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You recently made some edits to the articles for ] and ] because you thought it was strange that they were implying that Hesiod wrote of the Titans but not of the Olympians. They weren't implying that. He wrote about the Olympians, but he didn't use the term "the Twelve Olympians." That's a specific subset of the Olympians.
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So I reverted your edits to those two articles. If you also made a similar edit to the article for ] then that should be reverted too. Although I think you might not've made a similar edit to that article, even though the edits you made to the other articles were about that article. - ] (]) 23:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
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Seen you have added this - when there are two already ], ] what is the rationale for another. :: ] : ]/] 07:52, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
::Not categorized, so ''unknown to this writer at the time of creation''. Complex, huh! I'm not good at quickly assimulating new terms... a short term memory thing common to ]. The ones I wrote are case reflective of their proper names... so easier (for me at least) to remember. Nothing more. In further defense, no one had used {{tl|shortcut}} on any of the pages I tagged, so the visibility was ''poor'', so to speak.


::One thought I had logging in a while back was whether there was a book templates catalog page... Something along the lines of the usage I wrote in {{tl|commonscat4}} where each template is displayed and discussed for ease of reference. Strikes me as a good idea. (I'm big on 'self-documentation' and ease of use things... we all have limited time volunteering our services, and anything which speeds assimulation or spreads know-how to newcomers is ''good'' and '']s'' to do, IMHO.) From a project management perspective, such should attract more people to become regulars in the overall project as they'd quickly gain a comfort level with the sub-community and it's tools and practices.


re: {{Las|Twelve Olympians}} and {{las|Homeric Hymns}}and {{las|Titan (mythology)}}
::I'd submit that either ] and/or ] name-types be considered. The page itself would be the full expanded form, not these 'shortcut' formats. (On further mature reflection, reserving 'standards' sub-article page might be better employed for some sort of checklist guideline.) // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 16:45, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


:0) I didn't think it strange, I found it to be confusing, contradictory, and poorly handled across articles. In short, the '''''extant phrasing in both articles created a confusion'''''... which I (in my ignorance) attempted to edit away. I made no changes to the Titans page, btw.
:::Hi guys - I recently rooted through the templates category and assembled a bunch of useful templates in the {{cl|Book templates}}. If you think a sub-page for either the Novels or Books WikiProject would be useful, I'd be happy to create an annotated list. Cheers, <font color="green">&hearts;</font> ]<font color="green">&hearts;</font> 18:48, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


:1) That's why the fact tag... in ]&mdash; I was looking for an expert to address the ambiguity and confusions... hope you fixed up the language so is preventive of another misinterpretation. Cross-topic integration is an important thing to keep in mind with writing between articles which link--and are likely to be cross read by our customers.
===Kevin joins in===
::* ASIDE: The timing on these classical studies and/or antiquities articles is most often too weasel worded in general. Stating a date range like "7th cen. BC" is subject to wide misunderstanding... particularly when the timespan is BCE...
::::Just for the record the shortcuts were mentioned in the conventional fashion at the top of the main WikiProject Novels page in the little box (middle top). This is common on WikiProject pages. Next we can't mention everything everywhere making all things available wherever people navigate. We must divide up and place things in a subdivided or categorised fashion. Having said that I have no objectin ot the estblishment of a tag / template page to record and advertise the various options. Either your self of "Pegship" are free to set such a thing up. Name it either ] or ] and we can see about format / layout etc when we have a start. :: ] : ]/] 07:46, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::* better to augment with an appropriate parenthetical date range with appropriate "at the earliest", "before ...", "around ...", "no later than ...", and such non-academic plain language as educates etc.
::* A certain amount of dumbing-down so stuff is readable (and understandable, because of context) by the general population is a good thing... our mission, I figure.


:2) The distinction between Olympians and twelve Olympians is I suspect too subtle and specialized for reliance on such that the readers are following the specialist mindset. I follow it as someone with at least half-a-dozen mythology references on my bookshelves, but the average lay reader isn't going to have those, or my lifelong interests... so the article needs clarified if you mean to make the distinction. Normally, if worthy, that would and should require a separate article with prominent disambig crosslink at the page top. Somehow, I don't figure any article on Minor Olympians is coming any day soon... Is there a list article covering such? ] strikes out... but... THAT would be one good way to cover that need, and be encyclopedic to boot. We should have one, I conclude. <br /><br
;Kevin:
:::I think Pegships' gone on vacation. Where are you from. I'm still at it at 4:00 am coming up fast! Obviously, Peg and I have a 'history', and have been working together on and off closely on some matters for three months now. Frankly, I really don't want to be doing 'Fiction' things, but there's this nagging sense of responsibility that sort of sucks me into need-vaccuums that I find hard to ignore. Put the two together, and don't take this the wrong way. ''Conventional'' projects fashion is something of a null statement to me. Haven't been involved in ANY wikiProjects until two weeks back, and that was just a courtesy sign in for future need. I do a lot of fiddle-faddle edits on their pages, so I thought I should join (Military History). Ditto Books and Novels, since I've taken on the responsibility for the 1632 series... which has led to taking some responsibility for the {{w2|WPP:series}}.


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:::To add insult to injury, I've been deeply involved in the (so far Unofficial) ''InterwikiProject to equalize'' categories between ] and here as well as occasionally dabble with matters at wikisource and meta. Add in trying to keep up with Tfd and Cfd plus article edits, and I'm a very busy guy here. And those 'commons' guys want me to take the lead at ''putting 'that' together as a official project''. So forgive me if I'm a little dense at times. I see something that seems to need done, and I do it... like the shortcuts. Like half a dozen templates developed in the last week. Hell just take a look at the inter-Project connections I did up through 24 hrs ago. I dig in and accelerate until things work or look right... or at least good enough for now. e.g. Did you see the prototype ''Project tag'' I put on Peg's page? Reaction???
:3) Most of us would agree that '''the ] disambig page''', which links to that ] page also needs further separate delineation '''''of your very technical distinction''' ''. That would also need handled on the 'twelve Olympians' page up in the intro so to set in place for us and to us in the general population such picayune specialty knowledge.
::::You might need to explain a little bit more - not sure I'm grasping the purpose. You want to Model a project tag on {{t1|WikiProject Novels}} which I don't think exists, or {{t1|NovelsWikiProject}} which does. The other aspect of this tends to suggest to me you want the Novels project tag to add all novels to the WikiProject Books. I can see that is logical, but workload wise surely Books project will have enough to handle with everything in literature "other" that Novels. I can see a specific value in the project for co-ordinating the work of all other Book related projects. Otherwise the tendency will be for Books to take over and the "monsterous" scope of such a project may sink it. May be it's me that is miss understanding so bear with me. :: ] : ]/] 09:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::''(before closing, I made a stab at some disambiguation on this... by altering the introduced and offending phrase I'd added to accommodate your technical distinction as I perceive it all... but by all means pee in it as needed if I'm off a bit with my guesswork)'' (I began that with a dablink para, but the topic needs handled in the article body--up high somewhere.) ''In short, wikipedia is not currently covering the distinction between the terms '''''as you know them.''' ''I, on the other hand, am acting to clarify to all and sundry.


:4) Consequently, I reverted your reverts of my three edits on 'twelve Olympians' as wholly ''lazy and in appropriate''. A close examination therein will reveal the sole text change made was to work in Olympians (as just discussed above) because of the linkages issues (and ignorance... I really don't care if there were 12 or 200... but references to Olympians... should definitely connect and mention the twelve which are usually those connoted! The 1500 minor nature sprites aren't of general interest outside kids cartoons and ] scripts! <g>).
:::::What I'm proposing is a tag on the pertinent category pages with a four-fold purpose:
::::#Advertise the Project(s) &mdash; keep putting the message out there that there is a project or three
::::#Auto-tag the category to WikiProject Category, pipesorted however
::::#Link back to both the Talk and Project Page... as in'' 'Duhhh, I have a question on catting such and such'...'' which should again serve to attract talent to the projects.
::::#Lastly, having 'Spammed' the book universe of editors with our presence, it serves to remind them they may have some standards to ''at least look at'' and should probably consider.
::::*All of which I opine, should cut the work in the long run, and renew the talent pool with newer enthusiastic editors (at least ''for a while''). Yeah, it's cynical, but it's also pragmatic and forward looking... my stock in trade!
:::::See ], ], and ], all of which I made a foray into last morning. (Yee Gads! It's light out again!) There may have been a few others, but that's the best I can recollect now. <g> The redlink will expand to the three projects boxes as I described on Pegs talk ''1-2-3'' (I hope). The novels template (Not series related) will just have the two. The odd other book (I count anthologies more as novels, so sequential novels, cookbooks, how to, whatever isn't fiction, just get the one.) Clear now? // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 09:49, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
:::::Least I leave room for confusion, there is and will only be one template placed per category page... the auto-categorization and display will be performed by the one template per page. Less work that way. I'm basically lazy! <g> // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 09:52, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
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:::If the Older ones (Shortcuts) were listed somewhere on the busy project page, well, I'm a great believer in redundancy being an engineer. The world would stop without it, and repetition is the root of all learning. Hence, an extra redirect or an use of {{tl|shortcut}} to highlight the presence isn't going to hurt, and may help someone else see what you think was obvious, or perhaps you don't. Be assured of one thing... if I do something, it makes sense to me and I've got some kind of reason. All you got to do is cross check my contribs here and on the commons and you'll see I'm putting in 110%. But that doesn't make me eidetic, nor necessarily grasp something the first time, nor see something ''conventional'' to those used to that aspect of wikiculture. So do be patient. I'll spin up to speed on what you all have going soon&mdash;and I'll probably stubb my toes a few more times while cranking things out. So just nudge me in the right direction. I'm not going to make a stink. Gotta get back to some edits. This late night crap is murder at my age! Best regards. // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 08:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
*Btw - what the hell is a desk??? And how do you use it? What for, etc. Cheers! // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 08:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
:It's is an idea I saw on a few other people pages - I think originally related to work on cleanup tagged articles. However I thought it a neat idea. Basic is the notion on an electronic desk on which you can place vertual "post its". I.e. mini projects for someone (or self) to remember to work on. :: ] : ]/] 08:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


::* The other changes I made were whitespace and formatting with the two bulleted lists, plus the fact tag... but since I was revamping format and material I specifically made stepwise iterative changes vice one biggie... which would have been what I did were it one of my normal topic areas. (My saves are generally substantial changes. 20 small changes by one editor is not something I like to see.)
::Hmmmm! Makes sense. I've been mostly working out a home office this last decade and I forgot about that aspect of the cubical culture in shared work places. Not a bad idea. Thanks. // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 08:37, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


:5) Mutual respect would require better handling of my time involvement, and a closer inspection of the changes. Thanks, however, for the notice on my talk. Suggest with successive changes like that you evaluate them one by one, as they appear in the current text... note the use of a few typing aid templates and spacing out of cites made the diffs look far worse than the actual changes that occurred.
:::Ok, I give up... with this history, how are you doing anything with it, on it, or whatever???<br>
::* The fact tag should have been cleared in a section edit locally.
(cur) (last) 15:02, 4 April 2006 Kevinalewis (Talk | contribs) (add this page as the first Other)
::* '''The best (''and most courteous <u>to all''</u>) way''' would be to comment it out, with a dated terse reason why it's inappropriate or handled.
(cur) (last) 14:51, 4 April 2006 Kevinalewis (Talk | contribs) m (subst)
::* That sets the record in place for other people to see the diffs... ''and obviates the need for a separate talk handling the issue most of the time.''
(cur) (last) 12:42, 4 April 2006 Kevinalewis (Talk | contribs) (New Desk)
::* In short, is a highly courteous practice when you realize literally dozens of people might be looking at diffs from their watchlists...
What's the secret? // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 08:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


:6) ''In the same vein as a better practice...'' Cites are a pain to work around with future diffs since far more seems to change if they aren't broken into linefeed terminated separate lines... The easiest prophylactic on that is to terminate all of them '''using '>' so it's on a ''different line.''''' Repetitions of named cites, can do the same with '/>', though that seems unnecessary most of the time&mdash;unless two or three cites are used at the same point. As a general technical matter, wikimarkup's HTML is quite tolerant of whitespace padding before the closing of any HTML tag command.
== WP:BOOKS box ==
::* By the same token, breaking up the contents in cites templates onto some block of separate lines aids editing in the future (Text and refs aren't blending together) and shorten lines so actual changes can be seen more clearly.
::* Lastly,<nowiki> '}}'</nowiki> in such can be spaced down with several linefeeds... creating separation. Adding extra pipes in a template is also harmless.


You'll want to recheck "]"... but the text, not a diff... This is a good case for needing a character block diff capability... being able to see whitespace changes as only an added linefeed, or so show the inserted words not processed in a line by line confused block where the whole shows red vice an inserted word AND the linefeed(s), etc., would have shown there weren't big changes there. Best regards // <b>]</b>] 17:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
About the box for ]...I don't think boxes are permitted anywhere except userspace, so I don't know if you could attach them to templates without a major policy change. (See ].) My only other comment is that there's a typo ("its" not "it's" daughter projects) and there was a missing <nowiki><noinclude></nowiki> tag that made the NOTE: appear where it should not. See ] for a couple of color samples. Cheers, <font color="green">&hearts;</font> ]<font color="green">&hearts;</font> 20:07, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


:::I reverted your edits again. I'm not entirely sure what you were attempting to do with them. And I didn't follow your thousand word rant on the talk page either. What I do know is this: Your edit seemed to imply that the Olympians in general and the Twelve Olympians in particular were the same thing. I reverted your edit and explained to you that they were different. Then you made another edit that again seemed to wrongly imply that the Olympians in general and the Twelve Olympians in particular were the same thing. I'm not sure why you keep implying that, even after I've explained to you that it's not true. You might be right that the articles should be more explicit in its distinction between the Olympians in general and the Twelve Olympians in particular. But that's no reason to seem to imply that they're the same thing. - ] (]) 00:54, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
:Not a user box, but a Project box. I've seen them somewhere. I'm figuring mostly on Cat pages (which is where I've seen a few)... ties the projects categories together for the editors via the project category page.
::Could you be thinking of the Portal logos?


::::The problem is that you are making a distinction '''as if a scholar'''... not writing the article focused to and for the lay people &mdash;<!--
Your box's look nice, but won't go across the page top 1-2-3 as I was shootng for. We're using templates in categories already as part of interwiki project links, etc. See ] (All of ]), and interlinks between daughters are coming too, see ]; note the'' 'uplink', and 'sister-links' ''using {{tl|succession}} (or {{tl|succession box}}, IDRE which one.
:Interwiki yes; but can you show me an example of use within a wiki? I just want to see the concept in action. Thanks for being patient with me; I am on the verge of (a) leaving on vacation and (b) a nervous breakdown...<font color="green">&hearts;</font> ]<font color="green">&hearts;</font> 21:14, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


--> your writings need to explain EXACTLY THAT DIFFERENCE as I tried to do... to your dissatisfaction. Fine, I leave it in your hands, but the article or our overall coverage is missing the overall context. ] has to handle the rest of the pack &mdash;<!--
Also see ] (Play the cool Animated map sequence!) Most Navigation templates on the ] are inter-category links like these. They're also interlinking images (click on one of the images in that last example. Back to the salt mine // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 20:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


--> whatever scholarship calls them. Since your article is the closest detailed article with that title, and is further on point... IMHO, you're only doing a partial job. It's not satisfactory at all.
re: ''Interwiki yes; but can you show me an example of use within a wiki? ''
::] doesn't work for that? Or are you asking specifically about a project template? (I can't really check that right now, I'm browser full with debugging an if statement. And Yeah, I've seen the Portal (in Category:Speculative fiction, iirc))


::::I've been "IN TO" to reading about mythology my whole life, and am pushing retirement age and until running across you, have never heard of the distinction you are making. Not many people have one, much less multiple mythological reference works, and my bookshelves have at least six. In short, you are living in a very different world than the one this encyclopedia is supposed to serve if you can write about any topic in the area I haven't ever heard of even once.
::OTOH, One bit of advice I was given by several admins when 'empty equivilent categories' were speedy deleted was to get a project up for same and tag so they wouldn't vanish... happened to four, I think. (Someone had added db-empty, despite the fact they were displaying commons pics here... showed zero pages on en.wikipedia, as does any cat that contains only cats, for example.) I've'' 'worked around THAT (so far, and keep fingers crossed!)' ''by posting a note on ] and prodded the only other guy I know re-catting in both sister's to do a project here... he declined on not wanting the visibility. Shrug. (But one reason when you suggested revitalizing ] that I was interested. The only other project experience I've got is Military History, and I'd just joined that!) A lot of this is evolving. Go relax on vaction, nothing on wikipedia is worth worrying about... there are far too many fingers in the pie. How long will I be without you to lean on? If I find one other example later, I'll drop a note. OK? // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 21:34, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


::::If you want to cover the Olympians and draw a distinction to the 12, by all means do so, but for pete's sake COVER THE DIFFERENCE. Recast the disambig article, and start with that title if necessary, but at least explain SOMEWHERE who the twelve are versus those who aren't. Sorry I can't be any clearer. Try thinking like a twelve year old reader finding the topic for the first time and see if you educate the lad. That's the connection you seem to not be trying to make, given the inadequate link from 'Olympians'. Best regards // <b>]</b>] 01:11, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
== 1632 and alt. history ==


:::::The disambiguation article at ] was kind of unclear. I changed it to refer people to the main page for all the Olympians, at ], rather than the specific article about the ]. I think that should take care of your complaint. If you think it's still unclear we can revise it further, just so long as you don't reinsert the incorrect implication that the Olympians in general and the Twelve Olympians in particular were the same thing.
Greetings! Sorry I couldn't respond immediately, I am currently busy helping polish the ] before we re-enable submissions and I haven't had almost any time for WP since May :(


:::::In its first sentence, the article on the Twelve Olympians links to the article for all the ], and it explains that the Twelve Olympians were only the principal Gods, so I think it already covers the distinction.
Good job on ], there is quite a bit of useful data in that article and it shows promise. If you want to stop by the ISFDB and take a look at or and , you are more than welcome! We can always use another victim, er, I mean helpful editor :) ] 15:23, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


:::::Note that I wasn't the one who made the distinction between the Olympians in general and the Twelve Olympians in particular. That article has been around since 2004, and it's been edited hundreds of times, by a lot of people. I didn't discover it until November 2008. - ] (]) 01:26, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
===See your one...===
;and raise you three!
#I'll check out the ISFDB soon.
#We're reactivating the ] (aka shortcut: ]), which will impact you and yours, as it should, so be advised. Mostly I need ''a braintrust'' of others that have shared similar issues. The plethora of short fiction in 1632-verse is an awkward fact of life... Have to deal with it since it's canon.
#I cheat with Eric... We email when I need a specific datum. I'm actually delinquent about a month putting up the completely updated bibliography he sent me on all books, though not the between covers writers in the GG's.
#But then I took a small wikiBreak, and will be doing so again come month's end. In between there's RL to contend with.
#I'd really appreciate you nagging all and sundry to sign up for the main three books wikiprojects. ], ], and most importantly (LOL), ]. I'll leave you to figure out whether you should sign on to a specific sub-project like ], ], or what-not.
Right now I need to finish some stuff over on the commons. See you in a ''far galaxy'' soon. // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 18:28, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


== ] == == ] ==


I'm afraid I reverted your changes to this as they were almost entirely inaccurate, as you would have found out (in several respects) by reading the rest of the article. Engraving on metal predates woodcut by several thousand years, & until steel-facing was introduced in the C19, engraved printing plates were only usable for some hundreds of impressions in most cases, whereas woodcut blocks could print into the thousands (as they only need low-pressure presses). And so on. Please try to restrict major edits to subjects you know something about. Thanks. ] (]) 21:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
I eventually found the ], once I did that I added the missing nowiki tags, which seemed to clear out those afd pages. ] 20:27, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


;removed text
:''Good work! Sounds like a rough one. I figured it was something like that... but I have no idea what 'processing' you guys add to lock down and close Afd, Tfd, and Cfd matters. ''
''It originated from the technology and practices needed to make the ] for ], but was extended to be purely artistic in decorative designs in metal. In printmaking the process came full circle and was developed in Germany in the 1430s from the engraving used by goldsmiths to decorate metalwork to make printing plates for ]&mdash;for woodcuts were good for at best a few hundred pressed pages, while metal engraved printing plates were essentially indestructible by comparison.''


: Thanks for the heads up... That's OK, I removed my inferred sentences (above) when reinstating the important part of my change; though I doubt the case is as "solidly wrong" as you suggest, inasmuch as dark ages monks did woodcuts, but I digress, as does the further point that a technology lost is.... lost and the fact it's being reinvented two thousand years later thereafter becomes TRIVIA--albeit tech history) and so restored the original ''''important change'''' that caused me to edit your writing shortcoming and correct the article viewpoint to cover the other meanings.
:''I just lost about half-a-dozen (call it six hours work) interlinked and related edits, most nearly done. All because of a Thunderstorm causing a momentary power outage... I couldn't back down the chain of edits fast enough. '''''So my day was worse'''''. Nannny-nnannny-boo-hoo! <g> Cheers! Take 430 points for Griffindor or 215 Atta-Boyz as you prefer. I'm sure someone will appreciate it if it 'tis only I! I'd give you a Barnstar but I haven't seen that guideline anywhere as to how to do so! Best regards, // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 21:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)''


::* The word has three meanings, albeit interrelated, and IMHO the page is still unbalanced &mdash;just better now, no matter how much or little I may or may not know about it. Your close knowledge is perhaps blinding you to the other meanings... such as the ] category on the commons I was wrestling with organizing.
:: Nah, not too rough- took a bit of time, but quite fun doing a bit of detective work (I ended up taking one of the page, doing copy into a text editor, search for the cat (no link) then search for "{{" to find transclusions, and took it from there.) Sorry to hear you loosing work- never had storm problems, but my internet connection can get very dodgy at times! Oh and three awards in one evening might make me too big headed, but so you know for future reference see ] for an overview of the options (including ]). ] 22:03, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::* Try writing English, and prick the balloonish sense of self-importance... it's unbecoming. I do think ''you all'' need to mention some relationship to woodcuts up high. // <b>]</b>] 22:12, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
::*There has been a continuous and important history of engraving on metal, stone etc for thousands of years. Late medieval, not "] (not a respectable term for some decades, monks did indeed (among others) make woodcuts, but woodcut blocks are not engraved - that is ] from the late 18th century on. Woodblocks are cut with chisels not burins for a ]ing not an ] process - totally different. All this is already in the relevant articles. ] (]) 23:18, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


:::Thanks! I Needed that link. ''I really need to browse more!'' // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 16:31, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


:::* No doubt... I'm just concerned with broadening the article to cover the alternative uses of the term as the vernacular language exists, as opposed to the special tech focus of the article lead as was yesterday. My real focus was (''well REALLY more in figuring out how stuff in there needed fixed up...'') and related arts categories and category schema.
== UT ==
::::* Since we've crossed paths since today from the unsaved edit I started ] answering you'' 'oh-so-much-earlier' this morning'' (which was lost, alas--fell off the end of the buffer), and the changes suggested ''composing that'' (changes here: {{las|engraving}}) haven't been reverted by you (so far), I don't see we have any big disagreement.
::::* It's all a matter of making sure all the uses of the page get some coverage. Thanks for the mergeto/mergefrom vote of support @ worksofar,etc., if not for the two edit conflicts! <BSEG> Cheers! // <b>]</b>] 17:39, 5 March 2009 (UTC)<br<br
/>(It might amuse you to find out as it did me that in getting back to answering you today indirectly required an edit on the Indonesian wikipedia... so loosing the edit buffer with the earlier incomplete answer is a "Shit Happens" condition as usual in wikiland. Biz as usual! Wish I knew how to increase the edit que history in firefox... any ideas?)


==Refimprove==
Hey Frank. I made a small change to {{]}} for what I think you were trying to do. --] 22:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I saw this edit, which you made on January 27 of this year:
:as per email -- thanks. I figured it was something 'parsing rules oriented' like that. The devil is knowing when to use which technique! Thanks again. // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 19:12, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


"It's a stub, dummy!" is not an acceptable reason to comment out a tag. Every article, including stubs, needs references. Generally each paragraph needs a ref. ] (]) 17:23, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
== AMA Roll Call ==
In whose opinion... somebody change the rules on endless editing, AGF, or IAR when I wasn't looking??? Last I looked any editor acting in good faith can make a reversing editorial decision on any given day... Use of that template on a stub is downright foolish.


: 1) I don't play the liberal PC game, so be sensible, not fashionable... It was a dumb unnecessary tagging. Point, Set, Match. Actually, that tag and it's friends really doesn't have a lot of utility these days... three years back when cites first became possible, maybe... just barely... but the fact tag works much better, as it requires the '''LAZY''' IDIOT '''''faking making a contribution''''' (I see no reason to assist such people in their self-delusions) to actually think about where to put it, and if they're a good editor, they will specifically embed a comment in the template saying what needs supported or what they find questionable, etc.
There is currently an ] going on. Please visit the page and sign your name to indicate whether or not you're still active. :-) <small>]</small> <tt><b><font color="#0033CC">]</font></b></tt> <sub><B><font color="#000000">(]/])</font></B></sub> 18:04, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
::* AGF SEEMS to be totally unknown to the current crop of replacement editors (At this point, I'm weary of finding out which other long term editor has left the project, so it's almost always some young school kid replacement sans seasoning with an over large ego.)


: 2) How foolish are you? You some kind of kid wedded blindly to rules and without enough experience to make judgments as to when they apply? Or were you commenting on my blatant obvious come down (in which case, see "1")
== ] poster==
Post on his talk:
''You added this: Image:Murphys_Law_Poster.jpg a few days back. My concern is that the graphics image is much too small and doesn't expand into readability. Are you taking steps to get a larger image? Also, you cite no source for the image, only that it's popular. I'm not sure that will stand up, though it has the virtue of being on point for the article. The question is whether it comes from a copyrighted source. If so, the link ought to be given at least crediting the originator. Best regards // FrankB 13:37, 5 July 2006 (UTC)''
:I forgot where it came from exactly (several sites have it) but I think http://artfiles.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10001000/10001840.jpg is correct. As for readability, I was under the impression that it had to be a low-resolution version to be "fair use" poster on Misplaced Pages. Would I need to type out the text (I have the poster as well) to make everything kosher? Thanks. ] 00:55, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


: 3) If you're that raw and naive and resent it for being or resembling you, go screw up some other wiki, we have enough fuckups here. Stubs don't generally even get categorized, save by the stub type... they are TO DO lists. Placeholders. Beginnings. Asking for cites when someone is outlining a topic is ridiculous at best... not really even that excusable.
::The resolution Vs Copyright is 'above my pay grade' (expertise). I'll refer the query to three that may know. The attribution ought to be completed regardless. Just navigate to the image and edit to update that. Cheers to all! // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 16:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


: 4) Then consider... IN YOUR FACE TAGS OF ANY KIND are and always have been controversial here. SO STOP BLINDLY HANGING PAPER AND fooling yourself that it's a contribution of the least kind. Hanging one's a detriment, a step backwards that makes us look like fools to the outside world of users... You know, our readers for whom the project exists?
:::Sorry about the delay, RL stuff happening all weekend... Anyway yeah fair use images should be low resolution, however they still need to be big enough for our use (otherwise why use it), '''if''' it is importnat to read the text it need to be big enough to see the text. '''However''' I doubht that image can be said to be fair use in this context at all. Most of the funny one liners have very little to do with Murphy's law, and there are plenty of exampels in the article already. It seems to be there purely for decoration, at least I have a hard time seeing how it meets the "critical commentary" criterea, it doesn't rely help anyone gain more insight into the topic. Beeing funny and vaguely related is not the best rationale for fair use IMHO. --] <span style="font-size:75%">]</span> 09:25, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


: 5) If something needs references stand up on two legs and be an editor... it's educational to run down new information, and you can cure that little gripe you have on cites... and impress some with the fact you actually added some, instead of whined like a four year old screaming for ice cream. I do on average 10 or more of those a week just checking links... try to copy that and you'll have less reasons to feel proud of yourself for hanging trash. // <b>]</b>] 18:30, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
::::OK - Thanks. I suppose it fills up the article with a graphic as is, but if it's otherwise not fair use because of all the other maxims, it should be deleted or just left as is, I guess. Much appreciate it!


Frank:
::::Btw--Do we have anything here that coresponds to a commons image gallery? I haven't seen many images here that are categorized at all as a rule. // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 18:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
*1. I've been here since 2003.
*2. ] - If "liberal PC game" means commenting on the contribution instead of the contributor and treating other contributors with courtesy, then you have to play the "liberal PC game" to continue editing Misplaced Pages ;)
*3. ] is now the cornerstone of Misplaced Pages policy. You have to have references with articles. There's no way around this.
*4. Hanging these tags is the right thing to do
] (]) 19:01, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


:: Excuse me, I was characterizing the edit... it is and was dumb. "Right Thing" is a real stretch. Harmless, perhaps... save for the big in YOUR FACE issue... See, I object to those like some object to calling dumb things dumb, etc.
== Re ] ==


::*My edit was clear in that message and leaving it behind as an embedded comment for the education of and to discourage such tag hanging by others. Removing the template is entirely within ] simply becase 'V' is such a major part of our policies, and a very simple chain of logic says it's hardly needed in a new page--especially one already tagged by another IN YOUR FACE tag. In short stating the obvious in something just stubbed together is OVERKILL and STUPID.
Hi Frank,
: ''I just lost about six hours of stacked edits in a momentary outage...
: ''Had a diversion to see what Flammerade was up to (M.I.A. 30 daze)...
: ''...Just thought I'd say hi.


::* Last I looked, the US Constitution entitled me to hold opinions, and if you're interpretation of Wikiqette is that I can't ever state one... fuck off and ban me forever. Trust me, it'll be a favor. If not, I'll speak frankly when and where I see fit. I don't believe in handling all idiocies with kid gloves... Some plain speaking must be kept to educate others.
Thanks for keeping in touch. Wish I could do more than just commiserate re your lost work... you probably know the "if you think you don't need to save yet, it's time to save" mantra better than I can recall, spilt milk and crying though it may still be. Maybe there's a program that detects if you're editing in an application without an autosave function and then autosaves for you.


::* The inline comment is a very low key way of spreading the message... "THIS IS DUMB" which you seem to fail to grasp. I'll be careful to avoid the Dumbshit word hereafter, since I do see that plain hyperbole might be taken as a direct PA... but frankly, disagree with that as a need... but if it will help avoid unwanted advice, I'll keep it in mind.
I recently concluded an educational email correspondence with a member of staff from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) which, in short, has confirmed my suspicion that sorting out some kind of regular structure for subnational divisions across the world (from states through districts to communes, etc.) is... hard. All because I wanted to sort out how to structure the various categories of locator maps on the Commons. There's a guy here on Misplaced Pages, ], who seems well-versed in it all, so I hope with his help a breakthrough might be made. Otherwise maybe it's best simply to group all "Category:Locator maps for Xs" &ndash; where X is any of who knows how many kinds of subnational division &ndash; in the one undivided "Category:Locator maps" on the Commons (''in'' the Commons?).


::* I didn't seek out and confront a contributor and increase the hostility of the working environment here with the editor I disagreed with, I didn't preach to them, nor assume My interpretation of any and all guidelines was the only one which applies... In fact I can argue I know such interpretations better than most, for most are too narrow in using their own god given cognition to even consider how things might also be interpreted &mdash; blind, in a word. Sanctimonious, self-righteous and liberal in character.
So I've been away from the Commons for a while too, though am disappointed to hear that Flammerande seems to've gone. Perhaps he was able to combat the onset of wiki-addiction, or maybe he burned-out sorting through so many maps...


::* THAT WOULD BE YOU, pushing the issue, n'est pas? No fucking surprise so many good editors burn out and fade away. This place wears. Your message here is biased and A Personal Attack by my lights for questioning me over something so trivial... as you aren't doing anything but wasting both our times over something which can be argued either way.
Suddenly feel thirsty. Best wishes for now, ] 03:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


::* Wish I had your free time... must be nice. // <b>]</b>] 13:31, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
== Re: Edit on commons ==
:::1. That article wasn't stub. A stub refers to article length. You can have a well-referenced, very short article. Every article, regardless of how new it is or how short it is, needs refs.
:::* Hmmmmmm ... note the page bottom in this non-diff mode. Personally, I figure that ] means I let the editor's writing the page decide when it's not. Until then, In Your Face Tags are not welcome. //<b>]</b>] 04:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br /><br />
:::2. The US Constitution is an agreement between the US Government and her people. Misplaced Pages is a private website and it can regulate behavior and speech of its users as the said users use the website. You can be frank by commenting on people's ''behavior'' and ''contributions''.
:::3. The bit about removing the tag to follow WP:V does not compute. Tags are encouraged because they draw attention to an issue. You remove the tag when you address the problem. Regardless of article length all articles need to be reffed.
:::4. It is perfectly acceptable to ask an editor to revise his or her editing patterns to comply with policies. It's not a good idea to hide tags without addressing what they ask for. A ] would generally be a comment about a contributor, not his or her contributions. I am talking about actions and suggesting different actions.
:::5. "THIS IS DUMB" isn't a reason that computes. Something like "Article X already has references" or "plot sections do not need references" (the unstated ref is the work itself) DOES compute. Be specific and say what you mean. ] (]) 02:55, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
:::: Fabartus, I looked at this diff. - First "You can't read too good" is a personal attack... and it's a false one. The message <nowiki>"Cite error: <ref> tags exist, but no <references/> tag was found"</nowiki> is a system message stating that refs exist and that there needs to be a <nowiki></references></nowiki> listing of them. But <nowiki>{{refimprove}}</nowiki> says there are ''not enough'' references for the material. The system message doesn't negate the refimprove. ] (]) 03:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


===On your last===
Yeah, I probably shouldn't have tagged it as a minor edit, a tweak to a major template isn't minor, even if an alteration similar to that one on an article clearly would be. As for how I found the template and my rationale for that change, if you check out my Commons contributions, I'm in the process of updating a ton of tropical cyclone tracks (after ] on that issue). They use {{w2c|template:hurricane auto track map|a commons template}} to fill out the image summaries, I also altered that template to make it more flexible. ''That'' template uses {{w2c|template:w|the commons w}}, which is how I found it.
;Are you trolling???


Seems like it...
As for why I altered it, I noticed in the summaries on the image pages that the links to Misplaced Pages had a space between the end of the sentence and the full stop. I removed that space from the template to make that formatting issue correct. I should have probably checked things out more carefully before making that change. I notice {{tl|w2c}} has the same issue, look at the last sentence in the previous paragraph… The reason I only changed that one template was that was the only one whose existence I was aware of at that time. Hope that explains what I did.--] (]) 09:30, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
::See post (]) : ''You may be amused I had to make similar corrections ... ''' // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 20:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
:::Glad that helped (a little). I suppose now you are going to have a thing against whitespace in templates. No problem!--] (]) 00:23, 15 July 2006 (UTC)


IN my humble opinion you are a sanctimonious asshole. What part of anything I've said to you made you think your picayune trivialities were anything I wanted to hear about from you. YOU HAVE NO CREDIBILITY WITH ME. YOU CONTINUE TO PUSH OVER A TRIVIALITY... GET A FUCKING LIFE! What are you... some kind of kid that has no real world experience? OR an academic used to pushing students around? You and I have differing ways of looking at things. LET THAT SAY IT ALL. Your perceptions are not my reality, nor are they even yours.
== Barnstars, categories - input needed ==


ON The last edit: (from the diff)
Since its at least partially connected to picture categories and commons, I though you may be interested in ].--] <sup><font color="green">]</font></sup> 16:13, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
::''":::: I looked at this diff. - First "You can't read too good" is a personal attack... and it's a false one. The message <nowiki>"Cite error: <ref> tags exist, but no <references/> tag was found"</nowiki> is a system message stating that refs exist and that there needs to be a <nowiki></references></nowiki> listing of them. But <nowiki>{{refimprove}}</nowiki> says there are ''not enough'' references for the material. The system message doesn't negate the refimprove. ] (]) 03:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)"


:Thanks, I just asked someone yesterday how that worked. So now I get to look at even more gab, oh how truly good! But thanks none-the-less. // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 05:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC) My comment had nothing to do with the reference list... Look at the edit page I linked with the full url... that state of the article. (See tom Run. See Sally laugh!) LOOK AT THE FUCKING '''STUB TAG''' DUM DUM... YOU CLAIMED IT WAS NOT A STUB ARTICLE... I say that's enough for ]. NOW kindly drop dead and stay away from my talk. // <b>]</b>] 04:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


re: '''First "You can't read too good" is a personal attack...''' NO IT'S A BLATANT OBSERVATION. That stub tag is in the record and will be forever more. How's an observation of fact an attack? YOU'RE FUCKING GUILTY AS HELL OF PUSHING POV when you don't even understand distinctions, forsooth. // <b>]</b>] 04:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
==1632 series==
Hello, just to let you know I have deleted all prefaces and other copyrighted stuff you had posted in yellow boxes, and here are the reasons:
* They were copyrighted. Even if you got permission to post it on WP, it does not work. It needs to be licensed under GFDL or other "free" license. That means Flint and publisher should agree that every other person could use the material freely. Obviously it's not a case.
* They are not enecyclopedic. WP does not post directly quotes or excerpts of primary sources. Such things should go un WikiSource, but, again, they are copyrighted and do not belong there.
I hope you see my point, and great work overall! ] 01:17, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


re: ("and graduated in May 2007".) I shoulda known... only a fucking kid could be this asinine. Kindly get a life and back your self-righteousness down about five-to-seven decibels... you're far too raw and unfinished still yourself to be pro-offering unsolicited advice to someone any older than ... say, late junior high. As someone who could have been your father in nearly three different decades, you're a joke. Most people aren't fully human until they reach their mid-thirties... you've still a long large climb ahead, so humble yourself. Your lack of skill dealing with people is telling. (Hint. Experienced people with their shit together would have never started this discussion. THEY CERTAINLY wouldn't have tried to continue it when rebuffed. etc., increase magnitude with each exchange exponentially!) As a self-styled computer wiz, try to remember what an exponent is. // <b>]</b>] 04:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
:*Reply on ] last night. // 19:14, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
* Oh, in that case, that stub tag wasn't supposed to be there. ] describes a stub as "A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information." - There were clearly more than "a few sentences." ] (]) 04:28, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


== Cohesive Merge Talk gone awry ==


<div style="background:#d7e7f7">
Hi! You seem to have applied the {{tl|mergedisputed}} (Nom'd for Tfd currently, btw) tag on ] and ], but each leads to a different talk.
;Just sent by email in reply:
#It's not clear which was mergefrom and mergeto either. In any event, these things need to have some ''initializing'' prose explaining the purpose of the merge, or in this case the merge dispute, even if it's just administrative 'auto-categorization' on your part and not your pov/editorial judgement.
#I usually just initialize a section '==Merge Proposal==' and recap what into which, so others have a clue months later. That because I spent the last half hour parsing the history file finding the original very old edit that added them in the first place. One was over 15 months old! Yikes and Grrrrrr!
#Some of these things linger for well over a year, and we badly need a time limit put inside the templates. Since you're a CS type (I've been out of coding for a long while), CBDunkerson and I kicked that around about a month back, and he says it can be done with the math templates. Perhaps you could do all of us a favor and see if you can get something that works up and debugged.
#If so, I'll support a change in policy that applies a 'sunset limit' on these ugly in-your-face things. 90 days should be more than enough time to talk about such.
What do you think? // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 06:28, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


You have a real problem. See a shrink ASAP
These were on the "oldest longest eldest merges" list which I did about 50 to 100. I remember this article, read the discussions. An indication of consensus was not shown in either direction, and the discussion clearly showed both recent continuing comments as well as no consensus:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=French_Wars_of_Religion&oldid=56047557
* http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=First_Civil_War&oldid=42714902


Further if you edited instead of worried about guidelines and procedures and tags and rules and all the window dressings which really don't get anything done... (really says you're unseasoned and studentish... )
I started at the top of the list (oldest merges) and just clicked my way along. Per that specific article, I haven't the knowledge to be anything but unbiased. :) (ignorance has its merits). For any of the merges that I performed, I looked at both discussions as one, and if any particular user was speaking in both then I considered that as one opinion in the collective conversation. I am pretty sure that leaving the various templates '''does''' attract the attention of various groups. Which groups those are, I haven't the foggiest, but I am sure that people that have been here a lot longer that pay attention to such things are tickled into response, perhaps even such as your own.


you'd know stub articles go very frequently to 2-3 screenfuls of text. 1-1-1/2 pages printed out at times. Now that depends on topic, but that's the way it is. You're trying to live in and impose an ideal which doesn't and hasn't and can't exist for there aren't enough of us to make it happen as soon as you'd like. For starters, piss ant concerns like those you've raised just drives people off.
Per doing any template work, I haven't delved into that much, but it doesn't look to me like it's a very difficult "language" of any sort. I'd be glad to help but am sure there are plenty of people that are more expert on templates; i.e. it looks to me as a new comer to be a rather "neato kewl" thing that various folk consider an artform. :) I've even seen comments from one group of X template-people saying to Y template-people that a more elegant way to do something would be <nowiki>{{example}}</nowiki>.


Be well, but leave me alone.
Please don't misconstrue the above to mean I wouldn't be interested in templates. It's just that you are probably looking for someone with experience in that area. I'd be happy to gain the experience, but to be fair, you should have that info at your disposal for consideration. Thanks. I'll put this section on my watchlist for a reply. (I have picked up a case of stalktrolleritis) ] 06:54, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


Frank
::Well, I consider it proper editorial descretion when checking those danged things to take them out when nothing has happened for months, so you might say I was working your list from the other direction--the causal stimuli. I do carefully annote each of the talks that such and such to so and so was deleted at this time due to apathy. As far as I know, none of the dozen or so I happened upon has been re-proposed. If so, the talks have a start. It is far more common to find NO ANNOTATION WHATEVER on the talks months after placement. That's part of what gripes me. At least the installing editor should initialize a talk section and annote his/her reasoning. Not common, but should be policy!
</div>
Sigh // <b>]</b>] 04:42, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
=== We clearly live in two different wiki's ===


Tags have been encouraged by some, but have ALWAYS been controversial to others. I'm one of those. Just because some people outlast the others in various fora here doesn't mean the controversy has gone away. The way we decide guidelines sucks and always has as well. Need a quorum at the least, not the process where those who win their way do so by having worn down those too busy to keep up with the discussion that goes on forever. So let's cut to the chase. You don't like it, or my decisions, too bad. I don't care for jumped up know-it-alls telling me anything. I've told Jimbo off, I've told judges I held them and their court in contempt, I've ridiculed cops when they were acting out and unprofessionally, and I've dragged bigots out of their front door by the throat when they called my tenants a nigger so I'll be damned if I'll let you or anyone else dictate what I can and cannot say or how.
::I've just gotten to first base myself on templates... so I was trying to pawn off my work on your obvious talent at coding (I'd seen your coded algorithmn on {{ut|Pascal.Tesson}} and tried to find the archive where he might have replied to you about it.)


Further, NOBODY RESPECTS LAWYERS (In their right mind), so don't get legalistic on me. I'd sooner live next to a thirty-times serial killing axe murderer. I care about wasted time. MINE. Not interested in making friends here... they've all left. Making more just brings more likely pain. Kapish? I'm civil enough most of the time. When I'm not it's an adult decision made under a different value system than the liberal garbage you're advocating. Private rights trump the constitution... not in my world view. That kind of thought'll draw a death sentence in much of the real America, so you be sure to stay out of those places. Not interested in your theories of constitution vs. websites, I'll speak frankly when I JUDGE it necessary. When and if someone is acting silly, costing others on the project time, some small percentage of the time, I'll do something like the edit you're bitching about to make their foolishness known. I didn't seek out and confront anyone... again that would be you. Why don't you take a wikibreak and consider how hostile an action that is. Almost as bad as a revert... but do others share both your values and your perceptions? Chances are not so. THAT's the bottom line. You don't like it... tough. Feel free to block me whenever... it'd likely be a favor as I neglect my business to do anything here. And do far too much of it. Got it? // <b>]</b>] 03:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
::Have to say your unorthadox archiving was a pain to try to navigate... especially with the history record giving no info until very recently. Just a neutral observation. I even use succession boxes to connect mine so it's easy for folks to find a needed reference. These (talks) are after all 'corporate records'.


===Another budinski===
::Thanks for the quick reply... I wouldn't have seen the article save I was trying to see how the template was used since it's on the chopping block on the Tfd (17ths list). Perhaps you need to chime in. You can follow my contribs link... I'm going to bed and it should be recent. Best regards // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 07:13, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
; March 2009
:::OH THAT ONE! ROFL... I thought you meant ! About the records, I plan to make them of easier avail after the current problems have been resolved. I really don't see anything forthcoming about that, however, at this time. ] 08:38, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
] Please ] other editors{{#if:User talk:WhisperToMe|, which you did here: }}. If you continue, you '''will''' be ] from editing Misplaced Pages. {{#if:|{{{2}}}|}}<!-- Template:uw-npa3 --> ''' ]'''<b>]</b> 18:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
:::By the way, before I chime in, and just confirming... does that template put the articles attached into a category that is seen on a regular maintenance basis? ] 09:10, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


:* Feel free (I spend far too much time here as it is)... or stay out of discussions you weren't invited into. The PA is coming the other way, by my lights... totally disrespectful of others time... '''''which is 'far more hostile' than strong words can ever be!'''''.
== please see ==


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**If you are being stalked, then ] would be a option. I'm going to be mostly missing the next week, but checking in now and again. Until mid-August really, as have vaction starting the 2nd just after. I'm not sure what if anything I'm actually going to move forward until I get back circa Aug 15th. If I put up proposals, I won't be here to discuss same. Shrug. Things are rarely 'urgent', unless someone is deleting something! ttfn, Keep up the good work! // <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 15:15, 19 July 2006 (UTC) :* Whisper can ascertain his/her own opinion and stand up for herself... and why pray tell should I respect your opinion when you can't even follow the back link and comment in the proper section??? Doesn't give you any credibility with me. Whisper did OK in her answer: , so mind your own business. // <b>]</b>] 13:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
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:::But that would be off point... I resent the interference, and so should you given the timing. 2X zero is still zero, and something trivial is definitely zero. All this chit-chat is time wasted because it's rooted in the trivial complaint you engendered, which I can't respect. Let's stop that waste and agree to disagree. Pax, do remember endless edits going forward. It's part of the five pillars, iirc. // <b>]</b>] 03:53, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
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:Yah, ha! Me be running around trying to figure out what to do with a cult on ] that seems to like reinventing the wheel... w/o bothering to tie into our categories with their templates, or even use whatever everyone else is doing ({{tl|commonscat}})... see my contribs and places they added {{tl|Sisterlinkswp}} (Which has got to be as bad as any 'WikiPxxx' name I came up with! In any event, Dusentrieb much too belatedly finally gave me a reference which led me there very indirectly. I ported all their silly segmented banner sister templates first (See ]) first, to give it a fair test. Then realized that was a waste too. SO Don't know what to do. Just fix up the names and use on maps perhaps. At least mine gives some cats with administrative potential; not to mention cross links to main articles.

:Problem I've got with their scheme is that the best database set of translation names are here on en.wp, not on the commons... which means if something is to be made to work to really link all the sister's semi-automatically, it'll have to use the db here! They're organizing it around the commons {{w2c|Template talk:Sisterlinks}}... and haven't bothered to make it a formal project at all, at all!

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Greek mythology

You recently made some edits to the articles for Twelve Olympians and Homeric Hymns because you thought it was strange that they were implying that Hesiod wrote of the Titans but not of the Olympians. They weren't implying that. He wrote about the Olympians, but he didn't use the term "the Twelve Olympians." That's a specific subset of the Olympians.

So I reverted your edits to those two articles. If you also made a similar edit to the article for Titans (mythology) then that should be reverted too. Although I think you might not've made a similar edit to that article, even though the edits you made to the other articles were about that article. - Shaheenjim (talk) 23:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC)


re: Twelve Olympians (edit talk links history) and Homeric Hymns (edit talk links history)and Titan (mythology) (edit talk links history)

0) I didn't think it strange, I found it to be confusing, contradictory, and poorly handled across articles. In short, the extant phrasing in both articles created a confusion... which I (in my ignorance) attempted to edit away. I made no changes to the Titans page, btw.
1) That's why the fact tag... in Homeric Hymns — I was looking for an expert to address the ambiguity and confusions... hope you fixed up the language so is preventive of another misinterpretation. Cross-topic integration is an important thing to keep in mind with writing between articles which link--and are likely to be cross read by our customers.
  • ASIDE: The timing on these classical studies and/or antiquities articles is most often too weasel worded in general. Stating a date range like "7th cen. BC" is subject to wide misunderstanding... particularly when the timespan is BCE...
  • better to augment with an appropriate parenthetical date range with appropriate "at the earliest", "before ...", "around ...", "no later than ...", and such non-academic plain language as educates etc.
  • A certain amount of dumbing-down so stuff is readable (and understandable, because of context) by the general population is a good thing... our mission, I figure.
2) The distinction between Olympians and twelve Olympians is I suspect too subtle and specialized for reliance on such that the readers are following the specialist mindset. I follow it as someone with at least half-a-dozen mythology references on my bookshelves, but the average lay reader isn't going to have those, or my lifelong interests... so the article needs clarified if you mean to make the distinction. Normally, if worthy, that would and should require a separate article with prominent disambig crosslink at the page top. Somehow, I don't figure any article on Minor Olympians is coming any day soon... Is there a list article covering such? list of Olympians strikes out... but... THAT would be one good way to cover that need, and be encyclopedic to boot. We should have one, I conclude.

3) Most of us would agree that the Olympians disambig page, which links to that Twelve Olympians page also needs further separate delineation of your very technical distinction . That would also need handled on the 'twelve Olympians' page up in the intro so to set in place for us and to us in the general population such picayune specialty knowledge.
(before closing, I made a stab at some disambiguation on this... by altering the introduced and offending phrase I'd added to accommodate your technical distinction as I perceive it all... but by all means pee in it as needed if I'm off a bit with my guesswork) (I began that with a dablink para, but the topic needs handled in the article body--up high somewhere.) In short, wikipedia is not currently covering the distinction between the terms as you know them. I, on the other hand, am acting to clarify to all and sundry.
4) Consequently, I reverted your reverts of my three edits on 'twelve Olympians' as wholly lazy and in appropriate. A close examination therein will reveal the sole text change made was to work in Olympians (as just discussed above) because of the linkages issues (and ignorance... I really don't care if there were 12 or 200... but references to Olympians... should definitely connect and mention the twelve which are usually those connoted! The 1500 minor nature sprites aren't of general interest outside kids cartoons and Charmed scripts! <g>).
  • The other changes I made were whitespace and formatting with the two bulleted lists, plus the fact tag... but since I was revamping format and material I specifically made stepwise iterative changes vice one biggie... which would have been what I did were it one of my normal topic areas. (My saves are generally substantial changes. 20 small changes by one editor is not something I like to see.)
5) Mutual respect would require better handling of my time involvement, and a closer inspection of the changes. Thanks, however, for the notice on my talk. Suggest with successive changes like that you evaluate them one by one, as they appear in the current text... note the use of a few typing aid templates and spacing out of cites made the diffs look far worse than the actual changes that occurred.
  • The fact tag should have been cleared in a section edit locally.
  • The best (and most courteous to all) way would be to comment it out, with a dated terse reason why it's inappropriate or handled.
  • That sets the record in place for other people to see the diffs... and obviates the need for a separate talk handling the issue most of the time.
  • In short, is a highly courteous practice when you realize literally dozens of people might be looking at diffs from their watchlists...
6) In the same vein as a better practice... Cites are a pain to work around with future diffs since far more seems to change if they aren't broken into linefeed terminated separate lines... The easiest prophylactic on that is to terminate all of them using '>' so it's on a different line. Repetitions of named cites, can do the same with '/>', though that seems unnecessary most of the time—unless two or three cites are used at the same point. As a general technical matter, wikimarkup's HTML is quite tolerant of whitespace padding before the closing of any HTML tag command.
  • By the same token, breaking up the contents in cites templates onto some block of separate lines aids editing in the future (Text and refs aren't blending together) and shorten lines so actual changes can be seen more clearly.
  • Lastly, '}}' in such can be spaced down with several linefeeds... creating separation. Adding extra pipes in a template is also harmless.

You'll want to recheck "the Olympians"... but the text, not a diff... This is a good case for needing a character block diff capability... being able to see whitespace changes as only an added linefeed, or so show the inserted words not processed in a line by line confused block where the whole shows red vice an inserted word AND the linefeed(s), etc., would have shown there weren't big changes there. Best regards // FrankB 17:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I reverted your edits again. I'm not entirely sure what you were attempting to do with them. And I didn't follow your thousand word rant on the talk page either. What I do know is this: Your edit seemed to imply that the Olympians in general and the Twelve Olympians in particular were the same thing. I reverted your edit and explained to you that they were different. Then you made another edit that again seemed to wrongly imply that the Olympians in general and the Twelve Olympians in particular were the same thing. I'm not sure why you keep implying that, even after I've explained to you that it's not true. You might be right that the articles should be more explicit in its distinction between the Olympians in general and the Twelve Olympians in particular. But that's no reason to seem to imply that they're the same thing. - Shaheenjim (talk) 00:54, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
The problem is that you are making a distinction as if a scholar... not writing the article focused to and for the lay people — your writings need to explain EXACTLY THAT DIFFERENCE as I tried to do... to your dissatisfaction. Fine, I leave it in your hands, but the article or our overall coverage is missing the overall context. Olympians has to handle the rest of the pack — whatever scholarship calls them. Since your article is the closest detailed article with that title, and is further on point... IMHO, you're only doing a partial job. It's not satisfactory at all.
I've been "IN TO" to reading about mythology my whole life, and am pushing retirement age and until running across you, have never heard of the distinction you are making. Not many people have one, much less multiple mythological reference works, and my bookshelves have at least six. In short, you are living in a very different world than the one this encyclopedia is supposed to serve if you can write about any topic in the area I haven't ever heard of even once.
If you want to cover the Olympians and draw a distinction to the 12, by all means do so, but for pete's sake COVER THE DIFFERENCE. Recast the disambig article, and start with that title if necessary, but at least explain SOMEWHERE who the twelve are versus those who aren't. Sorry I can't be any clearer. Try thinking like a twelve year old reader finding the topic for the first time and see if you educate the lad. That's the connection you seem to not be trying to make, given the inadequate link from 'Olympians'. Best regards // FrankB 01:11, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
The disambiguation article at Olympians was kind of unclear. I changed it to refer people to the main page for all the Olympians, at Greek Gods, rather than the specific article about the Twelve Olympians. I think that should take care of your complaint. If you think it's still unclear we can revise it further, just so long as you don't reinsert the incorrect implication that the Olympians in general and the Twelve Olympians in particular were the same thing.
In its first sentence, the article on the Twelve Olympians links to the article for all the Greek Gods, and it explains that the Twelve Olympians were only the principal Gods, so I think it already covers the distinction.
Note that I wasn't the one who made the distinction between the Olympians in general and the Twelve Olympians in particular. That article has been around since 2004, and it's been edited hundreds of times, by a lot of people. I didn't discover it until November 2008. - Shaheenjim (talk) 01:26, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Engraving

I'm afraid I reverted your changes to this as they were almost entirely inaccurate, as you would have found out (in several respects) by reading the rest of the article. Engraving on metal predates woodcut by several thousand years, & until steel-facing was introduced in the C19, engraved printing plates were only usable for some hundreds of impressions in most cases, whereas woodcut blocks could print into the thousands (as they only need low-pressure presses). And so on. Please try to restrict major edits to subjects you know something about. Thanks. Johnbod (talk) 21:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

removed text

It originated from the technology and practices needed to make the woodcuts for printmaking, but was extended to be purely artistic in decorative designs in metal. In printmaking the process came full circle and was developed in Germany in the 1430s from the engraving used by goldsmiths to decorate metalwork to make printing plates for illustrations—for woodcuts were good for at best a few hundred pressed pages, while metal engraved printing plates were essentially indestructible by comparison.

Thanks for the heads up... That's OK, I removed my inferred sentences (above) when reinstating the important part of my change; though I doubt the case is as "solidly wrong" as you suggest, inasmuch as dark ages monks did woodcuts, but I digress, as does the further point that a technology lost is.... lost and the fact it's being reinvented two thousand years later thereafter becomes TRIVIA--albeit tech history) and so restored the original 'important change' that caused me to edit your writing shortcoming and correct the article viewpoint to cover the other meanings.
  • The word has three meanings, albeit interrelated, and IMHO the page is still unbalanced —just better now, no matter how much or little I may or may not know about it. Your close knowledge is perhaps blinding you to the other meanings... such as the engravings category on the commons I was wrestling with organizing.
  • Try writing English, and prick the balloonish sense of self-importance... it's unbecoming. I do think you all need to mention some relationship to woodcuts up high. // FrankB 22:12, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
  • There has been a continuous and important history of engraving on metal, stone etc for thousands of years. Late medieval, not "dark ages (not a respectable term for some decades, monks did indeed (among others) make woodcuts, but woodcut blocks are not engraved - that is wood engraving from the late 18th century on. Woodblocks are cut with chisels not burins for a relief printing not an intaglio printing process - totally different. All this is already in the relevant articles. Johnbod (talk) 23:18, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


  • No doubt... I'm just concerned with broadening the article to cover the alternative uses of the term as the vernacular language exists, as opposed to the special tech focus of the article lead as was yesterday. My real focus was here (well REALLY more in figuring out how stuff in there needed fixed up...) and related arts categories and category schema.
  • Since we've crossed paths since today from the unsaved edit I started here answering you 'oh-so-much-earlier' this morning (which was lost, alas--fell off the end of the buffer), and the changes suggested composing that (changes here: Engraving (edit talk links history)) haven't been reverted by you (so far), I don't see we have any big disagreement.
  • It's all a matter of making sure all the uses of the page get some coverage. Thanks for the mergeto/mergefrom vote of support @ worksofar,etc., if not for the two edit conflicts! <BSEG> Cheers! // FrankB 17:39, 5 March 2009 (UTC)<br
    (It might amuse you to find out as it did me that in getting back to answering you today indirectly required an edit on the Indonesian wikipedia... so loosing the edit buffer with the earlier incomplete answer is a "Shit Happens" condition as usual in wikiland. Biz as usual! Wish I knew how to increase the edit que history in firefox... any ideas?)

Refimprove

Hi! I saw this edit, which you made on January 27 of this year:

"It's a stub, dummy!" is not an acceptable reason to comment out a tag. Every article, including stubs, needs references. Generally each paragraph needs a ref. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:23, 8 March 2009 (UTC) In whose opinion... somebody change the rules on endless editing, AGF, or IAR when I wasn't looking??? Last I looked any editor acting in good faith can make a reversing editorial decision on any given day... Use of that template on a stub is downright foolish.

1) I don't play the liberal PC game, so be sensible, not fashionable... It was a dumb unnecessary tagging. Point, Set, Match. Actually, that tag and it's friends really doesn't have a lot of utility these days... three years back when cites first became possible, maybe... just barely... but the fact tag works much better, as it requires the LAZY IDIOT faking making a contribution (I see no reason to assist such people in their self-delusions) to actually think about where to put it, and if they're a good editor, they will specifically embed a comment in the template saying what needs supported or what they find questionable, etc.
  • AGF SEEMS to be totally unknown to the current crop of replacement editors (At this point, I'm weary of finding out which other long term editor has left the project, so it's almost always some young school kid replacement sans seasoning with an over large ego.)
2) How foolish are you? You some kind of kid wedded blindly to rules and without enough experience to make judgments as to when they apply? Or were you commenting on my blatant obvious come down (in which case, see "1")
3) If you're that raw and naive and resent it for being or resembling you, go screw up some other wiki, we have enough fuckups here. Stubs don't generally even get categorized, save by the stub type... they are TO DO lists. Placeholders. Beginnings. Asking for cites when someone is outlining a topic is ridiculous at best... not really even that excusable.
4) Then consider... IN YOUR FACE TAGS OF ANY KIND are and always have been controversial here. SO STOP BLINDLY HANGING PAPER AND fooling yourself that it's a contribution of the least kind. Hanging one's a detriment, a step backwards that makes us look like fools to the outside world of users... You know, our readers for whom the project exists?
5) If something needs references stand up on two legs and be an editor... it's educational to run down new information, and you can cure that little gripe you have on cites... and impress some with the fact you actually added some, instead of whined like a four year old screaming for ice cream. I do on average 10 or more of those a week just checking links... try to copy that and you'll have less reasons to feel proud of yourself for hanging trash. // FrankB 18:30, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Frank:

  • 1. I've been here since 2003.
  • 2. Misplaced Pages:No personal attacks - If "liberal PC game" means commenting on the contribution instead of the contributor and treating other contributors with courtesy, then you have to play the "liberal PC game" to continue editing Misplaced Pages ;)
  • 3. WP:V is now the cornerstone of Misplaced Pages policy. You have to have references with articles. There's no way around this.
  • 4. Hanging these tags is the right thing to do

WhisperToMe (talk) 19:01, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Excuse me, I was characterizing the edit... it is and was dumb. "Right Thing" is a real stretch. Harmless, perhaps... save for the big in YOUR FACE issue... See, I object to those like some object to calling dumb things dumb, etc.
  • My edit was clear in that message and leaving it behind as an embedded comment for the education of and to discourage such tag hanging by others. Removing the template is entirely within WP:V simply becase 'V' is such a major part of our policies, and a very simple chain of logic says it's hardly needed in a new page--especially one already tagged by another IN YOUR FACE tag. In short stating the obvious in something just stubbed together is OVERKILL and STUPID.
  • Last I looked, the US Constitution entitled me to hold opinions, and if you're interpretation of Wikiqette is that I can't ever state one... fuck off and ban me forever. Trust me, it'll be a favor. If not, I'll speak frankly when and where I see fit. I don't believe in handling all idiocies with kid gloves... Some plain speaking must be kept to educate others.
  • The inline comment is a very low key way of spreading the message... "THIS IS DUMB" which you seem to fail to grasp. I'll be careful to avoid the Dumbshit word hereafter, since I do see that plain hyperbole might be taken as a direct PA... but frankly, disagree with that as a need... but if it will help avoid unwanted advice, I'll keep it in mind.
  • I didn't seek out and confront a contributor and increase the hostility of the working environment here with the editor I disagreed with, I didn't preach to them, nor assume My interpretation of any and all guidelines was the only one which applies... In fact I can argue I know such interpretations better than most, for most are too narrow in using their own god given cognition to even consider how things might also be interpreted — blind, in a word. Sanctimonious, self-righteous and liberal in character.
  • THAT WOULD BE YOU, pushing the issue, n'est pas? No fucking surprise so many good editors burn out and fade away. This place wears. Your message here is biased and A Personal Attack by my lights for questioning me over something so trivial... as you aren't doing anything but wasting both our times over something which can be argued either way.
1. That article wasn't stub. A stub refers to article length. You can have a well-referenced, very short article. Every article, regardless of how new it is or how short it is, needs refs.
2. The US Constitution is an agreement between the US Government and her people. Misplaced Pages is a private website and it can regulate behavior and speech of its users as the said users use the website. You can be frank by commenting on people's behavior and contributions.
3. The bit about removing the tag to follow WP:V does not compute. Tags are encouraged because they draw attention to an issue. You remove the tag when you address the problem. Regardless of article length all articles need to be reffed.
4. It is perfectly acceptable to ask an editor to revise his or her editing patterns to comply with policies. It's not a good idea to hide tags without addressing what they ask for. A Misplaced Pages:Personal attack would generally be a comment about a contributor, not his or her contributions. I am talking about actions and suggesting different actions.
5. "THIS IS DUMB" isn't a reason that computes. Something like "Article X already has references" or "plot sections do not need references" (the unstated ref is the work itself) DOES compute. Be specific and say what you mean. WhisperToMe (talk) 02:55, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Fabartus, I looked at this diff. - First "You can't read too good" is a personal attack... and it's a false one. The message "Cite error: <ref> tags exist, but no <references/> tag was found" is a system message stating that refs exist and that there needs to be a </references> listing of them. But {{refimprove}} says there are not enough references for the material. The system message doesn't negate the refimprove. WhisperToMe (talk) 03:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

On your last

Are you trolling???

Seems like it...

IN my humble opinion you are a sanctimonious asshole. What part of anything I've said to you made you think your picayune trivialities were anything I wanted to hear about from you. YOU HAVE NO CREDIBILITY WITH ME. YOU CONTINUE TO PUSH OVER A TRIVIALITY... GET A FUCKING LIFE! What are you... some kind of kid that has no real world experience? OR an academic used to pushing students around? You and I have differing ways of looking at things. LET THAT SAY IT ALL. Your perceptions are not my reality, nor are they even yours.

ON The last edit: (from the diff)

":::: I looked at this diff. - First "You can't read too good" is a personal attack... and it's a false one. The message "Cite error: <ref> tags exist, but no <references/> tag was found" is a system message stating that refs exist and that there needs to be a </references> listing of them. But {{refimprove}} says there are not enough references for the material. The system message doesn't negate the refimprove. WhisperToMe (talk) 03:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)"

My comment had nothing to do with the reference list... Look at the edit page I linked with the full url... that state of the article. (See tom Run. See Sally laugh!) LOOK AT THE FUCKING STUB TAG DUM DUM... YOU CLAIMED IT WAS NOT A STUB ARTICLE... I say that's enough for WP:V. NOW kindly drop dead and stay away from my talk. // FrankB 04:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

re: First "You can't read too good" is a personal attack... NO IT'S A BLATANT OBSERVATION. That stub tag is in the record and will be forever more. How's an observation of fact an attack? YOU'RE FUCKING GUILTY AS HELL OF PUSHING POV when you don't even understand distinctions, forsooth. // FrankB 04:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

re: ("and graduated in May 2007".) I shoulda known... only a fucking kid could be this asinine. Kindly get a life and back your self-righteousness down about five-to-seven decibels... you're far too raw and unfinished still yourself to be pro-offering unsolicited advice to someone any older than ... say, late junior high. As someone who could have been your father in nearly three different decades, you're a joke. Most people aren't fully human until they reach their mid-thirties... you've still a long large climb ahead, so humble yourself. Your lack of skill dealing with people is telling. (Hint. Experienced people with their shit together would have never started this discussion. THEY CERTAINLY wouldn't have tried to continue it when rebuffed. etc., increase magnitude with each exchange exponentially!) As a self-styled computer wiz, try to remember what an exponent is. // FrankB 04:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

  • Oh, in that case, that stub tag wasn't supposed to be there. Misplaced Pages:Stub describes a stub as "A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information." - There were clearly more than "a few sentences." WhisperToMe (talk) 04:28, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


Just sent by email in reply

You have a real problem. See a shrink ASAP

Further if you edited instead of worried about guidelines and procedures and tags and rules and all the window dressings which really don't get anything done... (really says you're unseasoned and studentish... )

you'd know stub articles go very frequently to 2-3 screenfuls of text. 1-1-1/2 pages printed out at times. Now that depends on topic, but that's the way it is. You're trying to live in and impose an ideal which doesn't and hasn't and can't exist for there aren't enough of us to make it happen as soon as you'd like. For starters, piss ant concerns like those you've raised just drives people off.

Be well, but leave me alone.

Frank

Sigh // FrankB 04:42, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

We clearly live in two different wiki's

Tags have been encouraged by some, but have ALWAYS been controversial to others. I'm one of those. Just because some people outlast the others in various fora here doesn't mean the controversy has gone away. The way we decide guidelines sucks and always has as well. Need a quorum at the least, not the process where those who win their way do so by having worn down those too busy to keep up with the discussion that goes on forever. So let's cut to the chase. You don't like it, or my decisions, too bad. I don't care for jumped up know-it-alls telling me anything. I've told Jimbo off, I've told judges I held them and their court in contempt, I've ridiculed cops when they were acting out and unprofessionally, and I've dragged bigots out of their front door by the throat when they called my tenants a nigger so I'll be damned if I'll let you or anyone else dictate what I can and cannot say or how.

Further, NOBODY RESPECTS LAWYERS (In their right mind), so don't get legalistic on me. I'd sooner live next to a thirty-times serial killing axe murderer. I care about wasted time. MINE. Not interested in making friends here... they've all left. Making more just brings more likely pain. Kapish? I'm civil enough most of the time. When I'm not it's an adult decision made under a different value system than the liberal garbage you're advocating. Private rights trump the constitution... not in my world view. That kind of thought'll draw a death sentence in much of the real America, so you be sure to stay out of those places. Not interested in your theories of constitution vs. websites, I'll speak frankly when I JUDGE it necessary. When and if someone is acting silly, costing others on the project time, some small percentage of the time, I'll do something like the edit you're bitching about to make their foolishness known. I didn't seek out and confront anyone... again that would be you. Why don't you take a wikibreak and consider how hostile an action that is. Almost as bad as a revert... but do others share both your values and your perceptions? Chances are not so. THAT's the bottom line. You don't like it... tough. Feel free to block me whenever... it'd likely be a favor as I neglect my business to do anything here. And do far too much of it. Got it? // FrankB 03:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Another budinski

March 2009

Please do not attack other editors, which you did here: . If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. FlyingToaster 18:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

  • Feel free (I spend far too much time here as it is)... or stay out of discussions you weren't invited into. The PA is coming the other way, by my lights... totally disrespectful of others time... which is 'far more hostile' than strong words can ever be!.
  • Bout time you sanctimonious self-righteous thought police connect the dots to the troubles holding good editors. Retention is a real problem... what is it now, 4? 5? 7? times as many inactive admins as active ones?
  • Whisper can ascertain his/her own opinion and stand up for herself... and why pray tell should I respect your opinion when you can't even follow the back link and comment in the proper section??? Doesn't give you any credibility with me. Whisper did OK in her answer: , so mind your own business. // FrankB 13:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Fabartus, on Misplaced Pages people do mind their own business, and they mind other peoples' business as well. I think a better response would be "I get the point, thank you very much" WhisperToMe (talk) 02:50, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
But that would be off point... I resent the interference, and so should you given the timing. 2X zero is still zero, and something trivial is definitely zero. All this chit-chat is time wasted because it's rooted in the trivial complaint you engendered, which I can't respect. Let's stop that waste and agree to disagree. Pax, do remember endless edits going forward. It's part of the five pillars, iirc. // FrankB 03:53, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

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Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Who's your daddy? (phrase)

I don't understand how {{db-author}} would apply in this case. The article has been edited by numerous people over several years. Is there more to it than meets the eye? Cheers. Fribbler (talk) 19:30, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps I goofed? Hist page I saw had but two entries... so may have been the AFD debate page??? Not gonna worry bout it; thanks though. // FrankB 19:41, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Ah, I see. I thought (nay, hoped) for a second that you had uncovered a very very large sockfarm. I must be starved of intrigue. :-) Thanks! Fribbler (talk) 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

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You added a little light to my day with the flower, so here is a little light for yous. LA @ 18:53, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
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March 2009

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours in accordance with Misplaced Pages's blocking policy for personal attacks at User talk:WhisperToMe. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Tiptoety 05:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

OH, IC, He trolls me and you abuse the project for being firm with the maniac. He needs a shrink, and I said so. That's truly effective liberal thinking... just like the multi-trillion dollar pillage and rapine congress just began... // FrankB 12:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)