Re: "Yars' Revenge"
Yes, it is consistenly "Yars' Revenge". I will dig through my old owners manuals and such to see if I have a copy of this one, to see what grammar Atari used in it (or the mini comic book it came with). Perhaps they refer to the hero as "Yars" rather than "Yar"? I'll get back to you...
OK, I checked the Yars' Revenge manual. The hero is always referred to as "Yar", therefore the spelling of the title is grammatically incorrect. So, I guess the question is, should we observe the improper title bestowed by Atari, or should we go with what conventional wisdom says the title should be?
I reworded Wikipedia:How to start a page a bit. Perhaps it will encourage newbies to use the preview button more. Angela 02:04, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)
No I was trying to figure out why all of sudden there are blank pages on the list of governors of different states on the list of incumbant page Smith03 02:30, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)
As the User talk:Robert Taylor page has no direct relevance to the Robert Taylor page, I didn't see any benefit in putting it there. As it is a message to you (and for reasons I never fathomed, to me), it should have gone on your talk page in the first place, so I think the sensible thing is for you to have it. I have put it at User talk:RickK/RT. Feel free to delete it if you have no further need for it. Angela 20:23, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Have a look at User:Cyan/chain and Wikipedia talk:Personal subpages to be deleted. I think we might actually be to able wring a concession out of him. What do you think? -- Cyan 02:10, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Hi. What's up with the reverts of User:216.220.98.61? My admittedly cursory glance at his stuff found nothing wrong... Evercat 02:42, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- He constantly rewrote "Condominium" as "Condiminium", and changed USA PATRIOT Act to read "Ex parte Qurin" instead of "Ex parte Quirin".
No he didn't. He actually fixed the spelling of condominium in [this edit], which you reverted. Also, his correction to USA PATRIOT Act seems to be correct according to Google. Ex parte Quirin gets 1600 hits, you reverted to Ex parte Quinn which gets 28. Evercat 02:50, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Ouch. I seriously misread what he was doing. I'll fix it and apologize. But what about the Trading with the Enemy Act page, which has misspellings added to cover up good spellings of page names? RickK 02:54, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Just a spelling error in the piped piece of the link, I think. Evercat 02:55, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Actually, I don't see any such problems in his version of the page. I've rolled them all back. Evercat 03:05, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I am User:216.220.98.61 and am also very curious why, when I make my first contributions to Wikipedia, you feel the need to revert all my changes. I corrected an error with USA PATRIOT Act, I made the Trading with the Enemy Act page both readable (something you claim to care about but insist no one else does) and meaningful, and I made what I feel are important additions to the Halliburton entry.
Clearly this can't be anything personal since you can't possibly have any idea who I am (other than the fact that I'm a New Yorker who uses DSL, if you bothered to find that out). So are you just unable to read the output of diff?
More than that, why the rollback of the Halliburton entry? I didn't change any existing text — I simply added more information about the company. There are no errors apparent to me in my additions.
It seems, frankly, that you simply decided to rollback every change I made — without regard to the changes themselves. More than that, you chose to rollback my changes wholesale rather than making any appropriate changes while mantaining whatever value may have been in my additions and modifications.
I apologize if I seem combative or rude, but I'm sure you can understand my frusteration at seeing literally every single change I've made to Wikipedia rolled back.
Surely this is not the way a WikiWikiWeb is intended to operate. By the way, my apologies for over-using "Save Page" and not showing preview enough.
You're quite right. I made a serious error, for which I have apologized on your talk page at User talk:216.220.98.61. The "Diff" option was giving me confusing results. I would have reverted what I had mistakenly overlaid, but an emergency cropped up, and by the time it was corrected, Evercat had already reverted my mistake. Again, I apologize. RickK 01:04, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Rick, at the time I wrote this I didn't know about User talk. I've read that, and I accept your apology. My apologies, in fact, for coming down so hard on you. User:216.220.98.61
Rick, I didn't ask you to be a nosy jerk, I didn't ask you to start trying to "correct" my editing style. That's something you decided to do on your own. I do think that you're out of bounds for doing so.
So I'll ask you again. Lay off my page. I'm not interested in your annoying meddlesome behavior. Dwmyers 14:53, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Rick, How does that look? By the way, I am a nitpicker, too.
Michael Reiter.
Thank you for your constructive and friendly message. I am sure that your communications will do a great deal of service in facilitating better interpersonal relations. LirQ
Okay, Rick. No Problems... Michael Reiter jmr
Blocks
It would be nice, if people unblock blocked ISPs, that they explain why they do so. An explanation is required to block them. RickK 01:58, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I think they are automatically expiring after 24 hours now due to a change in the code. Angela 03:48, Sep 23, 2003 (UTC)
- I moved this off talk:Main Page, because I'm not sure it was relevant there, but I didn't want to just delete it. k? Martin 15:06, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I have dealt with Said in Lebanon(see my comments on VfD). Do you think my solution is a good one? -- Cyan 07:20, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
That anonymous user's contributions aren't really widely off the mark, but are, IMO, not as good as before. Changing which bands are representative of hair metal or some other genre is inherently POV, and I'd be willing to discuss these with him, but only if he discusses what he wants to change and why. Otherwise, I'll just keep on assuming they're nothing but opinion-insertions. Tuf-Kat 03:17, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
About that whole "unencyclopedic" thing on VfD: I think you may have taken the negative comments too personally. The comments didn't seem to be directed at you; it was more like "I think the term 'unencyclopedic' is tautological," not "RickK is a goddamn idiot for using the term 'unencyclopedic', and we should beat him with sticks." I hope you will take it in the spirit of goodwill and sincere concern when I say it seems to me that you tend to read more into such comments than is actually there, and thereby cause yourself a good deal of unnecessary stress. Tangentially, I have moved the discussion of this topic to Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy#Unencyclopedic. Cheers, Cyan 09:14, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind me taking a quote of yours out of context for my talk page. You said "one can but hope" on my talk page when talking about newbies using the preview button more often, but your comment appeared underneath my statement that vandals will be eaten by Anthere's cricket and it seems funnier to leave it there. Just delete if you prefer not to be misquoted. Angela 20:40, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Oh, I see. It's happened to me too. And Jake's comment was... unfair. Still, it must be hard on your system, having all that adrenaline being dumped into your bloodstream. -- Cyan 02:53, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Hi :) What was wrong with The Mekons? Granted, the first edits there weren't as polished or NPOV but I did fix it up a little. Just curious Dysprosia 06:46, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)
FYI: at List of 'years in film', there are links to lists up to 2007. I have no opinion about whether these should be allowed to remain, but I thought you would like to know. Cheers, Cyan 06:59, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I haven't been online much the last few days (jobhunting constantly), so I've kind of put this off too long: Sorry. With the unencyclopedic thing, and with accidentally confusing your comments with RK's in that one post on the list. I'm typically on Wikipedia when I'm tired, so I can be a bit slow. With the unencyclopedic bit... it's just a word that really irritates me. However, equating my expressing strong dislike for something you said with antipathy towards you is incorrect. As a side note, I didn't recall then who it was who'd posted that bit, just so you know. But yeah, I was a bit harsh. I'll try to be more generous in the future. And on the second bit, I'm really, really bad with similar names. Needless to say, you're heavily disambiguated in my mind now. So again, my apologies. So relax, nothing's personal. I'm very difficult to offend, so I sometimes forget other people can be more sensitive to some things I say. Peace? -- Jake 06:59, 11 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Because User:RemembertheAFL owns the Conigliofamily website. I only found this out after I'd blocked him twice! Angela 06:09, Oct 13, 2003 (UTC)
- I forgot - it's GFDL too. Angela 22:20, Oct 13, 2003 (UTC)
Concerning Gina Lynn = Ginger Lynn:
Gina Lynn and Ginger Lynn are different erotic actresses. Gina Lynn was born in 1974 and has been active in porn since 2000, whereas Ginger Lynn was born in 1962 and was active from 1984-2002. Completely different people.
http://www.iafd.com/person.asp?perfid=GinaLynn&gender=F
http://www.iafd.com/person.asp?perfid=GLynn&gender=F
Could you please seperate the two/get rid of the Gina Lynn redirect to Ginger Lynn? I'll be more than happy to supply a brief Gina Lynn bio. Thanks. vudu 01:20, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)
My uncle is Makati's 2nd Councilman and he gave me permission so why did you say its plagerised? EL CAUDILLO
Jack London edited "The Pelican????"
RickK, it says in the University of California and Jack London articles that when Jack London attended the University of California "he was the editor of the university's literary journal, 'The Pelican'".
I've taken the liberty of removing that latter comment because one biographer (Russ Kingman) says specifically that "there is no record that Jack ever wrote for student publications" there and I've seen no mention by other biographers of his having participated. (He only attended the university for a year, and didn't graduate).
And, as nearly as I can tell, "The Pelican" was founded in 1903 according to http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/campuses/ucb/studentpubs.html, and seems to have been a humor magazine (the literary magazine was called "The Occident.").
He did write a number of stories for the Oakland High School literary magazine, The Aegis.
If you have evidence that he really was an editor for a University of California publication, by all means restore the comment.
Dpbsmith 01:13, 16 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Those pictures are all there, you're just not seeing them for some reason; are you connecting to en.wikipedia.org? - Hephaestos 02:29, 16 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- Yes, but I see other pictures. Maybe it has something to do with their being newly-loaded since I got here? RickK 02:34, 16 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- Sounds like they're on another server from the one you're looking at, and haven't been synced up yet. - Hephaestos 02:35, 16 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- All right, well, I'll leave them alone, then. I was going to go back and fix the article pages, but they were already done. RickK 02:39, 16 Oct 2003 (UTC)
RickK, I didn't realize Evil saltine's page was a user page -- thought it was an article. That's why it made me so mad. Paul Klenk 02:05, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Ah. Gotcha. :) RickK 02:07, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Sorry about Bernard Hopkins - was only trying to help Dysprosia 04:48, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Hi Rick, I didn't make the pages, I just fixed them, they were created by Adam on the VfD page. Yes, they seem pretty silly, but if we have them, they may as well work.2toise 03:27, 20 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Since you're my toughest critic, I thought I'd ask you to check out the changes I made on the Race riot page... NPOV and all. I'm also considering writing something about the underlying causes of race riots (socio-economic, police brutality, etc). Thoughts? vudu 16:48, 22 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Hi RickK -- just wanted to point you to my previous experience with User:80.255 on my talk page. Also, there's more on VfD a bit more than halfway down starting with User:80.225.73.197. Cheers, BCorr ¤ Брайен 04:23, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I have nominated you. -Nydigoveth
Why did you move my new article from Honda Bros/HawkGT NT650 to HawkGT_NT6? What is an NT6? Unless you know something I don't, that is simply wrong. MikeSchinkel 03:02, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Thanks. At least it is now correct, but I still don't understand why the move from Honda Bros/HawkGT NT650 to HawkGT NT650? Has this something to do with Wikipedia style? Bros is an alternate name for HawkGT, and Honda helps explain what it is. I look forward to understanding the change. MikeSchinkel 03:13, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Regarding Image_talk:Bn_matica_e.gif - are you asking just because it interests you or you need it for something specific? I will clarify the situation if you need it. Nikola 04:59, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Shute--encyclopedic
"Is it encyclopedic?" Well, I thought so or I wouldn't have put it there.
However... I have to say that I've always liked the extended articles in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (the current Macropedia, for example... and the long articles in its predecessor) and have always disliked the short, stubby, dictionary-like entries in World Book or the desktop encyclopedias like the Columbia Encyclopedia.
And... yes, this puts me a little bit off-center... I have always loved the Britannica 11th Edition since I first encountered it circa 1969... I own a print copy of it... and one of the things I love about it is that although it is factual and authoritative, it is full of personality. And, yes, it occasionally departs from a "neutral point of view."
I think current encyclopedias suffer too much from the same effect as current textbooks do. They are not neutral out of intellectual honesty, they are neutral out of fear of offending anybody. (I believe I have read that in the U. S. edition of Encarta the electric light is invented by Edison but in the British edition it is invented by Swann...)
So, I dunno... I put it there because I thought it belonged and because it's what I like to read in an encyclopedia.
If you really think it doesn't belong, well, go ahead, break my heart and cut it out.
Dpbsmith 03:36, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Certainly doesn't smell right. Not clear it's a copyright vio, but it's inappropriate PR-speak. Will take a look deeper into it. Fuzheado 04:10, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)