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Meatpuppet?

Bouncehoper: What the crap is a meatpuppet?

Baegis: A marionette that subsists on a diet solely of meat and its derivatives.

Bouncehoper: ...How is that different than a sockpuppet? (also, makes me hungry....)

Baegis: Sockpuppets, of course, eat cotton products, which are severely lacking in nutrition and deliciousness.

Bouncehoper: How....strange....lol. thanks!

from Baegis's talk page

The 25 DYK Medal

		The 25 DYK Medal
		For your continuous WP:DYK contributions on various topics related to Korea, such as clothing, food, events, places, biographies, etc., I, RyanCross (talk · contribs), hereby award Caspian blue (talk · contribs) The 25 DYK Medal! Great work, and keep up your contributions to DYK! I bet you can get everything that is Korean on the Main Page, you just have to keep at it like you're doing now. Take care, and enjoy this medal from me. :-) – RyanCross (talk) 01:32, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Congrats Caspian. Perhaps you could expand Heo Nanseolheon I just started and make it no.26? The Bald One 15:29, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Came across it on my travels, I also have proposed a {{Korea-writer-stub}} as amazingly it didn't exist yet, (I mean how many notable writers could we write about on wikipedia through the entirety of history the mind boggles). Its a shame we can't clone you hundreds of times given the content missing or that needs developing for korea!. Worse even is the coverage of Vietnam and Burma we have on here. I was watching By Any Means (which I am writing week by week on here) last night and he went though Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand which as you know is a part of the world that inspires me and it was just amazing. He rode in a rocket boat down the Mekong for some part which was probably one of the coolest modes of transport I;ve seen. Even the articles on the largest cities in Vietnam are barely beyond stubs. If only we could cover it all in detail like America and the UK and have rleiable and abundant sources to boot. I'm currently stubbing Japanese dams in the hope that they will be translated from Japanese wiki. Hope you are well friend The Bald One 16:52, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Exactly. 95% of the articles we have related to Vietnam above a start class are Vietnam War and likely to be written from an American point of view, however neutral it strives to be. Thats why I use wikipedia to explore places and culture which I don't know about or will never get to see. Sure writing articles about films and local places and that which you are familiar with can be fun, but my overall goal and purpose on wikipedia is to branch out in the "grey areas" of the world from a "western" viewpoint. Given the extreme bias and the ignorance of many to "foreign" places, this is practically anything from Tijuana down to Tierra del Fuego, from Cairo to Walvis Bay, from Ankara eastwards to Tokyo etc. IN places the coverage seems unbelievably developed but browse through most of the categories on locations in Latin America, Africa and Asia and very few of articles on even major towns and cities are of a good standard, let alone 95% of the rest of the country which is "ignored" as of now. The strength of wikipedia really is from the people who live or are aquainted with cultures or places in "other" parts of the world and are able to develop it from their world viewpoint. Given time, I anticipate that people learning English in the developing world who increasingly have access to to computers and the web will begin to appear on increasingly on here. The unfortunate thing is that most people who visit wikipedia use us rather than nurture us, so the bulk of the work is done by a few thousand people. If we could maximise our potential, we'd see things start to change very fast and wikipedia would start growing at a rate which would seem more in keeping with its global reach The Bald One 17:34, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Hong Nan-pa

On 6 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hong Nan-pa, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cirt (talk) 22:56, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Kkachi durumagi

On 7 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kkachi durumagi, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 16:02, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Good work

Good work on 최진실. Her suicide was really shocking, wasn't it. --BorgQueen (talk) 17:05, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, it still needs major revamping. The death was very tragic....--Caspian blue (talk) 18:35, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

You got a thank you card!

A Thank You Card!

Dear Caspian blue, thank you so much for your contribution to my request for Adminship I can tell you is this: I shall try not to disappoint you nor anyone else with my use of the buttons... and if I mess up, please tell me! :) If you ever need my help, either for admin-related stuff or in any other way, you are welcome to ask, and I shall do my very best. Please take care. G.A.S 17:16, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Chinese shoes

A complicated subject to be sure. This is what I can dig up without too much trouble:

• 履 lǚ: cloth low-top shoes
• 屐 bǐng: wood sole shoes, "clogs"
• 靴 xuē: ankle to knee high boots
• 屣 xǐ: crappy straw flip-flops
• 屨 or 屦: straw or vine shoe-like sandals

jianlian (金蓮) is a euphemism for bound-feet the shoes for those feet are call 金蓮履 I'll do something with the hats when there is time. Sjschen (talk) 18:42, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Caspian blue, I'd like to thank you for voting in my RFA. Thanks also for expressing your trust in me, and I hope that I live up to your expectations. Don't forget, if you have any questions (or bits of advice), please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again, Spencer 02:44, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Empress Myeongseong

I don't really care about our issues on the article in question, I honestly believe that while we might each have different perspectives on the incident, that neither of us are trying to deceive anyone, we just want to emphasize different aspects of the article in different ways.

However, this new edit seems to be very different from anything I have read in the past - is it anywhere near the truth?

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Empress_Myeongseong&diff=prev&oldid=243863203

Sennen goroshi (talk) 13:26, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. I deleted the articles you regarded my OR by Administrator. and I deleted the citation from Annals of Gojong, too. I didn't know UNESCO didn't designate it as the master piece unlike other annals. I'm sorry and thank you,Caspian blue.--Bukubku (talk) 03:28, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Choi Jin-sil

On 9 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Choi Jin-sil, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 01:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Chinese New Year

Hi! You might be interested in the discussion at Chinese New Year. Thank you. VeryGoodBoy (talk) 03:02, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

A Big Thank You

Thank you very much for the barnstar - it's nice to be appreciated. I'll keep slugging away at that article. Waygugin (talk) 14:04, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

hello

is operating two accounts called sockpuppeting? Btzkillerv (talk) 20:07, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Featured Sounds

I have occasionally voted oppose, but I try not to vote too often (where I don't nominate) unless there's a point of order to bring up, e.g. where I feel policy is being misapplied, or in order to speed on things that seem fairly obviously to meet criteria, but which haven't made the quorum after 14 days. As a check, User:MZMcBride - wh I suppose would count as the deputy FSC director if we had proper titles - has agreed to make all judgements on whether things that I have been involved with get promoted or not.

More to the point - I think it's useful to keep standards a bit lower for the moment in order that we can achieve the critical mass that allows us to attract people who are able to raise standards higher. I've looked into the history of other featured content procedures, and it seems that standards will self-correct in time, but all successful Featured content projects had much lower standards at the start than they do now, and I suspect that holding featured sounds to similar levels before we get the talented people we need will only serve to keep featured sounds as a minority featured content process. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 14:06, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

...for the support in my recent RfA which just passed. Kindest, Lazulilasher (talk) 23:17, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Krugman image

My argument overall for images taken from the Princeton Communications Office (see also) is that on the office's site, under a section saying "Policies and restrictions", the only restriction relevant to these images is "Credit must be provided to..." I don't presume that there are double secret restrictions that aren't listed there. In contrast, it does include additional restrictions for certain classes of images: certain buildings and the University symbols. It also indicates a separate section of photos (not the one the Krugman photo et al come from) stated to be "for news media". It also goes on to say that there are other images available (i.e. not online) that do have additional/other restrictions on purpose of use and that do cost money.

I've emailed the PCO a couple of times for the brain-dead sure-fire absoposidefinite answer that a few people have been desirous of, and they have not given me one. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 19:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Improper use of vandal warnings

Do not accuse editors of vandalism simply because you disagree with their edits. This was a totally unacceptable use of a warning template. Please attempt to resolve your differences with other editors in a more constructive manner in future. WJBscribe (talk) 23:08, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Vandal section

Who vandalised this talk page shamelessly.

• 162.84.134.72 (talk · contribs) (verizon.net) - > Sock of ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ (talk · contribs)
• RestoreTheking (talk · contribs) = ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ (talk · contribs)
• 58.10.12.99 (talk · contribs), 58.10.12.121 (talk · contribs) (asianet.co.th) shameless vandal
• 221.90.44.164 (talk · contribs)(bbtec.net)
• Tanaka-san (talk · contribs) = Pabopa (talk · contribs)'s sock

--Caspian blue (talk) 12:08, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Quaternionenadler

Thank you for the message you left on my talk page. I would personally love to support the Quaternionenadler to become a FP. I first made the vector image as a 'key' to refer to the picture and the original, and I would hope eventually I could make an imagemap so if you clicked on the shield it would take you to the article for the state. As for the article, I would love to move it into the mainspace; however at the moment it is very Work In Progress, as all the shields need to be identified. If you could help, it would be much appreciated, however if not I would see if I could put a link on the nomination page, and then transfer it in a few days. Some more history of the eagle may be best, as currently the page seems only to glorify my image, but I shall begin researching that soon, I am a bit bogged down at the moment!--23230 16:24, 14 October 2008 (UTC)