User talk:Mav
In the full swing of things. Still have a huge back-log of digital photos and field notes to contribute, but I can't get away from the blasted RecentChanges page.
User:Sodium has informed me that my user page is (for some reason that completely escapes me) one of the most popular.
Yeah, just for chuckles on February 8th, I checked the most popular page and saw that my little ol' neck of the woods is right next to: Vulva (since I am gay, this seems funny as hell to me), Wikipedians (makes sense -- I am logged in contributing here and there about 10 hours a day now), Pornography (damn! How'd you guys find out? ;), September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/City of New York casualties (heavy; kinda bums me out...), Beryllium (also makes sense -- I've been working a great deal on this article), user:Maveric149 (:thats me:), Mercury/wiki.phtml (don't have any idea what this is for...), Fire ant (a cool article mostly written and maintained by User:SteveSmith), Lupercalia (luper-what? Sounds like something I should have learned geting my BS in BS), Playboy (Well, at least I am more popular than Playboy. tee-he!) and finally, Music (a subject I am very fond of; especially musicals -- no just kidding).
Since this page is one of the most un-imaginative ones I maintain, the fact that it is one of the most popular is rather embarrassing. It's kinda like having a really messy living room and keeping the curtains open at night. Unfortunately, I can't just pull the curtains here -- I'll have to put some effort into tidying things up around here. Until then, pardon the mess....
- I think it is my "fault" that your page is one of the most popular actually... when you listed the case-insensitive user contributions bug on Jimbo Wales Minor Issues With New System, I added a link to your contributions, so naturally people would follow that link and then go back to your user page... Funny how things get popular on the Internet... (quite funny really!) --Chuck Smith
Thanks Chuck. Hopefully when the bug is fixed I will get fewer visitors -- and therefore have less pressure to clean-up my page. --maveric
If you've been frequenting the RecentChanges page, you might already expect that I am a Wikipediholic -- yep, I admit it.
Problem now is, sleeping has switched from a full (i.e. normal) to part time occupation.... oh well - you only live once, there's plenty of time to rest later...
(Well, at least this is not necessarily the case.)
Just popping by to say thanks for the name switch on Musee d'Orsay. -- Tarquin
Hi Maverick, thanks for the feedback on Ulysses. The reason I have the chapter links point to their own pages rather than the existing topics is that, for example the Hades chapter of Ulysses has no literal relationship with Hades. I'm not sure if I'm writing a separate page for each chapter, or whether I should write one long page. I guess I'll know once I've written it!
You might want to include the euro symbol in your cheat characters. --Daniel C. Boyer
Thanks for the welcome, Maveric149. I hope I'll get used to Wikipedia real soon. As a newcomer I'm bound to make mistakes, so please tell me when you discover something I should or shouldn't have done. Thanks! Guy
Thanks for creating the new article Quantum Leap. It's probably a good idea to make sure the names of different articles differ in more than just capitalization. If there's already an article on the phrase Quantum leap, then a new article on the T.V. show should probably be called something like Quantum Leap (tv series) rather than just Quantum Leap. This is the way some other TV articles have been named, and it's less likely to confuse people.--LC
- Vaguely possible, but there is an obvious note at the bottom of each page linking to the other uses if someone gets lost. Use of parenthetical disambiguation should only be used when two terms share the same name and capitalization and there are no valid alternates that can be used. This is to ensure easy linking from within other articles so that somebody does not have to write [[Quantum Leap (tv series)|Quantum Leap]] each and every time they want to link to that article -- this would only tend to discourage participation on related articles. Use of the the physics term With Capital Leters Looks Rather Silly And Is Incorrect English Unless You Are Talking About A Proper Noun -- such as the television program. So a disambiguation page at either capitalization would not be appropriate because they mean different things with different capitalization. Therefore there should not be much confusion. --maveric149
Can you erase my password? I deleted my cookies and none of the dozen variations I've tried work. -- Ark
Wow, fancy meeting you here. It was nifty getting a greeting on my talk page...and then to see your name in the diffs for Nirvana, well, I just had to stop by and give you a big shout-out. Looks like you're doing a nifty job here on the 'pedia. --charleschuck
Maveric149 -- I appreciate your recent comment on the talk page for Early Infanticidal Childrearing. If it is within your power to restore more of the deleted talk section, I would appreciate it -- I am specifically concerned with an exchange between Ark and myself involving an excerpt from a book by Suggs. The reason this is useful, I think, is that it provides a concrete example of a text that Ark refers to as proof for his position; by quoting the excerpt, readers can decide for themselves... slrubenstein
Maveric149 -- I went over the reinsertion you did and realized it was from the older "Neolithic Childrearing" page. But the EIC page actually had a couple of feet worth of talk (talk since the page was renamed or moved) as of yesterday that someone -- I assume, but perhaps wrongly, Ark -- somehow deleted. If you can figure out what happened and track it down I would be grateful; it was I admit at times excessive, but I also think it was revealing and informative and ultimately useful.
For various reasons, this issue is very important to me both morally and intellectually. Frankly, I am getting tired of constantly reworking a clearly controversial peice to have a modicum of NPOV. I assume this is the sort of thing the Wikipedia Militia was formed for, and do appreciate you and your comrades attention, slrubenstein
Mav, does Doug (of Reciprocal Theory fame) have a user page? Or does he know how to use Meta? I'd like to work with him on npov-ifying RS of T, but I'm mentally handicapped -- oops, er, I mean I don't know enough physics to understand what the heck he's talking about. I just want to see an NPOV treatment of RS of T.
It should be clear to traditional physics lovers (1) that scientists dismiss it outright, and (2) why scientists object to it. But I'd like it to also show a bit about why RS of T advocates are so fond of it.
Is there any way to do this? Or should I just admit to Doug that it can't be done, and withdraw? Ed Poor, Thursday, June 6, 2002
Mav, You'll excuse me for picking you, but I've been away from the Wikipedia for a while, and yours was the first name I recalled. Last time I was here the Stats page said we were over 33,000 non-sub-pages, but now the figure has dropped to around 28,000. What happened? Cheers, user:Verloren Update: Thanks for the answer!
Can you tell SolKarma to lay off? He's created about a dozen different pages, each containing maybe one or two sentences and links to every other page, instead of a single article about hard drives.--Ark
Thanks for the welcome on my userpage. How was your field trip? a small question, is there anyway a user can tell how many readers have read a page? special:PopularPages only shows the top 50. Would it be possible to put the number of reader in the History? Cheers. user:Ktsquare
Thanx for the answer. I'll make the sugguestion myself so more wikipedians will know about me.--Ktsquare
- Sure thing. --mav
(in the former Wikipedia commentary/Wikipedia camaraderie you wrote:) Content moved to meta at Wikipedia camaraderie. Can somebody who knows how to delete / pages delete this page and also tell me how to delete them?
- Do the regular delete thing; click the "if you are sure, click here"; when you get the 404 error (which I am pretty sure is a problem with Apache's URL rewriting or the configuration thereof), go to the URL bar in your browser. You fill find a "%2F" -- change it to a "/". Hit return. Bingo! (At least, this works in Mozilla.) --Brion VIBBER
Concerning the new title of Table of Chinese Sovereigns, when will the bugs of the move feature be worked out as history from the previous page will be preserved? --user:Ktsquare
- When a page is moved using the move feature, the entire history of edits to that page should be kept under the _new_ name. A page with the _old_ name is then created that redirects to the _new_ name, and that redirect page won't have any old changes in its history because it's actually a new page. If something other than that is happening, I certainly want to hear about it! --Brion VIBBER
- GODDAMMIT!!!!!!!!! I shoulda noticed that before... Okay, everybody please don't use the administrative "move page" feature until it's fixed. It resets those automatic-updating timestamps the current time for every single edit in the history... this screws up the sorting when they're displayed in the list, and the half-assed handling of the linked list pointers tends to prematurely cut off the list. Note that the old edits are _not_ missing from the database, and once this is fixed you'll be able to see them again, but with the incorrect date for pages that have already been moved thus. --Brion VIBBER, Sunday, June 16, 2002
- I will inform the other sysops I know of that are also using this feature. --maveric149
Yeh man, I didn't even know how to use the "move" command or where to find it. Where can I find it (I'll use it after the software's updated)? I want to help move the rest of the country subpages, since it's something I set into motion (before we all knew better). Cheers, Koyaanis Qatsi, Sunday, June 16, 2002
Hi, Maveric. As you already noticed I tried to work on some kind of standard for the country entries (similar to your work on the beryllium). Once a "fixed" format has been agreed upon (which is not yet the case of course), would it be possible to make it a "policy" or something like it? It will give the Wikipedia a more authorative look if articles on similar topics have the same information build-up, and this can be achieved for the country and elements pages, since there are only so many of them, and all the pages already exist, in one form or another. Other candidates for such establishing an editing policy are plenty: the planets, US states (or maybe sub-divisions of countries in general).
The country pages should contain most of the relevant information in short form, which is mostly available from the World Factbook data. We can structure this information. For all the details, there's still more than enough work on all the subpages - which reminds me; the /Transnational issues pages don't appear to be very useful in common, and if they are, they'd be better of at the main country page or in history.
Any ideas on this? Greets, jheijmans
Thanks for the note, which I just found! You may have answered my first question.
1. Where do I ask for help? Is there a general location, or do I ask an individual, like you?
2. Sometimes I have a great deal of trouble connecting. Actually wiki doesn't respond. Is this usual? When's the best time to work here?
Thanks for the nice words about the articles I've submitted. Actually my keyboard has chronic diarrhea and I just add the periods. Sometimes I do what seems correct and hope somebody else'll do the nitty gritty. I won't tell you how long it took to learn about the pipe = | . I use HTML when the wiki shortcuts don't seem to work for me.
A question : why fertilisation instead of fertilization ? Where is it written that american language is the one that goes over the british one ? Please, do not change the fertilization I used (I redirect it to fertilizer to avoid ambiguity) until you gave me a proper answer (another page of recommandations ?) :-)
user:anthere
- You have it reversed: the "z" spelling is American and the "s" spelling is British. The reason it is the British spelling is because a Brit is the first one to have created the article. I don't know what you are trying to say about ambiguity and fertilizer.... --maveric
- Sorry I was not clear. When I write a page dealing with agriculture or soil, one of the issue is fertilization : meaning input of nitrogen, phosphorous... in the soil to feed the crop. But if I use the word fertilisation (I mix the spelling for google :-)) in the text, and somebody click on it, it leads to a nice picture of a sperm fertilizing an egg. Which as nothing to do with the fertilisation I am talking about. So, to solve the pb right now, I put fertilizer instead of fertilization. OK ? However, what are the options if somebody wants to create a page dealing with fertilisation in agriculture ? --anthere
- Oh, and btw, the z and s thing, I misunderstood what you were doing. Please, accept my apologies. -- anthère
RE: your knot greeting me to 'pedia
Thanks for your offer of Q&A. Picking up a little Wiki editing here and there. I am interested in your opinions: am I adhering to the page naming and capitalization conventions, should link entries for 'knot' be 'knot|knots' (with the double brackets of course), any other editing tips I could start using that would assist?
Just figured out #REDIRECT and how to embed my handle Satsun this evening. That gives you an idea of the low voltage I'm at presently.
Would I be wise to back up each page. Are content attacks common? (not talking about real input of course)
I consider a goal of 300+ articles (with pics) on knots for a start reasonably ambitious so I want to prevent any easily avoided oversights.
Satsun 18 JUNE 2002
If someone saw a violation or vandalism on a page, where is the link for putting an IP under close inspection ? as seen here: History of Indochina Thanx. --- Ktsquare
Maybe an addition for the elements template: a short history of its discovery, its uses and maybe an etymology of its name. There's some stuff on this at Discovery of the chemical elements that you might use for this. -- jheijmans
Another remark on Calcium: in the template discussion on Periodic table/Temp, it is said not to include isotopes with a half-life of less than a week (have no idea why, though). At the Calcium table, there's one of 4 days. jheijmans
- Yeah I know -- I just didn't want to leave a gap in isotopic succession. Also compared to the milisecond lifespan of nearly all the unlisted isotopes, 4 days is pretty long. --maveric
Again on the elements template: why is the density given at 293 K, and not 298 K (which would be ST)? jheijmans
- Opps! Thanx,i will change that. --mav
Hey, maveric149, I've been meaning to post a "Thanks!" for nominating my English grammar rewrite to the votes for article of the day queue. I'm flattered by the compliment! Pgdudda
Dear maveric149, you may delete this as soon as you read it, but I seem to have inadvertently caused some kind of problem in the Cajun entry by trying to help the author make it better. See the Cajun/Talk page for evidence. I guess I'm better at entries than Talk, but I feel really bad about this.Ortolan88
Hi maveric,
what's the status on the (city, state/country) debate? It seems that some have figured out that all cities should be moved to articles name thus. Is there a page with a debate on this going on - if so, I'd like to donate my two cents as well... regards, jheijmans
Hi maveric, thanks for the redirects of Scheele. H. Jonat
Mav, I just happened to come across that. No problem. To the spelling of names. Carl, Casimir or other names with C or CH was the earlier spelling in the German language. These names are now spelled with a "K".
sample, place names: Coeln=Koeln (Cologne), Crossen=Krossen, Culm=Kulm, Chemnitz Churfuerst= Kurfuerst or Chur (city in Switzerland) Celtic in German spelled Keltisch. The C or Ch's were and are pronounced just like a K.
Spelling the name Carl , with a C is now the American (English) way. H. Jonat