User talk:Shii/History2

Elyse Sewell

Ashi, I am time crunched with other things now. I'll upload a cover picture and add a paragraph. I assume Wikipedia entries are suppose to be everchanging, yes? You get your funding because you are saying that the public has a choice in keeping entries current, yes?

I appreciate that you are offering to resolve picture issues. I won't comment on your choice of what is notable. Afterall, you might find bread with six months worth of mold growing on it notable. I would not. I would be interested in something I could actually eat.

I'll come back if there are more picture problems. MH

OK. I wasn't the one who added to VfD, anyway. I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about with regards to notability, but thank you for your contributions to the article so far. Ashibaka (tock) 03:05, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello Ashibaka, I am sorry if I sounded tempermental before in my defense of Elyse Sewell's page. I got the first picture from America's Next Top Model Website (cycle 1). There is a separate website for each of the cycles. The second one I got from a fan's collection.

O.K. I know you think that sounds risque copyright wise. But Elyse does a lot of self portraiture, I know that there would be no problem with using one of her pictures. Or I can get a picture from her.

It is evident from reading the comments that I know that I didn't write enough in starting the page. There are a lot more people that know far more about her than I am. My idea was that I start it and other people add details.

I left the E channel stuff off because I didn't think Elyse wants to be known for her tirade. In writing, a tirade looks bad. But she in person is very well spoken, so when she starts doing it, it is very funny. That is why she placed 16th on E.

I was hoping to retain a model like tone, but if that is not possible now that is fine. The modeling details can be added later with more covers. I could write about the E recognition and specific internet review recognition.

Thanks, MH

Unfortunately, we can't just use any picture from the Internet. The author of a page has to explicitly tell us that it's okay to use a picture before it can be uploaded. Exceptions are limited to covers and screenshots, which have long been used in magazines and reviews and so therefore probably fall under "fair use". But just taking a picture ain't fair use. I hope you can manage to improve the article on Ms. Sewell and demonstrate how she is notable. Ashibaka (tock) 05:42, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello

I'm trying to drop a hello when I see a new name. Pleased to meet you. Cheers, →Iñgólemo← (talk) 07:36, 2004 Dec 5 (UTC)

Thanks! Nice to meet you, too! Ashibaka tlk 18:41, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Use of word fancruft

This is with reference to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of characters in The Fairly OddParents. Please don't use the word fancruft on votes for deletion page (as requested by Meelar long ago) , as this discourages users from contributing to articles. utcursch 10:22, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

I only ever see the term used on VfD, so it can't really be that much of a threat... and you know, I would like to discourage people from making fancruft articles. Ashibaka tlk 15:24, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

OK, now I am using a more accurate word to describe useless fan-articles.

Question about the image on rorikon

I found the rorikon page a few days ago. A noticed the image on the page and was surprised that it was on the page. I went through the history and I noticed that you had changed the image to a non-offensive one, at least to me. It has since been changed back and I would appreciate it if you could look into it. I prefer your image or no image at all to the current one originally placed by Paranoid and reinstated by Sam Spade, and I think many others would agree.

I teach in a high school, and I've been recommending Wikipedia as a resource. As it stands the rorikon page makes it difficult for many teachers and school administrators to see wikipedia as a useful resource. I'm not a Wikipedia participant, and I've never heard of rorikon until this week, so I don't feel comfortable making changes, and so I thought I would ask you about it.

-Paul

It was argued over on the Talk page, where I reluctantly agreed that the original image better represented the article, even if it was disturbing to look at. Maybe this should be brought up on the Village Pump. Ashibaka tlk 06:40, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Inactive Project Status

I am inquiring about you posting an inactive notice in the Wikiproject on Alternative Medicine. Why do believe that this project is inactive? You did at one time register as a participant in this project. So, it seems to me that if the project is inactive it is because the registered participants have not been participating. Am I wrong in this assumption?

You are correct. Right now I don't have the time to participate myself. You were the main contributor and for a few months you were gone. Ashibaka tlk 15:28, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Next, are not all projects now inactive by definition due to the implementation of Categories? Are projects still allowed to display infoboxes in articles? In the case of Wikiproject on Alternative Medicine, somebody managed to delete {{CamMenu}} which was a major part of this project's infobox. How can the Wikiproject on Alternative restore our infobox to the original design? John Gohde 19:10, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I don't have any control over this, and I don't think I participated in that vote for deletion. Ashibaka tlk 15:28, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I find it totally amazing that a handful of people out of 40,000+ can delete project templates apparently becuase they don't have a clue about what projects are. 21:48, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Return of the Untagged Image project

You were kind enough to contribute to the Wikipedia:Untagged images project; I beg to draw your attention to part 2 of the project - there are about 12,000 more images in need of tagging. Any assistance you could provide would be most welcome. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

Barnstar

Thanks for the fancy moving picture! Now I feel like I don't even need those daily 3 hour breaks any more :) brian0918™ 22:41, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

SAF

Please understand I have nothing against goons in general. I simply dislike it when a Wikipedia article becomes a repository for material that would be better placed as an external link. Wikipedia is objective information and should not include cultural histories of forums.--Etaonish 23:01, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

As far as I can tell what was written is objective information. Do you have information that contradicts it? Ashibaka (tock) 02:01, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The SA forums take pride in self-moderation and maintaining a high standard of discussion. ...On other Internet forums, subpar posts are often ignored or deleted without note. On SA, low-content replies or abuse of grammar and form will incite probation from a moderator, are reknowned both for their constant efforts to preserve high quality discussion and humor, and for their mocking of websites that they consider strange. are all POV. There is also a sense of arrogance in these edits: the quotes imply that SAF is unique in its intolerance of poor posts. I would suggest replacing them with more NPOV information, such as "The SAF members perceive themselves as..." or "many of the SAF members believe that...", etc.--Etaonish 18:23, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Merger of East Pakistan into History of Bangladesh

You have put a request to merge article East Pakistan into article History of Bangladesh, it seems. Could you explain why? I am not totally sure why the two are identical. Thanks. -- Urnonav 00:26, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

As far as I can tell they are two separate entries that cover the same subject. I am unfamiliar with the subject and thought that was enough to want a merge.

Hi

Hello, I'm the owner of big-boards.com and just wanted to drop you a few lines about what you wrote here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Internet_forum#Big-Boards_Link.21

You quote http://www.big-boards.com/about/#faq10 saying "Big Boards doesn't seem to have that much interest in providing accurate information" when the exact faq you're pointing to says "We're doing our best to have a list as exhaustive as possible.".

If the information we need is not available, there's not way we invent it.

you say "There is information provided by 2ch-- I footnoted it in the article-- but big-boards chooses not to include it". Sorry, it's not we choose not to include it, it's that this information is not what we need to include a board, which is total posts and members count. I would be more than pleased to include 2ch if i could (can you just think of one reason i wouldn't?). What is true, is that we intend more at providing a categorized listing of popular forums, than an accurate ranking. It's too easy to tweak some numbers to get higher rankings, and not all forum softwares record posts and members count the same way. However big-boards was originally based mostly on rankings, and it's not possible in the system as it is today to include boards that miss the necessary information. Still, there is no best source on the web to find an active board for a given topic, even if we're missing your beloved 2ch.

Finally, this one really made me laugh, or pissed me off, i don't know: "They are more concerned with advertising themselves, I guess." Big-boards is a *hobby* site built by one person (myself) with the help of 3 volunteer editors. I work on it when i have the time beside a full-time job. Listing of the boards and generation of stats is free of charges. So, really, reading we just care about advertising ourselves makes me feel a bit strange.

Good day.

--Quenting 12:11, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

There's never going to be any way to record a "member count" for the anonymous forums of Japan and China, because user accounts simply don't exist. Hopefully one day you will adjust your script to account for this.

It's good to know that you're doing this as a volunteer job, but I stand by my statement that big-boards isn't as accurate a tracker as it could easily be. Ashibaka (tock) 00:18, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Re: Fidonet

I just wanted to say thanks for reviewing the Fidonet page and removing the text about the personal attacks. It made me feel uneasy when I was editing the page earlier, but I haven't been seriously involved in fidonet recently, so gave it the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't just someone trolling. In my experience, there were always people bickering about administration matters on Fidonet, but it wasn't exactly collapsing because of it. In any case, there does seem to be someone (not logged in) who wants to put content in the article claiming that fidonet is politically unstable. Izogi 01:49, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

I just took a look at Fidonet today, for the first time ever-- it's very boring. Now would probably be its least politically tumultous time.

I'm glad I don't have to wade through a whole historical politics section on the Fidonet article like there are on so many other Internet-related articles. :) Ashibaka (tock) 02:50, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Buddhism in Bangladesh

I noticed that your article comes verbatim from [1]. Did you get permission from the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh to license their work under the GFDL? I await your comment. Sincerely, Ashibaka (tock) 05:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You are right about the sources. I usually try to paraphrase, reword and rewrite content taken to start an article, but in this case, I haven't done so, and the issue of copyright you have raised is certainly a genuine concern. However, Banglapedia is the Government sponsored National encyclopedia of Bangladesh, and I assume the licensing scheme would put the text into public domain. I do not have a paper copy of Banglapedia, so cannot make sure of that, and so in the mean time, I will rewrite/reword the sections taken taken from Banglapedia. Or do you want me to remove them and start from scratch? Either way is fine, just do not attach a copyvio tag on that before I can resolve it myself. Let me know which option sounds better with you. Thanks. --Ragib 05:18, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The article has been going through massive rewrites over the last few days, thanks to User:Bhadani. Can you take a look at the progress of the article, and also some questions raised in the talk page? Plus, can you comment on the efforts of removal of copyvio on the page? Thanks. --Ragib 07:23, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've been out for 3 days, sorry. I will now take a look and comment in Talk. Ashibaka (tock) 02:13, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Pang uk

Sorry to bother you, but I do hope that you could kindly rethink your merger vote. Another kind of stilt house, the Papua New Guinea stilt house, is added. I've stated some other reasons supporting to keep the artice in this page as well. Thank you for your attention. :-) -- Jerry Crimson Mann 2 July 2005 18:49 (UTC)

Pornography in Japan

The statement that you added to Pornography in Japan today, I don't have a problem with. It was the previous claim that it s "widely-known" in the West that Japan "does not prosecute ... child pornography as strictly as other countries." That is a claim -- actually two claims -- which should not go in an article without some sort of backup, even if the {{verify}} tag is on the article. -- Antaeus Feldspar 22:48, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Alright, agreed. That's just an assertion based on rather biased hearsay. Ashibaka (tock) 01:19, 30 August 2005 (UTC)