User talk:Kymacpherson

Poker project

Thanks for the helpful edits to the poker articles. You might want to consider joining the Wikipedia:WikiProject Poker project. Thanks.--Toms2866 15:22, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alphax ^τεχ 01:39, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Edit summaries/minor edit flag

Hi, please fill in edit summaries with a description of your change. Wikipedia:Edit summary says:

Always fill the summary field.

(Emphasis in the original.) While I'm at it, I see you flagged your changes to WP:RfD as a minor edit. Use of this flag for that edit was inappropriate. Help:Minor edit gives guidelines on when it's appropriate to use that flag; please follow them. And before you say that in your opinion, your change was minor, please note that that page says:

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so whether you think they are minor is less important than what other editors think. Noel (talk) 3 July 2005 15:56 (UTC)

• Your recommendations are welcome, but I'm not sure why you would presuppose what I will say in response to them. Kymacpherson 4 July 2005 00:00 (UTC)

RE: Crandell Addington

Thanks for pointing that out. Red Director 19:38, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Revert in addition to reporting please

Re: this AIV report, reverting the vandalism is even more important than reporting it. Thanks. —Wknight94 (talk) 18:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Just for the record,

There is no such thing as "official policy space". The Wikipedia namespace contains a LOT of things, 99% of which are not in any way "official policy". >Radiant< 16:39, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Vertical Cave Photo

Hi, I saw your vertical cave photo on the caving article, and was wondering what cave that picture is from. Amazingracer 15:32, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

• In the spirit of cave conservation, I intentionally omitted the name of the cave from the photo description; I hope you understand! But judging from your recent wikipedia contributions I would hazard a guess that you live in the atlanta area, in which case I have some recommendations, if you want to learn more about caving in the area: Georgia Tech University has a program called ORGT (Outdoor Recreation @ Georgia Tech) that offers caving classes that teach about equipment, safety, rope skills, etc; and it was actually through this program that I got involved in caving myself when I lived in atlanta. Also there is the Dogwood City Grotto, a group of caving enthusiasts that meet regularly in the atlanta area. —Kymacpherson 00:23, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Draw poker terms

I'm not at all convinced that "12-way" and "16-way" draw poker terms are "self-evident". In fact I'm convinced of quite the opposite: 90% of poker players don't even think in terms of "outs" at all--so much so that they still use terms like "open ended" in hold'em and stud to which the term doesn't really apply, and I hear people all the time saying they had "two ways" to win when they really mean 8 outs, or 6 outs, or even 12 outs with a straight and flush draw. Plus, California draw poker itself is something of a rarity these days, so I think it's important to preserve significant terms from historically important games that one doesn't see on TV. I'm quite sure that if I told some story at work (I'm a casino floor manager) about a "16-way draw", maybe 4 or 5 out of 100 old-timers would know what I was talking about--but such draws are critically important to the strategy of that particular game, so I think the terms are important enough to include. --LDC 19:51, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

• I would think you could educate the public on these topics more effectively by editing Out (poker) or Draw poker than by adding very specific situational descriptions to the glossary. In fact I recall you removing a term I added to the same page with the claim that it was too specific [1] —Kymacpherson 21:14, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that's another way to do it. I'll move them to Out (poker). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lee Daniel Crocker (talk • contribs) 21:18, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

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