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Please observe Wikipedia:Etiquette and Talk Page Etiquette here. This talk page is my territory, and I assume janitorial responsibility for it. I may, without notice, refactor comments to put like with like, correct indents, or retitle sections to reflect their contents more clearly. While I reserve the right to delete comments, I am normally opposed to doing so and use archives instead. If I inadvertently change the meaning, please contact me! When all else fails, check the edit history. -- Fyslee (collaborate)
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Lately I have become more sensitive to the posting of personal information about myself here at Wikipedia. I am the target of cyberstalking and hate mail from some pretty unbalanced people and regularly receive threats (including occasional death threats). While I don't normally have any reason to hide my true identity, any past revealings by myself should not be construed by others as license to do it here at Wikipedia, where only my "Fyslee" tag should be used. While such revealings here have often been done innocently, I still reserve the right to delete such personal information posted here at Wikipedia by others. My own and my family's security is at stake here, and I would appreciate support in this matter. Thanks. -- Fyslee (collaborate)


This image means alot to me, since I have lived in Greenland and seen the Northern Lights many times. One of the most spectacular times was in the middle of the night while on a reindeer hunting expedition in the bottom of Godthåb fjord. I shot four deer (including Rudolph) in one day that time.....;-) It's the finest tasting lean red meat one can imagine.
Wikimedia Commons picture of the year, 2006 Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska -- The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, shines above Bear Lake
Wikimedia Commons picture of the year, 2006 Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska -- The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, shines above Bear Lake

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[edit] WP:Wine Welcome

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[edit] Batu Lintang camp

Hi Fyslee. I saw you added two interesting links to the List of Japanese POW camps during World War II - am I right in assuming you have an interest in this field, and if so, could I ask you a favour? I have created a page on the WWII camp at Batu Lintang in Sarawak, and am looking to get it to FA status if possible. It's been up for a military history peer review but I haven't had much feedback. Would you mind casting an eye over it for me? As a sweetener - I see from your userboxes that you like The English Patient. You might like this then! Cheers Jasper33 12:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

First the video. Absolutely brilliant! They did a good job. Yes, I love that film, primarily because of Juliette Binoche....;-) [1] [2] [3] As far as the POW camps, I'm not sure how much help I can offer, since my interest is purely because of my family's history. My parents (missionaries to Korea, Japan, and the Philippines) and two older brothers (one and two years old when captured) were interned in three different camps for the next three years, the last two being Santo Tomas and Los Baños, from which they were delivered in the raid. I was born exactly six years later in Tokyo, to the day and date, so I grew up hearing their stories of imprisonment, hunger, disease, excapes, execustions, deaths, even of being befriended by a guard, and of course the dramatic liberation. While making those edits I discovered that the Batu Lintang camp also had a VERY similar experience (!) with a secret radio. The maker of the radio at Los Baños was a navy guy who has remained a family friend in California ever since, and who later was involved in the development of the Polaris missile. The Japanese didn't know he was military or he would have been in big trouble (and another camp). He was (had been) head of all radio communication west of Hawaii and was (is) an electronic genius. Needless to say he and my father are very old. My Dad's 94 now. -- Fyslee/talk 14:53, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, Juliette Binoche. Quite, quite beautiful, but her charms are somewhat lost on me. Now if we're talking Johnny Depp ... (by the way, I was walking by the lake just on Sunday where they filmed all the river scenes for Chocolat - in deepest Wiltshire, UK rather than La Belle France). The story of the raid at Los Baños is amazing, and you are so lucky that all your family were saved. How interesting that you have a family connection - me too, my grandparents were in Batu Lintang (both survived) - Granny only died in 1995, aged 93: I guess surviving a POW/civilian internment camp must mean you're a tough old bird. Adam and Joe, the guys who did the EP spoof have done quite a few other ones, including a cracking pop at Trainspotting. Also, if you're at all in to NWA (which I rather doubt looking at the other music you list on your infoboxes) Adam did a very funny send up of Fuck Tha Police here Enough. I really ought to go and do some work ... Jasper33 15:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Here in Europe her films are uncensored....;-) As far as being a POW, it affected my mother the rest of her life, and in some ways the whole family. She always had eating disorders after that, and our family always ate up and never threw away any food. I inherited those attitudes. -- Fyslee/talk 15:20, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, you're in Europe. I assumed you were somewhere off to the left of the gorgeous windswept coast pictured on your user page. Is that near Jenner? My godmother lives there but I've never been to Cali - she tells me it's beautiful. My g/ps and parents would never buy Japanese white goods or cars, and my grandparents never talked to us grandkids about what they'd been through. Luckily my mum got granny to write down her recollections, so we have a record. It makes for grim reading. Jasper33 15:35, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I am originally from southern California, and the picture is one I took this summer. (Jenner is north of San Francisco, while this is south of Monterey and Big Sur.) Our family has a special relationship to the Japanese. On the one hand they experienced being internees, on the other hand my father (son of American missionaries) was born and raised in Korea under Japanese occupation, so he grew up speaking English, Korean, and Japanese. During the Korean war my family fled from Korea to Japan, where my father's language skills could be used. So I got born in Japan instead of Korea. So instead of bitterness towards the Japanese, we have always had a pretty good relationship with them, even while recognizing the extreme gruesomeness of their occupational strategies in some countries, especially China. The Germans didn't even approach it. So my family is a mixed up and interesting American family: Dad/Korea, Mother/Oklahoma, Brother1/Korea, Brother2/Philippines, Myself/Japan. -- Fyslee/talk 15:46, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Geography never was my strong point - I shall have a poke about in the Jenner link you gave. And what an interesting mix of birthplaces. I always feel that my parents go from the sublime (Mum: Borneo) to the ridiculous (Dad: Bournemouth) ! Well - must do some work now! It was nice chatting to you, Fyslee. Catch you again sometime. Jasper33 15:58, 3 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] CV for S.B.

I was referring to the mention of the CV in previous posts on the article's talk page. RalphLendertalk 13:39, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I understand. The only place it was mentioned was in this edit summary, and one should "consider the source" in that case. -- Fyslee/talk 14:18, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Signpost updated for April 2nd, 2007.

Volume 3, Issue 14 — 2 April 2007

[edit] "original intention" ?

May I ask what you mean by this comment?:

"Fyslee's original intention."

-- Fyslee/talk 19:57, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm saying that the comment doesn't reflect your original intention in endorsing the RfC that asks that Martinphi to be removed from the discussions. I'm saying that my objection isn't just about original intentions and that it's really about dispute resolvement forking, which is what the RfC has become. In other words, I'm saying that you didn't necessarily endorse the complaint trying to create a dispute fork. I'm using your example that one helps decide the other, without saying you intended that when you endorsed it.
--Nealparr (yell at me|for what i've done) 20:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
My intention in the beginning was to support an examination of Martin's editing patterns, and I agreed with most of the evidence that was presented. I haven't been closely involved with him, since I don't normally edit those articles, but I had noticed some alarming trends in his comments and editing patterns, trends that revealed he didn't understand NPOV or the purpose of Wikipedia. (Advocacy is not allowed here!) I usually edit articles that are somewhat related to science, in the sense that they are falsifiable. Things that aren't falsifiable don't interest me much, since they are too far out to be even slightly credible. That doesn't mean that none of them can't be examined using scientific methods, which is hopefully why the Parapsychology Association(?) is a member of the AAAS. In spite of this, I am interested in the subject of homeopathy, which is about as pseudoscientific as they come. A belief in homeopathy reveals appallingly little knowledge of physics, chemistry, and logic, and/or a high chance of an immunity to cognitive dissonance, IOW a true believer. There is usually little hope when discussing with them. They cannot be moved.
My intentions haven't changed, but having been a survivor of a RFAR, I know that RfCs, RfMs, and RfARs can end up with unpredictable results. If admins get involved (JzG "Guy" is an admin), they may pick up on other issues that need to be dealt with, and have the authority to do it immediately (including indef. banning). In my RFAR, several editors who witnessed against me revealed their deviousness ("carelessness" or "sloppiness", if we are going to AGF, but I know them well, and their intentions were more with getting rid of me, than about protecting Wikipedia) and their failure to understand the problems caused by the losing party, and failed to understand her lack of ability and willingness to adapt to Wikipedia's NPOV policy. Thus their editing is under increased scrutiny, and future actions by them can result in swift response from alert admins. (There were many admins involved in that one!) Track records mean alot here. If editors fail to learn and adapt, they get judged accordingly. Other editors who express sympathy for them reveal to others that they suffer the same failings and may also end up getting the same scrutiny and judgment. (Believe me, everyone is now on other's watchlists.) I'm sure that some of my opposers likely regret that they ever got involved in a dispute that didn't originally involve themselves. Fortunately for myself my "judgment" was a "caution" to do what I had already been doing. Even some of the admins didn't understand that I even got a "caution", but I felt it was good enough. I certainly learned from the experience, and wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. -- Fyslee/talk 21:13, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I was just using it as an example that all of these things are related and hope I didn't imply that it was anything more than an example of someone else thinking so.
--Nealparr (yell at me|for what i've done) 21:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I understand and AGF. -- Fyslee/talk 21:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cropmarks image

Hi there, I saw you added this image back to crop circle. I certainly don't have any strong feelings about the issue, and my reasons for removing it were twofold: first just for aesthetics -- I thought the article was getting a little crowded with images at that point; and secondly, it seemed somewhat of a diversion for the article. The meaning was already expressed in the text, and any reader seeking more information was just a click away from an article dedicated to it. But, as I said, no real strong feelings about it. Regards, — BillC talk 23:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I feel part of the problem may be the inclusion of a very tangentially (disambig.) related topic (pixie rings) without its own heading. There are three paragraphs and two images dealing with pixie rings that are just dumped into it, all of which belong elsewhere, but since there is a slight relationship, it deserves mention, merely to avoid confusion. Maybe that could be done with a shorter mention and link. Then move most of the content and all images to that article, since it isn't already there, and certainly deserves to be there. Maybe a "See also" link would suffice. Pixie rings (nearly always pretty round) and crop circles (which can vary enormously) are not the same thing. I have seen large pixie rings here, one of which has been visited every year for decades by my now-deceased FIL, who plucked huge quantities of mushrooms. Delicious! -- Fyslee/talk 06:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
(I have copied the above to the Crop circle talk page and continued there. -- Fyslee/talk 19:12, 5 April 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Zinfandel

Thanks for the quote on Zinfandel, it was very amusing. I think you had mentioned something about adding something on "Zin speak" to the article awhile ago. I think if one of us gets a chance we should figure out a way to mention that on the article. Once my semester is over Ill be able to work on a lot more articles that I have been putting off. Thanks again, have a great day. Christopher Tanner, CCC 02:11, 6 April 2007 (UTC)tanner-christopher

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