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Federal funds

No, it does not. For more information, this question as well as a few others are answered on the Fundraising FAQ. Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 23:38, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Have a barnstar!

		The AfD Rescue Barnstar
		CyberAnth, I award you this barnstar for your awesome expansion of Bonny Hicks during its AfD, prompting a snowball keep. Fabulous job!--Kchase T 05:18, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Now, if only I can get you to use "show preview" and edit summaries. ;-)--Kchase T 05:18, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Turaga Na Rasau equivalent to Queen of the United Kingdom?

Was this comment made at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Keni Naulumatua made in jest?

its so far removed from reality that this is the only way i can make sense of it.

To demonstrate what i'm talking about i'd imagine a survey in the UK asking questions like "Are you aware of the title of Queen of the United Kingdom?" and "Do you know the name of our current Queen?" would get positive responses somewhere above 90%.

A similar survey done in Fiji for "Turaga na Rasau" would probably get significantly lower figures (I'm guessing less the 10%). I myself have lived in Fiji all my life and have never heard of this title. Imagine a person like myself living in the UK for three decades or so and never having heard of Queen Elizabeth II!

I maintain what i said earlier, this is a minor village title at best. --Xorkl000 02:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the analogy is indeed roughly accurate, although I should have been more precise to stipulate Fijian inhabitants of Vanuabalavu. CyberAnth 03:52, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

then i still need to disagree, QE2 is a sovereign, ie she is not subject to anyone in the Feudal heirarchy. For the last two centuries Vanuabalavu has been a vassal of (at various points) Somosomo, Tubou, Ma'afu and his Tongans. Depending on how you think of it you might be able to add the United Kingdom and the Republic of Fiji to that list. --Xorkl000 01:20, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

A sovereign? Much better thought of as a Figurehead (metaphor). CyberAnth 01:28, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

well she is that too, that would be her defacto status, however dejure and thinking from a feudal perspective she is a sovereign in the sense that she is subject to no-one. The various title holders in Vanuabalavu do not have this status. --Xorkl000 09:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

So, in trying in some way to convey a Vanuabalavu perspective to Westerners with generally little anthropological clue, I take it you would agree that the rough analogy with the Queen of England is a useful albeit imperfect (as all analogies are) way to try to do so. CyberAnth 09:29, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

again i'd disagree, one title is incredibly well known, the other is hardly known at all, even amongst people from Vanuabalavu --Xorkl000 11:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Fair use of images on Misplaced Pages

I found this at:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/Utilisateur:Alexei756/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Fair_use_des_images

I also put it here:

User:CyberAnth\Fair use of images on Misplaced Pages

CyberAnth 07:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

What's with this?

Pasted from original edit.

I found THIS on the French Misplaced Pages, in English, but have not found it on the English version. CyberAnth 07:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

What a strange question. That's an essay fr:User:Alexei756 put together more than three years ago. You won't find anything like it on en:; this project's fair use guidelines were largely composed of armchair lawyering on wikien-l at that point. Some of that thinking is distilled in Alexei's essay. There was a question of whether there was an inclusion of unfree material in an article violated the copyright of previous authors to that article (read the actual GFDL to understand why). Alexei's essay seems to be a response to both that concern, and an argument against those who didn't want to include any unfree material at all. That essay eventually turned into the beginning of fr:'s fair use guidelines, which were rather recently discarded in favour of removing everything not a coat of arms, logo, money, stamp, or derivative architectural work (this is a problem in French law). I hope this historical perspective is what you were looking for. Jkelly 08:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

What a strange sentence with which to begin a reply to an honest on-topic question. Thanks for the perspective. CyberAnth 08:34, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Fann Wong

Hi, just dropping a note to say that I appreciate your honest feedback on the article Fann Wong! Cheers. Voda voda 13:30, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Ass to mouth

Hi, ref your recent comment on the AfD. I have no desire to make this personal, and I want to keep my objectivity intact. I've stated my opinion and will not be adding anything further to the discussion. I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one! Mallanox 03:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I am not making it personal either. I do not think there is anything to disagree with over its AfD Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Ass to mouth. You basis for voting Keep is clearly stated in WP:NEO an an inadequate basis to justify an article's existence about a neologism. That's okay. Live and learn. :-) CyberAnth 03:13, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I wasn't going to say anything more but your most recent note on the AfD crosses the line. It cannot be held in any way civil to precis your opponent's opinions and dismiss them as irrelevent claptrap. The closing admin can make up their own mind without being beaten over the head. I don't normally comment on the conduct of others unless its overtly insulting. I consider your recent post as an insult to those who gave opinions, right or wrong, though it was cleverly disguised as a recap. Mallanox 04:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

The post is a critical evaluation of votes and no insult is intended. I evaluated only content, not persons. If the content of a vote can be shown as not in keeping with Misplaced Pages policy, then there is nothing wrong with pointing that out. Feel free to critically evaluate the content of my posts, or for that matter anyone else's. That is one way consensus is reached. CyberAnth 04:23, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Although I agree with your evaluation on each comment in the AfD, I'll have to agree with Mallanox that it wasn't the most harmonious thing to do. Admins aren't dumb, and they can make their own decisions on the subject. To spend so much energy pointing out flawed arguments is not the most productive thing to do, although I guess if you were worried that someone who only does a quick glance over of the page might come to a hasty conclusion, then that's something different... Blueaster 05:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that really is my worry. I appreciate your note. CyberAnth 05:39, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

But do you get what I'm saying? Blueaster 05:56, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I do. Thanks for taking the time to help me be more cooth in such matters in the future. CyberAnth 06:00, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Ass to mouth is dead. CyberAnth 19:54, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

yes it is :) Blueaster 21:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Ass to pussy

Ass to pussy is also dead via my AfD nomination, see Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/Ass_to_pussy.

NOTE: on various websites highly critical of Misplaced Pages, Ass to pussy has been a "poster article for why Misplaced Pages should be disregarded. The article is now dead and let us hope it remains so.

CyberAnth 08:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Wanker

I'm not sure why you want to delete this, as it has been kept before, but if you want to start a second nomination you need to use {{subst:afdx|2nd}}. ~ trialsanderrors 02:20, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I fixed it. CyberAnth 02:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

You also need to add the {{subst:afdx|2nd}} tag to the article and list it on WP:AFD. ~ trialsanderrors 02:57, 3 January 2007 (UTC)