User talk:JRM/Archive7

Ph33r!

I have discovered wierd template names! {{;-)}} Ph33r teh evil {{[[Template::-)|:-)]]}} of death! In other news... why does transclusion favor main namespace over template namespace? Kim Bruning 18:18, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Oh hmm, actually {{:-)}} means "transclude -) from the main namespace" (: with nothing in front is main namespace... Ok, let's NOT actually make a fixed template... tooo tempting to some... ;-) Kim Bruning 18:25, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Too late!! I've been playing with {{template::-)}} and {{:-)}}. Let the flamewars commence! ~ Papeschr 13:29, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Respect for the process

I respect the process of Wikipedia, and your speedy delete. All the same, I feel it is detrimental to do so in this case. I have moved the letter to my talk page and would like to solicit you for advice on spreading the message in a non-disruptive way. TheMessenger 18:44, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks. The whole dialogue surrounding User:Fenian Swine is so stage-Irish that I strongly suspect these guys are all the same bored youth talking to himself. That's why I'd like an IP check. Especially the "indignation", e. g. against Zoe, sounds like they're about to start giggling. Bishonen | talk 19:39, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

I just read all of that, and I'm inclined to agree. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 21:55, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, me, too. Thanks for cleaning up my User page, by the way. Zoe 06:55, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

WHAT IS THIS NONSENSW

WHAT ARE U DOING U WICKED FOOL Planetpjs 12:34, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

My job. Do you have any specific points to address? JRM · Talk 12:35, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

WHO THE HELL ARE U MR IM SUCH AN IMPORTANT PERSON WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT WIKIPEDIA Planetpjs 12:51, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, I wouldn't say I'm important, but I do know a lot about Wikipedia, yes. I'm an administrator. We're supposed to know a lot about it. Please sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~), by the way, so people can see it's you. JRM · Talk 12:55, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi there

Re: Voting is evil - interesting, I hadn't noticed that. It's just a meme, I doubt many people have read it lately :) ("m:polls are evil m:don't vote on everything m:voting is evil" repeat as mantra)

Re: Toby - well, I was just trying to give the proposal a decent change by keeping the discussion in one place. I'm not going to revert war over that though, I just think that the split-up makes it less likely for anyone to accept it.

Radiant_>|< 22:46, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

<eavesdropping>Does anyone else think it's funny to see m:don't vote on everything has "See also: ... Voting procedure". </eavesdropping> :-) Dmcdevit·t 05:47, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

William of Orange

Have you visited Talk:William of Orange??? 217.140.193.123 05:20, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Comment by Francis Schonken 11:26, 28 August 2005 (UTC): see User_talk:217.140.193.123#Track_record (warning anonymous user 217.140.193.123 to stop using "spread the lameness" techniques)

"Very interesting and legit topic"

Just in case you care to come out of the hermitage to say something on this VfD, which seems well within the range of your editing interests. Bishonen | talk 08:58, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Analogy/deader than

(From Yahoo's Agilent Message Board: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=1600465541&tid=a&sid=1600465541&mid=52302 )

Deader than bell-bottom levi's Jeans; Ned's Dreams made real; cousin George's rusted Datsun 240Z; USA's World Cup Soccer match against Brasil; a Papal blessing of a gay couple union; a blind deaf old man crossing a LA freeway; grandpa's waste basket made of elephant foot; Barbara Walter's laugh lines after her umpteenth facelift; an asteroid flying by a black-hole; Ahmed's civil rights held as an enemy combatant in Guantanamo Bay; Colonel Sanders Fried Chicken; campaign promises of our presidents; Free-Speech inside Tienanmin Square; Stepford Wives' extramarital affair; the pile of toenails outside your naigbor's doorsteps; the conversation between an androgynous Metro-man and Mother Theresa; a cold SPAM sandwich; a horse ridden 10 miles by William, the Refrigerator Perry; Mother's Day at an orphanage; a gathering of North Dakotans for Jesse Jackson, poor Bruce's boyfriend in the redneck bar last night in Ft Myers; the moose head mounted in Woody's hunting lodge; the visitors log in how-to-make-black-pudding.com; deader than my penis after flipping through the undies-for-fat-women catalog; young Yuri who was punching Meadow around when Tony Soprano walked in their house, $1.59 a gallon unleaded gasoline anywhere in gulf-coast states, a George W. Bush look alike wandering in Superdome, the home-game attendance of the New Orlean Saints, Rafael Palmeiro's bat without steroid, a A beer bust in Trimble, the swimming pool in Hotel Milles Collines, Kigali, Rwanda, Harvard Med's cadavers, the Gulf of Mexico oil platforms in Katrina's path, Aunt Eunice's 8-track player, the Apple Newton, direction of M.C. Escher's endless staircase, the R&D edifices along Central Expressway and Hwy 237 in Silicon Valley, the marvel stripe heirloom tomato plants in a collapsed greenhouse in Vostok, Antarctica; a wounded beetle near a fire-ant hill, the weeds growing at the Rohnert Park site parking lots, the weeds next to the fire hydrant outside the pet clinic, Lake Stevens Instrument Division, Pat Byrne's credibility, the Rohnert Park site, Agilent's dreams of 300GHz network analyzers, the job interviewing rooms in Agilent, the R&D careers in Agilent Labs, Anna Nicole's pair of Silicone Implants, the sex life of an octogenarian virgin, private social security account in 2005, Terrell Owens' fan club, a 1PA6-9000 DO35 glass diode, an open house inside an over-priced condo in East Palo Alto, the boarded up K-Mart toys aisles, getagripdood's brain on drugs, the Clinton's marital sex-life, morale in Sonoma County, CSCO's revenue growth, a dead cat bounce, an Irish white elephant in 1851, a Ray Charles concert in David Duke's Louisiana State district, moths stuck to a UV zap light, a bold old fighter pilot, a 2-D hare in the middle of a country road, a carp on the Mississippi River bank, the offices in Agilent before 8 AM PT on a Friday morning, World Team Tennis, a beached mackerel, a beta format VCR, grandpa's twig, the HP Way, a skunk on HWY-10, a cofin-nail, enron, a head-stone, disco, chicken pox craters, Elvis, Hilary's sex-life, a floater, a church knocker, a Monty Python parrot, the muskrat pelt on Sam Donaldson's head, sushi ... [Posted by 68.126.186.49]

How appropriate. That Yahoo post was made on my birthday, too. JRM · Talk 10:28, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia Netherlands

On 9/11 (ominous date!) there's going to be a wikimeet for to create an nl.wikimedia. OMG, that's sunday! Could you spread the word a bit? Thanks! :-) Will you be coming too?

See also: http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Ontmoeten#eerste_nl.wikimedia.org_ontmoeting

(and sorry for spamming this to a few folks) Kim Bruning 20:51, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

FlaBot

Please see Wikipedia_talk:Bots#Interwiki_bots_and_Unicode_characters_above_U.2BFFFF. A complaint has been made about FlaBot. It should be noted that Interwiki Bot operators are responsible for stopping their bot and reverting any changes which cause problems. Meaning they MUST continuously check links for the articles they change. I am not getting myself involved in this again. Since you claimed responsibility for letting FlaBot back on, please deal with the situation as you see fit. Thanks. --AllyUnion (talk) 08:41, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

JRM come baaaack!

Get up! Or take the laptop with you to that chaise longue or something! Come baaaack!

Wikibreaks are good but this is ridiculous. Pleeeeze put down that French novel, close the box of chocolate éclairs, get up off of the chaise longue and do some work around the place! Come baaaaack! Bishonen | talk 18:08, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Vienna

dear friend of Wikipedia:WikiProject Vienna. I have created a template that you can from now on "schmücken" yourself with if you want. It can be found here Template:User Vienna-member. mit freundlichen Grüßen.. Gryffindor 20:11, 28 October 2005 (UTC)