User talk:Supercool Dude

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[edit] Greetings

Hello!

Wha Happen?

Supercool Dude

Hi.  :-) What's up? - Omegatron 21:02, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] City Island, CBS, Infinity Broadcasting and Time Warner.

Hi, I just read your message on my talk page and I wanted to make some clarifications. CBS and Infinity were never spun off from any company certainly not from Time Warner. CBS was originally a publicly run company which was majority owned by Laurence Tisch and his family, CBS purchased Infinity Broadcasting which was also a publicly run company majority owned by Mel Karmazin. Viacom purchased CBS and along with Infinity they became wholly owned subsidaries of Viacom. As far as High Island is concerned as originally stated it was a small resort then the entire island was sold and CBS put the main transmitter for WCBS 880am Radio and rival network NBC put their transmitter for WNBC 660am on High Island, In 1988 the National Broadcasting Company agreed to exit the radio broadcasting business as part of an agreement that it's parent company RCA Corporation made with the U.S. Government prior to RCA merging with General Electric Corporation. WNBC-AM was sold to Emmis Broadcasting and the call letters were changed to WFAN and moved from 1050am to 660am, A few years later Emmis would sell WFAN-AM to Infinity giving Infinity and Viacom entire ownership of High Island. Misterrick 00:45, 22 December 2004 (UTC)

In response to your questions on my talk page:
> I thought WFAN was still part of GE.

WFAN was never part of GE, your thinking of WNBC which was but it was sold in 1988 because when GE wanted to buyout RCA they had to satisfy government regulators including the Federal Communications Commission because at that time ownership of broadcasting entities were extremely limited and so RCA and GE entered into an agreement with the FCC that they would sell their radio broadcasting business and the FCC would let NBC keep it's television owned and operated stations.

> So did GE sell the RCA name to Thomson?

No, GE still owns the RCA name and logo, As part of the sale of some of RCA's businesses to Thomson, GE requires Thomson to pay a fee for the right to use the RCA name. It's like when Columbia Pictures (Now part of Sony) sold it's Screen Gems division to a North Carolina company which runs a movie and television production facilities in Wilmington, North Carolina and New York, New York although they bought the Screen Gems business they still have to pay a licensing fee to Sony and can't use the Screen Gems name singluarly because Sony has started using the Screen Gems name for their own movies and television productions so the North Carolina Company has to call themselves EUE Screen Gems. Misterrick 23:34, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC).


Where do all the deleted pages go to?

Are they all saved somewhere or erased completely?

SD

You mean on Wikipedia? I assume that when they are removed it is done permanently. Misterrick 01:22, 24 December 2004 (UTC).

they can be recover for a limited peroid of time the amount probably variues but is probably over a mounthGeni 20:40, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Canada Goose

In scientific names, the species part is always lower case, even if derived from a proper noun, so Branta canadensis, not Branta Canadensis. jimfbleak 05:52, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


[edit] deletion

Could I have a bit more context with your question please?Geni 20:40, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


sounds like an edit conflict but the warning box didn't come up. WierdGeni 09:41, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject New York City

Hello, I've started WikiProject New York City, and from your edits it seems you might be interested. See its talk page for the beginning of a discussion on the standardization of neighborhood names and subway lines and stations, and bringing New York City up to featured status.--Pharos 12:09, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Linking to other Wikipedia articles

Hi SD, you seem to be having trouble with linking to other Wikipedia articles. When you want to link to, say, the Wikipedia article on City Island, you just type in [[City Island, New York]], not [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Island%2C_New_York], which is the form appropriate for external links.

(I specifically disabled the formating above, so you could see what I typed in.)

Please see this page.

Also, links to Wikipedia articles go under the See also section, and only links to sites outside go under External links.--Pharos 18:37, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Signing comments

When you are leaving a comment on a Talk page, if you type four tildes (like so ~~~~) after your comments, your username and the timestamp will be entered automatically for you.

BTW If you want to leave a comment for someone, normally you should leave it either on an article Talk page or the User's Talk page. Not on the actual User page. AlistairMcMillan 23:38, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Conflicting definitions

Hi SD, what do you mean exactly on "conflicting definitions"? The idea here is generally to try to talk things out and come to some sort of consensus or compromise. Sometimes its best to try to get the input of more than two people also. Oh, and please sign your messages, otherwise things can get confusing.--Pharos 00:04, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Radio Lamp?

Hey Dude,

Your user page says you invented the RadioLamp. Sounds interesting, what it is?

--RoySmith 21:47, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lighthouse Island

I assume by now you've noticed I requested that your Lighthouse Island article be deleted. It's obvious that you have a great knowledge about City Island environs and history, and are enthusiastic about letting the world share your knowledge, but I think the Lighthouse Island article is sort of silly. RoySmith 02:32, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please sign your comments

Just type ~~~~ after your comments on article or user Talk pages and your username and a timestamp will automatically be entered for you. AlistairMcMillan 23:24, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

ok!

Supercool Dude 23:30, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

Wikipedia:Disambiguation

Hope this helps. AlistairMcMillan 08:21, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] False Friends, Meaning

Hi!

I've reinserted the VfD header you removed in the False Friends, Meaning article. Please note that it is considered rude to remove such a tag while the article's deletion is being voted on. If you want to make your case for keeping the article, please state so in the article's VfD section. Thanks! --Plek 01:54, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia is not a dictionary

See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. You should not create mere dictionary definitions. You can contribute these to http://www.wiktionary.com/ instead. -- Curps 07:06, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edit to Ulnar nerve

Please stop removing content from Wikipedia; it is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --RoySmith 14:50, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BJAODN

Hey Supercool Dude! Please don't take offense to my comment, I've been back to the vfd now and see that you apparently may have had sources. But you have to understand that when I first saw the article it seemed rediculous and it didn't have any cited sources so I thought it would make a good candidate for BJAODN, which is wikislang for Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense which is where humourous pages that are not appropriate for wikipedia go. [[User:Consequencefree|Ardent†∈]] 02:03, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Personal attacks

Please refrain from making personal attacks or you will be blocked. --fvw* 04:32, 2005 Jan 17 (UTC)

[edit] Supercool Dude

Hi!,

A number of people keep vandalising my articles in spite of the fact they are true. This is vicious and malicious and bad for Wikipedia.

Who is an authority that I can talk to about the vandalism?

A number of these individuals have made personal attacks on me also.


Supercool Dude 11:15, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

  1. They aren't your articles, they are articles you've edited. That doesn't give you any more say in what happens with them.
  2. Try discussing (and giving references for) your claims on talk pages.
  3. Stop your personal attacks and maybe others will be nicer to you as well.
  4. Read Wikipedia:Wikiquette, and Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines and Wikipedia:Style and How-to Directory.
--fvw* 11:25, 2005 Jan 17 (UTC)

[edit] Siwanoy

Google says it's Siwanoy, not Sinawoy. -- Curps 21:05, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Childish Nonsense"

From what I gather, you seem to be doing a fair amount of this too. You are also denouncing Wikipedia in article discussion pages. That's not super cool...dude. If you would stop being so negative, maybe people won't treat you this way.

-E. Brown$

[edit] Ponza and the Pontine Islands

Thanks for the kind words about the maps, SD. At my workplace I have a copy of ArcGIS, so sometimes during a break I'll whip up a map that Wikipedia is lacking. Geographic articles without maps are one of my pet peeves. --NormanEinstein 12:58, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting your user page

Hi Dude,

I am saddened that you think my editing articles you have also edited constitutes deleting your work or vandalism, and that I have something against you personally. Nothing could be further from the truth. In all cases, I have simply tried to improve on what was there (obviously based on my personal judgement of what defines improvement). You, or anybody else, is free to re-edit the changes I have made.

My philosophy of editing is that it is better to be concise than to be verbose. I try to look at issues from a global perspective; a fact which is interesting or even important to a local resident may appear trivial to somebody from another part of the world. I also believe that information (for the most part) belongs in a single place. If several articles overlap in coverage, I'd rather see one of them treat a topic in depth, and the others simply refer to that article. Lastly, I think anything stated in an work such as an encyclopedia needs to be verifiable by an objective, reliable source.

As far as reverting the vandalism to your user page, that's easy. I saw a page that was vandalized, and I fixed it. That's all.

--RoySmith 28 June 2005 21:00 (UTC)

[edit] Kylie Minogue

Kylie's sister Danni, has admitted to the press that it grew back after sugery and that she is getting Chemo & radiotherapy.

I am the man who asked Jay Leno to have Kylie on and she appeared on February 4th 2002.

I asked Carson Daly to host Dannii later that year.

Supercool Dude 13:38, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

And I am the man who wrote half of the current Kylie Minogue article with another contributor, and spent weeks researching the subject to ensure accuracy, so I'm interested in seeing it maintain its integrity. First of all, please follow the existing pattern of citing references which is not only a "nice to have", but also a requirement, especially with an article that is currenty listed as a Featured Article. That just keeps the article clean and consistent. I did not dismiss your edit without checking it as thoroughly as I could. I did a google search for any recent news articles, plus I looked at the two most "official" Kylie Minogue (kylie.com and limbo.com) sites and saw nothing to support your edit about Minogue's "returning malignancy". Finally, I live in Australia where the media coverage has been at almost saturation point regarding Minogue's medical condition over the last few weeks, and not one word has been reported on the cancer returning. The woman can barely sneeze without it making the front pages of the papers here, so a returning malignancy would have been mentioned, I'm certain, especially if word came from as reliable a source as her sister, Dannii Minogue. So I disagree that it should be added into an article that should deal with fact, and not conjecture, your contributions to Minogue's career in the USA notwithstanding.Rossrs 13:53, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Semi-automated template substitution

You had a non subst'd template (meaning you had template name) instead of the test. See WP:SUBST - its not a warning or anything, just a janatorial task. Nothing to worry about :) -- Tawker 01:21, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
I had another look and I think it was a bot (read: my :) mistake, your page had a link to a template I was subst'ing (or adding a tag to) but it was fixed before my bot got to it. Sorry about the confusion Tawker 03:05, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
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