User talk:Etoile

Autofellowship

Reading Image talk:Autofellatio.jpg, I'm compelled to make a legitimate post on your talk page. Welcome to Wikipedia! :)

Samaritan 05:40, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) , another victim

MOO!

W00T Hiya hot stuff! *grins* Yes, I'm the same Uther. I'm no longer interested in my objects on Lambda. If you could disperse them to trusted and interested others, that would be fine. If you want to take them over yourself, you have my blessing. - UtherSRG 16:38, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

great work

Wow excellent work on Manually Coded English! This is a valuable contribution to wikipedia. Thanks for following up on my suggestion. I'm making a few changes now to make it less US-centric and when I have more time i will try to get stuff to link there. If u look at the 'what links here' page of SSE, a lot of them should more properly link to MCE. Thanks again! -- ntennis 23:24, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Now done - ntennis 07:04, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DC Meetup will be May 7/8

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Hi, Etoile!

I didn't notice your greeting on my user page until just now. Hello back!

ACW 18:16, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

User language boxes for sign language

Hello :)

I just created user language boxes for sign language, similar to the ones that exist for spoken languages. You may like to have a look. Any feedback is of course welcome!

Cheers, ntennis 09:06, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Extremely cool, thanks! -Etoile 13:19, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

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thank you

I hope my blurb on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (capitalization) answers your question.

Thank you for making Wikipedia a better place. --DavidCary 07:35, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject on Sign language, Deaf culture, and deafness

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Neopets

What is your username on Neo? I'm always interested in learning about other Neopets users. -- PinkDeoxys 21:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi

You seem cool :) glad people are liking the flag and triangle I made and templates ({{User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/User kinky}}/{{User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/User lesbian}} :)

Oh and happy birthday for the 18th just in case I get banninated again. My birthday is the 16th :) --Mistress Selina Kyle ^{(Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉)} 12:46, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Birthday!

Hello Etoile! I saw your birthday userbox, so as we say in Germany, Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag! I'm also here to give you a present:

CassThis user knows that you gotta make your own kind of music.

(in my mind, the greatest inspirational song ever). Once again, I wish you a very happy birthday!- JustPhil 00:20, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I'm just trying to be friendly.

Most excellent! Thank you so much! :D -Etoile 17:35, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Deaf WikiProject

Hello :)

There are now eight names on the project. What are your thoughts on if (and when) we should make it official, and move it from my namespace? Please respond to the open forum at User talk:Ntennis/Deaf WikiProject proposal. Thanks! ntennis 02:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Child of Deaf Adult

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Psst

I'm trying to build support for this nomination in its last few days. Please check out this page. Pass it along. Nudge nudge. -- evrik 20:22, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

New Wiki

Hello. I notice you have a depression userbox on your user page. I'm working on a new wiki for people with depression over at Wikicities (a project started by Jimbo and Angela). The idea is to create the ultimate resource for people affected by depression, with information on medication, therapies, helpful organisations and a lot more. I wonder if you would be interested in contributing to it? It's very young at the moment, but if we can build a community over there it should get off the ground. If you'd like to look it over, it's at http://depression.wikicities.com . I would be great if you would give it a glance. Thanks -- sannse (talk) 11:19, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

India.ogg

Hi,

Saw you write reporting about the quality of Spoken article. I don't know why this happened because in my computer, playing the same file at 50% volume in VLC Player and 50% volume in speakers (making it 25% volume) was even very loud for normal hearing. So I didn't find any need to re-normalize the volume. I really don't want to raise the volume of the file unless I am sure that the problem is with the audio in question. If I get a second opinion confirming this, I will surely do it. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 05:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Annie Taylor image

File:Niagara-annietaylor-mistqueen-nfpl.jpg

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E2

Hey there! This is avalyn from Everything2. I couldn't help but notice your affinity for Userboxes, so I took it upon myself to create one for noders in Wikiland. If you'd like to use it, the template is at User:UBX/noder. See you around! Avalyn 14:10, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Commons

Please see my answer at Commons:User talk:Raymond de#Sign language interpreter image. --Raymond de 17:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

RE:List of Cruise ships

I just thought it was a mess and did what had to be done, but thanks! :) -- saberwyn 22:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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Deaf-mute

Hi Etoile. I'm seeking opinions and possible support for an issue in which I'm in a debate with other Wikipedians. I'm trying to change indiscrimant use of the term "deaf-mute" in describing deaf people in general. To see some comments related to the issue, see Talk:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, as well as my own Talk page, User talk:Ward3001. You can also follow the links to other discussions. Right now I'm about the only person addressing the issue because deaf people are such a small minority. Other Wikipedians, with apparently no prior knowledge of the issue, are reverting my edits. If you're interesting in expressing your opinion, feel free to do so. If you wish to discuss further please leave me a message on my Talk page. Thanks. Ward3001 17:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

MANY THANKS for you comments on Talk:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter! I was beginning to feel very alone on this issue. If you can drum up some more support that would be great. I may contact NAD and some contacts at Gallaudet. Again, thanks for lending your voice. Ward3001 19:03, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm again asking those who commented against using "deaf-mute" to once again help me out. There is a persistent user who has repeatedly reverted "deaf" to "deaf-mute", and has again reverted (and probably will do so again until this issue is mediated [in process] or arbitrated). So far I'm the only one who has reverted it back to "deaf". If others could please put The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter on your watchlist and revert when necessary, I think it would have a much bigger impact. Just be careful not to violate the 3-revert-rule. As I'm writing this, the article needs reversion. There are four instances in the article where "deaf" is being reverted to "deaf-mute". I would greatly appreciate others in addition to myself making the reverts back to "deaf". As always, many thanks. Ward3001 03:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Note regarding mediation

24.0.97.119 ignored the mediation request (neither agreeing nor disagreeing), yet continues to revert "deaf" to "deaf-mute". Please continue to monitor The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. If this continues, I will ask everyone's opinion about seeking formal arbitration from Wikipedia. Arbitration results in a binding decision. Thanks. Ward3001 00:41, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Grups? --MalcolmGin 11:03, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

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SURPRISE

It wasn't Jaybird who contributed to the LambdaMOO article. He's much more humble than that. Please stop reverting edits which actually state the truth instead of making LambdaMOO into a warzone. KISS KISS AND GENDER EQUALITY AND NONESUCH —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.0.65.99 (talk) 04:50, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

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Hi there - I just brought the article over from French Wikipedia. I'm not sure what I can do to improve it...if the article was acceptable on French Wikipedia, why wouldn't it be okay here? I'll see what I can find, but I was just bringing the article over when I saw it was there and not here. -Etoile (talk) 23:42, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi

I saw you on the talk page for List_of_transgender_people and I just thought I'd say hi. I'm that guy from that other website you post on.--Dekker451 (talk) 20:30, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Well hi! I recognize you from your gamertag. ;) -Etoile (talk) 19:03, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello I am new in wikipedia and interesting in LGBT related topics too. Recently i added new article called <The flavor of corn>. Its about nice Italian LGBT related film created at 1986. But my article was declined becouse of abcent of external links. To my opinion this is not fair, becouse I mentioned the page from IMD. Please help me to approve this article and make it better. Thanks in advance. The link of article is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/The_Flavor_of_Corn — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.70.13.169 (talk) 11:41, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

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Michael Felts moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Michael Felts, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more in-depth coverage about the subject itself, with citations from reliable, independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG. It should have at least three, to be safe. And please remember that interviews, as primary sources, do not count towards GNG.(?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 10:46, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

@Onel5969 I disagree strongly with this unilateral decision. Where do I post to make an appeal? Etoile ✩ (talk) 10:51, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Found it, I posted to the helpdesk and will see where they send me. Etoile ✩ (talk) 11:26, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi. I didn't get to respond to all my messages yesterday, so just getting to this. Even though it's been handled at this point, in the future, all you have to do is request it be returned to mainspace as per WP:DRAFTOBJECT. Would have done that as soon as I read this message, but it's moot. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 08:29, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I was not familiar with that page and the help pages can be difficult to navigate/find things. Now I know for next time. And thank you for driving me to improve the article. -Etoile ✩ (talk) 12:52, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Michael Felts. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 14:15, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! Based on your feedback and that I received at the Help Desk, I have submitted the draft. -Etoile ✩ (talk) 14:22, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

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Purity test

Hello! I saw your request for protection at WP:RFPP, and I wanted to explain why it was declined. The watchlist system is designed for problems like you are experiencing at purity test. The edits are spaced fairly widely apart in time, so they're easy to spot and repair. Page protection is generally reserved for pages that are receiving rapid-fire vandalisms from multiple users. For an example, check the history tab at Alex Hunt, especially around January 31. Joyous! Noise! 04:25, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks very much, I appreciate the explanation. I've added it to my watchlist. Etoile ✩ (talk) 14:06, 7 February 2024 (UTC)