User talk:Owen
Last cleaned out October 2, 2004. Talk logs from September 21, 2003-October 1, 2004 are located User talk:Sarge Baldy/archive here.
Thank you for protection. As the version you protected includes the blunt lie "237,062 atom-bomb victims have died, but this tally includes everyone who was in the city when the bomb exploded who has since died." that can be easily shown to be wrong with the link the other version includes - the cumulative death toll associated with the effects of the bombing was 237,062. - I would like to ask you to make use of the rule that the protecting sysop may choose to protect the version favoured by those more closely complying with the guideline on repeated reverts. TDC reverted repeatedly and even went on when he had admitted at talk that his reverts made a lie reappear. Get-back-world-respect 18:27, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
A couple things. Do you think you should be protecting and favoring a particular version of the article when you are personally involved in the article? I would also like out point out that GBWR has also violated the three revert in 24 hours rule. Also the article provide by GBWR, unlike the link to the pathological report on the long term radiological effects of the bombing, provides no clue whatsoever as to how the "City of Hiroshima" came to its conclusions. TDC 19:19, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks. Get-back-world-respect 05:28, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Barnstar
Catching up after field work, i noticed the stars. Thanks, that was nice. Muriel G 08:51, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Moving Popes
Was there consensus somewhere to move all the popes to remove their titles? Somewhere in the instructions for editing (I don't have time to look up a link at the moment) it specifically said to use "Pope" for the titles of those articles. I don't really care whether it's there or not, but this is going to create a huge number of redirects (hopefully not double redirects)... Mpolo 19:27, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)
Yes, the decision to leave "Pope" on is of long standing and is useful for distinguishing Popes from temporal authorities with exactly the same name. I don't think this one was thought through sufficiently. Stan 00:45, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I understand your reasoning, but it would have been better to post the idea for review at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles), which is pretty specific about correct pope nomenclature. The existing convention was hammered out after much dispute; the only way you'll avoid excoriation now is if all the original debaters have died or moved away. :-) Stan 01:13, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Admin nomination
Hey, thanks for the support for admin nomination! Glad to see you like my work :-) - Ta bu shi da yu 03:21, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Woodstock Pub
You like it? I haven't spoken to my friend yet. I will be able to put more precise dates on evrything than and maybe get some more info. Waerth 10:17, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Bush Image
Jimbo removed the pic for the following reason "Especially please don't add non-free images to replace free images!" I made the image free as he seemed to expect it. Since I hate blurry pics. PPGMD
Oregon ballot measure category
Thanks for making the ballot measures category.--Clipdude 07:33, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Karl Marx
well just say that he had equivalent to high school education most American readers will understand that.--198 03:13, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Well you must try to compromise say secondary school and high school in the same sentence.--198 03:15, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Micronations
I notice you've made a number of positive contributions to various micronation articles recently. You may wish to keep an eye on Sealand in particular. A foaming-at-the-mouth anti-micronation nutter named Gzornenplatz has been using it as the subject of an edit war and stalking campaign for a number of months, and it looks as though he/she is at it again. --Gene_poole 05:45, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
If you are interested please cast a vote in the straw poll.
Thank you
Thank you for nominating me for adminship. What a pleasant and unexpected surprise. SWAdair | Talk 03:33, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Deletionism
I think it is very unfortuant that Gay Kingdom is being deleted. I have made a copy before it gets deleted. It maybe helpful to work on it then respost it later when it is bigger. People cannot see beyond the stub in many cases. There is also the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians to help save important articles. Bye, --ShaunMacPherson 19:51, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Adminship
Thanks, Owen, for your support in my adminship. How much WikiMoney did we agree on? ;-) JOHN COLLISON [ Ludraman] 16:02, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Don't delete my votes
Anon "votes" on talk pages are valid if anon IP user has many edits - I do. 216.153.214.94 08:50, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- However, sockpuppets, like 216.153.214.94, are not legal to vote with. -- Antaeus Feldspar 17:08, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
License ?
Hi, could you tell me if Image:Lemming.jpg is GFDL or what its license is ? Thanks in advance. Tipiac 21:12, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for your answer, we use it on french wikipedia. I'll post a message to say that license is unknown and it should be replaced. Thanks. Tipiac 01:36, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Deletionist campaign
Hi there. As someone who has displayed a fairly rational and objective attitude towards micronation articles in the past I thought you might be interested to note that the rabid deletionist lobby is on the march against them again.
The latest target is New Utopia, which although a poorly written article in its current form concerns a subject that is eminently encyclopaedic, being the latest in a long line of libertarian "new country projects" (and therefore representative of a notable social/historic phenomenon), being the subject of dozens of international press and TV stories, as well as the subject of a widely-known US Securities & Investment Commission investigation for fraud.
You might want to take a look at the VfD and respond accordingly.
For future reference you might also want to note the articles in the Micronations Category, in order to keep an eye on its contents; I’ve been adding a number of well-researched, illustrated, fully referenced articles to this category in recent months, but there are moves afoot thanks to a highly suspect ongoing arbitration of process to have me banned completely from writing anything at all about micronations on the basis that as the founder of one, anything I write is somehow self-promotional and/or controversial. --Gene_poole 22:11, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)