In the continuing splurge of hate against me as a result of my (continued) insistence that it is a bad idea to use the most common English phrase for a foreign place or person, it has now been declared that my user page is incredibly offensive. I wonder at this, since nobody has ever spoken to me about something being offensive on my user page. I hope wikipedia grows up enough to discuss personal issues rather than engaging in flame warz.
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Lir has been coming back, using his raw IP. Can it please be blocked
until the ban is lifted off his user account?
Maveric tells me this is his IP: 129.186.80.133
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Oliver -- I hope I do not understand you correctly in that you think I
was somehow insulting Lir. I don't know Lir, only what I've seen of
his work. Although I certainly used what are generally considered
pejorative terms to refer to Lir's behavior, I think one can only say
that they are pejorative when there is no justification for their use.
That is sadly not the case. It is honorable for you to stick up for
Lir, and unfortunate that you were mistaken for him. I suggest that the
response to your post is merely indicative of the unpleasant feelings
that Lir tends to stir up. If he has been insulted, I'm sorry, but I
think that my estimation of Lir's behavior is based much more in fact
that Lir's very insulting and groundless accusations towards people who
don't agree with him. BTW, I also do not in any way blame you for the
Saints' tragic win yesterday ;-) I did find it interesting that you
knew I was a sysop and had been here a while, when I've been gone for
months -- you can't be that much of a newbie!
Lir -- hyperbole, especially when coupled with unveiled sarcasm, isn't
really a persuasive form of debate. It's merely annoying. I suspect
you know that and don't care.
Other than that, I like Anthere's idea of adding a pronunciation guide.
One drawback is that I think there may not be a universal guide -- I
think Americans use a different system of notation (but am not sure).
Also, I teach east Asian history. I grew up with Wade-Giles, am
becoming more familiar with Pinyin by the day, and neither comes close
to approximating the correct pronunciations.
Jules
When I ask it for the "last 100 in last 3 days" this morning,
I'm only getting about 25 items, because it seems to cut off
anything not dated today.
Also, shouldn't it be "the last 100 entries in the last 3 days"
instead of "in last 3 days"?
(I'm posting this to the international list because I suspect that
the bug is serverwide.)
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The vindicative hate campaign against Oliver shows how much abuse I suffered from various wiki "elites" who, unlike in Oliver's case, had no doubt that I was Lir. I find it absurd that I am to be criticized on the grounds of
"Lir's edits are like magpie droppings" and yet I am the one that is banned.
Jimbo says the official reason I was banned was because I accused certain people of racism and totalitarianism. The truth is, there are racist assholes here on wikipedia, and Im being banned for noting it.
Now, Im not calling Jimbo racist, if he was racist this would be kkkpedia.com. But he is totalitarian, and can't possibly deny that without denying his stance on voting and banning. I hope he realizes that persecution is wrong, no matter how much the evil ones urge him to abuse power in their name.
Remember, I was banned for being a constant annoyance to wikipedians everywhere. That means that all of you who I got along with just fine...all of you are me...and your day will come soon, unless you shut up and never ever state that you disagree wholeheartedly.
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> What is this, the third or is it the fourth time James Zitzmann has posted
> absolutely pointless profanity on the list?
And my last name is McLauchlin, not Malkemus.
> Non, malheureusement, il n'existe aucune politique à
> ce sujet, car la majorité des wikipédiens sont
> français ou belges (éventuellement expatriés), donc ce
> problème n'a jamais été rencontré;
>
> C'est un peu l'ambuiguité Français (population)
> français (language) que j'ai déjà relevée...
Hm, existe-t-il un équivalent à Wikipedia talk où l'on pourrait discuter de
cette question? J'aimerais bien voir [[Wikipedia discuter:Variation
régionale]] ou quelque chose de semblant, en y déplaçant peut-être la
discussion de [[Discuter:Montréal]].
(Et "hôté" c'est mon erreur.)
Matt (Montréalais)
Brion,
I've been confused by the "edit conflict" screen so many times that I seriously think the page should be redesigned. Other contributors also have frequently commented on talk pages that they lost what they just typed, due to edit conflicts.
I'd like to have the columnwise, side by side "revision of" display show up at the top of the page, where I can't possible miss it!!
Below that, I'm not sure what needs to come next, but:
* we need to make it VERY EASY for users to recover from the edit conflict
* users should NEVER feel they have to lose what they just typed
I'm not looking for a quick fix on this, but I bet dozens of users have the same issue kq and I have.
Ed Poor
Je me demande s'il existe une politique sur le Wiki français par rapport aux
orthographes régionales de même qu'existe sur le Wiki anglais. Je suis
actuellement en débat avec Meszigues sur l'article [[Montréal]] qui fait
référence au "Village gai", aux "Jeux gais", et aux "gais et lesbiennes". Il
préférerait de voir ces mots écrits comme "gay" ou "gays".
Je me tiens, premièrement, à ce que "Village gai" et "Jeux gais" restent
absolument, puisque ceux-ci sont l'orthographe officielle selon 1) la Ville
de Montréal, 2) la Comité de Candidature Montréal 2006. Il serait tout
simplement érroné, dis-je, d'utiliser une orthographe que les instances
compétentes n'utilisent pas, quoi que ce soit.
Quant à l'usage ordinaire, "gai" est l'orthographe courante et usuelle de ce
mot dans les journaux, les revues, et les livres québécois. De plus, c'est
dans le Petit Robert. Je l'utilise comme québécois et je la considère plus
appropriée pour un article traitant d'un sujet québécois. On a des
politiques pour faire de même sur le Wiki anglais (pas de parti pris sur les
orthographes britanniques et américaines, sauf que c'est plus approprié
d'utiliser l'orthographe britannique pour un sujet britannique et
vice-versa). Nous faut-il esprimer un tel politique explicitement pour le
Wiki français?
Matt (Montréalais)
Montréal, Québec
fuck, fuck, fuck matt malkemus. fuck, fuck, fuck matt malkemus.
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On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:29:14
Matt M. wrote:
>Je me demande s'il existe une politique sur le Wiki fran�ais par rapport aux
>orthographes r�gionales de m�me qu'existe sur le Wiki anglais. Je suis
>actuellement en d�bat avec Meszigues sur l'article [[Montr�al]] qui fait
>r�f�rence au "Village gai", aux "Jeux gais", et aux "gais et lesbiennes". Il
>pr�f�rerait de voir ces mots �crits comme "gay" ou "gays".
>
>Je me tiens, premi�rement, � ce que "Village gai" et "Jeux gais" restent
>absolument, puisque ceux-ci sont l'orthographe officielle selon 1) la Ville
>de Montr�al, 2) la Comit� de Candidature Montr�al 2006. Il serait tout
>simplement �rron�, dis-je, d'utiliser une orthographe que les instances
>comp�tentes n'utilisent pas, quoi que ce soit.
>
>Quant � l'usage ordinaire, "gai" est l'orthographe courante et usuelle de ce
>mot dans les journaux, les revues, et les livres qu�b�cois. De plus, c'est
>dans le Petit Robert. Je l'utilise comme qu�b�cois et je la consid�re plus
>appropri�e pour un article traitant d'un sujet qu�b�cois. On a des
>politiques pour faire de m�me sur le Wiki anglais (pas de parti pris sur les
>orthographes britanniques et am�ricaines, sauf que c'est plus appropri�
>d'utiliser l'orthographe britannique pour un sujet britannique et
>vice-versa). Nous faut-il esprimer un tel politique explicitement pour le
>Wiki fran�ais?
>
>Matt (Montr�alais)
>Montr�al, Qu�bec
>
>
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On Saturday 23 November 2002 12:39 pm, Tom Parmenter wrote:
> I'm resurrecting this feature request from [[Wikipedia:Village pump]]
> where it is discussed under "Wikipedia Evangelism".
>
> The point raised was the desirability of an easy way to ask a friend
> to comment on the accuracy of an article, or simply to point out an
> interesting article to someone.
>
> How about doing what a lot of news pages do? Add a box at the bottom
> of each article
>
> [] Send this article to a friend
>
> along with a java mailer to fire the message off and a text box to add
> a note. Having a linked mailer would eliminate the necessity of
> firing up a mail program.
This would be a most cool feature. Of course, it would only be available to
logged-in users that have valid email addresses set-up in their preferences.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Opps! I forgot to add a diff to a list response to JHK to wikiEN-L. Here are a
couple of substantial edits to pay for this mailing list post and the JHK
one;
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Niobium/Temp&diff=0&oldid=440062http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Jimmy_Doolittle&diff=0&oldid=44…