User talk:GoodDamon/Archives/2008/February

Existentialism article: commas edit: question
Hello. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. At http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Existentialism&diff=prev&oldid=188532211 someone seemed to make a grammatical correction by adding a comma and you moved the comma, asking that person to please read the Wiki Manual Of Style. In the MOS, i had trouble finding the relevant bit, on a skim at least. If you have a couple of minutes, would you please suggest a link, or quotation, or the like? Thanks again. Bo99 (talk) 23:16, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure. According to the punctuation section of the manual of style, "Punctuation marks are placed inside the quotation marks only if the sense of the punctuation is part of the quotation (this system is referred to as logical quotation)." Personally, I wish Wikipedia used standard American English punctuation, as that's what I'm used to. -- Good Damon 01:47, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh i see. But i think your removal of the first comma left no comma at all relative to the quotation mark after "Huckabees" (which quote mark is not showing anyway, on the final-form article view, for some reason), and your addition of the second comma, after "detectives", does not relate to a quotation mark and might not be optimal.  So i think maybe the original person's grammatical correction was on the right track.  I'll fix the cited page.  Thanks for your response.  Bo99 (talk) 02:14, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Posen speech
ell done to both you and Antique Rose on the sockpuppet report, but I took this to WP:AN/I and all three of the sockpuppet accounts have been blocked and both the article on the Posen speech and Heinrich Himmler have been semi-protected by JzG. AniMate 23:39, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks! That would have been the wiser way to go, I suppose. :) -- Good Damon 23:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * My way was more expedient, but with yours at least now we'll have an easy to find record if this kind of behavior starts up on either article again... and undoubtedly it will. AniMate  02:24, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Tom Peterson says it time for Oregon COTW
Wake up! Wake up to a happy day! Says Tom Peterson. Greetings to the gang at WP:ORE, its time for another round of Collaboration of the Week. Last week was a very successful endeavor with great improvement to Oregon Swallowtail and Deuce Biglow Canyon Wind Farm. OK, so there’s no “e” but it makes me laugh. The Biglow production was so successful we got our first DYK out of it. So, let’s try for a second with the tallest building in the state, the Wells Fargo Center. Then by request we have the former governor (among other things) Neil Goldschmidt. Again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, visit here. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Non-neutral edits
Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did to Inventions in the Islamic world, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --GoodDamon 18:39, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

what are you talking about? I'm protesting about pov article written by Muslims, why are you attacking me for wanting unbiassed articles? Protest against islamic imposition (talk) 18:47, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Look at this edit. You wrote "Thjis article is fiction based on brainwashed Muslis predudice..." In addition to being atrociously spelled, that is a POV-pushing attack on Muslims. -- Good Damon 19:13, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Im new and finding this hard sorry
Hello, Im sorry but Ive only just registered with wikipedia, i and I am finding it hard to reply to you for why I made changes to the Lenny Mclean page, in his book " The Guv'nor " which is said to be the refrence to what is written on the page, there is no refrence of Lenny ever challenging Muhammad Ali. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RossB1978 (talk • contribs) 23:29, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Ahh, then say so in your edit summary. When you're editing, below the large text field there's a smaller one that is the edit summary field. Make a note in there as to why you're making a change, and it won't get reverted. -- Good Damon 23:36, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice and guidance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RossB1978 (talk • contribs) 23:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Clown COTW
Greetings once again to members of the best encyclopedia online about Oregon (aka WP:ORE)! Last week we improved Neil Goldschmidt to close to GA level, and moved the Wells Fargo Center from Stub to Start for the Collaboration of the Week. This week we’re clowning around with some bozo from Oregon, Pinto Colvig, and then in an attempt to garner another DYK, the rather stubby Cooper Spur. As always, any contribution is appreciated, and to opt out of these messages visit here.

As we have quite a few new members over the last six months, I’ll make another pitch for our various subprojects. Listed here, you will find a variety of groups focused on specific areas of Oregon from transportation to culture. Not only can you sign up and coordinate work there, but each often has useful sources and templates related to that topic. No pressure, just an introduction to those new to the project. Adios. Aboutmovies (talk) 17:14, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Existentialism
Now the fine points of words are sometimes conditioned on how they are used most commonly. Thus I might be wrong in thinking that 'theist' fit better vs. 'deist', my having not nearly enough background in the area. However, given a sensitivity for words, I think you should take care of which button you push in Twinkle lest you label someone a 'vandal'. Please choose _all_ the words with care. (BTW: after reading plain definitions, it seemed to me that 'theist' had less baggage/restrictions, thus more apt, but if alliteration makes it read better...) Shenme (talk) 02:42, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * On reviewing that edit, I have to conclude you're right. That was a bad judgment call on my part, and I apologize. -- Good Damon 16:50, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Terryeo
FYI, it seems that Terryeo has been going around various web forums (newspaper websites etc) praising/defending Scientology and pissing people off into the process - I've come across him, or at least someone using his nick, quite often. He even got himself banned from Conservapedia... -- ChrisO (talk) 00:01, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I see him everywhere these days. The whole Project Chanology thing seems to have gotten him busy. As it's been making the news on sites that have discussion forums, it's hard to find an article without also finding his commentary.


 * I never encountered Terryeo while he was an editor here -- he was banned before my time -- but I've since read several of his edits, and he definitely had an agenda. I have to wonder if he was paid to edit, since he spent so much time at it, but that's entirely conjecture. I'm glad that other editors who happen to be Scientologists haven't all been like him. -- Good Damon 00:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Our weekly COTW message from WPOR
Welcome to another wonderful world of WP:ORE COTW. Thanks again to those who lent a hand improving Pinto Colvig and Cooper Spur ski area this past week or so. This week we return to the High importance Stubs, with the mighty Seal of Oregon and former governor and legal superstar Sylvester Pennoyer. To opt out of these messages, or suggest an article, swing by here. Or to stop receiving any WPORE messages just remove your name from the list of members at WP:ORE. Auf Wiedersehen. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:17, 27 February 2008 (UTC)