User talk:Captain Ref Desk

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Contents 1 Curtis LeMay 2 Excellent 3 Subtle and very funny 4 Award 5 Hi! 6 Just an FYI 7 Traffic 8 Awards 9 Second Amendment

[edit] Curtis LeMay

Hello Captain:

As the General whose picture you have taken for your avatar is both well known and not long dead (well, not long in historical terms), I am wondering if this use is a BLP problem. It does seem that it could be so. Perhaps you would be better served with Captain James Cook where no such problem arises. ៛ Bielle (talk) 23:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I think it is pretty clear that I am not, in fact, the over-a-decade deceased General Curtis LeMay, and that I have not done anything with the silly picture on my user page that would warrant special consideration or legal distress. It's an obvious parody of a well-parodied figure and a well-known quote. I suggest there are more pressing issues to worry about, that we need not be alarmed at this unless some sort of explicit complaint is made. --Captain Ref Desk (talk) 15:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Excellent

I called by just to say what a cool idea you have on your page, as they say in the UK Parliament "the eyes have it" Richard Avery (talk) 11:17, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Subtle and very funny

Those shifty eyes! (especially the independent action). Cap'n my cap'n, (whistling you aboard type whistles) welcome to wikipedia, I hope you will be very happy here and stay a long time. I trust the captain has familiarised himself with the ropes, but just to give you something to delete if it's simply cluttering the bridge:

Here are a few good links:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! As you already sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); you automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask an admin on their talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. I will answer if I can but mostly I redirect people. : ) Julia Rossi (talk) 03:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Award

I award you a crappy ASCII asterisk for making me smile with this. *. Well done. --Dweller (talk) 17:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! --Captain Ref Desk (talk) 17:20, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi!

If you can - please answer my second question ( and maybe the first too! ) Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk#whose_rule_is_this.? Not vitally important...87.102.16.238 (talk) 17:38, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Just an FYI

In case it's helpful, my observation on "who's rule is it?"here[1] is:

"...the c-n mentioned above seems to be a website and that hacker (or persona) is all over the net as per google[14] so maybe (just maybe) the term wasn't an "ignorant" description but a category and a self-described title which 87.102 was using in good faith. Fwitw. Julia Rossi (talk) 01:49, 22 March 2008 (UTC)" Cheers

[edit] Traffic

Welcome aboard Captain. Seems you've generated a bit of traffic to your user page since you've come aboard and quite a user page it is! Your edit summaries however are a bit sparse ;-) --hydnjo talk 15:04, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Of course, how nitpicky of me. --hydnjo talk 18:44, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I wonder who you were back then. --hydnjo talk 00:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Haha -- yes, I'm a lot older as an account than I look (I started using the 'pedia quite time some ago now!). But there isn't any hanky panky going on; never been banned, never done nothing unaccountable, just like to be someone else every once in awhile. --Captain Ref Desk (talk) 14:24, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I never see you and K.M. editing at the same time!  ;-) --hydnjo talk 15:21, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Nope, that's not me, though! But I am in that posting, somewhere. --Captain Ref Desk (talk) 16:36, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Got it, thanks.  :-)) --hydnjo talk 22:09, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Awards

		The Reference Desk Barnstar
		And just for all that I award you a long-deserved star for your enlightening answers on history, science, and the history of science. 83.78.176.92 (talk) 15:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC) (User usually operating under a regular account name, but keeping things fresh and nameless for the occasion.

		The Invisible Barnstar
		OK fine, so you're invisible. hydnjo

Aw shucks, thanks y'all. --Captain Ref Desk (talk) 02:09, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

You have a good username. William Ortiz (talk) 21:38, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Second Amendment

Capt. Ref Desk,

Thanks for your thoughtful post on this. The Reference Desk has so many thoughtful and intelligent contributors. I support using it as a forum for considering important intellectual questions. I would have responded, but I have little to add to Clio's post (though I'm not sure I quite understand her cryptic last few lines).

Marco polo (talk) 00:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)