User talk:Stevertigo/Archive 17

Yeshua
I am glad that you now understand the reasoning behind the consensus at the Jesus page about keeping speculative reconstructions out of the lead. that said, I do not see any reason to ammend the names guideline. The key thing at Wikipedia is always to give the benefit of the doubt to active editors working on a page when they have discussed an issue and formed a consensus, it does not matter what the topic is, and we do not need to write this in every policy and guideline, everyone knows it. Besides, I read through the guideline and I di dnot see anywhere where it demands that "original" names be conjured up. I went to the section you directed me to and it seems to me to be about contemporary names, where a person place or thing is commonly identified using multiple names. This is quite different from reconstructing some historically "original" name, isn't it? Slrubenstein  |  Talk 16:22, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Files which you uploaded at Meta
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Catholic theology of the body
Thanks for your kind comments. It's overwhelming how quickly the wikification backlog builds up. I'm dealing with articles either quickly or not at all. Itsmejudith (talk) 10:02, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Wikipedia:INC
I have nominated for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. -Zeus-uc 23:11, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I would like to stress that I didn't even know that you created this page until twinkle said it was notifying you. This is not some kind of personal vendetta I have against you. -Zeus-uc 23:15, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Children of God
Say, if you're going to move an article with that many incoming links, it's just not cricket to not fix the links. I see you needed sleep—perhaps you should have waited until you had more seven minutes of your time to dedicate to the project. Additionally, I can't help but think there will be people who take issue with your POV choice of disambiguation for the religious group. — Hello, Control Hello, Tony  13:44, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

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 * Steve, please see Category talk:Early Hebrew Christians as you may be interested following the above CFD. I'm inclined to follow another editor's recommendation to replace the new category with "1st century Christians of Jewish descent". - Fayenatic (talk) 19:40, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

War-stub/Waronterror-stub
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CfD nomination of Category:Talk page templates
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Nazi, Swastika References Being Purged from Syrian Social Nationalist Party
Would you mind having a look at the problem of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party's Nazi history and swastika flag being systematically deleted/vandalized? This removes an important aspect of neutrality from the article. References from many reliable sources are provided. See its talk page. The edits are being done by users with IP addresses from very similar domains. Thanks, Histopher Critchens (talk) 20:26, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Content forking
I moved your comment from the project page to the talk page. -- The Red Pen of Doom  21:04, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Abraham
I assume you mean the name. The basic source is the Bible, Genesis provides an etymology. The Wikipedia entry was indeed very confusingly writtn. I made an edit which is accurate to the main source, the Hebrew Bible. I have no idea what the source is for the alleged Aramaic etymology but I do not know it to be wrong and did not delete it - my guess is it is from Midrash Rabbah or the Talmud but I have no idea where. If you ant to work on this I would recommend three things. First, does the Koran provide an alternate etymology? I have no idea but it is worth checking. If it does, I would not combine it with the Biblical etymology, I would add it. Second, for critical views, the best source is the Anchor Bible volume of Genesis - if critical scholars have alternate etymologies you will find them there. Finally, unless you know someone who can actually search Midrash Rabbah or the Talmud for you, or Mikraot Gedolot which is the authoritative omnibus collection of Rabbinic and medieval Jewish commentaries on the Bible, I would recommend finding the Artscroll edition of genesis. This is an English translation with VERY Orthodox commentary and the commentary on the name may yeild a Rabbinic or Medieval etymology and you would have the proper source. Slrubenstein  |  Talk 23:59, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I do not follow your point. There is no reconstruction - the etymology of Avraham is in Genesis.  Of course, thee is much less evidence for Avraham's existence than for Jesus's.  Be that as it may I have only ever suggested providing significant views from notable sources concerning Avraham's anme and concerning Jesus' name; my position is consistent and simply in keeping with our core policies.  I am surprised that you are even discussing this as you seem not to know what the notable sources are, either for Avraham or for Jesus. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 06:25, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't see any inconsistency between how we handle Jesus' name and Avraham's name. Slrubenstein  |  Talk 06:29, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Your questions only reveal your dsire to do original research, which is forbidden at Wikipedia. Here all that matters is: significant views from notable sources.  Every edit I made to the Jesus and the Abraham article is supported by a verifiable source.  Your questions are just wastes of time, they have nothing to do with Wikipedia.  Stop wasting my time with your BS. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 15:27, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Criticism of Barack Obama
It should be noted that in addition to being a very childish "Barack is a poopyhead, and he's black besides" sort of list, it was created by a sockpuppet account, since blocked. -- Orange Mike  |   Talk  20:55, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion
Of what looks to me like a thinly veiled attack on other editors you currently are in a disagreement with. Bali ultimate (talk) 18:00, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

AfD for Criticism of Barack Obama
This is a courtesy notice that I have nominated the above-referenced article for deletion. The discussion is here: Articles for deletion/Barack Obama/Criticism of Barack Obama. Wikidemon (talk) 18:05, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

MfD nomination of I just don't like it
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Obama probation warning
Thank you for your contributions to the encyclopedia! In case you are not already aware, an article to which you have recently contributed is on article probation. -- Sceptre (talk) 18:46, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Deleted page
Please see Talk:Barack_Obama for my rationale. - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 20:22, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

For Fighting the Good Fight over Obama's Criticism Page


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Steve: As you can tell, there's a lot of mishegas over any criticism of Barack Obama, and a number of editors treat like an infidel any editor who doesn't worship at the temple of God Jr. A word of advice: as tempting as it is to be sarcastic to editors who are making profoundly poor POV-pushing arguments, in the long run, you'll be much better off and much more persuasive if you take the highest ground you possibly can, and give them one less thing to complain about. Not only is that good common sense, but it's part of the rules. (Also, I see no one bothered to notify you that Sceptre opened a WP:ANI thread about you. I'd ignore it unless you see a second editor take it seriously and ask for your input.) THF (talk) 12:07, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

I have an outline of a lengthy and legitimate article at User:THF/Obama with not a single "nutball conspiracy theory" in it. I'll draft it off-wiki this weekend. I encourage editors to participate in this project by sending me sources (or perhaps fully drafted paragraphs) rather than battling at DRV or on the Talk:Obama page or ANI about intermediate stages. If we present a fully-sourced, well-written neutral article, there shouldn't be a problem -- and if there is, it will be pretty damning of Wikipedia. THF (talk) 15:48, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Dude: you're not going to get any results on ANI on March 17. Let's get a good article, and if Wikipedia refuses to act neutrally to it, then we have something to complain about. Suffer the small injustices, because only the big ones get addressed when it comes to editors who aren't left-wing. THF (talk) 20:00, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Section
Do you see how nobody jumps onboard with your ideas? That means it's probably best just to let things go and quit dragging things down. We are afterall, here to create an encyclopedia, rather than attempting to get people blocked "for an hour or two."  Grsz 11  01:15, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * (Cutting in): This coming from someone who thinks its alright to move/deprecate/delete new discussion threads. -Stevertigo 13:59, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I won't have a problem with blocking this account, but you are being reminded that tendentious editing is a blockable offense. Please do not continue to reinsert the Barack Obama FAQ onto ANI, or revert war over closed entries. Let others handle that. seicer  &#x007C;  talk  &#x007C;  contribs  13:26, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not an expert in Wikipedia blocking rules, but I have learned essays are not policies. Just an aside. JustGettingItRight (talk) 13:54, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Not to mention, as I noted on Seicer's talk, that WP:TE deals with articles, and not discussion threads. I'm actually a bit disappointed with all of the mis-references to essays as policies, and policy clauses which don't exist. Don't quite know what to do about it. -Stevertigo 20:15, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Steve, I'm a new editor, and you obviously have been working on the project way longer than I have, so I don't mean to come off as patronizing. However, your tactics, which seem to be out of frustration, are getting much tougher to defend. Your goal to remove systemic bias is an admirable one and I'll also note you are a Barack Obama voter, but you're playing right into these guys' hands. I don't know much about Wikipedia culture, but I can relate to being a veteran in an organization (real organization, not virtual) and losing my cool (rather severely in retrospect) when people did not understand the points I was trying to make. I regret my actions now, but at the time I thought I was handling the situation in the best way. Take a breather ... there are other people who are defending several of your general points that you are trying to make. JustGettingItRight (talk) 13:49, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I appreciate this. Thanks. -Stevertigo 13:58, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

This is your last warning, Steve. If you disrupt any page one more time, I will make sure you are blocked. Sceptre (talk) 14:20, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Likewise Steve, your disruption has gone way too far now. Many different users, involved and uninvolved, have told you to knock it off but you have still continued. If you can't just drop things and walk away and stop being disruptive, an Arb Com filing isn't too far away.  Grsz 11  14:59, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Woo! Two of the main POV editors who write me up for unsupportable ANI's, try to censor my comments on AFD, DRV, and ANI itself, make varied references to policies they little understand, and can't win any argument on the logic, policy, or merits, are threatening me with "blocking" and the "Arb Com"[sic], (the latter of which I invented).


 * You both of course can do what you want, but I would encourage you to instead be contrite about your errors, apologetic to those people like me that you apparently think you can just run over, and to some degree have, and reasonable enough to actually read the arguments in question rather than try to game the situation with tacky tactics and icky threats like the ones above.


 * I eagerly await your answers. -Stevertigo 19:52, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Grsz wrote in comment: "no. this is my comment and you have no right to change it. if you dont want it there, remove it all together but stop fucking with my comments" - I see that you might understand the concept now? -Stevertigo 00:20, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Steve, you are now edit warring across multiple articles and drawing the attention of more admins. Please stop this now, thanks.  Grsz 11  00:27, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Why arbcom? That is a waste of effort.  A simple topic ban and if necessary, escalating blocks, will do just fine.  Wikidemon (talk) 02:20, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Your edit to WP:IAR talk page
Ah, now maybe I'm seeing it better, having read the above. I take it that this edit was an expression of frustration? If so, I have that handy "Email this user" link where you can vent off-wiki. Sometimes it's better to obscenitize openly than to disguise the cursing on-wiki. Just sayin'! Franamax (talk) 00:30, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I think in a few days I'm going to deal with those people who think wikistalking and deletion of discussion page comments are great things to do here. Frustrating? Hm. -Stevertigo 02:07, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Removing any kind of talk page material strikes me as silly and pointless. The policy Ignore all rules on the other hand, is alive, well, and excellent. If you think that it is somehow used to "trump" other fundamental policies, then you don't really know What "Ignore all rules" means. -GTBacchus(talk) 14:55, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I understand that I can ignore it. -Stevertigo 15:32, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure, I guess that works. Until it doesn't. -GTBacchus(talk) 15:48, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Arbcom
You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Arbitration/Requests/Case and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. As threaded discussion is not permitted on most arbitration pages, please ensure that you make all comments in your own section only. Additionally, the guide to arbitration and the Arbitration Committee's procedures may be of use.

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 * Please move your comment to your section, and strike or remove the comment you left to Grsz. He's right; he should not have to ask you, and he definitely should not be subjected to hostile comments such as the one you left.  Horologium  (talk) 19:11, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Eh. I forgot or else just didn't understand the policy convention on that page. Its not supposed to be a discussion, yet back and forth comments are almost a requirement.. except nesting them inline is not allowed because that would be too discussion-like.. (?) Eh. It's moved now; which no doubt gives Grsz and other kids the idea that comments anywhere can be edited at will. I seem to remember there being a kind of "sanctity" associated with user's comments - often even IPs. Eh. Could just be my imagination... -Stevertigo 02:53, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Steve, I don't think snide comments like this are in your best interest right now.  Grsz 11  04:05, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I.. understand. -Stevertigo 04:07, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Obama articles
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 * Could you please add the information. This image of yours is on the Lycaenidae stub template. Otherwise we would have to switch over from your image to another. AshLin (talk) 18:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't even remember dealing with it. I havent looked at the file or its date of upload, but note that anytime a file has a parameter in it like "250px," it indicates a change from another file, ostensibly File:Common blue butterfly underside 800.jpg. Hence it would have all the same meta information. I can infer that I resized the image from a larger image, and IIRC this must have been because mediawiki at the time didn't handle image resizing, let alone thumbnails and such. In fact it wasnt even called mediawiki back then. IIRC.


 * Anyway, a quick search for "file:common blue butterfly" doesnt get anything here except above. Searching Commons is the next step, and the WP search provides for that. A Commons search finds no direct file name match, but the field does show a larger version of the above image, named File:Polyommatus icarus.jpg, taken in mid 2004, in the time period stated. Deleting the above and replacing it with the commons file is the next thing to do, but adding a little note indicating the history of the files would be good documentary practice for files. -Stevertigo 18:23, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I have done that. AshLin (talk) 03:01, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Uncle Steve?
Are you known as "Uncle Steve" in other online forums, and are you close to someone involved in plant life? If so I may know you. Feel free to email me via Wikipedia or drop hints that I might recognize - I won't blow your anonymity. If it turns out we really know each other IRL I'd love to buy you a beer. Wikidemon (talk) 02:02, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Hey WD. I'm not known as such, but I thought it wasn't too improper seeing as how I'm at that (relative) age.. :). IRL, im almost certain it's otherwise, but a beer is not out of the question. -Stevertigo 02:10, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

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Changing WP shortcuts
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