User talk:Raddicks
Nihilism
Hello. I'm not really party to this debate. I'm just on RC Patrol reverting blankings and vandalism. You may like to take your points to the discussion page of the article in question.
Also, please remember to always sign your commets with --~~~~. Thanks. --Ryan Delaney talk 02:02, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Edits
Please stop adding your personal opinion to articles. Yes, Under the Bridge was a great song, and yes, Joseph Stalin was a bad man, but please don't insert your feelings into the articles. Thank you. --Golbez 04:21, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
Hello
I just happened to drop by your page. Noticed you are a user of deviantART. Keep up the good work. Oh and your idea for the Salad Fingers article is a good one. That series does deserve some psychological analysis. --cheese-cube 14:44, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Salad Finger Theories
Hi,
You may have noticed that I marked Salad Finger Theories for deletion on VFD. The main reason is that pages that are a real mess while they are a 'work in progress' should not exist on Wikipedia. If you need time to work on the page, that's fine; just do so as a sub-page of your user page, like User:Raddicks/SFT. You can do anything you want there until the page is the way you want; then go and create the page you want in the main 'pedia, and move the content over.
The second reason I nominated it for deletion is that a 6-episode Flash cartoon doesn't merit a separate article on its themes. That is a worthy subject for the Salad Fingers article itself, and I would suggest you add a section about the themes there.
Regards,
Tempshill 00:32, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
- (responding to your note on my talk page) You don't have to appeal anything; just complete the page so it's up to the standards of a good article and when it's done, create a new page for it; though I would probably call it something like "Psychological themes of Salad Fingers". I still think you can sum it up in a couple of paragraphs that would fit much better into the main article. There's no need to create a long list of obvious themes; better to have a short list of the most important or interesting ones. Tempshill 00:51, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Green tea
Just a note that your user page links to the film Green Tea rather than to the beverage Green tea, generally when preparing, in answer to your question, Green tea you should use a teapot. They say the best ones for Green tea are Zu Ni Zisha (Yellow Clay Purple Sand) teapots but they can be pricey, you can just get an ordinary Zisha and you'll be fine. Its not a big investement, you can get it for about $25 including the postage direct from China to the UK, if you know where. Its a lot cheaper and better than UK. Usually good quality green tea will not float on the surface; that is bud-only or bud-1-leaf tea, but I am not too clued up on Green tea so don't know. --Iateasquirrel 20:50, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
I didn't say that the references were just coincidental, and I recognize the many similar themes. But you must admit that to list The Machinist as a movie version of Crime and Punishment would be incorrect. Reznik does not commit murders on the pretense that he will go on to be an extraordinary man, instead he kills a boy by accident. This difference and its effect on the remainder of each work is far too crucial to call The Machinist a movie version of C and P.
The list of movie versions on the C and P article refers to direct adaptations of the novel, not films that share common themes, characters, or contain Dostoevsky references, no matter how many there are. It may interest you that on The Machinist there is not even a mention of Dostoevsky, so you can always extrapolate on the similarities there in much greater detail. Thanks. --TM (talk) 22:08, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
- I removed it again then brought it back with a clarification that it's not a direct adaptation but shares many themes, etc. Hope you find it agreeable. --TM (talk) 22:45, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for brining this vandal to my attention. It looks like he has stopped. In the future, you can report vandals to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Many administrators watch this page, so it is a good way to get our attention :) Thanks! --Ryan Delaney talk 18:35, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Category Markup
I think you want to use
[[Category:Wikipedians in the United Kingdom|{{PAGENAME}}]]
rather than
[[Category:Wikipedians in the United Kingdom|subst:PAGENAME]]
to identify yourself in this category. At present you are listed under "s" rather than "R" in the category list, from the first letter of "subst" presumably.