User talk:Meelar

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Thanks for the Wiki welcome

Mellar, thanks for the welcome. Best regards Darren. Dlloyd 04:02, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I Think I Got It!

Hey Meelar. Thank you for the great suggestion. I think Michael MacLennan should pass 'Wiki' standards. I am still open though to suggestions. MatthewRed 02:01, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

bête noire

Hi Meelar, hope I'm doing this right...brand new to Wikipedia and I'm still kind of feeling my way around. I agree completely about "bête noire" -- it does need fleshing out. (I noticed that an empty link to it already existed and I figured I'd just go ahead and dive in!) Not much of a French scholar but I'll see what I can do about beefing up the entry a bit. Thanks for your help! :^)

Clouseau

Rapidly becoming your bête noire?

Hey, no problem! I'm not cripplingly egotistical, so I won't find it emotionally debilitating if the article is deleted. Thanks again for your help -- please feel free to pass along any suggestions for improvement!

Clouseau 23:26, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the Wiki welcome

Meelar, Thanks for your welcome to me. So much to try to do, so little time. . . Prioritizing helps, eh? (smile)

You're the first one to let me know about how to use the tildes. I notice that the Editing help page doesn't have directions for how to make the degree sign (as in Celsius or Farenheit). Could an admin add that info into its content? (Check out my revision to Mojave Desert to see what I mean)

Enjoy your collegiate studies! Sounds like you're a Poly Sci major. All that reading of texts and papers to write. . . I remember those days with some fondness and still remember memorizing standard macroeconomics facts for tests (though I don't remember them now). Something about Gross National Product, personal income, etc. In time, you too will be able to forget as I have. . . There is hope for you. . . (smile) Happy Trails, --avnative 01:48, Jul 12, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome (though a bit late)! :) -- Bluemask 14:24, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Shock Sites

That same user just put tubgirl.com onto my talk page. I erased it but it's in my history. Mike H 20:18, Jul 12, 2004 (UTC)

He vandalized Lucky 6.9's user page with graphic descriptions of anal penetration, oral sex, and defecation. I fixed it but it's in the history. Mike H 20:20, Jul 12, 2004 (UTC)

Hello to you too!

Thanks for the welcome - you must have missed my previous attempts! And thanks for editing my page, that looks much nicer now!

Emrys2

Thanks for your welcome

Thank your for your welcome! I just come and go on the english wikipedia... in fact I write on the french and italian wikipedia as it is easier for me! But making links I always end up here... and sometimes I even write something, or at least I try! Sicilarch 20:12, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I Second That!

Thanks for the welcome and the good advice. Heenan73 20:26, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip

Meelar, thanks for the tip with MusicWiki content from Wikipedia. Would you please take one minute to check if this article conforms to Wikipedia rules? Thank you very much in advance.

Thanks for checking, Meelar.

AlissonSellaro

Thanks for the welcome Meelar! Jcmaco 22:17, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome and the tips :-) -I'm slowly learning how everything works - I find Wikipedia is a quite intriguing concept - already spent far too much time on it than I anticipated! Kind Regards Morten 15:17, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your help

Thanks very much for your speedy resolution of my confusion about links on, I will watch for capital letters more carefully now. User:Francis Davey

is my article ok

I want to send links to my peers to my common alerting protocol article

will this article be alive always?

This is my stuff

This is stuff that me and my coworkers wrote. I dont have time to start digging up references. If you want i can remove the stuff that seems duplicated. give me the article back so i can do it. Some of the stuff i wrote just now...

ok but the article is no where to be found

Where is the article that was suspended? I looked at the copyright page and couldnt find it. Also, can I first get it published and then edit the details to make it fit the standards (within the week)

Thanks for the welcome

Thanks for the welcome to Wikipedia. Especially the hint on signing, I was wondering how to do that easily. Keep an eye out, I've got lots to add over time. James Crippen 23:17, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Thanks for the welcome to Wikipedia. I've actually been active for a while. My Boundary to space article even made it to the Main Page. But anyway: thanks again; it's nice to be welcomed by an "established Wikipedian". Also thanks for the hint on signing. Ropers 13:13, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks a lot - I've been a Wikipedia user for a couple of years, only now getting round to contributing something back. I'll probably concentrate on Northern Ireland politics and recent history in the short term, although am likely to do some things in Turkey when I get the time, maybe some translation into German.

And I'm a politics graduate myself from the Queen's University of Belfast. Gerry Lynch 17:07, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Questions

Thanks for your note. I know I am supposed to use the talk pages for that purpose however I have found that sticking the question at the top of the article is an extremely effective way of getting a quick edit. It also serves to highlight an issue I have, people who write good article, usually quite sensible ones but they overlook any form of introduction and plunge straight into the details. It is really quite important to start off with where, when and what you are writing about. Articles about computers seem to be the worst although I recently got involved with a series of articles that described the several sports heroes and never once mentioned which sport was involved. Cheers ping 22:33, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Cycle Path

They are NEVER called "cycle paths" in the U.S. They are almost invariably called bike paths. I think you should have left it as "bike path", inserted a note that they are called cycle paths in the UK, and created cycle path as a redirect, since the general rule is for US/non-US conflicts is that the article goes under the original regional heading of whoever wrote it. jaknouse 00:12, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!

Off to do some edits...Dan MacQueen 02:44, 2004 Jul 16 (UTC)

Nice welcome!

Thanks for the welcome, much appreciated. Now off to get my hands dirty with some editing. Impi 17:37, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Editing question

Can you help me sort out [this] problem, please?

Thank you.

Thanks for the welcome! Frogman 20:07, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hey there...

I don't think I quite got what you meant, Meelar. Did I make any mistakes? I don't think so, but if you elucidated me I would be very thankful.

Alright.

Thanks, man. I am going to try my best to help the Wikipedia grow. ;) See ya around.

Wikisource

Thanks for mentioning Wikisource, I will examine the possibility of moving the story The Parable of the Water-Tank to that location. Stewjack 21:20, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for info

Hi, thanks for the info on copyright, i thought that if no copyright restriction were visibile on the original site the image was trouble-free for wikipedia; I'm sorry, my mistake.. If you think is better to delete the images i uploaded due to copyright problems go ahead, no problem for me :). Krellmachine 23:13, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

EMH Comment

Thanks for the welcome.

I came across EMH on the "random page" link.

I know about the time stamp, I just haven't gotten around to remembering it. ;) --1pezguy 04:06, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the welcome! -- Ra1nMaker 16:13, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

===Little Help?===

Hi, thanks for the greeting, thing is, i'm having real trouble uploading pictures from other sites, couldn't give us a hand could yer? --Crestville 18:56, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Bah!

Bah? -- Cecropia | Talk 06:38, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

sure

No problem, See User talk:Fallout1. I added Be Bold! as well, and am thinking of leaving it at that. Sam [Spade] 06:55, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Humbug

Actually, my teen-aged daughters and their friends keep me in touch with where youth culture is these days--up to a point. I'm not one of those people who thinks "everything was better when I was a kid." The '50s were a crappy time to grow up, all the nostalgia notwithstanding. The '60s weren't great either, what with a war draft and a lot of social turmoil, but they were very culturally alive and interesting. One thing I'll say is that kids today (remember my advanced age when I specify kids) are much nicer than when I was a kid. More open, friendlier, easy to talk to. There are trends that bother me, but I also see a lot of return to what I would call "old standards" in society in general.

That bit of senior rambling notwithstanding, my favorite thing on Wikipedia is writing and editing, though I'm too easily sidetracked into discussions and such, and every now and then I try to think of subjects (esp. obscure ones) that might not be in Wikipedia. While watching old videos with one daughter, I ran across a truncated version of Magical Mystery Tour which included Death Cab for Cutie. Despite the fact that it was British, and a joke, it's one of the better examples of real old-fashioned cabaret like you had in mid-century New York. I put it up there with the German cabaret scenes in Blue Angel. Of course I had to see if it was in Wikipedia. Best as always, Cecropia | Talk 07:17, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Pictures and such

I'll check the whole copyright thing, but me main problem is that whenever I upload an Image, it always ends up as little white square with a red cross in it. I can still access the file and put it in articals, but the image i want is never there, just the red cross. Any idea why? Cheers.

--Crestville 09:55, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The 2004 Presidential election hasn't happened yet. -Land1234567890

Thanks. -Land1234567890

Stupid talk link question

I notice you always have a direct link to your talk page next to your name (linking to your user page). I know the ~~~~ macro but is there one for the talk page? Thanks in advance. --Ged 21:43, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Personal Attacks

When you put effort into creating an informative and factually correct page it gets a little disheartening when some moron wiped it completely and replaces it with something that is completely wrong. Makes you wonder whether wikipedia is really worth it if all it turns out to be is the last persons incorrect opinion. Not much of a website!

--Cameron1 12:41, 19 Jul 2004 (GMT)

Kitchen

Hey Meelar, thanks for your numerous minor fixes. On the sociology: I didn't include too much of that on purpose for two reasons:

There's so much to be said that it should go into a separate article, and
I have no good, exhaustive sources for that topic.

Beecher's motivations can be seen as a forerunner of later emancipatory trends. The whole movement to apply Taylorist methods to the kitchen was (partly) driven by emancipatory goals. See the article on the Frankfurt kitchen for some mention of these influences and early and later (feminist) criticisms.

Many of the later lasting developments came by a gradual process and high-profile proponents that influenced kitchen architecture after the late 1920s are rare (to my knowledge). The famous architects were mostly male and often emphasized novelty and theory (cf Colani's kitchen ball or Le Corbusier's Modulor kitchen (2.26m cubed)) over useability, and I doubt they actually ever cooked in their own contraptions! Their designs typically had no effect whatsoever on mainstream kitchen architecture. Advances in technology had a much greater impact.

Anyway, thanks for your support! Lupo 15:28, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Cheers!

Thanks for the welcome. I've only just started on Wikipedia so it's encouraging to hear from someone that's been doing it for awhile. I read that politics is your speciality so if you ever have any questions about Japanese or Australian politics then send them my way. --Sekizaru 20:18, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Aurebesh

The site I got it from had no copyright information on it, so I'd assume that the image file was public domain. --Akula4211 16:30, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Ok, I'll take it down - didn't know that - and possibly work on a file of my own to replace it with. --Akula4211 16:35, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Car Donation

Hi Meelar, I put the original version of Car donation on VdF, I think we must have been working simultaneously, because I was trying to list it on VdF when your comment came up. Whatever!. Seeing your explanation I've voted to keep. As a Non-American I had never heard of it, and thought it was a 'used car' firm on the make. Very good re-write. Regards Giano 18:31, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

That was quick. I was just looking at you page on anti'terrorism to get the American view. Very neutral . Congratuations Giano 18:37, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi :) Actually, i have been around Wikipedia for some time now, but i contribute more on a "oh, that's wrong/missing/interesting than a regular basis :) I will go through the pages you linked me to again. Wikipedia has a way of changing fast ;) I think i should have checked other spellings now, but that was kinda hard with that name ;) (Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu for the others :). Thanks for the tip with the triple/quadruple tilde, by the way. I usually did that by hand.. RichiH 20:27, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Annoying Vandal

I reverted the edits on your user page by the annoying vandal. Mike H 00:05, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you. I want to polish articles on supercouple like the one RickK helped me with: Cliff and Nina. That has to be my favorite article. Aside from Another World. Mike H 00:15, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome (bgoldenberg)

Thanks for the welcome. I have been editing Wikipedia for a few months but it was still nice to receive a welcome. Thanks again.

Thanks for the welcome (bgoldenberg)

Thanks for the welcome. I have been editing Wikipedia for a few months but it was still nice to receive a welcome. Thanks again. - Benjamin Goldenberg 06:19, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks from here too for welcome

Thanks for the encouraging words :) --Lone Isle 14:59, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome. I have partially read the tutorial you suggested and have made a user page.

--Jambo 16:11, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome

I will be loooking at the Tutorial very soon, and hope to make lots of contributions in the future. --Albertn Clarke 19:03, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

What If?

What if there is not actual copyright?

Ok then...

Where I got the images from was off of the Google Image search so i'll have to go back, find the image, and get the copyright?

Thanks!

Trying my best to work within the copyright restrictions...will keep trying - lots of fun! S t e e l e 01:43, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the Welcome!

I've used Wikipedia for research and recommended it to my students. Thought it time to give something back. It's starting to look like this could get addictive!

Vic 01:50, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Another thank you!

Thanks for welcoming me; I guess its because I added to your Jack Ryan article. Wikipedia is awesome. And as a 46 year old, that's not a word I use lightly!

David Fell 13:14, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome and edit

Meelar- Thanks for the welcome, and I appreciate the edits you made to my Kevin McClory page, they gave me some idea of how to do it better next time!

User:rsp 18:14, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)

Question about your recent edit to MoveOn.org

I'm curious why you removed the passage which says that the MoveOn Voter Fund is the same type of organization as the Kerry/Bush campaigns or the Democratic National Committee. In your edit comment, you say "this is kind of misleading." To the contrary, I don't think it is misleading at all. If you look at a list of prominent 527 organizations, MoveOn is listed along with various political campaigns. This is precisely why MoveOn set up the Voter Fund as a separate entity from its other components. A 527 is allowed, under U.S. tax laws, to engage in certain types of political activities that are not permitted for other organizations. MoveOn itself has been up front about the fact that it set up its own 527 for the purpose of engaging in political activities. Why do you think it is misleading to say this in the article?

Sheldon Rampton 03:31, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Welcome Appreciated

Many thands for the welcome, Meelar. Nice to know there's some sense of community here in the Wikipediasphere, as well as a lot of great information. Cheers!

kjfasimpaur 13:17, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Re: The Beatles candidacy for featured status

I have fleshed the article out according to your suggestions on WP:FAC. What do you think now? Johnleemk | Talk 16:02, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hey thanks

YIPE! It scared the junk out of me when i refreshed the sandbox and a big gold bar came up saying i had a message and that "This page is for editing experiments.". Thought i did something wrong :-P. Thank you a ton for the welcome! Ajbperc 17:36, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)