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African-Germans vs Afro-Germans vs Black Africans in Germany

Hello Rushyo. I was wondering if you could expound on your third opinion at Talk:African-Germans. User:CanuckAnthropologist wanted to move the page to Black Africans in Germany, and my reading is that you told him it should rather stay at African-Germans. However, he took the third opinion as meaning that African-Germans should be preferred over Afro-Germans, and that he had consensus to insist on it. I'd like you to tell us whether your opinion was an endorsement of his move from Afro-Germans to African-Germans (which he did prior to asking for a third opinion). I'm asking in good part specifically because of the contribution history of User:CanuckAnthropologist. Thanks!--Ramdrake (talk) 20:46, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: your comment on my talkpage

I hope youve given this advice to Tennis expert as well. And actually, I think youll find that he is the one who has instigated an edit war; I put through a perfectly legitimate edit, and since then, for some reason, he seems hellbent on reverting it, despite giving no constructive criticism of it - he only says it deletes some information, which, in line with Misplaced Pages:Be bold, is fine, as long as it improves the article, and I believe it does. And I am certainly not trying to make a point. I believe my edits genuinely improve the article. Sorry is this has sounded rude at all, but I am just thoroughly sick of Tennis expert constantly revrting my edits without giving reasons. 92.3.138.123 (talk) 22:47, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

The reasons should have been self-evident from the diffs. But, in any event, see this. Tennis expert (talk) 09:31, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Texas A&M University

Everyone is welcome to contribute to Misplaced Pages (that's what makes it so great). Something of which you may not be aware with regards to Texas A&M is that those who have attended the school do not refer to themselves as "alumni", but as "former students". The reason is twofold:

  1. Many students resigned to enlist in WWII and never finished their degrees. Since they never graduated, they weren't "graduates", but were still war heroes in many people's eyes. To not remove this distinction, everyone was basically given the title "former student" to allude to the concept of "Once an Aggie, always an Aggie."
  2. Graduates from that overglorified junior college in Austin refer to themselves as "Texas-Exes". Much like Marines, Aggies don't refer to themselves as "ex-Aggies", so to distinguish themselves, they call themselves "former students".

Now, "alumni" includes the definition of "former student" and need not be a graduate, but that is not the popular connotation. That note was left to explain to Aggies. Keep in mind, I am an Aggie and I don't find a simple explanation in comments to be out of line and helps to explain things without cluttering up the intro.

I hope that explains my edits. Welcome to Misplaced Pages! Gig 'em! — BQZip01 —  03:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Fair 'nuff, but realize that if you make a change, it becomes "your edit" and you are responsible for the content. I think we're on the same page here. Thanks for your help in trying to keep featured articles up to snuff. — BQZip01 —  16:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey, sorry. I guess that came out wrong. While you aren't responsible for the entire page if you make an edit, if you make a change, you are responsible for that change. I never meant to infer you did anything intentionally or negligently. As a matter of fact, I retract anything I said that may have been misconstrued in any way to be negative. — BQZip01 —  20:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your assistance on Business Plot. I learned some new acroynms and new rules.

Thank you for your time. RWV (talk) 17:20, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Gender of God

Hello, Rushyo, hope this finds you well. I just wanted to drop you a note here, I have joined the mediation effort over at Gender of God. This is my first attempt at mediation, but I think it's kind of an important topic to me and so I'd like to see it reach a stable state. Note that I'm not an involved party- I've never edited the page. I just think it's a cool article.
Anyway, I think you and I should have our own separate conversation going on so we can co-ordinate our efforts and present a united front. If you'd like, I'll give you my e-mail address, or we can use talk pages. Let me know what you'd like to do- L'Aqùatique 03:42, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey,
Since you're back in the loop now, I figured I'd give you some of my thoughts on the case so far. Firstly, I'd encourage you to take a gander at the disputed text: . Personally, I find it is indeed too general, however that's not up to me to decide. It seems to me that Alistair has an overly formal, even stuffy style of writing and the other users are objecting to the way he words his contributions and arguments because he has a tendency to come off as patronizing. He also has a tendency to revert first and ask questions later. I'm thinking there's a WP:OWN complex here on both Ilkali and Alistair's parts. Thoughts? L'Aquatique 17:17, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, I certainly agree that judging users is not what we should be doing, and I don't think that's what I was attempting to do. Anyway- I don't know if you have Gender of God on your watchlist, but Ilkali and Alastair are in an extended, slow motion edit war over that paragraph. My spidey sense is telling me eventually one or both of them are going to get on the wrong side of 3RR. I would prefer if we could diffuse this before it escalates to that point. I think the hatnote is a fairly good idea. I'd be interested in reading the discussion that went along with the placement of that on God, I'll have to look that up. For right now, I have a few errands to run. I'll be back latah'. L'Aquatique 21:38, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Norovirus

Hi, thanks for watching the article. Unfortunately, it has been damaged by some, no doubt, well intentioned editor's pasting an essay into the middle of it, complete with a list of unformatted citations many of which were already there. I was trying to fix the article when you reverted me. I am interested in virus articles, (please see my user page), but I have no time to fix the article at the moment. GrahamColm 06:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppet Case

Can I be in the sockpuppet case concerning user 68., etc?--Greg D. Barnes (talk) 23:50, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll get others to help if I can.--Greg D. Barnes (talk) 00:12, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Regarding User talk:71.116.162.168

My apologies for taking it for granted. ~ Troy (talk) 04:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Metal Gear Online

There is a difference between "native resolution" and what the game is displayed on screen as. All console games are rendered internally at a set resolution, unlike PC games this cannot be changed and is set by the developers of the game. This would be called the games "native resolution". MGO (and MGS4 itself) has, according to many who work this out by literally counting the pixels, a native resolution of 1024x768 (665p equivelent). This, however, is not what is important. The game/console can upscale or downscale this native resolution as required by the display device. On the PS3 this is also controlled by the devs of the game. In the case of MGO, it can scale to all available resolutions, those being 1080p, 1080i, 720p (HDTV), 480p/576p (EDTV) and 480i/576i (SDTV). See my post in the MGO and MGS4 chat for further info.

I do, however, agree that aspect ratio is the incorrect terminology, however it is used on many other game articles so I was simply using it for continuity's sake. It should read "display resolution" or similar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thinkharder (talk • contribs) 13:49, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Resignation accepted

You have expressed an opinion on my talk page, without argument, and added a threat.

It is obviously a resignation from engaging the main issue raised in the request for mediation.

I don't hold you responsible for failing to mediate, but I do hold you responsible for both failing to correct an editor whose incivility was demonstrated in the very request for mediation, and for slandering an impeccable editor who was asking for help.

For anyone observing this interaction, please note Rushyo made personal comments while answering my request for mediation, when these were pointed out, he responded soon after with further accusations and a threat.

It appears to me, at this stage, that appeals to a majority determine text on a page, and appeals to other levels of process lead to unilateral action by "responsible" parties without examination of evidence, delay or accountability for their actions.

Alastair Haines (talk) 16:55, 6 July 2008 (UTC)