User talk:Ihcoyc/archive 7

Task-focused interface discussion

I responded to your comments. Would be good to get additional input from you in light of the updates. Beatmik (talk) 04:09, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

6 Discipline deletion

Hi, I see you deleted the article "The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development Into Business Results" ‎ with the comment "A1: Not enough context to identify article's subject" I don't recall quite what I wrote but I thought I was clear that the subject was a book of that title and I included the author and publication date. Not that I'm particularly wedded to the idea of that article existing, but what context were you looking for? Jerdwyer (talk) 05:47, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Contact

Hi Steve, I'd like to contact you over the author & title of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:National-stereotypes.jpg -- thanks, Philipp (info@blogoscoped.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Philwiki (talk • contribs) 23:05, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

good batch of prods

Good catch on those spammy articles on business methods. DGG (talk) 07:39, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks: they are the result of simple Google searches, the first batch for "solution provider" / "solutions provider", the second for "management solution". More will be forthcoming once I formulate the search strings that will find what I am looking for. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:53, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Is Wikipedia full?

• Is there no room for an article on Latin mnemonics? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (talk) 18:21, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Individual Software Packages

Why would articles on individual software packages trouble you? Shouldn’t any notable program that has tens of thousands of users have an informative article about it on wikipedia?

Joyeux Noël

The composer of my favorite Christmas carol.

I just want to wish my fellow Wikipedians a Merry Christmas! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:45, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of tuberculosis victims

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Retrospective award

I Cas Liber, hereby award Rlevse the Flaming Joel-wiki for raising our collective consciousness for work on a Featured Article highlighted by the Übermuse Billy Joel in his great song We Didn't Start the Fire...cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:57, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

See image at right.          

Article mistitled

The article you created in 2003 Sadducismus Triumphatus has a misspelled titled (one "d"); hoping you'll take on the chore of moving it to a newly named article and putting in a redirect on the old. True, it is also widely misspelled elsewhere. Please see the talk page there for the confirming evidence. Photo captions and links need fixing, too. Thanks. 5Q5 (talk) 21:38, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for making the change. Looks great. 5Q5 (talk) 22:37, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

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Bob Hurley

New article and has some very good content, but I don't think the wording is in line with WP:NPOV. What do you think? Chengwes (talk) 19:34, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I think the part that bothers me the most is "even though his school is small and has been on the brink of bankruptcy and has never owned its own gym" or "ranked number one in the U.S. even though it does not have any player taller that 6-foot-5. St. Anthony, run by Felician nuns, has just 235 students." They're not sourced. The majority of the content is fine, I just feel like the lead paragraph should be toned down a little. Thanks for your input. Chengwes (talk) 23:10, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

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SELA - Semiconductor Engineering LAboratories

Dear Smerdis of Tlön,

Concerning our article, you mentioned: "— is so bad that it would be better to start from scratch. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:39, 31 January 2008 (UTC)"

I cannot understand what is so bad, and how can it be improved ?

Your comment is too general.

Please advise exactly: what do you mean.

Yermi H.

SELA - Semiconductor Engineering LAboratories

Thank you for your answer.

Could you help on receiving the backup of the article, so that I can go through, examine and restart?

I did not keep a backup.

YermiH. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yermih (talk • contribs) 08:50, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

More SELA semiconductor

Thank you for your comments. I'll start over, while trying to avoid crossing the rules. Yermih (talk) 16:27, 22 February 2008 (UTC)YermiH

Unusual chess openings

Do you know if Benjamin and Schiller's Unorthodox Chess Openings (Collier; ISBN 0020165900) or Angus Dunnington's Winning Unorthodox Openings (Everyman; ISBN 1857442857) covers unusual replies to Whites 1.e4 or 1. d4, fore example lines like 1.e4 h5, 1.e4 Na6, 1. e4 b5 etc. I understand that all White's first moves are covered in Dunnington's book, but am unsure if the replies are also. ChessCreator (talk) 17:02, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Benjamin and Schiller definitely do. Dunnington is more focused on Black's reactions to unusual first moves by White. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 17:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Avanti Construction

I found a little more information. DGG (talk) 18:31, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Grave goods

I see you have a history of working on the article Grave goods. I am looking at it from the project Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles where it is one of the longest {{unreferenced}} tagged articles that does not meet at least the barest minimum of verifiability. It has been tagged and completely without references since June 2006. It would be extremely helpful if you had some references you could add to the article to help support its verifiability and notability. Thanks for any help you can give. BirgitteSB 19:54, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for digging those up!--BirgitteSB 20:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Avanti Construction

Hi, I wonder if you would revisit this discussion, please? What was a hopeless article has been rewritten and its credentials as a government sponsored programme have been sourced here and in the article there are several good sources. BlueValour (talk) 02:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Mobile solutions

Maybe throwing a pot of glue at people is a "mobile solution". --Fredrick day (talk) 15:06, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Illinois corn flake

Since you !voted in this AfD, you might be able to help. What's your opinion on the sources provided by Gianniclifford (talk · contribs) and AlbinoFerret (talk · contribs)? Personally, I think it borders on either WP:NOT#NEWS or WP:BLP1E, but I figured another's opinion might help. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 21:47, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Anti-pattern

FYI, there's a warren of jargon and neologisms here - you seem to have a taste for this stuff. If you're not familiar with the concept, try to guess what an anti-pattern is before you read the article... Colonel Warden (talk) 19:47, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Revisit the Electromagnetic therapy thingy?

Hi, I've recently updated the article Electro-magnetic therapeutic system and the AFD debate for this article. Since I've apparently rebuted most of the arguments by improving the article and proving reliable sources, I was wondering if you would reconsider changing your vote to keep. Surelly it's a notable subject, when you consider it was before the Supreme Court of Canada and you can dowload the transcripts! Thank you. --CyclePat (talk) 23:39, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Image:Maciste-MarkForest.jpg

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How to leave

How can I permanantly log out of Wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fwooper (talk • contribs) 20:47, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

You said you could do that... how? Fwooper (talk) 21:34, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't really care one way or another, but I don't think I'll be doing much of anything on Wikipeda; whenever I create or edit something somebody always finds something horribly wrong with it and erases it.

Fwooper (talk) 18:50, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually I've made my mind; I don't want my user page deleted. But I have a problem; my user page exists, yet when I try to sign my post on a discussion page or talk page it doesn't show up.

16:34, 2 May 2008 (UTC) (See what I mean.)

Help with a spooky bit of Latin

Hi, forgive me the random question.:) I spotted you on the talkpage for the "Latin" article and thought I would ask your advice/opinion. Satanists say Ave Satanas, but one says that "Ave Satana" [1] is correct. However, the theme from the Omen, for which I might make an article, is called Ave Satani.[2] All these claim to mean, Hail Satan. So as you are interested in Latin, I wondered if you could give me your opinion as to which is correct? Merkin's mum 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Ooh thanks.:) You'dve thought the Omen soundtrack bloke could have checked two words before he used them lol:) Merkin's mum 01:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Me again. In the Black Mass article, it says "Both Black Masses end with the expression "Ave, Satanas!". This is also correct Church Latin, and is a reversal of Jesus' statement to Satan in the Latin Vulgate Bible, "Vade, Satanas!" (Matthew 4:10)." Now I can see where they are wrong, as that phrase in Matthew is in reported speech so that's probably in a different tense. But, could you possibly tell me which version of the Bible that is in, so I can change it? Or did earlier versions of the Vulgate decline and newer ones not, or something? Merkin's mum 23:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Oy, Satan!

All hell has broken loose at Talk:Black Mass and Talk:Ave Satanas :). Any assistance would be very much appreciated:) Merkin's mum 12:38, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Mark Eden bust developer

On 6 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mark Eden bust developer, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electronics Engineering Services

Your "delete" vote in this AfD was edited and changed to "keep" by another user. I assume that this was done without your permission, and I reverted it back to your original delete vote. But if I am wrong, please correct it. In any event, this AfD probably needs a bit of keeping an eye on. Thanks Nsk92 (talk) 17:04, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article review/Alliterative verse

I've nominated Alliterative verse, an article you significantly contributed to, for featured article review. The review is available here. Thanks, « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie ^{( talk / contribs)} 21:17, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Gratuitous Flattery

I fink you iz totally the biz. With the only entertaining user page in existence. Since I'm being flatterous, I'm being anonymoose. Anyway, as you be liking jokes, please try to find the one I hid in Philip Larkin 92.2.210.37 (talk) 22:31, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Esperanto profanity

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The Association of Policy Market Makers

I added some references from British newspapers to The Association of Policy Market Makers. It isn't a hoax. You may want to revisit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Association of Policy Market Makers. --Eastmain (talk) 21:25, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

E-Sword

Thanks! I have no idea what happened with Twinkle on that one. _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 14:30, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Ipse dixit

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Allegations of apartheid deletion notification

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I sunk the Lusitania

Hey there, I got a huge laugh from your comment on the AfD article for "Who Sunk the Lusitania." Thanks so much, that was priceless! Ecoleetage (talk) 00:18, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Translation needed

You are only active user with category Translators la-en and I need little help. We are having edit warring in article about dark WWII priest Miroslav Filipović. Vandal (in my thinking) is pushing very dark version of event during Drakulići massacre, but only sources about that are on Croatian and latin language. Because it is possible to say that we all from Balkan are POV I will like that somebody neutral translate must important findings from church commission report. Latin sources are: [3] [4] [5]. Important parts you can write on talk page of article.--Rjecina (talk) 15:53, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

No problem and again thanks--Rjecina (talk) 16:12, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Sig confusing

Hi, I think there is a policy/guideline that your sig should resemble your name. No biggy, but it is confusing. Hobit (talk) 01:39, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Pixologist rewritten

Hi, I've rewritten pixologist and encourage you to revisit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pixologist to see if your concerns have been addressed. Please note that a name change to pixel artist is almost assured if the article is kept. Banjeboi 20:51, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Kikiyaon

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Request help translation la → en

The article on Valentin Naboth has an untranslated latin phrase at the end, that reads as follows:

"III martii accidit casus pertristis Valentini Nabothi Silesii senis sexagenarii, mathematici insignis: inventus is est mortuus in musaeo suo, ab hominum consuetudine et frequentia nonnihil remoto, V vulneribus confixus; uno in pectore sub mammella sinistra, altero in latere sinistr, 3 in hypochondrio dextro, 4 sub umbilico, 5 in mano sinistra."

I believe it is the closest there is to an eyewitness account of the rather dramatic events that let to Valentin Naboth's demise, as recounted in the last paragraph of the article, but my understanding of latin is so minimal that I am not certain what is really says. If you have a chance I would appreciate it if you would have a look, and perhaps add an English translation of that phrase to the article. Thanks a lot. JdH (talk) 00:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. JdH (talk) 11:21, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

User_talk:Sandstein#User:Le_Grand_Roi_des_Citrouilles.2FCommander_Dante

Hello! You userfied the above and because Sandstein, original deleting admin, does not oppose my moving it back into mainspace, I am going to do that now. --Happy editing! Sincerely, Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 17:13, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Matulchandra

I've posted a comment on Matulchandra... I don't think it's plausible to post it for translation, but I defer to your more experienced judgment if, given the state of the page in question, it is in fact necessary. I commented under the deletion discussion about this but wanted to just poke you for input. ناهد^𒀭(^dAnāhita) ^𒅴 15:57, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Wasilla Assembly of god

Thank you for introducing some reality-testing to the discussion. the Wasilla Bible Church page also needs to be restored. it was deleted after an AFD of less than 24 hours, despite actually being Sarah Palin's present church and having reliable sources.Elan26 (talk) 15:17, 4 September 2008 (UTC)Elan26

Account Deleting

I'm interested in deleting this account. How do I go about doing that? Chengwes (talk) 06:47, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Turns out I could rename my account. Didn't know I could do that... GoCuse44 (talk) 02:55, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Latin translation

Hello,

I see that you volunteer for Latin translation, could you please translate for me the following text (taken from the Directorium Inquisitorum)

(§151) Tertius modus processum fidei finiendi & terminandi est,++ quado delatus de hæresi processus meritis diligenter consideratis, cum bono consilio peritoru, reperitur varius, vel habens indicia co[n]tra se ad quæstiones, ut scilicet exponatur quæstionibus & tormentis; ut si quæstionatus nihil cocesserit, pro immuni & innocente habeatur; ++[Sylues.de Strig.lib. 3.cap.4. pun.5. Tabien. verb. inquisitor. §.14. Siman.ca tbo. insti. tit. 65. nu. 13. Schol. 53] Et hoc est, quando delatus non est deprehensus nec propria consessione, nec facti evidentia, nec testiu legitima productione, nec sunt indicia ad talem suspicionem, ut habeat hæresim abjurare: est tamen in suis cofessionibus varius, vel aliàs sunt indicia sufficientia ad quæstiones & tormenta. Circa istum talis practica est servanda. In tali autem casu quia sententia interlocutoria est contra delatum fereda, & non pro eo, per episcopum & inquisitorem, conjunctim, & non divisim est ferenda, juxta c. Multoru. in clem. In primis si talis steterit in negativa firmiter, & nulla tenus (licet inductus per probos viros) fateri voluerit veritatem, feretur sententia, quæ videtur sapere vim diffinitivæ sententiæ per modum tenoris sequentis.

[...]

(153) Si quæstionandus reperiatur varius, & insimul sint indicia alia ad quæstiones sufficientia, ponatur utrumque in sententia, ut in prædicta positum est. Si autem hæc duo non concurrant, sed unum tantum, utpote varietas sine alijs indicijs, vel alia indicia sine varietate, ponetur in sententia ut invenitur. Sententia autem lata mox exequetur vel exequi simuletur. Non sit tamen inquisitor multum voluntarius ad quæstionandum aliquem;+ nam questiones & tormenta non inferuntur, nisi in defectum aliarum probationum; & ideo perquirat alias probationes. [+ Non facile veniatur ad tormenta Schol.53.] Quod si non invenerit, & tenet probabiliter, quod delatus est culpabilis, sed metu negat veritatem, bonis modis & [gr?]andoque cautelosis, & interdum adhibitis ejus amicis inducentibus ad veritatem dicendam, faciat suam diligentiam,++ ut ab ore ejus habeat veritatem, & negotium non festinet: nam meditatio frequens, & carceris calamitas, & replicata informatio proborum virorum, disponunt ad veritatem eruendam. [++ Notandæ inquisitoribus.]

Thanks in advance, Michelet-密是力-Me laisser un message 19:29, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Indeed, it is probably the result of a character recognition system. The scan of the page is available here if you need it - a rather bad one, I'm afraid. Take your time, no problem, just leave me a note when hou're done with it. Thanks, Michelet-密是力-Me laisser un message 05:13, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

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Wescorp Energy Inc.

I made some style edits to Wescorp Energy Inc.. You may want to revisit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wescorp Energy Inc. -- Eastmain (talk) 19:56, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Friends of *Fundamental Payroll Certification

Hi Ihcoyc

Please visit the AfDs for the rest of 'em:

• American Payroll Association
• American Accounts Payable Association
• Certified Payroll Professional and
• National Payroll Week

Thanks, 15:08, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Source in Great White Brotherhood

Greetings -- in the Great White Brotherhood article you sourced the statements about Eckartshausen to chapter one of Godwin's Theosophical Enlightenment. I am very interested in following up on this statement, but unfortunately cannot find any reference to Eckartshausen in this book. At the same time, I am certain I have read about it recently in one of Godwin's books -- perhaps Arktos?? Yonderboy (talk) 01:27, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Second Attempt to Delete Donna Eden

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Image:Hum-skel.png listed for deletion

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AfD nomination of Latin profanity

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Sorry, twinkle failed me. It has now been properly listed. Kyaa the Catlord (talk) 10:32, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Prod on Information Security Management

Hi, I just removed your prod tag on Information Security Management. I feel that this page is not a neologism because of the loads of pages I found on a Google Book search and a Google News search. There even apparently is a law named after it as well. While the article needs expansion, that is not a reason for deletion. If you still feel that this needs to be deleted, feel free to nominate it for AfD, but please let me know when/if you do. Thanks! DARTH PANDA^duel 21:06, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Now that you've brought it to my attention, it's beginning to look like a merge/redirect to a particular section may be in order. I'll take a closer look at it later, but as of now, that seems like a good idea. DARTH PANDA^duel 01:19, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Technological Supremacy

I can see your point that is rather embarrassing. I have taken your advice and reworded my page and post better links. I would like to recommend revisiting Technological Supremacy and review it once more. I really appreciate the feedback on my page, I could really use the info.Fishman343 (talk) 23:25, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Degrelle.jpg

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AfD

Hi! Would you mind weighing in on this AfD: Brownmark Films The discussion has been re-listed several times and I'm hoping to finally get consensus on it. Thanks! SERSeanCrane (talk) 18:15, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Seth Material article

Thank you so much for "saving" the Seth Material article. About ten days ago a group of editors -- including administrators, which I found shocking -- descended on the article with threats to delete it. They clearly had no knowledge of the subject, but they just as clearly didn't like it. They redirected the article several times, and they pulled two-thirds of it out and tried to force other editors to work in a sandbox (without their agreement). Their behavior was extremely biased, and it was a terrible experience for the other editors.--Caleb Murdock (talk) 02:39, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

No editors on the page wanted this article deleted. See a reply at User_talk:Jmundo#Seth_Material_article, thanks. NoVomit is a new account for an IP editor supporting Caleb's position. Thanks, Verbal chat 08:59, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

There were threats to delete the article which appear to have been removed from the talk page -- I remember them. Since I never wanted the article deleted, it can't be said that NoVomit supported my position.

Sorry to be arguing now on your talk page! Thanks again.--Caleb Murdock (talk) 11:40, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

24.239.162.248

This user has had a history of adding unreferenced statements to a page, specifically with the page Rick Jackson. I've warned him several times about making this statement, and in my most recent warning, gave a detailed request that he stop vandalizing the page, or at the very least, provide a reference for his edits. I've now warned him 4 times - at what point should I ask for a IP block? Thanks. GoCuse44 (talk) 07:07, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PhoneGnome

I added some references to PhoneGnome. You may wish to revisit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PhoneGnome -- Eastmain (talk) 01:07, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

OxyVita

You supported a merge of OxyVita to Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers at a recent AfD discussion. That merge now needs to be done. Would you consider helping with that process, either be removing information from OxyVita that you don't think needs to be moved to the other article, or by copying information to the target article that you think should be preserved? Even a small amount of work from the people who supported the merge at AfD would be very helpful and appreciated. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:54, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

A centralised discussion which may interest you

Hi. You may be interested in a centralised discussion on the subject of "lists of unusual things" to be found here. SP-KP (talk) 17:36, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Could you take a look at my suggestions at Brassenx

Hi Ihcoyc, I think you would be the right person to ask for a minor check of my mostly uninformed edits to the Brassenx page. There I wrote:

During the English occupation, Arjuzanx became the capital of the barony of Brassenx, where Edward III of England in 1338 published his fors (likely the Statute of Provisors) and customs (likely the Praemunire) of Brassenx.

I dont fully understand the French wiki, but these links are likely to the correct statutes, I'm a layperson here - could I ask you to take a look at it, just delete the text if I was wrong. Power.corrupts (talk) 11:01, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your excellent oomments there. And by the way, am I my mistaken if you once liked Sex Pistols? - θανx - Power.corrupts (talk) 08:41, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Ingelmarius

To: User:Amphitere, User:Bayerischermann, User:Ihcoyc, User:Veritasian

I note that you are listed at as possible translators Latin-English. I wonder if one of you could take a look at Ingelmarius, a fairly interesting subject but one containing a large chunk of Latin text that may have been posted originally with the intention of translating. If it is worth including in the article, could you translate it, or such part of it that is worthy? (My Latin knowledge is barely above non-existant.) Emeraude (talk) 13:15, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks. Much appreciated. Emeraude (talk) 16:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Lycopersicon syndrome CSD question

I have no attachment to this article, but hoaxes are specifically excluded from G3 on the WP:CSD page except in "blatant and obvious" cases. Your note at the top of the closed AfD directly contradicts that. Why? (This is a good faith question; I'm genuinely curious why you equated them, and I assume your answer will help me understand G3 better.) Thanks - Townlake (talk) 15:22, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Perfect - thank you for taking the time for the thoughtful and helpful reply. Townlake (talk) 15:54, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

You maybe interested in the Article Rescue Squadron

Hello, Ihcoyc. Based on the templates on your talk page, I would like you to consider joining the Article Rescue Squadron. Rescue Squadron members are focused on rescuing articles for deletion, that might otherwise be lost forever. I think you will find our project matches your vision of Wikipedia. Ikip (talk) 17:16, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to the Article Rescue Squadron!

	WELCOME	from a Article Rescue Squad member
	Welcome to Article Rescue Squadron Ihcoyc/archive 7, a dynamic list of articles needing to be rescued, which changes with new updates, can be found here: Articles tagged for deletion and rescue Category Articles tagged for deletion and rescue not found I look forward to working with you in the future. Ikip (talk) 16:47, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

I found your comment on the member list very interesting:

"AfD is probably one of the most significant sources of new article ideas for me."

You maybe interested in User:TonyTheTiger's heroic efforts: Fifth formerly deleted article recreated and advanced to GA-Class. Let me know if you need any help, and welcome to the squadron! Ikip (talk) 17:16, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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I need some help translating this from French to English

I saw that you are a translator on the French Translation page... I need some help translating the following letter into English. It was written by General Pulaski, while traveling to find food for the starving soldiers at Valley Forge. I know it's an inconvenience to ask you to do this, but I would very much appreciate it. If you don't have time though, I understand. Thanks.

Berlington [N.J.] le 28 Fevrie à Minuit 1778

Sir

Jais l’honeur de Vous rapporter qu aiant rassemble toute La Cavalerie du Regiment Blan et de detachement que jais eu avec moi jais trouvè 44 Cavalie 5 bas Officiers pour les Services et quoique ils ne sont 698 pas dans le melieur etat jais marchè avec eux vers L’Enemi mais come le chemin est insuport.. je suis force de Passe la Nui a burlington de demain je Comte de reconoitre L’Enemi et jagirais de Consequence. je verrais le General Wayne et je concetrais avec lui je ne negligerais rieins que le biein du Service exigera mais pour etre sou Ses ordres je ne m’attends pas, je servirais neenmoins à mon prejudice à linteres Publique.

Aprè quois je tacherais Mon General de diminuer Vos embaras sur mon Comte me demetant de ma charge dont Le Congres ma honoré par Votre recomendacion.

J’envoiais d’ici deux batots armes sur Ancokes krik pour observé par la Riviere L’approche de LEnemi qui se trouvait a deux Heures apre midi sur quatres differents Batiments à L’endroit quon apele Sene Merize. Je repets à V. Excelence la plus grande Necessité de Soigne les besoins de La Cavalerie Elle manque dé tout j’aurais desire de faire aumoins bieins equipé Le Regiment de Blan avec les Lenceurs mais come cela mest deffendû il faut quon prene d’autres Mesures sans s’abandone trop sur les Colonels quis certainement seront hors d’Etat de remplire Leurs Objet, ce nest pas pour moi que je parle, je ne Comte davoire Lhoneur d’etre a la tete de cet Corps la Campagne Prochaine, mais Come je Serais toujours ami de L’interes des Ameriqueins, je suis forçe de dire ma façon de Pensè plus si apre Moi Le Comendement sera doné au Colonel Moilen, toute la Cavalerie sera en meme Etat que Son Regiment, Le Colonel Blan est un Activs Officier il Lui Convieidra cette charge, et Monsieur Moilen pourra etre contenté d’une autre chose je dis ce que je crois etre necessaire et jais Lhoneur d’etre avec respect de Votre Excelence Les tres humbl et tres obeissent Serviteur

Casimir Pulaski

Rochlafayette (talk) 00:38, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I have the honour of reporting to you that, having assembled all the cavalry of the Blan (?) Regiment and a detachment that I had with me I found 44 Cavalry and 5 lower officers for the services, and even though there are only 698 of them, and not in the best condition, I marched them toward the enemy, but the road was impassible. I was forced to spend the night at Burlington and tomorrow I will attempt (?) to reconnoiter the enemy and do something substnatial. I would see General Wayne and join up with him, not forgitting that the good of the service makes it necessary to be under his orders, I will not tend to myself, I will serve notwithstanding any prejeduce to my public acclaim(?).

After that I will be silent, My General, to diminish your chagrin at my account and dismissing me from my charge which the Congress honoured me upon your recommendation.

I have sent two armed boats (?) on Ancoke's creek (?) to watch the river. The approach of the enemy which was found at two o'clock in the afternoon on four different buildings in the location that's called Sene Merize (?). I repeat to Your Excellencey the great necessity for care, the needs of the cavalry. They lack everything that I would have wanted to make them well equipped. The Blan (?) Regiment with the Lancers ; . . . . Because I have always been a friend of the American interest, I was compelled to speak my mind, more if after me the commendation given to Colonel Moilen, the whole Cavalry will be in the same state as his regiment. Colonel Blan is an active officer and he would do well in that office, and Mr. Moilen could be content with some other thing. I say what I believe is necessary and I have the honour to be with the regard of Your Excellency, Your most obedient servant....

My sincere thanks

Thank you so much for taking the time do this. As a precaution, I asked several people listed on the French translation page to help me with the letter. Today I checked, and several people have sent me the translations or are in the process of translating them. To every one of them, I say "thank you." I've been trying for several weeks to find a translator (first on myspace, which was hardly any help at all, then on wikipedia, which I must say has been more helpful). I hope in the future you would still be willing to help with translations. There are several letters from Lafayette that I cannot understand. But it may be some time before I need them.

Thanks again.

ps I was watching C-SPAN today, and was quite surprised to learn that after all these years, Pulaski may be made an honorary citizen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rochlafayette (talk • contribs) 00:16, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

A discussion to look at

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plural of virus would appear to be right up your street. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 03:32, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Bad girl art

Please join the discussion on this article you have contributed to. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 18:55, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

File:Chris.png listed for deletion

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Welcome to ARS!

Hi, Ihcoyc, welcome to the Article Rescue Squadron! Here to help articles tagged for rescue! We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying and rescuing articles that have been tagged for deletion. Every day hundreds of articles are deleted, many rightfully so. But many concern notable subjects and are poorly written, ergo fixable and should not be deleted. We try to help these articles quickly improve and address the concerns of why they are proposed for deletion. This covers a lot of ground and your help is appreciated! If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you. And once again - Welcome! -- Banjeboi 22:20, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

in regards Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/E-Mail Letter

In regards a better title, did you have a look at Email, an existing article which already covers this information in great detail? Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 23:21, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

deleting Bro. Ignatius Mary article

I don't know if this is the proper place. I am unfamiliar with all this, but Thank you for deleting the article about me. Since the article is deleted I presume nothing more needs to be done as to any formal request. For the record, however, I do not agree, and the facts are to the contrary, concerning the evaluation of this non-notable atheist, but I haven't the time to deal it or debate it. It is better to delete the article, which you have done. Thanks. BroIgnatiusMary (talk) 22:39, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Athematics

Χαιρε

I was writing a Dutch wikti-lemma on 'wortelnomina' and wanted to find the English term for that. They are nouns that did not have a thematic vowel, i.e. the substantival equivalent of athematic verbs. Do you know the proper term for that?

Thanks nl:wikt:Gebruiker:Jcwf

Jcwf (talk) 01:15, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for fixing this mistake: [6]. I am glad you caught that! Pastor Theo (talk) 22:14, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rod Dreher (third nomination)

Hi, thanks for closing this. I know one can "salt" the recreation of articles--can the same be done for AfDs for articles? Drmies (talk) 18:56, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

I wish - no, not that I know of. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 11:33, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

English grammar

As a frequent (>20 edits) contributor to English verbs, would you like to weigh in at Talk:English_grammar#Suggest_splitting? Regards, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 21:47, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

A deletion review discussion you may wish to contribute to.

Hi. I've listed two deleted articles at Wikipedia:Deletion_review, following the discussion on "lists of unusual things" which took place earlier in the year. As a contributor to that discussion, you might be interested in expressing an opinion on whether the two deleted articles should be restored. SP-KP (talk) 15:40, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

New evidence in a deletion discussion

Hello, Smerdis. For your attention, new evidence was published at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Triune_Continuum_Paradigm on 18 April 2009. This may (or may not) change your opinion that you have expressed on the discussion page. Thanks. Aipetri (talk) 15:51, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oneirological Advertising

There's a copy of the hoax at the creator's userpage, User:Kellygiles. Uncle G (talk) 16:02, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi -- As far out as the concept sounds, oneirological advertising is actually real, or at least in development. I realize the article had a factual error, and outside of eliminating that, do you have any other suggestions to help it conform to Wikipedia standards? Are there parts of the article that are usable, or is the theory too new to be on Wikipedia? You said it was a pity to delete it, so I have to think you saw something of value in its contents (as do I). Thanks in advance for your help. Kellygiles (talk) 01:54, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Gourdinian

Thank you, from all of my order. Although I defend still that Gourdinian is not made up, I thank you. Also, I must agree that I need to research the philology- it isn't my specialty. There are twelve linguists who regulate the language, philology's one of the things I leave to them! --OllyOlyosia (talk) 15:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

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System Thinking

Dear Smerdis of Tlön,

Please excuse me for my poor knowledge of English. I red your comment in (or at ?) the discussion page of System thinking, and it struck me that you had exactly the same comment as I had at the Dutch page: complete bollocks. I am currently fighting this free distribution of nonsense, because its harmful to the health of many people. So called Organisation Development Counselors base their "advise" on this theory, but the theory is senseless. Please look up Systeemdenken on the Dutch page, and have the discussion page someway translated in English.

Regards, Vier Tildes 84.86.93.168 (talk) 02:53, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Poetry collaboration

--Midnightdreary (talk) 14:50, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Phrontistery

I noticed you redirected this title to The Clouds and was just wondering if this is an alternate title? Because the word is not mentioned anywhere in the article. Thanks. -- OlEnglish ^(Talk) 04:10, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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A message from the creator of (USC Limited)

Dear Smerdis of Tlön/Ihcoyc,

I found you suggested my article for deletion and posted comments in reply. I'm not sure if you've seen them, so I've provided you with the links, below. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration in helping me to write/edit for wikipedia. Sincerely,61.192.74.228 (talk) 08:09, 27 May 2009 (UTC) 61.192.74.228 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/USC_Limited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:USC_Limited
61.192.74.22861.192.74.228 (talk) 08:09, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

NowCommons: File:Old100.png

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meeting architecture

Two SPAs have placed on the article talk page comments which I have just copied into the AfD debate, with my responses. The first amounts to "Wikipedia ought to explain this new idea to the public", but the second says "The subject needs an article, this isn't it but you could write one along these lines... " and made me reconsider whether we should keep the article in the hope of improvement. I have decided I'm not convinced, but I'm letting you know so that you can look at the debate again and see if you want to change your !vote. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Proto-Indo-European language and geometrized system

You can read here about original status of Proto-Indo-European language and about geometrized system which supersedes SI by using really only one unit for measuring all things. 79.191.250.153 (talk) 12:20, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

The symbolic heart

Hello Ihcoyc, in September 2004 you had added a whole section "The heart in literature and metaphor" in the Heart article. Later this was moved out as a separate article Heart (symbol). Now it is asking for citations. Can you provide your sources for the initial, and I must say well-written, content of that section. Jay (talk) 12:23, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

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Images tagged for no source

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Pallavaram

I saw that you closed the AfD, can you also semi protect the page, from the nominator statement, I guess that was what they were looking for, and also, based on my edits as well as another editor's, we suggested the same too, the page appears to be a haven for political statements by two rival groups, and they contribute as IPs. cheers. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 15:39, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 17:12, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Causes of the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

You voted to Keep this article, claiming it was part of a series. It isn't part of series, in fact there's been talk about merging this group of articles because it isn't a series. What were you talking about? Scribner (talk) 21:09, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

re: WP:ORG notability standard

Thank you for clarifying. I need to think on it for a bit. In particular, I want to see if I can find my own midnight inspiration about whether the definition of "mainstream" is sufficiently clear or whether this just moves the problem.

I see where you're going about specialized trade rags. This might also be the time to find wording that stops the wikilawyering based on 'press release reprints in the sidebar of the business section of my local newspaper'. Rossami (talk) 19:40, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi Ihcoyc/archive 7,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

• Each casebook will have a subpage.

• Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
• It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
• Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

• I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

• Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
• Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 20:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject TRANSWIKI

You are invited to join WikiProject TRANSWIKI and join the sub language project of your choice. The aim is to draw up a full directory of missing articles from other wikipedias by language and build a team of translators to work at bridging the gaps in knowledge between other wikipedias. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:25, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Procedural close?

The article Neo-ninja was up for deletion. A merger and re-direct was proposed back in January, but no consensus was achieved. Why would you close the AfD just because someone pre-emptively redirected the term (without merging it from what I see)? I think the AfD should be discussed. It was only up for a few hours. Niteshift36 (talk) 14:24, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

ONEEVENT and Gideon / Miranda

Just to address your last point: I think you're confusing WP:SINGLEEVENT, which is a part of WP:BIO and applicable to all biographical articles, with WP:BLP1E, a similar policy contained in WP:BLP that is applicable only to BLPs.- Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 14:55, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

6th Framework Program

I agree with yopu that these articles are indefensible, but perhaps the best course will be to merge them all into Information Society Technologies. After that, we perhaps can consider a further merge to Sixth Framework Programme. Not much would have to be included. I think this is the simplest & clearest way to handle them. I sort of know what they're getting at (I did teach in a School of Information Science fort a few years and I know the peculiar jargon they use), but I'm not going to bother rewriting them--eventually they may be notable if they produce some results. Perhaps I can get the guy who wrote them to combine them, if I explain the alternative. DGG (talk) 05:07, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Something is Wrong on the Internet

therefore I am up at this ungodly hour. I discovered an entry on Elizabeth Brontë. As not much is known about this unfortunate child, I was somewhat startled to learn that she had been reincarnated as a character in something called Witchblade and subsequently killed off.

I believe that this entry should be renamed "Elizabeth Brontë (Witchblade character)" and another entry created for the second eldest daughter of the Rev. Patrick Brontë. (A disambiguation page might be an excellent idea, particularly if other comic books, video games or role-playing games have employed Lizzie as a character.) In fact, I endeavoured to perform this task as instructed on the help screens. I clicked on "move article" only to be confronted with something calling itself "no target" and claiming I hadn't specified a target. Well, how could I, when I was attempting to get to the step where I specified one? My brain can't get around the instructions on how to request a move/rename, and so I appeal to you. --Bluejay Young (talk) 12:53, 11 August 2009 (UTC) (hardly, but that's beside the point... must get that fixed, too, one of these days.)

Articles for deletion nomination of Transitioning Applications to Ontologies

Got this talk suggesting that I created this article - I actually didn't, so please cross-check whether you meant some other article by me, or some other author. oxana (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:50, 12 August 2009 (UTC).

SmartAction

Hi Smerdis of Tlön. In response to your comments I've made some changes to the SmartAction page. Please let me know if you have further suggestions. Thanks! R001605 (talk) 09:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Comment on" Transitioning Applications to Ontologies"

I saw your reaction on my comment on the "Transitioning Applications to Ontologies" deletion page. But unfortunately the page itself has been deleted, even though there was no concensus reached and there was still discussion. If the discussion could have continued I would have asked what your think about an article as: Lie_group this is only partially written with English words, and most of these English words have a specific meaning in mathematics too. So our discussion could have continued about which English words these projects use that are really part of an area's vocabulary (and hence should be defined so they can be seperated from the use in ordinary English) and which words could be replaced by ordinary, better understandable, English words. That discusssion could have grown into a useful discussion resulting in better Wikipedia content. It is a pity it has been stopped Ademmen (talk) 10:54, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments, but..

Thanks for your comments on my user page User_talk:Ademmen. I did put a rather long answer there. So I will not repeat it here.

What you did not answer there, and that is why I want to state it here, again: the deletion of these articles was wrong and against Wikipedia process policy because no consensus was reached and there were a number of "keep" votes. Discussion is useless if you cannot trust the process and if the topics you are discussing about are removed and cannot be seen by anyone, anymore. So please take care the articles are restored so we can have a serious discussion about the concerns raised and thus improve Wikipedia. (The articles can always be removed later, after consensus has been reached.) And no I am not involved in any of the projects you did propose for deletion. Ademmen (talk) 16:37, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Objection to deletion of EU project articles

Dear Smerdis! I object deletion of EU project articles, such as the KnowARC article contributed by me, from the English-language Wikipedia that you triggered. I also object deletion of any valid Wikipedia article on an invalid pretext. Wikipedia is used by the society as a reference. EU projects is an important phenomenon in European societies, including the English-speaking parts of Great Britain. The deleted articles were a part of the Wikipedia:EU project, as you could have noticed from their respective Talk pages.

The ensued discussion ended abruptly without any new comments on the part of (anonymous) Wikipedia managers, who bluntly deleted accurate and relevant content. I do not belive such actions add to Wikipedia's credibility or popularity. oxana (talk) 13:43, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trifectant

How about a redirect? Tim Vickers (talk) 23:02, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

RCC or CC

You took part in Talk:Catholic Church/Archive 3#REQUESTED MOVE to Catholic Church there is a new requested move see Talk:Catholic Church#Requested Move --PBS (talk) 08:34, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Please Review

As you were one of the administrators who originally said there was an issue with my article could you please take a look at the revisions I have made in my personal space and give me feedback? Thanks, Rpelton (talk) 16:56, 25 August 2009 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rpelton/NCircle

I responded to your comment for my page above on it's [page] I appreciate your help with my page tremendously!! Rpelton (talk) 16:16, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Removal of PROD from PERSIST FP7 Project

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Hey, Steve

See PERSIST FP7 Project deletion page -- all good things come to those who wait. Yours. P.S.: Sorry for the oversight. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 19:10, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Reply from SimonM223

I understand your concern. However I'm not blindly AfDing every occult article. Have I been scanning the Occult project page for junk that should be deleted? Yes. Do I believe my characterizations have been unfair? No. Have I tried to (for example) delete Al Crowley's article or stick up a redirect from UFOs to "mass hysteria"? Of course not. My personal biases notwithstanding I believe that the articles I AfD have serious flaws. An AfD either removes the articles or sees to it that interested authors work to fix the flaws with alacrity. And fringe spiritual beliefs do not become less fringe just because they are non-verifiable. If they are only adhered to by a small minority of people, compared to otherwise comparable spiritual positions they can be fairly characterized as fringe. And Spare... definately fringe.

And if there were a devil, yes, he would drive a Kia. :p

Simonm223 (talk) 20:06, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

If you don't mind I'm going to address your points in order.

This is perhaps where we disagree most strongly. As far as I am concerned, the only real "fringe" where we're dealing with esoteric belief systems is identical with the general notability guideline. In other words, if an esoteric teaching is addressed in detail by independent sources - independent of the person, not necessarily of the school or movement - it has an identifiable "mainstream" for all practical purposes.

I doubt we will agree here. As far as I am concerned the fringe definition is whether there is commentary on the movement independent of the movement / belief system / etc. This is why Falun Gong, Rastafarianism, Scientology or Catholocism would be notable while, imo other belief systems would be categorized as fringe and / or not be notable by Wikipedia standards. I don't think either of us is likely to agree on this point. However this is why Wikipedia uses the Consensus model.

Spare's teaching was influential in certain circles. As noted above, he's considered one of the founders of "chaos magic". Chaos magic may find few devotees, but there are some; they have published independent works on the subject that acknowledge their debt to Spare. And Spare's magical screeds remain in print. They meet the general notability guideline; and within that realm of interest, Spare was not a fringe lunatic but a respected teacher and founder.

Fringe does not necessarily imply lunatic. It implies not part of mainstream discourse and it implies not widely accepted. But I will agree that Spare is no more and no less insane than L Ron Hubbard or Pope Ratzinger.

My interest in this stuff is mostly as a student of folklore; magical folklore interests me, although I understand how it might seem tiresome rubbish to others. Chaos magic is as worthy of respect as Christianity. We cannot arbitrate the truth of formally undecidable metaphysical propositions by counting adherents or holding a popularity contest.

The truth is that folklore and mythology, both religious and magical, interest me too; it has my whole life. In my case it's more about asking why people adhere to any such bizarre doctrines in the first place and attempting to ascertain those underlying reasons.

Too often though Wikipedia gets bogged up with junk like Anton LaVey's Satanic Clock or, yes, Kia (occult), articles which are not particularly informative and not particularly dispassionate. If one of the major religions had articles in such a state of disrepair I would be just as activist.

Also keep in mind that I do adhere strongly to WP:BOLD. I see being a bit of a WP:DELETIONIST as forwarding this. Frequently the risk of deletion has been sufficient to see editors with a vested interest in an article work very quickly to bring it into a better state. In the cases where this has happened I have usually backed off from pursuing deletion. Simonm223 (talk) 20:38, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Also, fwiw, I backed up keeping Energy Vampire even though I find the entire concept to be disgusting and would love to see it stricken from the earth (I've seen a lot of bipolar goths labled psychic vampires and ostracized when I was younger) as it is a notable one. Honestly, other than a disagreement about how to apply the WP:FRINGE policy to non-falsifiable topics I think we do have common ground.Simonm223 (talk) 21:02, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Charles Sindelar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Sindelar Hey thanks. --Bluejay Young (talk) 06:45, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Reinstatement of Extraordinary Assumptions and Hypothetical Conditions

I worked on this article hopefully to get it to survive deletion. The original draft is at User:KTrimble/Extraordinary assumptions and hypothetical conditions. Discussion of the deletion of the original draft is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Extraordinary Assumptions and Hypothetical Conditions.

The edit/creation page says to contact the 'deleting administrator' for guidance. Please check out the revised draft at User:KTrimble/Sandbox/Extraordinary Assumptions and Hypothetical Conditions. I am also contacting other admins apparently involved. Please let me know what to do next, if it is acceptable enough to not be deleted. Thank you. KTrimble (talk) 04:00, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Achievo Corporation

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DYK for Certified question

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Phlogiston theory

Eureka! I finally understand the real "science" behind magic smoke theory. Once electronics release their magic smoke, they are rendered useless. Short circuits are another smoke releasing event. Smokers are merely trying to re-introduce the smoke they are losing out of their system every day. LOL

We need more articles like Ergosophy and Abiogenic petroleum origin to understand all of the opposing "theories". Thanks.  kgrr ^talk 16:52, 20 October 2009 (UTC)