User talk:Amcaja/Archive4

Dylan/Dixie
I'm not sure "fan" is the right way to describe folks like me; "excitable obsessive" is closer, if a bit too much. Anyway, I've been trying to remember where I'd recently seen a reference to Dylan's use of "Dixie" in his movie, Masked & Anonymous, and finally turned it up. I'm not sure you can fit it into the article, but I wanted to contribute something that might offset what I removed. Monicasdude 22:07, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the pointer. I don't think it was a major loss to remove the Dylan mention. You were right to point it out as fraudulent. And sorry for not responding sooner; for some reason I never noticed this post or the one below until today . . . . — Amcaja 03:09, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Dixie (song) Refs
I noticed you're having some trouble with the refs on this article, particularly ref_label/note_label. I was going to fix those (I've fixed them up in a couple other articles), but the notes section seems to have been moved to another page. If you could let me know where this subpage is located, I'd gladly fix those little buggers up for you. - The Catfish 22:46, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Finally got the dang thing fixed. Thanks though. :) — Amcaja 03:09, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Shreveport in katakana
Why not try Wiktionary? --Gerard Foley 23:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Another excellent suggestion that I didn't think of. :) — Amcaja 00:39, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Peace Corps
I was enjoying your response to the ridiculous little mix-up about the "Henry Ford" infection of the generic name graphic in the featured articles, and then enjoying your Cameroon articles. I've been interested in the Peace Corps for awhile, especially the teaching aspect. Being a lover of anthropology etc. etc. I would apply to volunteer in Africa.

Would you mind telling me about your experiences? I have researched the peace corps website but there is nothing quite like a firsthand account. What did you do to prepare for your service? Was it difficult to become integrated into the community? What was the process of interviewing and applying like?

Just, anything you feel like contributing would be greatly appreciated. I still have to do the whole college dance before I could apply, but knowing what languages or other experiences helped you would be very kind.

Thanks a ton, Chelsea
 * Hey, Chelsea. I'm glad you're finding my stuff useful and interesting; I'm just trying to accomplish Goal 3 of Peace Corps, which is to tell Americans about the rest of the world. And I'd be more than happy to tell you about my experience. However, here probably isn't the best place. Send me an email instead. Look on the left side of your screen and you should see a link in the "toolbox" that says "E-mail this user". Then just drop me a line so I've got your email address and can respond properly. (You could just leave the email address here, but Wikipedia is crawled by who knows how many spammers looking for live email addresses; if you end up going this route, write the thing out so it's human-readable but not machine-readable; e.g., with "at" instead of @, etc.) Let me know if you have any problems.


 * I look forward to hearing from you! — Amcaja 16:41, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Dixie (song)
Congratulations! Great job! - Jmabel | Talk 03:09, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'm quite pleased with the post-FAC version of the article. What a great peer review! — Amcaja 03:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Udham Singh
While assassins and murders are both killers, I think we use it different contexts. Going by the wikipedia definition, assassination ''has come to mean the killing of an important person. An assassin — one who carries out the assassination — is usually ideologically- or politically-motivated reasons.'', whereas murder is the killing of an ordinary person without any serious motive. I changed it because 'assassin' seems to fit here but not 'murderer'.

Anyway, I will wait until we agree on this before attempting a revert. I am more concerned at the moment about the validity of the article Deepak Kamboj which seems to be an exact copy of Udham Singh. Tintin Talk 20:41, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

PS : Note that the category 'assassin' was already there. I removed only 'Indian murderers' Tintin Talk 21:14, 12 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Re. Deepak Kamboj, I added a note in the noticeboard for India related topics. Somebody there would know if it is really an alias or if it is a vanity page. Tintin Talk 21:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Speedy Gonzalez
Your edit was better than mine, it avoids "scare quotes". ;) --Dante Alighieri | Talk 23:04, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I win! :) Seriously, it was a good catch, and thanks for the note. — Amcaja 23:32, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Britney Spears
You beat me to it! That was the first thing that entered my mind too! :) - Gobeirne 18:21, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, it was either her or Aguilera, but I suppose Spears is closer to the mark. :) — Amcaja 18:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Krazy Kat grammar
I made the final three changes you suggested on the Talk page (striking the comma, changing "where" to "when" and adding "on the subject"). Andrew Levine 18:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Good deal. Thanks for the heads up. — Amcaja 18:33, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Captain Shreve
I added Captain Shreve High School if you'd like to link it to the Shreveport page. Im too lazy to do the other schools now though. Yalepilot 02:09, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow. Very impressive. Keep it up. — Amcaja 03:50, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Udham Singh
Any suggestions on how to go about it ? Should we request to semiprotect it ? Tintin Talk 04:11, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * If he/she removes the POV tag once more, I'll bring it up on the Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents for advice. Semi-protection may very well be the way to go. — Amcaja 12:41, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Warning
Blocked - legal warning You have been blocked from editing for posting potentially defamatory claims on Wikipedia. Wikipedia does not tolerate the posting of such claims on its website and takes such posting seriously. All defamation posted in edit summaries is removed from the Wikipedia website and deleted from records and archives. Those who post it are immediately banned from the site and may be reported to their service provider. If a computer in an educational establishment was used to post that claim then that establishment may be informed. You are reminded that defamation is an offence in law.

Under Section 230 of the United States Communications Decency Act, which governs Wikipedia, Wikipedia cannot be sued for the defamation you post. But YOU can be. Your service provider may be able to trace your edits back to you. The person you defamed could get a court order to require that the server release your name, and then sue you personally for defamation in the courts.

Remember: You put yourself at serious risk of a prosecution under the laws of defamation for any defamation you deliberately post.
 * Excuse me? Care to point out the diff? — Amcaja 16:59, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


 * You have company :-) Tintin Talk 17:09, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Figures that it was some vandal who's discovered templates. I wonder what all of his victims have done in common to piss him off. — Amcaja 17:11, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Kappas in Final Fantasy
It's a bit complicated, actually, and I probably unintentionally muddied the waters in my edit. In summation, the sentence I changed was incorrect on two points: one, kappas have never been present as an enemy monster in any Final Fantasy game, and two, kappas have only ever appeared in one Final Fantasy game to begin with (Final Fantasy VI). In the North American release of the game, yes, they were redubbed as "imps." I suspect that whoever inserted the sentence, though, was getting confused because of the monster "goblin," which has appeared in most games in the series (sort of as an FF equivalent to the goomba), and which, in the original English language versions of both Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy IV were renamed "imps." The name duplication is unfortunate, but the long and short of it is that kappa/imps are only in Final Fantasy VI. I'll make a change to the article to clarify this a bit. – Seancdaug 18:22, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Responded there. — Amcaja 19:10, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Proliferation of Unneeded Categories
What shall be done about the proliferation of unneeded categories, particularly various subcategories of fictional species or fictional animals? I thought we had successfully deleted the Category:Fictional plankton per consensus discussion, but it seems that User:Jedi6 (talk • contribs) recreated it for a video game and then the category vandal User:202.152.162.215 (talk • contribs) jumped on it to install Sheldon J. Plankton.

When articles and categories are deleted, they disappear without much trace that ordinary users can see. People recreating them do not understand the bother that the old item caused and are very unlikey to check the deletion log link before recreating them. Similarly, Category:Fictional crows and ravens was successfully deleted, but was recreated by User:Cclarke (talk • contribs) and again 202.152.162.215 jumped on it to change Raphael Raven from Category:Fictional birds. Cclarke is creating categories like Category:Fictional New Zealanders, populated by a single article. Hu 19:50, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, Hu. The "Fictional whatever" categories don't really bother me, honestly, as long as they're set up correctly. My problem with this user in the past has been because he/she was 1) adding non-existent categories to articles, 2) adding "Fictional species" categories to articles on singular creatures like the Jabberwocky, and 3) adding "Fictional whatever" categories to articles on series rather than characters. He/she seems to be doing much better now that the weeklong block has expired.


 * As for what to do about recreations of previously created categories, I can only suggest that you flag them for speedy deletion for that reason. Then post a polite note on the talk page of the person who recreated the category about the issue. If something can be done on a more widespread basis to flag these matters, I don't know what it is. Perhaps you should post about your concerns at the Village Pump? — Amcaja 14:39, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

New Main Page Election talks
A discussion has begun on how to handle an official election for replacing the Main Page. To ensure it is set up sensibly and according to consensus, your input is needed there. --Go for it! 22:51, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Cameroon
Yeah, a good number of redirs/dab pages need to be made for those "cardinal" areas. I plan to come back to this (as you can see if you look at my edits, I'm going down country-by-country to make sure they're all standardized, where a standard comes easily) and make general dab pages. And you're right, with other countries it can easily be a translation issue. South Region, Southern Region, etc. We should have just one dab page for these, and I'll work on that. Thanks for keeping an eye out. :) --Golbez 02:27, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

User:202.152.162.215
Hey, I saw you had blocked this guy before. Well, he's at it again.--Cuchullain 17:39, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks like the dispute was over Questing Beast, right? I've left a note on the user's talk page explaining why Category:Fictional species doesn't apply to a unique creature. Let's see if he or she complies. -- Amcaja 20:11, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Attention Admins: Help!
Vsmith has blocked 208.180.197.2. Somehow, this has also blocked me (I work for the school board, and our computes are set up on a central server with (I'd guess) roving IPs). So, if any admins are monitoring my talk page, please help me out. Is there any way to unblock me but keep the anon from editing? If not, can we assume that the anon has changed classes now and is no longer on the computer? — Amcaja 15:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Anyone?
 * Gah. Nevermind. Home again, IP not blocked. Let this be a lesson: THINK before you block a school-related IP address, and keep such blocks to small increments (3 hours, not 24). — Amcaja 22:25, 30 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Brian, sorry 'bout that - just now got your email - and went ahead and unblocked the IP after reviewing my action. I was dealing with a batch of recurrent vandalism from schools - and this one got caught in the flurry even though the history didn't deserve a 24 hr block. I've been caught by a collateral damage block before and understand the frustrations. Vsmith 23:55, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * No biggy. The net result was that I did more work today. :) Thanks for getting back to me. — Amcaja 00:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Michigan J. Frog
I tend to beleive that the style of performance used by the animators of said frog is that of a minstrel in the Al Jolson tradition, but i could be wrong. Could you point me in the direction of somewhere that would elaborate on the differences and how Michigan falls into the Vaudevillian cat instead? Thanks for your help. Youngamerican 16:47, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll respond at Talk:Michigan J. Frog. — Amcaja 16:48, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

inofficial
Actually inofficial is a english word, but a rarely used one.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=inofficial

Of course mostly the word "unofficial" is used in that context. Because in German the word inofficial is used, I got a little confused :-). "De-facto" is fine with me. --Lucius1976 17:12, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. Glad everybody's happy. :) -- Amcaja 18:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK entry correction...
Hi, I considered mentioning it as "fictional", but I thought it would be interesting to leave it without, as ppl would feel compelled to look at it, saying "I never heard of it." At least that is what I did, :) before updating the DYK template. anyways, ur change is probly right as it gives the complete picture. --Gurubrahma 16:54, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's the problem with DYK — You want to give just enough information to lure the reader into the article, but then not giving enough information might annoy people. Particularly with fictional stuff, though, a lot of people get their feathers ruffled if you don't make it explicit that what you're talking about is not real. :) — Amcaja 17:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

the highly coveted Eagle of Kokopelli Barn Star Award.
For your untiring work combating vandalism at sacred sites I award you the Eagle of Kokopelli Barn Star. Congratulations, and "SMACK", "SMACK"- a loud kiss on each cheek. Carptrash 02:08, 14 February 2006 (UTC)   Carptrash 02:08, 14 February 2006 (UTC) PS Is this how one does this sort of thing?
 * Thank you for the award! And from a fellow RPCV to boot. Is that something new you created? It's a very attractive design! And your awarding procedure was perfectly fine. Some people include the award text in the caption of the award image, but there's really no set standard. But see Barnstars if you need more ideas. Thanks again! — Amcaja 03:54, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I had a couple of new kokopelli pictures that I was thinking of posting [I'm not thrilled with the ones there-tho they are mine?] but when you quashed that vandal I figured I'd just give it to you. I just sort of threw it together, so, yes, it is an original, one of a kind - from one RPCV [Belize, 1976-77] to another.  And yes, i will check out the barnstar link. Carptrash 04:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Donkey Kong (arcade game)
Omg your re-write is awesome !! --Larsinio 20:49, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'd been planning to do it for a while now and finally got the chance. Be sure to check out Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. for even more information! :) — Amcaja 20:51, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Just want to say Bravo on this well-made article. I tried to put this information in the Donkey Kong article awhile back, but my efforts pale in comparison to this piece. It looks great. --Measure 22:44, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! It was originally part of my rewrite of Donkey Kong (arcade game), but it got too long, so I decided to split it off. Glad you like it! — Amcaja 22:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi,

I'd like to echo the praise of the commenter above. I highly enjoyed reading the article and found it was well-organised, insightful, and very informative. Thank you for you excellent work.

Acegikmo1 23:37, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I actually came over here to say the same thing, as well as thanks for improving the Donkey Kong article. I hope after Donkey Kong becomes featured, you'll consider pushing this article to featured status as well. --Pagrashtak 04:26, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Again, thanks to everyone! The court trial article needs a review from legal types, but I won't forget about it. — Amcaja 16:08, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Japanese mythology
If you are interested in joining, a WikiProject Japanese mythology now exists.--み使い Mitsukai 02:18, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Re:Chatham Garden Theatre detective work
Thanks so much. I should say it was fun to do a bit of on-the-hoof gumshoeing for the 'pedia. I only found the place by following street directions– I was a bit disappointed, I admit, when I walked up to find that the building was gone, and hadn't, oh, say, been converted to a Chinese restaurant or a syngagogue or something. But that whole neighborhood is today dominated by the so-called "Civic Center" of state and federal court buildings. And yes, I did take the pictures, at only slight harrassment from DOJ employees ;)--Pharos 03:07, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Ha! "Excuse me, why are you photographing a federal prison?" "I'm a researcher trying to find the lost Chatham Street Theatre." Well, if you ever get the urge to do more detective work, similar pictures would help Bowery Theatre, Bowery Amphitheatre, Chatham Theatre, and Park Theatre (once that one gets written). — Amcaja 12:58, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Japanese mythological creatures
Noticed you removed the categories Japanese mythology and Japanese folklore from quite a few articles today. I assume this has to do with the JPMyth project, but as far as I can tell from the page, all of those articles ought to have at least one of those categories, since they're all about either gods, spirits, monsters, and so forth, or folk heroes/folktales. Is there a reason for removing both cats? Does Japanese legendary creatures supercede them? Shimeru 21:17, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, the reason is that Category:Japanese legendary creatures is a subcategory of Category:Japanese mythology. According to Categorization, articles should only belong to the narrowest applicable category on the categorization tree. You can see the current categorization tree at WP:Jmyth; any suggestions about it are quite welcome! — Amcaja 21:24, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Aha, that makes sense. I'll try to make some time to contribute to the project; I've been meaning to fill in some of the redlinks on that list of creatures, anyway. Shimeru 21:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Duplicate Linking
Hello Brain,

I read your message regarding duplicate linking (Toddy). Actually I gave linking twice because usually people wont read an article fully (top to botom), they simply read a specific topic, that is usually seen. So if they read an article and find no link they omit it, and they wont search for that link elsewhere in the same artile, that is a fact. So for some specific topics we have to duplicate links.

talk
 * Replied there. — Amcaja 14:42, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

To Amcaja
The next time, you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -

Note: Charlie did say he is 50% Irish Setter in that article, although that remark was made in the 1940s or 1950s, but it was deleted when you also claimed it was vandalism made by another user with no relation.

65.54.xxx.xxx 03 March 2006

Reversions are not minor edits.
Regarding you edits to the Tengu, you are abusing the minor edit function. In accordiance with Minor edits "Any "real" change, even if it is a single word, is a major edit." Naturally, any reversion can be controversial. Please cease marking them as minor edits. -- Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk 16:16, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Rather than berating me in ivory-tower civilspeak, you could provide examples. Or simply say, "Hey, would you mind not marking edits as minor when you do more than just a typo correction, etc.? Thanks!" — Amcaja 17:15, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I dont mean to come off that way, its nothing personal or anything. I'm just used to getting somewhat... abrasive, responses from people when I ask nicely.  I'm sure you've experienced the classical responses like "who are you to tell me what to do?" and simmilar affairs.  It seemed to be that speaking in that manner would avoid that problem, but it seems to just be more problematic on its own.  I apologize, no offense meant.-- Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk 20:41, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It's walking eggshells either way. I've had more success with the honey approach than the civility robot, though. I do appreciate your bringing this to my attention. I was genuinely unaware that there was a "minor edit policy". — Amcaja 20:44, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * If I may step in here, I believe it's a common (but not required) practice to mark reversions as minor, the logic being that there is no difference between the page before the reverted edit and the newly-reverted page, so the net effect is minor. The semi-automatic tool admins use to revert pages automatically marks such an edit as minor.  Pagra shtak  23:09, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * That's been my thinking, anyway. It is a bit confusing when, as you say, rollback marks edits as minor, but I guess the difference is when removing fancruft (which most of the edits I believe Oni is referring to were), it's not quite the same as reverting vandalism. — Amcaja 23:36, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * When reverting vandalism, marking the edit as minor should be standard. For other reversions it's not so clear. The case could be made for either side.  Pagra shtak  23:53, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Even with vandalism you have to be careful to a small extent, because something's status as vandalism is not always clear. For the most part though I wouldn't see it as too huge of a problem, because if someone sees that as enough of an issue, chances are they're watching that page closely anyway.  After reading deeply into the Minor edits page and the larger meta page, it becomes somewhat apparent that minor edits have 4 or maybe 5 very specific cases in which they are appropriate.  If you ask me there should be a more obvious statement of the guidelines though, as to avoid the confusion of people not reading, or often not knowing about the policies.  Hell, for some reason we still have trouble with the copyright policy, which is probably the most important policy besides WP:NPOV and WP:NOT on wikipedia.-- Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk 06:07, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Vandalism is not a minor problem. There is nothing at Minor edits to suggest that reverting vandalism should ever be marked "minor"&mdash; so that struggles with vandalism won't even appear among Recent Changes for those who have set their Preferences to ignore it. User:Oni Ookami, who took you to task for "abusing" the function, is mistaken. --Wetman
 * Did you even read the rest of this discussion? Its already been pretty much resolved, and I retracted that comment.-- Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk 17:13, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Park Theater (Manhattan)
I'm tweaking your good new article once again. I think it should be Park Theater (New York)&mdash; as opposed to Park Theater (Brooklyn), which was a separate city. I think you'll approve my characterization of the neighborhood. I think I was right in removing a reference to Brunel's connection with City Hall. Or was I too hasty?--Wetman 04:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * No, you are correct that Brunel was not involved with City Hall. As for the title, there was a Park Theatre built in Brooklyn a few years after the first Park burnt down. The disambiguation is difficult, since most information on the second Park Theatre comes from sources on New York City and discusses the area covered by the current city. On those grounds, Park Theatre (New York) is confusing, in my opinion. Thanks for the help, by the way. — Amcaja 12:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Japanese Macrons Mediation
Hi, I've been assigned to be the mediator for the Japanese Macrons case. Discussion will be carried out on the Talk page of the case request. I will have some preliminary questions up soon, I am looking forward to working with everyone to get this resolved. Thank you, psch  e  mp  |  talk  16:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Guqin article
Thank you for supporting my article for the front page. It took a lot of work and research, and I hope it would inform the public about this instrument that I play. --Charlie Huang 【正矗昊】 21:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * My pleasure! It's a very interesting piece. — Amcaja 21:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Did you know?
Hey, Brian, do you ever update the "Did you know?" template? I noticed you have some nominations on there, but I didn't know if you ever update it. If you do, I self-nominated an article (Pickens County Courthouse) that I worked pretty hard on, and I'd like to get it featured. Would it be possible to inject a bit of harmless bias into the process? ;-) Thanks! MikeDockery 09:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I appear to be butting in, but if you want to update it, do so on Monday as there are several older suggestions which will become ineligible if not updated today. The above article was anyways a part of my plans for updating on Monday. --Gurubrahma 11:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Excellent! Thanks a lot. I just self-nominated one more article, but I think the Pickens County Courthouse article is better. MikeDockery 11:22, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Nope, I never update DYK. I just use it as a vehicle for shameless self-promotion. :) DYK is kind of weird; sometimes it updates frequently, but other times the same articles get nearly 24 hours on the front page. I'll take a look at Pickens County Courthouse regardless, Mike. — Amcaja 12:45, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

This is depressing to admit it
The Weather Channel denies it even aired Charlie the Red Dog, I thought they used to in the past. Well, I guess that washes up almost all of the TV networks. But I realize the situation over PBS and the character has been ignored, including many television networks have ignored it.

ORIGINALS: Little Orphan Airedale (1947) Often an Orphan (1949) The Awful Orphan (1949) Dog Gone South (1950) Hound for Trouble (1951) Dog Tales (1958) (cameo) Space Jam (1996) (cameo) High Flying Adventure (2000) (cameo)

DIFFERENT VERSIONS: Charlie the Red Dog (mid-late 1970s) (Once syndicated on The Weather Channel (1982-1991) It was hosted by meterologist Bruce Edwards, perhaps in the evening.

It is OK, Brian has a discussion with The Weather Channel executives?

65.54.xxx.xxx 12 March 2006

--65.54.154.151 20:46, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Jikiniki
You pointed out when you wrote the article that it was the name of a film directed by Ted Geoghegan, although it doesn't appear on his IMDb filmography (also, apparently he has only been directing since 2004, making it unlikely). Can I see your source? elvenscout742 00:49, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Unfortunately, I wrote that article long, long ago before I had embraced the importance of WP:CITE. If I recall correctly, the movie was in development at that time. It's possible it never materialized. If you can't find anything on it now, it's probably okay to remove the mention of it from the article. — Amcaja 12:41, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Linguistic maps
Hi brian It seems that Marc Dingmense ignores my messages. I've seen his map contribution and his linguistic maps on your interesting work. I think I found the reason why he blacklists my link and why he doesn't answer to my request to remove my site from it. I ask you to promote my site for its content and nothing less. Some people in french want to add my site for kikongo language. My site is full of linguistic maps and been add everywhere as a good site in linguistics matter. (www.muturzikin.com/carteafrique.htm). No reason that a such site like mine can be blaklisted by Mark. Sorry for disturbing this with a such thing but if you could help me...Have a good one. Zorion 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, Zorion. I'm not sure what you are asking me to do. What article are you talking about specifically? — Amcaja 03:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Finaly, some discussion with Marc are in progress, I'll keep you inform.Thanks again for your concern. Zorion 20 March 2006 (UTC)

If you need a Map
My website has been finaly removed from blacklist and I'm sorry for my useless request to you. I want to offer you my help for a specific map of any part of the world or any language or any people (not a country) at your colors. Feel free to ask me a linguistic map. Zorion 23 March 2006

Hardcoded image sizes
From Extended image syntax:


 * "... the default thumbnail width can be set in the preferences, so typically it is better not to specify "px", in order to respect the users' preferences (unless, for a special reason, a specific size is required regardless of preferences, or a size is specified outside the range of widths 120-300 that can be set in the preferences)."

My particular interest in this is that neither my eyes nor my monitor are good, so I prefer to see the images as large as possible.

P.S. Thank you for your valient and articulate stance on talk:seiyu. I have avoided the conversation because I assume the situation is hopeless, since the Japanese exceptionalists refuse to discuss anyone else's points, but I am glad that the record shows sense being spoken.

Pissant 16:27, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem on the seiyu thing. I suppose the article can arguably be said to be a legitimate split from voice actor now in accordance with Summary style, although this was not the truth historically. As for the images, I'm a bit confused. What happens when no size is hardcoded? Doesn't the image display at the full size, which would, in many cases, overwhelm most monitors? — Amcaja 16:36, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * An image with no tags at all displays at the full size, but an image with the thumb tag but no size tag displays according to the user's preferences (the default is 180 pixels), or the full size if the full size is smaller. Pissant 16:47, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, I see. I suppose it doesn't matter if the hardcoded size is removed for a lot of images. I'm unconvinced, though, that when the image is, say, horizontally oriented rather than vertically that a hard-coded size isn't a good idea, as many of these images would be swallowed up at a mere 180px in width. Thanks for the primer on how this works, though—I'm pretty old-hand by Wikipedia standards, but it's nice to see that one can always learn something new! — Amcaja 17:53, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

African Grove
You are the one person I can think of who may be able to sort out a confusing, but apparently well-intentioned anonymous edit. See my note at Talk:African Grove. Thanks in advance for having a look. - Jmabel | Talk 19:44, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Japanese Macrons
Hi, we have a proposed solution now and need everyone's input as to whether its acceptable so the rfm can be closed. Please add your comment to bottom of the page. Thank you, psch  e  mp  |  talk  17:29, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Your comments were not deleted, they were temporarily removed for the sake of clear focus on a resolution. Sorry if that was not clear. Nothing on wikipedia is ever really gone and anyone who wants can read the history. As the mediator it is my right to take whatever action I feel neccessary, that is a condition you agreed to when mediation was started.  Your action has rendered the entire case uncloseable and void so I would urge you to reconsider. To that end, as a show of good will, I have put them in a section below.  psch  e  mp  |  talk  20:06, 6 April 2006 (UTC

ATTN: ADMINS: HELP!
If anyone's watching this, could they please lift the block on User:208.180.197.2? Sceptre blocked this anonymous IP on Monday, and a 48-hour block is excessive for straight vandalism. The IP is a school-based account, and I have been affected as collateral damage. Please unblock this, and any admins, please try to limit anonymous blocks to a few hours at a time! — Amcaja 13:48, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Review request
Hey, I recently rewrote the Jabba the Hutt article using your essay User:Amcaja/Writing about fiction (which was very helpful, by the way) as a guide. Could you give it a quick look. It's been setting on the peer review page and hasn't gotten a lot of attention. Could you leave any comments you wish to make on the articles peer review page? Thanks. Dmoon1 09:57, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It looks really nice on first glance. I'll give it a thorough read-through sometime this weekend. Thanks for letting me know about your work! — Amcaja 15:11, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

your message
hi Amcaja, the convention can be found here. with kind regards Gryffindor  23:12, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Help!
Hey Brian. Well this isn't really as urgent as the title suggests, but there are some calls for the Military history of France to either include popular views in the main article or to add a link (wiki or other) to such a place. These are a minority, but they are persistent. I strongly oppose these and feel the article is being unfairly targeted. Anyway, I'd like you to take a look at the talk page (under "Views of the French military") and come up with something conclusive. I'd appreciate it a lot. Thanks so much!UberCryxic 14:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I must confess ignorance of the material, but I've added what seemed reasonable to me (that popular views of the French military belong in the main military of France article, not in an article about history). If things don't promise to improve, you could move things to a Requests for mediation or Third opinion. — Amcaja 17:13, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Brian!
Hi Brian,

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to go overboard there. I'm new to this. But, can you please advise me how I can best post about Malian culture here on Wikipedia? Thanks and best wishes, Aron

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RE:This
 * Your question is a bit confusing, but I think I can help! If you want to post about Malian culture, all you need to do is visit the pages related to Mali and edit them (just like you edited my user page to post your question). You may want to start at Mali, or Category:Mali for more ideas. But please be sure that you have read the welcome page and are familiar with Wikipedia policies regarding neutral point of view and source citation. Let me know if I can be of further help! — Amcaja 03:16, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks..
Hi, thank you. I will do that. Basically, I was concerned because I noticed that some of my posts were deleted. Would it be ok to repost the DJEMBE RADIO SHOW as an external link to your Africa article, please? I noticed there is no category for music there.. Thanks, Aron
 * If your information was deleted, it means that people found it to be in violation of one of Wikipedia's policies, most likely neutral point of view, original research, or spam. Your external link was probably deleted for being in violation of this last policy. Basically, a radio show is not very relevant to the article about Africa. It would more appropriate to a more narrowly focused article. I hope this helps, — Amcaja 12:34, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

=Danke Schon!= Hi, I appreciate your help. I think I know what you mean now. You rule man. Anyhow, I would like to create an African music link to the Djembe Radio Show in Mali. And it will not be spamful in any way. I just happend to think it's a great resource for the African music scene in Mali. An external link is by nature an extension of the main theme. And if music is the theme, a site reflective of African music ought not to be deleted. So, I plan to put it under Music of West Africa -- not in your Africa piece, but in the more specific one as you suggest. Thank you so much for your help. Best wishes, Aron —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.171.250.252 (talk • contribs).
 * No problem! You might consider Music of Mali instead, though. Be sure you are signed in before you add the link, and if it gets deleted again, make your case on the talk page of the article. Good luck! (And don't forget to sign your comments with ~ !) — Amcaja 17:10, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

=Peace=

Thanks for your note. (as well as your kindness) I did everything you said.. May the force be with you, haha. Best wishes, Aron

Shreveport
Hello - I'm curious as to why you removed Category:Shreveport from that city's television stations. Best, Paul 20:42, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, Paul. It's because the TV station articles are already part of Category:Television stations in Shreveport, which itself is in Category:Shreveport, Louisiana. Standard practice is to only place an article in the narrowest applicable daughter category. Hope this explains things! — Amcaja 20:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: e-mail
I blocked the IP for 24 hours, then realized it was school IP, and reduced it to one hour []. — May. 17, '06 [02:23] < [ freak]|[ talk] >
 * Additionally, it appears someone on your campus has flooded my e-mail inbox with about thirty attempts to reset my password. If I had noticed that at the time, I would have opted for a longer block. — May. 17, '06 [02:29] < [ freak]|[ talk] >
 * Sorry for the trouble. I'm just support personnel, and it's a big parish. :( — Amcaja 13:14, 17 May 2006 (UTC)