User talk:Tama1988

Ethnic group articles
Hi. In light of the failure to reach consensus at Articles for deletion/Afghan British‎ I've suggested that there be a discussion of the various issues raised, here. Your input would be appreciated. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:54, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the invitation. I looked at the conversation and realized that I had nothing in particular to add to it at this point. But I may say something later. Tama1988 (talk) 09:05, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Keyboard
Hi! I saw your trouble on the ref. desk. I'm not a computer expert and not sure if I could help, feeling too shy to post at the ref.desk. Besides my computer is not a Vista machine, so I may be wrong. But try this. Please see the keyboard properties and if you have the input locale tab, click it. Then click the property of IME and you can choose your favorite keyboard layout. Hope it helps. Regards. Oda Mari (talk) 14:35, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Mari. "Keyboard Properties" has two sections, "Speed" (obviously irrelevant) and "Hardware". The latter tells me that I have a "HID Keyboard Device", whose "Properties" are
 * Manufacturer: (Standard keyboards)
 * Location: on USB Human Interface Device
 * Device Status: This device is working properly
 * (I strongly disagree with the last of these!) A "Properties" button allows me to see the same information under "General", that I have a Microsoft driver dated 2006/06/21 (version 6.0.6000.16609) whose "Details" are "vista_gdr.071205-1500" and
 * C:&yen;Windows&yen;system32&yen;DRIVERS&yen;kbdclass.sys
 * C:&yen;Windows&yen;system32&yen;DRIVERS&yen;kbdhid.sys
 * (in which the use of "&yen;" rather than "\" puzzles me, as this is English-language Windows). The "Update Driver" button was in black on grey (rather than grey on white), so I clicked on it in the hope that I'd be offered something with a chance to choose between English and Japanese; instead, I was told that I had the latest. The "Details" tab has a long list of stuff, but nothing is obviously language/locale-related. Tama1988 (talk) 04:10, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry that I could not help. I just found the method above was for Windows2000 and even the keyboard properties of XP had only two tabs like Vista. According to this page, you can change keyboard layout from language bar. It says #2 button is the keyboard layout button. Hope and  help. Oda Mari (talk) 05:20, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you change language by alt + ~? Oda Mari (talk) 05:28, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Now I notice that the reason of the trouble might be that your keyboard is USB connected. see this. Did you check your keyboard from Device manager? Or maybe you have to edit registry. Please take a look at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters. How is "LayerDriver JPN"? Yours might be "LayerDriver US". Is there "kbd106.dll"? Change it to "kbd101.dll". But as I wrote above, I'm not an expert. Please be careful if you edit registry. Oh, I found a good page. . Oda Mari (talk) 06:20, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That did it! Thank you! (More later.) Tama1988 (talk) 07:20, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the award. I'm glad that I could help. I'll bet beer tasted sweet tonight. As for the Japanese IME, I recommend ATOK. It's absolutely worth buying. MS-IME is helplessly stupid. See this. Have a good sleep! Oda Mari (talk) 14:49, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you again, and also for the reminder of ATOK, which I've often heard mentioned but have never tried. Tama1988 (talk) 06:03, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Why don't you try the ATOK free trial version for 30 days? Oda Mari (talk) 15:06, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Brian Fisher
Thought I'd drop you a note. As wacky as it sounds, Brian Fisher actually does claim to live in a tree house with banana slugs. Here is his bio from an event in September of this year. Also, there's a flier from the same event, and another flier from an event in Canada. AniMate 09:17, 21 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Well well. All right then, it's back in! Tama1988 (talk) 10:05, 22 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Actually, and I'm sorry to be playing see-saws here, I think you were right to remove it. Both of the sources are suspect, as there's reason to believe that both took the content from Wikipedia. I suspect the original inclusion may have been an error, rather than vandalism, but it could also be particularly sneaky vandalism, and it was well spotted by you. I've removed it again because I generally think you were correct to take it out in the first place, and I can't find any sources that make me question that.
 * That aside, I am sorry about this process of adding and removing the content, as you were justified both times, but I figure I'd rather err on the cautious side with BLPs. - Bilby (talk) 12:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm going dizzy here. I found two of the three sources particularly credible. Simultaneously, I find what they say very screwy indeed. Why the slugs? Why nothing more about this tree house? Why would the slugs not be either (a) wandering at leisure over the tree (or wherever slugs normally are) or (b) in Fisher's lab? Certainly something about this is very screwy. All I can say is that I'm glad to have encountered Fisher, who's somebody I'd like to meet. Tama1988 (talk) 06:55, 23 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I have to agree with you about Fisher - in looking up about him I found a really neat video about his work, and he was impressive. Plus, it seems you can donate and he'll have an ant named after you. :)
 * Anyway, just to explain (as I felt bad about reverting you, given that you'd looked into it), the first source was the sort of thing that I would expect to use Wikipedia for content (the short bio for a seminar), seemed to be created after the WP entry was updated, and the wording was identical, making me nervous. The second was better, but when I looked at a bio for another person contained in it, it too used exactly the same words found in the Wikipedia article on the subject. This was a tad too much of a coincidence, making me think that it too was using Wikipedia as a source, rather than the other way around. It's no really proof that there was a problem, but as you pointed out on Jimbo's talk page, the claim seemed pretty surprising, so I'm uncomfortable with sources that I can't really trust for it.
 * Anyway, I'm very grateful you raised it, because otherwise I'd have never found out about Fisher! :) - Bilby (talk) 07:32, 23 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I thought of using the Wayback Machine to find precedence, but I couldn't be bothered; come to think of it, though, we can make good guesses about the timing of both the sources I cited even without resorting to Wayback. And you're right: if another bio within the PDF has the same wording as the relevant Wiki article it's a surer sign of trouble.


 * I must try hard to be polite about people about whom I write. But I have great trouble with Bryan Fischer, who is somebody I would not like to meet. Brian Fisher is a most welcome contrast; he restored some of my faith ("faith"?) in America. Tama1988 (talk) 02:39, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of EU Institute in Japan


The article EU Institute in Japan has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * No independent sources (apart from an in-passing mention in a speech). Does not meet WP:GNG.

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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
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