User talk:AlistairMcMillan/Archive7

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iPhone Revocation

Okay, while I'll conceed that "Ms. Warrior"'s comments many not be substantial as a reference, I don't see what is wrong with the "Copycat Issues" section, as the references for that are a well-established newspaper making its own opinion, not just re-stating a comment. Surely under Wikipedia policy it is acceptable as long as you cite it with a reference from an established and respectable source? 217.44.169.174 18:31, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion

Hello. May I suggest you take a look at this page? I realize you are involved in sort of a tough situation over at the article on Gracenote, and that page has some tips that might help you avoid personal attacks which only make the situation worse. It also has tips for working towards a compromise version of a disputed page. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 19:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Personal attacks on Gracenote

Hi, the answer to your question ("are you saying I was making personal attacks because of the Gracenote page") is no, and yes. That talk page was getting pretty heated, and some of the things that were said, I felt, were bordering on personal attacks so I left identical messages on the talk pages of everyone that seemed to be involved in the dispute reminding them to avoid personal attacks and to stay calm. I was not saying you personally made personal attacks, but simply reminding you and everyone involved to stay calm and avoid them. If you take a look at the talk page I had an idea for a way to reach a compromise, but no one seems to have paid it any attention. At any rate, no I was not saying you made personal attacks, and yes, I left that message because of the Gracenote page. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 14:59, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

.dmg disk image format links

Hello, I noticed that you managed to remove all links to third party applications that are able to handle dmg files. I really want to know why. Advertising, you claim, and maybe that is true, but it can be very valuable advertising/information to people wanting to access contents of dmg files from other operating systems than OS X. There's a lot of similar links all over wikipedia and I can't understand why you felt these specific ones were not appropriate. I write partly because I'm the author of one of these tools, DMGExtractor (which is open source and GPL'd, so there's no profit in it for me). The wiki entry has led a lot of people to my page, and I've had a lot of positive response because of it. It's a win-win situation, so why remove the link? Looking forward to an explanation... --Unsound 07:25, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, I just skimmed through the page you linked to, and you're probably right according to rules, as I added the link to my page myself. It kinda troubles me that the current trend in wikipedia seems to be removing as much information as possible, because it doesn't have "encyclopedic" value. The high amount of information is what made it useful for me, and probably lots of other people as well. My GPL'd app, DMGExtractor, would never have existed if it wasn't for the link I saw on the dmg page in wikipedia to the GPL program dmg2iso. I'm trying not to whine here, but I just think you're going in the wrong direction, trying to tame wikipedia too much with extensive rules... --Unsound 03:39, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

It was some time since we communicated, but I just wanted you to know that I've redone the page with DMGExtractor, thus eliminating the annoying ad that you complained about when you felt like testing my app... :) I'm lazy, so it took me some time to deal with the issue. Just in case you wanted to have a look at it. DMGExtractor --Unsound 14:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

File Allocation Table

Come on, Alistair. I know from the past 2+ years that you are trying to keep the FAT (and other MS-related) article clean, and maybe make it a "good article" ("featured" would require some drawings at least), but please have a little patience with new significant additions - I spent maybe an hour trying to write things clearly, and to ultimately eliminate the rather vague and misplaced mention of fragmentation from the intro (not to speak about lack of cites). The discussion I added was mostly based on the already cited Ray Duncan's article about HPFS. Adam Mirowski 01:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Adam, the problem with your contribution is that you've provided no verifiable sources. Wikipedia has a long history of taking contributions without asking where the information comes from, and editors like AM work really hard to ensure that this trend doesn't continue. Remember, Wikipedia isn't here to publish personal opinions & observations, or any kind of original research. Please look at WP:VERIFY and note what it says right at the top: Editors adding new material to an article should cite a reliable source, or it may be challenged or removed by any editor. Please help us build a better encyclopedia by citing sources. Thanks. -/- Warren 01:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Of course. But the Ray Duncan article is already ref #1 and Chen article about FAT32 limit is the last external link already. Don't people ever read the references, in order to recognize that newly added information was already present in them? Adam Mirowski 01:51, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Picture with Alan Cox

Yes mate, you are entirely correct that it is my picture and that is me in the pink shirt. If you would like the picture is on my website with other pictures of me if you'd like verification. Go ahead and make any changes you feel are necessary. Cokehabit 01:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

"DVD ripping"

Hey, I did some looking around to see if I could find a source for this. I'm pretty sure I was the one who put it into the article almost a year ago, based on information that Thurrott had published about the original list of editions. The information for Home Premium did indeed list DVD ripping... but there doesn't appear to have been any coverage of it anywhere else. Unless the feature is buried away in Media Center somewhere (which is the only place would make sense, i.e. if DRM was applied and it could be accessed on the local network), it doesn't appear to be present in the final code. Good catch. -/- Warren 01:11, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Sd31415/Thumb

Did you know?

With about 380 edits to the article, you are the biggest contributor to iPod! s d 3 1 4 1 5 talk • contribs 02:37, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Troublesome FAR

Hi,

I notice that you contributed to the Systemic functional grammar article a while ago. Split infinitive is up for review as a FA, and I wonder whether you are critical of the content. I am.

[1]

Tony 00:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: SystemStarter

No, I just moved it because footnote markers generally go at the end of a sentence, rather than in the middle. An interested reader can easily read the citation and see what specific part is being referenced. – Mipadi 18:19, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

The Chicago Manual of Style notes that "the superior numerals used for note reference numbers in the text should follow any punctuation marks except the dash, which they precede," as noted here. This style is also specified in the examples shown on Wikipedia:Footnotes. Furthermore, this seems to be the general standard in most other publications, including print publications. – Mipadi 18:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

re diff

Can you please explain your logic behind removing this NPOV content in Adobe Flash Player ? Your edit summary troubles me. I believe this content was added in good faith, as you should too, and that it is useful. Please explain to me why you did this, or I will re-add the content -- Jmax- 18:43, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

RealNetwork employees?

Note to self:

• Special:Contributions/ColetteF
• Special:Contributions/24.17.208.165
• Special:Contributions/207.188.29.244

AlistairMcMillan 10:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

About comments on my page

Hi Alastair, thanks for you comments. When I deleted the comments on my talk page, I wasn't doing so to hide things, it just seemed a bit strange to me to leave previous comments for me on a public page, apart from the initial one which I thought I might want to use later for help with editing. I haven't used user talk pages much, and after looking at others, I've decided it does seem to be the best action to leave the comments up.

I have taken into account your comment about my additions to articles, and I should probably have replied to tell you so. While I don't think my additions of references to proprietary software were particularly biased, the way I did so, by putting the reference in the first sentence, probably was a bit inappropriate and slightly biased. After your comment, I've decided to stop doing this, and if I do refer to a programme being proprietary, I'll do it in a less prominent and more appropriate place. I've noticed from a comment above that the user Jmax- agrees with my addition on that particular page. With free (as freedom) software, it is often appropriate to mention its freeness at the very beginning, because for many of these programmes, its sole reason for existing is to be free software, especially anything which is part of the GNU project, and this is a major reason for it being notable.

Cheers, Guyjohnston 16:05, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Cairo

Regarding this, for some reason I've always been under the impression that it was canned by the time Windows 95 came out, but clearly you've found some indications that it was still a going concern in 1996. Huh. Yeah, by all means, update it to 1996! -/- Warren 17:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

OS X

This kind of research is easily considered original research, which is not allowed at Wikipedia. Again, let's see the resources. Roguegeek (talk) 22:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

These are assumptions made by yourself and a select few other editors. Editor speculation is definitely not encyclopedic in any form. Roguegeek (talk) 22:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

You're arguing on a technicality. How many times over the years has Mac OS X been called OS X? It's the same difference. Roguegeek (talk) 22:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

File:Factsbarnstar.png I made the basic structure of what I think it should look like. Feel free to tear it apart and stuff. {Slash-|-Talk} 03:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

looking for wikipedia and macintosh support

I'm a Mac user and contributor to wikipedia and wondered if there were any software-assist programs out there - I've looked around Macupdate.com and generals searches of the internet and all I see are ways to add wikipedia searches to other situations, but nothing to help contributors who use Macs.... I see you are a big contributor to Macintosh oriented sites and thought you and a few others might be good people to ask. Thanks.--Smkolins 13:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Robert Wolfe

He seems notable enough -- why not take an ax to the copied material instead of marking the whole article for deletion? I'll do it myself later today if you don't have time. Thanks, NawlinWiki 19:27, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

iphone

Since when has correcting punctuation been an "unconstructive edit"?

iTablet

Not to be a nuisance, but I found it very offensive when you wrote in the talk page "If only there was a way to speedy delete this article." Culd you not do that in the future? Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Redguard101 (talk • contribs) 22:16, 5 February 2007 (UTC).

Hannibal Rising

Removing contradictions and making up excuses as to how they would fit counts as original research. As it stands right now, one event is made specific in one novel, and its changed in the next. Thats all that needs to be said.--CyberGhostface 12:05, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Original research is defined as "unpublished facts, arguments, concepts, statements, or theories, or any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that appears to advance a position". There is nothing to indicate that Hannibal's dream, when it occured, was false. Unless Harris himself stated that it was false in Hannibal it should count as a contradiction. What I wrote was the simple facts of what occured without any additional commentary, which is how it should stay.--CyberGhostface 18:01, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

This is what happened. In Hannibal, Hannibal recalls seeing his sister's teeth in a stool pit. NOTHING indicates that this is false. In Rising, Hannibal notes this is to be false. As this is DIFFERENT INFORMATION than was previously established, it is a CONTRADICTION. In the current continuity, Harris retconned it to be a figment of Hannibal's dream. I can agree with that. But NOTHING indicates that this was the case in Hannibal. The same goes to Hannibal's animal abuse. Yes, Hannibal has been nice and cruel to humans, but you can't use that to argue "Oh, well that means he was mean to animals too". Nothing indicated that in Rising he was EVER abusive to animals at any point in his life. Neither before or after Mischa's death was Hannibal shown to be cruel to animals, and if he was, Harris would have mentioned.--CyberGhostface 21:52, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Look. I'm not doubting the whole idea of it being a dream. Thats beside the point. What I'm trying to say is, it WASN'T FALSE in Hannibal. It was treated as fact in that particular book. By stating that its false, Harris is changing continuity.--CyberGhostface 00:16, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Template spam

You recently complained about "Template spam" ... and I've stumbled across the solution for you. Have a look at {{ArticleHistory}} and {{WikiProjectBanners}}. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 06:41, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Idris

It's simple. I find an operating system named Idris. I know that there are several concepts named "Idris". I think that people may want to know what the system name means or references, but I don't know the exact origin, so I link to the only page that explains the possible meanings of the name. After your effort, people reading the article have no idea about what the name may mean. Not good. --84.20.17.84 15:41, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Please read the comments that provoked my comment and see that my comments were provokedOxyman42 02:09, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Trek USS Livingston article 2/22/2007

Alistair, I wanted to let you know that I have merged the material from the article you proposed for deletion - USS Livingston (Star Trek) into the Excelsior class starship (Star Trek) article as every source I could find IDs the Livingston as an Excelsior class ship, even the Excelsior articles on a couple of the foreign language Wikipedias (German for one) Cheers and have a good day! Wikidenizen 15:26, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

New idea for the Main Page

Hey Alistair, I have a new idea for the Main Page, to put in a featured question. I would like to debate the issue with other wikipedians but don't know where is best to address the issue. I've placed a message on the main page discussion page, any other pointers as to what i should do next? Ahadland 05:34, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationales

About Image:GKsu screenshot.png - I did not use a generic template such as {{fairuse}} or {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} for this image. It is currently tagged with {{linux-software-screenshot}}. I don't think fair use rationales are strictly neccessary because I used a specific license tag instead of a generic one. —Remember the dot (t) 04:15, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

The reason I want a fair use rationale for Image:Am wmp for mac.png and Image:Wmp104mobile.jpg is because these images contain copyrighted content from both Microsoft and a TV program. Thus, whether or not it is appropriate to use them in the article Windows Media Player is murky without additional clarification. —Remember the dot (t) 04:19, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I will add a fair use rationale, but please note that it is inappropriate to tag images with a specific license tag with {{subst:frn}}. {{subst:frn}} is only for images tagged with a generic fair use template such as fairuse or Non-free fair use in. —Remember the dot (t) 18:58, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

(replying to message on my talk page) - Template:No rationale itself says that it is only for generic fair use templates. I'm guessing that images tagged with more specific license tags should be put though Wikipedia:IFD if they lack a fair use rationale. —Remember the dot (t) 19:42, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

(replying to message on my talk page) - Template:No rationale clearly states that it applies only to generic fair use tags. —Remember the dot (t) 22:34, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:

Sigh. Kinclaith was given to the bishop, who became the owner of the land. You ought to read more carefully before making silly sarcastic comments. Anyways, Barrow knows more about high medieval Glasgow than anyone else (save, perhaps, Norman Shead), and failure by your sources to mention this reveals only flaws in them. The source I'm using is as impeccable as it gets, so you'll do well to get round it. Regards, Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 17:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Simply repeating your false belief hardly makes it true. Maybe you should take a breather, give it more thought, and tell me exactly what I'm missing. Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 17:40, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Would have to look. Kenneth H. Jackson, "The Sources for the Life of St. Kentigern", says this I think. But I'll go double-check. Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 11:10, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:Remote administration software

Why did you change the | in to a <br> in {{Remote administration software}}. This doesn't group the pieces of software into any groups. If you did it for looks, I want you to note, that people use their browser with different widths and in most cases this just makes it worse. Try stretching your browser window back and forth. This being the case I hope you'll revert your edit. --Easyas12c 12:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I reverted your edit for now. Feel free to speak out, if there was another reason for having the break in the article. --Easyas12c 02:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

It does not look better. It may look better on your computer. You have to realize that web browsing environments are very different. Some people use a cellular phone and some other use a plasma television. You can not decide a break point that would make sense for anyone else, but you. Please don't edit Wikipedia to make it look better on your computer. Please revert the edit. --Easyas12c 22:14, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

The average reader is browsing at either 1024x768 or 1280x1024. That is what we aim for. And we make choices all the time that style our content for those resolutions. Oh, and neither of the computers I use to edit Wikipedia run at those resolutions. AlistairMcMillan 22:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

The matter still disturbs me. Where is this policy stated? Are all Wikipedia articles modified every time the average display size changes? How does Wikipedia even know what the average display size is? --Easyas12c 01:00, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Rick Sternbach Interview Link

I don't really think you made a good judgment call deleting the link to an interview conducted today with Rick Sternbach. Your reason of "not covering anything new" is not sufficiant and I think you should put the link back. It is current, addresses Star Trek XI and certainly not hurting anyone. Someone looking for information about Sternbach would probably like to read an interview with him. You writing the bios for TNG Production staff should know fans like interviews....-S- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.142.11.26 (talk) 01:24, 4 March 2007 (UTC).

Technorati

Before you attempt to revert, please contact Technorati and verify the facts. Their ranking of myspace blogs is not accurate for the reasons stated in the discussion section. They will probably explain why it's not accurate in the same terms I've already done.

I appreciate your zeal, but in this case it's misplaced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.91.124.186 (talk • contribs) 04:02, March 6, 2007

Making links direct

I like to avoid a redirect as much as the next guy, but please remember that it takes more WP resources to go in and edit the link than it does for the system to redirect users. --EEMeltonIV 13:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

iTunes

iTunes 7.1.0.59

Notice that you took out my addition about problems with the latest update. If you doubt that there are problems please take a look at Apple Support discussion to see the large number of users having this particular problem. The previous version worked fine - the new one doesn't. So not a problem due to me but one due to the software team at Apple. Anyone wishing to avoid this problem shouldn't download the update. I haven't invested in an iPod to be unable to listen to music on my PC. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.71.0.158 (talk) 21:14, 11 March 2007 (UTC).

It seems that you are in the habit of editing -ve reports on iTunes and may well even be an Apple employee? 220.240.58.190 16:12, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

NTFS

Alistair, yes, it's Native Transactional, not New Technology: It's a common mistake; and the name is derived from the transactional log used to self-repair (via unwinding) disk errors.

I think you're confusing the meaning of the "NT" in "Windows NT" which indeed is "New Technology" with the "NT" portion of "NTFS" Dan Schwartz, [e-mail] Discpad 23:02, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

---

OK, here is the citation:

Sean Daily in Windows IT Pro: Windows NT 101 chapter in Optimizing Windows NT:
Installable file systems
Another portability feature of NT is its ability to support many different file systems. Currently, NT supports the FAT (File Allocation Table used in DOS, Windows 95, and OS/2 systems), NTFS (Native Transactional File System introduced with Windows NT), and CDFS (CD-ROM File System). However, because of NT’s modular nature, support for additional file systems can be easily added in the future by simply creating new file system drivers and adding them to NT. This makes it relatively easy for NT to incorporate new technologies.

DRM intro

I made some modifications to try to clean up cruft in the opening section of DRM but they were reverted by another user. I've put the proposed changes in the "cleanup" section on the DRM talk page. You seem to follow DRM - please review & provide comments on the talk page if you have time. thanks. 71.232.58.195 01:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

New RED iPod nano image

Now, I don't mean to be accusative about this, but what was wrong with the old image? The product is depicted head on, which is best for encyclopedia purposes. It is depicted on a neutral background, is not tilted, and the shadow of the new image is cut off at the bottom-left, at least enough to prohibit a tilt and crop procedure. The only good thing is that it's on (although since the old one is off, there can be no doubt it did not come from Apple). Should I change it back?--HereToHelp 00:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

109.00a

Good catch. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 14:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

will you get a life!!!

and stop picking on me! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.24.175.199 (talk) 08:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC).

I agree this user is really really bad, every edit I make he deletes, I thought wiki's motto was "anyone can edit" The edits i make aren't even offensive.

Download 2007

why take the table away it was good took me ages and it was nice to see what band s are planying quick i was even gonna add the dates they were confirmed when i got a chance it was much easier than reading few paragraphs of text and it

its never to early for a table as it wouldnt make any differents except help people view the bands quicker and easier pleas e can u put it back or make a better one many thanks download veterian :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.195.199.55 (talk • contribs) 11:57, March 22, 2007 (UTC)

Alistair

I'm probably not the only person to point this out, but you are a good example of what makes Wikipedia so frustrating. You have misused your admin privileges. I'll take it up with others if it continues.

This is just a friendly note to stop it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.91.124.186 (talk • contribs) 22:00, March 26, 2007 (UTC)

I agree! Wiki is supposed to be editable by anyone and not with assholes like this guy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jay316 (talk • contribs) 14:55, April 15, 2007 (UTC)

For anyone else reading this... 69.91.124.186 and Jay316 both insist on adding their own opinions to articles, against policy. And neither could be bothered to cite sources after being asked repeatedly to do so. AlistairMcMillan 16:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

It's not just MY opinion, it's 90% of the Download 07 ticket holders too. MCR won't even finish their set. FACT —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jay316 (talk • contribs) 22:57, April 15, 2007 (UTC)

If that is a fact, then you'll have no difficulty pointing us to a source proving your point. AlistairMcMillan 03:34, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I have no source, but its just Download tradition that the worst band always gets bottled. Guns N' Roses, MCR, HIM I could go on.. User:Jay316 07:15, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Really could you cite a source for this "tradition"? AlistairMcMillan 07:15, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

No, but it has happened every year since Download started, just because someone hasn't written about it on a website does not mean it's untrue. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jay316 (talk • contribs) 08:16, April 16, 2007 (UTC)

I don't need you to tell me what happens there. Did it not occur to you that the person with the most edits to the Download Festival article might have actually been there once or twice? Wikipedia policy is simple: source it or it doesn't go in the article.

BTW You do realize that HIM still got paid in 2005, and G'N'R still got paid in 2006. The festival organizers still rake in the money from ticket sales. AlistairMcMillan 09:53, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I realise that, but why is that relevant? The organisers are money grabbing pigs, they try and get bands that they know will bring in ticket sales, just because a band has a lot of fans doesn't mean that the majority of Metal Heads won't kick the S*** out of them on stage. MCR will get bottled, 20,000+ will see to that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jay316 (talk • contribs) 10:27, April 16, 2007 (UTC)

Cool. So a bunch of idiots are going to pay £150 each to go to a festival to listen to bands they don't like, sleep in muddy fields, trying not to catch any fatal diseases in the fucking portable shitters, just so they can throw bottles at those bands they don't like. I'm sure the bands and the organizers are going to learn their lesson, while they are sleeping in their cushy hotels, driving around in their limos and having their arses wiped by models with wads of hundred pound notes. AlistairMcMillan 10:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm simply trying to say is that MCR will get bottled at Download and yes I am paying £150 to see alot of bands I like, Megadeth, Slayer, Iron Maiden etc... but I am purposely going to see the first 5mins of MCR to join my fellow metal heads is saying "MCR is not welcome at Download, Download is a METAL festival" followed by a barrage of bottles filled with who knows what. Oh and on a final note, sleeping in mud filled fields, wearing one set of clothes all weekend, drinking a whole lot of beer and jumpin' round in a mosh pit to Lamb of God, that is what makes Download so F***in awesome. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jay316 (talk • contribs) 10:54, April 16, 2007 (UTC)

You know it's funny that you know so much about MCR's songs... and you know so much about MCR's fans... anything you'd like to confess? AlistairMcMillan 11:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Why are you trying to turn this into an argument, oh and for the record MCR suck, why do you think I'm doing all this, I hate them. If I could talk to Gerard Way I'll tell him to go back to his clerks job. I'm bored of arguing with you. All I wanted to write in the first place is "Many Download-goers believe MCR will get bottled again, just like they did at reading." is that really worth all these arguments? I know what will happen at Download as does everyone else, if you don't want to put it in an article just because I don't have a "reliable source" just because someone hasn't written it on a website to make it "official" stuff doesn't have to be "official" to be true, people download music all the time, just because it's not on a cd does not mean it's not the same song that they downloaded.

Freedom isn't free, freedom of speech isn't free, the internet gives us the right to say ANYTHING we want about ANY subject and your trying to stop us. Fuck You —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jay316 (talk • contribs) 11:28, April 16, 2007 (UTC)

Signing

Thank you for the compliment and reminder. While I'm still learning proper Wikipedia form, I've already done my first sign. And here's my second! :-) Zachlutz 12:01, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Bring Me the Horizon

Please do not remove cited information from their page. I understand removing some of the "trivia". However, there is further uncited information on their page, and instead of deleting it all add the "citation needed" tag or just leave them there as the page already has a notice saying it doesn't cite its sources. Thanks, Asics talk ^Editor review! 16:25, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

That's alright, just one part that was removed was cited. I guess you just missed that bit! I understand what you mean, people do somewhat abuse wikipedia's free editing policy (on occasions) Asics talk ^Editor review! 21:08, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I have not read it. However, I have contacted the user who added it originally asking for some proof. I hope this will be alright. Thanks, Asics talk ^Editor review! 16:50, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Mark Burnett

The link to the deposition, which is a pdf, isn't working. Can you fix that? Thanks.

Regarding your claim

Why are you claiming that I'm spamming wikipedia? Every external link I've places is highly relevant. If I'm doing something wrong I would be interested in knowing what it is.Please advise. Yaniv.bl 08:16, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

I am not Fixya's CEO but I am related to the company. Let me understand if I get you correctly. The proper way to add fixya related information would be to write a request in the Talk page of each topic? If this is the case I have no objection but I would like to know if this is the process that each edit goes through and if not why should Fixya be an exception. Let me remind you again that every page I've edited was relevant and would benefit wiki's users. Also, please note that other than very limited amount of advertisement fixya is a free source of information. Thanks Yaniv.bl 21:01, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:POINT

I would suggest that the editor unilaterally mistagging the page (i.e. you) desist from doing so. Chris cheese whine 18:20, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Chill

You're perfectly right that the “Comparison of Windows XP and Mac OS X v10.4” article is a cyst that should be excised, but it isn't worth your getting warned or blocked in an attempt to hasten its demise. If you can just continue removing the things that shouldn't be in it even on the assumption that the article somehow is legitimate, the result will be to exhibit an article which others will eventually see isn't legitimate. —12.72.70.78 07:42, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Macintosh System Software

Point taken, however I have found another page on Apple's website to back up my claims that Mac OS was originally called "System Software" and "Macintosh System Software".

Please visit: Macintosh System Software Version History

And once you have done so, then please restore my article so that I can link to that page as a source. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Applemeister (talk • contribs) 11:27, 11 April 2007 (UTC).

Egyptian Jasper and Greek Agate

Hi! I created too small articles called Egyptian Jasper and Greek Agate. Here are the links to those page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_agate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_jasper Would you mind looking at them and cleaning or editing them. Thanks! Neptunekh 18:17, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Page deletions

Thank you for your comments. I believe I marked my pages correctly for deletion, but if you could help me with that, I would appreciate it. Thanks again.

Aswick 04:29, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

My Chemical Romance

You recently posted a reply "grow up" on the mcr talk page, when u know as well as everyone else at Download, that MCR wont even finish their set because of the barrage of bottles, just like Reading 06. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jay316 (talk • contribs) 12:26, April 14, 2007 (UTC)

Vista (32 not 64 bit) as unsupported operating system: Please provide an official Apple press release...

": You already sought a third opinion and the third opinion agreed with me. Stop trolling. Vista is not yet listed as a supported operating system. AlistairMcMillan 07:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC)"

Please provide your reference that Vista 32-bit is not a supported opearting system!? What is indicated on a downlowd page is not a sufficient reason and the reference in the text that was fixed is a support Article from Apple for Visat (32-bit)!? An official press from Apple that Vista (of all flavours) is not officially supported will suffice so please provide this if you can otherwise the correction should stand. This is another issue I will pursue. 220.240.58.190 12:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

The support article clearly says iTunes and iPod don't work properly with Vista yet. It even clearly says using your iPod with Vista "may corrupt your iPod".

The Download page obviously matters because that is where people go to get iTunes. The Download page clearly states "Windows 2000 or XP" and "Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 or later or Windows XP". As soon as that changes, the iTunes article on Wikipedia will be updated. AlistairMcMillan 12:17, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry: recommended operating system versions for download (doesnt it include XP, XPSP1 or XPSP2?) doesn't constitute "officially supported" I think it would be resonable to ask for the "offical press release" from Apple to maintain this sort of statement and of expression in an eminent encyclopedia like Wikipedia. (The reductio as absurdam, as an example, would be that I could claim that XP SP1 and XP SP2 are "officially unsupported" as they are not listed for download in your list above.) 220.240.58.190 12:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

PLEASE PROVIDE IT if you can otherwise should revert this sentence. 220.240.58.190 12:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I dont want to waste time on this so get over it so we can both move on with our lives or we can escallate it. Make your choice. This is one minor - but very well defined point - now that I will win as I am positive that there is no "official press release" only the official statement in the link that 64-bit is not supported whilst the character and flavour (of your own referenec BTW) clearly suggests otherwise for Vista 32-bit so unless you can find something from Apple say that they "officially do not support Vists (32-bit!) then you are out of luck as they say my friend. 220.240.58.190 12:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

So allow me to revert and get on with your life unless you are the young juvenille geek (who probably works for Apple) that I hope you are not and so can follow a rational and precise argument impartially. Regards (and touche!) 220.240.58.190 12:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I am moving and copying all of this to the iTunes Talkback... 220.240.58.190 12:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Help Please

There is a vandal on here who is trying to get me blocked, I don't know why, he is User:Glfootball92.

Southluver 12:57, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

stop change image. and that image is japnese ethnic. no problem. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pgdn963 (talk • contribs) 13:00, April 16, 2007 (UTC)

Comment?

Could you please make a comment to this discussion? I tried to explain some of the limits of the protection tag and of protection policy to User:INic, and he's not responding well. 12.72.69.180 08:53, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Alistair thinks i'm a vandal, just because i put My Chemical Romance in on the Emo page. Even though they are emo, I am trying to be polite, but he's abusing his admin rights, because Wiki should be free for anyone to edit. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jay316 (talk • contribs) 08:55, April 20, 2007 (UTC)

Apple TV edits

Thanks again for the edits -- good stuff.

Aswick 06:57, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Continued Vandalism

Ok, Alistair like I said a million times before MCR are EMO, they have always been emo and WILL always be emo, get used to it, and Download does have many Emo bands playing, to my knowledge the only grunge band that ever played Download was Alice in Chains, so does that mean that Download is a grunge fest also? if so then Emo should also be added. I am not trying to be a vandal by any means, and I am not adding my personal opinion. I just don't see why you have to be so difficult when I am only trying to inform. Fact is your abusing your power as an admin, so it is you who are the vandal. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jay316 (talk • contribs) 14:34, 24 April 2007 (UTC).

Can we not just come to some agreement? I don't mean any offense by my editing, I am not indenting to "vandalise" Wikipedia, Can we come to some kind of compromise? Jay316 14:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Your being the vandal, and a bully, you should be banned from Wikipedia. I'm just trying to edit wikipedia correctly in stating that Download festival does have Emo bands playing, you seem unable to acknowledge the existence of emo bands or the concept of an emo band. Why is this? because if you knew what emo was, you'd be the one editing wikipedia saying MCR are emo and Download has emo bands. It also amuses me that you failed to dignify my comment about Alice in Chains being grunge therefore Download has grunge bands. You do amuse me lol Jay316 16:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

And yet, you still fail to respond, maybe you found something better to do lol Jay316 12:14, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

LaTeX citations

Can you respond to Talk:LaTeX#article_tagged_as_lacking_sources_and_references_---_why.3F? Many thanks. --Karnesky 23:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Alistair, if you can point out to me what references you consider being worth adding?

I could probably provide them over time (as well as fixing some of the errors I spotted). But sometimes, references are difficult to get by, eg, I know quite a bit about the pronouncation of LaTeX and TeX, being personally aquainted with both Don Knuth and Leslie Lamport (and playing in this field for 20 years), but what does it help if I know what Don and I discussed on the topic? He is now aware that loch and ich are not giving the same sound, and he actually uses "k" now, because he told me that in America people couldn't get used to the greek sound he had in mind.

84.169.153.123 08:18, 27 April 2007 (UTC)frank mittelbach

Dave Zarzycki

I'm not sure what you mean by pointing out that votes were placed before the version you created. Could you elaborate? Natalie 12:49, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I see how the vanity is taken care of, but I still think this should have gone to DRV. The G4 criterion applies to reposts in which " any revisions made clearly do not address the reasons for which the page was deleted." I can see how your version might address the notability concerns, but it does not seem clear cut enough to me. I also think that the fact that someone still voted to delete after you made revisions suggests that they still didn't think the person was notable. That the original VfD was a year and a half ago and the article you reposted is still a stub is also not a good sign. Natalie 13:33, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

That didn't occur to me, but that would have been fine also. I would suggest, though, that the AfD and DRV process are pretty similar, so perhaps nothing has been lost. If you'd still prefer AfD for whatever reason, I'd be perfectly willing to restore the article provided the AfD is started pretty soon after restoration. Natalie 15:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Doomsday

Thanks for finding the more valid citation! I don't see that kind of persistence often in ensuring that the information is backed up. I was wondering, though, where did the "cast of 200" information come from? It's not in the article. Are there any other articles available? Sometimes articles reporting on the same subject will tend to have special information compared to the rest. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 16:18, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I have Google Alerts set up to grab headlines for films like Doomsday, so hopefully something attributable will land in our laps. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 16:50, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

XP v. X

Inic wasn't referring to you. He lives in his own world, and in his world all the leet people know that “AA” stands for “anonymous author”. And he wants you to stick around because, in his world, you will see that Wikipedia policy is to use semi-protection, which will keep AAs from deleting all of the encyclopedic content that has been removed from that article. :-/

I think that you should stick around because it has become clear to me that the article should be deleted, and you've been saying that longer than anyone else. Cheers! 12.72.68.21 05:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

minor edit = vandalism?

i altered the words "to poo" to become "to defecate" in the goose bumps article and that's vandalism? i realize the fact was not referenced, and i admit that i did not attempt to check up on it, but that's not vandalism, i was trying to change slang to encyclopedia vocab. i'm not an experienced editor or anything but i think you should consider not labelling potential mistakes in editing as "vandalism," which according to wiktionary is defined as "Any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia."

Dynamaniac 20:46, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Mac OS X and UNIX

I suggest you see Apple's UNIX page before reverting UNIX to Unix. If Apple say their system is "Based on UNIX", maybe you'd have the courtesy to reflect that in the Mac OS X article.

I'm also not convinced about 'Unix-based' being correct. You'll see what I mean when you visit the link.

Applemeister 18:56, 12 May 2007 (UTC)Applemeister

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

I see that you removed several text sections from this article, claiming WP:TRIVIA. Would you please carefully read what WP:TRIVIA says. It says to integrate the trivia text into the main article, and then when the trivia section is empty, delete the section. In this article, you deleted the text and the sections without integrating it. Much of what you deleted could be considered noteworthy. Would you please reconsider your edits. Truthanado 04:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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IT'S TIME!

To walk away from the computer and talk to girls. I mean that in a nice way. You need to find a balance. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.91.124.186 (talk • contribs) 06:15, May 15, 2007 (UTC)

3RR

Just to warn you are dangerously close to breaking the 3RR rule on Apple Inc. Though I don't consider it breaking a rule until you brake a rule... Since you, an admin, were kind enough to notify me on SSW, I thought I should notify you here. But as an admin, I'd hope you know. Thanks!--Zeeboid 19:53, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Civil

Please do be Civil. I am heavly offended by your post here[2] and the use of a curse word.--Zeeboid 19:53, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

iPod shuffle

I saw that you removed the fair use image of the blue iPod shuffle, stating that "we don't need a fair use one, since we already have a free one". That might all be fine, but I added this image upon request for an image of a COLORED 2G iPod shuffle. The request can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_images#Computers. As far as I can tell, we don't have a free image of a colored iPod shuffle, so the fair use image that I added seems to be okay.

MYSPACE

We need to determine how we're going to handle Technorati's obvious inability to properly rank MySpace blogs. Not a single myspace blog is ranked in their top 100, although previously they did rank a few and then removed them. But even those were not ranked fairly.

I assume Technorati doesn't want to properly rank them since their top 100 blogs would be filled with myspace blogs that many outside of MySpace community discriminate against on the grounds that they do not rise to the quality level of other blogs.

The top MySpace blogs have more readers and more comments than the top Technorati blogs. As a result Technorati is not a legitimate ranking of blogs, but rather, the blogs that are part of their "in crowd".

A fair ranking of the MySpace blogs would be readers and/or subscribers which are easily to tabulate. Rather than Technorati's "links". In fact, a MySpace subscriber is linked to the blog author, but Technorati doesn't tabulate that properly. Every time a blog author writes a new blog on MySpace the subscribers are notified.

And MySpace does calculate the number of people who actually read a blog, which is more accurate than Technorati's ridiculous link system which is easily scammed. Since MySpace is the most popular blog site in the United States we need to highlight that Technorati is NOT properly ranking their blogs.

A top blog on MySpace can easily have 500-700 comments per blog. The top Technorati blogs have a handful of comments. Obviously there is a correlation between comments and actual readers. I am left wondering if the blogs on Technorati that are consistently ranked ahead of MySpace blogs with larger readerships compensate Technorati in some way? Why improperly rank those blogs if there is not some incentive to do it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.227.203.49 (talk • contribs) 15:58, May 25, 2007

See Talk:Technorati. AlistairMcMillan 18:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Your Adversarial Research on Opposing Editors

AlistairMcMillan, I've been a bit busy but meaning but to leave this for a while. I'm unhappy with the fact that you did research on me personally to try to undercut my position on the Wikipedia article for Sputnik web-browser and I think you shouldn't do it to anyone else in the future. I gather from the casualness of your response and other articles you referred to that you've done this to other editors in the past. I think you should stop. It is contrary to Wikipedia: Assume Good Faith and also I think if many editors did it would represent a shift towards a hostile Usenet-type environment. Now, I am generally happy with the edits I've made and never asked for nor wanted complete anonymity. Neither did I expect nor want to find things from my life unrelated to Wikipedia being Googled up and posted to further the position of another editor who is at odds with me over some article. Your tone "the temptation to be sarcastic is almost too much to bear" for one example is revealing of your attitude when you were doing this. Of course, your insinuations about me turned out to be without merit, the rather obvious appropriateness of the Sputnik browser entry was seen by other editors without difficulty, and it went on to be established over your objections. So your tactic didn't work, but still I don't think you should be doing it. I guess there is no law against people web-searching to find out about their fellow Wikipedia editors, their teachers, their next-door neighbors, co-workers, or anyone else until perhaps they do something unlawful based on that information. However in some cases it certainly can be creepy and inappropriate. DanielM 10:40, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Typing someone's name into Google to see whether they are the developer of the software that they have just created an article about, to see whether the article in question is yet another advertising/vanity software article, is evidently EVIL!!! I'm surprised I'm allowed to walk the streets unsupervised. AlistairMcMillan 11:11, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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Comparison of Windows XP and Mac OS X v10.4

I tried nominating Comparison of Windows XP and Mac OS X v10.4 for deletion, but something went astray. If no one else fixes it first, could you please do that for me? —TheGhostOfAdrianMineha 04:21, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, I think that I fixed things. If you could double-check on that, though, then I'd appreciate it. Thanks. —TheGhostOfAdrianMineha 04:29, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

There! Now you can sleep just a little bit easier! :-) —the Ghost of Adrian Mineha! _{hold seance} at 03:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Email

I edited my settings to accept email. Please make it quick, as I leave tomorrow morning and will not be back for a week. I went through and checked some of my earlier image uploads and realised I was licensing things as the creator when I shouldn't have. Those were some of the first images I've uploaded and didn't know how to do it to be honest. I've removed the license and added them to speedy delete due to them being unused anyhow. If it's regarding something else, please feel free to let me know on my talk page if for some reason the email settings are not correct. Wikipedia has my current email, just the setting to email was off. Cheers. Nja247 (talk • contribs) 22:05, 17 June 2007 (UTC)