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Thank you
Well at least they provide entertainment... :) Thanks for reverting my user page. Olorin28 01:54, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Roman Catholic actors category
After being undeleted, it's been relisted on CFD; your vote would be appreciated. Postdlf 15:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Republic of Nakhichevan
Hi. I nominated the stub article Republic of Nakhichevan, created by you, for speedy deletion, because it duplicates a more detailed and accurate article Nakhichevan. I hope you don’t mind the nomination, in my opinion, we don’t need 2 articles about the same territory. Thanks for your input, please feel free to contribute to any Azerbaijan related topic, it is always appreciated. Regards, Grandmaster 10:14, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


 * At the time I created the stub, Nakhichevan did not yet exist. Since the new article is more extensive, you should just make it a redirect instead of deleting it. siafu 12:29, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, it's done. Regards, Grandmaster 19:52, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Evidence of Compromise
Variable, can you please go here, and see if you feel like leaving a short comment there?; it is very important to me. ThanksZmmz 09:09, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I've already said no once, and I don't want this to get ugly. I don't see any reason to get involved in an arbcom case that I have nothing to do with (as I explained before), and I am especially not interested in "helping you" after the behavior you've displayed. siafu 16:49, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Specific_impulse
Hi. You might be interested in this. --Doradus 22:39, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

New look for box headers
There's a discussion on the WikiProject Astronomical objects page regarding a new look for box headers. I was hoping you could drop by and comment. Thank you. &mdash; RJH 14:47, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

your response
Yeah, I took it lightly. But after I posted it I realized that my response could be taken harsher than I meant it, so that caused me to go learn about Emoticons. Now there's a cute little smiley there, and you may regret that you caused me to learn how to use it. --Mike Selinker 02:54, 28 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Dear Lord, what have I done. siafu 02:55, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Sure

 * Yeah, I can if it helps follow the changes :) Judgesurreal777 19:42, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to WP:SPACE!
Hi Variable, thanks for joining WikiProject Space Colonization! Have fun with it.

Categorization by nationality
Hi siafu -

I rather doubt that the current categorization (of living and dead mathematicians) is being conducted according to self-appelation. More about that later. Hasdrubal 00:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I guess it's fortunate that I never said it was. siafu 01:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Didn't claim you asserted as much. Hasdrubal 07:53, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Please help on Ancient Egypt
Posted by Pruneau 18:38, 29 May 2006 (UTC) on behalf of the AID Maintenance Team

Need for a "massacres" category?
Hi there. As someone who took part in this CfD, I'm notifying you of a discussion I've started at Category talk:School massacres. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks. Carcharoth 11:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

RfC request
I have been attacked one time too many by User:Andrew Homer - see his response to my last request he stop personal attacks I am going to start an RfC and I was hoping you would certify it as a user who tried to resolve the problem. If you will leave a message about this on my talk page I set up for this purpose, you can also see more about it as I am drafting the RfC there.

Regards, Lundse 10:16, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Restauration at Talk:Kemal Atatürk
Well done, just beaten me. --Matthead 02:42, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Qin/Han dynasty Map
Hi Variable, and thanks for your comment about the map. Can you talk to its creator to help him fix the inaccuracies? In the mean time, you can help by removing it from any other pages it is on. Regards, deeptrivia (talk) 19:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Image:Magadha han.PNG
Your map appears to misrepresent the borders of the Han dynasty, particularly in its western and southwestern regions. I'm not so familiar with Indian history, but the image also ascribes a great deal more territory to the Maghadan empire than either of the other two images found on that page. Do you have a source for this? siafu 19:57, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, siafu, the map I based it on was this one: http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/oldwrld/images/200BC.jpg - which was itself a rough diagram - so feel free to re-draw it, and make it more accurate - the motive for drawing the map was that many people think that the Roman or Persian Empires were the largest states during that time period - and are unaware of the Han and Magadhan kingdoms. Vastu 10:30, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Vietnam War
Thanks for your vigilance on this page. As the phrase had not changed recently, I had only considered the anonymous contribution to be vandalism. --TJive 21:12, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much~!
Your humorous vandalism hall of fame made my day. Please, tell me if you see any other really funny ones...I wiki at school, and it's always a joy to see this sorta stuff. 

has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

Please quit adding crap about my country!!!
there are no autonomist or secession movements in Croatia, your sources are incorrect. I'm a Croat and I have friends from all parts of Croatia so I must warn you that only about 5% people in Istria, Rijeka and Dalmatia even think about separation. They are all proud to be part of Croatia! So you should erase those things you wrote because it insults me and entire Croatian nation!

Cro ed


 * I'm afraid that the article is well-sourced, but your being insulted is confusing. It doesn't claim that the movement is widely popular or accepted, just that it exists, which it does and you've just said as much yourself. siafu 13:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Last time I was in Split, Croatia I saw separatist graffiti with my own eyes, of the like ZG=BG (Zagreb=Belgrade). Mentioning this does not mean that the movements are widely accepted. Hope this helps. E   Asterion  u talking to me? 22:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

that is just a plain rivalism between those two cites.. as a capital city Zagreb is wealthiest and most powerful city in Croatia and Split is a center of Dalmatia region, with lots of unemployed but proud people (famous dalmatian "dišpet").. it's maybe a little bit different to explain to foreign people.. but during Homeland War (and also when Croatian football, basketball, handball, waterpolo, tennis, ski... teams and players compete) we showed and are still showing the whole world our unity.. Cro ed

gunpowder
no. gunpowder was known to the Middle East much earlier and Europe and the Middle East have identical recipes. I quote from islamic technology:

..."In English the word saltpetre refers to potassium nitrate, the salt used in gunpowder after AD1500, though the substance itself was known in England at least two centuries earlier. The same applies to the word barud in Arabic, and we should not attach much importance to it; its origin is still uncertain and largely remains a study for philogists. Certainly Ibn al-Bitar defined barud in 638AH/AD 1240, and many historians have given this date an undue importance. Yet saltpetre was known much earlier and its mention as barud by Ibn al-Bitar does not mean that it was previously unknown. Indeed it was already familiar though under other names."... it goes on to show that it was used in the tenth and eleventh century AD, known as snow of China (milh al-Sin). The firepots of described in military treatises from the 12th till 14th century show all traces of saltpetre mixed with nafta. Nafta can mean charcoal or oil.

You have to be carful with the expression gunpowder, it was blackpowder and many different mixtures were not suitable for guns. There is no evidence for "gunpowder" from China, there is only evidence for saltpetre from China and that was prior to any invading Mongol forces. Saltpetre and sulfur was a medicine. Wandalstouring 15:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

numbers on mongol assault
Can you show me where the numbers of the Mongol assault are discussed and what is used as source for this. Actually we do have repeatedly high numbers for the Mongol assault that do not correspond with economic data. I have the strong suspicion that the alternative history book "What if" is the source for all these numbers. Wandalstouring 20:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

External links in Mental illness article
Hi Variable. Was it really necessary and efficacious to remove the external links to support groups in the Mental illness article ? Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 13:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC) (User talk:Wikiklrsc)


 * Absolutely it was. Wikipedia is not itself a support group, nor a resource for those in need of treatment.  Linking to support groups is equivalent to advertising services, and should not be done. siafu 16:47, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

That annoying guy on the Mental Illness talk page
Hey Saifu. Wana chat? Perhaps we can resolve some of our differences. E-mail: exploto@gmail.com, AIM: Exploto, MSN messeger: Exploto3@hotmail.com, Yahoo messeger: Exploto3@yahoo.com (I wasn't sure people would take me as seriously if my WIKIPEDIA user name meant "I explode" in spanish :-D) MeEricYay 02:08, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey again Siafu
Hey Siafu, sorry for spelling your user name wrong last time. I just wanted to let you know that I just today posted Toby Watson's response to your previous comments about his PowerPoint presentation. I immagine you may have some further comments about it. I would hope that you would either send these comments to my talk page, or e-mail/instant message me with your comments/concerns, before you post your concerns on the talk page. This way we can keep the talk page less cluttered, becuase instead of having like a hundred arguments back and forth between us, we can (after discussing our differences with each other) go back and more concisely write down what it is we still believe after each having heard the arguments of the other side.

For one thing, I would like to know what motives you have, if any, for wanting mental illness to be genetically caused and treatable by pills.

I will tell you my motivation for wanting mental illnesses to be caused by circumstance. You see, about a year ago now, I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and forced to take medications (mostly risperidone) against my will for six months; there was a court order. After the six months ended, I slowly tapered off my medication, and today I have been free of meds for exactly three months. I would like to think that I can avoid relapsing by using my free will alone to change how I think, along with possibly talk therapy, instead of taking meds (which have some unfun side-effects and stuff.) --MeEricYay 05:51, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't say I have any motive to "want" it to be caused by any particular thing. It is the way it is, and wishing one way or the other will not affect the reality.  I am motivated to see the research accurately represented, as it exists at the present.  If it turns out to be wrong, then so be it, but this has yet to happen.  I do have certain motives for participating in this discussion, and I've just laid them out in my response on Talk:Mental illness, so I won't reproduce them here.


 * I'm also feeling that this is the point in the discussion where it would be a good place to stop, as responding specifically to your situation would be veering away from talking about the causes of mental illness, which as mentioned won't be influenced by your situation or mine, and talking about you or me as people and it's not about you or me. I admire your willingness and ability to identify a source of bias, of course, and sympathize with the harsh treatment you've received at the hands of the mental health system, but I think that aspect of this discussion should be left out as much as possible so that we can focus on wikipedia in particular, and the facts presented in general. siafu 17:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Moved
Re: Architects and their nationality in Classification I think it is much more important that the architect appear first and foremost as an Architect, and secondarily as a german or american architect. If you look at the list of Architects, the most prominent ones are missing. This is plain silly. Do I have to know the nationality of an architect to find him ? I shouldn't Intersofia 14:44, 6 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, you shouldn't have to know the nationality if you can just try using a search term. The problem with categorizing primarily in the root category is that it makes that category just plain huge.   Architects, for example, could have well over 400 entries, which would require multiple pages.  That's the reason it gets split up into subcategories, as in splitting by nationality. siafu 01:11, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

indeed?
The sentence would read just as well without it, making the word an gratuitous, unnecessary one. In simpler terms - fluff. I believe that the sentence looks goofy. And I’d like to believe that most experienced writers would agree, indeed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Sideshow Todd (talk • contribs) 19:21, 15 October 2006.


 * I think that they would indeed not agree. It's reaffirming something stated earlier; the sentence you replaced it with wasn't even grammatical English, anyway.  I noticed that your more recent edit isn't even to the same sentence, so let's not compare apples and oranges. siafu 00:58, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

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Note
Please use the move function, instead of copy-and-paste, when renaming a page. This avoids splitting the page history in several places. Specifically, in the recent The Art of War move, you reverted the move by simply restoring the text. I then had to delete the existing page and re-move the older one. Next time, if you want to undo a move, use discussion to gain a consensus (which wasn't gathered in the first place for the move; not your fault) and use Requested moves. Thanks. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 17:13, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * You can't move a page to a pagename that already exists. I had no choice but to restore the text. siafu 17:58, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No, your other choice was to use Requested moves. An article can be moved back, but it requires an admin to delete the old page before it can be moved. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 18:21, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Which would mean that your original instruction to use the move function is rather misplaced. siafu 18:26, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Heh, sorry, that was the template that I used. Next time I'll just whip something up rather than grab an "all-purpose" template. My bad. :-) EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 18:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

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Medieval cuisine up for peer review
Greetings and all that!

I'm working on getting the article up to FA-standards and your input would be much appreciated. Don't be shy now. Any and all comments (or criticisms) are beneficial.

Peter Isotalo 10:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

on psychotherapy salaries here in cleveland
raspor 12:42, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

"...the lucrative incomes of some psychotherapists..." I'm not sure which planet you're from, but on this one, the average salary of a licensed (LCPC, LCSW) psychotherapist is around $30k/year. It was much lower at my former place of employment, actually, around $25k/year. Also, insurance is not usually "required by law" to provide mental health services, and they often don't-- Medicare, for example, does not cover psychotherapy (though it DOES cover psychiatric visits). Lastly, insurance funds are never "easily available" in any branch of medicine-- payment from large insurance companies (BCBS, United, KaiserP, &c.) is frequently delayed up to six months, and medicaid reimbursements are much lower than the market cost of services. This is also somewhat beside the point, however. Find some more sources besides Tana Dineen and write a well-researched and well-referenced criticism section that does not itself espouse a POV and no one will argue for its removal from the article. siafu 17:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

thanks for responding. i dont know where you are from but here in cleveland many LISWs make about 100,000 per yr part time. and in Ohio health insurance must include psychotherapy by law. the funding for many therapies is state supported. i think many therapists take advantage of it and diagnose everyone with a problem so they can get the money. in fact if the counties feel that the fee is too high the clients can go to court for a hearing which they hardly ever lose. payment are delayed only about 30 days.

i have the docs if you are interested. it is draining the state funds tho —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Raspor (talk • contribs) 14:13, 29 November 2006.


 * If you have docs present them; I strenuously doubt that there exists a psychotherapist that can pull in 100K/year part-time. Payments are routinely delayed up to six months from private insurance companies, as I said, your response is talking about state funded insurance (e.g. Medicaid) which is more prompt, just low-balled. siafu 20:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

no this is the way it is in Ohio. what state are you in? do you know about the Gravelle case here?

i personally know a therapist who has about 25 clients a week at 120$ per hour. do the math. 95% state funded. she does her own billing and works out of her house. there is no soliciting for clients since she gets them from the county. look it up the PASSS program. i dont like it. they hardly even take notes. also the gravelle therapist does the same and keck makes even more.

really what state are you from. Ohio is noted to be an easy money state for psychotherapists

Architects: they should be architects first of all, their nationality a secondary consideration
It is frustrating to seek the wikipedia list of architects and not find the most important ones, because they are sub-classified as "german" architects or "ecuadorean" architects. who cares ? They are architects, foremost, and that is why they are even notable. Not because they are any particular nationality. All the greats should be in the simple Architects classification, even if they are also in as "French" or "American" architects. Intersofia 14:41, 9 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I disagree, for reasons I've already made clear. Wikiproject:Categorization also disagrees.  It's not useful to have an Architects category with 400+ articles in it-- this is the very reason for the existence of subcategories.  It's also not exactly our place to determine just who is "an architect of the first order" and who is not. siafu 16:01, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * It's not a judgement call about "first order". In my mind it's just wrong to look up architects and not find some very notable ones. Must one know a priori that Ludwig Mies was Belgian or Andalusian ? I think not... It's interesting that he was this or that nationality, but the bigger point is that he was an architect. Why is not useful to have a category with as many members as that category has members? If you wish to sift it and view only 14th century Bulgarian architects, you should be able to. But if you wish to see all the architects that have articles in Wikipedia, how are you to do it ? Intersofia 23:01, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * It does not seem to me that this point has been settled. The problem apparently is known at the "Finnish Botanist" issue. It could just as well be the "German Architect" problem or the "Cambodian Coroner" conundrum. No matter what it's called, the issue is perhaps a programmatic one for MediaWiki. If the fellow is German, classify him as such. If he is an Architect (which is the reason he is of any importance, certainly not merely because he was German) classify him as such. If you wish to see all Architecs together, this should be available to you. If you wish to see all Germans who have articles in Wikipedia, this should be available to you as well. And certainly if you wish to only look at a list of German Architects, go ahead. But I think my point is valid, that the reason for the notoriety and prominence of Ludwig Mies is because he is an architect, not a German. Intersofia 23:16, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The point is certainly more settled than you present it; see Categorization, Categorization of people, and Categorization and subcategories. Mr. Mies van der Rohe is not just listed in Category:German architects but also Category:Modernist architects.  I also think that it would be wonderful to allow users to generate specific lists or categories based upon their need, but the wiki software does not support such functionality; categories must be created and maintained by users.  As such, high-level categories (i.e. those with  many subcats and subsubcats) can become overly long such that their contents require several pages to view.  This is universally considered to be undesirable, and the general consensus, especially regarding categories of people, is to move entries from these overloaded categories to their subcategories.  Category:Architects is very clearly one of these. siafu 23:30, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * So, in short, we have a very unsatisfactory state of affairs because of technical limitations. Intersofia 12:27, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

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