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| I don't mean to be offensive, but next time you rewrite a template, please make sure that it contains no obvious errors - such as a wrong inwiki link ''to the genre itself''. I have reverted the colors to the former ones, since those are part of the wider ]. Cheers. --] 01:40, 17 May 2005 (UTC) | I don't mean to be offensive, but next time you rewrite a template, please make sure that it contains no obvious errors - such as a wrong inwiki link ''to the genre itself''. I have reverted the colors to the former ones, since those are part of the wider ]. Cheers. --] 01:40, 17 May 2005 (UTC) | ||
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When speaking with a friend about his day, he is acting as an eye witness (the least reliable form of evidence). When reading the news, we are hearing from someone we don't know, who is at best (indeed rarely) reciting 1st or second hand information. When we are reading contemporary history, the lens is that much darker, the opinions and paradigms expressed by the author that much stronger, and the telephone game that much more distant from the source. But when we are talking about history 100 yrs old or more!... we honestly can't interpret it as very much more than a sociological or psychological insight into the author and the translators and historians between them and us.
Frankly, history is far removed from a hard science, and even the best intellegence gathering regarding the most pressing of current events (like WMD in Iraq for example) compiled by the most reliable of experts... isn't very reliable at all ;) In summary, take all such fairy tales, from the newspaper, from your history books old and new, and yes, even from your closest friend discussing his exciting day... with about a pound of salt ;)
(me, on Talk:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 14:07, 10 Apr 2005)
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Papal war
Unsurprisingly revert war has broken out concerning voting and injunctions as to voting , and historical voting on Theology of Pope Benedict XVI as well as Pius XII . I'm a troublemaker who won't go away and leave the questions from being at least presented . However there is a good whitewashing happening supported by pernickety sea-lawyering . I again ask for protection on requisite page but look forward to greater notice for the censors . They help in a perverse way . Sorry Sam - perhaps I should drop out of this project , after all the real historians have it over the net already . The wikipedia could just be vanity pages where mascara hides the cracks. Flamekeeper 00:05, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Following discussion with Str1977 on Pius XII pages I see nothing further to add to the controversy . I have removed page protection demand from it's page and said I will leave the matter (in the hands of others for now). Whitewashing is still happening even today , but I suppose , again ,that the effort has been worthwhile bacause at least now there is some honesty on Pius XII's page . However perhaps you would drop in there from time to time to see that it remains . This has been a repetition of the Centre Party dispute with John Kenny and I suppose if I went in and expanded Bruning or anyone , I'd find another dragon's tooth right there. Thanks for the b'cells !Flamekeeper 09:02, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
BCE/BC
- Just thought you may be interested in the vote that is currently in favour or BCE/CE. --Silversmith 12:55, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Voting is anti-wiki, and votes are not binding. Sam Spade 13:04, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
True, it does give people a method by which to push their pov. And it will prove nothing, as it will be flawed beyond repair. --Silversmith 15:58, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
- Anyhow, I completely agree w your proposed compromise. Sam Spade 16:12, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Mediation
If you're willing to move forward with me as a mediatior, I've created User:Snowspinner/Sam Spade and Cberlet mediation. If you'd start by offering a slightly more detailed explanation of the problem, that would be tremendously helpful. Snowspinner 16:56, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
- What does he think? He already ruled out at least one mediator based on their politics. Sam Spade 18:26, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
- Well, we'll see when he replies. Snowspinner 18:34, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks
I got your kind welcome. I appreciate it. HKT 01:22, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
About Zzyzx11 --- he says he quit
Sam:
Zzyzx11 and I have for the past week been exchanging a few messages. This was mostly in regards to a "merge war" over the articles PALPATINE and DARTH SIDIUS. He had put the topic up for discussion and notified me of it. He later made the following request --
Thank you for stopping the merge war. In the meantime, could you do me a favor? I recently spotted an anonymous user trying to unilaterally change Template:Swwiki to read "This article should be considered as a candidate to be copied to the Star Wars Wiki and then deleted." I persuaded this user to revert it back until there was a formal discussion on the change. So if you are familar and/or contribute to the Star Wars Wiki, could you please make a comment on that template's talk page. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:11, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
I am currently in upstate New York on business, and replied to him that I would do as he asked when I returned home.
This is all on the talk page you set up for me -- thanks.
However, I found on HIS talk page a note dated later the same day as he posted his request. The note stated that he has quit the project. I take it that he is refering to the encyclopedia. What has happened? Did I anger him that much? Please tell him I apologize. I ment no harm -- I took the other guy's actions to be vandelism and tried to rectify it.
Again -- please tell him I am sorry.
;-(
Robeykr 23:58, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
- I looked it over, and theres pretty much no chance he left because of you. He does look like a good user tho, have you thought about emailing him? Sam Spade 11:10, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
JC
Speaking of Trolling, did you notice on the Jesus talk page that I got called a TROLL by SLR? near the bottom of the secion. He's apologised though. Hmphy. :( --Silversmith 14:59, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
- Well, to be fair, I think he is sincere, and probably finds A.D. offensive in some sort of high fallutin' intellectual way. The end result however is a tremendous amount of time and energy wasted for the project and the editors involved, not to mention the aggravation and frustration. Sam Spade 15:05, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
Woman
Hi Sam: Thank you for the gracious revert at Woman. I am always pleased to see someone revert their own edit. Admitting one's own error is so admirable. I aspire to do it consistently and promptly myself. --Theo (Talk) 22:17, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
Did you attend meeting?
Hey Sam... missed that meeting yesterday. Did you attend? Are there any minutes? Do you think we should have an election now, it has been more than a year since the last election? Know anyone who would run for the job? — © Alex756 18:59, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
- I had no clue there even was a meeting. WGfinley might want the job, or maybe wally. Unless your too busy to keep up w things, I'd likely oppose a vote and vote for you if there was one. Sam Spade 20:15, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
Centre Party Germany -Entry Structure
I post u this , Sam : Trouble is , a cursory glance at the editing history shows the lack of historical good-faith . This always prejudiced the article and still does . I believe users have to account for anti-social activities and can be hauled-up . This will become a history within the history . We could put up pages devoted to the revisionism in the wikipedia and have us some stars who shine at that activity ..... Ill come back to this and see if any repair is undertaken or whether it is brazen revisionist war (coming from one who is very brazen) . Clean up the act !
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Centre_Party_%28Germany%29" Also would you look at an entry I made for Edgar Ansel Mowrer and see if you think it allowable- I have done this to obviate this stupid historian rivalry and rev'nism , on the basis that as I link it Witness POV history should be available -ie memoirs from commentator -historians . I did this because the Germany article protection is symptomatic of a partly revisionist , partly nationist wiki reality .Flamekeeper 09:51, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
That effort is probably the first step out of the Misplaced Pages for me and towards a mini-parallel Flamekeeper one .Perhaps the real battlegroungd is on the search engines . Faith-based, politically-based and national-based editing here is too irksome . Faith-based editing seems to have debased everything remotely touching upon the Church , and since that touches most anywhere in the final analysis , the damage is serious . The problems of languages I imagine can make that, however, pale in comparison . Babel maybe what the Misplaced Pages will be . I think really that copyright risk is where I may take myself in preference to direct negotiation with faith-editing or revisionism (right-wing ) . I admit to using the wikipedia to do the obvious , to no more than show the contra-diction . It could take forever to find a solution -look at the opus dei discussion . Everything is a mess and the faiths will win over the open-concept . I'm amazed that Pius XII is not sundered , but I was as careful as possible in not extracting the massive apologia , but interposing . Yes the syndication I feared at the first , can be turned , and the contradictions made , but when every assertion of learning is challenged there has to be a better way . Flamekeeper 19:10, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
newbie
Sorry, if I did something silly.
I did read the tutorial a while ago, but haven't edited for a while. Too many deadlines.
Thorsten 21:16, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
- No worries, your all good, I just wanted to give you some leads in case you had any questions as a nube. Cheers,
Thanks - didn't know that!
that 4 tildas in a row are used for signing
Thanks!
Winston Smith 21:55, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know I have been of assistance! Cheers,
Thanks for the welcome
I really enjoy the Misplaced Pages community, thanks for the links and the welcome. User:Tskaze
- And I in turn enjoyed the fine article you created on classical fencing! Please keep up the good work. Cheers,
Thank you...
Many thanks for welcoming me to Misplaced Pages! I appreciate your help.
The Anachronism 00:24, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
- And many thanks to you for being here! The wiki is Mutualism :D Sam Spade 00:30, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
Heavy metal template
I don't mean to be offensive, but next time you rewrite a template, please make sure that it contains no obvious errors - such as a wrong inwiki link to the genre itself. I have reverted the colors to the former ones, since those are part of the wider Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Music genres. Cheers. --Sn0wflake 01:40, 17 May 2005 (UTC)