User talk:TheMadBaron/Archive 1

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Maine Coon cat
ey thanks for the edits on the page, I appreciate you taking time out to polish it up. There is currently a dispute over whether the tag needs to stay on even after a number of edits were made. I'm trying to se if we cna geta consensus either way, so if you wouldn't mind voiving your opinion (either way on the talk page, that'd be great. Thanks.Gator1 18:36, September 6, 2005 (UTC)


 * Happy to contribute, though I don't expect you to like what I have to say.... TheMadBaron 18:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Clifters
Hi there. I just closed the AfD on this, but it is still a copyvio since it is overwhelmingly the same text as on their website. I've listed it at WP:CP as a result: if you should rewrite the article, please do so on Clifters/Temp, and indicate that on Talk:Clifters. You might also point that out at Copyright problems/2005 September 24. Thanks. -Splash talk 21:32, 24 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I don't think I can be bothered to rewrite that thing, so I've emailed the promoter to request permission to use the text. If they don't respond, the article will obviously have to be deleted.... a greater loss to Clifters than to Wikipedia, I suspect. TheMadBaron 04:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

A Series of Unfortunate Events
You may not have seen it but I have responded to all of your comments on those talk pages. I wouldn't be able to write it better as I know too much but you might. Just thought I'd ask! --Cel e stianpower hablamé 20:36, 10 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Cool. I'll take a look and see what I can do. TheMadBaron 16:25, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Political dissent
I'll have a run at it over the next week or two. Cheers! BD2412 talk 14:12, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Regarding the "List of high value detainees" article
First off, it was a bad choice of name. The article needs a better name. The term was coined by US officials, and picked up by the press. Prior to starting the article I had only seen it used to refer to the most senior al Qaeda captives. But, googling for it showed me US officials had also used the term to refer to Saddam's most senior cadre. My mistake.

I have responded, at length, on the deletion page. I thought I would respond on your talk page, and ask you, would you have any other concerns if the consensus was to change the title of the article? If not, I am drawing a blank on better titles, although I now see the current title has to go. Is any better title occurring to you? Thanks. -- Geo Swan 18:06, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Pls help at Talk:List_of_high_value_detainees - thanks! KC

Josephine Anwhistle
You're questions: answered.


 * 1) Ike died by being devoured by Lachrymose Leeches. This is the assumed fate of Josephine but many theories say otherwise.
 * 2) The things happen to her only in the film, not in the books.

Anything else you need to know? --Cel e stianpower háblame 22:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Josephine Anwhistle and Sir
Right then.


 * 1) Josephine's fears are quite a major factor in the books too. They are what inhibit the Baudelaires whilst they are there. Can you imagine a life without hot food? She does things like leaves piles of cans around to stop burglars.
 * 2) She doesn't have lifejackets floating around. Towards the end of the books, she is pushed into the lake by Olaf and supposedly she gets mauled (because of her eating a banana only half an hour beforehand) and the lifejackets are all that's left. But, the Queequeg submarine may have been in the lake at the same time therefore some fans believe that she may have been rescued.
 * 3) Sir is the owner of the Luckly Smells Lumbermill, to where the Baudelaires have to work in book the fourth: The Miserable Mill. In the end, he fires the Baudelaires because they are too much trouble. He is one of the few Guardians not killed by Olaf because the only reason Olaf kills any of them is it get to the Baudelaires.

Well, it might be a bit spoilt by me telling you all of these details (and you reading them in the articles) but they are very entertaining. And with V.F.D. thrown in, they get quite deep towards the end of the series (although I was quite disappointed by The Penultimate Peril). --Cel e stianpower háblame 09:39, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Phase shifting
Well, I studied this technicque recently in music at school and the article as is looks pretty good. It's rather difficult to explain and the person there has done an okay job. --Cel e stianpower háblame 12:45, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, it was always refered to as phasing or phase shifting at school. I can't tell you any more than that. By the way, it wasn't me who wrote it - I split it from another article. --Cel e stianpower háblame 21:04, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Talk: Multitrack recording
"These days, digital recording has improved tremendously, and since most classical music's going to end up on CD anyway, there's not much reason not to digitally multitrack it."

Technologically, yes, but many musicans, music groups and orchestras in the following genres cosider it more sophisticated to record "direct to master":
 * Concert Music
 * Jazz
 * Certain folk genres (I been wondering for a while how Leonard Cohen's studio albums have been recorded)
 * Latin, I remeber watching a documentry about the Buna Vista Social Club on *SBS television (I live in North Calrton, a suburb in Melbourne, Australia) and being rather suprised, when seeing studio recording sessions, by the the whole group performing together in the studio without any multitrack recording.

"So, there are probably still some snobs recording orchestras through a single microphone directly onto gramophone record in the misguided belief that this somehow produces better results than CDs recorded with state of the art digital multitracking equipment."

They prefrence is not due to a musiguaded belief, it is just a sophisticated personal taste. They are not snobs! Furthermore digital recording is inherently lossy, in comparsion to the very best analog recordings.

"Bloody Luddites."

This is a powerful insult to many classical musicians (even ones that do not reconrd this way) as well as classical producers and recording engineers that work with them, and many classical composers and fans. If you continue to use such insults on Wikipedia articles, including discussion forums, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Highly inappropriate.


 * "That was a joke", and I find your suggestion that it is insulting to people who don't work that way utterly bizarre. I apologise, however, if you were offended. Please sign your comments. TheMadBaron 13:18, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I take these jokes quite seriously.

"I find your suggestion that it is insulting to people who don't work that way utterly bizarre." Many of these people respect people who still record this way (they may be their heroes, friends or even fans).


 * I don't think that this particular joke is worth taking at all seriously. Even so, I have apologised. Let's move on. TheMadBaron 14:42, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Maine Coon pictures
You're a frequent contributor to the Maine Coon page. What are your thoughts on the picture issue. I think there should just be three and I have voted my top three picks. It's a unique enough cat with alot of diffrent markings and features that I think a few pictures are appropriate, but it seems to be getting out of hand. Your thoughts?Gator(talk) 14:39, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

November 15 Vandalism
This message is regarding the page General complaints. Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. --David Woolley 19:28, 15 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Your edit took the page back to 13:50 on November 11th, that's over four days worth of input. It was also a whole page edit, not a section edit.  It happened at a time when the servers were heavily loaded, so, given the time and number of attempts for edits to take, I was concentrating on rolling back the change, so the edit comment didn't take account of your edit history, but did take account of the major disruption to the page.


 * When I did look at your edit history, my first interpretation of a more recent edit was that that was vandalism as well, although that was in error as the nature of the content meant that the sort of phrases that might be substituted by vandals was normal in the context. Howeever, by then, I had already written the first version of the message, based on what I had assumed to be later vandalism, and was struggling trying to get the server not to timeout on the reinstatement of the edit after yours (and also not to waste too much work time).  I did realise that mistake and changed the message to use the definitely disrupted page.


 * The actual message is the boiler plate second level warning (of four levels). I didn't start with the first level warning because your edit history didn't look like that of someone who had just discovered that they could change pages.  My impression is that real vandals often get away with it for a long time because people don't put up the warning notices, so it cannot be escalated to adminstrator level.


 * I apologize if it really was finger trouble on your part. --David Woolley 23:03, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Move
Yes, go for it! --Cel e stianpower hablamé 11:17, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Comanche addition
remind me sometime not to try to comment (or add) when I'm in the middle of trying to prevent revert wars, being accused of personal attacks on my talk page, and sleep deprived. Kudos and thanks for catching that. KillerChihuahua 02:28, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * oh and thats a small joke (from a small dog) about addition as in math, not addition to the article... kindof a pun. KillerChihuahua 02:29, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

ROFL, and I actually did ask for it, literally... Baron, if you're not completely buried, how do you feel about attacking an article that's in even worse shape than Comanche was? This one is going to require massive copyvio triage - and sports the unweildy title of Ethnic stereotypes in American media, and its main editor is a newbie named Ratherford, please don't bite him because he's well intentioned, just very green. KillerChihuahua 02:52, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Tariff (criminal law)
I've thrown together what little I could quickly glean on the subject, but this may already be out of date. I'll keep working on it, tho. Cheers! BD2412 T 20:33, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Awards
For your contributions to Ethnic stereotypes in American media. -- Ratherford Skills



Sources for Isaiah Washington
Hello, good work on Isaiah Washington, and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. What websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Isaiah Washington? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. - SimonP 06:28, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Another award
For cleaning up the ever-messy A Series of Unfortunate Events articles.  smurray  in  chester (User), (Ho Ho Ho!) 15:56, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

You are mad
That's two edits to the Navy Seals page in 1 day. For such a bad movie I can't imagine it rates more than one edit per year.

Rock and roll vs. Rock (music)
Right on! I've seen lots of inappropriate links to rock and roll. Are you keeping any sort of list, or do you just fix them as you stumble across them? Slicing 16:53, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
I have been nominated in an RFA. As somone who has worked with me on the Maine Coon page for some time, I thought that your opinion (whether its support, oppose or neutral) would be valued by everyone involved (as well as myself) no matter what it might be. Thanks!Gator (talk) 02:39, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Carol Marcus

 * Thanks for updating the page. You are right, I am arranging this page aphabetically according to article name. I am using a wordprocessor to arrange it for me when I dump in many Trek-related articles.
 * In the case of Dr. Carol Marcus, may I suggest that it should be moved to Carol Marcus (Star Trek) so that it would be consistent with other disambiguations. -- bluemask 02:35, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

WarGames
What is it you don't understand? /user/games/wargames is a shell script included with BSD systems which will ask you what you want to play and start the game if it exists or say the quote if it doesn't, how hard is that to understand from what is already given? What alternative wording do you believe would better convey this? Just deleting stuff you don't get is counter productive. "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play" is the key quote in the film, what in the world do you mean "the relevance of the quote is not clear." Janizary 06:05, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Snicket project launched!
Seeing as you seem to have shown an interest in A Series of Unfortunate Events related articles, I thought you might want to know about a new WikiProject that I have started up, on the aforementioned topic. Please see it here! If you wish to help out, please sign up in the Participants section. Thanks! --Cel e stianpower háblame 19:59, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
A very happy new year to you and yours. KillerChihuahua?!? 22:00, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Alan Moore
I notice that you've contributed to this article in the past. Now it's the comics collab of the week. Please stop by and see if you can help bring this article up to featured article quality! ike9898 15:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

VFD
Hey, about your questions concerning VFD, not all the answers are known just yet. For example, you questioned about the "meeting place" where Kit Snicket is proved not to be, that quote came from the Unofficial Autobiography, and it is even more vague than the books. When more accurate information comes out we'll let you know. Send any questions you have about this to my talk page, as I have read the books very well and consider myself an expert.

abo-teni articles
I was looking around on wikipedia and found that you'd also found the Abo-Teni article suspicious. Further poking around on google yielded tiberius lowang's xanga, which appears to be a diary by someone who's created the (I'm now convinced) completely fictional Tiberius Lowang article, and most likely some of the other linked articles.

I was wondering your opinion on this and if you'd be willing to help me clear these out as a sort of mini-project. Akriasas 04:26, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey, glad to see that it's been done! Thanks! Akriasas 01:42, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I have no idea what this is about but it needed some heading
hi Madbaron

i saw you agreed w/ me about the gurdjieff article perhaps we should be so bold as to actually add something in the main article

Chris fcking2000@yahoo.com

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.7.28.65 (talk • contribs)


 * I agree again. You should definitely put something about group work in the Gurdjieff article. ;) TheMadBaron 05:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

hi again

maybe you could give me your email addy so we could begin collaborating on this

mine is fcking2000@yahoo.com my name is Festus Christopher King the fcking is a semi acronym

oh saw the native american stuff i just saw broken rainbow have you seen that? Chris

Votes
I wonder if you'd consider not using symbols to label your comments on WP:AFD. It really isn't a vote, but your use of symbols might inadvertently emphasize the false impression that it is. --Tony Sidaway 23:22, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

The Station nightclub fire
I had the feeling I was giving more opinion than fact. Thanks. - NGC6254 04:44, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Heytesbury street
Hi, This certainly was a candidate for deletion in its original form. I've now added material and wonder if you could see what you think of it now? Dl yo ns 493  Ta lk  20:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that - I noticed the cleanup you've done as well! The Coombe is famous in Dublin folklore as one of the three maternity hospitals of the  city. It's central to a very vibrant inner-city district.  A stub would definitely be worthwhile - I'll try to find some time, but have some work on arrondissements to finish first.   Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk

Hing, hang, hung

 * "Pictures and pheasants are hung. People are hanged."

Oops. I knew that. Thanks for the fix. — BrianSmithson 04:13, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Yorkshireisms
I agree with you, but I don´t think that Yok-sha puddin´, Tripe and Yok-sha hotpot should go. They´re integral to food in Yorkshire.

Please put them back in, Baron, and I will restrain myself from adding national stuff in future.

Have fun.

212.241.67.98 18:54, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. You were right about the edit, because I ran away with myself.

Gobstoppers? I remember breaking a tooth or two on them myself. Can´t find any in the part of the world I live in now, though.

andreasegde 01:49, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

You are right about changing the name - I never liked it. Any ideas? It can´t be dialect, as that´s already in...

andreasegde 08:40, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I like it, but it´s a bit of a gobstopper/mouthful. What about "Yorkshire slang"?

Can I just change the name (and the link on the Yorkshire page) or do I have to do something else? Sorry to sound so dumb... andreasegde 09:01, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Air Transat Flight 236
Hi TheMadBaron,

Thanks for your work on Air Transat Flight 236. I thought I should let you know that flamed out is almost the complete opposite to caught fire! You can read the flameout article if you want to know more. Icd 05:25, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Mute Swan
Please see Talk:Mute Swan jimfbleak 06:33, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Problem with date ranges and SmackBot
THanks for the note. I have changed the settings to avoid doing this while the underlying cause is investigated. Rgds, Rich Farmbrough 16:18 13 June 2006 (GMT).

Pizza delivery
Hallo MadBaron, I saw you did some editing on pizza delivery. I think the article is very American Centric. Therefore, I have added some aspects on pizza deliverym in European countries. I saw you have a Thai background. That is the reason why I am asking this question. Do you know somethin about pizza delivery in Asian Countries? I do not know whether pizzas are delivered in Asian countries. But perhaps you know. It would be an improvement of the article if pizza delivery in Asian countries is included as well. Could you ad something?

Greetings, RaF 17 June, 2006

Solitude Standing
I thought they were good remarks, obvious POV. Amazed they lasted that long.Fantailfan 20:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Transliteration of Thai names
I agree that articles on Thai people should note their preferred spelling, the IPA pronunciation, the Royal Institute transliteration, and preferably even an audio file of the pronunciation. However, I do not agree that each article deserves a separate section on transliteration. It would be much preferable to include links to each of those systems, like the way I modified the introduction of the Bhumibol Adulyadej article. Detailed discussions of the pros and cons of each system should be covered in the articles on those systems. Patiwat 23:09, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


 * p.s., the Chinese do this in another way, by adding a box with transliterations:

A Big Hand for the Little Lady
I am really puzzled. What exactly is the matter with my writing? Clarityfiend 05:56, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've replaced "bilked" with "swindled" (and linked it to fraud). Clarityfiend 06:09, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

It's been a while since I saw the movie, so I don't know for sure the answers to your two questions. (I got Laredo from IMDB's plot summary.) Clarityfiend 06:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request
This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I may have found your page based on your contributions or your link repair user box on your user page. If you are not a member, please consider including your name on the project page. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 23:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the help on Kroger Babb! Looks much better, you solved a few of the problems I was struggling with. --badlydrawnjeff talk 10:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You're very welcome. Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with. TheMadBaron 10:54, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

209.104.230.34
Thanks for the heads up. The user had not been warned today, so I warned him/her -- doesn't seem to have been active for several hours. NawlinWiki 21:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

The Hostile Hospital
Thanks. The phrase "Torch Up Murder" does not appear anywhere in any of the books. I left it in until I could determine how Rupert Murdoch was related to the series. Now I know that he is the owner of HarperCollins, the publisher of the series, so I'll go ahead and remove "torch up murder" now. JCoug 18:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Lisa Brown is his wife. --JCoug 19:13, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Who the blazes is Allan Gray?
The mention of Allan Gray as the composer of the music for Forty-Ninth Parallel is what is known as, to use the technical jargon, a mistake :) Probably made by copying the info box from other films by The Archers and not editing it properly. Thanks for noticing it. Allan Gray was the composer for quite a few of the other films of The Archers (Powell & Pressburger) from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp through to A Matter of Life and Death. But he's got nothing to do with that South African bank so I've modified the links on the other films. The article on the bank is fairly new and that picked up the links to the composer which didn't go anywhere - waiting for an article to be written about him -- SteveCrook 14:13, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

The Hurricane (1999 film)
I would add a section on Critical reaction and Box office as sub-topics of Reception (Awards should be a sub of it too). I would also add a section about the movie's production entitled Production (kinda obvious). That section may include information such as development of the script, casting changes, etc... The Storyline section could be expanded (and entitled Plot if it is expanded). The Controversy section should be totally converted to prose and Trivia should be moved to other sections, such as Produciton. Images could be added to help illustrate the plot or production (cast shots, books it was based on, images of filming...). Anything else I can help you with? Cbrown1023 21:19, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. If you need anything else, don't hesitate to drop a line on my talk page. Cbrown1023 23:39, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It may be easier for you to add the WP:FILMS template as Film instead of FilmsWikiProject as it is shorter and probably easier to remember (but it does not matter as FilmsWikiProject is just a redirect to Film). Cbrown1023 01:26, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Pet pancake
Actually, that's why I did delete it, not to mention the fact that variations on the same theme had been blown out a number of times before. Didn't mean to bite; I wasn't angry when I deleted it, but thanks for pointing it out. - Lucky 6.9 01:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Absolutely. My pleasure.  Give me 30 seconds... - Lucky 6.9 01:40, 24 October 2006 (UTC)


 * You be good to go, matey. Thank you for taking this on.  I'm at work, so NPP is about all I can do. - Lucky 6.9 01:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC)


 * LOL! I guess I can deal with pancakes for dinner on my side of the planet.  :) - Lucky 6.9 01:48, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

ASUE and Barnstars
Thanks so much for my shiny little Barnstar. It's my first one! I'm coming back to editing after a short wikibreak, so I'd be happy to help work on the ASUE pages as much as I can. Thanks again! Cabiria 01:31, 24 October 2006 (UTC)