User talk:BostonMA/Chit Chat

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Marx and Engels on Russian Revolution

Gee, Marx wasnt even consistent with his own logic if he says a revolution could happen in Russia. I didnt know that. I mean, I already thought the logic of marxism was highly flawed given more information on market operations, but man! (Gibby 18:16, 11 December 2005 (UTC))

Gee, maybe your understanding of Marxism is incorrect! (BostonMA)

It seems like it. But feel free to edit the FMC part, contsructive criticism is welcome. Deletion is not. :P (Gibby)

Article is locked. I actually think that is a good thing at the moment.

Re. Honorifics

No, you were doing just fine! I converted to "proposal", so that other wikipedians might get involved and give feedback.

See also intro of category:Wikipedia proposals - maybe best to advertise your proposal on the "official" spot too, as indicated there. --Francis Schonken 15:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

History

All I can say is read through the talk pages and archives at Conspiracy theory and Wikipedia:Words to avoid. Your inquiry is perfectly reasonable, and I mean no disrespect to you when I say I mean to pour no more of my time into talking with or about Zen-master. Best regards, Tom Harrison ^Talk 21:23, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for removing my mistake

Hi, I'm not sure how I did it, but I accidentally editted the wrong page, a template. I couldn't figure out how to correct it, but you managed to. Thanks. --BostonMA 18:07, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That was my fault, I forgot to subst an ArbCom special use template. My bad. Kelly Martin (talk) 18:09, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tamil disambig

Hey no problem... I just noticed it on the disambig page. Actually, many of the cinema ones are not too bad. ;-) --Deville 18:09, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, I have found that Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups is a pretty solid reversion tool. I figured you might be interested. --Deville 00:22, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the intructions look tough, but in reality it's not too difficult to set it up. If you need any help or pointers on it, let me know. Incidentally, I'm guessing you're in or from Boston? I went there for school myself. --Deville 02:47, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mediation

Sorry, for meddling... I would appreciate if you add an email address to your account so that I can communicate with you privately.

Med Cabal

No, I just had a really bad day on WP, and I didn't have the time for it anyway. Karm a fist 04:48, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Response

Among all the sections of the article, it is the most appropriate section for this material. Removing well referenced edits is a form of vandalism. Using an edit summary doesn't help. Also, the good faith is difficult to establish when viewed in light of the user's other edits where his edits bordered on POV pushing. Bangalore is a FA and you have done well by reverting his deletion. Again, if I were in your position, I'd ask him to follow wikiquette and not type in CAPs; to use talkpage as he was the one who initiated this disturbance in the article composition and to be more civil. Of course, WP:DFTT applies as well. Keep up the good work!! --Gurubrahma 09:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings

Thank you for your greetings - let the colors of Holi permeats all the segements of Wikipedia to make it truly reflective of the sum total of human knowledge. I completely agree with the comments on your page. Please see this also. Thanks again for your support and kind words: yes, you conveyed very silently the crux of the issues without creating any noise. I also thank you for your kind words and support during my gloomiest wiki-mood. My current Status is: Highly active Wikipedian as Wikipedia is a part of my life!!! Perhaps, I may be disappointing few by being so hyperactive, but I cannot loose so many friends by remaining not so active. I love you Wikipedia as I love her!!! --Bhadani 09:38, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Minor heads-up

I corrected a minor spelling mistake on your user page despite the notice to not edit it because I feel that a fine Wikipedian needs a fine user page. --Gurubrahma 16:43, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Hindu

I believe it is an egregious violation of POV. As for your question as to whether you should be participating there, I think you should decide it by yourself, going by your other priorities. I don't want to engage there, because I believe that it is one of the best papers in the world and I read it regularly and hence, I am apprehensive that this bias of mine can colour my views. I have already added this to neutrality-issues on WP:INWNB and I would invite a couple of non-Indian editors who I believe are fair and adhere to a NPOV. I do reserve the right to step in, though ;) --Gurubrahma 06:58, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

3055

Thanks for letting me know. I thought it was just an odd inclusionist who was morally opposed to losing the article :) Ral315 (talk) 18:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Message on my talkpage

Hi, I received a message on my talkpage from an anon claiming to be you here. I left this message on his talkpage. Just thought I shd inform you, --Gurubrahma 17:20, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

deleted the earlier versions of the image per your request, have a great day!! --Gurubrahma 17:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No trouble at all. As for sleep, I haven't yet slept due to two reasons - one, Bangalore is very active in BPO/Call-centers where employees are awake all night answering phone calls of US customers and I am expressing my solidarity by with them by not sleeping ;) and two, I sleep only when I'm reasonably sure that I won't be having dreams of WP while asleep. I shd be off in another 20 min or so. btw, are you in Boston, MA? --Gurubrahma 17:57, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Very funny! Yes, I am in Boston. --BostonMA 18:01, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

my turn?

So can I ask my question? you'll have say so... :) --h y dkat(ballyhoo back :) 19:06, 27 March 2006 (UTC) -:-( It wasn't my RFA, it was User:AzaToth's. The guy does important work related to metatemplates. But a bunch of voters refused to give him the admin on the grounds he didn't have enough main-space edits, this despite showing them that templates created by him like {{qif}} are linked in the 100,000s. He has apparently faced situations where templates he's created he could no longer edit because of its becoming protected for being important. Scandalous. --h y dkat 19:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll wait for the next round to begin. --h y dkat 19:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question at Quiz

Well, there is no hurry. You can ask the question any time in next 24 hours. In fact, you can announce that you will ask the question at a particular time.--Dwaipayanc 16:50, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

It's good to be back. Karmafist 02:01, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ABHINAV

Hello boston MA ... thnx for the replies. I have added more stuff on in the skin of a lion as it is more relevant than b4 ... i am new to this site and it is hard to contact you guyzz... thnx for the help!!! ..keep up the gud work!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 572766 (talk • contribs) 21 Sept. 2006

Gambling...

Sorry to say this, but I'm not a Hindu. I celebrate Diwali cuz of the crackers etc. So it's back to gambling for me. :-D Idleguy 04:39, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you don't mind

I added of photo of yours (Image:NearNannilam.jpg) to Distributary plus an explanation. Hope the explanation is correct. Feel to change or remove anything you want. Mattisse (talk) 13:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Elephant picture

I wish you would promote your own pictures, at least to me, as I have a hard time finding relevant pictures of India on Wiki Commons, usually only finding them by accident! As for the elephant picture, I can label it as "Countryside near Kalpetta" or something similar, as long as you do not think it would give a false impression. Mattisse (talk) 19:32, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added the elephant picture to Kalpetta and unexpectedly found a street scene photo to add also. See what you think, and if you think it represents Kalpetta. Feel free to change or adjust as you see fit. Mattisse (talk) 16:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: using Redirects

Hesitant to rely on redirects as I know Admin (especially) and others hate them and think they cause confusion. One Admin told me there are 2 million useless redirect pages someone is going to have to clean up some day. There is also (or was) an anti-piping crusade going on for similar reasons i.e. confusion and complication. Mattisse (talk) 16:53, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm beyond understanding such links right now.

But it is true researching the various water projects, I have come across all sorts of strange things about water controversies and companies that come up with complicated "water projects" involving several states, rivers. dams, canals and power transfer od water.

In fact I wrote an article originally aimed at temple tanks, entitled Irrigation tank -- don't like the name but couldn't think of anything else. But the article quickly became more complicated as I saw the ancient water conserving methods contrasted with today's high-tech methods amd people/states caught in the middle.

Take a look at the article, if you wouldn't mind. I keep finding unconnected articles on water projects but all the pieces are not being put together. Maybe you know what is happening and can help out or guide me in the right direction. Truthfully, I'm still at the level of trying to get the rivers straight and figuring out what basins they flow into.

It's fascinating. Mattisse (talk) 01:29, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You were worried

Wikipedia Administers noticeboard/Incident#Puppetmaster Mattise repeatedly removing puppetmaster tag

Please read the actual incident so you will see that that I had done nothing wrong. There is no rule that you can't change your own user page.

What makes me feel the worst about the whole thing is that you had so little faith in me that you thought I was in danger. Mattisse (talk) 23:20, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there you have it in the comments from the person who made the mistake below. He is referring to a comment I made in another section, namely:

When my user page was reverted: User:Mattisse‎; 18:53 . . contribs) (Revert to revision 73364465 dated 2006-09-02 07:33:12 by Netsnipe using popups) it was reverted to a point before the sockpuppet label was put on again, revealing personal information that I don't wish to be available for personal reasons and that I had removed long ago. So now I can't remove my own personal information that User:Ekajati chose to reveal. I was told that it was an administrator that was doing it (which I did not think an administrator would do without due process) so I did not believe that part. Nonetheless, what I want private is now there against my will and there is nothing I can do about it.

The comments from the guy who made the mistake are below on your page and refer to this statement which, apparently in his eyes, is a sin. Either you read the actual comments and believe what was said on the link I sent you, in which was the ultimate conclusion was that my user page was left to me to do with it what I want), or you believe the guy who admitted he made a mistake. No one likes to admit he made a mistake (although he does in that link I gave you - and also on my talk page to me). In any case, I get the drift of this now. I thank you for being the friend you were before. And I don't hold it against you for believing your friend and sticking by him. I do think you meant well. Mattisse (talk) 00:40, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for responding -- it truly helps me think good about people again. No I didn't really think I was in danger. First, I wasn't doing anything against any rules. Second, the driving forces in the beginning were not administrators. In fact, those same people had been told to back off recently by adminstrators. Third, what awful thing could happen to me? The worse outcome was what happened -- that two non- administrators got into an edit war over my personal user page, and an administrator got sucked into it and did exactly the wrong thing - as was pointed out in the link I sent you. Now he may have done that out of sheer misunderstanding (which is what he states in the link I sent you) or he may have been sucked into this clique that insists that Timmy12 and I are the same person and have done so multiple times (I now know from looking at his page). I didn't know about the User:Timmy12 thing until yesterday and I was truly horrified.

I've been attacked so many times by this particular clique of persons who want to "own" certain articles, that I am (almost) used to it. Plus there are experienced administrators who have seen me through many of these episodes and will tactfully do the right thing in the end (I believe). Plus, if it means I have to sell my soul to these people and obey their unethical edicts amd back off and overlook the bad things they are doing to Wikipedia, then I will not do that and I will accept the consequences. My nature is such that I am driven to keep the standards of Wikipedia high.

My fault is that I am too blunt and don't have enough patience with the "bowing and scraping" that is required to get along with some of these people. There is some middle road there that I must work on in my own behavior. But in reality, there is nothing they can do to me, except freak me out emotionally -- which they have succeeded in doing previously but I am working on that side of myself now. Compared to previous times, I handled this latest attack well, so maybe I can believe I am improving. It has been a struggle.

Thanks for letting me express all this. I had decided to desert India entirely, but it would be a loss to me. I have been interested in other areas before and can find another area if necessry. There are some really bad people in the India area, unfortunately, along with mostly good, wonderful people. Mattisse (talk) 02:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About fire

You are right. Looking at the comments of User talk:Nishkid64 referenced in you last message to me on his discussion page [1], he says I have been enjoying the situation talking to other people. That must mean you, as the only other message I have sent regarding this was to another admin. Since you are definitely right that admins are like fire, lets not talk about this again. And thanks again so very much for being there. I truly appreciate it. Mattisse (talk) 12:50, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]