User talk:MCB/Archive 2

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Doubles

Hi. just to let you know. I've switched the stub on this page back to a generic one. The article is not solely sports-oriented. Cheers. No Guru 06:59, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hotel

My apologies, you are absolutely right. I live in England where we would say "upmarket" but you were quite correct to revert. Sorry again - Adrian Pingstone 07:28, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Winnipeg-beach-MCB.jpg

Could you upload the photograph Image:Winnipeg-beach-MCB.jpg to the Commons? I would like to include it in the Finnish Wiki article about Lake Winnipeg. Also if you have other Lake Winnipeg photos I would like to see those as well. Thank you. --Tve4 18:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done - it's now in the Commons, same name. Alas, it's my only photo of Lake Winnipeg, although I might have one or two of the town of Winnipeg Beach. Best regards, MCB 20:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. I intend to start Finnish articles about the Lake Winnipeg communities, so any help in form of photographs or trivia is more than appreciated. --Tve4 07:43, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Netoholic

Yes, I noticed that he removed the warning. I'll be keeping an eye on his behavior when he comes back from his current block. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 03:16, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barrington & Polidor

Hello Barringtonian. I, too, was there, and I agree with you that there are many, many more tales to tell about the place. Also, I am curious if the Polidor you mention on your User page is the Cremerie Polidor in Paris' 6e Arr.? [1] --AStanhope 18:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am fortunate to have worked for a brief spell in Paris in 1996 and have returned several times (1999 twice, 2001) for pleasure, enjoying Polidor several times on each trip. What a cool and special place! If you remember, please let me know when your article is up - or perhaps if one of us created a stub for it now it could be watched. IMO, it should be called Polidor rather than le Polidor or Cremerie Polidor. What say you? --AStanhope 19:55, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My Wife

Thank you, sir, everyone is starting to prove to me that Wikipedia is really the community it hoped to be all along. Thank you so much. Chris 20:30, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Pima-air-and-space-MCB.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Pima-air-and-space-MCB.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. Shyam ^(T/C) 01:35, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, thanks. MCB 01:43, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Culturoso

Dearest sir:

I'd like you to reconsider your vote regarding the mexican slang word culturoso. You noted:

In the beggining, its ethimology was despective"? Que?

And I corrected it into the following phrase:

its etymology was derogatory

The phrase appears to be correct (unless you have any justifiable objection), and the word is valuable and I like to keep it in Wikipedia in English, seeing how my own wikipedia (in spanish) hasn't been open-minded nor tolerant at all.

I know you will make the correct choice.

Saludos, --B Batianismo 15:48, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on your talk page. Regards, MCB 17:56, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- I understand perfectly that wikipedia is not a 'mexican slang word' dictionary, but the word culturoso goes beyond a simple definition and encapsulates a lifestyle well documented both in Internet and real life. I think the description, while in dire need of being improved, is valid

and since the spanish wikipedia doesn't accept it please allow this definition to exist.

I would like you to show your exceptional tolerance, a trait people who live in San Francisco are known around the world for.

Again, if words like Naco and Beaner are left untouched, why can't this one? Japanese schoolgirl uniforms articles could also be considered irrelevant, but they aren't, because they are important to an small cadre of people. I won't bother you anymore, sir, but please reconsider it again, don't be biased because it is a mexican word and because a mexican is asking you this. Please nullify or change your vote.

Thanks in advance. Batianismo 20:05, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ray Kidder

Good work on the Ray Kidder article! You certainly hit all the points I knew about him from, and some more beyond that. Thanks! --Fastfission 15:26, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John Tunnard

Sorry about the delay in replying. The problem with John Tunnard was that nearly all the material added to Wikipedia by its originator has turned out to be copyvio (see discussion at User talk:Gartart and User talk:Andrew Norman), and stylistically the John Tunnard article has the smell of copyvio too.

Wikipedia appears to have changed the copyvio system; Wikipedia: Copyright problems used to have a "suspected offline copyvio" section. Tearlach 04:03, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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List of shock sites nominated for deletion for a fourth time

The article List of shock sites has been nominatied for deletion again. I noticed that during its past nominations for deletion you voted to have the article deleted. If you have time, please support me in my attempt to have this article deleted by casting your vote in favour of deletion. Thank you. - Conrad Devonshire 07:23, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AfD

Hi MCB, I noticed your supportive vote on Niki Ashton, and found a similiar AfD on an NDP candidate in the 2006 election that's already had one AfD vote to Keep. Right now it's hovering, and just needs your Keep vote. Please go here Thanks. CanadianElection 10:35, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for feedback

Good day,

A while ago, you expressed concern about the content of the article I wrote on Dissimulation. The article has been rewritten, but a cleanup tag is appended for anyone who could offer constructive revisions to the entry.

If you have any comments, questions, or concerns which you would like to submit, please use the article's talk page for such matters.

Regards --Folajimi 15:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion Review

~~Besides the substantive issue of notability, which I believe attaches to major party candidates for Federal office in Canada...~~

Michael, you do realize that this guy is a candidate in a municipal election (specifically, Vaughan, Ontario, a city a bit larger than Fremont and a bit smaller than Stockton)? This most definitely has nothing to do with national-level politics.

Strike that: I got this guy confused with the other focus of the sockpuppeting campaign. The comments below are still valid. --Calton | Talk 01:49, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And as for the sockpuppet allegations -- they're not allegations. See here and here, among other places. He's up to 50+ at this point, and the references and proofs are scattered hither and yon.

Oh, and [[User|CanadianElection}}, who left you the note a few comments above? Sockpuppet. --Calton | Talk 01:45, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think Canadian Federal election candidates from the major parties can reasonably be considered suitable for articles. I disagree that being a candidate -- major party or not -- is a priori suitable for an article: look at the no-hopers and sacrificial lambs offered up by Republicans in San Francisco's congressional district (it's the 8th, BTW). Come to think, who did the Democrats run in your district last election against Richard Pombo?* The candidacy alone isn't enough, in my view, since all it takes (in the US, at least) is being able to file the papers. I assume it's a little more party-based in Canada, but I'm assuming they have the same problems as Americans in filling no-hoper slots. --Calton | Talk 04:11, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

*I'll save you the trouble: Jerry McNerney, an engineer who's in a windpower start-up.

MCB - they're blocking everybody who edits the election articles, I'm so ticked off. They blocked me too. Be careful. Gsinclair 00:36, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

-Also when they say that so-and-so is a sockpuppet, they're just guessing, otherwise I wouldn't have been blocked. It's like anybody who isn't for getting rid of all the election articles is the bad guy. I looked into "checkuser" and there are only 8 sockpuppets, this other figure is inflated by these people who obviously don't even know what they're talking about. I'm really ticked off at all this bs, especially what they write about me in the [deletion review]. Gsinclair 00:40, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of things:

1) the above are the user's 2nd and 3rd edits. Presumably, the previous, now blocked, incarnation was GSinclair (note the "g"), which had 8 edits, all told.

2) the statement "...there are only 8 sockpuppets" is an outright lie. Demonstratably false.

I don't mind the fanatical sockpuppetry as much as I mind the insults to everyone's intelligence. --Calton | Talk 05:08, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

USCA

I happened to look over your talk page, and noticed a reference to Barrington: were you in the co-ops, too? (Cloyne Court and ACA for me, and yes, I'm in the alumni association.) --Calton | Talk 04:22, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Social Choice and Individual Values

Thx, MCB. I didn't put it in, but I'm glad someone else took out the "spoiler". I'm very near "going public" with links to related articles, but I may do a bit more trolling for comment. I think I've got the substance right. I hope it reads well. How did you come across the article? User talk:Thomasmeeks

(Responded on your talk page.) MCB 05:04, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the Help Desk, that's where I posted. I've now got Talk:Social Choice and Individual Values up and am soliciting comment there. In the next day or 2 I'll visit related Talk pp. to ask for input. Is Wiki a great place or what? Social Choice and Individual Values is worth getting right. BW, Thomasmeeks 09:37, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vagina

Please don't bring policy into this. I don't find the picture personally offensive at all, I am just mature enough to understand it is completly unencyclopedic.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 16:55, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I basically used the word "arousing" as a joke. There is a clear distinction between a non-sexual picture of a women's anatomy and a picture showing a women holding her vagina open, I would bet that the picture originally came from a pornographic website.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 17:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of songs with a color word(s) in their names

Hi, I appreciate your point re this list, but it seems to me to be a pity to delete a page into which so much effort has gone (even though that effort might have been more useful elsewhere). So I'm asking editors if they can rethink and factor that in - I appreciate they may well reach the same conclusion even after a rethink :-) Dlyons493 Talk

Sorry; thanks

Good thinking on Talk:Hacker artist. I didn't write the original text, but all the sections are oriented around people; not their work apart from them. Hacker art would make a good article to complement Hacker artist. 71.132.131.237 04:07, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]