User talk:DansimanWelcome! Hello, Dansiman, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, please be sure to sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date, or three tildes (~~~) for just your name. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Dwaipayanc 11:38, 17 February 2006 (UTC) Pre-PaidI have removed the advert tag. To be honest, the page actually looks quite good now, reading a lot less like a sales pitch than before. Good job on the contributions. While we're on the topic, however, I must say that all of your contributions are about Pre-Paid in one form or another. I am not questioning whether your aim is to promote the company or what your ties are to it, but others might in the future. Perhaps you could edit some other similar articles, lending your knowledge of business and legal services to expanding articles such as class action or something along those lines. Isopropyl 04:46, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
All the information I put on the Prepaid Legal Site recently was from there 2007 Annual report filed with the SEC. These are required public information filed with a US Governmental agency. This is not at all copyrighted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mynameisstanley (talk • contribs) 23:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Marijuana WikiHi there, I see that you are a pro-Cannabis Wikipedian so I hope this will be of some interest to you. I've started a Marijuana wiki (aka The Sticky Wiki) which I think you might be interested in. I'm hoping you can help me get started with this project. Whereas lots of articles about weed get speedy-deleted on Wikipedia, they would be totally cool over at MarijuanaWiki. But really I want the site to be more of a marijuana community than merely an encyclopedia. To give you an example, I want to have city guides about where to score, find pot-friendly cafes, marijuana events, and what represents a good price in that city. Etc. (You can check out the featured article: "Toronto" to see what I mean). I also want to have grow diaries and marijuana blogs. All in all, basically more communal than encyclopedic. I am in need of admins/moderators, and people experienced with MediaWiki to help build policy, categories, and templates, etc. If you'd be interested in helping me with this project, the URL is MarijuanaWiki Thanks for your time and consideration. Hope to see you there! -- nsandwich 23:51, 7 May 2006 (UTC) UserboxesHi, and welcome to Wikipedia! I was looking at your userpage, and while it's awesome you have so many interests, I was wondering if you had considered trimming it down a bit. I don't presume to tell you what to do with your userpage, but I found that it was easier for my particular talents to be identified by others when I reduced my userboxes to a managable amount. Also, the organization of your boxes is a bit unorganized, and if you'd like help with placing them in a managable table, I'd be happy to help. --speak togadren 02:29, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
I hope that the format I've started is easy to understand. It's just too much work for me right now to track down all the old userbox syntax when there's so many boxes, but I hope that this can help you get started in customizing your userpage. IF you have questions, let me know. --hello,gadren 01:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC) Pre Paid LegalI just read your PrePaid Legal entry on Wikipedia - I will take a wild stab at guessing that you are affiliated with them or at list where when you wrote the article I will take another wild guess and say that 1 - 1.5 years from now you probably won't be affiliated with them anymore. Would you then to keep your consience clear come back to your wicki article and reread it. THEN you will understand what people mean when they say your article reads like an advertisement. But for the future - when your entire article consists solely of information found in company's promotional materials - it is a biased article that reads like an advertisement. You can never be objective when all your information comes from one source. Check this site out you will not what I mean: http://www.mediamoogle.com/ (check the left section) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.191.144.12 (talk • contribs) 12:23, 13 June, 2006 (UTC)
BLP templatesThere are BLP warning templates. See BLP policy talk page for examples. Personally, I prefer personal messages over templates especially for users with a productive edit history. IMO, it is better to educate with a message than warn. Take care, --FloNight 02:27, 31 August 2006 (UTC) Hello, Dansiman. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Three Triangles.svg) was found at the following location: User:Dansiman. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 10:00, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
The Sword of TruthThanx loads. I don’t get to spend as much time as I would like to learn all the intricacies needed here. My sincere apologies if I didn't get it right. It was not something that I considered major, but I see your point and in retrospect agree. I'm working on adding some factual sourced material for that section rather than someone's personal blog of misinformation and POV. Placing factual information and of reputable source is key I think. Again thanx! Mystar (talk) 04:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC) Heroes links to dabMost things shouldn't link to Heroes (disambiguation), and those that should shouldn't pipe link it -- they should link explicitly to the (disambiguation) redirect. Rather than something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=They_Killed_Him&diff=prev&oldid=184124277 consider adding a peer reviewI was wondering if you could take some time out of your schedule to head over to the Heroes (TV series) talkpage and give us an honest peer review. The page has gone through some major changes in the last few months, and it would be fantastic if a prominent editor/contributor like yourself, could head over and give us at the Heroes Wikiproject some sound opinion and ideas on improvements for the page. We have all worked very hard at improving the page, and we need great outside, reliable and trustworthy users to come over and help us improve. I you are interested in joining the peer review discussion with other prominent users/contributors, much like yourself, please follow the link. Thank you very much for your help and your continued effort to improve Wikipedia and its quality! Wikipedia:Peer review/Heroes (TV series)/archive2--Chrisisinchrist (talk) 06:13, 27 January 2008 (UTC) Heroes picI would appreciate your input and help in fixing the licensing, if I could impose. - Arcayne (cast a spell) 01:05, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
→ SpinoffsIt's entirely appropriate, since Electronic Arts has called them many times spinoffs. I'd say that's definitive, wouldn't you? (Especially since the media is calling them spinoffs, too.) Check the Spore talk page. JAF1970 (talk) 20:30, 28 February 2008 (UTC) Spinoffs, Part II"they don't (to my knowledge) expand upon those aspects with new elements." They don't? Didn't read either article, did you?
Sounds an awful lot like expansion to the Creature phase, huh? As for Spore (mobile):
They're spinoffs. By my, your, EA's AND Wikipedia's definition. Please, move on. JAF1970 (talk) 21:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
ConsensusPlease see this, on Spore and consensus. I am not singling you out, JAF1970 already knows about my comments there. --Yamla (talk) 22:09, 28 February 2008 (UTC) SporeI just wanted to commend you for arguing your point in a civil manner in regard to the whole spin-off argument. I fully agree with you in that the alternative versions of Spore are not spin-offs by any means (regardless of how everybody else seems to define them), but rather, reinterpretations of a core premise (i.e. creature creation). If Spore DS/Mobile are by definition spin-offs, then what do we make of the dozens upon dozens of games that have been completely overhauled for other platforms? (as each platform has their own share of strengths and weaknesses due to hardware constraints) An example of a spin-off would be a game such as MySims (a Japanese reinterpretation of The Sims), or the WarioWare series (mini-game compilations based on the WarioLand games, which itself is a spin-off of the Super Mario series). Spore doesn't fall into that category as all 4 versions of the game share certain basic elements. In short, I'm in favour of calling them "versions". Take The Sims 2 for example, each and every version was "radically different" to one another, yet JAF refuses to call these versions spin-offs contrary to his views on Spore... PC = A life simulation game PS2/Xbox/GC = An adventure game focusing more on the social aspect of the PC version DS Version = A hotel simulation/RPG/adventure game GBA Version = An adventure/RPG game in which the player assumes the role of a reality TV star PSP Version = An adventure game in which the player is to discover as many of Strangetown's "secrets" as possible Mobile Version = Similar to the PC game, but with very little depth in comparison due to hardware restrictions Besides, what exactly is Spore being spun off of? Spore? The whole argument is asinine. The DS/Mobile versions are just that: different versions or reinterpretations of a key concept. Oh dear, hope I haven't bored you with my ramblings. :P Good day. :) Sillygostly (talk) 00:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC) BlockedYou have been blocked for 24 hours for this personal attack. --Yamla (talk) 16:57, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments I was about to add to Talk:Spore (video game) before I was blockedCopied from the talk page:
JAF1970 (talk) 16:50, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Please, stop insisting you're right and everyone else is wrong. Dansiman (talk|Contribs) 18:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC) Edits with IP address removedI removed the edits with your IP address from the page history. Is that fine? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 18:43, 29 February 2008 (UTC) This one is still there. Dansiman (talk|Contribs) 19:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC) PostedI have to sleep, but I posted 2 quotes from EA. EA VP Beuchner specifically states whatever it is, it isn't a port, so Sillygostly will have to deal with THAT. I don't understand your hesitation to call them spinoffs. Oh, and he explicitly calls the DS version a spinoff. The other calls the mobile version a spinoff. JAF1970 (talk) 10:35, 3 March 2008 (UTC) Polite requestIt's time to stop arguing the evidence I have submitted, especially when you have yet to support your beliefs with any of your own. Claiming my evidence from informed sources (including the creator of the game) is wrong is basically unscientific and attempting to prove a negative. Either you adhere to debate rules, apply for moderation or cease and desist. JAF1970 (talk) 16:17, 15 March 2008 (UTC) Makes senseMakes sense, I'd be really stressing to keep counting votes evertime somebody doesn't happen to like an article. However, perhaps wikipedia should encourage a to come up with with observations about guidelines rather than just plain "keeps" and "deletes". I mean when those words summarise a guideline perception, I think it is actually very useful. But what's the wort of adding "keep- as per somebody". From my perspective, it's lack of contribution to the discussion makes the whole process look like vote counting. And I think newcommers don't know it is not supposed to be a vote. Of course I'm just commenting my thoughts, not that I'm still mad at the situation as I was when I wrothe the comment that came to your attention. Than'tk for your time.--20-dude (talk) 21:22, 12 March 2008 (UTC) Misiurewicz pointI have attempted to answer your question at Talk:Misiurewicz point. Gandalf61 (talk) 16:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC) Morbid curiosityI thought you might want to see this as it explains an awful lot about a certain someone's psyche. Sillygostly (talk) 10:09, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
RfDBasketball110 Go Longhorns! has given you a WikiCake! WikiCakes promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cake, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Bon appetit! Spread the tastiness of pies by adding {{subst:GiveCake}} to their talk page with a friendly message. It's my own recipe. Basketball110 Go Longhorns! 23:17, 26 March 2008 (UTC) Secret pages MfDI moved your question to the bottom (break 7) and answered it. Just letting you know. Equazcion •✗/C • 01:51, 2 Apr 2008 (UTC) Mediation CabalWhere is it? JAF1970 (talk) 01:28, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
MedCab closed.Just a courtesy message to let you know the MedCab case regarding Spore is closed. The summary is here. Please post a message to me if you feel necessary. Regards, Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 01:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC) Seeing as we had consensus otherwise, I posted our proposed changes to the actual spore (video game) article. I know we may have wanted to change a few details. I'm definitely open to that. But in the interest of building a new consensus, I'd appreciate it if we tried to cement the genre information as a part of this article before we start deleting/changing it in major ways. Thanks again for all your help, and it's too bad the mediation took so long. Randomran (talk) 03:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC) Re: Talk Page GuidelinesAh cool, just got confused when reading the talk page, anyways, thanks. John.n-IRL 17:20, 8 May 2008 (UTC) Maxis keeps changing the name of that one phaseNow it's the Cell phase. JAF1970 (talk) 06:34, 21 May 2008 (UTC) Micromanagement (gameplay) - Starcraft imageHi, please don't take this personally, but I've undone your recent edit to Micromanagement (gameplay). In the the Starcraft image, a Templar's Psionic Storm spell (the "lightning") will damage and probably destroy any Probes (the small "worker" units, some of which are carrying things) that continue to try to harvest resources (especially the blue crystalline Minerals) in the area covered by the Storm - in fact most will be unable to get out of danger before being destroyed. It's an example of the "Doom Drop" tactic developed by "Zileas" to disrupt an enemy economy. Philcha (talk) 20:43, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
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