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Special:Watchlist | Special:Upload Major turn-ons: Freedom of speech, Communism, Science and Technology, Transhumanism, Mathematics, Debate, Palm handhelds, Hentai. ==Predictions== Long future, especially the first reference [http://www.transhumanist.com/Forecast.htm]. Start Timeline of the future in forecasts similar to Timeline of fictional future events. It should not be chronological, because we can't integrate forecasts from different authors. It should be probably split into several distinct fields, with entries in each field sorted according to complexity, closeness, not specific chronological estimates (still, it can be tried). However, each entry should be accompanies by different forecasted dates (by various authors). Only predictions and forecasts from acclaimed sources should be included, or at least that should be the goal. While the sequence of developments may be to some extent done by us, the predicted dates/periods should be taken from respected authors and organisations (it's not a problem if some of them conflict with each other). Alternatively, make an article on famous predictions. Nostradamus, End of the world, Overpopulation, Precognition, Futurama (animated series), Cyberpunk, Prediction, 21st century, Timeline of fictional historical events, Futurology, 22nd century, ~~Futures markets~~. http://www.longbets.org/ 21st_century#Predictions_for_the_21st_century_as_of_2003!!! Check out Futurism. URL: http://demnet.ubi.pt/~tessalen/impact.htm [http://www.google.com/search?q=timeline+of+future+in+forecasts&sourceid=opera&num=0 Google search], especially [http://www.highway61.com/Top/Society/Future/Predictions], [http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Future/Predictions/], [http://websearch.cs.com/cs/browse?id=28138&source=CSBrowse], [http://207.44.246.88/cgi-bin/netoh/page.cgi?g=Society%2FFuture%2FPredictions%2Findex.html&d=1], [http://www.abc.net/dir/index.php/Society/Future/Predictions/], [http://www.anywho.com/cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Society/Future/Predictions]. ==Cheating== Create cheating and read/contribute to Plagiarism. ==US interventions== List of U.S. foreign interventions since 1945 ==Game engines== http://farcry.gamesweb.com/farcry/img/gegner/schutzwachen.jpg ==Piracy== Warez, Intellectual property education, User:Gingekerr/Intellectual Property Essay ==Computers== History of computer hardware in communist countries make NPOV. ---- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/view.html?pg=5 http://www.sigma-team.ru/alienshooter/index.htm Source engine http://www.hl2fallout.com/articles/index.php?lang=1&skin=1&CODE=02&id=14&page=1 http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/28/076232&mode=thread&tid=127&tid=186&tid=204&tid=206 ---- :Category:Graphical Timelines, Space Race ---- Aggression, [http://www.membrana.ru/lenta/?3404], [http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996177] Songbird, [http://www.membrana.ru/lenta/?3405], [http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1157172.htm] Bipedal locomotion, Biped, [http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2004/07/21/monkey_israel040721.html] ---- Communism - add history of formations Love-shyness Check that and are restored on Commons. User:Paranoid/Timelines - generation of timelines for [http://future.wikicities.com Future Wiki]

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Is there any reason for this? Jozef Szajer User:Cctoide 23:27, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC) :[http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2005/Art/0217/news1.php Definitely]. Whether it's reason enough is subjective, though. User:Paranoid 11:20, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) ---- Hello. In re ''information foraging'', could you hihglight the title phrase at its first appearance? That is customary here. (I've made the correction in that particular article.) User:Michael Hardy 19:50, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC) Same thing in ''Dahm triplets''. User:Michael Hardy 19:51, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC) ... and ''Tanya Savicheva]''. User:Michael Hardy 19:56, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC) : OK, I will in the future. Thanks, Michael. You may find Wikipedia:Guide for Everything2 noders useful. -- User:Cyan 04:00, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC) ---- Hi Paranoid, I have some answers to your questions on my User talk:Kosebamse. Cheers, User:Kosebamse 14:59, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC) ---- It's not clear to me whether User:Cyan/Internet child pornography will be permitted to exist in the article namespace. If it is not, you may certainly keep a copy (or even the original , see Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page) at User:Paranoid/Internet child pornography. I tell you this because, although I have serious misgivings about the content of the article, neither do I want to Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers you from contributing to Wikipedia. Cheers, User:Cyan 21:22, 13 Oct 2003 (UTC) I have moved the article to User:Paranoid/Internet child pornography. -- User:Cyan 22:45, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC) ---- Hi Paranoid. I disaggree with some of the changes you made to the Moscow page. You removed: "Moscow presents many obstacles to the foreign tourist. The visa system is antiquated and costly. Hotels are too few and too expensive. Also, with the recent terrorist actions being associated with the darker-skinned Caucasian population, official police racism against all dark skin people is rife." On racism, i think it does apply to tourists. Severly of my french and spanish friends have been harrased by the police in moscow because of their slightly darker complection. Anyone with black skin is taking their lives in their hands by visiting the city. 35 Africans were burned to death last november when their appartment block was set alight. The police announced it to be an accident before they arrived on the scene (even though they had been called to the building the night before by residents who had chased away an arsonist). Asian visitors (including many of the cities bankers from Japan) are currently advised by their embassies not to use the metro for safty reasons. There is a great shortage of hotels. I have connections with the business community in Moscow. They tell me that if they haven't booked a room for visiting client at least 2 months before all the rooms will be gone. And noone who has ever tried to get a visa will disaggree that the system is awful. User:Seabhcan 09:53, 17 May 2004 (UTC) ---- ==Naming convention for slogans== Regarding And you are lynching Negroes: Apparently the naming convention for slogans is still being worked out and hasn't quite been standardized yet. See: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (slogans). User:BoNoMoJo—User:BoNoMoJo|User talk:BoNoMoJo 14:55, May 27, 2004 (UTC) ---- ==Logarithmic timeline of current events== Hi, Paranoid, I just updated the Logarithmic timeline of current events with a number of events, and I'd like you to take a look at it. I'm sure I didn't do an excellent job, but perhaps you'll find something better than the California recall election for that time slot. -- User:Ke4roh 00:29, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC) ==EasyTimeline== Paranoid, colons in text are possible by putting text between double quotes. I made some adjustments to image size and vertical position of texts to avoid overlaps, of course just suggestions. Repeating options can be specified once, if the line contains no actual event (at, from or till) these values will become new defaults, if combined with an event they effect that event only (overrule the default). So nothing wrong with what you did, but it is a bit more concise now. Let me know if you have any other questions, feedback. Cheers, User:Erik Zachte 00:25, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC) :Oops I did not look well enough, text before the colon is now missing. I'll soon upload a new version of ET, will check this bug first. User:Erik Zachte 00:40, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC) ::Bug fixed. Cheers, User:Erik Zachte 23:06, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC) == Inquiry re: Your photo of Japanese Imperial Palace garden == Hello Paranoid, I've done some Photoshopping of your picture, but I don't want to upload it unless you agree. Mostly, I opened the shadows and lightened the photo. Increased the saturation. Sharpened the building a bit. I also don't quite know how to give you credit for it. Please let me know if you'd like to see it. User:Fg2 11:58, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC) :If your new version looks better, please upload it (I'll see it when you do it). I don't mind at all. Crediting me is not really necessary, thanks. :) User:Paranoid 12:28, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC) == Some luck... == It didn't replace the original image. Tried again, with the extension .jpe (as your original) rather than .jpg (as the image file title) and it went to where you can see it. I guess I'm getting sleepy. Maybe try again tomorrow. Anyhow, see if you like it. User:Fg2 13:09, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC) :It still isn't perfect, since the source is the scan of a print made with a cheap camera. I would probably suggest using selective brightening (or whatever it is called) when you only increase the brightness of the darkest (shadow) parts. User:Paranoid 13:18, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC) ---- Let me get this right -- you will quit reverting the Hussein article, if I find a source which discusses confusion over Hussein's name? User:Lir :First, sorry for the unnecessary revert. It seems that the compromise version appeared after I started the edit and I overwrote it. But the comment I left still stands. I think we will make some progress in the debate over the name if you can give a reference that supports your position that calling Saddam Saddam is bad. Even though I probably don't care as much as some other participants, I would still like the edit war to stop. And if you can give such reference, it would be enough of a justification for most to have a notice about the name (though it appears that currently there is one) or even refer to Saddam as Saddam Hussein (if your reference would be particularly strong). As the goal of Wikipedia is to reach factual consensus (about what constitutes a fact, not what we think about it), I think that providing a source would help (as the opinion of a single user isn't worth much by itself). User:Paranoid 11:29, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==Tired of the Lir reverts?== Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Lir User:WhisperToMe 09:05, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==[http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444e1w/vokeng.htm Learning project]== Since you wrote you are Russian and since I see you are interested in the future I thought you might work with me on this project - which will be extremely great in the future 8^p There is some discussion on my user talk page. I am particularly interested in suggestions how to include non-latin alphabets. User:Get-back-world-respect 12:29, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==Maria Sharapova image== Hi, would it be possible for you to provide the source and copyright details for the Maria Sharapova image? Otherwise this may have to be deleted. -- User:Francs2000 | User talk:Francs2000 13:48, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC) :I'll check it out. :It's from one of the news agencies. Obviously copyrighted by them. User:Paranoid 07:00, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC) == Cell Phones in aircraft == I know quite well that the FCC has no authority outside the U.S., which is why I explicitly mentioned "and other regulatory bodies". The section still is in partial conflict with the preceding paragraph. User:Tooki :I'll change it, OK. But currently it serves as an introduction to the paragraph about proprietary commercial phone systems on board. User:Paranoid 08:20, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC) P.S. Care to help me clean up the rather messy (and IMHO, amateurish) edits Mozzerati just made? :I'll look into that. User:Paranoid 08:20, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC) Sorry about that. The article needed a lot of work and some restructuring, but I should've been using a sandbox. Please feel free to ask me to explain any of my changes and help you compare all the versions. Thanks for the advice, User:172 19:08, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC) == Pedophilia == Regarding your comment "Please refrain from adding same propaganda [sic!] links to articles ''just to enforce your position''. Please remember that the goal is to write encyclopedia articles and these links do not actually help it (they aren't the best informational resources). User:Paranoid 21:41, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC) (stress added) please take a look at the links, agree that they are there to help abused children and pedophiles searching for help respectively, read my answer at Talk:Child_sexual_abuse#Links_in_articles_related_to_child_sexual_abuse and do not contact me any further at my talk page. User:Get-back-world-respect 00:21, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC) Hi Paranoid, I am pursuing discussion of the behaviour of User:Get-back-world-respect in Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Get-back-world-respect. Would you mind validating there and adding any further comments you might have? --User:Zanthalon 14:49, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC) == Brain imaging == Hello,
Thought you may want to know that I have posted Brain imaging on Template:Opentask. (No longer a stand-by.)
I have also posted it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine under 'Clean up'. Hope this helps.
Cheers !
-- User:PFHLai 18:38, 2004 Jul 16 (UTC) :I split off history of brain imaging from "brain imaging," leaving a short summary at the orginal article. I considered your suggestion of splitting off the implications section and practical applications sections into new articles, but eventually decided they fit best in the context of the history and possible future of the field. The "brain imaging" article reads much better now - thanks for your suggestions on how to split it up. User:Sayeth 16:46, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC) ---- Hey is there a lot of free speech in communist countries? :There is some. Not a lot, and especially not when it's related to the political system. Some things are just accepted as they are. In the USA it is accepted that blacks are as good as whites - this is not open for discussion. In Cuba it is accepted that planned economy and socialism/communism are the way to go - similarly not open for discussion. Other than that, there are freedom of speech and other freedoms. User:Paranoid 09:57, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC) == International standard business attire == Thanks for the edit. It's indeed an improvement. User:Zora 20:18, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC) Excellent change to the Castro article [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Fidel_Castro&diff=0&oldid=4867203]. I hate that "critics say, supporters say" style so common on Wikipeida. User:172 08:27, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==The copyright article== Thanks for your help in the introduction to the copyright article :) User:Thue | User talk:Thue 21:37, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC) Another good edit/edit summary on the Castro article. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Fidel_Castro&diff=0&oldid=4931767]. It's well known in academia that Freedom House is a neoliberal think tank. User:172 12:12, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC) BTW, would you accept a nomination for adminship? User:172 12:14, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC) :I appreciate that you think I may be a suitable candidate, but I personally don't feel that I have been at Wikipedia long enough. Thanks, anyway. ~~ ::The de-facto requirement is just three months. (Most current admins started contributing well after 10/03, actually.) But this is entirely up to you. I'll be happy to nominate you whenever you feel ready. Thanks for the response. User:172 23:31, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Porn article rewrite== Nicely done. User:Hayford Peirce 18:00, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Vagina article== Paranoid, I reverted yr edits on purpose. Your edits seemed to be focussed on sexual information relating to the vagina which was mostly trivial. Women in asia or wherever performing tricks with their vaginas is not pertinent information to a general article on the vagina. Same goes for the rest of yr edits. I have no problem with this information being presented somewhere on wikipedia in a relevant context but I don't think it worthy of inclusion in this article. User:Oska 23:53, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC) == Image:Mons veneris == Hi Paranoid! I've taken your picture in the German speaking Wikipedia. Could you give me more informations about the license to publish the picture please?. In Germany we need these informations. Otherwise the administrator has to cancel the image. You can answer me on my personal site Benutzer:Hanno Meissner in the German Wikipedia. Thank you very much! Best wishes Hanno == Thanks == Thanks for the praise on Bishojo game. Actually I spent far more time than I was planning this summer working on that article and others. Now that the school semester has started, I'll be retiring from editing so that my Wikipediholism doesn't interfere with my grades. I'll trust you and others to keep tabs on the articles while I'm gone. See you :). --User:Shibboleth 17:10, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Doom 3 == I posted a revision to your argument that the reception to Doom 3 was below expections. It appears you posted a revision to it at the same time. Now, it is all out of sequence, but I think you'll agree with my comments so I decided to leave them. Also - kudos on the overall edits to the page. It is much better now. User:Kainaw 14:05, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Child Sexual Abuse == All your edits are tendentious in favour of pedophiles. "Child sexual abuse denotes sexual activity with children that are perpetrated against an individual without consent" is plainly wrong, "consent" is not possible. :Consent is possible. For example, a 15 year old can give informed consent in many countries. In other counties a 13 year old can give consent to a 17 year old. In yet other countries the law recognises that even a small child can give consent, but simply ignores this. Even American law recognises that children can give "simple consent" even though they can't give informed consent. You were mistaken when you said it's impossible. With "The research has suffered from lack of common methodology, unclear definitions, use of questionable techniques for retrospective studies, such as ''memory recovery'' (see false memories), bias, unjustified presumptions and other factors." you focus on critique of research that is usually dangerous for pedophiles, :I focus on critique because the research was criticised to some extent by many (may be even most) researchers. The problems (listed above) are noted by any survey of existing literature that I read. "Child sexual abuse is regarded as particularly reprehensible in many modern societies, however, the ambiguity of the definition and the intensity of fear and reprehension prompted some critics to argue that in some respects this is a result of moral panic and not rational view towards specific problems." is panic of abusers. User:Get-back-world-respect 13:35, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC) :Well, you wouldn't say that the reaction towards presumably ritual child abuses in day care was normal, would you? Even such respectful authors as Finkelhor spread the rumours because they didn't treat the findings with proper scientific scepticism and because they all too often made ridiculous assumptions on which they based their conclusions. I am not denying that certain activities that are usually understood under CSA happen and are harmful, but being scared of "Child sexual abuse" per se is silly, because it's such a vague concept. P.S. Perhaps we can continue the discussion at the article talk page, so that others can see it and contribute. If you agree, feel free to move this text there. User:Paranoid 13:53, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC) == random walk == Paranoid hi. I looked at your edits of random walk and I'm not sure the stuff belongs there. It's way larger than all the others — they could be expanded, of course, but then they would cover most of the article which would have to be renamed "applications of random walk"... In short, wouldn't it be better to put this text as a section in some article on finance or financial mathematics (or make it into a page of its own) and put in the random walk page a synopsis and link? User:Gadykozma 01:57, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC) :That's a valid remark, but I simply don't know where to put it. I spent some time thinking, but simply could not come with a good idea. User:Paranoid 07:52, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC) Check the links in Financial mathematics (obviously you know more about the subject than I do) if any one fits. If not, make it into a new page, called "Randomness of share prices" or somesuch. What do you say? User:Gadykozma 16:34, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC) :I did it BTW (sorry for not writing here immidiately). User:Gadykozma 10:49, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Image:Sportivnaya metro station.jpg == Can you add license information to ? -- TomK32 :Did that. It's public domain. User:Paranoid 16:51, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC) ==Imagevio== I listed :Image:Mons veneris.jpg on WP:CP. --User:Valmi 02:19, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Hello == I saw you in Corax's talk page, and I agreed with you too. It is nice that people are looking to make this NPOV, and can rationally discuss the points at hand. Good work! :) --User:ShaunMacPherson 10:12, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC) == S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl == Well I finally created an article for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl but it was deleted! Check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_undeletion. Also I moved that section to First person shooter graphics engines so each topic area can grow independently. User:NrarerN 22:30, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Theia reference in 2002 AA29 article == Please see Talk:2002 AA29 for some questions that need answers. --User:Phil Boswell | User talk:Phil Boswell 14:53, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC) == Page move == I moved it to Pornography by region. User:Neutrality/^{User_talk:Neutrality}">User:Neutrality|User:Neutrality/^{User talk:Neutrality} 21:22, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "" template into their user page, but there are other options at Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace#Licensing Templates. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page: :Option 1 :I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below: : OR :Option 2 :I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below: : Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "" with "". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. ''Please let me know'' what you think at my User talk:Ram-Man. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- User:Ram-Man ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new comment]| User talk:Ram-Man == Royal Society == I have added some research from a book that is somewhat POV. Please see Talk:Royal Society for more info. --User:AllyUnion User talk:AllyUnion 18:31, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Feynman== Your rephrase from ''more concrete'' to ''less useful but more fun'' is a slight POV. Feynman's view, as a physicist, did not necessarily include utility as a criterion. It is true that he was a natural engineer, but that is not quite as desirable an attribute for being a physicist, who must also be creative about insights into Nature. That is what he felt burned-out about, and that is why he gave up trying to be the superman. So instead, he just turned his analytical ability to the nutating dish. User:Ancheta Wis 12:14, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC) :This is Feynman's POV. Of course, we have a problem of reliable sources here - ''Surely You Are Joking'' is not an academic research paper, but Feynman himself said "I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever." and "There's no importance whatsoever. I'm just doing it for the fun of it." about his work on the nutating dish physics. User:Paranoid 12:21, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC) == JK Rowling == Actually, whether Rowling is writing "some deep work" or not is a matter of opinion. I happen to think she ''is'' and I would guess that you happen to think she is not. I happen to think the Matrix isn't particularly significant and it would appear that you do, which is also a matter of opinion. How about we change that sentence to say that the name could have come from a number of classical sources and link to a disambiguation page? I stand by my revert, the origins of names ''are'' important in that series and the name needs to be linked to some potential explanation to reflect that importance. They're not ''childrens'' books, you know! User:Aeconley 14:07, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Dawn == I'm sorry, but "Did you know" is only for new pages, defined as being no older than 72 hours. Therefore I can't feature Dawn (demo) (created on December 8), but feel free to submit other articles and interesting facts. If you were trying to submit another article, please bold the new article in the fact. Happy editing! User:MacGyverMagic|^{User_talk:MacGyverMagic}">User:MacGyverMagic|User:MacGyverMagic|^{User talk:MacGyverMagic} 11:37, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC) :I'm open to suggestions. If you can find more people that agree with you, I'm not going to stop it. I didn't set that rule, but I kinda understand it. We have to draw the line to define a new article somewhere. Why not post a topic on the talk page and see what others think? Please note that I'm not the "boss" of the section or anything. I merely didn't include it in my update because I like to stick with the existing rules. If you want to suggest a new policy, just go ahead. In the mean time, I'll see if I can do something to stretch the rules a bit. User:MacGyverMagic|^{User_talk:MacGyverMagic}">User:MacGyverMagic|User:MacGyverMagic|^{User talk:MacGyverMagic} 19:02, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC) I'm about to update DYK again. Please refer to the history of DYK if you want to see your item listed. Please make sure they fall within the 72 hour period to avoid problems in the future. Happy editing! User:MacGyverMagic|^{User_talk:MacGyverMagic}">User:MacGyverMagic|User:MacGyverMagic|^{User talk:MacGyverMagic} 08:51, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC) == Link Police == I'm surprised that you left only one link on the sex toys page. The the fact that it's crammed with advertising and lacks a good deal of the information found on the 'poorly written' site of mine that you removed suggests to me that the remaining site is your own. However I'm going to look at re-writing some portions of my 'poorly written' site regardless. I think some of the knowledge it offers is fairly unique, and the site has been useful to many people over the years. :I think I accidentally make a mistake. I have mistaken your site for one of the others I removed earlier today. Your site is not poorly written, in fact, it's written rather well. So I am sorry for the comment in the edit summary. I still think that there shouldn't be more than one external link here, since they offer a lot of duplicate information, but I am not going to argue that the one included now is much better than your site. BTW, I am in no way connected to that site, as a matter of fact, I (shame on me) have never actually used a sex toy, much less sell one. :( It is still against Wikipedia policy to include self-promotion and commercial links, so I do not think your site should be linked, but feel free to discuss it with others on Talk:Sex toy. User:Paranoid 19:50, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::Thanks for saying it's not poorly written. I think there is room for both sites to be there, or maybe just a link to the DMOZ, Yahoo or Wikimoz category that both sites are in would be best? I simply feel that our site covers a range of items that the other doesn't touch on, and those are the types of questions I answer most when I'm contacted by the curious.Having one link is fine, and reduces clutter, but the heading is external links in the plural, and I've already helped a few Wiki surfers with advice, so I think my link had merit. Still I guess it's a community, and if my link is pushed out by 'natural selection', there isn't much I can do about it :) Looking at it, I guess it must not have been your site, or you would have left your other 2 sites in there also, which is obviously some kind of self promotion. == Heated Main Page Debate == I must admit that reading your reply to my comment raised my blood pressure a rather lot. Based on the other discussions you are carrying out on this page, I see that you are quite capable of carrying on a productive debate and probably didn't intend what you said on the talk page. I would be glad to respond to what you said if you take the time to calm down and rewrite it. Please do this so that we can reach a civil conclusion to the debate. Thanks, User:Qoph 01:11, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Soviet Union == Whether with a reply or whatever, just reply in the normal manner. It is not appropriate for you to edit my remarks with your own commentary, something a user of your seniority and experience knows full well. User:Libertas This [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Soviet_Union&diff=0&oldid=8927973] is a good point, but I don't know if making points like these are going to help calm down a user with such a simplistic good/evil view of the world. The page may be protected for months if this user is successful in turning the Soviet Union article into a political discussion forum. User:172 20:16, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC) :I freely admit that I don't really know what to do. I agree that a confronation is against WikiLove and is counterproductive, though. I am probably not the person to deal with new users like Libertas best. If you imply that some of my replies on talk were not helpful, I would probably agree. The best option for me probably would be to wait until someone else can calm down and "contain" Libertas and not interfere. :) User:Paranoid 20:49, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::I have a suggestion: assist me in adding substance to the article that reflects the reality of the Soviet era. You don't need to "contain" me, I just want to add undisputed facts so it's a better article. And you can stop trolling my other entries too. User:Libertas :::I was not "trolling", I was genuinely curious about your interests and editing style. Interestingly, your were quite eager to restore NPOV in several other articles, removing redundant, irrelevant and POV parts. I hope you don't mind me fixing a typo, though. :) :::I would love to work together adding substance and developing the article (and Wikipedia in general), the problem is that from my point of view you were very clearly "brainwashed" by American propaganda. Don't take offence at the term, this is simply how it looks. You read a comment about US plans for Fallujah, then deny that it can have any merit based on the source, reiterate the official American party line that people of Iraq were saved from totalitarianism of Saddam and that the situation is improving. Meanwhile you ignore the factual descriptions in that article (it can be biased, but you are not saying the story was complately made up, are you?), which looks like the textbook definition of totalitarism. :::Please try to understand my position. I feel (and I know some other users feel the same) that I provided a valid argument, but you dismiss it without bothering to respond to the gist of it. You don't say "this is not totalitarism because fact 1, fact 2, fact 3, while USSR was totalitarian because fact 4, fact 5, fact 6." You just repeat your claims. How can I argue with that? :::If you have good imagination, please, perform a thought experiment. Actually you can just copy the text to notepad and perform it for real. Take my arguments, your replies and other comments and replace USSR with USA, USA with USSR, Stalin with Bush, Iraq with Afganistan, Fallujah with gulag, gulag with Fallujah. Reverse all arguments. Than stand on my position (after reversal of all terms you would appear to attack the USA, while I would be defending it). Consider the value of your arguments against the USA, arguments that it's a totalitarian state, etc. Just think about it, are they convincing? Are they logical and rational. Or are they just empty accusations? Because from my point it certainly looks like your claims about what USSR was are empty accusations. :::I hope that you can try and understand my position better. User:Paranoid 00:32, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::::I reject totally your assertion that Stalin is morally equivalent with Bush or any of your other bogus examples. I understand your position well enough, you read articles from Marxist websites and quote them approvingly. I know your view and viewpoint. I just don't agree. Nor does the sweep of history. It has embraced freedom, markets and capitalism. ::::The USSR stands condemned by history as a corrupt, sinister regime with the blood of many millions on it hands. The article on USSR is riddled with Soviet nostalgia and should be revised totally. User:Libertas :::::I never said that Bush is equivalent to Stalin! I said that your argumentation is weak. If you try an experiment that I suggested, you might see how weak it is. User:Paranoid 10:46, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Why are you being silly? == [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Totalitarianism&diff=0&oldid=9051596]. Please don't disrupt wikipedia to prove a point. 21:52, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Sometimes it's the only way to prove a point. What was written about Soviet Union is as valid as what was written about the United Stats. Most of what was written are exaggerations and generalities, with a few falshoods. This is not how Wikipedia articles are written - this sort of vague writing is not permitted. :As I said earlier, the problems with the text User:Fred Bauder inserted are simple and to me rather obvious. The text is 1) one-sided, 2) irrelevant and 3) poorly written. You can write the same sort of text implying that X is Y for any values of X and Y by cherrypicking facts, exaggerating them and inventing some, especially when it is admitted that X had several simiularities with Y at some point in time. :In my view the opinionated text added by Fred is just plain bad. There is no useful content in there that can be salvaged. In addition to that, it is clearly anti-Soviet POV.User:Paranoid 22:34, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::We don't agree about any of that, but what physically repels me is what would appear to be your own (pro-soviet?!?) bias. Marxism is an evil so vile it approaches, perhaps even embraces amalekitesque Satanism. What could possibly be worse than such a governance? Myself I would prefer anything, from Islamism thru Nazism thru the Anarchy of Mob Justice, no political system is quite so backwards from progress as Marxism. 22:46, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Regarding characteristics of the Soviet Union== Fred, why don't you move the text you added about Soviet Union to Wikinfo, where articles expressing one of the positions are welcome? It was clearly written without the NPOV goal in mind and doesn't belong in a neutral article. User:Paranoid 22:36, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) I think you misunderstand Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. Please look at it again. It is not about having articles which suppress critical points of view but ensuring that all significant points of view are included. I did start Wikinfo because editing, especially in this area, on Wikipedia was difficult due to point of view editing by apologists for totalitarianism, but I have not abandoned the project as Wikipedia policies provide for provision of full information regarding a subject. It is a discouraging struggle, but I believe the integrity of Wikipedia depends on it and that in the end those who firmly insist on inclusion of all significant points of view will prevail. You will discover if you are patient enough that I will fight just as hard for full expression of viewpoints and information favorable to Communism as I do for unfavorable information. User:Fred Bauder 23:16, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC) You have just deleted a sentence that says the Communist Party was the only permitted party and a sentence (with 3 reputable sources) explaining that there is criticism of the USSR on the basis that it was totalitarian. Can you please change these back or explain yourself? User:Libertas :It's still in the article, I just moved it to the section on politics. User:Paranoid 00:08, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC) 1) That's not consistent with your edit summary and 2) I changed the Politics section anyway to the excellent Fred Bauder one and 3) it is not appropriate to move such an important explanation of the USSR from the first bunch of paragraphs. Check out the Nazi Germany page for some guidance perhaps. The neutrality of the article is clearly at stake here. User:Libertas I think it's very unfortunate but I will restore the POV to the article, I have tried to be reasonable. User:Libertas == тота == есть такой еврейский анекдот, который оканчивается "И ты прав, Хаим". (Могу рассказать.) Пример с США можно подать под другим соусом. Слушай, я разучился печатать по-русски. Along the following lines: "Tota is a model of a state, and like any model it may fit to varying degree to any state, in oder to determine the degree of tota in it.." And here goes example with USA. But one must be very careful and do not allow evident натяжки, such as link to single party from single-party state and other шитые белыми нитками построения. Tschuss, User:Mikkalai 02:32, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Эта ссылка - случайная ошибка, видимо хотел потом заменить на что-то, но забыл. Анекдот расскажи, пожалуйста. :Хорошо, только я бы сказал, что не "may fit to varying degree", а что "элементы тоталитаризма можно наблюдать в самых разных странах". Нельзя сказать, что современная Турция - тоталитарное государство (даже в небольшой степени), но там наверняка есть какие-то элементы. Можно дать :#Определение, история :#Сказать, что в разных обществах есть элементы тоталитаризма потому, что в тех странах, где государственный аппарат очень силён, есть тенденция ''abuse the power'', поэтому там проявляются эти элементы. :#Описать основные характеристики тоталитаризма (не выдумывать лишнего). :#Описывая эти характеристики, привести примеры из истории и из сегодняшнего дня, причём ограничиться только самыми очевидными примерами (то есть не надо оставлять спорного, в этой статье спорные примеры явно не нужны). :Кроме того, я бы убрал реверанс в чью-то сторону (Many commentators consider the post-Stalin Soviet Union as a post-totalitarian society.). Что это за понятие "post-totalitarian"??? То, что было тоталитарным при Сталине, понятно. Если после него тоталитарным оно не было, так и надо написать: "НЕ БЫЛО.User:Paranoid 02:59, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Answer to replacing flags== I decided to replace some of the flags beacuse they did not look very good. The were not very accurate. since I'am a vexillologist I could tell that the CIA world factbook flags did not look good. The World Flag Database images look accurate enough. :I see. But could you provide at least a brief comment on description pages for images that you upload about what was detail wrong with the old flag. Also, I am not sure why :Image:Sovietflag.gif is better than commons:Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.png and I lived in Soviet Union. I realise that the second flag was drawn by a Wikipedia user, but there was considerable variation in exact details of the hammer and the sickle on real flags too. One more thing, the existing flags often have higher resolution which is better and are in PNG format, which is slightly more open than GIF, and is recommended according to Wikipedia policy. User:Paranoid 03:05, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC) I traveled to the Soviet union in the mid 80's. The flags that I saw in moscow at parades looked closer to what I uploaded. I traveled to russia in 2000 and the flags flying at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the gevernment buildings in moscow were also closer to what I up loaded. The same is true for the other flags that I changed. Just last year I traveled to south east asia and the flags on wikipedia also pose some inaccuracies in the colours and proportions. Thanks for responding!!! spasiba tavarish ( just a little russian I learned while traveling to the USSR and Russia) == Bah�'u'll�h == Paraonid, I want to know if you still have any objections to the Bah�'u'll�h article. I want to remove the disputed tag. I think the BBC article which is in the references backs up everything in the text. Furthermore, I went to the library and read the 1988 Encyclopedia Brittanica article, and nothing in the encyclopedia article is in constrast with the Wikipedia article. Especially, User:Martin2000's complaint that Baha'u'llah escaped and was not exiled to Baghdad is not true, based on both the BBC and Brittanica article. -- User:Navidazizi 22:55, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC) :No objections now, thanks. I was concerned that both references listed were Bahai literature. Now that you checked it with at least one independent reference, that concern is alleviated. Thanks. User:Paranoid 08:02, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Images on Commons == Hello. We have had to delete and on commons:Main Page because they were fair use. Just warning you in case they're used anywhere. Cheers, User:Notafish :fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Notafish 18:41, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) :I don't think they were fair use, IIRC they were based on some creative commons license (because they were based on CC wallpaper). I don't know where you got the idea that they were fair use. User:Paranoid 21:25, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) ::No, they weren't fair use! They were CC. Please undelete, and next time ask the uploader BEFORE deleting. en:User:Paranoid/en:User_Talk:Paranoid :::I did not get any "idea", they were listed by someone on commons and deleted by someone else, see [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Deletion_requests&oldid=79894#Image:Anime_Girl_Icon_1.png.2C_Image:Anime_Girl_Icon_2.png]. *I* actually have made sure that you were kept informed of their deletion. Thank you for not being paranoid ;-). This said, unfortunately, images cannot be retrieved. I have restored the pages, so if you wish, you can re-upload the images on commons under the very same name. Sorry about the inconvenience. Cheers, User:Notafish :fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Notafish 22:41, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) PS. If you could credit the actual author of the images you used, that would be great. Thanx again. ::::Thanks for the notification. It has occured to me that they might have been deleted by someone else, but I couldn't confirm it, as there were no traces at deletion requests or elsewhere. As usually, I assumed the worst. I don't understand how could anyone think they were fair use, despite the very obvious CC copyright tag. Anyway, I reuploaded them now. And the author of the icons themselves was me (though I don't like crediting myself). And thanks again for the notice. User:Paranoid 10:44, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) :::::Unfortunately, they are wrongly licensed on the site you took them from. As a matter of fact, if you look closely at [http://alethia.fireflytears.net/walls/rizelmine/001_1024x768.jpg this], and [http://alethia.fireflytears.net/walls/ccs/001_1024x768.jpg this], you will see the references to Madhouse Production and Card Captor Sakura which are anime series, and definitely *NOT* cc. The author of the wallpapers is wrongly using the Creative Commons licence for these as primary material *is* copyrighted. The pictures , I am afraid, can't stay on commons. Sorry about all the rumble. User:Notafish :fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Notafish 18:08, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) ::::::The question is - are the wallpapers original or do they use content from the anime series. It seems to me that while the artist did use existing characters, the images are original work (i.e. he didn't capture a frame from the anime and copy-paste the girls). This makes it entirely possible to license the wallpapers (and thus the icons) under creative commons. This isn't particularly important, since it concerned just two icons for stub templates, but I still think that the images were deleted wrongly, for reasons described above. User:Paranoid 18:57, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) :::::::Commons does not allow for images. IANAL but even if you are right, re-drawing copyrighted characters does not allow one to licence them under cc just like this. At best they are fair use (in which case you can upload them here), at worst they are still under copyright. If I am very good at drawing Mickey Mouse, I doubt Walt Disney will allow me to use *my* drawing to sell mugs or t-shirts. As it is, I am crap at drawing, so that's a problem I would never face. ;-) User:Notafish :fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Notafish 18:02, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) ::::::::Completely wrong. Redrawing copyrighted images is perfectly fine, just as retelling a copyrighted article in your own words on Wikipedia is fine. Redrawing Mickey Mouse, however, is not, but it's because he is trademarked, not copyrighted. I seriously doubt any of those anime characters are trademarked (the name of the show may be, but not the girls). So if the wallpaper artist redrew the characters himself, the image is 100% fine for the commons. User:Paranoid 18:40, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Post-Soviet States == A new article called "Post-Soviet States" is up for vote in "Collaboration of the Week." That means we Soviet Union buffs would, in Soviet Communist tradition, pool our resources to develop a new article detailing the contrasts and similarities the various republics faced on their respective roads to democracy. Anyway, we need 4 more votes by March 15, 2005 and your vote would be appreciated. Use this url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Collaboration_of_the_week#Post-Soviet_states_.28March_15.29 User:Juppiter 18:39, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Deleting :Image:Jurassic Park.jpg == I put :Image:Jurassic Park.jpg up for IFD. User:Cburnett 05:36, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC) == :Image:Maria Sharapova.jpg == I'd like to use :Image:Maria Sharapova.jpg in the German Wikipedia, if possible. Could you please add appropriate copyright information? If you've taken the picture yourself, you could put it under GFDL by adding to the image description page. --User:Fschoenm 22:41, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC) == Futures Exchanges == You say you'd like to start an article on futures exchanges. No need, just try a variant spelling. futures exchange or futures--User:Christofurio 22:56, May 8, 2005 (UTC) thanks. You're welcome. Now that we've established a rapport, let me just say that your comments on China in Capitalism's talk page are baffling to me, as I've explained on that page. --User:Christofurio 14:17, May 17, 2005 (UTC) User:Zscout370 User_talk:Zscout370 23:23, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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