User talk:Dyinghappy

Hrm

It seems that I got banned. I tried my best not to tread on any toes but I must have upset User:Viridae. What a fickle world we live in! Dyinghappy (talk) 10:53, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Activate your email or send me one please. Viridae^Talk 12:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Done I think. Dyinghappy (talk) 21:21, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Some responses

It is annoying not to have the last word, so here we go.

This was my last post before the ban (oddly put in place by someone I had never talked to). So I have to presume that this was the reason for the ban (although it was not explained). So here is my explanation, which I would normally have written either in Talk:Wikipedia Review or in User talk:Giggy:

It is surely normal practice to list all of the sites that are controlled by an entity or related to that entity. The ProBoards site doesn't get many hits, but it is nonetheless also called Wikipedia Review, and not by coincidence. It is run by one of the founding members of Wikipedia Review, therefore it is relevant. wikipediareview.net would also be relevant, if it were still up or if it were archived somewhere, but it isn't. All other versions of a Wikipedia Review article include a link to that site, so why not Wikipedia?

Re [1] by User: J Readings:

I actually wasn't planning to comment on this at all, since to me it is pretty obvious what the reference says, and I have quoted it. Furthermore, the reference backs up the content of the site. Perhaps stating something along the lines of "Encyclopaedia Dramatica writes in a style that is a parody of Wikipedia whilst writing about anything ranging from MySpace to LiveJournal to 4chan to Habbo Hotel to anything in between, including Wikipedia itself" would be accurate. My concern is that the opening sentence misleads the reader into thinking that the sole reason for Encyclopaedia Dramatica's existence is to criticise Wikipedia, which is about as far from the truth as it is possible to get. Nonetheless, this has gone on long enough, and I will leave it up to sensible others to sort out.

To User:Sfan00 IMG re: [2] which should be in Talk:Australian_Idol_(season_5):

I really don't understand why it is considered to be bad to have a link to a YouTube video of the show itself to prove that something happened on the show. I don't believe that Channel Ten has tried to sue YouTube to take down the videos, and furthermore it is acceptable to copy the videos onto YouTube or anywhere else, so long as it is not for profit. Why then is there a problem with it being in Wikipedia? Furthermore, if you insist that there is a problem, why replace verified references with (fact) tags? Why not just get better references? You are just being painful and creating problems for everyone else. I hope that this issue is dealt with in the future by sensible others. There undoubtedly are links that prove it, aside from video clips of the episodes themselves, but it is puzzling that we aren't allowed to use video clips of the episodes themselves. In my mind, this is quite an insane thought process.

- Now I guess that I am not allowed to talk to anyone to tidy things up, so that will have to do.

I didn't get any warnings, wasn't in any serious disputes with anyone, nor had I been in any disputes in the past, so suddenly being banned seems odd to me. Was there something wrong with my contributions? Anyway there is no real point fighting this, so there we go. If Wikipedia doesn't want my contributions, then they don't want my contributions. It's as simple as that. I don't think that I broke any of their rules anywhere, and that all of my contributions were positive. But hey, what can you do when a site doesn't want you? Dyinghappy (talk) 21:21, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

You're not fooling anybody Blissy, 71.108.124.134 (talk) 23:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC).