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User talk:Furrykef/Archive 1
Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149 Hi from me too :) Re your additions at Homestar Runner, please try and keep a Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, otherwise, great edits :) Keep contributing Dysprosia 06:18, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC) Hi there Furrykef. I noticed your work on fingerpicking, and the guitar wikibook (good work by the way!), so was wondering if perhaps you can answer a question for me... I fingerpick, but seem to have taught myself an unorthodox style in which I use my pinky finger for the 1st string (thus my ring finger for 2nd, middle for 3rd, index for 4th and my thumb for 5th and 6th). I somehow got it into my head when I was learning that this would be more efficient, as with all fingers in use I might be able to one day do some more complex picking... Hmm. Have you heard of this style of picking before? Do you know why the pinky is not usually used? --Chopchopwhitey 02:06, 22 May 2004 (UTC) This is actually very close to the way I fingerpick (at least when I play "Money for Nothing", the song I play most often as it's the first I learned), though I'll pick differently for different songs based on what strings I use most often, whether or not I use the whammy bar, and whether or not I'll need to do any tapping. I think the pinky is often unused because it's easier to play properly if the hand is supported, which is what the pinky is doing. There are lots of other places the pinky can be placed if you need to use the first string but don't want to pluck it with the pinky...e.g., the pickguard, the side of a pickup (the way I often do it on a Les Paul for some reason; wish I actually owned one), or gripping the side of the whammy bar (my favorite "alternate place" for it since it can open up a world of techniques). --Furrykef 04:20, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
Nice work, Jim...I think now my user page needs a section called "Articles I created but am no longer the primary contributor to" ;) --Furrykef 08:45, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
Good work on CivilizationI may add something on Civ I, II, CTP one day; and Railroad Tycoon (original version). Robin Patterson 20:14, 30 May 2004 (UTC) Whoah! that looks like a genuine bug! Have you reported it on m:MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion? Or better yet, source forge... --ssd 02:54, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
How to input a macronHey Furrykef. At Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_for_Japan-related_articles, we decided that {{o}} etc. should not be used to produce a macron. WhisperToMe 18:25, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Sorry, I've thought about it more properly and you're obviously correct... :-) Evercat 17:56, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
User:217.43.78.52You listed this user's userpage for speedy deletion, saying he had an account now. What's the account? Snowspinner 20:07, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC) Edits to poker pagesThanks for correcting the typo on Chris Moneymaker. Your edit to Amarillo Slim was confusing though, as you changed the link from 2004 to As of 2004, which is a redirect to 2004. CryptoDerk 22:29, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
Phil HellmuthConvention is to use the most common name for a person. Phil Hellmuth is the most common name, and we have no articles that would otherwise get in the way of the article being named according to convention. CryptoDerk 07:27, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC) Speedy deletionI disagree with this point of view because admins and RC Patrol need to know the full history of a particular IP address should any vandalism continue. Deleting anon user talk pages should be the exception rather than the rule. This I have brought up for discussion at Wikipedia talk:Candidates for speedy deletion but I have yet to receive a definitive answer. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 08:04, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC) Hello, just thought I would let you know: yes, the Planck quote on Structure of Scientific Revolutions page had a typo in it, I double checked and your correction is correct. --Fastfission 13:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
As I saw that you edited Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal I would like to invite you to help with conflicts in the article about the "North American Man/Boy love organization" as well. Get-back-world-respect 20:26, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Article LicensingHi, 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:
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:
OR
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) Calm downhey: Regarding your most recent edit-comment on Super Mario World, there's no reason to get angry over vandalism, as long as the wiki policy stands, it will happen. If you get angry, they will only find it amusing and keep up that practice, tho it doesn't mean if we leave it it will stop. However, i do find that the wiki policy in anyone can edit to be both a strength and a weakness, as vandalism will surely stain the credibility of any page. In the meanwhile, we'll just have to revert those vandalisms. LG-犬夜叉 09:32, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
As ofI was reverting the misinformation that Deeceevoice had inserted into the article. Your nit-picking minor change got caught in the crossfire. Too bad; no need to go postal over it. -- CYD
Melanin & superconducitivityHey. It was an inadvertent slip, which I've corrected. In describing Melanin Theory in black supremacy, I inadvertently used "superconductor" in place of "semiconductor." See the article's discussion page. deeceevoice 13:01, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC) Creatures WikiHi there! I ran across your Creatures 3 guide - we've set up a Creatures Wiki that's going well - it's currently the Featured Wiki over at Wikicities - and I was wondering if you'd like to contribute anything to it. We don't have much in the way of "user guides" right now, so I think your input would be valuable, if you have the time to spare. :-) GreenReaper 23:24, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC) Hmm, that's a bit sneaky, first editing metaprogramming to change the context of the link and then submitting the linked page to vfd :-P Especially since I'm sort of on forced wikivacation due to the extreme slowness of the wiki. Hmm, perhaps it just looks that way. Either way it's fine by me, just, well, sneaky perhaps. :-P Anyway, I've now replied to your comments on talk:Compiler metaprogramming example, though perhaps running this discussion per email or irc and then reporting back on the wiki might be more productive, since it's still extremely slow for me. I hope to hear from you soon! Kim Bruning 21:02, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC) Game wikiWouldn't you know, I just got done entering about 50 NES games into Wikipedia, and now I find out about the game wiki. Hmm, is there any way the two wikis can benefit each other? i.e., how to avoid accidental duplication of work? Rad Racer 04:11, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
SNES ShadowrunHi. I appreciate your help in the article I was working on. First off, I didn't know how to do the bulleting thing you did. I was using the BR tage. The asterisks are much nicer. ALso, I wanted to put the spoiler warning but I didn't know how to do that, although I had seen it done before. Thanks. Perhaps the article is a bit... extensive, but I wanted to create it like this since it was one of my favorite games and I have found very few sites out there that contain a good amount of information on the game. That game sure was ahead of its time, and I hope that other Shadowrun (SNES) enthusiasts can get something out of this. Perhaps I will write a walkthrough at the end. Once again, I appreciate your help with it. I wouldn't have been able to figure out the formatting, etc on my own! Ernie. PS: Is the game Wiki new? Can my SNES Shadowrun article be copied and/or transferred over there? AdminshipIf I were to nominate you for adminship, would you accept? I've taken an in-depth look at your contributions and think you're an ideal candidate. CryptoDerk 21:29, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
Congratulations!Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 01:45, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC) FurryRPGFurryRPG? This intrigues me. Tell me s'more about this project of yours? Almafeta 23:41, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
ThanksThanks very much for writing to me. I guess I'm getting a little too trigger happy with speedy deletes. I'm new at it and am trying to get those vanity pages and other nonsense off! CoolGuy 06:40, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) 4004 layout nitpickingJust thought I'd write to explain my rationale for leaving the layout of the Intel 4004 article roughly the way it was (hence my recent rv), and to ask if it didn't look that good anyway(?):
Your superscripting of the note-indicating asterisks may be (more) correct and better-looking than the way they were; I think I just used 'ordinary' '*'-s because they looked a little superscripted anyway, w/o any explicit 'nudging'. But I must admit I didn't check any other font than the one I get when I fire up my browser and use the default wkp skin. Please comment. --Wernher 04:32, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC) (please just reply here on this page -- it's almost always better to keep a conversational thread in one place, don't you agree? --w)
Nothing important, just wanted to thank you for correcting the mistake I made on the Thwomp page on here. I was the one who added the comment about "Thwimps", but forgot what game they were in. Non-sexist languageYou may wish to vote at Talk:Non-sexist_language#Actual_vote since you commented on the proposed page move. Jonathunder 04:55, 2005 May 3 (UTC)
Roaring TwentiesIt is being considered for the Collaboration of the week. It has a long way to go and plenty of time but I noticed that you commented it should have it's own article in October. Falphin 00:17, 10 May 2005 (UTC) Reply about stub changeWell, I was trying to reduce the list of uncategorized stubs last night and I found the closest stub category for some of them. Also, When I logged on after I woke up the day I wrote this reply; the C list on the category of uncategorized stubs was drastically shorter than last night. --SuperDude 14:42, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
COTW ProjectYou voted for Roaring Twenties, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. Falphin 03:24, 31 May 2005 (UTC) I swear, it's the Judean Popular People's Front:
...but I'll watch it again tonight to be sure! ;-) -- BD2412 talk 21:44, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)
FurryKef to furrykef in AIMI read about your trouble with the unwanted capitalization of your AIM username. I had the same problem, mine being Jigschwaza before. However, using Gaim under Tools>>Accounts you can modify your screenname to proper lowercase glory. Though I still much prefer using Gaim to AIM myself, others using AIM now see me as jigschwaza. So, voilà! Problem solved.
Now that you have removed the <BREAK> there is I- * PS It was there for aesthetic reasons, to make it pleasing in appearance.
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I am at 1024 x 768. Is there a way to "keep" the I-40 always together no matter what resolution the viewer has? WikiDon 22:03, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Online gamblingHey there. What would you say to a general page on online gambling? We currently just redirect to online casino but we could have a general page where (e.g.) legal issues could be discusses without repeating everything on multiple pages... see Talk:Online gambling for what it might look like... Evercat 18:14, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
Please leave my edits alone unless you have corrections or additonal material to add. I'll put each sentence on its own line if I like. Thank you. Quale 16:42, 29 July 2005 (UTC) I've been away from Wikipedia for about a month, but if it's not too late you can consider my apology. Sorry about my brittle and intemperate reply. I worded it very poorly and it didn't accurately reflect my intent. I did not mean to suggest that I own any part of WP, but rather that I think it somewhat impolite to make updates for no other reason than to reformat the source. Of course you did make some content edits which I had simply overlooked, but you hadn't mentioned the substantive edits in the edit summary -- you used the summary only to scold about a source formatting style that you don't like. Use of linebreaks in article source is controversial, but some editors including myself find it useful at times. There's a discussion of some of the points in Don't use line breaks. If you don't like line breaks in article source, you'll hate the contributions I made to Ruy Lopez, chess opening, and a few other articles. I never reformat existing source just because I prefer a different format as presumably the original author found the format she used to be convenient, but when I add a substantial amount of new material I sometimes put each sentence on a separate line in the new paragraphs that I add. Quale 04:06, 31 August 2005 (UTC) Hi, Thanks for your comment, Yes, you're right. --Sina 12:49, 14 August 2005 (UTC) Invitation to Visual Basic Classic WikibookI see you have tweaked the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 07:31, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
A tip of the hatfor correcting the Andrew/Stonewall Jackson error in the Charles Keck article. The mistake was mine and when I tried to figure out how it had happened [I really DO know the difference] I realized that Keck had done equestrian statues of both men and I was planning on posting images of both and the mistake that you discovered was the result. Now if I can only find my picture of Andrew . . . .... Carptrash 14:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC) UsernameHey furreykef, it's ⇔Thunderbird⇔, from ye olde HRWiki. I haven't seen you around for a while, which is understandable, moving out of the quiet town to the Big Wiki and all, and being a sysop here no less. But I digress. My reason for contact is a simple one. We recently upgraded to Mediawiki 1.5, as I belive Wikipedia also recently did. As you are no doubt aware, it seems that 1.5 cannot handle usernames without capitalization (furreykef --> Furreykef). We've pretty much got most main users switched over, but one user that is standing out is a certain sysop. Since you're still on the roster, would you mind stepping over for a minute and participating in a short switch over system, to become Furreykef with a capitalization? It's just easier to get it over with now, so it's ready for if you ever edit the ol' Wiki again. Thanks in advance, all you gotta do is go here and let Tom know if you want it done. Then you can also switch over your userpage content after if you want. Thanks again, ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 17:49, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Got fur?Just wondering you wanted to add a [[Category:Furry Wikipedians|Furrykef]] to your user page? :) Bushytails 18:55, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
GIMPshopHi, is there a reason you didn't merge the history of the original GIMPshop article with the one you moved into its place? The current one seems to have been copied from the original, now at Special:Undelete/GIMPshop. Angela. 04:00, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Sexual slangI believe that The Literate Engineer would like to enlist your support for implementing Freakofnurture's suggestion from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sexual slang/2005-10-18. Uncle G 10:26, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
The WikiProject C++ aims to increase the quality of C++-related articles on Wikipedia, and has discovered that you have participated in the editing of them! So don't hesitate, join us! --Deryck C. 15:53, 11 March 2006 (UTC) It would appear that a user here has launched a campaign to rid HRWiki of STUFF as he insists that it breaks Wikipedia rules :User_talk:Phil_Bond#Homestar_Runner_Wikipedia. Since you say you're the one to shoot for it's creation, I thought I'd at least let you know about it. —User:ACupOfCoffee@ 10:03, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Star Fox 2Stop changing the "surnames" of Fay & Miyu to your fanon opinions. Their old BETA names are as close as we're going to get to surnames, your "Spaniel" & "Lynx" submissions have no basis within the Game whatsoever.
FYIJust letting you know that I have copied some of your articles to my own wiki. Also does the Public Domain notice cover Game info as well? Thanks, Gerard Foley 00:36, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi there!* hugs * Apart from Wikipedia, it's e-mail only for me for the next few weeks. You have my address? If not, the link on my page should work. Tevildo 17:02, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Edit Summaries //Ae:æ 14:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
security through obscurity...Recently, you placed a fact tag on a statement in the Security through Obscurity article (the statement referred to the fact that CS profs. often don't feel the need to prove that security through obscurity is ineffective). There isn't a good review article or such that talks about this... could you, instead, propose different wording. This is part of a larger problem with sourcing that article as there has been little formal attention to the subject. -- Joebeone (Talk) 20:38, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
"Licensee" accent marksI just thought I'd tell you... I don't know how it's spelled in French, but in English, the word "licensee" is almost never written with an accent mark (even by people who normally write accent marks). For example, www.m-w.com doesn't even list a spelling with an accent mark, even though this dictionary does often list uncommon variants (like "rôle" for "role"). So I removed the accent marks in GNU Free Documentation License. I hope you don't mind. - furrykef (Talk at me) 12:56, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
James BondsYou may know this already, but one of your recent edits inspires me to pass it on. In the late 1980s, the term "James" became popular among bond traders as shorthand for the 20 year T bonds issued in 1987. Oh, those wacky bond traders. --Christofurio 14:11, 8 September 2006 (UTC) TonyaYou should go to the official website and see. What does IMBD stand for?
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