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= Infrogmation s greeting =
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Ah, gwalla! This is Ben from #avalon. Just stumbled upon your userpage and felt like saying hi . 07:20, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I saw your post about 04:28, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)
Please use 07:36, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I would like to compliment you on your well written entry on the avant-garde manga anthology 07:24, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
:Thank you! Actually, most of the important manga anthologies don t have articles yet. I think most editors tend to focus on their favorite artist/series and ignore other aspects of the art and industry. Still, I don t think Wikipedia s handling of manga is that badI wouldn t have known anything about 19:00, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
= Aspect =
09:58, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
:Excellent! I didn t realize there was already a separate grammatical aspect article until I d already split aspect and done a bunch of link-fixing, and by that point I was kind of sick of it. Thanks! 22:24, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
You ll be glad to know I ve moved my conlangs to http://wiki.frath.net/ and deleted the old Wikipedia pages. -- , 21:40, 12 July 2004 EST
:Ah, good! Thanks, Trebor! 02:17, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
= Category: Professional wrestlers =
Hi, I had just finished working on the Professional wrestling slang category when I noticed you were moving wrestlers from Professional wrestling to Professional wrestlers . Quite a bit of editing work. I had been planning on doing the exact same thing, so since you started from the As and worked down, I started from the Zs and worked up. I stopped after doing the Ms. Thanks, 19:04, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
:Thanks. I noticed that some of the articles I was opening seemed to already have Category:Professional wrestlers set; at first I thought I d done them already and forgotten! Thanks for doing a lot of the work. 19:17, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Ah, I had just moved Blade (professional wrestling) to 07:27, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
:Great minds think alike! ;) Thanks for doing that. With your help, the pro wrestling articles are getting a lot better. 19:20, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
= European Union Olympic medals count for 2004 =
Hi there,
I wonder would you consider reversing your decision to delete European Union Olympic medals count for 2004. I have substantially rewritten it. A united EU team is not going to happen. I ve discussed potential EU co-operation towards the olympics, and kept the table. I believe the table is valid, for us Europeans/EUians to see how the area has fared as a whole. Please comment on my talk page if you still feel the article should be deleted.
00:56, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
= Web Comics =
Thanks for the message. Yes, disallowing external links on List of web comics would make a lot of sense: there should be a link in the appropriate article, which would be an incentive to create such an article 
-- 09:10, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)
= Kid Radd =
Hi, thought I d ask you what in the Kid Radd article strikes you as a NPOV problem. Praising the comic s design It was nominated for a Cartoonist s Choice Award in Outstanding Technical Achievement in 2003 [http://www.ccawards.com/2003.htm 1.
=Mussolini thanks you too=
My goodness! The return of Mussolini. What goes around comes around. You are a true Wikischolar! Thanks so much for the tip of the hat. 23:00, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
:Heh heh! You re welcome! 04:21, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
= Definition of aspects =
In computer science, an aspect is a part of a program that cross-cuts its core concerns, therefore violating its separation of concerns. In other words, it is needed to complete the program, but is not necessarily specific to the domain the program is written for.
This is so not correct:
:I actually didn t write that. I only split it off from 17:40, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
=Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah=
You voted and made a statment Delete, DID YOU DO ANY RESEARCH YOU JUST STATED Delete wtih the factual basis THIS IS NOT FAIR WERE WAS YOUR RESEARCH you did not state any How can you make a decision without looking at the facts, if you did not take your time to look then you have No RIGHT TO VOTE ! If you look at the facts, Prince Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah is legitimate The Official site is http://www.jaffnaroyalfamily.org also he is recongnized by The Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League
Notable Members of the The Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League
I am sorry that you are not aware of Southeast Asian Royalty but who is to blame That is what this site is about education and spreading knowlegde to the world. If the Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League have done their research and their council has admitted him as a legitimate then there was a adequate background check on his lineage. I only ask for fairness. Please re-evaluate your vote. 23:31, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
:Take a deep breath and calm down. Has he done anything besides be descended from people who once held power [http://www.jaffnaroyalfamily.org/index2.htm This site] makes it pretty clear that Sri Lankan royalty is not actually part of government, and the Wikipedia article on Sri Lanka bears out this lack of official status. The aforementioned site also doesn t mention that he has done anything particularly interesting; he has travelled extensively and likes some sports and games. Unless you can establish that he has done something personally notable, I stand by my vote.
:At any rate, the article may be a copyright violation, in which case none of the voting is relevant. 07:15, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
::You do not have no right to vote, you do not know what the topic is about, you do not know what is going on in these countries and you have never made any contribution to southeast asia, it is not my fault again that you have not taken a interest in this area of the world.
:::I have every right to vote. It doesn t work like that.
::Furthermore, Prince Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah is a member of Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League a organization that seeks peace for their nations, Human Rights, and freedom.
::This may not be important to you, you also give one view point too, you try to degrade Prince Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah becuase he plays sports does other European Royalty plays sports too Why is he any less
:::I didn t say it reflected poorly on him, I said it didn t make him notable. There s a difference. He s probably a great guy, but being a great guy does not qualify you for a bio in Wikipedia.
::He has been very vocal expressing his beliefs for a peaceful nation in Sri Lanka that has been at war for OVER 30 YEARS ! Did you know that
:::What has he done to bring about a peaceful settlement
::Well, also since he is a member of the Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League there is authorization to establish his biography as a member of this prestigious organization that is a pivotal front for freedom in their homeland that has been filled with war and human rights violations in their nation
::In Conclusion if you felt that it was copyright why did you bother to vote your qualifications and your decision process does not hold any weight.
:::Because I m not sure it s a copyvio.
::As I expressed to you before, if you are interested, please feel free to email anytime I would have been more then welcome to talk to you about it, and spread the knowlegde that has bestowed on me by these fine gentlemen of the world, but I ONLY ASK FOR FAIRNESS 5:36, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
:::I ve cast my vote. You can cast yours. That s how it works. Yelling at me isn t going to win you any favors, buddy. 18:11, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
But you state he is a NON-Notable, Where did you do you research
Please see links and re-evaluate than you.
Here are the two links[http://www.google.com/searchhl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Jerry+Remigius+Kanagarajah%22&btnG=Google+Search][http://www.google.com/searchnum=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Jerry+Remegius+Kanagarajah%22&btnG=Search]. 5:36, Sep 12, 2004
:The first link leads to two sites other than Wikipedia: the one I was talking about, and one that is simply a genealogical chart. I never cast doubt on his lineage, so that doesn t prove much. The second leads to one site, a BBC commentary page he posted on, which only proves he knows how to use email. 01:13, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The reason, my name appears also, I have been assigned the Chancellor of the Order of the Dragon of Annam, which is history that was first established in 14th of March 1886 in the ancient Vietnamese city of Hue, by His Majesty, The Imperial Emperor of Vietnam, Emperor Dong-Khanh, ancestor of the current Grand Master, His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam.
5:36, Sep 12, 2004
:Meaning you ve been honored by yet another ex-royal.
:BTW, please don t create a new section every time you reply. Just indent your replies. 01:13, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
= Don Ellis =
Hi Gwalla, took up your offer and wrote up a piece on Don Ellis for you. Quite interesting, looks like there s a lot more that can be said about him, but hopefully this gets his entry going. 19:55, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
:Great! Thanks! 04:29, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
=Werewolf: The Whatever=
: No reason for these minor elements of W:tF backstory to have their own articles.
Was that a deliberate typo Either way, it s quite funny :). 04:45, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
:Not intentional, more of a 20:21, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
=Dead horse=
Just noticed that. Thanks very much. My vote was indeed to delete. Best, 22:47, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
= Wiki addict =
Thank you for giving me the link to Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test . I ll try the test!-- 21:43, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
= Nomination for adminship =
Hello. You don t appear to be an administrator, but I think you should be. If you would like for me to nominate you, I will do so. You may reply here or on my talk page. Regards, 17:28, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
:I would be honored. Thank you! 17:02, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
::Hi Gwalla, I m glad to hear you ll accept. I m sorry for the delay. I ll put your nomination up later today. My apologies. 18:22, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
::Gwalla, I ve posted your nomination at 20:57, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
::Hi Gwalla, I pasted the list of standard questions into the nomination page. If you wish, you may answer the questions there ( 18:51, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
= Admin nomination =
Hey, thanks for the nice comments and support for my admin nomination! I appreciate it :) - 06:23, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
:You re welcome! I was genuinely surprised to find that you weren t already an admin. 22:36, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
= You re a sysop! =
I m pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an 20:49, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
:Thank you very much! I m honored. 22:36, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
= Comment svp =
Did you come across 02:48, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
= Quarashi =
The CSD guidelines say little or no context. Given that the author couldn t even be bothered to make a complete sentence out of it, I wasn t going to take on the burden of turning his mess into a real article. They do seem to be reasonably popular, so I expect someone will write something that isn t utterly useless in the future. -- 03:07, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
=Thanks=
Thank you very much for your vote for my adminship. I greatly appreciate your support. 00:15, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
=Philip Corner=
I deleted the category by mistake during an edit conflict. Thanks for the note. 05:17, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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You re a new sysop, so this may not be known, but protecting is completely improper. If you have a dispute with this user, take it to Village Pump or elsewhere, but leave their user pages alone.
:I discussed this with Gwalla on IRC before it was done. It was decided that the page would be locked so that the notice would remain, however, there would be a subpage which he could respond. I felt (and I think the feeling was mutural) that if the page was not locked, he would likely blank it and continue as he had before. (Since he seemed to disregard the previous warnings). I feel that while the formatting of the notice wasn t what I would of done, the execution was apropriate. -- 20:30, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
:I m sorry if what I did was improper. I went on IRC #en.wikipedia to find out what should be done about that user, and this is where the discussion led: leave a message on his talkpage, protect it, and provide a subpage for a response. I know now that this isn t considered an acceptable approach. 02:21, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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Helló Gwalla, I could read at 22:56, 2004 Nov 9 (UTC)
:Ah, I wasn t aware of that category. I ll get right on it. 23:27, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
= Netoholic s archives =
Hi, sorry to involve you at all in this squabble, but please be aware that Netaholic has been moving my user subpages to his own page and then asking for them to be deleted. Please be careful that he doesn t do this again because they are now actually my pages as I copied and pasted his archives onto my page. Cheers. - 06:52, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
: I would like to point out that the were my subpages that I marked for deletion. Ta bu moved them to his space, and deleted the redirects rather than honor my request - something that was not appropriate. He has since created his own archives, which is fine. -- 07:05, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC)
=RFC pages on VfD=
Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted I m considering removing 03:45, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
= Article Licensing =
Hi, I ve Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the template into their user page, but there are other options at . The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
:Option 1 :I agree to all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below: : OR :Option 2 :I agree to , county, or city article as described below: :
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace with . If you only prefer using the
= Language infobox =
Hi, Gwalla. I ve enjoyed using the infobox for languages, and assume it s your design: so, thanks! Would it be possible to insert a parameter for text colour as some of the background colours don t work well with black text I realise that every article with the infobox would have to be modified, but I can t see an easier way of allowing it. I might have a go at altering the template (very carefully). Let me know what you think. 00:10, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
:Sounds like a fine idea to me. I can t realy say it was my design: it was just a template-ification of the infobox table used by the 00:59, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
:: I think I ve done it. I ve added }, and the infoboxes still work without modification, so those that need it can be modified without having to do the whole lot. 01:23, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
::Awesome! 02:05, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
= Prowrestling-stub template =
Hi Gwalla, thanks for supporting my prowrestling-stub idea and your kind words about my contribs. If you find a better picture for the stub template, feel free to change it; I just couldn t come up with a better one. It might be tricky to find a picture of two wrestlers in a tie-up, say, that would be high enough quality to be recognizable in such a small space, but I agree that it would be more representative than just Rock s headshot. -- 23:31, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
= Ashlee Simpson =
Good lord. Is he delusional I can t imagine anyone seriously devoting this much mental energy to defending such an obviously indefensible position. 00:44, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
:I m still trying to figure out the hyperinclusionists. Are they just trolling, or do they really believe that having separate articles on this sort of ephemeral minutia serves a purpose 00:50, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) :*Sorry about the duplicates! We re getting some server lag over here. 00:55, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC) :::No problem. Don t worry about it. It was easy enough to fix. 01:08, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
= Sutro Baths =
Nice work on cleaning up the formatting on the Sutro Baths article, and the link to the Lurline Baths. I ve been fascinated with the Sutro Baths over a year, visited the site, and talked to people about it, and never once did I ever find any mention of another large indoor swimming establishment nearby. But that s what makes Wikipedia great. 04:29, 2005 Mar 1 (UTC)
:Thanks! I was just wandering through 17:23, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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Help! Xe s putting the dictionaries back in . 19:00, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)
= Wikipedia is not a crystal ball and no futures =
Looking back over this and seeing mostly support, I made a specific proposal in . Seeing no comments after several days, I went ahead and put it in.
Existing policy does cover this in principle, but the problem is that people that want to put in articles about a great new video game that s just about to be released, or articles about elements that are yet to be discovered, assert that they are not speculative or unverifiable. I wanted to enumerate some specific kinds of articles that we get fairly frequently and clarify that these are to be considered prima facie inappropriate.
Admittedly, its a long section in 15:14, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
= Extended template syntax (proposal and prototype) =
Hallo Gwalla,
I liked you suggestions for an extended syntax, and have made a more formal proposal, and have supplied a working prototype. On my test MediaWiki it works really nice. Thanks for your work to gather the ideas for the proposal together. Made the thinking process easier afterwards.
See: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Extended_template_syntax_%28a_proposal_and_prototype%29 Extended template syntax (proposal and prototype)]
--brian (no registered user here)
:Looks good. I have to say, I prefer my syntax because it looks less programming-language-y (no endloop and stuff like that), but hey, whatever works. 06:39, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
::Yes, you are right, in some respects your much shorter writing styles are nicer. However, there are many cases where the longer begin-end sequences helps one to handle larger blocks of text/formatting structures. I did consider to build also a prototype of such short-hand sequences. But completing the code was already a lot of work, and first some feedback is/was required. Which does not look like anyone else likes the idea until now :(. Reference bugzilla link. Will return next week to see if the mood has changed. --brian
:::Just added my 2 cents to the bugzilla discussion on why this could be a good thing. 03:58, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
= Uploaded WWE Images =
Quote from : Image:ReyMysterioSpringboardDudley.jpg, Image:ReyMysterioCrossbody.jpg, and Image:EdgeDropKick.jpg are supposedly free for nonprofit educational use. I find this claim dubious. At any rate, that falls under this heading. It s a shame, because the wrestling articles could really benefit from some good illustrations.
True. Just examine the [http://www.wwe.com/help/terms.jsp WWE s Terms]. Home use only. Quite a shame, though. The images really do capture the articles they are placed in. That is a beautiful drop kick by Edge... I think if we abide by the I saw nothing saying, hopefully, they will stay for a while longer..
I m interested to what others think. — 08:27, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
:Well, if they re copyvios they re copyvios, so they really need to go or else Wikipedia is breaking the law. 03:58, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::Yeah, they are kind of troubling too. 19:50, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
:::its very rare i upload images and for the most part i try to avoid WWE pictures, but i just think if other wrestler bio sites are using these pics the im sure we should be able to aswell. I do agree these pictures are on very doggy ground esspecially as they come from the screensaver downloads only avalible on WWE.com, but i really ddo think these picture really serve there perpous well.---- 20:18, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
:::: Should is not can . Just because the WWE turns a blind eye when wrestling fansites use their images does not mean that it s legal to put them on Wikipedia. It certainly does not mean that they are public domain, which only applies in a very narrow set of circumstances (so old that copyright has expired, or explicitly released into the public domain), of which floating around on the Internet is not one. See 22:35, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Fair enough, if i every upload an image i will be more carful about its origin and tag it accordingly---- 21:42, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
= Pro-Wrestling WikiProject =
BTW, does anyone else think a pro wrestling WikiProject may be warranted 17:16, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Yes, i really think it does, the amount of articals written on the subject is... well put it like this, i have created over 100 articals on the subject alone, and im sure people like yourself have written many more than that. --- 21:42, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
:I d say it does. There are certainly enough articles. I d be willing to be a major contributor. -- 22:13, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC) ::One other thing: do you have to propose a WikiProject as you would, say, a stub template, or can you just go ahead and make one The 22:21, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
:::I m pretty sure you just go ahead and do it. There s a template though. 23:55, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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