ManekiNeko

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Thank you! ManekiNeko 07:52, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

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thanks :). So what are you working on at the moment :)? Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 00:58, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Not much; it's a holiday! :) But I have been thinking about fleshing out some of the Seattle neighborhood pages, and I might even work on the Generation X page, though if I do I might live to regret that! ManekiNeko | Talk 01:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

einstien et al. on Asperger's syndrome

Hi maneki, I merged a lot of einstien/newton speculation in the "gift" section of Asperger's syndrome. What do you think? Do you think the speculation needs a seperate article? Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 16:39, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

What I mean is should Einstein, Newton, and Autism be seperate? Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 17:00, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't think that should be a separate article. The information given could easily be covered in one of the Autism articles -- I just don't see it as requiring its own separate article at this state. As far as the other speculation added to the AS article... I'm lukewarm on it; I'm not against it being there but I'm not enthusiastically for it, either. :) ManekiNeko | Talk 20:08, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Horchata

It looks okay at the moment but I've added it to my watchlist. Thanks for the heads-up! FreplySpang (talk) 22:32, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

If nobody's actively re-spamming the Mexican cuisine articles, then just removing the spam links is fine. Thanks for checking! FreplySpang (talk) 00:14, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Oh no, more spam! I'm not sure if 3RR applies to spam or not - it's a grey area I hadn't thought about before. But if he's re-adding the same kind of thing, he's in violation. (It doesn't have to be word-for-word the same.) You can report 3RR violations at WP:AN/3RR, which is likely to get a response faster than asking an individual admin. Not that I mind chatting with you :-) but I try not to be here 24/7! FreplySpang (talk) 13:04, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

P.S., Looking at the history of Horchata I see it's not a clear-cut 3RR for HorchataEd. He's discussing why he wants to make the changes - great!! It looks like there are several of us keeping an eye on the article, so I think it should be fine. FreplySpang (talk) 13:35, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

RE: speculation of famous people

Heh, I was editing that article while you messaged me :). Yeah - I agree with all of your points there, good job :). Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 20:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! ManekiNeko | Talk 20:35, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support on my RfA!

Thanks for your support of my adminship!! I was surprised at the turnout and support I got! If you ever have any issues with any of my actions, please notify me on my talk page! Thanks again! Double thanks for keeping the autism-related pages clean!!! Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 04:20, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Horchata, revisited

Hey, ManekiNeko, could I get you to add your 2¢ to the discussion that's currently developing at Talk:Horchata? --Iustinus 21:07, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Messages

Thanks for the edits on the inline skating article. Could you update your comments in the talk page with a link to the page where the copyrighted material was from? (I/others may read it so in the future if it happens again we can recognize it immediately) Happy Halloween. --Michael 22:20, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. Now I have to find it again. ;) OK, I'll look into that. ManekiNeko | Talk

"Roller skating"

Yeah, I should have noticed that. Good catch. Thanks!--Mike Selinker 23:15, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

MTV Generation (XY)

Hi there I liked your positive criticism on the Generation X discussion panel and thought it would be perhaps good to start an article relating to a sub-categroy of those integrated within their own "generation" especially that relating to the term of MTV Generation which has been used throughout pop-culture in the 80s up until the mid 90s - anyway I would like perhaps any interest or your own personal feedbakc relating to the article, which still needs more work and sourcing to it. Thanks Piecraft 00:02, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Dear ManekiNeko, I would like to ask for your support in helping me stop Nice Beaver! - a user who has continuously and aggressively insulted myself, as well as your own statement on Talk:Generation_X#After_X_and_Before_Y_there_was_the_MTV_Generation. Not only has this user completely ruined the MTV Generation article with his own "beliefs" which are unjustified and also were incorrect in comparison to the Generation X article, but he is clearly not helping out in any way. I have tried to create a worthy article representing the factors for a generation clustered between X and Y, especially being born out of X and obtaining most influences from that generation and sparking off the change for Gen Y. - However it seems that Nice Beaver! thinks otherwise, believing it to be ripping-off Gen X, not to mention changing certain facts or elements to suit his own "idea" of what Gen XY is, when it is clear Nice Beaver! has no understanding of Gen XY. Thanks for your time Piecraft 04:19, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Citadel/UX

hy, i'd like to know what you disliked about the site internal link on the citadel/ux article... it looked like that:

More details on Citadel's history can be found here

which links an article with more focus on the development steps of the past while the citadel/ux article focuses more on comparison with actual groupware projects. sorry for the a bit imperfect copied box, these were my first wikipedia articles, thanks for your corrections.

Willi

Hello,

It was basically that the Citadel page was already linked earlier on the page so I didn't think it should be linked again, but there might be a better way to deal with that... I'll go look at the page again. -- ManekiNeko | Talk 23:59, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Hy, As you notice that you use another citadel fork, Is it still available in source? and when were? under which license? Would you like to have something like a 'other citadel forks' on the citadel.org page?

Dothebart

Category:American rollerskaters

NekoDaemon has been upgraded with a security patch on the soft redirect of {{categoryredirect}}. Please be advised that a reviewing administrator is now required in the use of the template for the bot to operate on any categories the template is used on. Approval usually can be done through WP:CFD. --AllyUnion (talk) 11:57, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Autism

ManekiNeko,hi!I understand you removed the DAN! section.It's an association,alright,but they strongly believe in fighting the disorder.Please comment on my talk page.Arigato!Sayonara! Tan DX

Welcome to Esperanza!

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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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spodi

spodi was the first article I ever created and as I came into my wikihood I've seriously considered deleting or merging it but your addition has changed my mind and in my opinion made it a worthwhile article. thanks. Vicarious 04:55, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if it's only in the northwest, I didn't realize until you mentioned it that the three main people who've contributed to the article are you, me and user:SchmuckyTheCat, all of whom are in washington. although,User:WritingDerek did post on the talk page with some info and his page says he's from florida and went to school in california. I personally think in the computer age it's difficult for something like a recipe to stay in one place. Vicarious 13:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

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Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

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The last AC meeting (full log) Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before. Bans and Access level changes (apart from autovoice) in the IRC channel are to be reported at the new log. In the IRC channel, there is going to be only one bot at a time. The charter requires members to have 150 edits and 2 weeks editing. Why this is the case will be clarified. A new Code of Conduct will be drafted by JoanneB and proposed to the Esperanza community. The NPA reform idea is to be dropped officially. Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on. The Advisory Council is not going to be proposed to be expanded by the Advisory Council themselves, if others want to propose it, they will listen. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

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The last AC meeting (full log) The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details. The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page. The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly. A plea from the editor... The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Skating cleanups

I noticed you've done a lot of work on Roller skating. I'm trying to get a handle on the proliferation of skating articles (starting by finding them all and putting them in one category) and just wanted to say I'd value your guidance. I'm suggesting Category talk:Roller skating for discussion of possible rearrangements where it might be a bit more easily findable than on talk pages for individual articles/users - but I'm still a relative wikipedia novice so if you have better ideas, I'm all ears. Daniel Barlow 00:10, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

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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The last AC meeting (full log) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

Hi there. I'm not in on Saturdays, so this is a day early. Happy birthday! and have a good day, and tomorrow. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 05:09, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Happy birthday! --Bhadani 14:48, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

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.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

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August Esperanza Newsletter

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The last AC meeting (full log) In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed! The In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created. Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program. There is a page for discussing the front page redesign. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!!

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Happy first edit day, ManekiNeko!! Keep up the good work and happy editing!! Hopefully there will be next year for you :D, take care -- Imoeng 22:16, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day, ManekiNeko, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Have fun! :) -Ladybirdintheuk 08:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

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- Have a fun day! Adamcobb 16:10, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

September Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! What's New? September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage. The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself! The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it! TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly! Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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November Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Admin Coaching (needs coaches!) Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach. Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. What's New? The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one! A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived. There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia. The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested! In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias. A discussion of Esperanza's role in Wikipedia is being held, with all thoughts of all Esperanzians wanted! Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, The Halo, Shreshth91 and HighwayCello 20:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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Horchata question

I have a quick question - you posted a photo of horchata in an article? Can you tell me where that taqueria is? I've escaped to Seattle from Texas but miss a good tall glass of the stuff?

Cheers, - GCG

GCG, it was Taqueria Guaymas on Broadway. But there are actually lots of places with horchata around here. ManekiNeko | Talk 00:57, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

"Bow Down" MP3

Yeah, if it's not working consistently, let's find another way. I was hoping to have a consistent link from all the Pac-10 team fight songs; so maybe we just provide a link to the top level (http://fightmusic.com/mp3/pac10/) for all teams, as well as any other actual working MP3 links. Thanks for the comment. --Sprkee 16:40, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Bronchitis

It is unfair and inaccurate to leave up a mini-lecture against tobacco smoking at bronchitis, but removing highly-substantiated and up-to-date information about other deadly pollutants/smoke. If you're going to remove my addition, please remove the mini-lecture against cigarette smoking as well. It isn't appropriate that bronchitis be yet another vehicle for scapegoating tobacco users, while ignoring other serious causes of respiratory illness and death. 70.242.76.127 15:20, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

It's not a mini-lecture against smokers. I think it's pretty well proven that tobacco smoke can cause exacerbation of bronchitis. The other additions you made were pretty clearly a snarky reaction to this -- I presume you are a smoker. Other irritatants can exacerbate bronchitis, too, but Wikipedia entries aren't a place for sarcasm. It would be better to discuss it on the article's Talk page, I think, and hash out some additions that are backed up by good sources specifically discussing bronchitis and not saying things like "one should avoid cooked meals" which is pretty obviously silly. This is not a place to grind one's axe. (I will post this reply on your talk page too.) ManekiNeko | Talk 00:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

um, how shall I say this...you're right! you & the other fellow who removed my edit the second time, have been successful in convincing me why the advice to reduce or quit smoking is appropriate at bronchitis, while mention of other pollutants is not as appropriate. Sometime in the future I may add information about other smoke and bronchial irritants, but if so, minus any sarcasm. My edit was prompted by today's news report about "1.6 million deaths a year" attributed to cooking smoke in third-world countries. 70.242.76.127 05:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

happy B-Day

Just a happy Birthday message to you, ManekiNeko, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

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Happy First Edit Day

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Happy birthday fellow Mac User!

The Wikipedia Birthday Committee wishes you a very happy birthday! Enjoy your special day.

Best wishes from Canada  ;-) --- RobNS 01:42, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Manekineko at Byodo-In.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:Manekineko at Byodo-In.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Invitation to Meetup/Seattle6, a focus group

Hello. I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington (Seattle campus), and my group is reaching out to Wikipedians in the Puget Sound area. We're hosting a focus group designed to gather information on what Wikipedians would like to know about each other when interacting on Wikipedia. Our end goal is to create an embedded application that helps people quickly know more about others' history and activity on Wikipedia, and we feel our design will be much more useful if it's based on insights of users like you.

I'm hoping that the chance to help out local researchers, to engage in lively face-to-face discussion with other Seattle Wikipedians, and to contribute to Wikipedia in a new way will entice you to join us. The session lasts 2 hours and snacks are provided. Sessions will be held on UW Seattle campus - directions will be sent after registration. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated!

Willing and able to help us out? RSVP here. Want to know more? Visit our user talk page . Please help us contact other local Wikipedians, too! Commprac01 (talk) 03:38, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (File:Sicks.jpg)

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Time Team

Greetings from New Zealand

I am trying to locate a use by the name of manekineko, who has edited pages on the TVDB database for Time Team and has them locked, meaning that other users cannot download the images nor upload their own ones.

If this is not you I apologise. If it is can you please contact me at wayne@technimation.co.nz

Kind regards Wayne 117.104.180.166 (talk) 19:06, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Hey, ManekiNeko. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Ramesh Ramaiah talk 02:25, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:33, 23 November 2015 (UTC)