User talk:72.57.8.2I5~enwikibooks

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I love the name
I should have dropped a line to you earlier. This is a cool user name, and throws convention and common preconceptions about new users to the wind. I love to see some fresh blood come in here and stir the pot up, so to say, and it will make for some interesting discussions.

BTW, Welcome to Wikibooks. I hope you have better success in the future than what apparently your book How To Ride The Bus. When you copied the content over to the new title, I ended up turning the old title into a redirect. This is nothing personal against you, but simply a way to inform everybody where the content ended up at. I tried to preserve all of the changes that you made after the page move. Moving pages to avoid deletion is generally frowned upon and is more likely to increase the potential of getting deleted.

I should have removed the VfD right after it started. I've done that two a couple other books, but I've also had quite a bit of flack from other Wikibooks regulars because of that. Apprarently Derbeth doesn't believe in waiting to see a Wikibook get started to see just where it might go. He has done a lot of good for Wikibooks, however, so don't consider him to be the spawn of the Devil. And his is just one opinion out of many as well anyway, and no permanent damage has been done to your book (yet).

It is too bad that you want to assert non-GFDL copyright status on the book. While from a strictly legal standpoint I don't think you can do that, if you don't want the content on Wikibooks I can understand, particularly given the hostile reaction to the book. There is no reason to keep the content here if you don't want it on Wikibooks. It is an interesting reaction to the community BTW, and one that I support as well. --Rob Horning 18:25, 12 February 2006 (UTC)


 * My meandering thoughts: Thank You Mr. Rob. The alias started out with me wondering, perhaps I could register my static IP address as a user; I tried user:72.57.8.215X but didn't like the X. You hit did however hit the spot. I tend, as you may have observed from the title of my first article, to rock the boat a little and add controversial material. I am an artist after all. Anyway I took 72.57.8.2I5 because so I could remember my close link and try to get credit for my previous edits as IP:72.57.8.215 To be perfectly honest, I like the idea of wikibooks. I wish however that it would be all fun and fun! Where people could come along and say... hmm.. I don't really know what I can add to that but that's interesting. Maybe I should look into it. Instead of saying... I don't really know what I can add into that. Let's delete it! I also didn't want to remove the VfD from fear that wikibookians would be mad. But I couldn't really stand waiting letting this issue go on. I have so many idea for building the book. When I'm on wikibooks, it just seems so much easier write an article then if I did it in my word editor. It seems easier to make references, footnotes, etc... I actually want the book to be out there. But you know what. Once it's out there I'm probably going to bang myself on the head and say "I should have just wrote it in word." I keep it in the dark files, encrypted, as one of those never to publish idea from fear of being put into jail, labeled crazy, and having people shoot the messenger. Well, I think I should have expected some sort of protest. But I didn't expect this big of a pot stir. Perhaps this is an issue that we should discuss at the deletion policy page. Interesting enough, I'm sure there will be more similar nominations. I have a lot more documentation and scribbles here at home of the original book concept. I also wonder about the GFDL licence?  If I could claim that? No matter the case. I have plenty of ideas. The problem with this one article is that I've taken it personal. This policy stuff, well until your pep talk, Isn't really motivating. As soon as you add rules you restrict creativity. The Art of writing! At the moment, to contribute anymore to this book as I would do on my regular word editor.

b.t.w.: I would have thought that after changing the name we would have a better leg to stand on!! But... well anyway! This is such a mess, with red-tap, I feel like I'm in an episode of watching the OJ Simpson trial. I just hope this case is fairly judged.

p.s: I'm at the point where I'm obviously becoming indifferent if the article is deleted or not. But rest assure, the world is watching... I will remember.. And for some reason I'm feeling a little bitter now. The reason being that this nomination is still there and that I'm evaluating my self existence right now and the meaning of wikibooks within this thing of mine called life! Thank you for the kind words. And I'm sure Derbeth did not intend to do this entire process as an evil act. But that fact that no is doing anything about it doesn't seems send happy feelings into my consciousness. We'll just have to see what happens and if I start fixing up the article again or not. Thank you again for listening. Perhaps it would be wise to further this dicussion into some sort of proposed rule? (as I've noticed you've done already with some issues, elaborated into a nice article in a sub-page within your user page) ;) --72.57.8.2I5 00:58, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


 * As an addeed thought... I hope you continue to stay active. I am trying to encourage new users on Wikibooks, particuarly those who have come here just because they like the idea of Wikibooks and havn't necessarily started out on Wikipedia.  Discussion like this have happened before, and I even had a Wikibook that was slapped with a VfD only 18 hours after I started the content.  This killed the early momentum in getting it going, and squashed even my own contributions to instead have to deal with the stupid VfD (that was rejected by the community on top of the whole thing).  I've become somewhat of a Wikimedia lawyer, as long as a court of opinion can be maintained and not changed through executive decrees.  See the Wikimania discussion for what IMHO is an abuse of power by those "in charge" at the Wikimedia Foundation.  My attitude is to give as much support to the new users, and have mild contempt for the veterans... especially if they are throwing their weight around.  To be a Wikimedia veteran you need to have a fairly thick skin anyway, so a litle heated verbage usually goes off each other's backs.


 * Again... Welcome to Wikibooks. This is going to be a very significant and influential project that will be as significant as Wikipedia, IMHO.  It just needs some passionate people to help get it going.  --Rob Horning 15:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Super Smash Bros. Melee/Trophies
I don't think your rewording will be enough. It's still too similar to the original work and will probably be just as much a copyvio as it is now. Gerard Foley 02:32, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your honest reply. I trust your judgement. It would however be nice to have a second opinion. Hence... My reply can also be found on the delete discusion...

I guess you read through my first 4 translations? You obviously have a copy of the original work somewhere. Is this a book that looks like this,ie. similar format? If we reword it shouldn't it be okay? The only trouble I see is if the entire article is base on one source... I'm guessing that's what you mean right. We would need more sources to diversify and less chances of a general format copyvio? --72.57.8.2I5 02:43, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

The stuff in the Description col is word for word what is found in the video game. I put a link to google Images on the delete discusion which has screenshots of that part of the game so people can check for themselfs. Gerard Foley 03:23, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Agreement
I am in complete agreement with your assessment of Derbeth. Evil - good choice of words (I can think of unpublishable ones). Thanks! - marsh 05:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

French Wikibook
You're one of only a few users who know both French and English natively. Would you mind editing and expanding the French Wikibook? --Hagindaz 07:16, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
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