User talk:PhilipMW

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Do you happen to know the Church Slavonic for the Pascha greeting?

Slavonic? I am not sure what you mean. --Cluster 03:15, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
Church Slavonic is the language used by the Serbian, Russian, and other Orthodox Churches of east and south Slav cultures for liturgical purposes (or at least up through the 20th century). It was developed along with the "Cyrillic" writing system used by these cultures. In the present day, liturgies have started to be done in the local languages (Russian in Russia, etc.), but Slavonic is still used.
Ah, no. All I know is that when I was little, and my mother and I walked in the street, we definitely used "voskres". "Voskresi" makes no sense whatsoever -- the language itself makes it illogical.
It is, in fact, "Christos Voskrese!". See: http://orthodoxwiki.org/Paschal_greeting Note that local usage and pronunciation varied somewhat across Slavic speaking lands, and the "accent" for Church Slavonic words might be quite different in Ochrid versus Sofia versus Pskov. Jerry picker 18:57, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Please disambiguate "Java" on your user page. For example, Java. Thanks. RedWolf 00:57, May 16, 2004 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. --Cluster 15:15, May 16, 2004 (UTC)

Hi - it's fine, you can use the image without any attribution. Evercat 20:57, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. The fruits of your labor now grace the Go Club @ UTD. —Cluster 22:40, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi. A while ago, you added a one-sentence summary on Kerberos. You mentioned in a comment that you were not sure it was right. I think it was wrong because the TGS does not make authorization decisions; only authentication. I've replaced your summary with one that is longer but I believe correct. I'd appreciate if you would take look and see if we can tighten it up any. SamHartman 15:12, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] "Chinese" box

Hello, Cluster.

It's indeed patent nonsense to state that the "Chinese were fond of" doing these horrible things during "the last two centuries". "A colorful assortment of stinging and venomous bloodsuckers" ? The "head protruding through a hole at the top so that the depraved observers could behold his evolving facial expressions" ? Give me a break. The article Chinese box really sounds insane to me. Hence, the {{insane}} tag.

The worst things I have ever heard of, about mistreating prisoners in Chinese history, took place during the Qing dynasty, which was longer than two centuries, and it was not the past two centuries. The closest thing I have ever heard of might be chopping off the limbs and placing the rest of the body in a giant jar, with the head sticking out. This was, allegedly, done by the governing Northerners to insurgents from the South who supported the previous dynasty, as an extremely abusive interrogation to extract information about collaborators. This is probably folklore or urban legend, the Chinese-style. Another possibility would be the bamboo cages (normally for carrying pigs to the market) used to drown sex offenders in the rural areas. Neither is close to what is depicted in the article Chinese box. (The actual use of the cage is questionable, but the Cantonese expression "drowning in a pig cage" is somewhat common in historical TV drama. Picture this: some fornicators or a pregnant teenage runaway, etc. were caught and brought to the elders in the village, a crowd gathers, some angry, uptight, old maid in the crowd suggests drowning the accused in pig cages as punishment, the crowd roars, a sage elder tries to calm everyone and asks for an investigation .... it's typical.)

However, I have indeed heard of the expression 'Chinese box' to mean a water-torture device. It's somewhat mythological, but I thought the article can be salvaged and re-written about this expression. I don't know the origin of this expression, but someone like you may know. I wanted to replace the {{insane}} tag with the {{disputed}} tag, but I did a bad job copying and pasting it from Wikipedia:Template messages. Instead of over the old tag, I put the {{disputed}} tag next to it. I was about to fix it, but then I decided to leave the {{insane}} tag, as the current content is indeed silly and disputable.

Please feel free to make any edits to the article, but please make it more credible.

Many thanks.

-- PFHLai 20:08, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words at my talk page, Cluster. People usually leave out the "et" when they call me that.  :-)
-- PFHLai 05:15, 2004 Jul 23 (UTC)

I disambiguated "Cantonese" in the above, if you were wondering. Flowerparty talk 02:20, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Stalin edit

Not that I disagree that it's stylistically nicer in the instance you edited, but "however" does mean exactly the same thing as "but" and works fine as a coordinating conjunction. The fact that it's not in "FANBOYS" does not mean it doesn't work. siafu 07:27, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] British spelling

> ...poor taste to convert American spelling to British spelling without reason,
> such as changing from "neighbors" to "neighbours" in Parallel parking
> ...
> The article in question is written predominantly for those who drive on the right
> side of the road, which is explicitly not Britain.
All of Europe, except the UK, drives on the right side of the road. Parallel parking also applies to Europe. If in Europe we use English, we use British English.
> As the primary author of that article, I am not bothered by this
Neither am I. I -am- bothered by using non SI units. BTW, there is no 'primary autor', Wikipedia belongs to all of us. I refer you to the bottom lines of the edit page; If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it.

[edit] User Categorisation

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Ukraine page as living in or being associated with Ukraine. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Ukraine for instructions.--Rmky87 05:04, 20 September 2005 (UTC)