User talk:Brideshead/Archive 1

Age of consent
Hi, thanks for your edit! The information and link you added in support is exactly the kind of thing this article needs. I did clean up your edit a wee bit.. (can't help myself lol) what exactly would bisexual sex consist of? (don't answer that lol) --Cheers! Monotonehell 18:41, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Signing comments
Please remember to sign the comments you leave on Talk pages. All you need to do is type four tildes ( ~ ) after your comment and Wikipedia will automatically fill in your username and a timestamp. Thanks. AlistairMcMillan 03:48, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


 * You ALWAYS sign comments? Would you care to place a small wager on that?   AlistairMcMillan 13:58, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Federal Prisons
Isn't the national government of the United Kingdom compared to the government of Scotland analogous to the federal government of the United States vs. the governments of the individual states? I would suggest that you do, then, live in a country with a federal government, of sorts. Denvoran 22:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Bonjour!
I just wanted to drop in and say bonjour! Jim Bart 21:49, 7 June 2006 (UTC) (I'm introducing myself around WP.)

Foster Care
The Rfc is a good plan...thanks. Let's see what develops and that should resolve the matter with some consensus. DPeterson talk 20:24, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Your edit to Special education
I reverted the introduction to special education. Your introduction doesn't talk about inclusion. this one does...without special education, inclusion would not be possible. I agree with the previous editor. I don't like the way you say that this "may be" emotional, physical, circumstantial or intellectual and may require special teaching approaches, equipment or care within or outwith a regular classroom or in a special school setting. Special education is for students with sinular needs or disabilities.....i still think that it's much clearer before. What is your problem?! Why do you keep reverting my edits? I am fully involved. Look at all of my edits that I've done! How can you say I'm not fully involved? My edits does not involve in America....it is completely neutral. Clearly, you are the only being bothered by it. No one has said anything about it. Can't we get an administrator to help us resolve this issue? you don't agree with me...and I don't agree with you....Special education is inclusion...that's why I merged inclusion to special education. I did discussed it on the talk page.....that I was going to merge it. Well it's not my fault that people don't like to discuss things with me. I put that up like weeks ago...and did anyone respond to me? NO. I don't have all day waiting for their responses....how do i get them to respond to me faster? (209.177.21.6 - Talk )

--www.secularism.org.uk 19:46, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help in trying to balance the content of the special education article. I know it is especially frustrating at times, but I encourage you to tone down your remarks towards the other editor. I think completely changing the opening paragraph has had a positive effect on the discussion and hopefully the process will be easier (at least for the time being). Nposs 20:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your note. I've posted a request for help on the Wikiproject Education page. Maybe we can pick up a few experts to help out. By the way, having your username appear as a url might be a violation of WP:USER. Not sure - but you might want to take a look at it. Nposs 04:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:SCOWNB Participants merger with WP:SCO
As I hope you may have seen I am attempting to tidy up WP:SCOWNB by removing old notices and the duplication that has emerged since the creation of WP:SCO. One of the latter issues is that there are lists of active Wikipedians on both locations which overlap to a significant degree. As WP:SCOWNB is ideally a place for announcements I am in process of merging the lists at WP:SCO and intend to remove the one at WP:SCOWNB when this is complete. However there are a fair number of Users not on both lists. If you do not wish to have you current WP:SCOWNB entry re-appear at WP:SCO please either let me know or edit the latter as appropriate. Thanks for your patience, and continuing support of matters relating to WikiProject Scotland. Ben MacDui (Talk) 18:15, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Emerald article
Just wondering what needs citations in this article, as there's no specifics with the tag.Olneya 04:37, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Brideshead

Egyptain Jasper and Greek Agate
Hi! I created too small articles called Egyptian Jasper and Greek Agate. Here are the links to those page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_agate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_jasper Would you mind looking at them and cleaning or editing them. Thanks! Neptunekh 18:19, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Any Dream Will Do (TV series)
You might want to change the How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? from girls also. Timclare (talk) (sign here)  11:26, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

ratemyteacher
I am currently in a dispute about ratemyteacher and read your comments on that page. Talk: Seymour High School (Connecticut) I dont want the link on school pages. He disagrees. Wondered what you thought. Perhaps we work on the page?BrandtSchneider 22:50, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Special Education abuse
Hi brideshead. I'm not sure if I have specifically pointed this out to you previous but the editor you are having constant battles with on special education and inclusive (______) is Jessica Liao. Jessica = 2 IP account, RainingmySoul, Oahc, etc. It's really tough to hold her back from making lots of edits even if you point out the clear POV she has. I don't know what action you can take, if she continues usually she'll get engaged in a 3RR case or she will post vandalism -- anyway keep an eye out there for new accounts that post exactly like the users your already dealing with -- it means she's probably created another account. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MrMacMan (talk • contribs) 16:41, 21 April 2007 (UTC).
 * The above comment was *surprisingly* vandalized, aha. I am MrMacMan found on the links. MrMacMan Talk  23:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Anon ed on your talk page
Hi - if what you are saying about the anon editor here is correct (and I don't have reason to doubt you), I can certainly understand your annoyance. It should not be tolerated. But, if you don't mind, I'd like to suggest you express it differently. I do not mind if you remove this message. Kind regards and happy editing. :) --Merbabu 11:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't worry - I've been there, done that too. No doubt I will again one day. yes, wikipedia is permanent, but a quick and open modification of remarks goes a long way in my opinion. :)  --Merbabu 11:47, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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Special schools do not provide special education.
Special schools do not provide special education. How can it provide special education if it doesn't have regular classrooms? Special education is to help the special needs student function in mainstream classes. In special schools, there are no mainstream classes. So how is special education provided? Someone should provide a reference stating that special education is provided in special schools. (209.177.21.6 - talk)

We have discussed this before. I am not going to keep having the same weak dialogue. That is your definition of special edcuation. You have no sources for it and it is not a view represented in the special needs community, in which i work. Special education is the provision of an education adapted to the additional needs of the individual in any setting. it has nothing to do with contrasting education with 'normal' classes. --Brideshead 10:05, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

So then provide a reference!! You keep saying you'll right...then prove it...So why didn't you just say that before instead of arguing with me? It would have been better if you clarified your point. (69.117.20.128 - talk)

I am so confused!
"However, even the narrower usage of the term may refer to a range of school type such as a school with an innovative and flexible cirriculum aimed at bright, self-motivated students; a school for students with behavioral problems; or a school with special remedial programs. "

welcome to WikiProject LGBT Studies
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Do you find it funny
That Jessica, who has always been Jessica has now transformed herself into this 'new' personality 'Angelina'. I find this latest turn of events hilarious. Jessica is really getting very persistent these days, Special education, Alternative school, even Special school. The topics are so related that I've been taking a rest for a while now to try and figure out if she is trying to make them all sound the same or if they are in fact all the same. I'm glad that someone is looking over her edits and I want to give you a big pat on the back for your work. Keep up the good work, MrMacMan Talk  20:07, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I mean i don't even mind that she uses IPs, its just the sheer scope of her work on the same articles. I mean she knows wikipedia policy and its rather clear of her intent, but she doesn't even push POV 'the right way' -- with correct sources -- she pushes it with putting the same info in an article over and over again. I mean if she cited the stuff she used, it wouldn't be an obvious problem, but she doesn't. She could be a great editor, she knows policy and knows stuff about the topics -- she's using her intelligence completely wrong. It's rather saddening. Jessica -- please, you know policy, why continue to use unsourced statements and copy from outside places? We all know you know better. MrMacMan Talk  20:15, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot
Hi, as a WikiProject Scotland participant, please check out this  this thread and consider adding the bot results page to your watchlist so we can manually update the New Articles page. There are some false results for the first batch, but I'm sure we can collectively tune the rules to improve the output.

If we get enough people watching the results page, we'll be cooking with gas as they say :)  This looks like a great helper in finding new Scotland related material. Cheers. -- Cactus.man   &#9997;  22:29, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
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Septarian nodule
Hi! I created an about Septarian nodules. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septarian_nodule Would you mind looking at it and editing it? thanks! Neptunekh 02:01, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

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LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
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LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
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Hey, Peeps, it's that time of the month again (no not that time &mdash; get your mind out of the gutter): time for another monthly edition of the LGBT Project's Love Boat newsletter from your cruise director Miss Julie. So much has been happening this month and I just can't wait to tell you all about it!!!

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Alice and her harasser
Let's start with some good news: Alice and the project lost the bothersome sock puppet who had been disrupting many articles we monitor, and now most of us can edit in relative peace. Congratulations, Alice, for being able to come out of semi-retirement. Benjiboi, on the other hand, has gained an anonymous IP stalker who seems to be more Catholic than the Pope and who has a hard-on for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. We seem to have a sort of Yin and Yang thing going on here, which helps both to keep us in balance and on our toes.

Harry Potter and his homosexual teacher
Albus Dumbledore got outed this month, and was immediately adopted by our project. The international brouhaha surrounding this disclosure reached all the way to Wikiland, and his article was briefly locked due to homophobic vandalism (as well as well meaning editors who just couldn't believe that that nice man could possibly be gay). This is a wonderful article to add to your watchlist, and will surely give you hours of reverting fun on cold winter days.

"My Fellow Americans"
On a more serious note, Fireplace has suggested a new article series about LGBT rights in the United States, state by state. This ambitious topic will surely require many editors and a lot of research, but has the potential to add further prestige to our already prestigious project.

Same name, same sexuality: a riddle for the ages
Francis Bacon (not the new gay one, but the old gay one ... though they're actually both dead, now that I think about it) has also aroused passions here on Wikipedia, with editors opposing his sexuality being disclosed in his biography. The always helpful Haiduc has thoughtfully provided any number of sources, but it is slow going getting his point across. Anyone want to lend a hand?

Beat writer arouses Irish guy
And speaking of passions, Jack Kerouac has inflamed the senses once again with editors, including administrator Irishguy, mounting a spirited defense to keep him as heterosexual as possible for Wikipedia purposes. Why? I don't know. Perhaps some of you can drop by the talk page and ask your questions there. I feel certain a stimulating debate will ensue that will be enjoyed by all.

Love those Texas Longhorns
Did you know that one of our Featured articles, Lawrence v. Texas, lost its shiny gold star? That was a shocker. It has been suggested that we turn our attention to it in an effort to restore it to its former glory. I took a peek, and it does need our help badly. For our American editors, it would seem almost a civic duty to edit it (not that I'm hinting....).

Point and Counterpoint
Though it was far too intellectual a debate for a mere cruise director like myself to take part in, Intersexuality was certainly a hot topic a week or two ago. The thrust of the debate was over inclusion in our project. Lots of good editors had lots of good opinions. For those too lazy to check out the discussion, we decided to leave it out for now.

Drudgery on offer
Peer review is, as always, short staffed and seemingly unloved. Wouldn't you feel better about yourself and the world in general if you took a few minutes to read one of the listed articles and offer some helpful advice? I know I'd feel better if you did.
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"My Fellow Americans" redux
The article LGBT movements in the United States certainly raised eyebrows last week, especially when it was discovered that copyrighted content had been added to our article. Tragedy was averted at the last minute, though, when the original hosts of the article where the material had been pilfered agreed to make it free to everyone. Our thanks to them, whoever they are. Busy Bee that I am, I haven't had time to read it, but I'm sure it's sensational.

This month's Wiki stars
Lesbian pulp fiction (a genre close to my heart, I must confess) writer Ann Bannon has decided to spice up the featured articles candidates list this month. Why not drop by and make your opinion heard? Joining her in this lofty aspiration are the articles But I'm a Cheerleader and Conversion therapy. I'm sure their main editors would welcome any comments (well, helpful ones, anyway) on the talk pages or the FAC discussions. And lest we forget, the List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: Sd-Si became a Featured list!! Rah rah, siskumbah! Go, team, GO!!!!

And the Oscar goes to...
Not content to run for Best Actress, plucky Bannon won a Best supporting actress Oscar... whoops, I meant to say Ann is also getting more than her share of womanly attention on the Good Article list. Joining her on this exalted plane are Freddy Mercury, Waylon Smithers and Lance Bass. Good articles indeed, and the last one mentioned just goes to show that one needn't admire the subject of an article to appreciate the effort put into making him worthwhile reading. What on earth Britney ever saw in him I'll never know. Truly a riddle cloaked in an enigma and wrapped around a puzzle.

Fresh faces to brighten our pages
Though I may not be the first, let me extend a warm, LGBT Love Boat welcome to the 12 new members who joined us in October: Jliberty, JockCub360, ChristopherEdwards, Desiderius82, Zlrussell, Kelsied, BeardedWoof, Mujerado, Tyrfing, Fabgurrl, Redl@nds597198, and decafdyke! Whatever you choose to do here, I feel sure that your contributions will enhance our project to no end. And if they don't...well, let's just say that I'm not shy.

Leather and lace
On a personal note, your already overworked cruise director is being cyberly whipped almost daily by Nemissimo, who desperately wants to get the German BDSM translation copy edited and used as a replacement for the current one. It's such a ... err, stimulating topic that I am sure many of you will want to join the copy editing fun. Jump right in, folks! It's so lonely copy editing it all by my lonesome!

Late breaking news
A little birdie just whispered in my ear that our noble collaboration project was delisted from the Community Portal due to inactivity. When asked how this scandalous turn of events could have occurred, the answer I received was "we suck at stuff like that". Well. In the first place, I disagree that sucking should be considered a negative, but to each his or her own. In the second place, I have full confidence that we can and will collaborate with other projects in the future. So let's not view this as a setback (even though it is), but rather a challenge to improve (and good Lord, I sound almost Wikipedian!).

Champagne dreams and caviar kisses
Lastly, the holidays are rapidly approaching. Our American cousins are currently getting ready to slaughter masses of poultry in an effort to show their gratitude and generally peaceful demeanor, and those of the Canadian persuasion, trendsetters that they are, celebrated a bit early this year. I'm sure all us foreigners will join together in wishing them all a very happy Thanksgiving on their respective holidays, both already celebrated and forthcoming... though I would hope somebody would enlighten me as to why they don't celebrate it on the same day. I was awake all last night trying to figure that one out. - In the spirit of this peculiarly North American holiday, let me take a moment to thank all of our editors for their contributions to this project. It's people like you who make people like me...well, a "people person"! May all your Wiki days be bright, and may your Love Boat never turn into a Poseidon.
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Kisses,

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LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
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LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
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LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
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Hello, members and friends of WP:LGBT! I'm not one to be writing newsletters, but I miss our cruise director, Miss Julie, and our project is drifting along with a few leaking plugs in the bottom of the boat. Hey, it happens. Every group we join goes through changes. If Wikipedia weren't so interesting it wouldn't also be so frustrating sometimes. And vice versa. More than one Wikiproject has tumbleweeds blowing through it, but this is one that can't afford to let that happen. Even if you pop in to the talk page of the project, you can let us know you're still around.

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WP:LGBT's Role in HIV / AIDS articles
It wouldn't be a proper gay community without a li'l bit o' drama! That's right. If we aren't arguing about something, then we should be asking if we're still queer. Maybe that's for the best, since we know we're still kicking. Our most recent topic is how far the role of our project should go in dipping our toes into HIV/AIDS articles. The main AIDS article was delisted as a Featured Article last month, sadly. (Sending a swift kick to WP:Medicine.) A spirited discussion is available for your entertainment on the WP:LGBT talk page about just how much of HIV and AIDS should we take on. As ever, we'll take your opinions under advisement. We're going to have to, because it doesn't seem to have been settled.

Is Pride POV?
We have a pretty cool sidebar that identifies core LGBT articles. Its symbol is the iconic gay pride flag, much like other Wikiprojects have iconic symbols denoting the topic is a core subject in a series of articles. However, a question recently arose asking if the symbol itself is not neutral. Should a pride flag show up at the top of the article on Conversion therapy? How else would anyone know the article is about queer issues? Is there another symbol that is as widely recognized and that includes all our many splintered facets? At what point do we stop asking ourselves all these questions and just go have a mint julep on the verandah and stop caring?

Harvey Milk and Jim Jones
For the love of all that is holy, no Kool Aid jokes. However, an editor involved in pioneering San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk's article has included a section about the late supervisor's support of Jim Jones and the People's Temple. While it may be accurate, there is a Request for Comment regarding how much emphasis the section places on Milk's support in light of his overall political influence on the city, and indeed the rest of the United States. Milk's article is a sad one in more ways than one. It lacks the detail and heart that honors its subject. Anyone want to do a barter with me? I'll bring Harvey Milk to featured status (give me a month or two so I can read stuff), if you do something of equal value to WP:LGBT?? Make me an offer...

Queer Studies is offensive!
The established branch of study known as Queer studies was brought up as an category for deletion because an editor was offended by the use of "queer" in the title. It was overwhelmingly rejected mostly by the usernames I see here on our Wikiproject page. (A clue that I know you are out there, hiding...biding your time...) So, I wish I could congratulate you, but now I'm all confused by my sympathy for the editor who was offended. So, if you're reading this, Moni has a short memory and can't remember your username. Don't be put off by our demonstrative pushiness. Join us. We can always use involved editors.

Lambda Literary Awards
What can you do to help the project out? Be a wiki-fairy, on many levels. There are all kinds of articles that need help. Why, just this morning I removed those ugly wikify and cleanup tags from four articles at random. If you can put  around stuff, you can clean up articles. There's a list of articles that need attention at the top of the WP:LGBT talk page. Or you can start with the Lambda Literary Awards, where the goddess of my altar received a pioneering award, and was "reduced to rubble" by Katherine V. Forrest's wonderful speech. The 20th ceremony of the Lambda Literary Awards, which celebrates LGBT literature, took place in West Hollywood on May 29th. The page needs to be updated with the new winners, to be found on the official website.


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Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Arthur C. Clarke and Bernard Montgomery
Why on earth would someone want to delete material about homosexuality? 'Tis truly a mystery. But these embattled articles have some random evil gnomes removing information that places these folks under our queer umbrella. Help us keep an eye out for the deletions. Take a peek at the articles, familiarize yourselves with the info, and be handy with the undo function in the article history. If tempers flare, take it to the Hall monitors and let them sort it out. Best solution is to make sure your sources are immaculate.

This month's Wiki stars
This is what I get for opening my big fat mouth and suggesting the newsletter should be revived. Here I am writing it. So, to pat self on back (*cough*) Mulholland Dr. became a featured article in May. This is A Good Thing since it is my personal declaration that there is no such thing as lesbian porn. I don't care what Benjiboi says about the video collection at goodvibes. Instead, we have hot women who connect on a deep, personal, soul-touching level, so this film should qualify as some of the skankiest porn available for lesbians. Plus, it's completely confusing and surreal! D'you think Laura Harring would care that the article is featured? I don't think so either... (Call me, Laura!)

Compulsive hoarding of templates
Once I saw a harrowing episode of Animal Planet's Animal Cops where this guy had, like, 250 cats in his house and it freaked me right out. I'm drawing a parallel between 250 cats and, well...three, really, templates in articles involving LGBT issues. Can we stick to one, maybe? In the aforementioned Harvey Milk's article there's a core LGBT template, a link to the LGBT portal, and a sidebar for LGBT rights. Jiminy! You'd think we weren't the folk to set industrial grey carpeting and track lighting in vogue. An LGBT footer was designed to link to articles of interest that aren't the aforementioned core articles. What do you think, can we have either an LGBT template for core articles, a footer for LGBT articles that are high profile but not core, or an LGBT rights template? As ever, anything's up for discussion on the WP:LGBT talk page.

The Violet Quill and magazines
Zigzig20s suggests we create an article on The Violet Quill, as it seems such a milestone in the advancement of gay/queer literature. Members of the Quill all have pages of their own (Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, and George Whitmore). We need to find more info on the Quill per se to reference the page that we create. Perhaps Google Books - and libraries? - can help.

A number of magazines also need articles, perhaps most notably QW, LGNY, and Lesbian Feminist Liberation.

Mom's nagging for Pride Month
It's June, Pride month. Wear sunscreen, stay hydrated, get a designated driver, then go half-dressed in the streets find a girlfriend or boyfriend, or some homo who's standing there looking lonely and kiss 'em up real good. Remember, it all started 39 years ago when a bunch of drag queens just got fed the f*ck up by the cops raiding the bar and dragging them all out to the pokey again. Rock on, queens! Enjoy your celebrations. My town's is in October, and 200 people attend. I miss Denver.

Fresh faces to brighten our pages
Hey, I've seen you around! Sorry there seem to be so many—it's been a while. But we welcome you all: Cheezisyum21, Taineyah, Dustihowe, Avesta69, RachelSummers77, Vivekgopinathan, AMK1211, Staffwaterboy, Ted Ted, Joe5150, Leahtwosaints, Robapalooza, Arthomure, Confusionball, Affinity likely, PrinceOfCanada, Yobmod, Npd2983, Neagley, Bvlax2005, Bvlax2005, Rhullsf, Textorus, Kieran.casey, Tyciol, Meojive, Sappho'd, Bookkeeperoftheoccult,  Gaywarrior, Aujourd'hui, maman est morte, and Balin42632003.

It looks like we've picked up a lot of talent lately. We have no doubt you'll be making your indelible mark on LGBT knowledge as we know it, here at Wikipedia.

- In the immortal words of Miss Julie, "May all your Wiki days be bright, and may your Love Boat never turn into a Poseidon."
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We miss you, Miss Julie, as well as all the others who have graced our project and are on wiki-breaks or just got fed up with all the nuttiness and went to live their lives. Get your stupid houses built and hurry up and come back. --Moni3 (talk) 16:52, 9 June 2008 (UTC) To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Moni3 know.
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Bukkake
The purpose of Bukkake is female humiliation. I don't doubt that someone has made a porn movie involving a male as a subject -- and called it bukkake. Their use is the misnomer, not the definition. My concern is the accuracy of the usage. The citation gived the definition. Male humiliation in that fashion may occur, but it would not accurately be called bukkake, because it is not a female subject. Although I personally advocate non-sexism and fair representation of sex acts regardless of the gender of the participants, in this case the act originated in Japan, a highly sexist culture at that time, and some might say still. The primary goal of the act then, and now is humiliation of a female subject. You and I may not think that is fair, but that does not really matter. Some may desire to generalize the definition to focus on the mechanics of the act, rather than socio-cultural origins and redifne it, but that is not for wikipedians to do. 75.72.34.245 (talk) 00:10, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I realise this is only a talk page, however I really hope what is being said here does not make its way onto an article page. I would really love to see reliable citations to back up your claims, I would also love to see you justify the racism towards Japan that are stated above. Sennen goroshi (talk) 12:48, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Brideshead, I am sorry for the confusion, I did realise that the initial message was not made by you, I should have clarified the fact that my comments were directed towards the anon IP editor, not yourself. Sennen goroshi (talk) 14:25, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I intend no racism toward Japan. Japan, like the U.K and U.S. has less than favorable historical facts. Also, you should note that my comments are in regard to historical acts against women, not a race. These acts (against women) occur throughout most culture's history. The act called Bukkake has Japanese origins, but I have no doubt that every other culture has a similar history. Why the Japanese act is engraved in history and not the acts of other cultures is beyond me. Perhaps because of the Japanese occupation of China and Korea? Who knows. 75.72.34.245 (talk) 16:29, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Bridesmaid: Quote "The purpose of Bukkake is female humiliation". This is YOUR opinion, NOT fact. bukkake can involve a variety of participants, not simply the narrow definition you ascribe to it. I'm reverting the edit. --Brideshead (talk) 12:00, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

You are welcome to your opinion of course. But, I was not giving opinion but supporting the citation that was given. As a feminist is is also my perspective, but that isn't really relevant in the article. The act knows as "Gay Bukkake" is a recent phenomena. I am a strong supporter of GLBT/LGBT, and could care less what the genders of the people involved in any given sex act are. I am sure there is a long history of groups of people (male or female) ejecting or "splashing" ther ejaculate upon a single subject/victim for a variety of reasons, including for eroticism or humiliation or punishment -- whatever. The article is about Bukkake though, not about porn films, or "facials" or pearl necklaces or group sex or LGBT. Bukkake is of Japanese word and cultural origin. As I just said, the article is about Bukkake, not sperm ending up on someone elses face. Their probably is a much broader and more diverse history of Bukkake in Japan than I am aware of -- I am no expert on Japanese culture. One may need to be a good student of Japanese culture to really understand that. But, in a limited Wikipedia article, certainly the primary elements are 1) Muliple men ejaculate on their subject. 2) The subject is a woman. One can speculate the motivations of this cultural acts. (history suggests punishment of the woman, and ritual humiliation of the women is part of that, but there may be other contexts) The history does not, as far as I know, describe groups of men ejaculating on other men. (Although Japanese history does describe men urinating on other men as an act of domination/humiliation.) It does not describe describe groups of women ejaculating on men or women. So, when I emphasize that the Bukkake article should stick to the historical references, rather than a fairly recent trend of pornography of various kinds (regardless of the genders involved) it is not mean't to show bias against LGBT but intended to be true to the facts, regardless of what I would prefer. 75.72.34.245 (talk) 16:29, 15 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Nice theory, and the moment that theory is proven with citable and reliable facts, I will have no issues with it. As it stands there are no provable links between what may and may not have happened in Japan and what is known as Bukkake in the 21st Century. If this was about opinions then I might agree with you, Japanese Bukkake porn does seem to degrade the female on the receiving end (but then again, so does a lot of Japanese porn no matter what the particular sex act is)  At the moment the only provable facts are that the word Bukkake is Japanese, Bukkake porn is available in Japan and that the act of multiple facial cumshots is generally known as Bukkake in countries other than Japan.

My personal opinion is that it is degrading, not because of the act of bukkake, but because of the Japanese porn industry. Sennen goroshi (talk) 20:45, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Pretender
Hi there. I've reverted your edit over at the Prince Charles page. While it's true that in everyday English "pretender" could be seen as a pejorative term, when discussing royalty and thrones it is the correct term to use. You can read more about it at the pretender article, including the etymology of the word. Cheers. Prince of Canadat 23:14, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Deutsche Mark
Can you please provide a reference for your change to Deutsche Mark? Dove1950 (talk) 21:10, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I changed the link from Bizone. The text read "bizone" but the link took one to trizone then redirected to bizone. A pointless redirect. There is no article for trizone the link should be a direct bizone link. --Brideshead (talk) 11:03, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I see what you mean. I was wanting to know whether the bizone or trizone introduced the DM. I'm pretty sure it was the trizone (hence the original link) but I'll look into it further. Dove1950 (talk) 20:13, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

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Nelson's Monument (the time signal).
In the summer, the ball drops at 1pm BST (12 GMT). Do you know what time it drops during the winter. Does it drop at 1pm GMT or 12GMT and thus 12 (local) time. I suspect the latter. Martin 4 5 1  (talk) 22:56, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

The gun and ball occur simultaneously (barring sound travel) at exactly 1pm local time. therefore is is 1pm GMT/1pm BST depending on the time of year.--Brideshead (talk) 19:07, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks a lot for the Barnstar! I appreciate it! — Archon Magnus (Talk 18:29, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Promotional material?
I'm sorry, but I think you are mistaken about the edits I recently made to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film). I suggest you check my contributions once again. Thanks. &mdash; Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) 13:18, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, no problem. Thanks for getting back to me!  &mdash; Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) 16:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Peterotica
Thanks for your GA review. In response to your question about me reviewing an article (I assume one of your GANs), its probably best if I don't. Back around about Christmas time, I got wrong for reviewing and passing for a user which had been reviewing and passing mine (although I honestly believe they met the GA criteria at the time). Because of this, I think its best if I don't review any of your GANs, albeit I am willing to review an article or two at GAN which weren't nominated by you, if you like? Qst (talk) 14:12, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem, I wasn't referring to a "you scratch my back" situation. It is standard Wikipedia Policy to encourage a nominator to review another article when their nomination passes as a good faith community act to progress the project. it's not a bribe. See WP:GAC (point 1 under pass criteria). -- Brideshead (leave a message) 14:16, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

vandalism reverts
Please be sure you check that an edit is actually vandalism before reverting it? The edits you reverted here were not vandalism, but an editor working with WP:SPOTLIGHT (which has done over 450 edits to that page since august 8, see the diff) to get an article to GA status. Can you please explain why you thought that was vandalism? If you dispute his edits, please make a comment on the talk page, but please don't call him a vandal. His edits are in good faith. Thanks.
 * A second note, if you wish to talk to him or me in real time, feel free to click this link. That is where spotlight collaborates. ——  nix eagle 19:20, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Its not me you need to apologize to. You are right, he probably should have used an edit summary, perhaps you can make that suggestion. My advice to you however is if an editor has a blue link on their talk page and their userpage to investigate a tad more (check page history?). :) Cheers! ——  nix eagle 19:29, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * A second note, when you revert folks for vandalism, you should be using the vandalism warnings, or at least leaving the folks a message. ——  nix eagle 19:29, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm going to make a note, this was not a page blanking, or even a section blanking. If you took the time to look at the diffs, you would have realized that he added sourced content in as well as removed content. That is what rewriting a section looks like :). Cheers! ——  nix eagle 19:30, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Well thank you for your constructive comments. I am pleased to see that as an administrator you handle user mistakes in such an open and understanding way. I'd hate to think you may over-react and in any way labour the point. --Brideshead (talk) 20:49, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh I'd not worry about that, I was just hoping you would apologize to the editor whose edits you reverted and called vandalism. Of course I can't force you to do so. :P Cheers! ——  nix eagle 15:04, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford
Thank you for your review and pass of my article! Lampman (talk) 07:25, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Edinburgh Zoo GAC
I noticed the nomination and had a quick look at the article. Two issues were immediately apparent. Firstly, there is a "fact' tag and that needs to be dealt with or it will fail for sure. Secondly, after a protracted discussion an additional guideline was recently added to WP:MOS. This now states:


 * In articles that cover two or more taxonomic groups a consistent style of capitalisation should be used for species names. This could involve:
 * using scientific names throughout - often appropriate for articles of a specialist nature.
 * using title case for common names of species throughout (per WP:BIRDS) and lower case for non-specific names such as eagle or bilberry, which may work well for articles with a broad coverage of natural history.
 * using lower case for common names, which may work well for non-specialist articles that happen to refer to various different taxonomic groups.

The article currently breaches this as well by mixing upper and lower case. The above implies you might be better of with title case but is deliberately non-proscriptive about this due to the varied approaches in place. Good luck. Ben Mac Dui  19:58, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Hypnagogia!
Hello! I also stumbled across hypnagogia when browsing Wikipedia and I read that some people sometimes hear sounds sounds such as crashing or banging during this phase. I was amazed, when I heard of hypnagogia I immediately knew what it was, I experience it most nights :D When I start to drift off to sleep, first it started off as voices, random sentences or words, but they were SO CLEAR! Soon after I realized I could choose what I heard :P during hypnagogia I can hear any song I know and it sounds like, as you put it, and orchestra. :D When I read your comment I was as shocked as you were, I have told someone once or twice that I can hear amazingly clear music before I go to sleep, and they look at me like I'm crazy :P It's good to know I'm not :)

PS: Sorry if I have put this message in the wrong spot, I only signed up to Wikipedia today :P —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaaakee (talk • contribs) 15:57, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

inselbergs rock
hey, just wanted to second the move to make "inselberg" the primary title. It is the more common word used to describe the rock formation (at least in terms of scientific literature on the ecology). Orangesquid (talk) 07:42, 27 October 2008 (UTC)orangesquid

Proposed move of Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004
Just so you know, I just proposed the move of an article you started, Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 to Additional Support for Learning Act, and comments may be made on WP:RM. $$\sim$$ Lenoxus " * " 20:26, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Spoon-meat
Re your removal of "spoon-meat" from the "spoon" article, please check the following citation:

"SPOON-MEAT Noun 1. Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Date "SPOON-MEAT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. Source: Spoon-Meat. Webster's Online Dictionary - with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation."

I restored the reference, preceded by "sometimes called". Anyway, thanks for your vigilance.

Fbarw (talk) 20:07, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Minor Edits
As you are a long standing user, I won't template you (WP:DTTR), but I note that you regularly use the minor edit flag for edits which go beyond the normal definition of minor edits. Please could you adjust your usage of the minor edits flag to correspond to the normal conventions? Cheers. Mayalld (talk) 23:35, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Economy_of_the_European_Union done. Qaz 1009 rfv (talk) 08:40, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

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