User talk:David Gerard

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snoyes 16:43, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Speaking of amateurish presentations on the web .... EBM ... Ha, ... Hah, Ha! -- Mr-Natural-Health 00:35, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

A learning experience

Hey, it's cool when you learn something new, isn't it? I'd not heard of the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel before at all! I suspect there's still a world's first for that stretch of Underground between Paddington and Farringdon - something pedantic about being originally constructed sub-surface, where the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel was originally open-cut. However, in all honesty, I'm not inclined to amend the Metropolitan Line article to reflect this, as it seems excessive! If someone wants to take it up in the Hammersmith & City Line article, good luck to them! - MykReeve 17:44, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Yeah. I've amended it to "oldest underground railway still running" ;-) - David Gerard 19:58, Jan 19, 2004 (UTC)

I replied to you over at Talk:Gentoo. Pakaran . 16:20, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

You've got mail!

It is indisputable!

There is NO Edit War in Alternative medicine, nor is the content in dispute. You guys are playing dirty. And, of course, all of my editing is made in order to improve articles. -- Mr-Natural-Health 14:57, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

This must be some curious usage of "no edit war" heretofore unheard-of on Wikipedia. - David Gerard 15:09, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)

The references in GarageBand

I noticed you removed my references in the article "GarageBand". It took a bit of work to do the research, not to mention to make it APA-conformative. Was there a reason for this action?

Also, it appears that you took out my mentions of the sales expectations for GarageBand. If this is considered irrelevant, I would like to know why, so that I may not waste my time by writing more of the same thing in the future.

—Vespristiano 01:42, 2004 Jan 27 (UTC)

The article has since been considerably hacked around. If there's a way to add them that flows with the article, feel free to reinsert them - David Gerard 01:03, Feb 5, 2004 (UTC)

Miles Vorkosigan

Thanks for your mopping up. I wasn't quite sure what to do with that section, it works much better at the beginning. --Phil 14:32, Jan 30, 2004 (UTC)

Daniel Rutherford

Thank you for helping out with the article. The only problem I had is that you removed 2/3 external links leaving only 'overview of oxygen' (or something like that). I think the link title 'overview of daniel rutherford' should've been kept. If you have a reply, please post it on my talk page. Ilyanep 18:45, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page and Talk:Daniel Rutherford - David Gerard 20:11, Jan 31, 2004 (UTC)

Aussie Rules

Hi David, I see you have edited on the Aussie Rules page. Can you help out with a query, please? Some bright spark of an American had put up a page called fullback which kind of assumed the only game called football is the laughable apology for a game they play here. I have promptly added in descriptions of what full backs get up to in soccer and rugby, but I didn't know whether the position exists in Aussie Rules. If it does, would you be able to add the information, for completeness' sake? thanks. seglea 06:11, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I must admit I don't know that much about the game! But a quick google on "aussie rules" fullback shows it is a position. Do the search and you'll know as much as me ;-) The fullback article as it stands looks OK to me, knowing not much about the subject ... - David Gerard 11:53, Feb 4, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, that's great... I won't pretend to understand it in full but at least I now know what I don't understand! seglea 17:26, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Goth

Good changes on Goth. —Morven 16:27, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

You wait. I have hardly begun to ramble. Just see what happens if I draft any other twenty-year veterans ... - David Gerard 19:21, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)

I'm surprised it hasn't happened till now. Of course, I've witnessed the spectacle of several twenty-year veterans utterly disagreeing with each other on the whole lot, so ... —Morven 20:39, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I've answered you on Talk:Goth :-) - David Gerard 21:11, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)

French law on...

Anthere and I have managed to agree on "French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools" which is the longest of the proposed titles. Would this be OK with you? Anthere did point out that there people are rumbling about extending this law to the entire public sector, which would make the "in schools" bit of the title even more important. :) fabiform | talk 19:15, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

That one's fine by me :-) - David Gerard 20:30, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)

Current events

David, could you tell my why you deleted the item that i submitted to Current Events? OneVoice 15:49, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Where did you find 9M euros...Haaretz reports $74Million unaccounted for. OneVoice 16:34, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

See February 11 2004 for Suha Arafat 9 million euro ($11 million) money laundering probe. Did you get a copy of the OLAF report? I would like to read it. OneVoice 16:48, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

are you saying that it did not happen or that you would like to find an alternate news source. if the first please tell me why. if the second please do so. OneVoice 23:43, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

No, the second choice is for you to find a news source that is vaguely credible. Getting news from "Israel News Network" is like putting articles from a random Slashdot clone on 'Current Events'. - David Gerard 23:51, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)

It is a shame that the two links regarding the collapse of the section of wall supporting the path to the Mughrabi Gate (sp?) focus on the recriminations by various parties rather than the archelogical or structural issues regarding the wall. The picture from the BBC is much better because it shows the area of collapse so clearly. The INN picture showed the path better, but did not show the area of collapse. The BBC shows the area of collapse but not the path. I would guess, could be wrong, that 3 photos are needed by anyone who has not been there to understand: one photo to show the location of the wall, path and gate vis-a-vis the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, one to show the path, and one to show the collapsed section. Perhaps two would be sufficient...the path photo might not be necessary if the first photo was to be taken from the south west at some elevation. I hope that we can continue to work together to make Wikipedia better. Thank you. OneVoice 14:01, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I am surprised that you re-added the NYT links...NYT does not seem to be popular here. I have read it is because of the required free registration. OneVoice 16:32, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I think it's worth linking, but really only as secondary links for that reason - David Gerard 16:51, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

Neo-Nazis

There does seem to be a sudden influx of racist fools here on Wikipedia (usually with anonymous IP addresses) recently, isn't there? I noticed that on alt.revisionism recently, someone posted a plea for revisionists to come here and "correct" the entries dealing with certain subjects. But the more some things change, the more they stay the same...all you have to do is say the word "Zionist" and they start screaming. "Jews! Jews! Jews!" How predictable. :) --Modemac 01:31, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC) (Praise "Bob!")

Indeed. There's not a lot of urgency. Also, it helps anti-Nazis get their references thoroughly in line. - David Gerard 12:18, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC) (Hail Xenu!)

Neo-Nazi's?

Not exactly.

Any white separatist is NOT the same as being "Neo-Nazi", whatsoever.

Pantheism

Peacock wording? Sam Spade 20:39, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms - David Gerard 21:12, Feb 23, 2004 (UTC)

Australian indie rock

Thanks for the edits to Tasmanian Aborigines. Small world - noticed you write for http://www.Rocknerd.org - as a side note I used to mix for a tas band called the Stickmen and occasionally the Sea Scouts... Maybe time to start Indie Rock, Australia???

- Jgritz 12:47, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I also used to do a fanzine (Party Fears) in Perth in the '80s. There's about a ZILLION Australian indie rock articles I must write if I'm ever in the same country as my fanzine pile again. I'm also looking for copies of PF to scan and rerelease on the net, if you know anyone with copies and a scanner! - David Gerard 13:04, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)

Please stop deleting news items just because you don't like the news. // Liftarn

If you think that's why, you should read up the page. I did the same for OneVoice's pro-Israeli spam on Current events. I'm cutting the propaganda pieces when they're propaganda pieces. A .gov.ps press release is not "news". - David Gerard 16:12, Mar 3, 2004 (UTC)

I'm very well aware of the source, but regardless of the source it's still news. // Liftarn

The Models

Thanks for further unopinionating The Models. I did a quick job on it - it was worse before! dmmaus 08:28, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

heh. One thing I really want to do is do articles on just about any Australian punk or indie band with a single or better. Must write up some lists ... - David Gerard 09:47, Mar 5, 2004 (UTC)

Scientists

should really redirect to scientist as in the profession, as that's the meaning most of the links to this page intend to go (see "what links here" for "scientists" to see what i mean). i mean it's more likely that somebody would wikilink scientists in the sense of the profession than mean an australian indie rock band. redirecting to The Scientists in this case kind of violates the wikipedia principle of least surprise Clarkk 12:44, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

(via edit conflict) I was going to say much the same thing, but Clarkk beat me to it, so I'll just suggest adding a disambig link to The Scientists from scientist (or making scientists a disambig page, but I prefer the former solution). --67.69.188.153 12:48, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Those links [[scientists]] should really be [[scientist]]s. Plurals should not be redirects - it's completely unnecessary in MediaWiki syntax. Which is why the redirect to scientist certainly surprised me! I've fixed all the links I saw. - David Gerard 12:51, Mar 5, 2004 (UTC)

hmm, that's certainly not my understanding of wikipedia policy Wikipedia:Redirect specifically lists redirects having this purpose, under:

What do we use redirects for?

it lists:

....

Plurals, tenses, etc: greenhouse gases redirects to greenhouse gas, etc

i mean it's fine to avoid the redirects by using the [[scientist]]s format, but serendiptious linking like this should still go to the expected page. Clarkk 13:05, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I thought a moment about "least surprise," and made "scientists" a redirect to List of scientists - assuming that if you typed in "scientists", you'd expect some actual scientists rather than a definition. - David Gerard 13:12, Mar 5, 2004 (UTC)

William Shakespeare

I think the current change to Shakespeare is the best. I hope you agree. Owen&rob 23:56, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Having them both the same size is an excellent idea - David Gerard 10:07, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

Quackery and homeopathy

Are you suggesting that homeopathy is inherently fraudulent, by insisting it be linked from quackery? I'm curious about your reasoning. heidimo 15:00, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

No, it's prone to it. Which is why it's a "see also." - David Gerard 17:11, Mar 20, 2004 (UTC)

Don't you think all kinds of medicine are prone to abuse? Or are you suggesting homeopathy is especially so? heidimo 17:21, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Like all allegedly medical practices which are unmitigated bunk, it is prone to blatant fraud -David Gerard 18:14, Mar 20, 2004 (UTC)