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Join us in the "Terminator" Article discussion page...please...

If you are still a member of Wikipedia, please join user:TomTheHand and myself in a discussion of which terms should apply to the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Infiltration Unit in its various forms.

To be as neutral as possible, I will relate the views of TomTheHand as well as my own, as accurately as posible:

Tom believes that the term "Android" should apply to all of the incarnations of the Model 101, from Endoskeleton all the way up to the gestalts of flesh-and-blood and the combat chassis played by Arnold in the movies. He furthermore believes that the term "cyborg" does not apply to any of the Terminator's forms.

Thanos777 -myself -thinks that the Terminator is worthy of multiple appelations depending on which configuration (read: Type/Series) the Model 101 is configured as.

That is to say, I believe that the "Base" Model 101, just the endoskeleton with no cosmetic enhancements, is best defined as either a Humanoid Robot, Anthropomorphic Robot, or simply a Robot.

When the Model 101 is outfitted as a Type/Series 600, the endoskeleton covered by rubber skin, I believe that the Terminator is then most correctly classified as an "android."

And finally, when the Model 101 is equipped as a Type/Series 800/850, the endoskeleton with the living flesh-and-blood covering, I believe that the most correct term for the creatre is "cyborg."

Again, I respectfully ask you to come back to the "Terminator" Article and lend your input; those of us who are there in the Article's discussion page are engaging in a lot of back-and-forth regarding the different terms and the disagreements as to when they should be used.

Hope to "see" you there soon!!!

I've weighed in at Talk:Terminator (character). EVula // talk // ☯ // 04:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I almost have a RFCN archive bot

Check it out: User:HBC archive builderbot/sandbox, I am using a diff engine to detect the removal of sections. Good idea, I hope this satisfies what you had in mind. Eventually it will detect when multiple names are closed at once, and will link to the last revision before it was removed, instead of the revision it was removed in. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 19:58, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fantastic. I should have known you'd have the perfect bot for it. :) EVula // talk // ☯ // 20:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am surprised at how fast it runs. I already have a routine that download the entire revision history of a page, caches it, then updates as needed, so if I ignore the time it takes to download new revisions, it only takes 3 seconds to parse the 2400+ diffs. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 20:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I really would have thought it would churn through for a lot longer. Seems like there are so many damn fast bots these days... EVula // talk // ☯ // 20:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not my doing, I am using the perl Algorithm::Diff module, blazing fast. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 20:10, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About RFCN is general

I wanted to ask your opinion about something. Acalamari seems now to be going out looking for username violations. The latest one User:Theangryblackwoman has zero contribs. Its one thing if someone edits with a controversial username and causes offense or is likely to. But trying to preempt offense being caused seems less useful. Is he doing the right thing, or should he be encourage to slow down on the WP:RFCN reports? WJBscribe 22:13, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that one in general misses the true mark of "this will offend someone". I've told him before that his efforts are appreciated ("it's the thought that counts"), but I do think he should cool his jets just a bit. Some of the feedback he's getting on RFCN may change his mood, though if he keeps frantically reporting users, I might drop him a line... EVula // talk // ☯ // 22:21, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I just wanted someone with a bit more Wikipedia experience than me to keep an eye on it. At the moment the reports are causing more controversy than the usernames :-). WJBscribe 22:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is an nice unforseen result

I did not plan this, but my RFCN archive generator works really well on user talk pages too, check this out: User:HighInBC/sandbox or this: User:HighInBC/EVula talk archive HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 03:54, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

...but if you're planning on fixing my shocking bad typing, you'll be kept busy. I can offer a third of everything I make editing Wikipedia (to date, that's approximately nothing, but think of all the dotcoms that took years to turn a profit) if you'd like the job full time. Anyway, should I be (a) surprised, (b) flattered, or (c) less paranoid? I don't remember anyone fixing something I wrote on a talk page before. Angus McLellan (Talk) 20:27, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Haha. I'm fixing your wikilinks strictly as an amateur; no stock swap is required. ;)

I'm just a hard-core wikignome who happened to have Berig's talk page still on my watchlist, so I just felt compelled to make the correction. I'd opt for (a), with a healthy portion of (c). EVula // talk // ☯ // 20:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Still, a small amount of paranoia is good, the alternative is falling for Nigerian 419 scams, and other Get Rich Quick schemes. Thanks! Angus McLellan (Talk) 20:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Falling"? What are you talking about? Those things are totally legit.

Silly person. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm waiting on seventeen different account transfers (apparently Niger has a very large royal family)... Man, I'm gonna be so rich... EVula // talk // ☯ // 20:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:USERNAME

Thanks for removing that for me. I saw it reported to WP:AIV but wanted to make sure nobody else saw an issue. I am personally getting tired of people who jump on new users and tell the, to change there names like this which is currently at WP:RFCN. Do you know of a template that tells other to not bite newly registered people like that? Thanks again! -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 17:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gah, they're just getting worse!

There's no existing template that I know of, but I definitely think that we need to gently inform people that they need to do a bit more research (specifically of the policy) before reporting people. EVula // talk // ☯ // 18:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Hi EVula,

Thanks for participating in my recent RfA. Even though it was ultimately successful (at 54-13-11), I value all of the feedback and have already benefited from the community's suggestions. Hope to see you around. - Gilliam 22:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is amusing

User talk:SilverBronz -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 22:10, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know it doesn't concern me, but really dude, so many people love you across Wikipedia! Lol I dunno if you actually had anything to do with the banning, but either way, keep up the good work! :P ≈ The Haunted Angel ^{(The Forest Whispers My Name)} 22:16, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Haunted Angel, did you look at User:SilverBronz? -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 22:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah just done it. Lol, somehow, I shoulda' known. Most people who send either death threats or just general insults in EVula's direction are in actual fact American Brit. ≈ The Haunted Angel ^{(The Forest Whispers My Name)} 22:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bwuhahaha. I love being me. :-) EVula // talk // ☯ // 22:57, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

How are you doing? BuickCenturyDriver 23:04, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...I'm fine, thanks for asking... EVula // talk // ☯ // 23:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(How... interesting) ≈ The Haunted Angel ^{(The Forest Whispers My Name)} 23:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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About Template:Mortal Kombat characters

A Man In Black put one of our templates, Template:Mortal Kombat characters up to TFD, and I just commented. Can you weigh in there and comment? Thanks. Master Spider 10:39, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Arg. Responded. EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Huh?

My apologies, I thought you were the previous editor. I'm just not comfortable with the GIPU going on a re-categorizing binge seemingly without any merit, and charging others with POV and OWN for reverting him. I brought up the matter on WikiProject Films' talk page. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 17:30, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I did a bit of poking around and realized the problem about ten seconds after posting to your talk page. Honest mistake, no worries. :-) EVula // talk // ☯ // 17:32, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MfD for noticeboard

I noticed your past vote on a noticeboard[1] and would like you to reconsider. It seems you do not know the history of the board or the types of notices that are left on it. The board is used by multiple people and the notices on it are biased. I added some of those biased notices to the MfD so people can get an idea of how it told others how to vote, which is against meatpuppetry policy. If you would kindly review the information added and hopefully it will give you a fuller picture if you did not have one previously. --Nuclear~~Zer0~~ 18:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, like I said in my !vote, I have an AfD-tracking page myself, and consider it a perfectly viable project-related subpage.

Not only that, but your argument is completely irrelevant to the actual MfD. EVula // talk // ☯ // 19:02, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see policies on bias notices and meat puppetry. Thank you and have a good day, I am glad you looked at the new information presented. --Nuclear~~Zer0~~ 19:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...right. EVula // talk // ☯ // 19:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MK Devastation

I keep a Future articles list of citations, and I just set up a Google Alert to receive news headlines with the keyword "mortal kombat" devastation (and these should be reliable sources that result). Would you want me to send any your way if I come across them in the future? —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 18:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I'm gonna set one up for myself; thanks for info (I'd never noticed the alerts thing before) and the offer. This should make it easier to update the userspaced version of the Devastation article. EVula // talk // ☯ // 19:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Mortal Kombat: Devastation

Since Mortal Kombat: Devastation is gonna be deleted soon (which I was about to vote against until I realised there's really nothing new about it but endless rumors) I made a copy of the article here so that we can keep working on it after it's been deleted. ~ ~ James Hetfield (previously Wesborland) ~ ~ 20:34, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, just copying and pasting doesn't work; you lose all the contributions that have been made, which are important for proper licensing of the edits (it's a fairly complicated issue about copyrights that, to be honest, I'm not 100% knowledgeable about; I just know it is frowned upon). Once the AfD has run its course, I'll take care of it; even if it is deleted from Wikipedia, I'm an admin, so I can just undelete it and then move it.

Don't worry, the article isn't going to completely disappear anytime soon. :) EVula // talk // ☯ // 21:21, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can't move pages from my new account

Why exactly can I move pages from this account, but can't from my new one? --Wesborland 16:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure; if I had to hazard a guess, perhaps because the new one is too recent? Dunno. EVula // talk // ☯ // 17:03, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mortal combat devastation

I've deleted the article; it's contents are userfied here Bucketsofg 02:10, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

EVula stay away

I am being accused of sock puppet of a long banned user. And I bet you had something to do with it. You area heartless bastard who is so stupid you dont know the diffrence between your hands and feet. I bet you could nt walk until you were 19. You are ass head. I think you should stay away from me or I will hang you from my pine tree. DiamondUser 01:21, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Buh-bye. EVula // talk // ☯ // 01:26, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I like this one. You should consider adding it to your userpage. ShadowHalo 04:39, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, yeah. I kinda got out of the habit of adding to it, what with as many threats and insults as I was getting... can't you just feel the love? :-) EVula // talk // ☯ // 04:42, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I like how creative people can get sometimes. Especially the YouTube video; that takes some real dedication, creativity, and hard work. It's always good to know that people are determined to improve the quality of threats and vandalism, not just "encyclopedic information". Oh, and thanks for the barnstar! ShadowHalo 05:13, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The ultimate irony of the YouTube video is that no other editor has done more than I have to protect the article's existence since I restored it (it was speedy-deleted and I restored it, plus I've reverted loads of vandalism). I'd sorta like to meet the guy at this point, but can't be bothered to make that sort of drive. ;-) EVula // talk // ☯ // 05:15, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sig shel ani

I noticed your suggestion for improving my signature. I've responded on my talk page. — Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 02:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, what do I do if I accidentally click the Minor edit box as I'm submitting? — Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 02:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Responded on your talk page. EVula // talk // ☯ // 03:30, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Response.

I knew I was breaking the links when I did that, and fully intended to return and fix the links later- I just didn't have time until now, and I see you've done that already. (Thanks, by the way.) Frankly, I was kind of annoyed at RoySmith for jump-starting the affair and listing them all separately with what clearly should have been a group proposal, as that would have saved everyone some work, but oh well. Normally, I'd agree that one shouldn't mess with a proposal unless willing to do all the paperwork associated though, but when I saw people reposting the same exact comment four times... SnowFire 04:22, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hehe, yeah, I hate seeing a slew of individual XfDs when they could just as easily be combined. Oh well, not everyone can be as sensible as you and I. ;-) EVula // talk // ☯ // 04:27, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

UserPage edit error

sorry about that, for some reason i didn't notice that it was a userpage. I will triple check that from now on. Bobvila2

No worries. EVula // talk // ☯ // 05:43, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re: Aaron Stachowiak

Funny thing, he re-created it with the db bio and hang on tags already on. SkierRHM re-tagged it. Ronbo76 07:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that. Sometimes people can be so funny. :) EVula // talk // ☯ // 15:37, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ultima Thule

I would be for keeping that page, but a user created it maybe to promote himself; I'm not really an expert in these matters, but I guess it is not very correct. Despite having agrred with that user's edits a few times, he wrote several sarcastic words against me at talk:Ambient music; he also tells that my edits are pov 'cos he worked for 2 decades for a radio in his country (likely the one in that article?) and knows all the truth on the subject. Regards.--Dr. Who 16:29, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Message from an angry Cyan Macpherson

You recently posted the following comment on my talk page:

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to the List of minor Star Wars Sith characters page. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. EVula // talk // ☯ // 03:52, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cyan_Macpherson"

I have not done any such thing and do not know what you are talking about. If you would actually take the time to examine my contributions page you would see in my edit history that my edit of the article was what appeared to me to be a spelling error and that is the only change I made. I missed the l on control on the first edit so I went back to change that so it was spelled correctly, forgetting to label the change as a minor edit. False accusations given without actually investigating is not only ignorant but it is also belittling. I hope that in the future you will save your criticisms for those who actually deserve it.

Shit, completely my bad. Apology posted on user's talk page. EVula // talk // ☯ // 04:06, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your Robben Ford AfD

Hello - I'm curious as how your arrived at the conclusion that Robben Ford was non notable. Are you knowlegable about guitarists? Did you ask any guitarists? Did you Google him? (570,000 ghits) Did you look for him on YouTube? 132 results Meaning no disrepect, but your AfD is completely without merit. I urge you to withdraw it lest you tarnish your reputation as a musicologist any further. (yeah - I know you're an admin)

"players as respected as Pete Townshend and Eric Clapton have marveled at his work, and he appeared as a featured artist in Musician Magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century" issue. " bluesapalooza

You sir, are a __________ - FAAFA 07:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 :Shit, completely my bad. Apology posted on user's talk page. [[User:EVula|EVula]] <span style="color: #999;">// [[User talk:EVula|talk]] // [[User:EVula/admin|<span style="color: #366;">&#9775;</span>]] //</span> 04:06, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
+== Your Robben Ford AfD ==
+Hello - I'm curious as how your arrived at the conclusion that Robben Ford was non notable. Are you knowlegable about guitarists? Did you ask any guitarists? Did you Google him? (570,000 ghits) Did you look for him on YouTube? [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=robben+ford&search=Search 132  results] Meaning no disrepect, but your AfD is completely without merit. I urge you to withdraw it lest you tarnish your reputation as a musicologist any further. (yeah - I know you're an admin)
+''"players as respected as Pete Townshend and Eric Clapton have marveled at his work, and he appeared as a featured artist in Musician Magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century" issue. "'' [http://www.mammothmountain.com/bluesapalooza/artists/ bluesapalooza]
+You sir,  are a __________ - [[User:Fairness And Accuracy For All|FAAFA]] 07:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)