User talk:BrianKnez

Help?!
HELP

After editing several pages, (Please see my history, please, and let me know what you think..) I have tasked myself the David hash page, originally without knowing how recently it was tagged. After looking about online, I have seen that the text of this page is nearly the same as a myspace page of the same name. There appears to be opera related information on this page, on http://www.davidhash.com/, and on a few other pages I Googled. However, these pages were in Italian. Is there a way to find an interpreter of Italian, or someone knowledgeable in modern opera/modern Italian opera who can check on this?
 * Just leave it be. It's been tagged as a PROD, and it doesn't look like it stands a chance of surviving long here. I don't know much Italian, but it does look indeed like a copyvio from the few cognates I can pick out. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 03:17, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Reply
Don't want to be beaten anymore? Get HUGGLE! Please go here to get it. Thanks. Cheers. Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 00:55, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

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Font?
Hi! I'm curious; what font are you using for your signature? Thanks! --Captain Infinity (talk) 02:03, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I use Blackletter. Sometimes it comes up as unloadable / unrecognizable, though.. Hopefully, this isn't why you're asking. Frankly, it was unrecognizable to me for three hours this evening, for no apparent reason. 𝕭𝖗𝔦𝔞𝔫𝕶𝔫𝔢𝔷 talk 02:22, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I can see it fine in my browser, so it must be on my system, but when I trid pasting it into Word it was not recognized. Odd.  Anyway, I asked because it looks cool and I'd like to use it sometime.  Thanks! --Captain Infinity (talk) 03:12, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I have Eric Cartman on my watchlist. Today it was vandalized by User:70.44.14.180.  I went to his talk page and saw your sig there on a warning for a different vandalization. --Captain Infinity (talk) 04:16, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry
My cat sat on my keyboard while I was using Huggle.. I hope she didn't do anything catastrophically unjust to anyone. I got up to get a drink..

𝕭𝖗𝔦𝔞𝔫𝕶𝔫𝔢𝔷 talk 04:08, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Vandals are a pain
Regarding this edit, there's nothing "confusing" about what's been done. OK, I'm not in the best of moods at the moment, but really, there is a limit to how much "Good Faith" you need to "Assume". Perhaps my response is a little "over-the-top", but I do tire of namby-pamby "warnings" that say nothing. No, it's not your fault, you didn't commit the vandalism, but if you are going to say something, I feel you should at least say something ... Pdfpdf (talk) 15:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Re:.
 * Interesting, mostly because I think I agree. Pdfpdf (talk) 15:49, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Re: your response. Yes, your "automation" rationale is a sensible approach; my complaint is with the inane stupidity of the wording of a "standard message" that says nothing. I'm sure that it is usually very obvious to you the difference between blatant vandalism and misguided-otherwise-good-intentions; huggle should have a switch to let you skip the namby-pamby inane message and go to a more direct message when the situation warrants.
 * By-the-way, I think I don't agree that in an ideal world, all messages would be personalised; my expectation is that, in the majority of cases, your additional efforts would produce no additional value. I only give personalised messages to the obviously mis-guided who I feel are likely to respond to "guidance", or when I'm really pissed-off and want to vent my spleen! In such circumstances, simply clicking a button would not provide me with sufficient satisfaction!
 * No, I wouldn't call you lazy. As we've both said in different ways, it's all about "return-on-investment", "cost/benefit ratio" or whatever the current buzz-phrase is.
 * In closing, I'd say that it is probably a good thing for me that I can't deliver my anti-vandalism warnings in person - the consequences of personal delivery might severly (and painfully) increase the cost!
 * Meanwhile, keep "huggle"ing! Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 06:39, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Just FYI
I don't know what this person's deal is, but just a heads-up. Maybe s/he thinks pretending you have a blocked sockpuppet account will besmirch you or something. Beats me. - Vianello (talk) 21:44, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey, no problem. I just noticed it while I was squatting in the recent changes area, clicked it, red flag went up in my head, thought I'd let you know. - Vianello (talk) 01:16, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiLove
what are you talking about? what content have I removed? I haven't removed anything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.151.179.34 (talk) 05:57, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

You're the ones who have removed content including Zhang's early career and summaries of her seasons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.151.179.34 (talk) 06:00, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Thanks
No problem for the reverting, I guess it all was good in the end, with him getting blocked. Tis' all good! :) Andy (talk) 12:47, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

About Caroline Zhang
you left this message on my talk page and I would like to comment in reply:

"At least, that's what this and Huggle say. Now, I'm not saying that you really deleted all the content, but a reasonable amount of information was removed(AS far as I can tell - I could be wrong.) and this content was well referenced and had appropriate style. Be that as it may, yours certainly appears to have been a 'good faith' edit, and there is something to be said for the more simple presentation of your version, as well as brevity, as opposed to verbosity. However, in the future, I would highly advise discussing any major changes of this nature in the relevant pages' discussion section. I'm also entirely aware that I could have made a mistake, and may not be looking closely enough.. Did you move those citations and other info to somewhere else, on a related page?"

I am wondering abuot your Huggle tool. I rewrote the section and did not delete anything. Actually, I moved things down and then rewrote parts of it and interspersed my own writing with what was there. When I saw the difference between the pages, I saw that it lookedl ike I had taken what was there, removed it, and then added some more, because it picked out words from the original paragraph and picked out words in my new paragraph, and then assumed that my new paragraph was a removal of the old one, instead of a new pargraph and the old one had been moved down. I am wondering what tripped the automatic tool, because I did not remove information, I just added some that made it seem like I did. Can the tool not detect for adding sentences? Does it treat each paragraph like a different paragraph? I am concerned about getting automatically reverted in the future.

Puede01 (talk) 22:59, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

The work of deleting IP vandalism on chem element pages
Since you're involved, I wonder if you'd like to comment on this discussion on semi-protection for element articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Elements Thanks! S B Harris 23:35, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

That edit is not vandalism, I am trying to let people know that there is no connection. Wetman88 (talk) 02:27, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

That's actually a surprisingly good point. Alright then. Wetman88 (talk) 02:55, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Your signature
I wanted to give you a heads-up that your signature seems to be causing some issues. I was following up on your AIV report here, but I could not click on the IP's "contribs" link because your name overlapped it. Just something I thought I would bring to your attention. Cheers. TN X Man 13:43, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * your signature just shows up as blank characters on my plain en system Nasnema  Chat  22:05, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it does that on some peoples' systems. As I recall, there are font downloads available for such problems, but I have never downloaded them myself. Also, for reasons entirely unknown to me, periodically I can't read my own signature.. Beats me, but I like its' aesthetics too much to change it. It should read BrianKnez in a sort - of medieval looking fancy Blackletter. Oh, and where'd you run into me?
 * - 𝕭𝖗𝔦𝔞𝔫𝕶𝔫𝔢𝔷 talk 22:12, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * That'll be it then: it's Unicode but most of the western world won't be able to see anything but squares for characters without them installing the character set to go with it. I was just browsing the recent edits and thought I would drop you a note when I saw there was a problem with the sig. Nasnema  Chat  13:33, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks
for taking care of my talk page. Cheers --Howwi (talk) 07:00, 19 October 2009 (UTC)


 * You're welcome! That's mainly what I do around here (anti-vandal work).. And it seems to get under vandals' skin - my userpage has been vandalized 12 times, by my count, and my talk page once or twice.. Usually, they're not even very witty, although I can usually get some smiles out of a day's vandalisms. Happy editing!
 * - 𝕭𝖗𝔦𝔞𝔫𝕶𝔫𝔢𝔷 talk 21:16, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
... for reverting the vandalism to my userpage :) ≈ Chamal talk ¤ 01:41, 20 October 2009 (UTC)


 * You're welcome; that's mainly what I do.. Meaning general anti-vandal work, that is; so much easier than copy-editing, and even after six years studying there's not too much well sourced info to add to our Northern European Dark - to - Medieval Ages history articles.
 * - 𝕭𝖗𝔦𝔞𝔫𝕶𝔫𝔢𝔷 talk 01:52, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

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