User talk:Ashley Pomeroy

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This is my talk page. I frown on fools, and I am unimpressed by cute names. Bear in mind that Wikipedia is right near the top of Google's search returns for "cancer", "circumcision" etc, and that your edits can affect real people in the real world. -Ashley Pomeroy 17:54, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm not going to be an aggressive moron like the people before. I will, however, tell you that you are severely hyper-defensive, and thus aggressive. Also, your grammar in the above paragraph was at the level of a fifth-grader (e.g. "I cannot take you serious.")

The above quotation should read: "I cannot take you seriously."

Also, your edits to the article on the Korg MicroKorg were pointless, and irritating. It is quite dubious that you even own the product. As a MicroKorg owner, and friend of several key individuals at Korg USA, I find your behavior a bit childish, both in reference to the MicroKorg article and to the statement you made above. While an incomplete list of notable users is provided on Korg's Japanese website, most individuals find it refreshing (as most artists refuse to provide a list of gear used) that a (generally speaking) comprehensive list of artists using a product is provided. You could call it "point of inspiration". You are truly an embodiment of all ignorance presented on any Wikimedia (the parent of Wikipedia) project. -Jonpaulusa 16:54, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

You tried to sign that explicitly as "anonymous". That's because you're still learning how to use Wikipedia. The substance of this debate stems from my decision to remove a large "the following artists use this instrument" list from Wikipedia's article on the Korg microKORG, as per this diff. I have replaced the list with a concise paragraph that mentions a few key musicians. It could still be improved, e.g by explaining why it is notable that those artists use a microKORG, preferably with quotes and references, as in the following example:

"Liam Howlett of The Prodigy used a microKORG extensively on the band's 2004 album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. In an interview for Korg's official website, [1] Howlett said that "The microKORG is wicked. You've only got to put it on big speakers to hear the depth it's got. It's got so much power for a little keyboard.""

If you could flesh out the rest of the list, in the same way, that would be superb. Your extensive contacts at Korg USA could prove very useful, although remember that Wikipedia forbids original research. It's a better way to write an encyclopaedia than this:

- The Prodigy uses a microKORG.

- The Stiletto Formal uses a microKORG.

- These Arms Are Snakes uses several microKORGs.

Etc

And so forth. That's not including the Myspace artists with a handful of hits, and instances where the instrument is pointed out in videos, in the studio etc (and "Nick Cornwell of Efflixi wants a MicroKORG", which is the kind of nonsense a list like that attracts). -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 20:25, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for Wikipedians for a User Study

Hello. I am a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. We are conducting research on ways to engage content experts on Wikipedia. Previously, Wikipedia started the Adopt-a-User program to allow new users to get to know seasoned Wikipedia editors. We are interested in learning more about how this type of relationship works. Based on your editing record on Wikipedia, we thought you might be interested in participating. If chosen to participate, you will be compensated for your time. We estimate that most participants will spend an hour (over two weeks on your own time and from your own computer) on the study. To learn more or to sign up contact KATPA at CS dot UMN dot EDU or User:KatherinePanciera/WPMentoring. Thanks. KatherinePanciera (talk) 02:35, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Even if this isn't fishy, it sounds mighty fishy. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 00:20, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] So you're the best editor on Wikipedia, huh?

I just read your user page and I have to say, you seem pretty arrogant, especially the following statment: "I have been editing Wikipedia since November 2004 and I am the best of all the Wikipedia editors. If you write for a major newspaper, I am the person you should be interviewing."

What makes you so certain you're the best? Pasta4470 (talk) 00:22, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

If you do a google search for "best of all the wikipedia editors"[2] guess who comes up first? Me, baby, me. In fact, I'm the only result. I think that's pretty conclusive. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 00:20, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

A Google search using the phrase "best of all the Wikipedia editors" returns only a reference to your user page on Wikipedia and that's only because you wrote the phrase yourself. You must be very naive if you expect me to accept that as conclusive evidence. Pasta4470 (talk) 14:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

I have to say that Ashely Pomeroy is the *only* Wiki editor whose name I know. So I guess he must be the best. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.200.225.99 (talk) 08:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

lolz, tool —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.53.110.140 (talk) 11:14, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Woah! I was just bored at work and was reading the talk page about Chili to pass the time. "That name looks familiar" I think. That can't be the same Ashley Pomeroy I went to Wilton Middle School with. The one with whom I spent many a lunch time standing in the corner of the playground eating crips talking about Spectrum games? Could it? Sure enough - born 1976 (same year as me = same school year), in Salisbury (nr Wilton, obv). A small world indeed!! I guess that must make you the best Wikipedia editor - as you're certainly the only one I think I went to school with. --217.33.199.76 (talk) 15:27, 3 June 2008 (UTC)