User talk:Rl/2005

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I meant no it's not as sort of an "answer" to what the first sentence was saying, not to any user in particular. I don't know what the source of that phrasing was. Sorry if I said something wrong. Very Verily 12:40, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi Rl, just deleted the old copacabana/bolivia and loaded a new one less compressed, 141kB, that should suit the article. I'm never quite sure how many kB I should use in pictures. Thanks for the comment Gerd Breitenbach 22:15, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

LPA

hey, re: lpa (lansing progressive alliance) ya i am in the process of writing it, sorry, havent finished it yet. i have checked it out and i believe it to be note worthy. It is new, so i guess i caould wait till it starts getting google ranks if you believe that would be more kosher. zro/lansing resident

so.... are you syaing that i should trash the whole thing? I do believe it to be worthy. AND i have written a stub (for now) for Lansing Progressive Alliance... (sorry, if im outta line, i just wanna help)

African American history

Thanks for the heads up. I reverted to the version prior to the insertion of the copyvio. That's generally okay, unless the copyright holder comes over and demands that we get it out of the history. Rick K 21:09, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Anti-American Sentiment

Splitting the two articles OUGHT to be an embarrasment for WP. It's idiotic. Using the logic employed for the split you could create thousands of redundant, unnecessary distinctions in the encyclopedia. Somebody should re-merge them.

As for my addition it's sensible and I think neutral. Sam Johnson is probably the best known anti-American of the 18th century and deserves mention. Marskell

Thx for reply. I only say idiotic because the definitions in the two articles are IDENTICAL. The fact that aren't more splits like this is sort of the point: the encycl. works because its discursive without too much redundancy and when you see a distinction were no real distinction exists it sticks out. --Marskell 17:48, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Hi. Suffice 19:45, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

flag templates

The changes I made were to conform to ISO 3166-1, so you could use that as a reference page. However, User:Earl Andrew prefers List of IOC country codes. Anyways, I've posted a comment at Wikipedia:Village pump (news) asking for wider input into this. -- Curps 23:17, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wakefield Regional Council:Green Paper

Thanks for the note - have moved the page to Wikisource Brookie 15:03, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Forum Venalia

have at it, and thanks. Ccson 04:29, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I think the topic Forum Venalium should be Forum Venalia since it discusses all the markets. Do you know how to rename the topic? thanks for watchful eye and help. Ccson 06:17, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm ready to create the next topic Forum Civilium. Is this the correct singular form and fora civilia the plural form? I can help with french to return the favor. Ccson 01:06, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

German elections

Are you sure that the page on German elections in 2006 should be mentioned in the Category:Elections? There are hundreds of pages about specific elections, I don't think they should all be mentioned there... Rob 07:50, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, I had not seen the box you mentioned! I'm new here :-) Rob 09:33, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Greek Cross and CopyVio

Why you keep saying that Greek Cross is a copyvio? It is not! It is just wikipedia's cache, a tottaly legal way that all search engines are using in order to present copyrighted texts from the internet. So please revert your "copyvio" notice and put back the "wikicache" notice. Thank you. Agatharcides 11:07, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I agree with you that we have to respect copyrighted cached pages and let all those pages as they are, without editing them. So please remove your "copyvio" notice, put back my "wikicache" notice and protect the page, so that noone can edit it. Agatharcides 11:17, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Copyright infringement

I am owner of that site and I am using summary of my own pages about Pahlavi Literature so the page 'Denkard' should not be a copyright infringement because I am the holder.

I noticed you removed the copyvio tag from Denkard. Was that solely based on the claim of some (anonymous, no less) WP editor, or do you have further evidence that I am not aware of? Rl 20:58, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

That was solely on the anon's claim. Thue | talk 21:14, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mind if I put the tag back? Rl 07:42, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

That is fine with me. I just didn't have the time to send the webmaster an email to check the validity of the claim. Thue | talk 08:03, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Jeypore

Hi, Jeypore and Jaipur are two different places. Jaipur is capital of Rajasthan, while Jeypore is a small town in Orissa.

Thanks for adding the "move to wiktionary" tag to some pages, but in the process of tranwiki-ing, I noticed that some of them have already been done before. When I transwiki, a template gets added to the talk page. Before you add a tag in the future, could you check the talk and/or history to see if it's already been transwikied. Off the top of my head, both Fultum and belifan had already been done. In fact, in the future if you see a dicdef that's already been transwikied, you may want to nominate it for VfD. --Dmcdevit 23:49, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Likes to go around adding {{cleanup}} to pages without looking into why they are there. Pointless wiki-facist! RebelScum RebelScum

Gary Webb

Do you have a reason for the dab header being at the top of Gary Webb? Yes, Gary Numan's real name was Gary Webb, but people searching for Gary Numan aren't going to search for Gary Webb. A google search doesn't show any problems either, so there isn't a chance of someone getting the wrong page if they search for Gary Webb. If you don't object, I'm going to move the dab header to the bottom. I'll give it a day or so. --Viriditas | Talk 11:18, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick reply. Regarding the official policy page on dab, there is nothing wrong with adding the dab to the bottom of the page, but I agree, they are useful at the top. The page also states, Do not disambiguate, or add a link to a disambiguation page, if there is no risk of confusion..When a reader enters this term and pushes "Go", would they expect to view any of the articles listed on the disambiguation page? So, it might be a good idea to speculate why someone might enter Gary Numan's real name when looking for information about him. I'm going to let your change stand for now because I agree they are more useful at the top in most cases. --Viriditas | Talk 05:31, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

From User:Dbraceyrules

Thank you for ou help on the Oath of the Horatii article of mine. I'm not ver good with HTML, (as you can see) and I still can't figure out how you got the picture to go in the right place. But anway, thanks for the help. I like it when other contributors help my articles out.

No, I'm fine. Thanks. Dbraceyrules 23:32, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Clint Curtis

You noted a lack of NPOV in this article. I have attempted to restore a balance, but it's frustrating with so few sources, alll of them seemingly biased. Your comments are welcome. Bovlb 01:15, 2005 May 4 (UTC)

Circa

Both "c." and "ca" are standard abbreviations for "circa", though I'd have thought that "c." was much more common. Actually, looking at various reference books to hand (published by OUP, Penguin, Pan, Blackwell, Rowman and Littlefield, Barron, and Routledge), "c." is used in all of them, "ca" in none (checking a couple of dictionaries, "c." dates to the 18th century; I don't know about "ca", they don't give a date for it).

I prefer "c.", not only because it's the one I'm used to seeing, but also because it avoids the U.S./U.K. abbrevations conflict: correct U.K. usage is to place a full stop after an abbreviation to mark a cutting off (so "Oxford Street" becomes "Oxford St.", while "Saint Peter" becomes "St Peter"; thus it's Dr, Mr, Mrs, Rd, ca 1137, etc., but Ave., Phil. of Sci., etc.). Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:27, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The martall images

Why did you remove the external image links from Mara (folklore)? I thought it would be good if people not familiar with pine trees got an idea of what the article was referring to. Salleman 18:13, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know?

Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Mann Gulch fire, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

William Crichton-Stuart

Hi there RI. Yeah I think Category:Archbishops would probably be better as I don't think there's a Category:Archbishops of Armagh (Church of Ireland) at the moment (maybe you could create it? :-) ) Also {{Reli-bio-stub}} could be added too maybe? Thanks ♪ Craigy ♫ 04:06, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

Finger licking good

Again, can you check an article's talk page or history before you put the "move to Wiktionary" tag up? I transwikied Finger licking good just yesterday, and you tagged it today, creating more work for me if I have to search every article to see if it has been done before and take down the tag. Of course, I don't want to discourage you from tagging dicdefs, just be more careful. --Dmcdevit 22:01, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea what the policy is for a template like that. {{vfd}}, {{npov}}, and {{cleanup}} are definitely less wordy, but they, I think, serve a separate purpose. They are for the reader as much as the editor, and point editors to the relavent discussion page. Whereas the "Transwikied to Wiktionary" is only for editors, for their information and to tell them what to do about the article now. I suppose we could have another template on the article to point to the more wordy message on the talk page but that's just more work for the Transwiki-er. In any case, i don't think it's a big deal to just check, and even then it's not much of a crisis if it's done twice (even though that deletes the previous transwiki, which is bad if it has changed). I guess I didn't really give you an answer :) but if you care enough, talk to Kevin Rector and Uncle G --Dmcdevit 00:18, 20 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

rv Anti- American sentiment

sorry not to be clear. i did not revert in entirety only cut-and-pasted intro changes and left subsequent edits by unnamed user. Marskell 12:37, 20 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

W-field

To answer your questions: yes, well, I also posted a deletion notice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics but curiously, there is no Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics. There are qualified people on WP who could look at this stuff, but there are three problems: 1) they log on infrequently, 2) they don't hang out on VfD pages, 3) the 5-day period is not long enough given 1 & 2 above. As to that user's other contributions, they all seem to be links to this cluster of articles. linas 21:18, 22 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Holy Ghost redirect

Apologies, my oops. jlang 10:46, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

photographycorner.com

why did you remove most of my posts regarding photography? Would you rather I just insert the article onto the page or something? I'm not link farming, and I resent the fact that you are accusing me of doing so.

moved Thebassman's note over from User:Rl/Scratchpad

- sorry for writing here... I'm not overly familiar with Wikipedia as far as editing goes, so I'm not sure where else to put this... I use it extensively for research, but rarely add anything myself. Again, I am sorry that the links I added were against policy. Originally, a couple of the links that pointed to myself were added by someone else. I will not post any more links to external sites here. Thanks, and sorry again for the inconvenience.

moved Thebassman's note over from User:Rl/Scratchpad

PLGA microspheres

I've had it on my watchlist as well, and I couldn't find it on Google first time around. I'll check the other two suspect ones at work this morning (I have access to University databases that store thousands of abstracts and papers). From my own experience hunting down journal articles you have to be really finiky/carefull/lucky to score an exact hit sometimes. Thanks for flaging up those other two for me. Sabine's Sunbird 14:32, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Update, I've tagged both of them as copyvios. Sabine's Sunbird 15:08, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Quaesitosaurus

Yeah, you got it. Basically I wanted to see if it was real. When I googled for it I typed it in cause my copy/paste was screwed up. Must have typed it wrong. Thanks! CryptoDerk 20:30, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Man-boy Love

A longtime proponent of man-boy love, I feel it is my duty to share the wonder of sex as I learned it growing up, with young boys just discovering their bodies.

moved 131.30.121.23's confession over from User:Rl

I have some problems with the redirect template, and that's why I haven't been quick to use it. The fact is, Wikipedia is still an encyclopedia, and a redirect to a dictionary definition is just as good as a definition itself. Not to mention that as a redirect, it fails badly, because interwiki redirects don't work and the reader has to click the article. Also, it strikes me as a self-reference. We have templates for encyclopedia articles ({{wiktionary}}) because they are like external links, and provide context for the article. If there is no article, than this is just advertising our other project. Also, it creates a blue link where such an article has no right to appear blue. And it skews results in Special:Shortpages and "Random page" (especially if it were used more often).

Actually, I have a feeling if it were listed on TfD it wouldn't survive. In fact, I've even seen articles that consisted of just this be deleted on VfD, because, after all, it would be just an article with no potential for growth and no encyclopedic content (which could even be speedied for that reason). Despite all this, I can see it may be helpful for entries that are such common words they may be recreated again and again, but only if it cannot be merged and redirected. All in all, I don't dislike it enough to list for deletion, but I certainly don't like it enough to use it, and from the looks of, not many others do either. --Dmcdevit 18:35, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Stub

There is no fixed definition for a stub. Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub has them being generally "of one paragraph or less". I personally feel that the number of pages marked as stubs should be kept down. Marking three sentence articles like this one makes it less likley that someone will get around to fixing the several thosand one and two sentence stubs that are far more in need of aid. This is especially true of the massive categories like bio-stub. Others obviously disagree and there are many much larger articles marked as stubs. So if you think it is important feel free to readd the stub template to Mr. Spottswood. - SimonP 15:38, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Sup

Dude, how much does this site pay you for the work you do? I can see a long list of yr contributions. Are you jobless by anychance or yr a full time employee of this site? --Fcuk 15:31, 30 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio

Sorry, I don't think I could possibly try to sort things out, not having been involved in it before. Maybe you should bring it up on the India Collaboration of the week, and possibly file an RfC on the editor. Rick K 18:58, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

You're very wrong, copyvios are taken very seriously. Like I said, I really don't want to try to wade through all of it. List it on Copyright problems or revert it, and as I said, take it to RfC. Rick K 19:34, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your suggestion regarding comments on Mount Everest. Much appreciated. --postglock 03:02, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I, too, would like to thank you for finding the correct spelling of Ronald Mallett's name. Steveo2

Those Indo-Pak images

I've listed them all on WP:CP. Lupo 20:04, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Personal Attacks

I will try to tone down my responses. However, your message indicated that RJ has tried to stay calm. What he has tried to do is troll and incite others, repeatedly. He has blatantly advocated an attitude of eternal war on wikipedia, where there is no compromise, no cooperation, and no consensus. He routinely mocks any procedures on wikipedia that attempt to find a middle ground between disperate views. As such he is attacking wikipedia itself, yet I am the one who is chided for inappropriate behavior? I would rather loose my temper on occasion to someone who is purposefully unreasonable than to not even attempt to be reasonable in the first place. That RJ covers his obvious hostility make him no more civil, his barbs and snide remarks are never-ending and all the more biting for their claim to some high ground. Kev 23:08, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

April Love

Hi, I just saw your comment on your addition of the image to "Arthur Hugues (artist)" (April Love, 1856 (well, no couple; I suppose this is a fragment, then?). Thanks for adding the pic. It’s not a fragment, but it is a couple. Sadly, the man can’t easily be seen in this illustration. The black shape at the left in the window is the man’s head, bending down to kiss the woman’s hand. Paul B 20:31 12 June, 2005 (UTC)

PA 103

Thank you for your kind and gracious comment, Rl. I appreciate it very much. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 12:56, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)