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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!!!

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[edit] Lion king clean up

No problem, glad I could be of some help. – Tutmøsis (Talk) 23:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Windows key article

Hi Starion,

I overall like your modifications to the Windows key article (except for a certain "excess of pedagogy", so to speak, as in "can perform certain functions... this functions are explained...", etc.). Anyway, there's one thing I consider more important: saying that the Windows key "also" acts as a modifier may make it appear as if this function were secondary. IMHO, they are the primary functions, with opening the Start Menu being just one of the n+1 actions it can perform. IOWs I would rather say that it can *also* be used alone :) BTW, the Start Menu can also be invoked with CTRL+ESC, but you can't use, for instance, CTRL+ESC+F instead of WinKey+F. Thus its standalone function has a replacement. Its role as a modifier does not. --Gennaro Prota 00:04, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

(please, let's keep the whole discussion in one place)
Replying on my (Gennaro's) talk page, StarionWolf wrote:
Hi, thanks for your comments about Windows key. I will try to think of a better phrase. I will also try to cleanup the article. Bye. --Starionwolf 01:36, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Ok :) Please, consider that the article is mainly aimed at beginners, but should anyway keep an encyclopaedic tone. Also, the fact that we point to the Microsoft site for detailed explanations is intentional, as you can see from my comments on the talk page. BTW, I already rewrote the whole article recently in response to the fact that an editor added "It was introduced after Windows 95 was released". That was obvious to me because the article said the key is only present on 104-key keyboards and above, but of course he didn't know that. So I reworded it to follow the "reverse path": I said it was introduced with Windows 95 and that this marked the passage from 101-key keyboards onward :) BTW, what time is it on your side? It is 3:50 am here :) I was working on a major update to the punctuation article and lost all the work (about three hours) because of a faulty Firefox extension. --Gennaro Prota 01:52, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. I'll remember. The time is 1808 where I live. It is nighttime. Sorry to hear that your browser crashed. I hope Firefox is working now. --Starionwolf 02:09, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Little Mermaid revisions

Hi, thanks for your comment! You're more than welcome to work on the page with what info you already know (or watch the movie again...always a good excuse...). Right now I'm working primarily on the style of the article to make it more wiki-appropriate, but it wouldn't hurt to do some fact-checking and add information if necessary. --Marysunshine 04:48, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SHARE.EXE cleanup

Thanks for improving the SHARE.EXE article. -- Seitz 04:06, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Blaine

A fine job cleaning-up that article. Thefool 05:10, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, you're welcome. Cheers. --Starionwolf 01:10, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bambi II

No problem at all. Thank you for your vigilance as well. IrishGuy 19:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the page! Now I won't vandalize the Bambi 2 article anymore, because I have my own page. Thanks, Starionwolf. 65.103.86.243

[edit] Disney stuff

Thanks. If you need any help around here, feel free to ask me. :) tregoweth 03:33, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Budapest metro

Hi,

Thanks for the message. I'm glad you liked the article and thank you for your offer to help in it. Your contribution will be certainly welcome.

By the way, what this article still lacks is actually references. (But I'm afraid I'll have to look for the sources I used myself when I wrote the article.)

Adam78 13:14, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

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[edit] Ande B. says thank you

Thanks for your kind comment on my talk page. I'm doing much better than just a week ago. I have found WP to be a much more pleasant place to have productive fun than just about anywhere else on-line and I've been dawdling about and working on-line since the late 70s! Also, I'm glad I came to your talk page to learn about VandalProof. I'll check out that page next. Ande B 23:23, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Award

It is my pleasure to give you the Exceptional Newcomer Award. I saved it up a day to make it my 3,000th edit. Congratulations, and thanks for contributing! Teke 06:40, 28 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Rent is Too Damn High Party

Please do not change the article titles in AfD's. This action redirects the user who clicks on the title to a blank page. The article link in the AfD is listed as per the rules of the AfD process so that it may direct users to the article as a reference during the discussion. --Strothra 19:46, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. I didn't realize I changed the article's name. I don't know what happened. --Starionwolf 19:48, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Sorry. I think my browser or something is acting up. I stopped and tried to revert my changes. --Starionwolf 19:51, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Understood, I removed the warning tag. --Strothra 19:52, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the info though. I'll need to check the plugins or something in the browser. In the mean time I'll stop editing articles with my curret browser. --Starionwolf 19:57, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Carola etc.

Dear Starionwolf,

Please be informed that I prefer much less formal style in user pages, I hope you will not be offended. First of all, your English is on a rather high level from I gathered from the message you left me, and I see you have an impressive collection of languages that you speak - I must say I envy you. My knowledge of English is also limited, as I am not an native English speaker, but I am almost sure "received" is spelt that way. I hope you did not take offence, I make a lot of spelling and other language mistakes and people correct me all the time (which is both good and bad, as I shouldn't have made them - mistakes, not people - in the first place).

May I ask you, what is you mother tongue (mine is Polish, as you can infer rom my user page), and why would you say that you have a hard time learning English?

Regards,

Bravada, talk - 19:08, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

PS. I am sorry that my user page is so genderly ambigious, I never thought that it is that important to display personal details like this prominently there. I also came here from an automotive community to edit automotive articles mostly, and in this community everybody is assumbed to be male anyway (be it correctly or not). We also address each other informally, so this is not that much of an issue.

Hi, sorry for the late reply. I didn't have time to write back. I learned English and Chinese when I was a kid. But I forgot Chinese. I guess I have a hard time learning English because I learned Chinese or got confused. I didn't understand the grammar and spelling of English when I was in school. I am trying to learn the grammar again. Bye. --Starionwolf 04:39, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Can you clarify the edit summary "It is not needed any more"?? Georgia guy 22:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I can put it back if you want. Before, typing the same phrase redircets the user to the animated movie. Currently, typing 101 Dalmations redirects to the Live Action Movie. Please excuse me because I'm new and my English is bad.
I don't know what's going on. I just reverted the my change. Cheers. --Starionwolf 22:39, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Burke lake

No problem :) I regularly patrol a few stub categories trying to put more precise stub types on them - this one was part of yesterday's sweep. Grutness...wha? 00:23, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kopa

No problemo, I don't know much about the lion king but I'm just trying to do my part and if I can't edit the content I try to fix the format a little bit. Keep up the good work :) SirGrant 18:29, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Andrew Horoszczak

Had a good chuckle seeing you fix that entry going for speedy deletion. Must ..... wikify .... stuff .... haha Equendil Talk 18:49, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You like my articles?

Great! I do however have like ~300 members of the Riksdag left, so if you cease being busy in real life you are welcome to help translating them from the Swedish Wikipedia. I have not browsed through your articles, but I am sure they are of equal quality! Cheers, Jobjörn 23:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the clarification.

Hello,

Thanks very much for fixing the Betty Reynolds Cobb entry. I usually try to avoid that kind of ambiguity, but I guess I got a wee bit complacent there. Cheers! --Folajimi 02:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

  • If there is a way for you to fix the issue with the article's talk page, please do so. --Folajimi 02:59, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Hi, do you want me to move the template, or delete it completely? I can move the template to the main article if you desire. Bye. -- Starionwolf 03:01, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
      • If there's a way to tweak the template to resolve the disambiguation, that would be splendid. I can see the confusion which may be created when making references to Georgians; but I'd only bury it if all other options fail. Cheers. --Folajimi 03:20, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
        • Ok, I see your concern. The article is listed in "Wikipedia requested photographs in Europe." Let me look around for some options or ideas. --Starionwolf 03:31, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: vandalism

Not a big deal :D K1Bond007 05:16, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm always happy to help. Cheers. PJM 20:41, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newbie or vandal?

User:Mrsanitazier could indeed be a sockpuppet of User:Mrknowitman but accusing him won't have the desired effect. Have you tried getting someone's attention from Wikipedia:Clueless newbies? Has he been welcomed yet? - Mgm|(talk) 11:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I tried welcoming him and giving him advice, but he's not listening. I'll go take a look at Clueless newbies. Thanks for the link. I didn't Wikipedia had a section called Clueless newbies. Bye. --Starionwolf 18:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting duplicate article

Hi, I know you're busy, but thank you for deleting a duplicate article. I forgot the name of it. Cheers. --Starionwolf 21:51, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Erm, that's ok! Thank you for saying thanks, it is much appreciated.  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  22:05, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD for New York Renaissance Faire

In Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New York Renaissance Faire, you based your decision upon mine. I've to inform you that I made a mistake due to my mental condition at the time, and have since explained and changed my decision in the AfD. Regards, Kimchi.sg 14:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the notice. I changed my vote. --Starionwolf 02:42, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Catorce

Hello! You are receiving this message because you participated in the deletion of a vanity article about Catorce, an improv troupe in Phoenix Arizona.

As an objective Wikipedian attempting to chronicle notable figures in Arizona music, comedy, and improv, I decided to take on the peculiar project of ressurecting the Catorce page, but now with more criteria for notability (which is difficult, since there aren't guidelines for improv groups like there are for bands and musicians) and an objective POV.

I am inviting you to come visit the page and leave comments.

my Catorce page: Catorce]

Thanks! (Please respond at the Catorce talk page) Parsssseltongue 23:42, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VfD for Gape shot

I have nominated Gape shot, the proposed deletion of which you supported in an older revision, for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gape shot. The addition by the person who removed the Proposed deletion notice consists of a list of "Movies containing this fetish" and a "See also" link to Goatse.cx which, as I explain in the nomination, do not redeem the article. —Centrx→Talk 04:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gape shot

In the future, please check an article's history for vandalism before adding a {{prod2}} tag to it. A prod added to an article in a vandalized state will be assumed to be in error and will be reverted along with the vandalism. --Pascal666 04:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the info. I didn't know I did something bad. Sorry. --Starionwolf 03:02, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
I wouldn't worry about it too much. —Centrx→talk 03:31, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chaka (The Lion King)

I've recently blocked Mrsanitazier for a 3RR vio on this article (specifically regarding the afd notices). Removing afd notices is vandalism, so you are not in subject to 3RR in this situation, but you may want to aviod this article for the next 24 hours just to be on the safe side. — xaosflux Talk 22:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalProof login failiure

Hi Aeropagitica, I don't know if you saw my message on the VP message board. You need to download VandalProof 121.exe from the download page. You need version 1.2.1. Just copy the new .exe over the old one. Bye --Starionwolf 04:24, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello! I did see your message and I have now copied the new .exe over, as you suggested. VandalProof now lets me log in on either the first or the second go and works quite nicely once it has done so! Regards,  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  05:36, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Message

This is from 70.58.211.220 about the Bambi article. What I said is true. Ronno died when he fell from the cliff. I didn't see him get up. If I'm wrong, please contact me. Thank you for your message. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.58.211.220 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] User 70.58.211.220

You do realize who 70.58.211.220 is, don't you? Here is a hint: [1]. IrishGuy talk 16:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

IrishGuy, I am not this user. My new address is 65.103.84.79. Whoever made this edit is not associated with me, I assure you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.58.211.220 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] Vandalise?

I am confused by a message you sent me in which you accused me of repeatedly "vandalising" the Bambi II Article. I am not sure what you're talking about, so I would very much appreciate some clarification. The only thing I did that I can think of which might be seen as vandalism was to edit a "viewer quote" which, you should discover if you do some quick research, was my own. I did so because, in its present wording, the quote seemed to de-humanize the Great Prince too much (granted, he's not human, but his personality is). If it is any help in contacting me, my user name for Wikipedia is Ben 10. However, I was not logged on at the time I made most of my recent edits, but I thought I'd try to make things easier. By the way, are you the one who removed the comment entirely? Is the comment itself the problem? I feel it is not, and have restored it in (to the best of my memory) its original wording. If this is a problem please let me know, especially since I have been putting anonymous opinions on various articles for some time. I have always done so while being very careful to make it clear they are only opinions, not dogma or certified fact. So far, I have had no trouble over that particular one. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.47.188.30 (talk • contribs) .

In my opinion, technically it would fall under original research which isn't allowed on Wikipedia. Personal commentary is pretty much frowned upon as it is, by definition, unencyclopedic. Things need to maintain a neutral point of view which is pretty much impossible to maintain with personal viewpoints being thrown into the mix. My personal opinion (and that is all this is) would be to remove it. IrishGuy talk 19:29, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Date errors

You've been changing dates to American style. If you're going to do that please at least change them correctly. You made many errors in at least 2006 United States E. coli outbreak and Spinach. Please go back and fix them. —Quarl (talk) 2006-09-21 02:16Z

Hi, I do not see any errors when I view the page. The dates I see are in yyyy-mm-dd format. I was editing the dates per Wikipedia's Manual of style. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) Perhaps you have the date preferences in your options setting set to "No preference"? You can change the format to yyyy-mm-dd format if you do not wish to see mm-dd-yyyy. --Starionwolf 02:46, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Nevermind. I see your point. I think I misread the manual page. Sorry. I'll try to reverse the changes. --Starionwolf 02:50, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I do have date preferences set and I do see YYYY-MM-DD when I'm logged in. Sorry if I was unclear. The main thing I am concerned with is your changes that made the dates incorrect, e.g. 2006-09-19 to September 9, 2006 [2] or 2006-08-02 to August 8, 2006 [3]. I assume these were accidental errors and not intentional date changes. —Quarl (talk) 2006-09-21 05:21Z

[edit] Riverside Park

Question for you: This Riverside Park seems like it should go direct to this Riverside Park (Manhattan). I changed it back to a redirect but its been switched back. Thoughts? Cornell Rockey 21:50, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of CE and SE games

You might be interested to know the article was deleted without an AfD tag, so is currently undergoing deletion review here [[4]] and might subsequently end up in another AfD.

[edit] Super Mario RPG lists

Currently, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars has two lists pertaining to it (List of characters in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, and List of locations in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars). User:TTN decided it would be best to merge the lists into the main article and split Smithy Gang into those articles. I recently merged Smithy Gang into the list of chatacters by removing the non-notable characters, and I have asserted that a cameo section in the list of characters is valid, per Wikipedia:Trivia sections and Wikipedia:Handling trivia that uses Alex Trebek#Cameos as a good example. I have suggested that we rename the articles per Wikipedia:Requested moves#Requesting potentially controversial moves to something along the lines of Characters of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and World of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars or Mushroom Kingdom (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars) just like Characters of Final Fantasy VIII and World of Final Fantasy VI or Gaia (Final Fantasy VII). I believe if these articles are to evolve beyond a non-notable list, they should be renamed. For example, List of Final Fantasy VII locations was merged into Gaia (Final Fantasy VII), because a World article is notable, but a simple list of locations is not. That is why there are other secions of the article to make it a World article. It simply has not been renamed yet.

TTN believes the citations in the development and reception sections of the list of locations, books and magazines, are trivial sources. When I added that the 3D perspective of the game is reminicent of Equinox to the main article, TTN removed it since my souce was "the opinions of the Nintendo Power player's guide writers". Although it was actually Nintendo Power magazine, I do believe a magazine is a reliable source, and I gave a page from Next Generation Magazine which also said the same thing. In addition, I was surprized that TTN said that it was from the players guide, since he claims to own the players guide for the game. He has not verified this, since I asked him for citations in May, "Could you look in the back of the Player's Guide and tell me what “types” of … Magic? I forgot what they call it in the game … well, anyways, what types of Special Attack or whatever it is (actually, could you find out what it's called?) there are? I remember some vaguely when I owned the guide like “Fire”, “Jump”, “Electricity?”, etc. Could you provide a citation, like the page number with a quote in context?" TTN replied that he was going to "get to it" (User talk:TTN/Archive 5#List of locations in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars). TTN claims the player's guide is "at the bottom of a box that's behind at least five others in a cramped space". Seeing that TTN did not recognize that the page was not from the player's guide when I provided a scan of the page in question from Nintendo Power shocked me. However, I have continued to assume good faith by not questioning TTN's honesty.

Per Wikipedia:Consensus#Consensus can change, I have offered five different reasonable, temporary compromises that might integrate my idea with TTN's.

  1. Go over the list of characters so we can delete non–notable characters
  2. Rename the articles by following the steps at Wikipedia:Requested moves#Requesting potentially controversial moves.
  3. Cut down the geography section list of locations by cutting it into the regional maps the adventures use when traveling from one to another. I can get pictures and write the fair use rationals, and someone can cut down the text that has no citation and does not allude to other media.
  4. Write the concept and creation and reception sections for the list of characters
  5. Write the concept and creation section for the main article

TTN rejected my compromise because it still keeps the articles. I agreed I would consider a redirect, but Wikipedia:Article size does not allow that, since the list of locations is currently 82 KB long. Instead, I agreed to help cut down the geography section that is the bulk of the article, but TTN rejected that as well because TTN states, "I am not interested in working on the article in regards to improving it." and "get past this "having sources automatically means that this information is good" mentality." TTN states, "I don't think they have or will ever assert notability." I have replied with, "Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, so if you don't think the articles will ever assert notability, we cannot yet know this, per Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions#I don't like it.

Would you please take a look at Talk:Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and give us your thoughts? Taric25 01:36, 1 October 2007 (UTC)