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Fennec 17:05, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Toytoy, saw today that you beat me to updating the gamma-linolenic acid page. Was going to organize it later today. Early bird catches the worm I guess. Hope you find the info I added to it yesterday a bit more in depth. Thanks. - Jazzman; Aug 29, '04

Hi Toytoy,

Despite what the PBS page, this is incorrect. The quote is from the father, Martin Luther King, Sr. See this exchange on my talk page: User_talk:Bcorr

Digital photography
Hi, just want to wish you for your good work on the article Digital photography. Let the world be benefitted more out of your work. Regards. --Rrjanbiah 05:37, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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Re: apparent account compromise
Don't worry, my account is perfectly secure. If you're wondering what those edits are doing there, we had a vandal User:The Willy on Wheels arrive earlier and move articles (Television in this case from their valid locations to articles with silly names. I was helping move them back along with User:Mark Ryan, User:Kate and others. -- Grunt (talk) 15:41, 2004 Aug 24 (UTC)

Greetings Toytoy, thank you for your stub article on the Marfa Lights. You might want to have a look at my recent additions to it. Best regards, Edson C. Hendricks (Edh) --Edh 01:02, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You need to explain the relevance of the list of breeds at The Intelligence of Dogs - is it a list of dogs sorted by intelligence? Evercat 13:13, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Exoskeleton
I've reverted your edits to exoskeleton and robot exoskeleton, resplitting articles that were only merged a few months ago. I'm not sure either article is big enough to warrant splitting yet and, imho, the term "robot exoskeleton" isn't entirely appropriate for all the content on that page. Whilst I do (mainly) agreee with your point, I think we should discuss the issue further on Talk:Exoskeleton before demerging it, so we can demerge the content properly (if at all). &mdash; OwenBlacker 15:59, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)

Why on earth did you alter my signature?
It seems you specifically changed all my signatures on Votes for deletion/Israeli violence against Palestinian children by removing the color tag. Why? Cool Hand Luke  19:03, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I installed a customized HTML filter (Privoxy) on my computer. I let it remove ALL , ,  and many other HTML tags from ALL web pages. I also configured my web browser to ignore JavaScript, Java, stylesheetl, , refresh and color tags. I want my Mozilla and Netscape to act like Lynx browser. It was my HTML filter that removed them. Sorry for my mistake. Here are my settings. -- Toytoy 08:23, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)

default.filter.ini of my rivoxy s---sigU s---sigU s---sigU s---sigU s---sigU s-target=--sigU

Vanunu
Thanks for your support on the Vanunu issue. - Xed 15:17, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * I don't want to see that page vandalized. -- Toytoy 15:34, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)

I'm sorry if you interpreted my remark as something other than hypothetical. Gazpacho 15:47, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that I shouted at you. My fault. -- Toytoy 15:53, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)

U.S. embargo against Cuba
You voted for U.S. embargo against Cuba, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

QuickTime -- MIT
Do you have a source for your recent edit? AlistairMcMillan 16:47, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * * The Lab that Fell to Earth "He's [Walter Bender, director of the Media Lab] fond of an anecdote concerning some software solutions the Lab designed for transferring video files to floppy disks. "John Scully found it sufficiently interesting that he planted a seed at Apple," says Bender. "It eventually got them to launch their QuickTime product. Some of what the Lab does is more to influence thinking than influence products."


 * * Being Nicholas "At the other extreme is the kind of technology transfer for which the lab receives no credit. A good example is QuickTime, ... . The first QuickTime movies were developed here in cooperation with Apple. John Scully then took the idea back to California. Today there is not a single person at Apple who remembers that the Media Lab had anything to do with QuickTime."


 * Both articles were published by Wired, so far I cannot find another source to support this claim. However, I think Walter Bender of the Media Lab is good enough. -- Toytoy 17:13, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)


 * From those links it makes it sound like MIT either inspired Apple to develop QuickTime, by showing their own "software solutions" or helped develop the QuickTime file format. I don't think either suggests that MIT helped develop the first QuickTime prototype.  Apple already had a number of video projects that never quite made it called QuickScan and Road Pizza.


 * BTW Don't know if you noticed but both articles misspell Sculley's name. Unless they are talking about the boxer.  :) AlistairMcMillan 20:52, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Gun lobby
Why did you redirect this to Gun politics in the United States? The gun lobby is most certainly not limited to the United States - it exists in just about every country with gun control. Ambi 01:45, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Worst picture ever.jpg
Do you intend to use if for anything or should i feel free to obliterate it? -- Ævar Arnfjörð [ Bjarmason]   03:48, 2004 Dec 10 (UTC)


 * Delete it. It's OK. -- Toytoy 05:43, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Adding nutrition facts
I am willing to do this. Please tell me which articles to do. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 00:35, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

My proposal:


 * Download the USDA food nutrition database.
 * Append nutrition facts to all articles related to USDA food items.

However, to save efforts, the articles may only include our basic required foods (see: food guide pyramid):


 * Meats: beef, chicken, pork (there are just too many fish and shrimp fish)

There are 252 raw beef items. We may only use nutrition facts to one or two general cuts, such as "Beef, brisket, whole, separable lean only, all grades, raw" or "Beef, carcass, separable lean and fat, select, raw". We may add nutrition facts to other beef-related articles (e.g. sirloin) later.


 * Grains and cereals: wheat, barley, maize, rice, buckwheat, oat, rye, durum ... (see: Category:Cereals).


 * Rice, white, medium-grain, raw, unenriched
 * Wheat, durum
 * Wheat, hard white


 * Milk (Milk, whole, 3.25% milkfat)


 * Dairy products (see: Category:Dairy products}:
 * Mozzarella cheese: Cheese, mozzarella, whole milk
 * Parmigiano Reggiano: Cheese, parmesan, hard
 * Cheddar cheese: Cheese, cheddar


 * Chicken egg (food)


 * Pasta and breads (Boy!)


 * Fats


 * Fruits (How can there be so many of them?)

You may only want to include essential nutrients (see: Category:Essential nutrients) such as vitamins, minerals. Fats are importans but there are just too many essential, non-essential, saturate and non-saturate fats.

This is not an easy task. It also requires much discretion. But it will make Wikipedia much more useful. -- Toytoy 02:56, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Request for expansion
There is a request for you to continue working on Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Please see that page. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 08:07, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Million pool
It's still open, you could guess December 25, 2005 if you're still interested. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 07:24, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image:2004 indian ocean earthquake big.jpg a copyvio?
I suppose what you did is a copyvio, though IANAL. You could discuss this case at Copyright problems. Thanks! -- Paddu 21:00, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I was just about to draw your attention to WP:CP as well. Thanks for the good work doing maps, but it seems there may be copyright problem related to the base map you used on that one. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 21:36, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * The basemaps could very likely have been USGS (seabed, faults) and NASA (land sattelite) images. However, if you find it requires a redraw, I will try to do it using NASA and USGS information. Encarta is a tool that helps me to match two PD maps and generates the grids. -- Toytoy 01:51, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)


 * I (& probably others) assumed the base maps were Microsoft's. If the base maps are PD, I suppose it should be OK, since if the tool claims copyrights for images generated from PD images, that tool would esssentially be useless, so I assume the tool doesn't say so. But make sure the base maps are PD. If so, you could explain that in WP:CP and someone would remove the entry. Thanks for your cooperation and for spending time to create more maps! -- Paddu 07:50, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

formatting
I think your edits at Chiang Kai-shek destroyed the right alignment of the table. Please check it out.--Jiang 17:20, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * OK. It's done. -- Toytoy 23:04, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)

Knowledge wars
You make a good point about this article. When I have time, I will make an attempt to address your point. If I find that I'm unable to do so, I may have to nominate it for deletion, again. --Viriditas | Talk 10:23, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Law cat
Hi there, your recent addition of the Law category to numerous Legal terms is unfortunately working against the goal to keep the number of entries in any one category to a reasonable level. The Legal terms subcategory cat was intended to help offload this. Regards --Hooperbloob 21:22, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I removed them from the law cat. -- Toytoy 22:55, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

David Irving, holocaust denier or misunderstood historian?
Why did you remove the holoocaust denier label put on David Irving at Bombing of Dresden in World War II? Given that: I think the label is appropriate and cogent. I'm rving your edit. Charles Stewart 09:13, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) The label is authoritatively justified by two court cases,
 * 2) the basis for the label is well-documented at David Irving, and
 * 3) The relationship betweeen holocaust denial and the bombing is an important issue in understanding the modern political context of the bombing in Germany,


 * David Irving is a Homo sapiens
 * David Irving says "1+1=2".
 * David Irving eats three meals a day.
 * David Irving believes in general relativity.
 * David Irving ...


 * Now, Homo sapiens, mathematics-believer, food-user, Einstein-worshipper, David Irving says the bombing of Dresden in World War II killed one hundred zillion men, women and childern.


 * You may call the unproven, pointless and evil-minded over-exaggeration of the kills a strategy used by holocaust deniers. But this is your POV. Chances are, you may agree with David Irving in some cases, then would you still label him a "holocaust denier"? -- Toytoy 09:26, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)


 * For all I know, all of the assertions you make about David Irving are true, but in the context of the article they are not cogent. I explain why the fact that David Irving is a holocaust denier is cogent in the context of this article. And the existence of the strategy is not POV, but is well-documented.  Do you, by any chance, speak German?  Charles Stewart 10:18, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)