User talk:MIT Trekkie

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Andre (talk) 20:38, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Requests for comment for user Beachy[edit]

Hi Trekkie, I'd would to put User:Beachy on Wikipedia:Requests for comment because he has not improved over months. Some of the problems:

Starts and continues edit wars
Impolite to other users
Personal attacks
Personal biases (e.g. Spread Firefox (SFX) is zealous)
Addition of factually incorrect information
Addition of speculation that flavor him (his pro-IE view)
Never admit that he is biased

You can see Talk:Internet Explorer and Talk:Mozilla Firefox (and the articles' history) for the various responses made by Beachy, which shows some of the points above. The RFC page said that both you and me have to write the user subpage for things like documenting our individual efforts on stopping the violations made by Beachy. That's why I'm asking for your help.

Please answer by replying here or at my user page. Thanks. :-) --minghong 18:44, 22 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I would be fine with that. So do you just want me to describe my efforts to stop his perceived violations of Wikipedia policy, or would you like me to help to describe the perceived violations themselves? I would like more details on how exactly this should work. -- MIT Trekkie 19:10, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

I don't really know how this thing works really. :-P But I think Wikipedia:Requests for comment#Comment about individual users would be helpful. You can take a look of examples like Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Zivinbudas too. Call me if you need help. I got to sleep now. :-o --minghong 19:25, 22 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I think it may be prudent to wait a while before posting a request for comment. As Wikipedia:Requests for comment#Comment about individual users states, "Once the request for comment is open, these two people must document their individual efforts, provide evidence that those efforts have failed to produce change, and sign the comment page." As your post on User talk:Beachy took place earlier today (according to my time zone), this may prove difficult. Perhaps we should wait to see whether Beachy continues his current behavior (which seems likely), in order that such evidence would be available. I find it unlikely that people will entertain repeated requests for comment about the same user, so if we are to do so, we must endeavor to get it right the first time. What do you think? -- MIT Trekkie 20:13, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

OK. Let's wait for a week or more to see if he would change his behavior. --minghong 07:28, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. I think I'll try to work together some kind of argument regarding alleged past abuses in the meantime. -- MIT Trekkie 13:06, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

I have a rough draft of a proposed RFC at User talk:MIT Trekkie/BeachyRFC. minghong, please take a look and let me know what you think. -- MIT Trekkie 03:22, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Visual Basic Wikibook[edit]

I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 07:36, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm a bit busy these days. --MIT Trekkie 14:42, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Boston[edit]

Hi MIT Trekkie. My addition of a POV tag to the "Boston" page wasn't intended to be vandalism. If you look at the talk page for the article I put my opinion that directing "Boston" to "Boston, Mass." is POV - US-centric. Boston, Mass is obviously bigger and of more world significance than Boston, Lincs., but the American city is named after the English town, so going to the disambiguation page seems NPOV to me. Dancarney 23:59, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for the misunderstanding. I guess I get a little punchy at times. I just found it a bit weird to have a redirect not work because there was a tag there as well. Perhaps there is a better way to indicate what you intended. - MIT Trekkie 02:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sonic R[edit]

I was wondering if you still have the game Sonic R...

Yes, I do. Why do you ask?

P.S. Please use ~~~~ to sign your posts - MIT Trekkie 17:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Because I need it bad.Real bad. Chuchugaga 19:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you have in mind. I would think you could find it on eBay or Amazon.com or something if you want it. - MIT Trekkie 00:05, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A 1998 game?? Can't you send it to me? Chuchugaga 16:56, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but I'm not willing to give you my copy of Sonic R. However, a quick search of Amazon reveals this web page [1], which offers 14 new and used copies of Sonic R through third parties. - MIT Trekkie 19:32, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm okay but I dont trust online shopping so I won't do that.thanks anyway. Chuchugaga 17:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

THANK YOU[edit]

thanks for gettin rid of that vandalism on Steve Ballmer's page. i was in the process of reverting it but you beat me to it =) CrazyAwesome (talk) 07:44, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. - MIT Trekkie (talk) 07:45, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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