User talk:Edward Z. Yang
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VFD Reversion
Howdy. I'm glad you reverted that change on the main VFD page, but I think you blamed the wrong user for it. Compare 10qwerty's edit and Jesse's Girl's edit. Unless something goofy happened with the page history, you correctly reverted Jesse's Girl's edit, but 10qwerty is an innocent bystander. Just thought you'd like to know. Cheers, android↔talk 22:18, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
Spelling
See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English. Gdr 08:06, 2005 May 18 (UTC)
My proposal
Hi, first I want to thank you for your comments on my talk page. About deleting or moving the proposal — right now the proposal is formatted to appear at the Wikipedia think-tank. I think this is where it belongs. Some proposals there date to 2003, so there is no time limit. If you think there is a better way to publicise the announcement I have no objection. But I think the proposal and the accompanying discussions should still be together and linked to the Think Tank.
As to why I mentioned so many names. My main reason was that I wanted to make clear that I was not creating hypothetical straw-men arguments just to criticize them; that I was responding to real arguments actually made by Wikipedians.
As to the passage you call attention to — well, I was responding to real objections. You raise a different objection which I also address in another section (on popularity as an argument for NPOV). Of course, you may still disagree with my argument.
I understand why you think it might have been better to have mentioned no names. If the explanation I gave above (to show that my arguments against a position are against positions that people have actually taken) does not satisfy you, let me explain that when the topic first came up on the Talk: Jesus Page (I didn't start it; JimWay changed dates to BCE/CE, someone reverted, I reverted back to Jim's changes and gave an explanation; all this is now archived) it quickly turned into a very viturpritive argument. If you think that the acrimoneous arguments and personal attacks against me are a result of how I wrote the proposal, I assure you that you are wrong; the people who have written long and at times nasty comments are people who first expressed their hostility to the idea of BCE/CE and me personally on the Jesus talk page. I have no doubt that no matter how I wrote the proposal, they would have responded in exactly the same way.
I know you are making a second point, that perhaps how I wrote turned off otherwise neutral people. If that is so all I can do is regret it. I honestly think nothing I could do now would make a difference as some people have already decided I am a stupid troll.
However, if you pesonally believe this is a discussion we ought to be having, well, I urge you to come up with your own proposal, you own wording, and your own arguments. I think that if there is to be an honest discussion about NPOV and dating, someone else has to try at this point, and will hopefully be more effective. Slrubenstein | Talk 14:42, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
After I moved this page to De La Salle High School (Concord, California) I edited the new redirect page to make it a disambiguation page, but got an edit conflict notice. Since common sense would have led you to realize that's what I was going to do, would you please explain why you object to it? Michael Hardy 19:40, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Q Who?
Please read the naming convention for the Star Trek project: Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek. Cburnett 19:51, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
Googletest
Please stop adding google test templates to VFD entries. It strongly reduces legibility, and is often considered a form of vandalism to mess with VFD layout. Please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Policy consensus/Regarding tally boxes and Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Policy consensus/Deletion criterion boxes. Yours, Radiant_>|< 16:10, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
- No problem! Sorry if that earlier message was overly harsh, it's just that we've been through something similar a couple months before and I wanted to keep it from getting out of hand. Yours, Radiant_>|< 21:29, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
Integrated Letters Sketch on Wikisource
I've done vector versions, some interesting colour schemes, see what you think. [1] -- user:zanimum
Rollback and godmode-light
Hiya, Ambush Commander, I noticed you use the godmode-light script. As you use an emulation of the rollback feature I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on a proposal I have which would grant the rollback feature to those who request it, similar to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, except with a lower threshold. The proposal is at Wikipedia:Requests for rollback; your comments are welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Requests for rollback. Thanks! Talrias (t | e | c) 17:08, 20 July 2005 (UTC)