User talk:FungusFromYuggoth

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IP edits to your user page
Hi, I've noticed that an IP has been editing your userpage. I've left the edits in place as they do not seem to be offensive, and it could be you editing while logged out. I'm just letting you know in case it is not you, and you wish to review them. --Petros471 19:44, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Hello, indeed, the person editing my user page was myself. I haven't even noticed how I logged out, must have been an error connected to my browser. Or it might be the fact that I still am somewhat of a WP n00b ;) Nevertheless, thanks a lot for the message! --Vargher 19:52, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

help yourself
User:Mike McGregor (Can)/code page
 * you know which one you want... BTW, if you know how to link to a category to group like-minded users together, please modify...Mike McGregor (Can) 03:15, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Your userpage was briefly delisted by a rogue admin
You have a userbox Template:User UN which links your userpage to United Nations Wikipedians. There is currently a movement to ban userboxes from Wikipedia which are shared and which create Lists of Wikipedians. Certain admins have taken it upon themselves to preemptively sabotage and/or delete such categories and template. Here is the incident report which reported damage to yours, in which hundreds of userpages were delinked from categories without the users' knowledge. They have been stopped, barely, and the damage reverted— for now.

There is a Userbox policy poll, which if passed, will make required by policy the damage done to categories and templates such as User UN/United Nations Wikipedians. If you do not want this to happen, I urge you to vote Oppose. in the poll. Support is currently running at about 66%, and your vote could make the difference. It is said to require 75%-80% to be deemed reflective of consensus.

Thank you,

StrangerInParadise 23:46, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Cool Cat/In many languages...
Thank you for the Russian translation -- Cat out 17:30, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome!
Welcome and congratulations on joining the project! Sergeant  Snopake  10:28, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Languages
Hi There! Can you translate my name in what language you know please, and then post it Here. I would be very grateful if you do (if you know another language apart from English and the ones on my userpage please feel free to post it on) P.S. all th translations are in alpahbetical order so when you add one please put it in alpahbetical order according to the language. Thanks!!! Abdullah Geelah 16:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Cats project newsletter
Hello. Please find here a copy of the first Cats WikiProject newsletter. Please feel free to make any comments, suggestions, etc., here or at the project page itself. Thank you. Badbilltucker 16:06, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject LGBT studies
Hello! I noticed that your userpage mentions that you are interested in LGBT issues. Would you be interested in joining WikiProject LGBT studies? The WikiProject's been a bit inactive recently and some of us are trying to get it going again. We'd love to have you on board! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 21:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Salem.JPG
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Insignium band 03.jpg
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VHEMT Talk Page Comments (User:Shanoman)

 * Thank you for your insightful comments on my Talk page regarding my views on VHEMT. Please go back there to read & reply to my responses. Thanks! Shanoman (talk) 19:30, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

P.S.---You may want to check out the updates I've made to my user page; I don't think I'm quite the objectivist monolith you may have taken me for. I've changed! I've reformed! I grew a conscience and finally got real! Shanoman (talk) 03:51, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Staunch anti-communism
First of all, my user page is not a blog. I find it bordering on the absurd that you would single my personal statement of belief out and bother to leave a tirade on there. Anyway, I'm fully aware of the existence of useful idiots even today, especially in places like former East Germany, which were far less separated from the west economically. As to actual former countries of the USSR, the only ones with significant support for Marxism are the ones where totalitarianism was replaced with kleptocratic dictators. This support comes from ignorance of what free markets and democracies actually look like.

No socialist party has even surpassed the 5% of votes needed to get a parliamentary seat in Estonia, the same is true in Latvia and Lithuania. The intelligentsia in countries where a successful transition to market economies and democracy took place is almost unanimously disdainful towards old-school leftism.

That is not to say your strawman accusation of me equating anti-Marxism with rabid neo-liberalism is true. I know full well that my flavor of extreme individualism is not the norm anywhere, including former communist nations. There's a far cry between modern center-left Keynesianism and outright Marxism. People support social democracy, in the sense that they hold the welfare of citizens to be the state's paramount duty. Supporters of Marxist socialism, the workers-controlling-the-means-of-production variety, are held in about as high regard as religious lunatics and UFO enthusiasts. Unigolyn (talk) 20:22, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikiproject cats
Hello,, you are currently listed as a member of Wikiproject Cats. I would appreciate your help in creating the article Canadian Cat association. Thanks,  Bramble  claw  x   23:55, 28 December 2009 (UTC)