User talk:Marudubshinki/Archive 23

Blocking AOL IP Proxy numbers.

Please release your recent block of a revolving proxy number. IP address is 207.200.116.132 - blocked by Marudubshinki. Please be aware that when you block such numbers, it is unlikely that you will impact your target vandal. Instead, you will hit regular users like me. Please see my User Page User:WBardwin/AOL Block Collection for a history of such blocks and decisions that have been made on this and related IP numbers. Thank you for your help. WBardwin 09:12, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure you are still blocked? I just spent 10 minutes hunting through the block list, but I can't seem to find my block to unblock the address. Maybe another admin unblocked it already?

Still, it really burns my cannoli to let that podracer vandal continue to vandalize it. --maru (talk) Contribs 17:17, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

From your Wookieepedia talk page

Copied from your talk page on Wookieepedia, in the chance that you check here more often than there: Hey Maru. When copying content from Wookieepedia to Wikipedia, please use {{wookieepedia}} on the appropriate Wikipedia talk page. For a quick overview on using the template, see: Wookieepedia_talk:Community_Portal#For_Wikipedia. If you're copying content from Wikipedia to Wookieepedia, please use the {{wikipedia}} on the appropriate Wookieepedia talk page. Cheers! --SparqMan 10:03, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Is this just a general help message because of my past activities, or is there any specific article I've been negligent in? Incidentally, the {{wikipedia}} is unecessary for me- all my contributions are public domain, so the GFDL is not concerned with them. --maru (talk) Contribs 16:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits may be public domain, but if you're copying the work of others from Wikipedia to Wookieepedia, their work may require the notice. --SparqMan 09:09, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

LanTalk XP and LanTalk NET

Hi. I received a note from User:Crea7or wondering why LanTalk XP and LanTalk NET were speedily deleted. I saw the logs http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=&page=LanTalk+XP and http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=&page=LanTalk+NET and realised that you and I failed to put a {{nothanks-sd}} tag on his Talk page before deletion. It's a procedural error on both of us, as per WP:CSD. How do we resolve this? -- Perfecto 16:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We don't, or rather, we put the template on post facto. Given that those were copyvios (I doublechecked), it's not a good thing for them to be in the history anyway, as that means we are still mirroring copyrighted material. As for the procedural errors... it is my opinion (shared by a number of others) that CSD has gotten overgrown with procedures and policies, which while nice to do (like adding that template to User Talk pages), get in the way of doing the Right Thing. I would mention to Crea7or that deleting based on copyvios is no judgement of him or the article subject and that he is welcome to recreate the two articles as long as he avoid copyrighted material. --maru (talk) Contribs 16:54, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year and Three Kings Day

I wanted to wish you Merry Christmas a few weeks ago, but I couldn't remember how to spell your name. Well, hope you had a good holiday season and that the new year is good. Guettarda 19:02, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you can find your way to this page, you kin spell it! Worse comes to worse, you can just spell it "maru", like in my sig.

And I hope this will be a year with many full bellies and improved articles for you too! --maru (talk) Contribs 19:28, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's the thing - I couldn't get here until I found a post by you (on Kate's Rush poll). It didn't help that I was trying to wish people Merry Christmas while I was supposed to be packing to leave for break. Guettarda 19:58, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hyakunin Isshu

Hi Marudubshinki, The vowel in Hyakunin Isshu is short, so I moved the article back to the short vowel. --Fg2 02:28, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure about that? Britannica lists it with the ū in its article on Teika. --maru (talk) Contribs 02:31, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the Japanese is 百人一首 with the last kanji being shu (not shū). You can confirm it at the Japanese Wikipedia. It's an easy mistake for EB to make, since the names of many poetic compilations end with the kanji 集 (shū), "collection." But this title means "one hundred people one poem" with shu being a counter for poems. Fg2 03:05, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you see, the reason I was appealing to authority like EB there is I have no way of confirming this- I'm awful at foreign languages, and I know nothing of Japanese. So I guess I have no choice but to trust you on this. --maru (talk) Contribs 03:14, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's easy to tell from the Japanese Wikipedia. Shu (short vowel) is しゅ while shū (long vowel) is しゅう. The Japanese Wikipedia article begins: 百人一首（ひゃくにんいっしゅ、故実読みはひゃくにんしゅ）. Inside the parentheses, before the comma, is the shu (しゅ). You can also check outside sources like University of Virginia. Hope that helps! --Fg2 03:27, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK then- the UoV site was good enough for me. --maru (talk) Contribs 03:33, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

replacing "science" by "non-deist science"

Hi, I found you through Category:Rationalist Wikipedians, looking for advice. This edit somehow irks me. Speaking of "non-deist science" seems to imply that "deist science" exists, and undisputedly so; besides, the author probably refers to creationism or ID anyway, rather than to deism. What's the wikipedic stance on usage of the term "science"? Is it acceptable to replace any instance of it by some sort of creationist relativisation? ...this being the consequence of the edit mentioned. I don't mind creationism or ID having their articles giving all sides their due, but, yes I'm POV and wouldn't like to see it creeping in as a generally accepted view. --tickle me 04:33, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've replied on the Deluge talk page. --maru (talk) Contribs 18:07, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Iori Yagami

Yes, I'm aware it's old business, but I always get things straight before I'm done with them. Regarding this edit, you said You don't remember saying that about Iori or editing the article. Actually, I don't recall ever saying you said it in regard to Iori's article at all. I just said you said it. I believe that since they were both SNK articles in the same vein, and they both had that overzealous quote problem, I'd cite your words from the Mai page. Just wanted to set that right. --MegamanZero|Talk 17:21, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On Wikipedia, there is no such thing as old business... Anyway, nice to have one little mystery resolved. It's always a good ending, like for the Iori and Mai articles; they turned out fairly well (or at least, all of us' collboration greatly improved them, even if they are still not as good as they could be; for instance, I always wanted to see a section on the actual fighting mechanics and fighting style each character lent themselves to, and a section on appearances elsewhere in the real world.) --maru (talk) Contribs 17:52, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. I've been overhauling KoF articles for awhile now. Feel free to help out if you like. :) --MegamanZero|Talk 17:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No thanks- it took me roughly a year of editting to get over my addiction to Star Wars articles; I dare not risk losing another year to KoF. --maru (talk) Contribs 18:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Join the Dark side. You know it is your destiny. :) -MegamanZero|Talk 18:23, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wookiepedian... why didn't you tell me? --maru (talk) Contribs 18:28, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(Chuckles) You know why. Now, join us, luke...er.. Maru. -MegamanZero|Talk 18:31, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll never join the Cruft Side! Never! --maru (talk) Contribs 18:39, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Grievous

I added grievous to the category thieves because,he used to steal lightsabers.

Only after the Jedi was dead. Seems more like a trophy than theft to me. --maru (talk) Contribs 17:12, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

politics of Venezuela

I have withdrawn this move request. I think that both Gov't and Politic pages should remain the same until the information on these pages is more developed and warrants a page split. Thanks for you input.

On a different note, you may wish to participate in this more interesting debate. - Spaceriqui 22:13, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No need to. It looks like the vote is all over except for the crying. --maru (talk) Contribs 23:12, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user talk page on 15th of October, 2005. I really appreciate it. --Spawn Man 01:02, 10 January 2006 (UTC). BTW, You should really think about archiving your talk.[reply]

Thanks- that was so long ago I don't remember it, but I still appreciate kind comments. --maru (talk) Contribs 01:13, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for swiftly dealing with the vandalism I reported. --Pattersonc 02:06, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Think nothing of it- you have merely my aversion to real work to thank! --maru (talk) Contribs 03:24, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]