User talk:Marudubshinki/Archive 2

See also User talk:Marudubshinki/Archive 1. Most of the current conversations are resolved, and will probably be moved there shortly.

Oppenheimer

Hi, I changed back the Oppenheimer quote. Whether his quote is correct or full is not really the issue (it is not), but he told most people that he had thought "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds," though many authors have elaborated upon this without warrant. There is an interesting article about this here: http://www.aps-pub.com/proceedings/1442/Hijiya.pdf --Fastfission 01:45, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Nevertheless, why couldn't the quote be indented like all the others? Why discriminate? -- Maru Dubshinki 09:32 PM Sunday, 06 March 2005

Megatokyo Talk, mistake

Heh, thanks for the fix on Megatokyo. Those sigs were fossils from before the format for sigs was changed, and I was too lazy to go back and change everything. (And by the way, I'm a she, not a he. =) No worries, common mistake.) --[[User:Premeditated Chaos|User:Premeditated Chaos/Sig]] 22:29, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

D'oh!!

/me resolves to use gender-neutral pronouns from now on, or at least look up the people being referen)ced. -- Maru Dubshinki 09:33 PM Sunday, 06 March 2005

Hey, like I said, no problem. It's just standard reaction, with a username like mine. =) As for the Talk page, it's best to archive instead of clearing stuff out, because everyone likes to keep old discussions around for reference. Use the page move function to move the Talk to Talk:Megatokyo/Archive1. Then drop a note at Talk:Megatokyo and explain that you've archived the talk, with a link to the new archive. That's pretty much standard for all archives, as far as I know. --[[User:Premeditated Chaos|User:Premeditated Chaos/Sig]] 18:44, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

{If you haven't figured this out yet, though you likely have...) Up at the top there, where all the tabs are is a tab that says "move". Click it and it gives you simple instructions on how to move the page. =) --[[User:Premeditated Chaos|User:Premeditated Chaos/Sig]] 22:30, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. --maru 20:03, 5 May 2005 (UTC) (The More you Know![reply]

Wikipedia policy on personal attacks

Perhaps you are not aware of a genuine Wikipedia policy. You have now done this twice... once on the KDE article (even though it was to someone anonymous) and now on the GNOME article. --Motor 17:04, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)

Pardon me Motor if this is a 'personal attack', but you seem prickly in the extreme. The only thing I can recall as being anywhere near a comment on you was my last (exceedingly minor) edit of the KDE page where I corrected the spelling of 'organization', and as part of a comment I said 'silly Motor'. *That's* a 'personal attack'?! I really have to wonder how you woulda reacted if I had actually insulted you. Sheesh. And as for the anonymous comment, I stand by it- what idiot edits an article, for the sole purpose of making one statement wrong?

The "K" originally stood for "Kool" ("C" as in "cool" was The "K" originally stood for "Kool" ("C" as in "cool" was already given away to the Common Desktop Environment), but was changed soon after to stand simply for "K", which is "The first letter after 'L' (which stands for Linux) in the Latin alphabet."

That was his modification, I corrected it. 'K' does not come after 'L'- 'M' does. Was it maybe intemperate? Yes. Was it wrong? No.

In summary- I didn't insult you, so back off; and the anonymous person made a bonehead, plain wrong edit, and I was exasperated. --maru 15:23, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

You called someone an idiot for making an incorrect edit. Such behaviour is not acceptable; not in talk pages; edit summaries or articles themselves. Whether that person is anonymous or not is irrelevant as is whether the edit is right/wrong. When you then went on to call another user "silly" (me, in fact) because you hadn't actually taken the time to look up Wikipedia policy or ask about the reasons behind the edit, I felt it was time to point out the wikipedia policy to you and ask you to modify your behaviour. If, as you say: "And as for the anonymous comment, I stand by it- what idiot edits an article, for the sole purpose of making one statement wrong?, then I would again suggest that you (re-)read the link and familiarise yourself with the details. Thank you. In addition to this, a response to the spelling discussion can be found on my talk page. --Motor 16:39, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)

(See Motors Talk page. Sensing a pattern yet?) --maru 20:03, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Tan's userpage

And I don't really care who are or what you want (hehe) but if you want to move the thing into the userpage, you're free to do so. Just don't make it the last message on the list, yeah? Oh heck, why don't I just do it myself. If you're interested, you can check the RfC under Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Mr Tan, and then you'll understand why I'm so - argh - you know. Well I can't explain it, but then, you'll see. Sincere apologies and greetings from the US of A --JM Bell ° 22:32, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There. I do hope you're happy now. (Can't a man go about his business without others swooping down on him......) --JM*Bell ° 22:40, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

(See JMBell's talk page for my reply). --maru 23:02, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hehe, of course I won't. :) Where are you from? --JM Bell ° 09:35, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

(See previous reply.) --maru 15:12, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... no idea.... haven't heard Sinatra in a loooooooong looooooooooong time.... Let me guess: New York? --JM Bell ° 16:19, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, umm, Queens? Brooklyn? : ) --JM Bell ° 10:02, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See previous previous reply : ). --maru 19:34, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Maru, can you give an opinion at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Mr_Tan? Just wondering... :) Thanks. JM Bell ° 20:04, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Of course. But not immediately, I'll have to bone up on Tan first- I could give a cogent opinion just from watching his talk page, but I want to be sure. --maru 20:59, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. JM Bell ° 21:04, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Maru, thanks for the nice words. ;) BTW, I think Tan would see the messages better if they're on his talk page or Zanskar talk page. He almowt never looks at his talkpage, though. Thanks again! JM Bell ° 11:20, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I was really just venting- I knew perfectly well that it wouldn't matter in the least to Tan (he would ignore it or simply doubt my claims.), but I couldn't let an outrageous claim like that go unchallenged. --maru 16:08, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting pages

There is an easier way to revert articles. Just go to the article's history, click the date and time of the version that you want to revert to, then click "edit this page" (it should warn you that you're editing an older version), and save. Then that version will be put in place of the current one. There's more info at Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version. --Evil saltine 19:20, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See... yes, you guessed it, Saltines talk page. --maru 19:35, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Possessives

Since when is the plural of "site" "sites"? I've never heard of an exception to the general possessives-use-the-apostrophe rule for "site", only for "it". — Gwalla | Talk 02:03, 6 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

(You know the drill.) --maru 02:56, 6 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Talk: Meme

You've heard of the {{inuse}} tag, right? - Omegatron 22:55, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

Err... No. I'm afraid that for all my editing, I am still woefully ignorant of the varied templates. Will use it next time, but I am pretty much done. Incidentally, I rarely get any feedback on my editing of talk pages- what, if anything, am I doing wrong? --maru 00:47, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... you probably need to revert war more often. :-) - Omegatron 01:02, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

I'll take that in the spirit offered. But I was serious- was there any at all I coulda done better cleaning up the article (besides using that nifty template to avoid edit conflicts; which to be fair is fairly rare for me- most talk pages which I clean up are long deserted)? --maru 02:10, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know. I've never archived anything except my own talk page. Once. - Omegatron 02:14, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

/Begins thinking perhaps he should ask someone else. --maru 02:53, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Being Clear Helps

When you continued the thread started by Redwilf you made it sound like I had "written over" someone else's copyrighted pic (and as I was learning at the time I know I did it 2 times). You did not make it clear you were referring to the various images of Mai that I was uploading. I am not sure what the policy is on posting scanned images for videogame character artwork (not claiming credit for the scans), I have been through the choices several times and have not found anything other than the choice that I always select and post. I will refrain from posting anything from now on.

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