User talk:I dream of horses/2010/November

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Do you REALLY dream of horses???
Just curious what your dreams are like.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 15:03, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't usually remember my dreams, but those that I do remember aren't of horses, but illogical dreams of people. --I dream of horses (T) @ 17:07, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Well I think yours is one of the coolest handles in Wikipedia. I don't remember my dreams much either, but sometimes I daydream about horses galloping over rolling hills, manes flying, gracefully exploring new vistas like Sunday driving in a car through scenic rural towns and valleys and hillsides in the fading hours of the afternoon. It's usually two or three horses of various colors, silent, effortlessly exploring. Such is my daydream.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:45, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Aw, thanks for your compliment. Usually I get "Your username is soooo weird".
 * I used to daydream about horses a lot like that as a child, riding on the school bus, or in the back seat of the car, but I also daydreamed of other animals, like jaguars, in the same way. Sometimes I would be riding the animal, sometimes not. --I dream of horses (T) @ 18:41, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Horses are an incredibly liberating animal for humans, helping us overcome the limitations of our meager powers to run, making it possible to travel much faster and farther across vast distances. Ancient Persians had way-stations for messengers to switch horses at set intervals, so the empire could keep connected. There's a deep love of horses in all humans I think as well as a cool togetherness between human and horse -- a partnership. What a cool animal that is so powerful, yet lets us ride them on their backs. So that is why perhaps we dream about them. Wonder if horses dream about humans.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 20:22, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Interesting about the Persians--I only know a basic history of horses.
 * Horses probably do dream of the humans they know, or have seen during their lifetime. It would be impossible to figure out, though. --I dream of horses (T) @ 20:37, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I had a dog during my college days, and when sleeping, it would be dreaming about running -- it would start breathing hard, moving its paws, occasionally woof -- and then it would be over. It would be cool to have a machine we could fit on a horse's head and see its dreams. Or if there was a Wikipedia for horses that had a user named I dream of humans. :)--Tomwsulcer (talk) 20:46, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I read somewhere that cats probably dream about things they needed to learn (like "how to kill a bird"). What if there was a dream machine for humans? Or, any animal really. It might help with diagnosing PTSD, and sleep disorders, at least in humans. Maybe getting an internet for animals isn't a bad idea. A few animals (gorillas are one example I saw on TV a few times) already use computers to communicate their intelligence to us, so maybe someday there will be an internet space for such animals to have those "Hey! I'm one smart animal!" conversations with scientists, or whomever, even if it's all like, "I see a cup."--I dream of horses (T) @ 21:03, 9 November 2010 (UTC)


 * A dream machine for humans -- like it dreams for us? Or, is it something that attaches to our brains, and when we dream, it records our dream so we can play it back like it's a tivo? In full living color? With a great sound system? That would be cool. I wonder if it could do that, whether we could understand our own dreams, when replayed back later. Didn't know about gorillas using computers. Still, I think humans are the coolest creature by far on the planet. Horses -- pretty cool but they could never make a TV show where they featured themselves doing "stupid horse tricks" in the same way that humans can have us on the David Letterman TV show doing "stupid human tricks."--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:15, 9 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I meant like a dream recorder of sorts. I don't think we can really understand our dreams if it's played back, since one characteristic of dreams is that they aren't very understandable. Dreaming has been connected with psychosis, because we have unusual beliefs (delusions), our senses are stimulated in ways not externally caused, and we aren't aware of either (lack of insight).
 * How much cooler humans are from animals greatly depends on the individual human, but I have to admit, most of us are pretty cool. ;-) --I dream of horses (T) @ 02:51, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Exactly. Fun psychoses. Sting, the musician, has a song in which he asks: is the dream dreaming us? Like, we're not real, but the dream is, and we're creations of the dream. On the album "The Soul Cages"; soul cages => our bodies. I wonder if we were replaying back one of our dreams on our dream machine Tivo, whether we might understand glimpses of it, or remember somehow, even though it was mostly nonsensical to us.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 04:00, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I suppose that dreams might make sense on replay. We are in an altered state when we dream, but we are semi-conscious, so somewhat aware of our environment. I'm sure, back in the cave ages, we would've needed this small amount of awareness throughout sleep to avoid being sat on by blind woolly mammoths. So, if you hear, smell, or feel something during a dream, you might dream about that sound, smell, touch. You also tend to dream about your day, since that's how your brain sorts what's important to remember, and what isn't. --I dream of horses (T) @ 21:18, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I had a daydream I was standing on the backs of five galloping horses going over a hill, and beautiful vistas of grassy hills kept appearing on the horizon, and I could see the horses' heads bobbing up. I can't explain how I could stand on the backs of five horses at the same time -- it was a dream so details like this don't seem to matter -- but the overall feeling was like I was flying. Do you want to write a poem about dreaming of horses?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 11:20, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I used to think I was a poet when I was a teenager, and was writing adolescent angst poetry. Now, I'm not so sure. However, I'm bound to write a poem about horses someday, but I'm not sure of dreaming of horses. --I dream of horses (T) @ 23:01, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I won a poetry prize in college for $50; but it was really quite bogus, since there was only one other entrant. But we write one quickly perhaps by doing this: since the whole I dream of horses thing was your creation, you'd be the editor; we could both suggest lines, but you'd choose them and decide. But I think the title and first line should both be I dream of horses. It's been perhaps 30+ years since I last wrote a poem, but I'm thinking of writing a knol on how to write poetry, surprisingly.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 02:22, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I just wrote a poem, mostly based on the dreams (and their sometimes recurrent plots) I actually remember. It's rhymed ABAB, and has several stanzas of varying length. I suppose, in the scheme of actually sitting down and writing a decent poem (which actually requires several "sitting downs", and can take a lifetime), I wrote it pretty quickly, and it's nowhere near publication quality. I guess I just needed the inspiration for it.
 * Hmm. I'm wondering, do you have any lines about dreams you can think of? Or dreams that you are willing to share? Do you know where I can put this collaborative poem? --I dream of horses (T) @ 04:31, 12 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Curious what you wrote. I took only a few minutes and here's what I came up with. Again, not publication quality, but what the hell...--Tomwsulcer (talk) 06:42, 12 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I dream of horses


 * I dream of horses
 * Gliding and glancing and flying over grasses
 * Galloping gracefully over meadows and golf courses
 * Passing freely through mountain passes


 * My dreams are like ice creams
 * Like dances and dresses and dallying streams
 * Like dairy bars dangling flavors of things
 * Like stories with riddles and rhymes and rings


 * (back to prose) In my dream I'm riding on about five horses and they don't tire and I'm not afraid, and I'm like two stories tall, exploring meadows and hills, not worrying about there having to be roads, like in some country where the land wasn't yet carved up, and I'm enjoying the beauty of the moment but I have no particular destination in mind. Such is my daydream.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 06:39, 12 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Btw Google "knols" are a good place to write stuff. It's like having your own wikipedia -- you control who can see it, and you're its administrator. There are few readers, initially, but if you write good stuff, you'll get more. You can also write stuff here, or on your user page, and I don't think anybody would mind, provided it's not an advertisement for a brand of toothpaste or somesuch. Btw the "horses" "golf courses" rhyme -- sheesh.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 06:39, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Cowboy Casanova Awards edit
Why did you delete the awards cell that I inserted? Carrie Underwood received six nominations for the first American Country Awards, and two of the six are associated with the song, "Cowboy Casanova". She received nominations for Female Single of the Year and Female Music Video of the Year, so I created the new awards cell for the page. I don't understand the wrong in this edit. Please explain your reasoning for deletion. Undrwood9098 (talk) 01:59, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It's quite unfortunate that I have no clue which edit of mine you are talking about. Can you wikilink to the page where I reverted your edit? --I dream of horses (T) @ 02:58, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Cowboy Casanova Undrwood9098 (talk) 03:16, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Please remember to log in for now on.
 * You seemed to be removing a reference and putting it back. That's why I reverted your edits--removing a reference has a tendency to trip up anti-vandalism software. --I dream of horses (T) @ 15:56, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, sorry about that. I don't think I meant to remove a reference. I may have accidentally deleted it without noticing when I was building the new awards table. Thanks, though. I'll make sure I watch what I'm doing more carefully. Undrwood9098 (talk) 20:23, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

revert
Hey sorry about the emoticon page, I was just trying to delete the cat face from the asian smile table since it isn't actually an asian smiley. I never edited the monon page though so i'm not really sure what you're talking about there but if you reverted the emoticon page thanks, I was just about to do it myself, but I'm sort of new at wikipedia so was getting a bit confused ^^; 163.120.70.10 (talk) 19:12, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll revert my revert. Apologies! --I dream of horses (T) @ 19:14, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, okay thanks! I don't think I'll try and mess with that table again, but I would like to keep the " (=^.^=) its a cat C: meow." someone added to one of the sections removed since... Its pretty obviously not actually a part of the article. Thanks again. 163.120.70.10 (talk) 19:17, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so we don't keep things that is quite that blatantly not part of the article. --I dream of horses (T) @ 20:32, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Underscore
It was a redlink "other"! So that should be allowed. 173.49.140.141 (talk) 00:55, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Point taken. I reverted my revert. Remember to use your edit summaries next time. --I dream of horses (T) @ 00:58, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Atomic orbital material
message to User talk:71.217.73.148

I see that you were adding a lot of informtion to atomic orbital that was simply mathematized versions of what is already discussed in the main article. I've moved it to an old version of spin-orbital, see here. But the math probably isn't appropriate here, but in the Schroedinger equation wiki. So don't be disheartened. Use the talk page.

To other editors-- this editor was obviously adding material in good faith, but has been bitten and treated a bit shabbily, unless I've missed something. What he was doing certain wasn't vandalism.

S B Harris 01:46, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

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Hogging revert
Thank you, I am not mad, just glad you admitted your error.

That wasn't my edit
Hey, you left me a message saying I wrote "hi im gay" on Augustine of Hippo's article. I did not write that, I removed it. St. Augustine is my patron saint, and I would never insult him in such a way. The person who wrote "hi im gay" also removed 3 pictures from the article, which I restored. I don't know why you think I wrote that, maybe you made a mistake. Anyway, I hope you remove what you wrote from my talk page to restore my honour. Thanks!24.125.102.206Glorthac (talk) 05:09, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It might be that you share an IP who vandalized Wikipedia. Be sure to log in for now on. You can remove the warning yourself, if you wish. --I dream of horses (T) @ 05:38, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Please be more careful
The edit you reverted and warned 99.254.69.141 for on Registered jack was not vandalism. That anonymous editor has been making many improvements to both Registered jack and Modular connector. --Tothwolf (talk) 18:04, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Yikes! I think I'll take a break from vandal fighting. --I dream of horses (T) @ 00:13, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It happens to us all once in awhile. That anonymous editor really seemed to know the material and I certainly didn't want to see him run off. --Tothwolf (talk) 15:22, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Jeff Ragsdale
Hi I dream of horses. You worked on Jeff Ragsdale's page at one time. Ragsdale is currently being harassed by IP number 71.190.77.101. This person, whom we have identified through correct legal means, is a fellow actor and he started his attack on Ragsdale by submitting a fake resume regarding Ragsdale on craigslist. Then said person started a commentary regarding Jeff Ragsdale's Wikipedia "notability". This whole issue has now snowballed into a "notability" issue on Wikipedia because of IP number 71.190.77.101's false claims regarding Ragsdale. My question to you is can you leave a message on Theda's page about your sentiments regarding Ragsdale's notability? Theda has since reinserted the notability tag on Ragsdale's Wikipedia page. Ragsdale is clearly a notable person. One would just have to look at the rich sources, and all of his television and film credits, as well as his international activism. Or could you possibly point me in other directions? Richard Peterson  11-20-10  —Preceding unsigned comment added by RichardPeterson44 (talk • contribs) 03:06, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't recall working on this article. I do mostly minor edits to an article, and then move on. Sometimes, I'll vandal fight, so will edit a lot of articles in a short amount of time.
 * Of course, you want to read about the notability requirements. Jeff Ragsdale does appears to be notable, and qualifies as such, but since I know nothing about him, I don't think I can really help.
 * You might also wish to read about how Wikipedians don't "own" articles, because you are supposed to talk to the other people consistently editing an article to reach agreements. --I dream of horses (T) @ 04:24, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * FYI I have indef blocked User:RichardPeterson44. Rich Farmbrough, 11:26, 21 November 2010 (UTC).


 * Yeah, I can see why. He seemed very uncivil. --I dream of horses (T) @ 19:34, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

why do you keep on stoping me —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.58.149.114 (talk) 16:49, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Blind reverts
Please inspect edits before reverting. You have reintroduced a citation error, which I was correcting. Your revert was not helpful. 134.253.26.12 (talk) 16:54, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * You're right, my edit wasn't helpful. I did inspect your edit, however mistook it for vandalism, and I didn't mean to make this mistake. My apologies. You may remove my warning if you so wish. --I dream of horses (T) @ 17:58, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you. By the way, per WP:BLANKING, I don't actually need your permission to remove warnings.  I have had such removals falsely reverted as well.   Such is the life of an IP editor.  Best regards. 134.253.26.12 (talk) 18:40, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I know you don't need my permission, but a lot of times, I get IP editors who come to me and are all like "Now my dignity is gone forever, because I can't delete the warning!", not realizing they can, in fact, remove the warning. --I dream of horses (T) @ 21:21, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Template:vandal information
Hi, did you realize that level 4 is "less vandalism", not more?? --Funandtrvl (talk) 22:03, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but in the moment when I changed the template, there seemed to be a lot of people taking care of the vandalism. I do the levels based on an entirely subjective, gut analysis vandal fighter to act of vandalism ratio. --I dream of horses (T) @ 02:02, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, but I'm still confused by the numbering system! LOL! --Funandtrvl (talk) 02:17, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, so you are asking me to help you. I get it now, heh.
 * Basically, the higher the number, the lower the amount of vandalism. One is like when there's some sort of massive, tag team effort to vandalize Wikipedia, or somebody creates a few, highly effective vandal bots. Five is when you can wait around using some sort of anti-vandalism, live recent changes feed for several minutes without seeing any vandalism pop up. The level tends to be between three and four. --I dream of horses (T) @ 02:53, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know, but usually, intensity ascends the number scale, not descends. I'm always checking the scale to make sure I've got it correct! --Funandtrvl (talk) 02:57, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Arch Coal
How is it that just correcting a typo should be reverted or that you all say that I was vandalysing a page? The word I corrected was readd to read...98.108.162.182 (talk) 01:19, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * You're not supposed to edit other people's comments.  WAYNE  OLAJUWON 01:22, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * And not only that, you also deleted a whole chunk of text. --I dream of horses (T) @ 01:27, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about the Plasma Lamp
One of my siblings must have got on it and changed it.. I apologize. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.33.92.63 (talk) 00:52, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
 * We have no idea who is editing, just the user name (or, in your case, IP address) representing the person. "My sibling did it" is also a very common excuse for vandalism, so...yeah, I don't know what to say, really.
 * Do you think registering an account might help with the situation? --I dream of horses (T) @ 15:17, 29 November 2010 (UTC)