User talk:Rdsmith4

A gate to an alley in Annapolis, Maryland

Nemo of honour: for courageous and constant fight against hideous things (from User:Rama)

I award you the Photographer's barnstar for your Featured Pictures and collection of F1 portraits. — Solipsist 16:26, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for changing my username from CyberThing to DalekChicken. DalekChicken (talk) 08:45, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User: Willy on Wheels

I know that this is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay late to ask the question, but why was Willy on Wheels blocked? Was it vandalism? Imperial Star Destroyer (talk) 15:13, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I see. Then why is it that the original only made three edits on votes for deletion? Imperial Star Destroyer (talk) 21:47, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hold templates

Hi Rdsmith4, I wanted to ask something regarding templates at RfA. When you closed Elonka's third request for adminship, you used the "on hold" templates while reading it. Out of curiosity, what are these templates called? I know what the ones for successful/unsuccessful RfAs are, but not hold. I know I don't need to use them, but I would like to know what they're called just for my own reference. Thanks. Acalamari 18:43, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply and answer to my question: it was appreciated. Acalamari 18:59, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please wipe away my Account (with diskussion and history)

Hello Rdsmith4,

please clean up (delete) my Account (user-page with discussion and history) in the english Wikipedia! Thank you very much!Nup (talk) 16:37, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Administrator renames

I'm not thinking of renaming my account any time soon, or in the forseeable future, but what is the policy on renaming administrators? Would I (potentially) have to re-register the old account name at some point, for example? Rudget (Help?) 18:22, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

That's basically what I thought. Thank you. Regards, Rudget (Help?) 18:36, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Usurpation completed

You’ve renamed my account User:ChroniclerSPb to User:Chronicler after usurpation request. Please, rename also my old userpage User:ChroniclerSPb (and its talkpage) to User:Chronicler (it’s impossible for not admin). Thanks. --Chronicler (talk) 09:49, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for having renamed my account so quickly. Gede (talk) 23:07, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I would like to thank you too! it was a nice surprise, after the 1st reply I got, I gave up.. Thanks! Leia (talk) 18:13, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Account Nup

Please rename my User-Account Nup in "Former User 23". The best would be, that there is no more visible on the user's page the discussios and the history. In the german wikipedia it was possible to do that (administrator, buerocrat) Thank you vey much in advice! And then please delete these contributions here, thank you! 92.75.229.136 (talk) 10:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] usurpation request

Hi,

About this request, what is the "guest" bug ? I would add that as I haven't many contributions on :en with the username malta_fr, I don't mind if it isn't merged with malta. What matter to me is to be able to log in with the username Malta. bye, Malta fr (talk) 12:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your philosophical musings at WP:BN

I found your most recent comment at WP:BN quite interesting, for two reasons:

1. Because part of what you’re saying echoes one of my favorite quotes:

   "When it looks like somebody is saying something utterly stupid or insane, try to figure out why, from their point of view, it might seem reasonable to say such a thing." - Nick Mathewson, here. See also Principle of charity. I originally stumbled on this at ArmedBlowfish's now-deleted talk page.

2. Because the other part of what you’re saying matches very closely with a similar theory of mine: Everyone has a reptilian brain (which produces instinctive reactions), and a primate brain (which thinks rationally). Some people think that humans use their primate brain to decide what to do. When I’m having a good day, I tend to believe people use their primate brain to overcome, as best they can, their normal desire to do what their reptilian brain tells them to do. When I’m having a bad day, I tend to think people use their primate brain primarily to come up with rational-sounding justifications for doing what their reptilian brain tells them to do. We’re all reptiles, it’s just humans have evolved a way to make it look like we aren’t.

When I first contributed to that thread, to be honest I kind of thought I was at WT:RFA. It's gotten pretty esoteric for WP:BN... --barneca (talk) 19:12, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Username change to capital A

Thanks Dan - that's worked a treat! πιππίνυ δ - (dica) 22:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)