User talk:ViolinGirl/Archive 6
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I love messages! Even if you just want to say hi, I'd love to hear from you. If it's not apparent enough from my username that I love classical music...feel free to talk over Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, ETC, and I'll be very pleased to chat with you about it. Click here to post a new message. I'll always reply on your talk page, unless you don't have a username, so unless you want to have to keep checking back here, it would be a good idea to sign your messages using four tildes (~~~~). Please add new comments at the bottom with a relevant message heading. I archive every 30 message headings...archived talk can be found at the right. And thanks for talking to me! Thanks to Sango for the design of the archive table, etc. and to Tito for the beautiful colors of this and my userpage. Thanks, guys! Update: If you are waiting for a reply from me and it's been more than a month, please leave another note, because it's extremely likely that I forgot to reply. Thanks!--ViolinGirl♪ 00:46, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Your DepartureWow, this came as a shock to me, getting back home and online again... I'm really sorry to hear you are leaving :(, but I understand. I'll always be here as your friend though. You know where to find me. All the best Banes 20:21, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
What about monday? I only start my studying on tuesday...Monday starts in 6 minutes...Oh well, you're right, I'll go off now, after seeing if you reply one last time. :) Cheers (Is that a no on the timetable?) Banez 21:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Im a newbie.I was just browsing through different users and I noticed that you stated that you love to talk so I thought i would say hi. You said you are big into music so you might appreciate the article I wrote on Smashed Gladys. I am attempting to become an administrator currently myself. Just out of curiousity I noticed that yoiu said you love awards, and food, So I was wondering if you have any awards for food that you've earned. Also do you have wieght problems, because of your love of food? Not that I have any problem with people who are overweight, its just i had an aunt who LOVED food and she just kept getting bigger and bigger until the doctor finally put her on a program. Im diabetic so I cant really enjoy the sweets and a vegetarian so I dont eat meat either, but I do love an organic pizza now and again. Well nice chatting with youPickelbarrel 00:11, 22 January 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the quick replyI appreciate your positive outlook, and must say I am delighted to hear that your aren't heavy, as that can lead to all kinds of mediacl problems(again I have nothing against overwight people, in fact one of my very good friends is fat, its just I have seen first hand the problems that it can cause). So have you had a chance to look at my Smashed Gladys article yet? If so what did you think? I have to admit that I am not really that into classical music that much as most of the classical artists(that I am aware of) were before my time. perhaps you could introduce me to some that have a more modern feel. I really enjoy slide guitar, so if yo know of any pieces that have that kind of feel it would be appreciated. I of have been planning on waiting a bit longer to become an administrator, but am currently studiing under Administator UncleG and I think I may choose to try my hand at it earlier rather than later if thats what it takes to get rid of these vandals that have been terrorizing our works(I know that administrators are supposed to assume good faith and remain calm during disputes, but these guys just wont let up) anyway its always nice to make a wiki-friend and heres hoping that you fare well wherever you may farePickelbarrel 23:54, 22 January 2006 (UTC) thanks for the great musician links.Have any of these musicians written anything I may have heard of. I will say that I am fond of the William Tell overture(the piece that is heard at the begginig of The Lone Ranger), although it gets a bit repeative after awhile. Administrator UncleG is not only a user, but undoubtably one of the best editors I have encountered since I have been here. you can link to his discussion page here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Uncle_G#Hi or herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Uncle_G#Hi , you will be richer for getting to know him. I have been studiing his views for quite some time, and must say that I have learned much since doing so. I wish you the best in your future travels and hope that the wind will stay to your back. I agree that it is probably too early for me to become an administrator but suprisingly The Emporer of Wikipedia has contacted me on my homepage with praises for how I dealt with the vandals...I seem to have a knack for meeting just the right people. Are you an administrator or do you hold any other rank here at wikipedia? thanks againPickelbarrel 01:17, 23 January 2006 (UTC) Re: Poetry (and much miscellaneous etcetera)Ever since "Weien! You're blue!" I've been meaning to reply here, but I guess commenting at thine blog and a thought or two on the Statement came first, so... yea, sizable comment on the way. ^^ On Poetry: Well, if that was your first poem (or one of the first), it's definitely a good start. I mean, consider some of my first poems (Dec/3/03 was my second, after one that's not on my site because it's kinda... romantic *turns red* ^^)--just don't consider them too deeply XD. But as for "poetry training," everything I know came from just plain writing poetry (well, and a bit of help from SoundFound too, of course :D), that is until I had the pleasure of taking this class last semester at the local community college. I found that many of the things I'd subconsciously figured out in the past few years had actual names, but (even better) was able to get a lot of good feedback from both the instructor and my fellow students. I don't suppose we'll ever have people saying, like, "Yeah, I CLEP'ed out of Poetry Writing," but it was a really great class with all purely-academic reasons aside XD (though I'm sure the CLEP does look for some basic knowledge on poetic things, like in the English Lit section?). So those are the memoirs of a rhymer. As for what I confidently hail as "artistic presentation of inter- and intra-stanza enjambment," well... with a good teacher helper, I don't suppose it would take nearly "several pages" to explain (well, maybe nearly ^^). And what better teacher than Wikipedia? So let's start with Enjambement. As Wikipedia says, enjambed lines are ones that don't end with a complete phrase, clause or sentence (example: the first line of "the violin," by ViolinGirl). Compare that with end-stopped lines (e.g. last line of the same poem, where the end of the line is also the end of a sentence). Though the enjambement entry does note (later in the article) that heavy enjambement is generally used to convey a sense of urgency, acceleration, or even discomfort (and I'm guessing that those weren't your intentions with "the violin"), your poem utilizes this poetic tool in a way that actually works (I even feel that the "oh!" in the second stanza captures very much the spirit of the entire piece--that is, the enjambed one ^^). And to add to that, you've even used a template where none of the verses (other than the last) end end-stopped, which is a mindful (whether or not you borrowed things from another poet ^^). (Re: Side note: I haven't read "The Prodigal's Sister" [1] yet; looks like something I'll want to pick up or at least sit down at Borders with ^^. I was able to read the sample [2] that they have, though. And yes--I did read about the cancer at his Wikipedia entry. I love the quote they have there!) Anyway, I'm happy (and love) to comment on poetry, and if I can be helpful while doing it, that's definitely a plus ^^. Hopefully I've explained the enjambment thing to a suitable extent (by the way, I did have to write an enjambed poem for the class, have you seen it[3]? It should give some final enlightenment on the "urgency, acceleration, or even discomfort" business, if anything ^^). Oh, and about thesauri... yes, using one can definitely get you out of a lot of poetry-problem-spots. What I usually have in front of me when I'm writing is thesaurus.com, a rhyming dictionary (like the one here, though that link is only a sample), and Notepad (yea, it's all on the compy for me ^^). At any rate, if you have any other questions, thoughts, or (hooray!) poems, I'd definitely love to have a look (otherwise, for anything that has garnered a "thanks," in return, a hearty "welcome" :D). Keep endeavoring for le mot juste! Ok, let's see if I can wrap up with the rest (it's getting early!). About this: Oh no! I'm not completely sure what exactly happened with all of your text promptly zipping away, but I can completely sympathize. Way too many occurrences of losing large amounts of writing have instilled a healthy Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C paranoia in me (yes, all the text in this web form is occasionally being copied to "post.txt" on my desktop XD). At least glad to hear that what you were going to say was mostly in confirmation--I was really hoping that I was typing on the right track concerning your Statement. *phew* And to lessen the confusion about the Saruman illustration (true, I do suppose it would've been easier to understand having watched LOTR, sorry -_-), yes, you're correct in your guess--basically he was a fellow who studied the enemy so as to better counter them but unfortunately ended up as one of them, since all of his research convinced him that they were the ones who would ultimately win. Definitely an exaggerated example, but... still a fun one ^^. Starts noticing an over-application of the shift-6 smiley, groans. On other things: Oh, about Solresol; I'm actually not planning to do much on that article; it's actually another (very similar) language called Sarus that I'm interested in. You can read about it here (the first forum thread explains the gist of it). Making a good article out of it will require a lot of research and copyright-gathering, though (it's a language constructed by a single person, Adam Phillips), especially since I've lately been seeing a lot of discussions about topic notability. Speaking of which... have a look at what's been keeping me busy lately (Wiki-wise), an AfD discussion on Bill Gothard [[4]] shiver. Pretty much all of the discussions for IBLP, Bill Gothard, and even the 49 Character Qualities are getting hot. Sigh. Anyway, time for a bit of sleep before the next day begins. Keep in touch, and hope you have a great day! ^^ Weien 10:50, 23 January 2006 (UTC) PS. About my user page... yea, it's definitely just a placeholder for now ^_^. ReYou're welcome, it brightened up a very boring day for me. I spent 2 hours typing a poem for Sango's poem subpage...but I guess that beats studying. I only have one day of holiday left sadly...Cheers Banez 17:50, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Wha...??? :(Wow... I go to Mexico over the weekend, and I come back, and see that you've quit? :( Wow... well, I do understand the reasons why you're going to be editing in a limiting capacity, and I respect them. Wikipedia is after all a method to reach your dreams; it shouldn't be your dream by itself. I myself have spent less time here and more time doing real-life things too, so I understand. I'm glad that you won't be leaving completely, but it still is a loss for Wikipedia. You would have made one great admin (and you still can, admins do MANY more things than just reverting sleazy vandals). Either way, just make sure you say hi when you're around, all right? My thoughts and prayers, Titoxd(?!? - help us) 21:28, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
WhoopsWell, maybe if we're nice to the Willy Clones, maybe they'll stop ;-) AGF after all... karmafist 03:31, 24 January 2006 (UTC) Oh my...Hi ViolinGirl, I've been on an indef wikibreak, and I just now noticed that your reducing your roll on wikipedia, let me say that I think it is a shame, I've seen your progess on here, and I agree with Tito you would have made a fine admin one day. I just offer my friendship and I hope one day you will be back with us on a full time basis, after you've achieved your goal of becoming a professional violinist in Italy! :-D KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 12:48, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
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Gotcha!Lol, yeah, I was already working on fitting that new barnstar when you messaged me... banes is becoming increasingly popular! ;) I knew we haven't interacted much, VG, but I'll take the chance to tell you that I followed your statement closely. I was alarmed at first that you were leaving for good, but I was relieved to see that in fact you're not parting ways - you're just putting your priorities the way you feel they are correct. Acting according to one's principles is the highest form of self-respect, and I congratulate you for it. If you ever need my help in any way, don't hesitate to ask. Thumbs up to you, VG! Cheers, – Phædriel ♥ tell me - 15:40, 24 January 2006 (UTC) SandboxSeriously, if it is getting in the way of your studies, then I'll stop. However, if they (my vandalizing) cheer you up, relieve some boredom, without negatively affecting your work, then I'll keep doing it. :) That comment (yes, I knew you'd see it, but I didnt feel like tpying an new message, new hearder, on your page to tell you) was true, it was a beautiful poem, you should write hymns. I AM swallowing my words about barnstars! In fact, I'm feeling really smug now. I am just so VAIN! I have spent time today, scrolling down my userpage, admiring my blue color scheme, courtesy of Sango and Phaedriel. Moving on to the barnstars, I grab my red suspenders in both hands, snorting smugly as I hitch up my denims, and say "Yup, dose are my 'ittle beauties. Just look at 'em!" In my classic old hillbilly drawl. :) Thank you very much for the once you gave me, it is a lekker one. Banez 18:27, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
P.S. Major vandalism coming soon!
RE: BanesOf course, nothing else for it was there? But of course, that's how RfA goes... --Celestianpower háblame 20:17, 25 January 2006 (UTC) Crocuses and saffronSo cool, your new pic. Three or four house moves ago, I had a patch of crocuses under a spruce tree that seemed to thrive on neglect, popped up fresh every spring. I kept threatening to harvest some saffron from them, but never got around to it. Oh well... Be well! Just plain Bill 23:01, 25 January 2006 (UTC) HiSince you want people to say hi.. Hi! My 6 sisters and a brother play the violin or other strings, two of them fairly well. I hope God grants you your goal of soloing in Italy. And your goal of no compromises. --DDerby-(talk) 23:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Very bad! You must now play every version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" that you can find. --DDerby-(talk) 21:52, 27 January 2006 (UTC) mea culpa"We have a violin series! Wow, I bet you were influential in that??" Just shoveled stuff from one bin to another. It was fun. Now the rest of youzz guyz get to fix it up. ;D Just plain Bill 23:54, 25 January 2006 (UTC) a story you will understandA little story for your amusement: Once upon a time, my family lived in Anatolia, Asia Minor, what is now called Turkey. My Dad borrowed a jeep from the embassy in Ankara, took my sister and me out of school for a week, and went touring in the East and into Syria for a while. I have no idea what his real business was at the time, since I was about 9 or 10 then. But in Eastern Turkey we stayed with some missionaries (allowed to stay as long as they didn't "evangelize" in that secular Islamic republic or jumhuriyet. Spelled cumhuriyet in the local language. Bla, bla. And more bla...) who showed us some ancient tombs, "hewn from the living rock." They were these cool underground chambers, with honkin big discs of rock at the entrance, like hockey pucks a foot thick and four feet across, neatly tucked into slots chiseled out of the rock beside the entrance. Some tombs had two of them, one before the other. In those days, the middle 1950's, they were being used as cool dark damp places to store evergreen seedlings for a reforestation project. Rev. Isely kept saying, as he showed us around, "Who will roll away the stone?"
Rev. Isely was pleased to be showing us these places which are very similar to the ones used near Jerusalem a couple of millennia ago, & was pointing out their connection to the story he was fond of telling. Crypts of the well-to-do, built to last. Solid signs of past work. We ran in & out of them that sunny afternoon, having a history lesson by osmosis, I suppose. JpB ThanksFor stopping by on my talk page, I really appreciate it. You're welcome regarding that Babylon thing. I'm afraid I wont be vandalizing your page today, as it may get me into trouble. After this is all over (very shortly) I'll resume. I'm afraid to say the opposers are most certainly valid. I dont know anything about vandal warnings, as I never have used them. The reasons are as follows (whoever else reads this), and many probably wont like them: 1. The serious vandals ignore them. 2. While I'm busy editing their talk page they are elsewhere vandalizing, and I'm not reverting. 3. I get annoyed because I might put up six "stop else I'll block you" templates, and as I'm not an admin, it would be an empty threat. I have on occasion asked an admin friend/an admin I nominated (I have one or two) to block the vandal. There are my reasons for not using them, and because I dont it may be the reason I never get my page vandalized...But I'm rectifying that problem as we speak, it is a matter of reading the page. Thank you for your support Banez 06:27, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Re: First ConcertoHello! How very lovely to hear from you!! Ah, you're the only wikipedian I've heard from so far (except for CelestianPower, but it was an automatic welcome message so doesn't really count)—which is great—I love messages! Suddenly, now that I've heard from you, Wikipedia feels like a community! To be honest, I'm still not used to its sense of community at all (see my user page), but then again, you can't expect me to be when I just heard from another wikipedian for the first time two days ago or something... This is so cool!!!
So there. I hope I'm being helpful. Those recordings, by the way, are done with authentic instruments, which happens to be the style that I'm really into. As you may know, I'm really a baroque person. Well, I mean, Mozart is hardly a baroque composer, but the style in which those performers play is somewhat closer to the (authentic) baroque style than it is to the romantic style, or whatever style people used to play classical music in before the Early Music Revival (which took place [roughly] right after the second world war). Anyway, that wasn't all very important — I just got a bit carried away :-P Oh yeah, I have a question. I'm wondering if my user page is a little too ... vain. I mean, I've read the link CelestianPower sent me but I still can't... judge, since I don't really know how wikipedians are yet, as in, I don't know what would de facto be considered a vanity page and what would not. Basically, I have no clue how to "behave" around here yet. At the moment, I'm thinking of at least deleting the whole trivia section since it's so unimportant (though it might be kind of amusing). Do you reckon I should? or do you think it's okay as it is? Please advise! Anyway, thanks for your message! Trisdee 20:48, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Quanah's poemHi VG! It is so beautiful, isn't it? It is an anonymous poem, and it is in fact the epitaph of Quanah Parker, and was written on his tombstone when he was buried in 1911. You can read further on this at the following webpages, if the matter interests you: [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]. So as you see, it is to the best of my knowledge in the public domain as it is an anonymous public inscription, and it also is 95 years old. So no, it's not a copvio. Feel free to use it if you like it. I always felt it transmitted the very essence of the spirit of Quanah, and in it, that of the Comanche. Regards! - Phædriel ♥ tell me - 22:02, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello, hello ^^I'm hoping to reply to your message later, but for now I just want to say a few things that've been jumping out at me for a bit now, haha (it is odd feeling this rotten about not replying to messages right away when (thinking realistically) it's only been a few days O_o). One thing is the Bill Gothard AfD page; near the bottom, one user asked you a question in reply to your "Keep" vote (unfortunately, I'm a bit late in telling you this; the debate ended recently, fortunately with a result of "Keep" grin) ^_^ I think you'll find it humorous, though (his comment). The other thing was noticing your link to WikiToolbar. While it is quite nice (I tried it on IE, titter), there's actually something that you can do in Firefox which you may or may not like even better (I'm assuming that you haven't heard of it yet): it's a built-in feature for Firefox. How would you like to be able to type "w chinrest" in the normal address bar of Firefox and get directly transported to the corresponding article? Simply do the following: 1. Open up Wikipedia (any page, article, etc) in Firefox Now, all you have to do now is type "w ArticleNameHere" to get to any article in the 'Pedia! Obviously, you can use any letter or word you like instead of "w" ^^. And then of course, you can do the same for any other searches you use often, whether it be Google, Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, or whatever. Just a neat trick my sister showed me that I'm only just getting used to... see if you like it--no offense will be taken if you don't XD. Just something I thought might pique your interest. Oh, and while sorta on that topic--IE doesn't seem to like your user page at all XD (crazy ol' divs, eh?). But I guess browser compatibility has always been a web developer hindrance, sigh. Anyway. signing off for now... God bless! Weien 07:36, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Indeed, it is easierYeah, thankfully it is now under control. But I was up really late last night all the same. You can imagine the kind of fright one would get when, totally unaware of anything being wrong, I see something like that pop up on the main page. Anyway it all turned out a less worse than it could have been. I'm glad to hear you had a good evening. You still studying? Banez 16:09, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
--Banez 18:17, 27 January 2006 (UTC) Glad you liked the pic. Do you want me to put it in your sandbox? I'm planning to use it as a unique award. Banez 18:43, 27 January 2006 (UTC) You really did it now!!!User:ViolinGirl on baby wheels! KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 21:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
CongratulationsUser:ViolinGirl on baby wheels! - :D--Shanel 21:59, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
HeyI'm glad you enjoyed my RLS talk page comment :P. After reading your talk page (and then picking myself up off the floor after seeing you only started in Nov), I realized I need to hire someone to do mine (which still happens to be the default welcome message with 1! message on it) =) Cheers --A6Patch 03:06, 29 January 2006 (UTC) What?Huh? I thought all along (I did notice) that is was a typo! Banez 19:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
I meant the exam. My sandbox is empty... Banez 20:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Adminship?Have anyone told you about adminship as you are approching your three month mark here and you will make a wonderful admin I bet ;). Reply on my talk page. Thanks --Jaranda wat's sup 19:14, 29 January 2006 (UTC) Ok I understand, Thanks --Jaranda wat's sup 19:24, 29 January 2006 (UTC) An Esperanzial noteAs I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2. In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;) Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Celestianpower háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
CommentsHey Phaedriel/ViolinGirl, I just wanted to say that, in looking through Esperanza news, I stumbled upon the User Page contest and, seeing your page, was definitely impressed. Not only is it beautiful, but I think your personality shows through. Of course, I really don't know you that well, but it's just a feeling. I look forward to working with you here. - ElAmericano | talk 14:39, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Another commentReading your statement was interesting to me because that's exactly what I have gone through. I started being active with Wikipedia last fall and was excited about user pages, vandalism, welcoming, NPOV, etc. Over Christmas, I found that the real world is much more important. I started not hanging out with my friends as much, and they noticed. Now, I'm to the point where if I have truly free time, I'm willing to come and have a little fun. Just wanted to let you know there are others out there going through the same things. - ElAmericano | talk 19:57, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations ViolinGirl! I knew you'd do just fine, didnt I tell you so?? Again, congratulations! Banez 17:40, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
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