User talk:Getalis

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G'day and welcome.

I love your height project, but in some ways it's a shame you didn't start on something a bit less controversial! It does push the envelope a bit, and obviously too much for some. Anyway, hang in there. Anything you think I can help with, drop me a line. Andrewa 20:51, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Why don't you hold off on creating all of those height articles until it's determined if they're going to stay around? RickK 00:04, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

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Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! I saw your comments at User talk:Andrewa, and I wanted to chat a bit about that. You said, I'm still having trouble getting into the minds of my attackers. I think you may have mis-interpreted peoples' reactions. I don't think anybody is attacking you. To be sure, a lot of people think this series of articles is not appropriate for Wikipedia (myself included) but that doesn't mean it's an attack, and it's certainly not an attack on you personally. It's just people having different opinions and expressing them. There is plenty of room for disagreement without it being an attack.

I think one of the things that people are concerned about is the titles of the articles. A good article title is something which people are likely to type into a search box. I could imagine somebody typing in "tall people", or "tallness", or even "giants", but it seems unlikely that somebody would type in "6 ft 3 in" out of the blue. Perhaps a single article called "famous tall people", which included sections for various heights might be better accepted.

Anyway, please don't feel like you're being attacked, and welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you find it an enjoyable place to hang out. --RoySmith 02:47, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

When can I expect your apology?
Please see my response to you at Votes for deletion/6 ft 1 in (1.85 m). RickK 22:13, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

''No time soon, that I can assure you. I was there when the page first went up, and you'd somehow managed to tag a childish Vfd tag upon it.'' Getalis 01:32, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)

Personal attacks
Please read our No personal attacks policy. --fvw *  01:55, 2005 Jan 31 (UTC)


 * Yes, urgently. And before you say it, yes, some of your adversaries do regularly infringe and get away with it, I have no idea why. But the escalation that is occurring is a sure-fire loser for you. Cool it. Two wrongs don't make a right. Andrewa 02:05, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Synaesthesia
Hi Getalis,

Just wanted to say that I fixed the link to your new illustration Image:Wiki synaesthesia.PNG - it seems like Wikipedia cares about the capitalisation of the file extension. Nice idea by the way.

On a related note, would you be able to change the illustration to avoid using the word 'Wikipedia'. Somewhere in the Manual of Style there is a recommendation to avoid self reference and using Wikipedia as an example in articles. It is something to do with not making it difficult for other people to use content downstream. -- Solipsist 07:41, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:Wiki_synaesthesia.PNG listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Wiki_synaesthesia.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. User:Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr) 22:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)