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Signatures

I happened to see the message you had left on my talk page--if you haven't figured it out yet, they key is to set the signature to raw format in your preferences. This will allow it to skip processing of any tags in your signature, and they'll come out as colors when you sign. If you need more details, let me know. —LactoseTI^T 05:23, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Here's what mine looks like:

—<font face="Verdana" color="#003399">'''[[User:LactoseTI|LactoseTI]]'''</font>^{[[User_talk:LactoseTI|<small style="color:#009933;">T</small>]]}

I haven't finished tweaking it, but it works for now. Hopefully this will give you something to go on; if not, let me know what you're trying to do and I'll try to help. —LactoseTI^T 01:44, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

$@D@#q (ignore this) =KiteString= 19:41, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

=KiteString= 19:43, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

question

hello. can you expand the page of Hoeryong? i'm intresting in this town. thanks Superzohar 18:51, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Response

I left a response to your questions/comments on my talk page. Thanks for at least giving me a chance to explain. Komdori 20:17, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Dokdo article

Regarding Dokdo article, I changed the introduction to look like that of Senkaku islands article. Some Japanese editors insist on using the word 'control' over 'administer' and making the first sentence of the article "Dokdo is one of the several terms that refer to .. " instead of "Dokdo is a group of ...". Last time I did that was about a year ago, and a flock of Japanese editors (i think about 5-6) who were active in Japwiki (but not Engwiki) came over to Engwiki to constantly revert. Seems doubly hypocritic to me that some would insist on different standards on "disputed" islands. Just wanted to hear your opinion. Deiaemeth 05:38, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Try to understand

You are right: it does lower my ability to persuade effectively when I insult.

But when JPOVs get under my skin and act rather pathetically, I have no idea how to reason with them. Sorry again. Oyo321 02:59, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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thank you

Thank you KiteString. I am honored to recieve an award and I appreciate it. I would also like to congratulate you on your part of editing as well. Thanks Good friend100 20:15, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Double Bind on Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea

In policy debate, there is an argument called double bind. Either you get what you want on this but fails to do that and lose the whole round or you don't fail to do that but you don't get what you want and lose the whole round.

Basically, I put the search results for Japanese Invasions of Korea & Hideyoshi's Invasions of Korea. They'll say "you didn't put quotation marks" so it can be either Japanese occupation of Korea whatever.

And then I can say, "if that's the case, then EITHER your arguments against using quotation marks on Hideyoshi's Invasions of Korea is annulled & Imjin War is proved to be more common, which means that Imjin War should be the title OR your arguments don't apply in the current debate & Japanese Invasions of Korea should be used because it's the most common title. (Wikimachine 02:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC))

And incorrectly so, of course; the fact is that the generic invasions search can turn up unrelated searches--why not guarantee the result by including Hideyoshi's name somewhere? Or find another suitable marker which will totally disambiguate the results. The term "Hideyoshi" is probably the easiest/best, since it is so closely associated with the conflict (thus, the name of the page). —LactoseTI^T 12:51, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Let's discuss this in the talk page. (Wikimachine 23:49, 3 October 2006 (UTC))

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vote ongoing on Dokdo

Hi Kitestring. Just a note that a vote is ongoing whether the article should go back to Liancourt Rocks. Please join the vote! Thanks, Ginnre 04:36, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

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