Revision as of 17:05, 25 October 2005

Hi Isotope23, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have. You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox. When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines. First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette. Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

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Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame) June 29, 2005 14:41 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my user page. It's greatly appreciated! --Alan Au 20:47, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Sam Sloan already went through a vfd

I23: The Sam Sloan page already went through a vfd and survived. It has gone through its ups and downs in POV (Bill Brock and myself, A.W. Morrow), but basically the vfd it went through already still seems to apply: it survived. I am going to remove your vfd for now. 69.181.82.221 23:54, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Heh heh

I was trying to be nice... I've known band that played a series of towns <2 hours away from their home and considered it a "tour".--Isotope23 20:41, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Heh heh. I don't doubt it. In my book, those are exactly the kinds of bands that are problems, because they misrepresent their own significance when they make their articles about themselves. Some bands who live near borders may play in more than one country frequently, next people will be calling that an "international tour". ;-) Friday (talk) 20:59, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

NGC 3031

Thank you for your positive feedback.

The myspace link actually has an mp3 streamer which can be downloaded from. All other hosting sites I have hosted the songs with often require registering with an obscure website, so I leave those links alone. If you are really interested and cannot get the songs(plus several others that are not there) I could send them to your email in a zipped folder. The0208 21:30, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Ecclesiastical State

Hey Isotope, I wanted to talk to you about your comment on the deletion of Ecclesiastical State. You said delete, which I basically agree with you, but you also argued (partically) for redirecting to Ecclesiastical government. Any chance I can convince you to change your vote to a redirect? I also liked your comment about locking it so the article can't be recreated. I've been dealing with this one for awhile (if you look at the edits and the talk page you'll see my comments). Anyway, hoping I can persuade you to slightly alter your vote. Thanks! Davidpdx 9/25/05 11:26 (UTC)

Master memes

You asked:

So by definition if the OS 0 1 2 article gets deleted from Misplaced Pages does that mean it's been defeated and is thus no longer a master meme or is this page considered an irrational exchange?--Isotope23 20:39, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I can answer that one myself. It's easy. By definition it is a master meme and cannot be defeated in rational exchange. Therefore, if it is deleted, it proves that the AfD discussion was not a rational exchange.

The only question I have is: what happens when an irresistible master meme meets an immovable logic? Dpbsmith (talk) 22:18, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

I thought I had perhaps slipped a cog in nominating this. - brenneman 23:16, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

'VfU'

Could you give an unbiased opinion on Seduction Community which is now VfU. This relates to the AfD debate on David DeAngelo. I think the most objective way to cover this area would be with a general article on the entire subject without links to commercial sites. It would be up to the WP community whether to address individual figures within the community. I think references to media coverage would be enough external linking. Let me know what you think. DutchSeduction 10:08, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

You're welcome! I must say it was one of the more creative vandals that I ran into that day :-) --JoanneB 13:11, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Petrone

Heya. Want to go back to the Rob Petrone afd and sign your vote? DS 21:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Isotope's Law

... is awesome! — ceejayoz 03:13, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Last Poems

Hi, I've rewritten this article and would appreciate it if you could cast an eye over the result. Dlyons493 Talk 22:38, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

• • Thanks for change of vote. Dlyons493 Talk 13:44, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Bryants etc.

Liked your approach on the Bryant afd. Good work. AndyJones 23:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Domestic virtue

This article has been expanded considerably. I urge you to take a look at it and reconsider your delete vote. Thanks. Denni☯ 05:03, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Negative Zero

Hi there, do reconsider your vote on AfD for -0. Negative zeroes occur in one-complement arithmetic. Please check out this link! Pilatus 00:53, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

Here

For extensive work on VfDs and articles on Misplaced Pages. Molotov (talk)
22:16, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Dominion of Melchizedek

May I burden you with working on this subject? I joined the fray with Johnski to try to counterbalance the opposition from Gene Pooley and Davidpbx for a better article. From your efforts thus far on related subjects, it appears you are better suited to write something between the two points, which seem to have consensus on some points. It seems that Johnski's arguments are based on an real effort at removing bias, but he may be adding some of his own.207.47.122.10 01:56, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Just a small note to say thanks for making me laugh here . Thanks :) chowells 17:17, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Soklope

I respect your effort to try to rewrite this article. However, I feel very strongly that the more he (and we both know who I'm talking about) is permitted to spread this crap throughout Misplaced Pages, the more legitimate it will make it. It defintately is not legitimate.

I did look at the links, I feel the document from University of Hawaii is not a legal document. What it appears to be is the text of a legal document with no signtures or seals. I honestly feel that could have been typed by anyone.

I'll put these comments on the talk page as you are requesting, however likely it will just start a larger fight between myself and Johnski (aka Samuelspade/KAJ/ect). I don't know if you are aware, but he has several sockpuppets and has been up to some pretty dishonest stuff on Misplaced Pages. Please feel free to look at the history on the DOM page at some of the stuff that has been happening.

What it comes down to, is that I'm not willing to work with him because of his actions. I'm sure at some point you've been burned by someone and once you are, it's impossible to work with them anymore. Davidpdx 01:37, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for messaging me back. I don't want to start a revert war, but I am adimint (sp?) on keeping DOM contained as much as possible. There are other well respect users that feel the same way and I'm really hoping you'll back me on this one.

I'll see if I can come up with a suggestion for that paragraph and send it to you.

Another issue, just to keep you in the loop is the David Even Pedley page. Right now there is an rfd on it and I saw you had rewritten it. It looks like there is enough votes to merge the article into DOM and delete it, however I'm waiting for the rfd to close. If this holds true (stays the same) maybe you could facilitate rewriting it down to a manageable section that could be put into DOM. Davidpdx 02:25, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

I had to laugh at the last line of your message, but I agree with you. Dealing with the DOM stuff is taxing at best. I am realitivly new and started by adding an article about my grandfather, Morris R. Jeppson who was on the Enola Gay back in August. Since then, most of what I've done is edit political articles about Oregon which is pretty easy. I have been watching the DOM material lately, but might just to back to writing the articles, it's a heck of a lot more peaceful. Davidpdx 02:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Here is my suggestion in terms of the last paragraph of the Soklope article:

The Dominion of Melchizedek, a micronation known for being directly linked to large scale banking fraud in many parts of the world, claims to have a lease granting them use of the Solkope Island for 99 years. The lease was obtained from Hiagi Apao, who claims to be the sole soverign owner of the island. Although at times there has been a movement advocating sucession away from Fiji, the island is still recognized as territory of Fiji.

Through research on the internet, I found lots of stuff about a possible sucession from Fiji, which never materialized. It looks like Pedley tried to influence the whole thing in terms of getting their plan approve. Based on the article I read, it didn't work. Therefore, the claim Johnski (aka Samuelspade/KAJ/etc) is making is bogus in nature. Here is a link to the article:

http://www.atimes.com/oceania/BB05Ah01.html

Anyway, let me know what you think. Thanks... Davidpdx 14:44, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. I wikified two links (Dominion of Melchizedek and micronation). We might even be able to get rid of the notice that the article is stub at this point. It's getting pretty long now. Davidpdx 15:09, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Gentlemen: I left a note on the talk page for Solkope and made minor changes to the article. Although I agree with what you are attemting to do here, let me clarify that while the documents in questions do not show the signatures, Alan Howard, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa and creator of Noa'ia 'e Mauri, a website focused on providing information about Rotuma (http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/rotuma/os/hanua.html), is the one that is claiming that those documents are signed and gave the names of each person purporting to have signed such. I really doubt that he would go to that trouble if he didn't have their signatures.

I also believe that the definition of DOM should be changed to "the only micronation that has been diplomatically recognized by a world governemnt". KAJ 17:05, 25 October 2005 (UTC)