User talk:Mothperson

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Well, that explains a lot.

Mothperson 23:09, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

My Mentor, Solipsist, has kindly nudged me to archive. You may go to Old Cocoon 1 to view past inanities (I mean - responses to my inanities.

[edit] Er?

If you'd rather not have it, that's okay. You can remove it. The sentiment will remain. --Mothperson cocoon 15:47, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Sorry? I'm confused... Shimgray 16:03, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I see... thanks! I hadn't noticed... I may remove it whenever I get round to rewriting the page, but you never know... Shimgray 16:34, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Funny

Just so you know, Talk:List of misleading brand names of food and in particular the phrase "Wiki literal police" made me laugh longer and harder than almost anything else I've seen on Wikipedia. — Pekinensis 16:58, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

No, I don't know Mel beyond the fact that I read a lot of talk pages. Is he generally very literal? — Pekinensis 17:29, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Old cocoon 1?!

Oh Mothperson! Your wit is just so funny! Did you read my question about bales of hay? --HappyCamper 23:55, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I see...May I ask if you have had the chance to dine on salad graced with Sydney Smith's salad dressing? Just had to ask... :-) --HappyCamper 00:53, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I can't seem to find much printed material about the Jello Belt. Do you have any ideas on where to look? --HappyCamper 00:53, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pizza

Hi. As someone who has previously commended the Pizza article, and someone whose input I value, I'd like to you take a look. Someone has been adding an Italian pizza recipe and Italian topping list to the article. Am I just crazy, or do these just seem horribly out of place? I've removed them once, but they reverted my changes, and I'm hesitant to push the issue without an outside view. -- Norvy (talk) 08:22, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Foods

No need for an apology:

you were perfectly entitled to start the other article (and it was a reasonable article to start);
I'm not very keen on the proposed merger, but it wouldn't be disaster;
anyway, the "Misleading foods" article isn't my property, after all (I've just taken it under my wing).

As I once saw on a Yoghurt pot: "Farmer's Wife Hints: Keep cool". --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:20, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

I didn't bite you surely? I'm sure that I just nibbled gently... --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:53, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge

Hi, this is regarding the proposed merging of List of misleading brand names of food. I saw your views on the discussion and thought that I should leave you a personal note. It wasn't Mel who proposed it, it was me. In fact, Mel opposed it to start with and then, I think, he was okay either way after reading my views. I can understand the surprise that you may have felt by looking at the merge notice. I had a similar experience where I was shocked by an article about a book - produced verbatim from the article I'd written about its author. I promptly listed the book article for afd but later realised that the best way to solicit the information about the book and expand it was by having something to start with (even if it is verbatim copy frm my article). Actually, I do feel funny when I say "my article" because I neither own Wikipedia nor would want to dictate its legacy. My purpose in sending you this note is to persuade you to think about the merge situation in an impassionate manner. Thanks a ton, --Gurubrahma 09:54, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Break Out The Moth Balls!

Does Mothperson eat sweaters? --PinkDeoxys 19:57, 20 Dec 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hello Mothperson!

FOr some reason, I am unblocked from editing, at least until a bunch of Saudi start messing up the Wiki again. I wanted to mention how much I appreciate all your work on the Candy bar page. Just because I cannot edit does not mean I do not notice. Paul, in Saudi 15:00, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Good Morning Mother Person!

I have to use a public server (if that is the right word) and so I have been blocked from editing for quite some time. In mid-September the block was lifted as suddenly as it was imposed. One of those crazy things I suppose. I have done a few things around here since, mostly with the operational code names. I see November is National Write a Novel Month. If i decide to go for it, I will have little time for posting here. (50,000 words is 30 days is .. a lot of words each day.)

Enjoy Italy, get out of Rome if you can. Don't be afraid to hit them with Spanish, I have found it usually works. Italians love drama, an exaggerated plea for help and big arm movements get all sorts of personal attention. I like Italy. I hope you do too. Paul, in Saudi 04:48, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello!

Hey! Glad to see you're back!! :-) :-) :-) Lots of stuff has changed, but project is still lively and healthy. Feel free to drop by anytime! --HappyCamper 18:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your message

Sorry not to have replied immdiately — I've been away too. Now I'm back, I wonder which article you were referring to; the foods one? I'll have to have a look when I get a minute. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:03, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 12:56, 3 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}

[edit] Scrambled Eggs

The point of the tags is that they are part of the WikiProject Food and Drink. The tag serves for multiple reasons, those with stub and start ratings will get more attention from those in the project and will more likely have someone come work on the article to improve it. Also the tag gets the attention of people like yourself who see the tag and might have interest in joining the project and helping out as well. As for potential for that particular article, a history of which cultures may have used the dish, including the United States, what are the variations of the dish, is there any one person or dining establishment that made the dish famous, what are the other variations of preparations (ie. freeze dried eggs, liquid homogenized eggs, eggs in a bag, and other institutional products of the sort). I don't mind you messaging me at all because I am trying to get the project to be more active and I would like to see the food and drink articles vastly improved on Wikipedia. That way those interested not only in careers in the food industry will learn more accurate information, but thoe who are food enthusiasts will be more knowledgeable as well. You can join the project and help out by adding your name Here and placing {{User WP Food and drink}} on your user page.--Christopher Tanner, CCC 16:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I haven't added them because I am just one person, to think that I am going to edit the entire project on my own would be impossible. That is the point of the project that hopefully someone else will pick up the article when they have a chance or when I am not in the middle of writing papers for five grad classes, perhaps I will get a chance to get to it. The project that I assessed all of those articles for was pretty dead a few days ago, but if you look back you can see that I have worked on a few articles. I am currently trying to work on more articles that have to do with haute cuisine and the culinary profession directly at the moment. There were about 300 articles attached to the project that were not assessed, just with a tag, this way people may hopefully pay more attention to them. Like I said I am just one person, and I take more time than most people to work on an article because I properly note the article and use references because too many articles are just a pile of information that could be useless if one does not know if it is properly sourced or not. This is why academics do not take wikipedia seriously, from it's lack of sourcing and mostly POV material. I hope that answers your questions.--Christopher Tanner, CCC 00:49, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

It's not a problem I understand, and forgive me if I was a bit harsh with my reply but it had been a long day and I was a bit grumpy. I left a lot of the old stuff in like the Huevos Rancheros and decided I would take a look at those later when I looked for citations. As you saw and may have seen by looking at some of the other articles I have worked on, I usually completely rewrite article, but I don't want to insult people by taking out their older work all together. I also take my time to be exact with my article writing as I want my work to be as accurate as possible. This is where the point of the project is really important, if I had not gone through and assessed all of those articles, I would not have known about the scrambled egg article, and you would not of contacted me, so it has its purposes. Welcome aboard, I look forward to someone else helping out the project. I saw that you have worked on other food articles prior and thats great, food is such a fun topic to research and write about in my opinion. Talk to you soon.--Christopher Tanner, CCC 14:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cowslips

Actually.. I'd never heard of them before, just read the articles ;) Hope it was useful for you. Also, Poutine is fantastic. gorffy 01:00, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Awesome, you even got the real stuff then. Finding it made with Curds instead of Mozzarella is pretty rare outside of QB gorffy 22:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] June 2007 Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter June 2007

[edit] July 2007 Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter July 2007--Christopher Tanner, CCC 19:25, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of misleading food names

I appreciate your help removing not-so-misleading items from the List of misleading food names. One suggestion. When you remove items in the future, can you paste the removed items onto the talk page so, if people disagree, there is a place for discussion to happen. Also, it may serve to keep people from reposting these in the future. Thanks! —mako ๛ 18:31, 11 July 2007 (UTC)