User talk:Arru

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Mac articles

Hi! I noticed that you worked on some articles for Mac games, so I thought I'd tell you about the Mac and Computer and video games WikiProjects. Feel free to stop by for advice and help, or even to join. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:36, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I joined today, my mac-nerdery now takes on a more organized form :D Arru 08:55, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome aboard.--HereToHelp (talk • contribs) 02:19, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Castleroid

I'll start revising the article (w/justification) sometime this week. It will be something along the lines of: 1) redefine the term 2) focus on Castlevania games and 3) remove material to which the term cannot reasonably be applied. I think it will be easier to just change it and immediately defend said changes on the talk page. Making some sort of proposal will just result in people waffling about what to do.

It's nice to see that someone else is concerned about this sort of thing. Guermantes 04:00, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Vote on Ultraviolet map

Hi I was thinking about taking this whole merge discussion in an entirely different direction. Instead of merging the info on the poorly named Ultraviolet map into the unfocused The DHARMA Initiative. How about we expand on Silentplanet's idea and create sub sections on known Hatches?

Remember the "The DHARMA Initiative" article is supposed to focus on what it is. Adding more information to "the Swan" only shows that this hatch should be expanded upon in another article. The title of this article after all is not "The DHARMA Hatches." To me it looks like we should put in some information about what exactly the DHARMA Initiative is. We should give some history on it maybe include the information on the film and then some brief information about the hatches and what they are. Hatches that we know more about like "The Swan" should have its own page that would then contain information such as "the Map", "The Timer", etc... I think that this is a more reasonable solution and would also make it a more logical solution as an encyclopedia article. Please let me know what you think (in your talk page)! And if you do agree please note that on your merge vote! Thanks -- UKPhoenix79 03:58, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Refactoring of The DHARMA Initiative

You mentioned a week ago that you would like to help mediate the heated discussions of merging certain Lost-related articles at Talk:The DHARMA Initiative#Merging/breakout consesus. Would you like the give your view on the state of the vote on

Breaking out "The Swan (Lost)"
and merging the controversial "Ultraviolet map" into it?

Arru 16:10, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've responded on Talk:The DHARMA Initiative. Stifle (talk) 16:55, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dark Castle

Hiya, I had a crack at DK on easy and intermediate, and there were no extra levels. Must be on the advanced difficulty. If I can get that far I'll see if I can take a couple of screenshots :) Clockwise music 04:21, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DHARMA Initiative stations

Thanks for the interesting info on the Mac used in Lost. The plot thickens! Mushin ^talk 12:09, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

madd props

thanx for adding the twist-o-flex to the Electric boogaloo page. please describe more of these moves!!!!! --Ghetteaux 18:25, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, you're most welcome! I'm just gonna educate myself and add more move descs later. Arru 18:44, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Crouch

Deserves some kind of mention re body popping

No, I don't think he necessarily does. My personal opinion on Peter Crouch: I think it's fun that he's taken on the "Robot" thing, however he truly sucks at it (there are skilled robot dancers out there). He is mentioned in the Robot dance article, and that's all he deserves on dance.

To quote Crouch himself: "It's not about robotic dancing. It is about scoring goals and winning matches. ...". Crouch is about soccer, not dancing. Arru 09:54, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dancer?

thanks a lot for contributing to the breakdancing references—setting my ignorance in place with the actual "it's like that" date of release. whew...i hope i don't do that again.

i did a whole lot of surgery on the article in the past few months and i'm really proud of the results. what do you think of it? also, if it's not too much of a nuisance, i was wondering if you could help me out with the media sub-section, which is the last portion in need of some serious work.

thanks again!

computer game icons

Hi Arru,

Haven't logged onto my Wikipedia account in quite a while - so I'm only now responding to the ongoing debate!

Current mac project collaboration

The current WP:MAC collaboration is Apple II family. Please devote some time to improve this article to featured status. — Wackymacs 13:54, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Popping Userbox

I noticed you were using it. Looks like it got deleted for being in the wrong namespace, anyways, I changed it, so you can now use it from my namespace if you so please like:

This user is into popping and specializes in bottin'.

Peace, cool interests, code, graphics and popping *thumbs up*

Protocoldroid 18:37, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, ditto! I saw some nice tracks on last.fm so I'm adding you as a Friend. Arru 20:59, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

beyond dark castle page

Hi Arru - I've created a Beyond Dark Castle page, please check it out and do whatever you want to it :) Clockwise music 05:41, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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AfD nomination for Non-linear exploration

I got your message about the AfD nomination, but just FYI, the article I once had there was quickly maimed (on the basis of "no one else has researched this yet so you're not supposed to use Wikipedia to document existing phenomenon that no one else has documented yet") and edited into various strange forms, and is long gone anyway (the last I saw of it was that it was combined with the page for Metroidvania or Castleroid or something like that), and for that matter, it now redirects to linearity--in short, it's not really there anymore. So, thanks for the notification, but I don't really care anymore, and besides, I haven't really been active as a Wikipedia contributor for a while now (VERY busy with schoolwork).

In case you're still interested in that topic, here's what I've made of it on my own wiki: http://scripts.mit.edu/~derrict/bulbywiki/index.php?title=Castletroid

~GMH talk to me 17:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uninvited black hole

Have you been able to figure out what to do with the black hole in Uninvited yet? Frotz (talk) 22:48, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Help the Nordic people

Hey, people from my small Nordic country of Lithuania are in a trouble because of Russia's official discriminatory attitude towards us... please, could you translate this article to Swedish? 2009 Lithuania–Russia crisis One or two sentences would be great. Samogitia (talk) 12:47, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, not at the moment. Judging from your other contributions, this is no more than an attempt at manipulating validity and maybe staving off deletion of the english-language version of this article. That is not to say that I don't sympathize with the situation, but Wikipedia isn't the right forum for this and keeping on trying here may even end up hurting your cause. (Arru) 13:35, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

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