User talk:Benkarnell

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TSPTF Call Out
Hi. If you are receiving this message it is because you are a member of the TSPTF, but did not respond to the TSPTF Call Out. If you still consider yourself an active member, please leave a short message on the TSTPF talk page. If you do not feel you can be an active member of the TSTPF, please leave a message at the TSPTF talk page or contact me with your retirement notice. If you do not respond to this message, you will be marked as an inactive member. Thank you for your service to this wiki. Mitro 16:21, January 27, 2011 (UTC)

Image Filenames
Hi. Seeing you're an admin, I was wondering about what is done about image filenames. On this site, there isn't really a standard for filenames, but nevertheless I have made some erroneous and sligthly embarrassing filename mistakes on two of my images. I'm aware that admin powers are required to rename images. I would upload new ones with correct names and request deletion but that isn't a long-term solution and would likely end up clogging the site with duplicate. Is there a template I could use to request renamings? Thanks. Detectivekenny (Info; Talk) 08:14, March 6, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. The template seems to be working good. Detectivekenny (Info; Talk) 00:25, March 7, 2011 (UTC)

Vandal
Just found a vandal, but in case you guys didn't see/notice it on the TSPTF page, I put it on your talk pages.

South Korea (Broken China)

Some guy, 72.68.72.32, just deleted the entire thing and replace it with "Lul wut?". PitaKang- (Talk|Contribs) 23:57, March 6, 2011 (UTC)

Republic of Watchung (1983: Doomsday)

Same guy, replaced content with "Victory is Mine!" and {~_~}Can't touch this. PitaKang- (Talk|Contribs) 23:58, March 6, 2011 (UTC)

Yukon
Just so you know, I've put up the first part of the King Andrew stuff up on the page. Lordganon 06:09, April 18, 2011 (UTC)

....Bit late to tell you, but the rest of the Yukon stuff was put up on time. Apologies for forgetting.

Is there anything else you wanted done with it?

Lordganon 21:48, October 18, 2011 (UTC)

Background
Ben, you can catch up here for the background on your question, as well as on my and GB's talk pages.BrianD 17:39, April 26, 2011 (UTC)

AH.com
Hey, can you explain what you mean by education? Not sure I understand God Bless the United States of America 20:04, May 24, 2011 (UTC)

I am sorry, I forgot too! Oh well, just forget about. God Bless the United States of America 23:40, June 9, 2011 (UTC)

Heh
No worries Ben, figured it was something like that. Would have complained here if I thought anything else ;) Lordganon 07:47, June 25, 2011 (UTC)

Image Categories
Because there is a categorizing system in place. Pictures, portraits, etc. of people go in the people category. As a matter of fact, that portrait category - which has barely anything in it - is going to be deleted eventually. As will the people category get organized.

And, note that almost no one here actually looks for images like that. They apparently cannot be bothered.

Lordganon 13:36, July 9, 2011 (UTC)

Something I am working on, slowly but surely. First have to get them all categorized somehow, mind. Lordganon 00:47, July 10, 2011 (UTC)

Request to edit Guyana Cooperative page
Hello, I'm relatively new to the community here, but I was wondering if it would be alright for me to edit the Guyana Cooperative page, and possibly act as a sort of caretaker for the page?

I'm of Guyanese descent, so I'm extremely familiar with Guyana's history (and also that of Surinam), so I was wondering if I could write a more comprehensive history for the page.

As I said before, I'm of Guyanese descent, and still have relatives there, so I'm extremely familiar with the culture, local politics, international relations, etc.

I asked about it on the article's Talk page, and Lordganon said to ask you.

Thanks,

Odysseus56

OK I added in a lot more background to the page and tagged it with the Template:Ddprop like you said. I hope you can take a look soon. Also, look on the Talk page there for a more detailed explanation of the additions I made. Odysseus56

Added to the GC Talk page Odysseus56

Hey Ben, I'd like your input about some proposals I've made to the Guyana Cooperative page. I made some suggestions based on the local politics, (namely revising the population level that is listed on the page, and about the likelihood that Guyanese civilians would have wanted to flee during the conquest of Essequibo County), but Lordganon  seems to disagree very strongly with my recent proposals and kind of insinuated that I was "very disposed against Venezuela."

Anyway I was wondering if we could get your opinion about my proposals.

Once those debates are over and done, what is the process for putting the revised article on the path towards canon?

Also, I'd like to propose the creation of a new page about a real-life international organization that the wiki has overlooked so far, CARICOM (Caribbean Community, founded 1973). I've got a link to the wikipedia page about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARICOM

Thanks,

Odysseus56

Yikes, his latest response is um, really insulting, basically accusing me of being some sort of idiot and is accusing me of being some kind of an anti-Venezuelan bigot (which I am NOT). He's pretty much refusing to consider adding a realistic idea to the page and being rather rude about it (to be honest, he's been rather rude and hostile from the beginning).

I pointed out that he was projecting his assumptions onto a national group that he likely doesn't know that much about (since, let's be honest, most people in the world don't), and he's now accused me of "going off" on him (and seeming rather smug about it)...even though he's accusing me of being some kind of racist.

All I did was say that there would likely be a mass exodus as a result of an invading army, and he's now rather casually accusing me of racism (which again, I am NOT; I was simply pointing out that people in western Guyana find the prospect of invasion to be terrifying).

If Lordganon is going to be flinging around insulting accusations like that on every page of this wiki, then I'm feeling rather reluctant to contribute anything else. I'm definitely not feeling welcome to share any more ideas if I'm going to be constantly accused of being an idot/racist/whatever by this rather hostile guy. And I suspect that many other people would feel unwelcome to contribute to other pages as well.

Please step in as soon as possible, I really need a third party to take a look at the proposals.

Thanks,

Odysseus56

Note that I did not insult him once or say anything "racist" or anything of the sort. All I did was remind him to check his biases at the door and remember them when doing this, going so far as to note that I was not meaning to be insulting, or anything of the sort, before he started going off on me. He preceded to go off on a bender from there, largely proving the point true. He choose to take that note, despite it being nothing of the sort, and a suspicion based on what he was saying, as incredibly "racist" and "insulting" despite it being nothing of the sort. Lordganon 16:52, August 11, 2011 (UTC)

Moroccan Ampere
Hey, Benkarnell, you should remember last month you've brought up the possibility of a Moroccan Ampere, and I was wondering if you would still like to be interested in the island as a Moroccan colony or even independent nation. I just have two questions.
 * 1) What do you think it would be called?
 * 2) What do you think a colonial flag and even current would look like? (I assume something like this or this, but it's all up to you)

Hope you get to reply and be a member of the timeline. Regards, ChrisL123 04:21, August 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh jeez, I'm really sorry. I thought your message was an older one. But I'm not even sure what's going on. We finished the map game when we finished colonization, soon the whole timeline started to die down. I'm sure you can still add ideas to the talk page, but I'm not even sure if anyone will be there to hear it. ChrisL123 15:12, November 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry, my talkpage really doesn't like me. But anyway, I actually unofficially quit the project because there was so much lack of participation. Even Alexanders doesn't seem to be up to date with it. But back to the point, I'm not even sure if we're doing the southern islands or not. We really haven't done a whole lot of work on them, so. You could ask Alexanders if he wants to do the idea or not, but personally I think it would be better without the southern islands than with them. ChrisL123 22:28, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

Philippine DD
Hi Im new to this community but I would like ask if I would be allowed to add new material on the Philippine DD page because I have noticed that the page has been stagnant for some time?

-91J

I would like your feedback on something if you can.
Ben, I know you are not as actively involved in the Doomsday scenario as you used to be, but as a long time contributor, if you should have the time I would like to get your input on some concerns I have posted regarding a fundamental issue. The specifics are posted on the main discussion page. Thanks. --Fxgentleman 01:16, October 13, 2011 (UTC)

The Nicoya Question
Sorry for not replying sooner, it seems as though I left a lot of things unresolved when I took a break. In any case, I believe that there would certainly be a bit of tension surrounding this Costa Rican expansion. However, I also think that there wouldn't be any help coming from the USSR, seeing as they are occupied elsewhere, with their plans to restore northern Russia. Nicaragua would protest, but it is still occupied with rebels in the south.

So, basically, I think that both of these countries simply don't have the will to do anything about it in the forseeable future, feel free to expand.Vladivostok 17:29, November 30, 2011 (UTC)

Let me explain
this is owens sockpuppet here a user named random writerguy is herrasing me at ASW he has been spocken to regarding this issue as you are a crat here cpuld you do something Martin1983 07:53, December 3, 2011 (UTC)

Possible wife for King Andrew??
I've found a possible wife for Andy:

The Honourable Victoria Ann Seely, daughter of David Peter Seely, 4th Baron Mottisone. The Seelys are/were an aristocratic family who had a connection with the Isle of Wight since the mid-19th century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Seely,_4th_Baron_Mottistone

http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index1073.htm

As you can see Miss Seely would be three years older than Andy and would be married in 1984 but we can simply retcon her husband out of existence.

According to that second link Miss Seely does have children OTL so it would seem that if she married Andy in this ATL the line of succession should be assured

Also there was a previous connection between the two families as Prince Philip and David Seely had served together in WWII and Philip was the godfather of David's son and Victoria's brother, Peter

Verence71 18:38, January 12, 2012 (UTC)

re:Defunct Map Games
Hi. Go ahead and delete them. I had no idea I had made that many map games though!

Cheers- CrimsonAssassin 20:13, February 4, 2012 (UTC)

Just go on, I have no problem with you deleting it, keep going ^^. --Galaguerra1 04:57, February 5, 2012 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. CrimsonAssassin 13:25, February 5, 2012 (UTC)

My Shameful blogpost
It's okay. I want the blogpost taken down. I was so infuriated when I wrote it, but I was seriously embarassed when I cooled down. I think it was a serious mistake on my part, and I am glad you took it down. I have Asperger's syndome, and it causes me to have a bit of short fuse on my temper. And while I have become better at controlling myself, I can still fly off the handle pretty easily. I apologize for the disruption my disgustingly shameful blogpost may have caused you. LG's behavior in recent months, and his fervent denials of wrong-doing make me so frustated. I will try to do better to control my temper on the wiki.

Yank 05:24, February 7, 2012 (UTC)

Quite frankly, I don't think you had any right to delete that post without getting any sort of permission first. Nor did Yank have a single thing right.

Your posts on those pages are walls of text, and thus not readable. There are no spaces between spots where even looking at your code there is one intended. That's not my fault. Post like that anger-post on my talk page, layout-wise, on those other pages, and there is no problem at all.

And, if you'll notice, I'm not the only one being stifled. I'm done arguing with you when I see that you've not noted any of it. That should have been pretty darned obvious.

As for the rest? You are the pot calling the kettle black. And I'm getting sick of it.

Lordganon 07:58, February 7, 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that he gave you permission - after the fact. That ignored that I don't think you had any right to do so in the first place.

Standard Wiki formatting would also include such things as an Enter Button, would it not? And if you think I'm the only one who adjusts comments to make them readable for themselves and the community then you're sadly mistaken.

Please. Looking at your posts for the last while shows that you've consistently been like that, and have started things several times, randomly. None of what you just said is true, and you've already entirely forgotten all of Kenny's trash except what he said originally. Guess I should have expected that.

Lordganon 17:30, February 8, 2012 (UTC)

Oh if we're allowing fighting like this, why don't we just unban Catherine and Owen? You're admins, guys. Be better than this. CrimsonAssassin 18:25, February 8, 2012 (UTC)