User talk:The Fat Man Who Never Came Back

Request

Please do not clutter my talk page with "templates" or generic notices, such as a list of the "pillars" of Wikipedia or vandalism warnings (which will rarely be warranted, unless I've been Editing While Inotixcated). If you post something here, it should be something you wrote yourself. Everything else will be deleted.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 16:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

categories and sub-categories

Saw your note on the Category talk:Literary critics. Generally speaking, Wikipedia practice is that if all members of a subcategory would also be considered members of that category then articles that belong in the subcategory should have just the subcategory. Given the nature of Wikipedia, this isn't always the case, as you noticed with the Edmund Wilson article. There can be any number of reasons why an article might have a more generic category, but usually it involves the more specific category not having been around when the category was added to the article, or the article editor was unaware of the more specific category. If you notice such a situation, feel free to edit the article (as I just did to the Edmund Wilson article) so that it uses the more specific category. Caerwine Caerwhine 20:03, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Keep in mind that categories are extremely unselective. In the rare case of someone who is looking for every single literary critic found in Wikipedia, the added effort of trolling thru the sub categories isn't a problem. On the other hand, if someone is looking for exemplary examples of literary critics, that's what articles are for, assuming that they've been written. Caerwine Caerwhine 14:08, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

History fix

Listen, fat man, I do what I want, when I want. Luckily for you, I feel like helping you today. TacoDeposit 16:15, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I made a request on Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. TacoDeposit 16:31, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Replied on User talk:TacoDeposit --The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 08:59, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Enos (Book of Mormon)

I removed your addition to the Enos (Book of Mormon) article since it wasn't clear that Krusty's limerick was specific to the Book of Mormon character rather than anyone named "Enos". Perhaps it should be included in the Enos disambiguation article instead. andersonpd 17:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

AfD procedure

You're welcome.

For future reference, once you put the subst:afd template on the top of the article, there is a set of 3 wikilinks in text form for afd1, afd2, and afd3 for you to copy and paste.

1. afd1 is the one you just added, so it's already done.
2. afd2 goes on "this article's entry" at the AfD page. If you click the link for "this article's entry" in the AfD box, it will give you a blank page (unless the article has already been AfD'd once). Just paste the afd2 wikilink from the AfD template and where it says "Text=", add your reasoning and signature after the = and before the end curly brackets.
3. afd3 goes on the log page. Copy and paste it to the "log" link to the right of the three wikilinks that you've been copying and pasting. It should take you straight to the "edit this page" for the AfD log for today. Paste, make sure the pagename field is correct, and you're done.

Hope that helps. ju66l3r 16:16, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Re:Thanks for the death threat

You're welcome. Well, you know how teenagers and other people like to have fights in parking lots and stuff like that? Well...

I actually hate myself for what I did to the Meg White talk page, but I was extremely angered by what I read on that talk page, me being an extreme White Stripes fan. Thanks though, and enjoy Wikipedia! --S-man 22:33, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Your message "please contribute" was encouraging vandalism. You might like to consider if keeping the threat is helpful to the purpose of building an encyclopedia, which I presume is your interest in being here. Tyrenius 01:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

See AN. Tyrenius 03:19, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Howdy

I have read the discussion, also I think you should read WP:Userpage. It's not a gem, you should see my deleted history. Look, this is something that is a serious issue and it's very troubling having it on your userpage. Yanksox 12:31, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I suggest it would be prudent and show respect for the serious concerns raised about this, to leave it off your user page, until such time as you have a consensus of support for retaining such material. Tyrenius 12:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

First off, I don't have any "authority," I just have a couple extra buttons. Secondly, I'm pretty chipper, so I don't need to "lighten up." One of the key issues here is that you are feeding the trolls, and just giving them reason to vandalise. Also, having that up there does appear to violate WP:Userpage, in expressing polemical views. I find it troubling having comments like that up there, I think we have all been very uneasy about alot of recent events involving users that you were slightly connected with. Again, I am just one person, but take it to AN. I don't think it is approate to have something of that nature on your userpage, despite the immaturity of the post, it does exist. Yanksox 16:04, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Patrick M. McCabe

Hi Fat Man, I am Patrick M. McCabe. Congratulations on finally deleting my article. However, you were incorrect in your assertations. I really do exist. And everything on my article is true. Great work researching my books in libraries and book stores. You might have been less surprised not to find me there if you actually read the article a little more carefully. I claimed that I was an award-winning short story author, but it says right there on the page that the only award I've ever won is the "Headmaster's Prize for Essay" - a prize given out at my school. Also, perhaps you should brush up on your French. My article claims critics have called me 'a modern day pied noir'. This sounds very literary, but actually it is simply a Fench term for a "French settler in Africa". Finally, I also claim critics think I am an "Australian R.J. Stanley". However, R.J. Stanley's only literary achievement is co-writing my Chemistry text-book, whcih just happened to be lying around when I wrote the article. IN addition, he is Australian. So I admit defeat. You outsmarted me. But you could have done it a lot quicker if you'd just read the article a bit more carefully. That would also have saved you a trip to the bookstore and library. Solipsist3 08:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

You're right that I never really read your article--though brief, the article iteslf was woefully uninteresting; as a writer, you may wish to affect a punchier prose style that will immediately sieze the reader's interest. What did get my attention was the way you were insinuating yourself into articles that people actually do read, articles like short story and Australian literature. Had you not done so, no one would have noticed your humdrum narcissism piece, and it would not have been deleted. And don't flatter yourself imagining that the Fat Man has the energy or to the inclination to leave his chair to go sifting through bookstores and libraries on your account. It took about 2 seconds to enter your name into Amazon and into my public libarary's online search engine--much quicker than it would have taken to read your article, and only slightly less time it took to nominate it for deletion. Enjoy making wiseass contributions in bad faith. As a solipsist, surely you'll agree that Wikipedia was created expressly for your amusement; the Fat Man salutes you, and your sockpuppets too.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 09:44, 23 August 2006 (UTC)