Talk:Yeti/Archive 1

message: In 1997, Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner claimed to have come face to face with a Yeti. He has since written a book, My Quest for the Yeti, and eventually killed one. According to him, the Yeti is actually an endangered Himalayan brown bear, ursus arctos, that can walk upright or on all fours.
Can someone who knows more about this subject clarify this paragraph.  It is rather ambigious.  What did he kill?  A book?  A book he has written?  Did he kill a Yeti?  Did he kill a bear?  If he killed a bear than that wouldn't be a yeti now would it?  If it is endangered species why did he kill this bear?  I'm not sure what to make of this paragraph.
I've had it. Enough's enough. I'm calling for 
mediation. Do you agree that we are at an impasse, Lizard King? - UtherSRG 21:23, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not care that you are an individual. I care that you are not a Wikipedian, but a friend of Lizard King whom he has told to come here and make edits or votes at his direction. - UtherSRG 20:50, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

text: THANK YOU UTHERSRG! YOU HAVE SHOWN US WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO VOTE ON WIKEPEDIA AND WHO DOES NOT.  EACH PERSON YOU JUST STRUCK OUT WAS A SEPERATE PERSON WITH A DIFFERENT IP. HALF OF THEM HAVE THIER OWN WEBSITES. YOU HAVE JUST DEMONSTRATED EXACTLY HOW ETHICAL YOU REALLY ARE AND WHAT YOUR MOTIVES ARE.  --LK 3pm 1-20-04
You really can't complain for me doing what you asked. I really didn't know it was sarcasm. You should be more specific next time. - UtherSRG 20:09, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

message: LizardKing - Instead of trying to out do yourself by making more fake pictures of Yeti, etc., why not do the real work of perusing the existing research of Yetis and finding an image that is both:
#representative of what a Yeti supposedly looks like
#free from copyright or whose copyright holder permits the image being used on Wikipedia.
None of the images you've used so far meet these criteria, particularly the first one. Until then, plese do not keep adding poor images to this article. - UtherSRG 01:38, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: image deleted (possibly copyvio), now an unrelated image has been uploaded with the same name. -- Paddu 20:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: *Yeti5 image: 5 votes
*Newbug image: 7 votes
*Yeti image: 3 votes
*No image: 10 votes
No further discussion seems to be required. Tannin 14:54, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleting votes is the same as striking out names.  The people are registered ebay users.  Most proved who they were conclusively.  Websites with their pictures and pictures of thier children should sort of make your whole sock-puppet argument mute. Not only that, but these people were contributing to Wikipedia before anonymously and though they would not have voted (because they were unaware of the issue) they did do it of thier own free will and without being coerced once I told them people were taking down the image.Lizard King 11:34, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Poll Results (unedited)

message: I made my vote from Wikipedia:Current polls. At that time this vote was listed as a "current poll". I don't agree that my vote was after the poll closed, and thus invalid. Your moving the poll to "closed polls" after my vote does not in any way make my vote invalid. If you are going to be this unreasonable about something so simple, perhaps LK has alot more to complain about that it may look at first sight. I have had my own troubles with User:tannin and I am thus necessarilly sympathetic w complaints about his abrasiveness,and theoretical misdeeds. This in no way means I am taking a side here, (I am almost completely ignorant of the particulars) I just happen to like LK's "bigfoot" drawing, and think it would make a fine addition to either yeti or bigfoot (the two should be combined, BTW). Also, I don't like what I see on this talk page, nor what you have stated about my vote. Please reform any and all ill behaviours. Jack 06:38, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Just who are you talking about, Jack? Tannin 06:29, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: You may take my advice to be generally helpful :) Jack 07:47, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  I repeat the question. Who are you talking to here, Jack? Tannin 08:02, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it looks like I'm talking to you, Tony. Jack 08:24, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  My Vote