User talk:Josephgrossberg

A bit odd you redirecting your talk page to your user page, please dont or I will have to report said action as if you wish to edit you need to have a page where people can leave you messages. Also please dont deconstruct redirects, Thanks, SqueakBox 17:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I was (mistakenly) told to redirect my talk page to my user page; no need to make threats about "reporting" me over something so trivial.
 * And your redirect is incorrect, for reasons I subsequently explained: I agree with you that "cannabis" is the technical term, but their use of "marijuana" is a quote. Editing their mission statement makes no more sense than changing their name to "The Cannabis Policy Project".
 * And your redirect is incorrect, for reasons I subsequently explained: I agree with you that "cannabis" is the technical term, but their use of "marijuana" is a quote. Editing their mission statement makes no more sense than changing their name to "The Cannabis Policy Project".

Some people redirect their user page to their user talk page, which is fine as your user page is yours. It isnt trivial as it makes it difficult to communicate with you. You slightly misunderstood about the redirect, marijuana redirects to Cannabis (drug), thus the proper way to do it is marijuana whereas in the example you reverted we were back to marijuana as the link itself. My signature strangely appeared aty the end of your last comment so I have removed it. I agree that if the quote says marijuana we should leave it as that,, but generally I try to remove the word marijuana which is misused countless times on this project. UK and European people, amongst others, do not call cannabis marijauna because hashish is mostly more common than weed, SqueakBox 18:00, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Fair enough.

I see nobody has given you a welcome notice. First just to say, you can sign your signature with ~ and are encouraged to do so on all your messages on all talk or official pages, SqueakBox 20:25, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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Helpme - internal groups
{helpme} How do I get involved with these internal Wikipedia groups? Do I just add the appropriate badge to this page and start editing?


 * There is really no need to add a badge, or sign up for anything - you can just go ahead and edit.--Commander Keane 03:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

R on R
Great work trying to clean-up the R on R article - I would have done it but I don't understand what it is on about so it's a difficult thing to do... --Larry laptop 21:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I'm doing it in bits and pieces. It was clearly written by programmers, for programmers, and that's not what Wikipedia is about. Josephgrossberg 21:15, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The page is vastly improved now, with your edits. I also like the way you've asked what makes RoR special, in the Discussion page.  I think the issue of whether RoR is "special" is well-suited for a wikipedia page, in a way that the now-deleted technical details were not.  Thanks for doing this.  (PS. I'm posting this on your Talk page because you've started a great thread on the article/discussion page, and I didn't want to divert that.) --Dankelley 03:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Cool. I'm glad you like. There's definitely room for improvement, but I think/hope most people see it as a heading in the right direction. Josephgrossberg 04:27, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

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 * The text was reinserted by accident, and I'm not sure why I wasn't hit with an edit conflict. The text that you had removed was taken out per the issues you had raised that would seem to be clear violations of WP:COI. Alansohn 17:09, 16 February 2007 (UTC)\

Pot
I dont know about a mission but I do know that wikipedia has used the generic term cannabis since before I edited here 2 and a half years ago. The main issue I have with the word marijuana is that it only describes herbal cvannabis and cannabis also includes its preparations, particularly hashish, which is more common in Europe than marijuana is, SqueakBox 17:05, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * I see it was a mistake you have corrected already. Sorry. --Anna512 (talk • contribs) 14:41, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it was a typo -- I hit a character after I highlighted some text; I should have used "Show preview". Josephgrossberg 18:27, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

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 * Regarding the first point, I don't agree with you. IAFD provides information like a filmography and directorial credits. That wiki is just a bunch of links to porn galleries. Furthermore, there is no nudity on IAFD itself and any links to commercial sites are clearly marked as such.


 * Regarding the second, you should split your reverts and other changes into separate edits so that they are more atomic. I did notice that I reverted your other edits, but they were trivial changes, not "fundamental inaccuracies", and your edit summary made no mention of them. Josephgrossberg (talk) 18:17, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

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DC Meetup
Can you finalize your plans? We want to include you in our count, but have not heard back from you? Racepacket (talk) 06:12, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Done, sorry. See you guys there! Josephgrossberg (talk) 15:15, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

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Iqbal_Theba
In the Iqbal_Theba article it should be noted that he is Muslim. He is Muslim accodring to this article:http://www.currybear.com/wordpress/?p=3566 please put in as a reference.Neptunekh2 (talk) 08:25, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
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