User talk:Acegikmo1/2004

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snoyes 19:58, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Jon, poker tonight? Call me. Peoplesyak 12:16, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Garbage

There is already an article at Garbage (band). When you've moved your content there, just leave a message on my talk page and I'll delete Garbage(band). --snoyes 20:36, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Dean

Unlike the other people on U.S. presidential election, 2004, Dean has encouraged his supporters to continue to vote for him (and, judging from their past activities, they will presumably purchase radio spots and such that will encourage others to vote for Dean). I suggest that this is a sufficiently-significant distinction that Dean should not be considered "withdrawn", because his strong grassroots (and promise to continue operating Dean for America) support means that there's a very real possibility that he could place high in future primaries. AaronSw 00:02, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The Requested articles

Jonathan - I noticed you've written several of the articles I've put onto the requested articles page, and I just wanted to thank you. Keep up the good work. →Raul654 00:29, Feb 26, 2004 (UTC)

Well, thank you for noticing. Many of your the articles you request happen to be both topics of interest to me and subjects that deserve a Wikipedia article. So, please keep the good requests coming.

Acegikmo1 02:12, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)

Article Reverts

Andrew Yaksic

Hey, Jonathan... the changes I made, other people reverted, and quickly... so I'm starting to think that maybe this site just isn't worth my time. I don't see how you can be so enamored of a site so full of people like that.

Hi Andrew. Like User:Raul654 said on your talk page, you ought not to get discouraged because one of your articles was deleted. Anyway, it was my fault; I shouldn't have included a link to gullible in my M&M's article.

I suggest you continue to make contributions (your spelling corrections on pages I've edited are very helpufl ;-). I'm sure that once you get the hang of Wikipedia and start editing it when you're not on DXM, you'll learn to love it.

Acegikmo1 17:40, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)

Antebellum

Good GWTW text! Wetman 23:14, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

ENT, and an orphan

Thanks for your work on "List of Star Trek: Enterprise episodes". For your information: I went through and standardized all of the dates.

By the way, I noticed that nothing links to "US Constitutional right of access to DNA testing". Can you find another article to link to that? —Vespristiano 05:46, 2004 Mar 7 (UTC)

I see you made some links. —Vespristiano 07:51, 2004 Mar 8 (UTC)

Re:2004 Election page

I don't support it, but I won't object. Go ahead. --Jia ng 01:10, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Well, I'm just wondering what the best list for the page is. I don't think that putting Bush alone is very good, considering that minor Democratic candidates like Lyndon LaRouche are listed. At the same time, the enitre pool of candidates should not be listed. What resolution to this problem would you support?

Acegikmo1 02:13, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

Actually, Lyndon LaRouche is quite well known (judging from how complete a biography he has). But wasn't he removed from the Democratic list?

In terms of delegate count, is it unanimous for Bush? I think the criteria should be 1) has an article, 2) is linked elsewhere on WP, but again, I don't object to the shorter version you proposed on my talk page. --Jia ng 21:24, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Listing the candidates with articles is a good solution. I've modified the list to include just Bush, Ashby, and Wyatt.

Acegikmo1 21:40, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

TNG

I also think that a {{msg:tng}} message would be a great thing to have. However, I have no idea how to go about making one, or even where to request one. -Branddobbe 07:29, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

Re: Album Pages and Header Names

No problem. And about the headings on my talk page, they're in Old English. -- Djinn112 19:33, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

New England

Ultimately Wikipedia: WikiProject U.S. Regions will replace the current map with a new map inside an infobox. I would ask Davodd to make you a map. He has made several wonderful maps for the project and I am certain he would make one for you if you asked especially since he probably would eventually make one anyway.

I also appreciate the comments on my talk page, I will consider taking a holiday but I would appreciate it if you would voice an interest in some of my contributions so if I do leave they will have a home.

--JCarriker 04:22, Mar 17, 2004 (UTC)

I have decided to stay. After wrapping up a few loose ends I will take a week long vacation in early April form the Wiki.

--JCarriker 05:57, Mar 18, 2004 (UTC)

Re: "Timescape" and Old English

I remember the conference room and the cockpit from "Timescape", and they both looked like a Danube's, but I can't remember what the runabout looked like from outside. That would have been in 2369, so they would have probably just started coming into service, and Danubes are the only things I've heard called 'runabouts', so it probably was one. If you can remember what it looked like, this picture's of a Danube, so that should tell you if it was.

I have this Old English textbook, Robert Diamond's "Old English Grammar and Reader". I was looking through it one day, thought the language sounded pretty neat, and decided to get some use out of it on my talk page. For translating I use that for the grammar. The vocab. list in the back of that wasn't too good, though, just Old English to Modern English, no ME > OE section. So now I use this website for looking up words; it's OE > ME and vice-versa, and it has a lot more words than the book does, so it's pretty nice. -- Djinn112 00:26, Mar 21, 2004 (UTC)

Neither Memory Alpha nor F.S.D. have anything to say about that runabout on their Danube class pages. So, I guess either it wasn't one or there was no clear shot of the registry or name in that episode. -- Djinn112 00:44, Mar 21, 2004 (UTC)

Sure. I'll go put it up there now. -- Djinn112 01:24, Mar 21, 2004 (UTC)

No need to discuss that The Conservative Party (UK) vandalism revert. That change was pure vandalism, not a serious attempt to discuss the Conservative Party. "The Conservative Party is a thinktank which has had a great deal of influence on the Labour Party"? That's left labour polemic, not encyclopedia writing. john 03:52, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

LibDems page

as the wikipedia is referring to it in a UK context, then 'most left-wing of Britain's mainstream parties' is correct. Only if we were looking on a wider stage would wording such as you suggested be appropriate (if true) as then the it would be the fact that this party happens to be 'British'; in the UK all UK-wide parties are 'British'!. VampWillow 22:23, 2004 May 7 (UTC)

My main purpose in editing the page was to change the comparative "more" to the superlative "most", as there are three mainstream British political parties, not two. After writing this, I concluded that using "British" was more concise and less awkward than "of Britain's", so I made a change to that as well. But, what you said also makes sense, so I think that the current wording is good.

Cheers,

Acegikmo1 02:17, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I visited Wikipedia:Facebook out of idle curiosity and there were our photos side by side at the top of the page (since both our User names begin with A). How romantic is that, I thought. So I looked at your website and journal. You're very interesting, and we seem to have a few interests in common. And I agree with you about the English. It was the only place in Europe where I didn't find anyone sexually interesting (except Indians, but that's another story). Happy editing. Adam 13:46, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

H'm, I hadn't seen that page before now. Hahaha, romantic indeed. I'd expect people to think me mildly insane after reading my journal, so for you to leave thinking I'm interesting is very good indeed. I've noticed we share interests from reading your user page in the past and editing articles you had worked on. As for the English, in my rather limited experience I have failed to find anyone appealing. Oh well. London's nice enough. Anyway, nice to meet you.

Acegikmo1 02:33, 10 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Marshall, Texas

Would you please review the Marshall, Texas article for sps and POV, I would like to nominate it for featured articles per your and Theresa Knott's opinions.

-JCarriker 20:36, May 15, 2004 (UTC)

I'm glad you find the article an interesting read. I believe Marshall is a profoundly interesting place, or as the local phrase goes: frighteningly cosmopolitan, yet delightfully banana republic. I've been reviewing the edits as you made them, and I'm very grateful. As, a member of the Harrison County Historical Museum, a fourth generation Marshallite, and other self-righteous, egocentric platitudes; I would like to consider myself an expert on Marshall. As a history major I know that is irrelevant; my sources include various literature, and a review by Jean Birmingham, (a local Eleanor Roosevelt like figure). I am quite confident in the accuracy of the vast majority of the information as I had several sources for it.

Once again I appreciate the hours you put into reviewing it. I will notify you when I nominate it for featured articles, or if you wish to you please do.

-JCarriker 03:02, May 18, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, Jean Birimgham is an expert she's on the Historical Commission. I'm not an expert, just jibes at my own expense, (perhaps my odd sense of humor has run amuck again). I've already had several others to review it. I appreciate your suggestion though.

-JCarriker 03:31, May 18, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your support. I did review the article with a descendant of Confederate Soldier and a member of the NAACP since last night, so the article should be neutral.

--JCarriker 19:10, May 18, 2004 (UTC)

Sprechen sie deutsch?

Well I can't, but you might want to contact Kar98 | Talk. He not only speaks German he is German. Just if your interested in talking to a WikiGerman. Also congratulations on graduating from high school, and even greater congratulations on getting into a school like McGill.

-JCarriker 02:14, May 26, 2004 (UTC)

LOL, alrighty then. Just as a sidenote, I do live in Marshall though. Also, I noticed a number of articles in the English section that are obviously written by non-native speakers. Very humourous :) Kar98 19:22, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)

A copyright question

If it is a work of the U.S. federal government, then it is released into the public domain. I don't know whether this includes [1]. If you are concerned about it, you can revert the page to the pre-May 11 version. The copied version needs to be NPOVed. Maximus Rex 20:36, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Post-war_Germany_vs_post-war_Japan

I made a reply at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion#Post-war_Germany_vs_post-war_Japan. --Jia ng 04:50, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I responded. Please reconsider your decision unless you are prepared to completely rewrite that article. It looks quite unsalvageable to me. --Jia ng 03:40, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for responding. I moved discussion over to Talk:Post-war_Germany_vs_post-war_Japan. Please look there. --Jia ng 16:19, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Source of info on recent U.S. primaries

I see you've updated the page on the Democratic primaries with all the latest results, including delegate counts. Thanks! Did you find a web site with all that info, or did you have to go hunting for each state's results separately? Ever since Kerry clinched the nomination, it's been hard to find info on the rest of the primaries. Neow 18:03, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi there,

The most comprehensive source I could find on Democratic primary results is The Green Papers. There, state-by-state results are listed, including links to the source of the data. Most often, this is from each official state website, but sometimes it is a media source.

When possible, I use official results, and this very occasionally includes tracking them down myself. Otherwise I resort to media sources. In any case, I appreciate that you've updated the Democratic primaries page yourself quite a few times and that you've noticed my contributions. Thank you.

Acegikmo1 04:19, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thank you, that's a great web site. Neow 18:01, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

You're up late

Why don't you join IRC? Many interesting and disturbing things go on there. :) -JCarriker 08:48, Jun 17, 2004 (UTC)

Yanai Shinsaku

Please answer at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Old#Yanai_Shinsaku_.26mdash.3B_Discussion. Nanshu said no one knows him today...--Jia ng 20:29, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

US Constitutional right of access to DNA testing

You may notice that I marked this article for deletion—my reasoning is given on the VfD page. I also deleted every reference you established to it, because even if the case (Harvey v. Horan) hadn't been overruled, your interpretation of what the case was about was overbroad and incorrect. The judgment was not guaranteeing DNA evidence per se, but rather the due process right to exculpatory evidence, which just happened for this particular convict to be in the form of DNA because this was a rape trial with biological evidence. I'd suggest that before you write any article on a court case, actually read the opinion, or at least a law review article on it written by legal professionals. It looks as if the Washington Post article was your sole source for writing it, and unfortunately you often can't rely upon the popular press for legal accuracy, nor can you with this particular article—Harvey by no means says all "felons have a constitutional right to DNA testing," nor was it the first case to find a due process violation in a particular denial of DNA testing...Harvey itself cites others. Also, always double-check to see if the case is still good law. I noticed that you wrote the article this year, but Harvey was overruled by the Fourth Circuit in 2002, removing any precedential value. One thing that was correct in the Post article is that a "district judge's decision is not binding on other courts", so there was no way, even prior to being overruled, that Harvey could have "established" a constitutional right in the sense you were proclaiming. Postdlf 8:12 25 June 2004 (UTC)

Hi,

Thanks for leaving a not about this on my talk page. I responded on the VfD page. I also actually want to thank you for listing the page on VfD, as it forced me to do more research on the topic. I found several reasons why the page should be kept. For example, an en banc reconsideration of the rejection of the case concluded that inmates do have a constitutional right to conduct DNA testing on leftover evidence in an effort to prove their innocence. [2] Although this opinion is non-binding because of a new Virginia state law that allowed the testing, it is significant as one of several developments that occured after the case supporting the right to DNA testing. I am concerned about the inaccuracies you pointed out in the article, and I'd like to correct them and incorporate this new information I found into the article.

Thanks,

Acegikmo1 20:02, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)

Please see my further comments at VfD. Thanks! Postdlf 13:26, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for taking my comments so well. The law student in me can get a little aggressive sometimes, so I worry about being overbearing in my criticism. I'll continue to try and help in your efforts to write on this topic. Postdlf 15:40, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Great Mosque of Djenné

I have been working all month on Great Mosque of Djenné, trying to get it up to a featured worthy status. I would appreciate ti if you would review the article for accuracy and POV. Once any problems you find have been corrected I'm going to nominate it for featured status.

-JCarriker 08:29, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your help at Great Mosque of Djenné! I have now nominated it for featured article status.

-JCarriker 03:03, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)

The Hunting of the President

I'm sorry, but I haven't seen The Hunting of the President. I'd like to, though.

You and I seem to have "crossed paths" more than once on Wikipedia. It might be coincidence. Or it might not. —Vespristiano 02:02, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Re:Changing links on userpage

Some clone/fork creators decided that in addition to the articles, to clone the user namespace (presumably to avoid linking to wikipedia directly?). This results in my userpage being duplicated at places like www.smartpedia.com/smart/browse/User:Jiang and www.namweb.com.na/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=User:Jiang. If I link externally on my user page, then someone who happens to stumble on those clones might click on those links and be led to wikipedia. This is unlikely to happen though. --Jia ng 02:18, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

RE PETER CARROLL:

Dear Acegikmo1, please do what you feel you must to satisfy your interest in the aforementioned page, I, having found it by chance merely thought it could do with cheering up a bit.

In fact you are probably right, but I am not Pete's biographer, I merely new him as a friend for several years. I note an interest in his group on the site and thought it might inspire someone to improve upon my efforts. I am working on other items at this time but will return to it later. Why don't you contact Pete directly and ask him about the alleged anecdotes perhaps he will confirm them for you, given a link to his site exists on the page, you may quote my name as a starting point, but I am not interested in arguing about it, as it makes a mockery of his own words. All the best: Faedra 20:51, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Yes, your edit much improves this wanting item, prevously looking rather shoddy and like an advert. Thank you for your work, I have completed my item on Chatham Dockyard, and have changed a few small references in your item, to link to actual pages on wikipedia, I have found, removing those links that do not exist (yet)

My sisters dog has just farted, and Star trek is on in the other room, so I hope you will excuse me, but why not email Pete and ask him for the source to "views on a chaotic universe", as I only have a spliced copy found tucked away in my copy of LIBER NULL (No 25 of 400, red cover, Morton Press).

All the best Faedra

Thank you for your support

Hi Jonathan! I'm a bit late, but I'm writing to thank you for voting for me in last week's sysop poll. It is a privilege to be able to participate in this tremendous project, and your vote in my favour meant a lot to me. Thank you so much. David Cannon 10:07, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thank you.

Thanks for your meaningfully suggestions to help me improve Charles Graner and your support on it! Neutrality 00:28, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliments. I also edited on Isaac Newton and Aristotle, and want to rewrite the latter extensively, but I think I need some permission first. I think I will continue editing on Wikipedia. Brutannica 22:08, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Black as a noun

Only a Wikipedian would respond to a statement that someone finds something personally offensive by asking for a reference. ;-) But in any case, here are some I pulled up with a little Googling:

The American Heritage® Book of English Usage:

[African American] has the further advantage that, unlike black, its use as a noun in referring to a particular person or persons is unproblematic; you can say My teacher is an African American where you probably would not say My teacher is a black.

ibid.:

Like other names of social groups that are derived from adjectives (for example, black), gay may be regarded as offensive when used as a noun....

NewsWatch Diversity Guide:

Use "black" as an adjective (i.e., black people) not as a noun.

To be more specific, what is offensive is to use "black" as a noun to refer to specific people. You can say, "according to polls, most blacks in America believe...." But "all the Congressmen sat quietly during the speech, except for the blacks, who stood and exited in protest" is bad. It has a disquieting "bar the door, Martha—the blacks are coming!" flavor. That badness is magnified when one refers to a single person as a black.

You wrote:

Personally, I find the phrasing "She is the second black person..." to be excessivly careful, cloyingly politically correct, and awkward.

And I find "She is the second black... to hold the office" to be offensive. (One can be cloyingly politically correct?) Feel free to rewrite the intro so that black modifies something other than person— but unfortunately, if it doesn't modify either person or National Security Advisor, it will take on a different meaning.

An analogy would be replacing instances of "Jew" with "Jewish person" even though the former term is entirely proper.

Your analogy with Jew is irrelevant. Different words have different connotations. Even African American can be used as a noun without offense. (By the way, Condoleeza Rice is African American as well as black by the most technical definition, unlike Colin Powell.)

In any case, your edit was not minor. See Wikipedia:Minor edit. --TreyHarris 16:15, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I now have two questions:

1. Would you object to the wording, "She is the second black and first female holder of the office"?

No, that's fine.

2. Why did my original edit not qualify as minor?

You deleted a word for non-grammatical reasons. You changed the meaning. A rule of thumb is that minor edits should be obviously unobjectionable. Since I objected, ipso facto, it wasn't minor. Convenient, eh? :-) --TreyHarris 03:19, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thank you.

Thanks for your support of my administrator nomination on RfA. I sincerely appreciate your support. Best wikiwishes, Neutrality 05:25, Jul 9, 2004 (UTC)

David Brock

I'm wondering why you removed the criticism section of the David Brock article. - Acegikmo1 14:57, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

First, it was heavily NPOV ("Certainly, David Brock's is one of the more controversial stories"). Second, it responded to claims not made in the piece. Third, it relied on some pretty bizarre sources ("the ever-interesting Christopher Hitchens"?). Fourth, it didn't really add much except to say "some people don't like this guy", since it didn't provide much in the way of evidence. It seemed to me to be mainly a way to sneak in some nasty personal attacks:

self-love, ... adored the easy money and the cheap fame ... dismally written, pick-nose, spiteful and furtive ... glitters with malice ... dank, filthy tissue turned inside out. ... whiny, histrionic, and so factually unreliable ... a migraine trying to figure out which parts of Brock's lurid story were true, ... oppressive a reading experience ... loathed by others as a dishonest malcontent

Harvey v. Horan

I'm very impressed by the effort that you put into this article—it's exceeded my expectations by far. I only have a few small recommendations: 1) the introductory paragraph needs to tell under what court system it was a case. Though the general rule is probably to credit it to the highest court that ended up dealing with it, because the significant opinion was the district court case, it doesn't make too much sense to just say that it was a Fourth Circuit case. Maybe say that it was a federal court case that was resolved by the 4th in a reversal? 2) The introductory paragraph should also point out something about the case's subsequent impact, why it was significant—mention the Innocence Protection Act up there. 3) Make sure you note which district court it was heard in. 4) It would be nice if you said a little more about the Innocence Protection Act, just a sentence about what it was intended to do. I'm also not sure if you're arguing that Harvey v. Horan played a direct role in its passing, or in bringing the issue to light, or if the Act was simply a resolution of the issue in Harvey. Anyway, great job! I'm even more satisfied when a VFD recommendation becomes an impetus to genuinely make an article worthwhile than when an article gets killed. Postdlf 13:20, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

TNG Episodes

Hi Acegikmo,

Yeah, sorry if I messed that up. I'm new and when I did that edit I hadn't thouroughly researched the issue. The reason I added links to the second shows was that in another article I was writing I had to reference something that happened specifically in the 2nd episode of a two-parter. I could redo it. I'll make the changes also to the episodes page if that is policy.

Thanks,

Khaldei

Links in ep titles

In stuff like that, I'd rather not have the article title bolded...it's raw info so I think it works okay. :) And thanks for the bio nod! jengod 21:31, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)

Rising (Stargate Atlantis)

Unfortunately, pipes don't work in tmeplates. - UtherSRG 00:32, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Adminship?

I'd like to nominate you for adminship. I have not yet done so as I did not want to put you in the postion of rejecting it after having been nominated. You've been here a while, made many good contributions, and I think you've earned it -JCarriker 06:55, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)

First off, I am honored that you consider me worthy of being an adminstrator. It is heartening that someone I consider a friend on Wikipedia would think to nominate me. I also very much appreciate that you notified me before posting a nomination.

However, I must very respectfully decline the proposed nomination. My primary reason for this is that I'm going to be moving to another country and starting college in about a month, and I don't know how my ability to participate in Wikipedia is going to be affected by that. I suspect that I'll continue to contribute as I have been, but I'd hate to accept administrator status only to realize that I don't have enough time to be a viable member of the community. Another reason that I'd rather not accept a nomination now is that there seem to be some outstanding disputes about what administrators are and what they should be able to do. User:Hcheney/Support, User:Hcheney/Govern, Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship, User:Sam Spade/Policy Proposals, and Warofdreams' application to be a bureaucrat bring up some of my concerns in this respect. I'd like these questions about administrators as well as questions about my ability to adapt to lifestyle changes as a wikipedian to be resolved before I accept a nomination.

I sincerely hope that my decision does not disappoint you. I am very grateful for your kind words and willingness to nominate me.

Acegikmo1 07:42, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I thought you might decline because of your move to Montreal and adjustment to dorm life(?) at McGill, which is why I asked you first. I am honored that you consider me a friend, especially since most of my internet "friends" have evaporated over past year, being a from the United States internationally, Texas nationally, or East Texas at a state level are popular. Being a moderate is also not a popular decison in the current political enviroment at any level. But I won't bore you with my politcal machinations, unless of course you ask. I look forward to the possibility of nominating you in the future. Bien à toi -JCarriker 08:22, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)

User: 198.54.202.2

Are you User:198.54.202.2? That user signed as you on User:Jimbo Wales/Pushing To 1.0

Yes. I realised I wasn't logged on. I think there is another way to do it .. Wizzy 09:34, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Some responses

Are you User:202.181.207.71? That user signed as you on Talk:Annette Lu Yes I am. I was in Hong Kong at the time and was afraid the connection was too insecure for me to sign in. The browser was also sh*tty.
Would you mind if I added the "Jiang's name" thread above to bad jokes? i dont mind.
What do you think of Chen Shui-bian? not as bad as Dr. Blackgold Lee et al. but nevertheless a corrupt bastard
What is your opinion of the recent edits to Responses of Germany and Japan to World War II crimes? I think some of it is unrelated to the topic and I'm thinking about doing some major edits (again). i havent been looking at it closely enough, but recent edits slant towards the Japanese POV. For example, The argument that the Emperor cannot apologize is just an opinion. it's really murky there. Please do work on it.
Should I call you Jiang? :-) You already did.

--Jia ng 06:50, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

U.S. Senate election, 2004

I have left some comments on the talk page of this article. Hope you would like it. iHoshie 06:28, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Bmills

User:Bmills DELETED his user page before he left. Upon Anthere's request, I restored it, but I blanked it to still "keep" in with his wish somewhat. WhisperToMe 18:49, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

User name...

Nice to meet you yesterday at the S & S. But I realize now I forgot to ask you... is there an explanation for the numeral 1 at the end of your username? [[User:Dpbsmith|dpbsmith (talk)]] 21:15, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

In reply to your question... I cannot possibly answer that for you.

In high school I wrote articles for the literary magazine under my own name and the pseudonyms "Amaranath Sasesusos" and "P. Fafnir Bergberg." In the CompuServe "CB simulator" (a prehistoric chat room) (you may not even know what "CB" meant) I used to call myself "Certified". But since then I've pretty much just used boring variations of my own name. My last major identity Thing occurred when I got married and decided to use my wife's maiden name as my second middle name, thus transforming myself from Daniel P. Smith to Daniel P. B. Smith.

When I joined Wikipedia I just used the customary username I've been using in most of my email accounts for years. By the time I saw that most people were using "handles," I toyed with the idea of enjoying a midlife identity crisis but now I sort of feel that I'm known under this name.

Oh, I'm not being truthful... in the alt.quotations newsgroup a number of people play around with multiple identities--there's a woman in Australia who uses about eighteen of them, by last count--not hard to tell as she's from a very small ISP--and I started to join in that game myself. Whenever I wanted to post something particularly undignified or tasteless I would post under the name "Chunks," for example.

I've thought about doing that here, but unless I wanted to create silly or tasteless articles under one username (and then list them under Votes for Deletion and vote to delete them myself) there wouldn't be much point.

For a while I thought your username as "Acegikmol", which is pronounceable but breaks the pattern.

In your situation I'd probably stick with the same username, but that could just be a sign of middle age on my part. [[User:Dpbsmith|dpbsmith (talk)]] 01:01, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The notice bellow probably does not apply to you, but I an not taking any chances

Vigilance

Well my fellow Intactivists (this will appear on other talk:pages):

The circumcisiophiliacs won this round. The main problem is that they are more commited than we (they make it impossible for us to correct any of their lies and bias on præpuce and circumcision). Now, they go after our articles (maybe I should not have tried to expose them by writing about Circumfetishism).

Hugh Young wrote complaining about me creating articles about Intactivism and Genital Integrity without consulting anyone. He was right to complain; I did create such articles without consulting. Let me just point out to things though:

I invited other Intactivists to join me last year to join Encyclopædia WikiPedia.Org last year (within a month of that, I gave up on editing Præpuce and Circumcision because I was so badly outnumbered, that I could not do any good).
I am the only full-time Intactivist with Michael Glass and Dan Blackham dropping in every now and then.

Now that you are all temporarily here, I ask you to stay. If you would just check on our articles weekly and also præpuce, circumcision, and articles linking to them, it would truly help much. While you are at it, you can edit and start other articles. ¡Editing and starting articles is fun! Look at this cool article, which I started about Laurentia.

¡E Pluribus Unum!

¡Thanks!

Ŭalabio 00:59, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)

Troll policy

I noticed your comments on the latest troll policy proposal. Since that was posted, however, there's been a much simplified proposal put up at Wikipedia:Dealing_with_disruptive_or_antisocial_editors/simplified_draft.

Would you be prepared to consider changing your vote? It'd only take a couple of people doing so to send this back to the drawing board, and though I didn't write it, I think the simplified proposal would fix many of the problems with the current one. If the current one fails to pass now, then we don't have to wait two months to improve on it. Ambi 11:18, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Time zone offset keeps getting reset

I have set my time zone offset in preferences to "-04:00". However, every few weeks, it changes to "-4:00" and goes back to displaying timestamps as UTC. This is rather frustrating. Does anyone know how to fix it?

Acegikmo1 00:44, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

So it changes from -4 to -4? I don't understand...maybe I'm just that stupid. It also depends which timestamps you're talking about. The signature timestamp, for example, is always UTC. Ilyanep (Talk) 00:56, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I think he meant that the leading zero disappears. But the leading zero is automatically removed whenever you save your preferences, so that couldn't be the problem. If you don't believe me, save it with a leading zero and then immediately click the preferences link to reload the settings from the database. Perhaps this is one of those annoying transient bugs that goes away when you look at it. The obvious thing that comes to mind is that timestamps are in UTC when you are logged out, or when for some unknown reason some part of the software is treating you as logged out. -- Tim Starling 01:15, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Acegikmo1. I moved this from the village pump in case you hadn't seen the replies yet. Angela . 23:11, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)

Another substub vote

I just wanted to let people know that there's another vote on substubs going on in Template talk:Substub#Survey. I know that this is a second vote, however, apparently it was originally intended to be only a vote about whether to keep the template message, but somehow evolved into a vote on the existence of substubs themselves. I know that you already voted in favor of substubs, so I wanted to get your support on this poll too. Thanks for your support! [[User:Mike Storm|Mike ∞Storm]] 23:33, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hanscom Air Force Base

Oh, I was so, so tempted to put a {{stub}} notice on this page, just to see what reaction I'd get.

Seriously, I think it is great to see someone with enough discipline to wait until they really finished writing a whole article before posting. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 01:11, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism

Thanks for your note on my talk page. There is deliberate vandalism, and there are occasional mistakes. My post was the latter because I meant to post it to the talk page, and didn't realise where it ended up until you pointed it out. (Antonio never mentioned it BTW). Mistakes are sometimes fairly obvious, especially if an editor has no previous vandalism history. But not obvious to all apparently. Cheers Moriori 20:46, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)

Image:HanscomBrown.jpg

Could you release that and any other images you've uploaded under a free license such as the GFDL or cc-by-sa? If you don't, they may have to be deleted sometime in the near future. [3] Guan aco 21:07, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)

You're welcome

No problem. I was just on my way to let you know what I did, just in case you really did mean to oppose. --Michael Snow 21:42, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Television

Hi Acegikmo,

We talked a few weeks ago as the result of some editing I did on the X-Files article. We dicussed working on the Television WikiProject, but I said I was too busy at the time to be of any help. If you're still interested in it, I just wanted to let you know that school is over for the time being and I should have a few weeks of spare time.

If you'd like to see what we can make of the project, I'll be glad to help where I can (I'm still pretty new at all this, so I'm not sure how much I will actually be able to contribute).

Let me know,

Clueless 09:02, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

List of number one singles (UK)

Just wanted to say thanks for dealing with the formatting on this page. So... thanks. Bonalaw 16:23, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Tuvix

Sorry for my delay in replying to your query about Tuvix. My focus for writing that article was the character rather than the episode. I'm going to carefully read the Tuvix article and the Riddles article to sort out exactly what belongs in each article. I think the Tuvix article needs to address how the experience affected Tuvok and Neelix afterwards, but at the same time the article should not retread too much of what is said in the Riddles article. But I'm going to hold off on any edits until after a careful reading. ShutterBugTrekker 21:42, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

One other thing: exactly where is that Riddles article? I tried Riddles (Star Trek) and nothing. ShutterBugTrekker 21:45, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Jonathan - hope you're settling in well in Canada! Did you get my e-mail? - MPF 22:15, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much for your support of my adminship nomination. JOHN COLLISON | (Ludraman) 00:13, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Canadian elections

A fair number of the Canadian election articles are found at XXXX Canadian election. See Category:Category:Canadian federal elections. I personally hate the Canadian federal election, XXXX format it is ungrammatical, needlessly long, and almost all the links point to the other style. - SimonP 19:56, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)

Etc.

Hello,

I've seen your recent contriubtions to starship classes and other Star Trek-related articles. They are quite good. Perhaps you could cite your source for data on the starship classes in the references sections. In any case, nice work. Please continue to contribute. Have you thought of creating a username?

Acegikmo1 07:51, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Greetings! You posted the preceeding note earlier. Thanks for the compliment! I'm not wholly familiar with the Wiki user interface, not even sure if I'm leaving this in the right place!, and I sometimes make editions when a thought arises (rare indeed!), but I do indeed have a user name and generally use it [E Pluribus Anthony].

My editions to the Star Trek--and other pages--are often to clean up alot of the grammatically incorrect text I find. I also find inconsistencies in some of the information ... particularly with much of the information on Wiki sites that are maintained by who I can only characterise as zealots.

As references, I generally use any and all mentions I can find (show, print, online) that are generally canon. For instance, the breadth and length of the Sovereign class are actually derived from measurements (in feet) on scale drawings produced by Paramount. Weapons counts? Usually by careful visual inspection. Furthermore, sometimes I take a very logical leap in making an edition. For instance, a Danube class starship is 'colloquially' but not necessarily known in canon as a 'Runabout' type; it is practically a type of scout, primarily because this is the smallest sort of starship available (in TNG Tech Manual) and it is similar in size and function to the ship Data piloted in 'Star Trek: Erection' (appropriate spelling) which is referred to as a scout, et al. As such, it is often unwieldly to list such reference sources and rationale, but I can gladly provide them.

As well, I tend to remove information that is utter supposition and non-canon; for example, I removed mention somewhere that the Titan (Riker's new command) is assumed to be a Prometheus class ship because there is NO authoritative mention of this assumption anywhere (as it can possibly be a new ship, old ship, or a good ship...) and especially not in 'Star Trek: Emesis' (appropriate spelling!). This certitude may also lead to errors, but I think these are rare and I'll gladly accept such feedback. I do strive for accuracy or at least for things that make sense.

On a similar note, I made editions to the Sovereign class page that were later changed by another user: namely, that it is a heavy cruiser and not an explorer. The 'editor' claims that Rick Sternbach himself (a co-creator of the Enterprise-E) wrote that it was a heavy cruiser in a BBS way-back-when, and even edited the article again and placed this comment in the body of the article (which is bad form), which seems to tell me that ego is also involved. I cannot find this posting but cannot currently contradict it. Thus, I've retained that edition for now, and I think out of compromise someone else actually wrote in 'Explorer/heavy cruiser'; however, I am e-mailing Mr. S. to get the last word. Fundamentally, NO mention of the Sovereign's type has ever been mentioned (that I know of) and this is all supposition, but again these are conflicting rationales. Moreover, Wikipedia is not a forum for such b-tching and I can imagine said editor including a nastygram in the future if such a 'correction' was made on this article.

I am quite the military and aviation buff (with a plethora of other interests); for example, I have the 99th edition of Jane's All The World's Ships. Making editions and additions to articles of real devices are far easier, since--for instance--the US government is far more authoritative about weapons like a certain sort of ICBM than Paramount or even some fans are about a Sovereign class ...? ! :) So, I only hope that the sci-fi ship specs which appear can be as consistent and accurate as those for some bits of real hardware.

Enough said. :) I hope you found this informative. Drop me a line; take care! E Pluribus Anthony 18:14, 17 Sep 2004

Admin nomination

Thanks for your kind words on my nomination for administrator. Since there is great opposition, I've asked for it to be withdrawn but am no less grateful. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:40, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

Witch-hunt

Your summary on my Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Xed is appreciated. I have taken the liberty of putting in an endorsement list and adding your name to it--Xed 08:41, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Circumcision

It seems the article on circumcision and related articles like genital modification and mutilation bring out the crazies on both sides of the issue. While I battled some anti-circumcision crazies in April, it seems there are now some pro-circumcision crazies on the loose. Good luck to you, and may the force (of NPOV) be with you. Illegitimati non carborundum. Nohat 05:45, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The Smiths

Thanks *blush*. I'm adding more content as we speak and I have slightly reformatted your entries on Hatful of Hollow and Meat Is Murder; hope you don't mind. Cwoyte 11:19, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

From 23skidoo

Thanks for the kind words re my contributions to the Star Trek sections. I only recently discovered Wikipedia and it's been fun adding to the different articles. Cheers! 23skidoo 02:26, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

Thanks mate, I appreciate the vote of confidence! - Ta bu shi da yu 09:53, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

RfA

My removal of the anon comment, stricly speaking, was aganist the rules. I removed it primary because it constituted a personal attack and may have seemed like I made the comment. But of course, if you object, I have no problem with keeping it in. Warmest regards, [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 23:08, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

My nomination for adminship

Thank you for supporting my nomination for adminship. I will do my best to serve Wikipedia. --Slowking Man 00:05, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

Nacho king Vfd

I have rewritten this article. Will you please review it, I am having difficulty initaiting a discussion about the article on its Vfd page. Please also review the page history to see how it has progressed. Thanks Jon, - Jay/JCarriker 23:40, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC) P.S. your page is 48 kb long you can archive it by cutting text form here and pasting it at User talk:Acegikmo1/archive1, or another page of your choosing.

X-Files

Hi, just wanted to say thanks for your message - I've added the credit, its from my own site actually.

- daydream_believer2

Adminship

Thannks for your support on RFA, Ac. JOHN COLLISON [ L u d r a m an] 15:46, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank You Friend

I want to thank you for your support in my Adminship nomination. I know that I'm not going to make it, but that's life. I want you to know that you can count on me as your Wikipedian friend.

Tony the Marine

Loooong talk pages :P

Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston says you must be free the weekend of the 20th :) +sj + 21:17, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Adminship and long talk page

So now that it's November and you've had time to adjust to new college life, may I nominate you for adminship?

Also, in case you missed it, your talk page actually shouldn't be this long; a recent edit [4] doubled the page, duplicating all talk that was already on the page (this is a fairly common MediaWiki bug).

—Lowellian (talk)[[]] 17:36, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

Admin vote

Thank you for supporting me in the admin vote. I sincerely appreciate it! Plus, it's really nice to meet another Queen fan.

Thanks again, ClockworkTroll 06:24, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

A quick note to say thanks

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you again for your support in my request for adminship. It was certainly a wild ride, and I really appreciate you taking some time out to contribute. ClockworkSoul 16:07, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Guanaco

I noticed your note on Guanaco's RFA (Guanaco has made some mistakes, but he's open to discussion and acts in good faith.)

I'm just curious as to where he's been open to discussion. I'm pretty forgiving with these things, so if he actually has been, I might change my vote.

But I've got to say - I don't think I've ever seen him be open to discussion. I've seen him do plenty of controversial and dubious things, and as far as I've seen, if he's ever questioned about them, he's either curt, rude or doesn't respond at all. Ambi 03:18, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Adminship

Salve, Acegikmo1!
Back in September I was a candidate for adminship, but I withdrew and since then, I've been working away and have now decided to try again, nominating myself. Though you voted to oppose at that time, you seemed receptive to a future candidacy and, therefore, I'd appreciate your vote on the new candidacy at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/PedanticallySpeaking2. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 19:13, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Salve, Acegikmo1!
I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted by yourself and others. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:20, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Wishing you the best

Just dropping you a note wishing you a very Happy Holiday and that this New Year may bring you and your loved ones happiness and lots of joy. Your friend in Wikipedia Tony the Marine

Southpaw Grammar

Thanks for your recent compliments on the article; while I was glad someone liked it, before reading your user page I did not realise they were from such an illustrious Wikipedia contributor. There has been a lot of rubbish said about that album and I hope I got across what it seems Morrissey was trying to do. Edit away if I've included to much waffle about critical reaction/ subjective lyrical interpretations/ whatever SilhouetteSaloon 16:22, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Supersonic

Hi. You put this on a page I just finished - —(& m dash ;). I see them all over, just out of interest, what do they mean?

Oh, cheers. Nice to know I'm appreciated.--Crestville 14:36, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)