User talk:Pcb21
Hi.
You recently self-blocked, apparently due to a wish to depart Wikipedia for a time.
Self-blocking is not permitted, see Wikipedia:Blocking policy. I have removed the block.
uc 13:38, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Damn
Hi Pete,
I hope you come back at some point, I really valued your contributions.
You are missed
I saw a comment that "Pete" was gone and I thought "Crap. Not Pcb21?" Then I saw your user page and said "crap" once more. I hope your path converges with ours again soon. You are much respected and liked here by many, myself included. Best wishes always, and I hope to see you again soon, Jwrosenzweig 23:57, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Public Domain
The Guide to the CC dual-license page suggests that you release your contributions into the public domain. If this is true, could you use the appropriate templates on your user page so we can track the changes? ({{MultiLicensePD}}) (See: Licensing Templates). And you can use {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} for Creative Commons licenses 1.0 and 2.0 if you use that too. Thanks! -- Ram-Man 02:33, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
- On a side note, welcome back. I think sometimes Wikipedians forget that one of the founding principles was that there "are no hard and fast rules". People have become less flexible and more grumpy about guidelines as rules lately. Recently I had a discussion about artificially limiting the speed of bot edits to an arbitrary number. The origin and/or reason behind the arbitrary value was not even discussed on this site but on the IRC. As crazy as these things are, there is often a good reason behind every rule, and I just learn to coast and try not to get in the way sometimes. That's why I work on adding new fish articles. Not many people working on those and they don't generate conflict (so far). Your self block made me laugh when you weren't allowed to do it. But I wouldn't leave unless I was really offended. Hope you stay if your work is good ;-) -- Ram-Man 01:04, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
Hello Pcb21. You copied this photograph from the German Wikipedia. Please try to upload pictures to Wikimedia Commons, so they can be used by all Wikipedias. Thank you. -- [[User:Sciurus|Sciurus ><> - @]] 18:05, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) P.S.: Please excuse my English. I think I could say things more polite in German ...
- You are welcome. Please feel free to discuss in english with me. So I may improve my english and you needn´t use an translations tool. Good luck for the extension of the article Narwhal. With kind regards -- soebe 12:02, 21. Nov 2004 (CET)
ACK
Hi Pcb21,
I just saw the stuff you´ve written at your userpage and I thought: WOW, That´s really what I am thinking about the way Wikipedia goes and fails (and I´m only working in the german one). Too many Meta and a lot less fun in writing. Sometimes it works if you start writing without watching the community and the metas and then its great again, but only then. Greetings from Berlin de:Benutzer:Necrophorus (who was author of some articles like de:Narwal, de:Weißwal and more stuff after looking at your work in here)
Fathers 4 Justice
I see you removed the NPOV from Fathers 4 Justice with the comment "No reason given on the talk page for those notices". I guess the section called "The neutrality of this article continues to be disputed." and the section called "The neutrality of this article is disputed." both escaped your notice? I have reinstated the NPOV and would ask you to extend the community the courtesy of not removing it again on such dubious grounds. --Tagishsimon (talk)
Chinese River Dolphin to do
Thanks for the note the other day. I'm enjoying dabbling among the dolphins. Just wondering about the To-do for Chinese River Dolphin. It might look "crap but only because many browsers can't display the chinese letters". So ... just wondering: remove Chinese characters?? or other work needed on article?? or maybe remove from To-do list?? regards Nurg 03:41, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- I brought the subject up at Talk:Chinese River Dolphin. Feel free to dive in there. Pcb21| Pete 22:42, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Commercial sites
Your comments on Commercial sites is very welcome
It is foolish to label a site as worthless only because it is commercial.
Now if anyone wants to hammer on MicroSoft because they stifle creativity, then let the games begin! :)
London Congestion Charge, etc
Hi Pete
Re the photo caption business - Thanks. I am sure that you know who I am (I do try, but I am Not Endlessly Valiant, and am keeping a low-to-non-existent profile) :)
I see that you too have had some sort of crise over Wikipedia. I hope you end up with a solution that works well for you.
All the best
Gonegonegone 21:46, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Template:wi
Please, explain in detail, cause I think that if "There is no encyclopedia article for "Wi"." as the template states the article should be left as a red link which doesn't happen when the template is added to it. Maybe it needs a little rewording? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:50, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
Book references
Thanks for you template on book references link. When the multi-licensing drive dies down I'll spend some time looking into that. The citation templates i've used are new and barely used, so coordinating should not be a problem. – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)[[]] 20:35, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)
european and american options
Hi I noticed as part of your regularly scheduled grammar checking you changed a lot of "european"s to "European"s and "american" to "American"s in the vanilla option and option style articles. Those words are not meant in their geographical sense (they have a specialized meaning in finance) and it is correct not to capitalize them. Just letting you know why I reverted you. Thanks. Pcb21| Pete 22:42, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I wondered about these ones because they did not look like the geographical adjectives. However, none of my dictionaries (LDOCE, WordNet, OED) had the lowercase word, so I assumed it was all right to change them. I don't mind the revert if you feel it's better kept uncapitalised. However, you will likely need to revert it again the next time someone goes through uncapitalised occurrences of European and American. --Sam Hocevar 00:13, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Heya Pete,
Do you still have your scripts for updating that page? They're clamoring for updates, and your Python scripts were more evolved than my Perl scripts. If so, you can e-mail them to me or post them somewhere. If not, no worries, I'll just tweak on my old scripts.
Thanks, --Ben Brockert 00:43, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
Cetology
Hi Pete,
Thanks for the kind words regarding my new article, cetology. It is far from complete, and would be nice to see others add to it. Possible topics to include are notable cetologists, history of cetology in Japan, and the Renaissance. I have also made redirects from cetologist and cetologists to point to the cetology article. Happy New Year!KJen74 06:37, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Template:Cetacea_taxobox
Hi. In Template:Cetacea_taxobox, the wording for Family says "Family - test". What does "test" signify? RedWolf 04:13, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)
"Moved from article page"
It appears you do not read talk pages before removing bias notices or cannot be bothered to comment there. As such, I have posted comments on the List of x movies pages here. 119 08:29, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The following template was added to the article. It is obvious metadata meant for editors so I am moving it here. Make of it what you will. [Pcb21]
 | The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. |
- No, this template is obviously meant for the article page: Any notice of bias belongs on the article because it qualifies the accuracy of the article to readers, and it refers the reader to the talk page, so obviously isn't meant to be posted on the talk page. See Wikipedia:Template_messages/Disputes. 119 21:25, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)