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Hi Jim I'm listening to Fruupp at this very second- I managed to download Prince of Heavens eyes earlier which is an album I remember from my very long ago youth- I used to own this album in 1976, and probably havn't heard it since then... nostalgia corner! BTW I've got Carcass' first album as well (but havn't hear Heartwork), I wonder if I'm the only person in the world to have both??? quercus robur 21:14, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- On that note, I wonder if I'm the only person to have Show No Mercy, Tea for the Tillerman, Psychic Hearts and The Prodigy Experience? -- Jim Regan 21:49, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Just checking that lynx works. Never mind 159.134.165.46 22:21, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Will do. I've been watching this user for a while and their determination to remove the word terrorist while using six counties pretty much makes clear their POV agenda. Good work catching them. I'll keep my open and maybe call on Mav or 172 when I retire. Slán. FearÉIREANN 00:03, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Hi Jim, if you get a chance could you take a look at Roman Catholic sex abuse allegations. I took a look at it tonight and almost threw up! As Carlsberg would say, 'probably the worst article in the world'. I started doing a rewrite and in the end could find about three lines in the whole diatribe worth salvaging. So I re-wrote the whole thing in one 7 hour stretch!!! 31 friggin' K! I'm interested to hear your opinion on it now. lol FearÉIREANN 02:12, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Whoah. Good thing we have section editing :) I caught a spelling, and put in links for sacraments, but I can't fault the content -- Jim Regan 03:13, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment. After 7 hours I was bloody exhausted writing the damn thing. Eloquence still seems to want to POV the thing. We had an edit war tonight over his attempt to add in stuff. Now he has called a vote on a proposed POV naming he wants (that's after I kept reverting his attempts to unilaterally name it (shades of his unilateral date changing all over again. *sigh*). So please feel free to cast your vote. (God I am soooo fed up fighting NPOV battles lately on wiki. Some people seem to see wiki as their own private soap box to push POVs, pace the Sinn Féin nut earlier in the week.) lol FearÉIREANN 02:24, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I'm having difficulty comparing versions at the moment... There we have it - as of last edit, so far as I can see, he's removing the footnote about ages of consent, and adding that the scandals lead to a crisis of faith in followers? In the former case, I'd leave your footnote - the age of consent is mentioned; but there is an article about the different ages of consent around the world (I remember editing it) - maybe link to it, and trim the footnote accordingly? Did you know that lesbians are favoured wrt the age of consent in Ireland, btw? It scares me that there's so much confusion about the age of consent here; two departments of the government were at each other's throats last year or the year before because of a pamphlet which perpetuated the myth that the age of consent (for heterosexuals) is 16 here. As to the former, I think that's a fair addition; it was one of the things which lead to my crisis of faith at least (mainly though, it was that most of the church's dogma is at odds with most of what Christ actually said - read the Bible at an early enough age, and haven't been classifiable religiously since :) -- Jim Regan 03:17, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
IBIZA!!! bastard!!! :-) It'll probably be colder there than Ireland though, hee hee. I'm afraid I too am rusty as hell when in comes to the mother tongue. I last learnt Irish for my Leaving Cert in 1984!!! And even then I was crap. I wonder would Conradh na Gaeilge be interested in getting people involved? We'll have to find someone. The irony is that since coming onto wiki I've used more Irish than I did in the previously nearly two decades. I actually began to say Slan leat etc. I'm working on a newspaper article on wiki. I've offered the idea to the Irish Independent and am waiting to hear a yes or no. How long will you be gone for, Ibizasing? I was going to interview you as one of the Irish 'specimans' for the article, and see can I get Mav, Erik, Jimbo, 172 and a few others to talk about the 'wiki experience'. But Peter Carvosso, whom I offered the article to is away on his hols too until mid next week, while I am starting a new job on Monday, (or 'starting a new job Monday', in American english!) Anyway, enjoy Ibiza. Don't drink too much! :-) And remember while there to keep going to an internet cafe to get your daily 'wiki-fix'. lol FearÉIREANN 01:37, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Well, I was pretty good at Irish - I won a scholarship for the Gaeltacht. Every time I think about it, I feel a small pang of regret, as I honestly intended to write to people there, but alas, writing letters was outside the scope of my abilities then :(
I think Conradh na Gaeilge would be interested; I had been thinking of using my sister's Irish teacher (my former Irish teacher) as a go-between with Tiobraid Árann ag Labhairt, but most people need something to start from, and that just isn't provided. I'll give it a shot when I get back though.
I'll be in Ibiza for two weeks, but I don't know about the wiki fix; I offered to start a guitar textbook on Wikibooks, but I've been stuck for a way to describe these things without using the first person - I haven't ever seen guitar written about in that fashion, as most articles are written as a description of a particular person's approach. Plus, I'd be working backwards; most of the stuff I do is thrash or death metal, which need a high degree of ability, and I'm trying to learn music theory and have been finding that the "complicated" topics, like using harmonic minor scales etc are the the things that I knew "intuitively" from my taste in music, while the simpler things, such as understanding basic time signatures, have caused me most hassle :) (It occurs now that those words may have meant absolutely nothing to you, but I may as well type this instead of hitting backspace!). Basically, I have feck all organisational skills - I didn't apply for a passport till Monday!
As for drinking "too" much; I don't think I will - I've been pretty calm since my first year of college, when a friend threatened to send me to AA. (He was exaggerating, but the point was well made).
Interview, eh? You'll have to talk to my manager. (Most of my friends are in bands... running joke with us). I suppose the obvious first question is either going to be how I found wikipedia, and/or what prompted me to start editing; the answer is, I saw it on Slashdot, but didn't really take part, as I'd developed a dislike for previous wikis I'd seen. Then it came up a few times on the Linux Gazette's Answer Gang list, and I had a look, and found the answers to a few of the music theory questions that had been bugging me. I didn't bother editing though, till I stumbled on something about Irish dioces, and created an account, and changed "Cashel" to "Cashel and Emly", and from there... the same old story I guess.
Oh, and 10 day forecast for Ibiza (http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/local/SPXX0044) and Thurles (http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/local/EIXX0079) - 'nuff said!
-- Jim Regan 02:11, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Gah! It's 3:20 am! I have so much to do tomorrow! Yet another example of my disorganisation. I have to get (at the latest) the 9:57 to Cork, collect my passport, buy shorts & a camera (anything in Ibiza that Wikipedia needs a photo of?), get the 14:25 back to Thurles, go to the bank to pay my maintenance, pack stuff acquired in Cork, get the 18:48 to Dublin. -- Jim Regan 02:26, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)
If you can afford to, I'd strongly recommend a digital camera. I got one in April and wow!!! (I was able to take 250 photos of my sister's wedding!) My one was about 350 euro and has 3.2 million pixels. You might get one a lot cheaper in the airport, but if you can afford one, get it. You'll wonder how you possibly lived without one. I can plug mine into my eMac keyboard and in about 10 seconds have all the pictures downloaded onto the screen. (I took one picture of the Kings Inns - which is across the road from where I live - at 7.01 a couple of months ago. I was back in my apartment at 7.08. My computer on by 7.09. The picture on the screen at 7.10, cropped and improved by 7.13, and placed on a wiki page at 7.14!!! I kept a note of the times as a joke. I also had an accident some weeks ago, I fell and badly injured my ankle thanks to a bit of incompetent Dublin Corpo repairs. I had my camera with me, as it happens. While still on the ground I took the camera out and photographed the hole, then kept a daily record of my ankle, as it swelt to twice the size, turned purple, cream and as the swelling changed in size. The pictures are now with my solicitor. I ended up apparently with torn ligaments, though now my physio thinks my ankle may actually be broken - the swelling may have kept the bones together so meant an initial break wasn't caught in the x-ray. So tomorrow (yikes today) I have to get another x-ray. And just to cheer me up even more, I've only just remembered I am supposed to write an article for one of the Sunday papers tonight. F@*@!!! I'd better get writing. lol and enjoy Ibiza. FearÉIREANN 03:14, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I was hoping to borrow one, but... I'd rather keep the difference in prices for beer! Something similar happened to my sister - she was walking around on a broken shin for months before they spotted it in an x-ray. Anyways, gotta get a few (3!) hours sleep. Take care. -- Jim Regan 03:50, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)
But can you still smoke in pubs there? :-) FearÉIREANN 18:22, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Yep, and they're half the price of back home. Drink is dirt cheap the further out from San Antonio you go, but the prices are generally cheaper everywhere. Can´t get used to the Spanish keyboards though, can´t find the damned tildes.
If it makes you feel better, btw, it rained all last night and most of today, and we had the most spectacular thunder and lightning I've ever seen. (The curse of the keyboards returned to make me revert this page, btw)
It rained!!! Hee hee hee. Reminds me of a massive sheet lightning storm in Ireland about two decades ago. Ireland was shocked and the entire country was kept awake. But two visiting American cousins slept through it and never noticed it, saying that it was "just your average American storm. Nothing to write home about!!!" FearÉIREANN 19:51, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Well, the weather's still better than the Irish average. Just as well, yesterday morning I was woken by a police officer, who told me I "couldn´t sleep there" - I can't remember the preceding hours, but I know I was on a mad one.... so I went on the dry last night Don't ever do this!! - San An is the land of the drunk, and it doesn't serve the sober!!! -- Jim Regan 16:20, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC) (pasting from tilde!!)
- I well and truly made up for it yesterday (and it rained again - full on storm!) Jim Regan 17:43, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Took the liberty of starting User talk:Jimregan/Mark. --Jerzy 01:54, 2003 Nov 21 (UTC)
- That was the right battery, thanks. -- Jim Regan 04:36, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Hi Jim,
I'd love it if you could give some info as to how you discover chart positions of certain albums and singles. There's a lot of bands out there who have Wiki pages and it would be really helpful to have that information. Neilinoz 10:20, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
There is a new notice board set up for Irish Wikipedians at User:Ludraman/Irish Wikipedians notice board. Ludraman | Talk 08:56, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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welcome back
welcome back. Kingturtle 05:42, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Do you know what has become of FearÉIREANN ? Tiles 07:12, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks. It would be good if you could. His sudden departure is strange given the amount of effort he has put into the wikipedia. Tiles 00:44, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
- Not really; he, like many Wikipedians, was intensely passionate about his work and this lead to several arguments. Perhaps the stress of this outweighed the benefits? Maybe it's my imagination, maybe it's unrelated, but in addition, I haven't seen too many familiar names around since I came back. -- Jim Regan 06:34, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
French text
Thanks for your transfert of Guy André (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Andr%C3%A9), we'll chek if it's ok (copyright ?) and we'll wikifie(?) it. CU next time on fr:WP ;o) --Pontauxchat (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Utilisateur:Pontauxchats)s 08:21, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
Violation of GFDL
Removing my contribution is a dangerous move, Jim. You are inviting further perfectly legal harassment from me. What if I start continuously modifying this entry so that you have to keep an endless history with my changes? You could disable my account but then you would be abridging freedom of expression in the interest of enforcing a bad license. This is precisely what Free Software should *not* be doing. This isn't about using Wikipedia as a soapbox. This is about Wikipedia selecting a bad license and a concerned citizen demonstrating weaknesses in it. Ean Schuessler
The Beatles categories
Would you mind explaining at a relevant page such as Talk:The Beatles why you've been adding these categories at the top of Beatles-related articles recently? Thanks. :-) Johnleemk 03:45, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for explaining on my talk page. IMO, it would've been more appropriate at the article's talk page or the category's talk page, but it's not that important. Thanks again. Johnleemk 04:39, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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Hey, I glad to see that your willing to work with me. I'm willing wait a month or even a month and half before I could be nominated again. Thanks for your support. Comarade Nick @)--^---
Good job on copyvios
I see you're cleaning up some of the old copyvios. That's great. Just wanted to point out that someone sees and appreciates the good work you do. moink 02:19, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Greek art
What has just happened at this article? Adam 04:52, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Melbourne International Comedy Festival (& Greek Art?)
Hi there, you appear to have deleted and recreated the article for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Why was this done, particularly without prior notification? In the past I have been instructed by another admin that this will only be done in very extreme situations because it destroys the history, severing the link between authors and their changes, violating the GFDL. Zuytdorp Survivor 06:59, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Pages with copyvios in their history are a problem which I was trying to decrease. I posted the page history prior to deletion on the relevant talk page - not a great solution, but the only one available, and better, IMO, than leaving copyright violations in Wikipedia. It would be great if there was a way of deleting individual edits, but there isn't; it'd be better still if people would read and follow the instructions in the copyvio notice, and edit a temp page as instructed. -- Jim Regan 00:41, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Let's keep this discussion on one page. Makes it easier to follow :)
- In the past I have followed the procedure you have mentionned regarding temp pages, and have been admonished by one of your fellow admin users as apparently it is not always appropriate. From then until your changes I thought I understood the process.
- I was instructed that page deletion was only to occur when there was no redeemable (non-copyvio) material. In the case of the MICF there had been many page rewrites since the alleged copyvio. Furthermore, I was informed that copyvios in a page history should be ignored unless a complaint has been made by the copyright holder, in which case a developer can remove the specific revision. No such complaint had been made on the MICF article, indeed the allegation of copyvio was rejected by the author and not subsequently upheld by the person making the claim. Zuytdorp Survivor 00:51, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I give up. Don't get me wrong here - your arguments convinced me. Accordingly, I went to restore the edits I deleted, with every intention of restoring each and every page I deleted, and staying the hell away from Wikipedia:Copyright_problems, but despite the restore saying it was successful, and the log matching:
22:36, 5 Jul 2004 Jimregan restored "Melbourne_International_Comedy_Festival"
- the page history has none of these edits, and now the edit log is empty.
- It really would have been nice if the "Possible copyright violation in Page History" section of Copyright problems had some sort of notice, saying "this is just FYI, we have no intention of doing anything about this", or, even better, moved to a separate page.
- So now I have this fuck up, and no way of fixing it. Great. What makes it worse is that now that I've done it, I remember that I've done this before.
- Oh. turns it just takes a really long time for the restore to happen. OK, consider the edits restored. Right, I'm off to restore the rest, once I'm absolutely sure it worked on Melbourne International Comedy Festival -- Jim Regan 23:06, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Hey Jim, don't stress too much. It's only Wikipedia. I'm sure everyone knows that you're just trying to help and, like all of us, are trying to negotiate the poorly documented policies of Wikipedia. I'm sure I know less about them than you, but that was why I got confused when one admin (User:Angela) followed one policy and you followed another. Thanks for clearing things up! Zuytdorp Survivor 23:28, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Heh. Poorly documented, and in some cases, conflicting (and I'm not referring to this, which is just my mistake). Nah, I'm not stressed, but hitting restore, and then seeing nothing appear for ~10 minutes was a headbutt the desk moment. Anyways, I have a mantra, taught to me by the great guru Paddy Cullen: Fuh Khem...
- Honestly, it seems like there are as many policies as people around here sometimes, and that some people have multiple policies depending on the time of day :) I would have deleted Melbourne... from the list of restored pages on ..Copyright problems, but I think I'll consider that page 'append only' from now on. Anyway, Melbourne... is fully restored. Take care. -- Jim Regan 23:42, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Hi Jim. I'm sorry if it was my previous comments that caused this confusion and that there seem to be conflicting policies on this. I've made some official changes to Wikipedia:Page history on behalf of the Foundation, and it now reads "...Wikipedia does not have a general policy of always deleting all copyright problems from the history, particularly if the edit is made to an existing article rather than a new one, although such material will be removed from the current version of a page" which hopefully clarifies things. I've also moved the "Possible copyright violation in Page History" section from Wikipedia:Copyright problems to Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages. Angela. 06:17, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Re:
Thanks for remembering! Lets wait another 2 weeks, because i've been quite busy in june and i have not had much time to edit. Also happy birthday to your son :) Comrade Nick @)---^--
Thanks
It's been too damn long since I've logged in here.
A belated "habby birfday" to your son as well. :) Phil Bordelon
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 03:50, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
GreenDay - Kerplunk
Hi, I noticed Green Day's Kerplunk was on your list of albums in progress. As noted on the talk page, the article Kerplunk was requested to be split. I made it into a disambiguation page (at the original page - Kerplunk), with a link to the album at Kerplunk (album). I've tried to find all relevant links to the original page and changed them. Just thought I'd let you know. AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 04:13, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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Bring facts, Jim.