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Drawing with MS Excel

Theresa, I have difficulties drawing in Word especially in moving of drawn objects. Movement cannot be done in very tiny amounts. I tend to use MS Excel to draw as I can control movement and sizing to very small increments. Any comments from you?

From Lew W.S., Singapore 17 Sep 2006 219.75.19.161 02:43, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Removing Other's Talk Page Comments

Please do not remove other people's talk page comments in future, even if you disagree with them. Removing such comments is considered vandalism (look up "Changing people's comments") - remember that there is no censorship on Misplaced Pages. --Badharlick 15:13, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

answered on your talk page. Please don't make vandalism accusations against people acting in good faith. I removed a conversation that User:Danny had already removed and was restored. I see you know who Danny is so I assume you are merely trying to look self important here. I have no time for you. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 19:13, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I have spoken at length with Joshua, and have come to the conclusion that I acted too hastily. Please accept my sincere apologies - my intention was not to offend, rather to improve what I thought was a bad situation, which was in fact nothing more than people just following policy. At the time I was not fully aware of the policies, and I think that ignorance led to me viewing the situation in the wrong light. Hopefully I haven't bothered you too much, or caused others to believe that you are a vandal. I'm very glad to say that some good has come out of this incident, in that I am now far more aware of Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines than I was before. Thankyou for being so patient with me, I'll make a point of returning the favour in future. If you ever need a hand with anything, drop a message on my talk page and I'll be more than happy to help. :) --Badharlick 16:23, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm sorry I was so short with you! Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 05:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

How did you ever become an admin?

I just read your utterly unhelpful criticism on Talk:Jimmy Wales. You have obviously abused your powers by not giving a partial veiw to everyone involved. I am inclined to believe the account of your detractors; that you use your adminship to selfishly push your opinions on everyone else. Administratorship of Misplaced Pages does not mean that you "know" what Misplaced Pages should be. It merely gives you the power to put a check on rampant vandalism and NOT MUCH MORE. Misplaced Pages is a "free" encyclopedia, but with people like you around, it sure seems to be growing into something much different. 198.148.166.5 11:54, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

My opinions are simple. Banned users don't get to edit. That's what being banned means. I revert all edits of hardbanned users. This has nothing whatsoever to do with admin status. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 12:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm on holiday at the moment. I'll be back at the end of August

I'm Back! Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 16:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Use of Theresa Knott's illustrations by non-profit in USA

Theresa: Love your illustrations. We are a nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon supporting differently abled and minority independent inventors in Oregon. I'd like to use one of your illustrations on our website. Can you send me the particulars regarding cost, etc? Thanks! Kay Richards inventorpdx@gmail.com

Very Nice

Those are some nice tits you've got there, so big and perky, like the paintwork aswell, may I use them for my page?

(The Bread 06:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC))

Of course you can! Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 16:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou

(The Bread 09:11, 9 September 2006 (UTC))

(Note to anyone reading this of a prudish disposition. The above is a joke! Some of us have a sense of humor here. There is a link on my userpage of a picture of my tits with a false warning message. That's a joke too! I feel sad that I have to explain this, but there you go. See further down this page, some people have no sense of fun and are just downright nasty im thier hatered of others.) Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 16:16, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Angle of attack.png

Hi! I saw that you made the image in MS Word. Would it be possible to make an SVG version of the image? Perhaps by opening the Word-file in OpenOffice and export it as an SVG. // Liftarn

I've lost the original word file (it's on an old computer that I gave away). Maybe I could use the bitmap trace facility of inkscape though. I'll see what I can do. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 17:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh I see someone has already done it. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 20:37, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Great, but there are more images that needs conversion. Oh well. If the source files are gone it's not much to do, but to wait for somebody to convert them as they did with this one. // Liftarn 11:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Policy on models photos

I agree with this idea; it's a good one. Oh, and I've got a barnstar for you to come... --TheM62Manchester 13:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

An Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For blocking Sunholm (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and his sockpuppets, and preventing them from doing their vandalism again; and also for being a good admin! TheM62Manchester 13:02, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! It's nice to be apreciated although it feels a bit weired getting a RickK barnstar when he and I clashed on more than one occasion over the best way to handle vandals. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 13:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Glad you like it. --TheM62Manchester 13:13, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Need your opinion..

I was editing some long templates so they could have a show/hide feature, (show hide feature is in the top right of the template) and I was wondering how they were from someone else's view point.

• Template:Georgia state parks before after
• Template:Fairfax County Public Schools before after
• Template:AAA Northern Region before after

How do you feel about these changes? — The Future 18:36, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

They look great and work perfectly. I think it's a good idea. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 20:19, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Cool, I hope everyone else feels this way. :) — The Future 20:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Green Tea, Translations, and Copyright

On an edit summary to green tea, you wrote, "Adding back the tranlastions - you can't claim copyright on them". Just to be clear, translations in general are considered works seperately copyrightable from the original material. For example, the Reader's Digest translation of the Bible is copyrighted by them. However, mechanical translations are not considered copyrightable. I suspect you essentially know that already and were just be casual, but I've got a bug about copyright. As to the tea name translations themselves, I'd say that they might actually be copyrightable for the translations from Chinese ideagrams (if original work - it's my impression that translation from the ideograms is inherently judgmental, or "createive"), but if so, then taking them for use in the green tea article would be so de minimis, of minimal impact, that it's a classic example of fair use. studerby 17:10, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes I know that translations are in general copyrightable, but translations of the japanese word (rather than the ideogram) must surely be mechanical? How much creative effort does it take to call something twig tea? Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 17:31, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

It depends, potentially a lot. One way of explaining it is to think of a language as dividing the real world up into different categories. Some languages "draw the lines" just a little bit differently than english does; some languages draw them very very differently; some don't even draw the same number of lines. This makes some things hard to translate, or even untranslatable, mechanically. For example, there are languages into which the english phrase "red, green and blue" simply cannot be mechanically translated. Why? Because those languages only have two different color terms in the entire vocabularly. While most of those languages are what we might call "primitive", subtler issues comes up with not-so-primitive languages, such as mayan, which has one word (lets call it "grue") for the blue/green color range, not two. Do we translate it as "red, light grue and dark grue"? Or just "red and grue"? Or possibly "red, yellow, and grue"? Time for a creative judgment, and probably some knowledge of the context. And that's just a "for instance".

And another common problem is that the same word may have multiple meanings in the source language; which meaning do you pick? For example, an online japanese dictionary tells me that there are about half a dozen meanings for "sen" (one of which is apparently "hermit"); how doe we translate "sencha"? Knowing the answer already, it's tempting to say that it's obvious. But what if we didn't? Doesn't "hermit tea" seem at least plausible? Mybe it's a variety of tea that is associate with hermits for some historical reason (brought back from China by a buddhist monk who became a famous hermit?). And there's a zillion other possible issues in translation.

As an aside, there are actually cultures wherein to correctly translate dialogue you have to know the familial relationships of the speaker and hearer; it might be taboo to use a particular "everyday" word to a mother's brother, and taboo to use a different word with the same meaning to a father's sister. (Such "mother-in-law" language rules were common in Australian aboriginal languages, most of which are effectively dead languages now.)

Anyway, I think I might be riding my hobby horse just a little too hard here. Fair use surely covers the translations of those tea terms, and almost any plausible scenario of one or two words borrowed for normal Misplaced Pages usage. I hope all that was at least vaguely interesting and that I didn't take up too much of your time... studerby 02:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Tots TV vandal

This is mostly an FYI. The anon you blocked this morning was not just some random vandal. It was the Tots TV vandal. This vandal is a long-term (over 6 months now) subtle misinformation vandal. He is on a dynamic IP, so his IP shifts every few days. He can be easily identified, because he makes the same edits to certain pages every time. The boy/girl change to the Tots TV page is his signature change. Warning this vandal is useless. (Not a criticism, as you had no way of knowing.) Protecting or semi-protecting his targets is also mostly useless, as he'll just move on to other targets, and return to his favorites when they are eventually un-protected. I generally revert every edit he makes and block his current IP for a week, which is effectively a block until he next shifts on his dynamic IP. Given that he's a subtle misinformation vandal, I consider even the edits that are not obviously vandalism to be suspect. If you want to help watch for him in general, mark a few of the pages he targets for watching, and you'll soon see the patterns to his edits. Anyway, this was mostly an FYI to let you know who it was that you were dealing with today. - TexasAndroid 13:30, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

request for admin

Hi, thanks for your time. The article dispute is being resolved, but I'm not sure about user 999's attitude . --Shravak 22:42, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Well he was a bit short with you. But I don't see any need to take action. We all get a little shirty now and then. Just rise above it. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 22:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

This person is making discriminitory edits and I believe such threats and rude behavior are against wiki policies, ...thank you --Shravak 03:10, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

This person has accused you are trying to cheat the 3RR by using a sockpuppet. To be honest it looks to me as if that is what you did. Do you deny the accusation? Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 07:55, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

the sock puppet accusation turned out to be false. If you can't do much about abusive users ( or perhaps you yourself are one) than don't answer complaints. --Shravak 17:19, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

List of countries...

I can see that you've finally protected the article from that IP editor, but he has added the same information to the article's talk page (which I have since removed) and it appears that Esau sleiman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) might be this person as well based on the edits done. Ryūlóng 00:21, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Hmm he's a strange one, that's for sure. I feel bad but I had to block him for 24 hours, we can't babysit forever. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 00:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

However, as you can see by his contribs he's gone to another article to insert the same information. In 24 hours, we'll have to start babysitting him, again, and none of us want to do that. Maybe he'll get the message and leave a message on his talk page. If not, then a longer term block may be necessary. His ignorance is just baffling. Ryūlóng 01:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm waayyy ahead of you. temp blocked for 24 hours. I've seen users like this before, they rarely shape up in the long run but you've gotta hope. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 01:04, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

It is going to be a bitch to watch other pages. I have List of... on my watchlist, but other than my watching his contribs at the CVU channel, there's not much else I can do; something else may be required. Ryūlóng 01:08, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

His IP looks static. So he can't edit any page for 24 hours. I'll unprotect list of ...... in the morning so when he does come back he'll likely start there. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 01:17, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

re: List of countries

Esau sleiman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log); Look familiar? Ryūlóng 22:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

dudes my like nothing you ever faced before I'm just getting started. you guys think by blocking me is bad it just makes it fun I think it is great because like it. I said before i can get to that website so many way you can belive bother. (esau sleiman) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.214.75.161 (talk • contribs)

Userpage Protection

• Thank you very much for protecting my userpage. I've been trying to just ignore them for the last couple weeks, but tonight it just hit the boiling point. Thanks. -- pm_shef 03:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. Right. Whatever.

I read the debate before I commented. Obviously. Personally, I don't believe that pornographic images of any kind should be allowed on Misplaced Pages without a clear warning. Some of us don't want to see that. I was almost about to click on one of those images, but then I thought that it was probably explicit, so I (fortunately) bypassed it.

I am also offended by the objectification of the female body and the way some women (including you and publicgirluk) support it. Apparently, you also have explicit images on your userpage, as per the comment "Very Nice." Really. Do you really want all the pervs out there to be able to ogle you and make disgusting comments on your talk page? People who you don't even know? Why don't you just take off all your clothes and walk around naked in the streets then? That's basically the same thing. Quite frankly, I think that someone who puts her boobs all over the Internet shouldn't be allowed to edit articles that anyone, including children, can read.

Call me a prude, but that's just my opinion. Eilicea 15:34, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

LOL Click on my tits link on my user page then apologise. And don't be rude, it isn't becoming. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 16:00, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Help.

I noticed on the incident board on a case you were working on is a case similar to mine. can you look at it?TheTruth2 17:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I was taking messages off my board and all sorts of grief came about. I was blocked over it. You stated to the one admin that it is the other users talkpage and just archive on his. I need some help with a overbearing abusive admin. TheTruth2 17:36, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

That page was not vandalism. There was some confusion about the status.. So when will you remove them?TheTruth2 17:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC) That would fly if you did it on one occasion. But edit warring without adding a single citation? Inexcusable. The warnings need to stay. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 17:57, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Abusive? Jamie was abusive. Well thanks.TheTruth2 17:52, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I looked at your edits and saw you being abusive to an IP editor. I did not see him being abusive to you. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 17:57, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

How was I abusive? I felt threatened. I did feel abused. Well thanks for the help.TheTruth2 18:08, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

It's not how you feel that determines if you are abusive. It's how you behave. You were rude, demanding, incivil and childish. You atacked the person and didn't discuss his arguments. Sorry to be harch but you did ask. I'm offline now so I won't answer any more questions immediately. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 18:11, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

He was rude as well. TheTruth2 18:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

There is no excuse for personal attacks and incivility. If he/she was being rude, place a comment on WP:AN/I, and it would be dealt with appropriately. Daniel.Bryant 06:07, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Jimbo offending me

(I only just noticed your reply in page history, as Tony removed the entire discussion.)

You're certainly right, and I wasn't trying to imply that Jimbo had any such intention. As far as I can tell, he isn't aware I exist. But it still offended me, whatever his intentions. Regards, Kasreyn 23:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Also, see Talk:Doggy style; it always turns out to be much harder to get my foot back out of my mouth once I've stuck it in! ^_^;; Kasreyn 23:40, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Policy on private photos of identifiable models

I rather imagine that we disagree as to the propriety of the proposed policy (the final version of which, of course, I may find more to my liking), but notwithstanding that I must query you as to its applicability to non-human subjects. I am not certain that the great tits in the image of which I'm quite fond, who are ostensibly engaged in a private colloquy, expected that the photograph taken would be made public. I am also inclined to think that the bird on the left is the same as that which was photographed in Vienna in 2004, and so I think it exceedingly likely that he is not, in fact, a fan of England (of course, Austria aren't a side for which it it sensible to root), such that he might be quite perturbed to find himself said to be an Englishman, the ascription of which term might also contravene Misplaced Pages:Images of living aves neognathae. The only possible solution, I think, is for you to photograph the tits whilst they hold a sign in front of Publicgirluk delineating the provenance of her images.  :) Joe 04:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

LOL!! Worse yet, I believe the image in question actually uses a mirror-reversed copy of the original image to create an appearance of two tits; in fact, the second tit is a clone of the first tit - an appalling breach of biomedical ethics!! grin Kasreyn 05:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

(smile) Red links are like a red rag to a bull to me. I'm contolling my urges at the moment, but who knows how long it'll last? Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 19:09, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Got free time?

List of countries by military expenditures may need to be updated with information from https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2067rank.html. This should stop them from complaining about it. Ryūlóng 02:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry but i really don't have the time right now to do this. I'm back at work tomorrow. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 19:07, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

That's okay, but I have some other news for you: It looks like 66.177.155.18 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and Esau sleiman (talk · contribs) are one in the same . Ryūlóng 21:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Proving who I am

Jon if you click on the "history" tab at the top of this page you can see that It was really me who left this message. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 06:48, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Wondering if you could...

Use your oversight powers to delete my user page history? There is sensitive personal information on there that I would like removed. Everything up to the most recent edit? Magic Window 14:56, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Bright idea for the birth of a new article.

There is a related chemical compound to benzalkonium chloride called benzethonium chloride. I am a brand new user who is just starting out on wikipedia. I do not know how to start to make a brand new article. Please start a stub so I jump into the contributions to a brand new article yet to be. Thank You. Regards, Nicole.

Here you go! benzethonium chloride. Just click on the red link and start typing Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 19:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC) Red links do not work, Ha Ha Ha. You are a making a wikijoke. But this is serious. I want to begin typing asap. Please help. Kind Regards, Thanks again, Nicole.

Try the red link again, and this time, scroll down the page. You'll find a text entry box. Write in that, and hey presto! You've got an article. You may be thinking that an admin has to do something special in the system to create an article. Not at all. Anyone can start a new page whenever they want. Just type the title you want into the search box and if there isn't already an article on it, start writing it. Good luck, Kasreyn 01:22, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm leaving WP for awhile because of recent events

Hi Theresa, long time no talk. I've decided to leave WP in protest of some recent events. Please share any thoughts you might have on my talk page. Thanks, your old Wiki-friend, Paul August ☎ 18:26, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

September Esperanza Newsletter

Your opinion, please

Hi! We welcome your opinion, or participation on Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality/WIP-image-guidelines where we are attempting to develop useful guidelines to help solve a variety of problems. Atom 15:13, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

ArbCom elections

Hi. If you have decided, I think potential candidates would be interested in knowing whether you intend to run for reelection in the upcoming ArbCom election. Regards, Newyorkbrad 22:17, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry but I have no intention of running again. The Ac demands a lot of time and i don't have it anymore. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 18:14, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. "Real life" comes first, of course, but good luck in your future Wiki-endeavors as well. Regards, Newyorkbrad 16:43, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back!

Welcome back after your lenghty absence, we missed you! :) semper fi — Moe 02:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! I've been real busy with other projects, and in real life too, but I'll never leave[REDACTED] for good. Sometimes it's nice to get away for a bit though. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 18:16, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Good to see your voice of reason on ANI again. Hope the time off was fruitful -- Samir धर्म 00:41, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Yep! and I've come back nice and refreshed. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 00:44, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Thx re: Bobcat vandal

Thanks for blocking the IPaddress Bobcat vandal. I think the course of action and length of time you decided on is fair, since they can request a reduction which can be granted if they can make a convincing case of contrition. Hu 20:30, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Removing my own talk

I want to remove my own talk at New Contributor help page. How to do this? Thank you.

Youv'e done it! Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 22:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Sock puppeteer to 139.142.135.106

Could you please take a look at the page "Calgary Science School"'s history? One of the edits around oct 20th.. I think.. Is a user under the name of mroche. They are a student at calgary science school, that has been using the school computers for vandalism. PS: Thanks for the quick blocking of 139.142.135.106. Ardo 01:56, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Blocking people

I've noticed that you haven't been leaving messages on the talkpages of people you've blocked. I've been filling them in for you; I'd like to politely request you do. Thanks :) —Xyrael / 19:00, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't really see the point in the case of persistant vandals. They know they are blocked and they know why. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 19:02, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Spelling corrections

Theresa, I received your nasty note about British English being the standard for English on this Web site. The courteous thing to do would have been to simply advise me of the policy. That would have been sufficient. I hope that other administrators have manners that you don't.

My note was curt but I apologise if it came across as nasty. That was not my intention. British English is not the standard here. The policy is to simply leave spellings alone if the are correct. So changing US to brit isn't allowed either.BTW if you sign your posts with four tildes ~~~~ the software will sign and date stamp your posts for you. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 00:13, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

WP:ANI

Please can you remove my thread from WP:ANI, it was my mistake. It's unnecessary, having read pgk's comments. SunStar Net 13:35, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

I only asked for it to be removed because I thought doing so would constitute vandalism - it's my mistake!

SunStar Net 13:45, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

What is your problem?

Hey Theresa knott, what is your problem? What have I said to you? Have I wrote something wrong in any of your articles or on your userpage. Have I done something so taht your articles can be deleted or you should be ashamed. Well, I'm ashamed of you. What is your problem?

What do you want from me? I should upload any image or should make a mini-encyclopedia or to do anything that I want to do. Why are you interrupting in my life?

Remember one thing, if you'll do anything with me, I can kill you. And shutup don't talk on my talk pages. Calvinsport 1:35 AM 29th October 2006