User:RyanFreisling/Archive 3

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[edit] Great image!

Thank you for that. Just be good to you today.--MONGO 20:14, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

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Sunset on the prairie

[edit] Gallery

I've created a gallery of some of my WP photo contributions here. Enjoy! -- User:RyanFreisling @ 23:46, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] At Least

Although you requested my "investigation" I do appreciate you telling me about it. I put the barnstar on Willy On Wheel's account as a sarcastic joke. Being the most relentless and implacable vandal ever clearly shows a lot of "diligence" dedicated to what is the wrong thing. As to the troll-heavy thread on Jimmy Wale's user page I am not very familiar with the case or procedure for that kind of situation, but I do feel that it was handled a little too heavily and aggresively. Maybe her ability to upload pictures could have been temporarily suspended instead. I think alot of people overreacted because of the idea of somebody trying to create their own personal porn page on Wikipedia. I think that violates the user page policy. Sound and Fury 05:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

My objection (and I believe, the core issue of the affair) wasn't about her talk page content, but about the unverifiability of the license and the identifiability of the model (and the risks therein). To describe it otherwise isn't really accurate, in my opinion, and only seeks to perpetuate a long-resolved debate. And I likewise appreciate your removal of the 'don't say anything ridiculous here' line from your talk page, so you have my thanks for that. Cheers! -- User:RyanFreisling @ 05:38, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I'll never post to that ill-fated thread ever again. It is cursed.Sound and Fury 05:55, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal template

Ryan, the vandal template was discussed on ANI awhile back—the name is a little unfortunate, obviouosly. You can get the same output by using the neutral {{userlinks}} instead. Bishonen | talk 13:25, 22 September 2006 (UTC).

Cool! I'll make that change right now. Thanks for the information, Bish. :) -- User:RyanFreisling @ 13:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help with article title

Hi Ryan. I just created a new article History of Typography, and goofed up by capitalizing the "T" in typography. It should be lower case as per WP style guidelines. What's the best way to correct it?

Arbo talk 15:03, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Done! Any user can use the 'move' command for renaming pages. Be careful to avoid renaming popular pages without discussion first! And by the way - nice page indeed! I'll be posting more photos in the days to come, and best of all, I have a friend near Nimes and may be able to get some shots in the coming months... we'll see! -- User:RyanFreisling @ 15:09, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Ahh, thanks! I hadn't known of the move command. Glad you like the new page. Thanks for the encouragement and advice regarding contribs. Making the history section into a separate article opens it up to a wider scope of material from other editors.
About the photo assignment desk on my talk page; I hope I didn't give the impression you alone were expected to cover every building, or go trapsing all over Europe and the Mediterranean. What's the best way of shopping the project around WP to reach other Wikipedians interested in photography?
Arbo talk 15:37, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I really do appreciate that explanation. My self-esteem just went back up again.--MrFishGo Fish 20:59, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Weren't you dealing with this somewhere?

If you didn't notice...[1]--MONGO 13:03, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Saw it, wasn't gonna respond, changed my mind. :) Thanks! -- User:RyanFreisling @ 13:27, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] We have mutual friends

By your really dangerous messages on other peoples talk pages (I can explain why they are danagerous in an email), we seem to have the same "friends".

Your email is not active. Please send me an email address at:

(1) Special:Emailuser/Travb with an email address that I can reach you at, or

(2) alternatively, activate your email address on wikipedia.

I can explain my cryptic message in full when you e-mail me. I haven't watched your page, so any response here I wont see.Travb (talk) 23:14, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

To make sure no one is phishing, mascarading as you, does your email have a pow@ in it? I watched your page, awaiting response...Travb (talk) 03:12, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, it does. Sure is a lot of intrigue! And if the 'danger' is real, that's quite worrisome. I look forward to your email. -- User:RyanFreisling @ 03:26, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I hope I didn't disappoint you, or I didn't raise your expectations any with all of the "cloak and dagger" talk. Your "secret" (?) which I found out realized in my last e-mail to you is safe with me, Ryan. Travb (talk) 11:39, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Can't you just give the rest of us a little hint? We're all dying to know. Make it a riddle; I like riddles. ... string, or nothing. Derex 12:14, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I don't know what Travb is talking about - but I'd prefer to keep all of this 'on-wiki', as I find the idea of emailing about a wiki to be a sort of blasphemy... :) -- User:RyanFreisling @ 12:38, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Ryan, the eagle flies at night, but the owl sits alone.  ;-) TheronJ 12:58, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
My hovercraft is full of eels... -- User:RyanFreisling @ 12:58, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Paging Rick James .... Derex 13:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can I play too?

[[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg -->|right|thumb|250px|Soviet soldiers posing in front of a McDonald's restaurant in the movie Red dawn ]]

Molly has a red dress and black stockings. Over? I repeat: Molly has a red dress and black stockings.

"It's 11:59 on Radio Free America; this is Uncle Sam, with music, and the truth until dawn. Right now I've got a few words for some of our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone: "the chair is against the wall, the chair is against the wall", "john has a long mustache, john has a long mustache". It's twelve o'clock, American, another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there, on, or behind the line, this is your song."--Red Dawn

Fred Ryan wrote: prefer to keep all of this 'on-wiki', as I find the idea of emailing about a wiki to be a sort of blasphemy...

If the top admins do it, can't we? You may find it blasphemious, but there are several very powerful people on wikipedia who don't.

I wrote in an unrelated issue, which message is related to what Ryan is saying:

...every social organization becomes more conservative and regimented as it grows older--this is true of everything from businesses, religions, and yes wikipedia. More and more "undesirables" who clash with Wikipedias "company culture" will continue to be pushed out, gently but sometimes forcefully.

Response:

There seems to be some common denominators with the main group of powerful admins. They have given up creating content in favor of fulfilling their social lives on Wikipedia. They congregate in a social manner at irc and other private places where the friendships are more important than creating an encyclopedia -- groupthink sets in. They lose sight of the fundamental goals of the project, blinded by personal interaction and politics. As you say - predictable. It's just human nature.

"Can't you just give the rest of us a little hint? We're all dying to know. Make it a riddle; I like riddles. ... string, or nothing." LOL--ask Ryan. I have already said to much, and other wikipedians have already started to (predictably) misconstrue my meaning.

Derex, I wanted Ryan to email me and give his attention, but it worked so well that yourself and others are now interested too. :)

I hope I never am "blinded by personal interaction and politics", our end goal, together is to create an encyclopedia isn't it?

"Finally, we should never forget as a community that we are the vanguard of a knowledge revolution that will transform the world. We are the leading edge innovators and leaders of what is becoming a global movement to free knowledge from proprietary constraints. 100 years from now, the idea of a proprietary textbook or encyclopedia will sound as quaint and remote as we now think of the use of leeches in medical science." Jimbo Wales, User:Travb/Fair_use#Quotes_from_Jimbo_Wales, Benevolent dictator.

signed Travb (talk) 13:17, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I should re-phrase that. Travb, your "unrelated issue" comment looks extremely familiar, as does the response. Where did you write that? I can't find it on Google. Yet, I'd swear I read it recently. And I've been poking around some strange corners of the net, so it makes me wonder. Derex 13:34, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Travb, your "unrelated issue" comment looks extremely familiar, as does the response.
In an email. Nice detective work sherlock, but this time, unlike in all of the books, the bad guy gets away. :)
I will give you a clue, since you asked so nicely:
It wasn't Professor Plum with the Candle Stick.
Please don't start plumbing the depths of all of my edits, last time this happened, I was booted indefinately. [02:35, 26 May 2006 Cyde blocked "Travb (contribs)" with an expiry time of indefinite (Continual and large-scale posting of copyrighted material)][2]
Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose or Do NOT click any links! , probably shouldn't have said that huh?
If you would like to continue this conversation, you can email me. But I promised people not to reveal certain things, and I won't, because then they won't trust me again.
I hope you liked my Red Dawn joke, I used to love that movie, but it is so god damn cheezy now, especially since I have lived in the FSU for 2 and a half years, and my wife is Ukrainian. Travb (talk) 14:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC)