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[edit] Catalog of Tim Tam vendors?

Are you planning on listing all of the countries in which Tim Tams are sold? I suspect you'll be looking at dozens. If not, why is it relevant that Israel is one of them? — mendel ☎ July 7, 2005 13:37 (UTC)

My impression was there are only a small number of countries where they are sold. It seemed as relevant as the paragraph about England and which shops they are sold in. Ashmoo 7 July 2005 23:21 (UTC)
Ah, ok. I would've taken out the bit about which shops in the UK had I noticed it then too! It's not as rare as you'd think, though -- Campbell Soup owns Arnotts now, so they're available in at least some of Campbell's markets (at least Canada, the US, and the UK, and I suspect throughout Europe but I can't confirm that.) Apparently the AU-IL trade relationship is remarkable, though, so I'll resign myself to marvelling that people do Tim Tam Slams with things other than liqueurs and port. — mendel ☎ July 8, 2005 01:24 (UTC)
I'm surprised that they are available in Canada & the US. If they are widely available I'd support removing the comments about the UK & Israel. Or maybe just making a list of countries where they are sold. The whole article is a bit trivial though, so I'm not going to get too worked up about it. Ashmoo 8 July 2005 01:38 (UTC)

[edit] Aisha article

I've been watching over the Aisha article. Your removal of that sentence is fine with me. It was there because Stevertigo came and made extensive modifications and got quite upset if they were removed or changed. I didn't dare remove his bit re "marriage age as part of attack on Muhammad"; I just copyedited it a little. Let's see if he's still watching the article. Zora 07:22, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Don't try to PC the Sydney riot article

Its fully documented , no room for PC.

[edit] Mount Arapiles

I see uve been editing Mount Arapiles. There is a future version User:Deanos/temp that because this user is away for a long time i will probably update as i know and make the arapiles page, if he doesnt respond ...

Maelgwn 00:52, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kangaroo Culling

Hi. I saw that you removed my edit about why activists believe the kangaroo species are not as well protected. I stumbled upon this viewpoint on an old website called "save the kangaroo". I'll be certain to post the link if I come across it again. <regards>,,,,,Ariele 00:41, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sarfati

Ash, if you are going to make modifications you may want to take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jonathan_Sarfati/dispute and implement the consensus ones. JoshuaZ 07:17, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rove vandal

Hello. I've agreed (at the Rove talk page) to semi-protect the Rove McManus article in future on further instances of vandalism. -- Longhair 07:10, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism of Islam Edit

Re this edit: if so, then shouldn't the whole paragraph that it was included in be removed? Come to think of it, that paragraph and the mention of Gary Miller, even though it claims to be response, is in actuality not a response to any criticism but an ad hominem attack on Christianity - outside the scope of the article. Do you agree? Just as a note to you, your edits to the Criticism of Islam page have in general have been very helpful, and you are right that much of the article is/was nothing more than Islamic apolagetics. Thanks. Yid613 07:22, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your rationale, I think that I understand it now. Even though Gary Miller's argument is logically fallable, it is still appropriate for inclusion if it is (not surprisingly) what Muslims say, and responses to that still have to be sourced. Thanks. Yid613 20:11, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism removed from Rasha Khalifa

That was me what wrote that, and it was a fair cop. The problem is that there's a huge literature on the human urge to find pattern, but I couldn't find anything to quote that was either broad enough, or talking about textual analysis specifically. A lot of it is on visual pattern perception -- like the tendency to see faces in things. I'm sure the right quote is out there, if I could just find the right search terms. Zora 04:22, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edits to criticism of Islam

Hi Ashmoo, as I have promised earlier, i will not revert your edits before discussing them on the talk page(I may apply minor changes). But please note that your change to "scientific criticism of Islam" was already discussed in the talk page. So, i'll revert that one. Please discuss it on the talk page. Thanks and have nice times.--Aminz 08:00, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey Ashmoo, Could you possible please have a look at my last edit in the talk page of criticism of Islam. Thanks --Aminz 07:01, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ashmoo, Could you possible please have a look at my last edit in the talk page of criticism of Islam WHENEVER you are free(i.e. My edits to "You too; A suggestion"). Thanks, --Aminz 09:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Naming Dispute

Hi, I saw your comment in the Iranian people article about a naming dispute[1]. The user in question who springs multiple disputes gives unreasonable excuses for his or her edit, and is not a user who can be compromised with. As a result, unfortunately we had to set up an Rfc for the user here[2]. If you see fit, please leave your comments in that page, in regards the fact the user Aucaman may be difficult to compromise with, or is unreasonable. Thank youZmmz 05:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Naming dispute

I reverted your edit here. You meant to put it in the TALK page, right? AucamanTalk 23:28, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Forgery

Thanks for your comment. It is really sad to see some people unjustly forge materials. Thanks for the example. I remember once I saw strange commandments attributed to Zionism somewhere; maybe they belonged to the same document. I don't know. I personally don't like the zionism thought since the land belonged to the Jews over 3200 years ago. Their thought is not justified to me simply by the Golden Rule. But this does not in any case justify, and even it is disgusting, that some people accept a forgery just because they like it to be in that way. --Aminz 02:39, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ArbCom Case

Hi, I included a diff[3] to your comments in an ongoing ArbCom case that we unfortunately had to file for Aucaman; so just be aware of that please.Zmmz 23:02, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism of Islam article

Hello,

Please have a look at the criticism of Islam article. An editor has made changes to the article that seems to be contrary to yours. thx. --Aminz 19:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Islamikaze up for deletion

Greetings, you may want to know that the article Islamikaze is up for deletion and vote accordingly. Netscott 09:56, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quetsion left in repetitive strain injury edit reason

There is another kind of healing, there's a lot of work by John E. Sarno that looks relevant. Nice to meet you Ashmoo. Nastajus 06:31, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caracolla and the crossbow

This is a cavalry tactic where a small group of very heavy cavalry rides in front and others behind. Their aror protects them against enemy fire while they fire themselves.

In Nuremberg armor was tested by squarely shooting at it with a crossbow. if there was just a mark and the armor was not penetrated, it was sold as first class product and the mark was a sign of quality. Few knights were able to afford it.

Crossbows carried by knights were small versions totally out of metall. before metall was avaiable in such amounts the crossbow was to clumsy for riders.


Wandalstouring 02:03, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Cheers Ashmoo, and sorry for the extra work, I know you have plenty to do. It was just a general call for reality maintenance on the NLP article. The U.S. Empire has manage to ban us. No Dogs or Chinese allowed there any more. All the best. HongKongMasterofSci 05:56, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RPG edits and a suggestion

Thanks for your contributions to role-playing games.

I've another null phrase for your list - "despite, or perhaps because of".  :-) Percy Snoodle 11:27, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revert

Hi Ashmoo. Was there a problem with my recent edits? You reverted two of them. BhaiSaab talk 04:29, 14 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Possible Vandalism

Dude, I think that Hilter guy (or someone else) has vandalised your page, I would revert it but I'm not completely sure, as it is fairly subtle.--Hibernian 01:35, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Timor

Hi, could you have a read of the East Timor talk page and see if you are motivated to try and find some expression of the fats which Merbabu and I could live with? THank very much if you can, All Best.58.107.10.239 13:33, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] bullshit.

haha. Sorry about that. I thought you did the opposite of what you really did. For some reason I got it in my head that you removed the example and placed a fact tag there. Yeah. Yeago 05:43, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Golem and "It!"

Hello, Ashmoo, thank you for your help on the new "It!" page. I remember seeing "it (!)" at the cinema as a child, and I was mostly intrigued about the information given about the Golem. An online essay on the Golem points out that this film is the only English language film in times past that featured the Golem. I want to provide more information, and would appreciate any help you can continue to give.--Drboisclair 00:45, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Please see the image of the Golem It! (1966 film) and emendations I made to the article.--Drboisclair 03:16, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orwell at Adnan Oktar

Well Ashmoo, the Orwell-section is gone. As well as the last critical parts of the article. And the Turkish newspaper-items are gone as well (and remember: English-language sources should be provided whenever possible, and should always be used in preference to foreign-language sources (assuming equal quality and reliability [4]) and who am I to dispute Oktars English-written webpages? With illegal 'original research'?). And because, as I said, I do not want to violate more copyrights as neccesary, my advise is to keep the article this way. I see no better option left.Jeff5102 21:03, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A shmoo?

I remember the shmoos. They were characters in Li'l Abner who were over-eager to serve mankind. If you prepared them one way, they tasted like chicken, and another way, they tasted like steak. Goofy little guys, and given Al Capp's mercurial political views, it's hard to know whether they were his way of satirizing capitalism, socialism, or maybe both. Wahkeenah 04:31, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your 25 August edit to Watchmen

[5] - I'm just wondering why you reverted the footnote in artwork to Ibid? As stated on the talk page by myself, Talk:Watchmen#Citation 24 that the ibid tag didn't make sense with the footnotes around it. You left no edit summary so I have no idea why you changed this? –– Lid(Talk) 15:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding your requests for citations on the Alcoholism page

You asked for citations on two topics. The first one was for the idea that many studies have been done demonstrating naltrexone to be of questionable value in supporting abstinance. Since the statement says "many" I assume you want more than one. How many would you like? Here's a quick list:

Renault, P. F. (1978) Treatment of heroin-dependent persons with antagonists: Current status. Bulletin on Narcotics 30: 21-29 ¶ Renault, P. F. (1980) Treatment of heroin dependent persons with antagonists: Current status. In: Naltrexone: Research Monograph 28, Willett, R. E., and Barnett, G., (eds.), Washington, DC: National Institute of Drug Abuse, 11 22.

O'Malley, S.S., Jaffe, A.J., Rode, S., and Rounsaville, B.J. (1996) Experience of a “slip among alcoholics treated with Naltrexone or placebo. American Journal of Psychiatry, 153(2): 281-283.

Maxwell, S., and Shinderman, M. S. (1997) Naltrexone in the treatment of dually-diagnosed patients. Journal of Addictive Diseases 16: A27, 125, 1997 ¶ Maxwell, S., and Shinderman M. S. (2000) Use of Naltrexone in the treatment of alcohol use disorders in patients with concomitant severe mental illness. Journal of Addictive Diseases, 19:61-69.

Oslin, D., Liberto, J., O’Brien, C.P., Krois, S., and Norbeck J. (1997) Naltrexone as an adjunct treatment for older patients with alcohol dependence. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 5: 324-332.

Kranzler, H. R., Tennen, H., Penta, C., and Bohn, M. J. (1997). Targeted Naltrexone treatment of early problem drinkers. Addictive Behaviors 22: 431-436. ¶ Kranzler, H. R., Tennen, H., Blomqvist et al.. (2001) Targeted naltrexone treatment for early problem drinkers. Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research 25 (Suppl. 5) 144A.

Balldin, J., Berglund, M., Borg, S., Månsson, M., Berndtsen, P., Franck, J., Gustafsson, L., Halldin, J., Hollstedt, C., Nilsson, L-H., and Stolt, G. (1997) A randomized 6 month double-blind placebo-controlled study of Naltrexone and coping skills education programme. Alcohol and Alcoholism 32: 325; ¶ Månsson, M., Balldin, J., Berglund, M., and Borg, S. (1999) Six-month follow-up of interaction effect between Naltrexone and coping skills therapy in outpatient alcoholism treatment. Alcohol and Alcoholism 34: 454; ¶ Månsson, M., Balldin, J., Berglund, M., and Borg, S. (1999) Interaction effect between Naltrexone and coping skills. Treatment and follow-up data. Abstract to “Evidence Based Medicine of Naltrexone in Alcoholism”, satellite symposium to the 7th Congress of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism. Barcelona, Spain, June 16-19, 1999.

I could probably provide about a dozen more. How many do you feel is sufficient?

Also, you requested citation for "For those who don't understand the mechanism involved, these results have been assumed to reflect the effectiveness of the two treatments in combination.". I'm not sure what you're asking for for this. A physician's opinion survey performed by someone like Reuters? This information was gathered in an unofficial manner, having discussed the issue with a couple dozen or so medical professionals regarding their professional associate's thoughts on the matter. Do you feel that this needs rephrasing?

I also noticed that you had a problem with "This logic is faulty because it assumes that the two treatments are merely complementary, like two people pushing a car, as opposed to sequential, like turning a doorknob and then pulling on it.", stating that it is "POV demagogic unsourced comment". I'll take these three up with you on the discussion page for Alcoholism.

Robert Rapplean 23:44, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Milgram experiment

I saw your note on the talk page: just wanted to let you know that I nominated the article for review. Sandy 20:40, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nick Vujicic

Hey will you be able to do something about this page.Nick Vujicic. I hope you can do some good edits to. An Australian based person. Thanks. rencin24

[edit] "removing the worst of the tourist brochure hyperbole"

If you'll excuse me asking, why only remove the worst? Why not remove it all? (Consider this an invitation, not a criticism.) Palmiro | Talk 23:46, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Woops, sorry about that. I decided to go ahead and do some trimming myself, but then I had some problems which forced me to log out and log in again before I could make the edit. I seem to have slain two of your edits in the process. Apologies. Palmiro | Talk 23:59, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please use edit summaries

Hello. Please be courteous to other editors and use edit summaries when updating articles. The Mathbot tool shows your usage of edit summaries to be low:

Edit summary usage for Ashmoo: 45% for major edits and 36% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 104 minor edits in the article namespace.

Using edit summaries helps other editors quickly understand your edits, which is especially useful when you make changes to articles that are on others' watchlists. Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 23:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Assembly language

You removed the following text from Assembly language without leaving any comment about why you did so.

However, a strong case can be made that any serious programmer should learn at least one assembly language – to understand the fine structure of how computers function, to anticipate how application design choices can improve generated code, and to appreciate all the work high-level languages save.

Why did this need to be removed? Is it wrong? Badly stated? POV? I'm not saying your action was wrong; but this idea is stated in much writing about assembly language, so I'm surprised to see it removed from this article without comment. Kindly explain your position, either here or in talk:Assembly language. Trevor Hanson 04:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aliens

I was wondering if you could read the "new" plot summary that I added to the discussion we were having. Your insight would be most beneficial as you were the one that brought the war to the talk page first. I don't want to add it to the plot because I don't want to stir the water with Shadow. Thanks. Bignole 14:37, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Games Workshop criticisms

I noticed you removed "Non-miniature products that Games Workshop sell can often be bought elsewhere at much lower prices - particularly paints (which cost £2.00 for 12 ml) and other craft items." saying that while it may be true it is unsourced. It's easy to verify by looking at the Games Workshop online store for their prices and then comparing these to, I don't know, Valejo or Coat d'Arms prices. I don't see why something like this needs to be directly sourced, else you'd have superscript numbers next to everything in the article. Xzamuel 18:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Natalie Maines

Yep, you're right. Sorry, was attempting to correct other probs in article, seems I accidently caught that one in the loop. Thanks for fixing it. ZueJaytalk 06:35, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Way of the Master

If you thought (the articles I merged into) Lee Strobel was bad, take a look at the articles associated with The Way of the Master -- where I'm looking at merging/purging (for unencyclopaedic & poorly cited material) a whole bunch of them. Your input would probably be valuable. HrafnTalkStalk 05:07, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Land Letter

Ashmoo - You are only one of a few "surviving editors" on the Land Letter Discussion page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Land_letter#No_references_at_sbc.net.3F . Most other editors have turned red. I just added three new questions / comments. Help there would be appreciated. Doug youvan (talk) 23:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)