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Welcome!

I delete old talk. If you are very curious about it, you can have a look in this old version

Why Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context is excellent advice:

Hi. I got your message about typo correction day. Thanks for the support. I was thinking that we would have a typo correction day on the last saturday of every month. Alexandros 22:18, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip about adminship. I appreciate your thoughtfulness. I will wait for someone to nominate me I believe. Best wishes and happy Thanksgiving! Alexandros

Muriel: apologies for being too hot on the deletion trigger. It was only a sentence (and misspelt) but I should have checked first, or left it for someone else. Secretlondon 16:26, Nov 26, 2003 (UTC)

Muriel: I did copy from a site -- my site. this site is a site I own (and plan to shut down at the end of December) and granted myself permission to copy the items I wrote to Wiki. If this is a problem, please let me know. (UTC)
I will note such in the talk pages. davodd 11:36, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

  • Thanks - I will pare each to the minimum within the next few minutes. davodd 11:46, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Muriel. Please can add your user page to the list on Wikipedia:Protected page if you intend to leave it protected. There is a section especially for sysop pages as otherwise there is no way of knowing whether the protection was just accidental or meant to be temporary etc and it will probably be unprotected. Thanks. Angela 15:36, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for unprotecting your user page. :) Martin 11:22, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

apologies!

I've been having trouble with my computer, and images do not come up in my Explorer browser. So when I saw the article, to me, all it said was Caecilius Metellus's family tree. That is why I deleted it. Please accept my apology.

I have since been able to see the amazing image that you created for that page. It is really quite beautiful work. Kingturtle 19:41, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

About copyvios

Hi Muriel, I didn't know if you'd seen these replies to your question on the village pump so I moved them as it was time to clean the page. Angela 21:27, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I should probably know this, but... What do we do when we stumble on an article which has a borderline copyvio? Meaning that some sentences are copied, others not. Is the whole article going to the copyvio page? I'm tempted. Cheers, Muriel Victoria 09:12, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Even if you're unsure, it is better to be vigilant and list it on the suspected copyviolations page. Then you can get other people's help in analysing whether or not it constitutes a copyvio. I think (IANAL of course) that using other people's copyrighted material is unlawful, unless it is clearly quoted as belonging to the originator. --snoyes 16:22, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
OK, I had a quick look at the article. Given that the original (long) version comes from a respected, longtime wikipedian a better approach would be to address the concerns on that users talk page. Or the article talk page. --snoyes 16:30, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Muriel,

I read your comment on Wikipedia talk:Make only links relevant to the context with great interest because it is an issue which I have been interested in and ocassionally raised, to little effect. I find pages with too many links horrible looking but so often people insist of having them all, despite what seem to me to be eminently sensible guidelines posted on the above page. Sometimes it seems like insisting on common sense here is a losing battle... Anyway, I thought war elephant was a great article. Cheers! -- Viajero 21:50, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for your note! Here is one for your collection:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Richard_Neustadt&oldid=1663869
It got a bit better as the text was filled out, but at one point it was even worse, with born and died linked. que horror -- Viajero 14:21, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

brilliant prose

Hi Muriel

I think your links for voting on the Wikipedia:brilliant prose page are not working properly. Can you have a look? Bmills 14:19, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

  • working on it...

Thanks Bmills 14:34, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

People and culture and Other both seem to link to Science? Bmills 14:39, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Starting from Wikipedia:Village pump, if I click the People and culture or the Others link, I go to the Science voting page. Science and History both work fine. By the way, just read your Adoption in Rome and enjoyed it very much. Bmills 14:48, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi Muriel -- you've messed up the "People and Culture" part of the brilliant prose refresher. Thats just the same as "science"

Cato

Made some copy edits to Cato the younger. Hope they are OK? Bmills 15:25, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

May well need a bit of polishing, but these two articles were extremely well constructed and interesting. I'm always finding copy edits in the few articles I started. The main thing, it seems to me, is that an article should be well structured and logical, which Cato the younger and Adoption in Rome] both are. All too often, I have read articles on Wikipedia with little or no logical structure at all. Bmills 15:40, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Actually, it is the stories of dead people when they were alive that I like. Are you a Wikipedia Administrator? My comment is not a "conflict with someone else", it is about what Wikipedia wants to see in the articles created. Note, I said I do not want a conflict with this person. Thanks. Angelique 16:10, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks again, I would rather just avoid someone like User:Mathieugp. I was born in France and note your interest in the monarchs. Your Kings of France family tree doesn’t seem to match the List of French monarchs, neither of which appears to match History of France? In school and university (USA), I was taught that the Kings of France began with the Merovingians? Angelique 16:20, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I spent some time looking things up and reading articles before I made my first "dead people" contribution. The high quality and effort (whether all are factual or not, I can't be sure) really impressed me plus, the minor events and characters were fascinating to learn about. I get addicted to the links! Angelique 16:38, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Muriel Please stop deleting articles until you have read and understood the guidlines on deletion. We do not delete articles unless a rough consensus (not a majority) is formed. An 8 votes to 6 for deletion is not a consensus. Captain Submarine Frank and Gino's will have to be put on votes for undeletion now. theresa knott 09:47, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting it out so quickly. As for my diagrams, I do intend getting a decent drawing program fairly soon, I'm looking for an open source one if possible. I suspect though better tools will speed up rather than substantially improve my diagrams though theresa knott 10:01, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Re. Main page, go ahead! I do it once in awhile and no one complains. -- Viajero 14:24, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Muriel, a new user has rewritten List of Roman Emperors -- only to harm that article, I fear. I reverted his changes. please compare the differences & express your opinion in the Talk forum. -- llywrch 03:42, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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