UTSRelativity

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RE: Pearl Milk Tea article

Trivia: Yes, apparently I neglected to add the once per week part when I edited that section. It was an honest mistake, thank you for pointing that out. I've fixed it. However I stand by the rest of my edit. The original contained incorrect information (see the linked news articles) and was decidedly nonneutral in it's wording.

use the name -> are known as: As far as I know, most of the names in the list are general product descriptions and not brand names. i.e. "photocopier" as opposed to "Xerox".

removal of _much_ w/ reference to 1 cm diamete: Not sure if pearl sago is regarded in the same catagory as the more farmiliar large variety. Will look into this.

skills of making -> quality of resulting product Agree with your point. But "skills of making" sounds a little odd. Perhaps "skill in making"? Also, most people generally care about the quality of the final product be it by skill or ingredients.

Idlewild

I made some notes on the talk page regarding my edits. -Litefantastic 18:18, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

AOL

Sorry I didn't explain my revert - I've been having massive problems getting onto Wikipedia lately and never was able to put a note on the America Onlin talk page explaining my move, as I intended; the whole thing froze on me and I bailed. Anyway, I think your point was well taken but should be included in the America Online article, instead of turning AOL into a disambiguation page. Disambig pages should be avoided if possible - often it's not possible, of course - because they force a second click on readers. In this case, the overwhelming majority who go to AOL want to learn about America Online, not about "AOL" as an insult, so we shouldn't force them to go through a disambig. In my humble opinon, that is! - DavidWBrooks 01:00, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Kelisi

Moved from Talk:Scarborough, Ontario#UTS

"UTSRelativity is a male, Christian, Cantonese-speaking Chinese Canadian who was born in Hong Kong in 1985 and grew up in the Agincourt district of Scarborough, Ontario watching the Zone on YTV, his favourite TV station."

In that case, he jolly well shouldn't be telling a 41-year-old English teacher whose mother tongue is English how to write his own language, now should he? Do I tell you how to write Cantonese?

By the way, I notice that you spell "favourite" with a U in it. You're wrong about "neighbourhood"; it has a U. ———Kelisi 2005/2/10

You do not normally write Cantonese, you write Chinese. If you simply reverted the page and asked politely, I would have checked my references. I admit that I was wrong. I would like to note that what you did could be considered a personal attack and is bad netiquette, and I am not saying that my netiquette is good either. By the way, my user talk page may have been a more appropriate place for this discussion.

— editted by UTSRelativity 04:05, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

— UTSRelativity 03:56, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

That's "edited" — one T. (Kelisi)

For someone who claims to be a "41-year-old English teacher," it's pretty childish of you to lash out at someone -- and poke fun at their grammar/spelling -- on a public talk page, for all to see. Darkcore 17:55, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

@Kelisi—Thank you for reminding me, and if I was handing in an assignment I would check my spelling (although the markers do not care how words are spelled in code comments anyway). Note that this is a talk page; please stop posting spelling correction posts to such, because it is generally considered impolite. As it is, your response fails to address the problem, and instead focuses on spelling in metainformation. To avoid problems in the future, you would be well advised to post only when you have actual content. By the way, you can sign your messages with four tildes.

— UTSRelativity 18:08, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

UTS, you're taking this far too seriously. My only point was that we should all stick to things we know about. By the way, I was sure I'd read somewhere that there is no single spelling standard for English-language Wikipedia. That page further suggested, however, that spelling be consistent (ie not a mixture of Commonwealth and US spellings) throughout an article, but I notice that not even that rule is observed. I usually don't bother to "correct" that. Kelisi 19:54, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I agree with your point about sticking to things we know; however, it is not my opinion that I do not know Canadian English. I admit I was mistaken about the spelling of neighbourhood, but we all make mistakes once in a while. You are correct about the "spelling issue" on Wikipedia, although it is my personal belief that, for country-specific articles, we should strive to use the local variation.

My "taking this... seriously" (or as you say "[my] only point") is to explain to you that what you did is generally considered unacceptable online behaviour. This is not just my view—you may want to take note of Darkcore's reply above (which I moved from the original talk page). As an operator and moderator in various online communities, I strive to promote and practice good netiquette just as you seem to promote and practice the proper use of English. It may also be helpful for you to note that most "rules" on Wikipedia are simply conventions.

— UTSRelativity 20:42, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It looks to me as though you want a really exciting cyber-fight. Sorry, you'll get none from me. Kelisi 00:39, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

LOTR One Ring BJAODN

Is there anything you can suggest to make "One Bad Joke to rule them all, one Votes for Deletion to find them, one Deleted Nonsense to bring them all and in the darkness bind them" shorter? -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:10, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Queen's University

Thanks for your comments. I have responded on my talk page. Ground Zero 19:44, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ummm, please don't do that

Thanks for catching my mistake on my user page. I guess when I changed the example, I didn't make the change all of the way through.

But you should be aware that changing someone else's user page is considered to be a violation of Wikipedia etiquette. It really isn't done. In the future, you might want to just leave a note on someone's talk page to point out an error on their user page, rather than making the changes yourself.

I realise that you are a new editor, so I'm not offended, just surprised. Regards, Ground Zero 22:19, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Move of Naquadah to Naqahdah

Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

While editing a Stargate-related stub, I noticed that you recently renamed Naquadah as Naqahdah. I think the original spelling is the preferable one, for a couple of reasons. First, a Google search indicates an 11:1 ratio in its favor. Second, whenever I have seen an episode of SG-1, the closed-captioning function has been enabled, and the spelling is always, I am quite sure, "Naquadah". If there's some information I'm missing, or a consensus on renaming the page that I missed, please let me know. NatusRoma 05:21, 5 May 2005 (UTC)Reply

CSD's

Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

http://199.202.235.157/ylg/ontario.html shows just the municipalities in Ontario, and is up to date in terms of names. This shows them all http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/popdwell/Table-CSD-P.cfm?PR=35 but is out of date in terms of names because it is from 2001. Scarborough is on neither list, as it was amalgamated into Toronto in 2000. -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:30, 22 July 2005 (UTC)Reply

Adminship

Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Relativity: Thank you for supporting my nomination for adminship. I am honoured that you and others think highly enough of my contributions here to support the nomination. The admin powers will enable me to patrol for vandals more effectively, amongst other things. I promise to use my new powers for good, and not to inflict the retribution on my enemies that they so richly deserve, as tempting as that may be. ;-) Thanks again, Kevin. Ground Zero 12:46, 22 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Bringing Wikipedia to Toronto

I've been working on a bid to bring Wikimania 2006 to Toronto. I have contacted KMDI, an institute at the University of Toronto. They are very interested in partnering with us, and can get us a full range of U of T facilities for free. With this offer I think there is a very good chance of bringing Wikimania 2006 to Toronto. The only thing we currently lack are people willing to help out. I'm willing to do much of the work, but for the time being I am in Ottawa and having some people on the ground in Toronto will be necessary. We also need a number of people willing to assist at the actual event, likely the first weekend of August 2006. If you are interested in helping out sign up at Wikimania 2006/Toronto. Preliminary bids from various cities need to be made by Sept. 30, 2005, at which point a committee will choose which city gets to host the event. The number of people willing to help will certainly be an important consideration. - SimonP 16:31, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Kindred soul

Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I was just checking out who the other Anglican and Episcopalian Wikipedians are and if any were Canadian. Imagine my surprise at finding another Wikipedian who booed harris at "Mandela and the Children". Me too! Carolynparrishfan 21:41, 12 November 2005 (UTC)Reply