User talk:Blackmane/Archive 1

Typhoon Megi (2010)‎
Good work! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:53, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * even i was thinking about that, marvelous work dude. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 11:44, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey, i am Anikingos, not someone else, Anikingos is my nickname and Anirudh Emani is my real name. Anirudh Emani (talk) 09:46, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, im happy there is someone who would like to work on my stuff. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 09:15, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * well, the only problem is, the news never comes out the right way from china. The government there blocks everything, so it will take a long time for reports to come in, you can search on Google News for more sources. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 09:15, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, tropical cyclone related stuff is generally covered, but it takes time to fins the most important news like the fatalities and the damages. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 09:31, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, and as the system started weakening, it would only hit china as a weak tropical storm and quickly dissipate. But who knows what the remnants could do. Remember Typhoon Fanapi? It only hit china as a weak category one typhoon and dissipated very quickly, but the remnants caused flooding and killed hundreds of people. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 09:42, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Warm Waters!!!!! Is the south china sea STILL warm??? You know, winter is setting in fast in the eastern parts of the globe, La nina is making its effect. The eastern part of the planet is cooling down. It is snowing in parts of India from three weeks. I am shocked to hear that the south china sea is still warm. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 11:15, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Well it must be different there, even here in the bay of Bengal a tropical storm has formed suddenly, but it is weakening fast. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 13:37, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * BTW don't bother too much with hunting for sources for Hong Kong's warning signals since it has a signals database which we can cite once its updated in a couple of days time at the end of Megis life.Jason Rees (talk) 21:52, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Dont get to impatient with it - things will start to calm down now that Megi has left PAGASAs AOR. I think if you chuck some of the so called impact like political reactions to an aftermath section, and using some of the NDCC reports you will find things a little bit easier. Just be glad that megi didnt do much damage compared to Ketsana/Parma of last year. Keep up the good work :)Jason Rees (talk) 00:26, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Fair dos - shout if you need any help.Jason Rees (talk) 01:10, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

You mentioned that you submitted to SPIE. Did you see any of Richard Hoover's presentations? BrigKlyce (talk) 16:40, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * No, I didn't, but i submitted in a different conference. The field I submitted in is fibre optics. -Blackmane (talk) 16:44, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Point taken
Point taken.

Will not happen again.

Kind regards Swe41 (talk) 16:41, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Timing of the contributions
Hi Blackmane. Regarding your comment on Swe41's talkpage: ...16:40 while the attack occurred at 16:41; if you use popups on the IP contributions as well as the main account's, you will see that the respective times are: 16:40:05 and 16:41:43, so the actual elapsed time is 1:38 not just 1 minute. As another reference point compare this also:. Not to mention that by using two different browsers one can be logged in in one while being logged out in the other at the same time. Dr.K. λogosπraxis 04:52, 5 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Yah, I saw the note Boing left on Swe41's page about how to do it. It never really occured to me about doing it that way, since I tend to use Chrome as Firefox tends to be a bit grind-y and somewhat a memory hog when running Flash and I don't use IE anymore. But thanks for dropping by :D --Blackmane (talk) 09:28, 5 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Coincidentally, the timing of the contributions is important in this case as well. Boing replied after I had replied here. Otherwise I would have spared you the duplicate explanation, not to mention the annoying bright orange message bar. :) But I do apologise for the new one. Dr.K. λogosπraxis  13:03, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Not a problem. I have a rather bad habit of trawling ANI more than is healthy, so I ended up at Swe's talk page before I came to my own. I really need to wean myself of the drama page :p --Blackmane (talk) 14:02, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

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Can you.....
Hi! I was wondering, if when you have the time, could you copyedit Never Let Me Go (2010 film) and List of awards and nominations received by Kid Cudi? I was planning to get the former up to GA status and nominate the latter for FL. Regards! Crystal Clear x3 20:36, 11 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi! I'll try to get to it. I'm still working on the Irresistible article (which is giving me all sorts of prose nightmare :p). --Blackmane (talk) 17:32, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * lol thanks! Also, when you get the time, could you also leave some comments about the FLC List of accolades received by Winter's Bone? =) Crystal Clear x3 21:02, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * ;P I'll try to get round that as I can --Blackmane (talk) 16:52, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

"Irresistible"
Thanks for taking up the article. Don't hesitate to remove any unneeded information from it. Thanks again. Novice7 (talk) 14:57, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm slowly working my way through it. Rather than rush through it I'm only working on a section a night. I've just finished going over the second section and pared it down a lot since several references were being cited over and over. Feel free to drop by and let me know if you have any issues with it. --Blackmane (talk) 23:28, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I was wondering if you could keep the quotes... Thank you for helping me out. Novice7 (talk) 04:12, 9 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I'll look at working the quote from the interview back in but I'll leave out the quotes referring to the mic. I felt that it didn't add much to the section. --Blackmane (talk) 09:22, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was thinking of removing the mic quote too. Thanks. Novice7 (talk) 09:33, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Is the So So Def remix the same as what Cameron Casey did on the remix video? I can't check the refs because the video on the MTV site is unavailable in the UK --Blackmane (talk) 21:14, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes it is. Casey directed the video for So So Def remix. <b style="font-family:Arial; color:CornflowerBlue;">Novice7</b> (<b style="font-family:Arial; color:DodgerBlue;">talk</b>) 03:53, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help. <b style="font-family:Arial; color:CornflowerBlue;">Novice7</b> (<b style="font-family:Arial; color:DodgerBlue;">talk</b>) 04:20, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Arilang1234.
Arilang1234 has been doing Canvassing, deliberately asking editors whom I have had disputes with- User:John Smith's and User:Smallchief

False Accusations by Arilang1234 against me, check it out and confirm it at ANI
I counted at least 2 false accusations by Arilang1234 against me which you can easily take a look at (meaning its not muddled up or confused with random edits). #1 Arilang1234 claims I did not respond to Smallchief- I did #2 Arilang1234 claims I did not respond to John smith's concern about neutrality- I did

This is not just an ordinary mistake, or slip up by Arilang1234. My response to Smallchief and John Smith's was right there in plain english- and Arilang1234 deliberately went into the edit history to select and post specific edits I made before I responded, to make sure users were unable to see that I did respond to their concerns later. If he had posted a direct link to the section as it is now, all the users would have been able to seen my responsesΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ (talk) 18:29, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Arilang1234 attempts to link Chinese high schools text books, black panthers, marxists, and vietnam war protestors to the Boxers
"The lead section now reads like a straight copy from standard Chinese high school text book, all these anti-imperialism rant" marxists, black panthers, vietnam era war protestors are apparently behind the insertion of "anti imperialism" into the article....

This is a direct ripoff of when he claimed that "chinese communist propaganda" was inserted into the article-

'''I did not use a single chinese communist, marxist, or "Black panther" source in the article. All of the authors of the works cited in the boxer article had degrees from western universities.'''ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ (talk) 18:57, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

New resolution proposal
Hi. Just wanted to let you know that a new proposal has been made in a thread you contributed to at AN/I concerning the possibility of prohibiting a user from initiating actions at AN, AN/I, or WQA. Thanks, –  OhioStandard  (talk) 06:48, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Copyedit
Thanks for the copyedit at Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. Any doubt, just ask me. Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 17:01, 11 June 2011 (UTC)


 * No problem, please feel free to drop by if you have any questions or requests relating to the copy edit. I've removed a few bits here and there when they didn't seem to add much to the context. I saw the tense change that you put into the article. I'm a little dubious. Although the series is still in existence but as it's not being broadcast anymore, I felt that past tense made more sense. If it had said "anime series" present tense makes sense. --Blackmane (talk) 22:10, 11 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks. The only doubt I have is that if the second paragraph from the plot section should be split up. Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 19:32, 12 June 2011 (UTC)


 * To be entirely honest, as I was working on it I was thinking if I could cut it down a bit more to shorten it. The trouble is, is the length of the series. I've largely done my first run through of the article, mainly reworking grammar and flow. It flows a lot better than before, but there'll be room for improvement. I'll give it another once over later on. --Blackmane (talk) 23:19, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * As I take another look, I don't think the plot section is very long. Both reception and the lead are much longer than the plot section, and possibly other sections from media. Because of this, I don't think there is anything to worry, considering the series is fifty-episode long and too many things happen in one episode. Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 00:56, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks.Tintor2 (talk) 14:15, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

GOCE requests
Hi

Are you still actively editing Design management? You have it assigned to you in the requests list but as yet no action seems to have been taken and it is now being edited by another GOCE editor who appears to have not informed us that he was doing so.

If you intend to continue can you please confirm :¬)

Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 21:18, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeh, been a bit busy IRL lately, I'll try to get some time on it tomorrow. --Blackmane (talk) 00:56, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem, I know that feeling well :¬) I just had conjunctivitis for a week and a half so was more ¦¬( and unable to even look at my PC monitor...
 * There is no real hurry to be honest, it is not listed as a GA, FA or DYK candidate. I was just trying to work out if someone was going to look at it before I chose my next article from the GOCE requests list when I noticed the other GOCE member User_talk:Subtractive had started on it. There seemed little point in both of you doing it. My biggest concern was to make sure you weren't editing it offline, otherwise you might have completed it and found there had already been some edits.
 * Good luck with it :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 01:08, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Cheers for that. I'm trying to make the most of the bit of sunshine that has somehow snuck into the UK weather. It's only been cloudy and rainy for the last 2 weeks. I tend to spend a lot of time reading the section I'm going to edit before actually doing anything on it. Saves having to preview it over and over --Blackmane (talk) 01:11, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry to be a pain, but the article needs to be edited as it is has been on the list for almost 4 weeks. Chaosdruid (talk) 03:46, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, I'll be able to work on it some today. Finally have some time. --Blackmane (talk) 08:37, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks for being so understanding. Have you added your name to the GOCE drive page? Editing it now would count towards the drive, as well as getting an extra 50% credit towards the awards :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 14:15, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Blackname, you have posted on my talkpage. Go ahead in deleting redundant text and improving the article. I started the GA review in order to start a discussion and further improve it. Somehow it passed without major discussion. If you feel that it is far from GA level you can start a reassessment. However I would prefer to see it further improved till it is on GA level. Would be great if you are part of it. I am on holiday the next weeks, so do not expect any activity from my side this month. all the best Wiki4des (talk) 09:20, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * It is now over a month since the article was put onto the requests page. It has to be made clear that this is not reflecting well on the Guild, and I must urge you to complete the copyedit PDQ soon or pass it back to the pool by removing your tag.
 * I am sorry to have to push you again, but this is the third time I have prompted you for action. I realise that you did do a little work on it last night, but please either concentrate on it or give it up. If you have not significantly edited it by tomorrow evening I will have to return it to the pool. I realise that you are busy in real life, and that the article is not an easy one, but it has gone a little too far for comfort now. Chaosdruid (talk) 14:49, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you
Sincerest thanks Blackmane, for reaching out from your mobile phone to help, that can't be easy. I shall take a break, and come back better and stronger for it. Those twits have lost. They lost before they began. I know why they are there and what attracts them. They already actually know they have lost, they couldn't find a single fault with my FA+ work or the lead they were trying to own. I found plenty. Anyhow, rubbing noses is not a victory on the same scale as I can see ahead. Doesn't matter one Iota that they are following me and reading this as you are, because I lay out my plans for all to see and they still can't stop me as the edit summary shows.

Well, good lord, after channeling Dame Edna Everage, and all this stuff, I'll be better off for the break. You can see I'm still wound up eh ? thanks for the help and being a good friend to a newbie. newbies need friends. Penyulap  talk 12:36, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the good advice on my tp, and I'll take it all and follow it too. Thank you, sincerely. Penyulap  talk 13:08, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard
I have raised the issues of the article Nation of Gods and Earths on this noticeboard:. Paul B (talk) 18:30, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello
Months ago, I requested a GOCE member to copy-edit the article Halo (Beyoncé Knowles song), and you did me the favor to clean-up one of its sub-sections. I nominated it again to FAC, but again, it was commented that it still needing copy-editing. If you are able to make another rewrite, could you please help me again? If you cannot please notify me. Thank you again. Tb hotch .™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions.  19:39, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

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Reply and thank you for your earlier suggestion
Hi Blackmane. I've been editing Wikipedia since 2004. 3RR reports and SPI/RCU have always been my weakest link. If you look at the evidence it's pretty clear that something is afoot between all those IPs + the 2 accounts that have hounded the same pages. I used to have many admin friends who would even bother with an SPI they would just say WP:DUCK... and do a full range block. But those admins have long since left Wikipedia out of frustration, boredom, etc. And I have always held a tight grip on WP:AGF that those IP/genre trolls would simply get bored themsleves and leave. But, as you can see from last night... some stick like glue. I appreciate the suggestion Blackmane. And if the trolling persists then I will follow your suggestion and leap into an SPI request for those IPs and accounts. For now AGF is the WIkipedia mantra I want to believe. in. Thank you again for your suggestion. 198.164.211.80 (talk) 17:30, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Wall Street
No, just passed by the article (saw the film yesterday) and decided to fix the plot with a maintenance warning... who knows if that isn't enough to quickfail the GA nom? igordebraga ≠ 23:09, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Help please
Hi. I am Jivesh. I edit strictly Beyonce-related articles on Wikipedia. I was wondering if you could do a copy-edit of Get Me Bodied for me? Please reply on my talk-page. Waiting in anticipation. Jivesh   &bull;  Talk2Me  10:26, 6 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Everything. I wan someone to fix any grammatical errors and improve the prose if possible. Jivesh    &bull;  Talk2Me  19:43, 6 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Is it necessary to do that? Jivesh    &bull;  Talk2Me  04:14, 7 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Don't worry. I assure you no one will edit. Actually, this is not a very popular song of Knowles. Jivesh    &bull;  Talk2Me  06:09, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Making diffs
Thank you for the tip, I appreciate it! OttawaAC (talk) 15:30, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

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User Papaursa
Do you think Papaursa should be reported to the ANI? He clearly shows no interest in working along side fellow Wikiepidians, refusing to listen to any open suggestions, clearly this user values his own opinion over to those who have fresh ideas from what he says. I was offering some very useful suggestions at the WP:MMANOT's discussion page, as with the criteria as it is right now only whatever is considered a 'top tier' promotion is safe, whereas any other promotion, such as BAMMA and EliteXC are put on shaky grounds. He refuses to even acknowledge what I'm saying, going as far as saying that it is me who isn't open for suggestion. Now I've always had the best interests of all pages on Wikipedia, and I am a team player so I cannot see how he came up with that theory, just because I questions the criteria on WP:MMANOT, a page I should point out that HE created. I noticed that many of the users who offer suggestions always ask him, as if he owns the page, which is a direct violation of WP:OWN. No-one should have to ask for permission from him to edit the page, especially as it seems that he is the one with the final say everytime. Here is the last comment he put on that page -

'Actually, the reason I haven't bothered to respond to all your statements is because it would be a waste of my time. It's clear you have a viewpoint (which you repeat/repost over and over) and that no facts will dissuade you from your beliefs. Since you've made it clear you value no opinions but your own, why should I bother? Answer--I shouldn't.'

Now again it is like I said I've never had a problem with taking in other people's opinions, so this is insulting for me to read. I will, however, try to reason with a bit, if he refuses to listen and take in what I say, I may go a head and report him to ANI. (BigzMMA 10:16, 19 November 2011 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by BigzMMA (talk • contribs)

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Vlachs
Croatian is one of four 100% mutually intelligible standards of pluricentric Serbo-Croatian Language (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian):

"All standard varieties are based on the same subdialect (Eastern Herzegovinian) of the same dialect (Shtokavian) of Serbo-Croatian; they are mutually intelligible and have almost identical vocabulary and grammar. They are therefore treated as a single language on Wiktionary under the header ==Serbo-Croatian==." So, I prefer to put sh:Vlasi instead of bs:Vlasi, hr:Vlasi, sr:Vlasi. But if you prefer to put Vlasi, Vlasi, Vlasi instead of Vlasi, I'm fine with it. Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf (talk) 07:32, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , thanks for discussing this. In my view, since the article talks about Vlachs in Croatia, I would have considered it logical to retain it as Vlasi. Balkan articles tend to cause a lot of bad blood among editors, for good reason. Blackmane (talk) 23:25, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Vlachs
Croatian is one of four 100% mutually intelligible standards of pluricentric Serbo-Croatian Language (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian):

"All standard varieties are based on the same subdialect (Eastern Herzegovinian) of the same dialect (Shtokavian) of Serbo-Croatian; they are mutually intelligible and have almost identical vocabulary and grammar. They are therefore treated as a single language on Wiktionary under the header ==Serbo-Croatian==." So, I prefer to put sh:Vlasi instead of bs:Vlasi, hr:Vlasi, sr:Vlasi. But if you prefer to put Vlasi, Vlasi, Vlasi instead of Vlasi, I'm fine with it. Maria Sieglinda von Nudeldorf (talk) 07:32, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , thanks for discussing this. In my view, since the article talks about Vlachs in Croatia, I would have considered it logical to retain it as Vlasi. Balkan articles tend to cause a lot of bad blood among editors, for good reason. Blackmane (talk) 23:25, 5 August 2019 (UTC)