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:::::Only if what happened is notable and verifiable. Not only are these two incidents not verifiable, but also, in most instances, Wikipedia does not mention other professors' homework assignments so I see no notability reason to mention the Rankmaniac assignment or the honeypot webserver here. [[User:Copysan|Copysan]] ([[User talk:Copysan#top|talk]]) 17:47, 14 February 2009 (UTC) |
:::::Only if what happened is notable and verifiable. Not only are these two incidents not verifiable, but also, in most instances, Wikipedia does not mention other professors' homework assignments so I see no notability reason to mention the Rankmaniac assignment or the honeypot webserver here. [[User:Copysan|Copysan]] ([[User talk:Copysan#top|talk]]) 17:47, 14 February 2009 (UTC) |
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::::::Other professors don't deliberately try to get their homework assignments ranked highly on Google. This was a highly unusual thing to give as a homework assignment, and I've never heard of anyone else doing anything similar at any other university. That's what makes it notable. [[User:CMUalum|CMUalum]] ([[User talk:CMUalum|talk]]) 20:34, 14 February 2009 (UTC) |
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No problem
I think I updated your vandal count properly :) Tawker 22:56, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Racism
Please don't use the n word repeatedly -- Thanks aleg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.58.253.114 (talk • contribs) 16:05, February 12, 2006 (UTC)
- Please tell me where I've used the n-word? I would like to know. Copysan 23:45, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
- The page is gone now unfortunately to say. But just watch it in the futer. Thank you! :))
- Since you cannot provide evidence where I have been using the n-word, I will assume that I am innocent of this charge. (If you want the page that had the alleged n-word usage, you can request its temporary reinstatement on WP:DRV.)
- The page is gone now unfortunately to say. But just watch it in the futer. Thank you! :))
Also, please to ask why have you deleteing my posts on domain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.58.253.114 (talk • contribs) 16:21, February 12, 2006 (UTC)
- What posts/domain are you talking about? Copysan 00:39, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
How can you speak for all of 63.204.151.5?
This question was posed by 134.58.253.114 (talk) on my user page, which Adrian and Peruvianllam reveted, since 134.58.253.114 posted this twice. [1] [2] I have moved this question here from my user page to my talk page because I feel 134.58.253.114 maybe, as a newbie, he does not know how Wikipedia operates. It's okay. I'll assume good faith. to 134.58.253.114, please post futher discussion here. Thank you. Copysan 00:37, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
- First, I'd like to begin by thanking you for noticing the misspelling of category. It is much appreciated. Second, regarding your question. I feel I can speak for the ideals of the school that owns that IP, Bellarmine College Preparatory. I cannot speak for them all, but I can speak for the ideals because I am a representative of that school. Note that I do not say I speak for all of Bellarmine, but instead note that I directly cite the ideals. I apologized because that IP is representative of me, since that IP represents my school. I also edit from that IP without logging in, on occasion. As a result, what that IP does is a reflection of me. I feel that the vandalism perpetrated by that IP do not represent me and the ideals of that school accurately, and as a result, I posted that small blurb to reflect that. It's quite an odd line of reasoning. perhaps this will make it easier. If we hold 63.204.151.5 = Bellarmine = Me and 63.204.151.5 = Vandal, then by the Commutative Property, Vandal = Me. However, I am not a vandal, so a qualification must be made. The qualification modifies the original assumptions. It is now, 63.204.151.5 = Vandal (except for when 63.204.151.5 = Me). Hopefully, that cleared it up. Copysan 00:37, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
What are your views on abortion
What are they? (Fixed also your spelling of know) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.58.253.114 (talk • contribs) 16:59, February 12, 2006 (UTC)
- Abortion should be legal. Copysan 04:20, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Random note
Heh, yea. I don't mind a free Taiwan per se... but they make too big a deal of it IMO. But the PRC is where it is. All the economic growth is insane. I just don't like people who make a big deal about freeing Tibet/Hong Kong because they BENEFIT more from being part of the PRC than anything. And Taiwan is a de facto seperate state anyways so I don't know why the PRC makes such a big deal about that... meh, my two cents and a random raving on the political state of China. Sasquatch t|c 04:51, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you
Thank you for the excellent A. H. Armstrong rewrite. It was positively wonderful. Your professionalism is extremely appreciated. You saved the article. LoveMonkey 15:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for the compliment! P.S. That link did not show up, but it is located at A.H. Armstrong. Perhaps we should move it? Copysan 04:01, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Yeah the same weirdness happened with the Vladimir Lossky article I submitted. It took like weeks for it to show up on a search. Still a killer job on your part though. Thanks again.LoveMonkey 03:57, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
PS how does one add that beautiful LNC tag to their profile? Like the one YOU have? LoveMonkey 22:49, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- LNC tag? Copysan 03:24, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Libertarian Party-Libertarian National Committee. LoveMonkey 16:33, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Add this code to your user page
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Copysan 22:57, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Done! Thanks. LoveMonkey 02:42, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Copysan. Might I ask you to help me with another article I contributed? Charles E. Hill thank you again Mr CopySan. LoveMonkey 13:11, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
CopySan ya breakin my heart man..That text carries no copyright. LoveMonkey 23:12, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
True fair enough, sorry CS. LoveMonkey 02:06, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey I hope your not mad at me over than. Hey no hard feelings aye. LoveMonkey 01:05, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
A watered-down version of the proposed policy against censorship is now open for voting. Will you kindly review the policy and make your opinions known? Thank you very much. Loom91 12:22, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Bellarmine swim team
Bellarmine swim team has lost meets every year...They have not lost a CCS title for some time. Talk to Larry Rogers and he will tell you there is no streak. So with that said it is not necessary to mention Campolindo at all. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.154.184.66 (talk • contribs) . moved from user page by Jjjsixsix (t)/(c) @ 04:25, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
- In that case, then no streak was broken. The mercury news article is quite an odd one, then, for asserting that. Thank you for your quick and prompt reply. And thanks to Jjjsixsix for moving it from my User page to my Talk page. Copysan 04:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Bellarmine President
Paul G. Sheridan is the new BCP president. William Muller served as interim president and was replaced this January. Here is a link: [3] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.154.184.66 (talk • contribs) 13:08, April 25, 2006.
- Youre right. I must be stoned. Excuse me. Also, please sign your comments by using ~~~~ Also found this which is what I'm putting on as a link under it. Copysan 23:02, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
see message Talk:Carmelo Borg Pisani#Comment on Copysan's edits, cheers --Joelemaltais 23:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- gotcha Copysan 01:52, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Academy Award Best Picture Template
- Full conversation with responses from both parties copied into a chronological order can be viewed at User_talk:Copysan/Academy Award Best Picture Template Copysan 10:19, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
I am using Explorer in browsing and editing wikipedia articles. And I'm not having any problems which you have mentioned. The view through the Explorer, strangely, is similar to the image you posted with the correction (without the <br>, despite actually having it). Further, I applied the <br>s so that the year will not be separated from the appropriate title. So in terms of reconciling the appearance from Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, I am not really familiar since I just learned how to make and edit templates for a little over a month now. But your point is valid, an editor also once asked whether there was an error in a template I made before since it looks weird using Mozilla. Joey80 09:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well, how about using <br clear=all> instead of <br>. The function is more encompassing than the simple <br>. I previewed the page using this and the appearance in unaltered in Explorer, how does it look through Mozilla? Joey80 05:39, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
- Ok, so it didn't do any good. Maybe we can post the problem in the help section so we can find a way to reconcile the format between Explorer and Mozilla. Joey80 07:56, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
- Done! Posted it in under the technical section. In any case, I asked for possible suggestions to be directed to you since I don't use Mozilla and don't have it. Feel free to edit the template. Joey80 08:26, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
- Looks good in Explorer too! Joey80 03:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Vandalism rollback
No probs! Cheers -- Samir धर्म 07:19, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Re : EnRich!
Yup, that's right. And mark it as Template:nowcommons afterwards. Thanks for your interest in helping out on the WikiProject! :) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 09:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey can you help clean up the page? LoveMonkey 23:36, 10 August 2006 (UTC) Copysan is THE MAN! You rule thanks! LoveMonkey 16:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Postcrossing
Hi there
I invite you to put this userbox on your userpage !
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Just click edit this page to see the code for it ! Happy Postcrossing! Swollib 11:16, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- NO thanks! Copysan 22:15, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
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List of the Daily Show guests AFD
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SHA-1
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Pink Taco (Manhattan) newspaper citations
Hi Copysan, I put the citations at Talk:Pink Taco. Couldn't find any of the national ones, just a random few from the Manhattan Mercury (I say 'random' because, of the ~2 dozen I have that I clipped and saved from the Mercury, the 6 that are still in their archives seem to be randomly chosen, and certainly don't represent the juiciest or most important). Anyway, I make some suggestions there about cutting down the article to conform it to what's available online. Jameswsperman 23:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Love Smart
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Why do you keep removing Anton Ford from Bellarmine notables?
What do you mean "unanswered claims to notability"? You never answered my question, which was "Who says winning a speech competition at the national level two years in a row isn't notable?". That was my answer, what's your response, other than to roll it back? I even provided a footnote wit a reference. If someone is noted 15 years after they graduate as first in the country 2 years in a row in something, how is that not notable? Would appreciate a response.
Sorry about that, it was me who posted that , and I forgot to log in. Please see my additions to the Bellarmine Talk page. Spectrum266 19:38, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
AfD nomination of Jesusism
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Rollback
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Defence of Liechenstein
Have you thought of finding the relevant person at the CIA who deals with the 'L' entries for the World Fact Book and advising them that they've got it wrong? They'd probably be keen to fix the error. Buckshot06 (talk) 03:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- I've emailed them the day I made the edit and so far have received no reply. Copysan (talk) 04:32, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah, email inquiries to large organisations never seem to get anywhere - small embassies seem to react better! If I was nearby (I'm in New Zealand), this is how I'd approach it - ring the CIA main front desk, ask for the section which deals with the World Fact Book, then in that section, ask for the person who is specifically responsible for Liechenstein, find out that person's name, and then email him or her. Otherwise it's more difficult. My 2 cents, for what it's worth. Buckshot06 (talk) 22:34, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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Why did you remove the Raines fact???
Curious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smith288 (talk • contribs) 01:39, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
- As you can see by this diff, I simply removed extraneous brackets from an external link. I believe you may have confused my edits with somebody else's. Copysan (talk) 06:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Removal of material from Luis von Ahn
You removed a section claiming it was unsourced. Considering that Luis von Ahn posted the 'rankmaniac' assignment on the university's web server, it's pretty clear that he actually gave this assignment, and if you google 'rankmaniac', you can see the results. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CMUalum (talk • contribs) 12:54, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- There's no source claiming it's a controversy. You can't call something a controversy unless it really is. Generally controversies involve at least a couple news articles and maybe an editorial or two. There's no evidence that the Rankmaniac assignment or the honeypot webserver generated any controversy or extended discussion outside of class or had larger ramifications on professor or student conduct policies. Copysan (talk) 20:29, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Why this was controvertial ought to be rather obvious, and if you search the web you will find some not very favorable things written about von Ahn and the rankmaniac incident. I don't know if it resulted in changes to professor or student conduct policies, but I never claimed that it did. If you consider 'controversy' a weasel word then perhaps you'd like to suggest a better term, but the article is rather incomplete without a discussion of these incidents, as it portrays him as some sort of spam-fighting hero, while the reality is a bit different. CMUalum (talk) 07:05, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- I would like to see such "not very favorable things" written in verifiable, credible, and notable sources. Wikipedia is not the place for unsourced controversies, especially on articles about living persons. Copysan (talk) 07:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- I agree that those kinds of personal attacks do not belong on Wikipedia. I think it's sufficient to explain what happened and leave it at that. CMUalum (talk) 17:19, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
- Only if what happened is notable and verifiable. Not only are these two incidents not verifiable, but also, in most instances, Wikipedia does not mention other professors' homework assignments so I see no notability reason to mention the Rankmaniac assignment or the honeypot webserver here. Copysan (talk) 17:47, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
- Other professors don't deliberately try to get their homework assignments ranked highly on Google. This was a highly unusual thing to give as a homework assignment, and I've never heard of anyone else doing anything similar at any other university. That's what makes it notable. CMUalum (talk) 20:34, 14 February 2009 (UTC)