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If you don't like that, they you can delete the link outright if you want. No one will object (I don't think). It is Wikipedia policy not to include biased information (see WP:NPOV). Izehar (talk) 23:21, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
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I demand that you retract this accusation forthwith. Lion King 21:32, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
It is not an accusation, it is a suspicion, given voice. I am not retracting it because it still remains my suspicion. However, I certainly apologise for any offence caused, assuming I am incorrect. Cheers, Badgerpatrol 22:53, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
You most certainly are incorrect, if you'd bothered to check the history, the IP that left this comment, is in LEEDS. Leave any messages on MY PAGE, I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN PISS ABOUT WITH MISCHIEF MAKERS LIKE YOU. Lion King 00:04, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I apologise for sweaing at you, I was very angry. All the rubbish from the "Charlton" Fan, comes from a user in Leeds, it was located for me by a friend who is the top IT man at one of the biggest corporations in the world. I can assure you I am NOT this Redageeze. Best Wishes Lion King 02:30, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
The Haddocks are the "addicks," this all started when a local fishmonger in Charlton used to nail a haddock to a pole, take it to games and hold it up in the air when they scored! which was'nt very often against us! West Ham are politely known as "that shower from over the other side". I have no objection to you editing the Millwall page, all I ask is that you make a clear distinction between Millwall supporters as opposed to Millwall hooligans. Best wishes Lion King 03:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. I'll try to remedy it. SteveO 13:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
ok, no problem! Cheers, Badgerpatrol 14:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
I refer you to the following source, and specifically this paragraph: "In the most recent national research assessment in the UK (2001), LSE came second after Cambridge for the quality of its research - and top if only the social sciences are taken into account. In the THES's 2004 world ratings, LSE was top of the UK institutions and second in the world, behind Harvard." General Information About LSE
Hope that clears up the confusion!
-Sam [See my response on LSE Talk Page] Badgerpatrol 17:11, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the revert! And you are absolutely right, I misspelled Tolkein, which I have a habit of doing. But since I rarely read my own userpage, I guess I missed this a long time ago. Thanks again, and for the quick responses!--naryathegreat | (talk) 04:11, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey! I saw your edit on Douglas Adams, and thought I might be able to help with the wording. Why was the previous wording misleading? Was the M.A. an honorary degree? EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 02:45, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Um, if you don't mind me asking, why have you moved your discussion to my talk page? Whilst I sympathise with many of your sentiments and ideas, I don't think as a third-party it is right for me to be hosting a conversation you began with another individual. I am supportive of your response to what was obviously a silly comment (although my advice is not to rise to them in future, there is no reasoning with these people), but I don't think I should be interfering between you and him/her (I presume him). I'd be grateful if you could move his comment and your response either to your own talk page, his talk page, or back to the Dresden bombing page. Cheers, Badgerpatrol 03:45, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
That's funny, just as you added that citation needed tag, I added it.--naryathegreat | (talk) 00:52, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
BTW, would you like to vote in the Education in the United States FAC?--naryathegreat | (talk) 04:26, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Badger, good comments you put on the doctorate talk page! Are you going to integrate some of that into the article?--PaulWicks 19:41, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
I'll agree with you in your assessment that you don't understand what's going on. I wish you a nice day. Karmafist 21:28, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I noted your POV there, and have tried to improve the article a bit. If you could point out further POV issues there, please let me know. I am not finished with the article yet, but my lunchbreak is over now. Andreas 13:22, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
(I saw your comment at Talk:The Decca audition, and what to do about the Beatles history and forked article is something that's up for discussion at the project). --kingboyk 12:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
I've expanded the article a little, so that instead of saying charges were dropped, it has details of the charges themselves. I've also added some background info about the Dr. --Oscarthecat 09:33, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, just to let you know that after you removed POV from this article, I reverted back past the earlier edits as well. That anon editor, as well as adding POV, has been breaking up a number of articles into long series of single-sentence paragraphs, rendering them hard to read, as well as making it difficult to see what other changes crept in at the same time. --BillC 18:03, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
FYI, it is a real word; it's listed in Black's Law Dictionary, 7th ed. But I won't revert your edit because I agree that it's unnecessary jargon in the context of the law school article. --Coolcaesar 01:54, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Badgerpatrol, I've responded to your comments about the last paragraph in the Balkans section via the Talk area for that article.
I've pulled my opinion since you've committed to rewriting the article and sourcing it. Kudos for finding some real sourcing.--Isotope23 14:02, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I changed my opinion on the article too and found some further mentions, but it's up to you to put the references in since you said you'd do it. Esquizombi 14:51, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
When I mentioned "public schools" I didn't have in mind public/private schools but merely that I was around other boys so if the term was in currency I would potentially have learned of it. If the use in the UK is limited more to public schools in the sense of fee-based independent schools then that should perhaps be specified. Redundancy like that (i.e. having something that already appears in the public school article) isn't a bad sort of redundancy, especially since the SB article is short. Esquizombi 17:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC) Also, regarding the hidden tags in the article, it might not be bad to have such things mentioned on the talk page also since people unfamiliar with such tags or WP newbies might not go further than reading what appears on the article and talk pages. Unless there's something wrong with posing open questions on talk pages? I'm not sure what the policy is about hidden tags, never having used them myself. Esquizombi 17:15, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Badger! As far as I know, the history of UDSC/Queen's Campus is...
The demographics and entrance requirements have always been markedly different between the old University and UDSC. This has been a source of friction between students since members of UDSC have been entitled to an identical Durham degree and to append 'Dunelm' to their title since 1996. Until recently these were conferred at Stockton Parish Church, but are now awarded in Durham Cathedral with the rest of the university. The one exception is the medical school at Stockton which awards University of Newcastle (upon Tyne) degrees since the clinical part of the course is taught there. I've also heard rumours that some departments are currently considering relocating from Durham City to Stockton (Durham is very crowded with little room for expansion).
Hope this helps! - Yellowspacehopper 19:56, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Do you want me simply to copy the relevant elements from the English law page by way of verification? David91 03:20, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for removing that "swede" reference, it had been bugging me. I mean, there's not even much good evidence that she and Dunst are still good friends. I think americans can be a bit zealous when it comes to nationality. Bless... Amo 15:29, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
You have contributed to the Rosalind Franklin article. It has recently had a rewrite and been had a request for peer review. Your comments would be appreciated. Alun 14:09, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I know about talk pages and the circumstances when it may be appropriate to remove comments from them, and I certainly don't find it offensive if people are aggrieved that I've done this. The point is that whatever the truth about Moira Stewart, the message on the talk page is irrelevant and a piece of possibly somewhat defamatory speculation. If that comment had been added to the article it would have been removed as uncited rumour. I know the talk page is not an encyclopaedia article and not subject to the same rigorous scholarly standards that are invariably applied on Wikipedia (forgive me for being a bit facetious here), but it's still visible to the reader, who can think to themselves, "Moira Stewart's a lesbian, and I know because I read it somewhere on Wikipedia", despite the person who added that statement offering no evidence, and you restoring it to the talk page because, in your words: "I have also heard that rumour- I believe it's quite a widely disseminated urban legend." As it is, that talk page is essentially a platform being offered by Wikipedia for some childish person to call someone a lesbian, and cast aspersions about her sexuality in a disparaging way. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a lesbian of course, but I think Moira Stewart has a right not to have her sexual preferences speculated about in a public forum by some giggling adolescent who finds it amusing to call someone a lesbian, effectively as a piece of abuse. The talk page serves no purpose and doesn't help us to write an accurate and comprehensive encyclopaedia. Just delete it mate. 86.136.6.123 15:28, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Badgerpatrol. As refreshing as it is to see some new ideas about naming articles on Wikipedia, I hardly think "Haugie" would sound appropriate, as in "That's Our Haugie!". As some sandwiches are pronounced roughly the same (i.e. the "Hoagie" sandwich), the title would be misleading, or I dare say, even deceitful. On the other hand, however, I can definitely see the underlying quality in "Hangin' with Mr. Haug", though I might further suggest giving the show a more traditional feel by adding a second title, I think. something to the tune of "Hangin' with Mr. Haug, or, Mr. Haug and the College of Cardinals". Just let me know! Kuzaar 14:39, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
(So this is how terrible sitcoms witness their inception.)
Hello again, Badgerpatrol. I noticed a couple of your votes on AFD earlier this evening and glanced at your edit history, and noticed your question on Brian G. Crawford's user talk page. Since it didn't seem he responded, I might as well answer some of his questions by proxy. I consider myself to be philosophically more toward the deletionist side of the spectrum. For me, at least, it's a kind of neatness that I find unique to wikipedia that I find myself striving for. I see hundreds of little articles and bits and pieces of detritus floating around in the wikipedia and I think to myself (alternately), "That doesn't belong here." or "That's worth keeping, but there has to be a better home for it."
In the past couple days I've been very active myself at the AFD project page, and I think of the deletionist movement as a kind of tribulatory process for potential articles, one that has the ability to refine the raw ore of information and get it down to its most valuable and encyclopedic precious metal. Sort of a literary crucible, if you will. The AFD people are, in their way, like the janitorial staff or maids of Wikipedia, cleaning up the constant accumulation of trash and other assorted things, and sending appropriate & valuable things to where they belong. If you have any further questions regarding that kind of a philosophy, I'd be glad to answer any questions that you have. Kuzaar 03:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
(P.S. Ordinarily I wouldn't have looked at your edits but your name stuck out to me from the humorous comments on the That's Our Haug!!! article.)
Just to clear up your puzzlement; the edit that I reverted didn't correct the errrors that you found and cleaned up, but it did include the sentence: "The minimum duration of a Ph.D. programme is two years, but such a deadline is quite unrealistic, therefore usually requiring an average of three to four years for completion" (making it look as though the deadline required four years rather than the doctorate). Your clean-up is excellent, though. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:46, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Badgerpatrol. I think I can explain why User:172.150.22.239 reverted Ardenn's votes: Ardenn has a serious stick up his butt with admins (just look at his Mediation request against me). He opposed 9 RfAs in the span of 7 minutes, clearing without considering each individual. I personally agree with the anon that Ardenn was disrupting the RfAs to make a WP:POINT (see the anon's edit summaries). ~MDD4696 04:05, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
You were very vocal in your opposition and I felt I had to defend myself:
Hello Badgerpatrol. Perhaps I am being to give too detailed an explanation of the notability of cricket in the US, but, I'm guessing that as there are only about 10 cricket pitches, the rest of the expats from cricketing countries will be playing on concrete somewhere. I'm also guessing that most pitches in cricketing countries are concrete anyway - street cricket, and the fact that there are probably more public parks, cricket nets and primary schools (which tend to have concrete) than high schools and cricket clubs (which have tend to have one grass pitch in addition to 4 or 5 synthetic astroturf pitches). Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 00:45, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thanks. i mustve misunderstood it - i thought if you removed the message the article needed to go to afd. if it doesnt then i dont mind (it saves work if i remove a prod template :) BL Lacertae - kiss the lizard 05:09, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
an even larger portion was blanked. the section "== Isotelus & Ceraurus - Sockpuppetry Confirmed ==" was removed. I don't know if it belongs in the talk page though since it is not about RM, but it hints at who is doing the other blanking. Geedubber 21:33, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
There are serious vandal problems here again ([5])- I believe the same user or group of users is attacking the page. It might need reprotecting. Thanks, Badgerpatrol 17:32, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hi there. Thanks for being calm in your note about Talk:Main Page, since, yes, they were great swathes of text. The banned user is User:Amorrow who openly edits from various 71.*.*.* IP addresses. He has stalked Wikipedia participants both on the Internet and in real life, and he is as banned as banned can be. His contributions are not welcome, whatever they are. (In fact, some people hold to this so strongly that they revert all his edits, even spelling fixes!) I'm not sure if there's a central link I can give you that summarizes all the reasons why he is unwelcome, but stalking and death threats are a major part of it. I am disappointed that his comments on Talk:Main Page lasted as long as they did and drew other people to respond. The people who responded to his comments are not under ban, and perhaps ideally their comments should stay, but they don't really make much sense without the bulk of the thread. There's no problem with the topics under discussion - if anyone else wants to reopen them in good faith, that's fine. But it's been agreed by "the community" as well as Jimbo that his contributions are to be reverted on sight: [6] Thanks again for checking with me and for being patient about it. Best, FreplySpang 16:51, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you, Badgerpatrol/archive1! Thank you for voting for my recent RfA, which passed (to my extreme surprise and shock) with a total tally of 66/15/2. For that, I would like to thank you and offer a helping hand in any admin-related tasks that may be required -- it's as simple as leaving a message on my talkpage. Thanks again! -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 22:20, 23 May 2006 (UTC) |
Then change it to the nextworld cup, Jean-Paul 07:21, 8 June 2006 (UTC) Talk to me P.S. click on the link above and leave a message on MY TALK PAGE
Hi David- I noticed that you returned the ice hockey and basketball items to ITN- I support this, although I have to point out that if you choose to include national-level champions in North America then the same should apply elsewhere in the world for national-level championships where the result is of general interest and where the situation is otherwise in conformity with the ITN guidelines. I hope you will enforce this. Badgerpatrol 13:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
OK, Badgerpatrol. I'm sorry for being rude, but I couldn't stand some users stupidity mixed with anti-italian racism. I appreciated your balanced attitude.
212.162.105.251 14:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC) Marco from Roma, Italy
I concur. I've already given my reasons on the user's talk page.
And thankfully I don't believe in omens. But on the other hand... SteveO 01:11, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Badgerpatrol, I really don't know if I am somehow being unreasonable on the RF talk page. Obviously I don't think I am, and I make no bones about the fact that I have an antagonistic attitude to Martin. I'd like to get your opinion about my edits/posts, should I try to be more tolerant? I certainly don't want to come accross as authoritarian or bullying, but I often feel that I am being attacked and feel the need to defend myself. I'm struggling to know how to respond in this situation. Alun 11:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I added a comment supporting some of your points on London talk page. Cordless Larry 18:31, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Responding to the comment in the summary of your edit (which was not, by the way, a minor one), I would contend that it's quite possible for Romania not to have been anti-US/UK while actively supporting Germany, and here's why. Romania's chief enemy was the USSR, and Germany was a vital ally in attempting to reconquer Romania's lost territory. However, Romania was also in a difficult position because there were many thousands of German troops on her territory, so refusing to supply them with the supplies they demanded wasn't a very realistic option. That was done out of military necessity with the overarching objective of defeating the Soviet Union in mind; its effect was anti-US/UK, but not its intent. However, your actual edit was more balanced, so we can let it stand for now. Biruitorul 04:53, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
You might like to take a look at Criticism of Tony Blair. BlueValour 02:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Badgerpatrol!
First of all, let me thank you for the great job you're doing reverting. I do have to tell you, however, that you should refrain from calling people "simpletons" in edit summaries (see WP:NPA). The user (who I just reverted again) may not be familiar with our policies, and even if s/he is a vandal, it's inappropriate to start calling him/her names. Try using edit summaries like "revert vandalism" or "revert" instead of "revert simpleton", just to avoid hurting the feelings of what could be confused newcomers who may decide to learn Wikipedia policies and become valuable contributors. Thanks, and happy editing! :) Srose (talk) 13:28, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Badger. I'm not sure if you're aware, but Ceraurus (or his latest personality) has filed an arb comm about the Rachel Marsden page. You might have something relevant to add to the evidence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rachel_Marsden/Evidence or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rachel_Marsden/Workshop. Cheers. Bucketsofg✐ 21:02, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I confess to not understanding what I said wrong at the Donkey punch AfD. I thought I was very polite, and yet in your edit summary, you say that I'm being "naughty" and "shouting people down". I don't actually agree that it's a good idea to use the word "vote" at all in connection with AfDs, for the reason that I have seen many, many people get very wrong ideas about those discussions, and I know the power of innocently chosen words to carry unintended connotations. Still, I think I presented that idea very civilly, and I don't understand your apparent umbrage. I didn't tell you what to do, and I heged my feelings about the word "vote" with "IMO" so as not to come across too stridently. If I'm was rude to you, please tell me where and how, so I may apologize. My intention is not to be "naughty", so if I'm being naughty, I've failed, and would like to improve. -GTBacchus(talk) 20:37, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Are you British, by chance? I've noticed a couple of English contributors using the word "naughty". When I (an American) hear it, I hear it as an accusation of not only bad behavior, but childishness. I wouldn't call an adult naughty, unless I was trying to insult them. Who knew? I'm glad to know you didn't intend it the way I read it. We live and learn. I hope it's clear by now that I wasn't being deliberately contrarian, or reversing my position. In fact, you're the first person in my 4 years here who's suggested to me that "vote" wouldn't be understood by the average reader as "majority vote". If you read my comments realizing that I consider the primary connotation of "vote" to include some idea of deciding "by the numbers", then you'll realize I've been consistent, though you might suggest that I'm misusing vocabulary to do so. I do understand what you're saying about our "votes", and frankly, it's a common bit of miscommunication that we (Wikipedia) could do more to obviate. Ideally, we would have an essay explaining what so many people mean when they say "AfD isn't a vote", which I've read hundreds of times (the mantra, which works for some, and seems to just irritate others). You are correct that the intended meaning is much more subtle than the words "not a vote" manage to convey. Lately I've noticed people referring to the opinions they express at AfDs and RfAs as "!votes", using the computer science symbol for "not". I saw a good half dozen of those before I realized what people were trying to express. Anyway, I hope we have a chance to work together with less misunderstanding in the future. Cheers. -GTBacchus(talk) 01:18, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I left a response to your remark on the relevant talk page; but in case you are not back in the vicinity for a while I would like to make it clear that the first paragraph of my remarks was not intended for you. I thought this would be clear from the context, but I apologise if I inadvertently caused offence. White Guard 23:18, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for you response and the information. I am still fairly new, as you may have gathered. Anyway, I've now arranged my remarks in the above to make it absolutely clear to whom the were addressed. Best wishes. White Guard
rotfl -- But Bob Dole does like blocking vandals! Loved the comment on your recent revert. Peace. SkerHawx 16:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Just realised I removed your reference in the Trial of Saddam Hussein here. I hope you don't mind. There was an edit conflict and I didn't quite look properly. There doesn't seem to be any need to re-add your reference as they're both from the BBC. Nil Einne 04:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I have thought about it, and decided that it would be better to put my answers on your talk page and vice-versa, if that is acceptable to you.
About the 100%, I can only say, it is never better to wait until Pearl Harbor to intercept the Japanese Navy (for example), since it would have been awful to try to remove Saddam after he had done something like a Mustard attack on Kuwait City or a similar sized city in Saudi Arabia (killing tens of thousands, if not millions) as it would have been vastly easier for the USN to subdue Japan with all of those battleships remaining in the arsenal (and of course, they could've been used agaisnt land targets in occupied Europe as well), as opposed to removing an army spraying around chemical attacks throughout that part of the middle east.