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Welcome to my discussion board. Please follow the Wikipedia guidelines when posting a message. Thank you. --Doktor Who
[edit] WikiProject Rock music invitation
Hello WikiProject Alternative music member.
WikiProject Alternative music, in my eyes, has proved to be successful "improving the encyclopaedic coverage of articles relating to alternative rock", and improving their quality as well. One specific example I have witnessed is The Smashing Pumpkins article. The page has gone from a mediocre work, to GA status, to FA nomination. Only appropriate, as the Pumpkins are undeniably one of the most influential alternative rock bands on the 1990's and beyond.
This is the stuff I wish to achieve with the somewhat recently ressurected WikiProject Rock music. I hope to also attract attention to rock music articles of all sorts, and hopefully change some to GA or FA status. I invite you to come join us, and not only be a member of alternative Wikipedians, but the rockin' ones as well.
Rock on.
-- Reaper X 03:12, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] AIV
Thank you for making a report on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, administrators are generally only able to block users if they have received a recent final warning (one that mentions that the user may be blocked) and they have recently vandalized after that warning was given. The reported user has not yet been blocked because it appears this has not occurred yet. If this user continues to vandalize even after their final warning, please report them to the AIV noticeboard again. Thank you! ⇒ SWATJester On Belay! 04:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] interactions with Gardener of Geda
Doktor Who, I noticed that you posted to Gardener of Geda's talk page pointing out a personal attack posted on eir user page. It seems that right now Gardener of Geda is likely to interpret such actions as stalking, regardless of whether that is your intention. I recommend that for the moment you back off from interactions with Gardener of Geda. If this requires the temporary removal of some pages from your watchlist, so be it; the pages will still be there when you get back. Michael Slone (talk) 08:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks--Doktor Who 12:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Romeo and Juliet semi protection
Just dropping {{sprotect}} on a page won't protect it. That has to be done by an admin, and requested at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. I put in a request on this page for you. *Mishatx*-In\Out 04:33, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you. :)--Doktor Who 05:02, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Talk:Music for Airports
[1] [2] * "Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan" =→ On Land.
help :( --Doktor Who 23:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- Am I correct in thinking that you are claiming that Mistaken Memories... uses music from On Land instead of from Music for Airports? I don't consider your first removal of the item to be vandalism, although you should always use an edit summary, especially when removing text. Instead of reverting a second time, I would recommend discussing the issue on the talk page. I see that you posted something about this on the talk page, but it took me a few minutes to understand what you wrote there.
- I don't have access to Mistaken Memories..., but the Rykodisc site states that the video uses music from both albums. If so, then it is not inappropriate to have the item on Music for Airports, although it might be better to have a shorter mention on both pages and maybe a stub article for Mistaken Memories... itself indicating that it uses music from both. Michael Slone (talk) 03:46, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Your comments
I think you'll find that numerous editors have had problems understanding you and your various suspected sockpuppet accounts - which is not surprising seeing as they all seem to have a habit of mis-spelling the exactly same words in exactly the same way, when making exactly the same sorts of comments, on exactly the same articles. Should prove most interesting when a checkuser request is done. --Gene_poole 02:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- You are wrong¸ sorry.--Doktor Who 03:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Commas
Why is it that you're using a cedilla in place of a comma in some of your comments?—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 07:16, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Thank you for reporting to me this prob, my computer's ports were malfunctioning, indeed I didn't write at all for several days, though I edited using copy and paste a few times.--Doktor Who 16:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] RE: Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site
Hello, Herr Doktor.
I saw your note on my talk page. This is OK. You can delete. Genesis | Please sell England by the pound*** | on 11:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] What's going on?
Hey Dr Who!
What's goin' on? Are you leaving? Genesis | Please sell England by the pound*** | on 13:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Not for now, I'm back, though I'll be here for just few minutes for 4 or 5 times each week.--Doktor Who 19:12, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- OK. I thought you were leaving. Genesis | Please sell England by the pound*** | on 14:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Take a raincheck
I don't care if you call yourself Sky-surfer, Brian_G._Wilson or Doktor Who; you're certainly not fooling anyone in that regard - so best you calm down, stop the hysterics and personal attacks and comply with Wikipedia policies and guidelines. You'll find it much easier to get along with others here if you do. --Gene_poole 23:42, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- You are the only person that can't stand that three users (beside me, Parzival and Milo) do not agree with your POV regarding those topics. You'd better report me to a checkuser, if you really suspect that I'm any of those other users that you're mentioning. And there is no rules that I'm breaking.--Doktor Who 09:25, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hello Dr Who... in case you haven't seen it yet, I thought you'd want to know that GP has posted a report on these pages:
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- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Doktor Who
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- Although the RFC specifically names you, he also complains that Cricket and Milo and me, plus two other users I have had no interactions with, Sky-Surfer and Brian G. Wilson, are all sock-puppets of each other.
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- So far, the RFC has not been certified, so no response or other action is needed. If you are asked to respond at some point, it would be a good idea to consult with other editors first, to make sure your English comes across as you intend in your response.
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- I recommend that you avoid replying to any communications from GP about you. Whatever he says about you, don't take his comments personally. If you are editing an article and he makes a comment about the article that needs a reply so the editing can continue, just stick to the article topic only and ignore anything personal he says about you. Remember that his problems are his problems, not yours. It doesn't matter what he thinks about you. Don't let him make you angry, just let it go. I (and others too) appreciate your interesting contributions to the music articles. Parzival418 08:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Wikiproject Rock music
Hey, not a problem. I'm busy in real life too, army training, school, home responsibilities and friends etc.. So we're both guilty of not being very active on Wikipedia. I hope you can solve your problems with this "long term cyberstalker". I wish you luck in punching him in the face, physically or metaphorically, because people like do that kind of shit obviously have issues. Cheers. -- Reaper X 19:15, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] New Age music
[...]Milo 11:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- In that case I d better stop editing at all. It's unworth to spend my precious time to make a honest search, analyze and compare data, and finally get every effort reverted. Please note also that my reverts contributed to stop vandal edits several times, see the link in my user page for evidence.Doktor Who 13:25, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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- "finally get every effort reverted" That's not unique to you. That's just Wikipedia. Maybe 100% of what I entered at Space music is gone. [...] Milo 01:24, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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- I had a sort of career in real world's politics, more than a decade ago, so, I didn't learn anything new here, but please tell me what makes the kids unhappy with my edits. I like most of music, including heavy metal, punk, jazz, classical music, world music... I'm not a fanatic of a genre, therefore I can't understand the dozens of fanatics that are here and that ignore even the most elementary rules of semeiotics. I can't take care of their feelings. Many words used by young people are just slang, it happens everywhere. I can't understand why we have to tolerate their language here and pretend that it is "encyclopedic". --Doktor Who 02:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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- I'm not sure of what you mean, anw I'll make my own books and sites, and I'll get them accredited by the academic community, becouse I can do that.Doktor Who 02:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Huh??? What are you talking about? Did I miss some previous message, maybe? --Doktor Who 02:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Ok, with communications problems arising, I know from previous experiences that I can't really fix them, so I will politely delete and retreat.
You tell me that you didn't like something I told you, so I apologize for making you unhappy.Fortunately, this is Wikipedia where mistakes can be corrected, and I've deleted the parts of my posts that you might not have liked or didn't understand. I had intended no further comments anyway, as those are best done by advocates and mentors with more time than I have. Also, I'm sincerely glad that you have future things worked out for yourself and don't need my advice — so I beg off from further dialog here. I wish you well. :) Milo 03:39, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, with communications problems arising, I know from previous experiences that I can't really fix them, so I will politely delete and retreat.
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Oh, no, you do not really need to delete your post, I was unable to fully understand cos I thought that I had lost or misunderstood some previous messages. Anw, do you want to help Parzifal to complete his/her edits with such music articles? Doktor Who 04:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
- "do you want to help Parzifal to complete his/her edits with such music articles" Parzifal and I last crossed paths at Talk:New Age music where Parzifal was posting in "#External link seems to be advertising ...", Cricket and I consensed removal, and Parzifal did the first rm of newagepiano.net. Gene reverted newagepiano.net a full 3RRs and logged all your counter reverts to his RFC/U page on you. The WP:3RR guide wants to see some other editors doing those reverts to prove consensus, so tommorrow or whenever, I should be next to do one or two reverts along with Parzifal (or Cricket if he's willing). Milo 05:57, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Hello
Haha, no worries, my first little anomaly in behaviour for April Fools dude. Cheers. -- Reaper X 21:54, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RE: Sting
Thanks for the note, I responded inline on my discussion page. --Claygate 17:37, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] an FYI for you
Thought you would like to know...as an active member of the Pink Floyd project. Currently a rather arrogant POV editor (with VERY poor writing skills) has attempted a hijack of the Led Zeppelin article. The editor(editing as an IP) has been rv'd and the article temporarily semi-protected. He seems to have set his sights (perhaps as a vendetta) on purging the current FA status'd Pink Floyd article and reducing it to a fancruft page similar to his attempts on the LZ article. I have 2 admins watching over him but it will take due diligence by regular editors to maintain the current status of these "target" articles. The editor attempted to blank most of the Pink Floyd lead-in section which I rv'd. Perhaps you could rally some of the regular Pink Floyd editors/project members to try and quell any of the pending "quality kill" that the article may be facing. I can direct you to the Admins who are eyeing this situation should you require any assistance and I am not around to see what is going on. Good luck. 156.34.142.110 17:40, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
- Hi 156.34.142.110, Dr. Who is a music researcher, so please ask him music questions. IMHO, it's ok for Dr. Who to quietly help make consensed edits at Led Zeppelin, but please don't ask him to take a lead in content struggles that could turn into edit wars for which he might get blamed. Dr. Who has previously been the target of harassment and personal attacks for doing such things. The smaller genres need Dr. Who to keep a low profile, to avoid distractions or worse if you ask him to do things for which he doesn't have expert EFL language skills. Since Led Zeppelin has a zillion fans, and therefore many editors willing to help repel a single IP with POV, I doubt it will be the disaster that you suggest. Yes, I like Led Zeppelin, too. Good luck. Milo 01:13, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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- Hello 156.34.142.110, many thanks for your message. After my usual-almost-daily edits, I'm studying the matter, and am trying to see what is undergoing in that editor's minds, I want to understand whether his trolling is a reaction against misunderstandings, or he is here just for his fun. You said "vendetta". What would he/she be revenging for?Doktor Who 01:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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- No need to fret Milo, I wasn't asking Dok to "join the fray". After the belligerent editor was blocked from ruining the LZ article, he seemed to turn his sights on other music articles that have featured status. In his talk:LZ rants he named several FA articles which he personally felt were garbage(they're not...he's just an idiot) and so these articles may become targets of the user if he continues to be blocked from editing Led Zeppelin. I asked 2 admin acquaintances to watch that article so I believe it is safe. But Dume7/IP 71.X may decide to set his sights on destroying a different article, and yesterday he certainly tried by blanking the PF lead-in. I have had brief conversations with Dok in the past about a Pink Floyd related article so I knew him to be a dedicated member of the Pink Floyd project. I wanted to alert him(and a few other active members) of the potential edits to the PF article which would likely result in the article losing it's FA status.(you would easily understand if you read the users edits to the LZ article...they are bad-almost to the point of insulting. A 10 year old child has better writing skills). And Doc in answer to your question...I don't feel Dume7 has a vendetta against PF or the article specifically. Just that it is a music related FA and he thinks it doesn't deserve it because it isn't loaded with POV praising fancruft. He does not feel Wikipedia's policies should be followed and that the articles should be written with more "poetic emotion" and ignore rules like NPOV, citation, no weasel words, no original research....etc. And this sort of "above the law" attitude is causing a lot of problems. The editor has even gone so far as to alter the wording of posts from other users on the LZ discussion page. And should he continue to do this he will likely be blocked. Keep up the good work with the PF project Dok. Hopefully Dharmabum will return to Wiki full time soon. I believe he was dedicated to the Floyd project. But got fed up with all of the other foolishness that goes on around here. I've seen many good and noble editors turn their backs on Wikipedia. I, myself, walked away from my username over a year ago. But I am good at reverting vandalism(it's easy to spot in the recent changes list). And you don't need a username to do that. Have a nice day Dok!(and you too Milo) 156.34.142.110 12:50, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you again, 156.34.142.110. Your message is very welcome and fully understood, I'll maintain the PF articles as well as others related to music topics and artists. Hopefully I don't have to engage revert war and left alone by others, it would be very sad and embarassing.
- You say that we have already talked in the past? Sorry, I can't remember that at the moment.... so, you used a username those days and then you left it? Too bad. :( I hope you'll change your mind, anw I can understand you, indeed I almost left wikipedia in october/november 2006, and some weeks ago I was considering to leave again forever due to harrassment.--Doktor Who 22:51, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- No need to fret Milo, I wasn't asking Dok to "join the fray". After the belligerent editor was blocked from ruining the LZ article, he seemed to turn his sights on other music articles that have featured status. In his talk:LZ rants he named several FA articles which he personally felt were garbage(they're not...he's just an idiot) and so these articles may become targets of the user if he continues to be blocked from editing Led Zeppelin. I asked 2 admin acquaintances to watch that article so I believe it is safe. But Dume7/IP 71.X may decide to set his sights on destroying a different article, and yesterday he certainly tried by blanking the PF lead-in. I have had brief conversations with Dok in the past about a Pink Floyd related article so I knew him to be a dedicated member of the Pink Floyd project. I wanted to alert him(and a few other active members) of the potential edits to the PF article which would likely result in the article losing it's FA status.(you would easily understand if you read the users edits to the LZ article...they are bad-almost to the point of insulting. A 10 year old child has better writing skills). And Doc in answer to your question...I don't feel Dume7 has a vendetta against PF or the article specifically. Just that it is a music related FA and he thinks it doesn't deserve it because it isn't loaded with POV praising fancruft. He does not feel Wikipedia's policies should be followed and that the articles should be written with more "poetic emotion" and ignore rules like NPOV, citation, no weasel words, no original research....etc. And this sort of "above the law" attitude is causing a lot of problems. The editor has even gone so far as to alter the wording of posts from other users on the LZ discussion page. And should he continue to do this he will likely be blocked. Keep up the good work with the PF project Dok. Hopefully Dharmabum will return to Wiki full time soon. I believe he was dedicated to the Floyd project. But got fed up with all of the other foolishness that goes on around here. I've seen many good and noble editors turn their backs on Wikipedia. I, myself, walked away from my username over a year ago. But I am good at reverting vandalism(it's easy to spot in the recent changes list). And you don't need a username to do that. Have a nice day Dok!(and you too Milo) 156.34.142.110 12:50, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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