User talk:Shenme/Archive1

Archive from March 2005 to December 2006

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ClockworkSoul 13:46, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Mind Benders
Hello! I've noticed your past interest in Mind Benders and wanted to share the following announcement with you! I've taken over the responsibilities of Mind Benders, and the page will now be regularly updated. Right now, the pre-round is open (it's more of a creative artistic competition), and round one will open soon (the questions are done, we just need to wait for the pre-round to begin/finish)! So why not check it out? I'll keep you updated! Thanks, Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 01:21, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Feel free to pass this news on to other Wikipedians.

Poetist vs Poetess
Shenme, I agree with you. I have written over 308 articles for Wiki and among them: Lola Rodríguez de Tió, Maria Bibiana Benitez and José Gautier Benítez. That's the reason that you run into me so many times. I do want you to know that I consider what you're doing as something very positive for these articles. Wikipedia needs more people like you and I'll help whenever the matter comes up. I watch the "List of famous Puerto Ricans" page everyday since my son and I originated it. Your friend in Wiki. Tony the Marine 23:52, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

FYI
Maybe Clito-R-us is an adult sex toy store in Las Vegas. "Clitorus" gets about 200,000 Google hits and even shows up as a spelling error in a biomedical publication! (second sentence of the abstract) --JWSchmidt 02:17, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

"extra not"
Thanks for catching that. I just changed it back to the original wording. I tend to write messy, looooong sentences....in this case I confused myself. Feel free to jump in and provide a better version. My source for this is actually a book "The Eighth Day of Creation" by Horace Freeland Judson. Judson cited the Science article that I added as a reference. I have never actually seen the Science article. It would be great if someone could go into a research library and confirm exactly what Perutz wrote! --JWSchmidt 23:35, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Gracias
por su ayuda en el artículo Huei tlamahuiçoltica--Rockero 09:18, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Shenmue
you correct spelling mistakes huh!? What about your name!? is it suppose to be Shenmue (video game) or just Shenme:P
 * &gt;x&lt;ino 02:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

You know..you havn't answerd my question yet Shenmue!
 * &gt;x&lt;ino 21:58, 24 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, it's easy, you could've follow the link from my user page to my page at Simple English Wikipedia.  It is 'shenme' (什么), which just means "What?", because I sometimes say that a lot. Shenme 22:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh please Shenmue...you know you spelled your name wrong...alot of f00ls do that:P

Wats up Shenmue:)
 * &gt;x&lt;ino 08:44, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

ex-voto
Sorry if you found the word ev-voto strange. Thanks for wikilinking it, although now it sounds as if these were Catholic votive objects ... do you think it is misleading now? --Nantonos 20:19, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

User pages & Seanver
Thanks for your reversion. I don't came often here. You can see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Blisz as i think it's related, and also related to the George McFinnigan problem at es: I thought it was closed since they made up its own wiki (elgranero dot org) where they can vandalize whatever they want. Platonides 19:59, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Portugal and the word Sinistrality
I saw you ask what the heck that meant. Haha, I think someone's using Bablefish because it means preference for using the left hand.

Vernal Equinox
WHy did I get that message? I was the one who removed the last bit of vandalism, what exactly did I do? (other then remove the previous poster's vandalism, who put his back up immediately after I took his off). -- 69.248.43.27 00:44, 23 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I think you are right that I misread your edit. Your edit was sandwiched in between the other two, and it looked like all one piece of 'work'.  My apologies - you _were_ one of the "good guys". Shenme 05:43, 23 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you. -- 69.248.43.27 22:59, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Carpet Bombing
Ok, I see your point :) So far the response has been only positive, but that may change. Thanks for your concern, and I agree, I will stop for now. nsandwich 06:24, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

message link
Heh, hadn't noticed that. Fixed. Thanks! Gflores Talk 04:09, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: slap-happy
It's no problem at all--I've made that mistake myself. AmiDaniel (Talk) 02:48, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: my Mongols edit
Thanks for letting me know what was going on with this article. I'm glad I helped defeat a vandal. I've heard about people spamming Wikipedia, but this was the first time I actually saw someone doing it.

Big Mac 10:02, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Image:Nasty prod
The prod policy proposal calls for using the process only to delete articles; images should still go through the standard WP:IfD image deletion process. I believe this is because image deletion is irreversible, technically; a new copy of the image has to be uploaded if the deletion is incorrect. So the prod shortcut isn't to be used. Monicasdude 13:40, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

A thousand apologies...
I had actually been intending to do it logged out, so it wouldn't have flagged up. Sorry for any distress! It was only an edit or two and stopped now (but you'll be pleased to know it's all working perfectly...) Shimgray | talk | 01:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Greetings
Ah, yes: indeed. I saw that edit from the "new" user, but decided I had had enough stress for the night and got up to take a break. "Aussie Bob" is the Long_term_abuse/North_Carolina_vandal; I am 100% sure. Once in a while he makes legitimate edits, but it's never long before he starts vandalising again. (I can give you the diffs establishing the exact connection if you want.) Usually, but not always, I revert all of his edits since they're not trustworthy. Thanks for your help! Antandrus (talk) 02:52, 7 April 2006 (UTC)


 * By the way, thank you for your hard work here: you've corrected a lot of mistakes and damage, just looking at your recent history.  Cheers!  Antandrus  (talk) 02:53, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Carolyn Meinel
I removed a large part of the criticism of her critics per your request, which I think is sensible. Hope it is adequate: Carolyn Meinel KI 16:13, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank You for the Compliment
I\'ll be keeping an eye on this page, by the way, are you a teacher from Eric Hamber? I noticed you used the term \"Valiantly\". Ahadiel 00:52, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
 * No, just a peripatetic wiki gnome, trying to learn about the place (Wikipedia). If valiantly is a local keyword, maybe there's a reason - some of you are? Shenme 01:03, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Tom Metzger reversion
I think the main thing is not to be in a rush. I saw the April 4 edit and reverted then checked what else they had done. Saw the first couple of lines in the Tom Metzger reversion and assumed they were doing a whitewash of the guy. Of course when you read the whole thing it's obvious nonsense. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 08:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

slice of life
Hi!

1. thanks for looking at that entry which I have just created. you are right: I was kind of unnerved myself because nobody had thought of writing it, so I started it myself... 2. now I know what a wikignome is - thanks for that kind of work too!

Bernie 19:42, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Chris Reeve
Examples of the jokes illustrate the phenomenon for the reader in a stark, vivid, and honest manner. If it is wrong to include examples of jokes, then its wrong to inclide quotes about Mr. Reeve or -for that matter- events in his life where his tireless efforts in furthering the cause for stem cell research. What seems to be the problem for you here is the brutal truth. It is ugly, but it is true. I commend you for expressing regard for Mr. Reeve's honor and dignity. I too share in your utter disgust that jokes like these have been proliferated through mass media/internet/etc. However, showing people these jokes is what ultimately must been done. Like Hitler's evils during the Holocaust must be studied so as to gain understanding into the very nature of evil, so must this phenomenon. We must learn and help others learn for the betterment of the human race. Leave the jokes, for though ugly, it is the honest truth. Thank you, however, for keeping quadraplegics in mind. It's comforting to me personally that people of your calibur exist!

-HSC —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hobson's Second Choice (talk • contribs) 05:57, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Descendants
Thanks, and no, you've not irritated me. "Descendants", huh? I think i may actually be able to remember that one: lawyers tend to pretensiously pronounce "defendants" with a short (or is it broad?) a, rather than with the schwa that real people use, and i think you've probably permanently (even tho only slightly) improved my spelling, via that analogy. Thanks! --Jerzy•t 01:29, 21 April 2006 (UTC) _ _ Hey, don't give me too much credit; this is a very special case. _ _ I'm not sure why i don't use a dict site (tho one more window can crash my whole browser), but i frequently use the spell-check on my Google toolbar, and also time-share the bound dict with the love of my life in the next room, another crossword addict. --Jerzy•t 01:50, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

User:151.203.235.124 uttered ...
Im not fucking spaming at all dumb ass.Im just simply adding to the discussion.So yeah I may have been adding harsh words to you but thats when im pissed off when you delete something that I added thats nessicary(error) in that discussion/topic.:|Dumb ass.

User page vandalism
Thanks for cleaning up the vandalism on my user page yesterday. Z iggurat 04:17, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Manjob
Hi! I wanted to let you know that I nominated the above article for AfD. Since the prod tag I placed was removed, AfD is the appropriate venue for discussing whether or not it should be deleted. Given that you re-proded it, I thought you might wish to vote in the discussion. Here is a link to the nomination: Articles for deletion/Manjob. Regards, Accurizer 13:36, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Tom Metzger article and User_Talk:TheKingOfDixie
Hello. I see that you already spoke to this editor. I have now become entangled in an edit war with him/her. I am trying to do a Requests for comment the FIRST step in mediations since this user has said he will revert NO MATTER what. Its more just trying to learn to use Wiki procedures than anything. Man this is time consuming to a newbie like me. It seems that you would have to also sign the form. Anyways, this is a VERY insignificant battle but it is my FIRST :). Its sort of funny that my first battle is defending what appears to be a TRUE scumbag this Metzger guy. Go figure. Anyways thanks for listen and have a GREAT day! Tom 18:29, 29 April 2006 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/TheKingOfDixie ps, cant this user just be blocked/banned?? I know, wishful thinking :)


 * Hi Shenme, thanks for ALL the effort on the above RfC and you are RIGHT I had NO idea how bad it really was. Again the funny thing is that I was/am willing to work with this guy to include his edits as long as his sources them....Yes that RfC Monicasdude is OVER the top. I tried to follow it but my head almost exploded :) . This Wikipedia project is SO burocratic(sp) but I guess it has to be when potentially 3/4/?? Billion people can edit a resource about ALL the information EVER known to mankind which might lead to one or two differences of opinions :)...I have found that there is SO MUCH unsourced/really questionable facts in this project in the SMALL/"who cares" articles. I have recently become really fasinated with biographies because as the John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy, we/you/me/Wikis really need to get it "right" or at least SHOW good effort. Its funny how the "contraversial" topics/issues/people have footnotes and sources out the ying yang but others are a free for all...check out the early years of this bio Jacqueline Susann..there are NO sources for ANY of it...anyways, my lastest "battle" (besides Metzger :) ) has been that about 5-6 months ago, 3 anonymous IPs 81.217.115.112 and 128.195.91.223 and 70.249.19.228 showed up and started to do this for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/128.195.91.223, replacing American with Jewish-American in EVERY biography of anybody Jewish or "suspected" of being Jewish. These were the ONLY edits that they seemed to do. Alot of them went unnoticed/unquestioned except for the more notable biographies. I found this troubling for a number of different reason. I brought it up and actually saw that another newbie brought it up in a few differnt discussion areas but really didn't hear anything back. Anyways, this is another issue that really isn't "mine" but I it seemed that somebody was "pushing" an agenda in here..surprise surprise....Anyways enough of my rambling and THANKS again on ALL your efforts with this RfC since the editor in question REALLY doesn't seem worth it....If I can every return the favor or TRY to give an impartial opinion on ANY topic please let me know! Regards, Tom 14:56, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Shenme, Tom Metzger update...== Tom Metzger listed for deletion == An article that you have been involved in editing, Tom Metzger, has been listed at Articles for deletion/Tom Metzger. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. ....side note, whats up below?? Have a nice day...Tom 15:36, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

mmmmm vandals
Hello there! Now, try to understand that I appreciate your attempts to defraud my good name and make me out to be some sort of monster that makes little girls cry for no reason, they really do hurt. I am not, as you seem to think, a vandal, or whatever it is you call an honest man around here, but merely a brave soul trying to right wrongs and cure ills. Being a seemingly likable and fair individual, you will surely understand why I must ask you to stop trying to vandalize the "genka" article into misrepresenting the honest truth. No hard feelings, but if you persist, I'm afraid I will have to go look up how to report people, or whatever it is you do when someone's messing with your hard work. I'll go revert it now. Cheers, genka.

Gravity vomit
Hi, just a note to let you know that it's not permitted to re-add {{subst:prod}} to a page after it's been removed, even if the removing user didn't give a reason. You must then take it to AFD. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 18:50, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, obviously I stopped reading at the "improve the article" point.
 * "You may remove this message if you improve the article, or if you otherwise object to deletion of the article for any reason."
 * When notifying people that I've ed an article, I've described it as a non-intense, non-confrontational process.  I didn't realize how small that gnat could be to the unimpressed.
 * Have you seen anywhere where the prod-to-afd conversion rate is being discussed? So far it looks like using prod merely delays the application of afd.  I'm not really convinced it helps, although it is certainly a 'nicer' way to hint that an article is in trouble. Shenme 19:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with most of what you're saying. Wikipedia talk:Proposed deletion is probably the page you're looking for to discuss the matter (check down at the third-from-last section or so). Stifle (talk) 21:11, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry
I am sorry. I joined the discussion. --Aminz 07:43, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

William Fielding Ogburn
It was definetly a mistake and I just apologized at the IP's talk page. I was experimenting with Lupins anti vandal tool. I guese I was doing it a little too fast...

Regarding the other revert, Its a program on my computer that did that, Ive been working on stopping it from checking wikipedia and it seemed to have stoped, up to what you found. I gonna take it easy now with my reverts making sure this does not happen. I realy enjoyed the anti vandal tool though. Shlomke 05:28, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Camberwell High Liberal Club
No, i didn't. He must have AfD'd it seconds before i reverted. Thanks for letting me know! Rockpocket (talk) 06:24, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Mark Rothko
Probably you won't remember what you wrote to me about this article, but I have taken it to heart and will check histories more carefully. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 04:21, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandalproof
I've replied to your comment on my talk page. Regards, --Alphachimp talk  03:37, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I replied again, but this time I have the courtesy to post my response here too. --Alphachimp  talk  00:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It's definitely a problem trying to get something actually effective from issuing the T1-T4 warnings. I mean, even though the message is presumably displayed at the top of their browser...as you have said, the vandalism is most likely already done.  In the end, I do think that hammering them with warnings makes it easier for an administrator to see that there is a pattern of vandalism and issue a warning quicker.  In the short term, I think that this is probably the best way to go.  


 * In the longer term, however, I think that we need to do more to actually make warnings more notable. One idea I've had is an alternative message appearing on the screen when you have received a warning (in lieu of the "you have new messages" dialog).  It would state the warning in a way that would be difficult to avoid (perhaps an exclamation point?).


 * Another idea would be to set up some sort of automated or community blocking procedure based on a specific variables of a user's edits. For instance, an anonymous user that performs a repetitive edit (such as copying and pasting the same url repeatedly into 20 articles) would be blocked for a very short time (maybe 5 minutes like you said).  


 * One last idea is that; users that had received t4 warnings from 3 separate non-admin users could possibly be blocked for 5 minutes...not long enough to keep them from wikipedia, but long enough to keep them from repeating their vandalism. These could be appealed in a standard way.  


 * As an aside, I find it very frustrating that User:Tawkerbot2 does not use the standard warning templates. This also leads to the phenomena that you originally referenced.  


 * What do you think? --Alphachimp  talk  00:07, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Elaine Bowers
Yes, I apologise; in the diff screen, I have "rollback", "restore this revision" and "revert(vandal)" links. I merely pressed the wrong one (it's been a long week). I simply thought that the full reference to the title didn't need to be made in the context. I have apologised to 71.105.14.68! Hope to see you around. haz (us e r talk) 19:30, 10 June 2006

Norm Coleman
Your post on my talk page is a bit off. I don't know if you noticed that I'd removed the comment you quoted me as stating right away. Yesterday, I posted that remark in frustration, after Jonathunder had rolled back my work without comment. Since then, I've cooled off since then. 172 | Talk 04:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Please see: A revert war has started. User:172 has instigated this revert war. Travb (talk) 22:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah...you're right =)

 * Heh. Yeah I guess you're right about it being simple.  Trouble is, when I try to watch TV and wikipedia at the same time, things here seem a whole lot more complex. These vandals are just hilarious.  I'm sure you'll luck out and get a personal vandal soon.  --Alphachimp  talk  03:53, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Clarkson, Peel Regional Municipality, Ontario
(copied from user page) From your comments about you deleting the Clarkson page. School has been out since April 7th, not June 15th. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SteveJohnson (talk • contribs) 23:31, 24 June 2006

Swatantrata Divas
I was editing this page, which is the source of the misspelling. If you don't first, I will mark the errant page for deletion and will create your suggested redirect. Thanks! Westsider 23:11, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I feel your censure of my legitmate concerns over the unwarranted solidarity attributed to the article on the Aurora was unecessary and puerile. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.132.253.30 (talk • contribs) 21:01, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * (This in regard to Aurora aircraft - umm, okay... Shenme 21:06, 14 July 2006 (UTC))

Blood type
I removed the reference to animal blood types because the page starts with: ''This article is about human blood types. To read about blood types in animals, please see Blood type (non-human)'' - the Rhesus blood group is also found in the Rhesus monkey but was not mentioned on the human Blood type page. --apers0n 05:58, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

WP:CIVIL
It was regarding the comments mocking the article (which the author would undoubtedly read) not edits to the article itself. --Jonathan F 21:46, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Autogynephilia
I posted this on the talk page in response to your actions. "This article was merged and if one wants to demerge it they should first talk about it in the post merger  article.  Based on the fact that the article was properly merged after lengthly discussion I will not redirect this to the article on BBL theory.  Know this that the I brokered between an ardent critic, and a devoted anonymous supporter was very hard to do.  Please don't pee on my parade."

The reasons for the merge. The main reason for the merge was that Autogynephillia makes no sense at all unless one is also aware of the idea of the Homosexual transsexual. The whole intellectual idea seems like 100% gibberish. Like trying to do algebra without subtraction and division. Like trying to categorize everyihing as an apple when clearly oranges exist. Please in the future discuss such a move on the talk page.--Hfarmer 15:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if the above seems abrasive. The problem with the autogynephillia article not simply being a redirect is that such pages have a tendency to evolve into full articles. Like the last Autogynephillia article any new article just about autogynephillia would evolve into a rant about how the whole theory is garbage, etc... Which is not what an encyclopedia article should be like. It should be about the whole theory. I have to admit I thought the theory was garbage when I first read of it and years latter because all I had heard was the autogynephillia aspect and knew that was not me or the majority of Ts's I had known untill then. --Hfarmer 17:33, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I undid that. Note plus link thing because just what I thought would happen did happen.  Namely the article evolved into a stub in need of expansion.  Which would have lead to a separate article on Autogynephilia.  What purpose that would serve I do not know.  The term autogynephile was coined in terms of the theory due to Blanchard.  At first I started just wanting to simply mention the existence of HSTS in the AGP article.  Then I created a separte article and moves were made to destroy it.  What harm does simply mentioing the existence of the HSTS do? Such is what I would ask these people.  Take it easy. --Hfarmer 01:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Clary
I noticed that you voted against the Johnny Lee Clary article and was wondering that you would be willing to help with an article or perhaps help with getting it out of its deletion tag. Any help would be appreciated. I have drafted it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Potters_house/Johnny_Lee_Clary Nick. Potters house 06:17, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

List of beat 'em ups undeletion request
I have nominated List of beat 'em ups to be undeleted, under the reasoning that it is not redundant to the category; it contains many games which are not covered by the category, and may never be able to be covered by it. In addition, the list can do more than the category. It can put date, developer, release date, system, et al., useful especially for articles that would be difficult to create an article for. I hope that you will vote on this and hopefully support its undeletion, on the basis that it does something that makes it not redundant to the category. - A Link to the Past (talk) 22:24, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Bat bathing
I didn't realise i had readded the material - i probably just thought it was vandalism. I too don't think that it really is that important to be included - nor actually that common, so taking it out is fine. Thanks for letting me know. C hris_huh talk 13:36, 9 December 2006 (UTC)