User talk:WhisperToMe/Archive2

Apology
I'd like to give a sincere apology to my former abuse of you regarding Zatch Bell. After seeing your stimulating debate on the One Piece message board regarding the name of Zolo/Zoro, my opinion has completely changed of you. We seem to share a similar love of anime in general, which is more than enough for me. As you probably have guessed, I am new to the Wikipedia scene, but I'm really getting into it and giving my all. Though I know it's a bit silly to take this post (and the one underneath it) too seriously, I still do wish to apologize.Turk Ranma 21:08, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Zatch Bell
OK, I put the characters on a separate link under the "Character" heading. The "trivia" layout of the characters was meant to discourage spoilers. Also, under each of the characters is another link meant as an explanation page which does detail the characters point in the plotline. Before you hijack the page and make loud demands on what should and shouldn't be there (i.e. "there WILL only be the english spelling of names!), you should discuss it with your fellow fans.

Naruto
Now, I have an idea on how to settle this: For each quote: * (Japanese text) (translation of Japanese text) * (Viz quote, marked as such)

Agreed, as I have suggested previously. The title should contain the Japanese romaji, followed by kanji. Then literal translation should be provided, along with various English translations in brackets. I took out the Viz translation previously because there are many people who are misinformed. They think the literal Japanese translation is the improper English manga translation, leading them to think the Japanese word "Bunshin" means "Doppelganger". I believe that the various English translations should be included, if users decide to add it, along with where it originated from.

''NONE of them are. Translators always mess with little details so their works will make sense with English-speaking audiences''

WhisperToMe: This is untrue. Most fan-works outside of Viz provide a much more accurate traanslation of the Japanese text. As Japanese, it is appalling to see Japanese text get translated so poorly -- especially when it is done to cater to the targeted audience. If Masashi Kishimoto knows about such translations, and if he had a say, he would not have let it be released. Go to this thread to see how many disagrees with you:

Naruto fans wishes the official Japanese to be used on Wikipedia. The English translation that you provide is only one of the many English translations out there, so to use the version you feel correct is misleading. In addition, having any Japanese text along side the inaccurate English translation only serve to mislead people into thinking those are literal translations. It is simply misleading to people who are trying to learn. As I have suggested, it is best to provide the official Japanese text, along with its Kanji, and then in the paragraph -- not in the title -- provide various translations. Encyclopedia is a compendium of facts, not as an advertisement to a specific product you wish to promote.

WhisperToMe: The Viz translation provided for the Naruto page is not the literal Japanese translation. To inform the users of the encyclopedia using the improper Viz translation is to provide inaccurate information. It is widely accepted by Naruto fans that the Japanese names should be used while other translations be in brackets, separating non-literal translation from the proper name. What I have provided on the Naruto page is the official Japanese words, as well as the literally translation. For example, "Bunshin" does not literally translate to "Clone". "Bunshin" is composed of two words "Bun" and "Shin" meaning "Split" and "Body" respectively. Please refrain from using inaccurate translations.

May I ask why you reverted all of my edits to the Naruto jutsu page? --JadziaLover 14:50, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry I removed some English versions of the jutsu names. I added the Viz translation behind the Japanese translation where ever I could find one. If you don't agree with my format of Japanes name (Viz translation where possible or else literal translation) please tell me.--JadziaLover 23:20, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

How should the header title be? "Japanese name (English name)", "English name (Japanese name)" or something else? --JadziaLover 23:29, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

If both are fine to you then do you mind if I keep using "Japanese name (English name)"? I prefer this format, because, in my experience, more people prefer Japanese to English --JadziaLover 23:50, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Alright, then I'll switch to the English (Japanese) format for now. btw I don't understand why KageMonkey has such a problem with you. You seem like a reasonable person to me ps: You are right I should use the preview button more, sorry for that ^_^ --JadziaLover 00:01, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't see why we have to use the American spelling ^_^ personally I think the British spelling is more aesthetic. However to be honest I was replacing the '&#333;' in Kidomaru's name with an 'o' because I saw that you missed one, and I noticed you changed 'armour' into 'armor'. Since all the links use 'armour' already it seemed more convenient to change it back. --JadziaLover 06:32, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WhisperToMe, there's a language discussion going on the Naruto ninja ranks' discussion page. We are kind of waiting for your opinion ^_^ so if you would be so kind as to tell us what you think... Thank you in advance --JadziaLover 20:57, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Dear WhisperToMe, About using Sandaime et al. You are right, I should use the English equivalent. However, old habits die hard ^_^ About the Gaara page. When I created the entry, I used "Gaara" as page title, not "Gaara of the Desert". It was AceMyth who moved it. And about my so-called "anti-Vizification campaign". These are AceMyth's words, not mine, although I do believe the Japanese names should take precedent over the Viz translations. I am, currently, not actively campaigning against the use of the Viz translation. --JadziaLover 12:17, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

I added those macrons because Chōji is the proper Revised Hepburn romanization of チョウジ. --JadziaLover 17:29, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I think using Choji will cause a lot of unnecessary confusion about the pronunciation of Chōji's name. To avoid that confusion you would have to put the proper pronunciation on every page where Chōji is mentioned. It would seem easier and neater to just use Chōji instead.--JadziaLover 16:17, 7 August 2005 (UTC)


 * The main problem is that there isn't a universal standard for romanizing Japanese names. In the case of Chōji's name, Viz uses Choji, while most fans use Chouji.
 * Wikipedia uses the Revised Hepburn romanization to transcribe Japanese terms. I believe we should use that until there is a more clear consensus on what romanization to use.--JadziaLover 17:59, 7 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I'd rather you keep the Hepburn romanization. And the anime has nothing to do with romanization.--JadziaLover 09:17, 23 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I stand by my point. In my opinion, macrons should be used.
 * About the anime. Are they going to use new names again? Can't they just make up their minds? Well, hopefully they'll stop using Art of the Valentine and Art of Me-and-my-shadow...--JadziaLover 13:05, 31 August 2005 (UTC)


 * "I stand by mine too, so how are we going to resolve this? WhisperToMe 22:44, 31 August 2005 (UTC)"
 * How about a battle to the death? It always seems to work in films ^^
 * Anyway, putting footnotes in for every character with lengthened vowels will become very messy and confusing. Not putting footnotes for names which are only mentioned once or so will cause confusion about pronunciation. Just using macrons is less messy, less confusing and stays closer to the original name. --JadziaLover 01:02, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Tokyo page
Hi W2M, The Tokyo page is getting long, and the lists of companies and of manga, tv shows, movies etc. are getting unwieldy. You and I have both added to lists today.

The Japanese Wikipedia has separate articles for lots of lists: One for manga, one for anime, one for plays (etc.) and one for movies (all, set in Tokyo); and one for Tokyo people.

What would you say to the idea of making a similar structure of separate articles for the English Wikipedia? Fg2 04:30, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

Good --- why don't I do companies and movies; do you feel like tackling manga and anime? If not, I'll do them too. Fg2 04:48, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

Better --- I've moved the companies; maybe the movies, manga, anime can all go in one article. Fg2 05:02, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

MEXT
What is with all the redirect pages for this article? Why on earth do you persist with this ridiculous campaign?? It's been agreed that, in most cases, redirect pages based on outdated romanization systems and misspellings/romanizations are not needed. Exploding Boy 21:23, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

UAE's Ministry of Planning lists Abu Dhabi as the largest Emirate and Dubai as the largest city. . What I was getting at was that since we are talking about the United Arab Emirates, perhaps statistics based on Emirates would be more pertinant to the discussion than statistics based on cities. AreJay 13:50, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Untagged image: Image:Map of Rio de Janeiro.jpg
Hi. I noticed you uploaded an untagged map of the city Rio de Janeiro in the month of May. It would be a great help to Wikipedia if you could add an appropriate copyright tag to that image and to other such images you have uploaded. Thanks. Vacuum 00:38, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

California maps
Hi WhisperToMe. I was tagging images, and I came across some that you had uploaded (e.g. Image:Map of California highlighting SFBayArea.PNG and Image:Map of California hightlighting the LA Metro Area.PNG). Are these public domain or gfdl or something else? Thanks so much,   – Quadell (talk) (help)   04:37, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)

T'ai Chi Ch'uan
Hi WhisperToMe. Thanks for the box on the T'ai Chi article, it looks nice. There is a reason that I have been making duplicate Wade-Giles and pinyin articles in the T'ai Chi Ch'uan section. Most of the literature published about T'ai Chi in English is in Wade-Giles, yet the Chinese govt. pinyin is slowly becoming standard. So, you have an entire generation of traditionalists used to seeing it one way, and other groups equally committed to another. As well, loads of Chinese names and terms can look confusing enough to those not used to them, and all the duplications in parentheses may look even more inelegant and confusing to some. The Plurality subsection of Wikipedia is not paper covers just such exigencies and I haven't been having a problem maintaining the small number of pages so doubled. I hope this helps. Cheers, Fire Star 12:49, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Greetings again WhisperToMe. You are correct that pinyin is a new standard for articles concerning Chinese culture and I feel it is a necessary component. T'ai Chi is now a Western phenomenon as well, however, and a significant amount of Western scholarly literature on the subject (and other related subjects, Robert G. Henricks for example) is still being published in W-G. Look up the authors Jou Tsung-hwa, Robert Smith and Douglas Wile for prolific examples of T'ai Chi authors using W-G. So, the main reason that I want to keep two articles for the main styles is a concern for what first time visitors looking for info are going to search for. As this is a syndrome unique to T'ai Chi Ch'uan as far as I can see, we'll maybe end up with ten relatively small duplicated articles and one big one. I am a professional in the field with hundreds of students, and my opinions are informed by questions I routinely get from them and the general public. "When in doubt, use pinyin" but I am not in doubt. Anyway, please know that I'm not married to duplicate articles, I think it is nice to have someone else take an interest for a change and I will continue to consider the subject further. Cheers, Fire Star 14:35, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi WhisperTo Me. The largest selling periodical in the English language on T'ai Chi, "T'ai Chi Magazine" by Wayfarer Publications and most other works published using Wade-Giles leave the apostrophes in. As well, most T'ai Chi schools using W-G leave the apostrophes in. I think that if we use pinyin, we should use pinyin, if we use W-G we should use W-G. I agree, however, there probably should be a compromise between those who can use romanizations correctly to represent Chinese and those who don't care. I'd like to propose basic pinyin without tone marks and W-G without diacritical marks and supernumerals but with apostrophes for the main body of our articles. The tone marks, diacritical marks and supernumerals should be included on the info box (which they are), but I agree they are too cumbersome for the regular text. The apostrophes, however, are included in the vast majority of English publications in my experience. How does that sound to you? Fire Star 20:34, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Rudolf Hess
It's Hess in English, not HeB (I know that's an ex-tzet, but that's not how a typical English speaker will think of it. RickK 05:33, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Subway/Underground
I think in a New York City article a reference to "subway" doesn't need an aside about the British English being "underground" to preserve the international character of the encyclopaedia (in American English, encyclopedia), as it breaks the flow and draws attention to itself. I think in a London article a reference to "underground" doesn't need an aside about the American English being "subway"... You get my drift. The anonymous editor was right in this instance. I have not reverted the edit. Wetman 23:51, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Yu gi oh gx
These are name of Yuki Judai and Tenjyoin Asuka in Kanji. Kzhr 06:12, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * &#36938;&#22478;&#32;&#21313;&#20195;
 * &#22825;&#19978;&#38498;&#32;&#26126;&#26085;&#39321;

Hamburg cell
Good evening. Question for Mr. ToMe on Talk:Hamburg cell. – Quadell (talk) (help)  01:28, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)

Kamen Rider
"Kuuga" is the official spelling. It is used in all literature and media, so please don't change it. Thanks!

Hasamij 06:19, 2004 Oct 18 (UTC)

NAMBLA
As I saw that you edited Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal I would like to invite you to help with conflicts in the article about the "North American Man/Boy love organization" as well. Get-back-world-respect 20:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Priscilla Davis, T. Cullen Davis, Stan Farr, Andrea Wilborn
This was posted to WP:LO a while ago; since you are the creator of these pages, I'm passing it on to you.

Priscilla Davis, T. Cullen Davis, Stan Farr, Andrea Wilborn -- I found their links at August 2, but I ain't sure if their murder story from 1976 should be in an encyclopedia like Wikipedia. Is this a landmark trial or something like that ? What is the significance ?????? -- PFHLai

Do with it what you will. JesseW 23:29, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

InuYasha Character Names
Why did you add character names to the parenthesis at the beginning of the Shinidamach&#363;, T&#333;t&#333;sai, Sessh&#333;maru, and Kiky&#333; articles? It seems a bit redundant to me. [[User:JoshG|Josh | Talk]] 00:09, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * That makes sense, I suppose, at least for the characters who have surnames. I'm not so sure about removing the macrons, though. [[User:JoshG|Josh | Talk]] 00:48, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

Aeroflot
Please see Talk:Aeroflot. -Joseph (Talk) 02:48, 2004 Oct 22 (UTC)
 * It's definitely on that Talk: page. I just checked to make sure. There are lots of codeshares listed there. What's this "I think we" business? -Joseph (Talk) 02:52, 2004 Oct 22 (UTC)

Edit summary
Please provide an edit summary. Thanks! Hyacinth 23:55, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * According to Edit summary: "Always fill the summary field is one of Wikipedia's guidelines. Even a short summary is better than no summary. Accurate summaries help people decide whether it is worthwhile for them to check a change. Summaries often pique the interest of Wikipedians with an expertise in the area. This may not be as necessary for "minor changes", but (e.g.) "fixed spelling" would be nice even then."
 * So depending on your interpretation of "guideline" all or none. I try to provide an edit summary for all edits, but no one is perfect. Happy edits. Hyacinth 08:33, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Manga Picture Straightening
As you requested, I cropped and straightened the Ranma &frac12; and Yu-Gi-Oh manga covers. [[User:JoshG|Josh | Talk]] 01:42, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

MegaMan
Hey Whisp. I got your message and replied on my talk page, but I figured I'd say the same here: I was aware of that distinction, and tried my best to avoid adding the space in references to Battle Network, but apologize if I did. - Vague Rant 06:41, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)

Atlanta skyline
When you uploaded Image:AtlantaSkyline.jpg, you said "Skyline of Atlanta, from German Wikipedia". Do you happen to know the link, or the name of the pic in the German wiki? I'm trying to tag images. Thanks,   – Quadell (talk) (help)   15:29, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

An impressive body of work


Just wanted to say "thank you" on behalf of the Wikipedia community. ClockworkTroll 18:46, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I just deleted a page you created
I deleted Hick.org/goat/. Why did you create this? Please don't do it again. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:21, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * OK, still a bit confused, but I'm willing to accept that I'm missing something. Incidently, I've blocked Ziegenpeter from editing for 48 hours. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:29, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The ? symbol
Whoops, sorry about that. &mdash;tregoweth 00:12, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Pan Am Flight 103
Whisper, regarding the article on Pan Am Flight 103, you wrote that it was the worst act of terrorism against the United States "by its own citizens" before September 11. Did you mean to write this? Slim 05:01, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your response, Whisper. When I first saw it, I thought it was vandalism. Regarding the word "terrorism" being regarded by Wikipedia as POV, can you direct me to where it says that? I can't think of anything more worthy of the label "terrorism" than blowing 259 people out of the sky for no known reason, with no claim of responsibility. Slim 05:13, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

Barnstar
Posted on User_talk:ClockworkTroll

Thanks for the Barnstar :) WhisperToMe 05:19, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * You've earned it. :) -- ClockworkTroll 05:22, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to... using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). 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. So far over 90% of people who have responded have done this.
 * 1) ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
 * 2) ...all articles...


 * Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff.  So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the   template (or    for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for 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 at my talk page what you think. It's important to know, even if you choose to do anything so I don't keep asking. -- Ram-Man 16:30, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for agreeing to multi-license. Due to the range of licensing choices available though, I need you to explicitly place the appropriate template (see above) on your user page or a page such as User:WhisperToMe/Copyrights.  Then we will have your clear and explicit permission and can put this topic to rest. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 05:46, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)


 * Your comment on the copyrights page is helpful. It might be nice if you made a note stating:
 * User:Ram-Man has permission to multi-license using the following:
 * That would be a bit more clear. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 13:53, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * That would be a bit more clear. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 13:53, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Jewel of Four Souls references
I have noticed that you have been adding references to alternate names for the Jewel of Four Souls to some InuYasha articles. While it is fine to mention the names in the article that is about the jewel, referring to it as "Jewel of Four Souls (Shikon no Tama) a.k.a. the Shikon Jewel" on other pages seems a bit unwieldy to me. In any case, including alternate references on other pages should not be necessary, because "Jewel of Four Souls" is a well-known name. If someone does not know it, the reader can simply check the Jewel of Four Souls article. Josh 03:43, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Anime and Manga
You may be interested in joining WikiProject Anime and Manga. -Pyrop 00:13, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

Hello

 * Whisper, using the name table does not neccesarily means that it is for Korean. It can be used for any races as well, as I did not indicate anything that it is Korean. User:Chan Han Xiang

I agree, but having a name table would be even neater, and tells the names, now you removed it, how are the Wikipedians going to know their Kana names? If you add in within a sentence instead, it would be messier.

All right. Explain to me WHY YOU DO NOT LIKE MY IDEA. LETS ELABORATE THE POINTS SLOWLY. User:Chan Han Xiang I give you twenty minutes to explain starting from now, and give me good reasons why, otherwise I will show anymore hospitality towards you.

You are also attacking me. I follow the pattern based on Korean. You said: ''Now then, there's no need to post kana because Japanese speakers know it already, and it is irrelevant to English speakers. Without the kana, there's no point in putting kanji in a table.''

Likewise, then why there is the Hangul and Hanja in the Korean name tables? Likewise, Korean speakers know Hanja already, and therefore Hanja is irrelavent to Hangul as Hangul is known as the standard script of Koreans. Without the Hangul, there's no point putting Hanja in the Table.

Okay. Now I see, the Koizumi table Not removed, and come back to the point. Do you agree with the table of names? Please Reply. Thanks. User:Chan Han Xiang

Look here. Here's a point. You said, people with only Japanese name should not have a Table of Names. Then why all Korean personalities in Wikipedia have a Table of Names? Please post my question to Manual of Style (Japan-related articles) Anyway, I will be off in a week.

Thanks.

Your reply, I think I better consider your question during my one week leave. Meanwhile, Please post my question to Manual of Style (Japan-related articles). Reply to me once they have reched a consencus. Thanks.

Yamato Ishida
Thank you, WhisperToMe, for cleaning up Yamato Ishida. I didn't know the difference between Digimons and Pokemons till today ..... -- PFHLai 23:12, 2004 Dec 8 (UTC)

Unverified images
Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:


 * Image:Inuyashacharactersrelationshipguide.PNG

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License,  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 22:05, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Unverified images
Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:


 * Image:Detroit_Landsat.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License,  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 05:57, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Unregistered Users
Can you vote in the second idea?

Second Idea

I know there is no hope of convincing these people there either, but at least I hope there is more than just my one vote in support column :)) OneGuy 19:44, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

nice touch...
... on "antibiotic". i continued in the same vein, sanding down some other spots which i imagine you noticed but reluctantly let slide. interestingly, when i was your age, i wrote the in the same over-embellished style that we two have just been editing away. you are a precocious writer.Sfahey 16:14, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

dog care
I don't particularly object to your transwikiing How to choose your pet and take care of it, but I am curious when you're planning on fixing all of its links to correctly point back into wikipedia? Thanks. Elf | Talk 00:01, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Actually I was hoping they'd simply be fixed, not removed.  Good luck on your finals. Ack indeed! Elf | Talk 00:08, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Bigley
Hi Whisper, thanks for your note. I couldn't find any recent discussion about this on the Nick Berg page. Can you direct me to it with an approximate date or the heading? Many thanks, Slim 04:18, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the link. I'm afraid I don't agree that this was much of a consensus. I'm going to remove the link again, and we can start a discussion about it on that Talk page if you like. I'll also try to find out whether there's a Wikipedia policy on this, as I assume there must be against publishing snuff movies and pornography. Slim 04:22, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)


 * Editors on one page are not bound by what editors on another page choose to do. In any event, I don't agree that you had reached consensus on this at Nick Berg. I saw lots of dissenters. The very last comment was "What consensus?" As I said, I'm going to make enquiries to find out what Wikipedia policy is on publishing snuff movies and pornography. I will report back on the Bigley Talk page. Slim 04:28, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)


 * All editors have the right to edit Wikipedia so long as they stick to its policies. A discussion on one page does not exercise control over what happens on any other page. As you say, these videos are primary source material, not normally allowed in Wikipedia under the "no original research" ruling. We are, as you say, an encylopedia, which means a tertiary source. We provide published analysis and comment, no more. You would not find a link to these videos, or even a description of them, in the Encylopedia Britannica. Anyway, I have placed a query on the mailing list, and I will report back on the Bigley Talk page when I get a response. Slim 04:40, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)


 * If you want to debate this, could you do so on the Bigley Talk page, please, not on my Talk page. Many thanks, Slim 04:45, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

NewYork-sat.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:NewYork-sat.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Right now, I'll put it as unverified, but change it to what it's supposed to be when you get a chance. Thanks, Mattingly23 15:48, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Peach Girl
Great! The line "most people believe she is a whore" struck me (and, I imagine, the person who marked it for deletion) as pretty questionable (as is, of course, the attitude toward darker complexions that some ethnic groups seem prone to.) Your re-write of it, however, is properly encyclopedic: good job! --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 21:58, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Charactor of Warashibe
&#31461;&#37096; is.

RE: Fixing links part 2
Cool--but all the links in How to choose your pet and take care of it still need to point back into Wikipedia. Next on your list? :-) Elf | Talk 18:35, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Character in Yu-Gi-Oh!
Hi WhisperToMe:) I just notice something strange - why do you use Japanese names for article names of Yu-Gi-Oh! characters like Yugi Mutou, Katsuya Jonouchi, Anzu Mazaki, etc., but English anime names for others (e.g. Marik Ishtar, Ishizu Ishtar, Maximillion Pegasus)? (Isn't it better to use only one type of names......?) But anyway, please let me know your thoughts.

By the way, where do you think should I put the recently-added Yu-Gi-Oh! character profiles at? It seems that you prefer putting them at the bottom of the articles (am I right?), but in my opinion, putting a profile away from the top of an article is kind of weird......I prefer putting them somewhere at/near the top right-hand corners of the articles, but I also think character screenshots should be put there. What is your opinion? Please let me know.

Although a little too early, I wish you merry Christmas (Eve) and a happy New Year:)

Riddle | Talk 21:58, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. All profiles are in their own sections now.

Riddle | Talk 21:58, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, I don't have any profile of Miho. In fact, the profiles I recently added are from a Japanese book called ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Character Guide Book - The Gospel of Truth'' (&#36938;&#25135;&#29579;&#12461;&#12515;&#12521;&#12463;&#12479;&#12540;&#12474;&#12460;&#12452;&#12489;&#12502;&#12483;&#12463;&#8213;&#30495;&#29702;&#12398;&#31119;&#38899;&#8213;). The information in it is based on the manga of Yu-Gi-Oh!. And for Miho, the book only includes a short description, no profile is provided.

Riddle | Talk 03:32, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ryuji Otogi's profile:

Riddle | Talk 13:32, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

All character profiles in ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Character Guide Book - The Gospel of Truth'' are on wikipedia now. Riddle | Talk 13:51, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wade-Giles redirect links
I'm curious why you are creating Wade-Giles redirects for Zhang Yimou and others. Even Taiwan no longer uses Wade-Giles romanization, so most of these redirects will never be used. --- Curps 01:48, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't see your comment...
And also, I've stated my case with facts. Quite frankly, you editing the article based on simply an opinion is not acceptable. If you can find some facts to support your opinion, feel free to post them on India's talk page, but simply changing an edit based on your feelingings is NPOV, and could be constued as vandalism. I'll hold off reverting your edit to see if you can produce said facts.

Edit: I see your comment now.  GregNorc  ( talk )

Edit: Since you have not provided any facts to support your case, I'll be reverting your edit. If you continue to vandalize the page, I'll be forced to report you.  GregNorc  ( talk )

So we cannot post anything except the data on a country?

Whatever. Continue and I will report you, I'm reverting your vandalism.

I've reported you for vandalism.
Articles on wikipedia consist of more than bare facts. If this was not the case, no text would be present, just the data table on the side of the page. I suggest you stop immediately, I am reverting India for the last time.  GregNorc  ( talk )

I'm standing down...
Ground also agrees with you, so I won't revert the article again, since it appears my view is in the minority.

Image tag
Thanks for uploading Image:Moscow landsat.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Aqua 04:14, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

Reverting "naïve set theory" to "naive set theory" throughout
Hello. I'm reverting "naïve set theory" to "naive set theory" where you changed it recently. It appears you have searched for "naive" and have changed many instances to "naïve", apparently without considering the context in any way; for example, the title of the book by Halmos appears on the cover as "Naive Set Theory" -- this is not something you can change by fiat. I don't understand what is the point of this project, but outside of mathematics I don't really care. However, if you wish to change "naive set theory" to "naïve set theory" you'll need to take it up on talk:naive set theory where this has come up before. Please respond to my comments dated 2004/08/06 if you wish to pursue this course. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:16, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * I've also moved naïve Bayesian classification to naive Bayes classifier and I'm reverting naïve/naive changes you made related to that article. See talk:naive Bayes classifier for the reasoning for the page move. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:24, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * To respond to your messages on my talk page: (1) Re: standard English. I can't find any dictionaries or other sources which state that the correct spelling is "naïve". Every source I have found shows "naive" as the primary spelling, and shows "naïve" as an acceptable variation of "naive". It is clear that both spellings are acceptable. Naïve/naive isn't mentioned at Manual of Style or American and British English differences. If you have some other sources I'd like to hear about it. (2) Agreed that the Google test only shows what's more common. However, since both spellings are acceptable and "naive" is more common, and much more common in a mathematics context, a crusade to change "naive" to "naïve" seems pointless at best. (3) Incidentally the two dots are a diaeresis, not an umlaut. The diaeresis shows (in French) that the i is pronounced as a separate syllable from the a. Umlaut is something else. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:17, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * I have reverted a lot (maybe most) of the naïve/naive changes in mathematics articles. If you wish to reinstate them, please discuss the changes at talk:naive set theory and/or talk:naive Bayes classifier first. Thanks. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:59, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * I hope that you will consider the effects of your actions before engaging again in shotgun edits. You may wish to consider that the widespread occurrence of something that seems wrong to you, perpetrated by many otherwise knowledgeable editors, may indicate the problem is elsewhere. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:08, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Blocks are not expiring
I'm posting this message on every admin who has made a block in the last few days. The title says it all really: because of a bug in the new software blocks are not expiring when their time is up. Until this is fixed can you get in the habit of manually unblocking a few everytime you block one. If everyone does this we'll be able to keep on top of things until the bug is sorted out. Note also that another bug is displaying indefinite blocks as expiring at the current time and date. obviously you don't want to unblock those. If you want to reply please do so here Theresa Knott  (The snott rake) 09:40, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Quebec television series
The established consensus among Canadian posters -- by definition, the people who best know how to appropriately organize Canadian-related topics -- until now has been that Quebec and English Canadian topics should have separate articles. Most Quebec topics (eg. List of Quebec authors, List of Quebec musicians) are still separate, and unless you plan to go merging those, too, Quebec television series should not be treated any differently than those other topics. If you disagree with the consensus, there are avenues to express your concerns besides enforcing your individual preference over an already-established group consensus. For example, there's Requests for comment. An RFC has been posted there; in the meantime, your most recent changes will be reverted and will stay reverted until the RFC process has been completed. Bearcat 03:35, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ken Bigley
So far as I'm concerned, you can do whatever you like! All that concerned me is that we should handle it sensitively. Sounds like you plan to, so go for it.Dr Zen 01:17, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Japanese names
I'm wondering why you put the Latinized Japanese names of characters on Super Smash Bros. Melee? This is an English encyclopedia, you know.  Andre  ( talk ) 20:55, Jan 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, I suppose.  Andre  ( talk ) 21:09, Jan 1, 2005 (UTC)

list of the men responsible for the Tokyo Subway disaster &#31070;&#20316;(Kamisaku) &#35698;(Jo)
 * Toru Toyoda:&#35914;&#30000;&#20136;
 * Kenichi Hirose:&#24195;&#28716;&#20581;&#19968;
 * Ikuo Hayashi:&#26519;&#37057;&#22827;.
 * Masato Yokoyama:&#27178;&#23665;&#30495;&#20154;
 * Yoshihiro Inoue:&#20117;&#19978;&#22025;&#28009;
 * Shigeo Sugimoto:&#26441;&#26412;&#32321;&#37070;

In the 'popular manga' section of the manga article, I think it would be best to use the title by which the manga is most popularly known. For instance, Boys Over Flowers is, I believe, more commonly known as Hana Yori Dango at this point. I don't see why the English-equivalent name should always be used if the romanji name is better-known. --Xaliqen 18:21, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Mega Man series
Note: discussion moved to User talk:Boco XLVII

Shaman King response
My deletion of information was accidential. --Crooow 12:41, 18 Feb 2005

Yu-Gi-Oh!
Thanks for updating that "Forbidden Memories" thing. It was so kiddie-cruftish that I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Later! - Lucky 6.9 20:35, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The manga is being published in Spain by Planeta DeAgostini, although I don't know if it's also published in other Spanish-speaking countries. Here is a web. Sabbut 07:40, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Tessaiga
I have posted a request to revisit this topic at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related_articles). Thanks. LG-&#29356;&#22812;&#21449; 07:52, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

Macrons in the Spanish Wikipedia
I thought I had answered a few days ago in your talk page in the Spanish Wikipedia, but it seems like my edit was never saved. As you can see in my Spanish user page, I'm no expert on Japanese, but as far as I know circumflexes are often used in Spanish as a substitute for macrons for Japanese names (as there are circumflexes but not macrons in the Spanish keyboard), although the usage may be more common in technical geeky stuff (as in manga and videogames)than in other contexts. I also chose to use macrons because of consistency with the article on Hepburn romanization. Other Wikipedias also use macrons for long vowels in Japanese, like the German Wikipedia and (sometimes) the French Wikipedia. Also, other special characters which are not in the Spanish keyboard appear in the names of a few articles, like the Polish &#321; in z&#322;oty or the Czech &#344; in Antonín Dvo&#345;ák. Sabbut 15:08, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I translated your userpage
I saw that you had a stub of an article on the French wikipedia for your userpage, so I translated your English page into French and posted it there. Why did you have one in the first place? The reason I did it was to reward such a prolific contributer -- people like you help make Wikipedia great! Keep up the good work! :) Zantastik 06:16, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

HTML code for "sup"2
If you just use the character &sup2; directly, anyone editing the article from a Mac will inadvertently change it to a regular 2, since the character isn't in the Mac character set. The &amp;sup2; entity should be used instead to prevent this. Goplat 00:08, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I know it happens on classic Macs, not sure about OS X, but it's still a significant problem - I've seen this on quite a few articles. A lot of people use old OS's, I myself still use Windows 98. Goplat 00:34, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Browsers that truncate textareas to 32K are rare nowadays. Superscript 2 getting changed to a regular 2 is still common, Ahoerstemeier has fixed about 80 occurences of this in the last week. Goplat 03:31, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Kana
I see, I realised that you removed the Kana version of Kuan Yin. But in the Thousand Character Classic, the Kana version is accepted. Can you provide a good and friendly explanation on your removal act? Thanks.

But Kuan Yin is different: all scripts are shown. Put it up then, like Thousand Character Classic. Otherwise, I think it is better to remove the Kana there as well. What do you think? Can you comprehend what I'm trying to decribe?

Then how about those in the Thousand Character Classic? I know that Kana is not often used in people's name, but this is a different case.

What's your decision -- reinstate the Kana only in Kuan Yin, based on the Thousand Character Classictable, or remove everything?

Kuan Yin is also listed as Kana -- use the yahoo or google search and count the hits, just like the Thousand Character Classic. Do you want to put it up again, or leave it like this? I do not refer to Japanese personalities.

Mr Tan 11:16, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Statue of Liberty
I am removing it because it is a horribly ugly image, and because the article as it stands is way, way, way too long and there needs to me content removed. I think the image of the statue of liberty in the harbour is a much better image, as it covers its location in New York harbour, as well as the Statue of Liberty itself. I think such a detailed image works better on the Statue of Liberty article, and the other image also does not fit very well in any location in the article. That's why I'm removing it. Páll 03:44, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Tokyo

 * Thanks for telling me. However, many Towns and cities show a map, many show a map and some kind of symbol. The Tokyo Tower is not the official seal or sign or symbol of Tokyo, so if something should be there it's the map. Maybe both, the map and the Tower, could be included, see e.g. New York. ben 16:17, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)


 * I think your intuition is right and I trust your judgement there as you are one of the main contributors to the Tokyo article. The only thing I don't like is that the map is out of sight completely and hidden between all those other pictures. Would be nice to have it stick out more prominently. ben 16:32, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)


 * Why did you upload it? Didn't you see my change history at the pictures, the big and the small? Read it. The big one loads very slowly, so I put a downsized picture in the article and put a link to the bigger one. ben 16:56, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Are you still there? ben 18:39, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * I explained everything here and on the talk page of the picture. Again: the big picture took a very long time to be displayed, even longer than a minute. With software-reduced resolution like image:..|npx it doesn't become faster most probably slower because of the computation for downsizing. That's why I uploaded a smaller pic and linked it to the bigger one, just as I explained before. Ok? Now... If you think that the big picture is fast enough, then it's perfectly ok for me to say it's just my connection, my browser, whatever, I leave it to you. I was just hoping for some comment on that.... ok? ben 06:24, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * I have 5,5 mb/s at the moment (which is probably more than you have). Maybe wikipedia was just overloaded with queries yesterday night when i uploaded the pics. Now the loading ok and fast enough. ben 06:33, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

We should just watch that it doesn't get slow again, when wikipedia is busy (if that was the problem). The pic IS big for sure ben 06:35, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh, and you could have changed the obviously outdated caption at the picture talk page when you uploaded the big picture at the smaller ones place. I changed it now. ben 06:40, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

There has still be no official consensus or decision on the presentation of Japanese names. Why are you continuing to change the name order in articles? Exploding Boy 18:51, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Yami.sk.jpg
Greeting, Whisper. You tagged Image:Yami.sk.jpg as fair use, and noted that you didn't think it should be deleted on IFD. The trouble is, fair use can only be claimed when there is a use. (If the image were used in an article on the character, that would be a fair use; if you wrote a video game and used the artwork as one of the characters, that would not be a fair use.) Since the image is currently not used in any articles, a fair use claim doesn't really apply. Is there an article you think it should be in? – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 00:20, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * I would humbly say yes. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 00:24, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

Powerpuff anime
Hi! Thanks for the heads-up. Looks like the misspelling of the title is what threw the Google search for a loop. Best, Lucky 6.9 05:25, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Please come and vote!
Following the long discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese) regarding proper titling of ROC-/Taiwan-related topics, polls for each single case has now been started here. Please come and join the discussion, and cast your vote. Thanks. &mdash; Instantnood 06:19, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. &mdash; Instantnood 14:37, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

Tokyo image
Tokyo is a prefecture, not a city. All the other prefectures have the map at the top instead of an image. I'm actually in favor of putting an image at the top. We even discussed it and took a vote earlier this year. But few were interested and we agreed with the status quo. I put the image at the top of Shiga Prefecture, but someone put it down. So Tokyo will have to conform to the other prefectures unless there is agreement that we can have an image at the top for all prefectures. Photojpn.org 02:49, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * We discussed it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:JAWNB#Images_on_prefectures

And here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Japanese_prefectures#Vote_on_picture_placement_and_symbol.2Fmap_placement_in_infobox

You are welcome to bring up the subject again. If there is consensus for putting the image at the top for all the 47 prefectures, then fine with me. BTW, that Tokyo image, I don't like it so much. Tokyo Tower is ugly and not a beloved symbol of Tokyo. No temple can symbolize Tokyo either. The Imperial Palace would be suitable, but the one we have now does not show the entire double arches of the bridge. Photojpn.org 04:46, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Are you interested in being a Bureaucrat?
Hi, I am considering nominating you to become a Bureaucrat. The role would involve giving administrator or bureaucrat access to other users following consensus on Requests for adminship. Although there are currently 18 bureaucrats, it may be helpful to have a few more. If you would accept a nomination, please let me know. Kingturtle 04:28, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Detective Conan picture
I am just replying to let you know that I have seen your request regarding the Detective Conan manga cover image (Image:CaseClosedmanga.JPG). I would be happy to fix the picture, but I can't get to it right now. (I'm too busy studying for my final exams...) I will do it eventually, though. Josh 01:37, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * I just wanted to let you know that I finally did this. Josh 05:28, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

YuYu Hakusho
Alright, I'll keep hands off those ;) Fixing assorted refs in List of YuYu Hakusho episodes also. Sukael 23:00, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

Digimon
There have been some apparent Rv vandalism attacks on various Digimon articles lately, preferbly the articles from the Adventure series, especially the Digidestined profiles, unfortunately I don't know had to reverse it, but I can tell you it is all connected to 68.74.122.215, anyway if you can I would ask if you could look into it if you could. Sincerly - 24.20.153.45.

Airport on Collaboration of the Week
As grand poobah of WikiProject Airports, I recently listed airport on Collaboration of the Week. This article is about to fall off the page due to lack of votes, beaten by an article on ancient rome. You know what to do Burgundavia (&#9992; take a flight?) 22:45, May 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * I assume you meant to vote on airport there, so I moved your vote over. Burgundavia (&#9992; take a flight?) 04:55, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

hey man you are smart but thats more than enough. In life we learn to be smart but NOT act smart... (Anon)

Hey SMART ALEX, SO AMOY AIRLINES FLY CHANGI?WTF! AND TAIWAN AIRLINES FLY TO SINGAPORE?WTF DID YOU CREATED THOSE AIRLINES.WOW MAN YOU ARE RICH! AND YOU ARE VERY CREATIVE...STOP YOUR CRAP PLEASE...IF THOSE CODESHARE AIRLINES DOESNT FLY HERE, CHANGI WOULDN'T HAVE LISTED THOSE AIRLINES AND IF THOSE AIRLINES DON'T FLY HERE THEY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN HAVING VARIOUS AGREEMENTS WITH VARIOUS AIRLINES....SMART ALEX! (Anon)

somebody obviously has no balls to correct mistakes he obviously is creating trouble in wikipedia. (Anon)

Are you talking about the Changi Airport thing? I'm sorry but it's so true that codeshares should not be listed. WhisperToMe 20:05, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

codeshares IS RECOGNISED by changi and changi does recognise the iportance of these codeshare airlines why shldnt you...you are really a vandaliser and how do you explain the fact that TAIWAN AIRLINES and AMOY AIRLINES are in there...wtf do these airlines even exist? clearly the PERSON who changed it is some american sympathiser of TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE...what do you think?

Can you please talk in straight English?

Think of it this way. Just because American Airlines has a deal with another airline to take AA pax to Singapore does not mean that AA actually flies into Changi. For that reason, AA should be kept off of the list, because it can wrongly imply that AA actually flies into Singapore when they do not. WhisperToMe 05:59, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

WHISPERTOME I AM TALKING ABOUT THE SUPOOSEDLY EXISTENCE OF TAIWAN AIRLINES AND AMOY AIRLINES. DO THESE AIRLINES EVEN EXIST AND FLY TO CHANGI. BEFORE YOU DELETE THOSE CODESHARE AIRLINES DELETE THOSE AIRLINES THAT ARE ========FICTIONAL AND NON EXISTENCE======= DON'T YOU AGREE THAT THE CHANGE OF CHINA AIRLINES TO TAIWAN AIRLINES IS THE WORK OF SOME AMERICAN SYMPATHISER OF TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE? CAN YOU CHANGE IT BACK RIGHT NOW????

And when you say it wrongly implies that AA flies to Changi, you don't have a strong case because the very word...let me bold it for you ===CODESHARE=== is placed beside the airlines and that airlines does fly into Changi.Stop making a fool out of yourself thank you.btw carefully read what i wrote on TAIWAN AIRLINES/CHINA AIRLINES

And what if someone doesn't know what a codeshare is? If codeshares must be listed, they should be separate from the airlines that actually fly into Changi.

Since China Airlines is still China Airlines, I changed it back. WhisperToMe 17:12, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Image of 2ch on Internet forum
Hiya WhisperToMe, as you've contributed to internet forum in the past, could you please read this part of the talk page, and offer your opinions, so we can reach consensus on which image to include? Talrias (t | e | c) 09:11, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Shichinintai
Dunno. I was just updating it since they just showed that episode today on CN. -- EmperorBMA|&#35441;&#12377; 05:00, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Fruits Basket character template
Hi, Whisper, I've created a Fruits Basket character template (view it here). Before I add it to any Fruits Basket character articles, do you think some expansion or modification (e.g. - add "Minor Characters" or "Sohma Family" section) could do it some good? Thanks in advance for your input! Sango 123  17:12, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)

Yoju Toshi -> Wicked City
Hi,

Why the need to renamed the page Wicked City? Why does one version of the English translation be prefered over another? I figured it was less POV to leave it as Yoju Toshi and less culturally bias. - UnlimitedAccess 13:17, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Map coverage for the Houston Metropolitan Area
I was wondering if you could help replace the image for the area coverage of the Houston Metropolitan Area. I do not know how to do it nor do I know where to get the image. As of 2003, the metropolitan area covers 10 counties instead of the map showing only eight counties. Any help is appreciated!

The two new counties included as of 2003 are Austin County and San Jacinto County.

http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/metro-city/List1.txt

UH Collegian 08:37, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * The ten (10) counties included in the metro area as of 2003 by the U.S. Census for the Houston&mdash;Sugar Land&mdash;Baytown, TX MSA are:
 * Austin County (new)
 * Brazoria County
 * Chambers County
 * Fort Bend County
 * Galveston County
 * Harris County
 * Liberty County
 * Montgomery County
 * San Jacinto County (new)
 * Waller County

June from Saint Seiya
Hello. I noticed you edited the Saint Seiya article and added an accent to June (one of the Bronze Saints), making it "Juné". I was just curious. Where does that come from? Because I've never seen anything like that. Perhaps it's something from the American Shonen Jump, but I wouldn't know. I also don't know about the Jabu/Jab thing. Could be true as well.--Kaonashi 17:47, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ah. Well, alright. If you saw it there, it's probably better to use it, I guess. Thanks for clearing it up. See you.--Kaonashi 02:34, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary
Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 3 July 2005 08:50 (UTC)

Regarding Southwest Airlines in Houston

 * According to southwest.com, you can still book flights out of IAH. Also, according to the airport's site, Southwest still flys in and out of IAH.  Unless this has changed in the last few days and neither entity has updated its website, you are incorrect.  --Myles Long 16:47, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * That link isn't on southwest.com, so it's really irrelevant to your point. However, I see that you're correct when I try to go to "reservations" rather than "schedule" on southwest.com (schedule shows IAH as well as Hobby, whereas reservations shows only IAH). --Myles Long 16:53, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * By the way, I see from your user page that you're a "computer whiz." What exactly do you mean by that? --Myles Long 16:54, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm well aware of the term. I was just wondering what you meant by it, specifically.  --Myles Long 17:00, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

UMBC location change
Please explain your rationale for changing the location on the UMBC discussion page. Otherwise people will continue to revert on you. - Gauge 22:31, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Aloha! You've made some good edits here, but can you start filling in the summary field? I watch a lot of pages, and it would be quite helpful. Jolomo 23:39, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

New User Category
I have created a couple of new user categories modeled after UK Wikipedians. One of them is for our generation, born in the 1980s or 1990s. Please consider listing yourself under Category:Millennial Wikipedians Thanks. -JCarriker 18:48, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Houston article
Recently, there was a major edit to the Houston, Texas article and some of the materials are no longer there as I reviewed the edit history. This major edit was not done by me though and as a result of missing materials, some of the images are now breaking the section lines. Just thought I would let you know since you have contributed a lot to that article and what you wrote might be missing now. All of Midtown and a paragraph on the two Chinatowns of Houston under the "Downtown" section were completely removed. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Houston%2C_Texas&diff=18764837&oldid=18762521 UH Collegian 21:41, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Fucking Åmål
Hey there. I disagree with the move you have made of Fucking Åmål to "Show Me Love". The North American title should redirect to the original title of the movie, and not the other way around. The Wikipedia does not assume that the USA is the center of the world, gladly. That is why I am reverting your move. --Sn0wflake 04:41, 24 July 2005 (UTC)


 * That would depend on whether the film is known mainly by its original name by people in the English-speaking world, the majority of users of this encyclopedia. I personally would prefer your way, but Wikipedia convention is to use the English names (The Hidden Fortress, Spirited Away, etc.).elvenscout742 17:24, 24 July 2005 (UTC)


 * As far as I am aware, the Wikipedia has no rules, and is based solely on consensus. In this case, out of all the people who have expressed an opinion on the matter, only one has stated that "Show Me Love" is the ideal title. I think movies such as Spirited Away are a bad example because they have made it to the mainstream, which is not the case for Fucking Åmål. Anyway, in case you both feel too strongly about having the title as "Show Me Love" and are not disposed to accept the original title, we probably should try a mediation proccess of some sort right off the bat, as this is the sort of thing which generally causes a lot of pointless discussion to happen and generates heated debate which benefits nobody. If you are, however, willing to live with the title as it is, you are of course entitled to express your opinion on the Talk page. --Sn0wflake 18:56, 24 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, I don't rightly care, as I haven't even seen the film. I just came across your post and decided to respond with my opinion on how it should be. I've barely even heard of the film, so I'm not sure which title is prominent. Maybe ye should have a vote or something.elvenscout742 16:24, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Universities again on Houston, Texas
I have brought up a point of disagreement between UH Collegian and myself on the talk page. I have made an appeal to him to change his mind and he may, but if not I'd value your opinion on the subject, whether you agree with my stance or not, to help establish a consensus. Thanks in advance. &middot; Katefan0(scribble) 14:58, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Suki
Can you do me a favor and watch the Suki site for me and revert the New-World-Religion guy? Everyone currently dealing with it will be away from their computers until Tuesday. You may also be interested in helping user:rspeer with a request for arbitration on the subject. Cmouse 11:47, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Actually, SUKI (tm) is a major international religion with over 500k members worldwide, primarily in Asia. The New World Religion (tm) is not something to be reverted, as reversion is considered a form of blasphemy towards the religion. Your comments in your User talk: page are very ignorant and show that you have little interest in getting at the truth concerning SUKI (tm), The New World Religion (tm), major international religion. Adding value to Wikipedia, as a Wikipedian, means having an open mind and enough intellectual and emotional maturity to accept that there are different religions in different places in the world.

Do NOT vandalize my talk page again. Your threats are unnacceptable, as are your reverts. If you wish to have an intellectual discussion about the existence of SUKI (tm), The New World Religion (tm), major international religion, the place to do it is in Talk:Suki. Calling a major world religion 'long term abuse' merely is a prima facie admission that you have no respect for religions other than your own.

64.110.251.69 12:38, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Yu Gi Oh anime
Sounds fair to me. I'm just trying to reduce the amount of stuff that's in the root directory, thus making it impossible to navigate.--Mitsukai 16:30, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Texas template
I appologize ahead for clogging up your talk page with this.

Recently, User:Ed g2s keeps on changing the Texas template to a plain version and won't explain why. I need you guys to support me to keep the Texas template that has been active.

This is the Texas template that has been active, before that user erased it, see below:

This is the template that User:Ed g2s (that he made) and has been reverting to, see below:

I want you guys to have some input and decide which one is best for Texas. Like I said, I support the colorful template, but Ed g2s has been reverting it without explaination and has threatened to block me if I revert again to the colorful one. I think the colorful one is more aesthetic looking. Ed g2s doesn't seem to think so and keeps on erasing it to a plain version. Also, he's not even from Texas, he's from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Let's have a vote on this on Template talk:Texas. Thank you for everyone's time. – UH Collegian 19:34, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Yu-Gi-OH GX names corrections
Stop changing the names on the Yu-Gi-OH Directory Template

Protagonists: Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto) | Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi) | Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler) | Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor) | Anzu Mazaki (Téa Gardner) | Ryo Bakura | Miho Nosaka (Melody)

Antagonists: Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura) | Pegasus J. Crawford (Maximillion Pegasus) | Marik Ishtar | Dark Marik (Yami Marik) | Noah Kaiba | Dartz | Rafael | Valon | Amelda (Alister)

Other Characters: Seto Kaiba | Mokuba Kaiba | Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Moto) | Shadi | Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine) | Shizuka Kawai (Shizuka Jonouchi, Serenity Wheeler) | Ishizu Ishtar | Ryuji Otogi

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Protagonists: Judai Yuki (Jaden Yuki) | Asuka Tenjouin (Alexis Rhodes) | Sho Marufuji (Syrus Truesdale) |  Maeda Hayato (Chumley Huffington)

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Antagonists: Jun Manjoume (Chazz Princeton) | Cronos de Medici (Vellian Crowler)

Other Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Characters: Ryo Marufuji (Zane Truesdale) | Daichi Misawa (Bastion Misawa)

See all of the Japanese names are in brackets and the English Dub name is in .......

Image for Speedy Deletion
Hi. Are you aware that this image you uploaded has been listed for speedy deletion as a redundant image (which it is)? Would you like to oppose the request for deletion? Regards, Redux 03:42, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * There's a redundant image on the servers already (that's why it was listed for deletion in the first place), so maybe there's no need to do anything about it. If you feel that the image was useful, you could re-upload it, with an explanation of utility/importance (so it won't get deleted again).  Regards, Redux 17:50, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

About Rishid... again
Eh..? Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist volume 10 hasn't even been released yet. They've only recently released volume 8. Unless you were talking about volume 8, in which case I'll be getting it in the mail tomorrow to see if that's true or not. Geg 21:52, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * (after reading what you said on my talk page) Hmmm... all right. I'll check it out when I get it tomorrow. Seriously hoping it's not true though. I understand Marik instead of Malik and completely agree with Ishizu instead of Isis, but keeping the name Odion instead of his drastically different Japanese name would just be awful. Geg 00:35, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I got it today, and there's absolutely no mention of Rishid's name in the preview or anything else. So I'll be changing them all back until it really appears somewhere. Also, Viz's official take on Cynthia/Cyndia Crawford is Cyndia, so I'll go ahead and change all the Cynthias I find to Cyndia. Geg 22:34, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

re: Kutchan
Hi - you left me a note about Kutchan vs. Kucchan. It took me a while to figure out what you were talking about (I presume this edit). I don't exactly remember, but I suspect we had articles under both names and I must have picked "Kucchan" based on the text in the article. I'm not a Japanese linguist (don't speak or read Japanese) and am relatively clueless about the different romanization styles, so thanks for picking up on this and moving it to the right place. I've been adding quite a few stubs (perhaps 3-4 dozen by now) for towns and cities created by recent mergers, so it's possible I've made similar mistakes on these article names as well. I've generally used romanizations matching the town or city website name, or have asked at WP:JAWNB. If you have the inclination, it might be useful to review the articles about towns/cities created by merger. They should be listed in a "mergers" section in each prefecture article. I've been working my way through the prefectures, updating the list of cities/towns/villages based on merger activity (and making sure they link to the right ja: article, and adding a link to the official website for each town/village). I'm currently up to Ishikawa. In any event, thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:07, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Zima/Jima
It all depends on whether you're using the manga or the anime as your reference. In the anime he is known as Jima. More people have probably seen the anime than read the manga, and most people who have seen both probably saw the anime first. I think Jima is a better choice.PiccoloNamek 01:07, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

Yu-Gi-Oh!
As you may know, I am also a regular contributer to the Yu-Gi-Oh! secftion, and I have noticed you oft, of late, remarking about English names being necessary in your page edits. I was wondering where this is actually written. (As there may be other things in a similar place worth knowing.

Yugi's last name
In the most recently aired dub episode of Yu-Gi-Oh!, the official dub last name of Yugi -- Muto -- was revealed. When Yugi's grandpa is introduced for the KC Grand Championship, he is revealed as "Apdnarg Otum", which is "Grandpa Muto" backwards. I'm almost positive that's what the spelling is; the closed captioning spelled it Apdnarg Otum, and they're usually very accurate. So I'm gonna go ahead and find any Motos I can and change them to Muto. Geg 17:48, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

*blink*
I don't really know why I'm asking you this, for some reason, the Japanese characters don't work for me on Wikipedia anymore. They work on all the other sites I go to, but they just appear as those little boxes on Wikipedia. Do you have the same problem here, or is it just my computer? Geg 19:20, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Never mind, it works now. But it definitely wasn't working for me here yesterday. Geg 14:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikiproject
Myself and SWD316 are considering creating a Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikiproject, and I was wondering whether you would be interested in joining. -- Setokaiba 19:57, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

I created the Wikiproject if your ready to join! S W D 3 1 6  talk to me  22:50, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

briar
Hi, you asked a question about "briar" on ja-IRC. Isn't it "Sweet briar"? "Sweet briar" is "スィート・ブライヤー" in Japanese tracing the sounds of the English words. See also this page.--Miya 07:11, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Science pearls
Hello,

Since you contributed in the past to the publications’ lists, I thought that you might be interested in this new project. I’ll be glad if you will continue contributing. Thanks,APH 11:10, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Meaningless message on my talk page
There is a message apparently from you on my talk page, but it's meaningless - there is no reference at all to what page you're referring to. If you want to talk about a page on Wikipedia that I edited, please add to that page's talk, not mine - I don't know what you're referring to, and I'd rather you didn't use my talk page unless you have something to say to me personally. --DannyWilde 00:59, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, you were talking about the newspapers page. Why not just use the talk page for "Hepburn"? Anyway your edit has clarified things, so it's OK. --DannyWilde 01:02, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Dr. Slump
Hello, got your message - "English translation wins" is a nifty way of putting it, but I guess for some of us who enjoyed the Japanese version, it is a bit painful to read Viz's translations (Viz always had that - something in its translations of everything. Something old, perhaps). One thing, though, that I don't know - sometimes the TV vs. comic versions are translated differently, but there isn't a TV version in English yet, right? Or is there?

Edededed 05:31, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

One Piece Infobox
About that, the only reason I was deleting the intro was because it was moved into the infobox itself. It seemed to be overkill to have it in two places at once. However, it isn't that big a deal, so whatever way is fine. Turk Ranma 17:21, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Regarding I"s
No, we add the "double listing" to show how the names are ordered in Japan. WhisperToMe 14:22, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Was there some consensus about this somewhere on Wiki or who is "we"? The double listing still seems rather useless to me... --Fritz Saalfeld 14:58, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It's done in almost every single Japanese name article... Junichiro Koizumi, and the list could go on and on. A formal vote on how to deal with the Japanese name issue did not reach consensus, but for now the "repeating" name is the de facto standard. WhisperToMe 15:00, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick reply. --Fritz Saalfeld 15:11, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Chronicles
"(→Criticism and controversy - Consensus on the Chronicles page was that Dani and Yoshi were never canon names. It's covered over there, anyway.) "

How is it not canon? Were the names "Dani" and 'Yoshi" used in the U.S. version of the main show? WhisperToMe 19:49, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The names were used, but Jackson just said "Hey Dani! Hey Yoshi!" in front of a tv camera, so he could have been calling to anyone.  It was assumed that that was who he was talking too, because that is who he is talking to in the Japanese version.  Yet the other two references are changed to references about his family, so it was never canon that that was their names. Sonic Mew | talk to me 19:55, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Handbook of Texas proposed deletion
Please go here and express your opinion on whether Category:Handbook of Texas citations should be deleted. As a Texan Wikipedian, your opinion on this topic is particularly valuable. 66.167.253.162 17:39, 26 September 2005 (UTC).

Richard Reid
I see you moved it to "Islamist militant", however that's not what I reverted. Someone after you changed it to "Terrorist" with a capital "T", then someone else changed it to "Freedom Fighter". I reverted that latter move, then changed it further to lowercase-t "terrorist", in keeping with style conventions. Didn't notice your earlier move until afterwards.

I think "Islamist militant" is a bit too weasel-wordy, his attempted actions fit a pretty standard dictionary definition of terrorism (for instance, civilian target of no strategic military value). Perhaps this could go on Requested moves. -- Curps 04:42, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Intercontinental
Why is it called Intercontinental rather than International airport? Because it sounds cooler or for a real reason?

Franz Josef Strauß
hey there, long time ago you wondered if this article should not be named differently. I proposed a move, maybe if you want you can give in your input? with kind regards... Gryffindor 23:25, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Commons
Hy! Are you the user de:Benutzer:Whispertome? Whatever, I just wanted to ask you if you usually load up images to the commons. Because I'm actually working on the articles to the biggest cities of the USA in the german Wikipedia! But my problem is, I always have to search the pictures, which are used for the english articles, in the commons, or I even have to down- and upload them first, before I can use them in the articles. The reason why I'm telling this to YOU is, because the most pictures (satellite-pics, maps) are created by you! That's really great, because if these images wouldn't be there, the wikipedia would miss something ;-) But because I find you always and always again when down- and uploading these pics, I thought it could probably be useful if I tell you this! The most pics, I guess, were uploaded a few months or longer ago, but for all the users in the future which need some of your excellent images in the local Wikipedia, I want to please you to upload pictures to the commons in the future! And if you have some time left, or if you work with an already existing image which you published, you probably could transfer one of those from time to time to the commons, or mark images of which you know that they are already transferred. Sorry if I probably made (and make ;-)) a few of mistakes, but I hope you understood it all. I also hope I was polite enough, because it's only a request I wanted to tell you :-) Greetings, Otto Normalverbraucher 22:44, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Re:University City
Try here, http://www.ucityphila.org/, it the websiste for the Univeristy City District, the sepcial services district that serves the areas in around University City. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 02:24, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

List of French-language Canadian television series
Per Wikipedia policy, if there's no consensus on a change, no change happens at all. It's not your place to decide that a change is so necessary that even in spite of a lack of consensus, you still get the discretion to choose one option or the other; if no consensus can be determined on a course of change, things stay as they are. Like it or not, that's the rules. Bearcat 07:42, 30 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, that's the way consensus-building works around here; even if the status quo is the least popular option of the bunch, the status quo is still what stands if there isn't a viable consensus around what change to implement. And "I didn't get the answer I wanted, so I'll just repeat the whole exercise immediately" isn't really what's done around here, either. Bearcat 18:15, 30 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I still fail to understand why you take such obsessive, unshakable interest in a topic that has absolutely jack-all to do with you, but whatever floats your boat. Bearcat 19:20, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Regarding categories
Categories for deletion (I wish I knew of this page and the speedy renames before I changed the name by hand) is the place for renaming (and deletion) of categories. I'm okay with your proposed name. —Philip N.✉ 15:43, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar #2
It is my pleasure to bestow upon you this rusty, old barn star because you are a swell editor and an asset to this project. Thanks for being that way. -Willmcw 09:31, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Crossfire
Crossfire appears to be a direct translation of the Japanese クロスファイア (kurosufaia). Link to クロスファイア on Amazon.co.jp

Benosuke Miyamoto
Musashi changed his name from Benosuke to Miyamoto. Technically, his first kill was under the name Benosuke, but i think he is known of as Miyamoto Musashi in relation to his ranking mentioned on the article.

Still, cheers. (Spum 14:21, 8 November 2005 (UTC))

Houston Independent School District cleanup
I did not add any new material, just did a little rearranging and adding of headings. With the re-arrangement, there is some work to do to make it read more smoothly.

The article has a lot of good information; but, a lot more can be added. Will you be adding more info? ERcheck 23:14, 12 November 2005 (UTC)


 * "Cleanup" for the reasons in paragraph 1 above. Second paragraph is just an additional comment, not meant to be included in the cleanup comment; only asking a question.

Edit summaries
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:


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The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. Jkelly 04:21, 13 November 2005 (UTC)


 * It was just a friendly reminder... there's a lot of us around these days, and when I don't recognize a username I hit the diff on my watchlist if there's no edit summary. I suppose that now I will recognize my username, and therefore won't be posting templates to your Talk page.  Have fun, Jkelly 04:59, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Comment from the Person Who's Been Ranting on You in Magical Doremi
Er, why did you post the response to my reply to your reply (oho) in my talk page? o_0 I still stand by my opinion that that's confusing, messy, and unneccesary, but now that I've thought on it, you have some reason, too. Lets just leave it like it is for now and make some changes as they come. (The vote's still on though. XP) Thanks for the website link, too - didn't know it existed. ^^ Amina 18:14, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Macron in Ome
I noticed that you added the macron to the pronunciation of Oume, Tokyo. You might be interested in the discussion taking place at the Manual of Style. It's not about the obvious macrons, but about the question of macrons that are not obvious. Fg2 07:31, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Sec. school
You said "See, there was a third disambig link... "secondary education in general", I couldn'tfind that reference (sorry if I'm blind). Are you saying in India that Secondary school isn't "the last segment of compulsory education" (from High school) . I'm a little confused :(. You want Secondary school to be a dab, ok. What are the options going to be on the dab? --Commander Keane 18:03, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * With the Indian situaion I think it's like Color. I never use Color (I use Colour instead), but the article is located at Color anyway. I'm still not sure what the best solution is, but do whatever you think is good. --Commander Keane 18:44, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

I dont really know of any other way to contact you...where are you from in Houston, I used to live there, now I go to college. What high school also? Sicarii 05:09, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

what high school? I went to Westside. Sicarii 06:22, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Reverting moves of various Korea-related pages and more
Someone has been on a page-moving spree, without consensus in all cases that I checked, and in some cases violating current naming conventions. The affected articles include several Korea-related pages: Kim Young-sam to Gim Yeongsam, Chun Doo-hwan to Jeon Duhwan, Choi Kyu-ha to Choe Gyuha etc. Actually, all the moves the user has made seem suspicious. Please see Special:Contributions/%C2%A7. --Iceager 15:34, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Japanese Yu-Gi-OH GX
What happened to the Japanese Yu-Gi-OH GX wikipedia page?

Yu-Gi-Oh!
I moved it based on Naming conventions (capitalization) because we generally don't capitalize second and subsequent words in titles. In that context, it looked funny compared to the way other articles are handled. I suppose you could argue that this is a proper noun, but given that apparently there are also two different "official" names for the game, I figured the uncapitalized use as a generic description would be more appropriate. --Michael Snow 18:48, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Minato, Tokyo
Thanks for catching my mistake about Board of Education. I pressed the delete key and held it, but it deleted more than I thought. I saw the "o" and figured it was Tokyo, but it must have been Minato. Sorry! Fg2 10:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Regarding names in the English version of Tsubasa
The Del Rey version has it spelled as "Tôya"

Zatch Bell
My, its been a long while since I've heard of the Zatch Bell! page. I got in a little editing war a while back over giant-sized pictures and continual vandalism. Sadly, I've given up on trying to protect the page.

Well, anyways, on to your query. Those pictures are among the first things I contributed to wikipedia. I classified them as screenshots from Toei's Konjiki no Gash Bell site. That license, however, is most likely incorrect.Turk Ranma 17:44, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Request (regarding YGO GX)
A few days ago, Benten made a page for Kabayama, a very minor character who only appears in one episode and already has a mention in the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX minor characters page. When I changed it to redirect it to the minor characters page, an anonymous user changed it back. I've already reverted it three times in a few hours, so if I revert it again, I'd break the three-revert rule, though so would the anonymous user. So anyway, just please help me out by making it redirect again if you see it. Thanks. Geg 19:53, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

your note
You posted a note to me saying "This is not an advocacy page." I'm a bit confused by this. I edited a couple articles to expand and clarify things that they said and I don't think I advocated anything in any of them. So 1) what are you accusing me of advocating? and 2) who are you to accuse me of advocating something? Antimetro

Anzu
I redirected it because the mythological meaning is the most famous. I had intended to make a second disambig page linked to from Zu (god), but I guess I forgot.--Cuchullain 06:47, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Maybe I should have said "most important".--Cuchullain 06:51, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

About Yu-Gi-Oh! Volume 3
I don't see anything there that's of any use to anything, really. I'll go ahead and redirect it. Geg 16:35, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Wonder Boy
Hi there, I'm currently aiming to get the Wonder Boy article to featured article status and have been adding any information I could on the game and have been trying to make the article of encyclopedic quality. It's reaching a bit of a bursting point now, so it would be good to get some feedback on the changes. I noticed you had contributed to the series in some way or another so I thought you may be able to comment. Thanks in advance. Jamyskis Whisper, Contribs 11:12, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Dave Rhodes
I saw you bolded Dave Rhodes name in Make money fast. Do you happen to know, or know anybody who knows, or know anybody who knows anybody who knows (etc.), a reliable source about his fate - in particular, whether that purported Web site is in fact his? I'm finding it surprisingly hard to pin down. - DavidWBrooks 14:07, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Hikaru no Go
I'm just curious, but do you read Hikaru no Go? I saw you wrote something in the discussion board there before. If you do, I was wondering if there's actually such thing as the Divine Move. --anon

So is there such thing as the divine move? --anon

In Hikaru no Go, Sai was the cause of Hon'inbo Shusaku's talent. That's fictional, right? --anon

Don't you think it's cool how the writer actually mixed in something fictional with a real person? --anon

Westbury High School
Whoa, blast from the past! The picture doesn't even look like what I remember. I do have a 1977 yearbook still, I suppose that can be a source. Stan 20:28, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

West Virginia as the U.S. Collaboration of the Week
Hey WhisperToMe, I recently nominated the West Virginia main article to be a candidate for the US Collaboration of the Week. As you're probably well-aware, the article is in need of a lot of help and being the US Collaboration of the Week could improve it immensely. Please consider voting for West Virginia, as I know you've contributed frequently to articles dealing with West Virginia. Thanks! --Caponer 21:39, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

OGRISH video link removed
I have removed the OGRISH video link as it goes directly to the video. In order to view these videos the viewer must be over 18 and willing to accept the site's terms on the main page. (Shosei Koda)-- Thorpe  | talk 18:40, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, people need to be warned. You could put the link back up but also link to the terms. -- Thorpe  | talk 19:00, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Houston City Seal
Oops. Started moving a bit too fast. Left the St. Louis seal on there by accident. Thanks for fixing that! Dr. Cash 06:31, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Houston related article edit summary
Just to let you know that my edit summaries on the River Oaks and Sugar Land articles are not directed at you&mdash;they are directed at another user. Also, a user has disputed neutrality issues on the Houston article at its talk page&mdash;please see. RJN 19:48, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Tuffles/Tsufurujin
The name 'Tuffles' completely misses out on the pun made in Japanese with the word 'Tsufurujin'. If you re-arrange the letters to get 'furutsu' you have rough equivalent to the word 'fruits'. Tuffles isn't the same as Tsufurujin, and the correct name for the race is preferred over an inane dub name. That is my reasoning for changing it. -- Daishokaioshin

That isn't the sole reason for changing it. It's just that it's late and I didn't think I'd have to get into a debate on this subject. The naming of the race is inconsistent within the english dubs. In the early DBZ episodes, when the Tsufurujin are first mentioned, they are called 'Truffles'. In the english dubs of DBGT they are called 'Tuffles'. Since 'Truffles' came first, it could be argued that that name is 'more correct'. Certainly, many fans call the race by that name. By having the search for 'Tuffles' redirect to 'Tsufurujin' there shouldn't be any trouble in finding the information on the race. With that in mind, I don't see what the problem is. -- Daishokaioshin

Hikaru no Go DVD
Sorry.

Overbrook
I appreciate that. Overbrook Philly was getting vandalized to Hell and back, which could be interpreted as racist. (Overbrook NJ = 95% white, Overbrook PA = 98% or so minority)

Thanks again. --DodgerOfZion 05:30, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Wang Chang Yuan
This is not a contest to see who can be more precise in their Chinese romanization. We've got the pinyin there, and the alternate spellings are there to assist Wikipedia users in pursuing more information about this individual. When it comes to Chinese names, or any other names commonly spelled in other alphabets, there are many romanizations, some of them "wrong" ones, often the preferred romanizations of the individuals themselves. Wikipedia is a starting point for people finding more information about subjects. All the romanizations I listed are ones for which there are Google hits (websites). Removing them means that those doing research will not have access to those websites unless they're very clever and try many permutations of spelling, which most people will not do. Badagnani 17:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Kronstadt map
The image you uploaded > Image:Map of St. Petersburg (Einseitige Farbkarte).jpg needs a new Public Domain tag. I would be grateful if you could choose one so we don't have the thing deleted by the over-zealous. Cheers --  max rspct  leave a message  13:58, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

River Oaks, TX & Pflugerville ISD
It is unlikely that Pflugerville ISD (in central Texas) serves the City of River Oaks (in Tarrant County). Indeed, Castleberry ISD claims to serve River Oaks, so I've modified the two articles to reflect this. The fact that PISD has an elementary school with the name "River Oaks" doesn't actually link it with the city; that's a pretty generic name. Deh 15:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Jsmith is at it again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Gi-OH_Japanese_character_page

Honestly, I don't understand that kid. -_-

edit: Oh, and now he's going around reviving the unneeded 7 Shadow Riders pages. Geg 23:34, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Shanpu vs. Shampu
After watching the Shanpu vs Shampoo debate for some time, I must say the Shampu writing is correct even based on your wiki link to use of hepburn rules or whatever. For one, the link (i forget it) never specifically mentions the cases of n before p. The part about n' before n is closest you get to modern revisionism regarding romanized writing. To really get into it though, let's step back a second. Shampoo. It's an english word. Shampoo is Chinese. Ranma 1/2 is a Japanese cartoon. So now there is a imaginary conflict between proper writing of a English word in Japanese, or a Chinese word derived from and English word in Japanese. You follow? To be absolutely proper, it's a person's name and should be written as close to possible as original no matter what language you convert or derive it into. Shampoo = Shampu. Turning n to m before the letter p is common use of romainzed Japanese writing, has been for many many years. Do a google search for shanpu. 612 hits, and it says: Did you mean Shampoo? Google that, almost 400k hits. You can't have it both ways, either go for complete proper conversion, or none at all. Also, it would be Xianpu in Chinese, there is no Sh in Chinese. Cheers! - 8 Feb 2006


 * Sorry to butt in, but I'm not sure of the logic here. If Shanpu is supposed to be 'Shampu', then by rights Ranma should be 'Ramma' to preserve consistency of usage (romanisation of ん before bilabials). Also, there is an 'sh' in Chinese, as in Shanghai, and the character 珊 is in fact pronounced 'Shan', not 'Xian'.Bathrobe 05:34, 12 February 2006 (UTC)


 * By all means, join in, Bathrobe. However, i must kindly disagree with you.  Ranma is Proper name.  It should be spelled as is.  Much like Shampoo is a name, and should be spelled as is.  The trick is: should it be spelled as it is in Chinese, or English? (see above) And yeah, i spaced on the 'sh' part above, though partially correct, there is no 'sh',  it'a always combined with other letters. shan shai shui etc.  S'what i get for getting on computer befor ehte appropriate amount of coffee has been digested i guess. Actually, i have no idea what i was thinking there.  After just a brief diggin around i see that Shan Pu is the correct Chinese spelling, which would be the closest approximation Chinese could get to Shampoo.  (Though Xianpu could theoretically be derived using differnet pinyin system, that's a debate for another board/topic.)  There's a link in comment in Shampoo section that goes to good debate on it if you wish to read more though.  Apparently many common mispellings of all the Chinese characters resulted from one specific fanfic that was used by many others and got out of hand.  Interesting reading really.

Recap: Ranma. Proper Name, Japanese, no mod needed. Shampoo. Chinese (derived from English). Should be modded as common grammar allows to be close to possible to original.

Huh?

Okay... "Shampoo" is commonly spelled as such on EN as thats the name used in the English versions. WhisperToMe 03:09, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

The White Organization
Hi i am User: Bobaboba, i created a page for the The White Organization, please tell what you think!!! :)

(Bobaboba 16:49, 10 February 2006 (UTC))

Samurai Shodown
Salutaions. I noticed you recently made an edit on the Jubei Yagyu article I created recently. Are you perhaps well-versed in the series..? If so, could you come to my talkpage..? I could use some assistance in this laborous task. -ZeroTalk 14:51, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:WTCCollapse.JPG
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Please look at this page
If you are a supporter of Don Bosco, take a look at this page.
 * St John Bosco and LGBT edits evrik 04:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Zoro/Zolo
Obviously, I disagree with your interpretation.

More to the point, you miss the argument that I am making. This is English Wikipedia. "Zoro" has a connotation to English-speaking people that "Zolo" does not. Using the Zolo name removes valuable context that would be useful to our english-speaking readers. That, more than anything else, is why I support (and will continue to support) "Zoro" over the "Zolo" transliteration. Nandesuka 00:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

"Anons do not really count"
You've said this "anons do not really count" thing more than once. You are completely wrong. There are plenty of fine editors who choose, for one reason or another, to not register a username. Blowing them off because they haven't registered a name runs absolutely counter to what Wikipedia is about. If you count the anons &mdash; and I do &mdash; then I think it's clear that there's a consensus for Zoro over Zolo.

Regards, Nandesuka 23:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

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Math, Science, and Technology Center
Please explain your deletion of the content in Math, Science, and Technology Center and the redirection to Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Lexington, Kentucky)! At the least, this should be subject to a vote or advance warning through a Merge template! I also have to question the move from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School to Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Lexington, Kentucky). I understand the desire for disambiguation should articles be created for other schools of the same name, but I believe preferred style is not to disambiguate until it is needed (i.e. until an article is created for another Paul Laurence Dunbar High School)? Cmadler 13:45, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * MSTC is a district-wide magnet program housed at Dunbar. The MSTC director is equivalent in rank/pay to a high school principal. I will work to clarify the separateness of PLDHS and MSTC in the article. Cmadler 12:04, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Inuyasha
I own the first volume of Viz's graphic novel for Inuyasha & that is how the names are spelt.

Fort Hood, Texas
Can you move Fort Hood back to Fort Hood, Texas. Someone moved it and turned Fort Hood, Texas into a redirect so I can't move it back myself. Thanks! RJN 21:50, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Invitation
Please come over to my test page and see what you think. It's really rough right now, but I think we could do something with it to make all the Japan-related articles better, as well as better coordinate everyone's efforts. --日本穣 05:16, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

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Ushio and Tora
Hey, I didn't know you were a fan of Ushio and Tora as well! Huzzah! --maru  (talk)  contribs 05:06, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Edit summary
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Digimon character names
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Image:Picture of Reliant Astrodome.JPG
Hi - Please add a source for this image or it will be deleted. Thanks! - SCEhard T  17:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Survey
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Save "List of school pranks" From Deletion
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Internal audit
Can you restore Internal audit? I guess the article was deleted by someone but was never listed for deletion. I looked at "What links here" and don't see any link for the AfD process. I am positive that there was an article because I read it before. Thanks! &mdash;RJN 19:04, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't think it was a copyvio. I only looked at the article twice and the last time was about 3 weeks ago. I haven't edited that page yet. From what I saw, it was a short article and didn't look like a copyvio the last time I read it. &mdash;RJN 02:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Re:Mexico City Public School System
Sorry for the delayed reply. Public education is centrally managed by the Secretariat of Public Education, a Federal-level cabinet office. Individual state's (including Mexico City) have no separate "Departments of Education". AFAIK, the administration of public education is not a state prerogative within the Mexican Federal System. -- Run e Welsh | &tau;&alpha;&lambda;&kappa; 19:37, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

River Oaks reference you added a couple of days ago
Good to see you add a source to River Oaks, Houston, Texas. If you have any more for that article, please surround them with like those in the rest of the article; that way the numbering and format of the footnotes remain consistent. I made that change already for the new reference you introduced. Thanks. 66.167.252.14 07:09, 16 April 2006 (UTC).

NARUTO

 * I would like to know why you reverted my change on this page. Since this Wikipedia is in English, the English order of names should be used.  Thanks. Danny Lilithborne 20:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see. Thanks again. :) Danny Lilithborne 20:35, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Miami-Dade High Schools
Hey! I noticed that you were adding the school articles to each of the cities in this school district. I just wanted to let you know that there is often more than one school serving each city/neighborhood. For example, I clarified the high schools serving Hialeah. I'm not sure how much you've done so far, and I'd let to help make it as accurate as possible, so if you want contact me, I can let you know exactly what schools serve which neighborhood. Thanks. -- SmthManly  / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 04:28, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, tell gimme a list of cities and I'll tell you what high schools serves them. -- SmthManly  / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 22:36, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok, but first I'm going to go to the gym, so I'll get on it when I get back. I've looked at your contributions and did every city you did last night, but I like the way you word things (my wording sucks), so look it over and fix them, bitte. I also did Key Biscayne. -- SmthManly  / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 22:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... I went to Palm Springs Middle School. It was divided with half the 8th graders going to Hialeah and the other half to HML, a lot of schools are like that. I moved and ended up going to Miami Springs though, but would've gone to Hialeah. Just thought i'd note that. -- SmthManly  / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 04:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Case Closed Talk Page
When you move Detective Conan (Case Closed) back to Case Closed, you forgot to move its talk page, so its talk page is still attached to Detective Conan (Case Closed) (Talk:Detective Conan (Case Closed)), and 'pedia admins wanted us to discuss on moving on Talk:Detective Conan (Case Closed) before they can move (Requested Moves). Please have your stand there.Samuel Curtis 14:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Memorial High School
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Arlington County, Virginia
Hey Whisper, I wanted to let you know that I have nominated Arlington County, Virginia as a candidate for US Collaboration of the Week. The article is in need of much help and with a little group effort, it could be brought to Featured Article status! I brought this to your attention as I have seen you have contributed to the article in the recent past. Please cast your vote with your signature at the US Collaboration of the Week page under Arlington County, Virginia. --Caponer 02:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

One Piece character articles
Hi I've been transwiking character attacks to wikibooks, but a new user seems to be against the process. Could you see here and contribute to the discussion..? -ZeroTalk 04:38, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Westminster High School
When did you go to WHS?

History21 00:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)History21

Why did you edit the WHS page, then? It seems like people who go there would be the ones to know about the football team.

In that case, maybe you can help with an interesting dilemma. On the Maryland page, there is serious debate going on as to which region of the country the state should be placed in. It's gotten rather heated, bu both sides have made good arguments. Please weigh in o this, reading the talk page sections regarding cultural identity, sourcing, region, etc. We need all the help we can get. Also, check out ponytail after Maryland, as I feel that it may have been vandalized.

Pokémanics anon
If you are interested in Pokémon articles, you may like to join the Pokémon Collaborative Project, a group of editors who work together to improve Pokémon articles. You can help with our current collaborations (which are Pokémon and Marshtomp) and find out more information on editting articles, as well as discuss Poké-related information. We hope to see you there! H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 07:05, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Please don't remove "In Japanese" tags from articles, if the name is the same in both languages, the tag gives clarification. Cheers, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 07:05, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Homestead and Florida City
Florida City is pretty close to Homestead so I'm sure anyone who lives there will go to a school in incorporated Homestead, anyone south and east of Florida City goes to school in Homestead, unless they're in Monroe County, then they go to schools in the Keys. As for unincoporated areas North and West of there, it depends on how close they are to Homestead itself, most unincorporated areas near Homestead in the Redlands/Naranja/Princeton/Goulds unincoporated areas are served by South Dade High School and its feeders, though Perreine, Cutler Ridge, and parts of Goulds are served by Miami Southridge and its feeders. I think Goulds might be only for Southridge though, I'm pretty sure that the others are served by South Dade. You could put something like, "South Dade High School also serves unincoporated areas north of Homestead with Homestead zip codes." Let me go onto the Dade Schools site and read the boundary instructions to see where the exact boundaries for the high schools are. -- SmthManly  / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 16:48, 14 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, Seems to be, Homestead High Serves everything South of SW 328 Street in Homestead (Lucy Drive in that city's numbering system). A very small portion of incorporated Homestead north of that is served by South Dade High School, who also serves all of Richmond, Naranja, and the Redlands.  Homestead High serves all of Florida City, and basically everything south of Sw 328 Street, which I'm assuming includes Islamorada (the only Florida Key located in Dade County instead of Monroe, though they might go to the Monroe district... not sure).  Southridge serves everything West of 137th Avenue, and north of like Hainiling Mills Drive, (about SW 232nd).  Which is all unincorporated with a Miami Address, Goulds/Cutler Ridge, Perreine.  Don't know who serves everything north of NW 168th because of the new High school's they've built there... it used to be Braddock, but it could be Ferguson or Varela now.  North of Southridge should be Palmetto High... this get commplicated after a while.  Anyway, to answer your question, doesn't look like any elementary school in unincoporated areas serve the incorporated parts of Homestead and Florida city since all those unincorporated areas have Miami zip codes.  I wouldn't be surprised though if those elementary schools listed served the unincorporated parts though.  They should do what Broward County school's does and created .pdf boundary maps.  That would make things much easier. --  SmthManly  / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 17:06, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Awesome Tool!!! I've been looking for something like this for a while. Yup, that elementary could serve parts of incorporated Homestead, but I guess you probably can find it out now with this tool, I tried tracing the borders before, but it didn't work because many of the borders go down small residential streets and I couldn't find a suitable map that was large enough. Still, if you also want to work on cities in Broward County, their website has several.pdf files which actually show the boundaries themselves. I wish Dade would do something like that. Sorry about not getting on that list you gave me, but I had finals for school, and work, and a lot of other things and haven't been able to do much editing on WP other than minor gnome edits (it's gnome, right?). Once I get school off my back I'll be able to get on with the task, though I know more about Northwest and Central Dade in terms of schools because that's where I lived... my middle school fed into four high schools, and I didn't go to any of them (we moved) so I got to know several boundaries just by common knowledge. Anyway, enough rambling... I want to really overhaul the M-DCPS article... right now it's just a major list. Got any ideas? -- SmthManly  / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 00:03, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Edit summaries (again)
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 * You can see your edit summary usage for the last 150 edits by going here. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjo e  17:42, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

District Factor Groups
There are three places that District Factor Group categories have been added for New Jersey: municipality pages, school districts and high schools. Given how few school districts existed early on, the DFG categories were added to the municipality pages. When district articles were created, the DFG categories were added to the new articles, but left on the municipal pages in many cases. There's no need to have the category linked twice from the same location. The only time where it's justified is in a municipality that participates in a regional or consolidated district. They also don't belong on articles for high schools. thanks for your input on an issue that no one else in new Jersey seems to understand. Dare I ask why someone hailing from Houston, Texas is doing all this work on New Jersey articles? Alansohn 16:43, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

SF High Schools
I don't think the list of SF schools in the San Francisco article is "critical," as you say. If you want to list SF high schools, please list all public high schools as well as private ones. Many SF public high schools have pages on Wikipedia. I really don't understand why saying that the SFUSD administers public schools is necessary. Isn't that obvious? Where "the beef"? I'm concerned that private schools are listed but not public ones. It reminds me of SF gentrification for some reason... Please compile a list of SF public high schools and include it in the article. Griot 03:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I think the list of SF high schools belongs right in the article, instead of segregating it to another page. Either copy that list into the SF article or drop the school business altogether. BTW, it's called the SFUSD around here, not "the San Francisco USD." Griot 04:17, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Hikari Ota edit
Just saw your last edit here, and I have a comment about that. For titles of Japanese shows within Japanese articles (where the show isn't the topic of the article) I have been following the style 日本語の名前 (English Name, Nihongo no namae) (see Becky for examples). While at times I agree that English deserves priority, if you write it as English Name (日本語の名前, Nihongo no namae), it becomes more difficult to recognize the purpose of the italics on the hepburn. Also, since most of the titles I'm translating are loose, unofficial translations, I don't think it's right to examplify the English translation as a "title" (thus italicizing it), which is why I petitioned to use the Japanese name first. What do you think? freshofftheufo ΓΛĿЌ  04:21, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * How about Nihongo no namae (日本語の名前, Japanese Name)? Using italics instigates something "official", so that's why I don't want to italicize the translation. Hepburn is an official romanizing system, which is why we italicize it. My only problem with this is that the English (in an English article) is at the end of the line, which seems a bit condemning, but I think it can't be avoided in non-English topics. freshofftheufo  ΓΛĿЌ  04:32, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * よろしくお願いしまーす！ freshofftheufo  ΓΛĿЌ  04:35, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Gintama
They sure want to be vague on the name issue don't they? Check this out, in the link you provided they contradict themselves. If you look under the image you can see this: GINTAMA © 2003 If the copywrite is on the nospace name, then I say that makes it the more offical one. Plus it's better known without the space anyways. --SeizureDog 05:02, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

schools in Memphis area
Hey I was wondering if it is wise to put Memphis city schools uniform policy on every school in its district since its on the Memphis City schools link as it is. i would think its slightly redundant.Barcode 16:46, 29 May 2006 (UTC)


 * alrighty, I just was not sure of the need of putting it on all the schools. :) Barcode 16:50, 29 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I do believe Kirby High school also used to be part of the Shelby County School district and was annexed my guess around 1995. I'll look it up and add it. Also there will be a new Shelby County School under construction. Southwind High school, i'll look that up too and add it. Barcode 16:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Most of the Students who live in Cordova attend Cordova High school which serves memphis and the unincorperated sections.. Some on the borders attent Arlington high school, Bartlett High school and Houston High school. Before Cordova High school was constructed, the majority went to Germantown High school and Houston High school. Barcode 17:15, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Appling middle feeds a few, Mt Pisgah feeds, Riverdale Used to feed, Cordova Middle Feeds, thats all i can remember. Theyve built a few schools since i graduated from CHS haha Barcode 17:47, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I wouldnt trust Google Earth as a reliable recource. the image in that program is outdated over 2 years old for the Cordova Area, as noted by buildings and neighborhoods under construction at the time which are today: completed. and since the annexation by memphis of a large portions of Cordova including the area i live, google earth may not be up to date. Despite the annexation most postal areas still recognize cordova, TN. On most addresses in the Area Cordova, TN or Memphis, TN work. so even the address of Cordova High school, may say Cordova,TN when it is actually Memphis. I can find out in the next few hours if that sector of Cordova has been annexed yet. and i'll make the neccessary changes. if i miss any, just cover me haha :). I do believe the Berryhill and countrywood neighborhoods are part of memphis now. It wont be hard to find out as all those people will have the Memphis city issued trash cans. Barcode 00:56, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Continental Airlines destinations
We are trying to form a standard format for airline destinations. US territories should not be treated any different than the territories of other countries. If you think Puerto Rico and the USVI should be listed under the United States, then the British Virgin Islands should be listed under the UK and New Caledonia and Reunion should be listed under France. The latest decision was to place territories in their geographic locations with the parent country in parenthesis. This hasn't been finalized, and if you think the format should be different, then please bring it up with the WikiProject. Cheers. Dbinder 22:26, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

This is the proof - that it is NET HIKARI
There, see? Thank you.

And you signed your name twice. o.o; urutapu 00:34, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Residence
Your user page says you live in both Houston and El Paso... Mekryd 03:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Maybe he commutes a lot? (^_^) ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjo e  22:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Hikari Netto
I've responded on my talk page, please view it.Sukecchi 13:24, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

RE: Mr. Satan a.k.a. Hercule
Simple: because of the uptight censors in North America, the name had to be changed to Hercule. His name in Japan is Mr. Satan, and ONLY Mr. Satan. In North America, his name is Hercule Satan. They use Hercule in the TV-air dub (the uncensored version of dub on DVDs refers to "Mr. Satan" as his in-ring name, though he is called "Hercule Satan" in the uncensored dub during the Saiyaman saga). --Kitch 21:31, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * And what kind of explanation is that? The same argument could be used for Pokemon - and it would fail miserably. Zatch Bell!? Fail miserably too. This is the English Wikipedia and we prefer English names. Now, keep in mind that Wikipedia uses Son Goku, Kuririn, Boo, etc. because the English manga uses them. But with Hercule it's just about universal. "Censored" or not, Hercule is the most common name and should be used. WhisperToMe 22:21, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * To be honest, I don't know why you're making such a stink about this. I don't recall making any changes in regards to Hercule/Mr. Satan.  I may have, but have forgotten; show me what got you so upset, maybe?--Kitch 23:18, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hercule_%28Dragon_Ball%29&diff=15731537&oldid=14598169 is the edit in question. The article could have been moved at this point... WhisperToMe 00:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, I remember now. I didn't move the article.  I simply put Mr. Satan up front since that was the official name.  I did not move the actual article, and still had Hercule Satan and Hercule highlighted in the first paragraph. --Kitch 01:12, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

RE: Mamie George Branch
Yes, you told me about Mamie George already. I always thought it was in Sugar Land, but with a Stafford address&mdash;you know how zip codes are.

Anyway, a user left a comment on my talk page regarding my reversion to Hightower High School and here is what he said, "Are you and whisper to me the same person, and if not, then why did you decide to edit my entire page back to his revision? what gives?"

He thought you and I are the same person!

&mdash;RJN 05:21, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Princeton
You will notice that there are three articles, one on Princeton Township, New Jersey, one on Borough of Princeton, New Jersey and one on Princeton, New Jersey. You will notice that in the intro of the borough article it says "The Borough of Princeton is a borough and is one of the two municipalities making up Princeton, New Jersey. " The high school is physically located within the Borough, but the money for it is from both the Borough and the Township. Generally, no particular distinction is made between these two municipalities in everyday life, since one encompasses the other, and they're both really "Princeton" historically, "coloquially", and physically. They share other services besides the school as well, including the Library and some other things. For people who live there and people who visit there, there is really no difference between the Borough and the Township (perhaps taxes are slightly different), so I see no reason why the wikipedia article on the high school should make a distinction. The first paragraph says where it's physically located anyway. Also, you gave absolutely no edit summary when you moved the article in the first place. Mak (talk)  22:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
 * What you don't seem to understand is that "Princeton, New Jersey" is a more accurate way of explaining where the high school is. Probably if you asked half the kids in the high school whether they were standing in the Township or the Borough they wouldn't be able to tell you, because those two names are really more of a reification than Princeton is. It's not just a colloquialism, it's how people experience the town, which is more real to many people than the semi-divisions of politics. Yes, Cranbury contributes funds, but I don't believe they take part in the political processes, such as the school board. They are very clearly a school district paying to have their kids go out-of-district for high school, whereas PRS is one district, one governing body (schoolboard). The reality of peoples' experience is that the school is in Princeton, and calling it Princeton Borough (no one actually says Borough of Princeton, btw) is just being Pedantic. I'm sorry if that doesn't fit into your ordering scheme, but that's the problem with attempting to order the universe, frequently things don't just fit nicely. Mak (talk)  02:41, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Princeton Township is in Princeton. Princeton Borough is in Princeton. The two share more than just a school district. Historically they are one town. People experience them as one town. This isn't simply a question of ignorance. It's less precise to say it is the High School for the Borough of Princeton, because it's simply not. It's the high school for all of Princeton, in all of Princeton (you will notice that the Borough is entirely engulfed physically by the Township), paid for by all of Princeton. So, it's Princeton High School, Princeton, New Jersey. Mak (talk)  02:46, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * No, as I said, they share more than just a school district, and a history, and land, and community understanding, but also a "Princeton Sewer Operating Committee" and the Health department. From something on the borough's website they seem to think they are within Princeton Township:

Commission Members           One Monument Drive David A. Henry

Borough of Princeton                                                                                     P.O. Box 390                                                                             Health Officer Township of Princeton Princeton, New Jersey 08542

Phone: (609) 497-7608

Fax:    (609) 924-7627 You might as well say it's the 151 Moore Street High School. Mak (talk)  03:20, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Lastly. . You're being pedantic. There is no Princeton High School, Princeton Township, there never has been, I'll bet my head there never will be. Mak (talk)  03:24, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm having the same issue with the three Princeton problem. For the most part, regardless of the entity (school, organization, park, etc.) it's either in the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey OR Princeton Township, New Jersey. It's not in Princeton, New Jersey. I think the wording that says something is in Princeton (not Borough or Township) only confuses the fact. I more than understand that colloquial use of Princeton covers both municipalities and that the post office covers both; but that's a poor excuse to ignore a fundamental distinction. After all, no one lives at the post office. There are articles for The Amboys, The Caldwells, The Oranges and The Ridgefields, but these are merely collective groupings of individual and distinct municipalities: there is nothing that's located in The Oranges. Alansohn 02:07, 5 June 2006 (UTC)


 * All of New Jersey is incorporated. Every square inch is part of one of New Jersey's 566 municipalities. Part of the confusion we have in New Jersey is that people think that they "live" in their post office location. For example, in Hun School of Princeton, the statement that the school is "located in Princeton Township, New Jersey" is 100% accurate. That "The school has a 'Princeton, New Jersey' mailing address" is true, but starts in the wrong direction. That it "is thought to be 'in Princeton'." goes over the edge. At a maximum, the "in Princeton" statements (and certainly Princeton, New Jersey wikilinks) should be removed, wherever they appear. Alansohn 02:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

The "Two Princetons" info is good-to-know and on point for the Princeton, NJ article, yes. Repeating this info in the article about the high school is unnecessary. The duplication distracts the readers of the high school article, and makes it harder for Wikipedians to keep the extra versions of that info up to date and in synch. To avoid disorganization and inconsistency, please add info about either topic to the one best focused article on that topic. Thanks! Bob schwartz 17:45, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, that was rather stupid. I answered you on my own talk page rather than yours! Sorry about that, here is my response:

Sir, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

By the way, some of the changes in re the Borough are not even accurate. For example, you change the address to "Borough of Princeton, NJ 08540". That is not an address. If you address a letter that way it won't get anywhere. Well, the postal service will, if they are kind, probably figure out what you mean, just like when you misspell a street name, but...

I can see that you are mainly doing this to be consistent. I understand that and I think it's ridiculous. Why does it need to be consistent in that particular way? And the Cranbury School thing is immaterial. I've just wikilinked it where it should have gone in the first place. It seems like you're using Cranbury School to further your point, since you created that article in the first place. You don't need a Feeder patterns section for that; you could just have wikilinked it where it was appropriate.

And I wish you would please not say things in that way: "I am NOT going to make an exception for PHS." Exception from what rule? A rule you just made up and are trying to get to catch on? Good luck, buddy. Heck, even real Wikipedia rules often have exceptions.

By the way, I am not saying the Borough information should not be there. Under the article prior to your changes, it was in the very first sentence of the first named section. Of course, you say that you "insist on it saying Borough of Princeton in the first line." Why you must insist on such particular placing I don't know.

This article isn't about Borough of Princeton High School. There is no such thing. It is Princeton High School and the technical way Princeton is split into two legal municipal governing bodies is no reason to clutter the lead-in.

Do you have any good reasons other than consistency with other articles for the feeder pattern and other changes, by the way? Because if not, I can't see the point. D. G. 17:08, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

WhisperToMe, I have lived in Princeton since 1988 and I went to Princeton High School. In case you are interested, the only address difference between the Borough and the Township is the ZIP CODE. And even there, it's only one digit. In the Borough, the zip code is 08542. In the Township, it is 08540. But both are "Princeton, NJ." NOT "Borough of Princeton" or "Township of Princeton", as you say. Please check the addresses for the Borough and Township governments at http://www.princetonol.com/gov/. So why should the school be any different? If you're interested in discussing this further, please post back on my Talk page. Otherwise... let's leave it at that. --Sauhard 05:47, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Interesting story. Ever since tangling with you I've been more on the lookout for differences between the Borough and the Township in my daily life. So I was surprised (since you're the one always talking about "my gosh! they have seperate fire services and police departments!") when I noticed a fire truck a week ago and looked carefully at its incscription. PRINCETON it said, with no mention of the borough or the township.

Then yesterday, I see a cop car stopped on Nassau Street and I look closely at it and I notice it says PRINCETON POLICE on the sides and on the back. I actually stop walking and walk around the police car a few times to scrutinise it carefully, leaving when the cop gives me a funny look. Not anywhere on the car did the word borough or the word township appear. If either word existed anywhere it must have been somewhere in a file in one of the municipal buildings somewhere indicating which of the two accounts is printed on the title certificate to that police automobile.

This is of course an anecdote, not an argument. But after a rest, I'm back and ready to right the ignorant wrongs you're pulling. Reading your talk page I see that your behaviour at PHS is not unique-- you seem to be very fond of not creating new content or even fixing old content but just being pedantic all over the encyclopaedia and trying to mould it in your image, enforcing new styles, such as the incredible change of all instances of naive to nai:ve with two dots over the i!

Your anal Borough/Township distinction and refusal to acknowledge and permit the mention on Wikipedia of an entity called "Princeton" is just another example of this. It's much like noticing that legally there is a Senate and there is a House of Representatives, and thus erasing all mentions of Congress in favour of one of those two, and calling anything outside of your legalistic scheme colloquialism that has no place in an encyclopaedia.

Well, I'm going to change the PHS article to accurately reflect reality. I know you will probably continue your quest to enforce your style and organisation upon articles, so I will take whatever steps are necessary and proper to prevent that. D. G. 23:45, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, sir, on missing the entire point of what you call my "essay" of a dozen sentences. I never said that there weren't two distinct police departments. It was simply an anecdote to illustrate the lack of fine distinction between the princetons. Good job assuming I'm an idiot and don't know my facts. Presumably you, by contrast, are intimately familiar with Princeton local government. D. G. 23:55, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

What consensus? Your so-called consensus was you and a Texan buddy reverting until I got sick of it and your changes were prevailed by default. The only other person to comment opposed your changes. Congratulations on your remarkable ability to call a consensus in your favour a situation where you literally do not have the support of any other editor of the article. D. G. 00:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

He half agreed and half disagreed with you. And that leaves basically an even split. That's still not what I'd call a true good Wikipedian consensus so much as a consensus-by-apathy. I also find this rather oh-so-rich: "  I'm in agreement with your in the lead but not with the infobox idea :) WhisperToMe 02:18, 29 June 2006 (UTC) " In other words, you agree where he agrees with you, but not where he doesn't. Typical. D. G. 00:31, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I misunderstood the wording. My mistake. D. G. 00:34, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

What consensus??? I don't see a SINGLE person here supporting your point of view. Please elaborate, otherwise I will most certainly revert again. --Sauhard 05:59, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, thanks a bunch for the explanation. I understand your point of view. Though still, this level of pedantry is probably a bit over-the-top. Having lived here my entire life, I can assure you that the difference between the Borough and the Township is not nearly as significant as you make it out to be. I notice you didn't even spare the Princeton University article. We simply disagree on whether the split between the Borough/Township is significant enough to merit being noted on every Princeton-related article on Wikipedia. In my opinion, I think it should ONLY be mentioned on the "Princeton, NJ" article. Fine. I don't intend to carry this on to the point of exhaustion, because I do have better things to do with my life! But I still do find the nature of your Township/Borough distinction to be rather excessive and gratuitous. As has been implied, people who live here are more likely to identify themselves as "being from Princeton" than "being from Princeton Township" or "being from Princeton Borough", and I find that this cultural trend speaks volumes about Princeton really being one body. Historically too, the difference between the Township and the Borough has been minimal. For now, I'd say it is up to the editing body as a whole whether your changes should stand - your consensus is definitely NOT unanimous. There is support for my point of view on here too. But even though I still very strongly disagree with you, I will preserve my sanity and let time decide which side of this argument "wins." :) --Sauhard 06:39, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

School names
I've noticed that you've renamed some school articles. While it is not an official policy, the usual guidelines for naming schools are listed here Naming_conventions_%28schools%29. You're naming schools as: School (City, State) when it is not necessary. For example, you renamed Rockville High School in Maryland to Rockville High School (Rockville, Maryland). There is another Rockville HS but it is in Connecticut. Naming it with (City, State) only applies if there is more than one school with that name in the state. Cheers, Metros232 12:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Seiyū naming
I have had several of the seiyū articles I made moved to the macronned form after I created them, so I was only assuming that was the correct thing to do. What I had been doing was using whatever was listed on the profile at the talent management agency, and if no romanization there, use the search key. For Yusuke Numata for instance, it would seem his official name is actually "Yuusuke Numata":

Google site search on "Yuusuke Numata" Google site search on "Yusuke Numata"

I used that method in determiming which name to use for "Yuuki Satou", yet the stub I started (like some of the previous ones I created) was moved to macronned form. I'm a little confused on what to do. Is the method I use above wrong? It kind of sends me the message that all new seiyū stubs I create or edit should have macrons if they keep getting moved (not that I have a problem with consistent appearance). --EmperorBrandon 17:56, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Does the search tag on the talent agency I mentioned above count as an "official trade name"? I tried moving Akio Otsuka to Akio Ohtsuka on those grounds one time before (not just that, but to keep consistent with Chikao Ohtsuka), but I wasn't able to do it (I'm guessing because the redirect page had been edited already). --EmperorBrandon 18:11, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that helps a lot. I'll make sure to do that right on future articles (and make mention of it necessary). In the above case, no father/son differences it seems. "Chikao Ohtsuka" is the only search key that works for him on Aoni Production. --EmperorBrandon 18:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Zatch Bell! characters

 * Hiya. I put in the full name of Dr. Ichiro, albeit mispelled and without the Japanese version.  According to the anime, it's Dr. Fuchiasi Ichiro. Danny Lilithborne 06:52, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * That's possible. I don't have my computer handy; I'll double check it when it's hooked up again. Danny Lilithborne 06:55, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) Danny Lilithborne 07:16, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Here you are
Keep up the great work! Geg 16:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Perth Amboy cats
I reverted your recent removal of categories from the Perth Amboy article, because it seemed to me that such a change called for an explanation, Edit summary or Talk page. Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 21:48, 6 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I was sure that there was and explanation-- still, I wanted to know what it was.  -- Mwanner | Talk 23:33, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Masao Kato
Thanks for your information about Japanese name order. It's fine for me. I raised that question on 16 January 2006. The "given + family name" rule for modern Japanese figure was established at 21:59, 13 February 2006. Before then, it was stated that for the title for modern figures, there is not yet an agreement on the name order. Since there is clear rule now, I follow. Thank you. --Neo-Jay 02:30, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Edit summary civility
Thank you for remembering to use the edit summary on your most recent edit to Gosho Aoyama. Please note, however, that being civil is a requirement in edit summaries as well as regular postings on Talk pages. Comments such as, "Learn that WE SPEAK ENGLISH!" should be toned down to something along the lines of, "Please use English names instead of Japanese, if available." This will help maintain a pleasant atmosphere here on WIkipedia. Please let me know if you have any questions, and thanks! (^_^) ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjo e  20:14, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Japanese names
Sigh. Manual_of_Style_%28Japan-related_articles%29. Argue with them, not me. '  (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 05:19, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * "Give the romanization for any name or term". The policy applies to names. Regardless, it makes no sense for your logic to apply only to "terms". With your logic of it being absolutely necessary to mention that it's the Japanese name, it should be stating:
 * At 3,776 meters (12,388 feet) tall, Mount Fuji, known in Japan as Fuji-san (富士山), is the highest mountain on the island of Honshu …


 * Not what it shows on the page. '  (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 05:28, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Except that Misty (Pokémon) concerns a single character, not every person named Misty. I doubt that most people would be utterly confused as to tell to people called Misty that their name is Kasumi when they fly over to Japan. When people start talking in Japanese, Misty, as in referring to the character, becomes Kasumi. '  (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 05:42, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Rikdo Koshi
"(cur) (last) 14:33, 2 June 2006 Monocrat (Rewrite lead. Standardize to "Rikudou Koushi", explain variants.)"

Unfortunately, your standardization is incorrect. His name is written as "Rikdo Koshi" in all English-language versions of his products. WhisperToMe 02:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

EDIT: It turns out ADV does use Koshi Rikdo (at least sometimes) - But if we followed the MOS to the book, it would have to be "Koshi Rikdo" OR "Koushi Rikudou". WhisperToMe 02:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * ADV uses only the one form; please provide me a source for any variants they use. Nearly every episode begins "I, Koshi Rikdo..." in the subtitles, and the copyright notices are in the same name. And the MOS prescribes "the official trade name if available in English/Latin alphabet" before "the form publicly used on behalf of the person in the English-speaking world." In choosing between the Americanization and the form he himself uses, I chose the latter, and I would like to stick with it. I have perhaps erred in placing the surname before the given name, so I'll try to fix that.--Monocrat 02:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

""the official trade name if available in English/Latin alphabet" "

In a sense, the names used in the manga and anime versions would have to be trade names too. After all, he knows what names ADV/VIZ/etc use to represent him. In a sense "Koshi Rikdo" is official too since it is on his official product in North America. WhisperToMe 02:35, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, but those are names used for but not by him. VIZ uses "Rikdo Koshi," ADV uses "Koshi Rikdo," JC Staff used "Rikudo" in the background of at least one episodes of the anime. Official sources disagree as to his tradename, therefore I have adopted the one he himself uses. I would say deference for his official romanization should in this case be given to him.--Monocrat 02:41, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

" 	:Yes, but those are names used for but not by him." - Even so, he still condones the names used. If this was a commonly-used romanization that is not used by any official sources, then this would perfectly fit no. 3. But the fact that, as far as I know, he has to approve of the said naming choices makes it official too. Also no. 1 doesn't say that the person necessairly has to have come up with the name himself. The trade name article on Wikipedia talks about the trade name of a business: "A trade name, also known as a trading name or a business name, is the name which a business trades under for commercial purposes, although its registered, legal name, used for contracts and other formal situations, may be another." - The VIZ/ADV romanization in a sense is used that way in the States. WhisperToMe 02:50, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * The simple fact is that the ADV/VIZ names are names used for him, falling under point 3 in the cited MOS, whereas he himself operates (especially on his official homepage) under "Rikudou Koushi," that name therefore falling under point 1. Variants falling under 1 are to be used in preference to those under 3. Using "Rikudou" also has the advantage of allowing clearer differentiation of the author and his representation in the anime.--Monocrat 03:05, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Yu-Gi-Oh! first series anime
Did they really air Toei Animation's first series in the Philippines? If so, does the channel that aired it have a page about Yugi and the gang? WhisperToMe 04:06, 16 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, in ABS-CBN (2003), Studio 23(2004) And Hero TV (2005), they didn't put up a site but try to check here for info --Zerwell 12:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Also, is the Yu-Gi-Oh! original manga officially translated in the Philippines? WhisperToMe 04:08, 16 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Maybe in some part/changes of English translation --Zerwell 12:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

As for the Anime News Network page, it looks like the rest of the "languages" information info is incorrect - a lot of users assume this is talking about Duel Monsters when it isn't! WhisperToMe 13:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)


 * no, it is really aired here in the philippines and i watched it...--Zerwell 17:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I was commenting about the other entries, though. Was it dubbed into Tagalog? Were the names changed? WhisperToMe 18:13, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * yes, they dubbed it into tagalog. Actually, all the animes shown on local networks were dubbed into filipino (tagalog), and animes from Cartoon Network Philippines and Animax Asia were dubbed into english. And local networks didn't changed character names. --Zerwell 15:38, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I need some help handling an anon
On the Yakushi Kabuto article there's this one kid who keeps adding a big section that involves nothing but speculation. When I attempt to remove it, he just calls me a vandal and reverts it. I even explained it on the article's talk page, but he just does the same thing. Could you help me explain to him in your administrative way that Wikipedia is not a place for speculation? Thanks. Geg 17:12, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Move request
Could you move Naruto jutsu to Jutsu to fit with the maning conventions used (taijutsu, genjutsu, etc.)? The latter has been editted preventing a normal move. – Someguy0830 (Talk | contribs) 22:28, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Aside from meaning technique, I haven't been able to find any reference to it as a standalone concept. However, now that you've brought that up, it occurs to me that a move to Jutsu (Naruto) would probably work without causing problems. – Someguy0830 (Talk | contribs) 22:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Gibraltar
Hi Whispertome!

Could you please have a look at the talk page and history of the article on Gibraltar. Over the past few months a number of users, including myself, have been in conflict with user:Gibnews. We feel he has taken over the page as his pet project and has imposed a NPOV pro-Gibraltarian point of view. I feel his attitude and utter refusal to acheive any form of consensus is contrary to the rules of wikipedia. He accuses everyone of Spanish propaganda even on issues which are not directly related to the Anglo-Spanish dispute over Gibraltar and reverts pretty much everything which is not written by himself. Although I am not Spanish, I sometimes wonder if I may be slightly biased towards the Spanish perspective. I do not however believe that Gibraltar should be Spanish and I try to remain as neutral as possible. I do not have a problem with Gibnew's views. I simply do not approve of his way of discarding other people's sources, opinions etc... You should perhaps consult other users for their opinions such as user:ecemaml and user:asterion.

That is why I ask you, as an uninterested party, to mediate or atleast give your perspective on this issue.

Please look at the talk page over the past few months. Conflict with user Gibnews seems to go a long way back.

Thankyou very much for your help. We would really appreciate it. There is nothing worse that when articles are hijacked by individuals with political agendas. --Burgas00 15:35, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

IS49
How do u know all that about IS49. Were u a former resident in Staten Island or the surrounding area? Tut74749 21:30, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

I see
Oh I see. Thanks for improving it. Tut74749 23:09, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Narita Airport
Maybe the best places for photographs of Narita Airport are Greater Tokyo Area and Transportation in Greater Tokyo? Fg2 07:24, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Midori
Good night, I'm es:Usuario:Gizmo_II, from the es: (no, really?). We ran each other more than once in the es: IRC (I'm the argentinian guy), when you were making redirections into the es:Midori no Hibi. I'm just passing by to tell you that yesterday I saw a couple of videos from the serie and guess what name they had? Yes, you're right, "Midori no Hibi". So, that makes 2 countries with releases and one of them with "Midori no Hibi" as it's official name. I expect that this new outcome will satisfy you. So long and cheers, Gizmo II 07:26, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


 * The videos are usually in japanese with subtitles in spanish, and i think they are like official releases because is a well known publisher here in Argentina, that releases a huge part of all anime videos. I think it's the most important one of 3 we have here. I expect to fulfill what you were asking because I didn't manage to understand you very well. Cheers, Gizmo II 16:18, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

M-DCPS Template
Shouldn't the template include all the schools, even the ones without articles... or if that would be too much, at least the high school. -- SmthManly  / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 19:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I was going to add the middle and elementary schools but on the side, the titles (high school, middle school, etc.) don't line up with them... is there anyway to add a border dividing each section. Also, I think the template is malfucntining over at Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School, probably some bad markup in the article, but the borders that the template has there, something like that is what I mean, that way it doesn't look so cluttered. Also, even though technically the high schools have Miami in their name (Miami Killian, Miami Sunset, etc.) most people don't call them that.  Only Miami Springs and Miami Beach normally keep it because they're named after the cities, while Killian, Sunset, Carol City, Northwestern, etc. are named after their location and to distinguish them.  --  SmthManly  / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 18:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Hmm, ok, no problem... it seems to have worked out anyway. Oh, and, for some reason your signature isn't coming up on my talkpage.  Weird... --  SmthManly  / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 00:54, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Toyota Center picture
Hi, was wondering if you had a better picture of Toyota Center? The one you uploaded may be a bit dark. If you dont have anything else, I was thinking of uploading one that I took that captures NBA All-Star Weekend outside of TC.

Question about the Naruto manga
I don't read the English manga myself, and this has recently become a semi-issue, but what terms does the manga use for the geography? As in do they use the Japanese terms like "Konohagakure" and "Hi no Kuni" as opposed to English terms like "Hidden Leaf Village/Village Hidden in the Leaves" and "Land of Fire/Fire Country"? Any info on this will he helpful in figuring out what to move a few articles to. The Magnificent, Fantastic, Splendiferous Gegiford 16:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, okay. So it's English with countries, like Land of Fire and Land of Sound, and Japanese with village names, like Konohagakure and Otogakure. Is that right? The Magnificent, Fantastic, Splendiferous Gegiford 21:12, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks for your help. The Magnificent, Fantastic, Splendiferous Gegiford 21:50, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Midtown Houston
Hello!

I was wondering if you could move Midtown, Houston, Texas to Midtown Houston so all the major areas in Houston would be named the same. I am trying to have some consistency over naming the six major areas of Houston without "xxx, Houston, Texas". I also think it's too long and unnecessary. We already have Downtown, Uptown, Neartown, Texas Medical Center, and the Houston Museum District without "xxx, Houston, Texas". I was able to move Uptown, Neartown, and the Houston Museum District over redirects, but not for Midtown. Thanks and I appreciate your help! &mdash;RJN 06:20, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Battle Royale characters
Whoops, I guess too much redundant work does have its vices. I was manually adding all fourty of them into categories and just forgot to switch the naming orders for some. Sorry about that. _dk 00:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Princeton, New Jersey
This article is about the community of Princeton, not its two municipal governments, which have separate articles. I don't see why most readers of Princeton University would care; nor do I see why this belongs in the header. Septentrionalis 22:40, 15 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, and the two Princetons are mentioned twice; if you want to be pedantic, Forrestal's in West Windsor. Septentrionalis 22:49, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Please follow common usage. This does not belong in the header. Septentrionalis 22:51, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Princeton High School (New Jersey), worthy institution though it is, will attract a smaller readership, and more of them will care about NJ municipal boundaries. Septentrionalis 22:55, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Please stop inventing policy. Wikipedia actually avoids using legal names in many cases, because of the PoV issues as to whose laws apply. This doesn't affect New Jersey (much; there was a brisk edit war over Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty); but the point remains. The two Princetons are called Princeton, even in Princeton.  Septentrionalis 22:58, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's the settlement of the edit war. No civic pride should be involved here. Septentrionalis 23:09, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * No. There is no off-WP dispute here. You These edits are merely creating trouble, where none exists. Septentrionalis 23:12, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem; that is what I meant. I have added another mention to the article. Septentrionalis 23:36, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I saw that; and I think he's wrong; or at least, right only about present, geographical features. Princeton Borough was carved out of Princeton Township in 1894; Princeton Township was created in 1845, IIRC. Before that, Princeton existed as a location and a community; but it was a wide spot in the road, divided between two different counties.

Many of the links to Princeton, like Battle of Princeton, would be anachronisms if they pointed to either municipality; others, like Kurt Goedel or Albert Einstein, would be pointless exercises in pedantry. I believe Goedel lived in the Township and died in the Borough; but so what? Septentrionalis 00:17, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The dabbing to Einstein was not merely pedantic, but wrong. The Institute began in Jones Hall, on the University campus, which is securely within the Borough. Septentrionalis 00:24, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Your last message to me looks like it should have gone to somebody else. Septentrionalis 00:25, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * No need to apologize; but you did it again. I've removed both messages, since they make our conversation hard to read; but the diff is here. In service to WP; you may want to take a stretch. Septentrionalis 00:36, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree with the general approach. Princeton, however, cannot be an illusion of the USPS, since it existed before there was either a United States or a United States Postal service; and a century before it became a municipality, to say nothing of two.Septentrionalis 18:33, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * And, as Alansohn told you, that cannot happen in New Jersey, which has not had unincorporated land since 1683. Septentrionalis 19:28, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

More Battle Royale screencaps this week!
Hey, I'm going to upload a few more screencaps of the BR and BR2 films this week. Is there any character or scene you would like to see in particular?

I also have the whole BR manga collection; I can upload a few scans too. Any requests?

Shuya Nanahara BR2 section: needs more text to display the images properly (they look a bit messy on my monitor). Any suggestions on what to write?

On last thing: I think I can shrink the BR template by splitting all BR2 links into a new template. Do you think it's a good idea? --Henrickson 07:51, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Re.:Team Rocket again
Huh? Well, I was just trying to rever a bit of Camp Lazlo-related vandalism. I didn;t intend to edit the name format. Incidentally, another archive wouldn't be too out-of-place on your TalkPage. ;) Cheers, The Raven's Apprentice  (Talk 15:00, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Heart of the Cards, yo
Not to be a weasl (sic) or anything, but about half of the Heart of the Cards page has vanished. The culprit? You. This would be understandable had you left some kind of, oh, I don't know, say, an... "edit summary", if you will, outlining the reasoning behind this edit.

Please explain your motives before I get revertin'. Thank you for your time and keep up the good work. Please. The future of Wikipedia depends on its editors. Probably. Ppk01 21:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I deleted a ton of that text on purpose. I didn't really think it was necessary. Also, you should start writing in formal English - No "you"'s - Instead say "the player(s)", "the victim", etc. It's improper to say "you" when writing an encyclopedia. WhisperToMe 21:52, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Struck-through because you aren't the author of the old article. Though the point stands if you have used "you" like that in an encyclopedia :) WhisperToMe 22:03, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to not only respond, but also correct your response. And for teaching me how to use strikethrough. One learns something new everyday, one supposes.

I kinda realised you did it deliberately, but surely it just needs a simple rewordification? (Today's Word of the Day - rewordification, noun: the process of changing the text (rewording) of a document whilst retaining the original meaning and/or definition.) There was at least one valid point in the article somewhere, and though I'm too tired to even type straight this evening, I'll take a look at it eventually.

By the way, I'm aware of the fact that I am typing in a reasonable grammatical style in this reply, but I really can't think of a way to finish this sentence coherently. And thusly, I bid you good day. Or good night. Whatever it is in... wherever you are. Ppk01 22:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Team Rocket
Actually, all that stuff about the Manga and Pokémon Yellow should be moved to Team Rocket. Team Rocket (anime) was split off when the Animé section section got too long. smurrayinch e  ster(User), (Talk) 07:02, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Keiko Kitagawa's screen name
Oh, gotcha. Thanks for the link. -- ReyBrujo 18:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

articles on fictional characters
The existence of articles on fictional characters has been a topic of discussion on the mailing list, and the general feeling is that most fictional characters don't need them. There's nothing that could be discussed in a "Jan Brady" article that wouldn't be equally at home in the "Brady Bunch" article. It's probably only a matter of time until Alice gets merged in there, too. - Nunh-huh 05:03, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

BTW, the article was originally redirected to Brady Bunch, someone changed it to Eve Plumb, which was a bad move. You ask, "Bwhy not create a "Characters of Brady Bunch" article with Jan as one of them? When her content gets too big, she gets her own article!": the answer is that the characters on the Brady Bunch belong in the Brady Bunch article, not a separate one. If (and only if) it gets too large, it can be broken up, or edited down. There's no need to anticipate that need. - Nunh-huh 05:06, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Allan Melvin
Woah, that was quick. Sorry if my comment was a bit over the top. I didn't check the history to see how long ago the article was changed. For all I knew, it had been like that all along. I just didn't think the great Allan Melvin should be snubbed, that's all. Wavy G 03:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, good work. I'd like to see this article expanded though.  I would like to do it myself, but I don't know much about the Brady characters, personally.  I do think they should each be given a decent-sized write-up, for as popular a show as it was (is).  I'd like to do some research and try to expand the characters, unless you've got it under control already.  Wavy G 03:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Kinniku Mantarou

 * I see where you are coming from, but I still disagree with the change. I've read through other people's complaints to you about similar stuff and I agree with you on a few and disagree with you on others. You see, though this is the English Wikipedia, some anime characters and shows are listed by their true names and titles while their corny English names are listed once in perenthesis like you have done with the Japanese names on Mantarou's page. Sailor Moon is famously known more over here for their stupid English names, yet if I'm not mistaken, the character's personal pages list them by their true names. And if one of you're concerns is people who don't know the original names trying to link a page to the charcter's page with their corny English name, well there's still Redirecting, isn't there?
 * In actuallity, it is all only a matter of opinion which is more appropriate for Wikipedia to list them by. And when things are only a matter of opinion, is it not logical to go for the opinion that's at least a fact?
 * Fact: Kinnikuman Nisei is from Japan
 * Fact: In Japan, the hero is named Kinniku Mantarou
 * Opinion: Mantarou Muscle is the better choice to list him by because blah, blah, blah...
 * Like I've said, there is already a character (Harabote) in the series with the family name Muscle, so not only is calling him Kinniku at least a fact but it also creates less confusion for people who aren't that familiar with the series and might think the characters are related.
 * Again, this is all a matter of opinion. I believe in staying true to what anything from another country originally was, you apparentlly believe in making things easier for english speaking audiences to relate to. Though I will stand firmly by my belief, I won't change the name back until I have your okay. And if I never change your mind about it, can we at least keep the characters from the first series (even those who play important roles in the sequal) by their real names? Thank you...--Seigi Choujin 07:21, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Hercule
You need to discuss your changing this back to Hercule on the discussion page. The topic is still open to debate and there's an ongoing survey as to which it should be.--GeneralDuke 23:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

The language argument seems like a cop-out to me. It seems to me that what the creator of the character intended the character to be called should take priority over what the dub changes the name to. And like you or someone else on that page said, the uncut English dub does call him Mr.Satan.

Starone 22:42, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Judging from the Wikipedia article the English name retains at least some of the origional concept of the Japanese name while the name Hercule does nothing of the sort for Mr.Satan and is simpily a complete name change. And again, he is called Mr.Satan in the uncut English dub. Uncut implying that nothing is edited for censorship (though it's not truly uncut but that's for another topic). The uncut version should at least take priority over the edited version.

And besides, we use the Japanese name Kamehameha on this site in many articles including it's own when by your logic we should be primarily using it's English name turtle destruction wave. And the spirit bomb article is titled Genki-Dama but according to you it should be titled spirit bomb since that's what it was called in the dub. Starone 00:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Then what about Ii Shenron? His foregin name (don't know if that's Japanese or Chinese) is used in the title of his article when his English name is clearly something different. Syn/Omega Shenron =/= Yi Xing Long/Super Yi Xing Long. And it's the same for the rest of those dragons too.

And Android 16's Hell's Flash. It was called Inferno Blast in the English manga and Blaster's Fire in the English dub (both due to censorship) yet the article on him uses it's origional Japanese name Hell's Flash.

Starone 15:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes it does use Shenlong. But what about the Yi/Syn/Omega part?

Starone 03:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Hezbollah and the EU
I realize that, as I have made that clarification on both the Hezbollah and Hassan Nasrallah pages in the past. Until they officially adopt such a stance though, I feel that listing them alongside the US and others who do so fully is a bit disingenuous. Tarc 00:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Re:Edit to Rurouni Kenshin
Uhm, I didn't change the name or anything...I used Wikipedia's rules for romaji. In the romaji field.—ウルタプ 21:22, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Re:Kirby manga image
The article didn't mention the manga at all, so the article was breaching fair use policy. Fair use images can only be used in articles talking about the subject, using the image to help describe the subject matter. At the time, the article didn't mention the manga at all, so I hid the image. I'd rather that a user has to upload an image again, than an article violating fair use policy. H ig hway Return to Oz... 16:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * It's okay, I will. You know you could just undelete the image, rather than re-upload it? I probably wouldn't it until the manga section was expanded. Cheers, H ig hway Return to Oz... 16:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I was sure there was a policy change! That what was forced the change in speedily deleting images. Either my head is going or...no my head is going. H ig hway Return to Oz... 16:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I read this, so maybe I've missed something. Could you perhaps archive your talk page soon? My computer is grumbling. Cheers, H ig hway Return to Oz... 16:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)