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GO SUCK A DICK FUCKHEAD — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.230.84.26 (talk • contribs) 03:25, 14 January 2007 ●DanMS 03:30, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dan

I've just seen an entry posted about me for your consideration - it was declined on the grounds of insufficient link evidence to verify the entry.

Well, as Ian Danter, I can tell you that whoever posted that seems to have it fairly accurate about me!!

You can check www.talksport.net for further verificaion or my personal myspace page www.myspace.com/dtkcat

Thanks,

Ian Danter

Thank you

Hi Dan. I want to thank you for taking my request for the translation of the article about Pedro V. Maldonado (I never thought there were articles in Swedish and German as well!). Dalobuca 20:53, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great Idea! Thanks again, Dan. Greetings, Dalobuca 19:06, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

so who are you to claim that my edits to the emminent Dr. Everdell's wiki are "vandalism?" do you know him? do you know his accomplisments? do you know where he has been or what he does? how dare you? i happen to be a close friend of the Everdells. So unless you have better knowledge, then i would suggest that you leave other people's entries alone.

cheers, Robespierre2120

have you met him?

i also assert that my contributions (which you removed) were totally not vandalism. and that you hurt my feelings. :( Ragnarokmephy 01:28, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

they're on the Nowra, New South Wales page. and since i live in Nowra i can confirm that they're true, yeah. Ragnarokmephy 04:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings—that was not my intention. You should realize that Wikipedia gets thousands of edits per day from students about their schools or about other schools, the great majority of which are purely vandalism.
Perhaps yours was not strictly vandalism, but it is still a highly improper edit. It’s called POV (point of view), which means it is your opinion, and that is not proper for an encyclopedia, and it is not allowed in Wikipedia. Please see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. If you can find a reputable source, you may say something like “The school has been called a ‘hellhole,’” but you must provide a verifiable reference immediately following the assertion. Saying something like “all the students say so” is not a reliable, verifiable source.
Are you the same person as Robespierre2120? •DanMS 04:33, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

firstly, no. robespierre was a loser and i have no desire to name myself after him. also: i will own that st johns is not literally a hole full of hell. however you also deleted my edits made in the "youth activities" section of the page, and the truth of these can be verified with a quick trip to nowra on a friday night. have you ever been to the gorgeous little town? do come visit us, and bring a bullet-proof vest. - Ragnarokmephy 02:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC) sorry- that should read "fat monotheistic loser" Ragnarokmephy 02:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reply re Columbia map

Is on my pageSkookum1 07:11, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cooley

I know it's an Irish name, but it caught my eye when I opened your page; it happens to be a word in the Chinook Jargon which I sorta speak and which was the lingua franca of the Pacific Northwest, including for non-natives as well, for much of the 19th Century. In the Jargon it comes from courir in French, to run, or/also coulir, to pour (as does also coulee in English); yaka kiuatan yaka kumtux cooley "that horse he knows how to run". Man yaka kumtux cooley; "fast runner" - but both come from the sense of run "he knows how to run", meaning only "fast" in an idiomatic sense; "fast" is usually hyak/hayak/hyack, "fast", "swift", and used for "hurry up!". "That horse he knows how to run" means "that horse is fast" (see Hyack Regiment for a name-usage). Cooley was not adopted into local English as were other Jargon words (including my username) but I thought you might find it interesting. Once widely heard, I'd imagine, because of the popularity of horse racing in the pioneer towns of the region (where it was the No. 1 sport until the Great War/WWI).Skookum1 07:16, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Interesting that you should mention the word hyak. There is a ski area name Hyak on the east side of Snoqualmie Pass on I-90 in Washington. I wonder if the word comes from the same origin. I was born and raised in Seattle, so I know about having a lot of Indian names, as you do in BC (though I don’t speak any such languages). •DanMS 00:55, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's definitely Chinook: see List of Chinook Jargon placenames, which I created. I'm not sure if I put the ski area in the list; if not it should be added; I went through the www.topozone.com index searching for words I knew; there are still others yet to add to the list; the ski area should have been on topozone's USGS index and so on the list already.Skookum1 21:22, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Doing the French

Hi Dan.

Even though I have just married a French woman in France, I have a miserable knowledge of French. The work I did on the article was a mix of online translator and common sense. SilkTork 16:43, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reply on Football on my page

Replied there.Skookum1 21:20, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Canadian Football League

Replying here now; here's the CFL's website: http://www.cfl.ca/. Vancouver's BC Lions just won the Grey Cup, which is our equivalent of the Super Bowl (only about around 10 teams in the whole league, though, if that many); college equivalent is the Vanier Cup. Many name American players play a few years up here, many stay on forever; apparently many US players like our rules better; whatsisname from Toronto - Ricky Williams - is up here because we don't piss-test our athletes; many come up here because it's a better place to raise kids...especially if you're African-American.Skookum1 22:31, 2 December 2006 (UTC) Just an after-comment, as it seems you're in Seattle...interesting disparity between x-borderawarenesses of the two cities; up here we'd know for damned sure if Seattle won the Super Bowl or what their standings are; but the Grey Cup here last weekend went by without a blip in the Seattle news, right? We're used to it, but it's a given that for Vancouverites Seattle is "our" team, too, in whatever sport (except soccer, and we tend to follow the minor-league Vancouver Canadians more than the Mariners.Skookum1 22:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Well, as far as cross-border awareness: Don’t go by my attitude. I am not a sports fan at all and I don’t follow any teams, Seattle or otherwise. I just asked the question, more out of interest in cultural differences than interest in sports. It has always interested me, how languages and culture separate people. I know that you Canadians sometimes feel threatened by the giant to the south and are wary of our (i.e. American) culture impinging on yours. I know that you also don’t like being taken for Americans when you travel abroad. But don’t feel too bad—some countries have it much worse. Small countries like Iceland—where I spent two years—feel much more threatened by all things American, especially movies and television, flooding their country.
By the way, I am not in Seattle now, although I was born and raised there. I live in Southern California now. •DanMS 22:45, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Lucky man - you're missing all the "good weather" this year. :-| Skookum1 00:22, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Caribbean Ambassador

Dan, thanks for your note. You have a good point, but as a software and database architect who's been dealing with similar issues for years, I can tell you that any time you can avoid explicit duplication and allow automation to take over, you save yourself and especially others many headaches. Let me explain my rationale.

Imagine that instead of shifting the text around, someone later attempts to update the information, revising it in the first location he notices, and then assumes he's done. (In this case, he might make the change at Barbados, for example, not noticing that it was preceded by a ref with the same name at Antigua and Barbuda.) The different refs would now have different text. Which one would get used? Maybe the newest text, maybe not, depending. Either the user won't catch the mistake, or, if he doesn't recognize it's cause, might pull his hair out.

If he does see the problem, either he'll follow your lead and copy the new version to each additional location, which is an awful lot of work to have imposed on him to make a simple change, or he'll decide it isn't worth the effort. In the latter case, this means that the reference text will no longer be consistent from one instance to another. Then, the next time someone else comes along with a revision, that person might rearrange the text in such a way that the first instance of this reference is one with the old text. What a mess! Then multiply that by the number of successive revisions that others might make to the same text as time goes on.

The way I've done it, revisions will involve considerably less work. If a contributor does make a mistake while reordering the page, it will be much more apparent, because the reference text will disappear from the page altogether. --Largo Plazo 22:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Silverstein

Sounds fair. It just seemed silly that the original "Silverstein" articles all were double-redirects. They all linked to a disambig page, which then linked to "Silber." It didn't seem right. But what you did is right, and I learned something new, haha. Thanks for fixing it. it really bothered me that there was no disambiguation page, even though it was linked to in a million articles. // 3R1C 22:16, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

United States Ambassadors to Cuba

Congratulations on your excellant improvements to the page United States Ambassadors to Cuba which are most appreciated.--Zleitzen 03:43, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thanks. I’m glad you like it. I had noticed earlier that you were the major contributor to the page and I wondered if you would be upset with my large changes. Sometime we all tend to take a proprietary interest in Wikipedia pages, even though we know we don’t “own” the page. •DanMS 04:01, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The tetleys

If no notability is asserted, (releases through major labels, media coverage) then there's no reason not to tag with db-band , whether it's a hoax or not. Sticking a hoax tag on the article that has other reasons to be deleted, might cause admins to pass on deletion due to the "hoax exception" (hoaxes are supposedly excepted from speedy deletions). Basically, if a band or musician doesn't claim notability that would pass WP:MUSIC or WP:BIO, you can stick the db-band or db-bio tag on it, and skip any other warnings. In the case of "The tetleys" , there's like close to zero notability being claimed... they had to borrow guitars and amps ;-) Tubezone 20:04, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use images

Hi Dan

I note that User:DanMS/Gallery includes fair use images. However, the use of such images outside mainspace articles (including on talk pages) is not permitted - please could you remove these images? Thanks! CLW 16:18, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for doing that. There's at least one more which I'll remove now - hope you don't mind! CLW 16:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The image is currently tagged as being fair use. If that's incorrect, it'll need changing. CLW 17:00, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Is Wil actually the copyright owner of the image? (If not, then he can't grant permission.) If so, take a look at the wording of the tags at Template:No rights reserved and Template:PD-release - do either of those apply? (Probably not - I'm guessing he has granted permission for use on Wikipedia, not for use everywhere and anywhere.) If not, you could try browsing Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and its subpages. However, if indeed the image is copyright Naära de Kwant-Tirion then it would have to be Naära de Kwant-Tirion that grants permission, not Wil himself. And that being the case, use under free use conventions might be the only option. Hope that helps - if not, try asking at Wikipedia:Village pump where there's bound to be someone who knows more about copyright issues than me. Good luck! Regards, CLW 21:09, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]


DAN, this is user Tristamus, and I see that you have marked my article on Aiello as a possible copyright infringement. I have paid in full for the information I have, and as I do now own it, am I not able to publish it to wherever I deem fit? What on my page is not clear to you, and what makes it a possible copyright infringement? I will check it to verify that it is not for you, if need be.

-Thanks, Tristamus

I posted the notice because you put the copyright notice at the bottom of the page. Wikipedia cannot have that information on the page as long as it is copyrighted. You can check to see if you have a right to republish the information, though. Copyright issues are problematic and not always clear. For example, when you buy a book, you own the book outright, but you have not purchased the rights to the text that is in the book. With web-based material, it is not always easy to ascertain the status of the information. I know this isn’t much help. You will have to find out from the website if you have the rights to post the info in Wikipedia.
Also, when you post a message on a user page, please sign your entry with four tildes: ~~~~. That ensures the recipient of the message that you are really the person who sent the message. ●DanMS 05:33, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE: User:Aeldaar

That's what I figured when I saw how he doctored the messages. You better report the user on AIV.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 05:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to Starrcade

I know you want to help, but results are supposed to be bolded. TJ Spyke 21:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Commonwealth of Nations

Thank you for your edits. Please note that it has been the Commonwealth of Nations since 1949, by their own official designation, which is the designation we use at Wikipedia, unless the reference is before about 1929 (British Empire) or roughly between 1929 and 1949, in which case we show text as BC, but link directly to the C of N, thusly: British Commonwealth (omit the colon in the link when in articles). Hu 11:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was here for another reason (below) but saw your discussion. The Commonwealth isn't quite 1949, it's at least 1954; at least in popular/official usage even if the Commonwealth had actually been formed by then; the reason I know about 1954 is because what are now the Commonwealth Games were held here (Vancouver BC) in 1954, and they were called the British Empire Games still; I think the end of the Empire can be pretty well pegged down to the consequences of the Suez Crisis (Britain never forgave Canada for what Pearson came up with, which is how we got pawned off to the US as their colony, instead of Britain's...) but I can't remember the details. The Empire Games, as they're called still on public buildings here (well, Empire Stadium got torn down, but...), were notable for the Four Minute Mile and also the launch of Doug Hepburn's powerlifting career (winning a gold medal in weightlifting with a club foot....). Note also that while it's Commonwealth of Nations now, it was originally British Commonwealth, so there's a date/name-change to account for there, also.Skookum1

Added Arcview sample to Columbia River discussion

Please see our previous discussion on my talkpage. Note that the second image might not survive GFDL review, but I posted it so you and others can snag it before its time is up ;-0 . I see you're a radar guy; I think, FYI, that ArcView is radar-generated, rather than topo-based.Skookum1 01:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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