User talk:Freakofnurture

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A very happy birthday to you. --Dakota 02:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC)	I am older than a lot of famous dead guys. A lot of famous dead guys didn't-live-as-long-as-me. Oh sure, they accomplished more, in a lot less time, But they are dead and what good does that do you?	I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane! — Samuel L. Jackson

"I resent being called friendly"

What, always? I've suspected as much. ^_^
brenneman 01:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Rap

After our discussion last June, and your fixing the "Rap" disambiguation pages[1], someone else has just gone and merged Rap into Rap (disambiguation), and redirected it to rapping: [2]. Dreadlocke ☥ 06:10, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Care

Hi. Please take more care when recategorizing. For details, please see Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Category:Disambiguation_and_Redirection_templates. Thanks!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 20:23, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

RFAr

I don't intend to make a big deal out of this, but could you change part of your statement to say that I unblocked Davi Levy after I blocked Philwelch? [3] [4] Your current statement says the reverse. Just to clarify, the fact that Phil had blocked David was unknown to me when I went to block him. Thanks. -- Steel 21:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Will do. —freak(talk) 21:03, Feb. 4, 2007 (UTC)

Archival

You have removed many postings from this user talk page. Those postings were not put here to annoy you; they were placed there because another editor has noticed an issue with your behaviour that may require improvement. They are a method of communication and they stand as a record of communication with you. If you do not believe the postings were valid or have a question about improving your behaviour you can respond here or visit the help desk. If your talk page is becoming long, you can archive it in accordance with the guidelines laid out here. Thank you.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 21:10, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Eh, I quit doing it that way about 2,915 postings ago. —freak(talk) 21:29, Feb. 4, 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration

I've come to find out this thread has been moved to WT:RFAR. I couldn't be happier.

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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Philwelch

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Philwelch. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Philwelch/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Philwelch/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher131 12:25, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Removing redlinks

In response to your concern raised at RfA, if you read my user page's wikilosophy material, you'll see that I'm both an immediatist and an eventualist, on different levels. At any rate, yes, sometimes I do remove redlinks. I generally do this in the following circumstances:

1. They are malformed, e.g. "Johnson was born in Tokyo, Japan" - the "born in" link isn't ever going to go anywhere.
2. They are very, very silly in context, e.g. "After their comeback in 1987, the band enjoyed a world-wide hit with their next single" - everyone already knows what the world is. (Actually that was a non-redlink example, but the point is still clear.)
3. They are to something almost certainly likely to remain non-notable, e.g. "He next won the Amateur Dusseldorf Go-cart Racing Championship" - events of purely local interest very rarely survive AfD, and redlinks like this encourage the creation of more doomed articles.
4. They are superfluous dab page links, e.g. "Theordore B. Smith, a Louisville, Kentucky impressionist sculptor" - WP:DAB is very clear that dab entries should almost invariably have one and only one wikilink.
5. They are dab entries for articles that do not exist and point to articles that do not in fact mention the topic of the dab, e.g. "The Clovis Herald, a newspaper in Clovis, New Mexico" - if both Clovis Herald is a redlink, and the actual town article never mentions the newspaper, I comment such dab entries out, on the premise that this situation will eventually fix itself, but until it is fixed the dab entry is not only not helpful in providing the redlink, but is directly and frustratingly misleading to the reader in the case of the town link. I think these changes are supportable under WP:DAB but perhaps more inportantly under WP:NOT (and by reference WP:ENC): Wikipedia is not a collection of indiscriminate information, and its dab pages shouldn't be used to serve such a function.

If the above does not address the redlink deletions you were concerned about, or you simply disagee with any of them, I'd appreciate understanding your side better. I frequently change my methods based on others' input around here! If my edits in this regard have actually been frustrating for you, I'm sorry to hear that and look forward to seeing what compromise we can come up with.

— SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 16:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Hustler (disambiguation) / Hustle

NB: I have inverted the order of the street/pool entries at both places; my reversion of the disruptive edit was about the PoV language in them, and reverting the order change had simply been incidental. Given that you and that editor would both prefer the street definition first (however it reads), and no one else is commenting on the issue, that's 2:1, so I'm going with your preference. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 16:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Your Mom

You recently unprotected this, probably as a routine clearing of old protections. The page is being vandalized like crazy again because of the title/subject matter. —Dgies^t c 02:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Behold, the dipshit was blocked just a minute before your comment above [5]. —freak(talk) 02:16, Feb. 16, 2007 (UTC)

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Daniel Brandt

Please don't wheel war - the deletion may have been irregular, but it has been endorsed by DRV.--Doc^g 16:40, 23 February 2007 (UTC)