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Cyrius, I am the creator of the Streetstudio page. How exactly is a project that makes no money and is of arguably historic value self promotion? The 1981-82 American network television schedule is legit and my project isn't. This is one funky encyclopedia. ;-) Help me understand what gives here.
- Because it's your project. Thus the "self". The text is not merely describing the project, but trying to attract interest to it. It reads like toned-down advertising copy. Thus the "promotion". Note that I am making no judgement about the project. Art is a large blind spot for me, and I can't claim to be able to evaluate its artistic merits.
- I feel strongly about Wikipedia's policy of disallowing autobiographies. While Streetstudio isn't an autobiography in the strictest sense, it is still far too personal for you to be unbiased about it. Let someone else write the article.
Frances
If there's one this year it will catch up with Arlene as the most used name. --Keith Edkins 20:04, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
European Union Olympic medals count for 2004
Hi there,
I wonder would you consider reversing your decision to delete this article. I have substantially rewritten it. A united EU team is not going to happen. I've discussed potential EU co-operation towards the olympics, and kept the table. I believe the table is valid, for us Europeans/EUians to see how the area has fared as a whole. Please comment on my talk page if you still feel the article should be deleted.
zoney | talk 00:59, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I'm still concerned as to the need to delete the table. It doesn't compare the EU with other countries you'll note - it compares member states. The tally at the bottom is only for reference. (Why on earth should one not be able to see how many medal winners came from Europe?) I really don't understand why there is such resistance to having this data in Wikipedia. I accept some of the arguments about the "discussion", it probably still needs cleared up a bit. (Although a significant proportion is not "theorising" now, and is merely facts. Had I the time, I would go look for what the EU is actually doing - as it's almost certainly involved in sports efforts of member states). But thanks for the reply at any rate. zoney ███ talk 11:16, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
And now for something completely different...
Hmmm... noticed this unusual activity - any suggestions?
- 02:51, 19 Aug 2004 (hist) User talk:Benc (test to make sure "new messages" thingie works) (top)
- 02:36, 19 Aug 2004 (hist) User talk:Benc/Doorbell (top)
And from User talk:Benc/Doorbell (The above listed edit)
- i am an unused sock puppet saying hello :-)
I have no idea what action to take / get someone else to take, it's quite a bizarre thing to happen across, but I abhor sock-puppetry. Suggestions. (Should a note be left on User talk:Benc - of what nature?)
zoney | talk 02:04, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for the explanation - it's not so mysterious now! I should have, of course, read Wikipedia:Sock puppet first! zoney ███ talk 12:18, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
...a man with two buttocks!
LOL! Just when I thought the weirdest substubs in the history of this site were from The Bandit, along comes these operatic things resplendent in their non-encyclopedianess. :^) I thought they were copyvios until I saw the punctuation. Can we make these go away? - Lucky 6.9 03:50, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I saw this article on WP:PR, and left some comments there. A part of an otherwise great edit you made did not take very well it seems. Maybe some got missed when you pasted in text. Thanks - Taxman 22:53, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
Yeah, I just saw it and left a longish explanation in the VfD discussion. What I can't figure out is how Indrian stumbled across it. He meant well. He tried to synchronize the pages by copying the content of Billion into my user subpage! Doesn't really bother me. Some of the recent edits to Billion itself bother me a lot more. Thanks for calling it to my attention. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:06, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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Category:Atlantic hurricanes
Cyrius, do you have to be a sysop to edit the "Category:" articles?
BigT27 01:58, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Category:Atlantic hurricanes (2)
Because every time I click on "edit this page", the actual links to the articles don't come up.
BigT27 04:01, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
More Bandit musings
Actually, I was just trying to get a rise out of our annoying little pest. I figured we're either dealing with a bot or someone with incredibly thick skin! What does bother me are the users who don't do much more than remove the notices and format the bloody things. A formatted B-Movie Bandit substub is like tits on a warthog, if you'll pardon the indelicacy. I love seeing these things cleaned up for real, though. - Lucky 6.9 06:42, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Signature
If you don't mind, may I please copy your idea of using ✎ as a 'talk' icon in my signature? I'll specify that it was your idea in my user page if you want :) Thanks in advance -Frazzydee 06:11, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Image
Cyrius, thanks for the reminder. I've added one. Fuzheado | Talk 05:05, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Your VfD question
Hello, Cyrius, you asked on VfD why I didn’t tag Berjaya times square kl as copyvio when I’d discovered that it was. The answer is hardly of great interest to VfD-ers, so I’m putting it here on your page. I didn’t because I don’t know how. I’ve been reading around over the past few days trying to learn to do that very thing (in fact, my noting on VfD that Berjaya was cv was the fruit of some of that reading). Putting the template on a page is easy, but the prefatory matter on the Wikipedia:Copyright problems page, about the other stuff you have to do if you put up the template, is just intimidating, to me. I’ve recently mastered putting stuff up/removing it on Cleanup, but this seems a lot more complicated. Also the page is kind of tougher in tone than the other how-to's (”be sure to follow the instructions in the section below”, and a crapload of ”see also” links prominently displayed right at the beginning), and, well, altogether, in this area I’ve only looked, not had the courage to touch, so far. I was hoping if I mentioned the copyvio, some more knowledgeable user might do the rest. I feel rather discouraged by getting your question instead, you know. Are you saying I shouldn’t do anything on Wikipedia because I don’t know to do everything? Bishonen 13:52, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Bishonen: The text {{copyvio2}} does it. :) See also Wikipedia:Templates. KeithTyler 18:42, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)
Hurricane Frances
Hey, good catch! I had not noticed that Hermine and Gaston were in the same picture frame as Frances!!! Awolf002 01:37, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hurricane Mitch
Yeah, I should have done that. It was the wiki equivelant of a drunken dial. I wasn't drunk, but I just couldn't stand to see the article left a stub when the info was so readily available one link away. I figure, the main article should be longer than the summary on another page. It didn't occur to me that the wiki code ought be preserved.
In my defense ...
... about dated images, I was intending to notify them for deletion when the storm was over, honest. I'm a bit wary about the overwriting technique because I've seen cases where the new version doesn't display immediately, and sometimes not for several days - which wouldn't really meet our needs for a current event. I don't think there will be any more for Frances, anyway - it's a bit late to start evacuating now! --Keith Edkins 18:59, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Tail between legs..... or is it?
Hello Mr Cyrius Man (or Woman). I dunno if you remember, but a while ago, I really had a go at you, and was quite mean and ruthless. Anyway, for some reason, I suddenly feel like I should apologise. Though I stand by my original view (I forget what it was now) the method i went about it was un-nessecary and I can't justify it. Sorry. Though I could not blame you for ignoring this, it won't effect my enjoyment of this site, but just to let you know I over-reacted.--Crestville 20:00, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
VfD
Mmmmm... yummy. Thanks for the cookies. :-) SWAdair | Talk 01:13, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Category N redirects
Bah!
You're about a minute ahead of me in your edits on Ivan. I keep getting edit conflicts! :) Tom 00:06, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
Good evening, Cyrius. On 28 Aug, you voted to delete the article about the Bradley Amendment because it was a POV rant. Even though the discussion period has run out, no one's acted on that thread yet. I've completely rewritten the article. I'd appreciate it if you'd take a read through and see if it's now worthy of a keep. Rossami 01:19, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
This Biography of H.R.H. Rajah Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah is provided by his website http://www.jaffnaroyalfamily.org/index2.htm.
H.R.H. Rajah Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah provides his biography for his membership within the Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League. WOULD YOU PLEASE READ THE DISCUSSION BEFORE YOU SUSPEND MY PAGES, there is authority to use it.
tranvanba 10 September 2004 (UTC)
My name is Tran Van Ba am Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam and This site http://users.panola.com/vietnam/ belongs to My Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam. I am contact person for this site, my email address is available on the site. Thank you, Tran Van Ba Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam [email protected] http://users.panola.com/vietnam/information-2.html
tranvanba 10 September 2004 (UTC)
re: Shwebomin
My name is Tran Van Ba am Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam and This site http://users.panola.com/vietnam/ belongs to My Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam. He is the President of the Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League that H.R.H. Shwebomin serves as Honorary Treasurer. I am contact person for this site, my email address is available on the site. Thank you, Tran Van Ba Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam [email protected] http://users.panola.com/vietnam/information-2.html
tranvanba 10 September 2004 (UTC)
My name is Tran Van Ba am Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam and This site http://users.panola.com/vietnam/ belongs to My Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam. I am contact person for this site, my email address is available on the site please see on the site the below picture Contact: Nguyen Dynasty
Also my photo and picture is available on the site http://users.panola.com/vietnam/information-2.html with Emperor Bao Dai.
My email address on the site matches my email address registered here [email protected]
You can see I am the same person from the email addresses.
Thank you, Tran Van Ba Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam http://users.panola.com/vietnam/information-2.html
tranvanba 10 September 2004 (UTC)
Vietnam follies
Hi - it seems we've been involved in parallel issues on some of the articles edited by Tran Van Ba. Perhaps you could add your voice to the discussion on Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League? In case this becomes a conduct dispute, it would be good if at least two people had discussed the same article. I added a comment on his talk page under "Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah" too. Thanks... ←Hob 01:09, 2004 Sep 12 (UTC) (also, I see you mentioned autobiographies above... here's one).
- This has now gone to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Tran Van Ba Dunc_Harris|☺ 11:07, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Cyrius, I've added more specific charges and evidence to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Tran Van Ba; if you think they're fair, please add a certification. Thanks. ←Hob 05:22, 2004 Sep 13 (UTC)