1. Please be civil and respect that this ismytalk page. That means avoiding excessive images (barnstars and smileys are fine, within reason), not treating my talk page as your personal chat room, and not altering your comments after the fact.
2. Please sign your messages by typing ~~~~ or by using the edit toolbar. The automated signature button is the one to the right of the crossed out "W".
Please understand if I do not respond immediately. Also please be understanding if I do not answer your message in the order that it was received, or if I do not answer your message at all. I just don't have the time or energy to respond to everyone, so please accept my apologies if your message goes unanswered.
I will ordinarily answer on your talk page, unless requested to do otherwise. Thank you!
And just to freak you out, I'll add a bunch of smileys! (I know how you love them!) (Just kidding, is one tiny one okay? hee hee.) Ariel♥Gold 18:27, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Here's some more -->:-):-) <-- {{hugs}} ya - Alison❤ 18:48, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
I hope all is well, dear Kyoko! I do hope to see you around! ~*hugs*~! Love, Neranei(talk) 23:46, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
That is an awesome template! <3 Thank you dear! Love, Neranei(talk) 23:51, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Have some ice cream, Kyoko, I've sure you've deserved it for a while.:) Hey, for that matter I should give you two, but I couldn't find another good image. Just enjoy this heaping one though, and have fun editing.:) —$PЯINGεrαgђ 03:37, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Aw, you're welcome!:) And thank you, for that unexpected pleasant surprise! —$PЯINGεrαgђ 22:10, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
The Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week has been changed to Collaboration of the Month, based on current participation levels. It is also more likely that articles collaborated on for one month are more likely to achieve featured quality than articles worked on for only a week or two.
Hello, thanks for fixing my edit to Alison's talk page. --Kyoko 04:07, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
No problem:) Gscshoyru 04:08, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello Kyoko
It's been awhile since we last talked, how are doing? Bunny-chan
(formerly under In response) I'm doing good, but a bit sick at the moment. I call it psuedo nausea cause nothing will come out, but I'll feel like throwing up, and I've been shaky lately. Bunny
(formerly under Well) I've been like this for a few years now, but we havn't found a good doctor yet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bunny-chan (talk • contribs) 21:06, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
(formerly under Consultants) Well, no, they rejected me off the plan because they deemed my school uneligible for me to be able to stay on the plan. And it was a really unneeded problem that happened. My family's trying to find a doctor that will actually do his/her job right. My old one was...ugh... THE worst doctor I had. But here's my email if you should wonder what it is. (removed to foil spambots) Bunny
(formerly under Well) Thank you, Kyoko. I'll be up til 10 to 11 this evening. And sorry about that, didn't realize that Spambots would try to get my address. But yeah, drop me a email. And I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Bunny —Preceding comment was added at 01:58, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Whoops
Sorry about that, I thought that a new header would be most appropitate, guess was wrong, so how are you today, Kyoko?
I'm good, I got sick only half the day yesterday, but it was better than most days. But I got used to the time change. 20:38, 4 November 2007 (UTC)Bunny
Veropedia
Thanks for the thought on Veropedia! Honestly though I feel like i've got so many things I've yet to do on wikipedia before I could even think about entering another project.. So for now I think I'll decline but maybe sometime in the future when I'm not so busy I can take you up on the offer? --ImmortalGoddezz 22:22, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
hi.
I know you have found me editing one page and edit it back. but how? aren't there like millions of changes out there? how can you keep track of small edits like these?
btw is this the place to post notes to you?
Mgccl 22:42, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XVIII - November 2007
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Music treatment
Good catch on pulmonary embolism. That was some unpatrolled vandalism from 30 October that I didn't spot! While we're at it, would ultrasound at the eigenfrequency of a thrombus cause thrombotrypsy? Just a thought... JFW|T@lk 20:09, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
I was indeed joking. I was wondering what kind of music would disperse blood clots. Metallica, would be my guess.
I think the PE page doesn't quite cover the fact that about 5% of all PEs progress to CTEPH. Perhaps we should look for a suitable reference. JFW|T@lk 22:21, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
aw:)
Thanks for the birthday mille feuille, by the time I'm through the day I'll be bloated from all these desserts! :D Nice to see you again; hope everything is going well with you, dear. -- Editor at Large • talk 20:28, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Two answers
There's not much point in creatng a redirect to my talk page, as in a couple of weeks that will cease to exist as well. I'm just tying up some loose ends right now before I retire, again!
My username is a song, but not that one. It's this song, a seminal London acid techno tune made with the help of the wonderful Roland TB-303 (hence the sig).
WikiProject Poetry is having a revival and we are trying to determine who is still active in the project. If you are, please answer this roll call by placing an *asterisk* next to your name on the list of participants here. Thanks, Wrad 01:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Don't worry, be happy
Hope you're feeling better, and as for the email, don't worry about it while you're sick. Just rest, it's the best thing right now for you, Kyoko. Bunny
WikiProject Newsletter n°1
Bonjour and welcome to the first WikiProject France newsletter!! It should become a monthly special of our project, but until the next issue, here are some points to consider for the month:
In an effort to determine the active members from the inactive, all members are asked to simply sign on my special userpage.
I have slightly rearranged and updated the Project page, putting all the featured lists in collapsible tables. This unclutteres the page and you only have to see them if you want to. Give your feelings at the talk page.
What about starting a monthly drive? We currently have no Featured Portals (except for the Basque Portal which really isn't French any way), so how about improving Portal:France??? I don't know what's exactly wrong but the criteria can be seen at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria.
It doesn't seem like a lot, so I hope we will still have enough problems for nexts months issue. Salut till the next issue, ChrisDHDR (17:17, 10 November 2007 (UTC)).
RE: WP France question
You wrote:
Hello Chris, thank you for sending me the France WikiProject newsletter. I'm not certain if I should sign your list, because I am currently only sporadically active with France-related articles. Do you think I should sign your list, or not? Thank you. --Kyoko 23:43, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
I'll just put your name with a special note;-) ChrisDHDR 10:05, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
...thank you for your participation. I withdrew with 83 supports, 42 opposes, and 8 neutrals. Your kind words and constructive criticism are very much appreciated. I look forward to using the knowledge I have accrued through the process to better the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers and Wikidudeman for their co-nominations.
...on Phaeds talk page... maybe you can guide me? xerocs 01:18, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Thankspam
Thank you...
...for your participation, criticism, and support in my recent RfA, which succeeded with a final count of 90/1/1. I appreciate all of your kind words, criticism, and suggestions. I extend a special thanks to Acalamari for his nomination, and Dihydrogen Monoxide and Husond for their coaching and nominations. If you need help in any administrative matters, please contact me.
Thank you again and, best regards, Neranei
This RfA thanks inspired by VanTucky's which was in turn inspired by LaraLove's which was inspired by The Random Editor's, which was inspired by Phaedriel's original thanks.
Epoprostenol
Hey Kyoko. I'm doing great—will have a look at them as soon as possible. It's always nice to see your work:) Fvasconcellos(t·c) 17:19, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome! I didn't even get to say atrial septostomy is looking great; I'm reading Poliomyelitis right now—it's at FAC, and I'd like to add my support soon. Fvasconcellos(t·c) 23:23, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I do, and I'm pretty sure there won't be any opposition. The content from the Rashkind article can be worked into a subsection of atrial septostomy. Maybe there'll even be stubs on Rashkind and Miller soon?:) Fvasconcellos(t·c) 23:38, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
My user page
Thanks for the revert. • Lawrence Cohen 00:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello:)
Just thought I'd drop by, tell you I'm back, and wish you a happy Thanksgiving holiday;) ♥ Fredil 18:20, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
RfA thanks/Meow!
Just wanted to say thanks for supporting me! Please find your thank you card here, should you wish to see it. I'm honored to have received your support. All the best, ~Eliz81(C) 23:05, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
...for helping me navigate the waters of my surprisingly peaceful RFA, which closed successfully with 85 supports, 1 oppose, and 0 neutral.
I would particularly like to thank Acalamari and Alison, my nominators, and everyone who watched the page and ran the tally.
If there is anything I can do to be of service in the future, please feel free to contact me. (Oh, and if you hate RfA Thankspam, please forgive me. I promise I won't block you for deleting it;-))
And forgive me if I need a Wikibreak now and then (like now. I'm exhausted!). You wouldn’t want to see me climbing the Reichstag, now would you?
Off to flail around with my new mop! (what?!)
Kathryn NicDhàna♫♦♫ This RfA thanks inspired by Neranei's, which was inspired by VanTucky's which was in turn inspired by LaraLove's which was inspired by The Random Editor's, which was inspired by Phaedriel's original thanks.
Bacteriostasis
No worries: when I saw the topic, I had a strong hunch that somewhere in here we had an article. I hope that I did not lose anything by placing the redirect. I think that everything in your article is covered in the other...—Gaffταλκ 00:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Question
Hey Kyoko. Could you send me an email? There's something I need to ask you. Best as always, Fvasconcellos(t·c) 23:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry about that. Just waiting to hear back from the 'crat:) Fvasconcellos(t·c) 13:03, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Absolutely, I'll let you know; shouldn't be long. Best, Fvasconcellos(t·c) 16:48, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you
For the birthday greetings. I had a good birthday today.:) I hope you're well and okay. Acalamari 04:32, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, I hope you get better soon.:) Best wishes. Acalamari 17:39, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
Delivered on 20:05, 3 December 2007 (UTC).
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XIX - December 2007
The December 2007 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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Re:Gurch
Yeah, talked to him about that on IRC. All is well now. Miranda 06:39, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
A stamp from real me
Here's a stamp from the Faroe Islands for you! Stamps from the Faroe Islands somehow promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving something friendly to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others! Happy editing! Húsönd 18:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
~*Bonk*~
You've got mail, too! Ariel♥Gold 04:08, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Sango123
I see you were a friend of hers on here. I left a message on her talk page. I really hope nothing happened to her. She is only 16. Tech43 (talk) 22:15, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
It's scary to think about ya know? Tech43 (talk) 06:46, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
You've got mail!
As the header says:) Fvasconcellos(t·c) 00:03, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Read, replied. Translated;) Fvasconcellos(t·c) 00:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
From me, too:) Ariel♥Gold 00:14, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
De nada
You're welcome, it's my job! Keep the good work and the cute signature. PS: wikt:obrigado —Slade (TheJoker) 00:57, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
As for me, anytime. Fvasconcellos(t·c) 01:00, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Well, my account is a mIRC/Counter-Strike nickname (do not confuse with the Teen Titans' major villain, it's a coincidence), but which other username are you talking about? Cheers and good night! Slade (TheJoker) 02:47, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome for the revert!:) Acalamari 17:44, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Newsletter n°2
It's been one high aiming month! The French WikiProject and related pages have been aiming high for Christmas - and have received an equal number of presents in return!
A new page has been setup (WikiProject France/Links) to provide an index of the Projects/Portals pages (as well as helping newbees). When creating any pages in the Project/Portal namespace, please add them to the index page. This page also give WP:FRANCE members a handy watchlist.
Deletion nom: Civility nomination was on 10 December 2006. The intention was to rise community awareness and perhaps initiate a discussion on the issue. For well over a year Wikipedia:Civility had been a policy people had been quick to ignore. No one is willing to enforce it. The nomination itself was not the best of all decisions I had but it wasn't really disruptive either. I am suprised people have been bringing that up since its been over a year.
Signatue issue: It has been nearly 3 years since I have been a part of the wikipedia community. Some people do not really care too much about the signatures but people had always been allowed to update their own or even other peoples signatures from time to time. As for my specific case, I had updated only some of my signatures. I had not had time to update others as people like User:Centrx and etc started mass reverting my edits. I merely raised it to community attention on ANI. To this date no one has explained to me how my updates to my own sigs damages the project. Every banned action needs a reason after all. I have made every effort to deescalate the matter.
lolcats: I do not believe the issue was ever about "lolcats" as I haven't picked any random image. I merely objected the addition of an image to User:WhiteCat with the image description "TROLL KITTEH NEEDS MOAR DRAMA" to a userpage. The image was placed on User:WhiteCat page instead of User:White Cat to avoid a ban at least in Gurch's words. What more, he uploaded a second such image despite the objections. Such images had been speedy deleted before for trolling and uploaders have been banned indefinitely. Popular target has included people like Jimbo. So why is it that I am treated differently? I do not understand. And an additional note both Gurch and Miranda were temporarily banned and booted from the IRC channels over their conduct during this incident.
The reason I am posting this here is not for a defense - such a thing would be pointless. Instead the intention is a dialog and mutual understanding of each others position.
MfD of civility policy: if your intention was merely to raise people's awareness of the lack of enforcement of the civility policy, it would have been much better to raise this issue at the village pump. Nominating the policy for deletion, especially during your personal dispute with User:Elaragirl, only added drama to what could otherwise have been a productive discussion in another venue.
Signatures: I didn't follow that controversy too closely, but I am well aware that people can and do change their signatures. Here for example is one of my former signatures, which I used under my former User:Tachikoma account: Kyoko. That was before I requested a name change. As I recall, you had wanted to go through all instances of your prior signature and replace those with your current signature, even on pages which had been archived. Some people objected on the basis that changing an archive page is like tampering with history. I think there was also some concern about the block logs on your accounts being obscured. While I personally think that it's a little frivolous to want to change your signature on archived pages, I wouldn't have objected myself. What matters here is that you and several other people got into quite a conflict over a pretty minor issue.
The cat image: while I'm inclined to agree with you that Gurch should not have changed User:WhiteCat's page with out that user's permission, I don't think it was a good idea for you to post about this incident on WP:ANI without first asking Gurch why he had altered someone else's page, and with that particular image, and that particular user. Again, my concern is that your approach to this matter added drama to something that might have been settled between you and Gurch without administrative input.
I hope this message has explained things to your satisfaction. Let me also add that I'm considering striking out the "Strong" from my ArbCom opinion on your candidacy. This is something I've been thinking about since I first posted there, because adding the word "Strong" only makes my comment unnecessarily hurtful at a point when your candidacy is unlikely to succeed. I do hope that you will continue to contribute to Wikipedia following the election. Take care, --Kyoko 15:23, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. I'd like to continue this if you don't mind:) I have formated (indented) your comment and duplicated the thread for your convenience.
My dispute with User:Elaragirl was a very minor one. I found her general tone to be problematic, not just to me but to others. There were and still are others (even admins) who are impolite and dicky on a regular basis. I felt back then (and still do) that we need a serious amount of improvement on this issue. I thought nominating WP:CIVIL would generate such a discussion... Didn't work as I had hoped. In any case, I can't change what I did back then... If you take a look at some of the votes on the nom page, they are quite uncivil. What I am curious is what would you recommend I do to get this issue addressed?
Centrx considered all edits older than a day to be 'archived'. He even reverted my edits in my userspace. I stopped making signature alterations soon as people complained (over RC feed getting flooded mostly). However Centrx continued his slow paced mass revert despite this. Centrx continued reverting my edits for months. I initiated discussions with Centrx and even invited uninvolved 3rd parties to talk to Centrx. Sig fixes on archive pages are not banned (to my knowledge). As for the block log. For quite some time I have those linked on my userpage. My old sig does not generate a block log so I never completely understand that concern.
What you said would be what I would have done had my interaction with Gurch had been different. On IRC for example Gurch had been most unpleasant even when I was agreeing with him on an issue. He had actively done so over the past months (Deletion of WP:MIT (a project intended to verify free-images 'freeness' making them more commons compatible) per his speedy nom for example). That is why talking to him on this issue was pointless in my perspective. I have the access to delete the image in question from commons in the blink of an eye. I have initiated discussions merely to avoid a COI for the most part.
I do want to add that the nom page has been interesting so far. A number of support and oppose votes have been most intriguing. A good deal were particularly unhelpful and 'hurtful'. Your vote was not hurtful and on the contrary quite helpful as I have a better understanding of peoples' concerns now.
If you want to discuss the civility policy and how it is enforced, I suggest starting a thread at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). That way perhaps you will get the discussion you desire.
Signature issue: like I said, I didn't follow it closely, but the very fact that people (not just you and Centrx) wrote a lot of text about it means that the alterations were controversial.
If you read the top of the WP:ANI page, it says in boldface "Before posting a grievance about a user here, it is advised that you take it up with them on their user talk page." That's a step that you failed to take. You and Gurch may have a history of conflict, but I still think it would have been better to ask him first about his intentions, rather than post an ANI and inform him after the fact. If you felt uncomfortable approaching Gurch, you could also have asked User:Dmcdevit to ask him, as he was the admin who reverted Gurch's edit. You could also simply have allowed User:WhiteCat to respond for him/herself and not intervened personally. After all, you've said that you and Gurch don't get along. Any of these approaches would have generated less heat than going directly to ANI.
This was supposed to be a brief message. --Kyoko 16:35, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Alright a short(er) response
Fine I'll do that.
I am kind of confused. Should I avoid discussion of any kind in the future? My edits (signature alterations) came before the discussions I initiated. Had I not taken the issue to ani and instead revert wared, would that be more productive? I just still am uncertain what the community expected me to do. Should same thing happen again, how should I deal with it?
I have brought the issue to ANI for general discussion. Dmcdevit's revert came after my post to ANI. Dmcdevit probably would not know of the issue had it not been posted on the admins noticeboard. User:WhiteCat is an inactive user and like I explained his involvement in this case is simply because of the similarity of his username to mine - that what bothered me most in the whole case.
Signatures: I think most people in the community didn't understand why it was so important to you to change your signature on messages that you had already left on various pages. Changing your signature so that future messsages look different is one thing, while changing signatures on messages that you have already left is another. As you know, people's views on it ranged from seeing it as eccentric but harmless to outright disruptive. If I were in your place, I would have stopped the signature alterations if other people were concerned... but then again, I wouldn't personally have bothered to change old messages in the first place.
The cat image: in this case, I think you should have asked Gurch first before going on to ANI, not after. Any issue that is raised at ANI gets a lot of attention, and the very fact that the discussion is there rather than another venue sometimes leads to heightened tempers, and yes, drama.
Knowing Japanese: despite my name, I don't know much Japanese, because it wasn't spoken much when I was growing up, and I've never devoted enough time to properly learn it. --Kyoko 17:51, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I forgot to add: I'm glad that you weren't hurt or offended by my oppose vote. I generally try to make my oppose comments constructive or at least non-bitey. --Kyoko 17:53, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I did stop making the sig alterations. I had a total of 2000 such edits after which people started complaining. For the next few months after that one or two people mass reverted those edits contradicting Help:Reverting#Do not ("If what one is attempting is a positive contribution to Wikipedia, a revert of those contributions is inappropriate unless, and only unless, you as an editor possess firm, substantive, and objective proof to the contrary. Mere disagreement is not such proof."). I desired to remove as many references to my former nick as possible over privacy reasons as it may put me in real risk... I can't go to the details for obvious reasons... I don't think anyone needs to cite reasons for trivial edits. Although people had been reverting my sig alterations, none had actually had a serious discussion with me - even despite my attempts in talking to them.
I really think when someone is being disruptive it should be addressed in ani. By the same analogy nothing should be posted to ani as anything posted there is automatic drama. I have talked to Gurch numerous times, talking to him over such issues is pointless IMHO.:/
Unfortunate! I could have used your skills had you developed them. :P
Any oppose vote not intended to insult or annoy me is casted with a positive intention by nature. It is generally not that hard to distinguish that. Otherwise I wouldn't bother posting on your talk page at all.:)