User talk:Cast/Archive 3

Anarky
I would like to nominate the article for featured status, but as you are the main contributor I wanted to ask if you would be able to help get the article through? I don't have the knowledge regarding the character that you do, nor access to all the sources used. Hiding T 14:47, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I would certainly like to see Anarky achieve Featured Article status, and have been trying to build upon the article since it achieved Good Article status for just this reason. However, I have been unable to secure a peer review, which I understand to be an optional -- but important -- process prior to nominating the article for FA status.  This was back in February of 2007, and I am growing quite weary of waiting.  I have, in recent days, decided to contact other editors to specifically request that they peer review the article so that I may continue the process.  Perhaps you would be able to do so.  As this is not mandatory, you may begin the FA nomination process, but I cannot be certain it will be promoted successfully.   Regardless, I will monitor the nomination process and assist you as best I can.--Cast (talk) 19:38, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey, if you don't get any response from this, User:VanTucky has been very good about responding to requests of this type. Murderbike (talk) 08:13, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll tap a couple of people to offer a review. Hiding T 23:57, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Edit Summaries
A request: could you add edit summaries when you make updates? With all the changes in List of fictional anarchists, for example, it was tough to see what you were up to. (John User:Jwy talk) 23:59, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I just saw you discussed it on the Talk page, thank you. But that article changes appeared first.  (John User:Jwy talk) 00:05, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thank you

Thanks for the barnstar. We couldn't have brought the article to GA without all the hard work you've put into it over the past few years. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 03:30, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * You're so welcome and thanks for the kind words :) Gwen Gale (talk) 20:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

I also thank you for your thoughtfulness, but would humbly stress that I was not nearly as significant to the development of the article as Malik, or yourself. Still, I accept your appreciation for what I did contribute, and hope to work with you further in the future. If you are at all interested in contributing to other articles of significance to the philosophy of anarchy, please feel free to join the Anarchist Task Force. We'd be happy to welcome you.--Cast (talk) 06:44, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You're very welcome! The quantity of your edits wasn't high but their helpfulness was overwhelming, both on the talk page and in the article. Gwen Gale (talk) 20:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Template collapse
Yo, any idea why this edit didn't seem to change Anarchism's state? I can't figure out how to expand templates whose default state is collapse. Skomorokh confer 03:19, 29 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, that comes as a surprise to me. I've now tried to edit it to, and it isn't working out.  Must be something specific to the html code of the template.  We can remove the notice from the template page if it isn't working.--Cast (talk) 04:06, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Basic topic lists
I noticed the great job you did on List of basic anarchism topics. On behalf of Wikipedia, thank you!

I was wondering if you'd be interested in working on one (or all) of the following lists:
 * List of basic atheism topics (currently in a temporary location)
 * List of basic space exploration topics
 * List of basic parapsychology topics
 * List of basic epistemology topics
 * List of basic energy development topics

For a complete list of basic lists that we're working on, see WikiProject Lists of basic topics. Most are not far enough along to present on Lists of basic topics. Any help you could provide to get these lists up to par would be great.

If you find the overall set of basic topic lists interesting, or you understand their importance for navigating Wikipedia (and making general knowledge more easily accessible to everybody), you may want to add yourself to the participant list at the WikiProject mentioned above.

Hope to see you there.

 Th e Tr ans hu man ist   08:15, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the invitation, but I'm afraid my commitment to the Anarchist Task Force leaves me with little time to give earnest attention to unrelated projects. Best of luck with the collection of Basic Topics lists.  If I ever happen to have some knowledge of a given subject, and a bit of time on my hand, I'll make minor additions, but nothing as substantiative as was my effort for the Basic list of Anarchism topics.  --Cast (talk) 01:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


 * You did an excellent job on that one. I thought atheism might be close enough to entice you to do another.  :)   Th e Tr ans hu man ist    01:58, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll grant that a list of basic atheism topics, as a philosophy, may seem similar in structure to a list of basic Anarchism topics. However, atheism is not a topic I have any experience with; quite the opposite for anarchy, which is why I was able to produce that article so easily.  Again, if I should happen to have information on hand for use in a basic topics list, I'll contribute to it.  I can make no commitment beyond that.  Again, best of luck.--Cast (talk) 05:26, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Interesting. Well, happy editing.   Th e Tr ans hu man ist    05:28, 7 February 2008 (UTC)\

Harry Kelly
Hi Cast, I noticed you made a cut and past move today and turned Harry Kelly into a disambiguation page. I have no concerns about the title of the two pages, but please note that a cut and paste move causes GFDL violation; no worries, I know it's not your intention, just please take care to remember to use the "move" tab in the future (it's easier and quicker as you can move the article along with the talk page! ;)) In cases when the target page already exists, you can still avoid a cut&paste move by asking an admin to delete it for you. :) Happy editing, --PeaceNT (talk) 12:10, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, right, I forgot all about the Move tab in my haste. Thanks for the reminder.--Cast (talk) 15:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Anarchism cats
Yo, what have you got in mind with the Anarchism categories? скоморохъ 02:23, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I assume you are referring to two categories I have recently nominated for speedy deletion. I have made no recent alterations to any other anarchism-related categories.  I am merely completing the refining of the Anarchism by region category I began editing several weeks ago, and had delayed the deletion in accordance with wiki-policy.--Cast (talk) 03:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you want to deprecate with ? Did you depopulate  or was that something else? I understand that you're following the correct process, just wondering about your rationale.  скоморохъ  03:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I have no intention of making any further alterations to the category of Anarchism by region, or of any of its subcategories. Anarchism by country serves as the properly wikified categorization, and is part of a larger series of categories ... by country.  It neatly fits within Anarchism by region, as anarchist projects have a tradition of operating outside or despite of national boundaries; which I am sure you are well familiar with.  And I did depopulate the Anarchism in Greece category, as it seemed unnecessary and overly categorized.--Cast (talk) 03:37, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Cool, sounds reasonable to me. скоморохъ  03:46, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * And on an unrelated note, have you any idea of what the relationship between the new Anarchist Manifesto book and the original pamphlet is? I haven't been able to find the name of the original publication or anything much at all about it. Thanks, скоморохъ  02:29, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I presently possess the manifesto pamphlet produced by the Kate Sharpley Library. It is an original translation, copyrighted by the organization, and as such I am unable to upload it to wikicommons (they require fair use, original translations, or translations for which copyright has expired.)  The Kate Sharpley Library has a policy of allowing free reproduction of material by activists for use in articles, pamphlets, or books, but with request.  I will need to contact their organization to confirm the use of their full material in this situation.  I may, in the process, also inquire as to what is the nature of their translation, and any information they can provide in the process of its production.  Thought it will consist of original research, it needn't be included in the article itself.  It may simply be used to confirm original features of the manifesto.--Cast (talk) 03:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I see, thanks. If you could get any information from them it would be of great help; I only created the article out of ignorance to avoid the sight of a redlink of a major manifesto on your exceptional list of basic anarchism topics. Original research is not so much a problem when it is uncontested; if it were, every clause in every sentence in every article would have to have an inline citation after it. Anyway, thanks very much for your efforts. скоморохъ  03:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for doing the Wikiprojects for Anarchism in Vietnam for me, as well as assessing and rating them. When the article includes everything that I intend to add, I'll ask for a re-rate. Hazillow (talk) 07:59, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Quick Question
When I'm rating the importance of anarchy-related articles, I should be assessing them based on their importance within philosophy, and not anarchism? Hazillow (talk) 08:30, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * This exact question has come up in the Anarchist task force talk page. The discussion, Importance rating ambiguity, went nowhere.  I personally feel that the project template is in regards to Philosophy as a whole, and so I rate articles as such.  The result is that many anarchist related articles receive low ratings from me, but this is not to imply that the subject of the article or list is unimportant.  If it were, it would fail wikipedia's notability requirement, and so wouldn't be available at all.  So long as the article confers useful information, I feel they may be of high importance to someone, somewhere.  That's good enough for me.  If you would like to push the matter further, I invite you to continue the discussion in the talk page, perhaps insisting that we come to some kind of decision this time.  Again, this is entirely optional.--Cast (talk) 08:55, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I too have been assessing them based on their importance to general philosophy. It seems to me that since the Anarchism Task Force is part of the WikiProject:Philosophy, they should be based on philosophy. If anarchism had its own WikiProject (or there was a sub-rating system, i.e. low importance in general philosophy, high importance in anarchism, etc.) things would be much more clear. I'll throw my two cents in to that discussion, because it seems pretty counter productive to have some editors rate on completely different criteria than others. Thanks. Hazillow (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 09:08, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * New discussion can be found here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Philosophy/Anarchism Hazillow (talk) 09:34, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Anarky FA
Back in January you informed me that you wished to nominate Anarky for FA status. I've nearly completed the article to my preference. I should like to replace the anarchism navigational box with one more specific to anarchist fiction, but I realize several topics that should be contained within it are not currently in existence, and the current state of anarchist media articles is disorganized. The creation of such a navbox must wait for a future point. Until then, we may consider the Anarky article as complete as I am capable of making it. I invite you to nominate the article for Featured Article status, if you have no further reason to wait.--Cast (talk) 19:32, 6 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not here much lately, so you are probably best taking it to FA yourself. If you don't feel confident in that, have a word with User:WesleyDodds, he has experience with the FA procedure and knows a bit about comics too. Hiding T 11:10, 7 March 2008 (UTC)


 * That won't be necessary. I've updated the article as best I can and have now nominated it.  If you're not too busy, please do comment.--Cast (talk) 09:02, 9 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Wow, good job man, congrats all around. Murderbike (talk) 01:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Collapsable sections
Hi! You have done considerable work on the Anarchism sidebar. There has been considerable discussion on the issue of the collapsable sections of templates like that one. I created a centralized place for discussion about this issue here. I hope you can bring your views to the discussion. - C mon (talk) 18:38, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Gandhi
Hi. I saw your post on the Mahatma Gandhi talk page and posted what I feel is a response. I hope that clarifies adding Gandhi to the category of anarchists.--Shahab (talk) 09:08, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your response. I hope that you please forgive the tardiness of my response.  As you may judge from the length of it, I was not always up to writing it in a single go.  Upon re-reading the response, I feel that I may have presented my views in an overly harsh fashion.  I hope that you will not take them in as a negative reproach of your views.  I have been informed that my officious, and perhaps "prim" fashion of writing is at times off-putting.--Cast (talk) 06:40, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

LeGuin
Sorry about that, hangovers make for lazy reading. Incidentally, do you and Switch have any plans of re-introducing the list to the article namespace in the near future? It would surely survive an Afd. скоморохъ 17:58, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Switch said he'd put it back out when the list was fully completed. I soon helped out, but we fell behind rather quickly.  If we'd updated a name a day, we'd be done by now, but you can understand that such a pace was unreasonable.  I would like to reintroduce photos, ala the list of atheists Switch based this list on.  The photos would be based on just a few photos to each field, prioritizing two or three of the more notable figures.  After that, I say we could take it live.  If you'd like to push it ahead now, talk to Switch.  I've always deferred to his judgement, as he started the project.--Cast (talk) 18:22, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!!!
For doing all that anniversary migrating, what a pain. I'm gonna try to get May all filled in in the next week or so, but after that I'll be done for awhile, so if you feel like picking up June or more, feel free. Cheers, Murderbike (talk) 18:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Henry Ford the anarchist
So, I'm sure we know he was a fascist, but in doing stuff for the portal calendar, I came across a thing talking about how he sued the Chicago Times for calling him an anarchist. Ya think it's worth putting him in the Business section of the people considered anarchists section of the list? Murderbike (talk) 03:09, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, sure. The whole point of that section is that it recognizes some of the more controversial individuals referred to as anarchist.  Some of them will be more controversial than others.  Add him.  He denies it anyway.--Cast (talk) 03:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Cool, I'll find a better source for it. Murderbike (talk) 03:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Anarky
Congratulations on getting Anarky promoted to FA status. I noted that you said you will no longer be maintaining the article - any reason for that? Does that mean you won't be watching it for vandalism or counter-productive changes? Many articles degrade after reaching FA status, and I'd hate to see that happen. I will try to keep an eye on it if you don't care to. -- Laser brain  (talk)  03:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * After having worked on the article for nearly two years, I am interested in shifting my attentions to other articles. To that end, I'd thought to cut all ties to the Anarky article.  However, you are right to remind me that articles must be maintained.  I will continue to watch the article in the future, though I will not likely make edits until new information surfaces.  That isn't very likely, given the character's absence.--Cast (talk) 05:02, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Ha, I understand. After my last FA got promoted, I barely want to look at it again.  No worries, I have it on my watchlist.  It's not a heavily trafficked article so it shouldn't be hard to keep an eye on. -- Laser brain   (talk)  05:08, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Congratulations. You've worked hard on that article and I'm glad it was recognised and rewarded. Hiding T 08:36, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Ready for lift-off
Reply at my talkpage. I am ready to appall the overlords with my horrible, messy coding skillz. Skomorokh 04:12, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:AnarchismTF
Template:AnarchismTF has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Corvus cornix  talk  21:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews
Thanks for creating Portal:Anarchism/Wikipedia on Wikinews. Unfortunately, Wikinews does not have a category on Anarchism so this page does not list any articles. I also think that an anarchism category would probably be deleted. Do you want the page to be kept or would you be prefer it to be deleted? Anonymous101 (talk) 06:06, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Don't be concerned. I'm actually in the process of creating that category.  I'm presently reviewing past news articles which should populate it, and will make an effort to populate it with more in the future.--Cast (talk) 06:10, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


 * OK. Thanks for your reply. Anonymous101 (talk) 06:12, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Pardon, but after careful review, I actually think I've jumped ahead of myself and will not be able to carry out my stated plan. I now think you were correct, and that such a Wikinews category would be quickly deleted.  I invite you to delete the newly created n:Portal:Anarchism/Wikipedia page.  Thank you for your quick attention.--Cast (talk) 06:37, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I have deleted the page on Wikinews. Anonymous101 (talk) 15:00, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Ivan Illich
Thanks for your message. I have responded to your question on the Illich talk page. Cheers! --- RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive'  15:39, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Heads up
Talk:List_of_fictional_anarchists. This might have implications for our other lists too. Interested to hear your thoughts on it. Skomorokh 01:49, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Template help
Yo, I want to try and tinker around with the CrimethInc. template and was wondering if you had any decent sandboxed sidebars without the show/hide function? Any help appreciated, Skomorokh  20:22, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Message to To Enric_Naval, Nsk92, ThuranX, Cast, L0b0t, Pete,Hurd, Annette46, Artene50 and, T-rex about cooperation to improve the AI-Wiki-page
As you well know, the AI-Wiki-page is once more deleted, this time by Bjweeks on a request from Hoary. I have written to them at their talkpages about cooperation to achieve an AI-Wiki-page that has general Wiki-consent, before publishing it again. Copies of these messages are on my talk page. Take a look at them. As AI is the largest anarchist-network in the world, it of course should have a Wiki-page. I invite you all to contribute to a better AI-Wiki-page for later publishing. This time so good that it will not be deleted by anyone.

(Anna Quist (talk) 22:29, 28 July 2008 (UTC))

To all members of the Anarchist Task Force - about improvement of the AI-Wiki-page
I have just joined the Anarchist Task Force, and I have had some problems with publishing of my Anarchist International Wikipedia page, see my sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anna_Quist/Anarchist_International for the present version/proposal. This page needs improvements to reach Wiki-consensus, and this should be a somewhat collective project to avoid a "COI"-template. As I am new to editing here on Wikipedia I need help with the page, I hope for your cooperation with this improvement. As an introduction to this cooperation, feel free to read this note on my talk page:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anna_Quist#Message_to_all_anarchists_on_Wikipedia_-_Anarchy_is_cooperation_without_coercion.2Fdestruction.2Fdeletion_-_about_the_deletion_of_the_AI-Wiki-page_and_cooperation_to_achieve_an_updated_AI-page_with_general_Wiki-consent. crazy shit]

Any contribution, matter of fact criticism, to give input and advice, or even contribute to new sections, will be helpful, and is much appreciated. Please join in the project...

(Anna Quist (talk) 17:05, 29 July 2008 (UTC))

The Bolshevik Myth
Hello,

Your version of The Bolshevik Myth was deleted at Wikisource. I have copied it to Wikilivres: The Bolshevik Myth. Best regards, Yann (talk) 15:27, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Cyberpunk
Nice job you're doing with the Cyberpunk (album) page. I see you used one of my papers from that period. Have you seen Running Down the Meme: Cyberpunk, alt.cyberpunk, and the Panic of '93, which was really about the Billy Idol controversy? I was editing "Voices from the Net" at that point, and we had an email interview with Idol lined up, but his personal issues intervened. Libertatia (talk) 01:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Libertatia, thank you for your comments and for the information you've shared. I'd eagerly like to learn more about the subject from your perspective, if you have anything more to share.  I invite you to contribute any more comments to the talk page for the album article, so that after I have finished contributing to it, the record of our discussions and your contributions may be collected for browsing researchers to read.  Understanding the "behind-the-scenes" discussions which could not be included on an article page can potentially be an important as the actual article content.  --Cast (talk) 03:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

You've got me listed as an Oregon State academic. Actually, I was affiliated with Bowling Green State University in the '90s, and am unaffiliated with any university at present. Libertatia (talk) 23:56, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Anarchism anniversaries
Hey, I don't really understand that little bit of code, but I reverted the user who reinstate what somehow lists non-anarchism related anniversaries, and left a note on their talk page. I may not be around to respond to their response though, just to give ya a heads-up. hope you're well, Murderbike (talk) 22:46, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:KotokuShusui.jpg
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 * That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for each article the image is used in.
 * That every article it is used on is linked to from its description page.

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Anarchlist and other matters
Yo, thanks for noticing the Anarchist terminology discontinuity and for your helpful suggestions regarding my anarchist philosophical; I've made a few modest proposals aimed at overcoming the inertia surrounding list of anarchists you might want to check out. Any suggestions for Portal:Anarchism's selected article for October would also be appreciated, I'm not sure if keeping the proposed version or repeating last month's selection would be best. Mahalo, the skomorokh  14:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Hi, Cast. This (from the second post onward) may be of interest and any clever ideas welcomed. Sardanaphalus (talk) 01:23, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

hello
Hi! You just created a page called Editing Portal:Sociology/Selected image. I'm not sure, but it seems like you probably meant it to be Portal:Sociology/Selected image. Would you mind moving it? Thanks! FreplySpang 00:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I deleted the redirect that was left behind. Cheers, FreplySpang 00:54, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the comics image categories
Just a heads up for you with the categories and templates.

-- The covers categories:

In general these are collecting covers as published and are sorted by the title of the book or magazine as it appears in the copyright notice. That means if the publisher used ":" it gets put into the sorting. Also for consistency, something like "Anarky (vol.2) -8" gets shortened to "Anarky v2 &emsp;8", assuming more than 9 issues were published.

-- The images categories

This is something that may get to a quibbling point... but characters and teams were being broken out of Category:DC Comics image when there were a fair number to move and to reduce the file count in the parent to under 190. 4-6 is about when that was done, same for covers, but images like Image:Anarky01.jpg would have been left as it contains multiple characters. And there is also a likely hood that the 5 that were broken out would have just wound up under Category:Batman images and sorted to "Anarky" there. This being because the "Batman" cat has the "room".

This isn't, the covers, as published, were deliberately sorted out of the images in to sub categories. That would mean the Detective and Adventures cover should have gone under the "covers" cat.

-- comicsyrimage

The template is set up for the year, spin-offmedia, title, issue number, and a flag identifying if the image is not of a cover (in=y), in that order. Again, the idea is to sort thing consistently with in the category.

-- Licensing templates

non-free comic is set up to accept 1 alternate category. non-free book cover, which should be used for graphic novels and trades, isn't.

-- Ordering of categories

Since the non-free comic template accepts a cat, an it generally the publisher/character derived one, the sequence is generally "image/cover", "year".

Just letting you know why some changes may be made with the images you've uploaded.

- J Greb (talk) 01:56, 20 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the notice and corrections regarding the "MoS" concerning images and associated categories. I'll be certain to follow these directions in the future.--Cast (talk) 02:23, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

From Bakunin to Lacan and Batman: Anarky
(Originally posted on Skomorokh's talk page) Thank you for all of your help in bringing From Bakunin to Lacan to Wikipedia. I had intended to contribute more to it, but got sidetracked with other articles. Before I knew it, you'd done all of the heavy lifting. I had also wanted to let you know that I can access the mined source you cannot. So don't worry about it. I'll get to using it one of these days (it's a bit nuances, and will require I read multiple pages to understand the context it was written in, before I can add the information to the article.) I've added an image for it I'd been saving, so it's now completed. I don't know how to go about nominating a DYK hook for it, but now would be the time. Also, thank you for your help with the Anarky TPB. It's not exactly the type of 'core' anarchist articles I'd like to work on, but I recognized its potential and ran with it. Good timing too, because the character may finally be coming out of obscurity, and new readers will eventually find their way to wikipedia to understand who the character is -- and what that whole "anarchy" thing is about. It might interest you to know that I've already started seeing people on forums talk about the character, referring back to the article, and then begin engaging in conversation about anarchist theory. I guess Alan Grant got what he wanted... partially. --Cast (talk) 18:33, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * A hearty congratulations on Batman: Anarky! No worries about the copyediting, it's a relatively easy task for an outsider to perform, but it can be difficult for the article writer to see what needs reworking; let me know if you're thinking of nominating or just expanding another article and I'll gladly comb through it. I share your reticence on working on peripheral topics, but as you imply, these can be vital gateway articles to the more significant topics. It's heartening to see the real-world consequences of your work on the article; a major motivation for me in taking on a topic is the superficial analyses of forums, blogs and television ( not to mention anarchist bookfairs ).


 * As for From Bakunin..., the stub version is a superficial treatment of the book, a glorified copypaste from the sources, but until I get my hands on the ($70+) source it will have to do. Glad to hear you can access the Jesse Cohn book, and thanks for offering to take on the work of citing it - including it will build the web of anarchist references on Wikipedia which hopefully will make anarchism articles less liable for deletion. I'll head over to T:TDYK with a nomination as soon as I have November's portal selection cleared. An ATFer's work is never done...mahalo, the skomorokh  19:18, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for From Bakunin to Lacan

 * The first of many, we hope ;) the skomorokh  16:20, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Late response
Hi Cast, Sorry I didn't respond to your first comment about my draft. Way too often, I put things off at first and then forget about them completely. That's what happened here.

The reason I've been so reluctant to move this into the main article space is that I haven't been able to find any reliable, third-party sources about the history of the movement since the 1960s. But you're right. Keeping it in sandbox forever won't solve this problem. I've listed this on the ATF (funny name!) page, as you suggested. In the next couple of weeks I am going to get my hands on that Anarchism Today book once again and try to expand this article as much as possible from that source. If noone has come to help me by then, I'll publish the article as it will be.

Greetings,--Carabinieri (talk) 18:21, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Invisible Pink Unicorn
Hi, I had removed the thumb frame, because the thumbnail has unfortunately no invisible pink unicorn on it, just an invisible black surface, see also my edit summary. What can we do about it? —Quilbert (talk) 21:26, 27 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Simply removing the thumb frame is a non-solution, as the absence of a frame or descriptive caption leaves the impression that the article simply contains a large vacant space. If questions of a technical nature—can a serious encyclopedia justify catering to the ploys of a satirical religion—cannot be resolved, than simply remove the image. Since you're only eliminating an "invisible" image, nothing of value would be lost if it wasn't there at all. --Cast (talk) 21:33, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Manifesto of the Sixteen GA Review
Hi Cast: I'll be reviewing your article over the weekend. Have you thought about using Harvard citations instead, such as with the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and others. That way the bibliography lists all the books in one place. Looks in good shape so far.Manhattan Samurai (talk) 22:24, 28 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I had not considered it, but am not against the proposition. Unfortunately, I would not be able to single-handily carryout this proposal, as I did not provide all of the citations utilized for the article. Consider mentioning this in your review of the article, and other editors who had a hand in the article will be sure to see it. For my part, I'll make some conversions to get the process started. --Cast (talk) 05:36, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I left a review. No major problems. Quite a satisfying read. I'm not sure why the review isn't properly transcluded on the article's talk page.Manhattan Samurai (talk) 23:14, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Voice of Labour
Yo, are you sure about this? Seems odd that an English gentile who to my knowledge never crossed the Atlantic would write for an American Yiddish language journal. Skomorokh 06:16, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


 * You raise a fair point, and I must admit I presumed The Free Voice of Labour and the Voice of Labour were the same and that any distinction would be mere semantics in translation. I'll take responsibility and undue it, but to be frank, I wouldn't be surprised if we were to find out later that these two papers were one and the same. --Cast (talk) 08:18, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


 * It's best to be cautious in these matters, I think. While a Google search for "voice of labour" initially throws up a lot of references to the Jewish periodical, this Libcom article suggests that The Voice of Labour was a Freedom Press publication shut down in 1916. Skomorokh  18:09, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Queried histmerge request

 * You made requests to history-merge User:Cast/ATF page/Recognized content with tabs into WikiProject Philosophy/Anarchism and WikiProject Philosophy/Anarchism/Recognized content. I am querying these requests because:
 * I cannot histmerge User:Cast/ATF page/Recognized content with tabs into both, as a record of an edit can only be in one place: there is no way to duplicate it.
 * The history of User:Cast/ATF page/Recognized content with tabs is parallel with the histories of WikiProject Philosophy/Anarchism and WikiProject Philosophy/Anarchism/Recognized content, and at the time they were all separate files evolving independently. The requested histmerge would shuffle together the histories of two files which were being edited in parallel.
 * Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:17, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Alright, thanks for the explanation. I'll be sure not to make the same mistaken requests again. --Cast (talk) 07:19, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Anarky: Batman template
I've started a discussion on the use of navboxes in articles not in the navbox in W:NAV talk page. If you'd like to weigh in then go here: Wikipedia_talk:Navigation_templates--Marcus Brute (talk) 18:11, 27 December 2008 (UTC)