User talk:Shii

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Were this admin is to act in a foolish, trollish, or dickish way, he is open to being slapped with a large trout.

Hi everyone. I apologize if I have been a jerk to anyone. I invite you to help me in writing articles and resolving disputes in a civilized way.

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[edit] Previous talk pages

[edit] New ED ref

You may want to look at this: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=459249 --Urban Rose 14:18, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] amit

Please do not without reason delete a deletion proposition. You may like the article but follow the rules. --GBVrallyCI (talk) 00:00, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

lol what? Wikipedia:PROD#Contesting_a_proposed_deletion Shii (tock) 00:59, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

i'm not edit warring with you buddy, i just did it the proper way. perhaps you can help here. There was an old article for someone named Amit Singh that was deleted, but the discussion page links to him. How can we get a new page for this Amit Singh. this is what appears - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Amit_Singh

--GBVrallyCI (talk) 01:11, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

OK... you should have asked somewhere what to do in that situation, rather than replacing a prod tag after it's contested. You use a style like subst:afd|Weather in London (2nd nomination). Shii (tock) 01:12, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Site Whose Name Should Not Be Mentioned Here

You know about this amirite? Also User:Urban Rose was over at ED talking about an article (see Community Portal). --Piepie (talk) 20:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah I saw the mess she made on Wikipedia Review. I will probably oversee the creation of the article myself. Shii (tock) 22:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RfC draft

I'm drafting an RfC you might be interested in [1]. I just added some diffs from this discussion you took part in [2]. If you'd like to participate in drafting the RfC, please feel free to. Cla68 (talk) 07:27, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

suggestion--make it explicit that all of them deal with 2008 incidents. (If there are older one mixed in, consider removing them)DGG (talk) 00:08, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Matsuo Bashō

I downloaded some articles about Matsuo Bashō from JSTOR. Email me if you want them... Ling.Nut (talk) 01:49, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, but I have JSTOR access myself. Feel free to add them to the article and I'll help with the rewriting. Shii (tock) 02:02, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
I can't do too much; very busy. This one has good info: Carter, Steven D. (1997). On a Bare Branch: Bashō and the Haikai Profession. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 117, No. 1, pp. 57–69. Ling.Nut (talk) 03:16, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Quite right, this is full of information Ueda brushed over. Great find. Shii (tock) 04:16, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] veri-thing

I am user Ashibaka on Commons but not for long. Shii (tock) 23:05, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Belated Thank You

The Special Barnstar
I thought that you had left WP a long while ago; this is a 'Thank You' for doing the 'right thing' many moons ago. Again, Thank You. Duke53 | Talk 05:12, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. Shii (tock) 20:09, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] administrators

Would you mind if I added your userpage to the Category:Wikipedia administrators? I'm trying to populate it. Enigma message 06:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Please, go ahead. Shii (tock) 20:09, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your wikipedia essay on "everything shii knows"

...was sad. You may not hold a grudge against SV, etc, but they deserve to have someone tell them off. :`( mathwhiz29 03:25, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reading. Shii (tock) 01:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Longest word: smiles, beleaguered, etc.

Hello, Shii. The sources I cited for the "smiles" and "beleaguered" jokes were clearly published in the 19th century. Obviously, they were microfilmed and digitized, and these digital images were posted on the web much later; if you have a suggestion for how to adjust the citation to acknowledge that the link is to an electronic image of the 19th century publication, fine. The point is that the sources do make it clear that the riddles were around in the 1800s, and I had inline citations to links providing visual evidence that supported that assertion. I will be restoring my edit. Emoll (talk) 23:45, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

You linked to a generic microfilm database on Google Books. The dates on these databases are wrong. They begin in the 19th or early 20th centuries but their records extend for over 100 years without changing the date. For example, here is a poem in the "1929" issue of Educational Horizons: [3]
I went to my college's library and learned that this actually appears in the fall 1966 issue.
Please revert your edit accordingly. Shii (tock) 23:50, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, actually 40 minutes is not reasonable in this case. I had to go to work. Now I'm back. Check this link, please:
http://books.google.com/books?id=kokfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA122
The page imaged in that link shows the "beleaguered" riddle and refers to the "smiles" riddle. It is page 122 of a book. If you scroll up to the first title page (two pages before the page numbered "1"), you will see an imprint of the year of the book's publication: 1882.
I can look for a better source for even earlier "smiles" references, but the one above would seem to remove any doubt that both riddles were around by 1882. Emoll (talk) 01:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Okay, I see. The second reference, then, is probably good. But I would still doubt the first. The typesetting does not necessarily pin it down to 1850. Shii (tock) 01:46, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] needed before SUL

[edit] Matsuo Basho

Not sure if you are still watching the GAR for this, as it has gone on a while, but there's been an actionable comment from EyeSerene. Geometry guy 10:06, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Usurpation on ja.wiki

Hi, Shii. Your account on JAWP was safely moved to ja:User:Shii by Ks aka 98. Welcome again! --Aotake (talk) 19:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Shii (tock) 00:57, 6 June 2008 (UTC)