User talk:Rama/archive 2

Archive of talk, subjects 51 to 100

Charles Enderlin changes
Hi Rama, I've proposed the changes to Charles Enderlin on the Talk:Charles Enderlin page. Please let me know what you think. Jayjg (talk) 22:28, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Looks very nice, thank you for your hard work ! I am sorry to hear you were busy during the Great Shortage, I hope you didn't lose too much work. Thanks again ! Rama 16:01, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for Mysterious Island
Thanks, I look forward for more images. Samohyl Jan 09:01, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Have you seen these images (from 20000 Leagues) ? Perhaps that'll help you wait until I get the time to scan all those from Mysterious Island ^^ Rama 09:11, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Nemo of Honour
Thanks for this! What a lovely thing to see appear on my page :) I've been looking out for you on IRC to say thanks, but seem to have missed you - so thanks here!  Best wishes -- sannse (talk) 00:53, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

My RFA, your words
Oh thanks for the glowing tribute. So many people have said such nice things that, if I am sysopped, I am going to have to read what the guys who didn't support me had to say, every day for a month, before I really feel comfortable using sysop powers. My favorite will always be the Nemo picture. You gave me the one with Nemo checking his bearing with a sextant.


 * Le capitaine Nemo, muni de son sextant, prit la hauteur du soleil, qui devait lui donner sa latitude. Il attendit pendant quelques minutes que l'astre vint affleurer le bord de l'horizon. Tandis qu'il observait, pas un de ses muscles ne tressaillait, et l'instrument n'eût pas été plus immobile dans une main de marbre. Steady as she goes. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 21:31, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Whow, someone really did his homework ! Allow me to be impressed ! :) Rama 22:13, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yatate images
Hi Rama. You uploaded Image:Yatate.jpg, which seems to have been made from Image:Yatate1.jpg and Image:Yatate2.jpg. Where do these come from? (I'm image tagging, of course.) Thanks! – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 21:52, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)


 * They are photographs of a yatate of mine, of the Edo era. The photographs were taken by the antiquer who sold me the yatate, and put under a Free licence with his approval. The mail in question and the name of the author have been lost since then. I could re-create the photographs is absolutely necessary, though I seem excessively improbable that we'd have trouble just stating the author as "previous owner" or something like this. Rama 22:28, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * UPDATE: I just realise that I ended the above answer without the slightest sign of a polite form, and that Japanese lesson late are no excuse (much to the contrary). So I take the opportunity to say that, beside being happy to see someone ready the article aout yatate, I appreciate your services to the community very muc. Rama 22:43, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I'll tag them. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 23:47, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

Inflexible.jpg listed for deletion
An image that you uploaded, Inflexible.jpg, has been listed at Images and media for deletion because it lacks source and license information, and it is not used in any articles. Please go there to voice your opinion (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.

More image questions
Rama, I came across another bunch of untagged images. Could you tag these? Thanks, – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 01:41, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Image:International Brigades casa del campo.jpg
 * Image:International Brigades flags1.jpg
 * Image:International Brigades flags2.jpg
 * Image:International Brigades medal.PNG
 * Image:International Brigades monument berlin.jpg
 * Image:International Brigades poster1.jpg
 * Image:International Brigades training.jpg


 * I have tagged them as fairuse, I must admit that it has been a long time. One familiar with Public Domain laws might even want to see whether some of the photogaphs have not been made public domain since... Rama 07:20, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Pics
Hey Rama, thanks for the pics. I'm done with my work, you can delete them now. →Raul654 05:28, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)


 * I cannot, I am not an admin. But I will mark them for deletion.
 * I notived that one of the steps which lead to a complete muscle had slipped my mind, and I have made another drawing for this. I will let you know as soon as I have scanned it.
 * Cheers, it as nice to work with you ! Rama 07:22, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Attention
Some people with apparently very little knowledge of French politics edit Jean-Marie Le Pen and dispute claims made there, some of which are obvious to anybody knowing the situation. Could you please help me watch over this? David.Monniaux 23:50, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm, yes, as you apparently have seen already, I recently edited qualifications of the FN being "right-wing conservative" (interesting qualification, if you ask me, but fairly inexact), so there seems to be a room for improvement of the general understanding of the topic on Wikipedia. Rama 07:08, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, the FN is more reactionary than conservative, I think. I actually reinstated the "right-wing" thing – in the same paragraph, there was an explanation that Le Pen denies the FN being far right, but that pretty much everybody else considers it to be so. David.Monniaux 07:45, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, the FN is a constellation of different and contradictory interests, whose expressions vary according to the opportunity; this makes is very interesting (i.e.: difficult) to analyse. Overall, I also would say that "reactionary" is quite accurate (this can be seen in the discourses of Le Pen, both in content and in form).
 * By the way, I had the idea that it might be interesting to have a brief analysis of the form of Le Pen's speeches (his references to history, the way he makes neutral words sound derogative, his very successful way to craft new words, the way he uses public outrage to make people talk about him when he's getting forgotten...) What would you think ? Rama 08:39, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * One problem is that it would have not to be original research; i.e. the analysis would have to be copied from some source and attributed to that source. Otherwise, people will claim it's just our personal POV. David.Monniaux 12:11, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Muscles
I've seen a list of muscle schematic images on Speedy deletions, one of which you tagged. Can you tell me what's wrong with it? Mgm|(talk) 14:14, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)


 * They are now useless, since they have been assembled by Raul654 to make the more interesting Image:Skeletal_muscle.jpg . This is what he refers to in User_talk:Rama. Sorry to take some of your time to do this. Rama 14:22, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

prepositional groups
Hello. In Catalan number, I changed prepositional groups to prepositional groups. There are justifiable exceptions to the custom of using the singular form in Wikipedia article titles, but I can't see why prepositional groups should be an exception. Michael Hardy 20:54, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

À propos de la cardio-pompe
Salut,

suite à notre discussion sur la cardio-pompe de l'autre jour _↔_ ↑, tu peux si tu veux jeter un coup d'œil (voire participer) à la discussion en cours : http://forum.secourisme.info/viewtopic.php?t=2601

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Cdang| write me 08:34, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Merci j'ai lu avec intérêt. Comme je n'ai jamais eu le truc en main, je n'ai pas grand'chose à en dire, mais je suis toujour curieux. Peut-être un jour à un wikimeeting à Paris, sait-on jamais ? ;) Merci encore ! Rama 13:25, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Re: Monk
Sorry, it was a silly mistake, but sure not vandalism.

Excuse-me. I fixed, see? :)


 * Sorry, I just happen to have "rv, vandalism" in the auto-completion. The comment of the edit wasn't meant to prejudge of the anture of your contributions. Happy editing ! Rama 10:02, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yup, ok. Well, I finally decided to join wikipedia and submit articles. Happy editing! :)


 * Congratulations, then, and welcome on board ! :) Rama 10:30, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Image source
Thank you for uploading Image:Battleship Yamashiro.jpg. Its copyright status is unclear, so it may have to be deleted. Please leave a note on the image page about the source of the image. Thank you. --Ellmist 02:08, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. I think that this image might be public domain, as I seem to remember having downloaded it from abother online encyclopedia whose images are PD. I'm in the process of trying to find the exact URL. Rama 10:07, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * After research, that source I was thinking of is http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/ (a possibly usefull source of images, since their are publc domain). However, it seems that the image does not come from there. Since there are already a number of photograph of this ship (including for similar angles), I will mark this one for deletion. Thank you for your time and care ! Rama 08:31, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanx...
...For watching my talk page ;-)

Il en a fait d'autres, ce Matth97 ?

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Cdang| write me 07:59, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Ouais, plein. Il fait partie d'une constellation de vandales connus. C'est mal, parce qu'avec ce genre de vandalisme, on ne peut même pas réellement s'ennorgueillir de s'être fait vandaliser personellement, puisque le choix des pages est plus ou moins aléatoire :p Rama 08:02, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/Chamaeleon
Salut. Si t'as une opinion, va l'exprimer ! Sinon, pas grave. Chamaeleon 14:19, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hugo Chavez
Re: your edit summary on Hugo Chavez (paraphrased: no proof that the anon. is Venezuelan): the IP is in a range owned by Florida International University in the US. My guess is a Venezuelan studying in the US, or a first- or second-generation immigrant. I know you were joking, but it made me curious. :) DanKeshet 00:12, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * LOL ! Vandal, the Wikistapo is coming for you ! Well done Sherlock ! ;) Rama 05:08, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikimania
Je ne connaissais pas, merci de l'info. Mais non, je ne pense pas y aller. Wikipédia n'intéresse pas ma copine, et Francfort, comme lieu de tourisme… (je sais, j'y ai fais un stage).

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Cdang| write me 10:41, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

S/he
No offense taken for calling me "he," Rama. ;-) SlimVirgin (talk) 23:03, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

Davos
thanks a lot. see my reply on Image talk:Davos Switzerland G8 Summit.jpg, dab (ᛏ) 07:44, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you, Rama, that's very kind of you. I appreciate it very much, and no, you didn't upset me. I have similarly always appreciated your politeness and your willingness to see all sides of a debate. Perhaps we should have the article protected so that only the two of us can edit it. ;-) SlimVirgin (talk)  12:21, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * that's right. I have actually appreciated SV's fairness in the past, but the implication that Lupo had uploaded a doctored image, and the muttering about secret inscriptions on that badge only visible to SV, I don't know, I do not consider my reaction "totally groundless". Add to that the complaint on my talk page, and the removal of my reply to that, and I would argue SV's behaviour was slightly hysterical. I do not want to pursue this, heavens forbid, I'm glad to forget about this mess (it's a nice illustration of why I stay away from political topics), but I do hope you acknowledge my involvement on that image talk page was open and honest, and thanks to Lupo's help, managed to shed light on the image's origin and background. See also this reaction to SV's stance. Even TDC conceded the "sheriff" badge. . In fact, I feel I deserve an apology from SV, but I am of course not counting on one. dab (ᛏ) 07:31, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * I am not taking side with someone against someone else. SlimVirgin has been subject to the defiance and hostility of people whose appreciation of their fellow editors was deformed by the excessively polarised nature of the discussion. Her attitude of jumping in a cross-fire to try to bring some rationality in the debate was very courageous, and did much good for the article. Her intuition about the photograph led her to ask legitimate and interesting question, which have helped the research to be as good as it eventually was (and it is truely excellent).
 * I am certain that neither you, Dbachmann, not the other editors, are bad or mean people; but the polarised nature of the debate was such as to make honest and legitimate questions mistaken for insinuations or sneaking attacks. The fact that SlimVirgin attracted more defiance than thanks for her deeds is an unjust pity. Discussing with irrational people who share your intuitions is far less constructive than discussion with rational people of opposite intuition. Rama 12:40, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I am slightly disturbed that you seem to lump me together with other editors who took part in a discussion I have not even seen. My involvement has been restricted to the image talk page, and you should maybe review that discussion. You will note that is only started to become unpleasant once SV started to make opaque comments about an alleged inscription only visible to herself, but which she refused to share with us, and her implications of bad faith image doctoring. I am saying this in case you are interested to re-evaluate the situation, but I think it would be best to just drop it at this point. I fully agree that the image opened legitimate and interesting questions, and I believe that they have been answered now. dab (ᛏ) 10:16, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I didn't mean any lumping. I was expressing my feelings about what I regard as a generally regrettable situation (a few users have been responsible for a significant degradation of the atmosphere of the debate -- which cleary is not your fault) to one person which I think was a particular victim of it. I understand that your own situation was not an easy one either, and I regret it all the same. My token of appreciation should not be read as excluding all other participants, or taking sides with one in particular.
 * I am sorry to be so vague and confused, but judging by your background and the quality of your own posts, I am confident that you will understand. Cheers ! Rama 14:23, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * sure, thanks for the conciliatory tone. I'm glad to just move on :o) regards, dab (ᛏ) 14:20, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page! &mdash; Knowledge Seeker দ 04:47, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

2003 Invasion of Iraq
I have discussed the issues there, unlike what you claim. My edits are not done in any other fashion except to attempt to create a more neutral article. I suggest that your politics cloud your ability to understand what is neutral and what isn't. The current article is a not a fair and neutral discussion on the matter, hence my attempts to edit it. I recommend that you not revert my edit without a fair and equal surmise in discussion prior to doing so either. Quid pro quo.--MONGO 18:06, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * You have discussed, your arguments have been dismissed, and yet you keep on reverting this particular part, without any new elements having been produced. The present state of this particular part is the result of discussions between numerous users, and has not been crafted lightly; the fact that it has survived very repeated challenges tends to indicate that serious facts should be brought to shake it; in particular, I have very little doubt that an arbitrary change will be reverted very quickly by numerous users.
 * I thusly reiterate my call for non-partisan edits, documented if necessary, and assum

Why did you block me
I haven't done anything, I don't even have a user name, it just said you blocked me... I M MAD
 * It might help if you could give more precise references to what exactly annoys you. Also, writing in capital about your state of mind won't necessarily make people better predisposed toward you. Rama 19:01, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Delete vandalism
I wrote several arguments why the article should be restored. Unfortunately, i twas all erased without discussion. Could anyone restore the article so the arguments can be answered?????

user Dagen
Hi, FWIW: looks like a TDC sockpuppet to me. -- Viajero 10:18, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * answer at User_talk:Viajero. Rama 13:12, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Requests for comment/TDC-2: could you help? Thanks, -- Viajero 13:55, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Omsk!
WRT your comment on removing Omsk as the home port of the Nautilis[sic], you're completly right, I was excited over that city and decided to add that in for fun thinking it'd get reverted the next time I F5'd it, but it hung on this long! I award you the sneaky vandalic changes noticing award! 68.39.174.39 23:45, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I will understand this as a lesson on the virtues of patience and the vanity of hastiness. :) Rama 06:50, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Small task for you
Do me a favor - find me an icon that I can use to represent video files (like the speaker icon is used to represent audio files) →Raul654 03:54, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)


 * do youu think that one of Image:Video icon 1.png or Image:Video icon 2.png can do the trick ? Rama 07:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, the first one is quite good. →Raul654 19:59, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Thank ye!
Thank you kindly, I promise to look at the incidents in the morning. :-) Kim Bruning 19:09, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Hours of fun, I tell you ! :P Rama 19:52, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Admin Nomination
Ok, I've nominated you for admin. :-) Please indicate if you accept the nomination. And good luck! Kim Bruning 18:49, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I am very honoured and will in any case strive to deserve the confidence you displayed. Rama 20:52, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! You are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the administrators' how-to guide helpful. Good luck. Angela. 19:14, May 5, 2005 (UTC)


 * Oho, now they'll have to be careful when they poke fun at your line drawings! Congratulations, my friend, you have earned this many times over. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:13, 5 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Hey Rama, congratulations. I agree with Tony: you've more than earned it. SlimVirgin (talk) 23:00, May 5, 2005 (UTC)


 * One down, two to go, YAY! Nice to see you made it with flying colors! :-) Have a great day! Kim Bruning 23:16, 5 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Congratulations from me too. You were a deserving candidate. &mdash; Trilobite (Talk) 10:35, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Well deserved promotion
Hello Rama, I indeed rejoice at your promotion to admin level. I am sure all your skills, including linguistic ones would make wikipedia still better. Congratulations.--Bhadani 01:37, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hello Rama, thanks a lot for drawing the blank human body images! -- Neitram, 08:36, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Guedel Pattern Airway
Salut,

pas d'idée particulière, si ce n'est une espèce de BD : Cdang| write me 15:21, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) mesure de la longueur (comparaison canule et distance commissure des lèvres-lobe de l'orreille)
 * 2) ouverture de la bouche (doigts croisés, pouce sur les dents sup, index sur les dents inf.)
 * 3) introduction de la canule courbure vers le haut ;
 * 4) retournement de la canule.

Blocking of Ashley
I don't think the blocking is working because Ashley is still posting (re: Sollogfan pages) You let him get away with vandalism for a long time without punishment. The Number 14:58, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Assistance for verification
hi, I am currently contributing to COTW Culture of Ancient Rome. I have posted on the talk page of the article the following requst: "An external link by user 193.191.210.10 incerted on 13 May 2005 may please be examined for relevancy by someone knowing that language. Thanks." Request you to please examine the contents of the link for relevancy - while voting for your admin, I had a feeling that your abilities in many languages will be of use to several users like me - now the time for me has come to seek your assistance. Thanks.--Bhadani 16:40, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Question about Nautilus
Hello, I translated an article of Nautilus into Japanese version from English. However, the part of Nemo's explanation of Nautilus translated into English is ambiguous in whether it follows copyright of Japan. If it is your translation, there is no problem. But, if it is not, it may not follow copyright of Japan.

Is it your translation? If it is not, please tell me the exhibited year of it.

I am sorry to have wasted your time. --Kasuga 07:47, 14 May 2005 (UTC)


 * The English text is taken from the English translation available at Project Gutemberg, and hence is Free (in the sense of Free Software). I think that we can safely assume that there is no problem in Japan either.
 * Thank you very much for spreading the work of Jules Verne, which - I think - deserve to be made well-known in Japan just as Japanese culture should be made better known in the "West". My time has not been wasted, and if I can be of any sort of assistance about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, please do let me know ! Regards, Rama 08:02, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your quick and sincere reply! You can jump to Japanese article about Nautilus from English it by interlink.

Jules Verne is already fully famous in Japan. He is the French writer who had been most frequently translated into Japanese, and his 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was translated into Japanese at the early time 1880.

I expect your excellent contribution from now on! Regards. --Kasuga 09:06, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Did you know?
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article French corvette Aconit, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

soviet national anthem
Hi,

May I ask for your reason to revert my edit on the soviet national anthem page? I shall refrain from reverting back and let you explain first.


 * Because it is trivial; any Alexandrine can be sung on the tune of the Soviet Anthem, because of its rythm. Specifically mentionning the anthem of the United States of America has a value set between "weird", "chauvinistic" and "naïve". Rama 15:54, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


 * It's not trivial, it's interesting. Please provide 5 more national anthems that can be sung to it, then it can considered trivial. You are also bordering on personal attacks here. -Hmib 16:10, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I am not attacking you personally, I am talking about your edit. As I said, any poem in Alexandrine can be sung on this (and the fact that the poem would be a national anthem doesn't make it more specific; Alexandrine is a very common form). The Internationale was specifically written to be sung on the tune of the Marseillaise, before its own tune was written later on, so that is worth mentionning. But unless there are precise historical reasons to mention it, your edit shoulb read "The anthem of the USSR is an Alexandrine". Rama 16:25, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I DO know about The Internationale, thank you very much. If you try to sing it yourself (try it) you will find that it is not forced at all like what would happen if you try to simply fit & match. Not to mention that Alexandrine is pretty rare in the English language. And yes, I DO have a specific reason for mentioning Star Spangled Banner. There's protest song using it, by Iron Curtain. OK? -Hmib 16:44, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I this case, the best to do would be to put a "trivia" section, in which you could mention the whole story about Iron Curtain. Rama 19:45, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


 * How about this: We compromise and put: "The lyrics were written in Alexandrine form, which incidentally means that other verses in Alexandrine can also be sung to the music, eg. Star Spangled Banner." Hmmkay? -Hmib 22:07, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, my position in this: given that there is a specific reason to mention the Star Spangled Banner, it can (and should) of course be done; however, I would like to put two nuances:
 * 1) Since it is not intresically linked to the history of the Soviet Anthem itself, I think it belongs to a "trivia" section -- certainly not in the introducting paragraph
 * 2) Why not mention the name of the group who did it ? That's the reason we mention the Star Spangled Banner, isn't it ?
 * My point is that unless we explain why we put this here, beside losing some interesting piece of information, we might sound a little bit like someone who'd be adding "The Star Spangled Banner can be sung with the words of Deutschland über Alles in the first paragraph of Star Spangled Banner -- which would be odd, would it not ? Rama 06:36, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Admin
I hadn't realised you'd been promoted. Congratulations, belatedly. JFW | T@lk  23:52, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Abuse
Don't leave abuse on my talk page
 * Jimbo79, the is meant for sysops to warn users of potential problems. Your username appears on Vandalism_in_progress; leaving this message was not meant to insult you, but to warn you that some of your behaviour is regarded as problematic. You might want to answer the concerns of your fellow users there. Rama 12:21, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

George W. Bush
Hi Rama, you've recently edited George W. Bush. I just wanted to make sure you noticed that, on the talk page, we're talking about a compromise under which that entire section would be eliminated. Some of the information would be moved to a few paragraphs in the "Personal life, service and education" section; the rest would be moved to a daughter article. The current version is at User:JamesMLane/George W. Bush substance abuse controversy. It's the whole section, so the reader can see the context, but what's important for this dispute is the last three paragraphs. I don't see a need to keep any reference to 9/11 in connection with the drugs and alcohol stuff. (I do, however, agree with your edit; if 9/11 were to be mentioned for some reason, it should be wikilinked.) I hope the proposed compromise looks OK to you. JamesMLane 20:04, 24 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh, that was just a detail. I just happen to dislike the way that some people casually refer to the events of the 11th of September 2001 as "9/11"; it seems unrespectful to me, and also the "month/day" is bizarre to many people outside of the USA. That was about it :p Rama 22:17, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Many Thanks
I appreciate you blocking 198.74.20.75 the other day. The user seems to have some kind of personal vendetta against me, god knows why. Seems to have something to do with an edit summary on the NASCAR article, i think. . . Anyway, thanks for the block. - Jersyko 22:36, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Redoutable
Thanks for the article on French ship Redoutable (74), I hope that you will feel inspired to do others on some of the other French ships at Battle of Trafalgar. I have always hated that patch of red links but I wasn't sure where to find the information in English. Dabbler 11:15, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Glad to see some more being added, I hope you don't mind my copyediting. Dabbler 18:12, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee case opening
Requests for arbitration/Internodeuser has been accepted. Please bring evidence to Requests for arbitration/Internodeuser/Evidence. Thank you. -- sannse (talk) 19:28, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Block
Why do you say someone is idiotic and ban them for personal attatcks when calling someone idiotic is a personal attack? Shouldnt you be banned? I suppose not because this is not a democracy on this site its run like Hitler ran Germany.

Here's what you said
23:07, 26 May 2005, Rama blocked 198.74.20.74 (expires 23:07, 2 Jun 2005) (contribs) (Personal insults about a ban. You really must be idiotic. ) Real nice way to insult a user, you should be banned from blocking.


 * You call me a "cock sucking faggot" on your user page (among other things on your talk page), Rama called you "idiotic." Wikipedia, I implore, you be the judge. - Jersyko 20:50, May 27, 2005 (UTC)


 * Survey says... Rama was fully justified in calling you an idiot. Compared to what YOU said, you don't have any grounds for complaining. --Chanting Fox 20:53, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Survey says, chanting fox is idiotic, you people are to be held at a higher level and should just block some one and not make smart ass nazi comments. You people just delete what you dont like, mostly things that make you look stupid, and you people wouldn't stand a chance on an un-edited format. George W. Bush is one of the greatist presidents ever! [comment by 198.74.20.75]
 * I rest my case. --Chanting Fox 21:31, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Bad blocks
You're setting some bad blocks. If more than 1 block is set for a person, as soon as any of them expire, they all expire. For example, see:
 * 19:00, May 27, 2005, Rama blocked Dimimimon8 (expires 19:00, May 28, 2005) (contribs) (unblock) (vandalism)
 * 18:56, May 27, 2005, Decumanus blocked Dimimimon8 (expires indefinite) (contribs) (unblock) (vandal account)

What you've basically done there is reduce the block from indefinite to lasting only 1 day. Additionally, if you manually remove your block by unblocking him, all blocks will be removed.

Another case:
 * 18:28, May 27, 2005, Rama blocked 198.74.20.75 (expires 18:28, Jun 3, 2005) (contribs) (unblock) (3RR, vandalism and personal insults.)
 * 18:28, May 27, 2005, Rama blocked 198.74.20.75 (expires 18:28, May 28, 2005) (contribs) (unblock) (3RR, vandalism and personal insults.)

You apparently decided to block the guy for longer than 1 day after setting your first block. Well, guess what? That's right, both blocks will be removed tomorrow automatically.

In both of these cases, you should remove the block, then reset it for the proper time (indefinite in the case of Dimimimon8, 1 week in the case of 198.74.20.75). Hopefully this unblocking bug will be fixed in future versions of Mediawiki. Cheers. CryptoDerk 06:13, May 28, 2005 (UTC)


 * Woops. sorry. I though that I had heard somewhere that the longest block was the one which would be in effect. I'll mind this in the future, thank you. Rama 08:21, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Its ok, it let me come back sooner!

Follow up to the muscle picture
I just realized there's one more thing our muscle picture needs. If you look at this pic in the top-right corner, it has a zoom-in on an thin (actin) filament, showing that an actin filament is actually 2 actin chains held together with a chain of troponin and tropomyosin molecules. This is *very* important and definitely needs to be pictured. Care to do the honors? →Raul654 05:49, May 30, 2005 (UTC)


 * Sure, I will do this in a day or two, if that's all right with you. Cheers ! Rama 08:00, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Take your time. When you add it, put it in that white space in the middle left side of the picture. →Raul654 08:43, May 30, 2005 (UTC)


 * I have put something on Image:Skeletal muscle tmp.jpg; I'd rather leave the caption to someone who'll know something about this, on the other hand ! :p
 * Oh, perhaps it is silly, but what about replace the bodybuilder with someting... cuter... like a litte girl, for instance ? He gives me the creeps ! :)
 * Cheers ! Rama 21:28, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

catalan numbers
Dear Rama, I've been working on improving the Catalan numbers article a bit. I would appreciate it if you could clarify your paragraph in the History section. It's not entirely clear what you're saying. I think I get it, but I'm not sure enough to rewrite it myself. Also, it looks like it really belongs in the list of combinatorial applications, near the parenthesising examples. Maybe if you could give an example where there are five possible interpretations of a certain sentence, that would be great. Thanks Dmharvey 00:28, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Certainly, I will try to draft one and draw something. I'll put this on my todo-list for the end of the week if that's all right with you. By the way, if you think that this part belongs to the Applications in combinatorics section, do feel free to move it around, and also to change it if you see it fit.
 * Thank you for your work, t has been enjoyable to see the article improve lately ! :) Cheers ! Rama 06:21, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Requests for comment/68.170.0.238
Any chance you'd be willing to contribute to this RfC? RickK 04:43, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)