User talk:Brian0918/Archive 24

Legends
Here is the translation, that needs some editing:

There are a few legends about the island Barsa-Kelmes, for examples: the observation of prehistoric lizards, or the landings of UFO. There is a common belief that time on the island flows differently. Some people who lost their way and spent there, as they thought, just a few hours where returned in a few days. Some refuges hidden themselves there for a year wend back home in a few decades. However these claims were not supported by the facts and, as thought, the result of mystifications.

One of the authors of such mystifications was the science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko who admitted in the “Information Summary of KLF MGU” (at the Moscow University): “The stories about flying saucers and machines of time at Barsa-Kelmes that are presented by “TM” (the magazine “Tekhnika Molodyozhi”) as true facts were taken completely out of thin air. Independently of each other newer and newer generations were joined this game. And if we do not stop this chitchat, our grand children will organize expeditions to the unhappy islet. So I have to repent my sins. And cheerful picture from “TM”, where pteranodon bears in the beak flying saucer, alas, it is without foundation”.

In June 2000, the 80th expedition of "Kosmopoisk" took place here. (meladina 14:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC))

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Image:MontyPythonCast.jpg
I felt that the Image Tagging template was a little too patronising for a user who's been around as long as you have :) Nevertheless, that's the gist of what I'll attempt to say in this message. I accidentally reverted, then re-reverted the above image, so Orphanbot instructed me to take off the tag and replace it with something more appropriate. I substituted with , but I guess you should provide the source info. Cheers!  riana  but of course i'm listening  16:15, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It's from the BBC website. But as you said, it's probably got too high a resolution to be fair use. I suppose it's gonna go, then. Pity. I'll see if I can find something more suitable. --  riana  but of course i'm listening 06:58, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK Newfoundland Tricolour
Thank you very much for posting the article, much appreciated. HJKeats 11:27, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Newfoundland Tricolour
Thanks for adding it to the template, although apparently it was up and gone before I could even see it. :( Damn you, early morning updates! :) Oz Lawyer  14:35, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Template talk:Did you know
Brian, I think you forgot to update the refreshment clock when you did your update. It doesn't match my memory of seeing your inprogress note, nor the timestamp on the template. GRBerry 22:12, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK, Treaty of Viterbo
Unfortunately, there's a typo in the nomination: it should read Angevin, not Angevine. Can you fix this on the main page? Choess 02:28, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I solicited a fix on IRC. Choess 02:47, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Did you know
I've been away for a while from Did you know, and I'm kind of missing some info. How long are items supposed to stick on the main page before they become stale nowadays? Also, I think the template indicating the new refreshment time is broken. It states the last update was 9 hours ago, when in fact it was 6 hours ago. Please answer the first question on my talk page. - Mgm|(talk) 10:23, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for not being brutal
As the author of Chaos Theory of Literature, I'm completely fine with having my article criticized -- perhaps I was hasty in thinking it proper to assign an entire theory to this area of study. I accept all criticisms from you folks who have more experience than I on Wikipedia. I will defer without protest to whatever the WP community decides.

However, calling the page (and its contents) "pomo garbage" is a bit harsh, don't you think? The works I mentioned and the insight they offer are important to me; perhaps there is a way to change the content of the article in a way that doesn't bash its very existence. I am very much opposed to the cult of postmodernism and its relentless effort to co-opt every tiny element of culture (popular and otherwise). I do not feel that this is the case here -- there are very real and significant links to be made between the findings of chaos theoreticians and the study of literature.

Further, I never cited Jurassic Park as evidence for anything; I merely noted that it discusses chaos theory (echoing a comment made by someone else). If the discussion of chaos theory in the novel isn't erudite enough, I don't know what to say. The fact remains that it is an integral theme of the novel, and that Ms. Hawkins analyzes it in detail.

Personally, I feel that the suggestion made by Goethean on the afd page is most agreeable (doesn't it suit your erstwhile comment that "there's a big difference between using an idea as a metaphor to aid in explaining another field, and devising an all-out theory of the field"?), but -- as I said -- I will defer to the more experienced here. -- Scartol 12:38, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Big image favor
Brian, I've noticed that you do a lot of work with featured picture candidates, and I was wondering if you could help me out with a FAC I'm interested in getting promoted. The article is Gregorian chant, and the lead image is. As you can see, someone recently uploaded a straightened-out version of this image, however the quality has been seriously degraded to my eye. I was wondering if you could straighten the original image with less loss in quality? Thanks very much for any time you can give. Cheers, Mak (talk)  16:03, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Unblocked
Hi. Just wanted to let you know that I removed a block you placed on User:86.140.170.23. While it was certainly a personal attack that's a British Telecom IP potentially used by alot of people. For example, it was impacting User:Skittle. As that was the only edit ever under the IP address hopefully it won't be repeated. --CBD 20:20, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Main Page featured pictures
You've done some great work fixing the captions of the pictures featured on the main page. Thanks for that - it makes it come across much better when the blurb describes the picture. violet/riga (t) 15:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Am I a New User?
Please stop judging me by my edits. I used to have an account a long time ago, and I forgot the password when I picked up again. I also have been editing under IP recently. So please don't make me feel that my opinion is unvalued. Thank you.
 * Ok, I understand now.

You Are Everywhere
Barnstar moved to user page.

Your block of "I vandalised wikipedia and all i got was this lousy block"
You blocked for six months. However, this username is inappropriate according to Wikipedia's username standards, so it should be blocked indefinitely instead of with a definite end. 23:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Bablefish
I'm loving the machine translation of the it.wp you posted on main:talk. It sounds exactly like my friend from Italy trying to speak english. Something that I can't really laugh about as my Italian is not even at the level of a pre-schooler. --Monotonehell 19:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

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Proposal on Notability
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Reinvigorate
I feel I must defend the honor of my writing! "Reinvigorate" is a perfectly valid word - check your OED, or ; and it has a more appropriate connotation. (No real offense taken.) --Davepape 03:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I looked it up also when updating :) But thanks for correcting the other errors.  Cheers -- Samir    धर्म  10:07, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Two Featured Pictures
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Featured Picture
Congratulations again. Raven4x4x 09:39, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

This is to let you know the Featured Picture you uploaded and/or nominated Image:Grauman's Chinese Theatre, by Carol Highsmith fixed & straightened.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the day on September 22, 2006, when it will be featured on the Main Page. Congratulations!  howch e  ng   {chat} 17:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Vote on Fir0002 FPC set
Hi Brian! Hope you can stop by here and leave your much appreciated thoughts. Thanks! --Fir0002 12:15, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Hummingbird Hawk-moth FPC
Hi! You supported the Hummingbird Hawk-moth FPC (like everyone else who commented), but HighInBC uploaded an edit that absolutely no-one commented on. I can't promote the image without knowing which version to promote, so now I have to ask everyone which version they prefer. Would you mind specifying which image you are supporting? Thanks. Raven4x4x 09:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to post 2 messages at once but...
Congratulations again. The Agricultural Research Service have you to thank for their recent surge in publicity. Raven4x4x 10:11, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Staphylococcus aureus, 50,000x, USDA, ARS, EMU.jpg will be the POTD on September 24, 2006. Image:Snowflake 300um LTSEM, 13368.jpg follows on September 26.  howch e  ng   {chat} 17:08, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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Hello Brian. I was trying out the ogg format and i used ffmpegtotheora (something like that, i renamed it so it would be easier) to convert a video that has a framerate of 30 and is 36 seconds long into an ogg file, and it ALWAYS ends up 10 seconds or less! I tried lots of different commands and just converting without any options, and it's always 10 seconds! (The "media help page" told me to contact you) If you can, please leave a reply on my talk page. Thanks!

Questionable information in Rime (frost) article
While browsing the featured pictures, I found it hard to believe that supercooled water droplets in the atmosphere could be 10mm in diameter. This page has the same text as quoted in the article, but with what I think are more reasonable numbers, in micrometers instead of millimeters. I know nothing about frost, but I thought maybe you'd like to be informed of this discrepancy between sources. --Adam 70.100.2.128 18:25, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

why did you block tenpa rinpoche
please cite what content was "fake" in tenpa rinpoche's contributed article about william cassidy


 * See Articles for deletion/William Lawrence Robert Cassidy, and User talk:Tenpa rinpoche. The entire article appeared to be fake by me and others. &mdash; BRIAN 0918 &bull; 2006-08-07 04:49

"Other uses" discussion
You were previously involved in discussions relating to whether the wording of templates such as otheruses should simply say "For other uses" as it currently does or should read differently. I've started a discussion on the issue at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation and thought you might be interested. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 02:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Vitrification2.png listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Vitrification2.png, has been listed at. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Wwagner 04:27, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Uzerbaaji
Hi, Brian, I was hoping you could help me? User:Uzerbaaji is continually adding some foreign text to articles, which I keep reverting but he won't stop. I was hoping you could ask him to stop – I don't know what I should do. – Sophie (talk) 15:28, 9 August 2006