User talk:Gorilla Jones
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[edit] Vonnegut's politics
In the Dulce Et Decorum Est part of the section...what had troubled me from the start was that although I'm sure he was making a poetic reference, how do we know that he referring to the ironic use from the WWI poem, and not in the sense meant by the Roman poet who orginally said it in all sincerity? How would we know without asking V himself? Also, now that I think more about it, it feels like original research to point out that it was a poetic reference in the first place. --Easter Monkey 03:14, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
The idea it was a poetic reference didn't appear first on Wikipedia - pop "Vonnegut dulce et" into Google and you'll find dozens of blogs discussing it. If our current entry reads like a rock-solid certainty, we could soften it a bit. I'll have a look at that. We know he didn't mean it sincerely because we've read his books! Gorilla Jones 16:39, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Ninja
At least some of the material that you removed from the ninja article (the pirates vs ninjas bit) was not vandalism--it was actual information. I'm going to put it back into the article for now, but if you would like to talk about it, feel free to drop a note in my talk page or in the Ninja talk page. authraw 19:16, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Image Tagging Image:Irkutsk architecture.jpg
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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Vladivostok city seal.jpg
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[edit] Ninja
I disagree with this change. Can you explain why you 'reverted vandalism' and made major changes in the same edit please?
Quite alot of what you removed was not vandalism. --Spook (my talk | my contribs) 10:09, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for the explanation, maybe an explaination on the talk page is warranted? --Spook (my talk | my contribs) 14:49, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Spam from Ezekielbearsports
The spam blacklist for Wikipedia is handled through our Meta site, not the main English Wikipedia. Only administrators on Meta can edit the spam blacklist (I'm only an admin at en.wikipedia, not Meta), although you can ask for a site to be added on its talk page. If the EBSports spam continues to be a problem, you can ask it to be added to the blacklist either at Meta or probably at the administrators' noticeboard here. If it's just little edits here and there, we can just keep cleaning it up manually.
I've also noticed that another administrator on en.wikipedia, Naconkantari, is also an administrator on Meta and has been handling several of the proposed additions to the spam blacklist recently. If you have any questions about the spam blacklist itself, he should be able to answer them for you.
Hope this helps!
--Idont Havaname (Talk) 02:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image tagging for Image:Superbowlshuffle.jpg
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