User talk:Acetic Acid/Archive 4

Archives

 * Archive 1 (July 22, 2005 - August 1, 2005)
 * Archive 2 (August 1, 2005 - August 2, 2005)
 * Archive 3 (August 2, 2005 - August 4, 2005)

thanks, man :) Verbose 19:23, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Back to normal now
Just want to let you know that I'm back from my vacation now, and my stress level is now back to 1 so I can start contributing to Wikipedia again. :) — Wackymacs 19:30, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

hey
hey, thanks for the welcome message, yeah, i was expecting HTML, but i think i can get a hang of it soon, i expect to become a big editor on here, love the idea, love the mission of wiki.

talk to you later,

-r-

Hey, thanks a lot
I've always loved Wikipedia. It's great to have a formal welcome... I'm proud to be here!

Alphalife

Nice welcome, thank you!
I did some contributions to Wikipedia (DE) before, so it's not too intimidating for me. As you can imagine now, I'm not a native English speaker. So it might be helpful if any native speaker smoothes out any awkward wording in my articles! - -GJG 06:37, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

What now?
So what is there fun to do around here besides makeing and updateing articles? I love knowledge! this is so exciting! I'm being totally serious! I can surf wikipedia for hours....

Alphalife 06:43, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey Acetic Acid
Hey Acetic Acid. who are you? and how'd u discover my new account?

Thanks
Thank you for your welcome note, Ryan, and your tips. I am very grateful. Some friends have guided me to enter here. I have just uploaded the image of a painting which I own: Image:StjosemariaMagpakabanal sa gawainBe a saint thru work.jpg

I hope there won't be any problems with how I did it. My friend Walter Ching said that there were some problems the last time he uploaded some pictures. Kindly see if what I did is ok. Salamat po. (thank you in filipino) Cabanes 07:49, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I hear the William Tell Overture ringing in my ears as I run off to do this one too. -- Essjay ·  Talk 08:26, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Just a friendly "Hi!" and "Thank you!"
Hello, Acetic Acid/Ryan, and thank you for your welcoming message on my talk page. The resource links you shared are useful.

Thanks to a quick peek at your user page, I got a Babel encoding of my own on my fledgling user page.

Be well, and thanks again. ogam 10:30, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Hello, Ryan

Thanks for the welcome, but I have some familiarity with wikipedia already :-) Good to see people trying to be helpful though.

Have a nice day yourself,

Sideris 10:37, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

AIM
Okay, I registered one. It's "Essjay Wiki". -- Essjay ·  Talk 11:09, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Thanks for the welcome. I've actually been contributing to wikipedia before I got an account, so I'm already familiar with how things work. Thanks for trying to be helpful, anyway. Tetracube 15:06, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

My wikistress
Yeah, i know. :( I think its starting to go down now though :) I'm going to make a new wikistress image past 4 if it goes up any higher, lol. --Phroziac (talk) 16:21, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

RFA
Hi, Ryan,

You may vote/comment on RFA however you like. And I may think that your reasons are silly, if I like. I don't see a problem in that.

Thanks. :) kmccoy (talk) 18:40, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


 * What point do you think I'm trying to prove by voting against you? And why do you hope that is not why I'm voting the way I am?


 * I don't feel the need to prove you wrong, but thanks anyway. :) kmccoy (talk) 03:19, 6 August 2005 (UTC)


 * "Because it's unprofessional"? heh.  I don't know about you, but Wikipedia is a hobby, not a profession. :)  Anyway, don't worry so much.  Learn to separate 'disagreement' from 'dislike'.  Just because I disagree with something you say on RFA doesn't mean I dislike you.  Don't assume things are personal. :) kmccoy (talk) 17:12, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

thank you!
Ryan : thanks for the note. I appreciate your welcome, and the inclusionist banner on your page got me reading about different wikiphilosophies. thanks a lot Ahutson 19:47, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

thanks for the welcome message, apologies if i muck this up i am new :)

--Freak show 22:41, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
As you can see, I'm just starting out, doing minor edits here & there. At this point, I just keep hitting "Random article" to see what's already here. I'll be studying the basic starter pages you have recommended. -- Cabreet 23:47, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello
Dear Acetic Acid,

You are crazy.

Keep up the good work.

Redwolf24 02:25, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

admin vote
Thanks for reconsidering your vote. I actually thought it was common to ask to be nominated, but perhaps that's not the case. Regardless, thanks for the support! Cheers. Kaldari 05:58, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi Ryan
I'm spanish, my name is Emilio. I help at es.wikipedia, but sometimes I add some interwikis. My level of english is 2 :)). Thanks for the welcome.

Hello from dbush
Hello Ryan,

Thanks for the useful pointers and the welcome.

Regards,

dbush 11:05, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Pokemon VFDs
I was putting the personality-less gym leaders on VFD, yes, the ones who are currently only two sentences of description and lists of Pokemon teams. I was also planning on expanding Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire to cover the leaders of Team Aqua and Team Magma. You'll note that I haven't put Drake (Orange Islands) or Rudy (Pokémon) or Professor Birch on VFD; those are recurring characters with personalities. On the other hand, Brawly (Pokémon) is a one-off opponent with no personality, role in the story, or backstory.

PAC is doing good work covering the characters who are actually characters, and not simply non-notable obstacles in a long-running game series. The stuff I'm redirecting or VFDing, however, is not the product of PAC's hard work, but instead GameFAQs-esque lists of names and numbers. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 11:47, 6 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm not throwing up VFDs willy-nilly here. I've got a page open to Serebii, a pair of Google windows open, and a window open editing R&S right now. I'm a fan of the series, but one-off Pokemon characters aren't notable, Pokemon project or otherwise. Brawly, for example, appears once in R/S/E and once in episode 296 of AG (which hasn't even been translated into English yet, as far as I can tell). There's nothing to add to this article other than a summary of the events of episode 296. Bugsy, at least, has been in the already-localized episodes of AG, but, again, only once.
 * Chuck (Pokémon), in retrospect, I'm going to delist. Looks like he's a recurring character in the manga.
 * It's not that I hate Pokemon or anything. Wouldn't most of these one-off characters be better served with a List of minor Gym Trainers in Pokémon, anyway? - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 12:01, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
 * If you want to make a draft for that, I'll start delisting these from VFD. Updating Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire can wait. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 12:07, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Looks like this stirred up some strong feelings from WP:PAC. You might want to check out Talk:List of Johto Gym Leaders. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 15:10, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

User:Acetic acid
Hey Ryan, are you aware of User:Acetic acid? -- Essjay ·  Talk 17:11, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Greetings from Jinnentonik
Hey, and thanks for the welcome. --Jinnentonik 18:08, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

thanks & . ..
hi ryan,

don't know if your greeting was automated, or if you actually read what i was struggling to post.

yes, wikipedia syntax does appear to be a tad idiosyncratic, and if you read my comment, you will have noticed that i was annoyed with the subs-tandard scholarship of an entry.

actually, i am a big fan of and a long-time user of wikipedia. although i was tempted to redact an egregious footnote, i chose instead to experiment with the talk forum for my 1st toe in the shallow end of wikipedia's pool.

despite the acerbic tone in the remarks i posted, in reality i am a gentle & sensitive guy. really.

however, i've yet to acquire the restraint to pull my punches when confronted with overly ambitious and/or pretentious pedantry. in my book, it rates no mercy.

best,

tek --Teknozen 18:32, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Thanks for the nice welcome and the link to the tutorial. Both were much appreciated. Cazzee 19:05, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

thanks for the welcome
Its nice to have a friendly welcome greeting. Thank you. Your starting out tips are very helpful.

Best regards,

Vincent

Thank you for welcoming me
Hi Ryan and thank you for welcoming me. Truth be told, I am not new to Wikipedia although my account here is. I am actually Jose Ramos, here is my old account user page. I checked the Missing Wikipedians page and it is listed there. I gave up with that account and decided to take a break. Now I am back I have created a brand new account as a bit of a fresh start for myself. I'll put a notice on the Missing Wikipedians page soon to inform people I'm back although I'd rather some Wikipedians didn't find out this new account. Many thanks again for the welcome. Louis23rd