User talk:Anastrophe/Archive 2014

I've read your comment on my user talk page. I landed KTVU page after a long surf around aircraft incident-related articles, when I found the entire section was completely deleted by the last edit. With the situation and your edit comment, I assumed it was something like a random vandalism was acted, so I just undid your edit. Sorry for bypassing the discussion. Coming this far, I went to the talk page to leave my comment, and there I found the discussion haven't in fact not ended. So I decided to put an issue tag on the section so that everyone notices there's a ongoing discussion, instead of letting the whole section disappear overnight. Hope you understand. アヲガネ (talk) 12:16, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Viriditas

...can seem insufferable. But I'd say there's no point in doing something that can be interpreted as antagonizing if there's another option. Thus, I'd suggest "they" or "you" rather than "it" as gender-neutral pronouns. I know there are arguments on either side, and I don't want to rehash them all; this is just IMHO. Cheers, and nice work, Homunq (࿓) 16:04, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Swiss gun control

Switzerland is frequently cited as having lax gun laws, especially by the pro gun lobby in America, but in fact it has quite strict gun laws both at the Federal and Canton level (though of course the latter vary). This was the purpose of my edit and I think it should stay. Most private guns must be registered, all owners licenced to their guns, insurance and training requirements, background checks on purchase, logging and validating of ammunition sales against certificates etc. etc. See my other edits today at other articles. We should not confuse gun control with gun ownership. Switzerland may have a fairly high private gun ownership rate (though not as high as for example Serbia) but this is partly due to its hunting tradition and the familiarity with guns through army service. The laws themselves are quite strict in Switzerland. Which I guess is in part the reason for its not having the same gun crime problem as the United States. It still has one of the highest gun death rates in Western Europe though. --HuntersMoon22 (talk) 18:35, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Cory Doctorow#Cory Doctorow and Creative Commons

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Cory Doctorow#Cory Doctorow and Creative Commons. Thanks. Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 02:13, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Gun Shows in the United States

Thank you for your contributions to this page. Please share your thoughts on my new talk section, at your convenience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gun_shows_in_the_United_States#Separate_Gun_Show_and_Gun_Show_Loophole_Into_Two_Different_WP_Pages Respectfully - Darknipples (talk) 15:05, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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Gun show loophole talk page

I'm not sure if you'd prefer this kind of feedback on the article talk page, but it seems more civil to start here. I want to warn you about how you're talking to Darknipples on the Gun show loophole talk page. From the way DN writes his/her talk page posts (in this case, use of terms like "seems to be" and "suggest"), I think he/she is either one of the most sensitive male editors I've ever encountered on WP, or a woman. That shouldn't really matter, but I share my thinking on this in case you really only can imagine use of these terms as indicating an editor who's trying to present synthesis. However, of course, whatever his/her gender, it doesn't really matter, unless DN truly breaks a rule. Please WP:AGF and follow WP:TPYES. Responses like this one [1] by you are, IMO, probably ad hominem and certainly "Responding to tone" per WP:TPNO. Lightbreather (talk) 16:20, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

"Incident"

Well, you and your goodfaithed friends must be more than cosy with the aficionados of bikes and crime, "sir".

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LDL

would you be willing to explain what I did wrong on the LDL talk page, I thought I hadn't deleted anything that was referenced thanks for recognising the good faith - pulls the sting quite a bit! please delete this message I just couldn't see how to IM you best wishes, Kate X-mass (talk) 13:21, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

thanks for the info - a month on and my head is full of prep for Electro Magnetic Field 2014 https://www.emfcamp.org/ but hopefully I get back to but stuff in talk. But can I thank you again for taking the time to communicate, it helps this human feel much better about the world. Best wishes X-mass (talk) 21:27, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Edit I made to djbdns

Since, as the author of MaraDNS, I have a conflict of interest, I have notifying other editors that I have just made a minor neutral edit correcting a factual error. The article stated that there exists three forks of DJBdns; I know of at least five, so I changed the wording to “a number of”. Here is the edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Djbdns&diff=622745383&oldid=614310840

My personal opinion is that N-DJBDNS is the best fork out there; yeah, it’s GPL, but it’s the only fork I know of that is current with all known security issues in DJBdns (which, of course, is very secure, with only five issues coming up in its 15 year of existence). Samboy (talk) 14:26, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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Sam Donaldson Talk Additions, and Edits

Dear Anastrophe:

   Sorry you did not like, or could not use, the comments I left regarding Sam's career at ABC news.  I was not trying to be conversational, merely letting you know my recollections.  I actually liked him ... and was sorry to see him slip into the background as a news reporter.  I tried to offer some reasons... Anyway, you might want to keep what I have written, on reserve, as a reference of sorts.
             --  Best,  J. G. Lewis  (John G. Lewis (talk) 06:20, 16 December 2014 (UTC))