User talk:Ffirehorse

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1 Luis Echeverría Álvarez 2 San Francisco 3 One Day at a Time 4 danke 5 Jealous 6 Fay Wray 7 Rare Earth (Music group) 8 adminship 9 Adminship 10 The Jeffersons 11 Hi, Ffirehorse 12 Support 13 Adminship 14 Ago Gratias 15 Thanks! 16 URGENT: Opposition to "Sam Spade": See User:Spleeman/Sam Spade 17 RfA 18 My nomination for adminship 19 Admin nomination 20 RfA 21 You're an admin! 22 Adminship Election 23 RFC pages on VfD 24 Article Licensing 25 Maybe Katie 26 research

Luis Echeverría Álvarez

I notice that all diacriticals in this article have been switched from the "&;" form to direct characters. What I mean is, all instances of Echeverría are now written as Echeverría. (See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Luis_Echeverr%EDa_%C1lvarez&curid=341645&diff=0&oldid=0).) Was this intentional, or was this a byproduct of the browser you use? Just curious, Quadell (talk) 14:23, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

San Francisco

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. I reverted because the information of the two mayoral candidates both being left of center is much more important than their both being under 40. RickK`

One Day at a Time

Thanks so much for adding that plot section. I hadn't seen the show in ten years so I forgot much of the story. You can message me at my talk page anytime. Mike H 16:21, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

danke

much thanks for answering my question about election results. Thepedestrian 21:39, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)

Jealous

I've done some stuff on Jealous guy, but it's far from flawless. You coudn't tidy it up a bit for us could you? It'd keep them nerds off of our backs.--Crestville 23:43, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Fay Wray

Ffirehorse, are you sure Fay Wray has actually been give a star on Canada's Walk of Fame? I was deliberately non-committal in the article because:

• I couldn't find it when I went down there to look ( I live in downtown Toronto)
• She isn't mentioned on their website.

If you know something I don't, fair enough. Dhodges 05:07, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC) User talk:dhodges

Rare Earth (Music group)

Could you please save, other than on WP, your work-in-progress on this article. It should surely be saved here in due time, and the delay is in no sense your fault, but there is a complication that should be cleaned up with as little further change as possible, first. I'd be glad to provide details on request. TIA. --Jerzy(t) 08:12, 2004 Aug 23 (UTC)

The cost of your editing it immediately on WP would be a certain amt of confusion and otherwise unnecessary work later one, but nothing irreversible. If, on the other hand you finish and others pile on, meeting my original concern will become impractical. Unless your doctors have given you 24 hours to live [wink], my suggestion of coding off-line what you plan to put on WP in a day or two should work better for everyone including you, IMO. But no one (and least of all i) is going to block or ban you if you go ahead. [smile] --Jerzy(t) 00:36, 2004 Aug 24 (UTC)

I'm sorry to have interfered with your editing on Rare Earth (band), especially since the increased complication of the history after i noticed it pretty much rules out what i had in mind. If you're interested in what it was all about, a WP policy strongly recommends using the "move" link to change names of articles, rather than copy-and-paste as another editor did on this one.

How i saw, and how i now see, this partcular situation is in User talk:Ilyanep#Your Rare Earth cut-and-paste, but is probably more than you want to know.

Thanks again. --Jerzy(t) 23:14, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)

adminship

Hello, Ffirehorse,

Thank you for your vote at WP:RfA.
I'll treat the "key to the mop closet" well. :-)

-- PFHLai 07:05, 2004 Aug 29 (UTC)

Adminship

Thanks for supporting me at the requests for adminship page. To my dismay, I found that a mistake in the amount of contributions I have. Rather than 1,906, I actually have 1,492. If you want to adjust your vote, that's (of course) completely alright with me, and you have my appreciation either way! -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 23:14, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The Jeffersons

Hi Ffirehorse! Please see Talk:The Jeffersons Thanks! Quill 00:24, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I tossed this around myself. It seemed to me that without it, the implication was that all sitcoms were American. Then again, since it's a disambig page, it didn't sit all that well with me. I've asked for opinions; I may just go ahead and change it back. Don't worry about being picky, that's exactly the sort of thing I would fuss over too! Quill 01:25, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Ffirehorse

You've been a member for awhile now, and I'd like to know if you'd be willing to accept an adminship nomination. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 02:17, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

How about this: Keep making contributions to the Wiki like you've been doing, and in early or mid-October, I'll nominate you. Sound good? [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 03:50, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Excellent! :) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 03:52, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Support

Thank you very much for your support during my recent run for adminship. I appreciated it very much. If you would like to talk sometime, please drop me a note on my talk page or email me. Mike H 23:40, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

Thanks for your support of my adminship. –Andre (talk) 17:32, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ago Gratias

Thanks for your vote on my nomination for administrator. Since there is great opposition, I've asked for it to be withdrawn. I've posted an explanation of frequent edits on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 19:10, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!

Ffirehorse - many thanks for supporting my adminship! Ðåñηÿßôý | Talk 05:03, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

URGENT: Opposition to "Sam Spade": See User:Spleeman/Sam Spade

See a critic's tracking of SamSpade's activities on Wikipedia at User:Spleeman/Sam Spade Vote "NO", or reverse your vote, even at this late hour. This is criticle (and critical) information! IZAK 09:49, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

See: User:Spleeman/Sam Spade#Political bias:

• From Sam's own user page: User:Sam_Spade/Theoretical_Biases
• Removes references to groups such as the KKK as "right-wing" [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Christian_Identity&diff=4943422&oldid=4943399)
• Attempts to sugarcoat racist views [2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Racial_hygiene&diff=4096573&oldid=4096566)
• The claim the Geli Raubal was Hitler's mistress is just that, a claim [3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Adolf_Hitler&diff=4721347&oldid=4712484).
• Wants Hitler labeled as a socialist on the communism page (see Talk:Communism)
• Insists on including his personal theories regarding a relationship between nazism and Chinese communism in nazism article:
  • User_talk:Andries#Nazism.2FChina
  • Talk:Nazism#China
• From Talk:Socialism:
  • "I intend to do what I always have, which is insist that the Nazi's were socialist because... they were." (Sam Spade 00:32, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC))
• Called another editor a "fascist" (Talk:Socialism#protection). This is similar to his attempts to try to provoke me by implying that I was a nationalist, or not an anarchist:
  • "Enforcing american spelling is a sign of nationalism, and would therefore seem to suggest your not an anarchist? Or perhaps your a "anarcho-nationalist"? ;p" (Sam Spade 08:06, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC), User_talk:Spleeman#Nationalism)
  • "Censorship isn't very anarchist" (Sam Spade 23:25, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC), Talk:Anarchism/Archive10#deleting_links)
• More on belief in non-racial eugenics: Why Sam is Right Wing (a list by User:Stopthebus18)
  • Stopthebus18: "People (including our country) have done horrible things in the name of eugenics." (StoptheBus18 16:02, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC))
  • Sam Spade: "Seems to work in Singapore. Bad things have been done in the name of all sorts of medicine, but we don't stop going to the doctor, do we?" (Sam Spade 17:21, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC))
• Guess what everybody!!! "The attempt to paint them [the Nazis] as "reactionaries" is a propagandistic fraud." (Sam Spade 16:11, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC), Talk:Nazism) Wow! You learn something new everyday.... Not.
• Hmm. For some reason, Sam doesn't want anybody to know that white-supremacist Wolfgang Droege was involved in drug trafficking [4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wolfgang_Droege&diff=5379717&oldid=5379713).

RfA

Now I've got some homework to do. Thank you for your supportive RfA vote and consideration. Fire Star 13:53, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

My nomination for adminship

Thank you for supporting my nomination for adminship. I will do my best to serve Wikipedia. --Slowking Man 00:00, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

Admin nomination

Hey, thanks for the kind words and vote of support for Admin! I appreciate it :-) Ta bu shi da yu 06:34, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

RfA

Would you like me to nominate you now? We discussed this a month ago and you agreed to consider being nominated at this time. :) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 19:36, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)

You're an admin!

I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. Congratulations!. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 22:38, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Congratulation, Ffirehorse! Welcome to the top sekrit sysop kabal. 22:51, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)

You're welcome, and congratulations! Andre (talk) 23:39, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)

You're welcome, I'm sure you'll make a great admin. Jayjg 00:35, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• You're welcome from me, too. CONGRATS!! - Lucky 6.9 02:48, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Adminship Election

Salve, Ffirehorse! Back in September I was a candidate for adminship that I withdrew. Since then, I've been working away and have now decided to try again, nominating myself. Since you supported me then, I'd appreciate your vote on the new candidacy at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/PedanticallySpeaking2. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 18:56, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

• Salve, Ffirehorse!
  I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:27, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:38, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk)

Maybe Katie

Salve, Ffirehorse!
We haven't communicated in a while and I hope this message find you well. Lately I've not fared well with my FAC nominees, some failing to win even one support vote. I wonder if you would look at Katie Holmes and its nominationhere and offer your comments. PedanticallySpeaking 15:52, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

research

With regard to your research question on the mailing list, you should ask your supervisor at the School of Information whether what you intend qualifies as human research, and if so, whether you need to obtain Institutional Review Board clearance or waiver prior to conducting it. If you intend only on taking public data, IRB clearance will be no obstacle: if you intend interacting with human subjects, prior IRB clearance may be indispensible. (Your concern really should be with your institution and not with Wikipedia. FWIW, prior research has been done by IBM utilizing data only). Conducting research at an institution without obtaining prior IRB clearance can lead to some serious problems for that institution's funding. - Nunh-huh 04:55, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your note. To clarify, my project is not “research” in the sense of a publishable or intended-for-publishing paper or a project that is creating new knowledge in a field. What it essentially is amounts to a case study of an online community for a course on the design and social structures of online communities. The paper won't go outside the boundaries of the term or the seminar itself.

The University of Michigan’s IRB does not view such projects as falling within the scope of requiring human subject review. The seminar has spent a lot of time going over the requirements for IRB, and those in the course who are writing papers that may be turned into scholarly papers, theses, or dissertations will have to get IRB approval. Similarly, those who are intending to solicit or collect systematic data, conduct interviews or surveys, or perform other activities commonly linked with research that is intended to gather data for the purposes of increasing “generalizable knowledge,” will also need IRB approval.

I do not intend to (1) conduct interviews, (2) gather systematic or quantitative data, (3) ask questions of or observe individual editors, or (4) identify Wikipedia editors or users by username in my report. I do intend to write a report based on the material we’ve been learning in the seminar, on a literature review, and on my own observations about how Wikipedians interact as a community, how conflict is resolved, how norms are established, what social dynamics take place, and how a sense of communal identity is created, built, and sustained. One of the reasons I'm taking this course is that I am avidly interested in how and why Wikipedia works (because, in my view, it does "work"). I want to be able to explain (to myself, to the seminar) why that is so, in a rigorous manner.

The report will be 20-30 pages at the end, and I’ll be glad to share my conclusions. I’ll also be glad to answer any questions or address any concerns, either via e-mail or via posts here on my talkpage. ffirehorse 05:07, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad that UoM's IRB is so accommodating; not all institutions are (and I'm not sure why the venue of publication makes a difference to them, other than the likelihood of review by those who review IRB boards<g>). I just wanted to be sure you'd checked it out beforehand, as afterwards can ruin a career. - Nunh-huh 05:25, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)