User talk:Sturmde

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Sturmde! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:

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I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. We can use all the help we can get! Have a nice day. Sincerely, Ryan. 13:02, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Voting on article title of Provisional designation of asteroids

At Talk:Provisional designation of asteroids#Approval. Feel free to make your voice heard. -- hike395 02:07, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Margaret

Hi Sturmde,

Can you support the Much Ado ref being an in-joke about UB313 and Pluto? I would like to put this in the Margaret article.

Thanks, kwami 22:12, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

pronunciations to be deleted

Hi Sturmde,

Just a heads up: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pronunciation respelling key.

—kwami 21:27, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Caron/hacek vote

There's a vote on Talk:caron where the article should be if you're interested. +Hexagon1 (talk) 10:09, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Me

For what it is worth, your recent edit reverses consensus other editors had about this. They wanted the most notable thing to come first, and that would be the work encoding scripts. That's the real job. I don't get paid for being a linguist. But you can discuss it with other editors. -- Evertype·✆ 09:57, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

There was clearly no consensus about the biography page, sadly the talk page shows this. I applied a NPOV, since I have not been party to the internecine edits. Text was only shifted: I removed no points previously existing. A biography page, in contrast to a user homepage, should be biographical. It should also be taxonomic. My college degrees are in physics, business management, and in computer science. Therefore, I would by default be a physicist, entrepreneur and computer scientist... for example.. even if I don't get paid for all of them. Unlike your range, I can't place mine in a clear taxonomic order. One is a linguist by training, there's no denying that. It doesn't imply it brings in six-figure incomes. From that grew typesetting and font designing, no? Or at least, one could argue, your baccalaureate and graduate degrees led to them. And I think your degrees are clearly categorized as linguist. Marc Okrand makes his living as a closed-captioning expert... but he's also still a linguist.

The quote leading the previous edit of the biography also was a bit irrelevant due to the weasely 'probably the greatest of all time'-like remark and doesn't stand the burden of the test of time. Sure, it's an interesting quote, but it shouldn't lead the biography. Should Isaac Newton begin "Perhaps the greatest physicist of all time..."? Even he only gets "generally regarded as one of the greatest".... --Sturmde 14:38, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

More than two years on... we're back! :-) -- Evertype·✆ 15:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Glad it worked out for the better again this time, too! --Sturmde (talk) 16:05, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Where is Boswell when you need him? -- Evertype·✆ 16:41, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

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Greek alphabet

Assuming that I archived Greek talk page to hide edits is not true. I simply archived talk page, because it was very big already. For proof of my good intentions, I restored Greek alphabet table again and did the same with templates. I removed these letters only because other editors had edit war and didn't wanted them here. I only provoked edit war again, thus I give up. Maybe you will restore my changes and protect Greek alphabet and its templates from other editors, but not from me - I wanted only add missing letters and nothing more. CBMIBM (talk) 10:53, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Flagships

Hi. Re a comment by Mervyn Emrys: I'd like to encourage all involved to be calm and to avoid writing things that might be irritating to others. I think the user may be referring to this comment of yours, which seems to me (in the last sentence) to be a threat to revert edits. I'd just like to say that that doesn't sound to me as threatening as a threat of being banned. [1] ☺Coppertwig (talk) 22:03, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

I was surprised Copper, because "One should be careful when starting an edit war with folks who also have free electrons by the yottamole." is a paraphrase of the oft-assigned-to-Twain "Never pick a fight with anybody who buys ink by the barrel." Thanks for the heads up. I'm just a little junior high kid trying to survive in this world of cowboy anarchy. ;) --Sturmde (talk) 22:45, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Now, how did a little junior high kid ever get an email address for <removed for de-spamming purposes>, which is the domain name for faculty and staff at the University of Maine, and which until very recently was listed on your User page, and is still in the "history" there? Mervyn Emrys (talk) 01:36, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to my talk page, Mervyn Emrys! You've just violated a Wikipedia policy known as Wikipedia:OUTING. You might want to read it, because it's really uncivil and impolite to do what you just attempted to do in the manner in which you did. Your claims about information may or may not be true. However, I did some quick research and it turns out that the email address you referred to has a domain for a whole University System which includes faculty, staff, students at multiple campuses, vendors and retirees with system mail, and system office employees. Also, you might have missed the ;) at the end of that last sentence.--Sturmde (talk) 04:08, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I did NOT violate the policy on outing, because it was YOU who posted that information on your User page some time ago, where it was public for anyone and everyone to read. Can't blame me for something YOU did, my friend. However, I suppose it is a bit disconcerting that your action undercut your claim to be "just a little junior high kid." I doubt many junior high kids have a university .edu email address, though I'm willing to be proven wrong. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 22:10, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Dude, you really don't get the meaning of ;) Obviously I'm not a junior high kid, as that sarcastic line was a reference to some anonymous person's claims that everyone on Wikipedia editing was a junior high kid. And you're not "my friend". You have no respect for me whatsoever, and I would never call someone like that a friend. The "outing" act you performed was digging into the history of my user page, trying to specify who I might or might not be, and where I might or might not be from. I purposely took out the @ form of my email address to remove spam -- you unkindly posted it above again, and an admin blanked it. I have a right to direct email inquiries to an appropriate mailbox. I'd had that previous email note dating back to 2005. I prefer to use a different email now for Wikipedia to eliminate spam coming from here. That's my choice. Were I to email you, I wouldn't email you at your .edu address, if you'd provided another address. I've been around here since near the beginning, and you're certainly quite the fellow. Never seen anyone quite like you. Wikipedia's changed a lot since the Nupedia days. I attended Auburn University in the early 1980's coterminous with Jimmy Wales so you know how bad things come out of Auburn.... --Sturmde (talk) 13:20, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Sturmde. I apologize for having called your comment a "threat", above, because after reading your explanation here I see that it's wasn't. (Just telling me it was a paraphrase of Twain, above, didn't get that across to me.) I suppose I shouldn't have implied that Mervyn Emrys' comment was a "threat" either, for the same reason. Mervyn Emrys, I apologize for that. ☺Coppertwig (talk) 11:41, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Chronicle of Higher Education

Don't know what you are referring to. I don't edit on anything by that name. Do you suppose somebody else might use the same name? Duh. Don't care who you paraphrase, it sounded like a threat to me. And what conflict of interest? That's a new one. You got anything else? Oh, and remember, don't ever admit you made a mistake. Always point the finger at somebody else to cover up your own transgressions. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 01:16, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions, Mervyn, but the rest of us prefer not to operate under your rules. We like ours better.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 01:35, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Ah yes, preaching again, I see. Following me around again? Thank you so much for sharing this. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 03:10, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, you after all are on MY talk page. I mean, you're welcome and all, even though you're not the most polite person visiting my wikihome... and I'm really struggling to understand why you're so very angry. If you're still around, perhaps you can help me understand what it is you meant when you posted this: Have it your way. I'm out of here, for good. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 19:35, 22 March 2009 (UTC) over at User_talk:SarekOfVulcan#Stalking.3F. If you're "out of here, for good," why is this going like Groundhog Day? What's really wrong there for you? Is this just about the word flagship? I did part of my undergrad work and grad work at Auburn University. We aren't the state's flagship university, the University of Alabama is. Never bothers us one bit. We excel in what we excel in, and they the same. Did you have some terrible undergraduate experience? I have great friends at and alumni in the family from Ohio University. They know they and Miami U. have the history, but they acknowledge that Ohio State is the flagship. My favorite colleague has been at Colorado State University for almost 20 years. They know CU is the flagship for Colorado. Doesn't keep him and his colleagues from being the best they are, "loyal ever be". But I really doubt that he'd go online and remove the flagship designation from the Wikipedia page on the University of Colorado. Does this make sense yet? As the Joker might say, "why so serious?"--Sturmde (talk) 04:27, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, I was referring to Sarek preaching, not Sturmde. And if you read my comments at Talk:University of Maine you might understand it is not about the word "flagship" per se, but about how the word may be used to make it NPOV instead of the current POV approach. That has been my point since the beginning, but it received such emotional hostility on the talk page I guess it was difficult for some editors to figure it out. I believe Coppertwig has had some suggestions there as well. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 22:13, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

"Difficult"? Um, yeah. We're just stupid. Rrrrrright. --Sturmde (talk) 13:01, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Fahnestock clip

Hi - I noticed on the talk page for Fahnestock clip that you said you have images to add to the page, if someone can do some work on them. I might be able to help. What needs to be done? Tim Pierce (talk) 04:06, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I'd like to help with the images you mentioned of Fahnestock clips. I can edit them if you like and post them on Wikimedia Commons so we can use them on the Fahnestock clip page. I haven't been able to find any public domain pictures of Fahnestock clips. Funny, they used to be so common. Thanks. --Chetvorno^TALK 09:16, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

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