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Heah is currently busy in real life and will not be around wikipedia before 12 am EST for the next few weeks, because he has to read Plato and write a thesis. If you see him here before then, tell him to get back to work.

The WikiProject on Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants is up, check it out if you are interested!

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Mr. Mystery

I've just uploaded the book cover about Mr. Mystery. Thus, I can already prove evidence that it does exist. Check out the article for more details. If there's anything wrong, pls. reply on my talk page. --Bruin rrss23 05:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

P.S. The previous Mr. Mystery article that got deleted was stubbed.

Delete

I know that you has to delete because it contained text from a pdf. Please could you leave a note on my talk page next time you want to delete something from me? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by eddieh (talk • contribs) .

Aya-*.jpg

Those are wonderful photographs. Thank you for contributing them.

What was the experience like? Do you have a journal or blog entry about it? How did you arrange to be involved with the cooking? Do you have any photos of the finished tea? — Clarknova 04:40, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

wikibooks:THINKSTARSHIP/Psychonautics

Hi there, I am pleased to hear of your new promotion.

I was having a major argument with myself over how to go about doing something, and so far, You are the person I've gotten to know and like around, So I thought I would ask your opinion on it.

The general idea has become (Since I didn't get a Wikicity, which would have made this enormously easier) To write a book whose title would be "How to generate an Doctorate level Interdisciplinary program on WikiBooks". This is actually something of a digression from what I really wanted to do do to get a lot of people in the area. I figured i'd start the WikiCity just post some StarShips, and I'd have people showing up to oooh and ahhh over the art. I can't go that route on Wikibooks for obvious reasons.

Instead, i'm forced to get things to the point of having sufficient content to attract more people. This is the main issue. I just got done counting my Subdepartments. Theres 345 of them. I'm not going to be able to single handedly do more than create them all as pages with links, references, Socratic Method, and Table of Contents. In other words, I'll end up with 345 pages each of Which is full of red links to doors for somebody else to open.

My (first) question is, should i just work on only the Main Departments? Is there a process one would go through to get help with simple basic but annoyingly boring and time consuming tasks like searching Misplaced Pages for its relevant articles? I'm sepnding most of my time nowadays just running the search engine for 5 minutes to find one link. If I could somehow talk 10 Wikifolks into helping me, it would really make a difference. There are a variety of related questions. I have considered folding my subdepartments back into the main departmens- merging. The problem with this is the whole point of the whole thing is to create the meta structure that shows how it would be done, and taking out the sub-departments both removes what would become an important feature, but invites chaos when somebody adds details. (Sort of the worst problem i normally encounter with Misplaced Pages. Navigating between articles and concepts.)

I'm trying to visualize a realistic growth process considering that this isn't a Wikicity. The more i look at it, the more depressing it becomes. Maybe you have some ideas on how to increase the rate of that process. I went and asked for a bot, for instance. Not anything for a reply. You'd think by now that they would have worked out a way for a bot to populate a new child network with the links that are relative to say for instance, a set of keywords. I have also been working a bit on yahoo groups, but honestly, I don't feel comfortable drawing people in yet from outside the organization, there isn't enough done yet. Should I just give up alltogether on filling out the references and leave that to some future wave of Wikipedians? The idea there was to avoid mirroring or redundancy by linking to whats allready been done. (as well as build the knowledge base as quickly aspossible to move on into the level of expert.)

Another part of me is just sort of screaming out; "Just go do the Psychonautics book!" This makes some sense because it would function as a template for what a finished THINKSTARSHIP first edition Departmental Text would look like. It also seems like a bad idea because it might feel like something of a bait and switch to some people. (I'm particularly concerned with other WikiBookians. The way people get welcomed in on these things could use some work. Posting a big fat graphic telling me I'm not up to snuff doesn't seem sensible or fair considering i just started, and the ketch 22 is, I tried to keep the book cloaked, but somebody wasn't down with that, and put up a big fat graphic asking me to place the book. I imagine with 101 people that are flybys for every 1 that is on it, they have their stress 2, and I suppose thus it all comes down to prooving myself.) I'm sure any author feels overwhelmed when they look at a table of contents, but this is another order of magnitude of overwhelmed; I wouldn't be able to finish this alone in my lifetime.

Anyways, thanks for your thoughts, time, and energy, Sincerely Prometheuspan Prometheuspan 02:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Mr Heah does a lot to share knowledge with others who want to learn, through his inumerous contributions

Knowledge as it should always be- Free!

Congratulations

Steiger 19:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Mr Heah,

Mr Heah does a lot to share knowledge with others who want to learn, through his inumerous contributions

Knowledge as it should always be- Free!

Congratulations

Steiger 19:49, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Your RfA

I have added some questions to your RFA. If you have a minute, I'd appreciate if you took a look at them. Thanks. JoshuaZ 21:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, one last questiony thing, 4a. JoshuaZ 04:46, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Btw, I don't know if you've noticed but someone else has added another question. JoshuaZ 19:49, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Hi, thanks for welcoming me and notifying me that I'd spelt my web address wrong (oops).

Could you weigh in on the infobox at Cannabis (drug)

I say it is inapropriate and inaccurate, Rory069 insists it should be there, and reverts my attempts to remove it. Discussion is here. Could you please weigh in. -SM 11:52, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

RfA

Congratulations! Consensus having been reached, it is my pleasure to inform you that you are now an administrator on the English Misplaced Pages. Please take a moment to review the Administrators' reading list and the Administrators' how-to guide before using any of your shiny new buttons. :-) If you need assistance or advice, please feel free to request help from other administrators at the Administrator's Noticeboard and Administrator's Noticeboard for Incidents, or to leave a talk page message for me or any other admin. Again, congratulations! Essjay 21:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

• Congraulations on your new mop and bucket! :) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 02:33, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! You deserved. it. (^'-')^ Covington 07:08, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations! I have no doubt that you will make a very good admin. Cheers TigerShark 12:44, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! You deserve this and good luck for the future! --Siva1979 14:50, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Best wish for your adminship.--Jusjih 16:44, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations. Remember to affix your anti-troll armor and de-fanaticization helmet. You're gonna need 'em. —thames 21:53, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Template:User Same Sex Marriage

Your use of the rollback against another administrator was grossly inappropriate. I recognize that this is your first day on the job, as it were, but that's little excuse given the very public debates over this matter. TfD is not and has never been the proper location for a speedy candidate any more than AfD (and VfD before it) were the proper locations for article speedy candidates. Please consider your actions more carefully in the future. Best, Mackensen (talk) 20:52, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

re: at Mackensen's talk page --He:ah? 22:16, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

That's fair. I've no problem with it being listed at WP:DRV, if someone really wants to. To me, it was an obvious case of T1, especially given the opposite version (which was speedied at the same time). Mackensen (talk) 22:25, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Dealing with Copyvios

That log is actually automatically generated by a bot. It lists the by day pages so that someone can easily look at the history of any one of them should they need to see what happened to a particular page. The log is there so that we can remove those pages from the main page and keep it from getting cluttered/loading slowly. So yes, you're correct, just remove the entry when you're done :) .:.Jareth.:. 16:02, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Washington hwys cat

I suppose SPUI's changing the page into a redirect isn't allowed either? --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

It's completely redundant, as I have explained. Everything that had been it is a state highway - a highway maintained by the state. --SPUI (T - C - RFC) 04:39, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

First off, in the absence of any decision on this matter, and in light of the fact that (at least two) people are clearly not agreeing on what should be done, i really don't think that revert warring and nominating things for speedy deletion is the correct way to be dealing with this . . .

As for my own take on what the category scheme should be, as SPUI seems to want to talk about that rather than how to resolve this dispute . . . while interstates etc may be maintained by the state, if we are going to be consistent in our use of terms on wikipedia-

In the United States, a state highway, state route, or state road (depending on the state) is a highway which is part of a state-wide numbering scheme. In this they are distinct from United States Numbered Highways and Interstate Highways, however these three categories of highways are all owned and constructed by the state in which they are located. State highways which are part of the National Highway System receive substantial federal financing while the remainder are primarily financed by the individual states. State Highway#United States

So they don't seem simply redundant; as interstates and US highways are not state highways according to the wikipedia article on state highways, SPUI's argument seems based on a mistaken premise. And i'm not sure why SPUI objects to having an umbrella cat (washington highways) containing state routes, interstates, and US highways. As it stands, Category:Washington state highways contains all of the state routes, (which also suggests that this is what this category is for); why should the umbrella cat also be the place for state routes? That doesn't seem to make sense, as presumably state routes are a distinct thing deserving of their own category.

With all that said, why is this not being worked out at the talk page of WikiProject Washington State Highways? It would seem the proper place to come to such decisions . . .

so that's my two cents. --He:ah? 05:09, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually that part of the state highway article is incorrect - I need to fix it. In Washington, and in many states, a state highway is simply a state-maintained road. --SPUI (T - C - RFC) 06:17, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

It basicly is the article, SPUI . . . Didn't you write a lot of it? It does say that many states use this term differently. But what you've got in Washington is three different sets of highways that all deserve their own category, with an umbrella on top to keep of the rain . . . --He:ah? 08:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

They all have their own category - it's just that the state highway category also applies to the other two, so they go underneath it. --SPUI (T - C - RFC) 09:01, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Eastern Cougar

I've been trying to contact the people about the Eastern Cougar article, but it's been a real problem, considering that (a) my email address has been really wierd lately and (b) they haven't responded to my messages. I'm doing my best, though.--ÑøζζłεΜαńFile:Homsar small.png 16:51, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Can't sleep, clown will eat me RFA 33⅓

Thank you for your early support during my third RFA. The self-nomination was successful, with an unexpected number of participants from all over. If you ever need anything, are feeling snackish, or would just like to chat, please feel free to visit me on my talk page; I never sleep (much). 8-) Can't sleep, clown will eat me 19:55, 10 April 2006 (UTC)