User talk:Arcayne

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John Wilkes Booth

Hi Arcayne, earlier this year we discussed the mention of the "Booth escaped" theories in this article. I think you will be interested to know that another editor has removed the entire section, with the discussion here. 17:06, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

This you gotta see.

Not to canvas but I thought you'd get a kick out of the Gadsby talk page. There are editors arguing to maintain the article as a "e"-centric lipogram, including not having REF tags (and, at one point EDIT tags). You'll love this.Padillah (talk) 17:22, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Export Control Act DYK nom

Hi Arcayne, I found this a very interesting article. I did a little copyediting, but please have a look at the first sentence in the "End of commercial treaties" section, there's something not right there and I can't work out what it should be. But everything else looks good and I've verified your DYK nom. --Bruce1ee^talk 08:26, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

I will work on it more, as I have time tomorrow. Thanks for verifying the DYK, Bruce. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 18:24, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Arcayne, I don't know if you'll see it, but it is listed right now. Congratulations! --Bruce1ee^talk 05:00, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Portman videos

Please feel free to add your comments here. Thanks. Ward3001 (talk) 02:27, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Films October 2008 Newsletter

The October 2008 issue of the Films 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. If you have suggestions or comments related to the newsletter, please leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you and happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk) 08:55, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Export Control Act

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3RR

Your latest 3RR violation has been reported. 75.49.223.52 (talk) 19:20, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Yep. Since you are pretty familiar with reporting me for offending your sensibilities, cold you be imposed upon to include a link to the posted gripe? I've already found it, but my day is busy enough without having to track down your various edits through whatever IP you happen to be using at the moment.

Even better, unless you are notifying me of such a complaint, stay off my page. I have better things to do with my time. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 20:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

AN board

Hiya Arcayne. I'm stepping away from the board, as I'm in favour of mandatory registration on Wikipedia. It's best somebody more unbiased towards IP accounts, help out. GoodDay (talk) 20:30, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:300- Leonidas and Xerxes discuss surrender.jpg)

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Re-added it to the parent article in the appropriate section. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 16:17, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

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Re-added it to the parent article in the appropriate section. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 16:18, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

BOHICA DYK nom

I see that RyanCross has already verified it. --Bruce1ee^talk 09:44, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Reporting on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

Hello, Arcayne. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jojhutton (talk • contribs)

Yay. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 05:04, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Section title

Hey, Arcayne, I've changed again the section title over there; I think I get why you changed it, but I was concerned that without clarification, it would be impossible for anyone to know to whom I was addressing my comments. Feel free to change it again, if you wish, just take that concern of mine into consideration, if you would.

Hey, I've got to sign off for a while--maybe several days or a week, even. So you can take your time to reply, if you need to, and understand why I may not get back to you right away. Have a good week! Unschool (talk) 17:50, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Reply to your comments is at my talk page. Unschool (talk) 18:24, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Me Again

Look, don't worry about it. My feelings weren't hurt, I just think that name-calling should be refrained from. And I'm sorry for posting it on your page, I wasn't sure how to find your talk page, but now I get it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.138.64.203 (talk) 07:15, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for BOHICA

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You may be interested to know that this article received 13,000 hits when it was on the main page. --Bruce1ee^talk 07:16, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Have a look at this link. --Bruce1ee^talk 14:56, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Re; De Haven

Thanks for the assist, Alansohn. I think I was just plumb worn out after writing the article in a flurry of fury. :D - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 02:54, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

No problem. I get in the same trap where I know what I meant to write so it makes no difference how many times I read it, I read what it's supposed to say. New Jersey is my broad topic of interest and it was my pleasure to make the tweaks. By the way, do you know what school he attended? Alansohn (talk) 03:01, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Not sure, but it was a Catholic school for both grammar and high school in Bayonne, and he did attend with George RR Martin. Get it fro George,a nd you presumably get it for Tom. I guess I could also email De Haven myself. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 03:16, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Horrors! That sounds much like original research to me. I would be curious to here the answer and then try to find a source to support it. Alansohn (talk) 03:19, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

ANI

Hello, Arcayne. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic WP:ANI#Imperious use of Admin powers by User:William M. Connolley. Thank you. EdJohnston (talk) 02:48, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Arcayne: Just wanted you to know that you put a response to this on my talk page, when it should have gone on EdJohnston's. Ed Fitzgerald _{t / c} 07:14, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I was posting to you. William had said it was on-going, but failed to provide any diffs. You made a similar statement but only provided one from 4 months ago. As I said I'm not really taking sides at this point, but the evidence provided in favor of the block (I haven't read your reply on AN/I yet, so maybe you've provided it now) wasn't really that compelling.--Crossmr (talk) 01:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm not going to dig through who knows how many contribs to find the evidence for you. Someone has been asked to provide it that means direct diffs to the problem edits themselves. The first random IP I grabbed off that list had 2 contribs and neither one of them looked remotely controversial. They had benign edit summaries describing the edits and appeared to come with citation. The next one I grabbed had a whole whack of contribs. I'm not interested in the blocks themselves, I'm interested in the alleged behaviour. Yes I was talking about Essjay in the AN/I post, but the fact remains you did state you had 2 degrees and have described more than 2 separate fields. Its easy to see why someone might take issue with that. At least in the short term. Long term is another issue, which is what I'm looking for here.--Crossmr (talk) 17:27, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

I do in fact have a PPE from Oxford, a degree name which is largely unknown inside the US, where I was born and currently live. It is a big mixy degree that includes Politics (a part of which is Int'l Relations), Philosophy (part of that is History)I have an Associate's degree in History from an American university. I am currently slowly progressing through graduate school, but that's part-time, while I work (which, I am happy to communicate, is being paid for by work and partial fellowship). Of course, none of that should matter here, and that the anon is still taking exception to the notation of it in discussion four months after the discussion tells me that the anon is like a dog chasing a car. If I proved him/her wrong, i give up some of my security (I am not prepared to do that), and furthermore, it wouldn't resolve the underlying problem with the anon.

I will dig through the diffs again and give you precisely what you are asking for. Are you having difficulty finding the allged behaviro more recent than two months ago? I am presuming that stalking my edits doesn't count with you. Am I correct in assessing your request here? - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 17:43, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Tom De Haven

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No harm, no foul

Its usually the rule rather the exception, to have editors argue over one detail after another. Just because we disagree on the Booth article, doesn't mean that I don't agree with a lot of what you do. Don't worry and just remember that everyone is not out to get you. If the anon is bugging you, just ignore him. I had no idea that it was as bad as it is, but I still don't think that the anon is 100% wrong. So have a good day and enjoy wikipedia.--Jojhutton (talk) 22:05, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Honestly, I can count on the fingers of one hand those folk I hate editing with, and I don't count you among them. Those who know I don't are likely aware of who they are, and probably have the same dread over the idea of interacting with me. I am not perfect; I can be arrogantly self-confident, and am highly intolerant of fan-like and partisan behavior - while I suspect most are, I take special exception to it, as it counters what I think a group encyclopedia should be - editing amongst equals who treat each other as equals, or at least polite enough to not point out that they aren't up to snuff. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 23:32, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Heya

I don't think that it is a discussion that will get anywhere. It's just a little bit of saber-rattling with some unnecessary gnashing of teeth. All this started because there was a movement to remove external links from the film infobox since they were redundant to what can be found in the "External links" section. As you might have seen from discussions (don't know how much you bothered to get involved), Termer thinks that the only reason that IMDb was removed was because of its reliability. I don't think that was the only argument (reliability is mostly irrelevant here, in my opinion); more relevant arguments included that of redundancy and unnecessary prompting-up of an external link above others.
On the home front, graduate school is going well. Certainly keeps me busy. I have a couple of job offers on the table and pulling for one strong possibility. By this Friday, I should know my future. Thrills and chills! :P How about yourself? Drifted away from films, have we? Are you behaving or misbehaving these days? — (talk • contrib) 15:22, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Awesome to hear that things are going well there. I returned to grad school (the financial situation pretty much fixed itself when work chipped in to help defray costs). Will the new jobs require major relocation?

As for drifting away from films, not so much. I've just found that there aren't that many films I really yearn to contribute to that aren't going to be gang-banged by a True Believer or whatnot. I think that might be part of why I've been able to take a longer view of things here now and enjoy the wiki. Like you've said, why do it if you aren't getting paid and it isn't fun? I've recently had some AN contact, but not so much about my behavior as it is to remove an anon who's been harping at me through a dozen or so IPs since April. Get this, he's apparently geographically located in my area. Creepy, right?

Anyway, I've been using time to sharpen my article creations skills, adding DYK as they spring into being. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 15:34, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Smallville

The new execs have hinted that they might just be breaking that flight rule this season. My only hope is that they do a better job with the flying then they did with Lex/Zod and with Kara. I think what they did in season four with Clark was great, but what they've done since then hasn't looked that good. I like how Welling (and I hope that was something he chose to do, and not something Gough and Millar had him do since they are gone) didn't do the single fist pump in the air while flying - something Rosenbaum and Vandervoort did that I didn't like. It's better looking for comic characters, it just looks ridiculous on living people.

My next hope is that Doomsday doesn't look like Sam Witwer in a costume. It vaguely looked like the character wasn't that beefed in the muscle region (unlike his comic book counterpart), and that could throw off the whole thing. I mean, if you're going to make him look like his comic book version, then go the whole 9 yards.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 17:16, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, but since when have they closely followed the comic-book version? Case in point: Green Arrow and Black Canary. For them to go cmic-book canon now would be a bit too jarring.

And dude, if I ever learn to fly, I will be doing the fist-pump thing, As Zaphod Beeblebrox said, "the trick to flying is to simply throw yourself at the ground and miss." Practicing can look hard, as Gravity is a Cruel Mistress. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 17:24, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

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That's fine. I'm not taking anything he wrote at face value (as I stated in AN/I). I was more looking at it to find time stamps of various pages where I could read full exchanges from both parties and anyone else involved. --Crossmr (talk) 21:56, 18 November 2008 (UTC)