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Referencing Teika

Back in the FAC for Fujiwara no Teika, one of your objections was that it had insufficient referencing. Is it up to your standards now? --maru (talk) contribs 03:30, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:WritersCramp appears to be back

Greetings Exploding Boy, after reviewing this RfC about User:WritersCramp I thought you should be aware of this WP:ANI report concerning User:SirIsaacBrock and his new sockpuppet User:Porky Pig. Thanks. (→Netscott) 23:30, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos

Just ran across your MOS (Harry Potter). Good Job! Hope you'll lend some time to WPP:series as summer wanes. Best regards // FrankB 06:04, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

toungue piercing

i think the person making the comment on toungue piercins and oral sex was pointing out that there are many differing opinions and myths and that mayeb the article should adress this Eevo 20:20, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

JakeW

Hello, are you somebody who's trying to introduce a little sanity in the face of JakeW? I do hope so. I have posted (under my other sign-in, AlexanderLondon) several long requests on his page asking him to tell us what his credentials are and he clearly doesn't want to admit that he doesn't have any. Hope I haven't got this all wrong... Anyway, it looks as though you're a nice counterbalance to the extremism of JakeW and "Robert the Bruce".--Oxonian2006 00:09, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Earle_Martin RfA

This is the RfA of user:Earle_Martin. I believe he would make a good and unconventional admin, so I'm running around right now, trying to encourage some of the more sensible people I know of to support him. Subversive 08:54, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please, just take a look at that RfA's opposition and you will understand why I am so much in favour of Earle_Martin. We need to pull together on this one, and we should tell as many others as possible. Subversive 13:46, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiJET

Hi there. Seeing that you're a regular contributor to the Japanese articles on Wikipedia, and also over at BigDaikon, I thought you might be interested in my idea about creating a wiki related to the JET Programme over at Wikia.com. It is just in the idea stage at the moment but I'd be interested to hear what you think. Cheers, Bobo12345 12:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

==Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dyke tyke

SchmuckyTheCat 17:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Darkroom

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I've reverted the move back to darkroom. My reasons for this are that disambiguation should only be used when other articles exist and also that it easily would be considered the primary topic among any other articles using the same name. If you have some specific other examples of articles which would either require disambiguation or might challenge this article for the primary article title, please let me know - I'd be happy to discuss the matter with you. Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola 19:30, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tea ceremony project

Voted on the Learning kanji AfD. I was wondering... can you put up an update on the tea ceremony project on the WPJ page? I've been trying to clean up old entries, but I don't want to take anything down that's still ongoing. Dekimasu 02:00, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mostafa Tabatabainejad

Hi there, I've nominated this article for Transwiki discussion - I believe this article should be moved to Wikinews. Please feel free to join in the discussion linked from the article. Thanks, Bwithh 06:29, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On November 24, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article University of British Columbia Library, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

This article was kindly nominated by GeeJo. It earnt top billing and the pictured slot on this round of updates. Feel free to self-nom, 80%+ of our articles are self nom.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Really? I can't find it anywhere. Exploding Boy 18:00, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A bit late now, but the template version is here. It was chosen for the lead, no less :) GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 16:04, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Doing something about the ridiculous date autoformatting/linking mess

Dear EB—you may be interested in putting your name to, or at least commenting on this new push to get the developers to create a parallel syntax that separates autoformatting and linking functions. IMV, it would go a long way towards fixing the untidy blueing of trivial chronological items, and would probably calm the nastiness between the anti- and pro-linking factions in the project. The proposal is to retain the existing function, to reduce the risk of objection from pro-linkers.Tony 15:08, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Secret Court of 1920 (Harvard)

Why is this title disambiguated? Secret Court of 1920 appears not to be taken. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 08:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just seemed like the best title. Exploding Boy 18:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 19 December, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Secret Court of 1920 (Harvard), which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Yomangani ^talk 13:52, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great job on this article! — BRIAN0918 • 2006-12-19 17:59Z

Gastric bypass surgery Globalization

Please note comments in discussion page at this topic. Topnife 20:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stroke_order

Hello, I added an "History of Stroke order" section, but I'm french. If you can fix my spelling, that's welcome. Yug (talk) 17:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC) (from the CJK stroke order project team)[reply]

Thanks for your work and clean up of the intruduction and some other sections. But, I don't agree with several modifications. For such case, I will restore the old sentences or a better medium position if need. Yug (talk) 20:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Misleading sentence

Hello,

I striked your sentence because it appeared misleading, and that I don't want to keep false information in the talk page. If you don't want strike it, so please delete it (your self).

--Yug (talk) 11:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's no need to remove it. Exploding Boy 18:23, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Stroke order talk page (soon). Yug 07:57, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

One question, talking about "㇀", you talk about 3 strokes (!?). In my screen, I see a Ti "㇀" = "

" just one stroke. It may be a font misunderstanding. Then, if we talk about

, it's a stroke, and not a character, nor a kangxi radical.

Yug (talk) 20:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Then it must be a font problem. I'm talking about the character that means "mouth" (#30 on this list). Exploding Boy 20:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh........... We got a trouble...........

Yug (talk) 20:42, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, several things let me think that it's your computer which have a trouble.

Moreover, I have now to strike all the sentences were I said something such "Loooooooooooookkk..... It's a TIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiii !!! = stroke" O.ô"

Which more over means you were of good faith... Yug (talk) 20:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please admit that from the 2 or 3 mistakes I seen from your edits, I was able to think you had a misunderstanding of Chinese components and stroke order, and then logically assume bad faith.

Since it appear that the biggest seems to be a computer trouble, please accept partial apologizes.

--Yug (talk) 21:01, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the character "mouth" appeared fine on my screen; maybe it's your computer that has the problem. As for the other supposed "mistakes," I don't even know what you're referring to, frankly. Exploding Boy 21:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Explain into the Stroke order talk page (one, but I think it was an other).

For the ㇀, I will copy paste it on the unicode website, and look which pic it will found. That work fine for me, try yourself (past "㇀" + search).

This, explain a bit more what I did. 2 merge ideas + totally re-writted ; 1 remove and past in the CJK strokes. (please read the section linked).

--Yug (talk) 21:27, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See the link under "try yourself" （wait, I'm not sure it's an image.）

"㇀" = 31C0 (according to here). The unicode page for this caracter : open this PDF (my computer can't open pdf currently), and please say me what is 31C0 (a

?).

Other talk in the Stroke order talk page. Yug (talk) 22:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks [1] (I understand and learn 2/3 of your corrections: thanks !)

I'm on an other computer, in my university. On my computer :

"㇀" doesn't work, my screen show me "?". (this is an usual trouble, on old computer which don't support Unicode)
Opening the this PDF, I see that #&31C0; is the unicode for Ti ()

This seem to confirm that I was of good faith.

Yug 14:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

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Prods

Greetings re-proder, please read Wikipedia:Proposed deletion. I've reverted your restoration of the prod tag as it has been objected to -- you could try AfD if you like... but note the article survived a previous AfD. Matthew 16:09, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pipe Organ

Thanks for reverting. :-) --W0lfie 15:43, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RFCN

From WP:U - "Some editors on this Wikipedia will be unable to read a username written in non-Latin alphabets, such as Chinese. Non-Latin usernames are allowed, but if you have one you are encouraged to customize" - now, non latin chracters are allowed, so don't revert my close again. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:37, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop closing the request. The discussion is not over yet. Exploding Boy 23:38, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is over now. Stop adding to it.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 23:56, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You had asked if he could be found by entering the Latin version. Yes, he could register User:Dattebayo and redirect it to his page, but other than that, no. It shouldn't be impossible to copy/paste the name either even if the characters aren't on the keyboard. Leebo 00:00, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About policy

Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy. If there is a consensus that something should or should not happen, "the rules say you're wrong!" is not a valid objection. There is a consensus to allow non-latin usernames, so "But the rules say it's not allowed!" is not a valid objection. -Amarkov moo! 23:57, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nevertheless, the policy states that confusing usernames are not allowed, and with good reason. According to WP:NOT, "Follow the spirit, not the letter, of any rules, policies and guidelines if you feel they conflict." The spirit of the username policy is that usernames must not be confusing. Non-latin usernames are confusing to those who cannot read them, and might impede discussion, editing, blocking and other functions. Exploding Boy 00:02, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, the spirit would be what has consensus. The consensus is for allowing non-latin usernames. Thus, the spirit of the policy does not include disallowing them. -Amarkov moo! 00:04, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Closure of discussions

Do not revert administrator closure of duscussions in the future - take it to a noticeboard instead. Ryan Postlethwaite 00:00, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm an administrator too. Try to be a little more polite in the future, and don't close discussions prematurely when they are still ongoing. Exploding Boy 00:03, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Read the policy before closing then, and if you are an administrator - then you should know not to undo an admins closure - and you should know that latin characters are allowed in the username policy. Ryan Postlethwaite 00:04, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And you should know a couple of things too: WP:NOT clearly states that you should "Follow the spirit, not the letter, of any rules, policies and guidelines if you feel they conflict." The username in question is clearly confusing. You closed the discussion prematurely, while it was still ongoing and there was no clear consensus.

Also, I find your signature rather disruptive. It expands to nearly 4 lines in the editing window. You may wish to consider altering it. Exploding Boy 00:07, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's within guidlines. Usernames with non latin characters are allowed - WP:NOT doesn't trump policy, and specifically when policy says that usernames with non latin characters are allowed. Ryan Postlethwaite 00:10, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop using your extended signature on my talk page (per the reques that has been on this page for nearly a year). I find it very distracting.

You don't seem to be listening. Policies are not laws. There is scope for interpreting them. The spirit of the username policy is that usernames should not be confusing for other users, for obvious reasons. Exploding Boy 00:17, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But that's our point too. Policies are not laws, so if something is against consensus, it should not be defended by claiming that the policy mandates it. -Amarkov moo! 00:19, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see non-Latin characters as the accepted exception to the confusing name part, or it wouldn't be mentioned. Leebo 00:21, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well that doesn't make any sense. I can read Japanese, but I can't read Arabic. If I came accross a user name written in Arabic I would not only have no idea what to call the user, but finding him or her would be much more difficult. Exploding Boy 05:07, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

copy and paste the name, also not everyone can read japaneseAustralian Jezza 08:10, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strategy n⁰2

I made a new strategy, which will be in effect from tomorrow, and ended when the rewriting will be finish. Your revert policy is no more tolerate. --Yug 19:41, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, please don't place that template or use extravagant signatures on my talk page. Second, I don't understand what you mean. Exploding Boy

Rush => rushy. You revert hastily, deleting content. I spend hours writing 25 lines explanation, then you revert + 4 lines explanation. Really convenient for you.

Read again what I wrote, that where you lead me.

--Yug (talk) 21:05, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]