User talk:Mykll42

welcome box

This is an unofficial welcome - I'm not on the welcoming committee and may not be the best resource to answer your questions, despite what the following template says! But here's the basic welcome box which, I regret to say, no one put up for me when I joined, so for me it was sink or swim. This box has a lot of useful links and places for you to ask questions. My best advice - easier to learn by doing than by reading how to do it - eventually it will all make sense. Tvoz | talk 07:09, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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welcome to Obama

Hi - just want to welcome you to the Obama page and hope you'll stick around. We need more rational voices over there. See my comment on Talk:Barack Obama in response to yours in the race "discussion". And - I may be compelled to ~~steal~~ borrow a few of your user boxes... Tvoz | talk 06:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah - it's a kind of awkward system - some people choose to keep these notes all together wherever they were posted, but the problem with that is that you're only notified with a banner when something's added on your own talk page. Otherwise you have to check your watchlist and can miss something. There is a welcome box - I'll find one and post it here for you. (By the way - "mulatto" is considered offensive, at least in the US, so we're not going to be using that term. This whole argument really makes me angry and depressed at the same time. Talk about an uphill battle for the guy - eloquent, brilliant, principled, and doomed to failure I'm afraid.) Back shortly Tvoz | talk 06:55, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your contributions on Talk:Barack Obama, and it's good to see a new user. Just FYI, that user who was debating Obama's race does not represent the average wikipedian - my opinion is that he was pretty uncivil, and people here are generally a civil bunch. (In any event, I believe he may have gotten blocked for a month for personal attacks - so don't take his argument style to be the norm by any stretch.) Again, welcome! --TheOther Bob 05:39, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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You are one quick Bot, Hagermanbot. I had just realized I had forgotten to sign it and then WHAM you were there AND posting on my talk page. You should be called Flashbot.Mykll42 21:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HagermanBot infringes on my editorial autonomy!!! paradoxos 17:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Carmelo Anthony POV

I removed the {{POV-check}} template and left a note on Talk:Carmelo Anthony. Khatru2 23:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Terminology

Sorry to bother you, I was just curious as to why you objected to my use of the term "leftist?" You intimate that it means something other than I intended (and that was just to mean liberal...I could have easily used either term I suppose); are there other meanings I'm not aware of? I had no intent to offend, so my apologies if I did so. I appreciated your looking into my post/links. Oh yes, I did see that you guys removed several of the "blog references;" I agree that that alone helped achieve a more NPOV.Jordancda 23:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. I just didn't really understand what I said that was offensive, so thanks for clearing it up. I totally understand the reasons for all the decisions on the page. I'm just trying to learn the ropes a bit here. Thanks for the help. (I will say something in defense of HHNH: I didn't think it was all that great either, but I think the real situation is that its proved that there is indeed a market for that type of show. I have a feeling it will get picked up and get a lot better because both of these first episodes were not allowed to use recent news like the show is intended to. They were filmed in January as pilots and not aired for a month; at any rate, you can see how that would be limiting to a show in that vein. I also think they made a huge mistake in promoting it as a "conservative Daily Show." They should be trying to declare their own identity, not riding the coattails of what they consider the opposition. It should have just been promoted as a news-satire and then promoted in conservative arenas, e.g. talk radio, National Review/Weekly Standard magazines, conservative blogs, and the Fox News Channel.)Jordancda 04:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material — whether negative, positive, or just highly questionable — about living persons should be removed immediately, and without discussion from Wikipedia articles, talk pages, user pages, and project space.

Period. Italiavivi 01:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fancy warnings

Here is the motherlode. You will find them handy , working on politico pages. Cheers. Abecedare 04:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

and that guy has been indefinitely blocked. Tvoz | talk 04:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conservapedia

No, I didn't mean to remove the criticism material--I was just trying to do something I wasn't able to do--put the Con Commandments in italics. I should have been using the preview, but I messed-up. Sorry about that. I'm trying to get better at this all the time. Thanks for asking and not banning me for "infinity" the way they do on Conservapedia. Menkatopia 20:32, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think I will be missed for long, anyone that actually cares I hope will soon abandon the project as a bad job. Those that remain will have their little closed circle on the internet. I think it was a "one-hit-wonder" on Alexa and that we have seen its peak. But thanks for the kind words. Tmtoulouse 18:21, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As people are bailing out of the conservapedia project I was hoping to collect contact e-mail addresses for the more reasonable participants. I have no idea if it would ever be useful, I am envisioning some sort of action listserv for rational thinkers. And if nothing else I have enjoyed working with you guys, if you feel like passing on that information drop me an e-mail at touloutm@mcmaster.ca. Thanks! Tmtoulouse 05:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

dOOd

I need to talk to someone about SERIOUS COPYRIGHT violations not related to Conservapedia and how to proceed without creating a mess. paradoxos 17:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

looks like someone has done a whole lot of cutting and pasting. check out the military sections. Specifically, USS New Jersey and List of Marine Corps Weapons articles. Copious amounts of information are well edited with no citations and a single reference to work in the public domain. My concern is: are these articles adequately cited and could lack of citations reflect poorly on Wikipedia? paradoxos 20:27, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Transfinite pointed me in the right direction -- sorry to bother you. paradoxos 20:43, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Carmelo Anthony

I'm going to take a stab at adding more references to the Carmelo Anthony page in the coming weeks. It's got a good foundation, but I feel like it can be made a lot better. Also, I'm going to beef up the high school and college sections a bit. Just wanted to give you a heads up. Chengwes 04:00, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:User categories for discussion on -isms

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Syracuse reviving and needs your help!

Hi Mykll42 -- -- Just a note to claim that Wikipedia:WikiProject Syracuse, New York is at least somewhat revived, with a couple people contributing and a good number of new articles. See the new article list on the main webpage of the project. Hope you can return and participate! doncram (talk) 01:43, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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