User talk:BabuBhatt/Archive1

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Tucker Max

Re: "Tucker" vs. "Max" Maybe I'm wrong, but I just feel like calling him "Max" like that can cause some confusion regarding his first name. Is there something wrong with using "Tucker" instead? It will most likely make the article clearer. If it really bothers you either way keep it with "Max", but I felt it would pre-empt confusion. Paul^C/_T+ 07:31, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't disagree with your take on Tucker, but it was one of the first article's I edited way back when (not surprisingly, to remove vandalism) so I like to keep track of it. The article does need a major clean up, but I don't have the time to even attempt a small part of it... I reverted my small change, I hope you don't mind. Paul^C/_T+ 16:12, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep up the good work.

Thanks for your dedication to Wikipedia. You've made nearly 400 great edits since I welcomed you to the project back on November 3. I just want to let you know that your contributions are appreciated. Keep up the good work. --Tantalum T e lluride 04:05, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Punctuation

Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotation_marks. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-4 02:57

Block of Seabiscuit vandal

I blocked User:156.63.181.3 for 3 hours. It seems to be a school, so I hesitate to do it for longer. --rogerd 17:11, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Liza Powel

Hi BabuBhatt, I just wanted to let you know that when you listed Liza Powel as a copyvio, the site, NationMaster, actually gets its info from Wikipedia. If you scroll to the bottom of the NationMaster page you listed, it actually says this is a Wikipedia article. Thanks, OCNative 22:11, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin Federline

Is there any prrof that that is his actual MySpace acocunt? Most, if not all are celeb sites on MySpace are fan created.

I figured as much, but I didn't want to simply revert a edit by a non-vandal without first sdiscussing it. I could really care less about Mr. Spears but tend to monitor such sites as they tend to be popular targets. Pattersonc 21:55, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tim Allen

You know how you Pmed me about my revertion to the TIm Allen article, you forgot to remove the legal problems headline, so I thought it was vandalism. --Karrmann

Andy Houts

look at his talk page

Dwight Schrute external links

Why do you insist on listing the YTMND site in this article? It doesn't haven't any meaningful content, unless you can call a repeating sound clip and the word "jews" in the middle of the page meaningful. Does it "provide a unique resource beyond what the article here would have once it becomes an example of brilliant prose"? No. "Sites that require external applications" shouldn't be linked to. If you operate that page, please don't link it from Wikipedia. If you haven't already, you should familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:External links. Mrtea (talk) 01:09, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also there's no reference of The Office (UK version) in the Dwight Schrute article either. That external link comparing the two versions would be unhelpful to the reader. The web site is already appropriately listed in The Office article where there is a comparision between the versions and characters. I'll revert the changes for now, unless you can bring up some valid points from WP:EL for the sites to be listed. Just because an article has a paragraph about Dwight doesn't mean it should be listed. Mrtea (talk) 01:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I replied on my talk page. Thanks, Mrtea (talk) 01:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWARD

This is one of the best User Pages i have ever seen. I would give you one of those stars, but unfortunatelly, i have no idea what the template is. So, Props to you and your wonderful pages, and Props to you for you love of Seinfeld. Have a wonderful day!--Geppy 08:36, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Kudos"

Thanks for recognizing my sarcasmn (not to mention my vandalization.) Thanks for the "kudos" to my conscientious spelling.

On Speechifying

The word "speechify" is not slang. It is a word that means "to give a speech." It has nothing at all to do with George W. Bush.

The first instance from the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1723:

1723 [implied in SPEECHIFYING vbl. n.]. 1762 FOOTE Orator I. Wks. 1799 I. 193 And have you speechified yet? Ibid. 194, I did speechify once at a vestry. 1806 Naval Chron. XV. 19 Jack made..attempts to speechify. 1833 MOORE Mem. (1854) VI. 341 Lord Lansdowne began to speechify to the German and Frenchman. 1862 THACKERAY Philip vii, We were free to speechify,..and be as young as we liked.

I still think "speechifying" was the right word to use. I wanted the sentence to refer to the actions taken by Ferrell/Frenkle, not the result of those actions. In general, I dislike your edit, but I'm not going to engage in changing and changing back.

Larry Bird

With all due respect, the assertion that Larry Bird may well be the greatest white athlete of all time is a view shared by a large portion of the populous. If you can think of a more accomplished white athlete, in any field, then I would be more than happy to humor you. If, in the meantime, as a compromise, you would be willing to allow me to post that he is, at the very least, the greatest white athlete the NBA has ever known, I would take no issue. Do you mean to suggest that, since Larry Bird happened to be white, his achievements in the sport are any less significant? To me, that discrimination is the very manifestation of what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought so hard to destroy.

Billie Jean

OK I'll wait until Sunday for the official UK singles chart, but it is a current single

Billie Jean

I don't if this proof is enough, http://mjni.com/news/details.aspx?ArticleNo=1730

OK, then I'll wait until sunday, don't forget Don't stop till you get enough is at number 44

Billie Jean is a single

I might not have proof that it is at number 8, but you have to agrre with me that it is a current sinlge. http://www.mjvisionary.com/mjvisionary.html

It is not a fan site, it is the official sonyBMG Visonary box set web page, and I also do not like anything after bas, exept invincible. http://www.mjvisionary.com/mjvisionary.html

Help

Why do people keep changing the current singles sign, here is the official uk chart http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/c/uk/single_charts.html

Good work

I feel that turning the "trivia" into a useful sentence is better than a quick reversion. So I commend your choice on reworking the Mercury reference in Cobain. BabuBhatt 03:00, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Just wanted to explain the reason for the initial reversion: I get frustrated by drive-by edits that throw in a random piece of information that may or may not have significance to the rest of the article. (A few people have tried to drop in notes about other bands that seem to do nothing other than to use Kurt's words and/or their possible influence on Nirvana to elevate those bands.)

Kurt wasn't notably a Queen fan, and used the Mercury reference simply as a comparison to express his feelings. The edit (which had been done in the past) seems more notable to Mercury than to Cobain. What I mean by that: it acts like it's more important to the editor that Cobain said something about Mercury, not that the mention was important to Cobain's life. (A previous editor a few weeks ago tried to ram in the claim that Nirvana was influenced by Queen, which there's no evidence of.)

We can't include every piece of trivia about Cobain in the article. It's just not feasible. And my personal preference is that we should include the most notable elements. That Neil Young was so affected by Cobain's mention of his lyric is significant, given his personal reaction and that he dedicated part of Sleeps with Angels in response. That Kurt mentioned Mercury seems decidedly less so. (An example not in the article: Kurt's mention of Pete Townsend in Journals isn't significantly important to an article about Cobain.)

I'm okay with the current version, but I hate having to rewrite something seemingly unimportant to make it noteworthy just because someone (who has no vested interest in the article) wants to drop it in. -- ChrisB 04:14, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for correcting some of my grammer and typo's on Maddox's talk page. Ghostalker 08:42, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

sorry

someone removed an entry i made a while ago and i forgot the account name and had to make a new one. that pissed me off so i went a bit temporarily insane.

what happened?

after i added the 2 lines worth of edits, the whole dman page turned to mush. how did that happen?

nope

i couldn\'t have done that if i wanted to. i spent like 30 seconds on that small addition

thanks

i also think i found the problem.

my friend's computer has some sort of coding in it which gave a flaw that ruined the entire page like thart

:)

adolf ave

Note

Hello, I noticed you edited a Hip Hop related article. If you wish you can join the new Hip Hop Wikiproject. Thanks for your time. Tutmosis 22:53, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

rv

The letters "rv" when used in an edit summary stand for "revert", when means to revert the page to an earlier version. It does not mean to make changes to the page that are not in the history of the page at all. Qutezuce 22:12, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My message was not meant as sarcastic, and I'm not trying to call you out. Based on the Dwight Schrute edit it did not seem that you knew what "rv" meant so I was letting you know. I remember a time when I did not know what "rv" meant. When someone prefaces an edit summary with "rv", that tells me they changed the page to a previous version, if I felt the previous versions of the page were fine then I do not need to look at the edit. By making changes in an edit marked with "rv", it is almost like hiding changes to the page. Qutezuce 22:35, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Best Page In The Universe.

Greeting BabuBhatt,

This is Rob Hayes, and I am the person that keeps removing The 3rd Best Page In The Universe form The Best Page In The Universe knock-offs section. I am doing this because he is using his site to harass me. Please block this user from adding their domain address until they remove my name from their website. I am not out to vandalize this page, as I have contributed several things to it including the Something Awful interview reference and the Maddox on Tech TV link.

Thank you for your time and sorry if I am not contacting the right person.

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blink-182

I'm trying to start a discussion as to which is the correct form in the first word of the sentence. Please see Talk:Blink-182. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:07, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ban

please ban 80.154.19.134 see Lantian Man history

Elitch Gardens

Hi - Thanks for the copyedits to Elitch Gardens. I knew the crack about "as featureless as a parking lot" was POV, but really, have you been there? Seriously, I'm not sure how to say it in a NPOV sort of way but the shocking difference between the 100-year old landscaped park and the new, completely barren one was (IMO) a significant contributing factor to the "less-successful" (and I don't think "relatively disastrous" was out of line) first two seasons leading to the park's sale. Not a big deal, and I'm certainly not going to make an edit war out of it, but things that are POV but simply the truth seem OK to me. BTW - are you a Denverite? -- Rick Block (talk) 05:30, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Regarding, the Elitch's article, I agree with you, the old place had charm, and the new place is a travesty. Saw Riders in the Sky at Elitch in '89 or '90. I'd love to see sources on the public's attitude and esp. on the disastrous seasons. I'm in Fort Collins about 10 years now. I just did some editing over at Cinderella City if you're looking for something interesting to check out. Btw, how's the Wikiproject Colorado work anyway? BabuBhatt 06:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm wasn't involved in the Wikiproject setup - it doesn't look terribly active. I'll check out Cinderella City sometime (I noticed it recently but haven't even read it yet). Maybe Westword might have something quotable about the public reaction to the new Elitch's. I'll see what I can find. -- Rick Block (talk) 16:29, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ten-pin Bowling Movies

Hello Babubhatt, you say that Kingpin is not the only other ten-pin bowling movie, u kno? - please can you enlighten me as to the others? Thanks. :-) ... unsigned comment by Fjorn

Re: bowling bovies, I assume you've see This list ... I'm not sure of others ... I'll check it out. BabuBhatt 06:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Babubhatt, in regard to that list, yes I have seen it, I created it. Although I must apologise as I have now amended it and the entries as it should be movies/sports documentaries as to my knowledge and every bowling forum I have been on only Lebowski and Kingpin of dedicated bowling movies. However, if you can find any others I would be extremily greatful. :-) Fjorn

Well, so far I found this which is also listed here: Dreamer VHS Babubhatt

Hi Babubhatt, Well, I must credit you and thak you sincerely. I had no idea about this movie! Thank you ever so much. If you can find any others at all it would be greatly appreciated. Again, many thanks. Also, I have found these bowling movie lists (or movies with a "tiny" bit of ten-pin bowling in them) but really,other than Dreamer that you kindly found, I didn't think the others were worth mentioning. The lists can be found here [1] and here [2]. Fjorn

Phish IT

Looks good thanks! Doing this for class! -=D

William Joel??

Got the joke. I clarified it a little. --Folksong 03:14, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Percent

We are quoting the publication that interviewed Novak. In transcribing the spoken words of anyone there is always going to be some degree of subjectivity on what to write. The publication has done this job, and we don't have access to audio recordings of Novak's words, so we can't interpret them ourselves. In quoting from this publication we are relying on their reliability in quoting a person accurately, to take their interpretation of Novak's words and reinterpret them without the original audio means that we are no longer quoting anything but making up our own things. Style guides apply to your own writing or words, no to the words of other people. Accuracy should not be sacrifaced just to conform to a certain style. Qutezuce 04:26, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Further to this, see Talk:The Office (US TV series). Qutezuce 04:48, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(Edit conflict) I started a discussion on the article's talk page about this; not having seen your comments on Qutezuce's talk page, I wrote a lengthy paragraph for which your comment on Qutezuce's page is an excellent and clear ex ante recapitulation (I hope you'll permit my essaying an oxymoron; if not, I'm left saying that, ignorant of what you'd written, I simply found a more verbose and muddied way of saying it!). His/her point apropos of transcription would be persuasive, inasmuch as we haven't an audio copy of Novak's comments, but we can say with certainty, I think, as you noted in an edit summary, that Novak didn't say "percentage sign", whereupon we are altogether correct, I think, to format the quote in a fashion consistent with that prescribed in the MoS. Joe 04:49, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And because Novak didn't say "percentage sign" thats why we didn't write "percentage sign" or "%age sign" or "% sign" or "percent sign". Re: MoS, please read my comment on the talk page, the MoS doesn't specify to use "percent" over "%". Qutezuce 05:16, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bhattisattva

God damn you Walter! You fuckin' asshole! Everything's a fuckin' travesty with you, man! And what was all that shit about Vietnam? What the FUCK, has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the fuck are you talking about? TommyBoy76 23:14, 8 April 2006 (UTC)TommyBoy76[reply]

User:Father McDouglas and vandalism/creating fake pages

Hello, I noticed a page I'm fairly certain is a joke page created by User:Father McDouglas. It is Armenian Mom!. I followed the "what links here" link and found that he was vandalising other articles by including links to this page (among other things). Before I could rv, I noticed you had beat me to it. I was going to ask that you block him, but I sent the fake article to AfD and he should have a chance to refute this if indeed it really is an Armenian TV show (which I highly doubt, but nevertheless, he should have the opportunity to defend himself). Please take a look at the page and see for yourself. Maybe I should have sent it to "Speedy Deletion" instead. I haven't requested admin priveledges yet so I'm not sure which would have been better. Anyway, thanks for your work. Funny name, by the way. Big fan of Babu myself.--WilliamThweatt 16:33, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

beatboxer

He does have his own page: Darren "Buffy, the Human Beatbox" Robinson. Feel free to add the dead rappers category there. Thanks, --Urthogie 16:55, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About the Phish

I was trying to fix the external link to The Phish Website from [www.pheesh.com] to [www.phish.com], which some anon had changed to the former. Your brackets might have gotten undone because if you had taken the trouble to check the history for the page my edit is one minute after yours. No need to get all worked up, you can put the brackets again. I am sure it wont take long for an editor of your mighty callibre. The "Newbie".

Apologies about the rather brusque tone of my previous message. I was trying to revert the vandalism and hence very surprised to see your message. I guess both edits happened near-simultaneously with the unfortunate result of the de-wikification. Peace :). gunslotsofguns 20:37, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice user name!

You are a verykind man Mr. Bhatt, verykind! :p —Khoikhoi 07:02, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Phish vandalism

Well, that was quick :) Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Phish reversions on May 9 --Moeron 03:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. The admin also commented on that user's talk page, and while essentially it's simply disagreement over the big recent changes, when the reverts destroy so many other changes since that time, it feels like vandalism. It would be much better for the user to explain what he/she disagrees with. BabuBhatt 03:22, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maintaining Phish

I have added you to the maintainers of the Phish page (Talk:Phish). Let me know if you want to be removed. Thanks! --MOE.RON ^{talk | done | doing} 18:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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