User talk:Scalene

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Contents 1 Userbox Debate 2 Looking for Alibrandi 3 My opinion? 4 WikiProject Narnia 5 Re:Shared IP 6 == Chinese censorship == 7 Logo on Template:Dundee United F.C. Squad page 8 Added a post at Wikipedia:Personal attack intervention noticeboard 9 Your signature 10 Welcome to Esperanza! 11 Opposition to the Iran-Iraq war 12 The verifiability rule 13 Godwin's law 14 November Esperanza Newsletter 15 Happy first edit day! 16 Happy First Edit Anniversary From Randfan 17 Just a couple of wee tips 18 Happy Birthday! 19 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Shift.jpg) 20 Criticism of the Qur'an 21 Mistake using Popups? 22 Schapelle Corby 23 STOP THE ATTACK TO CHILE 24 TO STOP THE LIES 25 This edit 26 Wikiproject Narnia Newsletter March 2007 27 Assessment from an article page 28 CONGRATULATIONS 29 User:Scalene/Userpages/Rounded

[edit] Userbox Debate

Dude. you seriously need to cutdown on your userboxes :D. The only thing they currently say about you, is that you frantically collect UB'es - The DJ 13:11, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

No they don't. They also say a lot about me! Like my name, what I like, and other stuff! Scalene 06:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

You could say all of that information more succinctly, elegantly and with more personal flair if you wrote a few paragraphs about yourself and deleted all of the userboxes. —Cuiviénen^T|C|M, Thursday, 18 May 2006 @ 02:58 UTC

Man thats a lot of userboxes. Why not remove a few of them and turn them into paragraphs? Makes it a bit easier to read. Loompyloompy313 14:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Allright, I've come up with a solution. I'm creating a 'userbox biography.' It can be viewed at User:Scalene/Userboxes - but, I'm going to need help. I'm removing every single user box from my page, but I'd like to know what userboxes should be kept. Scalene 09:48, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for Alibrandi

Did you edit Looking for Alibrandi into an article solely about the movie? As the movie came after the book, was of arguably lesser quality and had a number of differences in plot, do you not think this was inappropriate? Instead of getting rid of all the information regarding the book, you could have instead split the article into Looking for Alibrandi and Looking for Alibrandi (movie). --Kronecker 03:24, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps, but Looking FOr Alibrandi is part of Wikiproject:WikiFilms, an effort to collect all the world's films. The tag was there as well. I went with my gut instinct. Scalene 08:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My opinion?

Well, About the Internet censorship, My opinion is: It is in expectation. The PRC government need a flourishing and stable country, and a democratic one with human rights will break the stable state. So, they will not let people in PRC see things such as Tibet independence, “法轮功”, etc.

By the way, An extra effect is, that Chinese Wikipedia now is quieter than before, because many people in PRC cannot visit here, so there is less dispute. 百家姓之四 (Lee) 討論 (Discussion) 01:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

well,since I left China at the age of 11,I don't really understand that much about the government and stuff.But one thing I know for sure,I like my rights and freedom in the US Waaaaaay better than in China. Chinese government are too sensitive imo,then again...what do you expect from a (semi)communist contry?if they sencor the simplified chinese wikipedia,then they should use the traditional one instead,although the characters might be a tad bit hard to read...it's stil lbetter than nothing.and yea...the simplified chinese wikipedia is gonna go downhill until it's no more. DivineBaboon 20:01, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Narnia

Hello, I noticed that you edited an article related to, or expressed interest in The Chronicles of Narnia. I thought you may be interested in knowing that there is a WikiProject working to improve articles about Narnia, your help would be greatly appreciated. Please consider joining the WikiProject Narnia. Thank you! Bornagain4 18:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Shared IP

You may want to tell this to an Administrator, I have no power to block or unblock IPs. As for your little problem, I would try to report this to the Administration of the School, to work out a policy for Wikipedia. °≈§→ Robomæyhem: T/←§≈° 15:30, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] == Chinese censorship ==

Do you still want opinions of censorship? Colipon+(T) 03:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Always happy to stir the possum here, mate. Go right ahead. Scalene 21:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Logo on Template:Dundee United F.C. Squad page

I'm all for it - although a much smaller size - but it will no doubt be removed shortly. I think logos are only allowed on the main club page and that is all. Great idea, though, and it looks very good. Fedgin 09:39, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

You know, it loks good - but I think it should stay. It's a lot easier than looking at the title, in my opinion. You instantly know what the club is. Personally, I thought it made the page more 'personal'. Scalene 09:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

As Fedgin says, the logos are only permitted on the club's article.  sʟυмɢυм • т • c  20:43, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

On a similar note, I have reverted your addition of a logo to the Celtic squad template. Use of Fair use images in templates is forbidden by thr fair use policy. Oldelpaso 11:55, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Added a post at Wikipedia:Personal attack intervention noticeboard

If it happens again (even if the ip changes) - let them know. Megapixie 10:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Cheers. I will. Also, if he's reading this, I think he should know that I've printed a copy. And I think he'll also know who I am planning to show it to, if it continues. Scalene 10:29, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Who are you showing it to?

You want to find out? Leave the page alone. Otherwise, it comes out. Scalene 11:26, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

what comes out? just tell me, might as well, maybe ill stop. XD

I show someone. You suffer the consequences. Not going any more into detail than that. Scalene 11:31, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

That is lame == its the internet man, doesn't matter you who you show it to because 1. I can't be blocked because i can change my IP, 2.I don't care even if you successfully block me because im not using my home computer XD

Who said I was going to block you? Anyway, don't you think wikipedia has dealt with people who use IP changers before? I'm going, now. Think about it. Scalene 11:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Whatever, nerdball.

Fine. I didn't want to have to do this, but, it is on it's way to Mr. Mulherin.

Scalene 11:48, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your signature

Hi Scalene, I noticed your request for help on the Help desk. Please, please do not include images in your signature, especially very big ones like the triangle you have put in yours. This is due to numerous important reasons; please see WP:SIG#Images for details. Thanks, Tangotango 20:42, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

My apologies. Scalene^{•UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography•} 08:28, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to Esperanza!

[edit] Opposition to the Iran-Iraq war

I'm not sure where we go from here. I think the issues have been outlined quite simply and accurately in the RFC. We have numerous articles about opposition to various wars. They discuss demonstrations, editorials, speeches against the referenced wars. This article has some anecdotal reports of desertion (concentrating on one side only). That's it. Fan-1967 17:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I might also note that the opinions I have expressed are fundamentally the same as those in LittleDan's AFD nom. Fan-1967 17:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I commented on the deletion, though, as Fan-1967 says, our opinions are basically the same. LittleDan^talk 19:40, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey! Thanks for your comments. However, I think you should understand that a RfC is not a decision making process. All I do is try and help all parties reach a compromise they are happy with.
Also, I ask that you raise any issues you have in the RfC section. That way, Patch can easily view them. Also, I don't have to go back and forth between pages that way... ;D Scalene^{•UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography•Є•} 22:42, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The verifiability rule

I disagree with your comment about there being cases where an article would not need a reliable source. WP:V is not negotiable, and it says If an article topic has no reliable, third-party sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it. (often, this is termed Verifiability, not Truth)

Secondly, "using the program yourself" to find facts out is the very definition of original research, which isn't allowed on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought, so synthesis of facts from source material (which "using the program yourself" would count as) would be original research.

All articles should be sourced. The fact that many articles do not is because we don't have enough people checking articles, and because new people to Wikipedia don't understand this. ColourBurst 23:30, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Godwin's law

I hereby inform you that I will change the name to Conscription in Iran-Iraq War to avoid controversy and since I have received no response to the source I provided from Library of Congress.--Patchouli 18:31, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] November Esperanza Newsletter

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[edit] Happy first edit day!

	HAPPY FIRST EDIT DAY!	from the BIRTHDAYCOMMITTEE
	Wishing Scalene a very Happy First Edit Day! Have a fantastic day! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee

I hope you have a great day, and I hope you continue to contribute for many more years to come. Have a great day! Jam01 00:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy First Edit Anniversary From Randfan

Happy First Edit Day, Scalene, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee, myself, and Bearly541! Congrats for staying with Wikipedia this long. Much too many people create new accounts, do a few minor edits, and just quit. Have a great day! --Randfan

Good job for staying with us! Keep up the good work. Cheers! :) —Randfan!! 00:52, 15, December of the year Anno Domini 2006m (UTC)

Post scriptum, you might wanna download the Rapscallion font to see all of this. Randfan 01:57, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Yup, seconded and thirded and whatnot on all the above, and congrats on your first edit day! DoomsDay349 04:18, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Have a great day Canadianshoper 05:37, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

*Does the Happy Day Dance* Thank you everyone! Scalene^{•UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography•Є•} 12:36, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Just a couple of wee tips

Hi, just saw your edit to User talk:BurnsvilleisGay, and wanted to pointr a couple things out:

When using certain template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template.

and:

As a courtesy for other editors, it is a Wikipedia guideline to sign your talk page and user talk page posts. To do so simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments and your user name or IP address and the date will be automatically added along with a timestamp. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion).For further info see the talk page guidelines. Thank you.

By the way, I'd already blocked that account due to their user name. Keep up the great work mate!  Glen  07:53, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Whoops. I always do that. Scalene^{•UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography•Є•} 07:55, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

	Happy Birthday!	from Esperanza
	Esperanza wishes you a Happy Birthday!! We all hope you are having a great day! Here's to another year of continued contributions at Wikipedia. Cheers! – Heaven's Wrath   Talk  16:49, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday! I am SO glad that the WP:EA B-day committee is back on duty! And, by the way, why is your userpage protected? Bearly541 18:26, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Had to deal with vandilism from random IPs. Scalene^{•UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography•Є•} 21:59, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

{{subst:User:AndonicO/My Happy Birthday template

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Shift.jpg)

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[edit] Criticism of the Qur'an

Hey! Why did you remove my edits. I am moving these to the main articles and adding {{seealso| the section}}. Can you please either self-revert or join the talk please. Thanks --Aminz 11:27, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. Looked like information was being removed. Might want to use Edit Summaries... Scalene^{•UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography•Є•} 11:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes. I'll try to use. Cheers, --Aminz 11:31, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Oh, better remove the wikibreak template. Scalene^{•UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography•Є•} 11:32, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mistake using Popups?

Re your edit: on Talk:Healthy diet "08:55, 15 February 2007 Scalene (Talk | contribs) (Revert to the revision prior to revision 108288703 dated ..." If you look at only one previous edit it might look as if some comments were being deleted, but if you look at both previous edits you see that user Zeroin147 was merely editing the user's own comments. You should always provide an informative edit summary when reverting (i.e. "see talk" or an actual explanation of why you're reverting, not just the Popups edit summary) unless it's obvious vandalism. I think the version you reverted to had two copies of Zeroin147's comments. So it's not that big a deal. --Coppertwig 02:27, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Schapelle Corby

You'd managed to fix it before my buttons kicked in, so I ended up reverting myself. Alls well that ends well. -- Longhair\^talk 08:52, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for it, anyway. Scalene^{•UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography•Є•} 08:56, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] STOP THE ATTACK TO CHILE

The origen of the Chilean population is spaniard, (to see demography of Chile ) the Chile economy does not have a 58% of poverty, is impossible with the entrance per capita and the HDI of Chile. Finally you not exclude please the beautiful images from my country. thanks. MY SOURCES:

1.- UNIVERSITY OF CHILE [[1]]

2,. THE WORLD VALUES WORLD CHILE 2006 [[2]]

3.- SPAIN GOV. [[3]]

4.- CIA [[4]]

Antarcticwik 05:49, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TO STOP THE LIES

THE POVERTY IN CHILE IS OF 18 PERCENT (2006) SOURCES: http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/es/metadata.show?id=3696&currTab=simple

http://www.unicef.cl/indicadores/pobreza.htm

Antarcticwik (UTC)

[edit] This edit

This edit was clearly vandalism. The page was moved and it was noted as it serves two purposes. -Erfan24 06:49, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

You need to use Wikipedia:Edit Summaries - otherwise, vandal-fighters like me assume it's vandalism. Scalene^{•UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography•Є•} 06:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Narnia Newsletter March 2007

WikiProject Narnia Newsletter Issue 1 - 2nd March 2007 . Written by User:Sp3000 (talk•contribs)
WikiProject Narnia News The WikiProject has been a little quiet lately. There are still quite a lot of Narnia stubs. It has been nearly three months since we last worked on Minor characters in The Chronicles of Narnia, which still looks very much like a draft page. That would be a nice article to get into the main namespace. Good and Featured Articles First Battle of Beruna has been listed as a GA. Our only FA at the moment is Narnian timeline. Other news WikiProject Narnia's first newsletter issue has been published. You're looking at it right now! Member News We are now proud of having PiratesArCool (talk • contribs), Mimepants (talk • contribs) and Johann1870 (talk • contribs) on our team. Good luck! To-do Add characters and bios to minor character draft page. Expand Narnia stubs. Place links to the Narnia Portal on article pages by using {{portal|Narnia}}. Add the stub template {{Narnia-stub}} to articles in the category Category:Stub-Class Narnia articles so that there are the same number of articles in Category:Narnia stubs. Link the first mention of a year in all Narnia-related articles to Narnian timeline. Rewrite character articles to use the Narnian character example article format. Adopt an article and improve it to the best of your ability. Wikify The Chronicles of Narnia article, especially the new lead and Narnian Universe sections	From the founder I am proud to present our first issue of the WikiProject Narnia Newsletter. I decided that we needed to alert everybody who had expressed interest in the project that there is much work to be done! Please check in every once in a while at the project talk page, and tell other project members what you've been up to in terms of Narnia articles. Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || Article of the Month: Edmund Pevensie Edmund Pevensie is a major character in The Chronicles of Narnia. He appears as a principal character in three of the seven books. Edmund was the second to enter Narnia, although he tried to betray his siblings to the White Witch. However, Edmund managed to help save Narnia by neutralizing the White Witch's most powerful weapon, her wand. Collaboration of the Month: Shasta (Narnia) Shasta is currently quite short and not much of his background has been mentioned. The article also lacks images – but make sure if you upload one, you include a FU rationale. Contribute!

[edit] Assessment from an article page

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[edit] CONGRATULATIONS

--Spebi^[talk] 01:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Scalene/Userpages/Rounded

Hi Scalene,

Category talk:User namespace templates

I’ve added User:Scalene/Userpages/Rounded, a template for a userpage that allows a user to create a default page. It needs a home, however. Any ideas?

Just spotted the above, went to the page and think it looks good! Category:User namespace templates would seem a suitable home if you placed a copy of the page in the Template namespace, i.e. created a copy of it named Template:Userpage template or the like. (Don't then forget to remove Category:User namespace templates from your original!) Yours, David Kernow (talk) 22:47, 10 March 2007 (UTC)