User talk:Astronautics~enwiki

User_talk:Silsor/archive1

Oh, trick Angela showed me - you can add links to block messages - they don't show up in the blocklist, but they do show up for the blocked user. So I reblocked 24.69.255.203 and changed "see your talk page" to a link. Just letting you know for next time. Martin 00:19, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Nice. silsor 00:22, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)

hello

Hi Silsor (or Jeff) thanks for leaving me a message and introducing yourself. What are you studying at UofT? Which campus are you at?

I'm studying computer science at the Erindale campus. By the way, you can sign your messages by typing four tildes like this: ~~~~. silsor 20:26, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)

Evening Silsor :-) Just a quick word to thank you for your vote on the steward matter :-) SweetLittleFluffyThing

YorubaMan

Hello,

I've left my thoughts on this tiresome business with YorubaMan on the Talk:Nigeria page. Frankly, I'm tired of attempting to reason with someone who is so obnoxious and free with threats (three sent via email in 3 days) and insults, and I find the notion that there's anything like a mere disagreement of opinion going on here risible in the extreme. I have a life to attend to, and I'm not going to sit around pretending to engage in dialogue as an equal with someone whose penchant for foul insults ought to have gotten him banned long ago, if Wikipedia's guidelines were meant in earnest.

If the Nigeria and Yoruba pages degenerate into sinkholes for ethnocentric propaganda, so be it, and I'll know better from hereon than to attempt to contribute anything to this whole enterprise. Hopefully YorubaMan in all his myriad incarnations will more than make up for my absence with his erudition and objectivity. Abiola Lapite 20:48, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the unblock. --Wik 09:31, May 5, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the concern shown in reverting the rant posted to my talk page. I probably won't always be able to respond promptly to messages, and postings, but for the most part I think I can handle them. I hope you like the response that I composed to the pernicious vandal known as PV. - Moby 17:42, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, he was copying-and-pasting the same spam on many pages, so I just reverted it wherever I found it. silsor 18:08, May 6, 2004 (UTC)

Please believe me, my thanks on the matter are entirely genuine, no need to apologize. Occasionally, I won't be able to check in on things for nearly half of a day at a time, but I should usually be able to mantain scrutiny from now on at least once a day. I am inclined to become a bit more active in my edits here, and I expect I will sometimes encounter a bit of rudeness along the way. Thanks again. - Moby 18:46, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for protecting the page (Israel), Stilsor. Hopefully we'll now be able to resolve the issues over on talk; a couple days should do it. Rei 20:31, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Note to self: take care of Al Carnesale when back home. silsor 08:23, May 8, 2004 (UTC)

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Thanks for protecting Liancourt Rocks -- but could you revert to an older version such as this? The current revision has been mangled by User:Kunitaka, since links, formatting and the "East Sea of Korea" mention (the primary bone of contention, which was there before the present edit war started) are missing... -- Jpatokal 09:58, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

According to the general policy, I won't revert the article while protecting it, since this involves me in the dispute. However, according to my own policy, I may revert the article in the future, but only for the purpose of forcing a settlement if one party refuses to discuss their version which is enjoying the benefit of protection. silsor 17:33, May 8, 2004 (UTC)

It's been over two weeks now and Kunitaka ain't budging... IMHO this case is fairly clear-cut (note that neither MarkAlexander nor I are Japanese or Korean), but could we call for some neutral arbitration of this so as to have a fair shot at convincing him? Jpatokal 03:34, 23 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Augusto Pinochet

I like the copy-edits and other minor changes you made to the Augusto Pinochet article. It's nice to be able to edit an "unprotected" article again, isn't it? --Uncle Ed 13:40, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Like scampering under the feet of an elephant. silsor 14:28, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)

chuckle, LOL, --Uncle Ed 16:50, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

deleting categories

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life. Quick summary: there is no concensus on if and how to use categories for ToL articles, so they are to be deleted quickly to prevent misuse. - UtherSRG 15:07, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

FA format

Silsor - I reverted your 'usability experiment' on the featured articles. The "read the full article" part is redundant (and the main page has far too much of that already). →Raul654 02:16, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Raul, I put that there because clicking on the link in the featured text is unintuitive. Do you have another suggestion? silsor 02:22, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)

Anon

I just blocked the anon 172.200.25.14 whom you warned. He has been blocked under a dozen of different IPs today but keeps coming back. Unfortunately, a long-term block is not a good option, since those are AOL IPs which get used by other people as well. Andris 00:14, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

IRC

Why don't you ever come onto #Wikipedia on IRC any more? - Mark 05:10, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I was away for the summer, and I haven't gotten back into the habit of IRC yet. Maybe I will again soon. Thanks for asking! silsor 06:12, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

List of fictional curse words

Regarding the removal of "yakoo" from List of fictional curse words, I wonder if the word "krunk" is similarly off-topic and unimportant. like "yakoo", it wasn't created by an author of fiction, but rather for a late-night comedy show. It was the appearance of that word that led me to add "yakoo" to the list. --Arteitle 03:12, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

Why did you reverse the edit I did with Islam topic?

You simply remove the work I did and gave no explanation. Why are you so inconsiderate? Are you anti-Ali Sina? The man deserves a link in Wiki! You took that away from him.

I've removed many links from that article in the past, you'll have to be more specific than that. How about a link to the edit? silsor 04:24, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)

I would not have needed to provide you with a link to the edit if you had explained why you did the reversion at the time. Are you in the habit of making reversions without explanation? Doing so, no matter how justified, can be viewed as a slap in the face to the person who spent time making edits, presumeably (as was the case with me) in good faith.

To answer your question, it was in Islam, and you removed the Wiki Link I had created for Ali Sina as well as reinstated, and then moments later re-removed, three unnecessary words I had excised from the article to make room for the four square brackets necessary for making the name Ali Sina into a Wiki Link.

Here is the link to the edit you first made to Islam. As you can see, you also removed the end of the article by accident. I reverted this change, and then tried to re-add the other changes that you had made. I apologize for missing the new brackets around Ali Sina.

The reason that you are chopping off the end of the article might be that your web browser can only handle forms with a certain amount of text in them, since it happened again with this edit. You might want to try a different browser that can handle larger forms if you want to edit big articles (see Wikipedia:Browser page size limits). Again, sorry for any misunderstanding. silsor 05:38, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)

troll/vandal

Hi Silsor, thanks for reverting the vandalism on Communist Party USA page. I believe the person is using the following accounts;

Some edits are good, others are nonsense ([1]). I listed him on the vandalism page, and I'm sending this note to a couple of admins. Duk 15:02, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sorry about not listing copyvios

I misinterpreted the instructions and thought that, as with Speedy Deletions, applying the template put them in a category and resulted in their automatically being listed. Sorry about that. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 15:37, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

No problem, the reason I started listing all those in the first place was that I noticed I had forgot some myself. silsor 16:18, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)

RfA

Hi, I noticed you opposed my RfA without comment. I was wondering if there was something I could clear up, questions I could answer, or perhaps some criticism which I might reflect upon? Concerned, Sam [Spade] 17:00, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Piła

Please take a look at Talk:Pila#Protection and new version and User:Halibutt/Pila. [[User:Halibutt|Halibu tt]] 23:28, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

protection of United_States_Libertarian_Party

I am currently following the United_States_Libertarian_Party edit war. I found the page Wikipedia:Protection_policy but didn't find anything on when to unprotect. Do you just wait a certain amount of time until people cool off? Should we make a subpage under talk with a proposed compromise for the article in question? pstudier 04:10, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sysops are free to use their good judgement when unprotecting pages, but usually unprotection is done when an agreement is reached on the talk page or after edit war participants seem to have lost interest. silsor 04:29, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

School grades

You know, a better way to attack perceived Americentrism in Fifth grade (et al) would have been to add information on other countries to the articles -- not just knee-jerkly removing information en masse. - KeithTyler 04:47, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

If you examine the page histories you will see that the only text that was removed was the prominent "Education in the United States" series label from these non-US-specific pages. silsor 15:14, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

Yes. The label was the title of an infobox, and that infobox was specifically an infobox for the U.S. grade sequence. If you follow it backwards, you'll see it starts at Kindergarten, and moves forward to articles like High school freshman and ends at High school senior, with a final indicator of Tertiary education. Since you took out the indication that this infobox was specifically for the U.S. education system, are you saying that this is how grades progress in all countries? - KeithTyler 17:39, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

Error: logic breakdown detected in User talk:Silsor. silsor 19:24, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

If you remove the context of the infobox, then the information it provides will be misunderstood as not having context. Can you understand that argument without making witty insults at me? - KeithTyler 06:44, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

The context is provided in the first sentence of each article. If you really want to improve the articles then go do it instead of wasting time flaming people who make legitimate, informative improvements to articles. silsor 07:21, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

North American Man-Boy Love Association

Hi Jeff, hello from Berlin to Toronto. I studied at U of T in 2001/2. Great people, great university, great city, great country. I really enjoyed it, and I met some of the most important people in my life over there. What is your area of studies? Do you take part in any sports activities?

Thanks for protection of that nasty article. That one and some related to it have been a nuisance for quite a while, with lots of links to pedophiles' websites and sick stuff about alleged scientifically proven harmlessness of child abuse, frequent reverts of information about therapy and even links to victims' organizations and such. I recently met Kurt Jansson, the head of the German wikimedia organization, and he told me that he even mentioned the pedophile articles in an interview about wikipedia with a newspaper because he thought it is bad for wikipedia's reputation but it would be worse if it seemed as if wikipedians were unaware of the problem. I insist that it is good to be aware of serious problems but vital to also work on solving them. I greatly appreciate that you do so. Get-back-world-respect 01:22, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Good work on this article, esp. going paragraph by paragraph to resolve the conflict. I haven't really read up on the article other then having it brought to my attention in the #Wikipedia channel, but i may offer some suggestions to try to get it NPOV. --ShaunMacPherson 02:48, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, and any help would be... helpful. silsor 03:28, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

Reminder

Please remember to list pages that you protect on Wikipedia:Protected page (see the protection policy). Thanks. Angela . 00:29, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. silsor 19:42, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

unprotection

Silsor, I'm unprotecting Pila, since it's been over a week. Cross your fingers. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 02:16, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

looks like they're right back at it. silsor 19:43, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

Copyright on images

Just a reminder, Wikipedia: Images for deletion is not for images with copyright problems. It's not really your fault in this case, since another user deleted the link to the correct page, Wikipedia: Copyright problems, for no apparent reason. I'm migrating your listing to there for you. Derrick Coetzee 22:31, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)