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User talk:Vfp15/Archive001Hello Vfp15, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to join the community. Drop us a note at Wikipedia:New user log so we can meet you and help you get started. If you need editing help, visit Wikipedia:How to edit a page. For format questions, 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 Newcomers' Village pump. And of course, feel free to talk with me or ask questions on my talk page. Enjoy! --Alex S 05:15, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC) Category:PsychiatristsHey there, > your note on fictional psychiatrists being removed from Category:Psychiatrists Sounds reasonable to me, thanks for doing the editing. - Vaughan 08:16, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC) NapoleonI've reinstated my piece about delusions of grandeur and Bill & Ted's at Napoleon I of France. You gave no reason for removing the text, but you imply that it is POV. It isn't, since it is perfectly true to say that a great number of comedy sketches have revolved around a character who is supposedly mad and this is illustrated by the fact that they think they are Napoleon. The Bill & Ted bit is harmless and perfectly true. Perhaps you can explain why these facts are not relevant to a section of the article about his portrayal in popular culture (a heading, by the way, I did not insert into the article, but which directly led to me recalling those tidbits). --bodnotbod 17:21, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
ApostrophesDid you notice that I changed Copps' to Copps's in several places today, or it an amazing coincidence that you ask me about this today? The recommendation to add only an apostrophe to singular nouns that end with s seems to be dying out: I know of no major style guide that still uses it. I see this as a good thing for two reasons: (1) it makes the rule simpler and easier to follow. (2) It makes spelling match pronunciation better. Everybody says boss's "bossiz", so it's good that the spelling shows the second syllable. It is true that some people pronounce the possessive of names like Flanders the same as non-possessive form, but for the plural, there is no option: it has to be Flanderses. If you can add a syllable for the plural, why not add one for the possessive? Flanders's sounds OK to me.--Indefatigable 01:21, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Question re Axis of Evil discussionsReply I replied to you here [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404 (also, read this)]] 08:53, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC) Other questions How were you able to determine the "google hits"? Simply by counting the returns on a google search? [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404 (also, read this)]] 09:06, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC) The "read this" is part of my tag - I always post it and have been for several days - I am trying to drum up support to make Neutrality change his name. Your name is fine. [[User:Rex071404|Rex071404 (also, read this)]] 09:15, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Axis of Medieval / Axis of EvilFair warning: If you do not stop the incessant POV reverts towards anti-Christian bigotry, I am going to file an Rfc and if needed an Arb case against you.
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There were no conservatives in the middle ages, no? As for religious bigotry, I'm a tolerant guy, but you are bugging me man! What do you know if my religious views? What do you know of how I relate to God and Creation? If anyone is guilty is of religious bigotry, or prejudice, it's you for presuming to understand (and invalidate?) my religious views. President's Bush views on religion are clear and unambiguous, and they do influence his government policy. He would enthusiastically agree with that, yes? That's the AoM joke, that's accurate. AoM does NOT refer to GWB's conservatism. Kindly not accuse me of religious bigotry again. Vincent 07:32, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
CPRThanks for the comments on Onderdonk. I have been researching the construction of the CPR in British Columbia in the 1880s, and especially Onderdonk's construction from the west, for a number of years and so most of the article is based on my notes (see my website). The best resource I have found is a website by the Kamloops Art Gallery which is unfortunately offline. I emailed them a few weeks ago and they plan on putting the Onderdonk material back online, at which time I will add a link to it from the Onderdonk article.
Darwin vote / InfoboxPer this edit, I'd ask you to remove any names from the tally that have not specifically signed up for that vote. It can be seen as a bit deceptive. Thanks -- Netoholic @ 04:01, 2004 Sep 14 (UTC)
Hang in there... experiences in VfD...Thanks for your listing of Engrish on VfD, and your extreme good grace in the discussion that followed. Unfortunately VfD can be a bit of a lynch mob, as we have seen here. Perhaps a suitable apology will some day be forthcoming but I doubt it. Do you mind if I quote this discussion as a good example of how good Wikipedians can behave badly, as soon as the dust settles? The listing was perfectly valid IMO. But that is almost irrelevant to the main points I'd like to make. Feel free to reply by email if you like, andrewa @ alder . ws (without the blanks of course). Andrewa 20:08, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC) To avoid people voting before you get the chance to write up your case, next time, you may want to create the VFD sub-page before listing it on the VFD page. (Follow the red link on the vfd header when you add it to a page.) Pyrop 23:56, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
EngrishSorry you took offense. I expect to see a clear rationale for deletion at the top of a VfD discussion, and I believe it's proper process to have one. There's nothing I know of that says you can't insert material in its logical place in a VfD discussion, and certainly the person who lists something for deletion could do so. I did read the paragraphs of chitchat at the top, and I did read your vote, and I frankly wasn't sure I saw a statement of a rationale for deletion. I specifically suggested that you put such a rationale at the top and remove my remark, and was slightly surprised that you didn't take me up on it. It was perfectly proper for you to list the article for deletion. One lists things for deletion in order to bring it to the community's attention and see what the consensus is. The consensus in this case was to keep. I voted to keep, not because I think dialect jokes and the like are funny; I think the term is in fact mildly offensive. However, it is in widespread use and the article seemed reasonably correct. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 02:01, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC) No worries, Vincent. I certainly think it was legitimate of you to list the article, and feel strongly that you shouldn't have been pilloried for it. Never mind, you're obviously a good contributor, so I expect you won't let it get to you. Lacrimosus 11:16, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Your zone system editsI appreciate your thoughts on the zone system. After a day's rest and a reread, I think I'll entirely remove the notion of Adams acknowledging that other systems would work. I left it in deference to another contributor, but upon reflection don't feel it adds much. (I don't recall his system being hugely controversial, and it feels more like a nonissue to me.) Have a look at my rewrite--I think the section is cleaner without it. Too, I fleshed out the history. --NathanHawking 01:44, 2004 Sep 30 (UTC)
Zone system follow upHi Vincent: Thanks for the message on my talk page. I addressed your concerns in considerable detail on my page, beneath your remarks. Please have a look and feel free to respond on my page. In particular, see what you think of my reasoning on the "dynamic range" issue and my suggestion for addressing it. --NathanHawking 07:14, 2004 Sep 30 (UTC) KanteiAhh, okay. I just guess you didn't know there was an article on Kantei, and that info should go there; and I would have moved it, but I couldn't find anything on it, and didn't want to do it without more info or a website reference. No problem. :) It was just like, if the article on the President of the United States had contained info about the small plane crashing into the White House a few years back; no, that belongs in White House. :) And cool, you live in Japan, I wanna. =p --Golbez 16:46, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC) For some reason, you chose to make a minor change to my previous entry, and in doing so you made the sentence gramatically incorrect. Your use of the plural "roles" would be accurate only if it was followed by more than one example. Since I was describing just one, "a small but meatly role" is proper usage. Thanks . . . TOM 13:48, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC) Farmers' marketOn the Farmers' market page, you recently re-inserted two pictures, saying "Restored pics deleted by prev edit ...". I just wanted to point out that I didn't delete any pictures; they were simply moved to the Wiki-Commons. If you click the link to the commons at the lower-right of the page, all three pictures are present. I think the two pictures should be removed from the Wikipedia article because the article looks crowded as it is right now. The pictures go down much further than the text. I believe one picture fully illustrates the concept enough for a short article, and the other two pictures would be best on the Commons. (They're certainly valuable pictures and should not be gotten rid of, but they should go in the most appropriate place.) Take a look at Notre Dame and Potala for other examples of articles with more pictures than article. Many of those pictures were moved to the commons just to simplify the look of the article. Thanks! – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 13:47, Nov 25, 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 2000 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:
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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) Charles DarwinPlease do not violate the 3 revert rule. Go with the concensus on talk:Charles Darwin. I don't think it's appropriate - yet - to give you a 24hr ban for doing so, but it's a future possibility. Dunc|☺ 11:30, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC) Your edits at; violated the 3RR. In other instances you have reverted twice in 24hrs, but in total you have reverted this about a dozen times over the past week against consensus on the talk page. Please do not do it again (unless you achieve consensus on the talk page), or it will be considered vandalism. You and I both don't want to go there. see about staying cool when the editing gets hot. Dunc|☺ 15:05, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC) Hi, the point of RfC was to let others take a look at it and make up their own minds. Which I think is appropriate. I don't think I characterized the situation unfairly, but you're entitled to your opinion about that. I didn't notice the Lincoln comment the first time I went through the article, I would have found it inappropriate then as well. But that's just my opinion. I do find it a bit irritating, as I have said, that you continually defy any sort of consensus in your more-or-less one-man war to keep a coincidence in a prominent spot, which is why I left a RfC in the first place. It is a silly thing to waste people's time on (I have stopped spending any of mind on it, aside from leaving the RfC, which seemed well overdue by that point). You need not take it as a personal attack, my only gripe is with your stubbornness on this particular issue. --Fastfission 18:23, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC) Left on User_talk:Duncharris
Darwin & LincolnCharles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were both born February 12th, 1809 Why is this important to you? Adraeus 00:17, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Advocacy in MediationI've put myself into the mediation process as your advocate as we've agreed. Any question about the process or any information you've got, only send it to my talk page. --Neigel von Teighen 18:31, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC) Image tagThanks for uploading Image:LeninSquarePetropavlovsk.jpg and Image:D0807I14-HarbourTour.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Evil Monkey → Talk 00:36, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC) Hi! Agree with you about the CB article. Go for it. Caveat: this is ongoing news, so it's difficult to write a well-developed article. Perhaps limiting yourself to a chronology of events related to Hollinger. This would be factual and NPOV. The article could be organized like this, for instance. (short intro) 1. Early life 2. Press career 3. Published works 4. Marriage to Barbara Amiel and social life 5. Hollinger chronology You might want to examine different aspects of the man; he's fascinating. Got expelled from UCC (or LCC?) for selling essays to classmates. Black (an anglo!) wrote one of the best political bios of any French Canadian politician, "Duplessis". He (a right wing capitalist!) wrote perhaps the best single volume bio of FDR, in unabashed praise of the New Deal. He's also active on the social scenes attending lots of parties with the Rich and Famous. Infamously attended a costume party dressed as Cardinal Richelieu. People tend to avoid sitting next to him at dinner because he bores listeners with endless statistics on, say, the exact number of ships wrecked ashore when the Spanish Armada foundered in the 16th century. And then he names and descibes each ship. I'd consider doing it myself, but no time for the research.
Arbitration requestI do not think edit wars are fun; my edit summary was rather a bit of satire. Misplaced, I acknowledge, and I'd like to offer my sincere apologies if it offended you. If you wish the arbitration request against me to stand, for an official statement from the arbitration committe, that is fine with me since I admit having erred. As for participating in reverting, I did so because my stance was supported by the overwhelming majority. When there is consensus in favor of one version, that version should be used until people have been convinced otherwise (regardless of who turns out to be right in the end). For the record, I have never participated in reverting over an issue where I am in a minority to support a particular version. I hope we can cooperate without problems on other articles. Fredrik | talk 05:17, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC) Thanks. Fredrik | talk 05:32, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
ReplyFactual and verifiable is a test for inclusion of articles, not for inclusion of trivia. By your criteria, an article on Charles Darwin would include his hat size. An encyclopedia article is not a list of every possible fact on a subject: it is an ordered presentation of the important facts about a subject presented in such a way as to facilitate understanding. Clearly the inclusion of unimportant coincidences degrades the quality of articles; clearly the majority of people who have encountered this particular bit of trivia agree that its inclusion detracts from the article. My suggestion is that you listen more carefully to what they are saying, rather than insisting on getting your way. - Nunh-huh 04:23, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC) Copy on commonsHi, I copied on commons a pic from you (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VladivostokStation.jpg) just wanted to let you know it. Thanks Tipiac 22:41, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC) You have made your point on this article. There is no sense in doing 3 reverts a day, when your changes last in total for about an hour. Editing is not a test of stamina, talk about your compromise suggestion. --Mrfixter 13:01, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC) Three revert rulePlease keep in mind that the Wikipedia has a three revert rule. You have been blocked by an administrator for the violation of this rule. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:10, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC) I was not the one who blocked you, but this is according to the block log:
Also, the Charles Darwin article had been requested for protection at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. If you feel your block was unjust, please ask the two administrators who blocked you. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:00, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC) ArbitrationArbitration is being sought against you. See WP:RfAr. Adraeus 00:00, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC) Arbitration Committee case openingYou have been named as a disputant in the recently opened Charles Darwin/Lincoln dispute case brought before the Arbitration Committee. You may wish to add evidence to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Charles Darwin/Lincoln dispute/Evidence to support your case. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 03:34, 2005 Jan 25 (UTC) Arbitration Committee case closedThe arbitration case concerning you has now closed. The Arbitration Committee has decided that you are to be banned for one month for failing to work cooperatively with other editors over a long period of time. On your return, you are banned from editing the articles Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln and their talk pages. You are also prohibited from reverting any article for three months. Please see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Charles Darwin-Lincoln dispute for the full decision -- sannse (talk) On a separate note, I want to say that the decision to limit the article ban to these two specific articles does not mean that it is acceptable to insert this or similar facts elsewhere against such opposition from other editors - we just chose to keep this simple and rely on your understanding of how the committee viewed your editing practices -- sannse (talk) 14:46, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC) Userpage deletedVfp15 requested the deletion of his userpage via private e-mail. Since I saw no pressing need to keep it around, I complied with his request. If anyone wishes to confirm this, they should be able to contact him through e-mail. —Charles P. (Mirv) 07:56, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC) "List of notable U.S. presidential relatives"Vfp, Ron Reagan is an atheist and very much liberal. I have to admit I was pretty upset to see that you didn't so much as read the Wikipedia page on him before assuming that I had no evidence to back up that bit of information. Neither of these things are particularly scandalous, that's true, but they are notable since his father was one of the most conservative presidents in recent memory. Also according to his page on this site, he was a ballet dancer, and his father was apparently ashamed of that. I think if you examine the facts you'll see that my edit was valid and not politically motivated. I don't mind you questioning my edits, but I feel, since I used information from Ron's own Wikipedia page, that had little or no thought before undoing my change, which I don't so much appreciate. Regards, --BDD 04:37, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) |
