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I feel obligated to point out that I´ve been contributing to Wikipedia since 2001, although I haven´t usually bothered to sign in. Kragen Sitaker 21:42, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Copyright problems

Hi, Kragen. You don't have to nominate copyright violations on AfD. You can just mark them as copyright violations and post them on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. First, erase the page's content and enter {{copyvio|url=}}. Then just put in the url of the source after the equal sign. This will produce a template when you save it and you just follow the instructions it gives it. In some cases, the source doesn't have a web page. In that case, put your explanation where the url would go, but use bold around it (made with three apostrophes on both sides). Good work on catching the copyvio. Thanks, Kjkolb 07:34, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Kragen Sitaker 06:20, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

I wish I could be like you. I was going to say, "I wish I had been like you when I was 18," but then I realized I still haven't done anything comparable to what you've done. You rock. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kragen (talk • contribs)

Thank you for the kind words to my talk page, its nice to be appreciated.

I read your homepage→ interesting. If you need help with any matter, just ask. See you around. Oran e (t) (c) (e-mail) 17:07, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Joe Siegler

They've nominated my article for deletion again. Would appreciate it if you could drop by the page and say something about it. It feels unfair for me to be back here again after the article survived once before. What's to stop people from doing it a third or fourth time? Thanks, Dopefish 03:19, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Straw poll on free software categorization of POV-Ray

Since you previously commented on the categorization of POV-Ray, can you please comment in Talk:POV-Ray#Free_software_categorization_straw_poll Karnesky 22:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

i also like pie

Hi! to do redirects, change the page to #REDIRECT [[destinationpage]], to go to a redirecting (source) page for editing follow the link atop the redirectee, eg _{(Redirected from source)}. Skullers (talk) 18:41, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help!

I replied on my talk page. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:27, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Your user page

I found your old user page while checking out some old deleted contributions. I have history merged it, so that all edits are in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 11:02, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

That's great, thanks! Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) 07:41, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Similar Experience

You said it very well. A blank page is likely to get filled, a redirect that shouldn't be there is likely to be left as is. In these situations it is silly to blame us for 'blanking' as if it were vandalism. Tibetologist (talk) 15:56, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: edit reversion on "Grange, Douglas, County Cork"

The reason for the revert is that your edit was against the spirit, if not the exact letter, of current Wikipedia content guidelines. An article consisting of nothing but the test "No information" is functionally consistent to a blank article and confusing to a reader who was lead to expect an article with information based upon the blue link followed to reach the article. In short you were replacing a small problem (a marginally appropriate redirect) with a bigger problem (a completely nonfunctional article). --Allen3 ^talk 19:27, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Pronunciation of Ravenna

You added a "crappy" pronunciation of Ravenna (your word ;-) ) - tell me as I am not all that conversant with the IPA - does that pronunciation allow for a single "n" or a double "n"? Ravenna is pronounced as "ra-VEN-na" because double consonants are split between the two syllables in Italian...thanks!

William J. 'Bill' McCalpin (talk) 03:01, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, I stuck a ":" after the "n" to indicate that it's a geminate consonant. I don't have a keybinding for the triangular colon the IPA uses for geminate consonants (the ":" is clear enough, I think) and I'm not sure if there's a special IPA way to indicate that the second part of the geminate "n" belongs to the next syllable. I note that the gemination article uses doubled consonants instead of [:]. I think my crappy transcription is better than having no written pronunciation at all, but it would be nice if someone really expert at phonology were to look at it. Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) 07:44, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

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The Pivot of Civilization deletion

If you took "The Pivot of Civilization" to AFD I'd support a delete vote as well. Ryan4314 (talk) 20:46, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

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Sorry for not getting back to you. It was a busy day on my talk page and I missed the message you left. P. D. Cook ^{Talk to me!} 17:54, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

A common problem

Dear Wikipedist editor, I want to submit to your attention an our common problem: disruptive contributions and edit warring operated by user Derek farn (talk). This latter shows systematically a provoking behaviour and lacking of respect for other people’s work, typical of vandalism. I’ve sent this communication to many people having the same problem in order to organize a collective protest/action request directed to e.g. the Arbitration Committee or Requests for comment/User conduct (this latter procedure requires the participation of at least two users) or to the Wikipedia Community. If you agree with this initiative please contact me at this dedicated email address: clipeaster-1971 AT yahoo DOT com. In order to avoid creating of a forum section dedicated to Derek farn I suggest you to delete this communication once you’ve read it and, then, be in contact via email. Any suggestion are welcomed. I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Structuralgeol (talk) 17:23, 15 July 2011 (UTC).

As another user pointed out to me that suggesting to be in contact outside wikipedia is not a correct way, for transparency reasons, so I conclude that we need to correspond via talk page. Best regards, Structuralgeol (talk) 02:28, 16 July 2011 (UTC).

e-mail interview of John Sauter

Sure, I would be happy to do an e-mail interview. I don't have access to e-mail during the work day, but I generally check for messages in the mornings and evenings, and I can respond then. My e-mail address is John_Sauter@systemeyescomputerstore.com John Sauter (talk) 12:47, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

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Fixed! That was helpful. Thanks. Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) 19:32, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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Canvass

See WP:CANVASS. I noticed you selectively notified some editors who will most likely agree with your logic. Please start a new thread at WT:MATH in a neutral way so that all interested editors can participate. Solomon7968 05:05, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

After I comment here you posted the same message to BrownHairedGirl. Please stop and post it to ‎WT:MATH as I said above. Solomon7968 05:19, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

For third-party readers, the above is a response to my reversion of your reversion. While it's true that I think that most editors I notified will agree with my logic, that's because I think your behavior — deleting good-faith and worthwhile contributions to articles about unquestionably notable mathematicians and computer scientists, written by other editors over a period of years, while speciously citing irrelevant meta pages to support the deletion — is unacceptable, bordering on vandalism; I wouldn't know how to go about finding editors who would support it! I have at least notified two users who supported the deletion of Erdős number categories in the past and who are still active, but it is true that I also expect them to agree with me.

I think your suggestion of a new thread at WT:MATH is probably a good one, and may do that tomorrow.

Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) 05:26, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

As a further comment, though, I see that one person that we both asked for their perspective thinks that what you did isn't unreasonable in this case, so maybe I'm mistaken. Hopefully we'll hear some other voices soon. Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) 05:53, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

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Foonly

Hello User:Kragen ! I just rewrite entirely the Foonly article, with lot of sources, and delete all "personnal comments" from lot of old Foonly engineer, and all not-encyclopedic contents. I saw in talk page your comment (dated from 2012). Did you succeed in interviewing some of these guys ? --FlyAkwa (talk) 00:09, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

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Bob Kahn

Hey, Kragen. Really enjoyed your comment about Bob Kahn. Mistake probably happens a lot these days. There's probably a joke here about Genghis Kahn and his brother Don who keep on, keep on keeping on. But I don't know who Don Kahn was... Cheers.--Jack Upland (talk) 22:27, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

KHAAAAAAAAN! Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) 23:17, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

I wish I had the wit to get that joke...--Jack Upland (talk) 00:24, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, it was a stupid pop culture reference to a movie I haven't actually seen: [1] Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) 02:41, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

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