User talk:Varlaam

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Varlaam! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 12:04, 16 December 2007 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Welcomes

Everyone with a username who isn't a vandal or spammer eventually gets welcomed, given enough edits. I welcome people who edit articles on my watchlist (like Astur-Leonese language.)

I hope you like it here; movie articles need help too. ;-) Grandmasterka 05:01, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Some people reply on their own talk page to messages. I reply on the other person's talk page (like here.) There's no reply button. Grandmasterka 02:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey Q

Have you ever been to the southern hemisphere? respond here Deadline is December 15th. AstroBoy 02:11, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

I still do not understand how to "talk" in Wikipedia.

[edit] French Wiki

You have to register a username separately for each Wikipedia. That's all. Grandmasterka 06:38, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Yucko. And then my changes accumulate separately under each language? If you are trying to assess someone's history in order to determine whether he is reliable or not, then it is useful to have a full history, eh, don't you think?

[edit] {{UK-explorer-stub}}

Hi - I see you have recently created a new stub type. As it states at Wikipedia:Stub, at the top of most stub categories, and in many other places on Wikipedia, new stub types should be proposed prior to creation at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, in order to check whether the new stub type is already covered by existing stub types, whether it is named according to stub naming guidelines, whether it reaches the standard threshold for creation of a new stub type, and whether it crosses existing stub type hierarchies. Your new stub type is currently listed at WP:WSS/D - please feel free to make any comments there as to any reason why this stub type should not be proposed for deletion at WP:SFD. And please, in future, propose new stub types first! Grutness...wha? 05:49, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I needed to set up explorer/author Michael Asher, and I wasn't familiar with the procedures for new stubs. Feel free to nuke it or fix it or standardize it, or whatever seems appropriate. Cheers. Varlaam 01:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Denmark

The Dannebrog, national flag of Denmark

Hi Varlaam

I noticed that you some Danish related contributions on wikipedia.Perhaps you would be interested in joining the wikiproject. The scope of the project is to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to Denmark, its history, people, geography, and culture.
You can join up at WP:DK

Best regards and happy editing.
Mads Angelbo ^{Talk / Contribs} 16:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jokes -- wombats or otherwise

Re "Eats, Shoots and Leaves": In that case, why don't you amplify or extend my contribution rather than simply deleting it? Why don't you try something pro-active, rather than merely nihilistic? There appear to be a lot of self-appointed policemen in the database who knock down people when they are trying to build it up. Nicht wahr? Varlaam 19:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC) [in Toronto]

There already is a mention of the "main" joke that the title stems from in the section "The Title"; there is no need to mention each variation thereof, dirty or not. —ScouterSig 14:17, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Saint Patrick's battalion

Hey man thanks alot for helping out with this article, both with spanish spellings & just plain old english typos! I did so many edits on it the other day I must have missed them.Fennessy 08:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi Fennessy, No trouble at all. Since I was a kid, I've had an eye for those. Something on the page looks amiss. They just stand out to me, that's all.

By coincidence, I was supposed to be in Mexico City this afternoon, but that trip's been delayed 2-3 weeks. I edited the article after seeing the Tom Berenger film again. The pretty girl in the film, Vanessa Bauche, is a friend of a friend, although I've never met her.

Cheers, Varlaam 21:45, 4 July 2007 (UTC) [still stuck in Toronto]

Ah OK I haven't seen the film yet, I should track it down already. Its funny that you mention you'll be in Mexico city sometime soon... if you get time when you go see if you can take some pictures of any of the Saint Patrick's Battalion monuments, I'm having real trouble finding images that can be used in the article. I know there is a plaque at San Jacinto Plaza, and another at the former monastery of Churubusco. Either of those would do, if you get the chance of course. Fennessy 13:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Shoot, I've been down twice but haven't been either place. I'll check my Guía Roji for DF and see what that entails. Here's a research project for you: There's a small place in upstate New York called Churubusco. So what's the local connection? Varlaam 16:26, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

My Guía Roji doesn't have a listing of squares. I checked Mexican Google. So clearly you are talking about here:

Si le apetece ir de mercado el sábado, acuda a la Plaza de San Jacinto, localizada en San Ángel. Bazar Sábado es un mercado de artesanías fabuloso, y es el evento que hace de San Ángel una zona famosa. La plaza tiene una historia turbulenta: la casa que es actualmente el principal edificio del Bazar fue usada por soldados invasores de los Estados Unidos y Francia. Tambien es donde más de 50 soldados irlandeses del St. Patrick's Batallion murieron mientras ayudaban a los mexicanos resistir la invasión estadounidense.

And the nearest subway is here: Estación más cercana: M.A. de Quevedo which is on the University line.

It's in the San Ángel neighbourhood which is of interest to history buffs since that's where President Obregon was assassinated, the Irish-Mexican president. It's south of Trotsky's heavily fortified house where he was killed.

It's the wrong end of the city for me, but it is not inconceivable. A cab ride from there to my end of town is 40 bucks Canadian. It's not close. Varlaam 17:15, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Wow $40... well if your willing to do that then great, I spent the same amount sending off for two back issues of the "Irish sword" from like 20 years ago to get more references, so I've sacrificed some money as well as time for this article, haha. See if you can get a picture like this [1](I cant contact the person who took this to get permission to use it). But yeah Mexico city is a really intresting place, I should find time to go there someday. As for Churubusco in NY... I dont know, I'll look into it, I only moved to PA recently so I really dont know the history of this area of the US. Fennessy 21:42, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

We'll see how it goes. I wouldn't drop that much on a cab by choice, but the subway there does not run late. A couple of friends live at the adjacent subway stops but I typically meet them downtown since travel time there is problematic. And when I rent a car, it's to head north. I'm supposed to go to Querétaro (where Maximilian was executed) on this trip, then Tepic, Puerto Vallarta, Colima, and Pátzcuaro. We're going to try to see the "new" volcano too, at Paricutín. And also the big mysterious ruins at La Quemada, down the road from Zacatecas.

It's interesting to see on the plaque that President Lopez Portillo had some kind of bachelor's degree – you get a title for that down there. I get a title there too – "Ing."

Your bio page said you were Welsh, I think, eh? I've got family in Gloucestershire, and a few strays live over the border. (One of them's probably in Wikipedia actually, come to think of it – he was in a rock band.) Varlaam 23:03, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I´m staying with a friend in Coyoacan down south. So chances of getting to San Jacinto have improved. Varlaam 17:50, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, no luck. Next year is a possibility again however. My friends want to go to some snazzy clubs in that neighbourhood next year. If so, we'll have the camera. Varlaam 18:18, 11 August 2007 (UTC) (back home in TO) P.S. Didn't do any scuba on the trip -- it's priced for rich Americans down there. And no visit to the Paricutín volcano -- too far, and too many tiny roads frequented by drug traffickers apparently. But the totally not famous ruins at La Quemada were amazing. Their unfamiliarity even to Mexicans is inexplicable. If they were closer to a population centre, they'd be swarming with people for sure. It's possible to have a private pyramid experience there. I doubt that's true elsewhere.

[edit] Wigger article

The terms wigger and white negro are different from the term white nigger, and they have different meanings. The wigger article is about a very specific phenomenon, not about every combination of the word white with words that have been used to describe black people. The first two terms refer to people who have embraced stereotypical black culture, and the last term is a sociopolitical term that refers to white people who are oppressed by other white people (similar to the term white trash). Unlike wigger or white negro, the status of white nigger is not one that individuals choose for themselves.Spylab 10:26, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bush's War

Hi, I just ran a Google search on "Bush's War" and got The Nation, which is one of the oldest American weekly newsmagazines, is it not? And at some point, mere op-ed pieces become standard usage, seeing as how they are written by opinion leaders. Depending upon the publication under consideration, of course. Varlaam 23:47, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

The problem is, on the first page of results, we get, "Bush's War Against Evil," "Bush's war support rising?", "Bush's War For Reelection," and "Bush's War On Cops." ←Ben^B4 00:08, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I agree that in general that Google is making a poor case for me. But I didn't coin the term; I read it in other places. I sent emails to both Harpers Magazine and Al Franken's website as likely possibilities to see if they would provide some citations, but neither one responded. And Harpers has answered my email in the past too. I still haven't been able to think of a specific context for the term that I can locate and cite. Al Franken often writes about his Lexis-Nexis searches where they apparently maintain everything that's published in a searchable form. If you want to pay for it, that is. Varlaam 22:56, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong

Nope. Bilingual Canadian. It's OR. That's why I removed it. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 16:59, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

So what? I just spent half an hour reading the f*cking list and counting it.

If you've ever used Wikipedia (which you obviously haven't), you would know that the fact that other crap exists is never an excuse. I suggest you read WP:OR. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 19:06, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Since you have obviously read my changes history, you know that I have used Wikipedia once or twice in the past. What you are supposed to have done in an instance such as this is to apply a ^{[citation needed]} on mine, then in the future, someone, maybe even me, can dig a little further and produce a published reference to the point I am trying to make. In the interim, my facts are 100% CORRECT and EASILY VERIFIED. By following the link on that very page that you are too lazy to follow, on the evidence. I, unlike you, have NEVER deleted valid information from the encyclopedia. On the other hand, I have often demoted information which was clearly posted by a partisan of that information who felt that it had more importance than it clearly has or merits. If you want to reorganize or annotate my contribution, fine. But since it is accurate, you should otherwise be leaving it alone, and heading off in search of things in the encyclopedia that actually INCORRECT. Eh? Are you unable to draw a distinction between *crap* and *unsupported fact*? They are not the same. And my *facts* only qualify as *unsupported* by the narrowest of definitions. Varlaam 20:16, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

• The citation needed template is only to verify information that looks like it could be false. What you are doing is adding correct information, but you are doing so without a source, thus making it Original research. As for removing stuff from articles, if you see anything that looks like advertising, then you can remove it yourself - you don't need to get someone else to add it. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 02:09, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Will Eisner

You're edit warring over whether a flag is left or right justified at the above page. I've created a section on the talk page for a discussion regarding the issue. In the meantime, if you are at a loss for other things to do, can I suggest Category:All pages needing cleanup? Happy editing. Steve block Talk 17:06, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hidden comment

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, we remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on Will Eisner. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

• I've just noticed your hidden comment in this edit, [2]. Please note such comments are counter to our policies on assuming good faith, personal attacks and civility, and that breaches of them can result in blocks. If you have an issue with another editor, it is better to discuss rather than continue to agitate. As you have not responded to my previous message, I am left to assume you have no interest in building a consensus and will therefore act accordingly regarding the consensus achieved on the talk page. Steve block Talk 12:51, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I just noticed the hidden comment too, and while the correct position is probably to ignore it, I have to assume good faith, and therefore infer that a self-righteous declaration of that nature must come from a strong belief in a correct action. Unfortunately, you cannot have looked too deeply into the context, if you think there is no error in assimilating your style preference (re: other authors José Saramago, Orhan Pamuk that use the MoS of the Template:Infobox Writer). Will Eisner on the other hand uses the Template:Infobox Comics creator which has nearly 700 cases of right allignment flag, and renders a statement like "What the hell is the matter with you?" pretty deficient. Please don't be so quick to judge that you know the whole context and try to stay calm in the future. MURGH ^disc. 11:36, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Weapons of Mass Deception (documentary)

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Weapons of Mass Deception (documentary)

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Why not write the article first, with independent verifiable references to show that it meets the notability guidelines? That will ensure that it doesn't get deleted a third time for lack of content. Jimfbleak (talk) 06:58, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Bimetallic coins

Hi,

You added Italian lira and South African rand to Category:Bimetallic coins in late October 2007. I'm wondering if you intend to include all currencies with bimetallic coins to the category? A lot of currencies would qualify. See [3]. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 22:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Fisk weblink

Hello, the weblink about "Shakespeare and war" you put in the article about Robert Fisk seems to be a dead link. There are a lot of Fisk's articles under [4], but I don't know which is the right one! Could you check this out, please? Greetings, --Meile (talk) 15:42, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but on Monday, the link did not work. Now, it works well! Greetings, --Meile (talk) 15:02, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] La bohème

I have restored La bohème - Jay (talk) 14:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)