User talk:Kaldari

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• Archive 1 (November 10, 2004 – August 10, 2005)
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Contents 1 NPA and Astroturfing 2 Image:Teenidolspromo.jpg 3 Maybe time to wrapup Al Gore III? 4 Re:Grammar on Ganeshbot 5 Logical quotes 6 ArthropodTalk template 7 Grammar

[edit] NPA and Astroturfing

Thanks, but in the first instance, like the lady sings "I knew before"...about 12 hours before, however I literally hadn't got a clue what "Astroturfing" was until you provided a link and somehow, responding with "I really don't know how to respond to your allegations of astroturfing" (while my head tries to figure out what the HECK plastic grass has to do with anything) lacks a certain je ne c'est quoi in terms of both precision and conviction!

FYI I don't actually know Anthony Benis very well, I just know of him for a long time, and he is a sweet, honorable, man, a relic of a distant era who managed to find half a way to transition into the cyber age. I know that a young fan of his talked him into submitting his theory and bio to Wikipedia, I know that, in spite of not actually agreeing with NPA theory I personally wheedled him into giving me permission to include a small section in Narcissism on the strength of him providing a different useage of the term Narcissism to the norm (actually he only agreed to do it on condition I kept an eye on another article for vandalism on his behalf).

Somehow that doesn't seem to me to match up with the term "astroturfing" very accurately. --Zeraeph 22:02, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Teenidolspromo.jpg

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[edit] Maybe time to wrapup Al Gore III?

As I've stated, conversation has gone pretty stale. BusterD 13:45, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Grammar on Ganeshbot

It was using Wikipedia:As of technique. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 00:27, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Logical quotes

Hi; I saw that you participated in a previous debate over the location of punctuation in relation to quotations marks, and since I'm not particularly familiar with the Wikipedia system of punctuating quotations, I'd like your opinion on something. Should it be:

George writes that it "gives the impression that it is actively speciating to fill the many ecological niches through its range".

Or,

George writes that it "gives the impression that it is actively speciating to fill the many ecological niches through its range."

I'd like to add an example such as this one to WP:MOS to clarify what exactly a fragment is. The easy cases are dealt with, but it's unclear how a sentence such as this one should be punctuated. Thanks! --Spangineer^ws (háblame) 01:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response! I suppose there's no easy way to add an example like this to WP:MOS that will work 100% of the time. --Spangineer^ws (háblame) 06:48, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ArthropodTalk template

hi,

I'm entering the assessments for arthropod pages right now, and noticed that you reverted the template that shows the assessments. would you please, if you absolutely see the need to make the template smaller, at least retain one of its core functionalities, that is that it shows the rating? thanks :) --Sarefo 21:17, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grammar

Could you explain why you believe the following sentence is grammatically incorrect. I honestly can't see why that would be the case: "Islam is a monotheistic religion based upon the Qur'an, its principal scripture, whose followers, known as Muslims, believe God sent revelations to Muhammad." Indeed, it seems to me to be more gramatically correct than the previous version. Kaldari 02:17, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I've actually copy-edited to improve the flow of the text. The redundancy was the word "believe". To be grammatically correct you would have to add the word "as" to the former text thusly:

"Islam is a monotheistic religion based upon the Qur'an, its principal scripture, whose followers, known as Muslims, believe God sent as revelations to Muhammad." ... does that help you understand better? (→Netscott) 02:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I suspect you may prefer the text as I've just copy-edited it, no? (→Netscott) 02:21, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

By all means revert back but be sure to add the "as" bit. :-) (→Netscott) 02:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Just to be clear, the "as" bit is needed because the word "revelations" is a noun. (→Netscott) 02:35, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Final illustration: The Qur'an as revelations (Qur'an=revelations), otherwise in your version it's Qur'an revelations. (→Netscott) 02:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

The line says that according to Muslim belief the Qur'an was revealed to Muhammad. I suppose it could be broken down into simpler sentences to facilitate ease of understanding for the common reader. Be bold! Edit away. (→Netscott) 02:50, 16 November 2006 (UTC)