User talk:Soap/Archive 2

Thanks

Just to let you know, I've moved "Nonviolent video game" out of my sandbox and into mainspace now. Feel free to make improvements as you see fit if you wish. I'll be too busy for the next few weeks to be of much help, but I'll keep it on my watch list and I'll check in periodically. I wanted to thank you also for all of the help you've given me already. I needed the encouragement since the CfD was almost overwhelmingly negative and with the amount of off-wiki work I'm putting off, it may have taken me months to actually put it onto mainspace without some support. Funny that I should have found your homepage in doing research on the topic. What are the odds, eh? Anyway, thanks in advance for whatever additions/repairs you can make. -Thibbs (talk) 19:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh. One bit of post script, by the way. I played Seiklus again last night really briefly and I didn't see the Hippo, but it seems like the Rose thorns only knock you down and make yellow stars come out of you but as far as I could tell you didn't actually get hurt in any meaningful way. I left the bit about Seiklus in the article but if you can think of an incident where you actually do get hurt in the game and it's violent then feel free to make corrections/changes/remove it. Cheers. -Thibbs (talk) 19:28, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

White horses

It is true that the Gray horse in the original image would therefore be having a serious identity crisis as he is actually not really a white horse, and thus the question of whether he is therefore a horse because he is not white creates a whole new round of discussion, would it not? LOL! And it is a nice photo of a horse that LOOKS like he is having an identity crisis. So I sympathize with the humor and do "get it." However, you stepped squarely into a wee little pile of equine manure that is horse people's #1 pet peeve. (Well maybe #2, people calling all baby horses colts instead of foals is probably #1). And by the way, it wasn't the white horse link that tipped me off, it was the disambig page! (grin)

If it matters at all to you, coat color isn't a taxonomy issue or even a breeders issue. Gray horses are very common, white horses are quite rare, they genetically totally different animals, clearly distinguishable from one another (if it matters, grays have black underlying skin and are born a dark color then lighten up, whites have pink skin and are born white) I have done insufficient research on horse coat color terminology in ancient China to tell you if they linguistically distinguished a gray from a white in any fashion (some languages use variations of "white" for both, but with different endings that suggest they know these are two different things). In that context, I would inquire if it is possible that choosing to use a "white" horse (instead of the more common black (horse), for example) may have been deliberate, indicative of rareness? I know that in Buddhism, one text that referred to "the son of a barren woman" is a too-literal translation of a colloquialism that actually meant "Female mule, and thus as such was referring not to barren women, but to a near-impossibility (as mules are usually sterile).

None of which is a moral issue. If you don't like my pretty picture of a real white horse, I won't kick up a huge fuss. But it will still bug me, I'm that anal-retentive. Montanabw^(talk) 23:42, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Gadsby

At Talk:Gadsby (book)#Requested move you made a comment on the proposed move from "Gadsby (book)" to "Gadsby (novel)". In the Discussion sub-section I have proposed a compromise: "Gadsby: Champion of Youth". This is consistent with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books)#Subtitles which suggests using subtitles only if it avoids a disambiguation and if the subtitle is short. In this case, the 3 word subtitle can be considered small, it avoids a disambiguation title, and it keeps the lipogram. Is this alternative ok? Please note that this option applies to the title only and makes no comment on the remainder of the article. maclean 17:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to AIV!

Welcome! Always great to see a new face. And no worries, your report was fine. Keep up the great work, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 15:25, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

"Articles I've created"

I have edited your "Articles I've created" list due to the fact that it contained some deceptive and possibly fraudulent information. Click here to see the changes I made. Please do not revert the changes without a good reason. Please ask before reverting. -- IRP ☎ 16:42, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

If you need any help, click the telephone icon next to my username (IRP) and then click "new section" at the top of the page. -- IRP ☎ 16:56, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Accessing medical literature

If you have access to a college library, you should be able to visit its catalog online, type in the full name of a medical journal that is indexed by PubMed (e.g., "Journal of intellectual & developmental disability"), and see whether it subscribes. Perhaps it has only a print subscription, but with luck it'll have the online version. Your reference librarian should be able to help you with specific citations; in some cases, once you know what article you want, you can borrow it from some other library that does have a subscription. Good luck. Eubulides (talk) 01:29, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome - your page updates were very helpful.

Robmanson (talk) 23:54, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Autism articles

Yes, I would like to continue to contribute, but "way leads on to way." There was an interesting article about using MRIs to diagnose austism that I'd like to see added to one or more related articles. Bearian (talk) 14:41, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations‎

Hi Soap,

Could you adjust the transcription of Goodenough to match Help:IPA for English? I can't tell if the first vowel is supposed to be the vowel of good or of goo. Thanks, kwami (talk) 00:28, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! kwami (talk) 01:33, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Hand shake

I think your work here is commendable! ;) (Isnotwen (talk) 22:07, 21 December 2008 (UTC))

I notice that you have previously been involved in ensuring neutrality in the article Baconian theory. There is an editor that wants to insert Oxfordian references in it which is being disputed here Talk:Baconian theory. Do you have a view? Isnotwen (talk) 12:50, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Chimps under the fur

Dear Soap,

With regards to your recent editing of the natural afro-hair page. I reverted two out of your three edits. First, I take your point; not all East Indians or Native Americans are as dark as Africans/Australians. But I clarified that, compared to Europeans/East Asians, some of them (ex. certain Southern Indians, and Native Americans such as the Mayans) are pretty dark. Furthermore, with regard to your statements about chimp skin color, this article:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E0DE1030F93AA2575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=2

quotes a scientist who states something other than what you assert (see page 2 of the article). I quote:

"Chimpanzees have pale skin and are born with pale faces that tan as they grow older. So the prototype hominid too probably had fair skin under dark hair, said Dr. Nina Jablonski, an expert on the evolution of skin color at the California Academy of Sciences. It was only later that we lost our hair and at the same time evolved an evenly dark pigmentation, she said."

Please show your documentation that states otherwise and we can discuss this further...

Afiya27 (talk) 04:14, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Soap,

I received your response. The bonobo pic indeed shows a dark colored FACE. But that isn't in contradiction with what Dr. Jablonski said above...She said that the skin of the FACES tends to TAN (in the case of your pic, it does so to an extreme extent). Take a look at the animals' belly. It is just as red as that of that white/pale kid you grew up with who couldn't tan yet forgot his/her sunscreen...The skin that has hair on it doesn't tan. Yet that on the face does! That's a totally different system from that of humans. In fact, it probably developed AFTER the split between our common ancestors with the chimp. In humans ALL of the exposed skin darkens upon UV exposure (presuming there is pigment), not just the face.

Afiya27 (talk) 05:41, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Your inclusion of File:Conservape-tan.png to Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan

I don't know why this would not be OK, but some people took issue with the picture a while ago, which led to its removal from the page (but not its actual deletion). I wonder if someone will remove it again at some point. Cheers, Face 20:31, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks, Soap! I'm actually a bit surprised that you found me so quickly, as I only included the link to my Wikipedia page on the ZBB about a day ago. I've edited Wikipedia in the past and I browse it all the time, but I haven't yet worked under a consistent username. If it's impossible for me to change my name to Uvula I'd like to make it Tonsil, failing that, Tonsillolith. I'll send in a request for it. That's unfortunate about Wycoval, but I'm sure he has his reasons, since he is taking care of a family as well. Oral Thrush (talk) 22:44, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Fallout from Patrick McGee

Hi Soap, thanks for commenting on that AfD. I wonder, are edits like this OK? Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:13, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I guess I'm only slowly finding out how much I hate that type of right-wing ideology (I'm using a kind word). Thanks again, Drmies (talk) 16:01, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Vicente Boluda

I saw your removal of the SD for Copy Violations. I am a bit curious as to why. I agree the article does not resemble source exactly, but a number of the sentences are in essence the same as in the source. ttonyb1 (talk) 18:10, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I am not so sure changing a couple of words here and there would negate the copyright issues. My guess is if the content can be associated to the source such as in this article there may be an issue, but I can not flagging it. I also agree the article needs a bit of work. Thanks again for the response. ttonyb1 (talk) 18:27, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Champi

I'll defer to you there, I was just confused about the word's origins. Do you at least agree it's a portmanteau with massage being the latter half? I basically just went with what was in WikiHow, I know nothing of Hindi (so much that I called it Indian, lol.) I guess India is like China and not Japan in that it hosts several languages rather than a single one named for the nation, I should remember this. Tyciol (talk) 05:25, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Talk pages

Sorry. I was going to copy it and put it in a new section, but i forgot to do so. It was not my intention to delete it all.Teeninvestor (talk) 19:13, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Archived.Teeninvestor (talk) 19:25, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Note to Self

Chinese userbox doesnt render on some IE's. Plodoppum (talk) 14:59, 27 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)

Thanks

For this. I can't believe I mistakenly signed two articles (I double checked my recent edits after seeing your correction, and found this)! Thanks for spotting it. Acalamari 00:27, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Disproved > disproven ??

Take a look at this discussion:

• http://www.learnglish.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/uk-english/239/Disproven-disproved

-- Fyslee (talk) 07:03, 2 February 2009 (UTC)