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Sigh again...

Cyrius, I am the creator of the Streetstudio page. How exactly is a project that makes no money and is of arguably historic value self promotion? The 1981-82 American network television schedule is legit and my project isn't. This is one funky encyclopedia. ;-) Help me understand what gives here.

Because it's your project. Thus the "self". The text is not merely describing the project, but trying to attract interest to it. It reads like toned-down advertising copy. Thus the "promotion". Note that I am making no judgement about the project. Art is a large blind spot for me, and I can't claim to be able to evaluate its artistic merits.

I feel strongly about Wikipedia's policy of disallowing autobiographies. While Streetstudio isn't an autobiography in the strictest sense, it is still far too personal for you to be unbiased about it. Let someone else write the article.

As to it being unprofitable, who ever heard of art projects making money? -- Cyrius|✎ 06:30, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Frances

If there's one this year it will catch up with Arlene as the most used name. --Keith Edkins 20:04, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

European Union Olympic medals count for 2004

Hi there,

I wonder would you consider reversing your decision to delete this article. I have substantially rewritten it. A united EU team is not going to happen. I've discussed potential EU co-operation towards the olympics, and kept the table. I believe the table is valid, for us Europeans/EUians to see how the area has fared as a whole. Please comment on my talk page if you still feel the article should be deleted.

zoney | talk 00:59, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I'm still concerned as to the need to delete the table. It doesn't compare the EU with other countries you'll note - it compares member states. The tally at the bottom is only for reference. (Why on earth should one not be able to see how many medal winners came from Europe?) I really don't understand why there is such resistance to having this data in Wikipedia. I accept some of the arguments about the "discussion", it probably still needs cleared up a bit. (Although a significant proportion is not "theorising" now, and is merely facts. Had I the time, I would go look for what the EU is actually doing - as it's almost certainly involved in sports efforts of member states). But thanks for the reply at any rate. zoney ███ talk 11:16, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

And now for something completely different...

Hmmm... noticed this unusual activity - any suggestions?

Contributions by User:QED:

• 02:51, 19 Aug 2004 (hist) User talk:Benc (test to make sure "new messages" thingie works) (top)
• 02:36, 19 Aug 2004 (hist) User talk:Benc/Doorbell (top)

And from User talk:Benc/Doorbell (The above listed edit)

i am an unused sock puppet saying hello :-)

I have no idea what action to take / get someone else to take, it's quite a bizarre thing to happen across, but I abhor sock-puppetry. Suggestions. (Should a note be left on User talk:Benc - of what nature?)

zoney | talk 02:04, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation - it's not so mysterious now! I should have, of course, read Wikipedia:Sock puppet first! zoney ███ talk 12:18, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

...a man with two buttocks!

LOL! Just when I thought the weirdest substubs in the history of this site were from The Bandit, along comes these operatic things resplendent in their non-encyclopedianess.  :^) I thought they were copyvios until I saw the punctuation. Can we make these go away? - Lucky 6.9 03:50, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Great Galveston Hurricane

Hi, I saw this article on WP:PR, and left some comments there. A part of an otherwise great edit you made did not take very well it seems. Maybe some got missed when you pasted in text. Thanks - Taxman 22:53, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

User:Dpbsmith/Billion

Yeah, I just saw it and left a longish explanation in the VfD discussion. What I can't figure out is how Indrian stumbled across it. He meant well. He tried to synchronize the pages by copying the content of Billion into my user subpage! Doesn't really bother me. Some of the recent edits to Billion itself bother me a lot more. Thanks for calling it to my attention. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:06, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Category:Atlantic hurricanes

Cyrius, do you have to be a sysop to edit the "Category:" articles?

BigT27 01:58, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Category:Atlantic hurricanes (2)

Because every time I click on "edit this page", the actual links to the articles don't come up.

BigT27 04:01, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

More Bandit musings

Actually, I was just trying to get a rise out of our annoying little pest. I figured we're either dealing with a bot or someone with incredibly thick skin! What does bother me are the users who don't do much more than remove the notices and format the bloody things. A formatted B-Movie Bandit substub is like tits on a warthog, if you'll pardon the indelicacy. I love seeing these things cleaned up for real, though. - Lucky 6.9 06:42, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Signature

If you don't mind, may I please copy your idea of using ✎ as a 'talk' icon in my signature? I'll specify that it was your idea in my user page if you want :) Thanks in advance -Frazzydee 06:11, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Image

Cyrius, thanks for the reminder. I've added one. Fuzheado | Talk 05:05, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Your VfD question

Hello, Cyrius, you asked on VfD why I didn’t tag Berjaya times square kl as copyvio when I’d discovered that it was. The answer is hardly of great interest to VfD-ers, so I’m putting it here on your page. I didn’t because I don’t know how. I’ve been reading around over the past few days trying to learn to do that very thing (in fact, my noting on VfD that Berjaya was cv was the fruit of some of that reading). Putting the template on a page is easy, but the prefatory matter on the Wikipedia:Copyright problems page, about the other stuff you have to do if you put up the template, is just intimidating, to me. I’ve recently mastered putting stuff up/removing it on Cleanup, but this seems a lot more complicated. Also the page is kind of tougher in tone than the other how-to's (”be sure to follow the instructions in the section below”, and a crapload of ”see also” links prominently displayed right at the beginning), and, well, altogether, in this area I’ve only looked, not had the courage to touch, so far. I was hoping if I mentioned the copyvio, some more knowledgeable user might do the rest. I feel rather discouraged by getting your question instead, you know. Are you saying I shouldn’t do anything on Wikipedia because I don’t know to do everything? Bishonen 13:52, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

• Bishonen: The text {{copyvio2}} does it. :) See also Wikipedia:Templates. KeithTyler 18:42, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)

Hurricane Frances

Hey, good catch! I had not noticed that Hermine and Gaston were in the same picture frame as Frances!!! Awolf002 01:37, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hurricane Mitch

Yeah, I should have done that. It was the wiki equivelant of a drunken dial. I wasn't drunk, but I just couldn't stand to see the article left a stub when the info was so readily available one link away. I figure, the main article should be longer than the summary on another page. It didn't occur to me that the wiki code ought be preserved.

In my defense ...

... about dated images, I was intending to notify them for deletion when the storm was over, honest. I'm a bit wary about the overwriting technique because I've seen cases where the new version doesn't display immediately, and sometimes not for several days - which wouldn't really meet our needs for a current event. I don't think there will be any more for Frances, anyway - it's a bit late to start evacuating now! --Keith Edkins 18:59, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Tail between legs..... or is it?

Hello Mr Cyrius Man (or Woman). I dunno if you remember, but a while ago, I really had a go at you, and was quite mean and ruthless. Anyway, for some reason, I suddenly feel like I should apologise. Though I stand by my original view (I forget what it was now) the method i went about it was un-nessecary and I can't justify it. Sorry. Though I could not blame you for ignoring this, it won't effect my enjoyment of this site, but just to let you know I over-reacted.--Crestville 20:00, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

VfD

Mmmmm... yummy. Thanks for the cookies.  :-) SWAdair | Talk 01:13, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Category N redirects

Good change. Thanks. Elf | Talk 17:29, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Bah!

You're about a minute ahead of me in your edits on Ivan. I keep getting edit conflicts! :) Tom 00:06, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)

re: Bradley Amendment

Good evening, Cyrius. On 28 Aug, you voted to delete the article about the Bradley Amendment because it was a POV rant. Even though the discussion period has run out, no one's acted on that thread yet. I've completely rewritten the article. I'd appreciate it if you'd take a read through and see if it's now worthy of a keep. Rossami 01:19, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

re: Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah

This Biography of H.R.H. Rajah Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah is provided by his website http://www.jaffnaroyalfamily.org/index2.htm.

H.R.H. Rajah Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah provides his biography for his membership within the Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League. WOULD YOU PLEASE READ THE DISCUSSION BEFORE YOU SUSPEND MY PAGES, there is authority to use it.

tranvanba 10 September 2004 (UTC)

re: Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League

My name is Tran Van Ba am Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam and This site http://users.panola.com/vietnam/ belongs to My Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam. I am contact person for this site, my email address is available on the site. Thank you, Tran Van Ba Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam tran_van_ba@hotmail.com http://users.panola.com/vietnam/information-2.html

tranvanba 10 September 2004 (UTC)

re: Shwebomin

My name is Tran Van Ba am Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam and This site http://users.panola.com/vietnam/ belongs to My Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam. He is the President of the Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League that H.R.H. Shwebomin serves as Honorary Treasurer. I am contact person for this site, my email address is available on the site. Thank you, Tran Van Ba Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam tran_van_ba@hotmail.com http://users.panola.com/vietnam/information-2.html

tranvanba 10 September 2004 (UTC)

re: Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League

My name is Tran Van Ba am Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam and This site http://users.panola.com/vietnam/ belongs to My Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam. I am contact person for this site, my email address is available on the site please see on the site the below picture Contact: Nguyen Dynasty

Also my photo and picture is available on the site http://users.panola.com/vietnam/information-2.html with Emperor Bao Dai.

My email address on the site matches my email address registered here tran_van_ba@hotmail.com

You can see I am the same person from the email addresses.

Thank you, Tran Van Ba Chancellor of the Order of Dragon of Annam http://users.panola.com/vietnam/information-2.html

tranvanba 10 September 2004 (UTC)

Vietnam follies

Hi - it seems we've been involved in parallel issues on some of the articles edited by Tran Van Ba. Perhaps you could add your voice to the discussion on Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League? In case this becomes a conduct dispute, it would be good if at least two people had discussed the same article. I added a comment on his talk page under "Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah" too. Thanks... ←Hob 01:09, 2004 Sep 12 (UTC) (also, I see you mentioned autobiographies above... here's one).

This has now gone to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Tran Van Ba Dunc_Harris|☺ 11:07, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Cyrius, I've added more specific charges and evidence to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Tran Van Ba; if you think they're fair, please add a certification. Thanks. ←Hob 05:22, 2004 Sep 13 (UTC)

For those still interested in this VERY FRUSTRATING case, please note that the matter has moved to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jimmyvanthach, and further evidence/discussion belongs on the Evidence and talk pages there. The evidence page is a bit of a mess now because it was copied from the Tran Van Ba discussion, but the guidelines say to let the arbitrators do all the refactoring, so I've just been adding stuff in a separate section. ←Hob 16:46, 2004 Oct 1 (UTC)

What the bleep.

Thanks a ton for helping out there, I probably should have realized # was not possible in article titles. (I also thanked Kate.) —siroχo

Modding my stuph

Whats with the "lets mess with NightDragon" behavior? i belive my examples are fine, and why should they be del'd? and please, dont del the small networks, not all IRC users like big nets with stuffy admins. I belive that the article should inform the user on many types of diffrent IRC nets.

re: "AND DIE"

Oh yes, and i do not know how the sense of humor is over there in europe, but when i say "edit this and DIE" in my comment, that doesent mean that, if you edit it, im gonna get on a plane, and come to europe, and kill you.

Have a sense of humor, man!

-NightDragon

A new deletion approach

Well, I know I'll regret it, but here is a new proposal I'm working on. Comments welcome. (I'm guessing North Texas? Texas Tech?) Geogre 17:49, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Jimmy Van Thach

Do you think its worth going for a hard ban on this crank? It may be worth contacting Jimbo, though I can't log in to my hotmail at the moment to check the mailing list, otherwise I would go there. Dunc_Harris|☺ 17:17, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Back and blushing

Hi, Cy. Thanks for the note and the well-deserved "spanking." I appreciate the fact that you guys took the time to leave me messages. I'm going to be a very quiet little church mouse around here. No more Bandit for me, no sir.  :^) - Lucky 6.9 02:50, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Libertarianism in Futurama

Oh right, I forgot about the whole assigned jobs bit... I guess the government fluctuates from episode to episode to suit the plot. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:34, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

Berate

"Don't berate us for not writing about a topic they don't know anything about."

That's not what I'm doing. I'm simply suggesting Wikipedians are given more opportunities to write above subjects which fall outside the usual parameters. After all, Wikipedia is surely about expanding human knowledge--Xed 04:20, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

beta Systemic Bias section

If you wish to help contribute to a beta version of a Wikipedia page section designed to counter-act Wikipedia's systemic bias, please sign the bottom of this section on the Village pump - Wikipedia:Village_pump#Systemic_bias_in_Wikipedia. If not, no worries.--Xed 04:20, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

TD Ivan

Nice catch thar! I was going to update the Hurricane Ivan page but it seems you got there first ^_^

Moving '16mm film' to '16 mm film' etc

Following the success with 7.26 mm caliber, I tried to find similar examples of units in titles. I have found some that deal with films. I managed to move '70mm film' to '70 mm film' but I can't move '16mm film' because there is already a redirect page at '16 mm film'. I am sure I will find a few more. Would you be kind enough to help me out again? Bobblewik  (talk) 22:17, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Just found '35mm film'. Bobblewik  (talk) 22:18, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

test

Er...
This is just a test of User Talk. Did you receive notification of this message?
Anyway...
Nice work with the comprehensive Hurricane coverage.
By the way... I am an EE major at an overrated private university somewhere in Texas.

I wasn't sure if there existed some special procedure for one to follow in order to notify another that he has left a message on their User_Talk page. I clicked your screenname from the History tab in the Hurricane Jeanne article because it was convienent.

Ssx 06:45, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Renominations to VfD

At Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy#Proposed new rule: No repeat submission of articles, you raised the concern that the poll was not well structured for people's actual votes. I've proposed a revote in a different format. I'd appreciate your comments and changes before people start really using the table. Rossami 14:47, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board/USSCOTW

The Southern Collaboration of the Week board is now up. Please vote or nominate other articles. The first voting ends on October 3. Mike H 14:20, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

Your uploaded image

Thanks for uploading Image:Australian aboriginal flag.png. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know whether it's released under the GFDL, whether fair use is claimed, or what? Thanks, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 18:52, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

I had read the description, and I understand that you had converted an image first produced by Graham. That's why I listed the image as {{unknown}}, not {{unverified}}. You're still the person who uploaded this PNG image. Is the original on wikipedia? Where is it? It is in gif format, or jpg, or something else? Thanks, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 20:18, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

Ouch! Get up on the wrong side of the bed today, Cyrius? I was just hoping you'd know. Fear not: I'll leave you quite well alone. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 00:30, Oct 2, 2004 (UTC)

Image:Hurricane Ivan I-10 Damage.jpg

Cyrius, perhaps you could assist me with this, since we've discussed it previously. I, of course, have my own thoughts--which I believe to be quite valid--but the response I found myself initially typing seemed quite personal, and I wasn't sure it would be effective. I am hoping that some others could lend a more credible voice to the discussion before I chime in. At this point, I'm just frustrated because I've spent all this time trying to do the right thing by communicating and coordinating with the copyright holder--and writing descriptions and linking, etc.--only to have others trying, for whatever reason, to have the image removed. (I'm not, of course, referring to your original point, which was quite valid, and I believe has been addressed.) When, as you pointed out, there are so many images untagged or labeled Fair Use without any amplifying information whatsoever, and very few of them are listed for potential deletion, it all makes me kind of bitter, that's all. Thanks. Chris 04:33, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The Pembroke Hill School copyvios

Damn. Maybe I shouldn't be encouraging newbies to improve school stubs while under the pressure of a VfD deadline. Sorry about that. Glad you spotted them. Sorry I didn't. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:56, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)