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Contact Consequences

The intent of the article is to address a unaddressed topic. It addresses WHAT could happen, should NASA,ESA find something, say on Mars, or the mother of all arguments to keep and improve this article, as you have suggested, ALIENS find THIS planet. This planet has been broadcasting for nearly 110 - 150 years in all directions. How many star systems are in this range? You mentioned the NSA as well. I travel the US as a prospector, and have encountered a lot of people. Statements given range from rebellion to acceptance, due to the presence of Satanic minions for the religious,to violent vindication for those who have had horrific UFO/Alien encounters, reported them, only to get ridiculed, as recomended in the Robertson Panel report, while other will revolt anyway,to cause trouble just like what happened in the US after Katrina hit, and is now going on in France. The aim of the article is also to depict both the positive effects and negative effects of alien contact. As you said, maybe the "Alphabet Agencies(incl. the NSA)" are now considering the consequences of alien contact and/or alien life has been found. Some people do believe that alien dominion is a "good thing", thinking that the aliens will cure our illnesses, restore the environment,etc. Appreciate the vote, assisstance,honesty.Martial Law 08:30, 11 November 2005 (UTC) :)

Any title suggestions ?Martial Law 08:33, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Sara Dylan

• You have butchered the Sara Dylan article - it's so sparse you just might as well delete it! Lion King 02:16, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

It's very important to stress the point that Dylan did'nt meet Sara through Grossman- this has always been speculation, based on them both being at the Grossman's wedding in 1964. Peter Lownds has revealed in "Down The Highway" by Howard Sounes, that they met in 1962- also Sara didn't change her name willingly, Hans almost "ordered" her to do it.("I can't be married to a woman named Shirley") Nice guy eh? Thanks for getting back to me. Best wishes, Lion King 16:25, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, makes sense to me! The only thing I'd leave in is the date they met, this grossman nonsense has being going on for years! As I said before, Howard Sounes is the ONLY person that members of the Lownds or Dylan family have spoken to, but of course, I do take your point. I knew the story of how "Sara" broke her up, it would be good to include it- not surprised by the one take- it's his middle name! You go ahead, your'e the expert, I'm just a guitar player. Thanks for all the info, you never know I might be able to do it one day! Be Lucky, Lion King 19:17, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

• On second thoughts, after trawling the "looney inaccurate fan sites", I believe that few college kids would want to hit the article, but thousands of Dylan fans would want to hit the only accurate site I can find on the web. Sara is not only encyclopedic for being Dylan's ex-wife but also for being Jakob and Jesse's mother. Best wishes, Lion King 18:44, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi.My main sorce is; "Down The Highway - The Life Of Bob Dylan" by Howard Sounes.Lion King 23:18, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

ASINs

Thanks for the kind words - I really must get back to purging some more of these, a process which is on hold until I can run some database checks.

Since you mentioned a pre-ISBN standard, I may as well go on a little tangent - there is one, but it's pretty obscure. In the sixties, the UK (and by extension various Commonwealth countries) had the Standard Book Number, which was like an ISBN, except it contained nine digits (eight plus a checksum) rather than the ISBN's ten. If you've any books printed in the UK between 1965 and 1970, they probably have one of these inside.

The system worked pretty well, and it was used to develop an international standard - the International Standard Book Number, the ISBN we all know and love. To help with backwards compliance (and to convince the UK to change) they arranged this so that every SBN was a valid ISBN - you just had to add a zero to the front, which would make it ten digits without changing the checksum in any way. This is one of the reasons that the 0 and 1 prefixes are used to note English-language books, and that most UK publishers use 0 - they originally had blocks of numbers already assigned - whilst American ones use 1.

Hope that makes sense... Shimgray | talk | 18:44, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Go! Go! Zombie Hunters!!

I agree with you that this is definetly a hoax and I listed it as a speedy delete. Just FYI. . . Banana04131 22:38, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi Herostratus!

Hi Herostratus! Michiro Sato is not shamisen player, but is synthesizer player, please hear his music.

Discommunication City, Surreal Man, and Factor

Mr.Herostratus

Probably, I think you mistook Sato Michiro for Sato Michihiro. Sato is family name, and Michiro or Mihiriro is first name in Japanese. Shamisen player Sato Michihiro is written in Chinese charactor as 「佐藤通弘」. Synthesizer player Sato Michiro is written in Chinese charactor as 「佐藤道朗」. I think not　Japanese native speaker is difficult for discerning this difference. 221.251.119.220

Linguistic history of Spanish

• Wow. You found that quick. Yeah...I'm working on it right now. I was planning getting at least a few paragraphs done before I categorized it and connected it to appropriate articles.--Hraefen 00:35, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Far right

I like your vote, but Wiki guidelines are tricky. A vote to "Delete Far right, and move Far-right to this name." will not accomplish that, since this is a vote for deletion not a vote to merge and most administrators will rule that the vote to delete won, and do nothing to ensure that the page Far-right will be renamed. It's always complicated. The wording should be: "Keep current article but move text from Far-right to this page and merge." Can I entice you to change your vote to that? --Cberlet 13:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

AfD on Wikifiddler

Hi. I was wondering if you could reconsider your stance here. You favor deletion or merger into CoW, but I think the contents of this article can be potentially useful. Also, CoW seems like a general article on criticisms of Misplaced Pages and this article is a very specific attack on Wikipedians. I favor keeping the article the way it is and maybe making a new article Attacks on Misplaced Pages and using some of the information contained within this article. Aucaman 01:11, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/D-Bag Football

hi Herostratus -- did you intend to vote on this AFD? You made what I thought was a good comment, but didn't record an actual vote, and the sockpuppetry meatpuppetry is over the top. Thanks! Bikeable 17:18, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

{{needsinfobox}} template

Please put the {{needsinfobox}} template on articles' talk pages rather than the article page itself. Thanks. Slicing 01:43, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

You used it here (just wanted to make sure I wasn't losing my mind :-) Slicing 03:29, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Unitarianism

Um, what's going on, exactly? Anything I might help with? Chick Bowen 21:01, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I understand. Don't worry--it's all quite fixable. It's not so good to have lots of links pointing to a disambig page (somebody some time would have to go through them), so I think you're right about the ideal solution. On the other hand, the disambig page is certainly useful. So what I think we should do is move the disambig page to Unitarianism (disambiguation) and list Unitarianism (theology) at Misplaced Pages:Requested moves. It may be that we can get someone (I'm not an admin) to just do it since it's not like the current situation has a long-standing history (or any history before today!). If you agree, I'll start this in motion. Chick Bowen 21:50, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Huh, after I wrote that I realized there already is a Unitarianism (disambiguation). Well, in a way, that makes it simpler, since we've just got duplicated pages. Your disambig (currently at Unitarianism) is better, though, so let's merge it into the other one. If you do it we don't have to copy the history, since you're the only author anyway. Chick Bowen 21:53, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for merging the disambig--looks good. I've set up the requested move at WP:RM and left a note at the talk page of Unitarianism (theology). You can respond there if you like. My advice: wait two days and see if anyone comments (probably no one will) and then just ask an administrator to do it early. If you wait for RM to clear its backlog, it takes forever. Let me know if there are any problems, or if there's anything else I can do. Oh, and since you pointed out that AfD I went and voted on it--actually, not with you, but I thought your reasoning was perfectly valid, I'd just prefer to keep things separate for historical reasons. Really, there's no such thing as nontrinitarianism--there's unitarianism and there's antitrinitarianism--so in that sense you're right. Once the AfD clears we can sort everything out (it's so much easier that way). Chick Bowen 22:13, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Coit Cleaners

Here's my evidence:

My dad owns the company. My grandpa was the founder. My brother and my aunt are both employed there.

Is that enough?

Also it's already been tagged and people voted to keep it.

If you need any info on coit, I'm your man. Tobyk777 04:44, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Just saw your sexual harasment comment

You should know:

• Lou Kearn is my Grandpa
  • My grandpa was a femenist
    • That was a BS lawsuit
      • He recently died and you are insulting his memory.
• Since you and the others who have edited this page you keep spreading lies and changing the vital information of the article, I put it up on Votes for Deletion.

I don't want to deal with this crap anymore. Tobyk777 06:37, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

--Nlu (talk) 17:28, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Metal music projects

Thanks for the compliment. It's greatly appreciated. I'll definitely look into it. Ilyon 20:00, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Spelling

On the NUWM page you changed "lead" to "led". Is that the American spelling, because my dictionary spells it "lead"? Camillus 01:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Russian architecture

Thanks a lot for responding to my RfC at talk:Russian architecture, and for taking the time to write a well-phrased and considerate opinion. We certainly have been lacking a wider range of views. The article has been at an impasse over POV for a while, and this should help us move on. —Michael Z. 2005-12-9 20:20 Z