Captain Ref Desk

Curtis LeMay

Hello Captain:

As the General whose picture you have taken for your avatar is both well known and not long dead (well, not long in historical terms), I am wondering if this use is a BLP problem. It does seem that it could be so. Perhaps you would be better served with Captain James Cook where no such problem arises. ៛ Bielle (talk) 23:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I think it is pretty clear that I am not, in fact, the over-a-decade deceased General Curtis LeMay, and that I have not done anything with the silly picture on my user page that would warrant special consideration or legal distress. It's an obvious parody of a well-parodied figure and a well-known quote. I suggest there are more pressing issues to worry about, that we need not be alarmed at this unless some sort of explicit complaint is made. --Captain Ref Desk (talk) 15:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Excellent

I called by just to say what a cool idea you have on your page, as they say in the UK Parliament "the eyes have it" Richard Avery (talk) 11:17, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Subtle and very funny

Those shifty eyes! (especially the independent action). Cap'n my cap'n, (whistling you aboard type whistles) welcome to wikipedia, I hope you will be very happy here and stay a long time. I trust the captain has familiarised himself with the ropes, but just to give you something to delete if it's simply cluttering the bridge:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! As you already sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); you automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask an admin on their talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. I will answer if I can but mostly I redirect people. : ) Julia Rossi (talk) 03:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Award

I award you a crappy ASCII asterisk for making me smile with this. *. Well done. --Dweller (talk) 17:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! --Captain Ref Desk (talk) 17:20, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi!

If you can - please answer my second question ( and maybe the first too! ) Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk#whose_rule_is_this.? Not vitally important...87.102.16.238 (talk) 17:38, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Just an FYI

In case it's helpful, my observation on "who's rule is it?"here[1] is:

"...the c-n mentioned above seems to be a website and that hacker (or persona) is all over the net as per google[14] so maybe (just maybe) the term wasn't an "ignorant" description but a category and a self-described title which 87.102 was using in good faith. Fwitw. Julia Rossi (talk) 01:49, 22 March 2008 (UTC)" Cheers

Traffic

Welcome aboard Captain. Seems you've generated a bit of traffic to your user page since you've come aboard and quite a user page it is! Your edit summaries however are a bit sparse ;-) --hydnjo talk 15:04, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Of course, how nitpicky of me. --hydnjo talk 18:44, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I wonder who you were back then. --hydnjo talk 00:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Haha -- yes, I'm a lot older as an account than I look (I started using the 'pedia quite time some ago now!). But there isn't any hanky panky going on; never been banned, never done nothing unaccountable, just like to be someone else every once in awhile. --Captain Ref Desk (talk) 14:24, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I never see you and K.M. editing at the same time!  ;-) --hydnjo talk 15:21, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Nope, that's not me, though! But I am in that posting, somewhere. --Captain Ref Desk (talk) 16:36, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Got it, thanks.  :-)) --hydnjo talk 22:09, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Awards

The Reference Desk Barnstar And just for all that I award you a long-deserved star for your enlightening answers on history, science, and the history of science. 83.78.176.92 (talk) 15:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC) (User usually operating under a regular account name, but keeping things fresh and nameless for the occasion.

		The Invisible Barnstar
		OK fine, so you're invisible. hydnjo

Aw shucks, thanks y'all. --Captain Ref Desk (talk) 02:09, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

You have a good username. William Ortiz (talk) 21:38, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Second Amendment

Capt. Ref Desk,

Thanks for your thoughtful post on this. The Reference Desk has so many thoughtful and intelligent contributors. I support using it as a forum for considering important intellectual questions. I would have responded, but I have little to add to Clio's post (though I'm not sure I quite understand her cryptic last few lines).

Marco polo (talk) 00:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

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Journalistic sensationalism

I've become interested in the juxtaposition between the idea that media are RS, and sensationalism in the media. I've seen that you have mentioned such an issue in the past, so was helping you might point me to suitable sources in wp: policies/essays. Thanks DrArsenal (talk) 20:38, 19 January 2016 (UTC)