User talk:Jaknouse/Archive 1

Welcome to Wikipedia! Your expertise is our reading delight... --Ed Poor

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, nice additions to fern. Cheers! --maveric149

Opps! Looks like there is already a Flood plain article. I like your spelling better (and so does Google). --mav

Suggestion about taxoboxes: Find the closest taxon on the same level or one different that has a taxobox, and copy that. For instance, I copied the hornbill taxobox from bee-eater, since they are both Coraciiformes. -phma

Thanks -- I just keep a taxobox template on my desktop now and copy it out, and have installed it lotsa places. --John Knouse

Jaknouse, please see Talk:Mexico. --Brion 00:04 Sep 1, 2002 (PDT)

Jaknouse, please see Talk:Mexico, and this time stop being deliberately stupid. --Brion 11:20 Sep 1, 2002 (PDT)

As I say, Brion, say what you mean. I actually did not know what you meant. I try to keep my language precise. And, in any case, if it bothered you on that page so much, you should have then created a blank page for each state and transferred the appropriate info. --user:jaknouse

Jaknouse, if it bothers you that much, please make that link and make those pages. If you don't, I'll get to them when I get to them, because like everybody else here I am a volunteer. If you don't like my freely provided work, try to take the high road and do a better job than me. --Brion 19:26 Sep 2, 2002 (PDT)

You really just HAVE to have the last word, don't you? --user:jaknouse

Jaknouse, I have made an addition to talk:Pol Pot. I understand that you did not add the word again in the sentence of the main article being discussed, but I would welcome your opinion on whether it appears tendentious. If I am not misinterpreting you, you seem to be asserting continuous US support for the KR. If so it would be helpful if you could state the starting date. -- Alan Peakall 18:48 Dec 3, 2002 (UTC)

Please check your user page -- the foto is interfering with some of the information, including your email address.

--jaknouse

Thanks, but there's no problem with it on my browser unless the text size is set too big for the screen-width, and then some of the text underwrites the picture. I don't consider the text as interesting as the picture anyhow, and the "E-mail this user" link at the bottom of the page will still get e-mail to me, so I'd rather live with the problem than fix it, altho I sincerely appreciate your telling me about it. BTW, when you signed your message to me, you used a pipe instead of a colon for the separator, so it linked to "User" instead of "User:Jaknouse" -- unless you meant to do that. -- isis 22:13 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC)

Hello, jaknouse. From the above, I'm wondering if you have the same problem I used to have. No one was ever able to tell me how to fix it, and in the end I only got rid of it by changing the "skin" I was using. Have you tried that? --Deb Jan 12

You had some questions of gravitons, I hope to have answered them.

Hello again. Your "skin" is defined on your preference page, and there's a choice of three. Personally, I prefer the "Standard" one, but, like I say, I had to change to "Nostalgia" for a while to resolve the problem with images. I still don't understand what caused it. Deb 21:19 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)

I added the external link to try and avoid someone having to type out all the details of Apple singles, etc. Seems a bit of a waste of time to me when the information's freely available, complete with pics., etc. Have fun typing it all up!! User:PJT 02:51 Feb 27, 2003 GMT

In reply to:

I was strictly using the existing classificatory information in the individual articles. If you disagree with the classification used, then it's prior authors you want to argue with, not me. I was only inserting taxoboxes for clarity; these are used throughout biological pages on the wikipedia. I was not sure whether fungi used divisions or phyla; the use of divisions is an antiquated approach, actually, relying on the old, erroneous thinking that fungi are plants; we now know they're more closely related to animals.

Ok, sorry. I saw a bunch of articles get filled in really quickly, going past the layer which already existed, and I wasn't sure how far you were intending to go. The alternate classification schemes are indeed a matter for the article authors, so if you aren't going deeper that won't be a problem. My apologies for overreacting.

Divisions are still in use for Fungi. Their relationships are irrelevant to that - the whole division/phylum distinction is maintained only for traditional reasons to begin with.

--JG