User talk:StAkAr Karnak

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This is a place to discuss any edits I've made. If you disagree with any additions or other changes I make, please let me know.

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Hello. Please note that many of your Star Trek TNG episode titles, like Inheritance will lead to false links, and need to be disambiguated to something like Inheritance. View the source of my comment to see how to do it. - Anon.

[edit] Your edit to Vulcan (Star Trek)

Hi! I just wanted to say many many great thanks for your edits to Vulcan (Star Trek). You filled in quite a number of details that I didn't know about or wasn't sure about. Thanks! I really appreciate your work! — Timwi 17:21, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Missing pictures for DS9 characters

Hey, thanks for the comment. I found some pictures for Klingon, Cardassian, Breen, and Vorta. I like the Martok one the best. I can't find a better Breen picture. They are as illusive on the internet as they are on Star Trek. What is your favourite DS9 episode? EDGE 02:36, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)

I was thinking of asking how you got such high quality screen grabs, but now I know. :-)

My top 3 DS9s in random order:

* Far Beyond the Stars

* In the Pale Moonlight

* Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

Other favorites in random order:

* Rocks and Shoals

* The Siege of AR-558

* It's Only a Paper Moon

* Trials and Tribbleations

* Once More Into the Breach

* What You Leave Behind

* Past Tense I & II

* Rapture

--StAkAr Karnak 02:56, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Changes to Spock's Brain

Hello,

Yes, I understand when someone does something like 'deletes a table someone worked hard on' it would piss that person off, for that I am sorry, but I deleted it, not because I thought it was ugly, I deleted it because I thought it was unecessary for the most part.

I decided to put synopses in for all the TOS Star Treks since there were only a few here now, and I was trying to keep them in the same "general format", with a line or two at the the top about the episode air date, episode number, and who wrote and directed it. I know what you had in mind, but I can tell you, I am not about to make a cell table off to the side containing a bunch of additional information like that for all 76 episodes of TOS.

I read your revision and you suggested the table could be something to put in for all of them ... I think it's more work than it's worth.

However, one thing that both really sucks about Wikipedia, and at the same time kicks ass about Wikipedia, is you can always go in and make changes to whatever you want. Looks like some people here are mature enough to deal with it, while others are babies and cry about it. I've encountered both kinds. That said, if you want the table returned to the page, and tables just like it on every TOS episode page, then by all means go right ahead and put them in yourself. I'm not about to.

Cyberia23 Oct 3 2004 12:16 PM EST

[edit] How To Edit A Star Trek Page etc

Why did you create a page about editing Wikipedia in the main namespace? This seems to me like something that would fit perfectly as the basis for a Wikipedia:WikiProject. Would you mind if I moved it to say, Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek? Ambi 03:00, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks - moved. You might want to add a link to it in the appropriate place at Wikipedia:WikiProject and give it a bit of advertising! :) Ambi 03:08, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Changing page titles

Don't copy and paste, use the "Move" button up the top. Hope this helps :) Enjoy your stay on Wikipedia. If you need more help, leave a message on my talk page. - Ta bu shi da yu 12:57, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Descriptive log entries

Can I ask you to try and be more descriptive in your log entries? People do read them, especially if they see a substantial part of an article removed. It's not really obvious from "Misc." that you were going to move the content in Borg elsewhere. Thanks. Rl 21:47, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unproduced Episodes of TOS

Hi, I noticed you put in the "lost" episodes of TOS on the TOS episode list page. Would you happen to know any webpage that might have the lost scripts? If so I could write a synopsis for them. Thanks Cyberia23 22:10, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Lynch Surname

Actually, Lynch is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin. Lynch is the form used on several Irish surnames that sound similar to Lynch but are actually something else entirely. Fergananim May 30th 2005.

Hello, Fergananim again; sorry for being so long in getting back to you - next time leave me a very curt note on my site and I will be suitably swift and apolgetic!

Now, to wit: Simply because a person is named John Lynch, it does not mean that we can take his surname's orgins as a given. We may call the person concerned Irish (and rightly so). However, the name itself may be of a number of origins.

Firstly, the surname Lynch was originally de Lynch or de Linch, soon de-prefixed as Linche or Lynch. The spelling is irrelivant as most people up to the late 1800's could not read or write and in any case there was no standard manner of spelling.

This was a surname of Anglo-Norman origin. By that I mean the form "de .." was Norman-French, the world Lynch indicating the place of orign of the person concerned, apparently somewhere in Norman-occupied England. I am still trying to figure out what the name means but the de form demonstrates it was a place. To put it more simply: today's version would be John de New York, John de Seattle and so forth.

Now in Ireland, there were at least three families prior to the Norman arrival who had names which were later bastardised to Lynch. Two unrelated families of the same name were located at opposite ends of Ireland, one in Ulster (what are now co.'s Cavan, Down and Armagh and a second in Munster (in what are now countys Cork, Kerry, Tipperary and Waterford). A third one was located in Connacht (coutys Mayo, Galway, Clare). Their surname was Ó Loingsigh, and it is in these areas that the highest preponderence of bearers of the name Lynch are found in Ireland.

I emphasise that there were at least three of them; Lynch has quite a wide geographical spread in Ireland, so O Loingsigh and varient surnames must have being quite popular in Gaelic Ireland. Think of it as one of their equlivants of the likes of Smith, Jones, Wilson, etc.

There is no indication that any of these geographicly distinct Gaelic septs were related, no more than we would say all Smiths are of the one family. It just happened to be a popular name; for example there are at least nine distint Kelly septs in Ireland, and none of them are related.

Now, how they became Lynch: Ireland was anglacised. Irish ceased to be the common language of everyday use, so names that sounded like the Irish ones were used. Remember, the ruleing and administrative classes were most English with barely two words of Irish. They would be terribly confused by all these strange, barbaric names, and so simply gave them an English name that sounded like the Gaelic original, both in everyday speech and in the written record. Lynch was that name.

The exact same thing happened time and time again at Ellis Island, to cite a recent example.

In fact there was only one family of the name de Lynch or Lynch living in Ireland, and they were in Galway. Just to make matters worse yet another sept named O Loinsigh were found in Galway and when they dropped the O they too became Lynch. Some O Loinsigh did become Lynskey which though it sounds Polish is actually a better phonetic pronounciation of the orignal surname.

So in short, just because a person is named John Lynch it does not mean too much. His nationality is Irish, his first name is Semitic and his surname is that of a place name in England. Conversely, someone name Sean O'Loinsigh might actually be a descendant of a de Lynch without knowning it!

This is the case with many, many Irish surnames as English is the language used by the majority of Irish people in everyday speech, and in any case most people the world over know little enough about their names or family origins. Most get them off the back of a family coat of arms (sic) backage and assume that because they have the same name it must be their family too (duh!).

Some Irish people might have a name (and some genetic background) that owes nothing to Gaelic Ireland yet still be Irish people. Think about people such as Charles Stewart Parnell, Padraig Pearse, Gerry Adams, Eamonn de Valera, Mary Robinson, Garrett FitzGerald, Paul Hewson (Bono), and many others. As you will see in the section Irish name, some of these people use Irish versions of their names, even though the original form of their name has no Irish at all! (Gerard, Eamonn, Padraig and Mary are not Irish names in origin). Complicated, huh?

You might want to check out Irish name and Family name (Ireland) to see what I'm on about. I plan to add a little more information there to give people an idea just how far away current anglicized forms are from the Irish originals, and indeed the other way around!

Sorry for taking up so much space here. I hope I've clarified matters somewhat for you ... or at least confused you in a very interesting manner! Slan, agus tog go bog e! Fergananim

Re: Lynch. Not a bad idea. Maybe I should work it into a stub or short article. Cheers. Fergananim

[edit] Re: Kree Infobox

Sorry to see you removed my infobox because you felt it was "non-standard". I was going for something similar to the box on the Klingon page. The Trek pages have these boxes for their interstellar powers, and I thought it might be nice to apply the same idea to Marvel aliens. Oh, well.

I wouldn't object if:

The relevant information exists (kind of a "duh", but I'm not sure Marvel's ever gone into alien society in detail - especially in things like currency, etc - the way Trek does. I don't think just grabbing a Trek box will do much good)
The box fitted the style of the other WP:CMC boxes.
You give notice at WP:CMC
You template it rather than sticking all the Wikicode in every time. It makes editing the box info a hundred times more difficult than a template

SoM 22:46, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Klingon Special Operations

Can you look at Klingon Special Operations or have someone else from the Star Trek wikiproject look at it? It needs a lot of cleaning up.--Rachack 05:18, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Star Trek survey

Hello. You seem interested in Star Trek material. Please see my Wikipedia:Non-canon Star Trek survey. Thanks. — JIP | Talk 09:42, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mr. Spock reorganization

Hey, thanks for your efforts reorganizing the Mr. Spock article—it needed the initiative! - Ringbang 14:18, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Combadge

Is this: Image:St combadge.gif what you are looking for? --AllyUnion (talk) 22:03, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Which do you like better?

Star Wars or Star Trek? You can see what I prefer. The Wookieepedian 09:51, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

They each have their strengths.

With Star Trek, I like that many of the episodes are morality tales that enable us to look at an issue from a fresh perspective. I also like that the aliens are (to me at least) iconic. Vulcans = logic, Klingons = aggression, honor. Ferengi = capitalism. And so on.

With Star Wars, everyone involved seems to take pride in their work and the overall quality of stories is higher. There is a lot more money behind it, so it looks better too. I also like the Expanded Universe - I am not tempted to read Star Trek novels, etc, because they don't 'matter' in the overall tapestry like they do with Star Wars.

This is all my opinion. It's nice to have a variety of SF to choose from.--StAkAr Karnak 12:12, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Uatubust.JPG has been listed for deletion

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[edit] Aleta

Please do not add additional meanings of "Aleta" to Aleta Ogord. That was the whole point of moving Ms. Ogord to her own page and starting a disambiguation on the main Aleta entry.--StAkAr Karnak 13:25, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

If I read you right, you're unhappy with the addition of the "fictional heroines" category. I did not add that category; I had merely fixed its capitalization. From the article history, it appears you should talk to Dimadick, who added Category:Fictional Heroines initially, then added the correctly-capitalized (but apparently undesirable) Category:Fictional heroines tag after you removed it. I hope this helps. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:10, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:CapitalVulcan.jpg

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[edit] Temporal Cold War

I think there's an NPOV issue on Temporal Cold War. An anonymous editor has been adding what I feel is personal commentary to the Controversy section. Since you've commented on that Talk page, I was wondering if you could take a look. I've changed it once and reverted once, and I don't like further reverting without editor consensus. The paragraph in question is under an NPOV-section template, and the discussion is at the bottom of the Talk page.--MikeJ9919 02:24, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The opening credits of The Cosby Show

(replies on this page please)

A few months back you added the afd1 template to the above article for a second nomination, but it seems somewhat messed up and as far as I can tell you didn't ever complete the nomination by creating the Afd page or listing the article on Afd. Can you please either remove the Afd template or properly complete the nomination? If you haven't done so in a few days I'll go ahead and remove the broken template from the article. -- Hirudo 06:39, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

IIRC, I was somewhat confused when attempting to nominate the article, and hoped someone who knew what they were doing would fix it. The information has been incorporated into the list of episodes page, so the article is redundant. I don't have the time right now to fiddle with the page and figure out what's what, so if you could complete the nomination, it would be immensely helpful.--StAkAr Karnak 16:37, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. I'm not familiar with how to do second nominations myself. -- Hirudo 18:13, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warrior Races

Sorry about that - it was probably a mistake on my part - I didn't see the cat indicated at the bottom of the page. Go ahead and revert me with my blessings. Cheers. 155.84.57.253 13:17, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adventure into Fear

Thanks for writing to me and asking a legitimate question. The series Adventure into Fear ran different features, including Morbius and Man-Thing. If you look at the similar series Strange Tales, which similarly ran Dr. Strange, Nick Fury, Cloak and Dagger, the Human Torch, Brother Voodoo, etc., you'll see that Wikipedia style is to consider this an article about the series, not the characters. While it talks about each character, it doesn't go into great detail about them or give lists for them, since Dr. Strange. Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., etc., each have their own articles.

I hope this helps. Happy Wiki-ing! -- Tenebrae 14:31, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Because this article is about the series, and your list is about the character who has his own article. I'm not sure why you object to putting the Morbius information in Morbius.

The current state of articles is one that's evolved through a lot of dedicated editors over the course of months or years. There's additionally Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics. Consistency of style is important in an encyclopedia, and rather than re-do the plethora of existing series articles for which characters have their own entries, it makes sense to have newer articles conform to what has worked well and what consensus has created in the past.-- Tenebrae 20:40, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stakar picture

Considering fair use images aren't allowed outside of articles (per Wikipedia's policy on fair use images), I'd like to request you take off the Stakar picture on your user page. Thanks. Kusonaga 16:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Trek

Hey there. I see you have been helping out with the Star Trek article. I tried putting it up for Peer Review (twice!) but no one commented. I was wondering what you thought about putting it up for FAC. Do you think it's worth it, or do you think that article needs more work? Just looking for some imput. Thanks, Newnam^(talk) 04:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

If FAC stands for featured article, I don't think so. The article contains a lot of stuff that is redundant when other articles already exist to cover the material. I have lost major concern for the future of the article, because the community consensus seems to like it the way it is. -- StAkAr Karnak 18:03, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] DYK

On October 18, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Margaret Holloway, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 01:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Killraven

Thanks. I've reinserted the citation, which had appeared to be a dead link but is working now; might have been a server glitch at the twomorrows site. Good catch. -- Tenebrae 19:03, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cedar Hill Area

East Rock Listing you did

I find it amazing that the whole Cedar Hill Area was not on your list of Streets?? I have added them. Yes this area is East Rock little knowen to most people. We have a group of us trying to ix this we work with URI Greater New Haven Foundation and other city groups. We are a very active community in the East Rock District. Happypixie 24 October 2006

While I appreciate your enthusiasm, I consider it vandalism for you to delete content on my user page. If you are going to post comments, please do not come back and remove them. Regarding the streets in the Cedar Hill section, I do not recall why I did not post them. The city of New Haven has maps of what are officially considered neighborhoods here. Lastly, please sign your post when commenting on talk pages. -- StAkAr Karnak 19:31, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

First I am new here

I wanted to add to the comment I posted and I removed it by accident I was not removing I was adding and I messed up I am sorry if that made you mad. If you dought me call URI call the town hall your link to the maps are wrong I am a member of the democatic commity of the 10th district which is East rock and yes Cedar hill is part of it. Ask anyone that know the East Rock Area. call the Police they can conmirm it to. I was not trying to offend you I was trying to fix something that was missing on your site. Which is what I thought this Wikipedia was fact. Here this was a recent meeting we had http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2006/10/post_278.php

I promise this is fact Happypixie 24 October 2006

I have just went to te map you sent me and yes w are even on your map Thank you for that link t is a great one. I am studing the history of Cedar Hil with the help of UCONN and it is a lost history but we are finding a few documen that are hidden away Happypixie 24 October 2006

Pixie, I encourage you in your efforts and look forward to seeing your progress. Be sure to remember to note what books or websites you get your information from at the bottom of whatever page you happen to be editing. Wikipedia has a strict policy against original research, so all of your sources must be documented. Out of curiousity, what is your personal connection to Cedar Hill?

By the way, when signing your comments, just type in four tildes "~" and it will automatically add your name with a timestamp. There's even a button on the top of the editing box that will fill in your signature for you. --StAkAr Karnak 20:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you this place is a little hard to learn I just added the page and had wrote to them to give me a little time to set it up right. I own a house in Cedar Hill I am one of the founding member of the greenspace program here we are a growing group of people on this side of East Rock trying to clean it up and give it a better name. I am a member of the Block watch. My Uncle was Princial at Hooker school for many years (most know him) My kids gradated from there. I brought my energys that I learned from that side to this side in hopes of revitalizig it again. For all Iknow you may even know me. Watch channel 26 ctv I even have a little speach on there about my area running right now sorry again for the miss understanding darn internet is a great tool once you learn how to use it. --Happypixie 21:02, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi! I came upon the Cedar Hill article recently, and I think it should be merged into the East Rock category. Please discuss my proposal at Talk:East Rock (neighborhood). --orlady 23:50, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Holy Cow!!

THANK YOU!!!! sooooo Much it is great I sent the link to everyone. --Happypixie 16:28, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] forum link

Forums are generally not a good thing to be linking to per WP:EL —— Eagle (ask me for help) 23:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eagle 101

Im not sure what happened. I had VandalProof up with that page in the background of VP when it crashed that might have caused the problem. Sorry, I reverted. Live Long and Prosper Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 16:21, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube link

I removed it because Wikipedia is not a link farm, and current policy is to remove YouTube links unless there is a damned good reason to have such a link. --Calton | Talk 23:45, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation. Could you please provide a link to the policy you cite regarding YouTube? -- StAkAr Karnak 01:19, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Try here and this template. And it's not policy, it's practice. --Calton | Talk 02:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

The links you provided stated: Most YouTube material is unsuitable for Wikipedia because:

The source and legitimacy of the videos on YouTube are almost or totally impossible to determine, hence they are not reliable sources and are not verifiable (A key requirement).

The YouTube link would seem to be Gia Farrell's own account, since there is a professionally-produced music video there that seems to be exclusive.

Many videos on YouTube are of questionable copyright legitimacy, which should not be linked from Wikipedia.

If it is her account, it presumably has her blessing, as well as Atlantic's.

Since many videos are personally made, they represent original research, which Wikipedia is not in the buissiness of publishing. They may also be biased in their presentation of material.

Not applicable. The link was valuable to someone looking for information on this singer because access to a 'free' performance with the subject's permission aids the user in forming a complete picture of the subject - which is why they were likely looking her up to begin with. -- StAkAr Karnak 02:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

The link was valuable to someone looking for information on this singer because access to a 'free' performance with the subject's permission

In other words, it falls under a different set of criteria, namely spam, ALSO verboten, since the "service" isn't valuable to the reader, it's valuable for promotion of the subject -- which leads to the next obvious question, namely whether you have a conflict of interest here. Do you? --Calton | Talk 00:33, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

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