User talk:Menchi

I mostly replied on this page to your comments and inquiries, unless it is a notice for me to participate on another Discussion page.

If I do not reply soon, it is probably because I am in meatspace. Either that or you happen to be a troll, perhaps literally. :-) -- Menchi 11:21 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Table of contents 1 Archives 1.1 Ant's artwork 1.2 WP T-shirt design 1.3 Banning Ant

Archives

1. /Stardate 0.0001 (December 16, 2002 - June 18, 2003)
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3. "/Stardate 9.9999": Oops, running of out #, Starfleet must self-destruct. Guess we brainiacal superhumans should've learned that insectoid incident in the end of the the second millennium.

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Ant's artwork

Bonsoir Menchi. Merci de ton commentaire. It really moved me. I am glad you are appreciating them :-) User:anthere (your talk page is 10 kb over what my browser can assume)

Cleaned it up, now that I know the myth of page oversizing and posing as nuisance is real. --Menchi 00:50 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Bonjour. :-) Ce n'est pas un mythe :-) C'est une réalité, mais nous ne devons pas être très nombreux à en être victimes. Je dois très fréquemment éditer les pages d'utilisateur plutot que les pages de discussions, en particulier Brion et Mav. Quand à la pompe, il est rare que je puisse y accéder.

I put two additional little buggies pict yesterday (I need to change the caption, these are damselflies not dragonflies). See User:Anthere/PictInsectes. A +

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Congratulations, you have just been made a sysop! You have volunteered for boring housekeeping activities which normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops basically can't do anything: They cannot delete pages arbitarily (only obvious junk like "jklasdfl,öasdf JOSH IS GAY"), they cannot protect pages in an edit war they are involved in, they cannot ban signed in users. What they can do is delete junk as it appears, ban anonymous vandals, remove pages that have been listed on Votes for deletion for more than a week, protect pages when asked to, and help keep the few protected pages there are, among them the precious Main Page, up to date.

Note that almost everything you can do can be undone, so don't be too worried about making mistakes. You will find more information at Wikipedia:Administrators, please take a look before experimenting with your new powers. Drop me a message if there are any questions or if you want to stop being a sysop (could it be?). Have fun! --Eloquence 00:53 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I'll try to help where and when I can. :-) --Menchi 04:19 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Did you color Taiwan on the China map green? Can you also copy the big star over Beijing and transfer it onto Taipei? Thanks. --Jiang 05:01 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Yep, green for the trees of the Central Mountain Ranges. :-)

Sure, I'll make a star for Taipei too. Thanks for pointing that out. --Menchi 05:06 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I just realized that green will be misunderstood by many Chinese and Taiwanese as a support of the Pan-Green Coalition. That's probably why you asked. I'll re-colour it to rice colour, as opposed to skin colour of the PRC. --Menchi 05:21 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)

No, that's not why I asked. I didn't think of that. Yeah...ROC Government websites have been turning quite green lately... Jiang 05:47 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Thank you for finding the Mohawk name for the Saint Lawrence River. I've always been curious. - Montréalais

Thought it'd be interesting to show that things have different names, each of which reflect on the philosophy and culture of the namer. --Menchi 22:37 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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WP T-shirt design

Thanks for the suggestion. I will make the Thai phrase a little larger (I had no idea it was too small - it just looks like squiggles to me! :) -- Wapcaplet 12:05 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Welcome. --Menchi 12:22 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Hi Menchi,

Thanks for the comments on my Hawaii photos. Can you try the Kauai 2.jpg again? I didn't link it properly the first time, but it's working for me now. Unless you mean from the Kauai entry - I only added the first one because I didn't want to overload the page with images.

-Aion 05:52 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)

My reply on User talk:Aion.

Okay, I figured out the problem with my second upload (it was a Photoshop file - oops!). And to answer your questions, I'm not a professional photographer, they're just my vacation photos from one of those helicopter tours.

-Aion 08:04 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Menchi, you know that I was being sarcastic about Anthere, right? I have ZERO problem with her English language skills. I was mocking RK's position. --Dante Alighieri 20:49 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)

No, I did not sense one bit of sarcasm at all, because your long history as a loyal Wikipedian who usually takes the side I consider right -- sometimes with real emotions (fine with me) -- makes me fail to see the sarcasm and irony that is apparently self-hatred, since yourself is similar in situation to Anther, i.e., a continental European by birth whose command of English is excellent and who loves Wikipedia. Your successful attempt at humour just sifted thru me easily like oversized rock pieces could. --Menchi 21:07 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I just realized that I've confused you with Andre Engels, oddly, when I was in the washroom. Apparently, urination is the source of enlightenments due to the relief of pain.

Just replace "continental European" with "congenital human", and reverse the polarity of everything and add 0.444 times pi to it, then you got yourself a completely accurate assessment. --Menchi 22:54 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hehe, Dante.. Andre.. they sound somewhat the same, I suppose. :) In any event, I've often found that I realize the perfect edit that I need to make on the Wikipedia IMMEDIATELY after I turn off my computer for the evening. Not quite l'esprit d'escalier, but I don't know the french phrase for "turned-off-your-computer-already-and-don't-want-to-turn-it-back-on-again wit". All that aside, I'm not exactly what you would call a continental European, what with my being Californian, but you already realized that. I still like to think I'm a loyal Wikipedian who usually takes the side of right, but who knows, I'm sure that there are many who would disagree (our good friend ChuckM for example). ;) --Dante Alighieri 03:31 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I would think that you are a Wikipedian who deserves to be called as such. You were the person who noticed half a dozen Romanization redirects I made on the same title, as minor new edits. Many people hide minor edits. it shows a degree of care that you have for WP. --Menchi 05:23 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Incidentally, I just noticed you're a Star Trek fan. Take a look at Starship Enterprise and let me know what you think... I'd like to see more info on the different captains (as per my comments on the talk page). Got any stardates for us to use on the captain timeline? --Dante Alighieri 03:33 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Replied briefly in Talk:Starship Enterprise. --Menchi 05:23 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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I see you have reverted my edits...How is a page supposed to be moved? --Jiang 00:41 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Replied on User talk:Jiang at 00:42 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

It was actually written before Jiang asked, hence the only 1-minute difference. --Menchi 05:23 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Banning Ant

Thanks a lot for your kind words Menchi. You moved me again :-) Ant

Merely speaking the truth that needs to be said. --Menchi 18:23 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Personally I perfer Hui Chinese over Hui, but it isn't a major preference. There isn't any large political issue that I can see here. -- Roadrunner

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I made some adjustments at Abolition. Thanks for pointing that out, I must have been going too fast that time. - Hephaestos 07:57 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Welcome. We've all been going too fast sometimes. I do, often, as evident from my very strange sentences (fixed) on that Talk page. --Menchi 08:00 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

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I fixed Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Thanks! Emperorbma 23:26 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Welcome. --Menchi 23:40 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)

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I noticed your work on jook-sing. Do you think it appropriate for inclusion on List of ethnic slurs? Also, are there any other terms that we are missing? My knowledge of Asian pejoratives is not as expansive as it might be. --Dante Alighieri 09:12 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Actually, Jiang recently touched it. I haven't yet, although I am about to add stuff to it (typed it up already in FrontPage and am copyediting it), in like half an hour. But that's beside the point. Oh .. wait, I think you're talking about my redirect. Ok, anyway, yes, Jook-sing is an unpleasant slur, but it's of an ethnicity toward members of itself. It's like being a French, and call your French neighbour "Jean-o-lalalala". But it's an ethnic slur nonetheless in my thinking.

Mmm... more? Chinese used to (during late-Qing Dynasty) call the foreigners "Ghosts" (鬼子 Guizi), especially the Japanese (Riben Guizi), and white people are "Ghosts from the Seas" (洋鬼子 Yang Guizi). It's because of their clothing and appearances seem like from beyond the world of living. Those are not used at all now, unless you happen to be trapped in some kinda time loop.

--Menchi 09:36 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

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Hi Menchi, just a quick request for help. Chow Chow has Chinese characters without transliteration, is there any chance you could fix it? Many thanks and never mind if you don't have time. Regards -- sannse 09:46 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Sure thing. Will do. --Menchi 09:49 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)