User talk:Aika

Thank you! The images of the Soviet leaders are also much appreciated. I see you've been editing since March, but took a long break, so I suppose I should be the first to welcome you to Wikipedia! Everyking 16:24, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Switched jobs..

..and had been without a decent ISP for a while. Its good to be back, something about helping to educate the masses EN MASSE' is beyond amazing to me. Even if I only know about odd quirkey things :) --Aika 23:40, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Join RWNB!

Hello, Aika! Though you might be interested in the Russian wikipedians' notice board. Come check it out! KNewman 04:40, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Afro Greetings

Hey! *waving* Thanks for the kind note -- and for the much improved pic on the Afro page. The earlier photo was of black comedian Eddie Something-or-other clowning in a tacky afro wig -- possibly inserted by some redneck who thought it was funny. It really did need to be replaced. Now, can you do me a favor and find a decent photo of some really tight dreads for Dreadlocks? The blacker the brother or sister, the better, IMO. The previous photo was of some white boy with some really nasty-lookin' dreads he'd somehow tortured into locks. Someone else removed it and, I think, tried to insert another photo. But they must be a techno-idiot like me and couldn't do it. (I need to take some time and figure that out; there's a photo of a mural and maybe a couple of pharaohs that I want to insert in Afrocentrism. Anyway, thanks again. Peace 2 u. deeceevoice 15:31, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

About African-American culture

Hey. :) Thanks for stopping by my page again. Listen. Frankly, I think the article should be voted for deletion. There is no similar article that purports to deal with the culture of any other ethnic group in a separate article, and this type of compartmentalization lends itself to the kinds of stupid generalities this piece contains. I figure if someone wants to know about African-American culture, they'll go to African American and follow the various links. The subject is far too complex for a single article -- and certainly not one written by people with such limited knowledge of who and what we are and the obvious biases that go along with such abysmal ignorance. deeceevoice 05:53, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's me again. I'll probably get a lot of flack for it, but I've deleted the entire, stinkin', reekin', freakin' article -- with an explanation. What I don't get is why people so obviously ignorant about a subject would attempt to write about it --and without obviously even bothering to read even the information about the topic already available on the web site. Typical, white arrogance? Naivete? WHAT? Hell, don't even bother to answer. I know better than to try to get inside people's heads. Thanks for the alert. Peace 2 u. :) deeceevoice 06:08, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

about your MMA collaboration idea

sorry it took a while to respond, i have been busy with some deadlines. what kind of colaboration did you have in mind? the problem with articles on many of the MMA fighets is that much of the information can be anecdotal. especially things like early history/growing up. i don't have any books or biographies on the people whose articles i contributed to. my information comes rather from knowing them and training with them. i don't know that i have more information (as in hard facts) that i can contribute, but i can help with writing clean up. i am pretty good at that.

for example, the article on helio is just copied word for word from his web site and because of that its way too skewed. on his own web site, it makes sense as a biography that praises him at every turn, but on an encyclopedia, it makes you wonder why it is so absolutely praising. i do agree with the person who was recently complaining that the articles on royce, rickson and helio are not npov. (although some have been improved already i think) i think those need some work to make them more neutral, and therefore more appropiate for wikipedia.

Regency Bridge

Hello. I encourage you to check out edits I just made to Regency Bridge. I accidentally found the bridge on a recent trip.

Novasource 04:26, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Unspecified source for Image:Beriev portrait.jpg

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Ditto for Image:Gurevich portrait.jpg. --Sherool (talk) 09:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All of the Soviet aircraft designers images were retrieved from www.aviation.ru with permission. Thank you for bringing this to my attention; I was unaware that Soviet Union PD images needed to be properly sourced. Aika 13:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

Long time! :) Thanks for stopping by and keeping in touch. Well, I'm here, but with considerably less enthusiasm and patience. I'm not doing any major writing (their loss). Just tinkering around the edges and correcting mis/disinformation.

I hope you and yours are well. Peace 2 u. deeceevoice 03:06, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject Mixed martial arts article improvement drive

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petition

{http://www.petitiononline.com/comfortw/petition.html} please sign the online petition to the Japanese government, regarding the comfort women issue. thanks. Odst 08:03, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could you help me write this article?

Hello,

I was wondering if you would be willing to help me write either Seikichi_Iha or Shorin-ryu_Shido-kan. Tkjazzer 21:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Petition to have flagicons returned to fighter pages

I have started a petition in the hopes of having flagicons returned to MMA fighters pages. Sign here if you would like to help. Thank you.

Upcoming interview with Benny Urquidez

I plan a direct interview with Benny "The Jet" Urquidez for publication within a few weeks. If you have any biographical questions that you would like answered for inclusion in his Wikipedia entry, please leave them on my talk page. Paul Maslak (talk) 23:01, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Namaskaar !

its great Jodoka using Wikipedia to make Judo global availability, Please to see you page and deeds :)

Sajan Subba (talk) 01:39, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Apple Inc.

Hello Aika,

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