User talk:Wayfarer

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Vandalism
In response to your question on the Wikipedia_talk:Vandalism_in_progress talk page:


 * It depends on the circumstances. Reading the following may answer your question: Resolving disputes, Requests for arbitration, Three-revert rule.  I have found in some edit wars, where there are conflicting points of view, simply rewording the conflicting part in order to reach a middle ground may be successful.
 * For example


 * Joe contends A
 * Bill contends B


 * Rewriting the section to state that "some people believe A, while others believe B" or something along those lines may help resolve the dispute.

-- BMIComp (talk) 5 July 2005 00:52 (UTC)

Re: Vandalism
bmicomp, thank you very much for the links to those Wiki explanation-pages and also sorry for a quite delayed response. Also, I must emphasize that I agree with you about the edit wars - one could simply edit the article (and end the respective edit war) in a manner that it would offer two explanations, two points of view.

regards Wayfarer | on July 20, 2005 | at 1:51 GMT

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Re: Welcome
Thanks Ragib for a friendly welcoming message and also thanks for inviting me to your discussion page. I will just repeat once more what I already wrote on your talk-page: Talk.


 * In my opinion, Wikipedia is definitely a great community of "spare-time contributors" to the general Common good.

best regards, Wayfarer | on July 2, 2005 | at 4:00 GMT

Apologies
Hi there! You'll probably have received an e-mail regarding a new password for your Wikipedia account... Well, it's been my fault. I'm user Wayfarer on the spanish Wikipedia, so when I tried to login here I tried the same username and password. After several attempts, I pressed the "Send me a new password" button thinking that I had forgotten the password... and a minute after that I noticed my mistake.

So if you haver received the Change Password Request mail, don't think that a hacker has been trying to steal your account... but just a forgetful spaniard! ;-)

Kind regards, -- Wayfarer.es 14:59, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

AfD nomination of DNSKong
I've nominated DNSKong, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that DNSKong satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/DNSKong and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of DNSKong during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Cornell Rockey 20:06, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

AfD and DNSKong
OK sorry Cornell Rockey, you know, I wasn't totally sure why it was deleted in the first place, so I just recreated the article in question. Thanks for explaining it to me!!

regards Wayfarer | on May 7, 2007

viruus
Regarding this edit, is the convention not to use a macron (virũs) rather than two u's in succesion? I wasn't sure, so I didn't change it. The spelling virũs does appear later in the article. — The Storm Surfer 22:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on TP Systems, Inc., requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

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 * Well, this is a really very very delayed response, but I just noticed (or rather "re-noticed") this entry and I think I should clarify this once and for all (e.g. for other visitors that might read it):


 * I am actually not an author of that article (and not even a contributor)


 * ... that is, not even a contributor in the most common meaning of the word "contributor", i.e. it's just a random article that I've stumbled upon back then and after creating my own Wikipedia account, I made my first ever edit (I don't remember anymore, but possibly it was just a minor grammar/spelling fix). --Wayfarer (talk) 23:59, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

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DNSKong
Where do you have posted the "DNSKong" article of yours, before it got deleted ? Did it have an Infobox---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IBX? -- #TTiT# &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  ♠ The-Traveller-in-Tacoma • 00:38, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Re: DNSKong
The article was posted here (the article name followed Wikipedia's naming conventions), while for others that might be interested I am also adding the related parts from the two e-mail messages that I've sent to/got replies from the DNSKong author.

1. An e-mail message titled "Re: Reply: [Aug16] question about Pyrenean.com" (the second one):

Robert Hill wrote:

> -1-  Do you have your DNSKong-Wikipedia page posted somewhere I can preview it?

Well, the article/page about DNSKong on Wikipedia is as far as I know not accessible anymore (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/DNSKong), but luckily I saved the text to one file on my computer, and I attached this text (in DNSKong.txt file) to this e-mail.

2. An e-mail message titled "Re: [Aug16] question about Pyrenean.com" (the first one):

Robert Hill wrote:

> -1- Would you like to try again to get a page about DNSKong on Wikipedia?

Hello Robert, personally I won't try it again because actually I did recreate that article/page (about DNSKong program) on Wikipedia, however it was deleted again and then when I recreated it once again someone (if I recall correctly it was an admin, but rather see this section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wayfarer#AfD_notification on my talk page) nominated it for deletion once more and explained to me why (i.e. the reason is that DNSKong is not a very well-know and widely-used program that would "require" its own page on Wikipedia).

--Wayfarer (talk) 20:15, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Wikification of dates
Hi, Wayfarer! The Manual of Style doesn't support wikification of dates in general: "Month-day articles (February 24 and 10 July) should not be linked unless their content is germane (i.e. “relevant and appropriate”) and topical to the subject. Such links should share an important connection with that subject other than that the events occurred on the same date. For example, editors should not link the date (or year) in a sentence such as (from Sydney Opera House): "The Sydney Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007", because little, if any, of the contents of either June 28 or 2007 are germane to either UNESCO, a World Heritage Site, or the Sydney Opera House." --Eleassar my talk 15:07, 10 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Aha OK, thanks much Eleassar for letting me know about this. I really didn't know for the MOS:UNLINKDATES rule. Therefore I've reverted all the edits that I made lately back to their correct versions (namely, for instance Isaac Hlatshwayo, Viacheslav Senchenko, Rafał Jackiewicz etc. articles, see my Contributions for full list if you want to). --Wayfarer (talk) 18:56, 10 September 2010 (UTC)


 * No problem. Have a nice day. --Eleassar my talk 22:11, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

JFK conspiracy
Hi - you are right about that lame sentence about the second brain, but the thing is, it was a direct quote from the source. So I gave it a lead-in and reinstated the quote as is. Still lame, but I think paraphrasing in that spot is not a good idea. Tvoz / talk 22:43, 26 September 2010 (UTC)


 * OK then, thank you for letting me know in the first place (i.e. and not just reverting it back); yeah, that's what I meant with "... please correct me if I'm wrong, but note the errors!" part of the Edit summary (i.e. that if it's a quote then it should be left as it is). . But in any case: is then one quotation mark (or are quotation marks) missing? See for yourself what I mean... --Wayfarer (talk) 23:37, 26 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Right, I realized that was what you meant - again, the whole thing is lame, and I'm not completely convinced that the source is even really ok as RS, but for now I think it can stand. Would like to see better sourcing though. Cheers! Tvoz / talk 23:58, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for letting me know! Yes, I must confess that I really didn't know that. --Wayfarer (talk) 19:18, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
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 * Fixed! --Wayfarer (talk) 16:25, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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 * Done! --Wayfarer (talk) 14:06, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * Corrected the link to point to Subplot! --Wayfarer (talk) 20:21, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * Thank you very much Mdann52 for letting me know. I have already voted! – Wayfarer (talk) 01:57, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * Thanks much for info/feedback! 😊
 * Your welcome. Do you think the current content you added is verifiable? QuackGuru  ( talk ) 21:02, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Note about account security
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