User talk:Lowellian/Archive 2000s

Ho Yinsen

Discussion moved to Talk:Ho Yinsen. —Lowellian

User:Shell Kinney

What happened in this edit [1] of yours? Your edit summary was "Reverted 1 edit by 203.177.92.101 identified as vandalism to last revision by Phatom87. (TW)", but you did not revert to the last revision by Phatom87 [2]; instead, you ended up deleting much of the page. I don't use Twinkle so I don't know if it's a problem with that software, but if it's a problem with Twinkle, you should report the bug to the tool coder. If it's not a problem with Twinkle, try to be more careful (no big deal, though, everybody makes mistakes once in a while when editing quickly). —Lowellian (reply) 05:49, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Holy cow, that's definitely a Twinkle issue - I must have missed it because I had the ip page pop up for a warning. Thanks for catching that and letting me know! Shell ^babelfish 05:53, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Seven Seas 2 (Eight Seas?)

Note today's update to Talk:Seven_Seas#True_Seven_Seas. - Shaheenjim (talk) 04:16, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Alcohol-and-cigarette-based human combustion

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 25#Alcohol-and-cigarette-based human combustion. —Lowellian

Maglev

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 26#Maglev. —Lowellian

Shock

Hi there,

I have some reservations about your recent edits to Shock related articles. From a medical standpoint (certainly in my experience), the acute stress reaction, which you've now renamed 'Shock (psychological)' isn't shock, and a lot of people spend a lot of time trying to get this across. Whilst I appreciate your argument about common names, that doesn't apply when a term isn't accurate or when professional opinion is against it. Do you have any references (as per WP:CITE and WP:V) to support this move? If not, I think we'll have to move it back, although I have no problem in strengthening the explanation of the link at the top of the page.

Regards, OwainDavies ^(about)_(talk) edited at 18:09, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Okay. I don't object to leave shock (psychological) at acute stress reaction. —Lowellian (reply) 21:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I was trying to follow the chain of moves in the Shock articles. I think you moved shock (medical) to shock (physiological) and then on to Shock (circulatory); I think shock (medical) was then changed to point to shock, which is a dab page. WP:DPL tries to minimise the links to dab pages by relinking to the desired destination; would it be appropriate, broadly at least, to take the old links into shock (medical) and revise them to shock (circulatory)? Regards, --AndrewHowse (talk) 00:27, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Longwave

Please see my reply to your comments at Talk:Longwave#Longwave_or_long_wave (and reply there, so other page editors can see it). TIA. --Harumphy (talk) 13:43, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Needleguns

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 11#Disadvantages of needleguns. —Lowellian

Proposed deletion of Infinity Gems

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Infinity Gems, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. --EEMIV (talk) 16:24, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Japanese honorific -kakka

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 21#Japanese honorific -kakka. —Lowellian

D&D articles for Wikipedia 0.7

Hi there!  :)

As someone who's worked on D&D and/or RPG articles before, I'm inviting you to participate in our goal to both improve articles that have been selected to be placed in the next Wikipedia DVD release, as well as nominate more to be selected for this project. Please see the WikiProject D&D talk page for more details. :) BOZ (talk) 19:39, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Flatbed scanners

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 29#Flatbed scanner covers. —Lowellian

Electrical power consumption

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 30#Power consumption vs. hour of day. —Lowellian

Media mail

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 October 7#Media mail. —Lowellian

RfD nomination of Wikimoney

I have nominated Wikimoney (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. MBisanz ^talk 01:08, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Nine Seas

The article on Seven Seas used to say that they included the Arabian Sea, but not the Indian Ocean. Then you added the Indian Ocean to the list. Then I edited it to clarify that it includes the Indian Ocean OR the Arabian Sea (which is part of the Indian Ocean), but not both. Recently someone edited it again to say that it always includes the Arabian Sea (which is part of the Indian Ocean), but not all of the Indian Ocean. Are you ok with that? - Shaheenjim (talk) 02:56, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Heating

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 29#Cost of an additional degree of heating. —Lowellian

Third derivative

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 30#Third derivative. —Lowellian

SKYROOF redir

It appears you posted a permanent redirect from SKYROOF to SUNROOF on 7/4/08. Such a redirect promulgates TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT by individuals who will be led to believe that the term SKYROOF and SUNROOF are interchangable. I sent you a PRIVATE EMAIL email with additional details to review and discuss. Thank You. —SunroofGuy —Preceding undated comment was added at 15:49, 4 December 2008 (UTC).

Hi Lowellian! I've also been sent a similar message (I assume), and as I'm online now I'll get back to the user about this, and explain what has happened and why. :-) Regards Stwalkerster [ talk ] 16:41, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Skyroof

I have nominated Skyroof (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 18:42, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Skyroof Re-deletion

I've gone ahead and re-deleted the skyroof redirect as a courtesy deletion. Based upon discussions with SunroofGuy, I believe this is the best solution. As the term is non-notable, this doesn't seem to be worth arguing about and there is some basis behind his complaint. I left the page fully protected against recreation. Since your main concern appeared to be the recreation, this seemed an adequate compromise. Let me know if you have any concerns. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 02:58, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Greek harvest

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 19#Greek harvest. —Lowellian

Drizzt Do'Urden

Hello. :) Since you have been involved in editing the article Drizzt Do'Urden, I wanted to let you know that we have nominated the article for "Good Article" status. You can view the review page, and if there is anything you can do to make the article better, please do so. :) BOZ (talk) 20:13, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Award from: Article Rescue Squadron's Hall of Fame

Congratulations, you have been inducted into the Article Rescue Squadron's Hall of Fame

See the new little Life Preserver at the top of your page?

Coding:

Feel free to add more articles saved awards to your page, and to award other people this award too, for saving articles from deletion on Wikipedia. Ikip (talk) 16:16, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Leave a message

your talk page is rather long, may I suggest the following at the top of both your talk and userpage?:

or:

Click here to leave me a message

Best wishes. Ikip (talk) 16:18, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Artificial nails

I didn't redirect to Manicure. I redirected to the section of the Manicure page which discusses artificial nails. What a concept. AnyPerson (talk) 05:58, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

The article is, however, utterly unsourced. AnyPerson (talk) 21:17, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Spider-Man

Hello. :) Since you have been involved in editing the article Spider-Man, I wanted to let you know that we have nominated the article for "Good Article" status. You can view the review page, and if there is anything you can do to make the article better, please do so. :) There are a number of concerns to be addressed and some work to be done, so pitch in if you are able, make any suggestions that you think might be helpful, or at least just be there for moral support. :) BOZ (talk) 00:45, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Template Undated

Hi Lowellian, I believe you're the creator of this template. Can the template show different outputs depending on whether it is a date or a time? You can answer on Template talk:Undated#Incorrect grammar. Jay (talk) 04:40, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

File:MagicCardsForDemonstratingExpansionSymbol.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:MagicCardsForDemonstratingExpansionSymbol.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Jay32183 (talk) 16:41, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia Account Deletion

Hi, I would like to know how to go about deleting my account. I will no longer be participating in this site and wish to have all info associated with my Username deleted. I have done some searching but cannot seem to find any info on how to deleted a Wikipedia account?! Thanks. HeMan5 (talk) 18:23, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi, According to Wiki policy, my Talk page can be deleted, so how do I go about getting it deleted?! I have had enough of this stupid site and no longer wish to participate. I want my talk page deleted and account closed to ensure that no one else can login under my username. HeMan5 (talk) 02:24, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Lowellian, you may want to know about Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:HeMan5 on an extreme WP:POINT vandalism spree before answering. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 02:36, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Drow

Hey there. :) In my quest to get more Wikipedia articles up to "Good Article" status, I've gotten ambitious and decided to take on the Drow article. Yeah, call me crazy, but I'm going to do it. :) I've put a bunch of work into the AD&D 1st edition section, using the sources I had on hand (don't have Q1 so did what I could), though I probably went overboard and will need to trim back a bit. I'm going to start on the 2nd edition section soon, but I would appreciate any help you or anyone you know can give towards building up the publication history properly, finding sources, checking for inaccuracies and completeness, etc. I'd especially need help in bulking up the novels section, as I don't have any of these. Any help you can give, even as a cheering section, would be appreciated. :)

We can get this done... if you haven't seen what we've done already, previous successes include Dragonlance, Drizzt Do'Urden, Dwellers of the Forbidden City, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, Forgotten Realms, Gary Gygax, Planescape: Torment, The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, Tomb of Horrors, White Plume Mountain, and Wizards of the Coast. :) BOZ (talk) 03:24, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Larry Scott (sports administrator)

On April 9, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Larry Scott (sports administrator), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Dravecky (talk) 10:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

See T:DYK diff. —Lowellian

Ticket to Ride

Discussion moved to Talk:Ticket to Ride/Talk:Ticket to Ride (disambiguation). —Lowellian

Please stop. If you continue to create malicious redirects, you will be blocked from editing. No I don't think this warning is too severe. Bearing in mind that TWO editors have already complained I think it would have been preferable to at least get a concensus before reverting. --Richhoncho (talk) 22:00, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Please assume good faith. An accusation of malicious intent and a threat of blocking is way over the line for a single revert. Moreover, I explained my actions and started a discussion on Talk:Ticket to Ride/Talk:Ticket to Ride (disambiguation) before I made the revert. —Lowellian (reply) 22:03, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

... but you did the revert over the known objections of two editors and with no comments from other editors, no attempt to seek consensus. You acted hastily. I've asked for an administrator to undo what you have done. I hope you will participate in a discussion about this before you revert it again. — John Cardinal (talk) 23:56, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

I reverted once because you reverted me without giving any evidence of the Beatles song being the primary topic, whereas I did have evidence that it was not. 2-to-1 is far too small a sample size for you to claim any sort of consensus. I am not going to move again without more discussion. And again, threatening blocking for a single revert was way excessive and not supported by Wikipedia policy. —Lowellian (reply) 04:07, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

I didn't threaten anything. I asked you politely to seek consensus, and you ignored it. — John Cardinal (talk) 12:23, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

I never said you (User:John Cardinal) threatened anything. However, look above: another user, User:Richhoncho, threatened to block me. —Lowellian (reply) 15:15, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

I threatened. I admit it. I was mightly p*ssed off with your "I am right, you are wrong" attitude. Your ignoring, not mine, not John Cardinal's edits, but another admin who obviously concurred with the two of us. WP is supposed to be built on concensus, editors working together etc etc etc. Obviously not in the case with anonymous users and User:Lowellian. As an admin you should be ashamed of yourself. End of story. --Richhoncho (talk) 16:49, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

I have nothing to be ashamed about. I made a single revert that I accompanied with an explanation on the article talk page. A single revert with an explanation that presents new evidence is a natural and accepted part of Wikipedia editing in general. Among Wikipedia's core principles is, if an editor sees something that the editor thinks should be fixed, the editor should make the change, and explain the change if other users might object. You could have just made a counterargument on the article's discussion page and then reverted the change without coming to my user talk page to threaten to block me. The other admin did not comment on the matter and was just responding to a request from you. Blocking is for cases of edit warring or repeated reversion (see WP:3RR). A single revert, with an explanation that presents new evidence, does not an edit war make. The accusation of maliciousness and the threat to block me was premature and uncivil and assumed bad faith. —Lowellian (reply) 17:01, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Hollywood marriage

I have nominated Hollywood marriage, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hollywood marriage. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Martin451 (talk) 22:22, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Fungi-related food questions

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 4#Fungi-related food questions. —Lowellian

ProsperAr - Check article

Dear Mr Lowellian Please check your wikipedia e-mail account regarding Mrs. María Beatriz Nofal´s article. Best Regards, —Preceding unsigned comment added by ProsperAr (talk • contribs) 15:20, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Orange Bowl

You forgot to move a bunch of the talk pages when you moved Orange Bowl to Orange Bowl (disambiguation) and then moved Orange Bowl (game) to Orange Bowl, leaving Talk:Orange Bowl (game). For whatever reason Talk:Orange Bowl is a redirect to Talk:Orange Bowl (disambiguation).—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 18:13, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

It's all been fixed now.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 23:38, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your recent changes!

Thanks for your recent edits!! - You helped the world today in some way... maybe a little bit, but wrong is doing nothing at all. 189.217.171.135 (talk) 01:52, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Magibon

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Magibon. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magibon (4th nomination). Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

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Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:31, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

I've re-nominated her for deletion. :Pisomojado (talk) 07:06, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Football

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2009 December 6#New York and college football and WT:CFB#New York and college football. —Lowellian

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 6#Why aren't rugby players overwhelmed with injuries?. —Lowellian

Burns and clothing

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 6#Burns and clothing vs. bare skin. —Lowellian

Electrical sockets and knives

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 6#Knives and electrical sockets. —Lowellian

Immunity

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 24#Returning isolated human and immunity. —Lowellian

Marine life and decompression sickness

See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 25#Marine life and decompression sickness. —Lowellian