User talk:Vedek Dukat

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Contents 1 Memory Alpha 2 DS9 edits 3 Driving on the left or right 4 Toledo 5 Sir Dystic 6 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:STDS9 Explorers set.jpg

[edit] Memory Alpha

Actually, I would be interested in translating memory alpha into Spanish, most of the work I do in Spanish Wikipedia is translating to English and back so it wouldn't be anything new. I have actually been editing at MA since I found it back in April, but my IP address tends to change often... I don't even remember all of the IPs, but I've done close to 200 edits there, mostly to grammar and such. If you can get me more information, contact me here or over at MA. Thanks for the offer! -- PRueda29 ^Ptalk29 00:39, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Tampoco estoy muy seguro cuantos aficionados de Viaje a las Estrellas puedan haber en el mundo Castellano, pero creo que si contactamos a algunos de los usuarios en el Wikipedia Español, ellos nos podran ayudar a encontrar personas dedicadas al Wikipedia que les gustaria empezar un memory-alpha en su lenguage. Lo que podemos hacer por ahora, es buscar entre los historiales de todos los articulos de Wiki en Español que son de Viaje a las estrellas y preguntarles a cualquier usuario regular (que editan esos articulos mucho) a ver si ellos les gustaria ayudar a empezar este proyecto. Que piensas? -- PRueda29 ^Ptalk29 01:19, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

No to preocupes sobre tu Español o si usas Spanglish, yo creci en Miami donde como 65% de la gente habla Español y 90% hablan Ingles, asi que he tenido muchas conversaciones en Spanglish, y hasta de vez en cuando uso palabras en Ingles entre mi hablar Español y viceversa. Mi "Viaje" favorite es el de Voyager. Voyager comenzo casi un mes antes de que cumpli diez años (en 1995) y me vi casi todo el serie desde el comienzo, con pocas excepciones (como cuando no podia estar en casa los miercoles). Primero solo me veia Voyager, pero cuando ya estaba un poco mas interesado en la serie, empeze a ver DS9, y despues TNG, y finalmente el serie original. Me gustan todos, pero todavia prefiero a Voyager sobre todos (creo que es porque como me lo vi de principio a fin, es mas familiar para mi). Lo que estoy pensando, es empezar a traducir todos los articulos en memory-alpha al nuevo proyecto para no centrarse solamente en una serie. Empezamos con los mas importantes (sobre la serie, como paginas de los programas, actors, y personajes/razas principales) y despues cuando ya eso este listo, empezaremos a traducir los articulos sobre planetas, y razas secundaries, y todo lo del mundo de Star Trek. La unica cosa que necesitariamos seria las traduciones de los titulos de los programas (I doubt it's called Deep Space Nine in Spanish), planetas, y personajes, para que no tengamos un Spanglish Memory Alpha. LOL. -- PRueda29 ^Ptalk29 19:07, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] DS9 edits

Howdy! I'd like to discuss some recent blanking you've done to Star Trek: Deep Space 9. In edits like this, you say (the fact that trek later got much more explicit is worth mentioning here)... but you're not mentioning that. All you're doing is deleting text. I'm all for adding the mention you want, but just deleting the existing text is not doing it. Your thoughts? - CHAIRBOY (☎) 03:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I took out the part about the usage of Christ in addition to moving the footnote to the proper place and adding a space between paragraphs since one is about the profanity and the other homosexuality. That's the only reason it looks like "blanking" in the differences page - I didn't make any major changes. --Vedek Dukat ^Talk 03:22, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Gotcha. The confusion here was that your edit summaries didn't say that, they talked about something unrelated to the edits you made. Consider using accurate edit summaries in the future to avoid confusion. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 03:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, will do in the future. But in all fairness, you might use more discretion before reverting. ;) --Vedek Dukat ^Talk 20:41, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Driving on the left or right

Another editor has already given a cite, which looks kosher to me. Guinnog 23:07, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Toledo

Thank you for adhering to consensus.

Part of the problem is that you walked into one of WP's endemic silly problems: nationalist editors who want their nation or city to be praised in every way; be named according to their national spelling, rather than English; and (of course) be recognized as THE city of X. Unfortunately, you managed to sound rather like a Spanish nationalist; so users who have seen too many of these people, in various nationalities, reacted as if you were one. Septentrionalis 05:19, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I understand now, and thanks for taking the time to explain it. I'm somewhat familiar with wikipolitics that I figured - based on SwissCelt's vehemency and strong Ohio ties - this was the case. It's ironic though - my lengthy rationale statement was less because I cared than because I was trying to avoid getting into an argument, and sticking to my guns thereafter was more a reaction to his accusation than anything.

Of course, the fact that there's a lengthy blurb in Spanish on my talk page probably didn't help. :P Anyway, no worries. --Vedek Dukat ^Talk 07:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

He may be an Ohio nationalist, for all I know. We are none of us NPOV, after all. Septentrionalis 03:33, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sir Dystic

He's a notable guy in a notable group who's written notable software; that alone should warrant him a "full-fledged" article. It seems pretty obvious to me. Still, the article needs work, but that's no reason to turn it into a redirect. I'll look into beefing it up in the near future. --Myles Long 15:09, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

This is really a discussion that should be on the talk page for that article, as there are possible people who would be interested in it that aren't watching our talk pages. In fact, I'm going to move this discussion there, please reply there. Yes, there's more to his story than "he wrote some programs." Google his name, there are plenty of interviews and such with him that describe, among other things, the story behind how and why he developed them. I wonder at the motive of your singling out this article for notability, when there are many other articles on hackers, programmers, writers, musicians, etc. that are less notable than him (arguably) that have less information than presented here. --Myles Long 19:29, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:STDS9 Explorers set.jpg

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