User talk:Dansiman

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[edit] Pre-Paid

I have removed the advert tag. To be honest, the page actually looks quite good now, reading a lot less like a sales pitch than before. Good job on the contributions.

While we're on the topic, however, I must say that all of your contributions are about Pre-Paid in one form or another. I am not questioning whether your aim is to promote the company or what your ties are to it, but others might in the future. Perhaps you could edit some other similar articles, lending your knowledge of business and legal services to expanding articles such as class action or something along those lines. Isopropyl 04:46, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, although I didn't actually change anything between the time you added the advert tag and the time you removed it. Sorry to have to point that out.
It is true that, with the exception of a minor edit to the entry for DirecTV, all of my contributions have been related to Pre-Paid so far. While I do plan to make other contributions in the future, I am particularly interested in the company, and seeing that there was no existing entry for it whatsoever, and having a good deal of knowledge on it, I felt that writing that article was the single largest contribution I could make right off the bat. I certainly look forward to making many more contributions on a variety of topics as time goes on. Dansiman 05:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

All the information I put on the Prepaid Legal Site recently was from there 2007 Annual report filed with the SEC. These are required public information filed with a US Governmental agency. This is not at all copyrighted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mynameisstanley (talk • contribs) 23:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Whether it is copyrighted or not*, it was plagiarized (direct quotes taken with neither quotation marks nor a citation), and was poorly-worded for an encyclopedia article. For example, while "We were one of the first companies..." may be quite appropriate for an SEC report, but in an article on Wikipedia, there is no "we", and the sentence doesn't make sense. Also, it is quite inappropriate to include product prices in an article, unless that price is somehow newsworthy (e.g. the first 500 Brand-X cars were sold for $1 apiece). This is an encyclopedia, not an solicitation of business.
If you would like to include some of the information from the annual report, please cite your sources, use only pertinent factual information, put short direct quotes in quotation marks (""), and re-word facts in a way that doesn't sound like an ad.
* — The fact that a document has been filed with a governmental agency does not affect its copyright. From Copyright status of work by the U.S. government, "Many publications of the U.S. government do, however, contain protectable works authored by others (e.g., patent applications, Securities and Exchange Commission filings, public comments on regulations, etc.), ..."
--ΨΦorg (talk) 02:41, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Marijuana Wiki

Hi there,

I see that you are a pro-Cannabis Wikipedian so I hope this will be of some interest to you.

I've started a Marijuana wiki (aka The Sticky Wiki) which I think you might be interested in. I'm hoping you can help me get started with this project. Whereas lots of articles about weed get speedy-deleted on Wikipedia, they would be totally cool over at MarijuanaWiki. But really I want the site to be more of a marijuana community than merely an encyclopedia.

To give you an example, I want to have city guides about where to score, find pot-friendly cafes, marijuana events, and what represents a good price in that city. Etc. (You can check out the featured article: "Toronto" to see what I mean). I also want to have grow diaries and marijuana blogs. All in all, basically more communal than encyclopedic.

I am in need of admins/moderators, and people experienced with MediaWiki to help build policy, categories, and templates, etc. If you'd be interested in helping me with this project, the URL is MarijuanaWiki

Thanks for your time and consideration. Hope to see you there!

-- nsandwich 23:51, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userboxes

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! I was looking at your userpage, and while it's awesome you have so many interests, I was wondering if you had considered trimming it down a bit. I don't presume to tell you what to do with your userpage, but I found that it was easier for my particular talents to be identified by others when I reduced my userboxes to a managable amount. Also, the organization of your boxes is a bit unorganized, and if you'd like help with placing them in a managable table, I'd be happy to help. --speak togadren 02:29, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'm working on your userbox organization (you really do have a lot of 'em). It's still a work in progress, but you can see what I've done at User:Gadren/Sandbox. --hello,gadren 14:07, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Update: I've placed the work I've done onto your userpage. I've organized most of them by topic and placed them in a userbox table. I also got about halfway through them in un-substing them (unless it's needed, substing makes it hard to read them, and it's easier to instead do something like {{User:Gadren/Userboxes/ID}} -- where you copy the subst text to a subpage of the userpage and link to that.

I hope that the format I've started is easy to understand. It's just too much work for me right now to track down all the old userbox syntax when there's so many boxes, but I hope that this can help you get started in customizing your userpage. IF you have questions, let me know. --hello,gadren 01:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pre Paid Legal

I just read your PrePaid Legal entry on Wikipedia - I will take a wild stab at guessing that you are affiliated with them or at list where when you wrote the article

I will take another wild guess and say that 1 - 1.5 years from now you probably won't be affiliated with them anymore.

Would you then to keep your consience clear come back to your wicki article and reread it. THEN you will understand what people mean when they say your article reads like an advertisement.

But for the future - when your entire article consists solely of information found in company's promotional materials - it is a biased article that reads like an advertisement. You can never be objective when all your information comes from one source. Check this site out you will not what I mean: http://www.mediamoogle.com/ (check the left section) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.191.144.12 (talk • contribs) 12:23, 13 June, 2006 (UTC)

You are right in that I am affiliated with PPLSI. In fact, had you read the comments higher on this page, or looked at my user page, you would see that I make that fact abundantly clear. However, on your second guess, you are dead wrong. I will definitely continue to be asociated with the company for the remainder of my natural life. Believe me, I have spent countless hours researching the company, and I am acutely aware of all the negative publicity it has received. I also know that the product the company offers is very valuable, and I would own it even if there were not a financial windfall available through their network marketing structure. In fact, I did not join the company until after I had already owned the membership for several months. For the record, I joined the company on December 15, 2004, and in the first six months of 2006, I have already made more commissions than I made in all of 2005. I won't give you exact numbers, just in case you live in one of the four states that has laws against earnings representations.
Also, I don't really think SEC filings can be considered "promotional materials." In fact, I just re-read the article, and the only sentences that included what anyone might call a "positive fact" were those about Equities Magazine rating it as the 33rd fastest-growing company, and about Forbes Magazine ranking it in their Top 200 Small Companies list. Neither of those magazines could by any stretch of the imagination be considered "company's promotional materials." So you see, my information is not "all from one source." Dansiman 03:21, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BLP templates

There are BLP warning templates. See BLP policy talk page for examples. Personally, I prefer personal messages over templates especially for users with a productive edit history. IMO, it is better to educate with a message than warn. Take care, --FloNight 02:27, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Three Triangles.svg

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[edit] The Sword of Truth

Thanx loads. I don’t get to spend as much time as I would like to learn all the intricacies needed here. My sincere apologies if I didn't get it right. It was not something that I considered major, but I see your point and in retrospect agree. I'm working on adding some factual sourced material for that section rather than someone's personal blog of misinformation and POV. Placing factual information and of reputable source is key I think. Again thanx! Mystar (talk) 04:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Heroes (TV series)

[edit] Heroes links to dab

Most things shouldn't link to Heroes (disambiguation), and those that should shouldn't pipe link it -- they should link explicitly to the (disambiguation) redirect. Rather than something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=They_Killed_Him&diff=prev&oldid=184124277 consider adding a {{dn}} tag to it if you're not sure which dab target should be used (or just removing the wikilink entirely, as I did there). BTW, WP:AWB is a handy tool for attacking these types of dab links in large groups, as you're doing. -- JHunterJ (talk) 22:46, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] peer review

I was wondering if you could take some time out of your schedule to head over to the Heroes (TV series) talkpage and give us an honest peer review. The page has gone through some major changes in the last few months, and it would be fantastic if a prominent editor/contributor like yourself, could head over and give us at the Heroes Wikiproject some sound opinion and ideas on improvements for the page. We have all worked very hard at improving the page, and we need great outside, reliable and trustworthy users to come over and help us improve. I you are interested in joining the peer review discussion with other prominent users/contributors, much like yourself, please follow the link. Thank you very much for your help and your continued effort to improve Wikipedia and its quality! Wikipedia:Peer review/Heroes (TV series)/archive2--Chrisisinchrist (talk) 06:13, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Heroes pic

I would appreciate your input and help in fixing the licensing, if I could impose. - Arcayne (cast a spell) 01:05, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

thanks. I've watchlisted it, to keep up to date. Thank you for your efforts. :) - Arcayne (cast a spell) 15:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Spore (video game)

[edit] Spinoffs

It's entirely appropriate, since Electronic Arts has called them many times spinoffs. I'd say that's definitive, wouldn't you? (Especially since the media is calling them spinoffs, too.) Check the Spore talk page. JAF1970 (talk) 20:30, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spinoffs, Part II

"they don't (to my knowledge) expand upon those aspects with new elements." They don't? Didn't read either article, did you?

“ The game focuses on survival, which includes finding food and eventually a mate, with mini-games such as singing and dancing for friend-making.[5] A large part of the game involves collecting items, allowing players to earn 60 badges based on game moments and actions. The players can also perform side quests and play mini-games to unlock skills and 280 hidden creature parts, which are given to the player by other friendly creatures, akin to Animal Crossing.[3][5] Some parts grant "Bio-Powers", such as a quick healing ability.[5] ”

Sounds an awful lot like expansion to the Creature phase, huh? As for Spore (mobile):

“ After every 3 upgrades to the creature, a "superpart" is awarded.[3] After the player completes the single player game, they can engage in wireless battles with other players' completed creatures as well.[4] ”

They're spinoffs. By my, your, EA's AND Wikipedia's definition. Please, move on. JAF1970 (talk) 21:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

PS. Both games feature direct multiplayer. Spore does not. JAF1970 (talk) 21:26, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Consensus

Please see this, on Spore and consensus. I am not singling you out, JAF1970 already knows about my comments there. --Yamla (talk) 22:09, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spore

I just wanted to commend you for arguing your point in a civil manner in regard to the whole spin-off argument. I fully agree with you in that the alternative versions of Spore are not spin-offs by any means (regardless of how everybody else seems to define them), but rather, reinterpretations of a core premise (i.e. creature creation). If Spore DS/Mobile are by definition spin-offs, then what do we make of the dozens upon dozens of games that have been completely overhauled for other platforms? (as each platform has their own share of strengths and weaknesses due to hardware constraints)

An example of a spin-off would be a game such as MySims (a Japanese reinterpretation of The Sims), or the WarioWare series (mini-game compilations based on the WarioLand games, which itself is a spin-off of the Super Mario series). Spore doesn't fall into that category as all 4 versions of the game share certain basic elements. In short, I'm in favour of calling them "versions".

Take The Sims 2 for example, each and every version was "radically different" to one another, yet JAF refuses to call these versions spin-offs contrary to his views on Spore... PC = A life simulation game PS2/Xbox/GC = An adventure game focusing more on the social aspect of the PC version DS Version = A hotel simulation/RPG/adventure game GBA Version = An adventure/RPG game in which the player assumes the role of a reality TV star PSP Version = An adventure game in which the player is to discover as many of Strangetown's "secrets" as possible Mobile Version = Similar to the PC game, but with very little depth in comparison due to hardware restrictions

Besides, what exactly is Spore being spun off of? Spore? The whole argument is asinine. The DS/Mobile versions are just that: different versions or reinterpretations of a key concept. Oh dear, hope I haven't bored you with my ramblings. :P Good day. :) Sillygostly (talk) 00:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked

You have been blocked for 24 hours for this personal attack. --Yamla (talk) 16:57, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Can you also block JAF1970 for this personal attack?
Or this one?

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[edit] Comments I was about to add to Talk:Spore (video game) before I was blocked

Copied from the talk page:

That's nice, but you're still just a vocal, and quite annoying, minority. I've already proven stuff to you on your OWN terms, so please, go with the rest of the group til the game is released in September. Enough is enough.
Please listen to the administrator and if you have a serious edit dispute, have it moderated.
The fact that you are campaigning, yes, CAMPAIGNING for your point of view after the issues are resolved is bad form. Oh, and by the way, just a hint here: Wiki doesn't tolerate sock puppets. You know what I mean.

JAF1970 (talk) 16:50, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Pardon me, but it appears you're being far more vocal than I am on this matter. And you haven't proven anything to me. The only way you can be said to have proven something to me is if I am conviced of it. And, by "the rest of the group," you really mean "you," right?
I think we're all capable of discussing this without needing moderation.
I don't agree that the issues are resolved. And how am I "campaigning?" I'm trying to facilitate reasonable discussion of the issue, as opposed to your unilateral declaration of "this is the way it is." And if you're going to accuse me of sockpuppetry, you'd better have some hard evidence to back that up (hint: there isn't any), as that's a serious accusation. Dansiman (talk|Contribs) 17:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Please, stop insisting you're right and everyone else is wrong. Dansiman (talk|Contribs) 18:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edits with IP address removed

I removed the edits with your IP address from the page history. Is that fine? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 18:43, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

This one is still there. Dansiman (talk|Contribs) 19:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Posted

I have to sleep, but I posted 2 quotes from EA. EA VP Beuchner specifically states whatever it is, it isn't a port, so Sillygostly will have to deal with THAT. I don't understand your hesitation to call them spinoffs. Oh, and he explicitly calls the DS version a spinoff. The other calls the mobile version a spinoff. JAF1970 (talk) 10:35, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Polite request

It's time to stop arguing the evidence I have submitted, especially when you have yet to support your beliefs with any of your own. Claiming my evidence from informed sources (including the creator of the game) is wrong is basically unscientific and attempting to prove a negative. Either you adhere to debate rules, apply for moderation or cease and desist. JAF1970 (talk) 16:17, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Makes sense

Makes sense, I'd be really stressing to keep counting votes evertime somebody doesn't happen to like an article. However, perhaps wikipedia should encourage a to come up with with observations about guidelines rather than just plain "keeps" and "deletes". I mean when those words summarise a guideline perception, I think it is actually very useful. But what's the wort of adding "keep- as per somebody". From my perspective, it's lack of contribution to the discussion makes the whole process look like vote counting. And I think newcommers don't know it is not supposed to be a vote. Of course I'm just commenting my thoughts, not that I'm still mad at the situation as I was when I wrothe the comment that came to your attention. Than'tk for your time.--20-dude (talk) 21:22, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Misiurewicz point

I have attempted to answer your question at Talk:Misiurewicz point. Gandalf61 (talk) 16:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Morbid curiosity

I thought you might want to see this as it explains an awful lot about a certain someone's psyche. Sillygostly (talk) 10:09, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Cheers. I figured you would. :) Sillygostly (talk) 01:08, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RfD

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Spread the tastiness of pies by adding {{subst:GiveCake}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

It's my own recipe. Basketball110 Go Longhorns! 23:17, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Secret pages MfD

I moved your question to the bottom (break 7) and answered it. Just letting you know. Equazcion •✗/C • 01:51, 2 Apr 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mediation Cabal

Where is it? JAF1970 (talk) 01:28, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-03-17 Spore (video game) Dansiman (talk|Contribs) 08:13, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] MedCab closed.

Just a courtesy message to let you know the MedCab case regarding Spore is closed. The summary is here. Please post a message to me if you feel necessary. Regards, Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 01:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Seeing as we had consensus otherwise, I posted our proposed changes to the actual spore (video game) article. I know we may have wanted to change a few details. I'm definitely open to that. But in the interest of building a new consensus, I'd appreciate it if we tried to cement the genre information as a part of this article before we start deleting/changing it in major ways. Thanks again for all your help, and it's too bad the mediation took so long. Randomran (talk) 03:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Talk Page Guidelines

Ah cool, just got confused when reading the talk page, anyways, thanks. John.n-IRL 17:20, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Maxis keeps changing the name of that one phase

Now it's the Cell phase. JAF1970 (talk) 06:34, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Micromanagement (gameplay) - Starcraft image

Hi, please don't take this personally, but I've undone your recent edit to Micromanagement (gameplay). In the the Starcraft image, a Templar's Psionic Storm spell (the "lightning") will damage and probably destroy any Probes (the small "worker" units, some of which are carrying things) that continue to try to harvest resources (especially the blue crystalline Minerals) in the area covered by the Storm - in fact most will be unable to get out of danger before being destroyed. It's an example of the "Doom Drop" tactic developed by "Zileas" to disrupt an enemy economy. Philcha (talk) 20:43, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Nice solution! I hope we get the chance to collaborate some time. Philcha (talk) 09:06, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! :) Dansiman (talk|Contribs) 09:10, 9 June 2008 (UTC)