User talk:Barista

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Sam [Spade] 04:41, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Indiana Wikipedians
Hello! Please consider adding yourself to Category:Indiana Wikipedians. Thanks! Kurt Weber 7 July 2005 02:53 (UTC)
 * AFAIK, I already am. --Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 7 July 2005 03:08 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hi Barista, thanks for your work on Recent Changes Patrol, tagging those speedy deletion articles. It's a real help, so keep up the good work! --Spangineer (háblame)  July 9, 2005 04:20 (UTC)
 * Your welcome, and thanks for the compliment. :D --Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 9 July 2005 04:24 (UTC)

Reverting
Why did you revert it, damm you 219.95.245.101 9 July 2005 05:40 (UTC)

Reverting (reprise)
Thanks for your vigilance with the SPLC article. The page seems to be a bit of a POV magnet. Hopefully with folks like you on guard it won't need to be mechanically protected. Dystopos 9 July 2005 05:45 (UTC)


 * No Problem - It's easy to see which ones are magnets on RC patrol --Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 9 July 2005 05:49 (UTC)

'tis done
Yes--vandals of this type usually have to be blocked before they quit. Thanks for your RC patrol work, btw. Antandrus (talk) 22:57, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

thanks
Thanks for your work combating the vandal on Ku Klux Klan. I think that article is probably the most frequently vandalized article on wikipedia. The funny thing is, I can't help agreeing with a lot of the vandals, even if they are peurile :-) --Bcrowell 04:17, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Moist towelette
Yes, I am an administrator, and have been for over a year. My adminship was granted under an old username, and still appears as such on the admin list. I have had no reason to change it. I removed this speedy tag from this article for two reasons; first, no reason was given for adding the tag in the first place, and second, it does not fall under any of the current criteria for speedy deletion. It must, if it is deemed to be an unsatisfactory article for another reason, go to VfD. Denni &#9775; 00:08, 2005 July 11 (UTC)

Template:Steven Spielberg's films
As the result of a dispute over its previous TFD, the template showing Spielberg's films has been folded into a discussion of similar templates and renominated for deletion. I am contacting everyone who voted on the original TFD so that they will have another chance to make sure their opinion is heard.

The new vote is here.

Dragons flight 01:42, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Encore
User:61.129.44.201 (talk • contribs) is our featured performer tonight on Ahmadinejad... HKT 05:42, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Welcome Note - thanks
Thanks for the welcome note and handy links on my talk page. I have been contributing anonymously for a few months, so finally decided to register an account. The whole site is fascinating, but I'm still not totally convinced that it won't descend into revert-war chaos....! --PhilipO 04:14, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Heh - Such is the life we lead --Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 04:15, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
I'd like to thank you for your reverts to the Goatstown page after vandalism. As a Goatstown resident, I'd like to extend my sincirest thanks. Also through some research, I have found it's the same person who added the disgusting comment on votes for deletion - The Bonez and I believe this vandal deserves a lifetime ban. Tunney 02:52, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

I'd also want to thank you, for cleaning up my user page after it was vandalized. drini &#9742; 16:44, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Spam?
Hmm. I'm not too hot on the Wiki policy on posting some information about an external link on an existing article, but I can't see why what I posted was considered spam when all I was *attempting* to do was to help clarify what viewers would find if they clicked on the link listed on the article.

Thanks for the Welcome
Finally got around to seeing what my "my talk" page was all about and found your nice welcome message. Look from some more articles on Western Colorado comming soon as I find the time and verify what my brain remembers about the history with other sources. Having fun sharing knowledge. Did my first page reversion on NewFoundland a couple of days ago when someone hacked the name. Again thanks for the welcome~ DebSpencer 12:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip.
I was actually trying to create a template for my signature. Is that allowed? I'm not sure and wouldn't want to break any rules. Please let me know. :-) Gaurav Arora 08:50, August 7, 2005 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the help. :)

Alaskan Malamute
Thanks for your edits at Alaskan Malamute/Temp, but the copyvio notice was in error (see talk); even if part if the article is copyvio, which I'm not sure about, the rest should have been left in place. So I'm too tired to figure out what you edited on the temp page--could you be so kind as to reproduce it on the main article so we can delete the temp? Thanks. Elf | Talk 00:45, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

My user name...
No, not from Ender's Game (though I have read it, many years ago, and I think still own a copy, somewhere). At least, not unless my mind's playing unusually elaborate tricks on me... Alai 05:32, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

User Page Cat Change
Hi! Just wanted to let you know that your user page wasn't vandalized. Category:Indiana Wikipedians is being merged into Category:Wikipedians in Indiana. Just wanted to let you know ;-).  Roby Wayne  Talk •  Hist 03:04, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Michael S. Heiser
Because Mr. Heiser himself obvioussly does not want it up. I do not want to get into any real trouble so I will just comply (I wanted to put something up about him because what he has to say is very, very important, you can listen to the two audio links on the Laura Lee show). Of course I did not ask him, and that may have been a tad irresponsible. I tried to be as accurate as I could (some of his edits where a bit confusing, it could be a provocature pretending to be him, but he obvioussly uses the right vocabulary in his edits, so it is very likely him).

To see what this is mostly about look at my edits relating to Samyaza, Nephilim and some things I wrote on the theosophy discussion page, (whom a certain "Sethie" was very helpfull in with my work on Benjamin Creme). Again, much of this is a leap of faith.

So I made a little blunder, now I am attempting to prevent it from becomming a big blunder (i.e. L*A*W*S*U*I*T*E, I have enough problems allready).

Thank you,

RoyBot. (69.248.43.27) 21:07, 29 December 2005

--- UPDATE: I think someone is immitating you and tampering with your message. On the deletion page for M. S. Heiser there was an additional written statement, begging for the article to be kept on the basis of it's content. It is connected somewhat awkwardly and hastily to your address and there is an additional address at the end of it (which liks to yours, but in a different style, and you have allready voted keep, with your address right there following the Keep). This was rather curious so I looked at the history, what I saw was an address by the name of 88.111.253.50, upon clicking on it I saw a history leading only back to that one message, thus a first time poster.

There is very little you may do about the intruder, but I want to let you know in case there is anything that should not be there.

Thank you for your consideration,

Ideocentric RoyBot AKA: [69.248.43.27])

Keratoconus
Hi there! Some while ago, you found a powerful image to illustrate Keratoconus. I don't know if you've dropped in to take a look at the article recently, but it has been expanded quite a bit since. I think though it would really benefit though from a couple more images: one perhaps of corneal topography of a keratonic eye side-by-side with a normal eye for comparison; plus a post-op picture of a corneal transplant would be good. It's asking a lot, I'm sure, but do you think you might be able to spare the time? Thanks a lot! BillC 01:37, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Category:WikiGnome
This category is being merged with Category:User Wikipedia/wikignomes. Please list yourself in the latter, by following the instructions at WikiGnome. Thanks. -- Paddu 06:22, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Category Cleanup

 * On your user page you mention the need to clean up categories. I just wanted to let you know that you are one of two users in a category proposed to be merged: Category:WikiGnome.  If you (and the other user) move yourselves over to the larger category, the old category would be empty and could be speedy deleted.  A small but useful step in the process of trimming down the category list. — Bill W. (Talk) (Contrib)  –  February 7, 2006, 16:28 (UTC)

Image:Keratoconus1-800.jpg
Can you please provide detailed source information, such as where the picture is from, and who released it under the creative commons license. ed g2s • talk 07:54, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I actually work for the Indiana School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology. We have literally thousands of teaching photos in various formats, mostly in slide format, though we are mostly digital now. This image was one image from a stereo slide taken sometime during the 1970's or 1980's. --Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 18:00, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * So who released it under the Creative Commons license, and was it within their authority to do so? ed g2s &bull; talk 20:37, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

A request for assistance
Would you support the concept of moving the Earhart "myths" to a separate page or article? The reason for my suggesting this is that the main article should be an accurate and scholarly work while the speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart are interesting, they belong in a unique section. Most researchers, as you know, discount the many theories and speculation that has arisen in the years following her last flight. Go onto the Earhart discussion page and register your vote/comments...and a Happy New Year to you as well. Bzuk 03:02 3 January 2007 (UTC).

Sorry about that- this wasn't meant to be a spam- I wanted to ensure that all the editors had a chance to vote on a proposed change. I used the history of the article to send out messages to those who edited the original work. Please excuse any unintended campaign message. Bzuk 06:41 3 January 2007 (UTC). Further: The note I saw in the "history" page on the Amelia Earhart article inidcated: "02:43, 9 July 2005 Barista (Talk | contribs) m (rv vandal)" which I took to being an administrator who had an early interest in the article and was attempting to safeguard it. Again, my apologies and my only intention was to alert previous editors that there was a request for a change in the structure of an article in which they had shown previous interest. BTW Happy New Year. Bzuk 15:22 3 January 2007 (UTC).

Advice requested
Hi Barista. I've been attempting to overview and tidy up the geography cats which involve the places where people live. There appear to be two useful ways of doing it - by region, and by size. And these can operate side by side quite usefully. Organising by region isn't a problem. But organising by size has become difficult because User:Hmains uses the term settlements to cover all sizes of communities, and has altered dictionary definitions to fit his own understanding of the term - . Community appears to be the term used most often to describe the places where people live, regardless of size. This is the definition of community -. I did some sorting, placing the cat Human communities under Human geography. Human communities splitting into Urban geography and Rural geography. And those splitting into appropriate sized communities - cities, districts, neighbourhoods, villages, settlements, etc. Hmains has reverted much of my work, and insists on settlements being the term we should use - basing it on | this decision, which was a declined proposal to rename Settlements by region to Populated places by region. What do you think? Is settlement an acceptable term for covering human communities ranging from well established cities down to refuge camps. Is Human community a viable alternative? Are there other choices (apart from populated places of course!)? I have started a discussion here and here, with the above wording, but no response as yet. I have left this message on the talk pages of active Geography Project members. And then on this page. I am a bit lost as the best place to discuss this issue. I don't want to delete or rename any category. And I don't want to get into a revert war. I'd like an open debate to reach sensible consensus. I'm now leaving this message on the pages of WikiProject Category members. Can you advise? SilkTork 19:45, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements) SilkTork 11:24, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Request for comment on Category Redirect template
Because you are a member of WikiProject Categories, your input is invited on some proposed changes to the design of the Category redirect template. Please feel free to view the proposals and comment on the template talk page. --Russ (talk) 21:38, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Quixotic plea
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Image release
Wondering if you got image release for this image? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:12, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Keratoconus1-800.jpg
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