User talk:KageTora/Archive 1

This is Archive 1 of my Talk Page - please do not modify it

Welcome!

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Oh, one more thing. I saw that you uploaded a picture of yourself at Image:Colin.gif. That's great, but images uploaded to Wikipedia have to have licenses regarding their copyright status. Take a look at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for some ideas. I'd say one of {{GFDL-self}} or {{PD-self}} would be your best bet. Technically it should be the photographer, not the subject of the photograph, to do this, but I for one am not fussy about the difference. If you could go back the picture, click "edit this page", and slap a tag on it, that would be great. Technically, images without tags can be deleted at any time (though in practice you do usually get a warning first). --Angr (tɔk) 11:09, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tests should go on the sandbox

Hi! I noticed you edited the misc reference desk to test some wiki code or whatever. Well, we have the Wikipedia:Sandbox for these purposes, and please, from now on test on that page. You might also want to create your own sandbox to try certain tags and formatting for later use. ☢ Ҡieff⌇↯ 08:29, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request of translation

Hello, Mr. Givnan. I still make sentences from the website called 田代まさし波瀾万丈伝 on Masashi Tashiro's article but I have trouble because I'm unable to edit it in clean English. I would like you to correct and add it from the website. There's his detailed biography in this website! Would you help me if you are OK, please? And, there are sections called "Success", "Criminal charges" etc. You may change it to more appropriate name in his article. For example, I made section called "Early life" on his article but please change its name appropriately if you think you had better change it. In addition, would you write translation from "Haran-Banjoden" website as detailed and perfectly as possible? and I'm very very glad if you create and improve his article because you can understand German, French, Latin, Russian and Mandarin. Please answer to me. --Hatto 02:14, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reference Desk

Did you get my response at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language#Japanese_Question? I'm not a professional interpreter myself (yet), though I have had a few stints and I might do some more in the future. I'd like to know if it helped you or not. freshofftheufo ΓΛĿЌ 15:15, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your expert help on Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language!

Hi, Thanks again for this! --Shirt58 12:49, 15 August 2007 (UTC) , aka shaatohifuchieito[reply]

Grammatical mood

No, but thanks anyways. Here is an example:

1. "I am real."
2. "I am real."
3. "I am real."

In these cases, I am saying the underlined louder. So in 2 and 3, we have a change in grammatical mood because 2 is in the energetic mode while 3 is in the declarative mode.

So that leaves us with case #1: my question. What do you call it when you use this same concept with nouns and what are the categories? Thanks.68.148.164.166 (talk) 05:12, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

HTH on Lolspeak

Hope I've helped in my second comment in response to yours, providing a few suggestions of the provenance of some Lolspeak elements. And please accept my apology if I came off rather terse in my initial response; I can be quite indignant in defending my pet sources of amusement and probably went overboard with my unsolicited testimony. Or is it yet another urban legend that the typical Wikipedian is a twentyish student with too much leisure time? :-) Deborahjay (talk) 12:47, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
...and in good faith (also because I too was wondering), I added a specific response based on your pointing me back to the unresolved aspect of your query. I did read your User page and also understood from the thread that you're not a cat fancier; while there's probably no such thing as an "average translator," the forum and offlist communiques among the Israeli translation community reveal a preponderance of ailurophiles. :-) -- Deborahjay (talk) 10:16, 12 April 2008 (UTC)'[reply]

Ryukyuan languages#Writing_system

Thank you, could you give me a list of letters "...which are not used in modern Japanese"? If you can't could you point me to somewhere I can?68.148.164.166 (talk) 10:36, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; what graphemes were used to represent "...'wi', 'we', and 'yi' and 'ye'..."?68.148.164.166 (talk) 14:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mistake

::Whoops! My mistake. I just read my original reply and found it appeared twice in my list. Sorry, it was late at night, or something. You are right, though. I have not been able to find 'yi'.--ChokinBako (talk) 21:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Huh, I'm confused?68.148.164.166 (talk) 11:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For helping a lot of people through the reference desk, and for answering the question I've always wanted a good answer to, I award you with this Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar! You're dreaming eh? 04:00, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, maybe I'd be going a little far to award you this for answering my question, but you do have a lot of reference desk edits, which I think is definately worth a barnstar. As for my question, I've asked countless people that question, and you're the first to give me a good answer! I believe that that is at least worth a tip of my hat (By the way, I do still think that there's nothing actually wrong with swears.) Cheers! You're dreaming eh? 04:00, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese Written Standards

Yes, but Mandarin orthography and Cantonese orthography are significantly different enough that they are not mutually intelligible. Here's an example, news reporters use 中文, while the lay people use 粵語. The lay people, Cantonese speakers, without formal training (in their case, Education in grade school) would not be able to understand it. Yes, their text books are written in 中文, but they speak 粵語. In fact they speak 中文 in Cantonese phonology. For the untrained speaker, 中文 phonologically spoken in Cantonese and 粵語 phonologically spoken in Cantonese is mutually unintelligible.68.148.164.166 (talk) 19:35, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:Kage Twins.jpg

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License tagging for Image:Kage with SHARK.jpg

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License tagging for Image:KageTora.jpg

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Hello, Givnan

I saw your message on my own talk page.

To answer your questions, I took three years of Japanese at the University of Northern British Columbia, and learnt about as much as anyone does at college, which is to say, not too much besides the kana and some grammar fundamentals. However, I've since moved to Nagoya (西区) and after close to three years of regular study combined with immersion, I consider myself pretty advanced.

I'm considering adding Mandarin; I see from your page that you speak it as well. I already have the pronunciation and tones down, and it seems to suit me. Paul Davidson (talk) 10:41, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

§ In response to your second message: I've actually already started doing some work for W5 (funny coincidence, that). What I'm really aiming for is to do literary translation, though — manga or novels or something. Anyway, thanks again for the note. By the way, Ms. Iwata left W5 at the end of April. Paul Davidson (talk) 12:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Colin.gif listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Colin.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Sherool (talk) 20:36, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

Hi! '消しゴムの角' sounds funny? That sounds funny to me. Compare this and this. And '消しゴムの先' is used when you use this type of eraser. Happy editing! Oda Mari (talk) 14:40, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Need your help

Hi 貯金箱! Please see this edit. I think the meaning of 見ぬが花, I mean the first one, is a little bit different from what I think. What do you think? If I'm not wrong, would you please see these [1], [2], and [3] and modify the meaning? You know, it's something like 'Things are better while expecting them than actually seeing them', but I don't trust my English. So please edit it. Thank you. Oda Mari (talk) 17:36, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Oda Mari (talk) 05:53, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reaons to dislike the UK

I think that the Miscellaneous Reference desk segment on the above could get nasty. And I have already contributed to it (can't help it). Would you be opposed to deleting it and taking it's very existence to the RD talk page? Fribbler (talk) 22:38, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Franamax collapsed the question and it's predecessor, Reasons to dislike America. I'd say that should do. The way it was heading, I was at a loss to think up of reasons to dislike Andorra :-) Cheers! Fribbler (talk) 20:15, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Main Page redesign

The Main Page Redesign proposal is currently conducting a straw poll to select five new designs, before an RFC in which one will be proposed to replace the Main Page. The poll closes on October 31st. Your input would be hugely appreciated! Many thanks, Pretzels^Talk! 15:02, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fractured vertebra

Head's up re: my response to your recent query on the Miscellaneous Ref Desk. I think you'll find it more extensive, and hopefully more helpful, than those preceding it. If it interests you, I raised the matter on the RD Talk page in which, inter alia, I've noted my qualifications and motivation for responding as I did. -- Deborahjay (talk) 19:45, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Debt

Seriously, get yourself to the Citizens Advice Bureau. It's free and they're usually fab with this stuff. If more people knew about, it would be flooded (and you wouldn't be able to get an appointment (: ). Good luck. 79.66.58.154 (talk) 23:39, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This removal

I hope you don't mind, but I've removed the above question completely as a request for medical advice. Please see my full reasoning here. I just wanted to let you know as one of the responders to the question. Thanks. —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 19:20, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jokes on the Ref Desk

Hi,

I see you felt guilty about your joke here: Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#Phoenicians_trading_with_.28Great.29_Zimbabwe.3F. As a regular jokester myself, the convention we came up with for off-topic jokes (and anything off-topic, really), is to put a "small" tag around them (<small>Joke goes here.</small>). It's also helpful to wait to place the joke until they have at least one useful answer. Note that this doesn't apply to on-topic jokes. That is, jokes that also answer the Q: "To answer your Q, Dick Cheney's middle name is 'Bruce', not 'Lucifer', as I would have thought.". StuRat (talk) 13:19, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of a response from the RefDesk

I removed a question, and some responses, from the RefDesk. I did not remove yours because it seemed perfectly appropriate to me, but I thought you should know. Any discussion of my action may happen here. I'm just informing you as a courtesy, and hope you don't mind. --Scray (talk) 23:32, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Signature

Hi, I just noticed that your signature says your username is KageTora whilst the actual link goes to this username (Givnan). Whilst impersonating another user is forbidden, since Kagetora (lowercase t) doesn't actually have any edits, might I suggest you simply ask for that username to be usurped so you can be changed to KageTora? ZX81 ^talk

Unless User:Kagetora actually is you, in which case you should place a {{User Alternate Acct}} tag on that userpage. Having more than one account is allowed per policy, as long as you don't do it disruptively. Tonywalton ^Talk 23:03, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Per your message this isn't you. As ZX81 says, applying to usurp that name looks like the best bet. The account was created three years ago and has absolutely no edits, extant or deleted. Think of it as self-protection, if you like - if that's some sort of sleeper account which is suddenly used for vandalism people may think it's you doing it. Tonywalton ^Talk 23:26, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to your new name ☺ Tonywalton ^Talk 21:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your RD/Language question

Your original heading was "American English problems (for me)"; this is turning into an interesting discussion of one phrase — "on the lam". Have you any other phrases that need en_US → en_GB translation? I'm in England, by the way.

The US/GB linguistic distinction has always interested me, and I've just read what I think is the ultimate putdown to the typical English "it's just an Americanism" argument: …he realised now that Americans were foreigners and not, as he had thought at home, a kind of obstinate Colonial English, who persisted in speaking and behaving in a queer and rather objectionable fashion. First time I've read J. B. Priestley (that's from Faraway), but it won't be the last! Tonywalton ^Talk 23:19, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A red herring

Hi and thanks for appreciating my sense of humour! I have written something that has been on my mind for awhile. It is not directed at you, but since you are in the example I cite, I thought it a courtesy to drop you a line. I don't know if you often look at the collective RefDesk Helpdesk, but here are my thoughts for discussion. BrainyBabe (talk) 16:59, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Indentation

Hi. As a gentle suggestion, you may want to review Wikipedia:Indentation and Wikipedia:Talk_page#Indentation. It makes it much easier to follow the flow of conversation on "discussion" pages such the Ref Desks when people use a consistent indentation scheme. (See Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk#Indentation_and_Order_of_Responses for discussion on the issue.) Cheers! In case you're wondering, this post was prompted by the comments you left at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Miscellaneous#Number_lines_in_other_cultures -- 128.104.112.117 (talk) 01:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

gaijin

I can see your point and if I have suggested that every Japanese is a racist, I was wrong. But is gaijin as harmless as you say? But you live in Japan. But I have strong opinions on our new pc debate of "racism", I think it is very complicated (and cannot be dealt with at the information desk): Every society is and always has been ethnocentric and keeps foreigners at arms length until it accepts them, this holds true also for different social classes in societies. This to my mind is not racism, which is a modern "improvement" in ideology (this also a modern thing). But socialist, pc ideology now says: if western societies and individuals behave ethnocentric, they are racist. If other (to the pc-mindset more "primitiv") people, poor souls, behave racist, it is their culture (relativism kicks in: the third world has every right to stay as they are). Relativism logically would mean that western racicts also have the right to be the way they are, but this is not allowed in pc land. And just to say 1 thing against the EU law: If some people dont like jews (Turks, Germans, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, women, longhaired people), do not want to rent them rooms...Why should jews (and longhaired persons) even want to stay there? (If there are other places to stay) I liked Syria, but if Moslems hate us/me ,why should I even want to go there? Sorry if this intrudes on your space (but everything at W. is deletable, too)--Radh (talk) 10:50, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your opinion. However, I was speaking from my own individual experience with individual people, not one ethnic group's supposed collective experience with another ethnic group. There was one time I was playing with a bunch of five-year-olds in the playground (I was a kindergarten teacher), and I spoke some Japanese to one of them, and he burst out laughing, shouting 'It made a sound like a human!' I thought this was funny, as I have worked with kids for years, but when I told some of my fellow gaijin (ones who had arrived only a year or so before), they were infuriated. One of them even packed her job in soon after, quoting racism. Being a stranger in a strange land it was necessary for me to learn to live with people's thoughts for/against me, and that is why I didn't feel the word 'gaijin' to be in any way offensive, unless it was said in a nasty way, which is common-sense, I think. People need to understand a culture fully before they can start making their own opinions about it, and reading cheap, sensationalized books about places doesn't help. By the way, the most popular job website for foreigners to work in Japan is actually called 'GaijinPot'. Also, we all called each other 'gaijin' when we didn't know the nationality or name of the person we were referring to. It was never offensive, only to people who've read the wrong books before they went there and had all these misconstrued ideas about Japan. Also, most of these cheap books are written by guys in their 20s who have just come back from teaching English there for a year or two - not to be trusted.--KageTora (영호 (影虎)) (talk) 21:23, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

balls

I don' t want to keep interrupting on the desk, also I really don't know anymore. I always thought so, but I may be mistaken.--Radh (talk) 08:47, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you have simply been right with your initial reaction.--Radh (talk) 03:13, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Found the above mentioned gaijin anti-racism site among my bookmarks, it is www.debito.org, don't know if they are crackpots, don't even know if they are interesting, but liked the pictures--Radh (talk) 06:26, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I know Debito Arudo. He's well known for posting in the Japan Times. He's an anti-racism activist. He went to Japan a few years before me and managed to get Japanese citizenship (hence the Japanese katakana name). He's not a crackpot, but he is a bit over the top. Doesn't sound like he's happy there, though. It's interesting reading through his articles in the Japan Times, about how you can stop racism by the Police, etc., by producing information about how what they are doing is racist while they are doing it. I just think the best way to get around a Policeman randomly asking for you to show them your ID card (one case in point he makes a fuss about - which, incidentally, never even happened once to me) would be just by doing it, rather than standing around arguing and being late for work. No point in pissing the Police off as well as your boss. Show the card and go to work, is what I say. He's a sensationalist, and he's probably really proud that he's really well known, now.--KageTora - (영호 (影虎)) (talk) 06:37, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

He stands out, but is not afraid (tale of the nail)? Only a joke, but thanks for your info, if you ever need help with german, try me. We in Germany also have to carry id cards, which astonishes/excites/horrifies AngloAmericans no end, but is really not that problematic, but also have to give our address to the state, which I think can be more of a problem. Of course, a law abiding person (like ourselves) will always say, what is all the fuss about? A dangerous aspect of all this pc hysteria is that real and vicious racism, which also still exists, I am sure, can simply not be detected among all the hot air. Now everything is just like Apartheid, fascist is everybody you don't agree with.--Radh (talk) 07:48, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

re: tree structures

Thank you for the response.

I've replied to your reply with more questions at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language#What are the benefits of a tree structure?

The Transhumanist 02:16, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What about for non-graphical tree structures? The Transhumanist 02:42, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

assigned against a piece of virtual chicken

71.236.24.129 (talk) has given you a fresh piece of fried chicken! Pieces of fried chicken promote WikiLove and hopefully this piece has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a piping hot piece, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Bon appetit!

Spread the tastiness of fried chicken by adding {{subst:GiveChicken}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

What happened to you online is pretty much what happened to me at the office! (... of course I can help you....um... that should be...is that...I'll get back to you on this one...) Even my PhD hubby was stumped. Better luck to both of us next time. Meanwhile enjoy a piece of chicken now that the egg's no longer flying. 71.236.24.129 (talk) 04:06, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

中国灰蝶志

Hello KageTora! Can you help me to transliterate "中国灰蝶志" into Pinyin, please? Thank you, 79.219.188.205 (talk) 14:26, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. It's Zhong1Guo2Hui1Die2Zhi4 (where the numbers refer to the tones). You can do this using this free character dictionary as well. Good luck. --KageTora - (영호 (影虎)) (talk) 01:12, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Smoking may kill you (famous last words / Joan of Arc)

Sorry you were the recipient of a bit of flak on the ref desk by the self rigtheous / self appointed apostles of WP:morale patrolling the nooks and crannies of our neocortical convolutions.

As a balance from my side: Thank you for your work on the reference desk and good luck in Korea, cycling, walking, flying or walking on the water. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 23:57, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your vote of confidence. I was actually attacked simultaneously for two different unrelated posts on two different RefDesks. I admit what I wrote did seem insensitive, but there was no offence intended (Language Desk post was a joke; Humanities Desk post was valid information formatted in joking style thereby causing serious (yet unintended) offence to someone who didn't understand the information behind the joke), and neither posts showed any implication for a desire for debate. I apologized on the Language Desk, but not on the Humanities Desk, as the post was deleted by ~~AnonMoos~~ Sam Korn (see post below), and after explaining ourselves, the problem fizzled out very quickly. I've been called a troll before a couple of times in recent months, and these accusations have been hurtful, as I have been using Wikipedia extensively since 2004 and try my best to answer questions within my field (and help out if I can with answers to questions in other fields). Sometimes I will put jokes in (related to the thread, of course), but I follow the protocol of writing it small to show that it is off-topic. Many of us do this. Anyway, if any offence has been caused, I apologize to all those involved, and will reiterate that no offence was intended. And thanks again. --KageTora - (영호 (影虎)) (talk) 05:22, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment at WP:RD

I removed your comment because it was in very poor taste. While you might not be sensitive to someone speculating about whether you are a virgin, someone else -- particularly someone from conservative Islamic cultures -- might. So, taking into account that this is a real, living person, I feel the action was very justified. [[Sam Korn]] ^(smoddy) 07:25, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wipe the slate clean and start over

Wipe the slate clean and start over. Believe me it's not worth it. Bus stop (talk) 22:08, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Waste of time talking to him. Anyway, back to the fun! --KageTora - (영호 (影虎)) (talk) 22:20, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Korean cities articles

Hello. Your "I'm back" post, indicating you're now in Korea, made me check the article for Dongducheon, the city near which I was stationed many years ago. I was shocked to find that quite a number of our articles on Korean cities are little more than stubs. Some are full articles, but many need work. You are in a perfect position to help improve the article about whichever city you are in or nearest. I hope you take advantage of this opportunity (hint, hint). Thank you for your time. 152.16.59.190 (talk) 23:43, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Inventions

Hey KageTora, I'd really like to know, when you put in that link to www.boycottscotland.co.uk, was it just because it had a list of inventions that were (allegedly) made by Scots? Or were you trying to send some political message? 98.234.126.251 (talk) 03:36, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing to do with any political message, mate. For two reasons: Wikipedia is not a soapbox; and I am not Scottish. --KageTora - (영호 (影虎)) (talk) 14:02, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know that, thanks! (I was just asking because that site was obviously supporting the release of the Lockerbie bomber, so I wanted to make sure that you weren't trying to advocate that.) Clear skies to you! 98.234.126.251 (talk) 04:57, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, the site is not supporting his release. It is making fun of the many people (mainly Americans) who tend to jump the gun and (try to) boycott whole nations because of one action they disagree with (c.f. 'freedom fries', etc.). --KageTora - (영호 (影虎)) (talk) 06:08, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese → English request

Would you mind taking a look here? And if the sanji are too old to recognize, no big deal; I've been told that can be an issue for older Japanese text. Thanks in advance if you take the challenge! upstate NYer 03:43, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Signature

I dunno if you intended it but your signature is all not linking to you talk and contribution page (like it should) better fix it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.55.114 (talk) 23:42, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah! Thank you for telling me! That should be fixed now. --KageTora - SPQW - (影虎) (talk) 23:52, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They keep the doctor away

Two today - stock up while you can! Vimescarrot (talk) 23:02, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Ftumch

Please see Talk:Ftumch.--Chuunen Baka (talk) 14:47, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

Hi, I answered at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language#Is "Alight here" plain English? so that others could benefit from the answer as well. — Kpalion^(talk) 22:22, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese verb conjugations and adjective declensions

Hi! お久しぶり。How have you been? I saw your post on the talk page. I agree with you. I don't think 着替える is a good example. But it's not a compound verb because there is a noun 着替え. I think 食べる is a better replacement. Why don't be bold and edit the article? But not only the table for passives but also all tables. I don't think there would be objection against your proposal. Regards. Oda Mari (talk) 14:42, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Translation

Hello. I am looking for someone who could translate into Japanese (and to upload on Japane Wikipedia) a page about an artistic movement founded in Italy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMMAGINE%26POESIA

Could you please help me or suggest what to do? Thanks--Aeron10 (talk) 08:53, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and thanks for your reply. This is the Edit page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IMMAGINE%26POESIA&action=edit

If the problem is about the templates of the images or of the art movement, you can digit Pop Art and see how it is dealt on Japanese Wikipedia. If you can't translate the page, could you suggest someone who could do it? Thank you again and greetings from Italy--Aeron10 (talk) 19:23, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What's wrong with you/with my question?

Why did you remove my question? (here:[4])Mr.K. (talk) 16:08, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see. For a moment I thought that my question above final -ls could have offended the feeling of someone. Mr.K. (talk) 16:31, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

BEWARE POSSIBLE MALWARE LINK

Here you mentioned a possible malware threat. Has this suspicion solidified? Several users on German Wikipedia want User:N23.4 banned, but he seems to have some friends in higher ranks who want us make to belive that he is just an overeager kid.--Tox(Germany) (talk) 14:27, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

oops

Sorry the bot deleted some of your content at the Language desk. I'm about to fix it up properly. —Steve Summit (talk) 03:22, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

macs

Hi. I've just checked my mac, which is indeed a 1.5GHz PowerPC G4, running 10.5.8 (I get my big cats mixed up). HTH, Robinh (talk) 20:20, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's good news for me then, possibly :) Cheers! --KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 20:25, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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