User talk:Mindspillage: Difference between revisions

Archive 1: June to December 2004 Archive 2: January/February 2005

The file in question has been edited to reflect appropriate copyrights. Thank you for bringing this matter to my attention. Alberia Torkenkluven 23:57, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

Once again, thank you for your concern. To ensure compliance with copyright policy I will gladly review and add the necessary documentation to all appropriate images. Thank You for taking such an interest in my contributions. Alberia Torkenkluven 00:40, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

It would be helpful if you specified the image names so I can investigate. Thank You. Alberia Torkenkluven 23:45, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

"Greetings! I've noticed you uploading several images and tagging them as GFDL. I think you may have misunderstood what is meant by that license; several of the photos you have uploaded appear to be under the copyright of someone else. I will be listing your contributions on Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images; if you can claim some of them as being in the public domain, they can be kept, but otherwise images in violation of the copyright policy will have to be deleted. We welcome your efforts to contribute to Wikipedia; please do consider contributing your own photos and text and materials not under copyright. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:32, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)"

Thank you for voting for me for adminship. I appreciate the confidence you showed in me. I do try to be thoughtful and reasonable, and it's done quite well for me so far.— Knowledge Seeker দ 08:20, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I always wondered what it's like to spill some mind. It feels good. Let me second what Knowledge Seeker says! Thank you for your support vote and for the kind words on my adminship nomination. Kind regards, — mark ✎ 21:15, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You are awesome! Especially the libertarian, quiz bowler, and geek part. Keep up the great work here on Wikipedia. Bonus Onus 05:38, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)

Just thought I'd let you know that I'm going to open WikiNomic tonight. In case you're interested. Kelly Martin 23:25, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, of course you may invite others. The more the merrier. Kelly Martin 06:27, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, he's pretty interesting, and did a lot of work in music theory! I noticed you editing him before (good improvements!) I love polymaths.... By the way I just learned what an Extropian is from your userpage; I might even have to tack another label on my own name now.  :-) Happy first day of spring, Antandrus 20:18, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I love it!! it's great!!! WP:Argument perhaps. There's great corollaries to be had in other fields of human, um, endeavor, such as driving: Pass on the right. What else do you think that wide shoulder is for? Go through red lights when no one is coming; why waste your time and everyone else's by blocking traffic? Two lanes are merging into one: blast by and pass everyone and get in front! Why get in the middle of the mess and hold everyone else up?

Actually it would be fun to include an item about using the logical fallacy of your choice... :-) Antandrus 18:06, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi Kat, (nice hat!).

In case you didn't follow the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#Reformat of Participants list, I'm writing to you to let you know that I've converted the "WikiProject Mathematics Participants List" into a table. It is now alphabetical, includes links to the participant's talk page and contribution list, and has a field for "Areas of Interest". Since your name is on the list, I thought you might want to check and/or update your entry.

Regards, Paul August ☎ 15:05, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Kat, thank you for supporting my adminship nomination. I really appreciate it. Best, SlimVirgin 00:05, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Kat, I was wondering if anyone would catch that.... wouldn't want to offend any guitar-lovers, now, would we?  :-) Antandrus 02:48, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

exactly... it's what they're playing. There's some contemporary guitar music I really love, so I decided to delete the comment as being a little over-the-top. By the way, I loved your "common sense" section, as well as the Tansman article (was he in Paris in 1939? Did he only leave for the U.S. in 1941? there must be a story there) Antandrus 03:13, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I just recently joined Wikipedia. It pisses me off when I look up an article and it has vandalism all over it, so I thought I'd help out to get rid of it. I swear, I don't understand people sometimes. Thanks for the complement though :) -TheGWO

Thanks for your kind words about Russian Christmas Music—I think I'll write an article about Variations on a Korean Folk Song next :-) --bdesham 04:36, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm a NUG Wikipedian. If you wish to see what I was trying to do, please check the Discussion page of Apatheism. I'll now try to do it in a different way

Thanks for the response. I have always been a person who "pushes to the edge of the envelope." I have read through many of the articles on contributing to Wikipedia, but I have still not digested their content and assimulated the concepts. As I said I'm an apprentice or NUG in Wikidom.

Now instead of starting a new article stub with Apathyism, I will expand the existing Apatheism article. The distinction between the two forms of the word are important to me. Other than the Rauch article, I can find no other word or concept that expresses my position on belief systems. I just have to find the time to lay out the page properly, and more importantly to lay out the two concepts in an "unbiased" way.

Thanks again.

DrBobStirling 19:32, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

That's a pretty funny coincidence about the concert! And feel free to start John Barnes Chance; I think I'll stick to the songs :-) --bdesham 02:02, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. I still feel as though I'm "baling the boat with a spoon", but it continues to be a learning experience. I've added some content to Apathyism and registered my vote to Merge it with the Apatheism page. My first solo page is a flop, but I always keep in mind that Thomas Alva Edison failed in business seven times before he founded Edison Electric on the incandescent bulb. I still have hopes of finding a niche in Wikidom. DrBobStirling 03:16, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for Loys, and for letting me know! And yes: my one-year anniversary is next Monday, so I decided I'm probably "ready." I won't be able to answer the questions until after I'm home from work though (this evening) -- can it wait at least until then?  :-) Antandrus 17:05, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I remember you. And I see you're really into this 'ere Wiki. That's cool. I'll see you around, in a way. And let Mikhail know about this odd little contact.

Thank you for supporting my adminship — I vow to use my super powers for good not evil. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:47, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

thanks for Category:Musical_software --Nkour 12:30, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Alas, as a result now my house will just become that much dustier; but thanks much, and especially for persuading me to do it at last (hope I don't live to regret this, LOL ... :-) Antandrus 04:24, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, its awesome to hear that. Hyacinth 06:15, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Nice job on Lili Boulanger! And now Lili's article is longer than Nadia's ... hmmm ... :-) Antandrus 16:07, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

At the risk of dragging you further into the morass of Wikipedia policy, are you interested in being an administrator? I'd be happy to nominate you if you're willing, please let me know. --Michael Snow 17:01, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The Speedy Mop and Magic Bucket are kind of cool and useful (to say nothing of the Wand of Swatting). I was going to ask as well but didn't want to follow too quickly on the heels of your asking me ... :-) Antandrus 17:16, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I've posted the nomination. My best wishes for grad school as well—may you get that Ph.D. my dad never quite finished. --Michael Snow 18:17, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the eloquent words on your user page (which I have taken the liberty to copy to my Wikiphilosophy page.) Kosebamse 21:30, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad to see you've been nominated, Kat. You're exactly the kind of editor and admin that Wikipedia needs, so I wish you the best of luck in your nomination, though I don't think you'll need it. Best, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 21:54, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

and vice versa (see Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset. --Theo (Talk) 16:00, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for supporting my adminship nomination, judginf from all the thanks on your talk page, you'll make a good admin too --nixie 03:05, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my nomination on RfA, it failed because of Wikipedia's minority rule system, although I thought 21/8 support was sufficient. It was also cut short by 12 hours. But your vote of confidence is greatly appreciated, now let's build an encyclopedia! --Bjarki 14:05, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks for your welcome to a clueless newbie. It's kind of you to say that it looks as if I know what I'm doing! --RobertG 08:55, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 18:21, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

And congratulations from me too: welcome to the cabal (even though I keep forgetting the secret handshake). You will find the Dustpan of Testiness and Wand of Swatting to be trusty companions.  :-) Antandrus 18:46, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hey Kat, congratulations and you're more than welcome. It was my pleasure. I'm glad to see you were given a resounding vote of confidence with no oppose votes (none that "took", that is, lol). SlimVirgin ^(talk) 20:52, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! I know you'll be a fine admin! — mark ✎ 21:01, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

And did I mention I think you're perfect for the job? --Oh, the microwikibreak was quite wonderful; went to San Diego and saw a great production of Vanessa; it's about despair, suicide, misery, and shattered hopes (pretty standard stuff for opera, LOL). Antandrus 21:56, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congrats from me as well, this page lists all the cool stuff you can do now you're an evil cabalist. :) Rje 00:10, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! Zzyzx11 | Talk 00:17, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Please list all your available dates in the table at Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip#Date. Thanks. --brian0918™ 18:42, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congrats - no probs on the support either - you're a good editor and will make a fine admin. BTW, you wrote: I think I've seen your edits everywhere and then some; I admire your patience and hard work (or maybe just masochism?) with the stubs. - put it down to being an obsessive-compulsive with slight control freak tendencies :) Grutness|^hello? 00:51, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations, and you're welcome! --Merovingian (t) (c) 03:18, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

• Kat, it was my pleasure to help nominate you. In fact, I rather like your talk page as well! A friend of mine is a bassoonist and my best friend from kindergarten played bassoon in the school band when we were growing up. I ought to drag out my trumpet and try the street corner thing myself! Anyway, congratulations on the promotion. You deserved it. - Lucky 6.9 03:20, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Congratulations and good luck. --Theo (Talk) 05:54, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hey dipstick, I was expecting you.. plus you left your phone here. --Gmaxwell 04:31, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

For me it was an honor to support you. I am very careful when it comes to giving my support to a person, I know that you'll do a great job. Good luck! Tony the Marine

seconded, glad to see you approved... I already have work for you :)  ALKIVAR™ 09:01, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Support for your administrator nomination was just so plainly the right thing to do. Congratulations! --RobertG 13:40, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations and thank you for your thank you! Your turn. ;-)--Bishonen | talk 15:03, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

You're very welcome. I'm sure you'll have no troubles. Unsurprisingly, there's a number of quiz bowlers and former quiz bowlers on Wikipedia. Raul654 is probably the best-known. I've been off the circuit for a couple years myself, but I still moderate occasionally. Fun stuff. Anyway, good luck and happy editing! Isomorphic 01:24, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Darn it, now you got me reading about Erdős numbers instead of working.  :-) Antandrus 17:22, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I just read through your user page and you seem like an interesting person. I especially like your self-description! Libertarian, atheist, and extropian? Cool stuff. I'm just starting my career at Wikipedia but, one day, we'll have to talk about extropianism and how it relates to libertarianism and atheism! See ya around.

--JegaPRIME 07:07, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The DC Meetup date has been finalized to May 7/8. Even if you can only come one of the days, that's still fine. Please watch this page for new details, which will be posted in the next couple days: Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip --brian0918™ 16:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sorry you won't be able to make the meetup. We'll have to do this again some time to get some of the people who can't come. Isomorphic 04:21, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi Mindspillage. Thanks very much for your vote for my RfA. I promise to be prudent, wise, sagacious and totally unilateral in all my admin affairs. I should say that I am very pleased at the number of people who supported me – it's very nice to know I'm making a positive impact. Cheers again, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 21:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

What a great idea! I wish I thought of that... Zzyzx11 | Talk 00:00, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I seem to be an eventualist like you. What is your opinion on List of incidents famously considered great blunders? I think this article is exactly the sort of thing Wikipedia is great for (something an online encyclopedia can do better then a paper one), and I think it has the potential to be a featured article candidate someday. If it survives the vfd, I think it would make a great candidate for Wikipedia:Article rescue contest. I am willing to "put my money where my mouth is" and help improve it. Having a whole team working on it would be awesome. - Pioneer-12 00:25, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Abstaining is an excellent decision! Do you know the line "If you chose not to decide, you still have made a choice." (From a Rush song--I'm not sure of the song title offhand.)

It is a wise thing to reserve judgement until one can make an informed opinion. (ex: Did OJ do it? I don't know. I haven't seen the facts of the case.) I only wish more people thought as you do.

- Pioneer-12 02:13, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, sorry, Mind (Mindy?), I was by no means speaking to your innocence in general, I wouldn't dream of imputing such a thing. Innocent of any encouragement to those buffoons to tea-party all over and around your original message on my page, that's all I meant. You should have seen some of those images crowding you regardless, before I smallified them for decency. Well, I just hope you never did.--Bishonen | talk 15:26, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

If Thryduulf did not nominate the page himself, then I object to this deletion. If I had known that it was on Vfd I would have objected there. Deleting pages in people's personal space.... that seems rather nonsensical. People have a right to their opinions. If Thryduulf wants to have this page then he can have it, and if he wants it deleted then it should be deleted. Even if the page is full of garbage it should be kept; it is his right to fill it with garbage if he so chooses. Vfd is for the general encyclopedia, not censoring people's personal views. Only violations of copyright or things not acceptable under the First Amendment--such as outright lies and threats to violence--should be deleted from one's personal space against one's wishes. (The English wiki is based in America, so the First Amendment "freedom of opinion"/"freedom of expression" should apply. Even if it doesn't, Wikipedia seems to share and respect the First Amendment values.) I would have liked to read about "Self-destructive subcultures". The topic sounds interesting, and I've done research on subcultures in the past. Also, pages should not be deleted based on the opinions of one. One person is, categorically, not a consensus. - Pioneer-12 04:02, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Now, watch it turn out that Thryduulf nominated the page himself. Heh. If so I withdraw my objection.

It was good to get my opinion out there, just in case. - Pioneer-12

(Note: See User talk:Pioneer-12 for my response.) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:03, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what I figured. Can't you just put your personal pages up for speedy deletion? - Pioneer-12 04:44, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hello, Mindspillage. Thanks for your vote at my adminship nomination. I appreciate the support and your kind comments. Cheers! — Trilobite (Talk) 13:59, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to hear that, but no great loss. That place is seriously dysfunctional anyway. I also imagine they just might have some criteria for acceptance that isn't strictly based on merit. Just a hunch, mind you.  :-) Enjoy your evening; I had three of those kinds of evenings while applying for grad schools myself. Antandrus 20:49, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks: as a developer myself I know what Real Soon Now means :-) Wouldn't it be a teriffic feature, though? --RobertG 21:05, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I doubt I'll have the time to make any saves worthy to enter the contest with, but I'd love to aid in the judging process. Can I? Mgm|^(talk) 08:59, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

Hello, I thought you might be able to help with a question I posted at Wikipedia:Reference desk#Symphony with bagpipe?. If so, thanks in advance. If not, no big deal. Thanks, Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 13:27, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

How exactly did you come to the conclusion this was a merge? I see four delete votes, two keep votes, and the initial nomination by User:RickK that suggests a merge, but ends in a question mark and may not even be a merge vote. Even if it is, how does one merge vote out of seven votes create a consensus to merge? This is clearly a consensus to delete. Indrian 17:39, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

• So we agree that User:RickK did not actually register a vote. That leaves a 2-1 majority in favor of deletion. I realize that admins do disagree on what exactly constitutes a consensus, but I think some cases are clearer than others. I have never seen an admin who considered a 2/3 majority not to constitute consensus. I plan to get a second opinion on this, but I do not want to step on any toes. Is there a particular procedure to get this decision reviewed? Indrian 20:50, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)
  • Thank you for your help. I will do so. Indrian 21:04, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

If you have some spare seconds, please explain me how a consensus on merge+redirect Marjorie Pay Hinckley has been reached. I don't get it.

Thanks in advance, Ejrrjs | What? 19:54, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer. I'm afraid that we disagree on the interpretation of the vote count. Therefore I'm supporting User: Indrian objection, to make sure that voting remains a valuable tool. Kindly, Ejrrjs | What? 21:56, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

In case no one else has said it: thank you for taking on the unglamorous and thankless task of closing all those VfDs. Best regards, Antandrus 02:04, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Please consider changing your vote on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Pandeism to a "redirect" to pantheism. I believe sufficient referential evidence has been adduced to show that this article was not "original research," but simply a non-notably uncommon use of a term that is most commonly used as a reference to a word of similar construction. It's very easy for those not acquainted with religous details to confuse "theism" with "deism" (and in fact, most of the non-wiki-mirror references on the web do use pandeism to mean pantheism) so this would be a useful redirect. I apologize for having overestimated the importance of the use of this term with which I had been made familiar. It was one of my first posts, when I was new to Wikipedia and not yet familiar with the criteria for notability. -- 8^D BDAbramson^gab 06:35, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)

• Forget the above. I have found conclusive evidence of the use of the term "Pandeism" dating back to 1833 [1], being used by Godfrey Higgins, a follower of John Toland, the creator of pantheism.[2]. The term is used in a book written by Higgins called the Anacalypsis. -- 8^D BDAbramson^gab 10:25, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)
  • Pandeism has now been completely rewritten based on the verified source. -- 8^D BDAbramson^gab 13:38, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough on the voting page; all the votes for deletion of the article occurred before the article was rewritten to include information, and thus were not relevant to the VfD. There were only two comments after the article was completely re-written, which was my vote to keep and Modi's argument that this should be a continually updates voting page. Thank you for deleting it so hastily.--TheGrza 17:56, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

I see we're both processing the April 15 debates. I'll go ahead and stop for now, as you appear to be slightly ahead of me. Best, Mackensen (talk) 04:50, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

REF: your edits of Community bands There are now two pages, community band and community bands with different content. Which one should I edit? Can they be made one in the same? I did want to include references, since that is what I will draw additional content from. G. Moore 13:46, May 1, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits on the Brian Wells article - small steps towards the perfect collection of knowledge. -- BDAbramson ^thimk 04:36, 2005 May 2 (UTC)