User talk:A Man In Black/Archive4

Great Wheel
I see you've got plans for a Great Wheel article. Interested in collaborating with someone who has almost every planescape sourcebook ever published? --&#124;&#124;bass 03:59, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure; I added that to my to-do list a looong time ago. Plus, you've got at least three different, conflicting but somewhat-similar versions of the cosmology (Gygax's/1e, Planescape, and 3e/MOTP/PlHB).
 * I'm not sure how an article like that would necessarily be structured, or that it would be encyclopedic. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:14, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * It would be good if for no other reason than to have a place to merge all the current D&D cosmology articles (currently numbering close to 20). --&#124;&#124;bass 05:28, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Aieeee. Well, any ideas for a structure, then? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:29, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I knew you'd appreciate the benefits of a good article merge. We can start by laying out an overall structure of the great wheel cosmology and an explination of the 3 variant forms. Then we can proceed by giving brief descriptions of the various prime worlds. Next we can move on to give explinations for the various inner planes and merge the existing articles about the inner planes. Then do the same with the outer planes + sigil, merging the various articles relating to the outer planes (there are at least 10 articles to merge that i know of). Finally, we can end with a list of the various books published by TSR and Wizards that document the D&D Great Wheel cosmology. --&#124;&#124;bass 05:42, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Sounds like you're a lot more on the ball with this than I am. @.@ So we're explaining the shared features, then describing the differences among the different settings, then launching into a list of each major plane/demiplane? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:49, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * That's basically the idea. If you want to see an example of the mergers I'm talking about, just look at the fact that Pandemonium has its own individual article as well as 10 other outer planes. --&#124;&#124;bass 05:56, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, I understand exactly what you're planning to do. Take a look at User:A Man In Black/Cruft; I spend a lot of time merging articles that are cruft on their own into lists or other whole articles, to lend enough context to actually understand what's being described.
 * So, do you want to make the skeleton for the merges, or shall I? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 06:42, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Up to you. I won't have time to put the skeleton page together until Friday. If you get it done before then, we can get to work on the merger. --&#124;&#124;bass 17:49, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

CruftWatch!
Amazon Trio potentially should be merged to Sailor Moon, as it claims that the three characters are a subset of another group. I lack the knowledge to make an informed judgment, though (for which I offer silent thanks, although as a railway modeller I arguably have no excuse for same) - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] (W) AfD? 13:30, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
 * (Un)fortunately, my Sailor-Moon-fu is also weak, and I can't find a Wikiproject to refer this to. Looks like there's a lot of more-or-less unmaintained SM cruft on Wikipedia.
 * Hahaha, it looks like a friend of mine from off of WP was the one who merged this article, though. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 01:35, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

A couple of possible merge candidates:
 * The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
 * Monsters (Code: Lyoko) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Just zis Guy, you know? (talk • contribs)

Twilight Princess is a large-budget game coming out at the beginning of next year. No merge target and clear expansion potential = no merge.

As for the Monsters list, I don't know where I'd merge it and it's a nice list on its own, but I'll keep an eye on it as a merge target if anyone makes a stub on a Lyoko monster. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 06:33, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Isn't Mario & Luigi the Super Mario Brothers? - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] (W) AfD? 13:21, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, yeah, but it's also the name of two games starring Mario and Luigi. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 13:24, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * See? I told you my ignorance of computer games was encyclopaedic :-)  Seriously, I am well-known around my circle of friends for not playing games despite having an improbable number of computers in my house. My kids play, I don't. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] (W) AfD? 14:02, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, don't worry about it too badly; one of those two games hasn't been released yet. I'd merge those two, but there's no point; they'd end up split again in a few months, when the second game is released in the US. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 14:05, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Does FreeWorlds qualify? It looks like gamecruft to me, but I'd burn all mods that sell less than a million. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] (W) AfD? 22:16, 23 November 2005 (UTC) Oh no! How about Opening credits history of Smallville? - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] (W) AfD? 22:35, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Ken Kutaragi
Please, I ask your help in Ken Kutaragi anonymous edit wars and lot of POV non-reliable sources informations. Protect the article. --Brazil4Linux 13:36, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The article was protected today, now need mediation. --Brazil4Linux 19:02, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Site resources
I don't know where to put this or who to ask, so I put this here. (I think you can answer me anyway) In your policy, there was something that says somewhat like "Personal sites have no one to check it" which was the reason why wikipedia does not trust personal sites. But really, most personal sites, in general do have some sort of contact, e.g. guestbook, shoutbox, valid E-mail addresses, and if people find errors, they can just contact the webmaster via methods listed above. On the other hand, some commercial sites or companies' websites do NOT have a valid contact, or mail box is always full. It doesn't mean that they have someone to check their work really. Some big sites do make mistakes and because of invalid contact, does not receive any complaints or suggestions. Moreover, personal sites may contain extra, specialised information, that group sites/ commercial sites do not bother to have. Rejecting links from personal sites is a great lose of information resources. Afterall, the Wikipedia policy does NOT reject totally about personal sites, it says "approach with caution". And the main reason is to prevent false/ made-up information. So in my opinion, as soon as the information on the site, no matter personal or group or commercial site, is correct and readable and does not contain made-up contents, the link should be used. On the other hand, if the information is incorrect made-up, it would be pointless to have its link regardless what sort of link it is.

If you are not the correct person to deal with this, please transfer this to the person appropriate, and please give me the username of that person/ group of people. Thank you. jynx 13:40, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/'M
Please see Articles for deletion/'M. --RoySmith 01:34, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I'd like to close out the AfD. Were you able to do the merge? --RoySmith 02:48, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Webcomics - Have you seen this?
Requests for arbitration/Webcomics - Have you seen and read this? I only found out about this today. I think you may be able to contribute and give some insight into this case, read through it, see what you think. - Hahnchen 06:19, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't feel I could maintain civility in that Arbcom case, as I think it's frivolous nonsense. Luckily, Sjkallsomething (can't remember the name, and I don't have the page open) is doing an able job of doing what I'd want to do anyway.
 * If some ridiculous measures appear imminent, however, I'll kick in my 2 cents. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 01:20, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Revert vandalism by User:Copperchair - he's back and at it again!
I just had to revert War on Terror back - Copperchair's back and vandalizing/reverting again.

How can he be stopped? JG of Borg 06:46, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

PlayStation 2
User:GoldDragon engaged in another edit war with me. The reason is the same of Xbox: insertion of POV SCE losses and market share, using that RedHerring link. --Brazil4Linux 13:24, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Members runescape quests
Why delete it? It was not a game guide, it was a source of information. If you base ur deletion on the way it was written, then the whole Runescape series should be deleted

Congratulation, ur officially an ass - Bourbons3 14:16, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

re:Category:Wikipedians by D&D Alignment
I noticed you are categorized as a Wikipedian by alignment. If you are in to userboxes, there are now infoboxes available using a standard template. See the alignment category page for details. xaosflux Talk  / CVU  18:40, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Ken Kutaragi
I'm requesting your opnion about this dispute. Lot of POV-Pushing, the article is currently blocked. Did you believe this article as Game Collaboration of the Week, as a way to get more attention about this dispute? This is valid? --GroundZero 20:57, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Deadlands
Yo, MIB:

Haven't seen you in a while. Got to wondering where you'd been, recently. Hope all is well in your world.

A couple months ago, you chimed in on my suggestion at Talk:Deadlands to trim away a great deal of game-mechanic cruft from the article. And I did, and the article was in good shape for a while.

Now there are those who are interested in restoring the cruft. I'm wondering if you have the time to drop by Talk:Deadlands and maybe chime in with an opinion or two.

All the best. Ξxtreme Unction |yakkity yak 23:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

P.S. I'm an admin now. Dunno if you'd seen.

Note on Jewish lists bans
Hi. Somehow I missed you when I was letting everyone concerned know what was going on. Sorry about this. I noticed your message on User:RachelBrown's talk page, and hence, whilst I don't know your level of involvement, it looks like you got mixed up in this whole mess as well. I hope that you managed to get yourself unmixed up! What I saw of it was extraordinarily ugly.

As you may or may not know, 2 days ago 4 users, User:Poetlister, User:Newport, User:Londoneye and User:Taxwoman, the first 3 of whom were in some way involved in the whole "List of Jews" disputes and surrounding RfMs, RfCs and RfArs, were all indefinitely banned as "suspected sockpuppets of User:RachelBrown" by User:Mindspillage in a unilateral decision without evidence. I made a page to document the case here: User:Zordrac/Poetlister, which you will probably find is the best source for finding out what happened, since the banning admin has not provided any explanation for what happened.

This ban was lifted yesterday by User:Dan100 per "lack of evidence" although none of the 5 affected users has made a single edit afterwards. Also note how this affects Requests for comment/Antidote especially, but also a lot of other related cases. You can read up about just how awful the whole situation is if you like. And if you like, you can send an e-mail to Dan100 as you might have information to contribute towards an investigation. Thought I should let you know. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy  Darwikinian Eventualist 09:12, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

New Harvest Moon: Rune Factory
I assure you, AMIB, this game is legitimate. It is a spinoff of Harvest Moon. There are two spinoffs - Rune Factory, and the one on the PSP. The one on the PSP introduces adventure elements, while Rune Factory is set in the past, and involves RPG and fending off/capturing monsters that are attempting to attack your farm. - A Link to the Past (talk) 02:51, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Uh. Okay. Why are you telling me this? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 00:59, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, crap, now I remember.
 * The game is actually titled Rune Factory. The "Harvest Moon: Rune Factory" name comes from everyone mistranslating a Jeux-France article on the subject.
 * Check out the IGN link, complete with (Harvest-Moon-less) title image. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 01:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Other AfD for Cultural references in Pokémon
It's been three months since the last AfD for Cultural references in Pokémon, which should satisfy those whose are anal over AfD time limits. Is now a good time to try to remove this garbage from Wikipedia forever? Perhaps try out ? '  (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 01:14, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd give it a bit longer, myself. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 06:44, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Alright. '  (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 06:49, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject
I've seen your editting in the SF history numerous times, and I was perhaps wondering if you'd be interested in this...? -ZeroTalk 20:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey
You turned me into a mergist back into August (with Xenosaga ^_^), and I have been working to create that project to create a centerpoint for merging, cleanup, and whatnot. Many thanks for the support. Deckiller 21:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, I'm glad I can help. I've got my (limited) Wiki time mostly sunk into an open-ended cross-fandom cruft cleanup project (User:A Man In Black/Cruft), but the Star Wars articles are dying for some cleanup, and a Wikiproject would be a good place to start, especially now that everyone's time isn't taken up dealing with Copperchair any more. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 21:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah. I've also been in the middle of some major merge projects and template creations for organization and all. Thanks for the help! Deckiller 21:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Deleting useful information why?!?!
Because you don't what other people adding info to "your" page by the looks of it. Kurtle 14:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't own the page by any means, but I have removed a lot of overspecific or verbatim-copied information because it's inappropriate to Wikipedia. I've also explained why I've done this, on the talk page, and would be open to being convinced otherwise. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 21:33, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Project
The StarWars WikiProject will be starting soon, here is what I have down so far: User:Deckiller/WikiProject Star Wars. We have 7-9 people interested so far. Deckiller 21:46, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, I noticed you worked on the page a bit. Any ideas on further additions? I have some, but I want to get yours before expanding. Deckiller 22:15, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * If I have any ideas, I'll just add them (or mention them on talk). Right now, there's nothing more I have to add. (You are going to add a "Participants" section, right?) - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 22:17, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah. There will be subpages for style, "things to do", and so on. I want to model it after the FF wikiproject. Deckiller 22:20, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Lock tag on Freemasonry
You recently removed the edit lock on Freemasonry (thank you), but the tag remains. Blueboar 00:06, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * There are several dispute tags, but no protected tag, as far as I can see. Are you sure the tag is still there? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 00:14, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Dick pic
Why me? Babajobu 07:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Why not? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 07:47, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * True enough. In that spirit I will modify your caption to correspond to my new caption. Irony is most poignant when apparent to the fewest people. Babajobu 07:52, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * While the Nixon vandalism is appreciated, I'm keeping it as-is out of respect for an actually-funny troll who moved to Uncyclopedia after some gentle encouragement. Besides, the Nixon = Dick joke is merely a pun on his name, not a comment on his presidency. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 08:04, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Reverts
Please justify your reverts on the edit summary or in the article's talk page. cave 21:18, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I revert lots of articles, cleaning up vandalism, newbie tests, spamlinks, speculation, just-plain-bullshit, and anything else that needs cleaning up. I'm always willing to explain my reasoning when challenged, though; what article is bothering you? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:28, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject up
See WikiProject Star Wars. Thanks! Deckiller 17:08, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Warhammer 40,000 Project started
Hi, I have started to create the Warhammer 40,000 project, and preliminary information is available from WikiProject Warhammer 40,000. Feel free to join in and make changes. There is a fair amount to do before the project starts working properly so we need to have a good go at it :) -Localzuk (talk) 10:56, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Reverts on Tesla article
Please read what is said about the descriptions in the edit summaries and on talk. How is claiming that Tesla was "recognized among the most innovative engineers" any more "gushing" than claiming Euler is one of the greatest mathematican of all time, when both have significant support behind these statements? The wording IMO couldn't be edited to be any more prude than it is. Using "of profound genius" in an article is a common practice and has been used on Gauss, Newton, Einstein and many other articles due to the subject's pioneering of a field. "one of the greatest scientist of technological innovation" is nothing close to say "THE greatest" or even "considered the best", which would be bad POV. Stating "one of the greatest" is among the most commonly used terms for pioneers of a field on biographical articles. I will revert one more time in hopes that this explanation will show you why the information is fair and balanced. Also, deleted references were added in between and blindly reverted, so I will restore those too. If you wish to revert again, do so manually so these won't have to be readded. Hopefully we can find a compromise. Thank you. 72.144.147.32 23:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Come up with a citation before you reinsert it into the article. Text like "one of the greatest..." is POV. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 01:44, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * There are literally dozens of books and online biographies that state this; most (though, I admit, not all) which are academic in nature and balanced in notation. I collected a small selection


 * one of the greatest scientists in technological innovation (renowned academic book)
 * one of the greatest electrical engineers (general) (PBS doc)
 * one of the greatest mechanical engineers (specifically America)

Not sure how you want a source for "profound genius" Jatras, Stella L., "The genius of Nikola Tesla" maybe?

There are quotes by many scientists too:

Nearly all the references at the bottom of the page make note of this too. I think it would equally fair to question some of the statements presented on other pages like Gauss's, Faradays, and Newtons, asking for sources. Anyway, tell me what else I can provide. I can't revert again until after the day ends right? 3RR? Thanks. 72.144.147.32 02:51, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I removed four exemplaries ("one of the greatest," "profound genius," etc.) from the first paragraph of the intro; this is ridiculous puffery. Pick a single, relevant comment, and cite it inline, and please leave it at that. The facts should speak for themselves in this article, rather than relying too heavily on conclusions drawn from the facts. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 03:24, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Deadlock...
There is discord at the Template:PokémonGames talk page. WikidSmaht and I are having a debate based on these merits:
 * 1) Whether Coloseeum and XD should be listed under the RPGs or not
 * 2) Whether the 1st/2nd/3rd/4th gen should remain or if it should be collapsed into one single category
 * 3) Whether there should be so many categories (i.e virtual pets, puzzle, TCG, Pinball, racing), and how they should be pruned if they are to be pruned

Thanks for any help you can provide. - Hbdragon88 06:45, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Article for Deletion
Greetings. You may be interested in voting on Articles for deletion/Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse (image free). Thanks. --Descendall 01:15, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Star Wars Wikiproject
Hello! Thank you for participating in the Star Wars Wikiproject. The participants section has recently been changed so it would be appreciated that you put the template User Star Wars WikiProject onto your Userpage so that you appear in Category:WikiProject Star Wars members. That way you appear in the listing of WikiProject Star Wars members. Jedi6 04:25, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Mewtwo Anime article up
Okay, so I implemented the Mewtwo (Anime) page I was talking about as a new page, link accessible from the main Mewtwo page. So basically, feel free to check out what's on there right now and do the thing you do (i.e. edit/condense for the better). Why, to tell you the truth, I would consider that a bit of an honor. By the way, is it legal to edit/replace one's comments on talk pages like this? Erik the Appreciator 22:37, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * So now I have implemented all that I was saying I would edit onto the Mewtwo articles, and did a large, initial condensing job of both pages... I think both pages are going to be pretty static now, since apparently there isn't that much excess information to edit out that I can tell of. Tell me what you think about these! And thanks. Erik the Appreciator 21:48, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Kyo Kusanagi and Terry Bogard
There seems to be an minor case of POV pushing regarding some recent edits on the Terry Bogard and Kyo Kusanagi articles. I've constructed posts regarding this on their talkpages respectively, if you wish to participate in the discussion. -ZeroTalk 14:34, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * We seem to be running up against the WP:3RR again in the Terry Bogard article. Your assistance there would not go amiss.  (I have no opinion on the edits, just trying to keep with the views on the talk page.)  Thanks, --Hansnesse 05:50, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I've requested protection again. Its obvious he's seen the talkpage, as he tied to remove one of my posts to subvert concensus earlier . This is now vandalism. 3RR is invalied here.-ZeroTalk 05:55, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Star Wars Portal
Make sure to vote for the selected article for next week at Portal:Star Wars/Vote. Jedi6 00:42, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Star Wars Collaboration of the week
Make sure to vote for the Star Wars Collaboration of the week for next week at Star Wars Collaboration of the week. Jedi6 03:39, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Star Wars voting
Please make sure you vote for the Star Wars selected article, list and picture by Monday. Jedi6 09:44, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Disruptive users
Hi. I'm quite busy at the moment, and vandal fighting is the least of my worries; User:200.231.177.20 is adding quotes to the articles in masse' despite my inquiries, and User:68.32.69.15 is adding nonsense to the Kasumi (Dead or Alive character) article. If they don't desist, I request they be blocked. We already have an abundace of work to do, and we don't need tomfollery on our plate as well. In the meanwhile, I'm heading to my power capsule to recharge for the night. -ZeroTalk 21:00, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Self-improvement
Hello from an Indian wikipedian. I have been around here for about a year, including being an administrator from 18th September 2006. I request you to kindly do me the favor of providing me your valuable comments and suggestions on my contributions, activities and behavior pattern. I shall be awaiting your free and frank opinion, which you are most welcome to kindly give here. Thanks. --Bhadani 15:52, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

ESB
Why did you revert my edit to the ESB article? I am canonically correct in stating that the ESB Luke/Vader duel was their second, as Luke's first lightsaber battle occured in Splinter of the Mind's Eye. Perhaps if I make clear where the first battle occured? The Wookieepedian 06:59, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It's not relevant to ESB in any way, and doesn't fit into the sentence. Sorry for reverting with rollback; I spent a couple of minutes staring at the edit page sort of blearily, and said fuck it and used rollback.
 * Can we not bloat the plot summary with every single tangent from the EU? Think about how terribly long the ANH plot summary would be if we got into the EU stuff about the Mos Eisley cantina, for example. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 07:03, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Eh, this is all moot. The ESB article is way too long; I'm going to try reducing the plot summary down from its turgid 15 paragraphs. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 07:48, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Pirate joke AfD
Hey, it would seem that you didn't correctly do the AfD on pirate joke? You put afd on the article page but didn't do the other two steps ... --Cyde Weys 05:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm in the middle of AFDing it, actually. Thanks for letting me know, though. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:53, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

KOF list
Hi, I've replied on the talkpage. Hopefully we can explain our reasoning for the list construction through some advocacy and perhaps convince other's to begin contributing to a larger extent. -ZeroTalk 05:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

List of Green Lanterns
I felt my synopsis of G'nort was perfectly fine. Why did you revert? I'm not sure this article is a place to summerize every single GL article. Instead, I think it should be one to tease readers into viewing the other articles. --sigmafactor 07:41, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't disagree on this point, but I feel that many of the minor GLs should be merged into a list, and this one serves as well as any. Take a look at how I'm rewriting G'nort (give me a few minutes) and tell me what you think. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 07:45, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Compare G'nort to List of Green Lanterns. Ideally, I'd like to merge a lot of the minor Green Lanterns similarly. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 07:55, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Can you please have this discussion on the talk page? I added some comments there. --waffle iron 07:56, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm continuing it there. *grumblegrumblenobodysaidanythingwhenIbroughtthisuponthecomicswikiprojectgrumblegrumble* - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 08:01, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi again
Hello. do you remember me? If not take a look at my user page. I have taken your advice and now have my own account (though I would still do most of my work as an unregisted user). (Iuio 06:37, 18 March 2006 (UTC))

SFEX Link
How come you keep getting rid of that Street Fighter EX link? It has information that KLOV and Moby dosent mention. (BackLash 14:57, 22 March 2006 (UTC))
 * Not sure what you're talking about, here. I generally revert external links added by redlink-names or IPs, though. What site is it, so I can take another look? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:48, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * This wasn't my link, though I thought it was intresting. Here's the link, thanks for taking another look. (BackLash 20:12, 23 March 2006 (UTC))

sorry
your user page be changed by me. I'm so sory.I'm just copy " i hate cruft". sory. --Ambassdor.V 06:54, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I just want attention
To promote my site. Rachel Orange 08:22, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

A little bit surprised
Hi Man in black. I was a little bit surprised to see a speedy-delete tag on the template "User All Drugs". I put a hangon tag on it and wrote this on the talk page:

''I'm not really current on this, but the tag says "It is a template that attacks or disparages an individual or group" and the template says "This user supports the legalization of all drugs for adults". I'm not seeing the connection there. I thought we were past this. I'm not saying or not saying that the template is good or bad, or that all templates like this should or should not be deleted, but can the person either please 1) get a policy in place under which this template can be deleted, or 2) put it up for AfD, or 3) if unable to win the day by either of those methods accept defeat gracefully and go on to something else? ''

I also then saw that the page history indicated that the template had been put up for deletion a couple of times fairly recently. I don't see that another round of deletion and review is going to helpful to the project. I realize that this may be a personal issue for you, as many of us have had loved ones damaged by drug addiction. But, dealing with emotionally difficult subjects in the course of editing is part of what we have to do.

Could I persuade you to reconsider that tag? Herostratus 09:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I tagged it because it's staking a claim in an idiotic flamewar that has nothing to do with building an encyclopedia. If that isn't divisive, I'm not sure what is.
 * Policy isn't up for a vote. If T1 isn't policy, it needs to not be on the CSD policy page. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:16, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Rugal Bernstein
A bit of a case of the cruft, dear. Could you place in a word or two..? -ZeroTalk 20:14, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Writing about fiction
Hi, MIB. I've recently written an essay (similar to User:Uncle G/Describe this universe) about writing articles on fictional characters, species, and the like: User:BrianSmithson/Writing about fiction. I'd appreciate any feedback (heck, edit the essay yourself if you feel led to do so), as I hope to make this piece into a good resource for users who want to avoid writing crufty articles. Thanks, — BrianSmithson 18:21, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Golden Sun Focus
Well, sorry to bother you again, but I thought I should notify you of the edits I’ve been making to the Golden Sun articles. They’re big story writeups like before, so if you end up with the time, you might want to read and comment on the new versions, because I’ll probably need the feedback to refine/condense them to their eventual best. Thanks. Erik the Appreciator 21:13, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Islamophobia
please vote again here

List of Pokémon abilities
Proposed deletion removed, as the article has been around for several months, and I'm pretty sure that pokemon deletions have not been uncontroversial historically. Gazpacho 11:03, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject: Gamecruft
I've decided to create a WikiProject devoted to discussing what articles qualify as gamecruft, and what do not. Contact me if you are interested, or have questions. - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:58, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Cruft
''* Mega Man character cleanup ** Dr. Wily (ideally getting it up to FAC quality) - User:A Man In Black/Dr. Wily draft *** Merge Enker and the other Rockman Killer bots into it ** Bass (character) ** Mega Man X (character) ** Merge Dr. Cossack into Mega Man IV * Finish rewriting xD-Picture Card (temp at User:A Man In Black/xDtemp) * (Someday) excise Criticism sections from articles and redistribute the criticism to the relevant parts of the article * Merge and/or replace with redirects any gamecruft character or object article

Knowing me, I'll never get it all done.


 * I finally got the time to scrupple with these nasty articles, and I've went and cleaned up all of them. As for merging, those articles are now too large to be realistically inserted into Wily's, but I've removed all the cruft and laudible information. As for redirects and the like, I've taken your lead and redirected such minor characters like Guts Man to the Robot Master article. Finally, I've also been making lists, such as this and this. Its taken awhile, and I hope you're pleased. If you've any comments, I would appreciate them on my talkpage. -ZeroTalk 18:14, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Pokémon Collaboration
Permission to change it from Weedle? Highway 20:09, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
I've recently been renominated for an RfA, and I think my attitude and use of edit summaries has improved a great deal. Be sure to visit and support/object/comment. - A Link to the Past (talk) 05:59, 2 April 2006 (UTC)