User talk:Arichnad

Notes on Nationalism

Read the essay yourself. I will give you the exact line number if you want. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs 09:25, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, can you please give me the line number? I would appreciate it, thanks. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 17:27, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Here is the direct quote from the 15th paragraph (beginning with "Indifference to objective truth is encouraged by..."):

Some nationalists are not far from schizophrenia, living quite happily amid dreams of power and conquest which have no connection with the physical world.

The line number would differ depending on your screen resolution. I hope this would be enough. Kindest regards, -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs 23:55, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 12:59, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Berkhamsted Collegiate School‎

The reason the comment was removed is that 194.164.81.12 has been vandalising the main article too. Peridon (talk) 18:36, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Ok, cool. Thanks. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 23:06, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

DC Meetup Events: You're invited!

Wikipedia Loves Art! (February 27) The Smithsonian American Art Museum will be holding a Wikipedia Loves Art! meetup on Friday, February 27 from 5-7 pm in the Kogod Courtyard. This is a photography event involving Wikipedians, along with Flickr users and others, to generate content for Wikipedia. Come share your experiences, meet the other teams, and take some photos! While RSVPing isn't necessary drop Jeff Gates an email if you're planning on attending so he can get a head count: gatesj (at) si.edu. There also is a signup list here, along with detailed information. The museum is conveniently located across from the Gallery Place-Chinatown metro station. DC 6th Meetup (March 7) The DC 6th meetup will take place on March 7th at Pizzeria Uno's at Union Station, one level up from the main floor. The meetup will start at 5pm, and people usually stick around there for several hours. You can RSVP at Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 6.

This has been an automated because you your name was on the invite list. BrownBot (talk) 16:18, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Recreated The Gay Marriage Thing page based on your info.

thank you for your post and explanations, very simply i had to stop editing rather abruptly and the page was deleted before i had a chance to finish. slowly but surely i'm getting the hang of this uber-detailed contribution process. I will be adding more content but definitely this is the Meatier version than the blip I started with before ;-) thanks for your post, it helped. Millies (talk) 22:07, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Your AIV report on 84.71.142.1

Thank you for your report on 84.71.142.1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). I have however declined to block for the following reason:

Report was good at the time, but is now stale. (1 hour since last edit) Re-report if this user resumes vandalising. They seem to have reverted his latest addition, so I suggest we wait to see if start again.

If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page. Cheers! -- lucasbfr ^talk 08:30, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the COI tag added to Blockland article.

Adding the tag without explaining what you believe to be wrong with the article is not particularly helpful to me. I would appreciate if you could explain specifically what parts of the article you have an issue with so that they may be addressed. If you do not point out specific issues it makes it extremely difficult to modify the article in a way that resolves your concerns satisfactorily. Sergeant Peppers (talk) 21:54, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

It looks like I made a mistake, I apologize. I checked through the history and notice that you only readded the COI another user added that was removed. I will take it up with them. Sergeant Peppers (talk) 22:33, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeah as you guessed, I didn't add the tag originally. I'll try to help answer questions about the tag though. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 22:35, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Fascin

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D.C. Meetup, Saturday, June 6, 2009

The 7th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, June 6th, starting at 5 p.m. The event will be at Bertucci's, near George Washington University and the Foggy Bottom metro station. It will follow the Apps for Democracy open source event at GWU. For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 7. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.)
Delivered by The Helpful Bot at 19:36, 2 June 2009 (UTC) to report errors, please leave a note here.

Question on Race of Jesus Section Ancestors

I don't know if this is the best way to reply to you or not. If we move this to the Race of Jesus talkpage that is fine. I will copy it there as well so you can reply at either place.

How was this already approved by Wikipedia Admins? Simple, the section existed (approved by many, admins including) for years. I simply came in to add a few more references to the section. No opinions, no new research. ONLY added quotes from the bible and the famous Jewish Historian Josephus (see my changes).

Shortly after my changes to this longstanding section, a Wikipedia admin reviewed (made one very good change to help clarify a reference) and approved it. No further changes.

Then "Aunt Entropy" comes into the picture, CLEARLY heated, passionate, ruffled and full of vigor and personal opinions, he/she simply removes the whole section (What had been up there for months and what was added by me).

Why should it stay there? I'm frankly surprised that I would have to answer this question. Have you read the entry for this section? Have you read the title of the article? The article is on the Race of Jesus. The section within the article is on the only reference known describing Jesus' actually grandparents and/or "ethnic family" take your pick. Does anyone argue that Jesus was not a Jew? This is not rocket science. Are you asking me: How the ancestral description of Jesus' kinfolk is relevant, in an articel called Race of Jesus? Again I'm very confused as to why you are asking this, the title of the Article is what it is about.

Almost everything else on this article is speculation, save this and your asking me why it should stay? Again very confused. Sincerely, Joel Ginsberg

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, September 26

The 8th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, September 26, starting at 6 p.m. The event will be at Burma Restaurant (740 6th St, NW near the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station). For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 8. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.) --EdwardsBot (talk) 06:48, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Google

Yeah, i realized that. I went to revise it, but when I pressed save page, it was taking an insanely long time, so I tried again, and my internet failed. Not meaning to make excuses, but it's good the page is back. *Pepperpiggle*^*Sign!* 21:01, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Yea I posted to ANI as well as admitted my violation of 3RR. I didnt realize that I was sucked that far into it until a few minutes ago.. - 4twenty42o (talk) 20:44, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Planning Discussions Now Ongoing Regarding DC Meetup #9

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Thanks For Expanding the D.C. Meetup Blacklist Entries

It simply never occurred to me to check the other DC Meetup pages for blacklist entries. Again, thank you very much!
--NBahn (talk) 07:45, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Yeah no problem :) ~a (user • talk • contribs) 07:46, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Bristol

Hi Adrian, I am not sure why you think England or the UK for that matter is metric but your information ios wrong. In The uK we use Imperial units for distance, e.g. road miles, miles per hour, volume, e.g pints in pubs, but we also use SI metric units for food, kilos / lites, etc. It is a confusing mixture, metrication was started in the 1960s, but has never been fully followed through, but that is how it is so I have reverted your recent additions to Bristol. You can see examples of British usage [1] and [2] and Imperial units#United Kingdom. Cheers. 12:04, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

For some reason I just knew someone was going to balk at that edit summary :) I should have just said nothing. Anyways, I could care less. WP:MOS seems to agree with you; everything in the UK is metric except road distances and beer. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 16:58, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it is best to check out facts before unilaterally changing information in articles. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:57, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Wait what? I guess my tone didn't come across very well in my reply. I've reread my reply and realized that you probably thought I was being confrontational. I was just changing the unit of measure. It hardly gets more minor than that. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 21:02, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Uwe Kils

I'll let you at it. I should have read the edit time and realized you might be still editing. The article is almost readable now with so many different editors improving it. --IP69.226.103.13 (talk) 19:59, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks! I'm done for now but I recognize it still needs lots of work. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 20:23, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes, hate insulting with, "you've put in tons of work to make it almost readable." The editor who moved the pictures first really helped, because you could see the text! I'll go back in. I'm going to give up on editing biographies of scientists though. They're the number one most targeted group at AfD, and it's worthless fighting the deletionists who would never delete a cartoon or game character, but attack the scientists and academics like they don't belong on wikipedia. Thanks for taking the time to move this article from crap to something better than garbage. --IP69.226.103.13 (talk) 20:32, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

:) ~a (user • talk • contribs) 20:34, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

hallo from uwe kils

hallo

• the article has been written by my former students, i only added high resolution royalty free images, some information and links. everything is true and proovable. do you know of any professor who has the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize[2], the Heisenberg Prize and the 500,000 Bioscience Prize of the Volkswagen Foundation? an eb-1 visa http://www.foreignborn.com/visas_imm/immigrant_visas/employment_immigration/eb-1.htm for which you need an international notable price in the league of nobel prices? you have my colleague daniel pauly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Daniel_Pauly_Pauly_Symposium.jpg, he is not half as famous as i was. i am retired long time.

we donated thousands of photographs and i editied thousands. i donated over 40 000 dollar anoumously over the years. it would be nice if you have the entry alive, so my grandchildren and former students could find me. i shut down all other accounts. you can cut it down to 5 lines no picture. it would be nice if the categories stay.

best greetings and good luck to wikipedia, which is the greatest on the planet (see my endorsements on user kils, my gallery there and my gallery on commons user uwe kils

http://web.archive.org/web/20010803121250/krill.rutgers.edu/uwe/

Professor Dr. habil.habil. u. k.

user kils Uwe Kils

Hallo. I (!)voted to keep the article so you don't need to convince me. I think the article should stay. As for the content, it likely will change (and has changed) to conform more correctly to our manual of style. I congratulate you for donating (time and money) to Wikipedia. and Thanks. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 18:56, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

ANI posted regarding AfD discussion

Hello, Arichnad. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. This is concerning an ongoing and very controversial AfD discussion taking place. Cheers~ ♪ daTheisen(talk) 05:55, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

hallo from Uwe Kils

can you please vote again on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Uwe_Kils_(3rd_nomination). Best wishes Uwe Kils 10:46, 9 December 2009 (UTC)