User talk:GreatGatsby

Niger

Hello, GreatGatsby.

Could you please stop changing the proper pronunciation of Niger to the nonexistent "nigh-ZEER"? It is either "nee-ZHAIR" or "NIGH-jer". Please read Talk:Niger. - TAKASUGI Shinji 00:11, 2005 Mar 23 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits.

[1] (beneficial minor spelling correction) Hyacinth 08:37, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

On that note, please don't change proper British English spellings in articles to their bastardised American versions. :-) BLANKFAZE | (что??) 23:09, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Cummings

Hi, I didn't actually change the article, but I did intervene to try to get some kind of consensus and I did ask for page protection (being reluctant to do it myself because of my involvement). I will continue to try to get agreement, as I do not want to see anybody being blocked or leaving the project over this issue. If you are interested, most of my interventions are on Blankfaze's talk page and on AN/3RR page. Filiocht | Talk June 30, 2005 07:34 (UTC)

GreatGatsby, since you were one of the users with direct experience on the question, feel free to stay keen of developments in the E. E. Cummings article as well as your disputes with Blankfaze. I mentioned the revert previously in the talk page of the article as (implicitly) evidence of his bad faith on the question; if you have more to add please mention it, or keep it in mind if the dispute needs to go further. --TJive July 1, 2005 02:55 (UTC)

Your comments at Vanunu

Thanks for your supportive comments, but I actually made that comment back in July. Jayjg ^(talk) 23:10, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RuneScape cheats

Hi, thank you for helping control the vandalism, it's very appreciated. The article is under attack by the company JAGeX right now. Please help save the article by commenting in the talk page.Jonathan888 (talk) 15:16, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Drug-free

Hi there Miborovsky, Im SWD316. I saw your name to the list of drug-free Wikipedians. I created a template and category for it at Template:Drug-free. You can add it to your babel if you want. Hope you use it! SWD316 23:47, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

On the Catholic Church of Wikipedia

As you have described yourself as a Catholic, I thought I would alert you as a co-religionist to your opportunity to delete the particularly offensive article, Wikipedia:Catholic Church of Wikipedia.--Thomas Aquinas 21:48, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'll go get my flame-proof suit

So a thirteen year old thinks disliking France makes someone an idiot? Jeez, I should reexamine my whole life now. Thank you. And the Mac bias is laughable. I hope you're not a gamer. GreatGatsby 00:15, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

All righty then, I'll delete that one and refer you to the one right after it. I'm just sick of people who hate France and don't know why. Just so you know, I dislike my three-year-old Mac, but I abhor my five-year-old PC. I'm POOR, and I'm happy that my computer is at least usable. Bias? I wouldn't call it bias, but no one listens to kids who care/ramble about technology. I game very rarely now - buy me a new computer and that might change. --Bryan Nguyen | Talk 05:57, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I do dislike France for several reasons, chief being their historical ungratefulness for American's help (especially in the Second World War, which I am very interested in. I do not just dislike nations because it's "hip" or the "thing to do". GreatGatsby 13:38, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A Message to Pro-Life Wikipedians

The section "Foetal Pain" (Fetal Pain) has been deleted from the Abortion article. Could you help restore it? If you would like to see what was deleted, go to my talk page, scroll to "Fetal Pain," and click the provided link.--Thomas Aquinas 22:10, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your note on MfD

Hi GreatGatsby. Apologies for the delay, but I only just saw your personal attack on me on the MfD for CCW. If I'd seen it sooner, I'd have said something sooner.

First, please read the Wikipedia policy on not making personal attacks as it will be useful to you. Making a personal attack and declaring it not to be a personal attack doesn't stop it being a personal attack.

Secondly, please consider not making breathtakingly inaccurate assumptions about me based on my user page. This is not helpful to anyone. I have declared my views (each of which was independently arrived at over a period of time and each of which has been thought through rather than arrived at by assumption) on my user page so that other editors can see my off-Wikipedia views and judge my edits accordingly. In the real world, this is called "declaring an interest" and is considered a good thing. Perhaps not by you, but by other people certainly.

Finally, I'd be interested to know what you felt you would achieve by attacking me. Did you hope to change my vote? Make me leave the Wikipedia? Or were you just slapping down someone who didn't agree with you? I ask purely for information as I find the thought processes behind such an attack to be a fascinating subject to consider intellectually.

Many thanks. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 20:42, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As I said, I read your page and wanted to make an observation (I didn't think my comment would change your vote, nor did I want it to). Your comment here brings some interesting things to light, but you'd probably also interpret those as some juvenile personal attack, so I'll keep my observations to myself this time (more for fear of you crying to some Wikipedia authority than anything else). GreatGatsby 21:45, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pro-life Alliance

The article Pro-Life Alliance has been nominated for deletion. Chooserr

drug free wikipedians

The category is in danger of getting deleted, so please vote here, thanks. BlueShirts 01:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Gay rights in Iraq

You listed yourself as Roman Catholic so I thought I might bring this unencyclopedic total POV pushing article to your attention. It is currently up for deletion here. Chooserr 00:50, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pro-life

The Pro-Life organization Student LifeNet is up for deletion. If you would like to contribute to the discussion in progress you are more than welcome to do so. Chooserr 17:31, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

CAoW

Since you are listed as a Roman Catholic, I figured I'd send you this. Wikipedia:Catholic Alliance of wikipedia has been nominated for Deletion. Please vote and/or tell other people to vote to keep this organization on wikipedia. --Shanedidona 02:55, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball on Wikicities

Hello GreatGatsby, Googie Man here and I want to ask you something as a fellow baseball fan on Wikipedian. Jimbo and Angela have made a new webstie called Wikicities. This link in particular will take you to the baseball Wikicity. As you'll see it's similar to Wikipedia, but my hope is this will allow baseball fans to do more and different things, like reporting on games, in depth statistics, create mulitple pages for pictures, and whatever else baseball fans care to create. You've done great work on Wikipedia and I was hoping you could help get this baseball Wikicity off the ground. Please let me know what you think either at my talk page, or you can email me at terry@wikia.com. Thanks! Googie Man^(Talk), 21:01, 4 January 2006.

Good point!

I found your personal page in Wikipedia by chance. And I would like to say that I agree with some critics you have made about Wikipedia. Some articles are very bad written and biased. In thesis, I am not against people who is left and I dont considere myself a liberal. However, I agree with you and I see that the main and the most severe problems are created by people who create articles with a very strong left wing bias. Also there are a lot of defamatory and wrong information in some articles. Unfortunately there is a lot of people who dont see that as a problem. --Carlosar 13:57, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: My user page

I have not inserted any text or tried to leave a message. There was an anon IP editing your userpage and it looked like vandalism. Sorry if I misunderstood. --Ichiro 04:58, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Sports Wiki/Community

Hi:

I noticed you were active on many baseball pages on Wikipedia. My friends and I are starting a sports wiki that you may be interested in. It uses Wikipedia's software but we made a lot of technological improvements to allow for more news and opinion articles, as well as regular encyclopedic entries. It also has a database where you can display statistics for any baseball player since 1871. If you’re interested in it, check it out at http://www.armchairgm.com. Here's the MLB page: http://www.armchairgm.com/mwiki/index.php?title=MLB. And here's the link to learn about the stats section: http://www.armchairgm.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Help:Baseball_Statistics

Thanks --Roblefko 02:17, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]