User talk:Bduddy
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[edit] Welcome!
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[edit] User boxes
Hi there! The page you are looking for is Wikipedia:Userboxes. The difference being the "wikipedia:" prefix. All pages that provide information about Wikipedia have that prefix. Wikipedia:Project namespace and Wikipedia:Namespace provide more info. - Akamad 07:49, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Speaking of userboxes, I saw that you were a member of FIRST. I also noticed that you haven't figured out how to enter your team name/number to the box. Here's what you do:
Find on your page where it says, {{User FIRST}}. Change it to: {{User FIRST|Your Team Name]]. By the way, was your team at the Finger Lakes Regionals this year? I might have seen you there. Jared W!!! | Write to me, why don't you? 19:22, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! I was trying to figure it out, but I couldn't... and no, my team wasn't there. I was actually fudging a bit... I was a member of the team last year, and I will be next year, but I wasn't this year. It's team 840, Aragon High School, California, so no, you didn't see my team. Bduddy 03:48, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] ja-1 userbox
- Eagle(talk) 03:53, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks... I can't read all that kanji yet, but thanks anyway :) Bduddy 04:05, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] BMW Sauber Twin Towers
Sorry, I've just searched for 'BMW "Twin Towers"' and found a lot of hits. I removed it because I hadn't heard of it (and I pay pretty close attention to F1 news) and also because I though it was possibly offensive (if a reference to World Trade Center - however as you say it's a reference to their sponsor's building). Sorry again, Mark83 21:08, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Contents of the Ja-1 Box
Google's language tools says something along the lines of, "This user can understand elementry level Japanese." Integrity168 09:04, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
- hey thanks for the advice regarding talk/user pages. i'm rather new at wikipedia and its good to get friendly help when learning the ropes. Integrity168 08:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Re: Block after 1 vandalism?
Hi! I have time for anyone that brings an issue to my user talk page, so thanks for bringing this up! I blocked this account due to the rather disturbing edit summary on this user's 2nd edit. (The first edit wasn't the greatest either.) Rather than letting more damage be done, I decided to block as quickly as possible. While this usually isn't the case (three strikes, you're out is usually the case), I didn't see this user reforming anytime soon. ZsinjTalk 03:11, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Category American liberals
Buddy, please take care when adding people to the American liberals category. The current definition is unsupportably broad and vague. Moreover, it is not at all universal -- even in America -- so it is defined basically only by reference to the definition. Moreover, I question any category that would include such disparate political views as the Democratic Party and socialists under "liberal". A, such broad subcats necessarily are overinclusive -- the Dems for instance are certainly not comprised solely of liberals by anyone's understanding of the word (Zell Miller?). B, it seriously mistakes how political ideology is defined: socialists, for instance, even American socialists, do not ordinarily define themselves as "liberals" -- you may as well define left anarchists as liberals. The term liberal is apparently defined in the category, and being applied, in a completely arbitrary fashion, and given that it has a significant POV connotations in the US, I think it is really wildly inappropriate as a category. ... Moreover, how are you sourcing these category additions? Howard Zinn's article describes his beliefs as incorporating Marxism, anarchism, socialism, and social democracy -- are you going to add him to American liberals under the current vague criteria, anarchism, socialism (the subcat), and Communists or Marxists? .... I started discussion at WP:Categorization of people on this issue. In the meantime, I would really urge you to refrain from putting the category on anyone who does not clearly and unequivocally self-define as an American liberal and who is uncontroversially in that category. --lquilter 12:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
