User talk:Minskist popper/Archive1

This is archived messages appeared on User talk:Wooyi from 2006 to February 14, 2007.

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Unspecified source for Image:LeonardCohen.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:LeonardCohen.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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Image copyright problem with Image:40dryes.jpg

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Your RFA

Don't be discouraged about the outcome of your admin requests, many admins become administrators after a few tries. Just apply at a later date...as you are obviously a promising editor :). Cheers and best of luck. ~ Arjun 03:14, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello Wooyi :), I noticed your comment on Tohru Honda13's talk page. Of course you can borrow userboxes from other users, and they aren't copyrighted either. That is the great thing about the wikipedian community! In fact here are a bunch of them for use. If you have any questions please let me know. Cheers! ~ Arjun 03:56, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Testing

I did some minor changes to the talk page to make the layout look better, this is a testing entry.

Hello from Laredo, Texas!

Hey, don't feel ashamed about the whole userpage thing. It's nothing to be sorry about. You shouldn't worry about it too much, given that to me, yours looks fantastic. And don't worry, thousands upon millions of users share the same userboxes. I have no problem at all! Well, I'm so happy that you stopped by to say hi. It's so cool to me! Well, if you have any questions at all, feel free to ask me. I'll answer you when I get the chance. I just feel like telling this to everyone who says hi to me. Well, thanks again! ♥Tohru Honda13♥ 04:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Deletion Dispute

Hello,

I am new to Wikipedia and have been enjoying putting together a couple of pages that I thought were informative. However you flagged one of them to be deleted.

It is about Ken-shen ryu. You called it "advertisment."

In what way did you think it wa advertisement? Is it because I included so many outside links and, if so, would removing them make it fit into whatever restrictions you feel I violated?

Daniel Jackson kungfufreak2003@lycos.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danny Jackson 2 (talk • contribs) 06:01, 1 February 2007

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pamela Fischer

I found some sources for this article. Could you please take another look at it? --Eastmain 03:06, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Ludwig van Beethoven

You enjoy his works too :), he is my favorite composer. Cheers! ~ Arjun 22:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Green Day

I like Green Say a little bit. But I favor metal and hard rock bands from the 80's more than current rock bands. Cheers! ♥Tohru Honda13♥ 02:41, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Deletion

thanks for deleting my article, which by the way was serious

Deletion 2

Apologies for inadvertantly deleting the AfD tag on SRF :) Abtract 19:58, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

你怎么样?

我的父母来自中国 -- 我出生在法国. 中国人. I'm getting pretty damned rusty, though. --Elaragirl^Talk|Count 04:47, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Dear Minskist popper/Archive1

I am writing to ask you to not sign up for Vandal Proof as it says here: While in no way a strict rule, new users with fewer than 250 mainspace edits , users who have recently been involved in edit wars, and users with a history of vandalism will generally not be accepted. You don't have 250 mainspace edits and will likely be rejected. Thank You! WikiMan53 (talk • contribs • count) Review Me! 14:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Please do not remove the NPOV tag

"NPOV" tag was replaced with proper "dubious" tag. As I saw from the talk page, you disputed only one sentence, not the whole article. -- Vision Thing -- 20:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

House reps and the drug war

Actually several representatives have advocated significant drug policy reform - the rep to have gone the furthest that I know of is Ron Paul (R-TX), who has called for the abolition of all federal drug laws.

As for my edit to the John Hall article, I do indeed have a recording of the interview. Where should I post it? RadicalHarmony 17:03, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

RE: New Project

I didnt start the crime project someone else did. --Destructo 087 23:38, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and thanks for informing me of the project. Great job, you started one! However, I have to think about joining first, since I'm worried that I won't participate enough. I have a lot of WikiProjects to help out with. Don't worry, I'll join someday. Perhaps I could help you with templates? Cheers! — ♥Tohru Honda13♥ 23:58, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Criminal Biography

Just wanted to let you know I've created a banner and a few minor templates for the project. I've also redesigned the infobox, specifically the main title inside the infobox, as well as fixed some of the display problems. As with {{Crime opentask}}, it was really only guesswork so please feel free to correct any changes as you see fit. MadMax 08:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Animal Research Advocates box

Hi Wooyi -

Please forgive my leaving word here, rather than participate in discussion, but I am not familiar with Wiki protocol.

In reference to your question as to why John Edward Porter is listed as an animal research advocate in the box on the Americans for Medical Progress entry: AMP gave Rep. Porter an Albert B. Sabin Heroes of Science Award several years ago, and he spoke in support of biomedical research with animals then. He is a well known advocate of medical research, both from his service in Congress and as a board member of Research!America.

I do agree with the discussion: I found that there are a number of far more prominent advocates than some that are currently listed in the box, including Mr. Porter and Ms. Sills. Maurice Hilleman, also listed because of his mention as a recipient of a Sabin Award, passed away about two years ago.

I would be happy to provide information on key advocates if anyone is willing to post the changes. My own experience with the Wiki language and form is too limited to be able to do so independently.

Also, I am concerned as to the image used to illustrate the advocates' box - two dogs used in Soviet space flight? Surely a more modern and relevant image could be used.

AMProgress 17:37, 8 February 2007 (UTC)AMProgress

Thank you!

Thank You, Minskist popper/Archive1 for your Support! Thank you for your support in my RfA, which closed at 111 / 1 / 2. I am humbled and rather shocked to see such kind comments and for it to reach WP:100. Please feel free to leave a note if I have made a mistake or if you need anything, I will start out slow and tackle the harder work once I get accustomed to the tools. Thank you once more, I simply cannot express in words my gratitude.

...fly on littlewing. ~ Arjun 19:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Your VandalProof Application

Dear Wooyi,

Thank you for applying for VandalProof! (VP). As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. The reason for this is that you are too new. Please reapply next month. Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank you for your interest in VandalProof. Prodego ^talk 23:01, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Kip Kinkel

Excuse me but I was not vandalizing. I was trying to remove the category. If you notice the history more carefully, you would have seen that the spelling error was first committed by user Garr1984 on February 5. User Albino Bebop corrected the spelling error, and then I came trying to remove the category but I missed the fact that I was reverting it to the spelling error one and thus the category was kept in. I should have used the edited tab, to start with, and removed the category(manually), like I have done so now. Please study the history more carefully before you go accusing people of vandalism. Fighting for Justice 19:15, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Martha Stewart mug shot

Yes, I did remove the Stewart mug shot and, yes, I do believe it is a hoax. First of all, the image was taken from a blog...bad practice. Second, The image clearly has been doctored...it looks to me like Stewart's head has been copied from another image and pasted into a mug shot image. Third, I believe Stewart's mug shot was taken in June of 2003...the date in this image looks to be 6-21-02. I find it very inappropriate to take a "mug shot" which is most likely a hoax from somebody's blog and than upload it to a Wikipedia article and act as though it is the real thing. --MatthewUND^(talk) 22:52, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:Martha Stewart

Wooyi,

I think the main problem seems to be the picture's source which is a known hoax journal which suggests the photo may have been altered with that purpose in mind. Hpwever, while I've found an additional website which uses the photo (see [1]), I'm unable to find any other photos related to her arrest including on major celebrity mugshot websites such as Mugshots.com. I have found an alternative photo of Martha Stewart in a prison jumpsuit [2], however, I'm unsure weither this is a legitimate photo or if it's in the public domain. MadMax 06:23, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Milton Friedman

Hi, Wooyi!

I saw your question about Milton Friedman on this talk page and thought I'd stop by here to offer a longer answer.

Friedman did stick up for the free market. He was truly a great man. But I think (after reading many books about economics, and having some direct contact with his son, David) that Friedman never bought into the underlying philosophical basis of Austrian Economics. The Austrians generally adhere to the view that economics is the science of human action, and that to understand it one must approach the individual human being as an independent actor who has free will, and who always acts to maximize his own utility (or minimize his own discomfort, if you prefer). So the Austrian economists claim that economics is qualitatively different from every other science, because it is based entirely on deductive logic, and does not depend on real-world observations to establish the validity of its theorems. In a way, Austrian economics is like mathematics, but it has just one axiom: humans act.

Other schools of economic thought (including the Chicago School, of which Friedman was a leading proponent) want to cast economics in the mold of physics, or chemistry. They understand that controlled experiments involving the entire national economy are impossible, and certainly not replicable. But they hope to gain insight by studying the mechanical interrelationships between institutions (such as the government, and banks, and corporations). So they (and most of their brethren in other schools of economic thought) base their theories on inductive logic. They hope to infer the laws of economics from empirical observations, and not from their own direct intuition of what it means to be human.

In practice a guy like Friedman and a guy like von Mises (an Austrian) would give very different advice to a governmental official who wanted to set up some new law regulating the marketplace (say a price control law). Dr. Friedman would probably say something like "Well, it never worked before, and other people have made a lot of mistakes trying to do that, but if we study all the data at our disposal we just might be able to do it right this time. I don't think it's a good idea, and I'm not promising anything, but I do think it might be done successfully, if all the right factors were taken into account." Mises, on the other hand, would say "It will never work. Central planning of every stripe is bound to worsen the human condition, on average, because the government bureaucrats cannot possibly obtain all the information that changes hands freely in the marketplace. And even if you pass this law, it will not have the effect you intend it to have, because everybody will continue to work in their own best interests, and they will break your law whenever they can get away with it, if doing so suits their purposes."

I hope that answers your question, Wooyi. If not, please let me know what is unclear!  ;^> DavidCBryant 01:03, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thomas and Rehnquist

Hi. Well, mainly because he's not on the Court anymore. If we are to mention him in the article, he should be mentioned in a phrase of his own, as the sentence that mentioned him was still using the present tense. I don't really see a need to mention him, but wouldn't have a problem with it if you fixed the tense issue. Thanks. · j e r s y k o talk · 01:44, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:Marthastewart.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Marthastewart.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. MatthewUND^(talk) 10:03, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Catalyst

I hear what you are saying, all I would say is that the article makes none of this plain. There is nothing to the article so far. If you know anything more about it and can establish notability, ==Literary significance & criticism== , ==Major themes==, ==Awards and nominations==, ==Release details==, ==Sources, references, external links, quotations== then add them as it is the article shows none of these things. Just trying the raise the bar for literature articles. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 16:37, 14 February 2007 (UTC)