User talk:Wyatt Riot

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Wyatt Riot, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Paleorthid 17:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Propagandhi

Ok those are different lyrics then the song I know by RWPO so thanks for correcting me on that one. But the way the song is described sounds exactly like the RWPO version. Whoneedspants 17:24, 16 June 2006 (CST)

[edit] Your edit to The Shizz

Your recent edit to The Shizz (diff) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // AntiVandalBot 15:51, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

It was a legitimate edit and has been escalated to the bot's creators, as requested. :) Wyatt Riot 15:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
And why am I responding to my own talk page? :) Wyatt Riot 15:58, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paper Heart Gallery, Trunk Space, Modified Arts

Hello! I saw you have done some work on The Shizz article, and thought you might like to peruse these articles, as well. Any input would be appreciated. PT (s-s-s-s) 19:11, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks so much for your help! PT (s-s-s-s) 18:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ryan Avery

Hello! Because of your interest in similar musicians, I wanted to direct you to the Ryan Avery article and the corresponding [[1]]. Thanks! PT (s-s-s-s) 20:02, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warnings on User Talk Pages

I'm wondering what (if anything) should be done about Richardgush's user talk page? It's blatant advertising, the same content found at the Methvin entry (which I've proposed for deletion), but I don't know if we're supposed to propose user talk pages for deletion. Maybe an advert tag or would it be appropriate to add it to Miscellany for deletion? (Reply on my talk page if possible.) Wyatt Riot 06:29, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I have removed the content in question as it is inappropriate for a user talk page.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 06:36, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prod + CSD

Once an article has been prodded, I would prefer to let the five-day period run its course, unless the article is a copyvio or demonstrably false. In this case, the article is unlikely to survive prod, but there's always the chance that someone will improve the article to the point where it can be kept. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 09:43, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your message

Yikes, thanks for catching that! That's the problem with anons removing info without recording why in the edit summary. My apologies if it caused any dramas! - GIen 23:43, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tags to short end

Hi Wyatt! Thanks for your tags to the article. As an editor of the article, I don't disagree with the tagging; however, if you want me to improve the article, I would greatly appreciate it if you might have the time to discuss on the talk page what is confusing or needs work, so that I can actually make substantive improvements in response to the tags. Look forward to seeing your comments, and thanks! Girolamo Savonarola 07:27, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Huh

I don't understand what the point was of giving me a warning, I'm going to quit shortly anyway. And the truth is harsh sometimes, and I stand by every word I said. Giant onehead 00:55, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] To Move or Not to Move?

There is a band named Criteria with an entry at Criteria (band). There is no actual entry for Criteria, just a redirect to Criterion, which is a disambiguation page that includes (at the very bottom) a link to Criteria (band). What I'm wondering is: should Criteria (band) be moved to Criteria with an Otheruses template at the top linking to Criterion? Or should I leave well enough alone? Kindly respond on my talk page, if possible. Wyatt Riot 06:30, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

  • I'm confident that most people who type criteria, are in fact looking for criterion. I wouldn't move "criteria (band)". Instead I'd put a notice on top of the article criterion saying: "Criteria redirects here. For the band, see Criteria (band)." - Mgm|(talk) 20:43, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Root

Thanks for your change about Enoch Root and his father; I just realised that I didn't know why I was so confident Root himself was Dutch and wanted to change my edit, which wasn't necessary anymore :) Anyway, a good reason for me to browse through Cryptonomicon again. Jochietoch 08:12, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Masamune

Hi Wyatt, Thanks for your message on my talk page, I think your the first person thats actually thanked me for my edits lol! I added about ¾ of the content to the 1 Enoch page and only ever got moaned at go figure! Anyway have another look at the page because some of the text wasn't being displayed, my fault missing /'s. I want to know how Sgt. Coldy Bimore fits into the picture, strange that, sounds like some kind of gift?

Just as a side comment saw a message on your talk page about Enoch Root. Did you know that the encryption system in Cryptonomicon is designed by Bruce Scheiner Company Blog. If you go on his website it’s listed under Solitaire. Don't know if that info is on the book page or not but thought I would mention it. Thanks again for the message. -- Shimirel (Talk) 19:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Here's the link to the actual page [2], couldn't agree more about "junk about video games" you should see the mess they made of Metatron before it all got moved to its own page Metatron in popular culture
It all seems to be there now, it's difficult to tell with so much content. I created a copy of Solitaire in the Visual Basic and Visual Basic .Net programming languages a while back. As crypto goes its pretty simple well compared with Blowfish or Rinjael at any rate. It's when they start talking about prime factors and stuff my brain starts locking up! -- Shimirel (Talk) 18:30, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HoL

well i'm rereading the book at the moment (a friend had it on loan for close to two years >_<), so i might as well improve the article as i do so. :) --Kaini 18:05, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newbie Nick Beeson

Thank you for your kind remarks. I will try to sign my posts in the future.

I have a lot to learn.

I have been anonymously editing for six months, and finally decided to sign-up. Mostly because I did not want to post to the D&D discussion page without my name being present.

I edit a wide range of pages, with a huge emphasis on bio-medical pages. Bio-medical means biochemistry, and subcellular topics--DNA, RNA, proteins, and molecular machinery such as ribosomes.

An example of an edit that was not bio-medical: I was reading the Winchester Arms page, when I read a sentence that stated they were going to stop production of the 105 year old pump-action rifle. But I knew that was unlikely so I checked at their corporate web site. It said they were moving production off-shore but not stopping it. I then edited the page to state that with a reference to their own page.

I only reluctantly posted to the D&D discussion page, because I was not sure that was the correct forum. I hoped that no one would be too offended. I am not trying to accuse anyone of doing anything the least dishonest. I was just thinking that maybe I would get a response that would clear up the mystery for me. But it seems that hope was vain.

My memory is sharp and clear. Others I know share them. There was a game remarkably like D&D at Michigan State University in East Lansing Michigan in 1971. I remember thinking, "Darn we should have written it up and published it. Look at the money they are making." I always knew that public domain games may ethically and legitimately be written up and published. And I assumed that is what Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson did based on the tremendous similarity of their game to what I knew.

The mystery to me is why no one knows of this predecessor, beside a handful of people who remember it. From the Wikipedia page, and from your response I conclude that Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson were utterly unaware of it. Totally possible since I had (have) no idea where the game I remember came from or how widespread it was.

That is it. I am going to drop this. Maybe someday some one else will weigh in, but as time goes by that becomes less and less likely.

Thanks again for the welcome. Nick Beeson

I am going to try for tildas on this line Nwbeeson 22:30, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criteria, etc.

Can you explain, for my benefit, how Criteria, their albums, their members, and any of the related Omaha-based indie bands are notable? I don't see any assertion whatsoever on those pages of meeting WP:MUSIC. What major label have they released albums on? What important indie label? I contend that NONE of the bands on Saddle Creek Records are notable, therefore the label is not notable. I see no charted records, no national or international tours, no media coverage proven in the articles. Reliable and reputable media doesn't mean obscure indie music Web sites. I think this entire series of articles related to Saddle Creek Records is non-notable, irrelevant to anyone outside of Nebraska, and should be deleted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aguerriero (talk • contribs) 10:03, 20 November 2006.

Response on User_talk:Aguerriero. Wyatt Riot 00:29, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to respond, and I appreciate your adding the extra information about the tour and such. Obviously the notability wasn't apparent to an outsider unfamiliar with these bands (me). Carry on the good work. --Aguerriero (talk) 03:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
By the way, you are doing a great job here. I probably came across as kind of a dick in this exchange, and you definitely handled it well. I'm not really that way. :) Keep it up and I would consider nominating you for adminship after a while. --Aguerriero (talk) 03:47, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great Wikipedia User

Thanks for all your hard work.

[edit] AFD Abuse

You posted to the Help desk about a user splitting content from an article and immediately nominating it for deletion. That certainly seems inappropriate, possibly bad faith. Feel free to add it back where it came from. Can you give some details about the article and the editor involved, so I can look into this and see if they try this again? - Mgm|(talk) 09:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] House of Leaves

Where you might not know Norse mythology, I know very little of House of Leaves :) (I've only just begun reading it). The statement, as it stands right now, is technically accurate, Odin sacrificed his eye, Tyr his hand and Heimdall his hearing. I couldn't say whether this is relevant since I haven't read the books or any articles analyzing it or anything. However, I leave that up to you nice people.

I should point out that while Tyr's sacrifice had nothing to do with Yggdrasil (there was this mean-ass wolf called Fenrir that was going to eat the everything unless they chained him up using beards of women and mountain-roots and stuff, and Tyr had to sacrifice his hand in order for the wolf to stand still long enough), both Heimdall and Odin's sacrifices are at least tangentially related to the world tree. There was this giant called Mimir who got his head chopped off (can't remember why...) and the head now rests and guards the Well of Wisdom (containing all the worlds knowledge). Odin had to gouge out his eye to drink from it and Heimdall had to lose his hearing (although that's a very obscure story, the Odin one is far more famous). This well lies at the roots of Yggdrasil. I suppose that you could say that in some archetypal/symbolic way he is sacrificing to Yggdrasil, but that is not how the story is usually told. Odin sacrificed his eye to the Well of Mimir, not to Yggdrasil.

I don't have a problem with how the sentence looks right now, I wouldn't be surprised at all if that is what the author was referring to. Probably the best solution would be to find some source for it, but since I don't really doubt that that was what he was referring to, I'm not gonna make a fuss about it :) Oskar 14:17, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the info on the wikilove, i shall change it today. Thanks once again =) Crested Penguin 21:07, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Case

Thanks for the note. I was not aware there even was a procedure-- I was going to go to the vandalism noticeboard. It seems to be very important to this user to be known on Wikipedia, but at times his edits have gone beyond simple spamming. Perhaps eventually it will become clear that the links will not be allowed. Kablammo 13:30, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] house of leaves (again)

yet again, someone wants to remove the blue colouring from the article. just thought i'd give you a heads up as i'd like to establish some sort of consensus on the talk page so we can avoid this tiresome issue coming up every couple of months. --Kaini 14:47, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding "cultural references"

When reverting my edit in A People's History of the United States you wrote; "reverting; you can find "in popular culture" sections in many articles, and there is no guideline requiring their removal".

Well, in a sense you are right. But I won't dig in that easily :-) As a matter of fact, Wikipedia's manual of style *discourages* trivia sections like "In popular culture" (see Wikipedia:Avoid_trivia_sections_in_articles) This means that it's allowed, BUT it should be avoided.

How to handle it? Quoting Wikipedia:Handling_trivia, it says; "Trivia that can be integrated into a relevant discussion of a specific aspect of an encyclopedia subject should be integrated into that text if it exists. If no such text exists, but it would be relevant, it should be created. Trivia that cannot be integrated at all should be removed."

The trivia about Good Will Hunting and composer Dahlgren could be moved into the article itself. But if you can integrate the crufty, pointless Sopranos reference into A People's History of the United States; I'm gonna be impressed! :-)

My suggestion is; (1) remove the Sopranos reference, (2) reword and integrate the remaining trivia into the article and (3) remove the "In popular culture" heading.

What do you think?

--Jambalaya 22:41, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Leave Mine Alone Please

Leave Mine Alone Please!

Pease do not edit my external link to a legal website again. it is NOT spam when it is in 1 spot AND there are 3 other external links to the same game sites that you have to "pay" for. The one i am provideing is totally free and is NOT spam.. Here are the 4 sites listed on the Legend of Mir 3 Wiki, None of which are against the wikipedia rules.

There is nothing wrong with none of them so please, once again, do not remove my link....

Lraccajr

[edit] Re: Welcome

I thank you for the warm welcome, however it has come to my attention (through personal viewing and information from other sources) that Wikipedia has advertised for numerous other things, examples being Modding Genesis, in the Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis wiki, and the links at the bottom of the RPG wiki, along with many other wiki topics.

As a respectful movement to all other related businesses and communities, I request that all sites not DIRECTLY contributing to the content on Wikipedia (including topics made in there) be removed.

Again, thank you for the welcome and I am sure that you will keep the happiness of your visitors in high value and follow up on that decision.

(Phantomrose1590) —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 03:18, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Regarding Spam...

Well the question I have to ask you and the rest of the staff on Wikipedia is "Are there enough staff members who like the topics that Wikipedia maintains?". if you only watch what you're interested in, what becomes of the topics that none of the staff are interested in? Do they get filled with spam? And what of the topic that tend to set off arguments, if they happened to be guarded by a staff member who supports a certain side of the argument? On several occasions, it has been noted by me and my friends that in topics such as Jurassic Park, a side in a debate is being protected by a staff member, who tries to bolster the claims of his/her side, while ridiculing the supporters of the other side, the results of which have caused alot of comments on Wikipedia's inaccuracy and biased facts. As for the topic, apologies not needed, though the topic would suggest you were right, though not intended to look that way.

The thing I would like you to tell me, just to put my conscerns on the RPG topic in particular, to rest, would be the purposes of the numerous community links that seem to advertise them, though they seemingly have no hand whatsoever in the making of the page. What I had been doing was adding an up and coming (and increasingly popular, i might add) Text-RPG site to the list, as interests in it are expanding greatly, and are bringing in numerous members who at times want information. I WAS planning on making a topic for the site, but a previous attempt made by a friend of mine for one of the RPGs on the site which had drawn a great amount of attention online, to help explain what it was about, was deleted only a day or so after it had been made.

Just so that I dont feel I've been wronged here, I'd like to be given just the names of the community links and what they've done for the RPG Topic on your site, because I honestly feel that they are doing nothing but advertising there.

(Phantomrose1590 21:59, 20 August 2007 (UTC))

[edit] From an AfD

Just thought I would tell you, since I have never run across you until the AfD for Charles Bronson, that your user name is quite humorous. : ) IvoShandor 21:38, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

So when's the band go on tour? ;) IvoShandor 07:21, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] LCDs

Thanks for your msg re this discussion. I do take your point, but perhaps you misunderstood mine. My point was that LCDs appear to have some sort of diffusion filter on the front of each pixel. This is a real effect (you can clearly see it with the unaided eye, although it requires a magnifier to see better), but it isn't mentioned in the article. Therefore, the article needs to have a few lines added to explain what is going on. I would have edited the article myself, but I haven't the knowledge to give a definitive explanation.

Either (a), LCD manufacture includes an extra step of front-coating the LCD, to achieve better colour-mixing within each pixel, or (b) there is some reason why the human eye cannot see the subpixels. This is important to clarify, because it affects the fundamentals of subpixel antialiasing. RichardNeill 22:01, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Troublesome user

User:Scipo, who you are already familiar with, is up to his usual bad habits and is breaching WP:3RR on numerous article today. Is there something that can be done about him? I believe this editor may just be a meat/sock for User:Navnløs. Both seem to have the same agenda. Both are violating 3RR on all the same articles and both use similar wording in their edit summaries.(although, to his credit, Navnlos has not side-stepped WP:NPA but has gone beyond WP:CIVIL to some extent) Any assistance would be great as this editor(s) do not seem to want to follow policy or guidlelines in their contributions to Wikipedia. 142.166.250.117 16:06, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] AfD nomination of Matt Smith (illustrator)

An article that you have been involved in editing, Matt Smith (illustrator), has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Smith (illustrator). Thank you. — Satori Son 21:47, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gene Summers-Dance Dance Dance

I've declined the speedy tag you placed on Gene Summers-Dance Dance Dance. The reason is:

Non-notable pages aren't speedy unless their "about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content" per CSD A7

For your information, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:04, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] mass and ice-9

So you are an utilitarian, dont you think that the knowledge of ice-9 and relativity are useful for mankind (-:, and how did you appear also in the mas zone? (-:, ts, ts, Anyway after reading your boxes, no im not gonna do all that thing for mine, you seem to be a reasonable homo europeus with certain inclination to literature so you might apreciate the new redaction of ice-9 i personally consider Vonnegut with Plath and bukowsky 3 of the subconscious germanic dissident literature of America, little explored... here is one of my favorites

Oh never try to knock on rotten wood or play another card game when you've won; never try to know more than you should.

(.........)

For deadly secrets strike when understood and lucky stars all exit on the run:

 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Homocion (talk • contribs) 03:21, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] HoL

reverting from a talk page? harsh. i know the book is prone to speculation, but it's not that busy, and let's WP:AGF, eh? --Kaini (talk) 22:43, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

fair point about the contributions, and i know what you mean. but whilst pure WP:NOR, i thought it was interesting nonetheless --01:06, 10 June 2008 (UTC)