User talk:Ferkelparade/archive

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Please do not revert my page

Thank you24.147.97.230 14:58, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Again, welcome! :) fabiform | talk 14:52, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the warm welcome :) Ferkelparade 17:10, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I hope you enjoy yourself here. :) fabiform | talk 17:25, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Nice work on Karl Theodor! Catherine - talk 01:02, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

thanks :) Ferkelparade 08:20, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

hi ferkelparade, just wanted to mention, that it is quit difficult with german "slangs". it might be ok with the weisswurst/weisswürscht, cause it was invented in munich. but should the english wikipedia link to the brezel, brezn or breze? you spent time in southern-germany i guess? greetings from munich, Softeis 20:17, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Weisswurst btw: I HATE "Weisswürscht"!!!!!! ;-) greetz. Nicky knows e 20:19, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi guys, one could say I spent some time in Southern Germany...was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, grew up in Swabia and have been living in Munich for about 10 years now :P anyway, spellings of German food stuff are always comlicated, see Talk:Weisswurst for the Weisswurst. About Brezen: I once had a long discussion about the correct spelling here. I changed the link to Brezen because there is already an article at Breze, and I don't think we need a second one at Brezen. Maybe we need a couple redirects from Brezel, Brezen etc...?

Was marking the addition of a {{vfd}} here marked minor on purpose? You might want to reconsider that policy, it is after all rather a significant event in an article's life and should definately be noted by everyone watching the article. --fvw 12:34, 2004 Oct 20 (UTC)

Oops, sorry, my mistake...shouldn't edit while I'm on the phone, I guess... -- Ferkelparade π 12:37, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

No problem, mistakes will happen and this wasn't a bad one. Just don't try and pull that sort of stuff with Main Page *grins*. Keep up the good work! --fvw 13:02, 2004 Oct 20 (UTC)

Sant_Cassia You may see that the votes for deletion have come up, many times for the page listed regarding Sant_Cassia, I object to the edit wars which have been placed, and object the pages creation and its links. The information is owned by the Sant Cassia Family, copyvio was added because there is no referencing to any information given or taken from other web sites. There is a difference between knowning what is correct and making things up to discredit people.Ghariexem[[User_talk:Ghariexem|

A couple of points in reply:

There is nothing wrong with objecting to the contents of a page if it is factually incorrect, misleading, slanderous or whatever - just go ahead and edit it, or place it on VfD if you think there is no merit at all to an article. However, just blanking a page without comment is not acceptable under any circumstances, and I have not seen any real reason why the article in question should be deleted.
Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the previous VfD history of the artile, but if it survived several times already, it looks like there is in fact no solid reason for deletion.
Placing an article on VfD and on speedy at the same time does not make any sense and makes you look like you're wildly thrashing around in an attempt to get rid of an article - I removed the speedy delete notice because being listed on VfD is enough.
And lastly, the copyvio notice was pure nonsense - copyright violation is a rather specific, narrowly-defined term that does not apply in this case.

Cheers, Ferkelparade π 15:26, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Points noted , yes i object to it all, and when i have done in the past, it just gets reverted, or edited again by the same person everytime. Im not a great whizz at wikipedia, sorry for the quick copyvio and quick deletion notices. we object to the person editing and changing the page, the sant_cassia page is fine , just the links out of it. ghariexem

VfD Correction

Thank you for fixing The Ravaged VfD page. I bolded delete because the original author had written it in caps, which appeared to mean that he wanted to highlight it, but in hindsight I do see how that could be misleading. Thanks for the catch. Skyler 1534 23:25, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

Isbjørnklubben

Actually, I erred. Isbjørnklubben has its headquarters in Hammerfest, not Stavanger. The only way I know to join is to go to Hammerfest, which I got to via the Hurtigruten. It is also called "The Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society". They have a gathering in Hammerfest every September, basically a community fair, I think. The Isbjørnklubben is devoted to preserving not only the population of polar bears, but also the arts of polar bear hunting. My main activity is wearing the very warm wool baseball cap with earflaps with the society name (in English, alas) and a picture of a polar bear embroidered on it, but I also have a certificate of membership.

From http://www.hammerfest.kommune.no/english.html: "The Royal & Ancient Polar Bear Society Is a museum aiming to show Hammerfest¹s long and proud traditions as an arctic hunting town. A visit here can be concluded with signing an exclusive membership in the club."

To me, the most striking memory I have of the north of Norway is the chronicles of the devastation wrought by the occupying and then retreating German armies in World War 2. Ortolan88 18:07, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

verkerparada

Err... A case of typing quickly and then hitting enter before checking. I hope it does not mean anything... inappropriate... in any other language, especially Deutch :-7 -Skysmith 07:22, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

I've nominated you for adminship on WP:RFA. You can accept or decline the nomination there. Cheers! JOHN COLLISON [ L u d r a m an] 18:54, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sibiu article

hi there Ferkelparade

I'm reverting the article prior to your copyvio warning. you should have discussed with the author of the Sibiu article before issuing the copyvio warning. Criztu 14:50, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, please do not just revert. As I just said at WP:CP, this does not solve the copyvio problem at all - when you just revert over a copyright violation, the copyrighted text still remains in the database (not in the current article, but in the edit history), and all legal problems arising from the copyright violation still exist. It admittedly sucks, but when someone decides to paste copyrighted text into an otherwiese decent article, we can only delete and rewrite to get rid of the copyrighted stuff. And please don't accuse me of ruining the article, I just spotted the copyright violation - blame the anon user who pasted copyrighted text in the first place. -- Ferkelparade π 14:56, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Have you consulted with the author of the SIbiu article, before issuing the copyvio warning ? the article was written in 2003, while the only material susceptible of copyroght violation is the Turism paragraph, which you could have easily erased without compromising the whole Sibiu Wikipedia Article Criztu 15:02, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Well...that's exactly the problem: you cannot erase material from the edit history without deleting the article. The only solution is to place the last good version of the article at the "Temp" location that is automaticlly created when an article is tagged as a copyvio, and wait for an admin to clean up (delete the oricinal and make the temp page the new article). I admit that the Sibiu article has been sitting on copyvio for too long without anyone taking action - I'd do the cleanup right now, but unfortunately I am not an admin and cannot delete the original article :P -- Ferkelparade π 15:08, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

i see what you mean, but i think you should have consulted the Wikipedian who wrote the article in 2003 prior to anything else. It is perfectly possible that the site you concluded the information was stolen from could have easily copy-pasted from Wikipedia Sibiu Article ... what should we do next, erase whole Wikipedia because of countless websites that copy-paste from Wikipedia without mentioning that ? Criztu 15:14, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

i appologise for reverting the article ... user Icebox seems to have copy-pasted from www.sibiu.ro and providede the link to this official site... what should we do ? we have to put the article online Criztu 15:22, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hmm...your best bet right now would be to do all the changes you think are necessary to the temp article (that already exists and contains a version prior to the insertion of copyrighted material) and contact an admin to do the cleanup. A list of admins can be found at Wikipedia:List of administrators. Cheers, -- Ferkelparade π 15:31, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

:) I apologize for being unsure of what to do exactly in the situation created by Icebox copyvio on Sibiu article. the following sentence is taken from Wikipedia:Copyright problems - Pages where the most recent edit is a copyright violation, but the previous article was not, should not be deleted. They should be reverted. The violating text will remain in the page history for archival reasons unless the copyright holder asks the Wikimedia Foundation to remove it. See Wikipedia:Page history for details Criztu 16:37, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oh, ok. I always assumed it was standard policy to delete articles with copyvio material in the history because that's what usually seems to be done on WP:CP and because it makes sense from a legal point of view. Bit I see there seems to be no general policy on that and there alrady was some discussion on this. So it seems in this case it's indeed okay to just revert to the previous version (before the copyrighted material was insterted) and work from there. Sorry for the confusion :P -- Ferkelparade π 17:01, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 19:45, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Congrats, Felky, on your well-deserved adminship! JOHN COLLISON [ L u d r a m an] 21:03, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, guys...now, off to some vandal-hunting :P -- Ferkelparade π 23:13, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, congratulations! I'm setting fire to a vandal's toes in your honour tonight. --fvw * 00:54, 2004 Dec 11 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license 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 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 top 1000 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:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] 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 "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

City Island

I disagree strongly with your renaming of City Island in the comma style. See Talk:City Island, New York. -- Decumanus 17:59, 2004 Dec 11 (UTC)

I apologize if I maybe moved the article prematurely; as you've already noticed, I performed the move after it was requested on Wikipedia:Help desk. Would City Island, Bronx, New York be an acceptable title? -- Ferkelparade π 01:54, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I think that's the best title really, because the article is more about the neighborhood than the geographical feature. See Talk:City Island, New York. -- Decumanus 02:03, 2004 Dec 12 (UTC)

Current Events

a new day in the (actually I have no idea what you call it, :-) please let me know)

Umm...calendar? :) -- Ferkelparade π 14:43, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Heh, thanks. Must have been a blackout on my part. I was looking for a term for just one month of the calendar but calendar itself didn't come to my mind. --Jpkoester1 15:12, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

jammer article

that article really doesnt deserve to be voted on though. quentin jammer is a pretty well known NFL player for san diego. i think that you are under the impression that some high school player made a page about himself. check the san diego chargers article and you'll see his name- Xpendersx 13:59, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

i'll create a jammer stub then.thanks! Xpendersx 14:11, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Schicksalstag

Hi Ferkelparade (whatever this name is supposed to mean), you got me wrong on practically all counts and I'm glad that I can clarify things.

First of all, User:KF/For future reference is for my future reference and therefore does not contain any headers, explanations, or whatever. It is the exact opposite of a to do list—it's a list of articles other people have already written which I find interesting, useful, good, excellent, debatable, funny, eccentric—whatever. I'm not planning to add anything to any of the articles there unless they are stubs.

Secondly, my own writing has been met quite often with exactly that phrase: "How can this ever be NPOV". See, for example, Talk:Losers in literature (now renamed, but I don't remember the new title), Talk:Remake, or Seminal work, which I had expanded greatly and which was considered so POV that it was put on VfD and actually deleted. (You can find a salvaged copy farther down at User:KF/For future reference.) With my comment I was poking fun at Maveric149 et al., not commenting on Schicksalstag. You should let sleeping dogs lie: If a NPOV fanatic discovers your article that may very well be the end of it.

All the best, <KF> 21:23, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)

MONGO and Bush

I spotted the little edit war on the Bush article. I'll be happy to counter-revert if and when MONGO reverts. This would probably put him in a position where he has to either use other methods of dispute resolution or risk blocking under WP:3RR. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:11, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You better watch out too..

Don't warn me...I warn you...I see nothing about the George Bush page which is balanced and factual...the entire page is a slander....maybe you would feel more at home (being from Munich) if I went into the Adolph Hitler page and, utilizing the words of still active Nazis, provided evidence from cheap published books that Adolph was actually a nice guy that loved all men and had nothing to do with the murder of millions of people....this would be no different than what you bunch of angry liberal fools have done to the George Bush page.

You must be drinking too much beer again

I will do whatever I wish. I have violated nothing and it is you that arrogantly believes that others are to be denied the right to edit if their edits do not fit into your idea of truth. You know nothing about George Bush aside from what misinformation and falsehoods you propose to include as fact. No one would dare claim him to be brilliant or the best leader ever, but I'll take him any day over the likes of what runs most of the rest of the world. He therefore deserves to not be slandered by the likes of you. I could have made adjustments to a great deal more of the George Bush page...and may still do so. MONGO

Uh...thanks, I quite like my beer, preferably brewed the Old European way :) but seriously, the allegations exist and have been all over the media, the book exists and the sources mentioned in the paragraph are real and verifiable. The paragraph does not make any claims that these allegations are true, but just deleting it and pretending the allegations don't exist at all won't make them go away. You're of course free to make any edit you wish to articles, but so are other editors whose opinions might differ from yours - in the end, what we're aiming for here is a consensus everyone can live with, not unilateral deletion of stuff you find slanderous. -- Ferkelparade π 13:53, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Vfd Spock&Minerva IT

Simply Spock must die was last entry on vfd page so instead on clicking on edit button next to 20 jenuary i clicked that thinking it would add to the bottom of the page.

-) --Melaen 12:33, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 12:12, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

No problem, I caught that when cleaning up all of that vandal's edits - and it seems we both blocked him at the same time :P -- Ferkelparade π 12:37, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Agreed, I've been meaning to thank you as well! So: thanks for your good work! --MaxPower 17:08, 2005 Feb 4 (UTC)

Hey, no problem. I always aim to please :P -- Ferkelparade π 19:58, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Reference desk

Hi - just to let you know that I refactored your reply to the question on DNA and RNA on Wikipedia:Reference desk - the questioner added a question (twice) after you posted your reply, so the "I don't know what the question is..." comment looked a bit odd when I removed the triple posting. I hope you don't mind. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:40, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ooh, a serious breach of policy...I guess I can live with that :) -- Ferkelparade π 10:46, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... Grutness|^hello? 05:57, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

About deletion, where should we draw the line?

The first article I created (as an anon) was TCS Victory which you listed for deletion (Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/TCS Victory). It survived, although a majority seemed to agree with you. Now I have created another Wing Commander article... BWS Intrepid, in fact the category "Wing Commander spacecraft" has 63 articles now. Where do you think the line should be drawn now? Sjakkalle 14:20, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for a good answer! Happy to be here. Sjakkalle 15:09, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

VanBluvens

Ah, I realised that it was more than just a new user experimenting, but I'd nothing much more to go on except instinct, so I didn't feel able to do more than put a 'test' notice on his Talk page. I'll keep an eye open in future. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:20, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Page movers

Just a quick note, you don't need to delete the redirects this vandal created. You can move the vandal page back over it and remove the redirect that results at the "is a vandal" page. Mgm|^(talk) 10:46, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you Ferkelparade, for helping with the clean up and restoration. Sjakkalle 11:05, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for all your help. Saopaulo1 11:25, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Ferkelparade for having taken care of the "Oh yes, I could have told you that" section of The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything article. :) --Audrey 02:35, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Bad Jokes? We ain't got no stinking Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense!

Hey Ferkelparade, regarding Wikipedia talk:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense, I would like to lobby you to change your vote from supporting

"Nonsense? Nonsense? We don't need no stinking bad jokes and other deleted nonsense!"

to supporting

"Bad Jokes? We ain't got no stinking Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense!"

The reason I make this request is that the title is a pun on the quote "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!", and "Bad Jokes" is a much better pun on the word "Badges" than "nonsense" is. Thanks for your involvement in BJAODN! Kevyn 17:54, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

NPD

Die NPD ist keine populistische partei!--Schlesier 17:22, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm afraid pretty much everyone involved in German politics, including, I suppose, several leading NPD members, would disagree with you - pretty much everyone seems to agree that the NPD's right-wing positions go far beyond anything that might reasonably be called a conservative party. That's one thing I don't get about you right-wing types - either you believe in what that party stands for, but then you'd better stand up for what you believe is true and don't be ashamed to call yourself a right-winger, or you don't believe in all that stuff, but then why defend the NPD?

Oh, and let's keep discussions to English on en.wikipedia :P -- Ferkelparade π 18:09, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

S-400 Copyright violation

Hello there,
The article i am trying to add about S-400 is not a copyright violation.Please do not delete my article.Please give me your phone number.You can contact me on manualph@gmail.com.
Thank you,
Manu

S-400

Hi there,
Regarding S-400 article,I am waiting for ur mail.
Take care,
Manu

Hi Manuel, I already replied on your talk page -- Ferkelparade π 11:03, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

192.139.27.18

[1] Can you please place another LONG block on this guy? He just vandalized the intro page half a hour ago. Lotsofissues 15:45, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello, Ferkelparade. Thanks for your vote at my adminship nomination. I appreciate the support. Cheers! — Trilobite (Talk) 14:08, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Haham hanuka

Please add your comments and sign your name in the section titled Users certifying the basis for this dispute for his repeated reverts adding Category:Socialist parties to National Socialist German Workers Party. Thanks. --brian0918  21:46, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Rock carvings and petroglyphs

There is not much needed to improve the article. Basically, I think it should use the term 'petroglyph' instead of the more amateurish 'carving' (note that the carving in lead is in fact a link to the petroglyph article). The rest of the article seems correct - i.e. it recognized the petroglyphs (carvings) as pre-writing, and just significant symbols. I have made the change in lead and changed my vote to 'abstain' - but I'd appreciate if you could expand this a little more. I generally feel that a good FA is always above the 32kb boundary. I am sure you will make it with the FA soon - good luck. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 11:18, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page! — Knowledge Seeker দ 20:34, 7 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reverting vandalism

Thanks for removing the vandalism at Indian rebellion of 1857. Sorry for reverting over you, you were just too quick for me! 青い(Aoi) 09:10, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jew

How could you consider my edits adding links to critics of jews to be revertable. Every other topic has links to those critical of it, See White Nationalism, as an example. There are many millions of people who are critical of Jews, and you had no legitimate reason to delete my links.

Sorry, I completely disagree. There's broad consensus against including links to JewWatch on the Jew article, as has been demonstrated countless times before when the issue cropped up. As for the people "critical" of Jews, there's a link to anti-semitism and related articles in the infobox at the top, and I do not see how any more "critical" links are needed on that article. -- Ferkelparade π 09:10, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Would I be allowed to revert that one a fourth time?

Hi, thanks for catching on to my little "revert war" on the drug article. Would I have been justified in reverting that one yet again without running afoul of WP:3RR? I'm not entirely sure if adding commercial links constitutes "simple vandalism". Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:50, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hej Sjakkalle, I didn't so much notice the revert war as accidentally stumble upon it in recent changes...anyway, Wikipedia:Vandalism mentions "Adding inappropriate external links for self-promotion", so you're not bound by the 3RR rule in such cases. I have left another message on the anon's talk page, and I'll block him for a while if he continues. By the way, I don't think it's that rare that we agree on Vfd pages :P -- Ferkelparade π 10:04, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well maybe not. I just can't remember many VfDs where I have cast a vote concurring with you. I remember the TCS Victory nomination and since then you might be one the users I have secretly tagged as "I always disagree with this one on VfD debates" which is a purely subjective and unjustified tagging. Nonetheless, that nominination is the main reason I got some insight "behind the scenes" on Wikipedia. I remember you saying "good to see you decided to stick around nonetheless", but ironically, I think that if this had not happened I wouldn't have been here at all! Anyway, thanks for your response, and I'll keep it in mind the times I'm RC patrolling. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:15, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

By the way, regarding that anon who kept adding that link... I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that he has stopped adding the link to the drug article. The bad news is that he added that link to Wiki [2] and Hunter S. Thompson [3]. I have reverted him (again) but need an admin to block. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:39, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm honored. Thank you very much! I'll happily accept. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:54, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll start thinking about some good answers to the questions. :-) Sjakkalle (Check!) 11:21, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

Hi Ferkelparade! Thanks for nominating me and for your support! At the moment I am having some jitters looking at all those "block user" buttons standing next to all the entries on Recentchanges, and the "delete" tab at the top of each page. Hope I'll get used to it. :-) Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:04, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Stalin was a tyrant and dictator, murderer and despot !!!

Why do you love Stalin so much ?????? He was a murderer !!!!!!

Star Wars

Hi. I know you're an admin and I'm not, but I can't help thinking that your 'technical' breach of 3RR is, in fact a breach, because POV is not (usually) vandalism. The anon has broken the 3RR rule too, but seems to have relented a little just a minute ago....maybe they will stop after this reversion... Anyway, I'm not admonishing you, but I do wonder what should be done. -Splash 00:35, 10 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing as he seems to have died down I guess the problem has subsided for now anyway. I noticed there was a lot reversion going on in the edit history, and I'm sure I saw a similar IP flash by with something about Bush and threatening to wilfully vandalize. I was surprised that they actually asked what references were though, in their last edit summary — I wonder if they are actually going to go and look something up?! Anyway, I'll leave you alone now (btw, I did leave the anon a message too, so I didn't just pick-on-the-admin). -Splash 00:48, 10 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

QNX Music - Vanity?

Simply because I'm not a household name doesn't automatically make my entries a case of vanity. Why did you nominate my page for deletion? According to Wikipedia's policy, vanity authors write about themselves (of which I say nothing more than my birthday), their significant others (which I say absolutely nothing about), or their school teachers (of whom I say nothing, neither). Furthermore, the policy states that vanity itself is not a basis for deletion. Wikipedia's policy also states that vanity pages don't get many hits, but you reached mine the day after I posted it. It is simply an article about the QNX Music Chart, which, nevertheless does exist, even though it isn't a household name, and is notable enough to have received 484 hits since June 1st.

-Sebastian Prospero, Wednesday, July 13, 2005, 4:18 AM UTC

Feel free to disagree, but 484 hits in 6 weeks does not come anywhere near notability for a website - I operate a couple of low-profile music/band websites that receive that amount of hits per day, and I would not dream of writing Wikipedia articles about them. The fact that I noticed your articles almost the moment they were created is explained easily by your extensive spamming of links to the QNX article all over Wikipedia (although I must admit that changing the "list of one-hit wonders" articles from being based on Billboard to being based on QNX was quite bold and funny - nonsensical, but funny) and by the fact that many editors here monitor all newly-created articles and try to sort out the ones that are not encyclopedic. You are of course welcome to voice your opinion at the Vfd pages for both articles, but I wouldn't expect many people to agree with you -- Ferkelparade π 06:27, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly agree with Ferkelparade. Stop spamming us with your chart and be normal please! - Nobody

Hugh Johnson

Is it not standard to create a disambig page for names such as this that have several people of repute?

Why the redirect. There is a hollywood cinematographer who, while not as famous as Hugh Samuel, is certainly worth mention on Wikipedia.

-S

ps: plz ping my talk when you reply. =)

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Augustiner Bräu, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

User page revert

Sure thing; the user page is a sacred place. At least we bagged the troll. --Merovingian (t) (c) 10:32, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Rosicrucian article

Dear user Ferkelparade, as I have seen a edition of yours at the article Rosicrucian, I come to request your support to this article that I have just purposed for nomination at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Rosicrucian. May you may give a look into it? And, if you consider it acceptable, then may you support it? Thank you! :) --GalaazV 02:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

blocked anon?

After I blocked an anon who was vandalizing Gerald Durrell, I saw your note on the anon's talk page which said he/she/it was already blocked - yet it had a time stamp four hours into the future! I don't think the anon was blocked, either ... very strange - DavidWBrooks 13:34, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I must say...

You have one of the most annoying user names. Not really, but whenever I see your name, I always read something about freckles. I think, what the heck is a freckle parade?! But then I realise I'm not too bright and correct myself. Not that ferkel parades are all that common, I'm just saying... And I hope you understand this message was meant to be a joke, not a personal attack. Oh well. Cheers. --Lord Vold e mort ^{(Dark Mark)} 15:49, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Arrogant Arsehole

hey, who do you think you are deleting my page on Snooby? That page was just as relevant as most of the other stuff on this site? you sound like an academic type but why do you think you have the rite to delete other peoples contributions to this site? Instead of living your life wanting to be a Viking, why not go and do it as close as you can? I'm sure there's a "Viking Experience" holiday somewhere, and if not, make one! Don't waste your time criticising and deleting other people's work! - Bib. Hero

I agree with the last statement, who do you think you are??? You deleted my page for no good reason and added 'Asshole who adds himself to wikipedia' on my page. So what if I didn't have a user page back then? Your just like any other no good flamer - Xin

Just a quick note on the last comment, "asshole who adds himself etc." was the content of the article I deleted, not a comment I left on any userpage or anywhere else. Please try to read before assuming everyone is out to get you :P -- Ferkelparade π 08:42, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

copyvios

Hey Ferkelparade, i see you are helping with the gardening around here :) Just letting you know that blatant copyvios (i.e. North West Parks & Tourism Board Honorary Officer Association can be listed for speedy deletion. You can just add {{db-copyvio|name=PAGENAME|url=PAGEURL}} to the top of the page, and {{subst:nothanks-sd|pg=PAGENAME|url=PAGEURL}} to the user's talk page. See CAT:CSD for more info. Keep it up! Cheers, —deanos^{}{ Ł }{} 13:11, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD)

Thanks for rving POV distortions at that article. It gets rather lonely out there: glad to see someone else is watching. --- Charles Stewart 14:57, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hi Ferkelparade! Thanks for spotting the vandalism to my userpage so quickly. :-) Sjakkalle (Check!) 15:34, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

George W. Bush

How the h*ll did that happen [4]. You caught me in a goofy revert situation. I guess I better take a break. --Supercoop 17:32, 30 November 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Heh, no problem...I was watching the situation for a while already, there were several anons trying to remove that sentence who were instantly reverted by admins and other users :P Took me a couple of tries to finally get my edit through, with several edit conflicts. Ah well...with the amount of vandalism the article gets, it's no wonder we're all getting a bit revert-happy as soon as we see an anon edit :) -- Ferkelparade π 17:58, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure? There may have been a fluke in the system causing some of us the see a cached version(?). When I reverted the bad sentence was clearly being added. The other user saw the same thing [5]. Ehh well that was crazy; maybe it was some Vulcan mind trick. --Supercoop 03:26, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Admin Intervention

You removed an anonymous vandal from the "Administrator intervention" page; your reasoning being that the person had not vandalised since the last warning.

Firstly; the "last warning" was a *repeat* final warning. The user had already been sufficiently warned previously. This was VERY CLEARLY the same user in all cases. (Look closer at the evidence if you wish to dispute this).

The warning was included because, if someone had wanted to complain about it having been more than 24 hours since the last warning (*strictly* speaking, this is what is meant to happen with "admin intervention"), it would make it easier the next time it happened. It should not change the fact that the user has had previous warnings.

However, I had hoped that a little more common-sense would be shown. This user was clearly a vandal, and even if the inclusion was not strictly in accordance with the rules for inclusion on "Intervention", this did NOT mean that it was against the rules for blocking.

In fact, it's a very *clear* case for blocking.

195.92.168.166 12:50, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

3D Monster Maze

Thank you for your comments! I've posted more on the developer's background, and also put in more info as per the other FAC commenters' comments. However, I am at a loss with your request wrt the game engine. It has never been analyzed publicly AFAIK. I could go and disassemble the thing, but would not that be original research? Please have a look at the article again, I'll be happy to hear more comments from you. BACbKA 16:09, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Following a lot of improvement, it's again at the FAC, and looks like it's going to pass this time. You're welcome to come and comment/vote! --BACbKA 01:32, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the revert on my page

Thank you for whacking the vandal on my user page; I award you the **RickK Anti-vandalism Barnstar**. Thanks a million!! RasputinAXP _talk _contribs 12:44, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ERP

Since you have edited Enterprise resource planning, here is a courtesy notification that I have updated the article, and its talk page, since your last activity there. I have tried to repair what I view as an unfortunate WP:POV, or historical bias, but I still need to address a better way to present information about commercial software, open source, and homebrew. Many facts about ERP are true in one of these three main areas, but totally wrong for the others.

I asked about disadvantages style in December 23 section of Help Desk whose first response cautioned risk of WP:NPOV. There is a potential need to show several commonplace WP:POV that can otherwise risk article contamination, if not acknowledged. User:AlMac|^(talk) 22:30, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

For reverting vandalism to my userpage! [6]--MONGO 13:19, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As you may guess from my userpage, I would have been better off 100 years ago as a mountain man or something. The beavers knocked those trees over in one night...and that refuge is about 10 miles from me...hope they don't get as big as Grizzlies...ever. Thanks again!--MONGO 13:36, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Flamarande + Crisis of the Roman republic

Hi Ferkelparade. There is a article which seems to be quite suspicious to me. It is Crisis of the Roman Republic. First of all it has no sources whatsoever. Reading it, it seems to be (at least to me) quite POV and argumentative. I looked around, but I didn't understand how to place an Afd inside it. Could you please take a look and analyze it with care, and only if you agree with me take the proper steps? thanks Flamarande 00:57, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

why "wannaby viking"

why are you a wannaby viking/--Junkbot44 18:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Umm...because I'm not a real one? :) -- Ferkelparade π 17:53, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You could use this userbox

This user is a Norseman.

Flamarande 21:42, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for removing the vandalism to my userpage. Wow, apparently I'm a sockpuppet of two users at the same time... how amusing. :-) Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Ancient Rome

Hi Ferkelparade! On User talk:Flamarande I saw you suggesting an Ancient Rome wikiproject. Good idea! If your still feeling like beginning one, count me in! By the way, you said you were too lazy to start overhauling all the Roman articles on your own. Did you notice the collaboration here: Roman Empire/reorganization?--Hippalus 07:27, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hilfe zum Passwort

Hi Ferkelparade,

ich wende mich an Dich, weil es mich deucht als ob Du Deutsch spröchest.

Ich brauch' die Hilfe eines Admins. In der en.wikipedia.org hab ich zwar einen User, aber irgendwie mein Passwort vertippt oder so, und alles, was ich passwortähnliches eintippe, wird rejected. Jetzt kann ich den armen User nicht mehr benutzen. Der User heißt "Frank C. Müller", denselben hab ich übrigens auch in der deutschen Ausgabe und in der Commons, wo ich mich auch meistens rumtreibe.

Da ich in meinem englischen Profil keine Emailadresse hinterlassen habe, kann ich mir kein neues Passwort schicken lassen. Könntest Du da was für mich arrangieren?

Wär toll, wenn Du mir ein neues Passwort über meinen deutschen User per Email schicken könntest:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Emailuser/Frank_C._M%C3%BCller

Vielen Dank schon mal.

--84.56.241.204 22:06, 14 February 2006 (UTC) Frank C. Müller[reply]

Article for Deletion

Greetings. You may be interested in voting on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse (image free). Thanks. --Descendall 01:21, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalised

Your User Page was vandalized. --TKE 03:34, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Thanks

You’re welcome; it was my pleasure. — Knowledge Seeker দ 01:32, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User 195.188.216.131

I have noticed that you have asked user 195.188.216.131 to stop vandalising pages esp. the links section of The Williamson Tunnels. I have followed this up and discovered that this isn't just mindless vandalism but a personal attack on someone called Jonathon Wild (the creator of the website). There is also a personal attack aimed at him on the Childwall article. I hope you can do something about this. Thanks.

Human sacrifice in article Ancient Rome

Umm, would you mind taking a peek at the garbage being added by a persistent anonymous there? I risk running afoul of the 3‑revert rule, so am casting about for help, once I stupidly allowed my goat to be got by it. Leaving aside the issue of the level of importance to be attached to the question in the ancient Rome entry (at best, a footnote under the Religion section), the guy reverts even to his typos and falsehoods. . . . I did a partial cleanup, which I put in the narrower article Religion in ancient Rome. More cleanup is needed, but jeepers, my time is better spent churning out continuing chunks of Lacus than fighting the stubbornness of some anonymous person who is none too well informed. I'd clean up further, but won't do so if this is the reception that gets, endless reverts and time-wasting. This is a crystal-clear example of why Wikipedia articles almost never attain excellence, rather oscillate around a level of popular mediocrity and half-truths. .nbsp;.nbsp;.

No need by the way to navigate to my own Talk page to reply, I've set yours on Watch. Best, Bill 00:10, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Citations

Hi, just letting you know I've found those citations you required on the Humanities Reference Desk. Hope your girlfriend gets them in time! As I said, I can email you scans of the pages if you need them. Regards, Canley 10:40, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ancient Roman Art

I'm not particularly interested in the reward, but I'm more than happy to try to help you out. Though, I'm working on lots of other things, so I'll probably help in bits rather than one big chunk. (And I certainly can't start until after AP exams!) Cheers! Verloren Hoop 13:49, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shot on sight

I was wondering why "finger-wavers" should be shot on sight. --Jesusfreak 14:10, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I guessed that. LOL. Talk later. Bye. --Jesusfreak 18:27, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You sent me a message saying that you had deleted my article entitled "Ich brauche Hilfe". Thank you for the information, although I have no idea what you are talking about. I have done some very minor editing on Wikipedia, and none of it would have offended anyone, but I have never written any articles and never heard of "Ich brauche Hilfe". At present, I need no help, thank you. mps

dyk

On June 4, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Strammer Max, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for the barnstar

Hi, thanks for the barn~~star~~ shovel! Hope the thesis goes well. --Canley 03:34, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User page vandalism

Happy to help - cheers! --P e ruvianLlama^(spit) 08:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your user page

No problem, Ferkelparade :) Cheers, Tangot a ngo 11:01, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Wisdomcb

No problem, accidents happen to us all. Oldelpaso 09:47, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First Image on the Web

Dear Ferkelparade,

Has Tim Berners-Lee written back yet? He'd better do soon, since First image on the Web is up for deletion. --die Baumfabrik 02:12, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

well i find you pretty rude

It's quite frankly rude that you just changed my template without even discussing that. Pjmc 15:08, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

image:uzi smg.jpg

Hast du dieses Bild unter PD oder GNU veröfnetlicht?--Sanandros 17:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nein ich habe es nur auf die Commons hochgeladen und ich habe es als PD deklariert und ein andere User hat es dann Korigirt. So war ich mir dann nicht sicher ob du es jetzt unter PD oder GNU published hast weil das en Original schon gelöscht ist--Sanandros 09:49, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rechlin-Lärz Airfield

I moved the article to use the capital "A" to be the same as most of the other aerodromes. Just thought I would let you know in case you wanted to update the link on your user page to avoid the redirect. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:48, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

Trying to reach an infobox consensus here: [7]. Please can you weigh-in with your opinion? SureFire 00:19, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject invitation

Howdy! We at WikiProject Guitarists have noticed that you have an interest in editing guitar-related articles (Gibson Les Paul for example) and I'd like to extend a friendly invitation to join our project. We are solely focused on improving guitarist and guitar equipment articles. If you are interested, add yourself to our member list. Our main project page has some ideas of things to do if you are looking (because, you know, admins have TONS of free time). --Aguerriero (talk) 15:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Munich

Would you be interested in helping out atWikiProject Munich? Kingjeff 21:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your input is requested

Your input would be appreciated at this Request for Comments. Kelly Martin (talk) 17:08, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

?

This is not sentence posted by me. And I not going to take sides in kampf of believes (:) misguided as history. Nasz 04:20, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ummm...I'm sorry? Quite frankly, I have no idea what you are referring to...have we ever met before? -- Ferkelparade π 16:11, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AFD

Instead of clicking on the redlink in the AFD box on the article page, click on the small "Preloaded debate" link below it. That will automatically format the whole thing. Fan-1967 20:51, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Synetic

Hi Ferkelparade, could you maybe give a link to the exact posting in the forum, where they discuss the meaning of N.I.C.E? A quick glance gave me only this one and it doesn't match with your article. Thanks in advance, --Flominator 22:08, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, leider ist der betreffende Post im Synetic-Forum nicht mehr zu finden, da ist irgendwann vor zwei, drei Jahren mit einem Update der Forensoftware die alte Datenbank verschütt gegangen. Ich habe beim Schreiben des Artikels eine Mail an Andreas Leicht von Synetic geschrieben, der das in seiner Antwort nochmal so bestätigt hat, wie es im Artikel steht. Die Mail kann ich gerne auf die Talkseite des Artikel stellen, obwohl das dann wohl das gefürchteet original research ist :P -- 195.145.30.51 09:43, 5. Jan. 2007 (CET) (en:User:Ferkelparade)

Das mit der Talkpage wäre super. Es gibt nun einmal Dinge, über die es keine Bücher gibt :) Danke im Voraus, --Flominator 09:07, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Proposing to merge List of basic classics topics to Classics

Seeking concensus on proposed merger at Talk:Classics. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 01:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Stefaneriksson_mugshot.jpg)

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Raymi the mix

why did you delete the raymi the minx page?

The what? Oh, I see, you probably mean Raymi the minx. I'm sorry, I did not delete that page, it seems User:BorgQueen did. And quite rightly so: it does not establish notability of the subject and thus is deletable under our speedy deletion criteria. If I had encountered the article before BorgQueen deleted it, I would probably have deleted it myself, but at the moment, it seems you're barking up the wrong tree -- Ferkelparade π 21:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Bitte

Servus Ferkelparade. Kannst du mir einen Gefallen tun? Bitte sei doch so gut, meine Benutzerseite halbzusperren und, falls die Konventionen der anglophonen Wikipedia das zulassen, meine Diskussionsseite gleich mit. Viele Grüße, --Gardini 22:09, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wohin Sie auch fliehen,

wohin Sie auch gehen,

stets wird einer kommen

und will Sie verstehen.

Mit freundlicher Geste

schlägt er dir die Hand

fest auf die Schulter,

froh, dass er dich fand.

Verdammt dickbäuchige Ferkelparade hier. Gruß Thomas777 Interwikiworldwar 13:11, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

username

Haha, das ist ja wohl der tollste username, über den ich bisher gestolpert bin. —AldeBaer 14:06, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

RD/M

Loved the link to non seq' on according, lovely touch. Lanfear's Bane | t 12:24, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, Craig david halsall undid your revision

1989‎; 09:44 . . (+44) . . Craig david halsall (Talk | contribs) (Undid revision 175898679 by Ferkelparade (talk)) He seems to want his birthday listed as "IT Genius" on 1989 under July 29. I would undo it myself, but afraid of bringing a revert war onto myself. Any ideas? -- Art Smart (talk) 18:14, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Zero Point

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Veränderungsmeldungen

Thanks, Ferkelparade, for your response to my Language desk query yesterday. Vague as the phrase it, I've adopted it as a literal translation suiting the purpose. --Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 05:48, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Identify airplane

Great answer on the Ref Desk Misc, I spent ages searching for a result! You sound knowledgeable, care to add a little something to our useless stub: Editing Caproni Stipa ? Thanks Mhicaoidh (talk) 10:41, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I am an amateur here, I can do the desk and edit but to my shame have never made a proper article. Thanks a lot and I look forward to reading it! Mhicaoidh (talk) 11:22, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And again thanks for the article, its great to see Desk questions answered well AND added to the encyclopedia. Mhicaoidh (talk) 11:45, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh du lieber Augustin

Ooops. Sorry Dr Ferkel. I mixed up the holy beverage of St Augustine with the lowly sausage of Augsburg. Prost von Wien nach (ich glaube) München. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 22:50, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I hear that you're from Germany

Due to the fact that I've been told that you live in Germany, I was hoping that you could respond to my question on the miscellaneous reference desk. Thank you for your time, Dismas|^(talk) 08:01, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking the time to read the question and reply. Dismas|^(talk) 17:49, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mit den besten Wünschen!

Ferkelparade, thanks for the response to my Language RD query earlier today. I see that I didn't describe part of the picture successfully and perhaps even mistyped the handwritten text, but I won't be able to clarify this till tomorrow at the office. (Our online photo archive is disgracefully uncooperative lately.) Ideally I'll be able to post a link for viewing the artwork itself. Bear with me, please! -- Deborahjay (talk) 19:41, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm entirely convinced you thoroughly understood...

...and we are indebted to you (again!), dear Ferkelparade, for your sensitive, and sensible treatment of my "Völkischer Beobachter"-per-Jo Spier query just now. And what speed! I barely had time to chat with a colleague who prepares exhibition content for the museum division, sharing my impressions of the significance of this series of Theresienstadt artists, and there you've already delivered the goods! This is "collaboration" in the best sense of that word :-) -- Deborahjay (talk) 11:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Charity (name)

Regarding this revertion, it's actually true, check the version just before my one, which to me makes it extremely obvious.--Chris Wattson (talk) 20:36, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bass v guitar fx thing

i am the guy who posted that bass & guitar fx ques on the ref desk. Just curious, can you tell me what guitar fx (which brand, etc.) do you use for your bass? I'll try to check that one out if possible. Thnx 4 answering my query! Leif edling (talk) 10:31, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanx for the load of info! Cheerio!Leif edling (talk) 11:49, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In your opinion, will the guys at the music store allow me to test pedals meant for a guitar with a bass? The circuitry wouldn't blow up due to the input of the bass frequencies, would it?(I've been using a Marshall guitar amp with my bass for the last year or so and it's not blown up yet).Leif edling (talk) 17:07, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Post-WWII memorial text in Italian

...i.e. my WP:RD/L query. Sorry to have belatedly acknowledged; I hope what I wrote there (for all to see :-) adequately expresses my gratitude for this valuable clarification, not to mention the opportunity to draw more attention to the events of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, whose page I've yet to treat as I'd want and it deserves. -- Best, Deborahjay (talk) 08:59, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Metin Kaplan

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Just a quick thanks

I forgot to check back to the entertainment reference desk and didn't have a chance to thank you and the others for contributing and helping me with this. So, here you go, my thanks! Good to know there's some other guitar players on here who I can always run to for help ;)

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Tunnels Wiki Project Proposal=

I saw your comment on Tunnels. Care to join me in starting a WikiProject Tunnels? Comments accepted at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Tunnels Pustelnik (talk) 23:47, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Rockfang (talk) 04:04, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hochschule fūr Kunsterzeichnung, Berlin 1933-1937

Dear FP, your solution of "Kunsterziehung" looks quite plausible. It fairly confirms my suspicion that a careless transcription is to blame, compounded by our staff's imperfect (understatement) knowledge of German. Many thanks! -- Deborahjay (talk) 11:12, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Guido Westerwelle

Homofuerst is back, you vandalizer you. Textorus (talk) 06:42, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:Ferkelparade/common.css

I fixed this for you, hope you don't mind :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 10:17, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MSU Interview

Dear Ferkelparade,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 19:19, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Translation

Hi Ferkelparade,

Thanks for your offer to translate lb:Bernard Molitor! That would be much appreciated. Speakers of Luxembourgish seem to be in short supply around here. It's not at all urgent, so please take your time.

Best wishes, -- Hex [^t/_c] 11:00, 20 September 2012 (UTC).[reply]

Baseball Bugs and Medeis

Hi Ferkelparade. You made a brave and thought-provoking suggestion at WT:RD. But did you notify the two users in question when posting? I looked through the logs of both users' talk-page, and didn't spot it. Bugs at least, and I think Medeis too, have a habit of removing comments they don't like quickly, so I might have missed it. This little note from Bugs to Medeis suggests they weren't notified:

"The ref desk nannies are looking for scapegoats now. (Although Jayron, as usual, is the voice of reason.) And they've not considered this point: if they ban us from the ref desk, they'll have to find somebody else to yell at. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:06, 25 May 2013 (UTC)}

I know as well as you do that both users watch WT:RD. I still think a notification would be in order, considering the drastic action that was proposed. And BB's comment i quoted above shows (1) his reversion to the aggressively defense behaviour that he has been criticized for previously, and which he IMO to a large extent has refrained from, until Medeis entered the scene, and (2) his total lack of insight into the problem that you tried to address. I'm a bit hesitant about participating in the thread itself, I think some kind of action ought to be taken, but your solution was a bit harsh IMO. --NorwegianBlue^talk 23:52, 26 May 2013 (UTC) Trivial edit 06:27, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notifications are required at WP:ANI. Not required at places like the ref desk, although it would be a good courtesy. Anytime you post anywhere it goes on your watch list unless you override. I don't know what Medeis is doing, but he has responded neither to the ref desk talk stuff nor to my comment you cite above. Being wiser than me, he's probably ignoring all of it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:32, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I can't speak for Medeis, but the part of your statement that reads "Bugs... [has] a habit of removing comments they don't like quickly" is incorrect. I almost never rub out stuff from my talk page, except for juvenile obscenity like that one sock added last night. I archive nearly everything, ranging from the highest praise to the harshest criticism. That is, I keep only the most current comments on my talk page, and the archives are an extension to the talk page. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:38, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]