User talk:Kerowyn/Archive 1

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Meelar (talk) 01:29, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Caulfield Grammar

Thanks for your edits to the article. They were little things I wouldn't ever have picked up, but every bit counts. Good work. Harro5 July 3, 2005 03:18 (UTC)

Training Corsets

I totally respect oral sources. Did she mention if these training corsets were in any way different in construction from "regular" corsets? I've seen a lot of sources mentioning historical use of corsets to change the shape of a figure, but I hadn't seen anything to say that they were somehow different from other corsets. My primary concern on that page is I really don't see how a corset could expand someone's chest cavity, or pull the shoulders up. I think perhaps changing that to "historical use" and giving a quick overview there might be the solution. I'll wait for your reply (or a few days) before changing anything. Dreamingkat 15:57, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Category

Hi there, somehow got the impression you are a doctor so I was rather bold and added the physician category to your profile. Hope you don't mind. Hope I am not mistaken! Ciao --Nomen Nescio 22:25, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the award

Thank you very much for the barnstar. It feels really great to be appreciated for the work put in to editing. Thanks again - Trevor MacInnis(Talk | Contribs) 17:15, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Deletion ?!

The article:Contact Consequences is about the largely unaddessed possibility of someone, like NASA finding alien life, aliens find this planet. Sorry, Its no hoax. It depicts both the positive and the negative results of alien contact. Suppose that you find out that something like that has happened. What will YOU do ?Martial Law 04:36, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Should there be alien contact, those of us that are religious may see aliens AS Satan's minions, and they're cooperating with some really evil people that run the world's governments. Is this possibility listed ?Martial Law 20:15, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

The article is being cleaned up by the Clean Up Task Force. If there's anything wrong with it, they would'nt touch it, much less clean it. Will you reconsider your vote ?Martial Law 09:04, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Cleanup Taskforce

Actually, it isn't on my desk; my desk is empty/closed and the task is unassigned. Feel free to tackle it! — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:52, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Vengeance ?

Imagine that you have a really bad UFO/Alien encounter, then you report it, then the authorities ridicule you,all according to the Robertson Panel, then others who have had similar encounters then tell you that they've joined a anti-govt. militia, have procured arms, so that, IF there's alien contact, they then revolt, hoping to expose a conspiracy in which hostile aliens are cooperating with those who run the world. Those that are religious, especially some people I have met, have stated that UFOs/Aliens are "of the Devil" and believe that Satan's minions are controlling the planet, so they may also revolt to prove that The Devil and his minions are cooperating with evil people who are running the world. I know what this sounds like. I travel the US AS a prospector, and boy I've got some real shocking stories.Martial Law 04:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Hopefully, the people that are out for blood are few, VERY FEW.Martial Law 05:06, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Emergency department

I wonder if you would consider supporting this article by voting for it at Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive to improve it towards feature article status. I hope to increase the profile of clinical medicine and related subjects on wikipeda. The current article is basic, in particular with regards to EDs around the world.--File Éireann 20:51, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Emergency department

Many thanks for your support!--File Éireann 23:47, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

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Indian names

Sure Kerowyn! This week though, I don't know how much I can contribute because of my exams, but I'll make it a top priority. Thanks. deeptrivia (talk) 14:04, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

'To go' in Romance languages

I have removed your speedy tag from this article. If you read the WP:CSD it doesn't seem to meet any of them. Not encyclopedic is not a reason for deletion but it is a reason that you can put it up for AfD and we can have a vote on it. Thanks. gren グレン 01:58, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza elections

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Yggdrasil (Oh My Goddess!)

This is not an anime character, it is merely the super computer maintaining reality as we know it. :P --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 01:45, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Dude, I've spent the past week sorting through thousands of stubs in various categories, and the only comment I've gotten was from you on this article about five minutes after I edited it. Cut me some slack, would you? Kerowyn 02:02, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh, dont mind me I watch a lot of articles. Sometimes my response time can be unreasonable. I am NOT criticising you. You are doing a decent job which I wouldnt dare (sorting stubs). Is there a stub category for anime "objects"? All I want to achieve from this is the article have the right stub cat. The ignorant and stub person (me) does not know which one that shold be. :) --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 02:09, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Stub sorting

Hi! I noticed your message on User talk:Cool Cat (I just left him a message at the same time), and wanted to ensure that you got recognition for your efforts. So, I, Sean Black, thank you on behalf of the Wikipedia community for your stub sorting work. Keep at it! :)--Sean|Black 02:31, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

On a related note, back on Dec. 30 you placed My Name is Modesty as a crime film stub. This isn't really accurate because the film was based upon a comic strip about a spy. Do you know if there is a film stub for comic book-based films or spy films? 23skidoo 00:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Although Modesty is a former criminal, the comic strip is considered more in the spy or action genre. The action-film stub would work fine. 23skidoo 01:06, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

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CFD

Hello, Category:Wikipedians interested in wikipedians has been deleted per Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 December 17#Category:Wikipedians interested in wikipedians. You may want to remove it from your userpage. Thanks. Izehar 17:41, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Normal (film)

You categorized Normal as a Comedy stub? It is a serious, dramatic film dealing with a powerful subject. It is not comical at all. --Athena2006 05:24, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

That's okay, and sorry--I didn't realize it was classified that way. I have seen the film several times (and I own a copy of it on DVD) and I can't see how it can possibly be classified as a comedy. I think it must have been misclassified on the movie database. I changed it to a drama film stub, as I think that is the best classification for it. I plan to do more with the entry as soon as I can. --Athena2006 05:46, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar.--Carabinieri 10:13, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

oh boy

what year is it anyways? [3] :-p Tomer^talk 13:53, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Fried cauliflower

Hi, I just saw that you stubbed fried cauliflower as vegetable-related. What do you think about stubbing it as {{cuisine-stub}} instead? —Viriditas | Talk 09:09, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Ursuline Convent Riots

Kerowyn,

Yes, I am still editing it; however, I believe it's out of the "major revision" status, so I'll remove the notice. -- MatthewDBA 16:33, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Inedible

Hey, thanks for making something good out of what had been pretty much a dictionary definition! --Lph 18:17, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Kerowyn, eh?

I once knew someone who went by the screen name of Kerowyn, although since that's apparently from a Mercedes Lackey novel, it's more ubiquitous than I'd have guessed. Still, I'm just wondering ... are you from Maryland? --Cyde Weys 07:23, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response, I still don't know if you're a person I know in real life though. Are you from Maryland? --Cyde Weys 07:31, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah well, you're not the person I was thinking about then. Anyway, as to Mercedes Lackey ... I've been having some weird coincidence moments with her recently. I first became aware of her name three weeks ago when I was browsing a Barnes & Noble and she had literally two entire racks in the SF section. It surprised me because I had never heard of her before. Then, a little bit later, I followed a link from Slashdot to the Baen free online library and lo and behold, some of her work is featured there. So I read a short story and enjoyed it. Then, a week later, I bought a sealed box of scifi books (excess inventory) at a local used book store ... and there were some Mercedes Lackey novels in there. And then the Mercedes Lackey article on Wikipedia came up on a click on the "Random article" link. So I've gone from never hearing about her three weeks ago to hearing about her in pretty much every facet of my life in the present. Maybe it's a sign. Anyway, I'm going to have to read something by her now. You have any suggestions as to what to start with? --Cyde Weys 07:38, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

An Esperanzial note

As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

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Milton, Massachusetts

Hi, I'm Bavaria, seeing that you have edited Milton, Massachusetts I was wondering if you live there because I do. It's kind of random but I just thought I'd ask. Bavaria 18:12, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Cleasnup taskforce

I added another artcile to your desk. The request included questions about the POV of the article. Thank you. RJFJR 03:27, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

sig

just testing. --Kerowyn]] 10:09, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Are you aaware this has added your talk page to the clanup by month category (which normally only has month categories in it? I believe it should be it should be [[:Category:Cleanup_by_month]] not [[Category:Cleanup_by_month]] (That leading colon is the difference.) RJFJR 02:28, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce

Would you be willing to examine another article for the taskforce and see if it is ready to closed or what more needs to be done? RJFJR 05:50, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I added Sanguinarian to your desk. The comments are long but what it really needs now is an opinion on what is left to do. RJFJR 18:32, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...

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Connecting tubule

Hello. I noticed that you are a participant in the WikiProject Preclinical Medicine. The article Connecting tubule has been nominated for deletion. As this is an anatomical subject I was hoping to get somebody within the project to adopt the article for expansion. I could find no way to add the article to this project. I hope you or your fellow particpants would consider adopting this article to love. James084 22:05, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup

I don't see a problem with leaving them (Sanguinarian and vampire lifestyle) split (i.e. as is); but I only glanced at them. Is there a lot of pushing to merge them? If there's indecision (specifically: a lot of opinion on both ways) could do an article WP:RFC but I've never done one of those. RJFJR 06:23, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

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Wikipedia_talk:Censorship

A watered-down version of the proposed policy against censorship is now open for voting. Will you knidly review the policy and make your opinions known? Thank you very much. Loom91 11:40, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

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Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

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AFD

Help save Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of relationships with age disparity

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

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Cleanup Taskforce

I added Tardive dysphrenia to your desk because you have expressed an interest in medicine. Please look at the article and either accept or let me know and I'll reassign it. By the way, Topanga, California is looking much better. Is it ready to close? Thank you. RJFJR 14:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Mayerling

The following is what I posted on my talk page:

"*I am more than happy to do so; I shall begin immediately. Hopefully you get this message; I have posted here as your signature does not link to your talk page. I will add the article to my desk, also. Your one true god is David P. A. Hunter, esq. III ^{Talk to me!} 08:23, 24 July 2006 (UTC)"

Thanks.

Your one true god is David P. A. Hunter, esq. III ^{Talk to me!} 08:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

sig test

1 --K[[WP:EA|<font color="green">e</font>rowyn]] 08:38, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

2--Kerowyn 08:38, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

3--Kerowyn 08:39, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

4--[[User:Kerowyn|Kerowyn]] 08:40, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[[User:Kerowyn|Kerowyn]]

--[[User:Kerowyn|K[[WP:EA|<font color="green">e</font>rowyn]]]] 08:41, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

5 --[[User:Kerowyn| Kerowyn]] 08:42, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

6 --Kerowyn 08:43, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

7--[[User:Kerowyn| K[[WP:EA|<font color="green">e</font>]]rowyn]] 06:20, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

8--[[User:Kerowyn| K[[WP:EA|<font color="green">e</font>]]rowyn]] 17:12, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

9--User:Kerowyn| Kerowyn 17:15, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

10--User:Kerowyn|Kerowyn 17:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

11--User:Kerowyn|K[[WP:EA|<font color="green">e</font>rowyn]] 17:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

12Kerowyn

Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} beep --128.138.57.246 03:04, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Mayerling

Hi. I see above that you are experimenting with your signature. Good luck. It took my a wile to figure it out, too. Please see the election I have proposed here in regards to splitting Mayerling.

Oh, and if you want to do something fancy, like what is in my sig, type: '''Your one true god is [[User:Hunterd|David P. A. Hunter, esq. III]] ^{[[User talk:Hunterd/f06-07|Talk to me!]]}''' into the Signature box on your prefences page, and enable raw signature (this is an option directly below the signature input box). Obviously, you need to replace my links and text with that which you desire; three apostrophes (as you no doubt already know) create bold text. All WikiFormat codes are the same for signatures. If you wish to make _subscript, type in _{[your text]}. As you can see in my signature, to get ^superscript simply replace _and with ^and. I hope this helps.

Your one true god is David P. A. Hunter, esq. III ^{Talk to me!} 09:26, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• The split is done, as we discussed. Let us expand both articles and clean them up. Oh, and I hope you don't mind. but I stole a few of your userbox templates. :-) Your one true god is David P. A. Hunter, esq. III ^{Talk to me!} 12:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

August Esperanza Newsletter

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Mayerling letter image

I have made this photo, among others, in the small museum at the Mayerling estate last June. As to the translation, I've asked the intervention of a German Wikipedian. Perhaps he can read it and he is fluent in English. As soon as I have the translation, I'll let you know. JoJan 09:21, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

You can now find the text in German and English on my user page. I hope this helps. JoJan 12:26, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Porcelain Throne Theory

Dear Kerowyn,

Thanks for adding a mention of the toilet theory to the appendicitis article. I am quite sure that this theory is correct and will be proven in due course. Fiber may also be a minor contributing factor (the evidence in Pubmed is weak and inconclusive). Burkitt's fiber theory has been debunked in regard to colon cancer, and I predict that appendicitis, diverticulosis, and inflammatory bowel disease will soon follow.

There were 2 points you made in your August 28 version that I'd like to correct. First, you said that "These critics point out that the seat toilet is not a modern invention; the existence of seat toilets (or bench toilets) dates back to at least Roman times, and probably earlier."

It's true that they existed, but were only used by a miniscule percentage of the population -- royalty and the disabled -- until the 19th century. "Bench toilets" were used in the squatting position. See the Nature's Platformsite for the references.

The second correction regards the statement that "in Asia, where squat toilets are the norm, appendicitis mortality rates are not significantly lower than elsewhere in the world". First of all, sitting, western toilets are used throughout Asia, except in the rural areas. They have been shamed into abandoning squat toilets. I know this from extensive communication with people in Singapore and China. And secondly, the chart of mortality rates doesn't indicate what percentage contracts a disease, only the percent who die. In those parts of the world, appendicitis is more likely to be fatal, due to the lack of medical facilities.

Just some thoughts.--Jonathan108 16:35, 31 August 2006 (UTC)