (talk • contribs) .

yes, that sentence, but it's fixed now, so don't worry. I'm sorry about that, someone must have fixed it. MJConnolly 23:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

cuttlebone

I was thinking it should have at least a small entry. The article about cuttlefish says little about it.--Marhawkman 12:00, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Problematic edits by 132.241.246.111

See Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Problematics edits / Block evasion by Grazon. —12.72.70.76 18:35, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I did not vandalize "Creationism" article

I have no idea how, the "heyy" got into the article for creationism, but I am fairly sure I did not do it. If I did put it in by accident, I thank you for correcting it, but there was No vandalism on my part on that article. Petercksun 23:08, 1 December 2006 (UTC)petercksun

Pardon me, I went back to check the article and the "heyy" was not there before my edit, so I guess it must have been done by me somehow. Thanks again for the correction for my unintentional mistake. Petercksun 23:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)petercksun

Rm Paleobox

Re: your edit comment on Henodus chelyops--The paleobox project has been abandoned. Many paleoboxes had been added very rapidly without agreememnt from the paleo wikiprojects, and subsequent discussions came to an agreement that the paleoboxes should be removed, and the info contained in them expanded upon in the article, with references. There are still a few straglers out theere, so editors are encouraged to remove any paleoboxes we come across.Dinoguy2 04:02, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Hippy sentiments

Seems to me that you were a wee bit offended by my 'quotation'. I suppose thats your left wing sentiments shining through (with green aura etc). Of course, you are welcome to your opinions (hooray for free speech) but I think that your warning of not to repost that 'quote' even with a citation is a little out of line. If Brown was talking in the context of Howard, then OF COURSE it's relevant to mention the supposed retort (currently awaiting a citation). So, go right ahead and keep wasting your votes on minor parties - you might as well not vote at all, but its a nice way to save seventy odd dollars in fines. I'd be inclined to say the reason he is not a more succesful politician is because he is a ageing, worn out old tree hugging faggot, with two bit policies that haven't changed since the seventies. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by K42 (talk • contribs) 06:40, 4 December 2006 (UTC).

• • Re your RE

Screw you hippy