User talk:Metta Bubble

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Sure thing. Happy editing! --Merovingian 07:03, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

discussion about NLP

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Welcome Comaze. I've seen. Thanks for your contributions to the NLP article and for starting the project. Everythings moving along as best it can at the moment so I'm none too concerned. Peace. Metta Bubble 23:32, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just a friendly reminder, be careful not to exceed 3RR. It seems that many of the editors are stressed out at the moment over the arbcom workshop explaining the irate talk page.. --Comaze 08:22, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Comaze. I'll contribute more after the stakeout finishes. Hope to see you in some other articles. Peace. Metta Bubble 11:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"User freespeech" template

Helloo.. Saw your free speech thing and thought you might be interested in this template (which is also linked from the WikiProject talk page: {{User freespeech}}

A link so you can preview it: {{User freespeech}}

Hope you like, it's pretty much the same but will also automatically add you to the Wikipedians against censorship category. :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 17:50, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hellooo back... Thanks for the tip. I'm in. Peace. Metta Bubble 22:06, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Suspected meatpuppets of Akulkis

Hiya Bookmain. I moved our conversation over to your talk page. Peace. Metta Bubble 04:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Kindness Campaign

Peace, friend. I've just joined the Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign, and as my first official act of kindness, I moved your entry in the guest book to its rightful place amongst the Ms. It's ordered alphabetically, not chronologically. Merry Xmas, if that's your thing, from another Aussie. JackofOz 22:28, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JackofOz. It's an honour to be your first official acts of kindness. I'll have to send you a flower. Peace. Metta Bubble 06:26, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments

Metta Bubble,

Thanks for your civil and constructive comments, both on Talk:Doggy style and Talk:List of sex positions. It's always good to find an editor who will talk candidly and assume good faith. In addition, thanks for pointing me to working standard for the encyclopedic merit of images. I think you should definately put forth your six bullet points from our discussion at Talk:List of sex positions, as well as any other ideas you have. I look forward to working and debating on this project with you! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 17:13, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FWBO

Hi. FWBOarticle here. As you requested, I edited the criticism section of the article about FWBO. My first edit in wikipedia was that article, hence my username. The original edit two years ago caused immediate delete war which was fun. Hope you like my edit. See ya. FWBOarticle

That's quick work. Well done. The content seems better now. The quotes are really good, but they could stand out a bit better. Could you also put inline references (Harvard style perhaps)? So people can be assured the information is legit, and they can then focus on expressing it in the most NPOV way rather than deleting it. I will support information that is cited properly. Peace. Metta Bubble 22:39, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1967 in radio

Hi - wondered if you might like to see how this article looks now and possibly consider changing your afd vote...? Grutness...wha? 09:44, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey thanks for the heas up Grut. I did. I'm still a little ambivalent. Peace. Metta Bubble 09:54, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Peace

We need to resolve some issue to restore peace on the NLP talk page. I think I might lay low for a few days. peace to you too --Comaze 12:46, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Comaze. I appreciate your resilience under fire. Whether you participate in a discussion or not, you're still entitled to make all edits you believe in good faith work towards consensus. No one will disrespect you for ignoring uncivil discussion pages. Take a cool dip. You deserve it. Peace. Metta Bubble 13:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On a side note -- I'm quite shocked I saw a mediator encouraging you to tolerate ongoing personal insults and keep the discussion open. I don't concur with that advice. There's no reason to continue a dialogue with those who make no apologies for their attacks. They should be blocked for this behaviour. Peace again. Metta Bubble 13:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An exercise in good state control :) The problem was that an editor (pro/con) would discuss a change; the flood of replies, some useful, others off-topic were mixed with personal comments making it very difficult for, especially part-time, editors to contribute - most editors just moved on. The mentors are slowing things right down, to give people time to consider edits and replies; it is looking very promising. -- .c o m a Z e ! 12:56, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Hey Metta Bubble, thanks for the note on my user page. I hope you don't mind, I made a tiny change to the text of the Barnstar after viewing a bunch on other pages. I've never awarded one before, so I wasn't completely certain how to do it right. Thanks for all your hard work and for your replies to my queries on talk pages.--Anchoress 20:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All good. Thanks again. Metta Bubble 01:23, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Science

Here is a good one from the science article: "Less formally, the word science often describes any systematic field of study or the knowledge gained from it." I like this because when I use the word science to describe some controversial thing, I can tell the other users that I mean "Science" as in the second definition on the Wiki page. jVirus 04:19, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I checked it out. A worthy distinction. I'm not around much this week, but I've really enjoyed your contributions to the NLP talk page. Thank you. Peace. Metta Bubble 11:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Refactoring

Hi. I don't disagree with the changes you made, but next time ask one of us to do it. We don't need to head down the road of folks editing each others' comments. · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 17:21, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Metta Bubble 22:36, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re : Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Choa Kok Sui

Oh, my apologies for missing out in error. All done now. :) - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 13:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Much appreciated. Thank you. Metta Bubble 05:04, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NLP - your comment

GregA and I have trying to come up with an easy to understand description of the swish, your comment would be greatly appreciated... Talk:Neuro-linguistic_programming/Workshop#Proposed_change_to_.27swish.27_description.2C_by_GregA --'c' 04:12, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure. Metta Bubble 07:26, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

== Afd ==

Hello. Could you please comment on the proposal at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/M.O.V.E.R? I you have time. Metta Bubble 01:25, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think the problem is that we can't verify M.O.V.E.R. We have no evidence that it even existed let alone if it was notable.

Monkeyman^(talk) 01:28, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmmm. Google wouldn't be the appropriate avenue to verify this. Shame really, it's interesting content (if true). ॐ Metta Bubble^talk 02:25, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:FUC and Map-territory relation

Image:MagrittePipe.jpg is marked with {{art}}, which says:

This image is of a drawing, painting, print, or other two-dimensional work of art, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the artist who produced the image, the person who commissioned the work, or the heirs thereof. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of works of art
for critical commentary on the work in question,

the artistic genre or technique of the work of art or

the school to which the artist belongs

--Sean Black ^(talk) 22:37, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps. But it's a borderline case, so it's probably best to just keep it as a link.--Sean Black ^(talk) 01:22, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your new sig.

Your new sig looks great! :) I might have to develop one that matches your style --'c' 05:47, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey thanks! You're welcome to. I'd rather they don't match colors though. ॐ Metta Bubble ^puff 05:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I liked the japanese char -- I'll do in a similar style, but totally unique ;) --'c' 05:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All good. I look forward to seeing. :) ॐ Metta Bubble ^puff 06:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Biceps or bicep?

I agree that 'biceps' is the correct spelling, but in weight training and martial arts it is often referred to as 'a bicep'. 'Bicep' even scores 1.8 million hits on google with 2.8 for 'biceps', so it's a very common spelling. In the case of bicep(s) slicer, 'bicep slicer' scores 270 hits, while 'biceps slicer' only scores 21. Hmm, I don't really know what should be done in this case; go with the flow or try to teach them better? :) ---Marcus- 08:21, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your call. I was just on a spelling binge. Biceps slicer is used more formally as far as I can tell, while bicep slicer is what is appearing in most forums and user postings. I think it's just one of those cases where the minority are actually the ones who know. ॐ Metta Bubble ^puff 11:31, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I agree! Let's teach them better ;) ---Marcus- 08:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

[sic]

Please do not correct spelling errors in quoted material when the spelling errors are marked with "[sic]", as you did recently on the Dwight York page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moorlock (talk • contribs)

I apologise for the inconvenience. Welcome to wikipedia. May I suggest you put the quotes around the quoted passages (using two apostrophes '' at either end) so that it comes out in italics as quoted text. ॐ Metta Bubble ^puff 21:43, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

From the Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style:

Quotations

There is normally no need to put quotations in italics unless the material would otherwise call for italics (emphasis, use of non-English words, etc.). Indicate whether using the italics in the original text or whether they were added later.

-Moorlock 22:07, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Also, why have you linked the sic? It's not relevant to the content of the article. ॐ Metta Bubble ^puff 06:17, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I link it because some folks don't know what it means. It's just obscure enough that a clarifying link might be helpful. Judgement call. A good argument could be made against linking it. -Moorlock 06:22, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we could phrase an introduction to the quotation text so that it isn't confusing? We shouldn't be linking editorial comments. My mistake was more because I was doing 100 edits in a 5 minute, than because I don't know the meaning of sic. Also, if you're having this problem regularly with people editing something that needs to stay (which it seems you are), you can put an html comment into the text so that a message shows up when someone goes to correct the edit. Something along the lines of . Is that helpful? Peace. ॐ Metta Bubble ^puff 06:38, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Censorship

I am trying to make some improvements in the project Censorship. I thought you might want to know about it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Resid Gulerdem 15:42, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip. I'm glad you told me. ॐ Metta Bubble ^puff 21:43, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wellcome. I am trying to write a new policy Wikipedia:Wikiethics. I am very busy but believe strongly on having some standards in Wiki. I would appreciate if you can review it and incoorporate new ideas you might want to add. Your contribution is greatly appreciated. I cannot finish it without help. Best. Resid Gulerdem 00:21, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

The problem is that I am not a native speaker. And sometimes I write something which implies slightly different than I meant. In that sense your help is very valuable. If you think that there should be some editorial standards clearly explained in Wiki, you can contribute to the project. Please do not hesitate to change the text if you think there is a better way to say something in the article. Thanks for correcting typos too. 128.255.45.117 03:14, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]