No problem. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 00:51, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Faraday picture
Actually, I kind of like the other image on the Michael Faraday page as well. Couldn't we have both of them, labeling the other one "An older Michael Faraday"? Brutannica 02:30, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Husnock nomination
I see that your candidate has not been on Wikipedia much lately, and not since your nomination. It doesn't appear to me that this nomination will succeed if he is not around and people can't read his answers to judge his adminship. Do you think it would be a good idea to withdraw the nomination until you can ask him if he wants to be an admin and will be around to perform the duties? -- Cecropia | Talk 18:36, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
You go girl! You're on a tear. -Joseph 21:00, 2004 Aug 26 (UTC)
- A favor - when you're going to make all kinds of edits to an article like that, please don't make lots of tiny edits. Instead, we prefer that you make one large edit. (You might also want to put {{inuse}} at the top to prevent edit conflicts). It saves on drive space (since each saved version is saved in its entirety) and it makes change histories easier to track. →Raul654 21:04, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Also, when making changes all over a long article, I find it easier to copy the text into a word processor and work on it in a large window, rather than trying to scroll up and down in the little Edit window. Then copy it back and Preview it for typos and such.
- —wwoods 00:19, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Query
I'm not sure what the point of your query on my talk page is meant to be. I have no involvement in "scams" or illegal activities of any sort, and my involvement with Empire of Atlantium is public knowledge.--Gene_poole 01:00, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Kindly refrain from posting irrelevant, false and inflammatory POV assertions on my talk page. I have no interest in raking over matters that are well documented both on Wikipedia and in multiple third party reference sources. --Gene_poole 01:21, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Note that I've deleted your most recent inflammatory comment from my talk page. I have no interest in your irrelevant POV concerning me or the organisations I choose to associate myself with.--Gene_poole 01:49, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Weichsel vs. Vistula
As I already said on Ruebezahl's page, I give up, feel free to add all names wherever you find it suitable or convenient. I'd rather withdraw from discussion than be called a nationalist.
IMHO the German name of the river that had flown through Germany for five and a half years in its history is not really relevant to me (or rather not relevant enough to be mentioned in the header). IMO it should be mentioned in the history section - just like the Slavic name of Berlin. However, if you think otherwise - fine, I withdraw. But please do not look for a hidden agenda where there is none. I believe the German name does not belong here because the river was "German" for some 100 years in its history (if one counts the 19th century Partitions when approximately 1/5 of the river flown through Prussia, the rest flowing through Russia and A-H, see User talk:Rübezahl for details). If you read my posts carefully you'd probably see that I'm not one of the guys who have a god-given mission of erasing all traces of German presence on Polish lands. At times it happens that a German name is simply irrelevant and that is not because of some nationalist POV but because of a common sense.
Anyway, please be so kind as to provide a reference to an English language source calling the river with its German name.
Finally, the "German nationalism" remark was but a joke, I was mocking at your comment above, the one that suggested that my nationalism might blind me. I found it exceptionally funny since you have no idea on my nationality whatsoever. However, since I'm usually considered to be a Pole, I noticed that most of Polish POV is considered nationalist, while German or French POVs are absolutely ok. But this is rather a notion among the western societies than a notion among wikipedians and you have nothing to do with that (I hope). Anyway, please be so kind as to not mention my nationality when discussing with me, this has nothing to do. Try to find out what is said rather than who says that. This would spare both you and the rest of wikipedians such misunderstandings in the future.
As to your arbitration warning/advice/threat/whatever, please feel free to start it if you find that there are matters or discussions with me that cannot be resolved. It's always good to know what others think about me. But please be so kind as to try to understand my point of view before you start advocating yours. Cheers, [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 21:35, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)
- Not really, the number of referrences is 6 870 after you change the language to English. And still the vast majority of pages are related to either Weichsel as a surname or to German WWII army ( Heeresgruppe Weichsel and such). You'd still have to point me to an English language source calling the river with its German name (and no, I don't mean the Prussian encyclopaedia or any other German page translated to English). [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 08:37, Sep 5, 2004 (UTC)
At this point, I think the flame war is silly and that it hurts our cause to post anything more. I think we have clearly demonstrated, with links to "Gene Poole"'s editing history, and with "Gene Poole"'s response to our concerns with personal attacks, that, well, "Gene Poole" is not a well-behaved editor. The arbitrators do not (or, at least, should not) care if Empire of Atlantium is a legitimate Micronation or not. They do care, however, that "Gene Poole" responds to criticism with personal attacks ("Crank Editor", "Crackpot"), makes false claims of vandalism, and that he has engaged in multiple edit wars over anything Micronation-related. I've wasted too much time on this person, but I know that he does need to be combatted, or he will continue to make Wiki unpleasant for any editor unfortunate enough disagree with him. Samboy 06:33, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Oh, additionally, we only need one more arbitrator to accept taking this to arbitration for "Gene Poole" to be arbitrated. This is a done deal at this point; more flame-war with "Gene Poole" hurts our cause instead of healping it, IMHO. At this point, we need to work together to come up with a statement on the Arbitration page, akin to this or this. The actual arbitration pages are structured in such a way that the arbitrators don't have to trudge through a flame war if they don't want to. Samboy 06:38, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
David Irving
I'd support protection personally, but I can't do it, having edited the article. I can't remember if you're an admin, but if not, I'd suggest you could contact one about it, or post the article on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. I'm not sure I believe that the edit war will continue, but if you suspect it, please do what you think needs doing. I think if I seek protection, it will look as though I want to change the article and then freeze it in my preferred version. :-) Thanks, Jwrosenzweig 20:51, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Support
Thank you very much for your support during my recent run for adminship. I appreciated the support very much. We should talk on IRC more. Message me when you see me. Mike H 03:52, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)
Greco-Buddhism
Hi General Patton, can you specify what "still needs to be worked on" in the Greco-Buddhism article? Thanks PHG 07:41, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Arbitration
Your case is now open at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Gene_Poole_vs._Samboy. You may want to clean up the mess on that page and move the evidence elsewhere. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 13:32, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)
Say Friend
My reasons are obviously the reasons given by JK in both his edit summary and talk, since I reverted to his version. Wolfman 07:05, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Just to interject here -- "Although it is not made explicit on wikipedia:revert, a review of Wikipedia policies such as wikipedia:staying cool and wikipedia:dispute resolution, together with common practice and community expectations, strongly suggests that "When reverting, explain your reasons for doing so" is a longstanding de facto Wikipdia policy." -- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Wik2 - you have to state your reasons even if you think they are "obvious". →Raul654 07:16, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
Kerry
I explained on the talk page, if you bothered to check. At any rate, it should be pretty evident. Snide parentheticals are just designed to make Kerry look like a jerk. They certainly don't have any bearing on a discussion of his childhood. If we don't think he saw the ruins of Hitler's bunker (I have no idea if this would be feasible or not - I do know that the fact that they were in the Soviet Zone is not dispositive, since one could go into the Soviet Zone before 1961), then we should just remove the whole incident from the discussion of his childhood. If we have evidence that he is lying (and I'm not sure why this would be called a "Kerryism" - Slate's "Kerryisms" generally revolve around Kerry saying something unnecessarily complicated, not him lying about his childhood), I suppose it might be significant enough to mention, although I'm pretty dubious that this story is significant enough for that. Do you think that our section on Arnold Schwarzenegger's childhood should revolve around his stump speech discussion of how Austria was a Communist country behind the Iron Curtain when he was a child, along with snide comments about why this wasn't true (yes, I know he didn't say that, per se, but that was the pretty strong implication of what he said. If Kerry "lied" to a greater degree than Schwarzenegger, I'd be very surprised.) john k 07:22, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)