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Revision as of 08:36, 7 February 2006 by Arno (talk | contribs) (→Offensive Pics)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)"If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it." It pays to remember this at times, it really does. However, it does not excuse the actions of some 'locusts' on this site, eg the Cabramatta article, who were the last straw for me in 2004.
Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay.
from Mav.
Some appreciated feedback
Happy birthday!! --AN 11:49 Sep 26, 2002 (UTC)
Hi there. Great stuff on the Romana article. It's when three-line stubs become a full-page article in a matter of hours that wikipedia really seems to be achieving something! :-) -- Tarquin 11:25 Sep 27, 2002 (UTC)
- What Tarquin said. Glad you accepted my NPOVing (I like Adams and think his Who stuff is good ); I'd never heard the Mary Tamm pregnancy rumour, by the way - do you know enough to write a bio page for her? I'd be interested to read it. --Bth
You might want to look at the bottom on the most active Wikipedians page. I'm sure you would be much higher if your anon edits were counted. --mav
Excellent comment on Jimbo's page. Gave me a laugh. JtdIrL 05:37 Mar 3, 2003 (UTC)
- Glad you liked it! Arno!
Thank you, Arno. Of all the articles I've contributed to, Emu is probably my favourite. :) Extraordinary creatures! As for "tweaking", I have no idea where I picked it up from. Tannin
Come on back when you can, Arno, you'll always be welcome. Tannin
I'm glad to see that you are at least kinda back. :) I hope your wikivacation re-energized you - I just got back from a week-long trip to Yellowstone and that re-energized me. --mav
I don't suppose you'd be interested in taking a trawl through September 11, 2001 attacks timeline for the day of the attacks to see if it needs tightening up? PMA 11:38, Mar 13, 2004 (UTC)
- No thanks, I guess not. Sorry I have not replied until now. Arno 07:54, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- A change of mind occurred tonight. Sep 11's timeline went through a major tidyup. Arno 10:06, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the pick-up on the year for Ethos. I checked several sources that all said 1962! Go figure!?! Peter Ellis 03:49, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Maybe it was erected in 1962. I must say that the statue itself is rather unimposing. I had not really noticed it at all until I was walking past the thing recently and took a closer look at it. Arno 08:32, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Territory representation
The Northern Territory had one non-voting member of the House of Representatives from 1922 to 1968. The member acquired voting rights in 1968. The ACT had a non-voting member from 1949 to 1968, and a voting member thereafter. Neither territory had Senate representation until 1975, when they were given two Senators each. Adam 09:01, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
Hmm, I have not been able to verify this, though it does sound correct. I won't be modifying anything in this regard until after I do some checking/verifying. Arno 03:00, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Arno/Arnaud. Thanks for expressing what I am sure many people were thinking. It's had a good outcome, though. Cheers. JackofOz 13:46, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- You're welcome.... Arno 08:36, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
User page protection=
I am sending this message to a group of seasoned users whose opinions I respect. My aim is not to draw you into a dispute, but to canvass opinion on a contentious area of policy. If you have a few minutes to spare, please see the debate currently under way at Misplaced Pages talk:Protection policy, with particular reference to user page protection. For some reason, I seem to have fallen foul of a group of sysops who have made it their business to stamp out the practice of protecting one’s own user page. A sensible (in my opinion) proposal has been made to amend the policy, and I would be grateful if you would add your view, assuming you have one. Cheers. Deb 13:17, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Misplaced Pages's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
- Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
- Multi-Licensing Guide
- Free the Rambot Articles Project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to ] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
- Option 2
- I agree to ] all my contributions to any ], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)
Sorry, Ran-Man, this went largely over my head. How, for instance, are you going to determine what in this website are my contributions, and what if someone overrides them? As it seems to apply to US Citizens anyway, I find it hard to even care about it. Sorry, but the answer to your offer is no. Arno 08:42, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Phatcat68
Hello Arno, Im SWD316. I saw where you left your not-so-kind message to User:Phatcat68. As a part of Misplaced Pages's policy, dont ever again resort to personal attacks. SWD316 00:46, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
I deny this change, indeed I have never heard of Phatcat68 until now, and an appropriate reply has been sent to both SWD316 and Phatcat68. The attack on Phatcat was the work of some brave and gallant soul using the IP address 87.123.0.235. Arno 03:42, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
Sorry for the mix-up. SWD316 03:47, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
No worries. Arno 03:52, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
- Hello Arno! I actually did not think that message was from you. When I saw it, I searched for User:Arno and came across your page, but did not get the impression that the message came from you after reading about you. Sorry for SWD316's message...he is a buddy of mine that has been looking after my page since I quit editing on Misplaced Pages. It is kinda cool that he is taking up for me in my absence though. Sorry for any issues from this and I hope that everything is OK between us! I am not suprised that the culprit did not post a user ID but I am not worried about it. I figure they have come back by now and read my response. Anyway, thanks for being understanding and sorry somebody put you in something you had nothing to do with! phatcat68 18:17, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
- Hello Arno! Yes, Illikainen is a Finnish name. My grandparents on my father's side came over from Finland and settled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the U.S. My father came to West Virginia for a job and that is where I was born and still live. Thanks for asking! phatcat68 21:30, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
- That's fine. This whole thing was aimed more at me than you, I thuink. Someone else vandalised my user page just now. Probably the same person.Arno 11:38, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
HNY
And a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda to you too! Deb 23:02, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Timecop sock puppet
You need to talk to someone with CheckUser rights. Try User:David Gerard. - Ta bu shi da yu 14:12, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
- No. I'm not involved in the dispute, and I don't have time to chase up every argument or dispute on Misplaced Pages. Not meaning to be rude, but better places are WP:AN and WP:AN/I, though of course if it's urgent enough I can intervene. CheckUser requests aren't really something I can do, and the disputing party should, in my view, make the request. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:21, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
- I've just learnt of the ANI page now. However, and not meaning to be rude myself, you could simply have referred the matter onto ANI or David, instead of having me do it. Oh well, ViscID is beng looked at, as someone else has pointed out to me. Arno 04:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Offensive Pics
Hi Arno ... actually i have liked the logic by which u have talked in the talk page of Muhammad's cartoon , it is nice to see ppl talk with this fully logical wise speech , actually i have suggested in User talk:Babajobu to propose a policy for displaying the offensive pics in all pages in wikipedia like Piss Christ and Anti-semitism ... etc .. i think u will like this idea , can u support me please --Chaos 16:44, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah I second the motion. I included a bunch of links to articles whose pictures should be viewed & "censored" depending on if they're offensive. Anti-semitism, Nazis, War, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Penis, Vagina, Breasts, Human anatomy, George Carlin (well, just all the swear words), etcetera.
- Basically, what I'm looking to do is to make sure wikipedia offends no one, and to that end we can surely start with religious & racial offensive pictures (the anti-semitism article shows 17-19 offensive images of jews)! Further, I'm sure everyone wants this toned down enough to be pg-13 (no swearing) and have no pictures of the unclothed human body (those who believe in clothes might click those NPOV articles like "Human anatomy."
- Glad to know you're on our side! Fight for what's right! 128.135.36.151 16:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
- I concur. 128.135.72.110 20:30, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks, guys, but can you tell me who you all are? Also, and this may come as a surprise to some wikipedians, I'm hesitant abut how far a picture ban should go. But I do oppose the provoctive action taken in putting up that cartoon (as a good many do know!). Arno 08:36, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
User ID not deleted
I didn't block the user in question because I didn't find anything overtly offensive about the word "poof". There are lots of words that have negative slang connotations, but only a select few are known automatically as a curse word. This is not one of them. I still hold the stance that it uses the word "poof" in the sense that someone poofs up a pillow. I won't block that user, because I find nothing wrong with his edits or his username. Mo0 02:50, 6 February 2006 (UTC)