User talk:Haakon

my-boi

please reconsider your vote against my-boi i think it is very important since it made national attention in the media, read the article on james barnett the 18-yo who was expelled from his conservative high school for creating the website. the website will soon be joined with xy.com an even more noteworthy website with millions of registered users somthing that makes it very notable, i think this is premature. why did you vote for delete? Qrc2006 21:20, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

As I said on the AfD page, my reason is WP:BIO. I don't think an expulsion makes someone notable. Unfortunately, lots of gays still get expelled from various organisations for inane reasons. Haakon 10:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

of course an expulsion doesnt make someone notable but if its for biggoted reason such as homophobia and makes national headlines i think it does, just like a murder doesnt make somthing notable as hundreds of thousands of people are murdered a year, but say Mathew Shepard or Andy "Gwen" Araujo who were murdered for being gay/trans and it makes headlines that makes them notable. perhaps an article that compiles differant cases of students being expelled for being gay or one people expelled for being gay in the u.s. or somthing Qrc2006 23:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Please see the comments of others on the nomination page; I second them. Fragmenting the debate across user pages of those you disagree with is counterproductive and bad form, in my opinion. Haakon 17:19, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Grammatical changes!

Sorry about the grammatical changes script thing i made, i only have a basic knowledge of javascript and I think it showed. Nice to see you noticed my spelling contributions though! -- JiMoThY^TALK 17:29, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Stop removing my links!

Why do you remove my links from the obfuscation code? It's related to the article (my link points to the x86 assembler obfuscator), what's wrong with it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pelock (talk • contribs)

Please read WP:EL for the purpose of external links in Wikipedia. It is not a link directory like DMOZ. --Haakon 15:13, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

sha1 decoder

I added the link to sha1 decoder at the SHA-1 article yet again... Only this time I also took the time to populate the database and the tool now searches more than 1,500,000 distinct text-sha1 hash pairs, which I believe turns it into a quite useful tool...

Freenet controversy

Isn't it normal to inform in an encyclopaedia that freenet is more 'underground' and 'unrespectable' that it seems to be, unlike most p2p networks like ed2k and fastrack, and that it's a bit unfit to describe it as the third generation p2p networks?SamiKaero 11:05, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

RainbowCrack

Maybe one link (http://rainbowcrack.com) should be returned to the article about RainbowCrack program? It's the world biggest project using RainbowCrack software, and is the best demonstration of RainbowCrack potential. --Alexey Petrov 00:28, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, perhaps a link to rainbowcrack.com could be appropriate, if it really is a notable project in the field. We should be careful to avoid turning the section into a spamfest where spammers argue "site X is there, so I want my site Y there". --Haakon 18:19, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Why did you remove my comment regarding linux as kernel not operating system?

I added a comment to the discussion page of linux. you removed my comment without reason, why is this? the comment was titled Linux is a kernel not an operating system. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.147.132.80 (talk • contribs)

I did not remove it; I moved it to the bottom. It is customary on talk pages to add new comments to the bottom, not the top. The comment is still there. Similarly, I'm moving this comment to the bottom of this talk page :-) --Haakon 18:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Music licensing

Am curious about your remark regarding this article being "unencyclopedic." Since I started the article and wrote about 95% of what has remained there, I'm a little concerned; I really see nothing that would make it "more encyclopedic," and I notice that nobody has made any effort to make the article "more encyclopedic" in spite of these criticisms. Generally, criticism is most helpful when it is accompanied by suggestions for improvement.-- lowgenius -- My Talk Page 02:42, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for not explaining; I will in Talk:Music licensing. --Haakon 08:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

abilitynet

You keep removing the information that I paste up about ITCH and I can't understand why. This is a voluntary organisation which provides FREE computer help for disabled people in the UK. I am trying to help them to make more disabled people more aware of this free facility. I thought Wikipedia was a worldwide information source. I'm confused now as to what constitutes a valid entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abilitynet (talk • contribs)

I have explained in my edit summaries. I'm sure ITCH is a great initiative, but Wikipedia is not a place for promoting services. There are notability guidelines for inclusion, which should be followed even if your cause for promoting is noble. --Haakon 08:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply Haakon. I've checked the notibility guidelines but I'm still a bit confused. I've seen other organisations promoting their services, some of them commercial, so I'm at a loss to understand why ITCH can't. I'm new to wikipedia, so please treat me gently :¬) Abilitynet 09:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)