User talk:Tarquin
Tarquin's Talk page: leave comments & questions at the bottom of this page. I usually reply here.
Thanks for the kind words at Talk:Francis Poulenc, I really appreciate it. That DW's a real character, isn't he... --Camembert
Much fun at Hitler has only got one ball. Ortolan88
Tarquin, thanks for the tip at Talk:Gladsaxe, it works correctly now. Jeronimo
Tarquin, I think you are an administrator, cannot you block the Goatse vandal? olivier 12:25 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
- What's his IP?
Unfortunately, I don't know! olivier 12:36 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
Very probably: 194.117.133.196. Look my comment on the "recent changes", when I edited the vandalism page. olivier 12:49 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
ageism is unacceptable. Lir 23:22 Nov 19, 2002 (UTC)
- yes, that's why we still send kids up chimneys. ;-) -- Tarquin
- *gasp* Lir 23:29 Nov 19, 2002 (UTC)
Ed -- talk:Israel -- lecturing others about "inappropriate behavior" etc. Statements such as "that's no way to treat a lady" are sexist and offensive. People derserve civil treatment irrespective of sex; Lir perhaps deserves kinder treatment on account of her youth. -- Tarquin
- I was talking to RK -- not to you. Why are you butting in?
- I will do or say whatever it takes to help the Wikipedia community learn to treat one another kindly. If taking into account a man's culture helps, I will do that. Many men (and I hope, Jewish men) have a concept of "treating a lady with courtesy" that I appealed to.
- Please don't call me "sexist" again (it hurts my feelings). --Ed Poor
re: our mutual friend TMC...
Arguing with a relativist is like mud-wrestling with a pig. You both get muddy, and the pig loves it! --Ed Poor 19:11 Nov 20, 2002 (UTC)
Ed, do you admit TMC is trollish, or are you defending him against Ortolan? Who's the relativist now? -- t
- You don't have to be an absolutist to make a judgement. He's a troll, whatever else he might be. Ortolan88
- Yes, I admit TMC is trollish. In fact, his (full) username is in itself an act of vandalism. But I guess as long is he signs "TMC" in the talk pages, Jimbo will continue to let him thrust his Monster Chicken joke at us until we old-timers stop even noticing it. The only thing I'm defending him against is a total ban: he just needs to apply some circumspection to his choice of username. --Ed Poor
- Well, Isis, my good friend of IBM Selectric typewriter, won't notice it, she's gone. As long as it continues to appear in the Recent Changes, it doesn't matter how he hypocritically abbreviates it elsewhere. Is there any excuse, relative, or absolute, for "Rape 20:04 . . Throbbing Monster Cock"? Ortolan88
- Certainly not, and I've already quit twice over stuff like this!! --Ed Poor
Just a note, hurdling is back again and it needs to be gone again. --Dante Alighieri
How about it... Shove the Clutch/Lir battle on the Vandalism page to the Talk:Vandalism page? --Dante Alighieri
- I did the move to the "edit wars in progress" page. That's more accurate that "vandalism". Should it go to the talk page there ? FvdP 11:42 Nov 25, 2002 (UTC)
- I'm trying to not get involved on that one, it sprouted up overnight so I'm coming to it after the event. It would be could if FvdP and Clutch could resolve their differences and move on -- Lir is not worth this much fuss! -- Tarquin 11:44 Nov 25, 2002 (UTC)
What's the protocol on this? Cookery was brand new but was referenced in earlier articles. Cookery now redirects to cooking. I've changed the old (there were only four) articles that linked to cookery so that they link directly to cooking. Do we delete cookery now? --Dante Alighieri
- it's fine to leave cookery. It may be that in some contexts it's easier to write "cookery" than "cooking"; I felt the pie article wouldn't read as well with "In cooking..." instead of "In cookery...", so I set up the redirect so the link goes to the right place. Redirects are handy for this purpose, for example we have surrealist as a redirect to surrealism. -- Tarquin 00:45 Nov 26, 2002 (UTC)
With Law of Nature as a redirect to Physical Law, might it be appropriate to place a link to Natural Law on the Physical Law page? --Dante Alighieri
- Hm. as in the Natural Law Party in the UK? I'm getting a little bit spaghetti-tangled doing this! My main idea is to ditch "law (principle)" (dreadful title) since we have adage for the "fun" laws and Physical Law. Natural law should probably be linked form Law.
- I merged Law of Nature to Physical Law because their content seemd similar -- if they should be different articles, change LofN back to an article :-) -- Tarquin
- Actually, not just as in the political party. It is actually a larger philosophical way of ordering the universe and mankind's place within it. It is a weird cross between pretty logical and very scary. --Dante Alighieri
Just read your User page - I suppose you could therefore be said to have synaesthesia (actually this is not correct - this would only be if you correlated other senses, such as musical tones, with colours - but do you?) as well - if you can visualise colours of the rainbow - for example. Bogey section was amusing. To me AI means artificial intelligence, but I suspect you mean some personality type, unless you are using one of those socio classification types A,B,C etc. to pinhole us all into categories.
I also live in the UK - every time I check on my location using Up My Street, I find I'm in the company of wealthy gin drinkers (I'm not wealthy, though I drink gin occasionally, when pushed) - though apparently at present I'm not in an area of Times or Guardian readers. -- User:David Martland
- Nope, I did mean AI in that sense -- someone on Unreal Wiki jokes that they suspected I wasn't a real person, but a supercomputer hidden in a lost bunker deep beneath the artic wastes of Canada ... so it's a running joke in a place where no-one will get it. Which says an awful lot about me :-)
- It's not synaesthesia, just a memory that tends to soak up any old rubbish. It's only when I talk to friends that I find out they don't remember, for example, the details of a birthday party we both went to 10 years ago, whereas I can shut my eyes and visualize it.
- As for Up My Street... I dread to think what my area would say... but I'm off to find out anyway. Thanks for dropping by. I shall have to clean up my user page if people are actually reading it! -- Tarquin 14:48 Dec 3, 2002 (UTC)
...... it says "Heavy ITV viewing: High" ... urg! -- Tarquin 14:48 Dec 3, 2002 (UTC)
Re Ponce/ponce' - OK - Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but what would you recommend about the two other meanings. One - the guitar music composer - certainly deserves to be mentioned. I'm just not sure how to handle this - you can do it if you want, or give me some more clues. David Martland 09:38 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)
- I suppose it depends on whether "ponce" is a specific type of guitar composer, or whether it can be handled at an article called, say "guitar composer". -- Tarquin
You people sure make much ado about nothing! Tarquin, in addition to not knowing much, I don't know much about genealogy too. Your bit on ancestors is pure laziness. Searching France for family history is the easiest of any place on the planet.... DW
- Who do you mean by "you people"? French people, amateur genealogists, or what? It's certainly a doddle as far back as 1800 or so, but beyond that the "etat civil" peters out. I don't have enough of (time | money | energy | inclination ) to travel out to the local archives. -- Tarquin 20:26 Dec 8, 2002 (UTC)
Just bringing it to your attention Tarquin someone submit stuf about theat fictional country acme: Talk:Acme -fonzy
Collabi 05:01 Dec 17, 2002 (UTC) : Thanks for looking over my yogurt article. In answer to your question, "bifidus" yogurt has been innoculated with a bacteria of the bifidus genus (such as bifidus acidophilus) in addition to streptococcus and lactobaccili. Like lactobacillus, bifidus is one of the many symbiotic flora that live in the large intestine of healthy people; it keeps pH in balance and promotes the reabsorption of water. As with lactobacillus you run into all sorts of digestive problems if you haven't got any, so sometimes they add bifidus to yogurt so it can be marketed as a digestive aid. In practice, though, almost everyone has a healthy complement of bifidus in their gut, so it's kind of a moot point. As far as I know it's only really significant for people who have depleted flora, say due to antiobiotics or extended fasting. But it makes people feel good to buy it.
be friendly to the poor noobz. Vera Cruz
- You mean "META-PHILOSOPHY SPARTACUS"? He's a bit persistent... I'll step back for a bit & let others handle it with more diplomacy :) -- I have a cold so I'm feeling a bit prickly this week. -- Tarquin
Thanx! for the compliment and edit on Lake Titicaca - I've decided to port my 'factuals' over from Everything2 (homenode) where appropriate. I was always put off by how ugly Wiki looked re: E2 (much better with the Cologne Blue theme), but now that I've gotten to know it better it's pretty neat (tho' E2 is still much more 'fun' :)
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There is probably more going on with bcrowell than he let on at the village
pump. The posts in Talk:Horoscope did not go well for him. His ossified world view was shown up as he clumsily grasped at straws and ignored
basic logic. Ultimately he made embarrassing mistakes in physics and
silly completeness statements about science (his strongly held views and his profesion) which I showed him were demostrably false. His ego is massively hurt : he cleared out all incriminating material from the history.
I don't believe that bcrowell will come back even if he is sweet talked bcrowell biggest problems were advocasy, never understanding NPOV, mistaking snide and dismissive for balance, and thinking fanaticism and prejudgement of science.
Scientists always lose arguements about science, with philosophers of science.
I 'm new here. And I've been bad. I was bold too boldand it put me on the vandalism page (216.129.198.41) and thrown off. Later I put some satire in a completely meaningless paragraph. It made it through several edits. Somebody finally noticed it and edited it out including snide summary. So I demolished each remaining sentence with ridicule.
sex was a wild snake pit. Now it will be stable for awhile. Most of the credit belongs talk:sex. I marshalled reason, external links, internal links to wikipedia to get NPOV in the article. Even the stuff casually dismissed as utter nonsence by the fundamentalist. By definition you can't convince a fundamentalist of your position you can only shows them the unreasonableness of theirs (if that)
Open source community is in my soul. I aspire to the ideals that the community needs me to have.
is this google? Vera Cruz
Seeing as how I'm the writer, I do wonder how you determine what is best for me. Vera Cruz
If we're going to have a discussion, can we keep it on one page maybe? You're not the only writer. Links are created in the flow of the text, therefore things will be linked to as they are most commonly known. Bill Clinton is a good example. -- Tarquin 16:29 Dec 24, 2002 (UTC)
Bill Clinton is a good example of what, of the fact that you don't like to put full names as the title of the page? Yes, I see that you don't wish to do that. I think it's a stupid policy and unless you have something to add to the section's that I am working on, I'd really rather than you go do something else rather than messing around with a bunch of page names. Vera Cruz