User talk:AVRS/Archives/2

Image:Prin_logo.jpg

I agree the resolution is far too high. I've tagged the image with {{non-free reduce}}. If you still feel unhappy with the image, you can take it to WP:FUR Papa November 22:01, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Result: The image size has been reduced and it was replaced with Image:Prin logo.png. Maybe deletion of fair use logos is not first priority ATM (compare with replacable fair use screenshots), so a careful choice should be made about the images in that Pringles article. --AVRS (talk) 19:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

“usually very well known”

(moved from User:AVRS --AVRS (talk) 22:08, 3 March 2011 (UTC))

What's the point of mentioning that? Unless it is “usually little known”, isn't everything about “usually very well known”? - AVRS 10:58, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Re-read the sentence again and you will probably see how silly the question is. The object of musical parody is USUALLY a very well known piece of music (in its original form) - if only because it makes a better joke that way. On the other hand this is far from always the case - some parody has become much better known than the "original" - in fact most people may not even know it is a parody. Sometimes the original joke was pretty obscure, or wasn't even really meant to be funny. To put it another way - music that is parodied is "usually well known" - but it is "sometimes not so well known". Soundofmusicals 01:40, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Pedants (NOT saying you are one) VERY often lose the ability to make sense of passages of connected prose altogether, because they can't see anything in context - words and phrases have become more important than sentences, and sentences more important than paragraphs. Most importantly, style is more important than meaning, in fact meaning has lost its importance altogether. Might I suggest it is impossible to constructively criticise the the style of a passage one does not understand? Soundofmusicals 01:58, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Result: The discussion has been moved to Talk:Parody music#“usually very well known” and stalled. --AVRS (talk) 19:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Plzdie

Please Die. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Agent Smith teh Uber Pr0 (talk • contribs) 16:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Result: The user was blocked for 1 month for vandalism and threats. --AVRS (talk) 19:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Your Parody music comment

I have issues with the "Parody music" article, too, and the "usually very well known" description in the opening sentence was one. I've added my own opinion, along the lines of yours (so I guess you can consider the discussion "open" again, lol). The statement is wrong, and I've given a couple examples. Regards, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 17:05, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I've added it to my watchlist. --AVRS (talk) 12:02, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

P.S., Soundofmusicals has just suggested a discussion with "interested parties".Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 04:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Legend of the Green Dragon

I'm guessing that you have a much more narrowly-defined definition of open source than I do. Would you please care to clarify? From what I can see, the source code is all available, but there are mild use restrictions in play, e.g. source code for modification must be available on demand and future users who wish to set up servers can't charge money for access. Last I checked, that doesn't constitute lack of open-source status. X-Kal (talk) 06:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

(replied at Talk:Legend of the Red Dragon) --AVRS (talk) 11:32, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Flash Video spam

Thanks for all your work on keeping this article spam-free. If you have any recurring offenders, we can blacklist their domains. We normally only do this, however, after the spammer has been warned 3 to 5 times and been made fully aware of our rules. Here are spam warning templates you can use: Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam#Templates. Report persistent cases at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam‎ (as you're already doing).

Again, thanks for the help! --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:32, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me. And note the comment from the user at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Hitasoft… --AVRS (talk) 18:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

WP:MFD/WikiProject VVMAP

Thank you for your extremely thoughtful comments on WP:MFD. May I suggest you refactor your comment so the need for a horizontal line will no longer be necessary? Thank you again. Bwrs (talk) 14:34, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

free games

To people that aren't programmers (lets be honest, most people) a "free game" is one that they can play for free, try asking people not on the internet for a definition of a free game and you'll see what I mean! I'm just thinking about systemic bias. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.11.157 (talk • contribs) 22:54, 2 December 2008

The same is true about Free software. Do you propose to also rename that article? --AVRS (talk) 12:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)