User talk:Adamrice

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia, Adamrice. I've been here just a week longer than you have and I'm enjoying it so far. I noticed your additions on the Translators page, and I hope you stay to help out on the Literature sections which need work. Here are tips someone posted on my page soon after I joined:

[edit] Whatever you say dude

HA HA HA HA XD

[edit] None of your business

That's who I am. XD Anyway, I have no beef with you. Merry Christmas. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.94.122.31 (talk) 22:28, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Exercise bike

Hello,

Sorry this is a bit cheeky, but I noticed you'd written on the cycling talk page and your web page lists it as one of your interests. Can you recommend a decent exercise bike? Because you're in a different country to myself just respected brand names and brand names to avoid might be better than models... I'm just hoping you might have got some idea of that from cycling magazines etc.

I'm on a limited budget and will probably be buying second hand. I know a lot of bikes get bought but are not used ;o) There appear to be quite a lot going UK Ebay search.

I'd really appreciate the help, as I need to purchase wisely because of my personal circumstances and it will really help me with my health problems.

--[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod ......TALKQuietly)]] 18:20, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

Uh, you could have just sent me e-mail. I remember back in the old days when people used e-mail for personal correspondence rather than wikis.

Anyhow. I really don't know much about stationary bikes--when I wanted one, I got a beater road-bike frame, rummaged through the old-parts bin at my friendly neighborhood bike shop, and a fairly high-end stationary trainer (Cateye, fwiw) to mount it on. It wasn't a cheap option, but I was (and am) happy with it.

Be seeing you, adamrice

[edit] Wikifying

1. If I missed a few, I musta been just plain careless X_X 2. The wikifying is so people can easily jump between articles. Say if someone saw this page wanted to know more about Hiragana. Instead of typing it in the browser, he or she can just click the "hiragana" link, and he or she is there :) WhisperToMe 21:03, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

You are welcome. :) WhisperToMe 21:30, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Unverified image

Thanks for uploading the image

Image:Katakana origin.png

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the image and I'll tag it for you. Thanks, Kbh3rd 04:14, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Harajuku article

Hello and thankyou for your message. I was born in Tokyo and have lived in Shibuya-ku for many years and I have seen how Harajuku has changed over time. Firstly, Harajuku is not specifically popular with gothlolis (nobody calls them "EGL", that's just how Mana-san describes his "brand"). The defining "hangouts" for gothloli are MaruiYoung in Shinjuku and a doll gallery in Shibuya. Harajuku is famous in Japan for junior-high-school trips, fake-brand hip-hop fashion stores, and "ura-hara" lots of trendy casual and indies brands.

The area around meiji-jingu-mae station entrance is always in guidebooks because of the Visual-kei fan girls but that was popular 5 years ago, not anymore, the numbers are very small now compared to 1999 and 2000. Recently Harajuku has been eaten up by Shibuya more and more so some people call it "shibuhara", and the unique style of Harajuku has kinda disappeared. Even Omotesando has become more commercial and less stylish than before.

Finally, cosplay is really nothing to do with Harajuku except for the small number of Visual kei girls who hang out and copy their favourite bands costume style. Other fashions like punk or cyber or gothloli are just normal fashions in Tokyo which you can buy in many department stores and are not "costume play".

I heard Gwen stephanies song about "harajuku girls" and i though "wow- she must have gone to harajuku last time in about 1998!" but the article just says she has brought attention to harajuku in america, so that is true, even if the image is out-of-date. almost of the cute girls now are in shibuya.

Is this explanation helpful? ..."cos-nerd"

[edit] Thanks for cleaning up "gear inches"

Much better, thanks. Dpbsmith (talk) 15:01, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] commons:Image:Sho.png

Hi - a copy of Image:Sho.png has been uploaded to the commons, but the image is missing license info. Please name the creator or this image and specify a license on the description page. Thank you! -- commons:User:Duesentrieb 12:59, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Cycling

Hi, I've created WikiProject on Cycling. Please come and join us in building up Wikipedia's articles relating to cycling! --Christopherlin 21:05, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for Burning Man Sources

I am trying to provide better sources for articles in Category:Burning Man, so I have started a collection of academic, journalistic, and other sources on the event and related subculture. If you know of any or run across them in your web surfing in the future, please add them to User:Todfox/Burning Man/Sources. Thanks! Kit 21:53, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Meetup/Austin

Adam, some folks and I are in the process of reviving Wikipedia:Meetup/Austin. Head on over if you're interested. On another note, we've met in meatspace via Austin Bloggers — twice. So hello, uh, again! jareha 06:34, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Systematic link deletion without any discussion

I have noticed you have systematically deleted my contribs, be sure I'll alert the wikipedia team about your osbtrusive attitude --without any discusion (?!). Links I put are always relevant to the corresponding articles. Jpdnnet

[edit] Japanese level 1?

I see on your user page that you categorize yourself as a beginner at Japanese, but if you are a professional translator and obviously translate texts from Japanese ("Why delete the formal numbers 4-9? The argument that they aren't commonly used isn't a strong one: I do see them from time to time in documents that I translate."), don't you think it's misleading to say you're Japanese is on that low of a level? Mackan 16:40, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Second-guessing me on a wikipedia article? Fine. Second-guessing me on my own user page? Give me a freaking break. My ability to comprehend Japanese is pretty good. My ability to produce Japanese is not so good, and as best as I can tell, those language tags are meant to show one's ability to produce in the language. Furthermore, I prefer to err on the conservative side. adamrice 16:51, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Calm down, I'm not trying to criticize you, I just think it's a bit misleading, and was wondering what reason you could have for categorizing yourself as j-1. In a conversation on Japanese numericals, your level of Japanese understanding is of course important to what level of explaining one would have to do for you to understand. When I checked your userpage and saw you had put Japanese proficiency at a modest 1, I did for a second think, "Oh great, another manga freak who studied Japanese for half a year... and now I have to argue with him about inclusions of a character he claims shouldn't be in the article he hasn't seen??". Of course, I'm not saying it's your fault that people like me will misjudge you like this, but that's the way many people think and I think it's helpful to other editors to give them a fair picture of your Japanese skills.Mackan 17:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Burning Man Regional Events Infobox

I've started putting together an Infobox that can go on the Burning Man type events pages. When you have a few moments and can look at the example I've put together, I'd appreciate any comments you might have. Thanks, and Burn On! SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 13:56, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I've replied on the talk page -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 17:44, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poi (juggling)

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Adamrice: I know that your edits are well-intentioned, but they're also very idiosyncratic. I believe that as an introduction to the subject, they're more inclined to raise questions for readers than to answer them. adamrice 15:56, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Beauford's *retort*: Idiosyncratic? Please qualify. Where is it set in stone that Wikipedia is just to be an introduction to a subject? It is my considered opinion that this article requires some scholarly-sexing-up. Do you engage an Impartial Art as discipline? The mind processes and forges new neural connectivity when it is confused which is why Zen Masters use koans amongst other methods. Are you familiar with NLP, hypnotherapy, trance~forms and meditation? Juggling is a study in the resolution of bodymind confusion into an 'Artful Grace'.

I look 4ward to dialogue with view to establish Common ground.

Namaste in agape
Walking my talk in beauty

B9 hummingbird hovering ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:26, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

The article has been iterated with a reference (and a 'Reference' section has been instituted), the term 'Impartial Art' has been introduced (and referenced), a 'Notes' section was established and populated with a definition of the introduced term.

Where is the confusion? Crystal clarity shines like a torched Fire poi.

B9 hummingbird hovering ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Can I interview you?

Hi; I'd like to interview you about the Hachikō article. Let me know how best to get in touch. Cheers, Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 01:07, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] World Fire Knife Competition link

I am not sure why you keep deleting the World Fire Knife Competition from the Fire Dancing page.

The competition is sponsored by a non-profit organization, the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Hawaii. The producer, Pulefano Galea'i is one of first fire knife dancers and has spent much his life promoting the art of fire dancing. He recently made tandem fire dancing part of the competition. The trophy that is awarded is the for his mentor, the originator of the fire dance, the late Sen. Freddie Letuli. I am not sure why the other two external links are more important than the one I keep trying to post.

Sincerely,

Christian Wilson

I look at that site and see a blog with four or five entries on it. Wikipedia policy is that external links should be kept to a minimum, and that those linked sites should be important references on the subject. There have been other firedancing events before, none of which are linked in that article--any event may be very interesting, but I don't see how any single event could be considered a cornerstone reference unless it came to have some kind of historic importance. Also, I don't know if you are personally involved with that competition, but if you are, linking to it is in violation of the conflict of interest policy. I should mention that this article (and closely related ones) suffer from a lot of blatant link spamming, and so I (and others) are particularly skeptical whenever a new link is added.

Finally, when you open a new section on a user-talk page, please introduce it with a heading

==like this==

and sign it at the end by typing four tildes like this: ~~~~. adamrice 15:08, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox burn event

What were you trying to do with {{Infobox burn event}}? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Attempting to smooth out the format a bit. With limited success, I admit. adamrice 15:57, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

LOL! I've found wiki tables to be oh-so-difficult :) What concerned me with your edits was the link to transformus [1] that you had put in twice :) If you need any help or if I can help, let me know. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 17:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Translation request

Hi, I have a source of information related to chemistry here for article trifluoroiodomethane. Can you please help me with its translation? I'm interested in sections 2 and 3. Thank you. Tomaxer 20:34, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Chemistry is a little outside my wicket, but I'll give it a shot. adamrice 21:52, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese translation

I'm trying to source the Big Mouth Loud article, for which there's plenty of sources on the sportsnavi website. This and this seem likely candidates at first glance, but I'm sure there's a few more as well. I'm not particularly interested in translations of the majority of the articles you'll be pleased to know, as many of them are just reports from shows they did. I'm more interested in the columns that talk about the origins and background of the company. There's also the Japanese wiki version as well, which would be handy to have a translation of. Is this something you can possibly help with please? Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 09:24, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merger proposed: Southside Dallas → List of neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas

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[edit] Japanese Music Charts

Hi, I'm just writing to you to request your help and assistance in referencing the Japanese Music Charts. Through out alot of popular english songs I have viewed I have noticed that they have been noted as performing well in Japan and have also read that the Japanese music market it very big. But in saying this every song I have seen has not got a Japanese chart position in the charts box. So if you are into music and willing to try and provide information on the Japanese Music Charts it would be greatly appreciated so then wikipedia users can start adding the Japanese chart positions into the chart boxes for popular songs. TeePee-20.7 (talk) 03:59, 21 April 2008 (UTC)