User talk:Icelight

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Greetings and welcome to Wikipedia!

That's weird about pornography ... I only remember reverting it once. But strange things are going on right now regarding the upgrade and bug fixes. Antandrus (talk) 1 July 2005 22:39 (UTC)

Welcome screen

Hey, umm.... Thanks for the welcome message. Now, if only I hadn't been here for almost a month, and made 400+ edits. :) I've also done everything on that list, except for posting a picture. Not that I don't appreciate the message as a nice gesture, but I don't know if it was really appropriate. No worries though, and no harm done. --Icelight 16:04, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Heh, I saw that you've been RC patrolling for a while. Your talk page was a little lonely though. =P Not to mention it doesn't hurt to say welcome. So, welcome! Have fun wikipediaing, keep up the good work. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 16:07, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Tax resisters

Hello. I noticed that you've created a number of articles on various tax resistors. Do you think you could expand them to include a mention of why they are notable for doing so, as I don't know that just refusing to pay taxes, even for moral reasons, automatically makes someone notable. Thanks --Icelight 19:29, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

All of these folks do have more interesting biographies than what I've provided, but I'm familiar with them mostly from their tax resistance work so that explains why that was a big part of their bio-stub. They're typically not just run-of-the-mill tax resisters, but have some prominence in that movement (pioneers, significant martyrdoms, etc.), and often in others (many are U.S. Civil Rights Movement stand-outs, for instance). I'm hoping that having put up a scaffold-biography of them, others will eventually come through with more meaty stuff, or that I will myself when I have more time. -Moorlock 23:11, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Excellent! That's really all I wanted to make sure of. If you have one or two primary sources that you're working from that are accesible online, I'd be glad to help. --Icelight 00:41, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

My best source of info has been Google. Tony Serra's been involved in lots of interesting legal battles, including (I think) the Unabomber, the Weathermen, the Black Panthers and such. He's got a rep for being unconventional yet successful in court, though he recently got thrown behind bars for tax evasion. Jerome Tuccille has written a number of libertarian, economic & biographical books. He flip-flopped from libertarian to conservative and back about 35 years back to some controversy. Kirkpatrick Sale has authored a number of books (I read the one about Luddism and enjoyed it) - he also writes for magazines, and some of these may have author-bio sections. James Otsuka was a 1st generation Japanese American who was a conscientious objector and tax resister during World War II (at a time when many of his fellow-Nisei were sub-citizens) - that must have gotten him up to his ears in angry anti-Japanese fervor, and I'm sure makes for an interesting story but I haven't found much about it on-line. A Radical Takes Root is a good source of info about Karl Meyer. Here's an obituary of Maurice McCracken. The Hugh of Lincoln (saint) page has links to three on-line encyclopedia entries about St. Hugh. Walter Gormly is coming up periodically in the back-issues of MANAS Journal which I've been browsing through - hopefully I'll come across enough info to flesh out his bio. That should get you started if you're still interested in beefing up these stubs.

Spodi

Come back and take a look Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Spodi. SchmuckyTheCat 01:38, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Sprucefield

Hello. I noted your VfD for the Sprucefield article. I would agree that as it stood the article was non-notable, but I believe the place itself is indeed noteable. I have expanded the article greatly and I would appreciate it if you could take the time to vote again. (Whether you vote to keep or not). Thanks Mark83 21:48, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Gezman

Yeah all of us are a bit new to all of this, thanks for your comments anyway. We would still like to have a list of the past committees available...but as a section within the main Philharmonic page (not a new one like it was). Oh and just a tip: you may want to be a 'bit' nicer to new users like us...you can't critise someone for having a go! A few people have been turned off using this again because of some comments and thats a shame. I will have a read through the style manual and keep updating (hopefully more constructively) Gezman 14 September 2005

Re: Overzealous use of VandalProof

My appologies. Since large amounts of recent change are presented using the software, we sometimes do make mistakes when using the software. This is especially true when the editing user is anonymous, as most vandals are anonymous users. Thank you for pointing out my mistaken revert. --WinHunter ^(talk) 16:01, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Overzealous use of VandalProof

Your Post: I was browsing through RC when I noticed that both you and Winhunter reverted edits by an anonymous poster to the page Analogman using that program. The problem is, that was a perfectly legitimate edit he/she was making, deleting a spurious refference to some troll on a Wilco messageboard that had no place in the article. I don't know just how much info the program gives you on the nature of the post you're reverting. If you really looked at it, and think that sort of thing belongs there, than that's one thing. Otherwise you're just replacing garbage left their by a different anonymous poster in a snowballing effect. Icelight 15:25, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

• My Response: Oops... my bad. I should have read it more thoroughly. It looked like the IP was just blanking a section randomly. --Alan 21:04, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

RCN Series

Hi. Thanks for creating this article. I've expanded it a little; would you mind checking my work? Cheers, CWC(talk) 08:42, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

They look like perfectly reasonable edits to me. I'm debating (very brief) synopese of the books as well, although I couldn't address all of them as I hadn't even realized Some Golden Harbor had come out yet. I may try and expand the introduction as well. On another note, do you think "RCN Series" or something that uses the expanded "Republic of Cinnibar Navy" would be a better title. I just used to former because there was a convinient red link on the screen when I decided to start the page. Icelight

Oh, good. I think the article is still a bit skimpy, so please do expand the intro and add synopses.

I think "RCN Series" is a good name. People seem to call it that or "the Lt. Leary series". I've created Lt. Leary series as a redirect to RCN Series.

Cheers, CWC(talk) 10:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Enzyme

Thanks for catching that error in the irreversible inhibition section, I don't know when that was added but it's obviously a mistake. TimVickers 20:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Philip Evans (character)

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