Welcome to my talk page! Please be sure to make all posts civil and constructive, as I'll revert anything I deem to be vandalism. Also, let us try to keep two-way conversations readable. If you post to my talk page, I will just reply here. If I posted recently to another talk page, including your talk page, then that means I have it on my watchlist and will just read responses there. I may refactor discussions to your talk page for the same reason. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! My Talk Archives: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

It was me who left the message in Jimbo Wales' discussion, but I didn't log in. Thank you very much for the welcome. Chau y gracias de nuevo. --Greek2 (talk) 22:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome and happy editing! Sincerley, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 22:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the welcome. Playahata69 (talk) 05:44, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Playahata69, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay.

You're welcome and happy editing! :) Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 05:45, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Literally translated, it's "The Grand King of Pumpkins". Interesting choice, I say. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 22:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That is correct! Halloween is my favorite holiday! And I have drank pumpkin ale and wine, use pumpkin shampoo, pumpkin bubble bath, etc. and I make pumpkin treats for my students.  :) Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 22:59, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pumpkin wine? I didn't even know there was such a thing! It sounds good, though. Halloween is also one of my favourite holidays, along with Thanksgiving. Since you're from America (or in it, according to your userboxes) I guess you celebrate Thanksgiving in November; I celebrate it in October. But no matter when you celebrate either holiday, they both kick ass, agree? Wilhelmina Will (talk) 23:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, pumpkin wine (see here). Yes, we celebrate Halloween on October 31st and Thanksgiving nearly a month later. It's hard to not like holidays! :) Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 23:23, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ever try Pumpkin Spice Latte (see here) at Starbucks? Simply mahvelous! (from Billy Crystal). BTW, may I call you Le Grand or LGR for short (with all due respect of course)? — Becksguy (talk) 00:17, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the link. I have not yet tried it and have added it to my list of stuff to try. LGR is perfectly fine as I sign emails LGRdC, others like Chaser my wikimentor just say "Roi." Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 00:20, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How about Ghapama? Unfortunately its not a very popular dish. More here VartanM (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 01:03, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good! But unfortunately, due to diverticulitis, I am unable to eat anything with chopped food such as almonds that can get caught in my digestive organs. I have also had pumpkin butter and pumpkin cookies, but I no longer can eat pumpkin seeds.  :( Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 01:08, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"the handful of editors who misuse Twinkle in such a fashion and whose contributions are almost entirely nominations for deletions and few if any "keep" votes or mainspace improvements all seem to rapidly appear in each other's AfDs" — I believe if that was what actually happens, those users would have wound up at RfC/RfAr quite a while ago. You're not by any chance aware of any such RfC? If not, why not open one to get wider input from the community? You see, those are serious allegations of malicious misconduct you're making there. Not to be made or taken lightly.

As far as the rest of your very lame "argument" goes: I try to never "vote" in AfDs, because it is not a vote. Please try to get at least that tiny bit into your head. Again: AfD is not a vote, it is a discussion. That said, I have (get ready, here comes something totally new for you...) brought up "reliable, third-party secondary sources" to underscore my reasoning as to why we should keep an article on several occasions.

No-holds-barred inclusionism. Think about it. No, seriously, please do.

Sincerely, User:Dorftrottel 18:33, February 9, 2008

For one thing, sticks and stones and all that. Anyway, though, yes we are currently having an arbitration case on episodes and characters in which misuses of Twinkle, mass nominations for deletions, etc. have indeed been discussed and not just by me. Moreover, I and others of the more inclusionist leanings have been thoroughly harassed by accounts with near deletion only edit histories that used or were sockpuppets (such as Blueanode, Burntsauce, Dannycali, and Eyrian to name a few) and those who misuses Twinkle have indeed been brought before administrators (such as here). Your edits in these discussions are increasingly mean and are not helping you in these discussions. If you have indeed used sources as evidence to keep articles, then good, I am happy to read that. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 18:49, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just increasingly distressed about what you and others are doing to our beautiful project. User:Dorftrottel 20:39, February 9, 2008

Don't be. Improving and expanding this great encyclopedia are exactly what we're all here for. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 20:41, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No. Some are here to cram it with non-encyclopedic crap. User:Dorftrottel 20:59, February 9, 2008

As the Five Pillars states, Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia. It also contains elements of specialized encyclopedias and almanacs and as an online, non-paper encyclopedia is far more comprehensive than more narrowly defined ideas of what encyclopedias are. What you mean to say is that "some are here to in good faith expand Wikipedia's collection of the sum of human knowledge." What we need is just greater effort to provide references and greater effort to expanded articles beyond the so called in-universe summaries. All of that though is fixable through good work and colloboration. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:04, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"What you mean to say" — good thing you know that better than I do. But no. No. I meant it like I said it. First and foremost, Wikipedia still is an encyclopedic project, and some of the crap I've seen you defend in AfDs, without providing any positive arguments based in policy and guidelines, is simply not even potentially encyclopedic. And not all of that is fixable. And, even more importantly, and as I have asked in several AfDs: What speaks against deleting some of the worst Wookieepedia rip-off "articles" for the time being? If at all possible (which I personally doubt in some cases) they can be recreated at any later point, as proper encyclopedic articles based on reliable, third-party sources - which btw are not some fancy luxury, but indeed the basis for the whole of Wikipedia. User:Dorftrottel 21:27, February 9, 2008

Wikipedia is more than an encyclopedia project, as stated in the first of the Five Pillars, and fortunately good faith editors tend to support many of my arguments or at least disagree in a respectful manner. As a teacher, I whole-heartedly agree that sources are important and I encourage you and others to help us provide these sources. Insulting editors and using negative terms like "crap" for material that obviously a good number of our contributors believe to be worthwhile does not help the project. If the articles exist then it is much easier for someone to come along and source them than to wait and try to recreate the article from scratch, especially to face opposition under the "hey, that article was deleted" argument. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:38, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just read your userpage, to return the favor of you apparently reading mine (one of the diffs above was not a talk page comment, but an edit to my userpage). I have to say... we have exactly two things in common: German ancestry, and watching House. That's about it. Since we come from so enormously different angles, maybe it's just no use arguing with each other. I have my set of beliefs, assumptions and knowledge, you have yours. It seems we are simply incompatible, at least as far as http as an interface is concerned. (I'm tempted to add that I lack legacy support, but that's just my own twisted sense of humor.) I'm absolutely sure that you will add something after this comment, and I'm also sure it won't be actually conciliatory, in my own opinion. User:Dorftrottel 21:49, February 9, 2008

House is a good show, although I could not imagine a real doctor actually acting like he does and getting away with it, no matter how talented he is. It is too bad that we had the shortened season due to the writer's strike. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:54, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, a real doctor wouldn't get away with the precise things House does, but I've seen doctors who manage to adjust enough to fit in with the system getting away with worse (it all depends on whom you kick at; always kick down and you'll be fine). As to it's not realistic: It isn't, but that's what fiction is for, isn't it? And besides, Hugh Laurie is hot as House. And I say that as a more or less heterosexual guy. Damn hot. User:Dorftrottel 09:47, February 10, 2008

He was reasonably funny when he hosted Saturday Night Live. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 17:47, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Im sorry, i wasnt paying attention and hit vandal revert insted of normal rollback(twinkle rollback). Also you stated he devolped the game. Which makes entirly no sense since Infinity Ward devolped the game. If theres something im missing tell me. BonesBrigade 00:59, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to the article in PlayStation The Official Magazine, Richard Baker is "the Lead Software Engineer at Infinity Ward" and in the first question in the interview is asked about "the development of Call of Duty 4."^[1] I'll clarify this information on the article now. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 01:05, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dude that just means he is the lead software engineer. There are many leads while making the game. Krigler is the games art lead for instince. BonesBrigade 01:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you believe it could be reworded better than by all means, please do so, I just find it useful to have some material on the game's development, because in this instance we have a reliable, secondary source publication we can use as a reference. In the article, Baker talks about how it "was nice to not have to worry about space with Blu-ray" on the Playstation 3 version of the game.^[2] Regards, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 01:40, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest you just make a devolpment section in the article. Right know it is quite out of place. BonesBrigade 03:28, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, will do. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 04:06, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If it belongs anywhere, you should tuck it into the Game Engine section. All on its own in a tiny undeveloped "Development" section, it just comes off as rampant fanboyism. xenocidic (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 21:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

An out of universe published reliable secondary source is exactly what these sort of articles need as others criticize our game articles for in-universe plot summaries and "game guide" content, whereas the development of the game as covered in reliable sources would counter such criticism. Removing a reliable published source does not make much sense and it is actually insulting to use phrases like "rampant fanboyism," especially because I do not even own nor plan to own this game. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 00:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I simply don't see what the quote adds to the article. It "comes off" as someone trying to bash the Xbox 360. My apologies if that was not your intent. xenocidic (talk) 01:28, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is not so much the quote that matters to me; it is that it comes from a published source and there has been a bit of an uproar on Wikipedia lately about the need for more reliable published sources in articles, i.e. not just web links. Moreover, as the quotations come from one of the main men at Infinity Ward, they provide some context on the game's development and help to balance the article among the plot elements and non-plot elements. If nothing else, the source and be proof that Infinity Ward developed the game and should anyone at any time attempt to nominate the article for deletion, editors will be able to show that the game's development was covered in such published, third-party sources as the reference I added. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 01:37, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Again, my sincere apologies for not assuming good faith. I now understand your intentions. Keep up the good work. xenocidic (talk) 01:40, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's all good. Have a nice night! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:16, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please enjoy this Jack-o-lantern, on me =)

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xenocidic (talk) 12:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and happy editing!  :) Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 18:23, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Optimist's Star Chin up. 'nuff said cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :) Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 00:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi this request might be right up your alley. We're doing a featured portal drive for the textile arts project and are looking for 10 articles that are B-class or better to fit into this group. Found 8 so far. Could you add entries and/or summaries to help this out? Cheers, Durova^Charge! 01:17, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'll check it out. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 03:57, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. Durova^Charge! 04:21, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 04:58, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

But I already have an account I'm just not logged in. But your message reminded me to do so so thank you! 90.201.227.109 (talk) 23:38, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome and happy editing!  :) Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 00:32, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, same with me (above). --haha169 (talk) 06:04, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmation. --24.6.103.162 (talk) 06:04, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, well, I hope everything is going well! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 06:48, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You must love to welcome new users if you accidentally welcomed 2 existing users! Keep up the great work! :)--haha169 (talk) 00:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]