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Talk:Transhumanism in fiction

Please see my comment in Talk:Transhumanism in fiction--Sparkygravity (talk) 16:49, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for your efforts combating vandalism! Some folks are just clueless! --Hennap (talk) 03:33, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

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Questionable Content reversion

Hey there, just an FYI regarding my removal of material from the QC article, most of the text of that edit was taken directly from the Cast page of the website, thus, it is copyright violation. Cheers! — Huntster (t • @ • c) 04:01, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

WOOPS!

Thank you for fixing a screwup i did on the Bridgewater State College Page. Everyonce in a while i messup reading what is the new edit and what is the old edit. I thought i had reverted it back to saying the school has "one of the few" commuter rail stops, but it turned out i got rid of that... Woops!. thanks again for fixing my stupidity. Found5dollar (talk) 17:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Women in Pakistan‎

I have lived most of my life in Pakistan and know the problems in census collection. I am still looking for a refernce for Pakistan but found similar problem in Afghanistan which shares very similar culture as Pakistan.

AFGHANISTAN: Development potential in new census

The survey staff noted that there were real cultural barriers to collecting information, particularly in rural areas. "Often it is difficult to ask about ages and names of female members of a family," he said, maintaining that by tradition men rarely discussed their wives and daughters with strangers. "But it is not preventing us from doing our job."

Thanks. Misaq Rabab (talk) 02:05, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Please consider also warning vandals

Thank you for reverting vandalism on Wikipedia. Could you also please consider using our vandal warning system [1]? First offenses get a "test1," then a "test2," followed by a "test3" and "test4." At the end of this, if the vandal persists, he or she merits blocking for a period of time. If you do this, it will greatly help us in decreasing vandalism on Wikipedia. Much thanks, -- Kukini ^{háblame aquí} 20:27, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. From my point of view, as an administrator who commonly blocks IP vandals once they have been warned appropriately, I greatly appreciate those who take time to do such tagging. Regardless, happy editing! --Kukini ^{háblame aquí} 20:37, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for all your great work!!! --Kukini ^{háblame aquí} 20:40, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Please be careful with warnings

I understand your frustration over the rapid-fire vandalism that has been taking place at ExxonMobil, but make sure if you issue warnings to other editors that you warn the correct one. The warning you left here is wrong, as a quick review of the editor's edits to that page reveals.[2] In every case, he was removing vandalism and in several cases he restored the correct information. Horologium (talk) 18:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Redirecting

Simple redirecting of an open-shut case should not necessarily warrant a discussion if policy is clear. What independent real-world merit has the article yet for being its own separate page?~Zythe^{Talk to me!} 15:45, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Sic NVM

That was a good catch/addition, seeing as how I'm sure someone would have been confused (legitimately or deliberately) without the name addition. --Human.v2.0 (talk) 15:51, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Hehe. On a loosely related note, I don't know how long I will have the time or even the will to dutifully watch over the Transhumanism article as have done for years now. Although you are a transhumanist, I respect your intellectual integrity and hope you will continue doing a good job watching over the article (and calling people on their BS) if and when I'm gone... --Loremaster (talk) 16:00, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Jenny (Doctor Who character)

According to Wikipedia's own definition of Time Lord:

"It is implied (in The Invasion of Time and The Deadly Assassin) that the terms Gallifreyan and Time Lord may not be synonymous, and that Time Lords are simply that subset of Gallifreyans who have achieved the status of Time Lord via achievement in the Gallifreyan collegiate system; in the episode The Sound of Drums The Doctor talks of children of Gallifrey which implies that children are Gallifreyan before they are Time Lords. Romana and the Doctor have also referred to Time Tots, or infant Time Lords, and (in Smith and Jones) the Doctor refers his compatriots and he playing with Röntgen bricks in the nursery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Lord

The generally accepted premise is that "Time Lord" is a title that is earned/bestowed upon a Galifreyan, therefore Jenny cannot be one. The Doctor specifically stated that she was NOT a Time Lord because she lacked the shared history and suffering of his people. Therefore, the only choices remaining are Galifreyan and Unknown. Unknown is the more responsible choice because calling her a "Time Lord" is inconsistent with our current understanding of Time Lords vs Gallifreyans and The Doctor's own statements on the subject. WaveRunningNaked (talk) 16:13, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Wha?

? Please explain. -Icewedge (talk) 01:54, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Bleh, I must have slipped on the number. Not the largest mistake ever, considering edit history, but an annoying one for me to make. --Human.v2.0 (talk) 01:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

No, whats with that template? It does not seem to be a very effective warning template, its just a picture of a stopsign. Someone should either improve it or delete it. -Icewedge (talk) 01:59, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh yes, that. To be honest, I'm not perfectly sure about that. I know that the various warning templates have different effects (both on the page itself and elsewhere). I shall assume that is one of those templates that would make a lot more sense with the warnings 1-3 appearing before them. --Human.v2.0 (talk) 02:01, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I have nominated it for deletion as it appears that it serves no purpose not better served by the standard level 4 vandalism warning template: {{uw-vandalism4}}. -Icewedge (talk) 02:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Purvey

Hi Human,

I have already answered your question on the Purvey talk page. The verb form of "purveyance" is "purvey", therefore it would make sense to redirect purvey there.

Neelix (talk) 17:07, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Communist/Marxist

Just curious, do you know precisely which term is used in the cited material? It can very easily be argued that there are distinctions between the two, and that modern (ie: "governments that have actually existed in the real world") drift away from original Marxist thought in both practice and theory. A very tiny issue, but a curiosity at any rate. --Human.v2.0 (talk) 01:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

I haven't read the book. However, I have read the Historical materialism article which states:

Historical materialism as an explanatory system has been expanded and refined by thousands of academic studies since Marx’s death. Although Marx said he was only proposing a guideline to historical research, by the twentieth century the concept of historical materialism became a keystone of modern communist doctrine.

--Loremaster (talk) 02:02, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... I'll just toss that into the "non significant issue" pile, and perhaps try to get the book through the library someday so that I don't find myself asking it. :P --Human.v2.0 (talk) 02:03, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Good call. ;) --Loremaster (talk) 23:04, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:Page move

Yes, I was trying to figure out how to do a redirect page. I suppose I could have created a test page but then there would be the problem of deleting it. --Jupiter Optimus Maximus (talk) 15:47, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletions

Hi. Please note that you need to provide a reason why an article qualifies for speedy deletion, rather than just adding a "db" tag with no parameters. Hope that helps, Somno (talk) 03:54, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Indeed. I'm just a tad rusty and tried a few variations on the wording of the tag I wanted before going "grawr" and just skipping that. Had forgotten the "d|" one. --Human.v2.0 (talk) 03:58, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Hullo, I notice you tagged the Damat Mehmed Ali Paşa as patent nonsense requiring speedy deletion. Was this an error? The patent nonsense criterion is intended to be applied quite narrowly. Regards, Skomorokh 05:06, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

List of The Colbert Report episodes (2009)

It's unnecessary for the summary of the episode. If every little thing that happened on the show was included in the summaries, they would be 20 lines long. I also somehow doubt Wikipedia would be in favor of someone creating a page for Robert Cornhole, when no such person exists. StyrofoamChicken (talk) 03:18, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Predator X

Hi in Predator X you said that a Predator X could be a large Plesiosaur. Can you verify that? as the Plesiosaur article does not mention it. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:54, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Doctor (Doctor Who)

I noticed the message you recently left to a newcomer. Please remember: do not bite the newcomers. If you see someone make a common mistake, try to politely point out what they did wrong and how to correct it. Thank you. magnius (talk) 00:15, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on Doctor (Doctor Who). Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. I feel that your "ignorant" comment was out of order. It is frustrating when newcomers make silly or misguided edits, but resorting to personal abuse, however minor, is against wikipedia policy. magnius (talk) 00:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Walking Box Ranch

I'll let you delete everything you like. The facts are there if you look. I'll wait till you finish what you want to do with the article, then I'll restore everything with more citations. Take a look at the list of NHRP places in Nevada if you think it is not listed. I can't deal with the edit conflicts right now. Vegaswikian (talk) 04:06, 19 March 2009 (UTC)