This is an archive of the first n (arbitrary n) months of comments I've received on my user talk page. As the comments were getting rather extensive, I chose to separate them into this archive and allow more recent comments to accrue on the talk page proper.
Curious
editI'm curious after seeing the changes you made to my user page - who are you? →Raul654 17:14, Jun 16, 2004 (UTC)
Mike Jones
editThanks for the expansion on this article (and work on other articles as well)! CryptoDerk 18:17, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
- No problem, glad to help. 216.158.31.195 18:48, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
VfD votes
editThanks for all of your participation at VfD. Just a reminder though, please register an account if you're going to vote on VfD's. Some admins here discount votes by people editing from IP addresses rather than accounts. --Idont Havaname 18:46, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- No problem. I'll get to it when I can. 216.158.31.195 18:48, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Actually, the guideline is that admins usually ignore votes made by both IP addresses and newly created accounts. Therefore, when you register a new account, please make some decent contributions during the next few days before voting on VFD again. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 19:01, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Done. Jasonglchu 13:41, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Actually, the guideline is that admins usually ignore votes made by both IP addresses and newly created accounts. Therefore, when you register a new account, please make some decent contributions during the next few days before voting on VFD again. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 19:01, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Why the bias?
editYou vtd everything you come across from the UK, what's your problem? 62.255.64.9
- Let me simply note that this comment comes from a known vandal who's been blocked multiple times (just take a look at his talk page. Moreover, I am uncertain as to which articles it is that he claims I "vtd" for. jasonglchu 13:28, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
votes
edithey, thanks for voting on my page just because you had nothing better to do. go tune up your ricer. 24.213.91.250
- This anonymous user created several non-encyclopaedic entries. This is in response to my having voted to delete his articles (as anonymous IP 216.158.31.195) on the VfD page. I do not know why he chose to single out my talk page as the receptacle for his trash. Jasonglchu
Hey Jason
editHow'd you find out that I had a Wikipedia account (User_talk:R6MaY89)? Anyway, how's life? Are you enjoying your summer? I didn't know that PelligriniM was an admin! I've seen him wear the Wikipedia shirt before, but I assumed that he was just an enthusiast. I'll see you around.--R6MaY89 17:41, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
A tip
editStay away from the VFD. It's evil. →Raul654 23:13, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
Hey, Jason (the redux)
editIt seems that old friends just keep on popping up everywhere. I love Wikipedia; it is truly amazing that, in spite of the sheer amount of idiocy and stupidity prevalent across the Internet, it just keeps on getting better. The hardware seems a bit slow occasionally, though. If I had more specialized knowledge I'd do editing besides video-game related pages and stuff regarding minor typos :). Take care and God bless. AustinZ
User|Km130
editHi Brookie here - this seems to be a duplication of Km130 -and the user has deleted the vfd tag ! Needs watching A curate's egg 20:34, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Changed vote on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Orleans Infants School
editThanks for reconsidering your vote on schools. When you change your vote, it makes it easier for the person who closes the discussion and announces the result if you strike out your original vote and annotate it so that the new vote is obvious. Surround text by <s> and </s> to strike out, like this. Cheers. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:56, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
KM130
editStop bothering other pages. ie: deleting / altering / or else. Have you got nothing better to do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by KM130 (talk • contribs) 23:04, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Joe Quesada
editHi, regarding this edit on Joe Quesada: ([1]), do you happen to have a citation (such as a weblink, or an article title in Wizard, etc.) for that? I'd like to read that interview, if possible. Thanks. —Lowellian (talk) 11:58, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
- My bad; yes, I have it bookmarked at home (at work currently). When I get back, I'll try to cite my sources. Sorry, it slipped my mind at the time. jglc | t | c 13:07, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for the citation! It's nice to have more information. —Lowellian (talk) 13:30, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your support
editThank you for your support for Images of Feces. Can I also encourage you to register your vote on the Talk:Feces page? The vote is very close. The censors might ban all photos of poop. Eyeon 13:43, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
List of rocks
editI will. Aecis 14:34, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Done. Aecis 14:54, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Just replying
editThanks for the warm welcome dude. Yeah I can see I obviously got off to a bad start. Stupid idea of mine to right my first article about the thing I knew most about (not sarcasm). Yeah well the Star Wars thing and the Genetic Wuz thing is the same to me: Is this page usefull? if not then chuck it. That was all i asked in the SW one and all i was trying to prove (that it is) in the GW one. But hey I am backing off from both VfD's 'cause people seem to think I am a spitefull idiot european (I wonder why?). Well I hope to see ya 'round doing some editing and stuff. --Granted 16:51, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Jasonglchu! Thanks for your note. I think it is someone trying to impersonate me. The IP who signed with my username is based in Tempe, Arizona. I am based in Bergen, Norway. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:09, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
WP Carey
editJason, my comment about debating Carey's article while giving the porn starlet overwhelming support was not directed at you for putting the article on VfD. Bad stubs can do that to anyone. It wasn't even specifically directed at the two editors who voted to delete after it was pointed out that he had contributed $50 million (although I think it should have been pretty clear by then that he is notable). Its more about my amazement that we continue to give recognition to fictional characters, individual episodes of TV shows and porn actresses while still quibbling over whether Prof. Snowdon who has published dozens of papers, Mr. Janak who has his artwork on display in a dozen countries on three continents, or Mr. Carey, whose name will live on in the W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU, are notable. Once the information is out, I just can't understand how people vote. We have room for stuff that would not even get a footnote in Brittanica and yet feel compelled to protect Wikipedia from invasion by real professors, authors and business people. DS1953 06:47, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
DVDEmpire.com
editCorrespondence I received regarding DVDEmpire.com is now archived here.
re: FF Legend 2
editI've now written stub articles on all the Final Fantasy Legend games, but I'm a terrible writer, so I invite you to help clean them up and add more info if you want. You (Talk) 17:58, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
Red Herring Artists & vfd
editJason. Thank you for your considerate reply after the vfd for red herring that you invoked was terminated as inconclusive. You were right to pick up on my doubts that were expressed in the opening post - I was and still am, very aware of how fine a line it is to give information that is close to your own sphere of activity without it being self interest. I am glad that you too agree that the case for red herring's small page is reasonable.
Thanks too for your encouragement for me (or others) to develop the page further. I am reluctant to do more to the page because including more of the several hundred artists that have been in red herring would probably make the case for the page being considered vain stronger.
I would welcome any suggestions that you might have regarding how I might add to the subject without falling into the trap of it seeming to be publicity. the problem with most of the facts involved with the studio is that they usually centre on the activity of the individual's careers as artists which certainly do tend to look like vainglory when described - especially when the work has been sponsored by major pharmecutical companies and the like. It would probably help my case quite a lot if a few of the artists at the studio were dead (I'm sure you've noticed that dead artists always seem more legitimate somehow, a hazard of the job i guess) but fortunately most are still going strong. Having said that various members of the group have exibited around the world and are associated with fairly major pubilc art work I'm sure that it would be possible to fill in a few more salient details.
RegardsDavidP 01:15, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hello there, I'm the one of the founders of an organization that assists sexual harassment and stalking victims. I simply removed, or revised the information that was incorrect based on the legal definitions of sexual harassment, and research and statistics on sexual harassment. All of this information was personal opinion being presented as fact. For example, it is completely, and legally, false that behavior being deemed as sexual harassment is determined by the gender of the recipient. Sexual harassment has *nothing* to do with gender; sexual harassment is about the abuse of power. Men get harassed, too, and their numbers are growing. Also, the statement that said that most charges of sexual harassment are false, is also, well, quite false and misleading.
All of the changes I have made can be checked against the information presented at the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) website and the numerous other legal and resource websites that focus on this topic. Most of the additions I made to the definition are adapted from the EEOC's website: http://www.eeoc.gov/types/sexual_harassment.html YOu might also want to check out http://www.de.psu.edu/harassment/ for more information, and http://www.sexualharassmentsupport.org/myths.html for a list of myths about SH. (THe "myths" list is from a pamphlet written by the federal government.)
Sorry if you feel the removed information was useful. I only did so because these were personal opinions being presented as factual. Sexual harassment is a very controversial issue, and I think that most of the arguments about it are quite interesting. However, your page is ranking rather high in some search engine results for "sexual harassment." Since this is an "encyclopedia," and I know for a fact people use it for research purposes, I would hope you would feel a responsibility to be sure that information being presented as factual is indeed factual. Personal opinions are great, and can be very provocative and thoughtful, as long as they are tagged as what they really are--personal opinions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.88.23.7 (talk • contribs)
Thanks
editHey Jason: Thanks for your insight on my user page! I always find it delighful that people enjoy it.
After all, I made it in a way that wikipedians can look at it and have a light moment while reading it. Im glad you enjoyed it!
Remember my saying, not everything in life are gray clouds, sunny days are always there and we must enjoy them! ...HMnn!! Dang it! I sound like The Brady Bunch!!. I love Marsha but I didnt mean to sound like them!
Thanks for everything and God bless you!
Sincerely yours, Antonio Have a Happy Dayyy!! Martin
D.H. Records Response
editWhile I thank Wikipedia and the contributors for the article on my label, this is my response to your vote. Besides Jim Hellwig (a fellow conservative), other wrestlers serve the Lord, but identify him as Jesus Christ. Jim's former partner (Sting) Steve Bordan, A.J. Styles, Shawn Micheals, "Millon Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase, (NWO Sting) Jeff Farmer, The Road Warriors, Nikita Koloff, Tatanka, and Vince Russo. On top of that, Ric Flair grew up in church and his Dad was a deacon (according to his autobiography). Plus, as a fan of Gene Simmons, he was once an unknown, but he went against the odds and helped KISS grow. He now has his own label and he signs others, from the money he made in his own career. Just because a record label is religious, doesn't mean it can't grow, the way Gene Simmon's did his. Granted Wikipedia isn't a democracy, but the minority has a right to speak. I respect you opinions and you just read mine. David Agosta (founder of D.H. Records). P.S. I made a hard copy of the article, before the VFD was approved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.163.100.67 (talk • contribs) 03:27, 20 Jun 2005
- You have written a very civil response; I thank you for that. I appreciate your candid diction and honest thoughts. However, I would take exception at the content of your paragraph: simply because a wrestler or any other public figure claims that they "serve the Lord," or call the ideal or person that they follow Jesus Christ does not make them Christians - or rather, it only does so in the most nominal and technical way.
- Ric Flair grew up in a church... so what? So did Jerry Falwell, but he preaches a message of racial, religious, and societal intolerance, anger, and hatred. I can't judge for others, but, speaking for myself, the attitudes and themes expressed in professional wrestling are those that I find distinctly destructive and against what most holy books - including, specifically, the Bible - proclaim as the character of God. The proliferation of sexuality and violence within the "professional" wrestling industry - used as promotional gimmicks, to lure viewers to the pastime - only support my hesitance to label any fully conscious promoter of the sport as a man living in a way which Jesus Christ (not to mention Mohammad, Buddha, or any Hindu incarnation) would support.
- The thrust of my argument against your points is not directed against the independent business model adopted by Ric Flair or Gene Simmons. It is against the linking of "Professional Wrestling" with Christianity. It is tantamount to linking the Beatitudes of Christ with the viciousness of The Crusades: while both come in the name of God/Y-W-/Allah, the origins of the two come from far disparate sources, linked only by the common cultural misconception of one and the institution of the other.
- Again: I appreciate your openness. Many more Wikipedians could stand to learn a great deal from your attitude. And you are right - the minority has a right to express its opinions, else there occurs a Millian Tyranny of the Majority. jglc | t | c 05:22, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Sorry if you were offended by linking professional wrestling to Christianity. Just remember, since Vince McMahon and others admitted wrestling is planned out, the plots are called story lines. Pro-wrestling tells a story and every story is based on something. Religious references are found in Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and the upcoming Chronicles of Narnia. Plus, Matthew 7:15-23 talks about your reference to the Crusades and comments Falwell makes.-- David Agosta
- Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and the Chronicles of Narnia (which, actually, has been around since the early 1950s; I assume you refer to the movie adaptation when you claim that it is "upcoming") are all extended metaphors or allegories. Professional wrestling - while not a scam - is solely commercial. I would strongly question any parallels to be drawn between C.S. Lewis and Ric Flair. Perhaps Matthew 7 phrases best the point I am trying to make - "every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit." I would question the quality of Mr. Flair's "fruit." jglc | t | c 06:39, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Jason, I must say this is a healthy and enjoyable debate. Your point(s) are well spoken and well taken. The "fruit" of Ric Flair I admire are two. 1. The work ethic he displayed in his entire career (especially his road travel). 2. The endurance he showed, when WCW screwed around with him. Any person who does this and remains respected, I admire. This is the last message I'm leaving and thank you again for listening.I wish you the best with your future and pray God's bleesings on you. David.
Dear jglc
editHi1 Thank you for your praise on mine and my dad's talk pages! What I try is, well, wikipedia is serious and bureocratic as it is, so I always try to make it have a fun, lighter place where everyone can have a small laugh at least, a pl;ace where they can forget their daily pressure spoilers!
As far as having my dad here, Ive been on this, what I call globalization of wikipedia campaign. Ive unsuccessfully tried to get medical doctors, politicians, show business and sports world people I know to join the pedia because that way they can bring their more trustable knowledge into these areas and improve our pedia in a positive way. My dad, I thought he'd help with military knowledge because he was in the Marines, and it turned out that he's done an excellent work in Puerto Rican culture instead, not touching the military information we have! LOL! Well, I gues what they say, when it starts good, it all ends good!!
Thanks for your encouragement and God bless you! I will read your works soon enough I hope!
Sincerely yours, your friend, Antonio Courtney Martin
Speedy deletions
editPlease be careful when tagging articles for speedy deletion. You should only tag such articles that meet the criteria for speedy deletion. For articles that only fail the guidelines listed on What Wikipedia is not, please post them on votes for deletion instead. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 18:00, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Paris Hilton
editI liked what you had to say on Paris Hilton's talk page. I'm writing a satire on 'everything she stands for.' I'd be glad to talk to you about it if you are at all interested. e-mail me at maprovonsha@hotmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.236.244.252 (talk • contribs) 23:31, 22 Jun 2005
Articles needing translation
editThanks for making the article in Polish yesterday. However, the best way to get attention to such articles (Wiki gets four or five a day) is to tag them with {{notenglish}} and leave a note at WP:PNT. No harm done this time, we've found it and we will do something with it in the next couple of days. Cheers, Physchim62 07:32, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)