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Thanks for the barn star, Pydos! I appreciate being appreciated. --William Pietri 23:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your clarification. I'm not really a trekie but do follow it some times :-) 12:11, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
The article was previously marked as a copyright violation for copying text form another website; the response seemed to indicate that someone had written another version somewhere else, but I couldn't find it. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 17:04, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Pydos, would you mind specifying which mentoring page you are referring to? Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 21:32, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello Pydos, Im Moe Epsilon. Im giving you the user box for your user page called Template:User Member. It's a user box that says your a member of the AWWDMBJ.... Hope you like it! — Moe ε 03:42, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Triple spiral AnonMoos 20:09, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Yes, the template browsebarbetter is intended to replace the categorybrowsebar on all portals. Your help would be appreciated.
In answer to your question about classical civilization philosophers, they are listed chronologically in the Timeline of Western philosophers. But be sure to include Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Xenophon, for sure. I hope this helps. Go for it! 12:18, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I read your piece on Socrates. I corrected some grammar in there for you. Nice portal. Go for it! 11:28, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I was trying to cleanup an old and outmoded redirect in the mainspace. The redirct is not linkified here to avoid yet another depedency:
I have fixed it in Template:Wikipedians In The United Kingdom (Do a diff via history to see what I mean). You have to actually touch the User: pages to get them not to show up on this report:
The problem is that that, while on the screen, the template change takes effect immediately, it does not automatically do so within the dependency info. If the dependency info is not zero, it becomes hard to argue that the thing should be deleted.
I just did the rest (abou a half dozen). Now, I can finally go about ((rfd))'ing the mainspace page "Wikipedians in the United Kingdom". Why bother? Becuase it is in the mainspace. If it had been in the Wikipedia: namespace, I would not have cared.
-- Fplay 13:39, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I got that new browsebar up on all the portals. While I was updating those, it dawned on me to do the same thing for the upper levels of all the classification schemes included in the browsebar (overviews, categories, lists of lists, etc.). So if you have time, and you have a good macro program, I could sure use your help. Go for it! 15:17, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
This site is clever if anyone says otherwise they are stupide. Well done to the Creater.
There's a Wikipedia article on it: Macro#Keyboard macros.
Macros are a way to automate keystroke patterns, assigning them to hotkeys, so you don't have retype the same thing over and over. So, when you are on a Wikipedia page, you press a hotkey (like Ctrl-Z), and it modifies the page automatically in whatever way you programmed the macro to do it. Generally the computer is much faster at inputing keystrokes than humans, so it speeds things up considerably.
To use macros on your browser, you need a 3rd-party macro program, like Macro Express.
I think it is available for free for 30 days, if you want to download it. Go for it! 15:57, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Why did you edit my talk page? Is this ill will because Go For It introduced the browsebarbetter template? I always welcome comments, but not people deleting other peoples!!!. Tis Christmas, the time for good will to all men and cryptographers Pydos 16:18, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello! and Happy new year. Noticed the picture of the saxophone on your main page. Cheers and happy playing.--CylePat 00:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Happy New Year also from me! How did you get an A at A-Level history?! It is sooooooo difficult! I hope you're enjoying uni anyway! Happy new year! Tenchi Muyo
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Thanks for the user template on my user page! I'll have to put some more on there! Hope you had a great Xmas and New Year. --Dumbo1 17:01, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Glad I could help, I'll try and get back to help soon, been a bit busy you see. Tenchi Muyo 07:45, 18 January 2006 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
Hello. The page was well over 43k (much too long) and read like two articles stuck together. I probably didn't do too great a job of the split since I was using a public computer and my time ran out half-way through. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 13:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Yes, go ahead and recreate the template: I was probably a little hasty in deleting that particular userbox. I should add the following at the bottom:
<noinclude>[[WP:CIVIL|Civil]] comment about matters related to Wikipedia is permitted under [[Wikipedia:User page]].</noinclude>
to avoid any problems with other admins. After all, this template is no more divisive than User:Physchim62/My userbox or User:Mindspillage/userpages (a member of WP:ARBCOM). Physchim62 (talk) 18:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Were did you get those banner thingys? user:SaintDante
Thank you... agian. user:SaintDante I shall show my thanks to u bye turning u into a zombie >.> user:SaintDante
Hey.. me agian. Is it just me or does Watsons wife disapear after The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes? user:SaintDante
Thanks user:SaintDante
Hey if you have any wikiprojects and if I can help please tell me. I want to help. user:SaintDante
Ok. And yes Dante Alighieri. I like his work as long as most classic literature. like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Fleming,and Jules Verne. And it happens to be my screen name on Counter Strike. SaintDante 14:39, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
I still find it strange that Sherlock did not fight Jack the Ripper. I remember reading some were That he was in 5 of the stories and on 1 accassion it turned out Holmes was the Ripper and he was on a wild goose chase around london. oh welll. SaintDante 14:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I found the book. The title is Encyclopedia of serial killers. And under Serial killers in fiction and film it states " Jack the ripper matched wits whith master detective Sherlock Holmes at least 8 times. ( In one bizarre outing, Holmes was the ripper, plagued by mulitiple personalities as he chased himself through fog shrouded london.) That is what the book says. But i have read all but the last book. "The Case Book Of herlock Holmes." I dont know why the book lies but i am prety sure now that the ripper doesnt apear in the books. Fan fiction maybe? SaintDante 14:40, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Now that I am done with Sherlok Holmes i am bored. I wondered if you have any book suggestions. SaintDante 21:37, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Thank you. SaintDante 18:38, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Sorry I didn't reply to your message earlier, or at least didn't act on it. I was thinking and perheaps we could do a themed portal page each month, so for example in February having TNG as the featured articals, pics etc and March having Romulans etc.I'll also put the suggestion up on the disscusion page of the portal. Tenchi Muyo 17:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
Ok, I see your point, maybe a featured race would be interesting. However I am busy at the mo, just like you with coursework. Tenchi Muyo 21:14, 25 February 2006 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
Cheers Pydos, I'll have a look at some of the things to do on star trek. Good luck with your A-LEVELS. Tenchi Muyo 08:40, 16 March 2006 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
Yes I, eventually, found the templates and I think that we could adapt the Wikiproject one. I thought you were doing A level type stuff anyway. When did you last change the portal's home page because I've sometime on my hands today and could update it. Tenchi Muyo 14:12, 16 March 2006 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
Yeah I'll see what i can do about the featured artical, I've got a lot of lines to learn for English on Monday unfortnatly.Tenchi Muyo 18:56, 17 March 2006 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
I'm changing it now. The lines I'm learning are a scene from Hobson's Choice a dull and boring play. Tenchi Muyo 21:11, 20 March 2006 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
Well after trying to read the artical about Hippolytus I thought about topic news. Surely we should update this more regulary then we are as well? I was a reporter of star trek news once to a forum now gone. Tenchi Muyo 19:31, 21 March 2006 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
I hope your exams are going well, I'm taking my GCSEs right now so i kind of know how you feel (apart from the stress which I'm told is bigger at A-Level) anyway good luck enjoy. Tenchi Muyo 19:28, 12 June 2006 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
Why aren't we allowed to use pics on the portal as well? Tenchi Muyo 19:47, 12 June 2006 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
oh shame about the pics, never mind. I have added to the news, i can probally update the portal this evening. I've been trying to finish off the star trek character page recently, but i will also do the portal. Tenchi Muyo 08:24, 13 June 2006 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
I didn't propose the merge, actually, I was just the one who moved it from warpcore to the proper name, warp core. I don't think a merge is necessary, personally. Sorry for the confusion. Jibbajabba 19:51, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your note about your new portal page. Looks good to me, although I was always taught to spell it "Classical Civilization". I'll add things occasionally as time permits. Thruston 22:56, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Sorry about that. I mistook it for section-blanking vandalism. Repeat after me: edit summaries, edit summaries, edit summaries... — Mar. 18, '06 [20:29] <freakofnurxture|talk>
The IP that I edit from is a school address hence the vandalism charge. I'd like to know if there is away round this. Anyone checking the contributions page of 'Pydos', will be able to confirm my useful, nay kindly nature towards all things wiki. Many thanks. Pydos 16:01, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
The Community Portal was recently reverted to a version that appeared months ago. Therefore, I've called for a vote to restore to the Community Portal the version that had developed there up until that reversion. There are three drafts competing for the privilege, each representing entirely different approaches, including the current revert version. To show your support for which design should be displayed as the Community Portal, VOTE HERE. Sincerely, --Go for it! 18:14, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't get what you're asking - I suppose you are making a request to retrieve contents of a deleted article? - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 15:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't know about the rationale for this table, however, now that it's in place, shouldn't it also be on the Love page instead of arbitrarily on one of its subpages (Love (religious views))? __meco 14:35, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
The tauroctony is an artistic representation unique to Mithraism. It is a ritual killing but not necessarily a sacrifice; its meaning to initiates is mostly unknown because of the dearth of written evidence relating to Mithraism. There is no evidence that Mithraists sacrificed bulls (except for a couple of inscriptions now considered to be 19th-century forgeries). The taurobolium, on the other hand, is definitely a sacrifice. It is associated closely with Meter and Attis, but not with Mithras. Both involve the killing of a bull in a ritual context, but not all bull sacrifices are taurobolia.
My main sorces of information for the tauroctony and taurobolium are Manfred Klauss' and David Ulansey's books on Mithraism, and Robert Duthoy's fairly exhaustive survey of evidence on the taurobolium. (I recently revised the article on the taurobolium, when I added it as a source.) The two are confused quite often, so rather than revert it again, I'll hold off until I can dig up some more exact information. It's nice to know someone is paying attention! Maestlin 16:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I see the discussion above now. I do think some people are tight-arsed about 'sourcing' etc. Every piece of baseless rumour and tittle-tattle can be linked to some definite 'source', while finding a link for things everyone knows is a wearisome. I keep trying to improve my Greek and Latin btu spread myself too thinly with other things, I fear. I will drop in on the portal. Thanks Pliny 17:44, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
If I were you, I'd definitely change the "Dr. Who?" to the Torchwood logo. The only thing I would personally change about the text would be to change "it belongs to us" to "its ours", like Yvonne said in "Army of Ghosts" but that's just my opinion. GusF 16:01, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome, Pydos. Please feel free to incorporate Talk Talk into your welcomes. The Templar 19:48, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi. The Picard image is a fair use image, so I'm afraid you can't have it on your user page. :-( --GunnarRene 14:31, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I got it from Wikicommons images. I picked that one as it is similar, but if you know which is the correct home glyph for Atlantis, I would gladly change the image out with it. - LA @ 08:57, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
See: Stargate glyphs
You asked: "What are you contesting vis a vis Pantycelyn's amputated arm? He was the one with the rolex in the first of the series, whose arm was cut off in an attempt to save the village from being bombed by mistake."
Sorry for any confusion. You are absolutely correct of course. No, the point I was making was that he did not return WITH an amputated arm - he left it in Patagonia, so "returned with an arm amputated".
Excellent article by the way.
Emeraude 10:01, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Already made the change.
Now, some coincidences that seem somewhat Louie Knightish:
You said "gloriously pedantic!" Afraid so, and a good thing for lawyers to be too. Good luck with your studies. Emeraude 10:43, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
This is getting spooky - Christopher is my son's middle name! Emeraude 10:49, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
He's not at Aberystwyth - unfortunately - because I think he'd enjoy following the trail. Emeraude 11:04, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Pydos,
I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".
Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.
What you can do now:
Regards, Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook 21:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
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