Welcome to the talk page of Marcus Brutus. I hope to accept a multitude of requests with a Wikipedian attitude.

Hi Brutus. Thanks for your message, and please accept my apologies if I seemed harsh to you in your IP-form. Welcome to wikipedia as an account holder and happy editing. Bucketsofg✐ 16:12, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See, Bucketsofg is cool. Kahuroa 20:07, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Little people

I made a comment on Bucketsofg's Talk that I hoped he could cope with all the attention he was getting over his song and his RfA (Recommendation for Administrator). He replied on my Talk that if he made Administrator (which he now has) he wouldn't forget the little people like me. Thats how that started. I made a little image on his Talk to say "Pffft from a little person" and then I realised it would make a good award for those who have shown willingness to help out with Polynesian articles. You were the first recipient. And then I edited Bucketsofg's page to make his an award as well, because he has been very helpful too. Kahuroa 00:09, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers

I am sure I will get to Italy again sometime. Anyway I have a question about Rongorongo on Talk:Rongorongo. Kahuroa 05:56, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shady backgrounds or not, you must have read about it somewhere and that is your source. Why not say what it is so that others can look it up and read it too. That an official policy of Wikipedia - it has to be verifiable. PhD in comparative literature - compared Māori traditional texts to ancient Greek and yugoslav ones in structural terms. Also involved translation Maori to English and some linguistics and anthropology and a whole heap of other stuff. PS thanks for including me as a 'big person'. That was big of you. Kahuroa 04:52, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The book you mention - maybe you should try to find (if you haven't already) a book or two that are ONLY about the Rongorongo. If they aren't wacky then they might be more accurate than a book which covers a lot of topics. Anyway, if that is the book you got the information from, you should say so on Rongorongo. If you want help with that, you need to find out these items from the book:

full title
name of author
city where it was published
name of the publishing company
year it was published
page numbers you quote from.

PS check this out Et tu, Brute?. Cheers again Kahuroa 08:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edits

Glad you likem. Yep that page is a keeper. Not like they could go back to their old crap one. Hope I got the Marcus Brutus right? Kahuroa 00:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Also please leave the date format in the form native to that country (dd/mm/yy for British/Australian/Irish etc topics, mm/dd/yy for American topics). If the topic is international, please leave in the form the article was written in originally. Many users become offended if their native English is deleted from articles about their country, and replaced with someone else's form of English or form of dates. FearÉIREANN\^{^(caint) 18:59, 31 May 2006 (UTC)}[reply]

Your article

Re instructions in Wikilanguage, can you find another page that does what you want in a way you like? If you show me one, I can help you if you like.

Unless you just mean this
sort of thing?

Pictures might help in the Performance section - I agree, you have to do something to make it easier to read. You might be able to get a friend to help you by taking some photos with a digital camera, and upload the good ones. You might only need a couple of them, as too many might look funny.

In the meantime I found a translation for ma'ori - it means 'skilled, old' and I have added that. Proper spelling is actually ma'ori in Rapa Nui. I found it in a Proto-Polynesian cognates list. Kahuroa 00:04, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What do I mean - um I just mean separating the main parts of the instructions with spaces and (maybe better wiki style) with

these stars which
give you this sort of
bulleted list when you put
a '*' at the start of a line.

you only need 1 or 2 pix. How publicise? Write a great article and they will come. But remember, there are over a million articles on Wikipedia. 02:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Cheers - glad the layout is working, but lets keep an eye out - and thanks for the holiday wish. Not one actually cares that its her birthday - its just a day off... Um, re Rongorongo books, I just meant keep an eye out for a book that deals solely with them. And the 'wacky' comment - Anything to do with Easter Island seems to attract kooks - as does anything about Thor Heyerdahl. He was wacky - had funny ideas and the articles about him here and about his Kon-Tiki expedition also attract kooks who think everything Heyerdahl wrote was true, when he was actually known to make things up. I just know what makes sense in Polynesian terms, and his theories don't. Kahuroa 00:10, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Photos

Then I guess the background should be light? And invisible grids border="0" or something like that. But it was only an idea. Will it work? who knows... Kahuroa 18:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

example photo. Hmmm. Blurry. Maybe a still pose would photograph better - no action blur. Hmmm. Background busy, a little cluttered. Plain would be better. Need to see whole body, including feet. Am I fussy? Kahuroa 04:50, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New photos

I like them - I think they work eh. Kahuroa 07:22, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Down Syndrome

You removed an appropriate on-topic image from Down Syndrome for no apparent reason, so I've reinserted it. Is there any reason you took it out? --Wafulz 02:13, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Down Syndrome

And before that, there were pictures of flaccid and erect penises, which I removed, and I certainly did not put there. I would appreciate it if you could check to whom you were sending messages. I removed the offensive image. I did not put it there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aextreme (talk • contribs) 02:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Augustine Tolton

Your addition of "self-proclaimed" is confusing. Can you elaborate on that? Is he a self-proclaimed African American? Or a self-proclaimed Roman Catholic? Or self-proclaimed priest? Thanks. --tess 19:45, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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