User talk:TUF-KAT/Archive 5

World Music Wikiproject
Hello! I'm the one who started expanding Music of Uruguay. I read the World Music Wikiproject page. Very interesting. However, the Wikiproject's Talk page is empty. On the other hand, a lot of talk about the world music project seems to happen on your personal page. Can/should this be rectified? Also, is there a community of people working on the World Music Wikiproject who have a space where they talk that I'm not aware of? And finally, the box you added to Music of Uruguay about the Wikiproject mentioned six articles in need of work (Chechnya, Java, etc.) but that list does not appear on the Wikiproject page. Wondering why. Maybe just respond onto my talk page, or the World Music Wikiproject talk page, since I'm not going to bookmark your page (unless you tell me I should to stay informed about the Wikiproject). Thanks for the explanations. Mona-Lynn 09:22, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Hi again. Just looking around, I see a lot of little things that need doing in the various music pages include some general reorganizing. I've started a to-do list on my personal page, but I'm wondering whether we should start a communal list on the World Music Wikiproject page. Or is there a better way to get organized as a group? Please respond on my page. Thx Mona-Lynn 22:01, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

world music/muslim
Hi Tuf-Kat. Saw your request for help for world music sections. Just wondering about category "muslim music". Does such a thing exist? Do you mean religious music? I find it pretty confusing cause the cultural expanse is so varied -doesn't seem to make sense.

kashasu

- I wonder if all these music samples are such a good idea. According to fair use, audio samples are never fair use, regardless of length:
 * One of the few cases where this factor is irrelevant is in sampling a piece of a copyrighted sound recording. If no permission is obtained to use a sample, then no matter how small the sample, an infringement has been committed.

- Fredrik 23:56, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * The fair use article was wrong. It did look that way for a while but subsequent decisions have changed the picture back to something approaching more normal fair use. I've corrected the article but haven't yet linked in all of the decisions. Jamesday 21:37, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

what up BIIOOTCH..Just wondering what your up to. My cell is working again so hit me up XXX. peace Tucci

fire department alert
We've had trouble tonight with a vandal, see Block log. Some suspect it is the same user as User:Bird....it looks like the worst is over...but please help us keep an eye on the situation. thanks. Kingturtle 08:34, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Solar deity
Could you please move Solar Deity to Solar deity? This would not only be more correct, but also consistent with Lunar deity. Thanks. (Please respond to me on my Talk page.) --Lowellian 21:45, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for doing the move. --Lowellian 20:51, Mar 15, 2004 (UTC)

Isis
OK, I'm not reverting to the disambiguation page. I have, however, restored the external links and other comments I had added. Formeruser-83 04:37, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I saw that and tried to fix it but couldn't Formeruser-83 05:02, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Outlaw country
Can you help with the references in outlaw country, please. Tiles 08:10, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for having a look. Tiles 07:03, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank You!
I want to thank you DEEPLY for your support in the vote to promote me to a sysop. I promise to do my best to be as helpful, sensible, and neutral as possible. Your friend, Ryan.

Request for bureaucracy
TUF-KAT, as the only bureaucrat I saw in RC just now, do you mind promoting three admins? They all are unanimous (well, except for fabiform, who asked for an oppose vote or two for modesty's sake), and it would be great to get them all in the loop. I'd do it myself if I had the power -- failing that, I rely on the old-fashioned system of "asking a favor". Hope you have time to give it. :-) Thanks again for your help in a myriad of ways here. Jwrosenzweig 21:13, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for responding so quickly! I appreciate it -- sorry if I took you away from something.  Hope the rest of your day goes well, Jwrosenzweig 21:34, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Cartman's penis
Between the two of us, we may have seen the whole episode -- I missed the beginning. But I actually laughed out loud at the scene in question (you may or may not...I may be warped! -- actually I'm not sure anyone else would call it the Cartman's penis scene...it's very unobtrusive) -- Nunh-huh 01:48, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * Well, it was the unobtrusiveness that was hilarious, if you get my drift. Let me know your reaction if you do happen to see it. (You're right, it's inevitable). Even bongless, it was a rip. -- Nunh-huh 01:56, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I am not, however, involved in any disputes over naming of places in Poland or anywhere. I am involved in being called an anti-Polish bigot because I disagree with the handful of Polish nationalist editors on certain questions of Polish history. There is nothing in this situation I am not used to and I don't feel in any need of mediation. Adam 01:46, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your support on RFA! It is much appreciated. –Hajor 16:31, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi Tuf-Kat. I don't know if you've seen, I've been making some changes over at the mediation boards. I think that we need to make some real decisions about mediation policies, and I think the voting facility on the boards could be useful for that. I've made a section for "mediation policy" - the poll facility there is set to only allow votes by mediators. I'm intending to move all the discussion about policy into that area. I'm not sure if all of the committee members have been to the board recently, it would be good if we could all get together there to make some decisions. What do you think? -- sannse (talk) 17:40, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Please check Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship so you can make an informed decision on my Request for Adminship --Hcheney 17:37, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Mediation on placenames
Tuf, what's the next step? I accepted being a mediator, but I haven't had any response from those seeking help. Surely they don't expect me to wade in and rewrite the articles for them.... --Uncle Ed 18:47, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Message received and returned
I have read through your discussion at User talk:Kingturtle after seeing the request for mediation. As I understand things, you are both willing to accept mediation but can not agree on the method? Is your only option private chat or this talk page? Do you have any opinions on who should mediate? Tuf-Kat 20:25, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)

ANYONE other than rickk. GrazingshipIV 20:40, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)

mediation
sure, how about you? If you don't want to, or if he doesn't want you to, then I'd have to think about it. I don't so much have preferences as people I'd rule out, and I don't think its helpful or nice to list off who I don't want mediating. Sam Spade 22:44, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

strange rudeness from anon
Fool. Sucker.

You are supposed to validate information by comparing it with a reliable source, not by reformating it so it appears valid.

Hello.

- Re: mediation. No thanks. To be honest, I think that Sam's mediation request is just a form of trolling. I know that you mean well, but this I'm sure that mediation won't do any good. 172 09:33, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for all the great work
I just wanted to stop by and thank you again for the phenomenal job you're doing with the music-related articles. Keep it up! Dori | Talk 20:50, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC)

Europe
No need to get offended, really. My explanation of changes was that short on purpose - it's easier to write one sentence in the "summary" section, than to write an essay in the discussion. Especially that it would be off -topic. Anyway, apparently you understood what I meant and G*d bless you for the change in the table header.

Also, note that Eastern Europe gives Generally this means that it lies between the western border of Russia and the Ural and Caucasus mountains as the primary meaning of the term.Halibutt 03:57, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject
I see you did a lot of reorganizing here, and I think it looks great. Thanks. &mdash;LarryGilbert 05:06, 2004 Apr 1 (UTC)

Please stop supporting User:Exploding Boy for adminship. He makes innapropriate articles like Finger fucking and Collar (BDSM). Radical WiKi 13:21, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Doe Maar
I came across Doe Maar, an article in long-time need of editing. I gave it a decent edit. Maybe you can give it some more work? When you have some time. Kingturtle 10:50, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Coke La Rock
So, can you turn that into a real article? john 05:17, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Mediation
Tuf Kat, thanks for your message. I don't at this time have a preference for who mediates. I'm not even sure that mediation is what I need. I do need User: RK to stop personally attacking me and vandalising the traditional Chinese medicine article. It looks like there may be other ways to resolve this problem that are being addressed elsewhere, such as here: Requests_for_comment/RK. I'm clearly not the only person having these problems. heidimo 23:38, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

No probs. I'm going to sleep now, but if you need help tomorrow, just holler. Danny 04:00, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Electronic music genres
Hi Tuf-Kat, looks like you've been busy on musical genres recently. I've been away for a while, but it's great work! I was wondering whether you'd mind me having a stab at the electronic music genre list, since I've done a fair bit of work of those pages. I will first try modifying your current template at User:TUF-KAT/Fun with tables. --Lexor|Talk 08:19, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * I decided to be bold and go ahead and do the updates. --Lexor|Talk 11:34, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Pine Barrens
Thanks for the edit on the page, it was getting lonely out there! However, I had the article at "Pine Barrens (New Jersey)" because pine barren and pine barrens are apparently general terms. See and. Admittedly, all of the links on Wikipedia currently refer to the ones in Jersey. Perhaps a note in the lead of the current page, if not a move back. would be sufficent right now? ~ FriedMilk 10:58, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * Ok then. I suppose I shouldn't worry about it, until someone with an interest in enviromental science comes along and decides to give pine barrens in general proper treatment. I'm no more prepared to write that article than I would be to write tropical rainforest or coastal plain. ~ FriedMilk 20:07, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Leaving Through The Window
Hello. I noticed you moved around the pages and links associated with Something Corporate's album. On both their official site and amazon.com the album is listed with a capital 'T' in 'The,' so I created the articles to reflect that. I know the 't' is usually kept lowercase in titles, but here it seemed that the articles should reflect what the band had chosen. If there is another reason to keep it how it is (after the move) that I'm not aware of, please let me know so I can change a few more articles where that title is listed. Thanks! -- Jrdioko 01:17, Apr 21, 2004 (UTC)


 * Actually, when I created the article I assumed the 'the' was not capitalized but checked around just to make sure and it does seem to me that the band intended it to be that way (as well as most of their songs too, it turns out). I'll move it back, thanks for the info. -- Jrdioko 03:54, Apr 21, 2004 (UTC)

Response to Tori Amos Glue Queery

 * I think the paragraph says it was a few copies which were sent out ahead of the actual release to reviewers. I have no idea if Amos ever did this, but many artists have, so it doesn't seem unlikely. Tuf-Kat 11:19, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * Before the commonality of internet music trading, artists and labels would often issue full-length promotional copies of their CDs (often with unique packaging) to music industry professionals for the purpose of review. The technology of copy-protected CDs was invented to prevent this, but it was flawed and often broke people's CD-players. For Scarlet's Walk, Amos and her husband and crew invented a glue-substance; they then put promotional copies of the album inside CD-discmen and glued them shut; these were mailed out to industry professionals with the demand of their return within a specific time frame. If one attempted to open them, the disc would shatter inside the device. This is what occurred. Pacian 03:45, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:MeenakshiM contributions
Regarding your posting of User:MeenakshiM contributions on Copyright problems - I need to know the page names that have had a copyright violation notice on them for more than seven days so they can be deleted. In the future, please list all pages tagged with the copyvio notice. - T&#949;x &#964; ur&#949; 16:52, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Dionne Warwick
At the beginning of your article on Dionne Warwick:

"(I could've sworn she was dead, but allmusic doesn't mention it)"

Wasn't the marijuana arrest as recent as the middle of 2002? Wiwaxia 14:21, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Requests for mediation
Hi Tuf-Kat. I'm tidying Requests for mediation again. Can I clear RK / Heidimo? It has you as "initial contact" but I'm not sure what happened from there. Did anything come of this one? Regards -- sannse (talk) 20:53, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks I'll archive it then. -- sannse (talk) 08:45, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Let'sStayTogether.ogg
Hi, could you take a look at, it appears to be 0 bytes long, and someone has put a speedy deletion notice on it. Thanks, Dori | Talk 00:34, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)

Hi. The states left are (in order of size) Kansas, Nebraska, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota , Louisiana, Montana , Maine. I'd be happy to help, but my connection is really slow. Danny 03:50, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Just a little question
"(=B Dog should be B Real= :You can change this yourself! Click on "view article" then "edit this page", and you fix it. Secfan 08:10, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC))"

This was written by you on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_rappers

But why couldn't you edit it yourself? I mean it's good that you pointed out such an error :) but you could've fixed it as well in case nobody reads the talk page :D

0 byte file
A file (Image:Let'sStayTogether.ogg) that you uploaded has a size of 0 bytes. This usually happens when the wrong filename is specified when a file is uploaded. Maximus Rex 22:43, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Vocabulary Project
Hi there, I have started a project for learning, particularly vocabulary. It is based on the belief that it is best to learn foreign words by learning typical sentences. The program can also be used for learning other stuff that works with the question/answer scheme, e.g. the theory for the driving licence or anatomy. Unfortunately I wrote it in qbasic, which can be downloaded here. It also uses images and sound files for alternation and in order to work on the pronunciation. I currently have files in English, French (with sound), and Spanish. Catalan and Portuguese are in the planning. Corrections or additions are very welcome. The easiest thing to start with for improvements would be adding new vocabulary, sound files or images. In the long run the program should be rewritten in a better language like Visual Basic. Afterwards it should be possible to switch languages within the program. Up to now there is a different version of the program for each language. Sj suggested to include the lists of vocabulary in wikibooks, and since I saw you have bureaucrat status over there I thought you could advise me about how to do this best. Get-back-world-respect 00:39, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Question for you at my talk page! Get-back-world-respect 15:34, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Something else, I saw you are a mediator, so maybe you have an idea of how to deal with someone who tries to personally insult me on his userpage by creating a "crybaby of the year award"? TDC already got banned once for telling someone to "suck his own dick". I also asked Bcorr and Sannse about it. Get-back-world-respect 17:15, 7 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I tried and asked him abou it. However, dispute resolution clearly says no personal attacks. Over there it says Many Wikipedians remove personal attacks on sight. In extreme cases, users have been banned for repeatedly engaging in personal attacks. TDC already got banned once, was listed as a vandal, and someone created a page Requests_for_comment/TDC. I listed his crybaby image for speedy deletion. Get-back-world-respect 23:06, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

continue discussion at MediaWiki Talk:California?
Hi, Tuf-Kat. Haven't heard back from you --- I'm trying to analyze and understand your objection, to see if we can come up with something mutually agreeable. Would you like to continue to discuss the footer box? -- hike395 07:41, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

Request regarding Mediation Committee
More than two weeks ago, on April 25, the Arbitration Committee referred a case to us which it had considered regarding Anthony DiPierro and a number of other user to us here: Requests_for_mediation.

While Anthony has agreed to mediation, so far, there has been no response from another party in order to begin working on the Anthony mediation. We have drafted a statement at User:Bcorr/mediation statement draft that we would like to post on the Requests for mediation to the Arbitration Committee and all other interested parties, but before we do so, we want to check with the rest of the Mediation Committee. Please review the statement and let me know if you approve, wish to make/suggest changes, or have another way you'd like to suggest that we proceed.

Also, in that statement we refer to ourselves as co-chairs of the committee. There was discussion at the mediation bulletin board on the bottom half of the page, but we wanted to confirm that there was agreement on our being co-chairs for the period noted there before we post the statement. Also, if people are amenable to our serving as co-chairs, I will add that information to the Mediation Committee page.

Please take a moment to comment on these issues at User:Bcorr/mediation statement draft.

Thanks, BCorr | &#1041;&#1088;&#1072;&#1081;&#1077;&#1085; 01:53, May 13, 2004 (UTC)


 * I've made a change to the statement to add in llywrch's comment. Please let me know if you object.  Unless anyone dislikes this change I will pass on the statement tomorrow evening.  Regards -- sannse (talk) 19:59, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

Runnin' (Dying to Live)
Hiya, I saw that you deleted the article Runnin' (Dying to Live) (good move, song lyrics in Wikipedia are a terrible idea, both non-encyclopaedic and a copyright problem), so I just thought I'd let you know that the exact same content is at Runnin (Dying to Live) (same title, no apostrophe). --Stormie 05:42, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * Never mind, it's been listed on Votes For Deletion, it'd probably be rude to speedily delete it now. --Stormie 06:31, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)

Categories
It seems to me that Categories, at least for musical topics, are proliferating with little sense of logic. As you have probably noticed, for example, there are categories for "Male singers" and "Female singers", which are now listed as sub-categories of "Vocalists". This doesn't make sense. If you look at it from a strict taxonomic POV, gender would be at the bottom (or top), no?, with separate branches for each genre underneath. Also, if you look at "Female singers", you will notice that some singers are listed by first name, others by last name. It appears that for the most part people are just making up categories on a unilateral, ad hoc basis, with no real planning involved. Is there any consensus, for example, as to whether broad categories are desirable or in fact fine-grained ones? As you know, I have written many articles on musical topics, but I haven't started categorizing them because the whole system seems so haphazard and I don't want to waste my time in futile endeavors. Since you have written more on music than anyone else here, would you be interested in trying to (help) coordinate this business together with a few other people like Camembert and myself? Simply a project page somewhere where we could discuss categories before they are implemented would be good start. I realize that central coordination is an anathema in this anarchic environment, but we have no choice; otherwise the categories system will just be a mess. I will leave you with something Anthere posted on the ML recently (I think someone else wrote it):

Proper meta tagging will allow our content to be neatly organised and easy to search. Proper meta tagging implies neat categories, which may be crossed by other neat categories. Internet is a huge mess of data, most of them are very poorly referenced. We'll become a serious reference if our content is cleanly tagged, hence searchable with complex queries.

list of museums in Australia with a chinese flag hanging above the entrance door is of no use.

Search "museum" where "country is 'australia'" and "topic is 'China'" is useful.

To be useful, meta-tags must be large rather than very specific. Query gives the specificity.

-- Viajero 11:11, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note. Given what you say, I think that for the time being I will probably not spend much time on Categories and just continue writing articles. Enjoy your two-month break and see you in August! All the best, -- Viajero 13:54, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Music sample
Hiya Tuf-Kat, off the top of my head, I seem to remember that you added the music sample to Bright Eyes, but it doesn't seem to be working over here. I was wondering if you could fix it, or maybe you could tell me that it's just a problem on my end. :-) --cprompt 14:35, Jun 15, 2004 (UTC)

Lam - Mor lam
Hi, I was just wondering why you put Mor lam and Mor lam sing in the category Lam after you merged the Lam article into Mor lam. I am very curious as to this.... Waerth 04:55, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Oh no, no need to change, just wondering. I live in Bangkok myself and am the only contributor (more or less) to the Dutch wikipedia about this region. I do not know everthing so I regularly translate articles from en or de wiki's also this article. So just curious. Waerth 05:02, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Great editing
I just added you to Great editing in progress. Good job on the music categories. moink 05:19, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Whew
Dang, you scared me! Good luck, hope you come back refereshed. RickK 06:15, Jun 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Have fun. :-) Kudos on the user-page.....which I hope you realize will get duplicated by all those indiscriminate mirrors and forks and live out on the net for a year or two after you're back. I hope everyone else will find it as hilarious as I did. :-) Jwrosenzweig 23:32, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * I came to leave a mediation-related note but discovered you're taking a wikivacation. Enjoy, and come back happy and calm. Peace Profound, BCorr | &#1041;&#1088;&#1072;&#1081;&#1077;&#1085; 18:42, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Bogus Categorization
Please do not include anything further in the category Oceanid and remove anything you have placed there unless you know from a primary text that the person is called an Oceanid or called a daughter of Oceanus. User Tucci528's work is generally careless, inaccurate and often suppositious and Tucci528 almost never gave a source for statements. Tucci528's list of Oceanids is not to be trusted. Tucci528 also incorrectly applied the feminine word Oceanid to masculine river gods.

I was going through the list intending to fix it up and ended getting side-tracked into fixing up an enormous number of inaccuracies in the entries linked to by the list and the entries those entries linked to and so on and got sidetracked again into fixing gross errors in entries in middle-eastern mythology and adding necessary background entries in that area.

Tucci521 also added various rivers to his list of children of Oceanus apparently on the basis that every river god is a son of Oceanus. They aren't. Your listing male river gods like Alpheus in the category "river goddesses" is doubly wrong.

I plan to get around eventually to redoing that list giving sources for each name listed.

Do not trust anything supplied by Tucci521.

It begins to look like categories provide a method by which errors once limited to particular lists in particular entries are now spread thoughout Wikipedia.

My feeling is that no list which doesn't give sources for its entries, and most of them don't, can be trusted. jallan 18:22, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Argentina
Just a note that the adjective for Argentina is Argentine, not Argentinian. You made a Category:Argentinian culture which duplicated Category:Argentine culture. I am going to attempt to sort out... Secretlondon 05:00, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * LOL. Dumbass. ;) -Stevertigo

[[TUF–KAT
You might want to see User:TUF–KAT. Somebody decided to impersonat you with an m-dash instead of a dash in their name. Rick'''K

long time no see
hey, this is an old friend from richmond. it was a pleasant surprise discovering you on here. you should drop me a line when you get back. hope you had fun in the mountains.

Lachatdelarue 19:55, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Come back soon
You scared me there for a second, as I thought you had left. As I read your user page, I first thought your account had been hacked. And finally I read about your vacation :) Dori | Talk 13:41, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

Question About Master P/No Limit/Cash Money
I've been reading and editing some of the articles that you created on No Limit rappers, for example Juvenile, Master P, Mystikal. Your edits seem to imply that Cash Money and No Limit are either the same thing and/or are somehow related. Is Cash Money a sub-corporation of No Limit? I was under the impression that they are two completely different and unrelated labels, with No Limit being Master P, Silk, Fiend, Mystikal, Lil' Romeo, and Cash Money being Juvenile, B.G., the Big Tymers (who created the label), Lil' Wayne, and the like.

Am I wrong or are you? In the meantime, I'm assuming that Master P has some sort of connection with all of them. I've updated the article on No Limit and include the Cash Money Millionaires in there as well. Any additional information would be appreciated.152.163.253.104 01:28, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Please return
I too got worried that you'd quit in the face of relentless irritation, but what a brilliant piece of resignation writing anyway! thanks for finding the Alan Stivell quote, hope you return refreshed, don't let the nerds and trolls grind you down, you are clearly( as many on this page state) doing excellent work !! Norwikian 14:15, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Welcome back
Did you enjoy you leave? Acegikmo1 21:35, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * It was not as fun as I was hoping, and I'm glad I'm back, but overall, it was a good time... Ready to wiki... Tuf-Kat

Welcome back, Tuffy! Great to see you again!

Welcome back! :) Angela. 02:18, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

Bot Request
I moved your Medal Count bot request to Bot requests. Kevin Rector 14:31, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

Music genres
Thank you for helping improve on the music genres color listing.

Andros 1337

Punk music in Terengganu
Hi, have you seen Punk music in Terengganu? Do you think this should be folded into Music of Malaysia? RickK 05:16, Aug 23, 2004 (UTC)

Grindcore
Why removing grindcore local bands ? Aren't they grindcore bands ? Isn't the goal of an enclyclopedia to contain the whole knowledge of the world ? Does it make the article less readable ? How, if even the article about Grindcore does not mention it, am I supposed to find an article about an infamous grindcore band ?

BTW, i guess there should be an article List of grindcore bands. Ukuk 12:59, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * "In order to be mentioned in the Wikipedia, a band must be fairly notable. Local bands are only notable enough if they are extremely influential on the local scene".


 * Any page on wikipedia giving this rule ? Ukuk 18:03, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

D&D deities
''Deities of Dungeons & Dragons is mostly redudant with list of Forgotten Realms deities, but not entirely. D+D does not have deities -- it is a set of rules which can be played in various settings. Most of the gods you are combining are part of the Forgotten Realms setting, but some are not (I think). In any case, why not have a separate article for each? There's plenty of material, and combining them, even just the Forgotten Realms deities, will be way too long for a single article anyway. Tuf-Kat 04:58, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)''


 * I'm aware of list of Forgotten Realms deities. I'm not sure what the best way of combining the two is, but I am sure that the wrong way to handle this area is to create dozens of stub articles. Let's continue the discussion on Talk:Dieties of Dungeons & Dragons. -- Netoholic @ 05:03, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

WikiAwards
Hi there. Just to thank you for being the 2nd participant in the WikiAwards Project. Unfortunately the project is causing some controversy and I need to know if it is worth going on. I respect your neutrality but for now I really need to know if there's anybody in this world that supports my idea. I truly believe it is a great way of developing Wikipedia.--Gameiro Pais 05:36, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Template:MusicTimeline
Very welcome. I think it was the at the top that might have thrown off the layout. -- Netoholic @ 05:44, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Category name
Hi. I notice you added links to Category:American musicians on 18 August. I assume you hadn't noticed that Category:United States musicians had become the used category. I've changed them to the later category. Best wishes, -- Infrogmation 22:01, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Nice Job on the Jazz Ogg's
I've noticed your Ogg attack on a bunch of my watchlist. Checked out the samples. They sound great. Good choices too, for the most part. It must have taken a lot of work. Nicely done! -- SeanO 12:37, Aug 29, 2004 (UTC)

Modulation
Greetings! I recategorized Modulation (music) to musical terminology instead of musical eras, where you'd put it... I'm guessing that was a slip of the mouse. (Was it?) Mindspillage 22:35, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Cats
Maybe you should slow down with the categorizations. See: Category talk:Musical terminology. Also, "Category:Musical movements" is not redundant with "Category:Musical eras". For examples: Minimalism is, arguably, a movement, but it is not arguably an Era, and the Classical Era was more than a movement. Hyacinth 20:47, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Image:MerleHaggard&WillieNelsonPancho&Lefty.jpg
--Diberri | Talk 18:03, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)

Music of Bangladesh
Don't worry about the 'dranking'. I'm in college right now, so I'm used to it. But you do deserve an explanation, and that's my fault for not being more open on the discussion page. Essentially, Bangladesh the nation formed in 1971 (West Bengal in 1947). It is therefore extremely strange and anachronistic to say that the Bauls or Rabindranath Tagore are part of a culture called 'Bangladeshi music.' In fact, it's wrong. In the same way, I couldn't say with a straight face that either of the two are part of a 'West Bengali' culture. Rather, we should place these on the Music of Bengal page (which I've made the destination page for any search on Bengali music). I mean, Kavi Nasrul Islam, who wrote most of his great work before the 40's had elapsed, is not really a Bangladeshi writer: he's a Bengali writer. Now it should also be added that he did move to Bangladesh post-partition (at that time East Pakistan). In fact, Islam never even lived in 'Bangladesh' (created 1971). So how much sense does it even make to call him Bangladeshi? Now, I would agree if you said that Music in Bangladesh may contain a discussion of what people in Bangladesh like listening to, how their history includes these people before the creation of the state and how it carried over. But as it stood, it was 'mis-informative.' --LordSuryaofShropshire 15:04, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)

Mediation Committee application
Hi TUF-KAT, just a note to say that Grunt has applied to join the mediation committee. There is a vote at Mediation_Committee if you want to participate. Regards -- sannse (talk) 22:18, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Good work
Nice job on Music of France and Music of Germany. I've been looking at the articles "Music of European Country" for a while wondering how much detail belonged in the histories before, say, 1900 (my specialty, on Wikipedia anyway, is mostly stuff before about 1650). You fleshed 'em out well! Happy editing, Antandrus 04:35, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Anon edits of Singapore
I happened to notice this guy/girl (probably a guy) making all these edits and your reversal. I assumed vandalism, but when I looked at his/her edits, they didn't seem POV or wildly misrepresentative of a particular theme; certainly not all of them. Why are you reverting them?--LordSuryaofShropshire 06:43, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)


 * I had no idea about the Talk page history and User:Ran's efforts to discuss the edits. I just read the talk page and understand exactly what went down. You're absolutely right about supporting Ran. Thanks for thorough response.--LordSuryaofShropshire 15:55, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

They're at it again! I've asked for help on WP:VIP. How do people respond to these situations? -- ran [[User talk:Ran|(talk)]] 20:31, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

List of albums
Do you know what's happening with List of albums? You put a do not edit notice on it in March, and currently it is content free. Deletion candidate? --Tagishsimon


 * Ah no, I'm just being very slow on the uptake. I found it from Offline reports/This is one of the shortest articles, but evidently had my stupid head on. Now all is clear. No deletion threat from me. Thanks --Tagishsimon

Music of Canada
Thanks! I was reading over it last night and realized that it was overly simplified and not altogether accurate (Loreena McKennitt as a representative of Maritime music?!?), so I decided to flesh it out some more. Helps that I've been working on a lot of music-related articles lately, so I've been reminded of a lot of trends and bands and other such stuff I'd forgotten about. Bearcat 20:20, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Harmonious editing club
Hello, user former known as ...,

A (possibly familiar) troll is categorizing a bunch of stuff as including the Harmonious editing club.

I don't object to the categorization as such but want to be sure that the Club is still active enough to merit listing. I have created that may be more applicable if it is not.

Since I see you have been involved over at Harmonious lately, I thought I'd ask your opinion.

uc 19:19, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thresher music
Hi,

Over on the disambig Thresher, I removed your red-link to "Thresher music". No google hits, and it seemed to me doubtful that it's a real term because of the confusion that would occur with "thrash". If this removal was incorrect then please fix it. Tempshill 21:11, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

U.S. Southern Wikipedians' notice board
Hey! I've created this new notice board specifically for articles related to people from the U.S. South. If you are interested in contributing, leave a message on the page and add articles you feel need to be reviewed, contributed to, or started. Mike H 21:15, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the support. RickK 06:19, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

Australian elections
Thanks for the note on the Australian noticeboard. However, the elections aren't two months away - they're six days away, which means there's not enough time to compile one for Australia. Ambi 01:25, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sesame Street
Sesame Street is up as a possible featured article. Would you mind putting your ideas in to the discussion, as you've worked on the article? See Featured_article_candidates. -- user:zanimum

URGENT: Opposition to "Sam Spade": See User:Spleeman/Sam Spade
See a critic's tracking of SamSpade's activities on Wikipedia at User:Spleeman/Sam Spade Vote "NO", or reverse your vote, even at this late hour. This is criticle (and critical) information! IZAK 09:58, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

See: User:Spleeman/Sam Spade:


 * From Sam's own user page: User:Sam_Spade/Theoretical_Biases
 * Removes references to groups such as the KKK as "right-wing"
 * Attempts to sugarcoat racist views
 * The claim the Geli Raubal was Hitler's mistress is just that, a claim.
 * Wants Hitler labeled as a socialist on the communism page (see Talk:Communism)
 * Insists on including his personal theories regarding a relationship between nazism and Chinese communism in nazism article:
 * User_talk:Andries
 * Talk:Nazism
 * From Talk:Socialism:
 * "I intend to do what I always have, which is insist that the Nazi's were socialist because... they were." (Sam Spade 00:32, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC))
 * Called another editor a "fascist" (Talk:Socialism). This is similar to his attempts to try to provoke me by implying that I was a nationalist, or not an anarchist:
 * "Enforcing american spelling is a sign of nationalism, and would therefore seem to suggest your not an anarchist? Or perhaps your a "anarcho-nationalist"? ;p" (Sam Spade 08:06, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC), User_talk:Spleeman)
 * "Censorship isn't very anarchist" (Sam Spade 23:25, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC), Talk:Anarchism/Archive10)
 * More on belief in non-racial eugenics: Why Sam is Right Wing (a list by User:Stopthebus18)
 * Stopthebus18: "People (including our country) have done horrible things in the name of eugenics." (StoptheBus18 16:02, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC))
 * Sam Spade: "Seems to work in Singapore. Bad things have been done in the name of all sorts of medicine, but we don't stop going to the doctor, do we?" (Sam Spade 17:21, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC))
 * Guess what everybody!!! "The attempt to paint them [the Nazis] as "reactionaries" is a propagandistic fraud." (Sam Spade 16:11, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC), Talk:Nazism) Wow! You learn something new everyday.... Not.
 * Hmm. For some reason, Sam doesn't want anybody to know that white-supremacist Wolfgang Droege was involved in drug trafficking.

My nomination for adminship
Thank you for supporting my nomination for adminship. I will do my best to serve Wikipedia. --Slowking Man 00:08, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

Calypso Music
Hi. Just curious about your removal of the list of calypsonians on the page - granted it was an almost ridiculously uneven list, but I was just wondering if you moved it somewhere else, or if you simply deleted it. I think a list of calypsonians is useful - after all, I don't expect that we will get individual bios on most of them very soon. Thanks Guettarda 15:38, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. I have another question, not sure who to ask so I might as well ask you - on the Port-of-Spain page a user has posted what seems to be a cut & paste from 'Lonely Planet' and a picture of the town which has a watermark from Triniting.com. I enquired on their talk page about whether they had permission for the pic (can always fix the text, that's not a huge deal) and they have not replied. If they don't do anything, what next? Should I leave this to a sysadmin or what? Thanks Guettarda 17:35, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)