User talk:Belovedfreak/Archive 4

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Don't Revert My Changes on My Talk Page

Thanks. Bsharvy 23:22, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Adminship?

You have been here long enough, and you are a good user. I would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Would you accept or not? NHRHS2010 ^Talk 02:57, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

I'm sorry about the Pregnancy Fetishism thing. I should have assumed good faith, sorry.

--RucasHost 19:40, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Refs?

After the LGBT debate, I couldn't help but look at your userpage and see a citation (ref) userbox. It so happens that I have no idea what I'm doing when I try to use citations, and I wonder if you know where there's a good reference page or tutorial? I tried to kludge it together on Brian D. Weiss earlier today (to save the page from deletion), and I had to plagiarize a bunch of the stuff from Dar Williams, and it was not nearly so elegant as I would like to be. Can you help? Thanks (and thanks for all the great back and forth in that AfD; I had fun)!! Deltopia 21:11, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

You rock out loud. Thanks so much! (You would think one would be bright enough to look for a "WP:CITE" when looking for citation guidance, but I did a lot of translation today, and my brain is still a smoldering mess.) That was exactly what I was looking for :) Deltopia 21:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Counter-vandalism award

You get this award for all your hard work on reverting vandalism. This award was made for people who are good at vandalism fighting, and you are one of them. have a fun day! 1() 18:03, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Unjustified Attack on my Edits

My comments on Meghan were entirely correct and supported by the Washington Post. Did you even READ the Post article? She was in fact called the 7,000 mile long screwdriver. And the info I posted was entirely accurate. Now what kind of political agenda do you have that considers that reporting this info is vandalism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.83.221.95 (talk • contribs) 19:44, 7 October 2007

Think about what you are doing. Removing pertinent info is NOT "editing"

You seem to get a lot of kudos for "vandal fighting". Maybe you should stop and think who and what you are fighting for.

Are you fighting to keep nice clean whitewashed portraits of Bush lapdogs in your Wikipedia? Free of any and all niggling pertinent FACTS?

I've read a lot of Wiki articles that do NOT have any sources on them, and they are NOT deleted ASAP.

So you deleted mine b/c your uninformed POV is better than my informed POV in your opinion.

Which strikes me as knee-jerk political censorship rather than actual editing.

At least try to THINK about what you are doing, Belovedfreak — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.83.221.95 (talk) 19:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok, will do. Thanks for the advice. --Beloved Freak 20:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi, actually in regards to your revert on Traditional Chinese Medicine I reverted vandalism. Someone added "Fuck in the ass" to the definition! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.56.51.215 (talk) 23:45, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Replied on your talkpage. --Beloved Freak 18:08, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

But I'm a Cheerleader

Yeah, I was just about to revert my own change; the infobox doesn't seem to support Canadian ratings, so I guess there's no harm in the minor duplication. Best regards, Liquidfinale ^{(Ţ) (Ç) (Ŵ)} 20:59, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Well done!

Hear ye, hear ye. This user is now a fully-qualified vandal fighter and has received this Thumbs Up from Auroranorth. Have you checked out Twinkle yet? Auroranorth 11:47, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: Well done!

Re: User talk:Black Falcon#Well done!

Thanks! I'm thinking of doing something similar with a portal for an African country, but I want to focus on writing and improving articles for the time being. By the way, I like the idea of a project-specific barnstar for WikiProject Africa. Cheers, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 00:31, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Definitely, and the gold colouring of Africa completements the 'featured' theme, although that may have been unintentional. ;) Black Falcon ^(Talk) 21:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue X - October 1, 2007 The LGBT studies project has been rather quiet of late. Though we've added over 180 new members in the last year, only a small percentage are active participants. If you haven't visited our project or talk page in a while, please stop by for a look. Also, if you happen to bump into another editor who you feel might enjoy working with us, please extend an invitation. There's lot's do do, and the active members would sincerely appreciate some help. Welcome to the 11 new members that joined us in September: Bu852, JuniorMuruin, Laualoha, JereKrischel, Dybryd, Sexperts, Ctjf83, Allstarecho, Johnandbob, Carlossuarez46, and Carterdriggs! LGBT Project Peer review Our Peer review project is struggling at the present, with only a few people reviewing the articles. While it is certainly possible to submit articles for a general peer review, a review by members of the LGBT community can be of additional value for LGBT specific writing. There are several articles currently up for review on a wide range of topics. At the very least, reading the articles will undoubtedly broaden your intellectual horizons :-) Deletion discussions At the moment, David Le Brocq, Malmö Devilants and Trajectory Hermeneutics are up for deletion review. Please take a look at them and make your voice heard at the deletion review. Articles nominated for deletion also present a challenge for improvement. See what you can do, and watchlist our deletion review page. FA & GA article news Since our last newsletter, Fun Home and GayFest have been promoted to Good Article status. Congratulations to all editors who have worked so hard to improve them! While the T-Z list was promoted to Featured list on September 26, 2007, we have had no articles reach Featured Article status since Homer's Phobia was promoted last March. In fact, one article of our Project was delisted: Andrew Van De Kamp. Please take a look at out listed articles and see if you'd like to try to take one to Featured status (there are almost 8,000 to choose from). Additionally, Conversion therapy has been nominated for Featured status. Please read the article and give feedback at the Feartured Article Candidates page. (See also our FA-class list.) Pederasty article controversy The Pederasty articles continue to be a point of controversy both within and outside of our community. Various editors have suggested that to include them as LGBT Project related somehow taints the project and brings Wikipedia into disrepute. Other editors have stated that the articles, and especially the Pederasty article, are part of the core of LGBT studies. Well meaning editors continue to remove our tags from the articles themselves as well as the talk pages. If you have time, please read the articles and watchlist them to protect them from vandalism and well meaning but counterproductive edits. List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people The list of LGBT people has survived its 4th nomination for deletion. Please watchlist this list to protect it from vandalism and unsourced additions. There are many in Wikipedia who would like to see this Featured status list removed from the project. It is up to us to keep it to such a high caliber that it never is removed. David Shankbone Our project member David Shankbone is now working as a journalist for Wikinews, as well as continuing to improve our project and Wikipedia as a whole with his photographs. A sincere thank you goes out to him for all of his hard work. Wikipedia would not shine nearly as brightly without your contributions, David. Barbara Gittings Happy Halloween, everybody! Be happy and celebrate! The surviving life partner of prominent LGBT rights activist Barbara Gittings recently called one of our editors and, among other things, complimented us on what a great job our project is doing on Wikipedia. Thanks to everyone who contributes to this project, either through their article edits or support for other project members. We really are making an difference here! Member assistance Some of our project members have been having difficulties related to editing on the encyclopedia. If you are feeling frustrated or distressed by your editing experience, please don't keep it to yourself. Wikipedia is a collaborative effort, and we are all here to help one another. Drop a line on our talkpage or on another editor's page, and other members of the LGBT project will happily give you the support you want and need. Lastly, Halloween is just around the corner. More than most holidays, Halloween is a holiday embraced by and tailor made to our community (though God only knows why we are invisible in the Halloween article here. Perhaps somebody would like to rectify that editing oversight). Have fun, everybody, and remember to both trick and treat! To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Dev920 know.

Delivered on 17:31, 11 October 2007 (UTC).

List of LGBT characters in modern written fiction

Great quote you added to the article! --Beloved Freak 19:34, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm using that article to source some of the characters, and obviously it just popped out at me! — TAnthony^Talk 15:58, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

thanks for the tip

Thanks for the tips about adding vandalism warnings... and, I didn't even realize I could edit a user page that wasn't my own! (I simply clicked the wrong link.) FWIW, I had known about the vandalism tags but haven't figured out the variable substitution yet. It's a little annoying that the wp:warn page doesn't make it more obvious where to find this info. Cheers. Noah 18:23, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

SatyrBot / LGBT "full list"

Hi, Hon! The bot *used* to update that nightly. I'm in the middle of a major re-write of the bot's functions, so it hasn't been done in the past couple weeks. Until the bot gets going again, feel free to update at will! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 04:11, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Phantom Crystal

I created a page called Phantom crystal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_crystal Would you mind editing it? Thank you! Neptunekh 03:17, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry re: Rubyfruit Jungle

I apologize for the careless edit - thanks for catching it. Llajwa 12:43, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for fixing that, I don't know why I missed the good version in the history. Regards, Mercury 18:27, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Perfect timing

Just as I was hitting "save page" to do the same thing.....lol..[1]. Dreadstar † 18:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Films October 2007 Newsletter

The October 2007 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot 20:59, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Preity Zinta FA

Hi there. The Preity Zinta article has recently achieved A-class status. Due to the wealth of support I have decided to now nominate for an FA class article which I believe and judging by the comments of others is pretty much up to. In my view it is better than some existing FA actor articles. I would therefore be very grateful if you could give it a final review in your own time and leave your comments and views at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Preity Zinta. Thankyou, your comments are always valuable. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 10:57, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

My edits are not vandalism

Please refrain from reverting my edits to Kenny Logan, they are not vandalism. Many Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.39.220 (talk) 18:17, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Your edits from this and other ip addresses (79.72.124.27, 79.72.113.26) do indeed constitute vandalism. --Beloved Freak 18:25, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

(Although I will admit that your most recent edits may have been in good faith and have retracted the most recent vandalism warning.)--Beloved Freak 18:35, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry but i dont know anything about edits made by the other IP's you mention. Nothing to do with me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.39.220 (talk) 19:49, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

If that's the case, you must have a miraculous psychic connection to some other people out there as you are making the same edits to the same page.--Beloved Freak 20:26, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

no actually i am watching the Kenny Logan article amongst others, and felt that the statement about his resemblence to Desperate Dan was valid and should have stayed in. Regards, --79.72.39.220 20:33, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

LOTD proposal

You either voted on the original list of the day proposal or the revised version. A more modest experimental proposal is now at issue at WP:LOTDP. Feel free to voice your opinion.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 17:26, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue XI - November 1, 2007 Hey, Peeps, it's that time of the month again (no not that time — get your mind out of the gutter): time for another monthly edition of the LGBT Project's Love Boat newsletter from your cruise director Miss Julie. So much has been happening this month and I just can't wait to tell you all about it!!! Alice and her harasser Let's start with some good news: Alice and the project lost the bothersome sock puppet who had been disrupting many articles we monitor, and now most of us can edit in relative peace. Congratulations, Alice, for being able to come out of semi-retirement. Benjiboi, on the other hand, has gained an anonymous IP stalker who seems to be more Catholic than the Pope and who has a hard-on for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. We seem to have a sort of Yin and Yang thing going on here, which helps both to keep us in balance and on our toes <bright smiles all around>. Harry Potter and his homosexual teacher Albus Dumbledore got outed this month, and was immediately adopted by our project. The international brouhaha surrounding this disclosure reached all the way to Wikiland, and his article was briefly locked due to homophobic vandalism (as well as well meaning editors who just couldn't believe that that nice man could possibly be gay). This is a wonderful article to add to your watchlist, and will surely give you hours of reverting fun on cold winter days. "My Fellow Americans" On a more serious note, Fireplace has suggested a new article series about LGBT rights in the United States, state by state. This ambitious topic will surely require many editors and a lot of research, but has the potential to add further prestige to our already prestigious project. Same name, same sexuality: a riddle for the ages Francis Bacon (not the new gay one, but the old gay one ... though they're actually both dead, now that I think about it) has also aroused passions here on Wikipedia, with editors opposing his sexuality being disclosed in his biography. The always helpful Haiduc has thoughtfully provided any number of sources, but it is slow going getting his point across. Anyone want to lend a hand? Beat writer arouses Irish guy And speaking of passions, Jack Kerouac has inflamed the senses once again with editors, including administrator Irishguy, mounting a spirited defense to keep him as heterosexual as possible for Wikipedia purposes. Why? I don't know. Perhaps some of you can drop by the talk page and ask your questions there. I feel certain a stimulating debate will ensue that will be enjoyed by all. Love those Texas Longhorns Did you know that one of our Featured articles, Lawrence v. Texas, lost its shiny gold star? That was a shocker. It has been suggested that we turn our attention to it in an effort to restore it to its former glory. I took a peek, and it does need our help badly. For our American editors, it would seem almost a civic duty to edit it (not that I'm hinting....). Point and Counterpoint Though it was far too intellectual a debate for a mere cruise director like myself to take part in, Intersexuality was certainly a hot topic a week or two ago. The thrust of the debate was over inclusion in our project. Lots of good editors had lots of good opinions. For those too lazy to check out the discussion, we decided to leave it out for now. Drudgery on offer Peer review is, as always, short staffed and seemingly unloved. Wouldn't you feel better about yourself and the world in general if you took a few minutes to read one of the listed articles and offer some helpful advice? I know I'd feel better if you did. "My Fellow Americans" redux The article LGBT movements in the United States certainly raised eyebrows last week, especially when it was discovered that copyrighted content had been added to our article. Tragedy was averted at the last minute, though, when the original hosts of the article where the material had been pilfered agreed to make it free to everyone. Our thanks to them, whoever they are. Busy Bee that I am, I haven't had time to read it, but I'm sure it's sensational. This month's Wiki stars Lesbian pulp fiction (a genre close to my heart, I must confess) writer Ann Bannon has decided to spice up the featured articles candidates list this month. Why not drop by and make your opinion heard? Joining her in this lofty aspiration are the articles But I'm a Cheerleader and Conversion therapy. I'm sure their main editors would welcome any comments (well, helpful ones, anyway) on the talk pages or the FAC discussions. And lest we forget, the List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: Sd-Si became a Featured list!! Rah rah, siskumbah! Go, team, GO!!!! And the Oscar goes to... Not content to run for Best Actress, plucky Bannon won a Best supporting actress Oscar... whoops, I meant to say Ann is also getting more than her share of womanly attention on the Good Article list. Joining her on this exalted plane are Freddy Mercury, Waylon Smithers and Lance Bass. Good articles indeed, and the last one mentioned just goes to show that one needn't admire the subject of an article to appreciate the effort put into making him worthwhile reading. What on earth Britney ever saw in him I'll never know. Truly a riddle cloaked in an enigma and wrapped around a puzzle. Fresh faces to brighten our pages Though I may not be the first, let me extend a warm, LGBT Love Boat welcome to the 12 new members who joined us in October: Jliberty, JockCub360, ChristopherEdwards, Desiderius82, Zlrussell, Kelsied, BeardedWoof, Mujerado, Tyrfing, Fabgurrl, Redl@nds597198, and decafdyke! Whatever you choose to do here, I feel sure that your contributions will enhance our project to no end. And if they don't...well, let's just say that I'm not shy. Leather and lace On a personal note, your already overworked cruise director is being cyberly whipped almost daily by Nemissimo, who desperately wants to get the German BDSM translation copy edited and used as a replacement for the current one. It's such a ... err, stimulating topic that I am sure many of you will want to join the copy editing fun. Jump right in, folks! It's so lonely copy editing it all by my lonesome! Late breaking news A little birdie just whispered in my ear that our noble collaboration project was delisted from the Community Portal due to inactivity. When asked how this scandalous turn of events could have occurred, the answer I received was "we suck at stuff like that". Well. In the first place, I disagree that sucking should be considered a negative, but to each his or her own. In the second place, I have full confidence that we can and will collaborate with other projects in the future. So let's not view this as a setback (even though it is), but rather a challenge to improve (and good Lord, I sound almost Wikipedian!). Champagne dreams and caviar kisses Lastly, the holidays are rapidly approaching. Our American cousins are currently getting ready to slaughter masses of poultry in an effort to show their gratitude and generally peaceful demeanor, and those of the Canadian persuasion, trendsetters that they are, celebrated a bit early this year. I'm sure all us foreigners will join together in wishing them all a very happy Thanksgiving on their respective holidays, both already celebrated and forthcoming... though I would hope somebody would enlighten me as to why they don't celebrate it on the same day. I was awake all last night trying to figure that one out. In the spirit of this peculiarly North American holiday, let me take a moment to thank all of our editors for their contributions to this project. It's people like you who make people like me...well, a "people person"! May all your Wiki days be bright, and may your Love Boat never turn into a Poseidon. Kisses, Miss Julie To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Dev920 know.

Delivered on 12:00, 1 November 2007 (UTC).