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This article was nominated for deletion on 25 April 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

Zenwhen is a permabanned SA forums user with a major grudge against Lowtax, as you may have guessed from his many previous edits.

Contents 1 Wife 2 Moofwear 3 Photos 4 Moofwear (revisited) 5 Comic reference 6 The next step 7 Problem with references 8 links to other net personalities 9 Tax Evasion 10 Richard Kyanka's Middle Name

[edit] Wife

Wasn't she pregnant before they married? I seem to recall a post about bad chili that they eat together a while before the wedding, and he mentions her the effects the chili will have on their unborn child.Kuralyov

• Yes. They got married in February and she gave birth in June of the same year. - Thatdog

[edit] Moofwear

I note that Moofwear was delinked from the article, but it still exists in the Links section. Do we want to remove it from there as well?

Leave the external link in. I only delinked the wikilink as a site selling a few shirts is not worthy of having an article written for it.--DooMDrat 08:49, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

Both have been removed with the latest revision. Any ideas why? -- Mewcenary 16:31, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

No reason was given, so I went to revert the edit. They've been deleted it seems. I looked through Images For Deletion, and could find nothing in the history related to the images.--DooMDrat 17:43, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm relatively new. Is there an easy way for us to get the images back, or do we now need to find an alternative source? (If any...) -- Mewcenary 18:12, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't know. Perhaps someone else will sort it out. It's nearly 5am and I need to sleep.--DooMDrat 18:49, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moofwear (revisited)

I spotted three different links to areas of Lowtax's business: Moofwear (clothing line), AwfulVideo (media), and City Name Sports Team (clothing line). Is it really necessary to provide a link to each of these? All of them are linked off of SomethingAwful.com anyway. Keeping them in seems spammy and unencylopedic. I've removed the links and await your comment.

While calling them spammy may be a little harsh, according to the external links style guide those links do not merit inclusion as they solely exist to sell Something Awful related merchandise. R Calvete 10:20, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comic reference

A character named "Lowtax" appeared in the comic Smallville #11 (based on the show of the same name). As Lowtax was an odd name for an evil South American cat-man, posters on Something Awful speculated that the comic could have been written by a fan of the site.

This was recently added to the article. Can someone provide a source?--Drat (Talk) 10:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

It was discussed in the comics forum on Something Awful. However, the search and archive features are down right now as SA moves to new servers.--anon

Yeah, I remember the exact thread, I'll be able to find it later and I think it was in GBS --Liface 08:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

New servers? Interesting. I noticed recently that SA no longer shows the ZIPA logo.--Drat (Talk) 05:16, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The next step

We got all our sources cited, the next step should be making them look pretty with footnotes. Also, we need to get a picture of Lowtax. --Liface 21:59, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[1]? Actually, I don't know where any pictures of him looking sensible exist. Even Yale used that one. --Doug (talk) 16:24, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I did the ref tags just now, by the way. --Doug (talk) 16:59, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I think this articles should be merged with the Something Awful article. --Spikelee 01:55, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

I disagree, the persona of lowtax is enough for its own article. --GU-la-G

[edit] Problem with references

The references don't seem to be linked properly (reference 5 links to reference 4 etc.). I'm not entirely sure how I'd fix it, I only make super minor edits on WP.

I'm not quite sure why this is happening. The first reference seems to link to 0. --Liface 16:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I believe Lowtax and Megan Austin are split up.

No they are not. --JirotheHero

[edit] links to other net personalities

I think some mention should be given to his past relationship with stile.

• what's stile? NorphTehDwarf 19:50, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tax Evasion

Lowtax is known to permaban people from the SA forums for mentioning anything about his income. I was one of the people permabanned for this. I believe that his history of tax evasion should be present on this site. Reference http://dw.courts.wa.gov/index.cfm?fa=home.casesummary&crt_itl_nu=S34&casenumber=03-9-23195-1&searchtype=sName—The preceding unsigned comment was added by EloH (talk • contribs) .

EDIT- Don't believe this ASSHOLE- Richard Kyanka is the fucking man. That website is obviously fabricated.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.5.147.135 (talk • contribs) .

Re: "EDIT" It's a government site. Kyanka was in fact wanted for tax evasion.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.202.136.34 (talk • contribs) .

RE: Well if you look at it, it says that the Tax Warrant was vacated—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 155.43.104.186 (talk • contribs) .

Richard Kyanka was arraigned in Thurston County Superior Court on a tax warrant for delinquency. I assume some kind of agreement was struck with the county that allowed him to pay his back taxes, which he did within three months. The ordeal does, however, cast some doubt on his decision to leave the state for purely personal reasons. As a humorous subcontext, it's worth noting the Lowtax got in trouble for paying no tax.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.17.214.110 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] Richard Kyanka's Middle Name

I have listed this article on Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars. --Stormie 05:40, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Hahha, are you serious. It was like three reverts deep. THAT'S LAME FOLKS! --Liface 08:52, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

"At least the anon editors insisting on the insertion of the middle name provided good verifiable sources." Sources that nevertheless appear to be an attempt to defame Kyanka in possible violation of WP:BLP. --Rubber cat 22:21, 11 December 2006 (UTC)