User talk:Triskaideka

If you leave a message for me and want a response on your talk page, please let me know. Otherwise I'll respond on this page in the interest of making the conversation easy for future readers to follow. If I leave a message on your talk page, I'll put your talk page on my watchlist for a while, so you can reply there if you like. &mdash;Triskaideka

Welcome to Wikipedia, Triskaideka / Number 13. I like what you added at No Taxation Without Representation. Even though the page is nicely wikified, I think I'll leave it on the Opentask for a short while. :-) -- PFHLai 22:42, 2004 Jul 19 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I do think that NTWR needs something more, but I couldn't figure out what. Triskaideka 22:52, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

European Union Olympic medals count for 2004
Hi there,

I wonder would you consider reversing your decision to delete this article. I have substantially rewritten it. A united EU team is not going to happen. I've discussed potential EU co-operation towards the olympics, and kept the table. I believe the table is valid, for us Europeans/EUians to see how the area has fared as a whole. Please comment on my talk page if you still feel the article should be deleted.

zoney | talk 00:55, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Reply at User talk:Zoney as requested.  &mdash;Triskaideka 01:48, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your time at any rate. I must admit, I don't quite understand how you can prefer the previous version (the notion of a united EU team is patent nonsense) - but fair enough. I also feel that objections against having the table are unwarranted - it's valid information (as I pointed out, of interest to many). But sin a bhfuil, that's how it is. Again, thanks. zoney &#09608; &#09608; &#09608;  talk 01:50, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Managed deletion
Thanks for your temperate reply on Wikipedia talk:Managed Deletion, Triskaideka. You're right that the need for posters to "feel strongly enough" would have a kind of automatic filtering function for what got as far as VfD — I hadn't quite thought of it that way. And creating more traffic to Votes for undeletion is execrably undesirable, sure. (Hadn't given that enough thought, either.) On the other hand, it would also be pretty easy for mischievous people with too little to do to recreate articles over and over, don't you think? Having the same article pop up again and again on VfD would be a kind of nightmare. Then people would get seriously tired of voting.

Oh, and after posting my comments, I managed to find the present policy about recreated pages: "Reposted content that was deleted according to Wikipedia deletion policy" is a Speedy delete category. That means that your suggestion would create a kind of anomalous situation, with "mild" VfD deletion of recreated Managed deletes, but draconian Speedy deletion of recreated Speedies and VfDs. Sorry I'm putting it so thornily, it may have something to do with it being 4 in the morning here. Best regards, Bishonen 02:08, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * No, you're quite right about all of that. I realize that there would be inconsistency in how a recreated article is handled depending on the way it was deleted, and I guess I didn't think about how confusing that could be to newbies.  I didn't mean that articles could be recreated and VfDed indefinitely, though; I think one VfD per article is quite enough.


 * But then, it would be the argumentative authors who pressed the issue on VfD, and their article would already have been deleted once, so as a means of calming down VfD, this system might backfire. Well, as I say, just throwing ideas out there; hopefully someone can find the inspiration for a good idea in my half-baked ones.   &mdash;Triskaideka 02:22, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

List of Greek Wikipedians
Hello, I've noticed your Greek username, so if you are Greek, I'd suggest that you may add yourself to the Wikipedians/Greece list. Thanks. Etz Haim 15:48, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info, but I'm not Greek by ethnicity nor residence. I just studied Ancient Greek for a couple of years in high school.   &mdash;Triskaideka 15:56, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
thanks for wikifying the jonesville page


 * No problem. :)  &mdash;Triskaideka 20:16, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Help Desk
Thanks for your assistance, out of interest, would it not be better to have the messages chronologically with the most recent at the top? Then if people like myself saw a message that I/we could answer, we would know it was new. Please reply to my talk page: User_talk:Honeycake_Webber. Thanks, Honeycake 16:25, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Reply at User_talk:Honeycake as requested.  &mdash;Triskaideka 16:48, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Thankyou very much for all your help. My contributions and watchlist lists have now updated themselves. Thanks again--Honeycake 16:50, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

User:62.253.64.12
I initially removed this text from my user page because it was posted in the wrong place (at the top) and was redundant with a conversation going on at User talk:62.253.64.12. Then I thought better of it. So here it is in the right place. &mdash;Triskaideka 23:21, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

User:62.253.64.12 (contributions) wrote:


 * What is the big issue with opwtn????? There was no vandalism to anyones pages - I just did what you did to opwtn! So, why are you so bugged with the entry????

Reverting your User page
No problem. Someone did the same for me a while back when Haydes got banned and went nuts vandalizing from a bunch of AOL IPs--I didn't even know that he'd hit my page after I started helping revert his edits until some time after the attack had ended, and I was scanning Recent Changes for that IP range and I happened to notice the revert. Wikipedians in general seem to be really good at watching each other's back. And now I see you reverted mine when the above user hit it, as well. Thank you. Niteowlneils 00:20, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Black Ships
I made some comments on the "senryu" that you edited in the Black Ships article. Talk:The Black Ships gK 05:26, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I've replied to your comments on my user talk page User talk:GK gK 06:29, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

New Millennium Orchestra
Oh, sorry, I thought the encyclopedia would cover unfinished projects too. If it is not the case, I could delete the page, until it's got something interesting.


 * Reply is at User_talk:Rockslave.  &mdash;Triskaideka 18:05, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii
There is now an answer to your question about Haiku, Hawaii at this talk page. gK [[User talk:GK|&iquest;?]] 07:45, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project
Hi. You've helped with the WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

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 2000 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)

Serial comma
Hello. In the past, I think you've spoken in favor of having guidelines on the serial comma in the WP Manual of Style. Currently, a few users have been taking out all guidance on that, replacing it with a statement that the MoS takes no position. They've said they reached a consensus on the talk page. Would you care to comment there? Jonathunder 22:15, 2005 May 9 (UTC)

Notability of VG Cats
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AfD nomination of VG Cats
I have nominated VG Cats, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/VG Cats&. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Guy (Help!) 13:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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