User talk:Ariadoss

Ariadoss (pronounced: Air-ee-á-dus) is my alias, my given name is Danilo Quddus Stern-Sapad, I'm 19 years old (D.O.B. 12 January 1987), and have lots of different interests. You can leave a message here if you have questions or comments about any of the entries I edited here on wikipedia. I reserve the right to delete anything overly critical of my efforts.

Authors of Interest
I am interested in articles regarding the following authors:

Shoghi Effendi, William Sears, R. A. Salvatore, J. K. Rowling, C. S. Lewis, T. A. Barron, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Terry Brooks, Stephen R. Donaldson, Elaine Cunningham, Robert Jordan, Frank Herbert, Lois Lowry, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Madeleine L'Engle, Kevin J. Anderson, John Steinbeck, Philip Pullman, Gary Paulsen, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Tolstoy, Eoin Colfer, Tamora Pierce, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia C. Wrede, J.R.R. Tolkien, Brian Jacques, I know I left out a lot of poets such as William Blake and Ogden Nash.


 * if you're interested in Tennyson, you might like to know that he's correctly referred to as Alfred, Lord Tennyson --rossb (talk) 05:16, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Hogwarts Live deletion
Hey just letting you know they're planning to delete the article on HL. Don't we get more visitors than Pepsi.com or something like that? This is ridiculous, huh? HPANA and HPFZ have articles and get less than three times as much traffic. Have you seen isfdb.org they get like 10 times less visitors and have an entry, this is stupid. --71.202.96.225 04:08, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Heh, thanks for the info. I'm not sure I have a right to comment, let me go over the POV policy first. Thanks. --Ariad o ss 07:44, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Blocking the image in Firefox
I know that even though the Bahá'u'lláh picture is at the bottom of the page, sometimes when reverting the removal of the picture, and in normal editing, I sometimes inadvertantly see the image, which I don't like doing. So for Baha'is who do not want to see the image, and who are using Mozilla Firefox, you can do this to block this one image:

1. Go to the directory that stores your Mozilla Firefox profile. On Windows XP, it looks something like

C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ .default\chrome\
 * where
 *  is the name when you log into Windows XP
 * is a 8-digit alphanumberic string which is random, and which Firefox uses to protect your data from hackers

2. In that directory open a file called "userContent.css" (or start a new one with that name if it does not exist).

3. In that file at the top enter this code

img[src*="Bahaullah_from_miller"] { display: none !important; } 4. Restart firefox

That should block the image for you, and you alone -- Jeff3000 16:26, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

GoKrida participant?
I don't have any critique of your work, but because of your comment on the GoKrida AfD, I was wondering if you are a participant there. If not, I think it's something you might enjoy, based on what I see on your userpage here and your website. I know I enjoy it, even if it turns out it doesn't merit an article here! :)B7T 12:52, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No I'm not a member, I've just decided to comment more often on the articles that are put up for deletion, since some articles or rather types of articles I like have been deleted. There are some games I have played that I voted to keep, reading the descriptions brings back fond memories. I don't think they will let you keep the article, so I reposted it over at: http://encyclopedia.wizards.pro/index.php/GoKrida --Ariad o ss 00:59, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza
Welcome to Esperanza. You might want to add the Esperanza userbox or a variation of it to your user page. And you are welcome to add your birthday and your first-edit day to the Esperanza Calendar. You might receive some presents when those days come around! --TantalumT e lluride 23:21, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza!
Welcome,, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. Redwolf24 runs the spam to keep members up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of FireFox, Flcelloguy. Titoxd, and Karmafist. The next set of elections will be February 28, and I would be glad to see you vote, or even consider running for a position.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Celestianpower by email or talk page or the Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work! --Cel e stianpower háblame 18:39, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

An Esperanzial note
As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: EA-welcome (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Cel e stianpower háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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Another Esperanzial note...
Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,

--Cel es tianpower háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

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Towards
Hi. I watch the Harry Potter WikiProject and I couldn't help but react to your statement: "Wikipedia:WikiProject Harry Potter; 16:48 . . Ariadoss (Talk) (→Discussion Forums - 'towards' is not a word)"

Actually, towards is a perfectly acceptable alternative to toward (says the Columbia Guide to Standard American English, for one). Incidentally (and coincidentally), we share a birthday. Cheers. Mercurio 09:38, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * That's neat but according to my Oxford English Dictionary, it is not a word. I guess my dictionary is missing that entry. Anyway, I bet it has to do with the fact that my dictionary is made in the UK.  Thanks for the notice though. --Ariad o ss 10:03, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Funnily enough, my dictionary tells me that "toward" is the more common US usage and "towards" is the more common UK usage. As someone from the UK I can vouch for the latter.  Tobelia 16:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It's fine I bet it's a glitch. I normally find my dictionary to be very good. It's an electronic edition, I hate repeating the alphabet over and over in my head to find a word. --Ariad o ss 07:48, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, &mdash;Cel es tianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Harry Potter
RHB(AWB) 21:15, 30 December 2006 (UTC), on behalf of WPHarry Potter

Nomination of Electronic Reference Library for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Electronic Reference Library is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Electronic Reference Library until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. JMWt (talk) 08:24, 20 May 2024 (UTC)