User talk:MyNameIsNeo7

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Regarding your edit, changing X11 to X Windows, I would advise you to take a look at X Windowing System, specifically, section 9 on Nomenclature. The term "X Windows" (in the manner of "Microsoft Windows") is officially deprecated and generally considered incorrect. I have taken the liberty of correcting the mistake (although your other edits I agree with). --huwr 04:37, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[I have edited my original comment out -- it was a bit too extreme] Nbougalis 14:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Origin of Lunar Linux

I must disagree with lunar not having an origin because it is based on another distribution. Many other distributions are based on other distributions, such as Ubuntu, Knoppix, and CentOS. The project started in the US, thus to me, that's where Lunar's origin is, and I'm sure this is how many other distribution's origins are figured. If the origin column were so specific to only be for distributions not based on others, it would become quite useless just because so many distributions are forks of other distributions. That of course, is just my opinion, and being a lunar developer myself I'm sure I'm a bit biased, but if it is to be enforced on lunar, it should be enforced on all forks. -- Striker 22:28, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

"If the origin column were so specific to only be for distributions not based on others, it would become quite useless just because so many distributions are forks of other distributions."

That's what the "Predecessor" column is for.

If you can confirm that every developer for Sorcerer GNU/Linux and the developers that initially forked it into Lunar Linux were all located in the USA, then it's fine to list Lunar's origin as "USA". Otherwise it is illogical.

Alternatively, we could say Lunar's origin is "Forked from Sorcerer" or just "Sorcerer"; Sorcerer is already listed as its "Predecessor", however, so this would seem redundant to me. ¦ Reisio 22:53, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't see how debating where all the project's developers were from counts for anything. That can be stated for any distribution as well...I would imagine hardly any distributions have one single location for its developers, not to mention that other distributions based on a previous one will be from the same location. Ubuntu is a fine example of this, since it's based on debian which has developers world-wide. Lunar was forked by Chuck Mead under his new project based in the US, on US servers, thus the origin is the US. -- Striker 23:32, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

If Mead forked it all by himself with assistance from nobody else (or if everyone helping was also from the USA), I've no problem with its origin being "USA". ¦ Reisio 00:16, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Let's keep this simple. Comparison tables don't provide enough room for nuances and subtlety. If the lead developer was based in the US at the time the distribution was forked, then that's the origin. Many of the distributions have an international development team, but there's simply not enough space in the comparison table to explain this. That's what the individual articles about each distribution are for. --MarkSweep✍ 02:14, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Why are you enforcing this only on the Lunar Linux project, and not all the other distributions listed? Can I not also ask where exactly every developer for a particular distribution was from and find out that some developers lived abroad in other countries? I fail to see the point in your argument that all developers from one line of distributions must all live in one location for it to count as an origin. Everything has an origin, even if it's based on prior work and not all developers lived in the same location. -- Striker 00:33, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

I fail to see the point in your argument

I noticed. :) Don't worry about it; if majority consensus is for "USA", that's what it shall be. ¦ Reisio 02:45, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

lol you think?

I reverted that anon at Star Wars Galaxies the first time he put it in last night, and went to bed... looks like he put it right back in. I'd like to see his justification for how its not POV. :) --Syrthiss 17:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Bleh. Between SWG and RuneScape its a wonder we get anything done here. --Syrthiss 17:28, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Chuck Mead.jpg

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Thank you for your time. 177.18.118.123 (talk) 05:16, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Username issue

Hello Striker! Unfortunately we have an issue regarding the username. I've registered myself as Striker at the Portuguese Wiktionary on February 2010. At that time, I didn't know that there were other people using the same name on other projects. They have not claimed for an unified login and the system let me register. I did found it out a while later, but it is very workful for me to just move to another name. The actual policy estabilishes that stewards can not perform renames under wikis that have active bureaucrats, which many do. I would need to come to more than 70 wikis to request it, not counting the projects where I have not edited and where I'll not even request the renaming, otherwize I'd need to request under 200+ wikis. All that because (1) I created the global Striker account; (2) I have joined SWMT and became way active in it for a while, reverting vandalism on many projects.

I recognize and respect the right you have of keeping your username. Notwithstanding I regret to say that you'll not be able to do cross-wiki work if you decide do do so, not because I don't want you to, but because there are other Strikers besides me. I am trying to usurp those accounts, but there are no guaranties, especially for he:User:Striker. In addition to that, a cluster of new Striker accounts, which belong to me nowadays, will not be renamed and will be left behind in the renaming process as they have zero edits, not being worth for me to spend time writing renaming requests. I wonder if something like global renaming existed. I'd just rename my global account and you'd not be bothered nor the other Strikers.

I would like to hear from you if you intend to raise your username or let me usurp it, so I can decide wether to start the long and workful renaming process or continue the ongoing usurpation requests. My interest is to contribute under many wikis and to help with the war against vandalism, mainly on small wikis and perhaps become a steward, who knows... For that, I need to have a full merged global account.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best regards, Striker (from metawiki) (confirmation of this message from my homewiki).

PS: My english is far from the perfection. Sorry for any misspelling or grammatical mistake.

• Update: I have usurped all the other Striker accounts except yours and the one from commons as you can see here. --Striker (metawiki) 01:36, 29 September 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.41.166.191 (talk)

Proposed deletion of Chuck Mead

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