User talk:Akamad/Archive01

This is the archives from June 9, 2005 to December 26, 2005. Please do not edit this page, please write any new comments on my current talk page. Thank you :-)

Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have. You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox. When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines. First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette. Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

Be sure to get involved in the community – you can contact me at my talk page if you have any questions, and you can check out the village pump, where lots of wikipedians hang out and discuss things. If you're looking for something to do, check out the community portal. And whenever you ask a question or post something on a talk page, be sure to sign your name by typing ~~~~.

Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame) 14:07, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

PM Photo

(This is User:Barrettmagic's reply to my query on his talk page):

Sure! I recall seeing the year for the image was actually 1991 - so yeah, not really today. If you'd like to update the caption that's cool. -- Barrettmagic 17:56, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Weathermen

(This is User:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters's response to this edit summary):

Your edit comment to use talk would generally be sensible. However, unfortunately, in this case, Tanya Ravine's edits have nothing to do with the content issue. Nearly his/her entire edit history consist of looking at my edit history, and changing whatever I edit; I'm pretty sure s/he really could not care less about the specific article. It's weird to have an "anonymous detractor", but c'est la vie. She apparently created an account just to put rude comments in the article that is about me (in my identity outside WP).

In any case, I made a pretty long comment in Talk:Weathermen already, the first time I edited on that issue, and before Ms. Ravine came along. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 16:20, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I must admit, looking at his/her edit history, he/she seems to have some issues with you :-( Do you know who he/she is? Akamad 01:44, 9 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

(See Lulu's reply)

Beatles page

(This is User:Wahkeenah's comment in response to this edit):

Not to quibble too much... but in their glory years the Beatles were commonly referred to in the media by their first names. You've done some possibly-excessive changing to last names. Presumably trying to make it sound more encyclopedic. Not worth getting into an edit-war about, but worth discussing, maybe. :) Wahkeenah 10:32, 9 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Done and done. (See Beatles talk page) Akamad 09:08, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Stitches pulled out

(This is User:Wahkeenah's comment in response to this edit):

That's fine. That was a momentary bit of inspiration. I haven't the vaguest idea what the Beatles' real reason was for the "Help" dedication, other than purposeful weirdness. It might be worth pointing out that it anticipated some of the equally absurd dedications and references in projects like the "Monty Python" TV series. :) Wahkeenah 10:23, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dylan Live 1966

(This is User:Monicasdude response to this edit and talk page comment):

There's no substantive dispute to compromise here; JDG and BCG are just reverting edits because I've made them. The original discussion of the substantive change is on L1759's talk page, and nobody's challenged it. Monicasdude 22:34, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Baba Yetu

(After I provided some info on the Reference desk about the Civ 4 theme song):

Hey, thanks for your help! I would have never found out any more info without it. -- Demonesque ^talk 21:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC) [reply]

Not a problem at all. I actually found the song a few days ago because I too really loved it. They really have put a lot of effort into the music. Akamad 22:07, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Johnny Cash

(After I provided some info on the Reference desk about a Johnny Cash song):

Thanks, i'll add it to the album on his discography. I thought it was fairly recent. Karmafist 03:22, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Edits To Your Page

Excuse me, sir, but I believe the new version of your profile was far superior to the old/current one, and furthermore, more accurate. Please revert at once before I call my internet lawyer and sue.—the preceding unsigned comment is by 68.171.135.249 (talk • contribs) 08:43, November 24 2005 (UTC)

Just for the record, this edit is by User:68.171.135.249, he/she is talking about this edit that they made on my userpage. Why? Because I wrote a warning on his/her talk page because of these edits: [1], [2], [3]. And by the way, thanks to User:Who who quickly reverted User:68.171.135.249's edit on my userpage. - Akamad 08:56, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks from Jefffire

The Tilde key was exactly where you said it would be, thanks. Incidently I have noticed the second paragraph in Mike Church (radio) is pretty biased and rude so I was thinking about editing it. So far though my only change was removing Bobsleding from the list of missionary positions on the grounds that a)it was made up b)it was clearly a rear entry position. Let me know if I do somthing wrong. Jefffire 11:44, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Lou Correa

I removed it already as a blantant copyvio. I removed your notice from Copyright problems. Just letting you know. :) --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 08:22, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for reverting that vandalism to my page. Bored Australian pupil, it would seem.--cj | talk 07:15, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And I am a bored Australian uni student (it's true) :-) - Akamad 07:17, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As am I! Small world...--cj | talk 07:19, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh ditto the above. I mean about reverting vandalism (well moving a comment to the comment page). I'm bored, and I'm Australian, but I'm not a uni student, or at least not until I go back in 2007. --Swamp Ig 08:38, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I guess at this time of day (7:40pm here in Canberra), there would be a lot of Aussies editing. - Akamad 08:40, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Herbert Tobias

I just drop by to let you know that an article not being written in English is no cause for speedy deletion; we use the {{notenglish}} template for this. Cheers. Lectonar 08:51, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info. :-) Akamad 08:54, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

CP blanking

Hi. I am the original author of Crystal Palace (chat site). I wrote it as part of my project at dealing the history of talkers, which includes 11 individual chat sites. The reason why Crystal Palace is important, from my point of view, is because of the controversy surrounding it, in relation to the 3 incidents that it is believed to be responsible for, namely 1) hacking 2) spying 3) blackmail. If we were to remove them, then the article has no merit for existence, in my opinion. I already put in there that they were rumours, but that the importance is how these rumours affected everyone else. Incidentally, as they state quite correctly, those same rumours that drove everyone away from talkers generally were the same users that drew users to Crystal Palace, and it effectively worked as advertising for them. In other words, people who didn't believe the rumours, or who thought that they were made up things designed to smear Virus's name, went to Crystal Palace to empathise with him.

Now, I am at the stage where I don't want to contribute to it anymore. I pretty much have already contributed all that I can to the project, besides minor little tweaks here and there. I am very happy that people have come on who personally know a bit about it who can add things. I am quite confident that they have links to things which can give more of a story about the talker besides just the controversy bit that I know about.

However, I disagree with the idea of removing the controversy element from the page. It's kind of like having the Michael Jackson article without the accusations of child molestation. Whilst a court of law did find Michael Jackson not guilty, the reality is that it did adversely affect his reputation, and that it was newsworthy. Its a similar kind of issue, in my opinion.

Anyway, I thought that I would leave it for at least a week, to see how they sort themselves out. So long as they only use that article, I am sure it will end up looking in top shape. If not, then we've got history and can get things back to how they were.

Thanks for your help with the redirects. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 03:38, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing my userpage

It's nice to know that there are people like you out there watching over Wikipedia. Cheers, Ingoolemo ^talk 16:51, 5 December 2005 (UTC) [reply]

Warning by anon editor

~~This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. 70.59.23.3 00:47, 10 December 2005 (UTC)~~ Undesserved test4 message removed. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 16:10, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please note, this warning was placed here by user:70.59.23.3 because I continued to revert the blanking he/she did of the warnings on his/her user talk page. - Akamad 01:08, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reverting my page

Thanks for reverting my page. The user who posted that is in quite a lengthy war to blank pages for "copyright violations", which I have been fighting back. I've posted a detailed description of the event at the help desk- Essentially he has made several claims of copyright infringement and blanked the associated pages. I've examined each one and either reverted his changes (where there was no evidence) or replaced his crude legal threats with the correct copyvio template. Now he is apparently quite mad at me for the ones which i reverted, although if there was any infringement, i cannot find it. If you are an administrator, I would greatly appreciate you checking into contributions as well, i would love a second opinion on this. Thanks again for saving my user page. - Lanoitarus 05:48, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am not an admin, so I can't help you there. I did however, also leave a message on his/her userpage stating that he/she should follow the procedure listed on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. And I do believe you did the right thing. - Akamad 05:52, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the vote of confidence :). I think I have not resolved the problem, anyway. Most of the articles were in fact violations, just not of the site he had listed. Should be all set now. Thanks! Just out of curiosity, i noticed that when I left my original comment above, you immediately added the signature i had forgetten- Do you use a script to do that or was that manual? Would be extremely useful if it was a script. (i'll check back here for your response) -Lanoitarus 05:56, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a script, just a template: {{Unsigned|Username|08:43, November 24 2005 (UTC)}}, however, you have to put in the username and the time and date in manually. - Akamad 05:59, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhh, thanks. Still a step up. -Lanoitarus 06:01, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like we are having a bit of a double-editing issue going, with both of us making similar reversions in the same minute to Edward_"Punchy"_McLaughlin. End result from both of our reversions was nearly identical though. Thanks again for the help! -Lanoitarus 06:10, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's craziness :-) - Akamad 06:24, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Per SCZenz's request, I have listed the blanking/copyright events involving 24.147.103.146 (and later 204.169.116.1 at WP:AN/I. If theres anything i've missed about these events please feel free to add. Thanks again for your help. -Lanoitarus _^(talk) .:. 00:34, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

King of Fighters

Sorry about the mis-revert. Went back and looked at the reason afterward - my mistake! --TonySt, Vandalism Ninja 00:12, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's quite alright :-) Akamad 00:13, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hey, thanks for de-vandalizing my page while Heisman Trophy was being worked on. Probably wouldn't even have noticed myself. KramarDanIkabu [[User talk:KramarDanIkabu|(speak)]] 02:06, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your comment

In reply to your comments on my talk page: Thanks very much, this is certainly the largest issue i've dealt with in my time here, and its great to hear positive feedback. The "corel case" is Bridgeman vs Corel, which was brought to my attention by Mwanner. Its is a US district court ruling which basicially established that even if someone puts a bunch of effort/time/money into creating a reproduction of a public domain image, the new reproduction is automatically in the public domain as well unless it involves some sort of artistic originality. This means that the site the mug shots may have been lifted from is irrelevant, since they are reproductions of PD images. Thanks again for the support! -Lanoitarus _^(talk) .:. 07:10, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image placement vote

Hello, it's MegamanZero, and I've gotten into a conflict with the Orgy over his needless image placement and excessive quotes on the Iori Yagami page. So, I've decided to hold a vote (like on the Ryu charaacter page) concerning which version should be used. The vote can be found here. Please vote your opinion on the matter and thanks for your time! -MegamanZero 18:04, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :O)

Just wanted to thank you for the welcome. After I posted all that about needing help with templets and stuff I sat down and decided to try and figure it out myself...and so far so good. But if I have any more questions I'll be sure to send them your way :O) --Octopusouphut 00:42, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Messenger Plus!

What do you have against Pokemon, man? 10:31, 15 December 2005 (UTC) —the preceding unsigned comment is by 222.153.115.94 (talk • contribs) 10:31, December 15 2005 (UTC)

For the record, this edit is by user:222.153.115.94, in response to me reverting his edits to the Messenger Plus! article. My edits include: [4] and [5]. The user was subsequently blocked by user:Nlu. - Akamad 11:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting that test edit to my userpage! I only just realised it was vandalised! Fir e Fox 17:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Akamad,

Thanks for the information. I'm still learning my way around here. Hopefully this message is appearing in the appropriate place.

Eggplant

Thanks for the advice

Egg plant 20:25, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page. This is my first experience with that - having my userpage blanked and replaced with an obscenity. It must mean I'm doing something right, huh? -GTBacchus^(talk) 06:25, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for catching mine too, guess it's a side effect of being CVU. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 16:04, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

John Seigenthaler Sr?

Enlighten me, what is this? Was this a former troll that posted dubious articles?--Adam ^(talk) 13:59, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Have a look at John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy. It made pretty big headlines (at least on internet news) and lowered the credibility of Wikipedia. - Akamad 14:02, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

I accidentally put my welcome on Designergeorge's user page instead, as you obviously noticed. Thanks for fixing it for me. --ViolinGirl^♪ 01:59, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. That's the first time I've ever been vandalised. Cnwb 07:07, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

re: Vin Diesel

No hard feelings. Although I've never been reverted before...R'son-W 09:33, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There's always a first :-) - Akamad 09:38, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hare Krishna

I appreciate your improvement to the Hare Krishna page, thankyou. :-)

I have been battling with a certain user called 'dab' for the past 4-5 days. But will gladly accept any informed material, or visual improvements to the page. —the preceding unsigned comment is by GourangaUK (talk • contribs) 11:02, December 23 2005 (UTC)

My reply is here

Kumanovo + Request for arbitration (mine)

SCZenz filed a request for arbitration regarding my actions related to Kumanovo here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Freestylefrappe. I have listed you as a party involved. You may not remember, but a while ago you reverted vandalism by Bitola. A controversy has since erupted between me and about 10 other users over my subsequent reversions and conduct. freestylefrappe 19:06, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Thanks for the notification, but it seems I'm not listed on the RFA page as an involved party yet. So I thought I should wait until someone added me before making a statement. Thanks - Akamad ^{Merry Christmas to all!} 21:49, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This message was also left on Freestylefrappe's talk page

Anon edit

I'm sorry, I just couldn't help it. He's such an arrogant prick. He's the only person i've ever vandalized. How'd you get to it so fast? I'm impressed :) —the preceding unsigned comment is by 209.6.134.18 (talk • contribs) 04:13, December 24 2005 (UTC)

That's what we do. - Akamad ^{Merry Christmas to all!} 04:14, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the revert. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:39, 24 December 2005 (UTC)`[reply]

Merry Christmas!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, Akamad/Archive01! Hope it's a wonderful one! (happy New Year, too!)--ViolinGirl^♪ 15:19, 24 December 2005 (UTC) PS I like your userpage for Christmas!![reply]

Fenerbahçe SK

HI Akamad,

I want to work on this article and get it upto the standard it deserves. But I want it to be collaborative effort, one, because I would not know too much about the club history and other details, and secondly, because, well, its always more fun to work as a team! You seem to have worked on the article before, so would you like to join in? -Aabha (talk) 13:40, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the club, I just happened to come across it when I was on RC patrol. I wish I could help...sorry. - Akamad ^{Merry Christmas to all!} 22:09, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Oh, thats alright. Thanks for responding..and well, great work RC patrolling then:) -Aabha (talk) 05:46, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks For the Welcome

Cheers for the welcome Akamad. :) Icecradle 23:16, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock

Not a prob. Glad to do it. :) BTW, how does one become part of the vandal fighting squad...and can I borrow a couple of your cool templates for my own page? Thanks and merry Christmas! Only dropping by for a moment, but leave word on my page. See ya! - Lucky 6.9 00:16, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Have a read of the Counter vandalism page, all the info you need is there. And you certainly can borrow any of my templates, though I must say I don't know which template you are referring to :-). - Akamad ^{Merry Christmas to all!} 00:23, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Winning Civilization II in Deity Mode Without Warfare

(This comment is in reponse to this edit that I did):

I was a little surprised that my tips on winning the game lasted only two minutes before you removed them because you didn't think that is what Wikipedia is for. Those tips are far better than anything I've ever come across on the internet. Where do you feel is a good place for them? —the preceding unsigned comment is by 67.191.14.202 (talk • contribs) 02:03, December 26 2005 (UTC)

My reasoning is this: firstly, I believe it is against the policy stated on No Original Research. Secondly, since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, tips and hints on how to play games don't belong here since they do not belong in an encyclopedia. This article should be about the game, not good ways on how to play it. :-) Akamad 02:07, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose my comments could be viewed as original research. Any suggestions on the appropriate place to post them? —the preceding unsigned comment is by 67.191.14.202 (talk • contribs) 02:16, December 26 2005 (UTC)

On Wikipedia...I doubt there's a place. Wikibooks might be a better place. Though I haven't really looked around there so I don't know about what you can post and what you can't. - Akamad 02:18, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the welcome

Hey Salams man and thanks for answering my question. I would be more than happy to join the islam project, do take in mind I am still learning how to edit in wikipedia. Sorry to keep bugging you with questions but how did you find my question, was it through the recent changes or do you have some other kind of thing. Angry Ayrab 10:38, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you when you made an edit and it appeared here: Special:Contributions/newbies, that page shows edits made by relative newbies. And by the way, you can never ask too many questions, as it says on the top of my talk page, I am always willing to help. If you need anything at all, or just want to say hi, you know where to find me :-) Akamad 10:44, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for the advice and answers!Angry Ayrab 11:00, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]