User talk:Pendragon39

7 days is too short

Not my call, BJBot just tags the images and admins delete them. BJ^Talk 19:39, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

WP:Fair Use or Template:Orphaned fairuse not replaced would be your best bets I would think. BJ^Talk 19:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Comment removal

May I ask why you removed my comments from another user's discussion page? --LiamE 22:14, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

My apologies, I didn't his edit between mine and yours. --LiamE 03:18, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Cricket move

I like your suggestion to give dab pages more importance in the encyclopedia. If you decide to suggest this more formally, leave me a pointer to the discussion. Vegaswikian 08:42, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking more along the lines of giving the dab page preference by default when there are multiple uses. If that was done, it would likely eliminate the need for a dab button. It should also sort to the top by default in a search since it would be the article name and an exact match. Vegaswikian 19:27, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Not sure how useful the 'Always disambiguate' option would be. If the articles correctly link to the correct page, the reader does not need to know about other uses. Now, if you are looking at this as 'similar uses', then maybe you have a point. Vegaswikian 19:48, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Re. Question regarding the acquisition of animal "language"

The two components would be cognitive/non-cognitive or mental/sensory if defined in that way. Your earlier reply suggests that the cognitive aspect of acquiring a language poses as much a barrier to learning animal communication as would the physical part. Since the two cannot be separated (ie. L1 acquisition is not a 100% mental task), analyzing the cognitive barrier on its own would not be useful.

Are you saying that because something is innate, it cannot function as a spandrel? Pendragon39 13:21, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. It's been a remarkably busy couple of weeks, and I completely forgot about your message. Now things are quieter and I can reply.

It's not clear to me that something can "function" as a spandrel. The term refers to the origins of something, not its function. Language – or, more likely, certain components of human language – may well be spandrelic (probably not a real word, but should be) in origin. But of course such components would also be innate. My distinction is between innate and cultural. On one extreme, the shape of the vocal tract is very clearly innate; on the other, the fact that the Welsh word for dog is ci is clearly cultural. It is rather less certain to what extent a good deal of the components of human language are cultural or innate(Principles and Parameters theory really muddies the water here). I agree that analysing the cognitive barrier to the acquisition of non-human communication systems alone would be to exclude something important. But I suppose I do believe that the cognitive barrier is more important. Imagine if you had a computer like Stephen Hawking's that could produce all the sounds a dolphin can just by pressing the right button. You would still be an enormous distance away from acquiring dolphin "language". garik 16:26, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Ruse quotes

They seem fine (as long as they are sourced) - I must admit I rarely add quotes but they seem like the kind of thing that would add flavour and depth so go for it. (Emperor 22:06, 9 September 2007 (UTC))

Pushing Daisies

Do TV articles contain notes about production mistakes and continuity errors? Some indeed may, but I would say as a matter of Wikipedia guidelines, they shouldn't. This sort of trivia definitely falls under the category of "What Wikipedia is not" along with collections of statistics or listings of data. Leave the goofs database to IMDb. Robert K S 20:44, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Online Trading Community

Hey, I'm taking a crack at cleaning up Online trading community - trying to eliminate the excessive link spam, and get some sources. just wanted to share. AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 14:35, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (File:Lee Meredith.jpg)

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