Stargoat
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- Happy wikipediaing, -- Infrogmation 18:56, 30 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Thanks man. Stargoat 15:32, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Sock puppets
VeryVerily has made the claim that I am a "sock puppet" meaning I have another user name or user names. This is my only user name and the only one I've ever used. In regards to this I say:
The Cambodia pages should be about facts. VeryVerily and his friends have been accusing me there of everything from propaganda to being a denier of this or that to this that and the other thing. One of the charges is that I am a sock puppet. This is false, but regardless it is a separate issue, and should be treated elsewhere. These pages are a discussion the ARTICLE, not whether or not I am a sock puppet as VeryVerily calls it. If he wants to mention he thinks I am and link to the appropriate place to discuss that, and I can say it's false but people should go elsewhere that's fine. One mention of this mudslinging is fine, as long as the discussion does not go into ad hominem attacks. If you want to hear ad hominem's I will say only this. VeryVerily has been temporaily banned for revert wars with another user. I have never been banned or had any Wikipedia discipline. In fact, as far as I can gather, none of the users I am accused of being a sock puppet of has ever been disciplined or temp banned or anything from what I have read of it. But that could be wrong - I do not know the history of these users. VeryVerily and his cronies do not mention anything like there is a permanent ban on one of those users or something though.
If you see the discussion page, Adam Carr perhaps unconsciously admits that I improved the page when, at least under his consensus I assume, the sentence "Depending on the source a reported 15% to 40% of the population died between 1975 and 1979 (500,000 to 2,000,000 people)" was removed. Ponchaud's 2 million figure does NOT start at the CPK takeover in 1975 but before that. I point this out especially because Ponchaud is anti-CPK and whoever put that in is exaggerating what even an anti-CPK author said and trying to make it sound worse by saying it started in 1975 instead of before that.
I am sad to see VeryVerily trying to poison the well. TheAnome is anti-CPK, and editted my edits, but he at least was working to resolve the page, something I have done every step of the way. I even constantly try to resolve things with VeryVerily even though I know he won't try to. I make the effort anyhow. But anyhow, me and TheAnome were doing very well hashing out a fair, NPOV page and then VeryVerily comes along saying I'm a sock puppet, along with the Adam Carr view that I am mentally a propagandist who would refuse to compromise so it's pointless to try to work with me. Wikipedia rules say we should try to resolve things and work it out but this is the attitude being taken. I find it very unfortunate that The Anome was being quite reasonable until the "no compromise" faction of VeryVerily and his friends came around and tried to turn him into a no-compromiser. They seem to have succeeded at first, although whether or not he remains like that remains to be seen.
I should also say in the Request for Comments archive there is a page on VeryVerily where people have listed there complaints against him. And he has been temp banned. Hanpuk 16:38, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks. Just trying to find out who I'm working with. Stargoat 16:51, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
Troll
stooge
Long live the Great Red China!
I feel humbled to have partaken in the effort to subvert state power by editing on Wikipedia. God bless Mao Zedong! Long live Uncle Hu and Grandpa Jiang! --Jiang 06:50, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Thank you, Stargoat, for replying on my talk page re. the banning of Wikipedia by the Chinese government. I have a passionate interest in censorship (or rather, against it) and will be watching this matter closely. David Cannon 22:43, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
I tried getting The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in order, please check up on whether the material is copyrighted. Very interesting article I hope you add to it. Arminius 21:30, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- There's another article at Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. They need to be merged. The word "the" is not necessary in the title, so let's do it at the older version. --Jiang 02:59, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Merge and redirect complete. KirbyMeister 19:02, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks. Anything else I should merge? KirbyMeister 19:05, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Actually, I'm just finished with it. Sorry, I should have used {inuse}. Good luck on whatever else you've got going. Yours, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 20:04, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Relating to Wikipedia: Manual of style (biographies) and Saddam Hussein
In Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies), "After the initial mention of any name, the person may be referred to by surname only. For example:" - Read Arabic name - "Hussein" isn't any surname. WhisperToMe 19:08, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
"Recently"
Hi Stargoat, please don't write that things [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Jiang_Yanyong&diff=4123017&oldid=3972487 "recently"] happened - these are encyclopedia articles, not news stories. Do you have the date?
Thanks, Tualha 14:02, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Re:Little Emperor
I searched the site for the phrase and nothing showed up. I guess it hasn't been covered yet... --Jiang 07:41, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Thanks. -Joseph 21:51, 2004 Jul 13 (UTC)
Note to self
Moving pages
See Wikipedia:How to move a page. --Jiang 20:36, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Personal attacks
I have removed my personal attacks towards you at Talk:World War I. Please accept my apologies. -- ato 06:35, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)