User talk:Theoprakt

January 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to Brasero (software) appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe our core policies. Thank you. ~~ [ジャム]^[t - c] 23:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I know the NPOV policy, but I don't see where my sourced stating of a fact would conflict with it in this case. -- Flipote (talk) 14:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

"In its current development stage, the program has to be considered bug-ridden and unsafe to operate."

Where is the source for that? That sounds like a POV to me. I don't consider it bug-ridden or unsafe, and I use it every now and then. ~~ [ジャム]^[t - c] 14:56, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

The version that comes with the current standard installation of Ubuntu 8.10, that is: Ubuntus current standard burning program, suffers from the bug documented in the link I gave in the first place: under certain circumstances it deletes the original data without prompting the user(!), regardeless whether the burn process was successful or not. So, as this little bugger ate my data, I may not be in a perfect position for NPOV, and my wording may have been to general. But I think some kind of a warning would be appropriate, as this is a serious malfunction, and there must be many systems out there running with the defective version. -- Flipote (talk) 05:31, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Regarding additional sources: a google search for "Brasero delete bug" turns up scores of them. -- Flipote (talk) 05:40, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I think the new sentence you added is more appropriate, although it might still border on WP:NOTGUIDE - we aren't in the business of warning people about buggy software. If that was the case, the Microsoft Windows article would probably be full of them...

However, I suspect it is quite a serious bug (although it has been fixed in development as far as I'm aware) so I guess it should be OK to leave there. ~~ [ジャム]^[t - c] 10:14, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

October 2009

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I don't think my edit was so bad. In it's present state the article claims that "typically" optical zoom is superior to post-processing. I strongly doubt that and would like to see it sourced. For now, I tried to put it in a neutral way, avoiding the claim that it was "typically" better or worse, but spell it out for lossy and lossless compression seperately. -- Theoprakt (talk) 19:29, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Much better. Still unsourced, but at least it captures the opposing points of view, rather than the previous uncommented flip from the one to the other. I just took out the other funny negative statement, which made a lot less sense than what you added. By the way, my revert was not intended as an endorsement of what you changed; just needed to get your attention to WP:NPOV and WP:EDSUM and such. Dicklyon (talk) 20:02, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

I tend to get snappy when critized. Should this have been the case here, I apologize. Regards, Theoprakt (talk) 20:05, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

That's OK. The level 1 warning template is designed to try to not provoke that reaction, which is why I used it instead of my own often-too-blunt words. Dicklyon (talk) 20:15, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Christmas Bullet

Hi Theo, thanks for your comment in the article talk page as to consolidating references. I do agree in many cases, that simplifying citations is required, but in this case, I considered the article was not necessarily an easy one to source and that there were many conflicting pieces of information that needed to be sorted out. That's the real reason (ignore the other comment on the talk page as AD has an issue with me...). Awhile back in Wiki, there was a tendency to simply cite entire books or chapters of books as reference sources but more and more, you will see individual pages used as exact notations for bibliographical sourcing. My change back to an earlier format has nothing, repeat nothing, to do with a "rollback" or "vandalism rollback" as was indicated in the comment. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 11:34, 20 December 2009 (UTC).

It looks much cleaner now, thanks for your efforts. -- Theoprakt (talk) 15:29, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Massive IP blocks by single user, serious mistake?

{{unblock-ip|1=213.54.181.12|2={{openproxy}}|3=MichaelBillington}} {{unblock-ip|1=213.54.32.196|2={{openproxy}}|3=MichaelBillington}}

These are dynamic IPs assigned to german users of ISP Tiscali, please unblock.

Also, please take a look into the block logs of now inactive user:Michael Billington, who from March to June 2007 blocked more than 4000 IPs, with a 5 year expire time, on the grounds of "open proxy", but many of these seem to be within the dynamic IP range of ISPs. I have the feeling that maybe some large scale mistake was made here.

-- Theoprakt (talk) 21:49, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Which unblock request are you wanting looked into ... one at a time, please! (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 22:22, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

I've unblocked these two IPs, and your point stands. See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#User_talk:Theoprakt.2Fopen_proxy_blocks -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 22:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

why use html over mediawiki syntax

Because when people were trying to write the possessive of an italicized word, it was messing up and introducing bolding: "In Hamlet's first act..." etc. -- AnonMoos (talk) 18:07, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, didn't do it right there, but it was doing it in the other article; maybe you need two of them: "In Hamlets first act, unlike Much Ado About Nothings..." There we go... AnonMoos (talk) 18:08, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

I see... Theoprakt (talk) 18:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

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I can haz cheezburger? Awww, thanks... :) -- Theoprakt (talk) 22:34, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

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I'll add sources. I'm not making this up. -- Theoprakt (talk) 19:40, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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