User talk:WSF

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And with regard to your edits to DEC Alpha, thanks for the update!

Atlant 12:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

> Thank you for the invitation! :)

WSF 04:54, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Feathercoin
I've re-opened the Afd if you'd like to comment. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:30, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Feathercoin copy?
Hi I noticed you wanted to keep the Feathercoin article. Do you happen to have a copy somewhere? I'm on a mission to rescue coin related WP articles about to be deleted by copying them to coinwiki.info, but I was a bit too late with FTC :/ Guaka (talk) 17:24, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I've written it originally, so no surprise to see me defending it. You can find a copy in the Internet Archive WSF (talk) 17:41, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Your request for undeletion
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that a response has been made at Requests for undeletion regarding a submission you made. The thread is Feathercoin. JohnCD (talk) 20:24, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The article should definitely not be deleted given its notability, and AfD keep votes. Glad to lern you are the original author. Do you have the collection of media references? Kokot.kokotisko (talk) 05:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Oenomaus
It's not a matter of what race you think Oenomaus is. The show's creators reimagined Oenomaus as a Numidian. Even if that means they are wrong about what a Numidian would have looked like. Look it up: http://spartacus.wikia.com/wiki/Numidia The creators of the show made a decision that this page is describing. You are expressing your opinion that he 'looks' Nubian without citation. That's not how it works on an encyclopedia. And be careful about reverting reverts: it is considered rude editing. Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 15:46, 20 September 2015 (UTC) Plus if you're saying 2/3rds or the North coast of Africa had no dark-skinned peoples at that time you're way off base. Numidia is a regional, not a specifically racial category.Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 15:54, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
 * It's irrelevant what the show producers think of history. They could have re-imagined Peter Mensah (Oenomaus) as an Egyptian or Syrian, though it wouldn't be any more credible than calling him a Numidian. Their Wikia page is full of fantasy either such as calling the Garamantes largely of sub-Saharan origin without a single proof; they descended from the Sea Peoples and local Berber population most likely. There were no black skinned Numidians in the 1st century BCE for a fact. The Garamantes hunted local desert negroid tribes for slave labour in their underground irrigational system and mines. These people were referenced as "Ethiopian cave dwellers" by Herodotus. The Tuaregs do not descend from them. They started to appear as a nation much later in the 4th century CE. While modern day Tuaregs residing in Niger and Mali often have negroid facial features thanks to mixing with the local population, those living in Algeria and Libya do not usually. Finally, Oenomaus character biography on IMDB describes him as a Nubian gladiator. WSF (talk) 20:24, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
 * It obviously isn't irrelevant what the show's creator's think of history when we are literally describing how the show's creator's reimagined history. And IMDB character bios are added by anyone, like wiki pages, minus the network of fact-oriented editors. You don't have a source to back up your change (it was a point of view) so your change was undone. Someone else decided to remove the whole section anyways. The argument over if Numidian is a racial or regional description is pretty far from relevant. The evidence suggests that the shows creators imagined a Numidian version of Oenomaus (who was neither Numidian or Nubian) and decided he would look like Peter Mensah. Chances are they googled African empires of the Roman era and found Numidia at random (the show doesn't go out of its way to get history right). If you think Peter Mensah looks Nubian and not Numidian doesn't change the facts as they are.Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 01:02, 27 September 2015 (UTC)