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Thank you. Um... is this where I reply, or do I go to your talk page? I guess I'll be finding out. ;-) AdmN 04:21, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I usually reply on the other person's page, because that trips their "new messages" flag, but other people prefer to keep original note and replies together. There's no rule on which is preferred. BTW, it's often more interesting to work on subjects where you're less expert - a chance to indulge those side interests and hobbies. And are the articles on all the places you've lived accurate representations about those places? Stan 15:57, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
As a matter of fact, I'm looking into writing something for the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Roxborough (which has a stubpage) and Manayunk (which has nothing). My fear is that a list of the best places to get cheesesteaks in these two areas may not be properly encyclopedic. ;-) AdmN 22:19, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
:-) But you've still got questions like: who founded them, and why? where do the names come from? Were they independent towns, and if so, when were they absorbed? Are any famous people from them? What about companies or industries? Is there bio information for the founders? Once you start pulling on the threads, lots of "encyclopedic" info starts surfacing... Stan 22:38, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Programming languages[edit]

Hi, AdmN. Since you have shown interest in the topic of prog lang article standarization, perhaps you would consider joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Programming languages? — danakil 21:58, Aug 23, 2004 (UTC)

Happy and honored to join prog lang. :) AdmN 22:35, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

SBVT[edit]

Presumably, this article will become easier to edit after the 2004 presidential election when, (regardless of outcome), the POV contributors who are simply trying to influence a political contest will stop caring. AdmN 19:18, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

That's a wonderfully snarky comment coming from someone who has not yet even attempted a single edit on the page. If you've got a problem with the page, try fixing it at least once before taking a cheapshot at the rest of us who are actually working on it. Wolfman 19:46, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I apologized for my 'snarky-ness' at Talk:Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth.

No problem. I clearly took it the wrong way. It has been contentious around here, and I'm a bit on edge. My apologies. I appreciate your clarification. Wolfman 20:13, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hacker[edit]

Hello! Nice to see you editing here. I kept the info on the book that you looked up, but I reverted out the changes to langauge.

Don't worry about that, I'm trying to see if I can get some of the busier articles as sharp as safely possible. Since both the people in this particular ahh dispute actually agreed in the end, we can leave the sharper words in. I think ;-)

Hmm, and be nice wrt hackers eh? The really good hackers are the kind who make sites like wikipedia ;-)

Have a great day! Kim Bruning 20:53, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I responded at Talk:Hacker. AdmN 00:10, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Choice of username[edit]

Hi AdmN, and welcome to the Wikipedia. :-)

I just wanted to let you know in advance of an issue that will most likely crop up eventually about your choice of username. While I personally don't have a problem with your username, I can see how other Wikipedians might: "AdmN" is very close to "Admin", which would fall under Wikipedia:Username#Inappropriate usernames.

I'm not asking you to do anything about this; I'm just letting you know in advance. You may be asked in the future (not by me, though) to:

  1. Change your username; or
  2. Justify your choice of username, convincing the community that it's not a violation of Wikipedia:Username#Inappropriate usernames.

Neither are very much fun, so I thought I'd give you an early warning. Best of luck in contributing to the Wikipedia, • Benc • 20:24, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

copied from Benc's talk page:

Hi, Benc. :)

Wow, would you believe, the thought honestly never occurred to me, which is odd, because I work with admins all day long. Your pointing it out to me, however, makes the matter perfectly clear: it does look like the kind of user name that an Admin would use. The Adm is actually short for Admiral, and is based on an old private joke of mine.

If the world were a nice and safe place, I would have no objection to using my real name, and in fact, I have no objection to giving my real name out to respected members of the Wikipedia community, but I fear the wrath of POV warriors and the annoyance of Trolls too much to make my name available for general consumption.

I had been considering changing my user name to Scripter. I've just checked, and it doesn't seem to be taken. My only concern is that I've read where a change in user name is viewed by some in the community as being suspicious in and of itself. Presumably, I'm new enough and innocuous enough that it won't be seen as a problem.

Thanks for the heads up. :) soon to be Scripter, or maybe something else... let me think about it for an hour or so :) 20:49, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Don't worry about people getting suspicious about a username change, there's an easy way around this. When you create your new username, don't create a user page right away. Instead, use the "move" function to move User:AdmN to User:Scripter or whatever name you choose. This makes it very clear to everyone that you are openly changing your name, and if anyone visits User:AdmN in the future, they will be automatically redirected to User:Scripter. :-) • Benc • 20:54, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

By the way, if you want your old contributions as AdmN reattributed to your new account, you might want to make a request at Wikipedia:Changing username. --Michael Snow 02:22, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

rfa[edit]

Hi func. Don't worry about it :-) It's at least better for it to come up now than later - I had no idea people would think it was an issue (I still don't see why they do, but eh...). Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 00:54, 2004 Sep 10 (UTC)

Main page[edit]

That certainly raises your qualifications to a least the Muse level, doesn't it? I mean, it certainly goes well beyond the lowly deeds of mere mud-crawling mortals such as Editor Extraordinaires...  :-) Congrats. — danakil 02:25, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)

Er, shouldn't that be Editors Extraordinaire? Mashford 05:53, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I would agree with that. :) func(talk) 14:42, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Genocide[edit]

Hello func. If you are to use the Bible to compile a legal arguement, specifically the Old Testament, and you are to list these as genocides, therefore achknowledging the Bible as speaking truth, you also achknowledge that everything in the Bible is true. If you don't achknowledge the items integrity in whole, only in part, then it will not stand up as a source. May I also ask, Are you an athiest? Your views on the Bible seem to suggest, especially My understanding of the Bible is that it is a collection of works written by many different authors over vast periods of time, that you are. Not to be rude or anything. Evolver of Borg | Talk 22:47, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)

Playground game[edit]

Just in case you get really enthusiastic about Wall Ball and feel the urge to continue, there's a list-style article called Playground game. Cheers, Joyous 19:13, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)

If you hadn't already created Wall Ball, you could have done a Move of Slaughter House to Wall Ball, which would move all of the associated history and talk page and automatically put a redirect from Slaughter House to Wall Ball. Something to keep in mind for next time a similar situation pops up. :-) Meanwhile, yes indeedy, just replacing the content of SH with the redirect command is all it takes. The history for SH stays with SH in this case; I think there's a way for an admin (which I am one of) to move it but I'm not sure and I'm not positive whether it's critical to do it; just put in the edit summary something like "moved all content to Wall Ball and chg to redir" so it's easy to track where it went. That's it! Thanks, BTW; I like your start on the wall ball article. Elf | Talk 02:22, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
LOL! Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of SEAN FLOWERS? It's been a few months since he last tried, so maybe we're safe. Elf | Talk 03:03, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Trolls[edit]

They seem to have an endless appetite for attention. Poor things. RickK 03:38, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

Biblical Genocide[edit]

To clarify what I was saying, depending on what Bible you are talking about depends on what how you consider the Bible was written. I am specifically referring to the Old Testament, the Jewish Bible, not both New and Old, the Christian Bible. The Five Books of Moses were all written at once, not as you suggest over time, while the Gospels weren't written all at the same time. If you are to cite these Genocides (in the Old Testament) as happening, you also have to achknowledge everything else as happening. To be more specific is that the Bible portrays the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If these genocides are going to be included in the Genocide article, I suggest that an additional article talking about accurarcy, although that is not a term I prefer to use when talking about the Bible. Cheers Evolver of Borg | Talk 18:17, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

Joke[edit]

I'm not OVERLY insulted, but that was a bad joke. Mike H 18:37, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. It's not that I can't take jokes, it's just that...that is something that's kinda serious to me. That's all. Mike H 05:02, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)

ASCII Armor[edit]

Much better, thanks very much. It was excellent work. Yours, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 01:08, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)

Dunno[edit]

I stopped trying to use logic on this weirdo a while ago. It's so obvious this kid is like, 15. What the fuck is a stunod? Mike H 02:34, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

I about said as much to the guy when i tangled with him directly. He got bored with me after I told him to shut up and sue. -- Cyrius|✎ 05:55, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Engrish[edit]

OK, apology accepted, no problem or hard feelings, etc. etc. etc. Cheers, Vincent 02:01, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Bragg[edit]

It's Melvyn Bragg, not Braggs.--Xed 23:58, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Funky[edit]

Hey func. func(talk) is pretty funny. Re: my strange comments: I'm a bit off the wall, but my intentions are good. Do you like Star Trek? I have great plans for the Star Trek related information on this website. If you're interested leave a note on my talk page. EDGE 02:32, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

Pronunciations[edit]

Hi Func,

It seems you had (in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (pronunciation)) the same (great) idea I had, for wikifying pronunciations. I really think something like this is necessary to make the Wikipedia the excellent resource it can be.

I've made a proposal at Wikipedia:Village_pump (proposals) (see Wiki Syntax for Pronunciation) but nothing much seems to be happening, unfortunately. Eoghan 20:50, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi Func,

No worries about the delayed response, I'm glad to hear from you. Yes, it is a bit discouraging that things move so slowly.

I'm never sure where to make suggestions like this. Wikipedia can be quite anarchic, in that respect.

The conversion of -- to — is indeed the same sort of thing. When I read about that I even went back and diligently changed all my single dashes to &mdash's so that they could be back converted, but nothing much seems to have happened, like you say. Any ideas if we could prod someone?

Eoghan 20:03, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ferdinand Waldo Demara[edit]

Thank you for your answer in Reference desk. It's cool that Wikipedia has articles about such a minor individual and your quickness finding the answer. If I can, I'll translate the artcle shown by you into ja.wikipedia. - Sketch 06:51, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

URGENT: Opposition to "Sam Spade": See User:Spleeman/Sam Spade[edit]

See a critic's tracking of SamSpade's activities on Wikipedia at User:Spleeman/Sam Spade Vote "NO", or reverse your vote, even at this late hour. This is criticle (and critical) information! IZAK 09:42, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

See: User:Spleeman/Sam Spade#Political bias:

  • From Sam's own user page: User:Sam_Spade/Theoretical_Biases
  • Removes references to groups such as the KKK as "right-wing" [1]
  • Attempts to sugarcoat racist views [2]
  • The claim the Geli Raubal was Hitler's mistress is just that, a claim [3].
  • Wants Hitler labeled as a socialist on the communism page (see Talk:Communism)
  • Insists on including his personal theories regarding a relationship between nazism and Chinese communism in nazism article:
  • From Talk:Socialism:
    • "I intend to do what I always have, which is insist that the Nazi's were socialist because... they were." (Sam Spade 00:32, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC))
  • Called another editor a "fascist" (Talk:Socialism#protection). This is similar to his attempts to try to provoke me by implying that I was a nationalist, or not an anarchist:
  • More on belief in non-racial eugenics: Why Sam is Right Wing (a list by User:Stopthebus18)
    • Stopthebus18: "People (including our country) have done horrible things in the name of eugenics." (StoptheBus18 16:02, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC))
    • Sam Spade: "Seems to work in Singapore. Bad things have been done in the name of all sorts of medicine, but we don't stop going to the doctor, do we?" (Sam Spade 17:21, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC))
  • Guess what everybody!!! "The attempt to paint them [the Nazis] as "reactionaries" is a propagandistic fraud." (Sam Spade 16:11, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC), Talk:Nazism) Wow! You learn something new everyday.... Not.
  • Hmm. For some reason, Sam doesn't want anybody to know that white-supremacist Wolfgang Droege was involved in drug trafficking [4].

Nomination vote[edit]

Hey, thanks for the vote! A real confidence boost, especially when I'm feeling down =) Incidently, I reckon your username is great, but do you use function overloading? - Ta bu shi da yu 12:44, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Cheers mate :) what scripting languages do you use? - Ta bu shi da yu 03:02, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

HGH Spam[edit]

There was something weird going on about the time I reverted the spam from my userpage -- things appeared and disappeared off my watchlist etc. At any rate, thanks for watching out for me! Catherine | talk 15:55, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Why thank you! Can I be your Gunnery Muse? Catherine | talk 21:15, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Nacho King rewrite[edit]

I have significantly rewrote the Nacho King article. Please review it I hope it ansewers your notability questions. I would appreciate your support. -JCarriker 23:03, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you[edit]

I'm glad to hear that you value my contributions. No, I'm not an admin, do I have enough edits? I think I have about 1500, that may be too low. Rhobite 23:53, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

Removing "astrologers"[edit]

Glad to see you pruning the list. I was almost certain about Isidore (after all, I spent a good chunk of my life putting the Etymologies on line on my own site), and Hypatia ought to be renamed Hype-at-ya: there's a lobby out there that absolutely wants to have a great woman this-or-that in Antiquity; I sympathize with the motivation, but draw the line when Truth suffers. — Bill 11:08, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) (who's cast his share of astrological charts, too)

Want more work?[edit]

Have you seen List_of_occultists? Plato is on it, among others.... — Bill 22:07, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You just removed...[edit]

You just removed all comments from the clitoris page, now I see you've blanked your user page and user talk page. You're not leaving are you? Please say no! Theresa Knott (Not the skater) 23:36, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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