User talk:Gerbrant

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Rabu Hina I: the Cover Art

Quoting "Talk:Love Hina": "Has anyone got the cover of volume 1 of the Japanese version? Apart from the fact that I like it better, I think it would be better to illustrate Japanese books with their Japanese covers. Shinobu 07:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Love_Hina

If you are still interested, see http://www.akamatsu-fan.com/images/couvertures-lovehina-jp-01.html under http://www.akamatsu-fan.com/index.php?page=lovehina-couvertures !

Jippe 10:55, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Script for AFD or PROD?

Hello, I'm looking for a script that allows me to quickly add an "AFD" and a "PROD" to articles and quickly add them to the "AFD" page and notify the creator. Currently I have a script that allows me to mark it for "speedy deletion" but I'm looking for a script that adds another panel at the top that can make it easier to mark them as AFD. Can you help?Wikidudeman ^(talk) 19:20, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Noun particle

I noticed your change to the redirect I set the other day. However, noun particles aren't indigenous to Japanese, as far as I know. Suggesting as much doesn't make sense, and I felt that redirecting to general information about particles (which did, in fact, mention noun particles and explain what a particle is) would be best until someone did have insight on how best to explain noun particles across all languages that have them. Anyways, that was just to let you know of my thinking. Roehl Sybing 05:05, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps, but it remains that the article redirects to an article that doesn't explain what a noun particle is, in what way it differs from just any old particle, et cetera. Stubs attract writers, redirects don't. But if you are knowledgable in this field, why don't you write something about it? Then the redirect won't harm and no stupid stub is needed. And thanks for your explanation. Cordially yours, Shinobu 19:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Bug

See here (diff). Now I did use the formatter (diff) but the search and replace is what did this mess. Please fix thu bug. -- Darkest Hour 21:45, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

another example

diff —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Darkest Hour (talk • contribs) 21:52, 7 March 2007 (UTC).

Hm. My own formatter (while far from perfect) doesn't seem to cause quite as much mess. I'll take this to the wikiproject to ask wheter this problem still exists and where people will have some familiarity with the code-base. Shinobu 19:50, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I came here from the Formatter talk page, having just checked for the issue reported, then checked the edit history and realised that you had directly copied this section from your talk page. While there's nothing wrong with doing that when relevant, it would be better to have included some sort of notice, especially because it appears User:Darkest Hour's problem was not with the Formatter but with your search & replace tool... Which would be why it was reported to you instead of the Formatter project. :) Cheers. —GrimRevenant 09:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Replied over there, for reasons detailed there.

Male Y DNA testing

I recently sent Dna samples for analysis and as part of a study tracking decendants of an early dutch imegrant to New Amsterdam now New York. My DNA markers matched 4 others in the group with different surnames all with Dutch origins. I am a Garrabrant, Two are Clawsons, ant Two are petersons. We also match 4 individuals in the Netherlands. My e-mail address is M.garrabrant@att.net —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.72.98.88 (talk) 02:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC).

Actually Gerbrant is my given name so there is not much chance of us being related, I'm afraid. Good luck on your quest, Shinobu 20:03, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Aggregation in COM

Thanks for adding the section about Aggregation in COM in Object composition. I found that material very interesting although I found it a bit difficult to be understood for those with no enough knowledge of COM. Could you expand it ? An UML diagram, references, external links, etc., would be helpful. Thanks again. Rjgodoy 05:42, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I will try to do what I can, but I'm kind of busy right now, so don't expect an immediate improvement; especially references need to be looked up, although I sort of know where to look for them. Shinobu 09:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Template:Lowercase/Sandbox

Template:Deprecation notice --MZMcBride 04:59, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Quoted from there:

• Template:Lowercase/Sandbox - While the template itself is not useful anymore, it contains part of the edit history of Template:Lowercase. Part of the editing of that template was done in the Sandbox template to avoid disruptig the browsing experience of other Wikipedians, but it is nonetheless part of its editing history. If you delete it, you should merge the edit histories. Shinobu 19:22, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

• I've delisted this template. --MZMcBride 21:28, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Image:Os9-japanesesupport.png

Hi there. I see that you've left a message at Image:Os9-japanesesupport.png. I made that screenshot a long time ago. I didn't know anything about Japanese then, and I still don't, but I felt that it was a shame that what appeared to be a nice IME didn't have a screenshot on Wikipedia. :) The error needs to be fixed. If you could give me the correct text, I will edit the screenshot to have it say that (in a good way, don't worry). Thanks for bringing this to my attention again, I totally forgot about the image! —msikma (user, talk) 21:35, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I unfortunately don't have OS9, but on my disintegrating Windoze box this happens:

If you type the following:

• korehamizudesu.

When your IME is active and conversion is turned on, it becomes:

• これはみずです。

Which after hitting the conversion key (spacebar on my PC) becomes:

• これは水です。

But perhaps it would be nicer to demo a longer sentence, perhaps a famous quotation or something?

Bye, Shinobu 02:12, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for replying with the correct information. And yes, you're right, perhaps it would be better to use something other than a silly tiny phrase. :) Do you have any suggestions? I don't have the operating system installed right now, either, but that's alright. Editing the screenshot is probably illustrative enough. —msikma (user, talk) 13:25, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, for Image:IME demonstratie - Matsuo Bashou - Furu ikeya kawazu tobikomu mizuno oto.png I used a poem, but there other options too. Perhaps Japanese literature can be a source of inspiration, although I should note at this point that many modern texts can unfortunately not be used due to copyright considerations. Yeah, I know it's unfair, but there it is. Shinobu 05:57, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the image was deleted because there was a free equivalent available. I guess this means it doesn't matter anymore. :) —msikma (user, talk) 16:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Custom controls.png

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Image copyright problem with Image:User-Gerbrant-hidePane.js-demo.png

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About Peruvian dumplings...

I swear, I did not do this Cocaine edit, honestly. Please feel free to check it via user check, if you like. My internet-provider is arcor. --Fromgermany (talk) 20:09, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I was looking at this edit, I think. I've dug in the history of the article for a bit, and I found this, which an anon later fixed and then you appear to have accidentally undone the fix. Can happen to the best of us. If you are still convinced you didn't do it, not even by accident, just change your password - life goes on. P.S. User check requires a special privilege and we don't all have it, but I believe this happened by accident, so what's the worry? Just be more careful in the future, after all it isn't like I never mess up. We all do. Shinobu (talk) 18:58, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Rename "Norse dwarves" to "Dvergr"

Hi,

You renamed Jotun to Jötunn. Excellent.

Would you do the same for Norse dwarves to Dvergr?

Dvergr is already a redirect page, so Im not sure how to change Norse dwarves to it.

--Haldrik (talk) 19:24, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Are you sure it should be called Dvergr? As opposed to Dvergar (the plural), what seems to be what the article is currently using as bold-faced term in the lead? Shinobu (talk) 18:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

MoS

Whatever script you've been using recently to clean up articles to MoS guidelines is breaking {{convert}} templates and possibly others which require a hyphen to be used to denote a negative number for the software to process it. I don't know if this has affected any of your other contributions besides that to WWII. You ought to change or at least check the behaviour of the script though. Note that templates such as this still output MoS-compliant dashes such as the minus sign even though the input needs to be a hyphen. BigBlueFish (talk) 15:43, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, I totally overlooked that! (I assume you're talking about {{convert|600|mi|km|-2}}.) In principle all edits through that script must be overlooked by a carbon-based AI, but when there are lots of dashes it can happen that it misses something when the script doesn't handle something correctly. I think it's best to add the convert template to the list of exceptions, I'll get around to it immediately. Again, thanks for prodding me. Shinobu (talk) 18:09, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Old Norse Orthography

Hello, I noticed your comment asking whether ö was properly transcribed as ǫ or ø. From what we have been taught in my Old Norse class, and according to my written sources, it is ǫ. I will try to fix it wherever I encounter it. Best, VincentValentine29 (talk) 03:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC).

Okay, thanks. These kind of things can come up when dealing with multiple similar transcription schemes. I've run into similar things when I started getting interested in Japanese. Except that Japanese is still widely spoken and I have a modern Japanese dictionary. Shinobu (talk) 18:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Fooding

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Homeopathy

Just so you know. All the changes you made last night to this article are likely to be reverted. The article is under intense review and the normal way changes are made to it is not how you did it but through prolonged discussion FIRST to reach consensus BEFORE any changes are made. Peter morrell 05:53, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Mirabilis jalapa

I happened to reference this page [1] which was last edited by you and I would like to share two things. I have a feeling that the picture of the plant is upside-down from the angle of the flower and the leaves in the background. Secondly I would not like to tread in your garden in case I am wrong. Having said that I do not have the skill to change the picture anyway. Please excuse me if this is nothing to do with you. Richard Avery (talk) 17:59, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Shared source - Ms-RL

I've replied to your comment in Shared Source article. See it's talk page. Talk:Shared_source#Ms-RL_-_verification - Azrael Nightwalker (talk) 21:01, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Dude, your a prick, i fucking hate you, if i see u in the street im going to make you eat Poo. Fat greasy bastard. Your dad is a faat wanker, your mum is a fat bastard. (Arsenalboi17 (talk) 12:47, 2 July 2008 (UTC))