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Etymology of Ælfwaru

Thank you for your input on Reference desk:Etymology of Ælfwaru. I note you mentioned the Germanic name article. Would it be appropriate to add Ælfwaru to that article? --Senra (talk) 21:28, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Sure, you could add it to the examples of Elf- (as the article has it) compounds. Deor (talk) 21:38, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Acknowledged. Thank you.  Done --Senra (talk) 13:59, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

RFC

I noticed that you participated in a previous RFC at Wikipedia talk:Notability (events). I was wondering if you might share your opinion here: RFC: Should Wikipedia:Notability (criminal acts) be merged with Wikipedia:Notability (events) and Wikipedia:Notability (people)? Thanks! Location (talk) 19:11, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Apollo

The text is translated from German and is not complete.In this occasion I should have used the sandbox.Usener(Gotternamen 1896,S304 ff.) noticed that the first syllable of the name is frequently long in the epic poems.He guessed the basic form Απ(π)έλλων and translated it απ(ό)-πελλος,averruncus.Although this etymology corresponds to a strong quality of Apollo,it was not generally accepted.The linguists noticed the Homeric word ολιγοπελής which means weak therefore the name could mean powerfull.Nilsson notices that this etymology is abstract. In my opinion some other etymologies in the article are also abstract.Some etymologies could be added,especially those having to do with the doric and the Macedonian dialects.The Macedonian word πέλλα means stone ,απέλλα means fence from stones .The doric word απέλλα originally meant fence for animals (Hesych.σηκοί βοών).Apollo could be the god of the stone-culture or the god of the fence.The holy stones play a great role in the cult of Apollo (ex.Omphalos in Delphi). Nilsson notices that all the different forms of the name cannot be explained ,propably because a foreign word was borrowed.Nilsson claims that Apollo was originally a Babylonian god whose culture was spread in Minor Asia and the Greeks named αγυιεύς( a God which kept away the evil) (Tb. 34-4:Column of Agieus.Coin from Ambrakia).Hrozny recognizes the symbol of Apulunas as a pointed cone. (Information from "Geschichte der Griechiscen Relegion"Ersten Band.Martin P.Nilsson.Verlag C.H.Beck 1955.p 555-564).Maybe his representation as the plague god is more accurate due to recent investigations.77.49.153.214 (talk) 18:36, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Dzban Pełen Słońca

I must tell you how close I came to not posting this query, thinking, Naaaah, too obscure. But just getting the translation (which I puzzled out from my source text's :pl>he: ) on the Language RD wouldn't have enriched my understanding, and the information our archives provides, anywhere near as much as your wonderful, greatly appreciated response. Expect many happy returns! -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 13:11, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Ezra Pound

Thank you for picking up my mess. I hope my editing style doesn't drive you crazy. I'm worried the article is getting too long, but once the details are in, it's hard to choose which to delete, so I have a tendency to tweak a lot. I need the Humphrey Carpenter book, so most likely will break for a time. Just wanted to drop by to thank you for the fixes. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:32, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Stub template positioning

Hi, re this edit - please note that per WP:FOOTERS, the stub template should be before the interlanguage links, not after. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:37, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Deor (talk) 14:39, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Removal of content by WikiCleaner

Thanks for that. What happened is that I always use Ctrl V to paste in the results. Well occasionally I accidentally hit the touchpad on my laptop at the same time. So it adds the text and erases text at the same time. Doesn't happen often...and usually I catch it before I hit send but I didn't this time. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 11:30, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Ezra

Hi Deor, I've agreed to help Truthkeeper take the page through the various review processes over the next few weeks. Given the subject, its likely to be a lenghty and involved ordeal; given your long engagement with the article and obvious knowledge, your help will very much be needed. No worries if you are preoccupied, but I really hope that will not be the case. Ceoil (talk) 22:52, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

It really needs a good copyedit, but I was waiting for Truthkeeper to finish his work before beginning that task instead of attempting to do it piecemeal in his wake (although, as you have no doubt noticed, I haven't been able to resist the occasional bit of cleanup). I'll try to give the article a careful scrutiny in the next few days to see what suggestions I might be able to offer. Deor (talk) 23:02, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
We might begin now the first c/e between us if thats ok. As its a lith article it will need to be just so, and I'll call in some heavyweights (I dont know you yet, so please dont be offended if you are a c/e heavyweight!) before we go further after that. Its a page that will need wide input from people with differnet skills, and will be- no doubt -tough and fustrating at times, but very much worth it. My level of knowledge is that I can deal with most general issues, can verify or expand on most bio details, but if we get hauled by an expert will be deferring to ye guys and whoever we gather along the way. Ceoil (talk) 00:12, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Butting in - I hadn't really expected to take this through review for some time - if at all. Also, I realize I barged into an article that others have tended for quite some time, and if necessary I'm happy to bow out. However, what I've added is in draft form only and I haven't gone through for a second or third or fourth pass, as is my custom. So far I've been working on adding sources and content. Haven't focused on the writing at all. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:46, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
No problem with that; I've just been trying to stay out of your way, since when a number of people try to work on an article at the same time, they can inadvertently interfere with one another. The article needed work, and your efforts are certainly welcome. I haven't been following your work in detail, but your regularization of the referencing style has been an especially useful contribution. No need to bow out. I just hope you don't mind what may sometimes appear to be my jumping to correct occasional typos and such. Deor (talk) 00:59, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
No, I've missed having you follow me lately. I'm having a bit of a vision problem at the moment, so unfortunately I'm making quite a few mistakes. Also, I'm running against a bit of a dead-line, with real-life becoming more busy soon, so I thought I'd keep going and worry about the clean-up later. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 01:09, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi Deor, I'm finished adding content to Ezra Pound - with the exception of running through again later to tweak a bit. I'd be more than pleased if you were to have a go at the copyediting. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:01, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

You've convinced me

You've convinced me, O ertwhile Heodeninga scop. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:33, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

I must admit, the psychology behind such goings on (like that behind copyvios) leaves me bemused. What's supposed to be the point? Wes þu hal! Deor (talk) 16:46, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Microformats

You recently !voted on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Microformats. This is a courtesy note to let you now that I have now posted, as promised, my view there, and to ask you revisit the debate. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:24, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Interim velim a sole mihi non obstes!

Feeling lonely? ☺ Uncle G (talk) 03:32, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

  • Not at all. That you chose, among other things, to ignore WP:GD ("Moving the article while it is being discussed can produce confusion. If you do this, please note it on the AfD page, preferably both at the top of the discussion [for new participants] and as a new comment at the bottom [for the benefit of the closing admin]") does not change my opinion that the original title, topic, and article were worthy of deletion. Your new article may be worthy of keeping, though I haven't yet expressed any view on the matter. Perhaps you are yourself confused by your retention of the AfD template in your article, mistaking my opinion for one on the new topic. Deor (talk) 03:59, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Forgive me for not seeing "I moved the article" anywhere in that comment of yours. ... On second thought, don't, since it isn't in fact there. And Aitias's article was on the topic of a Latin sentence, whereas yours is not—they're not the same article in my book. Deor (talk) 04:54, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Deletions

Hi Deor, your action led to the deletion of two reasonable articles and much hard won info there, I say thank you with the utmost sarcasm. Fair enough, but I believe the information is retrivable for use elsewhere in a happier non-Wiki world. Please could you direct me to it and I'd be grateful and then willing to re-believe that you are a gentle poet.Rodolph (talk) 15:07, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

I've responded on your talk page. Deor (talk) 15:55, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Fingask Follies and Fingask Castle Subscription Mural

I see you have already corresponded with Rodolph (talk · contribs) about these. He has requested undeletion at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored them, and now notify you in case you wish, as I gather you do, to nominate them at AfD. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:20, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

on adverbial

I like you to check this post and reply here or post it back if you do not mind. This is about the post ‘Could you please explain what is grammatically incorrect with this sentence?'

'There will be no presentation this evening unless the winners are in attendance’

For pedantry, I would say that the independent clause here is required an adverbial adjunct, which is ‘in this evening’ (‘this evening’ is not an adverbial). Correct?

Thanks. Mr.Bitpart (talk) 03:12, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Actually, "this evening" is the usual English adverbial expression of time in such situations (just as one says "I will meet with you next week", not "... in next week"). If a preposition were to be used in such an expression, on or during would be a more idiomatic choice than in, but a preposition is simply not used in most cases. See Table I, "Time expressions that do not require prepositions", on this page, for example, or the last paragraph on this page. Deor (talk) 12:47, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for this reply, which is useful to undertand some of thier complications. I thought that ‘evening’ would be a prototypical noun rather than a prototypical adverbial like ‘today’ or ‘tomorrow’ as in these examples--
There will be no presentation evening. (noun)
There will be no presentation today. (adverbial)
There will be no presentation on evenings. (adverbial) Mr.Bitpart (talk) 16:42, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Signature at AfD

It looks like you forgot to sign a comment, so I added your name to your comment at the AfD for Richard Wagner's first love. Hope you don't mind. If you prefer to have your own full signature, feel free to replace it. --Torchwood Who? (talk) 03:41, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes, very stupid of me. I've replaced it with an {{unsigned}} template to indicate the correct timestamp. Deor (talk) 03:50, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

inre Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Massacre at Ywahoo Falls

I found and added three two book sources to the article. I do think a name change to "alleged" would be sensible. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 20:17, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre

Hi Deor. I have noticed that you have corrected the grammar on the SHRC page. I have no objections to most of it except for some of your de-capitalisations. Proper nouns should be capitalised; such as the Diesel Shed in the article (this is the name of that building not a description). I am going to edit the artcle now to correct this situation. Please re-read the atricle and amend it if you want. I have left a topic on the discussion page where you can leave your comments re this. Mangoeater2 (talk) 09:17, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Joseph Stott and Son, and other Stotts.

I disagree with the reversion you made-as each of the Stott firms does need a separate article- distinct from those on the Stott families/family. I agree that more work is needed to remove duplication, but they are a tangled lot and have confused many of the writers of sources that are otherwise reliable. I am not touching this, probably to October but them I will probably boldly undo. That will give you a little time to read up on the matter: if it is a dog's breakfast- it was probably cooked on Stott of Oldham catering equipment!--ClemRutter (talk) 10:48, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

That may well be, but there's no reason for exactly the same content to appear in two articles. When you create a new article out of material in an existing article, you're supposed to replace the moved material with a summary or a link in the original article. Deor (talk) 19:39, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Moel y Gaer, Bodfari

The article Moel y Gaer, Bodfari has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article. WP:N

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Quable (talk) 21:03, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lysdexia

If you were curious, the IP from india was a proxy, so I blocked it. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 07:36, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Hellanicus

Looks like it was agreed to mention Hellanicus. We (or me) didn't invent the link between him and Plato's myth, ie. that it's an earlier use of 'Atlantis' that Plato probably knew. I've also been meaning to ask you what you think of these edits [1]. Self-published stuff, so I'm not sure if it should be here, and far too much in any case in my opinion. It's got a sentence in Atlantis also. Dougweller (talk) 05:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

You've already seen my comment about Hellanicus on the article's talk page. I don't really pay much attention to Location hypotheses of Atlantis, since they're basically all crackpot speculation. (One wonders whether there's any spot on the earth's surface that hasn't been proposed as the location of Atlantis. Oddly, people seem content to identify any sort of destructive event with "Atlantis" without feeling the need to establish any reasonable connection with Plato's account, which is the only context in which the name has any meaning.) You're probably correct that there's insufficient reliable sourcing regarding this one to justify the inclusion of that much content; I'm just happy if this sort of junk can be kept out of the main Atlantis article. Deor (talk) 23:15, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Fingask Castle (proprietors)

I see that you have previously merged the Fingask Follies and Fingask Subscription Mural into the Fingask Castle article. There is another linked article Fingask Castle (proprietors) - which unfortunately gives Fingask Castle two entrys in Category:Houses in Scotland and Category:Castles in Perth and Kinross. What do you think about merging the two articles? Cheers Memphisto (talk) 17:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea to me. Deor (talk) 18:05, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Barnstars

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Your Wikiholism is a boon to us all PanydThe muffin is not subtle 19:18, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Myles na gCopaleen

I added the lines to the Pound page. I surprised myself tbh, I'm Irish and never like him, too Dublin, he always seemed forced in comparison to the Flann O'Brien persona, but I laughed at this. Can you added a cite, pls. Ceoil (talk) 22:17, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Ref added. Feel free to reformat; I couldn't identify a standard format in the Pound article. I'm not much of a fan of such displayed quotations in articles, though. Deor (talk) 23:12, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I've removed all the quote boxes except this verse. Should that go as well? Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:50, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Whatever you think is best. The article may look odd with just the one quotation box. Deor (talk) 12:12, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I've removed it. I did like it though, and still have it on my user-page. So thanks for that. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 12:25, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Well, it was just a bit of amusement for your benefit. I never really intended for it to be put in the article, so all is well. Deor (talk) 12:28, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Unfortunately not all is well and I very much regret attempting to add sources after a great deal of the article was removed in May. I've learned a very hard and valuable lesson about Wikipedia and one which I wish I hadn't had to learn. I'm so sorry about the article, I can't even begin to tell you. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 19:06, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

School Project

Hi Deor. I've noticed you raised the issue of the school project on early medieval thinkers. I was hoping you could give me a hand in reaching out to the single contributors and the teacher so that we can in the end have better and not worse articles than before. Ciao, Aldux (talk) 00:48, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Let's allow the the student who created Philosopher William de Conches to get his/her grade or whatever the purpose of the project is. I'll leave a note on his/her talk page, suggesting that s/he contribute sourced content to William of Conches rather than creating a content fork at the new (and unacceptable) title, as well as a note at the teacher's talk page suggesting that he dissuade his students from creating such forks. After this project has died down, I'll request the deletion of the new article (as the title does not seem appropriate for a redirect). 01:14, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Was it only that one... The problem is touching many of the key authors of Late Antiquity, and also Eriugena for example was written in the wrong place (I wasn't very nice, I'm afraid: being made pretty much only on the archaic and partisan CE, I just restored the redirect). That said, some of the articles are not that hopelessly bad.Aldux (talk) 01:26, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, Bernard Silvestris and William of Conches are on my watchlist, but the Eriugena article isn't. Give me some time to investigate the matter further, and I'll try to help in dealing with it. Deor (talk) 01:31, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
I really don't have the time to thoroughly review the students' contributions to such articles as Richard of Saint Victor and Procopius, but I'm sure that WP editors who watch these articles will feel free to revert or emend the changes if necessary. I've left a note at the teacher's talk page, and I hope that we can therefore keep the damage to WP at a minimum. If further action is needed, I won't hesitate to raise the issue again at an appropriate forum. Deor (talk) 02:17, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

Thanks for adding the coordinates to the St Giles House, Wimborne St Giles article. I went ahead and reverted the deleted section on the house at the Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury article. As a "good article", I am planning to nominate the article for a "featured article" next. This requires comprehensive coverage. I went ahead and added a link to the St Giles House main article from that of the 10th Earl, which should suffice.

The house holds specific significance to the 10th Earl as the last peer to live in the house. After I wrote the article, another editor forked a couple of sections, lacking attribution, and created separate articles. This raised red flags, greatly diminishing the quality of the article. I brought forward the issue of the copy/paste violation and through compromise, acquiesced to separate articles with appropriate attribution and planned expansion. I am now in the process of expanding the St Giles House, Wimborne St Giles article and the Wimborne St Giles article, to include additional content and photos, with the eventual plan to take both to featured status. Please let me know if you have questions. Thanks, Cindamuse (talk) 17:06, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I see no reason, and no support in policy, for the existence of identical content in both places. WP:SUMMARY supports the inclusion of a brief summary at Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury#St Giles House; and if you want to write one, I wouldn't object. However, as matters stand (with identical content in the two articles and with the material in the 10th earl's article being arguably too extensive for a summary), the {{main}} template you've placed there seems sufficient for now. Deor (talk) 18:49, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Ghost Story Society

Please put this entry back into the past tense as per my edit. If you check the Ghost Story Society's own webpages (http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/GSSAHbackissues.htm) it has not issued a journal since 2007. No subscriptions have been sought since then. The subject has come up on a number of specialist internet forums and the organizers have no immediate plans to get the society going again, although they argue it is simply in abeyance. This subject is possibly contentious, but the original Wikipedia is misleading in suggesting that it is a current and active society. Trudytrudy (talk) 07:54, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm not seeing anything here to indicate that the society is defunct. As I said in my edit summary at the article, a reliable source stating that the society no longer exists needs to be cited if the fact of its demise is to be included in the article. Deor (talk) 15:33, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

With respect, the page you reference hasn't been updated since 2008. This page (http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/GSSAHabout.htm) lists the current issue as # 43, from summer 2007. There is no evidence that any further journals have ever been published. (I find reference to # 44 being in preparation in 2009 at http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/reply/117900/t/Ash-Tree-Press-has-been-kinda-quiet-no.html#reply-117900, which would have been two years late but, again, no evidence of publication.) Is there a Wikipedia protocol to give weight to an assertion based on a lack of evidence? Trudytrudy (talk) 19:40, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Fingask owners

did you delete the Fingask owners article that I lovingly created? I had no notification and hence chance to save the information that seems to have been bombed. Could you help me retreive the info for my records. Am in Italy where the keyboard is without the signature squiggle, you can write to my Wall. Rodolph, 13 November 2010.

If you're referring to Fingask Castle (proprietors), no one has deleted it (though it should probably be merged to the Fingask Castle article). As I am not an admin, I can't delete articles in any case. Deor (talk) 13:41, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Ah, I see that someone (not I) has redirected the article to Fingask Castle. If there's anything in the most recent version of the article's text that you think could be added to the castle's article without redundancy or irrelevance, the text can be found in the article's history, here. Deor (talk) 15:50, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thank you very much. I've been a little shirty recently as someone has been going out of their way to persecute my entries, which has for sure had their desired effect of minimising my involvement with Wikipedia. R.
PS. Incidently, I had thought that it was Wiki policy to subdivide articles to prevent them becoming too long. The treatment of Fingask suggests the opposite, that very long articles without off'shoots seems to be the preferred way, or was I wrong to start with? Rodolph (still no horizontal squiggles), 16 November 2010.
Well, the Fingask Castle article certainly isn't too long at the moment. Splitting out parts of an article usually occurs only after an article has become too long (see WP:SPLIT). Since the various owners of the place don't seem to be particularly notable apart from their connection to it, I think it makes sense to treat them in the castle's article. Deor (talk) 01:51, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
yes, but several useful images were orphaned by the person who conflated the article, and hence valuable visual information is lost forever, because I don't think anyone else will bother.Rodolph (talk) 13:23, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
Dear Deor, the Fingask article was long like the one I wrote which now has this notice: This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Please consider :::splitting content into sub-articles and using this article for a summary of the key points of the subject. (March 2010), what I can't cope with is the inconsistency. Either ::::articles are too long and need to be split up or not. I did what was Wiki policy for Fingask and half the information was then trashed, lost for my efforts. The Jellicoe article ::::used to be well illustrated. Now there are none. Is there a new Wiki policy to be a words only organ? (the photos were all legal and properly uploaded, etc, and useful, ::::relevant etc).Rodolph (talk) 19:07, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
I assume that you're referring to the article George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe. I personally don't think that either it or the Fingask Castle article is currently too long; but if you want to find out why the tag was added to it, you should ask User:Rms125a@hotmail.com, who added it, or else bring up any concerns you have about the article on the article's talk page. Most of the images seem to have been removed because the images themselves were deleted for lack of explicit permission information. Deor (talk) 01:29, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Deor, I posted a reply to your note on my page, but in case you missed it I've come here also! Thanks.  :-) Clio the Muse (talk) 01:41, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your help, but I still don't see that the name is showing up in the list ... when I click the GeoTemplate it maps all of the locations, but does not list the names ... any thoughts? --RichardMcCoy (talk) 03:01, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

It takes a while for Google Maps to update itself; but if you do what I did to all the coordinate templates, by the next day all the numbers should be replaced with the sculptures' names. (By the way, why is that one listed twice, in the "Brendonwood" table and the "Broad Ripple Village" table?) Deor (talk) 03:08, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Cool, they are visible now. Is there anyway to also change the color of pins on Google Maps (now I'm greedy). Many thanks,--RichardMcCoy (talk) 11:45, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
I don't think so, but you've passed beyond my meager computer-related knowledge with that question. You might have to ask Google. Deor (talk) 13:33, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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OK

I am sorry. I will not do so again. It was because i did not know. ---- p102 01:35, 24 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pratik102 (talk • contribs)

kp help again

You can help me with kim possible again at the entertainment ref desk. This time,I am looking for a description of voice effects, see the question on ref desk about voice effects. By the way, i never knew Eric was an androyd, because i never watched So The Drama until yesterday when youmentioned it, it is really good. Thanks. N.I.M. (talk) 11:33, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I don't know anything about how "robotic" voice effects are done in cartoons. My guess is that they run voice actors' speech through some sort of electronic device to distort it, but that's just a guess. In addition, it's been years since I've even seen a Kim Possible episode, so I'm just working on my faulty old memory in dealing with such questions. Deor (talk) 04:24, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Boy do i understand about that, the darn channels aren't showing kim possible here in canada, most of the good shows have been taken off the air. I just need a description of the synthesis used, not how it's done, just a description of what it sounds like, because when i hear their voices, it sounds cool, but when people ask me to describe it, it's hard to figure it out. I have a sich in time on dvd, and someone found Queen Bebe and Car Trouble on youtube. It's a shame that most channels in canada took off good shows, like Spy Academy, Kim Possible and What's with Andy. So it is understandableN.I.M. (talk) 09:07, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

C.S. Lewis Page

Perhaps some of the links that I added to C.S. Lewis’s page were unneccesary, but I hardly think that that justified wiping out all of my changes. For example, why shouldn’t Lewis’s friend and biographer’s name (George Sayer) be linked to his wiki page? He’s mentioned several times, but without a single link to his wiki page. Why should a city (Watford) be linked, but not the county that it’s found in (Hertfordshire)? And why should people read about what Lewis says about Natural Law, but not have a link to find out more about the subject in general? Also, I added the information that Joy Lewis was a former Communist. Why is this less important that noting that she was ethnically Jewish? I think a little extra information on his wife’s history is a good idea. Furthermore, the website link I added has a lot more helpful information in it than most of the links already on the Lewis’s page. Why is a link to a picture of a plaque more useful than a link to excerpts from Lewis’s books and to extensive bibliographies of works by and about Lewis, among several other things? And why is a link to a Brazilian site more important than to an English language website about Lewis? I think you took out some good edits, along with a couple that really may have been redundant. I am changing back the edits that I’ve mentioned in this talk note, while leaving alone ones that may actually be redundant. Before you change any of these again, please give me a justification of why each of the edits I’ve mentioned should not be allowed, or I’m going to change them back again to the (I think obviously more helpful) way that I dealt with these points.Rmm413 (talk) 22:58, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Colonel Warden RFC/U

FYI - A request for comments has been started on User:Colonel Warden. Since you participated in this ANI thread which preceded this RfC/U, you might be interested in participating. If so, please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Colonel Warden. Thanks. SnottyWong chatter 00:59, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

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