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Welcome to my talk page. If you've come to complain, whine, moan, question my judgment, my intelligence, my sanity, or tell me off in anyway, that's fine. I'm a big girl who can take it.If you've come to chat, compliment me, have a laugh, or discuss articles that's even better.

The Advanced Wikipedian

Humpf,

Now you've a teaching job, I guess you will always be on holiday now ;-)

I'm guessing you are the sort of gal who know's her Iambic pentameter from her limerick (I don't really), and if so, you might be able to improve, correct and extend meta:The Advanced Wikipedian. -- Solipsist 22:55, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

a near accusation

Theresa, hi,

Please see Talk:Kang bed-stove. A new user has virtually accused me of plagiarism, apparently on the theory that people normally sign articles that they write. (?) Would it be appropriate for you to explain to Mihoshi that reasonably well written articles are not necessarily copied from somewhere else? Thanks. P0M 06:16, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Bad maps

Your help and common sense is needed. User:Kelisi, has been producing some maps and trying to replace the CIA maps for several Caribbean and South American countries. In my opinion these new maps (which have more detail than the CIA maps) are vastly inferior. They use garish colours, terrible decorative fonts, use a horribly large pixel size and are generally ugly and crowded, and look terribly amateurish and like they were produced on a Commodore 64 or something. Here is a list of maps he has produced . http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Kelisi&hideminor=0&namespace=6. Perhaps the worst example is http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Brazilmap.gif . Bizarrly these maps seems to have support from a few people who have been trying to push through their inclusion on several pages. Please see talk:Panama and talk:Honduras. Jooler 09:08, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

ah... you're on holiday... oh well hopefully this will be sorted by the time you are back. I thought you might be concerned about this issue, because of some of the fantastic illustations you have provided for Misplaced Pages. Jooler 09:09, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hararssment by a banned user

Although EntmootsOfTrolls has been hard banned, he repeatedly resurfaces on Misplaced Pages in various guises, usually with anonymous IPs beginning with 142.xxx. (And he repeatedly is blocked, over and over.) Well, he has just made a new attack on on my User discussion page, for the "crime" of following standard Misplaced Pages policy for the deletion of a duplicate article.

(1) EntmootsOfTrolls (EoT) originally broke Misplaced Pages policy by creating his own article on Ethics, parallel to our real article. His parallel article existed solely to promote his own point of view. All I did was follow standard polict for redirection or deletion, by asking others for their input. Yet see EoT's diatribe against me on my home page!

(2) He is publicly accusing me of "censorship" on the Ethics article. (This is despite the fact that the edits I made are part of the consensus version that has been accepted by the vast majority of all editors of this article.)

(3) He explicitly violated Misplaced Pages policy by anonymously deleting the link which had the article say "This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Misplaced Pages's deletion policy. Please see this article's entry on the Votes for Deletion page for voting and discussion on the matter." When an article is up for discussion on such issues, a single user may not unilaterally just delete this. So do you have any suggestions? I'd hate for this banned user to start an edit war. Its only a matter of time before he goes after other of his self-perceived adversaries. RK 20:02, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

issues about school articles

In November 2003, there was a VfD debate over Sunset High School (Portland). The debate was archived under Talk:Sunset High School (Portland). What to do with the article is still being contested and has been recently re-nominated for VfD at Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland).

I am writing to you because you have participated in such debates before. There still does not exist a wikipedia policy (as far as i can tell) over what to do in regards to articles about specific U.S. public school. My hope is that a real consensus can come out of the debate, and a real policy can take shape. Take part if you are so willing. Kingturtle 02:38, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

BriteHumer

You're far too lenient. This guy is willfully destroying pages. Why are you blocking for just 24 hours? Mgm| 10:52, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

It's quicker! I just use the defalt settings and can block him faster and inconvenience him more.The IP blocker only blocks for 24 hours, so an indefinite block is useless anyway. Remember blocks are to limit the vandalsim not to punish the kid doing it. Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 10:56, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

IP blocks only last 24 hours? And here I was, thinking that IP-blocks last all summer long... Also, if you're having problems with vandalism of your user page, you may want to consider protecting it. I've been getting some vandalism on my user page too and I had to resort to protecting it as well. Cheers. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 15:35, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

If you block the IP then the block lasts as long as you say. If you block the username, the IP used by that username will be automatically blocked for 24 hours. After that they can come back from the same IP. I did protect my user page for a short time, while the vandal was about, but as I welcome people editing it, I try to have it unprotected most of the time. Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 20:15, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. It seems I still have much to learn. Thanks for the info. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:47, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

Please read Elagabalus

I'd appreciate it if you would read this article and tell me what you think of it. It may or may not be nominated when you return but I'd like you opinion anyway. Also- enjoy your holiday at the unknown location I envy you being at. :) -JCarriker 02:35, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

Using your diagrams

Hello Theresa,
I'd like to use your nice diagram Image:Pencil_in_a_bowl_of_water.png. Might it be possible to upload it to Commons? It would complete my photos you may find here or here.

Thanks a lot!

Anton

In difference to your habbit according to your history you did not show up for nearly two month. I hope you are fine!
Hopefully you don't mind me copying your diagram to Wikicommons. Best regards, Anton

The "pippete" image

I removed it from the page for the reasons listed on it's talk page (The image, not the page) if you want to know what happened. Thanx 68.39.174.150 01:46, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Help

User Pacian continues on his personal vendetta to release private unfounded information about our business and our figurehead. On the talk page, information about our figurehead is downright defamatory and unfounded. Discussing someones sexual preference is not a notworthy fact nor one of public interest and can cause personal harm. He states information that is false and entirely dreamed up because of an apparently obsession. We really need one of your operators to look at these posts and remove them, we request your assistance as we are currently banned for removing information that was defamatory.

Help with wiki set-up

Hello Theresa (or is that Snot Rake?),

I have been impressed by all the activity around and attention your Wikintensity, and I am wondering if I can ask some questions on here regarding the best way to set up a Misplaced Pages on a specific theme (a theme of environmental policy and science). Some advice from an ace pro like you would really help get the thing going.

Is that appropriate, that I put dumb questions on here, in the hope of a guide; or is that breaking some kind of wikirules? If you write to say, yes okay, and you have a scintilla of extra time, you could email me too (since I don't know the clever means to autolink to changes on this page).

Thanks a lot, and thanks also for your excellent work,

JM

Embryonic wiki here jm à sei.se

Fried Mars Bar

Hello Theresa,

I'm only recently starting to contribute to the English Misplaced Pages site. Since I'm Dutch, please correct my spelling when I'm wrong!! Hmm.. you're a teacher, I find my self at a Polytechnic College in 's-Hertogenbosch studying Food technology.

You asked to answer some questions, here are the answers:

1. As fa as I know they're sold in chip shops. For the posh ones, see 8.
2. Paper wrap with your hands. For the fork/knife see 8.
3. Nope (at leat to my knowledge). At least in Holland, when the bar is dipped in egg yolk, the next step is to dip it in breadcrummbs.
4. Really no idea.
5. As far as my knowledge goes, beginning 1990s in Glasgow.
6. £1.50 (fried); £0.99 (normal)
7. Only breadcrumbs, sometimes the chocolate they use on ice.
8. YES!!!!!!!!! You can also buy them in one (posh) restaurant in 's-Hertogenbosch. The cook got the idea after an holiday in .... Glasgow.

ps: I've copied the answers also to the discussion page on the subject.

An aquaintance of me works with Mars, and his co-workers think you should eat a plain Mars bar, because otherwise it could get a taste from the fat in which fish & chips are baked (this is in Dutch called smaakoverdracht). Not to mention the 'calorybomb' that a fried Mars bar is!

Greetz,

BramvR 08:16, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Wikijunior name vote

m:Wikijunior project name Voting will end June 6, 2005 at 11:30 am EST. -- user:Zanimum

On Holiday?

Hi, Theresa. I see you haven't edited since round about 13 Apr. Just wondering how my wiki-friend is doing. Cheers. :) func(talk) 04:34, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Func: Great minds … I was just wondering the same thing —I guess cause I just reread the funniest page on Misplaced Pages, after your recent change.

Nate the Stork: where the heck are you? I need to Taste the Korn and Stroke the Ant! Paul August ☎ 04:23, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

OK I'm back

I've been away because I injured my hand. But I'm back at work now, back on the internet and back at Misplaced Pages!!! My typing was always bad but now I have an excuse. I have a lot of catching up to do and a lot of arbitrating to do, but still time to let paul and func stroke my ant (any time boys ;-) BTW does anyone know why unninervated skin doesn't wrinkle in the bath? Come to think of it why does skin wrinkle in the bath in the first place? Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 15:07, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Theresa! Great to know you back. :) Sounds like we need a stub: Wrinkled skin. ;-) func(talk) 19:42, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Welcome back!. Sorry to hear about the hand. Glad of the offer to stroke the ant (but I case tasting the korn will just have to wait). Paul August ☎ 15:52, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Welcome back, hope the hand's not too serious, unninervated sounds like a pretty bad thing for skin to be (and not just because google suggests spelling it "uninvited"). Skin wrinkles in water because the upper layer of skin absorbs water, causing it to expand. As it's attached to the lower layers of skin, it starts bulging however, like a badly laid floor. --W(t) 19:02, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)

Sounds plausible, but why do you need to have nerve endings for this to happen? See http://www.eatonhand.com/complic/figures/1491801s.htm Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 19:13, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Beats me. A quick google suggests the mechanism is unknown, but I'd assume somehow the finger becomes less permeable to water. Perhaps the secretion of fat is regulated somehow by the nerve endings and in their absence the skin gets oilier? --W(t) 19:22, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)

Reward payed in full

I offered an award of one silver wiki buck for your safe return to wikipedia. As such I award you one silver wiki buck for finding your self and returing to wikipedia. Revel in your new found wealth! Oh yeah, hope your hand gets better soon. (Now where is BCorr hiding?) -JCarriker 19:24, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

block/puppet

When they log on, will they still get a "you have new messages" page? 70.177.90.39 00:11, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)